[
    [
        "Meanwhile, Qatar’s diligent efforts to expand its influence over the last two decades have paid off, with the country developing considerable power of attraction.",
        "与此同时，过去二十年来卡塔尔想尽办法扩张其影响力并已经收到成效，该国的吸引力已经蔚为可观。"
    ],
    [
        "One is the recent decision to levy a tax on unused land that could be developed for housing.",
        "其一是不久前做出的对本可用于住宅开发的未利用土地征税的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "What is particularly problematic in the EU is the clash between radical politics and mainstream governance.",
        "欧洲问题的严重之处在于激进政治与主流治理之间的碰撞。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a resounding collapse of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty would pose a formidable challenge to the world community, particularly to the Middle East.",
        "《核不扩散条约》如此引人瞩目的崩溃会给国际社会，特别是中东国家带来可怕的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In 1993, the economists Alberto Alesina and Larry Summers published a seminal paper that argued that central bank independence keeps inflation in check, with no adverse consequences for economic performance.",
        "伦敦—1993年，经济学家阿尔贝托·阿莱西纳（Alberto Alesina）和拉里·萨默斯（Larry Summers）发表了一篇开创性论文，论文指出，央行独立让通胀得以控制，并且对经济表现没有消极影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea, now accepted by the United Nations, of “humanitarian intervention” to save people from extreme human-rights abuses, sounds moral and high-minded.",
        "人权理念现在已经被联合国接纳为通过“人道主义干预”保护民众人权免遭践踏的貌似道德而高尚的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "In this war, which has been going on for nearly a century, it is important to keep one principle in mind: the Palestinians are Israel’s neighbors and will live side by side with Israelis forever.",
        "在这场几乎长达一个世纪的战争中，记住这样一个原则是很重要的：巴勒斯坦人是以色列的邻居，他们将和以色列人肩并肩的永远生活在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "China may point to the mountain of US Treasury bonds that it has bought up, thereby helping to sustain America’s budget deficit.",
        "中国或许会指出自己已经购买了巨额美国国债，从而帮美国撑住了预算赤字（那中国最近抛出美国国债的行动意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "It certainly would deal a devastating blow to the EU’s credibility, both in its member states and abroad.",
        "这无疑会在欧盟成员国及海外对欧盟的信誉造成毁灭性的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Its real goal is to lead an inclusive and cooperative integration process that benefits all participants.",
        "其真正的目标是引导构建一个包容性和合作的一体化过程，令所有参与者都能从中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Shortfalls in investment eventually diminish growth and employment opportunities.",
        "投资不足最终会削弱经济增长并减少就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "What most people mean by better education is more schooling; and, by higher-quality education, they mean the effective acquisition of skills (as revealed, say, by the test scores in the OECD’s standardized PISA exam).",
        "多数人眼中更好的教育是接受更多教育； 而更高质量教育是指有效地学会技能（比方说像经合组织标准化PISA考试成绩）。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets are thus even more important for China than for the US or Europe, and there are clear signs that the productivity of investment has been declining rapidly in China.",
        "因此，金融市场对中国的重要性甚至比美国和欧洲还要高，并且有清晰的信号表明中国的投资生产率在快速下降。"
    ],
    [
        "No international force will simply protect Israel from Hezbollah rockets while Israel continues its current strategy.",
        "当以色列还在继续目前的战略时，没有哪支国际部队会来单单保护以色列不受真主党火箭弹的袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with so much seemingly at stake, a four- or five-year term may seem too long to wait for change.",
        "事实上，由于其中所牵涉的利益太大，四年或五年的任期对于等待改变的人来说太长了。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea that it is rational for a company to incur enormous losses by selling below cost in order to achieve or maintain a monopoly position has been roundly criticized by economists who argue that situations in which such losses can be recouped by subsequent monopoly profits are extremely rare.",
        "那种认为一家公司通过以低于成本的价格销售产品以试图获得或者维持垄断地位而产生巨额亏损是理性的观念遭到认为这种亏损极少能够被后来的垄断利益所弥补的经济学家的严厉批评。"
    ],
    [
        "China is also Burma’s largest military supplier.",
        "中国也是缅甸最大的军火供应国。"
    ],
    [
        "Clinton also began to improve relations with India, a strategy that has enjoyed bipartisan support in the US.",
        "克林顿同时也在民主共和两党的支持下着手与印度改善关系。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – The world’s emerging economies seem to be losing their dynamism.",
        "首尔—世界新兴经济体似乎正在失去活力。"
    ],
    [
        "In almost all other countries, even Czarist Russia, slavery and serfdom were ended by decree or legislation, without a four-year bloodletting.",
        "在几乎所有其他国家，即使是沙皇时代的俄国，奴隶和农奴制度也是由诏书或立法终结，根本不需要一场长达四年的杀戮。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that we have failed, and are failing, to take our own advice.",
        "而是在听取自身建议方面，我们过去未能做到，当前也无法实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa: despite ample support programs and infrastructure focused on confronting malaria, countries were not even remotely prepared to handle a new health challenge.",
        "以2014年西非埃博拉疫情为例：尽管在应对疟疾方面，支持项目和基础设施准备得十分充分，但各国对于处理新的卫生挑战几乎束手无策。"
    ],
    [
        "The Schuldenbremse, or “debt brake,” requires the federal government to run a structural deficit of no more than 0.35% of GDP by 2016, while Germany’s Länder will be banned from running structural deficits at all as of 2020.",
        "“债务刹车”(Schuldenbremse)要求联邦政府在2016年实现结构性赤字不超过GDP0. 35%的水平，而德国联邦州(Länder)则在2020年时禁止产生任何结构性赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "By starting to draw down combat troops in Iraq, Obama would change the image and policies of America immediately.",
        "通过开始减少在伊拉克的作战部队，奥巴马将立即改变美国的形象和政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Most telling in Russian eyes has been EU countries’ competition for oil and gas contracts, which has done much to convince the Kremlin that Europe is not a political force to be reckoned with.",
        "在俄国眼中最为明显的莫过于欧盟各国竞相争取石油和天然气合同，这就让克里姆林宫确信欧洲并不是一个值得重视的政治力量。"
    ],
    [
        "PISA’s Promise",
        "PISA的成功"
    ],
    [
        "With full implementation, the plan could also help as many as 20 countries eliminate disease transmission in the same timeframe.",
        "如果能得到全面实施，该计划将帮助多达20个国家在相同的时间框架内根除霍乱传播。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasing labor-market flexibility by reducing the costs of shedding workers will lead – in the short run – to more layoffs in the public and private sector, exacerbating the fall in incomes and demand.",
        "通过减少裁员成本来增加劳动力市场弹性的做法可能会在短期导致公司部门裁员增加，进一步加深收入和需求萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be clear that it is inappropriate for a country, or association of countries, at war to pursue fiscal austerity, as the EU continues to do.",
        "必须明确，对于一国或一个国家联盟，在战时还追求财政紧缩是不合适的，而欧盟一直在这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Strong currencies make strong countries, a senior United States policymaker used to say.",
        "对此一位资深美国政策官员曾声言：只有强势货币才能造就强势国家。"
    ],
    [
        "“Anglo-Saxon” is more often used in a negative sense by the French, as in “Anglo-Saxon bankers” or “Anglo-Saxon conspiracies” (to keep the French down).",
        "法国人使用“盎格鲁－萨克逊”一词时往往带有消极涵义，比方说“盎格鲁－萨克逊银行家”或“盎格鲁－萨克逊阴谋”（以压制法国为目的）。"
    ],
    [
        "Better, then, to get on with it before more damage is done.",
        "因此，还不如趁着没有造成更大伤害让它结束。"
    ],
    [
        "As regional conflicts are increasingly defined along Sunni-Shia lines, it is becoming more difficult for Shia-dominated Iran to gain influence in Sunni-majority countries.",
        "随着地区冲突越来越凸显出逊尼派-什叶派对峙的特征，什叶派占主导地位的伊朗将越来越难以在逊尼派占多数的国家形成影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "A sure sign of a shift in mentality is the growing recognition by financial institutions that loans and investments may be overexposed to the risks of climate change.",
        "心态转变的一个明确迹象是金融机构日益认识到贷款和投资可能会过度暴露于气候变化的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "And, by picking territorial fights with its neighbors and pursuing a muscular foreign policy, China’s leaders are compelling other Asian states to work more closely with the US and each other.",
        "此外，通过与其邻国的领土角力和强硬外交政策，中国领导人正在迫使其他亚洲国家加强与美国和彼此之间的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s debt restructuring in 2012 is a case in point.",
        "2012年的希腊债务重组就是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "Trying to limit all intrusions would be impossible, but one could start with cyber crime and cyber terrorism involving non-state parties.",
        "阻止一切侵入或许不可行，但可以从网络犯罪和非国家行动方参与的网络恐怖主义着手。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever each family’s experience, the result has been a child reaching a level of education of which many people can only dream.",
        "无论每个家庭经历了什么，结果是他们的孩子达到了只能存在于很多人梦想中的教育程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Demographics and Development",
        "人口与发展"
    ],
    [
        "Consider for a moment the vast quantity of column inches and hours of television devoted to the allegations of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib.",
        "稍微看看有关伊拉克阿布哈里卜虐待战俘指控长篇累牍的专栏文章以及长时间的电视报道。"
    ],
    [
        "It shows how much European institutions must still evolve to underpin a healthy single market.",
        "危机表明欧洲机构需要进行多少改革，才能支撑起一片健康发展的统一市场。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of 2004, the EU decided to initiate accession talks.",
        "截至2004年底，欧盟决定开始其入盟谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "For Iran, such grievances include US support for the 1953 coup in Iran, and America’s subsequent ties to the Shah and his brutal secret police, the Savak.",
        "对伊朗而言，这样的不满包括美国支持伊朗1953年政变，以及接下来美国与伊朗国王及其野蛮的秘密警察萨瓦克所保持的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by adhering to this higher law will Ukraine develop the consciousness of law that true liberty demands.",
        "只有遵守这项更高的法律，乌克兰才能形成真正自由所需的法律意识。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments that view aggressive war as a means to prosperity have been rare since the end of World War I: the Imperial Japanese government that launched World War II in the Pacific and Saddam Hussein's two grabs for oilfields are examples that spring immediately to mind.",
        "一次大战后，将侵略战争视作繁荣之道的政府已日渐稀少：在太平洋发动二次大战的日本帝国主义和两度侵占油田的萨达姆·侯赛因是立即映入脑海的两个实例。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, what people want (and are now getting) in product search is not a list of pages, but a set of products displayed in some meaningful fashion.",
        "举例来说，人们在搜索产品时想找的（现在找到的）并不是一系列网页，而是按一定顺序排列的产品组合。"
    ],
    [
        "In his “burning platform” memo, Elop compared Nokia to a man on a burning offshore oilrig, facing a fiery death or an uncertain leap into the frigid sea.",
        "在其“燃烧的平台”备忘录中，埃洛普将诺基亚比作某人身处茫茫海上燃烧的石油钻塔，需要在葬身火海或跳入冰冷海水的未知命运中做出选择。"
    ],
    [
        "After a stormy meeting with de Gaulle at the Élysée Palace, Massu telephoned his chief of staff, Colonel Antoine Argoud, who had been pressing for a coup.",
        "在爱丽舍宫与戴高乐情绪激动的会晤后，马苏致电给自己敦促发动政变的总参谋长安托尼·阿古德上校。"
    ],
    [
        "But this would not be Israel’s problem alone.",
        "但这绝不只是以色列自身的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But only one such “patriot” was granted the honor of being allowed to perform this act.",
        "但只有一位这样的“爱国者”被给予了实施这种惩罚的荣誉。"
    ],
    [
        "The short-term outlook is uncertain.",
        "短期的前景的确很难确定。"
    ],
    [
        "I have visited the huge slums of Iraq and found families living in homes with barely a roof to cover them, with infestations of insects everywhere, and with raw sewage seeping under their doors.",
        "我访问了大量的伊拉克贫民窟，那里家徒四壁，飞虫满地，污水四溢。"
    ],
    [
        "Making Economic Sanctions on North Korea Work",
        "让对朝经济制裁真正奏效"
    ],
    [
        "In Brazil, too, the authorities acquired greater control over the Internet, as the country moved to the forefront of the international fight against cybercrime.",
        "巴西也是如此，随着国家迈向针对网络犯罪的国际斗争前沿，当局也获得了对互联网的更大的控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared with all the other political regimes known to mankind, democracy represents ethical progress twice over: first, because it is based on respect for human rights; and secondly, because the universal suffrage that modern democracy embraces prohibits neglecting or oppressing minorities.",
        "与人类所知的其他所有政体相比，民主代表着两方面的超越性进步：首先，因为它是建立在尊重人权的基础之上； 其次，因为现代民主所倡导的普选权禁止忽视或压迫少数派。"
    ],
    [
        "And Trump, despite feeling invigorated by the discovery, has continued to pursue states, such as New Mexico, that would do him little good in the Electoral College count.",
        "而特朗普尽管因为联邦调查局的发现而欢欣鼓舞，仍在继续争取新墨西哥州等对他的选举人票数几乎没有影响的州。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, we must recognize that the refugee crisis is a collective international responsibility.",
        "最后，我们必须认识到难民危机是国际社会的集体责任。"
    ],
    [
        "This could have a positive outcome, highlighting powers that other member states agree should be returned to national governments.",
        "这可能会产生积极结果，强调其他成员国同意的权力应该归还国家政府。"
    ],
    [
        "They are becoming more fearful for their long-term economic future.",
        "他们变得更加恐慌他们的长期经济未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Salah satu alasannya ialah diabetes tipe 2, yang lebih umum terjadi dan diderita banyak orang, biasanya disebabkan oleh faktor gaya hidup, seperti kurangnya aktivitas fisik, obesitas, pola makan buruk, dan merokok, yang menunjukkan sejumlah cara hidup yang lebih umum ditemui di kalangan penduduk yang tidak berkecukupan.",
        "一个原因是二型糖尿病——较为常见的糖尿病种类——与生活方式因素相关，如缺乏运动、肥胖、不健康饮食和吸烟，这些因素在较不丰裕地区更为常见。"
    ],
    [
        "DHAKA – We live in a rapidly evolving, hyper-connected world, where goods, capital, and people are more mobile than ever before.",
        "达卡—我们生活在一个日新月异的高度互联的世界中，商品、资本和人力的流动性前所未有。"
    ],
    [
        "There are tremendous costs associated with allowing the current laissez-faire regime to continue.",
        "让当前的自由放任机制继续运行下去会带来极高的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "This was precisely the point that Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People’s Bank of China, made in a 2009 speech challenging the view that only the US, through the dollar, could guarantee the functioning of the international monetary system.",
        "这正是中国人民银行行长周小川在2009年的一次讲话中提出的看法。 这次讲话批驳了只有美国通过美元才能保证国际货币体系的运行的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the rate of economic contraction in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 reached near-depression levels.",
        "事实上，2008年第四季度和2009年第一季度的经济收缩率，几乎达到了经济萧条的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Such exposure would help bring to an end many countries’ reckless actions.",
        "这些信息的曝光有助于结束多个国家的鲁莽行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Glass-Steagall Act’s separation of investment from commercial banking greatly benefited the established oligarchy of investment banks, but somehow the entry of competitors from commercial banks and insurers increased financial companies’ profits further.",
        "格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法案（Glass-Steagall Act）分隔投资银行和商业银行的做法极大促进了投资银行寡头的崛起，而来自商业银行和保险公司的竞争不知为何又进一步推高了金融企业的利润水平。"
    ],
    [
        "As Chinese firms become increasingly technically capable, the country’s market advantage is turning into a data advantage – critical to support the development of AI.",
        "随着中国企业的技术能力日益提高，中国的市场优势正在转变为数据优势，这对于人工智能的发展至关重要。 中国企业旷视科技（Face ++）最近完成了4."
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the US needs reliable partners.",
        "最后，美国需要可靠的伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "The additional financing required is modest.",
        "所需要的追加融资并不多。"
    ],
    [
        "The dollar confusion encouraged the oil producers to form their (briefly) highly effective cartel, OPEC.",
        "美元乱局也促使产油国建立了（一度）十分有效的卡特尔——欧佩克。"
    ],
    [
        "But this time something was different: Americans continued to watch even after the US team was eliminated.",
        "但这次有所不同：美国人在美国队被淘汰后仍然在看世界杯。"
    ],
    [
        "The very morning of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear station on April 26, 1986, the Politburo met to discuss the situation, and then organized a government commission to deal with the consequences.",
        "1986年4月26日切尔诺贝利核电站爆炸的当天上午，苏共政治局就开会讨论局势，随后组织了一个政府委员会来处理事故后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the LAC has not been mutually clarified – China reneged on a 2001 promise to exchange maps with India – China claims that PLA troops are merely camping on “Chinese land.”",
        "实际控制线并不是双方公认的——中国违反了2001年于印度交换地图的承诺——因此中国宣布解放军只是在“中国领土”上扎营。"
    ],
    [
        "Hungary, where democratic backsliding appears to be taking hold, provides a foretaste of a Europe in which the eurozone crisis and deflation persist.",
        "匈牙利的民主退步似乎开始逐渐产生影响。 目前欧元区经济危机和通货紧缩在欧洲持续发展，匈牙利的情形成了整个欧洲的预兆。"
    ],
    [
        "The opposition’s claim that it is acting in the interests of the world’s democracies needs to be rebutted.",
        "必须剥去反对派所宣称的他们是在为全世界民主需要而奋斗的说法的画皮。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of uniting the various political forces around an accepted set of democratic institutions, the constitutional process ended up polarizing society along identity lines, owing in large part to a faulty sequence: unlike Tunisia, a president with full powers was elected before a new constitution was produced.",
        "制宪过程并未让各股政治势力团结在被共同接受的民主制度安排周围，而是最终让社会走向了极端，不同身份的人各自为政。 其原因很大程度上在于程序错误：与突尼斯不同，埃及在新宪法尚未产生前先选出了全面掌权的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "The great economist Rudi Dornbusch used to say that a financial crisis usually starts much later than anyone expects, but then develops faster than anyone can imagine.",
        "伟大的经济学家多恩布什曾经说过，金融危机发生通常要比人们预计的要晚很多，但是随后发展起来要比人们想像的要快很多。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the latter seems to be the price paid for the success of the former.",
        "事实上，后者似乎就是为前者的成功所付出的代价。 这可不是一个小说情节。"
    ],
    [
        "And candidates would stand to gain a competitive advantage against opponents who refuse to take the oath.",
        "如果对手拒绝宣誓，那么候选人就能赢得竞争优势。"
    ],
    [
        "For the last five years, Pakistan’s annual GDP growth has averaged just 3% – half the rate needed to absorb two million new labor-force entrants every year.",
        "过去五年来，巴基斯坦年均GDP增长只有3%，需要翻番才能吸收每年200万新劳动大军。"
    ],
    [
        "By commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, for example, the US both underscores and rededicates itself to the shared ideal of racial equality.",
        "比如，美国纪念马丁·路德·金的生日，这强调了种族平等的共同理想，也表明美国将献身于这一理想。"
    ],
    [
        "According to detailed evidence submitted by the opposition, the tallies from the countryside, allegedly already padded for Kibaki, were again manipulated, with additional votes awarded to him.",
        "根据反对派提供的详细证据，来自农村地区、已被做了手脚的选票统计再一次被操纵，Kibaki被给予了额外的票数。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by understanding the political context in which vaccination programs operate will those committed to eradicating polio succeed.",
        "只有了解了疫苗接种计划实施的政治背景，根除小儿麻痹症的工作才能够取得胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Here too, the early signs are encouraging.",
        "初期的迹象令人鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "Any basic economics course stresses the ironclad accounting identity that saving must equal investment at each and every point in time.",
        "任何基础经济学课程都会强调一个会计恒等铁律，即储蓄额必须在每个时间点上都与投资额相等。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost all studies of human-induced climate change show that the Mediterranean region, including security hotspots like Libya, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, and Syria, is likely to experience a further significant decline in rainfall, compounding the drying trend that has occurred during the past quarter-century.",
        "几乎所有关于人为导致的气候变化的研究都表明，地中海地区——包括安全问题热点利比亚、埃及、以色列、巴勒斯坦和叙利亚等——降雨可能进一步减少，加剧过去四分之一世纪所发生的干旱趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a strong support system, mental-health problems can disrupt these developments, damaging the future prospects of those whom they affect.",
        "没有强大的支持系统，心理健康问题可能破坏这些发展，伤害受影响者的未来前景。"
    ],
    [
        "At the root of this problem is the global political system - if such it can be called.",
        "问题的根源是全球性的政治体制-权且这样称谓。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – With the crisis in Ukraine intensifying, the United States and the European Union are locked in a battle of wills – and sanctions – with Russia.",
        "柏林—随着乌克兰危机的升级，美国和欧盟也陷入了与俄罗斯的意志——还有制裁——之战。"
    ],
    [
        "Explaining the inevitable shift to tightening could prove a far greater challenge than explaining the exceptional accommodation of quantitative easing.",
        "跟解释量化宽松的特殊调节措施比起来，解释这场向紧缩政策的必然转化显然更有难度。"
    ],
    [
        "But most historians agree there was no such danger.",
        "但大部分历史学家同意根本不存在这样的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Excess-Capacity Nightmare",
        "中国的产能过剩之痛"
    ],
    [
        "Their vote will not only decide who will be the country’s next president; it may also determine the future of the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB), and therefore the country’s macroeconomic trajectory.",
        "巴西人的选票不但将决定下一任总统； 也许还将决定巴西中央银行的未来，从而也将决定巴西宏观经济的轨迹。"
    ],
    [
        "A worthwhile effort could have been blocked, or President Barack Obama’s Democratic administration could have been compelled to be more generous to American corporations, in order to pick up needed votes from Republicans.",
        "一项值得为此付出的努力可能被阻挠，或总统奥巴马的民主党政府可能被迫对美国公司采取更慷慨的态度，这样才能从共和党手中争夺必需的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent survey of 384 firms in the eurozone by the management consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers, two-thirds of the respondents said that they had reshored some activities during the past year, and 50% plan to do so in the next.",
        "普华永道管理咨询公司对384家欧元区企业的最新调查中，三分之二的受访者表示在过去一年中实施了一些回岸动作，50%的受访者表示准备在明年这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Without common economic and financial policies, coordinated at least between the members of the euro zone, the cohesion of the common currency and the EU – indeed, their very existence – are in unprecedented danger.",
        "没有至少在欧元区成员国之间协调的共同的经济和金融政策，那么共同货币和欧盟的凝聚力-事实上，这两者本身的存在-也会陷入前所未有的危险境地。"
    ],
    [
        "But international organizations alone cannot solve the problem.",
        "但光靠国际组织解决不了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, taxing individual rather than family income – which in many economies imposes a higher marginal tax on the second earner in households – would encourage women to seek employment.",
        "比如，向个人而不是家庭课税——在许多经济体，家庭第二份收入的边际税率更高——能鼓励女性寻找工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, only 14 countries have ratified the protocol since it was agreed in 2011.",
        "事实上，自该协议2011年达成一致以来，只有14个国家在上面签了字。"
    ],
    [
        "This raises a fundamental question: Is Afghanistan’s territorial unity really essential for regional or international security?",
        "这提出了一个根本性的问题：阿富汗的领土统一是否对区域或国际安全至关重要？"
    ],
    [
        "When War and Peace was published in 1869, on the other side of the Bering Strait stood the United States, which had purchased Alaska from Russia only two years earlier for about two cents an acre.",
        "1869年，《战争与和平》发表之际，在白令海峡的对岸屹立着美国，该国两年前曾以每英亩约两美分的价格从俄国人手里买下了阿拉斯加。"
    ],
    [
        "The government, the central bank, the media, and companies wasted far too much time simply enduring deflation – time that they should have spent working actively to address it.",
        "日本政府、中央银行、媒体和公司浪费了太多时间忍受通缩——它们本应该把这些时间用在积极地解决通缩上的。"
    ],
    [
        "The heady days of Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai (“Indians and Chinese are brothers”), the slogan coined by Nehru’s India to welcome Chou En-Lai in 1955, gave way to the humiliation of the 1962 border war, after which it was “Hindi-Chini bye-bye” for decades.",
        "那些令人陶醉的印度人和中国人是兄弟的日子，以及在1955年尼赫鲁时代的印度铸造的欢迎周恩来的标语，都让位给1962年边境战争带来的耻辱，在此之后是几十年的“印度－中国拜拜”。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this adds up to a recipe for continued slow growth, secular stagnation, disinflation, and even deflation.",
        "所有这些造成了持续慢增长、长期停滞、通货不通胀甚至紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists have been tracking these trends for some time.",
        "经济学家追踪这些趋势已经有一些时日了。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Fair-Weather American Friends",
        "中国的美国朋友——不可共患难"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there was much else in the manifesto – fantasies about reviving the medieval Knights Templar, for example – that suggests a more bizarre disposition, and Wilders was quick to distance himself from Breivik’s violent methods.",
        "当然这个宣言中还有很多其他内容——比如复兴中世纪圣殿骑士团的梦想——体现了他本人的怪异思维，而怀德斯则迅速与布雷维克的暴力方式撇清关系。"
    ],
    [
        "One study finds that a handsome man enjoys an edge over an ugly rival that is worth 6-8% of the vote.",
        "一项研究发现英俊的男性会比丑陋的对手多获得6~8%的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Opiates flow freely across borders into Iran, Pakistan, and other Central Asian countries.",
        "鸦片剂大摇大摆地越境进入伊朗、巴基斯坦以及其他中亚国家。"
    ],
    [
        "So one way to contain evil is by attacking the lies on which it is based and condemning those who propound them.",
        "”因此，遏制邪恶的一个方法是攻击作为它的基础的谎言，谴责炮制这些谎言的人。"
    ],
    [
        "The Business of Business is More Than Business",
        "企业功夫在企业外"
    ],
    [
        "It does not take huge rates of returns to mobilize a lot of talent; something like a 50% profit margin for a few years would be an acceptable reward for particularly good entrepreneurship.",
        "其实无需巨额回报就能调动积极性； 即使出色的创业者也可以接受连续几年50%左右的利润。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be a win-win arrangement.",
        "这将是一个双赢安排。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the summer, when several severe outbreaks of violence effectively ended a two-year old ceasefire between the PKK and the Turkish government, the Kurdish conflict in Turkey has once again been burning white-hot, raising fears about the impact of an empowered PYD.",
        "今年夏天的多次暴力事件事实上结束了两年来PKK与土耳其政府的停火状态，自此以后，土耳其的库尔德冲突就在此白热化，让人们担忧获得实力的PYD的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Though drought does not explain all of the ensuing violence, it certainly played a role.",
        "尽管干旱不是持久暴力的唯一原因，但肯定是因素之一。"
    ],
    [
        "(Many of the same people argued for analogous reasons against the Federal Reserve’s successful disinflation policies in the early 1980’s.)",
        "（同样是这群人中的许多人在20世纪80年代初以同样的理由反对美联储成功的反通胀政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Failures always reveal weaknesses and provide incontrovertible evidence of our incomplete understanding of how things work.",
        "失败常会暴露弱点，明白无误地表明我们对规律的了解还很片面。"
    ],
    [
        "The Columbia Journalism Review called the article “groundbreaking,” though recent squabbles with CNN indicate a certain reluctance to accept BuzzFeed as a legitimate news organization – and, potentially, even the emergence of a new media war.",
        "《哥伦比亚新闻评论》（Columbia Journalism）称这是一篇“石破天惊”的报道，但最近与CNN的“嘴仗”表明人们还不太情愿接受BuzzFeed为正统的新闻组织——或许也不愿接受新媒体战争的出现。"
    ],
    [
        "They are compensated, for example, should the government adopt a regulation that hurts their bottom line, no matter how desirable the regulation or how great the harm caused by the corporation in its absence.",
        "比如说如果政府实施了一个伤害到这些企业最终盈利状况的规定，那么无论这个规定多么令人满意，或者无论企业会在规定缺失的情况下会造成多大危害，它们都会得到补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "It is in the realm of ideas that China’s political-economic model, regardless of its environmental consequences, is scoring victories and looking like an attractive alternative to liberal democratic capitalism.",
        "这是一个理念上的问题，不管它的环境效应，会怎样中国的政治经济模式正在取得胜利，并且看起来是自由民主的资本主义的一个很有吸引力的替代模式。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for diplomats to do the same.",
        "外交官们也是时候这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the United States will oppose any Iranian nuclear program – even a civilian program – because this will contribute to the stability of the regime in Tehran.",
        "同时，美国会反对任何形式的伊朗核计划—即使是民用计划—因为这会使德黑兰的政权更为稳固。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, the answer undoubtedly lies in the transformation of the Mexican left, and partly also of the Mexican right.",
        "毫无疑问，从长远来看，答案在于墨西哥左右两翼的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "As temperatures rise, however, the costs will rise and the benefits will decline, leading to a dramatic reduction in net benefits.",
        "但是，随着温度的升高，成本会增加而收益会降低，导致净收益的大降。"
    ],
    [
        "“Knowledge is power,” say the optimists.",
        "“知识就是力量”，乐观者说。"
    ],
    [
        "However, many of these plants are unable to keep up with rapid population growth and attendant increases in demand.",
        "但是，许多这些电站无法跟上快速人口增长以及随之而来的需求增加。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, private companies in Brazil invest less in personnel training than those in other countries with similar per capita incomes, owing largely to disincentives embedded in tax and labor laws – incentives that Temer’s government has proposed to change.",
        "目前，巴西私营企业的人事培训投资要低于人均收入相当的其他国家，主要原因在于税收和劳动法激励不足——特梅尔政府准备改变这些激励。"
    ],
    [
        "But connectivity is not only digital; physical infrastructure is also vital.",
        "但连通性不仅仅是在数字方面，实体基础设施也十分关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Although that may or may not be economically sensible, a country in a severe economic downturn might very well take such a policy decision.",
        "虽然这样做在经济上可能是明智的，也可能是不明智的，但是，一个遭受严重经济下滑的国家极有可能做出这样的政策决策"
    ],
    [
        "If banks and other financial institutions are to perform their crucial role in providing support for growth and employment, it is imperative that they take steps to regain the public’s trust.",
        "如果银行和其他金融机构要行使支持增长和就业的关键作用，就必须采取措施重新获得公众的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Even educational institutions, such as New York University’s new campus in Abu Dhabi, have been tainted by episodes of workplace exploitation and abuse.",
        "甚至教育机构，如纽约大学阿布扎比新校区，也爆出了在工作场所压迫和虐待的丑闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Theirs is a politics of fear and dog-whistle incitement of the extremist forces that exist in every society.",
        "恐怖政治及存在于所有社会的极端主义势力是他们的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, that type of information is called “healthy lifestyle promotion.”",
        "今天，那类信息被称为“健康生活方式倡导。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where Pfeiffer’s strategy comes in.",
        "这就是女教师的策略能奏效的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "If China managed to compel them to do so, it would benefit considerably – and not just in terms of its international reputation.",
        "如果中国成功迫使它们这样做，将带来巨大的好处——不仅限于其国际声望。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, for its part, must balance continued support for its conventional military forces, which remain an important deterrent in Asia and Europe, with investment in a broad portfolio of alternative capabilities that conflicts in the Middle East require.",
        "至于美国，它必须在继续支持其传统军事力量（仍然是对亚洲和欧洲的重要威慑）和投资于范围广泛的其他能力（中东冲突的必要要求）之间找到平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "As Americans prepare to choose their next president, a better understanding of the policy changes that would minimize the risk of future crises – and which politicians are most likely to implement them – is urgently needed.",
        "美国人正在准备选举下一任总统，急需更好地认识能让未来危机风险最小化的政策变革——以及最有可能实施这些变革的政客。"
    ],
    [
        "Mosquito nets and effective medication could halve the incidence of malaria and would cost $13 billion.",
        "蚊帐和有效的药物治疗将花费130亿美元，却能将疟疾的发病率减少一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Taxpayers are more responsive to matching incentives than they are to tax incentives, because the former are easier to understand and more transparent.",
        "与税收激励相比，纳税人更响应匹配激励，因为后者更易理解，也更透明。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson of the Iraq War should not be that all armed interventions in the Middle East or elsewhere are to be avoided, but rather that they must only be undertaken when they are the best available strategy and when the results are likely to justify the costs.",
        "伊拉克战争的教训绝不是应该避免一切中东和其他地区的武装干预，而是武装干预必须只在它们是最佳可行战略并且结果可能证明值得为之付出代价的情况下才能进行。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy is poised for stronger growth in the year ahead.",
        "明年经济预计能够实现更加强劲的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "With a renewed confidence in democracy, citizens can take action to ensure that elected officials are governed by the right incentives, and motivated to pursue bipartisan solutions to the country’s problems.",
        "对民主重建信心的公民能够采取行动确保当选官员受正确的激励的推动，有动力为美国面临的问题追求跨党派方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, Cameron was right to say that “the European Union that emerges from the eurozone crisis … will be transformed beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the eurozone.”",
        "卡梅伦说准的第二点是他说“从欧元区危机中走来的欧盟……会因拯救欧元所需要的措施而发生超越认知的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Even foreign-born doctors who save British lives are no longer welcome; May wants the UK to be “self-sufficient” in health care by 2025.",
        "即使是那些拯救英国人生命的外国医生也不再欢迎； 梅希望英国在2025年前实现医疗保健的“自给自足”。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, historical issues could still resurface to cause new problems.",
        "最后，历史事件可以重新浮出水面造成新的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Rapid population growth means a bulging youth population.",
        "同时迅速的人口增长意味着不断膨胀的青年人数量。"
    ],
    [
        "But the actions that central banks take today can affect real macroeconomic developments in the long term, primarily through their impact on the financial cycle.",
        "但央行当今所采取的行动可以在很大程度上通过影响金融周期来左右长期的实际宏观经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "As he put it, “my phone is my little world.”",
        "他说，“我的手机就是我的小世界。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil under Lula implemented Bolsa Familia, a system of direct cash payments to households that is credited with lifting millions out of poverty.",
        "卢拉治下的把戏实施了家庭补助金（Bolsa Familia）计划，该计划向家庭直接派发现金，将数百万人带出了贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "However, no such proof was provided.",
        "但是，希腊案例并没有提供这类证明。"
    ],
    [
        "Continued improvement of border security and deeper cooperation with Western intelligence agencies on the issue of foreign fighters are also essential.",
        "边境安全的持续改善和与西方情报机构在外国战士问题上的更深层次合作也十分关键。"
    ],
    [
        "But there has, at last, been real movement towards openness – progress recognized by the European Union when it gave Romania the green light to join the European Union at the beginning of 2007.",
        "但是最终我们已经向公开化迈出了实质性的步伐，并且已经获得了欧盟的认可从而使它同意在2007年初接收罗马尼亚加入欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Productivity collapsed in all of them.",
        "所有这些部门的生产率无不出现暴跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Land is also increasingly scarce.",
        "土地也日益不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, advanced countries have implemented very little fundamental tax reform so far.",
        "不幸的是，目前发达国家几乎没有实施根本性的税收改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU began life as a cartel of heavy industries determined to manipulate prices and redistribute monopoly profits through a bureaucracy located in Brussels.",
        "欧盟的生命起始于决意通过设在布鲁塞尔的官僚机构操纵价格并实现利润再分配的重工业卡特尔。"
    ],
    [
        "Because an enlarged Union will become a reality in just two months, it is imperative to develop concepts for cultural understanding that contribute to the successful integration of the new members.",
        "因为一个扩大的欧盟在两个月内就会变成现实，所以我们必须树立文化谅解的观念从而帮助新成员国顺利地融入欧盟大家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "So, even if the eurozone’s structure is modified to achieve the desired level of fiscal discipline and balance, in its current highly decentralized structure, countries will continue to diverge in other important respects.",
        "所以，即便欧元区的结构能被修正并达到实现财政秩序和平衡的理想水平，在其目前高度分散的结构下，各国将继续在其它重要方面产生分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "It will enforce the rule of law, but only for a price.",
        "它将推行法治精神，但这样做不是没有代价的。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is clear that fundamentalists and their supporters are completely closed off to even the most elaborate theological refutation of their views, even when produced by distinguished religious authorities.",
        "当今，非常清楚的一点就是原教旨主义者及其支持者们对驳斥他们观点的，哪怕是最详尽的神学论述也完全充耳不闻。 即便是这些驳斥来自于德高望重的宗教权威，情况也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "And costly, ineffective programs are notorious for surviving indefinitely because they develop powerful defenders.",
        "而低效率项目总能毫无例外地存在，原因在于它们有强大的撑腰力量。"
    ],
    [
        "(At that time, the highest marginal tax rate was 91%.)",
        "（当时最高边际税率为91%。"
    ],
    [
        "John Watson, CEO of Chevron, recently rejected carbon pricing as unworkable.",
        "雪弗龙公司CEO约翰·沃森（John Watson）最近指出碳定价根本不可行。"
    ],
    [
        "The final issue that the doormat incident brought to the fore is Indians’ tendency to take offense at the slightest affront – a tendency that is now being elevated, by the thumbs of a top minister, to the level of official policy.",
        "门垫事故所突出的最后一个问题是印度不容忍最轻微的冒犯的倾向——如今这一倾向通过一位高级部长的手指头升级到官方政策高度。"
    ],
    [
        "The Thai economy emerged out of its post-1997 crisis doldrums under Thaksin’s watch, and is now firmly positioned on a 6% annual growth trajectory.",
        "在他信的监控下，泰国经济走出了1997年东南亚金融危机后的萧条状态，正以年增长率6%的速度稳步增长。"
    ],
    [
        "His social identity is not the same as Mailat’s, his spiritual “entity” is drastically different, but his double crime is no less abominable.",
        "他的社会认同与Mailat不同，他的精神“存在”也迥异，但他的双重罪行却同样令人憎恶。"
    ],
    [
        "In an age of rising inequality, at least some countries have narrowed their wealth and income gaps.",
        "在这个贫富差距日益扩大的时代，至少有一些国家缩小了国内的财富和收入差距。"
    ],
    [
        "But the NAIRU is not immutable.",
        "但是NAIRU并不是永久不变的。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Italy is well known for low trust in government, with citizens largely resigned to the idea that virtually every public figure is self-serving, Berlusconi managed to numb the popular consciousness even further.",
        "虽然众所周知意大利民众缺乏对政府的信任，大部分民众认为几乎所有公众人物都是为了追求自己的利益，但贝卢斯科尼还是成功地让大众意识进一步陷入麻木。"
    ],
    [
        "Funds invested, and reinvested, in the S&P composite from 1998-2008 have yielded a real return of zero: the dividends earned on the portfolio have been just enough to offset inflation.",
        "在1998-2008年间被投资并再投资于标普的成分股的资金所产生的真实回报为零：该股票组合所收益的股息正好可以抵消通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "These loans, meant as a temporary bridge before the reforms entered into effect, need to be reaffirmed every six months.",
        "这些贷款原本只是改革实施前的过渡手段，每六个月就必须重新确认一次。"
    ],
    [
        "The debt-ceiling absolutists grossly underestimate the massive adjustment costs of a self-imposed “sudden stop” in debt finance.",
        "债务上限绝对论者大大低估了自我发生的债务融资“骤停”所造成的巨大调整成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Not the kind of genocidal slaughter conducted by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970’s. Nor the scale of killing that has been roiling Syria, or that has put Ukraine, Venezuela, Thailand, and Bangladesh in the global headlines of late.",
        "不是20世纪70年代的红色高棉宗族灭绝大屠杀，也不是动荡不已的叙利亚那种规模的杀戮，也不是乌克兰、委内瑞拉、泰国和孟加拉国最近登上全球新闻头条的杀戮。"
    ],
    [
        "This depreciation would perhaps be justifiable had Nigeria managed to use easy money to narrow the gap between ordinary Nigerians’ standard of living and that of people living in Britain.",
        "但是纳拉的发行迅速结束了与英镑的汇比关系。 尽管尼日利亚在1970年后通过石油出口获得了大量的外汇收入，政府支出还是超出了联邦收入。"
    ],
    [
        "· Housing and housing finance: At the root of the global financial crisis, the troubled US housing market continues to act as a millstone around the economy’s neck.",
        "· 房地产和房地产金融：萎靡不振的美国房地产市场是全球金融危机的根源，并仍然是经济的重负之一。"
    ],
    [
        "That 25-percentage-point gap could be closed by making mobile banking and digital wallets a reality.",
        "这其中25个百分点的差距可以通过数字银行和数字钱包服务来加以弥补。"
    ],
    [
        "The case against nuclear power is deeply rooted in concerns over safety in general and radiation in particular.",
        "反对核电的声音深深地植根于人们对安全性、尤其是辐射的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "To see why, consider the case of Japan.",
        "为了说明原因，我们来看看日本的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Corruption is pervasive, and Xi’s campaign remains broadly popular.",
        "腐败无处不在，习近平的反腐运动也得到了广泛支持。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a grim reminder that when it comes to killing one another, repeatedly missing opportunities for peace, and botching all efforts at progress, no one can beat the Middle East.",
        "一个冷酷的事实是，杀戮、一再失去和平机会、糟蹋所有进步尝试，一想起这些，中东就没有赢家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Spence report represents a watershed for development policy – as much for what it says as for what it leaves out.",
        "斯宾塞报告代表了发展政策的一个分水岭－它涵盖的东西和遗漏的东西一样多。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than stand on the sidelines and proclaim censorship evil, it is picking its way through the landmines in China – competing with a politically well-connected rival and politely letting its users know that they aren’t always getting the whole picture.",
        "谷歌不是采取站在一边大声谴责审查制度的邪恶作为其抗争的方法，而是在中国的地雷中摸索出一条路-它与一家占有政治关系优势的对手进行竞争，并礼貌地告诉用户，他们搜索到的内容并不总是事情的全貌。"
    ],
    [
        "Analysts judge a government leader’s vision in terms of whether it creates a sensible balance between realism and risk, and whether it balances objectives with capabilities.",
        "分析家根据运动领导人是否能在现实与风险，目标与能力之间取得平衡来判断他的远景能否成功。"
    ],
    [
        "And, without saying so explicitly, he suggested that the time was right to go on a European buying spree at the right price.",
        "此外，尽管没有明说，但他表示在正确的价格买入欧洲的时机已经对头了。"
    ],
    [
        "But taking these traditions seriously would require much larger transformations of capitalism than even avowed Christian Democrats are prepared to contemplate, including a much wider distribution of ownership and mechanisms for involving workers in management.",
        "但严肃对待这些传统需要对资本主义进行大幅度改革，就连公开宣称的基督教民主党也未必准备考虑，包括分散所有权和让工人参与管理的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Any regional security architecture will have to be premised on the Middle East becoming a zone free of all weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.",
        "任何区域安全体制都将不得不以中东成为一个没有大规模毁灭性武器——包括核武器，化学和生物武器——的区域为前提。"
    ],
    [
        "They are prepared to look like fools in public – denying climate science and global warming – as long as it keeps the campaign money flowing.",
        "他们准备在公众面前扮演傻瓜——否认气候科学和全球变暖——只要这样做能维持竞选资金流。"
    ],
    [
        "And the scheme would be particularly attractive if it could be implemented on a pay-or-play basis, whereby companies could choose whether to invest in R&D or to contribute to a fund rewarding those whose efforts result in the desired drugs.",
        "而且如果能以付费研发二选一的方式来落实这项方案或许更具吸引力，这样企业就可以选择是投资研发还是交费鼓励那些研发出有效药品的企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, far more interesting than the BRI’s infrastructure projects are its geopolitical implications.",
        "事实上，比“一带一路”的基础设施项目更有意义的是它对地缘政治的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But this proposition may be dangerously misleading.",
        "但这一观点也许具有极大的误导性。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – A Greek tragedy is typically composed of three acts.",
        "芝加哥——希腊悲剧通常由三幕组成。"
    ],
    [
        "A study conducted by the Bertelsmann Foundation in January showed that 35% of Germans have no problem making that connection.",
        "1月份，一份贝塔斯曼基金会（Bertelsmann Foundation）所做的研究表明35%的德国人能轻松指出其中的关联。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing FDI’s significant contributions to the US economy, President Barack Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness endorsed the administration’s new Select USA program to coordinate government-wide efforts to promote it.",
        "奥巴马总统的就业和竞争力委员会（Council on Jobs and Competitiveness）认识到FDI对美国经济的重大贡献，因此大力支持政府的新“选择美国”（Select USA）计划，通过协调政府行为促进FDI。"
    ],
    [
        "The car loan market underwent a mini-boom in 2003-04, but non-repayment rates in excess of 50% forced banks to pull back.",
        "车贷市场在2003至2004年间曾经昙花一现，但是欠帐比例超过了50%，迫使银行又退了回去。"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, the point is straightforward: statistical recovery is not enough.",
        "无论哪种说法，重点都很明确：光靠统计数据来证明复苏，是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "Few of the challenges that it raises can be met unilaterally; more often than not, cooperation, compromise, and a degree of multilateralism are essential.",
        "上述挑战没有哪个可以由某国单枪匹马地解决，合作、妥协以及一定程度的多边主义至关重要，这与其说是特例，不如说是常态。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – For the better part of a decade, central banks have been making only limited headway in curbing powerful global deflationary forces.",
        "布鲁塞尔—在最近十年的大部分时间里，中央银行在遏制强大的全球通缩力量方面只取得了有限的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "According to this view, the coming to power of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Deng Xiaoping led to an enormous upward leap in human liberty and prosperity.",
        "根据他的观点，里根、撒切尔和邓小平执政使人类自由与繁荣的水平得到极大的提升。"
    ],
    [
        "Since Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution evicted Syria last year, the Syrians have sought to haul Lebanon back within their sphere of influence.",
        "自从黎巴嫩在去年的“雪松革命”中将叙利亚驱逐以来，叙利亚人就一直企图将其重新纳入到自己的势力范围。"
    ],
    [
        "However, before graduates flock to private equity, they should know that only the very big funds can use debt to skew returns for insiders in this way, primarily because only they can raise the capital needed to buy well-established companies that are rich in fixed assets, and thus in potential collateral.",
        "但是，在毕业生一窝蜂地涌向私募股权之前，他们应该知道，只有非常大的基金才能用这种方式通过债务为内部人士创造回报，主要原因是只有它们能够不筹集到收购拥有大量固定资产（也是潜在抵押品）的老牌公司所需的资本。"
    ],
    [
        "Chapter 9 of the US Bankruptcy Code (which applies to public entities) recognizes these rights – unlike Griesa and the vultures.",
        "美国破产法第九章（适用于公共实体）承认这些权利——这与葛里萨和兀鹫不同。"
    ],
    [
        "If that extra loss pushes a systemically vital Citibank over the precipice, the clearinghouse has not reduced systemic risk as advertised.",
        "如果额外损失把具有系统重要性的花旗银行推上了绝路，那么清算所的所谓减少系统风险的宣传也就不攻自破了。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be a damaging to expect science to “show off” in this way.",
        "但是如果要求科学也这样“宣扬自己”将会是危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers will continue to throw whatever ammunition they can find at the problem, but it will take time for the deleveraging from the boom to run its course.",
        "决策者将继续扔出他们这这个问题中找到的任何弹药，但从繁荣到正常发展的反杠杆作用需要很长一段时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Seven other Saudi jihadis who escaped to Yemen are also known to be active in Al Qaeda there.",
        "据悉，另外七个逃到也门的沙特阿拉伯伊斯兰圣战分子在也门的基地组织中，也很活跃。"
    ],
    [
        "To say that the gold market displays all of the classic features of a bubble gone bust is to oversimplify.",
        "要说黄金市场显示出所有破产泡沫的经典特征就未免过于简单化了。"
    ],
    [
        "In lieu of raising the gas tax, Obama has proposed a four-year $302 billion plan to close the existing HTF funding gap, and boost HTF spending by $20 billion a year above current levels.",
        "奥巴马提出了一个四年3,020亿美元的弥补公路信托基金现有资金缺口、让公路信托基金在当前水平上每年增加200亿美元的计划，作为增税的替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "And it would give trade negotiations a chance to succeed.",
        "而这将让贸易谈判有机会获得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "World War I was not simply a case of an established Britain responding to a rising Germany.",
        "第一次世界大战并不仅涉及现有大国英国和正在崛起的德国。"
    ],
    [
        "That won’t be easy.",
        "这不是个容易的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Sweden, a country of limited cultural diversity, has even more stringent laws on sexual behavior than the US.",
        "瑞典的文化多样性就相当有限，但其关于性行为的法律比美国还要严苛。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than continue to allow misguided conventional thinking, centered on German economic ideology, to impede effective action, the ECB must pursue quantitative easing (QE) “for the people” – an adaptation of Milton Friedman’s “helicopter drops” strategy – to reverse deflation and get the eurozone back on track.",
        "欧洲央行应该停止让误导性传统思维——以德国经济思想为核心——继续阻挠有效行动，而必须采取“为人民”的量化宽松——米尔顿·弗里德曼（Milton Friedman）的“直升飞机撒钱”策略的改版——扭转通缩、让欧元区重回正轨。"
    ],
    [
        "Mortgage lending, however, is a long-standing activity for commercial and savings banks, mostly unaffected by Glass-Steagall or its repeal.",
        "然而，长期以来，按揭贷款是商业银行和储蓄银行的活动，格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法案的废除对该业务几乎没有影响。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Vicious Growth Circle",
        "中国的恶性增长循环"
    ],
    [
        "Despite a slightly positive consumer price index (CPI), the producer price index (PPI) has been falling for 47 months in a row.",
        "尽管消费者价格指数（CPI）稍显正面，但生产者价格指数（PPI）却已连续下跌了47个月。"
    ],
    [
        "“The shells are pouring like rain in the monsoon,” declared one.",
        "有人说“炮弹像暴雨般倾泻而下。"
    ],
    [
        "The cost would be significant, and corners would no doubt be cut.",
        "这需要投入大笔资金，而且肯定有人希望投机取巧。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be best for all to pause a moment, contemplate T3 in Beijing, consider what it represents, and reflect on what an accomplishment the quick completion of such an iconic structure is for an emerging country like China.",
        "但是最好所有人都能够稍事停顿，思考一下北京T3航站楼究竟意味着什么，思考一下这样一栋标志性建筑的迅速完工对于中国这样的新兴国家是什么样的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it stands at just 4.2% – and yet inflation remains low.",
        "如今，失业率为4. 2%——而通胀依然保持低水平。"
    ],
    [
        "To pass judgment on redistributive outcomes, we need to know about the circumstances that cause them.",
        "如果要对再分配的结果作出判断的话，我们就必须知道产生这种结果的客观环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of rejecting such laws as restricting freedom, therefore, we should defend them as ways to level the playing field between individuals and giant corporations that make no pretense of appealing to our capacities for reasoning and reflection.",
        "因此，我们不能因为它限制了自由而拒绝这样的法律，相反，我们应该捍卫它，将它视为让个人和企业巨头平等竞争的方法，让我们的理性和思考不再受到掣肘。"
    ],
    [
        "Nigeria has proposed creating stabilization funds, and, in the future, it will sell its natural resources in transparent, competitive bidding processes.",
        "尼日利亚已经提出设立经济稳定基金，而且，将来要通过透明的，竞争性的竞标程序来出售资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Like its partners, France has launched significant stimulus measures, with a plan announced by President Nicolas Sarkozy last December, as well as public investments and early repayment of government debt.",
        "法国同它的盟友国们一样，启动了意义重大的刺激措施，加之总统尼古拉斯·萨科奇在去年12月宣布的一项计划，并启动了公共项目的投资以及政府债务的提前偿还。"
    ],
    [
        "The US remains a unique source of innovation.",
        "美国仍是独一无二的创新之源。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, then, should China make developing global financial centers a vital national goal?",
        "那么，为什么中国要把建设金融中心列为重要的全国性目标呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Why is China Lashing Out?",
        "中国为何发飙？"
    ],
    [
        "The most direct way to encourage the purchase of health insurance would be to exclude employer payments for such insurance from employees’ taxable income.",
        "鼓励购买健康保险的最直接方式是将雇主购买保险开支从雇员应税所得中扣除。"
    ],
    [
        "Fears of future wealth taxes could discourage entrepreneurship and lower the saving rate.",
        "对未来财富税的担心可能会阻碍企业家精神、降低储蓄率。"
    ],
    [
        "With economic power distributed in this way, explicit cooperation by all three actors is crucial.",
        "在经济权力如此分配的状态下，所有三个行动者的明确合作就变得至关重要了。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, the World Bank estimated that annual trade between India and Pakistan could jump from $1 billion today to $10 billion – if tariffs and other barriers were slashed to levels recommended by the World Trade Organization.",
        "去年，世界银行估计印度和巴基斯坦年贸易额可以从今天的10亿美元增加到100亿美元——如果关税和其他壁垒降低到世界贸易组织所建议的水平的话。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason for this is that much of the eurozone countries’ trade is with other eurozone countries that use the same currency.",
        "一个原因是欧元区国家很大一部分贸易的对象是使用同一货币的其他欧元区国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Fully ten years after the onset of the Great Financial Crisis, it seems more than appropriate to move the levers of monetary policy off their emergency settings.",
        "在金融危机爆发十多年之后将货币政策杠杆从紧急状态下解除出来似乎再合适不过了。"
    ],
    [
        "It was not upon their impulse that their Government acted in entering this war.”",
        "德国政府卷入这场战争并不是他们的本意。"
    ],
    [
        "As inflation and growth risks combine in varied and complex ways in different economies, it will be very difficult for central bankers to juggle these contradictory imperatives.",
        "因为在不同的经济体中通货膨胀和增长风险以各种复杂的方式结合在一起，中央银行要同时处理这些对立的紧急任务将会变得十分困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of undermining and demeaning international institutions because they do not necessarily follow America's will, the US should strengthen and improve them.",
        "美国应该加强和改善国际制度，而不能因为不合美国意志而加以破坏和贬低。"
    ],
    [
        "How Musharraf Survives",
        "穆沙拉夫的生存之道"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk reports that the state recorded a budget surplus of 0.6% of GDP during the first quarter of 2008.",
        "实际上，乌克兰财政部长平泽尼克报告说，在2008年的第一季度乌克兰实现预算盈余达到GDP的0. 06%。"
    ],
    [
        "This economic tsunami has come to us from the United States – there is nothing in it for Europe, but the right-wing forces in all our countries, which have coalesced into the majority that governs Europe, have rallied to its support.",
        "这场向我们呼啸而来的经济海啸发源于美国——虽然与欧洲无关，但是我们这些国家中的右翼力量已经和控制欧洲的主要力量达成一致，对其表示支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, he admitted as much in his speech at the launch of his political party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, from a safe distance of thousands of miles from an increasingly turbulent Pakistan.",
        "他在伦敦的国家自由俱乐部中宣布了这个决定。 国家自由俱乐部是威廉·格莱斯顿和其他英国议会传统的忠实拥护者在19世纪成立的一个机构。"
    ],
    [
        "The ability to refinance government debt and keep costs down is essential to strengthening public finances and boosting GDP growth.",
        "为政府债务重新融资并降低支出的能力对增强公共金融和促进GDP增长来说是必不可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Burma’s public health woes and drug and human trafficking are increasingly being exported to southern China.",
        "另外，缅甸的公共医疗灾难和贩卖毒品及人口的活动正越来越影响到中国南部。"
    ],
    [
        "Between the mid-1970’s and the mid-1990’s, Australia had several mass shootings.",
        "20世纪70年代中期至90年代中期，澳大利亚发生过数起大规模枪击案。"
    ],
    [
        "And, finally, there is the gross obstruction of justice represented by the firing of FBI director James Comey, whose main offense seems to have been his refusal to exclude Trump from his investigation of the Kremlin’s criminal interference in the 2016 campaign.",
        "最后还有解雇联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米所代表的严重妨碍司法，后者的主要过错似乎是拒绝将特朗普从他对2016年竞选期间克里姆林宫干涉罪行的调查中排除出去。"
    ],
    [
        "For many, the benefits of membership have diminished since the financial crisis, and prospective members, such as Poland, can derive maximum advantage from joining only if they are clear about the economic conditions that must first prevail in their own countries.",
        "对许多人来说，自金融危机以来，加入欧盟的好处有所减少，而对波兰等潜在成员国来说，弄清楚它们一开始会处于怎样的经济环境中再决定加入能够获得最大的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the inefficiencies of today’s search engines have created a new industry called Search Engine Optimization, which focuses on strategies to make Web pages rank high against the popularity criteria of Google-esque search engines.",
        "例如，如今效率低下的搜索引擎引带来了一个称之为搜索引擎优化的新产业，它专门使某些网页排名在用谷歌搜索引擎的流行度的标准所搜索出来的结果之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, Burma already has in Aung San Suu Kyi its very own Nelson Mandela.",
        "幸运的是，缅甸已经找到了自己的曼德拉——昂山素季。"
    ],
    [
        "FLORENCE – It is too simplistic to explain the current wave of concern about the euro in terms of Greece’s problems.",
        "佛罗伦萨 —— 当前市场对于欧元的担忧源自希腊危机，这种观点太简单化了。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has long run up against a Victorian belief that the poor are improvident and likely to waste money on alcohol, tobacco, and gambling.",
        "但这种做法却遭到维多利亚时期理念的反对，他们认为穷人缺乏远见，可能将钱用于烟、酒和赌博。"
    ],
    [
        "Like everyone else, she made mistakes and got some things wrong.",
        "与其他人一样，她也犯错误，也捅娄子。"
    ],
    [
        "And then Greece, Ireland, and Portugal lost access to credit markets, requiring bailout packages from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union.",
        "随后，希腊、爱尔兰和葡萄牙丧失了融资能力，向国际货币基金组织（IMF）和欧盟寻求“保释”（bailout）。"
    ],
    [
        "A malign example is Philip Morris’s donation of money to museums, symphony orchestras, and opera houses, cynically aimed at buying off artists who might otherwise work to ban cigarettes.",
        "而烟草巨头菲利普莫里斯公司给博物馆，交响乐团以及歌剧院的慈善捐款则别有用心，捐款被揭露是出于收买那些地方的艺术家，好让他们不要致力于禁烟运动。"
    ],
    [
        "I have seen the human toll of disasters – from earthquakes in China and Haiti to floods in Pakistan and Bangladesh to Superstorm Sandy, which affected the Caribbean and North America, even inundating the lower floors of the UN facilities in New York.",
        "我目睹过灾难的人道损失——从中国和海地的地震到巴基斯坦和孟加拉国的洪水再到影响加勒比海和北美、甚至淹没了纽约联合国低洼地区设施的超级飓风桑迪。"
    ],
    [
        "But the social costs, reflected in veteran suicides (which have topped 18 per day in recent years) and family breakups, are incalculable.",
        "但社会成本——体现在老兵自杀（近几年平均每天有18起）和家庭破裂上——根本无法计算。"
    ],
    [
        "They also reflect a disturbing trend affecting EU institutions: individual countries’ interests are increasingly trumping unity and cooperation.",
        "争论还反映出影响欧盟机构的令人不安的趋势：个别国家的利益越来越多地战胜了团结与合作。"
    ],
    [
        "For the euro to help lift European growth and productivity in any significant way, governments must allow – indeed, encourage – stronger competitive forces across the EMU area.",
        "为了能让欧元在提升欧洲经济增长和生产力方面发挥应有作用，各国政府必须允许—甚而鼓励—整个欧洲货币联盟区域内更为积极的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to the logistical challenge of reaching every child in Africa’s most populated country, the Nigerian polio-eradication campaign has had to overcome security issues, opposition by religious fundamentalists, and rampant corruption.",
        "除去在非洲人口最多的国家照顾到每一名儿童的后勤挑战，尼日利亚脊髓灰质炎根除运动还需要战胜安全问题、宗教原教旨主义者的反对和猖獗的腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "France is “southern” in its current-account deficit, but “northern” in its borrowing costs (slightly above Germany’s), owing partly to inflows of capital fleeing the south, as well as to modest but positive economic growth.",
        "法国的经常项目赤字属于“南欧”标准，而其借贷成本又属于“北欧”范围（只比德国略高），这部分是因为逃离南欧的资本流入了法国，部分是因为法国经济增长虽然缓慢，但好歹在正增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, America has been encouraging Sunni leaders in this belief.",
        "当然，美国一直在鼓励逊尼派领导人相信这一观点。"
    ],
    [
        "As their legitimacy and funding diminish, so does their effectiveness.",
        "而随着合法性和资金的流失，它们的效率也在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In imperial times, the critical tradition was carried forward by such scholars as Huang Zongxi.",
        "在帝王时代，黄宗羲等学者秉承批评传统。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever our temperature target, global emissions have to peak soon and decrease afterwards – all the way to zero.",
        "不管我们的气温目标为何，全球排放都必须尽快见顶，并随后下降——直到零排放。"
    ],
    [
        "Several have been subject to enormous suits – and enormous payouts.",
        "一些国家诉讼缠身，并付出了巨额赔付。"
    ],
    [
        "Member countries, beginning with Greece, must acknowledge that interdependency is unavoidable – and, indeed, desirable, if managed properly.",
        "会员国，首先从希腊开始，必须承认相互依赖不可避免——事实上如果管理得当，甚至可以取得很好的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Only about 0.5% of the world’s energy comes from these renewable sources.",
        "世界能源只有大约0. 5%来源于这两种可再生的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider how the US government stepped in to ensure financial and economic stability during the global financial crisis of 2008-2009.",
        "想想美国政府是如何在2008—2009年全球金融危机期间介入确保金融和经济稳定的。"
    ],
    [
        "On this view, if fiscal austerity relieves households of the burden of future tax increases, they will increase their spending.",
        "从这一观点来看，如果财政紧缩能减轻未来增税给家庭带来的负担，后者就将增加支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Whichever path Europe’s universities take, maintaining a distinct identity in the face of global change and education reform will become increasingly difficult.",
        "不管欧洲大学采取哪种方法，在全球变化和教育改革面前保持独立身份将变得越来越困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Weisel claimed not to understand, so I explained: A majority of congressional Democrats supported the principle that the United States should sign trade agreements only with countries that are democracies.",
        "”维塞尔问此话怎讲，我解释说：国会民主党大部分都支持一个原则，那就是美国只能和民主国家签署贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "But if that issue is settled (and it should be), there is an equally large and important question that remains wide open: what should we do about it?",
        "但如果这个问题能得到（也应该得到）解决的话，那么就有一个同样宏大而且重要的问题亟待解答：究竟该用什么方法解决？"
    ],
    [
        "But this fails to account for the standard growth theory of “conditional convergence”: only economies with comparable structural characteristics, such as labor skills and institutional quality, converge to similar per capita income levels.",
        "但这一观点没有考虑“条件趋同”的标准增长理论：只有拥有可比结构特征（比如劳动力技能和制度质量）的经济，它们的人均收入水平才会趋同。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is evidence that the second has already started to come to pass, with serious implications for the way that modern economies have attempted to meet the challenges of globalization.",
        "但有证据表明第二个假说正在成为现实，对现代经济面临全球化挑战的应对方式造成着巨大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But the question remains: What exactly does Xi hope to achieve with China’s most fearsome anti-corruption campaign in more than three decades?",
        "但问题依然存在：习近平希望通过三十多年来最惊心动魄的反腐运动实现什么目的？"
    ],
    [
        "But they have never been able to emulate it, because their motivations for union have been so varied.",
        "但他们从来没有仿效成功，因为他们具有形形色色的结盟动机。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, the renminbi’s stability played an important role in stabilizing the region.",
        "在1997-1998的亚洲金融危机中，人民币的稳定对该地区的稳定中发挥了重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout their histories, the Indian and Chinese civilizations were separated by the vast Tibetan plateau, limiting their interaction to sporadic cultural and religious contacts; political relations were absent.",
        "纵观其历史，由于印度和中国的文明被广阔的青藏高原隔开，相互之间的文化和宗教互动因而受到了限制； 而两国之间几乎不存在政治关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The Americans do not want the job and are happy that someone else does.",
        "美国人并不愿插手此事，因此很高兴别人愿意。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar battle is now brewing about America’s “debt ceiling,” which, if unresolved, introduces the risk of a “technical” default on US public debt.",
        "眼下，另一场围绕美国“债务天花板”的恶斗正在酝酿之中，如不能妥善解决，将导致美国公债“技术性”违约风险。"
    ],
    [
        "How should Park respond if missile-armed submarines sail out of North Korean ports?",
        "如果弹道导弹潜艇驶出朝鲜港口，朴槿惠如何应对？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the social benefits of many real innovations (as opposed to the novel financial “products” that ended up unleashing havoc on the world economy) typically far exceed what their innovators receive.",
        "事实上，许多真正的创新（绝非最终给世界经济带来巨大浩劫的新奇金融“产品”）所带来的社会益处远远超过了创新者自己所获得的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The negative side effects of IT are not well understood, and public discussion of how to regulate the sector is urgently needed.",
        "IT的副作用尚未得到很好的认识，关于如何监管IT行业，急需大量公共讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, they must pay for their mistakes by overhauling the entire institutional framework of the EU and the eurozone.",
        "如今，他们必须为他们的错误买单——修正欧盟和欧元区的整套制度框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Think of the oil market, for example. It is impossible to infer solely from an increase in the volume of transactions how the price of oil will change.",
        "譬如，想想石油市场：仅仅从交易量的上升就推断石油的价格将会怎样变化，这是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Raised in fear, they had no idea how democracy could apply to their society, or how human-rights groups and other civic organizations could help shape the future.",
        "他们从小在恐惧中长大，不知道民主如何在他们的社会中实施，也不知道人权组织以及其他民间组织如何可以帮助建设未来。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, governments should implement measures that guarantee, directly or indirectly, affordable child- and elder-care support systems for working parents.",
        "在这方面，各国政府应该实施直接或间接保证职业父母能够负担得起的育幼和赡老制度。"
    ],
    [
        "• We must utilize economic and political power for service to humanity instead of misusing it in ruthless battles for domination.",
        "• 我们必须将经济和政治权力用于 服务人类 而不是将它们滥用在为争夺统治而进行的无情战争上。"
    ],
    [
        "Even today, the same tobacco companies are marketing new products that they claim are less harmful – like “heat-not-burn” devices, which vaporize tobacco to produce a nicotine-containing aerosol – and funding front groups purporting to work for a smoke-free world.",
        "即使在今天，同样这些烟草企业仍在营销据称危害性较小的新型产品——例如气化烟草从而产生含尼古丁气雾剂的“非燃烧型加热”设备——同时资助那些声称为无烟世界而全力奋斗的一线组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, the Nobel Prize was awarded for studies of cognitive characteristics that are entirely missing from the most well-known mental assessment device in the behavioral sciences: intelligence tests.",
        "具有讽刺意味的是，诺贝尔奖是针对就某些认知特征所作的研究而颁发的。 而在行为科学最广为人知的脑力评估 —智力测验里，这些认知特征却完全无影无踪。"
    ],
    [
        "Poverty Beyond the Numbers",
        "数字之外的贫困"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the saving rate in the United States is the lowest of any major country – roughly 10% of GDP.",
        "恰恰相反，美国的储蓄率是所有大国里最低的¾只占国内产值的约10%。"
    ],
    [
        "Making the most of it will require realism, courage, willingness to change, and a readiness to support change, particularly among those who have the greatest means to do so.",
        "抓住这次机会要求认清现实、勇气、变革的意愿，以及做好支持变革的准备，特别是对于握有如此行动的资源的人来说。"
    ],
    [
        "There is exactly zero evidence in Europe today that inflation is just around the corner.",
        "现在根本没有任何证据表明欧洲通货膨胀即将来临。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, from 1992 to 2002, the UN’s member governments signed a number of treaties and agreements that can and should provide the foundation for long-term global solutions.",
        "实际上，从1992到2002年，联合国所属各成员政府签订了几项能够而且理应作为全球性长期方案基础的协议和协定。"
    ],
    [
        "A vote for recognition of Palestinian statehood is a vote for peace.",
        "投票承认巴勒斯坦国地位就是投票支持和平。"
    ],
    [
        "They are living it now, as an increasingly unpredictable climate takes its toll; and their numbers are likely to soar as the effects of climate change intensify.",
        "他们就生活在这样的情景中，他们是日益难以预测的气候的受害者； 而随着气候变化效应的加剧，他们的数量有可能急剧增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, even if the absolute income gap between an average American and an average African increases, why worry?",
        "因此，就算是美国和非洲人均收入的差距仍在扩大，又有什么可担心的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, many Poles feel they have little to show for the government’s support.",
        "再者，许多波兰人并不赞同政府对美国的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, majorities should not view an electoral victory as a license to act without regard for minority concerns.",
        "与此同时，多数派不应该将选举胜利视为可以无视少数派顾虑采取行动的通行证。"
    ],
    [
        "Many observers believe the American and Israeli governments were behind an earlier attack that destroyed centrifuges at an Iranian nuclear facility.",
        "不少观察家认为此前某次袭击的背后是美国和以色列政府，那次袭击破坏了伊朗某处核设施使用的离心机。"
    ],
    [
        "The sharpest contrast between the two waves of globalization is in the speed of technology absorption and disruption.",
        "两次全球化浪潮最尖锐的对比在于技术的吸收和破坏的速度。"
    ],
    [
        "People like Bill Gates and Kofi Annan will make the case that immunization programs deserve adequate funding and political support.",
        "比尔·盖茨和科菲·安南的出席表明，免疫计划值得拥有充分的资金和政治支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Small wonder, then, that most politicians have shied away from this challenge, and that far too little practical progress has been made since the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed in 1992.",
        "因此，难怪多数政治家都选择回避这一挑战，而且从1992年联合国气候变化框架公约签订后所取得的实际进展就一直甚微。"
    ],
    [
        "To take the last one first, those countries that built up large reserves were able to weather the economic crisis better, so the incentive to accumulate reserves is even stronger.",
        "先说最后一个问题。 囤积了大量储备的国家能够更好地抵御经济危机，因此囤积储备的激励会被进一步强化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, joint efforts to keep the Indian Ocean open and safe are already a reality.",
        "事实上，保持印度洋开放和安全的联合行动已是既成事实。"
    ],
    [
        "In domestic politics, delegation is carefully calibrated and restricted to a few areas where the issues tend to be highly technical and partisan differences are not large.",
        "在民主政治中，授权将得到仔细审议，并被限制于有限的领域——那些问题具有高度技术性且党派差异不大的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "The Real Side of Fake News",
        "假新闻的真实面"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Chinese scientists blamed the massive 2008 earthquake that struck the Tibetan plateau’s eastern rim, killing 87,000 people, on the newly constructed Zipingpu Dam, located next to a seismic fault.",
        "事实上，中国科学家将2008年青藏高原东沿发生的夺去87000人生命的大地震归咎于位于地震断层附近的新建成的紫坪铺大坝。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, the explosion of exports coming out of low-wage regions like China and India is at least a piece of the puzzle.",
        "即便如此，从中国和印度这样的低工资地区涌来的大量出口商品也是这个谜题的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The taxi company Uber did not exist five years ago; it is now valued at more than $40 billion.",
        "出租车公司Uber五年前还不存在； 如今它的估值已超过400亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The most direct method is purchases of foreign assets.",
        "最直接的办法是购买外国资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Since factional rivalry inside the Party cannot be handled discreetly, some of Bo’s colleagues felt that he had to go.",
        "由于党内的派系争端无法暗中调和，因此薄熙来的某些同僚觉得是时候让他走人了。"
    ],
    [
        "An exit would also harm Britain’s geopolitical interests, both in Europe (where, ironically, it favors EU enlargement) and, worldwide, in its global standing and special relationship with the United States (which has made clear its preference for a European UK).",
        "退出欧盟也会危害英国的地缘政治利益，不仅包括其在欧洲的利益（讽刺的是，这方面它倒是支持欧盟扩张的），也包括其在全世界的利益，其在全球事务中的地位以及其与美国的特殊关系（美国明确表示更希望看到欧洲英国）。"
    ],
    [
        "The new social contract for the first half of the twenty-first century must be one that combines fiscal realism, significant room for individual preferences, and strong social solidarity and protection against shocks stemming from personal circumstances or a volatile economy.",
        "21世纪上半叶的新社会契约必须兼顾财政现实、个人偏好的巨大空间以及强大的社会凝聚力和对个人情况和经济波动的冲击的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "And now that our phones talk to us (Apple launched Siri, the artificial voice that answers your spoken questions, on its iPhones in 2010), they fuel dread that they can replace us, just as earlier waves of automation rendered much human capital obsolete.",
        "现在，我们的手机能和我们对话（2010年，苹果为iPhone发布了一项叫做Siri的服务，这是一种人工声音，能回答你提出的问题），更加剧了它们可以取代我们的担忧，一如早先的自动化浪潮导致了大量人力资本的废置。"
    ],
    [
        "The task that the world’s democracies face today is to continue the project of modernity, embracing the latest knowledge about planetary boundaries, while advancing broad democratic participation and reducing poverty and social injustice.",
        "如今，世界民主国家所面临的任务是继续现代性工程，领会地球极限的最新知识，同时拖动广泛的民主参与、减少贫困和社会不公。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe requires institutional changes that are much more fundamental than anything discussed so far.",
        "欧洲所需要基础性制度变革，远远不止目前所讨论的那样简单。"
    ],
    [
        "But while few would dispute this characterization, the world has unfinished business in minimizing the threat.",
        "”然而，尽管很少有人会质疑这一论断，但尽量减小这一威胁仍是全世界未竟的事业。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, his obsession with dominating the daily news cycle, no matter how flimsy the pretext, continues unabated.",
        "与此同时，他继续热衷于占据日常新闻报道，丝毫不减狂热——无论托辞是多么站不住脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Refusing to consider any amount of monetary financing, and continuing to adhere to a strict inflation target, would have been much more difficult to justify.",
        "因此拒绝考虑任何数额的货币融资，并继续坚定维护一个严格通胀目标的做法则更加难以被认为是正当的。"
    ],
    [
        "If Brazil is to remain on its prosperous path, it must continue to give higher priority to its social and economic programs than to foreign adventures.",
        "如果巴西想在繁荣大道上走得更远，就必须继续给予社会和经济计划比外资企业更多的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "And Iraq without Kurdistan would still be viable, as would other neighboring countries.",
        "并且失去了库尔德斯坦的伊拉克也仍具备自生能力，其他邻国也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But an emerging group of scientists points to phenomena that current theories do not address well.",
        "但有的科学家开始指出现有的理论无法完全解释某些现象。"
    ],
    [
        "But Swensen is an academic, with a Ph.D. in economics.",
        "但是，斯文森却是一位学者，拥有经济学博士学位。"
    ],
    [
        "By standing up for democratic principles, the world would truly stand on the side of the Kenyan people.",
        "通过维护民主原则，世界就能真正站在肯尼亚人民一边。"
    ],
    [
        "History honors those who dare to challenge the politics of inertia by opening, through inspired diplomacy, new paths to progress.",
        "历史会铭记那些敢于通过创新外交开启新进步之路挑战惯性政治的人。"
    ],
    [
        "As Gerd Müller, Germany’s development minister, noted at a recent press conference, “If the youth of Africa can’t find work or a future in their own countries, it won’t be hundreds of thousands, but millions that make their way to Europe.”",
        "德国发展部长戈尔德·穆勒（Gerd Müller）在最近的新闻发布会上指出，“如果非洲年轻人不能在祖国找到工作和未来，就会有数百万计，而不是几万或几十万人想方设法来到欧洲。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "And Trump will not be alone in taking his oath next month: at around the same time, new members of the US Congress and Trump’s cabinet will make a similar pledge.",
        "特朗普不是下个月唯一一个要宣誓的人：几乎同时，美国国会新成员和特朗普内阁也将进行类似的宣誓。"
    ],
    [
        "Although such ideas have received a somewhat mixed reception, they are a welcome sign of much-needed public debate.",
        "虽然人们对类似想法反应各式各样，但至少有一点令人欣慰，那就是这标志着我们迫切需要的公众辩论的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest GBD study revealed that another disease seldom discussed in international development circles, lower back and neck pain, is the fourth largest cause of health loss globally.",
        "最新的GBD报告揭示，另一种在国际发展圈中鲜有讨论的疾病——腰痛和颈痛——是全球健康损失的第四大原因。"
    ],
    [
        "But Germans could not have staged their magnificent post-war renaissance without the support signified by the “Speech of Hope.”",
        "但如果没有《希望的演讲》所暗示的支持，德国人也无法取得令人瞩目的战后复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "And none of them depends on the political survival of Bashar al-Assad.",
        "其中没有一个需要巴沙尔·阿萨德。"
    ],
    [
        "And privatizations should aim at higher sale prices to pay off debt that many (privately) agree is unsustainable.",
        "而私有化必须着眼于更高的出售价格以偿付许多人（私下里）认为是可持续的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "China under Hu has perhaps found its development model: a form of Leninist capitalism with no aspirations toward a more democratic form of governance.",
        "胡锦涛统治下的中国可能已经找到了其发展模式，那就是列宁主义的资本主义，对更为民主的政府模式毫无愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if GDP growth outstrips growth in trade this year, it will likely amount to no more than 2.7%.",
        "即使今年GDP增长超过贸易增长，也可能无法超过2. 7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Simon Wren-Lewis of Oxford University estimates that the damage might be as high as 15% of GDP.",
        "牛津大学的西蒙·任-刘易斯（Simon Wren-Lewis）估算该损失可能高达GDP的15%。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, 2011 may well prove to be a better year for a battered economy and a political system under stress.",
        "恰恰相反，历史可能证明2011年对其陷于困境的经济和承受压力的政治体系来讲是一次机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, pointing this out does not reduce the pain for those affected.",
        "当然，指出这一点并不能减轻受影响群体的痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "These were the circumstances in which Charles Darwin found himself in the late 1830’s and early 1840’s, when he developed the principle of natural selection and its revolutionary implication: all the Earth’s life forms could have evolved from a single common ancestor.",
        "这就是十九世纪三十年代末和四十年代初达尔文所面临的境况。 当时他研究确立了物竞天择的原理及其巨大无比的影响，也就是说，地球上所有的生命形式都有可能从某个共同祖先演变而来。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to claims that the “Chinese century” is at hand, we have not entered a post-American world.",
        "与“中国世纪”近在咫尺的说法相反，我们尚未进入到后美国世界。"
    ],
    [
        "A former CNN journalist, her quiet bearing and diplomatic manner belie her courage: she captured her husband’s heart as she was reporting from Baghdad on the eve of “shock and awe,” standing firm before the cameras even as the bombs were falling.",
        "作为一名前CNN记者，丽姆王妃娴静的举止和出色的外交辞令掩盖了她的过人勇气：在美军对伊拉克发动“震撼与威慑”行动前夕，在巴格达的丽姆即便在炸弹乱飞之时依然牢牢站在摄像机面前进行现场报道，并以此俘虏了阿里王子的心。"
    ],
    [
        "A Pakistani intellectual once confessed to me, “I fear the weak electoral showings of Islamists in Pakistan has more to do with the fact that a compelling, charismatic Islamist leader – a Pakistani Hassan Nasrallah – has yet to emerge, not that his message wouldn't resonate.”",
        "一位巴基斯坦的知识分子曾经坦率地跟我说：“我担心伊斯兰主义者在巴基斯坦选举中的低得票率更多地是因为他们缺少一个令人信服、有超凡魅力的领导人，也就是巴基斯坦的纳斯鲁拉，而不是因为他发出的号令没有得到共鸣。"
    ],
    [
        "It is well established that when vaccination is impeded, the number of cases rises drastically, as was shown in Nigeria in 2003, where a ten-month delay led to the infection of thousands of people domestically, and to reinfection in more than 20 other countries.",
        "众所周知，一旦接种工作停止，患病数量会激增，2003年的尼日利亚就是明证——10个月的拖延导致了当地数千人感染，而且影响到周边20多个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Next Moral Hazard",
        "欧洲的下一个道德风险"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when countries should be regulating land use more strictly, Humala’s “reform” eliminates zoning restrictions.",
        "眼下，各国应该更严格地监管土地使用，而胡马拉的“改革”取消了划地限制。"
    ],
    [
        "There are other Kremlin supporters as well, including corporate leaders who want to return to business as usual with Russia, and academic apologists for the Soviet Union who, 25 years after its collapse, see a chance for vindication.",
        "还有其他克里姆林宫支持者，包括那些想照旧与俄罗斯做生意的公司领袖以及那些为苏联做辩护的学者，在苏联解体25年后，他们终于看到了正名的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Their proposal was subsequently co-sponsored by 95 countries and adopted unanimously in a UN General Assembly resolution.",
        "两国的提议随后得到了95个国家的联合赞助支持，并在联合国大会得到一致通过。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, President George W. Bush calls his dream the “ownership society.”",
        "在美国，乔治·W·布什把他的梦想称为“产权社会”。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems that we still take sexual and religious discrimination less seriously than we take racial and ethnic discrimination.",
        "看起来，我们对性别和宗教歧视的重视程度仍比不上种族和血统歧视。"
    ],
    [
        "Surprisingly, Ireland and the UK lead in this category, with 34% and 17%, respectively.",
        "令人惊讶的是，爱尔兰和英国在这一点上居于领先地位，分别是34%和17%。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who decried the alleged “paralysis of decision-making” under Modi’s excessively democratic, consultative, and consensual predecessor are now faced with a different kind of paralysis, as files pile up in Modi’s office, the only place where decisions are made.",
        "谴责莫迪的前任因为过度民主、协商和追求全体满意而导致“决策瘫痪”的人，现在需要面临另一种不同的瘫痪——所有决定都出自莫迪的办公室，导致哪里问题堆积如山。"
    ],
    [
        "The key provision (article 2) that no law may contradict “the undisputed rules of Islam” violates the basic principle of parliamentary sovereignty, and will prevent legislation from meeting international standards.",
        "关于没有任何法律能够与“无可争议的伊斯兰法规”相抵触的重要规定（第二条），违反了议会主权论的基本原则，并妨碍立法与国际标准接轨。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Ukraine, it may one day become part of the European Union, but its future is not in NATO.",
        "对乌克兰来说，它可能有一天会成为欧盟的一部分，但是其未来不是北约。"
    ],
    [
        "The current retrenchment reflects greater risk aversion and awareness since the bubble began to burst in late 2007.",
        "目前的紧缩反映了自2007年下半年泡沫开始破裂后民众更强烈的风险厌恶情绪和避险意识。"
    ],
    [
        "But the EPP obtained two more MEPs than the S&D, which implies a per seat cost of roughly 26,000 votes.",
        "但欧洲人民党比S&D多获得两个欧洲议会席位，这意味着每个席位的成本大概是26,000票。"
    ],
    [
        "The contrast with the US is striking.",
        "澳大利亚与美国可谓对比鲜明。"
    ],
    [
        "Economically, they must choose either joint liability and a transfer union or monetary re-nationalization.",
        "经济方面，它们必须选择要共同责任和转移联盟还是要货币的再国家化。"
    ],
    [
        "The money for recapitalizing distressed banks would now come primarily from creditors, not European taxpayers, with a pecking order to specify which lenders would be repaid first.",
        "如今，重组受困银行的资金将主要来自债权人而不是欧洲纳税人，根据啄序规定哪些贷款人将首先得到偿付。"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel, on the other hand, views the monetary union’s problem as one of too much centralization and too little national responsibility.",
        "另一方面，默克尔却认为货币联盟的问题是集权过度而各国分担责任过少。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, they said, Greece was a eurozone member, not a developing country.",
        "他们说，毕竟希腊是欧元区成员国而不是发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "It also would not enhance confidence in the public finances.",
        "这也不会提高人们对公共财政的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten years later, inequality continues to worsen within developing countries, including the so-called BRICS emerging economies.",
        "十年后，包括所谓的“金砖五国”新兴经济体在内的发展中国家的不平等继续恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to meet the path set by the SDGs, 58 million more girls and 60 million more boys will need to be enrolled in schools.",
        "为了实现SDG所制定的路径，需要让5,800万女孩和6,000万男孩入学读书。"
    ],
    [
        "The link between education and health has shaped other programs.",
        "教育和健康之间的联系决定了其他项目。"
    ],
    [
        "But what happens if this brings either no Iranian commitment to refrain from weaponizing nuclear power, or no acceptance of tough monitoring of such a pledge?",
        "但若外交接触无法令伊朗就不将核能用于军事目的作出承诺，或无法使伊朗同意就此承诺的履行状况接受严格监督的话，情况又会变成什么样呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The early post-crisis enthusiasm for new, globally agreed regulatory standards has given way to a range of national initiatives, driven by domestic political agendas, with little regard for cross-border compatibility.",
        "危机爆发之初对全球一致监管标准的热情已经变成了各自为政的国家监管政策，这些政策受国内政治日程推动，毫不顾及跨国兼容性。"
    ],
    [
        "If history is a reliable guide, the outcome will depend significantly on the economy’s performance between now and November 6, and on Americans’ perception of their economic future under the two candidates.",
        "如果历史可以作为可靠指导的话，那么最后的选举结果在很大程度上将决定于现在到11月6日之间的经济表现以及美国民众对两位候选人当选后美国经济未来走向的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the IMF could help countries to prevent evasion of the regulations, and, together with the G-20 and the FSB, should lead a global dialogue about the extent to which countries should coordinate such regulations.",
        "事实上，IMF可以协助各国防止回避此类管制，并与G20和金融稳定型委员会一道，引导各国就如何在资本账户管制问题上互相合作这一问题展开全球对话。"
    ],
    [
        "Although member states appear to have resigned themselves to this, they fervently resist other European firms taking control of their “national champion” companies.",
        "尽管各个成员国似乎对此表示了认可，但是它们却坚决抵制其他欧洲公司控制它们的国有霸主公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, credit rating agencies had serious conflicts of interest, because they received fees from the managers of these instruments.",
        "此外，信用评级机构因为从这些金融工具的管理者那儿收受费用而存在严重的利益冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s remarks, terse and grudging, reminded everyone that he himself was one of the loudest “birthers” of all.",
        "特朗普简短而勉强的声明提醒所有人，他本人便是最顽固的“出身论”者之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternative approaches are being tested and must be carefully reviewed.",
        "也有一系列替代方案正在接受测试并认真检视。"
    ],
    [
        "Do China’s leaders really have the situation under control?",
        "但中国的领导人们是否真的如此胸有成竹？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, cash flows and networking among national and international NGOs, foundations, and other external donors are coming under ever stricter scrutiny by governments.",
        "结果，国家和国际非政府组织、基金会和其他外部出资者之间的现金流和网络陷入了政府前所未有的严格检查。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil revenues enable them to bribe the population to remain politically passive, while discouraging the creation of the kind of free-market system that breeds democracy.",
        "石油收入使他们可以收买本国的人民，让他们在政治上保持消极。"
    ],
    [
        "Hard as it may be to believe, as Reverby was to discover, the abuse in Guatemala was even more egregious.",
        "但难以置信的是，危地马拉实验对病人的虐待竟更加令人发指。"
    ],
    [
        "One, Yasser al-Sirri, is the Egyptian author of a statement on Osama bin Laden’s “honorable death,” among other pearls.",
        "亚西尔·瑟勒就是这一连串奇葩之一，这位埃及作家曾发表声明称本·拉登“之死非常光荣”。"
    ],
    [
        "The revenue systems needed to invest in better housing, modern transport, communication networks, industrial hubs, and enterprise development require strengthening, but they are not dysfunctional.",
        "投资于改善住房，现代交通，通讯网络，工业中心和企业发展所需的政府税收体系需要得到强化，但目前来说也算是运行正常。"
    ],
    [
        "The last prisoners were released in 1987, three years into Mikhail Gorbachev’s rule.",
        "1987年，即戈尔巴乔夫执政三年后释放了最后一名政治犯。"
    ],
    [
        "While this competitive mentality is not new in science – the seventeenth-century mathematicians Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz spent more than a decade fighting bitterly for credit for the discovery of calculus – it has intensified to the point that it is impeding progress.",
        "这一竞争心态在科学界绝非新鲜事——17世纪数学家牛顿和莱布尼茨花了十多年的时间激烈地争夺微积分的发明权——但确实阻碍着进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumption or, more precisely, consumerism , appeared to be globalized.",
        "消费，或者更精确地表述为 消费主义 看来发生了全球化。"
    ],
    [
        "But they have very different educational opportunities, with children in low-income families less likely to have access to early childhood education, more likely to attend under-resourced schools that deliver inferior K-12 education, and less likely to attend or complete college.",
        "低收入家庭的儿童更缺乏接受早期教育的渠道，更可能就读于那些提供低劣12年制教育的学校，也更少机会去接受或完成大学教育。"
    ],
    [
        "More fundamentally, the US has long been a leading example of what market economies and democratic politics can accomplish.",
        "从更根本的意义上说，长期以来美国一直是最突出的市场经济和民主政治成就榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iraq invasion was justified by the same use of fraudulent evidence as was displayed in Kosovo.",
        "在科索沃战争上显示出来的虚假证据也为入侵伊拉克提供理由。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, total official development assistance to all recipient countries, net of debt cancellation, actually declined by 2% between 2005 and 2006.",
        "实际上，除去债务免除，向所有受援国提供的正式发展援助净额在2005年到2006年期间减少了2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the destruction of Venezuelan industry, the spectacular increase in violence, the explosion of foreign debt, and the depletion of foreign-currency reserves that has accompanied Chávez’s so-called “Bolivarian socialism of the twenty-first century.”",
        "委内瑞拉的工业被破坏，暴力事件显著上升，外债激增，外汇储备蒸发殆尽，这些都伴随着查韦斯的所谓“21世纪玻利瓦尔社会主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "This is to some extent justifiable: The breadth of topics is staggering, ranging from international norms for state behavior in cyberspace to challenges like cybercrime and growing censorship.",
        "这不无道理：这个话题范围甚广，从网络空间中的国家行为国际规范到网络犯罪和日益增加的审查等挑战无所不包。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is less than clear that bankers, industrialists, technocrats, and politicians – who are responsible for the policies that impact people’s lives – will do the same.",
        "但银行家、实业家、技术官僚和政客——他们负责制定和实施影响人民生活的政策——是否也会这样做就不好说了。"
    ],
    [
        "But India's infrastructure needs far exceed what the government can spend.",
        "但印度的基础设施需求大大超过了政府的支出能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The settlements intensify Palestinian hatred toward Israel.",
        "定居点激化了巴勒斯坦人对于以色列人的仇恨。"
    ],
    [
        "None of the risks I have described may materialize.",
        "我所描述的风险都没有成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas set up better schools, kindergartens, crèches for mothers, medical centers, welfare services, and programs for youth and women – all of this in addition giving special grants to the families of suicide bombers.",
        "哈马斯建造了更好的学校、幼儿园、育婴堂、医疗中心、福利机构以及针对年轻人和妇女的项目，而且，还给人肉炸弹的家属发放特别抚恤金。"
    ],
    [
        "But the approach taken by his successors, Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, was very different – allowing financial markets and an increasingly asset-dependent economy to take charge of the Fed.",
        "但他的继任者格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan）和本·伯南克（Ben Bernanke）所采取的方法却截然不同，他们允许金融市场和日渐转向资产依赖型的经济体去掌控美联储。"
    ],
    [
        "Some parts of the world are more vulnerable than others to these changes.",
        "这些变化对世界上某些地区的影响尤其严重。"
    ],
    [
        "“This line shifts….And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.",
        "这条线不断变化…即使已不堪邪恶重负的心灵也保留着小小的善的桥头堡。"
    ],
    [
        "I was five years old, and no world existed for me outside Nairagie Enkare, my birthplace in rural Maasailand.",
        "当时我才五岁，对我来说除了出生地——马赛地（Maasailand）乡下的Nairagie Enkare地区——之外的世界是一片空白。"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, the country no longer resonates with the expectations, hopes, and fears of a world still focused (ever more dimly) on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.",
        "但无论如何，以色列与国际社会的期待、希望和恐惧已经没有交集，因为虽然希望越来越渺茫，但国际社会仍然希望解决以巴冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Taken to its logical extreme, member countries would demand recalculations to reflect the different ways they measure income and wealth, thereby pitting potential beneficiary countries against contributors.",
        "将这一逻辑极端化，成员国将要求重新计算反映它们测量收入和财富的不同方法，从而让潜在受益国和贡献国针锋相对。"
    ],
    [
        "A country’s production structure may very well determine how much capital it supplies and how much it needs.",
        "一个国家的生产结构完全可以决定它所需求和供应的资金数额。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the United States, according to its official National Security Strategy, is also committed to accommodating “the emergence of a China that is peaceful and prosperous and that cooperates with us to address common challenges and mutual interests.”",
        "但根据其官方《国家安全战略》的说法，美国也在寻求适应“和平而繁荣的中国的崛起，与我们合作处理共同挑战和共同利益。"
    ],
    [
        "And, last November, they officially placed the blame on long-term supply-side shortcomings, which they pledged to address with far-reaching structural reforms.",
        "去年11月，他们正式将矛头指向了长期供给端缺陷，并承诺用深刻的结构改革解决这些缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "It is nevertheless comforting that Europe’s differences on global issues have not had an excessive impact on the EU’s internal dynamics.",
        "但令人倍感安慰的是，欧洲关于世界性事务的分歧并没有对欧盟肌体内的活力产生过度的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasingly, the industry is implementing approaches that have ensured success in other sectors, such as reducing procurement costs and deploying lean principles in manufacturing.",
        "该行业正在日益采用让其他行业获得成功的方法，如降低采购成本和使用精益制造原理。"
    ],
    [
        "(If it were, the last decade could be just an anomaly.)",
        "（如果是的话，过去的十年仅仅是一个反常时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Nine West African governments spend, on average, just over 1% of their budgets on nutrition.",
        "西非九国政府在营养方面的投入平均只占预算的1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it effective?",
        "那么这种游说有效吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Sometime over the next generation, the price levels of the US, Japan, and Germany might rise substantially after some government short-sightedly attempts to finance some of its social-welfare spending by printing money.",
        "在政府目光短浅地尝试通过印钱来支付社会福利支出后，美国、日本和德国的价格水平在下一代的某个时候将大幅飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "In the latter case, this often results in triangular transactions, with the sellers transferring the money to Germany or the Netherlands to invest it in fixed-interest securities, companies, or company shares.",
        "后一种情况往往造成三角交易，卖家将钱打给德国和荷兰投资于固定利息证券、公司或公司股票。"
    ],
    [
        "By joining the World Trade Organization, improving their investment climates, and stopping interference with shuttle traders – mostly poor women trying to make a living –governments would give the region’s businesses and farmers access to markets and attract much-needed new investment.",
        "通过加入世贸组织、改善投资环境以及停止干预往返贸易¾从事往返贸易的大多是急于谋生的贫困妇女¾政府就能够使区域内的企业和农户接触市场，并且吸引新的急需投资。"
    ],
    [
        "After a Ukrainian television crew filmed the site in 1989, part of it was deliberately destroyed.",
        "乌克兰电视摄制组1989年拍摄这座监狱后，部分区域遭到了故意破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end, we learn that Nikolai was persecuted to make room not for the mayor's palace, but for a cathedral.",
        "最后，我们看到尼古拉被迫去造房子——不是为了镇长的宫室，而是为了一座教堂。"
    ],
    [
        "Boats of all sizes – including cruise ships – have sailed through easily in summers since then.",
        "包括游轮在内的大小船只从那时起可以在夏天畅通无阻。"
    ],
    [
        "Lee seems to have misjudged the strength of his election victory and the currents of opinion in several important ways.",
        "李明博似乎在几个重要的方面错误地判断了选举获胜的力量以及观点的走向。"
    ],
    [
        "This indicates that advanced economies remain committed to promoting global development, despite their own recent problems.",
        "这表明发达经济体仍然致力于促进全球发展，尽管他们自身的经济近来也出现了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed is an investment surge in Germany and Europe, and a coordinated exit from ultra-loose monetary policies.",
        "真正需要的是德国和欧洲增加投资，以及极宽松货币政策的有序退出。"
    ],
    [
        "And the thousands of electronic voting machines that are manufactured in India can survive heat, dust, and power failures – and retain their results safely until the votes are ready to be counted, sometimes weeks later.",
        "而印度生产的数千台电子投票机可以克服炎热、扬尘和断电，安全地工作到选票被清点完毕为止——慢一点的话需要几周时间。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s economy had been supercharged by excessive leveraging; now comes the painful process of deleveraging.",
        "过度的杠杆作用过去一直强力推动美国经济，现在开始了痛苦的杠杆作用解除进程。"
    ],
    [
        "How well have the world’s governments performed this task over the past three years?",
        "那么这三年以来，世界各国的政府在这方面的表现又如何呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The second case comes from Bulgaria.",
        "第二起案件来自保加利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "International investments have not yet adjusted to changing global health needs, especially with respect to NCDs.",
        "国际投资并未适应不断变化的全球健康需求，特别是在非传染性疾病领域。 2010年，因艾滋病毒/艾滋病致死或致残而损失的单位年寿命对应69."
    ],
    [
        "The Fair Trade League was founded in Britain in 1881 to restrict imports from foreign countries.",
        "公平贸易联盟于1881年在英国成立以限制来自外国进口商品。"
    ],
    [
        "The white paper on military strategy that China released in May, which touted plans to expand the country’s defense perimeter, intensified neighbors’ concerns, making even more military spending likely.",
        "中国5月发布的军事战略白皮书鼓吹扩大国家防御边界计划，并因此加剧了邻国的担忧，很可能导致进一步扩大军费。"
    ],
    [
        "It is estimated that consumers making better-informed buying decisions across sectors could capture an estimated $1.1 trillion in value annually.",
        "据估计，各部门消费者做出更知情购买决策每年可以产生约1. 1万亿美元价值。"
    ],
    [
        "The inapplicability of Chapter 9 makes orderly debt restructuring very difficult.",
        "第9章的不适用导致有序的债务重组非常困难。"
    ],
    [
        "New vaccines should be enabling us to save more lives.",
        "新疫苗应该让我们得以拯救更多声明。"
    ],
    [
        "Enhanced surveillance also is needed.",
        "此外还需要更为严密的监控。"
    ],
    [
        "First, as China ages rapidly, the disappearance of its demographic dividend will lower potential growth significantly.",
        "首先，随着中国人口的迅速老龄化，人口红利的消失将会显著降低其潜在增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The MIT School, by contrast, argues that real-world economies are afflicted by pervasive market failures, including imperfect competition and monopoly, externalities associated with problems like pollution, and an inability to supply public goods such as street lighting or national defense.",
        "麻省理工学派则针锋相对地指出真实世界经济普遍受到市场失灵的困扰，包括不完全竞争和垄断，以及与污染、无法提供街道照明或国家防御等公共必需品等问题相关的外部缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Independence for Kosovo, too, is inching closer.",
        "科索沃的独立也正逐日实现。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, precarious employment and job insecurity, which hardly existed between 1940 and 1970, now affect more than 15% of the developed world’s population.",
        "结果，1940年至1970年期间几乎不存在的险峻的就业形势和工作不稳定现在影响到超过15%的发达国家人口。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed is more cooperation with China on sanctions enforcement, as well as deep and quiet talks with the Chinese that aim to address any strategic mistrust over the eventual political arrangements on the Korean Peninsula.",
        "我们有必要与中国合作执行制裁行动，同时与中国私下展开深入的对话，以解决就朝鲜半岛最终政治安排问题的任何战略不信任。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Since 2013, China has been pursuing its “Belt and Road” initiative, which aims to develop physical infrastructure and policy linkages connecting more than 60 countries across Asia, Europe, and Africa.",
        "发自纽约——自2013年以来，中国一直致力于推动“一带一路”倡议，旨在为亚洲，欧洲和非洲国家的60多个国家建立起物质基础设施和政策联系。"
    ],
    [
        "At $6,000, the average cost of a hip replacement is only a thousandth the cost of what it supposedly took to implant a bionic arm, eye, and two legs on the fictional “The Six Million Dollar Man” in the popular mid-1970’s TV show.",
        "髋部更换手术的平均费用是6千美元，这只是七十年代中期流行电视片“身价六百万”中植入仿生胳膊、眼睛以及两条腿费用的十分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Little speaks for the latter scenario, but Russia has always been a country where hope dies last.",
        "出现后一种情况的迹象目前基本还没有，但俄罗斯历来是一个希望到最后才破灭的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Thais were more like obedient subjects than informed citizens.",
        "因此与其说泰国人是知情的公民，倒不如说是些服从的物体。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Europe’s problems are no longer its own.",
        "此外，欧洲的问题早已不仅仅是欧洲的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise – and rapprochement – of illiberal forces in Russia and Turkey mean that the EU is no longer the only pole of attraction in the region.",
        "中东和乌克兰乱局使欧洲睦邻政策沦为笑柄。 俄罗斯和土耳其的反自由力量（illiberal forces）的崛起和复兴意味着欧洲不再是地区内唯一的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF has long been a whipping boy for both left and right – the former because of the Fund’s emphasis on fiscal rectitude and economic orthodoxy, and the latter because of its role in bailing out indebted nations.",
        "国际货币基金组织长久以来一直都是左派与右派的替罪羊——为前者替罪，是因为该组织将工作重点聚焦在财政廉洁与经济正统上； 而为后者代罪，则是因为该组织的作用在于救援那些负债累累的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "If the dollar retreats in 2016, however, the basket peg implies a stronger renminbi-dollar rate, which might be unhelpful.",
        "如果美元在2016年贬值，挂钩一揽子货币就意味着人民币兑美元汇率还要上涨，而这可能不是什么好事。"
    ],
    [
        "I am what many people call a “Gypsy.” I prefer the term “Roma.”",
        "我是很多人所说的“吉普赛人”，而我更喜欢“罗姆人”一词。"
    ],
    [
        "And overlapping claims to land continue to foment conflict and impede foreign investment.",
        "犬牙交错的土地所有权一直在煽动冲突，阻碍外国投资。"
    ],
    [
        "A quota-based agreement could help to disperse the burden across European countries.",
        "基于配额的协议也有助于在欧洲国家间分散负担。"
    ],
    [
        "In the New Testament, Christ famously answers a question about obedience to civil authorities by examining a coin and telling the Pharisees, “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.”",
        "在《新约圣经》里，耶稣对是否要服从世俗权威这个问题有一个著名的回答，他拿出一枚罗马帝国的货币端详一番，对法利赛人说，“让凯撒的归凯撒”。"
    ],
    [
        "When we can hold our business leaders to account more effectively than we can our elected political leaders, we should worry for the future – and not just in the UK.",
        "当我们问责商业领袖比问责民选政治领导人更加有效时，就应该担心未来了——不仅英国是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is not only how long the recession will last, but what the economy will look like when it emerges.",
        "问题并不是衰退会持续多久，而是衰退结束的时候世界经济将会如何。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the four growth components that fall into this category, two have the greatest potential to make a difference – capital spending and exports.",
        "在构成这其余30%的四大门类中，资本支出和出口这两类最有可能有所作为。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1991, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines created a haze of sulfur in the higher atmosphere that cooled the entire planet approximately half a degree Celsius for two years afterwards.",
        "1991年菲律宾皮纳图博火山喷发释放到高空大气层的硫烟雾在之后的两年时间内导致全球气温降低了摄氏半度。"
    ],
    [
        "It also sets establishes the contours of a legal framework for action against misuse of civilian nuclear technology for military purposes and reflects an emerging consensus, seen in meeting after meeting, that the time has come to increase pressure on countries that fail to respect these principles.",
        "该决议还确定了反对将民用核技术滥用于军事目的行动的法律框架轮廓，反应了在历次会议后逐渐形成的共识，即已经是时候对未能遵守这些原则国家加大压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the usually boisterous Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has toned down his rhetoric, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave an optimistic interview to Israel TV.",
        "平常惯于兴风作浪的巴勒斯坦首席谈判代表萨厄布·伊莱凯特变得异常低调，连巴勒斯坦总统马哈茂德·阿巴斯都以乐观的态度接受了以色列电视台的采访。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that Germany’s overblown conglomerates are being scaled down to an efficient size and that the capital market is able to do its job, improving the allocation of resources.",
        "好消息是德国正在着手于将过于庞大的混合联合企业削减至有效规模，以使得资本市场能有效运作并能改善资源分布。"
    ],
    [
        "Each case highlights the need to consider how to make systems more resilient, which means that systems cannot be considered in isolation.",
        "这三个例子均凸显出让系统更具韧性的必要性，这意味着不能孤立地看待系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality, so often ignored by the Brexiteers, is that the EU is not going to offer something for nothing.",
        "退欧派常常忽略的现实是欧盟不会把好处白给英国。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the elephant in the room is the fact that dermatologists are confirming that the form of cancer for which McCain has been treated has an actuarial survival rate of two to four years for a person his age.",
        "此外，一个被忽略的事实是皮肤病专家正在认定麦凯恩曾接受过治疗的癌症对于像他这样年龄的人来说，按保险计算的生存时间为二至四年。"
    ],
    [
        "America reels from one shooting disaster to the next, and on nearly every occasion, politicians dutifully declare their continued devotion to unregulated gun ownership.",
        "美国接二连三遭遇枪击灾难，而在几乎每一次枪击案中，政客都会誓言旦旦地表示将继续打击不受管制的枪支持有。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there will always be a certain amount of inequality in the world; in fact, as with unemployment, a limited amount is desirable as a driver of competition and growth.",
        "诚然，世界总会有一定程度的不平等性存在； 事实上，和失业一样，有限程度的不平等是值得追求的，它可以推动竞争和增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Both sides are deeply committed to their positions.",
        "双方都坚持自己的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "And, most recently, negotiations to establish an EU banking union once again confronted the challenge of forging a common resolution mechanism while limiting each member state’s commitment.",
        "此外，最近，关于建立欧盟银行联盟的谈判再一次遇到了如何在限制各成员国的义务的情况下达成共同解决机制的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The president should also count on support from a majority of Europeans.",
        "这位主席还必须倚靠大多数欧洲人的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1930s, economic stagnation and depression led to the rise of Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy, and Franco in Spain (among other authoritarians).",
        "20世纪30年代，经济停滞和萧条导致了希特勒在德国、墨索里尼在意大利、弗朗哥在西班牙崛起（还有其他极权主义者）。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless China’s leaders upgrade the country’s growth strategy to stimulate technological progress and structural transformation, high-income status will continue to elude the world’s second-largest economy and most populous country.",
        "除非中国领导人改革增长战略以刺激技术进步和制度转型，否则高收入将仍是这个世界第二大经济体和第一大人口国可望而不可及的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten Consequences of Trump",
        "特朗普的后果"
    ],
    [
        "This fall in income has been magnified by rising household savings rates, driven by insufficient insurance for health care and old age, the high cost of education, growing income inequality, and demographic trends.",
        "由于医疗和养老保障不充分，教育成本高企，收入不平等加剧以及人口趋势等因素，家庭储蓄率一直在上升，这进一步加剧了收入的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since Copenhagen, a majority of the main greenhouse-gas-emitting countries have been setting out ambitious goals – without hedging them with restrictive conditions.",
        "哥本哈根会议后，绝大多数主要温室气体排放国都已经制定了不附带任何限制条件的雄心勃勃的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The Unfinished Sexual Revolution",
        "照顾的性别政治"
    ],
    [
        "Some Central Asian leaders have been in power for many years, and only Kyrgyzstan, the most impoverished of the five, has developed a competitive multi-party political system.",
        "某些中亚领导人掌权已经多年，只有其中最穷的吉尔吉斯斯坦建立了竞争性的多党制。"
    ],
    [
        "Taxing Tissue",
        "税收问题"
    ],
    [
        "But that was due largely to an aggressive easing of monetary policy following the Federal Reserve’s successful assault on double-digit US inflation.",
        "但这主要是因为美联储在成功阻击了两位数的美国通胀后采取了大规模放松了货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if Putin does run again – the more likely outcome, given his penchant for total control – he will be seeking a subservient prime minister.",
        "即使普京的确再次参选——鉴于他对全盘控制的绝对嗜好，出现这样的结果非常有可能——他也需要寻找一位唯命是从的总理。"
    ],
    [
        "They, and the Gang of Four (of which Jiang Qing was a member), were soon ousted.",
        "他们和四人帮（江青也是其中之一）很快就被驱逐出了政治核心。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the scientific workforce is beginning to resemble a pyramid scheme: unfair, inefficient, and unsustainable.",
        "结果，科学工作者结构体表现为金字塔型：不公平、低效率、难持续。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, protests by opposition parties have paralyzed the parliament, making it impossible for the government to introduce – let alone pass – important elements of pending economic-reform legislation, such as a law raising the limit on foreign-owned stakes in the insurance sector to 49%.",
        "事实上，反对党的示威已经让议会陷入了瘫痪，政府根本不可能引入——更不用说通过——待定经济改革立法的要素，包括将保险业外国所有权比例上限提高到49%的法律。"
    ],
    [
        "This parallel summit brought together progressive heads of state, regional and local government, business, and civil society, and underscored just how far and how fast some sectors of society will make the transition to a low-carbon future and build the green and clean-tech economies of the twenty-first century.",
        "这场同时召开的峰会汇聚了进步国家首脑、区域和地方政府、企业及民间团体，并突出强调了社会各界向低碳未来过渡及建设二十一世纪绿色清洁技术经济可能的速度和幅度。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if the PBOC sets the interest rate on one-year deposits at 3%, commercial banks can offer depositors a rate as high as 3.3%.",
        "如果中国人民银行把一年期存款利率定为3%，商业银行可以向储户提供最高3. 3%的利率。"
    ],
    [
        "The real question is what comes next.",
        "真正的问题是接下来会怎样。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason why the crisis in Ukraine has proved so difficult to overcome is that its roots stretch far outside the country’s borders.",
        "乌克兰危机之所以如此难以克服，一个原因是其根源远远超过了乌克兰边界。"
    ],
    [
        "If Obama’s caution and flexibility have been the key to getting us here, let us give praise where it is due.",
        "如果奥巴马的谨慎和灵活是我们实现目标的关键所在，那么让我们不吝给予它应有的评价。"
    ],
    [
        "And half of the extra $1 trillion of goods and services would show up as consumption goods and services for American households.",
        "而额外产生的1万亿美元商品和服务中有一半会表现为美国家庭的消费品和服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Our relationship is deepened in the most personal way possible, through the intertwining of so many individuals’ lives.",
        "我们的关系因为如此多个体生活之间的牵挂，而通过最为个人化的方式得到了深化。"
    ],
    [
        "Well-developed markets for real estate derivatives would allow homeowners to kick the gambling habit.",
        "高度发达的不动产衍生品市场能够让私房拥有者放弃赌博的习惯。"
    ],
    [
        "The reasons range from a lack of access to information or services to lack of support from their partners or communities.",
        "原因包括无法获得信息和服务、缺少来自伴侣或社区的支持等。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s Passage to India",
        "奥巴马的印度之路"
    ],
    [
        "Rebooting China",
        "重启中国增长"
    ],
    [
        "Education would seem to be rife with such problems.",
        "教育似乎就饱受这种问题的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU should commit to continue democratizing its institutions, as it did when it gave the democratically elected European Parliament a voice in the selection of the European Commission president.",
        "欧盟应继续推进制度民主化，就像允许民主选举产生的欧洲议会在选择在欧盟委员会主席时有发言权一样。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a common conceit among leftists in Europe that racial prejudice, including anti-Semitism, is a uniquely right-wing phenomenon.",
        "欧洲的左翼有一种普遍的自负，认为种族偏见（包括反犹主义）无一例外都是一种右倾现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the West remain Western?",
        "西方世界会保持西方吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the long-awaited upward convergence of economic fundamentals to validate market valuations is within reach.",
        "也许人们期待已久的经济基本面向上趋同、从而确认市场估值的情景已经近在眼前了。"
    ],
    [
        "As well as killing consumers, the effects of bad drugs can be passed from parent to child, and even create new drug-resistant strains of diseases that threaten us all.",
        "劣质药不但会杀害消费者，还会从父母传递给儿童，甚至产生新的耐药疾病威胁所有人的健康。"
    ],
    [
        "Amplified by the EU, its voice can influence world events, providing the country with what the British like to describe as an ability to punch above its weight.",
        "通过欧盟的放大，英国的声音能够左右世界事件，给英国带来英国人常说的超越国家实力的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "There was no mention of Bo Xilai and what his dismissal meant for China’s domestic politics in this critical year of leadership transition.",
        "关于薄熙来及其在今年——领导层过渡的关键之年——免职对中国国内政治的影响的内容只字未提。"
    ],
    [
        "The logic behind the fear of the Fed’s “tapering” of QE is straightforward.",
        "美联储“退出”QE的恐慌背后的逻辑是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the debt levels of some European countries relative to their income raise serious questions about whether their bonds really are risk-free.",
        "但一些欧洲国家债务相对收入的水平之高让人颇为怀疑它们的债券是否真的无风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps Puerto Rico is, at last, becoming more American.",
        "或许到最后，波多黎各变得更像美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, negotiations have been desultory at best.",
        "到目前为止，谈判充其量只能说是断断续续。"
    ],
    [
        "But what about Africa, the forgotten continent that has been conspicuously absent from Obama’s hectic agenda?",
        "而非洲，这块显然被奥巴马忙碌的议程排除在外的被人遗忘的大陆又该何去何从？"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s annexation of Crimea, for example, was in large part an attempt to provide Putin’s regime with renewed legitimacy following a winter of discontent, during which demonstrators took to the streets to protest his return to the presidency.",
        "比如，俄罗斯吞并克里米亚很大程度上是为了给普京政权提供新的合法性。 此前，俄罗斯经历了一个不满的冬天，示威者走上街头反对普京回归总统宝座。"
    ],
    [
        "With at least 60 central banks now including renminbi among their foreign reserves, next year could present an ideal opportunity for China to advance its long-term goal of reshaping the world monetary system.",
        "目前，至少有60家央行将人民币纳入了外汇储备组合，因此明年对中国来说是一个推进其改革全球货币体系的长期目标的理想机会。"
    ],
    [
        "One country’s inflow of EU money is thus another country’s outflow – and these are grants, not loans.",
        "于是，一国对欧盟资金的流入便是另一国的流出——是资助，不是贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, they should increase only those taxes that, when raised, do not reduce consumption, investment, or job creation.",
        "同样，他们应该提高那些不会影响消费、投资或就业机会创造的税收种类。"
    ],
    [
        "The motto was simple: Germany gives and profits in turn.",
        "它们的口号很简单：有付出，才有回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Trust in European institutions has collapsed, and political parties skeptical not just of the euro, but of the entire European project, are on the rise.",
        "对欧洲机构的信任崩溃了，质疑欧元乃至整个欧洲工程的政党开始兴起。"
    ],
    [
        "The first set of shadow activities includes those conducted by the banks themselves, for example, as a way to reduce the amount of equity funding that they need.",
        "第一种影子行为是银行本身做出的行为，比如减少它们需要的股权融资数量的伎俩。"
    ],
    [
        "As more countries signal their ability to increase the ambition of their commitments, still more will follow.",
        "随着越来越多的国家表现出提高承诺目标的能力，还会有更多国家跟进。"
    ],
    [
        "But now I do not need your symbolic votes; I need your concrete support.",
        "但是现在我不需要你们象征性的投票，我需要你们具体的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, under the far-too-long leadership of Guido Westerwelle, the FDP has degenerated into a party notable for defending the freedom only of a few privileged individuals: bankers and businessmen.",
        "遗憾的是在基多·威斯特威勒太过漫长的领导下，自由民主党已经蜕变成为捍卫银行家和商人等少数特权人物自由的伪自由党。"
    ],
    [
        "But the vibrancy of civil society, the sense of common purpose, the universal manifestations of social solidarity that our union stood for in its time – all these things are largely gone.",
        "但民主社会的生机勃勃、为共同目标而努力的情感和无所不在的社会团结，所有这些我们工会曾经为之奋斗的梦想，大多已经随风而逝。"
    ],
    [
        "Although many of the participants recognize the urgency, the actions of many of them suggest that a business-as-usual approach will suffice.",
        "而虽然许多参与者都意识到了问题的严重性，但他们的所作所为却似乎预示着一切照旧就行了。"
    ],
    [
        "Those conduits are now showing gigantic losses that have to be covered by the parent banks, some of which are being driven to the brink of bankruptcy.",
        "这些投资管道目前损失惨重，不得不由母银行出面掩护，有些已经濒临破产。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Spain and Portugal are not adhering even to the new flexible rules.",
        "如今，西班牙和葡萄牙连新的灵活规则都不遵守。"
    ],
    [
        "When Putin welcomes Hamas’s leaders without consulting the other members of the “Quartet” – the United Nations, the European Union, and the United States – charged with shepherding peace talks between Israel and Palestine, is Russia testing its “nuisance value” or simply performing an “avant-garde” role for the other Quartet members?",
        "当普京没有和“四重奏”的另几个成员—联合国、欧盟和美国—商榷就对哈马斯领导人表示欢迎时，他被指责令巴以和谈陷入困境。 俄罗斯到底是在测试自己的“噪声值”，还是想在“四重奏”中扮演“领头羊”的角色？"
    ],
    [
        "The report suggested that risk communication is successful only if those involved are satisfied that they are adequately informed about the relevant issues, given the limits of available knowledge.",
        "报告认为由于可供利用的知识有限，只有在所有参与者都认为自己得到了相关事务充分信息的情况下才能实现危机沟通。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, if the people feel persecuted by Japan or the United States, then the people will demand chauvinistic policies.",
        "毕竟，如果人们感到遭受了日本或美国的迫害，那么他们就会强烈要求国家采取大国沙文主义政策。"
    ],
    [
        "What is the right response to a collapse?",
        "正确的应对方式是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "A major test will be next year’s United Nations climate change conference (COP21) in Paris.",
        "明年的巴黎联合国气候变化会议（COP21）将是一场重要考验。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – China’s State Council recently unveiled a comprehensive blueprint for capital-market reform until 2020, in which it identifies two key objectives: “to support open, fair, and integral market processes, and to protect investors, particularly the legal rights of small investors.”",
        "香港—中国国务院最近发布了2020年资本市场改革的若干意见，其中提出了两个关键目标：“维护公开、公平、公正的市场秩序，保护投资者特别是中小投资者的合法权益。"
    ],
    [
        "Decisions taken by the leading monetary authorities since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis have been unorthodox, creative, and at times risky.",
        "主要货币当局自2008—2009年全球金融危机以来的决策是非常规、创新性的，往往也存在高风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, climate change threatens to reduce agricultural output by up to 40% by 2080, when India will have another 450 million people.",
        "更为严重的是，到2080年，随着全球气候的变化，印度农业的产量将减少40%。 而到那时，还将有4亿5千万新增人口的出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Where people believe that businesses are corrupt, they want more regulation; and, with enough regulation, the only successful businesses are corrupt.",
        "如果人们认为企业是腐败的，他们希望更多的监管； 而当监管足够多时，只有腐败的企业才能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "But it does not have automatic access to a European lender of last resort.",
        "但却无权自动获得欧洲紧急贷款人的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it is Sunni communities that produce the transnational jihadists who have become a potent threat to secular, democratic states near and far.",
        "此外，逊尼派还制造了跨国圣战组织，后者已成为远近世俗民主国家的重大威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIRUT – After two and a half years without a president, Lebanon’s Parliament has elected Michel Aoun to the post.",
        "贝鲁特——在总统之位空缺两年半之后，黎巴嫩议会选举米歇尔·奥恩担任这一职务。"
    ],
    [
        "ANTALYA – The recent coup attempt in Libya, led by General Khalifa Hiftar, has finally pierced the illusion that the country’s dysfunctional central government, whose power is limited to the capital, Tripoli, can rule effectively.",
        "安塔利亚——最近由哈利法·塔希夫塔将军领导的利比亚政变终于彻底戳穿了该国政令出不了首都的黎波里的孱弱中央政府能够有效执政的幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the election, Trump has moved quickly to assert himself.",
        "自选举以来，特朗普迅速行动起来去树立自身的权威。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, efforts to roll back, say, environmental protections will ultimately do serious harm to the US, even if they allow some companies to improve their bottom line in the short term.",
        "当然某些倒退性的举措（比如环保措施）最终将对美国造成严重损害，即使它们会让一些公司在短期内提升其底线。"
    ],
    [
        "As China’s leaders explicitly recognized at the Third Plenum, the removal of arbitrary tiao tiao controls can enable cities and local communities to evolve according to their own comparative advantages.",
        "中国领导人在十八届三中全会上明确指出，消除武断的条条控制能够让各大城市和地方根据自身的比较优势进一步发展。"
    ],
    [
        "But we need to look country-by-country at what else we can do to tie Europe’s own parliament into national politics.",
        "应该根据各国的国情具体分析，如何将各自国家的议会和欧洲议会联系起来。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – This year has witnessed a global wave of social and political turmoil and instability, with masses of people pouring into the real and virtual streets: the Arab Spring; riots in London; Israel’s middle-class protests against high housing prices and an inflationary squeeze on living standards; protesting Chilean students; the destruction in Germany of the expensive cars of “fat cats”; India’s movement against corruption; mounting unhappiness with corruption and inequality in China; and now the “Occupy Wall Street” movement in New York and across the United States.",
        "纽约——今年，社会、政治动荡和不稳定的浪潮席卷全球，群众纷纷走上真实或虚拟的街头：阿拉伯之春、伦敦骚乱、以色列中产阶级的反通胀示威、智利大学生游行、德国“肥佬”豪车被毁风潮、印度反腐风暴、腐败与不平等让中国“不高兴”，如今，“占领华尔街”运动在纽约和全美如火如荼。"
    ],
    [
        "TEL AVIV – In 2003, the United States – which, along with its NATO allies, had already occupied Afghanistan – toppled Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq and overran his army.",
        "特拉维夫—2003年，美国——它与它的北约盟友已经占领了阿富汗——推翻了伊拉克萨达姆政府，占领了他的军队。"
    ],
    [
        "Reforming social-welfare benefits is the only permanent solution to Europe’s crisis.",
        "因此改革整个社会福利系统才是解决欧洲危机的唯一长期对策。"
    ],
    [
        "Entire lives have been transformed.",
        "他们的全部生活都发生了剧变。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, Trump’s presidency would remain volatile and ineffective, with a growing number of Americans realizing that, despite his populist pretense, Trump is merely a plutocrat protecting the interests of the rich.",
        "在美国，特朗普的总统任期将继续摇摆而低效，越来越多的美国人将意识到，尽管摆出一副十足的民粹主义模样，但特朗普其实只是个保护富人利益的财阀。 不平等性愈演愈烈；"
    ],
    [
        "According to this idealist view, countries that are democratic and treat their citizens with respect are more likely to treat other countries’ citizens with respect.",
        "这种唯心主义观点认为尊重本国公民的民主国家更有可能尊重其他国家的公民。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, more Arab lives have been lost in Syria’s civil war alone than in all of the Arab-Israeli wars combined.",
        "此时此刻，仅仅是死于叙利亚内战的阿拉伯人就比历次阿以战争加起来还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "There is simply not enough outrage – except from young people themselves.",
        "勇气也显然是不够的——除了年轻人自己的勇气之外。"
    ],
    [
        "Kehidupan yang Bebas dan Setara",
        "自由而平等地生活"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The conventional wisdom regarding the recent plunge in the price of oil is that we are seeing a repeat of the 1985-1986 collapse, when Saudi Arabia ramped up production as part of a dispute with other members of the OPEC cartel.",
        "伦敦—传统智慧对近期石油价格暴跌的解释是我们正在重复1985—1986年的崩盘，当时，沙特阿拉伯加大了产量，这是它与其他欧佩克成员国纠纷的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Irish recovery cannot occur without European recovery.",
        "没有欧洲的复原就没有爱尔兰复原。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not true of India, where exports are still mainly skill- and capital-intensive.",
        "不过以技术密集型和资本密集型出口为主的印度却没有那么幸运了。"
    ],
    [
        "Others, like Indonesia, do not have enough ports for internal economic integration or international trade.",
        "而印尼等国家则需要足够的港口来实施国内经济一体化或国际贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Matching the performance and efficiency of the human brain will likely require us to mimic some of its structures.",
        "赶超人脑的表现和效率可能需要我们模仿某些大脑结构。"
    ],
    [
        "It means spurring economic growth, and then imposing a 35% tariff on imports.",
        "它意味着刺激经济增长，然后对进口商品强征35%的关税。"
    ],
    [
        "This outcome should be avoided at all costs.",
        "我们应当不惜一切代价避免这样的结局。"
    ],
    [
        "In the process, it acquired some new labels.",
        "在此过程中，这一概念获得了一些新的标签。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe needs proactive policies to meet the challenges of new research needs – and to take advantage of subsequent job opportunities – in areas like sustainable development, climate change, natural hazards, and public health.",
        "欧洲需要前瞻性的政策来应对可持续发展、气候变化、自然灾害和公共卫生等领域的新科研需求的挑战，并充分利用随之而来的就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, such metrics can easily be manipulated – a fact that critics are quick to point out.",
        "诚然，这些指标很容易被操纵——批评者往往很快就能指出这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Court, the law’s legitimate purpose is to adapt teaching to the difficulties of a specific category of pupils, and psychological tests seem to be objective enough not to be suspected of racial bias.",
        "法庭认为，该法律合理的目的是为具有特殊困难的学生作出教学调节，并且，心理测试看上去是足够客观，并未牵涉到种族偏见。"
    ],
    [
        "While their economic heft is drawing increasing international attention, their underlying strategic rivalry over issues ranging from land and water to geopolitical influence in other regions usually attracts less notice.",
        "当两国的经济实力正得到越来越多的国际关注之时，相对而言中印之间在其他问题上——从土地到水源，再到对其他区域的地缘政治影响——所存在的潜在战略对峙得到的关注就较少了。"
    ],
    [
        "No feeling of victimhood can justify, under any conditions, such crimes against innocents, and no theology can accept the negation of the human essence that we all share.",
        "在任何情况下，任何受害者的情感也不能成为对无辜者施暴的借口。 任何的神学都不能接受对我们共有的人性本质的否定。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, GDP growth is as malleable as an official’s academic credentials.",
        "但在现实中，GDP增长就跟官员的学历一样可供捏造。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Central Europe faced its worst flooding in decades after heavy rains swelled major rivers like the Elbe and the Danube.",
        "与此同时，大雨让易北河和多瑙河河水暴涨，中欧面临几十年来最大的洪水。"
    ],
    [
        "Forcing the archconservative John Boehner to quit as Speaker of the House for being too soft was an act of war by Republicans against their own party.",
        "迫使极端保守派约翰·博纳（John Boehner）因过于软弱而辞去众议院议长的便是共和党人针对本党所发动的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Organization for Migration, the importance of which has been underscored by the ongoing refugee crisis, relies entirely on discretionary funding.",
        "在当前难民危机中凸显出其重要性的国际移民组织就完全依赖全权委托资金运作。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine has its own potentially separatist region in Crimea, and the country’s Russian minority numbers some 8.3 million (the largest minority in Europe).",
        "乌克兰的克里米亚也有分裂可能的地区，俄罗斯少数居民有大约八百三十万左右(这是欧洲最大的少数族裔)。"
    ],
    [
        "Here too, however, actual military intervention should only be a last resort.",
        "不过在这里，实际军事干涉只是在万不得已时才采取的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "A 16-year-old Kashmiri Muslim boy was murdered for having hitched a ride on a truck that was transporting cattle.",
        "一名16岁的克什米尔穆斯林男孩因为扒到一辆刚刚运送过牛的卡车上坐了一程就遭到了杀害。"
    ],
    [
        "But Trump would have taken it in a New York minute.",
        "但特朗普会不假思索地接受它。"
    ],
    [
        "What supporters of encryption recognize is that “if American companies maintain the ability to unlock their customers’ data and devices on request, governments other than the United States will demand the same access, and will also be emboldened to demand the same capability from their native companies.”",
        "加密支持者的认识是“如果美国公司有能力按要求解锁客户数据和设备，美国以外的政府也会要求获得这一权限，从而也会向本国公司要求同样的权限。"
    ],
    [
        "Following up on these remarks, Obama drew attention to persistent US concern about China’s exchange-rate policy, inadequate protection of intellectual property, and impediments to market access.",
        "希拉里话音未落，奥巴马便将世人的关注目标吸引到了美国对中国汇率政策、知识产权保护和市场准入实施情况的持续关注上。"
    ],
    [
        "They fought like gladiators in the world’s most competitive market, learned to develop sophisticated business models (such as Taobao’s freemium model), and built impregnable moats to protect their businesses (for example, Meituan-Dianping created an end-to-end food app, including delivery).",
        "他们在这个全球竞争最激烈的市场上摸爬滚打，学会发展出复杂的商业模式（如淘宝的免费增值模式），并建立了坚固的壁垒以保护自身业务（比如美团-点评就创建了一个终端到终端的餐饮手机app，就连送餐服务也一并涵盖在内了）。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat of cross-border terrorism has attracted international attention to Tunisia.",
        "突尼斯的跨境恐怖主义威胁已经吸引了国际关注。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent elections in America were a referendum on the war in Iraq.",
        "不久前进行的美国选举实际上是关于伊拉克战争的全民公决。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists call this “hysteresis”: Long-term unemployment erodes workers’ skills and human capital; and, because innovation is embedded in new capital goods, low investment leads to permanently lower productivity growth.",
        "经济学家称之为“滞回”（hysteresis）：长期失业侵蚀工人技能和人力资本； 而由于创新总是伴随新资本商品，因此低投资导致生产率增长的持久性下降。"
    ],
    [
        "This undermined Khatami’s authority even further.",
        "这甚至进一步破坏了卡塔米的权威。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, representative government does sometimes become unresponsive, particularly between elections, but direct democracy is not the solution.",
        "当然，代议制政府有时的确反应迟钝，特别是在选举间歇期的时候，但直接民主却并非解决之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Dismissing complaints, Zuma insists, “There’s no cloud around me.”",
        "为了驳斥这些批评，祖马坚称，“我是光明正大的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why they have made Islam’s holy shrines on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount (Haram al-Sharif to Muslims) into icons of their rebellion.",
        "这就是他们为什么会选用耶路撒冷圣殿山上的伊斯兰教圣殿来作为自己反抗标志的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "These constituted a unified package that was meant to be implemented in its entirety.",
        "这些协议组成了核不扩散的一揽子计划，应全面贯彻实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Bigger companies, with more complex balance sheets, have more places to hide them.",
        "公司越大，资产负债表越复杂，就有越多的地方去藏匿骗局。"
    ],
    [
        "But paying for and delivering these vaccines to the most vulnerable citizens of low-income countries poses a significant challenge.",
        "但购买并将这些疫苗送到最脆弱的低收入国家公民手中仍是一项重大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that it would almost surely trigger a massive, costly war, and it would not necessarily succeed in destroying all of North Korea’s hidden capabilities.",
        "但是问题在于它几乎肯定会引发一场大规模的、耗资巨大的战争，并且也不太可能会成功地销毁掉北朝鲜所有隐藏的核能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Another feature of a responsible approach would be a commitment by scientists to evaluate each proposed gene drive intervention – say, immunizing mice so that they cannot transmit Lyme disease to ticks – individually, rather than making a blanket decision on the technology as a whole.",
        "负责任做法的另一特点是科学家致力于独立评估拟议中的各项基因驱动技术——如对小鼠进行免疫以杜绝它们对扁虱的莱姆病传播——而非就总体技术做出全局性决策。"
    ],
    [
        "And more ominously, the case could easily snowball, leading to the dissolution of the PPP and an end to Thaksin’s nascent political recovery.",
        "而且更为糟糕的是，这一案件很可能愈演愈烈，导致人民力量党的解体并终结他信新近的政治复生。"
    ],
    [
        "That was enough to annoy other party bosses.",
        "而这也足以激怒其他党内大佬了。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2010, China’s capital-account surplus stood at $230 billion, and capital inflows remain large this year.",
        "2010年，中国资本项目盈余为2300亿美元，今年的资本流入额也颇为可观。"
    ],
    [
        "What happens from here will depend a lot on how governments react.",
        "到底会怎样，在很大程度上取决于政府怎么做。"
    ],
    [
        "Structural change will be needed to upgrade manual jobs.",
        "需要结构改革来升级人力工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Though China’s high national savings rate means that it does not have to borrow liquidity from abroad or print large amounts of money, the risks it faces should not be underestimated.",
        "尽管中国国民储蓄率很高，意味着不需要向外部借取流动性发行大量货币，但其所面临的风险不可低估。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, governments should consider contributing troops to help establish order, train the Iraqi police and military, and help Iraq guard its borders.",
        "最后，各国政府应当考虑派遣士兵来帮助建立秩序，训练伊拉克警察和民兵，并且帮助伊拉克守卫其边境。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany, as the largest creditor country, is in charge, but refuses to take on additional liabilities; as a result, every opportunity to resolve the crisis has been missed.",
        "最大的债权国德国掌握话语权，但却拒绝负担额外的债务； 结果是解决危机的每一次机会都被白白地错过。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to the downturn in real estate, a broader bubble in consumer credit is now collapsing: as the US economy slips into recession, defaults on credit cards, auto loans, and student loans will increase sharply. US consumers are shopped-out, savings-less, and debt-burdened.",
        "除开房地产市场的下跌，消费信贷更大的泡沫也正在破裂：随着美国经济滑向衰退，对信用卡、汽车贷款和学生贷款不履行还款义务的现象正在急剧上升。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s right: an International with a capital I: Globalized corruption in the mutual admiration society of Putin, Berlusconi, and Trump.",
        "确实如此：以大写“I”起头的国际化意味着在普京、贝卢斯科尼和特朗普相互倾慕的社会里出现了腐败的全球化。"
    ],
    [
        "But Rudi never followed his own advice.",
        "但Rudi 从来也没有遵循自己的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "The limitation of this approach, however, is that a free market for labor will neither eradicate unemployment nor transform marginal, low-end workers into high-productivity, high-wage employees.",
        "但是，这一方法的局限性是，自由的劳动力市场既不会消除失业，也不会把处于边缘的低端工人们转化为具有高生产力和高工资的雇员。"
    ],
    [
        "Even giant pension funds are eager to enter the arena, and the US Department of Labor recently made that easier.",
        "就连体量巨大的退休基金也急切地要进入到该领域，美国劳工部最近为此提供了便利。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, as currently constructed, these resolution powers are unlikely to work.",
        "不幸的是，按照目前的结构，FDIC的解决能力不可能起效。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of pursuing the mirage of a two-state solution, the US should use its leverage in the region to clear the way for the emergence of a binational, democratic state that guarantees full political and civil equality for all of its inhabitants.",
        "美国不应该追求两国方案这一海市蜃楼，而应该动用其在该地区的资源扫清障碍、建立一个双民族民主国家，并确保所有居民都获得完全的政治和民事平等。"
    ],
    [
        "The growth of China’s consumer price index (CPI), though still positive, has also been falling steadily, from 6.5% in July 2011 to 1.2% in May.",
        "中国消费物价指数（CPI）尽管仍在正增长，但幅度稳步下降，从2011年7月的6. 5%降至今年5月的1."
    ],
    [
        "Much has already been achieved since the crisis, through more resources for the IMF and new financing instruments.",
        "危机爆发之后世界货币基金组织和其他金融机构都得到了大量的资源，并在这方面已经做了大量工作。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the export miracle was sparked not by state-sponsored Chinese companies but by offshore efficiency solutions crafted in the West.",
        "换句话说，中国出口奇迹的创造者不是受国家支持的中国公司，而是西方制造的离岸效率解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "That process is sure to be fraught with further uncertainty and political risk, because what is at stake was never only some real or imaginary advantage for Britain, but the very survival of the European project.",
        "这一过程必然还将充满进一步的不确定性和政治风险，因为它所牵涉到的不仅仅是英国的实际或想象中的优势，而是整个欧洲工程的存亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2010, coal dependence has risen even in Europe, where some countries are phasing out emission-free nuclear power and no natural-gas boom has materialized (though CO2 emissions remain far higher in the US than in Europe).",
        "2010年后，就连欧洲都更加依赖煤炭，因为某些国家正逐步淘汰零排放核电，但是天然气的全面繁荣却迟迟没有到来（尽管美国的二氧化碳排放仍然远超欧洲）。"
    ],
    [
        "“Risk-off” episodes, in which investor sentiment sours, are likely to return if economic news worsens and confidence in policymakers’ effectiveness drops.",
        "“去风险”模式——即投资者情绪全面转坏——很可能随着经济消息的恶化以及对决策者效率的信心的下降而卷土重来。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Americans Become Poorer?",
        "美国人会变得更穷吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It also needs to accommodate the millions who wish to shift away from agriculture, which still employs half of the workforce.",
        "印度还需要面对数百万想走出农地的国民——农业吸收了工作人口的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "In a multipolar world, actors with widely divergent worldviews must work together to advance their shared interest in security, stability, and prosperity.",
        "在多极世界中，世界观大不相同的行动方必须合作推进其在安全、稳定和繁荣方面的共同利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In the avalanche of commentary on this month’s US-Russia deal on Syria’s chemical weapons, few have been prepared to call it a “win-win-win” outcome for the United States, Russia, and the Syrian people.",
        "在对本月美俄叙利亚化武交易雪片般的评论中，很少有人认为这是美国、俄国和叙利亚民众共赢的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Small wonder that Brazil’s stock market has fallen 28% since last May.",
        "因此毫不奇怪巴西股市自去年5月以来下跌28%。"
    ],
    [
        "Some evidence can be found in those features of the American economy that we believe others should emulate.",
        "在美国经济特征中人们可以找到一些证据，我们相信其他人应该效仿。"
    ],
    [
        "As if all this were not enough, as the Davos meeting opened, America’s House of Representatives passed a bill requiring American steel to be used in stimulus spending, despite the G-20’s call to avoid protectionism in response to the crisis.",
        "就像这些都还不够糟一样，达沃斯论坛开幕时美国众议院通过了一项议案，要求经济刺激方案下进行的花费必须使用美国钢铁，虽然20国集团（G-20）呼吁避免采取保护主义来应对危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, nothing was done in anticipation of the end of terms-of-trade gains in resource-rich countries like Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, and South Africa, which have been facing rising wage costs and supply-capacity limits.",
        "此外，俄罗斯、巴西、印尼和南非等资源富裕国并没有在贸易条件优势消失前预先采取措施，这些国家一直面临工资成本增长和供给能力限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the outlook may now be changing for the better.",
        "幸运的是，前景现在可以变的更好。"
    ],
    [
        "The Socialist “yes” also means support for increasing Europe’s standing as a global power through the creation of an EU ministry of foreign affairs.",
        "法国社会党的“是”也表明它支持欧洲通过产生一名欧盟外长而逐渐成为一个全球性的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, with the Lisbon treaty blocked and no institutional step forward in sight, the underlying question remains: What type of Europe do we want?",
        "而今，随着 《里斯本条约》 受阻而又没有其他可预见的立宪步骤，一个根本性的问题仍然是：我们需要怎样的欧洲？"
    ],
    [
        "According to a 2015 McKinsey report, improving worldwide gender equality could add $12 trillion to global GDP by 2025.",
        "2015年一份麦肯锡报告显示，改善全球各地性别平等到2025年可以为全球GDP贡献12万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "It would certainly behoove the Assembly to give serious and immediate consideration to the country’s deplorable socioeconomic conditions.",
        "议会当然应该迅速认真得考虑国家糟糕的社会经济状况。"
    ],
    [
        "The international regulatory framework has changed for the better since 2008, but no such changes can anticipate all the kinds of change in narratives that underlie public animal spirits.",
        "2008年以来，国际监管框架有所改善，但这些变化无法预测作为大众动物精神基础的叙事的变化方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s effort to fine and imprison those who do not toe the official line convinces me that I was correct to oppose opening negotiations on the country’s European Union membership.",
        "土耳其在对那些不服从政府路线的人士进行经济处罚和刑事监禁的做法使我确信：本人一贯反对谈判该国加入欧盟的问题是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Public provision of critical basic services like education or health care may never be as efficient as private-sector alternatives; but where efficiency entails exclusion and inequality of opportunity, public provision is not a mistake.",
        "关键基本服务——如教育和医疗——的公共供给也许永远不如私人部门替代方案那样高效； 但在高效率会造成排斥和机会不平等的领域，公共供给并不是错误。"
    ],
    [
        "The only grounds for confidence on this front after Trump’s victory is that he may actually do none of the things he said he would, such as starting a trade war with China, walking away from alliance commitments, and supporting Japan and South Korea going nuclear.",
        "特朗普胜选后，这一方面唯一令人感到有信心的地方是他说过的话也许一句都不会照办，比如与中国开展贸易战、不兑现结盟承诺、支持日本和韩国拥有核武器等。"
    ],
    [
        "From field to fork, the food sector is a major contributor to climate change through direct and indirect emissions, and by its often-negative effects on soil health and deforestation.",
        "从田间到餐桌，食品部门是气候变化的主要“贡献者”，它们直接和间接排放二氧化碳，还带来通常是消极的土地健康影响和森林采伐。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the programming aimed at youth, women, entrepreneurs, diasporas, technologists, and other social groups is partly funded and conducted by the private sector.",
        "大部分关注青年、妇女、企业家、国外犹太人，技术人员以及其他社会群体的规划都在一定程度上得到私人部门的资助和执行。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, violence is always a problem.",
        "诚然，暴力永远是个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Zionist Union, the principal opponent of Netanyahu’s Likud party, focused mostly on domestic issues like housing, the high cost of living, and growing economic inequality.",
        "内塔尼亚胡的利库德集团的主要反对者——犹太复国主义联盟（Zionist Union）将焦点主要集中于住房、高生活成本和日益加剧的经济不平等性等国内问题。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the election could be less a referendum on the last eight years than a contest of ideas, with foreign policy emerging as a key topic.",
        "因此，这场大选也许并不是对过去八年的全民公决，而是一场思想的竞争，而外交政策正在成为其中的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "And it will certainly be a boon for consumers, as the price of their beef-noodle soup and sukiyaki falls dramatically.",
        "而消费者显然将获益，因为牛肉面和寿喜烧的价格将大幅下降。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if all else fails to achieve financial stability, central banks could change interest rates.",
        "如果这些方法都无法实现财政稳定，央行就调整利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Where is the sticking point?",
        "症结究竟何在？"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite Xi’s investment pledges, it is far from certain that Asia’s two giants, both with growing global aspirations, can bridge the differences that continue to burden their relationship.",
        "但是，尽管习近平做出了投资承诺，但两个怀揣全球雄心的亚洲大国是否能够克服仍然影响两国关系的差异还远未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "France not only accounts for roughly 22% of eurozone GDP and 20% of its population – behind only Germany – but also has the healthiest demography in the eurozone, whereas the German population is projected to decline over the next decade.",
        "法国不但占有欧元区GDP的22%和人口的20%——仅次于德国——还拥有欧元区最健康的人口结构，而德国人口数量预计将在下一个十年中有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the Bosnian conflict in the early 1990s, when the Security Council decided to send in UN peacekeepers, rather than deploying a more robust multilateral presence, as would have been allowed under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter.",
        "以1990年代初的波斯尼亚冲突为例，当时安理会决定只派出联合国维和部队，而不是按照《联合国宪章》第七章所允许的方式部署更强大的多边武装。"
    ],
    [
        "Inheritance rules dictating that land – and its proceeds – can be passed down only through the men of the family have put women at a terrible disadvantage.",
        "土地及相关收益只能传给男性家庭成员的强制性继承规定导致女性所处的地位极其被动。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Now that the “green shoots” of recovery have withered, the debate over fiscal stimulus is back with a vengeance.",
        "北京——现如今，复苏的“绿芽”已经枯萎，该不该再搞财政刺激的辩论变本加厉。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, levels of the stress hormone cortisol increase in the evening, when they are normally low.",
        "例如，应激荷尔蒙血浆皮质醇水平会在夜间升高，而正常情况下应该保持低水平。"
    ],
    [
        "A senior sports writer with a Kenyan daily paper recently told me that this time women seem to be interested in learning the rules of the game and knowing more about players and their positions.",
        "最近我和某位肯尼亚资深体育评论员在一起的时候，他告诉我如今女性似乎更有兴趣去了解足球比赛的规则还有球员的资料。"
    ],
    [
        "But most of the UN’s achievements have had shortcomings.",
        "但联合国的大部分成就尤其缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "This is crucial, because whatever technical advances there may be in solar and other renewable energy sources, we will depend on coal and oil for the next 40 years.",
        "这是关键性的一步，因为在接下来的40年里，不论太阳能和其他可再生能源方面出现什么样的技术进步，我们仍须依赖煤和石油。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, for example, sustained political determination would help to close massive loopholes in estate planning and inheritance, as well as in household and corporate taxation, that disproportionately benefit the wealthy.",
        "比如，在美国，保持政治决心有助于填补财产规划和继承方面的巨大漏洞，填补家庭和公司纳税漏洞——这两大漏洞让富人获得了巨大好处。"
    ],
    [
        "By cutting the top income-tax rate, doubling the threshold at which inheritances are taxed, and lowering taxes on pass-through businesses, the legislation amounts to a handout for the wealthy, paid for by the middle class and future generations.",
        "通过降低最高收入者承受的税率，将遗产征税的门槛增加一倍，以及降低针对传递税收企业的税收，该立法等同于让中产阶级和子孙后代出资来为富人发钱。"
    ],
    [
        "To force change, we launched a movement to educate consumers in the West to compel carpet factory owners to behave responsibly.",
        "为了推行改革，我们发起了一项运动去教育西方的消费者，让他们迫使地毯厂老板负责任地行事。"
    ],
    [
        "Though mass shootings are extremely rare even in the US, the media’s coverage continually reinforces negative perceptions at home and abroad.",
        "尽管大规模枪击在美国是极其罕见的事件，但媒体报道持续强化着国内外的消极感知。"
    ],
    [
        "ATLANTA – American diplomats like to portray their country’s allies in glowing terms.",
        "亚特兰大—美国外交官喜欢用闪光的词汇描述美国的盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, bringing down yields on government, corporate, and asset-backed bonds has less impact.",
        "因此，降低政府、公司和资产支持债券的收益率没有什么效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the Murdoch propaganda machine churns out a daily stream of anti-scientific falsehoods, the public also sees prolonged droughts (now in parts of Brazil, California, and Southeast Asia, to name a few places), massive floods (recently in Bosnia and Serbia), and lethal heat waves (in many parts of the world).",
        "尽管默多克的宣传机器每天都在炮制反科学谎言，但公众也目睹了挥之不去的旱灾（目前正在巴西、加州、东南亚等地区肆虐）、大洪水（波斯尼亚和塞尔维亚）和致命热浪（世界多地）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, just as urgently, more than one-third of children of primary-school age – 250 million – are not learning the basics, according to the UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report.",
        "但是，同样紧迫的是，据联合国教科文组织全民教育全球检测报告，有超过三分之一的小学适龄儿童——2. 5亿人——没有学到基础知识。"
    ],
    [
        "NGO's vary enormously in their organization, budgets, accountability, and sense of responsibility for the accuracy of their claims.",
        "NGO在组织、预算、义务和对其主张准确性的责任感方面可谓差别巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "So does Khamenei.",
        "哈梅内伊也同样如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, they could not break the frustrating diplomatic gridlock over Syria or stem the escalation in violence as the year went on.",
        "首先，欧洲没能打破令人尴尬的叙利亚外交僵局或阻止叙利亚暴力状况的升级。"
    ],
    [
        "Participants at COP 13 must focus on the need to protect the rights of resource providers.",
        "COP13的与会者必须关注保护资源提供者权利的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a good time to do so, as these banks’ valuations have plunged.",
        "现在银行估值大幅缩水，采取如是行动正是时候。"
    ],
    [
        "At one point, I was sitting about a foot away from an adorable little girl – I think she was about two years old – and every couple of minutes she would have a seizure.",
        "在某个时刻，离我的座位一尺远的地方有一位很可爱的小女孩——我猜她大约两岁——她每隔几分钟就会发作一次癫痫。"
    ],
    [
        "Through NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Afghan National Army training program, it should rotate the Frontier Corps battalions with their Pashtun brothers one at a time.",
        "通过北约的国际安全援助部队(ISAF)阿富汗国民军培训项目，阿富汗应该可以使边境部队和他们的普什图兄弟同时联动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, politically, a hard Brexit is actually the soft option for the government.",
        "因此，从政治上讲，硬退欧实际上是政府的软选择。"
    ],
    [
        "But the scale of her triumph is mainly due to the collapse of her liberal coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party (FDP), which for the first time in the German Federal Republic’s history will not be represented in the Bundestag.",
        "但她之所以获得如此大胜，主要是因为她的自由派联盟伙伴自由民主党（FDP）的崩溃，该党在德意志联邦共和国的历史上第一次没能获得联邦议院席位。"
    ],
    [
        "But during his campaign Yushchenko assured Russophones that he would uphold such rights.",
        "但竞选时尤先科又向俄族人承诺他会保留上述权利。"
    ],
    [
        "But that did not happen.",
        "尼日利亚联邦政府的预算赤字只能通过国外和国内借债来填补，而且尼政府还大量印制本国货币，这导致通货膨胀和新货币的贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "In the UK, public and parliamentary debate on surveillance practices has been minimal, at best.",
        "英国公众议会对监视行为的辩论充其量只能用微乎其微来形容。"
    ],
    [
        "Better transport infrastructure, for example, would not only create jobs, but would also reduce the costs of commuting to work.",
        "比如，改善的交通基础设施不但可以创造就业，还能降低通勤成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans are learning the hard way that scientifically baseless skepticism about the safety of vaccines is extremely dangerous.",
        "美国人以沉重的代价了解到，针对疫苗的没有科学根据的怀疑是极其危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "Migrants from poor countries already send home $200 billion a year – perhaps another $400 billion informally – compared to the $80 billion in aid given by Western governments.",
        "来自穷国的移民已经给家里每年寄了2000亿美元，可能还有非正规途径的4000亿美元。 与此相比，西方各国政府给的援助只有800亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be a disastrous step.",
        "那将是一个灾难性的举动。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, the National Research Council and the US Federal Judicial Center issued the 1,016-page third edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.",
        "在2011年，美国国家研究委员会以及联邦司法中心发布了厚达1016页的《科学证据参考手册》第三版。"
    ],
    [
        "So he has been clumsily trying to suggest that he also cares about African Americans and Latinos – not by talking to African-American and Latino voters, but by speaking in exaggerated stereotypes about them to white audiences.",
        "因此他一直在笨拙地试图证明他也顾及非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔——不仅仅通过与非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔选民对话，也通过以夸张的语调在白人听众前谈及他们。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if the dynamics fueling income concentration cannot be reversed, the super-rich save a large fraction of their income, luxury goods cannot fuel sufficient demand, lower-income groups can no longer borrow, fiscal and monetary policies have reached their limits, and unemployment cannot be exported, an economy may become stuck.",
        "因此，如果助长收入集中的链条得不到逆转，巨富阶层继续把很大一部分收入储蓄起来，奢侈品无法提振充足的需求，低收入群体无法再借到钱，财政和货币政策已经走到了极限，失业又无法转嫁给外国，那么经济就会陷入停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "That might be why governments are so widely seen to have a positive duty to promote stem cell research and other forms of medical progress.",
        "这可能是为什么能经常看到政府积极的推进干细胞研究以及其他形式的医学进步的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Whenever a cost arises from engagement with an international process, there will always be an incentive not to play by the rules, to enforce them weakly, or not to participate at all.",
        "参与国际进程的代价会带来不守规则的冲动，导致执行力度偏弱或根本就拒绝参与。 这个问题在涉及环境保护时尤为突出，因为环境问题牵扯到高昂的政治资本；"
    ],
    [
        "Many people now worry about a bifurcated society: a thriving global class of elites at the top and a stressed-out class comprising everyone else.",
        "许多人现在担心社会分叉：顶层是欣欣向荣的全球精英阶层，以及由所有其他人组成的不堪压力阶层。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Costa, rejecting the ruling in February 2006 would contradict previous case law.",
        "根据科斯塔的观点，否决2006年2月的判决将与以前的判例法相抵触。"
    ],
    [
        "Obsessing about who might eventually replace America is bound to get us all lost.",
        "沉湎于猜测哪些国家最终可能取代美国势必让我们都蒙受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern history shows that the easiest way for a developing country to become ensnared in the dreaded “middle-income trap” is to cling to its old model for too long.",
        "现代历史表明，最容易使发展中国家踏入可怕的“中等收入陷阱”的办法莫过于纠结于模式太久。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the country benefits from strong public finances, prudent monetary policy, sustainable debt dynamics, a sound banking system, and well-functioning credit markets.",
        "此外，强大的公共财政，稳健的货币政策，可持续的债务状态，健全的银行体系，运作良好的信贷市场都为经济建设助力。"
    ],
    [
        "A Nigerian saying – “you have a 9 to 5, a 5 to 9 and a weekend job” – aptly describes the environment of layered work.",
        "尼日利亚有句俗话，“你有一个朝九晚五的工作，一个晚五晚九的工作，和一个周末开工的工作”——很形象地描述了分层工作的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "The war in Lebanon has made it abundantly clear how far this dangerous process has already progressed.",
        "黎巴嫩战争让这一危险的进程的进展程度一目了然。"
    ],
    [
        "But here, too, the reference to the US experience is misleading.",
        "但是，在这方面，参考美国经验也有误导之嫌。"
    ],
    [
        "Jeremy Lin and the Political Economy of Superstars",
        "林书豪与超级巨星的政治经济学"
    ],
    [
        "In nearly every case, the response to the attacks was brutal, inept, and costly in terms of civilian lives lost.",
        "几乎在所有情况下，对袭击采取的反制措施都残酷、无能，让民众付出了惨重的生命代价。"
    ],
    [
        "But the response is slower elsewhere. It certainly is not getting any easier to drive around in places like São Paulo, Dubai, and Shanghai.",
        "但是在其他地方这种反应就比较慢，例如在圣保罗、迪拜和上海这样的地方，你肯定不会觉得开车比以前容易些。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments want the ability to decide how best to protect their countries’ perceived national interests when a crisis strikes.",
        "各国政府都想有能力决定危机爆发时怎样最好保护所谓的本国利益。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – As 2011 draws to a close, there are growing signs that Asia is becoming caught up in the global slowdown, dashing hopes that the region’s economies would “decouple” from the prolonged recession in Europe and America’s lackluster recovery.",
        "伯克利——在2011年行将结束之际，有越来越多的迹象表明，亚洲正在陷入全球减速，该地区经济体可以与欧洲和美国复苏乏力的长时间衰退“脱钩”的希望越来越渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "There was an atmosphere of reassuring tolerance of the other.",
        "四处都充满着人与人之间的互信和宽容。"
    ],
    [
        "ROME – Europe’s so-called refugee crisis should never have become an emergency.",
        "罗马—欧洲的所谓难民危机原本绝不应该成为一种紧急状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe cannot afford to be taken in by it.",
        "欧洲千万不能上当。"
    ],
    [
        "Rainfall patterns will vary, and the Asian monsoon will become less reliable.",
        "降雨模式飘忽不定，而亚洲季风也变得越来越不可靠。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that this is true of other advanced economies, the global economy faces an extended multi-year period of low growth, with residual downside risk coming from policy gridlock and mistakes in Europe, the US, and elsewhere.",
        "在这方面其他发达国家的情况也一样，全球经济面临着一个延续多年的低增长期，并伴随着由欧洲，美国及其他地方的政策僵局和失误所导致的残余风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to falling unemployment, rising home values, and record stock prices, an emerging consensus of forecasters, market participants, and policymakers has now concluded that the American consumer is finally back.",
        "由于失业率的下降、家庭价值的增加和创新高的股市，预测家、市场参与者和决策者目前形成了新的共识，美国消费者终于回来了。"
    ],
    [
        "The same can be said of Saudi Arabia, where Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman just purged the government and security apparatus to consolidate his power.",
        "沙特阿拉伯也是如此，王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼刚刚清洗了政府和安全部门，以巩固自己的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the international community must re-establish the basis for its engagement.",
        "其次，国际社会必须重新奠定接触的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Hydropower is a much bigger player, at 17%.",
        "水力资源占比更大，达到17%。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that growing discipline seems to be pushing out low-return investment.",
        "好消息是成长部门似乎正在挤出低回报投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons – with its boost to national pride and promise of regional preeminence – has played a critical unifying role, as well as a political and military one.",
        "伊朗寻求核武器的政策-其对民族自豪感的增强和在该地区出类拔萃的可能性-在团结人民方面起了重要的作用，也起了政治上和军事上的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Our job will not be finished until every child is assured a healthy and balanced diet and the opportunity to reach his or her full potential.",
        "只有在所有儿童都能保证获得健康均衡饮食以及充分发挥潜力的机会时，我们的使命才能宣布完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin is far from an ideal partner with whom to attempt to reconcile the two key principles of international law: the right of a people to self-determination and the sanctity of national borders.",
        "普京绝不是可以试图与之协调国际法两大关键原则（民族自决权和国界神圣不可侵犯）的理想伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, five billion people have access to a mobile device, and more than three billion people can access the Internet.",
        "已经有50亿人使用移动设备，超过 30亿人可以接入互联网。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, respect for human life has taken a back seat to baser political calculations.",
        "不幸的是，卑劣的政治算计压倒了对生命的尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the US was effective in using its “soft power” to build democracy in post-war Germany, though Britain was better.",
        "实际上，在利用“柔性力量”重建德国的战后民主时，美国是取得了一定的效果，但英国的成绩却更让人信服。"
    ],
    [
        "Estimates of the benefits of further trade liberalization are often surprisingly low – no more than a few percentage points of global GDP.",
        "估计进一步的贸易自由化的好处往往出奇地低——不超过全球GDP的几个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "An ambitious plan for a national high-speed train system has been set forth.",
        "一个宏大的国家高速铁路计划已经启动。"
    ],
    [
        "And, increasingly, the reasoning behind such forecasts seems persuasive.",
        "这一传闻背后的原因似乎极具说服力。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why my government is focusing so heavily on improving education at all levels.",
        "正因如此，我的政府非常注重改善各层次教育水平。"
    ],
    [
        "A disastrous possible policy – military attack on Iran – has been headed off by a misguided, misinterpreted intelligence report.",
        "一项可能实施的、灾难性的政策——进攻伊朗——因一个被误导、被曲解的情报报告而搁置。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Four of the world’s most important financial regulators – the Bank of England, Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – recently asked the world’s derivatives industry to change the way it does business.",
        "美国剑桥—世界上最重要的四个金融监管机构——英格兰银行、德国联邦金融监督局（BaFin）、美国联邦存款保险公司和瑞士金融市场监督局——最近要求世界衍生品行业改变业务模式。"
    ],
    [
        "There is now a growing consensus that global poverty is not just a problem of the poor.",
        "越来越多的人达成共识，全球贫困不仅仅是穷人的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither did Australia.",
        "澳大利亚也没有。"
    ],
    [
        "A self-described “obedient son of the church,” he is unlikely to surprise the faithful when it comes to matters like sexuality and women’s ordination.",
        "在面临性取向和女性封圣时，自称“教会孝子”的他是不可能惊动信仰的。"
    ],
    [
        "Achieving these goals, as the blueprint recognizes, will require policymakers to weigh market autonomy against state authority, innovation against stability, investor protection against caveat emptor, and the temptation of rapid reform against the need for pragmatism.",
        "”要实现意见中提出的这些目标，决策者需要权衡市场自主竞争与政府监管、创新与稳定、保护投资者与购者自慎，以及加速改革和务实稳妥之间的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "US President Barack Obama’s administration, for its part, envisioned a vast free-trade area encompassing both Asia and Europe.",
        "美国奥巴马政府设想了一个涵盖亚洲和欧洲的大型自贸区。"
    ],
    [
        "In the mid-1980’s, then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher successfully pushed the idea of an integrated internal market.",
        "20世纪80年代中期，时任首相撒切尔夫人成功地推广了一体化内部市场的思想。"
    ],
    [
        "Interest in the arcane principles of finance has always been an inclination particular to people who love to pore over numerical tables and study mathematical formulas.",
        "人们对神秘的金融原理的兴趣一直在减少，尤其是那些喜欢凝神看数表、研究数学公式的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Survey evidence points to cost as a major barrier excluding poor women and children from health care.",
        "调查证据表明成本是将贫穷妇女和儿童排斥在医疗服务之外的主要障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "If continued low growth and low inflation do not justify rapid interest-rate increases, a hawkish Fed that raises rates anyway will face harsh disciplining by the market – and, by extension, so will Trump.",
        "但如果采取这种方法，市场仍将对美联储的行动作出裁决。 如果持续低增长和低通胀不支持快速提高利率，那么无论如何都要加息的鹰派美联储仍将面临严格的市场约束——推而广之，特朗普亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, the ECB will stop supporting the Greek banking system, and the government will run out of money to service foreign debts and, more dramatically, to pay Greek citizens their pensions and wages.",
        "若非如此，欧洲央行将停止支持希腊银行体系，希腊政府也将没钱维持外债，更糟糕的是，希腊政府也将没钱支付希腊公民的退休金和工资。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany and its lovers die in the end, only to live happily ever after.",
        "德国和热爱德国的人终将归于黄土，之后只剩下幸福的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing becomes more profitable than over-invoicing imports and under-invoicing exports.",
        "因此没有什么是比报高货价的进口和报低货价的出口更好赚了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, to do that, we first need a revolution in social thinking.",
        "但完成社会思想革命是实现这一目标的前提条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Other Al Qaeda thinkers have expressed admiration for the ability of young men like Wael Ghonim to mobilize thousands of his fellow Egyptians by conveying his sincere desire for change and love of country.",
        "其他基地组织思想家同样表达了对Wael Ghonim这样的年轻人通过表达自身的改革以往和对国家的热爱，能够动员成千上万名埃及同胞的卓著能力的钦佩。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, the talk has changed to the danger of a resurgent housing bubble and the collapse of the shadow banking system, which consists mainly of wealth-management firms and trust companies.",
        "2013年，这种言论转向了房地产泡沫重现和影子银行系统崩溃的危险，后者主要是那些财富管理企业和信托公司。"
    ],
    [
        "In Brazil, a television program on the role that folic-acid supplementation could play in the prevention of spina bifida (a congenital neural tube defect) immediately grabbed politicians’ attention.",
        "在巴西，一个电视宣传补充叶酸在预防脊柱裂（一种先天性神经管缺陷）方面的功效的节目立刻抓住了政客的眼球。"
    ],
    [
        "But the European Court of Justice and the German Constitutional Court have, all in all, rejected that view.",
        "不过欧洲法院和德国宪法法院都完全不赞同这一观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Although it is difficult to anticipate how high long-term interest rates will eventually rise, the large budget deficit and the rising level of the national debt suggest that the real rate will be higher than 2%.",
        "很难预测长期利率最终会升到什么水平，但巨额预算赤字和国民债务水平的升高意味着真实利率将高于2%。"
    ],
    [
        "America is clearly concerned.",
        "美国无疑对此担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Concerned about sparking an ethnic clash, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has proclaimed a ban on open discussion of these issues, threatening to arrest Internet news providers and activists if they continue to fan such debates.",
        "总理巴达维担心触发种族冲突而宣布禁止在公开场合讨论这些问题，并且威胁，如果互联网新闻供应者以及活动分子继续煽动此类的辩论的话，就将逮捕他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan envisions putting the constitutional changes and the terms of peace to a national referendum, a linkage that would transform Turkish politics.",
        "埃尔多安着眼于让全民公投决定修改宪法和和平条款，这将改变土耳其政局。"
    ],
    [
        "It is here, more than anywhere else, that China can align itself within mainstream international thinking and start to close the gap between how it is viewed by the world and how it views itself.",
        "在这个问题上，中国可以更好地贴近主流国际思维，开始统一世界眼中的中国和中国眼中的中国这两种认知间的差距。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by starting on such far-reaching reforms can Europe begin to stem the rise of populism that led to the success of the UK’s “Leave” campaign.",
        "只有启动类似意义深远的改革欧洲才能遏制导致英国成功脱欧的民粹主义崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "The status quo is no longer sustainable.",
        "现状已无法维持。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic Policy’s Narrative Imperative",
        "经济政策的故事动力"
    ],
    [
        "I started my Faith Foundation precisely to create greater understanding between the faiths.",
        "而我创立信仰基金会的原因正是为了在不同信仰间促成更多的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "The majority of the population is enrolled in the Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) scheme, which has increased access to health care for Rwanda’s most vulnerable citizens by waiving fees.",
        "发部分人口在社区医保（CBHI）注册，该机制通过减免医疗费用，提高了卢旺达最脆弱公民群体的医疗普及。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, because it required significant and expensive short-run cuts in emissions by industrial countries, it threatened to impose large immediate costs on the American, European, and Japanese economies.",
        "另一方面，由于它要求工业化国家短期内花费巨资大幅削减排放数量，因此对美国、欧洲以及日本的经济造成巨大损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Concerted efforts – involving national and local governments, universities, workers’ unions, political parties, environmental groups, young people, women’s groups, lawyers, and the business community – can change the world.",
        "国家和地方政府、大学、工会、政党、环保团体、青年、妇女团体、律师和商界的共同努力可以改变世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if there is a problem, it can easily be fixed; spending a fraction of the money that went into Bush’s two tax cuts would have fixed Social Security for 75 years; slight benefit cuts, adjusting the age of retirement, or minor adjustments in the level of contributions could fix the system permanently.",
        "即使有，也能轻而易举地解决，只要动用一小部分布什在两次降税方案中所得的钱就足以维持社会保障体系75年； 微调下降福利，调整退休年龄，或者小幅度调整捐款标准就能永久性保持该体系。"
    ],
    [
        "A gradual depreciation would create expectations of further exchange-rate weakening, thereby fueling capital outflows and undermining companies’ willingness to use renminbi in exports and imports.",
        "逐步贬值会制造出汇率继续疲软的预期，从而助长资本外流，不利于公司在进出口活动中使用人民币的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "The “strategic partnership” that both America and the European Union have at times sought with China looks both more plausible and more desirable with democratic India.",
        "美国和欧盟在某些时候寻求同中国建立的“战略伙伴关系”看起来与民主的印度更为可行和可取。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s lost decades are an outgrowth of this phenomenon; the US is now halfway through the first lost decade of its own.",
        "日本的失去的十年便是这一现象的产物； 而美国也已经度过了其自身的失去的十年的上半场。"
    ],
    [
        "Management makes a difference, one that ultimately boils down to good leadership and best practices.",
        "管理能造成区别，而说到底管理可以归结为好领导和最佳实践。"
    ],
    [
        "While lending by the World Bank did fall below its mid-1990’s level, it is growing again, reflecting the expansion of regional multilateral banks and a policy pendulum that is swinging back to publicly-financed infrastructure projects.",
        "尽管世界银行的贷款下降到九十年代中期水平以下，现在又开始增长，反映出地区性多边银行的扩张以及政策钟摆正在摇回到公众融资的基础设施项目上。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eurozone, a sudden stop of capital flows to the periphery and the fiscal restraints imposed, with Germany’s backing, by the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the ECB have been a massive impediment to growth.",
        "在欧元区，流向外围的资本流的突然中断以及欧盟、国际货币基金组织（IMF）和欧洲央行在德国的支持下所施加的财政约束已经形成了巨大的增长阻碍。"
    ],
    [
        "How to Improve NAFTA",
        "如何改进北美自由贸易协定"
    ],
    [
        "Precisely because populism – whether leftist (Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Podemos in Spain) or rightist (Donald Trump in the United States, the National Front in France) – is ugly, menacing, and destructive, its growing strength calls for nuanced explanation.",
        "恰恰因为民粹主义——无论是（以委内瑞拉的查韦斯和西班牙的“我们可以”党为代表的）左翼势力还是（以美国的唐纳德·特朗普和法国国民阵线为代表的）右翼势力——丑陋不堪、来势汹汹和破坏力极强，民粹主义势力日益壮大需要人们作出细致入微的解释。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve this, China must increase domestic consumption’s share of GDP.",
        "为了进行结构调整，中国必须增加国内消费在GDP中的呃比重。"
    ],
    [
        "Their recommendations should be binding, but they should also be focused on the medium term, rather than on annual fiscal outcomes.",
        "它们的建议应该具有约束力，但应该专注于中期而非年度财政结果。"
    ],
    [
        "This will generate both economic and political tensions that could destroy the European Union.",
        "这会导致经济和政治关系紧张，破坏欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "The AFC is promoting such investment, based on a new development-oriented banking style in Africa that involves the proactive creation and management of infrastructure, industrial, and financial assets, including the six leading industrial sectors: power, transport infrastructure, telecoms, oil and gas, mining, and heavy industries.",
        "AFC正在非洲推动这样一种投资。 它以一种新的、以发展为导向的银行业为基础，包括前瞻性地创造和管理基础设施、工业和金融资产，涵盖了六个领导性的工业部门：电力、运输、电信、石油和天然气、矿业和重工业。"
    ],
    [
        "They stood with and for their judges, making it virtually impossible for judges willing to take Musharraf’s oath of allegiance to operate.",
        "他们与自己支持的法官并肩作战，使那些愿意向穆沙拉夫效忠的法官几乎无法行事。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea’s Blackmail Missile",
        "朝鲜的勒索导弹"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, stock prices have reached near-record highs.",
        "在美国，股票价格已接近历史最高纪录。"
    ],
    [
        "But the process takes time, and, because of the rising weight of relatively inflexible emerging market economies in global consumption, adjustment will probably take longer than it did a few decades ago.",
        "但是，这一过程需要时间，而且，因为相对不具有弹性的新兴市场经济体在全球消费领域内权重的增加，调整将可能比几十年前花费更多的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Stops and searches conducted under counter-terrorism powers in Europe have produced few terrorism charges and no convictions.",
        "在欧洲大陆，政府以反恐怖名义展开的问询和调查，最后的结果是只有个别的指控，但没有一宗被定罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, whether it likes it or not, has taken on a new, strategic role in the region.",
        "欧洲，不论愿意与否，已经在这个地区承担起新的战略性作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In others – Brazil comes to mind – left-leaning governments practiced industrial promotion in such a heavy-handed and erratic way that they ended up weakening whatever it was they wanted to promote.",
        "在其他国家——首推巴西——左倾政府以不稳定的强力方式推进产业升级，以至于最终结果是意在推进的部门反而遭到了削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the Madrid meeting made clear that there is a consensus among these member states in favor of a Europe that can play a key role in our globalized world, and whose actions are based on the principles – effectiveness, transparency, and democracy – that inspire the European integration process.",
        "不过，马德里会议清楚地表明了这些成员国一致认为欧洲应该在我们全球化的世界中扮演一个重要角色，并且推动欧洲统一进程的行动的原则应该是：高效、透明和民主。"
    ],
    [
        "But when the Office later revised its data upward, it became clear that the Ifo indicator was right.",
        "但当德国联邦统计局后来将数据上调后，很明显，IFO是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether the Arab and wider Islamic world’s democratic awakening will actually prevail or produce only change at the top of authoritarian regimes, whether it will lead to a stable order or sustained chaos and radicalization, still remains unclear.",
        "但阿拉伯地区或更广大伊斯兰世界的民主觉醒是否只是一场高层政权更替，而最终实现的是稳定的秩序还是持续的混乱和极端主义化，这些都是未知之数。"
    ],
    [
        "And from the other side, many commentators – anxiously or cynically, according to taste – have drawn parallels with Iraq and other past misuses of Western military power.",
        "而另一方面，不少性格各异或焦急或愤世嫉俗的评论人士已开始拿此次行动与伊拉克和过去西方滥用军力的其他状况进行类比。"
    ],
    [
        "Revolution transmuted into a crypto-coup d’état.",
        "革命演变为一次秘密的军事政变。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if no such conflict erupts, Putin’s attempts to restore Russian influence across Eurasia (by whatever means necessary, if his actions in Ukraine are any indication) will be highly damaging.",
        "即使这一冲突不爆发，普京重建俄罗斯在欧亚（Eurasia）的影响力的尝试（从其在乌克兰的行为看，可谓无所不用其极）也将具有非常大的破坏力。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, drawing Libya deeper into international discourse, despite the possibility of roadblocks along the way, is a strategic decision that, now that it has been taken, the West must pursue with patience, perseverance, and constant nurturing.",
        "然而，尽管前方可能存在障碍，将利比亚进一步纳入国际对话是一个具有战略意义的决定。 现在西方已经作出了这个决定，它们必须有足够的耐心，韧性以及给予其持续的呵护来让它得到实现。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short run, even efforts to spur technological progress and innovation, which might generate recovery through new profits, are likely to have a negative overall impact on employment, owing to the creative destruction of obsolete industries.",
        "在短期，刺激技术进步和创新的措施虽然有利于创造新利润及复苏，但对就业的总影响也不一定是正面，因为创新也有可能对传统行业带来创造性的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Violence and Innovation",
        "暴力与创新"
    ],
    [
        "But if we take account of both the increased generosity of rich nations and the application of improved financial and insurance technology, he just might be right.",
        "但如果考虑到富裕国家与日俱增的慷慨和改良后金融和保险技术的应用，他所描绘的前景也许并非是空中楼阁。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in Mashad on March 21, Ayatollah Khamenei said, “There were some rumors that I support a special candidate for the presidential elections.",
        "在3月21号麦什得的一次讲话中，他说：“有传言说我支持某个特定的总统候选人。 不过，我也只有一张选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Such traumatic events plunged these countries into the so-called “middle-income trap”: unable to grow nor to continue broadening their middle classes.",
        "这些灾难性的事件使这些国家陷入了所谓的“中产阶级陷阱”：无法增长也无法继续扩大其中产阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, he was elected to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, and became Deputy Minister of Defense and subsequently a full member of the cabinet.",
        "随后他当选为以色列议会议员并成为国防部副部长，随后成为内阁成员。"
    ],
    [
        "For Cuba’s leaders, the absence of concrete economic benefits is a massive disappointment.",
        "对古巴领导人来说，缺少切实的经济利益是一个巨大的失望。"
    ],
    [
        "But, today, emerging countries are growing very concerned with what they rightly perceive as the serious risks to their own economies implied by excessive weakness in Europe, which remains the world’s trade leader.",
        "但今天，新兴国家越来越忧虑欧洲过度疲软对其各自经济的严重威胁，他们的这种担忧不无道理，因为欧洲仍然领导着世界贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "But there may be a solution that helps Africa recover its growth in a way that Western leaders and their constituents find acceptable.",
        "但也许存在一种办法，可以帮助非洲增长恢复，并且被西方领导人和他们的选民所接受。"
    ],
    [
        "In the coming decades, this trend will only intensify – bringing with it significant potential for instability.",
        "在未来几十年中，这一趋势还会加强，巨大的动荡可能也随之而至。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because those who believed this (virtually everyone whose voices were heard) belatedly perceived its insulting connotation, discussing the matter has caused considerable anguish in the years since.",
        "而由于信奉伊斯兰教的人（几乎所有发出声音者都是如此）终于感受到伊斯兰教的伤害性内涵，因此多年来讨论此事引起了他们极大的痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Many macroeconomists attribute the sustained decline in inflation since the early 1980’s to the widespread use of this strategy.",
        "许多宏观经济学家把20世纪80年代通胀的持续下降归功于该策略的广泛应用。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the greatest risks come from arrogance and ignorance, two human characteristics at the heart of most financial crises.",
        "最后，最大的风险来自于傲慢和无知，这两种人性的弱点一直处在多数金融危机的核心位置。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, we can also fill in a Sudoku table showing the stock of net foreign investment claims by non-reserve-currency countries on reserve-currency countries, mainly the US and the United Kingdom.",
        "事实上，还有另一个数独填表游戏，这个游戏中的表格代表非储备货币国对储备货币国（主要是美国和英国）的净外国投资权益存量。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as China’s leaders seem to recognize, he will have little choice but to color mostly inside the lines as president.",
        "但是，中国领导人似乎认识到，他几乎别无选择，只能在身为总统的有限空间内施展腾挪。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan has not traditionally been a country of immigration, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, which ranks 136 countries, has Japan in 105th place.",
        "日本从传统上就不是移民国家，而世界经济论坛的全球性别差距报告总共统计了136个国家，其中日本排在第105位。"
    ],
    [
        "I raise all of this because Krugman took a victory lap in his end-of-2014 column on “The Obama Recovery.”",
        "我罗列这些是因为克鲁格曼在他的2014年年底专栏《奥巴马复苏》（The Obama Recovery）中俨然一副胜利者的姿态。"
    ],
    [
        "Its government is kept further away from developing a nuclear bomb – which it denies pursuing – and gains room for economic recovery and normalization of relations with the major powers.",
        "伊朗政府将更加远离开发核弹——它也一直否认这一点——并赢得经济复苏和与主要大国关系正常化的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the US has handled the various forms of political transition in the Arab Spring without severely damaging missteps.",
        "到目前为止，美国在阿拉伯之春中处理了多种形式的政治转型，且没有造成破坏性失策。"
    ],
    [
        "A gentler way to achieve some modest reduction in public and private debt burdens would be to commit to a period of sustained but moderate inflation, as I recommended in December 2008 in a commentary entitled “Inflation is Now the Lesser Evil.”",
        "要达到适度削减公共和私人债务负担的目的，一个比较温和的方法是让这些国家产生一段时期持续但温和的通货膨胀，正如2008年11月我在一篇名为“当前通货膨胀相对债务而言危害更小”的评论中所提议的一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Only when Yanukovych sought to use parliament to strip the president of his powers did Yushchenko summon the will to fight back, dismissing Yanukovych’s government and calling for a special election last year.",
        "只是在亚努科维奇寻求议会的支持以剥夺他的总统权力时，尤先科才奋力反击，解散了亚努科维奇政府并且要求在去年进行一次特别选举。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, all countries must acknowledge that extending the lifespan of the Kyoto Protocol will not solve the problem of climate change, and that a new or additional legal framework that covers all countries is needed.",
        "与此同时，所有国家都必须承认，延长京都议定书的生命期限并不能解决气候变化问题，必须引入新的覆盖全部国家的法律框架。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to counter that pressure, he will have to show that a cessation of violence is in the higher interest of Palestinians.",
        "为了抵御这一压力，他将不得不向世人展示停止暴力是为了巴勒斯坦人民的更高利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Pressure from the United States has also influenced the SCAF’s decision-making.",
        "美国的压力也影响了最高军事委员会的决策。 “埃及军方接受了美国13亿美元的资助……他们很重视美国的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Do Economic Sanctions Work?",
        "经济制裁能管用吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In Tanzania, researchers studying bilingual education have found that a fear of being mocked can prevent students with weaker English skills from participating in class.",
        "在坦桑尼亚，双语教育研究者发现，害怕被愚弄让英语较差的学生不愿在上课时全身心投入。"
    ],
    [
        "The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Latin America’s oldest guerilla group – formed alliances with narcotics cartels.",
        "拉丁美洲最老牌的游击队——哥伦比亚革命武装力量（Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia）与大毒枭结成联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "But, oddly, of the eight goals, only the last one deals with “global partnership,” or what rich countries can and should do.",
        "但是，奇怪的是，在八个大目标中，只有最后一个是关于“全球合作”，即发达国家可以和应该怎么做的。"
    ],
    [
        "There are several ways to change such a system.",
        "有几种方法可以改变现行制度。"
    ],
    [
        "When they are breached, the typical result is a sense of unfairness, followed by resistance and, ultimately, political choices that address the inequality, though sometimes in counter-productive, growth-impeding ways.",
        "如果不平等性越了界，最典型的结果就是产生不公平感，从而引发反抗情绪，最终将会形成修正不平等问题的政治选择，有时这种选择是反生产、不利于增长的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the newspaper Le Figaro, a section on how to scale back one’s expenses predicted a “revolution in values” and claimed that people will put family ahead of work.",
        "费加罗报上的关于如何缩减自己的开支的一个版面则预测“价值观革命” 的来临，并声称，人们将把家庭放在工作之前。"
    ],
    [
        "We formed the Sangha Coalition when we saw that the country’s monks were united.",
        "我们联合全国的僧侣成立了僧伽同盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Experts can disagree about whether the move was premature, but no one agrees with the many political leaders who have argued that the tiny hike will derail the timid resumption of economic growth.",
        "其前景如何呢？ 专家对于升息是否过早可能见仁见智，但是并无人同意政治领导人的观点，即利率微升会破坏微弱的经济增长复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Having been pushed by Netanyahu into an unwinnable fight against US President Barack Obama’s administration over its nuclear deal with Iran, AIPAC is now crumbling under the weight of its own hubris.",
        "因为被内塔尼亚胡推入到一场反对奥巴马政府与伊朗达成核协议的不可能打赢的战争，美以公共事务委员会现在在狂妄自大的重压下摇摇欲坠。"
    ],
    [
        "Marina Silva, the Socialist Party’s candidate, demanded formal bank independence – an argument subsequently adopted by the Social Democratic Party (PSDB) candidate, Aécio Neves, who now faces Rousseff in the election run-off.",
        "社会党（Socialist Party）候选人席尔瓦（Marina Silva）要求巴西央行正式独立——该主张随后被社会民主党（Social Democratic Party）候选人内维斯（Aécio Neves）采纳，他将在第二轮选举中与罗塞夫一决高下。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, the call went out for an end to the Palestinian Intifada and for Israelis and Palestinians to reach a final peace agreement.",
        "这一次，他们呼吁结束巴勒斯坦人的暴动以及要求以色列和巴勒斯坦达成一份最终的和平协议。"
    ],
    [
        "What an outcry from the academy – not the Swedish one, mind you, but that of the world church of literaturology.",
        "学院派强烈抗议——记住，这绝非是来自瑞典文学院，而是世界文学殿堂的抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "If the global economy remains on its current trajectory, a period of intense volatility could destabilize a number of emerging economies, while undermining development efforts worldwide.",
        "如果全球经济继续沿着当前轨迹运行下去，那么一段时间的剧烈波动可能动摇许多新兴经济体，也破坏全球发展努力。"
    ],
    [
        "No less is required to reconcile independence with accountability in a democratic society.",
        "要在一个民主社会实现独立和问责的协调一致就必须做到这些。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Puerto Rico needs better fiscal management.",
        "最后，波多黎各需要更好的财政管理。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, a steeper normalization path would produce an outcry.",
        "诚然，陡峭的正常化路径会导致抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "Regime Change in China?",
        "中国的政权变更？"
    ],
    [
        "And many municipal governments have joined the fight against carbon emissions by expanding mass transit and making government buildings more energy efficient.",
        "许多市政府都通过扩大公共交通营运范围并使政府建筑更加节能来参与到减少碳排放的斗争中。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, for the last 30 years, the manufacturing base in Asia’s emerging economies has been displacing that of the old industrial powers of Western Europe and North America.",
        "毕竟，在过去30年中，亚洲新兴市场的制造基础一直在取代西欧和北美等旧工业力量。"
    ],
    [
        "“Net nannies” – as China’s Internet censors are often dubbed – blocked sensitive articles less frequently.",
        "中国的互联网审查人员经常被称为“网络奶妈”，他们也不是那么频繁地阻挡敏感的文章了。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, China’s exports have grown five-fold.",
        "加入世贸组织之后，中国的出口额涨了五倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, her father was murdered by his own intelligence chief, KCIA Director Kim Jaegyu.",
        "事实上，其父死于手下情报主管、韩国中央情报局局长金载圭之手。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has an historic opportunity to help resolve one of the world’s longest-running and seemingly most intractable conflicts.",
        "一个帮助解决世界上为时最久、也最棘手的冲突的历史性机会正摆在欧洲面前。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the executives gathering in Davos this month are discussing how to “master” the Fourth Industrial Revolution.",
        "这就为何本月聚集在达沃斯的高管们都在讨论如何“掌控”第四次工业革命。"
    ],
    [
        "A major factor behind that relative decline has been the US school system’s failure to ensure high-quality education for disadvantaged Americans, particularly children from poor, minority, and immigrant households.",
        "这一相对衰落背后的原因是美国教育体系不能保证对后进美国人的高质量教育，特别是对来自穷人、少数族裔和移民家庭的孩子。"
    ],
    [
        "(One gets prettier equations with five new particles, and there might be even more.)",
        "（有的物理学家提出了包涵物种新粒子的精美方程，不过可能还会有更多种类的新粒子）。"
    ],
    [
        "In the face of rising climate and disaster risk, investments in nature-based solutions can protect lives and safeguard prosperity in a cost-effective manner – all while preserving imperiled natural ecosystems around the world.",
        "面对气候和灾难风险的增加，投资于基于大自然的方案能保护生命，以高性价比的方式捍卫繁荣——同时还能保全身陷重重危机的全球自然生态系统。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Locust Years",
        "美国的灾年"
    ],
    [
        "It is a sad testament to Russia’s current mindset that it is Solzhenitsyn the anti-modernist crank who is being remembered, not Solzhenitsyn the towering foe of Soviet barbarism and mendacity.",
        "索尔仁尼琴并不是作为苏联野蛮主义和虚伪的巨人、而是以反现代的怪杰被人纪念，这对于俄国当今的心态无异是悲凉的。"
    ],
    [
        "The rapid feedback loop will make teachers adjust their strategies to maximize performance.",
        "迅速的反馈环将让教师调整教法以实现表现最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer-term goal is the protection of these critical forests in perpetuity.",
        "长期目标是永远保护这些关键森林。"
    ],
    [
        "Conflicts rage on, seemingly unaffected by upholders of world order.",
        "冲突如火如荼，全球秩序支持者的努力似乎毫无用处。"
    ],
    [
        "The French government is no longer placing all its bets on big, state-led projects, as it did in the 1970s heyday of massive investment in high-speed trains and Airbus.",
        "法国政府不再像在1970年代在高速列车和空客上那样将全部赌注都压在由政府主导的大型项目。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the Capaldo framework lacks sectoral and country detail; its behavioral assumptions remain opaque; and its extreme Keynesian assumptions sit uneasily with its medium-term perspective.",
        "相反，卡帕尔多的框架缺少部门和国家细节，其行为假设非常模糊； 其极端凯恩斯主义假设也与其中期视角不太“搭调”。"
    ],
    [
        "Congress might, for example, uncompromisingly demand the restitution of property that was nationalized during the revolution; the unrestricted right of Americans to buy Cuban land and other property; privatization of state-owned enterprises at fire-sale prices; and the end of progressive social policies such as the public health system.",
        "比如，美国国会可能坚决要求在古巴补偿在革命期间被国有化的产业； 取消美国人购买古巴土地和其他产业的权利限制；"
    ],
    [
        "“People’s quantitative easing” is a more unorthodox – and a more interesting – version of this idea.",
        "“人民的量化宽松”是比较非正统——也比较有趣——的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Opinion polls indicate that there will be a second-round run-off between Le Pen and either Sarkozy or Juppé, which means that those on the left will have to choose a conventional right-wing candidate if they want to beat Le Pen.",
        "民调显示，勒庞和萨科齐或朱佩之间都将会有第二轮竞争，这意味着左翼要想打败勒庞就必须选择一位传统右翼候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, smartphones are transforming how we communicate and revolutionizing the way we discover and patronize businesses.",
        "与此同时，智能手机正在改变我们的通信方式，掀起了 一场我们如何发现和惠顾企业的革命。"
    ],
    [
        "“Let’s just remember that Iran is some 80% dependent on oil in its budget,” she said, so it is “not really able to live with a disruption.”",
        "“别忘了伊朗大约80%的预算要依赖石油，”她说，所以如果它“中断石油供应的话它根本无法生存下去。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "SPZs will be attractive to those who are hungry for constructive alternatives to the prevailing political stagnation and the inexorable, demography-driven drift toward Israeli apartheid.",
        "对于那些渴望到终结当前政治停滞局面并避免以色列不可避免地滑向因人口构成而导致的种族隔离制度的人来说,这是极富吸引力的建设性替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Other large institutional investors and policymakers should follow suit, to give the corporate world a nudge.",
        "其他大型机构投资者和决策者也应该跟进，轻轻地推公司界一把。"
    ],
    [
        "So why isn’t the prospect of going over the fiscal cliff greeted with enthusiasm?",
        "那么民众为什么对平安跨过财政悬崖的前景并不热衷？"
    ],
    [
        "Thatcher’s reforms reinvigorated the private sector, promoted home ownership, lowered taxes on enterprise, deregulated large parts of the economy, and reined in the unions’ power to use their industrial muscle.",
        "撒切尔的改革振兴了私人部门、促进了房屋所有权、降低了企业税、减少了对经济大部的监管，并遏制了工会动用其行业能量的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade integration was initially supported by massive investments in regional infrastructure, financed to an important extent by a large, specifically created institution, the European Investment Bank.",
        "最初的大规模的跨区域基础设施投资，促进了贸易一体化，其很大一部分融资是由欧洲发展银行这个专设的大型的机构来提供的。"
    ],
    [
        "When she was younger, however, Rivlin was denied admission to the graduate program at Harvard University’s Littauer Center of Public Administration. Her application was rejected, she was told, because of “unfortunate experiences” with previous admissions of “women of marriageable age.”",
        "里夫林在年轻时曾被哈佛大学里塔尔公共管理中心的研究生课程拒绝录取，而拒绝理由是该课程曾在录取“适婚年龄妇女”方面有着“不幸的经历”。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – If developed countries acted rationally, and in the interest of electorates that understood how their tax money is spent, they would set their public-pension retirement age at or above 70.",
        "发自伦敦——如果发达国家能遵照理性行事，并且愿意维护那些了解自身税收是如何花费的选民的利益，就一定将会把合资格领取社会养老金的退休年龄设定在70岁以上。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has been tremendously successful in promoting research strategies that support the use of nanotechnology, and has served as a model that is being duplicated around the world.",
        "美国在推动支持使用纳米技术的研究战略上表现得非常成功，并且树立了被全世界广泛仿效的典型。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last two years, I have traveled 354,200 miles, visited a total of 62 countries, and conducted 246 one-on-one meetings with heads of state and other national leaders.",
        "在过去两年中，我行程354,200英里，拜访了总共62个国家，与国家元首和其他国家领导人做了246次一对一会晤。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the divergences between Japanese and South Korean historical narratives go back further than WWII.",
        "当然，日本与韩国历史表述之间的分歧可以追溯到二战之前。"
    ],
    [
        "The experience of two world wars was foundational for European integration.",
        "两次世界大战的经验时欧洲一体化的根本动力。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2014, the US ran trade deficits with some 95 countries.",
        "2014年，美国对95个国家存在贸易赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "As far as I can tell, they are simply burying their heads in the sand.",
        "我只能说，他们是“把脑袋埋在了沙子里”。"
    ],
    [
        "Some in the West – including veteran China watcher David Shambaugh – remain convinced that this kind of collaborative accommodation will not be necessary, because failures of economic and political management will bring about China’s implosion.",
        "一些西方人——包括老牌中国观察家沈大伟（David Shambaugh）——仍认为这类协作性适应（collaborative accommodation）并非必须，因为经济和政治管理的失败将让中国从内部崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a breakthrough that will endure.",
        "经过愤世嫉俗的七十多年，乃至几个世纪，这一突破才到来，并且将持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "By undermining companies’ capacity to maximize the efficiency of labor and capital allocation – the driving motivation behind offshoring – the BAT would produce large welfare costs for the US and the global economy.",
        "边境调节税将破坏公司实现劳动力和资本配置效率最大化的能力——这是离岸化的主要动机——从而给美国和全球经济带来巨大的福利损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Had Greece not been a member of the eurozone, its best option would have been to default, restructure its debt, and depreciate its currency.",
        "如果希腊不是欧元区成员，其最好的选择将是违约、重组债务和货币贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "The West would appear confused, its allies would be dismayed, and its enemies would be emboldened.",
        "还有伊朗自己，尽管更换了新总统执政，但仍然是掌握核武器的政教合一的独裁统治。 西方将无所适从、盟国会感到失望、而敌对势力则有恃无恐。"
    ],
    [
        "If the full consequences of climate change are to be addressed in our lifetime, we must recognize that human activity is doing more than just adding a few degrees of temperature to the annual forecast.",
        "要想让气候变化的全面后果在我们这一代人手上得到解决，我们必须承认人类活动不仅仅导致了每年气温预测上升几度。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that Israel would be able to annex some settlements adjacent to its border, while giving up only a small share of its land – an exchange to which it should be open when serious negotiations are underway.",
        "这意味着以色列可以吞并某些临近边界定居点，而只需要放弃一小部分领土——谈判真正开始时以色列应该认真考虑这项建议。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, as these countries move farther down the road to free markets in reproductive medicine, France is debating all of its bioethics laws – and continuing to stand up for a different model, focused on social justice and protection of vulnerable women.",
        "此外，随着各国生殖医学自由市场化程度的不断深入，法国正在探讨生物伦理方面的法律，并继续对关注社会正义和弱势女性保护的个性化模式加以维护。"
    ],
    [
        "The housing boom in the United States might never have reached the proportions that it did if homeowners had been unable to treat interest payments on home loans as a tax deduction.",
        "如果购房者无法将需要向房屋贷款支付的利息当作减税的话，美国的房市繁荣根本就无法达到曾经的那个高度。"
    ],
    [
        "The real question, then, is this: Where are the crossover figures who can provide that urgently needed connection?",
        "那么，真正的问题就是：能够提供迫切需要的接触的横跨两面的人在哪里呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the content is being created in real time, this can be challenging; a speaker may unexpectedly use the stage to promote a product, in which case he or she would probably not be invited back.",
        "鉴于会议内容往往要临场确定，要确保有限度营销确实存在一定难度； 发言人可能会出人意料地利用讲台宣传某种产品，这么做可能导致他/她被从今后的邀请名单上排除。"
    ],
    [
        "A President in the Dock",
        "被告席上的总统"
    ],
    [
        "These countries will have less air pollution, improved health and wellbeing, and thriving economies.",
        "上述国家将减少空气污染、繁荣经济并改善福祉和健康。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil’s Upward March",
        "油价的上涨之路"
    ],
    [
        "The crucial point about the 2016 election is not just that a reality-TV star and property magnate who has never held elected office has emerged as the presumptive Republican candidate.",
        "2016年大选的关键点不仅是一位从未担任过公职的电视真人秀明星兼地产大亨已成为共和党总统候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "And, since the onset of the crisis, the G-20 countries – with France (and the United States) as driving forces – have been pressing for better regulation, governance, and accountability.",
        "而自从危机爆发之后， G20成员国在法国（以及美国）的推动下开始呼吁更完善的管制，政府治理以及问责机制。"
    ],
    [
        "An aide to President Vladimir Putin, Igor Shuvalov, said that it was realistic to expect the appearance of a new person whom Putin would consider his potential successor.",
        "普京总统的顾问舒瓦洛夫说，预计出现某个人物，普京总统会考虑他作为可能的继任者，这是现实的。"
    ],
    [
        "The cost of essential infrastructure services – electricity, water, sewers, and transportation – will go up while quality declines.",
        "基本基础设施成本——电力、水、排水和交通——将水涨船高，而质量每况愈下。"
    ],
    [
        "The inflation-targeting models used by the Fed (and other central banks and official institutions like the International Monetary Fund) all assume the existence of some pre-determined limit to non-inflationary unemployment.",
        "美联储（以及其他国家央行和官方机构，如国际货币基金组织）所使用的通胀目标模型都假设存在着某个对非通胀型失业率的预设限值。"
    ],
    [
        "These workers do not benefit from job security and generally earn much less.",
        "他们工作缺乏稳定性，往往收入也要少得多。"
    ],
    [
        "France voted to change course three years ago.",
        "三年前，法国人把选票投给了改变道路。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, China wants to strengthen cooperation with India in regional and global affairs.",
        "此外，中国希望与印度加强在地区和全球事务方面的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the mass killing in Rwanda a decade ago and now in Darfur, Sudan, demonstrate the high price of judging sovereignty to be supreme and thus doing little to prevent the slaughter of innocents.",
        "恰恰相反，10年前发生在卢旺达的大规模屠杀和目前苏丹的达尔富尔事件表明了把主权视为至高无上，因而面对屠杀无辜者无动于衷所要付出的高昂代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Opinion polls in Taiwan reflect public dismay over the Chinese legislation, and this negative sentiment will raise the pressure on President Chen, who recently antagonized some of his more ardent pro-independence supporters by reaching out to the pro-unification opposition People First Party.",
        "台湾的民意调查反映出民众对中国立法的不安。 这种消极的情绪将增加陈总统身上的压力，况且他最近因为向泛蓝反对派亲民党示好而招致了更加激进的支持者的不满。"
    ],
    [
        "But his apparent lack of interest in foreign policy was very appealing for Chinese leaders.",
        "但他显然对外交政策缺乏兴趣，这对中国领导人来说很有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa boasts a large and creative labor pool, buttressed by a youth population that is expected to double, to over 830 million, by 2050.",
        "非洲拥有富于创造力的大量劳动力资源，其背后起支撑作用的是到2050年有望翻番至8. 3亿以上的青年人口。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, much hope still lies in popular diplomacy, in civil society mobilizing for peace.",
        "当然，在倡导和平的民权社会中，公众外交还是能带来许多希望的。"
    ],
    [
        "The roots of the Apple deal are older than the ECB.",
        "而苹果业务的根源甚至比欧洲央行更早。"
    ],
    [
        "Closer to farming communities, roads disappear entirely.",
        "在末端的种植区附近根本无路可走。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico shares a 2,000-mile long border with the United States, which provides not only privileged market access in goods and labor, but also a claim to the resources of the US Treasury (as became apparent during the 1995 peso crisis).",
        "墨西哥与美国有着2，000英里长的共同边界，这不仅为该国提供了商品和劳务市场的特别准入，还可以得到美国财政部的资金援助（这一点在1995年比索危机中得到了充分体现）。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to understand why there is still no agreement in Frankfurt on the best possible course of action.",
        "这就很有必要去理解为何在法兰克福还未能就最佳的行动进程达成任何协议。"
    ],
    [
        "We have not solved all of the problems associated with GDP, but we have come a long way in reducing many of its distortions.",
        "我们并未解决与GDP有关的所有问题，但我们在减少其许多扭曲方面已经走了很长的路。"
    ],
    [
        "While they are not of any particular economic value beyond providing some fishing grounds, they do have sentimental significance for Japan – as is often the case with lost territories.",
        "除了作为渔业基地，这四个岛屿再无其他特殊的经济价值，但它们对日本的确具有重大的精神意义——失去的国土总是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Within any effective peace strategy for the twenty-first century, foreign policy must simultaneously focus on crisis prevention and diplomacy, and bolster efforts that support transformation.",
        "二十一世纪的有效和平战略要求外交政策必须同时关注危机预防和外交，并加大支持转型的动作力度。"
    ],
    [
        "It stands ready to help countries in the region make the next quarter-century just as impressive.",
        "它已经做好了帮助该地区国家在未来25年取得同样令人瞩目的成就的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Global supply networks shifted again, accommodating fragmentation and dispersion on both the supply and demand sides of their structure, a process sometimes called technologically enabled atomization: the division of supply networks into finer and finer parts, breaking the bonds of proximity and the resulting transaction-cost constraints that previously prevailed.",
        "全球供给网络再一次发生了改变，以适应其结构中供给端和需求端的碎片化和分散化，这一过程有时被称为技术推动的自动化（technologically enabled atomization）：供给网络越分越精细，打破了此前普遍存在的相邻地域联系以及由此产生的交易成本约束。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Since the end of World War II, Japan has been ruled by an American-written “peace constitution,” Article 9 of which prohibits war and limits Japanese forces to self-defense.",
        "美国剑桥—二战结束以来，日本一直由美国起草的“和平宪法”治理，其中的第九条禁止日本参与战争，也限制了日本的自卫力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Islamic democracy is the natural reaction to Arab secular autocracy and to the West’s collaboration with it, so will the destruction of political Islam usher in even more extreme options with movements like Hamas going back to social work and terror, and with al-Qaeda making inroads into Islamic societies.",
        "正如伊斯兰民主是对阿拉伯世俗专制以及西方同谋的自然反应一样，政治伊斯兰的毁灭带来的是更为极端的选项，类似哈马斯那样的运动回到社会工作和恐怖之中，而基地组织则在伊斯兰社会中取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the transparency and confidence-building mechanisms enshrined in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s 2011 Vienna Document have grown increasingly ineffective, and Russia opposes the steps needed to modernize them.",
        "类似地，2011年欧安组织维也纳文件中所包含的透明度和信心构建机制也日益无效，而俄罗斯反对将这些条约现代化所需要的步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments must become more investor-friendly to attract greater private-sector interest.",
        "政府必须更多地为投资者着想，以便吸引私有部门更多的兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – During the 2011-2012 euro crisis, the currency area became mired in a “doom loop,” in which weak banks in financially distressed countries rationed credit, causing a recession that intensified pressure on government finances, which were already burdened by the need to cover banks’ losses.",
        "发自布鲁塞尔——在2011~2012年的欧元危机期间，欧元区曾经陷入过一场“厄运循环（doom loop）”——财政危机国的各个受灾银行都对信贷实施定量配给，导致经济衰退，进一步加剧了本已背负了救助银行损失责任的政府财政压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Initiatives like conflict-resolution workshops, reconciliation commissions, cross-cultural education programs, and compulsory civic duty for school leavers could also help.",
        "冲突解决讨论组、调解委员会、跨文化交易计划、离校者义务社会责任等办法也有所助益。"
    ],
    [
        "Havel , of course, was rewarded with a long jail sentence for his efforts.",
        "当然，哈维尔为此遭到了长期监禁。"
    ],
    [
        "Managing aggregate demand is governments’ job.",
        "调控总需求是政府的职责。"
    ],
    [
        "(It was Yahoo, not Google, that gave personal information to China’s government, which then jailed a blogger.)",
        "（是雅虎，而不是谷歌，曾把个人信息提供给中国政府，而致使一名博客作者入狱。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than scraping together insufficient funds year after year, it is time to engage in “surge funding.”",
        "而相比于一年又一年地拼凑数量不足的经费，是时候该实施“波浪融资”策略了。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as a corollary, smaller parties seeking an electoral foothold have had to target political minorities, many of whom have strongly held preferences and beliefs.",
        "而由此造成的必然结果是，寻求在选举中留下痕迹的小政党彼得不把目标对准政治少数派，他们之中有很多人有着强烈的偏好和信念。"
    ],
    [
        "But the atmosphere was light, positive even, as we discussed eradicating poverty in the developing world.",
        "但在我们谈论根除发展中世界的贫苦问题时，氛围很轻松，甚至可以说积极。"
    ],
    [
        "While the US masked its doubts, Great Britain and France were less at ease.",
        "当美国还在对自己的担忧遮遮掩掩之时，英法两国则坐立不安。"
    ],
    [
        "The RSS, the parent body of the Hindu “family” of organizations that includes the BJP, has even called for Muslims to be prohibited from praying at the Taj.",
        "而印度教“大家庭”（包含印度人民党在内）的母体组织印度国民志愿团（Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh）甚至要求禁止穆斯林在泰姬陵祈祷。"
    ],
    [
        "China cannot fix its economic problems merely by pulling the right combination of existing policy levers.",
        "中国无法通过拉动适当组合的现有经济杠杆来解决经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Asar Party, founded and led by President Nazarbayev's daughter, was expected to claim second place, assuring her eventual succession.",
        "由纳扎尔巴耶夫总统的女儿创建并领导的Asar党曾被看好会获得次席，从而确保她最终能顺利接任。"
    ],
    [
        "When Harvard alumni dominated the Massachusetts legislature, the university was given support and consideration.",
        "当校友主宰马萨诸塞州立法机构时，哈佛收获了支持和照顾。"
    ],
    [
        "These findings will inevitably change the way we think about how economies function.",
        "这些发现将不可避免地改变我们关于经济如何运转的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Everett’s interpretation doesn’t make Einstein a demigod. But it does make him right.",
        "而艾弗雷特的解释也并不是将爱因斯坦神化，只是再次证明了后者的正确而已。"
    ],
    [
        "That is exactly what the ECB is doing.",
        "而欧洲央行正是这样做的。"
    ],
    [
        "Together with a suite of Sustainable Development Goals, these agreements will serve as crucial road signs indicating the path to be followed by the world’s national economies over the next 15 years and beyond.",
        "上述协议将与全套可持续发展目标一起作为关键路标，指引未来15年及其后世界各国经济的前进道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it is up to Modi and the BJP to show that they can deliver on their campaign promises.",
        "现在，莫迪和印度人民党需要向世人证明他们能够兑现竞选承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But we can expect that the market for long-term GDP-linked bonds from countries like Argentina, where the future of the economy is uncertain, would be volatile, as investors adjust their expectations of future GDP growth up and down in response to new information.",
        "但是当投资者们调整他们对未来GDP增长的期望，却又在新信息中信心一落千丈的时候，我们 能够 预料到，来自阿根廷这样一个未来经济充满不确定因素的国家的长期GDP连动式债券是不稳定的，"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, there is very little the outside world can to do to ensure that the Greece exports more.",
        "不幸的是，外部世界对于确保希腊提高出口几乎无能为力。"
    ],
    [
        "Our only hope of getting out of this prison is that another country decides to provide safe haven to men like us – men who did nothing wrong and never should have been detained here in the first place.",
        "我们走出这个监狱后的唯一希望是，有另一个国家决定为像我们这样的人——我们这些没有做错任何事情，一开始就不应该被关押在这里的人——提供安全的栖身之地。"
    ],
    [
        "RAMALLAH – Nowhere are the grievances that perpetuate violence and war more evident than they are in Palestine today.",
        "拉马拉—要论仇恨如何引起旷日持久的暴力和战争，没有比眼下的巴勒斯坦更好的例子了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not too late to reverse the apparently inexorable tide of bilateralism.",
        "现在扭转双边主义不可阻挡的潮流还为时未晚。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet employment still lags, owing to longer-term factors like labor-saving technology and reconfigurations of global supply chains, in which lower-value-added segments and functions tend to be concentrated in lower-income countries.",
        "但就业仍然萎靡不振，这主要是拜劳动力节约技术和全球供应链重构（低附加值细分市场和功能倾向于向低收入国家集中）等长期因素所致。"
    ],
    [
        "Insurance policies that clearly specify the amounts that will be paid and the types of damage that will be covered are far better than the government-administered, after-the-fact bailout that many people seem to have expected.",
        "明晰赔付金额以及可赔付的损失种类的保险确实要比很多人所期待的政府事后援助好很多。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Solar System, NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered what may be organic carbon in the fossil mud of an ancient Martian lakebed.",
        "在太阳系中，美国宇航局的好奇号探测车已经在古老火星湖底的矿物泥中发现了或许是有机碳的痕迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, promises of action continue to flow.",
        "与此同时，行动承诺仍然层出不穷。"
    ],
    [
        "We are witnessing simultaneous global convergence (the narrowing of income, wealth, and knowledge gaps between countries) and local divergence (widening income, wealth, and knowledge gaps within countries).",
        "我们正见证着各种同时进行中的全球收敛现象（各国之间收入，财富和知识差距的不断收窄）以及本地分化现象（各国内部收入，财富和知识差距的不断加大）。"
    ],
    [
        "And they must win people’s allegiance by the power of their values and their ideals – not only by isolating terrorists and extremists, but also by helping, in meaningful ways, poor countries to prosper.",
        "它们必须靠价值观和理想的力量去赢得人们的忠诚¾不仅通过孤立恐怖和极端份子，而且通过采用有意义的方式协助贫困国家实现繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Standard & Poor’s found that, a year later, these firms’ total debt amounted to $14.2 trillion, eclipsing the $13.1 trillion of outstanding debt in the United States and making China the world’s largest issuer of corporate debt.",
        "2万亿美元，超过美国未偿还债务规模（13. 1万亿美元），使中国成为世界上第一大企业债发行国。"
    ],
    [
        "These “export” activities have an outsize and amplified impact on the growth of the local economy as a whole.",
        "这些“出口”活动对于本地整体经济增长有着巨大的放大性影响。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, many former colonies rightly argue that it is Britain that owes them reparations for centuries of oppression and looting.",
        "而事实上，许多前殖民地正确地指出，英国对它们进行了数百年的压迫和掠夺，应该向它们赔款。"
    ],
    [
        "National constitutions are increasingly likely to guarantee gender equality, but many also recognize the authority of parallel legal systems based on custom, religion, or ethnic affiliation.",
        "国家宪法越来越有可能保障男女平等，但许多人也承认以习俗、宗教或民族关系为基础的平行法律体系更具权威。"
    ],
    [
        "It argues that the state has a role to play in cushioning individuals and society from the impact of rapid economic change.",
        "它认为国家在为个人和社会缓冲急速的经济变革所带来的影响方面应该有所作为。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 2007 election, the Brotherhood accused the government of “fraud,” and opposed the majoritarian electoral system.",
        "在2007年的选举中，穆斯林兄弟会指责政府“舞弊”，并反对多数获胜的选举规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Today we call those disturbances radio waves, microwaves, infrared and ultraviolet radiation, x-rays, and gamma rays.",
        "那些新型的电磁波，如今我们叫它们无线电波、微波、红外线、紫外线、 X 光、伽马射线。"
    ],
    [
        "This is hardly an inconsequential development.",
        "这一事态可不是无关紧要的。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Water is never far from the news these days.",
        "华盛顿—近来，关于水的新闻层出不穷。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s annual economic growth has slowed to around 7.5%, while Indonesia and India – and, outside Asia, Brazil and South Africa – are experiencing sharp downward pressure on their exchange rates.",
        "中国年经济增长率放缓至7. 5%，印尼和印度——在亚洲之外还有巴西和南非——的汇率承受着大幅贬值的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "But none experienced economic takeoff at independence.",
        "利比亚石油丰富； 三国的气候也比较适宜，但却没有一个在独立后实现了经济腾飞，这是为何？"
    ],
    [
        "Krugman is a New Keynesian, and his essay was intended to show that the Great Recession vindicated standard New Keynesian models.",
        "克鲁格曼是一位新凯恩斯主义者，他的论文旨在表明“大衰退”正好证明了标准的新凯恩斯主义模式的有效性。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, in Greece, the absence of an international legal framework was an important reason why its creditors – the troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund – could impose policies that inflicted enormous harm.",
        "同样，在希腊，国际法律框架的缺失是其债权人——欧盟委员会，欧洲央行和国际货币基金组织——为何可以强制推行一系列造成严重破坏性政策的一个重要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The hapless former Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, had to resign last year after daring to suggest a referendum to decide the economic future of his fellow citizens.",
        "倒霉的希腊前总理帕潘德里欧在敢于提出以全民公决的形式决定其同胞的经济未来之后终于在去年被迫辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "Four powerful lobbies have long held sway: Big Oil, private health care, the military-industrial complex, and Wall Street.",
        "四大强势游说集团一直占统治地位：包括石油巨头、私人医疗机构、军工复合体和华尔街。"
    ],
    [
        "These new worries are raising alarm bells in China.",
        "这些新担忧为中国敲响了警钟。"
    ],
    [
        "Giving the Well-Performing State Its Due",
        "给运转良好的国家应有的赞扬"
    ],
    [
        "As Teddy Roosevelt pointed out more than 100 years ago, concentrated economic power tends to take over political power, which runs counter to the democratic tradition.",
        "早在 100 多年前，西奥多 • 罗斯福就指出，垄断金融寡头的最大问题就是它们对政治的影响力，这和民主的本质是相违背的。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, because a significant share of government revenues are dollar-linked, while its expenditures are mostly in pesos, devaluation would reduce the budget deficit.",
        "同时，因为政府收入的很大部分都与美元挂钩，而政府支出则以比索为主，贬值可以缩减预算赤字额。"
    ],
    [
        "When the minister heard the news, he fell into a state of such despair that he refused all painkillers.",
        "牧师听到病情后陷入了彻底的绝望，拒绝使用镇痛药。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the investment bank UBS, new urban housing supply has far exceeded marginal underlying demand from urban population growth.",
        "根据投资银行瑞银集团的数据，新增城镇住房供给远远超过了城镇人口增长带来的边际基本需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Israel is missing a coherent regional strategy.",
        "不幸的是，以色列正在错失一贯的地区战略。"
    ],
    [
        "The prisoners slept on wooden planks or iron bunks.",
        "囚犯睡在木质或铁质的床铺上。"
    ],
    [
        "Santos could, therefore, have been tempted to choose the Sri Lanka way – a ruthless military onslaught to defeat the insurgents, at the price of major human-rights violations and the destruction of civilian communities.",
        "因此，桑托斯很可能会步斯里兰卡后尘，用无情的军事攻势瓦解叛军，但这样做的代价将是严重的侵害人权和毁灭平民社区。"
    ],
    [
        "When interest rates rise, as surely they must, the cost of servicing the debt will require higher taxes, hurting economic incentives and weakening economic activity.",
        "当利率升高时（必然会如此），维持债务的成本就会要求提高税收，从而伤及经济激励，阻碍经济活动。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, if the political process is producing problematic fiscal policies, as it is today, that is all the more reason for economists to voice their concerns.",
        "相反，如果政治进程产生了有问题的财政政策——比如现在的情况——经济学家更应该表示关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas such gestures are typically criticized as too little too late, this might be a case of too much too soon.",
        "这样的姿态常常被批太少太晚，但实际上也许是太多太早了。"
    ],
    [
        "Education may not be a quick fix for slow growth.",
        "教育也许不是解决增长缓慢的速效药。"
    ],
    [
        "He then warned that the revival of anti-Semitism in France – apparent, for example, in the anxiety over the Holocaust’s inclusion in the French school curriculum – indicates a crisis of democracy.",
        "我们怎么能够接受法国人因其犹太身份而遭到杀戮？ ”之后他警告法国反犹主义（比方说把大屠杀写入法国教科书所引发的担忧）的复兴显示民主已经陷入危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks are provided with a facility to monitor their positions in real time and hence make cost-effective investment decisions.",
        "这套系统为银行提供实施监管头寸的相关工具，从而辅助它们做出符合成本效益原则的投资决策。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the world must work from common standards.",
        "首先，全世界必须在共同的标准上工作。"
    ],
    [
        "As citizens watch their leaders enrich themselves at the expense of the population, they become increasingly frustrated and angry – sentiments that can lead to civil unrest and violent conflict.",
        "当公民目睹领导人通过榨取百姓获取财富时，他们就会日益沮丧和愤怒——这种情绪可能导致民变和暴力冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Normally, developed countries never default, because they can always print money.",
        "通常，发达国家不会违约，因为它们可以随时印刷钞票。"
    ],
    [
        "So the immediate impact of Trump’s victory has been a net positive for the eurozone – and the benefits seem set to continue.",
        "因此特朗普获胜对欧元区的影响是利大于弊的——而且好处似乎不断扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, it seems likely that Congress, rather than pulling the plug on the deal, will seek some alternative that allows Trump to save face with his supporters, to whom he has long promised US withdrawal from the Iran deal.",
        "幸运的是，国会很可能不会突然中断伊核协议，而是会寻求某种能让特朗普在支持者面前保留脸面的替代方案（这位美国总统一直承诺美国将退出伊核协议）。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless that wisdom is heeded, it will be impossible to hold Europe together.",
        "除非认识到这一智慧，否则欧洲就不可能统一起来。"
    ],
    [
        "But despite its central place in America’s collective memory, Pearl Harbor remains little understood.",
        "但是尽管珍珠港在美国人的集体记忆中占据中心地位，但是人们对它还是一知半解。"
    ],
    [
        "But it still lacks some key elements, including fully-fledged property rights.",
        "但中国依然缺乏某些关键因素。 包括完全意义上的所有权。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whatever they do, they – and the rest of the world – must now expect surprises.",
        "但无论他们——以及世界其他地区的领导人们——怎样做，也永远无法阻止意料之外的事情发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The hybrid aircraft – which combine a helicopter’s ability to take off and land vertically with the range, loading capacity, fuel efficiency, and speed of a turboprop airplane – are instrumental to deter possible Chinese or North Korean aggression in the area.",
        "这种混合式飞机结合了直升机的垂直起降能力以及涡轮螺旋桨飞机的航程、运载量、燃油效率及速度，被用来协助阻止中国或朝鲜可能对该地区发起的进攻。"
    ],
    [
        "For them, doing so would be tantamount to admitting that most people in this hospitable, well-endowed kingdom had been kept poor by design all along.",
        "对他们来说这等于承认在泰国这个王道乐土中的大多数人之所以长期陷于贫困，原来是他人背后操纵的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "I doubt that the answer will come as quickly and be as succinct this time around.",
        "我认为，这一回记者得不到言简意赅的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "Make no mistake: judging by the track record of its establishment pundits, the rich world needs some lessons.",
        "不要搞错：从体制专家的过往记录判断，富裕国家需要一些教训。"
    ],
    [
        "But while the rivalry has sectarian and ideological components, it is, above all, a pragmatic dispute over regional interests.",
        "尽管不能排除教派和意识形态成分，但最主要的还是争夺地区的实际利益。"
    ],
    [
        "By the spring of 2012, it had become clear that the European banking system was a critical weak point in the euro’s architecture.",
        "到2012年春，显然欧洲银行系统已成为欧元大厦的一个关键弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "The task is to push sustainable growth much higher.",
        "而他们的目标则是把可持续增长率推向更高。"
    ],
    [
        "And look how it ended up.",
        "想想它是怎样分崩离析的吧！"
    ],
    [
        "Widespread bankruptcy and unemployment increased social tension, ultimately making normal democratic politics impossible.",
        "四处蔓延的破产和失业潮加剧了社会矛盾，最终瓦解了正常民主政治的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "So which reforms are needed to advance gender equality?",
        "既然如此，需要推动哪些促进两性平等的改革举措？"
    ],
    [
        "Not only do many defend their entitlements strongly; some oppose growth in other types of public spending for fear that it will weaken the government’s ability to pay for the benefits that they believe they are owed.",
        "许多人不仅强烈捍卫他们的权利，而且还反对其他方面公共支出的增加，因为他们担心这会削弱政府支付他们认为自己应得福利的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Kremlin gradually boosted investment in “counter-space” capabilities.",
        "但克里姆林宫逐渐增加了俄“反空间”能力的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as in other cases of successful development, what distinguishes them is not the external advantages they possess, but their ability to exploit these advantages.",
        "但在其它成功发展的案例中，令它们与众不同的不是自身拥有的外部优势，而是它们开发自身优势的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Presumably, they could sell that information directly to the organizations that want it, instead of allowing Facebook to do so.",
        "他们可以直接将这一信息出售给想要的组织而不授权Facebook这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Those of us who are studying and teaching abroad share this unity, and have rallied to the support of those of us in Burma.",
        "在国外从事学习和教学的僧侣也很支持我们的行动，大家都联合起来支持在缅甸国内的僧侣。"
    ],
    [
        "The CEA report provides a useful primer on the issues and data.",
        "CEA报告对问题和数据做了有用的处理。"
    ],
    [
        "A case in point is Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s recent visit to the Natuna Islands on a warship, a show of force in response to incursions there by Chinese fishermen and navy vessels.",
        "例如，印尼总统佐科威最近乘军舰访巡视纳土纳群岛宣示主权，对中国渔民和海军舰只入侵海域做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Princeton University economists Alan Blinder and Mark Watson confirm this Democratic dividend in a recent study.",
        "普林斯顿大学经济学家艾伦·布林德（Alan Blinder）和马克·沃森（Mark Watson）在 一项最新研究中确认了这一民主党红利。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with the incomes of the bottom 90% having stagnated for close to a third of a century (and declining for a significant proportion), the health data simply confirmed that things were not going well for very large swaths of the country.",
        "而由于90％的底层人士收入增长已经停滞了将近1/3个世纪（且其中很大比例都出现了下滑），医疗数据清晰明白地证实了美国大部分地区处境不妙。"
    ],
    [
        "If politicians’ behavior is determined by the vested interests to which they are beholden, economists’ advocacy of policy reforms is bound to fall on deaf ears.",
        "如果政客的行为由其既得利益恩主所决定，则经济学家的政策改革呼声注定只能是耳旁风。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in a certain sense, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and other neo-conservative elder statesmen remain defined by the communist dogmatism they sought to oppose when they were youthful Trotskyists.",
        "事实上，从某种程度而言，欧文·克里斯托、诺曼·波德霍雷茨和老一辈的新保守主义政治家，当他们还是年轻的托洛茨基主义者时就被他们反对的共产主义教条所限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, in many places in the world, it seems that men and women have not advanced beyond the biblical admonition of “an eye for an eye” in their yearning for retribution.",
        "令人悲哀的是，世界很多地方的男男女女似乎并没有摆脱圣经中“以眼还眼”的训诫，他们渴望对犯罪行为施以惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s agenda is simple and straightforward: reform at home and proactive contributions to global peace based on the principle of international cooperation.",
        "日本的日程简单明了：在国内进行改革，并为基于国际合作原则的全球和平做出积极贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "But not all of the news is good.",
        "但并非所有消息都是好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "There are other areas where major donors could make a huge difference.",
        "还有其他一些领域，主要出资国能够带来巨大的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "While scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) believe that they gained valuable lessons from the experience, the partial failure of the Chandrayaan mission still haunts them.",
        "印度空间研究组织（ISRO）的科学家们自信从这一教训中汲取了宝贵的经验，但Chandrayaan任务的局部失败仍使他们挥之不去的阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan’s top generals and intelligence chief kept him uninformed for hours, even as an assassination squad made its way to his vacation residence.",
        "埃尔多安的高级将领和首席情报官即使在刺杀小组潜入其度假官邸时，也隐瞒他长达数小时之久。"
    ],
    [
        "If I had not known better, I might have thought that the word “aliyev” meant street, because it appeared on almost every street sign.",
        "如果我没有深入了解，我一定会以为“aliyev”这个词是“街道”的意思，因为几乎每一个路牌上都有它。"
    ],
    [
        "So the question here is how British producers can retain access to the EU market (and vice versa) if they are no longer party to the legislation.",
        "因此问题就变成了如果英国制造商不再是法规制定者将如何继续进入欧盟市场（反之亦然）。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe they, too, should try holding a few conferences in Zimbabwe, and get a reality check of their own.",
        "或许他们也应当在津巴布韦举行一次会议来自己检讨一下。"
    ],
    [
        "Apart from being an integral part of Europe, membership for Turkey, with its young and dynamic population, would provide a great fillip for Europe’s aging demographic profile.",
        "而除了成为欧洲一个整合的部分之外，土耳其的正式成员国资格，以及其国内年轻而充满活力的人口，都将为欧洲的老龄化困境提供极好的裨益。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, cutting fiscal support (via government-directed bank lending) to zombie firms would free up fiscal capacity and enable resources to be redirected to new sectors that facilitate services and urban employment; but this would exacerbate – at least at first – today’s demand shortfall.",
        "类似地，削减（通过政府指定银行贷款的）对僵尸企业的财政支持能够释放财政能力，让资源能够会被引导进入有利于服务业和城市就业的新部门； 但这也将加剧——至少在一开始是如此——眼下的需求短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor have current economic and social policies compensated much for this shortfall.",
        "而当前的经济和社会政策也没有弥补这一不足。"
    ],
    [
        "They have helped rid the planet of the scourge of smallpox, are poised to eliminate polio, and each year prevent millions of deaths, reducing the suffering and costs caused by infectious diseases.",
        "它们帮助地球摆脱了天花，即将消灭脊髓灰质炎，并且每一年能挽救数百万人的生命，减轻传染病造成的痛苦和负担。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s why requirements to establish local subsidiaries, with local capital, have been adopted.",
        "因此，凭当地资本建立当地分支的要求才被接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Large fiscal deficits and slow growth might convince foreign exchange markets that there is little future in the euro, fueling a wave of selling – and hence losses for central bank holders.",
        "巨大的财政赤字和经济滞胀可能让外汇市场认为欧元没有前途从而引发一股抛售浪潮-因而给持有欧元的央行们带来损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way to break this vicious circle is to replace the regime.",
        "打破这个邪恶怪圈的唯一方法就是更换政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Erdoğan seems intent on missing this opportunity as well.",
        "不幸的是，埃尔多安似乎打算连这次机会都要错过。"
    ],
    [
        "The heritage of kings and queens stretching back across more than a millennium – the enduring symbolism of crowns and coaches, and the literal embodiment of the English and now the British state – binds Britons together in a common journey.",
        "国王和女王的传统恢复到一千多年前的水平——一贯的皇冠和马车象征，曾经作为文字上化身而现在成为英国化身的英语，通过这次平民化的旅行把英国人联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Breivik had fantasies of being a knight fighting the enemies of the West. Merah imagined that he was a jihadi.",
        "布雷维克幻想成为一名奋勇捍卫西方的骑士，默拉自认是一个圣战者，而谁又知道科隆比纳枪击案的凶手们心里是怎么想的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Still others dismiss the change in Chinese exchange-rate policy as beside the point.",
        "还有一些人则认为，中国调整汇率政策是避重就轻。"
    ],
    [
        "When costs for labor-intensive goods and services became too high in these countries, production was shifted elsewhere.",
        "当劳动密集型产品和服务的成本在这些国家变得太高时，生产便转移到了别处。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Had Ariel Sharon never entered politics, he would still be known around the world as a military commander and tactician.",
        "华盛顿——如果沙龙从未进入政坛，他依然会是世界闻名的军事指挥官和战术家。"
    ],
    [
        "They need to work together to achieve the best possible outcome.",
        "它们需要齐心协力才能实现最好的可能结果。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, British public opinion first began to turn in favor of EU membership after the failed Suez invasion of 1956, which taught the country that, bereft of empire, it could no longer execute an effective foreign policy on its own.",
        "毕竟，一开始，英国民意在1956年苏伊士入侵失败后是支持加入欧盟的，这场失败让英国知道，帝国解体后，它不再能够独力执行有效的外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, very few pharmaceutical companies are developing new antibiotics to replace those that are losing their effectiveness.",
        "更糟的是，很少有制药公司正在进行替代失效抗生素的新型抗生素研发。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Deadly terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Dhaka, and Baghdad demonstrate the murderous reach of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia.",
        "纽约—伊斯坦布尔、达卡和巴格达的致命恐怖袭击表明伊斯兰国（ISIS）的魔爪已经触及欧洲、北非、中东和亚洲多部。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is there any doubt that the Palestinian people made a choice for democracy, which entails a choice for a negotiated peace with Israel.",
        "同样毋庸置疑的是巴勒斯坦人民做出了民主的选择，而这一选择又必然意味着与以色列通过谈判达成和平的抉择。"
    ],
    [
        "Success will require a clear understanding of the roots of this ruthless network of jihadists.",
        "要想成功实现这一目标需要对该残酷圣战分子网络的根源取得清醒的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "We must internalize lessons from the past and focus on establishing well-functioning markets that enable developing countries fully to tap their economies’ comparative advantage.",
        "我们必须将历史的经验教训铭记在心，专注于建立可使发展中国家充分开发其经济比较优势的、运作良好的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporations would no longer be able to deduct the costs of imported inputs from their taxable income; but, at the same time, their export-sales revenue would not be taxed.",
        "企业无法继续从其应税收入中扣除进口产出的成本； 但同时它们的出口销售收入也不会征税。"
    ],
    [
        "Reducing unemployment is desirable, of course, but many terrorists do not come from poverty.",
        "减少失业当然是件好事，但许多恐怖分子并非穷人出身。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the OECD, genomics will become a central component of many economic sectors, including health care, the environment, agriculture, animal health, biotechnology, alternative energy, forensics, justice, and security.",
        "据经合组织数据，基因组学将成为许多经济部门的核心组成部分，包括医疗卫生、环境、农业、动物医学、生物科技、另类能源、法医学、司法和安全等。"
    ],
    [
        "It is significant, therefore, that German political parties have emphasized the need for Merkel to raise such matters in her talks with Chinese leaders.",
        "因此，德国各政党强调默克尔必须在与中国领导人的会谈中提出这些问题具有重大意义。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, a country’s domestic economic circumstances, and the tools available to policymakers, should guide policy.",
        "平心而论，一国的国内经济环境，以及决策者可以动用的工具确实应该成为政策指导。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany is different, not because it is not spending now, but in how it talks about the future.",
        "德国却是个例外，不是说它没有扩张政府开支，而是说它在谈到未来的时候开门见山，显得特立独行。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unlike the EU, the Dominican Republic is not an economic giant that can assume exclusive responsibility for extracting Haiti from its Biblical destitution.",
        "不过和欧盟不同，多米尼加共和国并不是一个经济巨人，没有能力独自承担起从圣经赤贫中挽救海地的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings us to the choices that Obama’s budget embodies.",
        "这就让我们面临着奥巴马的预算方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer Israel, cheered on by the wrong European friends, continues to humiliate the Palestinians and occupy their lands, the more likely it will be that hatred and violence will stand in the way of compromise, without which there can be no peace.",
        "这些欧洲朋友鼓吹下的以色列越长久地羞辱巴勒斯坦人并占领他们的土地，妥协就越可能被仇恨和暴力所破坏，而没有妥协，就没有和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Further work, however, is still needed in several areas:",
        "不过，在诸多领域，仍需要更多的动作："
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the US often stands for high principles, such as freedom and democracy, and incorporates them successfully into its foreign policy.",
        "实际上，美国常常象征着自由和民主等高原则并将它们成功地融入了其外交政策中。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1994 to 2005, Senegal’s catch fell from 95,000 to 45,000 tons, according to government estimates, and the country lost half of its fleet of traditional wooden pirogues.",
        "据政府统计，从1994年到2005年，塞内加尔捕鱼量从95,000吨下降到45,000吨，传统独木舟数量也减少了一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Most countries have similar tax preferences for debt over equity, thereby encouraging financial and other corporations to use more debt, as financial analysts have long known.",
        "大部分国家都存在类似的在税务上优惠债务而不利于股本的情况，这鼓励金融业和其他公司更多地使用债务，这是财务分析师早就知道的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even with reduced energy imports from the Middle East, the US cannot turn its back on the region, given its interests in Israel, non-proliferation, and human rights, among others.",
        "但是，即使中东能源进口有所减少，美国仍不能放弃中东，因为美国在以色列、核不扩散、人权等问题上都有重大利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But this would be problematic, not least because it would breach a decades-long promise to keep inflation around 2%.",
        "但这会带来问题，因为会打破几十年来将通胀保持在2%左右的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "So who will contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions?",
        "那么谁能遏制伊朗的核抱负？"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is simple: as the 2006 elections approach, reforms have been shifted off the political agenda.",
        "原因很简单：随着2006年大选逼近，改革已经被拿下了政治议程。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when all nations are experiencing individual challenges, we need to forge a worldwide common agenda that can help to ensure that the seven billionth baby and future generations grow up in a world characterized by sustainable peace, prosperity, freedom, and justice.",
        "如今，所有国家都在经历各自的问题，我们需要创造一个全球共同日程表来帮助我们确保第70亿位公民以及我们的后代能在持续和平、繁荣、自由和公正的世界中成长。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there is now no master planner or funder of terrorist activities.",
        "但实际上，现在恐怖活动已经没有统一的策划者和出资人。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no doubt that, ethically, the world's developed countries should be taking the lead in reducing emissions.",
        "毫无疑问，从道德上讲，世界发达国家应该在减排问题上起领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "America is, in short, a country with a past history and current stark reality of racism, ethnic chauvinism, and resort to mass violence.",
        "简言之，美国的历史和现实充斥着赤裸裸的种族主义、民族沙文主义和群众暴力的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "But the institutions with which the IMF is dealing in the eurozone are no longer responsible for their country's macroeconomic management; that power lies with the European Central Bank.",
        "但IMF在欧元区所面对的机构并不对国家宏观经济管理负责； 该权力掌握在欧洲央行手中。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the Obama administration may find it more politically expedient to seek a deal with Iran.",
        "因此，奥巴马政府可能会认为，设法与伊朗达成协议是政治上的权宜之计。"
    ],
    [
        "If we misdiagnose the problem with a flawed or rushed analysis, our response will be ineffective, and probably even counterproductive.",
        "如果我们因为有缺陷或过于匆忙的分析而误诊了问题，应对措施就难以起效，甚至会适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifteen years later, Jensen wrote a paper about the costs of excessive sensitivity of pay to performance.",
        "这篇文章也是经济学中被引用最多的文章之一。 15年后，延森又写了一篇成本对表现过度敏感的文章。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences have not been happy.",
        "随之产生后果也令人不甚满意。"
    ],
    [
        "These startling figures do not include economic crimes outside the public sector.",
        "这一惊人数字还不包括政府部门外的经济犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "But that does not make it a good idea.",
        "但那并不能使其成为一个好主意。"
    ],
    [
        "But the developed world’s lectures to the developing world were never particularly useful.",
        "但发达世界向发展中世界的宣传从未起到特别的用处。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of what is done to provide a fiscal stimulus, governments around the world must act to fix dysfunctional credit markets.",
        "不管目前在提供财政刺激方面已经做了什么，世界各国政府必须采取行动以修复非正常运作的信贷市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, Turkey’s political institutions lack adequate safeguards.",
        "显然，土耳其的政治制度缺少充分的保卫。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the European Commission is working on a “growth pact” to be discussed by EU leaders in June.",
        "类似地，欧洲委员会正在制定“增长公约”，将于6月提交欧盟领导人讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "The central banks seem to have turned the tables on their critics, emerging triumphant.",
        "央行似乎扭转了身受口诛笔伐之势，翻身成为大赢家。"
    ],
    [
        "A final element of our involvement in the Asia-Pacific region is the effort to improve our capabilities in difficult tactical environments.",
        "我们参与亚太地区行动的最后一个要素是在困难的战术环境下提高我们的作战技能。"
    ],
    [
        "The same holds for innovation capacity and technology.",
        "科学家和研究人员曾经是苏联的骄傲，现在已经不复存在，国内外回报更好的机会常常会吸引他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless the Roma are well educated and socially integrated – in stark contrast to today’s reality – these countries’ economic future is bleak.",
        "因此除非罗姆人受到良好的教育并被社会所接纳 —— 这与今天的现实情况形成了鲜明的对比 —— 否则这些国家的经济前景只能是一片暗淡。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a big deal in a world where, for the last 20 years, cities have accounted for more than 60% of economic growth, wealth expansion, and gains in living standards.",
        "这是一件大事，在过去20年中，城市贡献了世界经济增长、财富扩张和生活水平提高的60%强。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, since Mubarak’s ouster, anti-Shia propaganda has gained traction in the Egyptian public sphere, with books alleging Shia corruption of Islam’s true meaning filling the shelves of Cairo’s bookstores.",
        "事实上从穆巴拉克下台以后，埃及公共领域已经掀起一场反什叶派的宣传攻势，开罗书店的书架上随处可见指责什叶派败坏伊斯兰真正教义的书籍。"
    ],
    [
        "The best way to defend public space is to occupy it, even if you are championing a cause different from that of the person standing next to you.",
        "捍卫公共空间的最佳方式是占领它，哪怕你所支持的目标不同于你的左右。"
    ],
    [
        "They are concerned about concentrated Federal control, spiraling debt, and the loss of individual rights.",
        "他们对联邦政府控制权的高度集中，债务膨胀以及个人权利的流失都感到无比忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Economies gravitate naturally to a full-employment equilibrium, and, after a shock, do so fairly quickly if not impeded by misguided government action.",
        "经济会自然走向充分就业的均衡，如果没有政府误导性举措的妨碍，危机爆发之后就会以相当快的速度实现这一均衡。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, according to a report in McKinsey Quarterly, China spends more than $200 billion on research annually, a level of investment that is second only to the United States.",
        "首先，麦肯锡季刊发布的一份报告显示，中国每年耗资2000亿美元进行研发，而且该投资水平仅次于美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Candidates rarely forget such things.",
        "候选人对这样的过节会一直记得。"
    ],
    [
        "Kelleher, an attorney with extensive experience in private practice and the public sector, tells it like it is: “‘robo-signing’ is massive, systematic, fraudulent, criminal conduct.”",
        "凯勒赫是一位在私人和公共领域都有着丰富经验的律师，他是这么描述的：“‘机械签名’是一种大规模、系统性的欺诈罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "We are their debtors.",
        "我们欠着他们的。"
    ],
    [
        "Cash-strapped governments adopt these taxes because ICT goods and services are an easy target for revenue authorities.",
        "囿于现金不足的政府实施这些税种是因为对税收当局而言ICT产品和服务容易定位。"
    ],
    [
        "We saw this in 2008, and are now seeing it again.",
        "我们已经在2008年见证了这一点，如今又仿佛昨日重现了。"
    ],
    [
        "Of its 30 members, 29 said that Turkey had fulfilled the criteria sufficiently to proceed. I was the lone dissenter.",
        "在30名委员当中，29人表示土耳其已经充分达到了这一标准，可以继续推进入盟程序，而我却是唯一的反对者。"
    ],
    [
        "But politicization of the Fed should be viewed as just another part of Trump’s battle against what his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has referred to as the “administrative state.”",
        "但是美联储的政治化应该被视为特朗普与他的前首席战略家史蒂夫·班农（Steve Bannon）所称的“行政国家”做斗争的另一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The major exception is the US, where the ready availability of firearms contributes to one of the highest homicide rates – and the highest gun homicide rate – among developed countries.",
        "主要的例外是美国，由于容易搞到军火，美国的杀人率——以及持枪杀人率——在发达国家名列前茅。"
    ],
    [
        "It was more lucrative business than traditional lending: a few bankers could lend enormous sums with little due diligence – except for the small detail that governments plied with easy credit do sometimes default.",
        "这种方式比传统的贷款获利更加丰厚：一些银行家可以在不为人知的情况下放出大量贷款——除了一个细节：那些积累了低成本借款的政府有时确实会赖帐。"
    ],
    [
        "Global divergence has already contributed to stock-market volatility, unprecedented declines in advanced economies' government bond yields, and outsize currency movements.",
        "全球差异已导致股市波动、发达国家政府债券收益率史无前例的下降及汇率的波动走势。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2002, China reinitiated liberalization efforts, lifting restrictions on Chinese enterprises’ ability to open foreign-currency bank accounts, and allowing residents both to open foreign-currency accounts and to convert the renminbi equivalent of $50,000 annually into foreign currencies.",
        "到了2002年，中国重启自由化进程，放宽中国企业开设外汇银行账户的限制，并允许其居民开设外汇账户、每年将等值于5万美元的人民币转换为外币。"
    ],
    [
        "These are not the sort of imbalances to which the world’s policymakers should aspire.",
        "这类失衡可不是世界决策者应该追求的。"
    ],
    [
        "One would like to think not.",
        "我们希望不是。"
    ],
    [
        "Daoud concludes, “Islam is an outrage against desire.",
        "达乌德总结道，“对欲望的愤怒构成了伊斯兰教。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the US, the world’s neediest deficit country, with a domestic saving rate of just 17%, is opting for a fiscal stimulus.",
        "在另一面，美国这个国内储蓄率仅为17%的世界上最缺资金赤字国正在推行财政刺激措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, as the wise saying goes, better late than never!",
        "然而，正如智者所言，迟到总比没有好！"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China is set to outpace the US in investment in research and development.",
        "此外，中国即将在研发投资方面超越美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Simultaneous progress on both substance and process is needed.",
        "如今就需要在内容和程序上的同时实现进步。"
    ],
    [
        "(It is, after all, unlikely that a candidate would win over the P-5 but fail to win a majority in the Security Council, given the option of casting unlimited votes.)",
        "（毕竟，鉴于投票时没有任何限制，候选人不太可能赢得五大常任理事国的支持而未能在安理会赢得多数票。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Parents argue that vaccination, like all other decisions about how to raise and care for their children, should be their choice.",
        "父母们指出，疫苗接种就像其他关于如何抚养和看护孩子的决定一样，应该由他们做出。"
    ],
    [
        "In Venezuela, the danger is just as great for everybody, and addressing it is much cheaper and easier.",
        "委内瑞拉的危险不下于乌克兰，而解决委内瑞拉问题比乌克兰成本低得多，也容易得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, micro, small, and medium-size enterprises account for some 60% of the developing world’s employment.",
        "目前，中小微企业贡献了发展中世界就业的60%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "The minutes of the January 29-30 meeting of the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) speak to a simmering discontent: “[M]any participants…expressed some concerns about potential costs and risks arising from further asset purchases.”",
        "不满情绪在1月29－30日举行的美联储联邦公开市场委员会（FOMC）会议上暗潮汹涌：“众多与会者…表达了对进一步采购资产所引发的潜在成本和风险的忧虑情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no short-term cure for China’s $3.2 trillion problem.",
        "解决中国3. 2万亿美元难题没有速效药。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the private sector’s huge savings financed the government’s deficit, so that capital flight never occurred in the way it has in Greece, despite the desperate budget situation.",
        "换言之，政府的赤字是由私人部门的巨额储蓄所支撑的，因此尽管预算情况陷于如此绝望的境地，类似希腊这样的资本外逃现象却没有发生。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, when Serbia was entrusted to lead the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which grew from the Helsinki conference, this year, we were looking forward to celebrating the accord’s many achievements on its 40th anniversary.",
        "因此，当今年塞尔维亚有幸领导从赫尔辛基会议衍生而来的欧安组织时，我们准备在该决议成立四十年之际庆祝它的诸多成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy or Bust in Europe",
        "欧洲究竟是民主还是崩溃？"
    ],
    [
        "LAUSANNE – The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference was an unmitigated disaster for the European Union. Instead of the EU claiming center stage, as its leaders assumed it would, the key actors were the United States, Brazil, South Africa, India, and China.",
        "发自瑞士洛桑 —— 对欧盟来说，哥本哈根气候变化会议堪称一场货真价实的灾难。 当时欧盟的列位首脑都认为欧盟将是整场大会的主角，谁知真正唱主角的却是美国、巴西、南非，印度和中国这几个国家，甚至在最后达成协议时都没请欧盟的代表到场。"
    ],
    [
        "Several well-known professors, both Hindu and Muslim, were murdered.",
        "几位印度教和穆斯林教的知名教授惨遭杀害。"
    ],
    [
        "State-building in Lebanon will require strong UN and EU support, and the courage to curb Hezbollah’s influence.",
        "在黎巴嫩建立国家需要联合国和欧盟强有力的支持以及约束真主党的影响力的勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "National and international emergency-response capabilities are being upgraded.",
        "国家和国际紧急响应能力正在升级。"
    ],
    [
        "The Russians are Coming – With Cash",
        "俄国人带着现金来了"
    ],
    [
        "Because the New Keynesian models did not offer a sufficient basis for maintaining Keynesian policies once the economic emergency had been overcome, they were quickly abandoned.",
        "由于一系列新凯恩斯主义模型在度过了经济紧张时期后未能为凯恩斯主义政策提供充分的依据，所以很快就被抛弃了。"
    ],
    [
        "When that algorithm parses a tweet from the AP containing important keywords (explosion, White House, and Obama), it will send orders to sell with the expectation that the market will drop as others – first, slower algorithms, then even slower humans – start to process the same news.",
        "该算法从美联社推特解析出重要关键词（爆炸、白宫和奥巴马）之后，将在其他参与者（速度较慢的算法、甚至是反应较慢的人）开始消化这条消息的同时，基于市场下跌预期而发送卖出指令。"
    ],
    [
        "These partnerships will require the cooperation of a broad variety of interest groups, all of which will have to be persuaded to support efforts to improve the water supply.",
        "建立上述合作关系需要众多利益集团通力合作，我们必须说服他们对改善供水资源予以支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Loving America’s Deficits",
        "钟爱美国的赤字"
    ],
    [
        "Nutrition is critical to achieving any of them.",
        "营养对于实现其中任何一个都至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the evidence suggests that public funding of all key aspects of medical care – physician and hospital services, drugs, and devices –- offers benefits of equity, efficiency, and industrial advantage.",
        "因此，证据表明对于医疗护理的所有重要方面，即医师服务和医院服务、药物和医疗器械进行公共注资提供了公平、高效和产业优势等好处。"
    ],
    [
        "All they have to do is vote for the creation of SDR and then pass on the benefits to less-developed countries.",
        "它们所需做的只是投票同意建立特别提款权，然后向欠发达国家输出利益。"
    ],
    [
        "That notion has now been turned on its head: as economic growth has stalled, falling import demand from trade partners has caused economic woes to spread and deepen.",
        "如今，这一概念已经来了个一百八十度大转弯：随着经济增长的停滞，贸易伙伴下降的进口需求导致了经济不景气的蔓延和深化。"
    ],
    [
        "I grew up in a small, impoverished town in central Serbia, where my parents lifted themselves out of extreme poverty and deprivation.",
        "我便是在塞尔维亚中部的一个贫穷小镇战打得，我的父母自力更生摆脱了极端贫困剥削。"
    ],
    [
        "Rethinking the Growth Imperative",
        "反思增长的必要性"
    ],
    [
        "To be meaningful, the message must be backed up with action: G-20 members must demonstrate that their policies are clearly directed toward restoring economic growth and creating jobs, and that they will be accountable for meeting their commitments in full.",
        "光说不练假把式，G20给出的信号必须有行动支持：其成员国必须证明它们的政策明确指向重塑经济增长和就业创造，证明它们愿意就完全履行承诺接受监督。"
    ],
    [
        "But so must the coal industry.",
        "但煤炭业也必须这样。"
    ],
    [
        "Now other European Union countries seem under threat, and the EU and the International Monetary Fund are grappling to stem the crisis before another nation trembles.",
        "如今其他欧盟国家似乎也受到了威胁，而欧盟和世界货币基金组织正奋力赶在下一个国家爆发危机之前遏制住希腊危机的发展势头。"
    ],
    [
        "One track is dialogue; the other is pressure, applied through sanctions and other measures aimed at isolating North Korea and convincing its leadership that it has no future with nuclear weapons.",
        "一条轨道是对话； 另一条是施压，通过制裁和其他旨在孤立朝鲜并说服其领导层核武之路没有未来的措施来实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Electricity on the island is significantly more expensive than in Florida, in part because of underinvestment.",
        "岛上的电力要远贵于佛罗里达州，部分原因在于投资不足。"
    ],
    [
        "The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 – which provided funding for states to put more police on the beat, impose tougher prison sentences, and build more prisons – was an example of how the federal government can encourage action by state and local authorities.",
        "1994年暴力犯罪控制和法律执行法——该法向各州拨款增加巡警数量、采取更严格的判刑和建造更多的监狱——向我们表明，联邦政府如何鼓励州和地方当局的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "For poorer rural areas, this means creating a fertile environment for entrepreneurs and small power producers to develop mini-grids – generally powered by solar, small hydro, or solar-diesel hybrids – that can bring electricity to communities that would otherwise wait for years for grid connections.",
        "在贫困的农村地区，这意味着为企业家和小型发电企业建设迷你电网——一般指太阳能、小型水力或太阳能及柴油混合发电——提供肥沃的土壤，原本需要等候多年才能入网的企业可以借此机会满足社会的电力需求。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2000, the imbalance was America’s large current-account deficit: the world’s largest economy was borrowing heavily on international capital markets, rather than lending, as one might expect.",
        "2000年，失衡反映在美国的巨额经常项目赤字：世界第一大经济体在国际资本市场上大量借入资金而非借出资金。"
    ],
    [
        "But a modest political opening and economic diversification away from state-owned industry have been sacrificed.",
        "但一个温和的政治开放政策以及除国有产业之外的经济体制多样化则因此止步不前。"
    ],
    [
        "The man, a third-year medical student, told me that he had decided to stop going to the clinic.",
        "这位男青年当时是医学院三年级学生，他告诉我他决定不再去诊所接受治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fact is that 17 years of high-level bilateral cooperation have produced little of substance.",
        "但是，事实是，中俄之间17年的高层双边合作并没有产生很多实质性的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "When asked to take several bottles of water to a room that he had not previously known existed, he found a group of men wearing headsets, listening to what was happening in the other rooms.",
        "他被要求将几瓶水拿到他此前不知道存在的房间，结果他看到了一群戴耳机的人正在听其他房间里发生着什么。"
    ],
    [
        "But the US has done a great deal in terms of adopting tax cuts that boost consumption relative to income and lower government revenue relative to expenditure.",
        "但若从采取减税措施以增加消费相对收入的比例以及降低政府收入相对支出的比例来说，美国又做了很多。"
    ],
    [
        "We need a moderate-sized representative group of leaders of the world’s largest economies to meet regularly to discuss such issues, informed by an impartial secretariat that will place its analyses before the group.",
        "我们需要有来自世界各国的领袖们的定期聚会，会议的规模应该适中，同时能够代表世界上最大多数的经济体的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the madness of war has been clearly demonstrated to all, and, once the current fighting is over, both sides are now more likely to be cautious about actions that might push their peoples and countries into war once more.",
        "而且，战争的疯狂已经清楚地向所有人展现出来。 一旦目前的战斗结束，双方现在都将在可能把它们的人民和国家再一次推向战争的行动中小心谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930’s Great Depression.",
        "而我们之所以知道这一点，就是得益于一系列对1930年代大萧条的深入细致研究。"
    ],
    [
        "She never required a focus group to tell her what she believed or how to express it.",
        "她从来不会要专家小组告诉她应该信什么，应该怎样说。"
    ],
    [
        "The withdrawal of Israeli troops and the evacuation of Jewish settlers from Gaza, after 38 years of occupation, is the most recent proof of the limits of military power, even when that power is overwhelming.",
        "在加沙长达38年的占领后，以色列军队的撤退和犹太定居点的撤离是军力限度的最新证明，即便军力再强大也不能例外。"
    ],
    [
        "But there often are serious costs as well: higher prices for consumers, the dampening effect on further innovation of reducing access to knowledge, and, in the case of life-saving drugs, death for all who are unable to afford the innovation that could have saved them.",
        "但通常这也会造成巨大的成本：消费者面临的价格升高、接触知识更加困难阻碍后续创新以及（在救命药品方面）无力承担可拯救自己的药物的人的死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Wallis Simpson, the controversial US-born Duchess of Windsor, once famously quipped, “You can never be too rich or too thin.”",
        "美国出生的、颇受争议的辛普森温莎公爵夫人曾有一句不无讽刺的妙语：“再富都不够富，再瘦都不够瘦。"
    ],
    [
        "We will see what the universe was like when it was a thousandth of a second old, in the earliest moments of the Big Bang.",
        "我们能看到的是宇宙其在诞生千分之一秒时的样子、大爆炸的初始阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to the claims of food-biotech critics, who insist that genetically modified crops pose risks (none of which has actually occurred) of new allergens or toxins in the food supply, such products offer the food industry a proven and practical means of tackling the fungal contamination at its source.",
        "虽然那些食品生物技术反对者们对基金改造作物大肆抨击，认为它们存在引入新变应原或者毒素的风险（即便无一得到证实），但这类产品却能令食品工业切实有效地从源头上杜绝真菌污染。"
    ],
    [
        "First, let us be clear: Greece could be blamed for its troubles if it were the only country where the troika’s medicine failed miserably.",
        "首先，我们需要搞清楚，如果它是唯一一个三级马车的药方遭遇惨败的国家，那么它的麻烦完全是咎由自取。"
    ],
    [
        "The mere fact that a particular policy might weaken the currency does not make that country a manipulator.",
        "某项政策可能导致货币贬值，光凭这一事实绝对无法判定某国是货币操纵国。"
    ],
    [
        "If 72% of those infected today can no longer infect others, the HIV/AIDS epidemic will be curtailed.",
        "如果72%的今天的感染者不再传染其他人，艾滋病的传染将得到阻断。"
    ],
    [
        "But relegating free-market principles to the past would simply create a new set of imbalances.",
        "但让自由市场原则彻底成为历史只能造成新的失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Even that may not be sufficient, in which case it will become necessary to provide permanent income support to those whose jobs are displaced by software and machines.",
        "即便如此仍有可能不够，此时就必须为工作呗软件和机器取代的人提供永久收入支持。"
    ],
    [
        "And, over time, armed soldiers – some of whom have been targets of new attacks – have become a familiar presence on French streets.",
        "随着时间的推移，武装士兵——其中一些成了新袭击的目标——已经成为法国街头的惯常风景。"
    ],
    [
        "AT&T offers scholarships through partner non-profit institutions and provides paid internships for up to 100 graduates.",
        "AT&T公司通过合作非盈利机构提供奖学金，并为最多100名毕业生提供带薪实习机会。"
    ],
    [
        "This cluster of record-breaking events could be merely an astonishing streak of bad luck.",
        "有人觉得，这一连串破纪录的事件可能仅仅是世人碰巧走了一段霉运而已。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, when girls attend secondary school (SDG 4), they are up to six times less likely to be married as a child.",
        "比方说，如果女孩儿有机会上高中（可持续发展目标第4条），她们涉及童婚的可能性仅为原来的六分之一不到。"
    ],
    [
        "Spent wisely, however, these stimulus packages could trigger far-reaching and transformational trends, setting the stage for a more sustainable, urgently needed Green Economy for the twenty-first century.",
        "但是，如果这些经济刺激计划得以明智地实施，就将会带来影响深远以及变革性的趋势，为二十一世纪急需的、更为可持续的绿色经济奠定基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Even now, Israel is planning to build a new “corridor of peace,” which will comprise the Jordanians, the Palestinians, and us.",
        "甚至现在，以色列正在计划建立一条新的“和平走廊”，它将包含约旦人、巴勒斯坦人还有我们。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to reach that goal, we need business leaders with the vision, skills, and commitment to make a profit and a difference.",
        "为了达到这一目标，我们需要具备愿景、技能和决心的商业领袖获得盈利、创造不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the PBOC has issued Central Bank Notes six times, reinforcing its anti-inflationary effort.",
        "此外，中国人民银行还六次发行了中央银行票据，以进一步抑制通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Lawyers argue unpopular positions.",
        "律师站在不受欢迎的立场上。"
    ],
    [
        "This is beyond excessive, not least because, whatever the involvement of Gülen himself, the putsch was not the work of Gülenists alone.",
        "这种做法何止是过分，尤其因为无论居伦本人扮演了何种角色，政变都不是居伦份子可以单独发动的。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the ICTY’s investigations and indictments really be turned over to national courts?",
        "前南国际法庭的调查和诉讼是否真能移交给国家法庭？"
    ],
    [
        "The Darwinian theory of evolution has long been a dirty word among Republicans as well.",
        "对于共和党人来说，达尔文进化论一直以来都堪称一句粗口。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to imagine Trump following in FDR’s footsteps.",
        "很难想象特朗普会跟随罗斯福的脚步。"
    ],
    [
        "Women’s Rights and Customary Wrongs",
        "妇女权利和习惯错误"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone with a little funding and a few biological specimens in a refrigerator can make thousands of postulated “discoveries.”",
        "任何人只要有一点点资金以及冰箱里存放着一些生物标本就能够取得数以千计的所谓的“发现”。"
    ],
    [
        "By not taking national military-mobilization processes off of autopilot, European political leaders allowed for an international chain reaction to occur.",
        "欧洲政治领导人没有打断国家军事动员过程的自动化，而是放任国际反应链的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "This is what is fueling Bahrain’s domestic turmoil, beyond the Shia majority’s local grievances.",
        "这是除什叶多数派对当地的不满之外激起巴林国内动乱的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "A one-size-fits-all approach to integration is simply unsustainable.",
        "一刀切的一体化办法是行不通的。"
    ],
    [
        "But if it goes too fast, the political cost could be substantial and irreversible.",
        "但是如果加息过快，其政治代价将会是巨大而无可挽回的。"
    ],
    [
        "These dynamic giants terrify the wealthy populations of the industrialized world with the potential power of their low-cost competition, cheap products, and outsourcing of services.",
        "这些富有活力的巨人们用潜在的低成本竞争、廉价产品以及外包服务来恐吓工业化国家中富有的人口。"
    ],
    [
        "A dollar spent on this program produces benefits of $14, making it a highly cost-effective policy.",
        "该项目上每投入1美元可以产出14美元效益，这项政策因此成本效益很高。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear of radiation, it seems, poses a far more potent health threat than does radiation itself.",
        "看起来，对放射的恐惧对健康的威胁要比放射本身大很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, elections in Palestine did not persuade Hamas to turn its back on violence any more than elections in Lebanon dissuaded Hezbollah from initiating the current crisis in the Middle East.",
        "同样，巴勒斯坦选举并未让哈马斯放弃暴力，正如黎巴嫩阻止真主党发动当前的中东危机一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Tung turned out to be shallow, radical in his views, more chauvinist than China’s top leaders, and prone to rash decision-making on important policies with wide-ranging social and economic consequences.",
        "董建华表现得相当肤浅，观念极端，比中国高层领导人还要沙文主义，常常在有广泛社会和经济影响的重要政策的决策方面表现鲁莽。"
    ],
    [
        "The aim must be to prevent a clash of nationalisms and encourage a cooperative framework in which the region’s major countries interact and develop respect for each other’s interests.",
        "我们的目标是防止民族主义冲突，推动建立合作性的框架，使得该地区的重要国家能够相互牵制，相互尊重对方的基本利益。"
    ],
    [
        "As America’s shadow has receded, Saudi Arabia and Iran have become more aggressive, even irresponsible, in pursuing their interests.",
        "随着美国阴影逐渐退去，沙特和伊朗变得更加积极、甚至不负责任地追求自身的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But the amounts had to be cut to the size of the transaction and weighed out with balance scales.",
        "但必须按交易额对金属进行切割，再称出精确的分量。"
    ],
    [
        "Its debt/GDP ratio is only a fraction of that of the US, and one of the lowest among the OECD countries.",
        "其债务/GDP 之比只有美国的几分之一，为经合组织最低水平之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Turn on any TV channel and there they are: glamorous, decent, and smart.",
        "随便换到任何一个电视频道都能看到总统夫妇的身影：魅力非凡，举止得体，头脑灵活。"
    ],
    [
        "But he did not do himself any favors with his cabinet choices, many of whom had mediocre records that indicated corruptibility.",
        "但他并没有对许多成员政绩平平、腐败迹象暴露无遗的内阁进行调整。"
    ],
    [
        "That may be true for some people, especially those with relatively high incomes, but it is definitely not true for most people.",
        "对于一些人可能确实如此，特别是那些收入相对较高的人，但对于大部分人显然不是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the program is technically aimed at improving existing weapons’ reliability – and thereby allowing future reductions – critics emphasize that as more small, high-precision nuclear arms are developed, the likelihood that they will be used increases.",
        "尽管该计划在技术上是为了改善现有核武器的可靠性——从而为未来裁军创造条件——但批评者强调，随着更小型、精确度更高的核武器被研发出来，使用它们的可能性也会增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Are similar localized outbreaks going unrecognized elsewhere?",
        "其他地方是否也出现过类似的局部爆发但却不为人所知？"
    ],
    [
        "If France is brought to its knees and Germany doesn’t stand by its partner unwaveringly and with everything that it has to offer, the European catastrophe will be complete.",
        "如果法国倒下，而德国又不愿毫不犹豫地倾其所有力挺合作伙伴，那么欧洲就将陷入完全崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, the point about tariffs is important.",
        "但是，关税方法很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "If we continue with business as usual, we will end up destroying a vast amount of marine life, severely damaging the food chains on which we rely.",
        "照目前的发展速度，我们会毁掉大量海洋生物，严重破坏我们赖以生存的食物链。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there is evidence from many fisheries of earlier maturation; such changes take place fast enough to be detected over the decades.",
        "在很多渔场也确有鱼群提早成熟的实例。 这样的变化快到足可以在过去的几十年间得以见证。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to internal competition policies, most European countries still think within the national “box.”",
        "在内部竞争的问题上，大多数欧洲国家仍然保持着国家“条框”内的思维方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes a consensus is innocuous enough, as when you hear economists argue that one ignores the role of incentives at one’s peril.",
        "有时，共识无伤大雅，比如，经济学家们指出，忽略激励的作用是危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is apparently no shortage of young, unemployed men willing to join the carnage.",
        "显然愿意加入这场屠杀的无业年轻男性大有人在。"
    ],
    [
        "Rebalancing is the only way out for China and its partners in the Asian supply chain.",
        "再平衡是中国及其亚洲供给链伙伴的唯一生存之道。"
    ],
    [
        "That requires a weaker dollar to make US goods more attractive to foreign buyers and to make foreign goods more expensive to American consumers.",
        "这要求美元贬值以使美国商品对外国买家更有吸引力，而使外国商品对美国消费者来说更贵。"
    ],
    [
        "But he will not achieve it.",
        "但他无法实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China has developed the world’s most sophisticated system of Internet blocking and censorship, thereby hiding information unfavorable to China’s rulers from all but the most technologically savvy.",
        "的确，中国已经开发了世界上最先进的互联网阻拦和审查系统，从而将令中国统治者不悦的信息隐藏于所有人的视线之外，只有那些技术最为高超的人例外。"
    ],
    [
        "But selling to the French public painful structural change as the price to be paid for “Europe” no longer works.",
        "但高速法国公众痛苦的结构性变革乃是为“欧洲”所不得不付出的代价这一招已经不再灵验了。"
    ],
    [
        "Income inequality is a further challenge.",
        "收入不平等是另一个挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, as with postwar Germany’s first leader, Konrad Adenauer, there are jokes about Merkel being Chancellor for life (Germany has no term limits).",
        "其实有玩笑认为默克尔会像战后德国首任领袖康拉德·阿登纳一样终身担任总理职务（德国并没有设立任期限制）。"
    ],
    [
        "Just a month ago, for example, the US statistical authorities significantly downgraded their estimate of national output for 2004!",
        "例如，仅仅在一个月前，美国的统计当局大幅度地降低了对2004年全国产量的估计！"
    ],
    [
        "But American power has peaked.",
        "但美国势力如今却正在走下坡路。"
    ],
    [
        "With greater clarity in terms of Chinese and US policy, both economies should gain momentum.",
        "中国和美国的政策将日益清晰，这两个经济体应该都能获得动力。"
    ],
    [
        "But funding parts of the global health system is not enough.",
        "但为全球卫生体系筹资是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "No institutional solution is purely neutral in its effects on relative incomes – and it is relative income and wealth around which political debate typically revolves.",
        "没有一项机制上的解决方案在收入分配方面完全做到中立，而且政治辩论常常是围绕着相对收入和财富问题展开。"
    ],
    [
        "As the global economy has gone from crisis to crisis in recent years, the cure has become part of the disease.",
        "近几年来，全球经济在一个又一个危机中挣扎，药方本身也成了病源的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Ryan and members of the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party undoubtedly want to cut the size of the federal government, and they have articulated plans to do this over several decades.",
        "莱恩和共和党中的茶党成员毫无疑问希望削减联邦政府的规模，他们交流这方面的计划已经几十年了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, there is important work to be done. One productive avenue would be to follow up on one of the recommendations of the High Level Panel that was endorsed by Annan; namely, that all UN members go on record declaring that terrorism has no place in today’s world.",
        "同时，还有重要的工作要做，采取一项有效手段加强由安南签署成立的高级别小组(High Level Panel)所提出的一个建议，即所有联合国成员国都应当签署一个宣称恐怖主义在今日世界绝无立足之地的文件。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the US and Iran will need to negotiate directly on a range of non-nuclear issues.",
        "相反，美国和伊朗需要就一系列不涉及核能的问题直接展开谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "She was examining the papers of Thomas Parran, US surgeon-general from 1936-1948, when the Tuskegee research was already in full swing. So, too, she found, was the previously unknown Guatemalan experiment.",
        "她翻看了托马斯·佩伦的一些论文——此人曾于塔斯基吉实验大肆进行的1936年-1948年担任美国公共卫生署主管——并发现了此前一直不为人知的危地马拉实验。"
    ],
    [
        "What would the demise of North Korea and its potential unification with the ROK mean for Chinese security interests, and for the perception of those interests?",
        "朝鲜的覆灭及其与韩国潜在的统一对中国安全利益及其对上述利益的看法而言意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Hands Off Syria?",
        "不干涉叙利亚？"
    ],
    [
        "And, because there can be no fiscal union without a common budget policy, nothing can be decided without the national parliaments.",
        "此外，由于财政联盟不可能在没有共同预算政策的情况下产生，因此不通过各国议会，什么事情都决定不了。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Real-Estate Wrongs",
        "中国的房地产问题"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, they should not be presented as being more human than they are. Otherwise, users’ expectations will become disconnected from what the company can deliver.",
        "与此同时，这些系统也不应被宣传得比其实际上更为拟人，不然用户的预期就会与企业能提供的服务发生割裂。"
    ],
    [
        "But too few leaders have shown any sense of urgency about stemming biodiversity losses.",
        "但很少有领导人表现出阻止生物多样性丧失的紧迫感。"
    ],
    [
        "We demanded an independent judiciary, because we believed that democracy and prosperity are impossible without the rule of law, and that the rule of law requires a judiciary that can act as a constraint on the government.",
        "我们要求司法独立，因为我们相信没有法治民主和繁荣是不可能的，而法治则要求具有限制政府的司法机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Historians and journalists have touted few presidents’ accomplishments more than those of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.",
        "成就最受历史学家和记者吹捧的总统莫过于富兰克林·罗斯福。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet his proposals are meeting strong opposition from fiscally conservative Democrats as well as from Republicans, owing to their potential impact on future fiscal deficits.",
        "但他的提案却由于对未来财政赤字的潜在影响而遭到强烈抵制，而抵制力量主要来自在财政问题上偏于保守的民主党和共和党。"
    ],
    [
        "An EU-Georgia ENP Action Plan was signed in November 2006, but it is unlikely to meet expectations.",
        "2006年11月欧盟与格鲁吉亚签订了一份欧洲邻国政策行动计划，但是它不太可能达到双方预想的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "This temptation needs to be removed before the tempted yield to it.",
        "在被诱惑者们屈从之前就必须把这种诱惑铲除。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – In this year of ubiquitous commemorations, the centennial of Jan Karski’s birth has been largely overlooked.",
        "马德里——扬·卡尔斯基诞辰一百周年纪念日已大抵淹没在今年俯拾皆是的纪念活动当中。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly awkward at a time when the Chinese authorities seem to be taking an even harder line on dissent.",
        "这个问题这在中国官方似乎对异见分子采取更强硬手段时显得尤为棘手。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise of unelected technocrats to political power in Greece and Italy suggests, at least superficially, that the old taboo against technocratic governments pursuing an EU-dictated agenda has been shattered.",
        "至少在表面上，希腊和意大利国内非民选技术官僚在政治上的日益崛起已经暗示着：那条多年以来的禁忌——不能让技术官僚政府在政治议程上唯欧盟马首是瞻——已经被打破了。"
    ],
    [
        "Four years later, this advice is worth reiterating.",
        "”四年后，这一建议仍值得重温。"
    ],
    [
        "This lack of dynamism at the core of the eurozone has now become its key problem.",
        "欧元区核心活力不振已成为关键问题。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve this, it is not enough to enroll children in school; they must be kept there and provided a quality education.",
        "要做到这一点仅仅让孩子入学是不够的； 必须让孩子留在学校接受高质量教育。"
    ],
    [
        "What was originally called the “liberal arts” provided the skills necessary for this transformation.",
        "最初被称作“文科”的学科为这个转换停供了必要的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "This confident prediction may seem to be contradicted by polls showing roughly 50% support for “Brexit” in the June referendum.",
        "如此自信的预测似乎与民调相悖。 民调显示，在6月的全民公决中将有大约50%支持“英国退出”。"
    ],
    [
        "André Peschke, editor-in-chief of Krawall.de , one of Germany’s leading online computer and video game magazines, informs me that in ten years in the video game industry, he has never seen any serious debate within the industry on the ethics of producing violent games.",
        "德国最大的网上电脑与电子游戏杂志之一 Krawall. de 的主编安德鲁·普施克告诉我，他在电子游戏行业工作了十年，从未见到这个行业内有人就制作暴力游戏的道德问题进行严肃的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "So it all comes down to Putin, who enjoys a degree of autonomy in Kremlin decision-making not seen since the Stalin era.",
        "因此，一切取决于普京，他拥有克里姆林宫自斯大林时代以来从未有过的自主决定权。"
    ],
    [
        "Out of this ferment, Morocco has not only revised its Family Law, but also fundamental laws governing nationality, media ownership, and political organizations.",
        "在这场运动中，摩洛哥不仅修改了家庭法，而且还修改了有关国籍、控制所有权和政治组织的基本法律。"
    ],
    [
        "China, for its part, periodically mobilizes nationalist sentiment to divert attention from internal problems, and partly encouraged Abe’s recent assertiveness by declaring an Air Defense Identification Zone beyond its acknowledged national airspace in the East China Sea – a move that, while not illegal, was certainly provocative.",
        "而中国则定期利用民族主义情绪转移对国内问题的注意力，宣布在东中国海其公认领空以外划定防空识别区，由此在某种程度上鼓励了安倍近来的嚣张态度。 中国划定航空识别区的行为虽然并不违法，但在日本看来无疑属挑衅性质。"
    ],
    [
        "From stymieing medium-term fiscal reforms to delaying needed overhauls of the labor and housing markets, congressional dysfunction would keep US economic performance below its capacity; over time, it would also eat away at potential output.",
        "从妨碍中期改革到推迟劳动力和住房市场所需的改革，国会功能失调会让美国经济表现低于其潜能； 随着时间的推移，它也会侵蚀其潜在产出。"
    ],
    [
        "A contest for global leadership might serve that purpose as well.",
        "全球领导力竞争也有可能有利于这目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, a face-to-face meeting between President Barack Obama and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei seems absurd to imagine – now.",
        "当然，至少从目前看，要奥巴马和哈梅内伊面对面坐下来对话显得相当不切实际。"
    ],
    [
        "Greater flexibility, according to this view, will enable French firms to adjust more efficiently to changing market conditions, which in turn will make them more competitive and dynamic, giving the French economy a boost.",
        "上述观点认为增强灵活性将使法国企业能更有效地适应市场环境变化，从而增强其活力和竞争力，进而对法国经济起到推动作用。"
    ],
    [
        "When the AIIB is up and running, it, too, could support this process, by arranging debt financing alongside SRF’s initial equity investment.",
        "亚投行启动并运行时，它也可以通过债务融资与最初的股权投资支持这一过程。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – This month, India’s parliament took the first step toward a potentially momentous decision: to settle a boundary dispute with Bangladesh that dates back to the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.",
        "新德里—本月，印度议会朝一项重大决定迈出了第一步：与孟加拉国就一项可以追溯到1947年分裂时期的边境纠纷达成和解。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s rise has created a strong incentive for countries with a stake in Asia to increase their cooperation with the US, as well as with one another, to ensure that they can stand up to China’s political, military, and economic might.",
        "中国的崛起强烈地刺激了在亚洲有利益所在的国家加强与美国以及彼此之间的合作，以确保能够抵御中国的政治。 军事和经济力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Democratic politicians must not surrender their consciences to woo either their own economically jittery citizens or the Chinese regime.",
        "民主政治家们不应出卖自己的良心，以换取对经济状况忧心忡忡的本国民众或中国政府的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "What explains this difference?",
        "这一区别的原因何在？"
    ],
    [
        "Amid bitter election-year debates over Iraq and Iran, and a souring economic outlook, Americans may be in no mood for the triumphalist pageantry of a new rising power on display in Beijing.",
        "在选举年对伊拉克和伊朗问题进行的激烈辩论中，以及经济前景的暗淡使美国人也许没有心思关注在北京上演的一个新崛起的大国胜利主义者的盛大场面。"
    ],
    [
        "He had been taking the boy all over China by train, bus, and truck in search of help.",
        "为了寻求帮助，他带着孩子、坐着火车、汽车和卡车走遍了全中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Muppets and Middle East Peace",
        "玩偶与中东和平"
    ],
    [
        "But while China has lately agreed to enforce economic sanctions more actively, it doesn’t want the North Korean regime to collapse.",
        "但尽管中国最近同意更加积极地执行经济制裁，它并不希望朝鲜政权崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "A Referendum For Kurdistan?",
        "库尔德斯坦的全民公投？"
    ],
    [
        "His principal challenger, Rick Santorum, told NBC News that he would “order air strikes” if it “became clear that [Iran] was going to get nuclear weapons.”",
        "”而他的主要对手里克•桑托勒姆则在接受美国国家广播公司（NBC）采访时说“如果明确知道（伊朗）即将拥有核武器”，他会“下令空袭”。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is our rational duty to tell the truth, regardless of the benefits lying might bring in practice.",
        "因此，说真话是我们的理性职责，不管在实际中说谎会带来多少收益。"
    ],
    [
        "As I said, it is too early to celebrate.",
        "正如我所说的，现在庆贺还为时尚早。"
    ],
    [
        "As solutions go, why not consider the following one: the National Assembly could impeach Maduro and the OFAC-sanctioned, narco-trafficking vice president, Tareck El Aissami, who has had more than $500 million in assets seized by the United States government.",
        "说到解决方案，为什么不考虑一下这个方案：由国民议会对马杜罗和遭受美国外国资产管理局制裁并被曝从事贩毒行为的副总统艾萨米提出弹劾。 艾萨米有超过5亿美元的资产 被美国政府没收。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, other arrangements for allocating labor appear to involve more domination and alienation than the labor market, which offers people opportunities, not constraints.",
        "毕竟，其他的劳力分配方式比起劳力市场来似乎有更多主导和疏离的意味。 后者为人们提供机会而不是制约。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, there are encouraging signs that some Republicans and Democrats are thinking outside the party box.",
        "尽管如此，有令人鼓舞的信号表明，一些共和党和民主党正在跳出党派的桎梏考虑问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, the terms were acceptable to the vast majority of the country’s creditors, who exchanged their old claims for new ones worth 30 cents on the dollar.",
        "不过，对于绝大部分阿根廷债券人来说，条件是可以接受的，他们可以打三折后将旧债券换成新债券。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union’s crisis management missions face similar issues when military forces are involved.",
        "欧盟的危机管理任务在涉及军队时面临着同样的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And he sits on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which sets monetary policy – but not on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, which oversees bank regulation.",
        "他同时担任联邦公开市场委员会委员，负责制定货币政策——但不是在负责监督银行监管的联邦储备系统理事会。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, in the IPCC’s influential 2007 assessment of climate change, the panel’s Working Group II (charged with assessing the potential impact of global warming) chose to cite one, then-unpublished study that supposedly found that global warming had doubled damage costs over the past 35 years.",
        "但即便如此，在 2007 年 IPCC 举行的关于气候变迁的评估中，该专家小组的第二工作小组（负责评估全球变暖的潜在影响）选择引用一份当时还未曾公开发表的研究，该研究认为在过去 35 年间全球变暖所造成的损失增长了一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s cohesion strategy is admirable and smart.",
        "欧盟的凝聚力战略值得追求，也十分明智。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever their historical disagreements, South Korea and Japan both face serious risks in their immediate neighborhood.",
        "不管历史上有什么恩怨，韩国和日本都面临着来自邻国的严重威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "We have arrived at a moment in history when cooperative global political leadership is more important than ever.",
        "我们已经身处历史上一个合作全球政治领导比任何时候都要重要的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "The estimated worldwide market for such vehicles is in the range of $1 trillion, and their use would erode the scheduled domestic airline customer base by enabling 300 kilometer “commutes” and providing huge cost avoidance for roads and bridges.",
        "com找到。 预计这种交通工具的全球市场在一万亿美元上下，而它们的运用将会通过建立三百公里的“通勤线”以及节省修建道路和桥梁的巨额费用而削弱定期的国内航班客户基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Hedge funds and other large investors must also be closely monitored to ensure that they don’t build up dangerous imbalances.",
        "同时，监管机构还必须密切关注对冲基金和其他大型投资机构的动向，防止不平衡的市场行为发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The big pre-2008 construction boom in Spain did as much harm as subsequent high unemployment, because it encouraged a generation of young people to take high-paying, low-skill jobs in the building industry.",
        "2008年之前，西班牙经历了大规模的建筑繁荣，其危害性一点都不亚于随之发生的高失业，因为这鼓励了一整代年轻人去从事高薪低能的建筑业工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2012, and especially since 2014, China has experienced massive capital flight.",
        "2012年以来，特别是2014年后，中国经历了大规模资本外逃。"
    ],
    [
        "The Meaning of Brexit",
        "英国退出的意义"
    ],
    [
        "Thus far, they have been willing to step into the breach, finding new and increasingly unconventional ways to try to influence the direction of troubled economies.",
        "到目前为止，它们倒是愿意挺身而出，寻早新的、越来越非常规的办法改变受困经济的前进方向。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is a dangerous mistake.",
        "事实上，这是个危险的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, and most important, there was widespread agreement about how consensus within the Security Council on the hardest cases might be recreated.",
        "第三也是最重要的，对于如何重塑安理会关于最棘手问题的一致，北京会议也形成了一致意见。"
    ],
    [
        "They might, and they should, even if global financial markets take time to adjust to a slightly smaller role for the dollar.",
        "他们或许会，也应该这样做，即使全球金融市场需要时间来调整适应美元地位稍降的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas citizens of most democracies regard their constitutions as works in progress – India, for example, has amended its constitution 99 times since 1950 – the Japanese largely treat their constitution as sacrosanct.",
        "尽管大部分民主国家的公民都把宪法视为不断改进的基本法——比如，自1950年以来印度已经99修改了宪法——但日本人大多将宪法视为神圣不可侵犯。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet no country can afford to ignore the transformation.",
        "但没有一个国家可以忽视这一转变。"
    ],
    [
        "The farmer may even plant a crop that he knows will fail.",
        "农民甚至可能成心种植收成不好的作物。"
    ],
    [
        "Latin Americans and North Americans dream of creating a free-trade zone.",
        "拉美以及北美构想建立自由贸易区。"
    ],
    [
        "Congressional Republicans seem to be on board with this demagogic approach.",
        "国会共和党似乎是其煽动方针的一丘之貉。"
    ],
    [
        "With leadership positions allocated – often for life – on the basis of personal connections, rather than merit, he understood that the system suffered from gross inefficiency, risk aversion, and a lack of technical expertise.",
        "他明白，领导岗位通常根据个人关系而非能力分配，并且是终身制，整套体制因为效率低下、不愿冒险、缺乏专业能力而举步维艰。"
    ],
    [
        "Largely as a result of a precipitous fall in exports, China is likely to continue to grow, but at a much slower pace than the 11-12% annual growth of recent years.",
        "中国经济可能继续增长，但是速度会大大放缓，远远低于这些年来每年11%-12%的增长速度，而这主要是因为出口急剧下挫。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Mansour and Beblawi can rise above short-term temptations, because they will not contest the upcoming elections.",
        "曼苏尔和贝巴拉维可以克服短期诱惑，因为他们不参与即将到来的选战。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain’s central government, citing the state’s obligations to the EU’s austerity directives, had enacted legislation effectively banning any municipality from reducing its surplus.",
        "西班牙中央政府援引其对欧盟紧缩指引所负的国家义务，实施了事实上禁止所有市降低盈余的立法。"
    ],
    [
        "This is Russian politics at its most debased.",
        "这是俄罗斯政治最恶劣之处。"
    ],
    [
        "In these and other areas, governments will need to rally around regional undertakings, form coalitions of the relevant or willing, or simply seek understandings among countries to do their best to adopt common policies.",
        "在这些和其他领域，政府应该围绕地区承诺合作，比如相关国家或有意愿国家之间的结盟，或仅仅寻求各国之间关于尽力采取共同政策的谅解。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while natural selection is blind, sexual selection has an eye for beauty – although the nature of beauty is always in the eye of the beholder.",
        "事实上，虽说自然选择是盲目的，但性选择是追求美的——尽管情人眼里出西施。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the net-zero idea implies that the world can continue to produce emissions, as long as there is a way to “offset” them.",
        "事实上，净零概念意味着世界可以继续产生排放，只要找到办法“抵销”它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Discussion of early warning systems for tsunamis has focused on government programs. But early warning means more than ocean sensors and satellites; it also implies directing construction away from disaster-prone areas and prodding private businesses to develop effective safety and evacuation procedures.",
        "许多有关海啸预警系统的讨论把焦点放于政府规划项目上，但是预警系统不仅仅意味着海洋传感器和卫星，它还包括避开灾难高发地区建造房屋以及刺激私营企业开发有效的安全和撤离程序。"
    ],
    [
        "To turn this situation around, says Sakakibara, “the Japanese should work more, have more children, and allow immigration.”",
        "要想扭转这种局面，神原英资说，“日本人应当努力工作，多生孩子，并开放移民。"
    ],
    [
        "It can sometimes seem like there is never a right time to take climate action.",
        "有时看似永远没有合适的时机采取气候行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Our national debt is mounting by the day to levels that inspired The Economist to suggest that we may become the “Greece of the east.”",
        "乌克兰国家债务逐日上涨，以至于《经济学家》杂志认为我们有可能沦为“东方的希腊”。"
    ],
    [
        "They also believed in – or at least toyed with – forms of socialism and étatism, and did not consider democracy or civil rights to be priorities.",
        "他们还相信——或至少幻想过——各种形式的社会主义和国家社会主义，民主和民权在他们看来并非首要问题。"
    ],
    [
        "If Fatah refuses to join a coalition, Hamas may opt for a government of independents and technocrats.",
        "如果法塔赫拒绝加入联合政府，哈马斯可能会选择一个由独立人士和技术官僚组成的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s stock market, as measured by the inflation-corrected Bovespa index, has more than quadrupled in value since President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva’s first election victory in October 2002, and is now at almost twice the peak achieved in 2000.",
        "自从路易斯•伊纳西奥•卢拉•达席尔瓦（Luis Inácio Lula da Silva）总统2002年10月首度当选以来，巴西的圣保罗证交所指数（Bovespa index）在扣除通胀因素后的价值增长已经超过四倍，而且目前所处的点位是2000年高点的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic models used by advisers to shape development strategy – and touted by lobbyists to influence decisions on major infrastructure projects – exclude the human cost of air pollution and the long-term benefits of measures to reduce it.",
        "顾问们借以打造发展战略的经济模型——该模式得到说客的吹捧以影响重大基础设施项目决策——根本没有考虑空气污染造成的人员成本，也没有考虑减排措施带来的长期好处。"
    ],
    [
        "If countering inequality and promoting intergenerational opportunity introduces some marginal inefficiencies and blunts some incentives, it is more than worth the price.",
        "即便遏制不平等性和促进跨国机会造成一些边际无效率、阻碍一些激励，这也是值得付出的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also a relationship.",
        "它也是一种关系。"
    ],
    [
        "To all appearances the act of a Puritan fanatic, the authorities suspected Berchet of being a part of an organized Puritan conspiracy.",
        "因为表面看去像极了清教徒的狂热行为，当局怀疑博切特参与了一场有组织的清教徒阴谋。"
    ],
    [
        "The troika is still demanding that Greece achieve a primary budget surplus (excluding interest payments) of 3.5% of GDP by 2018.",
        "三驾马车依然要求希腊在2018年实现相当于GDP的3. 5%的初级预算盈余（不包括利息支付）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, this winner-take-all system fails to account for the fact that scientific work is largely carried out by research teams rather than individuals.",
        "此外，赢者通吃制度无法体现科学研究大多由团队而非个人完成这一事实。"
    ],
    [
        "For its part, France has been reluctant to build an interconnected European grid, owing to its heavy reliance on nuclear energy.",
        "此外，法国因为严重依赖核能而一直不愿建立互相连通的欧洲电网。"
    ],
    [
        "Kimura examined the rate of evolutionary change of proteins and proposed the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968.",
        "木村研究了蛋白质进化率，并于1968年提出了分子进化的中性学说。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on a five-year project that we led at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, we believe that the UPE goal is not ambitious enough: the world should aim for, and can achieve, high-quality, universal",
        "以我们在美国国家艺术和科学院引领的五年计划为基础，我们相信UPE目标还不够雄伟：全世界应该，也能够，像普及全球初等教育一样普及全球中等教育。 发展中国家每年在中等教育上花费约930亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "They assert that after “Brexit”, the UK could quickly negotiate a bespoke agreement with the EU that offers all the benefits of free trade without the costs of EU membership; strike better trade deals with other countries; and reap huge benefits from scrapping burdensome EU regulations.",
        "他们断言脱盟之后，英国可能很快与欧盟谈妥一项专属协议，可以在享受所自由贸易优势的同时摒除作为欧盟成员国所产生的成本； 与其他国家签订更有利的贸易协定；"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is the only country in the world bound by such restrictions – imposed not just to prevent a militarist revival, but also to punish Japan for its wartime government’s policies – and continued adherence to them is unrealistic.",
        "日本是世界上唯一一个受到如此限制的国家——之所以如此，不但是要防止军国主义复燃，也是要惩罚日本战时政府的政策——继续遵守这样的限制是不现实的。"
    ],
    [
        "As we have seen repeatedly – in China, South Korea, Chile, India, and elsewhere – fewer trade restrictions can lift incomes and reduce poverty.",
        "我们在中国、韩国、智利、印度和其他地方已经反复看到减少贸易限制可以减少贫困、提升收入。"
    ],
    [
        "And “credit where credit is due” is the axial principle around which the entire scholarly publication system revolves.",
        "而“感谢应该感谢的人”则是整个学术发表体系所围绕的核心原则。"
    ],
    [
        "The obvious solution to the current and future Social Security financing problem is to reprise the 1983 legislation by gradually raising the age for full benefits from 67 to 70, with appropriate actuarial adjustments for earlier and later retirements.",
        "对于当前和未来的社会保障资金问题，一个显而易见的解决方案是效仿1983年立法，逐渐将全额退休福利领取年龄从67岁提高到70岁，并对提早和推迟退休做出精算调整。"
    ],
    [
        "One-third of the people listed in the Hurun Report, the Shanghai-based monitor of China’s wealthiest people, are Party members.",
        "在胡润中国财富榜上，三分之一的上榜者是党员。"
    ],
    [
        "If that happens, the risk of stall speed or an outright double-dip recession would rise sharply in many advanced economies.",
        "万一出现这种情况，许多发达经济体就会出现经济停滞风险，甚至索性来一场双底衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Organization for Migration fears that as more people flee the heat, the concentration of humanity into smaller spaces will have an unprecedented impact on local “coping capacity.”",
        "国际移民组织担心，随着更多的人逃离热浪，人类向更小的区域集中可能会对本地“应对能力”造成前所未有的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2008, for example, following the Sichuan earthquake, thousands of children died when their shoddily built schools collapsed.",
        "比如，2008年四川地震时，数千儿童因为校舍质量低劣而死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "The world no longer adheres to the static Cold War order, with two blocs locked in open but guarded confrontation.",
        "世界不再遵从静态的冷战秩序，即两大阵营公开而克制地针锋相对。"
    ],
    [
        "The Information State",
        "信息国度"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Chinese leaders fear the loss of the North Korean buffer separating China from US troops stationed in South Korea.",
        "此外中国领导人还担心会失去将本国与美军驻韩部队区隔开来的朝鲜缓冲区。"
    ],
    [
        "We make sense of the world, and of our place in it, culturally – and science provides more information for constructing that place.",
        "我们了解了世界的意义，以及我们的文化定位－科学为实现这种定位提供了很多信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Last January, when I stood with him, we asked voters to back our determination to end the “extend-and-pretend” bailouts that had pushed Greece into a black hole and operated as the template for austerity policies across Europe.",
        "去年1月我和他并肩战斗时，我们要求选民支持我们结束将希腊推入深渊并成为欧洲标准模版的紧缩政策。"
    ],
    [
        "An important first step will come at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris in November and December, where world leaders will agree on the most important international agreement on climate governance in more than 20 years.",
        "十一、十二月在巴黎召开的联合国气候变化会议将迈出重要的一步，世界领导人将在20多年来首次达成最重要的气候治理国际协议。"
    ],
    [
        "In broad multilateral terms – a far more meaningful gauge because it measures a currency’s value against a broad cross-section of a country’s trading partners – the “real effective” renminbi currently stands about 8% above its most recent 12-year average (1998-2010).",
        "从多边数字来看——该指标更有意义，因为它测量一国货币相对于该国所有贸易伙伴的价值——“真实有效”的人民币汇率大约要比过去12年（1998—2010）的平均值高了8%。"
    ],
    [
        "Faced with continued internal division, pressing for a meaningful peace process is very difficult for the Palestinians.",
        "在内部分歧持续不断的情况下，巴勒斯坦人很难要求有意义的和平进程。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that public organizations must be capable of taking chances and learning from trial and error.",
        "这意味着公共组织必须有能力抓住机会和从试错中学习。"
    ],
    [
        "But the referendum nonetheless has exposed the EU’s serious shortcomings and its leaders’ inability to present a credible and convincing strategy for addressing the challenges facing the continent.",
        "但全民公决仍暴露出欧盟严重的缺陷以及欧盟领导人无力拿出可信而有说服力的战略解决欧洲所面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Obama administration’s Russia policy is being nurtured with advice from people who have no official position in the administration but close business ties to Russia and the Kremlin: Henry Kissinger, James A. Baker, Thomas Graham, and Dimitri Simes.",
        "事实上，影响奥巴马政府对俄政策的人士很多并未在政府中正式任职，而是与俄国和克里姆林有着千丝万缕的商业关系：亨利·基辛格、詹姆斯·A·贝克、托马斯·格雷厄姆和迪米特里·西门斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Seven years after the facility was developed, only three countries (Colombia, Mexico, and Poland) have access to it.",
        "该机制建立七年来只有三个国家（哥伦比亚，墨西哥和波兰）使用过。"
    ],
    [
        "As previous crises have shown, and as the current downturn in China has highlighted, steps must be taken to mitigate market risks.",
        "正如以往的危机所示，中国经济的低迷已经显现，必须采取措施来缓和市场风险。"
    ],
    [
        "European recognition of crimes against the Jews, they argue, must be followed by an admission of guilt towards the Continent’s black minorities.",
        "他们认为，欧洲人已经承认对犹太人犯下的罪行，随后也必须承认对欧洲大陆上的黑人少数群体的罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "A positive watershed, under-appreciated today, developed in the years immediately after World War II with the political transformation of Germany and Japan.",
        "如今有一大未被注意到的积极分水岭，该分水岭从二战结束后就立刻出现了，那就是德国和日本的转型。"
    ],
    [
        "When you persuade others to want what you want, you do not have to spend as much on sticks and carrots to move them in your direction.",
        "当你要说服他人接受你的抱负时，你并不需要采用大棒加胡萝卜的方式使人与你同路。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, we produce only a small fraction of the energy that we need from solar and wind – 0.7% from wind and just 0.1% from solar.",
        "今天，太阳能和风能仅能满足我们一小部分能源需求——风能仅占总需求的0. 7%，而太阳能仅占0."
    ],
    [
        "But whenever there’s a snatch of talk or tweet",
        "可哪怕有一丝的声响"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, after one year of implementation, the Constitutional Council has avoided a drift toward a “government of judges,” instead indicating a genuine desire for dialogue with other institutions, notably policymakers.",
        "同时在政策执行一年后，宪政委员会已成功避免了走向“法官政府”，而是表达了与其他机构，特别是决策者共同探讨的真诚希冀。"
    ],
    [
        "But these limited kinds of choices – for example, a T-bill fund with 90% in T-bills and 10% in an indexed stock fund – could easily be introduced into the public social security system.",
        "但是，诸如一个90%资金在国库券、10%在指数股票基金的国库券这样限制种类的选择，是易于被引进公共社会保障体系的。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as monopolies are bad for markets and politics, business representation in the private sector would benefit from more competition.",
        "正如垄断有害于市场和政治，私人部门的企业代表也可以从增加竞争中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "It is what has driven Obama to go to the mat with China on recent disputes within the World Trade Organization and on restrictions on Chinese investment in Oregon wind farms, and what has led to saber-rattling by Romney on currency manipulation and trade sanctions.",
        "这正是驱使奥巴马最近在WTO与中国唇枪舌战并限制中国投资俄勒冈州风力发电厂的背后原因，也是罗姆尼在货币操纵和贸易制裁等方面大肆叫嚣的幕后推手。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last decade, energy productivity has grown by only 0.7% annually, and the share of zero-carbon energy rose by only 0.1 percentage point per year.",
        "在过去十年中，能源生产率每年只能提高0. 7%，零碳能源比重每年只能提高0."
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Chinese leaders have spent remarkably little, relative to China’s growing GDP, on the military.",
        "事实上，相对于中国快速增长的GDP而言，该国领导人在军事方面的投入非常之少。"
    ],
    [
        "The delay in reaching a final agreement should be viewed as a last chance to correct potentially profound injustices.",
        "延迟达成最终协议理应被视为纠正潜在深刻不公平现象的最后一次机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Bhutto, the leader of a secular party that now enjoys substantial support in Washington, would dominate policy planning in the next government at Musharraf’s expense.",
        "贝布托，一个现在正受到华盛顿实质性支持的世俗党派的领导人，会在下一届政府中独享政策制定的权力，而由穆沙拉夫去付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Its results are magnified. Its benefits and its disadvantages penetrate more deeply.",
        "变化本身会提速，其结果大大扩大，其益处和坏处渗透得更加深远。"
    ],
    [
        "They are all part of an enormous multilateral trade deficit that stems from America’s unprecedented shortfall of saving – a depreciation-adjusted “net national saving rate” (combining businesses, households, and the government sector) that has been negative since 2008.",
        "它们都是源自于美国前所未有的储蓄下滑——计入了贬值因素的“国民净储蓄率”（结合企业，家庭和政府）自2008年一直为负值——所导致的大规模多边贸易逆差的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "For more than half that time – say, 85 years – it has been accepted doctrine that markets are also not to be trusted even in normal times, lest doing so lead to a liquidity squeeze or to an inflationary bubble.",
        "这段时间中超过一半——就算85年吧——还有一个公认的理论，那就是为了防范流动性紧张或通胀泡沫出现，即便在正常情况下也不要信任市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The republican project of modernization will continue, with a wider mobilization of society.",
        "在调动更广泛的社会参与中，现代化的共和事业将继续前进。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the US Food and Drug Administration enforces the highest product standards, meaning that, under the TTIP, European consumers would gain access to higher-quality products at lower prices.",
        "相比之下，美国食品和药物管理局强制执行最高的产品标准，也就是说在跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系下，欧洲消费者将以更低的价格获得更高质量的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting empire will be liberal, according to Chubais’s definition, because it can be built with money rather than tanks.",
        "根据丘拜斯的定义，由此建立起来的帝国将会是自由化的，因为它可以通过金钱、而不是坦克建立起来。"
    ],
    [
        "In comes a brave new world of “state-contingent threshold-based forward guidance,” complete with three conditional “knockouts” that would cause the guidance to be changed.",
        "到来的是一个全新的“或有的、基于阈值的前瞻性指引”世界，它还有三个导致指引改变的“出局条件”（knockout）。"
    ],
    [
        "The very word “defense” creates an image of a nation state that is commercially connected to the rest of the world only via traditional trade.",
        "正是“防卫”这个词给一个国家创造了这样一个形象：这个国家和世界上其他国家的商业联系仅仅是通过传统贸易进行的。"
    ],
    [
        "This consensus changes with time.",
        "这一共识随时间变化而变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the crisis hit, however, redistribution of wealth (and the tax and social security payments that make it possible) was considered the biggest obstacle to economic efficiency.",
        "然而，在危机到来之前，财富的再分配（以及使之成为可能的税收与社会保障费用）却被认为是实现经济效益的最大障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission was perhaps unlikely to be hypercritical of its own creations, and it is not.",
        "过去，欧盟委员会不可能猛烈抨击它自己成立的机构，现在也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Their concerns should be heard and debated; and sometimes banning is best combined with renewed efforts at civic education, emphasizing, for example, that immigrants did not cause Greece’s woes.",
        "他们的关注点应该被聆听和讨论； 有时禁止最好辅之以国民教育方面的新措施，比如强调移民并没有导致希腊的萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, I worry about the risk of executing the innocent.",
        "当然，我担心处死无辜之人的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that Iraq’s future is not assured even if these and similar measures are taken.",
        "现实是，即使采取了这些措施和其他类似的措施也无法保证伊拉克的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "As John Williamson, who coined the term, put it in 2002, these measures “are motherhood and apple pie, which is why they commanded a consensus.”",
        "正如发明这一词汇的约翰•威廉姆森（John Williamson）在2002年所指出的那样，这些措施“是十全十美，万无一失的，因此我们才有必要就此达成共识。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Nor was any particular promise made in response to the “hard questions” raised by FN voters just a week earlier.",
        "对于国民阵线选民一周前所提出的“难题”，也没有人提出任何特别的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But according to Trump’s worldview, it would be a step forward.",
        "但根据特朗普的世界观，这是前进的步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "In Silicon Valley, for example, the government has acted as a strategic investor through a decentralized network of public institutions: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NASA, the Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR), and the National Science Foundation.",
        "比如，在硅谷，政府通过一个分散的公共机构网络扮演着战略投资者的角色，这一网络包括美国国防部先进研究项目局（Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency）、美国宇航局（NASA）、小企业创新研究计划（Small Business Innovation Research program，SBIR）、国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）等。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations has also endorsed similar requirements.",
        "联合国也支持类似的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the necessary reforms in both America and China go well beyond these two steps. They require deep, fundamental changes.",
        "更重要的是，中美两国所必须采取的改革不仅限于这两个层面，而是需要深层次的，根本性的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "So, what alternative does the market see?",
        "那么，根据市场的预计会出现什么状况呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Under John Paul II and Benedict XVI, the share of (non-martyr) beatifications from Latin America was 10.5%, along with 4.6% for North America, 3.9% for Asia, and 1.9% for Africa.",
        "在保罗二世和本笃十六世在位期间，拉丁美洲（非殉道者）受福比例为10. 5%，而北美为4."
    ],
    [
        "Nice start, and the credit goes both to Obama and to the millions of Americans who stood up and took risks to fight against gathering tyranny.",
        "这是个好的开始，奥巴马和数百万冒着危险站出来反对集体暴行的美国人都获得了荣誉。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, when Blair took Britain to war, he deliberately misled Parliament and the electorate about the ostensible rationale for it.",
        "简而言之，当布莱尔参战的时候，布什当局并不预见到推翻萨达姆政权将会引发多重的叛乱和内战。"
    ],
    [
        "Samuelson was a convinced Keynesian, though in a limited sense.",
        "萨缪尔逊被认为是凯恩斯主义者，不过有所保留。"
    ],
    [
        "So the Asians are coming: as markets, as states, as consumers, as financiers (Asian central banks, for example, are responsible for financing America’s whopping budget deficits), as scientists and engineers, and as corporations.",
        "因此，亚洲正在向我们走来：亚洲市场、亚洲国家、亚洲消费者、亚洲金融家（比如，亚洲中央银行负责为美国巨额预算赤字筹集资金）、亚洲科学家、亚洲工程师和亚洲公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, many self-styled realists dismiss the United Nations as powerless, and argue that it can be ignored.",
        "”今天，许多自诩为现实主义者的人不屑地认为联合国毫无实力可言，并且根本就应该不把它当一回事。"
    ],
    [
        "That may be true of the war against Al Qaeda; it is less obviously correct with regard to the Taliban.",
        "对于反基地组织战争，或许正是如此； 但对于塔利班可能并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In the former, the prospect of a Security Council veto prevented action, and a regional organization (NATO) acted without UN authorization.",
        "在科索沃战争中，由于对安理会动用一票否决充满期待，从而阻止了联合国采取行动，而一个地域组织（北约）未经联合国授权就擅自采取军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "In evaluating China’s currency policy, the effects of any change on the trade balance are no more important than the potential consequences for inward FDI, which plays such a crucial role in China’s economic development, and China’s outward FDI, which is receiving increased attention worldwide.",
        "评估人民币政策时，任何对贸易平衡变化产生的影响都不及对外商直接投资可能产生的影响那样重要，因为外商直接投资在经济发展中起到决定性的作用。 同样重要的还有中国对外直接投资，这部分投资正在越来越多地引起世界各国的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "A foreign takeover would raise French protectionist hackles.",
        "外国收购将会及其法国人的保护主义愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, all signs suggest that the trial is unlikely to meet its ambitious aims.",
        "到目前为止，所有的迹象都表明这场审判不大会实现其宏大的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The second reason is the underlying appeal of the Islamist message to many of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims.",
        "第二个理由是伊斯兰教对世界13亿穆斯林的基本号召力。"
    ],
    [
        "So how did 44 disparate powers, each seeking to protect its own national interests, manage to agree on a new global monetary system?",
        "那么，44个寻求捍卫本国利益的不同强国是如何统一意见成立一个新的全球货币体系的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This is why freedom of movement is so appealing, not only from an economic point of view.",
        "这就是为什么迁徙自由是如此的吸引人，而不仅仅从经济角度来看。"
    ],
    [
        "In his study of “narrative economics,” Shiller highlights the effects that “viral” stories can have on the global economy.",
        "在“叙事经济学”研究中，席勒强调“病毒传播型”故事对全球经济的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The second part of the plan is for the EU to provide the Irish with a series of clarifications on other key issues. These include Ireland’s exclusive right to decide policy on issues such as abortion and corporation tax as well as participation in European security and defense operations.",
        "计划的第二部分是让欧盟向爱尔兰人澄清一系列其他关键的问题，包括指明爱尔兰特有的权力，例如决定堕胎和公司税收，参加欧盟安全和防御行动等事务的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "In Lima, he argued that the so-called “separation principle,” whereby monetary and financial stability are addressed differently and tasked to separate agencies, no longer makes sense.",
        "在利马会议上，他指出所谓的“分离原则”——即必须以不同手段保证货币和金融稳定，并将此任务各自分配给独立机构——已经不再有意义了。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Fed deciding in their just-concluded April meeting, yet again, to hold rates, their dilemma is set only to intensify this year: normalize monetary policy in line with domestic fundamentals, or cede to the pressures of global financial markets.",
        "美联储在刚刚结束的4月会议上再次决定保持利率不变，其所面临的困境在今年将更加严峻：根据国内基本面正常化货币政策，还是屈从于全球金融市场的压力？"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the acronym – first, ZIRP (the zero interest-rate policy of the late 1990s), then QQE (the qualitative and quantitative easing launched by BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda in 2013), and now NIRP (the recent move to a negative interest-rate policy) – the BOJ has over-promised and under-delivered.",
        "不管采取什么缩写组合——首先是ZIRP（20世界90年代末的零政策利率），然后是QQE（2013年日本银行行长黑田东彦实施的定性和量化宽松），现在是NIRP（最新采取的负利率政策）——日本银行总是雷声大雨点小。 事实上，自2012年底安倍晋三当选日本首相以来，日本真实GDP年增长下滑至0."
    ],
    [
        "“The private sector knows how to build companies, evaluate the potential for success, and take the risks that lead to taking innovative ideas and bringing them to the world,” reads his coalition’s manifesto. “But in the current business environment, the risk-reward balance for early-stage investing in potentially transformative energy systems is unlikely to meet the market tests of traditional angel or VC investors.”",
        "“私人部门知道怎么开公司，怎么评估成功的可能，怎么承担引领创新概念并把它们带给全世界的风险，”他在联盟宣言中如是说，“但在当前的商业环境中，具有潜在变革能力的能源系统的早期阶段投资的风险-报酬平衡不可能通过传统天使投资人或风险资本的市场测试。"
    ],
    [
        "The 34 reactors that started up over the last decade had a mean construction time of nearly ten years, but contributed just 26 GW – one-third of what solar and wind added in one year.",
        "过去十年中实现发电的34座反应堆平均建设工期为近七年，但只贡献了26GW的装机容量——还不到太阳能电和风电一年的增加值的三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "And we have just seen another major financial firm collapse as a result.",
        "而我们已经看到，其结果是又一家主要金融公司的倒闭。"
    ],
    [
        "A troop surge that lasted up to 2010 was designed not to rout the Taliban militarily, but to strike a political deal with the enemy from a position of strength.",
        "拖到2010年才出台的增兵战略并不是为了击溃塔利班军队，而是为了在与敌人达成政治协议时处于优势地位。"
    ],
    [
        "If inflationary pressures rise – unlikely any time soon, but possible when the global economy gains strength – the Fed’s response will be a key determinant of economic stability.",
        "如果通胀压力上升——短期内不太可能，但可能在全球经济逐渐恢复元气时出现——美联储的反应将是决定经济能否维持稳定的一个关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "A “me-too” drug, for example, which nets its manufacturer some portion of the income that otherwise accrues only to the company that dominates a niche, may be highly profitable, even if its value to society is quite limited.",
        "比如，一种仿造药，可以使其生产者获得本来只会由独霸市场的公司获得的部分收益。 这样的药可以带来高额的利润，尽管其对社会的价值是非常有限的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no surprise that the public sector, where productivity is low and fiscal constraints soft, typically has the greatest union concentration.",
        "公共部门效率低下，没有太多的财政限制，通常工会组织最为集中，这也就不足为奇了。"
    ],
    [
        "The growing opposition to the US missile defense deployment is rooted in the way in which America has managed – or rather mismanaged – the presentation of its deployment plans.",
        "对美国部署导弹防御系统越来越强烈的反对声，其根源在于美国对其部署计划的处理，确切地说是处理不当的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "What is wrong with the precautionary principle?",
        "那么这个预防性原则究竟存在什么问题？"
    ],
    [
        "The mandate gap reflects the way the world has done business with the UN for decades – big promises, small pay-outs, much scapegoating if the UN then fails.",
        "训令鸿沟反映了多年以来世界和联合国打交道的方式—夸大的承诺、吝啬的钱包，一有闪失就让联合国当替罪羊。"
    ],
    [
        "The budget's success will be determined by how these public-sector investments play out, which in turn will depend on other policies, especially the Land Acquisition Bill (designed to enable industrial development in rural areas), which has already run into trouble.",
        "预算的成功将取决于这些公共部门投资表现如何，而这又取决于其他政策，特别是已经陷入麻烦的土地兼并法（Land Acquisition Bill，意在让工业开发农村地区成为可能）。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, in a time of profound scientific and technological change, they remain remarkably conventional.",
        "但是，在这个科学和技术深刻变革的时代，它们仍显得非常传统。"
    ],
    [
        "This task was taken up at the international level by the FSB, established after the G-20 summit in London in April 2009.",
        "在国际层面，这一任务落到了FSB头上。 FSB于2009年4月在G-20伦敦峰会上成立。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not a democracy, and there is no established routine for changing governments.",
        "它缺乏民主的体制，而政府的更迭也没有一个既定的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Fossil fuels account for more than four-fifths of the world’s energy diet.",
        "而化石燃料则占据了全世界能源总消耗量的4/5强。"
    ],
    [
        "Allowing existing protectionist trade barriers to remain in place – or worsen – would not only deprive citizens in TPP countries of higher incomes; it would also deal a damaging blow to international cooperation.",
        "放任现有保护主义贸易壁垒继续存在——甚至加剧——不但将剥夺TPP国家公民获得更高收入的机会； 还将给国际合作带来沉重打击。"
    ],
    [
        "It has created a more hostile environment for development. No amount of money will undo the damage done.",
        "由此造成的损失无论花多少钱都无法弥补。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, by voting against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s governing board meetings in 2005 and 2006, India invited Iranian reprisal in the form of cancellation of a highly favorable 25-year, $22 billion liquefied-natural-gas deal.",
        "但在2005年和2006年连续两次在国际原子能机构理事会会议上对伊朗投了反对票后印度遭到了对方的报复，一份利益极大，为期25年价值220亿美元的液化天然气交易就此取消。"
    ],
    [
        "An education boom would bring huge returns for the entire Indian economy.",
        "教育产业的繁荣也会为整个印度经济带来巨大的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "The statistician and economist Yoichi Takahashi tells me that the yen’s 8% appreciation over just ten days in February is abnormal, and probably fueled by speculative attacks.",
        "统计学家兼经济学家高桥洋一（Yoichi Takahashi）对我说，2月份，日元在短短十天内升值8%，这是反常现象，应属投机性袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "Taiwan’s system is democratic; China’s is not.",
        "台湾是民主制度，中国不是。"
    ],
    [
        "We must argue the case for free trade, which has brought far-reaching benefits to humanity.",
        "我们必须支持自由贸易，大声说出它为人类带来的意义深远的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the defense by Malaysian civil reform movements of individuals’ freedom of conscience has been denounced by some religious leaders as an attack on Islam.",
        "同样，某些宗教领导人把马来西亚公民改革运动为个人信仰自由谴责为对伊斯兰的攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "Core countries, meanwhile, argue that they can do little to strengthen aggregate demand and relieve pressure on their partners, even as the periphery’s agony is dragging the core into recession, owing to its dependence on peripheral export markets.",
        "而核心国家则提出自己很难在加强总体需求和纾缓合作伙伴压力方面有所作为。 即使因为核心国家对周边出口市场的依赖，周边国家的痛苦正在将核心国家拖入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be both tragic and ironic if a restored Germany, by peaceful means and with the best of intentions, brought about the ruin of the European order a third time.",
        "如果带着最良好的初衷以和平方式获得新生的德国第三次摧毁欧洲的秩序，那将是怎样的悲剧和讽刺！"
    ],
    [
        "They will be in no mood to lay down their arms if the municipal authorities fail to develop inclusive political institutions that give minority ethnic groups a fair political voice.",
        "如果市政当局未能建立各民族一体的政治机构，赋予少数民族团体公平的话语权，他们就绝不会心甘情愿放下武器。"
    ],
    [
        "So, to find out about the reputation of service providers, we need still more service providers: ratings and surveys and agents to tell us about agents.",
        "于是乎，我们需要更多服务提供商来了解服务提供商的声誉：打分、问卷、对代理商服务进行评判的代理商。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Liberal Democrats are as divided as everyone else.",
        "事实上，自民党内部的意见和其他人一样四分五裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the peripheral countries’ large current-account deficits, fueled as they were by excessive consumption, were accompanied by economic stagnation and loss of competitiveness.",
        "此外，外围国家的巨额经常项目赤字——受过度消费推动——伴随着经济停滞和竞争力的丧失。"
    ],
    [
        "The fiction that the banks are well capitalized will be maintained.",
        "所谓银行资本雄厚的神话也将得到延续。"
    ],
    [
        "The participants come primarily from Europe and the US; indeed, when the conference began in 1963, it was focused entirely on NATO members.",
        "与会者主要来自欧洲和美国； 事实上，这一始于1963年的会议一开始完全是北约成员国的内部会议。"
    ],
    [
        "What changed was the currency arrangement.",
        "真正改变了的东西是货币的安排。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet progressive economists chastise him for not doing enough.",
        "但激进派经济学家仍然炮轰伯南克做得不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Preventive Diplomacy, Not Pre-Emptive Strikes",
        "预防性外交，而非先发制人"
    ],
    [
        "If a page is, say, laminated, it is less likely to be damaged as it is moved around.",
        "比如，将一个页面叠起来，就能降低移动的过程中受到损坏的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "The modern equivalent of the band widening of 1993 would be to maintain the euro for all members of the eurozone, but also allow some of them (in principle, all of them) to issue – if necessary – national currencies.",
        "当前，同1993年的举措相当的方案是，欧元区全体成员国坚守欧元，同时允许某些成员国（原则上是任何成员国）在必要时自行发行货币。"
    ],
    [
        "True, Hamas has been indicating recently a readiness to contemplate a solution based on the 1967 borders, but it is doubtful that its leaders and members could live with the betrayal of the refugees.",
        "没错，哈马斯最近似乎正考虑接受一个基于1967年边界划分的解决方案，但该组织的领袖和成员能否容忍这个方案都令人存疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Gaelic is spoken by only about 80,000 of Scotland’s 5.1 million inhabitants.",
        "苏格兰五百一十万居民中大约只有八万人讲盖尔语。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the scale of these challenges, we have no choice but to cooperate internationally and strengthen global and regional institutions and frameworks such as the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the G20, which will meet in Hangzhou, China, next month.",
        "考虑到这些挑战的规模，我们别无选择，只能进行国际合作和加强国际货币基金组织、欧盟、G20等全球和地区机构和框架。 G20将在下个月在中国杭州举行峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "The principle of representative democracy is at the heart of European identity; ironically, only EU non-member Switzerland has a strong tradition of referenda.",
        "代议制民主原则是欧洲共同身份的核心； 但讽刺的是，只有非欧盟成员国的瑞士拥有公民投票的优良传统。"
    ],
    [
        "That process could well be enough to turn Amari’s gray hair white.",
        "这一过程足以让甘利明须发尽白。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally disturbing has been the continuing reluctance of international leaders to provide new financial commitments to Ukraine, despite growing pressure on its foreign-currency reserves and the specter of a full-blown financial meltdown.",
        "同样令人不安的是国际领导人一直不愿给予乌克兰新的金融承诺，尽管其外汇储备压力日增，大有爆发全面金融崩溃之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as it happened, the Glorious Revolution clearly marked the beginning of a worldwide appreciation of the legitimacy of groups that do not share the “ideological unity” demanded by a strong king.",
        "即便如此，光荣革命显然标志着全世界开始尊重不赞同强势君主所要求的的“思想统一”的群体的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Addressing global warming effectively requires long-term innovation that makes green energy affordable to all.",
        "有效解决全球变暖需要长期创新，让所有人都用得起绿色能源。"
    ],
    [
        "With neither the diplomatic weight nor the military heft to make an impression in the region, Europe had better leave the heavy lifting to the United States.",
        "”欧洲既没有外交分量，也没有军事实力可以在东亚留下痕迹，最好还是把重点放在美国身上。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the Trade Representative is wisely trying not to add macroeconomic policy into the bargaining, despite demands from powerful voices in the US Congress.",
        "因此，美国贸易代表正在明智地试图不把宏观经济政策加入到讨价还价内容中，尽管美国国会的权势人物提出了这方面的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Large stocks of dollar-denominated debt remain a key vulnerability.",
        "巨量美元计价的债务存量仍然是拉丁美洲的一大弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "Will China’s Capitalist Revolution Turn Democratic",
        "中国的资本主义革命能否转变为民主化"
    ],
    [
        "No one should underestimate how difficult it was to travel his road, against incredible odds, to the cusp of the presidency.",
        "谁也不该低估他所遇到的困难，面对着令人难以置信的种种不平等，他终于登上了总统竞选的巅峰。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the underlying objective, it must be identified, and its concomitant risks addressed, if the BRICS are to make genuine progress.",
        "不管基本目标是什么，都必须对此有所认识，并处置好相应的风险，如果金砖国家意在推动真正的进步的话。"
    ],
    [
        "But they will invest only if they are confident that health systems will use their innovations.",
        "但它们只有在有信心卫生体系会使用它们的创新时才会进行这方面的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Applying the recent declaration on defense cooperation will not be easy.",
        "最新的防务合作声明的运用起来并非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "In both countries, at different times, educated people who pride themselves on being democrats have ended up applauding military coups against elected governments.",
        "在这两个国家的不同时期，一直以民主人士自居的高学历人士都对推翻民选政府的军事政变击掌称赞。"
    ],
    [
        "Kazakhstan’s leadership has also worked to place itself at the forefront of the international non-proliferation movement.",
        "哈萨克斯坦领导层还致力于让这个国家成为国际不扩散运动的先锋。"
    ],
    [
        "The best argument for free capital mobility remains the one made nearly two decades ago by Stanley Fischer, then the International Monetary Fund's number two official and now Vice Chair of the US Federal Reserve.",
        "资本自由流动的最大理由仍然是近二十年前由时任国际货币基金组织（IMF）二号人物、现美联储副主席斯坦利·费希尔（Stanley Fischer）所提出的。"
    ],
    [
        "More (and more reliable) data could also improve decision-making by helping policymakers to understand specific social, economic, and environmental issues.",
        "更多（以及更可靠）的数据还有助于决策者理解具体的社会、经济和环境问题，从而改善决策。 更好的性别统计数字有助于更详细地了解女性获得正义、教育和金融服务的状况；"
    ],
    [
        "No response, it must be stressed, would be complete without a sustained commitment to addressing the drivers of mass immigration – and that means a complete overhaul of the EU’s Neighborhood Policy.",
        "必须强调缺少解决持续大规模移民动力持续承诺的任何应对之策都不完整——而这意味着全面改革欧盟的睦邻政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that no one knows how best to do this.",
        "问题在于没人知道如何最好地实现这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The defendants range from political opponents and critics in Russia – such as the oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the anti-corruption lawyer Alexei Navalny – to independent journalists in Erdoğan’s Turkey.",
        "被告既包括俄罗斯评论家和政治对手——比方说石油寡头霍多尔科夫斯基和反腐律师阿列克谢·纳瓦尔尼——也包括埃尔多安治下土耳其的独立记者。"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, this obsession with control has had little impact on irregular migration flows, because it runs counter to the pull of market forces and the push of personal aspirations.",
        "毫不奇怪，如此沉迷于控制对于非法移民流几乎毫无影响，因为它违背了市场力量的拉力和个人志向的推力。"
    ],
    [
        "With memories of the old system already beginning to fade, it seems fitting to look back at the region’s achievements, review the lessons learned, and examine the challenges ahead.",
        "关于旧制度的记忆已经开始消逝，似乎应该回顾一下该地区的成就、总结一下教训，并考察一下未来面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "After 40 hours of strenuous negotiations, the South agreed to stop loudspeaker broadcasts into the demilitarized zone between the two countries, in exchange for the North expressing “regret” for the South Korean soldiers killed by a landmine blast in the DMZ three weeks earlier.",
        "在经过40小时的紧张谈判后，韩国同意停止在两国之间的非军事区进行广播喊话，作为交换，朝鲜对三周前韩国士兵因在非军事区踩雷丧生表示“遗憾”。"
    ],
    [
        "Alas, there is an important twist today that wasn’t in play back then –central banks’ swollen balance sheets.",
        "更何况目前还存在着一个当年并未出现的重大扭曲状况——臃肿不堪的央行资产负债表。"
    ],
    [
        "But improved efficiency has its limits.",
        "但是改进的效率毕竟还有限度。"
    ],
    [
        "The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, chaired by Phil Angelides, did produce a report on the crisis – in fact, three reports.",
        "以安吉莱德斯（Phil Angelides）为首的金融危机调查委员会（Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission）确实给出了关于危机的报告——事实上，给出了三份报告。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, towns and cities are no longer named for Stalin.",
        "当然，现在城镇已经不再以斯大林来命名了。"
    ],
    [
        "But sometimes their preparatory work requires decisions to be taken at the ministerial level, or even by heads of state or government. This was the case in Kyoto in 1997, and again in Copenhagen at COP15.",
        "但这些外交人员的会议准备工作有时也需要得到部长级官员甚至是政府最高首脑的拍板，正如 1997 年的京都会议以及去年的哥本哈根 COP15 峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "So we must hope that the US and British authorities move carefully and do not use their new powers to freeze out foreign competition.",
        "所以我们不得不希望美英当局小心行事且不要运用它们的新权力来排斥国外竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "But who may pick up the slack in providing global leadership?",
        "但是谁又会在提供全球领导地位上收拾局面呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Thirty years ago, when the first elections to the parliament were held, almost two-thirds of the electorate voted, but over the years, participation has dropped steadily.",
        "而30年前，当第一次议会举行选举时，有将近三分之二的选民参加了投票，但这些年来，投票率却节节下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Others soon followed. By December 1991, the Soviet empire was no more.",
        "其它国家很快纷纷效仿，到1991年12月，苏联帝国烟消云散。"
    ],
    [
        "More questions arise from the policy response to the subsequent recession. Why, once the magnitude of the downturn became clear, weren’t governments eager to step in to return unemployment to normal levels, especially in the absence of higher inflation expectations, upward pressure on prices, or even interest-rate increases that would crowd out private investment spending?",
        "随后的衰退应对政策则引发了更多的质疑：在经济下行风险逐渐清晰，但高通胀预期，高物价压力，甚至挤压私人投资支出的利率上调尚未出现的时候，政府为何没能介入并将失业率恢复到正常水平？"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, the key to saving a rules-based order is not just to demonstrate its unquestionable superiority, but also to acknowledge and address its flaws.",
        "事实上，拯救基于规则的秩序的关键不仅仅在于证明其无可置疑的优越性，也遭遇承认和纠正它的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the crisis, European leaders have tried to respond to the gaps in the monetary union without proposing a new treaty, because they fear that any new treaty proposing more centralization of authority in Brussels would be rejected, either by national parliaments or by voters in a referendum. So they have tried to proceed by intergovernmental agreement, or by using existing treaty provisions.",
        "在危机期间，欧洲的领导人们尝试去在不提出一个新条约的情况下对货币联盟内的分歧做出回应，因为他们害怕任何要求把权威更加向布鲁塞尔集中的新条约都会遭到否决——要么被各国议会，要么被参与全国公投的民众。"
    ],
    [
        "The unspoken premise is that there must be no losers, not even in the short term.",
        "一个没有说出口的前提就是不能损害任何人的利益，即便是短期的影响也不能容许。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – With the deepening of the economic crisis and the prospect of another recession looming large on the horizon, growing social inequality has become an increasingly urgent issue.",
        "巴黎——经济危机进一步加深，衰退前景再度出现，这一切也加剧了社会不平等，使其成为日益严峻的一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The New York producer overseeing the project, a single mother, was reluctant initially to visit Ramallah – so the Palestinian team’s inability to produce their segments on time was, like so many aspects of the Palestinian experience, hidden behind a barrier of fear, not fully witnessed, and thus not fully comprehended.",
        "负责整个项目的纽约制作人，一个单身母亲，不愿意冒险去拉马拉——因此巴方团队无法按时制作出节目的事实——正如许多类似的巴勒斯坦经历那样——被恐惧所掩盖，不为人知，也不为其他人所理解。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Last July, when United States federal judge Thomas Griesa ruled that Argentina had to repay in full the so-called vulture funds that had bought its sovereign debt at rock-bottom prices, the country was forced into default, or “Griesafault.\"",
        "纽约—去年7月，美国联邦法官托马斯·格里萨（Thomas Griesa）裁定阿根廷必须足额偿付以触底价购买了其主权债务的所谓兀鹫基金。 结果，阿根廷被迫违约——或可称之为“格里萨违约”。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat comes from an unlikely source: organized crime.",
        "这种威胁来自于一种不太可能的源头：有组织犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "One legacy of Western Europe’s experience in the 1980’s is a rule of thumb: each year that lower labor-force attachment and reduced capital stock as a result of declining investment depresses production $100 billion below normal implies that productive potential at full employment in future years will be $10 billion below what would otherwise have been forecast.",
        "西欧20世纪80年代的经验留给我们一条拇指规则：在任何一年，只要劳动力工作时间和资本存量因投资的下降而下降，从而导致产出比正常水平低了1 000亿美元，那么在未来年份中，充分就业的生产潜能就会比正常情况的预计值低100亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite 35 years of brutal Japanese colonization, three years of civil war, military dictatorship, and a lack of natural resources, the country has emerged from extreme poverty to become – in a volatile neighborhood – a stable, prosperous, and vibrant democracy.",
        "尽管经历了35年的残酷日本殖民、三年内战、军事独裁并且自然资源匮乏，但韩国仍然从极端贫困中崛于动荡的四邻，成为稳定、繁荣、充满活力的民主国家。"
    ],
    [
        "To answer this question, one must recall that debt is both a liability and an asset.",
        "要回答这个问题，大家首先要记住债务既是负债，也是资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Accounting rules are generous enough to allow banks to keep many losses under the carpet for the time being. But it is only a matter of time until banks are forced to reveal the truth.",
        "目前，会计规则过于宽松，这使得银行可以暂时把亏损隐藏起来，但只是个时间问题，银行迟早都要公布真相。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and other countries should open their markets to goods produced in these zones.",
        "而美国以及其他地区应当向这些特区的产品开放市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Like a good astronomer or anthropologist, however, successful investors will find reliable patterns in a sea of crosscutting evidence.",
        "但正如一个优秀天文学家或人类学家那样，成功的投资者会最终在一大堆相互穿插的证据中找出一套可靠的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Under American leadership, it is the West that has emerged as the restless, disturbing force in international affairs.",
        "在美国的领导下，西方国家显得烦躁并破坏国际事务。 中国当然应该给予西藏更大的自治；"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the euphoria around shale gas – indeed, despite weak global growth – commodity prices have risen by as much as 150% in the aftermath of the financial crisis.",
        "尽管页岩气让人振奋不已，尽管全球增长萎靡不振，商品价格在金融危机后仍上涨了150%。"
    ],
    [
        "A stop to settlement activities in Palestinian territories is a reasonable demand, and the Palestinians could naturally insist on it in the negotiations.",
        "禁止在巴勒斯坦领土上兴建犹太人定居点的要求是合理的，而巴勒斯坦人自然也会在谈判中坚持这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Powerful business interests will lobby for different policies when they believe that fiscal stimulus yields only inflation than when they believe that it generates higher aggregate demand.",
        "如果强大的商业利益相信财政刺激只能导致通胀而不是引导更高的总需求，那么他们会游说采取不同政策。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, global trade grew faster than world GDP for most of the post-war period.",
        "结果，全球贸易在战后大部分时间里以比全球GDP更快的速度增长。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, this is not much of a consolation.",
        "当然，这种结果谈不上什么安慰。"
    ],
    [
        "On the Israeli side, your faith in the political process was demonstrated recently when you and Sharon decided unilaterally to go against your own ideology and take on the powerful settler movement.",
        "在以色列方面，您和沙龙单方面决定与你们自己的意识形态背道而驰并且毅然撤出犹太人定居点，从而展示了你们对政治进程的信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "They also narrowed credit spreads on private assets, boosted the stock market, weakened the currency, and reduced real interest rates by increasing inflation expectations.",
        "它们也压缩了私人资产的信用利差，提振了股票市场，贬值了货币，并通过提高通货膨胀预期降低了真实利率。"
    ],
    [
        "It was not an earth-shattering policy revelation when she astutely followed reports of Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe by remarking casually on a late-night talk show that she was wearing a chain-store brand, and that “you can get lots of cute things online.”",
        "当她敏锐地在莎拉·佩琳（Sarah Palin）服装费用达15万美元的报道之后，在一次深夜谈话节目中不经意地说她的衣服是一个连锁店品牌，并且说“能在网上找到很多好东西”的时候，这不是一个惊天动地的政策启示。 但是，这仍然是一个有力的宣言——对女性来说尤其如此：我不是南茜·里根（Nancy Reagan），穿着加里安诺（Galliano），住在有警卫的社区里；"
    ],
    [
        "Although President Mauricio Macri’s new government is determined to reduce inflation and achieve price stability, it is politically costly to do so.",
        "尽管总统马克里的新政府决心降低通胀、实现物价稳定，但这样做需要付出高昂的政治代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The pace of catch-up growth declines only gradually over time, as the less advanced economies slowly move closer to the technological frontier.",
        "随着技术较不发达经济体慢慢地接近技术前沿，赶超增长速度也随时间的推移而渐渐下降。"
    ],
    [
        "To that end, the country is also spearheading the effort to reform the global economic architecture, including by pushing for reforms to the International Monetary Fund’s weighted voting system.",
        "在这方面，中国带头推进全球经济机构改革，包括促使国际货币基金组织（IMF）做出加权投票制度改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The last time there was that much CO2 in our atmosphere was three million years ago, when sea levels were 24 meters higher than they are today.",
        "大气二氧化碳浓度上一次达到如此高水平是在300万年前，当时的海平面比现在高24米。"
    ],
    [
        "Potential army recruits were turned away if they had tooth decay or missing teeth, because they would be unable to bite open a powder cartridge for a musket or use their teeth to remove a grenade’s safety clip; they would also struggle to eat properly.",
        "有蛀牙或少牙的年轻人不能参军，因为他们可能无法用牙咬开步枪火药盒或手榴弹安全夹； 他们连吃饭也有困难。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the vast majority of the world’s strongest economies are allied with the US.",
        "事实上，世界上最强盛经济体绝大多数都是美国的盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "The NWF, though not yet officially a “sovereign wealth fund,” is already among the 10 largest such funds, rivaling the Brunei Investment Agency.",
        "国家福利基金（NWF）虽然还不是一个正式的“主权财富基金”，但是已经位居类似基金的前十位，和文莱投资局（Brunei Investment Agency）媲美。"
    ],
    [
        "In their book Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argue that societies with political arrangements that concentrate power in the hands of a few seldom excel at innovation and growth, because innovators have no guarantee they will keep the fruits of their labors.",
        "在《国家为什么失败》（Why Nations Fail）一书中，达伦·阿西莫格鲁（Daron Acemoglu）和詹姆斯·罗宾逊（James A. Robinson）指出，政治安排让权力集中在一小撮人手中的社会往往不擅长创新和增长，因为创新者得不到获得劳动果实的保证。"
    ],
    [
        "As were all previous administrations since the founding of Israel, US government leaders must be in the forefront of achieving this long-delayed goal.",
        "正如以色列建国后所有的前任政府一样，美国政府领导人必须一马当先，实现这一拖延良久的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "At the very least, France and Germany are demanding that the Bush administration openly admit to its failure and the need for help.",
        "最低限度，法德政府也要求布什政府公开承认失误和寻求帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Only in a full-blown crisis can popular opinion effectively determine who becomes leader.",
        "只有在爆发全面危机的情况下，公众观点才有可能真正决定谁成为领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "A tiny minority of such men might lash out in desperation.",
        "这些人中的极少数都因绝望而走上了邪路。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the leading edge of that dénouement is the impending decision on the next round of Greek aid, which threatens to break the mold on the scale of official debt forgiveness, defy the IMF’s presumed insulation from default, and fundamentally alter the eurozone’s legal framework.",
        "时至今日，最终结局的前奏就是下一轮希腊援助决策的下达，这有可能打破官方债务减免规模的原有模式，违抗国际货币基金组织定下的违约隔离措施，并从根本上改变欧元区的法律框架。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to remain a country that punches above its weight diplomatically, it is in France’s interest to operate through international organizations rather than to rely on bilateral relationships.",
        "为了维持一个在外交上已不堪重负的国家，通过国际组织进行操作而不是依赖双边关系更符合法国的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Inequality and the Internet",
        "不平等性与互联网"
    ],
    [
        "The collective nature of scientific validation also provides guarantees against capture by special interests.",
        "科学验证的集体性质同样保证了科学研究不受特殊利益群体的左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, America’s gun laws contribute to the highest incidence of violent deaths among advanced countries, and its dependence on the automobile underpins a high rate of highway fatalities.",
        "与此同时，美国的枪支法律导致其称为发达国家中暴力致死事件最多的一个，而其对汽车的依赖则导致了高速公路致命事故率的高企。"
    ],
    [
        "It is fake reform, brought to us by an alt-fact administration and a party that has lost its economic bearings.",
        "这是一个另类事实（alt-fact）政府和一个已经丧失了经济担当的政党带给我们的假改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Regional rivalries and past history mean that Ethiopia has few natural allies in the region.",
        "区域竞争和过去的历史意味着埃塞俄比亚在非洲没有多少天然的盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem, as China Securities Regulatory Commission Chairman Xiao Gang recently lamented, is that such talent is not widely available in the country; those who possess it tend to seek higher pay elsewhere, worry about the limits of the authorities’ market-friendly approach, or even feel vulnerable to corruption accusations.",
        "正如中国证监会主席肖刚及其它资深官员及市场人士最近感叹，中国这样的人才太少； 具备这种才能的人更愿意在其它地方赚取更高收入，他们也担心当局市场化 改革是否会收到限制，甚至害怕卷入腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – Despite China’s widely discussed economic slowdown, annual GDP growth remains above 7%, implying little cause for alarm – at least for now.",
        "发自米兰——尽管外界对中国经济减速多有议论，但年度GDP增长依然超过了7%，暗示着——至少目前来说——还没有什么要拉响警报的。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the biggest TFR declines in recent years have been in developing countries.",
        "4个孩子。 不过，近几年来，总体生育率下降最明显的是发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But finding something satisfying to do with our time seems inevitably to entail doing some sort of work: “meaningful leisure” wears thin after a while.",
        "找到能让我们满意地消耗时间的途径免不了包括做些工作：“有意义的闲暇”不消多久便消散了。"
    ],
    [
        "The doves are furious about the pre-announcement, and some hawks – perhaps nostalgic for the more collegial style of Wim Duisenberg – regard Trichet’s move as “showing off” and “taking control.”",
        "对预先宣告，鸽派感到恼火不已，而一些鹰派成员，也许是留恋德伊森贝赫更注重权力共享的风格，认为特里歇的举动是“炫耀”，是“控制”。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge for policymakers will thus be to ensure that the creation of new jobs in these competitive enterprises keeps pace with the job losses arising from higher gas prices and the elimination of subsidies for coal production.",
        "因此，决策者面临的挑战是确保这些高竞争力企业创造新岗位的速度能够超过提高气价和取消煤炭生产补贴所导致的就业岗位减少。"
    ],
    [
        "The field is in the process of gaining a better understanding of a host of complex systems within individual cells.",
        "上述研究领域试图更好地了解个体细胞内一系列复杂的系统过程。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – When graffiti appeared last spring on a wall near Tunisia’s interior ministry reading “Thank you, Facebook,” it was not just praise for a social-media company that had facilitated the country’s uprising.",
        "纽约——去年春天当突尼斯内政部附近的墙上出现“谢谢你，Facebook”的涂鸦时，其意义远远超出了对推动该国起义的这家社交媒体公司的赞许。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the US, in the face of slow growth, was content to sustain exceptionally high levels of consumption at the expense of personal savings, inflating a massive housing bubble that burst with a very large and deeply disturbing bang.",
        "反之，面临增长缓慢问题的美国则乐于维持极高的消费水平，但这样的代价是个人储蓄下降、房地产泡沫越吹越大，并在破灭后留下了满目疮痍。"
    ],
    [
        "If we push interest rates up, Greenspan thought, millions of Americans would become unemployed, to no one’s benefit.",
        "格林斯潘认为，一旦利率上调，数以百万计的美国人将丢掉饭碗，这对大家都无益处；"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the turmoil has had less obvious, but equally alarming, downstream effects.",
        "不仅如此，国内混乱所产生的下游影响虽然不那么显著，但却同样惊人。"
    ],
    [
        "At a conference last December, I asked SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro when her agency was planning to reintroduce the rule.",
        "在去年12月的一次会议中，我询问SEC主席夏皮罗（Mary Schapiro），她的手下准备何时重新实施该规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan’s support has spawned two incarnations of the Taliban: the Afghan Taliban, sponsored by the Pakistani military, and the Pakistani Taliban, the Pakistani military’s nemesis.",
        "巴基斯坦的支持产生了两个塔利班：巴基斯坦军方支持的阿富汗塔利班和巴基斯坦军方的敌人巴基斯坦塔利班。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, the financial resources available for investment were constrained by national savings.",
        "在过去，可用于投资的金融资源受一国的国民储蓄制约。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent evidence suggesting that Zika might be transmitted sexually adds extra urgency to making male and female condoms and other contraceptives widely available.",
        "最新证据显示，寨卡病毒可能经由性途径传播，这更加增加了普及男用和女用避孕套和其他避孕手段的紧迫性。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Henderson managed to turn a bad hand into a winning one, with a key insight.",
        "）但亨德森成功地利用一项关键洞见用一手烂牌打出一个胜仗。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the most likely scenario is a combination of both dynamics.",
        "当然，最有可能的情景是两者的组合。"
    ],
    [
        "One in three of the world’s unicorns (start-ups valued at more than $1 billion) is Chinese, and the country’s cloud providers hold the world record for computing efficiency.",
        "全世界1/3的独角兽企业（估值超过10亿美元的创业公司）都来自中国，同时，中国科技企业的运算效率依然保持着世界纪录。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the coming months, as policymakers face intensifying financial volatility, we will see some clues concerning how things will play out.",
        "但在未来几个月中，决策者面临着金融波动加剧的局面，他们将得到一些事态将如何变化的线索。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s do it now before the chance slips away when the next round of crises hits.",
        "让我们在下一次危机来袭而让机遇流失之前立刻行动吧。"
    ],
    [
        "(“GMOs” are “genetically modified organisms,” itself a misleading and often unfairly stigmatized non-category, circumscribing a universe of organisms modified with the most modern and precise techniques of genetic engineering.)",
        "（“转基因生物”本身就是一个误导性的、常常受到莫名指责的非分类（non-category），包括各种用最现代、最精确的遗传工程技术改良的生物。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Accidents have also occurred when nuclear reactors are shut down for refueling or to move spent nuclear fuel into storage.",
        "在核反应堆停机补充核燃料或者移除核废料进行储藏的过程中也不乏事故。"
    ],
    [
        "Her ties to Brazil’s huge evangelical churches, and her unwillingness to break with them on issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and drug policy, alienate many voters.",
        "她与巴西庞大的福音教派的关系，以及她的不愿与他们在堕胎、同性婚姻和毒品政策等问题上决裂让她失去了许多选票。"
    ],
    [
        "But, just as Japan’s post-war economic model became the template for the Asian economic miracles of recent decades, the reforms currently being implemented by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (“Abenomics”) may offer Asian economies a path back to strong growth.",
        "但是，正如日本战后经济模式成为近几十年来亚洲经济奇迹的样板后，首相安倍晋三正在实施的改革（“安倍经济学”）或许能给亚洲经济体带来一条重回强劲增长之路。"
    ],
    [
        "France, of all countries, would avoid the trap that snared the other great Western republic claiming to be a beacon of freedom in the world.",
        "在世界各国中，法国可以避免其他自称世界自由灯塔的西方伟大共和国深陷其中的陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging economies have watched the leveraged power of investors distort the price-formation process in crisis-stricken advanced economies.",
        "新兴经济体目睹了投资者的杠杆力量扭曲深陷危机的发达经济体的价格形成。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides, turning back the clock is impossible.",
        "然而，时光不可能倒转。"
    ],
    [
        "Previous loans came due, while cash-flow needs grew.",
        "此前的贷款逐渐到期，而现金流需求又在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "If this turns out to be the beginning of a limited Sino-Indian rapprochement, and if other rivals in the region follow suit, then the BRI could end up being a landmark policy indeed.",
        "如果事实证明这是中印局部和解的开端，而该地区的其他对手也从善如流，那么“一带一路”可能最终成为一个具有里程碑意义的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposal did not entail any fines; rather, it focused on the stage before fines would be considered.",
        "该建议不包括任何罚款； 相反，它的重点是考虑罚款之前的阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "And, by remaining dogged in its efforts to root out official graft, it has demonstrated its will to do what is needed to ensure that China succeeds.",
        "此外，中国政府不懈地根除官员贪污，也表明它愿意采取必要措施确保中国改革的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "What Good Is an Arab Military Alliance?",
        "阿拉伯军事同盟有什么益处？"
    ],
    [
        "Their leaders maintained this system – and its borders – as the best available.",
        "它们的领导人维持了这一体系以及边界。"
    ],
    [
        "Our investments are aimed at overcoming structural problems that have plagued the region.",
        "我们的投资目的在于克服一直困扰东欧经济的结构性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "There are two reasons why this has not happened – yet.",
        "这一幕尚且没有发生，原因有二。"
    ],
    [
        "The central figure in pushing for the development of an American acceptance market was Paul Warburg, the immigrant younger brother of a great Hamburg banker who was the personal adviser to Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II.",
        "开创美国承兑市场的核心人物是保罗·沃伯格，保罗是曾任德皇威廉二世私人顾问的那位伟大的汉堡银行家移民美国的亲弟弟。"
    ],
    [
        "The most prominent example is money-market mutual funds.",
        "最著名的例子是货币市场共同基金。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has also hounded defense contractors for cost overruns, berating the aerospace giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin on separate occasions for producing planes that are too expensive.",
        "特朗普还借口成本过高打击防务承包商，在不同场合分别严厉指责航空巨头波音和洛希德马丁生产的飞机太贵。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis does provide a political opportunity for bold moves on this front in many countries; but structural reforms generally will not generate growth and jobs immediately (one exception is permitting shops to open longer).",
        "这场危机也确实为许多国家提供了在该方向上做大动作的政治机会； 但总体而言，结构性改革不会立刻产生增长和就业机会（除了允许商店延长营业时间这一措施）。"
    ],
    [
        "The military rebelled, and Korekiyo was assassinated in 1936.",
        "军方采取了下克上，高桥于1936年遭到暗杀。"
    ],
    [
        "And Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has been too busy trying to fend off Sanders’s challenge.",
        "而民主党阵营的领跑者希拉里·克林顿一直太忙而没有回应桑德斯的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "When you’ve been making the coffee forever, it’s nice to imagine leading the free world.",
        "如果你以前一直在家里煮咖啡，想象能够领导自由世界一定是件美妙的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, they can interact with any number of people from anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds on their smart phones.",
        "但今天他们却可以借助智能手机在短短几秒之内与任何国家的任何人实现互动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Inexorable Logic of the Sharing Economy",
        "共享经济的必然逻辑"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of aligning himself with Khamenei, as expected, Ahmadinejad began to promote a nationalist, anti-clerical agenda, effectively using Khamenei’s resources to challenge the supreme leader’s authority and to establish his own economic network and sphere of influence.",
        "内贾德不仅没有像预想的那样和哈梅内伊联手，反而开始推动民族主义的反教计划，有效地利用哈梅内伊的资源挑战这位最高领袖的权威，同时建立自己的势力范围和经济网络。"
    ],
    [
        "But momentum is flagging, both on implementing the agreed reforms and on progress in areas like derivatives and shadow banking.",
        "但落实约定改革和在衍生工具及影子银行等领域取得进展的动力正在削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "A comprehensive euro fix will surely arrive for some of the countries at some time, but not for all of the countries anytime soon.",
        "”完整的欧元修复计划会在某个时候在某些国家出现，这是肯定的，但不可能一下子在所有国家出现。"
    ],
    [
        "The State Department estimates that its employees are in direct communication with more than 15 million people worldwide.",
        "国务院估计其工作人员在世界各地与超过1500万人直接沟通。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ghost of Inflation Future",
        "未来的通胀幽灵"
    ],
    [
        "Unnecessary Instability",
        "毫无必要的不稳定"
    ],
    [
        "The region should be armed with pens, not just swords.",
        "中东地区必须用笔而不仅仅是用剑武装起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Disrupting Putin’s Game Plan",
        "干扰普京的游戏计划"
    ],
    [
        "As for Israel and its neighbors, an agreement on the Golan Heights has already been prepared, but needs external mediation and pressure if it is to be signed.",
        "至于以色列和它的邻居，一份戈兰高地的协约已经被准备好了，但是需要外部的调解和压力才能最终被签订。"
    ],
    [
        "This has important implications.",
        "这一点有着非常重要的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "The Post-Nuclear Transition",
        "后核时代变革"
    ],
    [
        "Individual countries like Greece have limited incentive to invest in controls insofar as refugees are only passing through.",
        "目前，希腊等个体国家没什么动力投资于边境控制，因为对它们来说，难民只是过境。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, rapid demand-fueled growth in the US, together with the strong dollar, could contribute to a much-needed rebalancing of the eurozone.",
        "因此美国需求激增的快速增长加上强势美元可能有助于实现欧元区急需的（国与国之间经济）再平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, at younger ages, there are fewer cultural barriers to education for girls, and there is less pressure for children to contribute labor.",
        "此外，针对幼童的女性教育文化壁垒最低，儿童的劳动压力也最小。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, despite their own experiences under communism and the outcry within their borders over Edward Snowden's revelations of Internet snooping, the governments of Central Europe have not taken a strong stand to rein in their own authorities.",
        "但尽管有过共产主义经历且斯诺登披露的网络侦听事件引起舆论哗然，中欧政府都没有就遏制自身权力采取有力的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "A growing body of evidence, highlighted in the World Bank Group’s recent Global Financial Development Report,shows that financial institutions and markets have a profound influence on economic development, poverty alleviation, and the stability of economies worldwide, and that a pragmatic assessment of the state’s role in finance is warranted.",
        "越来越多的证据表明——世界银行最新的《全球金融发展报告》对此做了强调——金融机构和市场对经济发展、消除贫困和世界经济的稳定有着深远影响，国家对于金融的务实态度应该得到保障。"
    ],
    [
        "With world energy prices at record highs, it makes sense for oil economies to run surpluses, thereby saving for when oil supplies eventually peter out.",
        "在世界能源价格处于历史高位的时候，石油经济体取得顺差从而为石油供应最终枯竭后进行储备是有意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "Countering these factors will require companies to figure out how to sustain the heightened states of awareness and understanding that bring biases to light.",
        "抵御这些因素需要公司搞清楚如何保持高度清醒的认识，让偏见无处藏身。"
    ],
    [
        "Just when recent electoral results in Argentina, Peru, and Venezuela, coupled with term limits for incumbents in Bolivia and Ecuador, suggested that South America was reaching the end of a cycle of left-wing populism, the US – and much of Europe – seems to be entering a cycle of right-wing populism.",
        "阿根廷、秘鲁和委内瑞拉的最新选举结果，以及玻利维亚和厄瓜多尔领导人任期的即将结束，表明南美正在接近左翼民粹主义周期的终点，而与此同时，美国——以及欧洲大部——似乎正在进入右翼民粹主义周期。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, despite South Africa’s strident political discourse, strong leadership and stakeholder engagement enabled social partners to find common ground.",
        "虽然过去南非的政治争论也相当激烈，但强有力的领导层以及利益相关者的参与使社会伙伴关系找到了共同点。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, international-relations scholars use the famous meeting between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1938 as a model of how appeasing a power bent on expansionism can be futile (or dangerous).",
        "比如国际关系学者就用1938年英国首相张伯伦和希特勒在慕尼黑的会议作为一个模型来解释对一个扩张主义政权使用绥靖政策可能会是无效（或危险）的。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, this may entail delivering assistance through non-governmental organizations.",
        "在某些情况下，这就会要求通过非政府组织提供援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, I believe that the economic benefits resulting from the corporate tax changes will outweigh the adverse effects of the increased debt.",
        "不过我相信公司税收变动所带来的经济效益将超越债务增加的不利影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Poverty and starvation still pushed migrants off the land in poor countries; now, however, the pull factor was not free land, but better jobs in developed countries.",
        "贫困和饥荒仍然在驱使移民离开穷国； 但是，如今，移民的动力不再是免费的土地，而是发达国家更好的工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "One is that domestic saving in the US increases. But this is unlikely, at least in the near future, given President Bush's ambitious fiscal plans and the continuing war in Iraq.",
        "一种是增加美国的国内储蓄，但至少在不远的将来，考虑到布什总统雄心勃勃的财政计划和连绵不断的伊拉克战争，这种可能性算得上是微乎其微。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, at the UN General Assembly, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem recently accused the US-led coalition in Syria of abetting terrorist organizations, including the Islamic State.",
        "因此，在联合国大会上，叙利亚外交部长瓦利德·穆阿里木（Walid al-Moallem）指责美国领导的叙利亚联盟支持包括伊斯兰国在内的恐怖组织。"
    ],
    [
        "If Hollande’s tax hikes – on income (including a temporary 75% tax rate for the country’s wealthiest households), dividends, capital gains, and capital assets – are not enough to deter entrepreneurs, the cost of hiring workers and the difficulty of firing them remain powerful disincentives.",
        "如果奥朗德的增税计划——提高所得税（包括对法国最富有家庭征收75%的临时税收）、红利税、资本利得税和资本资产税率——还不足以妨碍企业家精神的话，雇用工人的成本以及解雇工人的困难也构成了强大的反向激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Powell is not a PhD economist like current Fed Chair Janet Yellen and her predecessor, Ben Bernanke, he has used his years as an “ordinary” governor at the Fed to gain a deep knowledge of the key issues he will face.",
        "尽管鲍威尔不如现任美联储主席耶伦（Janet Yellen）和她的前任伯南克（Ben Bernanke）那样是一位拥有博士学位的经济学家，但凭借多年担任美联储“普通”理事的经验，他积累了关于他将面对的重要问题的深度知识。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the past ten years have witnessed a painful setback in many areas.",
        "不幸的是，过去的十年见证了这一进程在许多方面的严重挫折。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s defenders would say that such an outcome is purely hypothetical – and irrelevant – for there is no conflict between stabilizing inflation and sustaining the appropriate level of economic activity.",
        "替欧洲央行辩护的人会说，这样的结果纯粹是假想——而且毫无根据——因为稳定物价和保持适当的经济活动水平之间不存在冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this trend may not last forever.",
        "当然，这一趋势可能无法永远持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "The opposition battle cry is \"No\" to Mubarak's re-election and \"No\" to passing the presidency to Gamal.",
        "反对派的斗争口号是阻止穆巴拉克再次连任，并阻止他将大权传给贾迈勒。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, despite a slight improvement, uncertainty lingers.",
        "在美国，尽管情况有些许改善，但不确定性仍未消除。"
    ],
    [
        "The old adage that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” applies with particular force to monetary policy.",
        "古语说得好，“防患于未然”，这在货币政策领域的确是再贴切不过的。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the political economy of austerity has led to sub-optimal outcomes.",
        "不幸的是，紧缩的政治经济学导致了次优结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump also repeatedly incited violence during the campaign, while evincing a bottomless affection for authoritarian leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin.",
        "特朗普还在竞选期间一再煽动暴力冲突，并表达了对独裁领袖俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京无穷无尽的仰慕。"
    ],
    [
        "European voters are now punishing social-democratic parties, which have become weaker than at any time since World War I. Instead, a fiscally responsible center-right alignment of political forces has taken power in all but three of the 27 EU countries.",
        "欧洲选民现在正在惩罚社会民主党，使该派进入了自一战以来最惨淡的时期。 与此相反，在财政上更加负责的中右翼联盟大获全胜，在27个欧盟国家中的24个取得了执政权。"
    ],
    [
        "But this must be a debate between people, and within people.",
        "但是，这种讨论必须在人民之间而且只有在人民内部进行。"
    ],
    [
        "He then asked Nigeria’s National Assembly to write off $13 million of Liberia’s $43 million bilateral debt after Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf withdrew her offer to host the new command.",
        "在利比里亚总统Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf撤销了作为新指挥部东道国的提议后，他又请求尼日利亚国会勾销了利比里亚所欠4300万美元双边债务中的1300万。"
    ],
    [
        "The announcement came during “Fairtrade Fortnight,” a two-week promotion of Fairtrade products that included speaking tours by farmers from developing countries, telling Britons how Fairtrade has assisted their communities.",
        "这一宣布是在“公平贸易双周”期间作出的。 这一双周活动促进公平贸易产品，包括来自发展中国家的农民的演讲，他们告诉英国人公平贸易如何援助了他们的社区。"
    ],
    [
        "As with the HIPC Initiative of which it is a part, the MDRI will do more than reduce debt: it will free up resources that can be devoted to poverty reduction and economic development.",
        "作为HIPC的一部分，MDRI所作的不仅仅是削减债务。 它还将释放出可以用于减少贫困以及经济发展的各种资源。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a battle we cannot afford to lose.",
        "这是一场我们输不起的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s what happened 30 years ago, when economic reform began. And it needs to happen again today. For China, a soft landing will provide a window of opportunity to press ahead with the formidable task of increasingly urgent economic rebalancing.",
        "事实上战略转型贯穿了整个现代中国，30年前经济改革开始时就发生过一次，而今也必须再次实现这一点。 对中国来说，软着陆将提供一个机会之窗，使其得以推进艰巨而又日渐紧迫的经济再平衡进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King, Jr., played crucial roles in transforming people’s identity and aspirations.",
        "圣雄甘地、纳尔逊·曼德拉和马丁·路德·金在改变人民心身方面均取得了巨大成就。 这么说也不是看低美国外交政策中的变革型领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "In his acceptance speech, Abbas referred to the leaders of the first Intifada, telling the congress that they drew the guidelines that have become the movement’s political platform. Leaders like Barghouti, former preventative security chief Jibril Rajoub, and Gaza’s Dahlan are now in the driver’s seat of the Fatah movement.",
        "在就职演说上，阿巴斯提到了一些早期暴力抵抗运动领导人，并向与会代表指出他们提出的指导方针业已成为法塔赫的政治基础，而巴尔豪迪，还有前安全部队长官吉布里·拉贾布以及来自加沙地带的达赫兰这些抵抗分子，现在都已经成为了法塔赫的掌舵人。"
    ],
    [
        "The banking sector is still digging out from the bad loans extended in the aftermath of the global meltdown in 2008.",
        "银行业仍在清理2008年全球危机后遗留下来的不良债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The war has pulverized Iraqi society, dissolving it into an ethno-sectarian patchwork.",
        "这一战争把伊拉克社会碾成了粉末，各个教派分化林立。"
    ],
    [
        "This is vital.",
        "这点至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But earlier versions identified the islets as Korean territory.",
        "但早先的版本将独岛列岛认作韩国领土。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of all of us, Europe must continue to speak out – even more forcibly than it has in the past.",
        "未了其他人的利益，欧洲必须继续如此发言，甚至比以前还要强烈。"
    ],
    [
        "It was this strategy’s untenability that led in 2011 to the fall of regimes – in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, and elsewhere – that pursued it.",
        "正是这种策略的不可持续性导致了2011年奉行该策略的突尼斯、埃及、利比亚、叙利亚和其他国家政权倒台。"
    ],
    [
        "That share climbed rapidly in the aftermath of the euro’s introduction.",
        "欧元引入后，外债比重迅速上升。"
    ],
    [
        "And the global economy is enjoying broad, synchronized growth beyond what anyone expected.",
        "全球经济也正享受着超出所有人预期的，广泛而同步的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that Europe’s banks need massive amounts of new capital is by now generally accepted.",
        "眼下，人们已经接受了欧洲银行需要大笔新资本这一事实。"
    ],
    [
        "If one adds suppression of air defenses, such a strike might involve roughly 600 targets – far from surgical.",
        "考虑到还要镇压防空武装，打击的目标大约有600个——远远谈不上一劳永逸。"
    ],
    [
        "The real danger is not that we shall aim too high and miss.",
        "真正的危险并非我们好高骛远、无法达成目的。"
    ],
    [
        "The currency was in theory governed by a rules-based Currency Board, which the British invented for their smaller colonies.",
        "港元在理论上由照章办事的货币局管理，这是英国人为小块殖民地发明的货币管理机制。"
    ],
    [
        "How did Ukraine reach this state of cynicism?",
        "乌克兰怎么陷入了这样尴尬的境地？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, cooperatives account for a significant share of GDP in many countries, and an especially high share of the agricultural and consumer sectors.",
        "此外，在许多国家，合作社在GDP中占有很大份额，尤其是在农业部门和消费者部门所占份额更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Plagiarism is the sin of the classroom; forgery is the sin of the laboratory.",
        "剽窃是讲堂之罪； 伪造是实验室之罪。"
    ],
    [
        "The program is thus really equivalent to a cash transfer.",
        "因此，该计划其实等价于现金转移支付。"
    ],
    [
        "So democracy in an independent Palestinian state is possible.",
        "因此在一个独立的巴勒斯坦国内实现民主政体是有可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, over the past 6-7 years, strong GDP growth in the US and Great Britain has been offset by staggering debt.",
        "第二，在过去六七年间，庞大的债务抵销了美英两国强劲的GDP增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the time, there is a way to opt out of providing personal data, even if it is sometimes buried deep in a complex set of privacy settings.",
        "多数情况下，用户可以选择不提供个人数据，即使有时相关选项被隐藏在一系列复杂的隐私设置之中。"
    ],
    [
        "But the announcement only served to underscore how little progress has been made.",
        "但这只能说明我们所取得进步是多么小。"
    ],
    [
        "A G-Zero world without leadership and multilateral cooperation is an unstable equilibrium for global economic prosperity and security.",
        "对于全球经济的繁荣与安全而言，缺乏领导力和多边合作的G0世界，是一个不稳定均衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, the improvements to Iran’s economy following the 2015 nuclear deal have fallen well short of expectations.",
        "尽管如此，2015年核协议后的伊朗经济改善速度仍远低于预期。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is simple: Americans’ longstanding suspicion of “big government” morphed into a kind of political self-hatred, with policymakers and citizens alike led to believe that government is at its best when it does not govern.",
        "原因很简单：长期以来，美国人一直对“大政府”持狐疑态度，这演变为一种政治自恨（self-hatred），不管是决策者还是公民，都相信政府不管政，才是最好的。"
    ],
    [
        "From Resource Curse to Blessing",
        "资源福祸辩"
    ],
    [
        "The likelihood, though, is that the economic and political problems that were so manifest in the US and Europe in 2011 – and which have so far been tremendously mismanaged – will only grow worse in 2012.",
        "但是，最有可能的是，2011年美国和欧洲的早已是众人皆知、且迄今为止治理大为不善的经济和政治问题将在2012年继续恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Under some conditions, individual behavioral aberrations cancel one another out, making crowds more predictable than individuals.",
        "在一定的条件下，个人行为的反常会彼此抵消，因此群体行为比个体行为更易预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s tools for improving health are so powerful and inexpensive that health conditions could be reasonably good even in poor countries if policymakers spent even relatively little in the right places.",
        "如今改善医疗的工具强大无比而且低廉，如果决策者把即使是一点钱用在该用的地方，穷国的医疗条件也可以是不错的。"
    ],
    [
        "At the upcoming summit, leaders should reiterate the importance of the EDA, whose budget has remained frozen at the insistence of certain member states.",
        "在即将召开的峰会中，领导人们应该重申EDA的重要性。 由于几个成员国的抵制，EDA预算一直处于冻结状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks are bailing out bankrupt companies, while private firms – especially small and medium-size enterprises – continue to get squeezed.",
        "银行救活了破产的公司，而民营企业——特别是中小企业——仍然饱受挤压。"
    ],
    [
        "An ominous new word has crept into the life sciences and biomedical research: “biosecurity.”",
        "一个不祥的新词已经悄悄潜入生命科学和生物制药研究：“生物安全”（biosecirity）。"
    ],
    [
        "According to former Obama administration Chief Economist Christina Romer and David Romer of the University of California, Berkeley, even permanent transfer-payment increases provide stimulus for only a few months, and the effect does not spread to employment.",
        "前奥巴马政府首席经济学家克里斯蒂娜·罗默（Christina Romer）和加州大学伯克利分校教授大卫·罗默（David Romer）的研究指出，即使永久性的转移支付增长也只能带来几个月的刺激效应，而且这种影响并不会扩散到就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece has just decided to support the opening of negotiations for Turkey’s entry into the EU in the next twelve years.",
        "希腊人也已经决定在今后十二年内帮助土耳其打开加入欧盟谈判的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Their fate is a painful example of how inequality not only undermines economic growth and stability – as economists and organizations like the International Monetary Fund are finally acknowledging – but also violates our most cherished notions of what a fair society should look like.",
        "他们的命运是一个惨痛的教训，说明了不平等性不但破坏经济增长和稳定——经济学家和国际货币基金组织（IMF）等组织总算开始承认这一点了——也有悖于我们最珍视的公平社会的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "Private groups using everything from satellite imagery (as in forestry) to the unofficial equivalent of on-site inspections (as in human rights) monitor who is abiding by – or violating – what standard of behavior.",
        "私有组织利用一切手段，从森林卫星图像到人权问题上相当于非正式的现场视察谁在遵守或者违反行为标准。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the crucial questions of twenty-first century politics will be how the world copes with the rise of political Islam.",
        "二十一世纪世界政治的一个重大问题之一就是世界该怎样应对政治伊斯兰的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "But interest rates have been increasing around the world since 2003.",
        "但是世界各国的利率自2003年以来一直呈上升态势。"
    ],
    [
        "But promising more of the same is not the answer.",
        "但承诺更多老方一帖不是解决之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, over 60 million migrant workers from the Asia/Pacific region account for more than half of all remittance flows to developing countries, sending home about $260 billion in 2012.",
        "目前，亚太地区超过6000万赴外务工人员汇出的侨汇占流向发展中国家侨汇总量的一大半，2012年就汇出了2600亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "These are convincing arguments.",
        "这些说法都非常令人信服。"
    ],
    [
        "In Lebanon, for example, the arrival of more than one million Syrians has sparked worries that the country’s sectarian balance could be altered, undermining its fragile political system.",
        "比如，在黎巴嫩，一百多万叙利亚人的到来让人们担心该国宗派平衡可能被打破，破坏其脆弱的政治制度。"
    ],
    [
        "These molecular-level systems are at the heart of epigenetics – the study of changes in genetic function that cannot be explained by differences in DNA sequences.",
        "上述分子系统处在试验胚胎学的核心位置——DNA序列差异无法解释的基因功能改变是试验胚胎学的研究内容。"
    ],
    [
        "This divergence is also playing out within the eurozone.",
        "这一分化在欧元区内部也存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Such studies ideally would involve blood, imaging, memory, and medical tests, as well as detailed lifestyle questionnaires filled out by thousands of young and middle-aged people.",
        "这些研究最好包括对数千青年和中年人进行血液、影像、记忆和医学测试以及详细的生活方式问卷调查。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU will remain a minor player in Pakistan.",
        "欧盟在巴基斯坦依然是个次要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the tax law’s unpopularity, it will be interesting to see what happens in the midterm congressional elections this November.",
        "鉴于该税法是如此不受欢迎，我们可以拭目以待今年十一月份的国会中期选举会发生什么样的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Constant shifts in comparative advantages, economies of scale, and transaction costs affect the benefits of accommodating more homogeneous localized preferences.",
        "而比较优势，规模经济和交易成本的不断变化会影响到适应更为同质的本地化偏好所带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "American unilateralism is much less in evidence in the world's other hot spots, such as North Korea and Iran, both because of the costs of the war in Iraq and the realities of the situation in those other regions.",
        "美国的单边主义在北朝鲜和伊朗等其它热点地区远没有如此明显，这既因为伊拉克战争代价惨重，也是其它地区的现实情况使然。"
    ],
    [
        "Since independence, national politics in Malaysia has reinforced group identity, especially among ethnic Malays, an exclusively Muslim community.",
        "自从国家独立以来，马来西亚的国家政治强化了团体身份特征，特别是在全部都是穆斯林社区的原始马来种族。"
    ],
    [
        "The mobile Internet offers the promise of economic progress for billions of emerging-economy citizens at a speed that would otherwise be unimaginable.",
        "移动互联网以难以想象的速度为数十亿新兴经济体民众带来经济增长的曙光。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the main oil exporters are unwilling to subordinate their investment policies to market requirements.",
        "而且，主要石油出口国不愿意将它们的投资政策屈从于市场要求。"
    ],
    [
        "If they are to fulfill their indispensable role in driving forward the transformation that is needed, democratic countries must put respect for basic human rights, such as freedom of speech and peaceful assembly, at the top of their foreign-policy agendas.",
        "如果它们要实现在推动必要的转型中的不可或缺的作用，民主国家就必须尊重基本人权，如言论和和平集会的自由，将它们置于外交政策日程之上。"
    ],
    [
        "If we seize the moment, we can navigate our way out of this crisis and restore strong, sustainable, and balanced global growth.",
        "如果我们能够抓住时机，而偶们可以安度危机并重建强劲、可持续且均衡的全球增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The information contained in the accounts of the business – the information that should shape the market’s views – is to be derived from the market itself.",
        "企业账户中所包含的信息——应该是这些信息决定市场的看法——将由市场本身得到。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in confidential briefings, Nigeria has strongly hinted that it will not tolerate any foreign incursions on a vital and strategic resource in its own backyard.",
        "但在绝密的内部通讯中，尼日利亚强烈暗示它绝不容忍外国在其后院染指这种至关重要的战略资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Senior government officials take their cut of opium revenues or bribes in return for keeping quiet.",
        "政府高官抽取鸦片收入或者贿赂以保持缄默。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, as Harvard’s Jeffrey Frankel has pointed out, regulators increased margin requirements several times this year, making it harder to buy stocks with borrowed money.",
        "此外，哈佛大学的杰弗里·弗兰克尔（Jeffrey Frankel）指出，监管者在今年数次提高保证金要求，使得借钱买股票更加困难。"
    ],
    [
        "We remain hopeful that it will be up to the task.",
        "我们仍然抱有希望，能够游刃有余。"
    ],
    [
        "The country topped the US in auto production in 2009, and remains second only to South Korea in shipbuilding, with 36% of global capacity.",
        "中国的汽车产量在 2009 年超过了美国，而在造船方面仅仅落后于韩国，拿下了全球造船总吨位的 36% 。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who consider themselves to be at the top of the class structure are significantly more globally minded than those who consider themselves to be from the lower classes.",
        "那些自认处于社会顶端的人明显比那些低下阶层人士更具有全球思维。"
    ],
    [
        "Our results provide a surprisingly nuanced picture of Saudi attitudes.",
        "调查的结果显示：沙特人的观点与人们的传统看法间有着很大的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Now these themes have been picked up by Dan Tarullo, an influential member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.",
        "如今，这些问题被极有影响力的美联储董事会成员丹·塔鲁罗（Dan Tarullo）所提出。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori’s daughter, who lost her presidential bid in Peru last month, Park is likely to defy her family’s tragic history.",
        "与上个月在秘鲁竞选中落败的前秘鲁独裁者阿尔贝托·藤森的女儿不同，朴槿惠可能改变其家族悲剧性的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "In an environment of economic volatility like the one in which we find ourselves today, a prudent central bank should do everything it can to raise expected and actual inflation, in order to gain the ability to stabilize the economy in any direction.",
        "在当今经济波动的环境中，审慎的央行应该竭尽全力提高预期和实际通胀，从而获得在任意方向上稳定经济的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "European authorities were confident, however, that if and when the euro ran into a crisis, they would be able to overcome it.",
        "不过欧洲各国对此却信心满满，自认能克服所有的欧元危机。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the biggest causes of harm are the fine particles called PM2.5, with a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers.",
        "最大的损害来源是人们所说的PM2. 5微粒，这种微粒直径还不到2."
    ],
    [
        "In America, at least, 2006 is likely to be another year in which stagnant real wages freeze, or even erode, the living standards of those in the middle.",
        "至少，在美国，2006 年可能又是实际工资无所提高，导致中间阶层的生活水平停滞不前，甚至下滑的一年。"
    ],
    [
        "As a consequence, after the war Japan lost Britain's confidence, which eventually resulted in the end of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.",
        "结果是，战争结束后，日本失去了英国的信任，英日联盟也就此告破。"
    ],
    [
        "Guilty Man",
        "罪人"
    ],
    [
        "Yet facts have been hitting hard.",
        "然而，事实犹如一记重拳。"
    ],
    [
        "The fourth winner, though his absence from the second ballot is a disappointment for him, is François Bayrou.",
        "第四名胜利者是贝胡，尽管他无缘进入第二轮对他而言是极大的失望。"
    ],
    [
        "In their view, the big banks should be funded much more with equity – perhaps as much as 30% of their capitalization.",
        "在他们看来，大银行应具备更多的准备金——大概应占其资本总额的30%。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps some solace can be gained from the fact that technological innovation will also play a key role in reducing the negative impacts on air and water quality.",
        "但或许令人安慰的是，技术创新仍将在减轻对空气和水质量的负面影响方面发挥关键的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "· Weak public finances .",
        "· 公共财政薄弱 。"
    ],
    [
        "It is therefore vitally important to take Syria, an ally of Iran and the patron of spoilers such as Hamas and Hezbollah, out of the war equation.",
        "因此，将叙利亚这个伊朗的盟友和哈马斯、真主党等的资助国从战争等式中删除就变得尤为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The child who dominates on the playground may become a laggard when the context changes to a disciplined classroom.",
        "在操场上呼风唤雨的孩子在循规蹈矩的教室则可能成为一名落后份子。"
    ],
    [
        "It allowed them to overlook (or downplay) the growing list of rights violations and judicial manipulations.",
        "他们因此不惜忽略（或淡化）越来越多的侵权和司法操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "The first one is the EU’s lack of anything that incarnates it.",
        "首先是欧盟缺乏真正的化身。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, FIFA is not a special case: All non-profit and for-profit organizations around the world are expected to abide by this code of conduct.",
        "从这个意义上讲，国际足联并非特例：人们要求同样的行为准则适用于世界各地所有的非盈利及盈利机构。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, members of Congress, business figures, and others have felt put off in his presence – even insulted by his remoteness.",
        "结果，只要有他在场，国会议员、商业人物和其他人就会感到不自在——甚至因为他的疏远感到羞辱。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the US boasts the world’s largest economy, it comprises only one-quarter of global GDP, and possesses roughly one-twentieth of the world’s population.",
        "尽管美国拥有全世界第一大经济，但其GDP只占全球总量的四分之一，人口更是只占全世界的二十分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "By the outbreak of World War I, Britain ranked only fourth among the great powers in terms of military personnel, fourth in terms of GDP, and third in military spending.",
        "一战爆发时，英国的军人数量只在列强中位居第四，GDP也位居第四，军事支出位居第三。"
    ],
    [
        "Elop’s previous experience at Microsoft was undoubtedly also a factor.",
        "埃洛普曾经的微软经历无疑也是一个因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that tumors take several months to grow, biocompatible systems had to be developed that could release proteins and other large-molecular-weight substances slowly and continuously in the body – something that scientists were convinced was impossible.",
        "肿瘤需要几个月才能逐渐长大，因此必须研制出一套生物相容性系统，从而缓慢但持续地在体内释放蛋白质和其他大分子量物质。 科学家们坚信上述目标可以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "While the French Senate recently struck down a similar law, several European countries are pressing ahead.",
        "法国参议院最近驳回了类似的法律，但不少欧洲国家正在这个方向前进。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why I have set up the Nammu Bengaluru (“Our Bangalore”) Awards.",
        "这就是我设置Nammu Bangaluru（“我们的班加罗尔”）奖的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to common misperceptions, German Chancellor Angela Merkel acted on the basis of moral values, not demographic self-interest, in letting in about one million refugees this year.",
        "与常见的误解不同，德国总理默克尔今年之所以让一百万左右的难民进入德国，不是基于人口因素上的自利行为，而是基于道德价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Thaksin’s ownership is a source of considerable pride, especially outside elite circles in Bangkok.",
        "他信有了这样一支球队给特别是曼谷精英阶层以外的人带来巨大的自豪感。"
    ],
    [
        "Dog Days For The Super Dollar",
        "超级美元的衰败"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – This month marks the one-year anniversary of the contested re-election of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which spurred the country’s largest popular uprisings since the 1979 Islamic revolution.",
        "发自华盛顿特区——到本月为止，距离伊朗强硬派总统艾哈迈迪内贾德充满争议的连任已经过去整整一年了，而此人亲手镇压的则是自1979年伊斯兰革命以来最大规模的群众起义运动。"
    ],
    [
        "To provide an alternative to the emotional appeal of populist nationalism, the Union must become more responsive to its citizens’ demands.",
        "要想提供民粹民族主义情感诱惑之外的其他选择，欧盟必须更快地响应其民众要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Salman has since been shifting governmental responsibility to Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud.",
        "萨勒曼随后将治国重任交给了王储穆罕默德·本·纳耶夫（Muhammad bin Nayef）和副王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼（Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud）。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, a large part of urban “middle India” has revolted against the tyranny of daily corruption.",
        "实事求是地说，城市“中产印度”中有很大一部分人都曾参与过抵抗日常腐败暴行的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is the climate of expectations.",
        "而问题在于围绕这一预期的气氛究竟有多浓厚。"
    ],
    [
        "Bannon’s braggadocio took him to the most dangerous terrain on which to confront Trump: the president’s obsession with his election victory.",
        "班农的自负也把他带到了与特朗普对抗的最危险地带：总统对选举胜利的痴迷。"
    ],
    [
        "There is something deeply unappealing about yoking countries together when being unyoked is more advantageous.",
        "当分道扬镳更有利时，将各国强行捆绑在一起味同嚼蜡。"
    ],
    [
        "The regional dimension of prosperity has long been ignored in the Arab world.",
        "繁荣的地区维度在阿拉伯世界长期受到忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is odd to claim that a speculative danger should prevent the ECB from fighting one that is all too real.",
        "但更大的概率是猜测的威胁将阻止欧洲央行与实实在在的危险搏斗。"
    ],
    [
        "This is one of the major reasons that forests in Europe and the United States have recovered – and it is why many forests in developing countries are threatened.",
        "这也是欧美国家森林恢复和发展中国家森林被毁的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is depressing to hear that many university departments are still in denial.",
        "）但是令人沮丧的是许多大学的经济学部仍在否认这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "They went on to spring the trap of Operation Uranus, the code name for the planned encirclement and annihilation of the German Sixth Army and Fourth Panzer Army.",
        "他们开始准备天王星行动的陷阱。 天王星行动是围歼德国第六集团军和第四庄家集团军的计划的代号。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB has also promised to support other countries’ bond markets in the event of a Greek accident.",
        "欧洲央行同时也承诺：如果其他国家债券市场出现希腊这样的状况也会给予同样的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "“Had the English left everything to itself,” he wrote, “the Belgians would be still manufacturing cloth for the English, [and] England would still have been the sheepyard for the [Hanseatic League].”",
        "“如果英国人把所有东西都留给自己，”他写道，“那么比利时人现在仍在为英国人做衣服，（而）英国现在仍是（汉萨同盟）的大羊圈。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe the best news about CAFTA is that the US Congress is reluctant to take it on during an election year.",
        "可能关于CAFTA最好的消息就是美国国会并不情愿在大选之年将其纳入议事日程。"
    ],
    [
        "Optimists point out that there have always been new jobs for people replaced by technology; but, as the robot revolution accelerates, doubts about how well this will work out continue to grow.",
        "乐观主义者指出，被技术所取代的人们总会找到新的工作； 但随着机器人革命的加速，人们日益质疑这种新工作是否存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor could it conduct credible negotiations with Israel or deliver necessary services to ordinary Palestinians.",
        "这样的机构也无法与以色列举行可信的谈判，同样不能为普普通通的巴勒斯坦人提供必要的服务。"
    ],
    [
        "To an important degree, intelligence tests determine the academic and professional careers of millions of people in many countries.",
        "对于世界许多国家数以百万计的人而言，智力测验在很大程度上决定了他们的学术和职业生涯。"
    ],
    [
        "It included opening crossings between Gaza and the West Bank, an airport and seaport in Gaza, opening the border with Egypt, and transferring the greenhouses abandoned by Israeli settlers into Arab hands.",
        "这一方案包括开放加沙和西岸的道口，在加沙建立港口和机场，开放与埃及的边界以及把以色列定居者遗弃的温室转交给阿拉伯人。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other side, however, remains the vast population of powerless Iraqis, including widows and divorced or abandoned women with no one to provide for them and their children.",
        "但是，在另一方面却是大量无助的伊拉克人，包括那些寡妇、离婚或者遭到抛弃的妇女。 没有人帮助她们和她们的孩子。"
    ],
    [
        "According to some back-of-the-envelope calculations, the wealth of the world’s 50 richest people totals $1.5 trillion, equivalent to 175% of Indonesia’s GDP, or a little more than Japan’s foreign-exchange reserves.",
        "简单计算就可知道，世界最富有的50人总共拥有1. 5万亿美元，相当于印尼GDP的175%，略高于日本的外汇储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Gone are the days when CEOs did the job and were paid a wage.",
        "CEO完成本职工作并领取工资的日子已经一去不复返了。"
    ],
    [
        "Both have strong state-level governments and balkanized regulatory and energy supply systems.",
        "两国都拥有强力的国家政府，拥有各自为政的规章制度和能源供应系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s newly assertive Sunni Arabs perceive Israel and the West as being only one threat, the other comprising the so-called “Shia crescent” – the arc of land extending from Lebanon to Iran through Syria and Iraq that is inhabited by the allegedly heretical Shia.",
        "该地区新近咄咄逼人的逊尼派阿拉伯人认为以色列和西方只是一个威胁，而另一个威胁则包括所谓的“什叶派新月”，也就是从黎巴嫩到伊朗经过叙利亚和伊拉克由被指称为异教徒居住的弧形的大片土地。"
    ],
    [
        "Most products require many inputs, and, in most cases, one raw material will just not make a large enough difference.",
        "大部分产品需要多种投入品，而在大部分情形中，一种原材料并不能造成很大的差别。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – Europe has been experiencing a period of calm after the storm since European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” speech in July and the ECB’s decision in September to proceed with its “outright monetary transactions” (OMT) program to purchase distressed eurozone members’ government bonds.",
        "芝加哥—自欧洲央行行长德拉吉7月“竭尽所能”演讲以及欧洲央行9月决定采取“直接货币交易”（OMT）买入受困欧元区成员国政府债券后，欧洲经历着稳定期。"
    ],
    [
        "If effective carrots and sticks are put on the table and war is averted, the international community and Sudan would save more than $100 billion, according to a recent Aegis Trust report.",
        "按照最近由Aegis Trust发布的报告，如果上述软硬皆施的手段能阻止战争爆发的话，国际社会和苏丹将省下超过1000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "But one vital caveat was lost in the commotion: What works during a crisis will not necessarily provide sufficient traction for the post-crisis recovery – especially if the crisis has left the real economy mired in a balance-sheet recession.",
        "但有一项关键警告在混乱中被忘记：在危机中奏效的措施未必能给危机后的复苏提供足够动力——特别是如果危机让实体经济陷入资产负债表衰退的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone who goes to international conferences is used to hearing Americans lecture everyone else about transparency.",
        "参加国际会议的人都习惯于听美国人教训其他国家要更加透明。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s massive infrastructure investment, funded largely through LGFVs, will most likely be remembered for its critical contribution to the country’s economic modernization.",
        "主要通过地方政府融资平台融资的大规模基础设施投资，更有可能因其对中国经济现代化的关键贡献而被铭记。"
    ],
    [
        "If ethnic diversity is more and more common in national sides, it is even more marked in clubs.",
        "如果说种族的多元化在国家的层面上已经变得越来越寻常，那么它在俱乐部的层面上就表现得更明显了。"
    ],
    [
        "Sunnis seem to want no part of the Shia-majority government in Baghdad, even though the Iraqi army (along with the Kurds) is playing the largest role in the fight against ISIS.",
        "逊尼派对加入什叶派占多数的巴格达政府丝毫不感兴趣，即使伊军（以及库尔德人）在打击伊斯兰国的战斗中扮演着最重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of military resources, Europe spends less than half of what the US allocates to defense, but has more men and women under arms.",
        "就军事资源而言，欧洲花在国防领域的开支还不到美国的一半，但服役人数却比美国更多。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is that, beyond the many layers of depression and distrust in France, there is potential for a new and collective departure.",
        "第一点，在法国内部的多重压抑和不信任之外，还有一层潜在的新的集体出发。"
    ],
    [
        "Development of unconventional oil and gas supported 2.1 million jobs and contributed $74 billion in tax revenues and royalty payments to government coffers in 2012.",
        "非常规油气开发支持了210万个工作岗位，2012年将为政府贡献740亿美元的税收收入和专利费。"
    ],
    [
        "Strained by a collapse in commodity prices and China’s economic slowdown, the region’s growth slipped to 3.4% in 2015 – nearly 50% lower than the average rate over the previous 15 years.",
        "受困于大宗商品价格暴跌和中国经济减速，2015年该地区增长率下滑到3. 4%——比此前15年的平均水平低了近50%。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year alone, US companies authorized more than $600 billion of share buybacks – an impressive amount by any measure, and a record high.",
        "光是在去年，美国公司就实施了6,000多亿美元的股票回购——不管用何种指标衡量都是令人惊讶的数字，也是历史之最。"
    ],
    [
        "Through bold policy experiments, central bankers succeeded in avoiding a global multi-year depression and buying time for companies to heal.",
        "央行通过大胆的政策实验成功地避免了为期多年的全球萧条，为公私复苏赢得了时间。"
    ],
    [
        "So a European Islam is needed urgently.",
        "因此我们迫切需要欧洲伊斯兰人。"
    ],
    [
        "If all went well, the two parties might want to remarry even before they have divorced.",
        "如果一切顺利，英国和欧盟或许在还没有完成离婚之前就想复合了。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Japan Reboot?",
        "日本能够重启吗？"
    ],
    [
        "We see the enormous increase in Mexican exports to the US over the past decade.",
        "在过去的十年里，我们看到了墨西哥向美国的出口量的确是大有提高。"
    ],
    [
        "We must call a halt in the days (if not hours) ahead to the rain of steel, the cluster and phosphorus bombs, and the barrels of chlorine dropped from low-flying government helicopters on the last parts of Aleppo held by moderate rebels.",
        "我们必须阻止它们，否则要不了几天（甚至几小时），丛集炸弹、磷弹和氯气弹就将从低空盘旋在温和叛军控制的阿勒颇残部的政府军直升飞机上倾泻而下。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Construction Fetish",
        "中国的建设狂热"
    ],
    [
        "Gut-wrenching images of unspeakable, indiscriminate violence against civilians have shocked the world.",
        "针对平民的无差别暴力惨状难以用语言形容，也震惊了全世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine if all of the city’s eight million residents took even one flight every few weeks: the city would become unlivable.",
        "现在想象一下如果纽约市800万居民哪怕每人每隔几周飞行一次：这座城市将会变得无法居住。"
    ],
    [
        "It is only from leaks, and from talking to government officials who seem more committed to democratic processes, that we know what is happening.",
        "我们只能通过泄密以及对忠于民主程序的官员的言谈中获知正在发生什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Having been targeted first by Trump, and then by former White House Chief Strategist and current Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon, Flake might not even have defeated a Republican primary challenger.",
        "在被特朗普和前白宫首席战略家及现任布莱巴特新闻网执行主席史蒂夫·班农一再攻击后，弗莱克可能甚至无法击败一名共和党的初选挑战者。"
    ],
    [
        "If only those member states who claim to be the UN’s biggest supporters put their money where their mouths are.",
        "现在只要那些自称是联合国最大支持者的成员国们出钱出力，别光说不练就行了。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Poland needs sound public finances – that is, fiscal space for automatic stabilizers during economic crises.",
        "最后，波兰需要可靠的公共财政——即经济危机期间的财政自动稳定器。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel has become post-modern, producing new – and sometimes startling – synergies among its avant-garde high-tech sensibility, its secular and ever more orthodox religious identities, and its overall ethno-nationalist outlook.",
        "以色列已经进入后现代时期，在前卫派高科技感性、世俗和越来越正统的宗教身份以及整体民族主义观念方面产生全新、有时甚至是惊人的协同作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the stubborn Dutchman understood the extreme danger if Europe’s top monetary authority became too cozy with Europe’s politicians, especially at a time when many EU finance ministers view economic reform and excess liquidity as being essentially the same thing.",
        "特别是，这位固执的荷兰人明白在其最高货币管理机构与政客们的关系过于温情的情况下，欧洲所面临的极度危险。 这在欧洲的财政部长们将经济改革和额外流动资金在本质上看成是一回事时更是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "It is high time, Francis argued, that EU leaders shed their dozy image, recognize the strategic challenges that Europe faces, and forge a clear policy for tackling them.",
        "方济各说，现在是一个关键时刻，欧盟领导人必须摆脱懈怠形象，承认欧洲所面临的战略挑战，并构建应对挑战的明确政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Official unemployment now stands at over 10%, compared to 7.3% before Russia’s occupation and annexation of Crimea.",
        "俄罗斯占领吞并克里米亚之后，官方失业率已经从之前的7. 3%上升到现在的超过10%。"
    ],
    [
        "But, without the threat, Varoufakis's claims of democratic legitimacy would most likely fall on deaf ears in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Brussels.",
        "但是，如果没有威胁，瓦罗法基斯的民主合法性论点极有可能根本入不了柏林、法兰克福和布鲁塞尔的耳朵。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when an alert is removed from Interpol’s databases, you can continue to face the threat of arrest when traveling, or be refused visas in a never-ending cycle of persecution.",
        "即使通缉令被从国际刑警组织的数据库中删除，你同样可能在旅行时面临被捕的危险，或者在无休无止的迫害循环中面临签证被拒。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, not all aid can be replaced with cash transfers.",
        "当然，现金转移并不能替代所有的援助项目。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as my experience with entrepreneurial innovation has grown, I have realized that the response is rooted in the fact that most people are trapped in a specific doctrine, which obscures the innovative solutions that lie beyond its borders.",
        "但随着突破性创新经验的积累，我逐渐意识到这是因为多数人都受到特定教条的束缚，于是让教条以外的创新方法变得遥远而模糊。"
    ],
    [
        "Some experts argue that it has already raised oil prices by about $15 per barrel.",
        "有些专家称它已经使每桶原油的价格上涨了约15美金。"
    ],
    [
        "PRAGUE – For more than a decade, annual data showed global hunger to be on the decline.",
        "布拉格—十多年来，年度数据表明全球饥饿情况日益下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Corbyn’s proposal, unlike orthodox monetary financing, would not add to the national debt – a major advantage.",
        "科尔宾的方案不同于正统货币融资，它不会增加国民债务——这是其主要优点。"
    ],
    [
        "It sometimes happens that a drastic action designed to prevent an unacceptable disaster may make the disaster worse.",
        "有时某个事先设计好用于阻止一场灾难的激进措施可能会使灾难变得更加可怕。"
    ],
    [
        "Properly considered, Poland’s existential interests, its geopolitical location, and its history, demand that it do everything to contribute as much as possible to a strong EU.",
        "如果加以仔细考虑，波兰的存在利益、其地理位置及其历史要求其尽力为强大的欧盟作出尽可能多的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "That is precisely what happened in Colombia recently, when voters narrowly rejected a laboriously negotiated peace accord between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).",
        "最近的哥伦比亚正是如此，选民以微弱多数拒绝了政府与哥伦比亚革命武装力量（FARC）之间克服万难才达成的和平协议。"
    ],
    [
        "But one must still follow through, and it must be admitted that Khan has not yielded in these matters to the facile communitarianism common on the other side of the Channel.",
        "但他还必须坚持到底，而且我们必须承认汗从未在上述问题上像海峡另一端的国家那样对没有原则的群体主义低头。"
    ],
    [
        "The economist Mario Monti, who followed Berlusconi as Prime Minister, attempted a real depreciation, introducing greater flexibility into the labor market in order to force the unions into wage concessions.",
        "继贝卢斯科尼出任总理的蒙蒂试图采取真实贬值，他给劳动力市场注入了更大的灵活性，目的是迫使工会在工资问题上让步。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than fiscal stimulation and control, the main tool of economic management nowadays is monetary policies conducted by independent central banks.",
        "现今经济管理的主要工具是由独立的中央银行制定的货币政策，而非财政刺激和控制。 凯恩斯主义的需求管理理论因而被一个新的理论所取而代之。"
    ],
    [
        "A simplified description runs as follows: Facing low growth and high unemployment, and with other policymakers stuck on the sideline, a central bank like the US Federal Reserve feels that it has no choice but to adopt a highly accommodating monetary policy.",
        "简单来说：面对缓慢增长和高失业率，并且其他国家的决策人对此袖手旁观这种情况，像美联储这样的央行就会觉得它除了采用一个高度宽松的货币政策外别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is that Feldstein’s contribution to solving our economic difficulties is, at best, unproductive.",
        "结果导致费尔德斯坦对化解我们经济困难的贡献即使从最乐观的角度看也并不突出。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with the security situation in the “occupied territories” under control, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government is content with the status quo.",
        "但是，在“占领区”安全局势尽在掌握的情况下，以色列总理内塔尼亚胡政府对现状十分满意。"
    ],
    [
        "Universities, think tanks, and the media are for the most part insular institutions.",
        "大学、智囊团和媒体大部分都是与世隔绝的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "In Syria, 80% of the population is unable to meet its basic needs.",
        "在叙利亚，80%的人口无法满足基本需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Every time a senior Indian delegation visits Iran, or vice versa, the US warns India that its cozying up to Iran “raises obstacles” to building a closer strategic partnership.",
        "每当有印度和伊朗有高级代表团互访，美国就会警告印度说这种对伊缓和行为会为美印结成更紧密战略伙伴关系“制造障碍”。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also a source of vast amounts of money, much of which will end up in the tyrants’ pockets.",
        "同时它还是一个巨额金钱的来源，其中的大部分最后落到了这些独裁者的腰包里。"
    ],
    [
        "With greater scope for longer-term thinking, executives would make decisions that have a long-term payoff, even if they are costly today.",
        "企业高管们也拥有了发挥更长期性思维的空间，并因此做出能获取长期回报的决策——即使这些决策在短期内耗资巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Nature had to contend with a libel suit for pointing out that a physics journal had published many articles by its editor, and that these articles had not been subjected to peer review.",
        "《自然》杂志迫于无奈应诉这场反诽谤官司，指出某物理杂志编辑发表的多篇文章均未经同行审核。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil, meanwhile, has exhibited commendable political and macroeconomic stability.",
        "与此同时，巴西在政治和宏观经济上都保持着值得赞赏的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though many of them are in trouble, it’s probably not the best time to start a new car company, either.",
        "新车的销售量下滑的很厉害，如果他们另起炉灶，开设新工厂显然不是好时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The government has freed political prisoners, held elections (with more on the way), begun economic reform, and is intensively courting foreign investment.",
        "政府释放了政治犯，举行了选举（后续还会有更多选举），开始了经济改革，并开始大规模向外部投资示好。"
    ],
    [
        "The first reason for hope is that statesmanship is returning to Europe, even if in homeopathic doses.",
        "第一个希望的理由的欧洲的政治家风度正在回归，尽管其势头只相当于顺势疗法的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, they greeted the inauguration of the June 2010 Peace Jirga with rocket attacks and suicide bombers.",
        "其中一个例子就是他们用火箭炮和自杀式炸弹来“欢迎”2010年6月召开的阿富汗各部族族长和平会议。"
    ],
    [
        "Although many states now hide behind an alleged universal principle of inviolable state sovereignty, for example, would the international community really want to go back to the old model where states did whatever they wanted to their citizens within the confines of their own borders?",
        "尽管有些国家躲藏在所谓的主权不可侵犯的普遍原则上，国际社会是否果真愿意回到国家可以对其人民为所欲为的老模式之中呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Many feared that the example of the coup in Niger could encourage Nigeria’s military to move at the height of the country’s crisis in executive authority over President Umaru Yar’Adua’s prolonged absence.",
        "很多人担心尼日尔政变的范例会刺激尼日利亚军队在奥马鲁·亚拉杜瓦总统长期缺位所带来的行政权力危机高潮时采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "That leaves only 63,800 slots each year in a country of 1.2 billion people – enough space for fewer than 1% of Indian students aspiring to attend medical school.",
        "这意味着12亿印度人每年只有638,000个医学学位——只占想读医科的印度学生的不到1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, a wide range of advanced and developing countries is failing to do so.",
        "显然，众多发达国家和发展中国家在这方面都失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the semifinal, Brazil appeared to be paralyzed without its hero, Neymar, who wore the same number as Pelé but had been badly injured in the previous match.",
        "半决赛中，失去英雄内马尔的巴西队似乎陷入了瘫痪，内马尔和贝利球衣号码相同，但在之前那场比赛中严重受伤。"
    ],
    [
        "So the fact that no agreement has been reached on Syria forces us to reflect on the future difficulties that we will face in managing global security.",
        "因此在叙利亚问题上无法达成一致这一事实迫使我们思考未来全球安全治理事务中会遇到哪些困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The sale of sovereign bonds under the fixed exchange-rate regime put direct upward pressure on their yields, while sales of private securities by foreigners had a similar effect, but through indirect channels.",
        "在固定汇率制度下出售主权债券会形成收益率上升的直接压力，外国人出售私人证券也具有类似的效应，但渠道不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the encouragement of Iran’s civil nuclear program by the US, Britain, Germany, and France, they all ultimately reneged on their contractual commitments after our revolution in 1979.",
        "尽管美国、英国、德国和法国都鼓励伊朗发展民用核计划，但在我们1979年的伊斯兰革命以后，它们最终都单方面违背了契约承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The OSCE meeting in Athens comes at a critical time, when Europeans must move into the twenty-first century more united than ever before.",
        "雅典的欧洲安全与合作组织会议值此关键时刻召开，欧洲必须比以往更加团结地走入21世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, for China’s new leadership, the successful completion of the Third Plenum is only the first step in a new long march toward a more stable, prosperous future.",
        "事实上，对中国的新领导层来说，成功完成三中全会只是通往更稳定繁荣的未来的长征的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, he sits in Ataturk’s chair.",
        "毕竟，他坐在凯末尔的宝座上。"
    ],
    [
        "The game started with the bailout fund for Greece, which was followed by the European Financial Stability Facility, the European Financial Stability Mechanism, and the International Monetary Fund, which in turn were relieved by the ESM.",
        "这场游戏始于希腊援助资金，继之以欧洲金融稳定基金、欧洲金融稳定机制和IMF，最后是ESM救场。"
    ],
    [
        "For centuries, sovereign states have regulated their relations – from ending wars and demarcating borders to establishing diplomatic privileges and conducting trade – with treaties.",
        "几百年来，主权国家用条约约束彼此之间的关系——从结束战争和划定边界到建立外交特权和进行贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "If a Trump administration seeks to scrap NAFTA, Canada and Mexico will need to make common cause.",
        "如果特朗普内阁寻求废除北美贸易协定，那么加拿大和墨西哥将需要加强联合。"
    ],
    [
        "Every year, innumerable packaged-food products worldwide are withheld or recalled from the market due to the presence of “all natural” contaminants like insect parts, toxic molds, bacteria, and viruses.",
        "每一年都有无数的包装食品因为含有昆虫尸体、有毒霉菌，细菌和病毒等“全天然”成份而被暂停上市或者召回。"
    ],
    [
        "Alas, one cannot rule out a scenario in which nothing – diplomacy, sanctions, or the push for a regime change – works.",
        "不过，我们不能排除这种情景 — 外交手段，经济制裁或者促进政权更替的努力统统失效。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, even as the dream of eliminating malaria seems closer to becoming reality, growing drug resistance is threatening these remarkable gains.",
        "但是，尽管根除疟疾的梦想似乎越来越接近于现实，抗药性的增强却正在威胁这些令人瞩目的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "It was during this era – roughly from 1948 to 1973 – that sociologists found that a majority of Americans had come to define themselves not as working class, but as middle class.",
        "大约就是在1948年到1973年这一阶段，社会学家们开始发现，大部分美国人开始将自己定位为中产阶级而不是工人阶级了。"
    ],
    [
        "If the market is working towards a world where users exercise the power to manage their own reputations, it will ultimately punish companies that become too arrogant.",
        "当我们正迈向一个用户有权管理自己名声的世界，而市场也正朝着同一方向发展的时候，所有逆流而动的公司都将受到惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "The elevation of Kim’s inexperienced 27-year-old sister, Kim Yo-jong, to a senior post, is another indication of growing anxiety.",
        "金正恩提拔其毫无经验的27岁妹妹金与正为高级官员，这是形势剑拔弩张的又一信号。"
    ],
    [
        "Money brings technological regeneration as well as security.",
        "资金可以带来安全和技术革新。"
    ],
    [
        "6. Don’t oversell what the government is doing. If I could ban one phrase from official statements, my first choice would be “Everything is under control.”",
        "不要过度推销政府作为. 如果让我禁止官方声明中的某个用词，我会首选“一切尽在控制”。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the beginning of the year, more than 20 central banks around the world have eased monetary policy, following the lead of the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan.",
        "今年年初以来，全球20多家央行在欧洲央行和日本银行的引领下放松了货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Western Europe evolved from a “Community” to a “Union,” and its states became less firmly bound to American protection.",
        "西欧从“共同体”演化成了“联盟”，而欧盟各成员国也不再那么需要美国的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Wilson thought it would bring stability to Central Europe; instead, Hitler used the principle to undermine the region’s fragile new states in the 1930s.",
        "威尔逊认为它能给中欧带来稳定； 相反，希特勒在20世纪30年代利用这个原则破坏该地区脆弱的新建国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, at the close of nomination on August 4, eleven functional candidates were chosen without opposition, including those representing banks and the Chinese chamber of commerce.",
        "的确，在8月4日提名截止时，有11位候选人在无人反对的情况下获得提名，其中包括银行和中国商会的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, deworming treatments and vaccination are inexpensive, effective, and have a high return on investment.",
        "类似地，驱虫治疗和免疫也廉价高效，并且能带来很高的投资回报。"
    ],
    [
        "“There are 18 million Sunnis against him.",
        "“反对他的有1，800万逊尼人。"
    ],
    [
        "“There are no partners for peace,” goes the refrain.",
        "陈词老调说：“没有什么和平伙伴”。"
    ],
    [
        "The nation’s unity is periodically threatened by its clerical rulers’ unpopularity among large sections of the population, as well as by regional and ethnic divisions, conflict and instability in its immediate neighborhood, and the hostility engendered by its regional clients and/or proxies in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.",
        "国家统一不断地被威胁，其原因是文员统治者在广大人口中不得人心，也因为区域间和种族间的分歧、冲突和邻国的不稳定，再加上在伊拉克、黎巴嫩和阿富汗以及其它地方的人所产生的敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – The second anniversary of the “Arab Spring” in Egypt was marked by riots in Tahrir Square that made many observers fear that their optimistic projections in 2011 had been dashed.",
        "新德里—在埃及“阿拉伯之春”迎来二周年的日子里，解放广场再次暴动。 这让众多观察者担心他们在2011年的乐观预测被轻易地打破了。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Western universities are replete with distinguished Arab scholars in almost every field – the result of a brain drain that itself reflects the Islamic world’s centuries of decline.",
        "今天，在西方国家的大学里随处可见几乎所有领域的杰出的阿拉伯学者，这种人才外流的结果本身反映了伊斯兰社会数个世纪以来的衰微。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, an isolated and increasingly unpopular regime might decide to cancel or rig the presidential election when it fell due.",
        "在这种情况下，一个被独立和越来越不受欢迎的政权在面临即将到来的总统选举时也许会决定取消或者操纵大选。"
    ],
    [
        "Its cultural context differs from twentieth-century insurgencies, particularly the use of a radical ideology derived from religion.",
        "它的文化背景和20世纪的叛乱不同，特别是在使用源自宗教的激进意识形态这一点上。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece, one hopes, will not be forced to leave the eurozone, though temporary options such as imposing capital controls may ultimately prove necessary to prevent a financial meltdown.",
        "我们希望希腊不会被迫离开欧元区，尽管临时性措施——比如采取资本管制——也许最终对于防止金融崩溃必不可少。"
    ],
    [
        "Our societies need to engender greater respect and acknowledgement of others, and to acquire more knowledge about different cultures and religions.",
        "我们的社会需要培养更多的尊重和认同感，还需要了解不同文化和宗教的更多知识。"
    ],
    [
        "And the victims are often the innocent “collateral damage” of Western strikes that hit homes, weddings, funerals, and community meetings.",
        "而受害者往往是针对家园、婚礼、葬礼和社区集会的西方打击的无辜的“附带伤害”。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, surges of organized anger when China is attacked or insulted are hardly new.",
        "事实上，中国在受到攻击或侮辱时爆发出来的有组织的愤怒并不让人觉得新鲜。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Obama administration has reduced America’s own nuclear arsenal more slowly than any US administration since the end of the Cold War, instead promoting its modernization – an effort that will require an estimated $1 trillion in investment over the next three decades.",
        "从外，奥巴马政府削减美国自身核武器的速度比二战结束以来其他各届美国政府都要慢，反之要促进其现代化——据估计此项计划在未来三十年需要1万亿美元投资。"
    ],
    [
        "“It will be very bad for us.",
        "会有很多污染。"
    ],
    [
        "That is unlikely, at least in terms of someone receiving a direct order from Putin.",
        "这是不可能的，至少不可能是普京直接下令某人干的。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing new drugs is an important approach in a coordinated response to fight antimicrobial resistance.",
        "开发新药是对抗耐药性综合响应的一个重要的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "We urged the Bush administration to formulate a consistent policy that engages the region’s Islamists who are willing to rule by democratic principles.",
        "我们敦促布什政府制定连续性的政策，与本地区愿意接受民主治理原则的伊斯兰主义者接触。"
    ],
    [
        "The question now is whether Rouhani’s moderation toward the West will be accompanied by a change in Iran’s Middle East policy, with all eyes on its policy toward Syria.",
        "现在的问题是鲁哈尼对西方的温和态度是否会伴随着伊朗中东政策的变化，所有人都盯着伊朗的叙利亚政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But it’s not just in war-torn Syria and Yemen where youth are systematically neglected; shortcomings abound in relatively stable countries such as Egypt and Jordan.",
        "但年轻人被系统性忽视的情况不仅仅局限在叙利亚和也门等战火纷飞的国家； 埃及和约旦等相对稳定的国家情况也很糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "In effect, rather than according serious room for decision-making to his prime minister, François Fillon, or to Fillon’s cabinet, Sarkozy has arrogated almost every lever of power to himself and his advisers within the Élysée Palace.",
        "实际上，萨科奇不是把足够的决策空间留给他的总理弗朗索瓦·菲永，或是菲永的内阁，而是将差不多每一层权力都抓在自己和他在爱丽舍宫里的那帮顾问手里。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, Trump and the Republicans seem willing to risk it.",
        "然而特朗普和共和党似乎甘愿去冒这个险。"
    ],
    [
        "But it must not take another Hiroshima or Nagasaki – or an even greater disaster – before they finally wake up and recognize the urgent necessity of nuclear disarmament.",
        "但他们不应等到又一次广岛或长崎（甚至更大的灾难）发生后才最终警醒，意识到核裁军的迫切需要。"
    ],
    [
        "But the economic importance of stories bears no close relation to their monetary value (which can be measured only after the fact, if at all). It depends, instead, on their story value.",
        "但这些故事在经济上的重要性与其货币价值（这只能在既成事实之后衡量）之间并无紧密联系，相反，这取决于它们的故事价值。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis has exposed the deep disparities in competitiveness that have developed within the eurozone.",
        "此次危机暴露出欧元区内部成员国在经济竞争力方面存在很大的差距。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s ability to stave off the economic gales was helped by the fact that it is much less dependent than most countries on global flows of trade and capital.",
        "印度避开经济冲击的能力源自于其经济的相对独立，不像其他国家那样过度依赖于全球贸易和资本流。"
    ],
    [
        "The policy was a success: the discipline imposed by strict and rigorous concentration on a sole objective enabled policymakers to control – and then conquer – inflation.",
        "这一政策是成功的：严格而精确的单一目标所带来的纪律让决策者得以控制——并征服——通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu’s project is not moral.",
        "内塔尼亚胡的计划不合乎道德原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the answer lies in our nature as purposive beings.",
        "也许答案在于我们天性是有目的的人。"
    ],
    [
        "But the People’s Republic’s two most important leaders did agree in one area: both bent over backwards to make territorial concessions to resolve border disputes.",
        "但这两位共和国最重要的领导人有一个共识：在领土上做出让步以解决边界争端。"
    ],
    [
        "The real question is not whether capitalism can survive – it can – but whether world leaders will demonstrate the leadership needed to take it to its next phase as we emerge from our current predicament.",
        "资本主义能否存活不是问题，它肯定可以。 真正的问题是，世界各国领导人是否展示出必要的领导力，在我们从当前危机中脱身的时候把资本主义带入下一个阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "The key word to which we should return in defining our policy towards Russia is “predictability.”",
        "在定义对俄政策上，我们应该回归到一个关键词“可预测性”。"
    ],
    [
        "But for the EU, this dynamic is exponentially more challenging; indeed, it overturns the EU’s foundations.",
        "但对欧盟来说，这一动态的挑战性要显著得多； 事实上，这颠覆了欧盟的根基。"
    ],
    [
        "It is confidence that if trouble arises the government will support the banks that gives confidence in the banks; and, when some governments are in a much stronger position than others, the implicit subsidy is larger for those countries.",
        "如果问题出现，政府对银行的支持会给银行带去信心； 并且，当一些国家的政府比其它国家的政府处境好很多时，其对于银行的隐性补贴也比别的国家大很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, such investments are needed for the entire country.",
        "事实上整个国家都急需这类投资。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – China has long regarded freshwater as a strategic weapon – one that the country’s leaders have no compunction about wielding to advance their foreign-policy goals.",
        "新德里—中国将淡水作为战略武器由来已久——中国领导人毫无愧色地用它来推动他们的外交政策目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe must never accept a renewal of Russian great power politics, which operates according to the idea that might makes right.",
        "但欧洲应该永远不接受俄罗斯大国政治的复活。 这种政治的运行，奉行的是“强的就是对的”的理念。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the current rate of 7% is comfortable, it is far lower than the double-digit rates that prevailed prior to 2008.",
        "即便目前7%的经济增长令人满意，却也远低于2008年前所取得的双位数增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Technology has not yet significantly reduced the overall number of jobs in the US, but it has certainly undermined job quality for millions of workers.",
        "技术的进步还未显著减少美国的总体就业岗位，但肯定降低了数百万劳动者的工作质量。"
    ],
    [
        "And no one would blame them for taking their time to consider their options.",
        "他们多花点时间审慎抉择也是无可厚非的。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, North Korea shows that defiance, rather than accommodation, is a strategy that works.",
        "相反，朝鲜的例子表明真正奏效的对策不是妥协而是挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The differences in price for many other consumer goods is even larger.",
        "其他许多消费品的价格差异甚至更大。"
    ],
    [
        "And now, given the potential cost of scuttling the recent agreement with the US, the decision to launch a long-range missile takes that desperation a step further.",
        "而在眼下，考虑到撕毁新近达成的朝美协议的潜在代价，朝鲜发射远程导弹的决定更加显示了其急不可耐的心理。"
    ],
    [
        "Diversification requires investment in the future, in the form of education and well-developed infrastructure, including telecommunications, power, roads, rail, and water.",
        "多样化需要为未来投资，如教育和发达的基础设施（通讯、电力、公路、铁路、水道等）。"
    ],
    [
        "China would be wise to embrace this model, by introducing a considerable degree of democracy and strengthening adherence to the rule of law.",
        "中国最好模仿这一模式，引入相当大程度的民主并强化法治。"
    ],
    [
        "He exposed details of behind-the-scenes politics and called for a public boycott of the newspaper, evoking strong public sympathy for the journalists, expressed online in chatrooms and blogs.",
        "他揭露了幕后政治细节并且呼吁公众抵制该报纸，从而引起了公众对记者们的同情。 他们在聊天室和博客上在线表达情感。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for WTO members to make progress on issues where there is room to do so.",
        "世贸组织成员国是时候行动起来取得进步了，而且也确实存在取得进步的空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to the Internet, it, too, has begun to emerge more often.",
        "拜互联网所赐，这一意识形态已开始日益暴露。"
    ],
    [
        "Revealed truth, the Cardinal seemed to say, must be accorded primacy over the truths science reveals through reason.",
        "这位红衣主教似乎说，上帝启示的真理应当被置于科学通过理性揭示的真理之上。"
    ],
    [
        "To prevent the next natural disaster from causing so much damage and inflicting so much pain, we must take action now to improve prediction and response, and strengthen the resilience of our most vulnerable citizens.",
        "为防止下一场自然灾害造成如此巨大的破坏和痛苦，我们必须立即采取行动改善灾害预测和应急反应，并强化我们最弱势民众的适应性。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, it is very difficult to undertake market-oriented changes in corporate ownership and control for the listed SOEs.",
        "如今，上市国企的公司所有权和控制权已经变得非常复杂而难以适应市场化的变更重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, the agreement will trigger Grexit, either because the creditors withdraw their support after fiscal targets are missed, or because the Greek people rebel.",
        "最后，该协议将引发希腊退出（Grexit），或者是因为债权人在财政目标无法实现的情况下收回支持，或者是因为希腊人民奋起反抗。"
    ],
    [
        "After September 11, 2001, skyscrapers, clubs, and restaurants of all kinds sprang up like mushrooms, with almost more vitality than before.",
        "2001年9月11日后，各式各样的摩天大厦、俱乐部和餐馆如雨后春笋般地拔地而起，几乎比以前更有活力。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the competitiveness gains would be offset by rising inflation.",
        "否则，竞争力的收益会被渐高的通胀抵销。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as usual when it comes to the United Nations, the deal that was struck was big on stated ambition, but far more modest when it comes to commitments to concrete action.",
        "但是，和联合国的其他事项一样，所达成的协议目标宏大，但落到实际行动义务（commitment）上就显得平庸了许多。"
    ],
    [
        "But, without closer monitoring, SWFs will inevitably face politically motivated restrictions by some host countries, so it is in their interest to intensify their efforts at self-regulation.",
        "但是，没有密切的监督，主权财富基金免不了要面对东道国出于政治动机的限制，因此强化自我监督符合主权财富基金的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "However, abnormal prion protein was detected in the recipient’s lymphoid tissues, indicating transmission of infection from an asymptomatic individual.",
        "但在受血者的淋巴组织中却查出了异常的朊蛋白，这表明没有任何症状的个体也具备传染能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The mechanism exists and has already been used on a small scale.",
        "这种机制早已存在，并已经被小规模的使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi’s Chauvinism Problem",
        "莫迪的沙文主义问题"
    ],
    [
        "The notion that the nuclear agreement will lead Iran to moderate its radicalism and rein in its strategic ambitions should not be anyone’s baseline scenario.",
        "核协议将让伊朗缓和其激进主义、驯服其战略野心，这样的概念决不能作为基准情景。"
    ],
    [
        "I have long argued that, because many in rich countries are retiring while still in sound health, and because altruism increases with age, we could organize a Grey Peace Corps of senior citizens to share their skills in countries whose own trained professionals prefer to settle abroad.",
        "我很早就指出，发达国家有大量高技能人才退休时身体健康，精神矍铄，而且人年纪越大，越有助人为乐的精神，因此我们可以组织一支由高端人才组成的“灰色和平部队”（Grey Peace Corps），与自身训练有素的专业人士更喜欢移民海外的国家分享技能。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the deficit – which has doubled in eight years – will soar even more.",
        "否则，在过去八年已经翻倍的赤字将会急剧上升。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009, I heard one such story in Tanzania.",
        "2009年，我在坦桑尼亚就听说了这样一个故事。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, some economists fear that a fiscal crisis could erupt even aftera tax hike is passed.",
        "事实上，有一些经济学家担心财政危机将在加税政策获得通过之后更加恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Large surpluses turned into deficits for Japan in 1973 and 1979, and for Germany in 1974, 1975, 1979, and 1980.",
        "日本的巨额盈余在1973年和1979年两度转为赤字，德国则有四次，分别是1974年、1975年、1979年和1980年。"
    ],
    [
        "There are strong incentives for voters and political leaders in all democratic countries to take decisions that support economic prosperity and political stability, once it becomes obvious that all the alternatives are economically damaging or politically dangerous.",
        "而是只要事实证明所有其他备选方案都将对经济造成损害或带来政治风险，那么所有民主国家的选民和政治领袖都将强烈希望作出支持经济繁荣和政治稳定的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Prices of bank shares and the Euribor-OIS spread (a measure of financial stress) signal a profound lack of confidence in the sovereign debt of distressed countries, with yields on ten-year Greek bonds recently hitting 25%.",
        "银行股的价格以及欧洲银行同业拆放款利率和隔夜指数掉期的利差（Euribor-OIS spread）都显示市场对受灾国主权债券的高度不信任，如今希腊十年期国债的收益率已经高达25%。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, one of the critical issues blocking progress on the World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Agenda of global free-trade talks centers on the extent to which major developing countries should open their markets.",
        "比如，自由贸易谈判的世贸组织多哈发展日程所遇到的关键阻挠集中在主要发展中国家应该将市场开放到何种程度。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Now that Greek banks have reopened and the government has made scheduled payments to the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, does Greece’s near-death experience mark the end of the euro crisis?",
        "伦敦—希腊银行已经重新开门，希腊政府也按期偿付了欧洲央行和国际货币基金组织（IMF）。 那么，希腊差点死去的经验是否标志着欧元危机的结束？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, one issue that has come under the microscope is Thatcher’s reforms of the City of London in the late 1980’s.",
        "事实上，一个被放在了显微镜下的问题是撒切尔在20世纪80年代末对伦敦金融城的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF has talked with the Egyptian government for two and a half years since Mubarak’s overthrow without so much as lending a single cent, sealing the Egyptian economy’s fate and contributing to public unrest and the recent coup.",
        "在穆巴拉克倒台后的两年半时间里，IMF一直在与埃及政府扯皮，却不发放一分钱的贷款，这不啻扼杀埃及的经济前途，助长了埃及的社会动荡，催生了最近的政变。"
    ],
    [
        "Strong central institutions, responsible to a directly elected parliament, are needed to coordinate fiscal and economic policies.",
        "必须由对直选议院负责的强大的中央机构负责协调财政和经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "One presidential candidate won nearly three million more votes than her opponent, who, with a big assist from a hostile foreign power, was nonetheless declared the winner.",
        "一位总统候选人比她的对手多赢的近三百万张选票，而她的对手在敌对外国势力的鼎力相助下仍然成为获胜者。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many reasons for the US to pay greater attention to Latin America, but three stand out.",
        "美国有很多理由应该更关注拉丁美洲，其中有三个理由最突出。"
    ],
    [
        "Blair took over a strong economic legacy, and, to be scrupulously fair, he didn’t wreck it.",
        "布莱尔继承了强劲的经济发展势头，而且平心而论也没有毁掉它。"
    ],
    [
        "China has made a conscious strategic decision to alter its growth strategy.",
        "中国已经决定要有意识地转换其增长战略。"
    ],
    [
        "These critics have urged the Obama administration to go further in naming and shaming, by providing a fuller public description of what US intelligence knows about Russia’s behavior, and by imposing financial and travel sanctions against high-level Russian officials who are identified.",
        "这些批评者敦促奥巴马政府进一步指明始作俑者，更充分地公开披露美国情报部门掌握的俄罗斯行动情况，并对确认涉事的高级俄罗斯官员实施财务和旅行制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also reflects a more fundamental factor in the Kremlin’s foreign policy: desperation to maintain Russia’s strategic influence at a time of unprecedented challenges to its authority.",
        "但这也反映了克里姆林宫外交政策的一个更加基本的因素：在俄罗斯威权受到前所未有的挑战的时期保持战略影响力的渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "Dead Cow Walking?",
        "死牛迈步？"
    ],
    [
        "True, this failure was partly due to genuine constraints, particularly in health-care and education systems. But it also reflected poor preparation, a lack of coordination, and insufficient investment.",
        "诚然，这种应对失策在某种程度上确实源自于一些因素的制约，特别是在医疗保健和教育系统方面，但也反映出政府筹备不力，协调缺乏以及投入不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Diantaranya adalah “vertical inequalities” seperti ketimpangan distribusi pendapatan, serta “horizontal inequalities” seperti perbedaan yang ditemukan dalam kelompok karena faktor-faktor seperti ras, jenis kelamin, dan etnis, selain itu juga perbedaan yang terbentuk antar komunitas karena pemisahan wilayah pemukiman.",
        "其中有“纵向不平等”，如倾斜的收入分布； 也有“横向不平等”，与因为种族、性别、民族等因素而导致的群体内部的不平等以及因为居住隔离而产生的社区间的不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s economy is radically different and changing rapidly – the result of technological innovation, the rising value of intangible, knowledge-based assets, and the internationalization of economic activity.",
        "今天的经济已是面目全非，并在迅速变化中——这是技术创新、基于知识的无形资产价值提高和经济活动国际化的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "For the past six years, a global effort (called DOTS-Plus) to treat people with MDR-TB under strict conditions has been underway, reaching thousands with previously untreatable TB.",
        "过去6年来，在严格控制的条件下治疗耐多种药物型结核病患者的全球计划（名为DOTS-Plus）已经获得实施，使得成千上万名以前无法治疗的结核病患者得到了救治。"
    ],
    [
        "Mind you, Japan’s outsize government debt and undersize pension assets are a huge problem, and only the most reckless and crude Keynesian would advise the authorities to ignore it.",
        "别忘了，日本的大规模政府债务和规模不足的退休金资产是一个巨大的问题，只有最鲁莽、最粗放的凯恩斯主义者才会建议当局忽视这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – A new and important acronym has entered the French political lexicon: QPC, which stands for the rather austere-sounding “Priority preliminary ruling on the question of constitutionality.”",
        "巴黎——QPC作为一个重要而崭新的缩写已经被收录进法国的政治词汇，它所代表的涵义是相当严肃的“优先初步裁决合宪性问题”。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a lifelong “family account” would enable paid maternity and paternity leave, provide child-care support, and allow time away from work to care for the sick or elderly.",
        "比如，终身“家庭账户”可以实现带薪产假，提供儿童医疗支持，允许暂离岗位照顾病人或老人。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed has international credibility precisely because it is independent from any political master.",
        "美联储之所以能享有国际信誉，正是因为它独立于任何政治操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "Without access to education, this generation – which will soon be the majority – has little hope of ever escaping its straitened conditions.",
        "由于得不到教育，这一代人——很快他们就将成为大多数——基本无望摆脱窘境。"
    ],
    [
        "His aim for the Olympic Games was to embody a noble ideal of world peace and brotherhood through athletic competition.",
        "他举办奥运会的目的是通过体育竞赛实现世界和平和四海之内皆兄弟的高尚理想。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s energy, manufacturing, and agricultural activities in sprawling Xinjiang are having an even greater impact, as they contaminate the waters of the region’s transnational rivers with hazardous chemicals and fertilizers, just as China has done to the rivers in its Han heartland.",
        "中国在新疆地区不断发展的能源、制造和农业活动正在造成更深远的影响，因为就像汉族核心地区的河流一样，这些活动排放的有毒化学品和化肥污染了区域跨国河流的河水质量。"
    ],
    [
        "They tightened margin requirements in January, and again in April, when they also facilitated short-selling by expanding the number of eligible stocks.",
        "1月份，保证金要求有所提高，4月份又提高了一次，同时还扩大了融券标的数量以方便卖空。"
    ],
    [
        "Confidence will unlock the door to economic recovery.",
        "信心将打开经济复苏之门。"
    ],
    [
        "Free movement of goods, services, labor, and capital certainly suffices.",
        "货物、服务、劳力和资本自由流动的原则就已足够。"
    ],
    [
        "Thaksin’s triumph did not represent the normal alternation in power that one finds in a democracy.",
        "他信的胜利并没有带来民主国家常见的权力更迭。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news for all women, East and West, is that President Karzai, under intense international criticism – and not just Western criticism – changed the law less than one week after the march.",
        "对东西方妇女的好消息是卡尔扎伊总统在严厉的国际批评下——这样的批评言论不只来自于西方——在游行结束不到一周后就修改了这项法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Known for both his radicalism and his honesty, Cárdenas refused to live in the presidential palace and cut his salary in half.",
        "卡德纳斯以激进和忠实而著名。 他拒绝入住总统官邸，并且将自己的薪水减半。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, memorably spoke of “Trumped-up trickle-down economics.”",
        "特朗普的对手克林顿令人印象深刻地大谈“特朗普炮制的涓滴经济学”。"
    ],
    [
        "And it has the authority to bolster the ECB’s credibility and thus its efforts to ensure future price stability and prevent financial contagion.",
        "德国也有足够的权威去提升欧洲央行的信誉，因此也可以提升该行在未来确保价格稳定和防止经济停滞方面的作用效力。"
    ],
    [
        "By splitting hairs over the meaning of the words “considerable time” in describing the expected timeline for policy normalization, Fed Chair Janet Yellen is falling into the same trap.",
        "美联储主席珍妮特·耶伦（Janet Yellen）在用来描述政策正常化的时间路径的“相当长时间”的定义上纠缠不清，实际上也在滑向同样的陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, rebalancing the pattern of growth is a central economic goal of China’s leadership.”",
        "以及实施更加灵活的汇率机制。 事实上，调整经济增长模式正是中国领导层在经济上的中心目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, while Brazil’s economy remained relatively resilient after the 2009 recession, growth slowed almost to zero last year.",
        "类似地，尽管巴西经济在2009年衰退后相对而言韧劲十足，但在去年放缓到了几近零增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically instead of weakening Lebanon, one clear winner of this war is the unity and independent will of Lebanon.",
        "具有讽刺意味的是，这一战争不仅没有削弱黎巴嫩，黎巴嫩的团结和独立意志反而成为赢家。"
    ],
    [
        "But while it is, in some ways, somewhat consistent with Trump’s campaign promises, in many other ways, it is the antithesis of them.",
        "但尽管这在某种程度上与特朗普的竞选承诺一致，但在某种程度上，它们之间是对立的。"
    ],
    [
        "Here is where things get interesting, complex, and potentially dangerous.",
        "因此事情也就变得有趣、复杂且隐含潜在的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, such balance is very difficult to achieve in an open trading system, and pursuing it would actually be damaging, as it would undermine the overall benefits gained through trade.",
        "事实上在一个开放的贸易体系中这种平衡极难实现，而尝试实现这一点实际上是有害的，因为它会折损通过贸易所获得的总体利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In a separate letter to the media, Piotr warned that the PiS would attempt to minimize his act of protest.",
        "在给媒体的另外一封信中，皮奥特警告法律与正义党会竭尽全力削弱其抗议行为的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But media coverage has failed to look far enough into the future, and to comprehend the full extent of the changes that will be wrought by new forms of electronic money, as people and businesses invent new ways of doing business.",
        "但这样的媒体报导不够高瞻远瞩，未能全面理解人们和企业创造新业务方式的过程中，伴随着新形式电子货币变化的所有内涵。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporate sectors in developing countries, having increased their leverage with capital inflows during the post-2008 period, are particularly vulnerable.",
        "在2008年后通过资本流入提高了杠杆水平的发展中国家企业部门尤其脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, unions need to be alert to such bad behavior.",
        "很明显，工会需要对此类恶性事件保持警惕。"
    ],
    [
        "For others, the problem is lower investment demand, caused partly by the fact that machines are now much cheaper and that technological progress has slowed since 1970.",
        "在另一些人看来，问题的根本是更低的投资需求，在某种程度上是因为机器的价格更加便宜且科技进步自1970年以来逐步放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Seeking dialogue with North Korea immediately after its missile tantrum and nuclear brinkmanship is unwise and impractical.",
        "在导弹实验和核爆炸之后，寻求于朝鲜对话是不明智也是不切实际的。"
    ],
    [
        "In a globalized world, problems in one part of the system quickly reverberate elsewhere.",
        "在全球化的世界里，整个系统的某一部分出现问题，会很快在其他地方激起回响。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it is likely to discriminate against people who are either unaware of the donor-card system or tend to refuse to sign the card for reasons associated with religious beliefs or low trust in the medical authorities.",
        "此外，这还可能对不了解捐赠卡制度的人构成歧视，同样受到歧视的还有出于宗教信仰因素拒绝签署捐赠卡，或者不信任医疗机构的患者。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of thinking what Ahtisaari deemed unthinkable, a partition of Kosovo with a small part of the north going to Serbia and the rest linked to the Kosovars ethnic brethren in Albania or a separate state, the US plans to act without the UN’s blessing, arguing that only an independent Kosovo will bring stability to the Western Balkans.",
        "美国并没有考虑在Martti Ahtisaari看来是不可想象的方案，即将科索沃分割，北方的一小部分归入塞尔维亚，而其余部分则与其在阿尔巴尼亚的科索沃同胞或与一个分离的国家联系在一起。 美国决定抛开联合国单独行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent election was a wake-up call; Europe’s leaders need to open their eyes.",
        "最近的选举好比起床号； 欧洲领导人需要睁开眼睛了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, many developing countries face a double disease burden and must wage a simultaneous battle against infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.",
        "此外，许多发展中国家面临加倍的疾病负担，必须同时与疟疾、结核病和艾滋病等传染病抗争。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a large, modern tank army is a powerful resource if a war is fought in a desert, but not if it is fought in a swamp – as America discovered in Vietnam.",
        "例如，如果战争在沙漠中进行，那么一支庞大的现代化坦克部队就是一种强大的资源。 但如果战事在沼泽地区进行则不然—正如美国在越南所发现的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "First, we can work at the state level to try to neutralize any Trump policy initiatives that are flawed or infeasible.",
        "首先，我们可以在州一级开展工作，想方设法去减少任何有缺陷或不可行的特朗普政策提案的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the country can take heart that so many of its people, children in particular, are alive today because of early-warning systems, safety drills, and a strong emphasis on disaster-risk reduction in the school curriculum.",
        "然而，日本可以鼓起勇气，重整旗鼓。 由于日本的早期预警系统、学校的安全演练课程，以及对降低灾难危险系数的高度重视，使得许多人民，尤其是孩子得以幸存。"
    ],
    [
        "Extreme poverty breeds apathy, not rebellion.",
        "极端贫困酝酿的是无动于衷，而非谋反。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the fiscal observation is a coincidence.",
        "也许这一财政现象是一种巧合。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, they can benefit from common supervision and resolution.",
        "这样一来，它们可以得益于共同的监督和解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the thirteen reformers who were arrested, ten submitted to this demand, but the other three refused and have paid the price.",
        "在13名被逮捕的改革者中，有十个人向这个要求低头屈服了，但是剩余三人明确拒绝并为此付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The Court transferred the request to the Superior Council of Magistrates, which provided a full response: a four-page list of all sanctioned judges, with details of the reasons and penalties.",
        "法庭把该请求呈报给了最高法院，最高法院给予了全面回答，那就是长达四页的关于被处分法官的名单，包括他们的受罚原因及具体的处罚。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, which has been dubbed “the year of sustainable development,” provides an ideal opportunity in this regard.",
        "今年是“可持续发展之年”，为我们提供了这一方面的理想机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Acemoglu and Robinson argue that in the broad sweep of history, political orders that include everyone in the economic process are more likely to succeed in the long term.",
        "达龙·阿西莫格鲁和罗宾逊认为在波澜壮阔的历史长河中，让所有人参与经济过程的政治秩序从长远看更有可能取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is that getting investors to agree is like herding cats.",
        "答案是让投资者形成一致就像是把猫聚集成群。"
    ],
    [
        "The Germans should remember the reparations fiasco of the 1920’s.",
        "德国人应该牢记20世纪20年代的赔款闹剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the US, the lower price is transferring real income from oil producers to households, which raises short-term demand because households spend a higher proportion of their incomes than oil firms do.",
        "在美国，低油价将真实收入从石油生产商转移到家庭手中，这会提高短期需求，因为家庭将收入用于支出的比例高于石油企业。"
    ],
    [
        "The specific policy targets are tremendously ambitious.",
        "具体的政策目标表现出非凡的雄心。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan’s new prime minister, Yousaf Gilani, is a seasoned politician and, more importantly, has Sufi family roots, which is a good omen because of the Sufi tradition of tolerance.",
        "巴基斯坦的新总理，优素福·吉拉尼是一位经验丰富的政治家，更重要的是，他具有苏非派背景，因为该派提倡宽容的传统，这是一个很好的预兆。"
    ],
    [
        "The point is that bilateral trade balances have little meaning.",
        "这里的重点是双边贸易余额根本说明不了什么问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Smaller steps, however, can and should be taken.",
        "而一些小的步骤则是可行而且可以采用的。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who remain in Italy – Italian or foreign – tend to be the least skilled.",
        "留在意大利的人——不管是意大利人还是外国人——一般技能较低。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of investing in terraced fields, planting trees, and buying high-quality fertilizer, Africa’s farmers seek to maximize short-term profits.",
        "他们不会投资于梯田、植树和购买高质量肥料，只会追求短期利润最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet politicians are largely ignorant of these trends.",
        "但政治家们对这些趋势大都一无所知。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama struck a similar note in his farewell speech in Havana.",
        "奥巴马在其哈瓦那告别演说中也说了同样的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, public investment works on both the demand and supply sides.",
        "此外，公共投资对需求和供给端都能起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "We also know that the impact of climate change will not be evenly distributed across the globe.",
        "6°C。 我们还知道气候变化的影响在全球并不是被平均地表现出来的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is folly to think that Israel would engage in full-scale war north of its border for Saudi Arabia’s sake.",
        "但认为以色列会为了沙特阿拉伯的命运而全面涉足北部边境的战事简直愚不可及。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, when Ebola struck West Africa in 2014, Lagarde directed the IMF to use its available cash to buy debt relief for countries in crisis, which enabled them to pay more doctors and nurses – the first-ever such use of IMF capital.",
        "类似地，2014年，当西非埃博拉疫情爆发时，拉加德领导IMF用可动用资金为危机中的各国提供债务豁免，这让它们能提高医生和护士待遇——这是IMF首次如此使用自己的资本。"
    ],
    [
        "As Gilens and Page emphasize, their evidence does not imply that government policy makes the average citizen worse off.",
        "吉伦斯和佩奇强调，他们的证据并不表明政府政策让普通公民的境况变坏了。"
    ],
    [
        "A Long Way from Comey to Watergate",
        "从科米到水门事件路还很长"
    ],
    [
        "Both men were motivated by common concerns for human rights and democracy, as well as perhaps by geopolitical considerations.",
        "对于人权和民主的共同担忧，也许还有地缘政治的考虑可能是这两个人的动机。"
    ],
    [
        "Starting with demand, Larry Summers, the Harvard economist and senior US official under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, recently proposed that advanced economies have found themselves in the grip of secular stagnation.",
        "从需求端开始。 哈佛大学经济学家、克林顿和奥巴马政府高官拉里·萨默斯（Larry Summers）最近指出，发达经济体正陷入长期停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, Yemeni civilians have suffered and died from drone strikes that may not have been necessary.",
        "换句话说，也门贫民因为未必需要的无人机打击而遭遇伤亡。"
    ],
    [
        "More serious in terms of its consequences is the way in which human rights have been used to promote wars.",
        "以人权为由发动战争产生的后果更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "In this environment, with so many people insecure about their economic prospects, the push by President Barack Obama’s administration for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was a tone-deaf approach, at best.",
        "在这种环境下，由于这么多人对自身经济前景担忧不已，奥巴马政府对跨太平洋伙伴关系（TPP）的推动变成了一种盲人摸象的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "So when voters throw out a government, EU fiscal enforcer Olli Rehn immediately insists that the new administration stick to its predecessor’s failed policies, alienating voters from the EU and pushing them toward the extremes.",
        "因此，当选民将一个政府赶下台时，欧盟财政政策执行者雷恩（Olli Rehn）立刻要求新政府继续遵循前任的失败政策，这让选民与欧盟渐行渐远，将他们推向了极端主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a dangerous approach to politics, because it allows a majority to ride roughshod over the rights of minorities.",
        "这在政治上是种危险之举，因为它让大多数人凌驾于少数人的权利之上。"
    ],
    [
        "China will blame the trade imbalance on America’s ban on high-tech exports to China, deny engaging in currency manipulation, call on the US and its allies in East Asia to negotiate with North Korea without preconditions, insist on China’s entitlement as a developing country to an exemption from emissions caps on CO2, and refute criticism of its human rights record.",
        "中国将把贸易失衡之责推给美国针对中国的高科技出口禁令、否认有汇率操纵行为、敦促美国及其东亚盟友与朝鲜展开不带先决条件的谈判、强调中国作为发展中国家免受CO2排放限制约束的权利，并反驳对中国人权状况的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "Who am I, indeed, and why should I accept people reducing me and the richness of my identity to only one of its dimensions?",
        "我是谁，以及为什么我要接受人们把我以及我的身份的丰富性降格到只有其中的一个方面呢？"
    ],
    [
        "China regards the SCO as a stage for broadening its influence over a vast region, ranging from the Asia-Pacific to Southwest Asia, the Middle East, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean.",
        "中国将上合组织视为在广大地区扩大其影响力的舞台。 这一地区横跨亚太、东南亚、中东、东非以及印度洋。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial excesses become the rule rather than the exception, facilitated by financial innovation and the erosion of lending standards and prudential regulation.",
        "在金融创新、贷款标准下降和审慎监管取消的推动下，金融过剩在西方成了常态，而不是例外。"
    ],
    [
        "The Clinton administration attempted to put brakes on then-Prime Minister Netanyahu’s efforts to construct a new settlement near Bethlehem. After a short hiatus, construction resumed.",
        "克林顿政府曾经试图遏制时任以色列总理的内塔尼亚胡在伯利恒附近建立新定居点，但在暂缓了一阵时候，建设一切照旧。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the yen has fallen by nearly one-third against the US dollar, from around ¥80 to nearly ¥120 per dollar, invigorating Japan’s export industries.",
        "此外，日元对美元贬值了近三分之一，从原来的约80日元兑1美元下降到近120日元，令日本的出口工业蓬勃发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Coal companies and their allies argue that limiting coal production would keep the lights off in rural communities by preventing poor countries from building big, cheap power plants.",
        "煤炭公司及其盟友指出，限制煤炭产量将使贫穷国家无法建设大型廉价发电站，导致农村地区无法使用电灯。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the aims of France, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Arab League, NATO, and Qatar, all of which have played a role in Libya’s transformation, are unlikely to be the same.",
        "与此同时，法国、英国、美国、阿盟、北约和卡塔尔的利益均在影响利比亚的转型，而它们彼此之间也不可能没有利益冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "This could be built up to include other open Southeast Asian economies – Malaysia and Thailand – with the eventual aim being an APEC-wide agreement, which would be an impressive achievement if realized by the end of 2011, when it will be Obama’s turn to play host to all the leaders.",
        "这还将囊括其他的东南亚开放经济体——比如马来西亚和泰国——而最终目标则是实现一个与亚太经合组织作用范围相类似的协定，如果该协定能在2011年奥巴马在美国举行会议招待各国元首之时实现的话，那将是一个伟大的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade is relevant to the North Korean nuclear challenge, because strict economic sanctions by China – potentially including a halt in oil supplies – are probably the world’s best bet for stopping the North’s nuclear program (in exchange for certain security guarantees from the US).",
        "贸易与朝鲜的核挑战相关，因为中国的严厉经济制裁——可能包括停止石油供应——可能会是阻止朝鲜核计划（以换取美国某些安全保障）的最佳选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Such experiences provide grounds for optimism.",
        "加纳的经验让我们有了乐观的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s massive manufacturing ecosystem – 150 million factory workers, five times the supplier base of Japan, and modern infrastructure – enables process innovations that cut costs, raise quality, and shorten time to market.",
        "中国庞大的制造业生态系统——1. 5亿工厂工人、五倍于日本的供应商基础以及现代基础设施——让削减成本、提高质量、缩短上市时间的工艺创新容易实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor are Italians reassured to learn that Berlusconi fielded a number of candidates during the recent European Parliament elections whose only discernible qualification was that they were pretty young girls who had possibly spent some time in the prime minister’s company at his Sardinian Villa or Roman Palazzo.",
        "贝卢斯科尼在不久前的欧洲议会选举中任命了几位候选人的事也无法让意大利人感到安心，这几位候选人唯一有迹可循的资格就是她们都是漂亮的年轻女孩，而且可能花了一些时间在撒丁岛别墅或者罗马官邸中陪伴总理。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, the key challenge facing China was to stop importing “dark matter”: as one of the world’s largest net creditors, China needed to stop running an investment-income deficit.",
        "在过去，中国面临的关键挑战是停止输入“暗物质”（dark matter）：作为世界最大债权人之一，中国必须阻止投资收益赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "And that, as far as I was concerned, was that.",
        "在我看来，握手只是礼节性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the slow, tortuous process of international justice is often frustrating to the victims.",
        "当然，国际司法进程缓慢而且折磨人，经常令受害者垂头丧气。"
    ],
    [
        "Friedrich Nietzsche said that if you look in the eye of the Devil for too long, you risk becoming a devil yourself.",
        "尼采曾说过如果你盯着恶魔的眼睛时间太久，你自己也可能成为恶魔。"
    ],
    [
        "The main positive effect of quantitative easing was on asset prices – chiefly financial assets.",
        "量化宽松的主要积极效应体现在资产价格上——主要是金融资产。"
    ],
    [
        "One cannot help but wonder: were there alternative ways of spending a fraction of the war’s $1-$2 trillion in costs that would have better strengthened security, boosted prosperity, and promoted democracy?",
        "我们不禁要问：这场战争花费了1兆亿美元到2兆亿美元之间，有没有其他替代的方式花这笔钱的一小部分，从而更为加强安全、刺激繁荣并且促进民主呢？"
    ],
    [
        "On one level, it is hard not to see this as a self-reinforcing destructive cycle.",
        "在某种程度上，很难不把这看成自我加强的破坏性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "By fueling Japanese insecurity, US policy risks bringing about the very outcome – a return to militarism – that it aims to prevent.",
        "美国的政策加剧了日本的不安全感，有可能导致美国旨在防止的结果——军国主义。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2005, Yahoo gave the Chinese police the computer identification code for a dissident journalist, Shi Tao.",
        "2005年，雅虎向中国警方提供了持不同政见记者师涛的计算机识别码。"
    ],
    [
        "The prevailing strategy in Europe remains simply to force internal devaluation on the southern countries, with excessive austerity aimed at causing severe wage and price deflation.",
        "欧洲主流战略仍是强迫南欧国家进行内部贬值，实施旨在引导工资和价格大通缩的过度紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Kenya’s troubles run deeper.",
        "肯尼亚的麻烦还要深重。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing exemplifies this more than changes in national FDI regimes.",
        "这种变化最好的例证莫过于国家的直接外资政策。"
    ],
    [
        "What kind of a realist would not use a united Western alliance to limit a Russia that is trying to engineer a return to Cold War spheres of influence?",
        "怎样的现实主义者才不会利用统一的西方联盟遏制试图回归冷战势力范围的俄罗斯？"
    ],
    [
        "And none can be resolved without addressing the others.",
        "而这些危机都不可能单一地解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Continuous tracking of annual student academic performance yields more than 14 million data points that are used to shape instruction, achieve learning objectives, and ensure consistency across the company’s network of schools in 15 countries.",
        "对学生年度学习成绩的持续追踪产生了1,400多万个数据点，这些数据点被用来确定教学方案、实现学习目标以及确保公司分布在15个国家的学校网络的一致性。"
    ],
    [
        "Creating coherent policies is unremittingly difficult when there are so many nations, each with a different political culture.",
        "在政治文化各不相同的成员国众多的情况下，创建具有连贯性的政策始终是困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, more securitization, easier online trading, and other financial market developments in recent years have facilitated greater speculative investments, especially in commodity futures and options markets, including those affecting food.",
        "除此之外，最近几年证券化的提高、更便捷的网上交易和其他金融市场的发展使投机性投资愈演愈烈，尤其是商品期货和期权市场，包括那些影响食品价格的期货和期权市场。"
    ],
    [
        "With the government losing $4.5 billion every year by subsidizing passenger fares, it has little money to spend on upgrading infrastructure, improving safety standards, or speeding up the trains.",
        "因为每年亏损45亿美元补贴客运票价，政府用于升级基础设施、改善安全标准或提高运行速度的资金已经极其匮乏。"
    ],
    [
        "When legislators finally enacted the enabling legislation in May 2013, victims were dismayed to discover that the commission would be allowed to recommend amnesties for crimes against humanity, in contravention of international principles and United Nations guidelines.",
        "当立法者终于在2013年5月颁布授权法案时，受害者惊惶地发现该委员会居然有权建议赦免反人类罪，这悍然违反了国际原则和联合国准则。"
    ],
    [
        "The essential problem in addressing the third task is to find out precisely what is going on in the real economy.",
        "应对第三项要务的关键问题是准确地了解实体经济的现状。"
    ],
    [
        "Others, including Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, and Ehud Olmert “talked left and built right.”",
        "其他领导人，包括前总理拉宾，埃胡德·巴拉克和奥尔默特则持有左翼的观点，但仍然按照右翼那样执行建立定居点的路线。"
    ],
    [
        "The government of Bhutan, for example, already accounts for the “social wealth” and “natural wealth” of its people, in addition to its GDP figures.",
        "比方说，不丹政府就已经在GDP数据之外，提出了民众的“社会财富”和“自然财富”理念。"
    ],
    [
        "They also tolerate enterprise or government policies that encourage high saving.",
        "他们也愿意容忍鼓励储蓄的国家政策。"
    ],
    [
        "And who knows what private deals for Trump and his family might also be lurking in his warm embrace of Saudi belligerence.",
        "至于特朗普及其家族因为其热情支持好战的沙特而暗中获得多少私人好处么就只有天知道了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, building competitive markets is essential to ensuring sustainable GDP growth.",
        "此外，建设竞争市场是确保可持续GDP增长的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, on this issue, the US might rapidly find itself isolated from all other global actors.",
        "事实上，在这个问题上，美国也许很快就会发现自己已经被其他国际行动方所孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite having led the Internet race in the 1990s, the US is now the only major developed economy without a clear digitization plan.",
        "尽管美国领导了20世纪90年代的互联网竞赛，但如今，美国是唯一一个没有明确的数字化计划的发达经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "The magnitude of the problem is huge.",
        "这是问题范围涉及极广。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s situation, by contrast, is all too familiar.",
        "相反，希腊的情况人们再熟悉不过了。"
    ],
    [
        "This shadow system includes structured investment vehicles (SIVs), conduits, money market funds, hedge funds, and investment banks.",
        "这种面临阴影的体系包括结构性投资工具（SIVs）、管道（以资产支持商业票据为自己筹资）、货币市场基金、对冲基金和投资银行。"
    ],
    [
        "A year ago, the two countries did not even have ambassadors in each other’s capitals.",
        "一年前，两国还没有互派大使。"
    ],
    [
        "“The new presentation,” write Mikhail Danilovich and Robert Coalson, “is devoted not to the repressive forced-labor practices of the Stalin era but to the timber production at the plant and to its contribution to the Soviet victory in World War II.”",
        "“新的解说词”，米哈伊尔·丹尼洛维奇和罗伯特·卡尔森写道，“并未主要介绍斯大林时代压迫性的强制劳改做法，转而介绍这里的木材生产以及对二战苏联胜利所起到的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "AI is the central component in self-driving cars – which can now avoid collisions and traffic congestion – and in game-playing systems like Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, a computer that beat South Korean Go master Lee Sedol in a five-game match earlier this year.",
        "人工智能是无人驾驶汽车的核心部件——无人驾驶技术现在可以避免碰撞和交通堵塞——人工智能也是像谷歌DeepMind AlphaGo等游戏系统的核心部件，这台电脑年初在一场五局三胜制的比赛中击败了韩国围棋高手李世石。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States has also signaled a fundamental, abrupt shift in its global climate policy.",
        "美国也显示了其全球气候政策一个彻底而突然的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Although much research remains to be done, such technologies are increasingly accessible.",
        "虽然仍有不少研究工作要做，但类似的技术已经越来越实用。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the door to Asia was open, however, Russian companies seized the opportunity to enter the downstream markets of India and Indonesia – two countries that are critical to the Saudis’ own strategy.",
        "但是，一旦打开了通往亚洲的大门，俄罗斯公司又抓住了进入下游的印度和印度尼西亚市场的机会——这两国家对沙特自身的战略至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Those considering joining an extremist Islamic group should be told: You believe every other religion to be false, but adherents of many other religions believe just as firmly that your faith is false.",
        "我们应该告诉那些极端伊斯兰组织的潜在加入者：你们认为其他宗教虚伪，但很多其他宗教的信仰者也同样坚定地相信你们宗教的虚伪性。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s standard response to any suggestion that it exercise global leadership is to hide beneath its vast internal agenda and plead poverty.",
        "中国对任何其实施全球领导地位建议的标准回复就是躲在国内问题背后并且宣称自己的贫困问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefit of mobile technologies lies in access.",
        "移动技术的优势在于通道。"
    ],
    [
        "The trade deficit would ostensibly be halved.",
        "从表面上看，贸易赤字将会缩水一半。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the near-consensus among policy analysts, the share of corporate taxes borne by labor, and the share of lost revenues from a cut in corporate income tax that will be recouped through increased investment, are both 25%. Yet the CEA, under Hassett, now assumes that both are 82%.",
        "根据政策分析人士近乎一致的观点，劳动力所占企业总体税负的份额，以及借助投资增加来挽回的因企业所得税减免造成的政府收入损失的份额都是25％，然而哈塞特手下的经济顾问委员会却认为这两个数字都该是82％。"
    ],
    [
        "But the region’s struggle for power and its sectarian-ideological antagonisms also create an opportunity for cooperation once scarcely thought possible.",
        "但该地区的实力之争以及宗派-意识形态对抗也为曾经希望渺茫的合作创造了机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Herein lies the link between US politicians and the Islamic State: both are engaging in ideologically motivated cultural destruction.",
        "这当中可以找到美国政客和伊斯兰国之间的联系：两者都以基于意识形态的文化破坏为目的。"
    ],
    [
        "And there is the desire to restore states’ integrity and stability in the region.",
        "此外，还有重塑该地区各国统一和稳定的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the CDO market did not so much spread risk as it shifted and hid it.",
        "因此，债务抵押债券市场没有对风险进行公开，而是进行了隐藏和转嫁。"
    ],
    [
        "The Party and people should faithfully follow whatever Mao instructed them to do.",
        "中国共产党和人民就该一心一意遵照毛主席曾经指示的去办。"
    ],
    [
        "A sensible answer must distinguish between financial perceptions and economic reality.",
        "明智的答案必须区分金融感觉和经济现实。"
    ],
    [
        "However, barring any major economic bumps, the changes will have a positive impact, as capital allocation becomes more efficient.",
        "但是，除非经济上出现重大颠簸，否则，随着资金分配效率的提高，这些变化将产生正面的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "These parties understand the social transformations underway in the Middle East that are leading toward democracy, and they want to take part.",
        "这些政党都很了解中东地区正在经历的一系列走向民主的社会变革，并且他们也想加入其中。"
    ],
    [
        "When Globalization Goes Digital",
        "当全球化走向数字化"
    ],
    [
        "Unless change comes soon, the foreign-exchange regime and capital controls on which the model relies will become too deeply entrenched, and the window of opportunity for adjustment will be missed.",
        "除非很快采取变化，否则作为这一模式的基础的外汇机制和资本管制将会变得过于根深蒂固，调整的机会窗口也会错失。"
    ],
    [
        "Parts of the Middle East, for example, could become too hot for humans by the end of this century; and heavily populated cities such as New Delhi could experience temperatures over 95º Fahrenheit (35º C) up to 200 days out of the year.",
        "比如，到本世纪末，中东很多地方可能会变得太热而无法居住； 而新德里等重污染城市可能会经历全年200多天气温超过35℃的日子。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson is that the magnitude of transaction costs and contracting costs ultimately determine much of an economy's structure.",
        "从中，我们汲取到这样的经验：交易和合同成本的大小最终能够在很大程度上决定经济的结构。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF focuses on crisis prevention, and in the past decade encouraged greater transparency and stronger financial systems.",
        "国际货币基金组织以预防危机为重点，在过去的十年鼓励建立更加透明稳定的金融制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Kundera’s case is hardly unique.",
        "此外，昆德拉事件远远不是独此一例。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they have little direct appreciation of the worst aspect of one-party rule: a rapacious, legally unrestrained elite.",
        "因此他们很少能直接评价一党统治最糟糕的一面：一个贪婪的，逍遥法外的精英集团。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community must now ensure that the new global compacts promote these broad ambitions.",
        "如今，国际社会必须确保新的全球契约能够促进这些广泛的宏大目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 50 million people are infected with tubercle bacilli that are MDR.",
        "大约5000万人携带者MDR结核杆菌。"
    ],
    [
        "The Department of Energy asked the National Petroleum Council, an industry group, for its advice on Arctic drilling.",
        "能源部向行业组织美国石油协会征询关于北极圈钻井的意见。"
    ],
    [
        "A British Bridge for a Divided Europe",
        "连接分裂欧洲的英国之桥"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, it continues to increase.",
        "更糟糕的是，这一鸿沟还在不断扩大之中。"
    ],
    [
        "And, yes, of course, it was the same Cliff Reid I knew back in the late 1980’s.",
        "当然，这个人正是我在20世纪80年代认识的那个Cliff Reid。"
    ],
    [
        "And concerns that a fiscal devaluation will conflict with euro rules can be met by simply pointing out that Germany’s government carried one out in 2007, though by another name, when it raised VAT from 16% to 19% and cut employers’ contribution to social insurance, from 6.5% to 4.2%.",
        "若有些人担心财政货币贬值将会与欧元规则相互冲突，则可以援引德国举例即可。 德国政府2007年实施了一项类似的计划（没有公开说明），将增值税从16％提高到19％，将雇主对社会保险的贡献率从6."
    ],
    [
        "In the southern city of Guangzhou, the center of China’s shark-fin trade, vendors have reported an 82% decline in sales over the last two years.",
        "在中国鱼翅贸易中心的南部城市广州，经销商报告在过去两年的时间里销售下降了82%。"
    ],
    [
        "The Jua Kali comprises sector-based associations among workers and artisans that harken back to medieval guilds.",
        "朱阿卡丽由各种属于工人和技工的类似于中世纪行会的行业协会组成。"
    ],
    [
        "A German study suggests that the proliferation of cell phone towers is weakening bees’ immune systems (the study correlates towers and signal strength to bee deaths).",
        "德国进行的一项研究表明手机天线塔的大量使用削弱了蜜蜂的免疫系统（该研究关注的是天线塔与信号强度与蜜蜂死亡率的关联性）。"
    ],
    [
        "These subsidies are dangerous; they encourage excessive risk-taking and very high leverage – meaning a lot of debt relative to equity for each bank and far too much debt relative to the economy as a whole.",
        "这些补贴是危险的； 它们鼓励了过度承担风险和使用极高杠杆的行为——这意味着每个银行的股本都需要应付大笔债务，而整体经济的债务比率也实在太高。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this underscores a potential silver lining.",
        "上面这一切都意味着存在一线希望。"
    ],
    [
        "The advantages, it was expected, would be apparent not just from aggregate data, but also from individual citizens’ own experience.",
        "人们预期，其优势不光显而易见地体现在加总数据上，也体现在个体公民的自身体验中。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, when America finally understands how vital an Israeli-Palestinian peace is for its fortunes in the broader Middle East, and the Arab world is for the first time committed to pursuing a comprehensive settlement with Israel, anarchic Palestinian politics is making a decision for peace well nigh impossible.",
        "今天，当美国终于明白以巴和平对于其在更广大中东地区的利益有多么的重要，当阿拉伯世界第一次致力于寻求与以色列的全面解决方案时，无政府式的巴勒斯坦政治却使得和平决策几乎成了不可完成的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Only in July 2013 would all banks of major systemic importance be subject to ECB supervision.",
        "直到2013年6月，所有具系统重要性的银行才会纳入欧洲央行的监督之下。"
    ],
    [
        "But more investment alone is not enough.",
        "但光靠增加投资是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite modern infrastructure, logistical costs within China are 18% of production costs, compared with 10% in the US, owing to various internal inefficiencies.",
        "但是，尽管基础设施已经实现了现代化，中国国内物流成本仍占生产成本的18%，而美国只占10%，这是由多种多样的内部低效率导致的。"
    ],
    [
        "And before Macierewicz canceled the arms contract with France, he met with D’Amato, a lobbyist also for the US arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin.",
        "而且在麦克瑞维奇取消与法国的武器合同之前，他曾与同时担任美国武器制造商洛克希德·马丁公司说客的阿马托会晤过。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s growth story has entailed the orchestration of at least four supply chains: a global production supply chain, run largely by the private sector; a logistics supply chain, run by state-owned enterprises; a finance supply chain, mainly comprising state-owned banks; and a government-services supply chain.",
        "中国经济的高增长过程包括了至少四大供应链的重建：全球制造供应链（主要由私营部门运作）、基础设施供应链（主要由国有企业运作）、金融供应链（主要由国有银行组成）以及政府服务供应链。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, it would be helpful to devise a way to identify potential risks to fiscal stability (such as those implied by an over-extended banking and financial system).",
        "尤其应该考虑有什么办法可以预警财政稳定性的风险（例如银行业和金融体系过度扩张所带来的风险）。"
    ],
    [
        "In theory, by depressing aggregate demand, the combination of increased real debt and higher real interest rates could lead to further price declines, leading to even larger negative inflation rates.",
        "理论上，真实债务增加和真实利率升高的合力通过抑制总需求导致价格的进一步下跌，带来更严重的负通胀率。"
    ],
    [
        "Reduced European dependence on the US export market can hardly protect Europe from the effects of the US economic slowdown if the euro appreciates as much against the key Asian currencies as it has against the dollar.",
        "欧洲对美国出口市场依赖的减少并不意味着欧洲就不会受美国经济疲软的影响，如果欧元在对美元增值的同时对主要亚洲货币也同样增值的话。"
    ],
    [
        "People have choices, and they exercise them all the time.",
        "人们有选择权，并且可以随时行使。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a challenge even for high-income countries such as Germany and the United States, where some utilities are seeing their business upended as consumers sell power back into the grid.",
        "这对德美等高收入国家都是一种挑战，有些电厂目睹消费者向电网回售电力颠覆了它们的业务。"
    ],
    [
        "The belief that openness is treason and closure is patriotic is a rejection of the entire post-1945 framework of politics and policy in the developed world.",
        "开放就是卖国，封闭就是爱国，这一信念是对1945年后发达世界政治和政策框架的全盘否定。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be a bitter travesty to abandon the Kurds to the mercy of the Iraqi or Turkish governments in their time of need.",
        "而如果西方为了讨好伊拉克或土耳其政府而去抛弃库尔德人，只会让一切变成一场痛苦的闹剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Lower oil prices make life easier, not harder, for highly indebted households in the US or the eurozone periphery.",
        "对于美国和欧元区外围国家的高负债家庭来说，油价下跌缓解（而非增加）了一定的生活压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The political passions aroused by the clashes of interpretation often make the crisis seemingly insoluble.",
        "意见相左激发的政治情感往往使得危机看起来无从解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Real GDP in South Korea – long considered the darling of Asia’s newly industrialized economies – contracted by 5.7% that year.",
        "而在一直被视为亚洲新工业化国家龙头的韩国，当年实质GDP萎缩了5. 7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Promoting a pan-European private placement market might help, as would aligning standards for covered bonds.",
        "促进泛欧洲私人配置市场也许有所助益，理顺担保债券标准亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "In most major donor countries, aid is being redirected to stem the flow of refugees from the Middle East, especially Syria.",
        "在绝大多数主要捐助国，援助款项正在被转而用于阻止中东难民、尤其是叙利亚难民的流入。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the hideous and crazed words of the leader of Boko Haram, the group that kidnapped the girls, are representative only of the most extreme fringe of this ideology.",
        "当然，绑架的实施者——博科圣地（Boko Haram）领袖丧心病狂的话只是这一意识形态最极端的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "Qadri addressed the marchers repeatedly; liberally mixing political metaphors, he called himself a latter-day Mao Zedong on a journey to launch a system-cleansing jihad and initiate a Pakistani version of the Arab Spring.",
        "塔德里数次向游行者发表演讲，有意散播政治隐喻，自称为当代毛泽东，正在发动一场净化制度的圣战，领导巴基斯坦版阿拉伯之春。"
    ],
    [
        "And there were huge frustrations even when the search shifted to the Indian Ocean, as massive naval and air resources failed to find any trace of relevant surface debris.",
        "即使搜索工作转移到印度洋后也曾遭遇到重大挫折，因为动用大规模海上及空中资源却找不到表面碎片的任何痕迹。"
    ],
    [
        "To explain the rise in inequality that began in the 1980s and has accelerated since the turn of the century, many have pointed out that indicators of globalization, such as the trade-to-GDP ratio, have also risen since 1980.",
        "为了解释发端于1980年代并从世纪之交以来不断加速的不平等状况，许多人都指出这是因为自1980年以来类似贸易相对GDP比率这类全球化指标有所上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Young Japanese tend not to work before their 30’s, and married women stay at home.",
        "年轻的日本人在30岁之前一般不找工作，妇女婚后则大多待在家里。"
    ],
    [
        "But unconditional aid only delays reforms, because it weakens budget constraints, which reduces pressure on policymakers and creates moral hazard.",
        "但无条件的援助只能拖延干戈，因为这削弱了预算约束，从而减轻了决策者的压力，创造了道德风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But treating force and diplomacy as distinct phases of foreign policy gives the negotiating parties the sense that American power lacks purpose and resolve.",
        "但把外交政策中的武力和外交截然分开的做法令谈判双方感觉美国缺乏目的和决心。"
    ],
    [
        "JERUSALEM – Israel’s election is a victory for centrism and national consensus.",
        "耶路撒冷-以色列的选举是中间主义和国民意见的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "From January 1, 2011, we will switch to biometric passports.",
        "从2011年1月1日起，我国将全面使用生物护照（一种内置芯片包含持有者生物特征的电子护照）。"
    ],
    [
        "The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that the annual value of open data in education, transportation, consumer products, electricity, oil and gas, health care, and consumer finance could reach $3 trillion.",
        "麦肯锡全球研究所（McKinney Global Institute）估计，教育、交通、消费产品、电力、石油和天然气、医疗以及消费金融开放数据的年价值可达3万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The game of hazard which he plays is furnished with many zeros,” which represent “the increment [by which] the world’s wealth has fallen short of...savings,” owing to “the losses of those whose courage and initiative have not been supplemented by exceptional skill or unusual good fortune.",
        "因此“企业主们这场冒险游戏所面临的风险极为巨大”，这意味着“世界财富因为缺乏储蓄而无法增长”，而归根结底都是因为“那些拥有勇气和创业精神的人不断减少，同时又未能发明某些高新技术或者探明巨额财富资源来作为补充”所导致的。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty-first-century financial technology will facilitate direct trading in a variety of different currencies, eliminating the need and custom of routing virtually all international transactions through the dollar.",
        "二十一世纪金融技术将有利于多种不同货币的直接交易，消除几乎所有国际交易都通过美元进行的需要和习惯。"
    ],
    [
        "And solutions for one problem may have applications in other areas.",
        "并且一个问题的解决办法也可以应用于其他领域。"
    ],
    [
        "The two prongs of Xi’s political strategy – cleansing the Party and reinvigorating China’s economy – are thus complementary and interdependent.",
        "因此，习近平政治战略的两大要点——清党和重振中国经济——是相辅相成的。"
    ],
    [
        "My response is to remind people what terrors the Cold War held.",
        "我的回答是提醒人们冷战种所蕴藏的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, given the myriad security and political risks that Aquino ran in concluding a peace deal with the MILF, he may be an even worthier Nobel laureate.",
        "事实上，考虑到阿基诺三世在与MILF达成和平协议中所需要面临的安全和政治风险，他更有资格获得诺贝尔奖。"
    ],
    [
        "The political and economic success of southern Europe’s much-needed structural reforms requires the proper dose and timing of budgetary medicine and buoyant demand in the north.",
        "南欧所急需的结构性改革是否可以取得政治和经济上的成功，取决于改革剂量是否合理以及预算药方是否及时、北欧需求是否坚挺。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – For seasoned observers of Europe’s economy, the most recent European Union summit delivered a bizarre sense of déjà vu.",
        "发自布鲁塞尔——对于那些长期关注欧洲经济的人说，最近的欧盟峰会有种似曾相识的怪诞感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Solving Syria in the Security Council",
        "在安理会框架内解决叙利亚问题"
    ],
    [
        "Democratic institutions in industrial countries are stronger, and have deeper roots, than was the case in the 1930s.",
        "相对与1930年代来说，发达国家的民主体制已经发展得相当根深蒂固了。"
    ],
    [
        "What limits on the use of US military power are acceptable or necessary?",
        "美国军事力量的使用在何种程度上是必要和可以接受的？"
    ],
    [
        "The risk premium on Greek government bonds continues to hover around three percentage points, depriving Greece of much of the benefit of euro membership – namely, being able to refinance government bonds at the official discount rate.",
        "希腊国债的风险溢价还维持在 3% ，希腊也被取消作为欧元成员国的部分权利 —— 例如，以政府折扣的利率发行国债。"
    ],
    [
        "Both require active and alert citizens who engage what they do not like rather than calling for the state to clamp down on it.",
        "它们都要求积极和警觉的公民能够对付他们所不喜欢的东西，而不是要求国家予以镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, there is little incentive to conserve.",
        "结果是人们几乎没有动力保护地下水。"
    ],
    [
        "But if people believe that the moneyed are primarily those who are well connected or crooked, their tolerance for monetary transactions falls.",
        "但如果人们认为关系最多、人品最劣者往往最能致富，那么他们对货币交易的容忍度也会下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet there is hope for those at lower latitudes as well.",
        "然而那些处于低纬度的国家不乏希望。"
    ],
    [
        "The 7.8 exchange rate was maintained at the cost – borne by all citizens – of six years of economic stagnation.",
        "香港为保持7. 8的汇率付出了6年经济停滞的代价——上述代价的承担者是全体香港公民。"
    ],
    [
        "But plans for such a two-track Europe can advance only if Merkel can overcome German nationalists who want to break up the single currency, and only if Macron can silence integrationist zealots in Brussels who want to force all EU countries to join the eurozone.",
        "但这样一项欧洲双轨制计划实行的前提是默克尔能够压制想要打破单一货币的德国民族主义者，同时还要求马克龙能够压制布鲁塞尔的一体化狂热分子，这些人希望迫使所有欧盟国家加入欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "If his public approval sinks too low, fewer members of Congress will work with him, and more will work against him.",
        "如果他的公共支持率降得过低，国会中与他合作的成员就越少，而与他作对的成员就越多。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition his rival, the senior president of all of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Haris Silajdzic, has stressed the need to abolish the two entities that make up Bosnia, to create one non-federal country.",
        "此外，他的竞争对手，波斯尼亚－黑塞哥维那主席团轮值主席哈里斯·西拉伊季奇(Haris Silajdzic)，强调取消组成波斯尼亚的两个实体，建立一个非联邦国家的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where the second pillar of a liberal order comes into play: the rule of law.",
        "这就需要自由秩序的第二根支柱发挥作用：这根支柱就是法治。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, high private investments by business depend on high public investments in infrastructure and human capital.",
        "第四，企业部门的高私人投资取决于基础社会和人力资本方面的高公共投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Only aggressive, coordinated, and effective policy actions by advanced and emerging-market countries can ensure that the global economy recovers in 2010, rather than entering a more protracted period of economic stagnation.",
        "只有发达经济体和新兴市场经济体采取强有力、协同并且有效的政策行动，才能确保全球经济在2010年复苏，而不是进入一个更加漫长的经济滞胀期。"
    ],
    [
        "“We knew it meant there was about to be a butter shortage.”",
        "“我们知道这意味着黄油马上就会供不应求。"
    ],
    [
        "The result could be more failed states and more conflict between states.",
        "更多的国家将因此面临政府破产，而国与国之间的冲突也将不断增多。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, unnamed investors (allegedly the largest Russian state banks) benefited from the CBR’s decision on December 12 to allow these bonds to be used as collateral for three-year CBR ruble loans at the policy rate.",
        "接着，不知名投资者（据称是最大的几家俄罗斯州银行）因为CBR在12月12日作出的决定而获益——允许这些债券作为抵押换取CBR按政策利率发放的三年期卢布贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "As a card-carrying member of the economics profession, I have been trained to view the world from the perspective of the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, according to whom the purpose of public policy is to create the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.",
        "作为拥有正式与会资格的经济学专家，我所接受的训练让我用英国哲学家边沁（Jeremy Bentham）的观点看待世界。 边沁认为，公共政策的目的是为最广大人民创造最大幸福。"
    ],
    [
        "Somewhere out there, gunning for Musharraf, are Islamic militants furious at being dumped after they fought his covert wars in Afghanistan and Kashmir.",
        "在某处，伊斯兰武装分子们正向着穆沙拉夫磨刀霍霍。 他们为他在阿富汗和克什米尔的隐蔽战争中立下汗马功劳，而后却被抛弃。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Argentina must either pay the holdouts in full or default on the new bonds.",
        "因此阿根廷要么全额偿还反对者，要么就只能宣布新债券违约。"
    ],
    [
        "The extent to which Khamenei fears this social upsurge is stunning.",
        "而哈梅内伊对这场社会剧变所表现出来的恐惧程度也令人吃惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Reconciliation along the Franco-German model may not yet be in the cards, but the two Asian powers would be well advised to learn from Europe’s experience.",
        "遵循法德模式和解也许还不现实，但对亚洲两大强国来说，学习欧洲的经验不失为好建议。"
    ],
    [
        "If Iran and Syria then decide to back Hezbollah, a direct Israeli-Iranian showdown could follow.",
        "如果伊朗和叙利亚此后决定支持真主党，一场以色列和伊朗之间的决战就可能不期而至。"
    ],
    [
        "And if you’re not convinced, consider the recent history of Russia or Turkey; or the history of the Roman Empire under Caligula or Nero.",
        "如果你不相信，试着去翻一下俄罗斯或土耳其的近代史，或是卡利古拉（Caligula）或尼禄（Nero）治下的罗马帝国史。"
    ],
    [
        "UEFA is unhappy with Ukraine’s progress in building the necessary infrastructure, but Ukraine should be given time to get its act together.",
        "欧足联对乌克兰兴建必要的基础设施进展并不满意，但是应该给乌克兰时间来全力以赴。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Trump’s budget plans are still too vague – particularly with respect to discretionary spending, Social Security, and Medicare – to arrive at an informed estimate of their actual impact on the federal deficit and national debt.",
        "平心而论，特朗普的预算计划仍然十分模糊——特别是在自由裁量支出、社会安全和医疗保险方面——因此无法对其对联邦赤字和国民债务的实际影响作出信息充分的测算。"
    ],
    [
        "As rising affluence and falling technology prices make online shopping accessible to a growing pool of customers, more products will follow.",
        "随着物品的丰富和技术成本的下降让越来越多的客户有机会进行在线购物，在线购物的种类也会随之增加。"
    ],
    [
        "But it does change the policy implications – and the lessons from the US example are relevant worldwide.",
        "但这确实能改变政策影响——而美国的例子的教训对全世界来说都十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK example is important; but, given the scope and scale of the challenges, the proposal is a relatively modest one.",
        "英国的例子很重要； 但是考虑到整个挑战所涉及的范围和规模 ，该提案还是相对保守的。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, digital finance reduces costs: MGI estimates that it would cost financial-service providers 80-90% less – about $10 per year, compared to the $100 per year it costs today – to offer customers digital accounts than accounts through traditional bank branches.",
        "其次，数字金融可以降低成本：麦肯锡全球研究所估计与传统银行机构相比，金融服务提供商为客户提供数字账户的成本或将降低80-90%——即数字金融服务每年仅需十美元左右，而如今的传统金融服务成本为每年100美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Efforts to stabilize the international monetary system and end the global slump were set back by these diplomatic conflicts.",
        "稳定国际货币体系、结束全球不景气的措施因为这些外交冲突而受到拖累。"
    ],
    [
        "The Resisted Rise of Segolene Royal",
        "罗雅尔举步维艰"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is a product of belief.",
        "事实上，它是信念的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "It has also reduced poverty sharply in many emerging economies – indeed, for this reason alone, the world economy needs to remain open and interconnected.",
        "它同时也大幅降低了许多新兴经济体的贫困率——事实上单凭这一点，世界经济就应当继续保持开放和互联。"
    ],
    [
        "But many of migration’s benefits are squandered.",
        "但许多移民的好处被白白浪费了。"
    ],
    [
        "Whoever emerges on top will have to present an effective strategy to end four decades of military occupation and bring about a truly independent state that a majority of Palestinians can embrace.",
        "无论是谁最后爬上权力巅峰，他都必须提出一个有效的战略，一方面结束长达40年的以色列军事占领，另一方面则是建立一个绝大多数巴勒斯坦人可以接受的，真正独立的巴勒斯坦国。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Professor Jeremy Bulow of Stanford University and I have shown that by endowing the World Bank with $100 billion dollars, it could carry out the tasks that it performs best more effectively and with greater transparency than it does today through borrowing and lending.",
        "比如，斯坦福大学教授吉米·布鲁（Jeremy Bulow）和我已经证明，只要给世界银行1000亿美元的资本，它就完全可以通过借贷，把一向擅长的工作做得比今天更有效率，也更加透明。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, by any measure, China is more than twice as rich.",
        "现在，无论用哪种标准衡量，中国都是两倍于印度的富有。"
    ],
    [
        "When Ohanian delivered a keynote address at the popular SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, this year, he didn’t talk about the line between free speech and hate speech.",
        "今年，奥哈尼安在德克萨斯州奥斯汀市的西南偏南互动节（SXSW Interactive Festival）发表了主旨演讲，其中并未谈及言论自由和仇恨言论之间的界限。"
    ],
    [
        "And in the coming months, these challenges are what will determine the battle lines between the president and his hardline adversaries inside and outside the parliament.",
        "在未来几个月中，这些挑战将决定总统及其议会内外强硬派对手的斗争局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Italy are still at risk, while bailout fatigue pervades the eurozone core.",
        "特别地，希腊、葡萄牙、西班牙和意大利仍然岌岌可危，而欧元区核心国已经产生了援助疲劳。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat of a large stick is the only language that the natives understand.",
        "大棒威胁是唯一能够让本地人明白的语言。"
    ],
    [
        "The arms and money flowing to self-proclaimed holy fighters over the last four years have fanned revolutionary flames that may yet lead to a redrawing of the map of the Middle East.",
        "在过去四年中，流向自称的圣战斗士的军火和资金点燃了革命的火种，但这场火还没有达到重画中东地图的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "“McKinsey: One-third of US workers could be jobless by 2030 due to automation,” seconds another.",
        "而另一条则写道“麦肯锡：在 2030年1/3 的美国工人可能会因自动化失业”。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is best addressed in Copenhagen, in the presence of all world leaders, not in the cozy confines of the G-20.",
        "但那个议题最好还是在哥本哈根大会那样的机制里去讨论，因为各国领导人都会到场，而不像 G-20 这样有着种种门槛。"
    ],
    [
        "This would end its awkward impotence on – and apparent indifference to – inequality.",
        "这将让欧盟不再对不平等性问题束手无策——也显然漠不关心。"
    ],
    [
        "But California’s unemployment rate, 12.3% in November 2009, was tied for the nation’s third highest.",
        "但是，加州的失业率（ 2009 年 11 月为 12. 3% ）却位列全国第三。"
    ],
    [
        "The territory being exchanged comprises lawless enclaves, where the nominal sovereign lacks real authority.",
        "被交换的领土都是主权有名无实的法外飞地。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Silicon Valley’s dynamism should not be diminished, the rest of the country’s entrepreneurial potential should not be underestimated.",
        "正如硅谷的活力不应该削弱，美国其他地区的企业家潜力也不应该低估。"
    ],
    [
        "It was only in the late 1980’s, when the Communist empire was crumbling, that US governments actively backed democratic politicians and demonstrators in Seoul, Taipei, or Manila.",
        "只有在20世纪80年代共产主义王国分崩离析之时，美国政府积极支持了首尔、台北或马尼拉的民主政治家和示威群众。"
    ],
    [
        "In the name of “economic patriotism,” security, and other considerations, resistance to M&A’s is being codified in an increasing number of countries.",
        "打着“经济爱国主义”、安全和其他形形色色的旗号，越来越多的国家将抵制兼并写进了本国法律。"
    ],
    [
        "And the market inflation forecast – the spread between Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities and normal Treasuries – remains extremely tame.",
        "市场对通胀的预测 ——TIPS 和普通债券之间的利差 —— 依旧非常正常。"
    ],
    [
        "With all this competition, “the hurdles to achieving alpha [returns above a risk-adjusted benchmark – and thus a measure of success in picking individual investments] are getting higher and higher.”",
        "在所有这些竞争态势之下，“实现高回报（也就是获取高于所承担风险基准的回报并以此制定一个挑选各单一投资方式的成功策略）的门槛将越来越高”。"
    ],
    [
        "Alcohol policy in Sweden, the Volkswagen-law in Germany, and discrimination against foreign investment funds in France are examples of cases that made the Commission unpopular.",
        "瑞典的酒品政策，德国的大众法以及法国对外国投资的歧视就是欧盟委员会不受欢迎的例证。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not the first time that developing countries have faced the challenges of managing pro-cyclical hot capital, but the magnitudes this time are overwhelming.",
        "这不是发展中国家第一次面对如何管理亲周期性热钱的难题，但此次的规模是压倒性的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Jews – then less than 20% of British Palestine’s population – set up what became known as the National Committee (Va’ad Leumi), based on an elected body, the Representative Assembly of Palestinian Jews.",
        "犹太人当时其人口不到英属巴勒斯坦总人口的20%，成立了民族委员会（Va’ad Leumi），并且选举产生了一个机构巴勒斯坦犹太人代表大会。"
    ],
    [
        "Optimists also argue that some local borrowers are naturally hedged.",
        "乐观者还指出，一些本地借款人天然对冲了风险。"
    ],
    [
        "That happened in 2004, when, after agreeing to initiate what they called a “composite dialogue” that would cover eight issues that had kept them apart for decades, India and Pakistan also agreed to work towards the creation of the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA).",
        "2004年曾出现过这样的曙光，当时两国政府不但同意开展“全面对话”，内容涵盖了导致两国隔阂数十年的八个议题，而且还同意共同创建南亚自由贸易区（SAFTA）。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, Machiavelli was correct: for a political leader, the people’s contempt is worse than their hatred.",
        "”显然，马基雅维利是对的：对政治领袖来说，人民的轻视比人民的愤怒更糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans can learn from the United States and implement a fundamentally sound plan.",
        "欧洲人可以向美国学习并实施一个在根本上合理的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But the need to use that term to distinguish true science from the practice of imposters was already fading by the time the Nobel Prizes were launched in 1901.",
        "但当诺贝尔奖于1901年推出的时候，已不再需要使用这个术语来区分骗子法术与真正的科学。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that the US should not engage or collaborate with governments that operate on different principles.",
        "这并不是说美国不应与奉行不同原则的政府展开合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the current debt crisis has resurrected the old problem, with debt now filling the role that currencies played under the ERM.",
        "但当前的债务危机却令从前的老问题死灰复燃，而债券则扮演了当年汇率机制中货币的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "They also portray American life as open, mobile, individualistic, anti-establishment, pluralist, populist, and free.",
        "它们还展现开放、流动、个性、反对权势、多样性以及自由的美国生活。"
    ],
    [
        "There is remarkable work being done to create opportunities, as well as to prevent catastrophe.",
        "在创造机会和预防灾难方面已经取得了相当的成效。"
    ],
    [
        "Flecks of dried blood peeled up from the floor.",
        "凝干的血痂从地面上翻驳起来。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, upon hearing the evidence, a former Pakistani prime minister confessed that he would have been more proactive in this area had he known while he was in office what he knows now.",
        "事实上，在听到这一证据后，一位前巴基斯坦总理坦承如果在任时就了解到这些情况，他本应该做的更加积极一些。"
    ],
    [
        "Anatomy of Thatcherism",
        "剖析撒切尔主义"
    ],
    [
        "Nor could we find any convergence regarding government deficits and debt.",
        "我们并未发现政府赤字与债务方面有任何同化趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Everywhere, economic activity is painfully stabilizing at 5% to 10% below 2007 levels.",
        "时至今日，各地的经济活动都在低于2007年5%到10%的水平上痛苦地徘徊。"
    ],
    [
        "“Cracking down on smugglers,\" the go-to solution for many in the EU, will take many years to have an impact, given the instability of many North African governments.",
        "考虑到许多北非政府的动荡，“打击蛇头”——对许多欧盟人来说，这是首选方案——需要许多年才会收到效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Instability of Inequality",
        "应对不平等问题，世界亟需新模式"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek saga shows that this system cannot control destabilizing imbalances quickly enough to ward off major crises.",
        "希腊神话表明，这一体系无法迅速地控制破坏性失衡从而避免大危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But surely James would agree that financial organizations that assess and bear duration risk are not necessarily competent to judge other risky ventures.",
        "但显然詹姆斯也将同意，评估和承担久期风险的金融组织未必能够很好地判断其他高风险投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The current Republican rhetoric in the House of Representatives portends additional fiscal austerity.",
        "从众议院共和党的语气看，会有新一轮财政紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "News broadcasts covered his continued insistence that he did not forge his ticket, along with the lottery center's claims that their rejection of the ticket was legitimate.",
        "新闻媒介仍报导着他坚持自己没有伪造彩票的事实和 彩票中心合法拒奖的声明。"
    ],
    [
        "As many as seven million Africans who should be getting treatment for HIV are not.",
        "多达700万本应获得HIV治疗的非洲人没能获得治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "These structural vulnerabilities are known as dehydrons.",
        "这些结构脆弱性被称为去水性（dehydron）。"
    ],
    [
        "They didn’t want a handout, only a chance to earn income.",
        "他们要的不是援助，而是增加收入的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, bear in mind that the case coincided with the crises in Ukraine and elsewhere, with the major US enforcement action being financial and economic sanctions on Russia, the largest of which are still being threatened.",
        "最后，请留意这起案件与乌克兰和其他地区的危机是一致的，就是美国大部分的强制行动都是对俄罗斯进行金融和经济制裁，而俄罗斯也是依然受到威胁的最大国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, democracy is key to the EU’s future.",
        "尽管如此，民主仍是欧盟未来的关键问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The final step toward improving land use is the implementation of measures to discourage land hoarding.",
        "改善土地使用的最后一项措施打击土地囤积行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest detonation also tests whether the world can make addressing North Korea’s dangerous aspirations a priority by uniting around a common policy that is more than rhetorical in its condemnation.",
        "最新的核爆测试还能检验世界各国能否团结在统一政策周围，而不仅限于嘴上谴责朝鲜危险的核武器试验。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither the Cypriot government nor European taxpayers will put any additional funds into these banks.",
        "塞浦路斯政府或欧洲纳税人都不需要对这些银行投入额外的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Poor Barack Obama didn’t even have that to offer.",
        "而可怜的美国总统奥巴马连这点意思都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "So, when Koreans, Filipinos, and Taiwanese rose up against their rulers, the US, albeit belatedly, was in a position to tell their military clients to back off.",
        "因此，当韩国人、菲律宾人和台湾人发动起义的时候，美国尽管反应迟缓，但都告诫自己的军事代理退后。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the focus of the debate is on reserves and not resources.",
        "但幸运的是，争论的焦点是在于石油的储量，而非资源。"
    ],
    [
        "It has gone on to topple dozens of governments, in all regions of the world, with no accountability there or at home.",
        "CIA在全球各个地区推翻了数十家政府，在当地和国内从未受到问责。"
    ],
    [
        "The HICCup Manifesto",
        "HICCup宣言"
    ],
    [
        "The Treaty will be essential not only to the proper functioning of Europe’s institutions, but also to their further “deepening” – something that many call for without necessarily really wanting to achieve.",
        "这份条约不仅对欧洲机构法规正常功能是至关重要的，同时对这些机构的进一步“深化” ，这是某些人呼吁但并非真的想要达成的事情，也是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, 3% growth during a recovery is far from impressive.",
        "从历史看，复苏期间3%的增长绝算不上漂亮。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, for all the talk of streamlining and strengthening Europe’s defense capabilities, little of significance has been accomplished.",
        "而虽然大家都在谈论精简强化欧洲的防御能力，但并未真正实现几个有意义的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "And, despite being an embodiment of international law, the EU indulges in soft-law approaches, whether at the recent COP-19 climate-change meeting in Warsaw, or by supporting the “Geneva agreement” on Iran’s nuclear program, which, it is now clear, is nothing more than two aspirational declarations linked by a press release.",
        "此外，尽管身为国际法的化身之一，欧盟却沉迷于软法（soft-law）方针，不管是在华沙COP-19气候变化会议上还是在支持关于伊朗核计划的“日内瓦协定”上都是如此。 如今，显而易见媒体夸大了这两件事的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "The other three are Syria’s behavior in Iraq, its relations with the US, and the need for domestic reform.",
        "另外三个问题是：叙利亚在伊拉克的所作所为、叙美关系和国内改革的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "But that may be changing.",
        "但这可能会有所改变。"
    ],
    [
        "According to ARENA’s relentlessly negative campaign, a triumph for the left would bring communism, Hugo Chávez, and the Castro brothers to San Salvador.",
        "联盟党对马解无情的反对攻势宣传认为，如左翼获胜，这将给萨尔瓦多带来共产主义、查韦斯和卡斯特罗兄弟。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU should encourage such second thoughts, which means that it must stop treating Brexit as inevitable and instead offer the possibility of a compromise that would meet British voters’ concerns, but only on the condition that Britain remains in the EU.",
        "欧盟应该鼓励这样的反思，它意味着立即停止将英国退欧视为不可避免，转而提供打消英国选民顾虑的妥协的可能，但必须以英国留在欧盟为条件。"
    ],
    [
        "That seemingly small difference matters.",
        "这一看似很小的差异其实极为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "And they remember when US President George W. Bush labeled their country part of an “axis of evil,” despite its cooperation with the US in Afghanistan.",
        "他们也记得美国总统小布什将伊朗贴上“邪恶轴心”的标签，即使其在阿富汗问题上与美国合作。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Georgian crisis has underscored, there are limits to the ability to influence developments in a region where Russia has strong strategic interests and a preponderance of military power.",
        "格鲁吉亚出现的危机表明，在俄罗斯有重大的战略利益和压倒性军事力量的地区，想要影响该地区的事态进展，我们的能力是有限的。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be recognized that a disorderly default or exit from the eurozone, even by a small country like Greece, would precipitate a banking crisis comparable to the one that caused the Great Depression. It is no longer a question whether it is worthwhile to have a common currency.",
        "必须指出，无序违约或（即便是像希腊那样的小国）退出欧元区将导致可与引发大萧条的银行危机相提并论的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But offshore wind power is so expensive that it will receive at least three times the traded cost of regular electricity in subsidies – more than even solar power, which was never at an advantage in the UK.",
        "但离岸风电价格昂贵，以至于其补贴至少是常规电力交易成本的三倍，甚至比太阳能电力还高，而后者在英国从未获得优势。"
    ],
    [
        "During the Boer War, the British had to send mincing machines to South Africa, so that soldiers were not forced to choke down unmasticated lumps of meat.",
        "布尔战争期间，英军不得不把绞肉机运到南非，以免士兵被迫将未经咀嚼的肉块囫囵咽下。"
    ],
    [
        "Live by the sword, die by the sword.",
        "所谓水能载舟，亦能覆舟，是之谓也。"
    ],
    [
        "The government has just announced new rules for household registration, known as hukou.",
        "中国政府刚刚宣布了户籍政策新规。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an appropriate European compromise between the theory that profit comes from exploitation (Marx) and the view that it results from transactions that make both parties happier than they were before (Friedman).",
        "这是关于利润的两大学说的欧洲式合理折衷，即：利润来自于剥削（马克思）和利润源自使交易双方都比执行交易以前更幸福的交易（弗里德曼）。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in 2010, the Orange Revolution’s failure brought Yanukovych to power in a free and fair election, and in 2012 Putin selected himself for a third presidential term in Russia.",
        "接着，2010年，橙色革命的失败让亚努科维奇通过自由公平的选举上了台，而在2012年，普京第三度出任俄罗斯总理。"
    ],
    [
        "A cross-border European bank merger would have several benefits.",
        "跨国欧洲银行合并能带来诸多好处。"
    ],
    [
        "He has also announced plenary indulgences – time off from “the pains of purgatory” – for those who follow his visit to the Catholic youth festival in Rio de Janeiro on the Internet.",
        "他还宣布了大赦——免于“炼狱的痛苦”——对象是在互联网上跟随他访问里约热内卢天主教青年节的教众。"
    ],
    [
        "If you were holding Swiss franc assets at a negative nominal return right before its central bank abandoned its euro peg in mid-January, you could have made a 20% return overnight; a negative nominal return is a small price to pay for a large capital gain.",
        "如果你在1月中旬瑞士央行放弃瑞士法郎盯住欧元时持有负名义回报的瑞郎资产，那你一夜之间就获得了20%的回报； 负名义回报在巨大的资本利得面前根本不值一提。"
    ],
    [
        "Grave New World",
        "暗淡新世界"
    ],
    [
        "But when children are healthy, families are freed from the burden of costly medical care, allowing them to spend more on food and education.",
        "而若儿童健康，家庭就能从沉重的医疗负担中摆脱，将更多的钱用于食品和教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, greater efficiency should have been reinforced by a boom in capital formation, which should have accompanied the guarantee that no future wave of protectionism in the US would shut factories in Mexico.",
        "另外，由于协定的签订，墨西哥将不再收到美国贸易保护主义的影响，资本市场的繁荣也将大大增进其生产效率。"
    ],
    [
        "LDP lawmakers and mandarins developed a routine in which mandarins drafted cabinet-sponsored bills, LDP lawmakers checked the bills, and the two together finalized legislative drafts before they were introduced to the Diet (parliament).",
        "自民党立法人员和官僚家族形成了一套常规程序，由官僚家族负责制定内阁法案，立法人员负责审核，再由两者共同拿出最终的决议草案，而后再提交议会表决。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, China might ultimately join the TPP, a move that some Chinese believe would, like accession to the WTO, support domestic reform.",
        "诚然，中国最终可能还是会加入TPP，一些中国人相信这如同加入世贸组织一样能够支持国内改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for Japan, the PRC has clearly succeeded the ROC in Taiwan, as demonstrated by the 1972 Japan-PRC Joint Communiqué, on the basis of which the bilateral Treaty of Peace and Friendship was concluded six years later.",
        "但是对日本而言，正像1972年日中联合公报所表明的那样，中华人民共和国显然取代了台湾中华民国的合法地位，而六年后又在日中联合公报的基础上签署了日中和平友好条约。"
    ],
    [
        "But how much capital is enough?",
        "但多少资本才算足够？"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, “Caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or some future would-be caliph, would invariably fuse the region’s mounting governance chaos with a global jihadi campaign – a process that, as we have seen in Paris and elsewhere, has already started.",
        "届时，“哈里发”阿布·贝克尔·巴格达迪，或者未来某些自封的哈里发，肯定会像我们在巴黎及其他地方所亲眼目睹的那样把中东日益严重的政治混乱与全球圣战运动扯上关系。"
    ],
    [
        "European leaders have allowed their most useful tool for preserving the peace and leveraging change – the once-respected office of the High Representative – to be diminished to the point that many Bosnian officials treat the incumbent with disdain.",
        "欧洲领导人放任他们最有用的维持和平以及促成变革的工具 —— 那个一度受到尊敬的 高级代表办公室 —— 无所作为，以致许多波斯尼亚官员都带着蔑视来看待这些代表。"
    ],
    [
        "But where exactly do we draw that line?",
        "但这条线究竟该划在哪里？"
    ],
    [
        "But enabling women to become full partners in Africa’s economic future, is among the best ways to ensure that we succeed.",
        "但让妇女成为非洲经济未来的全面伙伴，则是确保我们能够成功的最佳办法之一。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not an idle example.",
        "这并不是一个凭空捏造的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The \"Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law\" allows the Self-Defense Forces to participate in the fight against international terrorism, although the form of participation is limited to logistical support.",
        "《反恐怖特别行动法》允许自卫队参与国际反恐怖战争，虽然参与的形式仅限于后勤支持。"
    ],
    [
        "A third imperative for Palestinians is to reunite the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.",
        "巴勒斯坦人的第三个当务之急是重新统一约旦河西岸和加沙地带。"
    ],
    [
        "The populations in the countries that will have to foot the bill are unprepared for the reality check ahead of them, adding fuel to a years-long growth in Euro-skepticism, which now pervades all political camps.",
        "那些需要为救助出钱的国家，它们的民众尚未准备好为现实埋单，对欧元的怀疑态度如今已渗透到各个政治阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, these regions’ share of the global economy would increase.",
        "）结果，这些地区在全球经济中所占的份额将会提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Pascual’s candid assessments described a dysfunctional situation in which Mexican security agencies fight each other more than they fight organized crime.",
        "此外，帕斯夸尔坦率地批评了墨西哥安全机构内斗比打击有组织犯罪更积极的混乱状况。"
    ],
    [
        "The East Asian and other economies that achieved dynamic growth and became industrialized did not follow import-substitution strategies; instead, they pursued export-oriented growth.",
        "实现了动态增长和工业化的东亚及其他经济体,没有采取进口替代策略。 相反，他们追求出口导向型增长。"
    ],
    [
        "A dollar crisis could weaken the foundations of American power.",
        "美元危机将影响到美国的全球权力基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But can we justifiably defend morally compromised artists and intellectuals on the basis of their work’s merit, yet condemn ordinary people for often less grave offenses?",
        "但是我们是否应该因为他们作品的伟大而无可非议地为那些在道义上妥协的艺术家和知识分子辩解，然而却因为没那么严重的错误而谴责普通的人呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In sum, 2009 ended with a mixed panorama in Latin America, with economic, political, and international progress accompanied by regressive and worrying trends.",
        "总而言之， 2009 年拉美的综合局势错综复杂，既有经济、政治和国际领域的进步，但同时也伴随着后退趋势和令人担忧的潮流。"
    ],
    [
        "The political economy of California’s budget has taken the progressive tax-and-spend experiment to the breaking point, threatening the state’s ability to fund basic services, from prisons and parks to education and health care, even those aimed at helping its most vulnerable citizens.",
        "加利福尼加州预算事务所隐含的政治经济矛盾使得这场累进的收税-支出实验濒临破产，直接威胁到了该州资助从监狱，公园到教育医疗等基础公共服务的能力，甚至连那些旨在扶助那些弱势公民的政府项目都难逃厄运。"
    ],
    [
        "He is set to remain the most popular person in Russia for a long time to come.",
        "他注定在以后的很长一段时间里都将是俄罗斯最受欢迎的人物。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, and fortunately, the parallels are far from perfect.",
        "不可否认的幸事是，这只是相似，绝不是相同。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite being state-owned and subject to policy decisions, they function as commercial enterprises (with the possible exception of Norway’s hydrocarbon-funded state-owned investment vehicles).",
        "但是，尽管这些基金多为国有、受政策决定左右，但说到底仍是商业企业（挪威的以石化资金为后盾的国有投资基金是个例外）。"
    ],
    [
        "A lot should be done on the spending side, too.",
        "在支出侧也有许多事情可做。"
    ],
    [
        "Young people could play a central role in that effort.",
        "年轻人可以在这项工作中扮演核心角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Success in these areas, he calculates, will cement his power and popular support at home.",
        "他的算盘是，如果能在这些方面取得成功，将会巩固他的权力和国内群众支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the opposition has access only to a few newspapers and radio stations, leaving the Internet the sole remaining space of freedom in Russia.",
        "反对派只能接触到的只有少量的报纸和电台，从而使得互联网成为了俄罗斯自由的最后乐土。"
    ],
    [
        "SYDNEY – Thirty years ago, a colleague of mine in the British government who had ministerial responsibilities in Africa and Asia hung the world map in his office upside down.",
        "悉尼—三十年前，我的一位担任负责非洲和亚洲的事务的英国政府阁臣同事，在办公室里挂着一幅倒置的世界地图。"
    ],
    [
        "A new report from the “Breaking the Climate Deadlock” project, a strategic partnership between my office and The Climate Group, shows how major reductions even by 2020 are achievable if we focus action on certain key technologies, deploy policies that have been proven to work, and invest now in developing those future technologies that will take time to mature.",
        "我的办公室和世界气候组织共同推出一项名为“打破气候僵局”的计划。 该计划指出，如果我们关注一些关键性的科技成果，配合行之有效的政策，同时加大对未来科技的投资，以便它们在不久的将来得以推广运用，如果这样操作，即便是2020年碳排放量的中期计划也是可以实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Who is right will depend largely on the decisions that the AIIB’s top shareholders make regarding its operating structure.",
        "谁对谁错在很大程度上取决于亚投行大股东对其运营结构所做的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "They, in turn, will continue to compensate for capital flight by cranking up the money-printing press.",
        "而那些国家反过来将继续通过开动印钞机补偿资本外逃。"
    ],
    [
        "The concept’s logic is simple: if we try to deliver better health to a growing population, without regard for the health and security of our natural resources, we will not just struggle to make new strides; we will reverse the progress already made.",
        "这一概念的逻辑很简单：如果我们想要让日益增加的人口变得更加健康，而不顾我们的自然资源的健康和安全，那么我们将举步维艰，甚至已经取得的进步也有可能遭到逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, men die from lung cancer at more than twice the rate of women.",
        "比如，死于肺癌的男性比例比女性高一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the FAO was created in 1945 to bring about a world in which there would be “freedom from want,” which, in the words of its founders, “means the conquest of hunger and the attainment of the ordinary needs of a decent, self-respecting life.”",
        "事实上，联合国粮农组织于1945年创建，其宗旨就是要建设一个“免于匮乏”的世界，而用其创始人的话来说，这“意味着消除饥饿并满足体面、自尊生活的一般需要”。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has offered even more direct help to Arab countries in recent years.",
        "近年来，欧洲甚至为阿拉伯国家提供了更多的直接帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether the government’s efforts to implement structural reforms and transform the economy’s growth model are working – that is, whether internal imbalances continue to threaten long-term economic performance.",
        "不过问题在于政府在经济结构改革和增长模式转型方面的努力是否凑效——也就是说，内部失衡状况是否依然在威胁长期经济表现。"
    ],
    [
        "But they were far better than nothing.",
        "但这要远胜于呆在原地毫无应对。"
    ],
    [
        "We should also test the feasibility of large-scale carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), which might enable the safe, long-term use of at least some fossil fuels.",
        "我们还应该检验大规模碳捕捉和储存（CCS）的可行性，该技术有可能实现至少部分化石燃料的长期安全使用。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a good reason for this docility.",
        "俄罗斯人的这种顺从有一个很好的解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an outcome would effectively make Yemen and the rest of the Gulf states ungovernable, allowing the Sunni-Shia confrontation that is currently unfolding in the Levant to overwhelm the region.",
        "这样的结果既有可能让也门和其他海湾国家变得不可治理，将目前正在勒旺（Levant）上演的逊尼派-什叶派冲突席卷整个地区。"
    ],
    [
        "They will gradually reorient their growth models to make them more sustainable – an effort that occasional bouts of global financial-market instability will shake, but not derail.",
        "它们的经济模式将变得更加可持续——间发的全球金融市场动荡会干扰这一努力但不会扼杀它们。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the debate that the Obama administration is leading in the US today.",
        "这就是奥巴马政府在当下的美国引导的一场辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "The stakes are high – and not just for Europe.",
        "这是一场豪赌——不仅对欧洲是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The northwest PMI is at its highest level in months, and indicates a stronger absolute performance than that of London.",
        "西北部PMI位于几个月来的最高水平，其绝对表现也强于伦敦。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is probably overstated as an explanation.",
        "但是，人们可能把这一局面夸大成为了一个解释。"
    ],
    [
        "And much of what is going on in Latin America right now happens to be good.",
        "而拉丁美洲正在发生的事情中有很多碰巧相当积极。"
    ],
    [
        "But the idea that trade fuels inequality is a very parochial perspective, and protectionists who shroud themselves in a moralistic inequality narrative are deeply hypocritical.",
        "虽然贸易促进了不平等的观点非常狭隘，但那些用道德上的不平等描述来粉饰自己的贸易保护主义者也极其虚伪。"
    ],
    [
        "But where can effective demand come from?",
        "但有效需求来自何处？"
    ],
    [
        "I presented this plan when I chaired the G-20 in London in 2009.",
        "我在2009年主持伦敦G20峰会时就提出了这一计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The huge profits were supposed to be the reward for the provision of a public service.",
        "而由此得来的巨额利润则被说成是提供一种公共服务所应得回报。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is what we are doing, as action on three issues of historic consequence demonstrates.",
        "正如颇具历史意义的行动所表明的那样，这正是我们行动的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, if elected, Obama will be constrained by his own Democratic Party.",
        "而且，如果当选，奥巴马也会受到自身的民主党的制约。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama has raised hopes for a new strategy, but so far the forces of continuity in US policy are dominating the forces of change.",
        "虽然奥巴马总统对新战略冀望甚高，但目前的美国政策中沿袭的力量大过了变革的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "After regaining its independence from the Soviet Union, only remnants of the industrial behemoths of the communist era remained.",
        "脱离苏联独立以后，共产主义时期的巨型工业实体只留下了一些残余。"
    ],
    [
        "Bills languish, policies fail to acquire the legal framework needed for implementation, and governance slows.",
        "法案因此得不到通过，政策因此无法获得所需的实施法律框架，治理进度也十分缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "The prospect of a future of genetically modified athletes incites alarm throughout the sports world, accompanied by portrayals of such athletes as inhuman or some form of mutant.",
        "未来运动员将进行基因改造的前景引发了体育界的恐慌，随之而来的是把这些运动员视作非人类或某种形式的突变异种。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that a framework is already emerging that could facilitate this initiative.",
        "好消息是已经有了能促进这一方向的框架。"
    ],
    [
        "But this does not outweigh the risk of underperforming, which is why the best policy is to look for the best candidate.",
        "但这不能抵消发挥失常的风险，这也就是为什么寻找最佳候选人才是最好的政策的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "We are not living a replay of 1938.",
        "我们并不生活在1938年的重演之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Other regions also will find that the decline of US power increases the urgency of stronger cooperation between neighbors.",
        "其他区域也将发现美国实力的衰退增加了各邻国进行更紧密合作的紧迫性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republican Congress would do well to model the Trump tax cuts on Reagan’s supply-side policies.",
        "共和党国会可以很好地在里根的供给侧政策的基础上设计特朗普的减税计划。"
    ],
    [
        "There cannot be many people in the financial sector who will be surprised if the Fed raises rates again this year.",
        "如果美联储在今年再次升息，金融业没有多少人会感到吃惊。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, in the Sunni arc today, it means a vicious cycle of expanding extremism, rapid population growth, rising unemployment, worsening water shortages, and popular discontent.",
        "相反，在今天的逊尼派地区，这意味着恐怖主义扩大、人口增长迅速、失业率上升、水短缺恶化和群众不满的恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "Now some American neo-conservatives argue that the US should drop its longstanding support for European integration.",
        "如今，美国某些新保守主义者甚至主张撤销长久以来对欧洲统一进程的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "But never before have the Democratic and Republican candidates been as different as chalk and cheese.",
        "但民主和共和两党候选人此前从未像现在这样截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The Stimulus Ostriches",
        "经济“鸵鸟政策”"
    ],
    [
        "What possible benefits can Russia gain by breaking this pledge?",
        "俄国破坏这样的承诺能得到什么好处呢？"
    ],
    [
        "At one time, there were regular residents working at a bonito-drying facility.",
        "该岛一度曾有常住民从事鲣鱼干的制作。"
    ],
    [
        "Taxing the Israeli Occupation",
        "从以色列头上征“占领税”"
    ],
    [
        "With more green investments coming to the fore, those financing them will, we should hope, counterbalance powerful lobbying by the coal industry, which is willing to put the world at risk to advance its shortsighted interests.",
        "随着越来越多的绿色投资纷纷涌现，我们希望这些资助这类项目的人们能抵消强大的煤炭行业游说势力，打败那种为了实现其自身短期利益而置全球风险于不顾的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, during the Nixon years, the president’s paranoia about opposition to the Vietnam War and to his policies fuelled a pattern of abuses that eventually brought about his resignation in disgrace.",
        "最后，在尼克松年代，总统对反对越战及其政策势力发生偏执，形成侵权的模式，最终导致其黯然辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "As those countries prospered, the émigrés returned home: their countries eventually became engines of European growth, and major export markets for Germany, France, and other EU member states.",
        "随着上述国家逐渐走向繁荣，这些移民纷纷回国：他们的国家也最终成为了欧洲的增长引擎以及德国，法国和其他欧盟成员国的出口市场。"
    ],
    [
        "None of these characteristics apply here.",
        "上述特征没有一个能在这里适用。"
    ],
    [
        "But interest rates remain extremely low, and are even negative in some countries, and QE has been taken close to its limits, with public support for the policy waning.",
        "但利率仍然非常低，一些国家甚至出现了负利率，量化宽松的实施也已接近极限，公众对这一政策的支持度也不断减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The South China Sea, for example, is now churning with competing claims to its islands, atolls, and sea bed, including China’s bold assertion that all of it is Chinese sovereign territory.",
        "比如，各国正为争夺南中国的岛屿，环礁和海床而争吵不休，中国更是明目张胆地宣布整个南中海都是自己的主权领土。"
    ],
    [
        "In six areas – education, family planning, maternal health, financial inclusion, digital inclusion, and assistance with unpaid care work – improved access to services could unlock women’s economic potential and help to meet the SDGs’ gender-equality targets.",
        "在六大领域——教育、生育计划、孕产妇保健、金融包容性、数字包容性和无薪看护工作支持——改善服务普及能解放妇女的经济潜能，有助于实现SDG的性别平等目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The irony is that this is precisely the type of crisis that the EU was created to address.",
        "讽刺的是，欧盟正是为了解决这种类型的危机而建立的。"
    ],
    [
        "“Businesses cannot thrive for long while their communities languish,” they cautioned.",
        "“在所在社会萎靡不振的情况下，企业无法长时间兴旺。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic growth began to accelerate dramatically in the early 1990s, owing to trade liberalization and other economic reforms.",
        "印度经济增长自20世纪90年代初开始大幅加速，动力来自贸易自由化和其他经济改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The Future of Computing",
        "计算的未来"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere, rail links between China and Vietnam, road developments connecting India and Bangladesh, and new ports, harbors, and pipelines in Myanmar and Pakistan are forging a new form of economic unity alongside the region’s manufacturing supply chains.",
        "在其他国家，中国和越南之间的铁路线、印度和孟加拉国之间的公路、以及缅甸和巴基斯坦的新机场、港口和管道正在铸就沿地区制造业供应链发展的新形式的经济统一。"
    ],
    [
        "The effective rate, which accounts for credits and deductions, is also high, but less anomalous.",
        "计入了返还和抵扣之后的实际有效税率也很高，只是没那么反常。"
    ],
    [
        "But the overall threat has never diminished much.",
        "但总威胁并没有下降多少。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, Afghanistan is the scene not only of the War on Terror, but also of longstanding Afghan-Pakistani disputes, the India-Pakistan conflict, domestic struggles in Pakistan, US-Iranian antagonism, Russian concerns about NATO, Sunni-Shia rivalry, and struggles over regional energy infrastructure.",
        "然而今天，阿富汗不仅是反恐战争的战场，而且还是阿富汗和巴基斯坦长期争端的战场，也是印巴冲突、巴基斯坦国内斗争、美国和伊朗的对抗、俄罗斯对北约的担心、逊尼派和什叶派穆斯林之间的竞争以及对能源基础设施的区域性争夺的战场。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in 2010, he recalled, Greece and the UK faced fiscal deficits of more or less similar size (relative to GDP).",
        "他回忆道，在2010年，希腊和英国面临大致相当的财政赤字（相对GDP而言）。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that the forces described by the HO-SS theory are irrelevant. But there is clearly more to current inequality trends than trade.",
        "这并不意味着HO-SS理论所描述的力量是无关紧要的，但其与当前不平等趋势的关系显然比贸易更多。"
    ],
    [
        "We see this kind of behavior all over the world.",
        "类似这样的行为遍及全世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Given warnings from US companies about the impact of a stronger dollar on their earnings – not to mention signs of declining inward tourism and a deteriorating trade balance – this is not guaranteed.",
        "考虑到美国公司已就它们所赚取的强势美元的影响发出了警告——更不用说入境游减少和贸易平衡恶化了——这一条件远非板上钉钉。"
    ],
    [
        "To economists like us, this trend is deeply worrying.",
        "对我等经济学家而言，这一趋势非常令人担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "When the dust settled, it turned out that American, Dutch, and other importers all suffered roughly the same degree of shortfall and paid the same damaging high price.",
        "当尘埃落定之时，美国、荷兰以及其他进口国都承受了大致相同程度的短缺，而且为此付出了相同的高昂代价。"
    ],
    [
        "From the brutality of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq to the terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda to the stoning of adulterous women under Sharia law in Afghanistan, Middle East violence is almost always attributed to the religion.",
        "从伊斯兰国在叙利亚和伊拉克的暴行，到基地组织发动的恐怖袭击，再到阿富汗根据伊斯兰教法对私通妇女所采取的石刑，中东暴力几乎总是可以归因于伊斯兰教。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, Google is changing expectations about what people can know – even in the United States, where formal censorship is absent, but government obfuscation, opaque corporations, and the like are not.",
        "总之，谷歌正在改变什么是人们可以知道的期望值-甚至在美国也如此，虽然那里没有正式的信息审查，但政府造成的模糊以及不透明的企业，以及此类的情况确是存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reverse is also true: as soon as the current account swings to surplus, the pressure from financial markets abates.",
        "但反之亦然：只要经常帐户转向盈余，那么来自金融市场的压力就会减轻。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the recent problems faced by Greece are only the tip of a sovereign-debt iceberg in many advanced economies (and a smaller number of emerging markets).",
        "因此，希腊最近碰到的麻烦所暴露的只是发达经济体（以及少数几个新兴市场经济体）主权债务的冰山一角。"
    ],
    [
        "Experts estimate that an American’s annual risk of being killed by a terrorist is one in 3.5 million.",
        "专家估计美国人每年死于恐怖袭击的可能性是350万分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The key remaining step is to turn them into a workable set of goals.",
        "关键的剩余步骤是将它们转化为可执行的目标组。"
    ],
    [
        "DENVER – The so-called six-party talks – the on again, off again international mechanism by which the United States, China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan negotiate with North Korea over its nuclear aspirations – are often cited as an example of multilateral diplomacy.",
        "丹佛——美、中、俄、韩、日就朝鲜核野心展开谈判的所谓六方会谈时断时续，这常常被奉为多边外交的实例。"
    ],
    [
        "We will also need the collaboration among governments, the private sector, and academia that often leads to improvements in forecasting.",
        "我们还需要能够提高预测能力的政府、私营部门以及学术界的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – At the time of last year’s failed coup in Turkey, I emailed a Turkish friend expressing concern.",
        "圣地亚哥—去年土耳其发生未遂政变时，我给我的土耳其朋友发电子邮件表示关注。"
    ],
    [
        "They respect their environment, whereas the Americans must “return to a dying planet,” because, as the indigenous people put it, “they have killed their own mother.”",
        "他们尊重他们的生活环境，而美国人则必须“为一个濒死的星球承担起应有的责任”，因为，正如剧中的土著人所说，“他们亲手杀死了他们的母亲。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In an episode recently reported by The New York Times , at one of Putin’s informal meetings with Bush, Putin showed the US president his Labrador and said, “Bigger, tougher, stronger, faster, meaner than Barney” (Bush’s dog).",
        "《纽约时报》不久前报导了一则趣事，一次普京同布什非正式会晤期间，普京向美国总统展示了自己的拉布拉多爱犬，并说“它比巴尼（布什的猎犬）更硕大、凶猛、强健、迅捷，富于攻击性”。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, the plan’s assumption about outward migration is controversial at best.",
        "第四，即使从最乐观的角度看，该计划的对外移民假设也是充满争议的。"
    ],
    [
        "He has been a forthright spokesman for women’s rights and a champion of environmental concerns, as well as a formidable advocate in arguing for debt reduction for the most heavily indebted nations.",
        "他曾是妇女权利的代言人，环境保护的支持者，也是不屈不挠为最大的负债国争取减免债务的倡导者。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the North procrastinated, sending Vice Marshall Jo Myong-rok to the US only in October 2000, near the end of Clinton’s presidency.",
        "相反，朝鲜却一拖再拖，直到2000年10月克林顿任期接近尾声时才派次帅赵明禄访美。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the ECB has the capacity, the question remains whether it is has the will.",
        "但是，尽管欧洲央行能则能矣，为或不为则未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the shockwaves triggered by the shale-energy revolution unleashed in the United States are reverberating globally.",
        "特别地，正在美国展开的页岩能源革命所掀起的冲击波正在引发全球反响。"
    ],
    [
        "Willingness reflects a complex mix of incentives influencing when, whom, and how to help – and also reflects how busy a potential ally or target is.",
        "意愿反映了影响何时、何人以及如何帮助的复杂的激励组合，也反映了潜在盟军或目标有多繁忙。"
    ],
    [
        "The Data-Poor Lives of Adolescents",
        "青少年生活数据不足"
    ],
    [
        "This differs from the JGIP, where Israel and Jordan maintain control over their respective spheres on either side of the Jordan River.",
        "这一点与约旦通商工业园不同——以色列和约旦都保持着对约旦河两岸各自领域的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, of course, claims that it, too, knows all about democracy.",
        "当然，美国也说，我对民主一清二楚。"
    ],
    [
        "In so overplaying his hand in Ukraine’s recent election, however, Putin clearly revealed to the world his neo-imperialist designs.",
        "在近期乌克兰大选中，普京冒险插了一手，却向世界表明了他的新帝国主义规划。"
    ],
    [
        "Abraham Lincoln?",
        "亚伯拉罕·林肯？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Europe needs a master plan to avoid a tailspin of recession, growing unemployment, and weakening banking systems.",
        "事实上，欧洲需要一个整体计划以免蹈衰退深化、失业增加和银行系统进一步疲软之辙。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they began to settle in communities farther from the border, greatly increasing the stock of Mexicans in the US.",
        "相反，他们开始远离边界社区，从而大幅度增加了美国的墨西哥人数量。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last two decades, our elites have been unable to maintain it, as economic power has long since gone global and dislodged itself from political power, often corrupting democratic politics in the process.",
        "但近20年来我们的精英已经无法维持这样的平衡，因为经济权力早已脱离政治权力实现全球化，而民主政治往往在脱离过程中严重受损。"
    ],
    [
        "An inclusive model for growth and development is inherently pro-labor and pro-business.",
        "增长和发展的包容性模式在本质上是亲劳动力和亲企业的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while it is true that cancer is pervasive in wealthy countries, people in the world’s poorest countries lose more years of life to the disease.",
        "但是，尽管癌症确实在富裕国家普遍存在，但世界最穷国家的人们因癌症损失的寿命更长。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor has the US admitted that it made a mistake.",
        "美国也没有承认犯了错误。"
    ],
    [
        "The federal government should create its own technical-assistance program to build on states’ efforts and reach a larger number of companies.",
        "联邦政府也应该成立其自身的技术支持计划，以各州的措施为基础，普及到更多数量的公司。"
    ],
    [
        "The naira was intended to bolster the country‘s independence by making it possible for the central bank to pursue its own monetary policy.",
        "看一下尼日利亚。 在国家独立前，尼日利亚的法定货币是英镑。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorized Tunisia",
        "恐怖威胁下的突尼斯"
    ],
    [
        "For example, progress in education – especially girls’ education – is closely associated with improvements in child survival and nutrition, and maternal health, as well as higher wages.",
        "比如，教育进步——特别是女孩教育——与儿童存活率和营养、产妇健康以及收入提高状况改善密切相关。"
    ],
    [
        "They saw a clear edge in Japan’s competitiveness relative to the North Atlantic across a broad range of high-tech precision and mass-production industries manufacturing tradable goods.",
        "从高科技精密行业到可贸易商品大规模制造业，日本对北大西洋都拥有显而易见的竞争优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, many Palestinian political leaders absconded to Beirut or Cairo once violence broke out.",
        "事实上，许多巴勒斯坦政治领导人在暴力活动爆发后立即逃往了贝鲁特和开罗。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a blatant attack on the principles of state sovereignty, inviolability of negotiated borders, and adherence to multilateral agreements that underpin today’s rule-based international system.",
        "这是对国家主权原则、议定边界的神圣不可侵犯性以及对作为当今世界基于规则的国际体系的基础的多边协定的赤裸裸的攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "More promising, the Chinese government’s ongoing efforts to cultivate innovation and implement structural reforms are likely to produce major returns in the long term.",
        "更令人憧憬的是，中国政府不断哺育创新、实施结构性改革，这有望带来巨大的长期回报。"
    ],
    [
        "One might say that no less could be expected from a Labour leader with a bright future in the country of Churchill.",
        "有人可能会说这是在丘吉尔的国度拥有光明未来的工党领袖最起码的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "That is almost certainly optimistic.",
        "3%。 这看上似乎还算是乐观了。"
    ],
    [
        "And there would be money left over to help develop an HIV vaccine, deliver drugs to treat heart attacks, provide a Hepatitis B vaccine to the developing world, and prevent 31 million children from starving each year.",
        "此外还能有结余用于帮助发展中国家开发艾滋病疫苗、提供心脏病药物、推广乙肝疫苗，每年让3,100万儿童免于饥饿。"
    ],
    [
        "Cliché was the common currency of all Communist dictatorships, but they had the opposite effect to what the regime intended, for they cast an aura of forbidden fruit around the slandered New World metropolis, making it seem a glowing Olympus of modernity, an urban Everest of adventure.",
        "这样的陈词滥调在所有共产独裁政权中都司空见惯，但取得的效果却与预想中截然相反，诽谤恰恰赋予了这座新世界大都会非常浓厚的禁果意味，既像光彩奕奕的现代天堂，又像冒险城市的珠穆朗玛。"
    ],
    [
        "And commercial real-estate prices have been bid up to levels that are probably not sustainable.",
        "商业不动产价格也已经被推高到可能无法持续的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s a similarly mixed picture for education.",
        "教育的情况也是喜忧参半。"
    ],
    [
        "A minority government under Merkel, however, is conceivable.",
        "但由默克尔领导的少数派政府仍是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "No organization that holds so much public influence and importance should be able to operate as a black box.",
        "我们不能允许手握如此公众影响力的组织继续其黑箱操作。"
    ],
    [
        "A more distorted economy is not a healthy economy.",
        "一个更为扭曲的经济可不是一个健康的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order to succeed, these commissions must be effective, independent, and legitimate.",
        "但真相委员会成功的前提是高效、独立、合法。"
    ],
    [
        "Johnson’s ability to escape the shackles of his previous statements would inspire Houdini.",
        "约翰逊推翻自己先前的说法的能力将启发逃脱大师（Houdini）。"
    ],
    [
        "On one level, that reaction is predictable.",
        "在某一层面上，这一反应是可以预料的。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, there may not be any misunderstanding; the senator is simply angry at the administration about something, or dislikes the nominee for something supposedly said or done previously.",
        "不幸的是，也许根本就没有误会； 参议员仅仅是不忿于政府的某些做法，或不喜欢被提名人此前的某些言行。"
    ],
    [
        "Interpretation is in the eye of the beholder.",
        "对此的解读不一而足。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU must return to the fundamental driver of its success, pursuing a renewed single-market agenda that reflects the rationale of the Treaty of Rome.",
        "欧盟必须回归其成功的基本动力，以反映罗马条约精神的全新单一市场议程为目的。"
    ],
    [
        "While Iran promotes the Shia religious parties in Iraq, Syria’s interests there tilt toward secular nationalism, as represented by former prime minister Ayad Allawi’s coalition, which actually defeated Maliki in the parliamentary elections held earlier this year.",
        "伊朗支持伊拉克的什叶派政党联盟，而叙利亚则倾向于前总理伊亚德·阿拉维所领导的世俗民族主义联盟。 后者在今年早些时候的国会大选中的确击败了马利基。"
    ],
    [
        "That is when his next ordeal began.",
        "在这里，他的新磨难开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "Calderón shot the messenger for delivering bad news through confidential cables released by WikiLeaks.",
        "卡尔德隆惩罚了通过维基解密秘密电报透露坏消息的信使。"
    ],
    [
        "It bodes well that the EU recently amended its 2017 budget to reinforce the European External Action Service’s StratCom team, which had been badly underfunded, despite its critical mission of uncovering and debunking disinformation.",
        "一个好消息是欧盟最新修订了2017年预算，以加强欧洲对外行动局（European External Action Service）的StratCom团队。 StratCom团队一直处于资金严重短缺状态，尽管它肩负揭露和揭穿谣言的重要任务。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the plan would raise funds via the IPO of a small part (up to 5%) of Saudi-Aramco, the giant oil conglomerate, and invest the proceeds in a broader range of assets around the world.",
        "比如，该计划将通过首次公开发行石油巨头阿美公司的少数股份（不超过5%）筹集资金，并将所得资金投资于范围更广的全球资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond exposing failed farming policies, this year’s drought-fueled turmoil also underscores the threat that climate change poses not just to India, but to all countries.",
        "今年因干旱而导致的动乱不但暴露了失败的农业政策，也突显出气候变化对印度乃至所有国家所造成的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the ADB has had Japanese presidents since its founding in 1966.",
        "同样，亚洲开发银行是1966年成立以来就一直由日本人担任总裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, agricultural investment should develop responsibly.",
        "因此很显然，农业投资必须采取一种负责任的发展模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Switzerland and Australia surprisingly reached the elimination round, and the Asian and African teams disappointed somewhat, with only Ghana advancing.",
        "瑞士和澳大利亚进入十六强令人惊讶，而亚洲和非洲球队则多少令人失望，只有加纳队晋级。"
    ],
    [
        "A new standard for business competence that incorporates more than the bottom line will go a long way toward winning back the public’s trust.",
        "不只关注利润的新商业胜任力标准非常有利于赢回公众信任。"
    ],
    [
        "In Latin America, the situation is more varied.",
        "拉丁美洲的情况则更加多样化。"
    ],
    [
        "With every recession, many shops on Main Street disappear; and, over time, new shops – generally more successful – appear.",
        "每一个衰退期都会令很多店铺关门结业； 但随着时间的推移，新的店铺——通常拥有更成功的经营模式——会纷纷涌现。"
    ],
    [
        "The list does not end there.",
        "疫苗带来好处的清单还不止于此。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the EU has been singularly ineffectual in deploying aid, diplomacy, and boots on the ground to address conflicts in Africa and the Middle East.",
        "目前，欧盟在通过援助、外交手段和部署地面部队解决非洲和中东冲突等方面几乎毫无建树。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Israel’s controversial policies and diplomacy risk leaving the Jewish state unprecedentedly alone.",
        "同样，以色列的争议政策和外交风险令这个犹太国家前所未有的孤立无援。"
    ],
    [
        "For Thaksin’s opponents, the sale of these assets to a foreign company owned by a foreign government amounted to putting Thailand’s economic sovereignty on the block.",
        "对于他信的反对者来说，出售这些资产给一个由外国政府拥有的外国公司不啻于出售泰国的经济主权。"
    ],
    [
        "Three dates are central to understanding today’s Afghan quagmire: 1989, 2001, and 2003.",
        "要理解今日的阿富汗泥潭，有三个年份必须牢记：1989、2001和2003。"
    ],
    [
        "The sensible middle position would surely be an agreed write-off of a portion of the outstanding Greek debt, combined with a five-year moratorium on interest payments on the remainder.",
        "而明智的折衷方式则是一方面同意减免一部分希腊超额债务，另一方面则在备忘录中加上将利息支付延后五年的条款。"
    ],
    [
        "Adoption of such measures in the Asia-Pacific region would do much to promote confidence and trust among Asian countries.",
        "在亚太地区实施这些措施可以大大提升亚洲国家之间的信心和互信。"
    ],
    [
        "ALMATY – In mid-November, Kazakhstan hosted the third annual “Astana Club,” a new independent and unbiased platform for dialogue among international experts, politicians, and media representatives on the “critical issues affecting all the countries of Eurasia.”",
        "阿拉木图—11月中旬，哈萨克斯坦主办了第三次“阿斯塔纳俱乐部”年会。 阿斯塔纳俱乐部是一个新成立的国际商界领袖、政治家、媒体代表和其他专家就“影响欧亚全体国家的关键问题”进行探讨的独立和中立的平台。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as choice engineering tricks us into making choices that our own more deliberate self would make , they say, manipulation is justifiable.",
        "他们说，只要选择工程骗我们作出更深思熟虑的自我会作出的选择，操纵就是正当的。"
    ],
    [
        "A less pessimistic view holds that, after 2008, it became inevitable that the global economy would unhitch itself from the US consumer engine and adjust to the rise of emerging consumer economies, not least China.",
        "比较不悲观的观点认为，2008年后，全球经济难免需要摆脱美国消费引擎，适应新型消费经济体（如中国）的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "One of them, the United States, has a military budget that is more than three times that of all the other members combined.",
        "作为成员国之一的美国，它每年军费预算比其他所有的成员国加起来三倍还多。"
    ],
    [
        "Businesses must increase profits in a way that creates sustainable shareholder value, not just short-term gain.",
        "企业必须通过创造可持续股东价值的方式增加利润，而非着眼于短期收益。"
    ],
    [
        "When migration is undertaken in a legal, orderly way, the public supports it.",
        "当移民以合法有序的方式进行时，公众就会支持它。"
    ],
    [
        "East Asia’s economies, by contrast, consistently adjusted their growth strategies and engaged in continuous institutional reform.",
        "相反，东亚经济体不断地调整增长战略、持续地进行制度改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But the French Revolution also produced a powerful and attractive myth of social transformation.",
        "但法国革命也创造了强大而具有吸引力的社会转型神话。"
    ],
    [
        "And, of course, those young Chileans will have better prospects of getting a job if they come equipped with a first-rate education.",
        "当然，这些智利青年若能得到第一流的教育，他们找工作的前景也必然会改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last 20 years, the goal of EU membership has proved an invaluable asset for stabilizing, democratizing, and modernizing the western Balkans.",
        "在过去20年间，对欧盟成员国资格的追求已经被证明是一笔对西巴尔干地区稳定，民主和现代化贡献良多的宝贵资产。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not enough to deal only with the crisis of the day.",
        "这还不足以仅仅应付当前的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Public expenditures must be focused on programs with strong employment content, such as in small- and medium-scale infrastructure projects and support to local governments.",
        "公共开支必须集中在强有力的就业项目上，例如中小规模的基础设施项目并且为地方政府提供支持。"
    ],
    [
        "It demands both the attention and the contribution of anyone concerned with the future of knowledge.",
        "这一工程要求任何关心知识未来的人的关注和贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "I call such leaders “PEKOs,” after the four most prominent examples of their kind: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyep Erdoğan, the Polish politician Jarosław Kaczyński, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.",
        "我将这些领导人称为“皮克”（PEKO）。 这个名字来自四位这类政客的显著例子：俄罗斯总理普京（Putin）、土耳其总理埃尔多安（Erdoğan）、波兰政客卡钦斯基（Kaczyński）和匈牙利总理欧尔班（Orbán）。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that all three factors – nuclear-armed boldness, the succession, and economic malaise – will continue to influence North Korea’s behavior for the time being.",
        "问题在于上述三大因素——以核武器为后盾的胆大妄为、权力过渡和经济上的萎靡不振——将在目前情况下继续影响北朝鲜的所作所为。"
    ],
    [
        "After their attackers left, the two lawyers made repeated calls to the police to report the incident, but police did nothing beyond take the call.",
        "在袭击他们的人离开后，两位律师一次次地拨打电话报警，但是警察除了接电话外却什么都没做。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, China is at the frontier of mobile payments, with more than 600 million Chinese mobile users able to conduct peer-to-peer transactions with nearly no fees.",
        "更值得一提的是，中国处于移动支付的前沿。 可以进行点对点交易的中国手机用户多达6亿人，而且交易过程几乎完全免费。"
    ],
    [
        "Macroeconomic models have tended to neglect the role of institutions, ranging from trade unions and employer associations to property-rights regimes and mechanisms for redistribution.",
        "宏观经济模型总是忽略制度的作用——不管是工会、雇主联盟还是产权制度和再分配机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Denial of the fear of mortality and projection of the suppressed wish to transcend nature are the marks of a masked effort to create a biomedical science at war with its own stated purposes.",
        "否认对死亡的恐惧和被抑制的超越自然的愿望是在暗中创造一种生物医学的标志。 而这种科学的实质与其宣称的目的相互矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared to 2008-2009, when policymakers had ample space to act, monetary and fiscal authorities are running out of policy bullets (or, more cynically, policy rabbits to pull out of their hats).",
        "与2008—2009年相比——当时决策者拥有充足的行动空间——货币和财政当局的手段快要用尽了（或者，更讽刺地说，快要黔驴技穷了）。"
    ],
    [
        "· A history that indicates a clear collective identity for the people in question.",
        "· 有历史能证明相关民族具有明确的集体身份。"
    ],
    [
        "Tensions mounted.",
        "这导致了紧张状态的升级。"
    ],
    [
        "The GPE does excellent work promoting primary education around the world.",
        "全球教育伙伴计划在促进世界各地的初等教育方面做了出色的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "After Abe appointed Haruhiko Kuroda as the new head of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and charged him with getting the inflation rate to 2%, Kuroda loosened monetary policy immediately and dramatically, by slashing interest rates and launching large-scale purchases of long-term government bonds.",
        "安倍晋三任命黑田东彦执掌日本央行并要求他实现通胀率2％的目标，黑田随即大肆实施宽松货币政策，大幅削减利率并开始大规模购买长期政府债券。"
    ],
    [
        "With all these factors, failure in the Olympics, it is suggested, is encoded in our national DNA.",
        "所有这些因素，暗示着在奥运会中的失利被植入我们的国家DNA之中。"
    ],
    [
        "First, most advanced economies have maintained the unbalanced growth patterns that led to the global crisis in 2008.",
        "首先，大部分发达经济体都经历了失衡增长模式，从而导致了2008年全球危机。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The eurozone crisis seems to be reaching its climax, with Greece on the verge of default and an inglorious exit from the monetary union, and now Italy on the verge of losing market access.",
        "纽约——欧元区危机似乎正在达到高潮，希腊在违约边缘苦苦徘徊，几乎要可耻地退出货币联盟了； 如今意大利也即将失去市场信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal policy currently is a drag on economic growth in both the eurozone and the UK.",
        "眼下欧元区和英国的财政政策都在给经济增长拖后腿。"
    ],
    [
        "The pope should stick to morality, they say, and not venture into science.",
        "教皇应该坚持坚守道德问题，他们说，而不应该进入科学领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Private-sector activity will not expand without healthy national banks subject to rigorous financial discipline and greater supervisory autonomy.",
        "没有受严厉财务纪律和上级监管部门约束的健康国民银行体系，私人部门活动就得不到扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "For them, the key to international power was political power, and the central attribute of political power was a morally informed leadership.",
        "他们认为，国际实力的关键要素是政治实力，而政治实力的核心则是有道义的政治领导。"
    ],
    [
        "The prospect of a re-energized Franco-German axis is why the Dutch – who are traditionally pro-European but do not want a Europe that marginalizes small countries – might vote No in their referendum (which follows shortly upon France’s) if the French vote Yes.",
        "重新注入生机的法-德轴心的前景解释了为何一旦法国投出否决票，荷兰——这个历史上一向亲欧、反对欧洲边缘化小国的国家——可能会在它（紧随法国公投之后）的公民投票中投出反对票。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps even the fiscal compact itself should be reconsidered.",
        "也许财政契约本身也应该重新考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "The main problem is that the Fed has not moved with alacrity to implement fully key provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms, which were passed in 2010.",
        "主要问题是美联储没有干净利落地充分实施2010年通过的多德-弗兰克（Dodd-Frank）金融改革的关键内容。"
    ],
    [
        "Such are the classic pitfalls of codependency: when one partner alters the relationship, there are consequences for the other.",
        "这便是经典的相互依存陷阱：当一方改变关系时，另一方将受到冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine our world, 20 years from now, if we could educate a new generation of young people so that they have the skills and creativity to take on the great economic and technological challenges of the day.",
        "你可以想象一下，20年后，如果我们可以给年青一代提供很好的教育，让他们掌握迎接重大经济和技术时代挑战的技能和创造力，世界将会变得怎样。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while this reflects changes in relative importance, European banks’ business volumes might have increased in absolute terms even in the US, though at a slower pace than elsewhere.",
        "这一现象反映了相对重要性的变化，但欧洲银行美国业务量的绝对值仍然是上升的，只是幅度必其他地区低。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Franco-German push for an intelligence-sharing agreement with the US is probably difficult to put into practice, especially considering that spy services operating around the world are not always fully controllable.",
        "法国和德国新提出的与美国共享情报的协议可能很难成为现实，特别是在考虑到全世界间谍活动的操作并不总是完全可控的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "The most conclusive exercise would be to compare apples with apples and the author of “Blonde on Blonde” with those who were and remain his key contemporaries.",
        "最有说服力的方法是同类与同类比较，也就是将“无数金发女歌手”的作者与知名的同代音乐人进行对比。"
    ],
    [
        "In countries that cannot issue debt in their own currency (traditionally emerging-market economies), or that issue debt in their own currency but cannot independently print money (as in the euro zone), unsustainable fiscal deficits often lead to a credit crisis, a sovereign default, or other coercive form of public-debt restructuring.",
        "在那些不能以本币发债的国家（通常是新兴市场经济体）和那些虽能以本币发债却不能独立发行货币的国家（例如欧元区国家），不可持续的财政赤字常常会导致信贷危机、主权违约以及其他强制性的公债重组。"
    ],
    [
        "The charge sheet here is already rather full, with multiple instances in recent years of America being almost universally regarded as not practicing what it preaches.",
        "在这方面，美国的案底已经相当多，近年来，很多例子表明美国几乎总是说一套做一套。"
    ],
    [
        "In return, the US could obtain concessions on domestic and regional fronts.",
        "作为回报，美国有可能得到国内及地区事务的多方面让步。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the EU, the UK is a critical part of an influential economic and political bloc with undeniable heft.",
        "在欧盟内部，英国是影响力毋庸置疑的经济和政治集团的关键部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas the front used to run between government and the owners of the means of production – the industrialists, the rentiers – now, it runs between governments and finance.",
        "政府和生产资料所有者（实业家和剥削者）之争已经演变为政府和金融之争。"
    ],
    [
        "Many ideas have emerged to address this investment problem, such as offering prizes for successful products, creating new incentives for industry investments, and establishing novel funding mechanisms to support research to address emerging infectious threats.",
        "为了解决这一投资问题，人们提出了许多想法，比如为成功的产品提供奖励、为工业投资创造新激励、建立新型融资机制支持解决新出现的传染病威胁的研究等。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, both private enterprises and SOEs could use market buoyancy to raise equity to fund new investments.",
        "同时，民企和国企都可能利用牛市热情增发股本为新投资项目融资。"
    ],
    [
        "But when more detailed analysis of the data revealed potentially elevated benefits for black patients, a new trial was performed on 1,050 self-identified “black” patients with severe heart failure for whom available treatments had proved ineffective.",
        "但当进一步数据分析显示该药对黑人患者的潜在疗效更为显著时，科研人员又针对1，050名现行疗法无效的自我认定的“黑人”严重心衰患者进行了新的试验。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the notion of modeling children as a durable good seemed crass to some but led Becker to analyze the allocation of parental time and financial resources.",
        "比如，将孩子建模为耐用商品的概念可能让一些人感到愚不可及，但贝克尔却因此得以分析父母亲的时间和财务资源配置。"
    ],
    [
        "Because lower rates reduce savers’ income, they spend less, especially if they have a savings target for their retirement.",
        "因为利率下降减少了储蓄者的收入，他们会减少支出，特别是如果他们具有为退休而储蓄的目标的话。"
    ],
    [
        "This is primitive justice, to be sure, but how else could justice be done to a mass murderer?",
        "平心而论，这可谓以彼之道还施彼身，但对于一位血债累累的杀人犯，难道还要对他讲公正吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Lame Ducks in Love",
        "美元、欧元：一对相互搀扶的跛鸭"
    ],
    [
        "Many of those models build upon a common strategy for de-risking investments: assembling a diversified portfolio.",
        "许多这类模式的基础是十分普通的去风险化投资战略：构建一个多样化投资组合。"
    ],
    [
        "That shift is likely to mean a slower rate of GDP growth than the annual rate of nearly 10% that China achieved during the last three decades.",
        "这种变化很有可能意味着比过去三十年间近10%的GDP年增长率更缓慢的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "It needs to establish them – and fast – which requires finally addressing matters that have been off-limits in the past.",
        "它需要创造那些要素，而且得快，这就必须触动那些向来视为禁忌的话题。"
    ],
    [
        "But only in the last century has real progress been made against the disease.",
        "但真正取得对这种疾病的进步还仅仅是上个世纪的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Contentious foreign policy makes contacts uneasy and agreements difficult to reach.",
        "对抗性的外交政策加大了接触的难度，也使协议很难达成。"
    ],
    [
        "This is disingenuous, because it disregards the reason why savers seek the services of financial advisers in the first place: to help them figure out what investments best serve their interests.",
        "这一说法非常虚伪，因为它忽视了储户寻求财务顾问服务的根本原因：帮助他们找出什么投资最适合自身利益。"
    ],
    [
        "His work stands as a testament to the power of deep thinking and the courage to follow it to its logical conclusions.",
        "他的工作就像是圣约，教会我们深邃思考的力量和追寻探索逻辑结论的勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "Though banned by General Pervez Musharraf under duress after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Lashkar (which considers the United States, Israel and India “existential enemies of Islam”) simply regrouped under a different name and is even more powerful than before.",
        "虽然在2001年9月11日的恐怖袭击之后，佩尔韦兹·穆沙拉夫将军迫于压力取缔了这个组织，但是，虔诚军（他们认为美国、以色列和印度是“伊斯兰现存的敌人”）仅仅改了一下名字，就重新组织起来，并且比以前更有实力。"
    ],
    [
        "The elevation of these two outstanding civil servants comes after a period when other professors have been squeezed out by the political process.",
        "在这两位杰出公务员获得高位之前，他们的学术同侪纷纷被排挤出政坛。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran may be part of the problem, but, whether we like it or not, it may also be part of the solution.",
        "伊朗也许是问题的原因，但无论我们是否愿意，它同样可以解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "That is precisely the problem, and it could get much worse.",
        "这恰恰是问题的症结所在，并且存在大幅恶化的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps even more important is backing for reforms aimed at eliminating corruption and promoting growth.",
        "但也许更重要的是支持旨在清除腐败和刺激增长的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But is this the best use of the government’s capacity to tax or regulate trade?",
        "但这是政府课税和监管贸易权力的最佳使用方法吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Brazil most likely experienced a technical recession during the first half of this year.",
        "事实上，巴西极有可能在今年上半年经历了技术性衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "The promised structural reforms of the energy sector, labor market, and competition policy have yet to be introduced, and appear unlikely to take effect anytime soon.",
        "能源部门、劳动力市场和竞争政策方面的结构性改革似乎也无法立刻就起到效果。"
    ],
    [
        "So the air above the city heats up.",
        "所以城市上空的气体就变热了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is thanks to a few thinkers and activists that states have gradually moved away from age-old tenets.",
        "实际上，国家逐渐放弃古老的原则多亏少数思想家和积极分子的功劳。"
    ],
    [
        "Most people know that the Church opposed Galileo’s advocacy of Copernican heliocentrism, for which Pope John Paul II apologized in 1992.",
        "大部分人都知道，天主教会反对伽利略对哥白尼日心说的支持，教皇保罗二世为此在1992年进行了道歉。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, where green subsidies will cost €23.6 billion this year, household electricity prices have increased by 80% since 2000, causing 6.9 million households to live in energy poverty.",
        "今年德国的绿色补贴将耗资236亿美元，居民电价从2000年来上涨了80%，导致690万家庭陷入能源贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps they were right to be skeptical.",
        "也许他们表示怀疑是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Dumping – selling products at prices that are lower than the cost of production – clearly helps American consumers, even though it hurts American firms.",
        "倾销——以低于生产成本的价格销售产品——虽然伤害了美国企业，但对美国消费者有利。"
    ],
    [
        "JFK’s words a half-century ago apply to the Iran agreement today.",
        "肯尼迪在半个世纪前的话适用于今天的伊朗协议。"
    ],
    [
        "By relenting just a little to intense global pressure to revalue its exchange rate, the Chinese leadership has masterfully stifled the growing chorus of demands to rein in its growing trade surplus.",
        "面对严峻的国际压力，中国领导人稍微让了一小步，重新调整了人民币的汇率，于是巧妙地堵住了越来越多的人要求他们管制贸易顺差增长的呼声。"
    ],
    [
        "The sky is a unique domain, and one that is inadequately regulated.",
        "天空是一个特殊并且没有得到恰当管制的领地。"
    ],
    [
        "The past two generations have witnessed the rise of independent central banks whose monetary policy, largely insulated from partisan politics, aims for the maximum possible employment and purchasing power consistent with price stability.",
        "过去的两代人见证了独立的中央银行的崛起。 它们的货币政策在很大程度上与宗派主义的政治绝缘，而是以就业和与物价稳定一致的购买力的最大化为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Against the pressure of Asia’s rapid urbanization and industrial development, this will take sustained effort, involving complex policy decisions and painful economic trade-offs.",
        "在亚洲快速城市化和工业发展的压力下，实现目标需要付出长期的努力，政府必须做出复杂的决策，制定痛苦的经济折衷方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the explanation for the higher esteem in which the IMF is now held is its recent display of intellectual flexibility – a rare virtue for a big, lumbering bureaucracy.",
        "为什么 IMF 眼下如此炙手可热？ 部分的解释是它近来显示出一种变通精神 —— 对于一个庞大的官僚机构来说，这是一种难得的美德。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the dramatic drop in the price of oil will produce winners and losers. But the biggest dangers will be political, not economic.",
        "油价的急剧下跌当然会产生赢家和输家，但最大的输赢将是政治上的，而非经济方面。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to being harmful to terrestrial and aquatic life, free-floating plastics in oceans can adsorb toxins and break up into micro-plastics, which then enter the food chain.",
        "除了给陆生和水生生命造成伤害，在海洋里自由漂流的塑料还会积聚毒物，分解为塑料微粒，然后进入食物链。"
    ],
    [
        "It provides a set of disease names and numeric codes for assigning and tracking health-care expenditures and services.",
        "它为分配及追踪健康医疗开销和服务提供了全套疾病名字和数字代码。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, China’s jailing of Liu Xiaobo will not, as we Chinese say, succeed in its effort to frighten the monkey by killing a chicken.",
        "幸运的是，中国监禁刘晓波将不会起到中国俗话所说的杀鸡儆猴的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while an increase to 3% might sound small, it would make an enormous difference in terms of employment and wages.",
        "尽管增长提高到3%看上去增幅有限，但就业和工资局面将大为不同。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has nothing to do with pessimism.",
        "但这与悲观主义没有任何联系。"
    ],
    [
        "My company, for example, is launching a portfolio of 15 essential medicines to treat diseases including diabetes, respiratory illnesses, and breast cancer.",
        "比如，我的公司正在推出一个由15中基本药物组成的组合，用于治疗包括糖尿病、呼吸道疾病和乳腺癌在内的疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "There are serious ills in the private sector, too – notably, the pervasive influence of vested interests and the country’s business and political elites.",
        "私人部门也是问题严重——最令人瞩目的便是利益集团和商业和政治精英影响力无处不在。"
    ],
    [
        "At the height of Yeltsin’s career, many Russians identified with his bluntness, impulsiveness, sensitivity to personal slight, even with his weakness for alcohol.",
        "处于事业顶峰时期的叶利钦在许多俄罗斯人的眼中大胆鲁莽，易冲动，受不得怠慢，而且对酒精极度依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "He has, after all, eliminated the wealth tax, introduced greater labor-market flexibility, cut housing benefits, and introduced reforms to higher education – policies that a majority of right-wing voters embrace.",
        "毕竟，他取消了财富税，增加了劳动力市场灵活性，削减了住房补贴，并引入了高等教育改革——这些政策都是大部分右翼选民所支持的。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt’s recent experience offers a glimpse into Turkey’s potential future should it fail to establish effective political safeguards.",
        "埃及最近的经验可以提供借鉴，土耳其若不能建立有效的政治防线，可能将步埃及后尘。"
    ],
    [
        "Liu Xiaobo is demonstrating anew the unstoppable power of the powerless.",
        "而刘晓波也再一次宣示了那些被剥夺权力者所拥有的无法阻挡的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "These types of public investments are critical in creating and shaping new markets.",
        "这些类型的公共投资对于建立和塑造新市场至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Others in Mueller’s sights are Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.",
        "进入米勒视线的还有特朗普的前竞选主席保罗·马纳福特，以及特朗普的女婿贾里德·库什纳。"
    ],
    [
        "But, she noted, many could not even afford toothbrushes.",
        "但是，她指出，许多孩子根本买不起牙刷。"
    ],
    [
        "Congress may also prove less willing to remove hurdles to Russia’s admission to the World Trade Organization, given what is widely judged to be its leaders’ anti-democratic behavior.",
        "众议院估计也不太会移除对俄罗斯加入世贸的诸多障碍，因为大家都对俄罗斯领导人的反民主行为感到反感。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of the twentieth century, only the FARC endured, together with a smattering of splinter groups in Mexico.",
        "到20世纪末期，只有哥伦比亚革命武装力量以及墨西哥的少数分裂团体继续存在。"
    ],
    [
        "It still has one of the lowest rates of public and private investment among OECD countries, and will be hit harder than most by a dramatic demographic shift over the next decade.",
        "其公共和私人投资仍然是经合组织国家中最低之一，并且未来十年所面临的人口变化冲击比大部分国家都要大。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagination, vision, and pragmatic perseverance will be necessary.",
        "想象力、远见和务实的毅力是必需的。"
    ],
    [
        "(That has been the trivializing response of “Brexit” campaigners to warnings by the European Union, the IMF, and the OECD, that withdrawal from the EU would cause severe damage to the British economy.)",
        "（“英国退出”阵营就对欧盟、IMF、经合组织所发出的退出欧盟将严重打击英国经济的警告嗤之以鼻。"
    ],
    [
        "For the past five years, the US has been sucking in more than $2 billion a day of other countries’ savings, as the easy provision of domestic credit on an unprecedented scale has allowed households to spend more than they earn.",
        "过去5年来，随着史无前例的宽松的国内信贷政策允许家庭以超过自己收入的尺度进行开支，美国每一天吸收其它国家存款的金额都要超过20亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "We also acknowledge that the consequences of an airplane crash are liable to be far more catastrophic than, say, those of a cyclist clipping a curb on his way home from the shops.",
        "我们也知道，坠机的后果要比你从商店骑车回家时遭遇爆胎可怕得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Flawed policies – not just austerity, but also misguided so-called structural reforms, which widened inequality and thus further weakened overall demand and potential growth – have undoubtedly made matters worse.",
        "那些有缺陷的政策——不仅是紧缩政策，而且还错误导向的所谓结构性改革，导致社会不平等状况加剧从而进一步削弱了总需求和潜在增长——无疑令情况变得更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "As The Washington Post recently reported, dishwashers now use 45% less power than they did two decades ago, and refrigerators 51% less.",
        "正如《华盛顿邮报》不久前报导的那样，现在洗碗机的能耗比20年前降低了45%，冰箱则降低51%。"
    ],
    [
        "It was due to the fact that such models were neglected in favor of models that stressed efficient markets.",
        "疏忽的原因在于这样的事实：为了给强调有效市场的模型让路，这些模型被忽略了。"
    ],
    [
        "A worrying development in this regard is the rapid rise in enterprise debt, which, according to various studies, now surpasses 120% of GDP – much higher than the leveraging rates of nonfinancial enterprises in major developed countries.",
        "另外一个令人担忧的情况是企业债务的快速上升，根据各种研究，现在已经超过了GDP的120%——这比主要发达国家非金融企业的杠杆率还要高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "So why do Thuringians, Saxons, and Swabians root for the same German team, while UK citizens root for so many?",
        "那么，为何图林根人、萨克逊人和斯瓦比亚人支持同一支德国队，而英国公民却支持这么多支球队？"
    ],
    [
        "When it is time to announce changes, it should do so in the context of a larger program of credible domestic reforms that target strong, inclusive growth and improved financial stability.",
        "当公布变化时，英国政府应该同时公布更大的、可信的、以包容性增长和改善金融稳定为目标的国内改革方案。"
    ],
    [
        "But creating a structure of international relations that will make a more stable and enduring world order is not a task to be completed within one year.",
        "但建立有利于世界秩序持久稳定的国际关系架构的任务不是短短一年就能完成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the economically disastrous 1970s, British voters were not prepared to reject the political status quo.",
        "即使在经济困难重重的20世纪70年代，英国选民也不准备拒绝政治现状。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB has bought time, but it has also raised the stakes.",
        "欧洲央行已经赢得了时间，但也提高了风险。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, structural reforms since the mid-1990s have ensured that British exporters are deeply integrated within global supply chains.",
        "此外，自1990年代中期以来的结构性改革完成了英国出口商与全球供应链的深度融合，令英国的许多出口产品的生产需要进口各类原料零件；"
    ],
    [
        "So, it is no surprise that Reid has found a role in this new marketplace.",
        "因此Reid在新的市场中找到机会并不值得奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term interest rates fell, equity prices rose, and the euro declined relative to the dollar.",
        "长期利率下降，股价上涨，欧元兑美元贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Asian countries have learned from their region’s own crisis in the 1990’s, as well as from the eurozone’s ongoing crisis, that effective management of cross-border capital flows requires well-constructed national, regional, and global responses.",
        "除了欧元区危机之外，亚洲国家也应当在本区域1990年代的危机中的得到教训，认识到对跨境资金流的有效管理需要构建完善的国家，区域和全球应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the true joys of my life in politics was the opportunity to have a quiet lunch with Thatcher in London some years ago, and express my gratitude to her for recognizing our chance for freedom and seizing the diplomatic initiative to help realize it.",
        "我政治生涯的真正光辉时刻之一是多年前获得了一次与撒切尔安静地共进午餐的机会，我向她表达了感激之情——她为我们识别出自由的机会，并把握了外交主动权帮助我们实现这个机会。"
    ],
    [
        "It is widely believed that Supreme Leader Khamenei put the current nutcase president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad into office as a means of counterbalancing former president Rafsanjani, and has been regretting this decision ever since as Ahmedinejad spouted off about the Holocaust and pushed Iran deeper and deeper into isolation.",
        "大家普遍认为最高领袖哈梅内伊之所以让狂人内贾德走上现在的总统宝座是为了制约前总统拉夫桑贾尼，但是自从内贾德在犹太人大屠杀的问题上大放大放厥词，并且把伊朗越来越推向孤立的深渊，他开始后悔自己的决定了。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, if you can afford to live there, Paris remains a great place to be.",
        "当然，巴黎在能负担得起开销的人眼中仍是好地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Long dependent on China to finesse its fiscal problems, America may now have to pay a much steeper price to secure external capital.",
        "在长期依赖中国解决自身财政问题之后，美国或许要支付一个更高昂的价格去保证外部资本的供应。"
    ],
    [
        "These partners should not allow the European project to be sacrificed on the altar of German public opinion or German leaders’ insistence on “rules.”",
        "这些伙伴国不应该放任欧洲工程成为德国民意或德国领导人对“规则”的坚持的牺牲品。"
    ],
    [
        "A stagnant economy and lack of opportunity are undoubtedly problems, but so are low voting rates, civic apathy, widespread disregard for ethical standards, and indifference to art, music, literature, and ideas.",
        "经济停滞和机遇缺失无疑会带来问题，但同样带来问题的还有投票率低、公众冷漠、对道德标准的普遍漠视、以及不关注艺术、音乐、文学和思想。"
    ],
    [
        "The question now is whether this determination can bring about the type of surprising breakthrough to peace that Sadat’s newfound prestige in 1973 yielded.",
        "现在的问题是，这一决心是否能够带来萨达特在1973年重新树立的声望所产生的令人惊讶的和平突破。"
    ],
    [
        "If the US dollar enters into another round of revaluation, the only winners will be financial engineers.",
        "如果美元进入又一轮升值，那么唯一的赢家将是金融投机工程师。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, international stability has been compromised – and several more potentially destabilizing developments are on the horizon.",
        "如论如何，国际稳定被妥协所牺牲——更多潜在动荡因素还在发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Official bankruptcy, a regular occurrence, required prolonging maturities on state debt and reducing interest payments.",
        "时不时出现的官方破产要求延长国债到期日、降低利息支付。"
    ],
    [
        "As America’s terms of trade (the ratio of export prices to import prices) deteriorate, demand is shifted toward US goods, keeping the economy at full employment.",
        "随着美国的贸易条件（出口价格与进口价格的比率）持续恶化，需求转向美国商品，令经济可以保持充分就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Within health-care education itself, according to my own analysis of local institutions, students are learning to treat individual medical conditions, but they are not learning enough about larger public-health issues, and current curricula do not expose students to issues affecting refugees, migrants, or the wider population.",
        "在医疗教育本身，据我本人对地方机构的分析，学生要学习如何治疗个体病例，但对更大的公共卫生问题学习不够，而目前的课程并不要求学生研究影响难民、移民和更广泛的人口的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the generation of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, Jordan’s King Abdullah and Morocco’s King Muhammad VI.",
        "这是叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德、约旦国王阿卜杜拉和摩洛哥国王穆罕默德六世的一代。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the failures of German leadership in Europe and the political vacuum elsewhere in the EU, Italy’s decision to raise its profile is surely right.",
        "考虑到德国在欧洲领导的失败以及欧盟其他地区的政治真空，意大利提升其形象的决定毫无疑问是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "We now know that the expectation of uninterrupted growth was a delusion.",
        "我们现在知道，永远增长的预期只是个幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Large budget deficits are absorbing the national savings that should be used to expand business investment, and are increasing the national debt that will have to be financed by future taxes.",
        "大规模预算赤字吸收着国民储蓄，而这笔钱本应用于扩大商业投资。 预算赤字导致了只能通过未来税收融资的国民债务的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "As the watchdog organization Transparency International reminds us, corruption exposed is in many cases corruption prevented.",
        "正如监督组织透明国际提醒我们的那样，在许多情况下，揭露腐败就可以防止腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "And proposals for a border adjustment tax have been all but forgotten.",
        "而关于开征边境调整税的议案则几乎被遗忘了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinian mainstream, represented by Abbas, made a strategic decision to opt for a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.",
        "以阿巴斯为代表的巴勒斯坦主流做出的战略决定是以1967年边界为基础建立巴勒斯坦国。"
    ],
    [
        "I had not known, he thought, that “The population is totally hostile…” Indeed, in the eyes of the Viet Cong, “the Viet Cong are the people.”",
        "他认为我不知道“全体越南民众都持敌对态度…”。 实际上，在越共的眼中，“越共和人民没有两样。"
    ],
    [
        "What has happened during the Ebola crisis in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone – where schools serving five million children remain closed or have not reopened quickly enough – makes this case, too.",
        "利比里亚、几内亚和塞拉利昂的埃博拉危机期间，五百万孩子就读的学校被关门或无法以足够快的速度重新开门，同样表明建立这一人道主义基金的紧迫性。"
    ],
    [
        "It should also be obvious that, in the absence of currency markets to act as a “valve” for economic and financial pressures, economic volatility may increase.",
        "同样明显的是在没有货币市场作为宣泄经济和金融压力的“阀门”的情况下，经济的不稳定性可能增加。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a cause that resonates widely not because short-termism is hampering the economy, but because saying that it is justifies protecting those with a stake in the status quo – well-paid employees; CEOs and senior managers; and board directors – from rapid change.",
        "它之所以引起了广泛回响，原因不仅是因为短期主义阻碍了经济，而是因为它保护了那些受益于现状的人——收入丰厚的职员； CEO和高级经理；"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Latin America’s dominant political narratives are not helping that process along.",
        "不幸的是，拉丁美洲主流的政治叙事并没有协助推动这一进程。"
    ],
    [
        "In present-day Babylon in Chinatown, in Little Italy, in Russian Brighton Beach, and in the alleys and byways of New York, all the world’s languages are spoken.",
        "中国城、小意大利、俄国布赖顿海滩以及纽约城的大街小巷就是今天的巴比伦，世界上所有的语言在这里交汇。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the years, as the number of GGE member states increased from the original 15 to 20 and then to 25, the group became more unwieldy, and political issues became more intrusive.",
        "多年来，GGE成员国数量从最初的15增加到20个，后来又增加到25个，但专家团日显臃肿，政治问题也变得日益尖锐。"
    ],
    [
        "In response to rapid and bold stimulus measures, Japan’s economy is expected to grow at a rate of around 3% this year – one of the highest rates among advanced economies – and the Nikkei index rose 80% in the six-month period ending in May of this year.",
        "在快速而大胆的刺激措施作用下，日本经济预计今年增长率为3%左右——为发达经济体中最高值之一——而日经指数在截至今年5月的半年中上涨了80%。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Uruguay’s political structures will invariably have a moderating effect on any government that might be elected.",
        "此外，乌拉圭的政治架构也肯定会对任何一个当选政府施加调节作用。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the austerians are so against it, and why even those who accept the theoretical case for a stimulus insist on implementing it through monetary policy alone.",
        "这就是为什么紧缩主义者如此反对它，也是为什么即使是那些接受财政刺激理论的人也会坚持通过单独的货币政策来实施。"
    ],
    [
        "To that end, policymakers must ensure that growth is channeled into sectors that create jobs, such as agriculture, manufacturing, and services.",
        "在这方面，决策者必须确保增长被引导到创造就业的部门，如农业、制造业和服务业。"
    ],
    [
        "I cannot believe that they will let such an injustice occur.",
        "我无法相信他们会放任这种不公平的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this possibility, Varoufakis may have believed that he was making other EU finance ministers a generous offer by proposing to cut the primary surplus from 4% to 1% of GDP, rather than all the way to zero.",
        "基于这一可能性，瓦鲁法基斯也许认为，他提出的将初级盈余从GDP的4%削减到1%（而不是直接减到零）已是对其他欧盟财政部长的慷慨赏赐。"
    ],
    [
        "The Crisis of Market Fundamentalism",
        "市场原教旨主义危机"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, as recently as two decades ago, instantaneous global communication existed, but was economically out of reach for most people.",
        "与此相似，20年前曾经出现过即时的全球通讯，但在经济上却超过了绝大多数人的承受能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with countless private interest groups trying to water it down into irrelevance, the battle will be firmly on the EU’s agenda in 2006.",
        "现在，众多的私营利益集团试图削弱这一建议使其无关痛痒。 这一斗争将无疑提上欧盟2006年的议事日程。"
    ],
    [
        "The deal was concluded on October 3, and has been interpreted as a successful market test for Portugal.",
        "该计划在10月3日宣布，并被解读为葡国政府对市场的成功测试。"
    ],
    [
        "In their eyes, this leaves them with virtually no choice but to hold on to power at all costs.",
        "在他们看来，这实际上就是除了不惜一切代价继续把持大权之外别无选择的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Bo’s gift for dazzling an audience, his allies must have felt confident that a spirited defense would serve him well, both legally and politically.",
        "考虑到他争取受众的能力，薄的盟友肯定对一场积极辩护在法律和政治上维护他的利益很有信心。"
    ],
    [
        "In northern Europe, for example, the European Central Bank’s independence is seen as essential for price stability – and politicians on the right typically attach a higher priority to this goal.",
        "比如，在北欧，欧洲央行的独立性被视为价格稳定的关键——而右翼政客通常对这一目标尤其看重。"
    ],
    [
        "Islamic banking, for example, may soon be introduced, though some local and foreign investors argue that sharia regulations could drive away much-needed foreign investment.",
        "虽然某些国内外投资者认为伊斯兰教法管制将吓跑急需的外国投资，但诸如伊斯兰银行等制度将很快被引入。"
    ],
    [
        "If consumers knew to collect and separate household plastics based on their number, when available, the resulting boost to recycling efforts would demonstrate to government and industry the viability of a more sustainable approach, reduce exposure to rising oil prices, and support growing global demand for plastics.",
        "如果消费者懂得在有条件时按数字收集和分类家庭塑料，那么由此带来的对塑料循环利用的刺激作用将向政府和行业证明存在可持续方法，减轻对石油价格上涨的风险暴露，并支撑日渐增加的全球塑料需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody knows whether the debt-ceiling tripwire will be evaded; if so, how; or what will happen if it is not.",
        "如何松下来； 如果不松下来又会发生什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Witness how Facebook overtook MySpace in social networks, or how Apple upended the market for smartphones – or how new services and markets are constantly being invented.",
        "Facebook在社交领域取代MySpace以及苹果逆袭智能手机市场就是明证，层出不穷的新服务和市场亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, however, austerity has prevented sufficient public financing.",
        "但是，到目前为止，紧缩阻碍了足够的公共融资。"
    ],
    [
        "But belonging to the eurozone proved to be very valuable—Greece is hurting less than Denmark although its problems are much greater.",
        "但是隶属于欧元区被证明是非常有价值的，希腊所遭受的损失比丹麦小，尽管它的问题更严重。"
    ],
    [
        "The dynamics of income distribution have shifted adversely in recent decades, impeding consensus on economic policy.",
        "收入分配的动态在近几十年中发生了恶化，阻止了关于经济政策的共识。"
    ],
    [
        "Sweden, already a humanitarian superpower in terms of the aid it provides to conflict regions, certainly will not close its doors.",
        "从向冲突地区提供援助的角度讲，瑞典是一个人道主义超级大国，它绝不会关闭自己的大门。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of what happens, all Europe needs to get past clichés about \"old\" versus \"new\" Europe.",
        "不管事态如何发展，整个欧洲都应该摒弃\"旧\"欧洲对\"新\"欧洲的陈词滥调。"
    ],
    [
        "They do so, in part, by shunning any commitment to democracy itself.",
        "从某种程度上说，确实如此，并且是通过推翻所有对民主本身的承诺完成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Blackstone will gain extra cash to deploy and extra fees.",
        "而黑石会得到额外的现金和丰厚的佣金。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, competing in the twenty-first century economy will require relentless adaptation.",
        "换句话说，在二十一世纪的经济中竞争需要不断地适应。"
    ],
    [
        "DJI, a Chinese UAV manufacturer, is seeking a $10 billion valuation.",
        "中国无人飞行器制造商DJI正在迈向100亿美元估值。"
    ],
    [
        "And what about the major political shift the US has experienced?",
        "这对美国的政局是否有重大影响呢？"
    ],
    [
        "And our debt remains low and diversified.",
        "21%，是历史最低水平。 我们的债务水平较低并且多样化。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, increases in productivity have rarely destroyed jobs.",
        "从历史上看，提高生产力极少消灭工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The lack of equity resulted largely from the concept of “limited liability,” which provided an incentive for excessive leveraging.",
        "由于股本金的缺乏主要是由 “有限责任”的概念造成的，这种概念鼓励了对过度杠杆效应的运用。"
    ],
    [
        "But they would undoubtedly also agree that preventing human death and suffering, while providing food, water, and an education to all, is vital.",
        "但他们毫无疑问也会同意，阻止人类死亡和痛苦，同时为所有人提供食物、水和教育也是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "China is ten times the size of Japan, and Japan was not easy to deal with, either.",
        "中国的领土面积是日本的10倍，而应付日本也已经殊为不易。"
    ],
    [
        "Only an effective military force, with international legitimacy, can supply it.",
        "只有一支有效的、具有国际合法性的军事力量才能奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "Public debate about how to improve the system has commenced.",
        "有关如何改进选举体系的公众辩论已经开始。"
    ],
    [
        "They operate in countries that typically refuse to recognize the agency of women beyond the role of mothers, wives, and daughters.",
        "她们身处的国家往往拒绝承认女性机构在母亲、妻子和女儿之外的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, financial markets have been sanguine about these new rising risks.",
        "目前，金融市场对这些新出现的风险表示乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Asked whether they considered themselves “Iraqis, above all” or “Muslims, above all,” the 2006 survey found that 28% of Iraqis identified themselves as “Iraqis, above all,” up from 23% in 2004.",
        "在被问道他们认为自己“首先是伊拉克人”或“首先是穆斯林”时，2006年的调查发现28%的伊拉克人认同自己“首先是伊拉克人”，比2004年时的23%有所上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Its cult-like regime has encouraged a hyper-nationalist worldview, according to which any systematic cooperation with another country – much less the international community at large – is considered a threat to North Korea’s sovereignty.",
        "该国邪教般的政权催生了高度民族主义的世界观，在他们看来与其他国家——更不要说整个国际社会——的任何全面合作都是对朝鲜主权的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s recent Treaty on Fiscal Union – the successor to the Growth and Stability Pact – prescribes binding legal commitments to balanced budgets and modest national debt, backed by supervision and sanctions.",
        "当前的欧盟财政联盟条约——即增长与稳定公约的后继条约——规定平衡预算和温和国民债务为约束性法定义务，并要接受监督和制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "The worst problems, however, are those with “inaction costs” that remain invisible for a long time, but increase suddenly and explosively.",
        "但最可怕的莫过于那些“不作为成本”长期处于不可见状态，但却突然出现爆发式飙升的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a rumbustious democracy with a profound appreciation of the rule of law, a free and open society that has provided a haven for immigrants and refugees from all over the world.",
        "他是一个喧闹的民主国家，十分尊重法治，社会自由而开放，为来自全世界的移民和难民提供避风港。"
    ],
    [
        "Collectively, the Germans had not been the innocent victims of a small gang of criminal outsiders called “Nazis” – Nazism had been an inside ideology supported by millions of Germans, and every German was liable for its atrocities whether or not he or she had adhered to it individually.",
        "作为一个民族来讲，德国人并不只是那一小撮被叫作“纳粹”的罪恶并注定会失败的人的无辜牺牲品。 “纳粹主义”是无数德国人内心根深蒂固的理念，每一个德国人都应对德国的残暴行为负责任，反思自己是否曾经固守过这一理念。"
    ],
    [
        "And EU officials would most likely drive a hard bargain indeed, in order to deter other countries from contemplating exits of their own.",
        "欧盟官员可能会提出苛刻的交换条件，从而震慑其他考虑退出欧盟的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the Western world, a toxic mix of physical, economic, and cultural insecurity has been fueling anti-immigration sentiment and politics precisely at the moment when the disintegration of post-colonial states across the Islamic crescent is producing a refugee problem on a scale not seen since World War II.",
        "放眼西方世界，人身、经济和文化不安定构成了一个危险的组合，并在助长反移民情绪和政治，而与此同时，伊斯兰新月地带后殖民地时代国家的分崩离析正在制造二战结束以来所未见的大规模难民问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel ’s fear that the failure of sanctions might bring the United States to accept coexistence with a nuclear-armed Iran in the way it did with the Soviet Union during the Cold War is not entirely unfounded.",
        "以色列害怕制裁行动失败可能导致美国接受与装备了核武器的伊朗共存的现实，就像冷战时期接受与苏联共存一样，这种担心并不是完全没有依据的。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there are cross-border linkages with other major economies.",
        "接下来要考虑的是中国与其他主要经济体的跨国联系。"
    ],
    [
        "If towns suffering from depopulation before they were destroyed are transformed in their reconstruction, they could mark the emergence of a new model for regional development that can decentralize Japan’s Tokyo-centric economy.",
        "如果被毁坏前人口减少的城镇在重建时能够实现转型，可能会创造出新的地区发展模式，实现此前以东京为核心经济布局的分散化。"
    ],
    [
        "But what determines the extent to which countries benefit from financial globalization?",
        "但是到底是什么决定了国家从金融全球化中获益的程度呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the deaths were from communicable diseases, which malnourished people may well have contracted after crowding into feeding centers.",
        "大多数的死亡是由传染性疾病导致的。 营养不良的人们很可能是在涌入拥挤的食物供给中心之时被感染的。"
    ],
    [
        "True, Brazil still has a “hard” left, and some in Lula’s own party are comfortable with, say, Cuba’s Castro brothers and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.",
        "诚然，巴西仍旧是一个“硬”左派国家。 譬如，卢拉党内的一些人还支持古巴的卡斯特罗兄弟和委内瑞拉总统乌戈 查韦斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, you are probably facing such choices right now – if you pay attention to them.",
        "事实上，你可能正在面对这样的选择——如果你注意到它们的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexican leaders acknowledge the country’s internal problems, but place three of them at America’s doorstep.",
        "墨西哥领导人承认国内存在问题，但把其中三大问题推到了美国门口。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The US Federal Reserve is battling with members of Congress over a proposed law, the Federal Reserve Accountability and Transparency Act, that would require the Fed to use a formal rule to guide monetary policy.",
        "发自剑桥——美联储正就一项法律提案与国会议员进行交锋，该法案名为美国联邦储备委员会问责制和透明度法案，要求美联储使用正式的规则来指导货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "A fundamental problem in forecasting nowadays is that the ultimate causes of the slowdown are really psychological and sociological, and relate to fluctuating confidence and changing “animal spirits,” about which George Akerlof and I have written.",
        "当今在预测上的一个根本问题就是经济减缓的最终成因其实是在心理学和社会学意义上的，并与不断波动的信心和变化中的“动物精神（animal spirits）”相关联。"
    ],
    [
        "Rightly or wrongly, Russia and China believe that the time has come to take their revenge over an arrogant West that deceived them about the true purpose of “humanitarian intervention” in Libya.",
        "且不论是对是错，俄罗斯和中国认为报复傲慢自大的西方世界的时机到了，因为它们认为自己在对利比亚进行“人道主义干涉”的真正意图上遭到了欺骗——。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s current-account surplus peaked in 2008 at more than 10% of GDP and has since narrowed dramatically, to 1.9% last year.",
        "中国经常项目盈余在2008年达到峰值，占 GDP比例超过了10%，此后大幅下降，去年只占GDP的1. 9%。"
    ],
    [
        "By focusing on the attainment of specific competencies, rather than on the amount of time spent in a classroom, WGU has been able to offer flexibility at bargain rates; a full-time program, including textbooks and a mentor, costs about $6,000 a year.",
        "通过专注特定能力素养、而不是花在课堂上的时间，西部州长大学实现了以低廉的价格提供灵活的教育服务； 一套全日制课程，包括教材和导师，每年仅需收取约6，000美元的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "The children they help are more likely to be able to attend school, and grow into healthy, educated adults.",
        "获得帮助的儿童更有可能进入学校、成长为受过教育的健康成年人。"
    ],
    [
        "Global warming and economic crisis are threatening international security.",
        "国际安全正受到全球变暖和经济危机的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Yeltsin’s choice of Putin – encouraged, ironically, by Boris Berezovsky, the prominent Russian oligarch and Yeltsin advisor who is now exiled in London as Putin’s mortal enemy – was based on his belief that the quiet apparatchik, even if a former KGB spy, was a democrat at heart.",
        "具有讽刺意味的是，叶利钦选择普京是受到别列佐夫斯基的鼓动，他是俄罗斯寡头统治集团的重要成员以及叶利钦的顾问，现在流亡在伦敦，成了普京不共戴天的敌人。 叶利钦是因为他相信这一寡言少语的党政官员，即便是一个前克格勃的间谍，在本质上也是一个民主主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the US can work with partners on the specifics of a future political plan, it can still rescue Syria, not to mention itself.",
        "但如果美国可以与伙伴国解决未来政治计划的具体内容，就依然可以挽救叙利亚，更不用说它自己了。"
    ],
    [
        "That task has already begun, and the LDP’s recent election victory will strengthen Abe’s ability to complete it.",
        "这个任务已经开始，自民党最近的选举胜利能增强安倍完成这一任务的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Any politician who might have been inclined to do so knew that they would be instantly tarred as a votary of evil alcohol, an agent of the “liquor mafia,” a bar-loving enemy of good, wholesome Gandhian values.",
        "可能有这样的打算的政客都知道，他们立刻会被批判为万恶的酒精爱好者、“液体黑手党”代理人、喜欢泡吧的甘地主义公序良俗的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential race in the United States have shown, among other things, that public distrust of global integration is on the rise.",
        "华盛顿—英国退欧公投和美国总统选战表明，公众对全球一体化的不信任正在加剧，这是当前所面临的问题之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But the facts show otherwise.",
        "但事实证明并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The effects of fiscal austerity – a sharp rise in taxes and a sharp fall in government spending since the beginning of the year – are undermining economic performance even more.",
        "年初实行的紧缩财政政策导致在税收激增的同时政府开支急剧下降，从而进一步影响了经济效益。"
    ],
    [
        "These are the basic traits of a modern political order.",
        "这些正是现代政治秩序的基本特点。"
    ],
    [
        "If I pay the same price for some product or service this year as I did last year, but the quality of the product or service is better, my standard of living has increased.",
        "如果我今年为某种商品或服务支付了和去年一样的价格，但这些东西的质量有所改善，那么我的生活水平显然有所提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, EU member states should determine the concrete form that such economic stabilization programs take for themselves.",
        "当然，欧盟成员国应该自行决定这样的经济稳定计划采取的具体形式。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, many in the United States and Israel dream of a moderate Arab front, with countries such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt containing and isolating “radical” Iran.",
        "今天，美国和以色列的许多人梦想一个温和的阿拉伯前线，由类似沙特和埃及这样的国家抑制并孤立“激进”的伊朗。"
    ],
    [
        "Exchange rates are another wild card.",
        "汇率也是一个要考虑的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU has said that young people should not be out of employment or education for more than four months; but no progress has been made toward making this a reality.",
        "欧盟说，年轻人不应该被排除在就业和教育之外超过四个月； 但在实现这一目标方面我们看不到进展。"
    ],
    [
        "In the light of the Halabja atrocity, and the regime’s broader genocidal Anfal campaign against the Kurds, and massive repression throughout the country, the question “Is Iraq better off now than it was under Saddam Hussein?” requires no great deliberation.",
        "鉴于哈莱卜杰暴行、灭绝库尔德人的大规模安法尔行动和遍布全国的大规模镇压，对“现在伊拉克是否好过萨达姆治下？ ”的问题似乎不该有什么疑问。"
    ],
    [
        "And even after that, the war will continue to fester in various parts of what will remain a divided country.",
        "即使在那以后，战争还将在这个分裂国家的各个地区延续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "This will be a major challenge.",
        "这将是一个重大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But economists’ abstract description of the resulting state intervention as an expansion of “aggregate demand” conceals the fact that the government conducts specific expenditures and makes political decisions that rescue specific businesses and individuals.",
        "但是，经济学家将对因而发生的国家干预抽象地描述为“总需求”的扩张，掩盖了政府进行具体支出和救助具体行业和个人的政治决策的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "It is up to China to make the necessary compromises to enable the AIIB to reach its potential.",
        "而中国必须作出必要的让步来令该银行发挥其最大潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – After nearly a decade of crisis, bailout, and reform in the United States and the European Union, the financial system – both in those countries and globally – is remarkably similar to the one we had in 2006.",
        "发自华盛顿特区——在美国及欧盟经历了近十年的危机，救市和改革后，金融体系——无论是在这些国家和全球——变得非常与2006年时的样子非常相似。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment is conservatively estimated at a staggering 40% of the workforce.",
        "按保守估计，失业人数也高达劳动力总量的40%。"
    ],
    [
        "Under such conditions, capitalism does not thrive and economies remain poor.",
        "在这样的条件下，资本主义无法繁荣，经济也一直贫穷。"
    ],
    [
        "The most likely outcome now is the establishment of a single unified country within the borders of the 1922 British Mandate for Palestine, including all of present-day Israel and the occupied territories.",
        "如今最有可能的结果是在1922年英属巴勒斯坦境内建立一个统一的单一国家，包括当今以色列的全部及其占领地区。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, why are there so many unmitigated and unmediated crises around the world – Syria’s civil war, the carnage in Egypt, and deteriorating US-Russian relations, to name just a few.",
        "如若果真如此，那叙利亚内战、埃及大屠杀及美俄关系恶化等全世界那么多未经调停的严重危机又怎么解释？"
    ],
    [
        "In the best-case scenario, this expenditure would reduce the at-risk population by only 3%.",
        "但即便在最理想的状况下，这笔钱也只能减少3％的受灾人口。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a composite accounting unit in which the IMF issues credits to its members.",
        "原因很简单，特别提款权不是一个货币，它是IMF给其成员国发放信贷时的一种组合计算单位。"
    ],
    [
        "The politics of frustration has been particularly apparent in the postcommunist world during the last fifteen years.",
        "过去15年来，这一挫折的政治在前共产世界尤为明显。"
    ],
    [
        "In Mexico, López Obrador has both begun picking up in the polls in recent days, and showing his true colors, promising the stars and the moon to the Mexican electorate.",
        "在墨西哥，洛佩斯不仅开始在最近几天的民意调查中上升，而且显示出了他的真实一面，向墨西哥的选民们作出不切实际的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite strong ethical arguments for vegetarianism, it is not yet a mainstream position.",
        "尽管社会对素食主义存在强烈的伦理争议，素食主义还没有成为社会主流。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for a tour d’horizon from Obama.",
        "现在是奥巴马纵观全局的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "No doubt we will discover some unintended consequences in the future, and the power of government coordination will ensure that those consequences are widespread.",
        "毫无疑问，在未来，我们将看到不少意料之外的后果，而政府的协调力意味着这些后果将随处可见。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that albedo modification is the kind of technology that necessitates an open, transparent, and international research effort – precisely the kind of effort in which the US excels – this is a serious failing.",
        "改变反射率是开放、透明和国际化的研究措施——这正是美国所擅长的措施——的必不可少的技术，因此，这是严重的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Tomorrow’s successful executives will be those who take the opportunity to join a real conversation and draw wisdom from the crowd.",
        "未来的成功高管将是那些抓住机会参与真正对话并从群众中汲取智慧的人。"
    ],
    [
        "It was accelerated with the introduction of the common currency, which, combined with the elimination of obstacles to cross-border capital flows and a global credit boom, fostered the concentration of many types of wholesale financial services in the City of London.",
        "这一过程随着共同货币的引入而加速，欧元与跨境资本流动壁垒的消除以及全球信用繁荣一道，导致了多种批发金融服务向伦敦金融城集中。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach is straightforward, efficient, accountable, and scientifically sound.",
        "这种方法直接、有效、负责、有着不错的科学基础。"
    ],
    [
        "And if the reforms are not implemented and growth fails to materialize, politicians are likely to blame QE, not their own failure to take all the other steps that must follow it on the path of economic recovery.",
        "而且如果改革未能落实、增长未能实现，政治家们可能会责怪量化宽松，而不是他们自己未能采取必要的后续措施来实现经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who oppose genetic patents claim that they also deny US constitutional rights, making this the first time a genetic patent has been challenged on human rights grounds.",
        "基因专利反对者称这种做法践踏了美国的宪法权利，这也是基因专利首次从人权角度接受挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Not coincidentally, that’s a perfect prescription for bloated, debt-ridden central and subnational governments worldwide.",
        "这也是全世界机构臃肿、债务缠身的中央和地方政府的完美出路，这一点绝不是什么巧合。"
    ],
    [
        "One way to avoid this bottleneck would be for US President Barack Obama to establish a bipartisan Infrastructure Commission tasked with finding solutions to the problem.",
        "一种突破这一瓶颈的方式是由美国总统奥巴马成立一个跨党派的基础设施委员会，由它来寻找这一问题的解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "PALO ALTO – Sub-national governments – states, countries, cities, provinces, towns, and special districts – play different roles from country to country, but usually deliver important public services such as police and fire protection, transportation, education, health care, and welfare.",
        "帕罗奥图 —— 次国家政府（州，村，市，省，镇及特区）职能虽然因国家而异，但通常都提供诸如警务、消防、交通、教育、医疗保健以及福利等重要公共服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Businessmen find it impossible to use the rial even for domestic transactions, because inflation is spiraling out of control.",
        "由于通货膨胀失控，商人们发现里亚尔甚至无法用于国内交易。"
    ],
    [
        "People vary in their ability to attract others, and their attraction depends partly on inherent traits, partly on learned skills, and partly on social context.",
        "人们吸引他人的能力参差不齐，这些能力一部分取决于内在特性，一部分来自于所学的技能，最后一部分则来源自当时的社会大背景。"
    ],
    [
        "As Narayana Kocherlakota, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, recently argued, Fed officials seem be balancing their stated aim of keeping inflation near 2% over the long term with a host of other, inexplicit, considerations.",
        "明尼阿波利斯联储银行前行长纳拉亚纳·科薛拉科塔（Narayana Kocherlakota）最近指出，美联储官员似乎正在他们的规定使命——将长期通胀保持在2%附近和其他一些隐含的考虑因素之间寻找平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "But these powers are also readily abused.",
        "但是，这些权力同时也经常遭到滥用。"
    ],
    [
        "So the eurozone has some – albeit limited – fiscal space.",
        "因此，欧元区仍有一定的财政空间，尽管颇为有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Sweden, with its hydropower, is even lower, at 0.9 kg.",
        "利用水力发电的瑞典的二氧化碳排放量更低，只有0."
    ],
    [
        "But the companies argue that there is absolutely no other way to compete – they must either comply with censorship or discontinue business.",
        "但是，这些公司则辩解说，它们绝对没有其他办法竞争。 它们要么遵从审查，要末停止业务。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy is stagnant, unemployment is high, and resources are scarce.",
        "经济停滞，事业高企，资源紧缺。"
    ],
    [
        "We must punish the traffickers and reward the farmers.",
        "我们必须惩治毒贩而奖励农民。"
    ],
    [
        "We can rule out a swift, large-scale flight from the dollar, owing to its unique, long-standing status as an international store of value.",
        "我们可以排除出现迅速大规模逃离美元的情形，因为长期以来美元一直是独一无二的国际价值储藏手段。"
    ],
    [
        "The real risks lie elsewhere.",
        "真正的危险在其它地方。"
    ],
    [
        "This will facilitate the conduct of monetary policy by reducing uncertainty and bolstering credibility still further.",
        "这也通过消除不确定因素和进一步加强可信度促进了货币政策的行使。"
    ],
    [
        "Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister at the time, said, “We violated all the rules because we wanted to close ranks and really rescue the eurozone.”",
        "时任法国财政部长拉加德（Christine Lagarde）说：“我们违反了所有规则，因为我们希望团结队伍、真正地拯救欧元区。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "And the ECB’s QE announcement coincided with the beginning of the oil-price recovery, which could be expected to increase inflation expectations somewhat.",
        "欧洲央行宣布量化宽松恰逢油价反弹，而这在某种程度上将提高通胀预期。"
    ],
    [
        "The focus on job and wealth creation has become a “talking point” upon which nearly all governments can agree – or at least find little with which to disagree.",
        "关注就业和财富创造已成为几乎所有政府都能一致同意的“谈话焦点”——至少也不存在多少能造成分歧的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "If tourists are avoiding a city – or having a negative experience because of the Games – they will have nothing good to report back to their family and friends.",
        "如果游客对一座城市避之不及——或者因为奥运会而印象不佳——就无法给予亲朋好友正面的反馈。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they are increasingly vulnerable to poor health.",
        "因此，他们的健康日益受到威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama would steer America in the direction of European social-welfare states; Romney’s agenda is designed to prevent that.",
        "奥巴马将把美国驶上欧洲式社会福利国家的道路； 而罗姆尼的方案是阻止这一幕的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Assad cannot turn his back on all of this.",
        "阿萨德根本不可能对此无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "But Wolf’s solution is not enough, for the problem is not confined to high finance.",
        "但是沃尔夫的解决方案并不足够，因为问题并不仅仅局限于复杂的财务上。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea is, strangely, a domestic issue for China.",
        "朝鲜问题已莫名其妙地成为中国的内部事务。"
    ],
    [
        "He was the right man in 1940 to raise British morale, when morale was about the only thing the British had going for them.",
        "他是1940年提升英国人士气的正确人选，当是时，士气几乎是英国人唯一的伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the king has staked all and gambled his own throne by taking over power.",
        "毕竟国王已将所有一切归入囊中，用他的皇冠作赌注获得了权力。"
    ],
    [
        "But eurozone members that currently benefit from exceptionally low borrowing costs – Germany, Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, and, to a lesser extent, France – maintain that Italian and Spanish borrowing costs largely reflect these countries’ failure to reform their economies and strengthen their public finances.",
        "但目前从极低借贷成本中收益的欧元区成员国——德国、奥地利、芬兰、荷兰，从一定程度上说还包括法国——坚持认为意大利和西班牙的高借贷成本基本上是两国没能采取经济改革强化公共财政所致。"
    ],
    [
        "It stressed the sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of Syria, and emphasized the need to resolve the current crisis peacefully, by means of an inclusive political process – and called for a national dialogue led from within the country.",
        "该草案强调叙利亚的主权、独立和领土完整，强调当前危机需要通过包容性政治议程和平解决，并呼吁进行叙利亚内部的国民对话。"
    ],
    [
        "But the complexity of the tasks that post-conflict countries face underscores the urgent challenge of providing the UN with the capacity to meet them.",
        "但战后各国所面临的任务的复杂性更凸显出了赋予联合国担当重任的能力这一急迫挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "And in times of globalization, distinguishing between “national” and “foreign” is neither appropriate nor feasible.",
        "而在后一种情况下，则应由市场机制完全发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Bush administration’s “guidelines,” torture can be divided into three categories, of varying levels of intensity: “baseline” (nudity, dietary manipulation, sleep deprivation); “corrective” (hitting); and “coercive” (water-dousing, box confinement, water-boarding).",
        "在布什政府的“指导方针”中，刑讯可以分为三类，强度各异：“基础级”（不许穿衣服、不给吃饭、不让睡觉）、“调教级”（殴打）和“强制级”（浸水、箱内禁闭、向口鼻注水）。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa, Climate Change, and the G-8 Summit",
        "非洲、气候变化和八国峰会"
    ],
    [
        "In South Korea, net private-capital inflows of 4.8% of GDP in 1996 swung to net outflows of 3.4% of GDP in 1997.",
        "在韩国，1996年私人资本流入占GDP的4. 8%，而到了1997年，出现了相当于GDP的3."
    ],
    [
        "It is this deficiency in his emotional intelligence that has cost Trump the support of some of the most distinguished foreign policy experts in his party and in the country.",
        "正是这种情商缺陷导致特朗普失去了一些本党本国最杰出的外交政策专家的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Only with such efforts can the current pickup in global growth develop the structural roots that are needed to make it durable, balanced, and inclusive over the medium term.",
        "只有通过这样的努力，目前全球增长的回升才能扎下必要的结构性根源，使其在中期内保持持久、平衡和包容性。"
    ],
    [
        "Within months, if not weeks, of realizing the long-sought goal of European Union membership, a wave of political instability surged through Central Europe.",
        "在意识到欧盟成员国的长期目标之后，一场政治不安定在几个月内，如果不是几个星期，席卷了整个中欧。"
    ],
    [
        "By drawing on other countries’ best practices – and avoiding their mistakes – Africa can develop an environmentally sustainable agricultural system that fits African conditions.",
        "通过引进其他国家的最佳实践——并避免它们的错误——非洲可以发展出适合非洲的条件的环境可持续的农业体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Freelancer.com has more than 17 million users worldwide.",
        "Freelancer. com在全球拥有超过1，700万用户。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems far more reasonable to believe that Serbia’s leaders were informed about what was going on, and that, despite this, Serbia’s military, financial, and political assistance to Mladic was never interrupted.",
        "更合理的情况也许应该是塞尔维亚的领导人在事件发生的整个过程中都一直对情况了如指掌，并且尽管如此，塞尔维亚对于马尔维奇的军事、财政和政治支持一直没有中断。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, of course, the religious fervor that accompanies affiliation with a spiritual guru.",
        "当然，追随一位精神导师总伴随着几分宗教狂热。"
    ],
    [
        "Given their benefits, GM crops’ “repeat index” – the proportion of farmers who, after trying a GM variety, choose to plant it again – is very high.",
        "由于存在这些好处，转基因作物的“重复指数”——即试种后选择再次种植的农民比例——相当高。"
    ],
    [
        "Solutions offered by organizations such as the US-India Business Council or USAID do not address the problem’s roots, and the crisis will most likely continue in 2012.",
        "美印商业委员会（US-India Business Council）和美国国际开发署（USAID）等组织给出的解决方案不能根治问题，危机很可能会在2012年继续发酵。"
    ],
    [
        "Containment’s goal was to prevent Soviet expansion without saddling the US with unsustainable military obligations.",
        "遏制的目标是要防止苏联的势力扩大，同时又不给美国造成无法承载的军事负担。"
    ],
    [
        "ALGIERS – Despite his failing health, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won a fourth term last month, with 81% of the vote – or so the regime claimed.",
        "阿尔及尔—尽管健康每况愈下，阿尔及利亚总统阿卜杜拉齐兹·波特弗利卡（Abdelaziz Bouteflika）仍在本月第四次当选总统，支持率高达81%——至少他的政府是这么宣布的。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa’s courts have become a political battleground, as Mbeki and his allies use corruption charges to try to cripple Zuma’s candidacy.",
        "当姆贝基及其同盟者利用腐败指控来摧毁祖玛的候选资格的时候，南非的法院也已经成为政治战场。"
    ],
    [
        "The preamble of the Constitution states that Europe is \"united in its diversity.\"",
        "《宪法》的导言声明欧洲是\"在多元中统一。"
    ],
    [
        "Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement.",
        "在我们的政府采取行动之前，我们应该抵制去那些囚禁和利用野生动物表演来取悦我们的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "The long-term effect on the federal budget implied by a sustained reduction in the growth of Medicare and Medicaid spending to the rates of the last several years would be profound.",
        "医疗保险和医疗补助支出增长持续减速至过去几年的水平所隐含的长期联邦赤字效应将是深远的。"
    ],
    [
        "Faced with the gravest financial and economic crisis worldwide since the 1930’s, the Western industrial nations (including Russia) that previously dominated the world economy are no longer capable of coming up with an effective response.",
        "面对20世纪30年代以来全球最严重的金融和经济危机，以前主导世界经济的西方工业国家（包括俄罗斯），已不再能够拿出有效的对策。"
    ],
    [
        "My proposal fulfills both the letter and the spirit of Article 123 of the Lisbon Treaty.",
        "我的提议体现了《里斯本条约》第123款的内容和精神。"
    ],
    [
        "But this historical pattern is more a statement about the magnitude of the initial decline and the time needed to recover fully than a prediction about the annual rate of growth during the recovery phase.",
        "但这一历史模式更多是关于初始下跌程度和充分复苏所需时间的描述，而不是关于复苏阶段年增长率的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, given the profound sovereign-debt crisis in the eurozone periphery, government defaults threaten to take down the big banks.",
        "如今，鉴于欧元区外围国家的主权债务危机加深，政府违约有可能拖垮那些大银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Like computers and the Internet, 3D printing will affect business and behavior around the world and across industries.",
        "和电脑和互联网一样，3D打印将影响全世界各行业的商业和行为。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, but in different ways, people feel impoverished.",
        "在这两种情况中，人们都感到贫困，但是方式不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Addressing inequality requires measuring educational outcomes, rather than school enrollment rates.",
        "解决不平等性需要衡量教育的结果，而不是入学率。"
    ],
    [
        "Analysts and investors have consistently assigned low odds to insurgent victories: in late May, betting markets and computerized models put the probabilities of Trump’s election and of Brexit at only around 25%, despite the fact that opinion polls showed almost 50% support for both.",
        "分析师和投资者一贯依然都认定脱盟胜利是低概率事件：在五月下旬，博彩市场和电脑推演模型都只把特朗普胜选和脱盟成功概率定在25%左右，尽管民意调查显示两个事件都获得了近乎50%的支持率。"
    ],
    [
        "Or so it seems.",
        "或者看起来是这样的。"
    ],
    [
        "Their work had to do with judgment and decision-making – what makes our thoughts and actions rational or irrational.",
        "他们的工作针是针对判断和决策的：二者决定了我们的思想和行为是否理性。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, regional and sub-regional development banks are particularly suited to provide regional public goods.",
        "而且，区域性和次区域性的发展银行尤其适合于为跨区域提供公共物资。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the biggest share of the US trade gap is with China, a country vilified as a currency-manipulating cheater, the bilateral trade deficit has become the lightening rod for China bashers.",
        "由于美国贸易缺口的最大一部分来自中国这个被诽谤为货币操纵作弊者的国家，双边贸易逆差因而成为了诋毁中国者的指路明灯。"
    ],
    [
        "Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s most recent public remarks, in late March, were more dovish than anticipated.",
        "美联储主席耶伦3月底的最新公开讲话比预期更加“鸽派”。"
    ],
    [
        "The reasons are not hard to find.",
        "找到中国这样做的原因并不难。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Procrustean Nightmare",
        "欧洲的削足适履噩梦"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the Congress Party-led government, anxious to appear responsive to public demand for help during an election-year economic slowdown, has pushed forward three stimulus packages since December.",
        "实际上，国大党领导的政府正逢选举年，他们迫切希望改善经济下滑的局面，自从去年12月份以来已经推出了三套经济刺激方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Fed is likely to start raising rates later and more slowly than in previous cycles, responding gradually to signs that US economic growth is robust enough to sustain higher borrowing costs.",
        "此外，美联储升息时机和节奏可能会比此前几个周期更晚更慢，采取逐步响应的方式，以符合美国经济增长之稳健足以维持更高的借贷成本的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "WINDHOEK – Sandwiched between Angola and South Africa, Namibia suffered mightily during the long struggle against apartheid.",
        "温得和克—纳米比亚夹在安哥拉和南非之间，在漫长的反种族主义斗争期间，纳米比亚损失惨重。"
    ],
    [
        "Campaigners for carbon-emission reductions regularly highlight the melting snow and ice of Mount Kilimanjaro.",
        "呼吁削减碳排放的示威者通常都会强调乞力马扎罗山上区冰雪的融化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, recent data suggest that more than half of the acceleration in US growth is occurring on the tradable side, even though it accounts for only about one-third of the economy.",
        "甚至可贸易部门的净就业也在增加（为二十年来首次）。 事实上，最新数据表明美国增长加速的一大半来自可贸易部门，尽管该部门仅占经济的三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Transparency is unambiguously good for companies and for governments; by and large they don’t welcome it, but it makes them more accountable to their constituents and to society.",
        "毫无疑问，对企业和政府来说透明是有益的； 虽然总的来说他们不太欢迎这一点，但这能令他们对选民或者社区更加负责。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that there is more to the relationship between sex and happiness than keeping up with the Joneses.",
        "这表明，性与幸福感之间的关系要比单纯的攀比更紧密。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s National Election Tribunal, having overturned the outcomes of several provincial elections, may well annul the results of last year’s presidential race, forcing him to run for president all over again.",
        "全国选举委员会推翻了几个省的选举结果，也许会宣布去年总统选举的结果无效，从而迫使他再度竞选总统。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no power – save a new violent dictatorship – that can bring Shi’a, Sunnis, and Kurds to live once again in one body politic.",
        "除了一个新的暴力独裁者外，没有力量能够将什叶派、逊尼派以及库尔德人在一个国家中共存。"
    ],
    [
        "Too many leaders are paying lip service to domestic nationalists and populists, mistakenly thinking that this will preserve their domestic poll ratings, when they should be showing genuine leadership and fighting for the common good.",
        "太多领导人对国内民族主义者和民粹主义者只是动动嘴皮子，错误地认为这样就能捍卫他们的国内支持率，而他们实际上应该表现出真正的领导力以及为人民利益而斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "It is impossible to know whether these early trends will hold through the rest of the primaries, now turning to the South and Midwest.",
        "我们无法确知这些早期的趋势会否在余下的初选——现在转向南部和中西部——一直延续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – Last summer, the financier George Soros urged Germany to agree to the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism, calling on the country to “lead or leave.”",
        "慕尼黑—去年夏天，金融家乔治·索罗斯敦促德国同意成立欧洲稳定性机制（ESM），要求德国“要么领导，要么离开”。"
    ],
    [
        "On the fully commercial side, the mobile revolution is creating a logistics revolution in farm-to-retail marketing.",
        "在完全商业化那方面，移动电话的革命带来了从农场直接到零售商之间的市场后勤方面的革命。"
    ],
    [
        "But negative interest rates and flat yield curves harm banks’ earnings; links between extraordinary monetary policies and growth or inflation remain tenuous; and surely monetary policy is subject to diminishing returns by now.",
        "反常货币政策与增长或通胀之间的联系仍然模糊； 并且显然如今货币政策的回报已在逐渐下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Such standards, coupled with data-sharing guidelines, will help determine when, and how much, to tax sharing-economy transactions.",
        "这些准则加上数据共享指导原则能有助于确定何时对共享经济交易征税、征多少税。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent cover article in The Economist defines “sharp power” by its reliance on “subversion, bullying and pressure, which combine to promote self-censorship.”",
        "《经济学家》最近的一篇封面报道则将“锐实力”定义为对“颠覆，欺凌和压迫，并将这些相结合以促进自我审查”。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Libya appears set to undergo similar struggles, owing mostly to the presence of powerful political actors outside the NTC.",
        "如今，利比亚似乎也注定将出现类似的斗争，这主要是由于NTC之外的权势政治活动家掀起的。"
    ],
    [
        "With lower spending and higher savings in the advanced economies, key emerging markets must take up the slack and start providing the demand needed to power the global recovery.",
        "发达国家的支出将减少，储蓄将增加，在这样的情况下，关键新兴市场必须填补空白，提供全球复苏所需要的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "All attempts at negotiations have led nowhere, with Iran continuing to enrich uranium and improve its nuclear technology.",
        "一直以来所有谈判努力都宣告无效，伊朗照样进行铀浓缩并改进自身核技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding the risk of instability in Europe, Trump is in a position not just to help boost growth in the US, but also to make it more inclusive.",
        "尽管存在欧洲出现动荡的风险，但特朗普仍然有可能提振美国增长，同时也增加美国经济的包容性。"
    ],
    [
        "Even freight companies and airlines have been spurred to act, with a growing number now refusing to transport shark fins.",
        "就连货运公司和航空公司也纷纷宣布采取行动，越来越多企业现在正拒绝提供鱼翅运输服务。"
    ],
    [
        "But if issuing more taxi medallions reduces cab drivers’ earnings, while pharmacists succeed in vetoing pro-competition measures to lower the cost of their services, the taxi drivers will end up worse off and the pharmacists will be enriched, which hardly seems fair.",
        "但如果颁发更多的出租车执照减少了司机的收入，而药店成功地抵制了意在降低其服务成本的鼓励竞争措施，那么出租车司机就会遭受损失，而药店将会获益，这显然是不公平的。"
    ],
    [
        "A world divided into political blocs will become a world of trade blocs, sustained by protectionism and currency manipulation.",
        "一个分裂为多个政治板块的世界将出现多个贸易板块，通过保护主义和货币操纵维持。"
    ],
    [
        "It is substantially wealthier than its Sub-Saharan peers, and it boasts nearly $400 billion in international reserves.",
        "它比撒哈拉以南受助国富裕得多，经常标榜其国际储备高达近4,000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmental activists have found allies among officials within China’s State Environmental Protection Administration, Meteorological Administration, and Forestry Bureau.",
        "环保人士的活动得到了中国国家环保总局、国家气象局和林业局不少官员的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Nikolay is disposed of by having him framed for his wife’s murder and tried by a crooked court.",
        "为了不让尼古拉碍手碍脚，他诬陷尼古拉谋杀了自己的妻子，并把他交给一家畸形的法院审理。"
    ],
    [
        "This summer in Guinea, for example, citizens’ frustration with widespread poverty and weak institutions, memories of ethnic persecution, and distrust of unfamiliar democratic processes fueled violent protests.",
        "比如，今年夏天，由于普遍的贫困和制度缺失、种族迫害阴魂不散以及对不熟悉的民主进程的不信任，圭亚那人民走上了街头，引发了暴力示威。"
    ],
    [
        "When the government can finance its current spending through taxes – and might even be able to increase expenditure, if it does not have to pay interest – the temptation to renege on debt intensifies.",
        "当政府能够通过税收为其当前支出提供资金时——甚至还可以提高支出，如果不需要偿付利息的话——债务违约的诱惑就会加强。"
    ],
    [
        "He allowed guests and staff to leave while he searched for enslaved children supposedly hidden in tunnels.",
        "他让客人和工作人员离开后搜查被认为藏在隧道里的受到奴役的儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this suggests that urbanites will soon be zipping around urban airspace like George Jetson, right?",
        "所有这一切是否都表明都市人很快将像乔治·杰森那样飞行在城市上空？"
    ],
    [
        "Hope for Hong Kong",
        "香港的希望"
    ],
    [
        "Institutionally, the EU has become Germany writ large.",
        "从制度上讲，欧盟是一个放大版的德国。"
    ],
    [
        "Saddam Hussein and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali preceded Mubarak in the dock.",
        "萨达姆·侯赛因和本·阿里已经先于穆巴拉克“享受”了这一待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the manual mentions risk communication only briefly, in the context of medical testimony.",
        "此外手册也只是在医疗证词方面粗略提到了一些与危机沟通有关的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "Asian and European countries, in particular, should be preparing for the worst by negotiating their own trade agreements with one another to preempt American mercantilism.",
        "特别是亚洲和欧洲国家应该做好最坏的准备，面对美国的重商主义，它们需要先发制人谈判彼此的贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a “globally connected institution,” with more than 40 individual country partners and growing ties to other international organizations.",
        "”北约是一个“联系遍布全球”的机构，拥有40多个合作伙伴国，与其他国际组织的关系也越来越牢固。"
    ],
    [
        "Extreme poverty bred illiteracy and miserable governance, which in turn intensified hunger, disease, and instability.",
        "极度的贫困造成了文化程度的低下和可怕的政治环境，而这些又反过来加剧了饥荒、疾病和动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "But, again, none of this was of much help to the real economy.",
        "但这一切同样都对实体经济没有多大帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is easy to forget that there are different viewpoints in international relations, even in the most extreme situations.",
        "但是我们很容易忘记国际关系中存在不同观点，即使是在最极端的情形也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – The death of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding father, offers an occasion to reflect on his legacy – and, perhaps more importantly, on whether that legacy has been correctly understood.",
        "克莱蒙特，加利福尼亚—新加坡国父李光耀的逝世让我们思考他的遗产——也许更重要的是，还有关于他的遗产能否被正确理解的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "With these goals in mind, China’s government recently engineered a modest currency devaluation – about 3% so far.",
        "为了实现这些目标。 中国政府最近发动了温和的货币贬值——到目前为止贬值了大约3%。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Chinese were disquieted by their government’s decision to evacuate China’s citizens from Libya, and would have preferred a bolder effort to protect the countries’ commercial assets there.",
        "许多中国人对政府决定从利比亚撤侨的决定感到十分不满，他们更愿意留在利比亚，为保护中国商业资产做更大努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Implemented in the midst of an economic crisis, it was the classic Keynesian response.",
        "以及众多社会项目。 该计划在经济危机期间实施，是一项经典的凯恩斯主义应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "An independent Global Ocean Accountability Board – the creation of which we are also proposing – should monitor progress on all of these fronts.",
        "应该由独立的全球海洋问责委员会（Global Ocean Accountability Board，亦是我们建议采取的措施之一）监控所有这些领域的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Today’s world is more economically and financially integrated than at any time since the latter half of the nineteenth century.",
        "纽约—当今世界的经济和金融一体化程度比十九世纪下半叶以来的任何时候都要深。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with companies required to apply the rebated cash to investment and job creation, the government has portrayed the measure as a cut in taxes on labor that will boost employment.",
        "公司被要求将减少的现金用于投资和就业创造，政府因此将该措施描述为对劳动力减税并将提振就业。"
    ],
    [
        "France, too, remains something of a wildcard.",
        "法国则依然是个未知之数。"
    ],
    [
        "One such agreement, reached in 2010 and so far signed by 39 parties, is the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks.",
        "其中一项协议为2010年签署的《迁徙鲨鱼保护谅解备忘录》，该备忘录到目前为止共有39个签字国。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Internet was supposed to free us from it, at least those in countries without overt online censorship.",
        "但互联网本应让我们免受其影响，至少对于没有公开在线审查的国家应该如此。"
    ],
    [
        "People once fascinated by Putin now publicly rebuke him.",
        "曾经痴迷普京的人现在公开谴责他。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the problems with ratings agencies, investors and regulators recognize the need for a different approach.",
        "由于评级机构的这些问题，投资者和监管者认识到需要采取不同的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Tourists complained that the summer holiday they had planned on a Greek island was now in the midst of a refugee camp.",
        "游客抱怨置身难民营中取代了他们计划中的希腊夏日之旅。"
    ],
    [
        "It most likely will not pursue a narrowly self-interested approach, mainly because to do so would diminish its global stature and clout.",
        "它很可能不会追求狭隘的利己主义，主要是因为这样做会削弱其全球地位和影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "By the early 1970s, the US itself was running trade deficits, and the dollar was in oversupply.",
        "到20世纪70年代初，美国自身也出现了贸易赤字，而美元处于过度供给状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless the renminbi falls in value, this translates into an average nominal increase of at least 10-11% in dollar terms.",
        "除非人民币贬值，否则这意味着以美元计算至少10-11%的名义年增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s middle class will have swelled from one billion consumers to three billion.",
        "世界中产阶级的数量也将由10亿增长到30亿。"
    ],
    [
        "These interviews included such cheerfully delivered questions as, “Have you ever been arrested for growing marijuana?”",
        "面试中的一些问题令人哭笑不得，比如“你曾经因种植大麻而被捕过吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Senator David Vitter of Louisiana is the most prominent Republican member of Congress in favor of limiting the size and power of the biggest banks, but there are others who lean in a similar direction.",
        "路易斯安那州参议员大卫·维特（David Vitter）是国会中支持限制大银行规模和权力的最重要的共和党议员，但还有其他一些人观点与他近似。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the logic of that strategy has become even more compelling.",
        "今日，这种策略会显得更有必要。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, foreign investors remain reluctant to borrow from Chinese banks in renminbi, or to issue renminbi-denominated bonds in Shanghai.",
        "此外，外国投资者仍不愿从中资银行借入人民币，也不愿在上海发行人民币计价债券。"
    ],
    [
        "The delusion is based on two false assumptions: that the Iranians and the Syrians can succeed in Iraq where the US has failed, and that the international community can afford to pay the price of ensuring their cooperation.",
        "这样的幻想是基于两种错误的假设：其一是尽管美国在伊拉克遭到了失败，但伊朗和叙利亚能够成功； 其二是国际社会能够付出确保伊朗和叙利亚合作所必须的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "But while each new technology displaces one form of knowhow, it creates others.",
        "但每种新技术在取代一种形式技术的同时，也会创造出其他的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dismal Economist’s Joyless Triumph",
        "悲观经济学家不幸言中"
    ],
    [
        "Providing educational opportunities to displaced young people will require long-term planning and investment; it cannot be an afterthought.",
        "为流离失所的年轻人提供教育机会需要长期规划和投资； 而不是事后思考。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu’s Choice",
        "内塔尼亚胡的选择"
    ],
    [
        "Since the Vietnam War, US budget deficits, money creation, and current-account deficits have often been high.",
        "自越战以来，美国的预算赤字、货币创造和经常项目赤字总是非常高。"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, the Syrian crisis is at a tipping point: while it is now apparent that the opposition will eventually win and President Bashar al-Assad will fall, the endgame’s duration will be a key element determining who actually comes into power and on what terms.",
        "我认为叙利亚危机已临近转折点：尽管巴沙尔·阿萨德总统显然将垮台而反对派将获胜，但最后阶段的持续时间将成为决定谁能以何种条件掌权的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes connected with graft, hidden debts do not usually appear on balance sheets or in standard databases.",
        "隐藏债务有时和贪污有关，它常常不出现在资产负债表或标准数据库中。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the percentage of seats on corporate boards occupied by women appears to have stalled at just over 17%.",
        "同样，女性担任公司董事的比例似乎一直徘徊在17%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan is NATO’s great test.",
        "对于北约来说，阿富汗堪称是最大的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, any further sanctions should be accompanied by an earnest offer of dialogue and engagement.",
        "再次，任何进一步的制裁都必须和积极的对话与接触相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve that, a far more complex set of interdependencies must be navigated.",
        "要想实现这个目标，必须考虑更加复杂的一系列相互依存关系。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – As policymakers scratch their heads and wonder how best to absorb different cultures and religions into Europe’s very distinct national societies, they could do worse than consider some new ideas being developed in Switzerland.",
        "布鲁塞尔 —— 在决策者们为如何才能将各种文化和宗教融入到欧洲截然不同的民族社会中倍感挠头时，参考瑞士最近提出的某些新想法并不是最差的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The connection between the general interest and the private interest of individual Americans has, if anything, become much stronger, even if their private interest is tied to a post office box in the Cayman Islands.",
        "公共利益和个体美国人的私人利益之间的联系变得更加密切了，尽管他们的私人利益往往系于开曼群岛的某个邮政信箱。"
    ],
    [
        "It probably first established itself as a mindset when the Greeks, 25 centuries ago, perceived themselves as Western versus the Oriental Persians.",
        "希腊人在2500年以前把他们自己视为是与东方波斯人对立的西方。 大概在那个时候西方作为一种心态而建立起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks must pay for their implicit government guarantee by using less leverage and accepting restrictions on how they invest depositors’ money.",
        "政府通过对银行收取一定的保证金的措施，降低银行对金融杠杆的使用，对银行存款的使用也应该作出一些 限制，"
    ],
    [
        "CDOs are a form of financial alchemy: special-purpose vehicles that buy the financial equivalent of lead (low-rated mortgaged-backed securities) and finance themselves mostly with the financial equivalent of gold (highly sought-after AAA bonds).",
        "债务抵押债券是一种金融魔术： 这种专用融资工具购入铅的等价物（即低评级的抵押担保债券），包装成黄金等价物（备受追捧的AAA级债券）之后再转售出去。"
    ],
    [
        "He would have wasted far too much time in his gas-guzzling SUV, stuck in traffic jams or searching for parking spaces.",
        "他会在油老虎SUV中耗费多得多的时间，在路上堵得寸步难行，或者艰难地寻找停车位。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the future of the BRICS (including South Africa) – and that of other emerging markets – looks gloomy.",
        "事实上，未来金砖国家（也包括南非）——以及其他新兴市场——前景堪忧。"
    ],
    [
        "But official encouragement of production of bio-fuels on land that would have been used for other purposes must stop.",
        "而政府支持将本该用于其他用途的土地用于生产生物燃料的行为必须得到制止。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the state of the US economy – real growth of 2%, a tightening labor market, and little evidence of inflation rising toward the Fed’s 2% target – I view the rate rise as a reasonable and cautious first step toward normality (defined as a better balance between borrowers and lenders).",
        "从美国经济状态看——实际增长率为2%，劳动力市场吃紧，通胀也没有靠近美联储2%的目标——我认为升息是迈向正常化的合理谨慎的第一步（正常化是指借款人和贷款人之间达成更好的平衡）。"
    ],
    [
        "But could most people have?",
        "但是大多数人可以吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the exchange-rate collapse of 2008 showed, this source of foreign demand for sterling is highly unstable.",
        "但正如2008年汇率崩溃所显示的那样，外国对英镑的需求是非常不稳定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Until the Industrial Revolution, human history was overwhelmingly rural.",
        "在工业革命前，人类历史可以说是一部农业史。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a reversal would reduce hunger, poverty, and malnutrition; help protect our planet’s natural resources; and slow the emission of greenhouse gases from agriculture.",
        "2007~2008年的全球粮食危机为我们敲响了警钟，如果我们继续抱残守缺，顽固地反对现代科学在食品和农业方面的应用，必将付出沉重的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "His entire presidency, which began in 2010, has been characterized by the creativity and doggedness that made peace with the MILF possible.",
        "在2010年开始的总统生涯中，他以创新和顽强使得与MILF的和平成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is none of the above.",
        "非也。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, despite the EU’s many successes, it still speaks with too many voices.",
        "因此，虽然欧盟取得了很多成功，但至今仍然缺乏统一的话语权。"
    ],
    [
        "The group could then extend cooperation to three other policy areas:",
        "接着，欧元区可以在其他三大政策领域扩展合作："
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, in the US, deep-rooted suspicion of federal government power – especially in the South, where it was used to abolish slavery and enforce civil rights – has resulted in hostility to countercyclical macroeconomic policy.",
        "类似地，在美国，对联邦政府权力的根深蒂固的怀疑——特别是在权力被用来废除奴隶制和推进公民权利的南方——导致美国人对反周期宏观经济政策怀有敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "And, most challenging of all, a new investigative ethos is needed to reduce the risk of departmental bias, especially if evidence points toward official or government entities, as some suggest it might.",
        "此外，最难办到的是，需要更新调查的氛围，以降低部门偏见（departmental bias）的风险，特别是当证据指向官方或政府实体的时候（这种可能性相当大）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a code of ethics could help protect “whistle blowers” who bring ethical breaches to the attention of the relevant authorities or the public.",
        "此外，伦理规范还有助于保护“投诉者”，是这些投诉者让有关当局或公众注意到侵犯伦理规范的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – Adam Smith famously wrote of the “invisible hand,” by which individuals’ pursuit of self-interest in free, competitive markets advances the interest of society as a whole.",
        "发自纽黑文——当年亚当·斯密提出了关于“看不见的手”的著名理论，认为每个个体在自由竞争市场中对个人利益的追求会推动社会整体福利的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, even legitimate actors will find alternative commercial and financial channels if they come to feel that dollar access is conditional on not running afoul of US interests.",
        "随着时间的推移，如果感到对美元的使用权必须以不违反美国利益为前提条件，那么就连合法主体也会寻找替代的商业和金融渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "Compare Park to Corazon Aquino, who, when elected President of the Philippines, famously remarked that she was simply a housewife, not a professional politician or an experienced leader. It was clear that voters elected her because she was the widow of the slain opposition hero Benigno Aquino.",
        "阿基诺夫人当选菲律宾总统时曾自称“只是一个家庭主妇，不是职业政治家或者老资格领导人”，而选民之所以投票给她也仅仅因为她是遇害反对派英雄贝尼尼奥·阿基诺的遗孀。"
    ],
    [
        "The NTC has suffered regular internal disputes, and its membership and functioning are shrouded in secrecy.",
        "NTC出现了常见的内部分歧，其成员和运转状况一直是个迷。"
    ],
    [
        "China has long run large surpluses.",
        "中国长期存在巨额盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "I see similar opportunities coming to primary and secondary education in the future.",
        "我认为未来小学和中学教育也将迎来类似机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The great nineteenth- and early twentieth-century financiers, men like J.P. Morgan, Henry Frick, and Andrew Mellon, spent a large part of their fortunes on art.",
        "伟大的十九世纪和二十世纪早期的金融家们，比如JP摩根、亨利·弗里克和安德鲁·梅隆，把他们很大一部分财富花在了收藏艺术品上。"
    ],
    [
        "Some states (Iceland and Hungary) are clearly bankrupt.",
        "有些国家（冰岛和匈牙利）显然已经破产。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, instead of viewing the elimination of Osama bin Laden in 2011 as the culmination of the anti-terror “struggle” that Bush launched, the Obama administration increased aid to “good” rebels (such as those in Libya), while pursuing “bad” terrorists more vehemently, including through a “targeted killing” program.",
        "因此，奥巴马政府没有将2011年清除本·拉登的行动视为布什所发动的反恐“斗争”的顶峰，反而增加了对“好”叛军（如利比亚）的支持，同时采取包括“定点清除”在内的手段更猛烈地追杀“坏”恐怖分子。"
    ],
    [
        "The weakening of democracy is accompanied by another disturbing trend: the reemergence of hostility among counties that would benefit far more from cooperation than competition.",
        "民主制度的弱化伴随着另外一种令人不安的趋势：那就是敌对情绪再次出现在合作远比竞争对双方更为有利的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "China took from 1989 the lesson that state stability was paramount.",
        "中国从1989年学到了一点：国家稳定高于一切；"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization means free movement of capital, goods, technology, ideas, and, yes, people.",
        "全球化意味着资本、商品、技术、观念而且也是人员的自由流动。"
    ],
    [
        "The startup Handy hopes that its app achieves similar success in connecting customers to independent contractors providing various household services.",
        "创业企业Handy公司希望它的应用能取得类似的成功——Handy让客户联系独立承包商提供各种家政服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Confronted with the problem of bringing about positive changes in a domestic or international environment that seems to defy the power of “normal” leaders, one looks for new Alexanders to untie the “Gordian knot” and transcend complexity by sheer force of will and dynamism.",
        "给国内或国际环境带来积极的变革似乎是“普通”领导人们力所不及的。 面对这样的困境，人们开始寻找新的“亚历山大大帝（们）”。"
    ],
    [
        "China must exercise the foresight needed to begin paying this debt now, when it is manageable, rather than allowing it to accumulate and, ultimately, threaten to bankrupt us all.",
        "中国必须高瞻远瞩，趁还可以控制的时候现在就开始偿还债务，而不是让债台高筑，最终威胁到让大家都破产。"
    ],
    [
        "With three contending parties, a terrible electoral law, no run-off, and condiderable frustration with 12 years of center-right, often ineffective governments, the outcome is highly uncertain.",
        "三个竞选的政党、选举法一塌糊涂、没有第二轮选举、对12年的中右翼政府执政失望透顶、政府常常效率低，因而结果相当不确定。"
    ],
    [
        "Government models typically do not account for such expanding returns.",
        "政府模型通常无法抓住类似的回报递增现象。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems likely that as early as March or April 2011, Sunni anti-regime fighters and arms started to enter Syria from neighboring countries.",
        "可能早至2011年3月或4月，逊尼派反政府武装开始从邻国进入叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "The most plausible explanation is that, as organizations with non-elected leaders and limited transparency, central banks tend to function as clubs whose largely male membership hire and promote familiar types; governments usually reinforce this by simply rubber-stamping the banks’ preferred candidate for the top job.",
        "最有说服力的解释是，作为领导人非选举产生、透明度十分有限的组织，央行就像是俱乐部，其成员大部分是男性，他们总是延请和提拔同类； 政府通常也助长了这一作风——总是充当橡皮图章批准央行更愿意看到的领导人候选者。"
    ],
    [
        "China – North Korea’s sole supplier of oil and food – strongly supported this approach.",
        "中国——朝鲜唯一的石油和粮食供给者——强烈支持这一方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, financial authorities should vary the loan-to-value ratio on commercial and residential mortgages for risk-weighting purposes in order to forestall real estate bubbles.",
        "同时，监管者应该根据风险的大小，区分商用和民用抵押贷款的借贷价值比例（loan-to-value ratio），划分相应的风险等级，以防止房地产泡沫的产生。"
    ],
    [
        "Friedman and Schwartz are generally seen as reproving the Fed for failing to react swiftly to successive waves of bank failures, first in late 1930 and then again in 1931 and 1933.",
        "大体上，弗里德曼和施瓦茨被视为在指责美联储没能迅速地对接二连三的银行倒闭潮——第一波在1930年末，接着在1931和1933年两度再次发生——做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "This is another sucker trap.",
        "这不过是另一个诱人上当的借口而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, this has not always been the case.",
        "悲哀的是，事实未必如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the pre-OMT regime, a capital outflow from Spain, whether through the sale of government bonds or the liquidation of private claims, resulted in tighter monetary conditions.",
        "在前OMT时期的制度中，西班牙的资本外流——不管是通过国债出售还是私人债务清算——都会导致货币条件趋紧。"
    ],
    [
        "Many speak several European languages with the fluency of the international businessmen that they also are.",
        "很多人就像国际商人那样能熟练地运用数种欧洲语言。"
    ],
    [
        "All parties need to find a formula to resolve the issue before it again threatens to erupt into conflict.",
        "相关各方都需要寻找到一个解决方案，在这种危险演化成冲突之前将其化解。"
    ],
    [
        "Smaller companies and private individuals don’t have really the option of public markets.",
        "小公司和私人个人实际上并没有选择公开市场的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as a joke between two supposedly democratic leaders, this was disgraceful.",
        "”即便这只是两位所谓民主领导人之间的玩笑话也是可耻的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed Versus Price Stability",
        "美联储与价格稳定"
    ],
    [
        "Referring to moves to roll back elements of the new regulatory order established in response to the debacles of 2008-9, he lamented that “everybody wants to go back to the status quo before the great financial crisis.”",
        "”他提到，美国政府要开倒车，取消为了应对2008—2009年大崩溃而建立起来的新监管秩序的一些要素，哀叹“所有人都希望回到金融大危机前的状态中。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that transportation by barge costs about $10 a ton, compared to close to $60 a ton by road, REDD+ offers a chance to hold down greenhouse-gas emissions while preserving an economically important sector.",
        "驳船运输成本大约在10美元/吨，而陆运成本高达近60美元/吨，因此REDD+不但可以降低温室气体排放，还可以保护拥有成本优势的重要部门 。"
    ],
    [
        "One cannot be certain of such an outcome, of course, but it is now the best that one can realistically hope for.",
        "当然，我们无法确信这样的结局，但是，这也是我们可以现实地所希望的最佳结局。"
    ],
    [
        "This trend puts annual GDP growth on course to average only 1.3% through 2025, implying a third consecutive decade of stagnation.",
        "这一趋势意味着到2025年，日本年GDP增长率平均将只有1. 3%，连续第三个十年陷入停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in China, a now-familiar pattern is playing out yet again – another slowdown in domestic growth stemming from a crisis in the advanced economies of the West.",
        "事实上，在中国，熟悉的桥段正在再次上演——国内增长因西方发达经济体的危机而减速。"
    ],
    [
        "History, of course, never repeats itself exactly.",
        "当然，历史从来不会一成不变地重复自己。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be a shameful legacy – one that could be avoided by re-thinking climate policy.",
        "而这将是一笔令人蒙羞的遗产——只有重新思考气候政策，才能避免留下如此恶名。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, America, and the Drumbeat of War with Iran",
        "欧洲、美国及对伊朗的战鼓声"
    ],
    [
        "At times, the US has effectively – if unintentionally – undercut Iran’s position.",
        "有些时候，美国有效地、也许不是有意地削弱了伊朗的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor productivity in the transport-equipment sector, for example, is barely half that of Germany.",
        "比如，运输设备劳动生产率大约只有德国的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "They condemned the political establishment for pursuing policies that sent their jobs to faraway lands like China and India.",
        "他们谴责政治建制派所采取的政策把他们的岗位拱手让给了遥远的中国和印度等国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, if the West’s response to Russian aggression toward Ukraine is effectively limited to economic sanctions, Putin will more easily be able to blame the West and its alleged hostility toward Russia for the collapse in ordinary Russians’ living standards, thus enabling him to double down on aggressive nationalism.",
        "同样重要的是，如果西方对俄罗斯入侵乌克兰的反应有效限制在经济制裁范围内，普京可以轻松地指责西方及其所谓的对俄敌意导致了普通俄罗斯人生活水平的下降，从而大大扩大他的侵略性民族主义赌注。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also why there exists an “organic connection of India to Central Asia,” the key to that link lying in the Himalayas, which is where the India-China rivalry is currently focused.",
        "与此同时，这也是为何说“印度和中亚之间存在着有机联系”的原因，而这一联系的关键就是喜马拉雅山脉——也正是当前中印对峙的焦点所在。"
    ],
    [
        "So the al-Saud have become Janus-faced: looking in one direction, the royal family encourages democratic reformers to speak out; looking in the opposite direction, it jails them when they do.",
        "因此，邵德家族变成了双面派：一方面，皇室家族鼓励民主改革者大胆直言，另一方面，当民主改革者这么做的时候，皇室就把他们打入大牢。"
    ],
    [
        "In this services-export-led growth strategy, skill shortages did not become a major problem, thanks to a fairly open immigration policy, which allowed the country to use the talent that Colombia, among other countries, was unable to keep.",
        "在这一服务-出口拉动的增长战略中，技能短缺并没有成为主要问题，这要归功于非常开放的移民政策让巴拿马能够利用哥伦比亚和其他国家留不住的人才。"
    ],
    [
        "With global trade collapsing and Chinese export demand having plummeted from 26% annual growth in mid-2008 to a 27% contraction by early 2009, the government moved aggressively to inject CN¥4 trillion ($586 billion) into the economy.",
        "全球贸易崩溃，中国出口需求年增长率从2008年年中的26%下降到2009年年初的-27%，面对这一情况，政府果断行动，向经济注入4万亿元人民币。"
    ],
    [
        "All of the symbolic attributes of power have been transferred to Kim Jong-un – reflected in his official position in the funeral ceremonies, his presidency of the Military Commission, and his assumption of the ruling party’s highest rank – with remarkable speed.",
        "所有权力标志都快速地传给了金正恩——这体现在金正恩在葬礼仪式上出现的正式位置、他的出任军事委员会主席一职，以及他的即将出任执政党最高领导人一职。"
    ],
    [
        "Social disorder in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and other Arab countries has invariably led observers to regard Central Asia’s autocracies as potentially vulnerable to similar upheaval.",
        "突尼斯、埃及、利比亚和其他阿拉伯国家的社会失序无不让观察家们认为中亚独裁者难逃相同的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "Dubai has complemented its competitive advantage in attracting high-skill workers and investment with labor policies that also bring in lower-skill foreign workers to power its growth engine.",
        "迪拜还成功地以能吸引低技术外来工人为其增长引擎注入动力的劳工政策吸引高技术工人和投资来对其竞争优势进行补充。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality, though, is more complex. A closer look reveals that President Hu Jintao’s words and deeds are often shaped by a mixture of insecurity and cockiness, and that Chinese officials alternate between playing up and playing down the country’s rise.",
        "但事实其实更为复杂，通过更仔细的分析，我们会发现中国国家主席胡锦涛的言行举止其实是一种缺乏安全感以及骄傲自大的混合体，而中国官员则经常在夸大或是掩饰中国的崛起之间游移。"
    ],
    [
        "By giving key regional actors alternatives to bowing to US pressure on issues like nuclear non-proliferation and the fight against terrorism, Russia’s recent maneuvers have complicated American diplomatic efforts considerably.",
        "俄罗斯让重要地区行动方在核不扩散和打击恐怖主义等问题上有了屈从于美国压力之外的选择，这导致美国的外交局面大大复杂化了。"
    ],
    [
        "Sarkozy makes little secret of his disdain for members of his own party, luring Socialists like Kouchner and Rama Yade, the junior minister for foreign affairs, into his cabinet, and naming retired Socialist politicians like former Prime Minister Michel Rocard to head national commissions and represent France in international treaty negotiations.",
        "萨科奇很少掩饰自己对于党内同志的蔑视，他引诱社会党人库什内和拉玛·雅德（外交事务次长）（ 请注意 ：我查GOOGLE，拉玛·雅德现在的头衔是： France’s secretary of state for human rights ，法国人权事务秘书，新闻稿是 3 月 19 号的，不知是不是原作者出了问题 ）进入内阁，提名退休的社会党政治家——例如前总理米歇尔·罗卡德——来挑头承担国家任务，在国际条约谈判中代表法国。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, the misery caused by these infections exceeds the burden of tuberculosis or malaria.",
        "这些疾病造成的痛苦远大于肺结核和疟疾。"
    ],
    [
        "Hollande’s reference point seems to be the post-war idyll of his youth, a time of rapid growth, demographic recovery, scarce immigration, and scant global competition.",
        "奥朗德的参照点似乎是他年轻时那种二战后的田园牧歌，一个飞速增长的时代，人口年龄分布恢复到合理水平，没什么移民，也缺乏全球竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, though the US has experienced no attack on its soil since then, US President George W. Bush’s administration pursued, virtually unchecked, the destruction of two Muslim countries – and the devastation has continued beyond Bush’s tenure with an ever-intensifying campaign of drone strikes.",
        "”但尽管自那以后美国本土没有再发生袭击事件，美国总统乔治·W·布什政府却几乎毫无遏制地对两个穆斯林国家发起了破坏活动——布什任期结束后破坏仍在继续，美国发起了空前惨烈的无人机战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference between Spain and the others is that the Spaniards do it better.",
        "西班牙人则棋高一着，这就是他们与其他人之间的区别。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, MFFP, by matching monetary expansion to fiscal expansion, effectively empowers fiscal authorities over monetary authorities.",
        "不幸的是，MFFP将货币扩张与财政扩张相匹配，实际上给了财政当局凌驾于货币当局的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Why engage in theoretical debates with your ideological opponents, the Islamists are saying, when one can simply shut them up for good?",
        "伊斯兰教徒说，当闭嘴就能万事大吉的时候，你为何还要和你的意识形态对手作理论之争？"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, many Latin American leaders have tried to assuage and control Chávez, and they have all failed.",
        "的确，许多拉美国家领导人都试图平息并控制查韦斯，都无功而返。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that the only kind of defense the British accept is that conducted by a coalition of European states acting under their national flags, as occurred in Libya.",
        "事实是英国唯一接受的防务形式是像在利比亚那样由欧洲国家联盟各自打着本国的旗号独立行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Pessimism about employment is alarmingly high among young people, while corruption and government mismanagement are regarded as being widespread.",
        "年轻人中对就业感到悲观的比率高得惊人，而政府腐败和管理不当也被认为是广泛存在的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments may be elected in free and fair elections, he wrote, and yet routinely violate their citizens’ basic rights.",
        "扎卡里亚提出通过自由公正选举产生的政府仍有可能经常性地侵犯公民的基本权利。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is impossible to know the extent to which these factors were influenced by the US president’s policies.",
        "但无从知道这些因素在多大程度上受美国总统政策影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with an unlikely wall around Europe, many would find a way in – and some would terrorize Europe for decades to come.",
        "即使建立一道环绕欧洲的墙——根本不可能——许多人仍会设法进入欧洲，其中一些人将在未来几十年中在欧洲从事恐怖活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, nuclear weapons are broadly popular in these countries, because they are seen as a security guarantor and a realization of national ambitions on the world stage.",
        "不幸的是，核武器在这些国家很受欢迎，因为它们被视为安全的保证和在世界舞台上实现国家企图的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Wages have stagnated despite strong productivity growth, while the trade deficit has set new records.",
        "尽管生产效率增长强劲，但是工资却停滞不前，而贸易赤字创下新的记录。"
    ],
    [
        "The additional revenue might initially come from selling small electricity surpluses to local farmers to recharge their mobile phones (thereby allowing them to work out the optimal prices for their crops), or to help them irrigate farmland using small electric pumps.",
        "额外收入最初或许来自将很少的多余电量出售给当地农民给手机充电（这样他们就能将农作物卖到最优的价格），或者帮他们用小型电泵灌溉农田。"
    ],
    [
        "To break the impasse, McConnell has proposed addressing the issues in separate bills.",
        "为了打破这一僵局，麦康奈尔提出在不同的法案中解决这些问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Some lesson; we are still digging out from Paulson’s monumental mistake.",
        "是有一些教训； 我们仍在保尔森所挖的大坑中苦苦挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "And, crucially, Iceland, unlike Greece and the UK, never entered the EU.",
        "关键是，冰岛不像希腊和英国，它从未加入欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "This was followed by Russian news reports that China, Russia, and India would conduct trilateral military exercises, named “Indira 2005,” on the same scale before the end of this year.",
        "随后，俄罗斯新闻报道，中国、俄罗斯和印度将在今年底前举行代号为“因德拉2005”的三国军事演习。"
    ],
    [
        "The coming set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will seek to protect ecosystems, conserve resources, and, as with the MDGs, lift millions of people out of poverty.",
        "即将到来的可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals）将寻求保护生态系统、保存资源，以及与千年发展目标一样让数百万人摆脱贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "That is true whether an illusion is cognitive or political.",
        "不管是认知幻觉还是政治幻觉都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is unsustainable.",
        "但目前不平衡的增长模式不可持续 。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, in 2009, the global economy will not be a bed of roses.",
        "不幸的是，2009年的经济将不再是“鲜花烂漫”。"
    ],
    [
        "Any excess glucose stimulated the pancreas to release insulin, which transported glucose into peripheral fat tissue, and which also caused the liver to store glucose as glycogen (liver starch).",
        "多余的葡萄糖会刺激胰腺分泌胰岛素，胰岛素将葡萄糖变为周边脂肪组织，或让肝脏将葡萄糖储存为糖元（肝淀粉）。"
    ],
    [
        "But all such programs are doomed to fail if the main causal agent is the situation or system, not the person.",
        "但是如果主要的施事者是情境或体系而不是人，那么所有这些研究项目都注定会失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Though she did say that Harvard would be an active and responsible shareholder, she offered no details about what such engagement might look like.",
        "尽管她确实也表示哈佛将扮演负责任的积极股东角色，但并未就如何参与做出详细说明。"
    ],
    [
        "Decentralized decision-making can create synergies between human and machine intelligence through processes of natural and artificial co-evolution.",
        "分散式决策能够通过自然和人工共同演化创造人类和机器智能之间的协同作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Some claim that the local PLA commander initiated the “stand-off,” while others contend that China’s new president, Xi Jinping, was using the transgression to assert his authority over the PLA.",
        "有人认为是解放军地方指挥官下令挑起了这次“僵局”，也有人助长中国新主席习近平在借此宣布他在解放军中的权威。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestine and Chechnya, two sites of pain and terrorist infection, have not healed.",
        "巴勒斯坦和车臣，两个痛苦和恐怖主义肆虐的地点，并没有愈合。"
    ],
    [
        "For as long as the issue remained unsettled, the Iranian delegation to the talks could not agree on the desired outcome.",
        "只要这一问题悬而未决，伊朗谈判代表团就不可能同意令人满意的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was a compromise between these two groups.",
        "其结果是在这两个群体间达成了妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "And that brings us to the second question: why did the US Republican Party nominate a candidate that even its leaders rejected?",
        "这就为我们带来了第二个问题：美国共和党为什么提名一位连党内领袖都表示反对的候选人？"
    ],
    [
        "For the brutal question governments must now face is this: is there an alternative to the Icelandic crash course?",
        "目前政府面临的最大问题是：是否有方法避免冰岛那样的国家破产？"
    ],
    [
        "These are just a few of the issues that will complicate US relations with North Korea and the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.",
        "这些还只是令美国与北朝鲜关系和朝鲜半岛无核化问题复杂化的事务中的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "For many, the true marvel of the digital age is its creation of a parallel universe.",
        "任何人，只要拥有一台笔记本电脑和互联网接入，就可以与虚拟朋友对话（或谈论虚拟朋友）；"
    ],
    [
        "It is an absurd charge, but absurd charges can curry public support if presented in a slick, well-funded format.",
        "这样的指控非常荒谬，但荒谬的指控如果在充足的资金支持下巧妙圆滑地进行，也有可能骗取公众的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that paying off a 30-year mortgage on a median-price home would cost a median-income buyer more than half of their income – and that is without interest.",
        "1。 这意味着，负担中位价格的住房的30年按揭，需要花费中位收入买房者一大半的收入——还是在不计利息的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Jordan and Lebanon could be the next states to succumb to Sunni extremist violence.",
        "约旦和黎巴嫩也许是下一批卷入逊尼派极端暴力的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In April, a platoon of Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) border-security personnel crossed the so-called “line of actual control” into India’s Depsang Valley in Ladakh to erect an encampment, where they remained for almost three weeks.",
        "4月，解放军边防部队一个排的兵力越过了所谓的“实际控制线”，进入了拉达克地区（Ladakh）的德普桑谷（Depsang Valley）扎营并停留了近三个星期。"
    ],
    [
        "India can handle the anticipated drop off.",
        "印度能够处理预料中的融资下降。"
    ],
    [
        "As he put it while it was still unclear if he was going to emerge on top, “this uprising is a gift from God to us because this will be a reason to cleanse our army.”",
        "他在尚未确定能拨乱反正时说，“这场起义是来自上帝的礼物，因为这将是清洗我们的军队的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a fair point, but it overlooks the huge market failure here.",
        "这种说法有一定道理，但却忽略了市场的极度失败。"
    ],
    [
        "While the UK wouldn’t be hamstrung by protectionist interests in the EU, its smaller economy, largely open markets, and desperation for deals would weaken its clout.",
        "虽然英国将不会受到欧盟经济保护主义利益的束缚，但其更小规模的经济，很大程度上开放的市场，以及对交易的渴望都将削弱其影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, the costs have mounted further.",
        "此后战争成本还在进一步积累。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the terms of the contract vary with place and time.",
        "当然，这一契约的条款因时因地而异。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s 4% Solution",
        "欧洲的4%方案"
    ],
    [
        "If the EU is going to quell the revolt against globalization, free trade, and open societies, it will need more leaders and fewer managers.",
        "如果欧盟平复对全球化、自由贸易和开放社会的反动，就需要更多的领导人、更少的管理者。"
    ],
    [
        "The destructive ideology represented by Boko Haram is not part of the country’s traditions; it has been imported.",
        "博科圣地所代表的破坏性意识形态并非尼日利亚传统； 而是舶来品。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s college-to-high-school wage premium may now be 100%, yet this generation of white, native-born American males may well wind up getting no more education than their immediate predecessors.",
        "美国的大专院校毕业生现在可能能获得100%的工资，但是这一代白种、土生土长的美国男子的教育水平并不比他们的上一代高。"
    ],
    [
        "Newspapers published in gigantic numbers.",
        "报纸的印数巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "The PC seemed at first to promise a restoration of the balance in favor of the individual.",
        "个人电脑起初看起来会恢复有利于个人的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Importantly, as Erdoğan seeks to concentrate more powers in the office of the President, he would do well to remind himself of the conditions that led to the Ottoman Empire’s emergence and its eventual collapse.",
        "更重要的是，在埃尔多安试图将更多权力聚集于总统办公室之际，时刻提醒自己导致奥斯曼帝国崛起及最终覆灭的条件对他非常有好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, migration pressure would have been reduced, because it is the huge disparity in incomes more than anything else that leads people to leave their homes and families to immigrate to the US.",
        "与此同时，移民压力也会得到缓解，因为收入的巨大差异比任何其他因素更能导致人们离乡背井移民到美国。"
    ],
    [
        "But this will be an interesting test.",
        "但这将是一场有趣的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, and Chávez’s economic strategy depended on harnessing that wealth in order to address his country’s social problems.",
        "委内瑞拉拥有世界上最大的石油储量，而查韦斯的经济策略依赖于利用这笔财富解决国内的社会问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Other core eurozone members, eager to limit the risks to their taxpayers, have similarly signaled that creditor “bail-ins” are the way of the future.",
        "其他欧元区核心成员国急切地想限制其纳税人的风险，也放出了类似的债权人“自救”才是未来方案的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "Such “liberal technocracy” may be at its apogee in the European Union, where economic rules and regulations are designed at considerable remove from democratic deliberation at the national level.",
        "而这种“自由技术官僚”地位最高的地方可能是欧盟，因为在欧盟的设计中就是要在很大程度上将经济规则和条例从国家一级的民主审议中抽离出来。"
    ],
    [
        "If, since then, each $5 increase in the oil price brought a $30 per ton decrease in the carbon tax, and each $5 decline brought a $45-per-ton increase, the result would be a $0.91 difference between the standard market price and the actual tax-inclusive consumer price last month [see figure].",
        "如果从那时起，油价每上涨5美元意味着碳税将每吨降低30美元，每5美元的油价下跌引发碳税每吨增加45美元，其结果必然是标准市场价格和上月实际含税居民消费价格之间相差0. 91美元[如附图]。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a concerted effort to increase households’ share of total income and raise consumption’s share of aggregate demand, growth of consumer products and services on the supply side will remain inadequate.",
        "如果不有序增加家庭在总收入中的比重、提高消费占总需求的比重，供给端消费品和服务的增长将继续不足。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, they appear to be holding onto important democratic values.",
        "同时，他们似乎正坚持着重要的民主价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "On more than one occasion, under both Trichet and former ECB chairman Wim Duisenberg before him, press leaks and the tit-for-tat responses they engender, made the Governing Council sound more like a cacophony of discordant voices than a serious deliberative body.",
        "在特里歇和其前任欧洲央行主席德伊森贝赫（Wim Duisenberg ）治下，都不止一次出现过向新闻界泄露消息的情况，并带来以牙还牙的反应。 这让管理委员会听起来更像是个多种杂乱声音构成的不和谐音，而非严肃谨慎的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20 to the Rescue?",
        "G-20集团来救援？"
    ],
    [
        "Obama in Cuba",
        "奥巴马在古巴"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, none of these countries has a capital surplus of China’s magnitude.",
        "此外也没有一个国家拥有中国这样巨大的贸易顺差。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy has not tempered South Korean chauvinism much, either, since the demise of the military dictatorship in the 1980’s.",
        "20世纪80年代，虽然韩国推翻了国内的军事独裁，但民主并没有缓和其沙文主义政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Their deleveraging inhibits economic recovery.",
        "同时这些银行的去杠杆化过程还阻碍了经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iraq war proves this: a new American empire is asserting itself.",
        "伊拉克战争证明：新的美帝国主义正在形成。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments around the world communicated with their citizens using social-media platforms: the United Kingdom’s embassy in France tweeted information for travelers, and the United States’ embassy there provided updates via Facebook.",
        "全球政府也通过社交媒体平台与公民通讯：英国驻法国大使馆发布面向游客的Tweet消息，美国大使馆通过Facebook 提供消息更新。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, when surprises occur – for example, the Fed signals an earlier-than-expected exit from zero interest rates, oil prices spike, or eurozone growth starts to pick up – the re-rating of stocks and especially bonds can be abrupt and dramatic: everyone caught in the same crowded trades needs to get out fast.",
        "结果，当冲击发生时——比如美联储放出信号将比预期更早退出零利率政策、油价上涨，或欧元区增长开始复苏——股票以及（尤其是）债券的价值重估将来得突然而猛烈：困在同一种拥挤式交易的所有人都需要快速退出。"
    ],
    [
        "So what should the West do?",
        "那么，西方国家该怎么办？"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea knows this well.",
        "朝鲜对此心知肚明。"
    ],
    [
        "Angry youngsters even founded Web sites such as anti-cnn.com to express their outrage.",
        "愤怒的年轻人甚至建立了像Anti-cnn. com那样的网站来表达愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there are times when 3-4% is better than 2%.",
        "事实上，在不少时期，通胀目标为3—4%要好于2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as the economy evolves and labor-market needs change.",
        "除了找到第一份工作，大学毕业生似乎比那些只有高中学历的人更容易适应经济的发展和劳动力市场需求的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Fixed-asset investment is the most important engine of China’s growth.",
        "固定资产投资是中国增长的最重要引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "As a Cambridge-trained lawyer, he was especially keen on using the law to browbeat his media (and political) critics, knowing full well that he had no serious chance of losing in Singapore’s own courts.",
        "毕业于剑桥大学法律系的他特别热衷于用法律来恫吓媒体（和政界）批评者，因为他知道在新加坡国内法庭他不会真的败诉。"
    ],
    [
        "Burma’s peaceful protests are nearing their tipping point, with the military junta weighing the potential costs of a full military crackdown.",
        "缅甸的和平抗议活动正在接近其倾覆点，而军政府正在衡量全面军事镇压可能的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, Obama’s Republican opponents are adamant that the cuts be extended for all taxpayers, arguing that increases in top rates would discourage job creation.",
        "到目前为止，奥巴马的共和党对手仍坚持认为对所有纳税人的减税政策都要继续执行下去，理由是增加高等级税收可能会阻碍创造就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But de Mistura has made it clear that he aims neither to build a lasting peace with Assad nor to establish Assad's departure from power as a precondition for peace.",
        "但德米斯图拉明确地表明他的目标不是与巴沙尔保持长期和平，也不把巴沙尔交出权力作为和平的先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "At the start of the process, China will have small and indirect ownership stakes in a great many US enterprises, and the odds are that the usual objections will be absent.",
        "5万亿，并可能在2009年的某个时候达到2万亿—但这也只是小试锋芒。 在这一进程之初，中国会获得大量美国企业的小部分间接所有权。"
    ],
    [
        "Islam as a Tool of Modernization",
        "使伊斯兰教成为现代化的工具"
    ],
    [
        "The financial crisis has produced a new answer to where the greatest competitive advantages lie.",
        "什么才是金融业最大的竞争优势？ 这一轮金融危机给出了一个全新的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to the expectations of transparency advocates, greater disclosure of government information does not make public discourse more rational and less paranoid.",
        "与透明支持者的预期相反，政府信息的更多披露并不会让公共披露更多理性、更少偏执。"
    ],
    [
        "If the EU is to progress beyond the limits of a common economic and monetary policy and develop a defense and security policy along with a common foreign policy, the UK must be on board.",
        "如果欧盟想要突破共同的经济和货币政策的界限，在发展安全防卫政策的同时发展共同的外交政策，英国必须参与。"
    ],
    [
        "We might see prolonged and high unemployment in the construction sector, and in regions that had seen the biggest previous construction booms.",
        "因此我们会看到建筑行业的长期高失业率，特别是在那些建筑业曾前空前繁荣的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar parity characterized the Bush-Putin era.",
        "布什—普京时代也有类似的均衡特点。"
    ],
    [
        "The mishmash of initiatives, actors, campaigns, and appeals creates opportunities for major progress – and mass confusion.",
        "各种倡议、参与者、运动以及申诉给重大进展和大范围混乱提供了机会。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require thorough independent due diligence on securitizations, proper cash-flow sensitivity analysis, and less reliance on credit rating agencies paid by issuers.",
        "这些措施将要求对资产证券化进行完全独立的尽职调查，进行适当的现金流灵敏度分析以及减少对由发行机构支付报酬的信用评级机构的信赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, Sedgwick began the interview by telling the audience what I had said, and quizzed me on why I disagreed with the others.",
        "”不出意料，塞齐维克在一开始采访时就把我的看法告知了观众，并询问我为什么不同意其他人的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the risks involved, it is not surprising that pharmaceutical companies are very careful in their choice of investments in new drug or vaccine programs, selecting only those that promise financial gains sufficient to cover the costs of both successes and failures and provide a reasonable return on the required investment.",
        "考虑到这些风险，毫不奇怪制药公司对于新药或疫苗计划的投资选择慎之又慎，只挑选财务收益前景足以覆盖成功和失败的成本并为所需投资提供合理回报的候选项目。"
    ],
    [
        "But expanding the renminbi’s role in the international monetary system is just the first step toward institutionalizing a multipolar world order.",
        "但扩大人民币在国际货币体系中的角色只是通往多极世界秩序制度化的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, India has the advantage of being able to learn from China.",
        "从这个角度讲，印度具有可以向中国取经的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "For the crops that Arab countries continue to produce, the introduction of more advanced technologies and best practices from around the world could help to reduce water use.",
        "至于阿拉伯国家继续种植的庄稼，可以引入全球范围内更先进的技术和最佳实践以帮助降低用水量。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, progress in the technology sector overall often produces huge social-welfare gains, which arguably outstrip those produced by all other sectors in recent decades.",
        "诚然，技术领域的总体进展往往能产生巨大的社会福利效益，这种效益甚至可能超过近几十年来所有其他行业的总和。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change is a real and serious problem.",
        "气候变化是确实存在而又严肃的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s ancient antagonism toward Russia briefly revived when the Soviet Union imploded.",
        "在苏联解体的时候，土耳其对俄罗斯古老的对立情绪暂时的苏醒了。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, enough was accomplished in Copenhagen to re-boot the process.",
        "然而幸运的是，许多事务都在哥本哈根得到了解决，足以重新启动整个进程。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, higher education has provided significant labor-market advantages for a long time.",
        "从现实情况看，受教育程度高一直在劳动力市场上占据显著优势。"
    ],
    [
        "A commonly cited example of the outgoing government’s alleged economic mismanagement was its sugar-price policy.",
        "下台政府的一个经常被引用的经济治理不当的例子是其糖价政策。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters, first and foremost, are results.",
        "生活中真正起作用的只有结果。"
    ],
    [
        "And conditions there constitute a crime against humanity that must be stopped on moral grounds.",
        "而那里的状况构成人道主义犯罪，必须本着道德的原则加以制止。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, financial markets in troubled countries – for example, Russia’s currency, equity, and bond markets – have been negatively affected.",
        "诚然，麻烦国的金融市场——比如俄罗斯的货币、股票和债券市场——受到了消极影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Cities too are embracing digitization.",
        "城市也在拥抱数字化。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinian extremists insist that Israel is simply plotting to maintain its occupation over all of Palestine and that withdrawal from Gaza or announced plans to withdraw partly from the West Bank are merely tactical, without giving up real control over land, transport, water, defense, and other attributes of sovereignty.",
        "巴勒斯坦极端主义者坚持说，以色列只不过是打算维持其对所有巴勒斯坦领土的占领，而且从加沙撤军或者宣布从约旦河西岸部分撤军只不过是战术性的，并没有放弃对陆上、交通、水、国防以及主权的其它特征的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Building Stability for Indian Growth",
        "为印度增长营造稳定"
    ],
    [
        "If doctors were around back then, they would have called all these occurrences EID’s.",
        "如果那时候就有医生的话，他们会把所有这些都称为EID’s。"
    ],
    [
        "Zapatero eventually felt it necessary to tell a Vatican envoy that Spanish bishops should stop meddling in the elections (which he won).",
        "萨帕特罗最终觉得有必要告诉一名梵蒂冈特使要求西班牙主教停止干预选举事务（他最终取得了这场选举的胜利）。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the United States, the European Commission, and the multilateral development banks have become increasingly isolated in their efforts to advance free-market thought and policies worldwide.",
        "结果，美国、欧盟委员会以及各多边发展银行在全世界推进自由市场观念和政策中越发孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "Sweden recently announced that it has reached the 90-90-90 targets.",
        "最近，瑞典宣布其已经达到90-90-90目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sunni reaction to Iran may reflect deep-seated suspicions about the Shia (witness the cold shoulder given by most Sunnis to Shia rule in Iraq).",
        "逊尼派对伊朗的态度可能反映出对什叶派根深蒂固的怀疑（只要看看伊拉克多数逊尼派对什叶派统治的冷淡态度就不言自明了）。"
    ],
    [
        "It all unraveled when The Guardian reported that the tabloid had hacked into the voicemail of missing 13-year-old Milly Dowler, apparently in the hope of obtaining some private expressions of family members’ grief or desperation that it could splash on its front page.",
        "这个八卦小报窃听13岁失踪儿童Milly Dowler的语音信箱以便获取其家人的绝望言论作为头条，不料却被《卫报》发现并公诸于世。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while US troops may be leaving Afghanistan, an end to the violence spawned by America’s war remains nothing more than a distant dream – especially for Afghanistan’s South Asian neighbors.",
        "因此，早美国军队可能离开阿富汗的同时，而由这场美国战争而形成的暴力平息局面也将化为一场泡影——特别是对阿富汗的南亚邻国来说。"
    ],
    [
        "Other things being equal, there is only a one-in-four chance of arriving at a win-win situation of good governance and strong economic performance.",
        "以及（4）政治和经济都恶劣。 也就是说在其他条件相同的情况下可能只有1/4的机会能实现治理良好和经济表现强劲的双赢局面。"
    ],
    [
        "And it has serious consequences.",
        "而且这样做还会带来严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "With his popularity reaffirmed, Erdoğan could still move in a different direction.",
        "在保证了民众支持后，埃尔多安仍能改变方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, such fines are, in any case, paid by the companies’ shareholders, not by their executives or board members (all of whom carry insurance).",
        "第三，这笔罚款与其他案件一样，是由股东支付的，而不是由高管或董事（他们都有保险保护着呢）支付的。"
    ],
    [
        "According to our analysis, there are pathways for the future supply and demand of energy, and for how forests and land store carbon, that, if followed, will dramatically slow the pace of warming.",
        "根据我们的研究，如果未来的能源供给和需求，以及森林和土地储存碳元素的方式，能够遵循一定的方法，就能大大降低变暖的速度。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, then, did the American aircraft strike them?”",
        "在这里，我们的命毫无价值。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But, it seems that no robust critique was delivered when she met privately with Hun Sen in Phnom Penh on February 22 – even though Australia’s high standing in Cambodia (not least owing to its historical role in the peace process) means that its voice certainly would have been listened to.",
        "但是，当2月22日她和洪森在金边进行私人会晤时，她并没有表达强硬的批评，尽管澳大利亚在柬埔寨所拥有的很高的地位（因为它在和平进程中起到过历史性作用）意味着它的声音一定会被柬埔寨听进去。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone who raises legitimate concerns about any aspect of the TPP deal is immediately branded “protectionist.”",
        "任何对TPP协议的任何方面产生合理担忧的人立刻被扣以“保护主义者”的帽子。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, policymakers should foster partnerships and new instruments that nudge the economy toward low-carbon alternatives.",
        "最后，决策者应该开展合作、促进新工具的开发以推动经济向低碳转型。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the soldiers who were ordered to beat us and to stop us from marching actually refused to do so, because they understood the truth of what we were doing.",
        "一些接到命令要殴打我们并且阻止我们游行的士兵最后拒绝按令行动，因为他们理解我们这样做的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "All five failed.",
        "他们全部失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – We seem to be entering a new age of megaprojects, as countries, in particular those of the G-20, mobilize the private sector to invest heavily in multi-million (if not multi-billion or multi-trillion) dollar infrastructure initiatives, such as pipelines, dams, water and electricity systems, and road networks.",
        "华盛顿—我们似乎正在进入一个巨型工程新时代，各国，特别是G-20国家，动员私人部门大量投资数百万美元（乃至数十亿、数万亿美元）的基础设施项目，包括输油管道、大坝、水利电力系统和道路网络等。"
    ],
    [
        "But populists reframe their followers’ understanding of this system, by declaring that such officials are part of the “elite,” selected by their fellow elites to frustrate the will of the people.",
        "但民粹主义者则宣称这些官员不过是“精英”小圈子推举出来镇压人民意志的人且本身就是精英集团的一分子，以图重塑他们的追随者们对这一制度的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "The dissonance is that equally large majorities also describe Poland’s economic situation and the “direction in which the country is moving” as either “bad” or “very bad.”",
        "但不和谐之处是同样还是这些人却用“坏”或者“很坏”来形容波兰经济和“国家的发展方向”。"
    ],
    [
        "There, he described a “deep repentance in his heart” when he visited a memorial to American soldiers who died in World War II, to whom he offered his “eternal condolences.”",
        "他在参观二战死难美国老兵纪念馆时表达了“发自内心的深深忏悔”和对死难者的永恒悼念。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the shift of public debate from the mainstream press to the Internet has helped to break down the authority of traditional elites: newspaper editors, political columnists, academics, politicians.",
        "实际上，公众讨论正从主流报纸向互联网转移，这打破了传统精英阶层的权威：报纸主编，政治专栏作家，学者和政界人物。"
    ],
    [
        "The country played an important role in the push for civil rights in America, for instance.",
        "比如，这个国家就在推动美国民权方面发挥了重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments will have to start doing some good things, not just stop doing some bad ones.",
        "政府必须开始做点好事，而不只是不做坏事就算完成任务。"
    ],
    [
        "But such fears remain.",
        "但依然存在这样的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the two countries should harness each other’s comparative strengths and expand mutually beneficial cooperation in infrastructure, investment, and other areas; strengthen cultural ties to advance an expanding friendship; and enhance their cooperation in multilateral forums to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries in tackling global challenges.",
        "此外，两国应充分利用彼此的比较优势，在基础设施、投资和其他领域扩大互利合作； 两国应巩固文化纽带推进并扩大友谊；"
    ],
    [
        "For their part, Christians and Jews could do business under their own rules, though they were free also to follow Islamic rules and to use Islamic courts, if they so desired.",
        "而基督徒和犹太人则可以执行他们自己的规则，但在自愿的前提下也可以自由选择遵守伊斯兰教法和提交伊斯兰法庭裁决。"
    ],
    [
        "The remaining 80% constitutes a huge untapped source of potentially valuable liquid and solid waste.",
        "其余80%具有潜在价值的大量液体和固体废物完全没有被加以利用。"
    ],
    [
        "But, above all, politicians must stop trying to shore up their diminished credibility with the pretense of economic science.",
        "但是，最重要的是，政客必须停止试图用经济科学的幌子巩固它们江河日下的信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Seventeen million people in the street is not the same thing as an election.",
        "1，700万人走上街头与选举相去甚远。"
    ],
    [
        "As a candidate, Trump went with his instincts, and his instinct in the 2016 presidential race was that blue-collar workers and others who feared for their economic future needed their own victims, be they Mexican immigrants or billionaire bankers.",
        "作为候选人，特朗普靠自己的直觉行事，而他在2016年总统竞选中的直觉就是蓝领工人和其他担心自身经济前景的人们需要找一个替罪羊——不管是墨西哥移民还是亿万富翁银行家都行。"
    ],
    [
        "By showing Europe that it is following its actions from above, the US will once again force Europeans to awaken from their political torpor and strategic mediocrity.",
        "美国的从上面跟随姿态告诉欧洲，它将再次迫使欧洲从政治迟缓和战略平庸中惊醒。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the IMF’s undemocratic and corporate-like governance, which has undermined its legitimacy and credibility in the developing world and distorted efforts to extend its surveillance role, there is no alternative multilateral body available.",
        "尽管国际货币基金组织管理缺乏民主和过于企业化影响了该组织在发展中国家的地位和信任度，也歪曲了扩大监管范围的努力，但在目前却没有其它多边组织可以替代国际货币基金组织所发挥的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "What can they do?”",
        "它们能做什么？"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest regional trade and investment agreement in history is not what it seems.",
        "历史上最大的地区贸易和投资协定也许和看上去不一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Our triumphs and virtues are exaggerated; our villains externalized; our failings covered up.",
        "我们的成功和美德被过分夸大； 我们中的坏人都被归为异类；"
    ],
    [
        "A conservative British prime minister!",
        "这可是保守的英国首相！"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of cementing Poland’s strategic importance to NATO and its rightful place as a powerful, respected EU member state, the PiS has become obsessed with reversing modernity.",
        "PiS不去巩固波兰对北约的战略重要性，不去追求波兰作为受尊重的强大欧盟成员国的应有地位，而是沉迷于扭转现代性。"
    ],
    [
        "Their votes could prove crucial in a tight contest.",
        "他们的投票将在紧张的竞赛中十分关键。"
    ],
    [
        "As ever, the unpredictable – a terrorist atrocity or a rash decision by a national leader – will take its toll.",
        "和以往一样，这一年将会是无法预料的。 或许会发生恐怖主义暴行或者某个国家领导人做出草率的举动，这些都将会给我们带来影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Beijing and Shanghai are relatively prosperous, there is still much poverty.",
        "尽管北京和上海相对繁荣，但中国仍存在大量贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Spanish parliament voted overwhelmingly against allowing the Catalan government to hold a referendum on independence, and the central government has said that such a vote would be unconstitutional.",
        "但西班牙议会以压倒性多数反对允许加泰罗尼亚政府就独立举行公投，同时中央政府表示这样的投票不符合宪法原则。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, Congressional Republicans even opposed assistance to those who were directly hurt by globalization.",
        "在美国，国会共和党人甚至反对向那些直接遭受全球化伤害的人给予援助。"
    ],
    [
        "The US may cite national security concerns to block Chinese investments.",
        "美国可以以国家安全为借口阻止中国的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "When the demand for potatoes at the current price exceeds supply, the price of potatoes rises, signaling scarcity.",
        "如果在当前的土豆价格上需求高于供给，那么土豆价格就会上升，传递出土豆供应紧缺的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that changes in technology have contributed to the near stagnation of real wages for low-skilled workers in the United States and elsewhere for the past three decades, there is little that citizens can do.",
        "技术上的改变在过去三十年中造成美国和其他国家低技能工人的实际工资几乎停滞不前，普通民众对此无计可施。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is not alone in its foreign aid retrenchment.",
        "美国并不是唯一一个缩减援外资金的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "This type of “misrule of law” is not unique to Ukraine.",
        "这种类型的“伪法治”并非乌克兰所独有。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial globalization, in particular, played havoc with the old rules.",
        "特别是金融全球化破坏了旧有的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "“Southern” countries such as Brazil, China, and India, to name only a few, are enhancing their contributions to overseas development.",
        "巴西、中国、印度这样的“南方”国家正在加强它们的海外发展援助。"
    ],
    [
        "But has Barack Obama’s administration been too quick to embrace what was, until recently, one of the world’s most repressive regimes?",
        "但奥巴马政府接受这个不久前还是世界最残酷政权的国家是不是太快了点？"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone visiting the Greek Cypriot part of the island nowadays will not find refugee camps: most of the millions of tourists are unaware of the fact that more than a third of the Greek Cypriots they encounter are refugees or descendants of refugees.",
        "现在去岛上希腊塞浦路斯聚居地参观的人不会再看到难民营：成百上千万的游客多数都不会想到，他们碰到超过三分之一的希腊塞浦路斯人或者是难民、或者是难民的后裔。"
    ],
    [
        "This should not be surprising, given that Chinese GDP growth, though down significantly from its double-digit heyday, remains above 6%.",
        "这并不令人惊奇，因为中国GDP增长虽然教两位数时期大幅下降，但仍保持在6%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is that there is no reliable way to render an instant judgment about economic effectiveness, and the legacy that Obama inherited – coming to office in the middle of a major economic and financial catastrophe – clearly matters.",
        "一个原因是没有可靠的方法能够立刻判断其经济表现，而奥巴马所继承的烂摊子——他实在重大经济和金融灾难中入主白宫的——显然对经济现状有着巨大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The strength of Europe's commitment to a true energy union will be revealed when the European Council meets on March 19.",
        "欧洲承诺建立一个真正能源联盟方面的决心将3月19日的欧洲议会会议上展现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Few deny the need for fiscal consolidation in many EU countries, especially in the south (and including France).",
        "不可否认，许多欧盟国家需要财政整合，特别是南欧国家（也包括法国）。"
    ],
    [
        "The world looks to the UN as never before, yet the conventional wisdom is that we are not up to the job.",
        "世界各国对联合国的期待前所未有，但大多数人认为我们完成不了这项任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer the standoff lasts, the more likely it is to sully Xi’s carefully cultivated image as a powerful leader, and that of China as Asia’s hegemon, which would undermine popular support for the regime at home and severely weaken China’s influence over its neighbors.",
        "僵持持续得越久，习近平费尽心机打造的强力领导人的形象就越有可能遭到破坏，中国的亚洲霸主形象也是如此，这将损害中共政权在国内的支持度，严重削弱中国对邻国的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Taxpayers would have been hit twice – first to pay for the health damage caused by asbestos, and then to compensate manufacturers for their lost profits when the government stepped in to regulate a dangerous product.",
        "纳税人将遭遇双重打击——先是花钱治疗石棉导致的健康伤害，然后在政府介入监管危险产品时补偿制造商利润损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The result, again, will be a larger trade deficit.",
        "结果也是贸易赤字增加。"
    ],
    [
        "We argue that such shifts reflect changing stories, epidemics of new narratives, and associated views of the world, which are difficult to quantify.",
        "在乔治·阿科洛夫（George Akerlof）与笔者合著的《动物精神》一书中，我们提出这些转化反映了不断改变的故事内容，新叙事方式的流行，以及互相关联的世界观，而这些都是难以被量化的。"
    ],
    [
        "The net result has been to fuel resentment against India that spills over into occasional violence.",
        "其净结果就是点燃了反印情绪，并已经引起了零星的暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Their most telling complaint is that too little is known about how quantitative easing works, and that the Fed is therefore taking undue risks with the global financial system to achieve a modest juicing of the US economy.",
        "他们最有说服力的抱怨就是人们对量化宽松究竟如何运作知之甚少，因此美联储冒着可能毁灭全球金融系统的巨大风险换来的只是对美国经济的一点推动作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas Japan bashing included “voluntary” restraints on exports that threatened US heavy industries, where lobbies were concentrated and politically potent, recent Chinese exports have mainly been low- to middle-tech products of light industry.",
        "排日风潮包括（日本）“主动”对威胁美国重工业的商品出口进行限制。 （美国国内）在这方面游说的政治势力非常强大和集中。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Several months ago, I predicted that British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government would fall by next month, when the British people realized that the “soft Brexit” they had been promised was impossible.",
        "伦敦——几个月前，我预测英国首相特雷莎·梅的政府将在下个月倒台，因为英国民众将会认识到他们所承诺的“软脱欧”是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, EU leaders have missed an important opportunity.",
        "欧盟领导人已经失去了一个重要机会。"
    ],
    [
        "As a person, he never failed to impress his many visitors.",
        "作为一个普通人，他一直给他的诸多访者留下深刻印象。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel could have embraced the Arab Spring as an opportunity, rather than as a profound risk.",
        "以色列本可以将“阿拉伯春天”视为一个契机，而非某种深不可测的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The suspicions of China’s neighbors, and their moves to establish closer military relations with the US, have made the Chinese government increasingly anxious and frustrated.",
        "中国的邻国则对此颇为狐疑，纷纷倒向美国，与之建立起紧密的军事关系，这使中国政府感到越来越焦虑和失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, all but three of the world’s 20 largest cities are in emerging markets.",
        "事实上，全球最大的二十个城市中有三个都出现在这些新兴市场国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s ability to alter its trajectory depends on individual companies making decisions to invest, change workplace policies, deploy new technologies, and test untried business models.",
        "日本能否摆脱这一轨道取决于个体公司决定投资、改变工作场所政策、采用新技术以及尝试未尝试的业务模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, as events evolved, we would reinforce those policies that seemed to be working and gradually drop those that seemed to be ineffective or counterproductive.",
        "而后随着事态发展，我们会强化那些起到效果的政策，并逐渐从那些看似无效或效果适得其反的政策中退出。"
    ],
    [
        "Participants should explore logically coherent options until they determine if they can agree on a blueprint.",
        "参与者应该探索逻辑相洽的选项，直到他们确认是否能够形成一致草案。"
    ],
    [
        "VIENNA – The most notable innovations of the past two decades have been financial.",
        "维也纳—在过去20年里最引人注目的创新是金融创新。"
    ],
    [
        "But some of the most obvious factors shortening men’s lives are to be found in a more pedestrian, yet politically sensitive, area: the differences in the “appropriate” behaviors for men and women, as dictated by society and reinforced by the market.",
        "但缩短男性生命的最显著的因素来自更无聊但政治上更敏感的领域：男女“合适”行为的不同，这类行为由社会规定，然后由市场强化。"
    ],
    [
        "By revitalizing and modernizing Japan’s financial system, and by getting politicians out of the game, Koizumi intended to reinvigorate the Japanese economy.",
        "小泉意图通过重振和改革日本的金融制度，将政客从游戏中驱逐出去，从而使日本经济复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "The FPC declines to intervene, citing lack of law-enforcement powers.",
        "国家计生委说是没有执法权而拒绝干预。"
    ],
    [
        "They – and we – are very far from the world that Mubarak, or the great Gamal Abdel Nasser, knew and understood.",
        "他们——还有我们——与穆巴拉克、或伟大的纳赛尔熟悉和理解的世界已经拉开了距离。"
    ],
    [
        "Two years later, in 2004, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) upgraded its “ad hoc group” of tax experts to a regular committee.",
        "两年后，2004年，联合国经济与社会委员会（ECOSOC）将其税收专家“临时小组”升级为常设委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, the most plausible outcome of that process is an inspections regime not unlike the one negotiated by Barack Obama’s administration with Iran.",
        "讽刺的是，这一过程最有可能的结果是与奥巴马总统的政府与伊朗所谈成的内容没有什么两样的检查机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Digital Mirror – along with a book written by Charnock called E-Habits, which serves as a kind of extended documentation – can be used for self-analysis or analysis of the local ecosystem.",
        "Digital Mirror——加上夏洛克写的一本叫《网上行为习惯》的书作为延伸说明——可以用来进行自我分析或者团体分析。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumerism depended on a radical notion of individualism.",
        "消费主义依赖于极端的个人主义论调。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan is a prime example, as is the failure to settle the Kashmir imbroglio with India. Both failures have strengthened domestic terrorist groups.",
        "阿富汗是一个重要的例子，巴基斯坦没能和印度解决克什米尔纠纷也是一个，这两个失败都加强了国内恐怖团体的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "In Italy, citizens wanted to be rid of a tainted political elite, but “got Berlusconi, who was worse than any of them!”",
        "在意大利，公民希望摆脱有污点的政治精英，但最终得到的是“贝卢斯科尼，他比他们中任何人都要遭！"
    ],
    [
        "Cambridge – Markets are bubbling over signs of “green shoots” in the global economy.",
        "剑桥——世界经济经过了泡沫破灭之后，目前出现了一丝复苏的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, health care had effective proponents – in Congress, among consumers, and even among some of its providers.",
        "第二，公众具有足够的知识和能力来推动医疗改革，国会议员、消费者甚至医疗卫生机构都不乏这样的人士。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to thrive, and to foster the private-sector investment needed for long-term growth, an economy requires functioning health and education systems, investments in soil nutrients and water management, and basic infrastructure such as electricity and motorized transport.",
        "为了繁荣并培养长期经济增长所需的私营机构投资，一个经济体系需要正常运作的医疗和教育体系，土壤养分和水资源管理，以及诸如电力和机动化交通的基础组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Although there was no interruption of gas supply from Tbilisi to South Ossetia, this step is necessary for the Kremlin to ensure even greater integration of this Georgian region into Russia’s economic system.",
        "尽管第比利斯与南奥塞蒂的天然气供应从未中断，这是克里姆林宫为确保这个格鲁吉亚地区进一步融入俄罗斯经济体系而采取的一个必要步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "The stakes are far too high for us to pick the wrong policies.",
        "选择错误的政策的代价实在太高了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the months ahead, the British public may start to foresee this humiliating endgame.",
        "在未来几个月中，英国公众可能会开始想见这一耻辱性结局。"
    ],
    [
        "Last February, I headed a 40-member trade delegation to Taipei.",
        "今年二月，我率领着40个人商业代表团访问了台北。"
    ],
    [
        "Experts in Hebrew culture explained that Judaism and Norway’s constitution were irreconcilable.",
        "希伯来文化专家的解释是犹太教和挪威的宪法不可调和。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – Three years have now passed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which triggered the start of the most acute phase of the 2007-2008 financial crisis.",
        "芝加哥—— 三年前，雷曼兄弟公司倒闭，将2007—2008年金融危机推向了高潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa gets almost 50% of its energy from renewables, compared to just 8% for the OECD.",
        "非洲有近50%的能源来自可再生能源，而经合组织国家只有8%。"
    ],
    [
        "It will be similarly tempting elsewhere.",
        "它在其他国家也会具有同样的诱惑力。"
    ],
    [
        "Both men were treated as traitors after the war ended.",
        "这两人在战争结束后都被视为叛国者。"
    ],
    [
        "This enabled the country, like Argentina, to fight extreme poverty and boost the purchasing power of an emerging middle class, which thus became deeply loyal to leftist governments.",
        "5%。 这让巴西与阿根廷一样得以遏制极端贫困，刺激新型中产阶级的购买力，并让后者成为左翼政府的死忠。"
    ],
    [
        "Navigating Lebanon’s Political Minefield",
        "黎巴嫩政治雷区导航"
    ],
    [
        "It came closest to midnight in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis.",
        "1962年古巴导弹危机期间最接近午夜。"
    ],
    [
        "I simply do not see it.",
        "我实在是搞不明白。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it is in nobody’s interest – least of all NATO’s – to have Turkey and Russia at each other’s throats.",
        "归根结底，土耳其与俄罗斯闹得不可开交不符合任何人——包括北约的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Partly because the United States makes capital increases and governance reforms in global financial institutions so difficult, the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have launched their own development bank, to be based in Shanghai.",
        "部分地因为美国让全球金融机构的增资和治理改革变得如此困难，金砖国家（巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非）另起炉灶在上海成立了它们自己的开发银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Good People, Bad Judgments",
        "善良的人，糟糕的判断"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – As policymakers and investors continue to fret over the risks posed by today’s ultra-low global interest rates, academic economists continue to debate the underlying causes. By now, everyone accepts some version of US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s statement in 2005 that a “global savings glut” is at the root of the problem.",
        "美国剑桥—决策者和投资者仍对当今极低的全球利率而不安，学界经济学家则仍在争论背后的原因。 目前，所有人都在某种程度上同意美联储主席伯南克2005年的讲话：“全球储蓄过剩”是问题的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "It took just a few weeks for the hollowness of these claims to become apparent.",
        "这些宣言有多么大而无当，不出几周就表露无遗。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the application of the court’s jurisprudence to the transfer of data to third-party countries like China, Russia, or India could well cause diplomatic incidents.",
        "此外，将该裁决的法理应用到向第三方国家（如中国、俄罗斯或印度）传输数据的情况可能引起外交事故。"
    ],
    [
        "After the year 2070, global warming will become a net cost to the world, justifying cost-effective climate action now and in the decades to come.",
        "2070年后，全球变暖将成为世界的净负担，这意味着必须在今后数十年中采取高成本效益的气候行动。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if history is any guide, this will not happen until the negative shock, whatever it is, actually hits.",
        "但如果说历史有什么借鉴意义的话，那就是，这一幕要等到负面冲击（不论它是什么）真的发生时才会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Grasping these benefits is potentially one of this generation’s greatest challenges.",
        "抓住这些利益有可能是这一代人最大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "In Greece, 58% became 27%; Italy went from 44% to 22%; and so on.",
        "在希腊，这一数字从58%变为27%，意大利则是44%变为22%，如此等等。"
    ],
    [
        "The charismatic Ken Livingstone, London’s first elected mayor and one of Khan’s predecessors, compared Zionism to Nazism.",
        "魅力四射的利文斯通是汗的前辈，曾经担任伦敦首位民选市长，但却将犹太复国主义和纳粹主义相比较。"
    ],
    [
        "This information is useless and cannot help prevent other families from suffering the same tragedy.",
        "这一信息没有任何用处，也无法帮助防止其他家庭重蹈悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "True, the campaign has brought out nuances that may turn out to be important.",
        "确实，在竞选过程中显现出的细微差别可能最终被证明非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "For all of the progress human society has made since the era of the Luddites, a simple truth persists: machines must strengthen, not weaken, our prospects for inclusive growth and broadly shared prosperity.",
        "自卢德派的时代以来，人类社会取得了长足进步，但一个简单的事实仍然成立：机器必须增强而不是削弱包容增长和广泛共享繁荣的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed’s chairman at the time, Ben Bernanke, reasoned that unconventional monetary policy would drive down long-term rates, inducing investors to shift from high-quality bonds to equities and other risky securities.",
        "时任美联储主席伯南克（Ben Bernanke）认为非常规货币政策能降低长期利率，诱使投资者从高质量债券转移到股票和其他风险证券上。"
    ],
    [
        "NATO forced Serb forces to withdraw in June 1999, and international peacekeepers, under NATO’s leadership, occupied Kosovo.",
        "北约军队迫使塞族军队于1999年6月撤军，以北约为首的国际维和部队随之占领科索沃。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa also has been punching below its weight in merchandise trade.",
        "南非在商品贸易方面的地位也不相称。"
    ],
    [
        "As I argued last year, in the second edition of my book Irrational Exuberance , the boom is rooted in speculative investment by ordinary homebuyers, fueled substantially by the worldwide perception that capitalism has triumphed, and that all people must look out for themselves by acquiring property.",
        "正如去年我在拙作《非理性繁荣》第二版中所提到的那样，这种繁荣的根源在于普通购房者的投机性买入，而认为资本主义已经在全球范围内获胜，所有人都必须购进财产的普遍看法在很大程度上起了推波助澜的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Listen to Me!",
        "听我说!"
    ],
    [
        "There can be no bright future for the Middle East without an intellectual reconstruction that re-establishes the values of ideological openness, diversity, and acceptance of others’ viewpoints, whether intellectual, cultural, or religious.",
        "如果没有重建思想开放、多元化和接受他人思想、文化或宗教见解价值观的思想体系重构，中东地区就不可能拥有光明的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "In such cases, it is not more growth that we want, but more equality.",
        "在这些情况下，我们想要的不是更多的增长，而是更少的不均。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it was price inflation in the crisis countries, fueled by massive inflows of cheap credit following the introduction of the euro, that resulted in their loss of competitiveness, ballooning current-account deficits, and accumulation of enormous foreign debt.",
        "毕竟，正是在引入欧元后廉价信贷大量涌入，随后引发价格通货膨胀才最终导致了这些国家的竞争力下降，经常账户赤字膨胀和大量外债的积累。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the coming CLASS war, no one seems quite sure whom to follow.",
        "事实上，在即将到来的五位一体战争中，似乎没有人很确定应该跟随谁。"
    ],
    [
        "These types of investments continue to be beneficial throughout a worker’s life, as exposure to new skills and knowledge allows him or her to adapt to an evolving technological and business environment.",
        "这类投资的好处将贯穿工人的一生，获得新技能和知识能让他们适应变化的技术和商业环境。"
    ],
    [
        "So did the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Commission.",
        "联合国大会和联合国人权委员会也发出了同样的呼吁。"
    ],
    [
        "My method is based largely on the observation that you rarely hear of a poor bookie.",
        "我的方法的基础是一项观察，即你很少听说有穷光蛋博彩公司。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Friedman would have argued, the two methods should be considered polar opposites.",
        "但是，正如弗里德曼所指出的，这两个方法是南辕北辙的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US economy is now on a favorable path of expansion.",
        "如今，美国经济正走在有利的扩张之路上。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, Europe must draw on the lessons of its past successes.",
        "为实现这一点，它必须从过去的成功中吸取经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, government, global health organizations like the World Health Organization and UNICEF, civil-society organizations, and community leaders, all working together, managed to identify and bridge the gaps that have historically impaired access to polio vaccines.",
        "此外，国家政府、世卫组织和联合国儿基会等全球卫生机构、民间社会组织和社区领袖各方通力合作，成功找到并弥合了过去一直阻碍脊髓灰质炎疫苗普及的鸿沟。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is geography: France’s massive urban concentration around the capital – Paris and its suburbs contain nearly 20% of the population – is unique in Europe.",
        "其次要谈谈地理因素：法国的人口高度集中在首都周边的城市地带¾巴黎及郊区容纳了近20%的法国人口，这在欧洲恐怕是独一无二的。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Bastille Day, the French national holiday, was glorious this year.",
        "巴黎—巴士底日是法国的国定假日。"
    ],
    [
        "In Lebanon, the danger of one community monopolizing power over others is avoided because the Lebanese constitution imposes permanent power-sharing arrangements on all major communities.",
        "黎巴嫩避免了一个教派独揽大权的风险，因为黎巴嫩的宪法强制性地规定了主要教派之间 永久性 的分权。"
    ],
    [
        "We can start with the modest step of demanding a truthfulness oath from all future presidential candidates.",
        "我们可以从一小步开始：要求未来总统候选人一概必须做出真实性宣誓。"
    ],
    [
        "The final decision of whether to extend an emergency loan would no longer fall to heads of state in all-night talks.",
        "是否延长紧急贷款的最终决定也因此无需由各国家元首在通宵会谈中达成；"
    ],
    [
        "Yet three centuries ago there was also technological progress, from the mechanical clock and the watermill to the cannon and the caravel, and on to strains of rice that can be cropped three times a year in Guangzhou and the breeding of merino sheep that can flourish in the hills of Spain.",
        "然而三百年前也存在技术进步，从机械钟和水磨坊到大炮和轻型多桅帆船，再到广州每年可以收割三次的水稻品种，和可以在西班牙的山丘上繁衍的美利奴细毛羊的培育。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even here, the President is bullying the very leaders he seeks to woo.",
        "但是，即使在这方面，普京的示好也是以恃强凌弱的方式进行的。"
    ],
    [
        "But transformed is not the same as threatened.",
        "但转变与威胁是不一样的。"
    ],
    [
        "But today’s efforts at regional integration in Latin America seem to have a different purpose altogether.",
        "但今天拉丁美洲地区融合的努力似乎有着截然不同的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither man seems the sort of decisive figure that overcoming Italy’s bleak economic predicament demands.",
        "但是这两个人好像都不是那种能够带领意大利走出令人沮丧的经济困境的决定性人物。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ontario during the blackout, reactors designed to unlink from the grid automatically and remain in standby mode instead went into full shutdown, with only two of twelve reactors behaving as expected.",
        "其中位于加拿大安大略省的反应堆只能自动切断与电网的连接并保持待机模式（而非完全关闭），因为所有12个反应堆里只有2个能正常运作。"
    ],
    [
        "The remaining attraction of making a “rules-based global order” central to Australia’s policy is the discipline this imposes on Australia itself – as it would on any state that adopts this language.",
        "属于澳大利亚政策核心的“以规则为基础的全球秩序”仅存的吸引力在于澳大利亚本身——和其他认同这种语言的国家——自己必须遵守。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a report published last year by the United Nations Development Programme, maintaining the 1.5°C threshold and creating a low-carbon economy would add as much as $12 trillion to global GDP, compared to a scenario in which the world sticks to current policies and emissions-reduction pledges.",
        "联合国开发计划署去年发布的一份报告显示，保持 1. 5°C的临界值和创造低碳经济与世界延续当前的政策和减排承诺相比，将使全球GDP增加12万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The most recent example of this “dialogue of the deaf” occurred in Europe, from January to July 2015.",
        "这一“鸡同鸭讲”现象的最近一个例子发生在2015年1月—7月的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "These risks explain why the Fed’s mere suggestion of a potential move toward reducing its purchases of long-term asset (so-called quantitative easing) caused emerging-market currencies and asset prices to plummet this summer.",
        "这些风险解释了为何美联储可能采取行动减少购买长期资产（所谓定量宽松）的暗示会导致今年夏天新兴市场货币和资产价格暴跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the prison doctor, it seems, was prepared to say that he did not have more than three months to live, while four specialists refused to say how long he might have.",
        "因为似乎只有驻监狱的大夫确认此人只有3个月命，而另外4名专家都不愿说明梅格拉希还有多少日子。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK, as ever, is to be found somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic.",
        "和往常一样，英国的情况介于美国和欧洲大陆之间。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no shortage of evidence for the transformative effect of digital financial inclusion on economies.",
        "无数证据表明，数字普惠金融对经济可以起到变革效应。"
    ],
    [
        "How can we square investors’ behavior with the famous assertion that it is hard to beat the market?",
        "我们如何解释投资者的行为和市场不可战胜的著名论断之间的矛盾？"
    ],
    [
        "“You know very well that the actual ambition of my country is to achieve regional leadership.",
        "你们非常清楚我国的实际上的雄心是获得地区领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "What should monetary policymakers do when regulators are prone to falling down on the job?",
        "当监管者不作为时，货币决策这应该怎么办？"
    ],
    [
        "But it is beginning to emerge that many also preferred to stay in a social environment that they trusted rather than fleeing to safer, but foreign, surroundings.",
        "但人们也开始意识到另外一种因素，那就是很多人宁愿选择留在自己所信任的社会环境，也不愿逃到安全但却陌生的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time of the French Revolution, the standard of living had hardly doubled since the Roman Empire. Today, it is 150 times higher.",
        "因为自罗马帝国时代一直到法国大革命时，人们生活水平的提高还达不到一倍，而如今则比从前整整提高了150倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Jeremy Corbyn, the current favorite to become the next leader of Britain’s Labour Party, is the latest victim of this chorus of disparagement.",
        "目前最有希望成为英国工党下一任领导人的杰里米·科尔宾（Jeremy Corbyn）便是这一“全民鄙视链”的最新受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed is purposefully and insidiously distorting the incentive system – specifically, signals provided by the price of money – resulting in mal-investment (and, when public debt is monetized, inflation).",
        "美联储在有目的地破坏激励系统——具体地说，是在扭曲资金价格所提供的信号——这将会导致投资不当（而当公债被货币化时，还会产生通货膨胀）。"
    ],
    [
        "This, too, is true.",
        "的确如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Half of states no longer teach civics – the study of our Republic and how it works – in middle school.",
        "有一半的州在中学里不再教授公民学，这门学科研究我们的共和国以及它是如何运转的。"
    ],
    [
        "After a very slow initial recovery, real GDP began growing at annual rates of more than 4% in the second half of 2013.",
        "在非常缓慢的初始复苏后，2013年下半年，实际GDP开始以超过4%的年率增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Though differences are no bigger than those found within larger economies such as the US or Germany, they risk being amplified by the crisis.",
        "虽然没有像更大的经济体如美国或德国之间的分歧那么大，但这些分歧却存在因危机而被放大的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the rest, pre-approval would substantially diminish the temptation to self-insure by accumulating reserves.",
        "至于其他方面，预先批准会大大减少引发囤积储备的自我保障动机。"
    ],
    [
        "A World Bank leader who once again comes from Wall Street or from US politics would be a heavy blow for a planet in need of creative solutions to complex development challenges.",
        "地球需要创造性的解决方案来应对复杂的发展挑战，又一位来自华尔街或美国政坛的世行行长将是对地球的重大打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet time and again, other major central banks – especially the Fed and the European Central Bank – have been quick to follow, with equally dire consequences.",
        "不过一次又一次地其他主要中央银行——尤其是美联储和欧洲央行——总是会紧接着掉进坑里，并产生同样可怕的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "That outcome is as frustrating as it is ironic.",
        "这样的结果令人沮丧，而且充满讽刺。"
    ],
    [
        "“You must help,” my mother said to me.",
        "“你必须得帮忙，”我的母亲对我说。"
    ],
    [
        "While there are still 17 years to go, it appears that Keynes was way off the mark.",
        "距离2030年还有17年，但凯恩斯的话看来是无法实现了。"
    ],
    [
        "There are 1.8 million new cases of the most serious form of kidney disease – renal failure – each year.",
        "最严重的肾脏疾病—肾衰竭—每年会新增180万例。"
    ],
    [
        "To hope for a unified currency in Asia seems almost like hoping for the region’s own Greek crisis.",
        "希望亚洲出现统一货币几乎就像是希望亚洲爆发自身的希腊危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Just before stepping down, Berlusconi’s government also approved a constitutional reform that, among other things, provides a logical complement to the new electoral system.",
        "就在下台前，贝卢斯科尼政府还批准了宪法改革，特别对新选举制度提供了一个逻辑性补充。"
    ],
    [
        "And this shift resulted not so much because GM moved its plants, but because it lost market share to Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz.",
        "而这一转变的原因主要不是通用汽车搬迁工厂，而是它的市场份额输给了丰田、日产、本田、现代、宝马和奔驰。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation in Mali is more complicated, for it involves an ongoing secessionist movement, as well as a coup on March 21.",
        "马里的情况更加复杂，该国一直存在分裂运动，终于在3月21日发生了政变。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, with diplomacy stalled, North Korea launched a series of missiles into the Sea of Japan.",
        "接着趁外交僵局之机，朝鲜向日本海发射了数枚导弹。"
    ],
    [
        "The irony will not be lost on investors or Argentines: countries that can write a spending cap into the Constitution on short notice are also those where it could be just as easily removed.",
        "投资者或阿根廷人不会忘记其中的讽刺之处：可以轻易地将支出上限写入宪法的国家，也可以同样轻易地将它移除。"
    ],
    [
        "A child with the same diagnosis today has a better than 80% chance of being cured.",
        "而今天诊断出相同疾病的儿童治愈率却超过80%。"
    ],
    [
        "Reflecting the fear that the Fed’s current policy of sustained low interest rates will lead to higher inflation, the law would require the Fed to adopt a formal procedure for setting its key short-term interest rate, the “federal funds rate.”",
        "出于对当前美联储保持低利率政策将导致更高通胀的担忧，该法案将要求美联储采取正式的程序设置其核心短期利率——“联邦基金利率”。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s potential can hardly be overstated.",
        "非洲的潜能是无穷的。"
    ],
    [
        "Gazprom’s three largest fields, which account for three-quarters of its output, are in decline.",
        "俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司三个最大的油田的产量占其总产量的四分之三，而且正在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "As much as we may sympathize with young would-be millionaire traders, does their story of oppression make any sense?",
        "在我们对那些梦想成为百万富翁的年轻投资者表示同情的同时，他们所谓受到压制的说法真的如此吗？"
    ],
    [
        "We are appealing to donors not just to create thousands of school places for desperately needy children, but also to establish a precedent for the 20 million other children driven by violent conflict into displaced-persons camps and shantytowns.",
        "我们恳请出资人不但要为急切需要教育的儿童建设数千学校场所，还恳请他们为其他2,000万因暴力冲突而流离失所、沦落难民营和棚户区的儿童树立先例。"
    ],
    [
        "The iconoclastic British historian A. J. P. Taylor quipped that laments about the decline of Britain were really generalized reflections of Oxford academics’ view of the “servant problem.”",
        "特立独行的英国历史学家泰勒打趣道哀叹英国衰落实际是牛津大学学者对“佣人问题”的普遍反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Some are even reducing inequalities.",
        "一些国家更是出现了不平等性有所改善的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial singularity implies that all investment decisions would be better left to a computer program, because the experts with their algorithms have figured out what drives market outcomes and reduced it to a seamless system.",
        "而金融奇点则意味着，所有的投资决策最好留给电脑程序去决定，因为那些算法研究专家们已经找出了驱动市场表现的背后动力，并将其精简成为了一个天衣无缝的系统"
    ],
    [
        "Some national governments have their part to play, too.",
        "在这方面有些国家的政府也有责任。"
    ],
    [
        "One in nine university graduates from Africa now lives and works in the West.",
        "现在九位非洲大学毕业生中就有一位工作生活在西方。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Internet database Factiva, 43 news articles mentioned the report, in publications ranging from the Kansas City Star to the Beirut Daily Star .",
        "据因特网数据库Factiva显示，从《堪萨斯城星报》到《贝鲁特每日星报》，有43篇新闻报道提到了这份报告。"
    ],
    [
        "UN Security Council Resolution 1373, passed after the September 11 attacks, calls on states to deny safe haven to terrorists, bring to justice anyone associated with terrorism, suppress recruitment by terrorist groups, block terrorists’ efforts to acquire weapons, and cooperate with other governments and international organizations in tracking suspects and boosting security.",
        "911事件之后，联合国安理会通过的1373号决议，呼吁各国拒绝为恐怖分子提供安全避难，依法惩处任何与恐怖主义有关联的人，查禁恐怖主义集团的招募，堵住恐怖主义分子获得武器的各种途径，并与其他政府和国际组织一同追踪恐怖主义嫌疑犯并加强安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s aim was to subject all power to the control of Russia’s security forces.",
        "普京的目标是把所有的权力都归于俄国安全力量的控制之下。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent research by the International Monetary Fund on the context-specific variability of fiscal multipliers has raised serious questions about the costs and effectiveness of rapid fiscal consolidation.",
        "国际货币基金组织对特定情况下财政乘数可变性的近期研究已经对快速财政调整的成本和有效性提出了严重的质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither France’s near-total control of money and credit, nor its strong influence over politics and security, is wholly responsible for keeping the franc-zone countries mired in poverty and instability.",
        "但不管是法国对货币和信用的近乎完全的控制，还是其在政治和安全方面的强大影响力，都不能承担让法郎区国家陷于贫困和动荡陷阱无法自拔的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Understanding the forces and patterns defining our world, and especially principles that apply (without changing) to a wide variety of situations, can help to improve our predictions.",
        "理解决定我们的世界的力量和模式，特别是（无需变化）适用于各种情况的原理，有助于改善我们的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial crisis has created a sharp fall in demand, what economists call a “Keynesian recession.”",
        "金融危机造成了需求的极度萎缩，对此经济学家称之为“凯恩斯衰退”。"
    ],
    [
        "Their anger, inflamed in March when he tried unsuccessfully to sack the Supreme Court’s independent-minded chief justice, rages on.",
        "他们的愤怒在他三月份罢免最高法院具有独立思想的大法官乔杜里的企图未能成功时，迅速升温了。"
    ],
    [
        "More ominously, the Franco-German axis powering European integration has fractured.",
        "更为严重的是，为欧洲一体化提供动力的法德联盟已经破裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, after all that has happened, a majority of the US electorate continues to have confidence in Bush on national security matters.",
        "事实上，在这一切发生后，多数美国选民依然表示信任布什对国家安全事务的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "It appears that climate engineering could buy us some time, and it is time that we need if we are to make a sustainable and smooth shift away from reliance on fossil fuels.",
        "如果我们想要真正实现可持续且平稳地摆脱对矿物燃料的依赖，那么这个方法显然能为我们争取一些必要的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "It is crucial to distinguish inequality in productivity among firms from unequal distribution of income within firms.",
        "区分企业之间的生产率不平等和企业内部的收入分配不平等至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But, over time, and with more Belarusians traveling to the West, belief in Lukashenko’s leadership has become unsustainable.",
        "但随着时间的流逝以及白俄罗斯人逐渐了解西方，对卢卡申科的信任就再也无法维系下去了。"
    ],
    [
        "For health practitioners, digital solutions must be perceived as boosting efficiency, rather than adding to their already-heavy workload.",
        "对医疗工作者而言，数字方案必须让他们感到能够增加效率，而不是徒增已经十分沉重的工作负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, $1.5 billion is little better than what charity could do – and still only a drop in the bucket compared to the extent of the damage.",
        "不幸的是，15亿美元跟国际捐助相比也是半斤八两——相对于地震所造成的破坏来说也只是杯水车薪。"
    ],
    [
        "If Turkey grants its own Kurdish minority more cultural and language rights and allows legitimate Kurdish political representation in the Turkish parliament, the willingness of Turkish Kurds to oppose Ankara will be diminished.",
        "如果土耳其赋予国内库尔德少数民族更多的文化和语言权利，允许库尔德政治权利在土耳其议会中合法存在，就会削减土耳其库尔德人反对安卡拉的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "The revocation of patent protection for medicines in 1972 greatly expanded access to essential medicines, and led to the growth of a globally competitive domestic industry that is often called the “pharmacy of the developing world.”",
        "1972年撤销医药专利保护极大地扩大了基础药物的普及，也造就了一个全球性竞争性国内行业，通常被人称为“发展中世界药房”。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, the foreign oil companies get 82% of the increase – in the case of oil, this would amount to a windfall for them of $32 a barrel or more.",
        "但是，外国石油公司得到提价的82％。 对于石油来说，这将是每桶32美元或者更多的横财。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, information never comes without interpretation.",
        "此外，信息的传播从来免不了各种解读。"
    ],
    [
        "Engaging the Islamists",
        "接触伊斯兰主义者"
    ],
    [
        "The Cochrane Collaboration, an international non-profit organization providing healthcare information, conducted a systematic review of the benefits of acupuncture, including 14 trials, of which 10 were conducted in China, involving 1,208 patients.",
        "Cochrance合作组织，一个提供健康护理信息的国际非赢利性组织，对针灸的功用进行了一次系统的评估。 这项评估包括了14项试验，其中10项试验在中国进行，涵盖了1208位病人。"
    ],
    [
        "But the word “soft” should also appear.",
        "但“软”字也应该出现。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this raises serious questions about the EU’s global role, while diminishing the viability of the European project itself.",
        "所有这一切严重挑战了欧盟的全球作用，同时削弱了欧洲计划本身的可行性。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracies suffer not only from their slow reaction time at moments of crisis, but also from the difficulty that they face in projecting themselves into the future and planning for the long term.",
        "民主主义不仅由于其在危机爆发时期反应时间过慢而备受打击； 而且当人们想要对将来制定长期的计划时，把自身因素考虑进去的时候，所面临的困难也使民主遭到不小的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "The West’s failures then should not undermine its resolve now to work to create democratic states respecting human rights and international law.",
        "因此，西方过去的失败不应该削弱其现在致力于建立尊重人权和国际法的民主国家的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "Elites in Western countries discredited themselves by permitting the financial excesses that helped trigger the Great Recession and by being slow – particularly in Europe – to deal with the social consequences.",
        "西方国家精英坐视触发大衰退的金融过剩并消极面对——尤其在欧洲——由此产生的社会后果影响了其自身的信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, fiscal sustainability is vital to prevent a disruptive debt refinancing and inspire confidence among investors and consumers.",
        "当然，财政稳定是防止破坏性债务重组、激发投资者和消费者信心的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "They can undertake risks that others cannot, knowing that if they fail, they may be bailed out.",
        "他们能冒其他公司不能冒的风险，因为他们知道一旦失败了，他们可以获得紧急援助。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest research indicates that Higgs particles (if they exist) should be among the most massive critters of the subatomic realm, more than 120 times as massive as the familiar proton.",
        "最新研究表明希格斯粒子（如果这种粒子存在）应该是亚原子领域最大的物质，是我们所熟悉质子的120倍以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite rhetoric about “inclusive growth,” India’s wealth gap has widened during the years of exceptionally rapid economic expansion.",
        "虽然他们宣传的口号是“共同富裕”，但印度的贫富差距不断拉大是不争的事实。 特别是在近几年经济高速发展的阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "The first concerned the environmental devastation that he could observe – including the retreat of glaciers and the loss of land cover – as he flew from Bhutan to India. The second was about the individual and the meaning of happiness.",
        "廷里列出了两个非常有说服力的要点：首先是关注他在飞往印度的飞机上亲眼观测到的环境破坏，比如冰川融化以及植被减少，其次就是关于个人以及幸福的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Haiti’s transition to effective and sustainable statehood is therefore also vital for establishing a prosperous border regime.",
        "因此海地获得持续有效的国家地位对制定繁荣的边境制度同样至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the first new tool that I have come across whose creators seem to understand that the problem is not simply to find the right people; it is to run the right process to succeed at a specific task with the help of those people.",
        "我第一次发现这种新工具：它的创造者明白问题不仅仅在于找对人； 而在于通过正确的过程成功地在这些人的帮助下完成具体任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries had little incentive to make peace with their neighbors as long as they enjoyed the financial support of the US or the USSR.",
        "巴基斯坦站在苏联一边，印度则于美国为伍。 只要能享受到苏联或者美国的财政援助，各国就缺乏动力去和邻国握手言和。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, as another Oslo summit background paper shows, education finance is skewed toward the wealthy in most countries.",
        "但是，另一份奥斯陆峰会背景资料表明，大部分国家的教育资金向富人倾斜。"
    ],
    [
        "Greenspan’s warning in 1998 came at a time when US exports accounted for only about 10.5% of GDP.",
        "1998年格里斯潘发出警告时，出口只占美国GDP的10. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "This could have significant implications for Asia’s ostensibly unstoppable rise – and thus for the West’s supposedly inevitable decline.",
        "这可能会严重影响亚洲看似不可阻挡的崛起和西方所谓必然的衰落。"
    ],
    [
        "More recent research is piled toward the top of the pyramid, where most public debate takes place.",
        "更新的研究堆积于金字塔尖，公共争论大部分也发生在这部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the Confederate leaders at the time of the American Civil War understood that without a unified people fully behind their bid for independence, their slave-owner’s republic was doomed.",
        "就连美国内战时期的邦联领导人也清楚如果没有团结一心的民众完全支持他们的独立诉求，他们的奴隶主共和国从一开始就注定不会成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The start of this turnaround could be associated with the other two trends, as the cumulative result of more favorable policies and increased labor per hectare, but it could also reflect the gradual spread of improved crop varieties that resulted from earlier investment in agricultural technology.",
        "此次转机的形成还与其他两种趋势有关，一是优惠政策和加大每公顷土地劳动力投入的累计效果，再有就是对农业技术早期投入所研制的改良作物品种的逐步推广。"
    ],
    [
        "The banks themselves established what in effect were their own substitute markets, which allowed their customers and themselves to price instruments that would otherwise have been impossible to value.",
        "据说，银行建立起来的市场实际上是它们的内测市场，主要功能是方便银行及其客户对某些金融工具进行定价 —— 没有市场交易，这种定价通常是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that Trump appears to have some mental disorder, or disorders, has created a dilemma for psychiatrists, politicians, and journalists alike.",
        "特朗普似乎患有一种或几种精神障碍的事实导致精神科医生、政客和记者陷入两难的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a European Investment Bank, a Nordic Investment Bank, and many others, all capitalized by states or groups of states for the purpose of financing mandated projects by borrowing in the capital markets.",
        "目前我们已经有了欧洲投资银行、挪威投资银行和其他许多投资银行，它们的资本来自国家或国家集团，目的是通过从资本市场借钱为指定项目融资。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eurozone, the main source of disagreement has been how debts in need of refinancing were incurred – that is, whether they contravened agreed debt limits.",
        "在欧元区，反对的声音主要来自这些需要重新筹钱偿还的债务是如何产生的——也就是说，它们是否与议定的债务上限相抵触。"
    ],
    [
        "The patchwork of 28 separate asylum systems is expensive and inefficient, and it produces wildly uneven results in terms of the reception, status determination, and integration of new arrivals.",
        "目前欧盟存在28套各自为政的庇护体系，可谓事倍功半，在接受新来者、地位确认和融合等方面产生了严重的不平等结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, the European Commission, and the EU’s main member states all agree, at least in principle, that Ukraine needs quick and substantial financial help in order to be able to resist Russian aggression.",
        "美国、欧盟委员会和欧盟主要成员国都同意，至少在原则上，乌克兰急切地需要大量金融援助才能够抵抗俄罗斯的入侵。"
    ],
    [
        "By that, he meant no violence and no doctoring the ballot count.",
        "”他这么说不是要使用暴力，也不是要窜改计票结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, America’s science and technology policy must reflect an understanding that long-term increases in living standards depend upon productivity growth, which reflects technological progress that assumes a solid foundation of basic research.",
        "此外，美国科技政策必须体现其对长期生活标准提高需依赖于生产率增长的认识，而生产率的增长又反映了需以坚实的基础研究为基石的技术进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the “ limit-the-swings” strategy proposed here implies that, as the exchange rate moves further away from parity, central banks should use their reserves to intervene at unpredictable moments in order to reinforce the effect of their regular announcements of the parity range on traders’ perception of increased risk of capital losses.",
        "相反，在本文中提议的“限制波动”策略意味着，在汇率进一步偏离同位水平的时候，中央银行应当使用它们的储备出其不意地进行干预，以便加强其定期公布同位范围对于交易者更大感受资本损失的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this reality, what matters now is how this “Putin system” will work, which will depend on institutional frameworks and practices.",
        "鉴于这一现实，现在人们需要关心的是“普京体系”将会怎样运作，这将依赖于制度框架和实践。"
    ],
    [
        "What sets Hong Kong apart is our ability to sustain social stability and economic growth.",
        "香港之所以与众不同，是因为我们有能力维护社会稳定，保证经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But the decline in support for European fiscal rules carries serious risks.",
        "但对欧洲财政规则的支持减弱带来了严重的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But long-term investments will not solve the immediate crisis.",
        "但长期投资不能解决眼前的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, as studies continue to identify and characterize CNVs, we anticipate achieving a better understanding of the relationship between these genetic variations, complex diseases, and human adaptability.",
        "基于对CNVs 的识别和特性的更多研究，我们可以预想到更多地了解基因改变、疑难杂症和人类适应性之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "While this approach has always been controversial, given that it implies handing substantial control over the economy to unelected technocrats, past inflationary episodes have fostered broad acceptance of central-bank independence.",
        "虽然这种方法一直备受争议，因为它意味着将经济的实质控制权交给非由选举产生的技术官僚，但过去的通货膨胀事件已经令中央银行的独立地位得到了广泛认同。"
    ],
    [
        "With productivity growth stagnating for almost two decades, it made sense back then to argue that the US government’s social-insurance commitments (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) were excessive and so had to be scaled back.",
        "由于生产力增长停滞将近二十年，人们又开始议论美国政府的社会保险支出（社会保障体系、医疗保险、医疗补助制度）过于庞大，应该被缩减。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of his life, Shevardnadze had become a political pariah in Georgia, the West, and Russia, where he was viewed as an architect of the Soviet Union’s dissolution.",
        "在生命末期，谢瓦尔德纳泽已经被格鲁吉亚、西方和俄罗斯政界打入另册。 俄罗斯将其视为苏联解体的始作俑者。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a sizeable level of investment is bound to have an impact.",
        "如此庞大的投资势必会产生影响。"
    ],
    [
        "A third key element, unattractive ethically but probably necessary politically to win the support of the US and others, would be a provision allowing any P5 member to veto when it claimed a “vital national interest” to be at stake.",
        "第三个关键要素在道德上不具备吸引力，但在政治上可能是赢得美国和其他国家支持的关键。 它就是允许“五常”中任何一个国家在宣称事关“关键国家利益”时行使否决权。"
    ],
    [
        "The success of the world’s development goals hinges on our ability to reach the poorest and most marginalized populations, who continue to bear the brunt of death and disability worldwide.",
        "世界发展目标能否成功取决于我们覆盖最贫穷、最边缘化人口的能力，他们仍然是全世界最容易致死和致残的人群。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite massive evidence of the widespread death, poverty, suffering, and dysfunction she and her late husband, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, inflicted on the Philippines, the only real disappointment she has subsequently endured has been losing the last presidential election she was allowed to contest.",
        "尽管有大量证据表明她和已故的丈夫费迪南德·马科斯（Ferdinand Marcos）对大规模死亡、贫困、苦难和政府运转失常负有直接责任，但她所忍受的唯一一次真正的失望就是失掉了她参加的上一次总统选举。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fars News Agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard has called the British embassy a “lair of espionage” – the same term used to describe the US embassy in 1979.",
        "与伊朗的当权派革命卫队相关的塔斯社将英国使馆称为“间谍巢穴”——与1979年美国使馆获得评价一模一样。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the strategy clearly declares, cooperation is no longer a question of principle; it is an existential imperative.",
        "但就像战略所明确宣布的那样，合作已经从原则性问题上升到生存的必须。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine: The Next Crisis?",
        "乌克兰：下一场危机？"
    ],
    [
        "Other advisers warn him that any possible action – a safe zone on the Turkish border, for example, that could expand outward – requires taking out anti-aircraft defenses all over Syria.",
        "其他顾问警告他，任何可能的行动——比如，在土耳其边境设立可以向外扩展的安全区——都需要在整个叙利亚部署防空力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides, the IMF would almost surely tell Sri Lankan officials not that they’re spending too much, but that they’re taxing too little.",
        "此外，前者几乎肯定会告诉斯里兰卡官员说问题并不是他们支出太多，而是征税太少了。"
    ],
    [
        "Claims against the personal wealth of shareholders would be blocked by the limited liability constraint.",
        "对股东的个人财富的索取将受到有限责任的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, they are bullied, silenced, and tortured in places like Iran, Syria, China, and Myanmar.",
        "如今在伊朗、叙利亚，中国和缅甸，这些人也是被恐吓，被禁言和被折磨的一群。"
    ],
    [
        "Fayaadism, by contrast, seeks the “Zionization” of the Palestinian national movement.",
        "相反，法雅德主义试图实现巴勒斯坦民族运动的犹太化。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, “quiet” is not a strategic goal; nor is Israel’s way of pursuing it – a war every two or three years – particularly convincing.",
        "此外，“安静”并非战略目标，以色列追求它的方式——两三年打一次仗——也并不令人信服。"
    ],
    [
        "The conditions required for rapid evolutionary change to occur in human populations exist.",
        "发生短期进化演变的条件同样存在于人群中。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared to a year ago, the probability of “Brexit” has increased, for several reasons. The recent terrorist attacks in Europe have made the UK even more isolationist, as has the migration crisis.",
        "“英退”的概率相较于一年前有所增加，原因如下：最近在欧洲的恐怖袭击以及移民危机令英国的孤立主义更加明显。"
    ],
    [
        "If, however, the authorities continue their efforts to destabilize the Russian economy, today’s disturbing tendencies may actually take root.",
        "然而，如果政府继续不遗余力地破坏俄罗斯经济，那么目前这种令人担忧的趋势将会扎根于俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "With the world expected to continue growing rapidly, there are excellent investment opportunities that will be funded only if capital continues to move into countries that can use it productively.",
        "鉴于世界经济预期将持续快速增长，我们将面临极佳的投资机遇，但是这只有在资本能够继续流入能够富有成效地使用它的国家的情况才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Rio+20 is a moment for sharing knowledge and experience concerning successful transitions to greener and more resource-efficient economies. It is an opportunity to begin developing the capacity at all levels to transform our economies into engines of growth and jobs that do not deplete our resources or create new liabilities that will be a drag on growth and human health for years to come.",
        "Rio+20是共享知识和经验、促进向更绿色、资源效率更高的经济转型的时刻，一次启动个层面能力开发、让我们的经济增长和就业引擎不再耗尽我们的资源、创造拖累未来增长和人类健康的新负债的良机。"
    ],
    [
        "The public sector is by far the largest employer of GCC citizens: in Saudi Arabia, the government employs 80% of the indigenous workforce; in Kuwait, the figure is 93%.",
        "目前，公共部门是GCC国家最大的雇主：在沙特，政府雇用了80%的国内劳动力； 在科威特，这一数字高达93%。"
    ],
    [
        "They have, I believe, lost their way and taken a path that can only lead back to the supremacy of arbitrary power.",
        "在我看来，他们已经失去了方向，走上了承认独裁权力至高无上的老路。"
    ],
    [
        "The FIS meeting in July was the unheralded beginning of an attempt to remodel the universe in such a way.",
        "信息科学基金会7月的会议就是以这种方式重塑宇宙的开始，这种努力是旷古未有的。"
    ],
    [
        "As usual with such snubs, Latin Americans tend to reciprocate the sentiment, as do Muslims and others who feel affronted by the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.",
        "与往常的这类冷漠相比，拉丁美洲人总要以牙还牙，正如穆斯林和其他感到被这位共和党总统提名人冒犯的人一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Without education, that hope is stillborn, not only in Egypt but across the Middle East.",
        "没有教育让希望胎死腹中，不仅埃及是如此，整个中东都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "For this, the Europe Union and especially the International Monetary Fund bear considerable responsibility.",
        "对于这一点，欧盟，尤其是国际货币基金组织（IMF）负有重大责任。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Germany and its allies are prepared to provide just enough assistance to keep the ship from capsizing, but not enough to set it on an even keel.",
        "结果，德国及其盟国只准备提供使船不至于下沉的援助，而不会保证它能够平稳航行。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, when Greece’s official creditors threatened us with ejection from the eurozone, even from the EU, I was undaunted.",
        "去年，希腊官方债权人威胁我们要将我们逐出欧元区乃至欧盟，但我不为所动。"
    ],
    [
        "Additionally, the Big Three are vital to national security, supplying important military transportation assets.",
        "此外，三巨头对国家安全至关重要，它们提供着重要的军事运输的财产。"
    ],
    [
        "And it must do so in concrete ways, not simply with quickly forgotten official communiqués for which the Kremlin and its Ukrainian separatist proxies have only contempt.",
        "而且欧洲不能只是简单地发表几份被克里姆林宫及其乌克兰代理分裂势力所蔑视的很快会被遗忘的官方公报，而是必须出台具体的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Times changed when Tony Blair came to power in 1997.",
        "不过在布莱尔1997年上台之后，事情开始有了转机。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, critics fear the slippery slope.",
        "但批评者们担心对线粒体进行基因改造可能造成的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "A more integrated research agenda that includes the social sciences is crucial to ensuring that the promise of genetic research benefits all.",
        "包括自然科学在内的更具综合性的研究日程对于确保遗传学研究让全人类收益是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the odds of such an outcome are very low: what is arithmetically feasible is unlikely to be politically possible.",
        "但出现这种结果的可能性很低：数学上的可行和政治上的可行很可能是两回事。"
    ],
    [
        "For Israelis and Palestinians, decades of open-ended negotiations have produced little.",
        "对以色列人和巴勒斯坦人而言，长达数十年的开放式谈判几乎没有产生任何作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The rating agencies miscalculated the value of asset-backed securities.",
        "评级机构错估了资产担保型证券的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Conversely, if someone at work is bothering you, you don’t need to tell them directly; you can just e-mail them a link to Digital Mirror (just like the old trick of dropping a can of deodorant on a co-worker’s desk – difficult but sometimes necessary).",
        "相反，如果一个人在工作中老是烦着你，你不需要直接对他们说明，你只要发一个Digital Mirror的链接给他们（正如把一罐除臭剂放在一个合作者桌面上的老办法，虽然略显尴尬，但是非常必要）。"
    ],
    [
        "The unemployment rate has dropped to 5%, just above the Fed’s current median estimate for the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU).",
        "失业率已经降到5%，略高于美联储最新的不引起通胀加速的失业率（NAIRU）中位估计值。"
    ],
    [
        "If we know the price of cream and the price of skim milk, we can figure out the price of milk with 1% cream, 2% cream, or 4% cream.",
        "如果我们知道乳酪和脱脂牛奶的价格，我们就能计算出含1%、2%或4%乳酪的牛奶的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, decades of work to promote conservation and prevent piracy will be undermined, endangering the biodiversity convention – and those it protects.",
        "否则，几十年来促进保护、阻止盗版的工作将毁于一旦，威胁到生物多样性公约及其所保护的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "But while much progress has been made in the intervening decades, much more remains to be done to ensure that women and children are guaranteed healthy lives, education, and full social inclusion.",
        "但尽管二十年来取得了很大的进步，在确保妇女和儿童获得健康生活、教育和完全的社会包容等方面仍有许多事情要做。"
    ],
    [
        "The new European populists are parlaying legitimate frustration into a misguided set of policies that can only produce more of the same.",
        "新欧洲民粹主义者正在将合情合理的沮丧情绪演变为误导性政策组合，这一组合只能导致更多的沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "Even assurances that the revenue from such a tax would be refunded to taxpayers were inadequate to overcome political resistance, particularly in the US.",
        "即使保证这一税种的收入将用于向纳税人返利，但这仍不足以克服政治反对，特别是在美国。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent G-8 meeting in Scotland, as well as concerts and celebrity activism, has put a spotlight on the amount of international assistance reaching the countries and peoples of Africa.",
        "最近在苏格兰举行的八国峰会，以及除此之外的音乐会和名人活动，将人们的关注焦点放在了非洲各国和人民所受到的国际资助的数量上。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk of non-performing loans at state-owned banks is already clouding China’s future economic prospects.",
        "国有银行不良贷款风险已经令中国未来经济前景蒙上一层阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s announcement last summer that the ECB would do “whatever it takes” to preserve the euro reassured financial markets.",
        "欧洲央行行长德拉吉去年夏天宣布欧洲央行将“竭尽所能”捍卫欧元，这给了金融市场一颗定心丸。"
    ],
    [
        "They even have neuroses and identity problems, complex phenomena that the field of behavioral economics is finding relevant to understanding economic outcomes.",
        "他们甚至有神经和身份认知问题，还存在着与行为经济学领域如何理解某些经济结果相关的复杂现象"
    ],
    [
        "Orthodox monetary policy no longer enshrines the gold standard, which caused the central bankers of the 1920s to mismanage interest rates, triggering a global economic meltdown that ultimately set the stage for World War II.",
        "正统货币政策不再奉金本位为圭臬。 金本位导致20世纪20年代各大央行利率管理失当，引起全球经济萧条并成为第二次世界大战的祸根。"
    ],
    [
        "What she fails to tell us is that even a substantial reduction in emissions – at a high cost – will have an immeasurable effect on snowmelt by 2050.",
        "但是她却没有告诉我们，即使以高昂的代价大幅度减少排放，到2050年的时候对积雪融化的影响还是无法衡量。"
    ],
    [
        "Cuba remains Latin America’s black sheep for now.",
        "如今，古巴仍是拉美的异类。"
    ],
    [
        "For more than a decade, Italy has been ruled through a bipolar political system.",
        "十多年来，意大利一直为两极政治制度所统治。"
    ],
    [
        "And hundreds of thousands more are capable of doing the same.",
        "更有数十万罗姆人有能力走相同的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order to move from aspiration to implementation, Europeans must muster the unity of purpose that so far has been conspicuously absent in EU energy policy.",
        "但是，要想从构想走向实施，欧洲必须塑造同一目标，而这在欧盟能源政策中一直难觅踪迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Behind the smiles, the polite interactions, and the cautiously worded diplomatic language, strong undercurrents of suspicion remain.",
        "在微笑、礼貌的接触以及措辞小心翼翼的外交语言背后，仍然存在着力量强大的怀疑的暗流。"
    ],
    [
        "Cameron does not personally want Britain to leave the EU, but he knows that some form of democratic consent is needed for future British governments to settle the matter.",
        "卡梅伦个人并不希望英国离开欧盟，但他知道，未来英国政府要想解决这一问题，需要某种形式的民主赞成。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is one of the world’s most financially liberal countries.",
        "美国是世界上金融自由度最高的国家之一。"
    ],
    [
        "If the outcomes of democratic elections are not respected, people will seek other means to make themselves heard.",
        "如果民主选举的结果得不到尊重，民众只能寻求其他途径来进行表达。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the Ukraine episode indicates, pipelines dedicated to a single country may be less reliable than those that run through several countries.",
        "但是，正如乌克兰事件所表明的那样，专门通往单一国家的管道可能会比经过几个国家的较为不可靠。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, the global supply of gold – both existing and newly produced – is limited, and demand is rising faster than it can be met.",
        "第四，不论是从存量和增量来讲，全球范围内的黄金供给都是很有限的，而需求的增长远远高于供给的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But North Korea also knows that, without joint exercises, a military alliance becomes weak and hollow.",
        "但朝鲜同样明白，不进行联合军演，军事联盟就是徒有其表。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Europe’s Housing Market Next?",
        "是否轮到欧洲房地产市场破灭？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the involvement of the highest level of Russia’s government is almost a guarantee that the killers will never be found.",
        "事实上，俄罗斯政府最高层的参与几乎使人们可以肯定凶手永远不会被找到。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1936, John Maynard Keynes demonstrated the futility of trying to balance the budget in the midst of an economic depression.",
        "直到1936年，凯恩斯揭示了在经济不景气时试图平衡预算纯属徒劳无益的道理。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 225 million women who want to avoid pregnancy are not using safe and effective family-planning methods.",
        "全世界大约有2. 25亿妇女，她们想避孕，但没有安全有效的计划生育手段可用。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, all of that CO2 was soaked up from the atmosphere the year before; but, had we just left the barley where it was, it, too, would have soaked up quite a bit, lowering the reduction relative to coal to 20 tons.",
        "当然，所有释放的二氧化碳均为一年前从空气中吸收； 但如果依然种植大麦也能吸收很大一部分，从而导致与燃煤相比的减排量降低到20吨。"
    ],
    [
        "But what strikes me is that these arguments focus only on improving the mix of outputs within an economy, with no attention paid to labor.",
        "但令我震惊的是这些观点只专注于改善经济内部的产出组合，丝毫不关注劳动力。"
    ],
    [
        "On these fronts, Putin has made some progress, embedding Russia firmly within Middle Eastern politics.",
        "在这些战线上，普京取得了一些进展，俄罗斯已经深深地打入了中东政局。"
    ],
    [
        "An obvious lesson is that the government should have switched to loosening earlier, and more forcefully.",
        "一个显而易见的教训是政府应该早一点开始放松政策，力度也应该更大。"
    ],
    [
        "The world is in the midst of a great political transformation, in which climate change has moved to the center of national and global politics.",
        "世界正处于巨大的政治转型之中。 在这一转型中，气候变化已经移动到了国内和国际政治的中心。"
    ],
    [
        "The Year of Rational Pessimism",
        "理性悲观之年"
    ],
    [
        "With a Kurdish exit removing the third constituent element – besides Shia and Sunni Arabs – of Iraqi politics, the country’s sectarian polarization would most likely deepen.",
        "库尔德人的离开意味着伊拉克政坛仅次于什叶派和逊尼派阿拉伯人的第三大组成部分不复存在，该国的宗派极化问题几乎肯定将有所加深。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the answer will simply be that the ruling People’s Action Party will choose a successor in the conventional way.",
        "或许答案仅仅是新加坡执政的人民行动党将以传统的方式选择继任者。"
    ],
    [
        "Abroad, Merkel has no need to demonstrate that Germany is a big country in Europe; her partners are fully aware of this.",
        "在国外，默克尔没有必要展示德国是欧洲大国； 她的伙伴们清楚地认识到了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Security initiatives should therefore first be discussed bilaterally within the NATO-EU framework; only then should a common position be presented at the OSCE. Speaking to Russia with one voice is absolutely essential.",
        "同时，已经存在的安全事务机构——欧安组织（OSCE）、北约-俄罗斯理事会（NATO-Russia Council）以及欧洲-大西洋合作伙伴理事会（Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council）等等——应该得到强化，而为此设置新机构则没有必要。"
    ],
    [
        "The sub-prime crisis has diverted attention from rising fears about Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF’s) as the new bogeyman of global finance.",
        "次级房贷危机把人们的注意力从日益担忧的、对被称为国际金融魔怪的国家财富基金上转移开来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, many of the Middle East’s most powerful actors – including Turkey and Saudi Arabia – are suspicious of China’s long-term intentions.",
        "事实上，许多中东最强大的行动方——包括土耳其和沙特阿拉伯——都对中国的长期意图表示怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, it can be expected that, barring major disruptions, strong investment growth will push China’s GDP more than 8% higher year on year.",
        "2013年，可以预料得到的是，除非发生重大的破坏性事件，否则强劲的投资增长将在每一年度都推动中国GDP增长在8%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "That means they can grow more rapidly than wealthier economies, until their per capita income catches up.",
        "这意味着它们可以以比富裕国家更快的速度增长，直到人均收入实现赶超。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, not only do most scientists and governments worldwide consider human germline genetic modification unacceptable; it is expressly prohibited in more than 40 countries, including the UK.",
        "其实，不仅全球绝大多数政府和科学家无法接受对人类生殖细胞进行改造； 包括英国在内的40多个国家都明令禁止这种作法。"
    ],
    [
        "The 100,000 members of this Muslim sect, which believes that Muhammad was not the last prophet, have been declared infidels, and the government outlawed their publications until the ban was reversed by the Bangladeshi High Court.",
        "这个穆斯林教派的100,000名相信Muhammad并非最后一位先知的成员被认为是异教徒，并且，直到孟加拉国高级法院推翻这个宣判之前，他们的出版物一直被政府宣布为不合法刊物。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang recently offered $20 billion to finance infrastructure and development projects in the ASEAN countries.",
        "此外，中国总理李克强最近还向东盟国家提供200亿美元用于基础设施和发展项目融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Kuru was transmitted through cannibalistic rituals that were commonplace in Papua New Guinea until the 1950’s.",
        "库鲁病通过食人习俗传播，巴布亚新几内亚直到20世纪50年代一直有这种习惯。"
    ],
    [
        "With the right structural reforms, it may even be able to achieve a sustained period of Chinese-style double-digit economic growth.",
        "有了合理的结构性改革，它甚至可以在一段时期内持续实现中国式的两位数经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "He has already appointed Myron Ebell, an outspoken climate change denier, to oversee the transition at the US Environmental Protection Agency.",
        "他已经任命直言不讳的气候变化否定者迈伦·依波尔负责监督美国环保局的过渡工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Following this visit, my message to European leaders is twofold. First, Libya’s TNC is the best bet we can make now for Libya’s future.",
        "在本次访问之后，我向欧洲领导人们传达的信息将分为两部分：首先，利比亚过渡国民议会是目前我们推动利比亚走向未来的最佳伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s involvement reflects a different, much older struggle – that between Sunni and Shia for control of the Middle East.",
        "伊朗的介入反映了另一场历史远为悠久的斗争——逊尼派和什叶派对中东地区的争夺战。"
    ],
    [
        "But when it comes to promoting economic recovery, central banks can certainly do more.",
        "但在促进经济复苏方面，央行显然可以做得更多。"
    ],
    [
        "This has often raised suspicions about the motivations of doctors in pronouncing a candidate donor’s death.",
        "人们经常会质疑医生宣布捐赠候选人死亡时的动机。"
    ],
    [
        "Designing and implementing a strategy that constrains Putin’s revisionist behavior, while ensuring Russia’s long-term international engagement, is one of the most important challenges facing the US and its allies today.",
        "设计并执行策略限制普京的修正主义行为并确保俄国长期参与国际事务是美国及其盟友当前面临的最重要挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "By last summer, most of Europe was already enjoying a decent recovery, when renewed fears of disintegration, this time caused by politics, not finance, suddenly overwhelmed the improvement in economic conditions.",
        "到去年夏天，大部分欧洲国家复苏形势喜人，就在此时，新的分裂担忧接踵而至——这一回的原因是政治，而不是金融——一夜之间就压倒了经济条件的改善。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of an answer to that question, China’s overly assertive policies have proven a diplomatic boon for the US in strengthening and expanding American security arrangements in Asia.",
        "在无法回答这个问题的情况下，中国的过度自信反而在外交上刺激了美国在亚洲地区加强并扩张安全合作条约的举动。"
    ],
    [
        "These lax procedures contrast jarringly with the president's powers.",
        "如此宽松的程序却与总统的权力形成了鲜明的对比。"
    ],
    [
        "Resource industries – indeed, resource-based economies like Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Russia – have become addicted to China’s old strain of unsustainable hyper-growth.",
        "资源产业——事实上像澳大利亚、加拿大、巴西和俄罗斯这些资源型经济体——都已经过度依赖中国过去那种不可持续的高速增长张力。"
    ],
    [
        "France does.",
        "法国有过。"
    ],
    [
        "South Asia is at a critical stage in its historical transformation, when deepening economic disparities could stifle growth itself.",
        "南亚现在正处于一个历史转型的关键阶段，日益恶化的经济发展不平衡很可能最终抑制增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But change is coming, in the form of a 36-year-old maverick with no traditional-party backing.",
        "但是变化正在发生，这次大选出现了一名没有传统政党支持的36岁标新立异的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of February in Niamey, Niger’s capital, armed troops surrounded the presidential palace and arrested President Mamadou Tandja in the midst of a cabinet meeting.",
        "2月底，在尼日尔首都尼亚美，武装部队包围总统府，在内阁会议进行过程中逮捕了总统马马杜·坦贾。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Portuguese authorities recently made a preemptive offer to their country’s creditors: Instead of redeeming bonds maturing in September 2013, the government would stretch its repayment commitment out to October 2015.",
        "普林斯顿—葡萄牙当局最近先发制人给该国债权人来了个下马威：它将不会履行2013年9月到期债权的偿还义务，而是将偿还期限延长到2015年。"
    ],
    [
        "Securing a place for Russia in a new world order is integral to establishing such an identity.",
        "在新世界秩序中确保俄罗斯的一席之地是建立这一身份的必要条件之一。"
    ],
    [
        "What, then, is to be done?",
        "那么，对此我们能够做些什么？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, nearly 20 years after former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright dubbed her country “indispensable,” it remains so.",
        "结果是在前美国国务卿奥尔布赖特声称自己的国家“不可或缺”20年后，美国的地位仍然未能动摇。"
    ],
    [
        "Our new defense strategy and budget makes clear that it will not.",
        "我们新的国防战略和预算明确显示没有这种可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Others in Africa and the Middle East should take note.",
        "非洲和中东的其他国家应该引起注意。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar trends are evident in sharply decelerating exports in Korea and Taiwan.",
        "韩国和台湾也显示出了类似的出口大幅减速迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany is the world’s second largest importer, closely behind the US.",
        "德国是仅次于美国的世界第二大进口国。"
    ],
    [
        "These three measures, if applied to all banks, would eliminate the need for special rules governing liquidity or funding (which would remain open to supervisory review, but not to binding constraints). There would also be no need for special restrictions on banking activities and operations.",
        "这三项措施如能对所有银行适用，将能消除出台治理流动性和融资的特别规则的需要（将受监督者审查，但没有强制性约束），对银行活动和经营的特别限制也将失去必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is another answer, which takes the form of the old and venerable tradition of Confucianism, which is being revived by government officials, critical intellectuals, and ordinary citizens.",
        "这一途径采用古老而又受人仰重的儒家传统形式。 政府官员、具有独到见解的知识分子以及普通公民正在复兴这一传统。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, just two days after the Vikrant’s launch, explosions at the naval dockyard in Mumbai sank INS Sindhurakshak – one of the ten Kilo-class submarines that form the backbone of India’s aging conventional-submarine fleet – killing 18 crew members.",
        "”事实上，维克兰特下水仅仅两天后，孟买海军船坞爆炸导致了Sindhurakshak号下沉，十八名船员丧生。 Sindhurakshak号是构成印度日益老化的常规潜艇力量基石的十艘基洛级潜艇之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arabs’ march to freedom is bound to be a long and tortuous process – perhaps the main geopolitical test of the twenty-first century.",
        "阿拉伯人迈向自由的长征之路注定是漫长而曲折的——或许将是21世纪的主要地缘政治考验。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if the technological optimists are right, it is difficult to see how that will enable developing countries to sustain the kind of growth they experienced over the last couple of decades.",
        "即使技术乐观派是对的，也难以看出这是否能让发展中国家保持过去几十年来所经历的快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But world leaders should take them seriously.",
        "但是各国领导人应该认真考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin continues to deny that Russia’s financial problems were caused by his war in Georgia, and it took the Central Bank more than a month to provide substantial liquidity injections.",
        "普京继续否认他对格鲁吉亚的战争造成了俄罗斯的金融问题。 俄央行花了一个多月的时间才为市场注入了足够的流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "But most developed countries have retirement ages below this mark, and, despite some progress, it will be decades before they catch up.",
        "然而大多数发达国家的退休年龄依然低于这一数值，尽管已经出台了一些措施，但真正达标还需数十年。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anemic.",
        "米兰—毫无疑问，自2008年金融危机所引发的全球衰退以来，复苏反常地漫长而低迷。"
    ],
    [
        "Also, potential politicians have never been able really to measure their popularity in democratic contests.",
        "此外，潜在政客从未真正学会在民主竞争中估算自己的支持度。"
    ],
    [
        "“Things are actually worse since the revolution,” Khalil said while hopping on a minibus to a nearby wealthy residential compound where he gardens.",
        "实际上，革命以后情况变得更糟了，“哈利勒说，一边跳上小巴前往他做园丁的富人小区。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Africa’s women are helping to shape the policies and practices that will bring about economic and social liberation in their respective countries.",
        "如今，非洲妇女正在影响能给各自国家带来经济和社会解放的政策和实践。"
    ],
    [
        "Some will see in this contretemps proof of the age-old argument that India’s democracy is an obstacle to development.",
        "有人据此认为这证明了一种古老的说法，即印度民主是发展的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s governments will adopt the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a special United Nations summit on September 25.",
        "世界政府将在9月25日的联合国特别峰会上开始实施新的可持续发展目标（SDG）。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – In August 2008, Russian troops moved into Georgia.",
        "剑桥-2008年8月，俄罗斯军队开进了格鲁吉亚。"
    ],
    [
        "Saving lives requires that mothers and babies in the highest-mortality countries be reached at the time of greatest risk.",
        "挽救性命要求在最大危险之时赶到死亡率最高的国家的母婴。"
    ],
    [
        "It called for the “achievement of a just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem to be agreed upon in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 194.”",
        "该计划同时也在难民问题上给予了以色列和巴勒斯坦同等的地位，呼吁要“达成一个符合联合国大会194号决议的巴勒斯坦难民问题解决方案”。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, one can also be guilty of complicity in a crime by not stopping it while having both the duty and the power to do so, and when, through one’s inaction, one decisively contributes to the creation of conditions that enable the crime to take place.",
        "不管怎样，如果一个人既有义务又有权力去阻止一起犯罪却没有去阻止，并且因为他的不作为，从而为犯罪的发生决定性地创造了有利的条件，那么他就是共犯。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a matter of life and death for 20 million refugees and millions of other vulnerable migrants – and a profound test of the civic health of democratic societies worldwide.",
        "对2,000万难民和数百万其他脆弱移民来说，这是生死攸关的大事——对于全世界民主社会的公民健全（civic health）来说，这也是影响深远的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "A 2014 survey indicated that South Korean women spent, on average, three hours and 28 minutes daily on household activities and family care, compared to just 47 minutes for men, who also accounted for only 5.6% of those who took parental leave in 2015.",
        "2014年的调查表明韩国女性平均每天要花3小时28分钟用于家务和家政，而男性仅为47分钟。 2015年男性产假只占总量的5."
    ],
    [
        "This can lead people to make serious mistakes, paying more for long-term assets than they should, even assuming that the economy will perform spectacularly well in the future.",
        "这样会让人犯下严重的错误，为长期资产付出太多的代价，甚至预期未来经济也能够保持强劲的发展势头。"
    ],
    [
        "Now public spending is on the increase again, and record peacetime deficits of 10% or more of GDP stretch ahead for years.",
        "现在政府开支又有所增加,已经高达GDP的10%，财政赤字也创了和平时期的历史新高。"
    ],
    [
        "If corporate executives lie during a conference call, they can be sued.",
        "如果企业主管人员在议会聆讯中撒谎，那么等待他的将是法律的制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "But to characterize the election result as a rejection of Europe simply is not quite accurate (or fair).",
        "但要说产生了拒绝欧洲的选举结果实在有失偏颇（或者不公平）。"
    ],
    [
        "But the United Kingdom is now faced with the worst outcome: stagflation.",
        "但英国目前却在面对着此举最恶劣的后果：滞胀。"
    ],
    [
        "But, rather than alarming anyone, this should be seen as reassuring, because the riskiest forms of international finance have been curtailed without disrupting more stable and productive forms of foreign investment.",
        "但是，这不必引起警惕，而应该让人宽慰，因为国际金融风险最高的形式已经得到了削减，并且没有干扰到更加稳定和高效的外国投资形式。"
    ],
    [
        "In his inaugural address, he sounded the themes of smart power – a willingness “to extend an open hand to those who unclench their fists” – but also stressed themes of responsibility as Americans confront sobering economic problems.",
        "在奥巴马的就职演说中，他奏响了聪明能力的旋律——愿意为“那些松开拳头的人伸出双手”——但是，因为美国人面临着严重的经济问题，所以他也强调了责任的主题。"
    ],
    [
        "States are right to spend generously on education; but, of the world’s top ten universities listed by the Shanghai ranking, seven are private.",
        "国家在教育上慷慨投入是正确的； 但是，在上海大学排行榜上，前十名中有七家是私立大学。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the real-world case of someone shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater.",
        "我们可以用现实世界中的例子打比方，好比有人在拥挤的戏院大喊“着火啦！"
    ],
    [
        "There can be no bilateral fix for a multilateral problem.",
        "多边问题无法用双边方法解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the problems of the food industry have been vigorously highlighted by experts on nutrition and health, including Michael Pollan and David Katz, and certainly by many economists as well.",
        "当然，迈克尔·波林 and 大卫·卡兹等营养健康专家已经极力强调了食品业存在的问题，同样的问题无疑也引起了很多经济学家的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "The sheer horror – parents seeing their kids safely off to school, only to have them be killed there by something intended to benefit them – is unbearable.",
        "这起恶性事件——家长认为安全才把孩子送到学校，但他们却被本意是让他们受益的项目夺走了生命——是不可容忍的。"
    ],
    [
        "They could merely create an indexed unit of account to replace currency for measuring economic quantities and defining prices.",
        "政府可以建立一个与指数挂钩的帐户单位来取代货币用以衡量经济数量和确定价格即可。"
    ],
    [
        "In this respect, India more resembles the France with which Sarkozy wants to make a clean break than the current one.",
        "在这一方面，印度倒像是萨尔科奇所想要决裂的法国，而不是当前的法国。"
    ],
    [
        "The original concept was that the two bodies would reach a consensus on a candidate.",
        "最初的构思是，这两大机构将在候选人问题上达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "If the army collapses, it is Algeria [and] France which collapses.”",
        "如果军队崩溃，那么崩溃的是阿尔及利亚[以及]法国。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is that a fledgling independence movement is shaking things up in Hong Kong.",
        "原因在于一股独立运动雏形正在动摇香港。"
    ],
    [
        "The majority of Syria’s six million displaced children remain out of school, while around 250,000 young people miss out on a college education.",
        "叙利亚六百多万流离失所儿童绝大多数依然没有学上，而无法接受大学教育的年轻人约为250,000。"
    ],
    [
        "A logical implication of the view that corporations are “people” is that shareholders should learn about the political spending carried out by the companies in which they invest.",
        "公司是“人民”，这一观点的一个逻辑影响是股东应该获知他们所投资的公司所作出的政治支出。"
    ],
    [
        "In traditional Western European markets, health officials should brace for a rise in the number of deaths from drug overdoses, as this year’s bumper opium crop will lead to higher-purity doses of heroin.",
        "在传统的西欧市场，由于今年鸦片作物丰收将会导致更高纯度剂量的海洛因，卫生官员将会遇到由于吸毒过量而造成的死亡数量的上升事件。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, some of those who are decrying impunity today, Uribe included, supported impunity for the M-19 left-wing guerrilla group in the 1980s.",
        "毕竟，包括乌里维在内的一些人，尽管他们现在反对豁免，但对于20世纪80年代M-19左翼游击队，他们是支持和面的。"
    ],
    [
        "The macro-story is simple, but dramatic.",
        "宏观原因简单但又富有戏剧性。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, China will invariably respond harshly to US efforts to step up its military presence in the region.",
        "无论如何，美国加强亚太地区军力的行为肯定会引发中国方面激烈的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the street protests intensified, fueled by a new grievance.",
        "事实上，街头示威因为新的仇恨而被强化和放大了。"
    ],
    [
        "CELAC has emphasized that a new global climate-change deal should treat adaptation and mitigation in a balanced manner.",
        "CELAC强调新全球气候协议应该均衡地对待调整（adaptation）和减少（mitigation）。"
    ],
    [
        "The positive correlation between income and democracy that one sees across countries could be due to reverse causation: democracy is more likely to persist as a country grows richer.",
        "我们在一些国家看到的收入与民主之间的正相关性可能是一种因果倒置：民主由于国家日渐富裕而很可能会更稳固。"
    ],
    [
        "A common European front could persuade the US to give Lebanon and Palestine enough time to consolidate their national democratic processes, thus isolating the radical elements of Hamas and steering Hezbollah to dissolution of its private army.",
        "一条统一的欧洲阵线可以说服美国给予黎巴嫩和巴勒斯坦足够的时间来巩固其国家民主进程，从而孤立哈马斯的极端分子并促使真主党解散其武装。"
    ],
    [
        "No-till farming techniques, in which the soil is not plowed, mean less soil erosion, less runoff of agricultural chemicals, and lower fuel consumption and carbon emissions by mechanized farm equipment.",
        "免耕技术——即不需要犁地——意味着更少的水土流失、更少的农业化学元素流失以及农用机械更少的燃料使用和温室气体排放。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the unique status of Libya’s economy and political system today, scrutinizing the process of investment in foreign companies, as well as defining the nature of the relationships between the Libyan regime and fund management, is necessary to ensure healthy commercial relations between sovereigns and their portfolio investments.",
        "如今，利比亚经济和政治体系有着独一无二的地位，但详细审查投资外国公司的过程、厘清利比亚政权与基金管理之间关系的性质对于确保各主权财富基金与其投资组合之间保持健康商业关系来说是必不可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB famously raised interest rates twice in 2011, just as the euro crisis was worsening and unemployment was increasing to double-digit levels, bringing deflation ever closer.",
        "欧洲央行2011年引人瞩目地提升了两次利率，而与此同时，欧元危机正在恶化，失业正在向两位数迈进，让通缩更加靠近了。"
    ],
    [
        "Implementing that system has depended heavily on a supportive America.",
        "推行这样的体系特别需要美国的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Rich countries can’t deny that their past emissions have inflicted harm on the world.",
        "富裕国家不可否认它们过去的排放给世界造成了伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "In August 1982, Mexico threatened to default, and was quickly followed by other large borrowers, notably Argentina and Brazil.",
        "1982年8月，墨西哥扬言要违约，很快就有其他债务国跟风，特别是阿根廷和巴西。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmentalists will have to embrace the idea that conservation does not only mean protecting pristine landscapes.",
        "环保主义者必须接受水资源保护不等于维持原始状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Its decisions, which have wide exposure, pose the greatest risk to human and other animal life – at any dose.",
        "它的结论被人们广泛接受，无论剂量大小都会严重威胁人类和其他动物的生命健康。"
    ],
    [
        "In a society, law-enforcement institutions can ultimately compel a citizen to abide by the rules.",
        "在一个社会里，执法部门可以迫使一位公民服从法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Food and other basic goods are bought – benefiting the local economy – nutrition improves, and kids attend school for longer.",
        "在购买了食品和其他基本物品后，地方经济获得了收益，而营养也得到了改善，孩子上学时间也更长。 南非有一项没有附加条件的儿童赠款，其收款人是孩子的母亲。"
    ],
    [
        "Further evidence of American isolationism can be found in a recent opinion poll taken by the Pew Research Center and the Council on Foreign Relations.",
        "更多的美国孤立主义证据可以从皮尤研究中心（Pew Research Center）和外交关系委员会（Council of Foreign Relations）的最新民调中看出。"
    ],
    [
        "Imposing a tax on those who, say, drive low-mileage SUV’s is a way of harnessing humanity’s collective intelligence to decide when bad side effects are a reason to alter behavior.",
        "比如，对那些驾驶低里程数SUV的人征税就是利用人类的集体智慧来决定何时不良的副作用会成为我们改变行为的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, history has not been kind to such rulers.",
        "事实上，历史对这些统治者并不友善。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, the discovery of 1.1 million renminbi and large sums of other foreign currency has ignited a fresh controversy over Dorje.",
        "在此背景下，警方搜获的110万元人民币以及其他各国货币就为多杰引来了新的质疑之声。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem now is that interests are no longer the same, or even held in common.",
        "现在的问题是利益不再相同，甚至根本就不再共同维系。"
    ],
    [
        "“We wanted to send a message to the General National Council members,” according to Hashim Al-Nawa‘, one of the Brigade’s commanders. “They should not come near the Shariah.",
        "该组织指挥官之一哈希姆·那瓦（Hashim Al-Nawa）的说法是，“我们想要给全国委员会成员传达一条信息，他们不应该触碰伊斯兰教法。"
    ],
    [
        "The first option would be to place upper limits on the sovereign debt held by banks – for example, by eliminating the current exemption of zero-risk sovereign bonds from regulators’ so-called large exposure regime.",
        "第一个选择是规定银行主权债务持有量的上限——比如在监管者的所谓大规模敞口制度（large exposure regime）中取消现行的零风险主权债务豁免。"
    ],
    [
        "The Central Bank of Cyprus has provided large loans to Cypriot banks under the Emergency Liquidity Assistance arrangement, implying that the collateral offered did not meet the standards of the ECB.",
        "塞浦路斯央行通过紧急流动性支持（Emergency Liquidity Assistance）向塞浦路斯银行提供大量贷款，这意味着抵押品达不到欧洲央行的标准。"
    ],
    [
        "The first space race began in 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial Earth satellite.",
        "第一次空间竞赛始于1957年，苏联发射了第一课人造地球卫星史普尼克（Sputnik）。"
    ],
    [
        "There are already dangerous signs that global firms are moving activities into more congenial jurisdictions in order to avoid tighter regulation in the major financial centers.",
        "许多全球企业已开始向那些管制更宽松的地区迁移以躲避那些主要金融中心的严厉管制，这是个非常危险的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators, by contrast, cannot ignore these imbalances, because if too many participants are on the same side, positions cannot be liquidated without causing a discontinuity or, worse, financial collapse.",
        "在这种情形下，监管者就不能袖手旁观了，因为如果越来越多的市场参与者都这么想的话，就会造成连锁反应，一旦出了问题，局面不可收拾，金融系统由此就会崩盘。"
    ],
    [
        "Inevitably, the cruel lack of means was pointed out time and again.",
        "于是，每个人都清醒地意识到我们在这个问题上束手无策。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixty Years of the Palestinian “Catastrophe”",
        "巴勒斯坦六十年的“大灾难”"
    ],
    [
        "This implies that the problem has mainly been a lack of demand for credit – reluctance on the part of businesses and households to borrow on almost any terms in a flat market.",
        "这意味着问题主要是缺乏信贷需求——在这个萧条的市场，无论条件有多优惠，企业和家庭都不愿向银行贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The Inclusive Road to Growth",
        "增长的包容之路"
    ],
    [
        "Even the world’s middle classes are feeling the squeeze of falling incomes and opportunities.",
        "就连全世界中等阶层也感到收入缩水，机会稀缺。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States Congress is about to finalize a bill that will grant resolution authority over major US financial institutions to a newly formed systemic council.",
        "美国国会即将起草完成一项法案，计划新组建一个涵盖整个金融系统的委员会，并授权其处理和美国各大财政机构有关的解救方案。"
    ],
    [
        "But the new populism is not yet undemocratic, or even anti-democratic.",
        "但是，新的民粹主义还不是非民主的，甚至也不是反对民主。"
    ],
    [
        "Veal calves are similarly confined for all their lives in individual stalls that do not permit them to turn around, lie down, or stretch their limbs.",
        "肉牛的一生同样在独立的畜栏中渡过，根本无法转身、躺卧或者伸展肢体。"
    ],
    [
        "Continued reduction of interest rates and extension of repayment maturities have served only to prolong Greece’s struggles.",
        "不断降低利率及延长还款期限也只是在延长希腊的垂死挣扎而已。"
    ],
    [
        "The French system provides greater access to the public, but it is less likely to find out what really happened.",
        "法国体系更容易被公众所利用，但其确定事实真相的可能性更低。"
    ],
    [
        "They illustrate the catalytic effect of digital connectivity (clearly visible, too, among China’s “twittering classes”).",
        "他们诠释了数字化连接的催化效应（这一点在中国的“推特阶层”中也不难看到）。"
    ],
    [
        "Encouraging a shift to legal cash crops and food requires time and heavy investment.",
        "鼓励转向合法的经济作物和食品需要时间和巨大的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "This was far from a smooth process, as the American Civil War amply demonstrates.",
        "曾经发生的美国内战充分表明，这一过程远不是一帆风顺的。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the oil sheikhs reduce output of fossil fuels?",
        "石油酋长国们会减少矿物燃料的生产吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Other senior Libyan officials suffer from the same managerial torpor.",
        "利比亚的其他高级官员也面临同样的管理问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The positive carry – higher returns in local currency and declining costs for US dollars – benefits everyone, especially the emerging markets, which gain from higher exports and growing capital inflows.",
        "正利差交易——更高的当地货币回报率与更低的美元借贷成本——让所有人都获益，特别是新兴市场，它们得益于更多的出口和更多的资本流入。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – Little more than two months from America’s presidential election, Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by five points in opinion polls, nationally and in several important swing states.",
        "斯坦福—距离美国总统选举只有两个月了，希拉里·克林顿在全国和几个重要摇摆州民调中领先唐纳德·特朗普五个点。"
    ],
    [
        "The metaphor of war has the singular advantage that it clearly and strongly evokes the intensity of the counterattack that was called for.",
        "战争比喻的一个独特优势就是清楚而又强有力地引发美国所需要的猛烈反击。"
    ],
    [
        "Under normal circumstances, there would be little cause for worry.",
        "在正常情况下，乌克兰没有什么可以担心的。"
    ],
    [
        "The other development is less obvious.",
        "另外一项进展相对较为隐蔽。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the proceedings against 85 of them, including appeals, have been completed.",
        "但是，对其中85人包括上诉在内的审判程序已经完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Raising the minimum wage has been winning in polls consistently for decades, and by wide margins – generally even among Republicans.",
        "几十年来，提高最低工资一直受到民调的支持，并且优势巨大——即便是共和党也基本如此。"
    ],
    [
        "They found no remedy, in either Uganda or Germany, for the violation of rights that, according to the Committee, they possess under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Germany is a signatory.",
        "他们的土地权利受《民事和政治权利国际公约》（International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights）保护，而德国是签约国之一。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it isn’t good for most people’s incomes.",
        "首先，它对大多数人的收入状况不利。"
    ],
    [
        "Revoking America’s Exorbitant Privilege",
        "废除美国的过度特权"
    ],
    [
        "Another similarity between Japan’s current crisis and the recent financial crisis is that the false risk assessment was largely due to the asymmetric distribution of social welfare and individual cost implied by more effective risk mitigation.",
        "当前日本危机与金融危机的另外一个相似点，就是错误的风险评估主要是由社会整体利益和个体成本的不均衡分配所导致的，而这一点在人们试图实施更有效风险缓解措施时显得尤为突出。"
    ],
    [
        "The OMT program breaks the volatile liquidity cycle that stems from chronic shortages of bank collateral and a limited fiscal transfer mechanism.",
        "OMT计划打破了由于银行抵押品长期短缺和财政转移支付机制效力不足导致的高波动的流动性周期。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, enlargement fatigue has been the dominant feature of EU relations with the western Balkan states and explains why the accession process has been flat-lining along a path of frozen negotiations and mutual mistrust toward an increasingly uncertain destination.",
        "事实上，扩张疲劳已成为欧盟与西巴尔干国家关系的主要特征，也解释了入盟程序为何不见起色，谈判总是难有进展，互不信任正在朝日益不确定的结局迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "During the past decade, the US and its allies have tried to weaken, and then, starting in 2011, to topple President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, mainly in a proxy war to undermine Iranian influence in Syria.",
        "在过去十年中，美国及其盟友试图削弱总统巴沙尔·阿萨德政权，从2011年开始更是试图推翻他，主要方式是通过代理战争破坏伊朗对叙利亚的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Handled with forbearance and firmness, relations with Russia should remain difficult but manageable.",
        "只要用克制而坚定的手腕来处理，欧洲的对俄关系即使如何复杂，也不至于无法管理。"
    ],
    [
        "This translates into an annual gap of at least $300 billion at current prices.",
        "也就是说，按照目前的价格，每年的缺口至少是三千亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Grant-supported subsidies would remain in place for a finite period, and donors would gradually phase them out as aid programs expire.",
        "赠款支持的补贴在一定时间内有效，而在援助项目到期的时候援助国逐渐予以取消。"
    ],
    [
        "We permit deadly cars on the highway; we let people die because of inadequate medical care; we tolerate bridges that collapse.",
        "我们允许高速公路出现致死车祸； 我们允许有人因为得不到充足的医疗而死；"
    ],
    [
        "At the moment, at most five can be counted on to do so.",
        "目前，可以有把握这样做的只有五个人。"
    ],
    [
        "Could it be too tempting in the short run to Apple’s management to have that $137 billion in the bank, so that it spends some or all of it on investments that fail to pan out in the long run?",
        "短期诱惑会不会太大以至于苹果公司管理层不愿把这1370亿美元放在银行，而是把一部分甚至全部投资于无法获得长期成功的项目中？"
    ],
    [
        "With a billion people living in more than 50 countries, Africa is wracked by poverty and, in too many places, torn apart by war.",
        "作为一片拥有 50 个国家， 10 亿人口的大陆，非洲贫困缠身，且许多的地方都留有被战争所撕裂的伤口。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Germany’s Bundesbank, which always guarded its monetary-policy independence so assiduously, has once again found itself in the rejectionist camp, expressing severe doubts about the route that the Commission plans to take.",
        "这也是为何一直极为珍视自身货币政策独立性的德意志银行再次站到了反对阵营，并对委员会计划采用的路径多有质疑的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Arab Spring protests erupted a decade later, the US security establishment viewed the sudden vulnerability of the Qaddafi and Assad regimes as a similar opportunity to install new regimes in Libya and Syria.",
        "十年后，阿拉伯之春暴动爆发，美国安全体系认为卡扎菲和巴沙尔政权的急转直下是类似的机会，可以利用它们扶持利比亚和叙利亚的新政权。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why we are working hard to enhance the legislative foundations of our security.",
        "因此，我们努力加强我们的社会的立法基础。"
    ],
    [
        "It is taught in formal and informal school settings worldwide.",
        "它在全球正式和非正式学校中教授。"
    ],
    [
        "· The profits of the investment-banking oligarchy (the handful of global investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan Chase, among others) were far in excess of what any competitive market ought to deliver, owing to these banks’ deep pockets and ability to maneuver through thickets of regulations.",
        "· 借助自身雄厚经济实力和钻监管规则的空子，各大投资银行寡头（就是包括高盛，摩根士丹利和摩根大通在内的那几个跨国投资银行）的盈利已经大大超越了任何竞争市场所能给予的盈利水平。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, the numbers speak for themselves.",
        "从表面上看，数字已经说明了一切。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet his African roots give him a unique capacity to transform American relations with Africa, elevating the importance of African self-reliance and achievement, while striving to make American aid more intelligent and effective.",
        "但他的非洲根基让他拥有了改变美非关系的独特能力，强调非洲自力更生和自我实现的重要，并同时竭尽全力让美国的援助更加明智有效。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – The winner of this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago, is a controversial choice.",
        "发自纽黑文——今年诺贝尔经济学奖得主芝加哥大学理查德·泰勒（Richard Thaler）是一个有争议的人选。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade is at the center of Trump’s “America First” approach, which he claims will protect and even restore lost American jobs.",
        "贸易是特朗普“美国优先”方针的核心，他声称将保护乃至重塑失去的美国就业。"
    ],
    [
        "A lesson emerges: with the deepening of the economic crisis, on the one hand, and instant global connectivity, on the other, what was accepted yesterday is regarded as intolerable today.",
        "另一方面，由于全球联系具有即时性； 曾经被人们所接受的事情现在可能会被视作无法容忍。"
    ],
    [
        "Economies are undergoing radical shifts in terms of how they produce, distribute, and consume goods and services.",
        "经济生产、销售以及商品和服务的消费方式正在经历根本性的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a government would be an improvement over the current one, but it might not have the will – or the votes in Congress – to pursue economic reforms.",
        "该政府将比现任政府有所改善，但也未必有意愿——或者足够多的国会票数——实施经济改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Let all the heavily indebted southern European countries jointly agree to join a weak euro, which would float against the stronger northern euro.",
        "让所有南欧重债国一致同意加入弱欧元（weak euro），弱欧元将围绕更强的北方欧元（northern euro）浮动。"
    ],
    [
        "But, although the policy is the same as the Fed’s, its purpose is very different.",
        "但是，尽管政策和美联储一样，其目的却大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaria is also expensive, costing Africa’s economy some $12 billion per year.",
        "疟疾也十分昂贵，给非洲经济造成大约每年120亿美元的成本"
    ],
    [
        "In France, as elsewhere in Europe, there have always existed unbridled nationalists, the “sovereignists” who say no to Europe in the name of defending the nation.",
        "在法国以及欧洲其他地方，总是存在着一些肆无忌惮的民族主义者，即那些打着保卫国家的名号反对欧洲的“主权主义者”。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, while the services sector accounts for more than 70% of employment in South Korea, its productivity-growth rate remains much lower than that of the manufacturing sector.",
        "事实表明，尽管服务业就业占韩国总就业的70%，但其生产率增长率仍远低于制造业。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese Communist Party’s legitimacy depends on strong economic growth, and it will not risk this strategy for some “authoritarian alliance” with Russia.",
        "中国共产党的合法性依赖于强劲的经济增长，它不会拿这一战略冒险与俄罗斯结成某种“极权联盟”。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Golden Rule is under assault, and those with the most influence are leading the charge.",
        "但在最具影响力的人领导下，这项黄金法则正在受到攻击。 即使在世界上所谓的开明民主国家，政治家也拒绝收容逃离残酷战争的绝望民众；"
    ],
    [
        "But that will require a sharp increase in French industrialists’ animal spirits.",
        "但这需要法国企业家大幅提高其动物精神。"
    ],
    [
        "If the world is to make progress toward its goals of eradicating poverty and stemming rising inequality, the system must be reformed.",
        "如果世界想朝着减少贫困、阻止不平等性加剧的目标前进，这一制度就必须改革。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the profits currently being earned by the leading financial firms are dizzyingly high.",
        "确实，居于前列的金融公司目前所赚取的利润高得惊人。"
    ],
    [
        "And while it would by no means mark the successful conclusion of the fight against climate change, it would provide a strong foundation for the global transition to a green economy.",
        "虽然这并不意味着应对气候变化斗争取得了圆满成功，但将为朝向绿色经济的全球过渡奠定坚实的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "This model should be expanded to include special political zones (SPZs) that erode divisions between Israelis and Palestinians.",
        "这种模式应该扩大到某种涵盖以色列人和巴勒斯坦人的政治特区，并以此取消双方之间的隔离区。"
    ],
    [
        "The president-elect could complicate bilateral relations, particularly given that his first year in office will coincide with the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th National Congress next fall.",
        "这位当选总统可能导致双边关系复杂化，尤其鉴于他首年任期恰逢中国共产党定于明年秋天召开的第十九次全国代表大会。"
    ],
    [
        "More surprising, investment has remained consistent, despite uncertainty about Britain’s future trade relations with the EU.",
        "更令人惊奇的是，投资也相当稳健，尽管存在英国与欧盟未来贸易关系的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of work, Uber creates more jobs than it destroys.",
        "但就工作机会而言，Uber创造的工作机会比它破坏的还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "On the one hand, there is the Colombia of rapid economic growth and booming foreign investment, of refurbished cities and innovative social policies.",
        "一方面，哥伦比亚拥有高速的经济增长和繁荣的外国投资，城市面貌焕然一新，创新社会政策层出不穷。"
    ],
    [
        "With high - and volatile - oil prices, businesses will focus their investments less on boosting productivity and more on maintaining flexible energy usage.",
        "如果油价居高不下、动荡不稳，企业就会把资金投向的重点放在保持灵活的能源利用，而忽略对生产率的提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Warring parties start to negotiate seriously only if and when they know that other alternatives are out of reach.",
        "敌对各方只有在明白别无选择时才会严肃对待谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "The Mumbai High Court ordered that the film be shown with only one scene cut.",
        "孟买高等法院裁定该片只需剪掉一个镜头就能上映。"
    ],
    [
        "Israeli doctors and nurses attended to Arabs’ needs.",
        "以色列医护人员也对阿拉伯人关怀备至。"
    ],
    [
        "Containment is hardly a relic of the Cold War.",
        "遏制绝不是冷战的后遗症。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment has remained remarkably low and confidence relatively high.",
        "德国失业率一直保持在显著的低水平而该国人民对经济的信心相对较高。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the economy is entropic for resources and historical for the production, organization, and spread of knowledge, with the prospects for economic and environmental sustainability residing in the space left between those two dynamic processes: the level of growth we choose must be conditioned on a sufficient level of knowledge to ensure the system’s survival.",
        "因此，经济发展会伴随资源的退降，但也会伴随着知识的产生、系统化以及传播，而经济和环境可持续发展的前景就存在于这两种动态过程的夹缝之中：我们所选择的增长速度必须有足够的知识水平作为保障，才能确保整个系统持续运转下去。"
    ],
    [
        "So, will anything prevent inequality from widening?",
        "那么还有什么能阻止这种不平等现象继续恶化呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The common word marriage, he argued, would remove any discrimination, but the brackets would recognize that the two states were different.",
        "他说，“婚姻”这个共同词汇可以消除任何歧视意义，但括号中的内容可以区分两种不同的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Dr. Jiang Yanyong may become a millionaire, wear any clothes he likes, redecorate his living room, even buy a car, but he cannot inform the public about an epidemic or write government officials an honest letter of admonition.",
        "蒋彦永医生本可以成为一位衣着光鲜、有房有车的百万富翁，但那样他就不能向公众披露疾病的真相也不能向政府官员勇进忠言了。"
    ],
    [
        "The US faces no serious challenge (not yet, at least) as the world’s dominant military power. After all, the US spends almost as much on its armed forced as the rest of the world combined.",
        "美国作为世界军事霸主的地位至今尚未受到任何严重威胁，毕竟它在军事上挥洒的金钱比全世界其他国家的总和还多。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if they are to succeed, they will have to acknowledge what Egypt is – and what it is not.",
        "但如果想要取得成功，他们必须认清埃及的能力边界。"
    ],
    [
        "The power of generosity can be disarming.",
        "慷慨的力量可以熄灭怒火。"
    ],
    [
        "He was Professor of Glaciology at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Environmental Sciences and a fellow of the Indian Institute of Technology and of Delft Technical University in the Netherlands.",
        "他曾任尼赫鲁大学（ JNU ）环境学院冰川学教授、印度理工学院（ IIT ）与荷兰代尔夫特理工大学（ TU Delft ）研究员。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1990’s, the main attraction of monetary union for Italian and Spanish politicians was that the new currency would bring down interest rates and make foreign money available for cheap financing of government debt.",
        "20世纪90年代，统一货币构想对意大利和西班牙政客的主要吸引力就在于，引入新货币既能压低利率，又能打开外国人的钱袋子，使政府可以实现廉价融资。"
    ],
    [
        "The most notable component of this strategy is the “Silk Road economic belt,” which is to run along the ancient Central Asian Silk Road and the modern maritime Silk Road – an initiative that Xi promoted heavily at the recent meeting in Beijing.",
        "这一战略最引人瞩目的部分是沿古代中亚丝绸之路和现代海上丝绸之路而进的“丝绸之路经济带”——习主席在最近的北京会议上着重强调了这一计划。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – In just six weeks, world leaders will meet in Paris to negotiate a new global climate-change agreement.",
        "华盛顿—区区六周后，世界领导人将齐聚巴黎协商新的全球气候变化协定。"
    ],
    [
        "To answer that question requires understanding how China got to this point.",
        "要回答这个问题，需要理解中国如何走到今天这一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Technological innovations are not only reducing the number of routine jobs, but also causing changes in global supply chains and networks that result in the relocation of routine jobs – and, increasingly, non-routine jobs at multiple skill levels – in the tradable sector of many economies.",
        "技术创新不但减少了常规工作数量，也引起了全球供应链和网络的改变，从而导致许多国家可贸易部门的常规工作以及存在各种技能要求的非常规工作的重新分配。"
    ],
    [
        "The rekindled hostility between Turkey’s government and the PKK is thus undermining Turkey’s interest in the success of the Syrian peace negotiations.",
        "因此，土耳其政府与PKK再度敌对破坏了叙利亚和平谈判成功对土耳其的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Its rationale for doing so highlights the risks associated with its decision.",
        "IMF干预的理由彰显出与其决定相关的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Such reforms may seem impossible, but EU disintegration seemed impossible before the Brexit vote.",
        "这些改革看上去不可能发生，但欧盟解体在英国退欧投票前看上去也不可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it seems that, according to the committee that rejected my nomination, adhering to the principles of most Christian churches is a cause for such a “moral” disqualification.",
        "现在根据否决我提名资格的执委会来看，坚守大部分基督教信条是导致这一“道德”不合格的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Some 40 years ago, when I entered Oxford University as a graduate student, I declared my interest in the Middle East.",
        "纽约——大约40年前，我进入牛津大学开始研究生学业时，兴趣是中东。"
    ],
    [
        "Coupled with the economic hardship of the interwar years were instances of racial prejudice in the US that aimed at preventing Japanese immigration.",
        "伴随两次世界大战之间经济困境的是美国种族偏见，意在防止日本移民。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not the case in Europe, where most investment is financed via bank loans that typically do not have long-term maturities – often less than five years – because banks themselves have little secure long-term financing.",
        "但欧洲并非如此。 在欧洲，大部分投资通过银行贷款融资，这些贷款通常期限并不长——往往小于五年——因为银行本身没有多少可靠的长期资金源。"
    ],
    [
        "Income inequality grew rapidly in the last decade, but consumption inequality did not.",
        "在过去的十年中，收入不平等性恶化得很快，但消费不平等性则否。"
    ],
    [
        "While politicians like Macron have moved a long way toward accepting the need to transfer powers over national budgets to the “center,” they fear that Schäuble’s plan asks too much and offers too little: severe limits on France’s fiscal space and a macroeconomically insignificant common budget.",
        "虽然一些像马洪这样的政治家花了很长时间去争取接受这种将制定国家预算的权力转移到“核心”的要求，但他们也担心朔伊布勒计划会要求太多而给予太少：一方面对法国财政空间予以严格限制，另一方面只提供了些在宏观经济上微不足道的共同预算。"
    ],
    [
        "They have their hands full just standing up for their own rights in Hong Kong, and the chance that they will succeed appears to be slim.",
        "他们站出来，只是为了他们自己在香港的利益，而他们获得成功的机会看起来十分渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the latest Z-Yen index of global financial centers showed London maintaining its first-place position – and with its margin over New York unchanged.",
        "确实，最新的全球金融中心Z-Yen指数表明伦敦依然保持着榜首位置——而它的利润超过纽约的情况也没有变化。"
    ],
    [
        "There was no “activism” on their part; there was only a permanent mandate to fulfill.",
        "对它们来说，这里不存在“积极主义”； 只有需要实现的永远地位使命。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe now faces key decisions that concern both its values and its interests in the Arab world, and the reconciliation of its short- and long-term objectives.",
        "欧洲现在需要协调短期和长期目标，并就其在阿拉伯世界的价值观和利益做出关键决策。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the ratio of capital that Hensarling would require of banks that take an off-ramp is far too low, at 10% of total assets.",
        "第一，亨萨林提案将对那些“匝道”选项银行的资本比例要求太低，只相当于总资产的10％。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet opposition to Sarkozy remains high, and not only among minorities and young people, who have registered to vote in high numbers, supposedly to oppose him and his heavy use of the police in the banlieues .",
        "但是反对萨尔科奇的势力依旧高涨，不仅仅是那些少数族裔和青年人。 他们大量登记投票，大概是要反对他本人及其在市郊用警过度。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, trade agreements negotiated by members of the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly the British Commonwealth) contain just such a provision.",
        "比如，英联邦成员之间的贸易协定就包含这样的条款。"
    ],
    [
        "Brown has few options left, and the UK is nowhere near the worst of the crisis.",
        "布朗几乎没有其他的选择，而也没有迹象表明英国危机已经见底。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is doubtful that the US offers China much transparency about its own military capabilities.",
        "但美国是否会就其自身的军事实力向中国提供信息非常值得怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "No one knows precisely the Mexican drug cartels’ annual profits, but they certainly amount to billions of dollars.",
        "没人知道墨西哥毒枭的准确年利润数字，但肯定以十亿美元计。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where economics becomes political economy.",
        "而对这个问题的回答正是经济变身为政治经济之处。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcry after the first BMW case was not really about the light sentence given to a rich woman, but about the lack of confidence ordinary people have in China's judicial system.",
        "在第一桩BMW案发生之后，民间呼声并不在于法庭对富商之妻的判刑太轻而在于普通民众对中国的司法制度缺乏信心。"
    ],
    [
        "More than anything else, his success in this domain will determine the perception of his administration.",
        "最重要的是，他在这方面的成功与否将决定人们对他政府的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the symbolic power of the left-right divide, France’s voters and political leaders alike have long tended to frame virtually all of the country’s problems in ideological terms.",
        "鉴于左翼和右翼分歧的象征意义，法国的选民和政治领导者长期以来都一直倾向于以意识形态的词汇来描述这个国家的所有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the problem runs deeper than that.",
        "然而问题也比这严重得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, America, and the wider world must not stand idle if Ukraine's rulers and oligarchs try to steal this election by any means at their disposal.",
        "如果乌克兰的统治者和寡头政治团伙试图通过任何方式操纵这次总统竞选的话，欧洲、美国以及国际社会绝对不会在一旁观望。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a very expensive, unwieldy way to achieve a very small reduction in temperatures.",
        "但是这是一个非常昂贵而笨拙的方法，用它只能在很小的程度上降低气温。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, fearing the popularity of Lee Teng-hui, who ran in the 1996 presidential election on a pro-independence platform, China’s People’s Liberation Army actually fired missiles close to the nearby coast of Keelung.",
        "事实上，出于对李登辉这位极受欢迎的台独派总统候选人的恐惧，中国人民解放军曾于1996年台湾大选期间向基隆港附近海域发射了导弹。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinian crisis is first and foremost one of leadership.",
        "巴勒斯坦危机首先是一场领导力危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic growth must be strong and sustainable; but, above all, it must be inclusive.",
        "经济增长必须强劲并可持续； 但是，最重要的，它必须是包容性的。"
    ],
    [
        "If the relevant actors are not working to champion transformative technologies, the results of innovation can reinforce the status quo, often by extending the life of products and systems that are not fit to address society’s needs.",
        "如果相关行动者没有致力于推进转型性技术，那么创新可能强化现状，并且通常是通过延长产品和系统的生命实现，而这些产品和系统并不适合社会的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, the burden of adjustment would be shared with other creditors, as has occurred in Greece, and the economy would gain time to recover, particularly as investments in the world’s largest oil reserves began to bear fruit.",
        "这样，调整负担就将由其他债权人共同承担（如同希腊那样），经济将赢得复苏时间，特别是在对世界最大石油储备的投资即将产生结果的当口。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in East Timor, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and many other countries, the transition to peace seems to be failing.",
        "的确，在东帝汶、伊拉克、阿富汗、科索沃和其他许多国家，向和平的过渡似乎正在失败。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not enough to be efficient and honest in public spending.",
        "不过，在公共支出的效率和诚实性方面我们还做得不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, with the USSR gone and the United States the world’s sole superpower, the geostrategic situation had changed entirely.",
        "最后，随着苏联解体和美国成为世界上唯一的超级大国，地理战略形势发生了彻底的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Some arrived at the clinic so ill that they could scarcely walk.",
        "其中一些人来到这家医院的时候已经病得无法走路了。"
    ],
    [
        "Research by the International Monetary Fund has indicated that these fiscal multipliers – the second factor overlooked by forecasters – vary with underlying economic conditions.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）的研究表明这些财政乘数——被预测者忽略的第二大因素——随基本经济条件的波动而变化。"
    ],
    [
        "How to Move China",
        "如何影响中国"
    ],
    [
        "And then, once you figure out what each of those pieces does, you will have your answer.",
        "而后，一旦你想明白这些部分起什么作用，答案就已经在你的手中。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Thais would agree about the military. And it is illegal to even begin to discuss the role of the king.",
        "绝大多数的泰国人都对军方都有共识，但讨论国王的地位在泰国是被认为非法。"
    ],
    [
        "At the heart of China’s measures are improved public transportation, green trade, and a revision of the energy mix.",
        "中国的措施的核心是改进公共交通、绿色贸易和改变能源结构。"
    ],
    [
        "No case, we believe, needs to be made for our biological superiority.",
        "我们相信，我们在生物学上高出其他物种一等。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is Iraq (another country about which the US needs to show the utmost concern) that now faces the gravest spillover effects.",
        "但目前受连累最深的莫过于伊拉克（除叙利亚之外伊拉克同样需要美国的重点关注）。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not represent the state of Western capitalism.",
        "美国的情况不代表西方资本主义的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "With the establishment of ECOWAS, the Franc Zone countries created two sub-regional groupings, WAEMU and CEMAC, in a bid to curb British, American, and Nigerian influence.",
        "在建立西非国家经济共同体的同时，法郎区国家还为遏制英、美以及尼日利亚的影响，成立了西非经货联盟和西非经货共同体等两大区域性组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Mali, where Islamist militants attacked a hotel filled with foreigners just one week after the attacks in Paris.",
        "比方说马里，那里的伊斯兰武装分子在巴黎袭击短短一周后就袭击了一座住满外国人的酒店。"
    ],
    [
        "But even for oft-cited Bangladesh, scientists just this year showed that the country grows by 20 square kilometers each year, because river sedimentation win out over rising sea levels.",
        "但即使是被经常提及的孟加拉国，科学家们今年刚刚告诉我们，该国的面积每年增长二十平方公里，这是因为河流淤积超过了海平面的上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, if global leaders – from multilateral organizations, governments, the private sector, and civil-society groups – seize opportunities for closer cooperation, long-simmering risks can be cooled before they boil over.",
        "事实上，如果全球领导人——不管是多边组织、政府、私人部门还是公民社会团体——能抓住机会加强合作，长期发酵的风险可以在形成不可收拾之势之前得到遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "With near-zero GDP growth, rising unemployment, and mounting public debt – not to mention counter-productive austerity policies – it is difficult to argue otherwise.",
        "法国GDP增长几乎为零，失业不断增加，公债水平节节攀升——更不用说反生产性的紧缩政策了——这让你很难反驳他的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "But Treasury officials believe that they must keep up the pressure, lest Congress follow through on threats to punish supposed currency manipulators, derailing the TPP and other trade agreements.",
        "但财政部官员认为他们必须保持压力，唯恐国会坚持要惩罚被认定实施货币操纵的国家，导致TPP和其他贸易协议破产。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the invasion, the international spotlight was on the potential US-Soviet nuclear showdown, not on the bloody war raging in the Himalayan foothills.",
        "在中国入侵印度的整个过程中，国际关注点一直都放在有可能爆发的美苏核决战上，而不是喜马拉雅山山脚下的血腥鏖战。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why I remain optimistic about the future of the US-Japan alliance.",
        "这也解释了我为什么对美日同盟的未来持乐观态度。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the planned and actual profits and turnovers of private companies can easily differ by 10% or more.",
        "毕竟，私营公司计划和实际利润和收入很容易就会产生10%或以上的偏差。"
    ],
    [
        "Why do Greece’s creditors refuse to move on debt restructuring before any new loans are negotiated?",
        "希腊债权人为何拒绝在任何新贷款谈判前进行债务重组？"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The ongoing financial volatility in emerging economies is fueling debate about whether the so-called “Fragile Five” – Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey – should be viewed as victims of advanced countries’ monetary policies or victims of their own excessive integration into global financial markets.",
        "纽约—新兴经济体的持续金融动荡助长了关于所谓的“脆弱五国”——巴西、印度、印尼、南非和土耳其应该被视为发达国家货币政策的受害者还是其自身过度融入全球金融市场的受害者的争论。"
    ],
    [
        "President Dilma Rousseff has done much to earn her single-digit approval ratings.",
        "总统罗塞夫花了很大的力气才获得一位数的满意率。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is political and practical; the second is philosophical or ethical.",
        "前者是政治和实用性的； 后者则是哲学或道德层面的。"
    ],
    [
        "As the fast-growing sectors absorb an increasing amount of resources, a shift toward more market-oriented interest rates is needed to ensure efficient allocation.",
        "高速增长部门吸收了越来越多的资源，因此需要利率市场化来确保资源可以有效配置。"
    ],
    [
        "Being able to implement a counter-cyclical fiscal policy was rightly viewed as a sign of economic maturity.",
        "能够实施反周期财政政策被正确地视为经济成熟的标志。"
    ],
    [
        "SABIS mines large data sets to ensure high standards and enhance academic performance for more than 63,000 students.",
        "SABIS挖掘大数据以确保高标准，增进63,000多名学生的学习成绩。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in this case, when the son borrows essential elements of his father’s architectural principles and serves a regime that seeks to use the Games for some of the same reasons that animated Hitler, is he not willingly reflecting those sins?",
        "但是当儿子继承了他的父亲建筑原理的核心思想，并且把它用来服务一个寻求用某些曾驱使希特勒的理由来利用奥运会的政权时，你能说他没有有意地表现那些罪过吗？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they are increasingly likely to feel like exiles both at home and abroad.",
        "因此，他们在国内外都越来越有众叛亲离之感。"
    ],
    [
        "The label created a self-imposed restriction, constraining Nestlé to sell a relatively narrow range of products.",
        "这个标签产生了作茧自缚的效果，将雀巢的产品线限定在一个相对狭窄的范围内。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, we also cannot completely rule out the possibility of a subsequent weakening or disintegration of Europe’s common political structures.",
        "显然，我们也不能将其可能引发的欧洲共同政治结构的削弱或瓦解的可能性排除在外。"
    ],
    [
        "The revelations and resulting debates in recent months have shown that many US politicians are also uneasy about the liberties taken by the secret services.",
        "最近几个月以来的事件发酵和由此带来的争论表明，许多美国政客也对秘密机构干涉自由深感忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "LAGUNA BEACH – Earlier this year, financial markets around the world were forced to navigate a perfect storm – a violent disruption fueled by an unusual amalgamation of smaller disturbances.",
        "发自拉古纳海滩——今年早些时候，世界各地的金融市场都被迫在一场完美风暴中艰难航行——这是一场由众多小型干扰因素的异常合并所助长的暴力破坏。 金融震荡加剧，令投资者如惊弓之鸟；"
    ],
    [
        "The Securities and Exchange Commission requires companies that use tantalum, tin, gold or tungsten in their products to investigate these raw materials’ origin, and to mitigate risks in their supply chains in line with the OECD Guidance if they are found to originate in certain conflict-affected or high-risk areas.",
        "证券和交易委员会（Securities and Exchange Commission，SEC）要求在产品中使用钽、锡、黄金或钨公司调查原材料的来源，如果发现来源于冲突影响或高风险地区，必须根据经合组织指引减轻供应链风险。"
    ],
    [
        "ZURICH – Ever since the American computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” in 1955, the public has imagined a future of sentient computers and robots that think and act like humans.",
        "苏黎世—1955年，美国计算机科学家约翰·麦卡锡（John McCarthy）创造了“人工智能”一词，自此以后，公众构想出一个有意识的计算机和机器人能像人一样思考和行动的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, China spent valuable political capital to oppose NATO’s airstrikes at the beginning of the intervention, only to end up backing the forces that NATO helped bring to power.",
        "毕竟，在北约干预之初，中国曾下了很大的政治血本反对北约的空袭，然而到了最后，却又支持在北约帮助下夺得政权的反对派。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Wall Street (whose interests the US Treasury represents) profits from capital market liberalization: they make money as capital flows in, as it flows out, and in the restructuring that occurs in the resulting havoc.",
        "当然，华尔街(美国财政部代表了华尔街的利益)从资本市场开放中获益。 当资本流入流出并且在随后混乱中的重组的时候，华尔街从中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "In one sense, Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were also weapons of mass distraction.",
        "某种意义上，伊拉克的大规模杀伤性武器也是大规模干扰性武器。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve this goal he sought to restore high culture to a position of primacy in Russian life, and to put mass media in its (politically) subservient place.",
        "为了实现这一目标，普京试图恢复高雅文化在俄国生活中至高无上的地位，并且将大众媒体置于政治上附和的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece actually spends less on debt service than Italy or Ireland, both of which have much lower (gross) debt-to-GDP ratios.",
        "实际上，希腊的债务维持成本比意大利和爱尔兰都低，而后两国的（毛）债务-GDP比率远远低于希腊。"
    ],
    [
        "The Manchin Amendment failed to gain the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster.",
        "曼钦修正案没能获得所需要的60票以克服共和党的冗长演说。"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming a limit to foreign investors’ willingness to buy these bonds, Greeks would have to buy them.",
        "假设外国投资者购买这些债券的兴趣有限，则剩下的必须由希腊人购买。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Trump welcomes Britain’s looming exit from the EU; upon meeting Prime Minister Theresa May for the first time, he is alleged to have asked enthusiastically, “Who’s next?”",
        "在首次与特雷莎·梅首相会面时，据称他曾热情地问，“谁是下一个？ ”最后，特朗普拖了太久才重申北约（承诺相互防御的）协定第五条；"
    ],
    [
        "Within hours of declaring her leadership at home, Merkel announced her visit to Beijing.",
        "在宣布了自己的欧元区领导者地位之后几小时，默克尔就宣布将访问北京。"
    ],
    [
        "But all parts of a country’s total debt and how it is financed are interconnected.",
        "但一国总债务的各个组成部分及其资助方式之间显然是有所关联的。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Ukraine two years ago, Venezuela is heading toward a constitutional crisis.",
        "就像两年前的乌克兰一样，现在的委内瑞拉正在走向宪政危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Serbia would save face, and would continue to have a say on crucial matters concerning Kosovo, including the treatment of the Serbian minority.",
        "塞尔维亚会保全脸面，并且将继续对有关科索沃的重大问题、包括科索沃的塞尔维亚少数民族的问题拥有话语权。"
    ],
    [
        "This failure will make remote any hope of reaching the other Millennium goals in the fight against poverty.",
        "这个失败将会使抵抗贫困之战中任何达到其他千年目标的希望变得更为缥缈。"
    ],
    [
        "But each turn of the rhetorical screw deepens the risk that, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, “jaw-jaw” could turn into “war-war.”",
        "但每一回合嘴炮往来，都将深化——用丘吉尔的话说——“哔哔”转化为“啪啪”的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The average number of working hours per person depends on a variety of factors:",
        "人均工作时数的多少取决于很多因素："
    ],
    [
        "Following the shock of the United Kingdom’s vote to exit the European Union, GDP data indicate that China’s economy seems to have escaped a slump, with annual growth averaging 6.7% in the first half of 2016.",
        "7%，这让全球市场舒了一口气。 在英国投票退出欧盟的冲击后，中国的GDP数据表明其经济似乎已经摆脱衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade advocates should be understanding if they adopt unorthodox policies to buy political support.",
        "贸易倡导者应当理解他们采取非正统政策来赢取政治支持。"
    ],
    [
        "It is in such circumstances that the key feature of terrorism comes into play: the preaching of hate by often self-appointed leaders.",
        "正是在这样一种环境下，恐怖主义的主要特点发挥了作用：鼓吹煽动仇恨，这招经常被自封的领导人所使用。"
    ],
    [
        "But if conflict does erupt, the cost is far higher.",
        "但如果冲突爆发，代价也会大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Principles and Guidelines note that people affected by leprosy, including sufferers’ family members, are entitled to the same rights as everyone else with respect to marriage, family, and parenthood.",
        "比方说，原则和指导思想重申麻风病患者，包括患者的家庭成员，在婚姻、家庭和为人父母方面与其他人享有同样的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "But the lessons of the Great War are no less important today, particularly for the United States.",
        "第一次世界大战留给我们的教训直到今天都意义非凡，尤其是对美国来说。"
    ],
    [
        "But we are not there yet.",
        "但我们没有做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever Happened to Wage Insurance?",
        "工资保险怎么了？"
    ],
    [
        "Ordinary people in Latin America are only now recognizing China’s importance as a global economic player.",
        "在拉美，人们仅仅刚开始意识到中国作为世界经济强国的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Curiously, the one taboo area in this discussion is population.",
        "有趣的是，这一争论的一个禁区是人口问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But with centralized algorithms coming to manage every facet of society, data-driven technocracy is threatening to overwhelm innovation and democracy.",
        "但随着集中算法开始管理社会的方方面面，数据驱动的技术官僚正威胁压倒创新和民主体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then can the EU's founding ideals be realized.",
        "惟其如此，欧盟的基本理想才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting controversies have convulsed the country and dominated political discourse, sidelining Modi’s economic policies in the process.",
        "由此造成的争议震动了整个印度，也主宰了政治议程，而在此过程中，莫迪的经济政策被边缘化了。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany and France, the two crucial players in this crisis, will have to devise a joint strategy, because only they, working together, can push through a solution.",
        "这场危机的两大关键角色德国和法国必须制定联合对策，因为只有他们齐心协力才能促成解决方案顺利通过。"
    ],
    [
        "Doubters need only recall the unwillingness of Secretary General after Secretary General, from U Thant to Kofi Annan, to meet with – or, in some cases, even to permit on the UN’s premises – victims of human rights violations who had the misfortune of being born in powerful countries.",
        "质疑者只要想想从吴丹到科菲·安南的历任联合国秘书长都不愿会见，甚至在某些情况下不愿在联合国办公地接待那些不幸出生在强大国家的破坏人权行为的受害者就非常清楚了。"
    ],
    [
        "This aspect of codependency is global in scope.",
        "相互依存的这个层面是全球性的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why we must defend it.",
        "因此，我们必须捍卫巴黎协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the military subvert the constitutional changes aimed at reforming the political system?",
        "改革政治体系的修宪活动是否会遭到军队的暗中破坏？"
    ],
    [
        "When most of Africa and much of Asia were under European rule, the colonizers invested little in basic education.",
        "当大多数非洲国家和亚洲大部分地区都处于欧洲统治之下时，殖民者对基础教育的投入就很少。"
    ],
    [
        "Flug was finally offered the top job only in the absence of a male rival, though she was already occupying the position temporarily while the board searched for Stanley Fischer’s successor.",
        "弗鲁格在没有男性对手的情况下最终获得了她的顶尖职位，尽管在寻找费舍尔（Stanley Fischer）后继者的过程中她一直担任的临时央行行长。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite whatever pain we incur, we must maintain – and, if necessary, deepen – sanctions against Russia and reinforce NATO’s front line.",
        "尽管会带来各种痛苦，但我们必须坚持——必要时还必须加强——对俄制裁、强化北约前线。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, there is a point where a leader must commit to a decision. But one can do this in ways that are not violent and aggressive, by defending the principles of that new relationship.",
        "很明显，领导者必须完成他的决定，但他可以用一种非暴力的温和方式来做到，同时也捍卫了新关系原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Catholic and Islamic countries, as well as former French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies, all of which tend to have Corporatist institutional residues, also correlate with depressed living standards.",
        "今天，天主教和伊斯兰教国家，以及前法国、西班牙和葡萄牙殖民地往往残留着社团制机构的痕迹，而且生活水平也受到压制。"
    ],
    [
        "Additional measures, such as “haircuts” for holders of sovereign debt, may be needed.",
        "还需要另外的一些手段，比如对减少主权债务持有者的数量。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the bogeyman of financial globalization is used as an excuse for continuing to coddle inefficient and monopolistic domestic financial systems.",
        "相反，人们还在使用金融全球化的可怕之处来作为继续娇惯低效率和垄断的国内金融体系的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "In an even larger area – and for a much longer time – consumers reject the products.",
        "在更为广阔的领域——而且在更长时间内——消费者都拒绝购买类似产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, Nepal’s labor minister publicly spoke out about the government of Qatar not allowing his country’s migrant workers to return home to mourn relatives who died in the April 2015 earthquake.",
        "最近，尼泊尔劳工部长公开批评卡塔尔不许尼泊尔民工回国为2015年4月地震死难亲属奔丧。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the three major candidates, the conservative Nicolas Sarkozy has expressed the most pro-American views and traveled to Washington for a photo opportunity with Bush. He told a Washington audience that anti-Americanism was an elite indulgence not shared by the French at large.",
        "在三个主要候选人中，保守派的萨尔科齐表达了最亲美的观点，并且去了一趟华盛顿与布什一起在媒体面前亮了一次相。"
    ],
    [
        "This atomization of the state and society continues to impede Libya’s ability to establish effective and credible government.",
        "国家和社会的这种零散化继续破坏利比亚建立有效可信政府的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – According to North Korean state television, the heart attack that killed Kim Jong-il on December 17 was “due to severe mental and physical stress from overwork.”",
        "首尔——据朝鲜电视台报道，12月17日致金正日死亡的心脏病发作是因“过度劳累引发的严重的精神和身体压力导致的。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the US requires partners if the twenty-first century is to be an era in which the majority of people around the world enjoy relative peace and satisfactory standards of living.",
        "一句话，为了将21世纪变成全球绝大多数人能够享受相对和平和舒适生活的时代，美国需要寻找盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump and the Middle East Cauldron",
        "特朗普和中东大甘埚"
    ],
    [
        "This is the paradoxical result of the policy response to the financial crisis.",
        "这是对金融危机的政策响应带来的矛盾结果。"
    ],
    [
        "This advances the objective of helping local businesses, particularly innovative small and medium-size firms, to grow and thrive.",
        "这推进了帮助地方企业特别是创新型中小企业成长和繁荣的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, the mayor of Cannes organized a ceremony to commemorate all victims of the French-Algerian conflict.",
        "作为紧急应对措施，戛纳市长专门组织了一场旨在纪念法国与阿尔及利亚冲突中所有牺牲者的悼念会。"
    ],
    [
        "“Twenty-first-century statecraft,” we have been told repeatedly, promises to go further and deliver more, for now US diplomats – and those of other countries – can use Twitter, Facebook, and other social media.",
        "我们反复听人提及“二十一世纪治国方略” 有望更进一步、取得更多成果，因为现在美国和其他国家的外交官可以利用Twitter，Facebook和其他社交媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "In the run-up to next month’s G20 summit in Hangzhou, China has been calling loudly for new commitments to structural reforms to stimulate growth in advanced and emerging-market economies.",
        "在杭州 G20 峰会即将于下月召开之际，中国一直大声呼吁发达和新兴市场经济体应当做出新的结构性改革承诺以刺激增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Is that a sensible decision?",
        "这是明智的决定吗？"
    ],
    [
        "To paraphrase John F. Kennedy, it is time for Japan’s leaders to ask not what their country can do for its government, but what the government can undo for its country.",
        "改编以下约翰·肯尼迪的话，如今日本领导人不要问国家可以为政府做些什么，而要问政府可以为国家不做些什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s Russia, which thinks of itself as a “great energy state,” laughs at its previous meager desire to catch up with little Portugal in terms of living standards.",
        "现在的俄罗斯，认为它自己是一个“能源大国”，并为其以前可怜的在生活水平上赶上葡萄牙的愿望而感到可笑。"
    ],
    [
        "To increase commercial banks’ reserves, the Fed historically used open-market operations, buying Treasury bills from them.",
        "要增加商业银行的准备金，历史上美联储使用的办法是公开市场操作，从前者手中购买美国国债。"
    ],
    [
        "But politics, as always, intervenes.",
        "但政治，往往都会干涉经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Spence was not sure he was the man for the job.",
        "斯宾塞不敢确定他是该工作的恰当人选。"
    ],
    [
        "For most of the past generation, and looking into the future, the message of the market is that the benefits of international capital mobility do not include a relaxation of the capital constraint, and thus an acceleration of growth in the global periphery.",
        "在过去的绝大部分时间以及展望将来，市场的讯息是国际资本流动不包括资本制约的缓解以及由此给全球经济外围地区带来经济加速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "And the benefits of human contact and interaction are why salespeople still call on customers instead of using Skype, and why Meetup (which supports organizers of face-to-face meetings; I am on the company’s board) changes lives in ways that Twitter and Facebook rarely do.",
        "人际交流和互动的好处正是销售员仍在拜访客户，而不是使用Skype的原因，也是Meetup（支持组织者的面对面会议； 我是该公司董事）能以Twitter和Facebook所不能的方式改变生活的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, exports stagnated, even as wages declined by more than 20%.",
        "与此同时，出口却陷入了停滞，即便工资水平已经下跌了超过20%。"
    ],
    [
        "A dismal silence greeted its publication, which left Germany’s pro-European establishment isolated and dispirited.",
        "而迎接他们的却是令人抓狂的沉默，以至于德国的大欧洲雄心当即陷入了孤立和沮丧之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The aim must be not only to win back the hearts of Europeans who have become skeptical, but also to convince them that the Union is indispensable to meeting the challenges Europeans face.",
        "而这些努力的目标不仅是赢回那些满腹狐疑的欧洲人的心，更要让他们确信：欧盟这个组织在应对当前挑战方面是不可或缺的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet they also point to exceptional windows in time when it is possible for societies to shift away from their established paths.",
        "但他们也指出，时间具有神奇之窗，能让社会偏离已有路径。"
    ],
    [
        "For schools in the poorest areas, we use special arrangements, because they cannot access the Internet themselves.",
        "对最贫困地区的学校，我们使用特别安排，因为他们靠自身无法接触互联网。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the functioning of emerging-economy financial markets should be improved, with policies aimed at institutional development and improved regulatory capacity.",
        "此外，新兴经济体金融市场功能应该得到改善，辅之以以制度性发展和改善监管能力的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite these positive developments, the two largest powers in the region – the United States and Russia – each still possesses thousands of nuclear weapons, accounting for more than 90% of the world’s nuclear inventory.",
        "但尽管事情在向好的方向转化，但美国和俄罗斯等两大地区强国仍然掌握着数以千计的核武器，占全世界核武器现有库存的超过90%。"
    ],
    [
        "LOS ANGELES – Nobody would dispute the danger inherent in possessing nuclear assets.",
        "洛杉矶——没有人会否认掌握核资产本身是件危险的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Inaction is simply not an option for the new government. And yet agreement on virtually everything of significance will be very difficult to reach.",
        "无为显然不是新政府的选择，但是关于重要事情的协议实际很难达成。"
    ],
    [
        "These are the major questions looming before us as the president-elect prepares the American people for what can only be a rough ride ahead.",
        "在当选总统努力让美国人民做好准备，迎接未来困难的时候，这些是我们必须面对的主要问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Its members had significant economic, political, and social policymaking experience in the developing world, and despite their differences, they all agreed on certain crucial points.",
        "委员会成员拥有大量发展中国家经济、政治和社会决策经验，尽管他们各有不同，但在一些关键点上意见统一。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it turned out that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were the ones wildly off the mark.",
        "实际上，结果证明其实是拉姆斯菲尔德和沃尔福威茨的估计才不着边际。"
    ],
    [
        "But now Romney wants him back.",
        "可现在罗姆尼希望请他回来。"
    ],
    [
        "In September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a set of principles to guide sovereign-debt restructuring.",
        "9月，联合国大会通过了一系列原则指导主权债务重组。"
    ],
    [
        "None of Europe’s financial problems would look remotely as challenging today if doubts about the eurozone’s future had been dispelled two years ago, and the reputational and financial costs would have been dramatically less than they have been in the past 30 months.",
        "如果关于欧元区未来的疑虑在两年前就被打消，欧洲的诸多金融问题就都不会像今天那样具有挑战性，而名誉和金融成本也会大大低于30个月以前。"
    ],
    [
        "At Berkshire Hathaway’s AGM in April, Warren Buffett advocated for compensation plans that fit the needs of the business, rather than vice versa.",
        "在四月举行的伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司年度股东大会上，沃伦·巴菲特倡导实行适合企业需求的薪酬计划，而不是反过来。 这一切的发生是因为一个“非常贪婪的首席执行官."
    ],
    [
        "How can America bolster institutions, create networks, and establish policies for managing transnational issues?",
        "美国如何支持机构、建立网络、制定管理跨国问题的政策？"
    ],
    [
        "The ramifications for interest-rate spreads, emerging-market equities, and housing demand, among much else, are the subject of widespread debate.",
        "这对利差、新兴市场股市、住房需求和其他许多方面的影响是一个争论激烈的话题。"
    ],
    [
        "We now have to be ready for American blunders as bad as, or worse than, in the past.",
        "现在，我们必须准备好美国犯下和过去一样大、甚至更加糟糕的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the opium the British exported to China, the easy loans China offers are addictive.",
        "就像英国出口给中国的鸦片，中国所提供的便利的贷款也能成瘾。"
    ],
    [
        "To avoid such outcomes, young people need to be part of their countries’ political life, able to advance their own vision of the future.",
        "要避免这样的结果，年轻人必须成为国家政治生活的一部分，能够推动他们自己的未来愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "For 25 years, the Bank tried to get governments out of agriculture, leaving impoverished peasants to fend for themselves.",
        "25年来，世界银行竭力使政府与农业分离，让这些贫困的农民自给自足。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil provides 26% of Latin America’s service imports, and the United Kingdom provides 19% of Europe’s.",
        "巴西提供了拉丁美洲26%的服务业进口，英国提供了欧洲19%的服务业进口。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, buyers expect even lower prices down the line.",
        "同时，这些资产的买方却希望更彻底的低价。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s clash with Google and US protests at cyber attacks on American targets remind the outside world, as well as America’s media and political elites, of the difference in values between the two countries.",
        "中国官方与谷歌公司的冲突，以及美国对美方目标遭到网络攻击的抗议提醒了外界以及美国的媒体和政治精英们：两国价值观之间的差异究竟有多大。"
    ],
    [
        "I don’t want to be negative, but I don’t know when this will stop,” said Paula Flores of Juárez, Mexico, on July 3, 2016, 18 years after the disappearance and murder of her daughter, María Sagrario González Flores.",
        "我不想给人留下消极的印象，但我不知道什么时候这样的日子才能结束，”在女儿玛丽亚·冈萨雷斯·萨格拉里奥·弗洛雷斯失踪并被杀十八年后的2016年7月3日，墨西哥华雷斯的保拉·弗洛雷斯如是说。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Understanding the political success of US President-elect Donald Trump is not easy.",
        "伯克利—理解美国当选总统唐纳德·特朗普的政治成功并不容易。"
    ],
    [
        "Their reactions range from buying up the foreign money to prevent currency appreciation to adopting capital controls, and, in extreme cases, to keeping the money out altogether.",
        "他们的应对策略包括买入外汇以防止本币升值又或者采取资金管制，在某些极端的案例中甚至完全禁止货币流入。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, Bernanke’s view seems intellectually unassailable.",
        "在表面上看，伯南克的观点在学术上看起来是无懈可击的。"
    ],
    [
        "And he is ready to renounce rules-based cooperation across the board, from trade (he has already rejected the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal) to climate change (he has threatened to withdraw from the historic agreement reached last year in Paris).",
        "而且特朗普全面准备放弃以规则为基础的合作关系，包括在贸易（他已经表态拒绝跨太平洋贸易伙伴关系协议）和气候变化（他威胁退出去年巴黎达成的历史性气候协议）方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Such behavior can hardly be expected from a government that, beholden to the median German voter, plays it safe.",
        "掌控在中间派德国选民手中的德国政府做出这样的行为希望渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to implementation, great strides have been made.",
        "在实施方面，已经取得了很大的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "It may just be that the Palestinians are on the verge of a new chapter in their history – and in the history of Israel and the whole region as well.",
        "由此看来，即将发生的这一切很可能意味着巴勒斯坦人即将翻开自身历史的新一页——而对于以色列以及整个中东来说，也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the yield curve did not steepen sharply for the United States: federal funds rates at zero I expected, but 30-Year US Treasury bonds at a nominal rate of 2.7% I did not.",
        "最后，美国收益率曲线并未显著陡峭化：联邦基金利率如我所料降至了零水平，但30年期美国国债名义利率保持2. 7%则出乎我意料之外。"
    ],
    [
        "This categorization is determined by data drawn from the general population and based on the assumption that there is a higher risk of metabolic or cardiovascular disease found at the high end (and sometimes the low end) of the BMI scale.",
        "上述分类划定的依据来源于从普通民众中采集的数据，而且基于体重指数偏高（有时偏低）者罹患代谢或心血管病风险较高的假设。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey would receive financial and military assistance in exchange for asserting greater control over its borders, while the question of Turkey’s long-term relationship with Europe would be set aside until the crisis passed.",
        "土耳其可以得到财政和军事援助以换取其加强边境控制，而该国与欧洲的长期关系问题可以搁置到危机结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The loss of parents and family resources has boosted child labor, homelessness, and inclinations towards violence and rebellion.",
        "父母和家庭资源的缺失引发了儿童劳工、无家可归和暴力及反叛等问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Yam was always frustrated by the lack of policy freedom under the Currency Board.",
        "任一直以来都因为在货币局的管辖下缺乏政策自由而倍感沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "By that measure, Japan is doing about as well as Europe and the US.",
        "从这一尺度上看日本的表现跟欧美相当。"
    ],
    [
        "That is considerably beyond the already dangerous ceiling of two degrees set in Copenhagen in 2009 and included in the Paris agreement.",
        "7摄氏度以上，也大大超出在2009年于哥本哈根其后峰会上订立并列入巴黎协定的的2摄氏度危险上限。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether Socrates’ humility was sincere or a secret joke at the expense of the powers that be (before said powers put him to death after tiring of his irreverence), the point is that the beginning of wisdom lies in the recognition of how little we really know.",
        "无论苏格拉底的谦卑是表里如一还是让当权者付出代价的秘密笑话（在上述当权者厌倦了他的大不敬将他处以死刑之前），关键在于智慧的起点在于承认我们其实一无所知。"
    ],
    [
        "I hope that the Supreme Court is listening.",
        "我希望最高法院能听进去。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, as all major developed economies resort to expansionary monetary policy, the global economy is being flooded with excess liquidity, and a “currency war” is looming large.",
        "目前，由于所有重要发达经济体都采取了扩张性货币政策，全球经济都被注入了过剩的流动性，“货币战”正在日益凸显。"
    ],
    [
        "A professor of game theory, Varoufakis recently boasted to the New York Times that “little Greece, in order to survive, [could] bring down the financial world,” and that his media image “as an irrational fool… is doing my work for me” by frightening other EU finance ministers.",
        "身为博弈论教授的瓦鲁法基斯最近对《纽约时报》大放厥词，说“为了生存，不起眼的希腊[可以]毁掉整个金融世界，”而他的媒体形象——“一个不理性的傻瓜”正在通过让其他欧元区国家财政部长颤抖“为我服务。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Then it negotiated an insufficient haircut and ended up dithering again – resorting to accounting tricks to avoid writing down European public-sector loans.",
        "而后又谈判减记额不足，并再度陷入犹豫——利用会计技巧避免减记欧洲公共部门债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Computing power has moved from our laptops and cellphones to the cloud, and we are all better off for it.",
        "计算能力已经从笔记本和手机移动到云端，这让我们所有人都从中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "According to my research, from 1990 to 2001, Austrian subsidiaries in Eastern Europe employed five times as many people with academic degrees, as a percentage of staff, as their parent firms did. They also engaged 25% more research personnel in their labs.",
        "根据我的研究，1990至2001年间，奥地利企业在东欧子公司的雇员中拥有学位者的比例是其母公司的五倍，在东欧地区设立的研究室配备的研究人员数量也比母公司多出25%。"
    ],
    [
        "And US courts upheld these legal innovations, using flexible common-law precedents to decide who would acquire the privileged status of “white.”",
        "而美国法院维护了这样的法律创新，利用灵活的普通法判例来决定“白人”特权地位的归属。"
    ],
    [
        "But in recent years, thanks to the work of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians, we now know that human civilization and the plague have a much deeper and more intimate association than previously assumed.",
        "但近年来，由于遗传学家、考古学家和历史学家的努力，我们现在知道人类文明和瘟疫之间的关系比以前所想象的要紧密得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Designs are inspired by cognitive science, the arts, even science fiction.",
        "设计从认知科学，艺术，甚至是科幻小说中获得灵感。"
    ],
    [
        "For humans, HIV, Ebola, West Nile virus, and Avian flu are only the latest in a long line of EID’s.",
        "对人类而言，艾滋病、埃博拉、西尼罗河病毒和禽流感只是无数EID’s中最新出现的几种。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, reform was derailed in 2005.",
        "不幸的是，2005年改革受阻。"
    ],
    [
        "She has yet to deal with the major problems of the day – financial instability, Europe’s sluggish growth, the Middle East – and she cannot avoid them during her campaign.",
        "她还没有正面接触到当今的主要问题¾金融动荡、欧洲经济发展迟缓、中东冲突¾这些问题她在竞选中将不可避免地要一一面对。"
    ],
    [
        "We know that terrorist groups have the capacity to engineer nuclear devices and would explode them anywhere they could; we simply cannot be confident that we can forever deny them access to the fissile material they need to fuel them.",
        "我们知道恐怖组织有能力制造核武器，并成功地在任何地方引爆； 我们只是无法确信能让他们永远得不到为核武器提供燃料的可裂变物质。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite past pledges to abandon nuclear-weapons development, the government has lately been pursuing new research, evidently in the hope of proclaiming the achievement of some new technological milestone.",
        "尽管过去曾经承诺放弃核武器开发，但朝鲜政府近年来一直在进行新的研究，显然抱有达到某个全新技术里程碑的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "East Asia’s Nationalist Fantasy Islands",
        "东亚民族主义者的梦想岛"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-Semitism From the Left",
        "来自左翼的反犹主义"
    ],
    [
        "For India, last year is a year best forgotten.",
        "印度人恨不得彻底忘却过去的一年。"
    ],
    [
        "Then the madness of the Cultural Revolution, when millions suffered terribly, many died, and many more behaved disgracefully as Mao sought to destroy those who had rescued China from his earlier follies.",
        "紧跟其后的是文化大革命的混乱局面。 几百万中国人深受其害，许多人丧生，而在毛泽东试图毁灭那些曾经拯救中国的老一辈革命者时，更多的人表现得极其可耻。"
    ],
    [
        "We might not have the Higgs in hand right now.",
        "现在我们可能还没有发现希格斯粒子。"
    ],
    [
        "The symbolism of that treaty promises much, not least the idea that civil wars and US interventions may be things of the past.",
        "这一协定的签署有许多象征意义，其中很重要的一点就是内战和美国的干涉或许已成为历史。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, 14 men, including nine current or former FIFA executives (but not Blatter), have been charged with a range of fraud and corruption offenses in the United States, where prosecutors accuse them, among other things, of pocketing $150 million in bribes and kickbacks.",
        "目前，包括九名现任或前任国际足联高官在内的14人（但不包括布拉特）在美国被控从事一系列欺诈和腐败行为，检方指控他们收受1. 5亿美元贿赂和回扣。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the EU’s critical French-German axis was held together by the conviction that political order in a democracy depended on the security of debt.",
        "事实上，欧盟的法德轴心就是源自于这样一个信条：民主政体的政治秩序必须在确保政府债务安全性的情况下才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The United States appears trapped in a dangerous economic stalemate. The refusal by both Republicans and Democrats to give ground on the budget is preventing the government from dealing with its massive fiscal deficit and rapidly rising national debt.",
        "坎布里奇——美国似乎陷入了危险的经济停滞陷阱。 共和党和民主党均拒绝在预算问题上让步，这让美国政府无法处理大规模财政赤字和快速上升的国民债务问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall death rates in the US were higher in 2015 than 2014, and life expectancy has fallen.",
        "2015年美国总死亡率比2014年更高，而寿命预期有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, Holocaust denial should not be outlawed, in contrast to the demand for all, or any, Jews to be killed.",
        "在我看来，与要求屠杀所有或者任何犹太人的要求相反，否定屠杀犹太人并不应当立法取缔。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gülenists have dressed up their campaign against Erdoğan in the guise of a corruption probe.",
        "葛兰主义者以反腐调查为幌子开展反埃尔多安运动。"
    ],
    [
        "If Janet and Mario are considering another interest-rate cut, they must have good reason to believe that demand will remain low!”",
        "耶伦和德拉吉正在考虑新一轮降息，想必他们有足够的理由认为需求将保持萎靡！"
    ],
    [
        "This is a radical departure from Hamas rhetoric, which has always portrayed the Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt as a betrayal of the Islamic world.",
        "这和哈马斯总是将以色列和埃及签订的戴维营协议描绘成为对伊斯兰世界的背叛的观点，有巨大的差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Both presidents, at the end of their respective terms, sought to resolve one of the world’s most dangerous conflicts, while facing the threat that time was running out on them.",
        "两位总统在任期的最后都寻求解决世界上最为危险的冲突，而面临着时间迅速流逝的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "But the size of the slowdown is surprising, as is the fact that it started several years before the 2008 recession – and not only in the private insurance system, but also in Medicare and Medicaid, the two major government health programs.",
        "但减速的规模令人奇怪，同样令人奇怪的是减速从2008年衰退之前几年就开始了——而且不仅局限于私人保险系统，也出现在两大政府卫生项目——医疗保险（Medicare）和医疗补助（Medicaid）上。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, a polio outbreak in China was traced back to Pakistan.",
        "2011年，中国出现了小儿麻痹症爆发，其源头可以追溯到巴基斯坦。"
    ],
    [
        "Low-level corruption (the police, courts, and government clerks) has always been widespread in India.",
        "基层官员（警察、法院和政府职员）腐败一向在印度屡禁不绝。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Abu-Lughod, Western imperialism superimposed itself on these older circuits, without obliterating them.",
        "根据路高德的说法，西方帝国主义只是凌驾于这些古老贸易回路之上，并没有抹除它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, both now appear to be succumbing to that dangerous temptation.",
        "不幸的是，如今，两国再一次屈服于孤立主义的危险诱惑。"
    ],
    [
        "And China’s poverty problem is hardly the world’s worst.",
        "中国的贫困问题还不是世界上最糟糕的。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians work for the citizenry, which has the right to know what their employees are doing.",
        "政治家们为公民工作，公民有权知道他们雇佣的人正在做些什么。"
    ],
    [
        "He was an indispensable ally of the West in the fight against Islamist terrorism, culminating in Ethiopia’s military operation in neighboring Somalia in 2006.",
        "他是西方必不可少的对抗伊斯兰恐怖主义的盟友，2006年埃塞俄比亚对邻国索马里的军事行动是这一角色的巅峰之作。"
    ],
    [
        "The events in Iraq also have demonstrated that the key issue for world security is really the relationship of the big powers to the UN Security Council.",
        "伊拉克事件也向世界表明：大国和联合国安理会的关系实际是世界安全的关键所在。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic policymakers around the world are looking for ways to boost growth, with infrastructure investment topping most lists.",
        "世界各国经济决策者正寻找各种方法来刺激增长，其中最常见的是投资基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Both the Palestinians and Israel can easily and rightly be blamed for the failure of the Oslo process.",
        "奥斯陆和平进程失败我们有理由责怪巴勒斯坦人和以色列人。"
    ],
    [
        "Crucially, the long-standing presumption that the US should take the lead in responding to what happens in North Korea also needs to be reconsidered.",
        "关键是，美国应该领导对朝鲜局势变化的应对方案这一长期存在的假定也需要重新考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia has had more than two decades to reshape itself into a country that would benefit its people, Europe, and the wider world.",
        "俄国已有20年时间将自己重塑为对本国民众、欧洲和世界有益的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "TEL AVIV – Israel’s persistent occupation of Palestinian lands is irreparably damaging its international standing – or so the conventional wisdom goes.",
        "特拉维夫—以色列长期占领巴勒斯坦领土正在给其国际地位造成不可挽回的伤害——或者传统智慧这样认为。"
    ],
    [
        "This will only work where there is security for the local population.",
        "这只有在当地人感觉安全时才会实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Politics on the donor side is no less complicated, with growing aid budgets often viewed by taxpayers as excessive at a time when the anti-aid lobby is becoming more vocal.",
        "在援助国家方面，政治也绝不简单。 在反对援助游说变得越发响亮之时，纳税人经常把不断增加的援助预算视为过份。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the domestic interest groups that benefit from low borrowing costs have become a barrier to their liberalization.",
        "首先，受益于低息借贷的国内利益集团已成为利率改革与提高利率的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "This warning may seem strange.",
        "上述警告看似有些奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "The Message from Boston",
        "波士顿的教训"
    ],
    [
        "During the recent economic crisis, Asia accounted for more than half of global GDP growth.",
        "而在最近一次经济危机中，亚洲又贡献了全球GDP增长的一半以上。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dangers of Nuclear Bombast",
        "核高调的危险"
    ],
    [
        "Economists weighing this issue through the lens of “revealed preference theory” would argue that asylum-seekers are analytical decision-makers who seek out countries such as Germany for its low unemployment rate.",
        "透过“显性偏好理论”来权衡这个问题的经济学家会认为庇护寻求者是具有分析能力的决策者，德国失业率低是他们选择德国的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "This is no cause for schadenfreude .",
        "这可不是幸灾乐祸的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "China will most likely regard the cooperation agreement recently announced by the Japanese and Indian defense ministers as a response to US pressure.",
        "最近日印两国防务部长公布的合作协议很可能被中国视为来自美国的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Watching a football match might never be the same again!",
        "观看足球比赛的意义从此不同！"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, only Kuwait and Dubai have so far moved to allow PPPs, while only Saudi Arabia intends to privatize airports (Jeddah and Dammam).",
        "悲哀的是，目前只有科威特和迪拜开始允许PPP，而只有沙特阿拉伯想要私有化机场（Jeddah和Dammam）。"
    ],
    [
        "Our fate now depends on whether we cooperate or fall victim to self-defeating greed.",
        "如今人类的命运将取决于我们的选择：究竟是携手合作共同抗灾，还是在弄巧反拙的贪婪中一起灭亡。"
    ],
    [
        "With the European Union’s economy growing more slowly than those of its major competitors, its leaders must take a more far-sighted approach to restoring – and preserving – its members’ growth potential.",
        "欧盟经济增长速度比其主要竞争者更加缓慢，因此欧盟领导人必须拿出更有远见的方法重塑并保持其成员国的增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that everyone writes history in their own manner, and that there are no scales that can fix the precise point at which the remedy of unifying patriotism turns into the lethal poison of rabid nationalism.",
        "问题在于，每个人对历史的看法各有不同，也没有尺度可以精确地测量出统一爱国主义的救药会在什么时候变成了致命的狂热民族主义毒药。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain is ranked sixth in the world – one place above the United States and behind only some very pro-business countries, such as Singapore, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.",
        "英国在全世界排名第六——高于美国，仅次于一些非常有利于营商的地区，如新加坡、香港和新西兰。"
    ],
    [
        "In one important sense, these concerns are understandable: both economies depend heavily on the broader global climate.",
        "从中印经济严重依赖于总体全球环境这个重要意义上，这样的担心是可以理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "It would pay higher prices for inputs and consumer goods, and British firms’ reduced integration into global value chains would undermine productivity.",
        "英国将为投入品和消费品支付更高昂的价格，英国公司融入全球价值链程度降低也将破坏生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "The FMLC makes four important recommendations.",
        "FMLC提出了四点重要建议。"
    ],
    [
        "The other area is peacekeeping.",
        "另一个领域是维和。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece needs more debt relief.",
        "希腊需要更多地债务纾困。"
    ],
    [
        "But it could also stem from concerns that using the treaty’s legal reasoning, which conflicts with China’s stance on Taiwan, to resolve today’s territorial disputes would undermine its credibility and weaken its position.",
        "但也有可能出于这样一种担忧，即运用条约与中国台湾立场相矛盾的法律推理解决当前领土争端将削弱中国的地位和公信力。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when Brazil has little flexibility in its budget, such a rule could turn out to be a fiscal game changer.",
        "在巴西预算已没有灵活余地的时候，这一规则可以起到财政局面改变因素的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, the ancient Christian Armenians were amongst the most progressive people in the East, but in the nineteenth century Armenia was divided between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.",
        "从历史角度来看，古代的基督教亚美尼亚人是东方最先进的民族之一，但是亚美尼亚在十九世纪分裂成了奥斯曼帝国和俄国。"
    ],
    [
        "We did it with smallpox, which has now been eradicated, and we are doing it with polio (with less than 100 cases worldwide this year).",
        "被消灭的天花就是如此，小儿麻痹症也是如此（今年全球发病率不足100例）。"
    ],
    [
        "Are we so sure of Darwin’s theories of evolution that we should ban alternative notions of genesis from schools?",
        "我们是否真对达尔文的进化论有着如此的把握，以致于一定要禁止在学校里讲授其他有关人类起源的学说？"
    ],
    [
        "This perception has created fertile ground for terrorist recruiters; Tunisia has sent more jihadis than any other country to fight in Syria and Iraq.",
        "这种看法为恐怖份子招募者创造了肥沃的土壤； 突尼斯派往叙利亚和伊拉克作战的圣战者比其他任何国家都多。"
    ],
    [
        "On the preventive front, countless lives can be saved by simple actions such as flood-proofing coastlines, or strengthening earthquake codes for hospitals and schools.",
        "在防止问题发生这一方面，通过像修建防洪堤或提供医院和学校的防震标准这样简单的行动就可以挽救无数的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "One major problem with factory-style livestock production is that it leads to considerable greenhouse-gas emissions – and not just because the digestive processes of ruminant animals produce methane.",
        "工厂化畜牧业生产的一个主要问题是造成巨量温室气体排放——因为反刍动物的消化过程会产生甲烷。"
    ],
    [
        "While many would welcome top-down solutions like those that emerged in the 1970’s, such outcomes are unlikely in the foreseeable future.",
        "虽然不少人都欢迎20世纪70年代那样自上而下的方案，但在可以预见的未来不太可能实现这样的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Military action can cause more violence, and more civilian deaths.",
        "军事行动会带来更多的暴力以及平民伤亡。"
    ],
    [
        "At a certain moment in this process, a scientific revolution is born.",
        "在此过程中，科学革命诞生了。"
    ],
    [
        "Electors chose only a representative for the House of Commons, and the majority party then appointed the prime minister.",
        "选民只要在下院两党中二选一，再由多数党指定首相。"
    ],
    [
        "But the draft regulation falls far short of the recommendations made by a high-level expert group in 2012, which included an impermeable wall between banks’ speculative-trading business and their retail and commercial banking activities.",
        "但监管草案的内容与2012年高级别转接小组的建议相去甚远，专家小组的建议包括建立一道绝缘墙，隔绝银行的投机性交易业务和零售及商业银行业务。"
    ],
    [
        "The ‘new’ IMF should be an institution that communicates better with its members, balances the interests of its advanced, emerging and developing members in an evenhanded manner, and aligns its policies better to the needs of the moment.",
        "新的IMF应该与它的成员国进行更加有效的沟通，更加有效地平衡发达国家，新兴国家和发展中国家之间的利益，从而制定更加有效的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The Politics of Cosmic Catastrophe",
        "太空灾难的政治"
    ],
    [
        "The US will work with partners in the region and internationally to assist the Syrians to find a way forward.",
        "美国将与地区伙伴和国际合作，协助叙利亚人找到前进之路。"
    ],
    [
        "If too we add El Salvador to this list, only Costa Rica and Panama to the south remain out of the loop, leaving Mexico to the north increasingly exposed.",
        "如果我们把萨尔瓦多也加到这个名单中，那么只有南部的哥斯达黎加和巴拿马仍在这个圈子之外，从而使北部的墨西哥日显突兀。"
    ],
    [
        "But there remain about 54 million individuals who are not formally insured, and some insured individuals still face the risk of financially ruinous medical costs if they have very expensive medical treatment.",
        "但依然有5400人没有正式保险，而且有些有保险的人在接受昂贵的治疗时，依然无法逃脱医疗开支毁灭性的财务风险。"
    ],
    [
        "It seemed to many that, with the creation of Pakistan, East Pakistan had merely exchanged one form of colonialism for another.",
        "在不少人看来，巴基斯坦建国后，东巴基斯坦不过是从一种形式的殖民主义变成了另一种形式的殖民主义。"
    ],
    [
        "There is little doubt that Frankfurt has won the contest with Paris to be the eurozone’s most important financial center.",
        "几乎毫无疑问，法兰克福已经压倒巴黎成为欧元区最重要的金融中心。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, it can finance its next new thing from the cash that its great products will continue to generate.",
        "与此同时，它还可以通过伟大产品继续带来的现金为下一个热门产品融资。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially so when the goal is regime change, and when the incumbent regime represents a substantial minority of a divided population.",
        "当目标是实现政权更迭，而现政权只代表各个分割族群中的相对少数时，情况尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, in the search for an acceptable bailout package, the future revenues from these assets were at one point considered as possible guarantees.",
        "其实在确定可行的紧急援助计划时，上述资产的未来收入曾一度被视为潜在的抵押品。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is now happening.",
        "这就是目前正在发生的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, we need to accept the fact that most of the refugees arriving in the EU will not return home.",
        "第三，我们需要接受一个事实，即大部分到达欧盟的难民不会回去。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the apparent parallels between the challenges that Zhu faced and those that current Premier Li Keqiang is now attempting to address, not to mention their shared commitment to economic transformation, this shift could signify rising support for structural reform.",
        "当年的朱镕基所面临的挑战和现任总理李克强所要解决的问题显然具有相似之处，更不用说他们在经济转型方面的共同承诺了，基于此，这一转变可能意味着对结构性改革的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Men must determine how to develop the caring side of their personality, in addition to the competitive side that will enable them to advance their careers.",
        "除发展个性中勇于竞争的一面，从而在事业上稳步发展之外，男性必须决定如何发掘自己个性中的关爱因素。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1993, Paola Cavalieri and I founded The Great Ape Project, an organization dedicated to the idea of recognizing that great apes have a moral status befitting their nature as self-aware beings who are capable of thought and have rich and deep emotional lives.",
        "在1993年，帕奥拉·卡瓦利艾里和我联手成立了一名为“大猩猩计划”的组织，致力于使人们认识到大猩猩在本质上都是拥有自我意识的存在，是一种拥有思考能力且感情丰富而深刻的生命，同时也应当拥有与这种本质相适应的道德地位。"
    ],
    [
        "American regulators can, but only if they can control the timing of the bankruptcy, and otherwise engage in the process.",
        "美国监管者可以，但只有在它们能够控制破产时机（或者要么参与到破产流程中）时才可以。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this should give pause to the European Council when it meets in March to consider how to extend the 2020 goals to 2030.",
        "而这一切应该在3月欧洲议会商议如何将2020年目标延长到2030年时扭转过来。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – On April 25, 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published a one-page paper that many believed would revolutionize biological research.",
        "伦敦—1953年4月25日，克里克和沃森发表了一篇一页的论文，很多人认为这篇文章将掀起生物研究革命。"
    ],
    [
        "These illicit activities are not intended, but they increase the income of peasants, transporters, builders, and businessmen.",
        "这些非法活动并非政府的本意，但却增加了农民、承运商、建筑工人和商人的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Consequences of US Tax Reform",
        "美国税制改革的国际影响"
    ],
    [
        "Call it information liquidity, akin to financial liquidity.",
        "我们可以把它称作信息流动性，类似于金融流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "Our governments must invest heavily in our neighbors’ stability, including by bringing the Syrian peace process to a successful conclusion, and in the wellbeing of all of our citizens.",
        "我们的政府必须大力投入资源实现周边稳定（包括通过成功实现叙利亚和平进程）和提高全体公民的福利。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a new arms-reduction agreement would improve the US-Russian relationship, and that, in turn, could translate into a more constructive Russian position on Iran in the Security Council.",
        "比如说，一个新的武器削减条约将使美俄关系有所改善，而这随之意味着俄罗斯将在安理会上讨论伊朗问题时采取更加富有建设性的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "So, even if the dollar is still regarded as the safest of assets, the demand for dollars will decline if its relative safety is seen to have declined.",
        "因此，即使美元仍被视为最安全的资产，其需求也会人们认为其相对安全性下降而下降。"
    ],
    [
        "If states are saddled with onerous levels of debt as a result, their financial woes only aid China’s neocolonial designs.",
        "如果各国因此背上了沉重的债务，那么它们的金融灾难将有助于中国的新殖民主义企图。"
    ],
    [
        "He combines “America first” isolationist rhetoric with muscular talk of “making America great again.”",
        "他将“美国第一”的孤立主义语调与“让美国重新伟大”的强力宣言结合在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Pressure for change is mounting.",
        "变革压力可谓山大。"
    ],
    [
        "This pressure on the peripheral countries to deflate their already stagnant economies is turning into the eurozone’s greatest challenge.",
        "外围国的这一压力——在经济已然停滞时实行通货紧缩——正在成为欧元区最严峻的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "There is little doubt that Greenspan had great moments, when one could at least imagine a less deft governor doing the “wrong” thing with disastrous consequences.",
        "格林斯潘无疑有过风光无限之时。 当时，人们至少只能想象，换一个并不如此娴熟的美联储主席操作“有误”，带来灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "While experimental monetary policy is now widely accepted as standard operating procedure in today’s post-crisis era, its efficacy is dubious.",
        "尽管在后危机时代的今天，实验性的货币政策被当作标准的操作流程进得到大范围推广，但其有效性依然值得怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "If a country deviated from its fiscal targets, it would be barred from borrowing additional funds at the risk-free interest rate.",
        "如果一国没能按其财政目标行事，就应该剥夺其享受无风险利率继续借钱的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic success, on this view, is best left to the unfettered play of market forces.",
        "根据这一观点，经济成功的最佳方式是让市场力量自由发挥。"
    ],
    [
        "All the Arab entries in an annual essay contest run by a Western agency used to focus on Israel’s alleged responsibility for all the region’s problems.",
        "在由一家西方机构组织的年度论文大赛中，以往所有的阿拉伯参赛者们都关注着以色列所声称的对全地区问题解决的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The attempt to implant free-market philosophy in Russia, for instance, proved catastrophic.",
        "例如，企图在俄国移植自由市场理念造成灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil and Indonesia also contribute a significant number of new cases.",
        "巴西和印尼也出现了很大一部分新增病例。"
    ],
    [
        "This is further evidence of the effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a technique by which people who are HIV-negative use antiretroviral drugs to protect themselves from infection.",
        "这进一步证实了接触前预防（PrEP）技术的有效性，该技术旨在让艾滋病毒测试阴性者利用抗逆转录病毒药物保护自己远离感染威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, France became the catalyst not only for building European unity, but also for creating the prosperity that marked Europe’s post-war decades – a prosperity now under threat because of the global financial and economic crisis.",
        "因此，法国不仅扮演了建设欧洲团结的催化剂，也协助创造了欧洲战后年代标志性的繁荣——这样的繁荣目前正处在全球金融和经济危机的威胁之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that the Chinese government, at both the national and local levels, has plenty of assets with real value, amounting to more than 140% of GDP.",
        "幸运的是中国国家和地方政府都拥有许多有价值的实物资产，净资产总量高达GDP的140%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "In all of these cases, people somewhat sheepishly confess that their level of understanding was far worse than they originally thought.",
        "在所有这些情况中，人们有时羞愧地坦白说，他们的理解水平要远远低于他们原先所认为的。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – In 1940, with Britain standing alone against Nazi Germany, a short book called Guilty Men was published under the pseudonym of “Cato.”",
        "纽约—1940年，英国独力对抗纳粹德国，一部托名“卡托”（Cato）的小书《罪人》（Guilty Men）出版发行。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike Keynesians, who focus on demand shocks, followers of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter view cost shocks as important potential catalysts for structural reform and industrial upgrading – both of which are needed to avoid falling into a low-growth rut in the long term.",
        "与关注需求冲击的凯恩斯主义者不同，美国经济学家约瑟夫·熊彼特（Joseph Schumacher）的追随者认为成本冲击是结构性改革和产业升级的重要潜在催化剂，而结构性改革和产业升级又是避免陷入长期低增长陷阱之必须。"
    ],
    [
        "But any new federal infrastructure spending is likely to be more symbolic than real.",
        "但任何联邦基础设施支出都是象征意义大于实际意义。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s the road to disaster.",
        "这是一条毁灭之路。"
    ],
    [
        "Professional groups like lawyers have transnational standards.",
        "像律师这样的职业群体则奉行跨国标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Political slogans, however high-sounding, become stale when their purveyors fail to make good on their promises.",
        "政治口号——无论多么高调，当许诺者不能兑现其承诺时都会变味。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 41 years of the Cold War, 14 of NATO’s 16 members strictly obeyed and complied with American decisions and policies.",
        "在成立之后41年的冷战时期，当时16个成员国中的14个都严格执行着美国的政策和命令。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Declaration’s enlightened vision of individual freedom, social protection, economic opportunity and duty to community is still unfulfilled.",
        "可是《人权宣言》有关个人自由、社会保护、经济机遇和群体职责的进步观点迄今仍未实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Poland’s only way is West – but the European West more than the American one.",
        "波兰的唯一道路就是西方——但不是美国所代表的西方，而是欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "In the process, we overburdened central banks, risking their credibility and political autonomy, as well as future financial stability.",
        "在此过程中，我们加重了央行的负担，用央行的信誉、政治主权和金融稳定的未来冒险。"
    ],
    [
        "An across-the-board reduction in tax rates performs poorly in terms of budgetary effectiveness (the number of jobs created per dollar of foregone revenue).",
        "全面削减税率在提高预算效率（所放弃的每一美元收入创造的就业数量）方面效果甚微。"
    ],
    [
        "Dissenting views found little traction.",
        "而那些与体制不满的观点也很少有人响应。"
    ],
    [
        "A critical institutional foundation for well-functioning property rights is an independent judiciary to enforce them.",
        "运转良好的专利权制度的一大关键制度性基础有独立的司法来强化之。"
    ],
    [
        "But, come Election Day, many (if not most) Americans are likely to ignore recent history and vote against the incumbent.",
        "但是，当选举日来临时，很多（就算不是大部分）美国人都倾向于忽略近年来的历史，给现任者投反对票。"
    ],
    [
        "As is often the case – and particularly in a presidential election year – America’s politicians resort to the blame game in confronting these tough issues.",
        "和往常一样——特别是在总统选举年——美国政客在面对这些棘手问题时又开始了指责游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, he would risk getting a beating, though perhaps a few beggars would indulge his fantasies in the hope of duping him out of his money.",
        "在此情景下他很可能会被狠揍一顿； 或者有些乞讨者会迎合他的幻想，好从这个怪人的口袋里弄点钱。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s internationalism remains grounded in the idea of American “exceptionalism” – a unique role and sense of mission.",
        "美国的国际主义建立在“美国例外论”的观念上，事关一种独特的角色和使命感。"
    ],
    [
        "With its large populations and fast-growing economies, it is difficult to exaggerate the region’s economic importance.",
        "亚太地区有着大量人口和高速增长的经济，该地区的经济重要性怎么强调都不过分。"
    ],
    [
        "Reflecting the divergence in economic performance, Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.",
        "欧洲分裂为债权国和债务国两大阵营，此乃经济绩效差异的具体表现。"
    ],
    [
        "They were not concerned with legalisms, about whether, technically, the Geneva conventions did or did not apply. They were concerned about basic canons of human rights.",
        "人们担心的并非法律条文，并非从技术上《日内瓦公约》能否适用，人们担心的是人权的基本信条。"
    ],
    [
        "This would imply the ability to finance an important proportion of unmet needs for infrastructure financing.",
        "这意味着一大部分没有满足的基础设施的融资需求将得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "With so many officials and private businessmen eager to curry favor with his father, Zhou Bin had no difficulty cashing in.",
        "对周滨来说，急切地想巴结父亲的官员和私营企业家多如牛毛，从中捞点好处易如反掌。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider what type of economy would support a rules-based system.",
        "试问究竟有哪种什么类型的经济体会支持一套基于规则的体系呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Consider my country, Iran, which has not invaded any country in the past 250 years.",
        "再看看我的国家，伊朗，它在过去的250年里没有侵略过任何一个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Record-breaking hot months now occur five times more frequently than they would in a stable, unchanging climate; these heat waves cause droughts, wild fires, poor harvests, and, inevitably, loss of life.",
        "与稳定而无变化的气候相比，如今创纪录的炎热月份出现的频率高了五倍； 一波又一波的热浪造成了干旱、野火、歉收，最终导致生命损失。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why a human-rights impact assessment must be conducted – and necessary additional safeguards added – before any TPP deal is signed.",
        "这就是为什么要在跨太平洋伙伴关系协议签署前进行人权影响评估——并补充必要的额外保障条款。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The United States has never had a president like Donald Trump.",
        "坎布里奇—美国从未有过像特朗普这样的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "The news from Europe has been unrelentingly grim, and it could ultimately sway the result of the referendum.",
        "欧洲传来的消息都相当负面，并可能最终左右公投的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "ATHENS – Imagine a depositor in the US state of Arizona being permitted to withdraw only small amounts of cash weekly and facing restrictions on how much money he or she could wire to a bank account in California.",
        "发自雅典——想象一下，如果在美国亚利桑那州的某位储户每周只允许提取少量现金，同时对加利福尼亚州另一个银行账户的汇款数量也受到了限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, with the support of the private sector, Indonesia needs to establish a community-based forest management system.",
        "最后，印尼应该在私人部门的支持下建立基于社区的森林管理制度。"
    ],
    [
        "A secure peace will depend mainly on how the endgame to Thailand’s domestic political crisis plays out in the coming months – and on Cambodia’s willingness to stay out of this process.",
        "而和平能否到来则主要取决于泰国的国内政治危机在未来几个月内如何收尾——此外柬埔寨又是否会插手这一进程。"
    ],
    [
        "And China has signed bilateral currency-swap agreements with 28 central banks, including the Central Bank of Brazil, the Bank of Canada, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of England.",
        "中国已经与28家央行签署了双边货币互换协议，包括巴西央行、加拿大银行、欧洲央行和英格兰银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Although China’s senior leadership will change this year, this position will not change.",
        "尽管中国的高层领导人将在今年易届，但这一立场是不会随之改变的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the years that followed, he would tilt toward liberal economics whenever he felt powerful enough to do so.",
        "此后的几年中，只要权力允许，他都会倾向于自由经济。"
    ],
    [
        "The German example shows just how different occupation powers can be.",
        "德国的例子说明占领军队会有多大的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Parties in the center campaigned for “social justice,” for ultra-religious students to “share the burden” of military service (from which they have been exempt since Israel’s founding), and in defense of the country’s struggling middle class.",
        "中间派政党的竞选口号是“社会公正”，极端宗教学生应该“共同分担”军事任务（自以色列建国以来，他们就免于服役），以色列苦苦挣扎的中产阶级也应该得到保护。"
    ],
    [
        "If the journalists use their platforms to inform the world of the dangers they and their colleagues face, the world will have to listen.",
        "如果记者利用手中的平台通报世界他们及其同事所面临的危险，那么世界一定会倾听。"
    ],
    [
        "In September, Albania became the 56th country to sign the Declaration, and the Albanian government has now publicly committed to protecting education during periods of armed conflict.",
        "9月，阿尔巴尼亚成为该宣言第56个签署国，阿尔巴尼亚政府现在公开承诺在武装冲突期间保护教育。"
    ],
    [
        "They applauded when Rafael Correa of Ecuador eliminated an oil stabilization fund he inherited and when Chávez, rather than putting money aside for a rainy day, quintupled the public external debt.",
        "他们为厄瓜多尔的科雷亚淘汰前任设立的石油稳定基金而击节叫好，并全力支持查韦斯借贷五倍的公共外债，而不是存钱以备不时之需。"
    ],
    [
        "The participation of Under Secretary of State William Burns in the European dialogue with Iran, together with plans to station American diplomats in Teheran for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, represents a momentous shift in America’s policy, and also an indication to Israel to refrain from a military strike.",
        "美国副国务卿威廉·伯恩斯(William Burns)参与欧洲和伊朗的对话，以及美国计划自1979年伊斯兰革命以来首次向德黑兰派驻外交官，代表了美国政策的重大变化，并暗示以色列不要对伊朗进行军事打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulations should also have a strong counter-cyclical focus, preventing excessive accumulation of leverage and increasing capital and provisions (reserves) during booms, as well as preventing asset price bubbles from feeding into credit expansion.",
        "监管也应该具有很强的抗周期关注点，以便在繁荣时期防止金融杠杆的过渡累计，并且增加资本和供应（储备），同时防止资产泡沫助长信贷扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "This has contributed to the spread not only of measles, but also of whooping cough and mumps.",
        "这不但导致了麻疹的传播，也导致了百日咳和流行性腮腺炎的蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "Where does the net gain of roughly $500 billion in global market value come from?",
        "约5000亿美元的全球市值收益从何而来？ 我们不得而知。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Americans and others around the world, they are threatened by violent extremism.",
        "正如美国人民和世界其它各地的人们一样，他们也受到暴力极端主义的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "This, after all, is what democratic politics is all about.",
        "归根结底，这才是民主政治的真谛。"
    ],
    [
        "European leaders hoped that a monetary union would help Europe’s less competitive economies catch up to the richer countries of the north.",
        "欧洲领导人希望货币联盟能帮助欧洲缺少竞争力的经济体赶超北欧的富裕国家。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was right when he recently said that there is no good excuse for jihadism.",
        "巴黎—法国总理瓦尔斯最近说，圣战主义的借口都不是好借口，他是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is scant evidence to support this view.",
        "但很少有证据支持这一观点。"
    ],
    [
        "It is worth remembering that in the Fed’s previous two tightening cycles, the equilibrium rate was 6.5% and 5.25%, respectively.",
        "不要忘了，在美联储的前两次紧缩周期中，均衡利率分别达到了6. 5%和5."
    ],
    [
        "Consistent with other evidence, this implies that many non-financial corporations borrowed, taking advantage of the low interest rates. But, rather than investing, they used the borrowed money to buy back their own equities or purchase other financial assets.",
        "这跟与其他众多证据一致表明，许多非金融企业只是以低利率的优势来借款，不过目的不是投资，而是用借来的钱回购自己的股票或购买其他金融资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the 2008 financial crisis, we have wasted far too much energy trying to return to the days of rapid economic expansion.",
        "自2008年金融危机以来，我们浪费了太多能量用于试图回到经济快速扩展的昨天。"
    ],
    [
        "In the “flat world” of globalization – to borrow Thomas Friedman’s powerful metaphor – it seems that Russia no longer has a place.",
        "借用托马斯·弗里德曼的一个有力的比喻，在全球化的“扁平世界”中，俄罗斯似乎已经失去了它原有的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, more than 20 African countries are democracies, up from just three in the 1980’s.",
        "事实上相较于1980年代非洲只有3个民主国家的尴尬境况，如今已经有超过20个非洲国家实现了民主政治。"
    ],
    [
        "If Trump goes down the protectionist road, however, US trade partners will retaliate, often with measures targeted directly at his base, as when the European Union recently threatened tariffs against Kentucky bourbon.",
        "但是，如果特朗普沿着保护主义的道路继续走下去，美国贸易伙伴会发动报复，通常是采取直接针对其票仓的手段，比如，欧盟最近威胁要对肯塔基波旁酒征收关税。"
    ],
    [
        "Many even believe that their contributions accrue to an individual, capitalized, account, rather than financing the benefits paid to current pensioners.",
        "许多人甚至认为他们的投入会在个人资本账户中逐渐累积，他们并不知道这些钱其实还用于给目前的养老金享受者提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, on every front – Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and North Korea – US militarism squandered global trust, lives, finances, and precious time.",
        "但在所有战线上——阿富汗、伊拉克、伊朗和朝鲜——美国的军国主义白白消耗着全球信任、生命、金钱和宝贵的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "But more openness does not seem to be the direction in which Europe is headed – and that is a serious problem.",
        "但更加开放似乎并不是欧洲的前进方向——而这是一个严重的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "India, polio-free for the last two years, is well aware that lasting domestic success depends on eradication efforts elsewhere.",
        "过去两年中已经杜绝了小儿麻痹症的印度也如临大敌，充分认识到要在国内继续获得成功，取决于国外的小儿麻痹症消灭情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Bankruptcies among small energy-sector companies, which are of limited economic importance themselves, are creating pressures in global banking and reducing the availability of credit to healthy businesses and households that would otherwise be beneficiaries of cheaper oil.",
        "能源业小公司的破产——本来从经济角度讲这没有什么重要性——正在给全球银行业造成压力，并降低了健康企业和家庭获得信用的能力（它们原本应该是低价石油的受益者）。"
    ],
    [
        "Both considerations militate against fiscal irresponsibility and unlimited money creation.",
        "这两点顾忌阻止了财政上的不负责以及无限制的货币供应。"
    ],
    [
        "The relatively modest list of concrete priorities issued by Juncker and Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans is a good start.",
        "而由容克和欧盟委员会第一副主席弗兰斯·蒂摩曼斯（Frans Timmermans）制定的那份相对温和的具体优先事项列表则是一个良好的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "More mayors are joining our cause every year, and our determination to pursue nuclear disarmament will only deepen in the years ahead.",
        "我们的事业每年都会吸引更多的市长投身其中，未来我们实现核裁军的决心只会越来越坚定。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that Russia’s Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, took over the investigation into Politkovskaya’s killing, as he did with the murder of Kozlov, doesn’t inspire hope, as such senior level involvement would in any real democracy.",
        "俄罗斯总检查长切卡将军主持对于波利特科夫卡娅谋杀案的调查工作，就像他在科兹洛夫谋杀案中所做的那样，并不能让人们像在真正的民主国家中那样对于这种有高层参与的行为会产生希望。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, it has a critical role to play regarding pharmaceutical clinical trials designed to investigate the influence of patients’ region of ancestry on the safety, efficacy, and effectiveness of treatments.",
        "特别是，它在为调查患者祖籍对治疗的安全性、效力和效果的药物临床试验方面起着关键性作用。"
    ],
    [
        "And power companies need to analyze the development of semiconductors to anticipate the likely drop in demand for electricity, after more than a century of growth.",
        "电力公司需要分析半导体行业的发展以预测电力需求在一百多年的增长后可能发生的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the debt/GDP ratio for China’s nonfinancial corporations was 113% by the end of 2012.",
        "根据中国社科院的一项研究，截至2012年末，中国非金融企业债务/GDP之比为113%。 标准普尔公司（Standard & Poor’s）认为，一年后，这些企业的总债务将达到14."
    ],
    [
        "The double-digit drop in the Shanghai Composite Index since June has not triggered an economic crisis largely because fewer than 10% of Chinese households participate in the stock market, and equities comprise less than 15% of household assets.",
        "6月以来上证指数两位数的下跌之所以没有引起经济危机，主要是因为只有不到10%的中国家庭参与了股市，而股票只占家庭资产的不到15%。"
    ],
    [
        "For most, the curriculum is largely obsolete, and skewed toward rote learning of theory at the expense of basic analytical and critical-thinking skills.",
        "绝大多数课程基本偏重于对理论的死记硬背，而牺牲了对基本分析和批判性思维技能的培养。"
    ],
    [
        "This raises the question, suitable for the beginning of a new year, of whether history really can teach us many lessons.",
        "这就引出了一个适合新年的问题，即历史是否真的教会了我们许多教训。"
    ],
    [
        "And it will encourage them to maximize migrants’ positive economic impact on both their new countries and their countries of origin, by reducing financial and human costs and integrating newcomers into the labor market.",
        "它还鼓励它们降低金融和人力成本，让新来者融入地方市场，从而尽量扩大移民对目的国和祖国的积极的经济影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank, if properly led, can play a key role in averting these threats and the risks that they imply.",
        "世界银行如果能够担当起合适的领导角色，将能在消除这些威胁及其隐含风险方面起到关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "We had hoped that the tragedy, which killed more than 1,100 workers – the deadliest accident in the industry’s history – would have brought meaningful change to a business long left to its own devices.",
        "我们曾经期望这次造成超过1，100名工人死亡的制衣史上最致命的事故悲剧能在真正意义上变革这个长期野蛮生长的行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Though still in its infancy, the agency – based on the model of the long-established Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – has already shown major promise.",
        "该机构基于成立已久的高级国防研究计划局（DARPA），尽管才刚刚成立，但已经表现出很大的前途。"
    ],
    [
        "This was ultimately achieved, but only after President Anwar Sadat embraced a strategy of peace by journeying to Jerusalem.",
        "但只有当萨达特总统接受和平战略访问耶路撒冷，才最终实现了上述目标。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, even if government were the problem, then changing what it does must be part of the solution.",
        "毕竟，即使政府就是问题，那么改变它的所作所为也必然是解决办法的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The question, then, is whether there is any way to ensure that political leaders leave in time.",
        "那么问题就是是否有途径可以确保政治领导人适时隐退。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, for all of the hand-wringing about America’s national debt, investors will continue to loan the US money.",
        "比如，所有关于美国国民债务的文章都说，投资者会继续借钱给美国。"
    ],
    [
        "For all their money, not even billionaire philanthropists like Zuckerberg and Gates can implement solutions on a regional, national, or global scale.",
        "即使是扎克伯格和盖茨这样的亿万富翁慈善家，也没有财力实施地区、国家或全球规模的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The most explicit call for the use of dollar reserves to finance a major program of infrastructure modernization has come from India, which has a similar problem to the one facing China and Japan.",
        "来自印度，要以美元储备支持主要基础设施现代化项目的声浪甚高。 而中国和日本也面临相似的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "I first met Thaler in 1982, when he was a professor at Cornell University.",
        "我第一次见到泰勒是在1982年他担任康奈尔大学教授时。"
    ],
    [
        "In the country’s inner cities, millions of young Hispanics and African-Americans face the insecurity of a dysfunctional and unfair police and judicial system; crossing the path of a policeman who has had a bad night may lead to an unwarranted prison sentence – or worse.",
        "在美国内陆城市，数百万西班牙裔和非洲裔美国人面临不作为、不公正的警察和司法制度所带来的不安全性； 遇到心情不好的警察很有可能导致无妄的牢狱之灾甚至更糟糕的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Reform Stalemate",
        "停滞的中国改革"
    ],
    [
        "This, sadly, is the story of the 1930s as well.",
        "悲哀的是，这正是20世纪30年代发生过的事。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, what they don’t like is competition itself, and they fight it by deploying an instrument that can inflict even greater damage on themselves.",
        "事实上，他们不喜欢的是竞争本身，并且他们通过设置一个可能给他们造成更大损失的工具来和它作斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "The Urgency of Refugee Education",
        "难民教育的紧迫性"
    ],
    [
        "The project’s preliminary results reinforce a key finding of previous, smaller studies: just as we can strengthen and transform a muscle through physical exercise, we can develop our brain and behavioral capacities – from attention and emotional regulation to trust and donation behavior – through regular mental training.",
        "该项目的初步成果再度证明了以前一项稍小规模研究所得出的重要发现：就像可以借助体育锻炼来强化和改造肌肉一样，我们也能借助定期的心理培训对自己的大脑和行为能力进行开发——从注意力和情绪调节到信任和捐赠行为 。"
    ],
    [
        "Now they are significant and active players (as majorities or strong minorities) in all the big companies of the developed world.",
        "现在，他们在发达国家所有大公司中以多数股东或者强大的少数股东的角色发挥重要而又积极的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In the alphabet soup of institutions involved in the regulation of global financial markets, the FMLC – the Financial Markets Law Committee – is not very prominent.",
        "伦敦—在全球金融市场监管机构的“字母汤”中，FMLC——金融市场法律委员会（Financial Markets Law Committee）——并不十分显眼。"
    ],
    [
        "For much of the developing world, the basic instability of international relations – owing to terrorist strikes, guerrilla warfare, and the preemptive wars that America threatens on its enemies – is aggravating socioeconomic anxieties and fueling doubts about the benefits of globalization.",
        "对多数发展中国家来讲，恐怖袭击、游击战争和美国威胁对敌人发动的先发制人的战争是国际关系中最基本的不稳定因素，它们加剧了人们对社会经济的疑虑，为质疑全球化是否有益的论调火上浇油。"
    ],
    [
        "His father’s plan for “Germania,” the name Hitler selected for the Berlin that he planned to construct after World War II, also relied on such a mighty central axis.",
        "而他的父亲为“日尔曼尼亚” 、也就是希特勒为计划在二战后建设的柏林所选择的名称所进行的规划也主要依赖这一宏伟的中轴线。"
    ],
    [
        "At his trial, two teams of court-appointed psychiatrists disagreed with each other over whether he was insane.",
        "在他的审判过程中，两组由法庭指定的精神病专家团队无法就他是否精神不正常达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "The neo-liberal push for deregulation served some interests well.",
        "新自由主义推动放松监管满足了某些人的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But the real responsibility lies with China.",
        "但真正的责任在于中国。"
    ],
    [
        "A Glimmer of Hope in Iran",
        "伊朗的一线希望"
    ],
    [
        "As long as inflation is somewhere between zero and 2%, the Fed should declare victory and leave it at that.",
        "只要通胀处于零和2%之间，美联储就应该认为自己是成功的，并采取放任不管的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, a key driver of rapid development in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea has been their strategic decision to shift public expenditure away from hard infrastructure and toward the “soft” infrastructure needed to build and sustain a knowledge economy.",
        "类似地，新加坡、马来西亚和韩国等国家之所以能快速发展，关键动力之一也在于采取了将公共支出从硬基础设施转向维持知识经济所需要的“软”基础设施的战略性决策。"
    ],
    [
        "They made themselves rich, goes the logic, so maybe they can do the same for the rest of us.",
        "这一逻辑认为，既然他们自己能够发家致富，自然就有可能带领我们其他人也富裕起来。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Fed has now tried to induce the creation of more savings vehicles, in part through $3 trillion in purchases of long-term securities.",
        "但美联储现在试图引导创造更多储蓄工具，部分是通过购买3万亿美元长期证券实现。"
    ],
    [
        "With an export-oriented economy and the world’s largest pile of foreign reserves, not to mention a conservative domestic financial system, China is exposed to international economic and financial volatility.",
        "作为出口导向型经济和拥有世界最大规模外汇储备的国家——更不用提其保守的国内金融体系了——中国已暴露在国际经济和金融的动荡之下。"
    ],
    [
        "VIRGINIA BEACH – Apple’s refusal to unlock the iPhone linked to the extremist attack in San Bernardino, California, in December has triggered a public battle with the US Justice Department and the FBI – a dispute with far-reaching implications for data privacy worldwide.",
        "弗吉尼亚海滩——苹果拒绝解锁与12月加利福尼亚州圣贝纳迪诺极端分子袭击事件有关的iPhone已经引发了与美国司法部和联邦调查局的公开战斗——上述争议对全球数据隐私将产生深远的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial side of the economy will also be a source of concern.",
        "经济的财政面也值得担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "The key to tapping their potential, city officials recognize, is a well-managed integration process.",
        "城市官员们认识到，释放他们的潜力的关键在于管理良好的融合过程。"
    ],
    [
        "The election in Germany was in part fought on the issue, as Chancellor Angela Merkel ran on a platform of offering Turkey a “privileged partnership,” rather than full admission.",
        "德国大选有一部分也是有关这一问题，德国总理安格拉·默克尔的竞选纲领为土耳其提供一个“特殊伙伴关系”，而非完整成员资格。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a move would be deemed premature by numerous critics.",
        "不少批评家会认为行动的时机尚不成熟。"
    ],
    [
        "Here the design space is truly huge, and RCTs do not permit testing of more than two or three designs at a time – and test them at a snail’s pace.",
        "在这里，设计空间着实巨大，而RCT只能一次测试最多两三种设计——并且只能在很小的空间中测试。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in rare cases, the vaccine itself has failed and led to infection.",
        "罕见的情况下，疫苗本身不起作用，导致感染。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Council was applauded at the time for its leadership.",
        "当时，欧洲理事会还因为在此事上的领导作用而大受赞扬。"
    ],
    [
        "The children of drug users often become drug users themselves; they, too, frequently end up in jail or suffer violence or early death.",
        "瘾君子的孩子通常自己也会变成瘾君子； 也会成为班房常客、遭受暴力甚至早夭。"
    ],
    [
        "To paraphrase Keynes, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.",
        "正如凯恩斯（Keynes）说的那样，师傅引进门，修行在个人。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the elites in general are so quick to ridicule this movement. A movement that is genuinely populist in origin poses a threat to their own position in the power structure.",
        "这也是为什么大部分精英会如此迫不及待地嘲讽这场运动的原因，因为一场真正起源于民粹主义的运动极大地威胁了这些精英在权力架构中的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Bangladesh Goes Taliban",
        "孟加拉国走上塔利班之路"
    ],
    [
        "Building a creative digital distribution system that eludes government censors would help news organizations establish and enlarge their markets.",
        "建立一个能够躲避政府审查的创造性的数字发行系统将有助于新闻机构建立并扩大它们的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "No one was surprised when the party’s platform gave a nod to the Gold Standard in its convention in August.",
        "因此当该党在8月党内大会上宣扬金本位的时候，就没有人感到奇怪了。"
    ],
    [
        "Industrial quantities of research, analysis, and debate have been devoted to the causes of the 2008 crisis and its consequences; so it seems odd that senior central bankers are still so sharply divided on the central issue of financial stability.",
        "针对2008年金融危机及其后果的研究，分析和讨论已经汗牛冲栋； 因此资深央行官员依然在金融稳定的核心问题上如此尖锐对立让人感觉很意外。"
    ],
    [
        "For all these reasons, the golden age of stability and predictability that was the third quarter of the twentieth century seemed to have abruptly drawn to a close, to be succeeded by a period of greatly heightened uncertainty.",
        "出于所有这些原因，贯穿二十世纪第三个四分之一的稳定和可预测性的全球时代似乎戛然而止，随之而来的是一个不确定性突出的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "But hygiene recommendations like hand-washing and cough-covering help only a little.",
        "但洗手和咳嗽时用手掩住口鼻这样的卫生建议只能小有帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "This alarms the public and incites anger against capitalists who do not reinvest their profits.",
        "这警告了公众，也引发了公众对那些不肯将盈利所得重新投资于国内的资本家的怒火。"
    ],
    [
        "Productivity can be enhanced by capital investment, technological innovation, and improvements in the knowledge and skills of the labor force, though economists disagree on which has the largest impact.",
        "虽然经济学家们对资本投资，技术革新以及提高劳动者知识技术水平这三者中哪种更能提升生产力众说纷纭，但它们都有其积极作用。"
    ],
    [
        "As it turned out, the euro was not quite the free lunch that it seemed to be.",
        "事实证明，欧元并不是像它看起来那样是免费的午餐。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the US debt-to-GDP ratio doubled in the past decade, the Obama administration and Congress ignored the problem, focusing instead on the annual deficit’s decline since 2012 and the relative stability of the deficit as a share of GDP.",
        "虽然美国债务相对GDP比率在过去十年增加了一倍，奥巴马政府和国会却刻意无视这一问题，相反着眼于2012年以来年度赤字额的逐步下降和赤字相对GDP比率的相对稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the charges have increased in scope and implausibility, the trials have complicated his relationships with the military, domestic liberals, and outsiders such as foreign media and the European Union.",
        "但随着这些指控不断扩大化并难以取信于人，他与军方，国内自由派以及外国媒体和欧盟这样的外部势力的关系也变得棘手。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, their policymakers’ attention is likely to turn inward amid growing demands for protectionist measures.",
        "事实上，越来越强的保护主义呼声可能迫使决策者将注意力转向国内。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the few trade unionists, intellectuals, and others who challenge these regimes usually do not seek to change how the state functions, but rather to ensure that, as they put it, they get their “turn to eat.”",
        "事实上，极少数敢于挑战这类统治的工人运动成员和知识分子也不是想改变整个系统，而只是想从中分一杯羹而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the latest Eurobarometer poll shows that defense is the last thing that Europeans are worried about.",
        "此外最新的欧洲民意调查也显示：防卫是人们最不重视的一项事务。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it still struggles with imbalances today, owing to its inability or unwillingness to embrace badly needed structural reforms – the so-called “third arrow” of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic recovery strategy, known as “Abenomics.”",
        "事实上，日本至今仍在与失衡作斗争，因为它无法或不愿采取急需的结构改革——即首相安倍晋三的被称为“A安倍经济学”的经济复苏战略的所谓的“第三支箭”。"
    ],
    [
        "Just a few years before the appearance of the plague on Roman shores, the planet experienced one of the most abrupt incidents of climate change in the last few thousand years.",
        "就在罗马海岸出现鼠疫短短几年前，这个星球经历了过去数千年来一次最突然的气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as the editorialists hasten to remind us, the downside is especially large at a time when the world’s financial system is reeling under the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the United States is entering a recession.",
        "而且，像新闻主笔急于提醒我们的那样，在世界金融体系在次级抵押贷款危机下岌岌可危以及美国进入衰退的时候，本回合失败的负面影响尤其巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "By being perceived as “too big to fail,” their banks benefit from a government backstop or downside guarantee.",
        "这些银行都“太大而不能倒”，从政府的支持和下跌担保中得益。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, national and local governments and international financial institutions should leverage their resources by deploying tailored financing measures, including public-private partnerships, performance-based instruments, and a variety of credit and political risk guarantees.",
        "具体而言，国家和地方政府以及国际金融机构必须通过个性化融资措施（包括公私合作、基于表现的工具和各种信用和政治风险担保）撬动资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Significantly, there were strong hints from senior Chinese leaders at the Forum that hukou reform is now under active consideration.",
        "重要的是，中国高层领导人在论坛上释放出积极审议户口改革的强烈信号。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is in a unique position to reap the benefits of free trade, so its leaders are right to be working to secure trade agreements with the world’s most important economic regions – Europe and Asia.",
        "美国在收获自由贸易的好处时地位独特，因此其领导人与世界最重要的经济地区（包括欧洲和亚洲）签署贸易协议是正确之举。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, a RMB1 billion reduction in exports would create more unemployment than a RMB1 billion reduction in investment spending.",
        "结果，出口减少十亿人民币所造成的失业将会超过投资减少十亿人民币所造成的失业。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not surprising, given the slowdown in consumption growth (car sales, for example, are suffering a prolonged decline).",
        "这并不奇怪,考虑到消费增长(比如汽车销售量正面临长期下降)放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as in Darfur, where China’s perceived support for the Sudanese government translated into harsh criticism and threats to brand the 2008 Olympics the “Genocide Games,” China’s backing of the Burmese generals, particularly if the death toll rises, could cause similar problems.",
        "正如在达尔福尔，中国对苏丹政府的明显支持招来了严厉的批评，连2008北京奥运会也有被标记为“种族屠杀运动会”的危险。 中国对缅甸军政府的支持（特别是如果死亡人数继续增加）有可能会造成类似的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "And the projected fiscal deficits imply that the additional debt that will be issued during the next decade will be as large as the total stock of debt today.",
        "而未来的财政赤字预期则意味着未来10年内增发的债务规模将相当于现有全部债务的总和。"
    ],
    [
        "These health effects are serious.",
        "这些影响可以相当严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade in goods is a substitute for the movement of people. Importing goods from China – goods that require a lot of unskilled workers to produce – reduces the demand for unskilled workers in Europe and the US.",
        "货物贸易实际上替代了劳动者的流动，从中国进口的商品——有大量非技术工人来生产——就减少了欧美地区对低技术工人的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "“Of course the North should continue to be named and shamed in the United Nations for its human-rights abuses and nuclear misbehavior.",
        "“当然，朝鲜应该继续因为其虐待人权和不恰当的核行为在联合国接受千夫所指。"
    ],
    [
        "That lesson should have been absorbed and understood, not least by American strategists, long before the Taliban’s fall.",
        "在塔利班垮台以前，人们就应该吸取并记住这个教训，尤其是美国的战略家。"
    ],
    [
        "The White House did all it could for eight years to hide the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are contributing to climate change.",
        "白宫八年来尽其所能把人类造成了气候变化这一毫无疑问的科学共识掩盖起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, but largely unknown, is the fact that the Banca d’Italia has resorted to the printing press to cover Italy’s gigantic balance of payments deficit.",
        "同样重要但不为人知的是，意大利央行已经重启印钞机来解决意大利巨额国际收支赤字问题了。"
    ],
    [
        "Second honeymoons rarely, if ever, recapture the zest of lost love.",
        "第二次蜜月很少——如果曾经有的话——能重新体验失去的爱的激情。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is a certain logic to the public’s disdain for superstar compensation outside of professional sports and entertainment.",
        "当然，公众对体育娱乐之外的高收入者巨额花红的鄙视背后也有一个较为确定的逻辑。"
    ],
    [
        "It does lend money to countries to undertake a variety of projects, and to help them through crises (such as the $10 billion it provided to Korea in 1997-1998).",
        "世行确实为各国的各种项目提供贷款，也为这些国家渡过危机提供帮助（如在1997-1998年间，为韩国提供了100亿美元的贷款）。"
    ],
    [
        "At the heart of India’s current malaise is a paradox: rapid growth in real income has not been matched by genuine advances in living standards.",
        "印度当前乱象和核心是一个悖论：真实收入的快速增长并没有带来生活水平的真实提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, no country can evolve without developing effective and credible institutions, establishing a meaningful system of political checks and balances, and diffusing control over decision-making.",
        "目前，不建立有效可靠的制度、有意义的政治制衡及决策分权体系任何国家都无法发展进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank does not possess the proper structural policy tools, and it has already been forced to bear burdens that, arguably, are beyond its strictly defined mandate.",
        "欧洲央行缺少合理的结构性政策工具，而且被迫承担了远超其严格限定的权力的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "With Murdoch seeking to acquire full control of Sky Television, British regulators have a critical opportunity to prevent a Fox News clone from appearing on British television screens – if they have the courage, which UK regulators have not shown up to now.",
        "当默多克寻求完全控制天空电视台时，英国监管者有了一次重要机会阻止一个克隆的福克斯新闻台出现在英国的电视屏幕上——如果他们有足够的勇气的话，但到目前为止英国监管者并没有表现出这种勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the United Kingdom, long seen as America’s closest ally, now seems intent on undermining its ability to work cooperatively with the US in times of crisis, even in meeting its NATO commitments, because of severe cuts to its military budget.",
        "即使是长期被视为美国最紧密盟友的英国，如今也似乎倾向于削减其在危机时与美国采取联合行动的能力，甚至在兑现其北约承诺方面也是如此，因为其军事预算被大大削减了。"
    ],
    [
        "These changes in demand and supply suggest that the future price of oil will be lower than industry participants expected until just a few months ago.",
        "这些需求与供给上的变化表明未来油价将比行业参与者几个月前所预期的更低。"
    ],
    [
        "Nixon’s goal in trumpeting his supposed erratic nature was to stoke fear among his foreign adversaries that making him angry or stressed could result in an irrational – even nuclear – response, thereby impelling them to check their own behavior.",
        "尼克松鼓吹他所谓情绪不稳定的性格特质其目的就是要在外国对手间引起恐惧，让他们知道他生气或承受压力时可能作出非理性——甚至是核打击——反应，从而促使他们控制自己的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Big challenges lie ahead, but I am confident that with the support of the global community, I can leave to my own children and community a thriving country where every person has the opportunity to prosper.",
        "前方还有重大挑战，但我有信心，在全球社会的支持下，我有信心为我的孩子和社会带来一个每个人都拥有成功机会的繁荣过度。"
    ],
    [
        "Any fund manager who claims to have been deluded by the apparently favorable risk-yield characteristics of CMOs or related credit instruments can be accused of having fallen for Milton Friedman’s “free lunch.” Risk models do not justify abandoning one’s natural sense of incredulity.",
        "任何声称为抵押担保债券或相关的信用工具的明显有利的风险－收益特征所迷惑的基金经理，都可以因上了密尔顿·弗里德曼“免费午餐”的当而受到谴责。"
    ],
    [
        "The change in priorities - and outsiders' tendency to overlook it - is not difficult to understand.",
        "发展重点优先次序的改变-容易被外界忽视-却并不难理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Imposing billions of dollars of fines on the most conspicuous wealth creators is not the way to go.",
        "对最可观财富的创造者处以几十亿美元的罚款不是我们应该采取的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Two approaches have been pursued so far to help communities affected by this phenomenon.",
        "目前，为了帮助受这一现象影响的社区，美国采取了两种办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, fixing the Security Council will require considerable time and political effort.",
        "显然，确定安理会需要大量的时间和政治努力。"
    ],
    [
        "But they cannot ignore their problems forever, and the consequences of delaying the reforms that France needs could be catastrophic.",
        "但他们无法永远忽视他们的问题，推迟法国所需要的改革的后果可能是灾难性的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ukraine, for example, the conflict has both exposed and widened the fissure between Russia and the West.",
        "比如，在乌克兰，冲突暴露并扩大了俄罗斯语西方之间的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Where the political will exists to allow the other side sufficient margin to reach an agreement, creative solutions can be found.",
        "而只要有了让另一方拥有足够政治余地去达成协议的政治意愿，就能产生创造性的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Lebanon must be able to continue inspiring its regional neighbors, and to provide a template for effective pluralism in the Middle East.",
        "黎巴嫩必须继续鼓舞地区邻国，为中东地区有效多元化树立榜样。 这在今天非常重要；"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, France withdrew all of its permanently based military forces from Mali years ago.",
        "事实上，多年前法国便已撤走了在马里的常驻军。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Russia’s desire to take ownership stakes in Europe’s gas distribution markets makes perfect sense and is fully legitimate given Russia’s energy assets and pipeline capacity.",
        "举例来讲，如果考虑到其所拥有的能源资产和管线容量，俄国在欧洲天然气输送市场谋求所有权股份的愿望合情合理、无可厚非。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is a drop in the ocean.",
        "但这只是沧海一粟。"
    ],
    [
        "Stock Markets’ Fear of Falling",
        "股市对下跌的担心"
    ],
    [
        "The private sector has a key role to play.",
        "私人部门能起到关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Blair’s vision of wars of values rather than interests has increasingly come to seem like a moral flag of convenience – in a way similar to the use of human rights by the rich world’s governments to justify their continued domination of institutions like the World Bank and the IMF.",
        "布莱尔的价值观而非利益之战已经越来越像是打着道义的名义图己之便利¾在某种意义上和富国政府利用人权给他们长期控制世界银行和国际货币基金组织这样的机构找合理性是一个道理。"
    ],
    [
        "It reminds me of the jingle of keys that rang out on Prague’s Wenceslas Square -- and later around the rest of what was then Czechoslovakia -- in the autumn of 1989.",
        "它让我想起了1989年秋天布拉格温塞拉斯广场上回荡的键音――后来这种声音响彻当时捷克斯洛伐克的其它地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Slowing the growth of government spending for Medicare and Social Security is necessary to prevent a long-term explosion of the national debt or dramatic increases in personal tax rates.",
        "减缓政府在联邦医保和社会保障方面的支出是避免国民债务长期爆发和大规模个人税率提高之所必须。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the 1840’s, mass immigration, fueled by the Irish potato famine, altered the state’s demographic balance, enabling populists to gain control of the legislature.",
        "但是，在19世纪40年代，由爱尔兰土豆饥荒导致的大量移民改变了马萨诸塞州的人口结构，民粹主义者控制了立法机构。"
    ],
    [
        "It has created a central authority serving as an umbrella for diverse organizations.",
        "他们已经建立了一个中央权威机构，用以保护各种组织。"
    ],
    [
        "The need to refute arguments against Turkey's admission to the EU leaves the advantages rarely mentioned: its unique geopolitical position at the crossroads of the Balkans, Southern Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East - vitally important regions for Europe's security; its role as mayor transit country for energy supplies; its military capabilities at a time when the EU is developing its new European Defense Policy; and the great potential of the Turkish economy, with its young and dynamic labor force.",
        "对反对土耳其入盟论调的驳斥常常使人们忽略了它真正的优势：它地处巴尔干、南高加索、中亚和中东交叉点的独特地理位置－这些地区都对欧洲安全起着至关重要的作用； 它还是能源供应的中转站；"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians, too, tend to have their moral compasses calibrated to the relentless hunt for votes.",
        "政治家往往也把自己的道德指南针调整到不择手段地攫取选票。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is a growing threat of several vicious circles at once.",
        "埃及正受到多重恶性循环的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Current global aid for health runs at about $25 billion per year.",
        "目前的全球医疗援助每年约250亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Thatcher’s answers to the growing industrial disorder of the 1970’s were “monetarism” to liquidate inflation, legal curbs on trade-union power, and privatization of bloated state-owned industries – “selling off the family silver” as former Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan called it.",
        "撒切尔对20世纪70年代日益增长的工业失序的回答是“货币主义”以清算通货膨胀、合法地遏制工会力量以及私有化臃肿的国有产业——用前保守党首相麦克米伦的话说就是“卖家底”。"
    ],
    [
        "All the eurozone countries, except Luxembourg and Finland, reported fiscal deficits in excess of 3% of GDP in 2009, while Greece, Spain, and Ireland ran deficits of more than 10%.",
        "除芬兰和卢森堡外，所有欧元区国家都通报本国财政赤字超过了GDP总量的3% ，而希腊，西班牙和爱尔兰的赤字则超过10%。"
    ],
    [
        "The Jakarta police have begun acting with new vigor: they charged one prominent radical leader with defamation for publicly calling women opposed to the anti-pornography bill “evil, wretched, and immoral,” and then arrested the chairman and twenty members of FPI for attacking a group of cafes.",
        "雅加达警方迅速行动起来。 他们指控一位有名的激进派别领导人涉嫌在公开场合诬蔑那些反对反色情议案的妇女“邪恶、肮脏、伤风败俗”，随后又由于袭击咖啡厅而拘捕了伊斯兰抵抗主义阵线的主席和二十几个成员。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, Obama, bolstered by polls endorsing his plan, won partial passage of two AJA policies: a one-third cut in employees’ payroll taxes (he had proposed one-half), and an extension of unemployment benefits by about 60% of what he had recommended.",
        "最终奥巴马在赞同该项计划的民调支持下部分通过了两项就业法案政策：包括将雇员的工资税削减三分之一（他原本提议削减一半），以及将失业救济扩展至他所建议的60%。"
    ],
    [
        "It is thoroughly unrealistic to assume that a border tax will quickly lead to a sharp offsetting movement of the dollar.",
        "边境税很快将引发美元汇率显著变动的假设是完全不切实际的。"
    ],
    [
        "We have already paid a high price for our European ambitions; we should not be turned away now.",
        "我们已经为我们的欧洲雄心付出了很多； 我们不应该在现在转变方向。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as NATO’s raison d’être was to keep the Russians out and the United States in, NATO’s internal dynamic of American leadership and European obeisance was both inevitable and appropriate.",
        "只要北约的存在理由是抵御俄国和留住美国，北约内部的美国领导作用和欧洲言听计从就不可避免并且理所当然。"
    ],
    [
        "Moore’s law observes the increase in computer processing power over time – specifically, that the number of transistors that can be placed cheaply on an integrated circuit doubles every 18-24 months.",
        "摩尔定律是关于计算机处理能随时间增长而变化的定律，具体而言，在一块集成电路上所能廉价布置的晶体管数量每18—24个月会翻一番。"
    ],
    [
        "In the space of a single primary-school generation, Syria has suffered what may be the greatest education reversal in history.",
        "在仅仅一代小学教育的时间里，叙利亚遭到了也许是史上最严重的教育倒退。"
    ],
    [
        "The American law professor James Boyle believes that we can grasp the way in which the body has become an object of trade by likening it to the historical process of enclosure.",
        "美国法学教授詹姆士·博伊尔认为，我们可以通过与历史上的圈地运动相类比的方式，来掌握身体成为买卖对象的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "But 2016 offers plenty of opportunities for correction, in areas ranging from trade to migration.",
        "但2016年在从贸易到移民的诸多领域提供了大量纠正机会。"
    ],
    [
        "First of all, Israel does not threaten anybody.",
        "首先，以色列并不威胁任何人。"
    ],
    [
        "The case of the Palestinian Territories, however, is different.",
        "但巴勒斯坦地区的情况却截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Losing one’s life in a foreign war fought at the behest of colonial rulers was an occupational hazard; it did not qualify as a form of praiseworthy national service.",
        "受命于殖民统治者在国外战争中丧生是一种职业危险； 他们根本没有因为国家服务而受人称道的资格。"
    ],
    [
        "It calls for the improved predictability of aid flows, with budget support and program-based aid as the preferred means of delivering support.",
        "它要求改善援助的可预见性，并且把预算支持和基于项目基础上的援助列为优先的提供支持方式。"
    ],
    [
        "By granting him political asylum, we can make a resounding statement that authoritarian regimes can no longer count on support within Europe’s borders.",
        "通过给予他政治避难，我们可以做出一个响亮的声明：独裁政权在欧洲的疆界内再也得不到支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The Government the Eurozone Deserves",
        "欧元区应有的政府"
    ],
    [
        "The changes, modeled after Germany’s progressive policies, would stop punishing people for possessing small amounts of drugs for their own use, impose stricter penalties for dealers and provide more effective treatment for drug-dependent people.",
        "上述修改仿效德国的进步政策，将不再惩罚藏匿少量毒品自吸的瘾君子，加重处罚毒贩，并为瘾君子提供更有效的救治。"
    ],
    [
        "For their part, EU governments would want to punish Britain, not least because they know that a velvet divorce with Britain would bolster anti-EU parties, such as France’s far-right National Front, which has already called for a referendum on EU membership.",
        "而欧盟各国政府都会想惩罚英国，因为他们知道与英国天鹅绒式和平分手将令法国极右翼国民阵线党——该党已经号召要举行脱盟公投——这类反欧盟政党士气大涨。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in pursuit of other avenues for expanding the EU’s reach, European leaders might reinvigorate the European Economic Area.",
        "此外，在为扩大欧盟范围寻找其他办法时，欧洲领导人应该复兴欧洲经济区（European Economic Area）。"
    ],
    [
        "The high temperatures of the Gulf of Mexico helped, as recovery proceeds much faster in warm waters than in cold.",
        "墨西哥湾的高温发挥了积极作用，因为温暖水域的生态恢复比寒冷水域快得多。"
    ],
    [
        "This G7 recession will lead to a sharp growth slowdown in emerging markets and likely tip the overall global economy into a recession.",
        "G7的衰退会导致新兴市场增长的急剧放缓，并可能使全球经济总体上陷入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "The finance sector did not look kindly on those who pointed out that the New Economy bubble of the late 1990s, or the credit expansion that preceded the 2008 global financial crisis, had created a large febezzle.",
        "金融界对指出20世纪90年代末新经济（New Economy）泡沫，或者2008年全球金融危机前的信用扩张制造了规模巨大的等价占款的人可没有慈眉善目。"
    ],
    [
        "But Barghouti has begun speaking out from his jail cell on the political situation, and his presence is growing.",
        "虽然身处牢房，巴尔古提已经开始对外发表政治演讲，媒体曝光率也大幅提升。"
    ],
    [
        "It refers to “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.” The emphasis is on “intent,” not on the numbers of people whose lives are destroyed.",
        "它被定义为“蓄意整体或部分消灭某一民族、人种，种族或宗教团体的行动”，而其重点则是“蓄意”而非被杀害者的数目。"
    ],
    [
        "In many ways, Ahmadinejad’s story resembles that of Banisadr.",
        "内贾德的故事在很多方面都与巴尼萨德尔非常相似。 这两人在出任总统前都籍籍无名；"
    ],
    [
        "But the fortress has merely rechanneled, rather than stemmed, the flow of people, forcing migrants and refugees to attempt dangerous sea crossings – even as search and rescue operations are being scaled back.",
        "但欧洲构筑的堡垒并未阻止、只是改变了人流，迫使移民和难民在缩减搜索救援行动的情况下尝试危险的海上偷渡。"
    ],
    [
        "“Matters of faith” have been substituted for science across government, from the president down.",
        "整个政府内部自总统而下，“事关信仰”替代了科学。"
    ],
    [
        "The US response to the so-called “Arab Spring,” for example, has lacked political conviction, much less strategic direction.",
        "比如，美国对所谓“阿拉伯之春”的反应就缺少政治信念，也毫无战略方向可言。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there is the illiberal aspect of the holiday season: the state has no right, and no reason, to force entrepreneurs to close down, against their will (for four days December 25 and 26, and January 1 and 2) over the course of a fortnight.",
        "首先，家假日具有反自由性质：国家没有权利，也没有理由强迫企业家违背自己的意愿，在十四天的时间里关门四天（12月25、26日和1月1、2日）。"
    ],
    [
        "With productivity having deteriorated considerably – a symptom that had been obscured by the bubbles – Japan was unable to engineer a meaningful recovery.",
        "生产率严重恶化——此前这一症候被泡沫掩盖——因此日本无法实现有意义的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the decision was far from voluntary.",
        "的确，这一决定并非出于自愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that the PiS’s actions have been universally condemned, it is holding out until the end of the year, when the current constitutional court president’s mandate expires.",
        "由于PiS的行为受到了一致谴责，这一问题将搁置直至年底现任宪法法庭主席任期届满。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth and finally, even dead cats bounce.",
        "第四个也是最后一个因素，就算是只死鸡也会蹬蹬脚啊！"
    ],
    [
        "At the Shwe gas fields along the Burmese cost, estimated to be among the largest reserves in the world, two pipelines are to be constructed: one to China from the nearby port of Kyauk Phru, and the other to India from the port of Sittwe.",
        "在缅甸沿海地区的Shwe天然气田——据估计是全球储量最大的天然气田——正在兴建两条管道：一条从附近皎漂（Kyauk Phru）港通往中国，另一条则从实兑（Sittwe）港通往印度。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, the Carbon Levy Project proposes a tax at the point of extraction for fossil fuels.",
        "具体而言，碳税计划建议在化石燃料提取环节征税。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – The Chinese economy has caught a surprisingly severe cold this winter – a cold so bad that almost all global markets are sneezing.",
        "香港—中国经济在今年冬天遭遇出人意料的严重伤寒——严重到全球所有市场都因此打了寒战。"
    ],
    [
        "But, to meet the target, we must ensure that it is not treated as a political and economic impossibility, either.",
        "但为实现这一目标，我们必须保证人们不认为它在政治和经济上是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas “the Republicans’ actions are not aimed at us,” but instead “at Islamic terrorists and rogue states,” under a Democratic president, Russia would likely “become a prime focus of antagonism, due to our authoritarianism, our lack of democracy, stifling of freedom, and violation of human rights.”",
        "”因为共和党的行动针对的不是我们，而是“伊斯兰恐怖分子和流氓国家，”如果出现的是一位民主党的总统，俄罗斯很有可能“会因为我们的独裁主义、我们的缺乏民主、压制自由和践踏人权而成为对抗的主要焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "Newly elected President Maithripala Sirisena and I, as prime minister, are determined to win that peace, and to help our country become what it always should have been: a prosperous Asian island of democracy, civility, and open society.",
        "新任总统迈特里帕拉·西里塞纳和担任总理的我都对和平志在必得，我们一定要让国家成为梦想中的样子：繁荣的亚洲岛国，民主、文明的开放社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Although economic activity has recently increased, the eurozone has lost the ability to respond to the next downturn when it happens, as it inevitably will.",
        "尽管经济活动最近有所活跃，但欧元区已经丧失了应对下一次衰退的能力。 这是一个必然结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracies are necessarily softhearted, whereas markets are not; government action has expanded to fill the gap.",
        "民主制度一般都是温情脉脉的，而市场又总是残酷无情； 于是政府出现，填补了其中空白。"
    ],
    [
        "Capable, independent courts are the prime movers behind the development of a professional state bureaucracy.",
        "胜任的独立法院是推动专业国家官僚体系发展的主要力量。"
    ],
    [
        "It is admirable, therefore, that South Korea’s government has taken the lead in discussions about reforming the IMF’s mandate.",
        "因此，韩国政府能够率先探讨IMF宗旨改革的话题，其胆识颇为可敬。"
    ],
    [
        "The “materialist” approach takes a broader view, arguing that people with more money can essentially purchase better health through superior education, health care, and social services.",
        "“物质”论的着眼点更加广泛，认为钱更多的人可以通过优良的教育、卫生和社会服务买到更好的健康。"
    ],
    [
        "A pandemic, flood, or cyber attack in the City of London or Wall Street could send the entire world into a financial tailspin.",
        "伦敦或华尔街爆发流行病、水灾或网络袭击可能使整个世界陷入金融混乱的局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, in the meantime, China can continue to pursue a rules-based multilateral approach, and it can expect broad support from other advanced and developing countries.",
        "与此同时，中国可以继续奉行以规则为基础的多边主义做法，并期望得到其他发达国家和发展中国家的广泛支持。"
    ],
    [
        "One promising sector is tourism, which also fits into the CITES framework.",
        "另外一个前景远大的部门是旅游，而且旅游业完全符合野生动植物濒危物种国际贸易公约的架构。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the government forged policies for the poor with non-contributory income transfers and family allowances, which benefited minors and female who are heads of household. Public education was boosted by bigger expenditure and a “one laptop per child” program.",
        "另外，政府还通过非分摊收入转移支付和家庭补贴为贫困人口制定了相关政策，使未成年人和女性一家之主从中受益。 更多地投入和“每童一机（笔记本电脑）”项目促进了公共教育的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2012, the gap had fallen to 38 points in sciences and 46 points in math.",
        "2012年，差距缩小为科学38分，数学46分。"
    ],
    [
        "The total would represent net immigration of 1.5% of the resident population – an extremely high proportion by historical and international standards.",
        "两项合计，净移民总人数可能达到定居人口的1. 5%——从历史和国际标准看，这是个极高的比例。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the next president of the United States – the world’s second-largest greenhouse-gas emitter and a critical actor in climate policy – does not believe it is happening, or at least that humans have a role in driving it.",
        "但身为世界第二大温室气体排放国和气候政策关键行动者的下任美国总统不相信气候变化正在发生，或至少不相信人类在其中发挥推动作用。"
    ],
    [
        "China, by contrast, is governed by a political class that holds democracy in contempt.",
        "相反，中国由一个藐视民主的政治阶级治理。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar dithering is apparent at the geopolitical level as well.",
        "类似的摇摆在地缘政治中也是显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative may be too expensive for shareholders and citizens alike.",
        "若非如此，股东和公民将付出沉重代价。"
    ],
    [
        "But even if China’s economic transition is far from complete, its progress has been impressive.",
        "但即便中国的经济转型还远未完成，其进展也足以令人刮目相看。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, many in the computer industry worry that such a patent thicket may impede software development.",
        "今天，计算机行业的很多有识之士都担心这样的专利丛林可能会再次阻碍软件领域的研发。"
    ],
    [
        "It also established a new tradition of stability in economic policy, continuing and reinforcing the previous Conservative government’s commitment to fiscal discipline and low inflation.",
        "这一时期也建立了新的经济政策稳定的传统，继续并且强化了先前保守党政府致力于财政纪律以及低通货膨胀的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The official view remains that only an internationally guaranteed two-state settlement will bring about the security needed for the economic revival of the Palestinian territories.",
        "主流观点仍然坚持只有国际社会担保的两国解决方案才能确保巴勒斯坦地区经济复苏所必不可少的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "America has the flexibility, capacity, and leadership to adapt to the new rules for pursuing diplomacy, but Europe simply does not.",
        "为了推行外交政策，美国已经具备弹性，能力和领袖来适应新的规则。 然而欧洲却身无长技。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the ecological risks, critics warn that, once deployed globally, SRM could spawn powerful weapons, giving states, corporations, or individuals the ability to manipulate climate for strategic gain (an idea that not even Hollywood can resist).",
        "除了生态风险，批评者还警告说，SRM一旦被部署，可能成为强大的武器，让国家、公司或个人有能力操纵气候赢得战略利益（这样的概念，连好莱坞也无法拒绝）。"
    ],
    [
        "The age of the gene is far from over; it has simply progressed into the age of epigenetics.",
        "基因时代远远没有结束，只不过升级成了发育遗传学时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, deposit-rich Chinese banks have ample liquidity to absorb potential losses; the system-wide loan-to-deposit ratio is only about 65% – well below earlier pre-crisis levels that were typically closer to 120%, according to a recent analysis by the Xerion team of Perella Weinberg Partners.",
        "与此同时，占有大笔存款的银行拥有足够的流动性去吸收潜在损失； 整个银行系统的存贷比只有大概65%——根据Perella Weinberg Partners投资银行下属Xerion研究组的成果，过往危机爆发前这个比率都会上升到近120%的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Currency forecasting is a mug’s game.",
        "货币预测不啻瞎猜。"
    ],
    [
        "But these bodies must not be seen as substitutes for the far more comprehensive accession process, which only the EU itself can initiate.",
        "但是这些机构绝对不能被视为更全面的入盟进程的替代物，这样的工作只能由欧盟来启动。"
    ],
    [
        "To secure that future, Europe’s political class, rather than struggling to cope with crises as they arise, must begin to look at the big picture, anticipate and address challenges, and inspire people once again.",
        "为了实现美好未来，欧洲的政治阶层不能只是疲于应付与他们的成长同时出现的各类危机，还必须开始关注宏观大势，预测和应对挑战，并再次鼓动起民众的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "But we need more investment in better infrastructure to realize our industry’s full potential.",
        "但我们需要更多地投资于改进基础设施以实现我国渔业的全部潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "The first step toward reclaiming some of the value of our own data is to view this information as an asset, rather than as a by-product.",
        "要夺回你自己的数据的部分价值，第一步是将这些信息视为一种资产而非副产品。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – A striking symmetry is emerging in debates about the future of higher education around the world.",
        "纽约—关于高等教育的未来，全世界的讨论显示出惊人的对称性。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment has always reached its lowest point at the end of the decade or a year later, driven by cyclical movements in equipment investment that followed the textbook multiplier-accelerator model.",
        "依据书本上的乘数—加速数模型，在机器产业投资周期运动的推动下，失业率总是在每十年中的最后一年或者接下来的第二年达到最低点。"
    ],
    [
        "But the effort to preserve one’s power, the need for a distinct “Asian” identity, and the desire to settle historical scores will not solve the normative question raised by China’s emergence as the century’s dominant power.",
        "但维护自身实力，那些营造特殊“亚洲”身份定义的需要以及清算历史旧账的意愿都不能解决由中国崛起成为本世纪支配力量所带来的规范问题。"
    ],
    [
        "We now live in a different world where developing countries are a fundamental source of growth, as well as being importers of capital goods and services from developed countries.",
        "我们现在生活在一个完全不同的世界里，在这个世界里发展中国家才是发展的根本源头，同时也是发达国家产品和服务的进口国。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – In many, if not most, US administrations, some figure emerges who convinces the press that the president couldn’t function without him (it’s yet to be a her).",
        "发自华盛顿特区——在许多（如果不是大多数）美国政府机构中，总会不时有些人物冒起并让新闻界确信，如果没有他（目前还没有“她”）总统就没法干活了。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the EU is to implement needed institutional reforms, we need all the member countries to be fully engaged in seeking common solutions that make Europe more competitive, equitable, and socially robust.",
        "但如果欧盟要实施必要的体制改革，我们就需要所有成员国能够全面参与，寻求能让欧洲更具竞争力、更公平、社会更活跃的共同的解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Both books view the recent rise of India and China as shifting the world’s economic and political tectonic plates.",
        "这两本书都把最近中国和印度的崛起看作是改变了世界的经济和政治结构。"
    ],
    [
        "The Cold War, the third major conflict of the twentieth century, is no exception to this rule.",
        "而作为20世纪世界三大主要冲突之一的冷战也逃脱不了这条法则。"
    ],
    [
        "The sociologist Max Weber described three bases of authority: traditional, charismatic, and rational (legal).",
        "社会学家马克斯·韦伯描述了威权的三大基础：传统、魅力和理性（法律）。"
    ],
    [
        "History suggests that a revisionist power can be disciplined in two ways.",
        "历史表明有两种方式能够制衡修正主义强国。"
    ],
    [
        "A simplified CAP would encourage cleaner, more productive, and efficient agriculture.",
        "一个简化版的共同农业政策将鼓励更为清洁、更加多产并且高效的农业。"
    ],
    [
        "The eleventh-hour U-turn on the push for military action has come against a backdrop of intensifying diplomatic pressure from the international community to avoid escalation of the violence in Syria.",
        "国际社会呼吁避免叙利亚暴力活动升级的外交压力越来越强，直接导致了此次军事行动在最后时刻调头。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that Morocco imports around 97% of its energy supply, and possesses no oil or natural gas deposits of its own, the government has viewed developing renewable energy as the only way to ensure the country’s continuing economic development.",
        "摩洛哥能源供给97%左右需要进口，自身也不拥有石油或天然气储量，其政府将开发可再生能源视为确保摩洛哥经济持续发展的唯一道路。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Review on AMR, we recommended 27 interventions that could solve the AMR crisis for a generation.",
        "在AMR评估中，我们建议采取27项干预，为一代人解决AMR危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank has forcefully emphasized the importance of agriculture to jump-starting economic expansion and breaking the cycle of poverty.",
        "世界银行已经大力强调农业在促使经济增长以及打破贫困循环上的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar rush to judgment occurred in the wake of massive tornado outbreaks in the US in recent years, even though the scientific literature does not offer strong support for such a connection.",
        "美国近年爆发巨型龙卷风后有人就急于做出这样的判断，即使科学文献并没有对这种联系给出有说服力的支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "For most developing countries, this “convergence gap” is wider now than it has been at any time since the 1970’s. So the growth potential is correspondingly larger.",
        "对于大多数发展中国家而言，与富国经济之间的“水平差距”相对上世纪70年代其实有增无减，此消彼长之下，所谓的发展空间看上去倒变得更大了。"
    ],
    [
        "At the center of the summit’s unanimously adopted New York Declaration is a commitment to develop two global compacts: to share responsibility for taking in refugees, and to ensure orderly, safe, regular, and responsible migration.",
        "峰会一致通过了《纽约宣言》，其核心是承诺制定两个全球契约：分担接收难民的责任； 以及确保有序、安全、合规和负责任的移民。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that we should not entirely dismiss the likelihood that a true global consciousness will develop in the future, along with transnational political communities.",
        "事实上它一直都随历史的进程不断改变着。 这意味着我们不应完全否定一种真正的全球意识以及跨国政治社群在未来出现的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Each claims to be acting with the Supreme Leader’s full authority, but ultimately are unable to make commitments because they have little idea of what Khamenei wants to do.",
        "每一位都声称全权代表“最高领导人”，但最终谁都不能做出承诺，因为他们揣摸不透哈梅内依的心思。"
    ],
    [
        "The most recent CESifo World Economic Survey (WES) from 90 countries confirms this.",
        "来自90个国家最新的CESifo世界经济调查(WES)确认了这一观点。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reality is that security risks – which may well be genuine – are no excuse for the kind of blanket suspicion that governments are using as a pretext for silencing or prohibiting independent organizations.",
        "但现实是安全风险——诚然可能确实存在——并不是政府以全盘可疑为由取缔或让独立组织噤声的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "Agriculture is but one example.",
        "农业只是一个例子。"
    ],
    [
        "In exchange for shifting to a territorial system and reducing the tax rate, the federal government could tax all of these untaxed past earnings at a low rate to be paid over a ten-year period.",
        "作为将税收制度改为领土原则以及降低税率的交换条件，联邦政府可以按照较低的税率，在十年的时间里对未纳税历史盈余课税。"
    ],
    [
        "This regime was superseded in the 1980’s and 1990’s by an agenda of deeper liberalization and economic integration.",
        "这个体制在20世纪80年代和90年代被一个更深入的自由化和经济一体化议程所取代。"
    ],
    [
        "(California often makes big decisions – from limiting property taxes to formulaic restrictions on state spending – by ballot initiative.)",
        "（加州往往靠公民投票做出从限制征收房产税到统一限制政府开支的重大决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Lonjakan populisme di tahun 2016 hampir pasti akan mengakhiri rangkaian kesibukan pembuatan perjanjian perdagangan.",
        "2016年的民粹主义反动将几乎肯定宣告这一繁忙的协议时代结束。"
    ],
    [
        "One day, we may be able to design bacteria that can quickly, safely, and effectively clean up oil spills.",
        "总有一天我们会设计出可以快速，安全和有效地清除漏油的细菌。"
    ],
    [
        "A further motive of the ECB’s bond purchases has been to increase the cash that eurozone banks have available to lend to businesses and households.",
        "欧洲央行购买债券的进一步动机是增加欧元区银行可用于向企业和家庭贷款的现金。"
    ],
    [
        "While this is currently an unlikely outcome, as the anti-dam protests gather strength, China’s leaders may realize that if they do not move quickly, they risk being swept away.",
        "尽管目前看来这种可能性还不大，但随着反对筑坝工程的力量越来越大，中国的领导人可能会发现：如果他们不能迅速采取行动，就面临着被这股浪潮吞没的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The war in Libya, meanwhile, could lead to many more thousands of civilians fleeing the violence and needing international protection.",
        "而与此同时，利比亚战争也产生了数以万计逃离暴力冲突并急需国际保护的难民。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the GBD is constantly improving, thanks to the efforts of more than 1,300 collaborators in 114 countries.",
        "如今，GBD在持续改善，这是114个国家的1,300多名合作者的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "But Japan remains concerned about China’s rapidly modernizing military, while China worries about a potential US-Japan containment strategy for China, especially in the case of a crisis in the Taiwan Straits.",
        "但日本依然对中国军事领域的快速现代化表示忧虑，而中国则担心美日可能联手对中国采取遏制策略，特别是如果台海地区发生危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Then he was in Brazil, where he was impressed by the country’s use of bio-fuel to power a quarter of its automotive traffic.",
        "然后他来到了巴西，在那里他对这个国家四分之一的汽车交通使用的都是生物燃料留下了深刻的印象。"
    ],
    [
        "The SDGs will succeed the Millennium Development Goals, which guided international development efforts from 2000-2015.",
        "可持续发展目标将接替从2000-2015年指导国际发展工作的千年发展目标。"
    ],
    [
        "There should be a wide consensus that a pro-competitive environment is one of the keys to economic prosperity.",
        "应该形成广泛的共识，利于竞争的环境是经济繁荣的关键之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Will so-called collective-action clauses (CACs) – another aspect of the ICMA “reform” aimed at debeaking the vultures – save the day?",
        "所谓的集体行动条款（collective-action clauses）——ICMA旨在打击兀鹫的“改革”的另一个重要方面——能力挽狂澜吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to efforts by Moldova, with the assistance of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to boost its nuclear security capabilities, the material was identified and confiscated, and the smugglers were arrested.",
        "感谢摩尔多瓦在加强核安全能力方面的努力和国际原子能机构的协助，这批核材料被查出并没收，走私者也被绳之以法。"
    ],
    [
        "The Transatlantic Muslim Divide",
        "大西洋两岸穆斯林的差别"
    ],
    [
        "Fast forward to this year.",
        "光阴荏苒，很快就过去了17年。"
    ],
    [
        "The history of technology is full of examples of this feedback loop.",
        "技术市中充满了这一反馈环的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "There are eight partly overlapping regional trade zones, none of which includes more than half of Africa’s countries.",
        "目前部分区域重叠的区域贸易区共有8个，却没有一个囊括了超过一半的非洲国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, most professional investors trashed the tests as dishonest even as their holdings benefited from a rising market.",
        "事实上，许多专业投资者即使因为持有股票而从股市的上涨中获益，也仍然认为压力测试是不诚实的。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of 2013, Erdoğan’s alliance with the Gülenists had turned into open warfare.",
        "到了2013年底，埃尔多安与葛兰主义者公开决裂。"
    ],
    [
        "But, since then, global governance has become increasingly muddled, impeding progress in areas of worldwide concern.",
        "但是，自此以后，全球治理就变得日益复杂，阻挠了哥全球关注领域的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank should take up the cause.",
        "世界银行应该承担起责任来。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic weakness thus provides an unprecedented opportunity for international engagement with the new Arab leadership, which should incorporate short-, medium-, and long-term goals.",
        "于是，经济疲软就为新阿拉伯领导层提供了前所未有的融入国际社会的机会。 与国际社会的合作应该包括短期、中期和长期目标。"
    ],
    [
        "For the financial system as a whole, success ultimately depends on trust and confidence, both of which, like suspicion and fear, are highly contagious.",
        "对于整个金融体系，成功说到底取决于信任和信心，它们——就像怀疑和恐惧——具有高度传播性。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, sequencing genomes is a fast and relatively cheap process, its cost having dropped from $10 million per genome in 2007 to under $1,000 today.",
        "目前，基因测序已经是一个快速且相对廉价的过程，其成本从2007年的每基因组1,000万美元下降到今天的1,000美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it has tarnished the reputation of the government’s de facto leader, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi; called into question the crisis-management credentials of ASEAN and the United Nations; and made a mockery of international institutions for conflict prevention.",
        "不仅如此，此次危机还损害了政府事实上的领导人，诺贝尔和平奖获得者昂山素季的声誉； 质疑了东盟和联合国的危机管理资格，并嘲笑了防止冲突发生的国际体系。"
    ],
    [
        "With the shift toward identity politics – a terrain that is not particularly amenable to compromise – has come a shift in attitudes toward democratic institutions.",
        "随着这种向身份政治——这是一个不是特别容易实现妥协的领域——的转变，人们对民主体制的态度也发生了转变。"
    ],
    [
        "So the lesson from the recession is clear.",
        "经济衰退给我们的教训已经显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the most striking instance of dishonest leadership has been in the United Kingdom, where the Brexit referendum and its aftermath have caused more instability than Britain experiences in a typical decade.",
        "但英国也许是最令人震惊的不诚实领导的例子，英国退欧公投及其后果所导致的动荡规模已经超过了平常时间十年。"
    ],
    [
        "During the acute phase of the euro crisis, recession was concentrated in peripheral economies such as Greece, Portugal, and Spain.",
        "在欧元危机最猛烈的阶段，衰退集中在希腊、葡萄牙和西班牙等外围经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "In a region as volatile as the Middle East, no country can afford to take peace for granted.",
        "在中东这样的动荡地区，没有哪个国家有把和平当做理所当然的奢侈。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Kosovo and Serbia would constitute two distinct international subjects, bound by a confederation hinging on a common decision-making body.",
        "其结果是，科索沃和塞尔维亚将组成两个不同的国际主体，捆绑在由一个共同决策机构将其连接起来的邦联体下。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, Canada beat the US in a bid for a new Toyota plant, in part because private health-insurance costs in the US add several thousand dollars to the cost of manufacturing a car there.",
        "最近，加拿大击败了美国，获得了丰田汽车投资建立新厂的竞标，部分原因是因为美国昂贵的私人医疗保险成本会使汽车制造成本增加几千美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet many European governments continue to invest in razor wire and detention centers, rather than in schools and teachers.",
        "但许多欧洲政府继续投资铁丝网和集中营，而不是学校和教师。"
    ],
    [
        "This ought to be a confidence-boosting story: amazing technologies are emerging, sales are booming, and entrepreneurship is alive and very well.",
        "这应该是一个提振信心的故事：令人惊讶的科技正在兴起，销售在增加，企业家精神仍然活着并且动力十足。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a practice of acknowledgement, empathic imagination, witnessing, responsibility, solidarity, and the most concrete forms of assistance.",
        "它是一种承认、移情想象、见证、责任、团结和最具体的帮助行为。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they oppose efforts to reduce the number of American nuclear weapons in Europe, part of NATO’s “nuclear sharing” policy.",
        "他们因此反对美国削减部署在欧洲的核武数量，实际掣肘北约的部分“核共享”政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, North Korea has not received such far-sighted statesmanship.",
        "可悲的是，朝鲜并没有遇见具备如此远见卓识的政治家。"
    ],
    [
        "The course is primarily one in forensic macroeconomics – distilling key lessons from the rise and fall of the modern Japanese economy and then figuring out the relevance of those lessons for other major economies.",
        "该课程基本上属于一门法证宏观经济学（forensic macroeconomics）课程——从现代日本经济的兴衰中提炼一些核心经验教训，然后找出那些教训与其他主要经济体的相关性。"
    ],
    [
        "A process of deregulation and privatization, although with continued tax-financing (in fact, basically a voucher system), began in the field of “human services,” in particular for childcare, education, and old-age care.",
        "解除管制和私有化的进程尽管与持续的税收资助相伴（实际上基本上是一种券票体制），但是却开始于“公共事业”领域，特别是托幼、教育以及照看老年。"
    ],
    [
        "He explained the Messianic illusions that were reborn with the Six-Day War as false compensation for the martyrdom of the Shoah.",
        "他解释了随六日战争重生的救世主幻想是对大屠杀受害者的错误补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be a severe setback for the EU; for the British, blundering through history, it would be a veritable disaster.",
        "这将是欧盟的一次严重退步； 对英国来说，历史表明这一结果将是名副其实的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Breaking these taboos need not mean returning to the high tax rates, inflation, and dependency culture of the 1970s.",
        "打破这些禁忌未必意味着回归20世纪70年代的高税率、通胀和依赖文化。"
    ],
    [
        "In Iraq, too, American attacks have taken the lives of many civilians.",
        "在伊拉克也是一样，美国的袭击夺去了许多平民的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Some officials remain highly captured.",
        "一些官员仍是金融业的俘虏。"
    ],
    [
        "Increase military contacts/exchanges;",
        "增进双方的军事接触和交流；"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel would cause outrage among her conservative voters (as well as court defeat at the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe) should she agree to a more free-spending policy, including any direct financial assistance for Greece.",
        "而默克尔如果支持更宽松的支出政策，包括向希腊直接提供资金援助，就会惹恼她的保守派选民，并且有可能被卡尔斯鲁厄的德国宪法法院裁定为违宪。"
    ],
    [
        "But it recognizes that what Europe’s troubled countries need most is not money, but the planning and administrative capacity to spend it effectively.",
        "但是，其认识到深陷困境的欧洲国家最急需的并非金钱，而是如何有效利用资金的规划和管理能力。"
    ],
    [
        "And TB mortality has dropped more than 40%.",
        "结核病致死人数下降了40%多。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, that is what has enabled the country, against all odds, to avoid all-out conflict, making it a beacon – however faint – of hope in a crisis-ravaged region.",
        "归根结底，恰恰因此特点该国才排除万难成功避免爆发全面冲突，黎巴嫩也因此成为危机肆虐地区的一座希望的灯塔，无论这样的光明是多么微弱。"
    ],
    [
        "But within a week of the Christmas bonhomie, seven Indians were killed by militants at the Pathankot Air Force Base near the border with Pakistan.",
        "但圣诞愉快的气氛维持了不到一周，七名印度人就在靠近巴基斯坦边境的伯坦果德（Pathankot）空军基地被军人杀害。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in South Africa, the wealthiest country on the continent, millions of people lack basics.",
        "即便在这块大陆上最富有的国家南非，仍然有成百上千万人基本的生存条件无法得到满足。"
    ],
    [
        "But his command of detail and argument was rock solid.",
        "但他对细节和辩论把握依然炉火纯青。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it is significant that the Court agreed, at the request of the parties, to refer the case on appeal to its Grand Chamber.",
        "而且，在当事人的要求之下，法庭同意将该案例向大法庭提请上诉，这一举动意义重大。"
    ],
    [
        "Tensions at the ECB and between the euro-zone countries do not bode well for the stability of the common currency, both externally, vis-à-vis other currencies, and internally, in terms of inflation.",
        "欧洲央行与欧元区国家关系紧张，无论针对外部的其他货币，或是内部的通货膨胀，都不利于维持共同货币稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, such investment, which grew at 19.6% in the first quarter of 2016, has already proved to be a critical driver of economic growth – and, unlike real-estate investment, it has not worsened China’s resource allocation or set the stage for major imbalances.",
        "毕竟，基础设施投资在2016年一季度增长率为19. 6%，已证明是经济增长的关键动力——并且，与房地产投资不同，基础设施投资不会恶化中国的资源配置或为重大失衡创造条件。"
    ],
    [
        "A more realistic option is a multi-speed effort whereby the eurozone countries can move ahead, while others are allowed to wait.",
        "一个更加现实的选择是多速方案，欧元区国家能够继续前进，其他国家可以等一等。"
    ],
    [
        "The complexity of Iraq’s society and history means that many people have been displaced more than once, or have returned from exile only to become internally displaced.",
        "伊拉克社会和历史的复杂性意味着许多人曾不止一次流离失所，或者从流亡国外回来后依然在国内无家可归。"
    ],
    [
        "But, otherwise, little has fundamentally changed.",
        "但是，另一方面，并没有发生多少根本性改变。"
    ],
    [
        "George W. Bush’s administration initially hoped that it could solve the North Korean nuclear problem through regime change.",
        "小布什原本希望能用政权更替的方式解决朝鲜核问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Public opinion seems disenchanted with a democracy incapable of offering tangible solutions to problems, the flu crisis being the most recent example.",
        "民众对于现行民主政体似乎已不抱希望，不指望看到切实的解决方案，而这场猪流感疫情危机则再次证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early stages of this precarious succession, China has behaved as expected, trying to prop up the regime in order to ensure stability in its nuclear-armed neighbor.",
        "在此次不稳定继承的早期阶段，中国的表现不出所料，北京试图支持朝鲜政府，以稳定这个拥有核武器的邻国的局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite making some progress in investigating the complaints and referring them to the justice system, as well as in raising public awareness about the issue, the challenges remain huge.",
        "尽管在调查这些申诉并移交司法机关的提升了公众对该事务关注度方面取得了一些进展，但我们所面对的挑战依然非常艰巨。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, the sanctions coalition will most likely disintegrate amid a much broader loss of confidence in US leadership.",
        "如果出现这种情况，制裁联盟最有可能因全面丧失对美国领导力的信心而土崩瓦解。"
    ],
    [
        "The time has come to supply the rebels with what they desperately need: anti-tank and surface-to-air missiles.",
        "是时候给反对派提供他们急需的反坦克和地空导弹了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they must overhaul their own operations, to prove their impartiality.",
        "不仅如此，他们必须调整自己的作为，以证明其自身的公正性。"
    ],
    [
        "The stakes for Africa are high.",
        "非洲承受的风险极高。"
    ],
    [
        "In this year’s Annual Letter, Melinda and I made a bet that Africa will be able to feed itself in the next 15 years.",
        "在今年的年度公开信中，梅琳达和我打赌15年后非洲将能养活自己。"
    ],
    [
        "The one gold medal we had become used to winning since the 1920’s, in field hockey, has proved elusive in recent Games, as our players have stumbled on Astroturf.",
        "因为我们的球员无意中发现了人造草地，从20世纪20年代起我们就对获得金牌习以为常的曲棍球在最近的奥运比赛中变得难以捉摸。"
    ],
    [
        "None of the six points was implemented.",
        "上述六点根本没有执行。"
    ],
    [
        "And its intensifying political crisis – impeachment proceedings have now been initiated against President Dilma Rousseff for allegedly using irregular accounting maneuvers to disguise the size of the budget deficit – is raising serious questions about who can provide the much-needed treatment.",
        "其严重的政治危机正在让人们深切忧虑谁能够为它提供急需的治疗。 目前，总统罗塞夫正面临弹劾程序，据称她使用了非法会计手段粉饰预算赤字规模。"
    ],
    [
        "And donor blood must be kept in cold storage, where it has a 28-day shelf life.",
        "献血者献的血必须冷藏，保质期为28天。"
    ],
    [
        "Over much of the past three decades, Japanese firms and official agencies have happily invested hundreds of billions of dollars in China, hoping to bind the two economies together in a way that would end the lingering bitterness from World War II.",
        "在过去三十年的大部分时间里，日本企业和官方机构兴高采烈地向中国投入了数千亿美元，希望能让两国经济紧密联系在一起，从而结束二战挥之不去的苦涩。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in good times, governments have for too long been spending more than they received.",
        "即便是在好年景中，各国政府的支出也长期高于收入。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps Big Oil’s biggest success was diminishing the political will to implement appropriate regulation.",
        "不过或许打消推行相关法规的政治意愿才是石油巨头最大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea was to get people off the dole and back to work.",
        "他的思想是让人们不再去领救济而是回去工作。"
    ],
    [
        "But it should be more than a gag gift.",
        "但这一次不能再是戏谑。"
    ],
    [
        "There must be an intrinsic correlation between the lack of developmental dynamism of most Middle Eastern societies and the fact that the region is so crisis-prone.",
        "大部分的中东地区的社会缺乏发展的活力，而且该地区是如此容易发生危机，这两者之间一定存在着内在的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "How can we undo the imbalances of economies – China, followed far behind by Europe – exporting massively to the United States or to the dollar zone?",
        "在向美国或者美元区出口上中国把欧洲远远甩在后面，我们如何解决这一不平衡问题？"
    ],
    [
        "But while free elections are a necessary condition of legitimacy, they are far from being sufficient to assure it.",
        "虽然自由选举是合法性的基本条件，其本身还不能充分确保合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Except for wild berries and wild mushrooms, virtually all the fruits, vegetables, and grains in European and North American diets have been genetically improved by one technique or another – often as a result of seeds being irradiated or undergoing hybridizations that move genes from one species or genus to another in ways that do not occur in nature.",
        "除了野生浆果和野生蘑菇，几乎所有欧洲和北美洲食谱上的水果、蔬菜和谷物都被这种或那种手段进行了基因改良——通常是通过用射线照射种子或杂交配种，从而实现在自然界中不会发生的基因从一个物种转移到另一物种的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "The copycat regimes it spawned around Latin America are gone or severely weakened.",
        "拉美各地如雨后春笋般出现的各种山寨政权或者已经倒台，或者遭到了严重的削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "If, say, an increase in inflation generates expectations that the Fed will raise interest rates more aggressively, a stock- or bond-market crash might result.",
        "如果，（比如）通胀升高形成了对美联储更快加息的预期，股票或债券市场崩盘可能随之而来。"
    ],
    [
        "The Egyptian process, however, should not be considered merely a return to the pre-2011 status quo; rather, developments constitute what could be characterized as an ascending spiral that, while turning back on itself, nevertheless advances.",
        "但是，埃及事件的过程不应该简单地认为是回到了2011年前的状态； 相反，埃及的发展趋势可以看成是一个上升螺旋，虽有倒退但总体在前进。"
    ],
    [
        "The social status of parents often determines their children’s ability to access higher education.",
        "父母的社会地位通常决定了孩子是否能获得更高程度的教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Politics-Proof Economies?",
        "抗政治经济?"
    ],
    [
        "America’s companies have done well, and it is the Republicans who have blocked efforts to ensure that Americans made worse off by trade agreements would share the benefits.",
        "美国企业的表现一直以来都很好，人们也致力于确保那些因受贸易协定影响而陷入困境的美国人可以分享发展收益，但这些努力却遭到了共和党人的长期阻挠。"
    ],
    [
        "And in December, world leaders will attend the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, where they are expected to adopt a binding global agreement on the long-term reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "12月，世界领导人将出席第21届2联合国气候变化框架公约缔约国大会（COP21），期望出台关于长期温室气体减排的有约束力的全球协议。"
    ],
    [
        "The Israelis swiftly spread out behind the Egyptians, overrunning anti-aircraft batteries and blocking supply and reinforcement routes.",
        "以色列人迅速在埃军后方散开，占领防空炮台并阻断给养和增援线路。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the efficacy of the European Central Bank’s monetary policies is waning as the political scene becomes increasingly fragile.",
        "在欧洲，欧洲央行货币政策的效果随着政治形势日益脆弱而日益疲软。"
    ],
    [
        "I think of this as the tech literacy paradox.",
        "我认为这是一种科技素养悖论。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama also called for an end to public financing of new coal plants overseas, unless they deploy carbon-capture technologies (which are not yet economically viable), or else there is, he said, “no other viable way for the poorest countries to generate electricity.”",
        "奥巴马还呼吁停止给新建海外火电厂提供公共资金，除非采取脱碳技术（目前这项技术尚不具经济可行性），否则的话，他说，“最穷国家就没有其他办法发电了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "At the height of the lending frenzy (2004-2006), the study finds that banks loaned even more in response to an examination, and that the outcomes were even worse.",
        "在贷款疯（2004—2006年）高峰期，研究表明银行因检查而增加的贷款规模更大了，结果也更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "While the report contains a number of important observations, its underlying assumption – that steps toward all of its goals should be taken in parallel, with a genuine political union emerging at the end of the process – is problematic.",
        "该报告包括了诸多重要观察，但其基础假设——迈向其所有目标的措施应该起头并进，最后建立一个真正的政治联盟——大有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Reserve holdings of dollar assets (primarily by central banks) were worth around 2% of US GDP in 1948 and about the same in 1968.",
        "美元资产储备持有量（主要持有者是各国央行）在1948年时相当于美国GDP的2%左右，1968年也在相同水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, when it comes to bold and innovative programs to meet critical human needs, America is out of practice.",
        "不幸的是，当需要采取大胆的创新方案满足关键人类需求时，美国总是行动的矮子。"
    ],
    [
        "Expansionary fiscal policy is taboo, because it threatens to increase national debt further.",
        "扩张性财政政策是一种禁忌，因为它可能让国民债务进一步增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Malnutrition causes the greatest damage during the first thousand days of life, leading to grievous and irreversible changes in infant health.",
        "此外，农业政策、补贴和投资传统上一直惠及谷物种植者。"
    ],
    [
        "This fear proved not only unwarranted, but also counterproductive, for it has not stopped the march of the Islamists in the Arab Middle East.",
        "事实证明这种担心不仅是毫无必要的，也是适得其反的，因为它并未能阻止伊斯兰主义者在阿拉伯中东地区的征程。"
    ],
    [
        "Descartes famously said, “I think, therefore I am.”",
        "笛卡尔曾经说过一句著名的话，“我思故我在。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that monetary policy – which aims to promote overall economic growth, while maintaining price and financial stability – is not an appropriate lever for addressing income inequality.",
        "事实是货币政策——其目的是促进总体经济增长，同时保持物价和金融稳定——并不是解决收入不平等的合理工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Confidence is a vital element of life, for nations and civilizations as much as for individuals.",
        "对于国家、文明乃至个人而言，信心是生活的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "ECT’s critics seem to think that if they do not protest against its use at every opportunity, its advocates will inflict it on people who do not need it.",
        "ECT的批评者似乎认为如果他们不抓住任何一个机会反对使用它，ECT的支持者就会将其使用在不需要它的人身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Weariness with the war is spreading in the United States, where President Barack Obama finds it difficult to decide about an increase in troops, as demanded by his own generals.",
        "美国国内的厌战情绪不断蔓延，于是乎贝拉克·奥巴马总统增兵阿富汗的命令迟迟难以下达，尽管他的将军已一再敦促。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump won largely because he persuaded voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and elsewhere that his policies will yield better outcomes in communities where manufacturing is declining.",
        "特朗普的胜利主要是因为他成功说服了宾夕法尼亚州，密歇根州，威斯康星州和其他地区的选民，认为他的政策将在这些制造业衰退的社区产生更好的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, Kim Jong-un’s reign is unlikely to last or be as certifiably crazed as those of his father and grandfather.",
        "不管怎样，金正恩的统治不可能像其父和其祖父那样持续或造成如此的群众疯狂了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is essential that China and the US work together to resolve the current crisis.",
        "中美两国齐心协力化解目前的危机至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Bank tirelessly preaching the merits of good governance, its failure to adopt democratic principles undercuts its own legitimacy.",
        "尽管世界银行不知疲倦地宣扬良好管理价值，但是它不采纳民主原则却破坏了它自身的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Given AI’s wide applications, all companies today face an imperative to integrate it into their products and services; otherwise, they will not be able to compete with companies that are using data-collection networks to improve customer experiences and inform business decisions.",
        "鉴于人工智能的广泛应用，今天的所有企业都必须要将它们融入自己的产品和服务； 否则，他们将无法与利用数据搜集网络改善用户体验和辅助商业决策的企业展开竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as we lack a clear understanding of the relationship between our cumulative greenhouse-gas emissions and the temperature of the earth, it will remain difficult to assess the potential for damage related to climate change caused by humans – or develop the right strategies to minimize it.",
        "除非我们能更清楚地理解我们的累计温室气体排放量和地球温度之间的关系，否则评估与人为导致的气候变化有关的潜在危险就十分困难，制定使这一危险最小化的正确战略也十分困难。"
    ],
    [
        "But Gore’s fellow Nobel laureate, Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is not so sure.",
        "但是，和戈尔一同获得诺贝尔奖的联合国政府间气候变化专门委员会主席金德拉·帕乔里（Rajendra Pachauri）并不如此肯定。"
    ],
    [
        "You might think that learning to use something more efficiently will result in your using less of it, but the opposite is true: the more efficient we get at using something, the more of it we are likely to use.",
        "你可能认为高效地使用某种事物会降低其使用频率，但事实却恰恰相反。 我们使用某种事物的效率越高，我们的使用频率也就越大。"
    ],
    [
        "No one is surprised to see grey-haired people dancing and singing and petting.",
        "看到满头银发的老年人载歌载舞、嬉笑调情，再也没有人感到吃惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, too, however, we need more precise knowledge of the properties of nuclear processes.",
        "但与此同时，我们需要对核反应特性有更多更精确的了解。"
    ],
    [
        "Criticism will quickly lead to repercussions, especially in the economic sphere.",
        "尤其是在经济领域，批评将很快导致镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Jews’ historical experience is not conducive to easy conciliation.",
        "当然，犹太人的历史经验也使他们不太容易达成和解。"
    ],
    [
        "In assessing the outcome of the Third Plenum, what observers should really be looking for is evidence of a bold strategy for political reform.",
        "在评估三中全会成果时，真正应该寻找的是大胆的政治改革迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "· Improve individual countries’ domestic policy mix in a manner that targets debt sustainability through both growth promotion and deficit reduction, especially in the most vulnerable peripheral economies;",
        "· 改善个体国家的国内政策组合，以通过刺激增长和赤字削减实现债务可持续性为目标，特别是那些最脆弱的外围经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is hectoring Europe for more fiscal stimulus, while the Europeans pressure the US for greater and more globally coordinated financial regulation.",
        "美国正威迫欧洲各国采取更多的财政刺激手段，而欧洲政府则对美国进行施压，让美国在全球更大范围以更大力度对金融规范进行调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Allowing citizens to choose how to donate may help to tackle corruption in countries where politicians often misappropriate ODA, while discouraging wasteful or impractical projects.",
        "让人民选择如何援助或有助于解决政客滥用ODA国家的腐败问题，也能防止浪费和不切实际的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing less will persuade investors to go near debt issues from the eurozone’s fiscally challenged members.",
        "要不然的话，投资者是断然不会理睬欧元区财政疲软成员国所发行的债券的。"
    ],
    [
        "Many politicians are afraid of paying a high domestic political price for pursuing an agenda of EU reform.",
        "许多政客担心推动欧盟改革议程会导致他们付出高昂的国内政治代价。"
    ],
    [
        "China in the Debt-Deflation Trap",
        "中国如何避免债务通缩陷阱？"
    ],
    [
        "Loans can range from CN¥100 ($16) to CN¥1 million, and target small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), as well as individual borrowers, that currently struggle to access credit through traditional institutions.",
        "贷款规模从100元到100万元不等，贷款目标是目前难以通过传统机构获得信用的中小企业以及个人借款人。"
    ],
    [
        "But most families that rely on remittances operate outside of the world’s financial system as well.",
        "但大部分依赖侨汇的家庭同时也无法利用世界金融系统进行操作。"
    ],
    [
        "And limiting the deductibility of state income tax and property tax will almost surely reduce investment in education and infrastructure – again, not a sound strategy for increasing American competitiveness.",
        "而限制州所得税和房产税的减免额度几乎肯定会压低对教育和基础设施的投资——这也不是一个提高美国国家竞争力的合理策略。"
    ],
    [
        "The supply from these sources will drop by roughly 10,000 tons at the end of 2013, when the Megatons to Megawatt Program between Russia and the United States – which recycles highly-enriched uranium from Russian nuclear warheads into low-enriched uranium for nuclear power plants – comes to an end.",
        "但上述这类物资的储备量将在2013年末下降到约1万吨，因为那时美俄两国之间的“兆吨到兆瓦”项目（回收俄罗斯核弹头的高浓缩铀并将其转化为民用发电的低浓缩铀）就走到尽头了。"
    ],
    [
        "There is reason to hope that some of the EU’s member states will embark on this venture in fighting crime and terrorism, defense matters, or in financial and budgetary harmonization.",
        "因此，完全有理由展望一些欧盟成员国在打击犯罪，反恐，国防或财政以及预算协调等领域将朝着这一方向迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "The uproar was not surprising.",
        "掀起如此骚动并不令人惊奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Inclusive Growth Depends on Cities",
        "包容性增长依靠城市"
    ],
    [
        "Maintaining the four freedoms at the heart of the European project – the free movement of people, goods, capital, and services within Europe – will be possible only if EU governments have credible policies to protect the most vulnerable in their societies.",
        "欧洲工程的核心是四大自由——欧洲内部人员、商品、资本和服务的自由流动。 要想保持这四大自由，欧盟政府必须拿出可信政策保护社会中最脆弱的群体。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2012, South Africa’s High Court ordered a revision of fisheries legislation to protect the livelihoods of small-scale fishers.",
        "2012年，南非高等法院下令修订渔业法以保护小渔民的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "America and the world are paying a high price for devotion to the extreme anti-government ideology embraced by President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.",
        "美国和全世界正在为信奉特朗普总统和他的共和党所宣扬的极端反政府思想而付出沉重代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The American World Turned Upside Down",
        "美国的世界天翻地覆"
    ],
    [
        "Various reports suggest that China is selectively enhancing its strategic and tactical missile capabilities by developing solid-fuel motors; diversifying its range of warheads and increasing their accuracy; deploying missiles with multiple warheads; and upgrading its ballistic-missile defense countermeasures, such as decoys, chaff, jamming, and thermal shielding, and possibly maneuverable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) and multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs).",
        "部署多弹头导弹； 对其反弹道导弹策略进行升级——不但具备诱导、真伪目标识别、干扰以及热屏蔽等手段，甚至可能拥有机动重返大气层飞行器（MaRVs）以及多弹头分导重返大气层飞行器（MIRVs）。"
    ],
    [
        "But when that day arrives remains too uncertain for Europe and the world to let down their guard and ease their pressure on the Kremlin.",
        "但那一天究竟何时到来仍然太不确定，因此欧洲和世界绝不能放松警惕、任由对克里姆林的压力有所放松。"
    ],
    [
        "This would have the advantage of developing an active Eurobond market.",
        "这将有利于发展一个活跃的欧洲债券市场。"
    ],
    [
        "But China also has ample room to increase its tax base in ways that would increase overall efficiency and/or equity.",
        "但中国也有足够的空间去以提高整体效率和/或资产的方式增加其税基。 环境税可能会在带来大量政府收入的情况下催生更好的空气和水质量；"
    ],
    [
        "But the real problem is that brand-name politics is increasingly at a discount in India, much as it is in the United States.",
        "但真正的问题还在于像美国一样，名望政治在印度越来越不灵了。"
    ],
    [
        "In financially risky countries, China now demands majority ownership up front.",
        "在高金融风险国家，中国现在从一开始就要求多数股权。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Jews with European roots who now live in America or Israel were in attendance.",
        "许多目前生活在美国和以色列、但根在欧洲的犹太人都来到了现场。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, such taxes on firms are always passed on to households – usually through straightforward price hikes, and, in France, also through unemployment.",
        "当然，这类企业税总是会被嫁接到家庭头上——通常是通过直接的提价，在法国，失业也是嫁接渠道之一。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be positioned at the center of international financial markets and provide an analytical platform, not only for central banks and finance ministries, but also for regulators, standard setters, and market participants.",
        "它应该处于国际金融市场的中心，并且不仅仅为各国中央银行和财政部、同样也为监管机关、标准制定者以及市场参与者提供分析平台。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now well documented that manufacturing has become increasingly skill-intensive in recent decades.",
        "现在有足够的证据表明近几十年来制造业的技能密集程度日益提高。"
    ],
    [
        "On the weekend of July 16-17, Venezuelans were given the opportunity to cross the border into Colombia for up to 12 hours.",
        "7月16—17日的这个周末，委内瑞拉人民有机会在最多12个小时内穿越边境进入哥伦比亚。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the next two months the IPCC will release further reports detailing the human and economic impacts of probable climate change and the costs and benefits of combating it.",
        "两个月后，IPCC将发布进一步报告，详细阐述可能的气候变化所造成的人道和经济影响以及对抗气候变化的成本和收益。"
    ],
    [
        "It is true that some macroeconomic modelers, including the Congressional Budget Office, forecasted that going over the cliff would have caused a recession.",
        "诚然，包括国会预算办公室在内的一些宏观经济建模者预测迈向财政悬崖可能早已导致了经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Some old jobs will survive, even when a machine is doing most of the work: a gardener who delegates cutting the grass to a “smart” lawnmower will simply have more time to focus on other things, such as landscape design.",
        "一些旧岗位将生存下来，即使机器接管了大部分工作：将剪草工作交给“智能”除草机的园丁将有更多时间专注于其他事情，比如景观设计。"
    ],
    [
        "So the euro must earn its reputation crisis by crisis to confront the dollar’s dominance as the currency of choice for international transactions.",
        "所以欧元必须通过一个又一个危机来赢得其声誉来对抗美元作为国际交易首选货币的霸主地位。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been a number of initiatives and efforts around the world to move beyond GDP and data on schools or hospital beds in measuring a country’s success in governance and development.",
        "世界各地已经开展了若干项计划和工作，从超越GDP及学校或医院病床数的视角来衡量一国的执政和发展是否成功。"
    ],
    [
        "For good or ill, democratic sentiment will win out, and Britain’s human-rights record, while imperfect, remains strong.",
        "不管怎么样，民主的观点最终会胜利，而英国的人权记录，虽然算不上完美，却依然可圈可点。"
    ],
    [
        "While the jihadists’ original target was the Soviet Union, today the “infidel” includes the US, Europe (notably France and the United Kingdom), and Russia.",
        "虽然圣战份子最初的目标是苏联，但今天的“异教徒”包括美国、欧洲（尤其是法国和英国）以及俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Lin’s success is delicious, partly because it contradicts so many cultural prejudices about Asian-American athletes.",
        "林书豪的成功之所以如此令人刮目相看，在很大程度上是因为他打破了人们对亚裔美籍运动员的文化偏见。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom line is this: Belarus’s ordinary people and victims of repression need help today. But so does its decrepit regime.",
        "一言以蔽之：白俄罗斯的普通民众和被镇压的受害者无疑亟待帮助，但这个日薄西山的政权也是需要有人扶它一把，而西方也应该最大限度地在这一点上做文章。"
    ],
    [
        "As Iraq moved to complete the Osirak reactor by the early 1980’s, Israel applied diplomatic pressure and actions against foreign nuclear vendors, sabotaged atomic exports, and assassinated Iraqi scientists, before finally settling on the June 1981 air strike on the plant.",
        "20世纪80年代伊拉克建设奥西拉克反应堆的时候，以色列对其外国供应商施加外交压力并采取措施，破坏其原子武器出口，并行刺伊拉克科学家，最后决定于1981年6月空袭核工厂。"
    ],
    [
        "Freed from exchange-rate risk, international investors no longer demanded a risk premium from these countries and were willing to provide funds to all of them under the same favorable conditions that previously had been reserved for Germany.",
        "摆脱了汇率风险的影响，国际投资者不再要求这些国家提供风险酬劳，并愿意以同样优惠的条件向所有国家供应资金，而这样的优惠条件以前只有德国才能得到。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, if the reform outline’s promise of a “decisive role” for the market ends up raising wages for poor Chinese, domestic demand might increase, but China will lose its main competitive advantage in international markets.",
        "同样，如果改革纲要承诺发挥市场的“决定性作用”，最终提高中国贫困人口的工资，国内需求可能增加，但中国将在国际市场上失去其主要的竞争优势。"
    ],
    [
        "That will remain true for high-value-added services that defy automation.",
        "不容易自动化的高增加值服务业仍然如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-7 countries should clearly signal that they are serious about the low-carbon transition, and the most effective way to do that would be to support a global goal of cutting net greenhouse-gas emissions to zero by 2050.",
        "G-7国家应该释放明确信号表明它们将严肃对待低碳转型，而这样做最有效的办法是支持到2050年将温室气体净排放量削减到零的全球目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Leadership Vacuum",
        "全球领导力真空"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the compromises were sharply felt.",
        "在这方面，我们可以深刻感觉到妥协的意味。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the United States has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, which does little to change the long-term course of events on the planet, since it calls for only small steps up to the year 2012.",
        "然而美国却拒绝签署《京都议定书》。 由于该协议只呼吁在2012年之前采取有限的举措，所以它对改变地球长期的状况几乎产生不了什么作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s understanding of Earth’s climate and the human-induced component of climate change is the result of extremely difficult scientific work involving many thousands of scientists in all parts of the world.",
        "今天人们对地球气候和人类活动引发气候变化的理解是世界各地成千上万名科学家历尽艰苦得来的科学工作成果。"
    ],
    [
        "As with Time on the Cross, the Reinhart/Rogoff controversy, while ostensibly stemming from the authors’ statistical procedures, is actually rooted in the purposes to which others put their study.",
        "正如《拐角时代》一书所面临的争议一样，对莱恩哈特和罗格夫文章的争议表面上是源于对作者统计方法的怀疑，但根源其实在于其他人利用这项研究所可能达到的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Populist Tail Wagging the German Dog",
        "摇着民粹主义尾巴的德国狗"
    ],
    [
        "Adam Smith famously argued that, “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”",
        "亚当·斯密有句名言，“不是屠夫、酿酒商或面包商的仁慈给了我们晚餐，而是他们为了私利给了我们晚餐。"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries have opened their markets to imports; others have closed them.",
        "一些国家向进口开放市场； 一些国家反其道而行之。"
    ],
    [
        "Employment and wages rose where the program was introduced, even though average working hours were unchanged.",
        "一方面，推行该方案的地区在就业和工资方面均出现上涨，但平均工时却保持不变。"
    ],
    [
        "Failed efforts are not only inevitable; they are essential to finding real solutions.",
        "失败的措施不但是不可避免的，也是找到真正的解决方案的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "That prospect has already sparked renewed financial-market volatility.",
        "这一前景已然重新激起了金融市场动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The government’s rescue policies appear to be working.",
        "政府的救援政策似乎正在起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, while the speech was widely considered a successful exercise in public diplomacy, it did not herald renewed US involvement in peace negotiations.",
        "然而，尽管此次演讲被广泛认为是一次成功公共外交行动，却并不预示着美国重新加入和平谈判中。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the transition from the traditional automobile to electric transport. Despite European illusions to the contrary, this will be decided in China, not in the West.",
        "以传统汽车业向电动运输产业的转变为例，尽管欧洲厂家仍存在主导市场的幻想，但在这一转变中起决定作用的将只能是中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Recall that in Iraq, the attempt to rebuild the state began with the complete dismantling of Saddam Hussein’s regime and all existing governance structures.",
        "回想伊拉克战争，重建国家的努力始于彻底消灭侯赛因·萨达姆政权及其所有的现行治理结构。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, despite the unprecedented and unforeseeable nature of events – or perhaps because of it – hope ran high.",
        "而尽管发生的事件前所未有、无法预料——或许也正因如此——但被寄予的希望仍然很高。"
    ],
    [
        "The current global economic crisis is an opportunity for some new experimentation that might not only lead to its resolution, but might also set in place institutions that help to prevent future crises.",
        "目前的全球经济危机是一个机遇，可以让我们进行新的试验，不仅可以解决这一危机，而且或许可以建立某些机制来帮助防止未来的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the cells’ features are inherited in their respective cell lineages, even though the stimuli that triggered the differences between them during embryonic development are long gone.",
        "而且，即使在胚胎发育时期引起它们之间差异的刺激物早就不存在了，这些细胞的特征也在各自的细胞谱系中分别得到了遗传。"
    ],
    [
        "From coastal Rakhine to inland towns like Meiktila and Tatkon, Buddhist monks have incited violence against Muslims (and sometimes vice versa), with local officials often tacitly permitting religious bloodletting.",
        "从沿海的若开到内陆的密铁拉和达贡，佛教徒无不煽动着针对穆斯林的暴力（有时则反过来），而地方官员往往对宗教流血束手旁观。"
    ],
    [
        "And it continues to fight when the need arises.",
        "黎军在必要时仍将继续战斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Hannah Arendt was closer to the mark when she wrote about the \"banality of evil,\" not its uniqueness.",
        "Hannah Arendt谈论\"邪恶的普遍性\"而非特殊性时，更为接近事实的真相。"
    ],
    [
        "Like China, India views Central Asia as an important future energy supplier.",
        "和中国一样，印度也把中亚看成是未来重要的一个能源供应基地。"
    ],
    [
        "But protectionist pressures are building as weary politicians hear more and more calls for economic nationalism.",
        "但随着筋疲力尽的政客们面临越来越响的经济民族主义呼声，保护主义压力正在与日俱增。"
    ],
    [
        "The protesters of “Occupy Albany” issued a powerful consensus statement recently, which reads in part:",
        "对此 “占领奥尔巴尼（美国纽约州首府）”运动的示威者们最近发布了一份有说服力的共识宣言，其部分内容如下："
    ],
    [
        "The second ingredient is proper incentives to participate, including direct financing from bondholders’ governments, using the resources that today finance the transfer of Greek debt from private to official hands.",
        "第二个因素就是恰当的参与倡议，动用包括债务持有人所在国政府的直接资助在内的资源，将希腊债务从私人转入官方手中。"
    ],
    [
        "We remain optimistic that others will continue to take the steps needed to end the scourge of rogue fishing and work together to regenerate ocean life globally.",
        "我们仍然乐观地认为，其他国家也将陆续采取必要的行动以阻止流氓捕捞之害，并合作重建全球海洋生物。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, most successful countries manage the exchange rate to keep it in line with productivity growth, using a combination of capital controls, monetary policy, and reserve accumulation or decumulation.",
        "此外，多数成功国家调控汇率适应自身生产率增长，采用的方式包括资本管制、货币政策、储备积累或缩减的组合。"
    ],
    [
        "The early signs are heartening.",
        "早期信号令人振奋。"
    ],
    [
        "Under such circumstances, the risk of tension over resources is high.",
        "在这样的情况下，为争夺资源造成局势紧张的危险性非常之高。"
    ],
    [
        "In a climate of anxiety, confusion, and nostalgia for a fantastical past, raw emotion prevails.",
        "在焦虑、困惑和怀念梦幻般的过去的气候下，原始冲动脱颖而出。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike banks, though, they do not pay the government to insure their investors.",
        "跟银行不同的是，他们并不会像政府付钱来为投资者担保。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the proposed US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is bogged down, a British government outside the EU could negotiate a deal with the US far more easily.",
        "尽管目前构建美欧跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系的提案停滞不前，位处欧盟之外的英国政府与美国达成交易的容易程度大大提升。"
    ],
    [
        "China, on the other hand, grants aid on a bilateral basis, and has typically targeted its funding toward infrastructure projects.",
        "而另一方面，中国则以双边援助的形式作为基础，并往往将援助资金用于兴建基础设施项目。"
    ],
    [
        "She remembers everything and regrets nothing.",
        "她清楚地记得每一个细节，并且无悔自己的每一个行动。"
    ],
    [
        "SEATTLE – For the last quarter of the twentieth century, the average temperature at the surface of the earth edged inexorably upward.",
        "西雅图—二十世纪的后二十五年，地球表面平均温度呈现稳步上升之势。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to ensure accurate test results, the variability of camera positioning by the user and lighting conditions in different test environments must be addressed.",
        "为了确保准确的测试结果，必须规定不同测试环境中的用户相机拍摄角度和灯光条件。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, while opposition candidates were given fair exposure on private TV and radio, the EU Head of Mission observed various cases in which their state-controlled counterparts privileged the government’s parliamentary candidates.",
        "事实上，当反对派候选人在私营电视台和电台上得到了公平合理的曝光之时，欧盟观察团团长观察到了几个国营媒体偏袒执政党议会候选人的案例。"
    ],
    [
        "These include abolishing any region or country’s right to appoint IMF management; allowing the Fund to borrow from markets, so that it does not have to keep seeking key countries’ permission to expand; eliminating any country’s official veto power over major decisions; and having its agenda set by the IMFC rather than outside bodies.",
        "允许IMF可以从市场上融资，这样一来，就在不用看某些国家的脸色行事。 应该是有IMFC来制定IMF需要讨论的议题。"
    ],
    [
        "And if my own country, France, has failed to set a good example to developing countries by equivocating over the terms of a carbon tax, then perhaps the time has come for its national carbon footprint to be linked with the European trading system for CO2.",
        "如果我的祖国法国在征收碳税的问题上含糊其辞，不能为发展中国家树立好的榜样，那么也许是时候把国内碳足迹与欧洲二氧化碳交易系统联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s rising tide of disease, hunger, squalor, and illiteracy – more than half of the refugee children are not in school – will affect an entire generation for life.",
        "如今，疾病、饥饿、肮脏和文盲——一大半难民儿童没有在学校上学——愈演愈烈，将影响整整一代人的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "China played little part in the global derivatives markets, and does not have much toxic securities to clean up or banks to save in order to unfreeze credit flows.",
        "中国在全球衍生产品市场中几乎没有起什么作用，也没有太多的垃圾证券需要清理或银行需要挽救以解冻信贷流动。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, by contrast, is clearly lagging.",
        "相反，欧洲显然落后了。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone wants economic stability, and many are reluctant to abandon today what gave them stability yesterday.",
        "所有人都希望经济保持稳定，而许多人在今天不愿意放弃昨天曾给他们带来稳定性的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "But the agreement that was reached in Bali cannot succeed unless wealthy countries and donors agree to support developing countries’ efforts to enact related policies and reforms.",
        "但除非富裕捐助国同意支持发展中国家的相关政策及改革努力，否则巴厘岛协议不会取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Using a variety of measures to assess the susceptibility of jobs to computerization, a recent study of 702 occupations finds that nearly half of total US employment is at risk.",
        "借助一系列手段来评估职业针对电脑化的受影响程度，最近一项覆盖702种职业的研究发现其中近一半的美国劳动者都面临着风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the murder of Archbishop Thomas Beckett in his Canterbury Cathedral many centuries ago, the crime was committed in the clear belief that it would please the king.",
        "就像许多世纪以前大主教贝科特被人在坎特伯雷教堂里杀害一样，是因为凶手相信这将会取悦国王。"
    ],
    [
        "If America makes good on this promise, it would be a big step forward, but the US, which led the intervention in Iraq, should now lead in attending to the victims.",
        "如果美国兑现这一承诺，它就前进了一大步。 但领导干预伊拉克的美国现在应该带头应对受害者的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast, the countries that are most generous – Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and tiny Luxemburg – give proportionately far more than American governmental and private assistance combined, and the lion’s share of their aid goes to the world’s most impoverished countries.",
        "与此形成鲜明对比，那些非常慷慨的国家――挪威、瑞典、丹麦、荷兰和小国卢森堡――在比例上远远超出了美国政府及个人的援助总和，拿出援助资金的最大份额来帮助世界上最贫穷的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, Rudyard Kipling’s imperialist Great Game is decomposing into a vicious circle.",
        "今天，吉布林的帝国“大竞赛”日益陷入恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "In many countries, most people now have in their pockets a personal computer more powerful than the mainframes of the 1980s.",
        "在很多国家，大多数人揣在口袋里的个人电脑比二十世纪八十年代的大型计算机运算能力更强。"
    ],
    [
        "For countries such as Armenia, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Moldova, Nepal, and Tajikistan, expatriates remit the equivalent of more than one-sixth of national income – an amount that often exceeds exports.",
        "对亚美尼亚、萨尔瓦多、海地、洪都拉斯、牙买加、吉尔吉斯斯坦、莱索托、摩尔多瓦、尼泊尔和塔吉克斯坦等国来说，侨民汇款相当于国民收入的六分之一强——常常比出口规模还要大。"
    ],
    [
        "Even before Obama took office, Republican leaders were plotting to oppose his every proposal, so he could not claim bipartisan support.",
        "在奥巴马入主白宫前，共和党领导人便已计划好要反对他提出的每一项议案，因此他无法获得跨党派支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas such investment in the past was heavily tilted toward physical infrastructure – particularly transport – the agenda has shifted to a more balanced set of targets, including human capital, employment, the economy’s knowledge and technology base, information technology, low-carbon growth, and governance.",
        "在过去，大量类似的投资被投入到实体基础设施——特别是交通设施——而如今，该日程已转变为更加平衡的目标组合，包括人力资本、就业、经济的知识和技术基础、信息技术、低碳增长以及治理等。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the menace that now confronts us is not public debt or inflation, but a downward economic spiral that will be increasingly difficult to reverse.",
        "事实上，当前我们所面对的威胁并不是公共债务和通胀，而是越来越难以扭转的下跌经济螺旋。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the results are encouraging.",
        "目前为止，成果是令人鼓舞的。"
    ],
    [
        "China recognizes that North Korea cannot continue in its present form, and would like to see its leaders transform the economy without undertaking substantial political change.",
        "中国认为，朝鲜的现状是无法维持的，其领导层可能在没有重大政治变化的情况下开始经济转型。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting policies were enough to prevent the post-2008 recession from developing into a full-blown depression; but that partial success turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory, for it allowed politicians to declare that the crisis had been overcome, and that it was time to embrace austerity and focus on structural reform.",
        "由此产生的政策足以阻止2008年后的衰退演变为完全的萧条； 但这一局部成功的代价也是巨大的，它让政客宣布危机已经被克服，应该采取紧缩并专注于结构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "What about the justification of that belief?",
        "这种信念的理由是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "And in Italy, few would dare to offer any solid predictions of what will happen in the next general election, which must be held before May 20, 2018.",
        "而在意大利，很少有人敢于对必须在2018年5月20日之前举行的下一届大选结果作出任何明确的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting opportunities to expand beyond traditional products and markets will enable pharmaceutical companies to evolve into companies that offer a range of health-care solutions.",
        "随之产生的机遇将是超越传统产品和市场，使得制药公司发展成为能够提供一系列保健方案的公司。"
    ],
    [
        "If those pushing for tax cuts stick to their guns and refuse to accept reality, their agenda, if enacted, would result in a significantly wider budget deficit, which would increase the national debt to unprecedentedly high levels.",
        "如果推动减税的人坚持不接受现实，那么，他们的议程如果实施，将导致预算赤字大幅扩大，从而让国民债务提高到前所未有的高度。"
    ],
    [
        "To arrest the decline, President Nicolás Maduro’s government has had no better idea than to arrest some 60 senior managers of the state-owned oil company PDVSA and appoint a National Guard general with no industry experience to run it.",
        "为阻止这种下滑，尼古拉斯·马杜罗总统政府想到的最好办法就是逮捕约60名国有石油公司委内瑞拉石油的高级管理者，并任命一名毫无行业经验的国民卫队将军来负责经营工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The world has a significant economic, political, and moral interest in the success of China’s reform agenda.",
        "中国改革计划成功将对世界产生难以估量的经济政治和道德影响。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, Spain’s debt is in euros, a currency that it cannot print, and is held mostly by foreigners.",
        "相反，西班牙的债务是欧元债务，它无法印刷欧元，而且其债权人大多是外国人。"
    ],
    [
        "Under that order, the rest of the world has closed much of the vast technological, educational, and infrastructural gap with the US.",
        "在这一秩序下，世界其他国家填补了它们与美国之间巨大的技术、教育和基础设施差距的大部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Who Owns Bolivia?",
        "谁是玻利维亚的主人？"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians can make endless promises, but if the budget doesn’t add up, politics is little more than mere words.",
        "政治家尽可以没完没了地许诺，但如果预算跟不上，政治就不过是空话而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Current trends are clearly unsustainable politically and socially.",
        "目前的趋势显然在政治和社会方面是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "This crisis has demonstrated that the destinies of countries around the world are linked.",
        "这一危机表明全球各国的命运是联系在一起的。"
    ],
    [
        "The EFSF buys the bonds of the countries which find it difficult to finance themselves in the marketplace (for example, Ireland) and issues bonds that are AAA rated.",
        "欧洲金融市场稳定基金购买难以在市场实现融资国家（如爱尔兰）的债券，重新打包成AAA级的债券发行出去。"
    ],
    [
        "What we found was shocking.",
        "我们的发现令人震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "The money flowing through these funds went to many of the world’s largest banks, including not just the obvious US suspects (JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citi), but also major European and Japanese banks such as Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Bank of Tokyo, Sumitomo, Credit Suisse, and ING.",
        "通过这些基金的资金流通往全球许多大型银行，不仅包括常说的那几个美国巨头（摩根大通，美洲银行和花旗银行），还有英格兰银行、德意志银行、东京银行，住友银行，瑞士瑞信银行和荷兰ING银行等欧日大型银行。"
    ],
    [
        "SHANGHAI – Macroeconomic conditions in any country are like running water.",
        "上海-宏观经济条件在许多国家就像是流动的水。"
    ],
    [
        "However, we need to adapt to this situation.",
        "我们应该习惯于这种情况。"
    ],
    [
        "At the moment, there is virtually no indication of progress on this front.",
        "此时此刻，在这方面看不到任何前进的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to think of a form of political community that requires so little allegiance from its members, proposes so few shared norms, and enforces so few behavioral guidelines.",
        "很难想象那种形式的政治社会要求如此之少的成员忠诚、施加如此之少的共同规范、实施如此之少的行为准则。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the country was never as protected from the global downturn as its authorities claimed, the country benefits from some factors that do help ease the damage inflicted by the international crisis, especially with regard to the availability of foreign currency in these times of restrictions on external financing.",
        "虽然该国从未向其政府所声称的那样免受全球经济衰退之苦，但它确实得益于一些能够减轻国际经济危机所造成的破坏的因素。 特别是考虑到在对外融资如此艰难的情况下，对外汇的持有。"
    ],
    [
        "On this reading, the expansion of America’s health-care programs has kept the properly measured material wellbeing of its poor on an upward path since 1979 at a rate not much less than that of real per capita GDP.",
        "照此看，自1979年以来，美国医疗计划的扩张使得合理计量的实际穷人福利增长并不比真实人居GDP慢多少。"
    ],
    [
        "A second component is political will and timing.",
        "另一个因素是政治意愿和时机。"
    ],
    [
        "Once their reporting gained traction, the rest of the press picked up the scandal and kept up the pressure on the Nixon White House.",
        "一旦报道得到了外界认可，其余媒体也都开始关注这一丑闻并继续维持对以尼克松为首的白宫的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "It is responding to US provocations against its ally.",
        "它是在应对美国对其盟友的挑衅。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama has, however, secured one major victory for non-proliferation: helping to close a long-awaited international deal with Iran to prevent it from using its civilian nuclear program to develop weapons.",
        "但是，奥巴马仍确保了核不扩散方面的一项重大胜利：帮助完成了期待已久的伊朗核协议，以防止其利用民用核计划发展核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Good governance requires that both individual member states and EU institutions fulfill their responsibilities.",
        "而优秀的治理则需要各成员国和欧盟机构各自承担起自己的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Congress would restore trade relations with Cuba, without insisting that Cuba remake itself in America’s image or forcing Cuba to revisit the post-revolution nationalizations.",
        "国会重启与古巴的贸易关系，而不坚持古巴根据美国的形象改造自己或强迫古巴重新审视革命后的国有化。"
    ],
    [
        "Other emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe will not fare better, and some may experience full-fledged financial crises.",
        "位于亚洲、非洲、拉美和欧洲的其他新兴市场也好不到哪儿去，有些可能还会经历彻底的金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "That case is strongest if the spending reductions are large and abrupt in a weak economy.",
        "当支出削减突然性地发生在疲软经济时，这种效应最为强烈。"
    ],
    [
        "On September 25, the South Korean media reported rumors that Kim Kyong-hui, the sister of the late “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong-il – and the aunt of North Korea’s twenty-something leader Kim Jong-un – was seriously ill.",
        "9月25日，韩国媒体报道了已故“敬爱领袖”金正日之妹、朝鲜不到三十的领袖金正恩之姑金敬姬病重的传闻。"
    ],
    [
        "The right to equality would exist in all areas of activity regulated by domestic, international or regional law.",
        "平等权存在于所有受国内、国际或区域的法律所管制的活动领域内。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration has declared that it will not deal with a Hamas government, because Hamas remains committed to Israel’s destruction.",
        "布什当局宣布，由于哈马斯仍旧致力于摧毁以色列，因此不会同哈马斯政府交往。"
    ],
    [
        "That includes not only those who have been banned from running for office, but others as well.",
        "这不但包括那些被禁止参选的候选人，还包括其他一切候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Because accurate statistics about reserves in countries like Saudi Arabia are not available, it is impossible to settle the dispute definitively.",
        "由于没有沙特等国家的石油储备的精确统计数字，因此就不可能一劳永逸地解决这一争议。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, economists have not argued strongly for a proper fiscal union.",
        "不幸的是，经济学家并未强烈要求合理的财政联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Proprietary trading was justified not because it created large profits for banks (it did), but because it was supposed to create markets and provide liquidity for rarely traded instruments.",
        "为自营交易辩护者，不说它能给银行带来巨额利润（这一块利润的确丰厚），而是说它有做市功能，能够为那些罕有人交易的金融工具提供流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "If the government can influence 16 of the 30 functional votes, it can thwart proposals from the directly elected legislators.",
        "如果政府能够影响30张功能选票中的16张，它就能阻碍由直选选出的立法者们所提出的议案。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders from rich and poor countries, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and private industry will gather to make specific commitments to invest in nutrition.",
        "来自发达国家和贫困国家的领导人、基金会、非政府组织和私人产业将齐聚一堂，做出营养投资方面的具体承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "On the supply side, urban land – with all its physical and social infrastructure – must expand quickly enough.",
        "在供给端，城市土地的扩大必须充分快——实体和社会基础设施必须跟上。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt, for example, if the number of female workers were raised to the same level as that of men, the country's GDP could grow by 34%.",
        "比如，在埃及，如果女性员工的数量提高到与男性一样多，那么GDP将能增加34%。 在阿联酋，GDP可以扩大12%，日本可以增加9%，美国可以增加5%。"
    ],
    [
        "After 2008, by contrast, policymakers succeeded in preventing the worst, which ruled out the sense of urgency that surrounded the Pecora Commission hearings.",
        "而在2008年以后，政策制定者成功防止了最坏事态的发生，结果公众没有感受到像佩科拉委员会作证期间的那种紧迫性。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, rather than leveling the playing field, the battle of ideas may skew US politics even further in favor of big business.",
        "不幸的是，观点之争并没让竞争变得平等，反而导致美国政治愈加朝着有利于大企业利益的方向倾斜。"
    ],
    [
        "The medical community must develop the science of shared decision-making, in which epidemiological evidence informs conversations about what matters to the patient and how best to achieve those goals.",
        "医学界必须发展共享决策科学，通过流行病学证据进行关于对患者什么才重要、如何最好地达到这些目标的对话。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt, there have been growing calls for more violent and radical responses to the government’s clampdown.",
        "在埃及，越来越多的人呼吁对政府的镇压采取更暴力、更极端的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the Namibians we met understand that you can’t pick your neighbors, so it’s best to work with them by sharing scarce water resources, cooperating on regional health efforts, encouraging investment, and exchanging students.",
        "相反，我们所遇见的纳米比亚人明白你不能挑选你的邻居，因此最好通过分享稀缺水资源、进行地区医疗措施合作、鼓励投资和交换学生等方式与邻为善。"
    ],
    [
        "The point is that debt-fueled demand emanates from particular households in particular regions for particular goods.",
        "事情的要害在于，举债维持的需求，集中于特定地区的特定人群，针对特定货物。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it really treason against the planet to express some skepticism about whether this is the right way forward?",
        "照这样说，质疑这一法案的正当性是不是就是“背叛地球罪”？"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, rather than providing hope to the younger generation of Egyptians who protested in Tahrir Square six years ago, Sisi has stifled individual initiative and made the army the primary actor in the economy.",
        "悲哀的是，西西并未没有给六年前在开罗解放广场（Tahrir Square）示威的年轻一代埃及人带来希望，而是打击个人项目，让军队成为经济的主要行为方。"
    ],
    [
        "A developing economy may slow prematurely when external factors alter the conditions supporting growth.",
        "发展中国家可能会在支持增长的外部条件尚未改变时过早出现减速。"
    ],
    [
        "Current White House advisers have a similar reaction.",
        "现任白宫顾问们也有类似的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "The most efficient, global carbon cuts – designed to keep temperature increases under two degrees Celsius – would cost $40 trillion a year by 2100, according to research by Richard Tol for the Copenhagen Consensus Center.",
        "而据理查德·图尔为共识研究中心所做的研究，到2100年，全球最有效的碳减排计划——旨在温度上升幅度控制在2摄氏度之内——将每年耗费40万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Opponents of capital punishment frequently proclaim that the state has no moral right to take anyone’s life, including that of the most reprehensible murderer.",
        "死刑的反对者经常宣称国家没有道德上的权力来处死一个人，包括最为残忍的杀人犯。"
    ],
    [
        "I thought that what I was saying was completely obvious.",
        "我以为自己所说的一切都是很明显的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, computers consume about 10% of the world’s electricity output, according to Mark Mills, CEO of the Digital Power Group.",
        "如今，据数字力量集团（Digital Power Group）CEO马克·米尔斯（Mark Mills）的数据，计算机消耗了大约世界发电量的10%。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared with the strong-arm tactics employed by his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderón, Colom seems resigned to defeat.",
        "较之墨西哥总统费利佩·卡尔德龙所采取的强硬策略，科洛姆似乎甘于接受失败。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – China spent much of 2014 seeking to revive a concept that Japan proclaimed seven decades ago, when it was an imperial power seeking to impose its will on the region: “Asia for the Asians.”",
        "首尔—2014年，中国花了很多时间重现一个七十年前日本所提出的概念，当时的日本帝国主义向整个地区强加自己的意愿：“亚洲人的亚洲”。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, a renminbi-depreciation policy would lead to a sharp escalation in the global currency war.",
        "最后，人民币贬值政策将导致全球货币战争的大升级。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than recoiling in fear, the international community should encourage China’s constructive engagement.",
        "国际社会不必因为害怕而反对，而应该鼓励中国的建设性参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Support from around the world is fitful: only 60% of aid pledges have come in, with only a fraction actually reaching the intended beneficiaries. Although some agencies have been able to get aid supplies across national borders, they cannot get through the frontlines of the fighting to reach those caught in the crossfire.",
        "世界各国的援助时断时续：到目前为止只有60%的援助承诺得到了兑现，其中又只有一小部分实际到达了预想的受助者手中，尽管一些机构有能力跨境提供援助，但它们无法突破战斗前线接触到困于战火的人民。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s bullying tweets against US firms that move production offshore or undertake tax inversions have been no more than cheap talk, and business leaders know it.",
        "特朗普还曾在推特上对那些将生产移往国外或利用税负倒置来避税的美国企业大加讨伐，但商界领袖们都知道这不过是放空炮而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas Greece remains mired in depression, Iceland – which is not in the eurozone – has essentially recovered.",
        "希腊在萧条中泥足深陷，而爱尔兰——它不在欧元区中——已经基本实现复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "It was the Ottomans who brought down two historical Saudi/Wahhabi states.",
        "历史上，奥斯曼帝国灭掉过两个沙特/瓦哈比派国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Bio-fuels essentially take food from mouths and puts it into cars.",
        "生物燃料实际上从人的嘴里夺粮喂到汽车里。"
    ],
    [
        "Abbas remains the Palestinian president, and the Basic Law makes him commander of all Palestinian security forces.",
        "阿巴斯依然是巴勒斯坦总统，而且基本法规定他是所有巴勒斯坦安全部队的统帅。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond his boastful talk about Russia’s nuclear arsenal, his government has recently announced a new naval doctrine – one that amounts to an alarming echo of Germany’s naval challenge to Britain prior to World War I. If no diplomatic détente is brokered, Putin may well continue on this path, bringing his country ever closer to a full-blown conflict with NATO.",
        "除了炫耀性地谈论俄罗斯的核武库，他的政府最近还抛出了新的海军思想——让人警惕地想起一战前德国对英国发起的海军挑战。 如果不设法牵线外交调停，普京极有可能沿着这条路继续走下去，把俄罗斯引向与北约的全面冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "The image on the computer screen is shocking: a man, lying on a hospital bed, his head bandaged, with long trickles of blood running from the top of his scalp.",
        "电脑屏幕上的画面是令人震惊的：一个男人，躺在医院的病床上，他的头上绑着绷带，血不断地从他的头顶上淌下来。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, closer engagement with private- and social-sector actors and local communities could help to increase efficiency, while reducing the burden on the public sector.",
        "最后，与私人和社会部门以及地方社区展开更紧密的合作有助于增进效率，同时也减轻了公共部门的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in 2007, Iranian forces captured a group of British sailors in the Persian Gulf, releasing them a few weeks later under strong pressure from the United Kingdom.",
        "2007年，伊朗军方在波斯湾俘虏了一小队英军士兵，几周后迫于英国的强大压力不得不将他们释放。"
    ],
    [
        "But that would be far preferable to another devastating crisis.",
        "但这远比又一场灾难性危机好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The weaker countries enjoyed real-estate, consumption, and investment booms, while Germany, weighed down by the fiscal burden of reunification, had to adopt austerity and implement structural reforms.",
        "疲软国享受了房地产、消费和投资繁荣，而承受重新统一带来的财政重担的德国彼得不采取紧缩、实施结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia found a young reformer in Mikhail Gorbachev too late.",
        "俄罗斯应该早点发现米凯尔·戈尔巴乔夫( Mikhail Gorbachev )这个年轻的改革者。"
    ],
    [
        "That is an overwhelming indictment that merits urgent policy action.",
        "这需要政策紧急作出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Schroeder has been pushing the EU to lift the embargo, a move that now appears imminent.",
        "施罗德正在推动欧盟解除禁运，现在看来这项禁令的解除迫在眉睫了。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the first quarter of 2008, inflation-adjusted personal consumption expenditures in the US have grown by just 1.6% annually, on average – fully two percentage points below the 3.6% norm in the 12 preceding years.",
        "自2008年第一季度以来，计入通胀因素后的美国个人消费支出额年均增长1. 6％，比前面12年3."
    ],
    [
        "What Modi’s plan lacks is a strong focus on expanding India’s labor-intensive industries.",
        "莫迪的计划所欠缺的是大力关注扩大印度的劳动密集型行业。"
    ],
    [
        "When an athlete wins by using a performance enhancing drug, what does that mean for the athlete's own understanding of what happened?",
        "当一个运动员通过服用兴奋剂而赢得比赛，他自己会怎么想？"
    ],
    [
        "But in a sunny corner of southern France, a global megaproject is coming together that will, for the first time, test the technology on an industrial scale, creating the first controlled fusion burn.",
        "但在法国南部一个阳光明媚的角落，一个以工业化规模测试相关技术、创造有史以来首次受控聚变燃烧的全球性大型项目正在进行当中。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rise of the BRICs",
        "巴西、俄国、印度以及中国的崛起"
    ],
    [
        "But replace the names of the leading economists with products in any other market – cars, for example, or semi-conductors – and most people probably would agree that the RePEc ranking looks like a closed, inefficient market with high entry barriers.",
        "但用其他市场上的产品——比如汽车或半导体——代替领先经济学家的名字，那么也许大部分人会同意，RePEC排名看起来像是一个有着高进入壁垒的封闭的无效市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1972, Yale University economists William Nordhaus and James Tobin proposed a new framework, the “measure of economic welfare” (MEW), to account for sundry unpaid activities.",
        "1972年耶鲁大学经济学家威廉·诺德豪斯（William Nordhaus）和詹姆斯·托宾（James Tobin）提出了一个名为“经济福利尺度” (Measure of Economic Welfare)的框架来涵盖各类不收取报酬的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "But most Americans still fail to realize that their country’s refusal to sign the Kyoto protocol, and their subsequent business–as-usual approach to greenhouse gas emissions, is a moral failing of the most serious kind.",
        "但是大多数美国人依然没有认识到他们的国家拒绝签署京都议定书、对温室气体排放采取一切照旧的做法是最为严重的道德败坏事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, at the CDF’s wrap-up session, Premier Li Keqiang suggested, a bit less decisively, that China is basically following the world economy in its transition to a new normal.",
        "”但是，在论坛的总结会议上，李克强总理指出——与张高丽相比略少了一些果断——中国从根本上是在追随世界经济向新常态的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, thermal electricity plants have replaced the country’s nuclear plants – offline since the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 – and the weak yen has hit the import bill for oil and gas hard.",
        "特别是，热电站取代了日本的核电站——后者自2011年东日本大地震以来便处于停机状态，弱势日元极大地影响了石油和天然气进口支出。"
    ],
    [
        "We must not be driven by horror and fear into forgetting our civic values.",
        "我们决不能被恐怖所左右，以至于忘记了我们的公民价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the US should pursue its sometimes-valid foreign-policy objectives in the region through the United Nations Security Council.",
        "其次，美国应通过联合国安理会在中东地区推行合理目标的外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, one sure way to insult the Chinese is to tell them they should feel lucky, because they have a better government than the Indians or Brazilians.",
        "事实上，侮辱中国人的一个最有效方法就是告诉他们，他们应该感到幸运，因为他们比印度人或巴西人拥有一个更好的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Many AKP constituencies are wary of cultural conflict, if only because it threatens their economic interests.",
        "许多AKP选民担心文化冲突，大概是因为这威胁到了他们的经济利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of fostering public dialogue and educating the public, the public is often left in the dark.",
        "公众往往看不到公开对话，无法受到教育，只能继续当睁眼瞎。"
    ],
    [
        "If Europe is to be taken seriously as a global player, they argue, it must also flex some muscle when it delivers the money.",
        "他们认为如倘若欧洲真的想作为全球事务参与者被受到重视的话，就必须在送钱的同时展示一下自己的一身肌肉。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the most phenomenal export-oriented growth experiences to date – Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China – all occurred when import tariffs in the US and Europe were at moderate levels, and higher than where they are today.",
        "事实上，有史以来最成功的出口导向型增长经历——来自日本，韩国，台湾和中国——都是在美国和欧洲设置的进口关税出于中等水平时发生的，而且那时的关税比现在要高。"
    ],
    [
        "Feelings of intense insecurity are not related to bombs and sirens.",
        "深深的不安全感与炸弹和防空警报无关。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, simply changing the color of roofs in warm climates to reflect sunlight or planting trees around houses can lead to great savings on energy used for air conditioning.",
        "例如，仅仅改变气候温暖的地区的房屋顶部颜色以反射阳光，或在房屋周围植树就能实现空调耗能的大量节省。"
    ],
    [
        "Corruption.",
        "腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, higher commodity prices are eating into fiscal cushions rather than curtailing demand.",
        "结果，越来越高的商品价格正在侵蚀着财政储备，而没有抑制需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The average Palestinian – and Israeli, too – needs to believe that peace is possible.",
        "普普通通的巴勒斯坦人还有以色列人需要相信完全可能实现和平。"
    ],
    [
        "This played a significant role in setting the stage for the two fastest generations of global economic growth the world has ever seen.",
        "这点在奠定全球有史以来经济增长最快的两个时代时都扮演着重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where the trade deficit comes into play.",
        "贸易赤字就是这样来的。"
    ],
    [
        "With unemployment rising, income dropping to record low levels, and internal tensions escalating, fighting between supporters of Hamas and Fatah began.",
        "当失业上升、收入下降到历史最低点以及内部紧张局势升级之时，哈马斯和法塔赫两派支持者之间的战斗开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, there is a growing demand for energy and a desperate need for a long-term exit from the ongoing economic crisis.",
        "与此同时，能源需求日益高涨，找到走出当前经济危机的长期办法也十分紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher interest rates to reduce the housing boom seem, even in retrospect, ill advised if the cost is mass unemployment.",
        "用高利率来给过热的房地产市场降温，如果其代价是大规模的失业，那么即便现在回头看来也是不可取的。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, new legislation mandates better nutrition, bans sugary drinks and sweets, and forbids the parallel sale of unhealthy alternatives to the main menu (which had been a major source of funding for subsidized lunches).",
        "如今，新立法强制规定了更好的营养，禁止含糖饮料和糖果，也禁止同时销售不健康的主食谱替代品（在过去，这是补贴午餐的主要资金来源之一）。"
    ],
    [
        "Cash assistance shows much promise for eliminating extreme poverty in developing countries.",
        "现金援助在消除发展中国家极端贫困方面的表现出很大的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet many of the highest costs of adapting to changing weather patterns will fall on them.",
        "然而，适应气候变化的许多最昂贵的代价却要落在他们身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan may have shied away for decades from sharing the task of maintaining international order, but a new awareness of international responsibility is steadily emerging.",
        "过去几十年来日本也许无需承担维护国际秩序的义务，但日本人正在越来越清醒地意识到自己也需要承担相应的国际责任。"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of corrupt behavior earned Tsang a disgraceful exit from government.",
        "这种类型的腐败行为让曾荫权极不体面地离开了政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Stagnating Japan has thus remained a peaceful and rather conservative society.",
        "停滞的日本因此得以保持一种和平而保守的社会氛围。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of these could be emulated by countries today.",
        "其中一些改革可以供今天的世界各国效仿。"
    ],
    [
        "Cameron could be remembered as the prime minister who helped break up the UK (and possibly Europe).",
        "卡梅伦也许会因为p帮助英国（也许还有欧洲）分裂而被铭记的首相。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only was the story the same, but it even took shortcuts, such as having characters eat onigiri rice balls, a Japanese food not eaten in China.",
        "不但故事情节雷同，其制作方甚至偷懒，连片中人物吃的都是从未在中国出现过的日本饭团。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it would at best aim to solve the debt problem; it would not increase competitiveness.",
        "首先，该建议的目标充其量只能解决债务问题，而不能增加竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "But the overall policy mix has been sub-optimal, with too much front-loaded fiscal consolidation and too much unconventional monetary policy (which has become less effective over time).",
        "但总体政策组合只是次优水平，前瞻财政整合和非常规货币政策（随着时间的推移，这一政策效果越来越差）过多。"
    ],
    [
        "This shift in focus has convinced markets that Trump may well decide not to follow through on the more growth-damaging measures he suggested during his campaign.",
        "这一重点的转变让市场相信特朗普可能根本不准备遵循他在选战期间所提出的不利于增长的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations’ sixtieth anniversary summit in September reflected its strengths and importance in the many areas in which the international community must work together.",
        "九月举行的联合国第六十届首脑高峰会议反映了联合国在诸多领域中的力量和重要性。 国际社会必须在这些领域内通力协作。"
    ],
    [
        "Fundamental change, indeed, is needed as soon as possible, because current interpretations of the constitution have consistently distorted Japan’s security and defense policies.",
        "其实，这些重大改革应当越快越好，因为现行的宪法版本长期以来歪曲了日本的安全和防卫政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Gazprom’s aim is to control not only the gas industry in Georgia, but also the only pipeline that feeds Russian gas to both Georgia and Armenia.",
        "该公司的目的是不仅控制格鲁吉亚的天然气产业，而且控制将俄罗斯天然气输送到格鲁吉亚和亚美尼亚的唯一的天然气管道。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the crisis has produced a deep delegitimization of Greece’s democratic politicians and their supposed achievements.",
        "简而言之，这场危机剥夺了希腊民主政治家和他们本该取得的成就的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "The popular “discouraged worker” hypothesis holds that a slide into deflation is costly, because a long recession induces workers to leave the labor force altogether.",
        "流行的“沮丧的工人”假说认为，滑向通缩代价高昂，因为长期衰退让工人彻底离开劳动力大军。"
    ],
    [
        "He was aided and abetted by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who bizarrely considered the surpluses a threat.",
        "辅助和教唆小布什的是美联储主席艾伦·格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan），他怪异地认为盈余是一个威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "If teenage girls were given the knowledge, skills, and tools to avoid unwanted pregnancy and take control of their own futures, fertility rates would drop substantially.",
        "如果少女能够获得知识、技能和工具避免非自愿怀孕并赢得自身未来的控制权，那么生育率将显著下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the strategic government intervention needed to ensure macroeconomic stability was not only straightforward, but also minimal: the authorities need only manage a steady rate of money-supply growth.",
        "换句话说，确保宏观经济稳定的战略性政府干预不但是直观的，而且是程度最低的：当局只需要维持稳定的货币供应增长即可。"
    ],
    [
        "The events of September 11, 2001, are also playing a crucial role in deciding the question of a punitive strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.",
        "2001年9月11日发生的事件也对向叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德政权采取惩罚性打击的问题起到了关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "DAVOS – The Syrian peace talks that are scheduled to resume in Geneva on January 25 will take place under a framework set out in Vienna in October.",
        "达沃斯—计划于1月25日在日内瓦重开的叙利亚和平谈判将在10月份维也纳确定的框架下进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland is a prominent example of how GNI has been used to correct for distortions in GDP.",
        "爱尔兰就是一个表明 GNI 如何被用来修正GDP扭曲的突出例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps not surprisingly, acts of exclusion, segregation, and violence often go unpunished.",
        "因此排外、隔离和种族暴力行为时常逍遥法外也许并不奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "She will govern a country with substantial public debt (60% of GDP), a volatile currency, and high inflation.",
        "她面临的是一个公共债务负担沉重（占GDP的60%）、货币波动剧烈、通货膨胀高企的巴西。"
    ],
    [
        "The market signals of CO2 taxation (or the cost of CO2 emission permits) will help investors and money managers steer clear of new fossil-fuel investments.",
        "二氧化碳税（或二氧化碳排放许可成本）的市场信号有助于投资者和资金管理人避开化石燃料投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, then, and not in another imbroglio over the federal debt ceiling this coming December, is where the real threat to the dollar’s international dominance lies.",
        "因此，这，而不是即将到来的12月份又将出现令人尴尬的联邦债务上限问题，就是美元国际主宰地位的真正威胁所在。"
    ],
    [
        "Stop harming yourselves and your own future.",
        "别再损害你们的未来和你们自己的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Two distinct political/diplomatic challenges stand out: Cuba’s imminent transition or succession crisis, and the continuing ascent of the region’s “two lefts,” one represented by Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez and the other by Brazil’s increasingly influential President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.",
        "拉丁美洲有两个明显的政治/外交挑战突显出来：古巴即将到来的转变或继承危机，该地区“两种左派”力量的持续上升，其中一种是由委内瑞拉总统雨果·查韦斯代表的左派，另一种是由巴西影响力不断增强的总统卢拉·达席尔瓦所代表的左派。"
    ],
    [
        "With the closing of the frontier and static populations, growth would depend on innovation; but future innovation would require smaller inputs of capital and labor than in the past.",
        "随着西进空间的缩减和人口趋势的稳定，增长将依赖创新； 但未来创新所需要的资本和劳动力投入比过去要小。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was right to point out that each country should be dealt with according to its situation. But she and her colleagues should have voiced clearer and more emphatic support for the new member states.",
        "当然，德国总理安吉拉·默克尔指出，每个欧盟新成员国要根据其具体情形分别对待，这是正确的，但是，她和她的同僚应该为这些欧盟新成员国表达出更明确和有力的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, violence will engulf the region and far beyond.",
        "否则，暴力将吞噬整个地区，影响则将遍及更广泛的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "And its automatic stabilizers, with spending automatically increasing as economic woes increased, held out the promise of moderating the downturn.",
        "而且它的自动稳定者们还作出了缓和下降趋势的承诺。 在经济灾祸发生的时候，花费会自动上升。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a monopolist, once established, may be hard to dislodge, as Microsoft has so amply demonstrated.",
        "事实上，垄断者地位一旦得到了巩固，就很难再被动摇，这一点已经在微软公司的案例中充分得到了证明。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Republican plan would repeal the Obamacare individual mandate.",
        "此外，共和党的计划将废除奥巴马平价医疗法案的个人强制参保。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, throughout Latin America, guerrilla groups emerged, seeking to destabilize military dictatorships and attain democracy, freedom, and policy reform – goals that they believed could not be achieved peacefully.",
        "结果导致拉美各地组建游击队，宗旨是推翻军事独裁政权并实现民主、自由和政策改革——他们坚信无法通过和平手段实现这些目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The other engine of world trade has been global supply chains.",
        "世界贸易的另一个引擎是全球供给链。"
    ],
    [
        "But not one person was ever charged with a crime, much less tried and punished.",
        "但从没有一个人因此治罪，更不用说受到审判和惩罚了。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s contingency planning is classified.",
        "美国的意外事件计划时保密的。"
    ],
    [
        "But officials continue to report the renminbi’s movements relative to the dollar because they fear that emphasizing exchange-rate management relative to a currency basket will suggest further decline relative to the dollar, an expectation that would increase capital outflows.",
        "但官员仍然报告人民币相对美元的波动，因为他们担心强调相对于一揽子货币的汇率管理意味着兑美元进一步下跌，这一预期将增加资本外流。"
    ],
    [
        "But, like financial regulation, nuclear regulation in the EU, even with its Euratom treaty, is still essentially national.",
        "但正如金融监管一样，欧盟境内的核监管，即使是在欧洲原子能共同体内部的监管，在很大程度上还是各国内部事务。"
    ],
    [
        "The frequent and spectacular early modern bankruptcies of the French and Spanish monarchies concerned for the most part debt owed to foreigners.",
        "近代早期法国和西班牙经常上演的壮观的破产闹剧，大多数跟欠外债有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Good regulation means more than just preventing the banking sector from harming the rest of us (though the Fed didn’t do a very good job of that before the crisis). It also means adopting and enforcing rules that restrict the flow of funds into speculation and encourage the financial sector to play the constructive role in our economy that it should, by providing capital to establish new firms and enable successful companies to expand.",
        "好监管不但意味着防止银行部门伤害我们其他人（尽管危机前美联储在这方面做得并不好），它还意味着采取和执行规则限制流入投机行为的资金流、鼓励金融部门对经济起建设性作用（通过提供资本建立新企业、让成功的公司能够扩张等）。"
    ],
    [
        "“In short,” the report notes, “we need to ignite…an energy technology revolution.”",
        "“简而言之，我们必须实现一场能源科技的革命。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "If we are smart about how we design digital aid systems, we will have the opportunity to broaden our partnerships to hundreds, if not thousands, of organizations worldwide that are willing to help refugees.",
        "如果我们明智地设计数字援助系统，就能有机会将合作范围扩大到全球数百乃至数千个愿意帮助难民的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "In China and India, it accounts for about 80% of power generation, and is helping Chinese and Indian laborers enjoy a quality of life that their parents could barely imagine.",
        "在中国和印度，煤炭占到总发电量的80%之多，它们帮助中国和印度的劳工过上了他们的父辈难以想象的高质量生活。"
    ],
    [
        "There can no longer be any reasonable doubt that Iran’s ambition is to obtain nuclear weapons capability.",
        "勿庸置疑，伊朗的野心是获得核武器制造能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Changes to land use are also needed.",
        "此外还需要改变土地用途。"
    ],
    [
        "For their part, Ukrainian leaders will have to make a commitment not to join NATO, in exchange for Russia’s acceptance of Ukraine’s right to enter the European Union.",
        "乌克兰领导人必须承诺不加入北约，以换取俄罗斯接受乌克兰进入欧盟的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, Corbyn, who shares many of the political views of the Scottish nationalists, will make it more difficult to manage the question of Scotland’s place in the UK.",
        "第四，与许多苏格兰民族主义者有着相同政治观点的柯比将加大英格兰管理苏格兰地位问题的难度。"
    ],
    [
        "International politics in the twenty-first century can no longer be about nation-states alone.",
        "二十一世纪国际政治可能不再只是民族国家的政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Several of the reported rapes took place under such conditions, or when women are taken for forced labor.",
        "几个得到报导的强奸案就是这样发生的，或者当妇女们被带走强迫劳工之时发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors, policy analysts, and even officials are quietly beginning to suggest that this might be the case.",
        "投资者、政策分析师甚至官员都开始静悄悄地暗示可能确实如此。"
    ],
    [
        "First, carry traders borrow in yen but invest in dollars and other currencies.",
        "首先，套利交易人借的是日元，但是却用美元和其他货币投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Government debt has increased by $25 trillion, with the advanced economies accounting for $19 trillion – a direct result of severe recession, fiscal-stimulus programs, and bank bailouts.",
        "政府债务增长了25万亿美元——其中发达经济体增长了19万亿美元——这是严重经济衰退、财政刺激计划和银行救助计划的直接结果。"
    ],
    [
        "While other nuclear powers appear stable, countries like China and Russia, which rely increasingly on authoritarianism, could face their own risks, should political cohesion fray.",
        "尽管其他有核国目前看似稳定，但中俄等有核国依赖专制的程度越来越高，一旦政治凝聚力逐渐消散，就有可能面临着国内危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The central bank – once in the pocket of the country’s oligarchs, supplying inside information on exchange rates and liquidity in exchange for bribes – has been put under the command of a governor committed to reform, surrounded by an increasingly professional team.",
        "中央银行——曾经是国内寡头的囊中物，通过提供汇率和流动性的内部信息以换取贿赂——已经任命了一位致力于改革的行长，招募了一个更为专业的团队。"
    ],
    [
        "Emphasizing the temporary nature of these factors, the reports insist that, though world GDP growth amounted to roughly 3% during the first half of the year, it will pick up in the second half.",
        "《世界经济展望》强调这些因素的暂时性质，认定尽管世界GDP增长在上半年只有大约3%，但会在下半年加速。"
    ],
    [
        "Romer seems to be worried principally about some economists’ tendency to claim that what is true about certain types of theories is true of all theories and thus applicable to the real world.",
        "罗默的主要担忧似乎是一些经济学家有一种倾向，将对于特定理论的真理称为对于一切理论的真理，因此适合真实世界。"
    ],
    [
        "But the absence of a quick solution does not mean that nothing can be done to improve the speed and quality of recovery.",
        "但速效药的缺乏并不意味着在改善复苏速度和质量方面束手无策。"
    ],
    [
        "Alone among the major advanced economies, Germany practices “stakeholder capitalism.”",
        "德国是发达经济体中唯一践行“相关利益者资本主义”（stakeholder capitalism）的。"
    ],
    [
        "America is in a strange position: while the Republican presidential candidates compete on demagoguery, with ill-thought-through proposals that would make matters worse, both of the Democratic candidates are proposing changes which – if they could only get them through Congress – would make a real difference.",
        "美国处于一个奇怪的位置：共和党总统候选人比赛谁更能蛊惑人心，纷纷抛出考虑欠周、可能适得其反的提案； 而两位民主党候选人正在提出能带来真正不同的变化——如果可以在国会通过的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change, which was largely brought about by the activities of developed countries, has made it difficult for poor and vulnerable countries to fight poverty.",
        "总体而言由发达国家活动所造成的气候变化已经加大了贫困和脆弱国家战胜贫困的难度，导致发展环境进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Christians have largely sought to remain neutral in the conflict, they have become involved gradually, some by taking up arms and others as victims of kidnapping and violence.",
        "尽管基督徒大体上寻求在冲突中保持中立，但也渐渐地被拖入其中，一些人拿起了武器，另一些人则成为绑架和暴力的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "So the only realistic and sensible solution is an orderly and market-oriented – but coercive – restructuring of the entire Greek public debt.",
        "所以，唯一现实有效的解决方案就是，由官方协调，市场主导，对希腊的全部公债进行有序重组。"
    ],
    [
        "How could he manage to preside over such a spectacular stock-market boom?",
        "他是怎样导演了这样一场蔚为壮观的股市大发展？"
    ],
    [
        "They carry vengeance in their hearts from generation to generation, until a measure of justice is done, nursing their enmity in frozen conflicts that block economic growth, prevent the formation of social capital, and paralyze political institutions.",
        "复仇的欲望望在他们心中代代相传，直到最终在某种程度上伸张正义。 他们用阻碍经济发展、妨碍社会资本形成和导致政治制度瘫痪的“冰冻冲突”来滋养心中的敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with these massive gains, we can expect still faster progress as the entire planet – people and things – becomes connected.",
        "即使取得了如此大的进步，我们仍然可以在整个星球——包括所有人和物——联网的过程中期待更快的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Some blame Obama’s own fears about repeating his predecessors’ mistakes; others blame a hostile Congress for tying his hands.",
        "一些人指责奥巴马害怕重蹈前任覆辙； 也有人指责敌意国会的掣肘。"
    ],
    [
        "But so does the SGP's current implementation - for example, in the conventions that define how budget deficit are measured and what qualifies as government revenue.",
        "但《合约》目前的贯彻也是如此--比如，在有关如何计算预算赤字和如何定义政府收入的条款中。"
    ],
    [
        "Abroad, China’s rise has caused admiration, envy, suspicion, and even outright hostility in some corners.",
        "在国外，中国的崛起已经激起了钦佩、嫉妒、怀疑，甚至在某些角落已经引发了公开的敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "The West in general, and the United States in particular, has little influence or real leverage.",
        "总体而言，西方（特别是美国）对此几无影响力或真正的控制力。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, he would seek to emulate Lula’s efforts to include vast sectors of the population in the benefits of a strong economy.",
        "具体地讲，他会竭力仿效卢拉让强势经济惠及普罗大众的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "With 11,500 students, that is more than $1.5 million per student (not including the university’s buildings and art collection, each worth many billions of dollars more).",
        "耶鲁大学有学生11,500名，这样，每个学生均摊150万美元多 (不包括耶鲁大学的建筑和艺术收藏，每一项都值几十亿美元) 。"
    ],
    [
        "But about half of the stimulus money spent to date is on the tax and transfer side, and about a quarter is direct aid to states, which enables them not to raise taxes.",
        "其实，大约一半的刺激资金用于税收上，四分之一由直接拨到各个州，以让它们不用增税。 巴罗应该在支出上加权 0."
    ],
    [
        "It can be argued that only those poor eager for the harsh but open possibilities of American life immigrate to the US.",
        "可以这样说，只有那些渴望条件艰苦但是充满可能性的美国社会的穷人移民到美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Georgia has received no military support and is virtually undefended. The Kremlin continues its propaganda offensive against Georgia, and has vetoed prolonging the mandate for United Nations observers in Georgia and Abkhazia.",
        "虽然格鲁吉亚并未获得军事援助且事实上毫无还手之力，但克林姆林宫依然对其发动了一浪接一浪的宣传攻势，并否决了联合国在阿布哈兹和南奥塞梯地区派驻观察员的延长任命。"
    ],
    [
        "Seven years later, the Taliban are still fighting.",
        "七年后，塔利班依然在战斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider India’s need for massive investments in infrastructure, made evident in its just-proposed 2013-2014 budget.",
        "就拿印度来说吧。 它需要大规模基础设施投资，这一点在最新公布的2013—2014年预算中显露无疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Many surveys show that it is almost like an addiction, with a short-term benefit leading to long-term unhappiness and remorse.",
        "许多调查显示，看电视就像吸毒，短暂的快感换来的只是长期的痛苦和自责。"
    ],
    [
        "Protection of the rule of law must become an international priority – and that will require strong leadership.",
        "保护法治必须成为国际优先项——而这需要坚强的领导。"
    ],
    [
        "Although it may be painful to offer a safe exit to war criminals and human-rights abusers, the prospect of ending the suffering of civilians can take priority over a principled stand for justice.",
        "尽管给战争罪犯和侵犯人权者提供安全退路令人痛苦，但让饱受苦难的人民结束痛苦比坚持正义原则更加紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "At the UNFCCC’s meeting in Durban, all countries – developed, emerging, with or without natural resources – must join together to ensure that when the other crises currently roiling the world are finally resolved, the biggest crisis of all does not catch us off guard.",
        "在UNFCCC德班会议中，所有国家——不管是发达国家还是新兴国家，不管是自然资源富裕国还是匮乏国——必须群策群力，确保当前困扰世界的危机被解决后，我们不会对全人类所面临的最大危机放松警惕。"
    ],
    [
        "What happens when sharing becomes mandatory – when giving access to a personal Facebook account is a job requirement, and health services are withheld unless a patient submits their historical Fitbit data?",
        "如果共享成为强制规定将会发生什么——当交出个人Facebook账户成为一种工作要求，或者强制患者提供Fitbit历史数据否则不予提供医疗服务？"
    ],
    [
        "And as Hesse’s description implies, the heroic image also feeds off of the self, to the point that the individual must disappear.",
        "黑塞的描述暗示，英雄形象会吞噬自我，以至于个体必须消失。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese presidency’s authority has certainly increased; but Xi is powerful only when he has the votes.",
        "中国国家主席的权威显然增加了，但习近平只有在掌握选票的情况下才能得到权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it has worked, preventing catastrophic wars while making people more civilized and cautious.",
        "但它却是行之有效的，可以在令人们变得更加文明和警惕的同时防止爆发灾难性的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Credibility is also enhanced by joint projects such as the development of regional ballistic missile defense.",
        "发展地区弹道导弹防御等联合项目也提高了同盟的可信度。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar mechanism may be at work in the oil market.",
        "石油市场上也许也在发生同样的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate that follows will largely determine whether the US shifts toward a strong, inclusive, and sustainable pattern of growth and employment, and how the burden of moving to such a path will be shared by Americans of various ages, educational levels, incomes, and wealth.",
        "随之而来的争论将在极大程度上决定美国是否会朝着强劲、包容且可持续的增长和就业模式转变以及转变的负担如何在不同年龄、教育水平、收入和财富的美国人之间分担。"
    ],
    [
        "This is practically worthless in terms of limiting the scope for deception.",
        "这对于限制骗局规模来说几乎毫无用处。"
    ],
    [
        "The agreement – known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – limits Iran’s nuclear program to peaceful purposes in exchange for lifting all international sanctions on the country.",
        "这份被称为联合综合行动计划（JCPOA）的协议将伊朗核计划限制在和平用途，作为交换，将取消所有针对伊朗的国际制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Most people can live without one kidney.",
        "大部分人都可以在失去一个肾脏的情况下活着。"
    ],
    [
        "I had lengthy discussions with both leaders – individually and together – and told them that the destiny of Cyprus is entirely in their hands.",
        "联合国正在塞浦路斯提供一切可能的援助。 联合国维和人员执行监督任务已超过四十五年；"
    ],
    [
        "Qatar’s Wahhabism is less severe than Saudi Arabia’s; for example, Qatari women are allowed to drive and to travel alone.",
        "卡塔尔的瓦哈比主义没有沙特阿拉伯那样严重； 比如，卡塔尔妇女可以单独驾车和出行。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is premature to draw any firm conclusions from these figures.",
        "当然，光凭这些数字得不出笃定的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "Well-functioning markets should have shut down the Maduro regime’s access to finance long ago.",
        "运转良好的市场早就应该切断马杜罗政权的融资源了。"
    ],
    [
        "But it can happen only once.",
        "但这样的事件只会发生一次。"
    ],
    [
        "The government, too, would then win by pocketing that 6% per year of value – though 30 years from now, bondholders who feel like winners now would most likely look at their portfolios’ extraordinarily poor performance of over 2011-2041 and rue their strategy.",
        "于是，政府也是赢家，它可以在未来30年内将每年6%的价值收入囊中。 那些现在自视为赢家的债券持有者很可能会在2011—2041年期间看到自己的投资组合表现奇差无比，为现在的策略后悔不迭。"
    ],
    [
        "For Kim Jong-un, even a meeting with Japanese officials in Ulan Bator, Mongolia’s capital, to discuss the return of Japanese women who went to North Korea with their Korean husbands thinking that they were journeying to a socialist paradise, served as a platform to secure food aid from Japan.",
        "就拿金正恩来说吧，就连与日本官员在乌兰巴托的会面——本来目的是讨论遣返带着奔赴社会主义天堂的美好愿望与朝鲜丈夫共同前往朝鲜的日本妇女的问题——也可以被他用作保证从日本获得粮食援助的平台。"
    ],
    [
        "BARCELONA – The European Union has brought 28 countries into a closer political and economic union.",
        "巴塞罗那——28个国家在欧盟的旗帜下结成了紧密的政治和经济联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "First, many people are uncertain that current conditions will continue.",
        "第一，大多数人并不确定现实的状况会否持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is biased toward universal recipes – “model” institutional arrangements, “best practices,” rules of thumb, and so forth.",
        "它被偏倚成为通用的解决方法－“标准”制度安排，“最好的”实践，经验法则等等。"
    ],
    [
        "Many people think that, however depressing heavy taxes are, it is more honest for governments to raise them to pay for their spending than it is to incur debt.",
        "很多人认为，不管重税如何令人沮丧，政府收税来支付开支总要比借债来得更诚实一点。"
    ],
    [
        "He thinks that slowing down automation and creating tax disincentives to counter technology’s displacement effect is, overall, a sensible policy.",
        "他认为，减缓自动化、形成税收反激励来抵消技术的取代效应整体而言是明智的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Two billion people live within a four-hour flight radius of Dubai, so it is unsurprising that it has emerged as a compelling location for visitors and investors alike.",
        "迪拜四小时飞行半径内生活着20亿民众，因此它对游客和投资人拥有超强的吸引力原本就在意料之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, US President Barack Obama, evidently agreeing with that view, has boldly bet that loan guarantees and research into creating small modular reactors will reconfirm America’s global position at the forefront of civilian nuclear technology and its relevance in the new global order.",
        "”事实上，美国总统奥巴马公开同意这个观点。 他大胆地猜想，在建立小型模块化反应堆方面的贷款保证和研究可以再次巩固美国在民用核技术方面的全球领先地位以及其在新的全球秩序方面的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "This includes not only raw materials and machines, which can be shipped around, but also many specialized labor skills, infrastructure, and rules, which cannot be moved easily and hence need to be spatially collocated.",
        "这些投入不但包括可从国外运输的原材料和机器，也包括许多专业化劳动技能、基础设施和规则，它们无法轻易转移，因此存在空间配置。"
    ],
    [
        "On top of all this, the European economy is looking brighter.",
        "更为重要的是，欧洲经济的前景更为光明。"
    ],
    [
        "Geopolitical considerations have complicated matters further, as the conflict in Ukraine demonstrates.",
        "地缘政治考虑让问题进一步复杂化，乌克兰冲突就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite a detailed critique of the prosecution’s case by two Chinese defense lawyers, the sentence, which had been known privately among officials for several days, was confirmed.",
        "尽管有两位中国辩护律师对公诉人的指控进行了详细辩护，但判决依然如是，并且消息只是在政府官员中私下流传。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the risks they face are on a slow fuse.",
        "它们所面临的许多风险累积的十分缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "The second danger springs from high asset values within the advanced industrial core.",
        "另一个风险来自核心工业国家的高资产价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Both sides endorsed something like the pre-1967 borders, yet the deal was not quite struck, with each side claiming intransigence by the other on one or another point.",
        "双方都同意1967年以前的边界，但是协议并没有达成，各方都宣称对方在这一点或那一点上不让步。"
    ],
    [
        "Other factors are helping, too.",
        "其他因素也起到了帮助作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, redistributive policies did not appear to have any detrimental effects on economic performance.",
        "此外，分配政策并未表现出任何对经济表现的危害。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt certainly does, having made it clear that a divided Palestinian leadership without a public mandate, like the one to be delivered by new elections, will be unable to carry out serious negotiations or win popular support for any eventual agreement.",
        "埃及无疑也了解这一前提，而且已经明确表示未经公开授权的分裂的巴勒斯坦领导层（就像新选举将要产生的政府那样）将无法展开任何真正的谈判，也无法让公众支持最终协议的签署。"
    ],
    [
        "They have begun to notice how Palin is trotted out like a model at an auto show to be introduced to heads of state as if they are local car dealers, and how the media are allowed to take pictures but not ask questions (“That’s me with Henry Kissinger!”).",
        "她们已经开始注意到佩林怎样在一次车展上像一名模特一样小步走向前，被介绍给这个国家的领袖们，似乎他们是一些当地的汽车分销商，而媒体又是怎样只被允许拍照却不允许提问（“那是我跟基辛格拍的照片！"
    ],
    [
        "In the six quarters of Shinzo Abe’s latest stint as prime minister, annualized real GDP growth has averaged just 1.4% – up only slightly from the anemic post-1992 average of 1%.",
        "在安倍最新首相任期的前六个季度里，年化真实GDP增长平均只有1. 4%——只比1992年以来长期低迷的总平均水平1%略高。"
    ],
    [
        "Updating the provision and delivery of benefits may be particularly challenging.",
        "更新条款和提供福利的挑战尤其艰巨。"
    ],
    [
        "The second factor – clan – is manifested in rising ethnic tensions in Europe, Turkey, India, and elsewhere, driven by forces like migration and competition for jobs.",
        "第二个因素——种族，体现于欧洲、土耳其、印度和其它地区日益激烈的种族紧张局势中。 这些紧张局势的起因是移民和就业竞争等。"
    ],
    [
        "Across the EU, 48% think EU membership is a good thing; in Britain, this figure falls to 29%.",
        "在欧盟内部，48%的被调查者认为成为欧盟成员是件好事，而在英国，这个数字降到了29%。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that there is little reason to worry that the new technology will create large-scale unemployment.",
        "我认为担心新技术会造成大规模失业是没有理由的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while these developments certainly merit international concern, they should not be allowed to obscure Nigeria’s recent achievements – or spur the outside world to turn its back on the country.",
        "尽管事态发展注定会引起国际社会的忧虑，但这些不应埋没尼日利亚近来取得的成就——更不应该促使外界放弃对尼日利亚的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, I recognized that the best place to start would be where current policies have created the greatest human suffering: Greece.",
        "在此过程中，最好从现行政策造成痛苦最深的地方开始，这个地方就是希腊。"
    ],
    [
        "Both are the product of an ideological reading of the world that bears little connection with reality.",
        "二者都是对世界意识形态化的理解的产物，与现实没有什么联系。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and its regional allies tried to nudge Assad from power in the spring of 2011, thinking that he would fall quickly like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.",
        "2011年春，美国及其地区盟友试图将阿萨德赶下权力宝座，认为他将像埃及的穆巴拉克和突尼斯的本·阿里一样迅速下台。"
    ],
    [
        "We knew that we needed not just to secure growth, but also to improve the quality of that growth.",
        "我们知道我们不但需要确保增长，还需要改善增长的质量。"
    ],
    [
        "I was recently asked by journalists whether inter-agency cooperation is sufficient and whether European mechanisms for sharing operational intelligence should be created.",
        "最近有记者问我，机构之间的合作是否足够，欧洲是否应该建立共享军事行动情报的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is not clear that Congress will agree to such large new tax credits.",
        "当然，国会是否会同意这些规模巨大的新税收优惠尚不清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Greek context, there has already been enough name-calling for several debt crises.",
        "在希腊问题上，对于多次债务危机，指责一再出现。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – In 1950, finance and insurance in the United States accounted for 2.8% of GDP, according to US Department of Commerce estimates.",
        "伯克利——根据美国商业部的统计数字，1950年，美国金融和保险业占GDP的比重为2. 8%。"
    ],
    [
        "But the enrichment provided by the humanities was no less enduring, though its subtler nature makes it harder to track.",
        "但是，人文学科停供的丰富一样不朽，虽然它微妙的本质使人很难追寻其踪迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Universities have also had a public-service mission: to provide students with a cultural foundation for life.",
        "大学还有社会服务使命：为学生提供生活的文化基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Theoretically, international loans could be an alternative, but who would lend to an unstable government, let alone a government whose legitimacy has not been fully established?",
        "理论上讲，也可以选择国际贷款，但谁会贷款给不稳定的政府，更不用说其合法性尚未完全确立？"
    ],
    [
        "But the way that the problem arose, and the solution that was finally adopted, is likely to have very important consequences for the way that Europe will address its banking problems.",
        "但问题出现的方式以及最终采取的解决方法很有可能对欧洲解决其银行问题的方法有很重要的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "A weaker currency would stimulate exports and allow imports to grow as foreign-exchange controls are lifted.",
        "货币贬值可以刺激出口并在取消外汇管制的同时推动进口增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, his team has constructed an elaborate and rather bizarre fantasy – building upon but also going far beyond several decades of Republican fiscal irresponsibility.",
        "相反，他的团队构造了一个复杂而离奇的幻想——它建立在几十年来共和党财政不负责任的基础上并远远过之。"
    ],
    [
        "If the EU made a commitment to admit even a mere 300,000 refugees annually, most genuine asylum-seekers would view their odds of reaching their destination as good enough to deter them from seeking to reach Europe illegally – an effort that would disqualify them from legal admission.",
        "哪怕欧盟承诺每年只接收300,000难民，多数真正的庇护寻求者也会从抵达目的地的概率的角度重新审视自己的行为，从而遏制他们寻求非法进入——因为非法进入者首先已不具备合法的移民资格。"
    ],
    [
        "For Europe, the starting point was visionary leaders like Jean Monnet and the creation of new institutions like the Coal and Steel Community.",
        "欧洲的出发点是出现了让·莫内那样富有远见的领导人和新机构如煤钢共同体的创立。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, central banks technically should do whatever it takes to meet their inflation targets; but excessive quantitative easing has imposed high costs, and seems to have favored the few at the expense of the many.",
        "平心而论，央行在技术上应该竭尽全力实现通胀目标； 但过度量化宽松已经带来了高昂的代价，并且似乎是康大多数人之慨便宜极少数人。"
    ],
    [
        "JOHANNESBURG – Africa is again high on the global agenda, and this time for all the right reasons. As the kickoff to the World Cup in South Africa approaches, people are seeing not just South Africa but our entire continent as equal partners in this extraordinary global celebration.",
        "约翰内斯堡——非洲再次成为全球焦点，但这次是出于正当的理由。 随着南非世界杯开幕式的临近，人们不仅将南非、也将整个非洲大陆视为此次全球盛大庆典活动中平等的伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, entrepreneurship, as a channel for young men and women to express themselves, is a compelling weapon in the fight against terrorism and violent extremism.",
        "事实上，创业精神作为青年男女自我表达的渠道是打击恐怖主义和暴力极端主义的有力武器。"
    ],
    [
        "My organization, The Nature Conservancy, has carried out a study of 245 cities around the world that stand to benefit from tree-planting initiatives, estimating their potential return on investment in terms of both temperature and PM.",
        "我所在的自然保护协会对世界各地受益于植树计划的245座城市进行了研究，测算了它们在温度和微细颗粒物方面植树投资的潜在回报。"
    ],
    [
        "But now is the time to present to Iran a comprehensive package – what it must do and what the reward would be if it agreed.",
        "但如今，是时候把全面的选择机会摆在伊朗面前了——它应该怎样做？ 照办能获得怎样的好处？"
    ],
    [
        "The views expressed here do not reflect the views of the United Nations or its member states.",
        "本文观点并不反映联合国及其会员国的意见。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidently, “something in the water,” other than education, makes people much more productive in some places than in others.",
        "显然，“除教育以外的某些隐形因素”让某些地方的工人效率比其他地方更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Will it stay mild or turn more severe?",
        "猪流感病毒危害是会变得更加严重，还是会继续不温不火？"
    ],
    [
        "Industrial investment, especially by state-owned enterprises, has been rallying strongly.",
        "工业投资方面也一路狂飙，尤其是国有企业。"
    ],
    [
        "The unemployment rate, at least as conventionally measured, remains stubbornly high, at nearly 28%.",
        "至少从常规指标看，失业率仍然非常高，达到了近28%。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, some automobile manufacturers have adjusted their designs to allow for easy disassembly of parts made of compatible plastics, while governments have set recycling target proportions for end-of-life vehicles.",
        "在这方面，一些汽车制造商已经调整了设计方案，让兼容塑料制成的部件变得容易拆卸，政府也设置了报废汽车循环利用比例目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, the research estimates that global flows have contributed 15-25% of global growth each year, with more interconnected countries receiving 40% more of the growth benefits than less interconnected ones.",
        "总体而言，报告估计全球流每年要贡献全球增长的15—25%，互联性较强的国家获得的增长好处比互联性较弱国家多40%。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, though the Middle East is facing an abundance of challenges to its stability, none is as large, dangerous, and immediate as the Islamic State.",
        "事实上，尽管中东面临着诸多稳定挑战，但没有一样像伊斯兰国那样巨大、危险和紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s primary deficit of ¥28 trillion in 2002 was reduced to only ¥6 trillion by 2007.",
        "日本的基础财政赤字从2002年的28万亿日元降低到2007年的6万亿日元。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Spain’s debt with the ECB’s TARGET settlement system rose by €55 billion ($72 billion) between February and March, because capital outflows of that amount had to be compensated.",
        "此外，今年2月—3月，西班牙在欧洲央行“目标”（TARGET）清算系统中的债务增加了550亿欧元（相对于720亿美元），这是因为大规模资本外流需要获得补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Without better infrastructure, the majority of India’s citizens will remain frozen out of globalization.",
        "没有比较好的基础设施，印度人中的大多数将被冰冻在全球化之外。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is investment, where China has moved aggressively by introducing a variety of multilateral and bilateral initiatives.",
        "第一个是投资，中国在这方面步伐甚快，引入了多项双边和多边动议。"
    ],
    [
        "The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vladivostok last year created a mere enclave of development.",
        "今年的符拉迪沃斯托克亚太经济合作峰会只创造了一块发展飞地。"
    ],
    [
        "The market alone is an ineffective way to stimulate research and development into uncertain technology, and a high carbon tax will simply hurt growth if alternatives are not ready.",
        "单靠市场并不足以有效刺激那些对不确定技术的研究和发展，并且如果替代燃料供应不足，征收昂贵的碳排放税只会损伤经济的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, that news was made last month, when the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy joined more than 30 other countries as founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).",
        "因为真正的大新闻是上月英国、德国，法国和意大利与其他30多个国家一同成为亚洲基础设施投资银行（亚投行）的创始国。"
    ],
    [
        "This will demand, first and foremost, that EU leaders overcome the forces that have so far impeded action.",
        "这首先需要欧盟领导人战胜迄今为止阻碍行动的势力。"
    ],
    [
        "The defense immediately sought an injunction in federal court to prevent the trial from continuing.",
        "辩护人立即要求联邦法院下达禁令禁止审判继续进行。"
    ],
    [
        "In the mid-2000s, the EU – which already had its own carbon-trading scheme (the EU ETS) in place – recognized that despite the commitments included in the Kyoto Protocol, the world had not succeeded in reducing the industry’s emissions.",
        "21世纪中期，已经建立起内部碳交易制度（欧盟排放交易体系）的欧盟认识到尽管京都议定书已经载入了相关承诺，但世界并没有成功减少工业排放。"
    ],
    [
        "But if regulations are not well tailored to the various types of market participants and to how markets actually work, they can choke off opportunities that would otherwise benefit investors and the economy.",
        "但如果监管措施与各种类型的市场参与者不匹配，与市场实际运转情况不匹配，那么它们可能扼杀本可以有利于投资者和经济的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when strong, coordinated action is needed to stave off financial collapse in the European Union, the popular support that drove European integration over the last six decades is waning.",
        "现在需要的是强大的、合作的动作来解决欧盟的金融崩溃，但在过去六十年中推动欧洲一体化的群众支持正在消逝。"
    ],
    [
        "Surprisingly, very few such alliances exist, with many small countries – especially developing ones – cultivating close ties with “big brother” countries or immersing themselves in regional federal structures.",
        "令人惊讶的是，这样的联盟十分稀少，许多小国——特别是发展中小国——致力于培养与“老大哥”国家的关系或者加入地区联邦结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, while Alan García won in Peru, he does not come from a hard-left party that has finally seen the light (like Lula da Silva in Brazil, Michelle Bachelet in Chile, and Tabaré Vázquez in Uruguay).",
        "同样，尽管加西亚在秘鲁获胜，但是他并非像巴西的卢拉德席尔瓦、智利的巴切莱特以及乌拉圭的巴斯克斯那样来自最终归顺正途的极端左翼政党。"
    ],
    [
        "An open society will never be created or sustained by righteous entrepreneurs or be the mere byproduct of political engineering.",
        "永远不能依靠有正义感的企业家或者某项政治工程的副产品来建设或者维护一个开放的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "If investors don’t want to hold euros, pounds, or yen, where else can they go?",
        "如果投资者不愿持有欧元、英镑和日元，它们能怎么做呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The last emperor of the Tang Dynasty proclaimed seven era names in fourteen years, as he sought in vain to “re-brand” his reign and avoid his regime’s demise.",
        "唐朝最后一位皇帝在14年中公布了7个年号，徒劳无益地试图重新评价自己的统治，避免政权走向衰亡。"
    ],
    [
        "The private sector should be at the forefront of the effort to build the infrastructure and logistics links that form the backbone of global trade, install the technologies and systems that maximize efficiency, and provide the training and skills to boost performance.",
        "在建设作为全球贸易支柱的基础设施和物流联系、部署能让效率最大化的技术和系统，以及提供刺激经济表现的培训和技能方面，私人部门应该站在前沿。"
    ],
    [
        "The rotating presidency will be replaced by an elected President of the Council.",
        "欧盟委员会和理事会将会有强大的行政基础结构。"
    ],
    [
        "He is cut from the same cloth as his mentor, Zhu.",
        "他和他的导师朱镕基一脉相承。"
    ],
    [
        "Luckily, two missed the target, and Israel managed to intercept the third.",
        "幸运的是，其中两枚未能击中目标，而第三枚则被以色列成功拦截。"
    ],
    [
        "The new collateral requirements, together with tentative talk of autonomous interest rates, represents a remarkable incipient innovation.",
        "新的抵押品要求与自主利率的口风试探一起，暗示了一个令人瞩目的创新萌芽。"
    ],
    [
        "The End of the Two-State Solution",
        "两国方案的结束"
    ],
    [
        "Optimists point out that China has engaged in good neighbor policies since the 1990’s, settled border disputes, played a greater role in international institutions, and recognized the benefits of using soft power.",
        "乐观主义者指出，自1990年代起中国一直奉行友好的邻交政策，解决了边境争端，在国际机构中扮演越来越重要的角色，并且认识到了使用软力量的益处。"
    ],
    [
        "Hereditary monarchy, often backed by divine authority, has worked in the past.",
        "通常由君权神授为依托的世袭君主制，曾在历史上大行其道；"
    ],
    [
        "Fear of the disease’s seemingly inexorable spread hampered trade, business activity, and travel in the affected countries.",
        "对埃博拉看似不可阻挡的蔓延之势的担忧妨碍了受影响国的贸易、商业活动和旅行。"
    ],
    [
        "How was it preserved by digging up runways, uprooting olive trees, and fouling wells?",
        "把机场跑道挖乱、把橄榄树连根拔起、让井水变浑浊又如何能够保护和平呢？"
    ],
    [
        "A difficult fiscal conversation still lies ahead at the federal level, but cuts and contractions of various types seem likely.",
        "而在联邦财政层面虽然面对着一个艰苦的讨价还价过程，但各种形式的削减和收缩措施似乎都有可能出台。"
    ],
    [
        "Analogizing in this way seemed more to reflect a desire to re-fight the old battles, rather than to sharpen political judgment about contemporary events.",
        "这样的类比似乎更多地反映了重打老仗的愿望，而不是加强对当代事件的政治评价。"
    ],
    [
        "It wants more local control.",
        "它希望得到更多的地方控制。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk of a global crash has been low, because deleveraging has proceeded apace in most advanced economies; the effects of fiscal drag are smaller; monetary policies remain accommodative; and asset reflation has had positive wealth effects.",
        "全球崩溃的风险很小，因为大部分发达经济体都在迅速去杠杆化； 财政拖累的影响较小；"
    ],
    [
        "No longer would our ancestors have to content themselves with the food that nature offered - they could start to grow their own, far surpassing nature's meager supply.",
        "我们的祖先不用再满足于自然界所赐予的食物-他们可以开始种植自己的食物，其产量要比自然界吝啬的供给大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "If we continue to deplete critical ecosystems, they will soon become unable to regenerate.",
        "事实上，在某种程度上，上述毁灭性效果已经体现得日益显著。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet enough nuclear material to fill a small bag of sugar is all it takes to construct a device with the potential to kill hundreds of thousands of people and inflict billions of dollars in damage.",
        "但只要有一小包糖那么多的核原料，就足以制造出能够杀死数十万人、造成数十亿美元破坏的设备。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, as China has declared unconditional Indian troop withdrawal to be a “prerequisite” for ending the standoff, India, facing recurrent Chinese incursions over the last decade, has insisted that border peace is a “prerequisite” for developing bilateral ties.",
        "更广泛地说，在中国已经宣布印度的无条件撤军是结束僵持的“先决条件”的同时，在过去的十年中面临着中国的反复入侵的印度坚持边境和平是发展双边关系的“先决条件”。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the two million men and women in EU countries’ armed forces, only 2% are combat ready.",
        "在欧盟国家 200 万的男女军人中，只有 2% 是做好了战斗准备的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short run, the non-tradable sector is, by definition, subject to domestic-demand constraints.",
        "在短期，顾名思义，不可贸易部门受着国内需求的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "And that leadership – whether civilian, military, and also the now politically active judiciary – has proven congenitally ineffective, leaving the country with a broken economy and a paralyzed political system.",
        "而领导层——不管是平民，军人还是目前在政治上最积极的司法人员——都已经被证实是先天不足，令整个国家只剩下残破的经济以及瘫痪了的政治系统。"
    ],
    [
        "If, on the other hand the HDP can reach the 10% threshold, its fortunes – and Erdoğan’s – will swing in the other direction.",
        "另一方面，如果人民民主党能够达到10%的门槛，那么它的命运——连同埃尔多安的命运——都将走向另一个方向。"
    ],
    [
        "But your lessons in history, philosophy, and literature will be just as important, because it is vital not only that you have the right tools, but also that you never lose sight of the purposes and overriding social goals of finance.",
        "但你们在历史、哲学和文学方面的造诣同样重要，因为你不仅必须拥有正确的工具，同时也不能忘记，金融业所追求的最高目标是社会效益。"
    ],
    [
        "This cannot happen without providing women and girls with the information, education, and services they need to make their own decisions.",
        "决定是否和何时成为母亲。 如果不为妇女和女孩提供做出自己的决定所需要的信息、教育和服务，就无法实现这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Which do you remember most vividly, and which most changed the world?",
        "你对其中哪一件印象最深刻，又是哪一件最显著地改变了世界？"
    ],
    [
        "If the patient could avoid the burden and yet continue to live, that would be his choice.",
        "如果病人可以避免负担又能继续生存，他一定会如此选择。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, individuals could be allowed to increase their retirement security by putting more money into their Social Security accounts, with commensurate increases in pension benefits.",
        "比如，应该允许个人通过增加社会保险账户投入，从而相应地提高退休金来增加退休保障。"
    ],
    [
        "Hezbollah has drawn Lebanon into the Syrian conflict, setting up a showdown between Shia and Sunni at home.",
        "真主党将黎巴嫩拖入了叙利亚冲突，在自家后院掀起了什叶派和逊尼派的大决斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, while the programs that most donors like – such as micro-credit, formalization of land titles, and governance reforms – have sometimes helped to ameliorate the conditions facing the poor, they have not reduced poverty significantly.",
        "此外，尽管广受捐赠者喜爱的小额信贷、正式土地所有权和执政改革等方案有时的确改善了穷人的生存条件，但并没有显著改善贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Dating from around the beginning of the Christian era, and carved into a 130-foot-high rock, the seated image of the Buddha was second in importance in South Asia only to the Bamiyan Buddhas.",
        "这尊雕像的历史可以追溯到基督教起源的年代，雕像取坐姿，通高130英尺，在南亚地区的重要性仅次于巴米杨大佛而位列第二。"
    ],
    [
        "The factors accounting for the record of failure in the Middle East – history, culture, religion, and personalities – are worthy of serious examination.",
        "中东失败的原因——历史、文化、宗教和个性——都值得认真考察。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico tried to solve the problem by imposing a state-administered price ceiling for maize tortillas, combined with duty-free maize imports.",
        "墨西哥试图通过给玉米粉圆饼设定一个由政府控制的最高价格以及免除玉米进口的关税来解决这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, the federal government introduced new restrictions on margarine, covering everything from labeling (as with genetically modified foods today), the use of artificial coloring, and interstate movement.",
        "联邦政府因此对人造黄油出台了新的限制，涵盖从贴标签（就像今天的转基因食品一样）、添加人造色素和州与州之间运输等各式各样的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "They have relied on this bizarre conspiracy theory in their rise to power, despite having no evidence to support it.",
        "他们依靠这个奇特的阴谋论上台，尽管根本没有证据支持他们的主张。"
    ],
    [
        "The government allowed employment discrimination to go unchecked, leaving the majority of Roma without jobs, and communities were plunged deeper into poverty.",
        "政府允许就业歧视的存在，这样就使大多数罗姆人没有工作，这一群体进一步陷入了贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "And this is why militant Islamist preachers must be stopped.",
        "这也就是为何必须制止好战的伊斯兰主义鼓吹者的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that the Chinese bureaucracy prefers stability, and it has strong incentives to strengthen its own position relative to the market, thereby exacerbating power inequalities and dampening innovation and growth.",
        "问题在于中国的官员更偏好短期稳定，且相信政府比市场更有能力调控短期经济波动，他们往往将调控短期经济波动的权利保留给政府及市场监管者。 而这往往导致政府宏观调控权力的扩大及市场自然调节过程的弱化，结果往往是阻碍了创新和增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Someday, perhaps, public officials may even use the research to inform their decisions.",
        "或许某一天，政府官员甚至会令用这些研究来支持自己的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The mad pursuit of corporate profits is threatening us all.",
        "企业对利润的疯狂追求为所有人都带来威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s latest attempt to deal with the problem came earlier this month, when he noisily announced that his administration was putting North Korea back on the US Department of State’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.",
        "特朗普应对朝鲜问题的最新尝试发生在本月早些时候，他大声宣布其政府将朝鲜重新打入了美国国务院的支持恐怖主义国家名单。"
    ],
    [
        "We rely on them not only for food production, but also to create new drinking water.",
        "我们不但仰仗土壤提供食品产品，也仰仗土壤制造新的饮用水。"
    ],
    [
        "In this case, tacit consent emboldens terrorist actors, with deadly results.",
        "在这个例子中，默许壮了恐怖行动分子的胆，也带来了死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "That means limiting their power, and their profits.",
        "即限制其权力和利润。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese officials see little difference between the cyber threat posed by the NSA and that posed by the PLA, especially given that America’s cyber intrusions have also been aimed at foreign companies, trade negotiators, and international leaders – all of whom are directly or indirectly engaged in commercial activity.",
        "中国官员认为美国国安局所造成的网络威胁和解放军所造成的网络威胁没有什么区别，特别是考虑到美国的网络入侵也以外国公司、贸易谈判员和国际领导人为目标——他们都直接或间接地参与着商业活动。"
    ],
    [
        "As food supply growth slowed, demand continued to grow, and not only due to population increase.",
        "随着食品供应量增长的减缓，需求却出现持续增长，而这并不完全是人口的增长所造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest example highlighting this flaw is Dexia, the Belgian-French banking group that failed in 2011 – just after passing the European Banking Authority’s stress test with flying colors.",
        "这一缺陷的最新写照是比利时-法国联营的德夏（Dexia）银行在2011年的倒闭——彼时它刚刚胜利通过欧洲银监局的压力测试。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, central banks cannot deliver the structural components – for example, infrastructure investments, better-functioning labor markets, and pro-growth budget reforms – needed to drive robust and sustained recovery.",
        "首先，央行无法给出带来持续强健复苏所需要的结构性要素——比如基础设施投资、运转更良好的劳动力市场和有利于增长的预算改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Reaffirming Europe",
        "重塑欧洲信心"
    ],
    [
        "Modern production systems, in which information technology plays an increasingly crucial role, are totally different from the large factory floors that characterized the birth of trade unionism and social democracy.",
        "现代生产体系——信息技术在其中的作用越来越关键——与作为工联主义和社会民主诞生的特征的大工厂大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1950’s, a breakthrough that enabled viruses to grow in tissue cultures led to the development of both live attenuated vaccines and inactivated vaccines for measles, polio, and other diseases.",
        "20世纪50年代，能让病毒在培养基中生长的突破带来了麻疹、脊髓灰质炎和其他疾病的减毒活疫苗和灭活疫苗的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the 1990’s, both China and India have received a huge boost from their undervalued currencies.",
        "自1990年代以来，中国和印度都从其估值偏低的货币中获益良多。"
    ],
    [
        "A World Bank study found that under-nutrition can cost an individual up to 10% of his or her potential lifetime earnings, and as much as 3% of a country’s GDP.",
        "世界银行的一份研究发现，营养不良所造成的成本最多相当于一个人一生潜在收入10%，或一国GDP的3%。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s gradual inclusion in the G-8 was supposed to nurture the growth of democracy, foster creation of a free-market economy, and encourage constructive behavior in international relations.",
        "俄罗斯逐步接纳为八国集团理应培育民主发展、建立自由市场经济并鼓励国际关系中建设性行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The research noted the conditions and triggers needed to facilitate the self-assembly of small opportunistic groups and enable them to act like large companies.",
        "研究指出了小型机会主义团体成立并像大公司那样运作所需要具备的条件和环境因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Even traditional private companies like Huawei and Midea have done much better, adjusting to shifting consumer demand and changing factor costs by retooling as quickly as possible, acquiring, for example, robot technology and product designs from the West.",
        "而华为和美的等传统民营企业就比国有企业表现好得多，它们通过尽快学习来适应不断变化的需求和要素成本，已经开始使用机器人技术和来自西方的产品设计来提高竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, many of Britain’s exports require imported inputs; so when sterling depreciates and import prices rise, the knock-on effect on export prices renders them less competitive.",
        "因此英镑贬值和进口价格上涨时也会对出口价格产生连锁效应，使其竞争力降低。"
    ],
    [
        "If you look for a relationship between children’s performance on international surveys of achievement, and their countries’ growth rates twenty years on, you will look in vain.",
        "如果你想在国际成就调查中找出孩子们的表现与今后二十年经济发展之间的关系，结果肯定会让你失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Kashkari will lead the way to rethinking – and, one hopes, ending – the TBTF problem in traditional big banks.",
        "卡什卡利将带领我们去反思——并希望能结束——传统大型银行的大而不能倒问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Greece came within a hair’s breadth of leaving the eurozone.",
        "事实上，希腊距离退出欧元区只有一步之遥。"
    ],
    [
        "Why should Muslim leaders, in particular, make such statements, rather than Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, or Hindu leaders?",
        "为什么有基督教、佛教、犹太教或印度教那么多领袖，但只有穆斯林领袖要做出这样的声明？"
    ],
    [
        "The first message will resonate with those who believe that a key lesson of the Asian crisis a decade ago is that countries opened themselves to certain types of flows – especially foreign currency debt – before they were ready.",
        "第一条信息会引起那些相信10年以前的亚洲金融危机是某些国家在还没有准备好之前就向某些类型的资本流动尤其是外汇债务开放所带来的沉痛教训的人的共鸣。"
    ],
    [
        "The Liikanen proposals have much in common with those made in 2011 by the United Kingdom’s Independent Commission on Banking (ICB), which I chaired.",
        "利卡宁方案与2011年由我担任主席的英国独立银行委员会（Independent Commission on Banking，ICB）所提出的方案由诸多相同之处。 两组方案均强调需要实施相互关联的、将更强损失吸收能力与结构性改革相结合的一揽子措施。"
    ],
    [
        "And funding for basic research remains a low priority in emerging economies like China, where it accounts for less than 15 cents for every research dollar spent (compared to 35 cents in the US).",
        "而在中国等新兴经济体，基础研究拨款的优先等级也很低，并且每1美元的研究投入只能产生15美分（美国是35美分）。"
    ],
    [
        "Mutual understanding is the only way to moderate the consequences.",
        "相互谅解是让后果缓和的唯一办法。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not a problem of immigration as such, but of poorly designed domestic social and labor market institutions.",
        "这并非是移民本身的问题，而是国内社会和劳动力市场机构不合理造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Zakaria described illiberal democracy as a “growth industry,” and he was right: in the past 15 years, it has come with full force to Latin America.",
        "扎卡利亚将不自由民主称为“成长行业”，这么做不可谓不正确：在过去15年中，不自由民主在拉美蓬勃发展。"
    ],
    [
        "A war that cannot be ended is sometimes worse than a war that is lost.",
        "一场没完没了的战争有时比战败还糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Containment, not Appeasement",
        "遏制，而不是纵容"
    ],
    [
        "Trump can now fill rapidly these vacancies with conservative judges who may well erode checks and balances further.",
        "现在，特朗普可以用保守派法官迅速填补这些出缺，从而进一步破坏制衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The TPP’s critics often neglected to acknowledge that international dispute-settlement mechanisms could ever serve a valid purpose, or that some degree of patent protection is needed if pharmaceutical companies are to have sufficient incentive to invest in research and development.",
        "TPP批评者常常不承认国际纠纷解决机制能够有助于合理目的，或者，要让制药公司有足够的激励投资于研发就必须进行一定程度的专利保护。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2010, the proportions were roughly 2%, 17%, and 81%, respectively.",
        "到2010年时上述比例分别转化为约2%，17%和81%。"
    ],
    [
        "There are four potential combinations of outcomes for countries: (1) good governance and good economic policies; (2) good politics and bad economics; (3) bad politics and good economics; and (4) bad politics and bad economics.",
        "各国可能面临着四种潜在的结果组合：（1）治理和经济政策俱佳； （2）治理良好但经济恶劣；"
    ],
    [
        "No Shareholders’ Spring",
        "子虚乌有的股东之春"
    ],
    [
        "US President Barack Obama says that this is not the beginning of a new Cold War; current trends may soon suggest otherwise.",
        "美国总统奥巴马说，这不是新冷战的开端； 目前的趋势可能很快会指向相反的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "But they may yet try again: Trump criticized the move, but only its timing, and called the ethics committee “unfair.”",
        "但他们可能再次做出尝试：特朗普批评了这一举动，但只是说时机不恰当，并称道德委员会“不公平”。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this comes at a time of greater political openness and democratization: the first ever socialist government in 1998, a younger and more open King – described by democrats of both sexes of Morocco’s “first feminist” – who took the throne in 1999, and a quota system that brought 35 women into the Parliament in 2002.",
        "这一切都发生于一个政治开放度更高和更加民主化的时代。 1998年第一次组建的社会党政府、一个更加年轻和开放的国王（这是摩洛哥“第一代女权主义者”中男女民主党人对他的描述）于1999年登基、一种定额分配制度使得35名妇女在2002年进入议会。"
    ],
    [
        "Stagnating middle-class wages and family incomes are a major factor behind the US economy’s slow recovery from the 2007-2009 recession, and pose a serious threat to long-term growth and competitiveness.",
        "中产阶级工资和家庭所得停滞不前是美国从2007—2009年衰退中复苏缓慢的主要原因，也给长期增长和竞争力带来了严重威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason for the conversion is clear: Erdoğan needs to isolate and embarrass the Gülenists, with whom he is now engaged in a bitter struggle for power.",
        "如此转变，原因很清楚：埃尔多安需要孤立和抹黑葛兰主义者，目前他正在与葛兰主义者进行艰苦的权力斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, it is increasingly clear that enhancing intelligence cooperation is essential.",
        "例如，加强情报合作的必要性越来越明确。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Bush’s exaggerated rhetoric was often at odds with his practice, giving rise to charges of hypocrisy.",
        "另外，布什的夸张言词又常常与其实际行动不符，从而其虚伪也备受诟病。"
    ],
    [
        "As the boom turned to bust, the losses threatened to overwhelm the capacity of the Spanish state, and the problem became European, because it threatened the very survival of the euro.",
        "随着繁荣变为萧条，由此产生的损失已快要超过了西班牙整个国家的能力，这一问题变成了欧洲问题，因为事关欧元存亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Credit rationing has followed, as banks reduced their overburdened balance sheets and were discouraged from risk-taking.",
        "随着银行开始缩减其债务过多的资产负债表并且不再愿意冒险，随之而来的是信用配给。"
    ],
    [
        "And, more often than not, what we are witnessing is individual achievement – the deeply concentrated agility and courage of the downhill racer or the finely disciplined movements of the gymnast – rather than true team effort.",
        "并且，更常见的情形是他们观看的是个人成就——山地车速降选手的凝神聚气、动如脱兔和勇气，或者体操选手完美规范的动作——而不是真正的团队努力。"
    ],
    [
        "And a weak economy means, more likely than not, more bank losses.",
        "而衰弱的经济又多半意味着银行的损失会更多。"
    ],
    [
        "But what matters for oil prices now and in the foreseeable future is the perception of the story, not the ambiguities behind it.",
        "但就现在和可预见的将来而言，与油价相关的是人们对这一传闻的理解，而非其背后的不确定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Arab states have both developed and used chemical and biological weapons – not against Israel, so far, but against others in the region.",
        "确实，阿拉伯国家都既开发又使用过化学和生物武器——到目前为止还不是用它们来攻击以色列，而是攻击该地区的其他人。"
    ],
    [
        "To Europe’s east lies Russia, to its south the Muslim world.",
        "欧洲东部与俄国接壤，而其南部则是穆斯林世界。"
    ],
    [
        "More consequential, the European Central Bank has committed to a large and relatively open-ended program of large-scale asset purchases.",
        "随后，欧洲央行采取了规模庞大、相对限制更少的大规模资产购买计划。"
    ],
    [
        "With employment rising as Japan’s economy moves toward realizing potential output, monetary stimulus will create inflationary pressures and public expenditure will yield sharply diminishing returns.",
        "随着日本经济回归潜在产出，就业也在增长，与此同时，货币刺激将形成通胀压力，公共支出回报将急剧下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Fertilizer use has become significantly more efficient in recent years, a trend that will continue.",
        "肥料的使用在近几年中效率猛增，这一趋势还将持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Hungary is the region's single worst performer.",
        "匈牙利在该地区表现最差。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest question is whether we can get off the economic roller coaster and return to robust global growth without debt-fueled overconsumption (as seen in the pre-2008 US), overinvestment (as in China), and overexpansion of government spending (still an issue in some parts of Europe).",
        "最大的问题是我们能否摆脱经济过山车，回归强劲增长而不靠债务推动的过度消费（如2008年前的美国）、过度投资（如中国）和政府支出过度扩张（至今依然是欧洲一些国家的问题）。"
    ],
    [
        "I make these somewhat critical observations about China not with any sense of moral superiority or a wish to relieve myself of the responsibility to level the same critique at my own country’s recent failures.",
        "我对中国做出这些有点批评的评论并非是我感到在道德上高人一等或者希望推卸自己的评说自己国家近年来失策的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The depression that European authorities have imposed on Spain and Greece already is having political consequences.",
        "欧洲当局给西班牙和希腊带来的经济萧条已经显现出政治后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Either outcome would run contrary to Germany’s interests and preferences, making it as unfair an approach as austerity.",
        "这两个结果都与德国的利益和偏好相悖，因此和紧缩一样有失公允。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has the world’s most dynamic technological sector – not least because it offers the high salaries needed to attract the best talent.",
        "美国拥有全世界最有活力的技术部门——因为它能够提供高薪以吸引最优秀的人才。"
    ],
    [
        "We analyzed which reforms in the international trade regime would most benefit those in the developing world, and we presented an alternative agenda based on our findings.",
        "我们分析了国际贸易体系中的哪些改革对发展中世界最为有利，并以此为基础提交了一份备选议程。"
    ],
    [
        "AI cannot integrate information about seemingly distinct processes, such as chemical, physiological, and psychological events, or anticipate novel outcomes.",
        "AI无法将相去甚远的过程——比如化学、生理和心理事件——的信息整合在一起，也无法预测小说结局。"
    ],
    [
        "The current-account balance is broader still, including such other transactions as net investment earnings from abroad, expatriates’ remittances, and foreign aid.",
        "经常项目余额的含义更加广泛，包括海外净投资收益、海外国民的侨汇、对外援助等交易。"
    ],
    [
        "As the chart above shows, with the exception of already-rich Asian economies such as Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, per capita income in Asian economies falls, or will fall, far short of other advanced economies at similar stages of the aging cycle.",
        "上图表明，除了已经跻身富裕行列的澳大利亚、香港、日本和新加坡等经济体，其他亚洲经济体的人均收入要远低于——或将远低于——其他发达经济体在老龄化周期相近阶段的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because any such plane would necessarily be flying the flag of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Turkey, or another member of the coalition fighting the Islamic State, it is not hard to envisage how Russia’s involvement could lead to international escalation of Syria’s civil war.",
        "此外，任何这样的飞机必然都会挂着美国、英国、法国、土耳其或其他打击伊斯兰国的联军国家的旗帜，因此不难想象俄罗斯的介入可能导致叙利亚内战升级为国际冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "If environmental degradation and rising inequality make economic growth such a mixed blessing, is the US government wrong to focus on it so much? Not entirely.",
        "如果环境破坏和不平等性加剧意味着经济增长的结果喜忧参半，那么美国政府如此专注于经济增长是否错了？"
    ],
    [
        "A New Deal for Debt Overhangs?",
        "债务积压的新协议？"
    ],
    [
        "What is required is easy fiscal policy today, together with plans to achieve fiscal rectitude in the long run.",
        "事到如今，我们需要的是简单的财政政策，以及在长期内实现财政合理运行的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The Center convened an expert panel of five of the world’s leading economists, including three Nobel Prize winners, to consider all of the new research and identify the best – and worst – options.",
        "研究中心召集了一个由5位全球顶尖的经济学家组成的专门小组（成员包括3位诺贝尔奖得主）来仔细考察有关问题的全部最新研究，并鉴别出其中最好和最差的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "But that job is much harder now, because of the size of some of the big emerging economies.",
        "但由于一些新型经济体的巨大体量，这一任务现在变得更为困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Their expressions were as frozen as the ground outside.",
        "他们的脸就像外面冰封的大地一样毫无表情。"
    ],
    [
        "A caricature of a despot, he personifies the type of odious adversary whom all democrats want to see defeated.",
        "他活像一幅暴君的漫画像，所有民主人士希望打败的可恶对手集中体现在他一人身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Under CITES regulations, governments are permitted to sell only to other governments.",
        "根据《濒临绝种野生动植物国际贸易公约》的规定，只允许在各国政府间进行贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the fuel bank never emerged, the seed for the organization took root, giving rise to the IAEA in 1957.",
        "尽管原料储存机构没有形成，但是，建立组织的种子却生了根，并在1957年成立了国际原子能机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of Neuchatel’s progressive attitude toward foreign residents is attributable to one man, Thomas Facchinetti, who started a multicultural cohesion service 20 years ago and has steadily built it up.",
        "纳沙泰尔州对外国居民的进步思想很大程度上应该归功于一个人，这个人的名字叫 托马斯·法基内蒂，这个人在二十年前首创并发展了多元文化融合服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Without structural reforms, especially of the labor market, Abenomics cannot succeed in the long run.",
        "没有结构性改革，特别是劳动力市场改革，安倍就无法取得长期成功。"
    ],
    [
        "We do not yet have a good alternative framework to the kind that trade advocates use.",
        "他们尚未提出好框架替代贸易支持者所使用的框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain is not the only country where ancient rights of habeas corpus, of the inviolability of the person, are to be restricted by new legislation that, for example, extends the permissible length of detention without charge.",
        "人身保护令、不得侵犯人身等古老的权利受到新的立法的限制，例如，延长拘押时限而不经指控等。 英国并非是唯一发生这种情况的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, for the future, it is imperative to think about many new ways, involving both government and the market, to ensure that we manage better the greatest personal risks now faced by workers around the world.",
        "事实上，为了未来着想，我们必须要多想一些新办法出来，这些办法既要把政府包含在内，也要把市场包含在内，这样才能保证我们能更好地管理目前全世界工人所面对的最大的个人风险。"
    ],
    [
        "It rewards ambition, promotes office-at-any-cost politics, and devalues merit.",
        "当前议会体系鼓励野心勃勃、助推不惜一切代价当选的政治，同时贬低价值和资质。"
    ],
    [
        "On the investor side, demand for environmental, social, and governance data is rising steeply.",
        "在投资者方面，对环境、社会和治理数据的需求正在急剧上升。"
    ],
    [
        "But his strategy – “renegotiation” of EU membership, followed by a British referendum on the new agreement – is the product of two illusions: first, that he can ensure a positive outcome, and, second, that the EU is able and willing to give him the concessions that he wants.",
        "但他的战略——“重议”欧盟成员国资格，然后就新协议举行英国全民公投——是两大幻觉的产物。 其一是他可以确保产生积极结果，其二是欧盟可以也愿意给出他想要的让步。"
    ],
    [
        "Others savored the moment, perhaps puffing a cigarette as they reveled in this or that deletion.",
        "还有人尽情享受这样的时刻，也许在勾掉共产党候选人名字时洋洋自得地吞云吐雾。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike America, however, Russia’s people have not yet understood the price of arrogant power run amuck.",
        "然而，与美国不同，俄罗斯的民众还没有认识到他们需要为傲慢权力的疯狂付出的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "In this city you learn to limit yourself.",
        "在这座城市要学会自我控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet that did not happen.",
        "但是这种情况并没有出现。"
    ],
    [
        "How this process unfolds in China will hold important lessons for others seeking to build more sustainable economies.",
        "这一过程在中国如何展开将给其他寻求构建更加可持续的经济的国家提供重要教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe in 2013 will continue to need the pressure from the crisis in order to find a way to overcome it once and for all.",
        "2013年的欧洲将继续需要来自危机的压力以寻找一劳永逸克服危机的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Kadyrov seemed an effective antidote to the jihadists.",
        "而尽管卡德罗夫似乎是对抗伊斯兰圣战分子的有效手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, “Eurabia,” Bat Ye’Or’s prophecy of Islamic doom for the West, simply is not emerging.",
        "同样，尼罗河儿女所谓的西方难逃被伊斯兰兼并厄运的 “欧拉伯”预言根本就没有成为现实。 没有任何伊斯兰政党在欧洲议会占据席位；"
    ],
    [
        "Each government party is afraid of losing votes to its coalition partners, and undermines or blocks whatever the government is trying to do.",
        "每个政党都怕因联盟伙伴而丢失选票，这无形中破坏或阻止了政府采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, this is an important positive outcome, because international trade is generally regarded as a key determinant of faster growth and higher efficiency.",
        "无论如何，这是个重要的积极因素，因为国际贸易普遍被看作高速和高效的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Alongside these linguistic programs are seasonal performances by touring Chinese acrobats.",
        "与这些语言项目同时进行的还有中国杂技团的定期巡演。"
    ],
    [
        "To activists of good faith who may have been taken in by duplicitous representations of the movement, I would say only that there are too many noble causes in need of assistance to allow oneself to be enlisted in a dubious one.",
        "对于那些被欺骗性表述所隐瞒的满怀善意的活动分子，我只能说这个世界有太多崇高的事业需要协助，何必让自己身陷动机不纯的运动。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, “Little Englanders” voted to leave the European Union; and in the United States, Donald Trump won the presidency because he convinced enough voters in crucial states that he will “make America great again,” not least by negotiating very different trade “deals” for the country.",
        "在英国退欧公投中，“小英国人”投票脱离欧盟； 在美国，唐纳德·特朗普赢得总统大选，因为他让足够多的关键州选民相信他将“让美国再次伟大”，而其手段就包括为美国重新谈判各不相同的贸易“协议”。"
    ],
    [
        "Therefore, new regulations should be kept to a minimum.",
        "如果要重新修订监管法规的话，也应该把应该监管的范围缩减到尽可能小的范围之内。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, US Secretary of State John Kerry’s peace initiative has become trapped in a paralyzing power game.",
        "在这样的背景下，美国国务卿克里的和平动议便陷入了无解的实力博弈。"
    ],
    [
        "Barack Obama, who wants to be a transformative president like his role model, Abraham Lincoln, could do worse to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize that he received prematurely than to facilitate a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement.",
        "奥巴马希望和他的偶像林肯一样成为划时代总统更有可能为他过早获得的诺贝尔和平奖抹上污点，而不是促成全面的中东和解。"
    ],
    [
        "The reaction to what Karl Marx called “parliamentary cretinism” is the rise of movements that seek, instead, a decisive leader – someone to tell people what to do.",
        "当时对卡尔·马克思（Karl Marx）所谓“议会痴呆症（parliamentary cretinism）”的反应就是人们不断发起运动试图寻找一个决策领导人——也就是告诉人们该怎么做的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine if the disbursement of all assistance to countries in trouble required Congressional approval, let alone spending from the US budget.",
        "试想一下所有对困难国家援助都需要经过国会批准，更不要说从美国预算中出钱。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that Modi seems committed to boosting India’s competitiveness by improving its business climate.",
        "好消息是莫迪似乎决心要通过改善商业环境提高印度的竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that a European political union is unlikely to be established anytime soon.",
        "现实是，欧洲政治联盟不可能在近期实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, addressing the world’s most pressing problems is not as simple as setting up a Web site where foreigners can contribute to social improvements in some other country.",
        "不幸的是，解决世界上最紧迫的问题并不像建立一个可以让外国人给别国的社会改善捐钱的网站那么简单。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the financial crisis, the US Federal Reserve has taken a series of unprecedented steps, cutting interest rates to zero, massively expanding its balance sheet, and bailing out troubled financial institutions.",
        "自金融危机以来，美联储采取了 一系列前所未有的措施，将利率削减至零、大规模扩张其资产负债表，还救助了陷入困境的金融机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Adopting a balanced, largely plant-based diet, with minimal consumption of red and processed meat, would help conserve natural resources, contribute to the fight against human-induced global warming, and reduce people’s risk of diet-related chronic diseases and even cancer mortality.",
        "采用以植物为主的均衡饮食、尽量减少消耗红肉及加工肉类有助于保护自然资源、对抗由人类活动引起的全球变暖、并减少与饮食有关的慢性病、甚至癌症死亡风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The history of the twentieth century and their longer-term rivalries have seen to that.",
        "二十世纪和它们长期对抗的历史造就了现在这种状况。"
    ],
    [
        "All other OECD countries treat the profits of their companies’ foreign subsidiaries very differently, relying on the so-called “territorial” method of taxing foreign earnings.",
        "其他所有经合组织国家对待本国公司外国分支的利润的方式都十分不同，依靠所谓的“领土”原则对外国盈余征税。"
    ],
    [
        "All cultures impose on their members ideas about who they are, how they came to be, and where they fit in socially.",
        "所有文化都会在人们的心里打上深刻的烙印，告诉他们自己是谁、从哪里来、怎么做才能适应社会。"
    ],
    [
        "But, prior to both Japan’s nuclear crisis and the financial crisis, regulators were unable to prevent the risk.",
        "但在日本核危机和金融危机发生之前，监管者却都无法防止风险的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, as China’s leaders seem to recognize, an increase in real wages is vital to bolster domestic consumption.",
        "中国领导人似乎已经意识到，实际工资的增长对刺激国内消费至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, for just $0.50 per year, each child can be protected by a bed net.",
        "因此，每年仅花0. 5美元，每个孩子就能得到一顶蚊帐的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "These three moves promise, at long last, to establish civilian control over the military and ensure judicial independence.",
        "这三个动作有利于最终建立对军队的文职控制以及确保司法独立。"
    ],
    [
        "By June 2014, the IMF was leaking reports that more than €15 billion was needed to restore the banks’ capital – a great deal more money than was left in Greece’s second bailout package.",
        "到2014年6月，国际货币基金组织泄漏出来的报道称还需超过150亿欧元来充实银行的资本——这可比希腊第二轮救助一揽子计划还要巨大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the Kim regime’s past negotiating tactics, Obama is understandably reluctant to launch any new diplomatic initiative and may well believe that negotiating with North Korea would provide his domestic political opponents with ammunition to ruin his Iran deal.",
        "鉴于金正恩政权过往的谈判策略，奥巴马当然不愿轻易发起新的外交倡议，并且很可能认为与朝鲜谈判会为其国内政治对手提供弹药摧毁其伊朗协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Another possibility would be to go it alone in the World Trade Organization.",
        "另一种可能性是在世界贸易组织中“单飞”。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, as Keynes would have argued, it is important that the expansion of government involvement is informed by sound economics rather than political ideology, social democratic or otherwise.",
        "然而，凯恩斯认为，政府的干预应由基于成熟的经济经济学，而不是意识形态，社会民主或是其他什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Western governments need to work much more closely with the divided and relatively inexperienced opposition if this imperative is to be met.",
        "如果要符合这一重要条件的话，西方各国政府就必须与这个内部存在分歧且相对缺乏经验的反对派展开紧密合作。"
    ],
    [
        "It has brought hope to millions of patients suffering from previously fatal organ failure.",
        "它为成百上千万此前只能听任致命器官衰竭的患者带来了希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, infighting among Egypt’s liberals prevented them from establishing a disciplined, reliable alternative to the Brotherhood based on principles like diversity, plurality, respect for women, and freedom of expression.",
        "与此同时，埃及自由派之间的内斗也决定了他们无法形成建立在多样性、多数支持、尊重女性和言论自由等原则基础上的有纪律的、可靠的穆兄会替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "They start in 2006 because that seems to be the point at which some financial firms took on the risky positions that led to the crisis.",
        "之所以从 2006 年开始，原因是金融机构从那时起，出现过度的冒险行为。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s three decades of 10% annual hyper-growth led to unsustainable strains – outsize resource and energy needs, environmental degradation and pollution, and mounting income inequality.",
        "持续三十年、每年10%的超常增长让中国陷入了不可持续的约束中——巨大的资源和能源需求、环境破坏和污染、日益加剧的收入不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel and America on the Wrong Side of History",
        "逆历史潮流而动的以色列和美国"
    ],
    [
        "Iran and Russia can never be more than foothold powers in the Arab world.",
        "伊朗和俄罗斯永远只能在阿拉伯世界勉强立足。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has promised to impose trade tariffs on China, build a wall on the border with Mexico, and bar Muslims from entering the country.",
        "在美国，共和党总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普承诺要对中国实施贸易关税、在美墨边境建造一道隔离墙，并禁止穆斯林进入美国。"
    ],
    [
        "There are plenty of well-worn diplomatic paths, so it’s not structures that are lacking.",
        "有许多众所周知的外交途径，因此并不缺乏框架。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the conference focuses too narrowly on Al Qaeda’s presence in Yemen, it will do more harm than good.",
        "但如果这次会议只讨论也门的基地组织问题，其结果肯定得不偿失。"
    ],
    [
        "If only one change in the prevailing mindset could be made, it should be to realize that, in the case of fish like cod, big is beautiful.",
        "占主导地位的思维定式即使仅稍做改变，人们也该认识到对诸如鳕鱼这类鱼群而言，体格巨大便是一种美丽。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1930’s, countries could not act together because they could not agree on a diagnosis of the problem.",
        "20世纪30年代，各国之所以不能集体行动，是因为它们对问题的判断无法达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign economists and aid agencies can supply some of the ingredients, but only the country itself can provide the recipe.",
        "外国经济学家和援助机构能够提供一些建议，但是只有这个国家自己能够提供解决方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Putin’s advisors and public-relations managers encourage him to make these banal triumphalist announcements is difficult to fathom unless one comprehends the sense of grievance that almost all Russians feel at the loss of Great Power status.",
        "为什么普京的顾问和公关指导会鼓励他去作这些老一套的必胜主义论调是很难让人理解的，除非你能认识到几乎所有俄罗斯面对他们强国形象的丢失所感受到的悲痛。"
    ],
    [
        "Harder to assess, but potentially far more insidious, is the erosion of public trust in core institutions in the advanced economies.",
        "而更为难以评估但潜在风险更大的则是先进经济体中公众对核心机制信任度的逐渐流失。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the key question is why Hollande waited 18 months before doing the right thing and helping the French economy by alleviating the tax burden that had been reducing French enterprises’ competitiveness.",
        "当然，关键问题是奥朗德为何等了18个月才开始做正确的事情、通过减轻导致法国企业竞争力低下的税务负担提振法国经济。"
    ],
    [
        "After eight years of compromised American leadership, a botched war of choice in Iraq, failure to take the lead in global efforts to address climate change, Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, running up a $10 trillion debt, and igniting a global financial crisis – America’s once-glittering model has lost a good deal of its luster and America’s leadership has been questioned by many.",
        "它限于伊拉克战争泥潭，未能领导世界处理气候变化问题，在阿布格莱布虐囚，在关塔纳摩基地关押人犯，赤字高达十万亿美元并且引发了全球金融危机。 美国一度耀眼的模式已经风光不再，而且许多人质疑美国的领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the proposal by the European Union and the United States that countries’ plans be subject to some kind of assessment was dropped from the final text.",
        "类似地，欧盟和美国提出的方案——各国的计划应受到某种形式的考核的约束——也没有写入最终文件。"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, currency arbitrage has propelled Venezuela to the top ranks of global corruption indicators.",
        "毫不奇怪，货币套利和腐败指数一道让委内瑞拉“傲”视全球。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, low US interest rates, though an appropriate domestic response to the financial crisis, have pushed a global carry trade in which people borrow in dollars to fund investments in the apparently less crisis-hit large emerging-market economies.",
        "说真的，美国的低利率虽然作为一种应对金融危机的国内措施无可厚非，但它加剧了全球套息交易 —— 投机者借入美元，投向受危机冲击较小的主要新兴市场经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "It is said to have close links to the president and his family.",
        "据说该公司和总统及其家庭有着密切的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is now or never for the Balkans.",
        "而对于巴尔干人来说，要么现在加入，要么就永远不加入。"
    ],
    [
        "No economy is a closed, autonomous universe, governed by rules independent from law, morals, and politics.",
        "任何经济都不是独立于法律、道德和政治规则之外的与外界无关的封闭领域。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would also mean abandoning France’s republic in favor of a federal European government – anathema to that “certain idea of France.”",
        "但这也意味着为了欧洲联邦政府放弃法兰西共和国，这简直是对“法国的必然思维”的诅咒。"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming that concern over Iran’s nuclear “breakout” capacity mounts, this leaves the US and its allies with three options, each with its own risks.",
        "假设对伊朗的核子突破能力的担忧不断增加，美国及其盟国就有三个选择，而每个选择都有各自的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Paradoxically, it is likely that there is not enough fire on the planet; but, thanks to fossil fuels, there is certainly too much combustion.",
        "矛盾的是，地球上可能火焰不足； 但是，拜化石燃料所赐，燃烧显然是太多了。"
    ],
    [
        "The report was released just weeks after Typhoon Haiyan (or Yolanda as it was known locally) tore through the Tacloban region in the Philippines.",
        "这份报告发表两周前，台风海燕（当地称之为Yolanda）摧毁了菲律宾独鲁万（Tacloban）地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Supposedly, by December 2009 they will agree on a new treaty to set limits on emissions.",
        "它们理应在2009年12月达成新的协议来限制排放。"
    ],
    [
        "One can think of the US economy as an 8-cylinder engine running on five, owing to residual deleveraging, fiscal consolidation and drag, public-sector investment shortfalls, and questions about the financial health and security of middle-income households (the backbone of domestic aggregate demand).",
        "你可以把美国经济想象成8缸发动机，但由于去杠杆化尚未完成、财政整合和拖累、公共部门投资不足以及对中产阶级家庭（总内需的支柱）财务健康和安全的担忧，只有5个缸在转动。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, education is a major driver of social progress.",
        "从这个角度讲，教育是社会进步的重要推动力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy Promotion Reconsidered",
        "民主推进的再思考"
    ],
    [
        "He wrote: “So great has been the change [in standards of living] that many of the desires of the individual are no longer even evident to him.",
        "他在书中写道：“生活水准的变化如此之大，以致于普通民众的很多愿望都再也不像过去那么明显。"
    ],
    [
        "So the challenge that China poses today remains predominantly political and economic, not military.",
        "因此中国今天造成的威胁仍然主要局限在政治和经济领域，而不是在军事方面。"
    ],
    [
        "In the emerging struggle between the region’s Shia and Sunni powers, the old Middle East conflict has become a sideshow.",
        "在该地区新出现的什叶派和逊尼派势力的斗争中，老中东冲突已不再是大事了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the same way that in some cultures a woman eats only when men and children have finished, she injects with syringes that her partner has already used, putting them at higher risk of contracting HIV or Hepatitis C. The significant overlap between sex work and drug use also places women at higher risk.",
        "就像在某些文化中女性要等男性和儿童吃过之后才能吃饭一样，她往往会用丈夫用过的针管注射，从而导致感染艾滋病毒或丙肝的风险升高。 性交易和吸毒人群高度重合同样导致女性的感染风险更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Though many African economies have experienced rapid growth in recent years, the agricultural sector has remained stagnant.",
        "尽管许多非洲国家近几年来经济快速增长，但农业部门仍处于停滞状态。"
    ],
    [
        "On the conservative side, Ahmadinejad so far stands alone.",
        "在保守派一方，目前是艾哈迈迪—内贾德一枝独秀。"
    ],
    [
        "The irrational, obsessive promises made by scientists and physicians in the past few decades have, in a way, institutionalized the denial of death.",
        "这项任务的目的只是为了延缓病人不可避免的生命终结，并由此延缓科学家们自身不可避免的死亡。 这些由科学家和医生们在过去几十年里做出的承诺在某种程度上使对死亡的否认制度化了。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet Cohn-Bendit is not entirely wrong.",
        "但科恩－邦迪并没有完全说错。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not a recipe for a happy ending.",
        "这可不是大团圆结局的秘方。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1976, the biologist Richard Dawkins identified the unit of Darwinian selection as the “selfish gene.”",
        "1976年，生物学家理查德·道金斯识别出达尔文主义选择单元，称之为“自私的基因”。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, however, the palpable relief and celebration will be tempered by the widely shared sense that all is not well in America.",
        "可是今年，人们所能感受到的轻松和祝贺将不再那么强烈，因为人们普遍认为美国的各个领域都出现了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "His strengthening grip on power might have mollified him and led to a less confrontational political style.",
        "对手中权力的日渐紧握让埃尔多安不急于反抗并衍生出较少对抗性的政治行事风格。"
    ],
    [
        "But this change in global governance must not be limited to economic policymaking.",
        "但全球治理的这一变化不能局限于经济决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Discretionary consumption is typically deferred during recessions, especially for long-lasting durable goods such as motor vehicles, furniture, and appliances.",
        "自由裁量消费通常会在衰退中被推迟，特别是汽车、家居和电器等长期耐久品。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, he allowed an ever-cynical Kremlin to outplay the US diplomatically.",
        "最重要的是，他让玩世不恭的克里姆林在外交上抢占了先机。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in the 1950s, it was not hard to imagine that things might go wrong again.",
        "20世纪50年代，不难想象局势可能再次变坏。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, taking the initiative to boost trade and other commercial contacts is the best way to resist a trade war.",
        "毕竟，采取提刺激贸易和其他商业合同的措施是阻止贸易战的最佳方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, some of these countries have reduced their contributions and commitment to the reform of regional and global institutions, which are essential to managing systemic risks.",
        "更糟糕的是，这些国家中有不少不再为地区和全球机构的改革贡献力量，而这些机构的改革对于管理系统风险来说至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Polish and Russian Jews, at least at the beginning of the communist era, were often loyal subjects of the communist state, because it promised (falsely, as it turned out) to protect them against the violence of anti-Semitic nationalists.",
        "波兰和俄罗斯犹太人至少在共产主义初期经常使共产国家的忠诚臣民，因为共产国家担保（结果是虚假的）不让他们受到反犹太主义民族主义者的暴力攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "With international cooperation, we can unleash the full social and economic potential of migration.",
        "在国际合作的支持下，我们能够释放出移民的全部社会和经济潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "When a Malaysian airliner was shot down over Ukraine – most likely by pro-Russia rebels – the official Kremlin story was that Western secret services downed it to undermine Putin's reputation.",
        "马来西亚航空公司航班在乌克兰领空被击落时——最有可能是由亲俄叛军干的——克里姆林宫官员的说辞是西方秘密部门击落了这架飞机，目的是败坏普京的名声。"
    ],
    [
        "In Libya alone, an estimated 500,000 to one million additional migrants are awaiting passage to Europe.",
        "仅利比亚一地，估计就还有五十到一百万难民等待前往欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, such a system would require China to set aside its goal of regional hegemony.",
        "当然，这样一套体系需要中国放下其地区霸权目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Exposing Climate Change Obstruction",
        "撕下气候变化否定者的面具"
    ],
    [
        "Such episodes are bad for everybody – workers who lose their jobs, entrepreneurs and equity holders who lose their profits, governments that lose their tax revenue, and bondholders who suffer the consequences of bankruptcy – and we have had nearly two centuries to figure out how to deal with them.",
        "如此周期让所有人都受害——工人失业，企业家和股东损失利润，政府损失财政收入，债权人遭遇破产后果——对于如何解决这一问题，我们也已经有了至少两百年的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, I do not agree with those who argue that Germany’s support for European monetary integration was the price it paid for Europe’s acceptance of German reunification.",
        "正是由于这个原因，我不同意那些认为德国对欧洲货币一体化的支持是他们为欧洲接受德国重新统一所付出的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "But it should be a plan for private-sector-led inclusive growth, supported by efforts in the rest of the Arab world and in the EU.",
        "但这个计划应该是由私人部门推动包容性增长、受阿拉伯世界其他部分和欧盟支持的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to the crisis, asset-price cycles were seen by many as basically harmless or, at least, as a relatively insignificant monetary-policy channel.",
        "在危机之前，许多人都认为资产价格周期是一种基本无害，或者至少是相对较不显著的货币政策渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "Okonjo-Iweala put the matter forcefully in an interview with the Financial Times: what is at stake is a matter of hypocrisy.",
        "奥孔乔-伊韦拉在接受《金融时报》采访时强有力地批评了这一问题：一切充满了伪善。"
    ],
    [
        "Libyans understand that the NTC needs time to build a new country on the ruins of the one that Qaddafi destroyed.",
        "利比亚人清醒地意识到全国过渡委员会在被卡扎菲毁坏的废墟上重建国家需要时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The Great Depression was intensified by poor monetary policy, tax hikes, and protectionist trade policies.",
        "大萧条因拙劣的货币政策、增税和保护主义贸易政策而恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most important, a retreat from global trade would bring about a generalized loss of welfare.",
        "或许最重要的是，退出全球贸易会带来福利普遍丧失的恶果。"
    ],
    [
        "This Gordian knot needs to be cut, not untied.",
        "这一棘手的问题需要的是斩断，而不是去化解。"
    ],
    [
        "The first focuses on distributive justice: if everything – including education – is for sale, those who have more money will buy more of it.",
        "第一条关注分配公平：如果一切——包括教育——都可以买卖，那么有更多的钱就能得到更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Atif Mian and Amir Sufi warn that US consumers’ purchases of cars and other durables have been bolstered by the same unsustainable “subprime” lending practices that were used to finance home purchases before the crisis.",
        "阿提夫·米安（Atif Mian）和阿米尔·苏菲（Amir Sufi）警告说，美国消费者的汽车和其他耐用品消费受不可持续的“次级”借贷行为驱动，而这正是危机前刺激买房行为的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Its per capita GDP will be more than 10% smaller this year than it was in 2013.",
        "人均GDP比2013年下降了10%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "At the heart of the American-Iranian conflict is a deep mistrust about each nation’s readiness to tolerate the presence of the other on the world stage.",
        "美伊冲突的核心是双方互相猜疑对方是否容忍各自在世界舞台上的存在。"
    ],
    [
        "He also mentioned “the real possibility that we are dealing with a creature which has a remarkably developed brain and a high degree of intelligence.”",
        "他还提到了“我们对待一种大脑高度发展并且有很高智力的生物的真正可能性”。"
    ],
    [
        "For the religious right and the mullahs, he is an agent of America, the great Satan, and has thus betrayed the cause of Islam.",
        "对于宗教右翼和毛拉们而言，他是美国的代理人，邪恶的魔鬼，因而已经背叛了伊斯兰教。"
    ],
    [
        "But the High Level Panel nonetheless arrived at a position that The Lancet, a leading medical journal, characterized as embodying a “weak” commitment to addressing NCDs.",
        "但高级别顾问委员会最后形成了一个被领先医学杂志《柳叶刀》称为解决NCD的“弱”承诺的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States is a case in point.",
        "在这一点上，美国是个很好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US presidential election, the choice between Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, and her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump, reflects an unambiguous battle between “in” and “out.”",
        "在美国总统大选中，选择假定民主党提名人希拉里·克林顿及其共和党对手唐纳德·特朗普反映出“留下”和“退出”之间明白无误的战斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Its double test in Italy and Austria on December 4 will provide powerful evidence one way or the other.",
        "12月4日，欧盟将迎来意大利和奥地利的双重考验，这次考验将给上述看法提供有力的证据——有可能是肯定，也有可能是否定。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders must get the question right before proposing answers.",
        "领导人在提供答案前必须准确把握住问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Having achieved this, EU leaders have no further reason to impose austerity on Greece or strictly enforce the terms of the latest bailout.",
        "实现了这一目的，欧盟领导人就没有进一步的理由对希腊施加紧缩或严格执行最新援助的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, in their excellent, eponymous book on debt crises, argue that the most dangerous words in any language are “This time is different.”",
        "发自芝加哥——卡门·莱因哈特与肯尼思·罗格夫这两位经济学家曾合著了一本关于债务危机的大作，书中认为最危险的说辞莫过于“这次跟以前不同了。"
    ],
    [
        "Some recognize the risks.",
        "一些人意识到了这一风险。"
    ],
    [
        "With just about every diplomatic effort failing to yield results, international efforts have increasingly given way to discussions about sanctions – and what mix of them would be needed to bring Iran to heel.",
        "在几乎所有努力折戟沉沙之后，国际外交已经越来越多地被有关制裁的探讨所取代——人们热衷于讨论如何运用制裁和谈判两种方式来迫使伊朗就范。"
    ],
    [
        "Have Europeans seen enough of the abyss to tolerate stronger action by their leaders?",
        "欧洲人是否受够了其领导人不愿采取更强硬行动的状况？"
    ],
    [
        "In 1942, Karski, a Polish-born diplomat, traveled to the United Kingdom to report on what came to be called the Holocaust.",
        "1942年，波兰出生的外交官卡尔斯基前往英国报告后来被称之为大屠杀的暴行。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, the IMF is right – on grounds of both fairness and efficiency – to raise the idea of temporary wealth taxes in advanced countries to relieve fiscal distress.",
        "尽管如此，IMF提出在发达国家实施临时性财富税来纾解财政困境的思路是对的——不管从公平还是从效率角度。"
    ],
    [
        "Further trouble – in the form a steeply declining economy – is something it cannot afford.",
        "更麻烦的问题——以经济急剧下滑的形式呈现——则是政府无法承受的。"
    ],
    [
        "Given North Korea’s economic dependence on China – which accounts for some 90% of its trade nowadays – it is critical to take advantage of this policy convergence.",
        "鉴于朝鲜对中国的经济依赖——中朝贸易现在占朝鲜贸易量的90%——美国一定要利用这种政策趋同的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps, but another decade of slow growth, punctuated by periodic debt-related convulsions, still looks more likely.",
        "但在隔三差五的债务动荡的袭扰之下，我们更有可能面临又一个十年的低速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Several cities have recognized the benefits to be gained from promoting a sharing economy.",
        "不少城市已认识到促进共享经济所带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Sure, we hold a lot of gold, these countries say, but that is a vestige of the pre-World War II gold standard, when central banks needed a stockpile.",
        "而针对自身庞大的黄金储备，这些国家会将其称为第二次世界大战前金本位制度的遗存，因为那时的央行需要这些储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, according to the authors, if current trends continue, Asia could soon surpass North America and Europe in global power.",
        "作者所指出的最重要的一点是，如果当前趋势继续下去，亚洲将很快超过北美和欧洲成为全球一极。"
    ],
    [
        "Now consider what an expanded UNIFIL is mandated to do under Resolution 1701: peacekeepers must monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah; support and accompany the Lebanese armed forces as they deploy in southern Lebanon; assist Lebanon’s government in securing the country’s borders and ports to keep illegal weapons from getting into Hezbollah’s hands; and “help ensure humanitarian access to civilian populations and the voluntary and safe return of displaced persons.”",
        "现在再来看看扩大后的UNIFIL在《1701号决议》下的具体职责：维和士兵们必须监控以色列和真主党之间的停火情况； 支持和护卫黎巴嫩政府武装在黎南部的部署；"
    ],
    [
        "Yet if corporate moguls think that they no longer need to rely on their national governments, they are making a huge mistake.",
        "但如果公司大佬认为他们以不再需要依赖国民政府，那就大错特错了。"
    ],
    [
        "They are for it because they believe it will defang Moqtada al-Sadr, the rogue Shi’a cleric whose power has mushroomed over the past three years – to the point that he now dominates much of Baghdad and holds the allegiance of countless angry young Shi’a men.",
        "它们支持这一新战略是因为它将剪除什叶派流氓教士阿萨德的羽翼。 该人的势力在过去三年中膨胀到可以掌控巴格达大部分地区并且拥有无以计数的、愤怒的什叶派年轻人的效忠。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet California’s technological and entrepreneurial might – standing alone, the state would be the world’s eighth largest economy – coexists with a dysfunctional political system that has brought it to the edge of fiscal bankruptcy.",
        "然而，若单独计算加州技术和企业的能量，它就是世界第八大经济体，但该州功能失常的政治制度已经把它推到了财政破产的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, many state-level pilot projects – some based on pay-for-success deals – to reduce recidivism are underway across the country.",
        "事实上，美国正在实施许多旨在降低再犯率州级实验计划——其中一些基于成功后付酬的合同。"
    ],
    [
        "The hukou reform is a good start, as it will strengthen migrants’ political rights in local communities.",
        "户籍改革是一个良好的开端，它增加了农民工在所在社区的政治权利。"
    ],
    [
        "It matches current fragmentary sounds in a sea of noise with a known song, or the face of a person in disguise with that of your child.",
        "它将当前的大量噪音中的碎片化声音与已知的歌曲相匹配，或将戴着面具的人脸与你的孩子相匹配。"
    ],
    [
        "Bubble-pricking may indeed choke off growth unnecessarily – and at high social cost. But there is a counter-argument.",
        "刺破泡沫确实可能在不必要的情况下扼杀增长——并带来高昂的社会代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, the terms “center” and “periphery” have crept into usage almost unnoticed.",
        "有趣的是，“核心”和“外围”两词几乎是悄然无声地走入了人们的视野。"
    ],
    [
        "Institutional and legal changes, including the establishment of some kind of eurozone parliament and treasury, will also be needed, in order to provide legitimacy to the endeavor.",
        "此外还需进行制度和法律改革，包括成立某种形式的欧元区议会及财政部，以便为这项事业提供合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, the politics of populist discontent – from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to the potential of a British exit from the European Union – are capturing the world’s attention.",
        "目前，民粹主义不满的政治——从唐纳德·特朗普的总统选战到英国可能退出欧盟——正在吸引全世界的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Under normal circumstances, this would be an undesirable outcome.",
        "在平常环境下，这是一个不受欢迎的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The US had no way of knowing whether the Russian government had been involved.",
        "美国当时根本无法判断俄罗斯政府是否参与了那次事件。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a great achievement for Nigeria and all of its partners in the effort to eradicate the disease.",
        "这是尼日利亚及其合作伙伴根除脊髓灰质炎取得的重大成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Two years on, are good intentions the best that Obama’s new policy has to offer?",
        "但两年过去了，奥巴马新政是否除了善意之外没有带来别的什么？"
    ],
    [
        "This credibility deficit gives Trump latitude, but it also poses a challenge for him as he moves from campaigning to governing.",
        "这一信誉赤字给了特朗普纵横捭阖的空间，但随着他从竞选阶段步入执政阶段，也给他构成了挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Asia’s political integration badly lags behind its economic integration, and, to compound matters, it has no security framework.",
        "此外，亚洲政治一体化严重滞后于经济一体化，更严重的问题是，亚洲缺少安全框架。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, he lacks even a media platform for his faction.",
        "到目前为止，他自己的派别甚至缺乏一个媒介平台。"
    ],
    [
        "Neuropathic pain, by contrast, arises after a lesion or disease affects the nervous system.",
        "相反，神经性疼痛的原因是机能损害或疾病影响了神经系统。"
    ],
    [
        "In moral terms, it puts the prospect of the good life perpetually beyond reach for most people.",
        "从道德上讲，这会导致美好生活之梦永远游离在大多数人可触及的范围之外。"
    ],
    [
        "This is bad for the young, for democracy, and for social justice.",
        "这对年轻人、民主政体和社会公平而言都不是好现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece has a budget problem.",
        "希腊的财政有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the US had to focus on larger issues in its relationship with China.",
        "此外，美国需要关注更大的对华关系问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranian President Hassan Rouhani needs to marshal support for the deal just as much as Obama does, above all by reducing inflation and getting his country’s economy moving again.",
        "一如奥巴马，伊朗总统鲁哈尼也需要引导对和协议的支持，首要任务是抑制通胀、让伊朗经济重新向前。"
    ],
    [
        "All four cases reflect the same US failing.",
        "所有这四个例子都反映了美国的同一个失败。"
    ],
    [
        "We will also sign a far-reaching free-trade agreement with the EU.",
        "我们同时也将与欧盟签订一份包含广泛内容的自由贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Santos himself in Colombia, Mauricio Macri in Argentina, and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in Peru are emblematic of this new period.",
        "哥伦比亚的桑托斯、阿根廷的毛里西奥·马克里和秘鲁的佩德罗巴勃罗·库琴斯基是这个新时代的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "All three countries have followed a similar path, but at a different time.",
        "这三个国家都采取了类似的路径，但所处时期则不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The route to prosperity and freedom was not straightforward.",
        "通向繁荣和自由之路并非平坦。"
    ],
    [
        "To gain that support, Henry’s government reissued its own version of Magna Carta, which remains part of the laws of England.",
        "为了赢得支持，亨利政府重新颁布了其自身的大宪章，至今仍是英国法律的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberal democracy and Islam are reconcilable.",
        "自由民主和伊斯兰教是可以和解的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Case for Burning Ivory",
        "焚烧象牙的理由"
    ],
    [
        "It is no longer the privilege of the political class: testing a law for its constitutionality has become a right of all citizens.",
        "检验法律合宪与否的权利已不再专属于政界，而是全体民众所共有的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The broadest and most meaningful measure of a country’s saving capacity is what economists call the “net national saving rate” – the combined saving of individuals, businesses, and the government.",
        "对一国储蓄能力的最广泛也最有意义的测量指标是经济学家所谓的“净国民储蓄率”——个人、企业和政府储蓄之和。"
    ],
    [
        "We in the West hate to acknowledge – and most refuse to believe – that our leaders have been flagrantly wasteful of Muslim lives for a century now, in countless wars and military encounters instigated by overwhelming Western power.",
        "我们西方人讨厌承认——常常也拒绝相信——如今，我们的领导人明目张胆践踏穆斯林生命已经一个世纪，数不清的战争和军事冲突都是由具压倒性实力的西方列强挑起的。"
    ],
    [
        "So the eurozone’s crisis-stricken economies cannot grow.",
        "因此，欧元区危机经济体无法增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Aspen is one of the country’s wealthiest communities, and perhaps not representative of the US as a whole.",
        "当然，阿斯彭是美国最富的社区之一，或许并不能代表美国总体情况。"
    ],
    [
        "But the stringent institutional reforms that they demand, while beneficial in theory, might not stabilize, let alone enhance, the development process.",
        "但与此同时，它们所要求的严格的制度改革尽管在理论上大有裨益，却可能种下了不安定的种子，根本不能刺激发展进程。"
    ],
    [
        "It is finally happening.",
        "人们终于等来了这一时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "The ultimate guarantee of harmony was the ruler’s justness, which permitted him to enjoy the “mandate of heaven”; the people had a right, indeed an obligation, to rebel against a tyrant.",
        "和谐的终极保证是统治者的公平，这使他能够行使“天降大任”； 人民有权利，甚至可说是有义务反抗暴君。"
    ],
    [
        "Realizing such a plan may require overcoming serious challenges and the commitment of large financial resources over a period of many decades.",
        "实现这一计划也许需要克服严峻挑战，并在好几十年的时间里投入大量金融资源。"
    ],
    [
        "And Asia and the Middle East would be at risk of nuclear proliferation, as countries lacking the US security backstop would seek to develop their own nuclear arsenals – an approach that Trump has said would be acceptable.",
        "而亚洲和中东则将面临核扩散的危险，因为缺乏美国安全支持的国家会试图研发本国的核武库——特朗普曾说这样的做法可以接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the eurozone is equally toxic.",
        "而如今，样欧元区的人来领导IMF与前两者一样危险。"
    ],
    [
        "It was not deficit spending by governments that fueled the economic collapse of 2007-2008, but excessive lending by banks.",
        "因为推动2007-2008年经济崩溃的并不是政府的赤字消费，而是银行的过度借贷。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the key traits of a drought-resistant maize from a Zapotec community in Oaxaca, Mexico, might be reproduced by editing the genes of another maize variety.",
        "比如，墨西哥瓦哈卡州（Oaxaca）Zapotec社区的抗旱玉米的关键特征可以通过编辑另一种个玉米品种的基因得到复制。"
    ],
    [
        "The cross-country differences in performance partly reflect past policy choices affecting the speed of adjustment.",
        "国家间的表现差异部分反映了影响调整速度的过去的政策选择。"
    ],
    [
        "We must address, with restraint and prudence – rather than with a reflexive “nein\" – the difficult question of whether military means are necessary to safeguard political solutions.",
        "我们必须以克制和审慎——而不是以反射性的“否”——解决军事手段是否确保政治解决方案的必要条件这一难题。"
    ],
    [
        "The development of the road (actually several “belts,” including a southern maritime route) will require huge investments in transport and urban infrastructure.",
        "丝绸之路的开发（实际上是数条“带”，包括一条南方海路）将需要巨大的交通和城市基础设施投资。"
    ],
    [
        "But its benefits will not be fully realized unless governments take steps to empower the forces of change, ensure that the massive positive externalities are internalized, and minimize the negative impacts. Unfortunately, this is proving extremely difficult for many advanced-country governments, partly because the failure to recover fully from the recent crisis and recession has undermined their credibility and functioning.",
        "但除非政府能采取措施去推动这股变革的力量，确保大规模的积极外部效应能被内部消化吸收，并减少其负面影响，否则转型的优点将无法被完全展现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet no one suggested that Corzine should resign because of his foolish and illegal act.",
        "但是没有人表示科尔金由于他的愚蠢和违法行为应当辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "The root cause of this reversal of fortune was a global environment that could no longer support high commodity prices.",
        "这一财富趋势逆转的根源是不再支持大宗商品高价的全球环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks’ unconventional monetary policies – namely, zero interest rates and massive asset purchases – were put in place in the depths of the 2008-2009 financial crisis.",
        "中央银行的非常规货币政策——具体来说就是零利率和大量资产购买——在2008~09年金融危机的谷底时出台实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the economic boost that may occur from recovery spending to restore damaged physical assets, this is a deadweight loss.",
        "与重建被毁有形资产的重建支出会提振经济不同，这场断电的成本属于无谓损失。"
    ],
    [
        "While the US banking sector is similarly concentrated, it has far more financial institutions – roughly 18,000 commercial banks, savings and locals associations, mutual savings banks, and credit unions, compared to only around 400 commercial banks and 3,000 rural credit unions and township banks in China.",
        "虽然美国的银行部门也同样高度集中，但除此之外依然存在约1. 8万家金融机构，包括商业银行、储蓄贷款协会，共同储蓄银行以及信贷联盟，相比之下中国只有大概400家商业银行，3000家农村信用合作社以及相关城镇金融机构。"
    ],
    [
        "But the cold truth is that there is little “community” at the international level.",
        "但冷冰冰的事实是不存在国际层面的“社会”。"
    ],
    [
        "In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Pinker presents data showing that human violence, while still very much with us today, has been gradually declining.",
        "在《天性善良的天使》（The Better Angels of Our Nature）一书中，平克用大量数据证明，人身暴力虽然仍然困扰着世界，但已呈现出逐渐减少之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, world leaders agreed to create a set of universal Sustainable Development Goals, which would change the playing field for future economic policy to safeguard our life-support system.",
        "在去年的联合国里约热内卢地球峰会上，全球领导人同意建立全球可持续发展目标，这将改变未来经济政策，以捍卫我们的生命支持系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Collaboration among government agencies, companies and trade associations, educational institutions, and non-profits can give birth to effective strategies that can be scaled with public funding.",
        "政府机构、公司和行业协会、教育机构以及非营利组织之间的合作能够带来有效的与公共资金相适应的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "It must be led by the United States and other advanced economies, and backed up by major emerging economies.",
        "布里斯班峰会必须由美国和其他发达经济体领导，同时得到主要新兴经济体的拥护。"
    ],
    [
        "When the end comes, change in Cuba could be as vast as any that greeted the end of the last century’s great dictators.",
        "当终结到来时，古巴发生的变化可能和上个世纪所有的大独裁者去世后所发生的一样巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "In March 2010, a North Korean submarine torpedoed a South Korean ship on the high seas, killing 46 sailors – and sinking any prospect of an early resumption of negotiations to implement the North Korea’s 2005 commitment to eliminate all its nuclear programs.",
        "2010年三月，一艘朝鲜潜艇在公海海域击沉了一艘韩国军舰，造成46名韩国水兵阵亡——同时沉入大海的还有尽早重开谈判以使朝鲜履行其2005年销毁全部核项目承诺的愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "He claims they are drowning as their icy habitat disappears.",
        "他声称它们因为在冰层上的栖息地的消失而淹死。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the G-20’s meeting at Cannes last November, for example, Europe has increased its financial firewalls by €200 billion ($252 billion), restructured Greek debt, taken steps towards strengthening its banks and banking regulations, established rules for fiscal discipline, and implemented a range of labor- and product-market reforms.",
        "比如，去年11月G20戛纳峰会以来，欧洲将金融防火墙的规模增加了2000亿欧元，对希腊债务进行了重组，并采取了诸多措施强化其银行和银行监管，制定了财政纪律规则，并实施了一系列劳动力和产品市场改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Digitization disrupts everything: the nature of goods changing hands; the universe of potential suppliers and customers; the method of delivery, and the capital and scale required to operate globally.",
        "数字化破坏一切：换手的商品的性质； 潜在供应商和客户范围；"
    ],
    [
        "Because American orchestras can’t count on schools or government to provide the basic music education necessary to ensure a continuing audience for classical music, some orchestras are doing it themselves with private money.",
        "因为管弦乐团不能指望学校或政府提供基本的教育来确保古典音乐拥有持续观众群，所以有的乐团就自己利用私人资金在这样做了。"
    ],
    [
        "A 1979 Gallup Poll had shown that 62% of Americans regarded inflation as the “most important problem facing the nation.\"",
        "1979年盖洛普调查（Gallup Poll）表明62%的美国人认为通胀时“国家面临的最重要的问题”。"
    ],
    [
        "This trend has proven controversial.",
        "这一趋势引起了争议。"
    ],
    [
        "The rate of total disease burden for psychological and drug-use disorders, measured in life years, increased from 4% in 1990 to more than 7% in 2013, with some countries seeing more dramatic increases than others.",
        "依据生存年限计算的心理和药物滥用障碍总疾病负担率从1990年的4%增长到2013年的7%以上，其中某些国家出现了更加戏剧性的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Shinzo Abe’s Monetary-Policy Delusions",
        "安倍晋三的货币政策迷思"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the most frequently heard arguments against such schemes are far from convincing.",
        "事实上，最常见的反对基本收入机制的观点根本没有说服力。"
    ],
    [
        "As Barack Obama submits to the pressures of a US Department of Defense in which private contractors comprise 65% of the staffing budget, proposes preventive detention of Guantánamo detainees, and perpetuates the status quo in myriad other ways, her question – “So how’s that whole hopey-changey thing workin’ out for ya?” – is not the wrong question.",
        "而随着巴拉克·奥巴马屈服于美国国防部的压力（私人承包商占了这一部门人员经费预算的65%），提出要对关塔那摩监狱的囚犯进行预防性拘留，并想方设法来永久维持现状的时候，可想而知，莎拉·佩林的问题（“一整套所谓的希望啊变革啊将咋在你身上实现？ ”）可没提错。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless this issue is addressed soon, it will lead inexorably to protectionism in America and Europe.",
        "而除非这个问题立刻得到化解，否则将不可避免地引发欧美的贸易保护主义政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But these favorable indicators obscure a source of enormous risk: one of the world’s largest external deficits, financed last year by foreign-capital inflows totaling $160 billion.",
        "但这些有利指标掩盖了一个巨大的风险源：世界首屈一指的外部赤字，去年这一赤字通过总额高达1,600亿美元的外部资本流入填补。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, this is a moral issue, but it is also an issue of political and social stability.",
        "诚然，这是个道德问题，但这也是个政治和社会稳定性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Had the Iraq venture been more successful, these worries would have been justified.",
        "\"如果他在伊拉克的冒险行动比现在成功一些，这些担心是可以理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan’s War with Itself",
        "巴基斯坦与自己的战争"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries – like the United Kingdom and Australia – went so far as to unbundle these functions by assigning responsibility for financial stability to specialized agencies and extricating their central banks from financial supervisory issues altogether.",
        "其中有几个国家——比如英国和澳大利亚——走得更远，它们将这些职能分离出来并把维护金融稳定的责任委派给特定机构，使其中央银行能摆脱相关金融监管事务。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, at the seminar, European economists and journalists – especially the Germans, and even some of the Britons in the room – adopted a dismissive tone.",
        "事实上，在讨论会上，欧洲经济学家和记者——特别是德国人，甚至也有一些英国人——表现得相当轻蔑。"
    ],
    [
        "It must now begin to carry out fundamental reforms: cut unjustified social benefits; liberalize services, labor markets, and digital markets; reduce labor taxes; deregulate industry; improve education; and promote research and development.",
        "现在必须进行根本性的改革：削减不合理的社会福利； 服务、劳动力和数字市场自由化；"
    ],
    [
        "The government must also pursue a more active fiscal policy, rather than focusing on monetary policy.",
        "政府还必须实施更加积极的财政政策，而不是只注重货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "And Greek banks and firms lose their creditworthiness alongside their government if markets perceive the latter to be insolvent.",
        "而一旦市场认定希腊政府破产，那么希腊的银行和公司也会像政府一样丧失信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "That could precipitate the very global economic downturn that we all want to avoid.",
        "这样恰好会加速我们所有人都想避免的全球经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, after a year of savagery, sabotage, and mendacity on a scale unseen since Nazi rule in Europe, the leaders of France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine have agreed on a new road map to peace for our country.",
        "如今，在经历了一年的野蛮、破坏和谎言之后——其规模之大为纳粹统治以来欧洲所未见——法国、德国、俄罗斯和乌克兰领导人同意为我的祖国采取新的和平路线图。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits are much more than economic: In India, women with secure rights to land were found to be eight times less likely to suffer domestic abuse.",
        "妇女拥有土地的收益远非经济利益所能局限：在印度， 研究发现握有地权的女性遭受家庭暴力的可能性比对照组低8倍。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is an alternative that essentially means playing by the rules of a normal market economy: a debt-for-equity swap.",
        "其实我们还有另外一个基本上遵循正常市场经济规则的选择：债券转股权。"
    ],
    [
        "If the country’s fundamental problems are to be addressed, India needs a government with the determination, integrity, and intelligence to meet the complex demands of modern governance in the twenty-first century.",
        "如果印度想要解决基本问题，那么政府就应该拿出决心、诚意和机智来满足21世纪现代治理的复杂要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost a year later, Greece’s creditors were pushing for even greater austerity in exchange for more loan tranches.",
        "差不多一年后，这帮债权国又来推动更严厉的紧缩政策以换取更多的贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given widespread government corruption and inefficiency, such a program would have to be administered directly by a joint EU-Ukrainian task force.",
        "但是，由于无处不在的政府腐败和低效，这一计划必须由欧盟-乌克兰联合小组直接管理。"
    ],
    [
        "This elaborate architecture (and there is a lot more) was assembled piecemeal in the 1980s and 1990s.",
        "这一精巧结构（出资之外还有很多机构）在20世纪八九十年代被拼凑起来。 亚洲金融危机前，它就好比是一张中央没有蜘蛛的蛛网。"
    ],
    [
        "In the interim, thousands of Ukrainians have been killed, and hundreds of thousands more have been turned into refugees in their own country.",
        "在此期间，数千乌克兰人被杀，数十万乌克兰人在自己的祖国沦为难民。"
    ],
    [
        "The government has already had to increase some taxes, while raising prices for fuel, electricity, and gas.",
        "政府已经不得不提高一些税收，同时对燃料、电力和天然气涨价。"
    ],
    [
        "Calling for Israeli concessions is perfectly legitimate, even necessary.",
        "要求以色列做出让步是完成合情合理、甚至是必需的。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, infants who are not exclusively breastfed for the first six months have a ten-fold increase in the risk of death from diarrhea, and are 15 times more likely to die from pneumonia.",
        "比如，出生后六个月内非完全母乳哺育的婴儿因痢疾致死风险会增加十倍，因肺炎致死风险会增加十五倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The basic idea is that the symptoms involving nonconscious processes should be targeted separately from those involving conscious processes.",
        "基本思想是与无意识过程有关的症候应该和与有意识过程有关的症候分别处理。"
    ],
    [
        "Another key consideration is to consolidate a sustainable peace structure on the Korean Peninsula.",
        "巩固朝鲜半岛可以持续的和平结构是另一个关键考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Demand is therefore being drained out of the eurozone economies, with stronger external demand, stemming from the euro’s depreciation against other major currencies, unable to offset the effect on growth.",
        "因此，欧元区经济体的需求在进一步枯竭，而欧元相对其他主要货币贬值带来的外部需求提振又不足以抵消增长受到的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "When they were brought to Mukti Ashram, our transit rehabilitation center, many were unable to walk or even look up at the sun.",
        "当他们被带到我们的自由修行所（Mukti Ashram）中转康复中心时，许多人无法走路，甚至怕见阳光。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the little boy who was unafraid to declare the emperor naked, Schauble has pointed the finger of realism at the aspirational rhetoric in which all European leaders are still compelled to clothe their utterances.",
        "朔伊布勒就像那个不敢当面说皇帝没穿衣服的小男孩一样，将现实主义的矛头指向了全欧洲领导人至今仍被迫采取的夸夸其谈。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, rigid rules limiting deficit spending by regional governments could place the UK in the same fiscal straitjacket as the eurozone, where member states are prevented from borrowing in recessions.",
        "与此同时，限制地区政府赤字支出的僵化规则可能给英国带来与欧元区一样的约束——欧元区成员国被阻止在衰退时借贷。"
    ],
    [
        "Why has the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) been so slow and weak in its response to a natural calamity that ravaged one of its own members?",
        "为什么东盟在一场自然灾害袭击了它自己的一个成员国时反应如此缓慢并且孱弱呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially ironic because African countries like Ethiopia stand steadfastly and bravely with the US in the fight for freedom and against terrorism, even as they struggle with hunger, disease, and famine.",
        "这点尤为讽刺，因为埃塞俄比亚这样的非洲国家即使在饥饿、疾病和饥荒中艰苦挣扎，他们还是坚定不移、勇往无惧地与美国一起站在争取自由与反对恐怖主义的同一战线上。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Russia Save the West?",
        "俄国将会拯救西方？"
    ],
    [
        "Economic integration must be backed up by increased intra-regional trade; less than 4% of Africa’s trade is between African countries, compared to over 70% in Europe and over 50% in Asia.",
        "经济融合必须以扩大区域贸易为后盾，非洲贸易只有区区不足 4% 来自非洲国家内部，而欧洲的同一比例高达 70% ，亚洲也在 50% 以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Non-Europeans, in particular, may find the entire topic impenetrably abstruse.",
        "人们（尤其是欧洲以外的人）会觉得整个议题完全无法理解。"
    ],
    [
        "In Qaddafi’s four decades in power, Libya’s Islamists could not build local support networks; develop organizational structures, hierarchies, or institutions; or create a parallel system of clinics and social services, as their counterparts in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Jordan were able to do.",
        "没能发展组织结构、层级和制度； 也没有建立起诊疗和社会服务体系，而这些东西埃及、突尼斯、摩洛哥和约旦都做到了。"
    ],
    [
        "With the AfD in the Bundestag, the German public will be exposed to more radical positions on foreign affairs – from EU leadership to relations with Russia – than have been heard in over a generation.",
        "在AfD进入联邦众议院的情况下，德国公众将在外交事务上看到更加激进的立场——从欧盟关系到俄罗斯关系都是如此——这是他们几十年来所不曾遇到的。"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Americanism are becoming linked and ever more rabid in today's Europe.",
        "今天的欧洲，反犹太主义、反犹太复国运动和反美主义日益疯狂，联系也愈加密切。"
    ],
    [
        "With prospects for a much longer normalization, those risks are all the more worrisome.",
        "在显著更长的正常化过程预期下，这些风险令人无比担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "If the committee remains silent on this crucial issue, World Heritage sites around the world will suffer.",
        "如果WHC在这一关键问题上继续沉默，全球世界遗产都要遭殃。"
    ],
    [
        "From Opportunity to Reality in the Middle East",
        "中东：从机遇到现实"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, France has reconsidered, Germany will provide limited naval assistance, and Italy has stepped up to contribute 3,000 peacekeepers. In addition, China has recently pledged 1,000 troops.",
        "所幸的是，法国正在重新考虑派遣维和部队，德国将会至少提供有限的海军支援，而意大利则主动出兵3000参与维和行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Wages are much lower than official figures suggest – perhaps as low as $200-300 per month.",
        "民众的工资水平比官方公布的数字要低得多——大概每月只有200~300美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Tokyoites, for example, traded their precious garments, from wedding dresses to fine kimonos, with rural farmers for rice and vegetables.",
        "比如东京人就将自己包括婚纱礼服及和服在内的贵重服饰与农民交换大米和蔬菜交。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese bloggers are no different.",
        "中国的博客们也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last 18 quarters, annualized growth in real consumer demand has averaged a mere 0.7%, compared to a 3.6% growth trend in the decade before the crisis erupted.",
        "与危机爆发前10年3. 6%的增长趋势相比，过去18个季度实际消费需求的年均增长率仅有可怜的0."
    ],
    [
        "The transfer of military equipment and technology to third countries could affect regional security and prompt a revision of threat assessments.",
        "对第三国的军事装备和技术转让可能影响到区域安全，并因此要对威胁态势进行重新评估。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenges we face are now those of abundance.",
        "如今，我们面临的挑战是丰裕。"
    ],
    [
        "It may well be that easy financing has given economies a longer leash.",
        "原因很可能是融资的简化放松了对经济的制约。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Since the November 13 terrorist bloodletting in Paris, the City of Light has been practically under martial law.",
        "东京——自11月13日发生巴黎恐怖流血事件后，光明之城实际已经处于戒严状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran, too, is likely to face a reckoning, as its ally in Damascus approaches defeat.",
        "随着大马士革的盟友离失败越来越近，伊朗也有可能面临清算的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "They can hold more press conferences and be less platitudinous in explaining their policies.",
        "可以召开更多的新闻发布会并避免在解释自身政策时引用太多陈词滥调；"
    ],
    [
        "Even as the Great Barrier Reef dies before our eyes, Australia continues to increase its exploitation of dirty fossil fuels.",
        "即使大堡礁在我们眼皮底下死去，澳大利亚仍在继续增加肮脏化石燃料的开采。"
    ],
    [
        "The third factor is the willingness of outside groups – both states and non-state groups – to prolong Iraq’s misery by supporting the insurgency, whether overtly or by inaction.",
        "第三个因素是外部集团—既有国家集团也有非国家集团—通过明目张胆或隔岸观火的方式支持叛乱延长伊拉克痛苦的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "By failing to state explicitly what individual countries are required to deliver, it allows leaders to support targets that seem ambitious, while pursuing mitigation efforts that are in reality insignificant.",
        "协定并未明确要求个体国家交出怎样的成绩，领导人纷纷支持看似宏大的目标，但所追求的现实遏制措施微不足道。"
    ],
    [
        "The new political leadership, both inside and outside the parliament, has been carefully avoiding a head-on collision with the president.",
        "新政治领导层，不管是在议会里还是在议会外，都小心地避免和总统发生正面冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the ECB left open how this would be carried out, its commitment whetted investors’ appetite, reduced interest-rate spreads in the eurozone, and made it possible to reduce the funding of crisis-stricken economies through the printing press (Target credit).",
        "尽管欧洲央行对于如何实施购买计划并未提及，但其承诺已足够刺激投资者的胃口，降低欧元区内部利差，并且使通过印钞（Target信用）降低受危机侵袭国家资金负担成为了可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s invest in prenatal care, education, and transparency.",
        "我们应该投资于产前看护、教育和透明度。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea is to build small hills in low-lying parts of the city, with level tops that could be used as parks or sports fields.",
        "具体地讲就是在城市的低洼地带堆起小山，并将小山的平顶用作公园或者运动场所。"
    ],
    [
        "The unemployment rate fell below 4% – as low as it goes – by the end of 2000.",
        "2%。 2000年底，失业率下降到4%以下。"
    ],
    [
        "Good Governance and Economic Performance",
        "良好治理与经济成效"
    ],
    [
        "The need to increase the transparency of SWF operations should not be allowed to eclipse their potential benefits.",
        "增加主权财富基金经营透明度的需要不能压倒潜在好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The “Asset Crisis” of Emerging Economies",
        "新兴经济体的“资产危机”"
    ],
    [
        "During the Cold War, the US also employed economic sanctions to destabilize unfriendly governments, especially in Latin America, though they do not appear to have played more than a minor role, even where regime change eventually occurred.",
        "在冷战时期，美国也利用经济制裁动摇不友善国家，特别是拉丁美洲国家，尽管制裁效果往往并不怎么样，即使在政权最终发生更迭的国家也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In the field of antibiotics development, in particular, the divergence between profit-seeking behavior and the public good is taking the world to the brink of crisis.",
        "特别是在抗生素的研发领域，营利行为与公共利益之间的差异正导致世界一步步走向危机。"
    ],
    [
        "They all vote at the same time, for the same institution. But what does an Italian know – or care, for that matter – about British politics?",
        "他们都在同时投票，而且只选举自己的政府，例如，意大利人怎么会了解，或是会对英国的政治感兴趣么？"
    ],
    [
        "Since coming to power, the current Ahmedinejad regime has awarded IRGC-affiliated companies billions in no-bid contracts, increasing the already great perception among the Iranian public of its corruption.",
        "自登台以来，现总统内贾德送给伊斯兰革命卫队的下属公司几十亿的未经过招标的合同，使得在伊朗国民眼中本已盛行的腐败变得更加猖獗。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as a warming planet puts us all at risk, scaling up action early benefits everyone.",
        "因为全球变暖给我们每个人都带来危险，尽早加大行动力度对我们大家都有好处。"
    ],
    [
        "We will meet this week in Oslo, and it is my hope that we will confront the challenges of our time and act on the knowledge that education is the best problem-solving asset we possess.",
        "本周，我们将在奥斯陆聚集一堂，我希望我们能直面我们的时间挑战，理解教育是我们所拥有的最优质的问题解决资产，并据此行动。"
    ],
    [
        "This could only be rational if the seller can hope to establish a monopoly position and extract large profits in the future.",
        "这只有在卖方期望获得垄断地位和未来大宗利润的前提下才有此可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Even politicians without Trump’s outsize ego would bridle at such talk.",
        "这样的说法肯定会激怒即使不具备特朗普这样超级自我的政治候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the trial begins, Syria may find itself in the dock.",
        "一旦审判开始，叙利亚就会可能受到审判。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, his bitter complaints about his predecessors suggest that he has no idea what to do next.",
        "更糟糕的是，他对前任的怨声载道表明他根本不知道接下来该怎么办。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Judging by the media coverage in the United States and Europe of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, one might conclude that conditions in the affected countries are gradually improving.",
        "巴黎——从欧美媒体对西非埃博拉疫情的报导上，人们可能认为受影响国家的状况正在逐步改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Another study found that an estimated 42% of the global malaria burden, including a half-million deaths annually, could be eliminated through policies focused on issues like land use, deforestation, water resource management, and settlement siting.",
        "另一项研究发现，全球大约42%的疟疾负担——包括每年五十万的死亡病例——可以通过关注诸如土地使用、森林采伐、水资源管理和定居点选址等问题消除。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, US policymakers were not overly concerned about the dollar’s strength, because America’s growth prospects were stronger than in Europe and Japan.",
        "直到最近，美国决策者对美元强势并不十分担忧，因为美国增长前景比欧洲和日本都要光明。"
    ],
    [
        "No purges marked the end of white rule.",
        "白人统治结束没有带来种族清洗。"
    ],
    [
        "In Africa, Ethiopia is the most astounding success story of the last decade.",
        "在非洲，埃塞俄比亚是过去十年中最引人注目的成功故事。"
    ],
    [
        "The battle with the judges may well prove to be Mubarak’s Achilles’ heel.",
        "法官之争很可能成为穆巴拉克一个致命的软肋。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if the US avoids the full fiscal cliff of 4.5% of GDP that is looming at the end of the year, it is highly likely that a fiscal drag amounting to 1.5% of GDP will hit the economy in 2013.",
        "即便美国避免了可能在今年年末出现的相当于GDP4. 5%的全面财政削减，也很有可能会有一场相当于GDP1."
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – Last year ended for India on a note of public outrage that has burdened the country with anger, frustration, and pessimism.",
        "新德里—印度的去年以公共愤怒收尾。 这场愤怒让印度背上了怨气、沮丧和悲观。"
    ],
    [
        "In the next five years, we need to create a new economic vision for sustainable development and forge global consensus on a binding climate change agreement.",
        "在未来五年中，我们需要创造一个新的可持续发展愿景，在有约束力的气候变化协议问题上达成全球一致。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the Depression did not cast a shadow on future growth – or, rather, the shadow was overwhelmed by the blinding floodlights of five years of mobilization for total war against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.",
        "因此大萧条并未给未来增长留下阴影，或者说，大萧条的阴影被为对抗纳粹德国和日本帝国的总体战而动员起来的5年现代化所发出的强光一扫而空。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporations, foundations, universities, and other non-profit organizations can promote much of this work.",
        "公司、基金、大学和其它非赢利性组织能够发挥很大作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In the third quarter of 2008, the Ifo index for Asia was at its lowest level since the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, with particularly poor economic assessments coming from Japan.",
        "在2008年的第三季度，Ifo亚洲指数处于2001年基地组织袭击世贸中心以来的最低水平，其中对日本经济状况的评估特别差。"
    ],
    [
        "Reasoned opposition to government policies must be recognized again as a hallmark of democracy, not an act of treason.",
        "理性反对政府政策必须再次被认为是民主的标志，而不是叛国行为。"
    ],
    [
        "There’s inexpensive, high-calorie food piled all over the place.",
        "商场里到处都堆满了高卡路里的廉价食品。"
    ],
    [
        "Securing Europe’s Energy Future",
        "确保欧洲未来的能源安全"
    ],
    [
        "As Le Bon emphasized, people cannot easily do great things as individuals.",
        "勒庞强调，人们无法轻易地作为个体干成大事。"
    ],
    [
        "The project was successful.",
        "该项目是成功的。"
    ],
    [
        "Syriza was forced to accept tough choices because Greece depends on external financial assistance.",
        "左翼联盟被迫接受了艰难的选择，因为希腊需要仰仗外部金融支持。"
    ],
    [
        "While renegotiating the NPT itself to close the enrichment loophole seems for now a lost cause, there are other ways to address this proliferation risk.",
        "如今，重新谈判核不扩散条约本身、补上浓缩漏洞纯属出新妄想，但又其他办法可以遏制这一核扩散风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, countries like Greece are not powerless to act.",
        "幸运的是，希腊等国有能力采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom, most young people wish to remain in the European Union.",
        "在英国，大部分年轻人想要留在欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries could learn much from the DPJ’s attempt to alter a status quo of political arrangements that has had half a century to form and consolidate.",
        "对此其他国家都可以从民主党尝试改变一个形成并巩固了长达半个世纪的政治制度现状的努力中学到一些东西。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the bone of contention has been the purpose that the funds will serve.",
        "在美国，斗争的核心则是这些资金究竟将用在何种用途。"
    ],
    [
        "Alliances and security guarantees once regarded as a given are increasingly conditioned on how much allies spend on defense and whether they are seen to derive unfair advantage from trade with the US.",
        "曾几何时被视为理所当然的结盟和安全保证，开始日益取决于盟友出多少防务费用以及它们是否被视为从对美贸易中取得不公平的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "In retail, for example, Walmart and Amazon are prime examples of new technology driving down workers’ wages.",
        "比如，零售业的沃尔玛和亚马逊便是新技术拉低工人工资的显例。"
    ],
    [
        "While it cannot be scientifically proven (or disproven, for that matter) that global warming caused any particular extreme event, we can say that global warming very likely makes many kinds of extreme weather both more frequent and more severe.",
        "当无法在科学上证明（或者否定）全球变暖导致了任何极端气候状况的时候，我们可以说全球变暖很可能增加了多种极端气候状况的发生概率和严重程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether this outbreak of nationalism will end soon depends on the willingness of governments in the region – not just China’s – to take a stand and appeal to their publics to cease and desist.",
        "这种民族主义的爆发是否会很快平息取决于该区域——不仅仅是中国——各国政府是否愿意去采取一个立场并呼吁本国公众把情绪平息下来。"
    ],
    [
        "The White House’s final potential pick, Gary Cohn, is currently the director of Trump’s National Economic Council.",
        "白宫的最后一位潜在人选加里·科恩（Gary Cohn）是现任特朗普国家经济委员会主任。"
    ],
    [
        "Encouraged by this change the BNP’s junior coalition partner, Jamaat-e-Islami, which has links with the militias and remains close to Pakistan, has been calling for imposition of Sharia (Islamic law).",
        "在这种改变的驱使下，BNP的下级联盟伙伴、与民兵组织有一定关系并一直与巴基斯坦保持亲密关系的伊斯兰大会党（Jamaat-e-Islami），一直呼吁强制实行Sharia（伊斯兰法律）。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s South Korean Future",
        "中国的韩国未来"
    ],
    [
        "Though it is impossible to understand fully the implications of the Commission’s new structure at this early stage, some of its institutional ramifications are already emerging.",
        "尽管不可能在早期阶段就完全了解欧盟委员会的新结构，但一些机构架构已经浮现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "The weakening of World Bank safeguards might also trigger a “race to the bottom,” pitting private or state investors, new financing institutions, and a deregulated World Bank against one another, while provoking a popular backlash.",
        "世界银行保护措施的削弱还可能触发“无底线竞争”，私人或国家投资者、新融资机构和去监管化的世界银行相互拆台，并引发群众反对。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China is now expected to undershoot its 10% growth target for trade in 2012, even though exports to emerging-market economies were up by more than that in the first nine months of the year.",
        "事实上，目前人们预计2012年中国将无法达到其贸易增长10%的目标，尽管前九个月向新兴市场国家的出口增长超过了10%。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, we are particularly encouraged by Goal 10 of the SDGs, with its commitment to reducing inequality within and among countries, as well as the focus on gender equality throughout the goals.",
        "因此我们对可持续发展目标中的第十项感到欢欣鼓舞，因为它承诺缓解国内和国家间不平等，而且所有目标都关注性别平等问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro’s strength, despite the magnitude of the eurozone’s difficulties, makes an export-led recovery strategy harder to realize.",
        "尽管欧元区麻烦多多，欧元却依然坚挺，使出口拉动型复苏战略难以实施。"
    ],
    [
        "I heard the story of a liquor store owner whose one-year old son was kidnapped and beheaded.",
        "我听人讲述了一个酒品店老板的一岁大的儿子被人绑架并斩首的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "But our emotional reactions, from frustration and anger to sadness, have been cushioned and sublimated by our work, the long rhythm of our days together, and, above all, by the support of family and close friends.",
        "但是，由于我们的努力和长期一起的共同生活，最重要的是，由于家人和好友的支持，我们从沮丧、愤怒到悲伤的情绪反应得到了缓解和升华。"
    ],
    [
        "The lower dollar also reduces the purchasing power of oil exporters.",
        "便宜的美元也降低了石油出口商的购买能力。"
    ],
    [
        "This analysis reflected Becker’s deep belief in the power of incentives to lead people, in pursuit of their own interest and interacting within and outside markets, to achieve great things with minimal government input.",
        "这一分析反映出贝克尔对激励的深刻信念，他相信激励的力量能让人们在追求自身利益和市场内外的互动中产生重大成果，并且只需要最低限度的政府投入。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition simply is no partner for a historic deal, on Jerusalem or on any other element of the dispute.",
        "内塔尼亚胡的右翼执政联盟根本不可能成为历史性协议的合作方，不管是对耶路撒冷还是其他任何纠纷要素。"
    ],
    [
        "If Renzi is defeated, Lega Nord and the Five Star Movement could join forces to support a new government and hold a new referendum – this time on the euro.",
        "如果伦齐失败，北方联盟和五星运动可能联手支持新政府，举行新公投——针对欧元的新公投。"
    ],
    [
        "Francophone Africa has been paying for independence ever since.",
        "非洲法语国家自此之后一直在为独立付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, France and Germany were the motors of European integration.",
        "过去，法国和德国是欧洲一体化的发动机。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if new drugs did not fuel four decades of progress, what did?",
        "因此人们不禁要问，推动四十年突飞猛进的不是新药又是什么因素？"
    ],
    [
        "They vent their rage at a system that does not integrate them.",
        "他们将怒气发泄在了没有让他们融入其中的制度上。"
    ],
    [
        "Her response to Trump’s victory was eloquent and powerful: “Germany and America are connected by values of democracy, freedom, and respect for the law and the dignity of man, independent of origin, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political views.”",
        "她对特朗普获胜所做的回应意味深长、难以辩驳：“德美两国因为民主、自由、尊重法律和人类尊严而联系在一起，这种联系无关于种族、肤色、宗教、性别、性取向或政治意见。"
    ],
    [
        "We will continue to follow the truth wherever it leads....”",
        "我们将继续追寻真理到天涯海角…”。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of these economies can avoid the worst if they implement the appropriate policy adjustments and if the international financial institutions (including the IMF) provide enough lending to cover their external financing needs.",
        "拉丁美洲的阿根廷、厄瓜多尔和委内瑞拉。 如果自身适当调整政策，而国际金融机构（包括国际货币基金组织）也提供足够的借款来满足它们的外部金融需要，上述经济体中的绝大部份都能够避免最坏的情况发生。"
    ],
    [
        "But the EU and its member states are not providing the support that Ukraine deserves (the US is much more supportive).",
        "但欧盟及其成员国并没有给予乌克兰应有的支持（美国的支持要“给力”得多）。"
    ],
    [
        "For his part, Khamenei describes himself as the “leader of the Islamic world,” and calls Iran its “mother city” (Umm al Qora).",
        "哈梅内伊自诩为“伊斯兰世界的领袖”，并将伊朗命名为“母亲城”（Umm al Qora）。"
    ],
    [
        "But if one party is more interested in a process than in the need for peace, something must be wrong.",
        "但如果一方更热衷于某种进程而不是和平，那就有问题了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, 2014 was characterized by the continued rise of “soft” instruments to address global challenges: pledges, decrees, self-regulation, joint plans of action, and handshake deals.",
        "事实上，2014年的一大特征是持续涌现出“软”工具解决全球挑战：承诺、判令、自我监管、联合行动以及握手达成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "But, before the government had even announced its decision, Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, rejected the offer.",
        "但是，政府还没有宣布这一决定之，博科圣地领袖谢考（Abubakar Shekau）就拒绝了它。"
    ],
    [
        "By investing in quality education, we can set the next generation on the right path to addressing this global problem.",
        "”通过投资于高品质教育，我们可以为下一代铺就一条解决这一全球问题的正确道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Georgetown University and the MacArthur Foundation also are playing indispensable roles.",
        "乔治敦大学和麦克阿瑟基金会也起到了不可或缺的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Only with a global liquidity-insurance system – underpinned by multilateral currency-swap arrangements – can countries pursue much-needed reflation, without excessive fear of capital flight and/or exchange-rate devaluation.",
        "只有建立一个全球流动性货币互换保险体系——以多边货币互换安排为基础提供紧急流动性援助——各国才能实施急需的全球一致性通货再膨胀政策，而免于对资本外逃和/或汇率贬值的过度恐惧与担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "In Asia’s developing countries, the power and potential of remittances – the money that migrant workers send home to their families (many of whom live in poor and remote areas) – is immense.",
        "在亚洲发展中国家中，侨汇（即移民工人寄给往往生活在贫困和边远地区的祖国家庭的汇款）的力量和潜力是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, perhaps as a consequence of concerted efforts to improve the recognition of bipolar disorder, during the past few years we have observed the emergence of an opposite phenomenon – over-diagnosis.",
        "然而，同心协力提升对双相障碍的认识的努力很可能产生了反作用。 在过去几年里我们观察到了另一种极端的现象—过度诊断。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the Arab world, nationalism constricts societies and retards cooperation, the dismantling of tariffs, and the creation of an economic community.",
        "放眼阿拉伯世界，民族主义束缚着社会，阻碍着合作、取消关税和建立经济社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Dire pessimism has become permanent, making consensus nearly impossible to reach – an impasse made worse by the under-development of civil society in France.",
        "法国一直是一个中央集权和国家荣誉感非常强烈的国家，国家的地位高于一切，军队无往不胜，谁料想，法国却在1940年6月短短的两周内整个国家沦陷。 一个希特勒扶植的傀儡政府给人民带来了一个悲观失望的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "The degradation of freshwater ecosystems often brings disease, just as the protection or strengthening of such ecosystems improves health outcomes.",
        "淡水生态系统的破坏常常会带来疾病，一如保护或强化这类生态系统能够改善健康状况。"
    ],
    [
        "For these and other reasons, Brazil is gaining the world’s attention.",
        "上述以及其它原因让巴西受到世界的瞩目。"
    ],
    [
        "On both of these fronts, the EU’s lack of strategic vision has created the impression that Europe is repeatedly being outmaneuvered by Russian President Vladimir Putin.",
        "在这两条阵线上，欧洲缺乏战略眼光，以至于给人们造成了被俄罗斯总统普京玩弄于鼓掌之间的印象。"
    ],
    [
        "Who better than Europeans, who brought communism to life, exported it to the world, and then paid dearly for it over many decades, know better about the torments inflicted upon the Cuban people?",
        "欧洲人赋予了共产主义生命力，将它传播到世界各国，在几十年的时间内为之付出了巨大的代价，谁还能够比欧洲人更懂得古巴人民遭受的痛苦和折磨呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Skeptics have plenty of ammunition for their critique of the euro.",
        "怀疑论者批判欧元的弹药充足。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s environment of falling oil prices enables the world to take that step.",
        "今天的油价下跌环境让世界能够采取这一步骤。 这一步应该是温和的，以使其具有政治可行性；"
    ],
    [
        "The DPJ, despite its manifesto, seems unprepared to tame the mandarins, and so may be forced to rely on them.",
        "尽管表面上态度坚决，但民主党似乎还没有准备好驯服各级官僚，因此可能最终不得不接受以他们为依托。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why many Democrats back her without enthusiasm.",
        "这解释了为什么很多民主党人对她的支持并不热烈。"
    ],
    [
        "All that is required is that growth in housing supply eventually outstrips investors’ faith in capitalism to sustain faster growth in demand.",
        "只需住宅供应的增长最终超过投资者对资本主义的信心，这样需求的更快增长则必将难以为继。"
    ],
    [
        "British citizenship, of course, guarantees freedom of expression and minority rights, and young Muslims take full advantage of this.",
        "当然，英国国籍保证了言论自由和少数人权利，年轻的穆斯林因此当仁不让。"
    ],
    [
        "We have seen photographs of hurricane and typhoon activity due to global warming, affecting people in Louisiana or Myanmar.",
        "我们已经看过因为全球变暖而产生的飓风和台风，它们给位于路易斯安那及缅甸的人们造成巨大的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "We have implemented an anti-crisis program that has concentrated on the financial sector, the real economy, and especially important infrastructure investments, particularly in the crucial area of energy efficiency.",
        "而我们已经开始实施抗击危机计划并把焦点放在金融行业、实体经济、尤其是在那些和能源利用率有关的关键领域的重要基础建设投资上。"
    ],
    [
        "But this logic rests more on correlation than causation.",
        "但这一逻辑与其说是因果关系，不如说是相关关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In such dramatic situations, US power is at its greatest.",
        "在这些戏剧性的情形中，美国的力量是最有效的。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, Hong Kong’s democracy may now be more constrained than it was before.",
        "简言之，如今香港的民主可能比从前受到更大的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "The right approach will differ across country groupings and among issue areas.",
        "正确的措施将会因国情以及问题范围不同而各不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "With this in mind, I propose a situational perspective for heroism, just as I do for evil: the same situation that can inflame the hostile imagination and evil in some of us can inspire the heroic imagination in others.",
        "有了这种想法，我提议对英雄主义进行情境的透视，就像我对邪恶行为进行的透视一样：在我们某些人身上激起 敌对想象 和邪恶行为的情境可以在其他人身上激起 英雄主义的想象 。"
    ],
    [
        "If a consortium of private-equity investors raised the $118 billion needed to buy BP at its current share price, it could immediately start to liquidate 10.5 billion barrels of proven reserves worth over $360 billion, even at today’s “depressed” price of $36 a barrel.",
        "如果私募股权投资者组成的财团筹集到购买英国石油所需要的1,180亿美元资金（以当前股价计算），它可能立刻开始清盘其105亿桶探明储量，即使按照当今每桶36美元的“超低”价格计算，也价值3,600亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Novartis’s Jiankang Kuaiche (“Health Express”) program in Xinjiang is a partnership between Novartis and the local government that aims to expand access to medicine, build capacity, and educate the public.",
        "比如，诺华制药的新疆自治区“健康快车”便是由诺华公司和当地政府合作的旨在扩大药品覆盖面、建立医护能力、以及教育公众的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "While the national government expands, state governments, such as California’s, contract.",
        "虽然联邦政府在扩大，但如加利福尼亚州这样的州政府却在萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "The seventeenth century united this spiritual mission with imperial expansion, which eventually encompassed a landmass spanning 11 times zones.",
        "17世纪，这种精神使命与帝国扩张结合起来，最终出现了一个横跨11个时区的大帝国。"
    ],
    [
        "Trying to undercut a rival – even at the risk of harming oneself – is a familiar tactic in the world of business, where firms engage in price wars, hoping their competitors will go bust first and exit the industry.",
        "削弱对手——甚至不惜自损——是商界的惯用伎俩，企业参与价格战，寄希望于竞争对手先破产并退出行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Continuing the democratization process that began there in 2011 is urgent.",
        "让埃及始于2011年的民主化过程继续下去是个紧迫任务。"
    ],
    [
        "As for vocational training, the jury is still out.",
        "至于职业培训，我们还没有找到评估标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of waiting for challenges to arise, young men should begin establishing their priorities now.",
        "与其坐等挑战出现，年轻人应当现在就开始确定自己的优先事项。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the most far-reaching yet neglected global health risk stems from gender norms.",
        "但也许目前仍被忽视的影响最大的全球健康风险来自性别规范。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, you can have two years of gradual decline with some pain, or three years of nauseating treatments, “chemo brain,” loss of hair, and diminished dignity.",
        "换句话说，你可以选择带着些许痛苦让生命在两年的时间里逐渐凋零，也可以选择三年令人作呕的治疗、“化疗脑”、掉头发和失去生命尊严。"
    ],
    [
        "They have a “reservation wage”: If they are offered less, they will choose a less risky line of work.",
        "她们有一个“保留工资”：如果出价太低，她们就会换一个风险较低的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "LAHORE – Pakistan remains the world’s never-ending question.",
        "拉合尔——巴基斯坦仍然是全世界一个没完没了的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In his “State of the Union” address in February, US President Barack Obama proposed a “comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership” with Europe based on trade that is “fair and free.”",
        "在二月的“国情咨文”讲话中，美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）提出要在“公平与自由”贸易的基础上与欧洲建立“全面跨大西洋贸易与投资伙伴关系”。"
    ],
    [
        "As Sherlock Holmes understood, a dog that does not bark in the nighttime usually goes unnoticed.",
        "福尔摩斯知道，不在午夜乱吠的狗往往不会引起注意。"
    ],
    [
        "Regrettably, in spite of its name, the Development Round has offered far less to developing countries than one would have hoped.",
        "遗憾的是，尽管有着动听的名字，发展中回合谈判带给发展中国家的帮助却远远低于人们的期望。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an imperative has been at work throughout Europe’s postwar history.",
        "这一现象在整个欧洲战后时期都存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is clearly China, which has the resources to develop a credible anti-access/area-denial strategy, that most worries US military planners.",
        "但是，显然，拥有发展可信反进入和区域阻绝战略的资源的中国才是令美国军事计划者最担心的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "I am not alone in my concern.",
        "我绝不是唯一一个感到担忧的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Challenges Of EU Enlargement",
        "欧盟扩大的挑战"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the man to shake things up is Matteo Renzi, Italy’s dynamic 39-year-old prime minister.",
        "也许能让局面有所改变的从满活力的39岁的意大利总理伦齐。"
    ],
    [
        "Opponents of central-bank independence contend that, given the allocational and distributional consequences of current monetary-policy interventions, central banks’ decision-making should be subject to political control.",
        "央行独立的反对者指出，由于当前货币政策干预的配置和分配后果，央行决策应该受政治控制。"
    ],
    [
        "The right policy’s success may depend on the public’s expectations of its effects.",
        "正确的政策的成功也许取决于公众对其效果的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent reporting on the bombing of Falluja has also been an exercise in self-denial. The New York Times (November 6) wrote that “warplanes pounded rebel positions” in Falluja, without noting that “rebel positions” are actually in civilian neighborhoods.",
        "最近对费卢杰之战的报道也宛如掩耳盗铃之举。 《纽约时报》（11月6日）写到，在费卢杰“美军战机轰炸了抵抗分子的据点”，却绝口不提所谓的“抵抗分子据点”正处平民区。"
    ],
    [
        "Hope was a force for good in post-war Europe, and it can be a force for positive transformation now.",
        "在战后欧洲，希望是一种正能量，如今，它可以成为推动积极转型的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "And emerging economies will be anchored by China’s slower but still-robust 7% annual growth.",
        "新兴经济体则将因为中国有所放缓但依旧强劲的7%年增长率而稳固下来。"
    ],
    [
        "With international help and national efforts, 90-90-90 could be achieved not only in high-income countries but in developing countries as well.",
        "在国际援助和国家措施的帮助下，不仅高收入国家，发展中国家也可以达到90-90-90目标。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Last week, the people of Iran decided to continue along the path toward openness.",
        "马德里—上周，伊朗人民决定继续沿着开放的道路走下去。"
    ],
    [
        "If he was the author, was it his political manifesto or an act of repentance?",
        "如果真是他写的，那么这究竟是他的政治宣言还是悔改的表现？"
    ],
    [
        "This June, leaders from all over Africa will meet in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to set the agenda for agricultural policy in the next decade.",
        "今年6月，来自全非洲的领导人将聚首赤道几内亚首都马拉博，为下一个十年制定农业政策日程。"
    ],
    [
        "Immunization is not just a health issue; it is also an economic challenge.",
        "免疫不仅是一个卫生问题，也是一个经济挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Free-trade agreements that promise the greatest benefits are those that link economies characterized by high tariffs, low levels of trade, and little overlap in consumption and production patterns.",
        "那些能带来最大收益的自由贸易协定通常出现在那些以高关税、低贸易水平并在消费与生产方式上极少重叠为特点的国家之间。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, that, in a nutshell, is the story of the last six decades: a succession of Asian countries managed to grow by leaps and bounds by applying different variants of mercantilism.",
        "事实上，简而言之，这就是过去六十年的经济史：一个又一个的亚洲国家通过应用不同形式的重商主义政策使其经济突飞猛进。"
    ],
    [
        "The McKinsey Global Institute’s latest research is optimistic that China’s strategy will succeed.",
        "麦肯锡全球研究所（MGI）的最新研究对于中国战略能取得成功十分乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, only a few doses of ZMapp exist, and it will take months to produce even a modest supply.",
        "目前仅有极少量Zmapp存在，就连小规模生产也需要等上几个月。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time of unprecedented change, the US – and other major powers – must be ready for anything.",
        "在这个前所未有的变革时代，美国——以及其他主要强国——必须为任何事情做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while French national identity is intimately bound up with France’s international standing – how it is perceived in the world – enthusiasm for intervention has receded.",
        "但是，尽管法兰西的民族认同与法国的国际地位——即它在世界人民心目中的形象——息息相关，干预的热情却在减退。"
    ],
    [
        "The progressive redistributive agenda could continue to advance, or the conservative entitlement-reform agenda could fail.",
        "渐进再分配日程可能继续得势，保守福利改革日程可能失败。"
    ],
    [
        "And countries in the second, much less populous group enjoyed higher average life expectancy – up to 73 years in Norway, Iceland, the Netherlands, and Sweden.",
        "第二类国家人口要少得多，但平均寿命预期更高——挪威、冰岛、荷兰和瑞典人平均可以活73年。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s leaders know that private small and medium-size enterprises with fair market access would be a far more reliable source of innovation and jobs than are large state-owned monopolies.",
        "中国领导人知道，只要能获得公平市场准入待遇，民营中小企业将是远比大型国有垄断巨头更为可靠的创新和就业源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, one reason for the “success” claimed by supporters of the military surge may well be that sectarian cleansing in Baghdad has been hugely effective and is now nearly complete.",
        "因此，支持增兵的人所欢呼的“成功”的原因之一可能就在于巴格达的教派清洗非常有成效并且已经接近于完成了。"
    ],
    [
        "Hatoyama’s talk about a “new age,” which sounds strange from a Western perspective, is in harmony with the Japanese way: this is a country where thousands of cult leaders offer myriad paths to Happiness, in particular a glib mishmash of New Age and Zen Buddhism.",
        "鸠山所谈论的“新时代”虽然从西方人的角度看有些古怪，但却非常符合所谓的日本方式：在这个国家里，成千上万名邪教领袖为人们指出了无数条通往幸福的道路，特别引人注目的是“新时代”和“禅宗”荒诞的大杂烩。"
    ],
    [
        "But such responses reflect the same narrow-mindedness that led to the notorious “pulping” of Sanksrit scholar Wendy Doniger’s erudite books on Hinduism.",
        "但这样的反应表现出的狭隘思维，与导致梵文学者温迪·唐尼格（Wendy Doniger）的印度教著作被“化为纸浆”的臭名昭著的运动如出一辙。"
    ],
    [
        "That was because, unlike Germany, Japan was standing on its own.",
        "日本之所以受伤，因为它不像德国，它是自力更生的。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, all told, the world economy is a more equal place for the average individual today than it was in 1980.",
        "但总体来说当今世界经济的个人平均指标比1980年更加平等。"
    ],
    [
        "All that remains is for Germany to recognize that its prosperity and security depends on a more integrated eurozone inside a more flexible EU.",
        "余下的就是德国必须认识到它的繁荣和安全取决于进一步欧元区一体化，以及处在欧元区外围的更加灵活的欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the profound – and largely unpredicted – financial and economic turmoil of the intervening decade, the intellectual influence of those whose theories suffered the most evidently remains undented.",
        "尽管这个十年发生了影响深远——并且在很大程度上出乎意料——的金融和经济动荡，但那些所持理论遭遇现实打击最大的经济学家的智识影响力基本完好无损。"
    ],
    [
        "What central banks need now is a revised mandate that upholds price stability as the primary, long-term objective, while allowing policymakers to pursue other objectives when appropriate.",
        "如今，中央银行需要改变权限范围，不再把价格稳定作为首要的长期目标，而允许决策者在合适的时候追求其他目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, he is upending US diplomacy, perhaps most notably by taking calls from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.",
        "与此同时，他也在改变美国外交，也许最引人瞩目的是与菲律宾总统杜特尔特和台湾领导人蔡英文通电话。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is another critical aspect to success and happiness that is often overlooked during these garlanded celebrations of academic achievement: family.",
        "但人人往往在头戴花环庆贺学业成就时忽略了家庭——幸福和成功的另一个重要方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Deflation Doldrums?",
        "通缩之忧？"
    ],
    [
        "This would simultaneously plug a hole in demand and improve the economy’s long-term growth prospects.",
        "这样一来，可以在填补需求不足的同时改善经济的长期增长前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s crisis is acute, but there is no sense of an approaching apocalypse.",
        "俄罗斯当前的危机很严重，但是，人们却没有应对措施的任何线索。"
    ],
    [
        "During any negotiations with Cuba’s leaders, European politicians and diplomats should remind their Cuban partners of their obligations. They should also be in contact with Cuban civil society to express their solidarity with the families of the political prisoners.",
        "在每一次与古巴领导人的谈判中，欧盟的政治领袖和外交官们都应该提醒他们的伙伴，古巴履行自己的义务，欧盟还应该与古巴社会团体保持接触，表达他们站在政治犯家属一边的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "There are few countries that can play such a critical role.",
        "很少国家能扮演这一如此重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "But the launch underscored a larger reality that can no longer be ignored: the world has entered a second nuclear age.",
        "但朝鲜的发射动作凸显了已不可再坐视不理的大现实：世界进入了第二个核时代。"
    ],
    [
        "We must not let this happen.",
        "我们决不能让这种情况发生。"
    ],
    [
        "So why are such mechanisms now in retreat?",
        "但为何如今这些机制却逐渐失去了用武之地？"
    ],
    [
        "Whether China intends to stay put by building permanent structures for its troops on the plateau’s icy heights, or plans to withdraw after having extracted humiliating military concessions from India, remains an open – and in some ways a moot – question.",
        "中国将继续侵占，建设雪线高原的永久军营，还是准备在获得印度羞辱性的军事妥协后撤离仍不明朗，而且从某种程度上说，这个问题并没有什么意义。"
    ],
    [
        "A look at the consultative processes that shaped the Secretary-General’s report provides some clues.",
        "看看形成秘书长报告的顾问程序就能一窥端倪。"
    ],
    [
        "And the upcoming Global Internet and Jurisdiction Conference in Ottawa will provide another valuable opportunity for policymakers to continue working toward solutions.",
        "而即将在渥太华召开的全球互联网和司法会议（Global Internet and Jurisdiction Conference）将为决策者提供新的宝贵机会继续朝着制定解决方案努力。"
    ],
    [
        "China's government must acknowledge that deep income inequality and rural poverty is no longer exclusively an economic problem, but threatens social peace and political stability.",
        "中国政府必须承认严重的收入不平等和农村贫困已不仅仅是一个经济问题，而是影响到社会安定和政治稳定的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the market system relies on a particular motive for action – Keynes called it “love of money” – which tends to undermine traditional moral teaching.",
        "但是市场体系依赖于一种特定的行动动机，凯恩斯称之为“对金钱的热爱”，这种动机倾向于削弱传统的道义教导。"
    ],
    [
        "They condemned developments in Chile, held hearings about the importance of promoting human rights, and adopted legislation – over President Gerald Ford’s veto – requiring that human-rights standards guide US foreign policy.",
        "他们谴责智利的事态，举行关于推行人权重要性的听证，并克服了总统福特的否决，通过立法要求用人权标准作为美国对外政策的指导。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason to believe that the current global economic crisis has bottomed out.",
        "我们没有理由认为目前的全球经济危机已经走出谷底。"
    ],
    [
        "There are extremist acts perpetrated against Muslims because of their religion, and today there are fanatical Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists who disfigure the true nature of their faith.",
        "因为宗教而对穆斯林施以极端主义行为同样存在，如今，基督教、犹太教、印度教和佛教徒都有狂热教徒抹黑着他们的信仰的真正性质。"
    ],
    [
        "Reforms are being introduced so fast that even renowned experts on the country are uncertain about what to make of them.",
        "缅甸的改革来的太迅猛，即便是最著名的缅甸专家也无法确定该国会何去何从。"
    ],
    [
        "As things stand in Saudi Arabia, the US administration has no credible ally for change outside of the existing regime.",
        "在沙特阿拉伯当前的情形下，除了当前的政权，美国政府没有其他可信任的同盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets would panic.",
        "因为如果想要改组银行,市场会出现恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "Greeks, Phoenicians, trans-Saharan traders, the Hanseatic League, Jews, Armenians, overseas Chinese, and the Dutch and British East India Companies organized much of world trade through such networks.",
        "希腊人、腓尼基人、穿越撒哈拉沙漠的贸易商、汉萨同盟、犹太人、亚美尼亚人、华侨以及荷兰和英国东印度公司通过这一网络组织了大部分世界贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "These skeptics overlook the profound changes that new technologies gradually make in our habits as we discover their possibilities.",
        "但上述怀疑论者忽视了随着人们对美好前景的逐渐认识，新技术对传统习惯会产生意义深远的改变作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Making Globalization Work for All",
        "让全球化为每个人服务"
    ],
    [
        "As for Russia, the only traditional world leader of the bunch, the Kremlin’s Ukraine policy has done severe damage to the country’s international profile – damage that not even its possible diplomatic coup in Syria can undo.",
        "至于传统世界领袖中唯一的俄罗斯，克里姆林宫的乌克兰政策已经严重损害了该国的国际形象——就连俄国在叙利亚可能的外交政变也无法挽回他们的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel should withdraw from all Lebanese territory, including Shebaa Farms, and release the Lebanese prisoners.",
        "以色列应当从包括舍巴农场的所有黎巴嫩领土撤军并且释放黎巴嫩犯人。"
    ],
    [
        "Appeasing Ozawa, however, is contrary to public sentiment and detrimental to the DPJ’s hopes of regaining popular support.",
        "但是，向小泽示好会招致民众不满，不利于民主党重新赢得民心。"
    ],
    [
        "This calls for a kind of liberalism that is now lacking in Russia, one that stands for freedom, reform, and the nation-state.",
        "这要求一种自由主义，这种自由主义目前在俄罗斯很缺乏，它代表自由、改革和民族国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The troika’s decision on Cyprus was akin to policymaking by rolling the dice.",
        "三驾马车的塞浦路斯决定类似于用只骰子决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Defusing North Korea’s nuclear ambitions would be worth the sacrifice.",
        "为了打消朝鲜的核野心值得做出这一牺牲。"
    ],
    [
        "As President Obama apparently made clear in his late night meeting with President Hamid Karzai, no matter what other progress is made, America and its allies cannot succeed in Afghanistan unless the Afghan government succeeds—and that government is moving in the wrong direction.",
        "今年，在阿富汗问题上，美国阿富汗及北约盟友都取得不错的进展。 正在进行的玛利亚行动，逮捕了位于巴基斯坦的巴拉达尔和两名塔利班“影子内阁部长”；"
    ],
    [
        "Syriza’s economic program rejects the austerity policies supported – or, some might say, imposed – by the so-called “troika” (the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission).",
        "左翼联盟的经济计划拒绝接受所谓的“三驾马车”（IMF、欧洲央行和欧盟委员会）所支持——或如某些人所说为三驾马车所实施——的紧缩政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Since that meeting, the two countries’ prime ministers have met four times, always on the sidelines of international gatherings. Their foreign ministers have met three times, and their commerce ministers once.",
        "自那次会议以后，两国总理又借出席国际会议的契机进行了四次会晤，双方外长会晤了3次，商务部长也进行了一次会晤。"
    ],
    [
        "The WHO should make it clear that while it may not be advocating for LGBT political rights, it is determined to ensure that all those who can benefit from PrEP are able to access the necessary drugs, without fear of legal consequences.",
        "世卫组织应该明确表态虽然它或许并不宣扬男女同性恋、双性恋和变性人（LGBT）的政治权利，但却有决心确保能从PrEP中受益的所有人都能获得必须的药品，而不必担心可能的法律后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the summit also exposed the UN’s weaknesses and limitations.",
        "不幸的是，这次高峰会议也暴露了联合国的弱点和局限性。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with aggregate demand falling below growing aggregate supply, slack goods markets will lead to lower inflation as firms’ pricing power is restrained.",
        "但是，由于总需求低于不断增长的总供应量，疲软的商品市场将因为企业的定价能力受到限制而使通货膨胀得以缓解。"
    ],
    [
        "Or should they try to cut public spending in order to free up money for private spending?",
        "还是他们应该试图削减公共支出以解放私人支出资金？"
    ],
    [
        "Most obviously, they will spend much less in direct household expenditures to raise children. They will also save on investments in new roads, power plants, schools, and other public services.",
        "最明显的是，他们在抚养孩子方面的家庭开支将大大减少，他们还将减少在新的道路、发电站、学校以及其他公共设施上的开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it never developed the property-rights infrastructure or the monetary and fiscal policies needed in a family-dominated agrarian economy with an elite-run government.",
        "事实上，中国从未发展出精英政府治理下以家庭为主体的农业经济所需的产权基础设施和货币财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, given the enormous global pressures that we face, including vastly unequal incomes and massive environmental damage, we must find new technological solutions to our problems.",
        "但是，鉴于我们面临巨大的全球性压力、包括收入差异悬殊以及巨大的环境破坏，我们必需为我们的问题找到新的技术解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – “Where is your toilet?”",
        "日内瓦—“请问洗手间在哪？"
    ],
    [
        "All of this will mean a reduction in national saving and an increase in spending by households and the Chinese government.",
        "上述这几点都意味着中国的国家储蓄将减少而家庭和政府的支出将增加。"
    ],
    [
        "He has increased the power of the Central Committee, which he chairs. And he has created a new State Security Council.",
        "他还扩大了由自己领导的中央委员会的权力，设立了新的国家安全委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "Such temptations could even become stronger as Nazism fades from living memory.",
        "随着纳粹主义从活人的记忆中逐渐淡出，这样的诱惑甚至可能会越变越强。"
    ],
    [
        "Western scholars who understand Islam and speak some of the many languages of its practitioners need to support these intellectual movements.",
        "理解伊斯兰教、懂得众多伊斯兰教实践者语言中的一些的西方学者应该支持这些思想运动。"
    ],
    [
        "There was a good deal of information about Al Qaeda in the American intelligence system, but the US was unable to process coherently the information that its various agencies had gathered.",
        "其实美国情报部门早就收集了许多关于基地组织的信息，但美国却没能把这些来自诸多情报部门的情报进行系统整理。"
    ],
    [
        "As the New York Times recently revealed, in 2012, Trump secured nearly $1 million in energy-efficiency incentives and low-interest loans from New York State.",
        "《纽约时报》最近披露，2012年特朗普获得了纽约州近100万美元的能源效率激励和低息贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor was Muammar Khaddafi’s decision to stop being an international pariah entirely unrelated to his concern to bequeath to his son a state that lives in peace with the world.",
        "卡扎菲决定不再被国际社会所排斥在外也并非完全与他希望留给他的儿子一个与世界和平相处的国家无关。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, they are the homes of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Samsung – companies whose innovations transform the way other sectors, from financial services to telecoms and media, do business.",
        "毕竟这些地方是亚马逊、苹果、Facebook、谷歌、英特尔、微软和三星的总部所在地，这些公司的创新改变了从金融服务到同新传媒各个行业的业务模式。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also possible that some of the mistrust of elites that led a majority of voters to support “Brexit” stemmed from the Iraq War experience.",
        "导致大部分选民支持“英国退出”的对精英阶层的不信任可能也有一些源自伊拉克战争的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics are trying to identify the ideas as well as the interests that were responsible for financial and economic dysfunction.",
        "批评者试图挖掘出导致金融和经济失调的一些错误理念和既得利益。"
    ],
    [
        "It is that simple, and that important.",
        "就这么简单、这么重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The enterprise is a “mission” in which the soldiers fight not “for freedom” but “for a paycheck.”",
        "这间“公司”本身就是一个“任务”，而受雇于这间公司的士兵不是为了“自由”而战，而是为了“收入”而战。"
    ],
    [
        "The role of external actors in promoting democracy in the Middle East is also critical.",
        "外部力量在推进中东和平进程中也扮演了重要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "ETC Group took the case to the Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia.",
        "ETC小组将这一案件向哥伦比亚卡利的热带农业国际中心（CIAT）提交。"
    ],
    [
        "As researchers at my institution in Abu Dhabi know, conducting surveys for qualitative research is feasible; but generating rich data from scratch for theory-building research is extremely difficult.",
        "正如阿布扎比我所在科研机构的研究人员所知的那样，采集调研数据用于进行定性研究尚属可行； 但从零开始搜集理论建设研究所需的丰富数据却是极其困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Trump a symptom? Or is he a terminal disease?",
        "特朗普只是一个症候，还是已经病入膏肓？"
    ],
    [
        "Europe cannot get bogged down in what should be a simple bureaucratic process.",
        "欧洲决不能陷入一个本应是简单的官僚程序而无法自拔。"
    ],
    [
        "Immigration and American Power",
        "移民和美国实力"
    ],
    [
        "The first has fallen away, its accompanying social structures superseded by industrialization, urbanization, and feminization of the workforce, while the oft-seen link with despotism has delegitimized the second.",
        "第一个基础已经不复存在，其相应的社会结构已被工业化、城市化和工作人口女性化取代，而时常可见的与独裁的联系让第二个基础失去了合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "When interest rates are low and you can borrow on favorable terms, the market is telling you to pull government spending forward into the present and push taxes back into the future.",
        "较低的利率和较宽松的借款条件表明，市场所要告诉你的就是在现在增加政府支出，在未来增加税收。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, a new social contract is needed to account for the increasingly important role that individual preferences, and individual responsibility, play in today’s world.",
        "尽管如此，我们需要新的社会契约以体现个人偏好和个人责任在当今世界的日益重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, China’s external imbalance may also worsen.",
        "其次，中国的外部不均衡状态可能恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to 1980, manufacturing employment increased during every expansion and always exceeded the previous peak level.",
        "1980年以前，制造业就业在每次经济扩张的时候都得以增加并且总是超过原先的最高水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The socio-professional profile of the new elite is broader.",
        "新的精英们的社会职业背景要更广一些。"
    ],
    [
        "As for economic growth, we have made an exception. For that variable, we looked at the average yearly GDP growth in the first five years after the introduction of euro banknotes and coins in 2002.",
        "然而，我们却将经济增长作为例外，考察了自 2002 年引入欧元纸币和硬币后各国前五年 GDP 年均增长。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, the EU can leverage its position as a leading trading partner, investor, and aid donor; it can also contribute at leaders’ summits, such as the Asia-Europe Meeting and the ASEAN Regional Forum.",
        "在这方面，欧盟可以利用其领先贸易伙伴、投资者和援助出资者的地位； 也可以通过领导人峰会起作用，比如亚欧峰会和东盟地区论坛。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, if investors expect the sharp improvement in competitiveness to lead to stronger economic performance, the currency will recover some of its lost value.",
        "事实上，如果投资者们预计竞争力的大幅提升将带来更强的经济表现，货币就将重新获得一些失去的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "“There is overwhelming evidence,” they write, “that less-skilled workers in developing countries “are generally not better off, at least not relative to workers with higher skill or education levels.”",
        "她们写道：“有大量的证据表明发展中国家低技能劳动者的状况总体并未改善，或至少并未获得与高技能高教育水平劳动者同样的改善。"
    ],
    [
        "The primary events at the LHC are in effect Little Bangs, tiny fireballs that reproduce Big Bang conditions, albeit over very small volumes.",
        "在 LHC 里发生的初始事件实际上就是一场微型大爆炸，许多微小的火球再现宇宙大爆炸的条件，只不过其规模非常小而已。"
    ],
    [
        "There are strong concerns about the amount of personal data we give to Facebook, Google, and other companies, enabling them to know too much about where we go, what we do, and whom we talk to.",
        "很多人十分担心我们将大量个人数据给了Facebook、谷歌和其他公司，使它们得以获得太多关于我们去哪儿、干什么、和谁说话的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The large EU governments are well aware of this problem and would act accordingly.",
        "大欧盟政府对这个问题十分清楚，并将会相应行事。"
    ],
    [
        "If everyone is affected by longevity risk in the same way, then no matter what the price of a longevity bond, everyone should logically want to be on the same side of the contracts – all buyers at one price, all issuers at another.",
        "如果每个人都以同样的方式受到长寿风险的影响，那么不管长寿债券是什么价格，从逻辑上来说，每个人都希望成为合同的同一方——所有的购买者一个价格，而发行者另一个价格。"
    ],
    [
        "He is someone who had long since reached the point in life when he felt compelled by duty and patriotism to step beyond the role of a surgeon and become a public citizen.",
        "他是一位早已到达了人生的一个新阶段的老人。 在这一阶段他在责任感和爱国主义的驱使下决定突破其医生的职业角色而成为一名 公众公民 。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s rocky relationship with Ukraine began long before the latest round of negotiations.",
        "IMF与乌克兰关系不稳定在最近一轮谈判之前很久就开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a threat that is constantly evolving, growing, and mutating to counter our fight against it.",
        "这是一个不断演化、增长和突变、让我们很难对付的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "On the demand side, market commentators are finally waking up to something that has been pretty clear for most of 2017: the world economy has gained momentum, and is now probably growing at a rate of 4% or higher.",
        "在需求侧，市场评论家们终于猛然意识到某些在2017年大部分时间已经表现得极为明朗的形势：世界经济增长势头强劲，目前可能正在以4％或更高的速度增长。"
    ],
    [
        "And Europe’s din of conflicting voices appears to preclude it from claiming America’s mantle.",
        "而欧洲自相矛盾的吵吵闹闹似乎会妨碍它接过美国的大旗。"
    ],
    [
        "“Infrastructure choices need to be made to alleviate rather than exacerbate this situation.”",
        "5倍，”信中说，“基础设施选择应该减缓而不是加剧这一状况。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Meir Dagan, who resigned as the Israeli intelligence chief in 2011, called Bibi's grandstanding in Washington “destructive to the future and security of Israel.\"",
        "2011年辞任以色列情报部门首脑的梅尔·达甘（Meir Dagan）称比比在华盛顿的哗众取宠“破坏了以色列安全的未来”。"
    ],
    [
        "Early this year, the State Council, China’s cabinet, made lowering funding costs for businesses, especially small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), a top priority.",
        "今年早些时候，中国国务院把降低企业尤其是中小企业融资成本列为最优先事务。"
    ],
    [
        "When the new Bangsamoro local government assumes power two years from now, Japanese assistance teams will be there from the start.",
        "邦萨摩洛（Bangsamoro）新地方政府两年后掌权时，日本从一开始就会派遣援助团队。"
    ],
    [
        "To ensure democratic legitimacy and satisfy national constitutional courts (not least Germany’s), a second European parliament would have to be established to serve as the eurozone’s legislative branch.",
        "为了确保民主合法性、让各国（而不仅仅是德国）宪法法院满意，必须成立第二欧洲议会作为欧元区的立法机构。"
    ],
    [
        "De-leveraging is closely linked to the second variable – namely, economic growth.",
        "而去杠杆化则跟第二个变量密切相关——也就是经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "This is politically unacceptable.",
        "这在政治上是无法让人接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is likely that Draghi’s statement will indeed be followed by ECB purchases of Spanish (and Italian) sovereign bonds.",
        "德拉基发表声明后欧洲央行实际购买西班牙（和意大利）主权债券的可能性很大。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump makes no secret of his desire to “put America first,” and he reiterated that pledge at the UN dais.",
        "特朗普“把美国放在第一位”的意愿路人皆知，他也在联合国的讲台上重申了这一承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But then Hwang’s collaborators began questioning the validity of the experiment itself, and Hwang notified Science that he wished to withdraw the paper.",
        "但是，黄禹锡的同僚们随后又开始质疑实验本身的准确性，而黄通知<<科学>>杂志表明希望撤回论文。"
    ],
    [
        "And to play that role well, the government must be deeply involved in the bankruptcy process, so that it can jump in if needed.",
        "要想扮演好这一角色，政府必须深度参与到破产流程中，从而能够在需要时挺身而出。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, as developing economies become richer, they, too, will invest in technology in order to cope with rising labor costs (a trend already evident in China).",
        "与此同时，随着发展中国家逐渐变富，它们也会投资于技术以应对劳动力成本的提高（在中国，这一趋势已相当明显）。"
    ],
    [
        "The next quarter-billion will be added in half that time.",
        "再增长2. 5亿人只需要一半时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The bravery of those who found their social conscience, overcame fear, and stood up to communist dictatorship remains fresh in my memory.",
        "那些人士找到了自己的社会良心，克服了恐惧并挺身而出反抗共产主义专政。 他们的勇敢精神在我的记忆中仍然栩栩如生。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the MOF has made such threats before – for example, just after the introduction of the BOJ’s negative interest-rate policy, and again after the Brexit decision – but never followed through.",
        "毕竟，财务省此前也发布过此类威胁——比如在日本央行引入负利率政策之后，以及英国退出之后——但从未执行。"
    ],
    [
        "This opens the way to more and deeper reforms.",
        "这就为更多更深刻的改革开启了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, though, the BRICS must also lead by example.",
        "尽管如此，金砖国家也必须有一个榜样来领导。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, no other economy is capable of filling the void left by a protracted shortfall of US consumption.",
        "最后，其他经济体无力填补美国消费持续不振所造成的空缺。"
    ],
    [
        "In the market for fresh vegetables, for example, prices must balance the supply and demand for the current harvest.",
        "比如，在新鲜蔬菜市场，价格必须平衡当季收成供求平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute expected to be told that they were “playing God,” and they were not disappointed.",
        "J·克雷格·温特研究小组的科学家们都希望自己能被人认为是在“扮演上帝”，而他们也确实得到了这样的称号。"
    ],
    [
        "Most methods were reverse-engineered from the training given to US soldiers preparing to face “long and extreme” situations (which somehow enabled executives to conclude that these ordeals are perfectly bearable).",
        "大多数方法是根据美国士兵在准备面对“长期极端”情形时所受的训练进行反向设计的（执行人员由此也认为这些拷打是完全可以承受的）。"
    ],
    [
        "Stable macroeconomic policies also need to be in place, while fixed exchange rates are to be avoided.",
        "需要制订稳定的宏观经济政策，同时要避免固定的汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest slugfest features New Keynesian champion Paul Krugman of Princeton University and New Classical champion John Cochrane of the University of Chicago. Krugman recently published a newspaper article entitled “How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?”",
        "经济学家凯恩斯在《就业，投资和金钱的基本理论》（1936年版）一书中写道：“长期以来一直存在的经济学家在观点上的壁垒鲜明的对立几乎摧毁了经济理论对现实的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "In a new paper, we review the arguments about the role of intellectual property in the process of development.",
        "在我新发表的一篇论文中，我们回顾了关于知识产权在发展过程中作用的各种论点。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republican Richard Nixon was elected US President in 1968 on a platform of scaling down the Democrats’ expensive Great Society programs.",
        "共和党的尼克松1968年当选美国总统，靠的是缩减民主党的扩张性大社会（Great Society）计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Cuba should quickly make its currency convertible for trade, expand property rights, and (with considerable care and transparency) privatize some enterprises.",
        "古巴应该立刻让其货币实现贸易兑换，扩大产权，并（相当谨慎且透明地）私有化一些企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Global warming is set to put potable-water supplies under increasing strain – even as oceans rise and the intensity and frequency of storms and other extreme weather events increase.",
        "全球变暖使得饮用水供应日渐捉襟见肘——尽管海平面有所上升，风暴和其他极端天气事件的烈度和频率都在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the next 15 years, demographic changes will reverse, or at least slow, labor-supply growth everywhere except Africa, the Middle East, and South Central Asia.",
        "在未来15年中，人口变化趋势将会逆转（至少减缓）除非洲、中东和东南亚之外的劳动力供给增长趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "True to form, Pakistani officials were outraged at the charge, which they promptly refuted with roughly the same vehemence with which they once denied Osama Bin Laden’s presence.",
        "巴基斯坦官员一如既往地表现出强烈的愤怒，并立即以否认拉登藏匿时同样激烈的言辞予以驳斥。"
    ],
    [
        "If we do not know how to make economies grow, it follows that we do not know how to make them grow in an inclusive and sustainable way.",
        "”如果我们不明白如何制造经济增长，自然也不会知道如何让经济增长变得包容和可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "That wisdom remains the best advice to date, especially given that the consequences of a worsening bilateral relationship would extend far beyond China and Japan.",
        "这句箴言到如今依然是最佳建议，尤其考虑到双边关系恶化的影响范围将远远超出中国和日本的范畴之外。"
    ],
    [
        "MELBOURNE – It has long been clear that many non-state actors have more influence on international policymaking than a great many sovereign states.",
        "墨尔本—很久以前我们就已经明白，许多非国家行动方在国际政策决定方面比许多主权国家更有影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve the new targets, we must find creative new ways to address the world’s biggest health challenges.",
        "要实现这些小目标（target），我们必须找出创造性新办法解决世界最大的健康挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Analysts also must pay attention to the nature of the implied social contract.",
        "分析家们还必须特别关注隐含的社会契约的性质。"
    ],
    [
        "The way to avoid that outcome is to adjust one of the EU’s two instruments for non-eurozone members to meet Ukraine’s needs: The Macro-Financial Assistance scheme, a versatile instrument that can combine loans and direct subsidies; or the balance-of-payments assistance facility, which could complement an IMF program to EU countries.",
        "避免这一结果的办法是调整欧盟的两大面向非欧元区成员的工具以满足乌克兰的需要：宏观金融荣援助（Macro-Financial Assistance）机制（结合了贷款和直接补贴的综合工具）； 或收支平衡援助便利（可以对欧盟国偶家实施IMF计划）。"
    ],
    [
        "The German public rejected the idea of permanent transfers from German taxpayers to Greece, while Greek officials and the Greek public rejected the idea of German control over their country’s fiscal policy.",
        "德国公众拒绝了这一德国纳税人向希腊的永久性转移支付计划，而希腊官员和希腊公众也拒绝由德国控制他们的财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The spread of information means that power will be more widely distributed, and informal networks will undercut the monopoly of traditional bureaucracy.",
        "信息的传播意味着权力将被广泛地分配，而非正式网络将打破传统官僚组织的垄断。"
    ],
    [
        "If China is to avoid the fate of early 20th century Germany, it must bolster successful economic modernization with constitutional and political reform.",
        "如果中国要避免重蹈20世纪初德国的覆辙，就必须以宪法和政治改革来支撑成功的经济现代化。"
    ],
    [
        "For their part, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States have created observer schemes and systems to assess and manage fish stocks.",
        "此外，澳大利亚、新西兰和美国均已制定观测计划和体系，以便对鱼类种群进行管理和评估。"
    ],
    [
        "In the verbatim record, two words were uttered repeatedly: “density” and “saturation.”",
        "在会议报告的用语中，有两个词频繁出现：“密度”（density）和“饱和”（saturation）。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is a collective consultation and deliberative process that enables any member to be heard.",
        "当然，从程序上来说，北约的决议都是经过成员国知晓并讨论后作出的。"
    ],
    [
        "Only around 10% of people lived in cities.",
        "只有大约10%的人类生活在城市中。"
    ],
    [
        "What Nuclear Energy Renaissance?",
        "核能的“文艺复兴”从何而来？"
    ],
    [
        "So, even if the Fed and US Treasury now manage to stave off recession, what will fuel future growth?",
        "所以，即使美联储和美国财政部现在能够避免衰退，什么东西会推动未来的增长呢？"
    ],
    [
        "There is, however, a less reassuring answer.",
        "”但是，这个答案并不靠谱。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, while major economies pursue some structural reforms to improve potential growth, the pace of change is much slower, and its scope more modest, than is needed to maximize potential.",
        "但是，尽管主要经济体采取了一些结构性改革以改善潜在增长，变化的速度远远赶不上潜力最大化的要求，规模也过于温和。"
    ],
    [
        "While there are ethical and social reasons to worry about inequality, they do not have much to do with macroeconomic policy per se.",
        "不平等性引起了人们关于道德和社会的担忧，但实际上，这些问题与宏观经济政策本身关系不大。"
    ],
    [
        "To paraphrase Dylan Thomas, we believers in markets should not go gently into the populist night.",
        "用托马斯（Dylan Thomas）的话说，我们市场的信徒不应该温柔地走近民粹主义的黑夜。"
    ],
    [
        "The human tendency to react to price increases is always there waiting to generate booms and bubbles.",
        "今年三月份以来，除了股票价格上涨本身之外，似乎没有什么重要的基本面消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when such interaction is to communicate a political message, an image of war is used.",
        "即使这种互动是为了表达一种政治信息，它使用了战争的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "Six villagers in the Hebei village of Dingzhou, protesting government seizure of their land, died after bloody clashes with a gang of toughs in July.",
        "七月，河北省定州村的六名村民因抗议政府剥夺他们的土地，与一群歹徒发生流血冲突后死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in her description of our evolution, Fisher notes that males who could tolerate long periods of silence (waiting for animals while in hunt mode) survived to pass on their genes, thus genetically selecting to prefer “space.”",
        "此外，在对人类进化的描述中，费舍尔强调能够忍受长时间沉默的男性（以捕猎状态等待猎物）能将他们的基因传递下去，因此从基因的角度讲他们会选择“空间”偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, France uses African reserves to finance part of its budget deficit at a concessional interest rate.",
        "换句话说，法国利用非洲储备以优惠利率为其预算赤字提供了部分融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it revealed the potent capacity of Egypt’s Salafis to mobilize supporters, who were the overwhelming majority in Tahrir Square that day.",
        "此外，这次示威还表明，埃及沙拉菲（Salafi）在动员支持者方面具有很大的能量，他们构成了解放广场示威的压倒多数。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem for US power in the twenty-first century is not just China, but the “rise of the rest.”",
        "美国在二十一世纪所面临的实力问题不仅仅是中国，而是“其他国家的崛起”。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Ever since the first “Tea Party” convention was held last month in Nashville, Tennessee, with Sarah Palin as one of the keynote speakers, America’s political and media establishments have been reacting with a combination of apprehension and disdain.",
        "发自纽约 —— 自上月 “ 茶党 ” 在美国田纳西州首府纳什维尔召开了首次党会，且由莎拉·佩林担任大会主要发言人以来，美国的政治和传媒机构就一直对他们既担忧，又藐视。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s governments have never before attempted to remake a core sector of the world economy on a global scale with such an aggressive timeline.",
        "世界各国政府之前都从未有过在如此紧迫的时间内改造世界经济核心部门的经历。"
    ],
    [
        "It might be difficult for a child to go to a classmate’s house to study after school, because of bad roads, unsafe neighborhoods, or parents who are working and cannot provide a lift (or do not own a car).",
        "受糟糕的路况、不安全的社区或父母无法接送（或没车）等因素的制约，学生在放学后去同学家继续学习可能并不容易。"
    ],
    [
        "This also means that peace-related programs should get priority in budget allocations.",
        "这也意味着与和平相关的项目应该在预算分配上优先。"
    ],
    [
        "Stick to the Resolution",
        "严格贯彻决议的内容"
    ],
    [
        "In short, Germany and the other countries with AAA bond ratings must agree to a eurobond regime of one kind or another.",
        "简言之，德国和其他AAA国家必须接受某种形式的欧元债券机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s image and soft power have undoubtedly continued to fade around the world (thought such a trend is difficult to quantify), while member states continue to cut defense and development budgets.",
        "毫无疑问，欧洲在全世界的形象和软实力在继续式微（尽管这一趋势很难量化），而成员国仍在削减防务和发展预算。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it depends on a combination of capability and credibility.",
        "相反，它取决于核能力与核信用的结合。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a system would be the political equivalent of letting the inmates guard the prison.",
        "这样一个系统在政治上的效果就跟让囚犯管理监狱一样荒谬。"
    ],
    [
        "My colleague at Harvard, Matt Andrews, has documented the failure of public financial management reforms designed to prevent graft.",
        "我的哈佛同事马特·安德鲁斯（Matt Andrews）记录了预防贪污的公共财政改革失败的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "And, of course, community leaders – the mayor, city council members, and others – must work together rather than undermine one another.",
        "当然，社区领袖——市长、市议员及其他——必须精诚合作而不是互相掣肘。"
    ],
    [
        "But Afghanistan’s potential for progress must be bolstered by concerted international action.",
        "但是，阿富汗潜在的进步必须得到协调一致的国际行动支持。"
    ],
    [
        "But what if May is not really serious about that “deep and special partnership”?",
        "但万一没对于“深刻而特殊的关系”其实并不是认真的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, according to the IPCC, “long-term trends in economic disaster losses adjusted for wealth and population increases have not been attributed to climate change.”",
        "相反，按照政府间气候变化专门委员会的研究成果，“气候变化并不决定经财富人口调整后经济灾害损失的长期趋势。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "One development that could change this forecast is if China comes to view investing in US financial assets as a money-losing proposition.",
        "有一种变化能够改变这种预期，即中国认为投资美国金融资产是一个赔钱的买卖。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the world has made great strides in making childbirth safer.",
        "世界绝大部分地区，在让分娩变得更加安全方面都取得了巨大进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Army-led and militia-implemented mass murders soon followed.",
        "接着，军方领导、民兵执行的大屠杀立刻跟进。"
    ],
    [
        "The middle-aged, preparing for retirement, are likely to be the economy’s savers.",
        "而准备退休的中年人更可能是经济体中的储蓄者。"
    ],
    [
        "If the central bank attempts to spur inflation by expanding its own balance sheet through monetary expansion and by lowering interest rates, it will cause the budget deficit to fall further, reinforcing the cycle.",
        "如果央行尝试用扩表（通过货币扩张）和降低利率来刺激通胀，就会导致预算赤字进一步降低，从而强化这一循环。"
    ],
    [
        "Peatland soils are composed of carbon – in the form of decomposed plant material – that has accumulated for thousands of years; and when peatlands are drained or burned, that carbon is released into the atmosphere.",
        "泥炭地土壤含有碳——由被分解的植物组成——这些碳已经积累了数千年； 而当泥炭地消耗或燃烧时，这些碳就被释放到大气中。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a bit like stage fright.",
        "这有点像怯场。"
    ],
    [
        "Some academic economists consult for banks or rating agencies, give speeches to investor conferences, serve as expert witnesses, and carry out sponsored research.",
        "有些专业经济学家在银行或评级机构担任顾问，在投资者讲座上发言，扮演专家证人的角色，还拿着别人的钱做研究。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past several years, more effective means of collective action – such as social media, open publishing platforms, and online video sharing – have given people more levers to pull.",
        "过去几年来，社交媒体、公共发布平台和在线视频共享等有效的群体行为手段赋予了人们更多的话语权。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Iran’s current government is attempting to overthrow a balance of power that has endured for some 1,400 years – and Saudi Arabia, as the cradle of the Muslim world, will not allow it.",
        "事实上，伊朗现任政府正在试图颠覆维系了大约1,400年的实力平衡——而穆斯林世界的发祥地沙特阿拉伯不会允许这一情况发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite Bo’s nostalgia for Maoist rhetoric, he is conspicuously wealthy.",
        "虽然薄熙来看上去无比怀念过去那套毛泽东理论，但他自己显然富得流油。"
    ],
    [
        "But do you really want to base a country’s macroeconomic strategy on such meaningless claims?",
        "但你真的想将一国的宏观经济战略建立在这些毫无意义的说辞的基础上吗？"
    ],
    [
        "No matter what criterion one uses, Japan's economy remains the most closed among OECD countries and one of the most closed in the world.",
        "无论以何种尺度衡量，日本的经济仍然不仅是经合组织中最封闭的，也是世界各国中最封闭的。"
    ],
    [
        "Drug companies often lament that the firms from which they are sourcing innovations do not perform clinical trials to their specifications, forcing them to repeat the work.",
        "制药企业常常感叹向他们出售创新成果的企业不按他们的要求进行临床试验，迫使他们不得不重复劳动。"
    ],
    [
        "Where these conditions exist – for example, a vibrant and autonomous civil society, as in Poland, or a strong pre-authoritarian tradition of pluralism, representation, and tolerance, as in the Czech Republic – the transition is relatively smooth.",
        "在一些条件有利的地方，例如拥有一个活跃且自治的市民社会的波兰，或是拥有强劲的前专制多元主义、代议制和宽容传统的捷克共和国，这种转轨相对顺利。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump is not remotely qualified to be president, but he is no joke.",
        "特朗普的确不具备总统资质，但他也并非不堪一击。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are a central element in the financial volatility that incited calls for stronger regulation in the first place.",
        "但它们却是金融波动——使人们决定加强监管的原因——的中心元素。"
    ],
    [
        "In some of Europe’s other struggling countries, however, citizens may well prove less patient.",
        "但是，其他一些受困欧洲国家的人民似乎没有那么有耐心。"
    ],
    [
        "Half a trillion dollars was committed to the war in Iraq, an amount roughly equal to the sponsorship of all basic research for the last thousand years.",
        "伊拉克战争获得了五千亿美金的拨款—这一数额几乎等于过去一千年以来在基础研究方面所获得的全部资金支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Why not also for England, for that matter?",
        "为何英格兰人也不因此提出类似的要求？"
    ],
    [
        "Despite their shortcomings, income measures are useful in gaining a better understanding of the extent of poverty and vulnerability worldwide.",
        "尽管存在缺陷，但收入指标更有利于理解全世界的贫困和脆弱程度。"
    ],
    [
        "NEWPORT BEACH – If financial investors were to write letters to Santa Claus this Christmas, they would probably be tempted to ask for the continuation of the unusual combination of factors that has dominated over the last year: ultra-low market volatility, booming financial-asset values, correlations that lower the cost of portfolio risk mitigation, and promising new opportunities (such as Bitcoin).",
        "发自纽波特滩——如果金融投资者今年圣诞节要给圣诞老人写信，他们很可能会祈求延续主导了过去一年的不寻常因素组合：超低的市场波动性，不断膨胀的金融资产价值，降低投资组合风险缓解成本的相关性状况，以及前途无量的新投资机遇（例如比特币）。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – In The Hubris of the Zero Point, the Colombian philosopher Santiago Castro-Gomez describes René Descartes’s 1637 declaration “I think, therefore I am” as the moment white Europeans installed themselves above God as the sole arbiters of knowledge and truth.",
        "巴黎—哥伦比亚哲学家圣地亚哥·卡斯特罗-戈麦兹（Santiago Castro-Gomez）在《零点的狂妄》（The Hubris of the Zero Point）中笛卡尔1637年所提出的“我思故我在”的口号描述为欧洲白人让自己凌驾于上帝之上、作为知识和真理的唯一仲裁者的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider land-locked Ethiopia, which only ten years ago seemed to be an especially bad bet.",
        "以内陆国家埃塞俄比亚为例。 十年前，它看起来仍然毫无前途。"
    ],
    [
        "What is irrational about factoring in such fundamentals when trading a currency?",
        "在交易某种货币之时，考虑这样的基本面哪里有非理性呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Most recently, incoming President Xi Jinping, visiting the National Museum of China’s “Road Toward Renewal” exhibition, pledged to continue the “great renewal of the Chinese nation.”",
        "最近，新任主席习近平在参观国家博物馆中国“复兴之路”展览时承诺要继续“中华民族的伟大复兴之路。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But America’s questionable means of satisfying its legitimate security concerns are certainly less damaging for Europe in the long run than is Chinese industrial espionage.",
        "但从长期看，美国安抚其合理安全担忧的问题手段对欧洲的伤害显然小于中国的工业间谍。"
    ],
    [
        "That safety was further endangered by the meltdown of nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, a catastrophe with which Japan is still coping.",
        "但人们的安全由于福岛第一核电站核反应堆融毁事故进一步陷入危险。 目前日本仍在持续应对这一灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Chile’s government, feeling the heat, has vowed to change the system that countries like Peru, Colombia, and Mexico have imitated, and that George W. Bush once described as a “great example” for Social Security reform in the United States.",
        "智利政府在压力之下承诺要改变曾被秘鲁、哥伦比亚和墨西哥等国模仿的养老金系统，乔治·W·布什也曾将这套系统形容为美国社会保障改革的“出色榜样”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Institute of Medicine estimates that in the United States alone, some $750 billion a year – about 30% of total health-care spending – is “wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems.”",
        "据医学研究所（Institute of Medicine）估计，光是在美国，每年就有7,500亿美元——约占医疗总支出的30%——被“浪费在不必要的服务、过高的行政成本、欺诈和其他问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than regulate themselves, market players destroy themselves, however much they might be marveled at as golden calves.",
        "市场参与者不是调节自己，而是毁掉自己，不管他们是怎样被人们惊奇地奉为偶像。"
    ],
    [
        "American films, for example, include sex, violence, and materialism, but that is not the whole story.",
        "例如，美国电影包含性、暴力以及物质主义，但这并非美国电影的全部内容。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is to be hoped that whoever is chosen may be able to foster the grand bargain between the US and EU that is so badly needed.",
        "并且我们希望无论谁被选中都能够促成美国和欧盟达成迫切需要的重要协议。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet sovereign ratings matter tremendously.",
        "但主权评级影响甚大。"
    ],
    [
        "Having received over 4% of the vote during the first round of the presidential election of 2002, Besancenotis now, according to opinion polls, the 38th most popular person in France.",
        "他在2002年总统选举首轮投票中取得超过4％的选票； 根据民意调查，贝尚斯诺如今在法国知名人物中名列第38位。"
    ],
    [
        "Fisher provided a new rationale for an old practice of debasing the coinage called seignorage.",
        "而费舍尔也为过去那种封建君主降低货币成色（所谓铸币税）的老把戏提供了一个新逻辑。"
    ],
    [
        "Taming “Speculative Capitalism”",
        "驯服“投机资本主义”"
    ],
    [
        "The economist Albert O. Hirschman, arguably the most insightful outside observer of Latin American politics in the last half-century, was critical of what he called – borrowing from Flaubert – la rage de vouloir conclure, or the obsession of some Latin American leaders to try to bring everything to an immediate conclusion.",
        "经济学家艾尔伯特·赫希曼（Albert O. Hirschman）也许是过去半个世纪中对拉丁美洲政治观察最深刻的外部人士，他对被他称为“急于求成”（la rage de vouloir conclure，福楼拜语，即某些拉丁美洲领导人热衷于立刻让所有事情都有个结果）持批评态度。"
    ],
    [
        "EU farm policy has started to be reformed, and its share of the EU budget has fallen from over 60% to 40%; Britain has for several years enjoyed significantly faster economic growth than most other member states, so that it is now one of the richer EU countries, even compared with France and Germany; and the new member states are so much poorer than even the poorest of the old members, that they have an unanswerable moral case for a generous share of whatever budget could be negotiated.",
        "近几年来英国的经济增长比其它多数欧盟成员国要快得多，早已进入了欧盟富裕国家的行列，即便与法、德两国相比也毫不逊色。 而新成员国的经济状况即便与旧成员国中最穷的相比依然相去甚远，因此英国在谈判确定的预算额度中负有不可推卸的道义责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The Submerging-Market Threat",
        "淹没市场的威胁"
    ],
    [
        "Naturally, Mulvaney has already announced an immediate freeze on all CFPB rules.",
        "不出所料，马尔瓦尼已经宣布立即冻结所有消费者金融保护局制定的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Arizona alone has enough helium to supply the US for a decade.",
        "事实上，光是亚利桑那州便蕴藏着足够供应美国十年的氦储量。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, EU foreign ministers should intensify talks with African countries in order to establish new, legal, and safe means for those at risk who want to cross the Mediterranean.",
        "与此同时，欧盟外交部长们应该加紧与非洲国家的谈判，为那些遭受危险、想穿越地中海的人建立新的合法安全的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, if you get a hankering for sauerbraten and spaetzle, head for Central Europe, not the Gulf of Mexico.",
        "与此同时，如果你想吃德国醋焖牛肉和德国面疙瘩，你得去中欧而不是墨西哥湾。"
    ],
    [
        "The real victor of the campaign, with a vote that jumped up to 14.5% and a position in parliament that will determine the shape of the new coalition government, was the heir of classic German liberalism, the FDP. It campaigned on a promise of tax reduction and of deregulation in order to stimulate the economic growth that Germany needs to get out of the economic crisis.",
        "5%，巩固了议会中的地位，并将左右新联合政府的形态。 作为经典德国自由主义的代表，该党在大选中承诺减税并减少国家对经济的干预，以刺激经济增长并帮助德国走出经济危机的漩涡。"
    ],
    [
        "A global network of new stakeholders has emerged, including NGOs and citizen activists – often empowered by social media.",
        "新相关利益方全球网络已经形成，成员包括非政府组织和公民活动家——他们的力量常常来自社交媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "She has breast cancer and I can’t afford her medications.”",
        "她身患乳癌，我没钱为她治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "They must also engage more with the real-world applications of their theoretical work, which may have the added benefit of advancing the field of ethics.",
        "他们还必须更多地参与他们的理论工作的真实世界应用，这能够给推进伦理学领域带来额外的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "For the rule governing global trade rounds is that nothing is deliverable until everything is agreed.",
        "因为全球贸易回合谈判的主导规则就是除非全体同意，不然就无法兑现任何承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "These are hardly inconsequential developments – especially for a country that must eventually align its financial infrastructure with a market-based consumer society.",
        "这些绝非癣疥之疾——特别是考虑到中国最终必须让其金融基础设施与其基于市场的消费社会相符。"
    ],
    [
        "This has made it more attractive for young girls to take up paid employment in the sector, which, paradoxically, does have some social benefit.",
        "这导致年轻少女在该行业从事有报酬劳动更具吸引力，而尽管十分矛盾，但这却具备一定的社会效益。"
    ],
    [
        "This is clearly not sustainable.",
        "这个情况很显然是无法维持下去的。"
    ],
    [
        "Addiction can lead to financial ruin and domestic abuse, especially of children.",
        "吸毒上瘾则导致财政困境和家庭暴力（尤其是针对儿童）。"
    ],
    [
        "Alongside this focus on improving African governance, we must also put pressure on our leaders to encourage regional integration.",
        "在关注改善非洲治理状况的同时，我们还必须对领导人施加压力，推动非洲的区域性融合。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the principal Kurdish parties are facing a challenge from an independent party, Goran, and are likely to incur some losses to it.",
        "而即便各主要库尔德政党也都面对着一个独立政党戈兰党（ Goran , 库尔德语意为“改变”）的挑战并将会在政治上蒙受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "This path can also ease US concerns about lower European defense spending.",
        "这条道路也可以减少美国对欧洲国防预算缩水的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "The statement will be based on consultations with many of Japan’s, and the world’s, leading WWII historians, as well as – and more important – with himself, his conscience, and his heart, because he understands the significance of his words on this highly fraught topic.",
        "该讲话将以诸多日本乃至全球著名二战史家的意见为基础，但更重要的是安倍本人、他的良知和他的用心，因为他明白，在这个高度敏感的话题上，他的用语意义重大。"
    ],
    [
        "DRESDEN – To what extent should governments regulate or tax addictive behavior?",
        "德累斯顿——政府对成瘾行为的监管或课税应该做到什么程度？"
    ],
    [
        "Today the global economy is, as Ricardo Cabellero of MIT stresses, still desperately short of safe assets.",
        "用麻省理工学院的卡比列罗（Robert Cabellero）的话说，如今，全球经济仍然极度缺乏安全资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it obvious that the bankers suffered from more adverse publicity.",
        "这也不是因为公众对银行家的厌恶今不如昔。"
    ],
    [
        "Particularly valuable would be straightening out the spaghetti bowl of “rules of origin” – the regulations dictating when inputs produced in other countries can be used in products that will qualify for free-trade benefits.",
        "特别有价值的是理顺“原产地规则”的混乱情况。 原产地规则规定什么时候产于其他国家的投入品可以用于符合自由贸易利益的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "As democracies respond to China’s sharp power and information warfare, they have to be careful not to overreact.",
        "那些对中国的权力和信息战争作出回应的民主国家也必须小心谨慎，不要过度反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Chen rose to prominence as a self-educated legal activist after he challenged harsh enforcement of the government’s family-planning policies.",
        "作为一个自学成才的法律活动家，陈光诚质疑政府推行的计划生育政策执法苛刻，随后名声大噪。"
    ],
    [
        "This question is often evaded, because the cost of exiting is deemed too high to consider it (and could be higher still if the break-up takes place in a crisis and sharpens reciprocal acrimony among participating countries).",
        "这一问题常常被回避，因为退出欧元的成本高得无法想象（而如果欧元区解体发生在危机期间，并加剧参与国之间的互相倾轧，成本还会进一步提高）。"
    ],
    [
        "Behind the all-too-foreseeable end of the American stabilizing mission lurks a civil war in Iraq, which threatens to turn into an Arab-Iranian proxy war for dominance in Iraq, the Gulf, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, and beyond.",
        "美国稳定行动的结果怎样已经毫无悬念，但在这毫无悬念的结果背后，一场伊拉克内战正在酝酿之中。 这场内战很可能演变为阿拉伯－伊朗为争夺伊拉克、波斯湾、黎巴嫩、巴勒斯坦和其余地区霸权而一手操纵的傀儡战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Earning the public’s trust is crucial.",
        "赢得公众的信任也相当关键。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, government direction was emphasized, despite an acknowledgement of the market’s positive role.",
        "过去尽管也承认市场的积极作用，但总是强调政府导向。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas a nuclear exchange with the US would mean devastation, submission to China would promise survival, and presumably a degree of continued autonomy.",
        "尽管与美国进行核战争意味着灾难，但向中国屈服能够带来生存，可能还能保持一定程度的自主权。"
    ],
    [
        "When employment and output threaten to decline, the central bank buys up government bonds for immediate cash, thus shortening the duration of the safe assets that investors hold.",
        "当就业和产量威胁下降的时候，中央银行购买政府债券用于即刻现金，这样缩短了投资者持有安全资产的期限。"
    ],
    [
        "He and his finance minister, Gordon Brown, stuck to their predecessors’ public-spending plans, for example.",
        "他本人及其财政大臣戈登·布朗一直坚持奉行前任的公共支出计划。"
    ],
    [
        "As if to prove that it understood the impropriety involved, the Troika compelled Greece’s government to immunize the HFSF board members from criminal prosecution for not participating in the new share offer and for the resulting disappearance of half of the taxpayers’ €41 billion capital injection.",
        "似乎是为了证明它意识到了所涉及的不当行为，三驾马车迫使希腊政府对希腊金融稳定基金董事会成员不参与新股买入以及由此导致的纳税人410亿欧元注资一半蒸发免于刑事起诉。"
    ],
    [
        "Rich Veneto could secede from Italy, for example, as long as it maintained its fiscal transfers to the South.",
        "富裕的威尼托大区可以从意大利脱离，只要它保持向意大利南方的转移支付。"
    ],
    [
        "But that implies that they also contribute to maintaining it.",
        "但这也意味着它们要为维持这一秩序做出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "China 2030 also calls for expanding opportunities, promoting social security, and reducing the country’s relatively high social and economic inequality by addressing the rural-urban disparities in access to jobs, finance, and high-quality public services.",
        "《中国2030》还建议通过修正就业、融资和高质量公共服务等方面的城乡差距扩大机会、改善社会保障、抑制中国相对较高的社会和经济不平等性。"
    ],
    [
        "It was the New Deal, the welfare state, and controlled globalization (under the Bretton Woods regime) that eventually gave market-oriented societies a new lease on life and produced the post-war boom.",
        "是新政、福利国家和（布雷顿森林体系下）有管制的全球化最终赋予了以市场为导向的社会新生，并创造了战后的繁荣时期。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the bulk of peer-reviewed economic evidence indicates that, up to around 2050-2070, the net global economic impact of rising temperatures is likely to be positive.",
        "相反，经业内审议的大部分经济证据表明截止到2050-2070年左右，因气温上升所造成的净全球经济影响可能是正面的。"
    ],
    [
        "The report issued in August by the Rakhine Advisory Commission, led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, offers one possible path forward.",
        "由前联合国秘书长科菲·安南领导的若开邦咨询委员会于8月发表了一份报告，提出了一种可能的解决方式。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as George Price showed long ago, Darwinian evolution may have made us altruistic, at least toward people we perceive as members of the group we call “us.”",
        "但乔治·普莱斯（George Price）早就指出，达尔文式的演化可能让我们变得利他，至少对于我们认为属于被我们称为“我们”的群体的成员的人是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "One clutched a pouch of blood and the other held my daughter’s medical dossier.",
        "一个拿着一袋血，而另一个则手持我女儿的医疗档案。"
    ],
    [
        "Principles of international law – in particular, the emerging “responsibility to protect” doctrine and enforcement of the global ban on the use of chemical weapons – dictate that some form of military intervention must occur in order to deter others from using WMDs, particularly against civilians.",
        "”作答。 国际法的原则——特别是新兴的“保护责任”思想和在全球强制禁止化学武器的使用——意味着某种形式的军事干预必须进行，以威慑其他可能使用大规模杀伤性武器（特别是针对平民使用）的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The gaps in these countries’ labor markets – from software specialists to physicians to home health aides – will be immense.",
        "这些国家的劳动力市场——从软件专家、医生到家庭医疗助理等——将出现巨大的缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "The countries and institutions that have committed additional funds in order to help secure the success of this mission – notably France, Spain, and the European Commission – should all be applauded.",
        "所有为保证此次任务顺利进行而捐助资金援助的国家和组织――特别是法国、西班牙和欧盟都应受到赞许。"
    ],
    [
        "“Generation consciousness,” unlike the “class consciousness” of old, is obviously not a defining factor in people’s political preferences.",
        "老年人的“年代意识”和“阶级意识”不同，显然并非政治偏好的决定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "In some fundamentalist circles, and among the terrorists, Western culture evokes repulsion, not attraction.",
        "在某些原教旨主义者和恐怖份子眼中，西方文化并无吸引力，而是令人反感。"
    ],
    [
        "This is as visible in Egypt and Tunisia as it is in Turkey.",
        "埃及、突尼斯、土耳其都有这样的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "But their exuberance biases India’s global ranking relative to more empirically minded countries.",
        "”但这种热情扭曲了印度的全球排名，导致其比许多以腐败闻名的国家更低。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Turkey is less destabilized than its Arab rivals and partners by a revolutionary process that does not directly challenge it.",
        "当然，土耳其不像阿拉伯对手和伙伴那样受到革命进程的直接威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "They are likely to assume that Iran will support them whatever they do.",
        "这些组织很可能会认为不论它们做什么都会得到伊朗的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "CJD belongs to the family of what are called prion diseases, a unique group of neurodegenerative diseases that can be transmitted.",
        "克雅氏病是所谓朊病毒疾病的一种，这种疾病包括特定的一些能够传染的退行性神经疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "Inevitably, mistakes have been made.",
        "错误是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "In September, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative, former US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recognized that “lack of secondary education holds back the aspirations of so many girls and their families.",
        "9月，美国前国务卿 希拉里·克林顿在克林顿全球倡议大会上承认“中学教育的缺失阻碍了太多女孩及其家庭实现自己的愿望，全世界的稳定和繁荣也因此受到影响。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that employment in America cannot grow.",
        "这并不意味着美国的就业率不能增长了。"
    ],
    [
        "What is at issue is the law-enforcement authorities’ independence and impartiality.",
        "问题的重点是执法当局的独立性和公正性。"
    ],
    [
        "We must also make our own politics more democratic.",
        "我们必须让我们的政治更为民主。"
    ],
    [
        "The controversy illustrates the care that is required in publishing human-rights reports.",
        "这场风波表明公布人权报告时需要采取慎重的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "We must also invest more in resources for schools and learning across the board, from scholarships for poor students to new libraries and classroom equipment.",
        "我们还必须投入更多的资源——包括从贫困学生奖学金到新的图书馆和教室设备——来全方位地提升学校和学习状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever else happens in 2013, we can be sure that they will not win the Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award.",
        "不论2013年发生什么事情，我们可以确定的是，这本书得不到高盛年度商业书籍奖。"
    ],
    [
        "Hopkins was referring to the groundbreaking $50 billion Lend-Lease Act, which became the primary means by which the US provided military aid to foreign countries during World War II.",
        "霍普金斯指的是开创性的500亿美元租借法案，该法案成为二战期间美国向国外提供军事援助的主要工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The only exception, the California Institute of Technology, has a board with 40% alumni representation.",
        "唯一例外的是加州理工学院，其校友占董事会的40%。"
    ],
    [
        "But Saudi Arabia – a bastion of conservatism – used its oil wealth to counter secular modernizers and any kind of reformed Islam, financing fundamentalist missionaries and conservative mosques throughout the Islamic world.",
        "但沙特阿拉伯——保守主义的堡垒——利用其石油财富掣肘世俗现代主义者和一切伊斯兰教改革，为全伊斯兰世界的原教旨主义传教士和保守派清真寺提供资金支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the current distortions are interlinked, they may need to be addressed simultaneously.",
        "当前的诸多扭曲盘根错节，必须同时解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Their parents spoke of the hope they place in the transformative power of education.",
        "他们的父母希望教育能够改变孩子未来的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "Others seemed close to doing so (Yemen, Morocco, and Jordan) or had a possible political opening but are now substantially farther away from being electorally competitive (Egypt and, arguably, Algeria).",
        "还有些国家似乎更接近这个目标（包括也门、摩洛哥和约旦），或是曾经有过可能的政治空缺，但现在却离选举竞争力越来越远（埃及和有争议的阿尔及利亚）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as “Death by Drone” shows, the US drone program is fundamentally flawed and should not be perpetuated. The Obama administration’s recent admissions that its drone strikes killed its own citizens only underscore this fact.",
        "但是，它们至少绝不应该向其他国家出口它在也门所使用的保密的、有可能是非法的无人机武器模型。"
    ],
    [
        "Focusing on terrorism, the strategy calls for strengthening the network of international partners seeking to eradicate transnational terrorism, and for direct action against terrorist organizations and their sponsors.",
        "以恐怖主义为重心，该战略呼吁加强寻求根除跨国恐怖主义的国际伙伴网络，同时还呼吁对恐怖组织及其赞助者采取直接行动。"
    ],
    [
        "And even if most countries reach the recommended spending of 5% of GDP, the world will still need innovative financing mechanisms and policies to enable public-private collaboration.",
        "即使大部分国家达到了GDP的5%的卫生支出水平，世界也需要创新融资机制和政策实现公私合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But other countries have political constraints, too.",
        "但其他国家也有同样的整治约束。"
    ],
    [
        "In Jordan and Egypt, protests against the asymmetrical peace led to growing social fragmentation and processes of regime-led domestic de-liberalization.",
        "在约旦和埃及，针对不平等和平的抗议导致了社会的逐渐分裂以及政府领导的反自由化行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, after the 2010 mid-term elections, a hostile Republican-controlled House of Representatives blocked his initiatives.",
        "此外在2010年中期选举之后共和党主导下了众议院，对他充满敌意的同时也束缚住了他的手脚。"
    ],
    [
        "But, starting in 2005-2006, the authorities implemented measures that made responsiveness to acute problems practically impossible.",
        "但从2005－2006年度开始，政府措施几乎杜绝了迅速解决尖锐问题的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "The complete policy paralysis that has prevailed during the interregnum between Presidents Bush and Obama has not helped.",
        "就布什总统和奥巴马总统任职过渡期内的流行政策进行完整分析已经无济于事了。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists use different methods to analyze fiscal issues: stylized analytical models; macroeconometric models fitted to aggregate data, such as those used by the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO); empirical estimation of key parameters, such as spending multipliers; vector autoregressions; and historical studies.",
        "经济学家使用不同的方法分析财政问题：固定风格的分析模型、适用加总数据的宏观计量模型（比如美联储、欧洲央行和美国国会预算办公室（CBO）所用的）、关键参数的实证估计（比如支出乘数）、矩阵自回归、历史研究，等等。"
    ],
    [
        "Of those who enter primary school in developing countries, more than one in four drops out before attaining literacy.",
        "在那些发展中国家内进入小学学习的孩子中，超过四分之一的孩子在完成扫盲之前就已经辍学。"
    ],
    [
        "The missing credits also originally could have been earned in other ways.",
        "遗漏的数字也可能源于其他原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s be hyper-optimistic and suppose that structural reforms enable Greece to double its potential income over three years – pushing Greek per capita GDP significantly beyond the European Union average.",
        "不妨假设非常乐观，认为结构改革可以让希腊潜在收入三年翻一番——让希腊人均GDP大大超过欧盟平均水平。"
    ],
    [
        "For Soroush, however, the denial of human rights based on “a person’s beliefs or absence of belief” is undeniably a “crime.”",
        "但是，在索罗什看来，基于“一个人的信仰或缺少信仰”否认人权毫无疑问是“犯罪”。"
    ],
    [
        "But its political systems will remain on life support until their entrenched elites feel sufficiently vulnerable to stop ignoring the needs of those who have been left behind.",
        "但西方政治制度仍无法摆脱生命支持，直到根深蒂固的精英阶层脆弱到足以停止忽视那些被遗弃者的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that property prices are unlikely to fall by such a large margin, the bubble’s collapse would not bring down China’s banks.",
        "给定房地产价格难以出现如此大幅的下跌，则泡沫的破裂拖不垮中资银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators are already talking about imposing leverage ratios, as well as limits on risk-weighted assets.",
        "监管机构已经在商讨有关对金融杠杆征税以及对风险加权资产设限等议题。"
    ],
    [
        "The cost of damage to commercial and residential buildings worldwide is averaging $314 billion each year, with the private sector bearing as much as 85% of that price tag.",
        "每年全球商用和住宅建筑破坏成本平均达3,140亿美元，其中私人部门承担了85%的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Successes with screening and treatment of breast, colo-rectal, and cervical cancer have also helped.",
        "在乳腺、肛肠和子宫颈癌的诊断和治疗方面的成功也助了一臂之力。"
    ],
    [
        "But by far the biggest transfer of assets from rich countries to the developing world takes place through migrant workers’ remittances.",
        "但从富国到发展中国家最大规模的资产转移显然是移民劳动力的汇款。"
    ],
    [
        "As a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, I attend our commencement ceremony every year.",
        "作为哈佛肯尼迪政府学院教授，我每年都要参加毕业典礼。"
    ],
    [
        "Islam’s Path to Modernity",
        "伊斯兰教的现代性之路"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt’s military regime, led by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has been unrelentingly hostile toward Hamas, blaming it for the fighting in Sinai between the army and insurgent groups.",
        "由西西领导的埃及军政府对哈马斯的态度向来是冷酷无情，视其为西奈半岛军方和叛乱集团斗争的罪魁。"
    ],
    [
        "The disappearance of Vasyl Klymentyev, the editor-in-chief of Novyi Styl, a newspaper which focuses heavily on corruption in the Kharkiv region, has never been fully investigated.",
        "专注于卡尔科夫（Kharkiv）地区腐败报道的《Novyi Styl》报总编克莱门蒂夫（Vasyl Klymentyev）失踪案至今未获得彻底调查。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s world saving rate has maintained a fairly consistent downward trend since the early 1970’s, and, while it has picked up since 2002, it is still well below the peak levels attained in the previous three decades.",
        "世界货币基金组织的世界储蓄率自从二十世纪七十年代初期以来一直呈一个持续的下滑趋势，尽管它在2002年有了一定的上扬，但还是远远低于过去三十年的最高水平。"
    ],
    [
        "As a former Head of State of newly independent Lithuania, I frequently endured such threats.",
        "作为新近独立的立陶宛前国家元首，我经常忍受这样的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, CBD seems to offset the addictive effects of cannabis, and seems to provide relief from withdrawal symptoms.",
        "在这里，CBD似乎能抵消大麻的致瘾效果，并能缓解脱瘾症状。"
    ],
    [
        "With the bulk of their exports denominated in US dollars and their imports priced mainly in euros, chronic structural deficits have wrecked the Franc Zone economies, and the prospect of a second devaluation looms larger by the day.",
        "由于主要出口以美元计价而主要进口则以欧元计价，这种长期的结构性赤字几乎为西非法郎区经济带来毁灭性打击，不久可能又要发生第二次货币贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "The Strange Rebirth of American Leadership",
        "美国领导力的离奇复兴"
    ],
    [
        "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, going much further, openly questions both NATO and US military expenditures abroad.",
        "共和党总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普更进一步，公开质疑北约和美国的海外军事开支。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has been the “other woman” undermining Britain’s loyalty to the EU as an attractive permanent partner.",
        "作为极具吸引力的永久性伙伴，美国一直是破坏英国对欧盟忠诚度的“第三者”。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany was uncompetitive when it entered the eurozone, owing to excessive wage and price increases following the country’s reunification – a problem that has since been overcome by structural reforms that the country undertook within the single currency.",
        "德国重新统一后，工资和物价过度增长，因此在加入欧元区时德国并无竞争力，但是德国在单一货币区内进行了结构改革，而此问题也得以解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel has invested great financial resources in the settlements, often ignoring important needs in Israel proper.",
        "以色列在定居点投入了大笔资金，这种投入通常是以忽视以色列国内需求为代价的。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, despite past stimulus, growth is still tepid, and it is increasingly difficult to find sensible new spending that can pay off in the short run.",
        "不幸的是，尽管已经实施了刺激措施，但增长仍然疲软，而且，从短期看，要找到给力的新支出之源越来越困难了。"
    ],
    [
        "It would seem that, in addition to the factors affecting all developed economies, the UK has particularly weak management.",
        "由此看来，除了影响所有发达经济体的因素之外，英国的管理尤为薄弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the question was argued in terms of culture and faith, with Jewish beliefs and customs deemed incompatible with modern, enlightened Western values.",
        "相反，他们的理由在文化和信仰领域，犹太人的习俗和信仰被认定与现代、开明的西方价值观不符。"
    ],
    [
        "This news should not come as a surprise.",
        "这个消息完全是意料之内。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if Americans have not been cheated by Defense Department suppliers like Halliburton, it is clear that the money spent in Iraq has not bought the promised peace and security in the Middle East. But no one argues that the US should cut off defense expenditures.",
        "就算美国人没有被如哈里伯顿（Halliburton）之流的国防部供应商们欺骗，但至少我们花在伊拉克问题上的钱也没能买到中东的和平与安全。"
    ],
    [
        "In normal times, that is unacceptable to most citizens. But in times of crisis, the voice of the neutral technocrat gains greater legitimacy.",
        "平时大部分欧盟成员国公民都无法接受这一点，但在危机时刻，技术官员的中立声音则获得了更多的合法性"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, if the Fed wants to restore incentives for risk takers and savers, it should offset the effects of staying “low for long” in bad times by increasing interest rates more rapidly than is strictly necessary as the economy recovers.",
        "更重要的是，如果美联储想要恢复冒险者以及储蓄者的动力，就必须停止那在危机时期维持“长期低利率”的做法，转而在复苏时更迅速地升高利率。"
    ],
    [
        "In advance of the upcoming G-8 summit, it is impossible to overlook the fact that, for the first time in seven decades, the United States cannot drive the international agenda or provide global leadership on all of today’s most pressing problems.",
        "在G8峰会即将到来之际，我们不能不注意到这样一个事实：70年来，美国第一次不再能够推行国际日程和在当今最紧迫的问题上成为全球领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the most important outcome of the scandal has been to highlight the remarkable strength, not weakness, of Brazil’s legal and democratic institutions.",
        "但丑闻最重要的结果却是彰显了巴西法律和民主制度的非凡实力而非弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "In the same period, sterling has risen almost 10% against the euro, while British share prices have hit all-time highs and government bonds have generated better returns in Britain than in the United States, Germany, or Japan.",
        "与此同时，英镑对欧元升值了近10%，而英国股价正处于历史最高水平，英国政府债券的回报也高于美国、德国和日本。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to examine this approach, not only because the EU is pursuing the world’s largest and most ambitious climate policy, but also because other climate policies suffer from similar shortcomings.",
        "考量上述策略是否可行非常重要，不仅因为欧盟执行的是全世界涉及面最广、最雄心勃勃的气候政策，还因为其他气候政策也有着相似的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the eurozone has now settled on a current-account surplus of around 3% of GDP.",
        "此外，欧元区目前拥有相当于 GDP 3% 左右的经常账户盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s vice-presidential choice, Mike Pence, is an establishment GOP politician, and his campaign’s economic advisers were wealthy businessmen, financiers, real-estate developers, and supply-side economists.",
        "特朗普的副总统人选麦克·彭斯是一位建制派共和党政客，而他的选战经济顾问都是富裕的商人、金融家、房地产开发商和供给侧经济学家。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the problems that had made the crisis more difficult after 1982 was the US dollar’s appreciation.",
        "1982年后，增加危机解决难度的因素之一就是美元升值。"
    ],
    [
        "But their suspicion also reflects jingoistic manipulation and a lack of perspective on US-Iran relations.",
        "但他们的怀疑也反映出强硬外交的操纵和缺少对美伊关系的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Within two years of Kyrgyzstan’s independence, prisons filled with women held on drug-trafficking charges.",
        "吉尔吉斯斯坦独立短短两年，监狱中就关满了被判贩毒罪名的女性。"
    ],
    [
        "China is downshifting, and Brazil, Russia, and India are struggling to avoid a stall.",
        "中国在走下坡路，巴西、俄罗斯和印度也在竭力避免停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "Some see this change as usurpation; others view it as Thailand’s deliverance into the twenty-first century.",
        "有些人将这种改变视为篡夺王权，而其他人则认为这是为泰国迈向21世纪挣脱了枷锁。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to imprisonment, he missed two years of his playing career, and millions of dollars in earnings.",
        "除了坐牢之外，他还损失了两年的运动员生涯，以及数百万美元薪金。"
    ],
    [
        "To see why, it is important to understand why bankers are paid so much.",
        "让我们来看看银行家凭什么获得如此高薪 . 。"
    ],
    [
        "So bridging the human dignity deficit, the divide between haves and have-nots, will be essential to reaching any viable political settlement between Palestinians and Israelis.",
        "因此，要想在巴以之间达成任何可行的政治解决方案，必须要缩短人的尊严之间的距离，加强贫富之间的交流。"
    ],
    [
        "To most Hong Kong lawyers, the display of political authority did not represent simply a reinterpretation of old rules, but a move toward making new ones.",
        "对大部分香港律师而言，如此展示政治权威不仅仅是重新解释旧规则，也是制定新规则的一个步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "The world barely stirred.",
        "世界不为所动。"
    ],
    [
        "It has a free press and an open society; it welcomes migrants and refugees; it has a thirst for new ideas and a knack for innovation.",
        "它欢迎移民和难民； 它渴望新思想，拥有创新本能。"
    ],
    [
        "Zidane was not Superman, but a human being.",
        "齐达内不是超人，而是凡夫俗子。"
    ],
    [
        "This recommendation may seem radical, but only because the view of a one-way flow of innovation from West to East has become so entrenched.",
        "这一建议可能有些激进，但这只是因为从西方向东方的单向创新流动的观念过于根深蒂固。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the recession ends and recovery begins, a “stock-adjustment” response takes hold, as households compensate for foregone replacement and update their aging durable goods.",
        "当衰退结束、复苏开始时，“存货调整”反应就会出现，家庭开始补偿此前的替代，升级老旧的耐久品。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, one reason for the banking crisis was that banks expected governments to bail them out in case of trouble.",
        "毕竟，金融危机发生的原因之一就是银行一直幻想着政府在困难时能拉他们出来。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the complaints and calls for leadership are mutually reinforcing.",
        "事实上，抱怨和领导责任呼声是互相强化的。"
    ],
    [
        "In many ways, this move toward closer relations makes a lot of sense.",
        "从很多方面讲，这一加强关系的转变具有重大意义。"
    ],
    [
        "All this will be propelled by India’s new cultural confidence.",
        "这一切都来源于具有自信的印度崭新文化。"
    ],
    [
        "But the meetings this year seemed particularly significant, owing not only to the country’s leadership transition, but also to its economic slowdown amid calls for deeper reform.",
        "但今年的两会似乎尤为重要，这不仅因为国家领导人换届，也因为中国的经济增长放缓提出了深化改革的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "One is to exclude bank rescues altogether: only creditors would have to pay for bankers’ mistakes.",
        "一是彻底排除银行援助：只让债权人为银行家的错误买单。"
    ],
    [
        "Industrial output soared to 40 times its level at the beginning of the twentieth century.",
        "我们多用了9倍的水资源和13倍的能源。 工业生产也比世纪初跃升了40倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The task of assessing trade imbalances – whom to blame and what should be done – involves both economics and politics.",
        "对贸易不平衡的评估——谁该受到谴责，应该怎么做——包涵着经济和政治两个方面。"
    ],
    [
        "It is high time that Krugman – right or wrong – learned to behave that way, too.",
        "克鲁格曼——不论对错——也应该这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "The lives of millions of people, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, have been improved.",
        "数百万人的生活，特别是撒哈拉以南非洲人民，得到了改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence, for his part, warns that as long as there are “non-inclusive growth patterns” in both developing and advanced economies, there is little hope of “reducing poverty and fulfilling basic human aspirations for health, security, and the chance to contribute productively and creatively to society.”",
        "诺贝尔经济学奖得主迈克尔·斯宾塞（Michael Spence）则警告说，只要发展中和发达经济体存在“非包容性增长模式”，我们就没有什么希望能够“减少贫困并充分实现健康、安全和为社会做出生产性和创造性贡献的基本人类愿望”。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the answers are surprising.",
        "有些答案甚至会令人大吃一惊。"
    ],
    [
        "But the benefits of Aquino’s leadership are not limited to Mindanao.",
        "但获得阿基诺三世领导力好处的并不只有棉兰老岛。"
    ],
    [
        "A curfew was imposed in many districts, and long-distance travel was discouraged.",
        "许多地区实施了宵禁，长途旅行成为众矢之的。"
    ],
    [
        "By that time, the German economy will also be weakening, so that Chancellor Angela Merkel will find it even more difficult than today to persuade the German public to accept additional European responsibilities.",
        "到了那时，德国经济可能也已经出现颓势，因此首相默克尔比现在更难说服德国公众接受更多的欧洲责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The rulers argued that public protests throughout the region were being orchestrated by Shia Iran, and were anti-Sunni and sectarian.",
        "统治者宣称蔓延整个中东地区的民众抗议活动都是什叶派伊朗幕后操纵的，而且是反逊尼派和号召实施世俗主义的。"
    ],
    [
        "The despair felt after 1937 led to the emergence of similar new terms then, too.",
        "1937年后的所感到的绝望也曾经导致类似新名词的出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Breeders routinely use radiation or chemical mutagens on seeds to scramble a plant’s DNA and generate new traits.",
        "育种者一直在使用辐射和化学诱变剂处理种子，干扰作物的DNA，制造新的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "Most everyday leaders remain unheralded.",
        "绝大多数平凡的领袖不为人所知。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, improvements in distribution and marketing would allow farmers to keep more of the proceeds from the sale of their crops.",
        "并支持农民转种更有利可图的作物。 此外，改革销售及营销领域将使作物出售的收益更多地归农民所有。"
    ],
    [
        "Varoufakis’s idea of strategy is to hold a gun to his own head, then demand a ransom for not pulling the trigger.",
        "雅路法克斯的策略思维是用枪指着自己的头，然后要求赎金否则就开枪。"
    ],
    [
        "But the historic five-day trial dispelled any notion that Bo would go quietly to his cell in Beijing’s infamous Qincheng Prison, where China’s fallen top leaders are incarcerated.",
        "但此次历史性的五天公审彻底打消了薄会静悄悄被关进北京臭名昭著的秦城监狱的假设，这座监狱关押着中国落马的高层领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "While much remains uncertain, what is clear is that if the UK wants to retain access to the European single market, it will have to accept the EU’s four freedoms, including the free movement of workers.",
        "虽然不确定因素仍然很多，但有一点十分明确，即如果英国想要保留单一市场准入权，就必须接受包括劳动力自由流动在内的欧盟四项自由政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Motion scaling – which allows the robotic arms to mimic the exact movements of the surgeon’s hands, but on a much smaller scale – will enable surgeons to manipulate tissue that is too small for the naked eye to detect.",
        "按比例动作缩放——该技术让机器手在小得多的规模上精确模拟外科医生的动作——将能使外科医生操纵肉眼无法察觉的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the “social cost” of carbon was raised from $24 to $37 per ton emitted.",
        "在美国，碳的“社会成本”从每吨排放量21美元提高到35美元。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, they are responsible for public capital expenditure, driving the improvement in China’s physical infrastructure and yielding reasonable returns for private investors.",
        "首先，它们负责公共资本支出，推动了中国实体基础设施的改善，并给私人投资者带来合理回报。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Commission, the Council of Europe, and press watchdog groups were unanimous in criticizing the legislation, but the Hungarian government persists in its media crackdown.",
        "欧盟委员会、欧洲理事会和媒体监督组织都不约而同地批评这项法律，但匈牙利政府仍坚持其媒体镇压路线。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the ECB is threatening to cut off support – for example, because a government will not comply with what the Germans regard as good economic policy – the whole house of cards can come tumbling down.",
        "可是，假如某个政府不服从德国政府所认为的好的经济政策，那么欧洲中央银行将终止对其的支持，此时整个纸牌屋（高额负债国）将会轰然倒塌。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia’s decade long royal death watch is over.",
        "沙特阿拉伯长达十年的皇家病危监护结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps seeing how futile it is to rest one’s sense of self on externalized, professionalized achievement is a wake-up call – and a first step to a deeper freedom, and an even deeper sense of feminine destiny.",
        "可能当我们意识到一个女性将对自身的认识构建那些外在的，职场上的成就之上是多么无意义的时候，就会一种醍醐灌顶的感觉——而这也将成为我们迈向更深的自由，以及对女性命运更深认识的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "In South Korea, LG recently launched a program to solicit invention ideas from the public, promising inventors a hefty 8% stake in the proceeds of any ideas the company commercializes.",
        "在韩国，LG公司最近提出了一项计划，从公众那里征求创新思想，承诺如若公司将发明项目商业化，则发明人能获得此过程中高达8%的权益。"
    ],
    [
        "But vaccines also have a crucial role to play in protecting us against a far deadlier and far more predictable threat: drug-resistant infections.",
        "但疫苗也在保护我们对抗耐药菌感染这一更为致命也更可预测的治疗中发挥了至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, no G-20 leader has seriously articulated this need, let alone lobbied for a solution.",
        "遗憾的是，没有哪位G-20领导人认真提出过这方面的需求，更不用说为解决方案进行游说了。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions die each year, either of outright starvation or from infectious diseases that their weakened bodies cannot withstand.",
        "每年有数百万的人死去，有的是直接饿死的，有的则死于孱弱的身体无法抵抗的传染病。"
    ],
    [
        "More than £100 billion ($131 billion) was wiped off the FTSE 100 in the first ten minutes of trading after the result was announced, while the pound has plumbed a 35-year low against the US dollar.",
        "FTSE100指数在公投结果公布十分钟内市值蒸发1,000亿多英镑 ，而英镑兑美元汇率更是暴跌至35年来的低点。"
    ],
    [
        "Eurobonds plus fiscal rules: this formula is the euro’s best hope for salvation.",
        "欧元债券加财政规则：这就是解决欧元危机的最佳之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Hezbollah in Lebanon and Shiite parties in Iraq have also performed well in elections.",
        "黎巴嫩真主党和伊拉克的什叶派政党也在选举中取得了不俗的成绩。"
    ],
    [
        "Because corporate taxes are less significant in terms of overall federal revenue, rate cutting doesn’t pose a comparable threat to the budget balance.",
        "公司税对联邦总税收收入来说并不那么重要，因此，相对来说降低公司税率对于预算平衡不会造成很大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "One key member of the No campaign, former Attorney General Alejandro Ordóñez, insisted that the word “gender” be removed from the text.",
        "反对阵营的关键人物、前司法部长奥东内兹（Alejandro Ordóñez）坚持要求将“性别”一词从协议文本中删除。"
    ],
    [
        "Market Failure and Political Failure",
        "市场失灵与政治失灵"
    ],
    [
        "However, it will need to be much better targeted at increasing demand in order to avoid adding more to the national debt than the rise in domestic spending.",
        "明确此次方案的目标尤其显得重要：就是以增加需求为导向，如果只是盲目的推出，就只会导致国债增加，对扩大需求没有什么作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Focusing on a few sectors yields no quick winning opportunities.",
        "专注于少数部门无法产生快速的繁荣机会。"
    ],
    [
        "If Singh’s new reform agenda is again blocked, perhaps it will be time for a more radical assessment.",
        "如果辛格的新改革计划再次受阻，或许应该采取更激进的打算了。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the crisis of today must be managed in a peaceful manner, which was also our goal in 1989 – reflected in dissidents’ startling idea of regime change through negotiation.",
        "其次，必须用一种平和的态度来处理今日的危机，这也是我们在 1989 年时的目标 —— 这在异见人士希望通过谈判协商来寻求政权更替的惊天构想中可见一斑。"
    ],
    [
        "Kosovo, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia must be the last of the states that break away through force.",
        "科索沃、南奥塞梯和阿布哈兹应该是借助武力独立的最后的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "One stop was Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where we met a group of health- and civic-minded citizens at a grade school.",
        "其中一站是宾夕法尼亚州的兰开斯特（Lancaster），我们在一所小学与热心健康和公益的公民团体见了面。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be unfortunate if the finance ministers merely sit around and beg Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet to rescue them with rate cuts.",
        "如果各国的财政部长仅仅坐在一起央求美联储主席伯南克和欧洲央行行长特里谢削减利率来拯救他们那真是太不幸了。"
    ],
    [
        "Success brings its reward in the form of immediate punishment!",
        "成功以惩罚的形式给予我们回报。"
    ],
    [
        "When things go wrong – as is likely, given mounting social strains caused by rising inequality, environmental degradation, and deteriorating public services – China’s alienated masses could become politically radicalized.",
        "鉴于不平等加剧、环境破坏以及日益崩溃的公共服务引发不断上涨的社会压力，形势有可能恶化。 持敌对意见的中国大众有可能在政治上极端化。"
    ],
    [
        "In the current violence, the police have unfortunately been placed in the position of sole representative of the state.",
        "在当前的暴力事件中，警察不幸被置于国家的唯一代表的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Western Europe and Other Group (WEOG) now accounts for three of the five permanent members (France, the United Kingdom, and the US).",
        "事实上，西欧和其他国家团体（WEOG）目前占据联合国常任理事国的五分之三（法、英、美）。"
    ],
    [
        "Immediate debt reduction and the recovery of economic sovereignty – even at the expense of exiting the euro, at least temporarily – would seem to have offered significant long-term benefits.",
        "立刻获得债务减免和重获经济主权——即使以至少是暂时性地退出欧元区为代价——似乎提供了巨大的长期好处。"
    ],
    [
        "But the euro does have growing strengths.",
        "但欧元的实力的确与日俱增。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eurozone, the European Central Bank’s commitment, announced in 2012, to prevent debt levels from becoming unsustainable is politically conditional on fiscal restraint.",
        "在欧元区，欧洲央行2012年所做出的阻止债务水平变得不可持续的承诺在政治上需要以财政抑制为条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynes’s heresy was to deny that there are any such natural forces, at least in the short term.",
        "凯恩斯的离经判道之处在于他否认经济有这种自然恢复的能力——至少短期不会。"
    ],
    [
        "Conventional measures, instead of taking into account cross-border production chains, simply take the sum of a country’s production and net commodity imports to determine its level of consumption.",
        "传统衡量指标不考虑跨国生产链，只计算一国产出和大宗商品净进口的和来衡量消费水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But what would such a compromise look like?",
        "但是这样一个妥协方案是什么样子的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "So a fair verdict would be that the FSB has done no more and no less than what its political masters have been prepared to allow it to do.",
        "因此，公正的结论是金融稳定委员会做得不多也不少，恰好等于炮制它的政治领导人所准备让它做的。"
    ],
    [
        "No one wants to be the one to stop the party – especially if their job is at stake.",
        "没人希望成为结束派对的人——特别是当自己的饭碗因此受到影响时。"
    ],
    [
        "Crop diversity can also deliver important ecosystem benefits.",
        "农作物多样性还能给生态系统带来许多好处。"
    ],
    [
        "But different countries have very different interests, depending on whether they are oil exporters or importers and how developed their economies are.",
        "但不同国家利益有着很大的不同，这取决于他们是石油出口还是进口国及其国内经济的发达程度。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration made numerous foreign-policy blunders with far-reaching consequences.",
        "布什政府在外交政策上屡犯大错，后果深远。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a real possibility of major upheavals in both Bahrain and Jordan.",
        "巴林和约旦也切实存在着剧变的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "But life is more complicated than this.",
        "但生活有着高度的复杂性。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the following chart shows, these countries also have some of the highest government spending- and taxation-to-GDP ratios in the OECD.",
        "但是，如下图所示，这些国家的政府支出和税收占GDP之比也是经合组织中最高的。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a report published by the Peterson Institute, only two million US workers have benefited from TAA since 1974.",
        "据彼得森研究所（Peterson Institute）所发布的一份报告，自1974年以来只有两百万美国工人得益于TAA。"
    ],
    [
        "But politicians never know exactly who will be blamed, and how much, until the shutdown happens.",
        "但在关门发生之前，政客永远不会不知道谁会遭受谴责，遭受多么严重的谴责。"
    ],
    [
        "It certainly won’t make it possible for China to resume work on the road it wanted to build.",
        "这也显然无法让中国恢复其铺路作业。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks have not failed, and there is no sign of tumbling dominoes.",
        "银行并没有倒闭，也没有出现任何多米诺效应的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "But they deserve careful consideration.",
        "但我们应该仔细考虑这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The film begins with the story of Chai’s own newborn daughter being diagnosed with a benign tumor.",
        "影片以柴静一出生就被诊断出良性肿瘤的女儿开头。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN and Arab League special envoy for Syria, reports that opposition forces include 38 nationalities.",
        "此外，联合国和阿盟叙利亚事务特使布拉西米（Lakhdar Brahimi）报告说，反对派武装包括38国人。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for Abe, the TPP’s value for Japan’s sense of identity – that it is now a more outward-looking nation – is just as important.",
        "但是，对安倍晋三来说，TPP对日本作为一个更加外向的国家的身份感的价值也同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Four years ago this month, Zenawi’s Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Party (EPRDF) suffered its worst loss at the polls since the former guerrilla overthrew a ruthless, Soviet-backed regime in 1991.",
        "4年前的这个月，泽纳维领导的埃塞俄比亚人民革命民主阵线在选举中受到重创。 这是这位前游击老手自从1991年推翻了前苏联支持的残酷政权以来遭受的最大一次打击。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20’s growth compact must be a jobs compact, too.",
        "而G20集团的增长协议也必须成为一项就业增长协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers have shifted from working on the quantity of money (QE, CE, and foreign-exchange intervention) to working on the price of money (first ZIRP, then FG, and now NIRP).",
        "决策者从注重货币数量（QE、CE和外汇干预）转而注重货币价格（首先是ZIRP，然后是FG，现在是NIRP）。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, symbolically, the concert was not minor at all.",
        "但是，从象征意义上说，滚石音乐会绝不是小事。"
    ],
    [
        "Hezbollah, which led the armed struggle against Israeli occupation, was to disarm and re-invent itself as a political force, representing the Shiite community that was historically marginalized by Lebanon’s ruling Maronite, Sunni, and Druze elites.",
        "领导反对以色列占领的黎巴嫩真主党将会放下武器并把自己改造成为一支代表什叶派穆斯林的政治力量。 黎巴嫩占统治地位的马龙派、逊尼派以及德鲁士的精英分子长久以来一直排挤什叶派。"
    ],
    [
        "The End of US Soft Power?",
        "美国软实力终结？"
    ],
    [
        "Although sanctions may increase the cost of producing nuclear weapons, history suggests that governments are willing to pay a significant price if they place a high enough value on having them.",
        "尽管制裁能够提高制造核武器的成本，但历史表明，如果政府对于拥有核武器足够重视，就愿意承担高昂的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The secret behind these countries’ success is relentlessly focused leaders, whether entrenched but benign dictators or democratically elected politicians with a shared vision of a broad-based economy.",
        "这些国家成功的背后是坚持不懈的领导人，不管是长期执政但温和的独裁者，还是对宽基础经济有着共同愿景的民选政客。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer depends on whether the priority for protection is birds and beaches, or other forms of marine life such as fish, shrimps, and mollusks.",
        "答案取决于保护的重点是鸟类以及海滩，还是鱼、虾和软体动物等其他形式的海洋生物。 如果首要保护鸟类和海滩，可以选择驱散原油；"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is in the throes of multiple economic, social, political, and institutional crises.",
        "欧洲正陷入多重经济、社会、政治和制度危机。"
    ],
    [
        "As trade liberalization has diminished the EU’s income, mainly derived from customs duties, individual countries have increasingly sought to minimize their net contributions.",
        "随着贸易自由化降低了欧盟的收入（主要来自关税），个体国家开始日益寻求减少净出资规模。"
    ],
    [
        "As a tourist draw, seen at close quarters in its natural habitat, a manta ray can be worth thousands of dollars; dead on a slab at the quayside, its flesh and gills fetch a fraction of that.",
        "在自然栖息地近距离看到吸引旅游者的蝠鲼可以价值数千美元； 但如果死在码头上，它的肉和鳃加起来也只是个零头。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, the official community has decided to stick with Plan A; if that fails, Plan B is default to reduce unsustainable debts and a Greek exit from the eurozone to allow depreciation and restoration of competitiveness and growth.",
        "目前，希腊官方决心采用A计划； 如果A计划失败，B计划就是违约，以减少无法偿还的债务，并且退出欧元区，以让本币贬值，恢复出口竞争力和经济增长力。"
    ],
    [
        "Limitations on autonomy and privacy cannot be justified unless they meet the criteria for any restriction of a basic right, namely legitimate purpose, proportionality, necessity, and non-discrimination.",
        "限制自治权和隐私权是站不住脚的，除非它们符合限制基本权利的标准，即合理的目的、程度、必要性和无歧视性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Israel-Palestine conflict, the competition between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and the Sunni-Shia relationship all require mutual accommodation.",
        "以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突、沙特阿拉伯和伊朗之间的竞争，以及逊尼派-什叶派关系都需要双方的妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "The contest is being waged institutionally in organizations like the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and daily in countries like Syria.",
        "战斗是制度性的，国际电信联盟（ITU）和叙利亚等国的日报等组织剑拔弩张。"
    ],
    [
        "As my coauthors and I show in a new book, the share of dollars in the foreign-currency reserves held by central banks and governments worldwide hardly budged in the face of these events.",
        "我的合作者和我在新书中指出，面对这些事件，美元占全球央行和政府所持外汇储备中的比例几无动摇。"
    ],
    [
        "One major area of disagreement is how to tax the foreign earnings of US multinational companies (MNCs), a disagreement highlighted by the recent proposals issued by Senator Max Baucus, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee.",
        "一个主要分歧领域是对美国跨国公司海外利润如何课税，参议院金融委员会主席马克斯·鲍库斯（Max Baucus）所提出的最新方案就凸显出这一争议。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, in particular, the ability of labor to protect its share of national income, and of lower- and middle-income households to protect their share of the wage pool, eroded substantially.",
        "特别是美国，劳动力捍卫自己占国民收入中的比例的能力，以及中低收入家庭捍卫自己在工资总量中的比例的能力都大幅下降。"
    ],
    [
        "China and South Korea both cancelled meetings of their foreign ministers with their Japanese counterpart.",
        "中国和韩国取消了各自外长与日本外相的会晤。"
    ],
    [
        "Although oil accounts for a smaller part of the energy mix nowadays and spare capacity is currently well ensured, chiefly by Saudi Arabia, a price shock would still have global effects – as such shocks have had in the past.",
        "尽管如今石油占能源组合的比重有所下降，冗余产能（主要在沙特阿拉伯）目前也得到了很好的保护，但价格冲击仍有可能影响全球——一如过去所发生过的价格冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "But no one has so far argued that the cost of damage caused to the development prospects of poor countries and regions is less than the amount of compensation being offered to cover adjustment costs.",
        "但迄今为止还没有人提出贫困国家和地区发展前景所遭受的损失达不到支付调整费用的补偿额。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Open Diplomacy Possible?",
        "公开的外交可行吗？"
    ],
    [
        "A month later, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, called for Lenin Avenue in Moscow to be renamed Ivan the Terrible Highway.",
        "一个月后，俄超民族自由民主党领袖弗拉基米尔·日里诺夫斯基号召将莫斯科的列宁大道改名为恐怖的伊凡公路。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, until recently, most people took little notice of China.",
        "事实上，大部分人最近才开始对中国有所了解。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that China makes progress on the road to consumer-led rebalancing, it will shift from surplus saving to saving absorption.",
        "中国正在朝消费拉动的再平衡迈进，它将从储蓄盈余国转变为储蓄吸收国。"
    ],
    [
        "If only such practices were used to tackle the vast majority of the problems that overwhelm Somalia.",
        "要是这种做法被用来处理索马里所面临的大多数问题就好了。"
    ],
    [
        "But now Europe’s anchor has become a brake, hindering forward movement.",
        "但如今，欧洲之锚变成了一个阻碍，阻碍欧洲的前进。"
    ],
    [
        "The campaign against under-recognition has probably resulted in some anxious, agitated, and/or irritable depressed patients who complain of insomnia and “racing thoughts” being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder.",
        "针对认识不足的行动很可能造成一些抑郁病人被误诊为双相障碍。 这些病人往往焦虑、不安和/或易怒，并抱怨有失眠和“思绪澎湃”的症状。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia is boosting its spending on social and infrastructure investments substantially, as well as expanding oil sector capacity.",
        "沙特阿拉伯将大大增加其在社会和基础设施上投资的力度，并且将扩大石油的产能。"
    ],
    [
        "The point is that Turkey needs judicial reforms that eliminate the possibility of organized cliques manipulating their constitutional powers to advance their own narrow goals.",
        "要点是土耳其需要司法改革扫除有组织派系操纵宪法权力追求自身狭隘利益的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "A trade war could thus cost the US millions of jobs.",
        "因此，贸易战将让美国损失数百万个就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the US has declined to hold joint military exercises in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China has claimed as “South Tibet” since 2006.",
        "比如，美国拒绝在印度东北部的阿鲁纳恰尔邦（中国自2006年以来称之为“藏南”）采取联合军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "But Chirac acted as if his mandate had been unequivocal and put in place one of the most conservative governments France has seen for half a century.",
        "但是希拉克表现得好似他的受命毫无可疑之处，并建立了半个世纪以来最为保守的法国政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the cost of the crisis is millions of homes lost and lives damaged, some permanently.",
        "最后一项成本则是数百万无家可归者和被扰乱的生活，有些影响甚至将持续一辈子。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Since 2010, global financial circles have been obsessing about China’s slowing economy.",
        "发自北京——自2010年以来，全球金融圈都被中国经济的减速所困扰着。"
    ],
    [
        "At a special summit called by the President Obama, the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that opens a new chapter in the UN’s efforts to address nuclear proliferation and disarmament.",
        "在奥巴马总统提议召开的特别峰会上，联合国安理会一致通过了一项决议，翻开了联合国解决核扩散及核裁军问题的全新篇章。"
    ],
    [
        "But the severity of Wenzhou’s underground credit crisis has been exaggerated.",
        "但温州地下信用危机的严重性被夸大了。"
    ],
    [
        "But to embrace the images they published as a statement of Enlightenment conviction weakens the values that are essential to a civilized society.",
        "但将他们所出版的形象作为启蒙运动信念的表达则削弱了对文明社会至关重要的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "These agreements lock out non-banking entities from the highly lucrative market for migrant remittances from the African diaspora, which remain a key engine of growth.",
        "上述协议将非银行机构排除在利润丰厚的非洲散居移民汇款市场之外，而散居移民汇款一直是非洲经济增长的重要引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "Unnecessarily broad regulations should be avoided in favor of rules that are specifically tailored to the various participants in the market.",
        "不必要的宽监管应该避免，以利于为不同的市场参与者量身定制的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Solar and wind power appear to be acceptable, but both are much less reliable than coal, and much more expensive.",
        "看上去太阳能和风能可以被接受，然而这两种能源都远不如燃煤可靠，而且要昂贵得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Mean-spirited and partisan, Dick Cheney was one of America’s most powerful vice presidents.",
        "不怀好意同时拉帮结伙，迪克·切尼成为美国有史以来权力最大的副总统之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But a year and a half after his inauguration, Obama’s “outstretched hand” to Iran has turned into a fist, and his attempts to encourage Israeli-Palestinian negotiations seem stuck.",
        "但在完成就职演说一年半后，奥巴马“伸出的双手”已经握成了拳头，而他鼓励以巴谈判的目标似乎也陷于停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Turkish policymakers have consistently championed a diplomatic solution to the Iranian conundrum, which is what they got with the latest deal.",
        "这也是土耳其决策者一直呼吁通过外交手段解决伊朗问题的原因，最近的协议正是这一努力的一个成果。"
    ],
    [
        "According to an analysis by researchers at Goldman Sachs, closing the gender gap could boost GDP by 9% in the United States and nearly 13% in Japan.",
        "根据高盛（Goldman Sacks）研究人员的分析，缩小性别差异将给美国带来9%的GDP提振，给日本则能带来13%。"
    ],
    [
        "By that point, the fast-paced Internet environment may well have evolved beyond recognition.",
        "到那时，快速变化的互联网环境可能早已突破了我们的认知边界。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, to put it another way: the market-clearing wage was unable to provide a living income for 38% of working families.",
        "或者，换句话说，市场出清工资水平无法为38%的工作家庭提供过活所得。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2007, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision, siding with the states; and in 2009, the EPA concluded that certain greenhouse gases endanger public welfare.",
        "2007年，联邦最高法院大法官以5票赞成4票反对的比数作出裁决，支持州一方。 而在2009年，美国国家环境保护局得出结论，认定特定种类的温室气体会危及公共福利。"
    ],
    [
        "It has become fashionable in certain smart circles to regard atheism as a sign of superior education, of a more highly evolved civilization, of enlightenment.",
        "一段时间以来，聪明人的圈子里时兴把无神论视为一种高人一等的教育、一种向更高程度演进的文明以及启蒙的标志。"
    ],
    [
        "But recent genetic research unequivocally refutes this worldview.",
        "但近来的基因研究却明白无误的驳斥了他的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Most evidence suggests that the economy has slowed significantly.",
        "大部分证据表明已出现大幅放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, the agenda must create the basis for sustained and meaningful global partnerships on migration and human mobility, similar to efforts under the MDGs, to make trade and technology transfer work for development.",
        "在这方面，2015年后日程必须为移民和人口流动方面的全球合作创造有意义的持续基础（如同根据MDG采取的各项行动一样），从而让贸易和技术转移为发展做出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Crops, gardens, and orchards provided abundant food supplies.",
        "作物、菜园和果园提供了丰富的食物。"
    ],
    [
        "Who is responsible for involuntary acts?",
        "由谁来为这些非自主性行为负责？"
    ],
    [
        "Several countries, including Costa Rica, Norway, and New Zealand, have pledged carbon neutrality, which in turn will require investment and employment in carbon-friendly sectors.",
        "包括哥斯大黎加、挪威和新西兰在内的一些国家已经承诺要达到碳中和，这些都会给碳友好行业带来投资和就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Identities within nations are fluid, even from minute to minute.",
        "人们在民族内部的身份是不固定的，甚至每一分钟都不同。"
    ],
    [
        "By granting Snowden asylum for one year, Russian President Vladimir Putin, will have the bomber in his midst when he hosts this year’s summit in Saint Petersburg.",
        "因为承诺为斯诺登提供一年庇护，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京举办今年的圣彼得堡峰会时就好像把一枚定时炸弹埋在了身边。"
    ],
    [
        "Beginning in September 1931, the markets became nervous about the US, causing large outflows from American banks – and thus from the dollar.",
        "从1931年9月开始，市场紧张起美国来了，出现了资本从美国各银行大规模流出的现象——也就是逃离美元。"
    ],
    [
        "· Enhance women’s economic and political empowerment, including by directing international aid toward their health, education, and welfare.",
        "· 加强妇女的经济和政治实力，包括引导针对妇女健康、教育和福利的国际援助。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem has many causes, one of which is a poorly functioning labor market that forces many Colombians to accept informal work or no work at all.",
        "问题的根源是多方面的，其中之一是劳动力市场功能不全，迫使许多哥伦比亚人不得不从事非正式工作或彻底失业。"
    ],
    [
        "Naturally, the platform would focus on projects with defined cash flows and contractual terms (which could include associated risk-mitigation strategies) guaranteed for 20-30 years.",
        "自然地，这一平台将专注于获得20—30年担保期的现金流和合同条件（可以包括相应的风险遏制战略）确定的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest of us spend our time planning what to make, deciding where to install the things we have made, performing personal services, talking to each other, and keeping track of what is being done, so that we can figure out what needs to be done next.",
        "我们其他人把时间花在规划制造什么、决定把我们造出来的东西摆在哪里、履行个人服务、彼此谈话、追踪正在制造什么上，以便我们能够发现我们下一步需要做什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear of Iranian-led hegemony, for example, has focused Gulf leaders’ minds on their Shia population’s loyalty.",
        "比如，海湾国家领导人认定，担心以伊朗为首的霸权主义是其什叶派人口忠心的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But those sentiments are a world away from the pretty, polite techniques of his mathematical progeny.",
        "但是，这些情感与其数学结果漂亮而又礼貌的技术失之千里。"
    ],
    [
        "Tsinghua and Peking universities together recently surpassed Berkeley as the top sources of students who go on to earn American PhDs.",
        "而如果把北京大学和清华大学两所高校加在一起的话，那么这个联合体最近已经成功超越了加州大学伯克利分校，成为攻读美国博士学位学生的最大来源了。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter urged US Cyber Command – the arm of the military dedicated to cyberspace operations – to “intensify the fight” against ISIS.",
        "近日，国防部长阿什顿·卡特敦促美国网络司令部——即致力于网络空间作战的军事部门——加强反对伊斯兰国的战斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Also overlooked have been the immediate challenges of low growth, weak investment, and high unemployment.",
        "同样被忽视的还有低增长、投资不振以及失业高企所带来的即期挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "If internal devaluation were the solution, the gold standard would not have been a problem in the Great Depression.",
        "如果内部贬值是解决问题的办法，大萧条时的金本位就不会成为一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran can be a major partner to halt proliferation of WMDs in Syria, the Middle East, and beyond.",
        "伊朗可以成为制止大规模杀伤性武器在叙利亚、中东和全世界扩散的主要合作伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "A deepening of cooperation in the eastern Mediterranean would provide myriad economic opportunities, not least the many related to developing the region’s cross-border maritime gas reserves.",
        "在地中海东部地区深化合作将带来大量的经济机会，其中很多机会与开发该地区跨境海上天然气资源有关。"
    ],
    [
        "In all these cases, authorities have responded with repression, including the hiring of plain-clothes militias to kidnap or beat up people who attempt to publicize problems.",
        "所有这些事件中，政府用压制手段予以回应，包括雇用便衣民兵绑架或殴打敢于公开问题的人士。"
    ],
    [
        "Longer working time can be achieved nearly instantaneously, whereas employing more people is time consuming and expensive, as it typically requires new physical investment. Working longer is thus the ideal way to achieve growth and competitiveness.",
        "延长工作时间可以立马做到，然而因为雇佣更多员工尤其要求新的实物投资，时间长、花费大，所以，延长工时是达到增长并获得竞争力的最理想方法。"
    ],
    [
        "But China is about to experience something new: South Korea’s soft power, personified by Park, who represents a center-right coalition, but defies the usual political labels.",
        "但中国即将面临新的情况：那就是以朴槿惠为代表的韩国软实力。 朴槿惠代表中右翼政治联盟，但却与常规的政治标签不符。"
    ],
    [
        "One shortcoming of the measure consists in the fact that the crisis has hit both universal and specialized banks.",
        "这一措施的一大短处是危机对全业务银行和专业化银行都产生了冲击这一事实。"
    ],
    [
        "In summary, the hard facts about nuclear energy are inconsistent with the possibility of a worldwide renaissance of nuclear energy.",
        "总而言之，这些令人皱眉的数据都与核能的“文艺复兴”背道而驰。"
    ],
    [
        "While North Korea had done much over the preceding years to warrant a more critical eye, in retrospect these policies set back prospects for peace and stability in the region.",
        "尽管在那之前的若干年里，北朝鲜在接受国际社会更多批评的目光方面做出不少努力，但回头看来布什的这些政策使该地区和平与稳定的前景遭遇了挫折。"
    ],
    [
        "Change can be made in an evolutionary, rather than a revolutionary, way.",
        "改变是渐进式的，而不是一场彻底革命。"
    ],
    [
        "It is already a profound peculiarity that customs duties in a customs union are still administered nationally.",
        "作为一个关税同盟，欧洲各国在关税问题上依旧各行其是，这已然是一件怪事。"
    ],
    [
        "A case also worth noting is that of Bolivia, where left-wing administrations have significantly expanded social-welfare spending.",
        "另一个值得关注的案例是玻利维亚。 在玻利维亚，左翼政府大幅扩大了社会福利支出。"
    ],
    [
        "One cannot help but contrast this with Budanov, the rapist and murderer who is now free to move about Russia at will.",
        "人们不禁要把这个案件与布达诺夫相比，这个强奸犯和杀人犯现在可以在俄罗斯随意走动。"
    ],
    [
        "But Iran is playing for time and hoping to reach a zone of immunity.",
        "但伊朗却在争分夺秒争取进入豁免区。"
    ],
    [
        "Weakened by this crisis, they are the first to suffer from the cuts in financial flows.",
        "在这次金融危机的打击下，它们是首先受金融交易影响的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, given the ongoing recession, it may not be so easy for central banks to achieve any inflation at all right now.",
        "当然，鉴于衰退的持续，中央银行立刻取得通货膨胀的效果不是很容易 。"
    ],
    [
        "We wouldn’t have to force (or subsidize) anyone to stop burning coal and oil.",
        "那时我们根本不需要强迫（或补贴）人们停用化石燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "Evading Tax Evasion",
        "打击逃税现象"
    ],
    [
        "The parable features a group of travelers, returning home with identical pottery purchased on a remote island.",
        "这个例子讲的是一群旅行者带着从遥远的小岛上买到的一样的陶器回家。"
    ],
    [
        "In the late second century BC, the aristocratic Gracchi brothers tried to bring about a political revolution from within, only to be killed by the conservative nobility.",
        "在公元前二世纪末，贵族格拉古兄弟试图从内部进行政治革命，结果被保守派贵族所杀。"
    ],
    [
        "These conditions are a long way from being met, which means that profitable investments are not being made.",
        "这些条件都远远没有满足，这意味着有利可图的投资没有能够实施。"
    ],
    [
        "As of 2013, boys aged 0-24 outnumbered girls by 23 million, implying that more than 20 million young men will not be able to find marriage partners in the coming decades.",
        "2013年，0—24岁男孩数量比女孩多2,300万，这意味着在未来几十年，超过2,000万年轻男性无法找到配偶。"
    ],
    [
        "They urged the US to lift its embargo on Cuba, claiming that it had damaged relations with the rest of the continent, and to do more to combat drug use on its own turf, through education and social work, rather than supplying arms to fight the drug lords in Latin America – a battle that all acknowledged has been an utter failure.",
        "他们敦促美国取消对古巴的禁运，声称这伤害了与拉丁美洲其他国家的关系，还敦促美国应该在国内缉毒方面做得更多，应该通过教育和社会工作而不是提供武装与拉美毒枭斗争来进行，后者被认为是一场彻头彻尾的失败战争。"
    ],
    [
        "And if it has, would that be such a bad thing?",
        "如果真是这样，这究竟是不是一件坏事？"
    ],
    [
        "It then takes Anna most of the movie to figure out that Hans is evil – set on getting rid of both her and her older sister in order to take over the kingdom.",
        "之后安娜在影片中花了很长时间才弄清楚汉斯是邪恶的代名词——他的目的是杀掉她和她的姐姐，并接管她们的王国。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – It is a post-financial-crisis myth that austerity-minded conservative governments always favor fiscal prudence, while redistribution-oriented progressives view large deficits as the world’s biggest free lunch.",
        "坎布里奇—带紧缩思维的保守派政府总是偏好财政审慎，而再分配导向的进步派将赤字视为世界上最大的免费午餐，这是后金融危机时代的一个神话。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Congressional Republicans rightly object to raising tax rates, they appear willing to raise revenue through tax reform if that is part of a deal that also includes reductions in the long-run cost of the major entitlement programs, Medicare and Social Security.",
        "尽管国会中的共和党正确地对提高税率表示反对，但他们似乎愿意通过税收改革提高收入，如果这是包括了削减主要福利项目——联邦医保和社会保障的长期成本的方案的一部分的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization has shrunk the dimensions of the world economy, and the time for a world central bank has arrived.",
        "全球化已经降低了全球经济的维度，世界中央银行的时代已经到来。"
    ],
    [
        "A true Muslim or Chinese scholar cannot be defined as a true Chinese or a true Muslim by being critical of his own world.",
        "一个真正的穆斯林或者中国学者由于对自身文化的批评而难以被称为一个真正的中国人或者穆斯林。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most important, a peace settlement in Syria would be much more likely – and more likely to endure – if the US could talk to Iran, which has far more leverage with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime than Russia does.",
        "也许更重要的是，如果美国能够与伊朗展开谈判，达成叙利亚问题和平协议的可能性也会大大增加——伊朗对叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德的作用远大于俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "They will rise up, refusing to accept their status as second-class citizens of ever-expanding urban settlements, and they will destabilize countries like Kenya, undermining efforts to build more stable, prosperous societies.",
        "他们会揭竿而起，拒绝接受他们的不断扩大定居所的二等公民地位，他们将动摇肯尼亚这样的国家，威胁到建设更稳定、更繁荣社会的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Street violence is a constant threat.",
        "街头暴力的威胁永远存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere in the region, water stress from reduced rainfall, salinity, glacial retreat, and desertification will hit water stocks, threaten livelihoods, and drive up food and water prices.",
        "在该地区的其他国家，因为降水量减少、咸潮、冰川消融和沙漠化而导致的用水压力将影响到水存量，威胁到人的生计，推高粮食和水的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "The price of oil has risen far more than the dollar has fallen.",
        "石油价格的上涨比美元下跌的幅度大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "That key point appears all but lost on the consumer-recovery crowd.",
        "这个关键点人人都看得到，唯有消费复苏派对此视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond Latin America, several Eastern European countries offer ready examples.",
        "在拉美以外，几个东欧国家也提供了现成的范例。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the small European states – whether in Eastern or Western Europe – have been much more flexible in responding to the challenges of the modern globalized economy.",
        "与之形成对比的是，欧洲小国——无论是在东欧还是西欧——在应对现代全球化经济的挑战时候更为灵活。"
    ],
    [
        "Under these conditions, the Fed will want to raise the interest rate to prevent an acceleration of inflation.",
        "在这样的环境下，美联储将提高利率防止通胀加速。"
    ],
    [
        "These numbers are unlikely to fall in the near term, as calamities caused by climate change, and by human and natural disasters, continue to push even more people from their communities.",
        "拜气候变化以及人造和自然灾害所赐，这些数字在短期不可能下降，反而会有更多人流离失所。"
    ],
    [
        "But since he doesn’t have a security clearance, there is nothing that prevents him, unlike me, from saying to the outside world, ‘This is what they did to me.’ Nothing prevents that – except for the fact that he is physically in custody.”’",
        "但玛吉德并没有像我这样宣誓保密，因此也没有什么能够阻止他对外界诉说他的遭遇，除非把他这本人监禁住。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the human brain makes decisions based on sensory input – and, of course, experience – such data are essential for the surgeon to make the most informed choices possible during surgery.",
        "由于人类大脑根据感觉输入变量决策——当然还包括经验——因此这些数据对于让外科医生在手术期间基于尽可能的充分信息做出决策来说至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "As the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States by al-Qaeda approaches, we should take the opportunity to assess the results of the response by the US and the international community.",
        "在2001年9•11事件的五周年纪念日即将到来之际，“基地” （al-Qaeda）针对美国的新的攻击也在临近。 我们应该借此机会来评估一下美国和国际社会对此的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "One powerful way to boost the world economy and to help meet future needs is to increase spending on key infrastructure projects, mainly directed at transportation (roads, ports, rail, and mass transit), sustainable energy (wind, solar, geothermal, carbon-capture and sequestration, and long-distance power transmission grids), pollution control, and water and sanitation.",
        "拉升世界经济，应付未来之需的一条有力举措是增加对重点基础设施的投资，主要致力于交通（公路，港口，铁路，大运量客运），可持续性能源（风力，太阳能，地热，碳捕捉和碳封存，还有电力远距离传输系统网络），污染控制，以及用水及卫生事业。"
    ],
    [
        "Many viewed the five non-Communist states that founded ASEAN – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand – as dominoes, set to be tipped over by a neighbor’s fall to communism or descent into civil strife.",
        "许多人将成立东盟的五个非共产主义国家——印尼、马来西亚、菲律宾、新加坡和泰国——视为多米诺骨牌，只要有一个邻国导向共产主义，或陷入内乱，这些国家就会逐个崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Given China’s mushrooming military budget and secretiveness, that assertiveness has set off alarm bells among the other countries bordering the South China Sea.",
        "中国的军费节节攀升，军队的神秘性与日俱增，其海军所表现出来的魄力已经对其他南海邻国敲响了警钟。"
    ],
    [
        "That is smart science, but it brings devastating news.",
        "这是智能科学，但它带来的是灾难性的消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, “talentism” will be the prevailing economic credo, with human or intellectual capital becoming the most critical asset – and the one most difficult to acquire and retain.",
        "事实上，“人才论”将成为普遍的经济教条，人力和知识资本将成为最关键的资产——也是最难获得和保存的资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, nowadays meritocracy seems to be simply another version of the inequality that characterises all societies. It may in fact be a particularly cruel form of inequality, as those who do not succeed cannot argue that they were unlucky or kept down by those in power.",
        "实际上，如今的精英政治似乎成了所有社会不平等现象的另外一个翻版，甚至可能还特别残酷，因为没有成功的人无法辨白说自己运气不好，或者受到当权者的压制。"
    ],
    [
        "This will be no easy feat, especially at a time of slowing economic growth.",
        "这不是一个简单的任务，特别是在其经济增长减速时。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it looks more like a country heading towards authoritarianism at home and embracing adventurism abroad.",
        "如今它却看上去像一个对内推行专制主义，对外实施冒险主义的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "“Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” By 1919, the Supreme Court’s interpretation of those words had led to the doctrine that Congress could prohibit speech only if it posed “a clear and present danger” of serious harm.",
        "”。 到1919年，最高法院对上述条款的解释已经树立了国会只有在构成“明确且现实威胁”的情况下才能对言论进行限制的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "The drought had displaced an estimated 1.5 million people and caused food prices to soar, leading to a spiral of protest, crackdown, and eventually war.",
        "干旱导致大约150万人流离失所，令粮食价格飙涨，从而引起示威、镇压最终爆发战争的循环。"
    ],
    [
        "These past 13 years have been fair-to-middling for the country: mediocre economic growth, but no collapse; democratic rotation in power, with no uprisings or massacres; a slow but steady expansion of the middle class; and a slow but steady drop in corruption.",
        "过去13年对墨西哥来说马马虎虎：普普通通的经济增长，没有发生经济崩溃； 权力的民主交替，没有起义或屠杀；"
    ],
    [
        "That means that the EU must emerge from the Ukraine crisis with a stronger commitment to common defense and joint contingency planning, and a unified energy policy that can secure independence from Russian oil and gas.",
        "这意味着欧盟必须拿出更有力的共同防务和联合应急计划承诺以及能确保摆脱俄罗斯石油和天然气依赖的统一的能源政策来应对乌克兰危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Most significantly, in the face of martial law and political assassination, Pakistanis have not given up their dream of democracy.",
        "而最意义非凡的，则是军事戒严和政治暗杀阴影下的巴基斯坦人民并没有放弃自己的民主梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "George Soros has put generous funding behind the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).",
        "乔治·索罗斯（George Soros）为新经济思维研究所（Institute for New Economic Thinking )提供了慷慨的资助。"
    ],
    [
        "There is little doubt that the SCO is an instrument for Russia and China to make the case for a multi-polar world based on regional security blocs that counterbalance American strategic hegemony.",
        "毫无疑问，上合组织是俄国和中国用来对抗美国战略霸权的地区安全集团基础上建立多极世界的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who advocate redistribution by running larger government budget deficits are being short sighted.",
        "那些主张通过运行更大的政府预算赤字来进行二次分配的人已经是短视了。"
    ],
    [
        "It drives the creation of new parallel institutions such as the AIIB and the New Development Bank, founded in 2014 by the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa).",
        "这促成了新的类似金融机构的诞生，如亚投行和2014年由金砖国家（巴西、俄罗斯、印度和南非）建立的新开发银行。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is hypocritical.",
        "但此举充满了虚伪的味道。"
    ],
    [
        "Johnson’s advisers were not so Pollyannaish.",
        "约翰逊的顾问绝非如此盲目乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, the country has a choice.",
        "目前，俄国还可以选择。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – Financial markets today are thriving.",
        "香港—眼下，金融市场兴旺发达。"
    ],
    [
        "It is perhaps a little unfair to contrast these efforts to what the US did in Syria.",
        "用上述努力与美国在叙利亚的所作所为相比或许有些不公平。"
    ],
    [
        "We must build on this progress to address outstanding challenges, including rising demand for a wide range of specialized knowledge professionals and an urgent need to improve connectivity, especially in remote rural areas (where 9% of Mexico’s population lives).",
        "我们必须在这一进步的基础上解决突出的挑战，包括不断增加的对各专业职业人士的需求以及改善连通性（特别是占墨西哥人口9%的偏远农村地区）的紧迫需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s foreign policy is focused on the interests of its state-dominated corporations, notably Gazprom, which has concluded agreements with many foreign countries and companies for monopolistic deliveries.",
        "俄罗斯的外交政策主要关注其国有公司的利益，特别是Gazprom。 这家公司和许多国家和外国公司达成了垄断供应的协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Without question the most successful central banker of the twentieth century, Volcker was an early and persistent voice warning of the problems of what he called “the bright new financial system.”",
        "沃尔克无疑是 20 世纪最成功的中央银行家，从很早起，他就一直在警告人们，那个“光鲜的金融新体系”存在种种问题。"
    ],
    [
        "All indications are that offshoring has reached the tipping point, and more of it will take place through FDI.",
        "所有迹象都表明：外购的发展已经到达了临界点，进一步的外购要通过直接外资的形式才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Democratic minority in the Senate will be able to filibuster any radical reforms that Trump proposes, especially if they touch the third rail of American politics: Social Security and Medicare.",
        "与此同时，参议院中的民主党少数派也能通过冗长演说阻挠特朗普所提出的任何激进改革，特别是当他触及到美国政坛的第三轨——社会安全与医疗保险时。"
    ],
    [
        "In an ideal steady state, pension regimes would not redistribute income across cohorts born at different points in time.",
        "在理想的稳定状态下，养老金制度不会在不同时间出生的群体间造成收入再分配。"
    ],
    [
        "But what made him public enemy number one for Putin was his desire to move Russia in a political direction that he viewed as positive and desirable.",
        "使他成为普京的头号公敌的原因是他要将俄罗斯转向他认为是积极和可取的政治方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, spending on megaprojects amounts to some $6-9 trillion a year, roughly 8% of global GDP, making this the “biggest investment boom in human history.”",
        "目前巨型工程支出每年已高达6—9万亿美元，约占全球GDP的8%，这意味着这是“人类历史上规模最大的投资繁荣”。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s educators should inspire our children towards creativity and innovation.",
        "现时代的教育者应该激发孩子的创造力和创新力。"
    ],
    [
        "A 2013 ruling by the European Court of Justice that Germany could not return an Iranian refugee to Greece (where the applicant was found “to face a real risk of being subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment”) probably heightened Germany’s sense of responsibility on this issue.",
        "欧洲法院（European Court of Justice）2013 裁定德国不能将伊朗难民遣返希腊（申请者被发现可能在那里“面临实实在在的受到非人道和不体面对待的风险”），这也许突显出德国在这一问题上的责任感。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in order to enable the full enjoyment of our freedoms – be they of worship or scientific research – the state must reassert its secular nature.",
        "并且，为了使我们能够充分享受自由——无论是信仰自由还是科学研究自由——国家都必须重申它的教廷本质。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, since 1981, opioid overdoses alone have taken almost as many lives as HIV/AIDS.",
        "事实上，1981年以来，类鸦片药物使用过量所造成的死亡人数几乎和艾滋病一样多。"
    ],
    [
        "In Libya, the fortunes of Saif al-Islam and Muatasim have waxed and waned as Qaddafi enforces his authority to prevent the emergence of a challenger.",
        "在利比亚，赛义夫·伊斯兰和 莫塔西姆的影响力随着卡扎菲行使权威、防止挑战者出现的举措而起起落落。"
    ],
    [
        "Or is it that we have become so inured to bad news surrounding the war on terror that we have no desire to know more?",
        "是不是我们已经在反恐战争的噩耗中变得麻木，不愿再去了解新发生的事情？"
    ],
    [
        "Costs and subsidies aside, electric cars have so far proven to be incredibly inconvenient.",
        "除了成本和补贴因素，到目前为止，电动汽车的舒适性极差。"
    ],
    [
        "And, yes, there will probably be another rash of financial crises – perhaps in Central Europe, which now looks like Asia did before its 1997 crisis.",
        "对，很可能还会有一场金融危机在中欧突然爆发。 中欧现在的情形和1997年金融危机前的亚洲非常相似。"
    ],
    [
        "President Petro Poroshenko’s administration has stabilized public finances, but failed to rein in clientelism.",
        "彼得·波罗申科总统（ Petro Poroshenko）的政府稳定了公共财政，但却未能遏制住裙带关系的横行。"
    ],
    [
        "And he thought deeply about the technocratic problems of economic management – and about the social, moral, and political disasters that would follow from failing to address them.",
        "他深入地思考了经济管理的技术官僚问题——以及无法解决这些问题所带来的社会、道德和政治灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "In the future, as in the past, the most labor-intensive jobs will involve building homes, production facilities, and, in turn, communities.",
        "无论过去还是将来，最需要密集劳动的岗位往往包括住宅、生产设施以及社区建设。"
    ],
    [
        "So, will the single currency survive?",
        "那么欧元这个单一货币是否能坚持下来？"
    ],
    [
        "In a paper presented at the session, Andrew Caplin of New York University spoke of the public’s lack of interest or comprehension of the rising risks associated with the FHA, which has been guaranteeing privately-issued mortgages since its creation during the housing crisis of the 1930’s.",
        "在会上，纽约大学的安德鲁·卡普林（Andrew Caplin）宣讲了一篇论文，指出公众对于FHA相关的风险不断上升的局面根本不感兴趣或难以理解。 FHA成立于20世纪30年代住房危机期间，成立后一直为私人按揭提供担保。"
    ],
    [
        "One factor is the will of the new government.",
        "一个因素是新政府的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s lightning victory recalls Hegel’s dictum about “the impotence of the winners.”",
        "以色列闪电般的胜利让人们想起了黑格尔的名言——“赢者的虚萎”。"
    ],
    [
        "Start with Egypt.",
        "先说埃及。"
    ],
    [
        "How the coalition will be organized and what results it will achieve remain to be seen.",
        "该联盟如何管理、会带来什么结果仍有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are to decouple economic growth from energy consumption and achieve real resource efficiency in a world of nine billion, much less ensure justice for all, we cannot let the economy lead the way.",
        "如果我们要让经济增长与能源消费脱钩，在拥有九十亿人口的世界中实现真正的资源效率，更不用说保证所有人的公平，就不能让经济挂帅。"
    ],
    [
        "The real historical significance of the choice that Russia will face in 2008 will be determined not by the next president’s personal qualities, but by his loyalties – that is, to whom he owes his job.",
        "俄国将在2008年面临的这一选择的历史性意义并非由下一位总统的个人素质决定，而是由他的忠诚决定，也就是，是谁给了他这一职位。"
    ],
    [
        "Events in Cyprus have exposed two other dimensions to the clashes over Europe’s dual sovereign-debt and banking crisis.",
        "塞浦路斯的事件给欧洲的主权债务和银行业双重危机又增加了两个矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the possibility of achieving a common understanding of the act is being lost – and, with it, whatever potential there may be for meaningful cooperation.",
        "结果是就上述行为达成共识的可能性越来越小——开展有意义合作的机会也正在消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Society will support him.",
        "他将获得社会民众的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "A sudden shift toward trade protectionism could drive up agricultural commodity prices further.",
        "突然转向贸易保护主义可能进一步推高农产品价格。"
    ],
    [
        "With too much pomp, too many stumbling blocks, and a dearth of dynamism, France today can and should learn from Germany.",
        "今天的法国太讲排场、有太多掣肘、却鲜有活力，真应该学习德国的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Governments around the world are now developing massive fiscal stimulus packages that will cause unprecedented peacetime budget deficits.",
        "坎布里奇-世界各地的政府正在制定大规模的财政刺激一揽子计划，这将带来和平时期前所未有的预算赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the purest reversion to interwar nationalist ideology is occurring just beyond Europe’s borders – in Israel, of all places.",
        "但也许最纯粹的大战之间民族主义意识形态回归发生在欧洲边界之外——以色列各地。"
    ],
    [
        "But the surplus has fallen sharply in the past five years, from roughly 6% of GDP in 2007 to only 1% now.",
        "但盈余在过去五年中迅速下降，从2007年的约占GDP的6%降至现在的1%。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact of this American misstep has already been felt, emboldening Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his provocative visit to Lebanon, which included a public appearance on Hezbollah-controlled territory near Israel’s northern border.",
        "美国这一政策失误的影响已经露出了端倪，并促成了伊朗总统马哈茂德·艾哈迈迪内贾德对黎巴嫩的高调出访，访问期间内贾德甚至在靠近以色列北部边境的真主党控制区公开露面。"
    ],
    [
        "They are probably right.",
        "也许他们是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s Final Countdown",
        "叙利亚最后的倒计时"
    ],
    [
        "She was speaking from experience, both personal and political.",
        "她是从经验的角度——包括个人经验和政治经验——说这番话的。"
    ],
    [
        "Some attribute the price drop to the US shale-energy boom.",
        "一些人将油价下跌归因于美国页岩能源的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "To counter this tendency, Keynes advocated replacing any system in which “the process of adjustment is compulsory for the debtor and voluntary for the creditor” with one in which the force of adjustment falls symmetrically upon debtors and creditors.",
        "为了遏制这一趋势，凯恩斯提出用调整的压力在债务人和债权人之间对称分担的体系取代“调整过程对债务人来说是义务，对债权人来说是志愿”的体系。"
    ],
    [
        "If Mauritius can afford these things, America and Europe – which are several orders of magnitude richer – can, too.",
        "如果毛里求斯能承担起这些，那么美国和欧洲——这些比毛里求斯富有不知道多少倍的地方——也能做到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "These events were closely watched in Washington and Brussels.",
        "华盛顿和布鲁塞尔都在密切地关注这些事态的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "It was an interesting event – and, more important, an encouraging one.",
        "这是一次有趣的会议，更重要的是，这是一次振奋人心的大会。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, he seems determined to do so.",
        "幸运的是，他似乎也决心要这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "In a process that has already taken 15 years – and remains unfinished – the debts of 35 highly indebted poor countries (HIPCs) have been forgiven, at a cost of more than $100 billion.",
        "在已经进行了15年——并且还没有完成——的过程中，35个高负债穷国的债务获得了豁免，其代价超过1,000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, he has asserted Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea more aggressively, while seeking to project Chinese power in the western Pacific.",
        "与此同时，他在南海更加激进地主张领土主权，同时寻求让中国力量深入西太平洋。"
    ],
    [
        "But his softness toward Putin remains puzzling.",
        "但他对普京的软弱立场仍然令人匪夷所思。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the G-7 has lost relevance, the International Monetary Fund is hampered by its representation and legitimacy deficits, and the G-20 is still finding its feet.",
        "相反，G7已名存实亡，IMF因代表和正当性问题而被削弱，而G20还没有站稳脚跟。"
    ],
    [
        "Those defending democracy against populists also sometimes have to tread on the dangerous ground of identity politics.",
        "在民粹主义面前捍卫民主的人有时也需要踏入身份政治的危险禁区。"
    ],
    [
        "Global Energy Realism",
        "全球能源现实主义"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, none of these high-profile investors seems to have objected to Reddit’s hosting of subreddits called “WhiteNationalism,” “rapeisfun,” “BurningKids,” “cutefemalecorpses,” and so on.",
        "悲哀的是，所有这些高层次投资人似乎都没有反对Reddit放任“WhiteNationalism”（白人民族主义）、“rapeisfun”（强奸真爽）、“BurningKids”（烧死儿童）、“cutefemalecorpses”（可爱的女尸）等版面大行其道。"
    ],
    [
        "In providing resources to deliver education, the fund is a bold affirmation of a better tomorrow – an unwavering promise to unlock talent, develop potential, and secure futures for all children, wherever they are.",
        "通过提供教育所需资源，该基金大胆地确认了明天会更好的承诺——毫不动摇地承诺将发掘才能、释放潜力，并确保所有儿童（无论他们身处何处）都拥有光明的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Figure 1. CO2 Emissions per Capita",
        "图1：人均二氧化碳排放量"
    ],
    [
        "In real terms, the S&P 500 is still 20% below its January 2000 peak.",
        "若以真实值衡量，标准普尔500指数仍比2000年1月峰值低了20%。"
    ],
    [
        "Seeking truth through observation, experimentation, rational argument, and mutual criticism has always been a raison d’être of universities.",
        "通过观察、实验、理性争论和互相批评寻找真理一直是大学的存在理由。"
    ],
    [
        "We’ve seen this sequence before.",
        "此前我们曾目睹过这样的事件序列。"
    ],
    [
        "At the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos last month, 85 companies, including vaccine developers, large pharmaceutical companies, diagnostic developers, and biotech firms, committed to further action to reduce drug resistance.",
        "在上个月达沃斯举行的世界经济论坛年度盛会上，85家企业，包括疫苗研制企业、大型制药企业、诊断研发企业和生物技术企业承诺开展降低耐药性的进一步行动。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Bank completely fumbled the exploding pandemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria during the 1990’s, failing to get help to where it was needed to curb these outbreaks and save millions of lives.",
        "比如，世行完全没能处理好20世纪90年代艾滋病、结核病和疟疾的大爆发，没能给予疾病暴发、数百万生命危在旦夕的国家足够的帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "· The poorer two-thirds of America’s population appeared to be shut out of the opportunities to borrow at reasonable interest rates and to invest at high returns that the top third – especially the rich – enjoyed.",
        "· 占美国人口1/3的中上层阶级——尤其是富人——能够以合理的利率贷款并投资于高回报领域，而另一外2/3的中低收入者则无此机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But no one really knows how much damage UKIP will do to the Conservatives’ chances.",
        "但没人真的知道英国独立党对保守党的胜算会造成多大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the UN could not prevent the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but the absence of its imprimatur greatly raised the costs to the American and British governments.",
        "比如，联合国没有能够阻止2003年对伊拉克的入侵，但是因为未能取得它的授权而使美英政府付出了高得多的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, the violence that has surged in the last few years has left more than 180,000 Iraqis and 470,000 Syrians dead.",
        "目前，过去几年中所出现的暴力已经导致180,000伊拉克人和470,000叙利亚人丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "When contemplating the consequences of this, remember that 40% of US government debt comes due within two years.",
        "在思考这些后果时，必须牢记40%的美国政府债务将于两年内到期。"
    ],
    [
        "But focusing on women’s advancement is biased toward tracking how many are rising to the top: the overall percentage at work, their average salaries, and how many become CEOs, senior managers, tenured professors, bankers, surgeons, law partners, parliamentarians, presidents, and ministers.",
        "但对女性进步的关注偏向于跟踪有多少女性身居要职：包括总体就业比例、平均工资、有多少担任首席执行官、高管、终身教授、银行家、医生、合伙律师、议员、总统和部长。"
    ],
    [
        "A clear, realistic strategy will be integral to Palestine’s efforts to win support from regional and international actors eager to end the decades-old conflict with Israel.",
        "一个明确、务实的战略将有利于巴勒斯坦赢得急切地期盼结束已有几十年之久的巴以冲突的地区和国际行动方的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Boris Yeltsin forbade party cells in state-controlled institutions by decree.",
        "叶利钦通过命令禁止政党存在于国家控制机构之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Should they employ unemployed workers directly, or indirectly, by bringing forward expenditures or expanding the scale of government programs?",
        "还是应该直接或间接地雇佣失业工人，从而加大政府的投入和开支？"
    ],
    [
        "Somalia said the principle of national self-determination should allow Somalis in northeastern Kenya (and in the southern Ethiopia) to secede, because they were one Somali nation.",
        "索马里声称，根据民族自决原则，应该允许位于肯尼亚东北部（以及埃塞俄比亚南部）的索马里族人从肯尼亚分离出来，因为这些人构成了一个索马里国家。"
    ],
    [
        "It has now joined the growing list of the world's failed states and can at best be described as a potential federation of three states plus the unruly city of Baghdad.",
        "如今世界上失控的国家越来越多，现在又加上个伊拉克，即便人们拿出最乐观的估计，也只能是由三个州组成的潜在的联邦，再加上个谁都管不了的城市巴格达。"
    ],
    [
        "The US authorities are worried that American citizens who have been fighting with the Islamic State and Al Qaeda in the Middle East will return home to commit terrorist acts.",
        "美国当局担心，在中东与伊斯兰国和基地组织并肩斗争的美国公民会回国实施恐怖活动。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to expand access to these technologies rapidly, while helping people whose livelihoods depend on the coal industry.",
        "我们需要迅速扩大获得这些技术的途径，同时帮助依赖煤炭行业生活的人。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, they worry that the fees levied on German banks will be used to pay off depositors in other countries.",
        "换言之，他们担心从德国银行处收取的费用将被用于偿付其他国家的储户。"
    ],
    [
        "This was also a novelty: torture does not appear as a breach of a common standard, unfortunate but justifiable.",
        "这也是新鲜事物：刑讯似乎不是对公共准则的违反，不好但也情有可原。"
    ],
    [
        "Are they prepared for the inevitable flow of power and influence to commodity producers as they become much wealthier?",
        "它们是否准备好，随着原料生产国变得大为富有，权力和影响力将不可避免地流向这些国家？"
    ],
    [
        "China, meanwhile, finds itself at a critical juncture.",
        "而与此同时中国正站在一个关键的关口上。"
    ],
    [
        "But few of these countries are experiencing much industrialization.",
        "但是这些国家并没有实现多少工业化。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the economist Geoffrey Crowther, a country’s balance-of-payments position evolves in six stages, with the key variable being net assets – that is, the country’s net international-investment position.",
        "据经济学家杰弗里·克劳瑟（Geoffrey Crowther）的说法，一国的国际收支头寸分为六个不同的发展阶段，而净资产则是其中的关键变量——也就是一国的净国际投资头寸。 在前三个阶段，国家是一个净借款人，投资收入账户也是逆差状态。"
    ],
    [
        "This is Asia’s second wake-up call in three years, and this time the region needs to take the warning seriously.",
        "这是亚洲在3年内第二次听见警钟，这一回，亚洲需要认真对待了。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the EU’s economic heterogeneity, this outcome would likely boost unemployment.",
        "鉴于欧洲经济发展的多样性，这一结果很可能会加重失业问题。"
    ],
    [
        "While slogans and sound bites capture most of the attention, deeper issues in play leave the outcome of the June 23 referendum subject to a high degree of uncertainty – so much so that a single event could end up hijacking the decision.",
        "口号和滚动播出的声音吸引着大部分目光，而更深层次的问题让6月23日的全民公决结果仍然高度不确定——也许只需要一个事件就能最终左右结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, vast inequalities of power, social standing, and economic well-being were part and parcel of the forging of the Americas.",
        "这样，权力、社会地位和经济福利的严重不平等就成了美洲社会的重要组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s response to its new mission of assessing global imbalances will thus test its battered political legitimacy.",
        "国际货币基金组织评估全球贸易不平衡的这一新使命便是对其摇摇欲坠的政治合法性的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The tenth anniversary of the start of the Great Recession was the occasion for an elegant essay by the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman, who noted how little the debate about the causes and consequences of the crisis have changed over the last decade.",
        "发自伦敦——在“大衰退”爆发十周年之际，诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，经济学家保罗·克鲁格曼（Paul Krugman）撰写了一篇雅致的论文，指出过去十年来关于危机成因和后果的辩论基本上无甚变化。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that if the Kim regime collapses, the US will not pursue reunification.",
        "那意味着，如果金正恩政权崩溃，美国不会寻求朝韩统一。"
    ],
    [
        "Coastlines are shrinking.",
        "海岸线正在萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Border Walls Fail",
        "为何边境墙会失败"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes this is presented as another milestone demonstrating that the crisis is near its end.",
        "有时这一成绩会与其他具有里程碑意义的成绩一起用来证明危机正在结束。"
    ],
    [
        "In the UK, we are working to ensure that our high-speed fiber broadband connects the hardest-to-reach schools.",
        "在英国，我们竭力确保高速光纤宽带接入到哪怕最偏远的学校。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, though the threat of a serious Ebola outbreak in the US remains minimal, that is no reason for complacency.",
        "事实上，尽管埃博拉病毒在美大规模爆发的可能性依然很小，但我们绝无理由因此而自满。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless countries recognize the risks they face, they are unlikely to make such a commitment.",
        "除非各国都认识到它们所面临的风险，否则它们不可能做出这样的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Alibaba employees, ex-employees, and stockholders already injected more than $6 billion in the local economy in 2013, with Zhejiang University and the Fudi Startup Incubator Centers (founded by a former Alibaba employee) encouraging frenetic startup activity.",
        "阿里巴巴的员工、前员工和股东2013年已经向当地经济注入了超过60亿美元，联合浙江大学和福地企业孵化中心（由阿里巴巴一名曾经的员工创建）鼓励狂热的创业活动。"
    ],
    [
        "But we have begun to adapt.",
        "但是，我们已经开始适应。"
    ],
    [
        "But does such a West exist?",
        "但这样的西方存在吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Except for some odd and hapless individuals, there have been no underground armies, separatist terrorists, campaigns of civil disobedience aimed at unseating governments, or even any mass demonstrations.",
        "除了某些怪异和不幸的人，没有什么地下武装、分离主义恐怖分子、目的在于推翻政府的民间不服从运动，连大规模示威都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, the US should stop using countries like Syria as proxies against Iran.",
        "更广泛地说，美国应该停滞利用叙利亚等国家作为反对伊朗的代理。"
    ],
    [
        "For currency traders, therefore, the last two cycles of Fed tightening turned out to be classic examples of “buy on the rumor; sell on the news.”",
        "因此，对货币交易员来说，前两次美联储紧缩周期似乎是“在流言中买进，在新闻中卖出”的经典案例。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, worldwide mortality rates in 2005 were 400 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births – barely changed since 1990.",
        "因此，2005年全世界死亡率是每100，000例活产儿有400例产妇死亡——这一数据从1990年来几乎从未改变过。"
    ],
    [
        "But is he prepared to make clear that there is a difference between being close friends and going into an illegal and disastrous war just to please George W Bush?",
        "但是，他是否准备表明，紧密朋友和仅仅为了取悦布什而发动非法和灾难性的战争是有区别的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "China’s recent shift to a slower-productivity trajectory is an early warning of what may well be one of its most daunting economic challenges.",
        "中国最近的生产率下降趋势是一个早期信号，它将成为中国最艰巨的经济挑战之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Growing conflicts over history, territory, and maritime security, combined with an ugly resurgence of nationalism, risk triggering military confrontation, quite possibly through political miscalculation.",
        "历史、领土及海上安全冲突日趋频繁，加之丑陋民族主义死灰复燃极有可能激发军事对抗，而军事对抗很可能与政治误判相关。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no shortage of hydropower plants for electricity generation in Africa.",
        "非洲并不乏水电站发电。"
    ],
    [
        "Wherever you turn, somebody is being blamed for Copenhagen’s apparent looming failure.",
        "而不论你转向哪一方，都能发现会有一些人会因哥本哈根会议那显然即将失败的结局而受到指责。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, paradise never comes, and – naturally - disappointment follows.",
        "当然，从来就没有过天堂，而且，失望很自然地随之而来。"
    ],
    [
        "We have a duty to protect Arab lives and values, as Arabs themselves have requested.",
        "我们有责任保护阿拉伯民众的生命和价值观，阿拉伯人自己也有这样的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the real source of Moscow's anxiety and strategic angst is Ukraine's future political and security orientation.",
        "简而言之，莫斯科的担心和战略忧虑，其真正原因是对于乌克兰将来的政治和安全防卫取向的不安。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, however, she received no monetary payment.",
        "但最终她一分钱也没有拿到。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, new, more productive, and innovative firms found it hard to raise the capital they needed to grow, so they either did not expand, or did so by substituting labor for capital.",
        "另一方面，生产力更高的新创新企业却面临着难以筹集增长所需资本的局面，所以它们要么选择停止扩张，要么选择用劳动力取代资本的方式来实现扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "A narrative of grounded, connected nationalism versus sanctimonious free-floating globalism is one that will generate support and staying power even among many well-educated people.",
        "即使对于许多受过良好教育的人，接地气的、有联系的民族主义对抗道貌岸然的自由浮动的全球主义的叙事也能够在他们中间形成支持，获得权力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Disappearing Sky",
        "消失的天空"
    ],
    [
        "In Southern Europe, investment has literally collapsed; even in Germany, it will reach pre-crisis levels only this year.",
        "在南欧，投资出现了崩盘； 甚至在德国，投资在今年才有可能回到危机前水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Our confidence in ourselves, and hence in our futures, took a hit, discouraging economic risk-taking.",
        "我们对自己的信心——以及我们对未来的信心——遭遇重创，让我们不敢冒经济风险。"
    ],
    [
        "And they want answers about the fate of hundreds of people who have been missing for a decade.",
        "他们也想找到数百位长达10年的失踪者命运的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), aging populations and declining fertility rates in many parts of the world could dampen global growth considerably over the next 50 years.",
        "麦肯锡全球研究院（MGI）新近发布的报告显示，全球诸多国家人口老龄化及生育率下降可能会在今后50年显著抑制全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "The next ten years will be characterized by major structural adjustments and shifts in individual economies, and by a huge reconfiguration of the global economy as a whole.",
        "下一个十年将以重大结构性调整和向个体国家的变迁为特征，全球经济作为一个整体将出现重大重新配置。"
    ],
    [
        "The LIA has always been exceptional; indeed, several indices that rank SWFs on transparency, accountability, and governance issues have traditionally given only Iran a lower ranking.",
        "LIA永远是个特例； 事实上，不少追踪各主权财富基金透明度、责任和治理的指数表明，比LIA还不如的只有伊朗了。"
    ],
    [
        "The gray cardinal of Rosneft had stepped too far out of line.",
        "俄罗斯石油公司的灰衣大主教有些事做的太过分。"
    ],
    [
        "China, on the other hand, has wei qi (known in Japan as go), which focuses on strategic encirclement.",
        "而中国人所喜爱的围棋以战略包围为核心。"
    ],
    [
        "But what does two out of five mean?",
        "但两分意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "And no one knows whether the much-discussed “innovative industries” can have the impact that real-estate investment and exports did – not least because there is so much excess capacity in the traditional industries.",
        "也没人知道被热议的“创新产业”是否能够形成与昔日的房地产投资和出口等量齐观的影响力——因为传统行业的产能过剩情况实在太严重了。"
    ],
    [
        "But Trump’s coarse behavior isn’t news to anyone who has been paying attention.",
        "但特朗普的粗鲁行为对所有关注情况的人早已不是什么新闻了。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s leaders have never been clear about the exact location of the “nine-dotted line,” or about whether their claims refer only to certain land features, or also to more extensive continental shelves and seas.",
        "但中国领导人从未划定过“九条虚线”的确切位置，也没有明确过他们的要求是仅仅针对某些地貌，还是更为宽泛的海洋和大陆架。"
    ],
    [
        "If a majority of the countries present dares to declare that demanding consensus is equivalent to enforcing paralysis, and if they insist upon following the voting procedures enshrined in the UN Charter, we could see enormous progress.",
        "如果多数国家敢于提出声明认为强求共识就等于陷入瘫痪，如果他们坚持执行《联合国宪章》中的投票程序，我们也可能看到巨大的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "We now know that the torture of prisoners was the result of a policy set in the White House by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Rice – who actually chaired the torture meetings.",
        "现在我们知道对罪犯的折磨是白宫的前国防部长唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德，副总统迪克·切尼以及赖斯－她实际上主持折磨会议－在白宫制定的政策的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are many other potential pandemics, and many are not even viruses.",
        "然而，还有许多潜在的流行病，有些甚至都不是由病毒引起的。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that most countries in Latin America mismanaged the boom of the 1970s and, when the tide turned, ended up in the 1980s debt crisis.",
        "现实情况是，拉美多数国家对20世纪70年代的繁荣大潮管理不善，所以当潮水退去时，陷入了20世纪80年代的债务危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The then-opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went so far as to block the bill in parliament, with the upper house’s then-opposition leader, the lawyer Arun Jaitley, arguing that India’s territory is integral to its constitution and thus “cannot be reduced or altered by an amendment.”",
        "当时的反对党印度人民党（Bharatiya Janata Party）在议会就扼杀了这一立法，当时的上议院反对派领袖、律师贾特里（Arun Jaitley）指出，印度领土是其宪政体制不可或缺的一部分，因此“不能通过修正案减少或改变。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Next, drug makers must continue investing in capacity and supply-chain reliability.",
        "其次，制药商必须继续投资于产能和供给链可靠性建设。"
    ],
    [
        "That points to the biggest concern of all.",
        "这就带来了最大的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "For two decades, we have been trapped in this minimalist and incremental mindset, which is wrong in two key ways.",
        "二十年来，我们一直陷于这一最小值和增量思维陷阱中。 这一思维存在两个关键问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The last and perhaps most difficult part of the wager is “Europeanizing” the alliance.",
        "而最后一条，也可能是最困难的赌注则是是盟友的 “ 欧洲化 ” 。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, while Calderón insists that the US assume its bilateral responsibilities, he also demands the US Ambassador’s head for revealing his own tactical and strategic mistakes in the war he insists on prosecuting.",
        "然而，就在卡尔德隆坚持美国负起双边责任的同时，他也要求美国大使为揭露其在执意发动的这场战争中的战略和战术失误而引咎辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "India received $70 billion, more than the value of its exports of information-technology services.",
        "印度得到700亿美元，比该国信息技术服务出口总值还高。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, macroeconomic policy has borne both the blame for economic malaise and the hope that it can be overcome.",
        "目前，宏观经济政策既被指为经济问题的罪魁，也是克服经济问题的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, the financial revolution has been mostly rent-seeking rather than welfare-enhancing in character.",
        "可悲的是，金融革命在本质上主要是为了寻租而不是提升社会福利。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, large banks are likely to continue to hold too little capital and to take excessive risks, raising the prospect of renewed bouts of financial instability.",
        "于是，大银行可以继续持有过少的资本、承担过度的风险，增加金融不稳定性再次爆发的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last 12 years, her Worker’s Party (PT) has delivered the country’s strongest per capita GDP growth in more than three decades; reduced income inequality with an extensive system of social transfers that reaches one-third of Brazilian households; and reduced formal unemployment to a record-low 4.5%.",
        "在过去12个月中，她的工党（Worker’s Party）交出了巴西三十多年来最强劲的人均GDP增长； 触及三分之一巴西家庭的广大的社会转移支付体系让收入不平等性有所下降；"
    ],
    [
        "Summers’s argument, in a nutshell, is that if the expected profitability of investment is falling, interest rates need to fall to the same extent.",
        "概而言之，萨默斯的观点是，如果投资的预期盈利能力下降，利率就必须下降同等幅度。"
    ],
    [
        "Nelson Mandela could easily have chosen to define his group as black South Africans and sought revenge for the injustices of Apartheid and his own imprisonment.",
        "尼尔森·曼德拉能够轻易地选择将自己的团体定义为南非黑人，并对种族隔离的不公和自己遭受的牢狱之灾采取报复措施。"
    ],
    [
        "What has changed is Britain’s domestic politics: a prime minister too weak to control his roughly 100 anti-European backbenchers (call them the “High Tea Party”) in the House of Commons, and a Conservative establishment wary of the UK Independence Party’s rise, which could cost the Tories enough votes on the right to give Labour an electoral advantage.",
        "改变的是英国的国内政治：首相太弱，镇不住下议院约100人的反欧洲议员（称之为“茶话会”（High Tea Party）），而保守党政府还担心英国独立党的崛起，这会导致保守党失去右翼选票，让工党在大选中占先。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though the US government’s debt limit was raised in the nick of time, the process was – and remains – fraught with risk.",
        "美国政府在关键时刻终于成功地提高了债务上限，但整个过程险象环生，而且尚未脱离危险。"
    ],
    [
        "G-20 members should expedite efforts to deliver on their commitments to boost productivity and eliminate structural bottlenecks to investment, competition, trade, and jobs.",
        "G-20成员国应该加快兑现承诺，以刺激生产率，打破投资、竞争、贸易和就业的结构性瓶颈。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of polemical mudslinging, words like “realism,” “necessity,” and “practicality” have again entered the public domain.",
        "除了乐此不疲地互相揭发隐私之外，类似“现实主义”，“必要性”和“实用”这些词汇又一次进入到公众语境当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if America is no longer the world’s only superpower, it still remains the “indispensable nation.”",
        "即使美国不再是世界上唯一的超级大国，它还是一个“不可或缺”的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Administration officials should lower the political temperature.",
        "政府官员应该降低政治温度。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Fund was only saying what, at this point, is pretty obvious.",
        "但国际货币基金组织所说的内容从现阶段看已经显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, China’s leaders, recognizing that higher interest rates would draw even greater inflows, are increasingly wary of interest-rate – and even capital-account – liberalization.",
        "首先，中国货币当局意识到高利率会带来更大的热钱流入，开始日益担忧利率及资本账户的自由化。"
    ],
    [
        "Capitalists for Inclusive Growth",
        "包容性增长资本主义"
    ],
    [
        "The reasons why are found in the second book: Hall of Mirrors, by my friend, teacher, and patron, Barry Eichengreen.",
        "原因可以从第二本书中找到：由我的朋友、老师和“老板”巴里·艾肯格林（Barry Eichengreen）所著的《镜厅》（Hall of Mirrors）。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s America is one that recognizes that it is not the world’s only country, and by no means the worst off.",
        "今天的美国明白自己并不是世界上唯一的国家，更不是世界上最惨的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, no major global challenge – from conflict in the Middle East to climate change to global financial regulation – can be confronted without American engagement.",
        "事实上，从中东冲突到气候变化到全球金融监管——没有哪个重要的全球挑战可以在没有美国参与的情况下得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "ALESSANDRIA, ITALY – Tax evasion is a global scourge.",
        "意大利亚历山德里亚—逃税是一个全球性的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "So the authorities’ aim seems clear: put Khodorkovsky and Lebedev away for a much longer time – more than 20 years if they are convicted.",
        "因此，当局的目的看来很明白：让霍多尔科夫斯基和列别杰夫消失得更久一些-如果他们被定罪，他们会被监禁20年以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Lately, governments have been moving in the wrong direction.",
        "最近，各国政府正在倒行逆施。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Ocean Commission celebrated this strong endorsement of urgent action to protect the ocean, which closely reflects the set of proposals contained in the Global Ocean Commission’s 2014 report From Decline to Recovery: A Rescue Package for the Global Ocean.",
        "全球海洋委员会对这一采取紧急行动保护海洋的坚定承诺表示欢迎，该承诺也对包含在全球海洋委员会2014年所发布的《从衰退到复苏：一份全球海洋救援计划》报告中的一系列建议作出了密切回应。"
    ],
    [
        "With the latest great-power interventions by the US and Russia, many are reminded of the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement between Great Britain and France to draw new national borders in the region and divide it into spheres of influence.",
        "随着最新的美俄大国干预，很多人对1916年英法在该地区划定新国境线并划分势力范围的赛克斯 - 皮科协定依然记忆犹新。"
    ],
    [
        "Silicon Valley speaks the bulldozer language of “disruption,” but one reason to favor cargo drones is precisely that they are not disruptive at all.",
        "硅谷言必称“破坏”，但一个看好货运无人机的理由正是它们根本不具有破坏性。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it houses four of the PLA’s five mechanized army corps, with the fifth protecting China’s strategic nuclear forces in Sichuan.",
        "事实上，解放军五大机械化军有四个在沈阳军区，另一个在四川保护战略核力量。"
    ],
    [
        "We put that money to work by helping people to buy homes, for example, or by lending to growing companies.",
        "我们则通过帮助人们购买房屋或向扩张企业提供贷款来使这些钱发挥其作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But poorer countries, for which international capital markets remain off limits, have no alternative but to rely on the World Bank and IMF.",
        "但是，对无法进入国际资本市场的贫穷国家来说，它们没有选择，只能依靠世界银行和国际货币基金组织贷款来获得资金。"
    ],
    [
        "The future is full of potential, but only if we are smart enough – and courageous enough – to grasp it.",
        "未来充满了潜力，但要抓住这一潜力，我们必须足够聪明、足够勇敢。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there is a far more important issue that should serve as the main focus of the British debate on the EU: the UK’s future status inside the EU as a non-member of the eurozone.",
        "事实上，有一个重要得多的问题应该成为英国关于欧盟的争论的主要焦点：英国作为非欧元区国家在欧盟内部的未来地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Particularly in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, cultural norms and economic hardships stop parents from sending their daughters to school or from keeping them in school for as long as they enroll their sons.",
        "特别是在南亚和撒哈拉以南非洲地区，文化传统和经济艰辛阻止了父母让他们的女儿上学，或让她们在学校里接受与儿子们同等时间的教育。"
    ],
    [
        "A growing number of countries in Europe and Latin America are moving away from a purely repressive model.",
        "越来越多的欧洲和拉美国家都不再采用单一的封堵模式。"
    ],
    [
        "No other power will be able to assume America’s role in the world for the foreseeable future.",
        "在可预见的未来没有哪个国家能替代美国在世界上的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The pottery has no actual monetary value, but if they each write $100, all can receive $100 in compensation.",
        "陶器没有实际货币价值，但如果他们每个人都写100美元，所有人都能获得100美元年赔偿。"
    ],
    [
        "De Tocqueville’s nightmare is not yet the reality in the US, but it is close to what we see in Russia, Turkey, Hungary, and perhaps Poland.",
        "托克维尔的噩梦还没有在美国的现实中出现，但俄罗斯、土耳其、匈牙利（也许还有波兰）的情况已经与此不远。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar examples abound.",
        "类似的例子大量存在。"
    ],
    [
        "American leadership has obviously been a flawed enterprise, resulting in unnecessary wars, and the support of too many unsavory allies in the struggle with Communism.",
        "美国的领导体系显然存在缺陷，并因此导致了不必要的战争，并在与共产主义的斗争中接受了太多不良盟友的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan may have taken what seemed like forever to recover from its 1990’s crisis, but it is an exception – the crisis occurred as the Japanese economy needed to restructure in the face of the huge challenges posed by China’s emergence.",
        "日本似乎永远也没能从1990年代的危机中恢复过来，但它是一个例外—危机发生的时候，日本正因为面对中国崛起引发的巨大挑战而需要重组经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, despite the efforts of NATO and the EU, Europe’s defense sector remains fragmented, which leads to duplication, unhelpful competition from too many rival systems, and, significant capability gaps or incompatibilities.",
        "不幸的是，尽管有北约和欧盟的努力，欧洲的防卫部门仍然是一盘散沙，这导致许多对立系统之间的重复无益的竞争以及重大的军力差距 或不相容。"
    ],
    [
        "In a few decades, when China’s economy equals America’s in size, the winner will be hard to pick.",
        "数十年以后，当中国的经济规模与美国向当时，就很难决出胜者。"
    ],
    [
        "In that benighted country, “New Year’s resolutions” are not really an option for ordinary citizens.",
        "在这个愚昧的国家，“新年决策”的权利不属于普通民众。"
    ],
    [
        "The key to this proposal is that banks must agree; it is a voluntary debt restructuring, compelled by no legal authority.",
        "菲尔德斯坦方案的关键是银行必须同意； 这是一种自愿而不是法律强制的债务重组。"
    ],
    [
        "But a significant transfer of power from the presidency to parliament, or from the central to provincial governments, has yet to be brought about.",
        "但从总统到议会、从中央到地方的大规模权力转移还远未完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Thomas Hoenig, vice chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, publishes his own calculation of capital levels at the world’s largest banks, and these data are now available through the end of 2014.",
        "联邦存款保险公司（FDIC）副主席托马斯·霍尼格（Thomas Hoenig）发表了他本人估算的世界最大银行资本水平，目前数据已更新至2014年底。"
    ],
    [
        "Villagers and merchants from both sides conducted a brisk business and border trade unfettered by the authorities.",
        "两国的边民和商人们都在当局的许可下进行着繁忙的边境贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Other developing countries facing similar challenges with retaining health-care workers could learn from Uganda’s experience.",
        "其他面临类似挑战、留住医疗工作者的发展中国家可以借鉴乌干达的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Why ISIS Persists",
        "为何ISIS能持久存在"
    ],
    [
        "So euphemisms were systematically used: “enhanced techniques” for torture, “interrogation expert” for torturer.",
        "因此，委婉语得到了系统的运用：“强化手段”用来指刑讯，“审问专家”用来指刑讯人员。"
    ],
    [
        "The story occupied the same amount of space as a report on Zhukov’s visit to Yugoslavia, and ran in a less prestigious position.",
        "这一报导和朱可夫访问南斯拉夫的报导篇幅一样长，而且放在一个并不起眼的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, he is scheduled to meet with Cuban dissidents, much to the displeasure of the Castro regime.",
        "事实上，他计划接见古巴异见者，这将令卡斯特罗政权非常不满。"
    ],
    [
        "And the forces that made intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq so difficult are of course the very forces at the heart of the storm today.",
        "今天处于风暴核心的恰恰是让阿富汗和伊拉克干预行动变得如此艰难的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Humanity’s main concerns today are not so much concrete evils as indeterminate threats.",
        "马德里——当今人类的主要忧虑与其说是具体某种罪恶，还不如说是不确定的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The US was regarded as increasingly dependent on energy imports, and this, together with rising prices, was seen as a major limit on American geopolitical influence.",
        "美国当时被视为越来越依赖能源进口，人们认为依赖能源进口再加上能源价格上涨会在很大程度上限制美国的地缘政治影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, passenger air transport is dominated by business travel.",
        "同样，商务旅行者是航空交通的主力。"
    ],
    [
        "The near-universal availability of information makes it much easier than it was in earlier times for the voluntary non-governmental organizations that form civil society to emerge.",
        "与过去相比，信息的无处不在使得建立构成民主社会的志愿非政府组织变得更加容易。"
    ],
    [
        "The model championed by the West places a premium on human rights and democracy, while the one advocated by China is more concerned with political stability and economic growth.",
        "西方所领衔的模式优先关注人权和民主，而中国所主推的模式更关注政治稳定和经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Haiti was exploited and occasionally occupied by US troops, rather than being regarded as a legitimate partner in trade and diplomacy.",
        "海地没有被当作合法的贸易和外交伙伴，而是饱受美国剥削，偶尔还会被美国军队占领。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the recent changes in expected future demand and supply could have been anticipated earlier.",
        "预期未来需求与供给的当前变化中有一些可以提前预测到。"
    ],
    [
        "What it has done is deal a major blow to the profits of fossil-fuel giants like Shell, BP, and Statoil.",
        "但油价下降却沉重打击了壳牌、BP和挪威国家石油公司等石油巨头的利润状况。"
    ],
    [
        "The yield on ten-year Treasuries is now 1.6%, down from 3.4% at the start of 2011.",
        "目前10年期美国国债收益率为1. 6%，2011年年初为3."
    ],
    [
        "Iraq’s future, if it still has any, will depend first and foremost on Iraqi Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds, and, secondly, on Iraq’s neighbors and their interests and risk calculations.",
        "伊拉克的未来（如果它还有的话）将会首先有赖于伊拉克的什叶派、逊尼派和库尔德人； 其次，还要依靠其邻国、它们的利益和风险计算。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s rulers only sometimes embrace the designation – and the Party still sometimes behaves as if it had only a tenuous hold on power.",
        "虽然中国的统治者有时会接受这种称号——但中共有时的行为，却仿佛其手中的政权正岌岌可危似的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, an ethos of perpetual vigilance is central to sustaining President Vladimir Putin’s high popular-approval ratings.",
        "事实上，永远保持警惕的民族精神是维持弗拉基米尔·普京总统超高民众支持率的核心所在。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, since these combinations of drugs were introduced, at least three million years of life have been saved in the United States alone.",
        "其结果是，自从这些合成药物被引入以来，单单在美国就已经至少挽救了累计三百万年的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments must do the same, by constantly upgrading skills and nurturing innovation – among their own employees, across key sectors of the economy, and at the foundations of the education system.",
        "政府也必须这样做，不断升级技能、培养创新——与它们的雇员一起，跨越经济各大关键部门，并以教育系统为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "These websites, which are invisible to search engines and accessible only through specialized software, are often havens for purveyors of child pornography, drugs, or other illicit products, including hacking services and malicious software.",
        "搜索引擎找不到这些网站，它们只能通过专门的软件访问，而且往往是儿童色情、毒品或其他非法产品，包括黑客服务和恶意软件传播人员的庇护所。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond establishing warm relations between the Turkish government and the country’s religious minorities, official policy has been changing as well.",
        "在土耳其政府与本国宗教少数派建立联系的同时，官方政策也发生了改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But when one takes a step back (something easier to do on days when markets are closed), the picture becomes clearer, and so do the required policies.",
        "但当我们退后一步（在休市的日子里不难做到），图景就变得更清晰，而我们所需要的政策也同样如此。"
    ],
    [
        "At the front end, an account executive manages the relationship with the client.",
        "在前端，客户代表管理与客户的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "To cope, the government must create incentives for officials to overcome their risk aversion and become proactive in managing change.",
        "要应对这一情况，政府必须给予地方官员恰当的激励及容错机制，让他们克服担心风险与失败的心理，在创新制度的改革方面更加积极。"
    ],
    [
        "And when it comes to the EBRD, China’s stake will be tiny, at least at first; the Chinese say they are there to learn.",
        "而至于EBRD，中国的占比将是微不足道的，至少在一开始是如此； 中国自己也表示是来学习的。"
    ],
    [
        "Could such a thing happen again?",
        "类似事情还会发生吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, I heard this point at a WPP Stream “unconference” in Phuket, Thailand, where a couple of hundred people had flown thousands of miles to meet face to face to share ideas and strengthen working relationships.",
        "有趣的是，我在泰国普吉岛WPP Stream“非会议”（unconference）上听说了这一点，在那里，好几百人从千里之外飞来面对面分享关于强化工作关系的心得。"
    ],
    [
        "That is also true of his proposed wall on the US border with Mexico, which will outshine all the buildings around the world – from Brazil to Indonesia – to which he has licensed his name.",
        "拟议中在美国和墨西哥边境筑墙也是如此，这堵墙将令特朗普已经授权建造的从巴西到印度尼西亚的世界所有国家的建筑相形见绌。"
    ],
    [
        "For many years, Japan was considered to have the most rapidly aging population on earth.",
        "多年来，日本被公认为全球老龄化速度最快的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2026, the projected interest on the national debt will equal more than 31% of this revenue, even if interest rates rise as slowly as the CBO projects.",
        "到2026年，预计国民债务利息将等于这一收入的31%以上，即使利率如CBO预期那样缓慢上升。"
    ],
    [
        "First, emerging economies’ motivation to transform their growth models was weaker than expected.",
        "首先，新兴经济体转变增长模式的动机不如预期强。"
    ],
    [
        "Oddly, the knowledge that the professor willingly imparts with great pride to his advanced students is deemed to be inappropriate (or dangerous) for the general public.",
        "奇怪的是，教授踌躇满志地准备讲授给他的高级学生的知识对于普通大众来说是不合适（也是危险）的。"
    ],
    [
        "Partner countries must be ready to invest in their institutions and develop their own vision of how they want to organize their welfare systems.",
        "伙伴国家必须准备好在自己的机构上投资并且自己给如何安排自身的福利体系制定计划。"
    ],
    [
        "With growth in non-traditional sources of energy – particularly the “shale revolution,” which drove a near-doubling in US production, to almost ten million barrels per day, in just four years – the Saudi-led OPEC oil cartel has less influence on market prices.",
        "非传统能源资源的增长——特别是“页岩革命”让美国产量在短短四年之内几乎翻倍，达到每天一千万桶——让沙特领衔的石油卡特尔欧佩克对市场价格的影响力有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, on top of the so-called “north-south” split that emerged from the economic crisis, the United Kingdom’s potential exit from the EU, and the critical situation in Greece, a new breach, between east and west, has appeared in Europe.",
        "现在，除了因经济危机造成的所谓“南北”分裂、英国有可能退出欧盟以及希腊的危急局势，新的东西裂痕又在欧洲出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, unskilled services remain largely off the agenda.",
        "今天，议事日程中仍然没有非技术性服务的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if America once again pursued military intervention in the region, its power would no longer be sufficient to enforce its will.",
        "即便美国再次在该地区实施军事干预，其现有力量也不足以让各方按照它的意志执行。"
    ],
    [
        "The policy mix is suboptimal, owing to excessive reliance on monetary rather than fiscal policy.",
        "由于过度依赖货币而不是财政政策，政策组合处于次优状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Now we need to work on the second pillar, resolution of the banking crisis.",
        "如今，我们需要致力于第二大支柱，即解决银行危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva demonstrated with his famous policy pivot in 2002, that consensus tended largely to prevail. And it continued to hold sway as recently as almost two years ago, when Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras executed an equally notable U-turn.",
        "但是，巴西总统卢拉以其著名的2002年政策重点证明，华盛顿共识最后往往还是能够胜出，并且一直主导全局直到两年前希腊总理齐普拉斯采取了同样令人瞩目的一百八十度大转弯。"
    ],
    [
        "It ignores what were long regarded as the most essential aims of education: strengthening students’ moral character and preparing them to be active, informed citizens.",
        "这种做法忽视了教育最重要的目标：那就是增强学生品德，培养他们承担起积极、开明的公民角色。"
    ],
    [
        "India can continue to thrive if it invests in physical and human capital and pursues prudent fiscal and monetary policies.",
        "如果投资于实物和人力资本、追求稳健的财政和货币政策，印度就能继续茁壮成长。"
    ],
    [
        "And, the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility has allocated €5.85 billion ($7.2 billion) from now until 2020 to help kick-start private investment in infrastructure projects linking member countries’ energy systems.",
        "此外，欧盟的连通欧洲基金（Connecting Europe Facility）将在从现在到2020年的时间里花58. 5亿欧元用于帮助私人投资参与连接各成员国能源系统的基础设施工程。"
    ],
    [
        "The CCP, they insist, has proved its resilience since the Tiananmen crisis in 1989 and the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991.",
        "他们坚称中共从1989年的天安门危机和1991年苏共垮台后即证明了自身超强的适应力。"
    ],
    [
        "Starkly antagonistic statements and positions tend to gain the most exposure.",
        "尖锐对立的陈述和立场总能获得最多的曝光。"
    ],
    [
        "It is founded on base emotions rather than Soviet-era, ideological motivations.",
        "普京的独裁基础是原始情绪，而不是苏联时代的意识形态动机。"
    ],
    [
        "There may well have been speculative behavior that contributed to the rapid swing.",
        "而且显然有投机行为促成了这样的迅速波动。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the employment generated by the tradable sector has been in services at the upper end of the distributions of value-added per person, education, and income.",
        "事实上，可贸易部门的就业创造集中在服务业，且处于人均价值增加分配、教育和收入的高端。"
    ],
    [
        "Before physicists can claim that their anomalies really come from Higgs particles, they must gather enough data to rule out flukes.",
        "在物理学家宣布异常数据确实来自希格斯粒子之前，他们必须搜集足够的数据来排除偶然情况。"
    ],
    [
        "For the EU, the situation has never appeared more serious.",
        "对欧盟来说，情况从来没有那样严重过。"
    ],
    [
        "The most startling revelation in the report, however, is the staggering number of fish on which humans inflict these deaths.",
        "而该报告揭露出来的最令人震惊的事实，则是人类杀死的鱼数量竟然如此庞大。"
    ],
    [
        "Its leaders must respond with a policy agenda focused on reviving growth now and sustaining it in the future.",
        "其领导人必须采取专注于重振现在增长、持续未来增长的政策日程。"
    ],
    [
        "In ancient Egypt, deceased Pharaohs were embalmed and deified.",
        "在古埃及，死去的法老会做成木乃伊放入神庙。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – As 2015 begins, the values enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are under threat.",
        "日内瓦—随着2014年进入尾声，被写入了《联合国宪章》和《世界人权宣言》的价值正在遭遇威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "This highlights a fundamental problem: the Kenyan state’s endemic corruption constantly undermines its policymakers’ goals.",
        "这凸显出一个根本性问题：肯尼亚的腐败顽疾一直在拖累决策者的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "When he was in office, many a political talk show was interrupted by a phone call from the prime minister demanding to have his say.",
        "许多政治脱口秀都曾被总理要求发表意见的电话所打断过。"
    ],
    [
        "In a slightly abridged version, it reads:",
        "稍作删节，诗曰："
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s longtime approach to industrial policy, in which the Ministry of International Trade and Industry provided support and subsidies for selected industries, helping them to compete in world markets, is now obsolete (indeed, MITI’s role was taken over by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry in 2001).",
        "日本产业政策的长期方针——通产省为选定行业提供支持和补贴，帮助它们在世界市场上竞争——如今已经过时（事实上，通产省的角色在2001年已由经济产业省取代）。"
    ],
    [
        "Having rejected Civic Platform as a partner, Kaczynski decided to ally his minority PiS with the populist Self-Defense party and the nationalist LPR.",
        "在拒绝与公民纲领党组成联合政府后，古钦斯基决定把他的少数党法律和公正党与民粹主义的自我保护党及民族主义的波兰家园联盟联合起来。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, evidence-based medicine has been a victim of its own success, having fueled an exponential increase in research trials in the 20 years since it began.",
        "从某种程度上说，基于证据的医学是其自身成功的受害者，自产生以来的20年中，它催生了研究实验的指数增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Traditional Banking Unbreakable?",
        "传统银行业坚不可摧吗？"
    ],
    [
        "All of these countries are also determined to restore their output to previous peak levels and should be able to pump more oil than they did in the 1970s and 1980s by exploiting new production technologies pioneered in the US.",
        "所有这些国家也决心要将产出恢复至此前的巅峰水平，只要利用美国率先采取的新生产技术，它们将产量提高到20世纪七八十年代以上应该不是难事。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially crucial for poor countries, where slower global growth means continuing hardship.",
        "这对穷国更是至关重要，因为更慢的全球经济增长就意味着困境的继续。"
    ],
    [
        "This has helped to counter extremist tendencies domestically and provides a conceptual platform for moderate Islam.",
        "这有助于对抗国内的极端主义势力，并为温和的伊斯兰人士提供概念宣传的讲台。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sledgehammer case and other allegations, false as they were, immobilized the military.",
        "虽然大锤案和其他指控纯属虚假，但军队却因此而动弹不得。"
    ],
    [
        "Next year’s European parliamentary elections will provide an opportunity for a fundamental debate about the EU’s future.",
        "明年的欧洲议会选举将提供一次机会展开关于欧盟未来的根本性讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they are adapting their vehicles to the new sharing economy, helping people to remain well-connected in the car, expanding the scope of after-sale services, and preparing for the shift away from individual car ownership toward car sharing.",
        "因此，它们正在改变它们的汽车以适应新共享经济，让人们可以在车内很好地联网，扩大售后服务范围，并准备着从个体汽车所有向汽车共享的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "That transition would suit Argentina well.",
        "这一转型十分适合阿根廷。"
    ],
    [
        "Even after its property bubble burst 24 years ago, the authorities continued to believe that the country’s growth model needed no adjustment.",
        "24年前，即使其房地产泡沫已经破裂，当局仍认为日本增长模式不需要调整。"
    ],
    [
        "“The beautiful game” brings people together more effectively and reliably than the European Parliament is able to do.",
        "这些精彩的比赛相比欧洲议会来说，更能把人们吸引到一起，更能让大家感到可以信赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, hostile ethnic groups are often mixed like a marble cake, rather than neatly separable like a layer cake.",
        "事实上，敌对的民族之间的关系常常是如同大理石蛋糕般的交融，而不是层次分明的砌砖蛋糕。"
    ],
    [
        "The administration’s tacticians appear to think that they are not on board – especially after the recent AIG bonus scandal – whereas the Geithner Plan relies on authority that the administration already has.",
        "奥巴马政府的战略家们似乎认为他们无权干涉此事，特别四在最近美国国际集团的奖金丑闻事件之后，而盖特纳计划却依赖于政府现有的权威人士。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, it is fundamentally sensible for governments to monitor and tax as much domestic economic activity as possible.",
        "平心而论，政府尽可能对更多国内经济活动进行监控和课税从根本上说是明智的。"
    ],
    [
        "Shunning a written text, Modi extemporized for an hour, mapping out an explicit vision for India, including an economic model that constitutes a clean break from India’s past.",
        "莫迪没有用讲稿，脱口讲了一个小时，为印度勾勒了一幅清晰的愿景，包括一个与印度的过去明确决裂的经济模式。"
    ],
    [
        "In Italy, inventor Roberto Vezzi had a Smart-EV project along the same lines.",
        "意大利的发明家罗伯特·维兹按照这样的思路研制出了eSmart car。"
    ],
    [
        "Had Bush only gone along with the democratic processes enshrined in the UN Charter, the trauma of Iraq need not have occurred.",
        "如果布什遵守了《联合国宪章》规定的民主原则，伊拉克的悲剧就不会上演。"
    ],
    [
        "In December 2012, President Enrique Peña Nieto took office under inauspicious circumstances.",
        "两年前，总统恩里克·培尼亚·涅托在险象环生的情况下宣誓就职。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy’s crisis comes at a time of heightened risk for key countries (for example, a hard landing in China, or persistently high unemployment in the US).",
        "意大利危机爆发于关键国家风险高企的当口（比如中国出现硬着陆、美国失业率持久居高不下等）。"
    ],
    [
        "There are good reasons for this welcome change.",
        "有很多原因共同造就了这个可喜的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "· Should Iran manage to become a nuclear power, the Saudis’ existential fears would dramatically escalate.",
        "u 一旦伊朗成功跻身核国家之列，沙特人业已存在的恐惧就会急剧升级。"
    ],
    [
        "They identify intensely with him, whatever he does.",
        "他们强烈认同他，不管他做了很么。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain, which will soon mark the anniversary of last year’s bombings in London, provides a test case for seeking answers to these questions.",
        "英国即将纪念伦敦爆炸案一周年。 它为寻找这些问题的答案提供了先例。"
    ],
    [
        "A Day for Planetary Justice",
        "一个追求地球正义的日子"
    ],
    [
        "In December, the pharmaceutical giant Merck spent $8.4 billion to acquire Cubist Pharmaceuticals, a Massachusetts-based drug-maker that specializes in combating Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacteria that has become resistant to many types of antibiotics.",
        "12月，制药业巨头默克公司以84亿美元收购了位于马萨诸塞州的丘比斯特制药公司（Cubist Pharmaceuticals）。 丘比斯特公司专长于解决抗甲氧西林金黄酿脓葡萄球菌（MRSA，一种可耐多种抗生素的细菌）问题。"
    ],
    [
        "That conclusion raises a key question: Will alpha eventually go to zero for every imaginable investment strategy?",
        "这一结论产生了一个关键问题：对于所有人类可以设想出的投资策略来说，高回报是否最终会归零？"
    ],
    [
        "PROMESA’s Dangerous Premises",
        "波多黎各债务援助法案的危险前提"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, as worries have mounted that commercial surrogacy leads to human trafficking and the exploitation of women, India’s authorities have concluded that the ethical concerns outweigh the economic benefits.",
        "但因为对代孕可能导致人口贩卖和剥削妇女现象不断增长的担忧，印度当局得出的结论是伦理问题大于经济效益。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brookings Institution, a bellwether of US official policy, called for Assad’s ouster, and anti-Assad propaganda in the US media soared.",
        "美国外交政策的指标——布鲁金斯研究所呼吁罢免阿萨德，美国媒体大肆宣传反阿萨德的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "By this standard, the current recovery is unacceptably slow, with both output and employment still below the previous peak.",
        "用这一标准来衡量的话，当前的复苏简直慢得让人无法接受，而产量和就业率水平依旧低于之前的峰值。"
    ],
    [
        "Much has been written, and many hands wrung, about the dollar’s decline over the last four decades, but the fact remains that holdings of US dollar assets by foreigners today are vastly greater than they were in 1971.",
        "过去四十年来，关于美元将要衰落的言论和行为层出不穷，但事实却是如今由外国人持有的美元资产比1971年规模大多了。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – The rise of billionaire Donald Trump in the US presidential race has been met with a mixture of horror and fascination.",
        "东京——人们以混杂着恐惧和迷恋的复杂情绪注视着亿万富翁唐纳德·特朗普在美国总统竞选中崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to ensure that their animals gain weight rapidly, meat producers feed them grain, rather than the grass that they would naturally consume – an approach that is a major source of pressure on grain production, natural resources, and the environment.",
        "为确保动物快速增重，肉类生产商用粮食来饲喂牲畜，而不是它们自然会消耗的牧草——上述方法对粮食生产、自然资源和环境都造成了极大压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Viewed in this context, the recent protests have weakened Iran’s reformers by eroding their monopoly on hope and driving a wedge between the government’s neoliberal policies, intended to address Iran’s economic problems, and its goal of deepening popular support.",
        "从这一背景看，最近的示威削弱了伊朗改革派对希望的垄断，在政府的新自由主义政策（旨在解决伊朗的经济问题）及其深化群众支持的目标之间钉入了一枚楔子。"
    ],
    [
        "For a while, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seemed to be part of the group.",
        "曾几何时，巴西的卢拉似乎也加入了这一集团。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, some politicians are no longer defending free-market capitalism in terms of economic growth or the gains from globalization.",
        "在这样的背景下，一些政客不再用经济增长和全球化的收益来为自由市场资本主义辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "It was the IMF’s financial power that gave it its bite, and that power was enhanced by Fund borrowing, at first from the G-10, which established the General Arrangements to Borrow.",
        "IMF的影响力来自其金融实力，而这种实力的增强得益于其借款能力。 起初是向设立了《借款总安排》的十国集团借款。"
    ],
    [
        "In some places, large separatist movements are rising.",
        "在一些地区，大规模分裂主义运动正在兴起。"
    ],
    [
        "And an increasingly self-confident Assad no longer seems resigned to Israel’s insistence that its air force should have full freedom of action in Syria and Lebanon: his anti-aircraft batteries have started to respond to Israeli military flights over Syria.",
        "而日益自信的阿萨德政府也不再默认以色列的坚持——其空军有在叙利亚和黎巴嫩开展行动的完全的自由。 阿萨德的防空部队已经开始对以色列在叙利亚上空的战机飞行有所反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries running surpluses accumulate massive stocks of foreign assets, and those resources have to be invested somewhere.",
        "那些顺差国家积累了巨额外国资产，并将其投资到各处。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rising Price of Trump’s Border Wall",
        "日益高涨的特朗普边境墙代价"
    ],
    [
        "Indicted French child abductors were freed by Chad at France’s request.",
        "在法国的要求下乍得释放了遭到指控的法国儿童绑架犯。"
    ],
    [
        "Participants at the WCA meeting this week should commit to additional measures that will help ensure that emissions are kept within safe limits.",
        "本周的WCA会议与会者应该承诺采取更多措施帮助确保碳排放限制在安全限度以内。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan would fit; Iraq would not.",
        "布什总统的理论可能适合阿富汗，但对伊拉克就不一定了。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the harmful changes are often only present in low levels, and because a single cell can contain both mutated and normal mitochondria, it is widely believed that only one person in 5,000 – or even one in 10,000 – will be affected by mitochondrial disease.",
        "因为有害变化往往频率很低，还因为单个细胞也可以同时包含突变线粒体和正常线粒体，人们普遍认为只有五千至万分之一的人将受到线粒体疾病的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "While treating MDR-TB remains possible, doing so is arduous, with a treatment time of roughly two years, using drugs that are neither as efficient nor as benign as canonical drugs – and at a cost that rises by a factor of 10-100.",
        "治疗MDR肺结核仍是可能的，但费时费力，大约需持续两年，使用的药物也比常规药物药力更低、副作用更猛，所花费用也要高出十倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s fiscal compact, whatever its final form, will be little more than a sideshow.",
        "欧盟的财政契约不论最终形式为何，都将只是一个小插曲。"
    ],
    [
        "This process is not without challenges, but there is no reason to believe that it could not be finalized more or less according to plan and the current timetable.",
        "这一过程并非一帆风顺，但根据计划和现有时间表，没有理由认为这一过程会没完没了地进行下去，不管结果如何，都必须结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s people have grown even more accustomed to high levels of state spending, and the public discontent revealed by the Arab Spring has not disappeared.",
        "中东人民比以往更习惯于高水平的国家支出，阿拉伯之春所暴露的公众不满也并没有消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Mobilizing support for European banks will be hard; extending it to subsidiaries will be even harder.",
        "动员对欧洲银行的支持力量绝非易事； 而将其扩展到所有支行就更加困难了。"
    ],
    [
        "We started secret negotiations almost four years ago to establish a limited and focused agenda and clear rules of procedure (the absence of which was a major stumbling block in previous negotiations) that would allow us – assuming we reach an agreement – to end the conflict.",
        "我们在将近四年前开始秘密谈判，以制定有限的、目标明确的日程和程序日程的明确规则（在此前的多次谈判中，缺乏这一点是主要障碍之一），这让我们——如果形成协议的话——得以结束冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "But the truth of life for a political prisoner, even for one on a hunger strike, is the opposite.",
        "但政治犯、即使是绝食政治犯的真实生活也恰恰反其道而行之。"
    ],
    [
        "German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted that there should be no joint EU guarantee; each country would have to take care of its own institutions.",
        "德国总理默克尔坚持认为不应该实行欧盟联合担保，各国必须自己打扫自己的后院。"
    ],
    [
        "The Roundtable also provided the Communists with a sense of safety that diminished their fear of democratic change. A hangman’s noose did not await them.",
        "圆桌会谈也为波兰共产党提供了安全感，这种安全感可以减少他们对民主变化的担忧，他们知道，没有绞刑在等着他们。"
    ],
    [
        "It is perhaps understandable that the original MDGs did not mention either internal or international migration.",
        "原有的“千年发展目标”并未涉及国内或国际移民或许可以理解。"
    ],
    [
        "But this does not come without costs.",
        "但这并不是没有成本的。"
    ],
    [
        "Having campaigned against “Leave” for several months in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, it was inevitable that I faced criticism from left-wing supporters of “Brexit,” or “Lexit” as it came to be known.",
        "几个月来，我在英格兰、威尔士、北爱尔兰和苏格兰宣传反对“脱离”，难免遇到一些来自左翼的“英国退出”支持者，即所谓的“左翼退欧派”（Lexit）。"
    ],
    [
        "If credit expands too rapidly, the Fed can raise the interest rate that it pays on deposits.",
        "如果信用扩张过于迅速，美联储可以提高它向存款支付的利率。"
    ],
    [
        "It becomes much more dubious when it interferes with sexual acts between consenting adults.",
        "但是法律如果干预成人之间自愿的性行为，则不再理直气壮。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, the Fed has typically been slow to respond to inflation.",
        "从历史上看，美联储对通胀的反应总是慢半拍。"
    ],
    [
        "China, for its part, rejects what its foreign ministry has called the “China responsibility theory” regarding North Korea.",
        "中国方面否认其外交部所谓的“中国对朝负责论”。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, while monetary union obviously requires greater sharing of sovereignty, there should also be a “greater Europe” that includes the United Kingdom and others.",
        "最后，货币联盟明确要求更大程度的主权共享，与此同时，也应该有一个包括英国和其他国家在内的“大欧洲”。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to EU pressures, Turkey's domestic Kurdish problem is well on the way to being resolved democratically, with most Kurdish leaders in Turkey expressing their commitment to Turkish unity.",
        "多亏来自欧盟的压力，土耳其国内的库尔德问题正在走入民主解决的轨道，土耳其国内的绝大多数库尔德领袖都表达了他们支持土耳其统一的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "“The Hartwell Paper” argues that the Kyoto approach, based as it is on past experience with relatively simple environmental problems like acid rain, was always doomed to failure.",
        "对此《哈特维尔报告》认为，从以前在处理酸雨这种相对简单的气候问题所得到的经验上看，“京都模式”往往都注定以失败告终。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, as soon as government information is designed to be immediately open to everybody, its value as information declines and its value as an instrument of manipulation increases.",
        "相反，只要政府信息立刻向所有人公开，其作为信息的价值就会下降，而其作为操纵工具的价值则会上升。"
    ],
    [
        "It is high time that European leaders take this promise seriously.",
        "现在，欧盟领导人们应当认真履行这一保证了。"
    ],
    [
        "The experience of other federations shows that the latter would be a mistake.",
        "其他联邦的经验表明后者将是一个错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s main foreign policy instrument in Georgia is Gazprom, the state-controlled gas monopoly.",
        "俄罗斯在格鲁吉亚的主要外交手段是国营的天然气垄断寡头－俄罗斯天然气工业公司。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, Israel’s water scarcity has made the country wealthier than it otherwise would have been.",
        "从这个角度讲，以色列的水短缺反倒让这个国家变得更加富有了。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the Netherlands, women and girls who sell their bodies are routinely threatened, beaten, raped, and terrorized by pimps and customers.",
        "即使是在荷兰，那些出卖其身体的妇女和女孩子，也常常遭到皮条客和嫖客的威胁、殴打、强奸和恐吓。"
    ],
    [
        "But the current firestorm, like other recent diplomatic crises for the United States, reflects a more fundamental problem: the lack of strategic vision in American foreign policy.",
        "但最近的风波与其他与美国相关的当前外交危机一样，反映了一个更加根本的问题：美国外交政策缺少战略眼光。"
    ],
    [
        "Questions about her record have been sidestepped; her inexperience is lauded as a virtue; any criticism is dismissed as sexism.",
        "有关她的过去的历史的疑问已消退;她经验的缺乏却被赞扬为是一种优点;任何对她的批评都以性别歧视为由被击退。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom, for example, you cannot assume your role as an elected representative without taking one.",
        "比如，在英国，不宣誓就不能履行当选代表的职责。 但游梁二人想在宣誓方面“搞个大新闻”。"
    ],
    [
        "Diversity has to be lived, which means establishing one's own uniqueness and learning to cope in and with other regions and mindsets.",
        "多样性必须是充满活力的，这就意味着在树立我们自己的文化独特性的同时还要学习与其它的地区和思维方式相融相处。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s success in this arena points to the possible advantages of its heavy-handed system – a conclusion that makes many Western policymakers uncomfortable.",
        "中国在这方面的成功表明其大手笔干预制度可能也有优势——这一结论可能让许多西方决策者感到不安。"
    ],
    [
        "And while it is fair to argue that much of what Iran is doing in the region is a legitimate cause for concern, it is not grounds for reintroducing sanctions under the accord.",
        "伊朗在域内的所作所为大多确实构成了合理的关注原因，但这并是根据协议重启制裁的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "How can countries maintain productivity-led growth in an age of frequent and sudden disruption?",
        "各国如何在频繁遭遇突发破坏的时代保持生产率推动的增长？"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, there is the weather and climate.",
        "天气和气候就是其中的首要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "And threats like terrorism, trafficking of arms, drugs, and people, and climate change are borderless and complex.",
        "恐怖主义、武器、毒品和人口贩卖以及气候变化都是超越国界的复杂问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps America, with its Asian allies, could make some modest shift in their approach to China’s illegal pursuit of territorial claims in the South and East China Seas.",
        "也许美国及其亚洲盟友能够在对待中国对南海和东海的非法领土主张的方针上做出一些温和调整。"
    ],
    [
        "America, too, will manage to muddle through again – leaving even higher levels of debt for the future.",
        "美国也会设法再次应付过去，但会给未来留下更高的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "And the problems are not solved with a financial regulatory bill entrusting more powers to those regulators.",
        "不能依靠一项金融监管法案，通过向监管机构赋予更多的权力来解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The main difference between the failing French model and the more successful Scandinavian approach lies not in welfare “outputs” (many public services in France, such as the health-care system, remain among the best in the world), but in how they are financed.",
        "失败的法国模式和成功的斯堪的纳维亚模式之间的主要区别不在于福利“产出”（在法国，医疗体系等诸多公共服务堪称世界最佳），而在于它们的资金来源。"
    ],
    [
        "But how can domestic demand be strong if income continues to flow to the top?",
        "但只要收入不断地流向最顶层，国内需求又如何能够得到提振呢？"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Every September, many of the world’s presidents, prime ministers, and foreign ministers descend on New York City for a few days.",
        "纽约—每年9月，全世界许多总统、总理和外交部长都会来纽约市访问几天。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixty-four percent of Brazilian homes lack electricity and sanitation, and only 22% have electricity, a telephone, a computer, a refrigerator, a television, and a washing machine.",
        "百分之六十四的巴西家庭缺少电和卫生设备，只有22%的家庭能用上电、电话、电脑、冰箱、电视和洗衣机。"
    ],
    [
        "When one believes the narrative, one acts in ways that make it come true.",
        "当你相信这个故事时，你的行动就会让它成为真事。"
    ],
    [
        "Allowing freer flows of people across borders would equalize opportunities even faster than trade, but resistance is fierce.",
        "实现更加自由的人口跨境流动将比贸易更加迅速地实现机会平等，但对此的抵制是强烈的。"
    ],
    [
        "As with corporate monopolies, the consumers (students) are often seen as a homogeneous mass, where all students can be educated according to the same pedagogical approach.",
        "就像公司垄断一样，顾客（学生）通常被看作是同质化的群体，因而所有的学生都可以用同样的教学方式来教育。"
    ],
    [
        "It also seems to be reflected in Spanish politics.",
        "这也体现在西班牙政治中。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, it is important that climate finance be used to foster public and private investment in low-carbon infrastructure and technologies, particularly to lower the cost of capital, which is crucial to scale up projects and encourage renewable-energy adoption.",
        "因此，气候金融被用于促进公私低碳基础设施投资和技术十分重要，特别是要降低资本成本，这是扩大项目规模、鼓励采用可再生能源的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite evidence that most diseases have a clear genetic component, only a fraction of the genes that explain them have been found.",
        "但是，尽管有证据表明大部分疾病都有清晰的基因因素，但解释这些疾病的基因只有一小部分被找到了。"
    ],
    [
        "That has meant subordinating meritocracy to kinship and loyalty, which has inevitably weakened the regime’s capacity to respond effectively to regional developments.",
        "这意味着才能将是次于出身和忠诚的次要考虑因素，这难免削弱了政权有效响应地区发展趋势的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Because investment is so low, net capital exports from Germany are nearly 4% of GDP.",
        "由于投资过低，德国的净资本出口只占GDP的约4%。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is that the expanding development and use of new information technology, notably cell phones and the Internet, shrinks the world and makes competition from abroad more plausible.",
        "一个原因是新的信息技术，特别是移动电话和因特网的快速发展和使用让世界变小，并使来自海外的竞争成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "There is considerable lingering ill will over his role in the invasion of Iraq, and there is the inconvenient fact that he is from Euro-skeptic Britain, and that many on the left view him as a leader whose “third way” was a betrayal of socialism.",
        "人们对他在入侵伊拉克时所起的作用耿耿于怀，另外一个不利的事实是他来自对欧盟抱有怀疑态度的英国，更有甚者，左翼阵线中有太多人认为他所谓的“第三条道路”就是对社会主义的背叛。"
    ],
    [
        "The US also faces political constraints to fiscal consolidation: Americans are deluding themselves that they can enjoy European-style social spending while maintaining low tax rates, as under President Ronald Reagan.",
        "要出台财政巩固政策，美国还面临一些政治障碍：美国人自欺欺人地以为，他们一方面可以享受欧洲式的社会福利，另一方面还能享受像里根执政时期那样的低税率。"
    ],
    [
        "They are riddled with misconceptions and inconsistencies that render them ineffective.",
        "这些计划充满了错误概念和矛盾之处，导致它们无法见效。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet India’s investment-to-GDP ratio is now slipping, from over 35% in the last eight years to below 30% today.",
        "然而印度的投资与GDP的比率正在下滑，从过去八年的35％以上降至当前不到30％。"
    ],
    [
        "Incomplete encoding of a trauma must not be confused with amnesia – an inability to recall something did get into memory.",
        "对创伤的不完整编码决不能和失忆症混淆，后者是不能回忆起曾经进入记忆的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Experts have cautioned that ISIS could strike unprotected infrastructure or private residences.",
        "专家警告伊斯兰国可能打击未受保护的私人住宅和基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an option would allow the Greek government to make a new start in stimulating competition, fighting corruption, and otherwise building a basis for long-term growth.",
        "这一选项将让希腊政府有一个新开始：刺激竞争、打击腐败，以及打好长期增长基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fact that sport can unleash primitive emotions is not a reason to condemn it.",
        "但体育运动能释放原始情感的事实并不是谴责它的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "And, to avoid interrupting the “dialogue” by clapping, they used forceful hand signals to express their agreement.",
        "此外，为了避免“对话”被掌声所干扰，他们使用了给力的手势来表示他们对我的赞同。"
    ],
    [
        "To date, Iraqi officials have not been willing to deal with this escalating violence against women, or even to discuss it.",
        "目前为止，伊拉克官员还并不愿意处理针对妇女不断升级的暴力，甚至不愿讨论这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Al Jazeera journalists are household names; they also suffer more harassment, imprisonment, and fatalities than their colleagues at other major news organizations.",
        "半岛电视台的记者是家喻户晓的名人，他们需要比其他重要新闻机构的同行忍受更多的骚扰、监禁，甚至付出生命的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration should think hard about Security Council reform.",
        "奥巴马政府应该仔细思考安理会改革问题。"
    ],
    [
        "I certainly don’t feel safe as an economics professor!",
        "我觉得自己作为经济学教授的地位一点都不稳固！"
    ],
    [
        "Given these governments’ complex strategies for regulating what their citizens do online – ranging from establishing effective control of private media and telecoms businesses to allowing people to blow off steam without going too far – we should be more realistic about the true extent of the Internet’s transformational potential.",
        "这些政府管理其民众网络活动策略复杂，从建立对私有媒体和电信企业的有效控制到允许人们发发牢骚而又不失控不等。 有鉴于此，我们对于互联网转变社会的潜力应当更为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of what the right explanation is, the history of recent recessions suggests that we should not be surprised that the job recovery is taking time.",
        "不管正确的解释是什么，近期经济衰退的历史表明，就业恢复需要时间并不稀奇。"
    ],
    [
        "With energy prices moving center stage, there is a danger that already-weak incentives for investment in low-carbon energy will be further undermined.",
        "随着能源价格成为核心问题，已然十分脆弱的低碳能源投资激励有可能被进一步削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "They regard Hong Kongers’ democratic demands as a misguided effort to mimic Western politics, or even as a form of nostalgia for British imperialism.",
        "他们将香港人的民主要求视为受到蛊惑的照搬西方政治的行为，甚至是为英帝国主义招魂。"
    ],
    [
        "In that setting, what JPM called its “fortress” balance sheet would suddenly have looked highly vulnerable, and the bank could have found itself under far more damaging attack than it has in the last year.",
        "如此，JPM自称“坚不可摧”的资产负债表将在一夜之间变得不堪一击，JPM也将陷于猛烈的打击中，远甚于去年。"
    ],
    [
        "Those cuts are matched exactly by reductions in corporate and inheritance tax cuts.",
        "这些削减动作与公司税和遗产税的下调完美匹配。"
    ],
    [
        "The year is ending, however, with those hopes dashed and ASEAN more divided than it has ever been.",
        "现在2012年已将近年尾，但希望却已成泡影，东盟国家也比以往更加四分五裂。"
    ],
    [
        "The new mood of global economic regime change was captured in the official photograph that was widely used in coverage of the most successful of the G-20 summits, held in London in April 2009.",
        "2009年4月在伦敦召开的最成功的G-20峰会媒体报导所广泛采用的官方照片准确捕捉到了全球经济体制变化的崭新氛围。"
    ],
    [
        "Many people within the Bush administration believed that even without approval by the UN Security Council or NATO, American power would be legitimized by its successful use.",
        "布什政府中很多人认为即使没有得到联合国安理会或北约的批准，出兵成功也会让美国使用军事力量变得合法化。"
    ],
    [
        "Muhammad Atta, Zacharias Moussaoui, and Kamel Daoudi were \"born again\" in Marseilles, London, and Montreal, not in Egypt or Morocco (and they all broke ties with their families).",
        "Muhammad Atta、Zacharias Moussaoui、和Kamel Daoudi重生的地点都是马赛、伦敦、蒙特利尔，而不是埃及或摩洛哥（他们都与各自的家庭断绝了联系）。"
    ],
    [
        "Through its wide-ranging experience of convergence of national interests and values, the EU has emerged as a model of multilateralism and as the most powerful normative actor in all areas of governance.",
        "通过其在融合国家利益与价值观方面的广泛经验，欧盟已经成为一个多边主义的楷模和在所有治理领域最为强大的典范行动者。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a whole network of publications, some of which manage to parade as mainstream media, is devoted to the task.",
        "实际上，有一整套的出版物就是从事这样的工作，其中有些还宣称是主流媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "The most reliable data suggest that he was successful at reducing inequality; during his rule, Venezuela’s Gini coefficient, a 100-point scale measuring income inequality, fell from 50 to 39, the biggest decline in Latin America.",
        "最可靠的数据表明，他成功地减少了不平等性； 在他执政期间，委内瑞拉的基尼系数（衡量收入不平等性的百分制指标）从50下降至39，是拉丁美洲国家中下降幅度最大的。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Middle East remains a region mired in backwardness.",
        "与此同时，中东仍处于停滞不前状态。"
    ],
    [
        "How can an enterprise being restructured, say, find a way to issue securities for financing if it cannot meet conventional standards such as profitability and net asset value, as required by the Company Law and the Securities Law?",
        "比如说，在无法按照公司法和社会保障法的要求，满足诸如盈利和净资产值等传统标准时，一间正在重组的公司如何发行债券以融资呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The truth, of course, is that the decision not to renounce, unilaterally, one’s wealth does not discredit a preference for a more equitable society.",
        "当然，事实上不单方面舍弃自身财富的决定并不能抹煞对更公平社会的偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "I have likened the distribution of power in politics today as analogous to a three-dimensional chess game.",
        "我把当今政治实力的分配比作一盘三维国际象棋。"
    ],
    [
        "As the philosopher Peter Singer showed in his book One World , a united front against the biggest problems facing the world will require a fundamental shift in attitude – away from parochialism and toward a redefinition of self-interest.",
        "像哲学家彼得·辛格（Peter Singer）在其著作《一个世界》中展现的那样，应对世界面临的最大的问题的统一战线要求进行观念上的根本转变——远离狭隘，面向对利己主义的重新定义。"
    ],
    [
        "So why have financial markets been behaving as if they were in a world of their own?",
        "那为什么各金融市场却依然可以仿佛置身事外般地自行其事呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Creating a culture of cave dwellers is no way to decrease the incidence of skin cancer.",
        "减少皮肤癌发病率的方法不是开创穴居者文化。"
    ],
    [
        "The late King Hussein feared that an independent Palestinian state could become a radical irredentist entity, and his own 1988 decision to waive Jordan’s claim on the West Bank, taken under pressure from the Arab League, was never ratified in parliament, and is still regarded by many as unconstitutional.",
        "已故的约旦国王侯赛因担心独立的巴勒斯坦国可能成为激进的恢复故土主义（irredentist）实体，而他本人1988年决定放弃约旦在约旦河西岸的主张因为来自阿拉伯联盟的压力而从未获得议会批准，至今仍被许多人视为违宪。"
    ],
    [
        "Everything now is about money to run electoral campaigns, which have become incredibly expensive.",
        "一切都围绕着如何搞钱来运作选举活动，而这些活动也变得极端昂贵。"
    ],
    [
        "The creation of any product requires many ideas, and sorting out their relative contribution to the outcome – let alone which ones are really new – can be nearly impossible.",
        "任何产品创新都需要一系列的创意，搞清它们对最终成果相对贡献其可能性可以说微乎其微，更不用说分清哪些是最新创意了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China stood with Russia, Belarus, and a few other despotic regimes in prematurely recognizing the thuggish, ballot-stuffing Viktor Yanukovych as President of Ukraine.",
        "事实上，中国和俄罗斯、白俄罗斯以及其他一些专制政权早就意见一致地承认了暴政专权的维克托·亚努科维奇当选乌克兰总统，尽管他在选举中并不得志。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while it is a much disputed question, de Gaulle was probably right about America’s lack of commitment to the nuclear defense of Europe.",
        "虽然戴高乐此项的决定值得推敲，但在美国并没有对欧洲进行核保护的大背景下，这个决定也许是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true of China’s retirement system: the workforce’s enrollment rate is around 50%, but only $600 of assets per worker (in national, local government, and private pension schemes, combined) are available to cover lifetime retirement benefits.",
        "中国的退休制度也是这样：劳动力退休注册率为50%左右，但每位工人只能获得600美元（中央、地方和私人养老金之和）的资产作为一生的退休福利。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as with all stock markets, shifts in sentiment that are not connected to fundamentals can also drive volatility.",
        "此外，和所有股市一样，与基本面无关的情绪变化也助长了波动。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, the US and Saudi Arabia have had a balance of asymmetries in which we depended on them as the swing producer of oil, and they depended on us for ultimate military security. Now the bargains will be struck on somewhat better terms from America’s point of view.",
        "几十年来，美国和沙特存在一种不对称的平衡，我们依赖他们作为见机行事的石油生产者，而他们依赖我们作为最终军事安全力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Last Best Chance",
        "欧洲的最后良机"
    ],
    [
        "And ideas tend to advance and retreat slowly, like glaciers, not precipitously, like armies.",
        "而思想的进退总是像冰川一样缓慢，而不是像军队一样迅猛。"
    ],
    [
        "During the Cold War, there were those who argued that the United States should try to “roll back” the Soviet Union, bring down the communist system, and replace it with democratic capitalism.",
        "在冷战时期，有一种声音认为美国应该“击垮”苏联，摧毁共产主义制度，给它带来资本主义的民主制度。"
    ],
    [
        "As the value of altruism becomes increasingly obvious, the new approach will spread through the economy, benefiting all of society, future generations, and the planet, too.",
        "随着利他主义的价值日益凸显，新方法将推广到经济的所有领域，造福社会、地球和子孙后代。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, albeit less radically, ordinary citizens comprise two-thirds of Ireland’s Constitutional Convention.",
        "类似地（尽管不像冰岛那样彻底），普通公民占据了爱尔兰制宪会议的三分之二席位。"
    ],
    [
        "Two former university officials have been charged in the alleged cover-up.",
        "两名该大学前官员因隐瞒该丑闻而被起诉。"
    ],
    [
        "The bad news is that they have yet to find the political will to act decisively to minimize the risks.",
        "坏消息是决策者并没有政治意愿果断行动尽量降低这些风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Worldwide, $100 million of annual investment in tree-planting initiatives could provide as many as 68 million people with significant reductions in PM levels, while also providing 77 million people a reduction of 1°C in air temperature.",
        "在世界范围内，每年投资1亿美元实施植树计划可以显著降低6，800万人周遭空气中的微细颗粒物，同时让7，700万人的日常气温降低1°C。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, one need only recall the damage that unregulated carry trades wrought on Asian economies in the 1990’s to understand why China must erect barriers to protect its domestic markets from inflows of hot money.",
        "只需回顾上世纪九十年代使亚洲经济受灾的无监管利差交易，人们就能理解为什么中国必须设置适当的管控机制以防止热钱流入其国内市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising youth unemployment and cuts in pensions and social expenditures come at a time when many large multinational corporations legally avoid taxes by shifting their profits to favorable jurisdictions.",
        "年轻人失业率上升，养老金和社会支出的削减，与此同时，跨国大公司通过将利润转移到有利法律管辖区实现合法避税。"
    ],
    [
        "Progress is being made on the global level as well, despite the economic crisis and populist headwinds.",
        "尽管受到经济危机和民粹主义的影响，全球而言还是取得了进展。"
    ],
    [
        "In May 2011, Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University and I co-chaired a High Level Group convened by the prime ministers of the United Kingdom, Germany, Turkey, and Indonesia to attempt to move the multilateral process ahead.",
        "2011年5月，哥伦比亚大学的贾格迪什·巴格瓦提（Jagdish Bhagwati）和我共同主持了由英国、德国、土耳其和印尼首相/总理组成高级别小组，试图推动多边程序的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s leaders, in particular, have sought to reinforce the defenses against the anti-Semitism that still persists in the world.",
        "特别是以色列领导人，一直试图加强对仍然存在的反犹主义的防范措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The second ensures that groups that win electoral contests can assume power and choose policies to their liking – provided these policies do not violate the other two sets of rights.",
        "第二种保障在选举中获胜的团体可以在不侵犯其他两种权利的前提下掌权并选择自己喜爱的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who care most about doing something better have a “need for achievement.”",
        "最关注把事情做得更好的人有“成就需求”。"
    ],
    [
        "Merton discovered a strong pattern.",
        "莫顿发现了一个很强的结构。"
    ],
    [
        "This will increase profits.",
        "于是利润就增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the wealth of the government does play a role in economic performance.",
        "当然，政府的财富对经济表现也确实起着作用。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, employees do not negotiate individually the length of the workweek.",
        "毕竟，雇员们并不单个地谈判工作周的长度。"
    ],
    [
        "When doctors are in short supply, the US and UK turn to countries like the Philippines to close the gap.",
        "当医生供给不足时，美国和英国就转向菲律宾等国家填补缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "These discoveries support some archaeologists’ view that only Homo sapiens was advanced enough to be considered truly modern humans, while non-modern groups like the Neanderthals displayed, at best, only incipient signs of such complexity.",
        "这些发现支持只有智人才有资格被认为是真正现代人的考古学观点，而尼安德特人等非现代人群体的复杂程度充其量只能称为雏形。"
    ],
    [
        "So, rather than talking about the US debt ceiling, let us think instead about all of the things that the debt-ceiling impasse has prevented the US government from doing during the past six months – all of the useful policies that might have been debated and enacted, but were not.",
        "因此，我们还是把美国债务上限放在一边，先想一想债务上限僵局在过去半年以来是如何束缚住了美国政府的手脚的吧，让我们想一想到底有哪些有用的政策是应该讨论而未讨论的。"
    ],
    [
        "That has not only complicated its relations with its Southeast Asian neighbors, which have watched China’s rise with growing trepidation, but also with the United States, which maintains treaty ties with several of those states.",
        "这不仅导致中国与东南亚邻国关系复杂化（上述邻国越来越惶惶不安地注视着中国的崛起），同时也导致中国与（若干地区国家签署条约的）美国关系恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Dying to Grow?",
        "为了长高不要命？"
    ],
    [
        "But this economic logic does not apply in the case of increases in oil prices.",
        "但这样的经济逻辑在油价上涨时并不适用。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the UN Environment Program and climate modelers made clear in the run-up to the Cancún meeting, a significant emissions gap exists between what is being promised by countries and what is needed to keep the rise in global temperature below two degrees Celsius, let alone move towards the 1.5-degree threshold needed to protect low-lying island states.",
        "但是联合国环境计划署和全球气候决策者在坎昆会议的准备阶段就明确指出，各国做出的承诺和将全球升温控制在两摄氏度以内的现实需求相比尚有很大差距，距离保护低洼岛国所需的1. 5度气温界线差距自不必说。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, we rely on the state to provide social goods like education, housing, and health care.",
        "其结果是，我们依靠国家来提供社会性的商品，比如教育、住房和保健。"
    ],
    [
        "More competition means that previously sheltered companies must shape up and become more productive, innovating simply to survive.",
        "更多的竞争意味着此前备受庇护的公司必须改革并为生存而提高生产效率、积极创新。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also entails developing new vaccines, which, in the short-term, could be kick-started by a $2 billion Global Innovation Fund for early-stage research in vaccines and other viable alternatives to antibiotics.",
        "但这也需要研发新型疫苗，该工作短期内可通过投资早期疫苗研究和其他可行替代抗生素的20亿美元全球创新基金加以启动。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet climate change has been subject to so much political inertia, false information, and wishful thinking for the last few decades that we continue to see ineffective or impossible solutions, rather than an effort to address root causes.",
        "但在过去几十年来，气候变化又受到如此多的政治惰性、错误信息和一厢情愿的困扰，以至于我们的方案依然效率低下或可望而不可及，根本没有触及问题的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "Images of miserable refugee families drifting in the sea, at the mercy of rapacious smugglers and gangsters, can easily inspire feelings of pity and compassion (and not just in Germany).",
        "可怜的难民家庭在贪婪的走私者和歹徒支配下在海上漂流的图片很容易激发怜悯和同情（而且不只是在德国）。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is that the single market is much more than a free-trade area.",
        "答案是单一市场远非自由贸易区所能概括。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this brings me back to July 1 of this year.",
        "所有这些把我带回了今年7月1日。"
    ],
    [
        "They have to develop their vision of a new global economy, beyond complaints about its asymmetric power structure.",
        "它们必须有其自身的关于新全球经济的看法，超越对其不对称实力结构的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – With interest rates at all-time lows and central banks buying everything that moves, the world is awash with credit.",
        "发自米兰——利率已经跌至历史最低点，而各大央行又四处大肆收购，世界一时间被信贷所充斥。"
    ],
    [
        "Cuba’s emergence from decades of forced isolation is a victory for the island, while North Korea’s pariah status has led it to the brink of collapse.",
        "古巴走出长达数十年的强制孤立是这个岛国的胜利，而朝鲜被抛弃的地位已经令国家走到了崩溃的边缘 。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only has the Bank not been active in promoting these globally agreed standards, there is a concern that the Bank discourages collective bargaining and protections for workers when it talks about “flexible labor markets” and conditions that are conducive to private investment.",
        "世行不仅没有积极地促进这些获得全球认可的标准，而且有人担忧世行在谈论“灵活的劳动力市场”以及有利于私人投资的条件的时候却不鼓励集体谈判和对工人的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "LOS ANGELES – Since Syria’s civil war erupted, its large chemical-weapons arsenal has haunted the conflict zone and beyond.",
        "洛杉矶—自叙利亚内战爆发以来，其庞大的化学武库一直是冲突区内外挥之不去的阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "European Jobs Wanted",
        "欧洲需要工作岗位"
    ],
    [
        "Soon after he founded the extreme nationalist Greater Romania Party (PRM), as well as a so-called \"national treason list,\" on which almost every notable political and cultural figure had his or her place.",
        "紧接着他又创建了极端民族主义的大罗马尼亚党，并炮制了一份所谓的\"叛国者名单\"。 几乎所有知名的政治和文化界人物都上了这份名单。"
    ],
    [
        "Among those who resigned was Marshal of the Sejm Radek Sikorski, the co-author of a European Union initiative designed to strengthen the resilience of certain Eastern European and Eurasian countries to Russian pressure.",
        "辞职者中包括众议院议长西科尔斯基，他和别人合著了欧盟计划，目的是使某些东欧和欧亚国家在面对俄罗斯时更为抗压。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially the case in some areas of finance that are essentially zero-sum games, in which one person’s gain is another’s loss.",
        "尤其是在某些本质上是零和博弈，一个人赚的钱必定来自他人损失的金融领域。"
    ],
    [
        "We pay particular attention – especially under conditions of uncertainty, time pressure, and stress – to domains involving food, danger, and norm violations.",
        "我们尤其关注涉及食物、危险和破坏规则的领域（特别是在缺乏确定性、时间紧迫和承受压力的条件下）。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks on the list must keep higher reserves, and maintain more liquidity, reflecting their status as systemically important institutions.",
        "名单中的银行必须持有更多的准备金，并保持更多的流动性，以反映它们作为系统重要性机构的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, according to conventional wisdom, global competition moves jobs to low-cost countries and puts downward pressure on wages everywhere else.",
        "毕竟，根据传统观点，竞争使工作机会向低成本国家转移，而且对其他地区的工资产生向下的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Malawi has a proven track record of sharply higher food yields when impoverished farmers are helped with inputs.",
        "而且，从历史上看，一旦贫穷的农民得到农业投入上的帮助，马拉维的粮食产量会大幅度提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Once it became clear that the epidemic would not be rapidly contained, several firms quickly arranged for clinical trials of potential treatments and vaccines, indicating that they already had the ability to produce plausible candidates.",
        "一旦情况清楚地表明传染病无法得到迅速遏制，一些企业就会迅速安排潜在治疗和疫苗的临床试验，这表明它们已经具备了生产可靠潜在产品的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "To loud cheers from the crowds, the populists damn elected politicians as thieves and looters, but in the process disparage the institutions and processes of representative government.",
        "民粹分子向欢呼的人群批评当选政客是小偷和劫匪，但同时也贬低代议政府制度和流程。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the crisis marks the emerging economies’ overtaking of the major Western countries, with huge consequences for global power, finance, politics, and economics.",
        "事实上，这场危机标志着新兴市场超越了主要西方国家，其全球实力、金融、政治和经济影响将是深远的。"
    ],
    [
        "But a fifth supply chain – that of human talent – has largely been neglected, and cities cannot achieve their potential unless they can attract the best human talent.",
        "但还有第五个重要的供应链——人才供应链——在中国仍处于被忽视的状态。 佛山的经验表明， 除非吸引到最优秀的人才，城市无法发挥它们的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Broadly speaking, France has been the “awkward partner” in the Anglo-American club – a role it played right up to its orchestration of opposition to the Iraq war in 2003.",
        "大体上而言，法国是英美俱乐部中一个“尴尬的夥伴”，直到2003年的伊拉克战争，法国一直统领反对派。"
    ],
    [
        "They can set targets for recruitment and retention levels; initiate affirmative searches to meet those targets; introduce mentorship programs and diversity training to attract, retain, and promote women; and establish transparent salary bands to help track and reduce gender pay gaps.",
        "推出导师计划及多元化培训来吸引、聘用和晋升女性员工； 并设定透明的薪金级别以跟踪并缩小男女之间的工资鸿沟。"
    ],
    [
        "The near certainty that the House of Representatives will be in Republican hands, and perhaps the Senate, too, means that America's Congress will pounce on any supposed attempt by Kerry to \"sell out\" Bush's war.",
        "共和党几乎肯定会在众议院选举中获胜，参议院也可能会成为他们的囊中之物，也就是说，凯利任何可能\"出卖\"布什战争的行为都会遭到美国国会的无情镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "Girls marry and begin to have children very young.",
        "女孩很早就结婚生子。"
    ],
    [
        "Who does Chirac think is at fault?",
        "那希拉克认为究竟是谁的错呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Both economies’ recoveries have been driven largely by a pickup in consumption on the back of stronger household balance sheets, especially in the US.",
        "美国和英国的经济复苏主要都是由消费推动的，而消费又是依靠家庭负债表改善推动的。"
    ],
    [
        "With Turkey having zeroed in on SMEs as a key vehicle for fostering more inclusive growth, this year’s summit could already produce progress on this front.",
        "土耳其已经确定要让中小企业成为促进包容性增长的载体，因此今年的峰会可能在这方面取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "If, however, the shock is permanent, central banks should ease monetary conditions; otherwise, they will never be able to reach their inflation target.",
        "倘若这种冲击是长期性的，央行应该放宽货币条件； 否则它们就永远无法实现其通胀目标。"
    ],
    [
        "He was tipped to be Nelson Mandela’s deputy when Mandela became South Africa’s first post-apartheid president, but he stepped aside when asked, demonstrating pragmatism and patience.",
        "曼德拉成为南非后种族隔离时代首位总统时，他是众望所归的副手人选，但在曼德拉提名他时，他没有接受，表现出务实的态度和耐心。"
    ],
    [
        "The US labor market works well.",
        "美国劳动力市场运转良好。"
    ],
    [
        "The new energy reforms will also allow Mexico to benefit from lower-cost gas from Canada.",
        "新能源改革还能让墨西哥受益于来自加拿大的低成本天然气。"
    ],
    [
        "We all knew it was tough for the American consumer – but this revision portrays the crisis-induced cutbacks and subsequent anemic recovery in a much dimmer light.",
        "我们都知道，美国消费者的日子不好过，但如此规模的修正表明，危机带来的支出削减和随后复苏的疲软程度要远低于人们此前的想象。"
    ],
    [
        "The US would sooner rather than later bankrupt itself in a classic case of “imperial overreach.”",
        "美国自己也迟早会破产，成为“不自量力的帝国”的经典案例。"
    ],
    [
        "Yuriko Koike, a former defense minister and national-security adviser, is one of the country’s most powerful figures; indeed, she could become Japan’s next prime minister.",
        "曾任国防大臣和国家安全顾问的小池百合子就是该国政坛的其中一个实力派； 事实上她有望成为下任日本首相。"
    ],
    [
        "Some observers have argued for a higher stable inflation target in the eurozone to facilitate the “relative deflation” process in countries that need it, and to put the “zero bound” on interest rates further away, thereby enhancing the potential impact of monetary policy.",
        "一些观察家提出了欧元区需要设立一个更高且稳定的通胀目标来促进有需要国家的“相对紧缩”过程，并进一步推进利率的“零点限制”，从而提高货币政策的潜在影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "China has never been a positive factor in American politics; so, from its perspective, the less it is mentioned in this US election season, the better.",
        "在美国政治中，中国从来就不是一个积极的因素，因此在中国看来，自己在美国总统大选中越少被提到越好。"
    ],
    [
        "If Turkey wants its relationship with the EU to continue to improve, it will have to engage, too.",
        "如果土耳其希望其与欧盟的关系得到改善，也必须加入进来。"
    ],
    [
        "The post-2010 recoveries in both countries came despite significant cuts in the structural (cyclically adjusted) budget deficit, suggesting that both recoveries occurred in the face of fiscal contraction.",
        "2010年后的英国和美国复苏是在结构性（经周期调整的）预算赤字大幅削减的情况下实现的，这表明两国的复苏都发生于财政收缩环境中。"
    ],
    [
        "Large-scale displacement strains public resources, even in middle-income countries; without sufficient outside help, it can undo years of progress.",
        "大规模流离失所导致公共资源紧张，即使中等收入国家也无法摆脱； 如果外界无法提供足够的援助，它会抵消多年以来的发展成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, resolving a philosophical debate is not impossible.",
        "当然，解决哲学争论也不是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "And if China becomes too aggressive toward its neighbors – for example, by demanding rights to offshore oil or territory in disputed waters – it will generate a serious diplomatic backlash.",
        "而如果中国在其邻国面前表现得过于咄咄逼人——比如要求争议水域的离岸石油和领土权利——将会引起严重的外交反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, twentieth-century insurgencies were usually secular, based on economic class, sectarian differences, or other deep political cleavages.",
        "相形之下，20世纪的叛乱通常是世俗的，基于经济阶层、宗派分歧或其他深刻的政治分裂的。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary policymakers have plenty of weapons and an endless supply of ammunition at their disposal.",
        "货币决策者有充足的武器和无限量的弹药可以随意使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Now growth in home prices is weakening in some of these cities. The rate of price growth in London and New York slowed sharply over the past year, to only about a 1% real increase in the second quarter of 2004.",
        "现在上述某些城市的房价涨势已经趋缓，过去一年来伦敦和纽约的价格涨幅大大回落，2004年第二季度实际涨幅只有约1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Ask Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, or any official of his United Russia party, and you will be told, “Of course it is over.”",
        "如果你问的是俄罗斯总理 弗拉基米尔·普京，或任何一位其统一俄罗斯党官员的话，他们会告诉你：“当然结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the deal agreed this week, it retains that control.",
        "按照本周签署的这项协议，该公司将继续保留这样的控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "As the recent crises in advanced countries demonstrated, this is not a safe assumption: Unsustainable public debt and fiscal deficits forced central banks to expand their balance sheets massively, causing benchmark rates to turn negative in real (inflation-adjusted) terms.",
        "发达国家近期的金融危机表明这一假设并不一定总成立：不可持续的公共债务和财政赤字迫使央行大规模扩张资产负债表，进而导致通胀调整后的实际基准利率往往变为负值。"
    ],
    [
        "As far as can be determined, that object detonated on June 30, 1908, with the power of a nuclear weapon, felling 80 million trees over a 2,000-square-kilometer area.",
        "据推测，该天体于 1908 年 6 月 30 日发生爆炸，能量相当于核弹，冲击波推到了方圆 2000 公里内的 8 千万棵树木。"
    ],
    [
        "But tight national restrictions do not seem to prevent migration; they only alter the geographical orientation of flows and fuel increases in illegal immigration, thereby inflating the size of the informal economy.",
        "但加强国家控制似乎并不能抑止移民，而只能改变移民潮的地理流向和导致非法移民数量迅速飙升，进而导致非正式经济规模的迅速膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "While it is true that Germany and Japan became democratic after American occupation, it required their total defeat in a devastating war, and a seven-year occupation.",
        "尽管德国和日本的确在美国占领之后成为了民主国家，但这需要在摧毁一切的战争中将它们彻底击垮，而后又是长达7年的漫长占领。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s War-Torn Economy",
        "美国战痕累累的经济"
    ],
    [
        "The Founding Fathers created this system as a compromise between the popular vote and a vote by Congress, to balance the influence of each state.",
        "美国的建国之父们为实现民众和国会投票之间的折衷和平衡各州影响而创建了这套系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Those member states that are most heavily involved in an operation, in terms of both human resources and military equipment, are penalized by the financial burden that this commitment places on their national budgets.",
        "如果资金筹集不到，军事行动根本就不可能继续下去。 那些积极参与军事行动的成员国在人力资源和军事设备两方面都受到军事目标对其国内财政预算所造成负担的压制。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be a Herculean feat for anyone to reform Egypt’s economy so that it benefits the country’s 95 million people (plus the two million added every year).",
        "改革埃及经济、使之能够受惠于其9,500万人口（外加每年新增的两百万人），对任何人来说都是一个异常艰巨的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "I am pleased to report that the government’s propaganda campaign has been a dismal failure.",
        "我很高兴的宣布政府的宣传运动经历了令人沮丧的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, despite a consensus that ECT is the most effective treatment for severe depressive disorder, it comes at the bottom of the list in most treatment regimens for mood disorders.",
        "事实上，尽管人们在ECT是治疗严重的抑郁障碍最有效的方法上有共识，但是，在治疗情绪障碍的大部分方法中，它是最后选择的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "If one is looking for an abstract principle to follow on questions of immigration, liberalism cannot provide it.",
        "如果有人要寻找在移民问题上的抽象原则，那他是不会在自由主义上寻找到的。"
    ],
    [
        "But can we depend on that dream’s realization?",
        "但我们可以依赖这个梦的实现吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It has long been recognized that those America’s banks that are too big to fail are also too big to be managed.",
        "大家早就知道一个事实：美国银行不仅大的不能倒闭，而且如此庞大的规模也不利于管理。"
    ],
    [
        "But the United States put pressure on the Secretary-General to leave Israel off the list; Ban acceded, and decided to leave Hamas off the list as well.",
        "但美国向秘书长施压，要求将以色列剔除出该名单； 潘基文同意了，并决定把哈马斯也剔除出该名单。"
    ],
    [
        "According to unpublished Ipsos MORI research that was made available to me recently, when it comes to judging a company, honesty and integrity are more important than ever.",
        "据我刚刚获得的尚未公布的莫利调查机构（Ipsos MORI）的研究，在评判一家公司时，诚信和正直的重要性比以往任何时候都要高。"
    ],
    [
        "Royal openly claims Mitterand’s legacy as she searches for legitimacy, while Sarkozy’s rejection of Chirac’s legacy has more to do with form than substance.",
        "罗亚尔在确立合法地位时公开声称要继承密特朗的事业，而萨尔柯齐对希拉克证见的排斥形式要远远大于实质内容。"
    ],
    [
        "In the years between 1995 and 2002, Mexico's annual trade deficit with the US increased to $1 billion.",
        "在1995至2002年间，墨西哥对美国的贸易逆差增加到10亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "How robust are the different voting procedures for yielding cogent results?",
        "产生令人信服结果的不同投票程序的鲁棒性如何？"
    ],
    [
        "So another fierce battle on this issue can be expected next year.",
        "因此，可以预期明年在这一问题上还将有激烈争论。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed now is an Arabian Jean Monnet.",
        "现在需要一个阿拉伯的让·莫内。"
    ],
    [
        "Once masters of the situation, it is said, the zeal of those who promised reform mutated into a zeal to preserve their private wealth and that of their friends.",
        "他们说这些人一旦大权在握，他们承诺改革的热情就转向了保护自己和朋友的私有财产。"
    ],
    [
        "The left calls for an expansion of social protection; the right says that doing so would undermine economic growth and widen fiscal deficits.",
        "左派要求加强社会保护，右派却认为，这样会破坏经济发展，增大财政赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "We need a comprehensive and revolutionary reframing of education, work, retirement, and leisure time.",
        "我们需要对教育、工作、退休和闲暇来一个全面的、革命性的再安排。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Obama administration has made clear, that will depend, above all, on whether the disastrously divisive leadership of Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s Shia prime minister, gives way to a more inclusive regime, and whether, in that context, the ineffectual Iraqi army can regroup and rally.",
        "正如奥巴马政府所明确表示的那样，能否实现上述目标归根结底将取决于伊拉克什叶派总理马利基灾难性分裂的领导班子能否让位于更加包容的政府，以及在这种情况下，低效的伊拉克军队能否成功重组和集结。"
    ],
    [
        "The G20 has achieved much in recent years, including better coordination on financial regulation and international taxation.",
        "近几年来，G20取得了重大成就，包括更好的金融监管合作和国际税收。"
    ],
    [
        "The UPA’s critics long claimed that unsustainably low, state-dictated passenger fares and freight charges for rail services – which could not cover the cost of maintenance to ensure the safety of trains and tracks, much less enable expansion and improvement of service – reflected the government’s inability to make tough decisions.",
        "UPA批评者一直认为，国定铁路客运和货运价格处于不可持续的低水平，无法覆盖确保客车和货车安全的成本，更不用说扩大和改善服务了。 这表明政府无力做出艰难决定。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite persistent deflationary pressure through 2010, rising budget deficits, high financial-sector bailout costs, continued monetization of deficits, and eventually unsustainable levels of public debt will ultimately lead to higher expected inflation – and thus to higher interest rates, which would stifle the recovery of private demand.",
        "但是，尽管通缩压力将一直持续到2010年，预算赤字的不断扩大、救助金融业的高昂成本、赤字的持续货币化以及终将不可持续的公共债务最终还是会导致预期中的高通胀，从而导致高利率，进而窒息私人需求的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "The V-20 group of finance ministers of vulnerable nations recently committed to introducing carbon-pricing mechanisms across 43 markets within ten years.",
        "V-20脆弱国家组织的财长日前就承诺在十年内向43个市场引入碳定价机制。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also large variation in the returns among programs offering associate degrees (generally two years of post-secondary education) and vocational training.",
        "大专文凭课程（一般为期两年的大学教育）和职业培训的回报同样差异巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "As a side benefit, the tax system would be automatically, fully, and transparently indexed to inflation.",
        "作为附带的效益，税收制度将会自动地、完全地并且透明地与通货膨胀挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, inflation could easily rise to 1980’s (if not quite 1970’s) levels throughout much of the world.",
        "在这一情况下，通货膨胀如果不是达到全世界七十年代的水平，也将会轻而易举地达到八十年代的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, that approach is changing.",
        "但幸运的是，这一做事方式正在发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "For that reason, the authorities viewed it as profoundly subversive.",
        "因此，当局将摇滚乐视为洪水猛兽。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike, mining, drilling, or extraction, manufacturers benefit from learning curves that make production increasingly efficient – and cheaper.",
        "与采矿、钻探或萃取不同的是，制造企业遵循学习曲线，其制造过程越来越廉价和高效。"
    ],
    [
        "The inaction argument is really terribly negligent, because it causes us to recommend aspirin and lose sight of smarter actions that might actually save the leg.",
        "无所作为的论点一叶障目，因为这让我们建议使用阿斯匹林并且忽视那些灵巧有效、可以确实保住腿的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Productivity gains had stalled, energy prices were high, the backlog of potential technologies that originated in the Great Depression had been exhausted, and waning benefits from economies of scale led nearly every economist to project that economic growth would be slower in the future than it had been in the past.",
        "经济大萧条时期被积压的潜能技术已经枯竭； 规模经济导致的收益渐亏使得几乎每一位经济学家做出这样的预测：经济增长速度在未来将远远落后于过去。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the initial approach to financial reform doesn’t work, we face the prospect of another financial crisis every bit as serious as the last.",
        "但如果金融改革走错一步，我们将面临一场新的金融危机，跟刚刚过去的那场危机同样严重。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Morsi is under fire from both the left and the right for upholding former President Hosni Mubarak’s obliging approach to Israel, as well as for reasserting Mubarak’s authoritarian bargain – diplomatic and financial support in exchange for “stability” – with the United States.",
        "事实上，穆尔西因为支持前总统穆巴拉克的亲以色列方针以及肯定穆巴拉克与美国的政权讨价还价（用外交和金融支持换取“稳定”）而遭到左右两翼的抨击。"
    ],
    [
        "Vague exhortations will not work.",
        "含糊不清的告诫是没用的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a tall order, one that most governments would pursue gradually.",
        "这是一项艰巨的任务，多数政府都会采取循序渐进的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "I suspect that European leaders will not respond eagerly.",
        "我怀疑欧洲领袖不会做出激烈反应。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s economy continues to soften; India’s growth rate is down sharply from a few years ago.",
        "中国经济继续趋缓； 印度增长率远低于前几年。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Berlusconi remains one of the kingpins of Italian politics.",
        "但贝卢斯科尼却仍然是意大利政界的主要人物。"
    ],
    [
        "Global corporations are enormous, and their influence affects almost every aspect of our lives.",
        "要理解它们的权力的无处不在，只消看看它们在选举上所花费的数十亿美元；"
    ],
    [
        "As President, Macri will inherit a dire economic situation.",
        "身为总统，马克里将继承严峻的经济形势。"
    ],
    [
        "In revolutionary periods, the impossible can become inevitable in a matter of months.",
        "在革命年代，不可能的事情在几个月之内就变得势在必行。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it is only a localized effort at rebalancing a global intellectual-property (IP) regime that is tilted heavily toward pharmaceutical interests at the expense of social welfare.",
        "此外，这只是实现全球知识产权机制再平衡的局部努力。 当前的知识产权机制安排严重倾向于制药公司的利益而不利于社会福利。"
    ],
    [
        "The “ghost city” critique misses this point entirely.",
        "“鬼城”论完全站不住脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Saving the Stability Pact from Itself",
        "稳定和发展合约如何从自身寻求出路"
    ],
    [
        "Creditors obviously support bailing out debtor countries to protect themselves.",
        "债权人显然支持援助债务国从而保全自己。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth of the matter is that interest rates – both nominal and real – are too low in Europe, not too high.",
        "真实的情况是欧洲的利率，无论是名义上的还是实际上的都是太 低 了，而不是太高了。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a major problem with the logic.",
        "但其逻辑有很大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Nigeria hosted two landmark summits, on malaria in 2000 and on AIDS in 2001, which were a crucial spur to action.",
        "尼日利亚举办了两次标志性峰会，即2000年的疟疾峰会和2001年的艾滋病峰会，这两次峰会在促进采取行动方面居功至伟。"
    ],
    [
        "In a speech at the annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 2014, Mario Draghi, the ECB’s president, explained that three things could improve economic performance in Europe:",
        "在2014年怀俄明州的杰克森霍尔（Jackson Hole）央行行长年会的讲话中，欧洲央行行长德拉吉（Mario Draghi）说了三个能够改善欧洲经济表现的因素："
    ],
    [
        "The Intellectual Battle Against ISIS",
        "与ISIS的思想战"
    ],
    [
        "LOS ANGELES – Saudi Arabia has captured the world’s attention with the announcement of an ambitious agenda, called Vision 2030, aimed at overhauling the structure of its economy.",
        "洛杉矶—沙特阿拉伯宣布了一项名为《愿景2030》（Vision 2030）的宏大计划，吸引了全世界的注意。"
    ],
    [
        "The global community must look beyond the eurozone and sovereign-debt crises and pay attention to the opportunity of structural transformation in the developing world’s real sectors.",
        "国际社会不应该只关注欧元区和主权债务危机，还应该关注发展中国家实体行业的结构转型所带来的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "It is just as plausible to argue that prolonged imperial rule could have made ethnic tensions worse.",
        "认为延长帝国统治同样会导致种族冲突的观点同样有理。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in Egypt, which is highly representative of the prevailing political situation in the Middle East, the status quo is the result of the regime’s absolute lack of confidence in its ability to open up and reform.",
        "例如，埃及高度代表了中东的主流政治局势。 该国政权对于自身改革开放的能力绝对缺乏信心造成了目前的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the FDP is essentially the political arm of German business.",
        "毕竟，FDP本质上是德国商界的政治工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The easiest part to negotiate would be the annual contribution, which need not be very different from what the UK transfers to the EU now.",
        "谈判最容易的部分是每年缴纳会费，这笔钱只需大致保持英国现在每年转给欧盟的金额。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel is an entire country created by its diaspora, and its thriving high-tech sector, too, has benefited from sustained ties.",
        "以色列则完全是由侨民建立的国家，其欣欣向荣的高科技行业也大大受益于连续不断的侨民关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet there is something deeply disturbing about a lynching, regardless of the victim.",
        "但私刑总是令人大为不安，不管施加的对象是谁。"
    ],
    [
        "These items range from small ones, like the $7,500 tax credit that goes to a buyer of an electric car, to large (for example, the deduction for mortgage interest and the exclusion from taxable income of employer payments for employee health insurance).",
        "这些项目有些较小，如电动汽车购买者可享受7,500美元抵税额； 有些较大，如按揭利息抵税和雇主支付雇员健康保险免征所得税。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe’s diplomatic whirlwind is aimed at strengthening ties with countries that share this commitment, as well as Japan’s other values, including human rights and democracy.",
        "安倍的外交旋风旨在增强与志同道合（不仅是这方面，也包括人权和民主等其他价值）国家的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The Georgian government, without clear support from the West, may yet agree to such a deal, something that Moldova, which saw its gas cut off on January 1st, has just done.",
        "格鲁吉亚政府由于没有西方的明确的支持，可能会同意这一交易。 摩尔多瓦的天然气供应在元旦被切断，刚刚同意了类似的交易。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN does not have the resources to solve the problems in new areas like AIDS or global climate change, but it can play an important convening role in galvanizing the actions of governments.",
        "这些系统对应对来自于禽流感等流行性疾病的威胁至关重要。 联合国没有资源解决如艾滋病或全球气候变化等新问题，但它在敦促各国政府采取行动方面可以起到重要的召集者的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a new phenomenon in Iraq to see people, particularly women and children, looking in the rubbish every day for something to eat.",
        "伊拉克出现的一个新现象是人们，尤其是妇女和儿童，每天在垃圾堆里寻找吃的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "And, like any quest for certainty in our unpredictable world, it was doomed to failure.",
        "然而，像对我们这个不可预知的世界的确定性的任何其他探求一样，这注定是要失败的。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments face a dilemma. Big banks cannot be allowed to fail; but the public expects bankers to be punished.",
        "政府进退维谷：不能允许大银行破产，而公众又期待银行家们受到惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "This would be very good news, but there are reasons to be wary.",
        "这是天大的好消息，但我们有理由保持谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, when faced with excessively high debt, other European countries – including Belgium (from 1995), Ireland (from 1991), and Norway (from 1999) – maintained similar surpluses for at least ten years each, typically in the aftermath of a financial crisis.",
        "毕竟，在面临过高的债务时，其他欧盟成员国——包括比利时（1995年起）、爱尔兰（1991年起）和挪威（1999年起）——都至少维持了十年的类似盈余，并且它们也都起步于金融危机后。"
    ],
    [
        "When he devolved ministerial planning to bureaucrats in 2008, many were not pleased.",
        "2008年，他将部长级规划移交给政府官员后，很多人都十分不开心。"
    ],
    [
        "Judging whether trading is proprietary might not quite require “windows into men’s souls” (which in another context Queen Elizabeth I wisely avoided), but America’s experience shows that it is difficult all the same.",
        "鉴定交易是否属于自营也许并不要求“心灵的窗户”（这又是伊丽莎白一世巧妙地避免的另一种环境），但美国经验表明这同样困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The French proposal, though still evolving, has already struck a responsive chord internationally.",
        "法国的议案尽管仍在不断完善，但已经触动了国际反响之弦。"
    ],
    [
        "The case, American Civil Liberties Union v. Myriad Genetics , may have a tremendous impact on medicine and science.",
        "这起由 美国民权联盟 起诉 迈里德遗传学公司 的案件可能会在很大程度上影响医学的进步和科学的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that, with a flexible exchange rate, a country can offset the recessionary impact of a neighboring country’s monetary easing using its own independent monetary policy, guided by carefully chosen inflation targets.",
        "事实上，在浮动汇率下，一国可以使用以精心选择的通胀目标为指导独立的货币政策抵消邻国货币扩张的衰退影响。"
    ],
    [
        "If the BOJ is right, it should maintain its current approach, while the government should either postpone the next consumption-tax increase or implement it in two 1% increments, instead of a single 2% hike.",
        "如果日本银行正确，那么它应该维持现有方针，同时政府应该中止下一步消费税提高或将其分解为两次1%的提升而不是一次性提高2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider, for example, Europe’s agricultural subsidies and ban on genetically modified organisms, the abuse of antidumping rules in the United States, or inadequate protection of investors’ rights in developing countries.",
        "这方面的例子有欧洲农业补贴、对转基因生物禁令、美国滥用反倾销规则或发展中国家未能充分保护投资者权益。"
    ],
    [
        "As the great boom that began in the 1990s gave way to an even greater bust, policymakers resorted to the timeworn tricks of financial engineering in an effort to recapture the magic.",
        "20世纪90年代开始的大繁荣已经转变为规模更大的萧条，决策者求助过时的金融工程，妄图重获魔法。"
    ],
    [
        "These nominal champions of the free market were quick to tell the university what it should do with its money.",
        "表面上看，这些自由市场赢家马上行动起来告诉ANU应该如何花钱。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced steps toward a 17-member Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP).",
        "在同一个峰会上，中国国家主席习近平还宣布了通向有17个成员的亚太自由贸易区（Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific，FTAAP）的路线图。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is no surprise that CFC or freon smuggling has developed without much attention, and risks jeopardizing the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol.",
        "因此，难怪走私CFC或者氟利昂在人们没有注意的情况下发展起来，对《维也纳公约》和《蒙特利尔议定书》造成危害。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone now is facing not only a financial crisis, but a stagnation crisis.",
        "如今，欧元区不仅面临金融危机，也面临停滞危机。"
    ],
    [
        "When forced to cut employment, they are more likely to think that they are destroying lives rather than raising economic efficiency and increasing wealth.",
        "被迫裁减员工时，他们更倾向于认为是在摧残生命，而不是提高经济效益和增加财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Will it have to get the bomb, too?",
        "是不是它也要掌握核武器？"
    ],
    [
        "Relative US military power is not likely to be this great ever again, and China’s military rise looks as inevitable as its economic success.",
        "美国相对军力不可能永远像现在那样强盛，而随着中国在经济上的成功，其军力也将崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, because German funds were indispensable in bailing out the eurozone’s deeply stressed periphery, the country became central to all efforts to address the crisis.",
        "事实上，由于德国资金是援助欧元区深度危机的外围国家不可或缺的资源，德国也因此成为解决危机的一切手段的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "There are a few reasons why Ukraine’s newfound financial stability hasn’t yet led to a stronger growth takeoff.",
        "5％。 而乌克兰最近实现的金融稳定之所以未能带领增长起飞，原因如下："
    ],
    [
        "LAGOS - Few infrastructure services in the developed world may be as taken for granted as electric power.",
        "拉各斯--在发达国家中，没有什么基础设施服务项目比电力更为普及、人们更为习以为常的了。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s wrong to write Russia off as fundamentally different from the West.",
        "宣称俄罗斯与西方之间存在根本性差异进而将其排除在外是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "To believe that such a vision can work for Russia, Ukraine, and Europe is not wishful thinking, but rests on the successful experience of France and Germany in promoting amity.",
        "相信俄罗斯、乌克兰和欧洲能够实现这一愿望并非痴心妄想，而是基于法德推动友好关系的成功经历。"
    ],
    [
        "Massive stimulus and intervention – the US Federal Reserve’s current stance – is unavoidable.",
        "美国联邦储备银行现在采取的立场，即实施大规模刺激和进行干预，是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is more to be done.",
        "但光有意见是不够的。 。"
    ],
    [
        "The principles of economics provide a sound basis on which to make rational choices.",
        "经济学原则为作出理性选择提供了坚实的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The Eurozone’s Strategy of Pain",
        "欧元区的苦肉计"
    ],
    [
        "Providing a decent education to one’s children requires struggle and sacrifice.",
        "给孩子提供良好教育需要家长做出奋斗和牺牲。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially galling in countries where much of the population is poor and deprived of decent schools or proper medical services.",
        "这让大量人口仍然处于贫困、无法接受体面教育和合适的医疗服务的国家尤其难堪。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization’s Assassin",
        "全球化的刺客"
    ],
    [
        "What would happen if countries like Vietnam and India dedicated days to remembering China’s aggression toward them since 1949?",
        "如果越南和印度也规定某日为1949年后中国入侵两国的纪念日会如何？"
    ],
    [
        "A National Security Blind Spot",
        "国家安全盲点"
    ],
    [
        "Europe needs working-age people to reduce the burden of a burgeoning elderly population, so relaxing immigration restrictions could help.",
        "欧洲需要工作年龄的人口来减少不断增长的老年人口负担，所以，放松移民管制将会有所帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The interest rates projected by the CBO assume that future inflation will be only 2.2%.",
        "CBO的利率预测有一个假设，即未来通胀只有2. 2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Special factors have played a role in the last year, including high oil prices and the effects of the March 2011 tsunami.",
        "去年的情形有些特殊，比如油价高企和3月份所发生的海啸。"
    ],
    [
        "And in Spain, the political system seems incapable of resolving the conflict between the regional government of Catalonia, with its aspirations of greater self-determination, and the central government in Madrid, which argues that even considering the question would undermine the constitutional order.",
        "而在西班牙，政治制度似乎无力解决志在赢得更大自决权的加泰罗尼亚地区政府，和认定即使是考虑这个问题也是对宪法制度的破坏的马德里中央政府之间的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Premature Virtue",
        "操之过急"
    ],
    [
        "Latin America, where Islam plays no political role, has no shortage of populist strongmen who routinely violate civil liberties and political rights.",
        "伊斯兰教没有政治作用的拉美也不乏一再破坏公民自由和政治权利的民粹主义强人。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is precisely because domestic tourism and production are disadvantaged relative to tourism and production abroad that many economists prefer a weak rupee.",
        "当然，这正是因为国内旅游业和生产相对国外旅游业和生产处于劣势，才让许多经济学家更加偏好弱势卢比。"
    ],
    [
        "After Austerity",
        "紧缩之后"
    ],
    [
        "A current indicator is that the world’s central banks are holding an increasing share of their foreign-exchange reserves in euros rather than US dollars.",
        "这体现在世界各国的中央银行已经越来越多地使用欧元、而不是美元，作为他们各自的外汇储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Monti and Hollande have both appointed women to key ministerial positions.",
        "蒙蒂和奥朗德都任命了女性担当关键部门一把手。"
    ],
    [
        "“A vote to stay within the EU,” Tuck writes, “will…end any hope of genuinely left politics in the UK.”",
        "“投票留在欧盟，” 塔克写道，“将……扼杀英国真正的左派政治的希望。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Now assume that you want to hold Venezuelan debt because you are hoping that President Nicolás Maduro will lose power and that a more sensible, democratically minded government, more in line with your moral compass, will emerge.",
        "现在假设您想继续持有委内瑞拉国债，因为您希望尼古拉斯·马杜罗总统下台，让位给一个更符合您道德取向也更明智的民主政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries in these other regions, for their part, also will benefit from the additional trade.",
        "至于这些地区的其他国家来说，它们也能从增加的贸易中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "They tend to be less visible, and it is more difficult for donors and agencies to assist them.",
        "他们不太容易引起人们的注意，并且捐献者和机构要去帮助他们也显得更加困难。"
    ],
    [
        "But Indian politicians’ interests appear to lie elsewhere.",
        "但是印度政客们的兴趣看起来在别处。"
    ],
    [
        "A different situation that produces a similar outcome is the presence of multiple and overlapping cleavages.",
        "还有一种情况能造成类似的结果，那就是多重和重叠分裂的存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Subsets of the population gain, and others lose, certainly relative to expectations – and often absolutely.",
        "有的地方得到了好处，有的地方受到了打击——从相对于预期的角度看是如此，但通常从绝对数量上看也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Whichever predictive methods doctors use over the next few years will probably enable them to inform those patients with mild cognitive impairment about their chances of developing Alzheimer’s in the short term.",
        "不管未来几年医生使用什么预测方法，也许都能使他们能够告知存在温和认知损伤的患者短期内罹患阿尔茨海默症的概率。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, today’s Russians have no nostalgia for the Yeltsin years, which they associate with confusion, humiliation, shame and weakness.",
        "的确，当今的俄罗斯对叶利钦时代没有什么留恋。 那个时代是和困惑、屈辱、羞耻和软弱联系在一起的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US economy has been limping along with a growth rate of less than 2% during the past year, with similarly dim prospects in 2013, even without the shock of the fiscal cliff. That is much too weak a pace of expansion to tolerate the fiscal cliff’s increase in tax rates and spending cuts, which would reduce demand by a total of $600 billion – about 4% of GDP – next year, and by larger sums in subsequent years.",
        "去年，美国经济以低于2%的增速蹒跚前行，2013年的前景也一样暗淡，即便没有财政悬崖冲击也是如此。 这样的扩张速度太慢，不能抵消财政悬崖所带来的税率提高和支出削减，后两者将让明年总需求下降6 000亿美元（约为GDP的4%），后年更甚。"
    ],
    [
        "But that outcome is far from guaranteed.",
        "但这一结果还远远不能确定。"
    ],
    [
        "On the night of October 15, 2011, I lay awake listening to the Kenyan military convoys passing through the border town of Dadaab on their way to Somalia to launch the first foreign military campaign in Kenya’s history.",
        "2011年10月15日晚，我躺在床上，睡意全无，听到肯尼亚军车隆隆驶过边境小镇达达布（Dadaab）进入索马里，这是肯尼亚历史上第一次对外用兵。"
    ],
    [
        "They say that we need to get the amount of atmospheric CO2 back down to 350 ppm.",
        "他们说，我们需要让大气二氧化碳水平下降至350 ppm。"
    ],
    [
        "Such efforts aim to persuade North Koreans to freeze all missile and nuclear tests, in exchange for a scale-down and delay of annual joint exercises by US and South Korean forces.",
        "这一策略旨在说服朝鲜冻结一切导弹和核试验，作为交换，一年一度的美韩联合军演将会缩减规模、推迟时间。"
    ],
    [
        "It is essential, particularly for making judgments about social welfare, to compare different individuals’ gains and losses and to take note of their relative affluence, which cannot be immediately deduced only from people’s rankings of social alternatives.",
        "比较不同个体的利益和损失、注意他们的相对丰裕程度（这无法通过人们对社会方案的排序立刻推得）是至关重要的，特别是在做出关于社会福利的判断方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as our past policy choices helped to generate the SS1 we face today, failure to implement policies aimed at tackling SS2 could create a much more intractable and potentially unstable situation tomorrow.",
        "正如我们的政策选择导致了我们今天所面对的SS1的形成，不能实施旨在解决SS2的政策可能造成未来更加难以应付的潜在不稳定状况。"
    ],
    [
        "But Carson says them quietly, which may be why his favorability rating in Iowa is higher than that of his Republican competitors (pulling even with Trump in one poll).",
        "但卡尔森总是悄悄地说，这也许是他在艾奥瓦州的的支持率高于其他共和党竞争者（在一项民调中与特朗普打了平手）的原因。 比如，卡尔森说，异性恋者蹲过监狱就变成了同性恋；"
    ],
    [
        "To guide the effort, Xi identified five specific goals: strengthening economic collaboration, improving road connectivity, promoting trade and investment, facilitating currency conversion, and bolstering people-to-people exchanges.",
        "习近平提出了五个具体目标：加强经济合作，改善陆路连接，促进贸易和投资，促进货币兑换，加强人际交流。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the desire to protect US “credibility” has become the last refuge of those seeking yet another war in the wider Middle East.",
        "相反，保护美国“信誉”的渴望成了那些寻求在大中东地区发动又一场战争的人的最后庇护所。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as a victim of foreign aggression, Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions would be fully legitimized.",
        "此外，一旦遭到外国侵略，伊朗的核武野心将完全合法化。"
    ],
    [
        "A return to full proportionality would probably mean a return to rapid government turnover, which carries with it the risk that policy horizons will also become shorter.",
        "恢复比例代表制可能意味着恢复政府的迅速更迭，而这意味着政策前景会愈加短暂。"
    ],
    [
        "But it did not remove America's vulnerability to terrorism.",
        "但它却并没有消除美国面对恐怖主义的脆弱性。"
    ],
    [
        "But who was holding the prescribers to such standards?",
        "但谁能确保处方的出具者贯彻这一标准呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Regime change is for the Libyan people themselves to achieve.",
        "政权更迭需要由利比亚民众自己完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic theory tells us that our worries are groundless.",
        "经济理论告诉我们，这是杞人忧天。"
    ],
    [
        "What specific goals should the CIO pursue?",
        "那样首席信息官的目标是什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "While spending some time in Zurich in 1994, I first experienced the joy of swimming in the city’s river and lake.",
        "在1994年留居苏黎世期间，我首先体验了在这座城市的河流和湖泊里游泳的乐趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Equity prices, as measured by the price-earnings ratio of the S&P 500 stocks, are now nearly 60% above their historical average.",
        "用标准普尔500成分股市盈率衡量的股票价格目前比历史平均水平高出60%。 30年美国国债价格之高导致其收益率只有2."
    ],
    [
        "According to research by the digital ad agency Fractl, approximately 85% of millennials are saving a portion of their paycheck – a larger percentage than their predecessors.",
        "据数字广告公司Fractl的研究，大约85%的千禧一代会把收入的一部分储蓄起来——这一比例要高于他们的前辈。"
    ],
    [
        "You can collect statistics until the cows come home, but you cannot expect statistics to produce an effect beyond what they are good for.",
        "我们永远可以收集统计数字，但却不能指望统计数字产生的影响超出其本身的统计作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Ishihara, who has since resigned from office to launch a new political party, is well known for nationalist provocation, and Noda feared that he would try to occupy the islands or find other ways to use them to provoke China and whip up popular support in Japan.",
        "自此之后辞去公职筹划新政党的石原因惯于民族主义挑衅而广为人知，野田担心他会试图占据小岛，或找出其他方法刺激中国以掀起日本民众的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush failed to get that combination right.",
        "布什没能把这两者结合好。"
    ],
    [
        "And, already, labor-market flexibility has been undermined by structural inertia, including difficulties in retooling and retraining workers, particularly the long-term unemployed.",
        "劳动力市场灵活性已经因为结构惯性（包括重新组织和培训员工尤其是长期失业员工方面的困难）而大受影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The private-sector financial balance swung from a deficit of 3.7% of GDP in 2006, at the height of the boom, to a surplus of about 6.8% of GDP in 2010 and about 5% today.",
        "私人部门财务收支的波动情况是：2006年存在相当于GDP的3. 7%的赤字（繁荣期最高值），2010出现了相当于GDP的6."
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries’ health systems are already stretched.",
        "发展各国卫生体系已经捉襟见肘。"
    ],
    [
        "This strategy comprises three elements: First and foremost it contains a clear commitment to the primary goal of the ECB, which is to safeguard price stability. Price stability was defined as an annual increase in the price level of below two percent over the medium term.",
        "第一个也是最重要的是它包含了欧洲央行首要目标的明确责任，即保护价格的稳定。 价格稳定就是 在一个中期阶段内每年的价格水平增长不超过2%。"
    ],
    [
        "To avoid this fate, governments must focus on what really matters: how to be like the 11% of companies that have remained, through the decades, in the top 500.",
        "要避免这一命运，政府必须将注意力集中在真正重要的领域：如何成为11%能穿越几十年保持500强地位的公司。"
    ],
    [
        "With its recent admissions, Big Tobacco has been forced to reveal its true nature.",
        "由于不久前的认罪，大型烟草企业被迫暴露了其真实本质。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to America’s Electoral College, it’s not who wins the most votes nationwide that matters in the end, but who wins in which states.",
        "由于美国实行总统选举团制度，因此重要的不是谁能在全国赢得最多选票，而是谁能赢得哪个州。"
    ],
    [
        "Clear-cutting of old growth forests in the mountains bordering Pakistan may prove as problematic.",
        "巴基斯坦山区边界滥砍滥伐老熟森林的做法受到质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Since taking power in 2012, Xi has changed this policy framework in several key ways.",
        "自2012年上台以来，习近平在几个关键方面改变了这一政策框架。"
    ],
    [
        "The same mechanism that pours profits into the pockets of global corporations also prevents governments from claiming a larger share of the spoils.",
        "使全球性大公司赚得盆满钵满的机制也同样阻止政府从这种攫取中分更大的一杯羹。"
    ],
    [
        "So Asians are keen to hear Obama’s thoughts about a new or renewed international system, and hope that his vision of a new global order will incorporate the rising countries of Asia as America’s partners.",
        "所以亚洲急切想要听取奥巴马有关新型国际体系的构想，并且希望其新的全球秩序构想将会包含亚洲正在崛起国家作为美国的伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmentalists hired scientists, lawyers, and lobbyists who made sure that laws weren’t just passed in Congress, but also implemented in practice.",
        "环保主义者聘请科学家、律师以及游说者确保法律不仅在国会得到通过，而且在实践中得到实施。"
    ],
    [
        "But, regardless of whether they do, antidumping measures are ill-suited to the task of addressing concerns about unfair trade – not because such concerns are ungrounded, but because they go well beyond dumping.",
        "但是，不论它们是否这样做，反倾销手段都不适合作为解决不公平贸易问题的手段——不是因为这些问题没有真凭实据，而是因为它们远远超过了倾销范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "Our bodies simply cannot synthesize many essential compounds, so our health partly depends on what we eat and drink.",
        "我们的身体无法合成一些重要的合成物，所以我们的健康部分依赖于我们所吃和喝的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Although I have been attending the CDF’s meetings for more than a decade, I found this year’s conference substantially different from any in the past.",
        "十多年来，我一直出席发展中国论坛会议，但我发现今年的会议与以往大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "To outsiders, the region is virtually synonymous with political polarization.",
        "外部人看来，拉美地区是政治极化的同义词。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Why did he do it?",
        "纽约—为何他要这么做？"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s Gathering Trade War",
        "特朗普的贸易战集结号"
    ],
    [
        "But the bigger, more productive arguments are about how to shape education, labor markets, scientific research, and social-welfare policies in order to help societies adapt to the world around them.",
        "但更大、更有建设性的话题是如何制定教育、劳动力市场、科学研究和社会福利政策以帮助社会适应周边世界。"
    ],
    [
        "If the bank’s financial condition deteriorated, their bond holdings might motivate them to conceal that and hope for a turnaround before their bonds were wiped out.",
        "如果银行财务状况恶化，他们所持有的债券会促使他们隐瞒状况，寄希望于在债券变得一文不名前出现转机。"
    ],
    [
        "In the process, a basic principle of modern capitalism – that when debtors cannot pay back creditors, a fresh start is needed – has been overturned.",
        "在此过程中，当债务人无法偿还债权人时就需推倒重来这一现代资本主义的基本原则被颠覆了。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Italy and France share a private wealth/GDP ratio of five to one, while Spain’s – at least before the crisis hit the country in full – was six to one.",
        "类似地，意大利和法国的私人财富/GDP比率大约为五比一，而西班牙——至少在危机全面爆发之前——高达六比一。"
    ],
    [
        "The Roundtable produced an important Statement of Principles and a longer overall statement that has been signed by many of the world’s largest businesses, including those based in the US, Europe, Canada, China, and India.",
        "圆桌会议发表了一项重要的原则声明以及一项篇幅更长的总体声明。 世界上最大的企业，包括那些位于美国、欧洲、加拿大、中国以及印度等国的企业都签署了这一声明。"
    ],
    [
        "The crash lay outside any standard probability distribution that could have been estimated from past data, analysts declared, and was therefore a black swan event, or a case of “Knightian uncertainty,” radical uncertainty, or unknown unknowns.",
        "分析师说，这场危机位于可用过去的数据进行估算的一切正态概率分布之外，因此属于黑天鹅事件，或“奈特式不确定性”（即彻底的不确定性，亦即未知的未知）。"
    ],
    [
        "As if to prove the point, EU member states’ leaders (with the exception of UK Prime Minister Theresa May) met recently in Bratislava, Slovakia, in an attempt to demonstrate solidarity, and to kick-start the post-Brexit reform process.",
        "好像是为了证明这一点似的，欧盟成员国领导人（英国首相梅除外）最近齐聚斯洛伐克布拉迪斯拉发试图证明欧洲的团结，并启动英国退出后的改革进程。"
    ],
    [
        "The question for the US and East Asia’s leaders today is whether they will wake up and develop effective multilateral mechanisms for security cooperation before doing themselves serious harm.",
        "如今，美国和东亚领导人面临的问题是他们能不能在给自己造成严重伤害之前觉醒并找到有效的安全合作多边机制。"
    ],
    [
        "From America’s point of view, China’s rapidly growing military power and lack of transparency have become grave concerns.",
        "站在美方的立场上，中国军力的快速增长和缺乏透明度值得引起严重关切。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason why Sarkozy could succeed where previous governments have never dreamt to venture, aside from his popular mandate for reform, is a “win-win” strategy, whereby victory for reform implies substantial compensation.",
        "萨尔科奇可以在前任政府从来没有梦想尝试的地方取得成功的一个原因就是除了民众对其改革的授权外，就是一个“双赢”战略。 根据这一战略，改革的胜利意味着实质性的补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "The unresolved debt problem exacerbated tensions over the slavery issue, which triggered the Civil War in 1861.",
        "未解决的债务问题恶化了导致1861年南北战争的奴隶冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "According to McKinsey’s 2016 Global Sentiment Survey of more than 22,000 consumers in 26 countries, China’s working-age population has the world’s highest propensity to spend additional income, rather than save it or use it to pay off debt.",
        "麦肯锡2016年全球情绪调查表明，在26个国家的22,000多民给消费者中，中国工作年龄人口的收入增量消费倾向——而非储蓄或用于偿还债务——为全球最高。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there is a sense that Abe's policies are contributing to rising inequality.",
        "事实上，有一种感觉认为安倍的政策导致不平等性加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, it is supply factors that determine a country’s growth.",
        "在长期，供给因素决定着一国的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that structural reform is explicitly on the agenda, the debate about European banking reform is entering a new phase.",
        "结构性改革在日程中赫然在列，这意味着关于欧洲银行改革的讨论进入了新阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "The US should respond to the globalization of higher education not with angst but with a sense of possibility.",
        "面对高等教育的全球化，美国不应感到忧虑，而应当看到其中蕴含的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, it means that expectations are broadly inconsistent with reality, and need to adjust, in some cases downward.",
        "首先，这意味着人们的预期与现实并不一致，需要调整，在某些方面应该向下调整。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the main goal of nationalist-minded Japanese leaders, starting with Abe’s grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, has been the return of full Japanese sovereignty by revising Article 9.",
        "正因如此，从安倍的外祖父岸信介开始，日本民族主义领导人的主要目标一直是通过修改宪法第九条恢复日本的完全主权。"
    ],
    [
        "The TPP’s agenda is divided into three categories: core, cross-cutting, and emerging issues.",
        "TPP日程可分为三个方面：核心问题、跨境问题和新兴问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as France’s recent intervention in Mali has shown, this ambiguity lies at the root of many of today’s most urgent foreign-policy problems.",
        "正如法国近期对马里的干预所显示的，这一模糊性的根源在于当今世界最紧迫的外交政策问题。"
    ],
    [
        "While clinical trials of the most promising drugs and vaccines need to be pursued, we also need to go back to the drawing board and develop entirely new tactics.",
        "我们需要对大部分潜在高效药品和疫苗进行临床测试，也需要重新规划蓝图，构想新的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, any talk of recovery is premature until the losses incurred by austerity are recouped.",
        "事实上，除非由紧缩引起的损失得到弥补，否则就无从谈论复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there is China.",
        "最后，还有中国问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Information technology is growing at a faster pace than 5%.",
        "信息技术每年正以超过5%的速度发展。"
    ],
    [
        "But Ukraine has a virtual monopoly on delivery, so Russia blinked in this standoff as soon as gas supplies to Western Europe dropped.",
        "但是，乌克兰几乎垄断天然气运送，所以，当向西欧的天然气供应下降之时，俄国立即在这场对峙中退让了。"
    ],
    [
        "When Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority, Israel should have gone out of its way to strengthen him and his reformist team.",
        "当阿巴斯当选巴勒斯坦权力机构主席以来，以色列本应努力加强他和他的改革派的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – A decade ago, the 2008 Nobel laureate in economics, Paul Krugman, wrote a little book entitled The Return of Depression Economics . It sank like a stone.",
        "伯克利—十年前，2008年诺贝尔经济学奖得主保罗·克鲁格曼写了一本小书，名叫《萧条经济学的回归》，结果石沉大海，几无反响。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Germany at that time had to pay bondholders more than 6%.",
        "即使是德国，当时也必须向债权人支付6%的利息。"
    ],
    [
        "White House staff working for the National Security Council call meetings at which officials from the State Department, Defense Department, Treasury, Justice Department, and other key agencies hash out their views on a given policy.",
        "供职于国家安全委员会的白宫工作人员召集国务院、国防部、财政部，司法部及其他重要机构官员就特定政策发表意见。"
    ],
    [
        "With such support, AU-authorized troops could guard the refugee camps and, over time, protect villages so that men, women and children could return home in safety.",
        "有了这些援助，非盟授权的部队就可以保护难民营、今后还要保护普通的村庄，让男人、女人和孩子们安全地重返家园。"
    ],
    [
        "If that target is missed, it will not be for a lack of effort on the part of the Chinese government.",
        "如果这一目标没有实现，不能说是中国政府没有采取措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite obvious differences between Pearl Harbor and recent Islamist terrorist tactics, they show the common desire of self-proclaimed Davids to topple their Goliaths in a clearly lop-sided battle.",
        "尽管珍珠港事件和最近伊斯兰恐怖主义伎俩有明显的不同，但是它们都显现出在一场实力对比悬殊的战斗中鱼死网破的愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, to the extent that a crisis could do more good than harm, warnings that the rapid credit expansion of recent years could trigger a debt crisis, or that the real-estate sector is on the verge of collapse, may not be as worrying as many believe.",
        "事实上，危机或许利大于弊，因此警告近几年来的信用高速扩张可能引发债务危机，或者房地产部门眼看就要崩溃或许并不像许多人认为的那样令人担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, they block the small and emerging players that are so vital to upgrading and transformation.",
        "通过这些举措，他们实际上抑制了那些积极推动升级和转型的小型新兴参与者，让后者无从施展。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, reconstruction and reconciliation are the only viable means to bring stability, since it cannot be imposed.",
        "最终重建和和解将是带来稳定的唯一可行性方式 ，因为稳定不能被强加给冲突地区 。"
    ],
    [
        "The group of interdisciplinary scientists that met in Paris is loosely affiliated under the banner “Foundations of Information Science.”",
        "汇聚巴黎的跨学科科学家以“信息科学基金会”的名义松散地组织在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "They borrow from banks.",
        "它们是从银行借钱。"
    ],
    [
        "But another view is possible: each person has multiple identities, the salience of which is shaped by one’s motivations and circumstances.",
        "但另一个观点是可能的：每个人都具有多重身份，表现出哪种身份取决于人的动机和环境。"
    ],
    [
        "· Seventh, the agreement must include provisions to safeguard carbon sinks and vital ecosystems.",
        "· 第七，新气候协定必须包括保护碳汇和关键生态系统的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "All politics is local, and there is no local constituency for the global economy, so what triumphs often erodes global imbalances further.",
        "所有政治都着眼于国内，没有人去为全球经济负责，因此所谓的国家胜利通常都只会令到全球不平衡的情况更加恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, emerging-market officials warned that monetary expansion in the US and the UK would trigger a wave of competitive currency devaluations, with Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega going so far as to accuse the Fed and the Bank of England of waging a full-blown “currency war.”",
        "类似地，新兴市场官员警告美国和英国的货币扩张会触发竞争性贬值，巴西财政部长曼特加（Guido Mantega）更是指责美联储和英格兰银行发动了全面的“货币战争”。"
    ],
    [
        "If multi-millionaires already can buy an island as a vacation destination – through, for example, the website Private Islands Online – why not buy them as a destination for hundreds of thousands of displaced people who could then build the infrastructure necessary for a new life?",
        "既然亿万富翁可以购买到与用来度假——比如通过Private Islands Online网站交易——为何不将这些岛屿用作数十万流民的目的地，让他们在那里建设新生活所需要的基础设施？"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the AIIB could bring a small but badly needed boost to global aggregate demand.",
        "这也是为什么亚投行可以为全球总需求产生一点微小但急需的推动。"
    ],
    [
        "These risks are already exacerbating the economic slowdown: equity markets are falling everywhere, leading to negative wealth effects on consumption and capital spending.",
        "这些风险已然对经济减速起到了推波助澜的作用：各国股市都在下跌，导致了消费和资本支出的负财富效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Cry, the Newborn Baby",
        "新生儿的啼哭"
    ],
    [
        "If elected, she would be South Korea’s first woman president, and, for her rivals, her dominant position in the race is an uncomfortable but unassailable fact.",
        "如果成功当选，她将成为韩国首任女性总统，而且在她的对手看来，她在竞选中的优势地位虽然令人不快，但又不容置疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Person-to-person connections would help to highlight for Asian societies their cultural commonalities and shared values, fostering progress in areas where particular countries might lag.",
        "人与人之间的联系也有助于强调亚洲社会的文化共性和共同价值观，以推动在某些国家有所滞后的领域取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "He started out as a social Darwinist, once introducing a child tax credit that would later inspire Orbán.",
        "他以社会达尔文主义者起家，曾经引入了日后启发欧尔班的儿童税收优惠。"
    ],
    [
        "Seventy years ago, he delivered his celebrated call to resistance over the BBC after flying to London from France as it collapsed in June 1940.",
        "70年前，他在1940年6月法国沦陷后乘飞机飞到伦敦，在BBC发表了那次著名的讲话，号召法国人民奋起抵抗纳粹的侵略。"
    ],
    [
        "This has not only facilitated trade and transport, but also translates into faster response times for emergency services, saving thousands of lives each year.",
        "这在促进贸易和运输的同时缩短了应急服务响应时间，每年都有数千条生命因此而得救。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider what is potentially the most contentious issue, how to cope with Iran’s nuclear program. Germany has been determined, together with France and Britain, to get Iran to stop uranium enrichment through incentives and negotiation.",
        "关于什么是最有可能导致争议的问题、如何应对伊朗的核武器计划，德国已经和法、英两国一道做出决定，将通过“奖励刺激”和谈判来使伊朗停止铀浓缩计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The ICG doesn’t do that, but it has always been absolutely insistent on saying whatever has needed to be said, and in practice governments have been remarkably tolerant of specific criticism, provided it is well-supported and well-argued.",
        "ICG并不如此，但它毫无例外地坚持说必须说的话，而在实践中，政府有惊人的具体批评忍受力，只要批评有理有据。"
    ],
    [
        "At such a level, overconfidence is generally the product of an excessive assessment of one’s capabilities and an insufficient appreciation of the capabilities of one’s adversary.",
        "在这样一个层面上，过度自信通常是对某人能力过分评估以及对对手能力评估不足的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Improvements in the Russian and Chinese militaries and the increasingly common use of asymmetric strategies by state and non-state actors are leveling the battlefield.",
        "俄罗斯和中国军队的发展，以及国家和非国家行动方日益将不对成战略作为常规，正在让对抗变得日益平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, he took the liberty of manipulating official statistics in order to hide inflation.",
        "接着，他使出了操纵官方统计数字的伎俩试图隐藏通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Francis hopes to have a similar impact today, helping to catalyze action on climate change.",
        "如今，方济各也希望形成类似的影响，帮助推动治理气候变化的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "African households obtained access to modern medicine much later and more suddenly than people in other regions.",
        "非洲家庭接触现代医药技术比其他地区民众晚得多，也突然得多。"
    ],
    [
        "If Aurora’s forecast proves correct, Copenhagen’s wind project would become a massive failure, costing 50% more than the saved electricity is worth.",
        "如果极光研究所的预言最终实现，哥本哈根的风电项目将成为重大的失败，其成本超过节电总价50%。"
    ],
    [
        "Destabilization and chaos followed, accompanied by a sense of uncertainty and unpredictability.",
        "不稳定因素和骚乱随时可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, neither the Chicago School nor the MIT School say that market outcomes are fair, because actual market outcomes depend on the initial distribution of resources.",
        "事实上，芝加哥学派和麻省理工学派都没有提到市场结果的公平性，因为真实的市场结果取决于资源的初次分配。"
    ],
    [
        "That is exactly the problem, according to Seife.",
        "按赛菲的说法，这才是问题所在。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman proposes waiting 10-15 years.",
        "比如，经济学家兼《纽约时报》专栏作家保罗·克鲁格曼建议等上10—15年。"
    ],
    [
        "Saving General Petraeus",
        "拯救将军彼得雷乌斯"
    ],
    [
        "Just as importantly, such a ruling would send a powerful signal that racism and xenophobia have no place in the new Europe.",
        "同样重要的是，这样的裁决能发出强有力的信号：种族歧视和排外主义在新欧洲没有容身之地。"
    ],
    [
        "The Japanese, like Sein, want to see Myanmar shift its diplomatic orientation away from China.",
        "日本人像登盛一样，想让缅甸的外交方针从中国向别的国家转移。"
    ],
    [
        "In a university, ideas count more than money, but $18 billion dollars can create an environment for many new ideas.",
        "在大学中，观点比金钱更为重要。 但是，180亿美元却可以为许多新观点创造环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Life expectancy at age 65 rose after that by about one year per decade.",
        "此后，65岁年龄段人群的预期寿命每隔十年就会增加一岁。"
    ],
    [
        "People who watch the butchering of their children and parents, the rape of their wives, daughters, and sisters, and the wanton destruction of their homes and livelihoods do not forget.",
        "亲眼目睹屠杀自己的父母和子女、强奸自己妻子、女儿、姐妹，肆意破坏自己家园和生活的人永远也不会忘记。"
    ],
    [
        "Local power outages may be unavoidable, but one can create grids that are less vulnerable – and less prone to bringing large parts of the economy to a halt – by building in redundancy.",
        "当地断电或许是不可避免的，但若以充足性为原则，本可以建设不至于如此脆弱的电网——或者说不至于导致如此大范围经济陷入停滞的电网。"
    ],
    [
        "Analysts and pundits have often been mistaken about America’s position in the world.",
        "分析家和专家们对美国在世界上的地位往往有错误的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "We must capitalize on it.",
        "我们必须抓住这个机会窗口。"
    ],
    [
        "To answer that question, one can look to the writings of the Chinese strategist Yan Xuetong, whose book Ancient Chinese Thought/Modern Chinese Power argues that all countries must recognize and accept China’s centrality to the world as the Middle Kingdom.",
        "要回答这个问题，可以看一看中国战略学者阎学通的著作。 他的作品《古代中国思想，现代中国力量》（Ancient Chinese Thought/Modern Chinese Power）指出，所有国家都必须承认和接受中国作为“中央王国”在世界的核心地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Mobs shouted at Tunisian women demonstrators to go back to the kitchen “where they belong.”",
        "暴徒冲着突尼斯示威妇女大喊，要她们回到“身之所属”的厨房去。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the clearinghouse structure obscures them.",
        "不幸的是，清算所的结构掩盖了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not so regarded in contemporary Britain; and even less so in the non-Western world, where unions of men and women are considered the norm.",
        "在当代英国，并非如此； 对男女结伴才是正统的非西方世界而言，更非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "How a single EU supervisor would address the problem of imbalances is not explained, but it is surely a worthy aim.",
        "单一欧盟监管者如何解决失衡问题，欧洲央行并未给出解释，但毫无疑问，这是一个值得追求的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The proper functioning of the gold standard required a high degree of flexibility in wages and prices.",
        "金本位制的合理运行需要工资和物价的高度灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps Kasparov would have won the rematch had it continued to a full 24 games (then the standard length of world championship matches).",
        "不幸的是，过于自信的卡斯帕罗夫在1997年的复赛中并没有把深蓝很当回事。 最终深蓝以3."
    ],
    [
        "On the environmental front, Rouhani is also busy undoing his predecessor’s damage.",
        "在环境方面，鲁哈尼也在为弥补前任留下的烂摊子奔走。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while the Obama administration’s claim of zero or single-digit civilian fatalities may be true according to the official definition, it rests on the premise that any military-age male killed in a drone strike is a militant, unless intelligence posthumously proves otherwise.",
        "并且虽然奥巴马政府所称的零或个位数的平民死亡数字按照官方定义可能确有其事，但其前提是无人机袭击中丧生的任何适龄参军男子都是武装分子，除非其后的情报能做出相反的证明。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a broader (and more appropriate) definition, which includes part-time employees seeking full-time jobs and marginally employed workers, the unemployment rate for the United States as a whole is 10.3%.",
        "根据更加广义（也更加合适）的定义，即将寻找全职工作的兼职员工临时工也包括进来，那么美国的整体失业率为10. 3%。"
    ],
    [
        "But this could be a source of strength for Hollande, who, as a new leader with no foreign-policy experience, will have to prove his ability through action.",
        "但这也许是奥朗德优势的来源之一，作为没有外交政策经验的新晋领导人，他必须用行动证明自己的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the Fed’s ongoing withdrawal of stimulus has frayed African nerves, it has also spurred recognition that there are smarter ways to finance development than borrowing in dollars.",
        "但如果说美联储持续退出刺激计划已经挑动了非洲国家的神经，同时也令人们意识到有比借美元债更加明智的发展融资方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Improving the economy, rather than violent confrontation, has been the PA’s main concern.",
        "巴勒斯坦权力机构的主要关注点是改善经济，而不是武装冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Its national leaders need to reestablish the trust of their constituents by offering them straight talk.",
        "欧洲各国领导人需要与选民直接对话，已建立信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Great bankers of the past like J.P. Morgan built industries like rail and steel.",
        "摩根等大银行家创造了铁路和钢铁这样的产业。"
    ],
    [
        "And cooperation would be essential to maintain control over North Korea’s nuclear materials.",
        "此外，在保持控制朝鲜核材料方面，合作至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "That is bad news for governments and companies south of the border.",
        "这对于它南边的政府和公司来说是坏消息。"
    ],
    [
        "While the April G-20 summit in London produced more economic-policy agreement than expected, this was largely because the most divisive issue – the US and British demand for more global stimulus spending – was removed from the table beforehand.",
        "然而，4月举办的20国伦敦峰会出人意料地达成了一些经济政策协议，主要的原因是最具争论的话题——美英主张的全球各国经济刺激方案——被提前撤了下来。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are strong reasons for the Fed to postpone interest-rate hikes and to keep monetary policy expansionary over the coming quarters.",
        "但有很好的理由认为美联储应该暂停升息，并在未来几个季度保持货币政策扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "Society increasingly demands that these “corporate citizens” be altruistic, just as people are.",
        "社会越来越要求这些“企业公民”要如社会上的个人一样承担起利他主义的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians expect research to function as a motor of economic growth.",
        "政客们希望科研发挥其经济增长发动机的功能。"
    ],
    [
        "As two observers recently described it, Daulat Beg Oldie was a kind of transfer point for goods to be loaded on to pack ponies “for the cruel journey over the Saser La into the more hospitable Shyok river valley” leading to “Leh, Turtok, or Srinagar [in Kashmir].”",
        "正如两名观察家最近所指出的，道拉伯格玉尔地是一个转运站，靠马驮人拉的货物在这里落脚。 这里位于“穿过Saser La进入较平坦的Shyok河谷”并抵达“Leh、Turtok和斯利那加（Srinagar，在克什米尔境内）”的“艰难旅途”中间。"
    ],
    [
        "One such mechanism would be more labor mobility in services.",
        "一种机制是加强服务业劳动力流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "Homo economicus, the rationally acting egoist who populates economists’ models, has recently attracted criticism as well, because all too often he does not represent the real behavior of individuals.",
        "经济人，即经济学家的模型中的理性的利己者，最近也遭到了批评，因为他们常常并不代表现实中的个体行为。"
    ],
    [
        "This would reduce the temperature increase expected by the end of the century by just five-hundredths of a degree Celsius (nine-hundredths Fahrenheit).",
        "这只是在本世纪末的时候降低气温升高百分之五摄氏度(相当于百分之九华式度) 。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy use by heavy industry energy, however, presents challenges that are often ignored.",
        "但是，重工业所用能源是常常被忽略的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "They could have easily let the OAS assembly go by, giving the new American president more time to prepare his Congress and public opinion for a delicate balancing act.",
        "这些国家可以让美洲国家组织大会轻易地通过接纳古巴的决议，并给奥巴马留下更多时间去说服国会和民众，好让美国可以通过一部可以微妙平衡各方面利益的古巴法案。"
    ],
    [
        "But that deal is a stopgap measure, and affects only Greece.",
        "地中海国家不断肆意挥霍，自信地认为无需向市场问责。"
    ],
    [
        "No one can say for sure whether a deliverable weapon will come from North Korea in the next two years, four years, or later.",
        "没人能够肯定在未来两年、四年或更长时间内可发射武器能否在朝鲜研制成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic boom is the only source of legitimacy that the one-party state has left.",
        "一党专制国家合法性的唯一来源就是经济繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic Chinese firms, too, need to respond to these pressures.",
        "中国国内公司也必须面对这一压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia’s Take on Austerity",
        "亚洲的紧缩教训"
    ],
    [
        "We want to bring our wellbeing and our future fully under our control.",
        "我们想让我们的福祉和我们的未来位于充分的掌控之中。"
    ],
    [
        "According to ooniprobe data, multiple Thai ISPs simultaneously blocked access to different types of websites – from news outlets to Wikileaks to pornography – indicating that they likely received vague orders from authorities.",
        "据ooniprobe的数据，多家泰国ISP联手封禁了多种网站——从新闻媒体到维基解密和色情网站——这表明它们可能收到了当局的指令。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no method to Trump’s madness.",
        "特朗普的疯狂有些“无厘头”。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in 1980, when there was no war but the stock market was low, US voters elected Ronald Reagan, a man many thought too right wing to be president.",
        "与此相反，1980年未曾开战但股市低迷，美国选民们推举了罗纳德·里根，一位不太像总统的右翼分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries like Latvia and Hungary have shown a willingness to do so.",
        "拉脱维亚和匈牙利等国家似乎已经忍不住想这么做了。"
    ],
    [
        "With no public trust in the political class, Italy might become ungovernable.",
        "公众对政治阶层失去信任可能导致意大利局势失控。"
    ],
    [
        "If, however, it is financing “current operations” and raising short-term aggregate demand, it is highly risky.",
        "但如果这些融资用于“眼前操作”以刺激短期总需求，这就是非常危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, wealthy elites in emerging countries live in a state of denial towards their poor, literally ignoring them.",
        "事实上，新兴国家的富裕精英阶层，其生活方式就是在排斥穷人，就是在漠视穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "The changes are supposed to make the executive branch accountable to the elected parliament, expand the prime minister’s authority, devolve more power to the provinces, and ensure independence to the judiciary.",
        "修宪旨在让行政部门对当选议会负责，扩大总理权力，下放权力给地方各省，并确保司法独立。"
    ],
    [
        "I now reiterate the promise that I made after that attack.",
        "现在，我重申我在白沙瓦袭击后所做的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "If all goes according to plan, it will be the last annual World Polio Day before the disease is eradicated.",
        "如果一切按照计划，它将是这种病根除前最后一个年度世界脊髓灰质炎日。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the ECB has absolutely nothing in common with the old Deutsche Bundesbank, the German public has not recognized this.",
        "尽管欧洲央行与昔日的德国央行绝无共同之处，但德国公众并不明白这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kim dynasty’s main claim to legitimacy is Juche, the regime’s official ideology, which stresses national self-reliance to the point of autarky.",
        "金氏王朝的正统性主要来自其正式意识形态——主题思想，主题思想的核心是国家的自力更生甚至自给自足。"
    ],
    [
        "Violent Islamic jihadist movements do not pose an existential danger to Europe or North America.",
        "暴力伊斯兰圣战运动并没有对欧洲或北美构成生存威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, while international accords are rarely reached easily, no one should get carried away at the signing ceremony.",
        "首先，尽管国际准则非常难以达成，但也不能抛下任何一方。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this has made foreign operations less attractive as well.",
        "所有这一切已经导致外国业务的吸引力降低。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the best anti-poverty tools is trade.",
        "反贫困的最佳工具之一是贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Ministers are too busy recovering from their trauma to think about paying fat fees for big new international bond issues.",
        "此时的他们都对全球经济的风险可能蔓延到自家后院而忧心忡忡，正忙着抚慰自己备受折磨的心灵，所以无暇考虑为新的国际债券发行而付出巨额的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – Over the last ten years, “climate change” has become almost synonymous with “carbon emissions.”",
        "柏林——过去10年来，“气候变化”几乎成了“碳排放”的同义词。"
    ],
    [
        "It manages simultaneously to fleece the people of six poor countries and to put US workers in harm’s way.",
        "该协议在剥削六个贫困国家的人民的同时，对美国劳工的利益也造成了伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Together they won a narrow 51% majority of the popular vote, giving them 37 of the 65 seats in parliament.",
        "他们共同以51%的多数票险胜，赢得了65个议会席位中的37个。"
    ],
    [
        "It remains to be see whether China, concerned that its oil trade with Sudan might jeopardize the 2008 Olympics, will decide to exert more pressure.",
        "中国在看到它与苏丹的石油贸易可能会危及2008年奥运会的举办时是否会决定施加更大的压力还有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "That story might have invited some gossip outside of Greece, but it gained little purchase on international attention until the end of 2009, when the market for Greek debt started to become increasingly unsettled, with rising interest rates causing further problems for the government.",
        "这个故事可能在希腊境外引发了一些闲言碎语，但直到2009年年末才引发了国际关注，因为当时希腊国债市场日渐动荡，而国债利率的上涨又给政府带来了更多问题。"
    ],
    [
        "All of us who value open public space must stand shoulder to shoulder in support of the policy frameworks and institutions that safeguard it.",
        "我们珍视开放公共空间的所有人应该肩并肩支持捍卫它的政策框架和制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Longer-term growth requires investment by individuals (in education and skills), governments, and the private sector.",
        "经济的长期增长需要来自个人（在教育和技能上），政府及私人部门的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Talks with officials around the region reveal that America’s friends and allies have not received the sort of advance briefings that are normally used to prepare the ground for important new policies and undertakings.",
        "与域内各国官员的对话表明，美国的友邦和盟国并未收到通常用来为重要新政策和事项打基础的事前简报。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with trillions of dollars swirling around global financial markets, this predictability creates a fat target, with investors willing to make massive bets when they are pretty sure they are right, even if the profit per dollar is small.",
        "同时由于有数万亿美元围绕着全球金融市场流动。 这一可预见性也创造出一个庞大的目标，因为投资者们在自信自身是正确的时候才愿意下极大的赌注，即便每一美元所获得的利润都极为微小。"
    ],
    [
        "We are good at estimating how well we know simple facts (such as the capitals of countries), procedures (such as how to make an international phone call), and narratives (such as the plots of well-known movies).",
        "我们善于估计我们如何掌握简单的事实（例如各国首都），手续（例如如何拨打国际长途电话）以及叙述（例如熟知的电影情节）。"
    ],
    [
        "COPENHAGEN – Is the European Union’s supposed “democratic deficit” now spreading to individual European countries in the wake of the sovereign-debt crisis?",
        "发自哥本哈根——假设中的欧盟“民主赤字”问题是否正借主权债务危机之机向各成员国扩散？"
    ],
    [
        "A few scientists, and many science-fiction writers, have also speculated about using nuclear weapons to destroy or damage an asteroid, comet, meteor, or alien spacecraft heading toward the earth.",
        "有一些科学家和许多科幻作家则大胆想象，说可以发射核弹摧毁那些飞向地球的小行星、 彗 星、流星或外星飞船。"
    ],
    [
        "But media literacy training, if organized with local needs in mind, can help.",
        "但媒体素养训练如果能够兼顾地方需求，是大有裨益的。"
    ],
    [
        "Immediately after this declaration, however, prices of European bank stocks plunged, and Dijsselbloem was accused by many (including some of his colleagues) of having poured oil on a burning fire.",
        "但是，迪塞尔布隆姆话音刚落，欧洲银行股应声暴跌，而他也被许多人（其中不乏他的同事）指责火上浇油。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the institutions of the Palestinian state are in place, the will of the people, coupled with world support, will nonviolently overcome all efforts at denying Palestinians their right to self-determination.",
        "巴勒斯坦国的组织架构一旦就位，人民的意愿加上全世界的支持，必将在不使用暴力的情况下压倒一切试图剥夺巴勒斯坦民族自决权的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Weimar 2013?",
        "魏玛2013？"
    ],
    [
        "From this long process, in which surviving and thriving meant acquiring and adhering to the local social rules, we emerged as potent social learners.",
        "从这种生存发展意味着了解并遵守当地社会规则的漫长的过程中，我们逐渐成为强有力的社会学习者。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of leading to an explosion of drug consumption, as many feared, the number of people seeking treatment increased and overall drug use fell.",
        "许多人都害怕这会导致毒品消费量激增，但结果却是寻求治疗者的数量不断增加，但总体毒品消费量却发生了下滑。"
    ],
    [
        "It had also given asset markets a role as an important source of economic growth.",
        "它还让资产市场成为重要的经济增长源。"
    ],
    [
        "By initiating a plan to internationalize its currency, China is similarly seeking to challenge the dollar on the international stage.",
        "与此同时，通过启动一项货币国际化计划，中国也正试图在国际舞台上挑战美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Qutb was executed by the Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1966 as part of a brutal but unsuccessful attempt to eliminate the Muslim Brotherhood.",
        "库塔布于1966年在一场残酷但没有成功的消灭穆斯林兄弟会的行动中被埃及独裁者纳赛尔处决。"
    ],
    [
        "The after-the-fact revelation that the reasons for invading Iraq were vastly exaggerated – and in some cases completely fabricated – produced an angry backlash that helped toss the Republicans out of power in the United States in 2008 and may do the same to Britain’s Labour Party later this year.",
        "在入侵伊拉克问题上，事后调查发现其中的动因都被极度夸大了 —— 某些甚至是捏造出来的 —— 于是民众为此爆发出来的愤怒和反抗在 2008 年把美国共和党赶下了台，而这一切也很可能在今年晚些时候在英国工党身上重演一遍。"
    ],
    [
        "We also must develop tools to identify and halt outbreaks of resistant diseases at an early stage.",
        "我们还必须发展早期识别和阻止抗药性疾病暴发的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "But the same research suggests that the government spending multiplier is likely to be small or even negative in a variety of circumstances and, in any event, would quickly shrink.",
        "但同样的研究还表明，在很多环境下，政府支出乘数很小甚至为负，而且在任何情况下都会迅速衰减。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to get economies back on track, QE is a useful step, but only as part of a larger package of measures.",
        "为了让经济重回正轨，量化宽松是一个有益步骤，但其作用能否发挥有赖于落实涉及面更广的一揽子举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Working together could enable the use of affordable, sophisticated technology for seafood traceability – data and intelligence gathering that helps pinpoint exactly where seafood comes from, and when and by whom it was caught.",
        "齐心协力能让我们拥有廉价成熟海鲜追踪的技术——即收集数据和情报以帮助精确定位海鲜来自哪里、在何时由谁捕获。"
    ],
    [
        "A multilateral imbalance – especially one that it is traceable to a saving shortfall – cannot be fixed by putting pressure on a bilateral exchange rate.",
        "多边失衡——特别是可以追溯到储蓄不足的多边失衡——是无法通过施压双边汇率解决的。"
    ],
    [
        "If Merkel had wanted the agreement reached in Brussels, the outcome would have marked the beginning of a fundamental revision of the eurozone’s crisis policy – and thus an expression of successful statesmanship.",
        "如果默克尔本就希望在布鲁塞尔达成协议，那么结果将标志着欧元区危机政策的基本转变，其本人也将展现成功政治家的风采。"
    ],
    [
        "To answer these questions, we must understand that a vicious circle of economic contraction and worsening financial conditions is underway.",
        "要回答这些问题，我们必须认识到经济紧缩的恶性循环和持续恶化的财政状况还远未结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The ire that motivated that proposal remains today, with China accounting for 47% of America’s still outsize merchandise trade deficit in 2014.",
        "促使他们提出提案的怒火今天仍然存在——2014年美国的商贸赤字依然巨大，而中国占了其中的47%。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, by blocking reforms to International Monetary Fund governance that were agreed in 2010, Congress has damaged, perhaps irreparably, the legitimacy and relevance of the Bretton Woods institutions.",
        "比如，国会阻挠在2010年就形成一致的国际货币基金组织（IMF）治理改革，这可能对布雷顿森林机构的合法性和重要性造成了不可挽回的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "France has a veto within the boards of directors of the Franc Zone’s two central banks, while two French commercial banks, BNP-Paribas and Société Générale, exercise a quasi-monopoly on lending programs, mainly centered on short-term trade financing and the needs of governments, public and private companies, and the elite.",
        "法国在法郎区两大央行董事会均握有否决权，与此同时两大法国商业银行 —— 法国巴黎银行和法国兴业银行 —— 有权对贷款计划行使准垄断决策，要求贷款计划主要满足短期贸易融资和政府、公私企业及上层人士的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Sunni ministers who had been boycotting the government since last year have returned to their posts.",
        "逊尼派部长从去年以来拒绝为政府效力，现在都返回了岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of these tasks is formidable. If Bush and Blair prematurely withdraw large numbers of the troops that support Iraqi stability, the country’s new government would have little chance of success.",
        "如果布什和布莱尔在此时过早地撤出支持伊拉克稳定的大批军队，那么伊拉克新政府的成功机会可以说是微乎其微。"
    ],
    [
        "· The economic and financial headwinds from outside the US are strong and gusting, owing largely to the ever-worsening European crisis, which is now entering an even more disruptive and unpredictable phase as depositors in some countries step up their withdrawals from local banks.",
        "· 美国所面临的外部经济和金融阻力极大，因为欧洲危机在不断恶化，随着某些国家的储户大举逃离本地银行，欧洲危机正在进入更具破坏性、更不可预测的阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the bail-in of four local banks, the bailout of Monte dei Paschi (one of Italy’s systemically important banks), the liquidation of two regional banks, and the market-led rescue of the mid-size banking group Carige – all within two years – the banking system has yet to be stabilized.",
        "尽管发生了四家本地银行的自救（bail-in），对意大利商业银行（Monte dei Paschi，意大利具系统重要性的银行）的援助（bailout）、谅解地区银行的清盘，以及市场领导的对中型银行集团卡里奇（Carige）的救援——所有这些都在两年内发生——但银行体系仍然稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Japanese, whose forebears ravaged the country in World War II, now profess a romantic sentimentality toward Myanmar.",
        "许多日本人——二战时其先辈曾掠夺过这个国家——如今都对缅甸表现出某种浪漫主义情怀。"
    ],
    [
        "If migrants are viewed as a burden or, worse, a security threat, reactionary political forces will continue to gain ground, cutting off opportunities for newcomers and turning such fears into a self-fulfilling prophesy.",
        "如果移民被视为一种负担，或者更糟糕地，被视为安全威胁，反动政治力量就会继续得势，减少新来者的机会，将这些恐慌转变为自我实现的预言。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, helping the US to achieve healthy and sustainable growth would bring about an indirect boost to their own economies.",
        "而促增长结构性改革迟迟没有落实。 此外，帮助美国实现健康可持续的增长也能给这些经济体自身带来直接提振。"
    ],
    [
        "Hu’s trip is likely follow the example set by Wen.",
        "胡的访问很有可能将温的成果延续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, as the pendulum swings back, it risks overshooting the optimal combination of private and public activity and ending up at a simplistic view of government as the problem and the private sector as the solution.",
        "此一时彼一时，如今，公私行为的最优组合有被过度调整的危险，导致形成一种一刀切的观点——政府是问题，而私人部门是答案。"
    ],
    [
        "The University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers cheered the consensus in his New York Times blog.",
        "密歇根大学经济学家贾斯丁·沃尔夫斯（Justin Wlofers）在其《纽约时报》博客上为这一共识喝彩。"
    ],
    [
        "The advent of the euro was a seeming boon, because it reduced borrowing costs and allowed countries to create jobs through debt-financed spending.",
        "欧元的引入似乎带来了繁荣，因为它降低了借贷成本，让各国得以通过债务融资支出创造就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Alzheimer’s might be more predictable if scientists had the time and resources to conduct far-reaching longitudinal studies over many years.",
        "如果科学家有时间和资源进行为期多年的深入的纵向研究，阿尔茨海默症的可预测性可能会有所提高。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU itself was of course built by nation-states.",
        "当然，欧盟本身就是民族国家建立的。"
    ],
    [
        "Differences in innate ability were not denied (at least by the sensible).",
        "先天能力的差别并没有被否认（至少理智者没有否认）。"
    ],
    [
        "With many citizens now struggling, political leaders face a daunting task: adopt credible medium- and long-term reforms without derailing the economy in the short term.",
        "如今，许多公民的日子都不好过，政治领导人面临着棘手的任务：采取可信的中长期改革，同时又得保证经济在短期内不会脱轨。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent assessments have offered a downbeat picture of the world’s second-largest economy.",
        "近来对世界第二大经济体的评估充满了悲观情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "SEATTLE – Selama 25 tahun terakhir, berkat upaya global terkoordinasi untuk melawan penyakit-penyakit menular, termasuk malaria, tuberkolosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, dan polio, angka kematian balita dan anak-anak berkurang 50% dan rata-rata usia harapan hidup meningkat lebih dari enam tahun.",
        "西雅图—在过去25年中，部分要归因于打击传染病，疟疾、结核病、艾滋病和小儿麻痹症的全球协作，儿童死亡率已经下降了50%，平均寿命预期增加了六年多。"
    ],
    [
        "But, throughout Europe, the refugees faced rejection.",
        "但是，难民在整个欧洲都面临被拒绝的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Together with the Russian authorities’ expropriation of oil company Yukos, foreigners have been squeezed out of Russia’s energy extraction sector. Inevitably, many in Europe are questioning the value of the Kremlin’s word.",
        "加上俄罗斯当局没收尤科斯石油公司的举动，外国公司被挤出俄罗斯的能源开采业，许多欧洲人无可避免地开始质疑克里姆林宫所说的话的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "But such a structure is lacking today between the EU and Russia, to the detriment of all the countries that lie between them.",
        "但是，今天在欧盟和俄罗斯之间缺少这样一种结构，这给夹在它们中间的国家造成了伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is merely a way of justifying the exploitation of mostly vulnerable women (there is also a much smaller number of male prostitutes in the Netherlands, but they are not pimped out like female prostitutes).",
        "但是，这仅仅是证明剥削通常易受攻击的女性（在荷兰也有少量男妓，但是，他们没有像妓女那样被皮条客兜售）的正当性的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to start washing our hands thoroughly and often.",
        "首先，我们需要经常、彻底地洗手。"
    ],
    [
        "If Brexit wins in a country as stable and politically phlegmatic as Britain, financial markets and businesses around the world will be shaken out of their complacency about populist insurgencies in the rest of Europe and the US.",
        "如果脱盟在英国这么一个稳定和政治冷漠的国家都能实现，金融市场和世界各地的企业都会在欧洲其他地区和美国的民粹主义回潮忐忑不安。"
    ],
    [
        "The US also suffers from an epidemic of malnutrition at the hands of the powerful US fast-food industry, which has essentially poisoned the public with diets loaded with saturated fats, sugar, and unhealthy processing and chemical additives.",
        "美国也因为强大的国内快餐业而备受营养不良问题的困扰，美国快餐业一直在用充斥着饱和脂肪、糖和不健康加工和化学添加剂的饮食来毒害公众。 结果是肥胖率高达33."
    ],
    [
        "The passionate debate stirred up by Sharon's plan shows how truly revolutionary his proposal is.",
        "沙龙的计划所引起的激烈辩论反映了他的建议多么具有革命性。"
    ],
    [
        "But little has been said about the structural shifts in Turkey’s political economy that have empowered the country’s middle classes, which form the electoral base of Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP).",
        "但很少有人提及导致该国中产阶级崛起的土耳其政治经济结构性转型，正是上述转型构成了埃尔多安正义与发展党（AKP）的选民基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But the United States and its allies, lacking a coherent vision of Iraq’s future, much less a sound policy for the post-Saddam era, declared Iraq an occupied country, with a US-appointed administrator to run the country, who soon decided to dismantle all existing security, military, and media institutions.",
        "但美国和盟国并未制定关于伊拉克未来的清晰计划，更谈不上后萨达姆时代的明智政策。 他们宣布伊拉克为被占领国并接受美国任命官员的管理，而此人则迅速决定解散所有安全、军事和媒体机构。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, China’s economy is dominated by resource-hungry and inefficient polluters, such as coal and mineral mines, textile and paper mills, iron and steel makers, petrochemical factories, and building material producers.",
        "结果，耗费大量能源以及低效率的污染企业，例如煤炭和矿物开采、纺织厂、造纸厂、钢铁企业、化工厂以及建材企业统治了中国的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, North Korea may begin to stockpile weapons of mass destruction.",
        "换句话说，朝鲜可能会开始囤积大规模杀伤性武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, that effort ceased over the last decade.",
        "不幸的是，这些进步在上一个十年中停了下来。"
    ],
    [
        "As a Buddhist, the Dalai Lama preaches non-attachment, self-realization, inner actualization, and non-violence; as a Tibetan he is admired by a people fiercely attached to their homeland, with most seeking its independence from China and many determined to fight for it.",
        "作为佛教徒，达赖喇嘛宣扬不追随、自我实现、内在实现以及非暴力。 作为西藏人，他受到强烈热爱国土的人的敬仰，其中的大多数人寻求从中国独立，而且许多决心为此奋斗。"
    ],
    [
        "I fear for the future.",
        "我为未来担心。"
    ],
    [
        "But my advice is to keep the champagne on ice.",
        "但我的建议是庆祝胜利为时尚早。"
    ],
    [
        "But not in India.",
        "但印度不是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "This development forces moderate leaders in these countries to adopt a tougher stance toward China than they otherwise would, in order to preempt attacks from the ultra-right and assuage their generals.",
        "为了避免被右翼夺取话语权，也为了安抚躁动的军队和将领，东盟国本来相对温和领导人就被迫对中国采取更加强硬的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "The new economy based on finance and shopping skipped a generation.",
        "基于金融和购物的新经济忽略了一代人。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the US pivot to Asia was launched in 2011, Southeast Asia’s political systems have, on the whole, regressed significantly.",
        "自美国从2011年开始实施转向亚洲战略以来，东南亚政治制度总体而言大幅倒退。"
    ],
    [
        "And they are not alone within the EU.",
        "而且这种做法在欧盟内部并不稀奇。"
    ],
    [
        "How deep the zealots and the coal lobby will be able to make that point depends partly on the barriers built by the rest of us.",
        "狂热分子和煤炭游说集团在多大程度上抓住这一机会部分取决于我们其他人为此设置多大的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, unforeseeable consequences were precisely what concerned Kennan when the United States charged into Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq two years later.",
        "事实上，当美国2001年冲进阿富汗、两年后又冲进伊拉克时，凯南所担心的恰恰是不可预见的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Most explanations of the causes of the post-2007 financial crisis point to five sources of instability.",
        "在解释2007年金融危机为何爆发时，人们大多指出了不稳定性的5个来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers don’t know what to do.",
        "决策者不知道怎么办。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump also ran as someone who would “drain the swamp” in Washington, DC, and on Wall Street.",
        "拉票时特朗普也把自己包装成一个能为华盛顿特区和华尔街“排污堵漏”的人。"
    ],
    [
        "(The ISCC does hold patents for its stem cells in the United States.)",
        "（国际干细胞公司在美国的确拥有干细胞专利。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Although long-term government interest rates are now very low, they are beginning to rise in response to the outlook for a sharply rising national debt.",
        "目前，虽然政府长期利率已经很低了，但利率会随着国债的迅速增加而慢慢上升。"
    ],
    [
        "They appeared arrogant and overpaid, and were easily demonized.",
        "他们表现得趾高气扬，收入似乎高得离谱，很容易就被妖魔化。"
    ],
    [
        "At one of the tensest moments, as Cyprus was seeking an alternative rescue package from Russia, the German Bundesbank announced the results of a new European Central Bank study indicating that average German wealth was lower than in the southern European states, largely because fewer Germans own their own houses.",
        "在谈判最紧张的一个时刻，也就是塞浦路斯打算转向俄罗斯求援的时候，德国联邦银行发表了欧洲央行一个新的研究结论，指出德国人的平均财产拥有量低于南欧国家，主要是因为德国人较少拥有其住房的产权。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the analysis, though, has been narrowly focused on the short term and may be too negative in assessing his actions’ likely long-term consequences.",
        "尽管如此，许多分析狭隘地关注短期，也许对评估普京行为的可能的长期结果过于消极。"
    ],
    [
        "The annual budget deficit is nearly 10% of GDP, higher than any of the eurozone countries.",
        "年度预算赤字接近GDP的10%，比任何欧元区国家都高。"
    ],
    [
        "Our proposal what we need for a code and for its contents have both met with strongly conflicting views.",
        "我们提出的需要一种规范及其内容的要求，遇到了各种互相激烈冲突的观点的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on that doubt, France – a nuclear power since 1960 – withdrew in 1966 from the Alliance’s permanent centralized military command in order to assert its own deterrent capability.",
        "正基于此疑问，为了维护自身的主权安全，法国在1966年退出了北约的军事体系（法国1960年成为有核国家）。"
    ],
    [
        "He is known to be a combative nihilist who will stoop to any depth to win.",
        "他是人尽皆知的好斗的虚无主义者，为了获胜堕落到任何地步都在所不惜。"
    ],
    [
        "But why is Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, who is not an elected politician (and has promised not to run for election), so hesitant?",
        "但为何作为非当选（并承诺不参加竞选）的政客的意大利总理蒙蒂也如此犹豫？"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently, many vaccines are not commercially viable, even if they would be useful for society.",
        "因此有许多疫苗缺乏商业可行性，即使它们本来可以发挥一定的社会作用。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, it wasn’t: monetary policy was explicitly intended to buy time for households, the financial sector, and sovereigns to repair their balance sheets and for growth-enhancing policies to kick in.",
        "事实亦然：货币政策显然只是为家庭、金融部门和主权部门赢得时间修复资产负债表，为强化增长的政策赢得起效时间。"
    ],
    [
        "To meet Europe’s ambitious 2020 energy targets, retrofitting existing buildings and improving new buildings’ energy efficiency, including the use of more energy-efficient materials and equipment, could lead to roughly €37 billion in additional annual investment between now and 2030.",
        "为了达到欧洲雄心勃勃的2020年能源目标，改造现有建筑、改善新建筑能源效率——包括使用更加节能的材料和设备——可以在现在到2030年这段时间每年增加约370亿欧元投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Premier Wen Jiabao himself recognizes the urgent need to address the country’s inequitable growth, calling for means to be found to “share prosperity evenly,” and thus to reduce the widening gaps between “rich and poor, cities and countryside.”",
        "连中国国家总理温家宝自己都承认必须尽快解决本国的不公平发展问题，呼吁设法“公平分配财富”，并以此弥补“夫人和穷人之间，城市和农村之间”不断扩大的贫富不均现象。"
    ],
    [
        "True, government infrastructure spending is often wasted.",
        "的确，政府在基础设施方面的支出时常被浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "A Bull Named Trump in a Shop Called China",
        "中国商店里的一头叫特朗普的公牛"
    ],
    [
        "It is nonetheless obvious from the very nature of accession negotiations that full membership must be the goal.",
        "但从入盟谈判的特点来看，取得正式成员国地位都无疑是必然的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Uncertainty about government contracts and various kinds of payments can have a broad impact on the economy.",
        "政府合同和各项支付的不确定性可以广泛影响到国内经济。"
    ],
    [
        "It was devised visually.”",
        "它被设计成可视的。"
    ],
    [
        "Stimulus programs were sold as being a temporary palliative, needed to bridge the gap until the financial sector recovered and private lending resumed.",
        "刺激计划作为暂时药方大行其道，要到金融部门复苏、私人贷款重现活力才会收回。"
    ],
    [
        "Host regulators are increasingly nervous about banks that operate in their jurisdictions through branches of their corporate parent, without local capital or a local board of directors.",
        "东道国监管者则对那些通过母公司分支在其辖区内开展业务，但没有本地资本或本地董事会的银行越来越忌惮。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because the overall value of the euro has to be a balance of the eurozone’s north and south, one can argue that 1.4 is within a reasonable range.",
        "但是，由于欧元的整体价值必须平衡南欧和北欧，因此，可以说1. 4处于一个合理的区间内。"
    ],
    [
        "Reliance on a self-promoting tycoon like Thaksin is not the best way to boost democracy, but nor is reliance on military coups and kingly intervention.",
        "虽然，选择自我炒作的大亨，例如说他信不是推动民主的上策，但军事政变和王权干政也同样不可行。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, energy is a global commodity.",
        "毕竟，能源是一种全球商品。"
    ],
    [
        "Inviting him to speak made his views seem legitimate.",
        "邀请他来发言让他的观点似乎合理合法。"
    ],
    [
        "But even people who are relatively prosperous are frustrated by some features of globalization.",
        "但即使相对较繁荣的人群，也对全球化的某些特征十分不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution",
        "塑造第四次工业革命"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it is now a source of deep resentment among European peoples – resentment that, 70 years after the end of World War II, was supposed to have been eliminated.",
        "相反，现在欧元在欧洲各民族间制造了深刻的怨恨——在二战结束已经70年的今天，这种怨恨应该早已被根除了。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries and communities, from Nepal to Northern Ireland, have grappled with legacies of ethnic, ideological, or religious division and violence, often with limited success.",
        "从尼泊尔到北爱尔兰的很多国家和团体一直在设法解决民族、意识形态、宗教分裂和暴力领域的遗留问题，但成功的先例却少之又少。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979, productivity growth began to slow at the same time that unions still had substantial pricing power, and previously negotiated wage increases were already locked into many workers’ contracts.",
        "除了1973年赎罪日战争和1979年伊朗革命，生产率增长也开始放缓，而与此同时，工会对仍拥有巨大的定价权，许多工人的合同锁定了事先谈好的加薪。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that there is increasing awareness of the use of such tactics not just by Big Tobacco, but also by other similarly powerful industries.",
        "好消息是公众不仅对大型烟草企业、而且对其他类似强势行业利用这种手段的警惕性也越来越高。"
    ],
    [
        "The race for national competitiveness is every bit as fierce as the competition among companies in the marketplace.",
        "国家竞争力竞赛和市场中的公司竞争一样激烈。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, this condition did not matter, because foreign-asset positions were usually small (as a percentage of GDP).",
        "直到最近，这一条件并不重要，因为外国资产头寸常常较小（以GDP的百分比衡量）。"
    ],
    [
        "Some claim that the Fund counsels countries in private, lest public warnings trigger the very crisis that is to be avoided.",
        "有人声称IMF私下里对各国进行了预警，但担心公开警告会触发意欲避免的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Member states have refused the European Commission’s request for extra contributions to cover the shortfall, causing talks over next year’s budget to collapse.",
        "成员国拒绝欧盟委员会增加出资弥补资金缺口的要求，导致明年预算谈判崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "But now these unconventional monetary-policy tools are the norm in most advanced economies – and even in some emerging-market ones.",
        "但如今，这些非常规货币政策工具已经成为最发达经济体的常态——甚至一些新兴市场经济体也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there are cases where the motivation for censorship is unclear.",
        "也有不少审查，背后的动机不明。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions more have dropped out of the measured labor force altogether.",
        "此外还有数百万人彻底退出就业市场。"
    ],
    [
        "BASEL – The major central banks’ vigilant pursuit of positive but low inflation has become a dangerous delusion.",
        "巴塞尔—主要央行谨慎采取正但低的利率已经成为一个危险的幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "In this telling, this sordid saga of assault on Hindus culminated in the 1947 Partition of India by the British, which created Pakistan.",
        "按他们的说法，这一连串对印度教徒的亵渎性攻击最终导致了1947年英国实施印巴分治的分裂局面。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a great sound bite: short, recursive, and somewhat poetic.",
        "这是一句振聋发聩的名言：简短，反复，还带点诗意。"
    ],
    [
        "The percentage of Europeans who believe that the EU is “a good thing” is dropping steadily.",
        "认为欧盟是“好东西”的欧洲人比例正在稳步下降。"
    ],
    [
        "For two decades, expectations that an appreciating yen would restore external balance were repeatedly disappointed.",
        "在这20年时间里，对于日元升值将会恢复对外贸易平衡的预期一次又一次地破灭了。"
    ],
    [
        "WINCHESTER – “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”",
        "温切斯特—“只有死人才看见过战争结束。"
    ],
    [
        "To EAC members, this is a matter of de-colonization, for southern Sudan’s people have been enslaved, dehumanized, and humiliated for centuries by the Arabs.",
        "在东非共同体成员国看来，这个问题关乎去殖民化，即南苏丹民众几百年来被阿拉伯人奴役、羞辱、及遭受非人的待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, Islam – one of the world’s great religions, practiced by nearly one-quarter of humanity – missed its development takeoff.",
        "简言之，伊斯兰教——世界上最大宗教之一，有近四分之一人口信奉——错过了发展起点。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the need to act quickly to avoid the worst-case scenario, there is no excuse for waiting.",
        "我们没有任何借口去拖延等待，只能迅速采取行动，避免最坏情况的降临。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Eurobonds would substantially reduce the heavily indebted countries’ borrowing costs and go a long way to reestablishing a level playing field in the eurozone.",
        "但欧元债券课以大大降低重债国借贷成本，大大增加欧元区的平等性。"
    ],
    [
        "Is air power and the training of foreign forces enough?",
        "空中力量和训练外国军队就足够了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "As curious as such gestures are in an institution that thrives on imagery, they are symbolic frills.",
        "正如这些动作在一个以意象而繁荣昌盛的机构颇可古怪，它们属于象征性的虚饰。"
    ],
    [
        "Debtor governments should call upon their own taxpayers to fund some of the national debt in order to avoid higher interest rates in credit markets.",
        "债务国政府应该要求本国纳税人为某些国民债务买单，以避免信用市场利率升高。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a new approach to product financing, most of what they discover will remain on the shelf.",
        "如果没有产品融资的新方式，他们的多数发现都将被束之高阁。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the idea that North Korea will abandon its weapons programs in exchange for the promise of security and regime survival has been tested has failed whenever it has been tested.",
        "事实上，朝鲜会放弃武器计划以换取安全承诺和政权生存的概念从来没有成功经受过考验。"
    ],
    [
        "First, drug users in Europe are switching to cocaine from heroin.",
        "首先，欧洲的吸毒者正从消费海洛因转而吸食可卡因。 可卡因的流行是因为它的吸引力：白色，不是暗色；"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from the human suffering caused by Syria’s ongoing war, we should be aware of the potentially dire regional consequences.",
        "除了叙利亚持续战事所造成的人道灾难，我们应该了解可能发生的地区性可怕后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Shiller P/E ratio – based on average real (inflation-adjusted) earnings from the last ten years – is at 27.08, with a mean and median of 16.59 and 15.96, respectively.",
        "希勒市盈率——取决于过去十年的平均实际（经通胀调整的）盈利——为27. 08，平均值和中位值分别为16."
    ],
    [
        "Who pays for the transition to renewables?",
        "谁来为向可再生能源的转型买单？"
    ],
    [
        "The EU will invest in regional institutions, and in cooperation within and among regions.",
        "欧盟将投资于地区机构，并进行地区内和地区间合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But that depends upon a vital sense of European solidarity, which will not come from anthems, flags, or other gimmicks devised by bureaucrats in Brussels.",
        "但是这取决于重要的欧洲团结感，布鲁塞尔官僚发明的圣歌和旗帜等花招并不能带来这种团结感。"
    ],
    [
        "Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, electrified the world of European politics by telling the European Parliament that he was a “passionate pro-European”.",
        "英国首相托尼·布莱尔向欧洲议会宣布自己是“充满热情的欧洲支持者”，他的这一表态轰动了整个欧洲政界。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia’s economies have, of course, become much more integrated in recent decades, particularly through production for global supply chains.",
        "当然，亚洲经济体在近几十年中大大地一体化了，特别是通过全球供应链的产生。"
    ],
    [
        "Governed by minority Alawites (a Shia sect), Syria harbors a kaleidoscope of distinct groups: Arabs, Armenians, Christians, Kurds, Druze, Ismailis, and Bedouin.",
        "叙利亚的政权掌握在占少数的阿拉维派（属于什叶派）手中，其国内存在数量极多的截然不同的集团：阿拉伯人、亚美尼亚人、基督徒、库尔德人、德鲁兹派、伊斯玛义派，还有贝多因人。"
    ],
    [
        "Rescuing a Revolution",
        "拯救革命"
    ],
    [
        "The final two successes are reminders of how much work remains.",
        "最后两项成功提醒我们还有多少工作要做。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that this informal deal benefits all sides exposes the terrible inefficiency of current fiscal policy (namely, punitive business taxes) and how capital controls magnify it.",
        "这种有利于各方的非正式协议事实上暴露了现行财政政策（即惩罚性营业税）可怕的低效率，以及资本管制是如何将其进一步放大的。"
    ],
    [
        "In sum, the Iraqi government may appear effective for much of 2006, but it will be committed to trying to serve the competing interests of sharply divided constituencies.",
        "总而言之，伊拉克政府表面上可能在2006年的大部分时候都发挥着作用，但是它要服务的是泾渭分明的选民之间相互对立的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "So what needs doing?",
        "那么，需要做些什么事情呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the patients who receive these faulty diagnoses will usually receive further treatments, which often will have harmful consequences.",
        "此外，那些受到错误诊断的患者通常会接受进一步治疗，也往往会带来有害的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "His hostility to foreign players in the industry (he expropriated several American oil companies’ holdings in 2007) limited investment and held back production.",
        "他对石油行业外资的敌意（2007年，他没收了数家美国石油公司的控股权）抑制了投资，拖累了产量。"
    ],
    [
        "And, of course, in some cases the accused will be exonerated.",
        "当然，在一些案子中，被告将获得平反。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Same Old Election",
        "德国一成不变的传统选举"
    ],
    [
        "Social and political discontent will continue to bubble up around the world until we return the state-market relationship to a healthy equilibrium.",
        "社会和政治不满将继续在全球发酵，直到我们让国家-市场关系恢复健康的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Research for the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate last year calculated that particulate matter alone caused 1.23 million premature deaths in China – the world’s top coal-consuming economy – in 2010.",
        "去年据经济与气候全球委员会研究测算2010年仅悬浮颗粒物一项就在世界最大的煤炭消费国中国造成123万人死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "The EFSF would have practically unlimited capacity to insure eurozone T-bills in this way, because no country could default as long as the scheme was in operation.",
        "这样的话，欧洲金融稳定基金实际上就有无限的能力担保欧元区的国库券了，因为只要这个方案在运行，没有一个国家会违约。"
    ],
    [
        "These reports follow the revelation that pictures shared on Snapchat may not be deleted, as promised.",
        "在此之前，有报道披露Snapchat（意味“阅后即焚”）上共享的图片可能无法如承诺的那样删除。"
    ],
    [
        "The heavy hand of nomenklatura rule was gone, and the vision of a new life like that in the open societies of the West seemed real.",
        "共产特权阶层的高压统治已经结束，类似西方开放社会那样的新生活看似垂手可得。"
    ],
    [
        "Sharon formulated the answer in 2004, concluding that Israel did not need the territories.",
        "沙龙在2004年给出了答案，认为实现巴以和平无需依赖被占领土的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Air Pollution’s True Costs",
        "空气污染的真正成本"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization and modern technology now enables social movements to transcend borders as rapidly as ideas can.",
        "如今，全球化和现代技术使得社会运动如同思想一样可以迅速地跨越国界。"
    ],
    [
        "But any form of genuine democracy would do that.",
        "但任何形式的真正意义上的民主都能够做到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Barring any unexpected new revelations, there is not much to be learned from the Tsarnaev brothers, better known as “the Boston bombers.”",
        "纽约——除出人意料的事实真相外，从察尔纳耶夫兄弟（也叫“波士顿兄弟”）身上再也得不到什么新的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, Russia’s weapons exports surpassed America’s by more than $2 billion.",
        "2013年，俄罗斯武器出口额比美国高出20多亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "It is to be hoped that Nepal’s newly elected Maoists have the wisdom to listen to their newly empowered electorate.",
        "人民希望尼泊尔新当选的毛派有智慧倾听刚刚获得权利的选民的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "The city’s plan is to build more than 100 wind turbines within the greater Copenhagen area and in the shallow waters around it.",
        "哥本哈根市计划在大哥本哈根区及周边的浅水区建设100多座风电机组。"
    ],
    [
        "Canada has enriched this approach further, insisting that gender and the rights of indigenous people also be included.",
        "加拿大在此基础上更进一步，要求在NAFTA中包括性别和当地人权利条款。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists’ inability to model such rapid, radical change should not be taken as a condemnation of the discipline; it is simply a reflection of the state of our knowledge, and of the fact that the economy is really, really complicated.",
        "即便经济学家无法为这种迅速且激进的变革构建出模型，他们也不应该受到谴责，因为这只不过反映了我们当前的知识水平，以及经济学真的非常、非常复杂的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Most obviously, as many trades move from the banks to the clearinghouse, the clearinghouse itself will become a systemically vital institution. It will be too big to fail.",
        "最显然的是，随着大量交易从银行移向清算所，清算所自身将成为具系统重要性的机构，将变得太大而不能到。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the regime refuses to take any chances.",
        "其结果是，这个政权拒绝冒任何风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics argue that Mayawati’s promotion of Dalit welfare seems to start with herself.",
        "批评者认为，玛雅瓦提对贱民福利的促进似乎是以她自己为起点的。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is vast domestic resistance to Turkey’s accession to the EU.",
        "当然，土耳其国内对加入欧盟的反对声浪也颇为汹涌。"
    ],
    [
        "The ratings agencies are threatening additional downgrades; others envision an eventual breakup of the euro and/or demise of the dollar as the global reserve currency.",
        "评级机构在威胁将进一步下降信用评级； 其他人则在想象欧元崩溃和/或美元全球储备货币地位的终结的情景。"
    ],
    [
        "To that end, consumers must understand that GM crops hold great potential, while posing negligible risks, and governments must adopt regulatory policies that face facts and reject pathological science.",
        "在这方面，消费者必须明白，转基因作物潜力无穷而风险微不足道，政府必须采取实事求是的监管政策，拒绝病态科学。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to supporting Greece, the EU needs a comprehensive plan for managing the arrival of asylum-seekers in a safe, orderly way.",
        "除了支持希腊，欧盟还需要一个全面的计划让寻求庇护者以安全有序的方式到来。"
    ],
    [
        "From a geopolitical perspective, China’s AIIB initiative is a bold and successful gambit in what Ely Ratner, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, describes as “an institutional competition for global governance that has now officially begun.”",
        "从地缘政治角度看，中国的亚投行计划是一次成功的豪赌，新美国安全中心（Center for a New American Security）高级研究员艾利·拉特纳（Ely Ratner）称之为 “对全球治理的机构竞赛现在正式开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "At first sight, that looks like a hard task.",
        "乍一看，这是个艰难的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, the conflicts between a hyper-globalized economy and social cohesion are real, and mainstream political elites ignore them at their peril.",
        "但超全球化经济和社会凝聚力之间的矛盾切实存在，主流政治精英对此视而不见的确是危险之举。"
    ],
    [
        "Much has been said of President George W. Bush’s American-led “crusade” to bring democracy to the Muslim world.",
        "最多说到的就是美国总统乔治·布什带领下、以美国为首的、旨在将民主带到穆斯林世界的“十字军”。"
    ],
    [
        "They placed “publication bias” about halfway down the scale – but it should have been much lower.",
        "他们将“发表偏倚”放在中间偏后的位置——但实际情况应当比这低得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, there were only three countries where the virus was still considered endemic: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria.",
        "迄今为止，这种病毒被认为仅在阿富汗、巴基斯坦和尼日利亚等三国传染。"
    ],
    [
        "But he has made no headway at all with the regime that rules his homeland, and he has been unable to prevent Tibet’s inexorable transformation into a Chinese province.",
        "但是在与统制他的国土的政权关系上他没有取得任何进展，而且他无力避免西藏不可避免地转化为中国的一个省。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the policy mix was suboptimal.",
        "此外，政策组合只是次优。"
    ],
    [
        "It subsequently played a central role in the management of the 1980’s debt crisis and in the post-communist economic transition after 1989.",
        "它在20世纪80年代的债务危机管理以及1989年开始的后共产主义经济转型中均发挥了核心作用。"
    ],
    [
        "As damaging as Trump’s unilateralism will be to the rules-based international order, its consequences would pale in comparison to the harm wrought by a truly isolationist and withdrawn US that fails to uphold these bonds.",
        "虽然特朗普的单边主义将破坏以规则为基础的国际秩序，但一个未能保持上述联系的真正孤立内向的美国将会造成更大的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Two other points require highlighting, though.",
        "但还要强调两点。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans, both debtors and creditors, must address the banking problem forthrightly, and simultaneously with the euro, sovereign-debt, and fiscal-adjustment issues.",
        "同时拥有借贷者和放贷者双重身份的欧洲人必须干脆利落地解决银行问题，并同时应对欧元，主权债务和财政重整事务。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, unlike the ECB’s current quantitative easing, it would involve no debt monetization.",
        "首先，与欧洲央行目前的量化宽松不同，它没有将债务货币化。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany is demanding that Greece continue to service its debts in full, even though Greece is clearly broke and the International Monetary Fund has noted the need for debt relief.",
        "德国要求希腊继续全额偿还债务，即使希腊明显已经破产且国际货币基金组织指出有必要进行债务减免。"
    ],
    [
        "Openness and transparency do not mean simply making everything available online, but making information easy to get to, compare, and analyze.",
        "开放和透明并不仅仅意味着可以在网上获得一切信息，而是可以便利地获得、比较和分析信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, on December 5, the US Congress voted unanimously to adopt the Taylor Force Act, which blocks aid to the Palestinian Authority from 2018 to 2024, unless the PA stops paying monthly salaries and other benefits to the families of killed or convicted Palestinian militants.",
        "然后，12月5日美国国会一直投票通过了泰勒强制法（Taylor Force Act），禁止在2018—2024年间援助巴勒斯坦权力机构，除非后者停止向巴勒斯坦死亡或定罪军属发放月薪和其他福利。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet close business-government interactions also lie behind many of America’s successes.",
        "但政商之间的紧密互动也是美国许多成功背后的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Government must be an active partner, helping to scale sustainable activities by creating market conditions that spur a “race to the top” and unlock the finance needed to keep America competitive and innovative.",
        "政府也必须是积极的合作者，通过创造刺激“力争上游”的市场环境和释放保持美国竞争力和创新力所需要的资金来帮助扩大可持续行为。"
    ],
    [
        "This impact will be intensified if the Kingdom resurrects Arab Light as the global benchmark crude.",
        "如果沙特能复兴作为全球基准原油的阿拉伯轻油，这一影响力还将增加。"
    ],
    [
        "But getting to the other side is worth a try.",
        "但向对方靠拢的努力是值得尝试的。"
    ],
    [
        "The most authoritative reference to an “Asia for Asians” occurred in May, during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s keynote speech at the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia.",
        "对“亚洲人民的亚洲”最权威的引述是5月中国国家主席习近平在亚洲相互协作与信任措施会议上的主旨演讲。"
    ],
    [
        "Many others are inevitable, given China’s soaring share of global output and demand.",
        "此外随着中国占全球产出和需求的份额不断扩大，许多变化是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "In a genuine currency union, wealth transfers and automatic stabilizers mean that such discrepancies do not pose a problem.",
        "在一个真正的货币联盟中，财富转移和自动稳定器意味着这样的差异不会成为问题。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this serves to undermine the effectiveness of government policies – by reducing their credibility, clogging their channels of transmission to the economy, and making it difficult to offset the withdrawal of private-sector capital and spending.",
        "所有这些都削弱了政府政策的效率——损害了政策的信誉、堵住了政策向经济的传播渠道、增加了抵消私人部门资本和支出减少的难度。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries have supported Xi’s signature Belt and Road Initiative, which, in theory, should increase their strategic value to China.",
        "两国都支持习近平提出的标志性的一带一路战略，这在理论上应当增加它们对中国的战略价值。"
    ],
    [
        "That choice of words was no accident; rather, it was a sign that the US is changing tack when it comes to Iran.",
        "第二个变化是伊朗的核能力不止威胁以色列的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "In firms where this was most pronounced, there has been almost total destruction of shareholder value.",
        "那些最强调这样的激励的公司，其股东利益几乎损失殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "The first, heard mostly from executives at leading global banks and their allies, is that the system is safer than it has ever been.",
        "第一种观点大多来自全球大银行及其阵营的高管，认为世界金融体系比以往任何时候都更加安全。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is not the government’s efforts to support businesses; measures to bolster business growth and development would be critical to any economic-reform plan.",
        "问题不在于政府支持企业的政策； 提振企业成长和发展的措施对于经济改革计划来说至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "That kind of thinking brought war in 1914.",
        "这种想法导致在1914年一战爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil and Russia are in recession.",
        "巴西和俄罗斯陷入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Policy making, I am sure, would suddenly halt.",
        "如果这样，我敢断定决策过程会嘎然而止。"
    ],
    [
        "While international bankers went bust by making legions of bad loans, African bankers stuck to earning profits the old-fashioned way: paying very little to depositors, and earning a big “spread” by buying guaranteed government debt, which yielded healthy returns.",
        "当国际银行家们因为发放了大批不良贷款而破产的时候，非洲银行家坚持采用老派方法来赚取利润：付给存款人很少的利息，同时通过购买有担保的政府债务来获得大额差价， 这些债务会带来健康稳定的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "This would be the case as long as the banks’ losses remained smaller than their equity capital.",
        "只要银行损失不超过股权资本，债权人就不会亏钱。"
    ],
    [
        "We will know for sure only if, and when, Europe chooses to save itself.",
        "只有当欧洲选择自我拯救我们才能知道确切的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, North Korea – which has invested heavily in forward deployed special forces and other asymmetrical elements of contemporary warfare – seems to be gearing up for an offensive, if only it can get the US out of the way.",
        "无论如何，朝鲜大力投资于前线特种部队和其他现代战争的非对称要素，它似乎是在准备进攻，只要能让美国出局，就万事俱备了。"
    ],
    [
        "What many people seem not to realize is that superbugs are already here – and they are already killing people.",
        "许多人似乎还未意识到这种超级菌的存在——但事实上他们早就已经夺去多条生命了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, cross-border SPZs might eventually be replicated within the occupied territories and in Israel proper, including cities like Ramallah and Tel Aviv.",
        "事实上，跨境政治特区最终可能在被占领土内的复制和以色列境内，包括拉马拉和特拉维夫这样的城市。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be much lower than the 9.4% average growth rate in 1988-2013, but it is more than adequate by global standards.",
        "这个数字或许比1988~2013年间的年均9. 4%低得多，但相对于全球标准来说这已经足够了。"
    ],
    [
        "Previous attempts at pension reform, for example, have been partial and indecisive, with exceptions and grace periods undermining their effectiveness.",
        "比如，此前的退休金改革只是非决定性的局部小打小闹，各种例外和宽限破坏了其效果。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, as the attacks on schools in countries such as Syria, Yemen, and Sudan show, what are supposed to be safe havens often are under direct threat.",
        "但是，叙利亚、也门和苏丹等国家针对学校的袭击事件表明，本应成为安全港的校园正在面临直接威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "In Greece and Spain, protesters told us that their neighbors’ stories were a revelation.",
        "在希腊和西班牙，示威者告诉我们邻国的故事为他们带来启迪。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, aid was discussed largely in terms of the total amount of money invested.",
        "从历史上看，援助通常会以总投资资金规模为标准进行讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "What accounts for staggeringly high rates in the US and Latin America?",
        "美国和拉美杀人率如此之高的原因是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the results are not at all what the United States had hoped to accomplish.",
        "否则，这种结果也完全不是美国所希望达到的。"
    ],
    [
        "The differences were not biological or genetic in origin , but biological in effect due to stress-related outcomes of darker skin color: reduced access to valued social goods such as employment, promotion, housing, etc.",
        "产生这种差异的并非先天的生物或遗传因素，而是较黑肤色带来的压力测试结果：与其它种族相比，黑人相对难以获得就业、提升和房屋等社会稀缺资源。"
    ],
    [
        "In rich countries, where the primary producing sector usually has political power, stockpiles of food products are used as a means of keeping prices high rather than low.",
        "从理论上讲，政府储备或许可以熨平价格波动。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not a status-quo policy.",
        "这不是一个可以用于危机争端时的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "A partnership between BRAC, the world’s largest development NGO, and the Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company Renata produces the supplement from locally available chickpeas and lentils; tens of thousands of health-care workers then distribute it.",
        "BRAC（世界最大的非政府发展组织）和孟加拉国制药公司Renata合作，就地取材，用鹰嘴豆和豌豆生产这一添加剂； 并由几万卫生工作者负责分销。"
    ],
    [
        "Social and economic inclusion lie at the heart of the World Bank Group’s goals of eliminating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity.",
        "社会和经济包容是世界银行集团消灭极端贫困、提振共同繁荣的目标的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to judge who is right, and there are important experts on both sides of the debate.",
        "辩论的正反两方都有重量级的专家，很难判断哪一方的观点更加贴近事实。"
    ],
    [
        "In Rennes, the panel debating reproductive medical issues supported the policy of not paying for eggs or sperm – not even by the back door of increasing the level of “expenses.”",
        "在雷恩，讨论生殖医疗问题的专家组支持不允许为卵子或精子付费的政策——甚至连提高“费用”标准的后门也要取消。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the US government is increasing its budget deficits to put a floor under demand.",
        "美国政府固然在增加预算赤字，以支撑需求。"
    ],
    [
        "This was rarely made explicit; sovereignty, after all, is popular.",
        "这一点从未被直观表述； 毕竟，主权受到民众的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "What if other factors – say, a sharp decline in emerging-market growth – led to a sharp rise in global real interest rates, or a rise in risk premia on Japanese debt?",
        "如果其他因素——比如新兴市场增长暴跌——导致全球真实利率飙升，或日本债务风险溢价增加会如何？"
    ],
    [
        "As long as such a “one-pillar-approach” is unavailable, there is no convincing reason why the ECB should change a strategy which has served it well and allowed it to establish a remarkable track record.",
        "只要我们还缺乏这样一种“一个支柱的方法”，那么就没有理由要欧洲央行改变其运作得很好、并且使它建立了一个令人瞩目的历程记录的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "He does, after all, seem to view international institutions as little more than mechanisms to extract trade and investment advantages for the US.",
        "他看上去似乎很乐意将国际机构视为可以用来促进美国贸易和投资优势的一个平台 。"
    ],
    [
        "The Borders of Liberalism",
        "自由主义的疆界"
    ],
    [
        "Prime borrowers with good credit scores and investment-grade firms are not experiencing a credit crunch at this point, as the former have access to mortgages and consumer credit while the latter have access to bond and equity markets.",
        "拥有良好信用记录的优质借款人和被评为投资级的公司眼下没有信贷枯竭之虞，前者可以获得按揭贷款和消费贷款，后者可以在债券和股权市场上融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if gains in female labor-force participation and resource-efficient productivity growth sustain high rates of economic growth, one key challenge remains: income inequality.",
        "即使女性参与劳动和提高资源节约型生产率能够保持经济高速发展，一个关键的挑战依然是收入差距。"
    ],
    [
        "But a thirst for knowledge is useful not only in foreign countries.",
        "但对知识的渴望并不只在外国有用。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, Abenomics is not getting enough credit.",
        "简而言之，外界并没有对安倍经济学给予足够的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "If a preliminary agreement on these questions is not reached by the end of the year, the economy faces a “fiscal cliff” of $600 billion in automatic tax increases and spending cuts that will shave about 4% from GDP and trigger a recession.",
        "如果年底仍未就此问题初步达成一致，美国经济将面临6000亿美元自动增税及减支的“财政悬崖”，可能导致国内生产总值下降4%并引发经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "A security services insider, Putin was seen as well placed to protect Yeltsin and his oligarchic allies.",
        "作为一个在安全部门局内人，挑选普京还被认为可以保护叶利钦和他的寡头统治集团成员。"
    ],
    [
        "For many of his supporters, it was President Ronald Reagan who, with his deliberate escalation of the arms race, pushed the Soviet economy to the brink, thereby fully demonstrating the superiority of liberal societies and free markets.",
        "对于里根总统的许多的支持者来说，就是他精心策划的军备竞赛的升级，把苏联经济推向了崩溃的边缘，从而充分显示了自由社会和自由市场的优越性。"
    ],
    [
        "There are better targets in mental health than ECT.",
        "在心理问题治疗上有比ECT更好的靶子。"
    ],
    [
        "The shift toward finance that Thatcher promoted heightened inequality and made the economy more volatile.",
        "撒切尔所推进的朝金融转型提高了不平等性，也让经济变得更加波动。"
    ],
    [
        "The nature of illusion is that we mistake what we perceive for reality.",
        "幻觉的本质就是我们把我们所感觉到的东西误认为了事实。"
    ],
    [
        "In Denmark, high-income households borrowed the most, relative to their income, and standards for mortgage lending remained high (mortgages were capped at 80% of the value of the property).",
        "在丹麦，高收入家庭借钱最厉害（相对于收入而言），按揭贷款标准一直和高（按揭不能超过物业价值的80%）。"
    ],
    [
        "Although they can provide some of the services that older people will increasingly need, for example, they cannot provide the services that involve actually touching clients and patients.",
        "尽管它们可以提供老年人越来越需要的某些服务，但实际接触客户和患者的服务是它们所无法提供的。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – The euro, many now believe, will not survive a failed political class in Greece or escalating levels of unemployment in Spain: just wait another few months, they say, the European Union’s irresistible collapse has started.",
        "巴黎—如今，很多人都相信欧元无法拯救希腊政坛乱象和西班牙失业高企：等着看吧，他们说，过不了几个月，欧盟不可避免的崩溃就会到来。"
    ],
    [
        "But only profound reforms of traditional authority can pave the way towards freedom and growth.",
        "但唯有对传统权威的深远改革才能铺平通向自由和增长之路。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s start, though, with the economics, using the United Kingdom – now heading out of the EU – as a case in point.",
        "不过，还是让我们从经济学开始，用英国——目前它正在退出欧盟——作为案例。"
    ],
    [
        "Gas prices, by contrast, vary widely across regions: from under $4/MMBtu in the US to around $10 in Europe and $15 in Asia.",
        "相反，天然气价格在各地区有着极大的不同：美国为不到4美元/百万英热，欧洲为10美元左右，亚洲为15美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Plenty will go to renewable-energy projects, but money will also be committed to clean transportation, agriculture, infrastructure, and urban systems. Funding will also be earmarked for projects that help protect communities that are most vulnerable to the impact of global warming.",
        "大量资金将被投入到可再生能源项目，但也将致力于清洁交通，农业，基础设施和城市系统，还会专门拨款去帮助保护最容易受到全球变暖影响的社区。"
    ],
    [
        "If the increase were considered permanent, however, it would make sense to increase spending or reduce tax pressure.",
        "可如果涨价是永久性的，增加开支或减轻税收压力就成为明智的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there are groups to which Islamism appeals.",
        "当然，伊斯兰教对于某些群体具有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "That is no doubt part of the problem; but the underlying problem is that financial markets made some very bad loans.",
        "这无疑的确是问题的 一部分 ，但深层次的问题却是金融市场发放的一些贷款质量很差。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as I have argued repeatedly, an economic system that doesn’t “deliver” for large parts of the population is a failed economic system.",
        "我反复指出，一个不能让人口中大部分人“实现”的经济制度是失败的经济制度。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in their struggle to survive, they must channel popular anti-Americanism.",
        "但是，在生存斗争中，它们必须疏导流行的反美主义。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this paints China with a very different brush than was used during the first 30 years of its growth miracle.",
        "所有这些都表明中国将采取与其增长奇迹的第一个三十年截然不同的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Like ORT, the development of OCV has roots in Bangladesh, and at icddr,b in particular.",
        "和ORT一样，OCV的开发也源自孟加拉国，特别是icddr,b。"
    ],
    [
        "Fossil Fuel Follies",
        "化石燃料讽刺剧"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as the OMT announcement demonstrated, a credible promise to use monetary financing in the event of such a crisis can prevent it from arising in the first place – with no inflationary action required.",
        "此外，正如“直接货币交易”声明所体现的那样，一个在发生这类危机的时候使用货币融资手段的可靠承诺可以在第一时间遏制危机升级——而无需任何通胀行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, as social democracy, government guideposts, and centralized planning waxed and waned elsewhere in the economy, social democracy in short-term finance went from strength to strength.",
        "这样，当社会民主、政府指导和中央计划在经济生活的其他方面此消彼长时，短期融资却在不断壮大社会民主的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "They would rather sell their oil and invest later, when prices are higher, so they restrain increases in supply.",
        "他们宁愿在油价更高时才售油和投资，所以会遏制石油供应量的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposal’s centerpiece, however, was the quadrupling of US spending in Europe to “support our NATO allies in the face of Russia’s aggression.”",
        "但该议案的核心是美国在欧经费翻两番，以“支持北约盟国抵抗俄国的侵略”。"
    ],
    [
        "Do we know the people we would be helping?",
        "我们了解我们将要帮助的人吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The AIIB is a welcome initiative.",
        "亚洲基础设施投资银行是一个令人鼓舞的动议。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2009, China’s leadership has been pursuing a set of policies that encourage the use of the renminbi in regional trade and reduce its dependence on the dollar in international payments.",
        "2009年以来，中国领导力一直在追求鼓励在地区贸易中使用人民币、降低其在国际支付中对美元的依赖的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, I attended a conference in France entitled “What if work were the key?”",
        "上个月，我在法国参与了一次主题为“如果劳动是重中之重”的会议。"
    ],
    [
        "For all the deftness of establishment commentators in the US and Britain, they seem to have neglected this principle.",
        "而美国和英国的那些经验丰富的建制派评论家们却忽视了这个原理。"
    ],
    [
        "I simply do not understand their arguments that government spending cannot boost the economy.",
        "我实在不能理解他们的言论，难道政府的支出不能振兴经济么？"
    ],
    [
        "The data revolution can end the long lags and dramatically improve the quality of the data.",
        "数据革命可以结束长期时滞，并极大地改善数据质量。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, for emerging economies, the medium- to long-term prospects are bright.",
        "尽管如此，对新兴经济体来说，中期和长期前景是光明的。"
    ],
    [
        "Much commentary on the subject has underestimated the importance of the criterion that the currency be “freely usable.”",
        "许多这一问题的评论者低估了货币应该是“可自由使用的”这一标准的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "But one should not jump to conclusions.",
        "但下结论不能操之过急。"
    ],
    [
        "But a euro exit would be a messy affair. The resulting turmoil could very well trump any short-term gains in competitiveness from devaluation.",
        "但是，脱离欧元将是一件很棘手的事，因为它所带来的金融风暴将胜过任何通过货币贬值来增强竞争力中获得的短期收益。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the vast majority of Americans already work in the service sector.",
        "毕竟绝大多数美国人都已经在服务行业工作了。"
    ],
    [
        "These Trump supporters do not fit the stereotype at the center of the economic narrative.",
        "在全体白人大学毕业生方面，他也以48%对45%击败克林顿。 这些特朗普的支持者并不符合作为经济决定论核心的刻板印象。"
    ],
    [
        "So the US is caught in a vicious circle: rising income inequality breeds more inequality in educational opportunity, which generates greater inequality in educational attainment.",
        "至此美国已经陷入了一个恶性循环：不断增长的收入失衡孕育了教育机会的更加不均等，也随之在教育成就方面催生了更大的不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "It is easy to forget that, years ago, telephones had no buttons or dial – you had to pick up the handset and ask an operator to make the connection.",
        "人们很容易忘记，在若干年前，电话没有按键也没有拨号盘——人们要拿起电话听筒，然后叫一个接线员接通电话。"
    ],
    [
        "Does Germany think that its gold will be subject to sanctions or some form of confiscation – as sometimes happens to rogue nations?",
        "德国是认为其黄金会被制裁或遭遇某种程度的没收，就像有时发生在流氓国家的情况那样？"
    ],
    [
        "While DiEM25 advocates a democratic union, we certainly reject both the inevitability and the desirability of “ever closer union.”",
        "尽管DiEM25宣扬一个民主联盟，但我们断然拒绝“日益紧密的联盟”的必然性和合理性。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the muted impact of inflation on interest rates is not surprising in transition economies, where the mechanisms of monetary-policy transmission and financial intermediation took long periods to put in place and still need reform and regulation.",
        "诚然，通货膨胀对利率的无声影响在过渡型经济体中很常见，因为货币政策传播和金融仲裁的机制要很长时间才能建设到位，而且仍需要改革和管理。"
    ],
    [
        "The magic trifecta of sustainable debt and deficit ratios, a real depreciation, and restoration of growth looks unlikely to be achievable even with official financial support.",
        "即使有了官方资金援助，要神奇地连下三城——将负债率和赤字率降低到可持续的水平，本币实际贬值以及重启经济增长恐怕也是很难完成的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically, however, the agreement amounts to a small revolution, because it has shifted the balance of power within the eurozone: Germany is strong, but not strong enough to get away with isolating itself completely from Europe’s other major players.",
        "不过，从政治上讲，该协议称得上一场小型革命，因为它改变了欧元区内部的权力平衡：德国很强大，但并未强大到可以完全抛下欧洲其他主要大国独断专行的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Even without the sequester, real per capita government spending (including both purchases and transfer payments) has declined under President Barack Obama, while it increased under every preceding president since Richard Nixon.",
        "即使没有自动减赤，真实人均政府支出（包括采购和转移支付）也在奥巴马执政期间有所下降，而在自尼克松以来的诸位总统任期中，这一指标均是上升的。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are few international rules on what an NGO actually is, and the lack of control can lead to unpredictable consequences.",
        "但国际上鲜有对NGO的合法定义，缺乏控制也可能导致不可预测的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "WARSAW – What was the Prague Spring, or the events of 1968 more generally?",
        "华沙--布拉格之春以及更为广义上的1968年发生的事件的性质究竟是什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Should Central Banks Target Employment?",
        "中央银行应该把目标定在就业上吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It is remarkable to consider that we could cancel out this century’s global warming with 1,900 unmanned ships spraying seawater mist into the air to thicken clouds.",
        "想想看那种壮观的情景：用1900艘无人驾驶的大船，向空中喷射雾状的海水水汽使得云层加厚，就可以消灭本世纪全球变暖现象。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand Friedman’s logic, consider a scenario in which productivity in the United States rises.",
        "要理解弗里德曼的逻辑，我们可以设定一个情境：美国的生产率正在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth has been lackluster for a quarter of a century and unemployment remains stubbornly high.",
        "二十五年来经济增长毫无亮点，失业率居高不下。"
    ],
    [
        "British business lobbies, as well as the government officials tasked with implementation, have been pressing for this transition period to be as long as possible.",
        "英国商界游说集团，以及负责实施退欧的政府官员，一直在为这一过渡期争取尽可能长的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Schools have the power to be little more than enclaves from the corrosive strength of social influences on how the mind works.",
        "学校的力量只不过是社会影响人们思考方式腐蚀性力量之外的飞地而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Given slow growth, high unemployment (which has fallen only because discouraged workers are leaving the labor force), and inflation well below the Fed’s target, this is no time to start constraining liquidity.",
        "鉴于经济增长缓慢、失业率居高不下（仅仅因为心灰意冷的工人退出就业大军失业率才有所降低）和通胀率远低于联储目标，现在并不是开始限制流动性的最好时机。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, when the US has suggested quiet talks to discuss contingency planning in the case of regime collapse, China has been wary of offending and weakening North Korea.",
        "在过去，当美国建议就政权崩溃问题的或有计划进行秘密谈判时，中国总是担心侵犯或削弱朝鲜。"
    ],
    [
        "An unemployed autoworker in Detroit may be fully capable of retraining to become a hospital technician.",
        "底特律的失业汽车工人也许完全可以胜任医院技术人员的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Saddam Hussein was a tyrant, and Iraqis - and the world - can rejoice in being rid of him.",
        "萨达姆·侯赛因是独裁者，伊拉克和整个世界都会为他的倒台欢呼雀跃。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, the defecting insurgents said the same thing: they could recruit dozens more; they just need incentives.",
        "在这两种情况中，叛变的武装人员都说了同样的事情：他们可以招募更多的人； 他们需要的仅仅是诱导因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The important question now is whether today’s high asset prices are the result of some such fundamental development, or whether bubbles have formed.",
        "现在的一个重要问题时，今天高企的资产价格是否是某些根本性变化的产物，或者说泡沫是否已经形成。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, refugees have mainly been fleeing either persecution or extreme insecurity following state disintegration.",
        "近几年来，难民主要因为迫害或因国家分裂导致的极端危险而逃离家园。"
    ],
    [
        "Oxfam attributes this to the fact that the government was better prepared to deliver food and water to millions.",
        "乐施会认为究其原因是政府随时准备为成百上千万人提供粮食和饮水。"
    ],
    [
        "Inevitably, in countries where children have inadequate nutrition, insufficient access to health care and education, and higher exposure to environmental hazards, the children of the poor will have far different life prospects from those of the rich.",
        "在儿童营养不足、无法获得足够医疗和教育的国家，环境风险也难免更高，穷孩子的生活前景远远比不上富孩子。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fact is that replacing the income-sharing system with a tax-sharing system stabilized China’s economy and reversed the relative decline of central-government revenue.",
        "但事实是用分税制代替收入分配制稳定了中国经济并扭转了中央政府收入的相对下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth, it is clear, is somewhere in the middle.",
        "很明显，事实在这两者之间。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, long-term interest rates on Brazilian government bonds have come down significantly since the amendment was passed (though it is hard to pinpoint the causal impact of the rule itself), and remain well below pre-amendment levels, despite the short-lived spike that followed the release of a recording of President Michel Temer allegedly authorizing illegal payments to a jailed congressman.",
        "事实上，巴西政府债券的长期利率自修正案通过后大幅下降了（尽管很难厘清这个规则的因果效应），并且保持在远低于修正案前的水平，尽管在总统特梅尔被曝光授权非法拨款给身陷囹圄的议员后曾经一度短暂上升。"
    ],
    [
        "The cacophony of the world has replaced the concert of Europe.",
        "世界的不和谐已经取代了欧洲协调。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s relationship with Europe is seen as a functional one by nearly all the democratic parties.",
        "几乎所有的民主政党都认为德国与欧洲关系是实用的。"
    ],
    [
        "Citizens’ access to information is an essential tool to hold governments accountable.",
        "公民能够获得信息是保持政府可问责性的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "If a considerable fraction of the world economy wants to run a current-account surplus (by 2006, this included much of emerging Asia, most oil exporters, and Japan), an equal share of the world economy must run a deficit.",
        "如果世界经济的很大一部分希望保持国际收支经常项目顺差（到2006年，这部分经济体包括亚洲新兴市场很大一部分、大多数石油输出国和日本），那么世界经济相等的一部分就必然要面临赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank are often viewed as such technocratic institutions – and as supporting the technocratic element within states and societies around the world.",
        "国际货币基金组织、欧盟委员会和欧洲央行通常被看作这样的技术官僚机构——以及全球各国和社会中类似技术派别的支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Erdoğan’s has warned of a diplomatic rupture with the EU if Cyprus accedes to the Union’s rotating presidency in 2012.",
        "事实上，埃尔多安已经发出警告，如果塞浦路斯成为2012年欧盟轮值主席国，土耳其将与欧盟断交。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 1930 and 2000, agricultural output in the United States quadrupled, with productivity growth outstripping that of manufacturing.",
        "从1930年到2000年，美国农业产出翻了两番，农业生产率增长比制造业更快。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, sharing-economy data can help governments identify those workers at greatest risk and support their retraining.",
        "事实上，共享经济数据有助于政府识别风险最高的工人，为他们提供再培训支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Politics has therefore often been more a violent than an electoral struggle, and property rights have often been tenuous.",
        "于是政治就更像是一场暴力角逐而不是选票斗争，而财产权则往往变得异常脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiations are underway to revise a draft EU constitution.",
        "各成员国正在谈判，修改欧盟宪法草案。"
    ],
    [
        "But it needs one who continues to shine brightly for several years to come.",
        "但是这个世界需要的，是他在接下来的几年里，能一直闪亮下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Net foreign investment inflows relative to GDP tripled.",
        "净外国投资流入/GDP之比翻了三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporate Short-Termism in the Fiscal Cliff’s Shadow",
        "财政悬崖阴影下的企业短期行为"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the problems of the 1970’s, the dollar remained the world’s dominant currency, with successive generations of Asian countries pegging their exchange rates to it.",
        "尽管在20世纪70年代遇到了问题，但美元仍然是世界主导货币，亚洲国家纷纷将本币汇率盯住美元。"
    ],
    [
        "We can erect houses that resist burning.",
        "我们可以建造防火屋。"
    ],
    [
        "To persuade North Korea to return to the six-party talks – with China, Japan, the US, Russia, and South Korea – on defusing the nuclear threat on the Korean peninsula, Japan, the US, and South Korea have now offered to expand the scope of the talks to allow North Korea to raise any issue that concerns it.",
        "为了说服北朝鲜重返以消除朝鲜半岛上核威胁为议题的六方会谈（其他五方为中国、日本、美国、俄罗斯和南朝鲜），日本、美国和南朝鲜主动提出扩大会谈范围，允许北朝鲜自由提出自己关心的议题。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia refused to cut production unless Iran would do likewise.",
        "沙特阿拉伯拒绝减产，除非伊朗也这么做。"
    ],
    [
        "Three-quarters of the potential pickup in productivity could come from “catch-up” improvements, with countries taking steps – modernizing their retail sectors, consolidating automobile production into a smaller number of larger factories, improving health-care efficiency, and reducing food-processing wastage – that have already proven effective elsewhere.",
        "四分之三的生产率提升可以源于“追赶型”增长，即各国采取措施实现零售部门现代化、完成对汽车制造业的兼并整合、提高医疗效率及控制食品加工中的浪费，这些措施的效果已经在诸多国家得到过证实。"
    ],
    [
        "Just to be clear, I am not siding with those – usually American far-right crackpots – who favor a return to the gold standard, in which countries fix the value of their currencies in terms of gold.",
        "必须明确的是，我并不和那些赞成回到金本位制（国家将自身货币的价值与黄金挂钩）的人——通常美国的极右翼疯子——站在同一阵线。"
    ],
    [
        "If Merkel opts for substantial deficit spending now , she will lose support, which is already fading fast because of increased state debt, nationalization, stimulus programs, etc.",
        "如果默克尔 现在 就选择巨额赤字消费，她将从此失去民众的支持，而国债增加、国有化、刺激计划等已经让这种支持迅速消失。"
    ],
    [
        "The gaunt, gentlemanly Mazowiecki had served as an adviser to Lech Wałęsa, the leader of the Solidarity movement.",
        "身材瘦削、颇具绅士风度的马佐维耶茨基曾任团结工会运动领导者莱赫·瓦文萨的顾问。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many examples of under-the-radar operations working to counter extremism across the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East: children’s magazines in Pakistan, videos aimed at teenagers in North Africa, radio stations in the Middle East, and books and publications opposing Al Qaeda.",
        "在印度次大陆和中东，有大量未被注意到的有效抵御极端主义的例子：巴基斯坦儿童杂志、面向北非十几岁青少年的视频、中东广播电台，以及反对基地组织的书籍和出版物。"
    ],
    [
        "The only notable exception, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, seems to have been appointed merely to provide a veneer of official commitment to the peace process.",
        "唯一的显著例外是司法部长利夫尼（Tzipi Livni），之所以任命他似乎只是为了给和平进程披上一件官方承诺的外衣。"
    ],
    [
        "And it faces the temptation to spend more energy learning to manipulate emissions readings, as Volkswagen did, than on developing genuinely “green” vehicles.",
        "并且该行业还可能将更多地额能量投入学习操纵排放读数，而不是开发真正的“绿色”车辆，比如大众公司的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "Patenting Immaculate Conception?",
        "无原罪怀胎专利？"
    ],
    [
        "Some of Ukraine’s regions have historically been a part of Russia, Poland, or the Ottoman Empire.",
        "乌克兰的某些地区从历史上看就是俄罗斯、波兰或奥斯曼帝国的领土。"
    ],
    [
        "It has failed to modernize and diversify its economy.",
        "它没能实现经济现代化和多样化。"
    ],
    [
        "His solution was simple: “The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.”",
        "他的解决方案也很简单：“纠正贸易周期的正确方法并不是消灭繁荣而使我们长期处于半衰退状态； 而是消灭衰退而令我们长期处于准繁荣状态。"
    ],
    [
        "In years past, only governments could torpedo candidates for Europe’s top jobs, but now the parliament also will be able to reject them.",
        "在过去的年份里，这一各国政府才有能力否决欧盟最高职位的侯选人，但是现在议会也可以拒绝他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Ninth-grade physics, unlike ninth-grade biology, illustrates the grand sweep of the laws of nature, and the power of an equation to describe a vast number of different phenomena can be taught at this level.",
        "九年级的物理与九年级的生物学不同，描述的是自然规律的所有领域，在这一级还会教给学生一条可以描述大量不同现象的方程。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries have opened their markets to foreign investors - and foreign investors are responding eagerly.",
        "共产主义国家的学校在技术培训方面的优势使得其人力资本也相对较高。 这些国家已经对外国投资者开放-而外国投资者也正积极回应。"
    ],
    [
        "Four Americans out of ten agree with him, whereas less than three in ten deem terrorism or Iran more dangerous.",
        "”而10个美国人里大概有5个会同意他的说法，只有不到3个认为恐怖主义或伊朗才是头号敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "Open warfare or a nuclear incident on the Korean Peninsula would trigger a humanitarian disaster, interrupt trade with South Korea – the world’s 13th largest economy – and send political shockwaves around the world.",
        "朝鲜半岛公开打仗或核事故将引发人道主义灾难，破坏对韩贸易（韩国是世界第十三大经济体），并在全世界造成政治余波。"
    ],
    [
        "Only Ireland continued on a path of rapid deflation – as it has since the country’s real-estate bubble burst in 2006 – with a relative price decrease of 2.2%.",
        "只有爱尔兰继续在迅速贬值——从该国2006年地产泡沫爆破之后就是如此，至今相对价格已经下跌了2. 2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, beyond this trio’s moral, social, and political implications lies a serious economic concern: instead of creating incentives for hard work and innovation, inequality begins to undermine economic dynamism, investment, employment, and prosperity.",
        "事实上，三重不平等除了道德、社会和政治影响外，还造成了严重的经济隐忧：不平等性并没有激励努力工作和创新，反而开始破坏经济活力、投资、就业和繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when the major emerging economies – with the exception of China – are facing a sharp slowdown, Africa, with its untapped energy resources and precious raw materials, including rare earth minerals, has naturally become a focus of investors’ attention.",
        "当其他主要经济体（除了中国）正面临减速时，非洲携其无穷无尽的能源资源和珍惜原材料（包括稀土元素）自然成为了投资者注意力的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of generous mutual support, there was an aura of last-ditch desperation when, in March 2015, the European Central Bank announced an ambitious program of purchasing government debt.",
        "在缺乏大手笔互助资金的情况下，各方仿佛都走到了绝境，直到在2015年3月欧洲央行宣布实施一项雄心勃勃的政府债务采购计划后才得以告终。"
    ],
    [
        "Attempting to mitigate future domestic political damage by undermining the dynamics of the relationship between South Korea and Japan – and both countries’ relationship with the United States – is unwise.",
        "李明博试图用破坏韩日关系动态（以及两国对美国的关系）来减轻未来国内政治压力，此举并不明智。"
    ],
    [
        "MADISON –Humans are undeniably complex, and proud of it.",
        "麦迪逊——毫无疑问，人类是复杂的，你我也为之自豪。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial collapse of which I had been warning for months occurred in February, when the hryvnia’s value plummeted 50% in a few days, and the National Bank of Ukraine had to inject large amounts of money to rescue the banking system.",
        "几个月来我一直在警告的金融崩溃在2月份爆发了，乌克兰格里夫尼亚在几天内贬值50%，乌克兰国民银行不得不注入大量资金拯救银行系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Even at this early stage, it is clear that genomics is set to transform science and technology and sustain a wave of far-reaching innovation.",
        "显然，即使仍位于早期阶段，基因组学必将改变科学和技术，并维持一波影响深远的创新潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is Syria, now the main flashpoint of the region’s complex social and political dynamics.",
        "然后是叙利亚，现在它是地区内复杂的社会和政治动态的主要导火索。"
    ],
    [
        "We have been brought up to know and do better.",
        "我们当然应当比这更聪明，做得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "If the results are positive, treatment begins.",
        "如果实验结果呈阳性，就需要开始治疗过程。"
    ],
    [
        "At some stage, the world may no longer catch a cold when the US sneezes, but that is far from being true now.",
        "在某些阶段，当美国打喷嚏的时候，世界或许不会再感冒，但是现在还远远不是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "This encourages excessive risk and threatens repeated cycles of boom-bust-bailout. Indeed, Andrew Haldane, head of financial stability at the Bank of England, calls this our “doom loop.”",
        "2010 年初生效的银行税将在未来 10 年向银行征收 900 亿美元 —— 但这仅占银行利润的 1% 。"
    ],
    [
        "In an ideal world, it would be nice to streamline, simplify, and even reduce tax and regulatory burdens on US businesses.",
        "在理想状态中，理顺，简化甚至减少美国企业的税收和监管负担是好事。"
    ],
    [
        "Different countries have reacted differently, influenced by their historical experience and their economic interests.",
        "不同的国家受到各自历史经历以及经济利益的影响而做出了不同的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Damaged Democracy",
        "被损害的民主"
    ],
    [
        "But the point is not that individuals in different European countries are becoming more religious – there is hardly any evidence for that.",
        "但我想说的并不是欧洲各国民众正在变得越来越宗教化——在这方面几乎找不到任何证据。"
    ],
    [
        "The best response would be to enact strong controls on budgets, together with structural reforms to promote growth.",
        "最好的对策是严格控制预算，并辅之以提振增长的结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there was no “Muslim scholarship” at the time, so to read meant to read whatever was available.",
        "的确，当时并没有“穆斯林学术研究”，因此读书就意味着拿到什么读什么。"
    ],
    [
        "US technological innovation owes as much to specific government programs, such as loan assistance or government purchases as it does to American entrepreneurs’ and inventors’ ingenuity.",
        "具体的政府项目，如贷款补助和政府采购，对美国技术创新的意义不下于美国企业家和投资者的创造力。"
    ],
    [
        "But any summons to a “Bretton Woods II” conference must be concrete in its content.",
        "但是，任何召开“布雷顿森里体系II”会议的号召，在内容上都应该具体。 审慎监管和指导的全球体系；"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of seeing only problems that need to be contained, they should view crises as an opportunity for progress.",
        "他们应当将危机视为进步的机遇，而不要只看到哪些问题需要得到遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "Bill Clinton, caught up in the complacent 1990’s, is said to have envied Franklin Roosevelt’s crisis conditions of the 1930’s.",
        "20世纪90年代踌躇满志的克林顿据说相当嫉妒富兰克林·罗斯福可以遇到20世纪30年代的危机环境。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there are still holdouts, like Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who replaced a carbon tax with a plan to tax the country’s citizens in order to pay polluters to cut emissions.",
        "无疑确有澳大利亚总理艾伯特这样的顽固份子，打算用公民税计划取代碳税以求付钱让污染者减排。"
    ],
    [
        "MEXICO CITY – Shortly before America’s elections last November, then vice-presidential candidate Joseph Biden was widely criticized for predicting that an Obama administration would almost certainly be tested by what he called a “generated” international crisis, in much the way that the Soviet Union “tested” John F. Kennedy shortly after he assumed office.",
        "墨西哥城－就在美国去年十一月大选之前，当时的副总统候选人约瑟夫·拜登（Joseph Biden）因为预言奥巴马政府几乎肯定会受到他所谓的“造成”的国际危机的考验，而且受到考验的方式和约翰·肯尼迪任职后不久所受到的苏联的考验的方式非常相似，而遭到了广泛的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East – named for its geographic position between Europe and East Asia – was under Ottoman rule for 400 years before the Allied powers, after defeating the Ottomans in World War I, partitioned the region into distinct political units that, under the Sykes-Picot Agreement, fell within spheres of influence carved out by the United Kingdom and France.",
        "中东——这个名字来源于它夹在欧洲和东亚中间的地理位置——曾归属奥斯曼土耳其帝国统治400年，随后，奥斯曼帝国在一战中被协约国打败，中东也根据赛克斯-皮科协定（Sykes-Picot Agreement）分裂为不同的政治单元，归属英国或法国的势力范围。"
    ],
    [
        "With the drum beating for the development of the costal areas of Tianjin near Beijing, the curtain seems to be rising on yet another “financial center” in China.",
        "随着北京近邻的天津今日打响滨海开发开放的战地口号，中国另一个“金融中心”建设的帷幕似乎就要拉开。"
    ],
    [
        "Both decisions acknowledge that the current rules of the international economic game reflect the interests of the advanced industrial countries – especially of their big corporations – more than the interests of the developing world.",
        "这两项决议都承认，与其说国际经济竞争现有的规则反应了发展中国家的利益，还不如说反应了先进工业国家，尤其是先进国家中大企业的利益更为妥当。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, a reform program cannot be implemented if inequality, poverty, and social frustration strengthen extremist political parties, such as Greece's overtly fascist Golden Dawn party or France's far-right, anti-Europe National Front, which now boasts 25% electoral support.",
        "类似地，如果不平等性、贫困和社会不满强化了极端主义政党——如公然宣扬法西斯主义的希腊金色黎明党（Golden Dawn）和极右翼的反欧洲政党法国国民阵线（National Front，目前已获得25%的选举支持率）——改革方案就无法实施。"
    ],
    [
        "In theory, it should be celebrating its economic and cultural achievements.",
        "理论上韩国应当庆贺自己的经济文化成就。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2016, the world witnessed a dramatic 51% increase in forest loss, equivalent to an area about the size of New Zealand.",
        "2016年，全世界森林流失量增加了51%，相当于新西兰的面积。"
    ],
    [
        "Blair's Euroskepticism is understandable insofar as it chimes with the British mood.",
        "布莱尔的欧洲怀疑主义与英国的总体情绪相互一致，因此很容易被人理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of this globally valuable capacity was built under a regime of weak – in fact, non-existent – protection for pharmaceutical patents.",
        "这一全球价值连城的生产能力的基础是薄弱的医药专利保护——实际上可以说不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy is great, but only in the interests of the working class.",
        "我们被告知说民主是伟大的，“但是”只能服务于工人阶级的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a stronger Europe will at last implement the principle of reciprocity in order to protect European businesses and prevent them from relocating, which has been the main cause of unemployment.",
        "唯有坚挺的欧洲能最终推行互惠原则以保护欧洲企业，防止它们迁出欧洲——这正是造成失业的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "When weak demand leads to recession, increase government spending and/or cut taxes by just the right amount, determined by a Keynesian multiplier, and – presto! – the economy rebounds quickly.",
        "当疲软的需求导致衰退时，根据凯恩斯乘数恰到好处地增加政府支出并/或削减税收就会让经济“嗖”一声立刻反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps of greatest concern, moreover, is that the public, especially in poor countries that cannot undertake offsetting measures, will come to distrust global integration, with multinationals viewed as Trojan horses.",
        "更为严重的是，一些国家的民众，尤其是在一些不能有效管理的贫穷国家，产生对全球化一种怨恨的情绪，这在某些跨国公司看成为是“木马”病毒。"
    ],
    [
        "This will not come cheap, and therefore will entail substantial political risks.",
        "这样的方案肯定不便宜，因此也包含着相当大的政治风险。"
    ],
    [
        "I was visiting Cornell briefly, and he and I took a long walk across the campus together, discovering along the way that we had similar ideas and research goals.",
        "我正在这所大学作短期访问，他和我一起在校园里边走边聊了好久，发现我们都有着类似的想法和研究目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In June, a consortium led by Pinchuk and Rinat Akhmetov, a Donetsk magnate, bought a state-owned steelworks in an auction allegedly rigged to specifically exclude foreign bidders offering two or three times as much.",
        "今年六月，一个由平强克和顿涅茨克富豪瑞耐特·阿克莫托夫领导的集团通过拍卖买下了一个国家钢铁厂，这次拍卖据称被非法操纵，因为它明确规定国外投标人只能出二到三次价。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term creditors demand to be “made whole” and sue.",
        "长期债权人要求“整体化”并提出上诉。"
    ],
    [
        "The developed countries have not lived up to their promise in Doha in November 2001 to create a pro-development trade regime, or to their pledge at the G-8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005 to provide significantly more assistance to the poorest countries.",
        "发达国家都未能履行它们2001年11月在多哈的承诺——创建一个能促进发展的贸易体制，或是它们2005年在英国格伦伊格尔斯G8集团峰会上的誓言——显著提高对最贫困国家援助。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eurozone, financial crises have forced out two governments, replacing elected representative with appointed technocrats charged with restoring order.",
        "欧元区的经济危机已经掀翻了两个国家的民选政府，取而代之的则是掌控复苏进程的技术官僚。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to highlighting the scale of the problem, the review is seeking to find ways to reduce drug resistance and to stimulate the production of new antibiotics to compensate for the loss of those that are now or will become ineffective.",
        "除了强调问题的规模，我们的调查还试图找到降低抗药性、刺激新抗生素的生产以抵消现在已经或将要失效的抗生素的损失的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "One study of the 1,941 rulers of independent countries during the twentieth century found only 27 women, roughly half of whom came to power as widows or daughters of a male ruler.",
        "一项研究表明，在20世纪独立国家的1 941名执政者中，只有27名女性，其中还有一半是以男性执政者的遗孀或女儿身份问鼎权力的。"
    ],
    [
        "Antibiotics underpin modern medicine; without them, surgery or chemotherapy become much riskier.",
        "抗生素是现代医学的基础； 没有它们将大大增加手术或化疗的危险性。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet at the recent NATO summit in Budapest, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on NATO members to provide more troops for missions in Afghanistan.",
        "然而最近在布达佩斯召开的北约峰会上，美国国防部长盖茨呼吁北约成员国向阿富汗增派更多的部队。"
    ],
    [
        "At present, the government is promoting the creation of a similar institution in the aviation sector, the new United Aircraft Building Corporation (UABC), which includes major state and private manufacturers of fixed-wing aircraft.",
        "目前，俄国政府正在航空部门促成建立一个类似的机构即联合飞机制造公司。 该公司包含主要的国营和私营固定机翼飞机的制造厂商。"
    ],
    [
        "Both examples show that Europe, like the US, is vulnerable to the politics of division, as our societies become more ethnically diverse.",
        "这两个例子都显示出随着我们的社会在种族上越来越多元化，欧洲也无法克服随之诱发的政治分裂现象，正如美国一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither Hamas nor Hezbollah can be treated merely as targets in the war on terror because they have deep roots in their societies; yet profound differences exist between them.",
        "哈马斯和真主党在它们的社会中根基牢固，因此都不能简单地被作为反恐战争目标。 但是，它们之间还是有巨大的差别。"
    ],
    [
        "Dependence on Russia – even if its face is now that of the allegedly “charismatic” Gerhard Schroeder – will only lead to an abyss.",
        "依赖于俄罗斯，其脸面即使是据称很有“个人魅力”的施罗德，也只会带入不可预测的深渊。"
    ],
    [
        "In the cruel calculus of disasters, those least responsible for causing climate change will suffer first and worst from its inevitable effects.",
        "在灾难残酷的后果中，那些最不应该对气候变化负责的人，会首先遭到气候变化不可避免的影响最严重的损害。"
    ],
    [
        "Trying to prove genocidal intent has drawn prosecutors into thickets of interpretation – such as giving lessons on the history of Greater Serbia – that distract from trials’ forensic core and encourage their politicization, as defendants “hijack” proceedings with their own justificatory glosses.",
        "尝试证明种族灭绝企图将控方拖入了错综复杂的主观解读——比方说讲授大塞尔维亚历史课——这不仅偏离了庭审的司法核心，造成庭审政治化，还让被告利用粉饰性的辩护言辞“劫持”法庭诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a sign that investors now see a significant risk of a Greek default or of Greece exiting from EMU and redenominating its government bonds.",
        "这标志着投资者现在看到了希腊发生违约，或是该国退出欧洲货币联盟，重新确定政府债券的票面利率的严重风险，"
    ],
    [
        "This has given new strength to those who want Turkey to develop in another direction, towards a more Islamic society instead of a modern secular state.",
        "这样，就给那些想要让土耳其向另一个方向发展的人增添了新的力量。 他们想要让土耳其向更为伊斯兰社会、而非现代世俗国家的方向发展。"
    ],
    [
        "ASEAN’s failure to act on the South China Sea issue is leading member-state governments and citizens to question the organization’s ability “to maintain and enhance peace” – the first purpose listed in its Charter.",
        "东盟无法在南海问题上有所作为导致成员国政府和公民质疑该组织“维持和强化和平”的能力——而这是东盟宪章开宗明义的第一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "When compared with human-rights abuses that truly affect humanity, the complaints dealt with by the British courts are small beer.",
        "与那些真正有损人道的侵犯人权行为相比，英国法院所受理的那些人权投诉简直不值一提。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump – and those who bring him to power – would throw all of this out of the window.",
        "特朗普——以及哪些让他问鼎权力的人——将把这一切一股脑儿抛诸脑后。"
    ],
    [
        "But the game is almost over, because the old approaches are obviously failing.",
        "不过这场竞赛已接近尾声，因为旧的手段显然已力有不逮。"
    ],
    [
        "Private electricity producers, for example, will not invest in large-scale renewable energy generation if the government does not have long-term climate and energy policies or plans for spurring construction of long-distance transmission lines to carry new low-carbon energy sources to population centers.",
        "比如，如果政府不拿出长期气候和能源政策或刺激建设长距离输电线从而将低碳能源资源引向人口中心的计划，私人发电商就不会投资于大规模可再生能源发电。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies that have signed the UN Principles for Responsible Investment have combined assets under management totaling $60 trillion.",
        "签署了联合国尽责投资原则（UN Principles for Responsible Investment）的国家的资产管理总量已高达60万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists and policymakers have been tinkering with the international financial architecture since the mid-1990s, without much success.",
        "自1990年代中期以来，经济学家和政策制定者一直在修改国际金融架构，但却并未取得多少成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The Board of Health’s initiative has been widely praised as exemplifying the application of classical communicable-disease surveillance-and-control tools to a chronic disease.",
        "卫生委员会的这一创举同时也受到了广泛欢迎，因为它为经典传染性疾病监控工具在慢性疾病方面的应用提供了范例。"
    ],
    [
        "His focus on reducing military expenditure, however, attracted strong opposition from army officers, who assassinated Takahashi in 1936.",
        "但他将重点放在了缩减军事支出上，这引起了军官的强烈反对，并在1936年将高桥刺杀。"
    ],
    [
        "Policies aimed at ensuring export-led growth also include export subsidies and barriers to imports.",
        "确保出口主导型经济增长的政策还有出口补贴和进口壁垒等。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether governments can afford it, without increasing the burden on taxpayers and undermining economic incentives.",
        "问题在于政府是否能够承受而不需要增加纳税人负担和破坏经济激励。"
    ],
    [
        "In Iran, a dissident group, not the IAEA, blew the whistle.",
        "在伊朗，是一个持不同政见的团体踢爆了这件事情，而不是国际原子能机构。"
    ],
    [
        "He has broken with the taboo against calling into doubt any aspect of the European project.",
        "面对不向欧洲项目提出任何质疑的禁忌，朔伊布勒选择了与它分道扬镳。"
    ],
    [
        "Every government in the world has a stake in the future of Iraq and the stability of the Middle East.",
        "世界各国对于伊拉克的未来以及中东的稳定都有利害关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But, after a brief exchange of views behind closed doors, no joint statement was issued and only a heavily sanitized account of the meeting was made available to China’s state media.",
        "但是，在闭门会面简单交换了看法后，双方并没有发表联合声明，中国国家媒体对会面内容报道也是遮遮掩掩。"
    ],
    [
        "From Syria to all of the Arab Spring countries, Turkey’s influence is highly significant, and further cooperation with the EU can only prove beneficial.",
        "从叙利亚到阿拉伯春天各国，土耳其的影响力非常显著，事实会证明深化与欧盟的合作只能带来好处。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that it is obsolete, pedagogically disastrous, and ignores the tremendous scientific advances of the twentieth century.",
        "我想它已经过时了并且在教学上是灾难性的，因为它忽视了二十世纪所取得的巨大的科学进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama kept his promise to withdraw American forces from Iraq during his first term.",
        "在其第一个任期中，奥巴马履行了从伊拉克撤军的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether true or not, the important point is that the merger transcended national considerations, and the European Commission had a duty to involve itself.",
        "无论传言是真是假，重要的是合并超越了国家的考量范畴，欧盟委员会有责任参与其中。"
    ],
    [
        "In the spirit of the Treaty of Rome, she ensured that the act focused on developing an open and competitive common market, in which all members participated on equal terms.",
        "按照罗马条约精神，她确保该法案重点开发一个开放和竞争的共同市场，所有成员都按照平等条件进行参与。"
    ],
    [
        "But this does not mean that someone will emerge from the Party with the courage and ability to assume bold political leadership.",
        "但是这并不是说中国将会产生某一具有胆魄和能力之人来承担果敢的政治领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early stages of economic development, almost all growth strategies boil down to trade strategies.",
        "在经济发展的早期阶段，几乎所有增长战略都可以归结为贸易战略。"
    ],
    [
        "That raises the next issue: what impedes investment, and what can be done to remove such obstacles?",
        "这就引起了另一个问题：是什么阻碍了投资，可以做些什么打消这些阻碍？"
    ],
    [
        "Such practices, illegal as practiced by Bernard Madoff, are functionally equivalent to what happens during an asset-price bubble.",
        "这类行为是非法的，比如伯纳德·麦道夫（Bernard Madoff）骗局，在功能上，它们与资产泡沫时期发生的事情是等价的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Olympics are a venue in which individuals and countries compete, but in conformity with a set of rules. This is exactly what we want from China in the twenty-first century.",
        "虽然奥运会是个人和国家竞争的场所，但是却遵循着一套规则。 这正是我们在21世纪对中国的期望。"
    ],
    [
        "But egregious human-rights violations and suppression of dissent are raising the specter of growing internal disruptions, particularly in the wake of purges within the top leadership.",
        "但侵犯人权大丑闻和镇压持异见者正在造成越来越严重的内部混乱，特别是高层清洗事件。"
    ],
    [
        "But getting there requires removing old barriers and preventing the erection of new ones.",
        "但价格一致化需要消除旧壁垒、防止新壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "Tapi tentu banyak contoh kolusi internasional antara kelompok kepentingan.",
        "但必然也有很多特殊利益集团进行国际串谋的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "But, absent that monumental folly, long-term interest rates are unlikely to rise significantly as long as the Fed keeps short-term interest rates low – which it recently committed to do until unemployment falls to 6.5%.",
        "但是，只要国会不这么荒唐，而美联储又保持短期低利率，长期利率就不大可能显著上升——国会近来致力于这么做直到失业率降到6. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Kan’s status quo approach to alliance management won’t hold up long, because Hatoyama’s bungling has inflated Okinawans’ expectations about evicting the Marines.",
        "在军事联盟方面，菅直人倡导的“维持现状”政策难以长久。 由于鸠山之前的处理不当，冲绳居民驱逐美军的情绪高涨。"
    ],
    [
        "A Global Solutions Network",
        "全球解决方案网"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, these countries have condemned themselves to continued austerity, low growth, and high debt, while diminishing any future incentive for private lenders to impose fiscal discipline on sovereign borrowers.",
        "结果，这些国家把自己推向了持续紧缩、低增长和高债务，同时又切断了所有让私人债权人对主权债务人施加财政纪律的未来激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Italians, after all, migrated not only from Italy’s south to its north, but also to other countries looking for a better life.",
        "毕竟，为了过上更好的生活，意大利人不仅从南方迁移到北方，还移民到其他国家。"
    ],
    [
        "A simpler solution would be to mobilize working-age women who already – or plan to – stay at home.",
        "更简单的解决方案是动员居家（或计划居家）的工作年龄女性。"
    ],
    [
        "There are also security concerns about whether some of the refugees are actual or potential terrorists.",
        "还有关于是否有一些难民实际上或有可能成为恐怖分子的安全担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the EU accession candidates of the 1990’s, the states of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus have little incentive or capacity to adopt the Union’s body of law, the acquis communautaire, and move up the value chain.",
        "这一地区看起来最成功的两个经济体——白俄罗斯和阿塞拜疆——与欧盟模式大相径庭。 它们的好运不是因为国内政策，阿塞拜疆是由于碳氢化合物，白俄罗斯是由于俄罗斯补助金。"
    ],
    [
        "A smart government creates guaranteed demand not only for the solution itself, but for the steps along the way.",
        "明智的政府不仅为最后成果，同样为实现成果的步骤创造确定性的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Indonesia immediately expressed its intention to purchase C-130 transport aircraft, as well as fast patrol boats to conduct “anti-terrorism and anti-piracy measures.”",
        "而印尼也立即表示了购买C‑130运输机和用于“反恐怖和反海盗”的巡逻快艇的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Its membership remains restricted to OECD countries, even though surging demand from non-member countries like China and India is rapidly undermining the IEA’s ability to speak for, and coordinate responses among, oil importers as a group.",
        "随着中国印度两国的崛起， IEA 作为石油进口国代言人的权威性和协调功能有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, today’s high-growth countries – including Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania – have made substantial progress in reducing their dependence on commodity exports, in favor of trade, investment, and domestic consumption.",
        "事实上，今天的高增长国家——包括科特迪瓦、埃塞俄比亚、肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚——都在减少依赖商品出口、发展贸易、投资和国内消费等方面取得了实质性的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "That Japan’s dignity is now a central issue should surprise no one.",
        "事实上，日本这种把国家尊严上升为中心议题的现象并不令人吃惊。"
    ],
    [
        "But psychology also matters in speculative markets, and perhaps that image of the Greenland ice disappearing makes it seem all too plausible that everything else– land, water, even fresh air – is running out too.",
        "但是，心理学在投机市场上也会起作用，或许格林兰冰川的消融使所有其它的事物——土地，水，甚至是新鲜空气——也都快用完了似乎成为事实。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s economic imbalances are also stupendous.",
        "但中国经济失衡同样惊人。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Europeans will conclude that this is further evidence (if any was needed) that the US will always – and disastrously – protect Israel from the international and reputational consequences of its actions.",
        "许多欧洲人会认为，这进一步表明（如果有任何需要的话）美国将永远——也是灾难性地——保护以色列免于面对其行为的国际和名誉后果。"
    ],
    [
        "How to Be a Misleader",
        "如何成为反面领导典型"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is fighting for its economic survival, but it does not seem to know it.",
        "欧洲正在为自身的经济生存而浴血奋战，但它自己却似乎并未意识到。"
    ],
    [
        "That is true for any country, but it is especially relevant for rich countries.",
        "这条规律对任何国家均不例外，但对富裕国家尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "This will involve far more than just the usual regional actors and conflicts.",
        "涉及范围远远超出该地区通常的势力和冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Essentially all phenomena in chemistry find explanations in the quantum atom, while chemistry and physics undergird molecular biology, which, since the discovery of DNA in the 1950s, dominates modern biology.",
        "从本质上讲所有的化学现象都可以在量子原子中找到答案。 而自二十世纪五十年代发现DNA以来一直占据现代生物学主导地位的分子生物学，在背后支撑它的是化学和物理学。"
    ],
    [
        "The 100 most indebted countries still find the burden of servicing their collective $2.3 trillion in official debt increasingly hard to bear, leaving them hard put to finance national programs spelled out by the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), which seek to halve global poverty by 2015.",
        "3万亿美元的官方债务，它们感到债务负担越来越重，这使它们在面对联合国千年发展目标（MDG）的国家财政计划时几乎陷入了困境。 这项计划力争在2015年实现将全球贫困减少一半的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations is doing what it can.",
        "联合国正在尽全力救灾。"
    ],
    [
        "But for the time being, neither Santa Claus, nor anyone else, has reason to be worried.",
        "但在目前，圣诞老人和其他所有人都不必担心。"
    ],
    [
        "Slamming the Euro Door",
        "关上欧元的大门"
    ],
    [
        "In the mid-1980’s, the US became a net debtor, relying increasingly on foreigners to finance its debt.",
        "到了20世纪80年代中期，美国成为净债务国，对外债的依赖程度与日俱增。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly 814 million people – more than the populations of the US, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia, and Bangladesh combined – will be eligible to vote, making the upcoming election the largest since independence in 1947.",
        "14亿人——比美国、印尼、巴西、俄罗斯和孟加拉国总人口还要多——拥有选举资格，这意味着此次大选将是印度1947年独立以来规模最大的一次。"
    ],
    [
        "Most leaders feed upon the existing identity and solidarity of their groups.",
        "大多数领导人都依赖于现存的身份和所在团体的团结。"
    ],
    [
        "What is happening today in the Arab world is a revolution that may turn out to be for the Middle East the equivalent of what the French Revolution was for Europe in 1789: a profound and radical change that alters completely the situation that prevailed before.",
        "今天在阿拉伯世界发生的革命可能演变为中东版欧洲1789年法国大革命： 一场彻底改变以前普遍情况的深远而彻底的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "We are learning all over again that the central bank cannot create whatever level of credit it wants!",
        "我们也再一次明白到央行其实也无法任意创造出它们所期望的信贷水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Chinese investors view the CFIUS screening process as protectionist and targeted at them, but there is no evidence of this.",
        "许多中国投资者把CFIUS的审查过程视为保护主义、是专门针对中国投资者的行为，但并无迹象表明确实如此。"
    ],
    [
        "They are not using their struggles as a pretext to default on their duty of solidarity with Greece.",
        "它们没有以自己也处于挣扎中为由不履行与希腊同舟共济的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "To address these shortcomings, education and training programs must be revamped and expanded.",
        "要应对这些缺点就必须改革和扩大教育和培训方案。"
    ],
    [
        "But the bitterness lingers among Shinawatra’s supporters – even now, when his sister, Yingluck, is Prime Minister.",
        "但西那瓦支持者心头的痛苦依然挥之不去——即使现任总理职务是的妹妹英拉。"
    ],
    [
        "Sooner than that, artificial intelligence will transform higher learning, potentially making a world-class university education broadly affordable even in poor developing countries.",
        "当前令人烦厌的计算机化电话答录系统将有望得到优化。"
    ],
    [
        "Given these failings, it is not surprising that employment policies’ net effects are often very small relative to the size of the problem.",
        "鉴于存在上述缺陷，就业政策的净影响相对问题而言往往规模较小也就不足为怪了。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Timor Leste has been in something of a political limbo since last year, when clashes between rival factions in the security forces led to a brief breakdown of law and order.",
        "当然，自从去年以来，东帝汶就处于政局不稳的状态。 安全部队的对立派别之间发生冲突导致该国进入短暂的法律与秩序崩溃状态。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, I am optimistic that a tax reform serving to increase capital formation and growth will be enacted, and that any resulting increase in the budget deficit will be only temporary.",
        "因此，我对于有利于增加资本形成和增长的税收改革能够通过持乐观态度，对于由此导致的一切预算赤字的增加都只是暂时现象也持乐观态度。"
    ],
    [
        "We therefore expect a shift toward earlier reproduction, because the costs previously associated with doing so have disappeared – exactly what we found in Framingham.",
        "因此我们都会倾向于更早生育，因为相关风险几乎已经消失了——这也是我们在佛明翰所发现的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The ultimate reason for their lack of preparation is that our insurance industry was not covering their tsunami risks, and hence not offering up-to-date disaster-prevention guidance.",
        "而他们被攻其不备的最根本的原因是，我们的保险业没有开发海啸风险项目，未能提供最新的防灾指导。"
    ],
    [
        "(The first attempt, in Iowa, where she talked to about eight people in closed meetings, didn’t work out very well.)",
        "（第一次尝试实在艾奥瓦州，她和八人举行了闭门会议，效果不佳。"
    ],
    [
        "It is true that the AKP had a few good years after first coming to power in late 2002.",
        "正义与发展党2002年末首次执政后的确有一段黄金时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Take that, Dick Cheney and Halliburton.",
        "迪克切尼和其东家哈里伯顿公司。"
    ],
    [
        "The political environment is much more hostile.",
        "政治环境也更为严酷。"
    ],
    [
        "And among the most reliable is Europe.",
        "最可靠的伙伴是欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "We simply have a sense that sharing with someone who has trusted us is the right thing to do.",
        "我们仅仅感到与信任我们的人分享是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentine bonds (like most others) had a so-called pari passu clause that committed the government to treat all bondholders alike.",
        "阿根廷债券（和其他大部分债券一样）都拥有一项所谓平等对待条款，承诺政府将平等对待所有债券持有人。"
    ],
    [
        "William Hague, an influential former Conservative leader, was even more blunt when he recently issued a not-so-veiled threat: if central banks do not “change course soon, they will find their independence increasingly under attack.”",
        "颇有影响力的前保守党领袖威廉·黑格（William Hague）更加直截了当，最近他提出了赤裸裸的威胁：如果央行不“马上改变行为，其独立性将受到越来越多的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for third parties to step in and facilitate solutions that allow Iran to save face while significantly and credibly reducing its supply of enriched uranium.",
        "也是时候有第三方介入并推动相关解决方案，使得伊朗可以在保全面子的情况下显著并可靠地减少其浓缩铀供应。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, each time, gun owners scream that freedom will be eliminated if they are unable to buy assault weapons and 100-round clips.",
        "而每一次，枪支拥有着都在叫嚣，如果他们无法买到攻击性武器百发装子弹，自由就会被剥夺。"
    ],
    [
        "They distinguish between “benign disinflation\" and “bad deflation.\"",
        "他们区分“良性低通胀”和“恶性通缩”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republicans should not have been caught off-guard by Americans’ interest in issues like disenfranchisement and gender equality.",
        "共和党不应该忽视美国人对剥夺选举权和性别平等等问题上的兴致。"
    ],
    [
        "But the case is no less troubling for that.",
        "但问题仍然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Eliminating them would go a long way toward increasing corporate-tax revenue, without stifling growth.",
        "取消这些措施极有利于增加公司税收入，并且不会拖累增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Community leaders, politicians, government ministries, the scientific community, leading nongovernmental organizations, religious groups, international organizations, donor organizations, and foundations are all motivated to come together for a common purpose.",
        "社区领袖、政客、政府部长、科学界、领先非政府组织、宗教组织、国际组织、赞助组织和基金会都被动员起来，齐心协力向共同目标努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently, in the global south, common land is being privatized, rainforests are being destroyed to make room for agricultural cultivation, and international agribusinesses are expropriating the land that one-third of the world’s people still rely on for their livelihoods.",
        "大豆农业的扩张——拜肉食需求增长所赐——正在推高土地价值。 结果，在南方国家，公有土地被私有化，热带雨林遭到砍伐以便农耕，跨国公司肆意掠夺三分之一世界人口生计所仰仗的土地。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, a major historical mistake was made.",
        "法国在两个案例中都犯了历史性错误。"
    ],
    [
        "A more radical measure, which some have advocated, would be direction intervene, with the state providing benefits for families with more girls.",
        "某些人鼓吹实行更激进的举措，即以国家之名为女性较多的家庭提供补助。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent work has made the causal link between the sun and skin cancer at the molecular and cellular level.",
        "不久前的研究从分子和细胞的层次上证明：阳光和皮肤癌之间确实存在着因果关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Lower barriers and greater transparency in regulation are generally good things. But here, too, the reality is much more complex.",
        "更少的贸易壁垒和更高的监管透明度总体来说是好东西，但在这里也不例外，因为现实要比理论更为复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently, it is helpful to have a proxy activity that enables outsiders to see that the process of discernment and valuation really occurs.",
        "因此，这样的一项代理活动是有益的，这让外人看到辨别和估值的过程是真实存在和发生的。"
    ],
    [
        "For a long time, that cynical response seemed to be justified.",
        "在很长一段时间里，这一怀疑态度似乎被证实了。"
    ],
    [
        "The main problem with these indices is not so much how they are calculated as how they are used.",
        "这些指数的主要问题主要在于如何使用，而不在于如何计算。"
    ],
    [
        "By expanding our grasp of the vastness of the universe, science has, if anything, increased the awe and reverence we feel when we look up on a starry night (assuming, that is, that we have got far enough away from air pollution and excessive street lighting to see the stars properly).",
        "为了帮助我们更加深入地了解宇宙的广博，当我们抬头仰望繁星点点的星空时，（当然，前提是我们的天空没有污染和避开过多的街灯的干扰）科学的发现更增加了我们“惊奇和敬畏”之心。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, the US and as many other countries as possible should make clear to Egypt’s military that the detention of Muslim Brotherhood leaders must stop unless the military tries them for publicly inciting violence.",
        "同样重要的是，美国应尽可能联合其他国家向埃及军方表明扣押穆斯林兄弟会领导人的行为必须停止，除非军方就公开煽动暴力对他们进行审判。"
    ],
    [
        "The reports put Pakistan’s political leaders in an awkward position.",
        "该报道将巴基斯坦政治领袖置于非常尴尬的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "Within days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the US had erected new and enormous security measures at airports throughout the country.",
        "2001年，9·11恐怖袭击后不久，美国出台了大规模的新安全措施，在全国机场内生效。"
    ],
    [
        "The “retreat of the state” in much of the developing world in recent decades has involved a generally reduced role for government, including the capacity to lead and sustain development, as well as its progressive social interventions in areas such as public education, health, housing, and utilities.",
        "近几十年在许多发展中国家实行的“政府引退”造成了政府职能整体上的弱化，其中包括主导和维持发展的能力，以及在公共教育、健康、住房和公用事业方面的进步性社会干预。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, hammers and bulldozers, not artillery, brought it down.",
        "当1989年柏林墙倒塌时，是锤子和推土机，而非弹药将它推倒。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though she outperformed the men in her recruitment class academically, she was unable to compete for promotion.",
        "但是，尽管她在招聘时的成绩远远高于男同事，却无法在升职竞争中胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "Thomas Jefferson compared knowledge to candles: when one is used to light another, it does not diminish the light of the first.",
        "托马斯·杰斐逊曾将知识比作蜡烛：用一根蜡烛点燃另一根蜡烛，并不会减弱前一根蜡烛的光辉。"
    ],
    [
        "Competition among providers of complementary goods or services is harmful, and can be even worse than a monopoly.",
        "互补商品或服务供应商之间的竞争是有害的，甚至可能比垄断更糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Using hydro, gas, and oil, the grid cost for the main population centers in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya will likely be $0.16-25 per kWh.",
        "如果使用水力，天然气和石油为埃塞俄比亚，加纳和肯尼亚的主要人口中心供电，电网成本可能是0. 16-25美元每千瓦时。"
    ],
    [
        "Rohingya extremists have long-established links with foreign jihadists, including those of the Islamic State.",
        "罗兴亚极端分子早就与外国圣战者（其中也包括伊斯兰国恐怖分子）之间建立了千丝万缕的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "From Greece’s Syriza to Brazil’s Workers’ Party, the left has failed to come up with ideas that are economically sound and politically popular, beyond ameliorative policies such as income transfers.",
        "从希腊的激进左翼联盟到巴西工党，左翼势力除收入转移等改良政策外，都未能提出经济上可行且政治上受欢迎的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "Along with Taylor’s right to die, decades of debate about assistance in dying came under scrutiny.",
        "与泰勒的死亡权一道，数十年关于协助死亡的讨论都得到了仔细的审视。"
    ],
    [
        "Restoring and regenerating the abundance and diversity of species across one of our planet’s critical life-support systems is essential to building the entire earth’s resilience to climate change.",
        "恢复及再造我们这个星球关键生命支持系统的丰富多样性对建设整个地球对气候变化的适应能力至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is a naive interpretation.",
        "但这种解释未免过于天真。"
    ],
    [
        "An Iran with a nuclear weapon or the ability to produce one or more bombs in short order poses a true danger.",
        "在不远的将来拥有核武器或者能够制造一颗甚至更多核弹的伊朗将会带来真正的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "But the structure of China’s national balance sheet suggests that it still has plenty of room to mitigate the risks that escalating debt might bring.",
        "但中国国家资产负债表的结构表明它仍有充足的空间遏制债务激增可能带来的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "China is now an independent producer and technological innovator of selected missile systems and related aerospace technologies.",
        "如今在特定的导弹系统和相关航空航天技术方面，中国已经成为一个独立的生产者和技术革新者。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina’s government expropriated YPF from Spain’s Repsol in 2012, with the resulting suits and countersuits delaying any potential investment in shale.",
        "2012年，阿根廷政府将YPF从西班牙雷普索尔公司（Repsol）手中收归国有，这造成了大量诉讼和反诉讼，拖延了页岩气领域的潜在投资。"
    ],
    [
        "But the planning for the Iraq invasion, in which Rumsfeld advocated the use of fewer troops than advised, suggests a poor understanding of distributed systems.",
        "但在策划入侵伊拉克时，拉姆斯菲尔德鼓吹少派作战部队，显示了他对分散系统的肤浅理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Any of these outcomes would be inconsistent with Chinese strategic interests; but, like many governments, China’s leaders will seek to avoid difficult decisions in the short run, even if this results in damaging outcomes over time.",
        "这些结果的任何一个都有悖于中国的战略利益； 但和许多政府一样，中国领导人将避免短期的艰难决定，即使这会导致长期的不利结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as this example suggests, the impact of parental age on a child’s welfare will vary from one culture to another.",
        "但是，正如这个例子所表明的，在不同的文化中，父母的年龄对孩子的福利影响是有所不同的。"
    ],
    [
        "The intermingling of religious passion and political radicalism makes the Iraqi insurgency particularly dangerous and difficult to quell.",
        "宗教激情和政治激进主义的交织使得伊拉克叛乱特别危险并很难平息。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Some critics complain that US President Barack Obama campaigned on inspirational rhetoric and an ambition to “bend the arc of history,” but then turned out to be a transactional and pragmatic leader once in office.",
        "美国剑桥—一些批评家批评美国总统奥巴马竞选时口号颇具鼓动性（inspirational），还提出了“弯曲历史之弓”的雄心，当选后却表现得事务（transactional）而现实（pragmatic）。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization entails many other features, including the surge in cross-border financial transactions and tourism, data exchange, and other economic activities.",
        "全球化还包括其他许多特征，如跨境金融贸易和旅游、数据交换以及其他经济活动的猛增。"
    ],
    [
        "We can identify important swings during the history of capitalism over the last two centuries, either toward the market or the state.",
        "过去两个世纪中，我们可以看到资本主义出现了重大波动，摆向市场和摆向国家的情况都有。"
    ],
    [
        "A new Syria, based on democratic principles, would not only benefit Syrians, but would be a force for stability throughout the region.",
        "建立在民主原则上的新的叙利亚不仅将惠及叙利亚民众，而且会成为整个地区一股稳定势力。"
    ],
    [
        "If there are elements powerful enough to plan such a plot – even an unsuccessful one – they could do it again in the future.",
        "如果这些团体有能力策划这样的阴谋——尽管未能成功——那么他们将来自然也会重施故伎。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rise of Demotic Democracy in Europe",
        "欧洲大众民主的崛起"
    ],
    [
        "As a matter of geo-political strategy, taking a positive lead in Burma can help China reassure its neighbors that its policy of a “peaceful rise” is real and beneficial.",
        "作为一项地缘政治战略，在缅甸担当积极的主导作用可以使中国让它的邻国确信它的“和平崛起”政策是真实的并且有益的。"
    ],
    [
        "These are, in a sense, pay-for-success projects, sometimes structured as social impact bonds –formal contracts that tie payments to actual results.",
        "从某种程度上讲，这些项目属于“成功后买单”（pay-for-success）项目，有时以社会影响债券——将支付与实际结果挂钩的正式契约——的形式出现。"
    ],
    [
        "As we examine orthologs, the proteins become more degraded, or richer in dehydrons, in species with a lower effective population – a somewhat elusive indicator inversely related to the size and complexity of the organism and to the complexity of its reproductive pattern.",
        "当我们考察同源体时，我们发现，有效群体规模更小的物种，其蛋白质出现了更多的退化，或者说去水性更丰富——生物规模和复杂性与其生殖方式的复杂性之间存在一种模糊的逆相关关系。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the repository of cutting-edge sustainable technologies, pioneering research and development, world-class management, and leadership in environmental sustainability.",
        "它是高精尖可持续技术储备库、研发活动先锋、世界级管理的先行者、环境可持续性的领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "When childhood death rates come down, fertility rates tend to decline even more, since families are now confident that their children will survive.",
        "当儿童死亡率下降的时候，生育律趋向于更大地下降，因为各个家庭有信心他们的孩子可以活下去。"
    ],
    [
        "The following year, after the introduction of the Child Labor Deterrence Act in the United States – the so-called Harkin Bill, which barred US imports of products made with child labor – some 50,000 underage workers were removed from the factory floor.",
        "第二年，在美国实行童工抑制法案——也就是所谓禁止美国进口童工生产产品的“哈金法案”后——约有 50,000 名未成年工人被赶出工厂。"
    ],
    [
        "We are making progress on both issues, but much work remains.",
        "我们在这两个问题上都在取得进展，但仍有许多工作要做。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this backdrop, the US government shutdown looks a little different.",
        "从这个角度看，美国政府关门也没什么不同。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a majority of Europe’s citizens prefer that European forces be deployed only for non-combat missions.",
        "事实上，欧洲多数民众倾向于欧洲军队仅限于执行非战斗任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The cause of Indonesia’s recurring infernos is the common practice of lighting fires to clear land for palm oil production, exacerbated by a prolonged dry spell partly attributable to El Niño.",
        "印尼反复发生无法控制的大火的原因是焚林开荒种植棕榈油作物的常规作业，部分因厄尔尼诺造成的长期干旱则是助推因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Owing to Beijing’s unhealthy air, foreign companies pay a “hardship bonus” of up to 30% to employees working there.",
        "由于北京的空气危害健康，外国公司必须向驻北京员工支付高达30%的“困难费”。"
    ],
    [
        "Former United States senator George Mitchell represents a relatively neutral third party supervising the current talks.",
        "目前来说，在巴以对话中扮演这个相对中立的第三者角色的是美国前参议员乔治·米歇尔。"
    ],
    [
        "The other solution is to mutualize the cost of rescue at the margin.",
        "另一个步骤是边际援助成本的共同化。"
    ],
    [
        "But their resilience has always been a function of their ability to generate enough incremental aggregate demand to support their growth, without having to make up for a large loss of demand in developed countries.",
        "但它们的复苏能力一直都体现在其创造足够新增总需求以支撑自身增长的能力上，并不需要去补足发达国家大量流失的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s China seems to recall Winston Churchill’s description of Russia as a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” – a new, great power rival that is difficult for US policymakers to understand.",
        "如今的中国似乎让人们想起了丘吉尔对描述俄罗斯的描述：“隐藏在谜团中的神秘的谜”——美国决策者难以理解的新超级大国对手。"
    ],
    [
        "Since it began operating between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka in 1964, Japan’s Shinkansen has served as a vital transport artery in Japan, and has suffered no fatal accidents.",
        "自从在1964年开通往返东京和新大阪的第一条线路以来，新干线已经成为了日本的运输命脉，而且从未发生任何重大事故。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that the tests were not designed to find answers.",
        "这背后的真相是，美国进行压力测试的目的不是为了找到问题的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "The equilibrium in voting rights between small and large member states was also secured by vesting exclusive authority to propose regulation in the Commission, which expresses the common interests of the Community.",
        "此外，大小成员国之间投票权利的均衡也通过授予委员会规章提案的独家权力来得以实现，因为委员会所代表的是团体的共同利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2016, these imbalances had fallen to 1.7% of global GDP, from 2.5% in 2007.",
        "2016年，相关余额已经从2007年占全球GDP的2. 5%下降到1."
    ],
    [
        "This absurd situation must change.",
        "必须改变这种荒唐的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – The Indian economy is coming back.",
        "新德里—印度经济正在回归。"
    ],
    [
        "This summer, the World Health Organization took an important step to that end, recommending PrEP for all gay men and men who have sex with men, making it the first major international health organization to do so.",
        "今年夏天，世卫组织为实现这一目标迈出了重要的一步，向所有男同性恋及男同性性行为群体推荐PrEP，从而成为首家采取上述措施的重要国际卫生机构。"
    ],
    [
        "She and her daughter Guillermina have for years organized groups of mothers to paint crosses around the city at sites where girls and women have disappeared, a visual reminder of a problem that the city has failed to address for two decades.",
        "她和她的女儿吉列米娜常年组织母亲团体在全市女孩和女人曾经失踪的案发地点作画，从视觉上提醒人们不要忘记这座城市二十年未能解决的痼疾。"
    ],
    [
        "Their analysis found a clear tendency for austerity programs to reduce consumption expenditure and weaken the economy.",
        "他们的研究发现紧缩政策具有减少消费支出并削弱经济的明显趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Solving this conundrum would be one of the main purposes of the continental partnership.",
        "解决这一难题将是大陆伙伴关系的主要目的之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, businesses cite uncertainty about the strength of demand, not uncertainty about regulation or taxation, as the main factor holding back job creation.",
        "事实上，企业担心的是需求强度的不确定性，而不是监管或税收的不确定性，这才是妨碍就业创造的主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "We are also working to identify opportunities to deepen our cooperation in information security, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and other high-tech frontiers – from cyberspace to outer space.",
        "我们还努力寻找机会深化信息安全、情报、监视侦察及其他高科技前沿领域（从网络空间到外太空）的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rolling Jubilee is a timely reminder of the continuing relevance of one of the oldest laws of social life.",
        "”滚动禧年及时地提醒我们，这一社会生活的最古老法则至今仍然重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Five percent per year of $1 is only five cents, 5% of $10 is only 50 cents, and the curve appears flat for a while.",
        "在年利率5%的情况下，1美金的年利息只有5美分，10美金的年利息只有50美分。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they underestimate the downside risks of crowdsourcing.",
        "因此，他们低估了众筹的消极风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But these attempts will almost surely fail; in the end – though it may take years – cotton subsidies will be eliminated.",
        "但这样的企图几乎注定会失败，最后¾尽管这其间可能需要几年时间¾棉花补贴将被彻底取缔。"
    ],
    [
        "These measures will, of course, have to be funded; but MGI has found that 60% of countries can generate the additional funds from taxes on the incremental GDP growth that empowering women will deliver.",
        "当然，这些措施必须有资金支持； 但MGI发现，60%的国家可以从妇女赋权所带来的增量GDP增长所产生的税收中筹集增加的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "For some time after 2005, it was possible to argue that all of this was hot air, and that fast, decisive action to respond to genocidal atrocities would remain as unlikely as ever.",
        "2005年后有段时间，仍然有可能说所有这些都只不过是吹牛，针对种族灭绝暴行迅速、果断地采取行动和以前一样颇有难度。"
    ],
    [
        "And half the time the owner of a naughty dog was told that his dog had been good.",
        "还有半数情况下淘气狗狗的主人被告知他的狗狗表现良好。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, what needs to be done is not complicated.",
        "所幸的是，所需要做到工作并不复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "More ominously, China ramped up its South China Sea activities in spite of the tribunal’s proceedings, vowing long ago to ignore any ruling that invalidated its claims.",
        "更加令人担忧的是，中国完全无视仲裁程序，继续其在南海的活动，早就宣布不接受任何人为其领土主张无效的裁定。"
    ],
    [
        "“Divorce” discussions are now underway to determine how much the British will pay the EU, and what future trade relations will look like.",
        "现在双方已经在进行“离婚”讨论以确定英国该向欧盟支付的金额以及未来的贸易关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Scotland might try to keep its currency at par with sterling, but this would require larger reserves than a Scottish central bank could command, at least at the outset.",
        "苏格兰也许会试图保持其自身货币与英镑的平价，但这需要比苏格兰中央银行所能拥有的更大的储备量，至少在一开始是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Then consider Poland, where the Kaczynski twins, who hold the presidency and the prime ministership, have allied themselves with populist, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic parties.",
        "再来看波兰，Kaczynski孪生兄弟把持了总统和总理的宝座，并与民粹主义者、仇外派和反犹太政党结盟。"
    ],
    [
        "In the process, officials are weakening the yen.",
        "在这个过程中，官员们一直在削弱日元。"
    ],
    [
        "It would ignite an already incendiary part of the world, with the added risk of global economic collapse if the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth to one-third of the world’s oil passes, is blocked.",
        "它会点燃世界上本来就不稳定的地区的愤怒情绪，而且，如果输送世界石油的五分之一到三分之一的霍尔木兹海峡（Strait of Hormuz）被封锁，这也增加了全球经济崩溃的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The third major barrier to Internet adoption is user capability.",
        "用户能力是互联网应用的第三大障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 2001 and 2008, export growth accounted for more than 40% of China’s overall economic growth.",
        "从2001年到2008年，出口增长要占中国总体经济增长的40%强。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a responsive budgetary policy that focuses on the EU as a whole, the MFF negotiations will provide plenty of high drama and fine rhetoric, but few real benefits that might boost Europe’s recovery.",
        "如果没有专注于作为整体的欧盟的响应预算，MFF谈判将徒有其表，而不会对欧洲复苏带来多少实质的裨益。"
    ],
    [
        "But the case against additional stimulus is also strong.",
        "然而，反对出台新刺激计划的理由也很有力。"
    ],
    [
        "Last but not least, she is attractive.",
        "最后、而且也不是最为次要的一点是，她很诱人。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Monty Python’s city-terrorizing “Hell’s Grannies,” tomorrow’s elderly will surely make their voices heard.",
        "就像巨蟒剧团（Monty Python）的都市恐怖故事《地狱奶奶》（Hell’s Grannies），未来的老者必然会发出他们的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "A National Investment Bank could draw out these “idle savings” by issuing bonds for infrastructure development.",
        "国家投资银行可以通过发行基础设施开发债券利用这些“闲置存款”。"
    ],
    [
        "Jeffrey Sachs’s new book The End of Poverty argues that with proper help from advanced countries the world could see the end of poverty as we know it in coming decades, prompting some to describe him as a starry-eyed idealist.",
        "杰弗里·萨克斯在他的新书《结束贫困》中提出：如果发达国家给予恰当的帮助，世界就会像我们期待的那样在未来几十年内彻底消除贫困，他的这种观点使很多人把他当成了过分乐观的理想主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "But one hopes that campaign promises won’t tie the new leader’s hands, as so often happens in electoral politics.",
        "但我们也希望当选者不要像在选举政治中经常发生的情况那样被竞选承诺束缚了手脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the histrionic pledges of support required from North Korean commissars and generals for their leader Kim Jong-un, the Trump White House is likely to demand unswerving fealty to the clan.",
        "就像金氏家族要求朝鲜委员和将领承诺绝对忠于领袖金正恩家族一样，特朗普的白宫很可能要求任职官员绝对忠于特朗普家族。"
    ],
    [
        "Much has already been achieved in the negotiations, and an agreement of significant value is within reach.",
        "谈判已经取得了许多成果，一项价值巨大的协议指日可待。"
    ],
    [
        "Some claim that infrastructure spending creates a big Keynesian “multiplier,” a bigger increase in incomes than the initial spending (estimates range up to about 1.5 times the initial increase in spending).",
        "有人声称，基础设施方面的支出造就了一个巨大的凯恩斯主义的“放大器” ——收入的增加比初始支出的增加多得多（估计比初始投入的增加多约1. 5倍）。"
    ],
    [
        "Crisis and Transformation",
        "危机与转型"
    ],
    [
        "There are, of course, many obstacles in Modi’s path.",
        "当然，莫迪的道路存在诸多障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond receiving financial support from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan has, in some ways, become a client of China, which provides political protection – even for Pakistan-based terrorists – at the United Nations Security Council.",
        "除了从沙特阿拉伯获得金融支持，巴基斯坦在某种程度上说已经沦为中国的被保护国，由后者在联合国安理会为其提供政治保护——不啻保护位于巴基斯坦的恐怖分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Extractive institutions create a non-level playing field, rents, and narrowly concentrated benefits for those with political power and connections.",
        "掠夺性制度创造了不公平的条件、租以及狭隘集中的利益，得利者是掌握政治权力者及其关系网。"
    ],
    [
        "But today’s political movements also tend to be less pluralistic than the large parties that have dominated post-war European politics.",
        "但今天的政治运动大多也比主导战后欧洲政治的大政党更不多元。"
    ],
    [
        "Attempts to enlarge the SNC have been unsuccessful, owing to reservations expressed by some important groups, such as the Democratic Forum, about joining an organization that relies on foreign sponsors.",
        "扩大SNC的努力没有获得成功，因为民主论坛（Democratic Forum）等一些重要集团对加入依靠外国赞助人的组织采取保留态度。"
    ],
    [
        "But Mori’s arrows were bound together in parallel, whereas Abe’s policy arrows are connected through underlying structural relationships.",
        "但毛利的箭平行地绑在一起，而安倍的政策之箭是通过基础结构关系联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, having its cake and eating it, China is a dialogue partner but not a member of the Mekong River Commission, underscoring its intent not to abide by the Mekong basin community’s rules or take on any legal obligations.",
        "事实上在湄公河享受着相关利益的中国却不是湄公河流域委员会的成员，仅仅只是对话伙伴而已，在这一点上可以看出该国无意受该流域国家集体的管辖或者承担任何法律义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Though we can attempt to plan for change, we cannot always predict the precise nature and time at which it will occur.",
        "尽管我们可以尝试规划变化，但我们不可能永远预测到变化的性质和发生时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The country would be free to choose its own team, but the escrow account manager, aided by an international advisory board of expert volunteers, would need to agree that it is, in fact, world-class.",
        "东道国可以自由选择自己的谈判团队，但必须要由账户管理人在一支由专家志愿者组成的国际顾问委员会的协助下来确认这支团队是世界级的。"
    ],
    [
        "Dengism, which emphasizes the goal of modernization under a powerful one-party state, continues to shape China’s governance system.",
        "作为治国理念，邓小平理论强调强大的一党统治下的现代化，在邓小平逝世后继续决定着中国的治国方略。"
    ],
    [
        "Most damaging, the ouster of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood government had deprived Hamas of its lifeline of supplies and armaments.",
        "最糟糕的是，前埃及总统穆尔西的穆斯林兄弟会政府被推翻，这切断了哈马斯供给和武装的生命线。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, though many countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and South Korea, have already rewarded China with market-economy status, the world’s two biggest economies, the US and the EU, have not.",
        "如今，尽管阿根廷、巴西、智利和韩国等许多国家已经给予中国市场经济地位，但世界最大的两个经济体——美国和欧盟——并未这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "This idea would play well in the Democratic primary elections (which start in early 2016).",
        "这一观点将在民主党初选（将于2016年初进行）中起到很大作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The companies want the bitumen that Nature put in the oily dirt.",
        "公司要的是自然界存储在油砂中的沥青。"
    ],
    [
        "Had it gotten its way, the eurozone would no longer exist.",
        "如果它得势的话，欧元区将不复存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Voters who support populist movements do so because they believe that current elites fail truly to represent them.",
        "选民支持民粹运动是因为他们认为现有精英没有资格充当他们的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "As with “the specter of Communism” that haunted Europe in Karl Marx’s famous manifesto, so today “[a]ll the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise” the specter of national debt.",
        "马克思著名的《共产党宣言中》中说道，“共产主义的幽灵”游荡在欧洲上空，而如今，“就欧洲的所有势力已经结成了一个神圣同盟，驱逐”国民债务的幽灵。"
    ],
    [
        "When Financial Markets Misread Politics",
        "当金融市场对政治产生误读"
    ],
    [
        "Following Obama’s re-election, in 2012, Republican leaders commissioned a study that showed that the party’s nominee will have to win more Latino votes than ever to win the White House.",
        "2012年奥巴马连任后，共和党岭南道人进行了一项研究，研究表明该党候选人必须赢得更多拉丁裔选票才能重新入主白宫。"
    ],
    [
        "The investments are both private and public (for example, by state-owned entities) and come from three different groups of countries: emerging economies like China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Malaysia, and South Korea; oil-rich Gulf states; and wealthy developed economies like the United States and several European countries.",
        "这类投资既有私人部门，也有公共部门（如国有实体），主要购买者是三类国家：中国、印度、巴西、南非、马来西亚和韩国等新兴经济体； 波斯湾富油国；"
    ],
    [
        "And, instead of reducing the chances of a nuclear standoff in South Asia, the White House plan served only to distract attention from efforts to address tensions between India and Pakistan.",
        "白宫计划不但未能减少南亚陷入核僵局的可能性，反而只是分散了缓解印巴紧张局势的注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, India is all in a quandary over how to handle protocol during Sarkozy’s impending visit to the subcontinent as the guest of honor at the country’s Republic Day celebrations on January 26.",
        "同样，印度也对如何处理萨尔科奇即将作为国家贵宾参加该国1月26日的共和国日庆祝活动的礼宾问题为难。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to focus on the real imperative: designing and implementing vital structural reforms, at the national and European levels.",
        "现在，应该将注意力集中在真正的当务之急上：在国家和欧洲层面设计并实施关键的结构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "For still others, programs that target the informal sector distort the playing field.",
        "还有人认为，针对非正规部门的计划破坏了公平竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, in peace with our neighbors, we can create a region of hope, development, and success.",
        "与邻邦保持和平，我们就可以开创一个希望、发展和成功的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The size of France’s political crisis seems to be out of proportion with the country’s real situation.",
        "一些部长们滥用公款的行为受到舆论的谴责。 显然，目前整个法国政坛的风气都已败坏，议会更为恶劣，整个政府面临不信任投票下台的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1997, other EU states accounted for 30% of inward foreign direct investment: by 2012, the EU’s share had risen to 50%.",
        "1997年，其他欧盟国家只占国外直接投资的30%：截止2012年，欧盟国家的占比已经上升至50%。"
    ],
    [
        "And these countries’ middle classes are growing fast as well.",
        "这些国家的中产阶级也在快速成长。"
    ],
    [
        "Just like the many other “protective” measures taken during the crisis, this distortion of market processes will help to cement the sub-optimal allocation of European investment capital, hampering economic growth for years to come.",
        "就像危机期间采取的许多其他“保护”措施一样，这种对市场过程的扭曲将有助于巩固欧洲投资资本的次优配置，并对未来几年的经济增长构成阻碍作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Editors and publishers assembled and collated stories, and the newspaper that they produced was then delivered to the subscriber’s doorstep.",
        "编辑和出版人撰写并核对报道，接着，他们编出来的报纸被送往订户家中。"
    ],
    [
        "The true promise of epigenetics has become apparent only in the last few years, as scientists’ ability to assess the epigenetic mechanisms in DNA – which can now be measured at roughly 30 million points across the human genome – has dramatically improved.",
        "发育遗传学的真正意义在近几年才显现出来，这是因为科学家理解DNA的发育遗传机制（现在可以通过人类基因组上的约3 000万个点测出）的能力有了极大的提升。"
    ],
    [
        "As former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates put it shortly before stepping down, any adviser recommending such action “should have his head examined.”",
        "前国防部长罗伯特·盖茨离职前言简意赅地指出，提议采取此类行动的顾问“应该检查脑子有没有毛病。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Although the Fed expanded its balance sheet from less than $1 trillion in late 2008 to $4.5 trillion by the fall of 2014, nominal GDP increased by only $2.7 trillion.",
        "尽管美联储将其资产负债表规模从2008年底的不足1万亿美元扩大到2014年秋的4. 5万亿美元，但名义GDP只增加了2."
    ],
    [
        "It is ironic that, as rockets from Gaza reach the outskirts of Tel Aviv, those Israelis who celebrated the partition, and their descendants, do not see the importance of fulfilling the other half of the partition plan.",
        "讽刺的是，随着加沙发射的火箭落在了特拉维夫郊区，那些支持分治的以色列人并不认为满足分治计划的另一半人有多重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, any national leadership that anticipates the new research, development, manufacturing, and trade possibilities that will grow out of this new imperative may find itself positioned for exactly the kind of sustained economic growth that every country seeks.",
        "实际上，这种新的需求将产生潜在的研究、发展、制造和贸易价值，任何一个参与此项活动的政府都将会发现本国的经济可持续增长，而这正是每个国家梦寐以求的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US military has had ample opportunities (and still has) to eliminate the Taliban’s Rahbari Shura, or leadership council, often called the Quetta Shura because it relocated to that Pakistani city.",
        "美国军方曾有（现在还有）大量的机会消灭塔利班的领导委员会，通常又称为“基达领导委员会”，因为该委员会搬到了这个巴基斯坦城市。"
    ],
    [
        "A paralyzed and rudderless Indian government initially blacked out reporting on the incursion, lest it come under public pressure to mount a robust response.",
        "群龙无首、陷入瘫痪的印度政府获知解放军侵入的消息大惊失色，唯恐受到要求采取强硬措施的公众压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The major ratings agencies are increasingly complaining about the country’s lack of a growth strategy and its outsize budget deficits.",
        "主要评级机构越来越多地指出印度缺少增长战略，其预算赤字也越来越大。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1995, there were 26 reforms of migration policies in the EU-15: two-thirds tightened regulations by increasing procedural obstacles faced by visa applicants, reducing the duration of work permits, or making family reunification more difficult.",
        "欧盟15国自1995年来共有26次移民政策改革：其中三分之二都增加了签证申请人面对的程序障碍，缩短了工作许可的有效时间，抑或增大了家庭团聚的难度。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that SOE reform has long been on China’s agenda, this extra impetus may prove beneficial.",
        "国企改革进入了中国的日程，这一额外的刺激是很有裨益的。"
    ],
    [
        "In response to the recent protests, the government has proposed an additional risk-sharing scheme: some (thus far undecided) part of a five-percentage-point increase in the mandatory retirement savings rate, to be paid by employers, will go to a “solidarity fund” that can finance transfers to people receiving low pensions.",
        "为应对最近的抗议活动，政府又额外提出了一项风险分担计划：要求将由雇主支付的提高强制退休储蓄率5%所带来的部分资金划入“团结基金”，并用于低退休金领取者的转移支付。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the terrorist blows inflicted on New York, London, and Madrid over the past decade have not shaken Western democracies.",
        "但过去十年在纽约，伦敦和马德里发生的恐怖袭击并未动摇西方民主制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Nuclear cooperation between North Korea and Iran is no doubt assisting both countries to flaunt international norms – and now it appears that Burma has joined this axis of illicit nuclear proliferation.",
        "毫无疑问，两国的核合作令他们得以不断挑逗国际准则——如今缅甸似乎也加入了这个非法核浓缩的邪恶轴心之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Commission’s proposal is intended to underscore European solidarity and burden-sharing – both core EU principles.",
        "欧盟委员会的建议旨在强调欧洲团结和分担责任——两者都是欧盟的核心原则。"
    ],
    [
        "The government’s commitment to the fight against terrorism has already caused FARC’s membership to plummet, from more than 20,000 a decade ago to little more than 8,000 today.",
        "政府打击恐怖主义的不懈努力已导致哥伦比亚革命武装力量的人数大幅减少，从10年前的20，000多人骤降至今天的8，000人左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as the Great Depression arose in part from the difficulties in moving from a rural, agrarian economy to an urban, manufacturing one, so today’s problems arise partly from the need to move from manufacturing to services.",
        "就像大萧条的其中一部分成因源自于把经济从乡村小农经济向城市制造业经济转型的困难一样，引发当前经济问题出现的部分原因也因为经济从制造业向服务业转变的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "But male education and literacy in Pakistan is not very high, either.",
        "但巴基斯坦男性受教育率和识字率也并不是很高。"
    ],
    [
        "This leads to a second problem with the prevailing paradigm, which is that it puts abstract economic indicators before actual people.",
        "这又引出了现行范式下的第二个问题，就是把抽象的经济指标放在真实的民众之上。"
    ],
    [
        "The inherent contradiction between a governance structure incapable of change and economic modernization, between cultural and religious conservatism and social and normative transformation, will therefore increase and bring about new, additional frictions if positive answers to these fundamental changes cannot be found.",
        "无法进行变革的治理结构和经济现代化之间的矛盾，文化和宗教保守主义和社会规范变革之间的矛盾，如果无法找到解决这些根本性变化的正面答案，这些固有的矛盾将加剧和带来新的、更多的摩擦。"
    ],
    [
        "For more than a decade, the Millennium Development Goals, which expire in two years, have provided the framework for international development cooperation, with a focus on combating poverty worldwide.",
        "十多年来，联合国千年发展目标（将于两年后到期）为国际发展合作提供了框架，中心点是战胜全球平困。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a monarchical display from “le président soleil” was surely a mistake.",
        "这位“太阳椅”总统如此专制的表现无疑犯下了错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, he is determined to avoid the fate of previous Chinese leaders like Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang, who lost their jobs after a critical mass of their opponents came to believe that economic and political reform jeopardized Party control.",
        "总之，习近平要避免前任中国领导人胡耀邦和赵紫阳的命运。 胡耀邦和赵紫阳因为反对者认为经济和政治改革威胁到了党的控制而被迫下台。"
    ],
    [
        "The weakened connection between public services and taxes not only makes it easier for officials to cling to power, but also increases the scope for corruption and inefficiency.",
        "公共服务与税收之间的关系被削弱，这不但让官员更轻松地把持权力，也增加了腐败和低效的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially true in developing countries, where it is common to find differences in productivity of a factor of ten at the provincial or state level and many times higher at the municipal level.",
        "特别是一些发展中国家，省际和州际生产率差距达到十倍以上稀松平常，市际差距更是极其巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia was one of the two principal theaters of World War II, and again shared centrality with Europe during the Cold War.",
        "亚洲是二战的两大主战场之一，也是冷战中与欧洲并驾齐驱的中心战场。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan?",
        "5%，但美国人每年花费10."
    ],
    [
        "But, as countries like Egypt, Syria, and Lybia might be indicating, hereditary succession is not an inherently reactionary move.",
        "但是，正如埃及、叙利亚和利比亚这些国家所表明的，世袭继承并非是一种内部的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "To say, “I don’t do stupid things,” as Obama did recently in an interview with the New York Times, is not enough, given the complexity, urgency, and scale of the threats America and the West are facing.",
        "鉴于针对美国和西方大范围挑战的复杂性和紧迫性，像奥巴马最近接受《纽约时报》采访时那样仅仅表示“我不做蠢事”并不足以服众。"
    ],
    [
        "We in the EU believe that it is our common interest with the US to prevent radicalization and recruitment to terrorism throughout the world.",
        "”欧盟对此也相信，我们在防止宗教极端主义和打击恐怖分子招募活动方面的利益，和美国是一致的。"
    ],
    [
        "In a Brexit scenario, the UK’s intelligence ties with the US would probably become even stronger, regardless of any new limitations on its access to intelligence from some EU member countries.",
        "在英国退出情形中，英国与美国的情报联系可能进一步加强，尽管英国可能受到一些欧盟成员国的新的情报接触限制。"
    ],
    [
        "It is why they have portrayed the Baltic States for years as dysfunctional oppressors of their Russian citizens.",
        "因此，多年来他们将波罗的海国家描述成混乱的镇压俄罗斯族公民的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "What does “renewal” or “rejuvenation” mean to the Chinese?",
        "“恢复”或“复兴”对中国民众来讲意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, its current contribution is also negligible, practically all of it coming from deforestation and degradation of forests and farmland.",
        "此外，非洲目前的碳排放也微乎其微，非洲所有的碳排放几乎全部来自森林砍伐以及森林和农田的逐步退化。"
    ],
    [
        "After the Rose Revolution of November 2003, Russian companies turned out to be the most avid purchasers of Georgian enterprises and their assets.",
        "在2003年11月的玫瑰革命后，俄罗斯的公司成为了格鲁吉亚的企业及其资产最热情的购买者。"
    ],
    [
        "This, in turn, brought legitimacy to liberalism and generated the powerful feeling of nationalist awareness among Egyptians.",
        "这反过来给自由主义带来了合法性，唤醒了埃及人强烈的民族意识。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, when the fighting was over, the bombing stopped for good, and out of the tanks came people who were intent on creating democratic conditions and capable of doing so.",
        "但战争结束后，轰炸也永远停止了，从坦克里钻出来的人不仅抱着创造民主的决心，也拥有建设民主的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "He is a grandee, a mover and shaker in the academic and media world, a friend of President Barack Obama.",
        "他称得上是位显贵，在学术和媒体圈中一呼百应，还与巴拉克·奥巴马总统私交甚笃。"
    ],
    [
        "It is neither a transitory moment of delight nor a constant condition.",
        "它既不是转瞬即逝的愉悦也不是永恒的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The US itself relied on the Convention in the case against Iran that it brought in 1980 before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, a year after Iranian students and others, with the revolutionary regime’s evident blessing, breached America’s embassy in Tehran and abducted its diplomats.",
        "美国本身依据维也纳公约于1980年伊朗诉诸海牙国际法庭（ICJ）。 1979年，伊朗学生和其他人在伊朗革命政权证据确凿的放任下袭击了美国驻伊朗使馆，绑架了其中的外交官。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the requirement that all decisions be made by consensus enables disparate member states to unite while protecting their national interests, it also limits ASEAN’s effectiveness in dealing with emerging security threats.",
        "尽管所有决定都根据共识做出的要求让情况各异的成员国可以联合和保护国家利益两不误，但这也限制了东盟在应对新安全威胁方面的效率。"
    ],
    [
        "The Austerity Pandemic",
        "紧缩传染病"
    ],
    [
        "The reason all of this matters is that the path to deep decarbonization is open to us.",
        "所有这些之所以事关重大，是因为深度脱碳之路是一条开放之路。"
    ],
    [
        "For Morocco and Tunisia, the convergence of interests between moderate Islamists and liberals offers a ray of hope.",
        "对摩洛哥和突尼斯来说，温和派伊斯兰教徒和自由派之间的利益趋同提供了一些希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Kourtney Kardashian of the reality show The Kardashians had a baby as an “unwed mother” – a stigmatizing term that has gone out of fashion – and is depicted as bravely holding down the fort and staying up all night with feedings as the child’s irresponsible father parties.",
        "写实节目卡尔达石一家中的科特尼·卡尔达石是一位“未婚妈妈”，这是一个已经过时的污辱性字眼，节目中的她勇敢承担了别人犯下的错误，在孩子不负责任的父亲在外面花天酒地时整夜不睡给孩子无微不至的照顾。"
    ],
    [
        "This is no time for political uncertainty.",
        "现在绝不是政治不确定的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Any part of these production chains can be located wherever it suits the firms’ international competitiveness best.",
        "其生产链的任何部分都可以部署在最有利于公司国际竞争力的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China must increase the flexibility of land and labor markets.",
        "此外，中国必须增加土地和劳动力市场的灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "In our meetings with Chinese actors, my team and I found the resolution to be particularly relevant – a clear reminder of the far-reaching implications of the current tensions.",
        "在我们与中国行动方的会面中，我的团队和我认为该决议具有非常重大的意义——它明确地提醒我们当前紧张局面的深远影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Sponsors must show themselves to be responsive and responsible, saving face by recalling the Olympic spirit.",
        "赞助商们必须表明自己是个重视民意及负责任的企业，通过召唤最初的奥林匹克精神来挽回颜面。"
    ],
    [
        "Such condescension may have been defensible when South Korea’s military dictatorship needed America’s political protection and security guarantee, but now the country is a beacon of democracy in East Asia.",
        "如此屈尊俯就的姿态在韩国军事独裁政权需要美国给予政治保护及安全保障时或许还勉强站得住脚，可现在韩国已经成为了东亚地区的民主范例。"
    ],
    [
        "These are values that we simply will not compromise.",
        "对于这些价值，我们决不会妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the lag time between changes in the money supply and price movements is long, variable, and unpredictable.",
        "首先，货币供给变化和价格运动之间的时滞很长，易变并且不可预测。"
    ],
    [
        "At present, it seems most Western governments have decided to concentrate on helping Georgia recover economically from the war rather than on punishing Russia directly.",
        "当前，大多数西方政府似乎都已决定集中帮助格鲁吉亚的经济从战争中恢复过来，而不是直接惩罚俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Lula remains popular with Brazilians because his populist rhetoric shows real sympathy with the less affluent, and with foreign investors because he has always tempered his radicalism to accommodate economic reality.",
        "卢拉在巴西国内民众中的热度依然不减，这是因为他的民粹主义言论显示出对欠富裕阶层的真正同情，而成功地控制激进主义势力，使之适应经济的现实发展使得他在外国投资者当中也颇受青睐。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, both China and India have adopted foreign policies that have increased their attractiveness to others.",
        "近年来，中国和印度都采取了提高其对他国吸引力的外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "An obvious indicator of this is that it lacks a fiscal-transfer mechanism to reduce the pressure of emigration from poor to rich areas.",
        "关于这一点，一个显而易见的现象是欧盟缺少一个财政转移支付机制以减小从贫穷地区向富裕地区的移民。"
    ],
    [
        "On June 1, Dr. Jiang Yanyong, a surgeon at Beijing 301 Military Hospital, and his wife, Dr. Hua Zhongwei, both seventy-two years old, left home to pick up a visa at the American Embassy.",
        "六月一日，北京解放军301医院72岁的外科医生蒋彦永与同岁的妻子Hua Zhongwei医生离家去美国大使馆领取签证。"
    ],
    [
        "Gaining useful knowledge from animal research requires robust experimental findings: different scientists should be able to reproduce them in different locations.",
        "从动物研究中获得有用的知识需要有力的实验事实：不同的科学家应该能够在不同的地点复制这些实验事实。"
    ],
    [
        "China recognizes that its currency needs to appreciate over the long run, and politicizing the speed at which it does so has been counterproductive.",
        "中国认识到它的货币在长期中需要升值，而把货币升值的速度政治化是有害无益的。"
    ],
    [
        "So, what Michelle Obama is doing is not trivial.",
        "所以，米歇尔·奥巴马正在做事情的并不是微不足道的。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets have celebrated each and every one of Rousseff’s travails.",
        "罗塞夫形势越危险，金融市场越兴奋。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the unemployment rate is falling, and now stands at just over 4%.",
        "美国失业率一路下降，目前只有4％多一点。"
    ],
    [
        "With both Western and Eastern Europe beset by political conflict and economic stagnation, the five centuries of European global dominance are drawing to an end.",
        "西欧和东欧都面临着政治冲突和经济停滞，五个世纪的欧洲全球主导地位正在走向终点。"
    ],
    [
        "In an environment of ultra-low interest rates, the economic cost of being late is low.",
        "在利率极低的环境下，动作迟缓的经济成本很低。"
    ],
    [
        "In Antalya, we will discuss how we can align our efforts with the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and increase our engagement with low-income, developing countries.",
        "在安塔利亚，我们将讨论如何将我们的努力与2030年可持续发展日程相协调，以及如何增加我们与低收入发展中国家的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Emotional intelligence is one of them.",
        "情商就是其中之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The SDGs can create a path toward economic development that is technologically advanced, socially fair, and environmentally sustainable.",
        "可持续发展目标可以造就一条通向技术先进、社会公平、环境可持续的经济发展的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, if the US never acknowledges the specific strikes, how can ordinary Americans possibly know that Rasilah al-Faqih, a pregnant Yemeni woman, was killed in Walad Rabei’, along with her husband and ten-year-old daughter, as they headed home from a visit to the doctor?",
        "亚斯勒姆·赛义德·本·依沙克（Yaslem Saeed bin Ishaq）的儿子在2013年瓦迪瑟（Wadi Sir）美国无人机打击中身亡，他观察道：“他们只是为了杀戮。 他们根本不知道他们的导弹造成了怎样的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "With 111 Indian enclaves spread over 17,000 acres in Bangladesh, and 51 Bangladeshi enclaves spread over 7,110 acres in India, a settlement would involve a net transfer of some 40 square kilometers (15.4 square miles) of territory from India to its eastern neighbor.",
        "印度在孟加拉国拥有111片飞地，面积超过17,000英亩，而孟加拉国在印度也有51片飞地，面积超过7,110英亩。 和解将包括印度向其东邻净转移大约40平方英里领土。"
    ],
    [
        "Defenders of democracy must now determine not only how to create jobs and ensure material prosperity for today’s young people, but also how to feed their souls on the way.",
        "民主卫士现在不但必须决定如何为当代青年创造就业岗位和确保物质繁荣，还必须决定在此过程中如何培养他们的灵魂。"
    ],
    [
        "(This is not an argument against sanctions: The world had to respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Western CEOs who argue otherwise, seeking to protect their investments, have demonstrated a disturbing lack of principle.)",
        "（这并非是要反对制裁：世界必须对俄罗斯入侵乌克兰有所反应，而反对这样做、意图保护他们的投资的西方CEO表现出令人失望的没有原则。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The decision in Doha reaffirms that any new agreement must bolster efforts to meet the UN target of limiting global warming to two degrees centigrade.",
        "多哈谈判的决定确认，任何新协定都必须有利于联合国将全球变暖幅度限制在2摄氏度的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The conflation of immigrants and refugees was probably not the result of malicious intent.",
        "移民和难民混为一谈也许并非恶意为之。"
    ],
    [
        "Many subsequently matured politically, revised their worldview, and shifted from armed to unarmed activism, forming political parties and contesting elections.",
        "很多人之后都在政治上成熟起来并修正了自身的世界观，从武装转变为非武装行动，组建政党并参加选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Sheremet spent more than two decades reporting in three post-Soviet countries, and was relentless in uncovering corruption wherever he reported.",
        "谢里梅特在三个前苏联国家工作逾二十年，不懈地揭发他所在地区的腐败现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Another problem is the sheer magnitude of the Fund's intervention.",
        "另一个问题是IMF干预的成都。"
    ],
    [
        "Peter Shelakhaev, a senior Russian official who leads the government’s Far East Investment and Export Agency, has indicated that there are legal hurdles to establishing such a framework, and that Japanese firms doing business on the Kurils would have to pay taxes to Russia.",
        "俄罗斯政府远东投资和出口局（Far East Investment and Export Agency）主管彼得·舍拉哈耶夫（Peter Shelakhaev）表示建立这一框架存在法律障碍，在南千岛群岛经营的日本企业必须向俄罗斯纳税。"
    ],
    [
        "The conventional means for doing so – mutual recognition and substituted compliance – were developed in an environment in which countries would spur each other to raise standards by offering foreigners easier access to domestic markets once regulations in their home countries mirrored their own.",
        "监管外交的传统方式——互相承认和合规替代——需要一种环境，即各国通过让外国人更容易进入本国市场（只要其母国监管与本国相同）互相鞭策提高标准。"
    ],
    [
        "So his decision to abandon Saleh stemmed less from his love of the constitution and democracy than from his desire to even the score with the president and his son Ahmad Saleh, with whom he has long clashed.",
        "因此他抛弃萨利赫的决定与其说是出于对宪法和民主的爱戴，不如说是为了与总统以及其子阿赫玛德·萨利赫（此人与阿赫玛尔也经常发生冲突）算账。"
    ],
    [
        "Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.",
        "许多雨林国家在最近几年中联合起来提议富有国家建立雨林储存基金，用来向贫困的小农场主支付少量金额来保护森林。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this good economic news is offset in many cases by weak growth in household incomes, which have stagnated in real (inflation-adjusted) terms for some 15 years.",
        "但这一经济好消息被家庭收入增长萎靡所抵消，美国真实（经通胀调整的）家庭收入已有15年不见增加。"
    ],
    [
        "One key innovation has been multi-sided platforms like Alibaba, which, by providing access to production, logistics, distribution, and payments, challenge traditional business models – and with considerable success.",
        "一项关键的创新是阿里巴巴等多方平台公司的创立，这些平台公司提供产品、物流、分销和支付接口，对传统商业模式构成了挑战，并取得了巨大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "And what are the implications for business and policymakers?",
        "对商业和决策者又有哪些影响？"
    ],
    [
        "American presidential candidates pretend to run against “Washington” even when they are the sons of former presidents.",
        "美国总统候选人即使是前总统的儿子表面上也要对抗华盛顿的政治精英。"
    ],
    [
        "Self-Measurement and Self-Manipulation",
        "自我测量和自我控制"
    ],
    [
        "By actively seeking out victims and treating them quickly, so that they are no longer infectious, the chain of TB transmission can be broken.",
        "通过积极寻找受害者并迅速对其进行治疗，能使结核病患者不再具有传染性，并借此打破结核病的传播链条。"
    ],
    [
        "These investors have become a major factor in the art market’s spectacular price bubble of the last several years.",
        "这些投资者已成为过去数年艺术品市场巨大的价格泡沫的主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "They are becoming increasingly sophisticated about how to be heard, buying shares, stepping up to the microphone, and looking board members in the eye, so that their questions become part of the official minutes.",
        "他们越来越善于表达自己的意见，买入股票，直视董事会成员的眼睛大胆发言，使自己的问题成为正式纪录的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The US did, however, have the highest ranking for “helping a stranger.”",
        "但是，美国在“帮助陌生人”方面的评分最高。"
    ],
    [
        "I sat once with an official at a London airport who picked up a Kenyan woman bringing cocaine into the United Kingdom.",
        "曾经有一名肯尼亚女性将可卡因带入英国，而我曾与逮捕她的伦敦机场官员对坐谈话。"
    ],
    [
        "Time is growing short.",
        "时间越来越紧了。"
    ],
    [
        "World leaders should take note.",
        "世界领导人应该引起注意。"
    ],
    [
        "So why not protect our landscape as a resource for tourism – and even as a way of combating climate change?",
        "因此，为什么不保护这些景观作为旅游景点——甚至作为遏制气候变化的方法？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, he confessed to 31 other counts covering the same underlying acts, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.",
        "事实上，他对由同样基本行为支撑的其他31项罪行均供认不讳，并被判处40年徒刑。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s autocratic government is famous for avoiding such scrutiny by suppressing freedom of information.",
        "中国的独裁政府以通过压制信息自由避免这一约束而闻名。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in cases where governments announce official lists of blocked sites, they may leave some targets off.",
        "即使有时政府会公布官方封禁网站名单，也会网开一面。"
    ],
    [
        "Self-determination turns out to be an ambiguous moral principle.",
        "自决成了意义模糊的道德原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Because my commercial flight was canceled, I got a ride back to the United States on a military transport.",
        "因为我原本要搭乘的民用航班被取消，只好乘坐军用航班飞回美国。"
    ],
    [
        "They are increasingly determined also by calculations regarding expected future fundamentals (such as economic growth in Asia) and alternative returns (such as interest rates) – in other words, by speculators.",
        "对未来基本面的预期判断（比如亚洲经济增长）以及参考回报率（比如利率）在价格决定方面所起的作用越来越大，换句话说，就是投机客在价格决定方面所起的作用越来越大了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Court was not supposed to hold specific individuals criminally responsible; that is the job of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).",
        "国际法院不会裁定某些特定的人在刑事上负责； 那是前南斯拉夫国际刑事法庭的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, matters are not so simple.",
        "不幸的是，事情并不那么简单。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact on governance is all too predictable.",
        "当前的俄罗斯拥有大量的原材料，其经济过度依赖大宗商品——采矿和钻井。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, America did maintain economic dominance after 1945: the devastation of WWII in so many countries meant that the US produced nearly half of global GDP.",
        "当然，美国确实在1945年后维持了经济主宰力：二战让许多国家变成了焦土，这意味着美国贡献了全球GDP的近一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, though Smoot-Hawley was not a direct cause of the Great Depression, as many have claimed, it did contribute to a breakdown of international trade precisely when the world could least afford it.",
        "因此，尽管斯穆特-霍利关税法案不是大萧条的直接原因，但正如许多人宣称的那样，它在世界最无力承受的时候助长了国际贸易的崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "This view clearly influences Republican office-holders, who fear the partisan beast that mans their campaigns’ phone banks and holds the purse strings.",
        "这一观点显然影响了共和党领导人，他们担心党派之争扼住了其竞选阵营的电话银行和钱袋子。"
    ],
    [
        "Annan himself conceded as much in the speech he gave at the opening of the 60th UN General Assembly.",
        "安南本人也在第60届联合国大会的开幕讲话中明确承认了这种观点。"
    ],
    [
        "The other limit is China's reluctance to take full advantage of an uncensored civil society.",
        "另一个制约因素是中国不愿充分利用不受审查的公民社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Put differently, these institutions do not offer a credible, non-inflationary, external source of strength.",
        "换句话说，这些机构并不能提供可信的、不会引起通胀的外部实力来源。"
    ],
    [
        "True, many local governments in China are saddled with debt, some of which may need to be restructured.",
        "诚然，不少中国地方政府深受债务困扰，其中一些可能需要重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Antidumping facilitates protectionism of the worst kind, while doing nothing for countries that need legitimate policy space.",
        "反倾销给最恶劣的保护主义打开了方便之门，同时对需要合法政策空间的国家没有任何益处。"
    ],
    [
        "But, thanks to the efforts of New York’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, and others, serious discussion has started in the United States about an out-of court mortgage settlement between state attorney generals and prominent financial-sector firms.",
        "但是，在纽约总检察长史树德（Eric Schneiderman）等人的努力下，美国已经掀起了一场关于总检察长与主要金融公司庭外和解的认真大讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "China and the US need to talk.",
        "中国和美国需要谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico faces mid-term elections for Congress in the fall, and President Felipe Calderón’s National Action Party is trailing slightly in the polls over its main rivals, who would like nothing better than to see a health emergency translate into a political defeat.",
        "今年秋天，墨西哥国会将迎来中期选举，总统费利佩·卡尔德龙所在的国家行动党在民意调查中目前略微落后于主要竞争对手。 这些竞选对手最希望看到的莫过于国家行动党在医疗卫生事件上政治行动的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of this 23% penalty on repatriation, US companies generally choose not to repatriate the profits of their foreign subsidiaries.",
        "由于将资金回流美国意味着着再损失23％，美国公司一般选择将不其外国子公司的利润留在国外。"
    ],
    [
        "Power involves setting agendas and creating others’ preferences as well as pushing and shoving.",
        "权力除了制定新计划之前，还必须对原有的环境进行修补。"
    ],
    [
        "Only 22% responded affirmatively when asked, “Do you think your voice matters?”",
        "当被问及“你认为自己的意见是否起作用”时，只有22%的人给出了肯定的回答。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his predecessor Abdullah Gül worked together to create the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has dominated Turkish politics since 2002.",
        "最后，在土耳其，总统埃尔多安及其前任阿卜杜拉·居尔（r Abdullah Gül）一起创建了自2002年以来主宰土耳其政坛的正义与发展党（AKP）。"
    ],
    [
        "World Bank data tracking the evolution of developing-country debt since the 1970s show that the probability of a country falling into debt distress increases nine-fold (to a one-in-five chance) if its repayments are equivalent to more than one-tenth of its exports – a situation that one in three of today’s new issuers could face when their bonds come due.",
        "追踪20世纪70年代以来发展中国家债务演化的世界银行数据表明，如果一国的偿付额等于或大于其出口额的十分之一，其陷入债务困境的概率就会增加九倍（达到五分之一）——今天的新发行国中每三个就有一个在债券到期时面临这一情景。"
    ],
    [
        "Members of the coalition governments have treated the ministries allocated to them as fiefdoms, to be milked for their benefit.",
        "联合政府的成员们把分配给他们的政府部门当作封地，用来为自己谋求利益。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s foreign minister, having earlier termed the incursion a “localized incident,” had to change his tune under parliamentary pressure, and cautioned China that India might have to reconsider his projected visit to Beijing.",
        "印度外交部长此前将此次入侵称为“局部事件”，在议会的压力下，他不得不改变口风，警告中国印度可能不得不重新考虑他对北京的访问。"
    ],
    [
        "For women in the workplace, Japan remains the Saudi Arabia of the developed world.",
        "在职业女性这一方面，日本就好像是发达国家中的沙特阿拉伯。"
    ],
    [
        "The city offered a lifeline to South Korean companies struggling with rapidly rising wages, allowing them to make use of low-cost North Korean labor.",
        "开城为疲于应付工资迅速上涨的韩国公司提供了一线生机，让它们得以利用低成本的朝鲜劳动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all black money is in cash, and not all cash is black money.",
        "并非所有的黑钱都是现金，也并非所有的现金都是黑钱。"
    ],
    [
        "She will continue to favor the eventual admission of the Balkan states, but she has left no doubt of her opposition to full membership for Turkey, which is the major substantive change from the Schroeder era (although her government will not block the start of negotiations in early October).",
        "她会继续鼓励欧盟最终接纳巴尔干国家，但她在反对给予土耳其正式成员国地位的立场上也毫不含糊。 这是自施罗德时代以来的一个重大的实质性态度转变（虽然她的政府不会阻挠在十月初启动谈判）。"
    ],
    [
        "This advice helped shape the parliament’s strong stance against maintaining unnecessary economic engagement with Lukashenka and his henchmen.",
        "这项建议对议会形成反对与卢卡申科及其党羽保持不必要经济联系的强硬态度起到了很大的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most important consequence of the FMLN’s victory may lie in its effect on the rest of Central America and Mexico.",
        "但马解阵线获胜的最重要的后果是它可能对中美洲其它地区和墨西哥产生的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Therein lies the real challenge facing China today.",
        "而中国今天所面临的挑战也正在这里。"
    ],
    [
        "Pressing risk-related questions require deliberate action on an international scale.",
        "与危险相关的紧迫问题需要全世界都认真行动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "But efforts to promote immigration face considerable social and cultural barriers.",
        "但促进移民的政策面临着巨大的社会和文化障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, political participation remained blocked by the previous generation, which never intended to give up power voluntarily.",
        "同时，政坛仍然被上一代人所把持，而上一代人是决不会自愿放下手中的权力的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not the only, or even the most important, downside risk facing the global economy.",
        "而这并不是世界经济所面对的唯一或是最重要的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "It was also strengthened by the regime’s activities in the 1980’s, when it created Hezbollah as a guerilla organization in Lebanon, thereby expanding its domination over the most important Shiite areas in the region.",
        "政府20世纪80年代在黎巴嫩建立真主党游击队武装的行动也扩大了这种影响，进而加强了对该地区最为重要的什叶派区域的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Germany has not buckled.",
        "但德国没有屈服。"
    ],
    [
        "With the threat that the US House of Representatives will approve a resolution that accuses Turks of genocide against ethic Armenians nine decades ago, this is a particularly inopportune moment for the two countries to be at odds over Iraq.",
        "面对美国众议院威胁要通过一项谴责土耳其人在90年前对亚美尼亚族人实施种族灭绝的决议，两国在伊拉克问题上产生分歧真是显得特别不合时宜。"
    ],
    [
        "But becoming a murderous fanatic like Merah or Sidique Khan is the personal choice of a pathological mind, not the trend of a generation.",
        "但是像默拉或斯迪克·翰此类的冷血杀人狂，不是常人所为，而是一种病态思想作祟，这也不是新一代年轻人的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, when oil prices fell last year, so did inflation expectations (measured however imperfectly).",
        "事实上，当去年石油价格下跌时，通胀预期也下降（不管其测量多么不完美）。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, rapid credit growth is a natural consequence of declining real interest rates.",
        "当然，快速的信用增长是真实利率下降的自然反应。"
    ],
    [
        "They should tap into their diasporas, attract foreign direct investment in new areas, and acquire foreign firms if possible.",
        "他们应该利用散居的外国移民，在新行业吸引直接外资，可能的话收购外国企业。"
    ],
    [
        "For China, it is excessive reliance on fixed-asset investment for growth.",
        "中国的问题是过度依赖固定资产投资带动增长。"
    ],
    [
        "He has suggested a radical solution that would become a condition of doing business in the EU: All data relating to Europeans, he and others argue, must be hosted on EU-based servers.",
        "他提出了一个激进方案，该方案可能成为在欧盟营商的条件：所有与欧洲人相关的数据，他和其他一些人指出，必须托管于在欧盟的服务器上。"
    ],
    [
        "My view is that the problem would fix itself easily if only the Republican Party of Dwight D. Eisenhower could stage a comeback (though without Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy).",
        "在我看来，要是艾森豪威尔治下的共和党能起死回生就好了（可别是尼克松和约瑟夫·麦卡锡的共和党），这样的话，这个问题就能自动修正了。"
    ],
    [
        "But the headwinds in the housing market are dissipating.",
        "但房地产市场的阻力正在消散。"
    ],
    [
        "In some ways, the pre-Sykes-Picot Middle East is coming back – but without the order imposed by the Ottoman Empire.",
        "从某些方面来说，前赛克斯-皮科中东正在回归——但不再有奥斯曼帝国来维持秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Serious direct negotiations are unlikely to begin without a freeze on settlement building, which Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu is unlikely to announce or implement, given resistance within his coalition government.",
        "真正意义上的直接谈判不大可能在不冻结定居点修建活动的情况下开始，而以色列总理内塔尼亚胡不太可能宣布或执行冻结定居点的政策，因为他在联合政府内部面临的阻力很大。"
    ],
    [
        "When that day arrives, Americans had better pray that their creditors will be as happy to accept dollars as they are now.",
        "当那一天到来时，美国人最好祈祷他们的债主们还会像今天一样乐于接受美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The unprecedented financial engineering by central banks over the last six years has been decisive in setting asset prices in major markets worldwide.",
        "过去六年中，前所未有的央行金融工程成为全球主要市场资产价格的主要决定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "A third alternative is democracy, but with secular restrictions on religious parties.",
        "第三种做法是一种对宗教政党采取现世主义约制的民主制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Integrating this experience into the psychotherapeutic process might facilitate subsequent behavioral changes.",
        "将这一体验嵌入精神治疗过程可能有助于后续行为改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, when the Greek side proposes essentially the same deal that it just called a snap referendum to reject, or when the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, following Germany’s lead, simply ignores the unsustainability of Greece’s debt, the ability to execute any deal must be in doubt.",
        "类似地，当希腊方面提出与它刚刚召集临时公投否决的协议几乎一样的方案时，当由欧元区财政部长组成的欧元集团在德国的领导下完全无视希腊债务的不可持续性时，任何协议的执行力都必然会遭受质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "And it damages food production, at a time when we need to feed more people than ever.",
        "它还威胁粮食生产，而我们现在比以往任何时候都需要粮食养活更多的人。"
    ],
    [
        "This is mostly not the case today, but the situation is improving as the Obama administration links more of its spending to evidence of success, and as non-profit groups, like America Achieves, develop sophisticated new techniques to evaluate government programs.",
        "今天，情况往往并非如此，但随着奥巴马政府将其更多的支出与成功证据挂钩，随着美国成就（America Achieves）等非营利组织开发出完备的政府计划评估新技术，局面正在改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Hundreds of millions of lives have been improved in the process.",
        "在此过程中，数以亿计人口的生活水平得以提高。"
    ],
    [
        "She is frank, forceful, warm, and engaging.",
        "她坦承、强力、温暖、动人。"
    ],
    [
        "As we can see in one country after another, the old order won’t give up without a fight.",
        "逐个审视国家，旧秩序不会不做抵抗就放弃。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU can continue muddle along with its one-size-fits-all policy of “enlargement-lite” in the region.",
        "欧盟可以继续用其一体适用的“扩张之石”政策在该地区搅混水。"
    ],
    [
        "Some studies even link air pollution to diabetes, a major chronic disease and health challenge in Indonesia, China, and Western countries.",
        "某些研究甚至把空气污染和糖尿病相提并论，这种病是印尼、中国和西方国家的主要慢性病和主要健康威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Women benefit when flexible work arrangements are introduced and the barriers between part-time and full-time work contracts are lowered, as the Netherlands has successfully done.",
        "有待完成的任务还十分艰巨。 弹性工作安排的引入、兼职和全职工作合同壁垒的降低（荷兰在这方面取得了成功）使女性收益。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, increased spending, which the Keynesians saw simply as boosting aggregate demand, produced distortions.",
        "事实上，增加支出——凯恩斯主义者把它和提振总需求划等号——会产生扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "As we recently argued, the key will be to maintain an annual growth rate of roughly 6.5%, while pursuing a multifaceted short-term stabilization plan that aims to stimulate job creation to offset the losses from restructuring inefficient industries and eliminating excess capacity.",
        "正如我们最近撰文指出的那样，关键是保持大约6. 5％的经济年均增速，这就需要实施一系列旨在创造更多就业机会的多层面短期稳定经济计划，以抵消重组低效率产业和消除产能过剩所带来的短期增长及收入的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "To retreat from its first major “out of area” mission would be a damaging blow for the alliance.",
        "从它在“区域外”的第一次重大行动中撤军对于这个联盟来说将是一次毁灭性的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Recovery from the collapse of 2008 has been unexpectedly slow.",
        "2008年大崩盘的恢复慢得出人意料。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, like Japan beginning in 1991, much of the developed world risks lost decades.",
        "事实上，与始于1991年的日本类似，发达世界中的许多国家有可能迎来失去的几十年。"
    ],
    [
        "In early March – less than three months after the acquisition – Merck announced it would close down Cubist’s early-stage research unit, laying off some 120 staff and perhaps crippling its efforts to introduce new drugs into the pipeline.",
        "3月初——也就是收购完成不到三个月——默克宣布将关闭丘比斯特早期研究团队，裁员120人，也许还要削减新药开发的投入。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe will not be eager to embrace such a future.",
        "但像这样的未来发展却并非欧洲之所愿。"
    ],
    [
        "And they could help to create credible opportunities for women to rise to leadership positions.",
        "还可以帮助创造让女性晋升到领导职位的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In those cases, even a government with the proper economic fundamentals and its financial house in order could still run into trouble.",
        "在某些案例中，即便是一个经济基础稳固，金融运作有序的政府也可能陷入麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "But its value is increasingly being questioned, especially in obesity research, where body-composition measurements are proving to be far more relevant.",
        "但其价值却越来越受到质疑，特别是在肥胖研究领域，身体成分测定正变得越来越重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, she is certainly a candidate for “great leader” status.",
        "有鉴于此，她无疑有权成为“伟大领袖”的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this has been inadequate to stem the spread of disease; in fact, with many of the new and emerging infectious diseases affecting humans originating in animals, veterinarians, microbiologists, and epidemiologists have been trying to understand the “ecology of disease” (how nature, and humanity’s impact on it, spreads disease).",
        "但已不足以阻止疾病蔓延； 事实上，影响人类的多种新型传染病均起源于动物，兽医、微生物学家、流行病学家已经开始对“疾病生态学”（即自然和人类对自然的影响如何传播疾病）进行研究。"
    ],
    [
        "As Iraqi Colonel Omar Ali, the Iraqi battalion commander in Mosul, the main focus of the insurgency today, recently put it, “Without the Americans, it would be impossible for us to control Iraq.”",
        "摩索尔是当今反叛力量的主要据点，伊拉克军队驻在那里的一位营长阿里说：“没有美国人，我们根本不可能控制伊拉克。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But, like other eurozone reforms, such a scheme would have to be agreed among eurozone members.",
        "但是，和其他欧元区改革一样，这一机制需要欧元区成员国之间达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting this aside, let us suppose that the decision before Tsipras was so crucial and complex that it merited the exceptional step of referendum.",
        "姑且将这一点放在一边，假设齐普拉斯面前的决定极其关键和复杂，需要采取反常的公投措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes, such as when violence was recently used to quell South Chinese peasants protesting official land grabs, the CCP still shows its willingness to use “boot-on-the-face” suppression.",
        "有的时候，如平息中国南方抗议官员剥夺田地的农民暴乱时，中国共产党仍旧使用“掩耳盗铃”式的镇压方式。"
    ],
    [
        "It will, and it should.",
        "民主进程的推动是应该的，也是必须的。"
    ],
    [
        "Joyce is a farmer who grows bananas, vegetables, and maize on a small plot of land in rural Tanzania.",
        "乔伊斯是一位农民，在坦桑尼亚农村地区的一小片土地上种植香蕉、蔬菜和玉米。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the policy succeeded in buttressing China’s economic growth, it was widely criticized as an overreaction – one that led to excessive monetary expansion.",
        "虽然该政策成功维持了中国的经济增长，但也因此受到了广泛指责，认为这是最终导致了货币过度扩张的一次过激反应。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Commission is now working on extending the focus of surveillance beyond fiscal policy so that we can identify risks stemming from macroeconomic imbalances or changes in competitiveness and address them before they become entrenched.",
        "欧盟委员会目前正在研究使监督重点扩大到财政政策之外，这样我们就能够识别因宏观经济的不平衡或竞争力的改变而产生的风险，并在问题变得棘手之前，就开始解决它们。"
    ],
    [
        "The US economy is certainly capable of reaching the “escape velocity” that the country needs if unemployment is to fall in a more definitive and lasting manner.",
        "如果失业率能以一个更为决定性和持续性的方式下降的话，美国经济当然有能力 去达到国家所需的“逃逸速度”。 但这要求国会在三个领域支持奥巴马政府：改善提升总需求的构成状况和水平；"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, they should heed a recent comment by Oxford University’s Pavlos Eleftheriadis about a Greek electorate “livid at being led by those who dishonestly caused the problem.”",
        "事实上，牛津大学教授Pavlos Eleftheriadis最近对某希腊选民的评论应该引起亚洲领导人的注意：“对接受不诚实地引发问题的人领导怒不可遏”。"
    ],
    [
        "But national authorities were wary of potential illegal uses of such assets, reflected in the bitcoin-enabled, dark-web marketplace called Silk Road, a clearinghouse for, among other things, illicit drugs.",
        "但监管当局担心这种资产可能用于非法交易，比如一家名为丝路（Silk Road）的基于比特币的暗网市场里就有毒品交易。"
    ],
    [
        "Incompetence and corruption are rampant: Iraq routinely scores among the bottom ten countries in Transparency International’s list of the most corrupt countries in the world.",
        "无能和腐败泛滥成灾：伊拉克经常在透明国际世界最腐败国家名单中排名后10位。"
    ],
    [
        "This complex process took many decades for scientists to decipher, not least because it controverted standard theories of evolution.",
        "这一复杂的过程耗费了科学家好几十年去破译，因为这否定了标准的进化论。"
    ],
    [
        "To ensure that domestic firms do not have an incentive to raise prices, an increase in VAT needs to be accompanied by a cut in payroll taxes.",
        "为确保国内企业不会提高价格，在增加增值税的同时，必须削减工资税。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, he is a firm believer in the power of markets and free trade, which have clearly done far more to alleviate poverty over the past half-century than any aid program.",
        "第二，他坚信市场和自由贸易的力量，而这两者在过去本个世纪中在减轻贫困上发挥的作用明显要比任何援助项目都大。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a lesson that many countries fully learned only in the wake of the economic and financial crises that began in East Asia in 1997, spread to Russia in 1998, and affected most of the emerging world.",
        "但在1997年在东亚地区爆发并在随后一年蔓延到俄罗斯，并导致大多数发展中国家的金融和经济危机后，许多国家才真正领会到了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, again like the current violence in which the Arab world is embroiled, it was much more complicated.",
        "事实上，和今天阿拉伯世界深陷其中的暴力相同，三十年战争要复杂得多。"
    ],
    [
        "While this group has produced some innovative solutions – for example, the Ghanaian entrepreneur Bright Simmons is using mobile technology to address the counterfeit-drug problem – many more passionate local inventors and entrepreneurs must get involved.",
        "尽管上述团体已经找到了某种创新方法——如加纳企业家西蒙斯利用移动技术来解决假药问题——但还需要更多热情的当地发明家和企业家的加入。"
    ],
    [
        "For 85% of the electorate went to vote in what has been the highest level of participation in presidential elections in France since Charles de Gaulle last ran for president in1965.",
        "因为，85%的选民前往投票，这是自1965年戴高乐将军最后一次竞选总统以来法国总统选举中最高的参与程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there are the new populists, several PD old-timers, and plenty of other establishment figures, including several former members of the constitutional court, who generally fear change.",
        "还有新民粹主义者、某些民主党元老以其他众多建制派人物（包括一些宪法法院前法官），他们一般都担心变革。"
    ],
    [
        "This success has many parents.",
        "这一成功的功臣很多。"
    ],
    [
        "In Uruguay, President Tabaré Vázquez went out on a limb simply by hosting Bush, given that his problems with his Chávez-friendly neighbor in Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, can only worsen as a result of these “dangerous” acquaintances.",
        "在乌拉圭，塔瓦雷总统因为接待了布什而身处困境，这种“危险”的款待只会恶化他跟与查维斯友好的邻国阿根廷总统基什内尔的业已存在问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For professional politicians and policymakers in such circumstances, less may be more.",
        "在这样的环境下，职业政客和决策者会觉得少即是多。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, in the early 1960’s, members of President John F. Kennedy’s administration intellectualized war and debated the merits of strategies, including counterinsurgency.",
        "诚然，早在20世纪60年代初，肯尼迪政府成员就开始了战争的理智化，争论战略（包括反动乱战略）的合理性。"
    ],
    [
        "If this view is correct, the kind of policy prescription recommended by Ron Paul is less appealing.",
        "如果这一观点正确，那么罗恩·保罗提出的政策药方就没什么吸引力了。"
    ],
    [
        "Morally, it is difficult to separate this example from traditional cases of corporate insider trading. Yet no law prohibits the practice.",
        "在道德层面，上述例子跟传统企业内幕交易案件非常相似，但却没有相关法律可以禁止上述行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Trump and congressional Republicans are learning that replacing Obamacare is easier said than done.",
        "希拉里·克林顿可能会告诉他们，医疗改革是一件无比复杂的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "In August alone, Italy’s central bank drew €40 billion in Target credit, and it probably drew roughly another €50 billion in September, when the Bundesbank’s Target loans to the ECB system increased by €59 billion (after a €47-billion hike in August).",
        "光是在8月份，意大利央行就获得了400亿欧元的目标信用，9月份大概还要再获得500亿欧元，与此同时，德国央行给欧洲央行的目标贷款将增加590欧元（8月份增加了470亿欧元）。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, research has indicated that vested interests and powerful lobbies distort economic policies and cause governments to miss good opportunities.",
        "近年来的研究结果表明，既得利益和强大的游说势力会扭曲经济政策，致使政府错过千载难逢的发展机会。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also because yesterday’s solutions belong to the past: a social compact designed for an environment of high-growth, equalizing technological progress won’t help address the problems of a low-growth world of divisive technological innovation.",
        "同时还因为昨天的解决方案只属于过去：为高增长、平等、技术进步环境所设计的社会契约解决不了技术创新分裂的低增长世界所面临的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, an American withdrawal from the Middle East is hardly a recipe for countering China’s rise in East Asia, given that the two regions are increasingly intertwined.",
        "无论如何，美国撤出中东绝不是应对中国在东亚崛起的药方，因为这两个地区的联系日益紧密。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, however, perfect insurance could nonetheless serve as a valid benchmark to guide the choice of policies to implement.",
        "但在这两起事件中，理想化的保险可以成为一个有效的基准，以指导各国选择合适的政策并付诸实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Seventy-five percent of crimes are not reported due to lack of trust in the authorities, and 98% of crimes are never resolved or punished.",
        "由于民众对当局缺乏信心， 75% 的犯罪案件没有上报； 98%的犯罪案件无果而终，犯罪分子仍逍遥法外。"
    ],
    [
        "Values are grown from a specific history and geography.",
        "价值观成长自具体的历史和地理。"
    ],
    [
        "The Perils of 2012",
        "2012的危险"
    ],
    [
        "But there is also distrust of the Fed on more specific grounds – distrust that extends well beyond the ranks of the Tea Party.",
        "但对美联储的不信任还基于某些更具体的原因——这种不信任远远超越茶党的层次。"
    ],
    [
        "The jury is still out, but it may be that there is no safe level of exposure to many common radiations; the more we are exposed, the more damage we do.",
        "虽然这项研究还没有定论，但是对于许多普通水平的辐射来说也许并没有一个安全的暴露标准。 我们越多地暴露辐射下，就会受到越大的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "But all of us, and in particular the peoples of Hungary and Poland, must remember that NATO, like the EU, was founded on the fundamental principles of democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law.",
        "但是我们所有人（尤其是匈牙利和波兰人民）必须牢记的是：北约跟欧盟一样构建于民主，个人自由和法治的基本原则之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Founded formally in 1948 under UN auspices, the then-fledgling Republic of Korea immediately became engulfed in Cold War power politics, which hampered its efforts to join the UN – a goal not achieved until 1991.",
        "1948年在联合国主持下正式成立后，当时羽翼未丰的大韩民国立即被卷入到冷战的强权政治中，并在1991年前阻碍其加入联合国。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Arafat contributed to the absence of a legitimate monopoly of force by ignoring the semi-autonomous armed actions of his own Fatah-based militia, as well as the Fatah-based Al–Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, not to mention other groups’ armed militias.",
        "此外，阿拉法特对他法塔赫旗下的民兵组织及阿克萨烈士旅的半自治军事行动视而不见，更不用说其他团体的武装民兵了，这导致了巴勒斯坦始终缺乏合法专权。"
    ],
    [
        "Proof positive that proportional representation can produce strange outcomes.",
        "6％的选票。 证据表明，比例代表制可以产生奇怪的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But the first statement is little more than a truism, and the second is falsified by Piketty’s own data, making the third irrelevant.",
        "但第一点只不过是老生常谈，而第二点则被皮克提自己的数据所证伪，使得第三点变得无关紧要。"
    ],
    [
        "And World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced that his institution would prioritize the fight against climate change and focus on promoting, among other measures, the elimination of subsidies doled out to the fossil-fuel industry.",
        "”而世界银行总裁金勇（Jim Yong Kim）则宣布他的机构会优先考虑对抗气候变化并在其它各类措施中专注于推动取消发放给化石燃料行业的补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "The episode created such a commotion in France that several authors – as well as many Franco-Algerian bloggers – came to Daoud’s defense, criticizing the attacks against him by Salafists and academics intent on bullying him into silence.",
        "这一事件在几位法国作家（及很多法国-阿尔及利亚博客写手）中造成了不小的轰动，他们站出来保护达乌德，对萨拉菲派和旨在迫使他陷入沉默的学者对他的攻击行为持批评态度。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Chinese premier, OPEC heads of state, and the world’s richest supermodel all express concern about the dollar, you can be sure we are in for a bumpy ride.",
        "在中国总理、石油输出国组织各国领导人以及世界上最富有的超级模特都对美元表示担忧的时候，你就可以知道我们将会面临崎岖不平的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Although good governance and human rights remained among the ENP’s proclaimed goals, official communications of the European Commission show that it emphasized security and border control.",
        "虽然廉政和人权一直是欧洲睦邻政策公开目标的组成部分，但欧洲委员会的官方通讯显示安全和边境控制才是重点关注的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Better technologies have allowed the world economy to continue to grow despite tough resource constraints in the past.",
        "在过去，尽管有严峻的资源限制，技术的进步却使全球经济持续增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Her poor judgment in using a private email server as Secretary of State, thereby risking the disclosure of classified material, has become a chronic burden for her campaign.",
        "她在担任国务卿期间使用私人邮件服务器，从而导致保密材料有可能泄露，这表明她判断力糟糕，也是她选战中的一个永远的污点。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is how big a boost.",
        "但问题在于提振的效果能有多大。"
    ],
    [
        "Some financial systems in developed economies – for example, in Australia, Canada, and Singapore – have shown remarkable resilience, while others have gotten into trouble.",
        "一些发达经济特的金融制度——如澳大利亚、加拿大和新加坡——显示出了卓著的韧性，但其他则陷入了麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, when it comes to human rights and minority protections, Myanmar may even be regressing.",
        "事实上，在人权和少数民族保护方面，缅甸甚至可能在退步。"
    ],
    [
        "A prosperous and inclusive democracy is the only way out for Turkey, and it would restore a model that the countries of the wider Middle East desperately need.",
        "建立繁荣和包容的民主制度是土耳其唯一的出路，而且还会为中东其他国家树立一个急需的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "If an economy can be said to be growing when a small minority receives most of the gains while everyone else’s lot stays the same or decreases, the concept of economic growth loses much of its meaning.",
        "如果所谓的经济增长是少数人囊括大部分收益，而其他人只能维持原状甚至减少，经济增长的概念就没有意义了。"
    ],
    [
        "They are a restless breed, flitting round the world’s trouble spots, pen and camera poised.",
        "他们就是一群焦躁不安的蚊虫，拿着纸笔和相机围着全世界的危机地区嗡嗡乱飞。"
    ],
    [
        "Government revenues depend on the value of domestic output, not only consumption.",
        "政府的收入不仅依靠消费，还依赖于国内产值。"
    ],
    [
        "Nieto also recognizes the imperative of improving Mexico’s education system, and thus is taking on the powerful teachers’ union.",
        "涅托也认识强化墨西哥教育体系势在必行，并为此与强大的教师工会展开正面交锋。"
    ],
    [
        "The liberal Russia’s Choice party, led by the country’s first democratic prime minister, Yegor Gaidar, received 15.5% of the vote in the 1993 general election, and with its allies formed the largest bloc in the Duma.",
        "俄国首位民主总理盖达尔领导的自由俄罗斯选择党在1993年大选中赢得了15. 5%的选票，并和盟友一道成为杜马的主要力量。"
    ],
    [
        "From the start, the IST must constitute a robust symbol of Iraqi sovereignty.",
        "从一开始，IST就必须建立一种伊拉克主权的健全象征。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whereas Europeans, with crime rates well below American rates for the past half-century, could long afford to be relatively “soft” on most crimes, they have seen their crime rates increase sharply during the past twenty years.",
        "过去半个世纪中，欧洲国家的犯罪率大大低于美国。 然而，在过去二十年中，其犯罪率大幅上升，因此再也无法对大多数犯罪姑息迁就。"
    ],
    [
        "Surprisingly, there is no well-received explanation, because this boom's ultimate causes are mostly psychological.",
        "令人惊讶的是，对这个问题至今没有公认的解释，因为这次繁荣最终更多地来自心理原因。"
    ],
    [
        "They think that offering easier terms would be economically counterproductive, not least because it would give the Greeks an opportunity to go back to their bad old ways.",
        "它们认为放松条件不利于经济形势，因为这给了希腊走回恶劣老路的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "We already have a full-blown global recession.",
        "现在的衰退已经是一个完全的全球衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the iPhone’s devastating impact on Finland’s once-dominant national champion Nokia, or the effect of the shale-oil revolution on OPEC.",
        "比如iPhone对曾经在全球占主导地位的芬兰国家大企业诺基亚的毁灭性影响，以及页岩油革命对欧佩克的破坏性打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Though discovery of these efforts has come too late for many tobacco smokers, documents unearthed in lawsuits have revealed concerted efforts to avoid the imposition of government regulation by attacking public health science and scientists.",
        "虽然许多吸烟者很晚才发现该行业如此劣行，但在法律诉讼中发现的档案表明该行业一直协同发力攻击公共卫生科学及科学家，以规避政府监管。"
    ],
    [
        "Third-world farmers get a boost to their income, while first-world consumers get to feel virtuous: a marriage made in heaven.",
        "于是第三世界国家的农民获得了高收入，而第一世界的消费者们则自我感觉良好：简直是天作之合啊！"
    ],
    [
        "In the first trial, on June 24, Karma Samdrup, 42, one of the wealthiest Tibetan businessmen in China, received a 15-year sentence from a court in Xinjiang for stealing antiques.",
        "在6月24日的第一起案件中，42岁的嘎玛桑珠（中国大陆地区最富有的西藏商人之一）被新疆地区一所法院以盗窃文物罪判刑15年。"
    ],
    [
        "The Union can do its part in the coming 18 months by demonstrating its ability to deliver not only a potent reform package, but also implement other key policies, such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the United States and the Digital Single Market.",
        "欧盟可以在未来18个月中做好该做的，证明不但有能力实施强力改革方案，还能实施其他关键政策，如与美国的跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系和数字单一市场。"
    ],
    [
        "One recent study projected that broadening access to digital finance tools could increase developing countries’ GDP by an estimated $3.7 trillion by 2025.",
        "一项最新研究预测，到2025年，扩大数字金融工具的普及能够让发展中国家GDP增加大约3. 7万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "As Hannah Arendt famously pointed out, people like Adolf Eichmann were plentiful and “neither perverted nor sadistic”; rather, “they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.”",
        "汉娜·阿伦特指出，像阿道夫·艾希曼（Adolf Eichmann）这样的人有的是，“他们不是变态，也不是虐待狂”，相反，“他们曾经，现在也仍然是非常地、可怕地正常的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps some of these outcomes were the result of hard bargaining by other trading partners (such as Australia).",
        "也许这些结果中有一些是拜其他贸易伙伴（如澳大利亚）的强硬讨价还价所赐。"
    ],
    [
        "He is afraid of the humanities, books, arts, universities, satellites, the Internet, and even mobile phones.",
        "他害怕一切东西：人，书籍，艺术，大学，卫星，网络，甚至手机。"
    ],
    [
        "But “clean coal” is an oxymoron.",
        "但“清洁煤炭”一词自相矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "A now-common extremist claim is that education is acculturating African and Asian children to Western ways of thinking (Boko Haram in the local Hausa dialect means “Western education is a sin”).",
        "目前，一个常见的极端主义主张是教育让非洲和亚洲儿童与西方思维同化（博科圣地在其所在地豪萨（Hausa）方言中的意思是“西方教育是一种罪恶”）。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems increasingly likely that the upcoming European Council meeting will result in a deal on the conditions of the United Kingdom’s EU membership – a deal that will be put before British voters in a referendum, possibly as early as this summer.",
        "看起来，即将到来的欧洲理事会会议越来越有可能形成关于英国欧盟成员资格的条件的协议——这个协议将在英国选民举行公决（至早在几年夏天进行）前生效。"
    ],
    [
        "More Europe in security terms means more Alliance.",
        "更安全的欧洲也意味着结盟程度更高的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the few positive features of the region is that no global power rivalries are currently playing out there.",
        "极少数积极特征之一是目前该地区不存在世界级大国的对立。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Commission has already worked to harmonize the assumptions needed to forecast public pension outlays and achieve cross-country comparability.",
        "而且，委员会已经开始努力协调各种公共养老金费用预测所需的假设前提，并且实现了跨国可比性。"
    ],
    [
        "It is understandable that many will not readily be persuaded of Iranian sincerity, not least because the national negotiating style – among moderates and hardliners alike – tends to be anything but frank and direct, with private reason often accompanied by public thunder that makes it hard to assess real intent.",
        "不难理解，许多人不会相信伊朗的诚意，因为伊朗的谈判风格——不管是温和派还是强硬派——绝对算不上坦诚直接，私人原因和公共理由交织在一起，让人为无法判断真实意图。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, firms with more stock ownership by politicians tend to win more and bigger government contracts.",
        "此外，那些政界人士持股较多的公司也更容易赢得政府合同。"
    ],
    [
        "Just months ago, a clinical trial in London that saw the first use of a drug in humans resulted in six healthy subjects becoming violently ill.",
        "仅仅在几个月前，在伦敦的一项临床试验中，首次服用一种药物导致六名人体实验对象身患重病。"
    ],
    [
        "Punishingly tight sanctions alone will not change his mind.",
        "光靠令人窒息的制裁无法改变他的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting epizootic (animal epidemic) affected more than 280,000 cows.",
        "由此引发的家畜传染病影响了28万多头牛。"
    ],
    [
        "A world that is 3°C warmer may be far from ideal.",
        "全球气温升高3摄氏度或许很不理想。"
    ],
    [
        "Elite schools recruit the wealthy to pay their bills, and court minorities to redress centuries of discrimination; but this no doubt fosters resentment among the white working class, whose kids find no place in this brave new world.",
        "精英学校招徕富人掏腰包，吸引少数族裔纠正数百年来的歧视问题，但这毫无疑问在白人工作阶级中间种下了仇恨，他们的孩子在美丽新世界中没有容身之地。"
    ],
    [
        "“People will always favor their own families and communities,” Goodhart argues, and “it is the task of a realistic liberalism to strive for a definition of community that is wide enough to include people from many different backgrounds, without being so wide as to become meaningless.”",
        "“人们永远偏向自己的家庭和社区，”古德哈特指出，“现实的自由主义面临着一个任务，即给出一个社区的定义，它要足够广泛，以包含来自各不相同的众多背景的人，但也不能过于广泛以至于失去意义。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But, by cushioning against sufficiently calamitous risks, the same advantages allow the US to procrastinate.",
        "但是，正是这种超然地位消除了形成灾难性后果的风险，从而让美国安于现状，不思进取。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the digital revolution in media has elevated the role of business news, one of the few profit centers for print and broadcast journalism in many countries.",
        "其次，媒体的数码化革命抬高了商业新闻的重要程度。 而商业新闻则是许多国家印刷和广播媒体中仅有的几个利润来源之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Building intellectual capital and institutional competence can take years, but it can be done.",
        "建立知识资本和机构胜任力需要多年时间，但仍是可行的。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is energy conservation through more fuel-efficient vehicles.",
        "第一种是通过使用更高燃料效率的汽车来节省能源。"
    ],
    [
        "What Collier calls the “Bottom Billion,” the poorest one-sixth of the world, suffers the most from high oil prices.",
        "科利尔所谓的“十亿底层民众”，也就是世界最贫困的六分之一人口在高油价下所受的苦难尤为深重。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, its average projection of the federal funds rate for 2015 was 1.5%.",
        "类似地，2015年联邦基金利率平均预测值为1. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "I told them that we considered the TNC to be our new legitimate political interlocutors in Libya and were ready to support them, but that in return we expected the TNC to work towards the best standards of transparent democratic government.",
        "我告诉他们说我方已经将过渡国民议会视为新的合法政治对话方，并准备好给予相应支持，但我方希望得到的回报则是过渡国民议会能向着建立透明民主政府的最佳标准迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "Another of Brave New World’s strategies for control was to maximize divisions among the populace.",
        "《美丽新世界》中另一个控制策略是将民众之间的分隔界线最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "So, governance at the nation-state level remains hugely important and is intimately linked to monetary sovereignty.",
        "因此，在民族国家层面的治理依然非常重要而且与货币主权息息相关。"
    ],
    [
        "Officially, this has not yet been acknowledged.",
        "这一需要尚未被正式承认。"
    ],
    [
        "The overwhelming support for these principles, with 136 UN members voting in favor and only six against (led by the United States), shows the extent of global consensus on the need to resolve debt crises in a timely manner.",
        "这些原则获得了联合国会员国136票赞成，仅6票反对（以美国为首）的压倒性支持，显示全球对及时解决债务危机的需求已经形成了一定的共识。"
    ],
    [
        "Decoupling sovereignty from territory is hard to do, particularly after Snowden showed the world just how far one country’s technological tentacles can reach.",
        "将主权和领土脱钩很难办到，特别是在斯诺登向全世界揭露了一个国家的技术触手可以伸到多远的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a threat that every country is obliged to take seriously.",
        "这样的一种威胁是任何一个国家都必须严肃对待的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the US is seen as practically complicit in inciting a monumental reversal of Islam’s fortunes, the Shia revival.",
        "确实，美国被认为是激发什叶派复兴这一伊斯兰运程大逆转的事实上的同谋。"
    ],
    [
        "The third issue ‒ and perhaps the most important ‒ is the pressing need for economic aid.",
        "第三个问题——或许也是最重要的——是迫切需要提供经济援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Even now they won’t materialize overnight.",
        "即使在现在，也不可能马上实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Either the Round will fail outright, or some parts of it will be salvaged, with the rest (most of the areas under negotiation) put to one side amid promises to return to them after the 2012 elections in the United States.",
        "要么整个回合宣告破裂，要么其中一些部分被保留下来，而余下部分（大部分正在进行谈判的领域）则承诺在2012年美国大选后重新启动。"
    ],
    [
        "After one year, the team with the most surviving members would be declared the victor.",
        "一年后，生存成员最多的那支队伍将被宣布获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "But the payoff, for both the US and the liberal world order that it created, would be substantial.",
        "但不管对美国还是对其所创造的自由世界秩序来说，这样做的好处是无穷的。"
    ],
    [
        "But maybe he will in the course of this trial, which resembles a personal vendetta even more than the first one did.",
        "但是，在这比第一次更像私人仇杀的审判过程中，他也许会有所作为。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody knows whether the current prime ministers of the EU’s 27 member countries will choose Blair.",
        "没有人知道欧盟27个成员国的现任首相是否会选择布莱尔。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil prices hit records in the US in 2004 and 2005, but not in Europe, which partly explains why economic growth there has not been affected.",
        "在美国，2004年和2005年石油价格都创出新高，但是并没有在欧洲创出新高，这部分解释了为什么那里的经济增长没有受到影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But preventing war will not be easy, because Barack Obama’s mystique has worn off in the Arab world.",
        "但阻止这场战争绝非易事，因为巴拉克·奥巴马身上的神秘色彩已经在阿拉伯世界逐渐消失。"
    ],
    [
        "By refusing to leave the streets and squares of Kyiv, Ukraine’s mass volunteer army of democrats forced our country’s gray old men of the past to retreat into the past.",
        "乌克兰聚集的民主主义者组成的志愿军拒绝离开基辅街道和广场，迫使我国昔日头发灰白的老人再次使出旧招。"
    ],
    [
        "Waterborne illnesses are virtually nonexistent in advanced economies.",
        "水传播疾病在发达经济体基本上已经销声匿迹。"
    ],
    [
        "But, again, the risk stems less from unpredictable shocks than from the slow erosion of institutions that investors trust to make an uncertain world more predictable.",
        "但不要忘记，来自不可预测的冲击的风险，要少于投资者相信能够让不确定的世界变得更加容易预测的机构逐渐变质。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that “Dubai, Inc.” can quickly and seamlessly adapt to changing economic circumstances.",
        "这意味着这家“迪拜集团”可以迅速无缝地适应不断变化的经济环境。"
    ],
    [
        "With baby boomers retiring in increasing numbers, demographic trends have turned unfavorable. All these are negative influences.",
        "二战后生育高峰期出生的一代人的开始进入退休期，使人口趋势出现不利的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "And foreign entities are being authorized to issue renminbi-denominated bonds in China itself. Toward the end of August, Poland became the first European government to do so.",
        "它是鼓励在国际交易中使用人民币的一系列步骤之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Given their geographic location, however, these incredible reserves can be uncapped, extracted, and exported only on the basis of inter-state cooperation.",
        "不过鉴于其地理位置，只有跨国合作才能开采并出口这些令人惊叹的储备能源。"
    ],
    [
        "And the start of a banking union also helps; following the latest stress tests and asset quality review, banks have greater liquidity and more capital to lend to the private sector.",
        "银行联盟的启动也有所助益； 在最近的压力测试和资产质量检查后，银行拥有了更大的流动性和更多的资本用于私人部门贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Are America and Europe in decline, haggard and living on past glories?",
        "美国和欧洲正在衰落，正躺在昔日的光荣簿上独自憔悴吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It did not matter that no one seemed to know how to get there.",
        "没人知道怎样实现这一最终目标，不过没有关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Its relaxed attitude about inflation reflects its focus on the longer-term past, with PCE inflation at just 1.5% for the 12 months to August of this year, the same as the “core” PCE inflation rate, which excludes food and energy.",
        "其对通胀的轻松态度反映了其对长期历史的关注，今年8月，12个月PCE通胀只有 1. 5%，与剔除食品和能源的PCE“核心”通胀率相同。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Fiscal policy is edging back into fashion, after years, if not decades, in purdah.",
        "发自伦敦——在沉寂数年（或许甚至数十年）之后，被打入冷宫的财政政策似乎又变得热门起来。"
    ],
    [
        "How much progress we can make will hinge on our ability to break through the myths about migration.",
        "我们能够取得多少进步取决于我们是否有能够打破关于移民的流言。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past three decades, five American presidents have struggled to figure out what to do about Iran.",
        "在过去三十年时间里，五位美国总统力图寻求处理伊朗问题的途经。"
    ],
    [
        "The best-known examples of such grand new cities are planned capitals, typically built near countries’ geographic center.",
        "新城市中最有名的例子就是那些精心计划建设的首都，特别是那些建立在国家地理中心的首都。"
    ],
    [
        "With global smartphone subscriptions set to reach eight billion by 2025, online talent platforms have enormous room to expand into new regions and sectors.",
        "全球智能手机保有量将在2025年达到80亿，在线人才市场也因此拥有向新区域和新经济部门拓展的巨大空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite these obvious benefits, most investors now seem to believe that falling oil prices point to a collapse in economic activity, which brings us to the third fear haunting financial markets this winter: a recession in the global economy or the US.",
        "但是，尽管有这些显而易见的益处，但如今大部分投资者似乎认为油价下跌会带来经济活动崩溃，这就引出了今年冬天困扰金融市场的第三个恐慌：全球经济或美国衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether the talks between the “P5 + 1” (the United Nations Security Council’s five permanent members and Germany) and Iran, which concluded in Istanbul on April 14 and are due to resume in Baghdad on May 23, have any chance of succeeding remains highly uncertain.",
        "“P5+1”（联合国安理会五大常任理事国和德国）和伊朗于4月14日在伊斯坦布尔举行、并将于5月23日在巴格达再次进行的谈判能否取得任何成果还远未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, the eurozone is on the threshold of a banking union, with a fiscal union to follow.",
        "目前来说，欧元区正处在形成一个银行联盟的门槛上，随后则会是一个财政联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Their reviews were very negative.",
        "他们的审查结果非常不利。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not matter that Israel possesses, according to foreign sources, a nuclear arsenal, as well as a robust economy and a strong alliance with the world’s most powerful country; for Netanyahu, it is essentially an old Jewish ghetto, attempting to hold out against relentless threats.",
        "以色列拥有（据外媒报道）核武库不重要，以色列拥有强健的经济和与全世界最强大国家的强大联盟不重要； 对内塔尼亚胡来说，它本质上是一个犹太人社区，试图摆脱无情的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The coming presidential election is thus a test that will answer several fundamental questions.",
        "在这种情况下，即将举行的总统选举就成为回答根本问题的一次测试。"
    ],
    [
        "“The failure to fit the system makes people attack that system,” he said, “so it is never wise to bomb nations to freedom.”",
        "“无法适应让人们攻击这套系统，”他说，“因此靠炸弹争取自由永远都不是明智的选择。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment is falling, but it remains high, at more than 15% – and higher still among the young.",
        "失业率虽然下降了，但仍然很高，达到15%以上——年轻人的失业率更高。"
    ],
    [
        "The Right Intervention in Ukraine",
        "对乌克兰的正确干预"
    ],
    [
        "Have these funds been used as effectively as possible?",
        "这笔资金的使用效果是否有待提高？"
    ],
    [
        "International institutions are needed to regulate globalization and ensure trade competition.",
        "国际组织应该加强对全球化的规范以及确保贸易竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "On one floor, workers knit by hand.",
        "在其中一层，工人们在手编生产。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States is certainly big enough to produce great leaders.",
        "美国幅员辽阔，足以作为伟大领袖的诞生之所。"
    ],
    [
        "It is very disturbing to take someone’s life, even a murderer’s life, but sometimes highly unpleasant actions are necessary to prevent even worse behavior that takes the lives of innocent victims.",
        "处死某人，哪怕是杀人犯都是令人恐慌的，但是，某些极度不快的行动对于防止更坏的、夺取无辜受害者性命的行为是必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1960s, there was much discussion about Latin American integration.",
        "20世纪60年代，拉丁美洲一体化的讨论甚烈。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi’s government has adopted an even weaker stance on another unpopular but necessary decision: fuel-price increases.",
        "莫迪政府在另一个不受欢迎但必须的决定上的立场更不坚定：提高燃料价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether this is an intended outcome, so that Obama and his party can continue to mobilize large campaign contributions, or the result of poor decision-making is difficult to determine – and may reflect a bit of both.",
        "这种结果或许是有意为之，这样奥巴马和他的政党就能继续得到大笔的捐赠费用，又或许是因为决策不善，究竟为何的确很难确定——又或者两者兼有。"
    ],
    [
        "The futures market at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is now predicting declines of around 15% more before the prices bottom out in 2010.",
        "芝加哥商业交易所期货市场预测，在2010年房价见底之前，还要再跌大约15％。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if funding is not a major issue, the mechanism of amplification of an idea (and thus its ultimate diffusion) nonetheless depends upon how appealing it is to some lobbying effort.",
        "此外，即使筹资并不是主要问题，观点（及其最终扩散）的放大机制也取决于它对于游说的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt’s military intervention in Yemen in the 1960s is a case in point.",
        "20世纪60年代埃及军事干预也门就是一个很好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Many economic actors – from German car manufacturers to French farmers to financial centers around the EU – would want to hamper their British competitors.",
        "其它许多经济参与者——德国的汽车制造商，法国的农民以及欧盟内部的各大金融中心——无不想阻挠他们的英国竞争对手。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet that’s the position in which the US currently finds itself.",
        "而这正是在美国目前所处的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "But in fact it’s both simultaneously, neither “pure” nor “applied.”",
        "但实际上科学同时兼具两者的特性，既非“纯粹”又非“应用”。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the countries that refused to take in suffering refugees were themselves, in due course, occupied and brutalized by the Nazis – and desperate for the compassion that they denied the Jews in July 1938.",
        "许多拒绝接受蒙难难民的国家后来纷纷被纳粹占领和蹂躏——急切地需要它们在1938年拒绝了犹太人的同情心。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite talk of a rising Asia, only a handful of East Asian economies have moved from low- to high-income status during the past several decades.",
        "然而,尽管是在谈论亚洲的崛起,但是在过去几十年中只有少数的东亚经济体实现了从低收入到高收入的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Under- and over-invoicing is a time-honored way to get around taxes and controls.",
        "低开和虚增发票都是一直都是躲避税收和管制的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, efforts must be made to address bycatch (the trapping of sharks in nets intended for other fish, especially tuna).",
        "比方说，必须努力解决间接渔获问题（即用旨在捕捞其他鱼类，特别是金枪鱼的渔网捕获鲨鱼）。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, American mega-banks operate worldwide, typically with a significant presence in London and other financial centers.",
        "首先，美国大银行在全世界都有经营，通常在伦敦和其他金融中心都有很大的分支。"
    ],
    [
        "But we were fortunate in that Nuremberg was not really an option for us.",
        "幸运的是，纽伦堡审判在南非根本行不通。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there was an asymmetry of information.",
        "其一是信息不对称。"
    ],
    [
        "But the unseen enemy has aroused concerns – particularly among mothers of young children – that are more a matter of psychology than of science.",
        "但这个看不见的敌人已经造成了担心——特别是孩子尚幼的母亲的担心。 这种担心与其说是出于科学，不如说是出于心理。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to becoming bolder and more expansive, it has become increasingly intertwined with fiscal policy.",
        "除了更激进、更扩张，货币政策还越来越多地与财政政策互相纠结。"
    ],
    [
        "The new revolution assumes that when we make choices, we do not merely consider which of the available options we like the most.",
        "新革命界定，当我们做出选择时，我们并不只考虑我们最喜欢的可行选项。"
    ],
    [
        "This would shift the risk entirely off the government’s books.",
        "这将完全解决政府账目上的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, most markets for services - securities trading, wholesale and retail distribution, business services, and local utilities - remain sheltered from competition and free circulation rules.",
        "更有甚者，绝大多数的服务市场¾证券交易、批零流通、企业服务和本地设施¾依旧置于政府的保护之下，不受竞争和自由流通规则的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has always criticized Japanese officials’ visits to the shrine, but through diplomatic channels.",
        "美国一直对日本官员拜访靖国神社持批评态度，但都是通过外交渠道表达的。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, we have done far too little to protect schools and prevent their militarization during times of conflict.",
        "到目前为止，我们在保护学校、防止学校在冲突期间军事化方面做得远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Kosovo’s Original Sin",
        "科索沃的原罪"
    ],
    [
        "But economics is really a positive-sum game.",
        "但是经济学的确是一个正和游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinians have shown that it is not true that an Arab society cannot progress towards representative institutions.",
        "巴勒斯坦的行动已经表明阿拉伯社会不是不能够迈向代议机制。"
    ],
    [
        "He consummated the love-in by expressing his admiration for “the skill and sense of honor” of the Japanese submariners who died attacking Sydney Harbor in 1942, while saying of Japan’s waging of aggressive war and wartime atrocities only that “we disagreed with what they did.”",
        "在安倍演讲后，他总结陈词， 表示很敬仰死于1942年袭击悉尼港战斗的日本潜水艇指战员，对于日本发动侵略战争以及战时暴行，他只是轻描淡写地表示“我们不同意他们的所作所为”。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, that is real cash, not just an act of faith.",
        "这一回撒下去的可是真金白银，而不是信念了。"
    ],
    [
        "Hedgehogs are big-idea thinkers in love with grand theories: libertarianism, Marxism, environmentalism, etc. Their self-confidence can be infectious.",
        "刺猬型评论家醉心于自由主义、马克思主义、环境保护主义等重要的理论，他们对理论的坚定信仰很有感染力。"
    ],
    [
        "The job of Commission President is arguably among the most difficult in the world.",
        "欧盟委员会主席是世界上最难当的。"
    ],
    [
        "But this requires containing tribal and regional polarization, as well as the rivalries between the Interim National Council (INC) and the Military Council (MC), and between senior military commanders.",
        "但这不仅要遏制部族和地区分裂、还要缓解临时全国委员会和军事委员会、以及高级军事指挥官之间的对立现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there have been other periods in the long post-2008 recovery when growth returned, only to peter out quickly and become sluggish again.",
        "确实，2008年以来的漫长复苏中出现过几次增长反弹，但最后都快速湮灭，回归停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "But the cleavage between the two lefts in Latin America is steadily deepening.",
        "但是，拉美两派左翼之间的分歧正在逐步加深。"
    ],
    [
        "But what is urgently needed is a strong complementary focus on job creation to preserve and foster Durkheim’s organic solidarity.",
        "但我们同时迫切需要强力关注创造就业机会，以便维护和促进涂尔干的有机团结。"
    ],
    [
        "But while some steps are being taken – a high-level United Nations meeting last September produced proposals for some international measures – they are far from adequate.",
        "但尽管正在采取某些措施——去年9月召开的一次联合国高级别会议提出了某些国际政策建议——但采取的措施还远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to stop demanding antibiotics from our doctors.",
        "我们应该停止要求医生开抗生素。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, the terrorist threat is real and endures, as the recent foiled plot in Germany attests.",
        "显然，恐怖主义的威胁是真实并且持久的，就像最近在德国被挫败的阴谋所证明的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moscow's tactics in Abkhazia and South Ossetia provide cause for concern in this regard.",
        "莫斯科在阿布哈兹和南奥塞梯的的策略，在这一点上给了人们担心的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the UN regular budget includes the operations of the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Secretariat (including the Secretary-General’s office, the Department for Economic and Social Affairs, the Department of Political Affairs, and administrative staff).",
        "首先，联合国固定预算包括联合国大会、安理会、秘书处（包括秘书长办公室、经济和社会事务局、政治事务局以及行政人员）的日常运营成本。"
    ],
    [
        "With the share of people living in cities rising to 53% in 2013, from 20% in 1981, China is shifting to a “new normal.”",
        "2013年中国城市居民人口比例达到了53%，而1981年仅为20%，这表明中国正在进入一个城市化、工业化、信息化、现代化市场经济的“新常态”。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, despite considerable gains in the last quarter of 2013, employment growth is far too weak to make a significant dent in joblessness.",
        "令事态更加恶化的是，尽管2013年第二季度就业率有所上升，但就业增长依然远远无法为无业者提供足够保障。"
    ],
    [
        "And Turkey has threatened to cut off the pipeline on which Kurdistan relies to export oil.",
        "土耳其威胁要切断库尔德斯坦石油出口所依靠的管道。"
    ],
    [
        "At the recent G-8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, we made a firm commitment “to act with the scale and urgency needed to achieve global food security,” and we collectively pledged $20 billion over three years.",
        "最近在意大利拉奎拉举行的八国集团峰会上，与会各方坚定地承诺“将依据应有的广泛性与紧迫性而采取行动，以确保全球食物安全”，并且共同许诺在三年之内投入200亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising inequality, then, is not just a question of income, wealth, and power; it is, literally, a matter of life and death.",
        "因此，加剧的不平等性不仅仅是一个收入、财富和权力问题； 它是一个名副其实的关乎生死的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Without good leadership, any organization – even the UN – is destined to fail.",
        "没有优秀的领导，任何组织——哪怕是联合国——都注定要失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Their predicament, too, must be reflected in any calculation of Iraq’s security conditions.",
        "他们的困境也必须被反映在任何对伊拉克的安全状况的衡量中。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, by 2025, if the laudable – yet not overly ambitious – goal of closing the gender gap by 25% is achieved, 100 million women could have jobs that they didn’t have before.",
        "此外，到2025年，如果将性别差距缩小25%这一深得人心又合情合理的目标能够实现，1亿妇女将能获得她们从未得到过的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, however, the outcome might be even more disappointing, with delegates unable to reach even a symbolic agreement that they can tout with an aggressive marketing campaign.",
        "然而本届结果可能更令人失望，代表们甚至无法达成一个令他们可以在大型选举造势活动中为自己脸上贴金的象征性协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Much the same is true for organizations like FIFA.",
        "FIFA等组织也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In many ways, they began to see fighting big business as akin to fighting terrorists.",
        "从很多方面来看，他们开始把反巨大型企业与反恐行动一样对待。"
    ],
    [
        "The first reason betrays a lack of trust that governments can and will do the job that they learned how to do in the Great Depression: keep the flow of spending stable so that big depressions with long-lasting, double-digit unemployment do not recur.",
        "第一个原因显示出人们不再信任政府可以并将会履行他们从经济大萧条中学习到的职责：去保持消费资金稳定以便抑制伴有持续久，两位数字失业率的经济衰退再次出现。"
    ],
    [
        "It has numerous valuable assets, but it cannot postpone long-overdue reforms, or else it will become increasingly irrelevant in a fiercely competitive global economy.",
        "它拥有数不尽的无价资产，但它经不起迟到很久的改革的进一步拖延，否则将会日益被竞争激烈的全球经济抛弃。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, that moment happened two days later, but with lamentably little media coverage.",
        "颇具讽刺意味的是，两天后就迎来了这样的时刻，但却没有得到媒体应有的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "If these companies were a country, they would be the world’s seventh-largest emitter.",
        "如果把这些公司看成一个国家，它将是世界第七大排放国。"
    ],
    [
        "The Millennium Village Project, a partnership of academia, business, and UN agencies, aims to show how these goals can be achieved in even the poorest communities in the world.",
        "由学术界、商界和联合国机构合作开展的千禧村计划致力于向人们展示如何在世界最贫困社区达到这些目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who are self-employed are immediately entitled to supplementary Hartz IV benefits, housing allowance, and the child benefit (which, for a family with five children, is €1,018 ($1,335) per month – more than twice the net salary of an average worker in Bulgaria or Romania.)",
        "自由职业者立刻就可以获得补充性哈茨IV保障、住房津贴和儿童福利（有五个孩子的家庭每月可获1,010欧元，远高于保加利亚或罗马尼亚的平均工人净工资。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "But there is an alternative that could help appease angry citizens and mitigate the revenue loss from an outright ban on smoking: electronic cigarettes.",
        "但电子烟替代法有助于缓解彻底禁烟所带来的收入损失和平息民众愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "And the bloodletting has been extremely personal: In August, Kim Jong-un reportedly ordered the execution by firing squad of an ex-girlfriend and other members of her musical ensemble; the killings are said to have been carried out in front of their families.",
        "这场流血完全是个人主义的：据报道，8月份金正恩下令枪决他的一位前女友和她的乐队； 据说处决是当着他们家人的面进行的。"
    ],
    [
        "Vaccines represent the most cost-effective intervention for preventing childhood illness, and they already exist for most common bacterial causes of pneumonia (pneumococcus and Hib) and for the leading causes of diarrhea (rotavirus).",
        "疫苗是性价比最高的预防儿童疾病的干预手段，最常见的细菌性肺炎（肺炎双球菌和乙型流感嗜血杆菌）以及腹泻（轮状病毒）疫苗早已面世。"
    ],
    [
        "In an updated lesson in realpolitik, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently was happy to count Pope Francis as an ally in opposing American military intervention in Syria.",
        "如今这一幕有了现实政治版，俄罗斯总理普京最近愉快地将教皇方济各视为共同反对美国军事干预叙利亚的盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "The majority of Chinese may not want to be governed like Westerners, but it would be wrong to assume that their only ambition is to spend like Westerners.",
        "大多数的中国人民可能不想向西方人那样去治理国家，但是假设他们唯一的目标是向西方人那样花钱也可能是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "The government of Tanzania has until September to respond to the ruling.",
        "坦桑尼亚政府必须在九月前明确表态。"
    ],
    [
        "Within a few years, however, major banks and development institutions came together to establish the Equator Principles based on our E&S standards.",
        "但是，不出几年，大银行和发展机构便合作在E&S标准的基础上建立了赤道原则（Equator Principles）。"
    ],
    [
        "ATHENS – When the eurozone was established, its creators envisioned gradual progress toward an “optimal currency area,” characterized by fiscal integration, the free movement of labor, and political union.",
        "发自雅典——当欧元区建立之时，它的缔造者们希望它能逐渐朝着以财政统一，人员自由流动以及政治联盟为特点的“优化货币区”。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the higher-priced works sold were paintings by Barnett Newman, Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko, and Andy Warhol, each of which sold for more than $60 million.",
        "成交的最高价是巴尼特·纽曼（Barnett Newman）、弗朗西斯·培根（Francis Bacon）、马克·罗斯科（Mark Rothko）和安迪·沃霍尔（Andy Warhol）等人的作品，每件在6,000万美元以上。"
    ],
    [
        "He was right to do so.",
        "这一举措是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while “silver bullets” that can cure our most feared diseases have not been found, progress in the area of gene-drug interactions, known as pharmacogenomics, has been extraordinary.",
        "事实上，尽管人类并没有找到治愈最凶险疾病的“银弹”，但在基因药物作用（也叫基因药理学）领域却已经取得了引人瞩目的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "This was partly because the EU was not as generous toward its newest members as it had been toward new members in the past.",
        "这一部分是因为欧盟对待这些国家没有象对以前加入的成员国那样慷慨。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early 1970s, when the fixed exchange-rate regime established at Bretton Woods collapsed, the IMF seemed to have outlived its function.",
        "20世纪70年代初，当布雷顿森林会议所建立的固定汇率制度崩溃时，IMF似乎已经完成了使命。"
    ],
    [
        "He deliberately projects an image of himself as a leader who speaks truthfully, conveying a muscular ideology that articulates the sense of humiliation that Muslims feel today and offers a plan of action to remedy the situation.",
        "他有意把自己装扮称为直言的领导人，表达一种阳刚之气。 这些言论具体表达了当今穆斯林所感受到的挫折感并且提出行动纲领来解决这一局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the fragile grip that these leaders have over their societies, America’s warnings have been taken to heart.",
        "鉴于这些领导人对其社会控制微弱，美国的警告得到了重视。"
    ],
    [
        "But it pushed anyway.",
        "但这并没有妨碍它推进这项策略。"
    ],
    [
        "While President Barack Obama has released a few prisoners, notably the Chinese Uighurs, and sent another for a real trial in New York City, he is now, chillingly, signalling that he is about to begin “preventive detention,” which would empower him to hold forever an unspecified number of prisoners without charges or trials.",
        "虽然奥巴马释放了一些囚犯，特别是那些维吾尔族人，而将另一些囚犯押往纽约接受真正的法律审判，但如今他的行为却似乎发生了180度转向，他似乎有意采用一项“防范性拘留”政策，这政策将赋予他在不起诉和审讯的情况下永远拘留不定数量囚犯的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Lagging states spend considerably less than leading states on social services, including education and health care.",
        "在社会服务（包括教育和医疗服务）方面，落后国家的财政投入要远低于富裕国家。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been demonstrated in the context of financial-market regulation; it is starting to become clear with regard to the regulatory framework for the digital economy; and it is now being confirmed in the area of taxation.",
        "在数字经济监管框架上正在开始得到证实； 在税收领域则正在得到证实。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK does need to stand up for itself, but there is no reason for it to become confrontational about internal Chinese matters – especially in the case of Hong Kong, where it lost its standing when it agreed to return the city to Chinese control in 1997.",
        "英国确实需要为了自己而站出来，但没有理由要对中国内政说三道四——特别是香港的问题。 1997年同意中国收回香港主权后，英国就已经失去了香港问题上的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the Kennedy and Bush brands, the Nehru-Gandhi label has lost its luster in India.",
        "正如肯尼迪和布什在美国，尼赫鲁-甘地标签在印度已经失去了威力。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Spain has some of Europe’s best infrastructure, including high-speed trains, high-tech airports, fast highways, and top-notch green-energy networks.",
        "如今，西班牙拥有欧洲最好的基础设施——高铁、高科技机场、高速公路、绿色能源网无不如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty-five years from now, we hope that historians look back on the ACA as the start of a new era of public-private collaboration to develop innovative solutions to complex social problems – and thus to restore trust in government itself.",
        "我们希望，二十五年后的历史学家回顾ACA时会把它当做一个新时代的开端，在这个时代中，公共和私人部门合作开发复杂社会问题的创新性解决办法——从而也重塑了政府本身的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "In economies with excess capacity (including human capital) and a high degree of structural flexibility, the multipliers are greater than once thought.",
        "在产能过剩（包括人力资本）和高结构弹性的经济体，这些乘数比此前认为的更大。"
    ],
    [
        "“Innovative” financing solutions might also undermine the clear assignment of responsibilities for raising and using public money.",
        "“创新”的财政方案还可能会破坏在募集和使用公共资金上的职责分工。"
    ],
    [
        "MANILA – Unlike his predecessor, US President Barack Obama is popular from the Atlantic to the Pacific.",
        "马尼拉-与他的前任不同，美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马从大西洋到太平洋都深受欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary tightening was forestalled only to the extent that another source of foreign capital (either private or ECB) could replace the outflow.",
        "货币紧缩将一直持续到另一种外国资本资源（不管来自资本还是欧洲央行）能够取代资本外流为止。"
    ],
    [
        "Reshaping the Labor Landscape",
        "改变劳动力形势"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the disastrous free-for-all in trade policy during the 1930’s greatly aggravated the Great Depression.",
        "最好的例子就是1930年代大萧条期间，由于无所约束的贸易政策加深了经济形势的恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "This got me thinking about the eternal problem of evil.",
        "这让我开始思考邪恶的核心问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Boom.",
        "碰！"
    ],
    [
        "But, the retreat of a glacier’s “snout” is only one of three measures of how glaciers can change.",
        "然而，冰舌的后退只是冰川变迁的三大衡量尺度之一。"
    ],
    [
        "On February 26, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to impose an arms embargo on Libya, urge member nations to freeze assets owned by Qaddafi and his family, and refer the regime’s violence to the International Criminal Court for possible prosecution of those responsible.",
        "不少手下拒绝向同胞开火，有的倒戈加入示威，有的将飞机开到了临近的马耳他。 于是卡扎菲招徕了邻国雇佣兵，这些人比他自己的士兵更听话。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, full democracy is to be permitted only in 2007.",
        "其结果是完全的民主要到2007年才被允许实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider catastrophe bonds (or “cat bonds”), which contain clauses that stipulate that the issuer of the bond (the borrower) does not have to repay the money if a specified catastrophe occurs.",
        "我们可以考虑巨灾债券，这种债券规定当某种特定灾难发生时，债券购买者不必还债。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there are many ways to put matters on the global agenda, as shown by Bono’s campaigns on African development and Al Gore’s on climate change.",
        "确实，有许多办法把问题放到全球议题上。 波诺推动非洲发展以及戈尔推动气候变化问题都证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Japan’s quest to re-establish its own military capability is a vote of limited confidence in its US ally.",
        "事实上，日本要求重新建立自己的军队正是对其美国盟友不放心的证明。"
    ],
    [
        "While the rival claims date back to the late nineteenth century, the latest flare-up – which has included widespread anti-Japanese demonstrations in China – was triggered in September 2012, when Japan’s government purchased three of the tiny islets from their private Japanese owner.",
        "虽然针锋相对的主权之争可以追溯到19世纪末，但最新的事态升级——包括中国举行大规模的反日游行——触发点却是在2012年9月，因为日本政府从私人岛主手中收购了这些小岛中的三座。"
    ],
    [
        "All of Europe, including Britain, would suffer from the loss of the common market and the loss of common values that the EU was designed to protect.",
        "全体欧洲，包括英国，都将因为失去共同市场和成立欧盟来保护的共同价值而蒙受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, insecure land rights in the countryside and the hukou (household registration) system in the cities continue to impede labor mobility.",
        "例如，不确定的农村土地使用权以及持续阻碍劳动力流动的城市户口制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that Islamic fundamentalism breeds in economic despair, Libya’s rulers seem to want to take particular care that this process does not create an underclass of victims who might fall prey to the call of religious fanatics.",
        "鉴于伊斯兰原教旨主义滋生于经济绝望，利比亚的统治者似乎特别关注这一点：这个过程不要产生有可能会成为宗教狂热牺牲品的改革受害者下层群体。"
    ],
    [
        "A Speech of Hope for Greece",
        "希腊的希望的演讲"
    ],
    [
        "The official history portrayed the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and other major central banks as embracing coordinated action to rescue the global financial system from disaster.",
        "在官方历史中，美联储、欧洲央行和其他主要央行采取了联合行动力挽狂澜，救全球金融体系于将倾。"
    ],
    [
        "The result has been large trade imbalances between eurozone countries, a problem compounded by large fiscal deficits and high levels of public debt in southern Europe (and France) – much of it owed to foreign creditors.",
        "这一问题导致欧元区内部国家贸易极度不平衡，而南欧和法国庞大财政赤字和公共债务庞大，使这一问题更为复杂，原因很大部分要归咎于外国债权人。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, China did all that it could do boost Ma, who has presided over a massive increase in economic ties with the mainland.",
        "相反，中国不惜一切代价去支持马英九这位在第一任期间大力增强两岸经济纽带的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "An increasing number of countries – especially, but not only, in Europe – seem to think so.",
        "越来越多的国家，特别是欧洲国家，似乎认为这个命题是成立的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Zimbabwe, this right – like so many other checks and balances – has been torn away by a repressive state.",
        "在津巴布韦，这一权利如同其他许多制衡机制一样已经被专制国家所撕毁。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1941, the powerful Japanese navy used many resources to create damage thousands of miles away.",
        "1941年，强大的日本海军动用了众多资源数造成了数千英里外的灾难性损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Underlying the country’s soaring inequality is income stagnation for the majority of Americans.",
        "导致该国收入失衡状况不断加剧的深层次原因则是绝大多数美国民众的收入停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "The NCD and AIDS communities can learn from one another.",
        "NCD和艾滋病界可以互相学习。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason that Russia’s reform debates are so barren is the country’s lack of coherent political parties.",
        "俄国改革讨论成果寥寥的一个重要原因是缺乏政策连贯的国内政党。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Roma have refrained from reciprocating the sometimes lethal violence inflicted on them.",
        "但罗姆人保持着克制，没有对施加在他们头上的、有时是致命的暴力以牙还牙。"
    ],
    [
        "But questions about the effectiveness and risks of QE have begun to multiply as well.",
        "但关于QE有效性和风险的质疑也日益增多。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The contrast between the deaths, within two days of each other, of Libya’s Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz is one of terminal buffoonery versus decadent gerontocracy.",
        "伦敦——在两天的时间里，卡扎菲和哈特皇储阿齐兹相继去世，他们的死法大相径庭，可谓对式微的老人政治的绝大讽刺。"
    ],
    [
        "If we had a century to change the world’s energy system, we could feel reasonably secure.",
        "如果我们有一个世纪来改革世界能源系统，我们或许有理由感到安全。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s why Vision 2030 is so important.",
        "《愿景2030》的重要性正在于此。"
    ],
    [
        "But Russia’s muscle-flexing behavior leaves Western leaders perplexed and wary, which seems a dubious way for the Kremlin to secure Russia’s new stature.",
        "但俄国炫耀武力的举动使西方领导人小心翼翼、不知所措，克里姆林似乎用这种可疑的方式来建立俄国的全新地位。"
    ],
    [
        "His approach reflected a larger trend of rights-based resistance in China that began in that late 1990’s; Chen was part of a coterie of lawyers and activists, some well-known and many others not, who wanted to see the government behave according to its own rules.",
        "上世纪90年代后期，中国出现了以权利为基础的抵制活动，而他的做法正反映出这种较大的趋势； 很多律师和活动家——有些知名度很高，许多其他人则鲜为人知——想看到政府根据自己制定的规则办事，陈光诚是他们中的一员。"
    ],
    [
        "There was certainly a great deal of this type of sentiment in the 1930’s, when the populist response to the Great Depression attributed it to the sinister forces of “international capital.”",
        "这样的情绪在1930年代当然不鲜见。 当时的民粹主义观点将“大萧条”归咎于险恶的“国际资本”。"
    ],
    [
        "In its June 2011 survey, China was ranked 91st, behind Mongolia, Albania, and Belarus.",
        "在2011年6月的调查中，中国排名第91位，次于蒙古、阿尔巴尼亚和白俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "It was on the basis of these findings that the UN Security Council agreed in August 2015 to create a joint investigative mechanism of the OPCW and the UN and task it with identifying those responsible for the use of chemical weapons in the conflict.",
        "基于这些发现，联合国安理会在2015年8月成立了OPCE和联合国联合调查行动，负责追查在冲突中使用化学武器的责任人。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, remittances by Colombians working abroad grew 8% in 2008, a surprising result when compared to countries such as Mexico and Ecuador, where remittances have fallen.",
        "另外，在国外工作的哥伦比亚人汇入该国的款额在2008年增长了8%。 与外币汇入额已经下降的墨西哥和厄瓜多尔相比，这一结果颇令人意外。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the vast majority of European countries – from Finland to Portugal – have no wish to reside in the shadow of Russian nuclear warheads with nothing to protect them.",
        "类似地，绝大多数欧洲国家——从芬兰到葡萄牙——都不想毫无保护地暴露在俄罗斯核弹头的打击范围之下。"
    ],
    [
        "But, contrary to popular opinion, the two actually have little to do with each other.",
        "但是，和流行的观点不同，其实这两者关系不大。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1930s, thinkers like John Maynard Keynes and political leaders like Franklin Roosevelt, with brave and eloquent words still worth quoting, discarded capitalism’s mindless orthodoxies in order to save the liberal democratic order.",
        "20世纪30年代，像约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯这样的思想家和像富兰克林·罗斯福这样的政治领袖用依然值得引用的勇敢和雄辩的话语抛弃了资本主义的盲目正统以求实现拯救自由民主秩序的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Ringed by a scum of chicken-necked advisers",
        "在一堆唯唯诺诺顾问的簇拥之下，"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a broader issue at stake in such cases: to what extent should a CEO be held responsible for what happens under his watch?",
        "但这种情况牵扯到一个广义的问题：首席执行官要对在任期间的结果承担多大责任？"
    ],
    [
        "Shia have an interest in supporting the central government because they believe that their demographic weight (60% of Iraq’s population) means that representative democracy will guarantee them the right to rule and protect them from Sunni demands and attacks.",
        "什叶派愿意支持中央政府，因为他们相信其人口优势（占伊拉克总人口的60%）意味着代议式民主将保证他们的统治权，保护他们抵御逊尼派的要求和攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "As Europe’s leaders gather in Portugal to put the finishing touches on the new, slimmed down, Reform Treaty, it might be helpful if they all pretended that the last 50 years of European integration had never taken place.",
        "当欧洲的领导人们在葡萄牙汇聚一堂，对新的、经过精减的《改革公约》进行最后润色的时候，如果他们能佯装过去50年的欧洲一体化从未发生那就好了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the years after 1945, Wiesel rubbed elbows with the greatest of the great.",
        "1945年以后的那些年，维瑟尔的声望直逼那些最伟大的伟人。"
    ],
    [
        "Half of tax revenue is collected with a value-added tax, which is essentially a tax on consumption.",
        "税收收入的一半都是通过一项增值税来获得，而该税项实质上是一种消费税。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite their promise of empowerment, the MDGs didn’t adequately target many of the biggest challenges that women and girls face, such as gender-based violence and economic discrimination.",
        "尽管承诺赋予权力，但千年发展目标并没有充分解决妇女和女童所面临的许多最重大挑战，比如基于性别的暴力和经济歧视等现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Franco-German solidarity would be irreparably damaged, but Franco-German solidarity is worth nothing if the best it can produce is this agreement.",
        "法德联盟将发生不可挽回的破坏，但如果法德联盟充其量只能形成这么一个协议，那么不要也罢。"
    ],
    [
        "Compounding this pattern are poor incentives.",
        "让这种模式雪上加霜的是不良激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Religious conservatives were stunned. Leaders of the religious parties rushed to denounce Mohammad’s views.",
        "他的观点把宗教保守主义者都吓了一跳。"
    ],
    [
        "And they have been a recipe for policy paralysis in America’s long debate about raising the ceiling on its national debt.",
        "而如今，这一机制再一次陷入了瘫痪——美国正在为国民债务上限进行旷日持久的争论。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, China still has a long way to go and faces many obstacles.",
        "然而，中国还有很长的路要走，它还面临着诸多困难。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short run, exchange rates are driven by purely financial considerations.",
        "在短期，汇率完全由金融条件决定。"
    ],
    [
        "So how does such behavior become sufficiently widespread to bring about an economic slump?",
        "那么，这样的行为是如何普遍到足以让经济衰退的？"
    ],
    [
        "It is truly fitting that South Korea is hosting this forum, because it is so often seen as a model of what investment in education can deliver.",
        "因为被普遍视为靠教育投资拉动发展的典范，由韩国来举办教育论坛的确非常合适。"
    ],
    [
        "Deepwater Horizon is still spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, even though BP has succeeded in inserting a smaller pipe into the main leakage to suck off part of the flow.",
        "尽管英国石油公司成功地将一小截油管插入主渗漏口并吸走了部分渗漏的原油，但“深水地平线”油井仍然不停地向墨西哥湾喷涌原油。"
    ],
    [
        "And there are large gaps in the knowledge base that research could close.",
        "并且研究可以填补巨大的知识基础差距。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, party competition has been between “left” and “right,” or “hawks” and “doves.”",
        "表面上看，政党之间的竞争在“左”和“右”，或者“鹰派”与“鸽派”之间。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, they need only be able to participate in producing output that is sold internationally.",
        "最终，他们只需要能够参与生产在国际市场上销售的产出。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the principal energy consumer in Europe is individual households, where energy efficiency can be tripled in the coming years with the right political leadership, sufficient investment, and long-term commitment from Europeans themselves.",
        "但是，欧洲的首要能源消费者是个体家庭，如果有正确的政治领导、足够的投资和欧洲人自身的长期承诺，未来几年家庭能源效率可以提高两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "This would place the financial burden squarely on the shoulders of future taxpayers, which would not enhance consumer confidence.",
        "这等于将地方财政负担转移到了未来纳税人肩头，当然也无法提振增加消费者的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade grew about twice as fast as global output from 1990 to 2008.",
        "从1990年到2008年，贸易增速相当于全球产出增速的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal policy, for its part, was constrained by large budget deficits and rising stocks of public debt, with many countries even implementing austerity to ensure debt sustainability.",
        "就其本身而言，财政政策会受到庞大预算赤字和公共债务膨胀的制肘，许多国家甚至实施紧缩政策来确保债务可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first case, Dmitri Borodin, the minister counselor at the Russian embassy in The Hague, was arrested late one night in October of last year, after neighbors alerted the Dutch police that Borodin, allegedly in a drunken state, was beating his two small children.",
        "首先要提的是俄罗斯驻海牙大使馆公使衔参赞德米特里·鲍罗廷，他于去年10月的一个深夜被捕，因为邻居向荷兰警方举报称鲍罗廷在醉酒状态下殴打自己的两个小孩。"
    ],
    [
        "But to realize this economic and social potential, African leaders must combat corruption.",
        "但要实现这一经济和社会潜力，非洲领导人必须打击腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "True, China has made the kind of economic advances in three decades that required 100 years in Western countries.",
        "的确，中国在过去三十年中实现了西方国家需要100年才能够实现的经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, it is far from clear that the Chinese model of infrastructure development can be exported universally.",
        "不幸的是，中国基础设施开发模式是否能够输出到全世界还远未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "A decade after the euro’s introduction, we must follow the example of its founders and turn crisis into opportunity by uniting in a spirit of cooperation and ambition – and thereby reinforce the EMU’s foundations.",
        "在欧元启用后十年的今天，我们必须效法其创始人，以团结合作和雄心勃勃的精神，化危机为机遇，从而夯实欧洲“经济和货币联盟”的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "Population Services International, which promotes and sells items like condoms, to prevent HIV infection, and bed nets, to prevent malaria, came out on top, followed by Partners in Health, an organization that provides health care to poor rural populations.",
        "net公布了有关哪些组织在挽救或转变非洲人的生活上最有效果的第一份报告。 促进并出售类似避孕套之类的物品来防治艾滋病以及蚊帐来防治霍乱的人居服务国际组织名列榜首。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, many Japanese and non-Japanese lives were lost during those months of indecision.",
        "不消说，无数日本人和非日本人在这几个月的优柔寡断中失去了生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, as Europeans struggle with high unemployment and stagnating living standards, they may have to work longer to cope with globalization.",
        "然而今天，当欧洲人在高失业率和停滞不前的生活水平中苦苦挣扎时，他们不得不工作得更长一点以适应全球化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Egyptian question is already high on the agenda; indeed, it spilled into the streets after President Mohamed Morsi’s non-violent coup attempt.",
        "埃及问题已然白热化了； 事实上，在总统穆尔西的非暴力政变后，埃及人民再次涌上了街头。"
    ],
    [
        "By permanently immunizing the relevant animal populations, we could prevent new cases of Lyme and other diseases that originate in wild organisms, or we could block newly emergent pathogens such as the Zika virus, which has been linked to an epidemic of stunted brain development in newborns in Latin America.",
        "）通过对相关动物种群展开永久性免疫，我们可以预防起源于野生动物的莱姆病及其他疾病新发病例，或者防止寨卡病毒等新型病原体的产生，现代医学已经证实导致拉美新生儿大脑发育迟缓的一种传染病其实是由这种病毒造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, they will be structural market failures of participation that are not amenable to any straightforward and easily implemented cure.",
        "劳动力市场将面临结构性市场参与失灵，没有简单容易的药方可以把这个问题治愈。"
    ],
    [
        "The Trump Boom?",
        "特朗普繁荣？"
    ],
    [
        "KIGALI – Imagine a country where some 90% of the population is covered by health insurance, more than 90% of those with HIV are on a consistent drug regime, and 93% of children are vaccinated against common communicable diseases including HPV.",
        "基加利—想象一个国家，其90%的人口有医保覆盖，90%的艾滋病毒携带者享受长期药物治疗，93%的儿童接种了包括HPV在内的常规传染病疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "After hiring and firing personnel and shaping strategy during the election campaign, Trump’s children have remained front and center in his transition team.",
        "在雇用及解雇工作人员和在竞选活动期间制定策略后，特朗普的子女一直处在其过渡团队的核心位置。"
    ],
    [
        "More inequality led legislators, at least in that case, to prefer less competition and less expansion in lending.",
        "至少是在该案例中，更大的不平等性导致立法者偏向于更少的消费和贷款扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while various creditor countries rightly fear that eurobonds would push up their borrowing costs and constitute a transfer union, opponents might eventually come around to seeing eurobonds as the least bad option.",
        "许多债权国担心欧元债会推高它们的借贷成本并形成一个转移联盟（这种担心完全正确），但反对者最终将发现，欧元债是最不坏的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as peace and stability do not always lead to creativity and innovation, fighting and uncertainty do not necessarily deter it.",
        "正如和平与稳定并不总是带来创造力和创新，战争和不确定性也并不总是阻碍创造力和创新。"
    ],
    [
        "This has caused havoc in the payment system and in the functioning of banks and ATMs – a source of untold nuisances to the public.",
        "这给支付系统和银行和ATM机的运行带来了一场浩劫——也是一场难以形容的公害。"
    ],
    [
        "No other British politician, even during the war, wore the kind of zipped-up boilersuit Churchill adopted.",
        "即使在战时，也没有其他英国政治家穿着丘吉尔那样带拉链的连衫裤工作服。"
    ],
    [
        "But most people would be surprised by what the most recent numbers show.",
        "但大部分人会对最新数字所揭示的东西感到震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "A government can do three major things: make (and enforce) laws, spend (or take) money, and inspire people.",
        "政府可以做三件重要的事情：制定（和实施）法律、花钱（或收钱）以及激励民众。"
    ],
    [
        "LAGOS – Nigeria has been getting a lot of bad press lately, owing largely to the militant Islamist group Boko Haram’s abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in April, part of a brutal campaign of kidnappings, bombings, and murder.",
        "拉各斯——最近尼日利亚深受负面舆论困扰，主要是因为激进伊斯兰组织博科圣地4月绑架了200多名在校女生，此外还发生了一系列残酷的绑架、爆炸和谋杀活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump is the least appropriate figure to cast himself in Churchill’s mold.",
        "特朗普最没有资格自比丘吉尔。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as for protecting the financial system against disaster, the current majority on the House Financial Services Committee is clear – they favor use of the bankruptcy system when megabanks get into serious trouble.",
        "而在保护金融体系使其免于陷入灾难的问题上，当前国会金融服务委员会的多数意见是显而易见的：他们支持在巨型银行陷入真正麻烦时启动破产体系。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is also good news: Other officials are now much more resistant and inclined to push back against the industry.",
        "但也有好消息：其他官员已不再愿意就范，更倾向于反击金融业。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Annan’s appointee as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Irish President Mary Robinson, was instrumental in many developing countries’ adoption of a human-rights agenda, which previously was often viewed as a flag of convenience for Western meddling.",
        "不仅如此，被安南任命为联合国人权事务高级专员的前爱尔兰总统玛丽·罗滨逊对很多发展中国家采纳人权议程起到了至关重要的作用，这种人权日程以前常常被看作西方国家干涉别国内政十分现成的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, that is not what many see.",
        "实事求是地说，很多人并没有看到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of a eurozone caged in by Germany’s narrow interests as a creditor, Europe needs a monetary union that works for all of its citizens.",
        "欧洲不能受制于作为债权人的德国的狭隘利益，而需要为所有公民服务的货币联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "For the next 15 years, Iran will not be permitted to enrich uranium to more than 3.67% (to build a nuclear bomb requires uranium enriched to at least 85%).",
        "在未来15年，伊朗将不允许进行浓度超过3. 67%的核浓缩活动（要制造核弹，核浓缩至少要达到85%）。"
    ],
    [
        "In normal times, there are valid reasons for paying interest on excess reserves.",
        "在正常时期，可以找到充分的理由论证应该向超额准备金支付利息。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Erdoğan’s best ally in his risky gambit may be the US consumer.",
        "然而，埃尔多安在冒险开局中最好的盟友可能是美国消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "But an engaged and active president may cause tension with the prime minister who, in the Turkish system, is the real chief executive.",
        "但一位投入和活跃的总统可能会使自己与总理之间的关系紧张。 而后者才是土耳其政体中真正的行政首脑。"
    ],
    [
        "Mobile money and digital wallets accessed on cellphones eliminate the need for physical cash in rural areas, where financial services are limited and carrying large amounts of cash is risky.",
        "可以通过手机操作的移动支付和数字钱包消除了在农村地区携带实体现金的需要。 由于金融服务的缺乏，在非洲农村地区携带大笔现金是很危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Trump administration could supplement those efforts with military action to increase the pressure on China.",
        "新上任的特朗普政府可能辅之以军事行动，以增加对中国的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "As fossil fuels contribute to global warming, entrepreneurs in Asia, Latin America, and Europe are pioneering a variety of alternative energy solutions.",
        "由于化石燃料导致全球变暖，亚洲、拉美和欧洲的创业者正积极开拓一系列替代能源方案。"
    ],
    [
        "We have also re-launched settlement talks concerning the breakaway region of Transdniestria, where the only viable basis for a solution is to make Moldova ever more economically and politically attractive to the region’s residents.",
        "我们同时也就德涅斯特河沿岸（Transdniestria）地区的独立问题重新启动了谈判，而唯一能达成解决方案的基础就是令摩尔多瓦在经济和政治上更具吸引力，从而吸引该地区居民倒向摩尔多瓦。"
    ],
    [
        "So this is not Ukraine’s war.",
        "因此这不是乌克兰的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Policy mistakes may not always be avoidable.",
        "政策错误不是总是可以避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "And now, in addition to the string of “black swan” events that advanced economies have faced this year, monetary and fiscal stimulus has been removed in most of them, or soon will be.",
        "如今，发达经济体除了遭遇一系列“黑天鹅”事件之外，很多已经结束了货币或财政刺激阶段，或很快就要结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraqi legislators are considering reducing the age for child marriage to nine.",
        "伊拉克立法者正在考虑将童婚年龄降低到九岁。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, this is more effective than spending the same amount of money in yearly installments. IFFIm provides a convincing precedent for the current crisis.",
        "从长远来看，这比将同样的数额分开几年划拨更为有效，也为当前的危机提供了具有说服力的先例。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, some city dwellers don’t even bother with acquiring land or gaining distant help. Certain crops can be grown in their own homes.",
        "事实上，一些城市居民根本无需担心购买土地或者获取远程协助的问题，因为一些特定种类的农作物在他们自己家中就可种植。"
    ],
    [
        "In one village, a bridge was built to connect two neighborhoods separated during the rainy season.",
        "在一个村庄里，人们就以这样的方式修了一座桥来连接在雨季被分割开来的两个居住区。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the traditional power of states and leaders is declining; in today’s global economy, innovators, not politicians, wield the most influence.",
        "因此，传统的国家和领袖权力在削弱； 在当今全球经济中，创新者，而不是政客，才拥有最大的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, nepotism is difficult to hide, and public scrutiny helps to check its most blatant manifestations.",
        "在美国，裙带关系很难掩饰，公众监督会对遏制其最明目张胆的泛滥有所帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The British social reformer, Eglantyne Jebb, once noted that the only international language that the world understands is the cry of a child.",
        "伦敦—英国社会改革家杰布（Eglantyne Jebb）曾经指出，全世界都听得懂的国际语言只有儿童的哭声。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there are some juicy incidentals, such as the dance of John Maynard Keynes’s wife, a Russian ballerina, that kept the US Treasury Secretary awake, and charges of espionage for the Soviet Union against the main American negotiator, Harry Dexter White.",
        "当然，其中不乏劲爆八卦，比如凯恩斯的俄罗斯芭蕾舞演员妻子的舞蹈让美国财政部长目不转睛，苏联指控美国主谈判员怀特（Harry Dexter White）从事间谍活动等。"
    ],
    [
        "During that visit, I was able to attend meetings with him and other top Iranian leaders, including Mohammad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister and, later, its chief negotiator in the negotiations in Vienna.",
        "在这次访问中，我得以出席与他和其他伊朗高层领导人的会晤，包括伊朗外交部长、后来在维也纳谈判中担任伊朗首席谈判员的扎里夫（Mohammad Zarif）。"
    ],
    [
        "While he has lost his parliamentary majority, Talat is still head of the Turkish Cypriot administration and will continue to lead negotiations on behalf of the north.",
        "尽管失去了议会中的多数席位，但塔拉特仍然领导着土耳其塞浦路斯政府，而且仍将继续代表北方领导谈判的进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the Chinese wrath is directed at biased reports, not at Western media in general.",
        "大多数中国怒气都指向偏向的报导，而非整体西方媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether policies sound crazy or sensible depends on the conceptual paradigm, or belief system, that we use to interpret the nature of the world we inhabit.",
        "政策是疯狂还是正常取决于我们用来解释我们所居住其中的世界的性质的概念范式或信念体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Any answer at this time would be impressionistic and imprecise.",
        "此次的任何答案都将是大致而不精确的。"
    ],
    [
        "With attackers becoming increasingly nimble and innovative, armed with an increasingly diverse array of weapons, cyber-attacks are happening at a faster pace and with greater sophistication than ever before.",
        "袭击者变得越来越灵活和创新，他们的武器日益多样化，因此，网络攻击的节奏越来越快，也越来越成熟。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, the US receives only about 2-3% of FDI flows from China.",
        "目前，中国对外FDI中只有2—3%流向了美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s current president, Hassan Rouhani, was his country’s chief nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005.",
        "伊朗现任总统鲁哈尼是2003—2005年伊朗首席核谈判代表。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration is slowly recognizing that for a Pakistani leader to be an effective counterterrorism ally, he or she must have a modicum of legitimacy.",
        "布什政府正在慢慢地认识到，要想让巴基斯坦领导人成为有效的反恐同盟，他或她就必须拥有哪怕是一点的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the potential opportunities are free-trade agreements, an easing of visa requirements for university students, temporary work programs, and incentives to attract entrepreneurs.",
        "潜在机会包括自由贸易协定、放松大学留学生的签证要求、临时性务工项目以及吸引企业家的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "So, can Lebanon escape the curse of the “devil’s excrement” that has afflicted many of its Middle Eastern neighbors?",
        "那么，黎巴嫩能否打破困扰其诸多中东邻国的“魔鬼粪便”的诅咒？"
    ],
    [
        "And our atmosphere and oceans are, indeed, warming, with substantial residual heat stored in the ocean, to be released at some future time.",
        "我们的大气和海洋其实正在变暖，海洋中大量储存的余热会在未来的某个时点释放。"
    ],
    [
        "China has much to gain by avoiding such a strategy.",
        "中国如能避免这一战略将会大有益处。"
    ],
    [
        "Those fighting to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS thus have a new tool in their arsenal.",
        "为防止艾滋病毒/艾滋病传播而奋斗的人终于有了新工具来充实自己的武器库。"
    ],
    [
        "And then there are the numbers that sound very large and are hard to interpret: $300 trillion in “derivative” securities; $3 trillion managed by 12,000 global “hedge funds”; $1.2 trillion a year in “private equity.”",
        "还有一些巨大而令人费解的数字：300万亿美元的“衍生”证券； 其中3万亿美元由12000个“对冲基金”管理；"
    ],
    [
        "First, there is simple provocation, aimed at riling up Greek citizens and thus escalating tensions between the country and its creditors.",
        "首先是简单的挑衅，旨在煽动希腊公民，从而加剧希腊与其债权人的紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is the president’s staff who guide the outcome and determines the next steps.",
        "但引导结果走向及确定今后步骤的却是总统的手下。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world searching for providential leaders, the case of Ariel Sharon is both symbolic and paradoxical, for this universal man remains one of the most controversial figures of recent decades.",
        "在这个极力寻求天赐领袖的世界中，沙龙的例子颇具象征意义，同时也充满了矛盾。 因为在过去几十年以来，这位世界性的人物一直是最具争议的领导人之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Ordinary Poles, by contrast, are strongly pro-European.",
        "相反，普通的波兰民众则强烈地对欧洲抱有好感。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative is inconsistent (if not arbitrary) enforcement of the current rules, inducing divisiveness among member states and eventual fragmentation.",
        "否则将是现有规则执行的前后矛盾（甚至独断专行），导致成员国之间的分歧，最后导致分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "To maximize the impact of these efforts, Temer’s government should also focus on reducing waste in the private sector caused by other problems with the business environment.",
        "为了让这些措施影响最大化，特梅尔政府还应该关注与营商环境有关的问题所造成的私人部门的浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who are concerned about permanent German dominance of the European “club” can rest easy.",
        "担心德国永久主宰欧洲“俱乐部”的人大可不必担心。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain owes us.",
        "英国人欠我们的。"
    ],
    [
        "The important thing is to shift norms and expectations.",
        "重要的是改变规范和预期。"
    ],
    [
        "And it owes much of this success to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which marks its 50th anniversary this month.",
        "而这一成功很大程度上要归因于东盟。 本月，东盟将迎来成立50周年。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Americans do not need a new political party: with Obama’s reelection, voters have endorsed precisely that credo of pragmatic idealism.",
        "但实际上，美国并不需要一个新的政党：奥巴马连任已经说明选民们明确支持实用理想主义的信条。"
    ],
    [
        "A bigger economy provides the resources to build stronger military capabilities.",
        "因为只有一个更庞大的经济体才能提供资源去建设更为强大的军事实力。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not what Netanyahu intended.",
        "这不是内塔尼亚胡想要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, they fight to protect their own interests and livelihoods, whether that be operating a dairy farm or running a government.",
        "相反，他们竭力保护的是自身的利益和生计，无论他们的生计是经营奶牛场还是运作政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the vast majority of refugees are expected to settle in a Palestinian state.",
        "相反，绝大多数难民都将在巴勒斯坦国内得到安置。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe has flinched because the economy remains weak, posing renewed risks of a deflationary relapse.",
        "安倍之所以退缩，是因为经济仍然十分疲软，有可能导致通缩卷土重来。"
    ],
    [
        "They later found themselves on the losing end of a long history of violence between their own separatist forces and the Turkish army, as well as being subjected to an ongoing policy of discrimination and forced assimilation.",
        "他们后来发现，在这场发生在他们自己的分裂势力和土耳其军队之间的长期武力斗争中，他们丝毫未沾任何便宜，还不得不屈服在一个歧视和被迫同化的政策之下。"
    ],
    [
        "And Syrians across the country will fight ISIS just as fiercely with or without Assad’s air force.",
        "而且无论有没有阿萨德的空军配合，全体叙利亚民众都将全力抵抗伊斯兰国。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, politicians in democratic countries need to think seriously about reforms of international institutions, because we desperately need institutions capable of real global governance.",
        "同时，民主国家的政客应该严肃地思考国际制度的改革，因为我们迫切地需要一种能真正覆盖全球的制度。 比如说，我们可以从联合国开始。"
    ],
    [
        "American politicians are now brand names, packaged like breakfast cereal.",
        "眼下，美国政治家们都成了一个品牌名称，被包装在诸如谷物早餐等商品上。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot afford to see them fail.",
        "我们决不能让它们失败。"
    ],
    [
        "The world needs faith.",
        "因为这个世界其实是需要信仰的。"
    ],
    [
        "And it should do more to spur the involvement of Hong Kong – which possesses major advantages in finance and logistics, information accessibility, talent recruitment, and implementation of the rule of law – in the initiative.",
        "中国还应该加大力度刺激在金融和物流、信息获取、人才招聘和实施法治方面具备重大优势的香港参与“一带一路”战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Questions of appropriate style – when to use hard and soft skills – are equally relevant for men and women, and should not be clouded by traditional gender stereotypes.",
        "什么才是合适的风格——什么时候硬，什么时候软——对男性和女性同样重要，我们不应该被传统的性别顽固旧观念蒙蔽了双眼。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Iran does not need uranium-enrichment technology. The country has only one civilian nuclear reactor, with fuel rods supplied by Russia, and the Iranian technology now being developed cannot be used in it.",
        "毕竟伊朗不需要铀浓缩技术：这个国家只有一个民用核反应堆，作为燃料的铀棒可以由俄罗斯提供，而伊朗目前正在发展的相关技术也无法应用在这个反应堆上。"
    ],
    [
        "Even an announcement by the Fed stating its willingness to do so would go a long way toward reassuring markets that emerging economies can avert a liquidity crisis.",
        "即使美联储宣布愿意这样做，但距离让市场确信新兴经济体能够避免流动性危机还有很长的一段路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the US government has been handing out tax-rebate checks so that Americans will shop until they drop, and now Congress is talking about doing more.",
        "相反， 美国政府已经分发退税支票，以使美国人可以尽情购物，并且现在国会还在讨论为此做更多的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, success or failure will hinge on the willingness of the Chinese leadership to confront the powerful vested interests resisting reform.",
        "最终成败将取决于中国领导层在面对强大既得利益集团抵制改革时的所体现出来的改革意志。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why we put so much emphasis on the moral dimension of politics and a vibrant civil society as counterweights to political parties and state institutions.",
        "这就是为什么我们花如此大的力气强调政治的道德方面和活跃的民众社会，以此作为政党和国家制度的平衡力。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Apple has amassed untaxed cash reserves of up to $230 billion.",
        "苹果也因此累积了高达2300亿美元的免税现金储备。"
    ],
    [
        "As Maya recounted the grisly story, I watched the faces of the two young male guards who accompanied us.",
        "我边听玛雅讲述这个可怕的故事，边看身边陪同的两名年轻男警卫的表情。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting pressure on Europe’s performing arts institutions is causing concern at various different levels.",
        "这一情况对欧洲演艺团体造成的压力正引起不同层面的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Suddenly, something (an increase in United States interest rates, a drop in commodity prices, a domestic political conflict) causes the local currency to drop in value against the dollar.",
        "突然间，一些事情（美国利率升高、大宗商品价格下跌、本国政治冲突等）导致本币兑美元贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "The discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS was followed by elucidation of its pathogenesis, natural history, and epidemiology, the creation of a diagnostic blood test, and the development of antiretroviral drugs.",
        "在发现了人类免疫缺陷病毒（HIV）是艾滋病的致病原因后，接着有解释了它的致病机理、自然史、流行病学，创立了诊断性血液检验、开发了抗逆转录病毒药物。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, there may be cultural differences in understanding how compassion should be applied.",
        "然而，在理解应该如何运用同情心的问题上也许存在着文化差异。"
    ],
    [
        "You need to consume in order to live, and to consume more than you strictly need in order to live well.",
        "为了生活你需要消费，而为了生活得更好你需要超出你绝对需求的消费。"
    ],
    [
        "But after the implosion of communism, the situation in Europe was more or less reversed: the defensive demarcation of borders has been replaced by the removal of frontiers across the Continent.",
        "但是，在共产主义垮台之后，欧洲的情形多多少少发生了一些逆转：对边界的防卫划分被在整个大陆消除国境所取代。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2005, India, too, has expressed interest in such an arrangement with ASEAN-10.",
        "自2005年以来，印度也对与东盟十国的类似安排表达了兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "We’ve seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season.”",
        "我们已目睹创纪录的干旱、饥荒的蔓延以及在飓风季节中的暴风雨一次比一次更厉害。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "By the logic of Westminster, you elect a legislature to form the executive, and when the executive does not command a secure majority in the legislative assembly, the government falls, triggering fresh elections.",
        "按照威斯敏斯特的逻辑，人们选择立法机关组成行政机构，当行政机构无法在立法议会中获得绝对多数时，政府就此垮台，并引发新的选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s Failed Bureaucratic Coup",
        "土耳其的失败官僚政变"
    ],
    [
        "It is a robust combination – one that she will need to use fully as she attempts to lead Britain out of the EU.",
        "这是一种强大的组合——她需要充分加以利用以领导英国的退欧进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Voters, they assumed, would focus only on the current economic malaise.",
        "他们认为，选民只会把注意力集中在当前的经济萎靡上。"
    ],
    [
        "By bringing together the key ministers, the committee has coordinated and accelerated decision-making, and has already approved tens of billions of dollars in spending in its first few meetings.",
        "委员会集合了相关重要部门的部长，起到了协调和加快决策的作用，最初的几次会议就批准了数百亿美元的支出项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, life expectancy at birth often varies by 5-10 years, depending on social and economic well-being, with poorer people spending 10-20 more years of life suffering from illness or disability than their wealthier counterparts.",
        "事实上，根据社会和经济福利的不同，出生寿命预期通常可以相差5—10年，较贫困人群每年要多花10—20年与病魔或残疾搏斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is far from clear how the balance of power is measured, much less how to develop successful survival strategies.",
        "今天，仍然没有明确的方法来衡量权力的平衡，更不必说如何制定成功的生存战略了。"
    ],
    [
        "The relationship between development and displacement is clear, and we need to begin to consider these challenges as areas of joint responsibility.",
        "发展和流离失所之间的关系十分明确，我们需要为应对上述挑战共同担责。"
    ],
    [
        "A sense of despondency has set in that nothing can be done to stop it.",
        "有一种悲观的情绪认为随便我们怎么做都无法阻止它的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "While some of the demonstrators might be inspired by democratic ideals, let’s have no illusions, the Israelis seem to be saying: Islamist forces will emerge as the only winners, and they are much more hostile to Israel and the West than their predecessors were.",
        "虽然其中一些阿拉伯示威民众可能是受到了民主思想的感召，但坦白说，以色列人似乎都认为极端伊斯兰势力将最终得势，而且会比前任更加仇视以色列和西方。"
    ],
    [
        "And the recent spate of attacks reveals a serious problem with the country’s trajectory under Modi.",
        "而最近的一连串袭击事件表明，莫迪治下的印度问题重重。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk is that – as in Latin America in the 1980s and Asia in the 1990s – private-sector defaults will infect public-sector balance sheets.",
        "风险在于——如20世纪80年代的拉美和90年代的亚洲——私人部门违约将影响到公共部门资产负债表。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a process might well confer prestige on Putin.",
        "这一进程也许会给普京带来声望。"
    ],
    [
        "We asked respondents to indicate how much control they had over their lives and how optimistic they were about the future, using a scale on which ten indicated a highly optimistic sense of control and one a deep level of powerlessness and pessimism.",
        "我们使用十道能够显示出人们对生活控制到底呈高度乐观还是深度无助和悲观的测试题，要求回答者简单地说明他们可以在多大程度上控制他们的生活以及他们对未来有多乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "The drag on commodity prices from China’s growth moderation is real.",
        "中国增长平庸化对大宗商品价格的拖累作用是实实在在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Genes are the basic unit of heredity, and, unless you are an identical twin, the combination of genes inherited from your parents is unique to you.",
        "基因是遗传的基本单位，除非你是同卵双生，否则你从父母那里遗传的基因组合是独一无二的。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU would then be able to cast its criticism within the appropriate legal framework, while Turkish leaders would no longer be in a position to brush aside the EU's concerns.",
        "然后，欧盟将能够在恰当的法律框架内进行批评，而土耳其领导人也决不能继续无视欧盟的关注点了。"
    ],
    [
        "Business investors hate uncertainty and the Brexit vote has created a dramatically more uncertain world in Europe and beyond.",
        "商业投资者厌恶不确定性，而英国退出在欧洲内外造成了巨大的新增不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "His rants against the elites were often confused, but he was funny, which made the old elite politicians look like stuffy old bores – which many of them were.",
        "他对精英阶层的斥责往往令人困惑，但他的滑稽可笑让老派精英政治家看去古板而令人生厌——这也确实是很多人的真实写照。"
    ],
    [
        "From the newest privates to the most experienced generals, US soldiers have developed strong ties with their counterparts and deep pride in their shared security mission.",
        "从新入伍的列兵到作战经验丰富的将军，美国士兵与参与演习的盟国士兵建立了密切的关系，对共同的安全使命拥有深切的自豪感是他们的共同特征。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, England’s Stern Report is probably far too optimistic when it calculates that an eclectic approach to reducing carbon emissions will cost the world only 1% per year of income.",
        "出于这一理由，英国的斯特恩报告中有关减少碳排放的折中途径将每年只花费1％的收入的估计未免过于乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Tanzania, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Rwanda are all projected to achieve growth of 6% or higher this year.",
        "埃塞俄比亚，科特迪瓦，坦桑尼亚，塞内加尔，布基纳法索和卢旺达预计今年将实现6％以上的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, we know all too well how that story ended.",
        "不幸的是，你我都很清楚最后的结局。"
    ],
    [
        "Prices had started falling in September of that year, following a brief commodity boom.",
        "在短暂的商品繁荣之后，物价在那一年的9月开始下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "If we believe that economic actors are irrational, then we will enact paternalistic policies aimed at controlling behavior or bailing out failed agents and institutions, which could be self-defeating and even dangerous.",
        "如果我们认为经济参与者是非理性的，那么我们就会针对行为控制或对陷入困境的机构的援救制定家长式的政策，这是自我挫败甚至是危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon thereafter, North Korea called off planned test launches of missiles that it had threatened to aim at the waters around the US territory of Guam.",
        "此后不久，朝鲜便放弃了此前威胁要对准美国关岛领土附近水域的导弹试射。"
    ],
    [
        "Militarily, this argument does make sense.",
        "军事上看，这种说法有一定道理。"
    ],
    [
        "But the combination of emergency insurance and the wait-to-insure strategy would still be financially preferable for many individuals, and the number would grow as premiums are driven higher.",
        "但紧急险加需要时再保险策略的组合在财务上对于许多个人来说仍然更加划算，而随着保费的提高，这样的人还会增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Atheists, agnostics, or members of Iran’s Bahai community are not accepted.",
        "无神论者、不可知论者或巴哈教徒在伊朗是无权上大学的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is Obama who is now regarded as weak in the Middle East.",
        "但现在奥巴马却在中东背负软弱的恶名。"
    ],
    [
        "And some commentators fear that if Donald Trump wins the US presidency in November, he could turn out to be an “American Mussolini.”",
        "更有一些评论家担心，如果唐纳德·特朗普赢得11月美国总统大选，有可能成为“美国墨索里尼”。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Syria still believes in a “Greater Syria” and never fully accepted Lebanon’s sovereignty.",
        "当然，叙利亚仍然坚持“大叙利亚”信念并从未真正接受黎巴嫩的主权地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Not everyone should heed Andreessen’s exhortation to quit liberal arts programs!",
        "不是每个人都应该听安德森的劝告退掉文科课程的！"
    ],
    [
        "One might quibble with this description.",
        "你可能对这一论断颇有微言。"
    ],
    [
        "How does one respond to such a forfeiture?",
        "我们如何面对这样的局面？"
    ],
    [
        "But now we can also do “small data.”",
        "现在我们也可以处理“细分资料”。"
    ],
    [
        "Would a similar approach work for the gas in your oven?",
        "对于你的炉子里的天然气而言是否有一个类似的方法可以奏效？"
    ],
    [
        "With benchmark interest rates stuck at the dreaded zero bound, monetary policy has been transformed from an agent of price stability into an engine of financial instability.",
        "基准利率被锁定在骇人听闻的零区间，货币政策已经从物价稳定的代表转变成金融动荡的发动机。"
    ],
    [
        "On such fundamental issues of Arab consensus, it is simply illogical to expect an Arab broadcaster to be even-handed.",
        "在这些阿拉伯世界公认的根本问题上，要求阿拉伯媒体客观公正显然是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Morality of Capital Punishment",
        "死刑的道德观"
    ],
    [
        "So, the real question for China watchers around the world is whether anything that happens at the 19th Congress will affect this trend.",
        "那么全球各地中国观察家的真正问题是，在十九大上是否会发生一些影响到这个趋势的事件。"
    ],
    [
        "After 1989, however, Western assistance, not least by the US and Britain, eased the transition to democracy, the rule of law, and market economies in most post-communist countries.",
        "但1989年以后的西方援助，特别是美英两国的援助，降低了多数后共产主义国家向民主、法治和市场经济转型的难度。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is the failure to build stable, diverse societies that is the continent's true Achilles heel.",
        "但欧洲大陆真正的阿克琉斯之踵乃是其无法建立稳定多元的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s soccer revolution was mirrored in the economy.",
        "德国的足球革命也在经济领域有所映射。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of treating the addiction, it created junkie economies that were unable to function without a fix.",
        "但相对于戒断毒瘾，它却创造了一堆无法自我修复的瘾君子经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank of England stood ready to convert a pound sterling into an ounce of (11/12 fine) gold on demand.",
        "英格兰银行时刻准备着将1英镑兑换为1盎司黄金。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the taper tantrum and the devaluation of the renminbi, the Fed’s rate-hike announcement on December 16 certainly was no surprise.",
        "和锥形崩盘以及人民币贬值不同，12月16日的美联储升息决定不属于意外。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, resolving such questions must be a matter of continuous public scrutiny and negotiation.",
        "在实践中，解决这一问题必须涉及不间断的公共监督和谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "That gave the Assad regime’s allies all the justification they needed to supply weapons of their own.",
        "这给了阿萨德政权的盟友所需要的口实提供它们自身的武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Large inflows of capital from countries with low interest rates can easily push up exchange rates, putting the tradable part of the economy under pressure.",
        "来自低利率国家的大规模资本流入可以很轻易地推高汇率，令经济中的贸易部门压力陡增。"
    ],
    [
        "In my opinion, the PBOC should reinforce the Chinese government’s market-oriented reform plans and allow the renminbi to float.",
        "我认为，中国人民银行应该执行中国政府的市场改革计划，允许人民币自由浮动。"
    ],
    [
        "FLORENCE – US President Barack Obama’s administration has lost little time in announcing that it will seek direct talks with the Iranian government.",
        "佛罗伦萨-美国总统奥巴马政府没有浪费任何时间，宣布了它将寻求与伊朗政府直接会谈。"
    ],
    [
        "It follows that nine-year-old girls are also adults in criminal law, and subject to capital punishment for, say, converting to another religion.",
        "接下来还规定9岁的女孩在刑法中被认定为成年人，因而，如果她皈依另外一种宗教的话，就可能被判死刑。"
    ],
    [
        "Tony Blair and George W. Bush are having huge problems with their electorates, also because they lied about the reasons they gave to justify their war in Iraq.",
        "布莱尔和布什同样由于在出兵伊拉克的原因方面撒谎而在争取选民上遇到了大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "When democracy is discredited by its own practitioners, there is much greater public willingness to embrace a seemingly efficient alternative.",
        "当民主因为其自身的实践者信誉尽失时，公众就会强烈希望采取看似有效的替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The US share of the UN regular budget equals roughly seven hours of Pentagon spending.",
        "美国占联合国固定预算的比例大约等于七小时的国防支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, Kenya, and Ethiopia are on that list.",
        "加纳、塞内加尔、坦桑尼亚、肯尼亚都在此列。"
    ],
    [
        "This view naturally underpins interventions like targeted smoking-cessation services or health-education initiatives.",
        "这一观点自然地成为定向戒烟服务或健康教育计划等干预手段的理论基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Immigrants come to Europe in large measure because Europe needs them.",
        "数量众多的移民涌入欧洲是因为欧洲需要他们。"
    ],
    [
        "So the ultimate human decision must be based on the relative salience of these discordant emotional factors.",
        "所以，人们最终的投资决定，一定是建立在这些不一致的情感因素的相对重要性之上的。"
    ],
    [
        "The California Syndrome",
        "加利福尼亚综合症"
    ],
    [
        "In this regard, another important development is the increasing number of emerging-market middle-class consumers, their growing purchasing power, and thus their potential impact on global demand.",
        "在这方面的另一重要进展就是不断膨胀的新兴市场中产阶级消费群，加上该阶层不断提升的消费能力以及因此对全球需求所产生的潜在影响。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The question I am asked most often nowadays is this: Are we back to 2008 and another global financial crisis and recession?",
        "纽约—最近我最常被问道的问题是：我们回到了2008年，将迎来又一场全球金融危机和衰退吗？"
    ],
    [
        "On the one hand, it must protect itself against the geopolitical threat posed by a newly assertive and adventurous Russia.",
        "一方面，它必须保护自己免受新近张狂而又冒险的俄国构成的地缘政治威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "In the face of such calamitous conditions, Ukraine’s government is a bit like the proverbial Dutch boy who put his finger in a dike to stop the sea from leaking through.",
        "在如此巨大的灾难面前，乌克兰政府有点像故事中的荷兰男孩想用手指堵住漏水的海堤。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ecuador, former president Rafael Correa managed to get his handpicked successor elected, but low oil prices and dollar shortages make a turn toward policy moderation quite likely.",
        "在委内瑞拉，前总统科雷拉成功地让自己挑选的继承人当选总统，但低油价和美元短缺意味着极有可能发生政策缓和（policy moderation）。"
    ],
    [
        "The lessons of the last oil shock, which came on the heels of a collapse in state-led industrialization in the mid-1980s, were hard to absorb.",
        "上一次石油冲击的教训很难吸收。 那次终极紧跟着20世纪80年代国家领导的工业化失败而来。"
    ],
    [
        "But if your answer was the United States under President Donald Trump, you would not be far off.",
        "但如果你的答案是特朗普总统治下的美国，也不算太离谱。"
    ],
    [
        "For the EU, relying on its member states to build common institutions was arguably the only way to start the integration process, given deep mistrust among countries that had fought so many brutal wars against one another.",
        "对欧盟来说，依靠成员国构建共同机构或许是开启一体化过程的唯一办法，因为其成员国充满了深度互不信任，彼此之间打了无数场残酷的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The Marange diamond field, discovered in 2006, is one of the richest ever found.",
        "要知道2006年发现的马朗钻矿是迄今为止蕴藏量最丰富的钻矿。"
    ],
    [
        "When a market has structural distortions, political tools and collective action of the sort that OPEC embodied can be more effective than public policy.",
        "当市场存在结构性扭曲时，欧佩克所提供的政治工具和集体行动要比公共政策更加有效。"
    ],
    [
        "The salaries of Italy’s military chiefs of staff and chief of police are almost triple those of their American counterparts.",
        "意大利军队参谋长和警察局长的工资几乎达到美国同僚的三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The government would have you believe that I am an enemy of the Hungarian people.",
        "政府想让你相信我是匈牙利人民的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "True to form, Americans became the greatest TV watchers, which is probably still true today, even though the data are somewhat sketchy and incomplete.",
        "尽管相关统计稍显粗略和不完整，但相关数据显示，美国人不但过去曾是最大的电视迷，现在也依然如此。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the Fed is effectively trapped between a US economy that increasingly justifies normalization of monetary policy and the interest of fragile global markets – in which about 60% of the world’s transactions are dollar-denominated – in further dovishness.",
        "结果，美联储实际上陷在了日益要求货币政策正常化的美国经济和脆弱的要求进一步采取鸽派立场的全球市场（其中大约60%的交易用美元计价）利益之间。"
    ],
    [
        "According to research by the Brookings Institution, the start-up rate (the number of new companies, as a percentage of all firms) has fallen by nearly half since 1978.",
        "据布鲁金斯学会的研究，初创率（新公司占所有企业的百分比）自1978年以来下降了近一半。"
    ],
    [
        "In that pre-modern world, private life was extraordinarily public, whereas the social movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries dramatically expanded the realm of individual privacy and self-definition.",
        "在当时的前现代世界，私人生活令人难以置信地公开化，而十九二十世纪的社会运动极大地拓展了个人隐私和自我定义的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "After World War II, for obvious reasons, the expression of nationalist emotions was virtually taboo in Europe (not least in Germany).",
        "二次大战后由于显而易见的原因，表达民族主义情绪几乎演变成欧洲的一种禁忌（尤其是在德国）。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, Haiti can turn its geography into a competitive advantage, but only if the United States helps.",
        "如今，海地有机会将地利转化为竞争优势，不过前提是美国出手相助。"
    ],
    [
        "Sumo, as a traditional spectacle, cannot survive without respectable patrons.",
        "而相扑作为一种传统竞技活动，必须依靠富豪们大笔的赞助才能继续生存。"
    ],
    [
        "Pada tahun 1980, 108 juta orang menderita diabetes, atau 1 dari 20 orang; kini, lebih dari 400 juta orang, atau 1 dari 12 orang mengidap diabetes.",
        "08亿人罹患糖尿病，比例为20分之一； 如今，糖尿病患者超过4亿，比例为12分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, every idea-trader should adhere to these principles.",
        "此外，每一位思想交流者都应该遵守这些原则。"
    ],
    [
        "High prices for commodities today mean more supply for future generations, while at the same time creating an incentive to develop new ways to conserve on consumption.",
        "今天的基本商品价格居高不下就意味着后人有更多的供应，与此同时创立激励让人们找到新的途径节制消费。"
    ],
    [
        "Werqit’s workflow solution does a good job of discovering, through social activity, who is likely to help you – and, just as important, who will probably brush you off.",
        "没错，要动员目标的全面帮助。 Werqit的工作流解决方案长于通过社会活动发现谁可能帮助你以及同样重要的谁可能冷落你。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, books still in print are likely to be the ones that contain the most up-to-date information, and the ones that people most want to read.",
        "毕竟，在版书籍可能包含最有效的信息，这些信息最符合人们的阅读需要。"
    ],
    [
        "It took China’s government a protracted sixteen years to negotiate its re-entry into the GATT/WTO, but it soon showed its mettle by assuming joint leadership (along with Brazil, India, and South Africa) of the G-20, a group of primarily dynamic developing countries that threw down the gauntlet to the industrialized powers at the Cancún WTO ministerial meeting in September 2003.",
        "中国政府花了漫长的16年进行谈判，申请重新加入世贸组织，而且很快与巴西、印度和南非一起领导20国集团，足见其决心勇气。 20国集团主要由充满活力的发展中国家组成，在2003年9月坎昆举行的世贸组织部长级会议上，他们向工业化强国提出挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "This burden must not be left for Pakistan to carry alone.",
        "这一负担不能完全由巴基斯坦独自承担。"
    ],
    [
        "So will the specter of illiberal trial procedures – another reason for the lack of international support for the IST.",
        "狭隘的审判程序也是障碍—这也是IST缺少国际社会支持的另一个原因。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is important to remember that asset purchases are not an end in themselves.",
        "但一定要记住资产采购本身并不是目的。"
    ],
    [
        "And key data indicate that they are at least partly right.",
        "关键数据显示，它们这么说不无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this weak outlook for the major economies, losses by banks and other financial institutions will continue to grow.",
        "考虑到主要经济体前景暗淡，银行及其他金融机构的损失仍将继续扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "The genius of Clinton and Blair was to combine genuine concern for the underprivileged with an unseemly devotion to the fat cats of Wall Street, the City of London, and some murkier places, too.",
        "克林顿和布莱尔的天才之处是将关于社会地位低下群体的真正担忧与不得体地卑躬屈膝于华尔街、伦敦金融城和其他更加见不得人之处的权势人物相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "The False Promise of Debt Relief",
        "减免债务的虚假承诺"
    ],
    [
        "Bring in South Korea (a major customer for Iranian oil) and Russia and begin exploring options for a global fuel bank.",
        "将韩国这个伊朗石油的主要买家以及俄罗斯拉进会谈并尝试构建一个全球核燃料银行。"
    ],
    [
        "This system may seem acceptable to those within the “gated communities” that benefit from it, but what about all those left outside?",
        "这套体系对于处于从中获利的“封闭社区”者来说可以接受，但“封闭社区”之外的人怎么办？"
    ],
    [
        "Globally, we cannot rely on knowledge centers such as Silicon Valley or Oxford to develop a silver bullet to the climate problem.",
        "全球而言，我们无法依靠硅谷或牛津等知识中心制定气候变化灵药。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, this will have a significant effect on the allocation of global investment funds.",
        "随着时间推移，这将对全球投资资金分配产生显著的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Unable to compare outcomes directly, researchers have employed a variety of strategies to identify the impact of inflation targeting, and have typically found it to be substantial (though the effect becomes small or even zero when countries’ starting points are taken into account).",
        "无法直接比较结果，研究者只好用各种策略来识别通胀目标的影响，通常的发现是影响很大（尽管在考虑国家的起点的情况下，其影响会变小甚至降为零）。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether China can achieve sustainable growth patterns in the coming years will depend upon a number of key factors.",
        "未来几年，中国能否实现可持续增长将取决于诸多重要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not too late for environmentalists to get on board.",
        "但环保主义者现在开始努力也不晚。"
    ],
    [
        "Perotti has a point.",
        "佩罗蒂言之有理。"
    ],
    [
        "Impassive capital now ignores deceptive market signals, and the liquidation of untenable mal-investment percolates through the system as immutable time preferences prevail.",
        "现在，冷漠的资本已经对虚假的市场信号无动于衷了，而随着恒定的时间偏好被重新认识，越来越多的不当投资的清盘正通过系统渗透出来。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s tourism sector could be developed and upgraded, not only for the millions of Muslim pilgrims who visit the holy sites of Mecca and Medina every year, but also for leisure tourists.",
        "该国的旅游业也可以开发和升级，不仅面对每年前往麦加和麦地那朝拜的数百万穆斯林朝圣者，同时也面对休闲游客。"
    ],
    [
        "In much of the world, consumers are now cutting their spending in response to a fall in their wealth and a fear of unemployment.",
        "在全球的很多地方，消费者们正在削减开支来应对财富缩水和失业恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund now encourages more transparency by foreign investors, and has plans for a code of conduct.",
        "国际货币基金组织现正鼓励外国投资者增加透明度，并已准备出台一套行为规范。"
    ],
    [
        "The Philippines has filed a complaint against China with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.",
        "菲律宾已经在国际海洋法法庭对中国提起诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund had been called in for an emergency rescue.",
        "土耳其已经呼吁国际货币基金组织开展紧急援助。"
    ],
    [
        "This February, China’s most important paper, the People’s Daily, published a large photograph of him receiving the award, together with praise of his work. (The paper was apparently unaware that by then he had been in custody for five months.)",
        "今年2月，中国最重要的报纸《人民日报》登载了一张仁青桑珠领奖的大幅照片，并撰文描述他的贡献（该报似乎不知道他自此之后就开始了长达5个月的拘留）。"
    ],
    [
        "There are immediate and obvious answers to the question of who was to blame, but they rarely correspond with the new shape of the financial landscape that ultimately emerges.",
        "谁是危机的罪魁祸首，回答这个问题似乎再容易不过，但不论谁受到谴责，这种谴责都不会影响到最终出现的金融新格局。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is on this bottom board that we find most of the greatest challenges we face today.",
        "然而正是在下盘让我们发现了当今面对的最大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Communist parties, more or less reformed as socialists, appeal to a surprising number of voters.",
        "经过改革在不同程度上成为社会党派的共产主义政党出人预料地赢得了众多的选民。"
    ],
    [
        "The big question across South Asia is whether or not the withdrawal of US/NATO troops will attenuate Pakistan’s dilemmas or deepen them.",
        "南亚地区最大的问题就是美国/北约的撤军究竟会缓解还是进一步加深巴基斯坦的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "The data also need to be easy to manipulate so that third parties - whether commercial data services or journalists – can create compelling and revealing visualizations.",
        "对于数据的操作也应该更便利，以便第三方、无论是商业数据服务机构还是记者都能够把这些数据以有说服力和能说明问题的可视化方式表现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Intellectuals like the late Edward Said gave voice to it, but it has many followers in the United States and Europe.",
        "像已故的爱德华•赛德这样的知识分子是这种情绪的代言人，并且在欧美有众多的追随者。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond advocating higher minimum wages, some are calling for “reverse income policies,” with governments imposing across-the-board wage increases on private employers – a move that would drive up prices and defeat deflationary expectations.",
        "除倡议提高最低工资外，有些人正在呼吁实行“逆向收入政策”，即要求政府强制私营雇主实行全面的工资上涨——此举将推动价格上涨并战胜通缩预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the repeated use of “Islamic\" as part of the description of enemy groups may make it appear that the West is “at war with Islam.\"",
        "最后，反复使用“伊斯兰”来描述敌方组织可能让人误以为西方正“与伊斯兰教作战”。"
    ],
    [
        "The legal basis for military intervention may be weak, but Syria is no Iraq, either.",
        "军事干预的法律基础或许薄弱，但叙利亚也不同于伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Vladimir Putin Bolster the Eurozone?",
        "普京会支持欧元区吗?"
    ],
    [
        "The debate over which interventions would be needed to put a halt to something like the Great Depression should have been a simple matter of analyzing the evidence.",
        "需要什么干预才能停止类似于大萧条的东西，原本应该只是一个简单的证据分析问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s Resilience Lessons",
        "日本恢复力的启示"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, uncertainty has become the norm, in contrast to the gray but predictable future offered by the old communist regimes.",
        "首先，相较于在旧的共产主义体制下的灰暗但还可以预见的未来，不确定因素已经成为一种常态。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision reverberated far and wide, affecting bonds issued in a variety of jurisdictions, suggesting that US courts held sway over contracts executed in other countries.",
        "这一裁决反响激烈，影响了诸多地区发行的债券，这表明美国法院能够左右其他国家的合约执行。"
    ],
    [
        "But the extreme heat will return, with cities facing particularly brutal conditions.",
        "但极端热浪还会回来，城市将面临特别严重的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Young Palestinians – the third generation to live under occupation – have run out of patience.",
        "年轻的巴勒斯坦人——在以色列占领下生活的第三代——已经失去了耐心。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Khrushchev, isolated and in disgrace, continued to see a bond between himself and the great author.",
        "但是赫鲁晓夫在隔离和遭受不誉的时候依旧认为他和索尔仁尼琴之间有着联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, to some degree, a capitalist system will always be vulnerable to shocks and crises.",
        "当然，从某种程度上说，资本主义系统总是难免发生震荡和危机。"
    ],
    [
        "In deliberately ignoring this diversity and embracing nostalgia for a long-gone past, the Republican Party – led astray by its ultra-conservative lunatics – was far more responsible than its decent candidate for the defeat.",
        "共和党故意忽略这一多样化，而大谈对过去的乡愁。 他们被极端保守的疯子引上了歧路，对于其体面的候选人的败选，共和党要承担多得多的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "January 30 marked the 68th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, who fought not merely for independence, but also for a more just, equal, and moral India.",
        "1月30日是甘地遇刺68周年纪念。 甘地不但为印度的独立而斗争，也为建设更加公正、公平和道德的印度而奋斗。"
    ],
    [
        "And one can easily understand civil servants’ strong reluctance to disregard legal obligations and risk criminal liability for breach of trust.",
        "你也不难理解，公务人员很不情愿忽视法律义务，承担背信的刑事责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain is not alone in recognizing the potential of refugee doctors.",
        "英国不是唯一一个认识到难民医生潜力的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "They concluded that, “an increase of three or four percentage points in the share of GDP devoted to equipment investment is associated with an increase in GDP per worker of one percent per year.”",
        "他们的结论是，“GDP中的设备投资占比每上升3或4个百分点，就与劳动者人均GDP增每年1%的增长相关。"
    ],
    [
        "Should China be “Contained”?",
        "中国应当被遏制吗?"
    ],
    [
        "According to the International Monetary Fund’s recently published annual report on the Chinese economy, credit is growing about twice as fast as output. It is rising rapidly in both the non-financial private sector and in an expanding, interconnected financial sector that remains opaque.",
        "根据国际货币基金组织最近发表的中国经济年度经济报告，信贷的增长几乎相当于产出量的两倍，并同时在非金融私营部门以及不断延伸且相互连接的不透明金融部门中迅速扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "With consumption and investment lagging, the US economy is bound to stagnate.",
        "在消费和投资的拖累下，美国经济将注定陷入停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "The same was true of MF Holdings last fall.",
        "去年秋天，曼氏金融也重蹈了这一覆辙。"
    ],
    [
        "This can succeed only if we engage in vigorous exchange with each other in order to create a kind of mutual respect for these different views.",
        "只有我们不断努力和他人沟通并在这些观点之间建立相互尊重，这个目标才能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Crimea is the only region in Ukraine where ethnic Russians constitute an overwhelming majority of the population (58 per cent).",
        "克里米亚是乌克兰唯一的俄裔少数民族占人口大多数的地区（58%）。"
    ],
    [
        "For the many, by contrast, there has been only secular stagnation, with depressed employment and stagnating wages.",
        "相反，对很多人来说，看到的只有长期停滞，萧条的就业和不见增长的工资。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF/World Bank meetings in Tokyo on October 12-13 thus might be the ideal opportunity to begin broadening the international monetary agenda – by giving the green light to coordinated regulation of cross-border capital flows, and launching a discussion about the future of the international monetary system.",
        "因此，将于10月12—13日在日本举行的IMF/世界银行会议将是一次理想的启动扩张国际货币安排的机会——如何做？ 给跨境资本流的合作监管开绿灯，并发起关于国际货币体系未来的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Clinton favors welfare-state expenditures such as expanded Social Security benefits (the unfunded liabilities of which already exceed the national debt), free tuition at public colleges and student-loan debt relief, as well as an added “public option” to the 2010 Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.",
        "克林顿支持福利国家支持，如扩大社会安全福利（该项福利已经成为规模超国民债务的资金短缺的负债项）、公立大学免学费和学生贷款债务减负，以及给2010年平价医疗法（即奥巴马医保）新增一项“公共选项”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Myth of the Women’s Vote",
        "女性选票传说"
    ],
    [
        "But, as The Economist observed, “rarely does nemesis follow hubris so quickly.”",
        "但是，《经济学人》（Economist）观察到，“狂妄导致失败的报应从未来得这么快。"
    ],
    [
        "As one Turkish general put it, “If we had joined the Warsaw Pact rather than NATO, we would be in the EU by now.”",
        "就像一个土耳其将军说的那样，“如果我们加入了华约而不是北约，到现在我们可能已经是欧盟成员国了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "A study by China Securities International showed that, in 2000-2010, cities in eastern China received 82.4% of total migrant inflows.",
        "中信建投的一份研究表明，在2000—2010年间，中国东部城市获得了82. 4%的总移民流入。"
    ],
    [
        "Last winter, I saw a similar cry for dignity in Ukraine.",
        "去年冬天，我在乌克兰看到了类似的要求尊严的呼声。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not a new situation.",
        "这并非新状况。"
    ],
    [
        "NAIROBI – My mother, like her mother, her grandmother, and so on, was born into poverty in the rural village of Rarieda, Kenya.",
        "内罗毕—我的母亲、我的外祖母、我的曾外祖母……她们都出生在肯尼亚农村一个叫Rarieda的村庄，生而贫穷。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there are those who believe that EU enlargement has prevented greater “deepening,” and who, with scant regard for the past or the future, argue that pursuing the latter requires abandoning the former.",
        "还有那些认为欧盟的扩大阻止了进一步的“深化”的人以及那些对过去或未来都很少关心、辩解说寻求未来就必须抛弃过去的人。"
    ],
    [
        "To realize this potential, policymakers should eliminate arcane regulations that handcuff businesses; accelerate infrastructure projects; make the labor market more flexible; remove market distortions; and expand vocational training for the poor and uneducated.",
        "为了实现这一潜力，决策者应该取消桎梏企业的令人难以捉摸的监管、加速基础设施建设、增加劳动力市场灵活性、消除市场扭曲，并扩大穷人和教育程度低下人群的职业培训。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobel Economics Versus Social Democracy",
        "诺贝尔经济学奖与社会民主"
    ],
    [
        "And, for North Korea – or Iran, should it ever build nuclear weapons – the risk of the regime initiating a nuclear attack is negligible, given that doing so would result in its certain (non-nuclear) incineration.",
        "而朝鲜——或者伊朗，如果它造出核武器的话——发动核打击的可能性微乎其微，因为这样做会导致它自身（通过非核途径）化为焦土。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi may be confronting the most difficult domestic agenda: an effort to engineer a relatively smooth transition from an economic structure based on manufacturing and exports to one in which domestic consumption and services fuel growth.",
        "习近平也许面临着最艰难的国内日程：设计相对平滑的转型过程，让经济结构从基于制造业和出口转向依靠国内消费和服务助推增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The era of “reform and opening” has outlived its “emperor” by more than a decade, and has been the common thread running through transfers of political authority from Deng to Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.",
        "“改革开放”年代在“始作俑者”逝世后的10多年仍然生机勃勃，而且在从邓到江泽民再到胡锦涛的政治权力更替中成为一根贯穿始终的主线。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, the field of genetics has advanced significantly, particularly as a result of the global Human Genome Project, which in 2003 identified all of the roughly 23,000 genes and three billion chemical base pairs in human DNA in order to screen for many rare diseases.",
        "至此以后，遗传学获得了极大的进步，特别受到了人类基因组计划的推动，2003年，该计划识别了人类DNA的所有23000个左右的基因和30亿化学碱基对，其目的是绘制大量罕见疾病的图谱。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of relatively well-paying jobs, what will happen to the lines of unemployed Gazans?",
        "由于缺乏相对高薪的职业机会，失业的加沙人未来又将如何？"
    ],
    [
        "Musharraf’s personal frankness and integrity appealed to the street and earned him de facto legitimacy.",
        "穆沙拉夫个性坦率诚实赢得大众的好感并且给了他事实上的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda provides that the current Committee of Experts will continue to function according to its 2004 mandate, with three additional meeting days per year, all funded through voluntary contributions.",
        "最终，亚的斯亚贝巴行动日程（Addis Ababa Action Agenda）规定，目前的专家委员会将继续根据其2004年的权限行使功能，每年增加三次会议，完全以自愿捐款的方式筹集资金。"
    ],
    [
        "The pharmaceutical firms pursuing tougher patent rules, the banks pushing for unfettered access to foreign markets, or the multinationals seeking special arbitration tribunals have no greater regard for the public interest than the protectionists do.",
        "制药企业追求更严格的专利规则，银行推动外国市场的完全开放，寻求特别仲裁法庭的跨国公司对公共利益的关心绝不会比保护主义者多。"
    ],
    [
        "As a way to address this dilemma, the Senlis Council is proposing to run scientific pilot projects to research an opium licensing system for Afghanistan, which would be a core component of the economic reconstruction process.",
        "作为摆脱困境的途径之一，“森利斯委员会”（Senlis Council）正提议为研究针对阿富汗的鸦片许可体系而进行科学试点项目。 这可能会成为经济重建进程中的一个核心组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "China used to have a reform commission within the executive branch; the establishment of the leading group indicates the CCP’s commitment, and that of President Xi Jinping, to comprehensive reform.",
        "中国的行政部门体系中已经有了发改委； 领导小组的成立彰显出中共和习近平主席对全面改革的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are to avoid the dystopian outcomes that technology can easily produce, we must collectively envision the future that we want to create.",
        "如果想要避免技术轻而易举就能带来的反乌托邦效果，我们必须共同设想我们希望创造什么样的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "When one’s immune system weakens, the disease may erupt.",
        "当他的免疫系统变弱时，肺结核就会爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "There were some – Frédéric Bastiat and Jean-Baptiste Say come to mind – who believed that government should put the unemployed to work building infrastructure when markets or production were temporarily disrupted.",
        "一些人——巴斯夏（Frédéric Bastiat）和萨伊（Jean-Baptiste Say）立刻出现在眼前——认为当市场或生产出现了暂时性的干扰时，政府应该安排失业者去建设基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no single transition country that offers a guiding light for Egypt.",
        "没有一个转型国家能给埃及提供参照。"
    ],
    [
        "Does the system’s remarkable resiliency since 2008 mean that it can withstand the next crisis?",
        "自2008年以来，系统表现出令人瞩目的恢复力，这是否意味着它可以抵御下一次危机？"
    ],
    [
        "Constitutional change on this scale would normally require a new European treaty.",
        "如此规模的宪政性变化需要通过新的欧洲条约来完成。"
    ],
    [
        "This obscure left-wing publication is the first known reference to globalization in its contemporary sense.",
        "这本默默无闻的左翼刊物是当前意义上的“全球化”一词已知最早的词源。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1992, as the emerging Russian Federation teetered on the brink of economic and monetary collapse, he opted for radical reform, prompting a backlash from vested interest groups.",
        "1992年，当新兴的俄罗斯联邦在经济和货币崩溃的边缘摇摇欲坠的时候，他选择了激进的改革，激起了特权阶层的强烈不满。"
    ],
    [
        "With the world focused so intently on advancing disarmament goals, the CD should seize the moment.",
        "当全世界都密切关注推动裁军目标的时候，裁军会议也应把握住这个时机。"
    ],
    [
        "Many have advocated negotiating pacification with the late FARC leader Manuel Marulanda’s successors.",
        "许多人提倡和已故的哥伦比亚革命武装力量领导人曼纽尔·马鲁兰达（Manuel Marulanda）的继任者展开安抚谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "I suggest starting with Syria.",
        "我建议从叙利亚开始。"
    ],
    [
        "They now have a choice: they can either continue to collaborate with Trump, thereby sustaining his destructive leadership and courting disaster, or they can renounce him, finally putting their country’s democracy ahead of loyalty to their party/tribe.",
        "现在，他们有一个选择：要么继续与特朗普合作，从而维持他的破坏性领导并制造灾难； 要么放弃他，最终将国家的民主置于党/派忠诚之前。"
    ],
    [
        "When incomes are growing rapidly, as they are in China, it is easier to save because people are not yet accustomed to a higher standard of living and do not mind terribly much maintaining a lower one for a while longer.",
        "随着中国民众收入的快速增长，人们更容易想到储蓄，这是因为他们还没有习惯于更高的生活水准，对再多过几年苦日子也并不那么介意。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as Africa returns as a subject, rather than an object, of world history, it appears to embody all the fears and hopes of humanity.",
        "随着非洲回归历史主体而不是客体，它正在体现人类的所有恐惧和希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinians working in Israel are good for both sides, and better than the foreigners who come from distant lands and live an isolated life in Israel, solitary and under constant threat of expulsion.",
        "巴勒斯坦人在以色列工作对双方都有好处，也比来自遥远国家并在以色列过着孤立的生活的外国人好，这些外国人很孤独并且经常处于被开除的威胁之下。"
    ],
    [
        "The memory of its victims is not only a national, but also a European responsibility.",
        "铭记受害者不仅是某个国家，也是整个欧洲的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the AGF’s report concludes that reaching the goal of raising $100 billion a year by 2020, while challenging, is feasible.",
        "但咨询小组的报告也显示：虽然在2020年前每年筹集如此巨款的任务非常艰巨，但还是切实可行的。"
    ],
    [
        "With trade wars breaking out, growth would decline, not increase – and the federal government deficits would be huge.",
        "随着贸易战的爆发，增长将下降而不是上升——联邦政府赤字将十分巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "But MFFP could easily produce too much demand.",
        "但MFFP很可能产生过度需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Groups like the World Health Organization – which came under fierce criticism during the Ebola crisis – can learn from the 80% of American non-profit boards that have a formal process in place for a yearly evaluation of their CEO.",
        "像世界卫生组织这样的集团——在埃博拉危机中，世卫组织饱受批评——可以像80%的美国非盈利董事会学习，后者有一个正式程序每年对ECO进行评估。"
    ],
    [
        "The important thing is to achieve any fiscal stimulus that boosts job creation and puts the unemployed back to work.",
        "重要的是要实现提振就业创造、让失业者回到工作中来的财政刺激，不管什么形式。"
    ],
    [
        "The ILO World Social Security Report found high or very high vulnerability, in terms of poverty and labor-market informality, in 58 countries, mainly in Africa and Asia. Most such countries do not provide unemployment insurance, while more than 80% of their populations lack social-security coverage and access to basic health services.",
        "ILO《世界社会安全报告》（World Social Security Report）发现，若以贫困和劳动力市场的不规范程度衡量，58个国家存在高度或极高度的脆弱性问题，与此同时，这些国家80%以上的人口缺少社会保障覆盖，得不到基本卫生服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Many state-owned firms were privatized for ten times the sums yielded in asset sales under the previous government of Edvard Shevardnadze.",
        "前谢瓦尔德纳泽政府以资产出售十倍的价格将许多国营公司私有化。"
    ],
    [
        "His early promise to be the EU executive body’s new broom has turned into a steady-as-she-goes captaincy, and there’s the added question of whether his re-appointment might turn the job into a standard 10-year post for his successors, regardless of their abilities.",
        "他原先要新官上任三把火，结果却四平八稳。 而且还有一个问题，那就是再度任命他是否会把这一职务变成标准的10年任期，而无论其继任者的能力如何。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in the 1960’s, the economists William Baumol and William Bowen wrote about the “cost disease” that plagues these industries.",
        "早在20世纪60年代，经济学家威廉·鲍莫尔（William Baumol）和威廉·鲍恩（William Bowen）就撰文讨论过困扰这些行业的“成本弊病”。"
    ],
    [
        "A collapse of the Dayton peace agreement would be an unnecessary and unwanted additional problem for the next US president.",
        "《代顿和平协定》的失败对下任美国总统来说，是一个不必要也不希望的额外问题。"
    ],
    [
        "While most countries can cover their health needs with their own budgets, the poorest countries cannot.",
        "虽然多数国家可以靠本国预算满足其健康需求，但最贫困国家却做不到。"
    ],
    [
        "They should ignore fluctuations in equity and housing prices, unless there is clear and compelling evidence of dangerous feedback into output and inflation.",
        "它们应当置资本和房地产市场的波动于不顾，除非有明显和强烈的证据表明产出和通货膨胀危险的反馈。"
    ],
    [
        "This objective requires more than “pressuring” Pakistan.",
        "这一目标不仅仅需要对巴基斯坦进行“施压”。"
    ],
    [
        "The ending, as everyone knows, was not a happy one.",
        "最终的结局大家都看到了，绝非喜剧。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are low-cost alternatives.",
        "但也有低成本替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "A mixture of instability, government weakness, and ideology in countries such as Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and Nigeria are providing fertile territory for terrorists to organize, train, and mount operations – much as they did in Afghanistan did a decade ago.",
        "由于局势动荡、政府软弱和意识形态等等原因，也门、利比亚、索马里和尼日利亚也在沦为恐怖主义滋生的沃土，它们在那些地方组织、训练、实施行动，就像在十年前的阿富汗一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, Osnos writes, a high-level Chinese diplomat explained the threatened expulsion of New York Times and Bloomberg journalists on the grounds that “the Times and Bloomberg were seeking nothing short of removing the Communist Party from power, and that they must not be allowed to continue.”",
        "”不久前奥斯诺斯报导一名中国高级外交官在解释政府威胁驱逐纽约时报和彭博社记者的理由时说“纽约时报和彭博社只想让共产党下台，因此不能允许他们继续这样做。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "When Asia and Latin America had their financial meltdowns in the 1990’s and early 2000’s, they took advice not only from the IMF, but also from a number of small panels composed of eminent people representing diverse backgrounds and experiences.",
        "九十年代和二十一世纪之初亚洲和拉美金融危机发生之际，它们不仅从国际货币基金组织、而且也从几个代表了多样背景和经验的著名人士组成的专家小组那里听取建议。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese have $2 trillion in hard currency reserves to back up their promise.",
        "当然，他们有2万亿美元的外汇储备作为保证。"
    ],
    [
        "We also know that stabilization funds - which set aside some of the money earned when prices are high - can help reduce the economic volatility associated with natural resource prices.",
        "还有经济稳定基金--在物价较高时将一部分赚得的钱储备起来--有助于缓解因自然资源价格波动造成的经济波动。"
    ],
    [
        "A biopharma megafund would offer a competitive edge in the industry, with lower development costs, a higher success rate, and faster time to market.",
        "一家生物制药巨型基金能给全行业带来竞争优势，降低研发成本、提高研发成功率、缩短上市时间。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, whatever the adverse economic impact of aging, it is important to consider the alternative.",
        "但无论老龄化将带来何种负面经济影响，都必须考虑另外一种选择。"
    ],
    [
        "There is one more reason, however, why Brexit would be a disaster for Europe.",
        "英国退欧会成为欧洲的灾难还有一个原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, the combination of a dollar squeeze and protectionism spells big trouble for developing countries, with the possible exception of some relatively closed economies such as Brazil, Russia, and India, whose development strategies are less reliant on free trade and foreign financing.",
        "第四，美元挤压和保护主义的合力将给发展中国家造成巨大的麻烦，也许巴西、俄罗斯和印度等相对封闭的经济体是例外，它们的发展战略较少依赖于自由贸易和外国融资。"
    ],
    [
        "The European countries were already beset with population “density” and had reached a point of “saturation” – in other words, there was simply no more room at the European inn.",
        "欧洲国家已经饱受人口“密度”困扰，达到了“饱和”点——换句话说，欧洲已经没有更多的空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, anything that may distract China from its focus on peace, stability, and development has been strongly resisted.",
        "因此，任何可能打扰中国聚精会神推动和平、稳定和发展的事情，都会受到了中国的强烈抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone crisis did not derail recovery; it is the result of a lack of recovery.",
        "欧元区危机并没有让复苏脱轨； 其本身正是复苏萎靡的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Chinese leaders became more active by hosting the six-party talks, they still regarded their role as that of mediator between the US and the North, rather than that of a party whose security interests were seriously affected by events on the Korean Peninsula.",
        "尽管中国领导人通过主办六方会谈表现出更积极的态度，但仍把自己视为美国和朝鲜之间的调停人，而不是安全利益受朝鲜半岛局势严重影响的当事方。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is a very different world from the one left in ruins in 1945.",
        "但相对于1945年那个满目疮痍的世界来说，当今世界已经大有不同了。"
    ],
    [
        "Relatively myopic policy frameworks may have worked reasonably well in the early postwar period, when the US was dominant, and when a group of structurally similar advanced countries accounted for the vast majority of global output.",
        "相对短浅的政策框架在战后早期运转得相当好，在此期间，美国出于主导地位，结构类似的发达国家贡献了全球产出的绝大部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, countries should come together to update the international rules governing trade to account for changing economic conditions, and effectively implement negotiated agreements.",
        "其次，各国应该齐心协力修订管理贸易的国际规则，将变化的经济条件考虑在内，并有效地实施商定的协议。"
    ],
    [
        "As influence is ultimately a matter of numbers, it should come as no surprise that the Saudis seek to maximize the inflows of Muslim pilgrims each year.",
        "因为影响力归根结底在于数量，沙特尽一切可能扩大每年朝圣的穆斯林数量也很正常。"
    ],
    [
        "For luxury goods to have any function, society needs information about their cost.",
        "奢侈品要想发挥作用，社会必须了解它的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Personally, I do not think that those whose philosophy deplores the whole idea of government, except when it is required to bail out businesses or banks, and who purport to offer a better future by stitching together the shreds and tatters of policies that helped produce today’s economic disaster, will have much respect or support from voters.",
        "就个人而言，那些对政府的作用不屑一顾（除了在需要政府为企业或银行摆脱困境的时候）而把那些导致目前的经济大灾难的政策缝缝补补后就声称可以创造更美好的未来的人们，将会获得选民的多大的尊重和支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Japan may become a scapegoat for the failure of the TPP, it seems unlikely that the deal would be ratified in any case, given the current political climate in the United States.",
        "尽管日本可能因此成为TPP失败的替罪羊，但从当前美国政治气候看，该协议本来获得批准的希望就十分渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "By exploiting a record credit bubble to borrow against an unprecedented property bubble, American consumers spent well beyond their means for many years.",
        "前所未有的地产泡沫造成了创纪录的信贷泡沫，借此东风，多年来美国消费者的支出均远高于其支付能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries have abandoned nuclear-weapons programs, recognizing that nothing good could possibly come from them.",
        "还有其他国家也已放弃核武器计划，认识到核武计划不可能产生积极作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But the main problem is that public-sector investment remains well below growth-sustaining levels.",
        "但主要问题在于公共部门投资仍远远低于维持增长的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, I will emphasize the fact that Tsipras’s fellow European leaders are no less democratic or legitimate than he.",
        "相反，我要强调一个事实：齐普拉斯的欧洲领导人同侪并不比他更不民主、更不合法。"
    ],
    [
        "It would also include a variety of reforms to strengthen private investment incentives. And it would include an inclusiveness agenda directed at structural disequilibrium in labor markets and potentially destructive income inequality.",
        "此外还将包括强化民间投资激励机制的一系列改革措施和解决劳动力市场结构性失衡及潜在破坏性收入不平等的包容性议程问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Globalization of Our Discontent",
        "不满情绪的全球化"
    ],
    [
        "It appears to be a statement of the obvious: unacceptable disasters require extraordinary counter-measures.",
        "这个原则似乎是理所当然的：大灾当前自然要有特殊对策。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have suggested waiting to address this issue until 2012, when a revised protocol is supposed to come into effect.",
        "这项新的雨林动议之所以让人印象深刻就是因为它是由发展中国家自己提出的；"
    ],
    [
        "If this nightmare comes true, China’s packed savings in the form of US government securities (which now amounts to some $900 million in Treasury bills alone) will simply go down the drain.",
        "如果这一噩梦成真的话，那中国以美国政府债券形式所拥有的储蓄（目前大约为价值"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that have done well in the recent past have done so through their own efforts. Aid and market access have rarely played a critical role.",
        "不久前取得了骄人成绩的国家无一不是依靠自身的努力，而援助和市场准入很少起到关键的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging markets have remained buyers of gold, but at a snail’s pace compared to their voracious appetite for US Treasury bonds and other rich-country debt.",
        "新兴市场仍然是黄金的大买家，但相对于它们疯狂吸纳美国和其他富裕国家债券的胃口，前者堪称九牛一毛。"
    ],
    [
        "While roughly 500 people per month were killed from March to August 2011, some 100,000 civilians – around 3,200 per month – died between September 2011 and April 2015, with the total number of dead, including combatants, reaching perhaps 310,000, or 10,000 per month.",
        "2011年3月至8月，每个月只有大约500人被杀，而2011年9月至2015年4月有大约100,000平民死亡——也就是每个月3,200人，而总死亡人数（包括战斗人员）也许高达310,000，或每个月10,000人。"
    ],
    [
        "For all the authoritarian habits of de Gaulle or François Mitterand, Sarkozy’s personalization of the presidency is unprecedented in the history of the Fifth Republic.",
        "就所有戴高乐式或是密特朗式集权主义的惯常行为而言，萨科奇把总统权力个人化是在第五共和国的历史上开了先例。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this is welcome, at least in principle.",
        "这整套方案都值得欢迎，至少在理论上是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "One of Blair’s character flaws is self-righteousness, an excessive confidence – perhaps an extrapolation of his Christian faith – that he knows what is correct, and is therefore entitled to act accordingly.",
        "布莱尔在伊拉克战争的全面后果展现出来之前离职。 现在，教派冲突没有结束的迹象，而伊拉克成为一个和平、统一的民主国家毫无希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the overall benefits of a successful Doha Round would likely be hundreds of times greater than these costs.",
        "但成功的多哈回合谈判所带来的总体收益完全可能比这些成本高出百千倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Lacking proper equipment and medical facilities, Mahalanabis administered ORT in camps, and in the process, saved thousands of lives.",
        "在缺少合适的设备和医护助手的情况下，马哈拉纳比斯在难民营中开展了ORT并拯救了数千人的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a study by the United States government’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, more than 60% of the energy we use is lost between the time it is generated and the time it is consumed.",
        "美国政府劳伦斯 - 利弗莫尔国家实验室的一项研究表明，我们的能源从产出到被消费期间的损耗高达超过60%。"
    ],
    [
        "While Wikipedians do not need to pass around copies of their text – everyone owns a virtual copy – Wikipedia ’s content policy remains deeply medieval in spirit.",
        "尽管维基人并不需要传阅他们文本副本，因为每个人都有一个虚拟副本，但是维基百科全书的内容政策确在精神上保留了中世纪的传统。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reality is far less sinister: in that case, AIPAC merely surfed on the pro-invasion wave unleashed by President George W. Bush, with his Messianic urges, and Vice President Dick Cheney, a one-man war lobby.",
        "但现实却远没有那么险恶：在伊拉克战争中，美以委员会仅仅是利用了乔治·W·布什总统扮演救世主的冲动和切尼副总统单枪匹马的战争游说所掀起的侵略狂潮。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Fifty years have passed since the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, with official ceremonies held in Washington, DC, and Dallas to commemorate the anniversary.",
        "东京—美国总统约翰·肯尼迪遇刺已经过去了五十年，华盛顿和达拉斯都举行了正式的仪式纪念这一时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "With consumption accounting for 70% of US GDP in the US, and a similarly high percent in other advanced economies, this implies that the recession will last longer, and that economic recovery next year will be anemic (less than 1% growth in the US and even lower growth rates in Europe and Japan).",
        "鉴于消费对美国GDP的贡献率高达70%，在其他发达经济体也差不多高，可以想见衰退将持续较长时间，而且明年的经济复苏将是软弱无力的（美国增长1%，欧洲和日本甚至更低）。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether or not these changes will bolster global security and prosperity remains to be seen.",
        "这些改变能否提升全球安全与繁荣还有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, China will surpass the US in emissions of greenhouse gases.",
        "今年，中国将在温室气体排放上超越美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Such broad static accounting suggests that we should proceed cautiously in applying lessons from the Scandinavian model to large countries like the US.",
        "这一广义静态计分表明，我们在将斯堪的纳维亚模式的经验用于像美国这样的大国时必须慎之又慎。"
    ],
    [
        "The Oil-Producing Countries",
        "石油输出国"
    ],
    [
        "KABUL –We began a journey in Afghanistan seven years ago with the war that ousted the Taliban from power.",
        "喀布尔-七年前，随着那场推翻了塔利班政权的战争，我们在阿富汗踏上了征程。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, there is value in questioning and challenging the status quo.",
        "最重要的是，质疑和挑战现状是有价值的。"
    ],
    [
        "In each case, the decline in growth came when per capita income reached about $8,000.",
        "三个国家的年增长率在人均收入达到8000美元左右就分别开始下降了。"
    ],
    [
        "This decision was mainly grounded on the American doctrine, adopted in 1962, of “flexible response,” which said to the Soviets: “As long as you do not use nuclear weapons, we will not use them, either.”",
        "此项决定是在美国1962推出所谓“灵活应对”的法令后而做出的。 灵活应对的含义是“只要苏联不对美国实施核打击，美国也不会使用核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the amounts of antioxidants that lend protection are not known and probably differ among individuals.",
        "事实上，到底多大量的抗氧化剂可以对人体带来保护目前并不清楚，并且也许因人而异。"
    ],
    [
        "They might note that, although the economy remains deeply troubled and depressed in the aftermath of a financial crisis for which they set the stage, Obama’s policies have been by far the most successful of those in any major advanced country, and conclude that he has been a relatively good president, and one worth supporting.",
        "他们也许会注意到，尽管经济仍麻烦重重，金融危机一波未了（正是他们为金融危机制造了温床），但迄今为止，奥巴马的政策是诸发达国家中最成功的，他们也许会认为相对来说，奥巴马是一位好总统，值得支持。"
    ],
    [
        "These issues require attention now, and an integral part of the EU’s search for new global strategies should be to invite, rather than avoid, criticism of its activities.",
        "这些问题现在就应该引起我们的重视，并且欧盟对新的全球战略的研究的一个必不可少的部分就是应该邀请，而不是阻止，对其活动的批评者参与进来。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, borders are not impermeable.",
        "毕竟，边境线并不是滴水不漏的。"
    ],
    [
        "The list of defaults goes on and on.",
        "违约清单还可以列得更长。"
    ],
    [
        "We are changing some of our old habits; in particular, we are empowering women to become more actively engaged in all walks of life.",
        "我们正在改变一些旧习； 特别是，我们赋予女性权益，使她们能够更加活跃地参与各行各业。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the strength of national feeling in these contests, it is not surprising that people like to project national characteristics onto the style of play.",
        "鉴于民族感情在这些赛事中的力量，人们喜欢将民族性格与球队打法联系在一起的确是正常之举。"
    ],
    [
        "To buy – or even to hold – risky assets in such a situation is a recipe for financial disaster.",
        "或许是经过长期的幸运之后，大家都变得过于乐观；"
    ],
    [
        "Left-wing ideologues have long viewed structural-reform programs with deep suspicion, accusing international lenders like the IMF and the World Bank of being captured by neoliberal market fundamentalists.",
        "左翼思想一直认为结构改革方案十分可疑，IMF和世界银行的国际贷款人被新自由派市场原教旨主义绑架了。"
    ],
    [
        "But one of the risks associated with the large current-account imbalances we now face is that politicians may decide to blame one or another country and espouse protectionist policies.",
        "但是我们目前面临的大规模的经常项目不平衡带来的风险之一就是政客可能会指责别的国家，采取保护主义政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Welcome to the New Abnormal for growth, inflation, monetary policies, and asset prices, and make yourself at home.",
        "欢迎来到增长、通胀、货币政策和资产价格的新反常态，请尽情享受吧。"
    ],
    [
        "His tendency toward solitude, however, left him disinclined to build new ties and allies in Washington, leaning instead on his family and close friends from Chicago.",
        "但是，他的孤僻倾向使他不愿再华盛顿构建新关系和结盟，而是关注家庭和芝加哥的密友。"
    ],
    [
        "This, sadly, is a road to the ghetto.",
        "可悲的是，这正好使他们聚居在一起而无法融入到社会中。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, it seems natural to most people that taxing successful people to benefit unsuccessful people is demeaning to the latter, and even the recipients of the handout often do not really want it.",
        "最终，大多数人会自然而然地认为对成功人士征税来补助那些平凡的人是在贬低后者，即便是受援助者通常也不希望伸手要钱。"
    ],
    [
        "And once again, Trump has misinterpreted the realities of the Middle East.",
        "再一次，特朗普算错了中东的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "The key to success, according to the Global Ocean Commission’s final report, will be the creation of an independent, transparent mechanism for monitoring, measuring, and reporting on the essential actions needed to achieve the SDG 14 targets, as well as additional UN conferences between now and 2030.",
        "而根据全球海洋委员会的最终报告，成功的关键在于建立一个独立，透明的机制去监察，测量和报告实现第14项可持续发展目标所需的行动，以及在当前到2030年间召开为此另外的联合国会议。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu, not surprisingly, was especially outspoken.",
        "内塔尼亚胡的言论特别直截了当，这也早在人们的意料之中。"
    ],
    [
        "In formulating the post-2015 development agenda, measuring the MDGs’ successes – and identifying where progress has lagged – is critically important.",
        "为了设立2015年后的发展日程，评估MDG的成功以及总结进步不足之处是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, developing countries should not simply mimic developed economies’ tax systems.",
        "当然，发展中国家不应该照搬发达国家的税收制度。"
    ],
    [
        "And neither is in the clear.",
        "并且压力都没有减轻。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, this rivalry also has a positive side from the Israeli point of view – the weakening of Iran and other regional radicals.",
        "可以确定的是，这种敌对状态对以色列来说是有利的——伊朗和极端分子将遭到削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be unfair to say that the BMI has no clinical value; it can be a useful indicator of nutritional health in patients, and help doctors make day-to-day decisions about whom they should treat.",
        "断言体重指数没有临床价值是不公正的； 它可以成为确定患者营养健康状况的有益指标，协助医生判断该为谁提供日常治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, it is fascinating to observe what is happening in Mexico.",
        "在这样的背景下，墨西哥的走向就有着相当的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, ECB purchases of bonds issued by Greece and other periphery countries are widely thought to constitute monetary financing of profligate governments, in violation of the treaty under which the ECB was established.",
        "在德国，欧洲央行购买希腊和其他外围国发行的债券的操作被广泛认为是向放纵政府提供货币融资，违反了欧洲央行据以建立的条约。"
    ],
    [
        "Global risk-aversion has also increased, as the option of further “extend and pretend” or “delay and pray” on Greece is becoming less desirable, and the specter of a disorderly workout is becoming more likely.",
        "随着“延长并假装”或“拖延并祈祷”策略越来越不得人心，全球风险厌恶情绪有所抬头，投资者无序外逃的可能性也日益增加。"
    ],
    [
        "I was thinking again about these old and seemingly unsolvable questions during my re-reading of a quite challenging novel by a close friend and a great writer, not very present in the vivid landscape of American letters of today.",
        "我是在阅读一本叛逆小说时开始再次思考这些老生常谈但似乎无法解决的问题的。 这本小说的作者是我的一位好友，一位了不起的作家，但在当今美国生机勃勃的文坛中并不经常露脸。"
    ],
    [
        "A survey conducted in the Indian city of Mumbai revealed that railway commuters’ average daily journey was 22 kilometers, while rapid urbanization there and in much of the developing world is only likely to increase the length of commutes.",
        "在印度城市孟买进行的一项调查表明，坐火车通勤的上班族平均每天的通勤距离是22公里。 同时，该地和许多发展中地区一样的快速城市化似乎只会增加通勤的距离。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even if such a revolution succeeds, that is only the beginning.",
        "但即便革命成功，一切也只能算是刚刚开始。"
    ],
    [
        "A key element of that policy mix would focus on tackling rising inequality.",
        "这一政策组合的一个关键要素应关注解决不平等性的加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "But what accounts for the further plunge in oil prices in the last few weeks – to lows last seen in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis – and how will it affect the world economy?",
        "但过去几周油价进一步暴跌——跌到了2008年全球金融危机爆发后的所达到的低位——原因何在，对世界经济会造成怎样的影响？"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the prolonged rapid increase in Chinese aggregate demand has been fueled by an investment boom, as well as a growing trade surplus.",
        "的确，投资繁荣以及不断增加的贸易顺差造成了中国总体需求持续快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier in October, at the inaugural summit of ASEAN defense ministers in Hanoi, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared the US a “resident power” in Asia.",
        "在今年10月于河内召开的首届东盟国防部长峰会上，美国国防部长罗伯特·盖茨声称美国是亚洲的“常驻力量”。"
    ],
    [
        "Making the Euro Whole",
        "锻造一个完美的欧元"
    ],
    [
        "Public debt remains too high as well, and, making matters worse, much more of it is now owed to official rather than private creditors (which would complicate debt restructuring should it become necessary).",
        "公共债务也依然太高，更加糟糕的是，相比以前，如今多得多的部分持有在官方而不是私人债权人手中（这会导致不得不进行债务重组时局面更加混乱）。"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, the tightest constraint is the lack of resources, both human and financial.",
        "不出所料，资源匮乏成为其中最严峻的限制，包括人员和资金两方面的匮乏。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia controlled great force, but it could not acquire power over the US from its arsenal.",
        "苏联人虽然武力强大，但却无法利用手中的军火库从美国人处夺取任何权力。"
    ],
    [
        "With its calibrated and targeted strikes, India has made clear that inaction is not the only possible response to terrorist provocations.",
        "凭借这次深思熟虑的精准打击，印度已经表明坐以待毙不是面对恐怖主义挑衅的唯一可能对策。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, France is likely soon to surpass Sweden as the world’s highest public spender.",
        "结果，法国有可能马上就会超越瑞典成为世界上最大的公共开支国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Most recently, China decided to move an oil rig into waters claimed by Vietnam.",
        "最近，中国决定在越南主张领海的水域钻井开采石油。"
    ],
    [
        "A compromise power-sharing agreement brokered by the Saudis initially seemed to be a solution.",
        "一份在沙特斡旋下产生的妥协权力共享协议起初似乎是解决之道。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time, this was touted as a textbook case of doing things right.",
        "当时，这次救援被当作样本行动而广受赞誉。"
    ],
    [
        "The public projects financed by the funds would provide sufficient efficiency gains to attract private financing.",
        "由这两个基金提供融资的公共工程将提供足够高的效率改进吸引私人融资。"
    ],
    [
        "And market forces alone are unable to cope with major externalities such as greenhouse-gas emissions, with overwhelming government control over major energy sources such as oil, and with huge numbers of people too poor to constitute a market.",
        "单凭市场的力量无法解决例如温室气体排放等的客观事实，在政府垄断着当前包括石油等的能源前提下，大量贫困人口依然无法享用基本的能源。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet we know from a range of evidence that this is what was on Bush’s mind when his government shifted its focus from the search for Osama bin Laden to fighting a war in Iraq.",
        "然而各种各样的证据告诉我们，当布什政府将重点从通缉本·拉登转为向伊拉克开战时，他心里所想的正是这个。"
    ],
    [
        "East Asians entered the modern world of nation states in self-consciously discrete secular units.",
        "东亚的人们以一种自觉分散的世俗单位的形式进入了现代民族国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Boko Haram’s opposition to the effort reflects its broader antipathy to what it regards as a corrupt and Westernized political class.",
        "博科圣地反对接种计划其实反映了它对腐败西化的政治阶层的普遍反感情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Even during the Vietnam War and following its humiliating withdrawal from Southeast Asia, there was never any serious doubt about America’s authority and ability to deal with what was then the central strategic challenge, the Cold War.",
        "即使在越战期间，以及从东南亚狼狈地撤退之后，人们也从未真正怀疑过美国应对冷战这个当时的核心战略挑战的权威和能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 30 years ago, Deng Xiaoping used the slogan “delegating power and sharing dividends” to motivate local officials, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and soon-to-be private entrepreneurs to embrace market-oriented reforms.",
        "30年前，邓小平用“放权让利”的口号成功地激励了地方官员、国有企业和后来的民营企业家接受市场化改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The New York Fed also has a particularly important role in bank supervision – most of America’s “too big to fail” banks are located in its jurisdiction (and most global banks have a presence there).",
        "纽约联储在银行监督方面也扮演着特别重要的角色——大部分“太大而不能倒”的银行位于其管辖区中（大部分全球银行也在这片地区设有分支）。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s adaptive policymaking approach has produced both spectacular failures, with entire markets being shut down, and remarkable successes, yielding models that could be applied across the country.",
        "中国的“适应性学习过程”决策方法既需要面对惨痛的失败——如个别市场被完全关闭，也可能有令人瞩目的成功——如产生了可供其它地区借鉴的改革经验及市场模式，包括当年的包产到户、出口导向的制造业发展、成功的基础设施建设等等。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Greek Failure",
        "欧洲的希腊失败"
    ],
    [
        "At least this statement, unlike the White House Fact Sheet, acknowledges that groups like the Islamic state claim to be Islamic.",
        "”这项声明和白宫简报不同，至少承认像伊斯兰国这样的组织是打着伊斯兰的旗号行事。"
    ],
    [
        "In Iraq, America’s policy of building a semi-federal state of Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds runs a high risk of failure because of Shiite domination, Sunni and Shiite terrorism, Kurdish separatism, and meddling by Iran.",
        "在伊拉克，美国关于建立一个由什叶派、逊尼派和库尔德人组成的半联邦政府的策略因为什叶派的支配地位、逊尼派和什叶派的恐怖活动、库尔德人的分裂主义以及伊朗的干涉而极有可能走向失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is work on the easy steps, allegedly attempted and then canceled, that the NIE called Iran’s “nuclear weapon program.”",
        "然而正是这些简单步骤上的努力（号称曾经尝试过，但又取消了）被NIE称作伊朗的“核武器计划”。"
    ],
    [
        "Butlers, Bakers, and Capitalists?",
        "男管家，面包师，和资本家？"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, when state economic decision-making reached such an impasse, wars and/or revolutions were the inevitable result.",
        "以往，一旦国家的经济出现崩盘，内部的革命和对外的战争不可避免。"
    ],
    [
        "One key element of our success is the institutions that buttress our development.",
        "我们能成功，关键之一就在于我们有种种制度来为发展提供支持与保障。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has unfinished business here.",
        "这也是欧洲不光彩的角落。"
    ],
    [
        "To make regional peace and stability possible, however, the region’s very young and rapidly increasing populations require an economic perspective that makes their participation in globalization possible – in a dignified manner and grounded in their own culture and history.",
        "然而，为了使区域的和平与稳定成为可能，该地区的非常年轻的、并迅速膨胀的人口，需要一个经济的视角使他们能够有尊严地、并基于自身的文化和历史上参与全球化进程。"
    ],
    [
        "European interest in military intervention in Africa is as low as ever.",
        "欧洲干预非洲的军事利益前所未有地低。"
    ],
    [
        "The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won a decisive victory in elections to the upper house of parliament held on July 21, bringing to an end the indecisive politics caused by the lack of an effective majority.",
        "7月21日，自民党在议会上院选举中大获全胜，宣告因缺少有效多数导致的政治无力的时代终结。"
    ],
    [
        "AMSTERDAM – When the panda smiles, the world applauds.",
        "发自阿姆斯特丹——当熊猫展露笑容之际，全世界都为之欢呼雀跃。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than pursuing the UN route, the Palestinians, according to these interlocutors, should continue to depend on asymmetrical negotiations that have served as little more than a photo opportunity.",
        "以色列阵营认为，巴勒斯坦不应该走联合国的路子，而应该继续除了摆拍照片之外没有任何意义的不对称谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "The tobacco industry will now take its battle against Australia’s legislation to the World Trade Organization.",
        "目前，烟草业将就澳大利亚的立法向世贸组织提起诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "1) A strong European foreign policy, badly needed given the current state of the world, was buried on June 12, for the time being.",
        "1)考虑到目前世界局势的迫切需求，强大的欧洲外交政策在6月12号那天被暂时埋葬了。"
    ],
    [
        "These investments are helping countries take direct ownership of the fight against infectious disease, ultimately reducing their dependence on foreign aid.",
        "这些投资帮助各国在与传染病的斗争中掌握了自己的命运，最终减少了它们对外国援助的依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "The ensuing – and ongoing – humanitarian crisis has been tragic.",
        "随之而来——并且仍在发酵——的人道主义危机是悲剧性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising unemployment at home seemed to be a more urgent task than did addressing instability in Africa.",
        "国内的失业上升之势是比解决非洲不稳定问题更紧迫的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "How worried should we be about an additional drag on the global economy?",
        "我们该如何看待全球经济面临更多阻力？"
    ],
    [
        "As Barry Eichengreen has pointed out in the context of the post-WWII Bretton Woods system, capital controls weaken “the link between domestic and foreign economic policies, providing governments room to pursue other objectives.”",
        "正如巴里·艾申格林(Barry Eichengreen)在二战后布雷顿森林体系的大背景下所指出的那样：资本控制会削弱“国内外经济政策之间的联系，为政府追求其他目标提供空间。"
    ],
    [
        "But South Korea does have some advantages over Japan.",
        "但相比日本，韩国存在一些优势。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1945, the world responded to the deadliest conflict in human history by establishing the United Nations.",
        "1945年，人类历史上最致命的冲突促成了联合国的建立。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian President Vladimir Putin is the prime example.",
        "俄罗斯总统普京就是非常好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The downgrade has undermined that hope.",
        "降级打破了这个希望。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Ukraine is unlikely to be invited to start membership negotiations anytime soon.",
        "因此，在短期内，乌克兰都不可能得到启动入盟谈判的邀请。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, they see a good-scenario outcome that only the foolhardy would trust.",
        "确切地说，他们认为只有有勇无谋的人才会相信这种预设的完美结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet there is one key area where progress seems to be lagging: inflation.",
        "然而有一个关键领域的进展似乎拖了后腿：通货膨胀。 美国10月份消费者价格指数达到2."
    ],
    [
        "CIC would have initially lost some money with Lehman.",
        "中国投资公司如果投资雷曼兄弟公司说不定就会赔钱。"
    ],
    [
        "More can be done: Every individual who owns a house or a vehicle, is a member of a club, holds a credit card, passport, driver’s license, or other identity card, or subscribes to a telephone service can be required to file a tax return.",
        "它们还能做得更多：每个拥有房子或车子、或身为某俱乐部会员、或持有信用卡、护照、驾照和其他身份证件的个人、或电话安装户都可以要求他们填写报税单。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if approaches that build on past failure do not seem sufficiently effective, perhaps a new approach toward currency fluctuations would be more promising.",
        "但是，如果基于过去的失败的方针效果不够好，那么也许形成新的货币波动方针的可能性就会大增。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that efforts to transform rural areas must target these institutional factors (along with improving gender equality and safeguarding the rule of law), while also introducing new technologies to local communities.",
        "这意味着改变农村地区的措施必须针对这些制度因素（此外还要增进性别平等和捍卫法治），同时也要向本地社区引入新技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the House Republicans simply do not want to be confronted with the findings of social science (on banking) – or apparently of science (for example, on climate change).",
        "不幸的是，众议院共和党根本不想面对（关于银行的）社会科学的发现——对科学（比如气候变化）的发现显然也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "If she is uncomfortable, say, out-earning her husband, she is limiting both partners.",
        "如果她对挣得比配偶多感到不适应，那么她就局限了男女双方。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynes’s proposal was not without problems.",
        "凯恩斯的方案并非没有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the balancing act of sovereignty in Europe: Each state remains formally sovereign, but if it wants to prosper economically, it must accept the common norms and regulations that enable Europe’s intensive cross-border division of labor.",
        "这就是欧洲的主权平衡手段：每个国家都保留正式的主权，但如果实现经济繁荣，就必须接受共同的规范和法规令欧洲实现高度的跨境劳动分工。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the hundreds of millions of low-cost workers who joined the global labor force when China, India, and Eastern Europe opened their economies are still putting pressure on the wages of all but the most skilled workers in the advanced economies.",
        "此外，中国、印度和东欧经济开放后，数亿低成本工人加入全球劳动力大军，迄今仍在给发达经济体的工人（技能极高者除外）工资造成压力。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the next few months, when Turkey and the EU hash out contentious issues, are so critical.",
        "土耳其和欧盟敲定争议问题的未来几个月也因此起着非常关键的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "With the advent of peace, we all hope that this bond will become consolidated around a common Israeli citizenship.",
        "为了大家的和平，我们希望他们可以融合成为共同的以色列公民。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the most under-appreciated driver of market sentiment right now is fear of another huge crisis.",
        "事实上，目前最不受关注的市场情绪推动因素是另一场大危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But France emits just 1.4 kg, owing to its enormous success in deploying safe, low-cost nuclear energy.",
        "而法国仅排放1. 4千克，这得益于其在推广安全低成本核能上所取得的巨大成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a clear understanding of who gains and who loses from the status quo, it is difficult to make sense of our existing policies.",
        "如果不能对现状带给我们的潜在得失做明确的理解，就很难明白现行政策。"
    ],
    [
        "All of the discussion focused on the region that stretches from Libya to Iran.",
        "所有讨论内容都局限在从利比亚到伊朗的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Where money is lacking, common sense shouldn’t be.",
        "可以缺钱，但不能缺常识。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent graduates are needed in legislative and administrative agencies to analyze the legal infrastructure of finance, and regulate it so that it produces the greatest results for society.",
        "立法和行政管理机构需要新鲜血液分析金融基础设施和新的监管方法，以求社会效益最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "My statements were also motivated by problems with the way capital punishment is imposed in India.",
        "印度死刑执行方式存在的问题也促使我发表了这份声明。"
    ],
    [
        "By and large, the first group is more sophisticated and more Western-oriented: it keeps its money and its children abroad.",
        "大体上，第一个集团更老练并且更倾向西方：他们把钱和孩子都在了国外。"
    ],
    [
        "Many consider the Falklands War in 1982 as the apogee of her patriotism.",
        "许多人认为1982年福克兰群岛战争是撒切尔爱国主义的顶峰。"
    ],
    [
        "So mercantilist pressures will likely intensify in the advanced countries.",
        "所以实施重商主义的压力在发达国家很有可能会加重。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The diplomats have done their job, concluding the Paris climate agreement in December.",
        "纽约——外交官们去年12月签署巴黎气候协议已经完成了任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel, for its part, still reeling from the trauma of its ill-begotten war in Lebanon in 1982, chose not to respond to Hezbollah’s attacks and hoped that the attacks would not escalate.",
        "以色列方面，由于其1982年在黎巴嫩出师不利的战争依然深受其痛苦的震撼，因此决定不回应真主党的攻击并且希望攻击不会升级。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that a combination of fiscal consolidation, lower wages, and export-oriented reforms could have enabled Greece to move toward a sustainable recovery.",
        "这说明如果将财务巩固，低工资和出口导向型改革相结合，就能让希腊迈向一个更具可持续性的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Although we now think of academic disciplines, including the humanities, as being “research-led,” this understates the university’s historic role in converting the primate Homo sapiens into a creature whose interests, aspirations, and achievements extend beyond successful sexual reproduction.",
        "虽然我们现在认为包括人文学科的学术课程是以“研究为导向的”，但是，这仍然低估了大学在 将灵长类智人转变成其兴趣、渴望以及成就不再局限在成功的有性生殖上的历史作用。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is not a policy trilemma but a dilemma: capital-account restrictions –not just flexible exchange rates – may be necessary for central banks to exercise effective control over domestic credit conditions.",
        "因此，这不是三元悖论，而是二元悖论：资本账户管制——而不只是弹性汇率——可能是各国央行有效控制国内信用情况的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "It makes it easier to sell stocks and other investment vehicles. It makes it easier for politicians to sell their policies, themselves, and their parties.",
        "不管怎样，经济的强劲可以使欧洲央行的鹰派更容易兜售他们大幅度提高利率的主张，使股票和其他投资工具更容易销售，也使政治家更容易兜售他们的政策、他们自己以及他们的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "SWFs have been around for years.",
        "SWFs并非初来乍到。"
    ],
    [
        "This partly reflected the existential threat that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, represented in so many people’s minds.",
        "这部分地反映了一个存在的威胁，即2001年9月11日恐怖袭击向大量人民所展示的那个。"
    ],
    [
        "While some are supporting additional stimulus, others are calling for UK-style austerity.",
        "有些人支持进一步实施刺激以，但其他人要求实施英国式的紧缩计划。"
    ],
    [
        "With the United States, which has historically led the world toward trade liberalization, now actively stoking trade tensions, the meeting is set to be unlike any other.",
        "但本届会议注定与往届有所不同，因为美国这个一直以来引领全球迈向贸易自由化的国家如今却在积极挑动贸易紧张局势了。"
    ],
    [
        "But Morocco is now facing its own “Tunisia moment,” reminiscent of the street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation in 2010, in protest against state harassment.",
        "但摩洛哥现在面临着自己的“突尼斯时刻”——类似于2010年街头小贩博阿齐齐（Mohamed Bouazizi）为反对国家对自己的骚扰而自焚。"
    ],
    [
        "National policies, whether with respect to trade or financial regulation, are seen as the surest way to restore national greatness.",
        "国家政策，不管是在贸易还是金融监管方面，都被视为重塑国家荣光的最稳妥的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "“All states should take stern action against these people,” he declared.",
        "“各邦应对这些人采取严厉行动，”他宣称。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the economy is growing at a 3% annual rate, lower than in the recent past, but still higher than in many emerging economies.",
        "与此同时，哥伦比亚经济正在以每年3%的速度增长，虽然不如最近几年，但仍高于许多新兴经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "You could have a good idea for a new technology with potentially widespread demand.",
        "你可能有一个关于新技术的好主意，这一新技术拥有广袤的潜在需求。"
    ],
    [
        "As part of that effort, the foundation recently launched a $10 million partnership with UN Women to help countries improve the quality of the gender-specific data they collect.",
        "作为这项工作的组成部分，该基金会最近与联合国妇女组织共同发起了一项1，000万美元的协助各国改善所搜集性别数据质量的合作计划。"
    ],
    [
        "This program already covers roughly 2.3 million poor families, providing them with yet another key to social mobility.",
        "这个项目已资助了约230万个贫困家庭，为他们提供了实现社会流动的另一渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "We have seen ideological wars. We have seen wars of extermination like the one that Hitler and the Nazis waged against not just Jews and Gypsies, but Poles and Russians.",
        "这期间还爆发了希特勒和纳粹党徒针对犹太人、吉普赛人、波兰人和俄国人的灭绝之战，还有种族冲突和用战争阻止政府杀戮本国平民。"
    ],
    [
        "Mousavi ran as a reformist who said he would strive for greater freedom of the press, more rights for women, and fewer restrictions on the private lives of Iranians.",
        "穆萨维作为一个改革派来参与本次竞选，表示自己将为争取更多的新闻自由，妇女的更大权益和减少对伊朗人私生活的限制而奋斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet while the market for new cars has slowed dramatically, it could be a good time to start a business replacing gasoline engines with electric ones.",
        "所以这正给我们一个机会，用电动引擎来替代汽油动力的汽车。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors accept negative returns for the convenience of holding cash balances, so, in a sense, there is nothing new about negative nominal interest rates.",
        "投资者接受负回报是为了得到持有现金余额的便利，因此，从某种意义上说，负名义利率并不是什么新鲜事。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1994, rising short-term rates caused increases in long-term rates - and declines in long-term bond prices - that were at least double what standard models at the time were predicting.",
        "1994年，短期利率的增长引起了长期利率的提高，以及长期债券价格的下降，波动的幅度至少是人们预计的正常水平的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Charles Taylor, a former president of Liberia currently facing war crimes charges at a special court in The Hague, is alleged to have used diamonds to fund rebels in Sierra Leone’s civil war. The case against Taylor represents only one of several examples in which diamonds have facilitated widespread human rights violations.",
        "利比里亚前总统查理·泰勒用钻石来资助塞拉利昂内战中的反对派，并因此在海牙特别法庭受到战争罪指控。 但此案只不过是利用钻石侵犯人权的众多案件之一罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Channeling China’s Animal Spirits",
        "激发引导中国的企业家精神"
    ],
    [
        "The most obvious victim has been the World Trade Organization’s ongoing Doha Development Round negotiations, but Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the ASEAN Economic Community will also suffer.",
        "最显而易见的受害者是尚未结束的世界贸易组织多哈发展回合谈判，但亚太经合组织和东盟经济共同体也将蒙受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, his speeches frequently offer lessons in Jewish history, while casting the “Holy Land” as both a Jewish right and an Israeli national symbol.",
        "事实上，他在讲话中经常提到犹太史上的经验教训，并把“圣地”当作犹太人权利和以色列国家的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to eradicate moral hazard, the system must have a resolution procedure to close banks when their capital falls below a minimum threshold.",
        "为了根除道德风险，新系统必须有一个在银行资本不能满足最低阈值时将其关闭的方案程序。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if they bought insurance, a regulator concerned with systemic stability would want to be sure that the insurer pays in the event of a loss.",
        "此外，如果它们购买了保险，那么关心系统稳定性的监管者将巴不得保险人在损失事件发生时予以偿付。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama Effect",
        "奥巴马效应"
    ],
    [
        "The total tax burden on families also includes sales taxes, which are steeply regressive, and property taxes, which are progressive.",
        "家庭的总纳税负担中还包括销售税，这是以大幅度递减税率来计算的，还有财产税，这是以累进税率来计算的。"
    ],
    [
        "There are, to be sure, ways the rest of Europe can help.",
        "可以肯定，欧洲其他国家能以某种形式贡献自己的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "When the British, who elevated the strategy of “divide and rule” into an art, decided to establish two separate wings of Pakistan on either side of a partitioned India, the Rohingya began attempting to drive Buddhists out of the Muslim-dominated Mayu peninsula in northern Rakhine.",
        "精于“分而治之”策略的英国人决定分裂后的印度两翼建立两个分开的巴基斯坦，罗兴亚人随之开始驱逐佛教徒离开位于若开邦北部、穆斯林占多数的梅宇（Mayu）半岛。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Intervention Lessons",
        "中国的干预教训"
    ],
    [
        "These ingredients could constitute a recipe for disaster.",
        "这些要素可能构成又一场灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "But waiting in the wings is former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who could replace Medvedev should Russia need a factotum of sincerity about economic reform.",
        "但是候选人还有前财长阿列克谢•库德林，如果俄罗斯需要一位对经济改革满怀热情、鞠躬尽瘁的人，他倒可以接替梅德韦杰夫。"
    ],
    [
        "In some sense, a market economy is a gift-exchange system; money merely tracks the value of the gifts we give one another.",
        "从某种意义上说，市场经济是一个礼物交换系统； 钱仅仅跟踪了我们给予彼此礼物的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Water consumption also must be addressed.",
        "用水也是必须解决的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Cuba is out of the question as a patron, due to its preoccupation with Raúl Castro’s efforts to reshape its depleted economy in an improbable bid for Chinese-style capitalism in a one-party state.",
        "以古巴为靠山根本没有可能，因为劳尔·卡斯特罗正一心一意地幻想按中国式的一党资本主义模式重塑古巴已经垮掉的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the neoliberal capitalist consensus that has prevailed throughout the West since the 1980s – and that many claim led to the economic disaster of 2008-2009.",
        "《二十一世纪资本论》尖锐抨击了日益严重的不平等性问题。 我们或许正在目睹新自由派资本主义共识终结的开端，在西方，这一共识主宰了整个20世纪80年代，并被许多人认为是2008—2009年经济灾难的源头。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, however, the Treasury’s reports on this issue are generally toothless and lead to no real consequences.",
        "但是，在实践中，美联储关于这一问题的报告通常没有什么效力，也不会形成真正的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "We have set the goal of growing at an average of 6% annually, in order to attain, by 2018, the per capita GDP now enjoyed by European countries such as Portugal and the Czech Republic.",
        "我们已经制定了6%的年均增长目标，这样到2018年，实现目前葡萄牙和捷克共和国等欧洲国家的人均GDP目标是可以期待的。"
    ],
    [
        "In a democracy, this tends to occur through the fragmentation of traditional parties and the emergence of non-traditional parties – some offering genuine alternatives, and others relying on fear and prejudice.",
        "民主政体中上述趋势来源于传统政党的分裂和非传统政党的出现——有些能够提出真正的解决方案，还有些从恐怖与偏见中谋取利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Israel forces Hamas to accept its conditions for border controls and a formal ceasefire, Hamas’s image as the guardian of Palestinian resistance will be severely damaged.",
        "但是，如果以色列迫使哈马斯接受其边境控制和正式停火的条件，哈马斯作为巴勒斯坦抵抗运动守护人的形象就会遭到严重的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "This is just a little of what 2010 perhaps has in store – and no mention yet of Israeli settlement building on the West Bank, Pakistan’s struggle against murderous extremists, and NATO’s bloody difficulties in propping up a discredited and corrupt Afghan regime in order to prevent the country from falling back into the hands of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.",
        "以上仅仅是2010年可能正在等着我们的巨大麻烦之冰山一角，还有很多问题没有谈到，比如以色列在西岸的定居点建设问题、巴基斯坦对抗嗜杀成性的极端分子的斗争、以及北约为支撑起一个声名狼藉、且腐化成风的阿富汗政权（此举旨在防止阿富汗重新落入塔利班与基地组织之手）所需面对的血腥困难等等。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it is a full-blown defeat for Germany, linked to its firm denial that German policy has sharply reduced the country’s influence in the EU.",
        "但最终结果是布鲁塞尔峰会成了一次对德国的大胜，坚决否决德国政策极大地削弱了后者在欧盟的影响力。 显然如此：德国在欧洲央行的影响力已然极大地减弱了；"
    ],
    [
        "That requires bankers to use the lessons learned from the crisis to become better and more effective citizens.",
        "这就要求银行业从危机中吸取教训并以此成为一个更良好也更有贡献的公民。 ."
    ],
    [
        "Last but not least, we have launched a major labor-market reform that will establish our own version of northern Europe’s “flexicurity” model.",
        "最后，我们已经实施了大规模劳动市场改革，这将成为我们自身的北欧“弹性安全”（flexicurity）模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere and for other people, history suggests a need to find ways to escape from ancient predicaments and outdated prejudices.",
        "对其他地区和其他人来说，历史意味着需要找到摆脱远古先例和陈旧偏见的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "The 29 members of parliament who support a reduced number of constituencies were unable to agree with the government on a new number.",
        "议会当中支持减少选区数量的29名议员无法与政府就新的选区数量达成协议。 结果，不满的科威特人发起的一场声势浩大的运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since 1825, central banks’ standard response in such situations – except during the Great Depression of the 1930’s – has been the same: raise and support the prices of risky financial assets, and prevent financial markets from sending a signal to the real economy to shut down risky enterprises and eschew risky investments.",
        "一旦工资水平降低，这就意味着劳动力供过于求，局面更加恶化。 一般性的通缩会导致过多的金融中介机构关门，使得过去一些安全的资产也变得具有风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of Web pages on the Internet is rumored to have exceeded 500 billion, enough to fill 10 modern aircraft carriers with the equivalent number of 500-page, one-pound books.",
        "在互联网上的网页数量据说已超过5000亿页，这些信息用来印刷成每本500页重1磅的书籍，可足以装满10艘现代化航空母舰。"
    ],
    [
        "On that score, Trump has already failed.",
        "从这个意义上讲，特朗普已经失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not bode well for Syria.",
        "这对叙利亚来说绝非吉兆。"
    ],
    [
        "But the trip is about more than getting acquainted.",
        "但王毅的印度之行意义并不在熟络关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt’s dependence on the British continued until Gamal Abdel-Nasser took power in 1952.",
        "埃及对英国的依赖一直到贾迈尔·阿卜杜勒·纳赛尔1952年掌权才结束。"
    ],
    [
        "As such frameworks brought about regulatory convergence, the US and the EU would be able to define the standards of the emerging new global economy, forcing China either to accept those standards or be left behind.",
        "因为这样的框架协定会带来监管趋同效应，美国和欧盟将能借此定义新兴全球经济标准，从而迫使中国要么接受要么被甩开。"
    ],
    [
        "Advancing this plan will enable optimized use of existing member-state resources – thereby securing advantageous economic synergies – as well as precise identification of the additional resources required to achieve our goals.",
        "推进这项计划可以优化现有成员国的资源运用——从而产生有利的经济协同效应——并准确找到实现我们目标所需的额外资源。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, EU policymakers should pursue policies that make labor markets more flexible.",
        "欧盟政策制定者尤其应当实施令劳动力市场更加灵活的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Seventh, let us hope that new policies targeting information and communication technology (ICT) strike the right balance among all stakeholders’ competing and legitimate concerns.",
        "第七，让我们希望以信息和通信技术为目标的新政策能够在所有利益相关者的竞争和合理关切之间取得适当的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Production costs in other heavily indebted countries were 20-25% higher than in Germany.",
        "其他重债国的生产成本也比德国高20—25%。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans should now be confident enough to call for a common policy with the US that focuses on domestic developments in Iran.",
        "欧洲人现在应该有足够的信心呼吁美国制定关注伊朗国内发展的共同政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The arguments against creating a European single currency and then allowing Greece to cheat its way into membership were valid back in the 1990s – and, in theory, they still are.",
        "反对创造欧洲单一货币然后允许希腊作弊获得欧元区成员资格的批评可以在20世纪90年代很有道理——理论上，它们至今仍然如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Its defining characteristic, after all, is not the political arena in which an agreement will be struck (the UN system); it is the overarching policy goal (avoiding dangerous climate change).",
        "因为归根结底，其标志性特征并非达成协议的政治舞台（联合国系统）； 而是首要的政策目标（避免危险的气候变化）。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, long-simmering tensions in the Middle East between Israel and the US on one side and Iran on the other on the issue of nuclear proliferation could reach a boil by 2013.",
        "最后，在中东，以色列和美国与伊朗关于核浓缩问题的紧张对峙可能在2013年爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the unholy glee with which they have set about destroying an icon of the anti-global warming movement, the Nobel Laureate R.K Pachauri, by attributing financial motives to his research.",
        "K. Pachauri ）的科学研究掺杂着金钱动机，试图搞臭这位应对全球变暖运动的标志性人物，与此同时也不忘弹冠相庆一番。"
    ],
    [
        "If someone can do difficult things, not only carrying peacock tail feathers or a long dark lion mane, but also things that require much practice without contributing to physical fitness and survival, and yet stay alive, that individual must have especially good genes.",
        "如果有人能做有难度的事情，不仅能长出孔雀尾翎或狮子长长的黑色鬃毛，而且能够处理需要更多练习却无助于身体健康和生存的事情，并且能够生存下来，该个体一定拥有极好的基因。"
    ],
    [
        "By developing a joint vision for the development of international waterways, these regional cooperation initiatives work towards common ownership of the resource, thereby reducing the risk that disputes over water use will escalate into violence.",
        "通过发展开发国际水路联合设想，这些区域性的合作措施争取资源共有，从而减少了用水争议升级为暴力的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Western governments can help with common-sense reforms.",
        "西方国家的政府也应采取一些常识性的改革给予以上国家帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "But when policymakers need to cut spending, investment in these public goods is often the first thing to go, because voters do not feel the effects in the short term.",
        "但当决策者需要削减开支时，往往会最先牺牲对这些公共产品的投资，因为选民在短期内不会有所察觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Power arises from asymmetries in interdependence.",
        "实力来自不对称的互助性。"
    ],
    [
        "The need for massive fiscal adjustment without any offsetting currency devaluation will now drive Greece and perhaps others to default on their government debt, probably through some kind of IMF-supported debt restructuring.",
        "债券市场一直将所有欧元区主权债务一视同仁，直到最近出现了明显的违约可能，才开始对高负债国家要求高利率。 希腊——或许还有其他一些国家——需要进行大规模的财政调整，又无法通过货币贬值进行缓冲，因此可能对其政府债务违约具体的方式可能是在IMF支持下进行债务重组。"
    ],
    [
        "ROME – Sometimes something happens that can have a fundamental impact on mankind, but passes largely unnoticed at the time.",
        "罗马 – 有时发生的某些事情会给人类带来根本性的影响，但却常常被忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "So taxing banks on their debt, not their equity, would fundamentally alter organizational incentives.",
        "因此对银行的债务而不是股本课税将从根本上改变组织激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Top bankers want to make a lot of money. They also want to stay out of prison.",
        "顶级银行家想大把赚钱，又不想蹲监狱。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the explosion of CDOs in the United States during the housing boom was predicated upon the shaky assumption that house prices never fall nationwide.",
        "因此，美国房地产市场繁荣阶段债务抵押债券的迅猛发展是以“房地产价格不会在全国范围内出现下降”这一靠不住的假设为前提。"
    ],
    [
        "I had been writing for years that unless growing inequality – especially in the US, but also in many countries throughout the world – was addressed, there would be political consequences.",
        "多年来我一直指出，除非在全球许多国家（尤其是美国）日益严重的不平等问题得到解决，否则必将产生某些政治后果。"
    ],
    [
        "BANGKOK – Social media are no longer the new kid on the block, but in 2016, platforms like Twitter and Facebook looked poised to nudge traditional newspapers into obsolescence.",
        "曼谷—社交媒体已不再是“新鲜人”，但在2016年，Twitter和Facebook等平台似乎准备将传统报纸扔进故纸堆中。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to the Russian army, Syrian, Iraqi, Iranian, and Afghan groups are also fighting for the regime, and each of these actors has its own interests.",
        "除了俄军，叙利亚、伊拉克、伊朗和阿富汗集团也在于政府打仗，并且这些行动饭各有各的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "As it transformed itself into the “factory of the world,” the share of China’s urban population jumped from 26.4% in 1990 to around 53% today.",
        "以中国为例，随着其转型为“世界工厂”，国内城市人口占总人口的比例从1990年的26."
    ],
    [
        "Youth unemployment, including the female population, averages 23%, while in deprived suburbs with concentrated immigrant populations, the rate hits 70%.",
        "青年失业率，包括妇女在内，平均达到23%，而在移民聚集的贫困郊区，失业率高达70%。"
    ],
    [
        "Its weakness is somewhat surprising: real incomes are up, and the coalition government that came to power last year has introduced a series of generous welfare measures, including a large increase in the minimum wage, a reduction of the retirement age, and a special top-up pension for women with children.",
        "从某种程度上说，消费的疲软令人惊奇：真实收入水平在上升，去年上台的联合政府也引入了一系列慷慨的福利措施，包括大幅增加最低工资、降低退休年龄以及面向有孩妇女的特别追加养老金。"
    ],
    [
        "In our book White House Burning, James Kwak and I emphasized that fiscal sustainability is important not just for economic prosperity but also for national security.",
        "在我们的书《火烧白宫》（White House Burning）中，郭庾信（James Kwak）和我强调财政可持续性不仅对经济繁荣很重要，对国家安全也很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, when eastern Nigeria decided it wanted to secede and form the state of Biafra in the 1960s, other Nigerians resisted, in part because Biafra included most of Nigeria’s oil.",
        "同样的，当尼日利亚东部在20世纪60年代决定其要脱离尼日利亚，建立一个比夫拉（Biafra）国时，其他的尼日利亚人进行了抵制，这部分是因为比夫拉（Biafra）储藏着尼日利亚的大部分石油。"
    ],
    [
        "ECB President Mario Draghi has been clear that restoring target inflation and weakening the currency is not a growth strategy.",
        "欧洲央行行长德拉吉一直清楚，重塑目标通胀和贬值货币不是增长战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Some restrictions are understandable legacies of the past, but must nevertheless be re-examined.",
        "某些限制是过去的遗产，可以理解。 但是，必须予以重新审视。"
    ],
    [
        "As leaders from countries and institutions from around the world prepare to meet in Paris in December, getting the financing right should be a top priority.",
        "在世界各个国家和机构领导人准备12月巴黎会议的时候，正确地进行融资应该成为重中之重。"
    ],
    [
        "Business executives need to realize that if they cannot explain their decisions in ways that investors, regulators, workers, and consumers can understand, then they – not the people with whom they are talking – are the problem.",
        "企业高管需要认识到，如果他们不以投资者、监管者、工人和消费者能够理解的方式解释他们的决策，那么他们——而不是他们的对话者——才是问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, equity investors are also oriented toward the long term, and are increasingly willing to buy greener assets.",
        "幸运的是，权益投资者也开始转向长期视角，越来越愿意购买绿色资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Nigeria’s Poverty-Powered Insurgency",
        "尼日利亚动乱因贫困而起"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the voices that called for, and then bungled, military intervention in Iraq are now calling for war with Iran.",
        "那些高声呼吁对伊拉克作战，而后又把局势搞得一团糟的势力现在又在煽动对伊朗作战。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time, average Iranians saw him at public events and in the media, discussing not only nuclear policy, but also his ultra-conservative policy agenda for women, youth, and cultural issues.",
        "伊朗人此前从未看到他在媒体上谈论公共事件，不但讨论核政策，也讨论他关于女性、年轻人和文化问题的极端保守政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, an American citizen carried out the worst terrorist attack in the United States before September 11, 2001.",
        "与此相似，2001年9月11日以前，策划美国有史以来最大恐怖袭击的也是美国公民。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing that governance improves with development, the international community would be better served by pursuing reforms that directly advance development, instead of a broad agenda that may have, at best, a small indirect impact.",
        "认识到治理随发展而得到改善，国际社会就会追求直接促进发展的改革而不是充其量也许只能带来微小间接影响的宽泛日程，从而获得更好的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Iceland, Switzerland, and the UK have all learned the hard way that allowing banks to become big relative to their economies brings with it great risks.",
        "冰岛、瑞士和英国都得到了惨痛的教训——允许银行成为相对经济而言的庞然大物会带来巨大的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Could we really say to a Ghanaian doctor that she must return to her country while an immigrant Russian doctor is allowed to settle down and start a new life?",
        "我们真的可以对加纳博士说，你必须返回你的国家，而一转身又允许俄罗斯博士定居开始新生活吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, goals mobilize stakeholder networks.",
        "最后，目标能动员相关利益者网络。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it a US state. Yet it has features of both: Although it has its own constitution, it is a United States territory, Puerto Ricans are US citizens, and the island is subject to US federal law, except as otherwise stipulated.",
        "与希腊不同的是，波多黎各既不是一个独立国家（这意味着它不能从国际货币基金组织获得融资），但它同时也不是美国的一个州，然而却具有两者的特点：虽然它是美国的领土，但它有自己的宪法，波多黎各人是美国公民，除非另有规定，这个岛受美国联邦法律约束。"
    ],
    [
        "He concluded that, “The value of a rising standard of living lies not just in the concrete improvements it brings to how individuals live but in how it shapes the social, political, and ultimately the moral character of a people.”",
        "他总结道，“生活水平提高的价值不仅在于其所带来的个体生活的物质改善，也在于它决定了一个民族的社会、政治以及最终的道德特征。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "During the second half of last year, the 15 largest emerging-market economies experienced the biggest capital outflows since the 2008 global financial crisis.",
        "去年下半年，15个最大的新兴市场经济体经历了自2008年全球金融危机以来最大的资本外流。"
    ],
    [
        "It has the inconvenient implication that the poor have a role in pulling themselves out of the morass.",
        "可怜之人必有可恨之处，这一推论有些令人难以接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, almost every period of globalization and prosperity has been accompanied by symbiotic imbalances.",
        "事实上，几乎所有全球化和繁荣时期都伴随着失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "When that increase is translated into hard numbers, it amounts to an additional $2.58 trillion since 2010 – an increment that is larger than the entire Indian economy.",
        "如果要将这一增长率换算成数字的话，等于自2010年以来额外增加了2. 58万亿美元——增长额比印度的整个经济体量还大。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s current economic slowdown was policy-induced.",
        "中国当前的经济减速时政策导致的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, control over social policy is delegated to the states, allowing local legislatures to tailor programs to local tastes and use resources efficiently.",
        "在美国，对社会政策的控制下放给了各州，地方立法可以根据本地情况量体裁衣，高效地使用资源。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world’s largest economy, the US has taken the lead in promoting policies that reduce barriers.",
        "作为世界最大的经济实体，美国在推动消除障碍的政策方面占据了领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal transfers, whereby eurozone countries commit to provide funds to their distressed counterparts, could also work.",
        "财政转移支付，借助欧元区国家承诺为其他受灾国提供资金的方式也能生效。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps they were just lucky this year, but their divestment decision makes long-term sense, because it correctly anticipates the future policy shift away from fossil fuels and toward low-carbon energy.",
        "也许他们只是今年鸿运当头，但他们远离化石燃料的决定具有长期意义，因为这一行为正确地预见到未来政策将不利于化石燃料而有利于低碳能源。"
    ],
    [
        "Such measures are likely to boost Europe’s medium-term growth prospects.",
        "这些举措可以提振欧洲中期增长前景。"
    ],
    [
        "There are some historical precedents for this situation.",
        "当前这种局势在历史上有先例。"
    ],
    [
        "For several weeks this summer, the stadiums in Austria and Switzerland, not to mention the streets of European capitals, from Madrid to Moscow, were given to an orgy of flag-waving, anthem-singing, drum-beating patriotism.",
        "在这个夏天的几周时间里，奥地利和瑞士的球场里，更别提从马德里到莫斯科欧洲各国首都的大街小巷里，到处都可以看到挥舞国旗、高唱国歌、击鼓等爱国主义的狂欢。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even under this adventurous assumption, human-rights issues arise.",
        "但即使我们接受这一冒险的假设，仍然无法对人权问题做出合理的解释。"
    ],
    [
        "One primary reason, I believe, is that the trust created by hard work and mutual effort in ending the Cold War has collapsed.",
        "我认为，一个主要原因是结束冷战过程中的艰苦工作和共同努力所建立起来的信任崩溃了。"
    ],
    [
        "The big difference between the House Republicans’ plan and the 1986 tax reform is that the current proposal would also address the tax treatment of corporate profits and other business income.",
        "国会共和党的计划与1986年税收改革之间的重大区别在于现在的方案还将处理公司利润和其他企业收益的税收待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Debts ballooned everywhere.",
        "债务到处泛滥。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as the ongoing dispute over Greece illustrates, agreement remains elusive: Participating countries have developed contradictory analyses of the causes of the debt crisis, from which they derive contradictory prescriptions.",
        "而希腊问题上的持续争论表明，欧洲距离达成一致尚远：参与国对于债务危机的根源的分析彼此矛盾，于是开出的药方也彼此矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "Industrial development and military victories, though coming at an intolerable human cost, were real.",
        "工业发展和军事胜利尽管以无可容忍的人性成本为代价，但却在切切实实的发生着。"
    ],
    [
        "According to this approach, energy cooperation should form the core of collaboration, while infrastructure construction and trade and investment form two wings. Nuclear power, satellites, and new energy sources are three high-tech areas where cooperation can lead to important breakthroughs.",
        "根据这一方针，能源合作将成为一个核心，而基础设施建设与贸易投资组成两翼，核能、卫星和新能源是合作中可能形成重大突破的三大高科技领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the United States engineer a path to renewed growth?",
        "美国能否走上一条增长恢复之路？"
    ],
    [
        "They remember the West’s prolonged support for the hated Shah, and for Iraq in its brutal war with Iran in the 1980s, even after Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein employed chemical weapons.",
        "他们还记得西方长期支持他们所讨厌的国王沙哈（Shah）； 记得西方支持20世纪80年代悍然向伊朗宣战的伊拉克（即使是在萨达姆·侯赛因使用化学武器后）。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters deeply for Moldova’s citizens, though, is to move towards a visa-free regime with the EU.",
        "对摩尔多瓦人来说，影响最大的莫过于实现本国与欧盟之间的免签证待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Fidesz has tightened its control over the judiciary and politicized law enforcement, by turning the Chief Prosecutor’s office into what is essentially an arm of the party.",
        "通过将首席检察官办公室变成一个类似下属部门，民盟成功加强了对司法部门的控制并将执法部门政治化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Use and Abuse of Monetary History",
        "对货币史的利用及滥用"
    ],
    [
        "The first is traditional disapproval of debt.",
        "第一个就是传统上对债务的排斥。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain appears to be in the early stages of restoring a balanced and sustainable growth pattern.",
        "西班牙目前正处于重新实现平衡且可持续增长模式的初期。"
    ],
    [
        "That is what happened when conservative American politicians and European Union officials latched on to the work of two Harvard professors – Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff – to justify their support of fiscal austerity.",
        "美国保守派政客和欧盟官员利用卡门·莱因哈特和肯尼斯•罗格夫等两位哈佛教授的研究来佐证财政紧缩政策恰恰是这样的实例。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2.1% consumption growth trend realized during the anemic recovery of the past two years could well be indicative of what lies ahead for years to come.",
        "在过去两年的疲软复苏中，消费支出增长趋势为2. 1%，这可能时未来多年内的普遍情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifteen years ago, the Renault-Nissan Alliance evaluated the environmental impact of its vehicles over their life cycle.",
        "十五年前，雷诺-日产联合公司（Renault-Nissan Alliance）便在全生命周期的基础上评估了旗下汽车的环境影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But both ordinary AKP supporters and disillusioned secularists are now suspicious of America’s actions and motives in the region.",
        "但是普通的公正和发展党支持者和醒悟的世俗主义者现在都对美国在该地区的行动和动机表示怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an innovation would help stem the spread of nuclear materials and weapons, while also contributing to a shift away from use of oil and gas, thereby reducing global warming in the process.",
        "这样一种革新能阻断核原料和核武器的传播，同时能提供除使用石油和天然气之外的另一种途径，从而减缓全球变暖的进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Subsidiarity, properly applied and understood as decision-making power at the appropriate level of government, is and must remain a guiding principle of European action.",
        "正确执行并理解称之为各级政府决策权的辅助性原则一直且今后必须仍然指导欧洲的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it a system in which market discipline again dominates, or will regulators sit on the shoulders of management for the foreseeable future?",
        "这是一套市场纪律再次成为主导的制度，还是监管者将在可预见的未来凌驾于管理层之上？"
    ],
    [
        "And the bills are substantial.",
        "订单是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "I am sure that Nelson Mandela would have understood my feelings and agreed.",
        "我相信纳尔逊·曼德拉理解并赞同我的感受。"
    ],
    [
        "The unified Palestinian delegation was convenient for Egypt and Israel, both of which consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and for Palestine, because it helped to bring an end to the violence.",
        "将哈马斯视为恐怖组织的埃及和以色列乐于见到统一的巴勒斯坦代表团，巴勒斯坦也能从中获益，因为这有助于结束暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean the ECB president should pick fights whenever possible.",
        "当然这不意味着欧洲央行主席要四处与人交恶。"
    ],
    [
        "Incidents are unforeseen events and technical failures that occur during normal plant operation and result in no off-site releases of radiation or severe damage to equipment.",
        "其中事件指的是在核电站日常运行中出现的意外情况或者技术问题，但不会造成辐射外泄或者设备严重损坏；"
    ],
    [
        "While the public has been shocked by the revelations, the affected clubs’ leaders may not have been – at least not in every case.",
        "公众被这一消息的曝光所震惊，但涉事俱乐部领导未必——至少不是所有俱乐部都对此大惊小怪。"
    ],
    [
        "People everywhere live in growing anxiety and fear.",
        "各国民众的焦虑和恐惧感与日俱增。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-7 foreign ministers’ declaration on April 11 in Hiroshima – “No state should conduct a nuclear test explosion and all states should sign and ratify the CTBT without delay” – is a good start.",
        "4月11日，G-7外长在广岛宣布“所有国家都不应该进行核试爆，所有国家都应该毫不迟疑地签署并批准CTBT”，这是一个良好的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "The key will be effective dispute-resolution mechanisms and agreement on more transparent water-sharing arrangements.",
        "解决问题的关键在于建立有效的争端解决机制和更加透明的水资源共享安排协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Was it traditional fiscal conservativism?",
        "是传统的财政保守主义？"
    ],
    [
        "Three approaches have helped to contain the spread: the provision of antiretroviral therapy by the government and donor agencies; better treatment of tuberculosis patients, who tend to contract HIV/AIDS as well; and a greatly expanded program to prevent mother-to-child transmission.",
        "更好地治疗肺结核患者（往往也是艾滋病携带者/艾滋病患者）； 以及大力推广艾滋病预防计划，遏制艾滋病毒的母婴传播。"
    ],
    [
        "But this does not mean that the European Parliament is a “real” parliament.",
        "但是，这并不意味着，欧洲议会是一个“真正的”议会。"
    ],
    [
        "Initially a financial crisis, it morphed into a classic public-debt crisis after governments stepped in to guarantee banks obligations.",
        "最初的一场金融危机，随着政府介入，为银行负债担保，演变为一场经典意义上的公债危机。"
    ],
    [
        "If the trend continues or accelerates, Chinese consumption could start to approach half that of the United States, which would be an extremely encouraging sign that the world economy is undergoing a badly needed rebalancing.",
        "如果趋势持续或加速，中国消费总量可能会逐渐达到美国的一半，这将是一个非常令人鼓舞的迹象，说明世界经济正在迎来一个迫切需要的再平衡态势。"
    ],
    [
        "As I documented in a 2015 paper, the share of world imports invoiced in US dollars is 4.7 times larger than the share of world imports involving the US.",
        "正如笔者在2015年发表的一篇论文中所记录的那样，以美元计价的全球进口份额是全球进口中涉及美国份额的4."
    ],
    [
        "For Syria’s many rebel groups, Assad represents the greater threat, and thus will have to be removed from power before attention can be focused on defeating the Islamic State.",
        "对叙利亚的众多叛军集团来说，巴沙尔是更大的威胁，因此必须先把他推翻，然后才能集中精力对付伊斯兰国。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, entrepreneurship is not just a commercial or economic option for diplomats and policymakers.",
        "同样，创业精神绝不仅仅是外交官和决策者的商业和经济选择。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1980s, US President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher unwittingly extended the scope of welfare further, as they dismantled institutions and legislation designed to protect wages and jobs.",
        "在1980年代，美国总统里根（Ronald Reagan）和英国首相撒切尔夫人（Margaret Thatcher）都在不知不觉中进一步扩大了福利的范围，因为他们撤除了旨在保护工资和就业机会的机构和立法。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany will look like a better credit risk, thereby allowing it to fund its current budget deficits more easily and cheaply.",
        "德国希望自己的信用风险看上去比较低，这样就能更容易、以更低成本为当前的预算赤字进行融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Such requirements would be diametrically opposed to the Internet’s founding principles of frictionless, borderless access to information.",
        "这样的要求与互联网的基本原则——无摩擦、无阻力地获得信息完全背道而驰。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the legal system made it easier for Muslims to breach contracts with impunity, they were more often tempted to default on their debts and to renege on their obligations as business partners and sellers.",
        "因为法律系统降低了穆斯林肆意违反合同的难度，导致他们往往更倾向于拖欠债务和违背作为商业伙伴和卖方的职责。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem with these exercises is that they are regularly relegated to the “duly noted” bin: governments receive them, file them away, and go back to doing what they were doing before.",
        "在实践中却存在一个问题，条约中的要求往往被贴上“充分注意”的标签束之高阁：各国政府接受归接受，传达归传达，回头还是依然故我。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and China (as well as other countries) have much to gain from collaborating on transnational issues.",
        "美国和中国（以及其他国家）可以通过在国际事务上的合作获益良多。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in the aftermath of the recent government crackdown in Myanmar (Burma), the Secretary General was able to send a representative to the country, but with powers limited to reporting and attempted mediation.",
        "比如，在缅甸政府最近发生镇压行径后，联合国秘书长所能做的就是委派一名代表到这个国家，但是其权力仅仅限于报告和试图调停冲突上。"
    ],
    [
        "It speaks for itself that the sharp deterioration in US ties with the Pakistani military has occurred since the drawdown timetable was unveiled.",
        "自撤退时间表公布以来，美国与巴基斯坦军方的关系显著恶化就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Would you like your customized car seat in leather or cloth, sir?",
        "您想把汽车座椅定制成皮的还是布的？"
    ],
    [
        "There are, then, three paths for Iraq: evolution of a more serious insurgency, persistent violence at current levels, or resolution of the insurgency.",
        "由此看来，伊拉克有三条道路可走：叛乱演变得更为严重，现有水平的持续不断的暴力或平息叛乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Contagion among newborn babies, once running at around 70,000 per year, have been cut by some 63%, and the lives of millions of HIV/AIDS sufferers have been prolonged.",
        "新生儿感染曾高达每年70,000例，现在已经降低了63%，延长了数百万艾滋病毒携带者/艾滋病患者的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The brutal murder of 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut, shakes us to the core as individuals and requires a response as citizens.",
        "纽约—康涅狄格州纽顿市20名儿童、7名成人遇害惨案骇人心魄，作为公民，我们必须对此有所反应。"
    ],
    [
        "They seemed to believe Brexiteer MP Gisela Stuart: “the only expert that matters” is the voter.",
        "他们似乎相信脱欧支持者吉塞拉·斯图尔特（Gisela Stuart）议员的话：“唯一重要的专家……是选民”。"
    ],
    [
        "This year’s major global meetings – the Conference on Financing for Development in July, the meeting at the United Nations to adopt Sustainable Development Goals in September, and the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December – should be sufficient.",
        "今年的重大全球会议——7月的发展金融会议、9月的联合国可持续发展目标会议，以及12月的联合国巴黎气候变化会议——足以推动进步。"
    ],
    [
        "European countries in general base their budget plans on unnecessarily biased official forecasts, which can push them toward pro-cyclical policy.",
        "总体而言，欧洲国家的预算计划基于存在不必要的偏误的官方预测，这些预测导致了它们采取顺周期政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The melancholia that began to seize France many years ago was all but forgotten.",
        "缠上法国多年的压抑被忘得一干二净。"
    ],
    [
        "Cancer is the leading cause of death in middle-aged persons and children (after accidents), and we can’t explain why, for most forms of cancer, death rates are higher for blacks than they are for whites.",
        "癌症是造成中年人和儿童（仅次于事故）死亡的主要原因。 而且我们不能解释为什么对于大多数种类的癌症黑人的死亡率要高于白人。"
    ],
    [
        "Although manufacturing in the US is in crisis, Texas has one of the strongest manufacturing economies in the world.",
        "虽然美国的制造业处于危机之中，但德克萨斯的制造经济却是世界最强之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the long term, if we are serious about prohibiting such tests, we need an international agreement – on both insurance and employment – to ensure a level playing field for all countries.",
        "但在长期来说，如果我们真心要杜绝这类测试，则需要一份国际协议——来保证所有国家都是在同一个平台上竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Resistance to anti-TB drugs arises from selection of naturally occurring mutants with innate resistance to drugs.",
        "对治疗结核药物的耐药性源自于自然产生的天生具有耐药性的病毒品种突变。"
    ],
    [
        "The modern political spectrum is an artifact of the seating arrangements at the French National Assembly after the revolution of 1789.",
        "现代的政治光谱其实是1789年大革命后法国国民议会上座次编排顺序的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "But even at that level, the renminbi could be the world’s third reserve currency, after the dollar and the euro, by 2030.",
        "但即使是后者，人民币仍将在2030年成为世界第三大储备货币，仅次于美元和欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, peaceful protest, lawsuits, political negotiation, compromise, and ultimately fresh elections would provide both countries – and many others in the region and beyond – a far better way to resolve their internal tensions than the approaches their leaders currently employ.",
        "尽管如此，和平示威、诉讼、政治谈判、妥协以及最后举行新大选能让土伊两国——以及该地区内外的其他许多国家——获得远远优于两国领导人当前所采取的化解内部紧张的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Women are ready, willing, and able.",
        "女性已经做好了准备，她们有能力也有意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "ELA funding assumes that the Greek economy is temporarily illiquid, but not insolvent.",
        "ELA资金假设希腊经济只是暂时性流动性不足，而不是资不抵债。"
    ],
    [
        "Both movements are rooted in economic concerns.",
        "这两个方向的发展根源都在于经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "China and Vietnam, too, remain in thrall of their long and bitter shared history.",
        "中国和越南之间也有悠久而苦涩的历史恩怨。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s troubles, too, do not reflect the impact of Fed policies.",
        "俄罗斯的麻烦也与美联储政策无关。"
    ],
    [
        "He credited another (future) Nobel Prize winner, James Meade, for having recognized the importance of labor mobility in earlier work, but criticized Meade for interpreting the idea too stringently, especially in the context of Europe’s nascent integration.",
        "蒙代尔将对劳动流动性的重要性的认识归功于另一位（未来）诺贝尔奖获得者米德，但也指出，米德对这一观点的解释太过严格，特别是在欧洲一体化刚刚出现萌芽的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Crucially for Europe, world trade has been virtually stagnant in recent months.",
        "对欧洲来说，关键在于最近几个月世界贸易几乎陷入了停止。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the more bizarre aspects of this election is the success of Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and political neophyte.",
        "本次选举中退休神经外科医生兼政治新手卡森的成功更加离奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Devastatingly high unemployment rates among European Muslims (three times higher than the national average in most countries) aggravate their social marginalization and cultural self-segregation.",
        "欧洲穆斯林的惨不忍睹的高失业率（在大多数国家，他们的失业率三倍于国家平均失业率）进一步恶化了他们的社会边缘化处境，加速了他们的文化自我隔离。"
    ],
    [
        "The general parameters of a long-term, two-state agreement are well known.",
        "一个长期的、巴以两国共存的协议总体范围是众所周知的。"
    ],
    [
        "Down with Debt Weight",
        "打倒债务重压"
    ],
    [
        "But the making of Morales as a leader able to combine these three dimensions reflects two institutional reforms in the 1990’s that expanded social participation and opened up opportunities for new leaders and political movements.",
        "但莫拉莱斯之所以能够成为融合这三大标志领域的领袖确乎反映了这样一个事实：20世纪90年代的机构改革扩大了社会参与基础，为新兴领导人和政治运动带来了发展机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "In our regions, businesses need consistent, long-term policy signals in order to make further investments toward a low-carbon economy.",
        "在我们的地区中，企业需要持续、长期的政策信号以便它们做出增加低碳经济投资的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "As with CDOs, however, this might be a Pyrrhic victory.",
        "但这可能和债务抵押债券一样，是一场得不偿失的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico’s governor, Alejandro García Padilla, has appointed a working group to produce a five-year program to restore growth and fiscal sustainability.",
        "波多黎各州长阿列加德罗·加西亚·帕迪拉（Alejandro García Padilla）已经任命了一个工作组来制定一个恢复增长和实现财政可持续性的五年计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community, especially the US, is giving verbal support to launching serious Palestinian-Israeli talks, and the Mecca Agreement paves the way for Abbas to negotiate an end to the occupation.",
        "国际社会、特别是美国在口头上支持展开严肃认真的巴以会谈，而麦迦协议为阿巴斯谈判结束占领铺平了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "But America’s extraordinary efforts to rein in Israel might not be enough to avert a calamity.",
        "但美国遏制以色列的非凡努力可能无法阻止这场灾难的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "It sounded plausible.",
        "这听起来似乎可行。"
    ],
    [
        "Rebalancing the Eurozone",
        "重新平衡欧元区"
    ],
    [
        "Seizing on a $93 million debt that Armenia owed to Russia, the Putin administration demanded payment in either cash or equity in Armenia’s major industries.",
        "普京当局紧紧抓住亚美尼亚所欠俄罗斯的9300万美元债务，要求要么用现金支付，要么占有亚美尼亚的主要产业股权。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet even in northern Europe, reported per capita holdings of currency are still quite modest relative to the massive outstanding supply in the eurozone as a whole (over €3,000 per capita).",
        "但即便是在北欧，其人均货币持有量仍然相对于欧元区整体的大量超标纸币供应（人均超过3000欧元）为少。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Greece’s labor productivity (GDP per worker) is only 72% of the level in the UK and Italy, and a mere 57.7% of that in Germany.",
        "事实上，希腊的劳动生产率（每工人GDP）只有英国和意大利的72%和德国的55%。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the money borrowed for infrastructure investment still must be repaid – even if the oil revenues earmarked for that purpose never materialize.",
        "但基础设施投资贷款仍然必须偿还——即使用于此目的的石油收入无法实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Only when conditions in the country deteriorated even more in the wake of the Fund holding back on the second tranche of its loan did the IMF agree to loosen its conditions. However in Latvia, the IMF has continued to demand austerity even in the wake of plummeting growth and rising unemployment which have lead to riots and political instability.",
        "国际货币基金组织直到因它暂停对乌克兰的第二批贷款，而使乌克兰的状况进一步恶化时，才同意放松对乌克兰的贷款条件。 但是，在拉脱维亚，即使经济增长急剧下降，失业率不断上升，并因此而引起暴乱和政治动荡，国际货币基金组织仍然继续要求拉脱维亚政府紧缩开支。"
    ],
    [
        "But I think he bought it for a different purpose.",
        "但我认为其收购背后另有目标。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially important with regard to the services sector.",
        "对于服务业，这一点尤其重要。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the EU Constitution is written with the unspoken understanding that the institutions it is setting up are transitory, that they are far from optimal, and that it would be desirable to change them right now if political realities allowed it.",
        "但与之相反，欧洲宪法却被大家心照不宣地认定为是一部暂时性的宪法。 它远远称不上完美，如果允许的话，它现在就需要作改动。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond this, more financial engineering is needed to draw upon the creativity of financial markets.",
        "除了这些，还需要更多的金融工程来发挥金融市场的创造力。"
    ],
    [
        "Sexy Culture",
        "性文化"
    ],
    [
        "Two UN Secretaries-General have overseen the MDGs: Kofi Annan, who introduced them in 2000, and Ban Ki-moon, who, since succeeding Annan at the start of 2007, has led vigorously and effectively to achieve them.",
        "两任联合国秘书长曾负责千年发展目标的监督工作：2000年制定千年发展目标的科菲·安南，以及2007年初接替安南、为实现该目标做出积极有效努力的潘基文。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, high oil prices in the past 12 months provided an unexpectedly large windfall to the Iraqi budget, allowing for the financing of other sectors without slighting the oil industry.",
        "最后，过去12个月来的高油价让伊拉克政府大发横财，使他们能在不损害石油工业的基础上为其它部门提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Including all possible positive effects of the Republican proposals, the Tax Policy Center has concluded that federal government “revenue would fall by between $2.4 trillion and $2.5 trillion over the first ten years and by about $3.4 trillion over the second decade.”",
        "税收政策中心（Tax Policy Center）在将共和党方案的所有可能的积极效应都考虑进去后总结道，联邦政府“税收收入将在第一个十年下降2. 4万亿到2."
    ],
    [
        "His place in the history books is guaranteed.",
        "应该保证他在史书上有一席之地。"
    ],
    [
        "Breaking Europe’s Climate-Change Stalemate",
        "打破欧洲的气候变化僵局"
    ],
    [
        "But a visit to Africa’s villages makes clear that the problems have more to do with the struggle for survival under difficult physical conditions than with any special problems that are unique to African societies.",
        "但只要到非洲村庄里亲自走走，就不难发现问题更多地涉及在恶劣自然条件下人类的生存努力，而不是非洲所特有的所谓独特社会问题。"
    ],
    [
        "An emphasis on investment protection could establish de facto international standards that ensure legal security for investors while providing sufficient scope for governments’ legitimate regulatory interests.",
        "强调投资保护可以形成确保投资者法律安全同时又为政府的合法监管利益提供足够空间的实际国际标准。"
    ],
    [
        "This gross error is leading Russia to political ruin.",
        "这个严重的失误正在把俄国引向政治毁灭的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditional thinking in economic development has followed a Turing-like approach, trying to specify a general model of the world – based on first principles – and then use that model to think about a country’s predicament or a policy’s potential impact.",
        "经济发展的传统思维遵循图灵式方针，试图确定一个基于首要原则的一般的世界模式，然后用这一模式思索一国的困境或一项政策的潜在影响。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Americans will have to choose between a leader who has proven that he can’t lead the US out of its economic morass, and one who has not yet proven his inability to do so – but who could make matters even worse through policies that increase inequality and slow growth.",
        "毕竟，美国人仍不得不在两位领导人中做出选择，其中一位已经证明无法将美国带出经济困境，另一位还没有证明自己在这方面的无能，但他可能会通过恶化不平等性和削弱增长的政策把事情弄得更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "Brown’s fate has far-reaching effects for both Germany and France, because it is seen as the writing on the wall.",
        "布朗的命运对德法两国都会产生深远的影响，因为英国的现状被法德两国用来引以为戒。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Charter of Scientists now under discussion in the European Commission should improve the situation, by making flexible career tracks compatible with transferable social benefits.",
        "正在欧盟委员会审议当中的新《科学家宪章》应该通过提供与可转移的社会福利相匹配的灵活的职业发展轨道来改善这一情况。"
    ],
    [
        "China may reason that its naval build-up in the Indian Ocean is only about protecting sea lanes vital to shipping the resources that its economy needs.",
        "中国可能会指出，其印度洋海军建设只是为了确保输送中国经济所需资源的海运线的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane does not seem not to have deflated this optimism.",
        "就连土耳其击落俄罗斯战机似乎也没有让这种乐观情绪受到影响。"
    ],
    [
        "And France’s new prime minister, Manuel Valls, is also moving against austerity.",
        "法国新总理瓦尔斯也反对紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "With 88 nuclear power plants currently operating in South Korea, Japan, and China, the initiative is an important one.",
        "鉴于目前已经有88座核电站在这三个国家投入运行，这一动议显然非常重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "What is certain is that a rebalancing between North and South must start with an honest and hard-headed look at Europe’s current status in our multilateral system.",
        "可以肯定的是，必须重新协调北南关系，实事求是地看待欧洲在目前多边体系中的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the sheer number of princelings, including children of incumbent Chinese leaders, now attending Ivy League universities clearly points to the importance of family ties.",
        "事实上，单凭现在就读于常青藤大学的含中国现任领导人子女在内的太子党数量就足以证明家庭关系有多重要。"
    ],
    [
        "A comprehensive prevention program providing free or cheap condoms and information about safe sex to the regions worst affected by HIV/AIDS would cost $27 billion and save more than 28 million lives.",
        "一项完整的、向艾滋病影响最大的地区提供免费或者廉价避孕套和有关安全性行为信息的预防性项目可能花费270亿美元并且挽救2800万生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Violent conflict occurs when leaders are motivated to mobilize their followers for it.",
        "只有领袖鼓励追随者诉诸武力才会引发暴力冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "He decided to go public.",
        "他决定公开真相。"
    ],
    [
        "One way to do this is to understand China’s motives.",
        "成功做到这点需要了解中国的动机。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the optimal amount of openness is a matter of debate.",
        "诚然，最优开放程度是一个可以争论的话题。"
    ],
    [
        "Now Ukraine’s people may face a similar test after supporters of Viktor Yanukovych threatened to seek autonomy should the rightful winner of the country’s presidential vote, Viktor Yushchenko, actually become president.",
        "现在，乌克兰人民也许也面临着相同的考验，如果这场国家总统选举的合法获胜者维克托·尤申科成为总统的话，维克托·亚努科维奇的支持者们就威胁要谋求自治。"
    ],
    [
        "But the continuing US boycott of Hamas reinforces the logic of those who are trying to sabotage the negotiations.",
        "但美国对哈马斯的持续抵制只能助长那些和谈破坏者的气焰。"
    ],
    [
        "We call on all health-care practitioners and institutions to resist discriminatory laws, policies, or practices.",
        "我们号召所有医疗保健行业的执业者和相关机构抵制歧视性法律、政策或行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan may not be anyone’s idea of an ally when facing an existential threat; for Saudi Arabia, however, it is an idea whose time has come.",
        "在面临生存危机时，巴基斯坦或许不会是任何人所想到的盟友； 但对沙特阿拉伯来说，现在必须考虑它。"
    ],
    [
        "But the payment system would survive.",
        "但支付系统不会崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term economic progress comes mainly from the invention and spread of improved technologies.",
        "从长远来看，经济发展主要来源于革新技术的发明与推广。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite renewed economic growth, unemployment actually increased in the last four years.",
        "尽管经济增长已经复苏，但在过去四年里，失业实际有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the signing of the Iran nuclear deal, India has been contemplating renewing the plan for an Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, with the participation of China and Russia.",
        "自伊朗核协议签署以来，印度一直在考虑与中国和俄罗斯合作重启伊朗-巴基斯坦-印度天然气管道计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Consequences could include new sanctions or the strengthening of existing ones (asset freezes, travel bans, an arms embargo, and capital-market sanctions); increased cooperation with the International Criminal Court on current and potential cases against those most responsible for war crimes in Darfur and the South; postponement of debt relief; and a freeze on oil transactions conducted in euros.",
        "而惩罚措施则可以是新制裁或是对当前手段（资产冻结、旅行限制，武器禁运以及资本市场制裁）的升级； 进一步与国际刑事法庭展开合作，调查那些在达尔富尔/南部地区已经曝光或者尚未揭发的战争罪行，并追究相关领导人的责任；"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, critical donor funding – provided by a very limited number of actors, mostly government agencies and philanthropic groups in OECD countries – fell by nearly 10% last year.",
        "更糟糕的是，关键的资金来源——来自极少数行动方，主要是经合组织国家的政府机构和慈善组织——在去年减少了近10%。"
    ],
    [
        "Western universities can host more students and faculty.",
        "西方大学可以招收更多的学生和教员。"
    ],
    [
        "But when the bank announced a first-half loss of €3.6 billion ($4.7 billion), the sudden collapse of confidence was alarming, and nervous investors are asking whether there are similar time bombs ticking elsewhere.",
        "但当该银行公布上半年亏损36亿欧元时，信心的突然崩溃值得警惕，紧张的投资者想弄清楚其他地方是否也有滴答走动的定时炸弹。"
    ],
    [
        "With Saddam gone, Iraq’s Shia majority assumed power after a horrendous civil war, leaving Iraq’s defeated Sunnis longing for revenge and waiting for an opportunity to regain their ascendancy.",
        "萨达姆被推翻后，伊拉克的什叶多数派在恐怖内战后上台，而被打败的逊尼派则渴望报复、等待夺回优势的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from being a masterstroke, Modi’s decision seems to have been a miscalculation of epic proportions.",
        "莫迪的这个决定一点都不高明，倒是一个大大的误算。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as an outsider, I am amazed at the apparent intensity of lobbying, and at the amounts of money that firms and their associations spend.",
        "但作为一个外国人，该国游说团体那种明目张胆的程度，还有企业及其同业公会所花费的巨额资金都令我感到非常吃惊。"
    ],
    [
        "People with Huntington’s disease usually die about 15 years after the onset of the symptoms. There is no cure.",
        "亨廷顿舞蹈症患者一般都会在发病15年左右死去，而这种病暂时还是不治之症。"
    ],
    [
        "The rich world gets just 1.2% of its energy from hugely expensive solar and wind technologies, and we would never accept having power only when the wind was blowing.",
        "富裕国家利用耗资巨大的太阳能和风能仅占能源总量的1. 2%，而且我们永远也不可能接受只在刮风的时候才有电用。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – President Barack Obama’s much discussed Cairo speech represented not only the demise of George W. Bush’s ideological drive to reconstruct the Muslim world through a democratic revolution; it marked the end of American liberalism’s quest to remake the world in its own image.",
        "马德里——广受关注的巴拉克·奥巴马总统在开罗的讲话不仅标志着乔治·W·布什总统通过发动民主革命重建穆斯林世界的思想动力寿终正寝，而且还标志着美国自由主义势力按照自身形象重塑世界的努力走入死胡同。"
    ],
    [
        "Recast as after calculating the net present value of the stream of future benefits, a realistic Doha outcome could increase global income by more than $3000 billion per year, $2500 billion of which would go to the developing world.",
        "如果人们重新计算将来收益的当前净值，多哈回合现实的结果可能会每年增加全球收入3万亿美元，其中的2万5千亿美元将会流入发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "EU leaders are hoping that a modest cyclical upturn will buy them time.",
        "欧盟领导人希望温和的周期性上涨将会给他们争取点时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps it was that kind of arithmetic that spurred Swiss voters to reject the idea overwhelmingly in a referendum earlier this month.",
        "也许正是出于这样的算计，让瑞士选民在本月早些时候的全民公决中一边倒地拒绝了这一概念。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite these potential drawbacks, an armed attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities will and should remain a distinct possibility given the enormous strategic costs of a nuclear-armed Iran.",
        "然而即便存在这些潜在的不利条件，考虑到各国可能为一个核武伊朗所付出的巨大战略代价，一场针对伊朗核设施的袭击也存在极大的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of these fires have raged under abnormal conditions; some have not.",
        "一些大火因为反常的条件而肆虐； 一些则否。"
    ],
    [
        "Such reforms, which would be popular in almost all member countries, need not conflict with the EU’s founding principles if they preserve the right to work throughout Europe, but return some control over non-economic migration and welfare payments to national governments.",
        "这些改革在几乎所有成员国都将大受欢迎，而如果保留在全欧洲工作的权利而返还一定的控制非经济移民的权利和福利支出给国家政府，它们并不一定与欧盟立盟原则冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "German Chancellor Angela Merkel is widely credited with finally answering Henry Kissinger’s famous question about the Western alliance: “What is the phone number for Europe?”",
        "德国总理默克尔被广泛认为终于回答了亨利·基辛格所提出的著名的西方联盟之问：“欧洲电话号码是多少？"
    ],
    [
        "That should be no surprise.",
        "这并不令人奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, when it comes to protecting migrants’ well-being and rights, smart practices abound – and should be promoted more widely and implemented more frequently.",
        "但是，在保护移民的福利和权利方面，我们有许多明智的实践，它们应该得到鼓励和更广泛、更频繁地实施。"
    ],
    [
        "To escape the NSA mess, various options will be discussed.",
        "为了挽救美国国安局带来的混乱，人们讨论了各种方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite today’s turbulence, it is unlikely that the military will intervene directly and taken over the reins of government, as it has on four occasions in Pakistan’s history.",
        "虽然如今巴基斯坦处于混乱中，但是军方不大可能会像前4次一样直接干预接管政府。"
    ],
    [
        "These formal policy discussions between the IMF and member governments, typically carried out annually, are written up, reviewed by the Fund’s Board of Executive Directors (representing all 188 governments), and published for anyone to read online.",
        "这些IMF与成员国政府之间的正式政策讨论（常常每年进行一次）都被记录在案，由IMF理事会（Board of Executive Directors，代表所有188家政府）审核并在线发布供所有人浏览。"
    ],
    [
        "In some respects, this is the biggest challenge of all to the UK’s political culture.",
        "从某些角度看，这是所有人都必须面对的英国政治文化的最大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is beginning to change.",
        "但情况正在发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this page that has been probably fully closed with the assassination of Politkovskaya.",
        "随着波利特科夫斯卡娅遭到暗害，这充满希望的一页也许永远地合上了。"
    ],
    [
        "Its fundamentally religious culture enables Muslims to retain their identity to a far greater extent than in secular Europe.",
        "美国本质上的宗教文化使得穆斯林能比在世俗的欧洲在更大程度上保留对自身身份的认同。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why it should not be excluded a priori.",
        "因此不应该先验地将它排除在外。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, investors will bet against them.",
        "与此同时，投资者也会在相反的方向上下注。"
    ],
    [
        "The burden of weak or non-existent recoveries should not be borne by the unemployed, including the young.",
        "复苏不振甚至停滞的负担不应该由包括年轻人在内的失业者来承担。"
    ],
    [
        "No one in either US political party seems willing to face the fact that fixing the banking system, though necessary, was not sufficient to restore the economy to health (or that the financial system was never really fixed).",
        "美国的两大政党似乎都不愿意直面这一事实：修补银行体系虽是必须的，但并不足以让经济重回健康（或者说，金融体系从未被真正地修复）。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Since the second half of 2012, financial markets have recovered strongly worldwide.",
        "巴黎—自2012年下半年以来，全世界金融市场强势复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "An IMF program restores confidence in the fiscal soundness of governments that markets distrust. The lending allows the necessary medium- and long-term spending cuts and tax increases to be undertaken at a more appropriate time.",
        "IMF贷款能帮助一国在市场对其失去信任的情况下重铸财政健康度信心，使所需的中长期支出削减和税收增加在一个更为合意的时间段内发生。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – A key question confronts the four presidents of Europe’s major institutions (the European Commission, the European Council, the European Central Bank, and the Eurogroup) as they prepare their report on how to reform the common currency: Does the eurozone need its own budget?",
        "布鲁塞尔—欧洲主要机构（欧盟委员会、欧洲委员会、欧洲央行和欧元集团）在准备它们关于如何改革共同货币的报告时所面临的一个关键问题是：欧元区需要其自身的预算吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Just as, a decade ago, the West objected to the efforts of Turkey’s entrenched secular elite to rob Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mildly Islamist AKP party of its democratic victory, it needs to speak clearly today in defense of Thai democracy.",
        "正如十年前西方拒绝土耳其老牌精英推翻埃尔多安温和派AKP党的民主胜利的图谋，如今西方也需要旗帜鲜明地捍卫泰国民主。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – As the dramatic events unfolding across the Middle East capture global attention, the numerous challenges facing Israel are being largely overlooked.",
        "马德里—随着中东的戏剧性事件吸引了全球目光，以色列所面临的诸多挑战纷纷被忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this means that macroeconomic policies that affect exchange rates are not problematic.",
        "所有这些并不意味着影响汇率的宏观经济政策没有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the US-led coalition forces should help people who want to move to other parts of the country.",
        "联合国难民事务高级专员公署和美国领导的联合部队应当帮助那些想要搬到国家的其他地区去的人们。"
    ],
    [
        "And, third, in business one must not let the perfect become the enemy of the good.",
        "第三，在商业中，你不能让完美成为优秀的对立面。"
    ],
    [
        "And, given that financial markets know that QE will end, they have already priced in that expectation.",
        "且由于金融市场已经知道量化宽松行将结束，它们也已经在对这一预期进行定价。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, these “ghost cities” resemble the Russian empire’s Potemkin villages, built to create an impressive illusion for the passing Czarina; but China’s ghost cities are real and were presumably meant to do more than flatter the country’s leaders.",
        "从某种程度上讲，这些“鬼城”与沙俄的波将金村（Potemkin village）类似，只是为了个路过的沙皇皇后营造印象深刻的幻觉； 但中国的鬼城是实实在在的，也许不仅仅是为了取悦领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "New Hope for India",
        "印度的新希望"
    ],
    [
        "The historic job of international lawyers and tribunals has been to determine whether a signatory to an international agreement is complying with its obligations.",
        "国际律师和法庭的历史指责是确定某个国际协定的某个签署国是否遵守了它的义务。"
    ],
    [
        "I met one of the younger IMEMO economists, Maxim Boycko, and was impressed by his sincerity and intellect. (He later became Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State Property under President Boris Yeltsin, left the Russian government before Vladimir Putin came to power, and recently came to the US, where he is lecturer in economics at Harvard and Brown.)",
        "我认识了IMEMO的其中一位年轻经济学家，马克西姆·博科（Maxim Boycko），并对他的真诚和睿智留下了深刻印象（他后来成为了叶利钦总统的副总理和国有资产部部长，在普京上台前离开了政府，最近来到了美国，在哈佛和布朗大学任经济学讲师）。"
    ],
    [
        "These eye-popping statistics have sparked a widespread, sometimes rancorous debate about whether people are taking far more medication than is needed for problems that may not even be mental disorders.",
        "这些让人大跌眼镜的数据引发了广泛的，有时甚至是针锋相对的辩论。 辩论的主题是人们是否因为一些甚至不是精神疾患的毛病过量服用了药物。"
    ],
    [
        "Annexed by Tsarist Russia in 1812, joined to Romania in 1918, and re-annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, it seized its independence from Moscow in 1991.",
        "它位于罗马尼亚和乌克兰之间，1812年被沙俄吞并，1918年加入罗马尼亚，1940年重新被前苏联侵占，最终于1991年摆脱莫斯科的统治获得独立。"
    ],
    [
        "It defies conventional retaliation and protection strategies.",
        "它能对抗传统反击和保护战略。"
    ],
    [
        "The current economic situation has pushed the EBRD to its limits.",
        "当今的经济形势已经使欧洲复兴开发银行达到了自身的极限。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany and Sweden cannot be expected to be the only destinations for all refugee arrivals.",
        "不能期望德国和瑞典接受所有到达的难民。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rise of Bismarck’s Germany at the end of the nineteenth century was also peaceful – for a while.",
        "但是十九世纪末俾斯麦的德国也是和平崛起，但是却好景不长。"
    ],
    [
        "Early this month, India’s army foiled an attempted incursion by a group of 30 to 40 militants from Pakistani territory, leading Indian critics to decry official peace overtures.",
        "本月初，印度军队挫败了一次由三四十名武装分子从巴基斯坦发起的入侵行动，此次入侵导致印度评论家开始谴责官方的和平姿态。"
    ],
    [
        "There, students in the Islamic university also study the Bible, and the curriculum puts an emphasis on the most tolerant interpretation of Islam.",
        "在那里，伊斯兰教大学的学生们也要学习圣经，课程安排十分重视最能被大众所接受的对伊斯兰教的诠释定义。"
    ],
    [
        "It is obvious that Western-led military operations cannot by themselves re-establish the territorial integrity of Iraq or Syria, or restore wider regional stability.",
        "显然，西方领导的军事行动自身无法重建伊拉克和叙利亚领土，也无法重塑更广泛的地区稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Adjustment reactions are brief, but useful – a cognitive, logistical, and emotional rehearsal for possible hard times ahead.",
        "适应性反应虽然短暂，但却非常有用——它是对可能发生的困难在认识、逻辑和情感方面的一次预演。"
    ],
    [
        "The ratings agency Fitch has warned that many OBOR projects – most of which are being pursued in vulnerable countries with speculative-grade credit ratings – face high execution risks, and could prove unprofitable.",
        "评级机构惠誉警告说，许多一带一路项目——大部分在信用评级为投机级的脆弱国家开展——面临非常高的执行风险，可能无法盈利。"
    ],
    [
        "How would football fans have reacted if Neuer had stopped play and told the referee that the ball was a goal?",
        "是的，从某种程度上来看，我们可以通过现代技术或者录像回放来审视有争议的判罚决定，以此来解决这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, Turkey is waking up to the reality that it has no attractive alternative to the EU and close cooperation with the transatlantic community.",
        "简言之，土耳其正在意识到，除了欧盟以及与跨大西洋社会紧密合作，它别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, Brazilians may just be too unsure about handing power to Silva, who has become a media phenomenon but remains an unknown quantity.",
        "最终，巴西人或许无法下定决心将权力交给席尔瓦——尽管她已经成为媒体的宠儿，但资质仍有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "Easing tensions will not win Bush points with those who prefer a muscular strategy.",
        "缓解紧张局势不会让布什得到那些主张采取强有力的战略的人的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ukrainian government has said that it will submit the law to the Council of Europe, allowing the Venice Commission to determine whether it meets CoE standards.",
        "乌克兰政府表示将向欧盟理事会提交法律文本，由威尼斯委员会审定它是否符合欧盟理事会的标准。"
    ],
    [
        "With governments and international donors unable to foot the bill alone, they must develop programs and policies that can channel a larger share of global savings, which now amount to roughly $22 trillion annually, toward the SDGs.",
        "政府和国际出资人无法独力承受如此巨大的资金，它们必须制定能够将更大比例的全球储蓄（目前每年高达约22万亿美元）引向SDG。"
    ],
    [
        "But experience has shown that bondholders are not inclined to subordinate their claims to some untested international bankruptcy court.",
        "但是，经验表明，债券持有人不会把他们所拥有的债券的命运交给未经检验的国际破产法庭。"
    ],
    [
        "The upcoming election will determine how far the country will go along this route.",
        "即将到来的选举将决定巴基斯坦会在这条道路上走多远。"
    ],
    [
        "The moral superiority of high marginal income taxes suddenly waned.",
        "”高边际税率的道德优越性一夜之间消失了。"
    ],
    [
        "It misleads decision-makers, as it did both Johnson and Bush.",
        "它误导了决策者，正如它误导了约翰逊总统和布什总统一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The Western state’s shortcomings are strikingly apparent when compared with robust survivors and adapters in other parts of the world.",
        "若与世界其他地区的强大生存者和适应者相比，西方国家的短处凸显无疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, norms of proper political behavior must become embodied in the polity’s enduring institutions – its political parties, parliaments, and courts – in order to prevent abuse of power.",
        "相反，正常政治行为的规范必须嵌入政体的长期制度——政党、议会和法院——以防止权力滥用。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is past time that the European Union stopped treating energy as a bilateral issue, with some of the larger member states trying to protect their own narrow interests at the expense of the common European good.",
        "欧盟把能源问题视为双边事务来处理的日子已成过去，因为目前有一些较大的成员国正尝试在牺牲欧洲整体利益的情况下维护自己的狭隘利益。"
    ],
    [
        "There are several competing theories, most of them quite elegant, but none of them entirely satisfactory.",
        "解释这一现象的理论有很多，大多颇为漂亮，但没有一个彻底令人满意。"
    ],
    [
        "After the war in Iraq ended, I spoke about soft power (a concept I developed) to a conference co-sponsored by the US Army in Washington.",
        "在伊拉克战争结束之后，我在美国军方主办的一次会议上谈到了软权力（我提出的一个概念）。"
    ],
    [
        "But without transparency, the INDCs would not be credible.",
        "但没有透明度，INDC就不可信。"
    ],
    [
        "Political impasse is not only depressing economies by discouraging trade and investment; it is also preventing the formation of governments that could implement much-needed economic and institutional reforms – and thus threatening to take these countries into a long downward spiral.",
        "政治僵局不仅阻碍贸易投资而且影响经济； 并且阻碍可以落实急需的经济和体制改革的政府的形成——这些国家可能因此走上漫长的螺旋式下降道路。"
    ],
    [
        "But China should make it clear that such protection requires the Burmese generals to cooperate in finding a peaceful solution.",
        "但是中国应该清楚地表明这种保护需要缅甸的将军们共同寻找到一条和平的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Though every crisis eventually ends, no one knew at the time how broad, deep, and long the ensuing recessions and depressions would be.",
        "尽管所有的危机最终都会结束，当时没有人知道随之而来的衰退和萧条的范围会有大，程度会有多深，历时会有多长。"
    ],
    [
        "It is about reforming an education system that fails America’s young people (and about providing appropriate retraining to those who need it).",
        "这场选举事关改革让美国年轻人落于人后的教育制度（以及向需要者提供合适的再培训）。"
    ],
    [
        "At their fingertips – literally – lies a limitless amount of entertainment, gaming, learning, and social networking.",
        "毫不夸张地讲，海量的娱乐、游戏、学习和社交网络都在他们的指尖触手可及。"
    ],
    [
        "Privatizing banks’ profits and socializing their losses is not acceptable in democratic societies.",
        "银行的利润归私人所有，它们的损失却由全社会来承担，这在民主社会是不可接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, complicating matters further, inequitable growth risks fueling “political or social turmoil, often marked by ideological or ethnic polarization, which then leads either to wide policy swings or to policy paralysis.”",
        "让情况更加糟糕的是，不平等的增长有可能助长“政治或社会动荡，其特征通常为意识形态或种族极化，并导致剧烈的政策波动或者政策瘫痪”。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of those hopes were fulfilled. Our children are back in school.",
        "现在，一些憧憬已经实现：我们的孩子回到了学校读书；"
    ],
    [
        "He replied, “The Brazilian economy has been doing well.",
        "出租车司机回答说，“巴西经济运行良好。"
    ],
    [
        "It will be great if we can increase funding, but it would be foolish to think that development-aid money will multiply overnight, or that the UN’s massive, quixotic development agenda has the resources to remain on track.",
        "能增加资金固然最好，但妄想发展援助资金能一夜之间翻倍，或宏大得不切实际的联合国发展议程具备稳步推进所需要的资源是相当愚蠢得。"
    ],
    [
        "As the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre argued in After Virtue, narratives frame individuals’ moral choices.",
        "哲学家阿拉斯代尔·麦金泰尔（Alasdair MacIntyre）在《追求美德》（After Virtue）中指出，叙事框定了个体的道德选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Myanmar is an overwhelmingly Buddhist country, dozens of religious and ethnic communities have long lived there side by side.",
        "尽管缅甸是个佛教占压倒性优势的国家，但长期以来，数十种宗教和民族一直共处着。"
    ],
    [
        "The spread of artemisinin resistance in Asia today threatens the lives of children in Africa tomorrow.",
        "今天在亚洲蔓延的青蒿素抗药性明天将威胁到非洲儿童的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "In Siberia, vast quantities of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, are locked up in what used to be called “permafrost” – regions in which it was assumed that the ground was permanently frozen.",
        "在塞尔维亚，大量的沼气（一种对温室效应影响极大的气体）都被封存在曾被称为“永久冻土”的地区，因为人们相信这些地区的土地都将永久处于封冻状态。"
    ],
    [
        "I can name only one: Robert McNamara.",
        "我只知道一个：他就是罗伯特·麦克纳马拉。"
    ],
    [
        "With more Chinese citizens living outside mainland China than there are French people living in France, a similar story is playing out on almost every continent.",
        "在生活在中国大陆以外的中国公民超过法国国内的法国公民的情况下，类似的故事几乎在每块大陆上演着。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the social conditions of the “French model” have been so neglected, the model is now a living contradiction of its core principle: equality.",
        "因为“法国模式”的社会条件一直以来被忽视了，现在这种模式与它的核心原则——即平等产生了鲜明的对立。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, things could and should have been done better; but to single out Fed governors for missing the coming catastrophe is ludicrous.",
        "确实，事情可以也应该被做得更好； 但专门把官员挑出来指责其没有注意到灾难即将来临的做法则是非常荒唐的。"
    ],
    [
        "He can also use the reserve of trust that he established by reaching out to the Brotherhood during Morsi’s presidency.",
        "他也可以利用在穆尔西当政时期与穆斯林兄弟会打下的信用基础。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a tax holiday to repatriate foreign earnings was called the “American Job Creation Act.”",
        "比如，汇回海外收入所享受的免税期被称为“美国就业创造法”（American Job Creation Act）。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the US economy is four times larger than that of Germany, the economy of the 28-member EU is equal to that of the US, and its population of 510 million is considerably larger than America’s 320 million.",
        "尽管美国经济比德国大四倍，但由28个成员国组成的欧盟经济体量与美国对等，其5. 1亿的人口规模则要比美国的3."
    ],
    [
        "The first Great Game was resolved a century ago by making Afghanistan a buffer state in which outsiders did not interfere.",
        "一个世纪前的第一个大博弈得到了解决，其途径是让阿富汗成为没有外人干涉的缓冲国。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors should take note.",
        "投资者应该引起注意。"
    ],
    [
        "And to understand that, we must consider the quality of the change that is being reported.",
        "而要理解这一点，就必须考虑报告记录的变化的质量。"
    ],
    [
        "In some ways, the bilateral relationship is already moving in a positive direction, especially on the economic front.",
        "从某种程度上说，双边关系已经在朝积极方向发展，特别是在经济领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, we have seen the success of Apple's iTunes, which sells music for US$0.99 per song.",
        "我们已经亲眼目睹了苹果线上音乐（Apple's iTunes）的巨大成功，在那里，每首歌曲的定价只有0."
    ],
    [
        "Kenya’s next challenge will be to invest the taxes in much-needed infrastructure projects, including roads, sanitation, hospitals, and schools.",
        "肯尼亚的下一个挑战是将税收投资于急需的基础设施项目，包括公路、卫生设施、医院和学校。"
    ],
    [
        "A year or two ago, six main risks stood at center stage:",
        "一两年前，处于核心地位的是六大风险："
    ],
    [
        "Leaders must make the most of that time, ensuring that every policy they pursue is as effective as possible.",
        "领导人必须充分利用这段时间，确保实施的每项政策都尽可能有效。"
    ],
    [
        "There is maybe less of a French presence in the world today than there was twelve years ago when Jacques Chirac came to power, especially since the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty in 2005.",
        "与十二年前希拉克上台相比，法国在世界上的存在可能降低了，特别是2005年否决欧盟宪法以来。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not surprising, given the strong association in the popular imagination between innovation and the private sector.",
        "这并不奇怪，因为在流行的想象中，创新和私人部门关系紧密。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if Germany remains the world’s laggard, rising investment demand as such will contribute to GDP growth, which Ifo estimates at 1.7% in 2006.",
        "即使德国仍然滞后于全球经济，如此增长的投资需求将会为GDP增长作出贡献。 Ifo估计，德国2006年的GDP增长率为1."
    ],
    [
        "Economists are likely to spend months puzzling over why the effect of low oil prices has proved slow to emerge in the consumption statistics.",
        "经济学家们很可能要花费数月来苦思为何低油价的影响没法迅速在消费统计上反映出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet America’s European allies administered Obama’s first setback.",
        "然而，正是美国的欧洲盟友们制造了奥巴马的第一次挫折。"
    ],
    [
        "This policy-making model begins with the limit for tolerable climate change; the world’s remaining emissions budget until 2050 is calculated from the agreed boundary, then divided among the 193 UN member states.",
        "这一决策模式的出发点是气候变化忍受极限，根据确定的边界计算2050年之前世界仍然可以排放的规模，然后再分配给193个联合国成员。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, we accept the costs of police forces and health care, including not just hospitals, but also clean water, safe food, etc.",
        "毕竟，我们可以接受警察队伍和公共安全健康和的费用支出，这当然不仅仅是医院，而且包括干净的用水，安全食物等等。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the US is right to wonder whether the new order that China hopes to build will be as open and rules-based as the American-led order – the one that gave China the market access it needed to achieve its spectacular economic rise.",
        "平心而论，美国质疑中国希望构建的新秩序是否能与美国所领导的秩序一样公开并以规则为基础——从而让中国获得实现其壮观经济崛起所需要的市场——这是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s three-decade-long run of double-digit growth came to an end in 2010, with the annual rate now below 7%.",
        "中国持续三十年之久的两位数增长在2010年走到了尽头，目前年均增长不足7％。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a figurative goldmine – safer and potentially at least as lucrative as the real thing – that most countries possess, but few choose to exploit fully: government procurement.",
        "但大部分国家拥有一种丰富的金矿，它更安全，并且本质上至少与真金矿一样划算。 它就是政府采购。"
    ],
    [
        "May herself supported the “Remain” campaign.",
        "梅本人支持“留欧”阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "Direct measures like those that were allegedly used to hamper Iran’s nuclear program should be explored and accelerated.",
        "应当对据称曾阻止伊朗核计划的直接措施加以探讨和运用。"
    ],
    [
        "This is scary, although not without historical precedent.",
        "但上述看法不但耸人听闻，而且也是有历史教训的。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s government has also sought to showcase its growing military potential.",
        "俄罗斯政府还试图展示该国不断增长的军事潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU deal with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, negotiated in 2016 by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, had a single purpose: To stop the flood of refugees from Turkey to Greece at all cost.",
        "欧盟与土耳其做了笔交易，2016年，德国总理默克尔和土耳其总统埃尔多安进行了谈判，目的很简单：不惜一切代价阻止难民从土耳其涌入希腊。"
    ],
    [
        "And Greece has just voted for a new property tax to help close its yawning fiscal deficit.",
        "而希腊人刚刚投票通过一项新的财产税来帮助缩小其不断增大的财政赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "My aunt Anasuya, who is one of my most important role models, delayed conventionally defined achievements in the professional world as she focused on raising a family.",
        "而在这方面我的姨妈阿纳苏亚就是我最重要的榜样，她放弃了去获取职场上的那些所谓成就并把精力放在了家庭上。"
    ],
    [
        "Radical Realism About Climate Change",
        "关于气候变化的激进现实主义"
    ],
    [
        "Xi is no dictator who can impose his will on China.",
        "习并不是能将自身意愿强加给中国的独裁者。"
    ],
    [
        "If anything, he understates the problem.",
        "如果说有什么问题的话，那就是他低估了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Numerous studies have shown major returns for individuals and societies alike.",
        "无数研究表明，教育投资能带来巨大的个人和社会回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only did the Jews lack a mother country, but in Europe they lived as a foreign nation, leading to expulsion and annihilation.",
        "犹太人不仅没有祖国，即使在欧洲也是作为一个外来民族寄人篱下，并由此遭受了驱逐和灭绝。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, visitors to Chongqing marvel at the soaring skyscrapers and modern infrastructure built during Bo’s tenure there. But do they know that Bo’s administration borrowed the equivalent of more than 50% of local GDP to finance the construction binge, and that a large portion of the debt will go unpaid?",
        "比如说到重庆参观的人都惊叹于薄熙来执政期间如雨后春笋般拔地而起的高楼大厦和现代化基础设施，不知道的却是该政府其实是依赖借贷来资助这场建设狂潮，其总额相当于该市GDP总额的50%有余，而且其中大部分都将无法偿还。"
    ],
    [
        "As with John Maynard Keynes’s notion that returns on public investment must be measured as the long-term consequence of other investments that it stimulates across the economy and society, so, too, with the knowledge generated by the humanities.",
        "按照约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯的观点，公共投资的收益必须用其刺激整个经济和社会的其他投资的长期影响来加以测量，所以，由人文学科产生的知识也应该如此测量。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, several (though not all) emerging-market countries are benefiting from years of considerable efforts to reduce their financial vulnerability by accumulating huge amounts of international reserves.",
        "但是，多年来，不少（虽然不是全部）新兴市场国家在降低金融脆弱性方面取得了长足的进步，他们积累起了巨大的国际储备，这使得它们获益良多。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the evidence: In 2005, an American Bar Association survey found that 50% of Americans could not correctly identify the country’s three branches of government.",
        "我们来看证据。 2005年，美国律师协会的调查发现50%的美国人无法正确说出美国的三权分立是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who charge Japan or the eurozone with pursuing currency wars have in mind the renewed monetary stimulus implied by their central banks' recent quantitative easing programs.",
        "指责日本或欧盟追求货币战争的人心里想的是，两大央行最近采取的量化宽松计划意味着重启货币刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaving rural areas behind will not move developing countries forward; on the contrary, for many, it threatens to throw the engines of progress into reverse.",
        "将农村地区抛在身后无法让发展中国家前进，相反，对许多发展中国家来说，进步的引擎有可能因此倒转。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the highlights of our ceremony is a video in which several professors and public personalities read, line by line, John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address.",
        "在我们的典礼上，一个高光时刻是多名教授和公共人物逐字逐句朗读约翰·肯尼迪的就职演说。"
    ],
    [
        "The lawyer’s movement, it seems, drove a historic wedge between the judiciary and the executive.",
        "律师们的运动似乎在司法和行政之间凿入了一根历史性的楔子。"
    ],
    [
        "But Mohammed seized the opportunity to learn, and threw himself into his studies.",
        "但穆罕默德抓住了学习的机会，一头扎进了功课中。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is that pornography in orthodox societies is illicit, so the distribution channels opened by sexual materials are usually used for other goods as well.",
        "因为从事色情业在东正教社会中是违反法律的，因此性产品开辟的流通渠道也经常用于其他产品的销售。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also true, however, that such training does not provide an adequate foundation for addressing the more abstract, but profoundly important, questions that ultimately must guide global policy and decision-making.",
        "但是，另一个事实是强化技术训练并不能提供解决更抽象但极其重要的问题的充分基础。 这些问题最终将指导全球政策和决策。"
    ],
    [
        "A G8 commitment to the global carbon market will foster long-term financing beyond 2012.",
        "八国集团对全球二氧化碳市场作出承诺将会为2012年以后培育长期的融资。"
    ],
    [
        "These external imbalances were also driven by the euro’s strength since 2002, and by the divergence in real exchange rates and competitiveness within the eurozone.",
        "这些外部失衡被2002年以来欧元的强势以及欧元区内部真实汇率和竞争力的两极分化所强化了。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the goals of national security and crisis management are the same in both systems – indeed, one of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s first acts when he came to power was to establish an NSC to improve coordination of policymaking.",
        "但这两套制度的国家安全和危机管理目标是一致的——事实上，英国首相卡梅伦在当选后的第一批动作之一便是成立NSC以改进决策协调。"
    ],
    [
        "In the context of American presidential elections, “debate” is something of a misnomer.",
        "在美国总统大选中，“辩论”其实有用词不当的嫌疑。"
    ],
    [
        "The “brain” is not a static concept.",
        "“人才”并不是静态的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "Many people believed already before the war that economies and societies should be planned as much as possible.",
        "二战前，已有许多人认为经济和社会应该尽可能地按计划前进。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s development challenges are well known.",
        "非洲在发展中遭遇的挑战众所周知。"
    ],
    [
        "Racketeers flourish.",
        "而敲诈勒索则蔓延开去。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Cup allows all of the supporters of one country to come together at one moment for one game between two groups that must, like them, become more than the sum of their parts.",
        "世界杯让某国的所有支持者在某一时刻为了某场比赛而走到一起，形成一加一大于二的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The State Council-led Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program has resulted in more than 8,000 incubators and accelerators.",
        "在国务院领导的“大众创新、万众创业”号召之下，中国已经新建了8000多个项目孵化器和加速器。"
    ],
    [
        "Toward the dignity and solidarity of all European citizens?",
        "欧洲全体民众的尊严和团结？"
    ],
    [
        "But if we recognize these losses and address them head-on, we can avoid a backlash against potentially beneficial technological innovations, including advances in robotics.",
        "但如果我们认识到上述损失并直面问题的存在，就可以避免对潜在有益技术创新的反对力量，包括推动机器人的使用。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Nobel laureate economist Robert Mundell, the intellectual “father of the euro,” set out to determine an optimal currency area, he put a premium on natural trade and macroeconomic ties.",
        "当诺贝尔奖经济学奖获得者，理论层面的“欧元之父”，经济学家家罗伯特·蒙代尔（Robert Mundell）在确定最优货币区域时，他将自然贸易和宏观经济关系置于优先地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The same cannot be said for Japan.",
        "日本则非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The divide is apparent even among activists and advocates for HIV/AIDS research.",
        "就连在艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究活动人士和支持者中分歧也非常显著。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the resentment toward the so-called elites into which such leaders have tapped can be seen on the left as well.",
        "但这些领导人所利用的对所谓的精英的怨恨，在左翼也能看到。"
    ],
    [
        "Congressional Republicans will most likely start with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food to low-income households.",
        "国会共和党最有可能拿补充营养援助计划（Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program，SNAP）开刀。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, on trade, there has been a remarkable commitment to efforts – largely successful – to avoid significant backsliding into protectionism.",
        "比方说在贸易方面，西方国家付出了很大的努力防止保护主义故态复萌，而这种努力从总体上看是相当成功的。"
    ],
    [
        "He also earned the distrust of the United States, Japan’s most important ally, by advocating the relocation outside Japan of a US air base on Okinawa.",
        "他同时还主张让美国空军基地撤出冲绳，直接得罪了美国人这个日本最大的盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "When the US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, triggering a global financial crisis, Bernanke – who had since become US Federal Reserve Chair – took his own advice, instituting a bold QE program to revive the United States' moribund economy.",
        "2008年，当美国投资银行雷曼兄弟公司倒闭并引发金融危机时，伯南克——当时已是美联储主席——采取了自己的建议，采取了果断的量化宽松措施拯救垂死的美国经济。"
    ],
    [
        "With its history, culture, and traditions – including its critical, independent, and even rebellious spirit within the former Soviet Union – Georgia would seem to be an ideal candidate for successful democratization.",
        "鉴于其历史、文化以及传统，包括其在前苏联中重要、独立乃至反叛精神，格鲁吉亚看起来都是成功民主化的理想候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the positive side of a multicultural society.",
        "这是一个多元文化社会的积极面。"
    ],
    [
        "Even worse is the eurozone, where real GDP growth has averaged just 0.1% over the 2008-2015 period.",
        "欧元区的情况更加糟糕，真实2008—2015年间GDP平均每年只能增长0. 1%。"
    ],
    [
        "But just how badly are these Americans suffering from globalization?",
        "但这些美国人蒙受全球化的影响有多严重？"
    ],
    [
        "I’ve never known a White House where so much depends on who has incurred the president’s ire.",
        "我从来没想到白宫会如此取决于谁捋了总统的虎须。"
    ],
    [
        "According to opinion polls, last year, most voters wanted both single-market membership and control over EU immigration.",
        "民意调查结果显示，去年多数选民希望同时实现保留单一市场资格和控制欧盟移民的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Such rescues, in short, appear to help big companies with bad managers.",
        "实际上，类似这样的救助方案似乎是帮了那些由无能的管理者掌舵的大公司一把。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, from the standpoint of its dual mandate, the Fed should not be terribly concerned about market volatility, even of the magnitude seen in January and February.",
        "换句话说，从双重使命的角度看，美联储不应该严重关注市场波动性，即使出现了1月和2月这样的大波动。"
    ],
    [
        "It told how Max Mosley, President of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA, the body that oversees world motoring and racing) and son of the former British fascist leader, Sir Oswald Mosley, had, two days earlier, taken part in a sadomasochistic “orgy” with a “Nazi theme” in a private apartment in London.",
        "报道称国际汽车运动联合会（简称FIA，是监管世界赛车的机构）的主席马克斯·莫斯利以及前英国法西斯领导人的儿子奥斯瓦德·莫斯利爵士在两天前，在伦敦一个私人公寓里参加了一个“纳粹主题”的性施虐受虐狂“狂欢”。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in the 2014 attack on SONY Pictures, the United States initially tried to avoid full disclosure of the means by which it attributed the attack to North Korea, and encountered widespread skepticism as a result.",
        "比方说在2014年针对索尼影业的袭击事件中，美国最初试图避免公开用何种方法确定朝鲜为袭击的肇事者。 外界因此普遍怀疑美国所得出的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Backroom decisions and top-down guidance was replaced by a democratic free-for-all that saw many of Fatah’s historic leaders fall to the wayside, making room for younger, locally popular leaders.",
        "以前那种暗箱决策和至上而下的命令作风则被民主的自由参选的选举方式所取代，许多老一辈的法塔赫领导人因此而靠边站，让位给那些更年轻，且在当地更有民望的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of 2013, Nokia had sold its phone business to Microsoft.",
        "到2013年底，诺基亚已经向微软出售其手机业务。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Supreme Court of India, in March 2012 the country had 31.2 million cases pending, more than 80% of them in lower courts.",
        "根据印度最高法院的数据，2012年3月印度未了结案件数量为3,120万宗，其中80%为较低级法院案件。"
    ],
    [
        "Real libertarians never bought the Friedmans’ claim that they were as advocating a free-market, “neutral” monetary regime: Ludwig von Mises famously called Milton Friedman and his monetarist followers a bunch of socialists.",
        "真正的自由主义者从来不买弗氏夫妇结论的账，不认为他们支持的是自由市场和“中性”货币制度：米赛斯非常著名地将弗里德曼及其货币主义追随者称为社会主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "The cameras would roll, Indians would smile, and France would be treated to a Bollywood spectacle beyond its wildest dreams.",
        "照相机会闪个不停，印度人会抱以微笑，而法国将会受到做梦也想不到的宝莱坞式的热闹场景。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the ECB is founded on rules that prevent it from serving as lender of last resort.",
        "因此欧洲央行是建立在阻止其作为最后贷款人的规则之上的。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, at the recent G-20 meeting, the World Bank presented an Umbrella Report on Long-Term Investment Financing for Growth and Development.",
        "事实上，在最新的G20会议中，世界银行发布了《长期增长和发展投资融资综合报告》（Umbrella Report on Long-Term Investment Financing for Growth and Development）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank for International Settlements estimates outstanding dollar credit to non-bank borrowers outside the United States at $9 trillion.",
        "国际清算银行测算，美国之外的非银行借款人未偿还美元信用高达9万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s policy platform proposes new programs to address these issues, with a particular focus on family leave and early childhood and college education.",
        "民主党总统提名人希拉里·克林顿的政策平台提出了解决这些问题的新计划，并特别强调探亲假和早教和大学教育。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the guidelines, China will have to develop a wide range of new financial instruments, including green credit, green development funds, green bonds, green equity index products, green insurance, and carbon finance.",
        "根据该指导意见，中国必须开发各种新金融工具，包括绿色信用、绿色发展基金、绿色债券、绿色股票指数产品、绿色保险以及碳金融。"
    ],
    [
        "And it was not only traditional rent-filled sectors, such as real estate or natural resources, that failed to reach their growth potential.",
        "而没能实现增长潜力不只限于传统寻租部门，如房地产和自然资源部门。"
    ],
    [
        "With current- and capital-account surpluses, the renminbi’s exchange rate is still under upward pressure.",
        "”由于依然存在经常账户和资本账户盈余，人民币的汇率仍有升值压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The WHO is working closely with several partners and the Angolan government to combat the current outbreak.",
        "世卫组织正在同多家合作伙伴和安哥拉政府密切合作遏制黄热病疫情爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "“When a regime’s legitimacy is derived from its performance,” he argues, “any crisis – and how the party responds to it – can raise existential questions about the regime’s right to rule.”",
        "“当政权合法性与表现挂钩时，“他提出，“任何危机——以及政党所采取的对策——都可以演变成质疑其是否有权执政。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Before releasing the current plan, congressional Republicans passed resolutions to reduce taxes by $1.5 trillion over the next decade.",
        "在公布当前的计划之前，国会共和党通过了在未来十年减税1. 5万亿美元的提案。"
    ],
    [
        "This leads directly to the third unsolved problem: What happens if a country is unwilling or unable to keep within agreed conditions?",
        "这直接导致了第三个未解决的问题：如果一国不愿或无力达到协议条件会如何？"
    ],
    [
        "In this case, the FBI took the unusual step of making its demand public, so as to push the issue into the press by hitting the hot button of “terrorism.”",
        "这一次，联邦调查局一反常态地公开自己的要求，目的是借“恐怖主义”的热点引发媒体的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Now legislation is being put forward to establish greater transparency at the Fed – surely a laudable outcome.",
        "如今立法机构已经在努力推动建立一个更为透明的美联储 —— 这显然是一个值得称颂的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems, therefore, that the conflicts generally ascribed to economic grievances and globalization are actually the latest battles in the culture wars that have split Western societies since the late 1960s.",
        "因此，这一通常归因为经济仇恨和全球化的冲突实际上只是自20世纪60年代末以来撕裂西方社会的文化战争的最新战役。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to provide more energy to meet development goals without accelerating global warming, there must be a shift to a new energy infrastructure built around renewables (of which the most significant are probably solar power, wind, and biofuels), cleaner coal, and carbon capture and storage.",
        "要想实现在不加速全球变暖的前提下提供更多能源以满足发展需要的目标，就必须实现向以可再生能源（其中最重要的可能是太阳能、风能和生物燃料）、洁净煤炭和碳捕获及碳储存为核心的新能源基础设施的过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "The US may now be ready to abandon the monetarist dogmas of central-bank independence and inflation targeting, and to restore full employment as the top priority of demand management.",
        "眼下，美国也许已经准备好抛弃央行独立性和通胀目标等货币主义信条，将恢复充分就业作为需求管理的最重要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s also the view of Betty Ming Liu, who blogged in response to Chua’s article: “Parents like Amy Chua are the reason why Asian-Americans like me are in therapy.”",
        "而这也是撰写博客回应蔡美儿文章的Betty Ming Liu的观点：“蔡美儿式的家长就是我这样的华裔美国人接受心理治疗的原因”。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, meritocracy has been eroded by a political culture of sycophancy and cynicism.",
        "不幸的是，精英治国受到了谄媚和犬儒政治文化的侵蚀。"
    ],
    [
        "The country rebelled against Obama and the Democrats’ lurch to the left with historic Congressional election victories for Republicans in 2010.",
        "美国背叛了奥巴马和民主党的突然左转，2010年，共和党在国会选举中赢得历史性胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, developing and enacting financial regulation must be a gradual process, shaped by both existing knowledge and firsthand experience.",
        "相反，发展和实施金融监管必须是渐进过程，根据现有知识和第一手经验改进。"
    ],
    [
        "Without such limited agreements, stasis in South Asia is the rule.",
        "如果不是达成了这有限的几个协议，南亚将一直停滞不前。"
    ],
    [
        "Here is where government must intervene using its traditional tools, taxation and redistribution, as well as complementary policies such as social safety nets and adjustment assistance.",
        "此时政府必须以其传统工具进行干预，即税收和再分配以及社会保障网和调整性援助等补充性政策。"
    ],
    [
        "While the world watches, Burma's generals are consolidating their tyrannical rule as hundreds of thousands of the cyclone’s survivors remain in desperate need of shelter, clean drinking water and medical care.",
        "虽然有国际社会的关注，但是缅甸的将军们依然在成千上万的热带风暴幸存者急切需要住所，清洁的饮用水和医疗护理的时候，加强他们的残暴统治。"
    ],
    [
        "Reflecting America’s global leadership after World War II, the West was protected by US hard power and shaped by US soft power.",
        "由于美国在二战后的全球领导地位，西方世界受到美国硬实力的保护和美国软实力的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond excessive trade barriers, Africa suffers from inadequate transport links and limits on the free movement of people.",
        "除贸易壁垒高企外，人员自由流动和交通联系匮乏同样困扰着非洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Given these new strains, it is worth recalling that a only few months ago many American leaders were livid at what they perceived to be Turkey’s betrayal.",
        "在这些新变调之下，我们不妨回想一下几个月前许多美国领导人还在对土耳其的“背叛”耿耿于怀。"
    ],
    [
        "But the long-term sustainability of the relationship, in which India is more a client than a partner, remains a deep concern for Indians.",
        "但这一关系的长期可持续性——印度更多地是客户而不是合作伙伴——仍是印度心头的深深疑虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Viewing the current conflict between such formidable military powers as Israel and Iran through a similar lens can only breed untold catastrophe.",
        "以同样的方式去看待以色列和伊朗这两大军事强国之间的现有冲突只会带来无穷无尽的灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The dilemma is that all particles, whether white or black, constitute a serious problem for human health.",
        "问题在于无论黑色还是白色，所有颗粒物都会严重影响人类的健康。"
    ],
    [
        "Empires can impose order and stability for a long time; but imperialists – rather like many Americans today – become tired, and their subjects grow restless.",
        "帝国可以在相当长的时间内带来秩序与稳定； 但帝国主义者——就像很多今天的美国人——开始变得厌倦，他们的殖民地则越来越躁动。"
    ],
    [
        "So when they purchase long-term government bonds, they are acting like a subsidiary of a large corporation buying the debt of its parent company (issuing short-term liabilities to itself).",
        "所以当它们购买长期政府债券时就类似一家大型企业的子公司去购买母公司债务一样（等于母公司向自身发行了短期债）。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi exposed himself to a NATO onslaught by relinquishing his WMDs.",
        "同样，利比亚的卡扎菲也因为放弃了大规模杀伤性武器才成为北约的攻击对象。"
    ],
    [
        "In Kenya, government efforts have focused on the creation of three institutions: the Ministry of Public Service, Youth, and Gender Affairs, the Youth Enterprise Development Fund, and the National Youth Council.",
        "在肯尼亚，政府措施的重点是建立了三个机构：公共服务、青年和性别事务部、青年创业发展基金，以及国家青年委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that this knowledge will trigger what I call the “Dracula effect”: expose that which would prefer to remain hidden to sunlight and it will shrivel up and die.",
        "我希望这些知识能触发所谓的“吸血僵尸效应”：那些藏在暗处的东西能被曝光，并随之枯萎消亡。"
    ],
    [
        "· Developed countries must set the example by moving toward environmentally friendly production and consumption patterns, including more control of greenhouse gas emissions and use of innovative mechanisms such as Carbon Funds to buy offsets (reductions in greenhouse gases) from developing countries.",
        "发达国家必须以身作则向有利于环境的生产和消费方式转变，这包括更多地控制温室气体的排放和采用碳能源基金一类的创新机制从发展中国家购买排放补偿（温室气体的缩减量）。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, as the cancer adjusts to the drug, further mutations are likely to occur, diminishing the drug’s efficacy.",
        "此外，随着癌症适应药物，可能发生后续突变，抑制药物的疗效。"
    ],
    [
        "The expectation of uninterrupted economic growth brought a new perspective.",
        "经济永远增长的预期带来了新的角度。"
    ],
    [
        "If the United States and the European Union approve the deal, as seems likely, just three conglomerates – Bayer-Monsanto, Dow-DuPont and ChemChina-Syngenta – will control over 60% of the global seed and agrochemical market.",
        "如果美国和欧盟批准这笔交易（目前看来很有可能），那么三家企业集团——拜耳-孟山都、陶氏-杜邦（Dow-DuPont）和中化-先正达（ChemChina-Syngenta）将控制全球60%以上的种子和农化市场。"
    ],
    [
        "And why is today’s world so unequal that it is hard to find any measures of global distribution that do not show divergence at least up until the 1980’s?",
        "为什么当今世界如此不平等，甚至找不到任何衡量全球分配的方法可以至少不显示20世纪80年代以前的分化？"
    ],
    [
        "One-party government weakens accountability and breeds hubris.",
        "一党政府削弱问责制并滋生傲慢。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Hamas made similar attempts to attack the Dimona complex in 2012, as did Iraq in 1991, with the aim of releasing the site’s contents to inflict radiological damage on Israel’s population.",
        "其实，哈马斯早在2012年就曾对迪莫纳反应堆发动过类似的袭击，1991年伊拉克也进行过同样的努力，目的是释放该反应堆内容物，从而对以色列民众造成辐射。"
    ],
    [
        "If economic malaise becomes chronic, and employment and wages do not rise soon, populist parties may come closer to power in more European countries.",
        "如果经济失衡变成长期，就业和工资无法迅速增长，民粹主义政党将在更多欧洲国家更接近掌权。"
    ],
    [
        "It feels like wait and see at this point.",
        "这个阶段人们似乎都在观望。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the Kirchners, Argentina was on its way there.",
        "在基什内尔家族治下，阿根廷正在朝这个方向迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the Saudi leadership is facing significant domestic challenges, including vast economic disparities, inadequate services, growing frustration with the lack of political freedom, and a difficult succession process within the royal family.",
        "与此同时，沙特领导层面临着重大国内挑战，包括严重的经济不平等、服务不足、对缺少政治自由的日益增加的不满，以及皇室内部举步维艰的继承程序。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek government has asked Europe to swap existing debts with new debts to lock in low interest rates and long maturities.",
        "希腊政府要求欧洲用新债替换旧债，以锁定低利率和长期限。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the main risk is that the “aid bureaucracies” now trip over each other to try to get their hands on the $20 billion, so that much of it gets taken up by meetings, expert consultations, overhead, reports, and further meetings.",
        "现在主要的风险或许是“官僚援助体系”竭力争夺这200亿美元的经费，想把尽可能多的部分用于会议、专家咨询、管理费用、报告撰写以及组织更多的会议。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2000, Al Gore, was unable to make up his mind about which role he wished to play in his debates with George W. Bush, so he looked shifty and inauthentic, changing from arrogant to patronizing and back again.",
        "2000年，戈尔没有打定主意在与小布什的辩论中扮演怎样的角色，他看起来诡诈而不可靠，一会儿高傲，一会儿屈尊，如此反复。"
    ],
    [
        "They staged street demonstrations, mobilized media pressure, and lobbied the SCAF.",
        "为此他们走上街头，动员媒体，并游说SCAF。"
    ],
    [
        "Its analysis has been by far the most professional and least politicized.",
        "到目前为止，IMF的分析是最专业、最少政治化的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Time is Now to Fight Disease",
        "现在正是抵抗疾病的时刻"
    ],
    [
        "Tighten campaign finance laws, regulate lobbying better, and enforce affirmative-action measures to ensure that representatives are of the people and work for the people.",
        "收紧竞选融资法律、更严格地规范游说并推进平权行动以确保代表来自民众并为民众服务。"
    ],
    [
        "There is almost universal joy as students begin to grasp the whole picture.",
        "当学生们开始了解整个的画面时，他们几乎无一例外地感到兴奋不已。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia and Ukraine – and, to a lesser extent, China – blocked efforts to reach an agreement.",
        "俄罗斯和乌克兰、其次还有中国妨碍了协议的达成。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, sizeable segments of the Muslim community are upwardly mobile in socioeconomic terms.",
        "此外，穆斯林社区中大部分人在社会经济中是向上层移动的。"
    ],
    [
        "By and large, China has been a far more constructive counterpart to the US than the former Soviet Union ever was.",
        "总体而言，中国对于美国而言要比前苏联是一个更为建设性的对手。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, Straw’s example does not pose such a sharp dilemma.",
        "幸运的是，斯特劳举的例子并没有呈现这样一种尖锐的两难境地。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the wake of the global financial crisis, development assistance for health from governments and private donors has plateaued at about $35 billion annually, after growing more than 11% per year from 2000-2010.",
        "但在全球金融危机面前，来自政府和私人赞助者的发展援助徘徊在每年350亿美元左右，而在2000—2010年期间，这一数字每年都能增加11%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers are understandably reluctant to go down this road.",
        "政策制定者不愿意走这条路，这是可以理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, with new technology and fresh thinking, policymakers can strike a durable balance between these competing interests.",
        "事实上，利用新技术和新思维，决策者可以在这两种相互矛盾的利益间实现长期的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Charles Calomiris of Columbia University has challenged what he calls “a real subversion of the fiscal process” as funds are raised and spent in non-transparent ways.",
        "查哥伦比亚大学的尔斯·卡罗米里斯（Charles Calomiris）提出了他所谓的“财政程序的真正破坏”质疑——资金的来源和去向都不透明。"
    ],
    [
        "That meeting, if it takes place, is likely to be overshadowed by the fallout from the assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey.",
        "如果那次会议真的召开，也有可能笼罩在俄罗斯驻土耳其大使被杀的阴影当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks choose particularly risky investment projects, which may be profitable but are economically damaging.",
        "银行选择风险畸高的投资项目，这些项目或许有利可图，但在经济上弊大于利。"
    ],
    [
        "When protestors stormed the SSI headquarters and other governorates in March 2011, torture rooms and equipment were found in every building.",
        "当3月11日示威者横扫SSI总部和其他行政部门时，刑讯室和刑具随处可见。"
    ],
    [
        "The fate of the Kyoto Protocol should be a lesson to all parties involved.",
        "《京都议定书》的命运对相关各方都应该是个教训。"
    ],
    [
        "The way in which the inhabitants of this archipelago were systematically dispossessed and thrown off their land in the name of Western strategic interests is a human tragedy for which the West can and should make restitution.",
        "当年在西方战略利益的口号下，这些人被有计划地驱逐出自己的家园，整个过程堪称一场人间惨剧，而如今西方可以，也应当让他们重回故土。"
    ],
    [
        "As 2016 begins, there are clear signs of serious debt/default squalls on the horizon.",
        "随着2016年的到来，有清晰的信号表明严重的债务/违约现象正在步步逼近。"
    ],
    [
        "The rich have benefited in the short run, by getting massive tax breaks. The poor have suffered from job losses and cuts in government services.",
        "富人们借大幅减税在短期内受益，而穷人却苦于职位和政府服务的流失。"
    ],
    [
        "An assessment of Obama’s presidency must focus not just on him, but also on the Republicans’ unprecedented hostility.",
        "对奥巴马总统任期的评估不能只关注他，也要关注共和党前所未有的敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "The best long-term tool for countering extremism, however, is education.",
        "但是，打击极端主义的最佳长期工具是教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey is ruled by a mildly Islamist party that plays by the rules of democracy.",
        "遵守民主规则的温和的伊斯兰政党控制着土耳其政权。"
    ],
    [
        "The Inflation Puzzle",
        "通货膨胀之谜"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, households’ share of national income has declined considerably in the last decade, in sharp contrast to the advanced economies, where households’ share is consistently high.",
        "实际上，在过去十年中家庭收入占国民收入的比例大幅下降，与发达经济体形成鲜明对比，在那些国家家庭收入的占比一直很高。"
    ],
    [
        "It was widely assumed than Jews, whether capitalist or communist, knew no allegiance except to their own people; after 1948, that increasingly came to mean the state of Israel.",
        "一个广泛存在的观点是犹太人，不管是资本主义者还是共产主义者，绝不会忠诚于本民族以外的事物； 1948年后，“本民族”日益意味着以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "The quotas for each member country have already been agreed, so there would be no need for further complex and time-consuming negotiations.",
        "每个成员国的配额数已经形成了一致，因此不需要进一步的复杂又耗时的谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "We do no such thing, because we recognize that the costs of high-speed cars must be weighed against the benefits of a mobile society.",
        "但没人这么做，因为大家都意识到，必须在车速所引致的伤亡和汽车带来的好处之间权衡利弊。"
    ],
    [
        "When the cracks in the protection system became gaping holes, refugees voted with their feet.",
        "当保护体系的裂缝变成大洞，难民们开始用脚投票。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences of choosing this inadequate, if expedient, route are serious.",
        "而选择这一不恰当——如果只是权宜之策——路径的后果是极为严重的。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, private-sector sponsors must be given space to initiate valuable projects.",
        "在这方面，私人部门出资者必须获得发起有价值的项目的空间。"
    ],
    [
        "The moral of this story is that numbers do not tell us everything.",
        "这个故事告诉我们，数字并不会告诉我们一切。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – When I recently met Irish President Michael Higgins – sharing a platform for a speech in which he connected his newly launched “ethics initiative” to a book I co-wrote with my son, How Much is Enough?",
        "伦敦—我最近和爱尔兰总统希金斯碰了面，他在一个场合演讲时把他新提出的“伦理计划”（ethics initiative）与我和犬子合著的《多少才够？ 钱和好生活》（How Much is Enough?"
    ],
    [
        "Here is a country that has long cherished its “exception” from the normal rules of market economics, a foggy view that rejects both central planning and free markets and claims to offer a well-balanced middle ground.",
        "法国珍惜它能长期破例游离于市场经济的常规之外，模糊地保持着拒绝中央规划和自由市场的立场，并声称能够在两者之间找到一个更平衡的中立点。"
    ],
    [
        "Buying up whole enterprises triggers angry speeches in the US Congress.",
        "整体收购企业会在美国国会引发激烈的言论。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel is effectively demanding the disappearance of Palestinian identity.",
        "事实上，以色列要求的是让“巴勒斯坦”这一名字从地球上消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, we need to limit the supply of and demand for credit to what the economy is capable of producing.",
        "但是，我们需要限制信用的供给和需求，使之与荆棘的生产能力相配。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the EU that can make multi-polarity work if it plays its role positively.",
        "欧盟如果积极发挥作用就会让多极世界运转起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in 1960, the average weight of an American woman was 140 pounds, while the average weight of an American man today is 195 pounds.",
        "在1960年美国女性的平均体重是140磅/63. 5公斤，而今天美国男性的平均体重是195磅/88."
    ],
    [
        "Fact-based arguments, such as those in a recent editorial in Science magazine, should be enough to compel US leaders to change their approach.",
        "像科学杂志最近一篇社论那样基于事实的观点应该足以让美国领导人改变方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Has this changed the style, indeed, the substance of foreign policy?",
        "这是否改变了外交的风格，还是外交的实质？"
    ],
    [
        "The idea of Chinese renewal or rejuvenation was popularized by then-Premier Zhao Ziyang in the late 1980’s, and frequently promoted by Presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.",
        "20世纪80年代末时任总理赵紫阳提出了重建或复兴中国的思想，江泽民和胡锦涛两任主席将这一思想发扬光大。"
    ],
    [
        "Every UN member state signed the Paris climate agreement in 2015.",
        "所有联合国成员国都在2015年签署了巴黎气候协定。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is also true of spending cuts that have already been implemented.",
        "但已经实施的支出削减同样如此。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the latest International Monetary Fund Regional Economic Outlook (REO), the Asia-Pacific region’s GDP is projected to increase by 5.5% in 2017 and 5.4% in 2018.",
        "据最新的国际货币基金组织（IMF）地区经济展望（REO），预计2017年亚太地区GDP增长为5. 5%，2018年为5."
    ],
    [
        "The discussion about religion’s role in government and society is now out in the open.",
        "人们开始公开讨论宗教在政府和社会中的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, important questions surrounding patient privacy, technology access, reporting of incidental findings, discrimination, and counseling must be answered, so that thoughtful and forward-looking public policies can be devised.",
        "最重要的是，围绕患者隐私、技术普及性、偶然发现的报告、歧视以及咨询的重要问题必须得到回答，从而设计出考虑周详的前瞻性公共政策。"
    ],
    [
        "While he talks less about “tax reform,” he is currently communicating the message that merely raising taxes on rich people – the infamous 1% – will bring the budget and national debt under control.",
        "他倒是不再言必称“税收改革”了，其最新的观点是只提高富人——也就是那不仁的1%——的税收有助于控制预算和国民债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors worldwide are willing to pay extraordinarily high prices for, and accept extraordinarily low interest rates on, core-economy debt, for they value as an extraordinary benefit having a safe asset that they can use as collateral.",
        "全世界的投资者都愿意出极高的价格、接受极低的利率以获得核心经济体债券，因为他们把获得可用于抵押品的安全资产视为无上的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while individuals who had Islamist sympathies and condoned violence were more likely than others to become involved in homegrown terrorism, a mere 1.1% of Germany’s Muslims fell into this category.",
        "而虽然有过对伊斯兰同情情节和宽恕对暴力使用的人们比其他人更有可能卷入在本国滋生的恐怖主义中，但是只有1. 1 ％ 的德国穆斯林属于这一类人。"
    ],
    [
        "The Olam and Wilmar joint venture is, in a sense, symptomatic of the combination of assets from across Asia that can catalyze productive change in Africa.",
        "Olam和Wilmar合资公司的成立，在某种意义上来说，就是亚洲的资产对非洲经济的一种催化组合。"
    ],
    [
        "Exciting new buildings, designed by the world’s most famous architects, will make Beijing and Shanghai look like models of twenty-first century modernity.",
        "由世界最著名的建筑师设计的令人振奋的新建筑将使北京和上海抗上去就像二十一世纪现代化的模型。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has now reelected a president who understands this.",
        "美国目前连任的总统理解这一点的重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The Doha Round is an opportunity for countries to benefit from others’ reforms as well as their own.",
        "多哈回合是一个能使各个国家从别国也从自身的改革中受益的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments are essential to the establishment of security, justice, property rights, and contract enforcement, all of which are essential to a market economy.",
        "政府是安全、正义、产权和契约执行制度的关键，而所有这些要素又都是市场经济的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "It only looks that way to those who frame the choices voters make.",
        "只有为选民限定选项的人才这么想。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the global business cycle accelerates Germany’s return to the “old normal,” the power shift within Europe will become increasingly difficult to ignore.",
        "但是，随着全球商业周期加速德国回归“旧常态”，欧洲内部的实力变化将越来越难以忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "The exceptions are instructive.",
        "例外最具有说明性。"
    ],
    [
        "The law also weakened the protection of journalists' sources.",
        "该法同时削弱了对记者消息来源的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "The ballot will include dozens of competing parties, most of which will not win parliamentary seats, owing to a 2005 electoral law requiring at least 4% of the national vote to enter the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house) and 8% on a regional basis to enter the Senate.",
        "几十个竞争党派将参与选举，其中多数因2005年选举法规定至少要4%的全国选票才能进入众议院（下院）及8%的地区选票才能进入参议院而无缘赢得议会席位。"
    ],
    [
        "“There is nothing inherently optimal,” they say, about a level playing field in international finance.",
        "他们说：在平等的国际金融竞技场上，“没有什么是天生完美的”。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Nowadays, there are hazards to looking for signs of hope in the British economy.",
        "伦敦—如今，寻找英国经济的希望之光危险重重。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, the government’s policies will have a permanent – indeed, revolutionary – impact on Brazil’s economy.",
        "更重要的是，政府政策将对巴西经济产生永久——事实上，是革命性的——影响。"
    ],
    [
        "How can the US maintain global leadership if other countries see Congress constantly blocking international cooperation?",
        "如果其他国家认为美国国会总是阻挠国际合作，美国还如何保持全球领导力？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Kazakhstan is already in formal talks with the EU about human rights issues.",
        "而且，哈萨克斯坦已经与欧盟就其人权问题正式谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there is every sign that the Europeans will use Rato’s sudden announcement as an excuse to avoid a serious debate about relinquishing their privilege of always appointing the Fund’s head True the US was able to essentially blackmail the world into choosing yet another American to replace Wolfowitz, by balking at efforts to push him out peaceably.",
        "首先，所有迹象都表明欧洲人会把拉托的突然决定作为逃避就放弃其一直以来指定基金组织首脑的特权进行严肃探讨的借口。 没错，美国可以通过阻止要求沃尔福威茨和平辞职的努力，在事实上要挟世界另选一位美国人来接替沃尔福威茨的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the fight for human dignity and respect for life, as with any struggle for human rights, is set in motion and tenaciously pursued by members of civil society, by individuals more than by states.",
        "首先，争取人类尊严和对生命尊重的斗争如同任何一场人权斗争一样，受到民主社会全体成员的顽强推动，而个人为推动人权所付出的努力要远远超过国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, brokers were selling mortgages without checking whether the borrower had the means to repay.",
        "在美国，经纪人在没有调查借款人是否有能力偿还借款的情况下，就将抵押贷款销售出去了。"
    ],
    [
        "Some members of the Security Council – particularly Russia and China – are opposed to or skeptical of an imposed settlement, and few governments favor dividing up another country’s territory, however compelling the circumstances.",
        "安理会的某些成员国，特别是俄国和中国反对强加解决方案，或者对此怀疑。 基本上没有国家赞成分割另一个国家的领土，而无论形势有多么迫切。"
    ],
    [
        "For that to happen, ecological resources must come to be viewed as valuable endowments to be managed wisely.",
        "要想实现这一目标，必须明智地管理价值连城的生态系统。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, there was no appetite among the US and its allies – including my own country, and the Australian government of which I was a member – to look closely, then or since, at how Suharto’s New Order consolidated its power.",
        "结果，美国及其盟友——包括我的祖国澳大利亚，当时我也在澳大利亚政府任职——当时及此后都没有兴趣详细追查苏哈托的新秩序是如何巩固权力的。"
    ],
    [
        "Piñera’s lead and the emergence of Enríquez-Ominami are probably expressions of the same phenomenon: fatigue with – and within – the Concertación .",
        "皮涅拉的领先和Enríquez-Ominami的崛起或许是同一现象的不同表现：那就是来自基督教民主社会联盟内部，以及民众对于基督教民主社会联盟的厌倦。"
    ],
    [
        "Ending the terror of radical Islam will require ending the West’s wars for control in the Middle East.",
        "结束极端伊斯兰恐怖主义要求结束西方为控制中东而发动的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "And such limits usually work, at least for the most part.",
        "这种限制至少在大部分情况下是行得通的。"
    ],
    [
        "“Our defeat is total,” he told them.",
        "“我们遭到了完败，”他说。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the US and its allies simply don’t like the results of Arab democracy, which all too often produces governments that are nationalist, anti-Israel, Islamist, and dangerous to America’s oil interests.",
        "事实上，美国及其盟友根本不喜欢阿拉伯民主的结果——通常产生民族主义、反以色列、伊斯兰教的政府，并对美国石油利益构成威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as we have all witnessed in recent months, Arab public opinion clearly matters.",
        "正如我们近几个月来所目睹的那样，阿拉伯的公众舆论显然举足轻重。"
    ],
    [
        "Such strategies should focus on arable-land management and water conservation, among other areas.",
        "这些战略应该注重适耕土地管理和水源保护。"
    ],
    [
        "My foundation, which provides practical support to help prevent religious prejudice, conflict, and extremism, has been active in Nigeria for several years, bringing together Christian and Muslim clerics to foster mutual understanding.",
        "我的基金会为防止宗教偏见、冲突和极端主义提供实践支持，我们在尼日利亚已经活跃了多年，我们让基督教和穆斯林牧师坐在一起，增进相互理解。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States has historically been the world’s largest donor to global food security programs, but the future of this leadership role under President Donald Trump is uncertain.",
        "美国一直以来是世界最大的全球粮食安全计划捐助国，但唐纳德·特朗普总统领导下美国在这方面的领导角色是不确定的。"
    ],
    [
        "A profound link between beauty and comprehensibility is an increasingly important source of scientific progress.",
        "美和可理解性之间的意义深远的联系是科学进步日益重要的源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, this agenda should include countering terrorism and violent extremism; enhancing cyber security; limiting the proliferation of lethal autonomous-weapons systems; enforcing international humanitarian law in the context of war (an absolute priority); and developing a comprehensive approach to planetary boundaries and humanity’s ecological footprint, particularly in our oceans.",
        "在战时执行国际人道主义法（毫无争议的重点）； 并尤其在海洋问题上制定全球界限和人类生态足迹等领域的综合方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is off to an uneven start.",
        "首相安倍晋三上任之初实行的政策很不均衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Some skeptics go further, arguing that the Iraq debacle proves that prospects for democracy throughout the Arab world are dim.",
        "有些持怀疑态度的人甚至更悲观，认为伊拉克政局的崩溃证明整个阿拉伯世界实现民主的希望渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "The authoritarian model of capitalism that Rajapaksa introduced to our country, and that much of the world seems to be embracing nowadays, is not for us.",
        "拉贾帕克萨引入国内的资本主义专制模式虽然似乎在当前大行其道，但却与斯里兰卡的期望不符。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the robot receives the MRIs and provides haptic feedback, electronic highways or surgical corridors can be established before the procedure, as can “no-go” zones.",
        "机器人接收MRI，并提供触感反馈，因此电子高速公路（electronic highway，或称外科手术通路，surgical corridor）可以在手术之前建立，“禁通”区亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "These revenue losses could be offset by curtailing so-called “corporate-tax expenditures” – deductions, credits, and other special tax provisions that subsidize some economic activities while penalizing others – and broadening the corporate-tax base.",
        "此收入损失可以用所谓的“公司税支出”的减少（即税前扣减、税收豁免和其他对某些经济活动的税收补贴）以及惩罚他人（扩大公司税基）弥补。"
    ],
    [
        "If we get our priorities right, we will heed the lessons of this horror and create urban space only in environmentally sustainable ways.",
        "如果我们认识到事情的轻重缓急，就会从这次令人毛骨悚然的水灾中吸取教训，以环境上可持续的方式实现城市化。"
    ],
    [
        "Even – or especially – an aspiring president should be sensitive to this fact.",
        "即便（尤其）是极有抱负的总统，也（更）应该敏感于这一事实。"
    ],
    [
        "True, not every degree is a passport to a job.",
        "诚然，文凭并非工作的唯一敲门砖。"
    ],
    [
        "With the position having cycled, since 1971, through Western Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia – Ban Ki-moon, the current second-term secretary-general, hails from South Korea – only one UN region has yet to be represented: Eastern Europe.",
        "）1971年来秘书长职务已经在西欧、拉美、非洲和亚洲（目前正履行第二届任期的秘书长潘基文来自韩国）轮换了一遍，只有一个联合国地区尚未选出代表，那就是东欧。"
    ],
    [
        "Only after its security is assured will China free itself from complicity in North Korean brinkmanship and be better able to control the North’s behavior.",
        "只有当自身安全得到保证后中国才有可能摆脱与朝鲜唇亡齿寒的互相依赖，加强对朝鲜行为的控制力度。"
    ],
    [
        "Under current law, US corporate profits are taxed at a rate of 35% – the highest rate among OECD countries, where the average is 25%.",
        "根据现行法律，美国公司的利润将被课以35%的税——这一税率为经合组织国家（平均为25%）之最。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate is about whether these innovations will remain bottled up in a few tech-intensive sectors that employ the highest-skilled professionals and account for a relatively small share of GDP, or spread to the bulk of the economy.",
        "争论在于这些创新将继续局限于少数雇用技能最高的专业人士、只占GDP相对较小份额的技术密集型产业，还是将扩张到经济大部。"
    ],
    [
        "The tide is turning.",
        "潮流正在发生改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Six decades of ruthless repression has failed to win China acceptance even in Tibet and Xinjiang, as the Tibetan and Uighur revolts of 2008 and 2009 attested.",
        "持续60年的残酷镇压甚至都难以让西藏和新疆认同这一点，这从2008年的西藏人和2009年的维吾尔人爆乱中可以得知。"
    ],
    [
        "Its leader rails against foreigners, erects various import barriers, and pushes for low interest rates and lots of cheap credit for favored sectors.",
        "它的领导人怒“怼”外国人，树立各种进口壁垒，还为他所偏爱的行业推动低利率和各种便宜信贷。"
    ],
    [
        "An entire culture was effectively destroyed by efficient relief.",
        "当地完整的文化就在这样高效的救援之下被毁于一旦。"
    ],
    [
        "But most people doubt whether it even makes a difference, and they are probably right.",
        "但大多数人都怀疑这两者究竟是否半斤八两，这种想法可能是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, developing countries compete in similar products – consumer goods of varying levels of sophistication – so that the politics of expanded South-South trade looks even worse than the politics of North-South trade.",
        "而且，由于发展中国家在相似的产品、也就是不同加工深度的消费品上进行竞争，因此在政治上，扩大南南贸易要比扩大南北贸易看上去还要困难。"
    ],
    [
        "But this brings us back to Japan’s deeper problems.",
        "但这又把我们引回了日本更深层次的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the EU must not allow Ireland to abuse the European commons by offering Apple a deal that no other member state could.",
        "但欧盟决不允许爱尔兰与苹果公司通过一项其他成员国无法提供的交易来侵犯欧洲共同规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who support the decision argue that India’s supply chains are simply too wasteful, and that only the finance and knowhow of big, international retail chains can upgrade them.",
        "支持政府决定者指出，印度供给链浪费太大，只有大型国际零售连锁的财务实力和专业技能才能帮助印度供给链升级。"
    ],
    [
        "Some people will balk at the idea of putting a price tag on biodiversity, viewing its protection as an obvious imperative.",
        "有人会强烈反对给生物多样性贴上价格标签的做法，他们认为保护生物多样性是显而易见的当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "The producer model, which worked brilliantly for 30 years, cannot take China to the promised land of prosperity.",
        "30年来颇为有效的生产者模式不可能将中国带入繁荣的乐土。"
    ],
    [
        "The big question is whether governments are aware of the potential power of this development.",
        "大问题是政府是否认识到这一发展趋势的潜在力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Morality, however, has not been entirely on the side of the creditor.",
        "但是，道德并非完全站在债权人一边。"
    ],
    [
        "The Doha round of global free-trade talks has been abandoned, and the World Trade Organization is now languishing by the lake in Geneva, uncertain of its future.",
        "全球自由贸易谈判多哈回合已经告废，世界贸易组织现在还在寄希望于日内瓦会议，但心怀惴惴焉。"
    ],
    [
        "This rebalancing has helped to improve China’s income distribution.",
        "这一再平衡帮助改善了中国的收入分配状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Republicans (especially those who deny the legitimacy of a Clinton victory) will thus seek to frustrate her administration, lest she be able to run again in 2020 as a successful incumbent.",
        "许多共和党人（特别是那些否认克林顿胜利合法性的共和党）将因此寻求对克林顿政府从中作梗，唯恐她在2020年作为成功的在任总统再次竞选。"
    ],
    [
        "The figure above shows our calculated capital shortfalls, using the EBA stress test’s “adverse scenario” losses and the cumulative dividends these banks have distributed since 2010.",
        "下图说明了我们所计算的资本短缺情况，使用了EBA压力测试的“不利情景”损失以及这些银行自2010年以来发放的累计红利。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been revealing.",
        "这些研究颇有发现。"
    ],
    [
        "For the real Jinnah is now irrelevant in the country that reveres him as “Quaid-e-Azam,” or founder of the nation.",
        "因为，在这个把真纳尊崇为国父的国家里，真正的真纳精神已经无关紧要了。"
    ],
    [
        "Western consumers who call a local company are likely to speak to someone in India.",
        "西方消费者给当地公司打电话时，和他们对话的员工很可能正远在印度。"
    ],
    [
        "If elected, she has promised to put Sustainable Development Goal 4 – universal quality education – at the heart of UNESCO’s mission, with a special focus on Africa.",
        "她承诺如果当选的话会将可持续发展目标4——普适性的高质量教育——作为教科文组织的核心使命，并会特别关注非洲。"
    ],
    [
        "With Gaza suffering under a lengthy siege, Hamas leader Khalid Mashal said that there was no point in a new truce, since the old one had “failed to lift the siege on Gaza.”",
        "在加沙遭到长时间的封锁时，哈马斯领导人卡里德·马舍尔（Khalid Mashal）声称，因为老停火协议“没能解除对加沙的封锁”，所以没有订立新停火协议的必要。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not a question that many Pakistanis can readily answer.",
        "这个问题不是所有巴基斯坦人都能坦然回答的。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet these subtle switches at the top of the table are not the real story.",
        "这些榜首位置的细微变化并不代表真实故事。"
    ],
    [
        "That year, he used diplomacy relentlessly and skillfully to achieve a breakthrough nuclear agreement with the Soviet Union, the Limited Test Ban Treaty.",
        "这一年，他不懈地巧妙使用外交手段与苏联达成了突破性核协议——部分禁止核试验条约。"
    ],
    [
        "Rows about the short-term costs of dealing with climate change won’t make it any easier to keep markets open.",
        "就应对气候变化之短期成本所进行的争吵，并不会令各国继续讨价还价变得更为简单。"
    ],
    [
        "Lastly, the international community should vigorously pursue efforts to police tax avoidance and capital flight, both of which erode states’ revenue base.",
        "最后，国际社会应大力打击侵蚀各国税基的避税和资本外逃。"
    ],
    [
        "The main greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide.",
        "二氧化碳是主要的温室气体。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is logically flawed: even with deflation, real purchasing power would fall, and the real value of debts would rise (debt deflation), as the real depreciation occurs.",
        "但这在逻辑上是不成立的：随着实际贬值的发生，即使通缩了，实际购买力也会想将，而债务的实际价值会升高（债务通缩）。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor can any one nation stop the proliferation of dangerous weapons.",
        "单靠一个国家也无法使任何一个国家停止生产危险武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Some borrowers miss interest payments; others are unable to roll over principal.",
        "一些借款人无法偿付利息； 另一些借款人无法延期本金。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the British government is holding a public online consultation on the use of animals in circuses.",
        "现在，英国政府就马戏团使用动物的问题在网络上咨询公众。"
    ],
    [
        "There is nothing more dramatic to be done than to focus on upgrading the EU-US strategic dialogue.",
        "努力提升欧盟和美国战略对话是最为巨大的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "First, how should relations between national and common European interests be defined?",
        "首先，该如何定义国家与欧洲共同利益之间的关系？"
    ],
    [
        "With an explicit institutional mechanism in place to dictate the division of pain, there is no need to take to the streets.",
        "有了明确的制度性机制决定以何种方式分担痛苦，就没有上街游行的必要。"
    ],
    [
        "The military and hardline mullahs, who believe that Iran should produce a nuclear weapon, faced off against the bulk of the business community and reformist mullahs, led by Rouhani and former President Mohammad Khatami, who believe that it should not.",
        "军方和强硬派毛拉认为伊朗应该制造核武器，他们面对大部分商界人士和改革派毛拉的反对，后一阵营以鲁哈尼和前总统哈塔米（Mohammad Khatami）为首，他们认为伊朗不应该制造核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Such solutions worked in the 1960s, the National Front leader claims, so implementing them now would bring back prosperity.",
        "国民阵线领导人称这样的方案在二十世纪六十年代曾经有效，因此执行它们或将重现繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "So, fundamental considerations speak for deeper European integration, extending even to the creation of a single European state.",
        "因此，更深层次的欧洲一体化——甚至到建立单一欧洲国家的程度——需要基础性的考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brexit vote is no more irreversible than any other election or referendum, provided the EU is willing to adopt some modest reforms.",
        "英国退欧公投并不比其他任何选举或公投的不可逆性更强，前提是欧盟愿意推行一些温和的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s decision not to implement the unpopular reforms that would have created a strong non-oil export sector may have been bad for the economy’s long-term health, but it has allowed him to maintain widespread public support.",
        "普京决定不实施不受欢迎但能够打造坚挺的非石油出口部门的改革，这也许不利于经济的长期健康，但让他得以维持广泛的公共支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever natural abilities we have must be perfected.",
        "不管我们有哪些天生的能力，它们都是完美的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the simple truth that Europe’s leaders have yet to grasp.",
        "而这也是欧洲领导人还未理解到的简单事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Those borrowers with sound macroeconomic policies will probably retain some appeal for global financial markets; but less prudent governments might suddenly find themselves cut off.",
        "那些宏观政策可靠的借款人可能仍能对全球金融市场保持吸引力； 但不太审慎的政府将突然发现自己已被踢出了局。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they imposed harsh terms, hoping to weaken Germany permanently.",
        "相反，他们提出了苛刻的条件，希望借此永久削弱德国的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Some economists have proposed a two-track euro, with “problem” countries using a “euro-B” that floats against the “euro-A” until they abide by the economic and financial rules and earn re-entry.",
        "一些经济学家建议采取双轨制欧元，“问题”国家使用围绕“甲等欧元”浮动的“乙等欧元”，直到它们遵守经济和金融规则并获得重入资格。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, trade in Guangdong Province and Hong Kong in the first quarter of 2013 increased by 91.6% year on year.",
        "比如，广东省和香港的贸易量在2013年一季度同比增加了91. 6%。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – Following the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership by 12 Pacific Rim countries, debates about the costs and benefits of trade liberalization are intensifying.",
        "斯坦福—12个环太平洋国家完成了跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）谈判，随之而来的是日益激烈的贸易自由化利弊之辩。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed’s credibility is what underpins the US dollar’s dominance in international finance.",
        "美联储的信誉也是美元国际金融主导地位的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "Russians saw John Paul’s Polish nationality as linking him to a long history of perceived oppression of Russian Orthodoxy.",
        "在俄罗斯人眼里，约翰﹒保罗的波兰国籍一直把教皇与俄罗斯东正教长年来受压迫的历史联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time that everyone contributed their fair share to the common good.",
        "现在是每个人都要为共同利益承担公平责任的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is that Syria has a substantial air-defense system, which would have to be suppressed by a bombing campaign – causing significant civilian casualties and risking the loss of aircraft and crews.",
        "原因之一是叙利亚的防空力量要强得多，必须通过轰炸行动才能压制，而轰炸可能会造成大量平民伤亡，飞机和飞行员也有可能遭受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, maintaining open labor markets in the European Union requires people to regard themselves and their new neighbors as European.",
        "比如，保持欧盟内部劳动力市场开放需要人们将自己和新邻居视为欧洲人。"
    ],
    [
        "In this new setting, no privileges or liberties would protect you if you failed to find a counterparty in the market, or ran afoul of the tyranny of the majority, or simply sought some form of direction as you tried to decide who you were supposed to be.",
        "在这个新的设定中，如果你无法在市场上找到对手方，或站在了多数人的暴政的对立面，或只是在你试图决定应该成为什么样的人时寻求某种形式的方向，没有特权或自由能保护你。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU pursues long-term geo-economics, whereas the Kremlin plays short-term hardball geopolitics.",
        "欧盟从长期地缘经济学着眼，而克里姆林宫玩的是短期强硬地缘政治。"
    ],
    [
        "This distinction is dubious.",
        "这种区分的界限非常模糊。"
    ],
    [
        "No one, because they didn’t exist.",
        "没有人，因为它们根本不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "What makes a victory authentic?",
        "什么才能造就真正的胜利？"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that this is a bad thing, because they prefer queuing to the price system and fear that higher prices will compromise future audiences by excluding young people.",
        "有人认为这是件坏事，因为他们更倾向于在低票价体系下让更多的人都能欣赏表演。 他们还担心更高的票价会由于将年轻人拒之门外而影响未来观众群体的成长。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Moscow’s budget has lost about a quarter of its revenues.",
        "事实上，莫斯科的预算已经失去了四分之一的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from suggesting a policy of laissez faire, this question addresses the pressing problem of prioritization head on.",
        "这个问题提出了当下十分紧迫的优先化问题，而不是暗示着不干涉政策。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Self-Inflicted Decline",
        "美国自作自受的衰退"
    ],
    [
        "As it develops and interacts with social, political, and technological forces, it creates elation alongside distress.",
        "随着它与社会、政治和技术力量互动，它将创造出欢乐和悲伤。"
    ],
    [
        "The scary story that is being amplified now concerns the developing world, notably China and India, where rapid economic growth - and no restrictions on emissions under the Kyoto Protocol - are seen as creating insatiable demands for oil.",
        "现时正被夸大的一个耸人传闻事关发展中国家，特别是经济飞速发展的中国和印度。 由于没有加入《京都议定书》对废气排放进行限制，两国都被看作是正在引起对石油的不可满足的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The country is now riveted on the fate of ordinary citizens like sales assistant Lina Joy and former religious teacher Kamariah Ali, who are trying to change their religious affiliation through the legal system.",
        "该国现在都在关注像销售助理卓伊和前宗教教员阿里等普通公民的命运。 他们正在试图通过法律体系改变其宗教归属。"
    ],
    [
        "Addressing the unemployment crisis, which has been particularly burdensome for the young, will require not only a strong recovery, but also a renewed focus on the development of skills.",
        "解决失业危机——年轻人的就业包袱尤其沉重——不但需要强劲的复苏，还需要关注新技能的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Investment Bank would be a good vehicle – in addition to new project bonds – to boost spending on major infrastructure projects (for example, in the energy sector).",
        "欧洲投资银行是很好的平台，可以（辅之以新的项目债券）刺激重大基础设施项目的支出（比如能源部门）。"
    ],
    [
        "But a wholesale purchase of government bonds does not raise similar concerns.",
        "但批量采购各国政府债券则不会产生类似的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Bureaucrats decided whether we could go abroad for conferences.",
        "官僚决定着我们是否可以出国参加会议。"
    ],
    [
        "The economist Maria Petrova argues that media capture can fuel inequality, particularly if the rich are doing the capturing (rather than politicians, who can often be voted out of office).",
        "经济学家玛利亚·彼得洛娃（Maria Petrova）指出，媒体捕获可能主张不平等性，特别是当媒体被富人捕获的时候（被政客捕获反而要更好一些，因为他们常常可以通过选举赶下台）。"
    ],
    [
        "At his afternoon briefing, White House press secretary Jay Carney confirmed that Obama was indeed unharmed.",
        "白宫新闻秘书杰伊·卡尼在下午举行的发布会上证实奥巴马其实安然无恙。"
    ],
    [
        "Are they missing the only opportunity we have to discipline the banks and force them to compete for responsible risk-taking?",
        "他们丧失了约束银行、迫使他们争相合理承担风险的机会了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, no CEO of a large corporation, with hundreds of thousands of employees, can know everything that goes on inside the company he or she runs.",
        "显然，大公司的首席执行官手下有成百上千名雇员，他们不可能了解自己管理的公司内部发生的一切状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty years on, we have only three failing grades to show for our efforts.",
        "二十年来，我们付出的努力只换来三项不及格的成绩。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, this will deliver a macroeconomic shock of historic proportions and profoundly change the Middle East.",
        "果真如此的话，这将带来历史级别的宏观经济冲击，深刻地改变中东。"
    ],
    [
        "That said, Iran must still bring all of these programs together, and that cannot happen undetected.",
        "尽管如此，伊朗仍然必须把所有这些进展组合在一起，而这样做就不可能不被发现。"
    ],
    [
        "In advanced economies, traditional lenders are now subject to such a mass of regulation that they have had to withdraw from foreign activities.",
        "在发达经济体，传统贷款人受制于各种监管，不得不收缩海外业务。"
    ],
    [
        "It will integrate each citizen of Rwanda into global networks of learning.",
        "它将让所有卢旺达公民融入全球学习网络。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of the day, the long-term approach is likely to include a rules-based system, an incentives system, and investments in technology change.",
        "最后，这一长期计划应该包括一个标准式系统、一个激励体系以及技术改革所需的投资资金。"
    ],
    [
        "The role of the Israeli occupation forces will thus be crucial in determining the success of Abbas’s daunting mission.",
        "阿巴斯肩负令人畏惧的任务，它成功的关键在于以色列占领军队扮演的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "As we have seen with immunization, this is the kind of partnership that is needed to take the SDGs from rhetoric to reality.",
        "免疫方面的经验表明，这一类型的合作是让SDG从口头承诺变为现实的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "We must not let the industry continue to obstruct climate policy.",
        "我们决不能容许业界继续阻挠气候政策。"
    ],
    [
        "If creating jobs and boosting incomes can’t get you re-elected, what can?",
        "如果创造就业机会和提高收入都不能让你重新当选，那什么才能？"
    ],
    [
        "But the practice of electoral politics also gives us reason for optimism.",
        "但是选举政治的实现还是给了我们乐观的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite all that had gone before, the public and their representatives were stunned to learn that bankers had systematically undermined the foundations of a global market benchmark – one with London in its name to boot – for personal gain.",
        "尽管公众及其民意代表们早已见多识广，但银行家们为了一己私利而有计划有步骤地腐蚀这项全球市场基准指标——还是以伦敦来命名首发——存在基础的行为还是让前者大为震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "This resulted in a three-phase emulsion of oil, gas, and water that also contained sand and dirt particles.",
        "这导致油、气及混有沙土微粒海水的三重乳化现象。"
    ],
    [
        "We studied animals in the nearly 2,200-square-kilometer (850 square miles) sector of the exclusion zone in Belarus called the “Polessye State Radioecological Reserve.”",
        "我们针对方圆2，200平方公里（合850平方英里）的白俄罗斯“波萊谢国家放射生态保护”隔离区的栖息动物进行了研究。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, annual GDP growth has fallen by five percentage points since 2010.",
        "事实上，2010年以来，印度年GDP增长率降低了5个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "The bridal videos that I was shown, with the sensuous dancing that the bride learns as part of what makes her a wonderful wife, and which she proudly displays for her bridegroom, suggested that sensuality was not alien to Muslim women. Rather, pleasure and sexuality, both male and female, should not be displayed promiscuously – and possibly destructively – for all to see.",
        "人们给我看的婚礼录像中，新娘自豪地为新郎表演美轮美奂的舞蹈，这是成为一个优秀妻子必学的一部分，这都说明了穆斯林妇女并非不懂感官愉悦，而是穆斯林认为，愉悦和性，无论男女，都不应该不分场合和对象地展现给所有人看，不然，这可能造成破坏性的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – As Olympic mania swept the world in recent weeks, it transported the host country, Great Britain, to a rare display of public exultation.",
        "伦敦—最近几周，随着奥运狂热席卷全世界，东道国英国被罕见地推向了公众狂欢的风口浪尖。"
    ],
    [
        "In Spain, most immigrants until recently came from culturally similar Latin American countries.",
        "而在西班牙，直到不久前多数移民还来自文化相似的拉美国家。"
    ],
    [
        "And if the liquidation rate for creditors’ common claims is defined as no lower than that at the time the draft restructuring plan was submitted for approval, compensation must be considered in the event that payment is delayed.",
        "而如果债权人一般要求的清盘赔偿率被界定为不低于重组计划初稿提交审批时的赔偿率的话，那么在支付延迟的情况下，就要考虑给予赔偿金了。"
    ],
    [
        "India controlled malaria after the 1960’s, while Africa did not, one reason being that Africa’s malaria-bearing mosquitoes are particularly adept at transmitting the disease.",
        "在1960年代以后，印度就控制了疟疾，而非洲却没有，其中很重要的一个原因就是非洲携带疟原虫的蚊子传播这种疾病的能力极强。"
    ],
    [
        "Their coalition government enjoys a comfortable parliamentary majority; nor does the political arithmetic imply a viable parliamentary alternative.",
        "他们的联合政府在议会中占据较大的多数席位。 政治算术也并不表明可以有能够存活下来的其他的议会组成选择。"
    ],
    [
        "To Google’s credit, if you Google that sentence, you can find reference to a debate on that claim that I took part in recently.",
        "如果你用谷歌搜索这句话，你可以找到人们对这一说法的争论（这对谷歌来说是加分的），而我最近也参加了这场辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "With the rise of the Islamic State, another term has been refashioned for inclusion in the lexicon of extremist violence: hijra.",
        "随着伊斯兰国的崛起，极端主义暴力辞典中又增加了一个新词：迁徙。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the US was not always so strict.",
        "当然，美国也不是永远如此严格。"
    ],
    [
        "Others have been quick to point out that America’s supposed growth miracle probably could not have happened without the capital provided by surplus countries.",
        "其他国家很快便指出，要不是盈余国提供的资本，美国所谓的增长奇迹可能根本不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "And, although South Korea has slipped to 80th place in the IPU’s most recent rankings, the fall reflects subsequent growth in the proportion of female legislators in other countries.",
        "此外，尽管如今韩国在国际议会联盟女性议员比例排名中下滑到了第80位，但这一下滑反映的是其他国家女性立法者比例的剧增。"
    ],
    [
        "The history that they learn about their new home illustrates how the US fulfills (or falls short of) those ideals, whereas an immigrant schoolchild in Europe learns less about ideals and more about a monarchical lineage, a set of historical events, and a roster of “great men.”",
        "他们所学习到的有关新的家园的历史表明了美国是如何实现(或者没有实现) 这些理想的，而在欧洲的移民子弟学到的并非是理想，而是帝王血统、一整套历史事件以及一大堆所谓伟人。"
    ],
    [
        "Man or Monster?",
        "人魔之间"
    ],
    [
        "The advantages for trade and investment - more than 450 million people in 25 countries - are self-evident.",
        "贸易和投资的优势—25个国家超过4. 5亿人口—是不言自明的。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN Watercourses Convention must not become just another ignored international agreement, filed away in a drawer.",
        "联合国水道公约决不能成为另一个被束之高阁的国际协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, in this case the effort has had some dangerous unintended consequences.",
        "不幸的是，这一次，上述工作已经产生了某些意想不到的危险后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe some Europeans and Japanese are upset that they have consistently earned such poor returns on their US investments.",
        "或许一些欧洲人和日本人对其在美国投资的持续低回报感到沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "The hope is that such realistic and pragmatic accommodations will be extended to Iraqis who are fighting under the banner of a nationalist and anti-occupation agenda.",
        "美国所希望的是，这种现实主义的安抚可以延伸到那些在民族主义和反对占领的旗帜下作战的伊拉克人。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors who relied on his insights lost a lot of money.",
        "听信他的的洞见的投资者损失惨重。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the most important precedents is the debacle of Latin American debt almost 30 years ago.",
        "最重要的前车之鉴是差不多30年前的拉美债务危机。"
    ],
    [
        "So what should we do?",
        "如此进退维谷之际，我们应当怎么做？"
    ],
    [
        "The first option is to defend the wages of the low skilled through minimum-wage laws or paying social replacement incomes which imply minimum wage demands against the private economy.",
        "第一个选择就是通过最低工资法律或者支付社会安置收入来维护低技能者的收入，这就意味着要求私营部门支付最低工资。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, China has a very high saving rate – above 45% over the last decade, much higher than in the advanced economies – which enables it to sustain higher debt levels.",
        "首先，中国有非常高的储蓄率——在过去十年中超过45%，远远高于发达经济体——这使得它能够维持较高的债务水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The results have been devastating for the Syrian people.",
        "结果是叙利亚人民都灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Increased spending on infrastructure by governments, to boost investment and growth directly, is more to the point.",
        "政府增加基础设施支出从而直接提振投资和增长才是正途。"
    ],
    [
        "And the common monetary policy that all are being forced to pursue is intensifying deflationary pressures in the weaker countries, while increasing inflationary pressures in Germany.",
        "而被迫采取的共同货币政策加剧了疲软国的通缩压力，同时也增加了德国的通胀压力。"
    ],
    [
        "I expected that many men of that younger generation would also have strong reactions, given how many of them are trying to figure out how to be with their children, support their wives’ careers, and pursue their own plans.",
        "我还预料年青一代的许多男性也会有激烈的反应，因为他们当中有不少在家带孩子、支持老婆的事业，同时追求自己的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Amid the current protests, however, the West has an opportunity to push Iran to suspend its regional ambitions and focus on its desperate domestic situation.",
        "但在当前的示威潮中，西方有机会促使伊朗收起地区野心，专注于令人绝望的国内局势。"
    ],
    [
        "But while Germany has managed to assert its economic dominance across the region, it has also become more dependent on its increasingly populist eastern neighbors.",
        "但是，在德国成为欧盟经济霸主的同时，也变得越来越依赖其民粹主义的东方邻居。"
    ],
    [
        "This, unfortunately, is what has been lost in the debate about Europe of late: However loud and aggressive the anti-austerity movement becomes, there still will be no simple Keynesian cure for the single currency’s debt and growth woes.",
        "但不幸的是，近来关于欧洲的争论中正是缺乏这一点：不管反紧缩运动变得多么声势浩大，凯恩斯主义都不可能是解决单一货币债务和经济增长灾难的灵丹妙药。"
    ],
    [
        "Some in France – and not just the left – want to change this.",
        "法国有些势力¾不仅限于左派¾希望加以改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, her life is much worse than before, because medical complications following the operation make it difficult for her to work.",
        "今天她的生活比过去困难得多，因为术后并发症令她无法出去工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider also the credit markets.",
        "再想想信贷市场。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Green-Energy Revolution",
        "中国的绿色能源革命"
    ],
    [
        "In sum, the national government will lack both the authority and the means to govern Iraq.",
        "总之，国家政府将既没有权威也没有能力来统治伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet today too much power is agglomerated in Washington to be contained successfully within a purely national constitutional structure.",
        "可是今天华盛顿聚集了太多的力量，无法用纯粹的国家宪法结构来加以遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, no one has any idea of the consequences, both for the UK in the global trading system, or the effect on domestic political stability.",
        "事实上，没人对后果有任何了解，不管是对全球贸易体系中的英国，还是对国内政治稳定的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to September 2008, there was some doubt as to whether large non-bank financial firms would be regarded as too big to fail.",
        "在2008年9月之前，还有人质疑大型非银行金融企业是否能达到太大而不能倒的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Notably, price growth turned positive last month, suggesting that the threat of deflation has been eliminated.",
        "值得关注的是，价格增长已在上个月由负转正，标明通缩威胁已经消除。"
    ],
    [
        "I was so desperate to find my son that I did not care about myself,” recounted Sánchez’s mother.",
        "我绝望地想要找到我的儿子，根本顾不上考虑自己的安危，”桑切斯的母亲回忆说。"
    ],
    [
        "But when states behave badly enough for long enough, loud megaphones can also be in order.",
        "但当一国在相当长的时间里一直行为相当不当，也可以应该使用扩音喇叭。"
    ],
    [
        "They add that populist approaches “do ultimately fail,” not because conservative economics is better, but as “the result of unsustainable policies.”",
        "”他们补充说民粹主义策略“最终会失败”，但这不是因为保守经济学更好，而是“民粹主义政策不可持续。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "They were able to place their own sympathizers in the senior ranks vacated by the military officers targeted by their sham trials.",
        "他们可以通过虚假审判清理一批高级军官，并用自己的同情者取而代之。"
    ],
    [
        "In the usual style of the Middle East, disappointed Sunni leaders, unhappy with the constitution, now threaten violence.",
        "按照中东的惯例，失望的逊尼派领袖由于对宪法不满，现在发出了暴力威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "MELBOURNE – Two new movies released this month – one a science-fiction blockbuster, the other a revealing documentary – raise the issue of our relations with our closest non-human relatives, the great apes. Both dramatize insights and lessons that should not be ignored.",
        "发自墨尔本——本月上线的两部电影——一部是科幻大片，另一部则是纪录片——都涉及到大猩猩这种与我们人类亲缘最近的灵长类动物，并用戏剧手段将某些不应被忽视的感悟和教训昭示在我们面前。"
    ],
    [
        "If the European Union has done one thing, it is to make war between France and Germany unthinkable.",
        "如果说欧盟曾取得过任何成就，那就是它消除了德法之间爆发战争的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Assad’s Alawites could control territory in the West, running from Latakia in the north to Damascus in the south, and an autonomous Syrian-Kurdish region could be established in the northeast, with the rest of the country being left to the Sunni opposition.",
        "阿萨德的阿拉维派可以控制从北部的拉塔基亚到南部的大马士革一线的西部地区，同时在东北部成立一个叙利亚-库尔德自治地区，其余地界则留给逊尼派反对者们。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, if the stimulus succeeds and leads to an early recovery, the additional income gained may more than offset the increase in debt.",
        "而且，如果经济刺激成功并且促成早期复苏，由于得到的额外收入或许会抵消债务增加。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite well-intentioned statements and narrow gestures, China’s new leadership has yet to establish a concrete, bold reform plan capable of resolving the economy’s deep-rooted problems.",
        "但与此同时，虽然发表了充满良好意愿的声明以及相对明确的姿态，中国的新领导层仍未订立一个切实明确，足以解决当前经济中存在的深层次问题的改革计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The events that triggered the 2008 global financial crisis, together with the subsequent scandals that have emerged – from the rigging of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) to sanctions-busting and money-laundering – amount to a catalog of cultural failures within our financial institutions.",
        "引发2008年全球金融危机的事件，以及其浮出水面的一系列丑闻——从操纵伦敦银行间拆放利率（LIBOR）到制裁破坏和洗钱——都是我们金融机构内部的文化失败。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also supplemented by an increasingly sophisticated system of manipulation and spin.",
        "它还得到越发精密的控制制度辅助。"
    ],
    [
        "But who, exactly, is responsible for the rescue operation?",
        "但问题是，究竟谁才能承担起拯救我们的重任呢？"
    ],
    [
        "And yet legal change was not central in Brazil’s success.",
        "然而，法律改革不是巴西成功的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the Brexit debate in Britain has been almost entirely emotional, focusing on the historical greatness of Britain, the horrors of foreign tyrannies, or, conversely, fears of what might happen if the status quo were to be upset.",
        "迄今为止，英国的退欧辩论几乎完全基于感性，滔滔不绝地谈论英国在历史上如何伟大、外国暴政多么恐怖，或者反过来，关于打破现状所引发的担忧情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans are completely unprepared to defend themselves, owing to inertia, complacency, and lassitude.",
        "而拜惰性、自满和倦怠所赐，欧洲人完全没有做好自己捍卫自己的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Skeptics can plausibly argue that the presumed aggressor never planned to attack, or canceled an assault for other reasons.",
        "那些威慑的怀疑论者可以振振有词地声称假想中的侵略者从来没有计划发动攻击，或因其他原因而取消了攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "To address cases like this, IMF staff has suggested “re-profiling” rather than restructuring the debt.",
        "为了解决这一问题，IMF建议“重新规划”（re-profiling）债务而不是重组债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Permanent tax cuts and those on marginal rates have proved more likely to increase growth than spending increases or temporary, infra-marginal tax rebates; successful fiscal consolidations have emphasized spending cuts over tax hikes by a ratio of five or six to one; and spending cuts have been less likely than tax increases to cause recessions in OECD countries.",
        "成功的财政整合更强调支出削减，其重要性五倍或六倍于增税； 在经合组织国家，支出削减导致衰退的可能性比增税更小。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest is not so small, “I guarantee you.”",
        "其余部分可没那么小，“我向你保证。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Through his visit to Jerusalem, Sadat made more ordinary the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict.",
        "通过他对耶路撒冷的访问，萨达特把阿拉伯与以色列冲突的性质定性为较为常见的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Strong productivity growth is an important policy goal.",
        "强劲的生产率增长是重要的政策目标之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that certain \"social rights\" have made their way into some national constitutions on the Continent is no reason to impose them, as the present draft does, on the entire Union.",
        "像现行的草案那样，因为某些\"社会权利\"被写入了欧洲大陆一些国家的宪法就要将其推行到整个欧盟的做法是不合适的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Energy Charter, which emphasizes market access and transparency, is a laudable effort but it is not sufficient for those moments of crisis; our markets are not yet well enough equipped to deal with event-driven disruptions.",
        "强调市场准入和透明度的《能源宪章》固然值得喝彩，但在危机到来时却还远远不够，我们的市场还没有成熟到可以自由地应对由特定事件所引发的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Welcome to the new Middle East, characterized no longer by the Arab-Israeli conflict, but by an Arab nationalist-Islamist conflict.",
        "欢迎来到新中东，它再也不是以阿拉伯－以色列冲突为特征了，而是以阿拉伯民族主义－伊斯兰主义冲突为特征了。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Press Freedom is Good Business",
        "为何新闻自由是好事"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a fundamental structural overhaul.",
        "巴黎—在金融危机的早期阶段，一个流行的观点是美国监管系统需要从根本上进行结构修正。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1990 to 2015, Albania reduced its maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 29.3 to 9.6.",
        "1999—2015年间，阿尔巴尼亚分娩死亡率从每100,000例分娩死亡29. 3人下降到9."
    ],
    [
        "Fretilin at first sought to fight the decision through non-violent means.",
        "Fretilin起初试图以非暴力方式反击这一决定。"
    ],
    [
        "This new model moves beyond the mantra of “public-private partnership.”",
        "这一新模式超越了“公私合作”的魔咒。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2002, many efforts have been made to improve women’s lives in Afghanistan.",
        "自2002年以来，各界在改善阿富汗妇女待遇方面作出了许多努力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in recent years, there has been a notable shift toward diversification, with some major urban centers, like Mumbai and Bangalore, experiencing the largest and fastest shifts away from specialization.",
        "但近年来却朝多元化发生了显著的转变，孟买和班加罗尔等某些主要城市中心正在以最快的速度和最大的规模远离专业化。"
    ],
    [
        "A Tribute to Evil",
        "向罪恶献贡"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the public has been outraged by lurid accusations concerning the Indian Premier League (IPL) – bribes for bad play, owners betting on games, and players seduced by starlets and call girls.",
        "让公众怒不可遏的是关于印度超级联赛（IPL）的耸人听闻的指控——贿赂比赛、球队老板赌球、球手被三版女郎引诱。"
    ],
    [
        "Military overreach has predictably led to nervousness about using military power, and others’ knowledge of this threatens to weaken America’s security as well.",
        "不难预料，穷兵黩武导致了人们对武力使用的担心，而让其他人知道这一点将对美国安全形势造成进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not somewhere the UK should want to go.",
        "这绝非英国应该追求的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "In the future, if we discover that some other product causes health problems (think of asbestos), rather than facing lawsuits for the costs imposed on us, the manufacturer could sue governments for restraining them from killing more people.",
        "在未来，如果我们发现其他某些产品导致健康问题（比如石棉），制造商将不会面对关于我们所受损失的诉讼，反而可以起诉政府阻止它们杀害更多的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, overall support for the EU stands at 57%, and the share of people unhappy with it has dropped to 15%.",
        "今天，对欧盟的总体支持率达到57%，而表示不满的人的比例降到了15%。"
    ],
    [
        "As it did during Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004, Europe needs to show that it stands for democracy, not merely for stability.",
        "就像2004年乌克兰橙色革命时一样，欧洲需要明确表示出对民主、而不只是稳定的全力支持。"
    ],
    [
        "No statesman has emerged because the crisis runs deeper.",
        "没有政治家出头是因为这个危机更深了。"
    ],
    [
        "In both of his major public appearances in December, Putin referred simply to the “current situation.”",
        "在12月的两次重要公共场合中，普京只是轻描淡写地用了“当前局面”的字眼。"
    ],
    [
        "While Yar’Adua could use the goodwill that he has built up over the past year to win by an even larger margin, the 90-day election campaign would almost certainly trigger civil unrest, and Nigeria’s leadership would be too busy navigating domestic political rivalries to help stabilize conflicts elsewhere in Africa.",
        "尽管亚拉杜瓦可以利用在过去一年时间里建立起来的亲善来赢得更大的胜利，但是为期90天的竞选活动几乎可能会引发民间动乱，而且尼日利亚领导人将会忙于在国内政治斗争中辗转而无瑕帮助稳定非洲其他地区的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "ATHENS – Europe’s crisis is poised to enter its most dangerous phase.",
        "发自雅典——欧洲的危机正准备进入一个最危险的阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, we must make clear that Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty applies to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland – all members of the military alliance that the US still leads.",
        "具体来讲，我们必须明确北大西洋公约的第5条适用于立陶宛、拉脱维亚、爱沙尼亚和波兰——它们都是美国依然领导的军事联盟成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "Daughters, who live with their in-laws after they marry, are viewed as amanat – someone else’s property.",
        "而女儿婚后只能与公婆同住，因此被视为别人的财富（amanat）。"
    ],
    [
        "The basic problem is that the country’s super-generous welfare state (public spending amounts to about 57% of GDP in 2010, compared to 51% in the United Kingdom and 48% in Germany) stifles the growth needed for the euro to remain viable.",
        "基本问题是，法国极其慷慨的福利国家制度（2010年公共支出占GDP的57%左右，英国为51%，德国为48%）扼杀了维持欧元所需要的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Both of these mental/political blocks are threatening the European project in equal measure.",
        "威胁欧洲工程的思想/政治阻力同样巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Other imperatives include shrinking the budget deficit, removing internal barriers to trade, and encouraging private investment.",
        "其他当务之急包括缩减预算赤字、取消内部贸易壁垒、鼓励私人投资等。"
    ],
    [
        "But the truth is that the top-down approach is already being discarded.",
        "但事实是自上而下的方法已经被抛弃。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, many of the underlying issues that should shape the referendum’s outcome are still subject to a high degree of uncertainty.",
        "事实上，许多可能决定公决结果的基础问题仍然面临高度不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "But above all, try something.”",
        "但用尽一切方法才是最核心的内容。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "For this far-right fringe, gold is the only hedge against the risk posed by the government’s conspiracy to expropriate private wealth.",
        "对于这些极右派别来说，黄金是唯一能抵御政府没收私人财产阴谋的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "During the legislative debate, Deputy Veronica Perez Rojas denounced surrogacy as a “new form of exploitation of women and trafficking.”",
        "在立法辩论中，代表维罗尼卡·佩雷斯·罗哈斯谴责代孕为“剥削妇女和贩卖人口的一种新形式。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "As in Japan, such measures would enhance long-run fiscal sustainability without weakening demand at a time when the economy has not yet fully recovered from the Great Recession.",
        "在日本，这些措施能提高长期财政可持续性且不会在经济尚未完全从大萧条中恢复过来的时候削弱需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Before moving to the United States, she was forced out of her apartment in The Hague by complaining neighbors, and almost deprived of her passport.",
        "她在移居美国之前，由于邻居的抱怨被赶出了其在海牙的公寓，又几乎被剥夺护照。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth is unmistakable: Brazil’s financial markets have expanded robustly, with stock-market capitalization rising from 35% of GDP in 2000 to 74% in 2010.",
        "经济增长是硬道理：巴西的金融市场在蓬勃地壮大，从2000年股票市场资本占全国GDP总额的35%上涨至2010年占全国GDP总额的74%。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election surprised most of the world.",
        "伦敦—特朗普在美国总统大选中胜出震惊了全世界大部分人。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, however, her point is that we need the FSOC to be able to do its job – to look for and assess all kinds of potential systemic risks.",
        "但是，更广泛地说，她提出的要点正是我们需要FSOC能做到的——寻找并评估所有潜在系统风险。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of GDP growth, employment, or innovation, other EU countries, on average, lag behind the UK (and, to an even greater extent, the United States).",
        "用GDP增长、就业或创新等标准衡量，平均而言欧盟国家落后于英国（并且落后于美国更甚）。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, after Jean-Claude Juncker took over as President of the European Commission in 2014, the EU’s executive branch began to bill itself as a Brussels-based institution capable of leading the way toward what Juncker called in his 2015 State of the Union speech “more Union in our Union.”",
        "尤其是在让-保罗·容克（Jean-Claude Juncker）在2014年接任欧盟委员会主席后，欧盟的执行机构开始将自身认定为一个总部位于布鲁塞尔且有能力带领各国向着容克在2015年欧盟国情咨文讲话中所谓“更联合的联盟”迈进的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, genes, even entire organisms, can already move virtually – squishy and biological at each end, but nothing more than a series of ones and zeros while en route.",
        "事实上，基因，甚至完整的生命体，已经可以虚拟移动——在每个移动端都是黏糊糊的生物质，但在移动途中只是一连串1和0。"
    ],
    [
        "Pernicious talk that Arabs do not want democracy has been exposed as the big lie it is.",
        "阿拉伯人不需要民主的弥天大谎已经被彻底揭露。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now necessary to show that democracy is the best path for Palestinians to attain their national goals.",
        "现在有必要表明，民主是巴勒斯坦人获得其民族目标的最佳途径。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the links were obvious, but had been given insufficient attention.",
        "许多事物之间的关联显而易见，但却很少有人注意到。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, because we have such limited data, we cannot know the extent to which any of these factors contribute to poor health outcomes and avoidable deaths in developing countries.",
        "不幸的是，由于我们的数据过于有限，无从知道这些因素对发展中国家拙劣的健康结果和可避免的死亡的影响程度有多大。"
    ],
    [
        "He also initiated the now common practice of measuring and comparing political and economic freedom across countries, helping to shape opinion in countries that are viewed as limiting freedom.",
        "他还开启了现在已经平常的衡量比较国家间政治和经济自由的做法，帮助在被视为限制自由的国家形成观念。"
    ],
    [
        "When Bush declared war on terror, he used that war to invade Iraq.",
        "当布什宣布开始反恐战争的时候，他利用了这场战争来侵略伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, there may have been some bumps along the way, but they have been overcome quickly.",
        "没错，其间可能会遇到坎坷，但往往都能够很快克服。"
    ],
    [
        "So what should US policymakers do?",
        "那么，美国决策者应该怎样做？"
    ],
    [
        "· Closer judicial cooperation – again aimed at encouraging mobility – in civil matters with cross-border implications, specifically concerning contracts and family law.",
        "· 具有跨国效应的民法问题上加强法律合作，特别是合同法和家庭法方面，其目的也是为了鼓励流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "The American consumer was, in effect, ground zero in this horrific crisis.",
        "美国消费者处在这次危机的暴风眼。"
    ],
    [
        "Rigorous historical enquiry can save us from blindness about who we are and what we can do.",
        "对历史进行深入的探究可以使我们不致对我们是谁以及我们能做什么茫然不解。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, whether owing to “neo-Ottomanism” or just old-fashioned nasty governance under a thin-skinned autocrat (President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan) with Islamist tendencies, Turkey is on many watch lists.",
        "今天，无论是因为“新奥特曼主义”抑或仅仅是有伊斯兰倾向的小气的独裁者老掉牙的令人讨厌的治理（总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安），土耳其已经进入到不止一份观察名单。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 1990’s, however, Anwar increased his influence within the party, unsettling many of the old guard.",
        "然而20世纪90年代期间，安瓦尔扩大了自己在党内的影响，有些老兵也因此蠢蠢欲动。"
    ],
    [
        "If developments continue at this pace, the revolutionary zeal we see among British politicians may burn itself out before “hard Brexit” is consummated.",
        "如果形势继续按照这个节奏发展下去，我们在英国政客身上所看到的革命热情将在“硬退欧”完成之前反噬其身。"
    ],
    [
        "Concentration in well-defined deposit and loan markets is linked with competitive pressure.",
        "界定清晰的存贷款市场的集中度与竞争压力有关。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that there are three relatively simple interventions that could make a big difference.",
        "好消息是有三种相对简单的干预方法能够带来巨大的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "There is not even any money being spent on equipping hospitals in Peshawar and the rest of Pakistan with adequate blood banks and trauma units, despite the regular inflow of bombing victims.",
        "甚至没有任何财政支出被用于为白沙瓦以及巴基斯坦其他地区的医院配备充足的血库与创伤科室，哪怕经常有爆炸袭击的受害者被送入医院。"
    ],
    [
        "This dissension may well be compounded by two additional factors.",
        "利比亚的纠纷倾轧还受到两大附加因素的强化。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – Hardly a day goes by without a settlement between a bank and a US government agency or regulator.",
        "发自芝加哥——每天都有银行和美国政府机构或监管机构进行清偿结算。 最近的一个纠纷和解发生在美国银行和政府支持的抵押贷款机构房利美（Fannie Mae）之间，它包括：现金共计35."
    ],
    [
        "As a result, outsize gains in asset markets – and the related risks of new bubbles – are needed to make a meaningful difference for the real economy.",
        "因此只有在资产市场上取得巨额收益——因此也伴随着产生新泡沫的风险——才能对实体经济产生足够大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Congress did not give the Fed a mandate to pursue that goal.",
        "国会并未授权美联储追求这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Since coming to office, Obamahas pursued an Afghan strategy that can be summed up in three words: surge, bribe, and run.",
        "自执政以来，奥巴马追求的阿富汗战略可以概括为三个词：增兵、贿赂、撤离。"
    ],
    [
        "Scaling up infrastructure investment also promises to spur private investment in other sectors.",
        "扩大基础设施投资还能刺激其他部门的私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Because Asian governments have tended to support their modern, tradable sectors to a greater extent, most Asian countries have managed to avoid this malady, and have done much better as a result.",
        "相必之下，由于亚洲各国政府更倾向于为现代化贸易部门的扩张提供支持，因此大多数亚洲国家都避免了拉美的问题，并取得了更可观的增长成果。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s “Connect Central Asia policy,” and its efforts to build a North-South Transit Corridor, would benefit development in Central Asia, a region of major concern to China, because it abuts the restless Chinese province of Xinjiang.",
        "印度的“联系中亚政策”（Connect Central Asia policy）以及建设南北交通走（North-South Transit Corridor）廊的努力将有助于中亚的发展，而中亚因为毗邻躁动不安的新疆，也是中国的一个重大关切点。"
    ],
    [
        "It is past time for the world to recognize Vladimir Putin for what he is: a man who is taking Russia back into the shadows.",
        "世界早就应该认识到普京是怎样一个人了：他正把俄罗斯重新带回黑暗中。"
    ],
    [
        "World markets have also been transformed.",
        "世界市场也已经发生了重大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been massively deforested, and its soils have been depleted of nutrients.",
        "岛上林地被大量砍伐，土壤的养分流失殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the more striking elements of Trump’s speech at the convention was his attack on the last Republican administration.",
        "共和党大会上特郎普讲话最引人注目的内容是攻击上一届共和党政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The great British novelist Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski to Polish parents in Russian-ruled Ukraine, said that words are the biggest enemy of reality.",
        "伟大的英国小说家约瑟夫·康拉德，原名Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski，父母都是波兰人，出生于俄罗斯人统治下的乌克兰。"
    ],
    [
        "The British were forced to abandon gold convertibility in April 1919 – a tactical withdrawal intended to pave the way for Britain’s return to the former $4.8665 parity with the American dollar.",
        "英国被迫在1919年4月放弃黄金兑换，这是英国准备回到从前一英镑兑换4. 8665美元等价的战术性撤退。"
    ],
    [
        "According to simple economic models, when the money market is in full-prosperity equilibrium, the debt market is too.",
        "根据简单的经济学模型，当货币市场处于充分繁荣均衡时，债务市场也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The regional balance of power is already tilting in Iran’s favor.",
        "地区力量平衡已经在朝有利于伊朗的方向倾斜。"
    ],
    [
        "The second thing that Xi and his colleagues need to do is to follow up with specific policies and actions that can bolster the credibility of their declared goals.",
        "习近平及其同僚应该做的第二件事则是跟进实施可以支撑其宣传目标可信度的具体政策和行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, given that unemployment diminishes both wellbeing and national income, effective back-to-work policies score two goals, as do policies aimed at augmenting citizens’ life skills through improved parenting and education.",
        "同样，鉴于失业同时影响幸福感和国民收入，有效的返岗政策和旨在改善民众育儿及教育能力的政策同样能够做到一箭双雕。"
    ],
    [
        "France imposed on its banks strong transparency and reporting requirements for banking activities in tax havens, in addition to the international standard for information exchange.",
        "除了实施跨国信息互通之外，法国还要求国内银行增加透明度，并报告那些涉及到“避税天堂”的银行运作。"
    ],
    [
        "Personal trainers look after our fitness.",
        "私人教练照顾我们的健康。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet in the aftermath of the stock-market bubble, the equity-funding alternative is all but dead for the foreseeable future.",
        "但股市泡沫破裂后，股票融资之路在可预见的未来都行不通。"
    ],
    [
        "A careful study of these countries – mainly post-communist countries in Eastern Europe and a smattering of tiny micro-states worldwide – suggests that there are three main reasons.",
        "仔细研究就会发现，主要是东欧的后共产主义国家和世界各地的小国采用统一税率。 主要有三种理由促使它们这么做。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, Chávez is a formidable campaigner, and he has at his disposal every available lever of state power, from the Electoral Council to PDVSA, the national oil company.",
        "首先，查韦斯是个可怕的竞选对手，他对国家权力的控制可谓无孔不入，从选举委员会到国有石油公司PDVSA都在他的控制下。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Some people thought that Barack Obama’s election would turn everything around for America.",
        "纽约——有些人会以为，随着巴拉克·奥巴马的竞选胜利，美国的经济将完全扭转局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Sub-Saharan Africa has paths for diversified growth that many of the trailblazers did not: value-added agriculture and agro industry, the processing of mineral resources, petrochemical complexes, manufacturing of durable and consumer goods, tourism and entertainment, and an emerging information-technology sector.",
        "撒哈拉以南非洲拥有许多先行者所不具备的多样化增长路径：增加值农业和农用工业、矿产资源、石化、持久品和消费品制造、旅游和娱乐，以及新兴的信息技术业。"
    ],
    [
        "My choice would be to have it explain the case for waiting more forthrightly: “Getting off the zero bound is hard, we want to see inflation over 3% to be absolutely sure, and then we will move with reasonable speed to normalize.”",
        "我的选择是让它更加直言不讳地解释为何要继续等待：“摆脱零利率底限是很难的，我们希望等到通胀率超过3％以最终确认，然后我们会采取合理的行动速度来恢复正常化。"
    ],
    [
        "Few Chinese, even in the top ranks of the Communist Party, are convinced Marxists anymore.",
        "很少有中国人仍旧是马克思主义的忠实信徒，甚至在共产党高层内部，情况也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The ruling coalitions were reconstructed, with new faces at the helm. The main objective of the new prime ministers and cabinet members is to regain popularity for their parties.",
        "执政联合以新的面目被重建，新任总理们和内阁的主要任务是为他们的政党重新获取名声。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the Greek crisis has been treated as a recurring emergency, rather than the structural problem that it is.",
        "目前，希腊危机仍被视为是反复出现的急症，而不是其真正的病症——结构问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Both are vocally anti-racist and pro-immigrant.",
        "这两个政党都打反种族主义和亲移民的牌。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially true in the field of bridge building, where over the past 150 years dramatic failures have occurred at surprisingly regular intervals.",
        "过去150年来，几乎每隔一段时间就会出现令人震惊的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "We can count on technological innovation to continue at an even more rapid pace than in previous generations.",
        "我们可以肯定今后的技术创新速度将超过前几代人。"
    ],
    [
        "For both Suu Kyi and Thein Sein, every step from now on will be delicate, to be calibrated with the same care and deliberation that Mandela and de Klerk used in bridging their differences and leading their country out of isolation.",
        "对昂山素季和登盛来说，从现在开始的每一步都将如履薄冰，人们将用曼德拉和德克拉克拨乱反正、将祖国带出孤立状态的自由化举措来要求他们。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is within the power of individuals and governments to make the world a happier place.",
        "但无论个人还是政府都有能力使世界更加快乐。"
    ],
    [
        "As politicians in the West compare him to Mugabe or Mussolini, Putin’s Kremlin aides invoke the Munich appeasers who tried to push Hitler eastward.",
        "当西方政治家将其比做穆加贝或墨索里尼时，普京的克里姆林宫官员搬出了竭力将希特勒推向东方的慕尼黑调解人。"
    ],
    [
        "In March 2009, the current ruling coalition will gain more seats in the Senate, and the government would almost certainly try to impeach him again.",
        "在2009年3月，当前的执政联盟将会在议会中获得更多席位，政府几乎肯定会再次弹劾他。"
    ],
    [
        "In Safaricom’s current list of new product priorities to expand financial inclusion, saving-and-loan products are ranked almost last.",
        "在Safaricom当前扩大金融包容性的新产品优先序列中，储蓄和贷款产品几乎排在最后。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the effects of such an agreement would be felt far beyond the US and Europe.",
        "此外，这样一个协定的影响范围将远超美国和欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "The summit is likely to generate an agreement and positive media coverage, but northern Muslim members of parliament could complicate efforts to implement the deal.",
        "这次首脑会谈可能会达成协议并产生积极的新闻报道，但是，议会中的北部穆斯林议员可能会使执行这个协议复杂化。"
    ],
    [
        "While it is unlikely that Russian sovereign wealth funds and state-owned companies will change overnight, they will certainly become more transparent and efficient in the near future.",
        "虽然俄罗斯的主权财富基金和国有公司不大可能在一夜之间发生改变，但是，在不远的将来，它们一定会变得更加透明而高效。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, a majority of rural kids will enter the workforce without a university diploma.",
        "结果，大部分农村孩子开始工作时没有大学文凭。"
    ],
    [
        "A country that believes that monetary or fiscal policy is too tight may threaten to leave if policy is not changed.",
        "一个认为货币或财政政策太紧的国家，可能会扬言如果不改变政策，就退出欧洲经济与货币联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Meaty diets have created a global obesity problem, including, of all places, in China, whose expanding international clout is accompanied by expanding waistlines at home.",
        "多肉饮食已经造成包括中国在内的全球性肥胖问题，中国不断扩大的国际影响力也伴随着民众不断增加的腰围。"
    ],
    [
        "The resurgence of Islamism is essentially a quest for a fulfilling identity by an ancient civilization overwhelmed by the challenges of modernity.",
        "伊斯兰教的重新崛起本质上是被现代性挑战压制的古老文明对实现身份的追求。"
    ],
    [
        "During the financial crisis and recession of 1825-1826, a central bank – the Bank of England – intervened in the interest of financial stability as the irrational exuberance of the boom turned into the remorseful pessimism of the bust.",
        "在1825—1826年的金融危机和衰退中，一家中央银行——英格兰银行——出手干预了金融稳定性，平息了因繁荣转入由泡沫破裂导致的悲观懊悔所引起的非理性动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Following Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s decision to agree to an international deal limiting Iran’s nuclear capability to peaceful purposes, Western sanctions have been all but removed.",
        "继最高领袖哈梅内伊决定同意接受限制伊朗核能力仅用于和平目的的国际协议后，西方几乎已经取消了制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "What Greece Needs to Prosper",
        "希腊繁荣需要什么"
    ],
    [
        "It would also levy punitive tariffs on greenhouse-gas-intensive products imported from countries that lack “comparable action” to that of the US, starting in 2020.",
        "对于从缺乏类似美国的“类似行动”的国家进口的高温室气体密度的产品还将征收惩罚性关税。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy's Fiat illustrates the problem: even a conservative government seeks to impede downsizing.",
        "意大利的菲亚特对这个问题说明如下：即便是保守的政府也希望阻止裁员。"
    ],
    [
        "Also, because conflict may destroy growth opportunities, it may be seen as costlier when growth is strong.",
        "此外，因为冲突可能破坏发展机会，增长势头强劲时人们会觉得损失难以承受。"
    ],
    [
        "Once again the similarity with what happened in Western Europe at the time of the euro's implementation is striking.",
        "现今的情况与欧元开始流通时西欧的情况又一次惊人的相似。"
    ],
    [
        "This includes action to preserve arms-control regimes, including the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe; to accelerate the resolution of protracted conflicts; to promote human rights and fundamental freedoms; and to assess and address traditional and new threats.",
        "科孚进程包括签订《欧洲常规武装力量条约》等保持武器控制制度的行动； 还包括加速解决况日持久的地区冲突；"
    ],
    [
        "This reinforces the expansionary impact of the stimulus, which is particularly strong under fixed exchange rates.",
        "这进一步强化了刺激政策的影响，这种影响在固定汇率下尤其强劲。"
    ],
    [
        "Marshall’s vision offers important lessons for world leaders seeking to accelerate development today, beginning with the need to reverse the effects of the Washington Consensus on developing and transition economies – effects that resemble those of the Morgenthau Plan.",
        "马歇尔的愿景为如今寻求加速发展的世界领导人提供了重要教训。 首先要做的是消除华盛顿共识对发展中和转型经济体的影响——类似于摩根索计划的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "They should have said, “We can say with 95% certainty that between 8,000 and 194,000 excess Iraqi deaths occurred during the period.”",
        "他们应该说，“我们有95%的把握认为，在此期间内伊拉克的死亡人数大致增长了8，000至194,000人”才更准确。"
    ],
    [
        "The wrecked body of the ruined train was buried immediately afterward, with no investigation.",
        "事件发生后当局在尚未进行调查的情况下就匆匆掩埋了出事列车残骸。"
    ],
    [
        "Great Britain has made the Millennium Development Goals, and hence the IFF, the centerpiece of the G-8 Summit, which will be held in Scotland next July.",
        "大英帝国制定了\"千禧发展计划\"以及\"国际金融战略\"。 \"国际金融战略\"将是明年7月于苏格兰召开的8国峰会讨论的中心议题。"
    ],
    [
        "In September 2005, it fleetingly appeared that the talks had led North Korea to agree to forgo its nuclear program in exchange for security guarantees and removal of sanctions.",
        "事情到了2005年5月似乎有了一丝转机，朝鲜可能同意以放弃核项目为代价换取安全保证和解除制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "If demand is too weak, it can lead to a sharp drop in employment (because wages and prices are rigid in the short term).",
        "如果需求太疲软，就有可能导致就业的急剧恶化（因为工资和价格在短期是刚性的）。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, he has developed the analytical capabilities that a Fed governor needs.",
        "因此，他已经具备了作为美联储官员所需要的分析能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as reformists found when they lost to Ahmadinejad in 2005, growth and economic recovery cannot come at the expense of the electorate’s aspirations for greater equality and social justice.",
        "但是，正如哈塔米2005年败给内贾德时所发现的，不能因为增长和经济复苏而牺牲掉选民对更大的平等性和社会正义的渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the EU has long been committed to the “precautionary principle,” which prevents products that may harm human health from entering the EU market – even if the scientific evidence is not yet conclusive.",
        "比如，欧盟长期以来一直秉承“预防原则”，阻止可能危害人类健康的产品进入欧盟市场，即使科学证据尚不足以彻底否定这一产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most worryingly, Europe finally recognized the principle – long followed by the IMF – that countries in bailout programs should not be penalized on interest rates, but the same principle was not extended to countries that are not yet in bailout programs.",
        "也许最令人担心的是，欧洲最终意识到了（IMF早就意识到了）这一原则——救助计划对象国不应该在利率上受到惩罚——但并未将它推广到尚不在救助计划之列的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Others at the conference argued that the West should change the game by expelling Russia from SWIFT, the international framework for clearing bank payments.",
        "其他与会人员提出西方应将俄国逐出环球银行金融电信协会（SWIFT），即国际清算银行的支付框架。"
    ],
    [
        "In Austria in 1931, the problem was rooted in the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I, hyperinflation in the early 1920s, and banks’ excessive exposure to the industrial sector.",
        "在1931年的奥地利，问题的根源是第一次世界大战奥匈帝国的解体，1920年代初的恶性通货膨胀，以及银行业为工业部门承担了过度的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Another unspoken consideration may have been at work in the Guantanamo Bay case, which has garnered considerable international attention.",
        "另一点不言而喻的考虑大概就是吸引了相当国际关注的关塔纳摩湾一案。"
    ],
    [
        "Taxes cover less than half of government spending.",
        "源于税收的开支还不到政府开支的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer I would give is that when Keynes was briefly exhumed for six months in 2008-2009, it was for political, not intellectual, reasons.",
        "我所给出的答案是，当凯恩斯主义在2008~2009年间被短暂起用了六个月时，这是出于政治而非理智的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s universities are rising as well.",
        "土耳其的大学也正在崛起之中。"
    ],
    [
        "On the OECD “Employment Protection Legislation” index, the US scores a 1.2 on a 0-5 scale, where zero indicates full flexibility.",
        "在经合组织的“就业保护立法”指数中，美国获得5分制（0分表示充分灵活）的1. 2分。"
    ],
    [
        "The result has been elevated unit labor costs relative to France’s peer group (especially Germany) and stubbornly high unemployment.",
        "其结果就是法国单位劳动成本相对邻国（特别是德国）的高企，失业率也居高不下。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, Ahmadinejad’s election starkly clarifies the challenge that Iran poses for Western policy and Middle East stability.",
        "但不论如何，艾哈迈迪内贾德的当选使得伊朗对西方政策和中东稳定带来的挑战完全清晰化了。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians, no surprise, have jumped on the bandwagon, to capitalize on the popular mood.",
        "毫不奇怪，政客也加入战团，利用这一群众情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "People have become less admiring of Berlusconi, because the hypocrisy has gone too far.",
        "因为所作所为太过虚伪，人们已经不再如此崇拜贝卢斯科尼。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether Germany decides to lead or leave, either alternative would be better than creating an unsustainable two-tier Europe.",
        "无论德国最终决定领导还是离开，这两种选择都强过造成一个不可持续的二元化的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "In his inauguration speech, American President Barack Obama said, “The time has come to set aside childish things” and instead to choose the noble idea that “all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.”",
        "，美国总统奥巴马在其就职演说中说： “现在应该是抛弃幼稚的事情的时候了” ，而他没有选择崇高观点， 即“人人都平等自由，都应该有机会追求充分的幸福。"
    ],
    [
        "France is thus joining the cohort of countries that, over the past half-century or so, have developed within their legal culture a judicial form of constitutional review of legislation.",
        "有些国家在过去半个世纪时间里，已经成功地在其法律文化内部建立起对法律合宪性进行审查的司法形式，法国也幸运地位列其中之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once described the Berlin Wall as a mirror.",
        "法国哲学家萨特曾经形容柏林墙像一面镜子。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate safety requires that all countries shift their energy systems away from coal, oil, and gas, toward wind, solar, geothermal, and other low-carbon sources.",
        "气候安全要求所有国家将能源体系从煤炭、石油和天然气转变为风能、太阳能、地热能和其他低碳资源。"
    ],
    [
        "The same spirit of protest that drove, say, Spaniards, Greeks, and New Yorkers to take to the streets – with different demands, to be sure – is fueling support for these new referenda and the insurgent parties that are bringing them about.",
        "同样的反抗精神驱使（比如）西班牙人、希腊人和纽约人走上街头——当然，要求有所不同——它正在助长对这些新全民公决以及提出公决的新兴政党的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The going “wage” for the “Rent-A-Crowds” at the heart of the crisis was 300 Baht a day per person, plus food, transportation, and a clean yellow T-shirt – yellow being the Royal color.",
        "泰国当前的危机中被“花钱动员来的群众”的现行“工资”，是每人每天300泰铢，外加食物、交通以及一件干净的黄色体恤衫——黄色是皇室的颜色。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as James Kwak and I explained in our book on US fiscal policy, White House Burning, the time when the Republican right favored responsible budgets and financial stability has long since passed.",
        "但正如詹姆斯·夸克和我在合著的美国财政政策著作《燃烧的白宫》中所诠释的那样，共和党右翼青睐负责任预算和财务稳定的时代早已过去。"
    ],
    [
        "Many European countries are looking to China as the key to stronger domestic growth.",
        "许多欧洲国家将中国视为增强国内增长的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "This had been the pattern for many US initiatives during the Cold War, and in the Balkans during the 1990’s; back then, it was known as “leadership” rather than “unilateralism.”",
        "这在冷战期间和20世纪90年代的巴尔干是许多美国行动的惯用模式，那时候，人们把这称之为“领导”而不是“单边主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "Education would continue to stagnate, and Arab societies, which are divided across sectarian, tribal, and regional lines, would experience rising levels of retribution and violence.",
        "教育将继续停滞不前，因宗族、部落和宗教的不同而彼此割裂的阿拉伯社会将经历越来越多的冤冤相报和暴力相向。"
    ],
    [
        "Medals attract money; failure results in cuts.",
        "奖牌吸引着金钱； 失败意味着金钱流失。"
    ],
    [
        "They then take delivery on their premises so that overall refined inventories rise, but that increase is not part of reported commercial inventories.",
        "然后，他们在其所在地接受精炼油，从而导致精炼石油库存的总体增加，但是这种增加不是报告的商业库存的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia knows that when it comes to conducting a serious foreign and security policy, Europe is all mouth.",
        "俄国人明白，当欧洲人要真正实行一项外交和安全政策时，他们只是在嘴上咋呼而已。"
    ],
    [
        "But the European Central Bank has not intervened in the foreign-exchange market since 2000 – and that was to support the euro, not weaken it.",
        "但欧洲央行从2000年以来从未干预过外汇市场——而此前的干预也是为了支撑欧元而非让欧元贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "His is a very nineteenth-century view of the world.",
        "他的这种世界观属于19世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing similar has happened in Asia, and issues dating back to the 1930’s and 1940’s remain raw, a problem exacerbated by biased textbooks and government policies.",
        "但亚洲并没有出现类似的情况，二十世纪三四十年代的争端仍然悬而未决，满是偏见的教科书和政府政策又使争议问题进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "During the dot-com bubble, prices signaled huge demand in the Internet sector.",
        "在网络泡沫期间，股价显示互联网公司的股票的需求远不能得到满足。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, China now includes the South China Sea in its “core” national interests, on a par with Taiwan and Tibet, in order to stake a virtually exclusive claim to military operations there.",
        "比如说，中国目前将南中国海视为与台湾和西藏同等重要的“国家核心利益”，这是为了能在该区域独自开展军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "If Musharraf had previously been unwilling to choose sides, the attempts to kill him finally showed him which side he had to be on.",
        "如果穆沙拉夫先前并不愿意确定立场，那么，这些暗杀最终告诉他应该站在哪一边。"
    ],
    [
        "The cautious answer would be that it is too early to say.",
        "谨慎的回答是现在还不好说。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Poland, the European Commission has launched an unprecedented inquiry in response to recent legislation that, under the pretense of “protecting national sovereignty,” concentrates more power in the government’s hands.",
        "至于波兰，欧盟委员会就其最新的立法——以“保护国家主权”的名号将权力集中在政府手里——启动了前所未有的调查。"
    ],
    [
        "But such demands are a dead end.",
        "但是这种要求只会让事情陷入僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "At any given time, the global livestock population amounts to more than 150 billion, compared to just 7.2 billion humans – meaning that livestock have a larger direct ecological footprint than we do.",
        "在任何特定时点，相比仅仅72亿的全球人口，全球牲畜存栏量高达1，500多亿——这意味着牲畜比我们人类更能直接影响生态足迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment is rising to record levels.",
        "失业率也在创造历史记录。"
    ],
    [
        "Muslims, including Islamists, have a diversity of views, so we need to be wary of strategies that help our enemies by uniting disparate forces behind one banner.",
        "穆斯林，包括伊斯兰教徒在内，有着多种不同的观点，因此我们必须对能够帮助我们的敌人联合各种力量的策略保持警惕。"
    ],
    [
        "The chances that the Bush administration might be able to rally America’s Sunni “moderate” allies in the region to help salvage an Israeli-Palestinian peace are now hostage to an Iranian-led regional axis that includes Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria.",
        "布什政府把该地区的“温和派”盟友团结起来帮助挽救巴以和平的机会现在受制于伊朗领导的地区轴心。 这一轴心包括哈马斯、真主党以及叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "Undoubtedly, the US will try to build closer ties with Indonesia through greater military cooperation, because Indonesia borders the region’s key sea lines of communications.",
        "毫无疑问，美国将会通过更大范围的军事合作与印尼建立更为密切的关系，因为印尼邻近该地区重要的海运航路。"
    ],
    [
        "As an immature international creditor, China is unable to balance the inflows by making renminbi loans abroad.",
        "中国仍是不成熟的国际债权人，它无法通过人民币贷款国际化平衡流入。"
    ],
    [
        "The Great Firewall of China",
        "中国的防火墙长城"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The conventional wisdom that sub-Saharan Africa has moved beyond military coups may be wishful thinking.",
        "纽约——认为撒哈拉以南非洲军事政变时代已经过去的习惯思维可能不过是一厢情愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey, for example, is poised to attack the Kurdish enclave in Iraq’s north.",
        "例如，土耳其就做好准备攻击伊拉克北部的库尔德飞地。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher consumer spending and increased residential investment boosted demand for labor, resulting in a rise in payroll employment of 288,000 in April, up from a monthly average of less than 200,000 earlier in the year.",
        "消费支出的增加和住宅投资升高提振了劳动力需求，因此，4月就业注册人数增加了288,000人，而今年此前的平均月度数字为200,000。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – In Japan, memorial services for the dead are normally held 49 days after their passing.",
        "东京——在日本，一般在逝去49天后召开逝者的追悼会。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, China’s standing in international finance does not match its status in international trade.",
        "显然，中国在国际金融中的地位与其在国际贸易中的地位不匹配。"
    ],
    [
        "But even if his program succeeds, it will not do much to increase America’s energy security.",
        "但是，即使他的规划成功，也并不会对美国的能源安全大有帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, many people’s genomes contain roughly 1% Neanderthal DNA.",
        "结果，许多人基因组中包含大约1%的尼安德特DNA。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, on climate change, poverty, and other issues, the conventional wisdom is that the UN should cede responsibility to the G-20.",
        "尽管如此，在气候变化、贫困和其他问题上，大多数人认为联合国应当让位于二十国集团。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s constitution, in its non-enforceable Directive Principles, urges Indians to work toward prohibition, and the government does not serve alcohol even at state banquets and official receptions.",
        "印度宪法以不具强制力的指导原则敦促印度人民厉行禁止，政府在国宴和公务接待中也不提供酒精饮料。"
    ],
    [
        "Outside China, the prevalent view among business leaders is that President Xi Jinping’s new administration has consolidated its power and acquired enough authority to push through far-reaching economic reforms.",
        "在中国国外，商界领袖普遍持有的观点是习近平主席的新政府已经巩固了权力，并获得了足够的权威来推行深刻的经济改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Although it made clear Japan’s desire to take advantage of the European conflict and gain a foothold in the European colonies in Southeast Asia, the plan was not clear about who constituted Japan’s true enemy.",
        "尽管这一方案明确了日本利用欧战并且在欧洲各国在东南亚取得立足点的愿望，但是它并未明确说明谁是日本的真正敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "The US military budget dominates everything about foreign policy.",
        "美国的军事预算主导着外交政策的方方面面。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the euro is no panacea, nor has it functioned perfectly over the last decade.",
        "当然，欧元并非灵丹妙药，在过去十年里它的作用也不是发挥得十全十美。"
    ],
    [
        "As the crackdown following those heady weeks of free expression and assembly came to its apocalyptic end on the night of June 3-4, Zhao vanished, sucked down the Party’s memory hole into which so many other leaders have vanished since China’s “socialist liberation.”",
        "人们在言论和集会自由方面的猛烈行动持续了几个星期，随着6月3－4日晚的镇压最终结束，赵紫阳也就此消失，被吸入了中国“社会主义解放”以来曾让无数领导人踪迹全无的党的记忆空洞之中。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, some progress has been made.",
        "诚然，我们已经取得了一些进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Civilians are killed daily in Mogadishu, there are roadside bombs and mortar attacks, and politicians and journalists are targeted.",
        "在摩加迪沙，每天都有平民死于非命； 汽车炸弹和实弹袭击层出不穷，政客和记者们成为袭击的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF is too political a body to act as the systemic-risk watchdog.",
        "事实上在扮演系统性风险监管这的角色上，世界货币基金组织还是过于政治化了。"
    ],
    [
        "Zhao Shengxuan, Vice President and Deputy Party Chief of CASS, responded by pledging that the Academy would “treat political discipline as a criterion of the utmost importance in the assessment of academics.”",
        "中国社科院副院长、党组副书记赵胜轩对此的反应是保证社科院将“政治纪律作为首要因素”。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the anti-Muslim posturing of some of the current presidential candidates is so counterproductive.",
        "这也解释了某些当前总统候选人的反穆斯林姿态为何造成如此适得其反的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "And the other big players, from China to the commodity producers, are not shy about wielding their economic power.",
        "其他主要行动方，从中国到大宗商品生产国，也不耻于动用经济实力。"
    ],
    [
        "While South Korean President Lee Myung-bak held bilateral talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, talks between Noda and Hu, and a scheduled meeting between Keidanren Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, were also canceled.",
        "韩国总统李明博继续与中国国家主席胡锦涛进行了双边会谈，但野田佳彦和胡锦涛的会晤以及计划中的日本经联团主席米仓弘昌与中国外交部长杨洁篪的会谈被取消了。"
    ],
    [
        "That drive should take us, first and foremost, to North Korea, which, despite severely limited means, continues to invest heavily in advancing its nuclear program.",
        "这一动力首先应该指向朝鲜。 尽管采取了严厉的限制措施，但朝鲜仍然投入巨资推进核计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese government debt will become an important global benchmark asset, which should help its private sector to attract funding on reasonable terms, while the predominance of the US Federal Reserve in determining worldwide monetary conditions would presumably diminish.",
        "中国政府债务将成为重要的全球基准资产，这将有助于其私人部门吸引条件有利的资金，而美联储在决定世界货币条件方面的主导力将受到侵蚀。"
    ],
    [
        "The greatest danger stems from Iran, the clear beneficiary of the Iraqi power vacuum.",
        "最大的威胁来自于伊朗，这个国家显然从伊拉克的权力真空中坐收渔翁之利。"
    ],
    [
        "The narrow majority for “Leave” implies that there are still many in Britain who deeply resent the idea of “Brexit.”",
        "“脱欧派”的微弱优势意味着英国仍有许多人对“脱欧”的理念深恶痛绝。"
    ],
    [
        "Such linkages are particularly important for Egypt and Tunisia, which will struggle to reduce unemployment unless Libya’s labor market – which has historically absorbed migrants from its North African neighbors – is reopened.",
        "这一联系对埃及和突尼斯尤其重要，除非利比亚劳动力市场重新开放——传统上，利比亚吸收着来自北非诸邻国的移民——否则埃及和突尼斯很难降低失业率。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the key confrontation in this power struggle is Syria’s civil war, where all of the region’s major players are represented either directly or indirectly, because that is where the battle for regional hegemony will largely be decided.",
        "如今，这一势力斗争的关键冲突是叙利亚内战，中东地区的主要大国都直接或间接地牵涉其中，因为这是一场事关地区领导权归属的战斗。"
    ],
    [
        "But experts have long understood that the CPI overstates the true increase in the cost of living, and that the resulting over-indexing of benefits should be fixed.",
        "但专家们早已知道CPI会高估生活成本的真实增长，由此产生的退休金的过度指数化应该予以纠正。"
    ],
    [
        "The signs of social distress are multiplying.",
        "社会陷入困境的迹象成倍增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans have recognized that good systems of social protection can even lead to improved overall economic performance, as individuals are more willing to take the risks that lead to higher economic growth.",
        "欧洲人明白好的社会保障制度甚至可以改善总体经济表现，因为个体将更愿意承担能带来更高经济增长的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "What information requirements must banks comply with?",
        "银行在信息要求方面要符合哪些规定？"
    ],
    [
        "Now suppose that you could tell people to whom you had sold their data.",
        "假设你告诉人们谁买了他们的数据。"
    ],
    [
        "I am also now urging publicly traded companies to add at least one woman as a board member.",
        "现在，我还在敦促上市公司至少安排一名女性为董事会成员。"
    ],
    [
        "So-called trust deeds, set up locally, will manage these funds, which will eventually pay for the fences’ maintenance.",
        "所谓的（当地）信托契约将负责管理这些资金，最终用于电网的维护。"
    ],
    [
        "And China and other developing countries will be expected to do their share to reduce carbon emissions and slow the pace of global climate change.",
        "与中国和其它发展中国家会被要求尽自己的份额，以减少二氧化碳的排放量和减缓全球气候的变暖。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer energy prices remain at their current lofty levels, the greater the probability that inflationary expectations will increase and that second-round effects will materialize.",
        "能源价格居高不下的时间越长，就越有可能引发通货膨胀，次轮效应就越有可能成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the general has not been asked – or allowed – to speak in public, fueling speculation about his own role in the attempted coup.",
        "然而这位司令至今未被要求——或者允许——公开讲话，令外界不禁揣测他本人在这场未遂政变中究竟扮演何种角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the BoE – and the UK Treasury – really provide downside insurance for this full amount, or are the UK authorities set on the path to becoming another Iceland (where the value of bank assets peaked at more than 11 times the country’s GDP)?",
        "英格兰银行——以及英国财政部——能否真的为此全额提供损失保险？ 英国当局是否走上了成为另一个冰岛（冰岛银行资产比该国GDP高十倍多）的不归路？"
    ],
    [
        "All that is needed now is to determine whether it works in practice.",
        "现在需要知道的是在实践中这是否管用。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Russia is the one country with enough missiles and nuclear warheads to destroy the US.",
        "毕竟，有足够的导弹和核武器摧毁美国的唯一国家就是俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "And now that the phase of catch-up growth is over for China, this engine of global trade will slow.",
        "如今，中国的赶超增长阶段已经结束，全球贸易的引擎也将减速。"
    ],
    [
        "China continues to show great interest in the technology, and is collaborating with the United States to develop its CCS capabilities.",
        "中国一直表现出对这项技术的浓厚兴趣，并正在与美国合作发展期CCS技术能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The G8 nations meeting in Italy this week have a useful role to play. Among other measures, they must keep their promises to increase aid and make it more effective by reducing bureaucratic delays, speeding disbursements and better aligning programs with African priorities. Effective aid is certainly not the only answer, but it has an increasingly vital role to play as other sources of finance dry up.",
        "本周在意大利举办的8国集团（G8）会议将可以扮演一个有用的角色。 除了其他措施以外，这些国家都必须得遵守它们增加对非洲援助的诺言，并通过减少行政拖延，加速支付程序并以非洲优先的原则来令这些诺言更好地实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who visited Israel a few weeks after his reelection in December 2014, nor the leaders of China, now Israel’s third-largest trading partner, bother to link their economic ties with Israel to the success of peace talks with the Palestinians.",
        "2014年12月重新当选后几周就访问以色列的本首相安倍晋三在，和以色列现在的第三大贸易伙伴中国的领导人都不会把各自国家与以色列的经济关系与巴勒斯坦和平谈判的成功相挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "The Winning International NGO",
        "国际非政府组织的卓越之道"
    ],
    [
        "While India’s president may be only a ceremonial head of state, during periods of political instability – especially in the current age of coalition governments – it is the president who makes crucial decisions about governing parties.",
        "尽管印度总统可能仅仅是一个礼仪性的国家元首，但是在政治动荡、特别是在目前的联合政府时代，是由总统来做出有关执政党派的关键决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Exclusion from duty-free treatment could reach 100% for Cambodia, which exported only 277 tariff lines to the US in 2004.",
        "排除在免税待遇之外可能波及柬埔寨出口产品的100％，而该国2004年仅仅向美国出口了277项税则编码产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Liam Byrne, the outgoing Labour budget chief, left a note to his successor saying “I’m afraid there is no money. Kind regards and good luck.”",
        "事实上，即将离职的工党首席预算官员利亚姆·伯恩在自己的办公室里给继任者留了张字条，上面写着：“恐怕已经没钱剩了，此致敬礼，祝您好运。"
    ],
    [
        "In some countries, the magnitude of the shock was such that a large tax increase could not fill the gap.",
        "在一些国家，冲击程度非常巨大，以至于大幅增税也无法弥补缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "Issuing a statement of regret at the inability to reach a negotiated solution, offering clear short- and long-term plans to manage the default, and outlining a compelling strategy for recovery and growth would be far preferable.",
        "发布声明对无法形成谈判解决办法表示遗憾、提出明确的短期和长期计划管理违约、列明令人信服的复苏和增长战略要好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Virginia Woolf famously wrote that a woman who wanted to write fiction “must have money and a room of her own.”",
        "对此弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的名言是一个想写小说的女人“必须有钱和一个属于自己的房间。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "It had an antecedent, that is, a lack of pre-emptive resistance at home and abroad to the threat that built up in Nazi Germany during the 1930’s.",
        "”。 1945年5月8日并不是德国流行说法所提及的“零时”，因为已经有先例，那就是：缺乏对20世纪30年代纳粹德国国内外威胁的“先发制人”的抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "Moral emotions, notably empathy, can accomplish what no bloodless ratiocination can: they make us feel – and thus want to account for – the experience of others.",
        "道德情感，特别是同情，可以完成冷血的推理所无法完成的东西：它们让我们感到——从而让我们想顾及到——其他人的体验。"
    ],
    [
        "The stakes obviously are much higher regarding North Korea, with US-South Korean joint military exercises this week aggravating already-high tensions.",
        "在朝鲜身上冒的风险显然更高，上周的美韩联合军演又令本已紧绷的局势进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while Japan may be on the right track after two decades of economic stagnation, there is still much to be done to secure the country’s long-term future.",
        "”不过虽然日本有可能在二十年的经济停滞后重新走上了正轨，但确保国家的长远未来还有许多工作要做。"
    ],
    [
        "Green and Galiana calculate the benefits – from reduced warming and greater prosperity – and conservatively conclude that for every dollar spent this approach would avoid about $11 of climate damage.",
        "格林和加利亚纳计算出了这样做的收益——从降低全球变暖到取得更大的社会繁荣——并且得出保守结论，每花费1美元，这个办法将会避免大约11美元的气候变化损失。"
    ],
    [
        "A debtor contracts to pay a fixed sum in interest every year.",
        "债务人合同写明每年都要偿付固定数量的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the PRI has changed in two fundamental ways since it last held power.",
        "最后，自上次执政以来革命制度党已经发生了两大根本变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The inflation surprise of 2017 offers three key insights.",
        "2017年的通胀意外事件提供了三个关键的见解。"
    ],
    [
        "Mandela is simply the most impressive and decent human being I have ever met, or am ever likely to meet.",
        "曼德拉在我见过、或者是可能遇到的人中最令人难忘也最正派。"
    ],
    [
        "When President George W. Bush took office in 2001, he was staring at giant budget surpluses as far as the eye could see.",
        "当布什总统在2001年履职之初，仰望着巨大的财政盈余，无所适从。"
    ],
    [
        "Others question the efficacy of market-based approaches to drive sustainability, because markets can never deliver optimal social and environmental outcomes.",
        "也有人之一市场办法来推动可持续性的效率，因为市场不可能提供最优的社会和环境结果。"
    ],
    [
        "As we consider the next-generation development agenda, it is also critical to understand that migration was a vital force in achieving the original MDGs.",
        "思考下一代发展议程时，理解移民是实现原有“千年发展目标”的生力军至关重要。 今天国际移民总数约为2."
    ],
    [
        "During the Cultural Revolution’s early days, the Beijing-based Allied Movement, formed by the children of party cadres, committed horrendous acts of violence, operating under the slogan, “If the father is a hero, the son is a good man; if the father is a reactionary, the son is a turtle egg.”",
        "文化大革命初期，由党员高干子弟组成的以北京为基地的“联盟运动”，打着“老子英雄儿好汉，老子反动儿操蛋”的口号，做出了骇人听闻的暴行。"
    ],
    [
        "Seeing that there were others who felt the same frustrations, people became willing to make their voices heard in Tahrir Square, and, like the Spaniards, rediscovered their community.",
        "看到有其他人也在体验同样的挫折感，人们开始愿意在塔里尔广场发出自己的声音，并且和西班牙人一样，重新找回了属于自己的集体。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world economy sputters, African countries will have to develop trade with one another.",
        "世界经济形势堪忧，非洲国家必须发展彼此之间的贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "It remains incumbent upon all liberal, pro-European centrists to wish him well.",
        "所有自由、亲欧洲的中间派人士仍然应当祝他好运。"
    ],
    [
        "It could be argued, for example, that Eurobonds would allow eurozone members to pool their financial strength and, by enhancing the attractiveness of the euro as a reserve currency, hold down borrowing costs to such an extent that AAA-rated countries are not overburdened.",
        "比如，你可以说，欧元债券将能使欧元区成员国把财政实力拧成一股绳，同时，若能增强欧元作为储备货币的吸引力，就能降低借贷成本，使AAA级国家不至于背上沉重负担。"
    ],
    [
        "After two months of malnutrition treatment, Michel has grown a lot but remains half the normal size of a baby his age.",
        "经过两个月的营养不良治疗之后，米歇尔已经长大了很多，但他的身子仍然只有其同龄婴儿的一半大。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1783, a volcano in Iceland spewed so much ash into the atmosphere that the entire northern hemisphere was cooled for almost three years. This resulted in crop failures and famine, and some historians argue that it helped to precipitate the French Revolution.",
        "回想在1783年的时候，冰岛有座火山向天空中喷发了过量的火山灰，以至于整个北半球几乎降温达3年之久，不但导致粮食减产和饥荒，甚至有历史学家认为正是该事件催生了法国大革命。"
    ],
    [
        "In Brazil, for example, we are working closely with key local organizations, including the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, to improve disease prevention – with a focus on helping mothers who were diagnosed with gestational diabetes while pregnant and are now at risk of developing type 2 diabetes.",
        "比如，在巴西，我们与地方组织（如南里奥格兰德联邦大学）密切合作改进疾病预防情况——着重于帮助诊断出妊娠期糖尿病、现为2型糖尿病高危人群的母亲。"
    ],
    [
        "We have the tools to do it.",
        "我们有办法做到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "For the same reasons, they may be slow to change in response to new situations.",
        "出于同样的原因，他们应对新情况可能动作缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "The World’s Priciest Stock Market",
        "全世界最贵的股市"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, intra-eurozone trade and investment have increased only modestly, and growth potential has actually weakened.",
        "相反，欧元区内部贸易和投资增长平庸，而增长潜力事实上还有所削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Reports about the tsunamis that devastated Southeast Asia barely a month ago have understandably been dominated by tales of death, suffering, and the physical destruction of infrastructure.",
        "就在一个月前，南亚发生海啸，有关人员死亡、灾民受难以及各种基础设施遭受严重破坏的报道占据了此次海啸报道的主题。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the technology used at drilling and production platforms has developed tremendously, but the challenges regarding depth, weather, and sediment structure have grown even more, as easy-to-exploit oil fields have been exhausted.",
        "与此同时，钻井和开采平台的技术发展也日新月异，但随着便于开采的油井已经被开采完毕，人们所面临的深度、气候和沉积物构造等方面的难题也更加棘手。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK’s official Kay Review from last July and the European Union’s Green Paper on corporate governance, adopted by the European Parliament earlier this year, diagnose corporate short-termism as a serious problem and point policymakers toward solutions.",
        "今年年初欧洲议会所采纳了去年七月的英国官方约翰·凯评估报告以及欧盟企业治理绿皮书的观点，将企业短期逐利的行为视为严重问题并指出政策制定者应当对此制定解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "New York State and Massachusetts have launched statewide pay-for-success experiments.",
        "纽约州和马萨诸塞州实施了全州成功后付酬实验。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, conservative members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) voted against the bill’s introduction in parliament, citing a 2013 Supreme Court judgment upholding the law.",
        "不幸的是，执政的印度人民党的保守派议员在议会中向这一法案投了反对票，援引2013年最高法院的判例维持该法。"
    ],
    [
        "This phenomenon, too, can be blamed largely on distortionary policies.",
        "这一现象也可以主要归咎为扭曲性政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Should Extremist Parties Be Banned?",
        "应该禁止极端主义政党吗？"
    ],
    [
        "None of this should be surprising.",
        "以上所述，并非偶然。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, after only a year in power, the military – backed by the same secular, liberal young people who had opposed it in 2011 – drove President Mohamed Morsi out of power.",
        "结果，在掌权仅仅一年后，军队旧推翻了总统穆尔西，而支持军队的正是在2011年揭竿而起的世俗自由主义年轻人。"
    ],
    [
        "The uncertainty this time around is attributable to the predominantly Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).",
        "此次的不确定性是由以库尔德人为主的人民民主党（HDP）造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "And they have engaged in far-reaching market manipulation, by turning themselves into debt collectors, using share buy-backs to boost executive remuneration, and so forth.",
        "它们已经实现了深层次的市场操纵，把自己变成了收债者，还利用股份回购来提升高管的报酬，以上种种，不一而足。"
    ],
    [
        "In practical terms, how should it be built?",
        "切实地讲，就是如何建立这样的系统。"
    ],
    [
        "We should establish a pan-European coalition of radical, social, green, and liberal democrats to put the “demos” back into democracy, countering an EU establishment that sees people power as a threat to its authority.",
        "我们应当反对将人民力量视为对其权威威胁的欧盟机构，建立由激进、社会、绿色和自由派民主人士共同组成的泛欧洲联盟，让“民众”再次回到民主制度中去。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinian politics is approaching the point of no return.",
        "巴勒斯坦政治正在接近于无法逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ethiopian success story is just the start.",
        "埃塞俄比亚的成功故事只是个开始。"
    ],
    [
        "The Istanbul talks opened the door to an initial – if incremental – breakthrough agreement.",
        "伊斯坦布尔谈判开启了初步突破性协定（即使只是一小步）的大门。"
    ],
    [
        "I had worked for her as the Conservative Party’s research director, and as a minister for about 15 years, before going to Hong Kong as Britain’s last Governor there.",
        "我曾以保守党研究主任的身份在她麾下做事，并担任部长职务15年，随后赴任英国末代港督。"
    ],
    [
        "While corrosive immobility is a trademark of the Syrian regime, these challenges threaten to reinforce each other and marginalize Syria internationally even more so than today.",
        "叙利亚政权向来以充满危害的顽固闻名于世，上述挑战有可能愈演愈烈，使叙利亚比现在遭到国际社会的更多排斥。"
    ],
    [
        "He has threatened to impose a 50% tariff on goods from China, Mexico, and other US trade partners, but no such measures have materialized.",
        "他还威胁要对来自中国，墨西哥和其他美国贸易伙伴的货物征收50％的关税，但是没有一项措施能付诸现实。"
    ],
    [
        "It also frequently necessitates the use of instruments outside of the central bankers’ traditional toolkit.",
        "此外，通常还必须用到传统央行工具箱之外的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, not all foreigners were adequately protected.",
        "当然，并非所有外国人都得到了充分保护。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, the Kingdom’s underlying political settlement depends on the royal family’s alliances with businesses, which have a free hand to import labor, and guaranteed public-sector jobs for citizens.",
        "目前，沙特王国的基本政治安排取决于皇室和企业的联盟，它们能自由进口劳动力，并确保公民获得公共部门岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the idea has some merit, it would not sit easily within the current Basel framework.",
        "但是，尽管这一想法有一些道理，但难以与当前巴塞尔框架轻松相容。"
    ],
    [
        "We should revive it.",
        "我们需要修订这个座右铭。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is how to defuse it.",
        "问题是如何遏制它。"
    ],
    [
        "But many observers have argued that cheap oil also has a downside, because it exacerbates deflationary tendencies in the advanced countries, which already seem to be mired in a low-growth trap.",
        "但许多观察家也指出低油价也有其不利之处，因为这会令发达国家的通缩趋势进一步恶化，令到本以似乎陷入低增长陷阱的状况雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "Conglomerates can use their knowledge, managerial skills, and financial capital to venture into new industries.",
        "集团公司可以利用其知识、管理技能和金融资本试水新行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Khyber Pass, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai never had a shared border strategy.",
        "巴基斯坦西北边境省份，开伯尔山口－巴基斯坦总统佩尔韦兹·穆沙拉夫和阿富汗总统哈米德·卡尔扎伊从来没有共享的边境战略。"
    ],
    [
        "The Moral Limits of Markets",
        "市场的道德局限性"
    ],
    [
        "The West has courted trouble in appearing to isolate the Pashtun.",
        "而西方孤立普什图人的做法也引来了很多麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "In Paris and other French cities, the hate-filled words ring out.",
        "”在巴黎和其他法国城市，这类充满仇恨的字眼纷纷涌现。"
    ],
    [
        "The education system is creaking: the number of new apprentices is at a post-reunification low, the country has fewer young graduates (29%) than Greece (34%), and its best universities barely scrape into the global top 50.",
        "教育系统也是问题丛生，新生数量处于德国统一以来的最低值，年轻毕业生的比例（29%）甚至低于希腊（34%），而德国最优秀的大学都很少能进入全球前五十名大学榜单。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to do so leaves everyone weak and vulnerable.",
        "无法实现这一点让所有人都无法强大。"
    ],
    [
        "And in areas where research and development is not an attractive proposition, developers must be provided an opportunity to make a return from useful products.",
        "在研发吸引力较弱的领域，必须要为研发人员提供机会从有用的产品中获得回报。"
    ],
    [
        "The twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe reminds us that we should not forget the horrible lesson taught to the world in 1986.",
        "切尔诺贝利灾难二十周年纪念日提醒我们，我们不应当忘记1986年给世界的可怕教训。"
    ],
    [
        "The short-term issue concerns egg production, which in many fish is proportional to body size: large individuals contribute far more to future generations than small individuals.",
        "短期生态健康理念关注产卵问题，因为很多鱼类的产卵数量和它们的体格大小成正比。 体格较大的个体与体格较小的个体比较而言，对未来种群数量的影响也会更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the late Iranian writer and philosopher Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri fell out with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, after being designated his successor, over policies that he believed infringed on people’s fundamental rights and freedoms.",
        "事实上，已故伊朗作家兼哲学家蒙塔泽里（Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri）与最高领袖霍梅尼在后者指定了接班人后就他所认为的侵犯了人们基本权利和自由的政策进行过争论。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a tricky road to pursue, but it is the only one worth taking.",
        "要做到这一点难度很大，但这却是我们唯一能走的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Wood-burning stoves are responsible for much of Africa’s deforestation, and, in many African cities, where wood accounts for the majority of cooking fuel, its price is soaring.",
        "大多数非洲人用烧木材的炉子来除霜。 在许多主要用木材来做饭的非洲城市，木材的价格正在节节上升。"
    ],
    [
        "A suggestive analogy may be to France during the long period of Anglo-American hegemony.",
        "可以用在长久的英美霸权时期的法国做比方。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while settlement-building in the West Bank has slackened, it continues.",
        "事实上，尽管速度有所放缓，但在约旦河西岸修建定居点的行为一直在持续。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, how else to explain the poor performance of a country as well-endowed as Switzerland, or as highly populated as Nigeria?",
        "事实上，还有什么能够解释向瑞士这样禀赋优渥国家，或像尼日利亚这样人口众多的国家会在奥运会上表现如此糟糕呢？"
    ],
    [
        "By jailing them, the regime has made it clear that violence is the only avenue open to those seeking change.",
        "当局通过囚禁这些人已经明确表明，暴力是那些寻求改变者唯一可用的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, in India, the printed word on pulped trees remains an amazingly healthy industry.",
        "但在印度，行将就木的报职业仍然生机勃发。"
    ],
    [
        "Planning for Korean Reunification",
        "准备朝鲜重新统一"
    ],
    [
        "Rigorous empirical tests may eventually settle questions such as whether the US economy today is suffering more from Keynesian lack of demand or from policy uncertainty.",
        "严谨的实证测试可能最终能解答当今美国经济最大的问题究竟是凯恩斯式的需求不足还是政策的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Not to worry, some economists, say. The US grew rapidly in the 1950’s and 1960’s with a relatively heavily regulated banking system.",
        "一些经济学家认为，即使在监管严厉的20世纪50和60年代，美国的经济依然迅猛发展。"
    ],
    [
        "States that are not involved in the conflict are also required to uphold the rights of the displaced, including the right to return to their homes wherever possible, and this must be addressed in peace agreements and enforced in peacekeeping mandates.",
        "没有参与冲突的国家也应该被要求保护流离失所者的权利，包括在可能的情况下让他们回到自己的家园的权利，这些必须在和平协议中明确规定，并且在维和行动中予以实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Five years ago, policies aimed at cutting greenhouse-gas emissions were seen as a cost burden on the economy.",
        "五年前，旨在降低温室气体排放的政策被视为经济的成本负担。"
    ],
    [
        "The arguments for a rate hike are valid.",
        "支持升息的理由很充分。"
    ],
    [
        "For cash-transfer schemes to work, they must be regular, predictable, and long term.",
        "这些现金转移项目要成功，它们就必须定期、可以预计以及长久。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU, in declaring Ukraine a priority partner for deeper political and economic ties, has the leverage to hold the Ukrainian government to account.",
        "欧盟宣布乌克兰是深化政治和经济关系的重点合作伙伴，它有手段问责乌克兰政府。"
    ],
    [
        "As it happens, nearly every system in the world is composed of such layers.",
        "其实，世界上几乎所有的系统都有着不同的层面。"
    ],
    [
        "Those leaders’ strategic decisions over the last few years, if not longer, have been rather consistently poor, or at least imprudent.",
        "那些领导人在过去那些年间所作的战略决策一直都很低劣，至少是不明智的。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy is a way to decide who the decision-makers will be, not a substitute for making decisions.",
        "民主必须确定由谁来担当决策者，而不是越俎代庖地完成决策任务。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, labor in the EU is largely immobile.",
        "与之相比，欧盟的劳动力却在很大程度上流动性很不够。"
    ],
    [
        "What’s Holding Back the World Economy?",
        "是什么在阻碍世界经济？"
    ],
    [
        "Three high-level negotiations between July and December can reshape the global development agenda, and give an important push to vital changes in the workings of the global economy.",
        "7月到12月间的三次高级别谈判可能重塑全球发展日程，并给全球经济运转的关键变化以重要的推力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the long run, such low interest rates may also discourage households from saving, lead to insufficient private-sector investment, and eventually result in economy-wide underinvestment, as occurred in many Latin American countries in the past.",
        "可从长远看，这样的低利率也可能损害普通家庭的存款倾向，从而使私营部门投资不足，并最终导致整个经济投资低迷，这样的情形在很多拉美国家曾经发生过。"
    ],
    [
        "The people were so grateful to the emperor – who became known as Nintoku (Emperor with Virtue and Benevolence) – that they volunteered to repair his palace.",
        "人民对天皇感恩戴德——他被称为“仁德”天皇——自愿为天皇修缮皇宫。"
    ],
    [
        "His speculation about complete parthenogenesis in mammals – not to mention his use of the term “immaculate conception” to describe the process – prompted public concern about whether scientists should be “playing God.”",
        "他关于哺乳动物完全无性生殖的推论——更不用说他使用了“无原罪怀胎”一词来形容上述过程——引发了公众关于科学家是否应当“扮演上帝”的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "What central banks should be doing is focusing on the flow of credit, which means restoring and maintaining local banks’ ability and willingness to lend to SMEs.",
        "央行应该做的是注重于信用流，这意味着重塑和维持地方银行向中小企业贷款的能力和意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Until growth resumes, any tentative financial stabilization will be extremely fragile.",
        "除非增长获得重振，否则任何暂时性的财政稳定都是非常脆弱的。"
    ],
    [
        "· Minimal harmonization of tax laws (such as a common basis for assessing corporate taxation) and social policy (such as further liberalization of national labor markets to encourage labor mobility);",
        "· 税法和社会政策的最低限度融合，前者如计算公司税的共同基准，后者如国家级劳动力市场的进一步自由化以鼓励劳动力流动。"
    ],
    [
        "While I don’t see that happening anytime soon, Japan could undertake two policies to inoculate itself against such concerns.",
        "尽管我并不认为利率会很快上升，但日本可以采取两项措施预防这些顾虑。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s leaders understand this well.",
        "中国领导人十分明白这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether India needs more institutions to control deficits and monitor the quality of its budgets is a question worthy of discussion.",
        "印度是否需要更多机构来控制赤字和监测预算质量的问题值得探讨。"
    ],
    [
        "The likelihood of forced deleveraging of margin calls underscores the potential for a further slide once full trading resumes.",
        "全面恢复交易后，被迫去杠杆的可能性仍可能造成进一步下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Such ideas are reflected in opinions polls in which Europeans claim that Israel and the US are the true dangers to world peace.",
        "很多民意测验体现了这样的观点，说美国和以色列才是世界和平的真正威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "A common approach will give the EU many powerful levers to ensure that Russia honors treaties and mutual agreements.",
        "共同策略将会给欧盟多种手段来确保俄国遵守条约和共同协议。"
    ],
    [
        "The whole success story thus was in place in early 1999, one year before Putin entered the stage.",
        "成功的机会在1999年初就已经崭露头角，而此时离普京上台执政还有一年的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The mission therefore will have to walk the thin and risky line in pursuit of its robust mandate to stabilize the country.",
        "联合国使命因此就将会在履行其稳定黎巴嫩国家的严峻使命中如履薄冰。"
    ],
    [
        "Along with events in Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine, it may well usher in an Arab spring of freedom, one long overdue.",
        "连同黎巴嫩、伊拉克和巴勒斯坦事件，它完全有可能给阿拉伯世界带来迟到已久的自由的春天。"
    ],
    [
        "Given voter turnout of 70%, this meant that the leave campaign won with only 36% of eligible voters backing it.",
        "由于投票率只有70%左右，这意味着脱欧阵营只需要36%的合格选民支持就可以得逞。"
    ],
    [
        "Signs that Fatah is moving towards becoming a normal political party were ample.",
        "而如今在法塔赫身上则正在显现出某些清晰的迹象，显示其正在转变成为一个一般意义上的政治党派。"
    ],
    [
        "Profiles in Cowardice",
        "临阵脱逃"
    ],
    [
        "The downsides of Brexit should have been obvious to voters before the referendum – not least because so many economists, defense experts, and world leaders spelled them out during the campaign.",
        "脱欧的负面效应本应在公投之前明确展现在选民面前—— 至少许多经济学家，防务专家和世界各国领导人都在选前极力阐述了。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq provided the symbols, civilian casualties, and recruiting ground that the jihadi extremists had sought in Afghanistan.",
        "杰哈德极端分子在阿富汗未能得到的象征标志、平民伤亡和人员招募土壤，都在伊拉克战争中如愿以偿。"
    ],
    [
        "These and other cities have been booming pretty much ever since; prices in most are up at least 50% in real terms since 2000.",
        "上述及其它城市此后住宅市场一片繁荣，房价从2000年的增幅至少达到了50%。"
    ],
    [
        "When Lithuania and then the other Baltic States – Estonia and Latvia – which were occupied by Stalin early in WWII, seized their opportunity for freedom in 1990-91, the Kremlin did not sit on its hands.",
        "当立陶宛及其他一些波罗的海国家，如爱沙尼亚和拉脱维亚这些在二战期间被斯大林占领的国家，抓住了1990至1991年的机会成为独立国后，克里姆林宫再也坐不住了。"
    ],
    [
        "The new administration of Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang will need some time to settle in.",
        "新上台的习近平和李克强需要一些时间来坐稳大位。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also allowed them to prove their mettle.",
        "但这也让它们证明自己的勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone’s July 21 summit was a small step forward.",
        "7月21日的欧元区峰会朝债务算是迈出了一小步。"
    ],
    [
        "When it came time for the students to choose the final book, they went with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.",
        "当学生选择期末分析著作时，他们选择了《哈利波特与魔法石》。"
    ],
    [
        "Both regions were religiously governed (historians differ about the role and natures of the religions in this context), but science flourished only in one of them.",
        "两个地区都处于宗教统治之下（历史学家们对这样背景下宗教的作用和特点意见不一），但科学只在其中的一个地区得以兴旺。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor has high taxation in the Nordic countries impeded economic performance.",
        "北欧国家的高税收却没有阻碍经济绩效。"
    ],
    [
        "First, we have to create the conditions for all countries to thrive independently.",
        "首先，我们必须为所有国家创造独立繁荣的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Avoiding it would compel the eurozone's core economies to embrace the fourth and final option: bribing the periphery to remain in a low-growth uncompetitive state.",
        "为了避免这一幕发生，欧元区核心国将被迫采取第四和第五选择：给外围国好处，让它们维持低增长、低竞争力现状。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to the Internet, the risks in realizing these new distribution networks are really only business risks – and thus are quantifiable and manageable.",
        "由于互联网，实现这种新的发行网的风险真的是只有商业风险，从而是可计可控的。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt hovers on the brink.",
        "埃及徘徊在崩溃边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "The answers to these questions will require research, and research into metastasis and tumor dormancy is difficult.",
        "对这些问题的答案都需要研究，但针对扩散和肿瘤休眠的研究是相当困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "For Clothilde Tingiri, a hot young programmer at Rwanda’s top software company, dreams of Beijing, not Cambridge, animate her ambitions.",
        "对于Clothilde Tingiri，一个在卢旺达最大的软件公司工作的年轻程序员来说，对北京而不是剑桥的梦想是激励她前进的理想。"
    ],
    [
        "That gap proved the difference between the success of the father and the failure of the son.",
        "其中的差距就是父亲的成功和儿子的失败的差别的来源。"
    ],
    [
        "So, despite revulsion on the part of Germany and the European Central Bank at the idea of a “bailout,” Greece needs large official financial support this year at rates that are not unsustainable to prevent its current illiquidity from devolving immediately into insolvency.",
        "所以，就算德国和欧洲央行（ECB）在“疏困”（bailout）议题上畏缩不前，希腊毕竟需要在年内获得大量官方资金援助，以防止其流动资金迅速耗尽，陷入无法偿债的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "By Freedom House’s count, more than 60% of the world’s countries are electoral democracies – regimes in which political parties compete and come to power in regularly scheduled elections – up from around 40% in the late 1980s.",
        "据自由之家统计，全球超60%的国家实行民主选举制度——即各党派在定期选举中竞争掌权——而20世纪80年代上述比例仅为40%。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1929 crash just does not seem relevant to most people today, probably because we survived the 1987 and 2000 crashes with few ill effects, while 1929 seems not only the distant past, but another world.",
        "1929年股市大跌对于当今的大多数人而言毫不相关，或许是因为我们从1987年后2000年的大跌中脱身而出，仅仅略有影响，而1929年不仅是遥远的过去，而且还是另一个世界了。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Christianity, whether Catholic or Orthodox, blocked economic development for centuries, until internal reformists redefined theological positions on money and banking, the nature of progress, and science and technology.",
        "类似地，基督教——不管是天主教还是正教——阻碍经济发展达几百年之久，直到内部改革者用货在货币和银行、进步的性质以及科学和技术的基础上重新定义了神学的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Bombs have exploded from Karachi to Lahore to Islamabad.",
        "从卡拉奇到拉合尔一直到伊斯兰堡，炸弹遍地爆炸。"
    ],
    [
        "Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat’s longtime deputy and the architect of the Oslo accords, quickly secured the backing of Fatah, the PLO’s core body.",
        "默罕默德·阿巴斯--阿拉法特的长期副手，也是\"奥斯陆协议\"的巴方设计师，迅速获得了巴勒斯坦解放组织的核心--法塔赫的全力支持。"
    ],
    [
        "· The “fallout” is potentially cross-border in nature.",
        "· 在本质上看，“放射性扩散”的影响很可能是跨国界的；"
    ],
    [
        "Despite all this, there was enough credibility in the G-2 idea to give it legs.",
        "尽管如此，依然有足够的证据来支撑 G-2 这个构想。"
    ],
    [
        "Absent China, that contribution would need to be subtracted from the IMF’s downwardly revised 3.1% estimate for world GDP growth in 2016, dragging it down to 1.9% – well below the 2.5% threshold commonly associated with global recessions.",
        "1%）中剔除，将世界GDP增长率拉低至1. 9%——大大低于通常伴随全球衰退出现的阈值2."
    ],
    [
        "These three mega-trends put African farmers in a better position than ever before to take advantage of increased public and private investment.",
        "这三种了不起的趋势使非洲农民能够对不断增长的公共和私人投资更好地加以利用。"
    ],
    [
        "There is evidence that in the wake of a financial crisis, when monetary policy becomes ineffective – for example, because nominal interest rates are at the zero bound – deficit spending can have an unusually strong stabilizing impact.",
        "有证据表明，在发生金融危机的情况下，如果政策无效——比如因为名义利率已经位于零区间——赤字支出可以起到不同寻常的稳定效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, Australia, Peru, and Vietnam, seeing the prospect of a rules-based international order in Asia, joined the talks in March 2010, and in an instant the P-4’s small boat became a great ocean liner.",
        "美国、澳大利亚、秘鲁和越南看到有望在亚洲建立基于规则的国际秩序，于2010年3月加入了谈判，于是，P-4的小船立刻变成了巨大的远洋巨轮。"
    ],
    [
        "With violent demonstrations in the streets of Athens, Madrid, and Rome, it is not hard to understand why some people may once again choose to give priority to their security, particularly their economic security.",
        "随着雅典、马德里和罗马街头暴力示威运动的增多，我们也不难理解为何有些人会再度优先考虑自己安全问题——特别是经济安全。"
    ],
    [
        "The nuclear power crisis at Japan’s Fukushima power plant has served as a dreadful reminder that events thought unlikely can and do happen.",
        "日本福岛电厂的核能危机以残酷的方式提醒人们，被认为不太可能的事情也是会发生的。"
    ],
    [
        "If you think I exaggerate, you have not been paying close attention.",
        "但如果你觉得我夸大其辞，那你显然没有认真观察整个事件。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama rightly wants to lead in global affairs through civilian more than military power; he understands that military solutions to foreign-policy problems are hugely expensive and often counter-productive in terms of advancing US security and prosperity over the long term.",
        "奥巴马总统当然希望通过民众而非军事力量来领导世界； 他清楚以军事手段解决外交政策问题代价极为昂贵，而且在推动美国长期安全和繁荣方面往往起到适得其反的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, nearly every resident of a developed country – and soon most of the rest of the world – can easily afford a smartphone, thereby gaining inexpensive access to a universe of human knowledge and entertainment that, until a generation ago, was far beyond the reach of all but the rich.",
        "如今，几乎所有发达国家的居民——大部分世界其他部分的人很快也会加入其中——可以轻松购买智能手机，从而以十分低廉的代价获得人类知识和娱乐的全部，而在一代人之前，这还仅仅是富人的特权。"
    ],
    [
        "If the banks are to be revived at all, they must be saved within days.",
        "如果想让银行恢复功能，就必须要在几天内为其提供援助。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea’s working-age population is falling by 1.2% annually – the fastest decline among OECD countries.",
        "韩国的工作适龄人口以每年1. 2%的速度下降，是经合组织国家中下降速度最快的。"
    ],
    [
        "But each percentage-point reduction in the corporate-tax rate would reduce federal revenues by about $12 billion per year.",
        "但公司税率每降低1个百分点，联邦收入将减少120亿美元/年。"
    ],
    [
        "Strengthening the rule of law and creating a level playing field essentially involve building a stable, effective PRI, composed of institutions that can motivate public officials to deliver services as effectively as possible.",
        "从根本上说，强化法治和建立平等竞技场要求建立稳定、有效的产权基础设施，这一制度体系应能激励政府官员尽量提高服务效率。"
    ],
    [
        "The West is not only overlooking the new Chinese leaders’ enhanced skill set, but is also misjudging the current state of the country’s economy, which, while far from perfect, is not crisis-torn and in desperate need of a quick fix.",
        "西方不仅忽略了中国新领导人强化了的技能组合，也错判了中国经济的现状。 目前，中国经济尽管远称不上完美，但亦非饱受危机摧残、急切需要修补。"
    ],
    [
        "But the tax-paying public – innocent of any wrongdoing – has also had to bear costs, both direct and indirect.",
        "但纳税人——他们没有做错任何事——也必须承担成本，不管是直接成本还是间接成本。"
    ],
    [
        "But the longer-term trends driving such tragedies – including demographic shifts, inadequate legal routes to Europe, poor governance and economic prospects in origin countries, and skewed public perceptions of refugees and migrants – can, to various degrees, be addressed.",
        "但造成悲剧的长期趋势——包括人口结构变化、向欧洲移民的合法途径欠缺、源起国治理不善和经济前景灰暗以及歪曲移民和难民的公众形象——可以在不同程度上找到解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "It is perhaps especially in Obama’s domestic policy – the shift to a more social-democratic tax system and universal health care – that one can best see the new president’s ideological drive.",
        "特别是从奥巴马的国内政策中—一种向更社会民主的税收体系和普遍医疗的转变—我们可能最能看出这位新任总统的意识形态取向。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States and its Afghan and NATO allies have demonstrated unmistakable progress in Afghanistan this year.",
        "但不管在其他方面的进展如何，只有阿富汗政府有效运作，美国及其盟友才能谈得上胜利 —— 但现在，阿富汗政府正在朝着错误的方向前行。"
    ],
    [
        "Food loss – on farms, during processing, transport, and at markets – undermines food security in most developing countries, where post-harvest losses can reach as high as 40% of production.",
        "粮食损失——在地头、在加工过程中、在运输期间、在市场交易中——威胁着大部分发展中国家的粮食安全，收获后损失可能高达产量的40%。"
    ],
    [
        "The environmental argument for an ambitious target is not that we need to “save the Earth.”",
        "宏大目标的环境论据不是我们需要“拯救地球”。"
    ],
    [
        "Interest rates were slashed, insolvent banks were bailed out, the printing presses were turned on, taxes were cut, and public spending was boosted.",
        "利率大幅下降，资不抵债的银行得到了援助，印钞机开足马力，税收被削减，公共支出则大增。"
    ],
    [
        "The ETS rapidly became the world’s largest system for putting a market price on environmental damage.",
        "欧盟在2003年将排放交易系统采纳为兑现其1997年京都议定书承诺的一个高性价比手段，同时还迅速建立了全球最大的系统去为环境污染设定市场价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Computing became decentralized, and the new flexibility produced a sense that control was moving away from big agglomerations of power – whether governments or companies.",
        "计算变得集权，而新的灵活性产生了一种感觉，那就是控制正在从政府或者公司等权力集中之处转移出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the true source of his success may consist in his understanding of when to abandon one method and devise another.",
        "事实上，他成功的真正源泉或许是因为他能理解是什么时候应当放弃一个投资手法并选择另外一种。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan, like other countries, has faced jurisdictional disputes among foreign-policy, defense, and police agencies that have hindered the aggregation and analysis of intelligence information.",
        "与其他国家一样，日本也面临着外交政策、防务和政策机构之间的管辖权限范围之争，妨碍了情报的汇总和分析。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Defense Agency’s Capabilities Development Plan was designed precisely with these requirements in mind.",
        "这些要求恰恰是欧洲防务局能力发展计划设计时所考虑的。"
    ],
    [
        "This tax-cutting frenzy comes, incredibly, after three decades of elite fiscal rule in the US that has favored the rich and powerful.",
        "更令人难以置信的是，这场减税狂热竟然在持续30年的偏袒有权有势者的精英财政管理后出现了。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The well-publicized troubles of Portugal’s Banco Espírito Santo this summer have reminded us that the eurozone’s financial problems are by no means resolved.",
        "伦敦—今年夏天引起轩然大波的葡萄牙Espírito Santo银行麻烦提醒我们，欧元区金融危机还远未的大解决。"
    ],
    [
        "The obesity epidemic, however, has a much broader footprint, affecting advanced economies and most emerging markets.",
        "与此同时肥胖症的流行范围则更广，遍及发达经济体和大多数新兴市场。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that none of the Realpolitik envisioned by Ferguson will come to fruition.",
        "这并不是说弗格森所提出的现实政治将毫无成效。"
    ],
    [
        "In an earlier era, they became indebted to the pawnbroker; now they are indebted to banks or credit-card companies.",
        "从前，他们欠当铺老板的钱； 如今，他们欠银行和信用卡公司的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidence of increased SBU activity with political motives was presented in various human rights groups´ reports.",
        "众多人权团体的报告表明，带政治目的的SBU活动有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, a number of epidemiological studies have reported an association between asthma and exposure to paracetamol in the womb, in childhood, and in adulthood.",
        "从那时起，多项流行病研究报告了哮喘与在怀孕期间、儿童以及成年阶段服用扑热息痛之间的关联性。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, a new approach is needed – one that capitalizes on the comparative advantages of the private sector, state authorities, and the federal government.",
        "显然，我们需要新方针——利用私人部门、州有关部门和联邦政府的比较优势的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "The “dark triad” study was published long before the allegations against Weinstein came to light, but it remains the most comprehensive investigation into the personalities of sexual harassers.",
        "早在韦恩斯坦指控曝光前很久就发布了“暗黑三要素”的研究成果，但迄今为止，这项成果依然是对性骚扰者个性特质的最全面的调查。"
    ],
    [
        "But it will not be smooth sailing.",
        "但前方绝非坦途。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, given Germany’s surprisingly impressive employment performance, another Wirtschaftswunder appeared to be in the making.",
        "德国令人惊喜的就业表现表明，另一场经济奇迹正在酝酿中。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, we should not attribute current enthusiasm for fiscal retrenchment to such contingencies.",
        "与此同时，我们也不应该将当前对财政紧缩的热情归因于这些突发事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Primary health care is also a key pathway to achieving universal health coverage, a stated goal of the international community.",
        "初级医疗也是实现国际社会公开提出的目标——全民健康覆盖的最重要的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "When former US president Bill Clinton tried to set up the second Camp David summit, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hesitated. He felt that the situation was not right for direct talks.",
        "当年美国前总统比尔·克林顿尝试召开第二次戴维营峰会，已故的巴勒斯坦民族权力机构主席阿拉法特却对此感到迟疑。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, inflationary expectations will increase, long-term government bond yields will rise, and the recovery will be crowded out.",
        "通胀就会变得不可避免。 长期政府债券利率上升，复苏就无从谈起。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is the current stalemate in reducing the fiscal deficit and reversing the growth of the national debt.",
        "结果就是当前的僵局——无法削减财政赤字，也无法扭转国民债务的上升趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "This reform represents a victory for multilateralism that demonstrates ownership of how Fund surveillance will be strengthened and members’ willingness to live up to their responsibilities in the process.",
        "这一改革是多边主义的胜利，表明本基金的监控将会得到加强，同时表明，各成员国愿意遵履行其在进程中的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The other members of the new Standing Committee bring a broad array of experience and skills.",
        "新常委的其他成员则拥有诸多经验和技能。"
    ],
    [
        "Vested interests remain powerful, certainly in Congress – and even within the White House.",
        "既得利益仍然十分强大，特别是在国会——甚至是在白宫中。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe cannot continue to marginalize one of its own minorities; anti-Roma prejudice and unlawful discrimination must not go unchallenged.",
        "欧洲不能再继续边缘化其自身的少数民族了； 反罗姆人偏见和非法歧视的状况必须改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Now people are taking South Africa seriously as a player in space research.",
        "现在人们已经开始认真对待南非参与太空研究的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "Another is to allow users themselves to decide from a preset menu how much personal information they are prepared to share.",
        "还有一种方案是让用户从预置菜单中自行选择愿意分享多少个人资料。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, provided they can sufficiently muzzle the media they can even allow (relatively) free elections, as in Putin’s Russia.",
        "事实上，倘若独裁政府能够有效地箝制媒体的言论，他们甚至可以允许（相对）自由的选举，就像普京时代的俄罗斯那样。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given that the strengths and weaknesses of most of the actors are highly contingent, the regional balance of power remains highly fluid.",
        "但是，由于大部分行动方的优势和劣势都是高度不确定的，地区实力平衡仍然极不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The eurozone crisis unfolded primarily as a sovereign-debt crisis mostly on its southern periphery, with interest rates on sovereign bonds at times reaching 6-7% for Italy and Spain, and even higher for other countries.",
        "华盛顿—欧元区危机之发酵，首先是作为多发生于南欧外围国家的主权债务危机，意大利和西班牙的主权债券利率数次达到了6—7%的水平，其他国家甚至更高。"
    ],
    [
        "While that is a vast improvement over the 6%-of-GDP deficits the US was running a decade ago, the US still imports considerably more than it exports, meaning the government stands to collect far more revenues from its 20% tax on imports than it would have to give in tax breaks to exporters.",
        "5％。 虽然这相对于十年前超过6％的比例来说已经实现了巨大的飞跃，但美国的进口仍然大大高于出口，这意味着政府20%的进口税收收入要比它给出口商的减税额更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Never have those challenges been greater or more urgent than they are today.",
        "如今，气候挑战比以往任何时候都要艰巨和紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "By promoting the core vision of a jihad to defend the lands of Islam (Dar al-Islam) from outsiders, the CIA produced a hardened fighting force of thousands of young men displaced from their homes and stoked for battle.",
        "通过构建圣战捍卫伊斯兰领土免受外来侵略的核心愿景，中情局招募的成千上万年轻人组成了一支强硬的战斗力量，这些在战争中流离失所的年轻人渴望参与战斗。"
    ],
    [
        "We must recognize that in the desire to broaden home ownership, essential checks and balances broke down.",
        "我们必须认识到，为了扩大房屋所有权，必要的检查和平衡被打破了。"
    ],
    [
        "It has afflicted the United States Navy, which is now investigating more than 60 admirals and hundreds more officers for fraud and bribery.",
        "它冲击到美国海军，有超过60名将领和数百名官兵正在接受有关欺诈和贿赂的调查。"
    ],
    [
        "Hybrid Humans",
        "混合人"
    ],
    [
        "NEWPORT BEACH – I was nine years old when Egypt entered what became known as its “war of attrition” with Israel.",
        "纽波特海滩—我九岁的时候，埃及和以色列打了一场现在被称为“消耗战”的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "In April 2010, about 18 months after the Lehman Brothers meltdown, the crisis seemed over.",
        "2010年4月，在雷曼兄弟倒闭18个月后，危机似乎结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "This reasoning can apply as well to how we regard adults.",
        "这样的推理也适用于我们对成年人的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "But now, as more evidence is gathered, it looks likely that even this may not do justice to the full value of vaccines.",
        "但随着更多证据的收集，现在看来这也不足以概括疫苗的完全价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Brezhnev’s Soviet Union tested a new type of ASAT weapon, and President Gerald Ford’s administration decided to respond in kind.",
        "勃列日涅夫的苏联测试了新型ASAT武器，而美国总统福特政府决定有所反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Most were Serb civilians.",
        "其中多数人是塞族平民。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was also the languor of the blues, Nashville, and the green light that he saw gleaming at dawn after nights soaked in alcohol and amphetamines.",
        "但它也是慵懒的蓝调，是纳什维尔（Nashville），是他在浸透着酒精和安非他命的长夜尽头所看到的隐隐闪现的绿光。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, stability requires agreement between the two key actors; and there are sure to be plenty of opponents and allies trying to stir up trouble between them.",
        "当然，稳定需要两个主要人物之间达成协议； 并且肯定会有很多反对派和盟友试图在他们中间制造不和。"
    ],
    [
        "This sense of injustice is only partly contained by political considerations in the US, thanks to the “Obama factor,” a rare phenomenon that can be described as the restoration of trust in one’s political leaders.",
        "这种不公的感觉在美国只得到了政治考量的部分控制，而这多亏了“奥巴马因素”，这一罕见的现象可以被形容为恢复对政治领导人的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, any move by Bosnia’s Serb Republic to secede could incite instability there.",
        "同样地，波斯尼亚的塞族共和国任何寻求脱离国家的行动都会引发那里的不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps this was because the eastern countries’ attitudes are more driven by recent historical memories and experiences.",
        "或许，这是因为东部国家的态度更受到近代历史留下的记忆和经验的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "They rise up from slumber.",
        "他们从沉睡中醒来。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the granting of mineral resources to foreigners reduces – and could even eliminate – their benefits for local people.",
        "毕竟，把矿产资源给外国人损害甚至完全抹杀了它们给本地人带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Human rights activists questioned the wisdom of endorsing the leader of a growingly authoritarian Russia.",
        "Bush），也有格哈德·施罗德（Gerhard Schroeder），还有白俄罗斯独裁者 Alexandar Lukashenka，以及土库曼自称为“克拉斯诺沃茨克（Turkmenbashi）” ——土库曼人之父的Sapurmurad Nyazov。"
    ],
    [
        "Darkness or Dawn in Belarus?",
        "白俄罗斯：黑夜还是黎明？"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico’s 2012 General Law on Climate Change has put it on course for a major increase in clean power.",
        "墨西哥2012年气候变化一般法（General Law on Climate Change）将大大提高清洁电力的用量。"
    ],
    [
        "Clerks would not bring out files, or get you your birth certificate or land title, unless you greased their palms.",
        "除非你满足他们的要求，否则政府办事员就不会向你提供相关文件，或者向你颁发出生证明或是地契。"
    ],
    [
        "Many fear that this is a global phenomenon with similar causes everywhere, a key claim in Thomas Piketty’s celebrated book Capital in Twenty-First Century.",
        "许多人担心这是一个全球现象，并且各地出现这一现象的原因都差不多，这是托马斯·皮凯蒂（Thomas Piketty）在其热门著作《二十一世纪资本论》（Capital in Twenty-First Century）中提出的关键观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Estimates for Greece assume that prices and wages need to come down by 20-30%.",
        "根据估算，希腊需要将价格和工资下降20—30%。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, Alexander Hamilton famously negotiated the federal assumption of states’ debt in 1790, but many states behaved badly in the early nineteenth century, with multiple bankruptcies, until they adopted laws or amendments to their constitutions requiring balanced budgets.",
        "在美国，亚历山大·汉密尔顿在1790年成功地进行了将州债务联邦化的谈判，但许多州在19世纪初仍然表现糟糕，发生了多起破产案，直到它们出台了平衡预算的法律或州宪法修正案之后情况才有所改善。"
    ],
    [
        "For every dollar spent, $11 of climate damage would be avoided.",
        "在这方面，每花费一美元，就能避免11美元的气候损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost every aspect of our economies will be radically altered.",
        "我们经济的几乎方方面面都将发生彻底的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "The Europeans then brought millions of African slaves to the Americas.",
        "接着欧洲人就贩运成百上千万的非洲奴隶。"
    ],
    [
        "Three things:",
        "原因有三："
    ],
    [
        "Nayar suggests that it has long been known that the reactor’s design contained basic flaws, though only the Japanese authorities can verify this.",
        "纳亚尔认为人们早就知道反应堆的设计存在根本缺陷，尽管只有日本当局能够证实。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – The International Monetary Fund now estimates a 30% risk of deflation in the eurozone, and growth figures within the monetary union continue to disappoint.",
        "布鲁塞尔—国际货币基金组织（IMF）现在估计欧元区通缩的风险为30%，而该货币联盟内部增长数字也依然令人失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Facing the Israelis together is the only way that the rival Palestinian groups will postpone their own bloody showdown.",
        "共同面对以色列是对峙的巴勒斯坦团体推迟其流血摊牌的唯一方式。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – When world leaders convene in Paris this week for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, their task will be to reach a global agreement on curbing greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "华盛顿—本周，全世界领导人齐聚巴黎参加联合国气候变化会议，他们的任务是达成一个全球协定降低温室气体排放。"
    ],
    [
        "The current turmoil highlights the international financial system’s need for such an institution.",
        "当前的动荡突出了国际金融体系需要这样的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "In principle, low-income individuals and families could be compensated through lump-sum transfer programs.",
        "理论上，低收入个人和家庭应该通过一次性转移支付计划补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "The second is the politics of detail, where the new foreign policy chief’s role is to create a single EU stance on the wide range of issues about which European governments still have wildly different national positions.",
        "另一个则是细节的政治，也就是欧盟新的外交政策首脑肩负着在欧洲各国政府立场大相径庭的一系列问题上塑造统一欧盟立场的艰巨任务。"
    ],
    [
        "A second difference is that, notwithstanding recent cuts in social programs, the unemployed receive more extensive public support than in the 1930’s.",
        "第二个不同点在于，尽管最近以来社会保障项目有所削减，但失业者所获得的公共支持仍比20世纪30年代多得多。"
    ],
    [
        "They responded that such previous action by them had not been reciprocated, and they reminded me that Hamas had previously insisted on a ceasefire throughout Palestine including both Gaza and the West Bank, which Israel had refused.",
        "他们回答说他们以前曾经采取过这样的行动，但是没有得到响应。 他们还提醒我说哈马斯此前曾坚持在包括加沙和西岸的整个巴勒斯坦地区实现停火，但是被以色列拒绝了。"
    ],
    [
        "The State Department’s handling of the matter – which included approval of Khobragade’s arrest – has been, to say the least, inept.",
        "美国国务院对此事的处理——包括批捕科巴拉加德——不可不谓拙劣。"
    ],
    [
        "Their full participation is therefore essential to achieve sustainable development.”",
        "因此，妇女的全面参与是获得可持续发展的关键。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But, with Argentina and Repsol recently reaching a settlement, interest has revived.",
        "但是，最近阿根廷和雷普索尔公司达成了和解，对页岩气的投资兴趣也开始激活。"
    ],
    [
        "Nominal bonds are not well hedged against inflation, and, over the long run, assets that are claims to cash without effective control are highly vulnerable to financial vultures.",
        "名义债券对于通胀的避险功能较弱，并且长期来看，未得到有效控制的可变现资产很容易受到金融秃鹫们的攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – It is a rare political speech that stops me in my tracks.",
        "伦敦—一则政治讲话让我停下行程，这是很罕见的。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, Colombian voters rejected a peace accord that was widely expected to receive popular approval.",
        "最近则有哥伦比亚人民拒绝和平协议的事件，人们原本广泛预期这一协议会受到热烈欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "These voters will oppose the fiscal and monetary integration required to stabilize the eurozone if they think their money will be spent on subsidizing poor countries on Europe’s periphery that refuse to cooperate on refugees and fail to abide by EU laws.",
        "如果这些选民认为政府用他们的钱来补贴那些拒绝在难民问题上合作并拒绝遵守欧盟法律的欧洲周边贫困国家，他们就会反对稳定欧元区所必须的财政和货币一体化政策。"
    ],
    [
        "They need to get over themselves – for everyone’s sake.",
        "为了所有人的利益，他们必须克服自己的短处。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, not acting in Syria has proved to be as consequential as acting.",
        "事实证明就算对叙利亚袖手旁观，也会跟介入干涉一样产生某些后果。"
    ],
    [
        "My father obtained a high school diploma and became a taxi driver, while my mother attended university and worked in a state office.",
        "我的父亲读完了高中，后来成为一名的士司机； 而我的母亲上了大学，然后在国家机关工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the tangible and intangible benefits of adopting new forms of collaboration – reducing the cost of failure, leveraging unused IP and external funding mechanisms, increasing access to networks of talent, and establishing greater trust among patients and other stakeholders – could be extensive.",
        "采取这种新的合作方式，其带来的有形和无形的利润都很可观，包括降低失败成本，平衡未使用过的知识产权和外部资助机制，增加人才使用的渠道，以及在患者和其它利益相关者之间建立更大的信任等。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission accepted the reform, and has since made several additional changes, each time proudly declaring that the SGP is more “flexible” and “intelligent” than ever.",
        "欧盟委员会接受了改革，此后又进行了几次变革，每一次都骄傲地宣布SGP比以往更加“灵活”和“智能”。"
    ],
    [
        "After an “age” of excessive leverage, debt creation, and credit entitlement that culminated in the 2008 global financial crisis, America still faces the tricky challenge of allocating cumulative losses that continuously inhibit investment, jobs, and competitiveness.",
        "在经历了过度杠杆化、债务创造和信贷泛滥、并在2008年全球金融危机爆发前达到顶峰的“时代”后，美国仍然面临着一项艰巨的挑战——如何分配持久抑制投资、就业和竞争力的累积损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Generally, counter-terrorism is very high on our international agenda and is becoming better integrated into the Union's political dialogue with other countries.",
        "总的来说，反恐怖主义在我们国际事务中的当务之急，而且日渐融入到欧盟与其他国家的政治对话中。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no dispute that ECT can cause short-term memory loss.",
        "人们对ECT治疗会引起短期的记忆丧失没有争议。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the excessive printing of dollars to finance the Civil War contributed to high inflation.",
        "在美国，为南北战争融资而过度印刷美元也导致了高通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "A code of ethics is needed because the power of science to result in harm, if it is not well governed, has grown vastly.",
        "需要一套伦理规范，是因为如果管理不善，科学就会带来危害，而科学的这种力量已经有了巨大增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the European Union, the International Labor Organization, and the government of Bangladesh have cooperated with global companies on a pact to improve conditions for Bangladeshi garment workers.",
        "类似地，欧盟、国际劳工组织和孟加拉国政府与跨国公司合作签署了改善孟加拉国制衣工人工作环境的契约。"
    ],
    [
        "Radicals used to learn to handle a Kalashnikov and hijack planes with the Palestinians. Now they learn to handle a Kalashnikov and hijack planes with Al Qaeda.",
        "激进分子曾经和巴勒斯坦人一道学用卡拉什尼科夫冲锋枪，演练如何劫机，而现在，基地组织成了他们的同伴。"
    ],
    [
        "But these are nuances, not fundamental differences.",
        "但这些都只是细微差别，并非根本性的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "When their candidate disappoints them – as he inevitably will, regardless of the election’s outcome – they will bear in mind that democracy is the worst system, except for all of the others.",
        "当候选人令他们失望的时候——这种情况照例都会发生，不管选举的最终结果如何——他们都会知道，排开其他政治制度不谈，民主其实是最坏的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "The safest approach might be to test several techniques on nearby asteroids before using them against Apophis when it approaches Earth.",
        "最稳妥的办法也许是，先拿地球附近的其他小行星来做实验，测试几种技术的可行性，然后再用来对付阿波菲斯。"
    ],
    [
        "But we also need other structural measures.",
        "但我们还需要其他结构性措施。"
    ],
    [
        "If such a contingent-capital structure had been in place before the crisis, troubled banks would have been recapitalized by the contingent debt holders while avoiding the complications and legal posturing inevitable in formal bankruptcy.",
        "如果这种后备资金的金融体系在危机发生之前就实施，问题银行就会被后备债权人重组，同时避免了正式破产程序所需的复杂的法律程序。"
    ],
    [
        "Eastern Europe’s transformation after 1989 took a lot longer and was much more costly than originally envisaged.",
        "1989年后的东欧转型过程比原先预想的耗时更长，代价也更大。"
    ],
    [
        "If they did make such a move, however, they would greatly reduce the Democrats’ oppositional power over the next few years.",
        "但是，如果他们真的取消了冗长演讲，将大大削弱未来几年中民主党的反对力量。"
    ],
    [
        "But these difficult talks face significant challenges from outside the negotiating room, particularly from Hamas, which is intent on ensuring that nothing happens without its approval.",
        "但这场艰难谈判所面临的最大挑战其实是场外因素，尤其来自哈马斯，在该组织眼里，除非他们点头同意，否则一切目标都别想实现。"
    ],
    [
        "A good portion of the world is ruled this way.",
        "在世界上，有许多地方用这种方式进行统治。"
    ],
    [
        "The deepest problem is Europe’s inability to grow at more than a snail’s pace and to provide jobs to its citizens.",
        "最为严重的问题是，欧洲经济增长迟缓，无法提供就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The new futures market for single-family homes at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (which I helped establish last May with our firm MacroMarkets LLC) is predicting that by next August prices will fall between 6% and 8% in all ten US cities traded.",
        "据芝加哥商品交易所新设立的独立住宅期货市场（去年5月我所在的宏观证券研究有限公司曾经对该市场的筹建起到过辅助作用）预测：截至明年8月，在全部10座参与交易的美国城市中，房价的跌幅将达到6%到8%。"
    ],
    [
        "What better place than Brazil, with its large and growing consumer market, to incubate the next Facebook?",
        "巴西拥有不断增长的巨大的消费市场，比其他任何地区都更适合产生下一个Facebook。"
    ],
    [
        "The first was to adopt an outline of the text of the 2015 Paris agreement.",
        "第一是为2015年巴黎协定制定纲领。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if a person became indebted, it was a point of honor to repay the obligation when it fell due, by selling assets, reducing consumption, working harder, or some combination of the three.",
        "如果一个人借了债，那么就必须在债务到期时通过变卖资产，减少消费或者努力工作等方式偿还，因为这事关个人荣誉。"
    ],
    [
        "What these countries do not seem to recognize is that it is the petrodollar-funded export of Wahhabism – the source of modern Sunni jihad – that has gradually extinguished more liberal Islamic traditions elsewhere and fueled the international terrorism that now threatens to devour its sponsors.",
        "这些国家没有意识到的是，逐渐侵蚀其他地区更自由的伊斯兰教传统、助长如今有可能反噬赞助国的国际恐怖主义的正是石油美元所支持的瓦哈比派的输出。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a vast difference between unit labor costs – real wages adjusted for productivity – in Germany and in the heavily indebted southern countries.",
        "德国和其他南欧重债国的单位劳动力成本——经生产率调整的真实工资——之间存在巨大差异。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the great value of big data.",
        "这就是大数据的重大意义。"
    ],
    [
        "They also affect business decisions about what to invest in, how to finance investments, which form of business organization to adopt, and where to produce – reflecting sizeable differences in the effective tax rates behind these choices.",
        "它们还会影响企业投资何处、如何为投资融资、采取何种企业组织形式以及在何处生产的决策——这些决策的背后是有效税率的巨大差异。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The Trans-Pacific Partnership, the far-reaching trade and investment agreement that the United States has negotiated with 11 other countries, including Canada, Mexico, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, and Vietnam, is now up for debate.",
        "华盛顿—美国与加拿大、墨西哥、日本、马来西亚、澳大利亚、越南等11个国家谈判的影响深远的贸易和投资协定——跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）就要进入争论阶段了。"
    ],
    [
        "The malaise afflicting today’s global economy might be best reflected in two simple slogans: “It’s the politics, stupid” and “Demand, demand, demand.”",
        "影响今天全球经济的症候可以用两句简单的口号表达：“是政治，蠢货”和“需求，需求，需求。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In 1979, he resigned from his official posts to assume the vague role of “Commander of the Revolution,” explaining that “the revolution must be separated from the authority of the state.”",
        "1979年，他辞去公职担任“革命指挥官”这一模糊职务，并解释说“革命事业必须要和国家权力分开。"
    ],
    [
        "Marco Rubio’s remark about Trump’s small hands?",
        "马可·卢比奥评论特朗普的手小？"
    ],
    [
        "From its beginning in 1775, the US Postal Service was based on the principle “that every person in the United States – no matter who, no matter where – has the right to equal access to secure, efficient, and affordable mail service.”",
        "从1775年建立开始，美国邮政局一直基于“所有美国人——不论是谁、不论身处何地——都有权利平等地获得安全、高效、平价的邮件服务”的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the Kan administration – which loathes the involvement of bureaucrats, who are professionals, in managing public affairs – delayed notifying neighboring countries when it was forced to order the release of water containing low concentrations of radioactive material.",
        "事实上在被迫下令向海中排放低浓度放射性污水之时，正是这个痛恨专业公共事务官僚的菅直人政府贻误了知会各国政府的时机。"
    ],
    [
        "We are becoming embedded in a cyberspace that can link anyone, anywhere, to all the world’s information and culture – and to every other person on the planet.",
        "我们越来越离不开可以将任何地方的任何人与世界上所有信息及文化联系起来、将这个星球上每一个人联系起来的网络。"
    ],
    [
        "It follows that the US needs a president who will put America first and knows how to extract the best deals for it at every opportunity, using the country’s full might to advance its interests.",
        "因此，美国需要一位把美国放在第一位、知道如何在每一次机会中如何获得最佳协议、用美国的全部力量推进它的利益的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Only 11% identified Iran as the biggest threat to their security.",
        "只有11%的人把伊朗视为对他们的威胁的最大的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe clearly would be better off with Chirac weakened than strengthened, even if it means a temporary slowing of the pace of integration.",
        "显然，势力削弱的希拉克比势力强大的他对欧洲更为有利，即使这意味着欧洲整合的进程将暂时放缓脚步。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the giddy pace of technological change is likely to continue to drive globalization, but the political effects will be different for the world of nation-states and the world of non-state actors.",
        "即使在金融危机发生之后，技术变化令人眼花缭乱的步伐很可能会继续驱动全球化向前发展，但是，对一个由国家组成的世界和一个由非国家参与者组成的世界来说，其政治影响将会是不同的。"
    ],
    [
        "And in Fiji, no-take zones and better management of marine areas has increased species like mangrove lobsters by 250% per year.",
        "由于斐济的禁止捕捞区域以及海上领域的良好管理，该国每年增加红树林以及龙虾等物种达到250%。"
    ],
    [
        "By preserving its unity of purpose and maintaining the pressure and negotiating momentum that it has generated, Europe can demonstrate to Iran, the US, and itself that it has what it takes to be a major global actor.",
        "统一目标、保持它所带来的压力和谈判动力可以让欧洲向伊朗、美国及其本身展示什么才是真正的全球行动者。"
    ],
    [
        "The external forces fomenting insurgent attacks in Rakhine bear considerable responsibility for the Rohingyas’ current plight.",
        "在罗兴亚群体中煽动报复的外部力量对罗兴亚人当前的困境要负很大责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Or it may be an explicit bias: an economist might write a report that is influenced by what a sponsor wants to hear, or give testimony that is purely mercenary.",
        "也可以是显性的：一个经济学家可能会撰写一份符合资助者心意的报告，或者纯粹为挣钱而发表证言。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty years later – just 34 years from now – there will be nearly ten billion, or nearly 2.5 billion more people than there are on Earth today.",
        "二十年后——亦即距今34年后——可能会有近一百亿人，比今天的地球人口多出25亿。"
    ],
    [
        "Progress on these fronts will not be possible if the US and China remain stuck in the quagmire of codependency.",
        "如果中国和美国继续陷在共存陷阱中，那么这些方面的进展就不可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is another, woefully under-reported, side to the story.",
        "但这个故事还有另外一个侧面，而媒体对这个侧面的报导却严重不足。"
    ],
    [
        "One key step, I believe, is to remove these issues from short-term electoral politics.",
        "我认为关键步骤是将上述问题从短期选举政治中移除。"
    ],
    [
        "For an extended period, Japan allowed only strongly regulated financial intermediaries to manage capital flows, effectively discouraging the international use of its currency.",
        "在相当长的一段时期。 日本只允许受到严格监管的金融中介机构去管理资金流，也因此有效遏制了其货币的国际应用。"
    ],
    [
        "There will be many more innovative breakthroughs as ASEAN develops into an integrated, open, peaceful, and outward-looking region.",
        "在向成为整合，开放，和平和外向型区域的发展过程中，东盟将实现越来越多的创新性突破。"
    ],
    [
        "To make the scheme counter-cyclical, the SDR issues could be callable in tranches when the global economy overheats.",
        "当全球经济过热时，为了实施反周期计划，特别提款权收益就可以部分随时支取。"
    ],
    [
        "He argued that capitalism needs to find new moral values and to accept a stronger role for governments.",
        "他认为，资本主义需要寻找新的道德价值观并承认政府能起更强的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN Millennium Development Goals, adopted in 2000, expire in December 2015, which means that time is running to meet the deadline for achieving the target of universal primary education.",
        "2000年开始的联合国千年发展目标将在2015年12月到期，这意味着实现全民普及小学教育的目标正在快速接近最后期限。"
    ],
    [
        "Once Britain’s political, business, and media leaders start drawing attention to these hard facts of life after Brexit, we can be confident that voters will decide to stay in the EU.",
        "一旦英国政治、商业和媒体领袖开始注意到这些关于英国退出之后的生活的“硬”事实，我们大可信心满满地认为选民将会决定留在欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "CAIRO – Arab intellectuals and policymakers have often accused Europe of using financial generosity to cover up its political impotence over the Arab-Israeli conflict.",
        "发自开罗 —— 阿拉伯世界的知识分子和政策制定者经常指责欧洲，认为欧洲只能靠大洒金钱来掩盖其在阿拉伯 - 以色列冲突方面的政治软弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Land-rich Brazil, too, is a case study in the consequences of under-investment.",
        "土地广袤的巴西也是研究投资不足的后果的案例。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has been on the sanctions treadmill for years.",
        "美国多年来一直推动制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "At the onset of its crisis, Argentina’s budget deficit, public debt, and current-account deficit (as a share of GDP) were about 3%, 50% and 2%, respectively.",
        "当年阿根廷爆发债务危机之初，其预算赤字、公债和经常项目赤字的GDP占比分别在3%、50%和2%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "But if we believe that – if we put a lid on history and leave it behind us – we run a risk that history will resurrect itself with all its horrors.",
        "但如果我们信以为真—如果我们将历史封藏并遗忘—我们就冒着让历史在恐怖中重演的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies and governments have to make informed guesses, because some of their investments today will last longer than 20 years.",
        "企业和政府必须根据现有情况作出猜测，因为今天的某些投资将会延续到20年以后。"
    ],
    [
        "That may explain why Muscovites are more willing to accept a statue of Stalin than Berliners would be to have one of Hitler.",
        "这或许可以解释莫斯科人能接受斯大林像而柏林人不能接受希特勒像。"
    ],
    [
        "Few policies manage to be economically illiterate and heartless all at once.",
        "集没有经济意义和冷酷无情于一身的政策却不多。"
    ],
    [
        "Defusing the crises in Darfur and elsewhere will be among the greatest challenges facing the new Secretary-General.",
        "缓和达尔富尔和其他地区的紧张局势是新任联合国秘书长最为艰巨的任务之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy movements in Lebanon, Egypt, and elsewhere in the region must face the challenge of incorporating Islamist parties into democratic systems.",
        "黎巴嫩、埃及和中东其他地区的民主运动都面临着同样的挑战——如何使伊斯兰政党融入民主体系。"
    ],
    [
        "The bulk of the shortfall is due to less intensive use of labor: employment rates for women and for the oldest and youngest age groups are lower in the euro area than in the US, working hours are far fewer, and, least significantly, unemployment rates are higher.",
        "差距主要是由于劳动力使用不够密集。 欧元区妇女、最大以及最年轻年龄组的就业率要低于美国，工作时间更少，而且更为重要的是，失业率更高。"
    ],
    [
        "An important and controversial offshoot of the agenda is the action plan against migrant smuggling, which may include the use of military force to stop the smugglers’ boats.",
        "议程既重要又充满争议的一项是反移民走私行动计划，可能包括使用武力对走私船进行拦截。"
    ],
    [
        "Bank loans have started to increase, but small borrowers, new borrowers, and start-up companies are regularly refused.",
        "银行贷款已开始增加，但小型借款人、新借款人和创业公司总是吃闭门羹。"
    ],
    [
        "They immobilize fiscal policy, lead to serious distortions in the financial system, trigger political fights over taxation, and incite costly distributional conflicts.",
        "它会钳制财政政策，导致金融体系的严重扭曲，引发有关税收的政治斗争和挑起代价高昂的分配冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, France has always considered Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab world to be natural spheres of political and strategic influence that are necessary to maintaining its position as a global power.",
        "特别是，法国向来将撒哈拉以南非洲和阿拉伯世界视为维持其全球强国地位不可或缺的天然政治和战略影响范围。"
    ],
    [
        "This, together with the knowledge that his army is weakening and the pool of new recruits is drying up, would force Assad to reconsider his long-term prospects and, most likely, force him to the negotiating table.",
        "这，再加上明知巴沙尔军正在削弱并且新兵兵源也在告竭，将迫使巴沙尔重新考虑其长期前景，极有可能迫使他坐到谈判桌前。"
    ],
    [
        "As the director of the State Council’s Development Research Center, Li Wei, pointed out in February, at the current rate, China will be consuming 800 million tons of oil annually, and importing 75% of its petroleum, by 2030.",
        "国家发改委研究中心李铁在2月份指出，按照当前速度，到2030年，中国每年将消费8亿吨石油，75%的石油需要进口。"
    ],
    [
        "Alerted by a telephone call, a policeman arrived smartly on the scene.",
        "接到电话报警后，一名警察立即赶到了现场。"
    ],
    [
        "Escalating fears have driven US President Barack Obama to declare repeatedly that any Syrian use or transfer of chemical weapons would cross a “red line,” for which President Bashar al-Assad’s regime would be “held accountable.”",
        "逐步升级的担忧让美国总统奥巴马再三强调，叙利亚使用或转运化学武器的任何行为都意味着越过“红线”，总统巴沙尔·阿萨德政权将因此“被问责”。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, James would object that this is not what he wanted at all.",
        "这时，詹姆斯会抗议说这完全不是他想要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Some users capture disproportionate gains, while others fail to benefit.",
        "某些用户从中获得绝大部分好处，而其他人则基本无法受益。"
    ],
    [
        "It has also made for new kinds of allies, with activist investors like Carl Icahn tweeting their intentions and markets responding.",
        "由此还形成了新的联盟——像卡尔·伊坎这样的活跃投资人士在推特上发表观点并引发市场响应。"
    ],
    [
        "And there is a good reason why it eventually will.",
        "有充分的理由表明，最终将会如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The opportunities for growth in Europe and the US from this additional global demand are enormous.",
        "这一新增需求也为欧美地区的增长创造了可观的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Your efforts to move forward towards resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will generate significant improvement in the political atmosphere in the entire Middle East.",
        "您的推进解决巴以冲突的努力大为改善整个中东地区的政治气氛。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Inter-American Development Bank reports that the trade gains from Latin America’s 33 small regional trade agreements have been meager.",
        "比如，据泛美开发银行报道，拉美33个小型地区贸易协议所产生的贸易收益微乎其微。"
    ],
    [
        "Conversely, if Bush cannot come up with enough Republican moderates in the US Senate – they are actually already there, probably -- and in the US House of Representatives, the letdown and resentment in Mexico (as well as everywhere in Central America, the Caribbean, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia) will be immense.",
        "相反，如果布什在参议院以及在众议院不能拥有足够多的共和党温和派（在参议院也许实际上已经有了），那么墨西哥（以及中美洲的每个国家，即加勒比各国、秘鲁、厄瓜多尔和哥伦比亚）将感到极大的失望和愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "BONN – When Donald Trump was elected US president a year ago, some said the end of the Paris climate agreement was nigh.",
        "波恩—一年前，特朗普当选为美国总统的时候，有人说巴黎气候协定的末日就在眼前了。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Koreans must relearn the entrepreneurialism that built the chaebol, the family-owned industrial conglomerates that powered the economy’s development.",
        "最后，韩国人必须重新学习创造了韩国财阀——推动经济发展的家族工业巨头——的创业精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Logically, therefore, individuals need to save much more to guarantee their income in retirement.",
        "因此，逻辑上，个人需要储蓄更多的钱以保证退休收入。"
    ],
    [
        "The cost of inaction would be considerably higher than the required investment.",
        "不作为的成本比作为所需要的投资高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, following the rapid decline in oil prices of recent years, companies could lay off thousands of workers without having to worry about raising the unemployment rate or putting a substantial burden on government coffers.",
        "因此，在近几年来石油价格下跌的情况下，公司能够裁撤数千工人而不必担心失业率升高或给政府带来巨大的财政压力。"
    ],
    [
        "It took a long time for people to notice that women’s eggs were required in large quantities for stem cell technologies: a phenomenon I call “the lady vanishes.”",
        "人们用了很长的时间才注意到在干细胞技术中需要大量的卵子：我称之为“女性不见了”现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Most resellers, a little nervous about Bing’s tool that sends users to book directly with airlines and hotels, are even more concerned about what Google might be up to.",
        "必应提供的由用户直接向航空公司和酒店预订的工具令多数经销商感到紧张，而谷歌即将推出服务则让他们更加忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "The Caribbean islands all have a similarly high proportion of their citizens residing in the US and depend as much as Mexico on remittances.",
        "加勒比海岛国的公民中，都有差不多同样高比例的人口居住在美国，并且像墨西哥那样非常依赖来自美国的汇款。"
    ],
    [
        "Solid increases in payroll employment at the start of the year contributed to a general sense of confidence.",
        "今年年初注册就业率的稳步增加提振了总体信心。"
    ],
    [
        "The immediate problem is a credit crunch not so much in China as in the United States and Europe, where many small and medium-size importers cannot get the trade credits they need to buy inventory from abroad.",
        "目前的问题是一场信贷危机（不如欧美的严重）使许多中小进口商无法获得向国外购买商品所需要的贸易融资。"
    ],
    [
        "The country has pledged some $60 billion to its “One Belt, One Road” initiative, which entails the construction of a Silk Road Economic Belt running through Central Asia, and a Maritime Silk Road connecting China to Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and eventually Europe.",
        "中国承诺为其“一带一路”战略投资600亿美元，该战略将带动贯穿中亚的丝绸之路经济带、连接中国与东南亚、印度洋、中东、并最终抵达欧洲的海上丝绸之路的建设。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, populists are focused not on what the EU does, but what it represents.",
        "但如今民粹主义者关注的不是欧盟的所作所为，而是它所代表的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama seems to regard meeting with foreign leaders as a normal component of foreign policy, to be employed as one of many tools.",
        "奥巴马似乎认为和外国领导人举行会谈是外交政策正常的组成部分，应该作为许多手段中的一种加以使用。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Clinton was deeply moved by Jibril’s testimony, riveted by the horror of the regime’s tanks grinding toward Benghazi at that very moment.",
        "事实上，贾布里勒的陈述深深打动了克林顿，她为此时此刻政府军坦克隆隆开往班加西的恐怖情景所深深打动。"
    ],
    [
        "But a comparison with what happened outside the affected area is instructive.",
        "但与受影响区域之外的对比却给人启示良多。"
    ],
    [
        "With eurozone exports increasingly reliant on global supply chains, a cheaper currency provides less of a boost than before.",
        "随着欧元区的出口对国际供应链的依赖逐渐加深，廉价货币对经济的刺激要比以往更弱。"
    ],
    [
        "To deny this is both unreasonable and illogical.",
        "否认这一点，既没道理，也不合逻辑。"
    ],
    [
        "Read more from \"NATO Wakes Up\"",
        "冷战的结束使我们得以实现共同、自由、和平的欧洲的目标。 虽然任重道远，但我们仍步步为营。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of the day, the CEOs and the most aggressive investors are all happy with this approach.",
        "最终，CEO们和大部分激进投资者都乐于见到这一方法。"
    ],
    [
        "A more moderate Iran would also cause Turkey to reconsider its recent shift away from the West and lead Syria to rethink its foreign-policy orientation, which would create a real opportunity for an Israeli peace deal with Damascus.",
        "一个更温和的伊朗将令土耳其重新考虑自己最近疏离西方的举动，并引得叙利亚重新思考自身的外交政策目标，为以色列和大马士革当局之间达成和平协议创造一个真正的好机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The real reason why central-bank independence tends to create a democratic deficit under a multi-target monetary-policy regime, and why it has become increasingly vulnerable, is that the two main arguments in favor of it no longer apply.",
        "为何在多重目标货币政策机制下央行独立性会产生民主赤字？ 为何央行独立行越来越受到人们的抨击？"
    ],
    [
        "In Britain back then, Philip Snowden, a small man with a narrow, pinched face, who needed a cane to walk, seemed to want to remake the British economy in his physical image.",
        "当年的英国财相菲利普·斯诺登（Philip Snowden）——一个脸庞瘦削、不良于行的小个子，也厉行财政收缩，仿佛是要把英国经济照他自己的模子重新刻一个出来似得。"
    ],
    [
        "We desperately need a global deal.",
        "我们迫切需要一个全球方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Fed, its governors argue, cannot be expected to do that on a regular basis.",
        "但是，美联储官员称，不能指望这称为美联储的常规业务。"
    ],
    [
        "The serene stillness of the Arctic and Antarctic was a perfect match for human indifference.",
        "肃穆寂静的南北极和人类的冷漠曾经匹配得如此完美。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, Iraqi attitudes show a strong reaction to daily violence.",
        "同时，伊拉克人对日常的暴力也有强烈的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "And any subsequent recovery operation will obviously still be a huge challenge.",
        "8英里）深处的残骸就像是“大海捞针”一样。 不仅如此，任何后续的打捞行动都将难度巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan has now developed a plan that would take advantage of this development, ensure his political control, and lock in energy security for his country.",
        "如今，埃尔多安已经抛出了利用这一发展趋势、确保其政治控制力并为其国家锁定能源安全的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rule of Rescue should be understood as a rule about human psychology, not about morality.",
        "救援规则应该被理解为人类心理学规则，而不是道德规则。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – With America’s elections less than six weeks away, it is time to think seriously about what will be done afterwards to deal with the nation’s fiscal mess.",
        "美国剑桥—距离美国总统大选只有不到六周的时间了，是时候认真思考一下大选之后怎样对付美国财政乱象了。"
    ],
    [
        "Dodik professes to respect Dayton and Silajdzic wishes to revise it, but both men are violating its basic principle: a federal system within a single state.",
        "多迪克表示会尊重《代顿和平协定》，而西拉伊季奇则希望修改该协定，但是两个人都违反了《代顿和平协定》的基本原则：存在在一个国家里的联邦系统。"
    ],
    [
        "It wasn’t laws that created online banking; it was changed expectations and consumer demand.",
        "催生网上银行的并不是法律，而是被改变的期望和消费者的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "In Greece, the IMF, together with its European partners, required the government not just to cut expenditures, but to undertake far-reaching tax, pension, judicial, and labor-market reforms.",
        "在希腊，IMF和它的欧洲合作伙伴要求希腊政府不但要削减支出，还要采取深刻的税收、退休金、司法和劳动力市场改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, and more importantly, it is a propaganda machine for right-wing causes and political figures.",
        "而其次也是更重要的一点，则是它作为右翼势力和政治人物宣传机器的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as public confidence in the de-linked oil currencies increases over time, dollar indexation of private contracts will diminish, and currency movements will have a greater impact on overall prices.",
        "而且，随着时间的推移，公众对脱钩后的石油货币信心增加，私人合同的美元指数化就会减少，并且货币活动将会对所有价格产生更大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But such pragmatic thinking has been sorely missing from discussions about QE.",
        "但这一务实思考在关于量化宽松的讨论中难得一见。"
    ],
    [
        "Civil peace in these areas was one of the few accomplishments of which contemporary Russia could be proud.",
        "这些地区的民间和平是当代俄罗斯值得引以为豪的少数成就之一。"
    ],
    [
        "It is likely that Iranian teams have been working on the mechanics of a nuclear explosive device, at least at the blueprint stage, and the country is also developing ballistic missiles that would bring many regional capitals within range of a nuclear attack – Israeli cities, of course, being the obvious targets.",
        "可能伊朗人已经进入到核爆炸装置的技术性阶段了，至少已进入到蓝图规划阶段，而该国还正在研制弹道导弹，这将使许多该地区国家的首都纳入其核攻击范围-以色列城市当然是明显的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, regulators are increasing banks’ capital ratios.",
        "与此同时，监管者也在增加银行的资本充足率。"
    ],
    [
        "Only in the 1930’s were interest rates near zero.",
        "只有在1930年代银行利率为零。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2008 financial crisis exacerbated income inequality and economic insecurity in part by accelerating the loss of manufacturing jobs.",
        "2008年金融危机在某种程度上加速了制造业岗位的流失，从而加剧了收入不平等状况和经济的不安全性。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging markets and developing countries ran a surplus of $631 billion in 2007, split roughly equally between Asian countries and the oil-exporting states.",
        "新型市场国际和发展中国家2007年的盈余为6310亿美元，其中亚洲国家和石油出口国家大体上各占据一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Mockus’s sensitivity towards human-rights concerns distinguishes him from Uribe, who leaves behind a deplorable legacy in this regard.",
        "此外，莫卡斯对人权问题的关注也与乌里韦截然不同，后者留下了可悲的人权纪录。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, what is presented as a shimmering cathedral often more closely resembles a hastily erected shantytown.",
        "事实上与其说这是座光彩照人的大教堂，不如说是一座仓促搭建起来的贫民窟。"
    ],
    [
        "With roughly $2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, the Chinese do have deep pockets to fund massive increases in government spending, and to help backstop bank loans.",
        "拥有约2万亿美元的外汇储备，中国人确实有足够的财力来维持急剧增长的政府开支并支持银行贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "At last December’s United Nations climate conference in Paris, world leaders reached a landmark agreement to work toward a more sustainable future, including by transforming the way infrastructure projects are developed, financed, and implemented.",
        "在去年12月的联合国气候变化巴黎会议上，世界领导人达成了一个里程碑式的协议，共同致力于更加可持续的未来，手段包括改变基础设施项目的开发、融资和实施方式。"
    ],
    [
        "If it was slow-growing, I’d remove the tumor and engage in what is called “watchful waiting.”",
        "而倘若其缓慢发展的话，我会做手术切除肿瘤，然后参与到“观察性等待”的进程当中。"
    ],
    [
        "The article claimed that the change raised costs by forcing British construction workers to perform more of their jobs in relative darkness.",
        "那篇文章声称这项改变提高了建筑成本，因为英国建筑工人不得不在相对较暗的天色中完成大部分工作。"
    ],
    [
        "During the era of Ponzi-style growth, capital flows were channeled by commercial banks into a frenzy of consumption and by the state into an orgy of suspect procurement and outright profligacy.",
        "在旁氏增长时期，资本流通过商业银行进入消费狂热，通过国家被用于十分可疑的采购和肆意挥霍。"
    ],
    [
        "It will subordinate all who really do work – traders, warriors, journalists, and others – to party ideologues whose sole job is to search for enemies.",
        "它将把所有作实际工作的人，也就是商人、武士、记者以及其他人统统置于政党理论家之下，而这些理论家唯一的工作就是寻找敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "This should come as no surprise, as the Chinese government does not plan to hold free and fair elections soon. Indeed, perhaps Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, with those thousands of protesters in Kiev’s Independence Square served as a potent reminder to China’s leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests 15 years ago, and – in contrast to Ukraine – their own strategy of brutal repression.",
        "这一点丝毫不令人奇怪，在乌克兰的这场橘色革命中，几千名反对派的抗议者在聚集在基辅中央独立广场的情景，大概一下子就让中国领导人想起了15年前的天安门广场事件，当然也想起了他们所采取的与乌克兰截然不同的严酷镇压政策。"
    ],
    [
        "And no tyranny can survive for long by relying on brute force alone.",
        "没有哪个暴政单靠蛮力长期维持。"
    ],
    [
        "In all these cases, American involvement was swift and focused on a clear aim, and compliance was verifiable within days, if not hours.",
        "在所有这些情形中，美国的介入迅速并且集中于一个明确的目标，以色列的顺从即使不能在几个小时内证实，也可以在几天内证实。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve this, he would need to use all of the leverage at his disposal, including cutting off the massive military assistance that the US provides to Egypt’s armed forces, as he has threatened to do.",
        "为了实现这一目标，他必须全面运用手中的工具，包括像他曾威胁的那样削减美国对埃及武装部队的大规模军事援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists call the most likely outcome of this phenomenon “the polarization of employment.”",
        "经济学家称这种现象最有可能的结果是 “就业结构的两极分化”。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, a weaker yen does little to spur Japanese exports to the US, because the dollar price of those exports remains roughly constant.",
        "同理，日元疲软也不会刺激日本对美出口，因为这些出口商品的美元价格大致保持不变。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Turkey Weather the Middle East Storm?",
        "土耳其能抵御住中东风暴吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009, Japan's economy was performing at 8% below potential, even though its financial system was sound.",
        "2009年，日本经济表现比潜在水平低8%，尽管其金融系统仍然牢固。"
    ],
    [
        "The stability of such a system in Turkey – where, despite popular opposition to the coup, hostility to Erdoğan is strong – remains to be seen.",
        "尽管绝大多数人反对政变，但民众对埃尔多安的敌意也依然很强，因此上述体系在土耳其的稳定性尚有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is obvious: the damage caused is many times higher than the compensation being requested.",
        "原因非常明显：所造成的损失数倍于所要求补偿的数额。"
    ],
    [
        "Offenses under the law are punishable by up to ten years in prison – for the surrogate and commissioning parents alike.",
        "法律规定违法行为可以判处长达10年监禁——对代孕母亲和委托家长同样适用。"
    ],
    [
        "The Australian batsman Adam Gilchrist “walked” in the 2003 World Cup semi-final against Sri Lanka, although the umpire had already declared him not out.",
        "在板球运动中，如果击球手击球后，而其中一个外野手接住了这个球，那么击球手就要被赶出局。 有时当球被接住时，裁判不确定这个球是否碰到了球棒边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when the Middle East is aflame with sectarian strife, the observance of the Christian holiday is a sad reminder that the region’s distinctive religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity is rapidly disappearing.",
        "如今，中东处处燃烧着宗派斗争之火，遵守基督教节日仪式令人悲哀地提醒人们，该地区与众不同的宗教、伦理和文化多样性正在迅速消失。"
    ],
    [
        "The strength of the US dollar is thus a key predictor of aggregate trade volume and consumer/producer price inflation worldwide.",
        "因此美元的强弱变化会是预测全球总贸易量以及消费者/生产者价格通胀的一个重要指标。"
    ],
    [
        "As we face the type of turning-point decisions not seen since the darkest days of the 1930’s, can we avoid such an outcome?",
        "如今，我们正面临着1930年代以来最具有历史决定性的时刻，我们能够避免历史悲剧重演么？"
    ],
    [
        "Or the US Federal Reserve, the Peoples Bank of China (PBC), or both – or even some other body – could support the market.",
        "美联储和中国人民银行（以及其他机构）也可能会出手支撑市场。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not just a bargain; it is a significant underinvestment.",
        "这不是什么花小钱办大事； 而是严重的投资不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than decentralizing power, CEO Martin Winterkorn sat at the head of a centralized, command-and-control organization in which he acted as a patriarch.",
        "大众CEO马丁·温特科恩（Martin Winterkorn）没有分散权力，而是稳坐集中化指令-控制型组织的最高宝座，如同君主。"
    ],
    [
        "National, religious, and cultural identities (for lack of a better word) are being transformed, though less by immigration than by the development of globalized capitalism.",
        "民族、宗教和文化特征（这里缺少更准确的形容词）正在发生转变，虽然转变的动力与其说是移民还不如说是不断发展的全球化资本主义。"
    ],
    [
        "From Global Imbalances to Effective Global Governance",
        "从全球经济失衡到有效的全球治理"
    ],
    [
        "Our record proves it – in Guinea, Kenya, and Kyrgyzstan.",
        "我们在圭亚那、肯尼亚和吉尔吉斯斯坦的工作记录就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "He talked about “the British race” or the “English-speaking peoples.”",
        "他曾经提到“大不列颠种族”或“以英语为母语的民族。"
    ],
    [
        "So when Russia sought earlier this year to quadruple the price of its gas exports to Ukraine, it argued that it was simply demanding market rates.",
        "因此当年初俄国试图把出口乌克兰的天然气价格提升到原来四倍的时候，俄国辩解说它所要求的不过是市场价格。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, during commodity-price downturns, banking, currency, and sovereign-debt crises tend to proliferate – and crisis-avoidance becomes a hot topic for policymakers, as highlighted in the International Monetary Fund’s most recent World Economic Outlook.",
        "而事实上，在商品价格低迷时期，银行，货币和主权债务危机很可能猛增——而如何躲避危机将成为政策制定者的热门话题，正如国际货币基金组织最新发布的《世界经济展望》中指出的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "The Earth Hour organizers acknowledged the symbolic nature of the exercise.",
        "“地球一小时”的组织者承认，这个活动具有明显的象征性意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Now they have run out of rabbits.",
        "如今，兔子用光了。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of that evaluation, the Alliance invested more than €4 billion ($5.5 billion) in zero-emission technologies.",
        "这份评估带来的结果是雷诺-日产投资了40多亿欧元用于零排放技术。"
    ],
    [
        "This, in turn, will only increase Japan’s defense needs, especially with respect to the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, which China claims as its own.",
        "这反过来将增加日本的防御需求，特别是中国主张主权的钓鱼岛。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone who runs into such a figure would sneer and mock him.",
        "任何一个碰见这种人物的人都会对他嘲笑挖苦一番。"
    ],
    [
        "Migration’s Hall of Mirrors",
        "移民的镜厅"
    ],
    [
        "A few months ago, I went to meet the owner of our local drugstore.",
        "几个月前我找到了当地药店。"
    ],
    [
        "But contrary to common perception, Iraqi Shiites do not form a homogenous block that opposes the supposedly unified Sunnis.",
        "但是与常人观点相反的是，伊拉克什叶派并不组成单一的、反对好似团结一致的逊尼派的集团。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of the studies describes a part of a green economy, but none can capture the whole – not because they are deficient, but because it is simply beyond our capability.",
        "每一项研究都解释了绿色经济的一部份，没有一个能涵盖整体——这不是因为这些研究有缺陷，只不过因为这件事已经完全超出了我们的能力之外。"
    ],
    [
        "The knowledge they acquire on the job – of how one interacts with patients, how one recognizes their moods, and how one acknowledges their needs – will remain pertinent and valued.",
        "她们在工作中获得的知识——如何与病人互动，如何识别病人的情绪和需求——依然是与这份工作密切相关且有价值的。"
    ],
    [
        "China and India are seeking global influence commensurate with their economic weight; Brazil and South Africa are emerging as continental powerhouses, and hydrocarbon-fueled Russia is chafing at its status on the margins of the Western system.",
        "中国和印度追求与它们的经济实力相称的全球影响力； 巴西和南非正在崛起为洲级大国，而以碳氢化合物为底气的俄罗斯也不满于它在西方体系中的边缘地位。"
    ],
    [
        "For America, the problem is also mainly one of domestic politics.",
        "对于美国来说，其问题也还主要是国内政治。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that this is the course we are on now.",
        "但愿我们现在正在这一方向上前进。"
    ],
    [
        "4) As an alternative to a large and strong EU, the German-French relationship will return to the fore.",
        "4)作为对强大欧盟的一种替代，德法关系将重新回到前台。"
    ],
    [
        "Gülenist machinations in the judiciary and other parts of the bureaucracy have created a broad spectrum of opposition; pretty much everyone – nationalists, Kurdish activists, secularists, traditional Islamists, socialists, and liberals – has been at the receiving end of these intrigues at one time or another.",
        "葛兰主义者在司法界和官僚集团的其他部分的阴谋已经造就了为数甚众的反对派； 几乎所有人——民主主义者、库尔德人活跃分子、世俗主义者、传统伊斯兰教徒、社会主义者和自由派——都成为过这一阴谋的拉拢对象。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that comprehending – and reacting appropriately to – the immense number of variables that can arise during surgery would require enormous computing power, surgical robots aim to integrate human experience and decision-making ability with mechanized accuracy.",
        "理解——并据此反应——在手术期间可能出现的大量变数要求极高的运算能力，外科手术机器人的目标是将人类经验和决策能力与机械化的准确度结合起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, we think their lives will improve faster in the next 15 years than at any other time in history – and that their lives will improve more than anyone else’s.",
        "事实上，我们认为今后15年贫困人口的生活改善将超过以往任何时候——而且他们的生活改善也会超过其他人的幅度。"
    ],
    [
        "Corker sniped that, “the White House has become an adult day care center,” before warning that Trump’s Twitter threats may put the US “on the path to World War III.”",
        "考尔克抨击说，“白宫已经沦为成人日托班，”然后警告特朗普的推特有可能让美国走上“通往第三次世界大战之路”。"
    ],
    [
        "A broadcast media company recently held a conference largely for its reporters and television anchors, in order to generate a large amount of video content at once, in front of a live audience.",
        "某广播传媒公司最近主要为记者和电视主播举办了一次会议，目的是在现场观众面前即时制作大量的视频节目。"
    ],
    [
        "While America’s official unemployment rate is already 10.2%, the figure jumps to a whopping 17.5% when discouraged workers and partially employed workers are included.",
        "但若把就业意愿丧失者（discouraged workers）和非全日制雇工也计算在内，该数字将跃升至17. 5%，可以说高得吓人。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, we are treating the present as if the bubbly growth from 2000 to 2007 will return.",
        "更糟糕的是，我们对待当下的态度好像2000—2007年的泡沫增长会回来似的。"
    ],
    [
        "Love and commitment are the only relevant criteria.",
        "爱和承诺是唯一的相关标准。"
    ],
    [
        "As the reactive pathology of codependency would suggest, none of these countries can be expected to acquiesce to such measures without curtailing US access to their markets – a counter-response that could severely undermine the manufacturing revival that seems so central to the Trump presidency’s promise to “Make America Great Again.”",
        "正如相互依赖的反应性病态所表现的那样，这些国家中没有一个会默默承受这些手段，而是会反过来削弱美国进入本国市场的渠道，而这可能会严重损害作为特朗普“让美国再次伟大起来”核心承诺的制造业复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Advocates of shifting authority to EU institutions have justified this with the notion of “shared sovereignty,” according to which British sovereignty could be eroded by EU decisions, without any formal agreement from the UK’s government or people.",
        "那些向欧盟机构移交主权的拥护者用“共享主权”这个理念来论证这一举动的正当性，照此执行的话，英国的主权就会欧盟决策的侵蚀，完全无需征得英国政府或人民的正式同意。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission has announced plans to require bloggers and celebrity endorsers to disclose gifts or payments from vendors and others seeking the bloggers’ positive comments online.",
        "在美国，联邦贸易委员会已经公布了要求博主和名人同意披露从卖家和其它寻求博主在线正面评论的机构收受礼物或钱款的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the British and the Americans, the French are much less obsessed with sex than they are with financial scandal.",
        "与英国人和美国人不同，法国人对性的沉迷远不及对丑闻的热衷。"
    ],
    [
        "But he did unwittingly remind many Americans that the US Constitution delegates substantial political authority to states, cities, and individual citizens.",
        "但他已经无意中提醒了许多美国人：美国宪法将大量的政治权力授予了各州，城市和公民个人。"
    ],
    [
        "What they shared is a paradoxical ethic common to all intellectuals: the end cause of truth justifies whatever means happens to be at your disposal. This is because the whole truth is rarely what passes for the truth at any moment.",
        "他们的共同点是所有知识分子共有的一个自相矛盾的道德规范：为追求最终的真理，可以采取任何方式，因为真理转瞬即逝，人们很少意识到它的到来，不是随时都能认知到它的存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, tapering is priced in, but uncertainty about the timing and speed of the Fed’s efforts to normalize policy interest rates is creating volatility.",
        "今年，取消量化宽松已体现在价格中，但关于美联储政策利率正常化的时机和节奏的不确定性正在造成动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Angela Merkel was recently reelected for a third term as German Chancellor; Britain’s voters elected Margaret Thatcher three times as Prime Minister; and France has had a female prime minister.",
        "默克尔最近第三次当选德国总理； 英国选民也三次选择撒切尔作为首相，法国也有了女总理。"
    ],
    [
        "What is new – and exciting – is that with the publication of this research, we may finally be starting a constructive discussion about how we really can respond intelligently to this challenge.",
        "而最新——而且令人兴奋——的方面则是随着该项研究的发表，我们将最终得以开启一个关于如何明智应对挑战的建设性讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, such a choice carries risks.",
        "当然，选择这么做有一定的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The world has the momentum – and the means – to create a mass market for sustainable finance, one in which investment decisions are driven as much by E&S and good governance criteria as by creditworthiness.",
        "世界有动力——也有方法——为可持续金融创造大众市场，让投资决定兼顾E&S和好治理标准以及信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Political economy undoubtedly remains important.",
        "政治经济学毫无疑问是重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "This represents a major risk for the regime (indeed, the salary cuts were quickly restored, after protests were called in four cities), not least because the state is the largest employer of Saudi citizens.",
        "这对体制来说是一个巨大的风险（事实上，在四个城市爆发了示威之后，薪资削减很快又被加了回去），原因之一是国家是沙特公民的最大雇主。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now clear that China is attempting to use psychological warfare (“psywar”) to advance its strategic objectives – to “win without fighting,” as the ancient Chinese military theorist Sun Tzu recommended.",
        "现在，很显然中国正在尝试用心理战推进其战略目标——即孙子所谓的“不战而屈人之兵”。"
    ],
    [
        "Many believe that Congress – with its commitment to secular values, economic growth, and helping the poor – now has a mandate to transform India into a great power.",
        "很多人相信，国大党秉承了务实的价值观，采取有利于经济发展和帮助穷人的政策，如果这样走下去，印度就会变成一个伟大的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed chairman is “hearing voices” because he is a team player who wants to encourage US budget cutting.",
        "美联储主席正在“倾听这个声音”因为他是鼓励美国削减财政预算的参与者。"
    ],
    [
        "Outside observers often marvel at the CCP’s capacity to get things done – at least when those things are the construction of super-modern cities and a high-speed rail network.",
        "外部观察者常常惊叹于中共办成事的能力——至少在建设超级现代都市和高铁网络上是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "(There is even one polling booth for a single voter, who lives too far from civilization to travel to another polling station.)",
        "（印度甚至有一个为一名居住在远离现代交通设施而无法到其他投票站进行投票的选民准备的投票站。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Consider copper: From 2001 to 2006, prices gyrated wildly, with price declines of 30% in some years and increases of 150% in others – all while growth in Chinese industrial production and demand for copper remained relatively steady, at 15% and 20%, respectively.",
        "以铜为例：从2001年到2006年，其价格大幅震荡，一些年份下跌30%，另一些年份上涨150%——而中国工业产量和铜需求增长均保持相对稳定，分别为15%和20%。"
    ],
    [
        "All three of these companies let us use our own quirks and psychology to motivate ourselves.",
        "以上三间公司都旨在让我们利用自身的特性和心理来激励自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic contraction, or even stagnation, is not a solution for the developed countries, either, for a similar reason: it would imply that we either accept existing inequalities or impose a regime aiming at an equal redistribution of resources.",
        "出于同样原因，经济收缩、甚至停滞，也并不是发达国家的解决方案：因为那将意味着我们或者接受已经存在的不平等，或者强制推行一种旨在实现资源平等再分配的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "But Greeks would do well to consider another type of deficit – one that has received far less public scrutiny, but could have economic consequences that are just as serious.",
        "但关注另一类赤字对希腊民众有利——虽然其公众监督远不及财政，但却完全可能造成同样严重的经济后果。"
    ],
    [
        "If we see Chennai as a one-off event, an “act of God” rather than an error of Man, further disasters will be unavoidable.",
        "如果只把钦奈水灾看作一次性的偶发事件，将其归咎于“天灾”而非人祸，那么进一步的灾害将是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is yet another reason why flouting inherited rules and protocols, in the name of national security, has made, and will continue to make, the terrorist threat catastrophically worse.",
        "这也是为什么以国家安全的名义蔑视既有的规则让恐怖威胁更为严重，而且将会继续如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The key will be so-called “second-round effects” – whether growing crude prices lead to higher wage demands from trade unions.",
        "关键问题是所谓的“次轮效应”¾那就是原油价格上涨会不会导致工会提出增加报酬的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "A coastal state, Kerala has long been viewed as a tourist paradise – a reputation no doubt kept afloat on a sea of easily available libations.",
        "喀拉拉邦地处沿海地区，一直是旅游胜地——这一盛名当然建立在想喝就喝的基础上。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, playing a successful role in bolstering Israel-Egypt relations could advance US Secretary of State John Kerry’s diplomatic initiatives in the Middle East.",
        "最后，在巩固埃以关系中扮演成功角色能有助于推进美国国务卿克里在中东的外交努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us regulate our financial markets so that outsiders who invest are not sheared.",
        "让我们对金融市场进行监管以使其不会损害外部投资人的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "BAGHDAD – Europe’s migration debate has taken a disturbing turn.",
        "巴格达—欧洲的移民争论正在发生令人不安的转折。"
    ],
    [
        "It can finance all of this with the support of Venezuela’s state oil company, implementing social policies that are misguided over the long term but seductive in the short run, especially when carried out by Cuban doctors, teachers, and instructors.",
        "它可以从委内瑞拉的国有石油公司的支持中来获得实现所有这些活动所需的资金，执行在长期内是误导的但是在短期内很诱人的社会政策，特别是当这些政策是由古巴医生、教师和教导人员执行的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who struggle to cope with change must be supported, not scorned.",
        "在变革面前手忙脚乱的行动方应该获得支持而不是嘲笑。"
    ],
    [
        "As global markets plummet, some version of the rescue plan will almost certainly be put to another vote in Congress. Unless the plan is markedly different from the current one, while it may help Wall Street, what about the economy?",
        "随着全球市场迅速滑落，救市计划几乎肯定要再次提交国会投票表决。 这个计划也许救得了华尔街，但能否救得了经济？"
    ],
    [
        "Bubbles and structural imbalances were not seen as the problem.",
        "泡沫和结构性失衡没有被视为问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The current financial crisis raises yet another problem: the lack of a clear “lender of last resort.”",
        "当前的金融危机还提出了另一个问题：缺少一个明确的“最后贷款人”。"
    ],
    [
        "The integrity of the advanced industrial countries, which have a majority of the votes at the World Bank, is being put to the test.",
        "发达工业国——它们在世界银行投票中占据着多数——的团结度正在接受考验。"
    ],
    [
        "The Somalia-like chaos and civil war that is now unfolding in Gaza as a result of this decades-old stalemate can be blamed partly on ill-conceived Israeli policies, and partly on an American administration that, for six long years, relegated the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace to the bottom of its agenda.",
        "作为这已持续数十年的僵局的结果，正在加沙上演的索马里式的混乱和内战一方面可以归咎于制定不力的以色列政策，另一方面则是拜美国政府所赐。 在长达六年的时间里，美国政府将以巴和平事业带到了谷底。"
    ],
    [
        "Their common approach is to enter into a real dialogue with the French people based on an understanding that the only viable basis for reform is a strong political contract between government and citizens.",
        "他们共同的手法是与法国人民达成共识，即改革惟一可行的基础是政府与公民之间强有力的政治契约，并在此基础上与法国人民进行真正的对话。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the rising cost of intermediation – largely a result of the distortions in China’s financial system – is among the most important factors driving the rise in borrowing costs for Chinese businesses.",
        "事实上，中介成本的升高——大部分是拜中国金融体系扭曲所赐——是推高中国企业融资成本的最重要因素之一。"
    ],
    [
        "While the fiscal savings may appear attractive to Cameron in the short term, for the British people – and for the rest of the world, which benefits from Britain’s liveliness, civilization, and tradition of democracy – the cost is far too high.",
        "虽然短期的财政盈余对于卡梅伦来说非常吸引，但对那些从英国的活力，文明和民主传统中受益的英国人民——以及全世界人民来说——这个代价实在是太大了"
    ],
    [
        "Don’t take my word for it.",
        "对我的话不必盲从。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, the world, indeed our very lives, were about to change fundamentally.",
        "美国，世界，乃至我们所有人的生活，都被彻底地改变了。"
    ],
    [
        "But in other areas, companies are more than eager to step up, be seen and heard, and exercise influence.",
        "但在其他方面，公司迫不及待地想要有所作为，想要被看见、被听见，想要形成影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "But this approach to financial regulation, while laudable, requires officials to make, or shape, banks’ most important strategic decisions: capital levels, liability structure, and the scope of their business activities.",
        "但这一金融监管的方法尽管值得赞赏，却需要让官员来决定或影响银行最重要的战略决策：资本水平、负债结构以及业务活动范围。"
    ],
    [
        "From my perspective, today’s off-the-shelf computer programs come awfully close to meeting Turing’s test.",
        "而且在我看来，今天已有的电脑程序与图灵测试的要求几乎相差无几。"
    ],
    [
        "Barcelona has installed in-ground parking sensors and launched connected public transportation as part of its Smart City strategy.",
        "巴塞罗那植入了地下停车传感器，并启动了互联公共交通系统，以作为其“智慧城市”（Smart City）战略的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Taylor’s analogy fails to make sense at the most fundamental level.",
        "泰勒的比方在根本上毫无意义。"
    ],
    [
        "This combination of status-seeking public relations and the provision of public goods that characterizes the Astana Club discussions has long been a feature of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy.",
        "阿斯塔纳俱乐部的讨论既是追求地位（status-seeking）的公关活动，也提供公共品，这一组合也是哈萨克斯坦外交政策的长期特征。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, its contribution to GDP (as we currently measure it) may be falling, even as the quantity and quality of services are increasing.",
        "结果，该产业对GDP的贡献（按照目前的衡量标准）在下降，尽管服务的数量和质量均在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "But a series of recent shocks suggests that macro liquidity has become linked with severe market illiquidity.",
        "但最近的一系列冲击表明，宏观流动性已经与严重的市场无流动性挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "Low entry barriers enable intense competition that diminishes producers’ profit margins, and shoddy products are rife, owing to low manufacturing standards.",
        "进入门槛低导致的激烈竞争严重侵蚀了生产者的利润，较低的生产标准导致伪劣产品四处开花。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever one thinks of the many concrete suggestions made by the Commission, this much is clear: we need a more inclusive debate about globalization, one in which more voices are heard, and in which there is more focus on the social dimensions of globalization.",
        "不论人们对委员会的具体建议评价如何，有一点是明确的：我们关于全球化的辩论需要更具包容性，以使我们听到更多的声音并更多地关注全球化的社会层面。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the world’s democracies lack perfect options, given everyone’s eminently reasonable reluctance to resort to force.",
        "显然，世界民主国家没有完美选择，因为每个国家都有充分的理由不寻求诉诸武力。"
    ],
    [
        "As such, it cannot, by itself, transform the Indian economy.",
        "因此，仅靠这一部门还不能令印度的经济成功转型。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone remembers the Watts, Newark, and Detroit riots in the United States in the 1960’s, and the riots in Liverpool in the UK in the early 1980’s, as well as in Bradford, Oldham, and Burnley in recent years.",
        "人人都记得20世纪60年代发生在美国的华特暴动、纽华克暴动和底特律暴动，以及20世纪80年代初发生在英国的利物浦暴动，还有近年来发生的布拉德福、奥海姆和伯恩利暴动。"
    ],
    [
        "Has there been a French president since François Mitterrand who was truly a match for a German chancellor?",
        "弗朗索瓦·密特朗之后有哪任法国总统可以和德国总理相比？"
    ],
    [
        "The phenomenon is worldwide, but its causes differ from country to country.",
        "这在当今非常普遍，但各国情况迥异。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be a more appropriate response.",
        "这比他们现在的工作有意义得多。"
    ],
    [
        "And if runaway climate change takes hold, no country will be immune to its effects.",
        "而一旦气候变化失控之势形成，没有国家能够独善其身。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, fewer languages are used in the EU’s smokeless backrooms when meetings are less formal and the participants not all that prestigious.",
        "另外，在欧盟的禁烟小会议室里，当会议比较不正式或参与者并非重量级人物时，用到的语言也向对较少。"
    ],
    [
        "Colombia’s bloodshed started even earlier, in the period simply known as “The Violence,” following the murder in 1948 of the liberal presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.",
        "哥伦比亚的流血事件起源更早，始于1948年自由派总统候选人盖坦遭遇谋杀的所谓“暴力期”之后。"
    ],
    [
        "So what exactly is on the next development agenda?",
        "那么下一份发展计划目标究竟是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "And let us examine the actions of the West in 1919 and the years that followed.",
        "我们还可以考察一下1919年西方采取了些什么行动，接下去几年又发生了什么。"
    ],
    [
        "But the issue is actually simple: Who will bear the brunt of measures to reduce the budget deficit?",
        "但这个问题其实很简单：谁来承受这些用以降低预算赤字的紧缩措施的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Each and every employee at a nuclear facility – from guards to scientists to senior staff – must view the security of nuclear materials as an essential part of their jobs.",
        "每一位核设施工作人员——从警卫到科学家和高层管理人员——都必须将核材料的安保问题作为工作的核心之一。"
    ],
    [
        "It is helpful that China has already said that it will not forego the opportunities inherent in the green transition, and that it will take the global lead if the US bows out.",
        "中国已经表示它不会坐失绿色转型所隐含的机会，如果美国退出，它将承担全球领导之责，这是大有帮助的。"
    ],
    [
        "Rukmini Callimachi, reporting for the New York Times, has explained the difference in treatment.",
        "为《纽约时报》作报道的茹米妮·卡里玛奇（Rukmini Callimachi）解释了这一差别对待。"
    ],
    [
        "We have known for at least a generation that the world needs a course correction.",
        "整整一代人早已明白世界需要改变发展道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The IOM is expected to play a leading role in making migration governance more coherent and efficient.",
        "人们预期国际移民组织将在实现更加连贯和有效的移民治理方面发挥主导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Sectarian fighting poisoned relations between Sunnis and Shia throughout the region.",
        "宗派斗争毒害了整个地区的逊尼派和什叶派关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as the Federal Reserve exists to ensure that monetary policy is not inconsistent with price stability, the Fiscal Stabilization Board would guarantee that spending authority remains in line with the legislated level of taxes.",
        "就像联邦储备委员会的存在是为了确保货币政策不偏离物价稳定一样，财政稳定委员会可以保证政府部门的开支符合法律规定的税收水平。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, we must urgently increase the ambition of our climate commitments.",
        "与此同时，我们必须尽快提高我们的气候承诺的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "There are three main groups.",
        "主要有三个群体。"
    ],
    [
        "But a recent Financial Times/Harris poll in the US, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain found people nearly three times more likely to say that globalization is negative than positive.",
        "但最近《金融时报》/哈里斯民意调查在美国、德国、法国、英国、意大利和西班牙的结果却显示，认为全球化利大于弊的人数上升了近三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The true state of his health may matter less than public fears that he’s hiding something.",
        "他健康的真实状况可能不如公众对他在隐瞒什么东西的担心那么重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In economic terms, the cost of poor health at the outset of the twentieth century was an astounding 32% of global GDP.",
        "从经济角度看，健康状况不良的成本在20世纪初达到了惊人的程度，相当于全球GDP的32%。"
    ],
    [
        "This would require explicitly changing the balance between constitutional and legislative matters, so that principles are preserved, but policies can be responsive to politics.",
        "这需要明确改变宪法和立法之间的平衡。 从而在保护原则的同时让政策能够响应政治。"
    ],
    [
        "So, as nuclear talks proceed, the US and its partners should help North Korea lay the foundations for a new political economy based on international commerce, investment, and cooperation, as an alternative to the current model predicated on a hostile security environment.",
        "因此，随着核谈判的进行，美国及其伙伴应帮助朝鲜打下一个建立在国际商业、投资与合作基础上的、新型政治经济体系的基础，以此取代以充满敌意的安全环境为预期的现有模式。"
    ],
    [
        "We will print not just children’s playthings, but also human prostheses – bones and even lungs and livers – and ultimately much machinery, including new 3D printers.",
        "我们可以打印儿童的玩具，也可以打印假体——骨头甚至肝和肺——最终还可以打印更复杂的机器，包括新的3D打印机。"
    ],
    [
        "For these reasons, the UK should have had a quick recovery; instead, the Cameron government’s gratuitous austerity stifled it.",
        "从这些方面看，英国应该会有迅速的复苏； 相反，卡梅伦政府用毫无道理的紧缩扼杀了它。"
    ],
    [
        "Individual needs vary significantly, and private companies are often unwilling to insure the very people who need the most care (such as those who are already ill, or who have conditions like diabetes, which predispose them to other health problems).",
        "个人需求差别很大，但是私人保险公司往往不愿投保那些最需要医疗服务的人群（例如那些已经生病的人，或可能会引发其他健康问题的糖尿病患者）。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, Puerto Rico is stuck with an early-twentieth-century law that forces all trade with the mainland to be conducted with expensive US ships, increasing transport costs and undermining economic competitiveness.",
        "相反，波多黎各背负着二十世纪早期法律的沉重负担，这些法律强制规定与大陆的所有贸易必须使用昂贵的美国船只，从而增加运输成本并削弱经济竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, criminal syndicates need only corrupt a handful of local officials to make off with the goods.",
        "此外，犯罪集团仅需要向当地少数官员行贿即可带着象牙离开。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly true now: as the fighting in Syria subsides, the Saudi-led Sunni axis is eager to compensate for its losses there, and thus is pushing Lebanon as the next battlefield.",
        "目前尤其如此：随着叙利亚战事日益平息，沙特领导的逊尼派轴心急切地想要捞回在叙利亚的损失，因此正在将黎巴嫩当作下一个战场。"
    ],
    [
        "Adopting an ad hoc approach, as many organizations currently do, frequently yields poor results.",
        "许多组织目前采取临时方针（ad hoc approach），常常导致糟糕的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "James Surowiecki’s bestselling 2004 book, with the outrageous title The Wisdom of Crowds , pressed this idea forward at the very height of the real estate boom.",
        "2004年詹姆斯·索罗维基（James Surowiecki）以庸俗的《群众的智慧》为书名的畅销书，在房地产市场最繁荣的时候，将这一观点进一步向前推进。"
    ],
    [
        "The Language of Genomics",
        "基因组语言"
    ],
    [
        "It should be clear that the role for the state that I have been describing is an enabling or market-supporting one. It is not the command-and-control role promoted by traditional socialists or the minimalist role beloved by neoliberals.",
        "应该澄清的是，我所说的国家角色应该是扶助性的或支持市场的，而不是传统社会主义者所追求的指令-控制型角色或新自由主义者所钟爱的越小越好的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Their ideas were hardly original.",
        "他们的很多理念也不是原创的。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, for more than a decade several European governments have been willing to pay terrorists millions of euros for the release of their captive citizens, or have facilitated the payment of ransoms by relatives and friends of hostages.",
        "相反，十多年来，多个欧洲国家政府愿意向恐怖分子支付数百万欧元换取被俘公民释放，或协助人质亲人和朋友支付赎金。"
    ],
    [
        "But all the same he treated Gorbachev in a more decent manner because Yeltsin fundamentally believed in democracy.",
        "然后他还是以一种更加体面的方式对待戈尔巴乔夫，因为叶利钦在本质上相信民主。"
    ],
    [
        "One tell-tale sign is the climate skeptics’ contempt for the actual data in the Indian government’s study, which is being used to undermine the IPCC report and the impeccable credentials of the scientist Syed Iqbal Hasnain, the source of the IPCC’s alarming quote on the Himalayas.",
        "有两件事颇耐人寻味：气候变化怀疑论者一方面利用印度政府的最新研究数据攻击 IPCC 报告以及报告所援引的科学家哈斯南（ Syed Iqbal Hasnain ）的学术清誉，另一方面却对那些数据断章取义。 他们指控 IPCC 主席、诺贝尔和平奖得主帕乔里（ R."
    ],
    [
        "Ideally, this cooperation would take place within the EU’s institutional framework.",
        "在理想情形中，这一合作将在欧盟制度框架内发生。"
    ],
    [
        "All individuals over the age of 65 are eligible to be insured by the federal government through the Medicare program.",
        "所有65岁以上的美国人都有资格由政府出资加入Medicare计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Our moral sentiments both limit individuals’ abuse of the common good, expressed in the conflict between “me” and “us,” and maintain the coherence of the group, to support the competition between “us” and “them.”",
        "我们的道德情感既限制个体滥用公益（common good），表现为“我”与“我们”之间的冲突； 也维持群体的凝聚力，支持“我们”与“他们”之间的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "It is within this conceptual climate – the dream of the regenerative body – that transplantation technology develops and demand for biological replacement parts grows.",
        "正是在这样的理念氛围（身体再生梦想）中，移植技术不断发展，对生物替代器官的需求也在不断增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Reason has been drowned in blood.",
        "理性被吞没在了鲜血里。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, such debts are contracts – that is, voluntary agreements – so creditors are just as responsible for them as debtors.",
        "毕竟，这些债务都是契约——也就是说，是自愿签订的协议——因此债权人的责任并不小于与债务人。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, households in the 81st to 99th percentiles gained 64% in after-tax income, with the top 1% up by 201%, representing an average annual growth rate of 3.6% – far ahead of any other income group.",
        "81—99百分位的家庭税后收入提高了64%，而最顶尖1%家庭提高了201%，即平均年增长率为3. 6%，比其他所有收入群体都要快。"
    ],
    [
        "The task of the Obama administration will be to bring the various factions together to fight the common enemy, the people behind the terrorist attacks on Mumbai.",
        "奥巴马政府的任务就是团结不同派别对付共同的敌人，也就是孟买恐怖袭击的策划者。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, only the tumor cells will have a non-functional recombination pathway and rely completely on PARP to repair single-strand breaks before copying the DNA.",
        "因此，只有肿瘤细胞才会有一个功能不正常的重组通道，并完全依赖PARP在复制DNA之前完成修补单个碱基断裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps TV is rewiring heavy viewers’ brains and impairing their cognitive capacities.",
        "或许，电视正在重构沉迷电视者大脑的接收系统，并使他们丧失认知能力。"
    ],
    [
        "There is another strong reason why Japan should wait: macroeconomic stability.",
        "日本应该等待还有另一个重要原因：宏观经济稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "People who live in a society they hate, amidst people they despise, cannot contribute to a shared future.",
        "如果有人仇恨自己生活的社会和周围的人民，他就不可能为共同的未来做出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "After the Promised Land",
        "追逐理想之地"
    ],
    [
        "A depreciation of the euro seems to be one likely way that the eurozone will turn the corner.",
        "欧元贬值似乎也是欧元区扭转局势的可行之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing remained of his swaying hips and his howls, or of the pale eyes perpetually on the verge of laughing or crying (you never knew which).",
        "他再也不能摇摆臀部，发出吼声，他的睡眼朦胧的眼睛再也无法做出似笑非笑，似哭非哭的表情（你永远不知道是哪一种）。"
    ],
    [
        "Robert Kaplan wisely observes that “Indian geography is the story of invasions from a northwesterly direction,” and “India’s strategic challenges still inhere in this fact,” which is why Afghanistan, to Indian eyes, is linked to the sub-continent’s history, and thus our future.",
        "罗伯特·卡普兰也英明地观察到“印度的地理就是抵御来自西北方面入侵的历史”而且“当今印度的战略挑战依然与这一事实密切相关”，因此在印度人眼中，阿富汗与次大陆的历史密不可分，甚至决定着印度的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "But, although it reflected real differences between established EU members and the newcomers, it also managed to solidify the false impression that the EU's new members share a similar identity and political agenda.",
        "然而，这种简单划分虽然反映了欧盟资深成员和新成员之间真正的差别，但也同样强化了一种欧盟新成员（与资深成员）享有相似的身份和政治议程的错误印象。"
    ],
    [
        "(They tend to gloss over the fact that, after decades of ethnic cleansing in Pakistan, hardly any Sikhs are left there.)",
        "（他们想要掩饰一个事实，即在经历了几十年的种族清洗后，巴基斯坦已经几乎没有锡克人了。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term, patient finance must also be available to help companies minimize uncertainty and bridge the so-called “Valley of Death” between basic research and commercialization.",
        "长期耐心融资对于帮助公司实现不确定性最小化、弥合基础研究和商业化之间的所谓“死亡谷”也是必不可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2050, better infrastructure could mean that 57 million people – more than the current population of South Africa – would no longer be at risk of hunger, and that about four million children would no longer suffer from malnutrition.",
        "到2050年，改建后的基础设施可能意味着5，700万人——超过南非目前人口的总和——将不再忍受饥饿，并且约400万儿童将摆脱营养不良。"
    ],
    [
        "Cumulative Chinese foreign direct investment since 2003 has reached nearly $7 billion in Zimbabwe, compared to $3.9 billion for Kenya.",
        "2003年来津巴布韦所累计的中国外商直接投资已达近70亿美元，而肯尼亚则只有39亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "It is essential that Europe move quickly to ensure that its banks are adequately capitalized and backstopped.",
        "一个关键点是欧洲迅速行动，确保其银行资本充足、并有强力支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, most countries face a trio of inequalities – of income, wealth, and opportunity – which, left unchecked, reinforce one another, with far-reaching consequences.",
        "结果，大部分国家面临着三重不平等——收入、财富和机会——若不加以改观，三者之间将互相强化，造成影响深远的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Right Time to Reform Fuel Pricing",
        "改革燃料定价正当时"
    ],
    [
        "For a group of select countries representing a small slice of the global population, burning fossil fuels enabled an era of explosive growth, ushering in dramatic improvements in productivity, income, wealth, and standards of living.",
        "对一小撮代表少部分全球人口的特定国家而言，燃烧化石燃料开启了爆炸式的增长时代，显著改善了生产力、收入、财富和生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as the Bush administration was spinning the notion that the torture of prisoners was the work of “a few bad apples” low in the military hierarchy, I knew that we were seeing evidence of a systemic policy set at the top.",
        "即使布什政府编造出是一些军队下层的“坏蛋”在折磨囚犯这样的说辞，我也知道我们看见了在美国上层的系统性政策作恶的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Many were stripped of their responsibilities, and the persons involved were discredited.",
        "多家央行的职责被解除，相关人员名誉扫地。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Can global governance solve most of our economic problems?",
        "华盛顿—全球治理能够解决大部分经济问题吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Though Mexico’s election saga may continue to make headlines, its true significance is that it reveals just how politically sturdy a place Mexico has become.",
        "尽管墨西哥的选举长剧可能会继续成为报章的头条新闻，但是其真正的意义在于，它揭示了墨西哥已经成为了一个多么政治稳固的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, corporations, charities, and other institutions filing libel suits will now have to show that they suffered financial damage.",
        "此外，企业、慈善组织和其他机构现在必须证明受到经济损失才可以提起诽谤诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "The labor force is predominantly low-skilled.",
        "劳动力大多为低技能。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, like so many other international agreements, the Convention on Biological Diversity remains essentially unknown, un-championed, and unfulfilled.",
        "不幸的是，就像其他如此众多的国际公约一样，生物多样性公约基本上不为人所知，没有得到宣传促进，也没有得到落实。"
    ],
    [
        "The German property boom could be reined in with an appropriate jump in interest rates.",
        "德国的房地产热潮本可以用适当的利率跳升来进行遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, it was France’s insistence on more stringent controls that initially blocked the agreement in Geneva last November.",
        "类似地，导致去年11月没能在日内瓦达成协议的原因是法国坚决主张严格控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, because the sum of all future tax revenues (discounted to today) must cover the sum of all future spending plus the national debt, the only way to keep taxes relatively low is to control spending.",
        "事实上，由于所有未来税收收入之和（贴现到现在）必须不小于所有未来支出与国民债务之和，因此保持税收水平相对较低的唯一方法只有控制支出。"
    ],
    [
        "The promise of replicating past returns cannot be the reason, given the inadequacy of those returns.",
        "复制过去回报的承诺绝不是理由，因为过去的回报根本就不怎么样。"
    ],
    [
        "The story is similar in Uganda.",
        "乌干达的状况也与此相似。"
    ],
    [
        "Real GDP growth reached 4.1% in the third quarter of 2013, and fourth-quarter growth appears to have been relatively strong, driven by a dramatic rise in housing starts and industrial production.",
        "2013第三季度实际GDP增长率达到4. 1%，并且第四季度GDP增长在新住宅开工和工业生产急剧上升的带动下似乎更强。"
    ],
    [
        "Advances in the defense industry lead to significant positive externalities, such as civil-military synergies and investment in research and development, which is fundamental to growth, innovation, and future competitiveness.",
        "防务行业的进步能带来巨大的正外部性，包括民用-军用协同效应和研发投资，而这些正是增长、创新和未来竞争力的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "As an African activist with more than ten years of experience in the fight against HIV, I hope that the WHO will build on its important first step of advising the use of PrEP.",
        "作为在抗击HIV领域有10余年经验的非洲活动家，我希望世卫组织能在迈出建议使用PrEP这关键一步的基础上更上一层楼。"
    ],
    [
        "The projected increase in global growth next year will likely not happen.",
        "预料中的明年全球贸易增长很可能不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than lead, the Franco-German couple is constantly, and publicly, at each other’s throats.",
        "它们非但不去带好这个头，反而不断公开相互拆台。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that trafficking will stop only when the need for organs disappears.",
        "事实是：只有不需要器官的时候，走私才能停止。"
    ],
    [
        "Let banks design their own risk management systems, audit them to the limited extent possible, and then severely punish them if they produce a loss outside agreed parameters.",
        "让银行自己设计自己的风险管理体系并予以有限程度的审计，然后损失超过议定参数时予以严厉惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "The Tragedy of Trade Blindness",
        "贸易短视的悲剧"
    ],
    [
        "What has shaken the government, and indeed threatens the existence of the ruling Islamic ideology, is the pressure of the Iranian people for human and political rights.",
        "而真正撼动了政府，并对伊斯兰神权统治意识形态构成了实质性威胁的，则是伊朗人民追求人权和政治权利的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "(Witness Kim Jong-un’s sudden dismissal of senior military officer Ri Yong-ho, anointment of himself as a marshal, and revelation that he had married a woman first glimpsed when she accompanied him to a concert featuring appearances by Disney’s Mickey and Minnie Mouse.)",
        "朝鲜仍是个永远令人捉摸不透的国家，比如，金正恩突然间便将高级军官李英浩解职、给自己加上元帅头衔，又默示自己已经结婚。 他的妻子首次露面是陪同他出席迪士尼米老鼠音乐会。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, advances in energy efficiency are also reducing demand for traditional producers’ exports.",
        "同时，节能进步也降低了对传统生产国出口的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the investigation into the murder of Younis has been muted by the rebels’ recent military successes, his tribe is demanding justice and is prepared to seek retribution if the NTC cannot resolve the matter. Such an outcome could split the rebels’ ranks and risks plunging Libya into renewed violence at the very moment that hostilities should have ended.",
        "尤尼斯所属的部落依然在不断要求得到公正合理的解释，并准备在委员会无法解决问题的情况下独立实施报复行动。 而这样的结果将导致反对派的内部分裂，甚至可能在各派都应该放下敌意的关键时刻将利比亚再次拖入暴力的深渊。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor unions, once known for their skepticism toward immigration, are increasingly in favor of pro-immigration reforms.",
        "曾经以移民怀疑论出名的工会也渐渐开始支持移民改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a declaration would also be an enormous act of self-empowerment for the Palestinians.",
        "而这么一份宣言同时也是巴勒斯坦人在自我授权方面的重要举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Facing widespread shortages of goods and malfunctioning markets, including for foreign exchange, his government has already lost control of the National Assembly, and the opposition is now seeking to shorten his term by constitutional means.",
        "面临普遍的商品短缺和市场瘫痪（包括外汇）的马杜罗政府已经失去了对国民大会的控制，反对派正在寻求通过宪法途径缩短他的任期。"
    ],
    [
        "Such activities have apparently not fazed Trump.",
        "这样的行径显然没有困扰特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "Following this summer’s attacks on Karachi’s international airport, a naval base, and a crowd gathered on the India-Pakistan border to witness a popular display of force by each side’s guards, the Peshawar massacre makes it four.",
        "今年夏天，卡拉奇国际机场、某海军基地遭遇袭击，印巴边界的居民还目睹了双方军队集结对峙。 白沙瓦大屠杀是第四个困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Some Chinese ask what the rules of the game would be in the event that the Korean peninsula is united under South Korea.",
        "有些中国人担心韩国统一朝鲜半岛后会奉行何种游戏规则。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue of representation is an important component of the IMF’s strategic review.",
        "代表权问题是国际货币基金组织战略检讨的重要组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Until the crisis of 2010, when fiscal problems in Greece and elsewhere created anxiety in financial markets, some economists had speculated that the euro might soon replace the dollar as the world’s primary reserve currency.",
        "2010年危机爆发（即希腊和其他国家的财政问题引发金融市场焦虑）前，有些经济学家纷纷猜测欧元很可能迅速取代美元而成为世界主要储备货币。"
    ],
    [
        "In the foothills and high slopes, 30% of Kenya’s tea and 70% of its coffee are produced.",
        "山脚和高坡出产了肯尼亚30%的茶叶和70%的咖啡。"
    ],
    [
        "You buy low-carbohydrate products, energy and nutrition bars, vitamin- and mineral-fortified foods and beverages, soy foods, and practically anything with a health claim.",
        "你购买低碳水化合物产品、能量和营养条、强化维他命和矿物质的食品和饮料、大豆食品和几乎任何具有健益特点的食品。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, economic development based on diversified domestic demand is more complicated than export-driven development, because these new sectors rely more heavily on sophisticated financial services, free and equitable market access, better educated workers, and higher investment in research and development.",
        "对于新手而言，基于国内需求多元化的经济增长相较于出口导向型发展更为复杂，因为这些新行业的发展更多倚重于复杂的金融服务、自由公平的市场准入资格、受教育程度更高的劳动者以及对研究开发领域更多的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "And he has maintained his position that Islam itself, rather than just radical militant Islam, is dangerous.",
        "他坚持认为伊斯兰教本身——而不仅仅是激进伊斯兰教武装分子——是危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "These challenges, while difficult to address, are at least discernible.",
        "这些挑战很难克服，但至少能够识别。"
    ],
    [
        "The second “marijuana moment” occurred in the US, where the states of Washington and Colorado have entered the final stages of fully legalizing marijuana usage, following popular referenda last November.",
        "第二个“大麻时刻“发生于美国，去年11月举行公投后，华盛顿州和科罗拉多州进入了大麻使用完全合法化的最后步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "Bolivia has entered a new era of mass mobilization of its long-suffering but now victorious indigenous communities.",
        "玻利维亚备受折磨的土著人口现在已经取得了胜利，进入到全体总动员的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Their answer was designed to preserve liberty, not maximize government efficiency.",
        "他们的答案是设计保护自由而不是政府效率最大化的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who serves as UN Special Envoy for Global Education, is working tirelessly to promote access to education among the millions of refugees in the region.",
        "现任联合国全球教育特使的英国前首相戈登·布朗正不知疲倦地面向该地区成百上千万难民推动教育工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Dissent, should it arise, must always take the form of well-intentioned advice given to the ruler in a private setting.",
        "任何人有出现了异议都必须出于善意的目的通过私下方式告知统治者。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent Pew poll indicates that only 22% of Britons, 14% of French, and 11% of Germans have confidence in him.",
        "最近公布的一次皮尤民意调查显示，仅有22%的英国人、14%的法国人和11%的德国人对特朗普有信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Essentially the same sort of thing happens with US inflation and the bond market.",
        "美国通货膨胀和债券市场也表现出差不多的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The other problem for Europe is a dog that does bark, but for no reason.",
        "欧洲的另一个问题是狗没有原因而吠。"
    ],
    [
        "The lower debt burden is also a key reason why consumption is expected to continue to grow much faster in the US than in the eurozone this year and next.",
        "债务负担的减轻也是消费有望继续成为推动今年和明年美国增长远快于欧元区的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Romney is a proponent of free trade, but has said that he would be tougher on China’s trade practices and currency policies.",
        "罗姆尼是自由贸易的支持者，但也表示将对中国贸易行为和货币政策采取更强硬的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem begins in Abe’s own domain – politics.",
        "问题起始于安倍自己的领域——政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of how fast GDP grows, an economic system that fails to deliver gains for most of its citizens, and in which a rising share of the population faces increasing insecurity, is, in a fundamental sense, a failed economic system.",
        "从根本上说，不管GDP增长有多快，不能让大部分公民带来福祉、让越来越多的人口面临越来越严重的不安全性的经济制度都是一个失败的经济制度。"
    ],
    [
        "But next year could be different, and not in a good way – especially for producers.",
        "但明年可能会不一样，并且不是“好”的不一样——特别是对生产国来说。"
    ],
    [
        "But the attack would have come from investors, not regulators.",
        "但打击将来自投资者而不是监管者。"
    ],
    [
        "A completely decentralized free-for-all would benefit no one.",
        "分散化的完全自由主义不会带来任何好处。"
    ],
    [
        "But, subtly and over time, this lesson has morphed into a belief that low inflation is also a sufficient condition for sustained growth.",
        "但这一教训随着时间发生了微妙的变化，演变成低通胀同时也是持续增长的充分条件的信念。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past 20 years, no geo-political space has undergone as dramatic a transformation as that between the Atlantic and the Urals.",
        "过去20年来，从大西洋到乌拉尔山的地缘政治领域发生了最翻天覆地的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "This bodes well for the Tunisian economy’s long-term prospects.",
        "这对突尼斯经济的长期前景无疑是好兆头。"
    ],
    [
        "A great deal of innocent human life depends on it.",
        "这关系到无数无辜者的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, his researchers presumably have told him that independent middle-class voters are more likely to be won over by appeals to their wallets than to concern for America’s poor.",
        "而且，他的研究人员据说告诉他，收入问题要比关心美国的贫困人口更会赢得独立中产选民的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than focusing our attention on alternatives to US leadership, we should be emphasizing its importance – an approach that would help to spur the US to rededicate itself to its international responsibilities.",
        "我们应该强调美国领导地位的重要性，而不是关注谁能替代美国——这样有助于刺激美国重新承担起国际责任。"
    ],
    [
        "People with psychotic disorders may deny that they are ill, and those suffering from depression may be too consumed by self-loathing to feel worthy of help.",
        "精神病患者可能会否认自己有病，而抑郁症患者可能太过执着于自我厌憎，而感觉自己不配寻求帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Underwater search vehicles are homing in on an area just a few kilometers wide in the vastness of the southern Indian Ocean, some 2,000 kilometers northwest of Perth.",
        "水下搜索装置在浩瀚的南印度洋上距珀斯西北约2，000公里处锁定了方圆仅仅数公里的水域。"
    ],
    [
        "In his inaugural address in 2009, President Barack Obama stated that “our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.”",
        "在2009年的就职演说中，巴拉克·奥巴马总统提出“我们的力量来自审慎地使用手中的权力； 我们的安全来自正义的事业、榜样的力量、以及谦卑和克制的调和作用。"
    ],
    [
        "French Socialists will not renounce their traditional commitments; nor should they.",
        "法国社会党不会也不应该放弃其传统承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "There must be normalization in our relations in order for the Caucasus to coalesce into a functional region.",
        "两国关系必须正常化才能让高加索联合成为一个可以运作的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet neither India nor the EU wants their friendship to be part of an anti-China axis.",
        "但是，印度和欧盟都不想让它们之间的友谊成为反华轴心的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Ordinarily, a large surplus puts upward pressure on the country’s currency – making its exports less competitive and boosting demand for imported goods and services.",
        "通常，巨额盈余会给一国货币带来升值压力——使其出口竞争力下降、提高对进口商品和服务的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "It is weakening social trust and mental stability, with the prevalence of clinical depression apparently on the rise.",
        "全球资本主义削弱社会信任和心理稳定，导致临床抑郁患者数量显著增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s top independent financial minds have looked long and hard at these arrangements, and, given what we have learned in recent years, have found them worse than wanting (see the Web page of Anat Admati at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business for the details).",
        "为此有一批全球最顶尖的独立金融研究者也正以长远而严谨的眼光观察这类事务，而我们近几年的研究显示情况比想象中更糟（详见斯坦福大学商学院教授安娜特·阿德玛蒂Anat Admati的网页）。"
    ],
    [
        "The movie Her tells the story of a man whose job – composing letters for people who cannot write their own – will soon be automated by a new generation of operating systems capable of learning so quickly and comprehensively that they quickly surpass a single human in terms of accumulated knowledge.",
        "电影《Her(云端情人)》就讲述了一个专业为那些无法亲笔写信的人撰写信件的人将很快被新一代的操作系统所取代，因为这个系统的学习能力是如此迅速和全面，能在知识积累方面迅速超越人类。"
    ],
    [
        "Although ordinary Lebanese have paid a huge human, economic, and infrastructural price, Hezbollah has made it clear to the Israelis that they can no longer take their military predominance for granted.",
        "尽管普通的黎巴嫩人民付出了巨大的人员、经济以及基础设施的代价，但是真主党向以色列表明，他们不能再把他们的军事霸主地位看作是理所当然的事情了。"
    ],
    [
        "China may not have an infrastructure deficit, but it has something else: large construction companies that welcome the opportunity to undertake additional projects abroad.",
        "中国可能没有基础设施欠账，但却有大型建筑企业急于到国外承接更多的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, the three storms are at different stages of formation.",
        "目前这三起风暴处于不同的形成阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "To decide whether Mladic acted on Serbia’s account when he was planning and ordering the Srebrenica massacre, the Court demanded proof that Serbian officials sent him specific “instructions” to commit this act of genocide.",
        "为了裁定马尔维奇在计划以及下令进行斯雷布雷尼察大屠杀时是否是按照塞尔维亚的指令行事，法院要求提供证据表明塞尔维亚的官员给他发出了下令进行种族灭绝的明确“指令”。"
    ],
    [
        "He was let out from time to time, but under guard like a zoo animal, to go to some spa or to play solitary holes of golf, one of the many manifestations of “bourgeois liberalization” that his reform efforts allowed to leak through China’s once hermetic seal.",
        "有时他获准外出泡温泉或一个人打高尔夫，这是他所倡导的改革运动带进原本封闭中国的一种“资产阶级自由化”现象，但外出的时候他要像动物园里的野兽一样受到监视。"
    ],
    [
        "A critical component of successful debt restructuring is to ensure that similarly situated creditors receive comparable treatment.",
        "成功债务重组的关键要素是确保类似处境的债权人得到类似的待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab Spring and Europe’s Turn",
        "阿拉伯的春天和欧洲的转机"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) applied a ”black box” warning to all antidepressant drugs labelling, but fell short of restricting the use of any individual drug.",
        "前不久，美国食品药物管理局(FDA)在所有的抗抑郁类药品标签上添加“黑框”警告，但却无法限制于个人使用此类药品。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, diffusion depends on whether countries can afford to purchase the new technology.",
        "最后，技术的传播取决于各国是否有钱购买这项新技术。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while further fiscal stimulus seems necessary to avoid a more protracted recession, governments around the world can ill afford it: they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.",
        "所以，虽然进一步出台财政刺激似乎是避免一场漫长衰退的必要选择，但是世界各国政府的具体操作可能会引发问题：做也不是，不做也不是。"
    ],
    [
        "Technically, he didn’t have to.",
        "从技术上讲，他不必诚实和可靠。"
    ],
    [
        "A Rule of Law for Sovereign Debt",
        "主权债务的法治"
    ],
    [
        "That is the equivalent of the annual emissions of the Netherlands!",
        "9亿吨二氧化碳。 这一数字等于荷兰的年排放量！"
    ],
    [
        "China has also benefited greatly from multilateral economic institutions like the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.",
        "中国同样从世贸组织、世界银行和国际货币基金组织等多边经济体系中受益良多。"
    ],
    [
        "British membership is important to many in Europe.",
        "作为成员国的英国对许多欧洲国家来说是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "The bold European experiment reflected a new attitude about what money should do, as well as how it should be managed.",
        "这场宏大的欧洲实验反映了一种关于货币应该起到何种作用，又应该如何管理的新思维。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most problematic, though, is that something other than plutocrat-friendly policies is largely responsible for the growing inequality.",
        "不过，也许问题最大的地方在于某些并非有利于富翁阶层的政策也大大助长了不平等性的恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "And better environmental regulation is crucial.",
        "而更完善的环境监管则是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Such abuses of market power discourage innovation.",
        "这种滥用市场力量的行为会阻碍进一步的创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Water diversion in a difficult drought year, along with Governor Jerry Brown’s proposal for massive new infrastructure to send water south, has heightened tensions.",
        "在大旱之年调水加之州长杰里·布朗提议修建大规模基础设施向南加州调水都进一步恶化了本已紧张的局势。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Xi’s assumption of power is more complete than was the case in earlier transitions.",
        "首先，习近平的掌权比前几任更加彻底。"
    ],
    [
        "Reduced uptake of smoking by children would save lives chiefly after 2050.",
        "降低儿童吸烟将会主要在2050年后挽救性命。 戒烟是有成效的。"
    ],
    [
        "Falling prices, together with stricter lending standards, has spurred a shift by would-be home buyers to the rental market, causing recent declines in the sales of both new and existing homes.",
        "下跌的价格和收紧的贷款标准一起，将潜在购房者驱赶到了租房市场中，导致最近新屋和旧屋销量双双下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Another type of corruption involves siphoning enormous sums of money from large-scale projects.",
        "另一种腐败是从大规模项目中捞取巨额回扣。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the absence of a major unexpected shock, oil companies will remain under pressure to continue selling oil, even at low prices, as they struggle to service the large debts they incurred on investments when oil prices were high.",
        "但在缺乏一场重大意外冲击的情况下，石油企业将继续被迫低价卖油油，因为它们得努力偿还高油价时进行投资所欠下的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the effects of climate change have been observed in many areas around the world, thinking about mitigation makes sense everywhere.",
        "鉴于气候变化所产生的影响在全世界的许多地区都能够被观察到，如何减弱气候变化在全球各地都是有意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the revolts proceeded, it emerged that people wanted good government and social justice, and were not enamored of Iran or interested in joining an axis of resistance.",
        "然而随着叛乱继续进行，人们开始想要一个亲民的政府和公平的社会，他们并不倾向于伊朗也对加入抵抗轴心国不感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "A new constitution that protects minority rights and the basic ethos of the country should be drafted, and all political parties should operate according to rules that ensure transparency and commitment to the democratic process.",
        "迅速组织各方都能接受的派遣独立观察员的选举。 应当起草新宪法保护少数族裔权利和国家的基本精神，所有政党都应该按规则行事，以确保民主进程的承诺和透明度。"
    ],
    [
        "Fine distinctions are made, for example, between the rights of citizens and non-citizens.",
        "例如，在公民和非公民之间就存在微妙的差别。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq could have been a winner, had it been able to translate the recovery of its oil industry and the withdrawal of US troops into political stabilization and regional influence.",
        "伊拉克本可以成为赢家，如果它成功地将石油业的复苏和美军的撤离转化为政治稳定和地区影响力的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, adolescents average 150 grams/day (roughly 30% of total calories) – a five-fold increase in one century, and a two-fold increase in a generation.",
        "如今，青少年每天的要吃150克糖（占总热量摄入的近30%），糖摄入量在一个世纪上升了五倍，在一代人的时间里上升了两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the IMF, to reduce its net public debt to 80% of GDP by 2030, Japan would have to turn today’s 8.6% primary budget deficit (the balance excluding interest payments) into a 6.7% primary surplus by 2020 and maintain such surpluses continuously until 2030.",
        "5%的财政赤字之下，债务负担依然在不断增长。 据国际货币基金组织统计，如果要在2030年将净公共债务总额降低到相当于GDP80%的话，日本必须在2020年将当前8."
    ],
    [
        "But the consequences of such a step for Europe’s great free-trade experiment could be serious, and, if not managed carefully, could lead to Britain’s withdrawal.",
        "但欧洲的伟大自由贸易实验迈出这一步所带来的后果可能十分严重，如果不能小心治理，可能导致英国的退出。"
    ],
    [
        "For them, the overall economic benefits of trade liberalization matter little, if their own narrow interests are being undercut.",
        "对他们来说，贸易自由化的总体经济利益不值一提，如果他们自身的狭隘利益受到侵蚀的话。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, US support for Mexico’s campaign against the cartels looks set in stone, with Congress apparently ready to provide $300 million for another year of military and security upgrading.",
        "比如，美国对墨西哥打击卡特尔运动的支持似乎牢不可破，国会显然已经做好准备为又一年的军事和安全设施升级提供3亿美元的经费。"
    ],
    [
        "Rousseff soon appointed an economic team associated with fiscal orthodoxy to lead the effort.",
        "罗塞夫很快就认命了一个正统财政派经济团队负责这些政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Allowing long-term investors such as pension funds to provide the European economy with much-needed capital has the potential to provide huge benefits to future retirees, as well as to the broader economy.",
        "让退休基金等长期投资者为欧洲经济提供急需的资本有望给未来退休者和整体经济带来巨大好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientists themselves may be able to ascribe these levels of credibility to their own work in fairness, if they describe in detail what they set out to do, and how they did it.",
        "如果科学家们能详细地描述他们做这个的出发点以及是如何着手去做的，也许他们自己就能公正地描述他们自己的工作的可信度。"
    ],
    [
        "Recovery, goes the refrain, has been “derailed” by the eurozone crisis.",
        "”接着，他们会大谈复苏因欧元区危机而“脱轨”。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, he sees himself as a deeply civilized man of peace.",
        "相反，他自视为浸淫文明甚深的和平人士。"
    ],
    [
        "One should not assume that anyone is actively striving for a crash.",
        "我们不应该认为有谁会去积极争取崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, according to the UN and the World Bank, the social impact of the global economic crisis continues to be felt in terms of rising hunger, unemployment, and social unrest.",
        "更为重要的是，根据联合国及世界银行统计，全球经济危机的影响继续体现在饥饿、失业和社会动荡之中。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, members of Europe’s economic and monetary union should give up their seats in the G-7 and the International Monetary Fund.",
        "特别是欧洲经济与货币联盟的成员国更应该放弃它们在G-7和国际货币基金组织的席位。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if you have ever sat at somebody’s deathbed, the answer may very well be yes: you sat at the deathbed of a statistical life.",
        "因此如果你亲身经历过垂死的场面，其实多数人都有过这样的经历：你也就看到过统计生命的行将消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Curtailing the flow of recruits is even more essential.",
        "切断人员招募流更加关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the US guilty of hypocrisy, as Russia, China, and others have charged?",
        "美国真的像俄罗斯、中国和其他人职责的那样伪善吗？"
    ],
    [
        "For all of China’s long-term structural problems, it is not exactly slipping into recession.",
        "就中国所有的长期结构性问题看来，它还未滑入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – Helium is vital in today’s technology-based world.",
        "牛津—氦对于以技术为基础的当今世界来说至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent investigations into whether Exxon Mobil deliberately covered up that it knew more about the risks of climate change are similarly damning.",
        "最近关于埃克森美孚是否故意掩盖它对气候变化风险的了解的调查也同样恶劣。"
    ],
    [
        "The tears of the world need not be a constant quantity.",
        "这个世界的泪水并不一定是常数。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are concerns that these bonds of kizuna may also bind the Japanese economy, which must recover as soon as possible – not only for the benefit of the Japanese, but also because disruptions in Japan’s economy are hitting the rest of Asia, owing to the production chains of which Japan is an integral part.",
        "但也有人担心这种情谊纽带可能束缚日本的经济，日本经济必须尽快恢复，这不但符合日本人的利益，也因为日本经济中断影响到了亚洲其他国家，因为日本是整条产业链上不可或缺的环节。"
    ],
    [
        "By repudiating Bush's policies at the polls, America will have a chance to regain the respect and support of the world.",
        "通过在全民投票中批判布什的政策，美国将有机会重新赢得世界的尊敬与支持。"
    ],
    [
        "If it does not like how the EU – and the European Commission – evolves, it can attempt to renegotiate its membership terms, as Prime Minister David Cameron did in February, or it can exit.",
        "如果英国不喜欢欧盟——以及欧盟委员会——发展的趋势，它可以重新谈判其成员资格条件（如首相卡梅伦在2月份所做的那样），或者退出欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Preparedness pays.",
        "准备工作是物有所值的。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics of the Ibrahim Prize argue that it makes Africa look bad, because in four out of seven years it has not been awarded to anyone.",
        "有批评认为这个奖令非洲蒙羞，因为自该奖设立7年以来已经有4年出现的得奖者空缺。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, investing in a company like Tesla Motors – which has now developed a rechargeable battery for home use, which could lead to a sharp increase in the number of households switching to solar power – looks far more attractive.",
        "相反，对像特斯拉这样已成功研发出家用充电电池的公司的投资（这一发明可能导致改用太阳能发电的家庭数量急剧增加）看上去更有前景。"
    ],
    [
        "How Effective is Disaster Relief?",
        "赈灾的有效性"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, an open-minded, culturally literate, and ideas-oriented head of state could play a pivotal role.",
        "在这方面，思想开放、文化素养浓厚、思想导向的国家首脑可以起到关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Impeachment, set out in Article 2 of the Constitution, is a procedure for the removal from office of a president, vice president, or other top executive official (or judge) suspected of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”",
        "宪法第二条的弹劾程序适用于对被怀疑犯有“叛国、受贿或其他严重罪行和不端行为的总统、副总统或其他最高行政官员（或法官）的免职。"
    ],
    [
        "India, too, must do its part.",
        "另一方面，印度也应该拿出自己的诚意。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1988, the US president can prohibit foreign direct investment if it is seen as a threat to national security.",
        "从1988年开始，美国总统就有权禁止被认为对国家安全构成威胁的外国直接投资。"
    ],
    [
        "To come back from near destitution and bloody tyranny in one generation is a great feat, and China should be saluted for it.",
        "仅仅用一代人的时间就从近乎赤贫和血腥的暴政走出来绝对是一个伟大的成就，中国人应该为此得到祝贺。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, France, and the United Kingdom are adamant that all the intelligence and eyewitness evidence points to the Assad government as the perpetrator of the attack.",
        "美国、法国和英国坚定认为情报和目击证据都表明巴沙尔政府是袭击的发动者。"
    ],
    [
        "Who will ensure that the Cancứn climate-change conference this December does not meet the same fate as last year’s Copenhagen summit?",
        "谁能保证今年12月坎昆的气候变化会议不会与去年的哥本哈根会议遭遇同样的命运？"
    ],
    [
        "Why is this happening?",
        "为什么会这样？"
    ],
    [
        "Although the shift to a territorial system of taxation would have the most obvious foreign impact, the planned reduction in the corporate tax rate may have an even larger effect.",
        "虽然转向领土税制会产生最为明显的国外影响，但计划中企业税率下降的影响则更大。"
    ],
    [
        "In all of these cases, bold climate-change targets are being undermined by business-as-usual subsidies.",
        "在所有这些例子中，大胆的气候变化目标因为老方一帖的补贴政策而遭到破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Our scientists are now working on the next-generation formula, which comes in the equivalent of a sugar packet that even newborns can take.",
        "我们的科学家正在开发新一代配方，将采用糖包，即使是新生儿也可以服用。"
    ],
    [
        "These barriers remain largely because further liberalization would redistribute jobs, income, and wealth in ways that governments fear would reduce their chances of remaining in power – and their own wealth in countries where corruption is rife.",
        "这些壁垒依旧存在，主要是因为进一步自由化将会重新分配工作机会、收入以及财富，而政府则担心其方式将会削弱其继续执政机会，而在腐败盛行的国家中，政府则担心其自身的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the risk that Trump will face derision and even outright mockery from some quarters, why he has decided to attend Davos remains unclear.",
        "鉴于特朗普会面临轻视甚至遭到直接嘲讽的风险，他为何决定参加达沃斯仍不清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, in principle, the purchasing power for the extra output would be available.",
        "所以，原则上说，会出现针对附加产量的购买力量。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time, many economists feared that a rapidly expanding money supply and sharply rising government debt would fuel inflation and weaken the dollar.",
        "当时许多经济学家都担心货币供应量的急剧增长以及政府债务的急剧上升会刺激通胀并削弱美元。"
    ],
    [
        "That schism is being consolidated by Saudi support of all the region’s Sunni Muslims.",
        "沙特支持该地区所有的逊尼派穆斯林而加强了这一分立。"
    ],
    [
        "Journalism’s other task is to reflect a society back to itself – to spread an accurate picture of its current situation, to share information about the activities of private citizens and businesses as they build civil society, and to encourage citizens to become active in improving their own lives and developing their communities.",
        "它的另一个作用就是忠实反映社会——准确记录目前的社会状况，共享普通公民和企业建设民间团体的行动信息，并鼓励民众为改善自身生活和发展社区做出积极的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "There is still a pay gap in every country in the world, with men earning more than women for similar jobs.",
        "工资差距仍在世界每一个国家从事类似工作的男女员工间现实存在着。"
    ],
    [
        "The international system’s failure to address effectively the nuclear issue in the Middle East stems mostly from the Russia-US divide, to which wrongheaded American strategy has contributed mightily.",
        "国际制度没能有效地解决中东核问题的主要原因是俄罗斯－美国的分歧，而刚愎自用的美国策略是造成这一分歧的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "We do not expect you to solve America’s problems overnight.",
        "我们不指望你们一夜之间就解决美国的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The ultimate goals of sound policy are ethical, and they ought to be described in those terms.",
        "健全政策的最终目标及对目标的描述必须全部符合道德。"
    ],
    [
        "Its outsourcing industry is growing twice as fast as India’s.",
        "其外包产业增长速度比印度快一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "In Congress and state legislatures, Republicans hew to generally unpopular extreme positions – tax cuts for the rich, evisceration of business regulations, lower social spending, and curbs on union activities.",
        "在国会和州立法机构，共和党人恪守不受普通民众欢迎的极端立场——为富人减税、取消商业规则、降低社会开支及遏制工会活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The opposition has already started preparing the ground for change.",
        "反对派已经开始为变化创造条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the global financial crisis.",
        "就拿全球金融危机来说吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Black Africa, particularly the East African Community, cannot think of any solution other than secession.",
        "黑非洲，特别是东非东同体，想不出比独立更好的解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, in a moderate export-downturn scenario, with real exports falling by 5% over a four-quarter period, real GDP growth could slip below the 1% “stall speed” threshold – leaving the US economy vulnerable to a recessionary relapse.",
        "另一个情形是出口温和下降，在四个季度的时期内真实出口下降5%。 在该情形下，真实GDP增长将滑到1%的“失速速度”临界值之下，美国经济随时都有可能再现衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "In its current fight with Google, for example, China’s government appears to think that its technologists can provide the means to maintain the old thought control.",
        "比方说在与谷歌的冲突中，中国政府似乎认为国内的技术专家能够找到保持原有思想控制的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Any mention of energy reforms was met with immediate resistance, including references to national sovereignty and constitutional protections.",
        "只要提到能源改革，就会立刻遭到抵制，其原因包括国家主权和宪法保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Deploying BECCS, however, would require the world to maintain an area 1.5 times the size of India, full of fields or forests capable of absorbing vast amounts of carbon dioxide, while still providing enough food for a global population that is expected to exceed nine billion by 2050.",
        "但是，部署BECCS需要世界留出相当于印度面积1. 5倍的土地、足够多的用于吸收大量二氧化碳的原野或森林，同时还要保证能满足全球人口（到2050年预计将超过九十亿）需要的粮食。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian officers, he reported, directly command large military operations in eastern Ukraine, including the siege and capture of the important transport center of Debaltseve in February.",
        "他说俄军官直接指挥二月包围并攻克重要运输中心杰巴利采韦等乌克兰东部大规模军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The result: hedgehogs make more mistakes, but they pile up more hits on Google.",
        "结果是：“刺猬”型专家会犯更多的错误，也会在Google上掀起更大的热情。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the generations alive today have witnessed two completely unexpected crises of epic proportions within the last 20 years, we indulge in a shocking collective repression of a climate disaster with far more serious – and foreseeable – consequences.",
        "虽然当今的一代在过去不到20年的时间内目睹了两个未曾想象的百年难遇的危机，但是我们对于即将到来的气候灾难以及之后更严重的可预见的后果，却是集体性的置若罔闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Initial conditions matter, and in this respect America’s policy framework seems to have ensured the US economy’s relatively higher resilience not only to the global crisis, but also to domestic political volatility.",
        "初始条件很重要，在这方面，美国的政策框架似乎确保了美国经济拥有相对较高的恢复力，不仅在面临全球危机时如此，在面临国内政策动荡时亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is likely that the holders of the debt were no longer French or German banks – who for the most part would have been unable to bear the uncertainty that preceded the 2012 bailout and haircut on Greek debt.",
        "但有可能这些债务的最终持有者已不再是法国或德国银行——否则它们多半无法承受2012年前所存在的不确定性和希腊债务的减记。"
    ],
    [
        "While some see no contradiction, the fact that many of the collaborators who killed secular and pro-democracy Bengalis in 1971 claimed to be doing so in the name of Islam points to an evident tension.",
        "有人认为这并不矛盾，但在1971年，共谋犯以伊斯兰教的名义杀害了大量世俗和亲民主孟加拉国人，这一事实表明存在显而易见的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "France is flat-lining (as is Britain).",
        "法国和英国步履维艰。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the large states still have illusions, encouraged by their political elites, about what the state can do to guide economic development.",
        "简而言之，在大国们的政治精英鼓励下，它们仍对能引导经济发展的措施抱有幻想。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, tuition costs are climbing much faster than median family incomes across the board.",
        "同时，学费比中等家庭收入的增长要快很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Both fundamentalism and the demands of assimilation — be like us, now! — pre-empt these mechanisms.",
        "原教旨主义和要求同化，都抢先一步制止了这些机制，现在就表现得像我们一样！"
    ],
    [
        "Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono emphasized that point earlier this month, boasting to British Prime Minister David Cameron that Indonesia’s successful recovery plan after the 1998 collapse was inspired by John Maynard Keynes.",
        "印尼总统苏西洛在本月早些时候强调也强调了这一点，他不无得意地对英国首相卡梅伦说，印尼在1998年危机后的成功复苏是受了凯恩斯的启发。"
    ],
    [
        "The total unemployment rate stands at nearly 13%, while youth unemployment – officially measured at 29%, but likely closer to 40% – is among the highest in the world.",
        "总体失业率接近13%，年轻人失业率——官方数据为29%，大门但实际可能接近40%——堪称世界最高。"
    ],
    [
        "Powerful new computers will make the human race as a whole better off.",
        "强大的新型计算机将会在整体上增进人类的福祉。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of working to achieve the diplomatic objective of defeating al-Shabaab, Kenya’s military, politicians, and well-connected businessmen have been lining their own pockets.",
        "肯尼亚军队、政客和关系深广的商人并没有致力于实现击败索马里青年军的外交目标，而是在为自己的腰包奋斗。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s approach to influencing global governance is only beginning to emerge.",
        "中国影响全球治理的手法还是小荷才露尖尖角。"
    ],
    [
        "The bumper crops and lower food prices that result from this would save 79 million people from hunger.",
        "4个百分点。 由此带来的庄稼丰收和粮食价格的下降将让7,900万人免于挨饿。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than buckle to France’s will, however, the Romanian president warned France’s leaders to stop lecturing his country – a sure sign that French influence is on the wane even in countries with which it has had close historical ties.",
        "罗马尼亚总统没有顺从法国的意思，相反他警告法国领导人不要再对罗马尼亚指手画脚地说教——这明确表明，即使在那些与它历史渊源深厚的国家，法国的影响力也在不断下降。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the kind of friend I want at my side, not one who automatically approves of whatever I do, declares his love for me, and accepts me as I am.",
        "这才是我想要的朋友，而不是我做什么都点头称是，到处告诉别人他爱我，并且接受我的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "And the European authorities delayed important decisions on refugee policy in order to avoid a negative effect on the British referendum vote, thereby perpetuating scenes of chaos like the one in Calais.",
        "而欧洲当局推迟了重要的难民政策决定，以避免对英国全民公决造成消极影响，从而让加莱等地的乱象持久持续。"
    ],
    [
        "By reducing revenues now, they will be in a position to justify cuts to services benefiting lower- and middle-class Americans down the road – all in the name of “fiscal responsibility” and “entitlement reform.”",
        "他们通过减少当下的财政收入来证明减税是为中低阶层美国人服务的——所有这一切都被掩盖在“财政责任”和“权益改革”的名义之下。"
    ],
    [
        "The package includes the provision of land to industrialists at dramatically reduced prices, tax exemptions of up to seven years for factory owners, and low-interest loans of up to ten years for farmers.",
        "该计划包括以极低廉的价格向企业家提供土地、面向工厂主的最长七年的免税、以及面向农民的最长十年的低息贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "On his second full day in office, President Barack Obama made a major gesture toward restoring the Constitution and the rule of law by signing two executive orders: one closed the prison at Guantánamo Bay, and the other restored America to the company of civilized nations by closing so-called “black sites” that facilitated state-sanctioned torture.",
        "在他就任的第二天，总统巴拉克·奥巴马为恢复宪法和法治做出了重要姿态：他签署了两道行政命令，一条关闭了关塔纳摩湾的监狱，另一条通过关闭所谓的“黑色据点”让美国重回到文明国家的行列中，这些据点促使国家批准的酷刑得以执行。"
    ],
    [
        "That system would suggest surprising, effective therapies, because it would understand disease in ways that are difficult for humans to imagine.",
        "该系统将给出惊艳的高效诊疗，因为它能以人类难以想象的方式理解疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "Seventh, new diplomatic efforts, like the recent ban on all nuclear weapons organized by the United Nations General Assembly, will have no discernable effect.",
        "第七，新的外交努力，如联合国大会最近组织的禁止一切核武器的禁令，不可能产生多少效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Revisionism might turn into outright revanchism as the Kremlin seeks to counter-balance internal weakness with demonstrations of external strength.",
        "随着克里姆林宫试图用对外强硬掩盖内部虚弱时，修正主义可能演变为彻底的复仇主义。"
    ],
    [
        "With hindsight, one can identify other deficiencies in the euro of which its architects were unaware.",
        "在金融危机事后看来，欧元其实还存在着其缔造者未能察觉的某些短处。"
    ],
    [
        "But even when making these graduated choices, a leader also owes his followers a duty of prudence – of remembering the Hippocratic oath to first of all, do no harm.",
        "但即使是在做出这些成熟的选择时，领袖也对其追随者负有审慎责任——时刻铭记“首先不要伤害”的希波克拉底誓言。"
    ],
    [
        "After two decades of earthshaking change, Russia has still not had a real program of constructive reform.",
        "在长达20年翻天覆地的变化之后，俄国仍然没有制定出建设性改革的真正规划。"
    ],
    [
        "Paradoxically, Brexit and Trump supporters might be feeling the effects of globalization because overall inequality has actually declined.",
        "矛盾的是，英国退欧和特朗普的支持者之所以感受到全球化的影响，原因可能是不平等性总体水平其实有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "But it ignores the fact that recent productivity gains have overwhelmingly benefited a small minority.",
        "”但这忽视了一个事实：最近的生产率增长基本上只令极少数群体受益。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to interstate conflict and the proliferation of weapons – particularly weapons of mass destruction – new challenges have emerged, such as terrorism and the involvement of non-state actors in internal conflicts.",
        "除了国际冲突和武器扩散——特别是大规模杀伤性武器的扩散——还出现了其他新挑战，比如恐怖主义以及非国家行东方参与国内冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "But the dark side of Mao cannot be totally expunged.",
        "然而毛泽东统治中的阴暗面无法被一笔勾销。"
    ],
    [
        "The global nature of this debate demonstrates at least three important lessons.",
        "这场全球争论至少说明了三个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The regulators maintain that much of this insurance was worthless to borrowers and was mis-sold.",
        "监管机构主张这一保险大多对借款人毫无价值，属于错误销售。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the inevitable European rate cut, when it comes, will probably not have the stabilizing effect that it should.",
        "结果，当不可避免的欧洲降息来临之际，可能不会具有应当具有的稳定的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Mega-disaster risks can be handled with private financial markets, as long as these markets manage to get the full attention and interest of portfolio investors.",
        "重大灾害的风险可以通过个人金融市场来解决，只要这些市场得到投资组合的投资者们充分的重视和兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Europe needs Britain: not as an offshore center of banking and commerce, but as a difficult, questioning, stubbornly democratic partner.",
        "这也是欧洲需要英国的原因：不是作为离岸银行和商业中心，而是难以对付的、充满狐疑的和顽固的民主伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Preparing for the meeting in the early morning, the EU team heard that there had been an explosion in Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, killing several people.",
        "清早起来筹备会议时，欧盟代表团听说车臣首府格罗兹尼发生爆炸并致数人死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, if a country can improve its domestic balance, it will become more balanced externally, regardless of how little the exchange rate changes.",
        "7%，超过进口增长达31%。 简而言之，如果一个国家能改善其国内经济平衡状况，那么无论汇率变化究竟有多细微，它在对外贸易方面也会变得更加平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Ricans who are not US government employees do not pay federal income tax, and the island’s bonds are “triple tax-exempt” (free of federal, state, and local taxes).",
        "非美国政府雇员的波多黎各人不需要缴纳联邦所得税，岛上发行的债券是“三重免税”的（免除联邦、州和地方税收）。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks, firms, and households are still cleaning up their balance sheets and working off the heaps of debt they amassed during the credit boom that preceded the bust.",
        "银行、企业和家庭仍然在清理资产负债表，消化他们在泡沫破裂前的信用繁荣期所累积的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no current risk to Singapore’s political stability, and the younger Lee is only 63 years old; he could remain in office for a long time to come.",
        "目前没有任何因素能威胁到新加坡的政治稳定，而李显龙才刚满63岁； 他还可以有很长时间担任总理职务。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporate leaders who embrace this new reality, view it as an opportunity, and resist the inclination to “manage” or avoid issues will have a competitive advantage.",
        "接受新现实、将其视为机遇、抵制住“管理”或逃避倾向的企业领导者将拥有竞争优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Securitization avoided such costs and placed the new product advantageously – with the complicity of rating agencies, which stood to profit from investors’ inexperience and lack of information.",
        "银行将贷款证券化避免了这样的成本，并且在利用投资者的经验不足和信息缺乏获利的评级机构的帮助下，很容易处理这样的新产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Gurian argues that men’s brains can actually feel invaded and overwhelmed by too much verbal processing of emotion, so that men’s need to zone out or do something mechanical rather than emote is often not a rejection of their spouses, but a neural need.",
        "古瑞提出男人的大脑实际可以被太多关于情绪的语言加工侵入并且压倒，因此男人发呆或从事某些机械活动而不是表达感情的需求通常并不是拒绝伴侣的表现，而只是一种神经方面的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal of the program, inherited from the previous administration, is a good one: expand knowledge among the young about modern China.",
        "从上届政府延续下来的该项计划原本拥有一个善意的目的——拓展香港年轻一代对于当代中国的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "But the letter also implores the party’s opponents – 16% of Poles support the largest opposition party – “to remember that PiS voters are our mothers, brothers, neighbors, friends, and colleagues.”",
        "但这封信同时恳求该党反对者——16%的波兰人支持最大反对党——“牢记法律与正义党选民是我们的母亲、兄弟、邻居、朋友和同事。"
    ],
    [
        "Power may be increasingly illusory in a globalized world, but it is an illusion that is shared by others, and the longer one inhabits it, the more one’s circle consists of others who share the belief.",
        "在全球化的世界中，权力可能越发看似梦幻一般，但是，他人也有这一幻觉，而且某人怀有这种幻觉时间越长，其身边的人就越发具有相同的信念。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, these companies did not get all they wanted; while the TPP in some ways gives their intellectual property more protection than they had before, it assures protection of their data for only 5-8 years.",
        "最后，这些公司没有得到想要的一切； 尽管TPP以某种方式给了它们比以前更多的知识产权保护，但对于它们的新药数据，保护期只有5—8年。"
    ],
    [
        "Now suppose these voters began to believe that Brexit, far from being inevitable, might never happen.",
        "现在，假设这些选民看是相信，英国退欧远非不可避免，倒有可能永远不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "No one should give ground if China overreaches, and Australia should, now more than ever, work closely with our Asian neighbors to ensure that it does not.",
        "如果中国越界，各国决不能屈服，澳大利亚现在应该比从前更加紧密地与亚洲邻国合作以确保中国不越界。"
    ],
    [
        "Leading By Engaging",
        "通过参与领导"
    ],
    [
        "(To be sure, this failure may not matter much, given South Korean scientists’ past declaration that they will not contribute to any nuclear program that could be used for military purposes.)",
        "（可以肯定这一失败带来的问题不会太大，因为韩国科学家已经发表声明不会参与任何可用于军事目标的核计划。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Examples of this abound.",
        "这样的例子比比皆是。"
    ],
    [
        "They also demand that the interests of big landowners in the agreed rural reform be safeguarded, and argue that implementation of the agreement should be subordinate to the government’s fiscal constraints.",
        "他们还要求在形成一致的农村改革协议中保护大地主的利益，并指出协议的实施应该服从政府预算约束。"
    ],
    [
        "They can’t be allowed to do what they did in the past – gamble at others’ expenses.",
        "让他们不能还像过去那样为所欲为——赌博后的损失由其他人来承担。"
    ],
    [
        "Multilateral support for infrastructure investment is not the only way global trade can be revived under the current monetary arrangements.",
        "对基础设施投资的多边支持不是当前货币安排下唯一的复兴全球贸易之道。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Spanish economy continues to deteriorate and unemployment heads towards 30%. Violent protests against Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s austerity measures lead him to call for a referendum.",
        "但是西班牙的经济仍然持续衰退，失业率飙升至30%。 总理马里亚诺·拉霍伊实行的紧缩措施遭到人们的强烈抗议，致使他不得不进行全民公投。"
    ],
    [
        "So should labor and environmental practices.",
        "劳动力和环境政策亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider, moreover, that at the height of the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1973, Egypt’s armed forces stood at one million troops.",
        "此外，1973年阿以冲突处在顶峰时，埃及的武装部队力量曾经超过百万。"
    ],
    [
        "Approximately a week later, the members of the Politburo Standing Committee will walk out in hierarchical order, preparing to take charge of a growing country of 1.3 billion people.",
        "大约一周后，新的政治局常委将从层级序列中脱颖而出，准备接管有着13亿人口的增长之国。"
    ],
    [
        "What eventually became clear was that under no circumstances could Lee Kuan Yew countenance one particular word or concept: nepotism.",
        "我终于明白裙带关系这个字眼或概念李光耀无论在什么情况下都不会接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Barack Obama’s insistence that Iraq has never constituted a central front in the war on terror insults the memory of tens of thousands – perhaps hundreds of thousands – of Iraqi civilians and US troops murdered by al-Qaeda’s suicide bombers since 2003.",
        "而且，奥巴马坚持说伊拉克从来没有在反恐战争中组成前沿阵地。 这一言论侮辱了自2003年以来数以万计甚至十万计被基地组织人肉炸弹杀害的伊拉克平民以及美军。"
    ],
    [
        "One possible explanation is that the relationship between GDP growth rates and a country’s current-account position is not linear.",
        "一个可能的原因是，GDP增长率与一国经常项目状况之间的关系并不是线性的。"
    ],
    [
        "However, it will make the job of repressing them much harder.",
        "不过，要镇压他们也将变得更加困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Some government- and foundation-funded research addresses diseases that primarily affect poor people, but these efforts are not systematic and do not use the incentives that work well to drive pharmaceutical innovation elsewhere.",
        "一些政府和基金会出资的研究以主要影响穷人的疾病为目标，但这些研究不系统，也缺少其他情况下效果显著的制药创新激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Her assassination by Islamist elements foreclosed that option.",
        "贝托夫人被伊斯兰分子杀害终结了这一选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Women are the most convincing advocates for the solutions that they need, so they should be at the forefront of decision-making on sustainable development and climate-change mitigation.",
        "妇女是她们所需要的解决方案的最坚决的支持者，因此她们应该进入可持续发展和遏制气候变化决策的前沿。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be that most of the boots on the ground will have to be worn by Arabs, Iranians, and Kurds, including members of the Peshmerga International Brigade.",
        "很有可能，地面部队最后由阿拉伯人、伊朗人和库尔德人组成，包括自由斗士国际旅（Peshmerga International Brigade）成员。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – High-quality early childhood education is one of those rare issues that unites people of all social strata and across the political spectrum.",
        "伯克利—高质量早教是为数极少的能让社会各阶层和政治各派别联合起来的问题之一。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there was widespread acceptance that the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) doctrine, unanimously agreed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005, is here to stay.",
        "首先，在2005年联合国大会上一致通过的“保护责任（R2P）”思想在北京会议上得到了广泛接受。 R2P认为主权国家有责任保护其人民免受大屠杀、种族清洗、人权侵犯和战争罪行的伤害；"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, one would expect public-health advocates to demand that such improved varieties be cultivated and used for food, not unlike requirements that drinking water be chlorinated and fluoridated.",
        "此外也希望公共卫生倡导者们能呼吁种植这类作物并将其加工成食品，就像用氯来为自来水消毒并加入少量氟（以防止儿童蛀牙）那样。"
    ],
    [
        "After years of high and long-term structural unemployment, the country implemented a series of labor-market and other reforms beginning in 2003, turning its economy into one of the top performers in the EU.",
        "在经历了多年的长期高结构性失业后，从2003年开始，德国实施了一系列劳动力市场和其他改革，其经济也成为欧盟表现最好的经济之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is the real (inflation-adjusted) cost of capital that is crucial, and for both countries it is much higher now than it was in the run-up to their adoption of the euro.",
        "但实际（经通胀调整的）资本成本才是关键的，而两国的实际资本成本均远高于刚开始使用欧元时的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Eighteenth-century physiocrats believed that only the farmer was productive, and that everyone else was somehow cheating the farmers out of their fair share.",
        "十八世纪的重农主义者认为只有农民是具有生产力的，而其它所有人都在不同程度地骗取农民应得的份额。"
    ],
    [
        "He failed, because he gave in to petty protectionist interests, imposing a timber embargo against Finland and Sweden, a fish embargo against Norway, and various agricultural embargos against Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and others.",
        "因为他向保护主义的蝇头小利妥协，对芬兰和瑞典实施了木材禁运，对挪威实施了渔业禁运，并对立陶宛、乌克兰、摩尔多瓦、格鲁吉亚和其它一些国家实行了不同的农业禁运政策。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea has learned numerous positive lessons from Japan.",
        "韩国从日本身上汲取了大量有益教训。 它夺走了大量日本出口市场；"
    ],
    [
        "A “cut taxes now, cut expenditures later” strategy is therefore feasible.",
        "因此，“现在减税，日后减支”战略是可行的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it wasn’t.",
        "可实际上根本搞不定。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, Gazprom announced its intention to cease shipments through Ukraine when the contracts with the country's gas pipeline company, Naftogaz, expire in 2019.",
        "上个月，俄天然气宣布去有意在2019年与乌克兰天然气管道公司乌天然气（Naftogaz）合同到期后停止途经乌克兰的输气。"
    ],
    [
        "Its member governments need to agree on universal principles to establish an international framework for dealing with migration, and the UN itself should make governance of migration one of its central missions, rather than scattering the task across different agencies.",
        "联合国成员国政府有必要就制定处理移民事务的国际框架普遍原则达成一致，而联合国自身则不应将移民治理分散至不同的机构，而应将其作为联合国的一项核心任务。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s economy is prone to rapid growth, with buoyant investment demand sustaining powerful short-term inflationary pressures.",
        "中国经济一直保持快速增长，同时巨大的投资需求在短期内造成了巨大的通货膨胀压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Wen’s words were like warm milk to the recession-numbed audience of global political and business leaders.",
        "温家宝的话语对于被经济衰退折磨得麻木的全球政商界领袖们而言，就如同久旱逢雨。"
    ],
    [
        "ISLAMABAD – The leaders of the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation met last week in the Maldives for their 17th annual summit.",
        "发自伊斯兰堡——上周南亚区域合作联盟（SAARC）在马尔代夫召开了第17届年度峰会，各成员国领导人均有出席。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the objectives they considered “essential” or “very important,” 51% mentioned “improving my understanding of other countries and cultures,” 45.6% cited “developing a meaningful philosophy of life,” and substantial fractions listed such goals as “becoming a community leader,” “helping to promote racial understanding,” and “becoming involved in programs to clean up the environment.”",
        "在认为“最重要”或“非常重要”的目标中，51%提到了“增进我对其他国家和文化的理解”，45. 6%提到了“建立有意义的人生哲学”，也有很大部分学生列举了“成为团体领袖”、“促进种族理解”和“参与环境清理计划”等目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial costs of patrolling its waters and rescuing those adrift are exorbitant.",
        "搜寻水域、拯救漂流者的财务成本非常高。"
    ],
    [
        "(On the other hand, the publisher of the normally conservative Yomiuri Shimbun attacked Koizumi’s Yasukuni visits and published a fascinating series of articles on responsibility for the war.)",
        "（在另一方面，一贯保守的《读卖新闻》的社长批评了小泉对靖国神社的参拜行为，并且发表了一系列令人印象深刻的讨论战争责任的文章。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment rates would converge, as would other important macroeconomic variables, such as unit labor costs, productivity, and fiscal deficits and government debt.",
        "失业率以及其他重要的宏观经济变量，如单位劳动成本、生产率、财政赤字及政府债务等都将趋于同化。"
    ],
    [
        "For more than a century, cars have enabled billions of people to travel farther, faster, and more efficiently than ever before.",
        "一个多世纪以来，汽车让数十亿人得以旅行得更远、更快、更高效。"
    ],
    [
        "But what will it mean for Trump’s other major promise, to cut the US trade deficit?",
        "但这对于特朗普的另一个重大承诺——削减美国贸易赤字意味着什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "From an epidemiological perspective, NCD prevalence is determined by the difference between the rate at which previously healthy people become ill (incidence) and the rate at which ill people either recover or die (from any cause). If inflow exceeds outflow, prevalence rises.",
        "从流行病学的观点看，NCD的普遍性决定于先前健康的人群的发病率（事件）和病人被发现发病或死亡（不管什么原因）频率之差。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, this means promoting conventional conservative values like discipline, deference, duty, and sacrifice.",
        "就目前而言，这意味着弘扬纪律、顺从、责任和牺牲等传统保守价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Japan and the United States stand out as bright spots in the subdued global outlook, but for different reasons.",
        "日本和美国成为暗淡全球前景的亮点，但各有各的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the panel called these ventures – including the Kyoto Protocol – “bad projects” because they cost more than the good they do.",
        "事实上，专家小组把这些冒险之举——包括京都议定书——称为“糟糕的计划”因为它们的成本高于受益。"
    ],
    [
        "International cooperation on migration should be founded on existing intergovernmental agreements, such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the 2015 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the 2013 Declaration of High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development.",
        "国际移民合作应当以现有政府间协议为基础，如2030年的可持续发展议程、2015年的亚迪斯亚贝巴行动纲领，2015年的仙台减轻灾害风险框架以及2013年的国际移民与发展高级对话宣言。"
    ],
    [
        "The Western aim of building Afghanistan up as a stable and more or less democratic state is extremely ambitious; it may be wiser to help stabilize Kabul and the relatively quiet northern part of the country.",
        "西方关于把阿富汗建成一个稳定和多多少少民主的国家的目标需要极大的努力才能实现； 更理智的也许是帮助稳定喀布尔和这个国家相对平静的北部地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The government part of the credit system has been strengthened, relatively speaking, by developments over the past few months.",
        "相对而言，通过几个月来的发展，信用体系的政府部分已经得到了强化。"
    ],
    [
        "International security cooperation, border controls, and transport sector monitoring are all important, but they don’t go far enough.",
        "国际安全合作、边境管制以及对交通往来的监视都是重要的，但它们的作用还不够大。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the attention devoted to the “Global War on Terrorism,” the most important developments of the last ten years have been the introduction and spread of innovative information technologies, globalization, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the political upheavals in the Middle East.",
        "虽然人们在“全球反恐战争”上投注了大量精力，但是过去10年最重要的进展是信息技术的创新与传播、全球化、伊拉克与阿富汗战争以及中东的政治动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that higher commodity prices benefit farmers in these regions, they will respond by increasing their production, which will eventually reduce scarcity, increase stocks-to-use ratios, and attenuate the higher prices.",
        "随着高粮价使得这些地区的农民获得收益，他们将提高产量作为回应，也最终会缩小供求缺口并增加库存使用比率。"
    ],
    [
        "An eventual agreement, reached in the fifth round of the six-party talks in February 2007, could not be implemented because of North Korea’s refusal to agree on a verification protocol.",
        "2007年2月第五轮六方会谈达成的最终协议因为朝鲜拒绝签署核查条款而无法执行下去。"
    ],
    [
        "One problem is that we cannot, without lapsing into tautology, simultaneously say that God is good, and that he gave us our sense of good and bad.",
        "一个问题是，我们无法在不陷入同义反复的情况下同时说上帝是好的，而且上帝给了我们善恶感。"
    ],
    [
        "The Irish affiliate imports some inputs (most notably, the intellectual property represented by the drug patent), assembles the product in Ireland, and exports it back to the US.",
        "爱尔兰工厂进口一些投入品（最主要是药品专利的知识产权），在爱尔兰组装产品，然后出口回美国。"
    ],
    [
        "One problem with the word bubble is that it creates a mental picture of an expanding soap bubble, which is destined to pop suddenly and irrevocably.",
        "泡沫一词的一个问题是它创造了一幅扩张的肥皂泡心理情景，这个肥皂泡注定会突然地、不可逆转地破灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin, in turn, is hoping that Russia’s economy stays afloat long enough for Ukraine to collapse.",
        "反过来，普京希望俄罗斯经济能撑到乌克兰率先崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is not surprising that many Asian leaders are asking themselves what commitments the US will maintain once its troops leave Afghanistan.",
        "可见许多亚洲领导人对美国在撤军后继续对阿富汗承担什么样的责任表示怀疑就不足为奇了。"
    ],
    [
        "On September 2, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported on recent negotiations between the embattled Qaddafi regime and Chinese armaments companies with direct ties to China’s government for contracts worth $200 million.",
        "加拿大《环球邮报》在9月2日披露了陷入混战的卡扎非政权与一些和中国政府有直接联系的军火公司的谈判细节，其合同总值高达2亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "But when and how the Fed will begin tightening monetary policy remains unclear.",
        "但美联储将何时和如何收紧货币政策仍不明朗。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama did not take the bait: an accidental photo opportunity or public debate with Raúl Castro in the middle of an election campaign is not how a US president wins a second term.",
        "奥巴马并没有上钩：和劳尔·卡斯特罗合影和公开讨论绝不是面临连任竞选的美国总统的上策。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach prevents bank runs, because banks with more capital are safer.",
        "这种手段能防止银行遭遇挤兑，因为拥有更多资本的银行显然会变得更加安全。"
    ],
    [
        "takes over some of the policymaking responsibilities of national central banks.",
        "这是为什么？ 小国家们不惧怕被联盟内部人口最多的尼日利亚吞并（尼日利亚人口为1."
    ],
    [
        "They found that dealing with HIV/AIDS, hunger, free trade, and malaria were the world’s top priorities, where we could do the most good for our money.",
        "他们发现HIV/艾滋病、饥饿、自由贸易和疟疾是人类的当务之急。 我们在这些事务方面的投入会取得最佳效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk triples for Europeans who inherit a particular type of ApoE, called ε4; inheriting two copies of ε4 increases the risk roughly tenfold.",
        "遗传了某种ApoE基因（ε4）的欧洲人得阿尔茨海默症的概率会增加两倍； 遗传双份ε4基因会让概率增加大约十倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The management team would be held accountable for its performance by a board of investors, comprising representatives of countries that provide the funding and scientists who provide the intellectual capital.",
        "由投资者委员会来问责管理团队，而委员会由提供资金的国家的代表和提供知识资本的科学家组成。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there are substantial policy differences between the two parties, with Liberals placing political reform at the top of their agenda, in order to establish an electoral system that would suit them better.",
        "此外，两党在某些政策上还存在着巨大分歧，自由党人总是把政治改革放在议程的第一位，以便建立一个对它们有利的选举体制。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditionally, contract manufacturers in China are scattered and fiercely competitive. They have little if any say over domestic and international regulations.",
        "从前，中国的合同生产商一般被认为是一盘散沙而且内斗严重，对国内和国际的相关产业规定也没有什么发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, European women work less and have less money to spend on services.",
        "相比较而言，欧洲妇女工作时间短，也就没有更多的钱用在服务上。"
    ],
    [
        "From all accounts, he feels an even greater sense of responsibility to prove that he gained his position on the basis of merit, not privilege.",
        "无论从哪方面讲，他都感觉有责任证明自己是凭借实力身居高位，而不是仰赖父辈的余阴。"
    ],
    [
        "How does one decide what is a fair contribution from a country of 50 million people compared to a country with only four million?",
        "人们怎么确定一个有5千万人口的国家与一个只有4百万人口的国家相比，其贡献是公平的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "One politician coined the slogan “Kinder statt Inder” (children instead of Indians).",
        "一位政客专门发明了标语 “Kinder statt Inder” （要孩子不要印度佬）。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the figures for 2011, released last year, India is now the world’s third largest economy in terms of PPP-adjusted GDP, ahead of Germany and Japan.",
        "根据今年早些时候发布的2011年数据，按经PPP调整的GDP衡量，印度目前已是世界第三大经济集体，超过了德国和日本。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, reliable data will be critical to guiding efforts and evaluating progress.",
        "最后，指导努力和评估进展需要可靠的数据支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "For Japan, it has had the additional effect of making its investment announcement look like a tit-for-tat response to the AIIB, even to the extent of topping the bank’s initial capitalization of $100 billion.",
        "对日本而言，这还使上述投资公告看起来像是针锋相对回击亚投行的对策，甚至不惜到超过该行1，000亿美元初始投资的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "How can we ignore that many states today kill not only through legal punishment, but also by murdering and massacring in international or civil wars, or by allowing starvation?",
        "今天许多国家不仅通过法律惩戒的方式进行杀戮，而且还以国际或国内战争或任由饥荒蔓延的方式开展谋杀和大规模屠杀，我们又怎能麻木不仁？"
    ],
    [
        "On February 12, a “collective” of anthropologists, sociologists, and historians published a virulent attack in Le Monde.",
        "2月12日，一群人类学家、社会学家和历史学家联合在《世界报》上发表恶毒的攻击文章。"
    ],
    [
        "This applies increasingly to Germany as well, making it very likely that we will see an extremely large political problem emerge there in the near future.",
        "德国也出现了类似苗头，在不远的未来，我们可能会看到，要不要捍卫欧元成为德国政治极端重要的议题。"
    ],
    [
        "The revolution arrives not a moment too soon.",
        "这场革命不会很快到来。"
    ],
    [
        "When Sweden’s did, Swedes said no.",
        "瑞典曾经这样做了，结果瑞典人民说了“不”。"
    ],
    [
        "The ensuing boom was a mirror image of the pattern between 1998 and 2001, when the housing market was liberalized and the stock market fell.",
        "随后的上涨时1998—2001年走势的镜像，当时住房市场实现了自由化，而股市则处于熊市。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the rest of the Mediterranean region (and indeed the entire world), Greece is not just running a fiscal deficit; it is also running an ecological one.",
        "像其他地中海国家（其实还有整个世界一样），希腊不仅背负着财政赤字； 生态赤字的情况也同样堪忧。"
    ],
    [
        "The protagonists that pressured the regime into relinquishing the ASEAN chair were not the usual Western human rights campaigners, but Burma’s closest ASEAN neighbors.",
        "施压让执政当局放弃东盟轮值主席国之位的主角们却不是通常的西方人权活动分子，而是与缅甸最近的东盟邻国。"
    ],
    [
        "Manufacturing investment accounts for the largest share – 30%.",
        "制造业投资占比最大，为30%。"
    ],
    [
        "If EU leaders hesitate to take action on climate change, they will be sabotaging their own economy’s prospects for sustainable recovery.",
        "如果欧盟领导人在气候变化问题上采取行动时犹豫不决，无异于在为可持续复苏的经济前景自设障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that inflationary pressure is still low is not a reason to postpone planning an exit from ultra-loose policy; on the contrary, the time for such discussions is when inflation is low and markets are calm.",
        "通胀压力仍然很低这一事实并不构成中止退出极度宽松政策计划的理由； 相反，通胀低、市场稳的时候正是展开讨论的良机。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The United Nations today leads what seems at times like a double life.",
        "纽约——今天的联合国有时面临一种截然不同的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a role that Germany has been eager to avoid and remains unwilling to accept.",
        "这是德国一直在尽力避免且至今不愿接受的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Success should not be measured by the fact that recovery eventually occurs, but by how quickly it takes hold and how extensive the damage caused by the slump.",
        "成功不能用复苏终于发生这一事实来衡量，而应该用复苏多快、衰退创造的伤害多大来衡量。"
    ],
    [
        "This required the use of torture to identify and locate the leaders, followed by their capture or assassination.",
        "这就要求用严刑拷打套出FLN头目的下落，并继之以抓捕和刺杀。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Scotland’s technocratic nationalism made sense.",
        "当然，苏格兰的技术官僚民族主义有其意义。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to isolation, other problems include droughts in Africa, where farmers depend on rainfall rather than irrigation, and high disease burdens in tropical countries suffering from malaria, dengue fever, and other killer diseases.",
        "除了隔绝，其他问题还有如非洲的干旱（那里的农民依赖于降雨超过灌溉），热带国家遭遇疟疾、登革热以及其它致命疾病的疾病负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the advantages of having more than one emergency lender and multiple sources of international liquidity, this can only be a good thing for the rest of the world.",
        "存在不止一个紧急贷款人和多条国际流动性渠道能带来诸多好处，因此这对世界其他国家来说是件不折不扣的好事。"
    ],
    [
        "If a bubble develops, and if the bubble does not deflate but collapses, threatening to cause a depression, the Fed would have the policy tools to short-circuit that chain.",
        "若是泡沫发展，并且若其不是缩小，而是崩溃，产生导致萧条的风险，美联储也将拥有阻断这一链条的政策工具。"
    ],
    [
        "In view of these systemic weaknesses, China’s ability to overcome its labor deficit by shifting to an innovation- and productivity-driven economy remains dubious.",
        "考虑到这些制度性的弱点，中国是否能通过转向一个以创新和生产效率为推动的经济从而克服其劳动力的短缺依然值得怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "We know when, where, and to whom Mladić issued the kill order.",
        "我们知道姆拉迪奇是在何时，何地以及向何人下达了屠杀命令。"
    ],
    [
        "Essentially, Pascual was forced to leave for describing a reality that Calderón does not want to face, and that his government would prefer to ignore.",
        "实际上，帕斯夸尔因为说出了卡尔德隆及其政府宁愿忽视也不愿面对的现实而被迫离职。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, an estimated 35-40% of Italians want out.",
        "如今估计有35-40％的意大利人想离开欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Germans, too, are unable to suppress such feelings.",
        "然而德国人也无法抑制这种情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama of 2008 is not back.",
        "2008年的奥巴马并没有归来。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the International Society for Human Rights, 80% of all acts of religious persecution worldwide in 2012 were directed at Christians.",
        "根据国际人权协会（International Society for Human Rights）的数据，2012年全世界80%的宗教审判行为针对基督徒。"
    ],
    [
        "Reinterpreting – or even abandoning – antiquated rules rooted in outdated social structures does not amount to subverting the word of God.",
        "重新解释——甚至抛弃——源自过时社会结构的古老教条并不会渎神。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fund would administer Kosmos on the basis of a transparent digital distributed ledger and an algorithm that would adjust total supply in a pre-agreed manner to the volume of world trade, allowing for an automatic countercyclical component that boosts global supply at times of a general slowdown.",
        "IMF将以透明的数字分布式总账和以预先确定的方式根据世界贸易量调整总供给的算法来管理宇宙币，从而实现能在总体减速时刺激全球供给的自动反周期功能。"
    ],
    [
        "But the “gig economy” also creates complex new policy challenges in taxation, regulation, and access to social benefits and protections that traditionally have been provided through standard employer-employee relationships.",
        "但“临时经济”（gig economy）也给税收、监管和传统上通过标准雇主-雇员关系提供的社会福利与保护带来了复杂的新政策挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Theirs will be a more complicated analysis for more complicated times.",
        "而他们的做法则是在更复杂的时点进行更复杂的分析。"
    ],
    [
        "In response to these events, some newsrooms have started preparing for what they will do if a domestic terrorist attack directly affects their operations.",
        "为了应对这些事件，一些新闻编辑部已经开始准备如果国内恐怖袭击直接影响其运作时的应对预案。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, did the British decline because the US could not be stopped, or because of problems within the British Empire and at home?",
        "比如说，英国的衰落是否是因为美国的不可遏制，而是源自于整个大英帝国或者英国本土的内部问题？"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the most intractable challenge of all is bridging the sectarian rift between the country’s Shia and Sunni citizens.",
        "但或许最艰巨的挑战在于弥合伊拉克什叶派和逊尼派公民之间的宗派分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is more likely that 2006 will just be another year of malaise: China’s significance within the global economy is still not large enough to offset weaknesses in the rest of the world.",
        "但 2006 年更可能不过是隐忧重重的又一年而已：中国在全球经济中的重要性还没有大到足以抵消世界上其余地方的种种不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany needs both China’s markets and the funds that its government can deploy to purchase German and European bonds.",
        "德国需要中国市场和中国政府资金购买德国和欧洲债券。"
    ],
    [
        "We have long known that less-educated and lower-income Americans, for example, have seen little economic gain for four decades, and that the bottom end of the US labor market can be a brutal environment.",
        "比如，我们早就知道，教育程度和收入较低的美国人四十年来几乎没有获得经济上的收益，美国劳动力市场底层环境相当残酷。"
    ],
    [
        "The Mediterranean has become, tragically, a cemetery for some – but a barrier only for a few.",
        "可悲的是，地中海已经成为某些人的坟墓——但却很少有人将此视为畏途。"
    ],
    [
        "These remedies have reduced the rate of new infections (though the total number of people living with HIV, especially aged 15-49, continues to rise).",
        "这些措施控制了新增感染率（虽然艾滋病毒携带者总数，尤其是15-49岁的携带者人数仍然持续上升）。"
    ],
    [
        "We adopted the necessary measures to provide military reassurance, and at the same time reaffirmed our political responsibility for cooperative security in Europe.",
        "我们采取了必要措施以提供军事保障，与此同时还重申了欧洲安全合作的政治责任。"
    ],
    [
        "I truly wish you success in your responsibilities as acting Prime Minister and acting head of Kadima.",
        "我真心祝愿您成功地履行您的代总理和前进党代理主席的职责。"
    ],
    [
        "We hope we are right again, and that national character will not prevent Russia from becoming a truly democratic society someday.",
        "我们希望我们这次也是对的——民族性不会阻碍俄罗斯终有一天成为一个真正的民主社会。"
    ],
    [
        "More serious is the Republicans’ proposal for an annual audit of the United States Federal Reserve.",
        "更严重的是共和党人还提议对美联储进行年度审计。"
    ],
    [
        "With more rational public policy, we can meet that need now.",
        "如果采用更为理性的公共政策，我们现在就可以满足人们的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The study also noted that the majority of deaths resulted from violence, and that a high proportion of the violent deaths were due to US aerial bombing.",
        "该研究还指出，由暴力冲突导致的死亡占了多数，其中绝大部分是由于美军的空袭。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is that the Chinese stock market is not wholly liquid or globally integrated.",
        "原因在于中国股市流动性不足，也没有融入全球市场。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be that the main value of services such as 23andMe (at least until researchers use its data and others to learn a lot more about genetics) is not the specific genetic details, but the way that it makes us focus on the numbers.",
        "可以说，像“23对染色体与我”这些企业所提供的服务（至少研究者利用它以及其他企业提供的数据进一步了解了基因）最有价值的地方，并不是某些特定的基因细节，而是令我们开始将目光聚焦在数字之上。"
    ],
    [
        "How much more proof do we need before we act?",
        "我们还需要多少证据才能采取行动？"
    ],
    [
        "First, she has been both a forceful voice for the introduction of more women into the workforce and an exemplar of the value of having women in leadership positions.",
        "首先，她强势地要求让更多女性加入劳动力大军，她本人便是女性担任领导岗位的价值体现榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "As a share of total government spending, defense expenditure has fallen from 7.8% in 1998 to 6.1% in 2006.",
        "英国国防开支作为政府全部开支的一部分，已经从1998年占全部政府开支的7. 8%下降到2006年的6."
    ],
    [
        "But Germany has also been the main advocate of fiscal austerity, and Merkel needs to understand the contradiction between these positions.",
        "但德国也是财政紧缩的主要支持者，默克尔需要明白这些立场中的矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "That strategy has largely worked.",
        "这一战略在很大程度上奏效了。"
    ],
    [
        "The best case would be if China agreed to universal suffrage no later than the 2011 and 2012 elections, gaining legitimacy in Hong Kong by backing reform of the political system.",
        "最佳的情况可能是中国同意最迟于2011和2012年的选举中实施全民投票，通过支持政治体制改革在香港赢得信任。"
    ],
    [
        "But the current specter of economic uncertainty is now reinforcing their nativism and chauvinism, just when similar tendencies are on the rise in the West.",
        "但最近的经济不确定性幽灵正在强化他们的排外主义和沙文主义，与此同时，类似的潮流也在西方兴起。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments that attack their own people on a large scale, or allow such attacks to be carried out, expose themselves to the threat of outside intervention.",
        "大规模攻击人民或坐视人民被攻击的政府将受外部干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Many international observers believe that politics simply no longer matters much in Britain, because the economy is fundamentally sound and growing at a fairly healthy pace.",
        "许多国际观察家认为政治早已不在英国占据重要地位，因为经济基本面良好，增长率相当健康。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, as low oil prices and Western sanctions bite, he is making them poor and nearly universally despised.",
        "如今，随着石油价格下跌和西方制裁影响，他正在让俄罗斯人变穷并遭到近乎全世界人民的唾弃。"
    ],
    [
        "The RRR now stands at 18.5%, a historic high, even in global terms.",
        "目前该比率为18. 5%，不但创下了建国以来的新高，在世界范围内也是罕见的。"
    ],
    [
        "This leads to such things as a “language” at the level of cells and “energy” behind organized societies.",
        "于是细胞层面的“语言”和有组织社会背后的“能量”等术语就应运而生。"
    ],
    [
        "This long overdue policy shift is an important component of the Third Plenum’s official elevation of market-based pricing as the “decisive” mode of resource allocation in China.",
        "这一早就应该采取的政策变化是三中全会正式将市场定价拔高到中国资源配置的“决定性”地位的重要组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "This potential was evident during the Arab Spring uprisings, when women, empowered by recent advances in literacy and education, organized and led demonstrations that toppled decades-old regimes.",
        "这一潜能在阿拉伯之春中显露无疑，经最新的扫盲和教育运动武装的妇女组织并领导了颠覆数十年政权的游行。"
    ],
    [
        "The tariffs that Obama imposed were considerably below what the USITC had recommended.",
        "况且，奥巴马提出的税率明显低于美国国际贸易委员会要求的数字。"
    ],
    [
        "Breaking with modern Republican tradition, Trump envisages a 35% tariff on imported cars and parts produced by Ford plants in Mexico and a 45% tariff on imports from China.",
        "与现代共和党传统相反，特朗普准备对福特墨西哥工厂生产的进口汽车和部件征收35%的关税，对中国进口品征收45%的关税。"
    ],
    [
        "By inviting prosecution, Saakashvili has gained a platform from which he can criticize Ukraine’s justice system and Poroshenko’s neglect of the rule of law.",
        "萨卡什维利通过起诉，获得了一个平台，可以批评乌克兰的司法制度和波洛申科忽视法治。"
    ],
    [
        "While India was humiliated by China in 1962, it also inflicted what its neighbor Pakistan remembers as a humiliating defeat nine years later.",
        "尽管印度在1962年遭到了中国的羞辱，但九年后它入侵邻国巴基斯坦，给了巴基斯坦羞辱性的大败。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the US must rebalance its regional posture by reducing its dependence on Pakistan’s military.",
        "此外，美国必须通过降低对巴基斯坦军方的依赖，来调整其在该区域的姿态。"
    ],
    [
        "But the big problem was that the North’s leadership apparently interpreted China’s policy as a sign of unwillingness to pressure the North on nuclear matters.",
        "但大问题是朝鲜领导人显然将中国的这一政策解读为不愿意就核问题向朝鲜施压的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "We desire to live in a region where the dignity of every person is respected. That is why we have objected to Israel’s aggression in and blockade of Gaza, and will continue to do so.",
        "我们希望能生活在一个所有人的尊严都能得到尊重的地区，而这也是我们为何一直反对以色列侵略和封锁加沙地区的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Although no Japanese emperor has visited India before, the bilateral relationship runs deep.",
        "尽管此前从未有日本天皇到访印度，但印日双边关系十分深刻。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – Today’s global refugee crisis recalls the period immediately after World War II.",
        "纽黑文—今天的全球难民危机让人想起了第二次世界大战刚刚结束的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, economic ties and sheer proximity mean that Turkey’s prosperity depends, to some degree at least, on that of the Middle East.",
        "此外，经济联系和地利意味着土耳其的繁荣至少在一定程度上取决于中东。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, if China’s leaders act boldly, the peak could be reached even sooner, in the early 2020s.",
        "事实上，如果中国领导人采取果断行动，排放高峰还会来的更快一些，在21世纪20年代初就能达到。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth superstars such as South Korea, Taiwan, China, and many others would not have been able to adopt the growth strategies that they did if today’s WTO strictures had applied to them.",
        "如果受到今天世贸规则的责难，那么韩国、台湾、中国和很多其它国家就无法采取它们今天采用的发展政策。"
    ],
    [
        "We must not lose sight of its value, in our personal or professional lives, and we must not allow our leaders to do so, either.",
        "我们不能忽视它在个人或职业生活中的价值，也不能允许我们的领导人这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "But, without a short-term economic turbo-charger, the recovery in growth and jobs will remain gradual, vulnerable to political and policy risks, and disproportionately beneficial to those with favorable initial endowments of wealth and globalized talents.",
        "然而，如果没有一个短期的经济增压器，经济增长和工作的复苏将会较为缓慢而且极易受到政治和政策的风险影响，并会过度有利于那些拥有良好初始财富资源和全球化人才的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "At the BoE, the MPC is responsible for official forecasts, which it publishes in its Inflation Reports.",
        "在英格兰银行，MPC负责官方预测，并发表在其《通胀报告》（Inflation Reports）中。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in the face of ongoing military operations, most schools in Waziristan have remain closed for the past 7 years, depriving a generation of children of education and opportunity.",
        "同时，由于不间断的军事行动，过去7年来瓦济里斯坦的绝大部分学校陷于关闭，导致整整一代儿童的教育和机会被无情地剥夺。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – 2008 will be remembered as a year of extraordinary turmoil.",
        "华盛顿特区-2008年作为及其动荡的一年，将会被历史记住。"
    ],
    [
        "And now policymakers must also devote more attention to the health-care workforce itself, to ensure that it is properly educated and trained for the challenges that await the region.",
        "如今，决策者还必须将更多的注意力用于医疗工作人员本身，以确保医疗工作人员接受良好的教育和培训，应对地区所面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But the TPP is not really a “trade” treaty at all.",
        "但TPP其实根本不是“贸易”条约。"
    ],
    [
        "China is an authoritarian capitalist country, open for business with other capitalist countries (including deep economic relations with Japan).",
        "中国是一个独裁的资本主义国家，与其他资本主义国家经济互通（其中包括与日本的深厚经济联系）。"
    ],
    [
        "We end deforestation and the destruction of arable land.",
        "我们结束了森林采伐和适耕土地破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, China claims to be upholding its doctrine of non-interference in other countries’ domestic affairs.",
        "可以肯定的是，中国声称要维护其不干涉他国内政的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early postwar years, the US plugged up European countries’ current-account gaps with Marshall Plan funds.",
        "战后早期，美国通过马歇尔计划资金，堵住了欧洲国家的经常项目缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "But here China’s analysis has been completely wrong, for it underestimates the Kim regime’s unmanageable desperation whenever it believes that its survival in doubt.",
        "但在这里，中国的算盘大错特错了，因为它低估了金氏政权在认为生存受到威胁时所迸发的不可遏制的绝望。"
    ],
    [
        "The Oil Price Opportunity",
        "油价的机会"
    ],
    [
        "The Council’s recent conclusions recognize this imperative, and the new Commission structure is conducive to policy coherence.",
        "欧洲理事会的最新决议认识到了这一当务之急，新欧盟委员会结构也有利于政策凝聚性。"
    ],
    [
        "In a stirring speech at the United Nations last September, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff placed her country at the forefront of this movement by promoting Brazil’s historic Marco Civil bill.",
        "去年九月在联合国一次令人不安的讲话中，巴西总统迪尔玛·罗塞夫带领她的国家站在了此次运动的前沿，推动了巴西历史性马可孛民事法案的通过。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, a country with a per capita income that is 100% higher than another receives 130% more business travelers and sends 170% more people abroad.",
        "相反，如果一国人均收入比另一国高100%，那么它所接收的商务旅行者将多出130%，它发出的商务旅行者将多出170%。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, he is smart enough to know this.",
        "幸运的是，他足够聪明，肯定会意识到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the central item on the summit’s agenda, a proposed “BRICS development bank,” is one that has gone nowhere at previous summits.",
        "此外，峰会日程的核心议题，即成立“金砖国家开发银行”在前几次峰会中没有形成任何结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Some in the P3 and elsewhere will see all of this as a mere spoiling operation with a more sophisticated face.",
        "P3和其他国家的一些人将把此视为只是带着更精美面具的破坏行动。"
    ],
    [
        "As is customary, many Russian businessmen pledged their shares to borrow money for stock purchases.",
        "作为一种惯例，许多俄罗斯商人都通过抵押股票的方式贷款炒股。"
    ],
    [
        "In the face of the familiar litany of desperate global problems – not just financial instability, but also climate change, energy insecurity, potential pandemics, terrorism, and the spread of weapons of mass destruction – the prospect of a rudderless world is more than alarming.",
        "人们面对熟悉的一大堆急迫的全球性问题，不仅是金融不稳定，而且还包括气候变化、能源不安全、潜在的传染病、恐怖主义以及大规模杀伤性武器的扩散。 世界群龙无首的局面极为令人担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro, too, has depreciated significantly against the dollar over the last year, and some US trade critics want provisions to prevent currency manipulation added to the TTIP.",
        "去年欧元也大幅对美元贬值，一些美国贸易批评家希望将防止货币操纵条款纳入TTIP。"
    ],
    [
        "With the presentation of the Global Strategy, those in favor of moving the European project forward have placed an initiative on the table.",
        "借提出全球战略之机，那些赞成推进欧洲项目的人公开提出了自己的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "When added up, such spending is unaffordable, especially with current federal revenues at just 15% of GDP.",
        "但我们把所需支出一加总就会发现这根本是无法负担的，特别是在联邦岁入只有GDP的15%的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU remains a collection of sovereign states, and it therefore cannot send an army or a police force to enforce its pacts or collect debt.",
        "欧盟仍然是主权国家的集合体，因此不能派遣军队或警察来强制执行公约或集中债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has not yet found a response to this problem, and it is not on the way to finding one.",
        "欧洲尚未找到这一问题的应对措施，也没有走在找出应对措施的道路上。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain’s Watershed Year",
        "英国的转折之年"
    ],
    [
        "However, efforts to promote this kind of cooperation should not be confined to these mid-level powers.",
        "但是，促进这样的合作不应当局限于这些中等强国。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while income equality may have been a part of the Brexit campaign’s background noise, it was not the first issue on Leave voters’ minds.",
        "伦敦市长办公室报告，与公投前六周相比，公投后六周仇恨犯罪增加了64%。"
    ],
    [
        "For Europe, Leijonhufvud argues, this implies a three-pronged approach that focuses on “levels of leverage,” “maturity mismatches,” and “the topology of the web,” – that is, “its connectivity and the presence of critical nodes that are ‘too big to fail.’”",
        "莱琼霍夫德指出，应对当前的欧洲危机需要关注三重问题的相互叠加：“杠杆率”、“期限错配”与“网络拓扑”，也就是“其联通性与关键节点的存在导致其“太大而不能倒”。"
    ],
    [
        "This observation is now backed by neuroscience, which has identified how the brain develops over that period and has created a system for measuring learning gaps.",
        "如今，这一发现获得了神经科学的支持。 神经科学研究了这段时期大脑如何发育，并开发了一套测量学习差距的系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe began his fiscal policy with a substantial spending program, focused primarily on repairing and replacing infrastructure affected by the 2011 earthquake.",
        "安倍通过大规模开支计划来作为自身货币政策的开局，主要集中于维修和更换受2011年东日本地震影响的基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom board includes transnational relations that cross borders outside the control of governments – everything from drugs to infectious diseases to climate change to transnational terrorism.",
        "棋盘的底层包括政府控制之外、超越边疆的跨国关系——从毒品到传染病到气候变化到跨国恐怖主义等每件事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Headline aid numbers might seem less impressive, but long-run results would be better.",
        "新闻标题上的援助数字也许不那么引人关注，但长期结果会更好。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1923, more than 100 Chinese judges, prosecutors, and clerks resigned en masse to protest trumped-up corruption charges against the then-finance minister.",
        "1923年，中国的100多名法官，检察官和书记员集体辞职，抗议时任财政部长莫须有的贪污罪名。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the governance of the eurozone remains excessively cumbersome and technocratic.",
        "最后，欧元区的治理仍然过于繁复和技术官僚化。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the recently enacted two-year stimulus package includes a total of $800 billion of tax reductions and increased government spending, it would be wrong to think that this will add anything close to $400 billion a year to GDP in each of the next two years.",
        "近期，美国政府推出总额达到8000亿美元两年经济刺激方案，其中包括减税和增加政府支出，如果认为两年内每年会对GDP有4000亿美元贡献的话，那就错了。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a government must be able to count on the strong and determined support of the wider international community.",
        "这个政府必须能够期待广大国际社会的强力而坚定的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The level of real residential investment is still less than half its level before the recession began.",
        "住宅投资真实水平只有危机开始前的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, preemption is fully justified vis-à-vis stateless terrorists wielding such weapons.",
        "可以肯定的是，用先发制人的策略对待挥舞大规模杀伤性武器的无国家恐怖分子是合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chechens, who had sought independence from Russia for centuries, took this promise as an opportunity for self-determination.",
        "数百年来一直试图从俄国独立的车臣人将他的承诺当作实现自决的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Procedural rules of this kind can be used much more extensively and to greater effect to improve domestic decision-making.",
        "这种类型的程序性规则可以很大程度上更好地扩大应用，以改进国内的决策程序。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of fears about pollution, or about the safety of nuclear energy, most countries neglected to build up their own capacity.",
        "由于对污染或是原子能的安全性的担心，大多数国家都忽视了打造自身的能源供给能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Under President Kuchma, the economy has recently started to boom - thanks partly to Yushchenko's brief, reformist premiership four years ago - but the oligarchs' grip has grown tighter.",
        "库马总统领导下的经济最近开始有了起色，这应该部分归功于尤什申科四年前竞选总理时的纲领。"
    ],
    [
        "Any compromise will have to address the future of Crimea, now under Russian domination, and maintain Ukraine’s independence.",
        "任何妥协都必须解决克里米亚（目前处于俄罗斯支配下）的未来问题和维持乌克兰的独立。"
    ],
    [
        "Averaging the numbers assumes that all components are substitutes: if you cannot improve on one, you can compensate by improving on another.",
        "数字平均化假设所有成分都是替代性的：如果你无法改善甲数字，你可以通过改善乙数字作为补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "The moral of the tale is not, as Polonius instructed his son Laertes, “neither a borrower nor a lender be.”",
        "借贷的道德并非波洛涅斯（Polonius）对其子拉厄耳忒斯（ Laertes）所言“不要借钱，也不要借给人钱。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1970 to 2012, the GDP share of services in the OECD countries increased from 53% to 71%.",
        "从1970年到2012年，服务业占经合组织国家GDP的比重从53%上升到71%。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than undermining radical Islam, the US has legitimized it, in Iraq and beyond.",
        "美国不仅没有破坏极端伊斯兰主义，还在伊拉克及其以外的国家使得其合法化了。"
    ],
    [
        "A national leader can declare war on a state, not on a network of revolutionaries.",
        "国家领导人可以对一个国家宣战，但无法向一个革命者网络宣战。"
    ],
    [
        "When the tradeoff is between taking lives and, say, reducing property theft, the case for milder punishments is far stronger.",
        "如果要在处死某人和减少财产遭窃之间作出交换，轻微处罚的理由就更为强大。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – US President Barack Obama’s recent call to ease the austerity imposed on Greece is remarkable – and not only for his endorsement of the newly elected Greek government’s negotiating position in the face of its official creditors.",
        "普林斯顿—美国总统奥巴马最近呼吁放松施加给希腊的紧缩，这是个引人注目的举动——不仅仅是因为他对新当选希腊政府对其官方债权人的谈判立场的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the Institute for Supply Management Manufacturing Index provides a pretty good preview of the US economy for the next 3-6 months, even though manufacturing comprises a relatively small share of GDP.",
        "类似地，供给管理研究所（ISM）制造业指数是非常好的美国经济未来3—6个月的前瞻指标，尽管制造业只占其GDP的相对较小比重。"
    ],
    [
        "Costa Rica has just approved a law promoting electric trains, and legislators are debating a bill to provide incentives for electric vehicles and buses.",
        "哥斯达黎加刚刚批准了一项推广电动火车的法律，立法者也正在讨论鼓励电动汽车和公交车的法案。"
    ],
    [
        "The government also claims that I control the European institutions in Brussels, and that I am using that control to impose the nefarious “Soros Plan” on EU member states.",
        "政府还声称我掌控了布鲁塞尔的欧洲机构，而且我正利用这样的控制对欧盟成员国强制推行邪恶的“索罗斯计划”。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK intelligence service is, by all accounts, far ahead of most of its EU counterparts and works closely with the United States.",
        "英国情报机关全方位遥遥领先绝大部分欧洲同侪，并与美国合作密切。"
    ],
    [
        "Assaults on democratic institutions are not limited to countries with little democratic experience. They can be seen almost everywhere, including in the world’s oldest existing democracy, namely the United States.",
        "对民主机构的攻击不仅限于民主经验十分有限的国家，而是几乎无处不在，包括全世界最古老的老牌民主国家，即美国。"
    ],
    [
        "These programs currently claim 21% of the budget, with Medicare accounting for two-thirds of that amount.",
        "目前，这些项目占预算的21%，其中医疗保险又占三分之二。"
    ],
    [
        "Improvements in lifestyle and related risk factors have contributed as well.",
        "生活方式和相关风险因素的改善也起到了作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain has made major positive contributions to Europe, particularly with respect to the single market.",
        "英国对欧洲、尤其是统一市场做出过重大的积极贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "The bank has been funded by voluntary contributions, including $50 million from the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a United States-based NGO, $49 million from the US government, up to $25 million from the European Union, $10 million each from Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, and $5 million from Norway.",
        "该银行通过自愿捐款筹集资金，包括来自美国非政府组织核威胁计划（Nuclear Threat Initiative）的5,000万美元、来自美国政府的4,900万美元，来自欧盟的最多2,500万美元，来自科威特和阿联酋的1,000万美元以及来自挪威的500万美元。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, phases three and four will be completed by other means.",
        "如果布什这样的话，第三阶段和第四阶段将通过其它方式完成。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that the problem is bigger than fake news.",
        "这表明问题不止于假新闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Could America find its way to a similar extension?",
        "那么美国又能否找到类似这样延长其支配地位的途径？"
    ],
    [
        "While other emerging markets in Asia and Latin America are showing more dynamism than the BRICs, their strength will not be enough to turn the global tide.",
        "亚洲和拉美的其他新兴市场显示出比金砖四国更大的活力，但它们的强势不足以扭转全球趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "With Islamic fundamentalism, too, we are not witnessing a traditional religion asserting itself against the Christian West.",
        "即便伊斯兰原教旨主义，也并非从一开始就对西方基督教国家怀有敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "Relative pay for teachers has been dropping as their total numbers increase, which affects teacher quality.",
        "随着教师数量的增长，相对收入下降已经影响到教师的质量。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s vast territory continually seems to obscure for its leaders the need to plan for the future, while its seemingly infinite supply of natural resources convinces them that the country can handle any contingency.",
        "俄罗斯广袤的领土似乎一直打消着其领导人做未来规划的需要，而其无穷无尽的自然资源供给让他们确信，俄罗斯可以度过任何意外。"
    ],
    [
        "If US policymakers would only listen, they might get an idea or two about how to deal with financial crises from experts who have lived through them and come out safely on the other side.",
        "如果美国的决策者们听取意见的话，他们就会从安然度过金融危机的专家那里知道如何应付它们。"
    ],
    [
        "In northern Ethiopia, as in much of Africa, the rain cycle has changed markedly in recent years.",
        "和非洲其他诸多地区一样，北埃塞俄比亚最近几年的雨循环已经发生显著变化。"
    ],
    [
        "What kind of partner that president finds in Europe will depend substantially on the outcome of two elections in 2017: France’s presidential election in early May and Germany’s federal election by the end of October.",
        "而这位总统在欧洲的合作伙伴人选将在很大程度上取决于2017年两次选举的结果：5月初的法国总统选举和10月底的德国联邦选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Rouhani severely criticized Ahmadinejad’s cash-transfer policy, which was designed to compensate for lost bread and energy subsidies.",
        "鲁哈尼严厉批评内贾德的现金转移支付政策。 该政策是为了补偿失去的面包和能源补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "These areas are instrumental in interpreting what is stressful and in determining appropriate responses.",
        "这些区域有助于解读压力，决定恰当的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "With the economy in steep decline, Poland’s rulers began to seek to stabilize the political system and reestablish relations with the West.",
        "随着波兰经济的急剧下滑，波兰的共产主义统治者开始努力稳定波兰的政治体制，并试图和西方重新建立联系。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, genetics has brought science to the brink of a new era of enlightenment, in which individuals are understood in terms of the relationships among their unique genomic data.",
        "遗传学也因此把科学带向了新启蒙时代的门槛上，在新时代，个体将以其独一无二的基因组数据关系的形式被理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Early marriage, sexual assault, a lack of sanitary facilities for menstruating girls, and humanitarian crises are just some of the factors that make completing an education more difficult for girls than for boys.",
        "早婚、性侵犯、经期卫生条件恶劣和人道主义危机仅仅是导致女童教育比男童更加困难的某些因素。"
    ],
    [
        "If current leaders can remain as focused on their vision as the country’s founders were on theirs, Indonesia will again serve as a model of unity and strength for the region.",
        "如果现任领导层能够一直向国父那样致力于这一愿景，印尼将会再次成为整个地区的统一和强大的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "But the truth is that governments in Washington, London, Paris, and elsewhere could do much more without a Security Council resolution.",
        "但实际情况是华盛顿、伦敦、巴黎和其他国家的政府即使没有安理会决议也可以做很多事。"
    ],
    [
        "He ensured that actions such as the famous 1930 salt march to the sea maintained a slow pace that allowed the drama and tension to build.",
        "他刻意安排像1930年海边食盐长征这样的著名行动以缓慢的速度向前行进，这样的速度产生了紧张和戏剧效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest danger in 2015 may well be a widening of the regional crisis to Saudi Arabia and Jordan.",
        "2015年最大的危险是这场地区危机蔓延到沙特阿拉伯和约旦。"
    ],
    [
        "Threats to energy security must be challenged and resolved on a multilateral basis, with all stakeholders present.",
        "对能源安全的威胁必须受到挑战，并要当着利害各方在多边的基础上加以解决。"
    ],
    [
        "(There have been some steps toward reform, including a decision to remove judges from local political control.)",
        "（改革之路已经跨出了一些步骤，包括取消地方政治控制法官。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The instinct of governments, however, may be to revert to the idea of protecting national champions or reasserting national sovereignty in some sectors.",
        "第二个风险则在于，政府将会继续以决定哪些公司应被救助、哪些可以任其破产为己任。"
    ],
    [
        "But, based on more than a decade of study and debate, I am convinced of the compatibility between Islam and democracy.",
        "但是，根据我十年多来的研究和论战，我对伊斯兰教与民主制度间的相容性深信不疑。"
    ],
    [
        "This stark reality must underpin all discussions about the West Philippine Sea in the weeks, months, and years ahead.",
        "这一严峻的现实必须作为未来几周、几个月、几年中一切关于西菲律宾海讨论的前提。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, little has been achieved in the 17 years since then.",
        "遗憾的是，从那以后的17年中几乎没有任何这方面的进展面世。"
    ],
    [
        "With respect to digitalization, Germany tends to fluctuate between excessive enthusiasm for expanding fiber-optic networks and fear of the impact of new, largely unregulated business models, such as those underpinning avatars of the “sharing economy” like Uber and Airbnb.",
        "在数字化方面，德国总是在过度热衷于扩张光纤网络和担心基本不受管制的新商业模式的影响之间来回摇摆，后者包括优步和爱彼迎等“共享经济”的支柱企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, Iranian policy will be shaped by its domestic politics, by the ability of the international community to present a united front, and by the willingness of the US to put forth a reasonable diplomatic offer against the backdrop of sanctions and potential military strikes should diplomacy fail.",
        "进一步而言，伊朗的内政、国际社会采取一致立场的能力以及美国在制裁和在外交努力不成军事打击的背景下提出合情合理的外交提议的意愿都将左右伊朗的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic developments in the region are promising, with almost all its economies posting high growth, fueled by increasing industrial output and exports.",
        "这个地区的经济发展前景非常好，受工业产值和出口量持续增长的推动，几乎所有经济行业都保持了高速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "That makes partition difficult, as India discovered in 1947.",
        "这意味着分裂十分困难，1947年的印度说明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "With interest rates stuck near zero, rich-country bond prices cannot drop much more than they already have, while the supply of advanced-country debt is limited by tax capacity and risk tolerance.",
        "随着利率接近于零，富裕国家债券的价格也不会相对现有价格出现过多下跌，同时先进国家的债券的供应也受到其税收能力和风险承受能力的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the degree of culpability between the parties is not even close.",
        "因此，两党之间的罪恶程度不可同日而语。"
    ],
    [
        "But the impact on productivity has been disappointing.",
        "但其对生产率的影响一直令人失望。"
    ],
    [
        "The Single Mother Makeover",
        "单身母亲大变身"
    ],
    [
        "Renewables have been pursued with a sort of missionary zeal, regardless of their effectiveness or feasibility.",
        "可再生能源激起了一种传教士般的狂热，丝毫不考虑效率或可行性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-standing allies regret that the US, a country they have long admired, is now being steered by a mendacious, untrustworthy diplomatic arsonist.",
        "长期盟友很遗憾地看到，它们所长期敬仰的美国，被一个不诚实、不可靠的外交“纵火犯”所领导。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite these problems, Japan still has remarkable strengths.",
        "尽管存在种种问题，日本仍具有显著的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB directed the central banks of all Eurozone members to buy huge quantities of Italian government bonds during the crisis.",
        "危机期间，欧洲央行指示欧元区所有成员国的央行购买巨量意大利国债。"
    ],
    [
        "It has taken many of the former colonies decades to overcome this legacy.",
        "许多前殖民地花了数十年的时间才克服了这个后遗症。"
    ],
    [
        "That will not just hurt the US in Syria and Iraq. It will shape popular views in other Arab states, limiting their governments’ ability to work with the US.",
        "这不仅会损害美国在叙利亚和伊拉克的利益，它还将决定其他阿拉伯国家民众的看法，导致其政府不敢与美国合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is only now, after the war, that successor justice is being aimed at refining and consolidating the message of delegitimation and regime change.",
        "然而，正是到了现在，在战后，继任者审判才被设定了提炼及整合剥夺（前政权）合法性和政权变革的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Google works very differently from other companies that have been dubbed “gatekeepers” and that are regulated accordingly.",
        "谷歌与其他被冠以“看门人”称号的公司运作及监管方式有着很大差异。"
    ],
    [
        "We, like all EU presidencies, will be representing the wider Union interests when we negotiate.",
        "我们和其他欧盟轮值主席一样，将会在谈判的时候推动广泛的欧盟利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, not only has government spending been rising as a share of income; so, too, has spending across many service sectors.",
        "确实，不仅仅是政府支出在收入中所占份额一直在上升； 在其他许多服务部门上的支出也在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who submitted had their passports withdrawn, lost their jobs, and were forbidden to speak to the press.",
        "那些屈服的人被扣押了护照，失去了工作并被剥夺了对新闻媒体说话的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "This month’s decision to hold back vaccination in Karachi after health workers there were threatened, though understandable, is nonetheless a cause for serious concern in this respect.",
        "由此看来，本月因卫生工作人员受到威胁而取消卡拉奇接种工作的决定虽然可以理解，但会造成严重后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The move exposed the Egyptian leadership’s narrative that the country remains a major regional power as a lie.",
        "此举拆穿了埃及领导人关于该国依然是地区大国的谎言。"
    ],
    [
        "Once he takes office in 2010, the economy recovers quickly from the global financial crisis, creates jobs, and continues growing until recently.",
        "2010年开始执政后，智利经济迅速从全球金融危机中复苏，就业机会被创造出来，并一直增长的最近。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany would be wise not to take its economic success for granted.",
        "德国最好不要以理所当然的姿态来看待自己取得的经济成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, they need to ensure that they have done everything they can to prepare for such a scenario, in case their preventive measures prove inadequate.",
        "同样重要的是，他们需要确保竭尽全力为这一情景做好准备，如果他们的预防措施不够充分的话。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, increases in the supply of weapons funneled to rebel forces by Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and others have correlated with surges in the civilian death toll, suggesting that they cost more lives than they save – and with no evident strategic gains.",
        "更广地说，通过卡塔尔、沙特和其他渠道流向叛军的武器供应的增加与平民死亡人数暴增有关，这表明武器供应夺命比救命更厉害，而且没有带来任何明显的战略利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The dream of empire is, indeed, the gulag that imprisons the Russian mind.",
        "帝国梦实际上是禁锢俄罗斯人思想的牢笼。"
    ],
    [
        "What is going on here?",
        "这是怎么回事？"
    ],
    [
        "The added inflexibility (or inelasticity) amplifies the price response to a real or perceived crop shortfall either in the US or elsewhere.",
        "所增加的刚性（或者非弹性）放大了对美国或者世界其他地区实际或者预计供求差距的价格反映。"
    ],
    [
        "Maintaining a high standard of impartiality is not easy, but it is far from impossible.",
        "保持高公平标准绝非易事，但也绝非不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the border adjustment tax has not seeped into public consciousness in nearly the same way as Trump’s physical wall has, it could end up affecting the average American a lot more – and not necessarily in a good way.",
        "虽然该税项并未像特朗普的实体墙一样渗透到公众意识中，但它可能最终会对普通美国人造成影响——而且不一定是以好的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "If, deluded by mendacity and make-believe, Britain votes to quit the EU, the referendum – introduced as a way to placate the growing number of anti-EU voices in the Conservative Party – will have blown up Prime Minister David Cameron’s cabinet and done irreparable harm to Britain.",
        "如果英国在谎言和伪装的欺骗下投票退出欧盟，此次公投——其目的是平息保守党内部越来越高涨的反欧盟声浪——将彻底击溃首相戴维·卡梅伦的内阁并为英国带来无法弥补的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Federal Reserve has set an inflation “objective” of 2% in terms of the personal consumption expenditure deflator.",
        "美联储制定的通胀“目标”是个人消费支出平减指数每年上涨2%。"
    ],
    [
        "With the entire Middle East undergoing a generational transformation, regional challenges cannot be addressed separately.",
        "在整个中东地区普遍转型的情况下，地区挑战无法单独解决。"
    ],
    [
        "With this election, Kuwaiti women participated in choosing the parliament for the first time.",
        "通过此次选举，科威特妇女首次参加了议会选举。"
    ],
    [
        "But the next doubling will likely occur only over 100 years, a pace last seen in the nineteenth century.",
        "但下一个一番可能要过100年才能发生——这是19世纪的翻番速度。"
    ],
    [
        "And negotiations on a free-trade agreement with the Mercosur countries are in the final stages.",
        "而与南方共同市场国家的自由贸易协定谈判是最后的步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "Under any plausible scenario, a restrained and stable Chinese foreign policy may become more difficult.",
        "不管哪种最后出现的是情况，中国外交政策要保持克制和稳定将越来越困难。"
    ],
    [
        "(The Philippines is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.)",
        "（据记者保护委员会统计，菲律宾是全世界从事记者职业一个最危险的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In many countries, the supply of blood for medical purposes relies on voluntary, anonymous donations.",
        "在许多国家，医用目的血液供应依靠志愿匿名献血。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the Argentine model of debt reduction in the 2000’s has collapsed as completely as its borrowing model in the 1990’s did.",
        "简言之，就像20世纪90年代的阿根廷举债模式一样，21世纪头十年里搞的阿根廷减债模式已经完全破产。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, though the three previous incumbents were Europeans who did not complete their terms in office, another European, Christine Lagarde, won the top spot yet again.",
        "结果尽管前三任未能完成任期的主席都是欧洲人，但另一个欧洲人，克里斯蒂娜·拉加德再次夺得头把交椅。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the existence or absence of a framework of cooperation often determines whether a dispute mutates into a crisis.",
        "事实上，合作框架的存在与否往往决定着纠纷是否会演化成一场危机。"
    ],
    [
        "He may also claim that, with many thousands of troops under his command, it was impossible for him to ensure that US soldiers were not committing atrocities, torture, or violations of civil liberties.",
        "他还可能狡辩说自己领导着成千上万的部队，因此不可能保证美国兵都不去施暴、折磨或违反自由权利。"
    ],
    [
        "That principle should be applied at the global level as well, through the establishment of an inclusive framework that fosters development – and encourages the rejection of fanaticism – in the Islamic world.",
        "通过建立一套促进发展的包容性框架并鼓励伊斯兰世界拒绝狂热情绪，这项原则也应当适用于世界各国。"
    ],
    [
        "In Venezuela, a generalized system of price and foreign-exchange controls is causing havoc.",
        "在委内瑞拉，对价格和外汇的全面管制正造成明显的破坏作用。"
    ],
    [
        "SHANGHAI – China is increasingly debating whether or not the renminbi should be internationalized, possibly joining the US dollar and the euro as an international vehicle currency (IVC) – that is, a currency that other countries use to denominate the prices of their traded goods and international loans.",
        "上海—在中国，一场日益激烈的争论是人民币是否应该国际化，加入美元和欧元的行列成为国际媒介货币（international vehicle currency，IVC），即其他国家用来为贸易商品和国际贷款计价的货币。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for the EU to change its approach to integration.",
        "欧盟应该改变其一体化方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Will parliamentarians become mere spokesmen of corporate interests?",
        "议会会沦为公司利益的发言人吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But exploiting history to justify current violence will not work forever.",
        "这种借用历史去为现行暴力找借口的行为是不能长久的。"
    ],
    [
        "China needs to rein in these processes.",
        "中国需要减缓这些进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Without that signature, it is impossible to decrypt an Apple phone without physical access to the internals of its chip – which is itself impenetrable.",
        "没有签名就不可能在不对芯片内部进行物理接触的情况下解密苹果手机——这种芯片本身不可能被攻破。"
    ],
    [
        "Distinguishing Deng the reformer from Dengism the governing philosophy is no idle academic exercise.",
        "将作为改革家的邓小平和作为治国之道的邓小平主义区分开来，这决非毫无意义的学术游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "That might sound like a bad thing: Karadžić, who once warned Bosnia’s Muslims that war would lead them down the road to hell, surely deserves to be sentenced for the acts of which he was just acquitted – murder, siege, and slaughter almost beyond naming.",
        "这乍听上去似乎是件坏事：卡拉季奇曾警告波黑穆斯林战争会将他们引入地狱，他曾犯下难以名状的谋杀、围困和杀戮等罪行，假使因为刚刚得到赦免的行为而被判有罪也毫不稀奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany and South Korea, however, will gain little, and risk much, if they downgrade their alliance ties in favor of commercially motivated, if unofficial, neutrality.",
        "但是，德国和韩国如果因为采取出于商业动机的中立（尽管不是正式中立）而弱化它们与盟友的关系的话，其风险将远大于利益。"
    ],
    [
        "To my mind, using Germany’s balance sheet to help its neighbors directly is far more likely to work than is the presumed “trickle-down” effect of a German-led fiscal expansion.",
        "在我看来，利用德国资产负债表来直接援助其邻国比起假定中由德国主导的财政扩张所引发的“涓滴”效应更可能起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "More gas and large oil fields lie off the Greek coast in the Aegean and Ionian Seas, enough to transform the finances of Greece and the entire region.",
        "在希腊的爱琴海和爱奥尼亚海海岸发现更多的天然气和油田，足够改变希腊的财政收入和整个地区的经济状况。"
    ],
    [
        "True, democracy and the rule of law provide no foolproof security guarantee.",
        "的确，民主和法治提供不了绝对的安全保障。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in developed countries, concentration on economic growth is an extraordinarily inefficient way to increase general prosperity, because it means that an economy must grow by, say, 3% to raise the earnings of the majority by, say, 1%.",
        "但是，在发达国家，经济增长的集中是极其低效的产生整体繁荣的方法，因为这意味着用（比如）3%的经济增长来提升（比如）大多数人收入的1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these fish are consumed indirectly – ground up and fed to factory-farmed chicken or fish.",
        "这些鱼类中的大多数都被间接消费了——捞来作为饲料来喂养人工饲养的鸡或者是鱼。"
    ],
    [
        "As the number of people who have witnessed firsthand the effects of measles and other childhood diseases – such as mumps, rubella, polio, and whooping cough – has declined, so has society’s commitment to keeping them away.",
        "亲眼目睹麻疹和其他儿童疾病——如流行性腮腺炎、风疹、脊髓灰质炎和百日咳等——影响的人数减少了，社会也不再着力于远离这些疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "I did not argue that whaling should stop because whales are endangered. I knew that many expert ecologists and marine biologists would make that claim.",
        "我并没有说停止捕鲸是因为鲸鱼濒临灭绝，因为我知道许多生态学专家和海洋生物学家会提出这样的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, such investments cost little, given low interest rates.",
        "目前，由于低利率，这些投资几无成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The combination of persistent low interest rates, increasing regulatory compliance costs, and the rise of new competitors taking advantage of financial technologies (fintech for short) has produced, in Europe in particular, excess capacity and low profitability – and a strong temptation to merge.",
        "持续低利率、遵守监管成本的增加，以及具备金融技术的新竞争对手的崛起，它们的合力造成了产能过剩和盈利能力低下，以及强烈的兼并诱惑，尤其是在欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Here the statist thesis is reflected in its boldest form: there cannot be a bond strike in the United States or the United Kingdom, because their central banks have at their disposal the full panoply of policy tools – including unconventional operations – needed to ensure that debt is monetized.",
        "在这个问题上，统计数字发挥了振聋发聩的效果：美国和英国不会发生债券暴涨暴跌，因为这两国的中央银行可以随心所欲地动用包括非常规操作在内的整套政策工具确保债务货币化。"
    ],
    [
        "And lurking in the background are potential policies that would restrict legal immigration.",
        "隐藏在背景中的还有限制合法移民的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "First, we need more discipline on the part of the community of experts.",
        "首先，我们需要专家团体加强自律。"
    ],
    [
        "She is likely to be a single mother who has no choice but to be the sole breadwinner and caregiver for her family.",
        "她可能是位单身母亲，注定要成为家庭唯一的经济支柱兼照顾者。"
    ],
    [
        "A large portion of the indigenous populations quickly succumbed to diseases and hardships brought by the European colonizers, but many survived, often in dominant numbers, as in Bolivia and much of the highlands of the Andes mountain region.",
        "土著居民中的很大一部分不久就死于欧洲殖民者带来的疾病和生活困难，但也有很多人活了下来，而且在数量上占据了绝对优势，玻利维亚和安第斯山区都属于这种情况。"
    ],
    [
        "We have long pushed for the disarming of Hezbollah, and we have assisted the government with nearly $1 billion in financial support and credit to purchase weapons for the Lebanese Army, and we will continue to do so in the coming decade.",
        "长期以来，我们一直致力于解除真主党武装，我们自助了黎巴嫩政府近10亿美元金融支持和信用用于为黎巴嫩军队购买武器，并将在未来十年中继续支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Disaster management, peace-keeping operations, and, again, maritime-security cooperation are some of the areas in which ASEAN members can work together to formulate common policy approaches and action plans.",
        "东盟各国可以在灾难应对，维和以及海洋合作事务等领域开展广泛合作并制定共同的政策和行动计划。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time of strong resistance to higher energy costs, this may well be among the most effective – not to mention politically savvy – mechanisms for advancing the goals set out in Paris.",
        "在民众强烈抵制提高能源成本的时代，这很可能是推进巴黎目标最有效——更不用说政治上最明智的——政策方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 2006 and 2011, for example, we doubled the agriculture budget, distributed more than 2,000 cows to low-income families, and expanded milk delivery and fruit and vegetable gardens across the country.",
        "比如，2006—2011年，我们将农业预算提高了一倍，向低收入家庭发放了2000多头奶牛，还扩大了卢旺达的牛奶输送和蔬果园。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration repeatedly denies such claims, along with others that the treaty’s verification provisions remain insufficient.",
        "奥巴马政府反复地驳斥了上述批评，同时也否定了对条约核查规定不完备的担心。"
    ],
    [
        "They do not mention their own barbaric assaults, vandalism, and looting, or their kangaroo courts.",
        "他们不会提及他们自己做出的野蛮暴行、恶意行径和抢劫掠夺，或者私设公堂。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments are often confronting the challenge with courage and determination, and the use of African forces in many countries to try to keep peace is a tribute to that resolve.",
        "政府通常凭借勇气和决心面对这一挑战，许多非洲国家动用军队来维持和平便是这一决心的写照。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first president, promised its subjects “as much sovereignty as they can swallow.”",
        "1991年苏联解体时，俄罗斯首任总统叶利钦承诺其臣民“想要多少主权就会得到多少” 。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not the only obstacle.",
        "但这不是唯一的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The choice that the EU faces is the same in other parts of the world: either integrate politically, or ease up on economic unification.",
        "欧盟面临着与其他国家同样的选择： 实现政治一体化，或者放慢经济一体化的脚步。"
    ],
    [
        "And even if both sides’ current leaderships are sincere, will this hold true for their successors?",
        "而且就算双方目前领导人本着真诚的态度，他们的继任者是否也能如此？"
    ],
    [
        "New member states should continue pursuing macroeconomic stability and financial discipline, particularly with respect to public finances.",
        "新晋成员国应该继续保持宏观经济的稳定性和金融规范，特别是在公共财政方面。"
    ],
    [
        "With the right reforms, adopted in concert, the world can make the needed transitions.",
        "通过协调实施适当的改革，世界可以实现所需的过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "On April 26, 2007, the entire network of governance professionals in the Bank wrote in an open letter to the Board and the President that the leadership crisis was eroding the Bank’s credibility and hampering implementation of this vital agenda.",
        "2007年4月26日，世行所有治理专业人员联名写了一封致董事会和行长的公开信，信中说这场领导力危机正侵蚀着世行的公信力并阻碍了这一至关重要的议程的实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, few Catholics even know of the doctrine.",
        "如今，多数天主教徒甚至从未听说过这项制度。"
    ],
    [
        "While commentators have charged that Britain capitulated to Iran and handed them a humiliating victory in obtaining the release of the 15 British Marines last week, it would appear that something more like the opposite is actually the case.",
        "当评论家们批评英国向伊朗屈服，在上周释放15名英国水兵的问题上让其赢得一场羞辱性胜利的时候，真正的情况似乎却恰恰相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Shetty’s team has successfully participated in telemedicine consultations – multi-specialty, non-stop availability, and supplemented by continuing education – with hospitals in 14 African countries.",
        "舍蒂团队已经在非洲14个国家的医院，通过远程医疗成功提供丰富多彩的长期的医疗教育。"
    ],
    [
        "To compensate, Yakuza groups plunged into financial fraud, stock manipulation, and cybercrime, giving rise to a new generation of gangster-nerds, more interested in business than blackmail.",
        "为了补偿收入，黑帮开始介入金融欺诈，操纵股价或者网络犯罪，并借此培养新一代黑帮成员，而且也比敲诈更加刺激有趣。 以日本黑帮最大的派别“山口组”为例，该组织拥有大约3."
    ],
    [
        "Despite all this, massive excess bank reserves remain unlent.",
        "尽管采取所有这些措施，巨大的超额银行准备金仍是无法借出。"
    ],
    [
        "The authors did address whether global imbalances, derivatives, and subprime mortgages posed a threat to financial stability.",
        "作者确实讨论了全球失衡、衍生品和次级按揭是否对金融稳定构成威胁的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Many lessons have emerged, including the dangers of hubris and the limits of military power, and the need for a multi-polar world.",
        "人们知道了许多教训，包括傲慢的危险、军事实力的局限以及多极世界的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Menurut laporan WHO, lebih dari 80% kematian terkait diabetes bukan terjadi di negara-negara berpendapatan tinggi.",
        "事实上，据世卫组织报告，80%以上的糖尿病相关死亡发生在高收入国家以外。"
    ],
    [
        "By clinging stubbornly to the system they dominate and barring the door to new entrants, they have left those outside little choice.",
        "他们顽固地执着于他们所主导的体系、不向新来者敞开大门，这让外部力量别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the employees they let go will start firms (and hire employees) of their own.",
        "被裁员的员工也会创立新的企业（并雇用员工）。"
    ],
    [
        "It has leap-frogged even advanced countries in the global economic hierarchy.",
        "在全球经济层次中，它甚至已经超过了很多发达国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Our hard-won scientific knowledge should be used to promote human wellbeing, protect the vulnerable and the poor, preserve Earth’s fragile ecosystems, and keep faith with future generations.",
        "我们好不容易获得的科学知识必须用于促进人类福祉、保护弱势群体和穷人、保护地球脆弱的生态系统、守信于子孙后代。 可续可以揭露人类引起的环境危机；"
    ],
    [
        "As we search for innovative solutions to today’s development challenges, we should consider what the cooperative movement can offer.",
        "当我们寻求新方法来应对当今发展中面临的挑战时，我们也应思索合作社运动能带来什么。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 1990’s, the US and Europe erred in treating Russia with benign neglect. It would be a mistake for Russia to respond in kind today by seeking to prolong the PCA negotiations in the hope that a possibly more amenable EU president may one day offer softer terms.",
        "在九十年代，美国和欧洲善意忽略俄国犯下错误。 如今，如果俄国寻求拖延协议谈判，从而希望更为屈从的欧盟主席国会有一天提出更为软弱的条款，那就是错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring economic growth and addressing climate change do not have to be opposing goals.",
        "确保经济增长和应对气候变化这两个目标其实并不存在矛盾，也是可以并应当携手共进的；"
    ],
    [
        "First, as a result of demographic and social changes, the marginal wage cost of production and minimum-wage levels have increased significantly.",
        "首先，人口和社会变化导致生产边际工资成本和最低工资水平显著增加。"
    ],
    [
        "In the longer term, countries should aim to match participation rates in conventional first-aid courses.",
        "在长期，各国应该把目标定在匹配常规紧急救助课程参与率上。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the economic approach might seem to work better, given that money is, admittedly, the only relevant currency.",
        "在这里，经济学方法似乎效果更好，因为钱确实是唯一重要的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s policy-induced price distortions peaked in the late 1970’s, and reforms since then have removed about two-thirds of that burden, greatly facilitating productivity growth and poverty alleviation.",
        "org/agdistortions）。 非洲地区由政策导致的价格扭曲在20世纪70年代末达到了顶峰，此后实行的改革政策减轻了农民负担的三分之二，极大地推动了生产力和扶贫事业的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "In much of the same way, the rise of the religious right and, with it, culture wars over “family values” and other highly polarizing issues (for example, immigration) have served to insulate American politics from the sharp rise in economic inequality since the late 1970s.",
        "同样地，宗教右翼的兴起以及随之而起的针对“家族价值观”和其他高度极端化的问题（如移民问题）的文化战争被利用来将美国政治与20世纪70年代末以来的经济不平等性的急剧上升隔离开来。"
    ],
    [
        "Asylum-seekers provided with a clear status and promises of safety could be induced to wait in Turkey and other frontline countries, rather than risk a dangerous Mediterranean crossing.",
        "获得明确的地位和安全承诺的寻求庇护者可以引导到土耳其和其他前沿国家等待，而不必冒险穿越危险的地中海。"
    ],
    [
        "That forest land will be lost, probably forever, and a few more numbers will be added to the global deforestation total next year.",
        "那块林地将会消失，也许将永远地消失了，并且给明年的全球森林砍伐总面积添加一些数目。"
    ],
    [
        "All of the key aspects of the technology – capturing the carbon dioxide, putting it into pipelines for shipment, and then depositing it underground – have already been demonstrated, but they have not yet been tried, and proven, on a large scale.",
        "该技术的所有关键方面—二氧化碳的捕获，排入管道中以便进一步传输，以及最后放入地下—都已有所展示，但它还没有经过更大规模的试验和证实。"
    ],
    [
        "But the past month featured some hopeful moments, and pausing to study them is imperative to avoid succumbing to pessimism.",
        "但上个月仍有不少令人满怀希望的时刻，停下来研究一下这些时刻对于避免陷入悲观主义十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Bad advice.",
        "这可不是好建议。"
    ],
    [
        "In most of these countries, job creation is anemic, real wages are falling, and dual labor markets mean that formal-sector, unionized workers have good wages and benefits, while younger workers have precarious jobs that pay lower wages, provide no employment security, and offer low or no benefits.",
        "大多数国家几乎创造不出什么就业，实际工资一路下跌，双轨制的劳动力市场意味着服务于正规部门的工会工人坐拥良好工资和福利，而年轻劳动者则只能取得工资更低且不稳定的工作，没什么就业保障，津贴也时有时无。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, American per capita income is higher, but in terms of human capital, technology, and exports, the EU is very much an economic peer.",
        "诚然，美国的人均收入较高，但就人力资本、技术和出口领域而言，欧盟完全当得起美国的经济对手。"
    ],
    [
        "The spread of conflict throughout the Middle East is currently precipitated more by the rise of religious sectarianism than by American interventionism.",
        "中东地区的冲突蔓延更多地是拜宗教门户之见崛起所赐，而不是因为美国的干涉。"
    ],
    [
        "Commercial banks have to be bailed out by governments; then governments have to be bailed out by commercial banks.",
        "政府不得不出售援助商业银行； 接着，又不得不等着商业银行来救。"
    ],
    [
        "A Serb district president, Miroslav Deronjić, testified that Karadžić told him: “Miroslav, those people there must be killed.”",
        "以及一位叫米洛斯拉夫·德容季奇的塞族地方官员的证词——当时卡拉季奇跟他说：“米洛斯拉夫，这些人必须杀掉。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Someday, Shanghai and Hong Kong might be ready, but that possibility is of little help now.",
        "而在未来的某些时候，上海和香港可能会成为接班人，但这种可能性对当今的状况来说，只能是杯水车薪。"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder recipient countries resist inflows of hot capital.",
        "毫不奇怪，流入国要设法阻止热钱进入了。"
    ],
    [
        "At least some monetary policymakers believe that recent reductions in the US unemployment rate, which have largely resulted from falling labor-force participation, are just as valid a reason for shifting to more austere policies as reductions in unemployment that reflect increases in employment.",
        "至少，部分货币政策制定者据此认定把美国近期失业率的下降简单解读为失业率下降就是就是就业人口增加——其实这在很大程度上是因为劳动人口退出就业市场——并以此作为更严厉紧缩政策的依据。"
    ],
    [
        "The political and economic costs of letting a fellow member government fail are simply too high in the closely interconnected EMU.",
        "对于成员相互连接紧密的欧洲货币联盟而言，让一个伙伴成员国的政府破产的政治和经济成本实在太高。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the PKK has refused to disarm, instead amassing weapons and attacking civilian and security targets across the country. As we continue to fight the scourge of terrorism in our country, we call on all countries not only to mourn the dead in Paris, but to reject terrorism in all of its forms.",
        "但PKK仍拒绝解除武装，反而在囤积武器，袭击土耳其全国的平民和安全目标。 我们将继续与土耳其国内的恐怖主义祸害作斗争，与此同时，我们呼吁所有国家不但要为巴黎死难者致哀，更要拒绝任何形式的恐怖主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Changes like these have been discussed for 30 years.",
        "诸如此类的变化已经讨论了30年。"
    ],
    [
        "For that to happen, however, Rohingya extremists must be contained.",
        "但要想达到这一目的，罗兴亚极端分子必须得到控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Bouazizi’s desperate act sparked the Arab Spring.",
        "博阿齐齐的绝望之举点燃了阿拉伯之春。"
    ],
    [
        "Things do not move as fast as they want them to, or not at all, owing to conditions that they do not control.",
        "由于他们所无能为力的原因，事情并非如他们所想得一般快速改变，甚至纹丝不动。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Chen’s government, under pressure from the opposition Kuomintang, later restarted work on the plant, design revisions have repeatedly delayed its completion.",
        "虽然随后在国民党的压力下核电站重新开工建设，按不断出现的设计更改却使竣工日期一再延误。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI/LONDON – Since 2008, when the global financial crisis nearly brought down the world economy, financial reform has been among the top items on policymakers’ agendas.",
        "新德里/伦敦—2008年，金融危机几乎将世界经济摧毁，此后，金融改革一直是决策者日程的重中之重。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the top 10% also owned nonfinancial assets (including primary residences) with a median value of $756,400 – nearly six times the value held by the other 90%.",
        "同时这些人还拥有平均为75. 64万美元的非金融资产（包括自住住宅）——是其余人群的近六倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Even at this early stage, it is apparent that the agreement has empowered Iran regionally.",
        "即使仍处于早期阶段，很明显协议已经增强了伊朗的地区实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does the old secular/religious divide have much salience anymore.",
        "原有的世俗/宗教分歧也变得不那么显著。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the need for currency appreciation and monetary tightening in overheated emerging markets comes at a time when the housing bust, credit crunch, and high oil prices are leading to a sharp slowdown in advanced economies – and outright recession in some of them.",
        "不幸的是，在经济过热的新兴市场国家需要货币升值以及收紧银根的时候，发达经济体里的房地产不景气，信贷紧缩以及高 油价正在导致经济急剧放缓－并且其中的一些国家发生了完全的经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring that research and development is part of the world’s climate change response portfolio would make mitigation efforts more efficient and significantly enhance their ability to reduce carbon emissions over the next century.",
        "确保研究和开发成为世界应对气候变化的组合应对方式的一部分将使减弱气候变化的影响的努力变得更加有效，并且能够大大增强其在下一世纪减少碳排放的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "This bears a similarity to climate conferences where countries – developed, emerging, or poor – sit down at the same table and try to reach agreement on a common goal: a fair model for reducing CO2 emissions.",
        "这在气候会议上也能找到相似之处，发达国家，发展中国家和贫穷国家都在同一张桌子前坐下来，尝试为一个共同的目标 —— 某项削减二氧化碳排放的合理模式 —— 达成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, lower oil prices represent a boon for Europe – especially for its most beleaguered nations.",
        "事实上，更低的油价堪称对欧洲的恩惠——尤其是那些面临着内忧外困局面的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to restore America’s moral leadership, President Barack Obama must make good on his early rhetoric – exemplified in his speeches in Istanbul and Cairo early in his presidency – which demonstrated genuine regard for the oppressed.",
        "为了重塑美国的道德领导力，总统奥巴马必须兑现他曾经说过的话，真正给受压迫的人民带去曙光——如他在就任总统早期在伊斯坦布尔和开罗说的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Concluding the trade deals now on the table with Asia and Europe would not only demonstrate political leadership; it would also underline the US’s commitment to preserving the international order.",
        "现在与亚洲和欧洲签署贸易协定不仅可以彰显政治领导地位； 还可以凸显美国维护国际秩序的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa even imports 15% of the cement it uses, despite having abundant raw materials to make it at home.",
        "甚至连非洲所用水泥的15%都要依靠进口，尽管非洲拥有充足的原材料可以实现国内生产。"
    ],
    [
        "Strident calls for structural reforms mainly target labor markets, rather than product markets.",
        "结构性改革的尖锐呼声大多集中在劳动市场而非产品市场。"
    ],
    [
        "To some extent, it is a matter of life or death, and, more pervasively, it determines whether we achieve fulfillment and satisfaction in life.",
        "在某种程度上，这是一个生死攸关的问题，在更普遍意义上，它决定了我们是否能实现生活中的成就与满足。"
    ],
    [
        "I remember being told a story about China that gives credence to the Communist leadership’s generous verdict on Mao.",
        "我记得曾经有人给我讲了一个故事，故事讲述了中国大众是如何信任共产党的领导阶层对于毛泽东的慷慨评价的。"
    ],
    [
        "A simpler and more transparent system would ultimately lead to more lending and greater stability, not less.",
        "更简单、更透明的系统最终将增加贷款、增强稳定性，而不是相反。"
    ],
    [
        "I would propose five principles.",
        "我认为必须坚持五点原则。"
    ],
    [
        "ASEAN continues to face serious challenges.",
        "东盟国家仍然面临着艰巨挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "His conciliatory speech in Cairo on June 4, 2009, much derided by hawks in the US, together with his general lack of bluster, created enough space for the opponents of Middle Eastern dictators to rebel without being tainted in any way by foreign intervention.",
        "他2009年6月4日在开罗的和解讲话虽然倍受美国鹰派的嘲弄，但却和不事张扬的姿态一起为中东独裁政权的反对者创造了足够的空间，让他们不致背上外国干预的罪名而无法洗脱。"
    ],
    [
        "It is thus unlikely that the Grand Coalition will adopt a different political approach towards Turkey than the previous Red-Green government.",
        "因此，德国的大联合政府不大可能在对待土耳其的问题上采取与前红绿政府不同的政治策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Virulent anti-migrant, anti-Muslim parties are becoming more popular in Europe’s core, including the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden.",
        "西班牙大选可能会导致显著的政治和政策不确定性。 恶毒反移民反穆斯林的政党在欧洲核心国家——包括荷兰，丹麦，芬兰和瑞典——越来越受欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "Or it could be a service to an organization’s members or to a venture capitalist’s portfolio companies.",
        "此外还可以为机构成员或风险资本的投资组合企业提供服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Forgetting thus affords us a second chance, individually and as a society, to rise above our past mistakes and misdeeds, to accept that humans change over time.",
        "于是遗忘给予个人和社会第二次机会，来摆脱过去的错误和恶行，并接受人类与时俱进的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, confounding those who had forecast his political demise, re-emerged at the head of a populist-rightist coalition that ended up only 0.3 percentage points away from winning.",
        "前总理贝卢斯科尼令那些预测他已被政治打倒的人大跌眼镜，在民粹主义右翼联盟中独占鳌头，仅仅比获胜所需的支持率低了0. 3%。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no politically painless way out of the debt trap.",
        "跳出债务陷阱必然会带来政治痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "And the wrangling in the run-up to and in Brussels itself surely did not contribute to the EU’s popularity among its citizens.",
        "在布鲁塞尔峰会召开前夕和会议进行中的勾心斗角并没有为欧盟在其公民中的受欢迎程度作出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, we will engage for the first time in multilateral military exercises led by ASEAN, while China has been invited to send ships to RIMPAC 2014.",
        "2013年，我们将首次参与东盟领导下的多边军事演习，而中国已应邀派军舰参与2014的环太平洋演习。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – Inequality is usually measured by comparing incomes across households within a country.",
        "纽黑文—通常，衡量不平等性的方法是比较一国国内家庭之间的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy security, organized crime, terrorism, absolutism and fundamentalism, climate change, and cybercrime are acute concerns for every country.",
        "能源安全、有组织犯罪、恐怖主义、专制主义、原教旨主义、气候变化以及网络犯罪是每一个国家强烈关注的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "So how are we going about it in the UAE?",
        "那么我们在阿联酋如何去追求它？"
    ],
    [
        "John Maynard Keynes once said that monetary policy may work like a string.",
        "约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯（John Maynard Keynes）曾经说过，货币政策就像一根绳索。"
    ],
    [
        "Computerized technology has penetrated deeply into the service sector, taking over jobs for which the human factor and “cognitive functions” were hitherto deemed indispensable.",
        "计算机化科技深深地渗透到了服务部门，正在霸占迄今人力因素和“认知功能”仍不可或缺的工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has declared that he will hold a referendum on the proposed quotas.",
        "匈牙利总理欧尔班已经宣布将举行全民公决来裁定配额方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU cannot be the inclusive, thriving, and democratic home that millions dream of if red tape is allowed to strangle the industries that are crucial to European prosperity.",
        "如果欧盟继续放任官样文章继续窒息欧洲繁荣关键之所在的行业，就不可能实现包容和民主，成为数百万人的梦想之地。"
    ],
    [
        "I carried a special pass as a “victim of fascism,” but others showed their Iron Cross which they had got for late military action.",
        "作为“法西斯的受害者”，我带着一张特殊的通行证，而其他人则展示着他们在最近军事行动中所获得的铁十字架。"
    ],
    [
        "Horowitz asked owners to forbid their dogs to take a biscuit and then briefly leave the room.",
        "Horowitz要求主人禁止他们的狗狗吃掉饼干，然后很快地离开房间。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico recently tried to enact legislation modeled on Chapter 9 that would allow for an orderly restructuring of the debt of public corporations and municipalities.",
        "波多黎各最近尝试颁布仿效第九章制定的法律，允许对上市公司和市政当局债务进行有序重组。"
    ],
    [
        "I remember the late 1980’s not only for its hopes for freedom, but also for a total absence of baby food for my newborn daughter.",
        "我对20世纪80年代末仍然记忆犹新，这不仅是因为那时对自由的期待，而且因为对我刚出生的女儿来说，一点儿婴儿食品都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "The other view is that to proceed with the new policies before the new institutions are in place would be reckless.",
        "另一个观点则认为在新体制建立之前推动新政策是卤莽之举。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, only in Russia (and perhaps in Ukraine) is the income gap wider.",
        "实际上，收入差距甚于波兰的恐怕只有俄罗斯（也许还有乌克兰）。"
    ],
    [
        "But achieving it would require a massive sledgehammer.",
        "但实现这一点需要大刀阔斧的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "From 2004 to 2013, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) bought trillions of dollars in foreign-exchange reserves, thereby preventing the renminbi from appreciating as much as it would have had it floated freely.",
        "从2004年到2013年，中国人民银行购入了数万亿美元的外汇储备，从而防止人民币升值幅度大于自由浮动的情形。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s interconnected world, an unidentified cyber attack on non-governmental infrastructure might be severely damaging.",
        "在当今各领域之间互相关联的世界里，任何身份不明的对非政府基础设施所进行的网络攻击都可能会带来严重的灾害。"
    ],
    [
        "But greater wealth for the rich does not necessarily produce much extra spending. It does increase inequality and threaten asset bubbles, which could lead to a new financial crash.",
        "但富人更富并不一定会造成大量额外支出，倒确实增加了不平等性和资产泡沫的危险，而资产泡沫有可能带来新的金融动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi’s government is desperate to diversity its sources of advanced weapons and become self-reliant in defense production.",
        "莫迪政府渴望实现先进武器来源多元化、在国防产品领域实现自力更生。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of these conditions, the $17 billion program has declined in scale and has a participation rate of less than 50% percent of eligible households.",
        "这些条件所带来的结果是这项170亿美元的计划规模缩水，并且合格家庭参与率不足50%。"
    ],
    [
        "Cities need to upgrade their governance, to allow for a greater role for poorer and more marginalized communities, and to enable much more effective coordination across city lines when a metropolitan area is home to many individual cities.",
        "城市需要升级其治理体系，让较贫穷、被边缘化的社区起更大作用，并在由许多个体城市组成的大都市圈中促进更有效的协调。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as we enter the eighth year of aggressive easing, unintended consequences are starting to appear – notably asset-price bubbles, increasing economic inequality (as wealthier investors able to hold equities benefit at the expense of small savers), and the risk of higher inflation in the future.",
        "此外，激进宽松已经进入了第八年，意料外的后果开始显现——主要有资产价格泡沫、经济不平等性加剧（富裕投资者牺牲小储户获得股票收益）、未来高通胀风险等。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, wealth transfers to peripheral countries, while controversial, are necessary.",
        "其次，财富必须向外围国转移，尽管这一点具有很大争议。"
    ],
    [
        "This process does work in the long run.",
        "这种方法就长期而言并不有效。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Young Guard – those who led the first Intifada (1987-1993), as well as those making their names in the current Intifada – want a share of power.",
        "他们曾发动了第一次因提法达起义(1987-1993)，并因此在因提法达地区名声大振。"
    ],
    [
        "The mandarins have maintained their privileged position in this regard, owing partly to the tax system, which prevents the emergence of non-profit institutions, especially think tanks, where independent policy expertise can be forged.",
        "官僚家族在上述领域一直保持着优势地位，这部分需要归功于税收体系妨碍了非营利性机构，特别是智库的产生，而独立的政策知识正需要通过以上渠道获得。"
    ],
    [
        "China, the only major Asian emerging economy that is currently meeting the ADB’s spending target, could use its G-20 presidency to persuade its neighbors to increase investment in this area.",
        "作为目前实现亚洲开发银行支出目标的唯一一个亚洲新兴经济体，中国可以利用担任G-20主席国的机会说服邻国增加该地区的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "What also needs to be jettisoned from the ECB’s communications policy is its obsession with the short run.",
        "应该从ECB的沟通政策中剔除的还有对短期的迷恋。"
    ],
    [
        "And some NGO leaders object that their own, very different anti-corruption agenda is being pre-empted by Hazare’s demands.",
        "一些非政府组织领导人也抗议赫扎尔的要求取代了他们自己截然不同的反腐败计划。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, a successful precautionary credit line is one that is never (or very rarely) used.",
        "毕竟一个从来不会（或很少）被使用的预防信用额度才是一个成功的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, his approach is not.",
        "不幸的是，他的方针是错的。"
    ],
    [
        "Infrastructure investment, in particular, may well be the key to tackling China’s economic woes.",
        "特别是基础设施投资或是解决中国经济萎靡的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Mediterranean Sea alone, 3,200 people have perished, and in the Andaman Sea, just east of the Bay of Bengal, thousands of migrants have been stranded on boats with nowhere to land, or have been held hostage by their traffickers.",
        "仅地中海一地就有3，200人丧生，而在紧邻孟加拉湾东侧的安达曼海，数千名移民被困在船上无法登陆，或者被人贩子扣为人质。"
    ],
    [
        "A break with long-established policy by Trump would be damaging in many ways.",
        "特朗普打破由来已久的政策将在诸多方面带来破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "And many of the Dutch Freedom Party’s voters live nowhere near a mosque.",
        "而许多荷兰自由党选民的住所并不靠近任何清真寺。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot sit idly by and allow such a future to unfold.",
        "我们不能再坐视不理，允许这样的未来成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, its stock market is frothy, and it is experiencing an alarming property boom.",
        "结果，中国的股市和房市又开始吹泡泡了。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not the first time that an Arab dictator has been put on trial.",
        "这并不是阿拉伯独裁者第一次被推上审判席。"
    ],
    [
        "The early autumn sun is warm on my back, the trees are starting to change color, and local farmers are preparing for this year’s grape harvest.",
        "夏末的阳光暖洋洋地照在我的背上，树叶正在泛黄，本地农民正准备收获今年的葡萄。"
    ],
    [
        "Establishing constructive and effective guidelines could help to prevent the sort of conflicts and confusion over lending conditions during crises that we have seen among the IMF, EU, and the European Central Bank in the eurozone.",
        "制定建设性且有效的指引将有助于防止出现欧元危机期间我们在国际货币基金组织，欧盟和欧洲央行之间所看见的那些冲突和误会。"
    ],
    [
        "Saved by Taxes",
        "税收救世"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the FMLC calls for the establishment of a permanent G-20 secretariat to improve continuity and coordination across G-20 presidencies.",
        "最后，FMLC呼吁成立永久性的G-20秘书机构以改善G-20主席的延续性和协调性。"
    ],
    [
        "The “third front” involves assorted petty particularisms – parties representing the sectarian interests of specific castes, sub-regions, or linguistic groups.",
        "“第三阵线”相对来说有点特殊——他代表了某些特别种族，地区以及不同语言团体的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "During this transformation, NATO must keep in mind that the primary responsibility for global peace and security lies with the United Nations.",
        "在这一转型过程中，北约必须牢记全球和平与安全的首要责任在于联合国。"
    ],
    [
        "They must rely on their messages being passed through several hands, including broadcasters and personal finance journalists, before they reach the high street.",
        "它们必须依靠多种信息传递渠道，包扩广播电视和个体财经记者，才能抵达商界。"
    ],
    [
        "It is what makes cultural evolution possible, cumulative, and powerful.",
        "模仿能力让文化演化成为可能、逐渐积累、变得强大。"
    ],
    [
        "A candidate may promise more anti-dumping actions against Chinese goods, vow to press harder on China to change its exchange rate regime, or sharpen criticism of China's weak enforcement of intellectual property rights; but over-protectionism may make a candidate look irresponsible in 2004.",
        "候选人可以许诺对中国商品采取更多的反倾销措施、迫使中国改变现行的汇率制度、或者加大对中国保护知识产权不力的批判力度，但历史已经发展到2004年，过度的保护主义也可能会使候选人显得不负责任。"
    ],
    [
        "In July 2015, world leaders will meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to chart reforms of the global financial system.",
        "2015年7月，全球领导人将齐聚埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴，制定全球金融体系改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But to argue that an income independent of the job market is bound to be demoralizing is as morally obtuse as it is historically inaccurate.",
        "但这种不受就业市场的收入必将令人游手好闲的说法在道德上也是站不住脚的，历史证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Several recent studies confirm that there are substantial economic- and human-development costs associated with pervasive and significant gender gaps in economic opportunities and outcomes.",
        "一些最新研究确认，如果在经济机会和结果上存在普遍而严重的性别差距，其经济和人类发展代价是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, except for deflation-ridden Japan, central bankers could meet just about anywhere and see high and rising inflation.",
        "确实，除了受到通货紧缩困扰的日本以外，各国的行长们几乎可以随便在哪里开会都可以发现通货膨胀上升高昂。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranian authorities claimed that angry “students” spontaneously stormed the embassy.",
        "伊朗当局称，愤怒的“学生”自发地袭击了大使馆。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine’s Watershed Election",
        "乌克兰决定性的选举"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in a pay-for-success model, the returns are based on the social benefits achieved or savings reaped by government.",
        "相反，在成功后买单模式中，回报基于实现的社会收益或政府所节约的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "With the US politically paralyzed by the Republicans’ infantile political tantrums, and Europe focused on ensuring the survival of the ill-conceived euro project, the lack of global leadership was a major complaint at Davos.",
        "由于美国共和党人幼稚的政治固执导致该国政治瘫痪，而欧洲则着眼于确保设计拙劣的欧元计划能够幸存，因而达沃斯会议上最主要的抱怨就是全球领袖的缺失。"
    ],
    [
        "This would take some of the teeth out of the Union's social directives, and would give real substance to the principle of subsidiarity.",
        "这样做既可以修正欧盟社会方针中的一些弊端，又真正体现了辅导性原则（principle of subsidiarity）。"
    ],
    [
        "Mari kita ingat hal ini ketika kita meratapi berakhirnya masa perjanjian perdagangan.",
        "当我们哀悼贸易协定时代的结束时，一定不要忘记这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the 1960’s – when the IMF still supervised the rules of the Bretton Woods order’s par value system before its disintegration in 1971 – surveillance was linked to the Fund’s effectiveness as a major financial intermediary.",
        "但在1960年代—当IMF还监督着布雷顿平价体系（在其1971年崩溃以前）的规则时—监督是和该组织作为一个主要金融调解机构的效率联系在一起的。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Baltic example shows, quicker fiscal adjustments can drive structural changes.",
        "波罗的海各国的例子也显示更迅速的财政调整是可以推动结构性变化的。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the most effective interventions of this type, demonstrated in Germany and Scandinavia, is to spend money on high-quality vocational education and re-training for workers and students outside universities, creating non-academic routes to a middle-class standard of living.",
        "这种类型最有效的干预是将钱用于高质量职业培训以及工人和毕业后学生的再培训上，打造一条通往中产阶级生活水平的非学术道路，德国和北欧国家即是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who see the world through those old, fearful lenses have difficulty understanding Turkey’s rising profile and dynamism.",
        "对于那些依旧以过时且充满恐惧的眼光看待这个世界的人来说，土耳其的崛起和活力堪称不解之谜。"
    ],
    [
        "My Outlook for 2009",
        "我对2009年的展望"
    ],
    [
        "The top rate has increased from 28% to 39.6% on wages and salaries, and to more than 43% on some forms of investment income.",
        "工资和薪水最高税率从28%增加到39. 6%，某些形式的投资所得最高税率更是高达43%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "It requires a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic capacities – pathology, surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and targeted medicines – together with the knowledge and skill to safely administer these life-saving treatments.",
        "它要求一系列诊断和治疗能力——病理学、手术、放疗、化疗和靶向药物——还需要安全实施这些救命治疗的知识和技能。"
    ],
    [
        "Reverby was completing a final task in her two decades of studying the PHS’s detestable Tuskegee experiments, in which hundreds of African-American men with late-stage syphilis were observed but not treated, even after penicillin was developed.",
        "当时她所从事的一项历时20年，关于臭名昭著的美国公共卫生署塔斯基吉实验的研究已近尾声——那场实验对患有晚期梅毒的数百名非洲裔美国男性进行医学观察，却任由其病情恶化却不给予相应的治疗，甚至在盘尼西林出现以后也不予施救。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracies require leaders to answer too many questions, jump through too many hoops, and face too much resistance.",
        "民主国家要求领导人回答各种问题，经受各种考验，面对各种反对。"
    ],
    [
        "This trend can only continue, considering the combined impact of China’s “Go Out Policy” of prodding domestic companies to make investments abroad, and it’s “One Belt, One Road” framework to build continent-wide trade infrastructure.",
        "考虑到中国鞭策国内公司赴海外投资的“走出去政策”以及建设洲际贸易基础设施的“一带一路”框架的合力，这一趋势还将持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "The spread of inflation-indexed bonds serves as a historical precedent.",
        "通货膨胀连动式债券的风行已成一个具有历史意义的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh earlier this year, which killed more than 1,000 people, posed a similar question for the garment industry.",
        "更近的例子有今年早些时候孟加拉国Rana Plaza制衣厂垮塌事件，该事件造成1000多人死亡，也给制衣业带来了类似的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "They will continue to be expressed, more secretively perhaps, and as a result become even more toxic.",
        "它们还是会被表达，也许以更秘密的方式，因此也有可能变得更加恶毒。"
    ],
    [
        "So now Philip Morris is demanding to be compensated for lost profits.",
        "因此菲利普莫里斯公司要求补偿利润损失。"
    ],
    [
        "But when Hausmann, a Venezuelan citizen and former government minister, discusses an important question that is being asked by investors around the world, he is not merely chastised, but threatened.",
        "但当委内瑞拉公民兼前政府部长豪斯曼开始讨论一个呗全世界投资者所质疑的问题时，他不但备受指责，还受到了威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Their essential tasks should be movement, information gathering, and, if necessary, combat.",
        "最核心的任务包括军队调动、信息收集和在必要情况下的战斗能力。"
    ],
    [
        "I won’t deny that there are risks.",
        "我不否认存在风险。"
    ],
    [
        "If Brazil is to sustain strong and stable economic growth, the central bank will need an overhaul.",
        "如果巴西想要保持强劲稳定的经济增长，其中央银行就必须进行大修。"
    ],
    [
        "The more banks are forced to evaluate risks based on shareholder losses rather than government bailouts, the safer the system will be.",
        "更多银行被迫基于股东损失而不是政府援助来评估风险，系统就越安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have suggested a papal mediation; others have advocated intervention by a group of Latin American former presidents.",
        "一些人建议采用宗教斡旋； 也有人建议让由拉美国家前总统组成的小组进行干预。"
    ],
    [
        "The question then becomes whether our smartphones, Kindles, tablets, and computers actually do provide us that extra utility.",
        "于是，问题变成了我们的智能手机、Kindle阅读器、平板电脑和计算机是否真的给我们提供了额外效用。"
    ],
    [
        "But they can contain something darker, more aggressive, too, especially when sporting combat is loaded with historical memory.",
        "但是它们也可能包含某种更黑暗、更具攻击性的东西，尤其是当体育竞争承载了历史记忆的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "As Adam Smith discussed in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, economic growth depends on improvements in labor productivity, which today result from either technological innovation or industrial upgrading (the reallocation of productive capacity into new sectors with higher added value).",
        "亚当·斯密在《国富论》中论证了经济增长取决于劳动生产率的改善，而今天劳动生产率的改善要么来自技术创新，要么来自产业升级（将产能重新配置给更高附加值的新部门）。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first two months of this year, SP reported that it had destroyed 25 armored vehicles (including tanks, minesweepers, and bulldozers) and killed 100 soldiers (the military acknowledged 37).",
        "今年前两个月，西奈省报告其摧毁了25部装甲车（包括坦克、扫雷车和推土机），杀掉了100名士兵（军方承认的死亡人数为37人）。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach implies that more can be done to reduce systemic risk, beyond reforming how risk is measured and capital buffers determined.",
        "此种方法说明了有更多的解决系统风险的方法，以便于风险的识别和资本准备金的确定。"
    ],
    [
        "Public policy is one part of the problem, but corporate behavior has been an even bigger obstacle to commonsense pension reforms.",
        "公共政策是问题的一部分，但企业行为是普遍性养老金改革的更大障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Some, like John Murtha and Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader in the House of Representatives, want a short timetable, while others, like Senator Joseph Biden, resists a firm timetable but predicts a withdrawal of 50,000 US troops in 2006, with many of the remaining 100,000 to follow in 2007.",
        "约翰•默撒和众议院少数派领袖南希·珀罗希（Nancy Pelosi）等人要求在短期内完成撤军，而以参议院议员约瑟夫•拜登（Joseph Biden）为代表的人则反对固定的时间表，预期美国将在2006年撤军5万，继而在2007年撤出剩余的10万军队。"
    ],
    [
        "The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has emphasized that most famines are associated not with a shortage of food, but the failure to get food to the people who need it, largely because they lack purchasing power.",
        "诺贝尔经济学奖获得者阿玛蒂亚·森强调：大多数饥荒发生时粮食都并非真的紧缺，而是未能把粮食运到需要的人们手中，这在很大程度上是因为他们缺乏购买力。"
    ],
    [
        "That temporary progress reflected the economic recovery and congressional votes to limit spending on defense and nondefense discretionary programs.",
        "但这个短期成绩其实源自于经济复苏以及美国国会对国防和非国防可自由支配开支项目的限制决议。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is at the very root of liberalism.",
        "事实上，这正是反自由主义的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "In the longer run, economic performance and potential growth will depend on the supply side and, in particular, on a revival of productivity growth.",
        "从长期看，经济表现和潜在增长取决于供给侧，特别是生产率增长的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "And this is what the anti-corruption agenda often ends up stimulating: the creation of organizations that are more obsessed with abiding by the new and burdensome processes than they are with achieving their stated goals.",
        "而反腐斗争常常会刺激这一行为：出现更沉迷于遵守繁复的新流程而不是实现既定目标的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they have the credibility that comes with a lack of desire to be re-elected, either because their term in office has been limited in advance or because they are known to prefer a quiet academic life.",
        "此外，人们相信他们对连任没什么追求，因为他们的任期早已被提前确定，而且人人都知道他们自己更加喜欢平静的学术生活。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, it is pursuing blatantly contradictory approaches.",
        "在某些情形中，政府追求自相矛盾的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "As fear turns into fact, the anxiety worsens – and so does the performance.",
        "随着恐慌成为现实，焦虑会加剧——表现也会更差。"
    ],
    [
        "EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN – Turkey has over the past few weeks become the spearhead of a joint Western-Arab-Turkish policy aimed at forcing President Bashar al-Assad to cede power in Syria.",
        "发自密歇根州东兰辛市——在过去几个星期里土耳其俨然成为了西方-阿拉伯-土耳其三方联合逼迫叙利亚总统阿萨德放弃权力的急先锋。"
    ],
    [
        "Settlements demand compromise.",
        "和解需要妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "And the recent optimism that economies will bottom out by mid-year have been dashed by the most recent economic data.",
        "而且，最近对经济会在今年年中见底回升的乐观预期，已经被最新的经济数据击碎了。"
    ],
    [
        "Costa Rica’s approach began with reforms in the 1990s, when the country committed to a few simple changes designed to upgrade its health-care services.",
        "哥斯达黎加的方法始于20世纪90年代的改革，当时，国家承诺要采取一些简单的改变，旨在升级其医疗服务。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, net migration has reversed, with hundreds of thousands of workers and their families leaving the state in search of better job opportunities elsewhere.",
        "近几年来，移民净迁入的状况也发生了彻底调转，成千上万的劳动者及其家庭都转而前往其他各州寻找更好的工作机会。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, he concluded, highly complex models may regularly yield misleading information.",
        "结果，他说，高度复杂的模型可能时常产生误导性信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The galloping chauvinism has known no bounds.",
        "急速膨胀的沙文主义没有底线可言。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the Czars, Imperial Russia extended its reach over time.",
        "在沙皇时代，帝俄不断扩张势力范围。"
    ],
    [
        "Money-Market Resistance",
        "货币市场基金的抵抗"
    ],
    [
        "Countries and peoples should stop debating the interests that often divide them and start discussing the principles that unite them.",
        "各国和各民族应该停止争辩常常会导致分歧的利益，开始讨论团结他们的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is simple: with most fish populations nowadays hit hard by over-fishing, fewer fishermen will mean more fish.",
        "原因很简单，由于如今的过度渔捞，鱼类种群急剧递减，渔夫人数的减少将意味着更多的鱼群。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the next most dangerous words are “Next time will be different.”",
        "”而或许危险程度排名第二的句子则是“下次肯定不会像以往那样。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "It should also contain a standard procedure for managing the aftermath when behavior by citizens of either country forces the two governments into unexpected situations.",
        "同时还包含一个标准程序来在两国公民行为导致各自政府陷入意外状况时处理善后工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Since emissions from the developing countries are on the whole lower than those of the developed world – and will need to continue to rise in the short-term as they maintain economic growth and address poverty – it has been proposed that developed countries cut emissions by at least 80% relative to 1990 by 2050, with major steps towards this goal over the next decade.",
        "由于发展中国家的排放量低于发达国家——所以说，随着发展中国家的脱贫政策和经济的不断增长，在短期内碳排放量会上升——有人提议，到2050年，发达国家的碳排放量至少应该削减以达到1990年水平的80%。 要实现这个目标，看来还有很多事情要做。"
    ],
    [
        "The People’s Bank of China has joined with UNEP to identify practical steps to ensure “green” financial-market reform, and the Bank of England (BoE) has initiated a prudential review of the systemic risks posed by climate change to the United Kingdom’s insurance sector.",
        "中国人民银行联合UNEP制定了务实措施确保“绿色”金融市场改革，英格兰银行也对气候变化给英国保险业带来的系统性风险进行了审慎评估。"
    ],
    [
        "We interpret as striving for democracy what is really the traditional way of getting rid of bad rulers.",
        "我们所谓的民主抗争其实只不过是他们更换坏统治者的传统方式而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite his best efforts to insist on a term longer than three months and the ability to appoint some members of his cabinet as conditions for accepting the premiership, in the end he won neither demand.",
        "尽管他竭力坚持三个月以上的任期，并以任命数名内阁成员为继任总理的条件，但最后并未如愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the lack of a coordinated response is transforming a manageable problem into an acute political crisis – one that, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rightly warned, could destroy the EU.",
        "不幸的是，缺乏协作应对措施正在将这个可管理的问题变为一场尖锐的政治危机——如德国总理默克尔所正确地警告的，这场危机可能毁掉欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond deepening the EU’s internal market, such a move would serve as a powerful symbol of the value and potential of the EU-Israel relationship, opening the way to further integration in the future.",
        "这一动作除了能深化欧盟的内部市场，也是一个强有力的价值符号和欧盟-以色列关系潜力的象征，打开未来进一步一体化的大门。"
    ],
    [
        "Independent central banks are a great thing, and ECB President Mario Draghi is a great central banker.",
        "独立央行是一件了不起的事，欧洲央行行长德拉吉也是了不起的央行行长。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – For years, the eurozone has been perceived as a disaster area, with discussions of the monetary union’s future often centered on a possible breakup.",
        "布鲁塞尔—多年来，欧元区一直被视为灾难地区，对于货币联盟未来的讨论往往以其可能解体为中心。"
    ],
    [
        "The future of the French economy, the stability of French society, and the influence of France in the world hangs on the outcome.",
        "法国经济的未来、法国社会的稳定以及法国对世界的影响力都取决于这个结果。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach has produced an incoherent economic strategy and vague, sluggishly implemented policy targets.",
        "上述做法造成了经济策略不连贯和对政策目标的推进迟缓、模糊。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it supporting real development needs, such as growing more food, fighting disease, or building transport, energy, and communications infrastructure?",
        "是否支持了真正的发展需求，比如种植更多粮食？ 控制疾病或者建设交通、能源和通讯基础设施？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Europeans will only succeed in building the wider Europe if they are open to what is foreign to them.",
        "确实，欧洲人只有对外来事物持开放的态度才能够成功地建立一个更为广泛的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "On a 25 mile stretch of road between the southern cities of Kismayo and Jilib, there are at least 35 checkpoints manned by armed men who take $50 to $200 from passing travelers.",
        "在南部城市Kismayo和Jilib之间二十五英里的道路上，至少有三十五个检查站。 值守的武装人员向行人收取五十至三百美金的过路费。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, we support them because it is the right way to advance science and improve treatment.",
        "相反，我们支持这些试验是因为这是推动科学、改进疗法的正确方法。"
    ],
    [
        "The Myth of Isolationist America",
        "孤立主义美国的神话"
    ],
    [
        "This war, in particular, has not been good for the economy, for three reasons.",
        "这一场战争尤其对经济不利有三个原因。"
    ],
    [
        "A probable cause of the collapse of the interbank market is precisely informational failure.",
        "银行间市场瓦解的一个很大的可能原因正是信息失灵。 这是一个众所周知的现象；"
    ],
    [
        "The focus on China intensified late last year, when new data from the International Energy Agency and other research organizations revealed that China had overtaken the US as the largest source of greenhouse gases – and, more ominously, that its emissions are growing at a rate that exceeds all wealthy nations’ capacity to decrease theirs.",
        "当时，国际原子能机构和其他研究机构的新数据表明中国已经超越美国成为温室气体的最大排放国家。 而且更为不详的是，中国的排放增长远远超过所有富有国家降低排放的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "History will judge us unfavorably if we fail.",
        "如果我们不这样做，那就请想一想，后人将如何评说。"
    ],
    [
        "We also know little about how smooth the exit from quantitative easing will be.",
        "我们也不知道量化宽松的退出过程有多平稳。"
    ],
    [
        "The group quickly and unconditionally accepted President Mahmoud Abbas’s three demands: to dissolve the Hamas-led administrative committee, to allow the Ramallah-based Palestinian government to resume its role in Gaza, and to allow presidential and parliamentary elections to take place in both Gaza and the West Bank.",
        "该团体迅速而无条件地接受了马哈茂德·阿巴斯总统的三项要求：解散哈马斯领导的行政委员会、允许拉马拉邦的巴勒斯坦政府重新在加沙发挥作用、并允许总统和议会选举在加沙地带和西岸举行。"
    ],
    [
        "The fall in tax revenues was in most cases sudden, deep, and lasting.",
        "税收收入的下降在大多数情况下是突然、深度且持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "This could take a number of forms: quantitative easing combined with fiscal expansion (for example, higher infrastructure spending), direct cash transfers to the government, or, most radically, direct cash transfers to households.",
        "这可以通过多种形式实现：量化宽松加财政扩张（如提高基础设施支出）、直接向政府转移支付现金，或最极端的，直接向家庭转移支付现金。"
    ],
    [
        "Hayden knows that perfectly well.",
        "海登对此心知肚明。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the beginning of the year, both countries’ combined claims have increased by €180.4 billion, or €20 billion per month, on average.",
        "自年初以来，德国和荷兰Target债权总和增加了1,804亿欧元，平均每个月增加200亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, this is possible.",
        "幸运的是，这是完全可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "A US-centered foreign policy focused not on reshaping America’s role in the world, but on reducing it.",
        "以美国为中心的外交政策不注重美国在世界中的角色，而是以削弱这一角色为重点。"
    ],
    [
        "Munich was also produced as a justification for the Vietnam War and President Bush’s war of choice in Iraq.",
        "此外慕尼黑阴谋也被用来为越战和小布什的伊拉克战争论调撑腰。"
    ],
    [
        "It is believed that the girls have been split into separate groups, so that any attempt to rescue one group would imperil the others.",
        "据信女孩们被分成几组，因此营救其中一组的行动会威胁到其他几组的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the defense of the Plastic People of the Universe became a public cause for dissidents like Havel, ultimately giving rise to Czechoslovakia’s Charter 77 movement.",
        "事实上，为宇宙塑料人乐队辩护成为哈维尔的异见者的公益事业，最终带来了捷克斯洛伐克的77宪章运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Tea Party gatherings have increasingly become a platform for Republican candidates seeking the support of a highly mobilized electoral base.",
        "而茶党的集会也已逐渐成为共和党候选人获取一股具有高度动员性的选民基础的平台。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, however, the world economy grew more rapidly than ever.",
        "但与此同时，世界经济增长比以往任何时候都要快。"
    ],
    [
        "Not included is the cost of other improvements needed to encourage children to attend school, such as meals, tuition subsidies, and more effective, dynamic, and knowledgeable teachers.",
        "这还不包括其他能鼓励儿童上学的改善所需的花费，诸如用餐、学费补贴，以及更有效率、精力更为充沛、更有学识的老师。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the Japanese economy suffered far more than the US and UK economies, which were directly affected by the Lehman shock.",
        "简言之，日本经济比受雷曼冲击波直接影响的美国和英国经济损失更大。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, we have to go back to Darwin’s original, pluralistic convictions.",
        "amp#160;从某种意义上来说，我们不得不回到达尔文最初的多元化信念。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal consolidation means less public spending.",
        "财政整合意味着减少公共支出。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ill Wind from the West",
        "来自西方的灾难"
    ],
    [
        "The third lesson from Greece is that macro tinkering is not enough; highly indebted countries also need a credible growth strategy.",
        "来自希腊的第三点教训是仅靠宏观修补还远远不够； 高负债国也需要可靠的增长战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Those measures were far from perfect; they had to be formulated on the fly, in the context of an unexpected emergency.",
        "这些措施远远称不上完善； 在意外的紧急状态下必须在执行的同时得到规管。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s government has attempted to draw a distinction between its humanitarian obligations as an asylum country and its political responsibilities as a friend of China.",
        "印度政府试图区分作为庇护国家的人道主义义务及其作为中国友邦的政治义务。"
    ],
    [
        "But, this time around, it is far less clear that it’s just an act, and that Trump would not really decide, in a fit of rage or frustration, to attack, or even nuke, his opponents.",
        "但这一次，人们不敢肯定这仅仅是一种表演，也无法肯定特朗普不会真的在愤怒或沮丧的状态之下决定向他的对手发动常规乃至核打击。"
    ],
    [
        "But the refugee challenge is not a short-term issue.",
        "但难民挑战并非短期问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq poses another problem for the Kingdom, as it sets an example of Shia consolidating political power.",
        "伊拉克是沙特王国面临的另一个问题。 在伊拉克，什叶派正在巩固政治权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost half of Hungary’s citizens find membership in the European Union, whose liberal values Orbán mocks, unnecessary.",
        "几乎半数的匈牙利民众认为欧盟成员国资格（其自由价值观遭到欧尔班的嘲笑）没有必要。"
    ],
    [
        "Few people would wish to defend expressions of xenophobia or anti-Semitism.",
        "几乎没有人会为仇外或反犹太言论辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "Do Antioxidant Supplements Work?",
        "补充抗氧化剂真的有效吗？"
    ],
    [
        "London Citizens, a network of local civic institutions, organized Jewish assistance programs for Somali Muslims, including after-school events at Hendon School and Eden School.",
        "当地一家民间机构网络伦敦市民为索马里穆斯林发起了犹太援助计划，包括在亨顿学校和伊顿学校举办课后活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Cold War with Russia is another US-contrived blunder with plenty of European naiveté attached.",
        "与俄罗斯的新冷战是另一个美国炮制、欧洲天真跟进的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "It lacked strategy at a time when both countries face formidable challenges on many fronts.",
        "两国都面临着诸多方面的艰巨挑战，但此次对话缺少战略。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as in Libya, American support was crucial in the four areas where France and other European countries fall short: aerial reconnaissance, targeting, air transportation, and air-to-air refueling.",
        "一如在利比亚，美国的支持在法国和其他欧洲国家有所欠缺的四大领域是非常关键的：空中侦察、定位、空中运输和空中加油。"
    ],
    [
        "The market’s lack of response was an important indicator that monetary easing is no longer a useful tool for increasing economic activity.",
        "市场对此毫无反应便表明货币宽松已不再是促进经济活动的良药。"
    ],
    [
        "The largest outflows have been through banking channels, with international banks reducing their gross credit exposures to developing countries by more than $800 billion in 2015.",
        "其中最大的资金流出渠道是银行渠道，在2015年一年内各大国际银行就将其在发展中国家的信贷总量削减了超过8000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "This leaves considerable room for improvement.",
        "这意味着欧洲有很大的改善空间。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world in which both consumption and finance must grow more slowly to cope with global resource and environmental constraints, what role can finance play in reducing addictive consumption, funded by unsustainable leverage?",
        "当今世界，消费和金融都必须放缓增长速度，以应对全球资源和环境约束。 在这样的背景下，金融可以在减少用不可持续的杠杆融资的消费增加方面起到什么作用？"
    ],
    [
        "The problems include a surge in unemployment, and the need to reallocate fiscal resources to these individuals, whose welfare is critical to the preservation of social stability.",
        "这些问题包括失业率飙升以及需要将财政资源配置给那些出于维持社会稳定目的必须保证其福利水平的个人。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Although the United States economy is in good shape – with essentially full employment and an inflation rate close to 2% – a world of uncertainty makes it worthwhile to consider what could go wrong in the year ahead.",
        "美国剑桥—尽管美国经济情况不错——已经达到了事实上的充分就业，通胀率也接近2%——但充满不确定性的世界仍然值得我们考虑未来一年可能出现哪些状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has also promised an $800 billion-$1 trillion program of infrastructure investment, to be financed by bonds, as well as a massive corporate-tax cut, both aimed at creating 25 million new jobs and boosting growth.",
        "特朗普还承诺了8,000—10,000亿美元的基础设施投资计划，该计划要通过债券融资。 他还承诺大幅降低公司税。"
    ],
    [
        "Peraturan anti-dumping juga secara jelas bermaksud untuk melakukan aksi proteksionis.",
        "反倾销规则在内容上也是赤裸裸的保护主义。"
    ],
    [
        "While not entirely addressing the flaws in the design, the new situation – with the strongest political figure heading the executive branch – will permit more effective performance by the government, which is still battling to recover from Putin’s administrative reforms of 2004.",
        "尽管并没有完全解决这种设计的瑕疵，但是新的状况，也就是由最强势的政治人物领导行政机关将使政府变得更加高效，它现在依然在挣扎着从普京2004年的行政机构改革中恢复过来。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, many of Trump’s campaign promises – building a Mexico-funded wall on America’s southern border, bringing back lost manufacturing jobs, deporting millions of illegal immigrants – are patently impossible to implement.",
        "此外，许多特朗普的竞选承诺——由墨西哥出钱在美国南部边境修筑一道墙、让失去的制造业岗位回到美国、驱逐数百万非法移民——显然不具有实施可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "The drift in transatlantic relations during the eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency was meant to be stopped – and even reversed.",
        "人们希望能阻止、甚至逆转乔治·W·布什总统执政八年里大西洋关系的疏离趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Their basic point is that financial firms should be forced to fund themselves in a more balanced fashion, and not to rely so heavily on debt finance.",
        "基本要点是金融企业应该被强制以更平衡的方式为自身筹集资金，不能过度依赖债务融资。"
    ],
    [
        "An investment equivalent to $4 per person could save 11,000-36,000 lives annually and reduce adverse health effects for tens of millions of people.",
        "每人每年投资四美元就可以挽救11，000到36，000人的生命，并减轻对成百上千万人造成的负面健康影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks are required by law to maintain reserves at the Fed in proportion to the checkable deposits on their books.",
        "根据法律，银行必须按照账面活期存款（checkable deposit）的一定比例向美联储上缴准备金。"
    ],
    [
        "President Hugo Chávez showed once again that he enjoys broad support among the nation’s poor and desperate, and that he is miles ahead of his opposition in terms of political skill, cunning, and ruthlessness.",
        "查韦斯总统再一次表明他在该国的穷苦人中享有广泛的支持，而且与其反对派相比，他在政治技巧、狡猾以及残酷无情上都远胜一筹。"
    ],
    [
        "Wim Duisenberg died last year, but his values, philosophy, and wisdom must not be allowed to die with him.",
        "Wim Duisenberg于去年逝世，但他的价值观、哲学和智慧必须被继承下来。"
    ],
    [
        "And if it turned out to be successful, the social, environmental, and economic returns would be tremendous.",
        "而如果成功，其社会、环境和经济回报将不可限量。"
    ],
    [
        "The homicide rate in the country will continue to soar, and public security agencies will remain incapable of preventing, detecting, or punishing the vast majority of violent events that have placed the country on edge.",
        "墨西哥的杀人案发率仍将居高不下，公安机关仍将对导致国家边缘化的绝大多数暴力案件的预防、侦破或惩罚束手无策。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s economy over the past two years has become much more balanced in its external trade relationships, despite there being no significant exchange-rate adjustments.",
        "即便没有进行显著的汇率调整，中国经济在过去两年间在对外贸易关系方面也已经变得更加均衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The post-2007 Great Recession discredited the IMF further for three reasons.",
        "三个原因导致IMF的信誉在后2007年大萧条中进一步受损。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, having overseen China 2030 – an extraordinary joint report recently produced by the World Bank and China’s own high-level think tank, the Development Research Center – he has a deep understanding of the roadmap that China must embrace.",
        "事实上，作为《中国2030》（China 2030，世界银行和中国高级智库国务院发展研究中心共同起草的最新特别联合报告）的主管，他对中国必须采用何种路线胸有成竹。"
    ],
    [
        "With the defeat of Scotland’s independence movement – not to mention Québécois voters’ stunning rejection of the province’s largest separatist party in last April’s election – that hope may be waning.",
        "苏格兰独立运动失败了——更不用说去年4月魁北克省选举中选民一边倒地拒绝了最大的分裂主义政党——这一希望也随之落空。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is supposed to police the non-proliferation system, is shamefully underfunded.",
        "问题之三在于，被认为是不扩散机制维护者的国际原子能机构正处于资金不足的耻辱境地。"
    ],
    [
        "What is truly under threat in Europe is its Jewish community.",
        "欧洲真正受到威胁的是犹太人群体。"
    ],
    [
        "Some might argue that reducing corruption entails the creation of a capable state; the good is created out of the fight against the bad.",
        "一些人也许会说，减少腐败包括了建立能力国家； 善是在斗恶的过程中创造出来的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the aircraft’s accident-plagued record includes six fatalities since 2007 and two crashes this year.",
        "的确，自2007年以来飞机出事故的记录包括了6起死亡事故及今年的2场坠机事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Trump’s America will continue to play a meaningful role in the world.",
        "即使是特朗普的美国，也将继续在全球扮演有意义的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The net result has been to shift global portfolio preferences in ways that have affected some exchange rates significantly.",
        "所产生的结果就是全球投资组合偏好的资产出现了转移，从而大大影响了多种汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "Protests in China are nothing new.",
        "中国的抗议问题已经是老生常谈了。"
    ],
    [
        "It includes diverse non-state actors, such as bankers electronically transferring sums larger than most national budgets, and, at the other extreme, terrorists transferring weapons or hackers threatening cyber-security.",
        "参与其中的有各式各样的非国家角色，如电子汇款数额高于多数国家预算的银行家，还有处在另一个极端的运送武器的恐怖分子或威胁网络安全的黑客。"
    ],
    [
        "To make matters worse, the administration shoehorned FEMA into its massive new bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security.",
        "更糟糕的是，布什政府把联邦紧急措施署硬塞进了新建立的庞大官僚机构，国土安全部。"
    ],
    [
        "This sudden scarcity of an element whose symbolic and spiritual importance matches its centrality to human life will cause stress and exacerbate conflicts worldwide.",
        "某种元素（其象征及精神的重要性与其对人类生活的中心一致）的突然缺乏，将造成过分的紧张并且将加剧世界范围内的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "As the US Federal Reserve inches closer to achieving its targets for the domestic economy, it faces growing pressure to normalize monetary policy.",
        "”随着美联储逐渐接近实现国内经济目标，它面临着日益增加的货币政策正常化的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be politically lethal to acknowledge the real state of affairs, even if the official policy merely increases the chances that Europeans, after all their efforts, still may not understand each other.",
        "承认形势发展的真实情况在政治上将是致命的，就算官方的政策只会让欧洲人在费尽力气之后可能仍是鸡同鸭讲。"
    ],
    [
        "But, at a time of unprecedented global interconnectedness, everyone has a stake in ensuring that adequate health-care systems and structures are in place to address such a pandemic.",
        "但是，在这个全球互联程度前所未有的时代，确保足够充实的医疗系统和存在解决类似疫情的结构事关每个人的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "So, what can be done to minimize the fallout of another economic contraction and prevent a deeper depression and financial meltdown?",
        "因此，我们可以做些什么来让新一波经济收缩的后果最小化，并防止深度萧条和金融崩溃？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the dearth of bold leadership has already delayed an effective international response to the current Ebola outbreak for far too long, drastically increasing the costs of the crisis.",
        "事实上，缺乏有勇气的领导人已经使国际社会针对当前埃博拉疫情的有效反应来得太迟，从而大大增加了这次危机所付出的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, in some of world’s poorest and most fragile states, they bring just the opposite.",
        "但是，在一些最贫穷、最脆弱的国家，自然资源带来了完全相反地东西。"
    ],
    [
        "The big American investment banks received excellent ratings up to the last moment, and so did the CDOs with which they betrayed the world.",
        "美国最大的投资银行直到最后一刻仍获得良好的评级，它们用来欺骗世界的CDO也受到同样优秀的评级。"
    ],
    [
        "The dictatorship offered him a reprieve, but, true to its nature, one dependent on its whims.",
        "当时独裁政府还口是心非地许诺给予我父亲缓刑。"
    ],
    [
        "Membership in the European Union has resulted in the proliferation of ties to Europe at many levels, as well as a major influx of EU money.",
        "成为欧盟成员使它们在许多层面上加深了与欧洲的联系，同时欧盟资金也大量流入了这些国家。"
    ],
    [
        "To meet these challenges successfully, there is no viable alternative to a positive, continuous, and frank engagement between China and the rest of the world.",
        "如果要成功应对着些挑战的话，唯一的方法就是在中国和其他国家之间实现积极，持续和坦诚的相互了解。 中国经济必将继续增长；"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the outcome – whether the euro will survive, and whether the Europeans are right to keep it – is very much in doubt.",
        "然而今天，该实验的结果却引发了人们的质疑，欧元是否应该继续存在? 欧洲人让它存在是否正确？"
    ],
    [
        "Leung has also distinguished himself by inciting a large swathe of school teachers and students to stage massive street protests against his hasty effort to insert a “national education” program into the school curriculum in order to “reconnect” Hong Kong’s young people with the motherland.",
        "令梁振英名声大噪的还有其引发大量教师和学生走上街头大规模抗议的草率决定——在学校课程中增设“国民教育课”来将香港年轻一代与祖国大陆“重新连接”起来。"
    ],
    [
        "We may be in a permanent liquidity trap, in which nominal interest rates cannot fall below zero, but the expected rate of return to investment remains negative.",
        "我们可能陷入了持久的流动性陷阱，名义利率不可能降到零以下，但投资预期回报率可以是负数。"
    ],
    [
        "DAVOS – The health-care industry has changed dramatically over the past few decades.",
        "达沃斯—过去几年中，医疗行业经历了重大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Intelligent machines are transforming the way we produce, work, learn, and live throughout the world.",
        "伯克利——遍布整个世界，智能机器正在改变我们生产、工作、学习和生活的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, NATO can not only bring important military capabilities to the table, reducing the drain on American forces in a turbulent world; it also offers a much more plausible vehicle for serious foreign-policy multilateralism than either the EU or the UN.",
        "第四，北约不仅可以带来重要的军事实力，减低在动荡不安的世界中美国军队的压力，而且，其与欧盟或者联合国相比更加可以为严肃的外交政策多边主义提供远远更为可行的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The advances in materials science open the possibility of much more energy-efficient residences and commercial buildings.",
        "材料科学的进步开启了大量提高住宅楼和商业用楼能源效率的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, too, there is no need for a professional adviser.",
        "这样做也不需要一个专业顾问。"
    ],
    [
        "The North should realize this and make a wise choice.",
        "北朝鲜应该认识到这一点，并做出明智的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "If we were to stop using coal tomorrow, we would discover that it remains a vital source of life.",
        "假设我们明天停止使用燃煤，我们将会发现它依然是生活的重要资源。"
    ],
    [
        "The absence of well-articulated common analyses and policy coordination has accentuated legitimacy deficits, encouraging leaders and publics to opt for partial narratives and eroding confidence in existing institutional structures.",
        "缺乏良好衔接的共同分析和政策协调，就加剧了这些行动的合法性缺失状况，这就鼓励领导人和公众选择带偏见的述事立场并腐蚀人们对现行体制结构的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Obama has started his term in decisive fashion.",
        "而且，奥巴马用果断的方式开始了其任期。"
    ],
    [
        "Whose War on Terror?",
        "谁的反恐战争？"
    ],
    [
        "The Federal Reserve lowered its target federal funds rate to zero before Obama was inaugurated, and initiated many programs to try to revive credit markets, with mixed results (the commercial paper facility has helped, whereas others seem to have gotten off to less sanguine starts).",
        "美联储在奥巴马就职前把联邦基金目标利率降到了零，并启动了力图恢复信贷市场的多项计划，但取得的效果参差不齐（商业票据工具发挥了作用，而其他措施在启动时似乎没有取得那么乐观的效果）。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as far as Turkey is concerned, the conventional wisdom seems to be largely wrong.",
        "此外，就目前土耳其看来，传统智慧几乎一无是处。"
    ],
    [
        "Another popular argument for the success of 1930’s reform is that Congress had already agreed on a diagnosis of the problem and could build on its own earlier efforts to treat it.",
        "20世纪30年代的改革何以成功，另一个流行的论点是认为，国会当时已就问题的症结达成了一致，正在着手加以纠正。"
    ],
    [
        "But as China’s society progressively emancipated itself from direct state control – with the notable exception of sectors viewed by the CPC as crucial to maintaining its monopoly on power – citizens increasingly appealed to the law for protection against arbitrary administrative interference and to limit the bureaucracy’s discretionary powers.",
        "但是当中国社会逐渐从国家直接控制解放出来后，除一些被中国共产党认为对维护其专制至关重要的少数几个部门外，国民越来越强烈地呼吁要求法律保护他们不受管理部门随心所欲的干涉以及限制政府官员不受束缚的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Egyptians rarely hear about their country’s dire financial straits.",
        "埃及人很少听到自己国家的财政困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Given China’s size and its rising share in the global market, macroeconomic instability there fuels volatility in global prices for basic commodities and raw materials.",
        "鉴于中国国土庞大，在全球市场中的份额不断上升，宏观经济不稳将会加剧全球基本商品和原料价格的不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "The trouble is that public-private partnerships are required to provide a competitive return on investment.",
        "麻烦在于，实现有竞争力的投资回报需要公私合作。"
    ],
    [
        "It will demand global coordination of monetary policies, and some form of global economic governance.",
        "它需要全球货币政策的协调，加上某种形式的全球经济治理。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifth is the dynamic of compound interest, which through favorable political arrangements allows the wealthy to profit from the economy without actually creating any new wealth.",
        "第五个过程是复利动态，它通过有利的政治安排让富人在不实际创造任何新财富的情况下从经济中获利。"
    ],
    [
        "This was the case in the 1970’s, but no more.",
        "20世纪70年代情况的确如此，但现在已经发生了很大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "This change may be good for the environment, for income equality, and for stability.",
        "这或许给了环境，分配不均和社会的稳定等问题的解决提供了机会。"
    ],
    [
        "These cases are particularly interesting, because the first case resulted in the clinical onset of variant CJD (with typical symptoms and pathology) 6.5 years after the transfusion from a donor who, although asymptomatic at the time of donation, subsequently developed and died from CJD.",
        "这些病例非常有趣，因为第一起病例在接受献血者供血6. 5年后导致了变异型克雅氏病具有典型症状和病理特征的临床发作，那位献血者虽然在献血的时候没有任何症状，但不久以后就疾病发作并因此死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "But the situation is different now.",
        "但是，现在情形不一样了。"
    ],
    [
        "Less emphasis is being placed on promoting democracy and human rights.",
        "推动民主和人权也不再向过去那样受到强调。"
    ],
    [
        "An armed attack by the United States, Israel, or both on Iran’s nuclear facilities is another possibility.",
        "相反另外一个可能选项则是由美国，以色列或两国联手对伊朗核设施发动袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "Who will be included or excluded?",
        "谁会被包括在内或是被排除在外？"
    ],
    [
        "A second strategy is to Serbianize Georgia.",
        "第二条策略是“塞尔维亚化”格鲁吉亚。"
    ],
    [
        "The existing Energy Charter Treaty – including the Transit Protocol – must remain a cornerstone of Europe’s energy security policy.",
        "现有的能源宪章条约包括越境转运议定书必须继续成为欧洲能源安全政策的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "Sovereignty is no longer as absolute as it once seemed.",
        "主权已经失去了曾经的绝对性。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether any of these reforms nurture a new suite of export industries that can propel Colombia forward is, to put it bluntly, a crapshoot.",
        "直截了当地讲，这些改革是否能够培养出新的出口产业集群、助推哥伦比亚前进完全是碰运气。"
    ],
    [
        "Another 3.8 million are living as refugees outside the country, and 13 million (out of a pre-war population of 20 million) are in need of humanitarian assistance.",
        "另有380万人以难民身份流落国外，1,300万人（战前人口总共只有2,000万）需要人道主义援助。"
    ],
    [
        "In Britain, we recently experienced an example of alleged political correctness that went well beyond such questions.",
        "在英国，最近我们看到了一个所谓的政治正确的例子，这个例子远远超出了这些问题的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "As it focuses on inflation, however, the RBI must recognize that emerging markets are not as resilient as industrial economies.",
        "但在解决通胀问题时，印度储备银行必须认清新兴市场并不具备工业国家那样出色的适应性。"
    ],
    [
        "But the past, especially when not handled with care, can be the enemy of the future and distort our reading of the challenges of the present.",
        "但如果不能谨慎对待过去，就有可能与未来为敌，扭曲我们对当前面临挑战的恰当解读。"
    ],
    [
        "But not everybody agrees with Blanchard.",
        "但是并非所有人都同意布兰查德的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "But the US is no longer the country that others seek to emulate, or that they look to for global leadership.",
        "”但美国已经不再是别国争相仿效的对象，也不再是它们心目中的全球领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The just concluded G-20 meeting in Seoul broke up without agreement on either currencies or trade.",
        "发自伦敦——刚刚闭幕的首尔G20峰会并未在货币或贸易方面达成任何协议。"
    ],
    [
        "And, like any mature discipline, it advances incrementally rather than in revolutionary steps.",
        "与所有成熟学科一样，其进步只能是渐进性的，而不会是革命性的。"
    ],
    [
        "But such a plan cannot be counted on to curb Putin's broader revisionist ambitions.",
        "但不能指望借此遏制普京更大的修正主义野心。"
    ],
    [
        "Whichever course she chooses, she will antagonize half her party and a large proportion of Brexit supporters, not to mention the 48% of voters who want to stay in the EU.",
        "不管她选择哪条路，都将让一半的党员和很大一部分退欧支持者不满，更不用说希望留在欧盟的48%选民了。"
    ],
    [
        "In developing countries that have not yet reached the technological frontier, the answer is almost certainly yes.",
        "在尚未抵达技术前沿的发展中国家，答案几乎必然是肯定的。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIRUT – Report after report from the World Bank, United Nations Development Program, and the Arab League emphasize that the education deficit in the Arab world is among the main causes of its underdevelopment.",
        "发自贝鲁特——来自世界银行，联合国和阿拉伯联盟的一份接一份报告都强调，低下的受教育程度才是导致阿拉伯世界不发达的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial industry’s active involvement is urgently needed.",
        "世界急需金融业的积极参与。"
    ],
    [
        "September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point.",
        "2001年9月11日，以任何标准看都是一个可怕的惨剧，但它并非一个历史转折点。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, we need a Europe-wide deposit insurance and bank-resolution authority that can take over and restructure failed banks.",
        "最终，我们需要一个泛欧洲的存款保险和银行问题解决机构来接管和重组倒闭的银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Financialization continued apace and corporate governance worsened.",
        "现行法律被不恰当地执行。 金融化继续快速推进，公司治理不断恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Armed Islamism has its particularities, of course, but it also shares important characteristics with some of these groups, including the relationship between the physical elimination of a leader and organizational survival.",
        "当然，伊斯兰教武装有其自身的独特性，但领袖肉体消灭和组织生存之间的关系等等重要特点与其他某些武装组织相通。"
    ],
    [
        "Achieving these targets would be worth nearly $3 trillion in social good, implying an enormous return of $34 for every dollar spent.",
        "实现这些目标相当于实现3万亿美元的社会公益，即每一美元支出带来34美元的巨额回报。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, it makes sense for China to lean more on monetary policy than on fiscal expansion.",
        "在这样的情况下，有理由认为中国会更倾向于货币政策而不是财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is conflict over the royal succession process, with King Salman’s effort to consolidate power in the hands of his aggressive and talented but not particularly popular 30-year-old son causing considerable upset within the extended royal family.",
        "然后是皇位继承冲突，国王萨尔曼试图将权力巩固在他有魄力也有才干，但群众支持不太高的30岁的儿子手中，这导致庞大的皇室相当不快。"
    ],
    [
        "But the harsh austerity advocated by Germany’s conservative government is not the same as the gradual adjustment sought by the new generation of Southern social democrats.",
        "但德国保守主义政府所推行的严厉紧缩与新一代南欧社会民主党人所追求的渐进调整并不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "At worst, the efficiency costs would be minor; at best, the tax would discourage excessive short-term speculation.",
        "在最坏的情况下，该税的效率成本是微小的； 在最好的情况下，该税可以阻碍过度的短期投机。"
    ],
    [
        "Another domestic war, with the Egyptian Bedouins of Sinai, broke out two years ago.",
        "两年前爆发了另外一次与埃及西奈贝多因人的内战。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, despite below-normal monsoon rains this year in India’s northeast, through which the Brahmaputra River flows after leaving Tibet and before entering Bangladesh, the region faced unprecedented flooding, with devastating consequences, especially in Assam state.",
        "结果，尽管今年印度东北部季风雨量低于正常水平，在布拉马特拉河（即雅鲁藏布江）流出西藏后、进入孟加拉国前的流域地区仍遭到了前所未有的洪水，形成了灾难性后果，尤其是阿萨姆邦。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In the end, democracy came to the rescue.",
        "伦敦—最终，民主得到了救赎。"
    ],
    [
        "“The period of wage moderation may be coming to an end,” warns Otmar Issing, the ECB’s chief economist, implying that soaring energy prices may now be feeding through into the overall price level (so-called “second-round effects”).",
        "“薪金稳定期可能正在接近尾声，”欧洲央行首席经济学家易辛发出警告，暗示着飞速上涨的能源价格可能正在向整个价格体系内部渗透（这就是所谓的“次轮效应”）。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than slavishly copy the United States, I think most countries should have a chief information officer – someone who thinks about information as an agent of change, not just as an agent of efficiency.",
        "我想，与其盲目地跟从美国的做法，大多数国家更应该任命的是一位首席 信息 官。 这位首席信息官把信息看成是一种变化的媒介，而不仅仅是一种效率的媒介。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea and Japan are thought to hold about 80% of their international reserves in dollars.",
        "据说韩国和日本的国际储备中大约有80%是美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In retrospect, the 1970’s mark the end of an era dominated by mass production, and the beginning of the new consumer age.",
        "回顾过去，1970年代标志着结束了大众化产品占统治地位的时代，也象征着新消费者的时代出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Eyes are opened; the illusion of arbitrage between efficiency and solidarity fades.",
        "公众大开眼界； 效益与连结之间的套利幻象淡去。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet that is absolutely the wrong conclusion for anyone who believes that capital punishment deters.",
        "但是，对于任何相信死刑可以震慑的人来说，这绝对是一个错误的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the current French proposal of a voluntary rollover by banks is flopping, as it would impose prohibitively high interest rates on the Greeks.",
        "与此同时，法国提议的由债权银行自愿滚仓的办法也没用，因为那会使希腊债券的息率高得吓人。"
    ],
    [
        "These models, and the institutions using them, rely on a built-in theory of the economy, which enables them to “assume” certain relationships.",
        "这些模型以及其使用机构都依赖于经济中的固有理论，该理论使得他们能够“假定”某些事物之间的关联。"
    ],
    [
        "According to that view, investors punish profligate states by demanding higher interest rates to hedge against the likelihood of inflation; so the best way to ensure low borrowing costs is to give central banks as much independence from politicians as possible, and then make price stability their primary mandate.",
        "根据这一理论，投资者通过要求高利率以对冲通胀风险来惩罚挥霍国； 因此确保低借贷成本的最佳办法是尽可能地给予中央银行以政治独立性，然后将保持价格稳定作为中央银行的首要任务。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s domestic narrative soon overcame its foreign-policy setbacks, thanks partly to today’s unprecedented connectivity.",
        "美国的国内情况很快就克服了外交政策挫折，这部分要归功于当今世界前所未有的连通性。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – In recent years, the People’s Liberation Army has been taking advantage of its rising political clout to provoke localized skirmishes and standoffs with India by breaching the two countries’ long and disputed Himalayan frontier.",
        "新德里—近几年来，解放军一直在利用其日益增强的政治影响力，进犯中国和印度在喜马拉雅山区的漫长的争议边界，挑起局部冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, a degraded macroeconomic and financial environment increases the likelihood of bank failures, with immediate consequences for public finances and economic confidence.",
        "此外，一个恶化的宏观经济和金融环境增加了银行破产的可能性，也将迅速影响公共财政状况和市场信心。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – If one were seeking a perfect example of why it’s so hard to make financial markets work well, one would not have to look further than the difficulties and controversies surrounding crowdfunding in the United States.",
        "纽黑文—如果你想寻找一个说明金融市场为何如此难以良好地运转的完美例子，你只需要看看围绕美国众筹（crowdfunding）所出现的困难和争议就行了。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, far from seizing this opportunity to make up for lost time, Europe and the US have provided consistently meager assistance for primary and secondary education, even as they have made high-profile commitments such as Education for All and Sustainable Development Goal 4, which calls for universal access to pre-primary through secondary school.",
        "然而欧美国家尽管对诸如全民普及教育和可持续发展目标 4这类呼吁全民普及学前到中学教育的议程做出了高调承诺，却远没有抓住这个机会来弥补失去的时机，只是为中小学教育提供了一贯微薄的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Suppose someone were to describe a small country that provided free education through university for all of its citizens, transportation for school children, and free health care – including heart surgery – for all.",
        "发自纽约——倘若有人跟你提到某小国不但向其公民提供直通大学的免费教育，学童接送服务，还有免费医疗——包括心脏手术在内。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is more powerful than any country since the Roman Empire, but like Rome, America is neither invincible nor invulnerable.",
        "自罗马帝国以来，美国比任何一个国家都强大。 但正如罗马帝国一样，美国并不是不可征服和坚不可摧的。"
    ],
    [
        "Some believe that by 2010, the number of infected Chinese may reach 10 million.",
        "有人甚至认为到2010年，中国人的感染总数可能会达到1000万。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this suggests that competition in energy markets may shift from crude oil to refined products.",
        "所有这些表明能源市场竞争可能从原油转移到精炼产品。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The upcoming G-20 meeting is a make-or-break event.",
        "纽约——即将到来的G-20峰会是一个不成功则成仁性质的大会。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires comprehensive public-health and education campaigns, social protection to enhance resilience, and initiatives to boost employment and income generation.",
        "这需要开展全面的公共卫生和教育活动、推行提高应变能力的社会保障措施及推动就业和创收的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "American diplomats are never going to persuade the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran’s energy exports.",
        "美国的外交官从来没有要求联合国安理会对伊朗的能源出口施加制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, Europe, India, and America are all aware that today’s friendship could become tomorrow's alliance if China turns hostile.",
        "但是，欧洲、印度以及美国都清楚，如果中国变得敌意，今天的友谊就会成为明天的联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "But one would never know that from listening, for example, to Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, extolling his country’s virtues.",
        "但你永远不可能从（比如）德国财长朔伊布勒（Wolfgang Schäuble）吹嘘德国美德时听说这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, where the president is lampooned by the press, is a relic of this custom.",
        "每年在华盛顿举行的嘲讽总统的烤架俱乐部年度晚宴便是这一传统的遗存。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the bulk of investment now will have to come from national policymakers.",
        "因此，如今大部分投资必然来自国家决策者。"
    ],
    [
        "The rules of the global economy also remain untouchable, making it nearly impossible to restructure financial and trade policies to ensure that they do not result in more poverty, unchecked climate change, and irreversible resource destruction.",
        "全球经济的规则也仍然不可撼动，这意味着几乎不可能重写金融和贸易政策以确保它们不会导致更多贫困、无止尽的气候变化和不可逆转的资源破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "I am the first to admit that the US under President George W. Bush has not covered itself with multilateral glory in recent years.",
        "我第一个承认布什总统领导下的美国在近几年处理多边关系的问题上确实无所建树。"
    ],
    [
        "Did all hell break loose?",
        "只是如此吗？"
    ],
    [
        "So, to win, Libya’s Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi has deliberately and successfully turned a civil-resistance campaign into an armed conflict.",
        "于是，为了取胜，利比亚的穆阿迈尔·卡扎菲上校故意把一次民间抵抗运动演变为一次武装冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "This vision should make republican efforts proportional to the importance of people’s handicap in order to free them from the burden of their initial conditions.",
        "这种认识应该付出与人们的不利条件相称的共和努力来使他们摆脱他们的原始条件所带来的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s soft power has changed many things in many countries over the past two decades, spurring leaders and citizens to reform their economies and embrace or strengthen democratic values and institutions.",
        "过去二十年来，欧洲的软实力已经改变了很多国家的很多东西，并带动领导人和公民进行经济改革，采纳或者强化民主价值观和制度。"
    ],
    [
        "And geopolitics, the pursuit of economic growth, the quest for new markets, and the search for natural resources is driving even more funding into large-scale infrastructure projects.",
        "而地缘政治、对经济增长的追求、对新市场的渴望以及对自然资源的搜寻正在驱使跟多的资金进入大规模基础设施工程。"
    ],
    [
        "But were the EU to resign itself to mere observer status in Lebanon, the UN and Europe would lose all credibility.",
        "但是，如果欧盟仅仅甘于在黎巴嫩做一个观察员，那么，联合国和欧洲就都会丧失所有的信誉度。"
    ],
    [
        "In return, the PA has been repressing Hamas in the West Bank.",
        "作为对此的回应，巴勒斯坦当局在约旦河西岸镇压哈马斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone came away thinking that they had won, but the world largely lost.",
        "最终每个与会代表都带着得胜的心情回国，但在全世界层面来说却是一场惨败。"
    ],
    [
        "For these reasons, the G20 during the German presidency is working to intensify its partnership with Africa.",
        "出于这些原因，德国担任主席国期间的G20致力于加强与非洲的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The point, simply, is that with so many people in so many countries demanding far-reaching change, the politics of gender is very much in play – in Europe and beyond.",
        "简而言之，在欧洲境内外的众多国家之中有如此多人渴望实现意义深远的革新，那么性别政治也会在其中大显身手。"
    ],
    [
        "This means imagining a better balance between markets and their supporting institutions at the global level .",
        "这就意味着我们需要构想市场及其支撑机制在全球层面上更好的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "EU banks are holding sovereign debt that clearly is not worth 100 cents on the euro.",
        "欧盟银行持有着大量主权债务，而这些债务价值显然已经缩水了。"
    ],
    [
        "Voter data going back 50 years suggests that women, more than men, are moved by the anxiety of changing circumstances and external threats.",
        "回溯50年的选民数据表明，女性比男性更受环境变化和外部威胁所带来的焦虑的驱动。"
    ],
    [
        "After inviting the leaders of Pakistan and other neighboring countries to his inauguration, he embarked on trips to China, Australia, and the United States.",
        "继邀请巴基斯坦和其他邻国领导人参加就职典礼后，他又访问了中国、澳大利亚和美国。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the Republicans hold a Senate majority after the next election, some form of legislation requiring a monetary-policy rule could land on the president’s desk.",
        "但如果共和党在下次大选中获得多数席位，某种形式的货币政策规则的要求会摆在总统的办公桌上。"
    ],
    [
        "But standard dynamic scoring models show that increased growth would offset the cost by only one third, at most: the US would face $1 trillion, rather than $1.5 trillion, in lost revenues.",
        "但标准的动态评分模型表明，增长的提高最多只能抵消三分之一成本：美国将面临1万亿而不是1. 5万亿美元的税收收入损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, despite some significant improvements, major deficiencies in the coverage and quality of infrastructure are clearly affecting competitiveness and increasing costs.",
        "第三，虽然已经取得了长足的进步，但基础设施覆盖广度和质量方面的重大缺陷显然仍在影响竞争力的提升并增加成本开支。"
    ],
    [
        "The macro-economic outlook is more favorable than for most of the world.",
        "印度宏观经济的状况也比世界大多数国家更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, technological developments should involve a collaborative international effort from the start.",
        "因此，技术开发应该从一开始就包括国际协作。"
    ],
    [
        "These plebiscites would become a reckoning for national governments on their crisis policies, which no sound-minded government will want.",
        "这些表决将成为对各国政府危机政策的审判，没有政府会头脑发热到想要去做这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Much remains to be done before a new safety net for all workers is in place: determining which benefits and protections to include, how to pay for them, and how to deliver them to workers.",
        "为所有劳动者建成新型安全网络之前还有很多工作要做：确定涵盖哪些福利和保护、如何支付以及如何发放到劳动者手中。"
    ],
    [
        "They likewise increased after the 2008-09 crisis, peaking in 2015.",
        "类似地，2008—09年危机后，大宗商品再次上扬，直到2015年见顶。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has used and is still using extremist organizations to promote its foreign policy goals.",
        "美国曾经并仍然利用极端主义组织来推动其对外政策目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Timing is everything in politics.",
        "对政治来说，实际就是一切。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, this approach could easily backfire.",
        "此外，这一方针极有可能弄巧成拙。"
    ],
    [
        "It is believed that the epidemic first took hold in the forested regions of Guinea in December 2013, then gradually spread into Sierra Leone and Liberia.",
        "据信，埃博拉爆发最开始是是在2013年12月的几内亚森林地区，然后逐渐传播到塞拉利昂和利比里亚。"
    ],
    [
        "The patient is the American consumer – the world’s biggest by far, but now in the throes of the worst funk since the Great Depression.",
        "病人是美国消费者——世界有史以来最大规模的消费者，但现在正陷入大萧条以来最大的不适中。"
    ],
    [
        "“I ask you,” he said in 1963, “to stop and think for a moment what it would mean to have nuclear weapons in so many hands, in the hands of countries large and small, stable and unstable, responsible and irresponsible, scattered throughout the world.”",
        "“我要你们停下来想一想，” 他在1963年说，“这么多人手里都有核武器，大大小小的国家都有核武器，不论稳定还是动荡，不论负责还是不负责，不论位于世界哪个角落，意味着什么？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "The first problem arises when specific factors, real or perceived, block some options from the adjustment menu.",
        "第一个问题是具体因素——不管是真实因素还是人们所认为的因素——导致一些选项无法进入调整候选清单。"
    ],
    [
        "It took ten years to reach a settlement with Microsoft; it may end up taking that long with Google.",
        "与微软的和解花了十年才达成； 与谷歌很有可能也将如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Opening them more fully to competition and market incentives would help to raise productivity in these industries.",
        "更完全地开放、引入竞争和市场激励有助于提高这些产业的生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "Investing in CCS would help preserve Europe's economic base by securing and creating jobs and protecting vital industries.",
        "投资于CCS有助于通过确保和增加工作岗位、保护关键行业捍卫欧洲的经济基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The root cause of Germany’s sluggish economic performance in recent years is the continuing unwillingness of its households and enterprises to consume and invest.",
        "德国经济近几年表现呆滞的根源在于德国家庭和企业一直不愿消费和投资。"
    ],
    [
        "This assumption is dubious at best.",
        "这种假设充其量也不可全信。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, New START marks a step in the direction of disarmament.",
        "但即便如此，新条约其实是向核裁军方面迈进的新一步。"
    ],
    [
        "But Afghanistan remains a source of significant uncertainty – and high anxiety – in an already unstable region.",
        "但阿富汗仍然是这个本来就不稳定的区域中一个重大不确定性——以及高度忧虑因素——的来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Taming the Tigers",
        "驯服猛虎"
    ],
    [
        "Because truly democratic policies must be inclusive, implementing reforms in a democracy takes time and effort; but the painful process of building broad pro-reform coalitions also ensures that those policies will endure.",
        "因为真正的民主政策必须是包容性的，在民主国家实施改革耗时耗力； 但构建支持改革的广泛同盟的过程固然痛苦，它确保了这些政策能够持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Their use of social media was a case study in digital virtuosity.",
        "他们对社交媒体的使用也可以成为数字营销的经典案例。"
    ],
    [
        "He will pump up a few voters in West Virginia and receive praise from Koch Industries.",
        "他将在西弗吉尼亚吸引少数选民并得到科赫工业的赞誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Society’s task is to give them a feeling of belonging.",
        "让他们找到归属感是社会的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "It plans to use its presidency of the G-20 in 2016, for example, to advance an ambitious agenda.",
        "比如，中国计划利用2016年担任G-20主席国的机会推进一个规模宏大的日程。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s Population Implosion",
        "俄罗斯的人口内爆"
    ],
    [
        "And, of course, the Doha Round would only reduce these barriers, not eliminate them altogether.",
        "并且，当然，多哈回合只是减少这些贸易障碍，而不是完全消除它们。"
    ],
    [
        "The best one can expect is that India continues to act at the margin – for example, by reducing dependence on Iranian oil while increasing imports from Saudi Arabia, already its largest supplier of crude.",
        "可以想见的最好情况是印度继续执行这种擦边球政策——比如在降低对伊朗石油依赖的同时扩大从沙特阿拉伯的石油进口，目前沙特已经是印度排名第一的原油供应国。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, the Russian troops deployed in the renegade Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have been accorded the status of “peacekeepers.”",
        "具有讽刺意味的是，驻扎在背叛的格鲁吉亚地区，即阿布哈兹和南奥塞蒂的俄罗斯军队打的是“维和部队”的旗号。"
    ],
    [
        "But if you succeed, this will change not only your life but also the lives of many of your people.”",
        "但如果你成功了，这不只会改变你个人，而且能够改变你这个民族很多人的生活。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, a solution can be found only within Burma itself.",
        "但是最终，危机只能在缅甸内部解决。"
    ],
    [
        "They cannot function beyond a certain level of mutual distrust or a sense on the part of some members that other members have abandoned them.",
        "如果失去了团结，整个社会就会陷入分裂，倘若社会成员之间彼此猜忌，有些成员又觉得被其他人所抛弃，那么在情况恶化到一定程度后，整个社会就会陷入瘫痪了。"
    ],
    [
        "Compounding the challenge, China’s economy is more globally relevant and interconnected than ever before, which means that any action it takes can have far-reaching effects.",
        "让挑战更加复杂的是，中国经济比以往任何时候都更加具有全球重要性和互联性，这意味着它所采取的任何行动都可能产生深远影响。"
    ],
    [
        "It was particularly important that she explicitly included her own view, unlike when she spoke on behalf of the entire FOMC after its September meeting.",
        "尤其重要的是，她明确包括了她自己的观点，这与她在FOMC9月会议后代表全体成员的讲话不同。"
    ],
    [
        "We need a group of the major economies – call it “G Major” – that announces monetary policies in a coordinated fashion.",
        "我们需要一组经济大国——可以称之为“G国”——来发布协调一致的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Making inflation depends on the central bank’s decision to monetize specific debt instruments.",
        "而制造通胀则取决于中央银行将特定债务工具货币化的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The movement toward more ethical consumption has made significant gains in the United States as well, as consumers increasingly turn to organic, locally produced foods, and eggs from hens not kept in cages.",
        "随着美国的消费者们愈发购买有机的和当地生产的食品以及不是由在笼子里的鸡产下的鸡蛋，这一朝向更为符合伦理消费的运动在那里也取得了重大进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Poland is the largest recipient of European funds and the only EU country that avoided recession during the crisis; indeed, it has experienced 23 years of uninterrupted growth.",
        "波兰是欧洲资金的最大接收国，也是唯一一个在危机中避免了衰退的欧盟国家； 事实上，它已经实现连续23年增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, with oil prices dramatically reduced, this largesse is no longer available, and economic experts agree that the growth potential of Russia’s petro-economy has been exhausted.",
        "而在今时今日油价戏剧性回落之后，这种慷慨疏财之举就再也行不通了。 经济专家们更一致认为，俄罗斯石油经济的发展潜力已经被过早地耗尽了。"
    ],
    [
        "But we are at an early stage and face a remarkable backlash from the global troika: witness Sanders’ treatment by the Democratic National Committee, the run against Corbyn by a former pharmaceutical lobbyist, and the attempt to have me indicted for daring to oppose the EU’s plan for Greece.",
        "但是我们正处于一个初级阶段，面临着来自全球三驾马车的强力反击：民主党全国委员会对桑德斯的攻击，一个前制药厂说客对科尔宾领导地位的挑战，或是试图因为我反对欧盟的希腊计划而起诉我的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, that collapse has been a massive shock to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf oil sheikhdoms, which rely on oil for some 85% of their revenues.",
        "毫不奇怪，如此暴跌对沙特阿拉伯和波斯湾产油国造成了沉重打击，它们85%的收入要依靠石油。"
    ],
    [
        "Solar power plants thus could play the same role for energy that mobile phones did for telecommunications: rapidly reaching large, underserved communities in sparsely populated regions, without the need to invest in the cables and accompanying infrastructure that once would have been necessary.",
        "因此，太阳能发电厂对能源业的意义就好比是移动电话对通讯业：迅速普及到人口稀疏地区的大型服务欠发达地区，而不需要投资于电缆和其他基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "To increase productivity while preserving social stability, subsidies should be removed with the goal of improving efficiency, not simply to make fiscal cuts.",
        "要提高生产率、同时维持社会稳定，就必须以改善效率，而不仅仅是削减财政开支为目标取消补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Periods in which trade grows at a slower pace than output are rare, and reflect severe strain on the global economy’s health.",
        "贸易增长慢于产出增长的时期十分罕见，这表明全球经济健康状况相当堪忧。"
    ],
    [
        "No one wants to live in a more uncertain world – least of all people in the still-vulnerable countries of Central and South America.",
        "没人愿意生活在更加不确定的世界中——至少对于仍然十分脆弱的中美和南美国家人民而言。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that some progress has already been made, innovation is occurring rapidly, and clear plans are being formulated and implemented.",
        "好消息是已经取得了一些进展，创新正在快速发展，并且提出和实施了清晰的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The war in Iraq and the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 caused a backlash against some of the policies advocated by Third Way leaders.",
        "伊拉克战争和2008—2009年全球金融危机导致第三条道路领导人所鼓吹的一些政策遭到严重抨击。"
    ],
    [
        "Metaphorically, Israel’s national psyche oscillates between “Tel Aviv” and “Jerusalem.”",
        "用比喻的话来说，以色列的民族心理在“特拉维夫”和“耶路撒冷”之间摇摆者。"
    ],
    [
        "But the scope of Chinese claims doomed that agreement from the start; indeed, China now insists that the sea constitutes a core national interest, on a level with Taiwan and Tibet, for which it is prepared to fight.",
        "事实上中国目前强调该海域与台湾和西藏一样属于自身国家核心利益的组成部分，并为此不惜一战。"
    ],
    [
        "Such explanations – however plausible they may be – miss the larger point.",
        "这些解释不管听起来多么合理，都没有切中要害。"
    ],
    [
        "One understands his trepidation: the first post-Milosevic prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, cooperated with the tribunal, and paid for it with his life.",
        "我们能对塔迪奇的恐惧表示理解：第一位后米洛舍维奇时代的总理佐兰·金吉奇与法庭进行了合作，但却为此付出了生命的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "One of these is our track record, which supports our ambition to be a “proactive contributor to peace.”",
        "其中之一便是我们的历史记录。 我们的历史记录支持我们成为“和平的积极贡献者”的雄心。"
    ],
    [
        "The division of the Korean Peninsula 65 years ago was one of the greatest – and now most enduring – tragedies of the Second World War.",
        "65年前朝鲜半岛的分裂是二战所导致的其中一个最严重——也是最持久——的恶果。"
    ],
    [
        "It may well be female students’ very success – and the role of educated women in opposing Iran’s theocracy – that led the government to seek to reverse the trend.",
        "也许正是女生所获得的成功——以及受教育女性在反对伊朗神权体制中所起到的作用——让政府寻求扭转这一趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – Relapse is the rule in the post-crisis global economy.",
        "纽黑文—复发是后危机时代全球经济的常态。"
    ],
    [
        "Transforming the way people acquire and consume energy, and use land, will require strong incentives and policy frameworks to set the course for success.",
        "改变人们获取和消费能源以及使用土地的方式需要很强的激励和政策框架推动成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the creation of SDRs in 1969, IMF members committed to make them “the principle reserve asset in the international monetary system,” as stated in the Articles of Agreement.",
        "SDR建立于1969年，IMF成员国承诺让SDR成为“国际货币体系的主要储备资产”，这一点写入了IMF章程。"
    ],
    [
        "Three months ago, I argued that all but a tiny and unbalanced fringe of economists approve of expansionary open-market operations to keep total nominal spending constant in a downturn, and I was right.",
        "三个月以前，我就对上述的操作方式提出了自己的疑问，当时只有少数的经济学家赞同我的观点，现在看来，我是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent letter to the chief executives of the S&P 500 companies and large European corporations, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management company, expressed concern that many global firms may be sacrificing value-creating investments by distributing dividends and buying back their own shares.",
        "在致标普500成分股公司和呕吼大公司首席执行官的信中，全球最大投资管理公司贝莱德公司（Black Rock）首席执行官拉里·芬克（Larry Fink）表示担心许多全球企业可能正在用发放股利和回购本公司股票的方式浪费创造价值的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise the UN is nothing more than a handy mechanism for outsourcing political blame.",
        "否则，联合国就无外乎是一个任人御用的出气桶。"
    ],
    [
        "Or it could succumb to the curse, which would entrench the country’s waste, nepotism, corruption, and inequality.",
        "还有一种可能是陷入魔咒，导致国内浪费、裙带关系、腐败和不平等更加难以去除。"
    ],
    [
        "Both courses are unnecessary.",
        "两条路线都不是非走不可。"
    ],
    [
        "Manufacturing nerve agents is a complex process, but extremists can easily deploy toxic industrial chemicals – such as chlorine gas – if they have them in their possession.",
        "制造神经毒气是一个复杂的过程，但极端分子可以轻松地使用有毒工业化学品——比如氯气，只要他们手上有这些东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Around the world, disappointment with democracy promotion is widespread.",
        "对推广民主制的沮丧情绪正在全世界范围内不断蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "How can local economies thrive in such an atmosphere?",
        "在这样的条件下，当地经济如何能够繁荣？"
    ],
    [
        "Trump made so many deeply offensive and demonstrably false statements during this election cycle that one especially revealing sentence went entirely unnoticed.",
        "在此次选举周期中，特朗普做出过无数极具冒犯性又显而易见的错误陈述，这导致他有一句特别具有揭示性的话完全没有被注意到。"
    ],
    [
        "But Japan is unable to seize these opportunities, because its political system is incapable of producing competent leadership.",
        "但日本则没能力抓住这些机会，因为其政治制度无法产生胜任的领导层。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – For citizens of poor countries, migration often is a highly appealing option.",
        "华盛顿——对贫困国家的公民来说，移民的选项往往非常具有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – From 2004 to 2007, the world economy experienced an unusually long and strong boom, with growth rates of nearly 5% and with many countries participating.",
        "慕尼黑－从2004年到2007年，全球经济经历了一个不同寻常的长时间强劲增长，增长率几乎达到了5%并且许多国家都有增长。"
    ],
    [
        "VIENNA – The triumph of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey’s first direct presidential election is no surprise.",
        "维也纳—埃尔多安在土耳其首次总统直选中获胜，此是意料中事。"
    ],
    [
        "The case of neighbouring Guinea-Bissau, where a blood-bath has just taken place ahead of general elections, should serve as a warning.",
        "邻国几内亚比绍的情况应当让我们引以为戒，那里在总统大选前刚刚发生过一场血腥屠杀。"
    ],
    [
        "And it was tailor-made for the few middle-income developing countries (such as Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand) that are large agricultural exporters.",
        "并且，它是为几个中等收入且是农业出口大国的发展中国家（例如巴西，阿根廷和泰国）量身定制的。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, the authorities have been working to reform the energy sector – a hub of corruption.",
        "最近，当局一直在致力于能源部门改革。 能源部门是腐败重灾区。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community’s failure to bring the CTBT into force is one of the reasons why the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ iconic Doomsday Clock remains poised at five minutes to midnight – the closest it has been to midnight since the height of the Cold War.",
        "国际社会没能让全面禁止核试验条约产生效力是原子科学家公报（Bulletin of Atomic Scientists）标志性的末日钟（Doomsday Clock）仍指向午夜前五分钟——只有冷战高峰时期达到过比现在更接近午夜的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "But this time the soldiers have remained in their barracks, for the simple reason that an awakened populace, an active civil society, and a free and vibrant media would not tolerate another venture into politics by the army.",
        "但这一回，军队并未走出军营，原因很简单：觉醒的民众、活跃的公民社会和充满活力的自由媒体不会容忍政治再次落入军方之手。"
    ],
    [
        "The plastic that washes up on shores costs the tourism industry hundreds of millions of dollars every year.",
        "被冲上海岸的塑料每年给旅游业带来数亿美元的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon after, QE was off and running.",
        "不久，量化宽松便已启动。"
    ],
    [
        "We can look to our neighbors in Saudi Arabia for their great successes in de-radicalizing many young people through counseling centers and programs.",
        "我们可以从沙特阿拉伯邻居身上看到这方面的巨大成功：通过咨询中心和咨询计划让许多年轻人不再走极端。"
    ],
    [
        "The second major trend that should be informing the Trump administration’s Asia policy is Chinese President Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power.",
        "特朗普政府在制定亚洲政策时需要掌握的第二个趋势是中国国家主席习近平对权力的整合。"
    ],
    [
        "To the contrary, terrorism is now part of the fabric of contemporary life.",
        "相反，恐怖主义成为了当今生活的组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if you invest $10,000 in the S&P for the next five years, you can reasonably expect (with enormous upside and downside risks) to make about 7% per year, leaving you with a compounded profit in inflation-adjusted dollars of $4,191.",
        "所以，如果你在下一个五年对S&P投资一万美元，你就有充分的理由期待着（冒着稍微正面的与反面的巨大风险）每一年得到约为7%的利润，这利润是经过通胀调整后4190美元的累积利润。"
    ],
    [
        "The strategic context of the Iraq insurgency is also new.",
        "伊拉克叛乱的战略背景也是全新的。"
    ],
    [
        "ISIL explicitly directed the video to both Japan’s government and its citizens, evidently hoping that the largely pacifist Japanese would press their leaders to back down.",
        "伊斯兰国公然将视频释放给日本政府和日本人民看，显然是希望总体持和平主义的日本人会迫使其领导人就范。"
    ],
    [
        "Motivated by this concern, the Fed has held the nominal short-term interest rate near zero – its effective lower bound – for more than five years, with a promise to keep it there until 2015, and has been purchasing about $1 trillion of long-term government bonds each year.",
        "出于这一担忧，美联储在五年多的时间里一直将名义短期利率维持在近零水平——它的实际下限，并承诺一直如此直到2015年。 此外，美联储每年还购入约1万亿美元的政府债券。"
    ],
    [
        "These same features are also seen in some babies who have suffered trauma, such as falls or motor-vehicle accidents.",
        "同样的特征也见于一些受伤的婴儿，如坠落或车祸。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, African villagers lack access to cars or trucks, so they have to walk several miles to reach a clinic.",
        "其次，非洲的乡村居民缺少汽车、卡车等交通工具，所以他们不得不走上好几英里才能到达卫生所。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, defend – and update – representation.",
        "第三，捍卫——并且升级——代议制。"
    ],
    [
        "While this percentage is expected to remain steady, we can nonetheless expect the production of biofuels to grow in absolute terms as the global market for transport fuels also expands.",
        "这一比例预计将保持稳定，但尽管如此，可以期待生物燃料产量的绝对值将随着全球交通燃料市场的扩大而增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, people will not feel as though they are making a difference or contributing to a shared goal, and others will not feel pressure to do anything at all.",
        "否则，人们将不会觉得他们正在让情况变化或贡献于共同目标，而其他人也不会感到压力做出任何贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this is a complex problem.",
        "当然，这是一个复杂的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Aspirin was first isolated from the bark of the willow tree in the eighteenth century.",
        "阿司匹林最初就是在十八世纪从柳树皮中分离出来的。"
    ],
    [
        "EU negotiations are complex and opaque to most people, and EU institutions are remote.",
        "欧盟谈判对多数人而言复杂且不透明，而欧盟机构又似乎遥不可及。"
    ],
    [
        "And many emerging-economy governments’ understandable aversion to running substantial and persistent current-account deficits will lead them to counter weaker export prices by increasing export volume, even if that drives down prices further.",
        "同时许多新兴经济体的政府都不愿意维持大量和持续的经常账户赤字（这可以理解），将导致他们通过增加出口量来应对疲软的出口价格，即便这将进一步压低价格。"
    ],
    [
        "No doubt some buyers regard their purchases as an investment, like stocks or real estate or gold bars.",
        "毫无疑问，有的买家把买艺术品作为投资，和股票、房地产或金条一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Physicists searching for a few Higgs-like needles in a mind-bogglingly large haystack must comb their data for anomalies in the debris that cannot be accounted for by known processes.",
        "物理学家们在碰撞产生的大量碎片里寻找几个希格斯粒子无异于大海捞针，他们必须仔细梳理无法从已知过程得到解释的碎片中的异常信号。"
    ],
    [
        "And, elsewhere in the region – the small Pacific islands in particular – vulnerability to the effects of climate change is increasing.",
        "在该地区其他地方，特别是小型的太平洋岛屿国家，对气候变化效应的脆弱性正在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "But paratroopers, flown in by helicopters, suddenly jumped the Egyptian gun crews, who never had a chance in hand-to-hand combat.",
        "但从直升机上跳下的以军伞兵却出其不意地袭击埃及炮手，这些炮手在贴身肉搏中根本没有机会胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "The hope was that Draghi’s promises would be a costless way of providing that confidence, because they would never have to be fulfilled.",
        "人们希望德拉吉的承诺会是一种带来信心而又无须付出代价的方式，因为这些承诺根本不需要实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The WHO FCTC provides guidelines on topics such as tobacco taxation, public awareness and education, and package warnings.",
        "世卫组织烟草控制框架公约就烟草税、公众意识和教育以及包装警示等相关问题规定了指导方针。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite this initial shock, the system responded in a surprisingly nimble fashion.",
        "但是，尽管第一波冲击十分猛烈，但系统的反应出人意料地敏捷。"
    ],
    [
        "It might not be able to close the Strait of Hormuz, but threats to refineries, storage facilities, and tankers would send oil prices even higher.",
        "她或许不能封锁霍尔木兹海峡，但却可以威胁各地的炼油厂、储油设施和油轮，使油价继续飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there were indications of a temporary pick-up in annual consumption growth to nearly 4% in the fourth quarter of 2013.",
        "平心而论，年消费增长表现出暂时性的提振信号，2013年四季度接近4%。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this has important implications for emerging economies.",
        "上述现象对新兴国家都有教益。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, there are many adherents of the “Hubbert’s peak” theory of oil production, which holds that we have reached the upper limits of output capacity, the wells are running dry, and it is all downhill from here.",
        "有关石油生产的“哈伯特顶峰”理论认为，我们已经达到了生产能力的上限，油井已经干枯，石油产量将从此下滑。 如今，这一理论的信徒为数众多。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiations are useful, too, because they promote an internal debate in Iran.",
        "谈判能促进伊朗开展内部辩论，因此在这方面的作用也不容小视。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s territorial claims on Russia are often noted in Chinese grade school geography textbooks, which include a number of Russian Far Eastern regions within China’s borders.",
        "中国对俄国的领土主张在中国的小学地理教科书中经常提及，这包括在中国境内的几个俄国远东地区。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be better if such schemes could be agreed upon by all by G-20 countries, as was briefly the case in the coordinated stimulus of April 2009.",
        "如果G20能够在此类机制上达成一致，那就更好了，2009年4月的合作刺激就属于这一情形。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes sense: of the 266,000 women who die from cervical cancer every year – an average of one every two minutes – 85% are in developing countries.",
        "这很有意义：在每年死于宫颈癌的266,000名女性中——平均没两分钟就有一人——85%生活在发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of who wins, the consequences of the outcome will reverberate throughout the world.",
        "无论谁胜出，大选结果的影响都将会冲击世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany refuses to accept that its beggar-thy-neighbor economic policies – reflected in its massive current-account surpluses – are both a cause of the eurozone crisis and a major impediment to resolving it.",
        "德国拒绝承认其以邻为壑的经济政策——反映在其巨大的经常项目盈余中——既是欧元区危机的原因，也是阻止解决欧元区危机的主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Japanese company Daiichi Sankyo paid $4.6 billion for majority control of the Ranbury pharmaceutical group in 2008, they were placing a bet on continuing corporate success.",
        "当2008年日本第一三共株式会社一掷46亿美元拿下了印度兰伯西制药集团的控制权之时，该公司显然是为自身未来的发展下了一笔赌注。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, only about half of all women worldwide deliver with a skilled attendant present.",
        "目前，全世界大约只有一半的妇女生产时有高技能的助产师在场。"
    ],
    [
        "Cutting taxes was easy, but hiking spending on virtually every program involves a lot of legislation.",
        "减税容易，但要增加在几乎所有项目上的支出却需要通过繁琐的立法程序。"
    ],
    [
        "Mounting debt also leaves the US vulnerable to the decisions of those who lend it money – or to the vagaries of the market.",
        "不断增加的债务将迫使美国向那些国际债主们俯首称臣，或是无法承受市场的突然波动。"
    ],
    [
        "Robert May, an eminent climate change expert, has argued that techniques from his discipline may help explain financial-market developments.",
        "著名的气候变化专家罗伯特·梅（Robert May）认为他的学科技术可以帮助解释金融市场的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Predictability regarding the future course of regulation would unlock projects held back by uncertainty.",
        "未来监管的可预测性有助于释放因为不确定性而无法实施的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "But the benefits of solving the two-century-old mystery of Parkinson’s causes are potentially enormous.",
        "但解决帕金森病因这一两百年来的谜题能够带来巨大的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, imposed laïcité(France’s strict republican secularism) seems to have deepened French Muslims’ attachment to their religious identity.",
        "同样地，强制的 政教分离 政策（法国严格的共和世俗主义）似乎加剧了法国的穆斯林的宗教身份认同感。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not help that, while China’s expenditure on research and development as a share of GDP is now quite high, much of it is in the public sector.",
        "尽管目前中国研发支出占GDP之比很高，但这无济于事，因为大部分是公共部门支出。"
    ],
    [
        "This narrative – which, bizarrely, is equally popular among otherwise irreconcilable ideological adversaries, such as libertarians and neo-Marxists – is patently wrong.",
        "这一说法——很奇怪，它们在理应不可协调的意识形态阵营之间，比如自由主义者和新马克思主义者，同样流行——大错特错。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1870s, another round of defaults engulfed 11 states.",
        "还有一些赖掉了部分债务。 19世纪70年代，另一波违约席卷11州。"
    ],
    [
        "Ordinary secular Muslims who turn to atheism are more vulnerable to charges of apostasy and, worse, blasphemy.",
        "转为无神论者的普通世俗穆斯林更容易受控判教，更严重者还会受控渎神。"
    ],
    [
        "The obvious lesson should have been that fiscal expansion does not stimulate economic growth when there is financial instability.",
        "其中最明显的教训应该是金融不稳定状况下的财政扩张是无法刺激经济增长的。"
    ],
    [
        "If China intervenes to push its currency lower, US political support for anti-China trade actions will undoubtedly intensify, pushing the world's two largest economies closer to the slippery slope of protectionism.",
        "如果中国采取干预措施使人民币贬值，美国对反华贸易行动的政治支持毫无疑问会有所加紧，让世界前两大经济体朝着保护主义越走越近。"
    ],
    [
        "The same thing is happening to other consumer goods: We now have connected washing machines and learning thermostats, not to mention Bluetooth toothbrushes and computerized infant scales.",
        "其他消费品也在发生同样的事情：如今我们将洗衣机和恒温器连接在一起，更不用说蓝牙牙刷和计算机化的婴儿称了。"
    ],
    [
        "The other solution is to give democracy a chance.",
        "给民主一次机会则是另外一种解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Alcohol restrictions were tightened.",
        "同时收紧了对酒精饮料的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "But one thing is clear: the Sunni Islamists are decisively altering the region’s politics.",
        "但有一点是明确的：逊尼派伊斯兰主义者正在决定性地改变着该地区的政治面貌。"
    ],
    [
        "Come what may, US and South Korean troops would not cross the 38th parallel.",
        "无论出现何种情况，美韩军队不会跨越三八线。"
    ],
    [
        "As the old joke goes, if you want to go there, I wouldn't start here.",
        "老笑话说，你想去那里，我就不这里开始。"
    ],
    [
        "That, in turn, requires a society and a leadership that seeks to be exemplary in all ways that make human beings more human, including respect for truthfulness, openness, tolerance, and people’s right to disagree with their government.",
        "而这反过来又要求社会和领导阶层寻求在所有的方面都具有表率作用，让人更加具有人性，包括尊重诚实、开放、宽容以及人民对政府持有异议的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "And in both cases, it is impossible to say exactly what that ratio is.",
        "对于这两个问题，说出正确的比例为多少又都是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, America succumbed to the temptation of unilateralism.",
        "相反，美国迷恋于追求单边主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Bantuan pembangunan juga cenderung dialirkan untuk pemenuhan tujuan militer, terutama di wilayah-wilayah rentan.",
        "发展援助也总是流向军用目标，特别是在不安全地区。"
    ],
    [
        "A retrenchment of public consumption actually subtracted more demand in the US (0.8 percentage points) than in the European Union (0.1 points).",
        "公共消费的裁抑给美国需求造成的收缩（0. 8个百分点）比欧盟（0."
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the sole UN agency that concentrates on freedom will be nothing more than a handmaiden to tyranny.",
        "否则的话，单单联合国内一个以自由为中心的机构只不过会成为苛政统治的协从者。"
    ],
    [
        "The sovereign-debt crisis is eating its way from the periphery to the core, and the exodus of capital is accelerating.",
        "主权财富危机正在从外围向核心蔓延，资本外逃正在加速。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if assessed from a neutral standpoint, social democracy is clearly the better choice for all.",
        "因此，从中立角度看，社会民主显然是更优选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea that American troops will stay in Iraq indefinitely – or even “just as long as necessary and not one day more,” in the clichéd language of Donald Rumsfeld – is implausible.",
        "美国军队会永远待在伊拉克的提法¾甚至是拉姆斯菲尔德“只做必要的停留，一天也不会多待”的陈词滥调，都似乎不合情理。"
    ],
    [
        "The “availability heuristic” – a pervasive cognitive bias caused by people’s tendency to estimate the likelihood of a phenomenon by how easily an example of it comes to mind – routinely clouds the issue.",
        "由于人类倾向于通过联想起相关事例的难易程度来评估一种情况出现的可能性，而这种认知偏好又是普遍存在的——也就是所谓的“可用性启发（availability heuristic）”，通常会令事情变得更加模糊不清。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, we have made major strides toward macroeconomic stability.",
        "首先，我们在宏观经济稳定方面取得了重大进步。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, individuals under the age of 15 are generally excluded from household surveys.",
        "目前，15岁以下个体通常被排除在家庭调查之外。"
    ],
    [
        "But for those coming from euro candidate countries, the event was a cold shower.",
        "但是，对那些来自欧元区候选国的人来说，这次活动给他们当头泼了冷水。"
    ],
    [
        "But the efforts of Chinese authorities are hardly unique.",
        "但中国当局的措施并不独特。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of illegal Jewish settlers in Palestinian areas has doubled, leaving Palestinians increasingly convinced that negotiations are a waste of time.",
        "在巴勒斯坦土地上非法居住的犹太定居者数量已经翻了一番，这让巴人逐渐明白到谈判也只不过是浪费时间。"
    ],
    [
        "That is how human bodies are designed to metabolize food.",
        "人类的身体原本就是这样进行食物新陈代谢的。"
    ],
    [
        "Its leaders are increasingly out of step with the public’s expectation of ethical and conscientious behavior.",
        "硅谷领导人与公众对道德和良心行为的预期渐行渐远。"
    ],
    [
        "Robert Schuman, who presented the idea of unification to Europe’s leaders, was animated by a deep Christian faith that helped create miracles.",
        "向欧洲的领导者们提出统一概念的罗伯特·舒曼拥有坚定的基督教信念，正是这种信念帮助他创造了奇迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent events have only strengthened the case for pursuing this approach.",
        "最近发生的事件只是加强了对这一措施的追求。"
    ],
    [
        "If all of Europe is cutting, the United Kingdom cannot grow; if the entire world is cutting, global growth will stop.",
        "如果整个欧洲都在缩减开支，那么英国经济不可能增长； 如果全世界都在削减开支，全球经济增长就会停止。"
    ],
    [
        "Other initiatives, such as telemedicine, in which clinical medical advice is delivered through mobile phones, have become a lifeline for many communities.",
        "而其他类似远程医疗这类通过手机提供临床医疗咨询的举措也已成为许多社区的生命线。"
    ],
    [
        "However one looks at it, the corporate sector in advanced economies in general, and in the US in particular, is as strong as it has been in many years.",
        "不管你如何看待，总体而言，发达经济体公私部门和多年来一样强健，美国就更不用说了。"
    ],
    [
        "A Grexit could prove to be the last straw, and would surely lead to a tightening in domestic monetary conditions at a very precarious point in the economic cycle.",
        "希腊的退出将是一根导火索，必然导致在经济周期的疲软期收紧国内货币条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Its cultural manifestations also appeared to be novel.",
        "其文化表现也是前无古人的。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – While talking to an Iranian official in Tehran earlier this year, he reminded me of Ayatollah Khomeini’s fondness for comparing the relationship between the United States and Iran to that between a wolf and a lamb.",
        "纽约--今年早些时候我同一名伊朗外交官在德黑兰进行过一次交谈。 他提醒我说霍梅尼喜欢把美伊关系比成狼和羊的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a very dangerous expedient, one that undermines standards of value, renders economic calculation virtually impossible, and redistributes wealth at random.",
        "通货膨胀是一个非常危险的权宜之计，它会破坏价值标准，几乎无法进行经济测算并且随意重新分配财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, its recommendations take the form of the proverbial “laundry list” of reforms, and emphasize their complementary nature – the imperative to undertake them all simultaneously – rather than their sequencing and prioritization.",
        "而且，它的建议以众所周知的改革“细目清单”的形式出现，并且强调它们的相互补充的性质－必须同时执行它们－而不是给它们排出先后顺序和优先次序。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets, for all their virtues, often do not work well in a crisis.",
        "尽管有着各种各样的优势，但市场调解常常在危机中失去作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Important initiatives have also been implemented at the municipal level.",
        "市政层面也实施了一些重要计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Thaksin already is believed by many to be providing advice to the government of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.",
        "许多人已经相信他信正在向沙马总理的政府提供咨询。"
    ],
    [
        "But the answer to that question is not why the pundits are cheering Obama.",
        "但这一问题的答案并不是专家看好奥巴马的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Demographic decline was a key factor in setting off Japan’s 1992 financial crisis and the long malaise that followed.",
        "人口减少是导致1992年日本金融危机及其后长期问题的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall tax revenue is roughly 27% of GDP, putting Japan in 28th place among the 35 OECD countries.",
        "税收总收入约占GDP的27%，在35个经合组织国家中仅仅排名第28。"
    ],
    [
        "And no one should forget that, despite his campaign rhetoric and his apparent unpopularity with many immigrants, Sarkozy himself is an immigrant’s son who favors bold affirmative action policies.",
        "人们不应该忘记，尽管有他在竞选过程所说的那些话，以及在许多移民中不受欢迎，但是萨科奇本人就是一个移民的儿子，他正是受益于对移民持勇敢地肯定态度的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet fears over Heartbleed and similar such threats, and the furor surrounding the aggressive American surveillance tactics revealed by former intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden, have already put many countries in a defensive posture.",
        "但对“心脏失血”和类似威胁的担忧，以及美国前情报承包商斯诺登所揭露的侵略性监控策略所引发的愤怒已经让许多国家摆好了防御架势。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, what Tocqueville called the hold of “social power” on opinion is probably strongest in democratic regimes – a view that foretells the growth of modern-day demagogy and media manipulation.",
        "确实，托克维尔所称的“社会力量”对于观点的控制在民主制度中可能最为强劲。 他的这一观点预言了当代蛊惑人心和媒体操纵的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "This would involve – in order – removal of Sudan from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, exchange of ambassadors, lifting of unilateral sanctions, and support for bilateral and multilateral debt relief, together with other economic measures by international financial institutions.",
        "其中包括——按先后次序来说——把苏丹从支持恐怖主义的国家名单中剔除，互派大使，解除单方面制裁，协助减免双边和多边债务，并与其他国际金融组织的相关经济手段相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the courts cannot manage the kind of economy-wide crisis that would arise if multiple mega-banks sank simultaneously.",
        "此外，如果多家大银行同时倒闭，将引发整个经济的危机，而法院无法处置这类危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Because Haitians are poor. They cannot take preventive measures.",
        "因为海地人十分贫穷，无法采取预防措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Kenyatta has a chance to steer Kenya away from the ethnic tensions that have plagued its society and economy.",
        "肯雅塔有机会让肯尼亚告别破坏该国社会和经济的种族对峙。"
    ],
    [
        "One can only speculate about Schäuble’s motivation in pushing for Grexit.",
        "我们只能猜测朔伊布勒鼓动希腊退出的动机。"
    ],
    [
        "This conservation of the protein fold across species makes the origin of our complexity even more puzzling, as it is well known that the number of human genes is deceptively small, merely one order of magnitude larger than that of, say, rice.",
        "物种之间蛋白质折叠的不变性让人类复杂性的起源变得更加扑朔迷离了，众所周知，人类基因数量少得令人难以置信，只比水稻这样的物种多出一个数量级。"
    ],
    [
        "Care-giving, as illustrated by our case, includes what happens when hope and consolation are abandoned, when theodicy ends, and when all there is to do is to be present with the sufferer, sharing his or her suffering by simply – and usually silently – being there.",
        "正如我们的情况所表明的那样，病人照护包括，在希望和安慰都被放弃，神正论也结束了的时候，人们要做的事情就是和饱受疾病煎熬的人在一起，在他们身边——通常是安静地陪在他们身边——分担他或她的痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Assume that one ton of steel and ten barrels of oil are needed to produce one car.",
        "假设制造一辆汽车需要一吨钢和十桶石油。"
    ],
    [
        "Such inflows are driven in part by short-term cyclical factors (interest-rate differentials and a wall of liquidity chasing higher-yielding assets as zero policy rates and more quantitative easing reduce opportunities in the sluggish advanced economies). But longer-term secular factors also play a role.",
        "这一轮资本流入一方面是受短期性、周期性因素的影响，（比如利率差，再比如复苏迟缓的发达经济体维持零利率且屡屡搞量化宽松，减少了资金的获利机会等等），但一些长期性、历史性因素的作用也不容忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "It may not make headlines, but the international system, with its rules and institutions, allows states to settle most of their disputes peacefully, most of the time.",
        "这或许登不上头条，但国际体系及其所包含的规则和机构让国家得以在大多数时候和平解决大部分纠纷。"
    ],
    [
        "The manager decides that each traveler should write down the price – any integer from $2 to $100 – without conferring with one another.",
        "经理决定让每位旅行者写下价格——介于2美元和100美元的任意整数——但不能彼此通气。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the Social Democrat-Green coalition, with the support of only 38% of MPs, was bound to be an uncertain exercise.",
        "平心而论，社会民主党-绿党联盟只获得了38%的议会议员支持，注定是一次充满不确定性的执政。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the US-based Center for Responsive Politics, spending on the election – for President and Congress, and including spending by outside groups as well as by the candidates and their political parties – is estimated to have exceeded $6 billion.",
        "根据美国响应政治中心（Center for Responsive Politics）的数据，此次选举的支出——包括总统选举和国会选举，包括外部集团支出和候选人及其政党支出——估计将超60亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Begin was the best proof that Israel’s critics needed that the Zionist revolution, although it created a state out of the ashes of the Holocaust, had failed to eradicate the collective self-image of the Jew and the Israeli as victim.",
        "如果以色列批评家需要证明犹太复国主义虽然在大屠杀的灰烬中创立了犹太国，但却无法根除将犹太人和以色列视为牺牲品的集体自我认知的话，那么贝京无疑是最好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Compelling policymakers to implement such policies will require a new set of skills that draws upon lessons from around the world.",
        "迫使决策者实施这些郑旭需要性全世界的经验中总结新的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "With both leaders having spent the last two years overcoming domestic opponents and consolidating their power, they may have gained confidence in their ability to compromise.",
        "过去两年中，两位领导人都在克服国内反对派和巩固权力，如今他们或许已经有了形成妥协的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Illiberal strongmen have nonetheless accepted the basis of the Washington Consensus – that prudent macroeconomic policies deliver better economic performance in the long run – and have usually delegated macroeconomic management to apolitical experts.",
        "反自由强人接受了华盛顿共识的基础——长期而言，审慎宏观政策能带来更好的经济表现——他们常常将宏观经济管理委托给与不参与政治的专家。"
    ],
    [
        "Infrastructure did not keep pace with the economy’s needs.",
        "其基础设施建设未能跟上经济需求的脚步。"
    ],
    [
        "Or perhaps the cost of the vaccine is a barrier in some of these countries.",
        "某些国家起阻碍作用的还有可能是疫苗的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Readers will be disappointed if they want to learn more about Japan’s entry into the Pacific War, its defeat, the Allied occupation (especially Hirohito’s relationship with General Douglas MacArthur), or Hirohito’s later reluctance to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, where Imperial Japan’s war dead, including Class-A war criminals, are honored.",
        "希望更深入地了解日本发动太平洋战争、战败、盟军占领（特别是裕仁与麦克阿瑟将军的关系）以及裕仁随后不愿访问供奉包括甲级战犯在内的日本战死者的靖国神社的历史的读者会感到失望。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s fixation on the renminbi is a classic case of political denial.",
        "美国抓住人民币问题不放可谓政治否认的经典案例。"
    ],
    [
        "After the war in Iraq and the Bush administration’s slow reaction to Hurricane Katrina, America’s subprime mortgage crisis is perceived by many as simply accelerating the irresistible rise of Asia and the shift from a unipolar to a multipolar world, even if the wider financial crisis will equally affect Asia’s growth.",
        "在伊拉克战争以及布什政府在卡特林娜飓风后缓慢的反应后，美国的次贷危机被许多人看成不过是加速了亚洲的地位不可抗拒的上升以及世界从单极转向多极化的趋势，即便更大范围的金融危机也会影响亚洲的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "It must be responsible not just for defense and foreign policy, but also for key economic policies.",
        "它不但要负责国防和外交政策，还必须负责关键经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, not all protest parties reject the EU.",
        "此外，并非所有反对党都拒绝欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "But, entitled or not, politicians and electorates are constructing their own alternate realities – with far-reaching consequences.",
        "”这句话有其道理，但无论有权与否，政治家和选民们依旧在各自构建属于自己的替代性现实——并产生了深远的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The opposition remains fragmented and ineffective.",
        "反对派仍然低效，形不成合力。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes we rely on our judgment in combining interest-rate action with open-market operations.",
        "有时候我们依赖自身的判断来结合利率行动与公开市场操作。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly,the Zika crisis is not gender-neutral.",
        "显然，寨卡危机不是性别中性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Not even the resumption of fertilizer supplies by a private South Korean organization was enough to make a real difference.",
        "就连韩国一家私营机构恢复供应化肥都不足以真正改变局面。"
    ],
    [
        "To complement this effort, we must also invest in improving our understanding of how these risk factors – most often studied in connection with early childhood and adulthood – affect adolescents’ health.",
        "要完善这方面的措施，我们还必须投资于理解这些风险因素——最常见的情况是与儿童期和成人期进行衔接研究——如何影响青少年健康。"
    ],
    [
        "Taming Hamas is in Egypt’s interest, but it refuses to pay the price of a direct confrontation because that might lead Egyptian forces to be perceived as Israel’s protectors.",
        "驯服哈马斯符合埃及的利益，但是它拒绝直接与它进行对抗，因为这会使埃及的军队看起来像是以色列的保护者。"
    ],
    [
        "Since taking office, Rouhani has responded quickly to the Iranian public’s demands.",
        "自上任以来，鲁哈尼快速地响应了伊朗公众的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "The education ministry abruptly withdrew German as an optional third language in government schools, and replaced it with Sanskrit.",
        "教育部长突然取消了德语作为公立学校的第三外语选项，替之以梵文。"
    ],
    [
        "Large-scale, debt-funded capital investments have raised the country’s credit/GDP ratio to nearly 200%, increasing the financial system’s vulnerability – a development reflected in the recent spike in interbank interest rates.",
        "大规模债务融资将中国信贷占GDP的比率提高到近200%，凸显出金融系统的脆弱性——不久前的银行同业拆借利率飙升就反映了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the course of history, very few powerful states have developed a sense of themselves as being based not on ethnic heritage, but on a set of values that all citizens can live by.",
        "在历史进程中，很少有强大的国家能发展出这样一种感受：认为自己不是基于民族文化遗产，而是基于一系列所有公民生存之所系的价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "Employment is increasing in some of these areas, notably the northwest.",
        "一些北部地区的就业数量在增长，特别是西北部。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, we must ensure that low-income countries use debt relief and aid efficiently.",
        "与此同时，我们必须保证低收入国家有效地利用债务减免以及援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, people ask, are schools and roads in Afghanistan and Iraq more important than those in Colorado or California?",
        "人们不禁要问，为什么阿富汗和伊拉克的学校和道路比科罗拉多和加利福尼亚更重要？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, according to the first complete survey of the economic effects of climate change for the world, global warming will actually save lives.",
        "事实上，根据对气候变化对世界所产生的经济影响的首次全面调查显示，全球变暖实际上将会 挽救 人们的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Merkel has so far dampened any hope that the important and hard reforms that she announced during her campaign and that Germany urgently needs will be carried out under the CDU-SPD “grand coalition” government.",
        "迄今为止，默克尔让所有希望她在选举期间所宣布的，德国迫切需要的至关重要而又大刀阔斧的改革会由她所谓的“大联盟”政府实施的人们感到沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "There is some reason for hope: the ultimate source of checks and balances is the US constitution, which is the hardest of all democratic constitutions to change.",
        "也有感到希望的理由：制衡的终极来源是美国宪法，而美国宪法是民主宪法中最难以更改的。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy’s economic performance also looked better than previously assumed, necessitating an additional payment.",
        "意大利经济表现比此前所认为的更好，因此也需要增加欧盟预算贡献额。"
    ],
    [
        "Few international questions involve higher stakes than these.",
        "没有几个国际问题会比上述问题更加利害攸关。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments in countries colonized by China were forced to adopt this pictographic writing system in order to receive political regulations, but the pronunciation of the characters was not controlled.",
        "为了接受政治控制，成为中国殖民地的国家的政府被迫采用这种图画文字系统，但是，这些字符的读音没有受到中国的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "The price of oil, at around $70 a barrel, may be half of what it was a year ago, but up from around $40 earlier this year.",
        "目前70美元一桶的原油价格可能只是一年前的一半，但至少也比年初的40美元一桶有所提升了。"
    ],
    [
        "For weeks, central Russia has been in the grips of its worst-ever heat wave, which has caused probably thousands of fatalities.",
        "数星期以来，俄罗斯中部都被前所未有的热浪包围着，大概导致了近数千人死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of China’s economic miracle is the product of an activist government that has supported, stimulated, and openly subsidized industrial producers – both domestic and foreign.",
        "大部分中国经济奇迹都产生于其激进的政府——该政府支持，刺激并公开补贴工业生产者——不管是国内还是国外的。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this means we should stop worrying about the future.",
        "所有这些并不意味着我们不需要对未来感到担心。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, Swiss law prohibits the development of parthenotes, the derivation of stem cells from parthenotes, and the use of such stem cells.",
        "具体来讲，瑞士法律禁止培育单性生殖单倍体、从单性生殖单倍体提取干细胞以及对上述干细胞的应用行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The Nation-State Reborn",
        "民族国家的重生"
    ],
    [
        "In November, annual inflation in the euro area fell to a cyclical low of 0.3%, largely owing to the sharp fall in oil prices since the end of the summer.",
        "在11月，由于原油价格自夏季末期一路暴跌，欧元区年度通胀率下跌到了周期性低点0. 3%。"
    ],
    [
        "And what is true of global companies applies to countries: those that are not “in” will inevitably be left out.",
        "适用于全球企业的规律同样适用于国家：那些拒绝“融入”的主体将不可避免地被最终排除。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, Americans have been raking in profits by borrowing cheaply from pliant foreigners and investing the money in high-yield foreign equities, land, and bonds.",
        "知道目前，美国人通过从轻易受到影响的外国人那里廉价借钱并且把钱投资于高回报的外国资产、土地以及债券而攫取利润。"
    ],
    [
        "If this is not done forthwith, we will not grant Indian Visa to any Amazon official. We will also rescind the Visas issued earlier.”",
        "如果不马上落实，我们将不会向任何亚马逊官员签发印度签证，并废除此前发出的签证。"
    ],
    [
        "The world could not have prevented Yugoslavia’s spiral into civil war, but it might have made it less cruel by helping to negotiate terms of separation earlier.",
        "世界可能无法阻止南斯拉夫陷入内战，但是它却可能可以通过帮助在更早的时候谈判达成分离的协议而减少残忍。"
    ],
    [
        "There is now a very real prospect that we could see the last ever case of wild polio – a disease that once threatened millions of people – before the end of 2016.",
        "现在我们极有可能在2016年年底前消灭曾经威胁数百万人的脊髓灰质炎。"
    ],
    [
        "Marshall argued that leadership is a matter not of rhetoric, but of character.",
        "马歇尔认为，领导力是气质问题，不是修辞问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank estimates that almost four-fifths of the world’s poor live in rural areas, though those areas account for less than half of the world’s population.",
        "世界银行估算，全世界近五分之四的贫困人口生活在农村地区，尽管这些地区占世界人口的比例不到一半。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Economy’s Dialogue of the Deaf",
        "失效的世界经济对话"
    ],
    [
        "But, since 2015, growth across Sub-Saharan Africa has weakened, and the poor outlook for commodity prices has cast doubt on Africa’s economic promise, leading many to question the “Africa rising” narrative – and some to pronounce it dead.",
        "但2015年后，整个撒哈拉以南非洲地区的增长有所放缓，而大宗商品价格的悲观前景也让人们开始质疑非洲的经济前途，许多人开始怀疑“非洲崛起”叙事——更有人宣布非洲崛起的概念已死。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the protection afforded to living resources remains limited – and riddled with loopholes.",
        "但生物资源受到的保护依然非常有限——并且漏洞极多。"
    ],
    [
        "A member of my family recently had an eye problem, and was referred by her general practitioner to an eye surgeon. The surgeon examined the eye, said that it didn’t need surgery, and sent her back to the general practitioner.",
        "比如我的一位亲戚眼睛出了毛病，她的医生将其转给了另一个眼科医生，但眼科医生检查之后认为没必要做手术，于是又把她转回去了原来的医生处。"
    ],
    [
        "With so much political capital, Xi now has the scope to adjust his stance on domestically sensitive issues, according to China’s longer-term interests and his own.",
        "如此雄厚的政治资本在手，让习近平有空间根据中国和他本人的长期利益，调整其对国内敏感事务的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "The Japanese tsunami has called into question the future of nuclear energy worldwide.",
        "日本的海啸使人们对世界各地核能的未来产生了疑问。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s world, nobody is safe from large and volatile capital flows – not even countries that have built up huge amounts of self-insurance in the form of foreign-exchange reserves.",
        "在当今世界，没有那个经济体能在庞大而急剧的跨境资本流动下保持稳定，——甚至那些以巨额外汇储备的形式为自己买了保险的国家也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with the spread of democratic elections, the region’s leaders tend to come from the ranks of soldiers (Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe), family dynasties (Togo, Kenya, etc), or university professors, lawyers, and economists (Ghana, Malawi, Liberia).",
        "即使随着民主选举的发展，撒哈拉以南非洲国家的领导人一般也都是军人（例如乌干达、卢旺达和津巴布韦的领导人），家族王朝（例如多哥、肯尼亚等国的领导人），或者大学教授、律师和经济学家（例如加纳、马拉维、利比里亚的领导人）出身。"
    ],
    [
        "Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, for his part, doesn’t seem to spend much time worrying about the potential dangers posed by his website.",
        "至于Reddit联合创始人亚历克西斯·奥哈尼安（Alexis Ohanian），他似乎没有因为他的网站所造成的潜在危险而担心多久。"
    ],
    [
        "But a useful set of priorities can be gleaned from their experiences.",
        "但从它们的经验中可以总结出一套有用的优先事项。"
    ],
    [
        "The Syrian catastrophe alone ensures this.",
        "光是叙利亚灾难就足以形成这一结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, we need to address the Security Council’s insufficient attention to the humanitarian situation, and specifically its failure to implement Resolution 2139.",
        "其次，我们需要解决安理会对人道主义状况关注不够的问题，特别是安理会实施2139号决议不力。"
    ],
    [
        "The parent bank would like to use these funds to reinforce the group’s liquidity.",
        "总行希望使用这笔资金增强整个集团的流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "Most investors who pursue it buy and sell too often, burn through a lot of money in cumulative transaction costs, and are unrealistically optimistic about their ability to pick winners or time the market.",
        "大多数投资者会过度频繁交易，不但耗费大量交易成本，还会不切实际地高估自己选择优秀产品或选择入市时机的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, America’s “partners” are becoming increasingly resistant.",
        "幸运的是，美国的“合作伙伴”越来越抵制这一安排。"
    ],
    [
        "The Freedom House scores are remarkably similar: 12 of 31 non-Arab Muslim countries had relatively high scores for at least three consecutive years, and eight for five consecutive years.",
        "自由之家组织的评分非常接近：31个非阿拉伯穆斯林国家中，有12个连续3年以上得分较高，其中8个连续5年以上获得了高分。"
    ],
    [
        "The specific rules, infrastructure, skills, and technological mastery that export activities require tend to be different from those needed for the non-tradable activities that usually generate the bulk of a place’s employment.",
        "出口活动需要的具体规则、基础设施、技能和技术掌握往往与创造当地大部分就业机会的非贸易活动相比有着显著的区别。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe must break the vicious circle linking distressed sovereign borrowers with banks that are obliged, or at least encouraged, to buy their bonds, which in turn provide the funding for bank rescues.",
        "那些受压的主权借款者和银行之间已经形成了一种恶性循环，后者被迫，或者至少是被鼓励去购买前者的债券，而这些钱反过来又被用于拯救银行，而欧洲必须打破这一循环。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Asia’s growth also gives the West unprecedented economic hope.",
        "但亚洲地区的增长也为西方都带来了前所未有的经济曙光。"
    ],
    [
        "Biodiversity and climatic stability are global public goods.",
        "生物多样性和气候的稳定性都是全球性的公益。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there is the matter of its effect on low-wage workers and smaller-scale retailers.",
        "首先，这一模式对低工资工人以及小型零售者产生影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of others, however, are ill-prepared for the new age.",
        "但成千上万其他人没有对新时代做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "The pressures on our planet depend, of course, on our lifestyle.",
        "当然，这颗星球受到的压力取决于我们的生活方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Forcing leaders to step down in the middle of economic reforms seems counterproductive.",
        "在经济改革进行中期迫使领导人下台可能起到适得其反的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a greater share of the adjustment burden must fall on Germany.",
        "此外，德国必须承担起更多的调整任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has no shortage of banks: Germany has more than 1,500, and Italy has over 600.",
        "欧洲不缺银行：德国有1,500多家银行，意大利也有600多家。"
    ],
    [
        "Among his achievements is a Citizens’ Charter that is handed to every new resident to explain Swiss participatory democracy and lay out its rules.",
        "他的功绩之一是向每位新居民颁发一份《公民宪章》，详细说明瑞士的参与民主和相关规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as the terrorist attacks on America of 2001 showed, weapons as basic as box-cutters can become weapons of mass destruction if they are used to exploit the vulnerabilities of modern, global life.",
        "此外，正如恐怖分子2001年袭击美国所表现出的那样，如果被用以伤害当今全球的脆弱生命，即使是像纸箱切割刀这样基本的武器也会成为大规模杀伤性武器。"
    ],
    [
        "In a message dated February 16, 2011, entitled “The People’s Revolution and the Fall of the Corrupt Arab System: A New Beginning and the Shattering of the Idol of ‘Stability,’” a Libyan who goes by the name Atiyat Allah writes, “It is true that this revolution is not the ideal that we had desired….[W]e hope that this is the first step to better times yet.”",
        "2011年2月16日发布了一条消息：“人民革命和阿拉伯腐败体制的倒台： 打碎‘稳定’偶像的新起点”，一位名叫Atiyat Allah的利比亚人写道，“显然这场革命并不符合我们的理想…[我们]希望这是通向美好时代的最初一步。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "These other factors have combined to create a bubble around central-bank pronouncements and decisions that grossly exaggerates their economic significance.",
        "这些其他因素结合起来围绕着中央银行的声明和决定创造了一个光鲜明亮的肥皂泡，显而易见地夸大了他们在经济上的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Early boomers – beginning with Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, whose birth one second past midnight on New Year’s Day, 1946, has made her a minor celebrity – grew up surrounded by the hippie counterculture, the music of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, and the Vietnam war.",
        "早期成员——从凯瑟琳·凯西-克希林开始，她在1946年新年午夜钟声后一秒落地使她成为了不大不小的名人——嬉皮文化、披头士和鲍勃·迪伦的音乐以及越南战争构成了她的成长环境。"
    ],
    [
        "But the idea that any citizen could challenge the constitutionality of legislation, as is possible in many European countries and the United States, was inconceivable.",
        "虽然在欧洲很多国家和美国任何公民都有权对法律的合宪性提出疑问，但这在法国却的确有些匪夷所思。"
    ],
    [
        "But Greenspan would have served the country and the world better if he had been somewhat more paternalist in slowing the growth of non-standard adjustable-rate mortgages.",
        "但格林斯潘如果在减缓非标准可变利率按揭贷款的增长方面多一点家长式的作风，那么这对美国和世界本应该更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Reelected with a resounding – and entirely unexpected – majority in the House of Commons, Prime Minister David Cameron must now use his increased mandate to set out an EU reform package that is attractive to all member states.",
        "首相大卫·卡梅伦令人大跌眼镜，在下议院赢得绝对多数，成功实现连任，现在，他必须利用增加的权力制定一套可以吸引所有成员国的欧盟改革方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The legacy of dead dictators from vanquished totalitarian regimes should no longer be ambivalent.",
        "对失败的极权政府的已故独裁者留下的影响，不能再持模棱两可的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "When the canal-building boom ended, eight states and the Territory of Florida (accounting for about 10% of the entire US population at the time) were unable to service their debt and defaulted on their, mostly British, loans.",
        "运河挖掘繁荣结束时，佛罗里达领地的八个州（当时占美国全国人口的10%）无法支付债务利息，不得不违约（其中大部分是对英国的债务）。"
    ],
    [
        "Symbolic declarations of war, though, ought to be considered with caution, lest the Islamic State appear to be winning every day it does not lose.",
        "但象征性地宣战要慎之又慎，以免造成伊斯兰国不输便是赢的表象。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Japan had administrative control, Chinese ships would occasionally enter Japanese waters to assert their legal position.",
        "虽然由日本实际行政控制，但中国船只偶尔也会进入日本领海以宣誓自己的合法要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the next few months, newspapers and television stations ran with the story as it snowballed into a national obsession.",
        "在接下来的几个月里，由于报纸和电视台对该事件滚雪球般地报道使其成为一个全国上下共同关注的话题。"
    ],
    [
        "The nuclear-armed states can and should make serious commitments to dramatic further reductions in the size of their arsenals; hold the number of weapons physically deployed and ready for immediate launch to an absolute minimum; and change their strategic doctrines to limit the role and salience of nuclear weapons, ideally by committing to “no first use.”",
        "保持实际部署武器的数量、准备立刻宣布一个绝对最小值； 并改变战略思维，限制核武器的作用和突出性，最好是通过承诺“不首先使用”。"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, those who think that America is about to collapse are likely to be disappointed.",
        "在我看来，认为美国行将崩溃的一方可能会感到失望，但与此同时，我怀疑美国例外论也即将终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Media reports of Iraqi bloodshed focus overwhelmingly on Baghdad – where the large majority of foreign journalists are based – creating the impression that the desperate security situation there is representative of the country as a whole.",
        "媒体对伊拉克流血事件的报导大部分集中在巴格达¾这里是绝大部分外国记者的聚集地¾¾留给人的印象是那里毫无希望的安全局势是伊拉克全国局势的缩影。"
    ],
    [
        "The spread of global value-chains that integrate hundreds of millions of developing-country workers into the global economy, as well as new labor-saving technologies, imply little chance of cost-push wage inflation.",
        "全球价值链的扩大将数亿发展中国家工人以及劳动力节约型技术与全球经济融为一体，这意味着成本推动型工资通胀几无可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Emblematic of the difference between the UN and the G-20 conferences was the discussion of bank secrecy: whereas the G-20 focused on tax evasion, the UN Conference addressed corruption, too, which some experts contend gives rise to outflows from some of the poorest countries that are greater than the foreign assistance they receive.",
        "而联合国和G20会议的议题中显示出最大不同的就是关于银行保密问题的讨论：当G20集团只是专注于解决逃税问题时，联合国会议同时还着眼于腐败现象，因为许多专家都指出，某些穷国每年流出的资金量甚至比它们所接受的援助还要大。"
    ],
    [
        "PHILADELPHIA – In January, Israeli voters will go to the polls for an election that promises to hand Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a renewed mandate.",
        "费城——1月，以色列选民将举行投票，授权总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡连任的可能性很大。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important message of the recent Dutch conference was that massive cyber vulnerability is now nearing that point.",
        "最近荷兰会议最重要的信息是大规模网络漏洞已接近临界点。"
    ],
    [
        "While Weinstein has “unequivocally denied” allegations of non-consensual sex, and no arrests have been made, more than two dozen women – including the actors Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Rose McGowan – have publicly accused him of harassment.",
        "尽管韦恩斯坦已“明确否认”非自愿性行为指控，且警方并未展开任何逮捕行动，但20多位女性——包括演员安吉丽娜·朱莉、格温尼斯·帕特洛和罗斯·麦高恩——都公开指控韦恩斯坦性骚扰。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – Since the anti-austerity Syriza party's victory in Greece's recent general election, the “Greek problem\" is again preoccupying markets and policymakers throughout Europe.",
        "布鲁塞尔—自反紧缩的左翼联盟党（Syriza）在希腊最新大选中获胜以来，“希腊问题”再次占领了全欧洲市场和决策者的注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "And so, barring a miracle, the time bomb within post-war Europe’s beautiful ideal is about to explode.",
        "此外，战后欧洲美妙理想所暗含的定时炸弹就要爆炸了。"
    ],
    [
        "The country is ranked among the world’s top-performing democracies – ahead of France, Italy, and the US according to some indicators.",
        "该国位列世界表现最好的民主政体之一——某些指标甚至领先于法国、意大利和美国。"
    ],
    [
        "A widespread view is that Russia is simply reverting to type: freedom was never more than a fleeting vowel in its historical alphabet.",
        "人们普遍认为俄罗斯仅仅是恢复原状：自由有史以来在俄国字母表中从来都不过是转瞬即逝的元音字母。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund has estimated that Ukraine will need $15 billion in outside help in 2015, in addition to the $17 billion bailout that it received last year.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）估计2015年乌克兰将需要150亿美元外援，而在去年乌克兰已经获得了170亿美元援助金。"
    ],
    [
        "And, instead of solving all sorts of economically caused private problems, laid-off workers can concentrate on finding new and more future-oriented jobs.",
        "而且，失业工人可以集中精力寻找新的面向未来的工作，而不是解决种种经济造成的私人问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Her political style is both refreshing and relevant, because she comes across as sincere and forthright at a time when the public is hungry for moral leadership.",
        "她的政治风格既有价值又令人耳目一新，因为在公众渴望道德领袖的今天她给人留下了真诚坦荡的印象。"
    ],
    [
        "Facilities built to receive liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports have been converted to process exports.",
        "曾经用于进口液化天然气（LNG）的接收设施现在已经转而用于出口市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Known as the “Bhagwati Tax,” it is of course “the American way”: US citizens and permanent residents abroad, like those at home, must pay federal taxes.",
        "这一“巴格瓦蒂税”显然是相当“美国”的：在外永久定居的美国公民与国内公民一样，都必须缴纳联邦税。"
    ],
    [
        "And they should be pursuing immigration reform to overhaul a system that penalizes talent, encourages malfeasance, and, as illustrated by the thousands of migrants who have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in recent years while trying to reach Europe, often leads to human tragedy.",
        "他们还应该追求移民改革以改变惩罚人才、鼓励渎职的制度，而近几年来成千上万移民在通往欧洲的过程中沉于地中海更是证明了现行移民政策常常导致人道悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Lord Johnston expressed his opinion about my case in his talks with the authorities, which then decided not to send me to prison.",
        "正在亚美尼亚访问的欧洲理事会会议大会主席罗素·约翰斯通勋爵在与当局的一次谈话中发表了他对我的案件的看法，使政府下令取消把我送进监狱的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "It lingers, but without a credible outlet.",
        "它依然存在，但已经失去了可靠的外表。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the ECB’s task is all the more difficult because, having focused so narrowly on inflation stabilization, markets would read adoption of a more flexible stance as a change in position.",
        "而这个任务对欧洲央行来说益发困难，因为，在目不暇顾地专注于稳定通胀之后，市场会把他们采取更加灵活的姿态当作是立场的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan has lapsed back into recession, and the BOJ has just cut the inflation target for this year from 1.7% to 1%.",
        "日本再次陷入了衰退，而日本银行也刚刚将今年通胀目标从1. 7%调低到1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently, many economists and politicians concluded that paper money could be more easily controlled and more stable.",
        "因此，许多经济学家和政治家断言，纸货币更加易于控制并且更稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "These considerations raise the prospect of trying to bring about an alternative future: an Iran with a political leadership that is more moderate at home and abroad, and that forgoes developing a nuclear weapon or anything close to it.",
        "至此，上述这些考量都引出了一种具有可替代性的未来前景：能否催生一个拥有对内对外都更加温和的领导层的伊朗，一个放弃发展一切与核武有关事务的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "With a dispassionate eye on the long game, what will the president himself be thinking?",
        "但不知道这位用平和的心态去看待这个漫长过程的总统，自己又在琢磨些什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The New Transatlantic Stalemate",
        "新大西洋僵局"
    ],
    [
        "The leading economies of the West are doing pretty much the same thing – just dressing up their manipulation in different clothes.",
        "西方主要经济体无不做着同样的事情——只不过用不同的外衣掩饰操纵之实而已。"
    ],
    [
        "In a country where mobile penetration exceeds 80% but only a few people have smartphones, such simple solutions can have the greatest impact.",
        "加纳的移动电话渗透率超过80%，但只有少数人拥有智能手机，但如此简单的方案仍起到了最大的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Tolerance and religious freedom must be mutual.",
        "包容和宗教自由必须是相互的。"
    ],
    [
        "If they succeed, a high-income China will be only a matter of time.",
        "如果他们能够成功应对这一挑战，中国进入高收入行列将只是时间问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, three-quarters of near-retirees – those aged 50-64 – have annual incomes below $52,201 and average total retirement savings of less than $27,000.",
        "与此同时，四分之三的接近退休人群——即50—64年龄段——年收入低于52 201美元，总退休储蓄少于27 000美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing this imperative is the first step. Now the hard work must begin.",
        "认识到这一点的紧迫性只是开端，而如今是时候挽起衣袖，迎难而上了。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, he and his advisers have already made verbal pronouncements intended to weaken the dollar.",
        "比如，他和他的顾问们已经放出口风，想要美元贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "But vast differences between Japan and its developed counterparts in the West, mean that, like so many other Western exports, Piketty's argument has taken on unique characteristics.",
        "但日本和西方发达国家之间的巨大差异意味着，与许多其他欧洲舶来品（export）一样，皮凯蒂的观点颇有些独特的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "A thousand miles to the west of Georgia is Moldova (population 3.5 million), which lies between Romania and Ukraine.",
        "格鲁吉亚以西1000英里就是摩尔多瓦（人口350万）。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by strengthening UN sanctions to such an extent that North Korea is forced to abandon its missiles and nuclear weapons – and China to reconsider its knee-jerk support – can the regime be dissuaded from further, and more ominous, maneuvering.",
        "只有加强联合国制裁迫使朝鲜放弃导弹及核武器计划——并促使中国重新考虑其下意识的支持——才能使朝鲜政权放弃进一步的可怕行动。"
    ],
    [
        "There is the risk, of course, that the ongoing international clampdown will drive commercial surrogacy underground.",
        "当然正在进行的国际取缔运动将商业代孕推入地下的可能性始终存在。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not include billions of fish caught illegally nor unwanted fish accidentally caught and discarded, nor does it count fish impaled on hooks as bait.",
        "这还不包括那些被非法捕捞，被渔民抛弃的低经济价值鱼类，以及被用作诱饵的鱼类。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the political situation in Kyrgyzstan is far from stable.",
        "但吉尔吉斯斯坦的政治局势还远远说不上稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Both of these theories can be connected with Piketty’s arguments about the dynamics of capital accumulation.",
        "这些理论都可以和皮凯蒂的资本积累动态的观点联系起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of focusing on large-scale, one-size-fits-all production, firms must use the data they receive to glean more detailed insights about consumers’ preferences and expectations – and expand their portfolios to include the niche products that consumers crave.",
        "企业不应该在关注大规模、一刀切产品，而应该利用获得的数据更细致地洞察消费者的偏好和预期——并扩大产品组合，将消费者所渴望的利基产品包括进来。"
    ],
    [
        "SHANGHAI – As the existing international order becomes more fragmented, strong global-governance institutions are crucial for addressing the world’s strategic, economic, and sustainability challenges.",
        "上海——随着现有的国际秩序变得更加四分五裂，强势全球治理机构对迎接世界战略、经济和可持续发展挑战起着至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Credit is often given simply because someone has produced a creditable work.",
        "只有当某人的工作值得称道时才会得到加分。"
    ],
    [
        "Another analysis published by the BBC after the referendum found one of the strongest predictors of a Leave vote to be support for capital punishment.",
        "另一项公投后BBC发表的分析发现，脱欧投票的最强指标是对死刑的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Across the region, there is fatigue with the wildness and disorder that politics conducted by firestorm brings.",
        "民众已经厌倦了粗暴执政带来的野蛮和无序。"
    ],
    [
        "Welfare programs in war-ravaged countries often aggravate joblessness by reducing work incentives and creating a culture of dependency.",
        "饱受战乱之苦的国家里的福利项目经常由于减少工作激励并且创造一种依赖文化而增加失业。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse is its “exemptionalism\": its penchant for opting out of the rules that it promotes – and often actively enforces – elsewhere.",
        "更糟糕的是其“豁免论”（exemptionalism）：置身其在其他地区所推行——并且常常积极执行——的规则之外。"
    ],
    [
        "The S&P’s price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio for the trailing 12 months is close to 20, compared to a long-run mean of 15.53 and a median of 14.57.",
        "标准普尔12个月前瞻市盈率接近20，而长期平均值和中位值分别为15. 53和14."
    ],
    [
        "Recognition of this fundamental problem was the reason why the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) were created in the 1960’s.",
        "国际货币基金组织于20世纪60年代创立特别提款权(SDRs)，就是因为世界各国认识到了这一根本问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, world leaders should seek to establish closer forms of international cooperation on nuclear security.",
        "最后，世界领导人应该建立更加密切的核安保问题国际合作形式。"
    ],
    [
        "The stakes are high and the threat is real.",
        "兹事体大，威胁也是实实在在的。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be playing a much more active role both in meeting Africa’s demand for imports and in stimulating industrial and agricultural development across the continent.",
        "它应该在满足非洲对进口品的需求以及刺激非洲工业和农业发展方面起到更加积极的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Industry ministries oversee vertical swaths of firms.",
        "工业部负责管理纵向的公司阵列。"
    ],
    [
        "One weakness is that even if the targets are terrorists, the victims are often innocent civilians, and their suffering reinforces the terrorist cause.",
        "其一是，即使目标就是恐怖分子，受害者也经常是无辜的平民，而他们的苦难则加强了恐怖分子运动。"
    ],
    [
        "All these features have been present in the current economic expansion.",
        "所有这些特点在当前的经济扩张中显现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is not even counting the huge shadow Obamacare casts on the health-care system, which alone accounts for 17% of the economy.",
        "这甚至尚未包括奥巴马医保对医疗体系的巨大影响，而医疗部门要占经济的17%。"
    ],
    [
        "The cosmopolitans tend to be increasingly wealthy, and their wealth helps mark them as cosmopolitan.",
        "国际人士一般都很富裕，而他们的财富也成为国际人士的标志。"
    ],
    [
        "Its strategy of gradual reform, economic modernization, and social development has made the country an oasis of stability in a region rife with violence and strategic rivalries – and thus a reliable partner for Europe and the United States as they seek to influence events in North Africa and across the Middle East.",
        "其渐进式改革、经济现代化和社会发展战略让它成为这片暴力和战略敌对地区的一片稳定绿洲——因此也称为欧洲和美国在寻求影响北非和整个中东地区事态发展时的可靠伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "They intuitively sense that they can no longer rely only on the absolute security guarantee represented by the United States’ combination of active and passive support.",
        "他们直觉地感到，他们无法再依赖于由美国的综合积极和消极支持所代表的绝对安全保证。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps Borodin was just enjoying a rare night out and is normally an abstemious man, but his thuggish behavior is perhaps not entirely atypical of a new class of Russians that has accumulated a great deal of money and power since the Soviet Union collapsed.",
        "或许鲍罗廷只是享受了一个难得的外出夜晚，或许他通常很有节制。 但其残暴行为或许在苏联解体后积累了大量金钱和权力的俄罗斯新贵一族中并不罕见。"
    ],
    [
        "Russians have long boasted of their various unique forms of greatness: first it was the holy Russian soul, so superior to Western practicality.",
        "长久以来，俄罗斯人一直自夸他们国家独一无二伟大之处：首先是圣洁的俄罗斯精神义远远高于西方的实用主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Lacking in saving and wanting to grow, America must import surplus savings from abroad.",
        "储蓄不足又想增长，美国就必须从国外进口储蓄盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Pope Francis has been clear that Christian values include caring for refugees.",
        "此外，教皇弗朗西斯已明确表示基督教价值观包括关爱难民。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to the choices that these and other countries make, America’s own choices will be an important factor determining what kind of future it faces.",
        "除了这些国家以及其他国家所作的选择外，美国自身的选择对于决定美国面对何种未来也非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "On November 1, however, after negotiations following the June elections resulted in a hung parliament, Turks voted again, and the outcome could not have been more different.",
        "但是，6月选举后的谈判导致了无多数议会，11月1日，土耳其再次举行投票，结果截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "With respect to the United States, I welcome President Barack Obama’s recent proposals to address growth and employment; actions like more aggressive principal-reduction programs or helping homeowners to take advantage of low-interest rates would also help.",
        "就美国而言，奥巴马总统最近提出了重振增长和就业的方案，此外还有更为积极的债务本金削减计划和协助屋主利用低利率的计划，这些计划都将有所助益，我对此十分欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "With the adoption of the MDGs, political leaders were publicly and privately questioned on the steps they were taking to end extreme poverty.",
        "实施MDG后，政治领袖所采取的消灭极端贫困的措施会受到公开和不公开的质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Deductive inference enables us to predict effects if we know the principles (the rule) and the cause.",
        "演绎推理使我们在知道原理（法则）和起因的情况下可以预测出结果。"
    ],
    [
        "UMNO is widely believed to have held talks with Anwar before.",
        "舆论界广泛认为UMNO此前曾与Anwar会谈。"
    ],
    [
        "A simple and elegant solution is to phase in a switchover to a fully electronic currency, where paying interest, positive or negative, requires only the push of a button.",
        "一个简单又优美的解决方案是逐步向完全电子化的货币靠拢，使用电子货币后，支付利息（正或负）只要按个按钮就行了。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, it means addressing the income disparities in educational opportunity and attainment.",
        "最重要的是，这意味着纠正教育机会和程度的收入不平等问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Four years later, the repeated failure of economic forecasters to predict the depth and duration of the slump would have elicited a similar question from the queen: Why the overestimate of recovery?",
        "时隔四年，经济预测者在衰退深度以及持续时间上的持续失准又让人们不禁跟女王一样发问：为何会高估了经济复苏？"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, economic theorists have been puzzled by the historical rate of increase in the stock market, which they call “the equity premium puzzle.”",
        "相反，经济学理论家一直对股票市场的历史增长率感到困惑，他们将此称为“股权溢价之谜” 。"
    ],
    [
        "To most Indians, common discourtesy cannot be repackaged as moral virtue.",
        "对大部分印度人来说，司空见惯的粗鲁是不可能被包装成道德优点的。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is instructive to consider the implications of Castro-Gomez’s concept for the Arab world.",
        "因此，考察卡斯特罗-戈麦兹的概念对阿拉伯世界的影响很具有说明性。"
    ],
    [
        "Charles de Gaulle took France out of the NATO military alliance in 1966.",
        "戴高乐在1966年将法国退出了北约军事联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "The debt ratios for both Ireland and Portugal are expected to peak at about 120% of GDP in 2013, after which they are projected to fall.",
        "据估计，爱尔兰和葡萄牙的债务比率将在2013年迎来高峰，达到GDP的120%，此后则会下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Older economists thought differently, assuming that most economic outcomes in the real world are the result of behavior that is at least partly irrational, meaning that expectations should be viewed more as reasonable possibilities than near-certainties.",
        "老一辈经济学家的理念则不一样，他们假设现实世界中的大多数经济现象至少在一定程度上是非理性行为的结果，这意味着期望应该被视为合理的可能性，而不是近似的确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The danger, of course, is that lessons can be overlearned.",
        "当然，危险在于教训可能被过度汲取。"
    ],
    [
        "In most cases, companies are not doing anything illegal by taking advantage of this fragmented system.",
        "在大部分情况下，公司利用这一各自为政的体系绝对合法。"
    ],
    [
        "COPENHAGEN -- It’s possible to see, right now, what global warming will eventually do to the planet.",
        "哥本哈根——现在应该可以看到全球变暖最终将会给这个星球带来怎样的后果了。"
    ],
    [
        "After Sultan (who served for decades as Minister of Defense) died in October 2011, Abdullah froze the Allegiance Council.",
        "在苏丹（他担任国防部长数十年之久）于2011年10月去世后，阿卜杜拉冻结了忠诚委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has long known that it could never balance America in the realm of “hard power”; but, with the decline of America’s “soft power,” it became more important than ever to incarnate the “humane” and law-abiding face of the West.",
        "欧洲长久以来知道它在“硬实力”上永远不可能与美国分庭抗礼； 但是，随着美国“软实力”的衰落，体现西方的“人性化”和遵守法律就比以往更为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Lou, a trained economist who previously served in the Ministry of Finance as a deputy minister, where he was a voice for pro-market reforms, indicated his current approach to tax and budget policy at a recent meeting in Beijing.",
        "楼是一个训练有素的经济学家，曾任财政部副部长，也属于市场化改革派——他近期在北京的一次会议上在税收和预算政策上也表现出类似立场。"
    ],
    [
        "But the West now faces serious competition from the rising nations of Asia, where education in math and science is flourishing.",
        "但是西方社会现在面临着来自亚洲新兴国家的激烈竞争，那里的数学和科学教育现在进行得非常成功。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet his decision on Jerusalem forces the Saudis to confront a dilemma: whether to place a higher priority on defending the Palestinian cause, or on normalizing ties with Israel as a means to contain Iran.",
        "但他的耶路撒冷决定迫使沙特面临一个困境：是以捍卫巴勒斯坦人的事业为重，还是以实现对以关系正常化以遏制伊朗为重。"
    ],
    [
        "From their slow motion, we infer that they have mass.",
        "而从它们缓慢的移动中，我们认为它们拥有质量。"
    ],
    [
        "What I can do is try to explain why that uncertainty exists.",
        "我可以做的是解释为何存在这一不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s not certain that such an undertaking can succeed at a time when world order is eroding and relations with Russia are strained.",
        "在世界秩序沦丧、对俄关系吃紧的时候，这样的举措能否成功尚未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "But this tightening by a fraction of a percentage point of GDP implies no adverse effect on growth.",
        "但这一相当于零点几个百分点GDP的紧缩对增长没有什么消极影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Arabs have a lower preference for democracy (with a gap of 11%), are less civically active (a gap of 8%), respect authority more (by 11%), and embrace patriarchal values much more strongly (by a whopping 30%).",
        "阿拉伯人对民主的偏好较低（差距为11%），公民活跃程度较低（差距8%），更尊重威权（差距11%），也更强烈地接受父权价值（差距为惊人的30%）。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes it even more important for the EEAS to align the Common Security and Defense Policy with wider foreign-policy efforts.",
        "因此，EEAS以更广泛的外交政策措施与共同安全和防务政策相辅相成就变得愈加重要了。"
    ],
    [
        "First, higher levels of CO2 are making the world’s oceans acidic.",
        "首先，二氧化碳水平的升高正在让海洋变酸。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, in anticipation of a hypothetical confrontation with Iran, a major military maneuver – the Juniper Cobra exercise – was conducted to test Israel’s integration into US ballistic missile defenses.",
        "最近随着与伊朗发生冲突的预期不断增加，一个重要的军事机动行动 —— “杜松眼镜蛇 （ Juniper Cobra exercise ） ”演习 —— 被用以测试以色列与美国弹道导弹防御系统的融合程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who voted for Bush may not be as outraged by American involvement in torture, or the misleading information about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and connections with Al Qaeda, as those abroad.",
        "对于美国卷入酷刑丑闻，伊拉克拥有大规模杀伤性武器以及伊与基地组织有关联的误传等问题，海外的美国民众可能要比那些投票给布什的民众更感到气愤。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, central bankers should be democratically accountable for their actions.",
        "无可否认，中央银行家们的行为应当接受民主问责。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing nothing but talking, which is Europe’s current model of inaction, is the worst possible course.",
        "而欧洲目前无所事事却一味泛泛而谈的消极状态，是最糟糕的一个过程。"
    ],
    [
        "These viruses are transmitted from animal populations, which can act as reservoirs where the pathogens can develop and mutate, making it difficult for researchers to keep pace with the diseases’ variations.",
        "病毒的传播起源于动物种群，而动物体就像病原体发展变异的蓄水池。 研究人员因此很难跟上传染病的变化速度。"
    ],
    [
        "When Goran Jelisić – a camp guard in Bosnia who called himself “the Serb Adolf” – was acquitted of genocide in 1999, one might have concluded from the prosecution’s stunned reaction that Jelisić had walked free.",
        "当自诩为“塞族阿道夫”的集中营守卫Goran Jelisić1999年被判种族灭绝罪名不成立后，人们似乎从控方目瞪口呆的表情中解读出Jelisić已经逍遥法外。"
    ],
    [
        "The message to the Kremlin here would be crystal clear. “Do not fool yourself.",
        "在这里向克里姆林宫传达的讯息是非常清楚的，“不要自欺欺人，民族主义和帝国主义不会有任何结果；"
    ],
    [
        "Such a change cannot happen unless scientists themselves first take the time to consider the consequences of their own behavior toward each other.",
        "如果科学家们自己不能抽出时间考虑他们自身的行为给彼此造成的影响，那么这种变化就不会出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Under these classifications, the number of nuclear accidents, even including the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini, is low.",
        "按照这样的分级标准，即便将福岛第一和第二两座核电站的熔毁事故包括在内，真正的核“事故”其实不多。"
    ],
    [
        "The people of South Sudan, most of whom are Christian or animists, are likely to favor secession – not least because of the memory of decades of war and the deeply resented imposition of Sharia law by Bashir’s government in Khartoum.",
        "南苏丹民众多数都是基督教徒或者泛灵论者，他们很可能愿意选择独立——尤其回想起长达数十年的战争和巴希尔的喀土穆政府违反人民意愿强制推行伊斯兰法。"
    ],
    [
        "These and other measures now under consideration promise to improve Puerto Rico’s economic prospects. But they will require concerted and determined action on all fronts.",
        "现在进行研究考虑的这些和其他措施将能改善波多黎各的经济前景，但是需要以协调和执行为前提。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Fed regulates only banks, so liquidity and leverage will migrate to the shadow banking system if banks are regulated more tightly.",
        "事实上，美联储只监管银行，因此如果银行系统监管更加严密，将迫使流动性和杠杆向影子银行系统转移。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is important to note that Wen was expressing a policy rather than forecasting performance.",
        "但需要指出的一个要点是，温家宝所表达的更多的是一种政策姿态，而不是在预测经济表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless the relative economic roles of the market and the state are rebalanced, the protests of 2011 will become more severe, with social and political instability eventually harming long-term economic growth and welfare.",
        "除非市场和政府的经济角色重新找到平衡，否则2011年的抗议风潮将愈演愈烈，社会、政治不稳定最终将伤害长期经济增长和福利。"
    ],
    [
        "Projecting stability and security in these countries is the next logical step in building a Europe \"whole and free\" and securing the Euro-Atlantic community's eastern frontier with the Middle East.",
        "下一步是预先规划好地区的安全和稳定，然后再建设一个\"完整自由\"的欧洲，确保欧洲－大西洋共同体与中东边界线的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "In North America, governments appear to have muddled through.",
        "而北美地区的政府则属于侥幸蒙混过关的那类。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, if voting confers dignity on citizens, participation in a fraud is humiliating.",
        "然而，如果投票赋予公民尊严，被卷入舞弊就是屈辱。"
    ],
    [
        "The democratic credentials of organizations like the EU are doubtful, and entirely absent in the case of the UN and other world institutions.",
        "欧盟等组织是否称得上民主很难确定，而联合国和其它全球机构则根本和民主毫不相关。"
    ],
    [
        "The personal genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe has created a useful interface for returning results, which could easily be built upon to deliver complete genome data to participants – as long as the sample collection and sequencing are performed to a sufficiently high clinical standard.",
        "个人基因组和生物技术公司 23andMe公司创造了一种有用的界面来返回结果，利用这些结果，可以很容易地将完整基因数据传给参与者——只要样本收集和测序符合充分高的临床标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Those elites should now ask themselves whether their middle-class constituency is capable of enduring blockades, massive capital flight (which is already happening), a collapsing standard of living, and the enmity of both Spain and Europe.",
        "那些精英现在应当反躬自问他们的中产阶级选民是否能够忍受封锁、（现在已经真实发生的）大规模资本外逃、生活水平大幅下降以及同时惹怒西班牙和欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor will I dwell on the fact that Tsipras did not refrain, when assembling parliamentary support for his referendum, from soliciting the support of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, whose help any other European leader would have rejected.",
        "我也不会详细讨论以下事实：齐普拉斯在组织对他的公投的议会支持时甚至寻求新纳粹主义政党金色黎明党（Golden Dawn）的支持，任何其他欧洲领导人都会拒绝该党的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Federal Reserve’s decision in December to raise the federal funds rate, together with the uncertainty generated by collapsing oil prices, has also spurred investors to reduce their China exposure and switch to dollars.",
        "去年12月，美联储决定提高联邦基金利率，再加上油价崩溃造成的不确定性，让投资者纷纷降低了对中国的风险敞口，并转向美元安全资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Corruption – under any form or circumstance – is a cancer that cripples developed and developing economies alike. It undermines economic growth.",
        "腐败——不管以何种形式或在任何场合——无论对发达和发展中经济体来说都堪称是危害巨大的癌症，不但损害经济发展，而且是一种对发展中国家危害尤其巨大的罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, what will now shape the future of the region is not democracy, but the violent divide between Shiites and Sunnis that the Iraq war precipitated.",
        "的确，构成该地区未来的不是民主，而是伊拉克战争所促成的什叶派和逊尼派的暴力分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Feeling marginalized and resentful, they may turn to public platforms like social media and the streets to advance their causes and undermine their opponents’ authority.",
        "他们因为觉得被边缘化而心怀愤恨，因此会转向社会媒体等公共平台和街头去主张他们的看法、破坏被反对者的权威。"
    ],
    [
        "But as long as China’s import share of final consumption remains low, direct gains for exporters of consumer goods are likely to be small.",
        "但只要中国的进口占最终消费仍然维持在低水平，那么消费品出口国的直接收益将很小。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of hope, the country seems to be falling into a collective depression.",
        "没有了希望，这个国家似乎陷入到了一种集体的沮丧当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Trump’s cluelessness will likely embolden traditional US adversaries, such as Russia, Syria, and North Korea.",
        "与此同时，特朗普的无知可能会令美国的传统对手，如俄罗斯、叙利亚和朝鲜蠢蠢欲动。"
    ],
    [
        "The virus has killed more than three times that number in 2014, with enough cases spreading internationally to dominate nightly news broadcasts and spook voters in recent US state and local elections.",
        "2014年死于埃博拉的人数却已超过原有数据的3倍，埃博拉国际感染病例充斥着晚间新闻，令最近美国州及地方选举的选民们感到寝食不安。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is a crucial first step to ensure that the region’s destiny is not dictated by its weather.",
        "但它是确保该地区的命运不被天气束缚的关键的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2035, shale gas is projected to account for roughly one-half of total US energy production.",
        "到2035年，预计页岩气将占美国能源产量的一半左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Why waste precious work time in the air, at security checks, and waiting for our luggage?",
        "为何要把宝贵的工作时间浪费在空中、安检门和等待行李上？"
    ],
    [
        "The Cooperative Alternative",
        "另类合作社"
    ],
    [
        "Passion is returning to politics, but not in the manner many of us had hoped it would.",
        "政治生活再次充斥着激情——但却并非是以许多人所希望的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "That is all the more likely, given mounting domestic pressure for reform from a technologically savvy and globally engaged young citizenry.",
        "出现这种情况的可能性越来越大，因为精通技术、视野广阔的年轻人越来越迫切地要求推行国内改革。"
    ],
    [
        "ZURICH – The dramatic success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in driving advances in human health will be a hard act to follow.",
        "苏黎世—千年发展目标（MDG）在推动人类健康方面取得了巨大的成功，要继续成功下啊去很难。"
    ],
    [
        "But northeast Asia, alone among the Asian regions, has no regional organization.",
        "但东北亚在亚洲地区中却是唯一没有地区性组织的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is based on freedom of movement of goods, services, capital, and people. The Commission, as the guardian of the Union’s treaties, must protect these four fundamental freedoms, which means that it must sometimes persuade, and if necessary force, member states to change their laws.",
        "欧盟不单纯是一个盟友俱乐部，它建立在商品、服务、资金和人员自由运转的基础上，这意味着有时它要说服、甚至在必要的情况下强迫某些成员国修改它们自己的法律。"
    ],
    [
        "US President Barack Obama’s strategic “pivot” to Asia depended primarily on enacting the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Trump has promised to scrap on his first day in office.",
        "美国总统奥巴马对亚洲的战略“枢纽”主要依赖于颁布包含12个国家的跨太平洋伙伴关系协定（英文缩写为TPP），但特朗普则声称在他上任第一天就会废除此协议。"
    ],
    [
        "But reintegration of conflict-ridden groups into productive activities is a sine qua non for political, economic, and social stability.",
        "但是，使被冲突所困的人们重返社会并纳入生产活动，是政治、经济和社会稳定的一个先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "But scattered moves in the right direction will not suffice.",
        "但朝着正确方向的零星动作是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "Most terrorism, ultimately, is oil-funded.",
        "归根结底，石油收入养活了绝大多数恐怖主义。"
    ],
    [
        "This principle was also at the heart of Willy Brandt’s Neue Ostpolitik in the 1960s and 1970s.",
        "这一原则也是20世纪六七十年代威利·布兰特（Willy Brandt）新东方政策的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite scores of new protectionist measures around the world since the onset of the financial crisis, the vast majority are nothing to lose sleep over.",
        "尽管金融危机发生后世界各地冒出了大量保护主义举措，但其中绝大多数都不值得多虑。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Héctor Schamis, a political scientist at Georgetown University, if a similar political change had occurred in France or Brazil, the country’s citizens would be celebrating the birth of a new republic.",
        "按照乔治城大学政治学家赫克托·斯卡米斯的说法，如果类似的政治变化发生在法国或巴西，那里的民众将会庆祝一个全新共和国的诞生。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, while today’s sharing-economy companies may be just out of their infancy, their services will one day be ubiquitous.",
        "同样，虽然当今的共享经济公司可能只是起步阶段，但它们的服务总有一天会渗透到每一角落。"
    ],
    [
        "Lebanon has more than one million, the world’s highest refugee population per capita – equivalent to the combined populations of Germany and France migrating to the US.",
        "黎巴嫩有一百多万难民，是全世界人均对应难民数最多的国家——相当于德国人和法国人全部移民到美国。"
    ],
    [
        "But like Kim and Lula, Tsipras could marshal political support from some on the left who reckon, “If he now says that these measures are unavoidable, there truly must be no alternative.”",
        "但与金大中和卢拉一样，齐普拉斯可以从一些认为“如果他现在说这些措施不可避免，那么确实是别无选择了”的左派中赢得政治支持。"
    ],
    [
        "On the tenth anniversary of that invasion, Václav Havel, Jacek Kuron, and I, along with other dissidents, met on the Czech-Polish border.",
        "我现在还记忆犹新。 在那一入侵事件十周年纪念的时候，哈维尔、库隆和我以及其他异议人士相聚在捷克和波兰边境。"
    ],
    [
        "But now the same groups are attempting an end run around democratic processes by inserting such provisions in trade bills, the contents of which are being kept largely secret from the public (but not from the corporations that are pushing for them).",
        "但如今，同一批人正在试图在贸易法案中插入类似条款——其内容大多对公众保密（但对推进这些条款的公司并不保密）——扼杀民主程序。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet not all is well with democracy.",
        "但民主也不是只有优点。"
    ],
    [
        "I realized that I would have to fight to communicate what I wanted to achieve.",
        "”我认识到必须努力去传达我所要达成的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "That crisis is located in Mexico, which is in freefall, its state institutions under threat as they have not been since at least the Cristero Uprising of the late 1920’s and possibly since the Mexican Revolution of 1910.",
        "这一危机位于正在自由坠落的墨西哥，这个国家的国家制度正面临着至少自20时机20年代末克里斯特洛起义（Cristero Uprising）以来，也有可能是自1910年墨西哥革命以来从来没有遇到过的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "There are clear steps that can be taken.",
        "有几个显而易见的步骤需要迈出。"
    ],
    [
        "Even before French President Charles de Gaulle took office in 1958, he foresaw the wave of revolutionary nationalism that would soon sweep across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.",
        "即使在法国总统查尔斯·戴高乐1958年就职前，他就已经预见到革命民族主义浪潮将很快席卷亚非拉和中东。"
    ],
    [
        "I agreed with their approach.",
        "我同意这一方针。"
    ],
    [
        "The word had been used earlier, but in a rather different sense.",
        "其实，在更早的时候就有人使用这个词了，不过意思不太一样。"
    ],
    [
        "China-US talks on defense cooperation had earlier stalled because of such arms negotiations.",
        "后果是导致美中之间军事交流的中断。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the new guys started stealing, too, so – regardless of their policies – it is time for them to go.",
        "但现在新上来的家伙也开始偷窃，因此无论他们实行何种政策，他们现在都必须下台。"
    ],
    [
        "Public policies can play an important role by extending access to family planning services to the poor, expanding social security systems, reducing child mortality through public health investments, and improving education and job opportunities for women.",
        "公共政策可以在向穷人提供家庭计划服务、发展社会安全体系、通过公共健康投资降低儿童死亡率、以及提高妇女教育和工作机会等方面起到重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Its economy is growing.",
        "加纳的经济也在发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes, policymakers need to focus on preventing things from getting worse, rather than on ambitious agendas for improvement; this is one of those times.",
        "有时决策者需要将注意力集中在防止事态恶化而不是雄心勃勃的改进计划； 现在就是这样的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in US politics, which can be very strange, this is extraordinary.",
        "即使在以怪诞著称的美国政界，这样的情况也非同寻常。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic growth rates regularly exceed 5% in many nations. The key to this progress is stronger African leadership and more accountable governance.",
        "许多非洲国家的经济增长率一般都会超过5%，而实现这一点的关键则是更有力的非洲人领导和更可靠的政府管治。"
    ],
    [
        "The global financial crisis occurred because we ignored externalities – shadow prices and institutions – allowing instability and inequality to proliferate.",
        "全球金融危机发生的原因是我们忽视了外部性（影子价格和机构），放任不稳定和不公平的滋生。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, for decades Turkey has been a responsible member of many European institutions, and there is no reason to believe that it would act differently in the EU.",
        "此外，几十年来，土耳其一直是很多欧洲机构最忠实的成员，我们没有理由相信加入欧盟会改变这一切。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the multinational consumer goods company Procter and Gamble reported $52 billion in sales of “sustainable innovation products” from 2007 to 2012.",
        "类似地，跨国消费品公司宝洁公司报告，2007—2012年“可持续创新产品”销售高达520亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "With inventory investment unlikely to keep accelerating at anything close to its recent rate, overall GDP growth can be expected to converge on this more subdued pace of final demand.",
        "6%。 存货投资不可能以当前速度持续增加，因此可以预期总体GDP增长将向更低的最终需求增长速度靠拢。"
    ],
    [
        "I reply emphatically that it is not.",
        "我总是强调地回答确实如此。"
    ],
    [
        "There are no psychological preferences, natural-resource constraints, or technological factors that make investing in private enterprises riskier than it was five years ago.",
        "与5年前相比，投资者的心理偏好，自然资源的约束或技术因素都没有发生根本性变化，也因此使得当前对私人企业的投资风险更高。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Ten years ago this month, representatives from 168 United Nations member states met in Kobe, the capital of Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture, to decide how to manage risk better in the wake of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, which claimed more than 227,000 lives.",
        "纽约—十年前的这个月，来自联合国168个成员国的代表齐聚日本兵库县首府神户，讨论在印度洋海啸灾难的背景下如何更好地管理风险。 印度洋海啸夺走了227,000等多人的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these institutions have successfully mediated political conflict during a time of great adversity in advanced countries.",
        "当发达国家面临逆境时，上述制度成功地调解了政治冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone who has ever campaigned for office has heard voters’ familiar refrain: “We only see you politicians at election time.”",
        "任何曾经参加过竞选的人都曾听到过选民那种熟悉的疑虑：“我们只在选举的时候才能看到你们政治家。"
    ],
    [
        "This policy delayed the recovery from high unemployment, but even that was not enough to rein in the political forces arrayed in favor of supporting the stock market.",
        "上述政策让高失业问题久拖不决，但即便如此都没能阻止政治力量继续支持股市。"
    ],
    [
        "Parties that call themselves democratic are not only going along with Musharraf in this fraudulent election, but are also helping to restore the status quo.",
        "自称为民主的政党不仅仅是在这一舞弊的选举中与穆沙拉夫合作，而且还在帮助恢复现状。"
    ],
    [
        "What about market discipline?",
        "市场规范怎样呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Because the basic governance problems in the two types of firms are considerably different, arrangements that benefit investors in widely held firms might be irrelevant or even counterproductive in controlled firms, and vice versa.",
        "因为这两种公司的基本治理问题差别很大，所以，有利于股权分散公司投资者的安排，在股权受控的公司中可能无关紧要，甚至是适得其反，反之亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, six months into his presidency, he has already undercut expectations.",
        "事实上，当政六个月后，奥巴马已经调整了自己的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be a mistake to focus only on the hedging part of American strategy.",
        "但仅仅将目光放在美国战略的“包围”方面是不全面的。"
    ],
    [
        "Prolonged periods of strain tend to weaken the fabric of institutional cooperation.",
        "长时间的紧张局势会削弱机构合作。"
    ],
    [
        "If it is freedom and democracy that are wanted, they can be fostered only by strengthening international law and international institutions.",
        "如果想要推动自由和民主，那么只能通过加强国际法和国际制度来加以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "From parliaments to peace negotiations, adding women improves outcomes.",
        "从议会到和平谈判，增加女性角色能让结果更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the mandated purchase of insurance in the Obama administration’s health-care bill is an attempt to prevent the young and the healthy from remaining uninsured and turning to the government for support only when they discover that they need it.",
        "类似地，强制性购买奥巴马政府的医保也是在试图防止年轻人和健康人有朝一日发现自己需要医保时再向政府伸手索要。"
    ],
    [
        "Some attribute the fall largely to declining global growth expectations.",
        "有些人把下跌原因主要归于全球增长预期的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "But, nowadays, key political and economic institutions are being pressured by unusual fluidity in their operating environments and the effects of a cumulative loss of trust on the part of their constituencies.",
        "也降低了代价高昂的冲击的风险。 但如今，关键性政治和经济机构正因为它们的运转环境反常的波动，以及管辖区内累积的信任缺失，而承受压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter famously raised this concern in a 1996 article in the Harvard Business Review.",
        "1996年哈佛商学院教授迈克尔·波特在《哈佛商业评论》刊载的一篇文章中尽人皆知地提出了这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the only peer-reviewed overview of EU climate policy estimates that it can avoid climate-related damage of about $10 billion per year.",
        "事实上，欧盟气候政策唯一一次同行评估概述预测它每年可以避免约1000亿美元的气候损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called Five Presidents’ Report calls for “completing Europe’s economic and monetary union” as a prelude to “political union.”",
        "所谓的五主席报告（Five Presidents’ Report）呼吁“完善欧洲的经济和货币联盟”，作为“政治联盟”的前奏。"
    ],
    [
        "(I have proposed a similar institution in the United Kingdom.)",
        "（我已建议英国成立一个相似的机构。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Latin America, meanwhile, is experiencing the opposite problem.",
        "与此同时，拉丁美洲正在经历相反的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, governments should not guarantee interbank liabilities that do not affect customer deposits.",
        "显然，政府不应该担保不影响客户存款的银行间债务。"
    ],
    [
        "No economic system, however “optimal,” can sustain long-term growth once it is no longer reformable.",
        "如果拒绝改革，没有哪种“最优”经济体制可以保证经济长期发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Japan accounts for three-quarters of this decline, with only two of the 50 units that are officially in operation in Japan actually producing power, 16 other countries, including the world’s top five nuclear generators, also decreased their output.",
        "发电量下降的四分之三来自日本，在日本50座出于正式运行的核反应堆中，只有两座在实际产出电力。 尽管如此，其他16个国家，包括世界五大核电生产国，发电量也在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Breivik is, in his own mind, a warrior for the other side.",
        "而布雷维克自认是一个斗士。"
    ],
    [
        "A cartel could advance the cause of comprehensive immigration and expat labor reform in many countries, including the United States, Japan, and the Gulf states.",
        "卡特尔将推动许多国家进行全面的移民和外籍劳工改革，包括美国、日本和海湾国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The television industry is not alone in failing to question and revise its traditional models, methods, and operations.",
        "电视行业没有质疑并改写传统模式、方法和经营手段，但它们绝不是孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro is gaining ground for several reasons.",
        "欧元升值有多重原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi Jinping is regarded as China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, presiding over a growing number of crucial decision-making committees.",
        "习近平被认为是自毛泽东以来最强力的中国领导人，主持着越来越多的关键决策委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "But, since 1994, its lawless southern islands have replaced Afghanistan as the main training ground and refuge for Southeast Asian jihadists.",
        "但1994年以来，其不受法律控制的南部诸岛代替阿富汗成为东南亚圣战组织者们主要的训练基地和避难所。"
    ],
    [
        "More than a decade after September 11, America’s drone program does not fall into the first category of reactive self-defense.",
        "9. 11事件过去10年后，美国无人机计划已无法再划入第一类反应性自卫的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "If implemented, the German proposal would most likely exclude behavior that involves acceptable risk, as well as sidelining those who take wild and inappropriate decisions.",
        "如果实施这种德国式的想法，在排除那些狂野和不合适决策的人之外，也往往会把那些可接受风险的行为也排除在外。"
    ],
    [
        "The Return of Mexico’s Nemesis",
        "墨西哥公敌的回归"
    ],
    [
        "“If you do not want us,” the Turks appear to be saying, “we really do not want you.”",
        "“如果你们不想要我们”土耳其人不啻于如是说，“我们也真的不想要你们。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The question of how to respond to growing Chinese assertiveness in the region has divided ASEAN member states more deeply than any previous issue has.",
        "这一问题在东盟成员国之间造成的分裂远甚于此前任何一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "To be precise, two overriding EU security interests are at stake: avoiding a war with Iran and preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power.",
        "确切地说，现在危及最深的是欧盟的两大首要安全利益：避免与伊朗发生战争并防止伊朗成为核国家。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a new Social Justice ranking by the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) project, Austria, Denmark, and Germany top the list in terms of labor-market access, followed by Sweden and Finland.",
        "根据博斯曼基金会（Bertelsmann Stiftung）可持续治理指数（Sustainable Governance Indicators ，SGI）项目的新社会公正排名，奥地利、丹麦和德国在劳动力市场易入性方面名列三甲，随后是瑞典和芬兰。"
    ],
    [
        "The reverberations are being felt around the world, and they will continue to have an impact – far beyond Europe – on public policy, electoral politics, media freedom, and more.",
        "反响在全世界都能体验到，并将继续给公共政策、选举政治、言论自由和其他方面造成影响——并且远远不止于欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "But existing criminal laws are more than adequate to allow willing justice systems to mete out appropriate sanctions against people who intend harm.",
        "但是，现有的刑事法足以让已有准备的司法系统对打算损害他人者进行恰当的制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Finance Can Save the Planet",
        "为何金融能够拯救地球"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the intervention once again highlights the strategic insignificance of the European Union, which is promoting a “comprehensive strategy” for Mali and the whole region in order to avoid the crucial question: Under what conditions will Europe use force?",
        "其次，此次干预再一次凸显欧盟的战略无价值，这促使马里和整个地区倒向“综合战略”以避免一个关键性问题：欧洲在什么情况下才会使用武力？"
    ],
    [
        "On December 29, the Constitutional Court delivered a shot in the arm to those who want to see Zuma removed before the end of his term in 2019.",
        "12月29日，南非宪法法院给了希望祖玛能够在2019年任期届满前下台的人一剂强心剂。"
    ],
    [
        "If these things happen in 2013, the US economy can return to a more normal path of economic expansion and rising employment.",
        "如果这些都在2013年得以实现，美国经济将能回到正常的经济扩张和就业增长之路上来。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, if inclusive profit-sharing programs are to have the desired effect on productivity, they should be combined with other initiatives to empower workers.",
        "第三，如果包容性利润分享计划想要实现渴望的生产率效应，就应该与其他员工赋权计划相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "If the crisis occurs in a systemically important economy – such as the US or Europe (emerging economies' two largest external markets) – the result is a global shortage of aggregate demand.",
        "如果危机发生在具系统重要性的经济中——如美国或欧洲（新兴经济体最大的两个出口市场）——其结果将是全球总需求不足。"
    ],
    [
        "The departure of Americans from the job market reflects what economists call the “discouraged worker” phenomenon.",
        "美国人民远离就业市场反映了经济学家所谓的“沮丧的工人”现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, agricultural subsidies and cohesion funds, which were cut by 11% and 8%, respectively, relative to the previous MFF, still account for almost two-thirds of total spending.",
        "与此同时，农业补贴和凝聚基金（cohesion fund）分别较上期MFF削减了11%和8%，但仍占了总支出的近三分之二。"
    ],
    [
        "As the real economy strengthens, equity values – which, for a time, seemed disconnected from fundamentals – are increasingly being validated.",
        "随着实体经济的强势，股票价值——一度看上去与基本面脱离——也日益得到印证。"
    ],
    [
        "This is fast becoming the standard account of Brazil’s election, the most acrimonious and hotly contested in recent memory.",
        "这正在迅速成为巴西选举的标准解说词。 这次选举是近期最针锋相对、竞争最激烈的一次。"
    ],
    [
        "Services, which now account for the largest share of the economy, require close to 30% more jobs per unit of output than the manufacturing and construction sectors combined.",
        "服务业目前已占经济的最大份额，该部门的单位产出需要比制造业和建筑业加起来还多近30%的就业岗位来创造。"
    ],
    [
        "There is strong evidence that economies perform better with a tight labor market and, as the International Monetary Fund has shown, lower inequality (and the former typically leads to the latter).",
        "强有力的证据表明，劳动力市场状况较紧时，经济表现更好，而国际货币基金组织（IMF）证明，不平等性程度越低，经济表现也越好（劳动力市场状况较紧也常常意味着不平等性程度较低）。"
    ],
    [
        "When the global financial crisis began in 2008, German Chancellor Angela Merkel saw an opportunity to strengthen the EU even further, by enforcing a new “fiscal compact” authorizing the European Commission to oversee members’ annual budgets and impose fines for violating budget and debt targets (though no fines have been levied).",
        "当全球金融危机于2008年爆发后，德国总理默克尔看到了进一步加强欧盟的机会，通过实施新的“财政紧固”政策授权欧盟委员会去监督成员的年度预算，并对违反预算和债务目标的成员课以罚款（虽然并未以此收到任何款项）。"
    ],
    [
        "So Russia now has a choice: Ukrainian plan A or Ukrainian plan B.",
        "所以，俄罗斯现在有一个选择：乌克兰A计划或乌克兰B计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The new electoral system changes the politicians’ incentives, and could induce a return to shifting coalitions and unstable governments.",
        "这种新的选举制度改变了政客们的激励机制，并且可能导致重新回到联盟之间轮换和政府不稳定状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The greater threat to a flat world is likely to come from the non-state and transnational forces that have been unleashed by the diffusion of technology.",
        "对平坦世界造成威胁更大的可能是技术传播所释放的非国家和跨国力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The Myth of Decoupling",
        "脱藕之谜"
    ],
    [
        "They want a fair and open system for electing their government, and to defend the freedom and rule of law that make Hong Kong so special and successful, a genuinely liberal – in the classical sense – society.",
        "他们想要公正开放的体系选举政府，希望捍卫让香港变得如此特殊和成功、成为真正的（古典含义的）自由社会的自由和法治精神。"
    ],
    [
        "The observation that recoveries following a financial crisis are different suggests that standard macroeconomic policies might not work as one would usually expect.",
        "对金融危机后复苏特殊性的观察意味着标准的宏观经济政策可能不会向人们通常期望的那样奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "My interpretation of the World Bank’s record is that its role has been most consistently positive when it helps countries with “soft” development infrastructure: technical assistance and serving as a global knowledge bank.",
        "我对世界银行记录的解读是，在用“软”发展基础设施帮助各国，即提供技术援助和作为全球知识银行时，其积极效果最大也最持续。"
    ],
    [
        "A modest yield of 3% on a portfolio worth $55 billion would amount to an income exceeding its current total revenues, and many times more than Boston’s current capital plan.",
        "对价值550亿美元的投资组合而言，区区3%的收益就将超过该市目前的总收入，而且是波士顿现行资本计划的数倍之多。"
    ],
    [
        "They were only too willing to advise Europe to work harder and spend less, as legitimate pride mingled with an understandable desire to settle historical scores and attenuate their legacies of colonial submission and humiliation.",
        "他们洋洋得意地建议欧洲努力工作、节约开支，因为合情合理的骄傲中掺杂着可以理解的清算历史欠账、借以减轻他们曾经接受殖民的痛苦和屈辱的情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Early calculations have suggested that if all of the INDCs were fully implemented, average global temperatures would still rise by the end of the century to 2.7 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.",
        "早期的计算表明，如果所有的贡献预案都能得到全盘实施，全球平均气温将仍然会在本世纪末相对工业革命前水平上升2."
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – America’s long-controversial Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which separated deposit-taking commercial banks from securities-trading investment banks in the United States, is back in the news.",
        "纽约—长期饱受争议的1933年格拉斯-斯蒂格尔（Glass-Steagall）法案——规定吸纳储蓄的商业银行与交易证券的投资银行必须分业经营——再一次进入了新闻中心。"
    ],
    [
        "Abbas cannot resign from his post for the foreseeable future, lest the Hamas-backed speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council take over.",
        "阿巴斯在可见的未来都不会辞职，因为他唯恐有哈马斯在背后撑腰的巴立法委员会议长会取而代之。"
    ],
    [
        "Important debates – such as freedom versus security, privacy versus piracy, and cyberspace’s impact on democracy – are far from being resolved.",
        "重要的争论——比如自由与安全之争、隐私与盗版之争和网络空间对民主的冲突之争等——远远没有得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "An important characteristic of the risks of a globalized world is that they often become more serious over time.",
        "全球化世界的重要特征之一是风险往往随着时间推移变得更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "More fundamentally, governments in oil-producing countries are confronting a political dilemma: Stronger economic growth, though desirable, requires regimes to take risks that could endanger their very survival.",
        "更加基本的情况是，石油生产国政府正面临政治两难：强劲的经济增长固然值得追求，但这需要体制承担威胁到其生存的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Next, D’Souza argued that since God gave us life, we are not in a position to complain if our life is not perfect.",
        "接着，杜泽辩称说既然上帝给了我们生命，我们就不能因为生活不完美而抱怨上帝。"
    ],
    [
        "We are in the process of killing off our only known companions in the universe, many of them beautiful and all of them intricate and interesting.",
        "我们正在杀死宇宙中已知仅存的伙伴，很多十分美丽，并且每一种都复杂而有趣。"
    ],
    [
        "But it will be heaviest for developing countries, least-developed countries, and Small Island Developing States.",
        "但发展中国家、最不发达国家和小型发展中岛国的负担最重。"
    ],
    [
        "Tea Time in America",
        "美国的“茶时代”"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, insidiously, the burden of proof is shifted.",
        "因此，不知不觉地，举证的责任发生了转移。"
    ],
    [
        "Initial reactions to North Korea’s nuclear test were uniformly critical, culminating (thus far) in UN Security Council Resolution 1718, which condemns the test, demands that North Korea resume full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and imposes a range of military, political, and economic sanctions.",
        "对于北朝鲜核试验一开始的反应是一致的谴责，最终（到目前为止）出台了联合国安理会第1718号决议。 该决议谴责了这次核试验，要求北朝鲜恢复与国际原子能机构的全面合作，并且将对它实行军事、政治和经济上的制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Tacloban in the Philippines has now joined the growing list of cities – including New Orleans, Bangkok, Moscow, New York, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, and Port-au-Prince, to name just a few – pummeled in recent years by climate catastrophes.",
        "纽约—菲律宾的塔克洛班（Tacloban）成为近几年来因气候灾难而被毁的城市名单上的新名字。 这一名单包括新奥尔良、曼谷、莫斯科、纽约、北京、里约热内卢、太子港……等等。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither wants to leave in ignominy, with their last man dramatically lifted of an embassy rooftop by helicopter.",
        "但他们又都不想带着耻辱离开，由直升飞机戏剧性地接走使馆屋顶上的最后一名官员。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings us to a crucial obstacle: Government, business, financial, and academic elites are not trusted.",
        "这就引出了关键性障碍：政府、商界、金融界和学术精英不受信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, not all potential conflicts erupted.",
        "幸运的是，并非所有的潜在冲突都爆发了。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as better standards of care continue to cut maternal mortality, cervical cancer deaths are expected to rise further.",
        "虽然医疗标准提高不断降低孕产妇死亡率，但宫颈癌的死亡人数预计仍将延续升势。"
    ],
    [
        "The National Academy of Engineering identified some possible answers.",
        "美国国家工程院列举了某些可能的解决之径。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, the West’s belief that it can channel assistance to certain elements of the opposition is absurd, as is the concept of “non-lethal” aid, such as night-vision goggles, medical equipment, and armor, given the conventionally “lethal” aid that is already pouring in from the Gulf states.",
        "在这样的环境下，西方的观点——可以向反对派的部分成员提供帮助——是荒谬的，“非致命”援助的概念——比如夜视仪、医疗设备、盔甲——亦然，因为常规“致命”援助已经大量从波斯湾国家涌入。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s ability to use oil sanctions to force Iran to negotiate an end to its nuclear-weapons program depended not only on Saudi willingness to make up Iran’s exports of a million barrels per day, but also on the general expectations that the shale revolution created.",
        "美国能否利用石油制裁迫使伊朗谈判结束其核武器计划不仅取决于沙特是否愿意弥补伊朗每天一百万桶的石油出口能力，而且取决于页岩革命所带来的普遍期望。"
    ],
    [
        "But many professional women’s career advancement is systematically blocked should they choose this path.",
        "但如果职业女性选择这条道路，她们的职业发展前景就会彻底遇阻。"
    ],
    [
        "The US will then face not only the direct effects of a fiscal drag, but also its indirect effect on private spending.",
        "美国将不仅面临财政拖累的直接后果，还将面临其对私人支出的间接影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of focusing on treatment that works, the Polish government chooses to give priority to long-term rehabilitation centers located in the depths of the countryside that have little, if anything, to do with evidence-based medicine.",
        "波兰政府不关心真正有效的治疗方法，而选择重点发展位于农村偏远地区的长期康复中心，这些所谓的康复机构几乎不提供任何被实践证明有效的药物。"
    ],
    [
        "The task is no less than to achieve South Korea’s second miracle on the Han River.",
        "从这个任务的艰难程度上来看，可不亚于实现第二次汉江奇迹。"
    ],
    [
        "But are these foods really better for you?",
        "但它们真的更有利于你的健康么？"
    ],
    [
        "The cornerstone of law is social harmony, and its ultimate purpose can be defined as promoting social happiness, a higher standard than mere harmony.",
        "社会和谐是法律的基础，但其最终目标可能不止于和谐，而是促进社会幸福。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is more important for the US to retain that control than it is for emerging and developing countries to obtain it.",
        "此外，保持对该职位的控制之于美国要比获得该职位之于新兴和发展中国家更重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Royal’s lack of program has been her strength, but it could yet be her undoing.",
        "罗雅尔没有纲领一度是她的优势，但是也可能成为其败选的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is one of the great political milestones of mankind.",
        "欧盟是人类最重要的政治里程碑之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The rate of decline would then determine the extent to which the worst effects of climate change can be avoided.",
        "然后，减少的速度将决定避免气候变化最糟糕的后果发生的几率。"
    ],
    [
        "This enables physicians to avoid prescribing a medication (or a dosage) that might cause serious side effects in certain populations.",
        "这使得医生得以避免开出可能对特定人群产生严重副作用的药方（或剂量）。"
    ],
    [
        "It is worth remembering that early steam power predated Boulton and Watt by nearly a century, and that it took more than a half-century for their invention to overtake conventional water-mill power as the mainstay of nineteenth-century industrial production.",
        "要记住，早期蒸汽动力技术在博尔顿和瓦特之前近一个世纪已经出现了，而两人花了半个多世纪才让他们的发明超越常规的磨坊水车作为19世纪工业生产的主力军。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it helps to create the social, legal, and political conditions for people to use health services, not least by promoting gender equality and ensuring that populations at higher risk of contracting HIV do not face adverse discrimination.",
        "此外，它还有助于为人们创造使用医疗服务的社会、法律和政治条件，手段包括但不限于促进性别平等和确保染艾滋病毒高危人群不会面临歧视。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, the ECB is facing a very different set of economic conditions, including generally sluggish growth, the risk of deflation, and worries about the impact of the terrorist attacks in Paris on business and consumer confidence.",
        "与此同时，欧洲央行面临着完全不同的经济环境，包括停滞的总体增长形势、通缩风险以及对巴黎恐怖袭击给企业和消费信心造成的影响的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they should focus on measures that raise productivity.",
        "相反，它们应该注重于提高生产率的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not the first such treatment of a prominent economist in Latin America.",
        "这不是拉丁美洲著名经济学家第一次遭到这种待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Aleksander Feldman, the chairman of the Jewish Fund for Ukraine, is a prominent parliamentarian for Yanukovych’s Party of Regions – though he condemned the deposed president after his fall.",
        "比如，乌克兰犹太人基金会（Jewish Fund for Ukraine）主席亚历山大•费尔德曼（Aleksander Feldman）就是著名的支持亚努科维奇的地区党（Party of Regions）的国会议员——尽管他在亚努科维奇被推翻后也开始谴责他。"
    ],
    [
        "George W. Bush failed to honor his anti-Chinese protectionist campaign promises of 2000, as did Bill Clinton throughout his presidency.",
        "乔治·W·布什没能兑现2000年竞选中做出的反华保护政策承诺，同样的承诺在比尔·克林顿的整个任期内也无法兑现。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings us back to where we started.",
        "这把我们带回了出发点。"
    ],
    [
        "They can also choose to invest in advocacy and even political activity to encourage change.",
        "他们也可以选择投资于宣传甚至政治活动以鼓励变革。"
    ],
    [
        "Until China is released from the grip of religious politics, Liu’s ideals are unlikely to take root.",
        "在中国从宗教式政治的控制下获得解放之前，刘晓波的理念不太可能生根。"
    ],
    [
        "The Humble Nobility of Elie Wiesel",
        "埃利·维瑟尔谦卑的高贵"
    ],
    [
        "On terrorism, Russia was the first country to host an official Hamas delegation after the Palestinian elections, and it continues to crush Chechen terror and resistance with methods that would bring it to an international court, were it not a Security Council member.",
        "在恐怖主义方面，俄罗斯是巴勒斯坦大选后头一个接待哈马斯代表团的国家。 同时，还继续以高压手段镇压车臣的恐怖活动和抵抗运动。"
    ],
    [
        "If the answers to the first two questions are “no” – as I believe they are – the third question becomes vitally important.",
        "如果前两个问题的答案正如我所相信的那样是否定的话，那么，第三个问题就极为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "What will this require?",
        "这需要做哪些事情呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The Limits of Chinese Soft Power",
        "中国的软实力制约"
    ],
    [
        "And it has very little power when the great powers oppose an action, or repressive member governments ignore the claims of the new “responsibility to protect.”",
        "如果大国反对某项行动，或者专制的政府对新的“保护责任”的主张置之不理，那么它的实力就会很弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The US will need to defend its allies and interests by pushing back, but with actions modulated to limit Chinese concerns.",
        "美国需要采取反制措施来保护盟国和自身的利益，但又不能罔顾中国的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Distrust of political parties and disappointment in their ability to govern is widespread, as evidenced by low voter turnout in the recent elections.",
        "对政党的不信任，对执政能力的失望正在蔓延，最近的选举中的低投票率就是一种表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether Tunisia becomes a democratic, economic, and social success story or, instead, sees its revolution end in chaos, civil war, and a new authoritarian regime will have consequences far beyond the country’s borders.",
        "突尼斯是成为民主、经济和社会成功的典范还是走向反面，以混乱、内战和新的独裁政权来结束这场革命，其影响将远远超越这个国家边境。"
    ],
    [
        "But consider another way of viewing the crisis and our financial institutions: the financial system was never all that far from the cliff’s edge, even before 2008, because the tax system encouraged financial firms to overload themselves with debt.",
        "但不妨换一个角度看待危机和我们的金融机构：金融系统距离悬崖边缘从未如此之远，即使是在2008年之前。 这是因为税收制度鼓励金融企业过度负债。"
    ],
    [
        "But implementation is surely the tough part.",
        "但实施肯定是一项艰巨的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "If Corbyn were a CEO who lost the confidence of his entire executive team and board, he would be forced to resign or be fired.",
        "入股偶科尔宾是一名首席执行官，已经失去了整个执行团队和董事会的信任，那么他将被迫辞职或被炒鱿鱼。"
    ],
    [
        "If the 2008 Russo-Georgian war is any guide, NATO’s Cyber Defense Center should help Ukraine prepare for a large-scale digital offensive.",
        "2008年拉索-格鲁吉亚战争的前车之鉴表明，北约的网络防务中心应该帮助乌克兰做好准备抵抗大规模数字攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "To decouple concerns about the Osprey from the issue of crimes by US military personnel, bilateral agreements for criminal jurisdiction must be revised.",
        "要想让日本人民把对“鱼鹰”部署的担忧与美国军事人员在日本的犯罪问题分开来看，就必须修订双边协定中的刑事管辖权。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there could well be less water than there is now, owing to pollution and climate change.",
        "事实上，由于污染和气候的变化，印度的水只会越来越少。"
    ],
    [
        "The contrast between China and Russia also fits this pattern very well.",
        "中国和俄罗斯之间的对比也很适用于这一类型。"
    ],
    [
        "He rightly criticized the “voodoo economic policy” of his opponent, Ronald Reagan.",
        "他正确地批评了他的对手里根的“巫毒经济政策”。"
    ],
    [
        "Complementing the role of speculation, activist states have played several roles in encouraging innovation.",
        "作为投机角色的补充，活跃的国家也在鼓励创新中起着作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Data are essential to understanding what is working and how to track progress.",
        "数据对理解效果和跟踪进展起到了至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Some believe that North Korea has begun displaying its growing nuclear threat in order to secure the succession to power of Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il’s rotund, twenty-something youngest son.",
        "有评论认为朝鲜展示核威慑的目的是为了确保金正日向其子——身材矮胖，稚气未脱的金正恩——成功移交权力。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, ending the Great Depression would have also required the fiscal expansion called for by John Maynard Keynes and the supportive credit-market policies prescribed by Hyman Minsky.",
        "在这种情况下，结束大萧条还需要凯恩斯所呼吁的财政扩张和明斯基所提出的支持性信用市场政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Benedict is not so extreme.",
        "本笃十六世没有那么极端。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, we will have to do something to make companies pay more, perhaps with a “robo-tax” on AI applications.",
        "相反，我们必须采取措施让公司支付更多，也许可以通过针对AI应用征收“机器税”（robo-tax）。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the acquaintances and benefactors of the East Asian leaders were “cronies,” whereas those of US leaders were “friends”?",
        "换句话说，那些东亚领导人的熟人和捐助者都是“权贵”，那么难道美国领导人身边的都是“朋友”？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, European countries today are prepared to go to great lengths to save the euro, fearing that its collapse would jeopardize their single market.",
        "此外，今天欧洲各国都准备倾其所有挽救欧元，唯恐欧元的崩溃危害到单一市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Does that not sound familiar?",
        "这样的论调难道不是很熟悉吗？"
    ],
    [
        "As the talks enter the final phase, the issue of sanctions is likely to be at the forefront.",
        "随着会谈进入到最后阶段，制裁很可能成为最重要的议题。"
    ],
    [
        "Natural gas may be the commodity most vulnerable to event-driven supply disruptions.",
        "天然气也许是最容易由于政治事件而遭受供应破坏的商品。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is a lack of infrastructure.",
        "答案是基础设施的缺乏。"
    ],
    [
        "Turning to the international dimension, understanding better how policies adopted in one country spill over onto other economies is key.",
        "在国际层面上，关键是要理解一个国家执行的政策是如何溢出到其他国家的。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent slowdown in the growth of health-care spending is a promising sign that America’s budgetary tradeoffs may turn out to be less difficult than expected.",
        "医疗支出下降的当前趋势对美国是一个福音，其预算权衡可能没有预想中的困难。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason that the same outcome could not be achieved in the Middle East.",
        "同样的结果没有理由不能在中东出现。"
    ],
    [
        "What all of this suggests is that an economic-reform agenda cannot result from a mechanical exercise.",
        "所有这些表明，经济改革日程不可能来自机械的实践。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the German government is slowly coming to realize that its pessimism about the economy has been misplaced, which is reflected in continuous “upward revisions” of growth forecasts throughout 2006.",
        "事实上，德国政府慢慢地也认识到它对经济的悲观是不正确的，这表现在他们对2006年经济增长的预期不断的“往上调整”。 最近，政府把它对今年和明年的经济增长预期分别从1."
    ],
    [
        "Gilani expressed the same sentiment: “We need to focus on dealing with our common enemies – inflation, poverty, hunger, disease, and unemployment – for the prosperity of the two countries.”",
        "”吉拉尼也表达了同样的观点：“我们需要将精力集中在应对共同的敌人——通胀、贫穷、饥饿，疾病和失业——并以此实现两国的繁荣。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately for all of us, the explanation bears repeating nowadays.",
        "不幸的是，对我们所有人来说，这样的解释如今一再重复在耳边响起。"
    ],
    [
        "Prevented from criticizing the country’s leaders and reporting fully and objectively on domestic affairs, China’s media often finds it expedient to turn its critical gaze outwards.",
        "由于不能批评国家领导人或详细客观地报道国内事务，权宜之下，中国媒体通常把批评矛头指向国外。"
    ],
    [
        "Why did thousands die in Haiti during the recent hurricanes and not in Florida?",
        "在最近的飓风灾难中，为什么海地死了数千人而佛罗里达却安然无恙？"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s tax system needs to be revamped, and the revenue authorities must be freed from political and corporate influence.",
        "希腊税收体系需要修正，收入当局必须摆脱政治和公司的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the ocean has been integral to slowing climate change, absorbing over 30% of the greenhouse-gas emissions and 90% of the excess heat generated since the Industrial Revolution, the cost has been huge.",
        "虽然海洋已是减缓气候变化过程中不可或缺的一部分，吸收了自工业革命以来所产生的30％温室气体排放量和90％多余热量，但因此付出的代价也是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is some truth in both explanations of Eastern Europe’s backsliding.",
        "对东欧倒退的两种解释都有一定的道理。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s recent international achievements – particular its ability to secure the backing of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy for its Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in the face of opposition from the United States – imply a high degree of confidence that China will address its problems successfully.",
        "目前，中国的国际成就——特别是它有能力确保英国、法国、德国和意大利不顾美国的反对支持其亚洲基础设施投资银行——表明中国很有信心成功解决它的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, China’s leaders talk as if this is their goal. In April, at this year’s Boao Forum (the Asian Davos) on Hainan Island, Chinese President Hu Jintao asserted: “Peace and development remain the overriding themes of the times.",
        "当然，中国领导人也是如此表态的：在今年4月举行的海南博鳌论坛，中国国家主席胡锦涛表示：“和平与发展依然是这个时代的首要主题。"
    ],
    [
        "Other people’s problems are now our problems, and we can no longer look on them with indifference, or hope to reap some personal gain from them.",
        "别人的问题现在同样是我们的问题，我们再也不能怀揣冷漠之心坐视不管，或希望抓住机会从中渔利。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, times have changed.",
        "此外，时代已经改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But when deflation looms, upward pressure on prices is just what the doctor ordered.",
        "但当面临通缩时，物价上证压力正是我们想要的。"
    ],
    [
        "With well-defined constraints, a clear path for developing innovative technologies – one that accounts for both the known and the unknown – can be planned.",
        "界定限制因素指出了研发创新技术（包括已知和未知领域）的明确方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment in the Russian economy was growing fast.",
        "俄罗斯的经济投资呈高速发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the US government does not count the value created by Internet services like Google and Facebook as income at all, because these services are not purchased.",
        "事实上，美国政府根本没有将谷歌和Facebook等互联网服务所创造的价值计算在内，因为这些服务没有被购买。"
    ],
    [
        "Gox failed in 2014, some central banks, such as the People’s Bank of China, started discouraging the use of bitcoin.",
        "Gox倒闭，中国人民银行等一些央行开始阻击比特币的使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, not only has the settlement project turned East Jerusalem into a hub of political and social tension, but the high financial cost – more than $20 billion in total – forced the diversion of limited resources from growth-oriented investment in West Jerusalem.",
        "事实上，不但定居点工程让东耶路撒冷成为政治和社会紧张的温床，高昂的金融成本——总量超过过200亿美元——迫使有限的资源无法用于西耶路撒冷的增长导向型投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Any future Palestinian state would have to assume a similar position, as Israel would never accept its accession to some hostile military alliance.",
        "未来任何巴勒斯坦国必须承担起类似的任务，因为以色列永远不可能允许它加入敌对军事联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed has repeatedly said that it will do whatever it can to stimulate growth. This led to a plan to keep short-term interest rates near zero until late 2014, as well as to massive quantitative easing, followed by Operation Twist, in which the Fed substitutes short-term Treasuries for long-term bonds.",
        "美联储一再声称将采取一切办法刺激增长，因此，它将至少保持短期零利率状态至2014年年底，同时实施大规模量化宽松，继之以扭曲操作（以短期国债替代长期国债）。"
    ],
    [
        "While there is no scientific way to link a particular hurricane such as Katrina to the long-term trend – in the sense that Katrina might have been bad luck rather than a sign of manmade climate change – the energy of hurricanes throughout the world has been rising markedly.",
        "卡特林娜飓风可能时运不佳，而非人为气候变化迹象。 尽管没有科学的方法将某一场特定的飓风，例如卡特林娜飓风同长期趋势联系在一起，但是，全世界的飓风能量已经显著增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Several other countries, particularly among the advanced economies, have also failed to transform their domestic policies to account for changes to economic relationships resulting from globalization, liberalization, and deregulation.",
        "其他一些国家，特别是经济发达国家，也没能转变国内政策以顾及全球化、自由化和去监管化所导致的经济关系变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The advent of shale gas has confused the energy debate even more.",
        "页岩气的出现让能源争论更加扑朔迷离了。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more benign shortcomings – such as slowness in modernizing laws to catch up to changing realities – detract from economic wellbeing.",
        "即使是不那么恶劣的缺陷——如法律现代化速度跟不上变化的现实——也会有损于经济福祉。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, continuing conflict has complicated risk assessments and curtailed Kyiv’s access to external finance, raising the likelihood of a disruptive debt default.",
        "相反，持续冲突让风险评估更加复杂化了，也堵塞了基辅获得外部融资的途径，提高了灾难性债务违约的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "It is unfair to blame clinicians for serious ADR’s, particularly in the absence of complete safety information.",
        "因为ADR’s而将责任归咎于内科医生是不公平的，尤其在没有完整的安全信息的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the volatile macroeconomic outlook, many firms are reluctant to hire new workers, leading to high youth unemployment throughout the world.",
        "由于宏观经济前景波动不已，许多企业不愿意招聘新员工，这导致全世界年轻人失业率高企。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, none of this is to say that Latin America lacks real problems and challenges.",
        "当然，所有这些都不是说拉丁美洲不存在真正的问题和挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Its health-care system delivers better outcomes than the US, at a fraction of the cost.",
        "其医疗体系比美国效果更好，而成本只有美国的几分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "With the collapse in the price of oil since then, the economy has gone into a tailspin: GDP is contracting at a record pace, inflation is in excess of 200%, the currency has plunged to less than 10% of its previous value, and massive shortages have emerged.",
        "此后，随着石油价格的崩盘，委内瑞拉经济也陷入了混乱：GDP以创纪录的速度缩水，通货膨胀率超过200%，货币价值暴跌超过90%，各种短缺层出不穷。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economy strategy – so-called “Abenomics” – has enabled Japan to stay on a reasonably positive path in highly uncertain times, with the economy showing signs of steady recovery from its decades of stagnation.",
        "事实上，首相安倍晋三的经济战略——所谓的“安倍经济学”成功地让日本在高度不确定时期走在相当积极的路径上，经济表现出从几十年的停滞状态稳步复苏的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the law’s supporters want it to replace the so-called Jackson-Vanik amendment, a Cold War-era law that restricts US trade with Russia – and that the Obama administration is pushing to repeal.",
        "许多该法律的支持者希望它代替所谓的杰克逊 ·瓦尼克修正案，这是一项冷战时期限制美国与俄罗斯贸易的法律，奥巴马政府正在推动废除该项法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, energy must be governed through a system of cooperation and regulation.",
        "因此，能源必须通过一个合作和监管体系才能得到治理。"
    ],
    [
        "Poverty did not vanish.",
        "那时贫困并没有消失。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Commission, which its president, Jean Claude Juncker, has restructured significantly, could provide Europe with the strategic leadership it so badly needs.",
        "新欧盟委员会主席让·克劳德·容克（Jean Claude Juncker）对其进行了大刀阔斧的重组，将为欧洲提供急需的战略领导。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) received just 41% of the vote, costing it the majority it had enjoyed since coming to power in 2002.",
        "埃尔多安的正义和发展党（AKP）只获得了41%的选票，失去了自2002年掌权以来的多数支持率。"
    ],
    [
        "There will be no meeting of minds between Bush and Schroeder, because, on most key issues, their minds hold opposite views.",
        "布什和施罗德之间并无思想上的会晤，因为在大多数重要问题上他们的观点相反。"
    ],
    [
        "If we compare this geographical distribution with a global snapshot of nuclear sites prior to the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown in the United States in 1979, a striking correlation emerges between countries’ nuclear-energy policy and their geopolitical standing and economic vigor.",
        "在1979年美国三里岛核危机爆发之前，如果我们把全球核反应堆的地点和这种发展国家的地理位置相比较，就会出现一个非常惊人的联系。 国家和核能政策和这些国家的地缘政治地位以及经济的活力有着密切的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Commodity exporters like Russia and Saudi Arabia, which ran large current-account surpluses when oil prices were high, are the main exception to this pattern of diverging foreign-asset positions.",
        "一些大宗商品出口国，比如俄罗斯和沙特阿拉伯，在石油价格高企时存在大量经常项目盈余，它们成为外国资产头寸分化的主要例外。"
    ],
    [
        "The Belt and Road initiative promises to help countries overcome these constraints, by providing external funding for ports, roads, schools, hospitals, and power plants and grids.",
        "“一带一路”倡议承诺会帮助各国克服这些限制，为港口，道路，学校，医院，发电厂和输电网的建设提供外部资金。"
    ],
    [
        "During the democratization process of the 1980s and 1990s, successive governments tried to tame hyperinflation, which reached 2,477% in 1993.",
        "20世纪八九十年代民主化过程中，历任政府试图驯服恶性通胀（1993年曾达到2,477%）。"
    ],
    [
        "But the country’s ongoing economic slowdown probably augurs a decelerating growth in aid budgets.",
        "但该国持续的经济增长放缓极有可能预示着援助预算增长的减速。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Pacific Rebalance",
        "美国的太平洋战略调整"
    ],
    [
        "Start with the question of whether central banks that have spent decades establishing and maintaining anti-inflation credibility can generate faster price growth in an environment of low interest rates.",
        "第一个问题是，央行在过去几十年中已经建立起并维系了反通胀的名声，它们能够在低利率环境下造成物价快速增长的局面吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the EU and Ukraine had already been negotiating the deal for more than two years, without much reaction from Russia, the EU was blindsided by the Kremlin’s sudden sharp objections.",
        "欧盟和乌克兰在两年多前就已开始谈判该协议，俄罗斯对此并没有多大的反应，因此，克里姆林宫突然表现出激烈反对让欧盟措手不及。"
    ],
    [
        "The Limits of Climate Negotiations",
        "气候谈判的局限"
    ],
    [
        "Trump, it is hoped, will concentrate the minds of all who still believe in liberal democracy, be they left or even right of center.",
        "他们希望，特朗普将把所有信奉自由民主的人的观点统一起来，不管他们是左翼、右翼还是中间派。"
    ],
    [
        "But scare tactics did not work this time.",
        "但是，恐吓战术此次没有奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "Hitler came close to developing the nuclear bomb, but never had it, whereas Iran very well might.",
        "希特勒制造原子弹差一点得逞，但是并未真正获得，而伊朗很可能已经得手。"
    ],
    [
        "That is no easy task.",
        "这并不容易。"
    ],
    [
        "With the risk of devaluation gone, interest-rate spreads dropped precipitously, and so did borrowing costs.",
        "贬值风险不再让利差大幅缩小，借贷成本也随之下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, Novartis scientists alone are already running 15 drug discovery projects at different stages, and this pace of development will only accelerate.",
        "中国诺华制药的科学家已经在推进处于不同阶段的15个药品研发项目，而这样的研发速度只会不断提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Melting polar ice will cause rising seas to inundate low-lying fertile delta regions on which hundreds of millions of people grow their food.",
        "融化的极地冰川将会造成海平面上升，淹没数以亿计的人口种植粮食的低洼地带三角洲良田。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s ambassador to the WTO, Roberto Azevedo, said recently that his country “rejects the notion that this organization’s credibility and legitimacy are in a death embrace with the Round. The WTO is bigger than the Round and transcends it.”",
        "巴西驻世贸组织特使罗伯托·阿泽维多（Roberto Azevedo）最近发言说巴西“反对声称WTO组织的信誉和合法性正在多哈回合中消亡的说法没，因为WTO比多哈回合的规模更大，而且位居其上”。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach requires judgment and resolve in separating insolvent institutions from solvent ones.",
        "而这个方法需要具备判断和分析能力，以便将无还债能力和有还债能力的机构区分开来。"
    ],
    [
        "As an adviser to the Chinese government said on my recent trip, “movements in the stock-price index are totally unrelated to the real state of the economy.”",
        "中国政府一位顾问在我最近访问时表示，“股价指数的波动与实际的经济状况完全无关。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Default likely would be accompanied by severe economic contraction – Argentina’s GDP fell 15% after it defaulted in 2002.",
        "可能出现的违约将伴随着严重的经济规模收缩——2002年阿根廷发生违约时其GDP规模就随之下降了15%。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless China’s leaders implement major structural reforms aimed at establishing a market-based growth model, they will be unable to avoid the “middle-income trap” that has prevented so many developing economies from attaining advanced-country status.",
        "中国领导人需要推行重大结构性改革来建立以市场为基础的经济增长模式，好让中国避开“中等收入陷阱”——正是这一陷阱导致许多发展中经济体无法进入发达国家行列。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the eight Big Pharma firms that are included, the British company GlaxoSmithKline currently scores the highest.",
        "在八家正在进行研发的大型制药企业中，英国的葛兰素史克公司目前的得分最高。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiations to resolve the conflict have collapsed.",
        "谈判解决冲突的前景已经崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "State insurance regulators resist rate increases, but they are ultimately powerless, because insurers can simply take their business elsewhere.",
        "该州保险监管者反对提高保费，但他们并无实权，因为保险公司可以到其他地方开业。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukrainians, take note.",
        "当心，乌克兰。"
    ],
    [
        "The history of the twentieth century is an object lesson in this.",
        "二十世纪的历史就是一个显而易见的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "The secret to Rwanda’s success is that its leaders are building “modern institutions on traditional values.”",
        "卢旺达成功的秘诀是其领导人正在建设“以传统价值观为基础的现代制度”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed will raise interest rates when it senses that the economy is nearing full capacity and that inflation – wage inflation, in particular – is accelerating.",
        "美联储将在其认为经济已接近充分产能以及通货膨胀——特别是工资通货膨胀——开始加速时升息。"
    ],
    [
        "The Europeans gladly went along with this charade because they now fear dollar depreciation more than global imbalance.",
        "欧洲对这种荒唐可笑又显而易见的伪装乐得其所，因为现在比起全球性的不平衡，他们更惧怕美元贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "In Belgium, where the first universal banks had been established in the early nineteenth century, investment and commercial banking were also separated.",
        "虽然在 19 世纪早期就建立起第一个全能银行，比利时当时也勒令投行和商行业务分开。"
    ],
    [
        "Once again, North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons is threatening Asia’s stability.",
        "北朝鲜对于核武器的追求再一次威胁着亚洲的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "On that bright Sunday morning, as spring turned to summer, voters wasted little time in dispatching Poland’s communists to the abattoir.",
        "在那个春末夏初晴朗的周日上午，选民们毫不犹豫地把波兰共产党赶进了屠宰场。"
    ],
    [
        "The same study also shows that smaller glaciers are shrinking much more rapidly than larger ones.",
        "SAC 的上述研究还表明，小冰川萎缩得比大冰川快。"
    ],
    [
        "Many communities are genuinely polarized, which makes Europeans understandably anxious.",
        "许多社区确实被极化了，无怪乎欧洲人会对此忧心不已。"
    ],
    [
        "The strategic dimension of Chinese-German relations, therefore, can only be strengthened, not weakened.”",
        "中德关系的战略性只能加强，不能削弱。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "China’s state-owned telecommunication companies and banks, for example, have failed to respond to new technological challenges.",
        "比如，国有通讯公司和银行就没有能够很好地应对新技术的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "PRETORIA – The popularity of public-private partnerships (PPPs) to support infrastructure development in emerging countries is growing worldwide.",
        "比勒陀利亚—新兴国家公私合作支持基础设施开发的风潮正在走向世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Such examples illustrate the possible dramatic side-effects of DBS, but subtler effects are also possible.",
        "上述实例说明深部脑刺激可能产生哪些严重副作用，但出现比较缓和的副作用也是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "There, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government has proposed a law enshrining the collective primacy of the country’s Jews – legislation that destroys in spirit and form what little is left of Israel’s founding commitment to equality under the law.",
        "在以色列，总理内塔尼亚胡政府提出了一项法律，要将以色列犹太人的集体主体地位写入其中——这一立法从精神和形式上摧毁了目前已经所剩无几的以色列建国承诺——法律面前人人平等。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, such measures could be extended to cover all of those who abuse the fundamental right of legal due process, such as the right to a fair trial.",
        "例如，这些措施可以扩展到包括所有滥用法律正当程序的基本权利，例如公正审判的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "When you are poor, your children will more likely suffer malnutrition and succumb to TB.",
        "如果你是穷人，你的孩子更容易营养不良及患上结核病。"
    ],
    [
        "It was also a celebration of the sense of shared experience that defined the Tunisian revolution – and the many other historic protests and revolutions that erupted in 2011.",
        "这标志着人们对突尼斯革命中共同经历的庆祝——2011年爆发的其他很多历史性的抗议和革命其基础也在于这种共同的经历。"
    ],
    [
        "Although growth has indeed been significantly above trend in recent years, performance over the entire decade was unimpressive.",
        "尽管近年来的经济增长确实远超平均趋势，但纵观十年来的总体表现并不令人满意。"
    ],
    [
        "Could it be that Russia's culture of impunity has reached an inflection point?",
        "俄罗斯的逍遥法外文化是否到达了一个拐点？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, there is a growing disconnect between big money and political incentives; and while money is still a part of the political process, influence itself no longer belongs exclusively to corporations and wealthy individuals.",
        "因此，大资金和政治激励之间日益脱钩； 而尽管钱仍是政治进程的一部分，但影响力本身不再专属于公司和富豪。"
    ],
    [
        "Sweden’s greatest achievement was a gradual cut of public spending by no less than one-fifth of GDP from 1993 to 2007.",
        "瑞典的最大成就是逐渐削减了公共支出，1993—2007年间总共削减了GDP的五分之一弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The price system is a decentralized information system that reveals people’s willingness to buy or sell and the wisdom of buying some inputs in order to produce a certain output at the going market price.",
        "价格系统是一个分散的信息系统，它揭露人们购买或售卖的意愿以及购买投入品以市场价格生产某种输出品的智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, global warming is real and man-made.",
        "的确，全球变暖切实存在并与人类活动相关。"
    ],
    [
        "There is only one way forward for Turkey, Armenia, and the region.",
        "摆在土耳其、亚美尼亚和整个地区面前的只有一个办法。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Mitt Romney’s income taxes have become a major issue in the American presidential campaign.",
        "纽约—米特·罗姆尼的所得税已成为美国总统竞选的一大话题。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a policy was successfully implemented in 2009 and 2010, but the government lacked the funds it needed when economic conditions subsequently deteriorated.",
        "这样的政策在2009年和2010年成功地实施国，但当经济条件大幅恶化时，政府也缺少所需的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Portugal and Switzerland are compelling examples of the positive impact of policies centered on prevention, treatment, and harm reduction.",
        "葡萄牙和瑞士在以预防，治疗和减低危害为中心的政策方面都取得了积极的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "One option, which Russia has championed, would be a federal system; indeed, the territorial divisions left behind by the Russians could form the basis of one.",
        "一个由俄罗斯倡导的选项是联邦制； 而俄罗斯人留下的领土划分局势也可以作为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "As if this was not enough, Prodi will face another problem.",
        "但这似乎还不够，普罗迪将面临另一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In an ideal world, offering financial aid in exchange for reforms might help those in the country who want to shape it into a modern European state.",
        "在理想情形中，以改革为交换提供金融援助也许有助于那些希望转变为现代欧洲邦国的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "When viewed in isolation, the preferences of the “average” voter – that is, a voter in the middle of the income distribution – seem to have a strongly positive influence on the government’s ultimate response.",
        "单独看来，“普通”选民——即位于收入分配中端的选民，他的偏好对政府最终反应具有强大的积极影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone familiar with the history of the Bretton Woods institutions knows that they experienced as many misses as hits.",
        "任何熟悉布雷顿森林机构历史的人都知道，这些机构的失误和成就一样多。"
    ],
    [
        "The British government recently issued the most comprehensive study to date of the economic costs and risks of global warming, and of measures that might reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in the hope of averting some of the direst consequences.",
        "英国政府最近发布了迄今为止关于全球变暖的经济成本和风险最为全面的研究报告，并提出了可能减少温室气体排放的措施，希望藉此避免一些最可怕的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "One can almost buy this idea, except that the tax is so counterproductive in the long run that it is hardly obvious that it would be better than nothing.",
        "这笔买卖兴许划算吧，除了一点：这种税的长期效果实在是不利于增长，很难说有它比没它来得好。"
    ],
    [
        "Harvard’s president at the time, Derek Bok, said that the university’s decision “was motivated by a desire not to be associated as a shareholder with companies engaged in significant sales of products that create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to other human beings.”",
        "时任哈佛校长德雷克·伯克（Derek Bok）表示，哈佛的决定“的动机是不愿作为某些公司的股东，这些公司大量销售会给其他人带来巨大的未被证实的伤害风险的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Three other big benefits would also have resulted from giving the award to an Indonesian.",
        "把奖项授予印尼人本还可以有另外巨大的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Brexit could have more mundane, but highly noticeable, effects on Britain.",
        "英国退出可能给英国带来更加普通但非常惹人注目的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "It may come as a surprise to hear that the UK’s own PMI is now at its highest level in four years, suggesting that businesses are becoming more willing to make new investments.",
        "有些惊喜的是，英国自身的PMI正处于四年来的最高水平，这表明企业变得更加愿意进行新投资。"
    ],
    [
        "In Pakistan, more than 50,000 people have lost their lives in the terror attacks of the last decade.",
        "在巴基斯坦，过去十年有50,000多人因恐怖袭击丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an outcome would not only end ISIS on the ground in the Middle East; it could lay the groundwork for reducing regional tensions more generally.",
        "这一结果不但可以在中东大地上根除ISIS； 还能为更加全面地缓解地区紧张打下基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Should Iran Be Attacked?",
        "是否应该进攻伊朗？"
    ],
    [
        "The proposed Baltic Sea pipeline, which would bring gas to Germany directly from Russia, bypassing Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, and the rest of Central Europe, is dangerous in this regard, because it may allow Gazprom the freedom to cut gas supplies to customers without endangering supplies to its favored western markets.",
        "拟议中的波罗的海输气管线可以直接将天然气从俄罗斯经由波兰、乌克兰、波罗的海诸国和中欧其它国家输送到德国，但这项提议本身非常危险，因为这样一来，俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司（Gazprom）就可以按照自己的意愿切断对某些国家的天然气供应，而不威胁到有利可图的西方市场。"
    ],
    [
        "This was always half myth.",
        "但这些传说至少一半被神化了。"
    ],
    [
        "India is a country on the move, with rapid economic development and dazzling dynamism in the information technology sector. Yet it is also home to 300 million of the world's poorest people.",
        "印度是个发展中国家，经济快速增长，信息技术领域拥有令人目眩神迷的活力，但同时也是全球3亿最贫困人口的家园。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine’s foreign-exchange reserves have been a major cause of concern since 2014; but today, they stand at a reassuring $18 billion – equal to about 3.5 months of current imports.",
        "自2014年以来乌克兰的外汇储备一直是外界忧虑的主要来源。 而目前乌克兰拥有令人放心的180亿美元储备——可以将当前每月进口额维持大约3个半月。"
    ],
    [
        "People value room to express themselves– to voice their thoughts or show their talents.",
        "人们珍惜表达自己的空间——即说出他们的想法和展示他们的才华。"
    ],
    [
        "Occurring simultaneously, they unsettled markets.",
        "全球金融市场的几乎每一个门类都出现了大幅单日内震荡；"
    ],
    [
        "These subsidies take the form of tax credits.",
        "这些补贴以税收优惠的形式发放。"
    ],
    [
        "As Levin recently argued in a detailed and persuasive speech, the US should be having a full and open debate about these dimensions of the TPP deal.",
        "莱文在最近的一次详细而雄辩的讲话中指出，美国应该全面而公开地争论TPP协议的这些方面。"
    ],
    [
        "The middle class is being hollowed out, and failed overseas adventures have discouraged the once “indispensable nation” from bearing the burden of global leadership.",
        "中产阶级正在被掏空，失败的海外行动让这个曾经“不可或缺的国家”不再敢于承担全球领导责任。"
    ],
    [
        "A large majority of Arab youths, around 70%, say that they are most influenced by parents, family, and religion, whereas only about a third report that elite groups – writers, business leaders, community leaders, and media outlets – have any influence on their outlook on life.",
        "占总数70%的绝大多数阿拉伯青年表示受家长、亲属和宗教的影响最大，而只有约三分之一表示以作家、商界领袖、社团领袖和媒体为代表的精英群体对他们的人生观构成影响。"
    ],
    [
        "And, even if social unrest does erupt, repression might succeed again.",
        "即使爆发社会动乱，镇压可能接踵而至。"
    ],
    [
        "In some ways, Japan’s domestic challenges are even more daunting, given that its political system has produced six prime ministers in as many years, none of whom managed to address effectively Japan’s stagnant economy, decade-long deflation, and shrinking workforce.",
        "鉴于现行政治制度在同期产生了六任首相，但没有一任能有效解决日本经济停滞、十年通缩及劳动人口不断锐减等严重问题，因此在某些方面，日本的国内挑战甚至更为艰巨。"
    ],
    [
        "Ghettoizing Identity",
        "少数民族聚居区的身份"
    ],
    [
        "The statistics rehearsed by our guide were staggering: the third biggest edifice in the world, 220,000 square feet of carpet, one million cubic meters of marble, 3,500 tons of crystal.",
        "导游所背诵的数据令人惊讶：世界第三大建筑、耗费高达220,000平方英尺地毯、100万立方米大理石、3，500吨水晶。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, EU rules stipulating that refugees should be granted asylum in the first member country they reach have proved both unworkable and unfair; because asylum-seekers mostly arrive in southern Europe and want to head north, Greece and Italy ignore the rules and facilitate their passage.",
        "类似地，欧盟规则规定，难民应该在他们所到达的第一个欧盟成员国授予避难权，但这一规定根本无法实施，也不公平； 因为寻求庇护者大多从南欧进入，但希望到达北欧，而希腊和意大利无视欧盟规则，还未难民过境提供便利。"
    ],
    [
        "Wallenberg was a hero who saved the lives of many Jews in my home city of Budapest by establishing Swedish safe houses.",
        "瓦伦堡是位英雄人物，他在我的家乡布达佩斯建立瑞典安全屋，挽救了众多犹太人的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "The conflict is already spilling into the streets, with opposition-called strikes paralyzing daily life in large parts of Nepal.",
        "冲突已经蔓延到街头，反对派所谓的罢工导致尼泊尔大部日常生活瘫痪。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Arab world as a whole seems to have given up on Bashir.",
        "事实上，阿拉伯国家从总体上看似乎已经放弃了巴希尔政权。"
    ],
    [
        "The twins’ doctors found that the dystonia could be fully treated with a readily available serotonin replacement.",
        "医生发现，双胞胎的张力肌障碍可以用已有的血清素替换疗法彻底治愈。"
    ],
    [
        "Those of us who believe that the past 20 years made sense, and that we are on the right track, are still the majority in Hungary.",
        "许多匈牙利人依然坚信过去20年是没有白费的，并坚信自己走的是一条正确的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Remittances are drying up.",
        "汇款也枯竭了。"
    ],
    [
        "The High Cost of Cheap Fashion",
        "廉价时装的高昂成本"
    ],
    [
        "That began to change in 2001, when Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, the widow of the assassinated military strongman General Zia, replaced secularism in the Constitution with the “Sovereignty of Allah.”",
        "当2001年孟加拉国总理卡莉达·齐亚（Begum Khaleda Zia）——遇刺的军事铁腕人物齐亚将军的遗孀，用“阿拉的主权”取代了宪法中的宗教和世俗分离的世俗主义，那个改变由此开端。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, they form a compelling narrative that European leaders must begin to articulate.",
        "它们合在一起就形成了欧洲领导人必须现在就开始宣扬的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Nearly half the world’s population – some 3.5 billion people – lives near coasts.",
        "伦敦—全世界近一半人口——大约35亿人——生活在海洋沿岸。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, world leaders seem to have taken that lesson to heart: the Sustainable Development Goals – the ambitious post-2015 development agenda adopted at the UN last September – are premised on the idea of local ownership.",
        "幸运的是，世界领导人似乎已经记取了这个教训：可持续发展目标——去年9月联合国通过的雄心勃勃的后2015年发展计划——是以地方所有权的理念为前提的。"
    ],
    [
        "UK exporters would end up participating less in the large EU market, and they would be shut out of EU-negotiated agreements ensuring access to major international markets.",
        "英国出口商最终将减少在庞大的欧洲市场的参与，并且被排除在欧盟谈定的、确保进入主要国际市场的协定之外。"
    ],
    [
        "People need to trust one another and their leaders, and they need to agree on how to assess and respond to polarizing economic and social trends.",
        "人们需要信任彼此和他们的领袖，需要在关于如何评估和应对极化的经济和社会趋势方面取得一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Hundreds of businesses have already been seized and placed under the administration of Erdoğan’s close associates.",
        "已有数百家企业被没收，划归埃尔多安亲信管理。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe has, however, encountered several obstacles.",
        "但是，安倍面临着多重阻碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The discussion and outcome of the Bratislava summit underscored these efforts.",
        "在布拉迪斯拉发峰会上的议题和结论正是体现了这些努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Six more countries, all in Europe, have recently set a timetable to reach 0.7% of GNP by the year 2015.",
        "还有六个欧洲国家：比利时、芬兰、法国、爱尔兰、西班牙和英国最近也分别制定了在2015年前达到0."
    ],
    [
        "It is also seeking greater trade cooperation with European countries.",
        "它还在寻求与欧洲国家进行更大的贸易合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Wounded demonstrators are reported to have been buried alive in mass graves, and there are confirmed reports of bodies washing ashore in the waterways near Yangon (Rangoon).",
        "有传言说受伤的示威者被集体活埋，而有人亲眼看见仰光附近水道的岸边漂着许多尸体。"
    ],
    [
        "The developing world is up in arms over the major central banks’ reckless tactics.",
        "发展中世界正在竭力反对主要央行的鲁莽策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, under the aegis of the UN, a referendum on the future of Cyprus was held within the island's Greek and Turkish communities.",
        "最近在联合国的支持下，有关塞浦路斯未来的全民公决在岛国希腊和土耳其人聚居区隆重举行。"
    ],
    [
        "How voters decide will be an important test of whether democratic choices in advanced countries are governed by economic rationality or popular passions.",
        "选民如何决定将是发达国家民主选择是受经济理性还是群众热情支配的重要考验。"
    ],
    [
        "The Egyptian revolution now faces the exacting task that confronts all successful revolutions: how to define the future.",
        "埃及革命正面对着所有成功革命必需面对的任务： 如何描绘未来的蓝图。"
    ],
    [
        "The main opposition force, the center-left Republican People’s Party (CHP), received 26% and won only 13 municipalities.",
        "主要反对力量——中左翼的共和人民党（CHP）只赢得了26%的全国选票和13个自治市。"
    ],
    [
        "Many argue that the pro-EU consensus of the last decade emptied politics of its substance, contributing to the current populist backlash.",
        "很多人都认为是过去10年向欧盟回归的共识使政治失去了实际内容，从而导致目前民粹主义的回归。"
    ],
    [
        "That is one of many recent dramatic signs that our climate is changing and that our planet is warmer than it has been for a very long time.",
        "这个例子只是那些引人注目现象的其中之一，证明我们的气候正在改变而地球也比过去一个长时期变得更暖了。"
    ],
    [
        "He recognizes that the current political climate is not conducive to successful peace negotiations.",
        "他认识到当前政治气候并不有利于成功的和平谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Upon taking office, she swore allegiance not only to the constitution, but to “Him” (Kirchner) as well.",
        "执政以来，她不但宣誓效忠于宪法，也宣誓效忠于“他”（基什内尔）。"
    ],
    [
        "The country is resource-poor and did not benefit from commodity booms, unlike many of its continental peers. Nor did economic liberalization and structural reforms of the type typically recommended by the World Bank and other donors play much of a role.",
        "该国资源较为贫乏，并未像其它许多非洲国家那样从大宗商品繁荣中获益，其经济自由化进程和体制改革也并未像世界银行和其他捐助者一贯建议的那样扮演主要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s short-term crisis does not materially alter their long-term prospects.",
        "目前的短期危机没有在本质上改变它们的长期前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Europe is defending the moral high ground when it comes to values such as human rights, peaceful conflict resolution, social welfare, and care for the environment.",
        "当今，欧洲正捍卫着人权、冲突的和平解决、社会福利和环境保护等方面的崇高价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "And “non-apology apologies” – for example, “I’m sorry if you feel I have offended you” – are often worse than nothing, although they are a familiar diplomatic stock-in-trade of which I, too, have been guilty of using.",
        "而且“不是道歉的道歉“——比方说，“我很抱歉你觉得我得罪了你”——往往比不道歉还糟，虽然它们是惯用的外交伎俩，而且这样的方法其实我也用过。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed has neither the legal authority nor the political mandate to run fiscal policy; if it tries to do so, it runs the risk of forever losing its independence.",
        "美联储既没有法定权力，也没有政治授权来负责财政政策； 如果它要这样做的话，就有可能永远失去独立性。"
    ],
    [
        "If implemented properly, the reforms will create a more efficient system for the creation and enforcement of contracts, ease the path for market entrants, and strengthen the application of China’s competition laws.",
        "如果这些改革能得到正确实施，就将为合同的制定和执行创造一个更加有效的体系，放宽新市场参与者的进入渠道，并强化中国一系列竞争法的应用。"
    ],
    [
        "All of them – including Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Bob McDonnell of Virginia, and former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida – declined to seek the Republican presidential nomination, but will be on the short list for 2016 should Obama win in November.",
        "他们——包括印第安纳州的米奇·丹尼尔斯、新泽西州的克里斯·克里斯蒂、弗吉尼亚州的鲍勃·麦克唐纳以及佛罗里达州前州长杰布·布什——都没有需求获得共和党总统候选人提名，但如果奥巴马在11月的大选中获胜，那么他们很可能会在2016年成为民主党的对手。"
    ],
    [
        "(In fact, lung cancer kills one in ten smokers.)",
        "（事实上，十个烟民中就有一个因肺癌丧命。"
    ],
    [
        "What’s the Problem With Protectionism?",
        "保护主义有什么问题？"
    ],
    [
        "There are worries, too, about financial regulation, and especially central banks’ shiny new macroprudential instruments.",
        "还有关于金融监管的担心，特别是央行亮闪闪的新宏观审慎工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The greatest crime we committed or tolerated was the savaging of our cherished Constitution.",
        "我们犯下或是容忍的最大罪行就是粗暴对待我们所珍惜的宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "But there were no statistically significant differences between subjects with or without religious backgrounds, with approximately 90% of subjects saying that it is permissible to flip the switch on the boxcar, 97% saying that it is obligatory to rescue the baby, and 97% saying that is forbidden to remove the healthy man’s organs.",
        "但是，具有和不具有宗教背景的人之间并没有明显的统计上的差异，大约90％的人说把车厢换到岔道上是可以的，97％的人说救孩子是有义务的，而且97％的人说取健康人的器官是禁止的。"
    ],
    [
        "He uncovered a massive tax fraud and alleged widespread collusion by the authorities.",
        "他发现了一起大规模的骗税，声称俄罗斯当局参与并勾结。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the EU should help to address the cause of extraordinary heating costs: the woeful energy inefficiency of most of the existing housing stock.",
        "与此同时，欧盟可以帮助解决取暖成本高企的根源：几乎所有建成房屋的能源效率都十分低下。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike Al Qaeda, the Islamic State is not a fragmented network of relatively small cells; it is a territorial entity operating as a pseudo-state in Syrian and Iraqi territory.",
        "与基地组织不同，伊斯兰国不是由相对较小的部分组成的脆弱的网络； 而是一个类似于国家的领土实体，其势力范围包括叙利亚和伊拉克领土。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that climate change is not important; it means only that the EU’s climate policy is not smart.",
        "这不是说气候变化不重要； 只是说欧盟并未执行明智的气候政策。"
    ],
    [
        "For many years, commentators have expressed concerns about the culture of doping in elite sport. Yet, the culture of anti-doping is equally alarming, because it embodies a dogmatic commitment that limits the capacity for critical debate over what really matters in sport.",
        "很多年以来，评论家们对精英体育的兴奋剂文化深表忧虑，但反兴奋剂文化也同样令人触目惊心，因为它包含了太多的教条性义务，限制了人们的能力，使什么才是体育核心的关键辩论无法展开。"
    ],
    [
        "Qatar was perceived as increasingly rebellious, routinely defecting from the collective and mundane line of Gulf countries’ politics – inviting further pressures from the “big brothers.”",
        "很多人怀疑埃及和沙特人是第二年针对阿勒萨尼军事政变的组织者。"
    ],
    [
        "But NATO's leaders should bear in mind that, viewed in comparative and historical perspective, such change will be less an imposition from outside and more the result of internal pressures and initiatives.",
        "但北约领导人应该时刻记住：以比较和历史的眼光来看，上述变化更有可能是内部压力和行动的结果，而不会来自外界力量的强迫作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But, to make the new resolution effective, China’s full and unwavering participation – which has not yet been the case – is critical.",
        "但是，要想新的决议有实质性效果，中国完全坚定的参与（现在尚不明确）尤为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "One theory, endorsed by the head of Germany’s ruling Social Democratic Party, Franz Müntefering, is that Germany is already where the others still want to be.",
        "德国执政的社会民主党主席弗兰茨·明特费林心中的理论是：德国已经实现了其它国家为之奋斗的理想。"
    ],
    [
        "Global exposure makes supply chains more dynamic and enables companies to absorb more of the innovations, technologies, and ideas that are constantly emerging worldwide.",
        "参与全球竞争能让供应链更具活力，让公司的以吸收更多在全世界范围内不断涌现的创新、技术和思想。"
    ],
    [
        "The final pitfall is excessively rapid depletion of oil or mineral deposits, in violation of optimal rates of saving, let alone environmental preservation.",
        "最后一个陷阱是石油矿产资源过早的耗尽，违反节约原则，更说不上保护环境了。"
    ],
    [
        "Whenever I speak at finance and economics conferences around the world, I find that a great conversation starter with the spouses of the middle-aged business people who attend is to inquire about their vacation home.",
        "每当我在世界各地的金融经济会议上演讲,都会发现和与会中年商人的配偶开始谈话的最佳话题是询问他们的度假住宅。"
    ],
    [
        "A team that is unable to keep going at full speed for the full 90 (or more) minutes, switch from defense to offense quickly with the whole team, and maintain control of the ball to restrict their opponents' movements won’t stand much of a chance.",
        "一支球队如果无法在90分钟甚至更长的时间里保持全速，迅速从防守转向进攻，并且控球限制对手的运动，那么就不会在顶级水平立足。"
    ],
    [
        "The best evidence comes from the United Nations’ climate change panel, the IPCC, which has clearly shown that there has been no overall increase in droughts.",
        "最好的例子莫过于联合国气候变化委员会（IPCC），该委员会明确表示，总体干旱程度并未呈现上扬。"
    ],
    [
        "More stable financial markets and a less volatile exchange rate relative to the euro will bring many advantages.",
        "增进金融市场和对欧元汇率的的稳定性将带来许多好处。"
    ],
    [
        "But intolerance of debate, of discussion, and of particular branches of scholarship should never be tolerated.",
        "但不容许辩论、探讨和特定学术领域的存在是永远不能被容忍的。"
    ],
    [
        "All these factors have now gone into reverse: Growth has slowed, the baby boomers are a demographic bulge weighing on their children, and they are expected to live long.",
        "现在一切因素都已经出现了逆转：增长开始放缓、绝对数量庞大的婴儿潮一代为子女造成了沉重的负担，而且他们拥有相当长的预期寿命。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s war in 2006 in Lebanon against Hezbollah, supported by the US and the entire Arab “moderate” camp, was no more successful.",
        "以色列于2006年在黎巴嫩袭击真主党的战争——该战争得到了美国以及整个阿拉伯“温和派”阵营的支持——不再是一个成功。"
    ],
    [
        "By and large, experience has vindicated this view.",
        "大体而言，经验证实了这一观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Cash Aid for Africa",
        "给非洲现金援助"
    ],
    [
        "The same sum of euros has very different “expected” value in a Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Dutch, or German bank account, because banks in the weaker member states are reliant on bailouts from fiscally stressed governments.",
        "同样数额的欧元在葡萄牙、意大利、希腊、荷兰或德国的银行账户里有着截然不同的“预期”价值，因为较弱的成员国银行需要依赖本已财政困难的政府提供救助。"
    ],
    [
        "A renewed push to integrate European markets for services, digital goods, capital markets, and energy would remove barriers to business and bring new incentives to invest.",
        "新一轮的欧洲市场针对服务，数字商品，资本市场和能源的一体化将消除企业所面临的障碍并催生新的投资积极性。"
    ],
    [
        "The lakeside architecture of Chicago.",
        "比如芝加哥的湖畔建筑；"
    ],
    [
        "But if these factors account for the rise of populism, they must have somehow intensified in the last few years, with low-skill workers’ circumstances and prospects deteriorating faster vis-à-vis their high-skill counterparts.",
        "但如果是这些因素导致了民粹主义的崛起，那么它们必然在过去几年中表现出某种程度的加剧的倾向，即低技能劳动者的状况和前景相对于高技能同行出现了快速的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Services are also the ingredient that makes China’s urbanization strategy so effective.",
        "服务业也是让中国城镇化战略如此有效的要素。"
    ],
    [
        "The simplest approach would be for countries to “deposit” the SDRs that they receive at the IMF, which could then lend them to countries and invest the remainder in sovereign bonds.",
        "最简单的方法是各国将它们得到的SDR“储蓄”在IMF，IMF将这些SDR贷给各国并将剩下部分投资于主权债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Mainstream politicians will not regain lost ground until they, too, offer serious solutions that provide room for hope.",
        "除非主流政治学家也能拿出充满希望的严肃的解决方式，否则他们不可能夺回失去的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "The prevailing explanation – a brutally cold winter – is wearing so thin that everyone should be able to see through it.",
        "流行的解释——异常寒冷的冬季——实在过于单薄，所有人都可以一眼看穿破绽。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the health benefits – to say nothing of the often higher and more reliable yields – governments should introduce incentives aimed at increasing use of such genetically engineered grains and other crops.",
        "考虑到基因改造农产品在健康方面的好处——更不用说其更高也更可靠的产量——各国政府都应当引入法案促进这类基因改造谷物以及其他作物的推广。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to successful redistribution strategies adopted during the 1970s and 1980s, average per capita income increased, and poverty rates fell dramatically.",
        "尽管财富分配仍然是一个重大问题，但马来西亚基尼系数自20世纪70年代中期以来稳步向着更平等的方向变化；"
    ],
    [
        "Global alarm bells might cause pangs of guilt for wealthy Westerners, but they don’t give us an adequate understanding of what’s going on.",
        "全球的警钟也许会使富有的西方人感到愧疚，但是它们无法使我们对正在发生的事情有确切的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "The current dispute in the East China Sea over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands (the Diaoyu Islands in China) would likely be less tense if the atrocities of the Sino-Japanese War were not rehashed so often in contemporary Chinese life.",
        "如果中日战争的惨状不曾在当代中国人的生活中一再改编，目前围绕日本控制的尖阁列岛（中国称钓鱼岛）的争议可能也不会如此之大。"
    ],
    [
        "In the time it takes to read this commentary, three more young women will have contracted HIV.",
        "在阅读这篇评论所需的短短时间里，就会有3名年轻女性感染艾滋病毒。"
    ],
    [
        "But aren’t stocks risky?",
        "但股票难道不是有风险的么？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, financial innovation and globalization allow markets to spread risk more effectively than ever before, placing it in the hands of those who can best manage it.",
        "另外，金融革新和全球化使市场比以前能更有效地传播风险，而把它放在那些能最好地控制它的人手中。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany, in foreign policy as well as in economics, can exert decisive leadership in the EU – when it wants to.",
        "德国无论在外交政策还是在经济上，都可以在欧盟中发挥决定性的领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Even hospitals that are part of the same system sometimes struggle to share patient information.",
        "即便同属一个系统的医院，有时也难以共享病患信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Before becoming overly enamored of French institutions, Italians should consider what the French think of their own system.",
        "在过度沉迷于法国制度之前，意大利应该考虑一下法国人如何看待自己的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Lobbyists sought to water down the proposed legislation, with telecommunications companies particularly opposed to its net-neutrality provisions.",
        "游说者事故扼杀立法草案，通讯公司尤其反对网络中立条款。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea has tightened its military alliance with the US, Japan has backed away from a move to get the US to move its Marine airbase out of Okinawa, and India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines, among others, have drawn closer to the US.",
        "韩国已经和美国加强了军事同盟，日本先前要求美军空军基地撤出冲绳，如今也重投美国的怀抱。 在亚洲诸国中，印度、越南，印尼和菲律宾都和美国走得更近了。"
    ],
    [
        "This asymmetry turns banking into a casino: The house always wins.",
        "这一不对称性让银行变成了赌场：庄家永远是赢家。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, sovereign lending was a job for a few intrepid financiers, who drove shrewd bargains and were adept at statecraft.",
        "历史上主权贷款都是一些勇敢贷款者的专利，他们精于讨价还价，也不缺治国手腕。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this backdrop, a large bloc of countries has proposed a far-reaching Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a draft of which was endorsed by 122 United Nations member states in early July.",
        "在这样的背景下，许多国家提出了一个意义深远的禁止核武器条约，其草案在7月初获得了122个联合国成员国的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "That does not mean cutting foreign aid.",
        "这并不意味着削减外援。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2008, for example, a Tibetan named Wangdu, an AIDS educator in Lhasa, received a life sentence for sending news about Tibetan protests to Tibetans abroad.",
        "比如在2008年，一个名叫旺度，原本在拉萨进行艾滋病防治教育工作的西藏人就被判处了终身监禁，因为他向海外的西藏人传播西藏暴动的消息。"
    ],
    [
        "The security agreement between the US and South Korea mandates a military response.",
        "美韩安全协定规定美国美国需做出军事反应。"
    ],
    [
        "An old man with a long beard watches over us, and most of us retain a pretty literal opinion of the stories about his Son told in the Bible’s New Testament.",
        "上帝是一直照看我们的长胡子老人，而且多数人对《圣经新约》中上帝之子的故事有着相当表面化的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Diagnostics for Global Health",
        "诊断学和全球健康"
    ],
    [
        "Each valley is guarded by a dzong (fortress), which includes monasteries and temples, all dating back centuries and exhibiting a masterful combination of sophisticated architecture and fine arts.",
        "每一个山谷都由一个“德崇”（城堡）来守卫着，“德崇”里有佛塔和寺庙，年代久远，而且每一座建筑都是高超建筑手段和精美艺术的完美结晶。"
    ],
    [
        "For the moment, the return of manufacturing to rich countries remains a prediction, not an outcome.",
        "眼下，制造业回归富裕国家仍然只是预言而不是结果。"
    ],
    [
        "After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration teamed up with the X-Prize Foundation to offer a $1.4 million prize to the group that produced the most efficient oil-recovery solution.",
        "2010年墨西哥湾深海钻井漏油事件后，奥巴马政府建立了X奖基金会（X-Prize Foundation），向提供最有效原油回收方案的团队奖励140万美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Measures to prevent flooding and steps to repair damaged areas of Bangkok cannot even begin until the rubble is cleared.",
        "在废墟被清理掉之前，防洪和修复曼谷受灾区的措施根本无法施行。"
    ],
    [
        "One month later, Tunisians went to the polls to elect a president for the first time since President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was removed in 2011.",
        "一个月后，突尼斯人通过投票箱选出了总统，这是2011年本·阿里被推翻以来的第一位民选总统。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the current situation, characterized by rising global greenhouse-gas emissions, already amounts to failure, with the current trend putting the two-degree target out of reach in less than a decade.",
        "事实上，以全球温室气体排量稳步上升为特征的现状已经可以称之为失败，不出十年，目前设定的2摄氏度目标就将无法保持。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2010, we will discover that neither has the power to keep US-Chinese relations on track.",
        "然而到了 2010 年，我们会发现这两位都无法将中美关系维持在一个正常的轨道上。"
    ],
    [
        "The liberal journal Strategy and Management was closed down.",
        "自由派杂志<<战略和管理>>被查封。"
    ],
    [
        "But, on both sides of the Atlantic, the polarized politics of bravado and brinkmanship will be much in evidence.",
        "但是，大西洋两岸都会明显出现虚张声势和边缘政策的极端政治。"
    ],
    [
        "The political clout of traditional land-owning elites declined, and powerful new working-class-based parties began to emerge.",
        "传统地主精英的政治力量衰落，强大的以工人阶级为基础的政党开始出现。"
    ],
    [
        "The nasal cavity is unique, as the only place where brain cells (neurons) are directly exposed to the environment.",
        "鼻腔是独特的，是唯一一个脑细胞（神经元）直接暴露在环境中的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "The further Europe export its laws and values, the more it expands a zone committed to peaceful, democratic, and prosperous co-existence.",
        "如果欧洲进一步地输出其法律和价值体系，就会进一步扩大一个致力于和平、民主和繁荣的和平共处的区域。"
    ],
    [
        "As soon as Tsipras realizes that the rules of the game between Greece and Europe have changed, his capitulation will be just a matter of time.",
        "只要齐普拉斯认识到希腊和欧洲的博弈规则已经改变，他的投向将只是时间问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Donald the Destroyer",
        "破坏者特朗普"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not an ideal world.",
        "但我们身边的世界可算不上理想。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, with the Chinese economy undergoing wholesale economic transformation, estimating a long-term equilibrium exchange rate that will anchor speculation is virtually impossible, particularly given persistent doubts about data quality, disclosure, and opaque policymaking processes.",
        "毕竟，中国经济仍在经历总体经济转型，估算能够锚定投机的长期均衡利率几乎是不可能的，特别是在人们一直在怀疑数据质量、披露和决策过程不透明的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "For Turkey’s liberals, the weakening of the military’s political influence became an end in itself.",
        "在土耳其自由派看来，削弱军队的政治影响力本身就是一种目的。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Xiangfan’s Infectious Diseases Hospital is the prefecture’s only health facility where HIV/AIDS patients can be admitted.",
        "举例来讲，襄樊传染病医院是该地区唯一一家能接收HIV/艾滋病患者的医疗机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Debt, Dictatorship, and Democratization",
        "债务、独裁和民主化"
    ],
    [
        "But, judging by market behavior in the second half of January, the fear about China has subsided, at least for now.",
        "但是，从1月份下半个月的市场行为看，对中国的担忧至少在目前已有所减小。"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of inequality should be a source of concern.",
        "这种不平等理应引起我们的关切。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Vice President Dick Cheney famously remarked, “deficits don’t matter” – meaning that there were no immediate political consequences of running a budget deficit and pushing up the national debt.",
        "前副总统切尼（Dick Cheney）有一句名言：“赤字不重要”——意思是出现预算赤字和增加国民债务不会带来即刻的政治后果。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, a long-term agreement would be both a singular foreign-policy achievement for Obama and a boon to his efforts to disentangle the US from the Middle East.",
        "毕竟对奥巴马来说，与伊朗的长期协议不但是突出的外交成就，也有利于他让美国摆脱中东。"
    ],
    [
        "To tackle global food security successfully, we must change the way we treat rural development, which requires adopting a much more bottom-up approach.",
        "为了成功应对全球食品安全问题，我们必须改变自己处理农村发展的方式，而这就意味我们必须采取一个更加至下而上的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "So threatening to attack the world’s most powerful country would seem like an act of madness.",
        "因此威胁袭击世界最强大国家的举动看起来与发疯无异。"
    ],
    [
        "But James Parkinson was the first to describe the disease in detail, in 1817.",
        "但第一个详细描述这种疾病的是1817年的詹姆斯·帕金森（James Parkinson）。"
    ],
    [
        "In late 1996, after barely two years, he stated that he had invented a “unique” variety, and applied for a patent.",
        "在仅仅两年后的1996年末，他声称已经发明“独特”的品种，并为此申请专利。"
    ],
    [
        "And that could prove to be even more difficult, because the current closed nature of the medical-information system and its self-directed incentive structure block such sharing.",
        "而这可能要困难得多，因为当前医学信息系统是封闭的，其自我导向的激励结构阻碍了信息的分享。"
    ],
    [
        "Autocrats, supported by Western powers, remained firmly in place.",
        "在西方力量的支持下，独裁根深蒂固。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the genocidal Khmer Rouge were, for a brief time, partly defended by the US in their forest redoubts after their eviction from Phnom Penh.",
        "即便是犯下大屠杀罪行的柬埔寨红色高棉，也在被逐出首都金边，逃入丛林负隅顽抗的某段时期内得到了美国一定程度上的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "And while Nixon had Fox News' future Svengali, a young Roger Ailes, behind him, Fox and the rest were still two decades away.",
        "尽管尼克松曾经拥有福克斯新闻未来的斯文加利式人物——年轻的罗杰·艾尔斯的支持，但却远没有完全赢得福克斯和其他新闻媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "The Turkish government has adopted an active role as a promoter of peace and has reconfigured its policies toward a number of regional problems.",
        "土耳其政府已经扮演起了一个和平推动者的角色，并已经重新制定了在一些地区性问题上的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Eurozone leaders must recognize that spending cuts will do nothing to stabilize the balance sheets of core-country banks that are over-exposed to peripheral countries’ sovereign debt.",
        "欧元区领导人必须认识到，支出削减对稳定核心国银行资产负债表无济于事——它们在外围国主权债务上的敞口太大。"
    ],
    [
        "The Failure of Free Migration",
        "自由移民的失败"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries even impose a constitutional mandate for equality of educational opportunities.",
        "一些国家甚至从宪法上规定教育机会必须平等。"
    ],
    [
        "A large number of social-media-savvy young voters have been turning out in the streets demanding a change of government.",
        "大量善于使用社交媒体的年轻选民开始走上街头，要求改选政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Having an independent monetary policy that could counteract boom-and-bust cycles would be the best way for China to deal with such risks.",
        "具有独立的、能够抵御从繁荣到破灭循环的货币政策是中国应付此类风险的最佳途径。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also appropriate for an economy where goods and services fulfill people’s needs and where products compete on their technical or functional features.",
        "这对一种以商品和服务满足人们的需求和产品在技术和功能上彼此竞争的经济同样适用。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, a technocratic focus on upgrading skills and operational capability, in the absence of improved governance of the security services, can be easily subverted by anti-reform coalitions, resulting in the continuation of regressive patterns of behavior.",
        "简而言之，如果只是像技术官僚那样将重点放在提高技能和行动能力上，却未能改善安全部门的治理水平，最终就很容易被反改革联盟推翻，导致这种开倒车的行为模式一直延续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, the idea always seemed to be that Japan would pay more for defense, but the US would set the partnership’s objectives.",
        "说到底，这一思想永远是日本为防务出钱，而美国则为其合作伙伴制定目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits have become more dubious, while the costs and risks have grown increasingly evident.",
        "干预的好处越来越受到质疑，而成本和风险越来越表露无遗。"
    ],
    [
        "I could see his point: This year’s poverty calculation was particularly momentous.",
        "我可以理解他的观点：今年贫困情况的计算特别关键。"
    ],
    [
        "But I would argue, as Keynes did, that “the boom, not the slump, is the time for austerity at the Treasury.”",
        "但我得说，正如凯恩斯所指出的，“繁荣，而不是衰退，才是财政紧缩的时机。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas extraction of America’s extensive reserves of natural gas was previously thought to be unfeasible, technologies such as hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) have ushered in a shale-gas revolution.",
        "美国有着巨大的原本认为无法利用的天然气储备，但液压致裂法等技术已经开启了页岩气革命之门。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, even before the review of Dodd-Frank gets going, Trump has already gotten financial regulation badly wrong.",
        "相反，即使在审查多德-弗兰克法案之前，特朗普就已经严重误判了金融监管。"
    ],
    [
        "But by then the Muslim population will have expanded rapidly – to 10-20% of the total in the UK.",
        "但那时穆斯林人口已有快速增长——可能占英国总人口的10—20%。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, in some places, the volume of food wastage is rising.",
        "事实上，在一些地区，粮食浪费量还在增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea of a bi-national Israeli-Palestinian state embodies the dangerous illusion that two peoples who are utterly different in their language, religion, culture, and history, who are divided by a deep economic chasm and connected to their own external worlds – the Palestinians to the Arab world and Israelis to the rest of world Jewry – can be combined in the framework of a single state.",
        "一个双民族的以色列—巴勒斯坦国的理念包含着一个危险的幻觉，即两个语言、宗教、文化和历史迥然不同的民族，两个被深刻的经济隔阂分割，并与其各自的外部世界相联—巴勒斯坦人和阿拉伯世界，以色列人和世界其他地方的犹太人—的民族，能够被纳入单一国家的框架之中。"
    ],
    [
        "With elections set to be held no later than June 23, the Council has less than four months to prepare Libya for its first free vote in sixty years.",
        "而选举原定要在7月23日前举行，这意味着委员会还有不够4个月的时间来筹备利比亚60年来的首场自由选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Felipe Calderón has taken the oath of office, braving the wrath of his left-wing opposition, out-smarting the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) and its leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but nonetheless paying a high price.",
        "费利佩•卡尔德龙 （Felipe Calderón）冒着左翼反对派人士的怒火，击败了民主革命党（PRD）及其领导人安德列斯•曼努埃尔•洛佩斯•奥夫拉多尔（Andrés Manuel López Obrador），但同时也付出了惨重的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "For the past two years, my colleagues and I on the Growth Commission have sought to learn how 13 developing countries managed to record growth rates averaging 7% or more for 25 years or longer.",
        "在过去的两年里，我和我的发展委员会的同事们试图去了解13个发展中国家是如何在25年甚至更长的时间内取得7 ％甚至更高的平均增长率的。"
    ],
    [
        "Events in China are no reason for further delay.",
        "中国的情况不是进一步延迟升息的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "One clue lies in the results of studies of the transmission of BSE and variant CJD in mice, which in many cases does not result in death from clinical disease, but instead can produce an asymptomatic “carrier state,” in which the disease has not yet manifested itself.",
        "一条线索来自牛海绵状脑病和变异型克雅氏病在老鼠中传播状况的研究，表明这两种病在多数情况下都不会导致临床死亡，但却能够造成没有明显症状的“携带状态”，也就是疾病没有发作。"
    ],
    [
        "And they were inclined to play only one of their “threat” cards at a time.",
        "他们一般一次只打一张牌。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence the need for a two-pronged attack: anti-corruption and de-communization, which is also a leitmotiv of Fidesz in Hungary, and to some extent of the right-wing Civic Democratic Party now in power in Prague.",
        "因此斗争才需要分为这两种形式：反腐败和去共产主义化，这既是青年民主党在匈牙利的主旨，在某种程度上也是目前在布拉格当权的右翼公民民主党的核心理念。"
    ],
    [
        "But when the Hungarian and Polish governments explicitly renounce fundamental EU principles, non-interference suddenly became sacrosanct.",
        "但当匈牙利和波兰政府赤裸裸地践踏欧盟基本原则时，不干预又突然之间成为神圣不可侵犯的原则了。"
    ],
    [
        "For, if Asia is to begin to build the type of dense institutional infrastructure that has brought Europe peace and prosperity, the flashpoint between China and Taiwan will need to be transformed into a foundation stone of regional cooperation.",
        "如果亚洲也要达到欧洲那样的和平繁荣，中国大陆和台湾的合作关系将是未来区域稳定的成功保证。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, all three received academic training at Harvard.",
        "与此同时，这三人均在哈佛接受国教育。 （卡尔德隆修过我的三门课；"
    ],
    [
        "He rules through the presidential administration and competing secret police forces without ideology or party.",
        "他通过总统当局以及没有意识形态或者政党的相互竞争的秘密警察进行统治。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short term, this probably will not happen.",
        "从短期看，这可能不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, by focusing development efforts on the comparative advantages of poorer countries, we can rebuild confidence in the business sector and reinvigorate investment in job creation – not only in developing countries, but also in advanced economies.",
        "实际上，通过集中发展较贫穷国家的比较优势，我们能够重建商业部门的信心并加大投资促进就业——无论是发展中国家还是发达国家都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, people still must turn for solutions to their national governments, which remain the best hope for collective action.",
        "今时今日，人们依然要从本国的政府那里寻求解决方案，而这也依然集体行动的最佳选项。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, while the benefits of many of the financial-engineering innovations of recent years are hard to prove, let alone quantify, the costs associated with them – both economic and social – are apparent and enormous.",
        "比方说，近几年搞出来的许多金融工程创新，它们到底有没有带来好处都还是个问题，更别说带来多少好处了，而它们造成的经济和社会损失明明白白就在眼前，还大得很呢。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, central banks ran the risk of no longer appearing to follow a clearly formulated policy guideline.",
        "这将致使央行面临丧失明确政策指导方针的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "“What is important,” he grudgingly conceded, “is that it was built by the blood and sweat of India’s farmers and laborers.”",
        "他勉强承认说：“重要的是，泰姬陵是由印度农民和劳动者的血汗浇筑而成的。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In Davos this year, great hopes have given way to great apprehensions.",
        "在今年的达沃斯会议上，巨大的希望让位给了巨大的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "But Trump is part of a wider phenomenon throughout the democratic world.",
        "但特朗普代表了民主世界一种普遍存在的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "First, global economic progress depends on high global saving and investment.",
        "首先，全球经济进步取决于全球储蓄和投资高企。"
    ],
    [
        "Many politicians, no doubt, will be grateful for the support of their universities, NGOs, and leading businesses.",
        "毫无疑问，许多政客会感谢来自他们的大学、非政府组织和主要企业的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, this recipe for creating future European depressions was rapidly dropped.",
        "幸运的是，这一有可能制造未来欧洲萧条的药方很快就被否决了。"
    ],
    [
        "But the summit is unlikely to deliver the global agreement that is so badly needed, unless world leaders broaden their focus to include not only emissions reduction, but also carbon pricing.",
        "但本次峰会不太可能达成迫切需要的全球协议，除非各国领导人将工作重点从单纯的减排拓展到碳排放定价。"
    ],
    [
        "Fixed investment in China is close to 50% of GDP – which must be a world record.",
        "该国固定资产投资额已经接近GDP的50%——这堪称一项世界记录。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Parliament can exercise its power only if citizens feel represented there.",
        "欧洲议会可以行使其权力，只要人民认为有代表在议会中。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the revelation three years ago that the then-Australian opposition leader and aspiring prime minister, Mark Latham, had assaulted a taxi driver and broken his arm in a dispute about a fare was relevant for those who believe that a nation’s leader should be slow to anger.",
        "同样地，三年前披露说当时的澳大利亚反对党领导人、希冀成为总理的黎敦因为出租车费争执而殴打出租车司机并打断了他的胳膊。 这对于那些相信国家领导人应道缓怒的人来说就是有关系的了。"
    ],
    [
        "One well-known shortcoming of GDP is that it disregards the value of housework, including care for children and elderly family members.",
        "GDP有一个众所周知的缺陷就是无视家务劳动的价值，包括照顾儿童和老年家庭成员。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the lessons of the Wolfowitz debacle is that it does actually matter how stakeholders and employees feel about the Bank’s leadership.",
        "沃尔福威茨倒台的教训之一是，利益相关者和雇员们对行长领导如何感觉实际上还是有所作用的。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, when antibacterial sulphonamides became available after 1934, infections could be treated quickly and easily on the spot, and mortality rates plummeted.",
        "举例来讲，当磺胺类抗菌药在1934年得到应用后，人们可以方便迅速地现场治疗感染，死亡率也因此出现大幅下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, China’s economic slowdown since the first quarter of 2010 has apparently been caused mainly by external and cyclical factors.",
        "有鉴于此，2010第一季度以来中国经济的放缓显然主要是由外部因素及周期性因素引起的。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this, and much more, is needed to send a clear signal to Russia that Europe is unwilling to stand idly by as it returns to great power politics.",
        "我们需要采取所有上述的甚至更多的行动，来向俄罗斯发出信号，那就是欧洲不愿在俄罗斯重拾大国政治时袖手旁观。"
    ],
    [
        "The possible conclusions are stark.",
        "结论是无情的。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent Congressional bill has called for imposing a 27.5% punitive tariff on Chinese imports.",
        "最近的一项国会议案提议，对中国出口到美国的商品征收27. 5%的惩罚性关税。"
    ],
    [
        "For dozens of countries around the world, the AIDS epidemic threatens every aspect of development.",
        "对于全世界几十个国家而言，艾滋病传播威胁到发展的各个方面。"
    ],
    [
        "It is likely to take longer to conclude agreements on contentious issues such as cyber intrusions for purposes like espionage and preparing the battlefield.",
        "就以间谍等活动为目的网络入侵和战场准备等争议问题达成协议可能还需要更长时间。"
    ],
    [
        "When reality proved otherwise, the return of the past was not abandoned, but merely postponed.",
        "当现实证明并非如此时，回到过去的想法并没有被放弃，而只是推迟。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the best way to relieve back and neck pain is often to exercise, while treating underlying contributing factors like obesity.",
        "比如，减轻背痛和颈痛的最佳办法是经常锻炼，同时解决肥胖等基础性因素。"
    ],
    [
        "If one looks at how it has affected financial conditions, including long-term interest rates, volatility, and stock prices, QE looks an awful lot like conventional interest-rate policy, which we think we understand.",
        "如果从该政策对包括长期利率，波动性和股价等金融状况的影响来看，它与我们自以为很熟悉的常规利率调整政策非常相似。"
    ],
    [
        "The gains would be distributed among a variety of sectors, even some that currently have low levels of technology adoption.",
        "其中的好处将在众多部门间分配，甚至包括一些目前技术采用水平很低的部门。"
    ],
    [
        "And whether one uses “Yangon” or “Rangoon” to identify Myanmar/Burma’s capital, the place still remains what the British travel writer Norman Lewis described as “imperial and rectilinear…built by a people who refused compromise with the East.”",
        "无论人们用“Yangon”还是“Rangoon”来称呼缅甸的首都仰光，这个地方仍然如英国旅行作家诺曼·路易斯（Norman Lewis）所描述的那样是一个“由一群不愿向东方妥协的人民所建造的……自顾自发展的帝国”。"
    ],
    [
        "Florida is a much more materially unequal society than Cuba.",
        "佛罗里达在物质上是一个比古巴远远更为不平等的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the eurozone permits these divergences because policies that affect growth are decentralized.",
        "其次，欧元区放任这些差距的发展，因为影响增长的政策是分散的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the not-too-distant past, widespread denigration of this sort in Africa, Latin America, and other parts of South Asia often made it easier for populist authoritarianism to take hold.",
        "就在不那么遥远的过去，非洲、拉美和南亚等地区随处可见的这类诋毁往往降低了民粹独裁主义的控制难度。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, foreign fighters across the Arab and wider Muslim world soon joined the fray, some supporting the regime, and others backing the rebels.",
        "但遗憾的是，阿拉伯和穆斯林世界的外国战士很快加入战团，有人支持叛军，也有人支持现政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Mass murderers such as Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook, Omar Mateen at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016, Stephen Paddock in Las Vegas, and countless others pulled the trigger.",
        "像桑迪胡克案中的亚当·兰扎（Adam Lanza）、2016年奥兰多Pulse夜总会枪击案中的奥马尔·马丁（Omar Mateen）、拉斯维加斯枪击案中的史蒂芬·帕多克（Stephen Paddock）以及其他许多的杀人狂按下了他们的扳机。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice see the problems as linked, as does British Prime Minister Tony Blair.",
        "在美国，布什总统和莱斯国务卿认为两者是相关的，英国首相布莱尔也是如此认为。"
    ],
    [
        "China is doing all of these things on a scale commensurate with its GDP.",
        "在这些方面，中国都在有与其GDP规模相称的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the Brady Plan was announced, Mexico had accepted a wide-ranging Pact of Economic Solidarity and Growth, which immediately improve investor confidence and reduced sky-high domestic interest rates.",
        "在布雷迪计划公布前，墨西哥政府同工会、农会等各利益集团达成妥协，出台了影响广泛的《经济巩固与增长协议》（Pact of Economic Solidarity and Growth），这一举措立即提升了投资者信心，使国内高企的利率有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the regime’s efforts to hide, yet again, a severe food shortage demonstrate that its core values have not changed in the least.",
        "事实上，金氏政权再一次试图掩盖严重食物短缺表明至少七核心价值并没有改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Either approach may well produce the same disastrous result: allowing the yen to appreciate to damaging levels and causing Abenomics to fail.",
        "不论哪种方法，都将导致同样的灾难：日元升值到危险水平，使安倍经济学失败。"
    ],
    [
        "For some, the fact that the United Kingdom might ratify it even earlier than traditionally “pro-European” countries like Italy merely underscores the Treaty’s lack of new and bold initiatives to accelerate European unification.",
        "在一些人看来，英国甚至先于意大利这样有 “亲欧洲”传统的国家签署这项条约，只能进一步说明这项条约在加速欧洲的统一步伐方面缺乏新鲜而大胆的创意。"
    ],
    [
        "It was December 31, 1989, and I was in the Soviet Union.",
        "那是1989年12月31日，当时我在苏联。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost the entire Shadow Cabinet has resigned, having lost confidence in party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and efforts to challenge him have been exceptionally acrimonious, with Corbyn supporters even throwing a brick through the window of one of his rivals' constituency office.",
        "影子内阁对党领袖科尔宾（Jeremy Corbyn）已失去信心并几乎全体辞职，挑战科尔宾的动作也是风起云涌， 科尔宾的支持者甚至朝他对手的选区办公室窗户投掷砖块。"
    ],
    [
        "These figures are discouraging, but they can be improved.",
        "这些数字令人沮丧，但可以改进。"
    ],
    [
        "But rather than upholding its usual standards, the IMF and its principal members settled for China’s vague promise to make the renminbi more usable sometime in the future.",
        "然而国际货币基金组织及其主要成员却未能遵照通常的标准来执行，而是采信了中国将在未来某个时候实现人民币自由兑换的模糊承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But your Aunt Nora’s celiac disease has not read the textbook.",
        "但书上的乳糜泻病和你姨妈的乳糜泻病并不完全相同。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires engaging revolutionary forces like Iran and Syria; respecting, rather than ostracizing, those Islamist movements that have opted out from jihadism in favor of political participation; and leading an international alliance for an Arab-Israeli peace based on the Arab League initiative.",
        "这就要求与像伊朗和叙利亚那样的革命性国家接触、尊重而不是孤立那些脱离圣战主义赞成政治参与的伊斯兰运动并且率领国际同盟来实现以阿拉伯联盟的倡议为基础的阿以和平。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Climate change affects us all, but we still are not acting as quickly as we should to address its causes, mitigate the damage, and adapt to its effects.",
        "纽约—气候变化影响我们所有人，但我们仍在尽量快地采取行动以治理气候变化的根源、减轻它的伤害，并适应它的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "One observed that Bank of England staff members tended to “filter” their advice to make it more palatable to their superiors.",
        "一个评论观察到英国银行职员倾向于“过滤”建议从而使其上级更容易接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Reform of China’s massive state-owned-enterprise (SOE) sector would also boost productivity.",
        "改革中国巨大的国有企业部门也能够刺激生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "This “investment” by wealthier countries should pay off if it leads to more flexible labor markets and higher productivity in the recipient countries.",
        "这一由富裕国家进行的“投资”将收到成效，如果它能在受助国促成更灵活的劳动力市场和更高的生产率的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only will there be more tech jobs in the future; increasingly, more jobs will have a tech dimension to them, especially as scientific advances play a major role in solving some of society’s biggest challenges – climate change, health care, poverty, and inequality.",
        "未来不仅技术型工作将会越来越多； 而且因为技术进步在解决气候变化、医疗卫生、贫困和不平等社会重大挑战中所起到的重要作用，越来越多的就业岗位将涉及技术层面的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community tried.",
        "国际社会已经做出了努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth and jobs need to be promoted with equal zeal.",
        "增长和就业需要双管齐下。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, porn is so specifically tuned to the tastes of consumers that shifts can indicate changes in a society almost immediately.",
        "事实上，色情产品完全迎合消费者的欣赏口味，因此色情产品的变化几乎可以在第一时间反映出社会的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Another shift implicit in Sadat’s strategy was to keep Egypt at a distance from pan-Arabism.",
        "萨达特所作出的另一个战略上明显的转变是使埃及与泛阿拉伯主义保持距离。"
    ],
    [
        "Next week, President Bush, President Chirac, and Chancellor Schroeder will meet on the cliffs of Normandy to mark the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasions that led to the liberation of Europe.",
        "下星期，布什总统、希拉克总统和施罗德总理将在诺曼底的悬崖峭壁上会面，纪念最终解放欧洲的 D 日登陆。"
    ],
    [
        "Biological evolution is also based on a theory-less algorithm, one that learns which genotypes generate better-adapted individuals without having a theory of which changes in the genome will improve performance.",
        "生物演化也是基于无理论的算法，这种算法学习那些遗传型产生更适应的个体，但它并没有关于哪些基因组的变化能改善表现的理论。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, large emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil are unlikely to fill the void, as they will remain keen to protect their national sovereignty and room to maneuver.",
        "与此同时，中国、印度和巴西等大型新兴市场也不太可能出来填补这个空缺，因为它们仍极力要捍卫自己的国家主权和留有回旋的余地。"
    ],
    [
        "On the tradable side, competitiveness depends not only on human capital, but also on a host of other factors: infrastructure, tax systems, regulatory efficiency, policy-induced uncertainty, and energy and health-care costs.",
        "在可贸易方面，竞争力不但取决于人力资本，也取决于其他一些因素：基础设施、税收制度、监管效率、政策导致的不确定性、以及能源和卫生成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sustainability Mindset",
        "可持续性观念"
    ],
    [
        "Sudden terror before this omnipresent, all-devouring monster was soon overtaken by fascination.",
        "在这无所不在、吞噬一切的魔鬼面前，突如其来的恐惧很快就化做了深深的迷恋。"
    ],
    [
        "So all is well.",
        "所以一切都是合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Other indicators, in my view, confuse measures of performance with measures of hypothetical causes of performance.",
        "在我看来，另一些指标混淆了表现衡量指标和假想的表现原因衡量指标。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the only reason why unemployment remains high in the eurozone is that the labor-force participation rate has continued to increase throughout the recession; and, indeed, employment is returning to pre-crisis levels.",
        "此外，欧元区失业保持高企的唯一原因是劳动力参与率在整个衰退期间继续上升； 而事实上，就业水平正在回归危机前水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The mere possibility that UN member states may settle on a new global compact is a significant development.",
        "仅仅是联合国成员国达成新全球协议的可能性就是一项显著进步。"
    ],
    [
        "But punitive measures can easily lead to disputes and inefficiency. By contrast, refining evaluation systems holds far more promise.",
        "但惩罚性措施很容易导致纠纷和低效，相比之下细化评级体系则更可靠。"
    ],
    [
        "This contrasts sharply with China’s single-party system, in which the level of government accountability is much lower.",
        "这就与中国的一党制体制形成了鲜明对比，后者的政府可信度也更为低下。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Fed’s 2008 decision to reduce the policy interest rate virtually to zero, together with the subsequent economic recovery, surely contributed to the strong stock-market rebound that began in early 2009.",
        "美联储在2008年决定将政策利率调整到几乎为零的水平，以及随后到来的经济复苏显然促使了股票市场从2009年初开始猛烈反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "The prospect that the Party could come to power in an electoral alliance with the Socialists struck fear in opponents.",
        "在一次与社会党人联盟的选举中，对手很担心共产党获胜可能会胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "Legitimacy is a delicate, yet utterly important feature of stable democratic politics. It is also complicated.",
        "合法性是稳定的民主政治很微妙而且绝对重要的一个特征，同时它也很复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s Internal Evaluation Office is more directly scathing in its assessment of the Fund’s obliviousness to the US subprime crisis as it emerged.",
        "IMF内部评估办公室（Internal Evaluation Office）更是在其评估报告中直接批评了IMF对美国次贷危机毫无警觉。"
    ],
    [
        "In that sense, it is not “the end of the party” for emerging markets, as some claimed early last summer, when US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s suggestion of a possible “taper” of the Fed’s policy of quantitative easing triggered a “mini-crisis” in several of the more vulnerable emerging markets.",
        "照此看，这决非新兴市场“派对结束”。 在过去的这个夏天，美联储主席伯南克暗示可能“逐渐收缩”美联储量化宽松政策，这在几个较脆弱的新兴市场引起了“迷你危机”，从而导致一些人迫不及待地放出了“派对结束”论。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID/WASHINGTON, DC – As revolutionary change sweeps across the Arab world, it is easy to think that now is not the time to push for peace between Israel and Palestine.",
        "马德里/华盛顿——值此革命性变革席卷阿拉伯世界的时刻，人们很容易认为现在不是推动以色列及巴勒斯坦和平进程的时机。"
    ],
    [
        "An estimated 30,000 migrants are now crossing the Serbian border into Hungary every month, spurring the country’s right-wing government to launch the construction of a 110-mile fence to keep them out.",
        "据估计，每个月有30,000移民穿越塞尔维亚边界进入匈牙利，促使匈牙利右翼政府开始建造一条110英里长的隔离栏将他们隔离在边境线外。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, the future shape of the International Monetary Fund is rapidly moving to the top of the agenda for world leaders as they prepare to meet in Washington in mid-November to discuss the future of the global financial system.",
        "因此，当世界各国领导人准备于十一月中旬在华盛顿开会讨论全球金融系统的未来的时候，国际货币基金组织未来的形态正在迅速成为这些领导人的会议的首要议题。"
    ],
    [
        "That choice was neither preordained nor one that the rest of the world should imitate.",
        "这样的选择绝非命中注定，世界其他国家也不应当效仿。"
    ],
    [
        "Fears abound among Palestinians of another spasm of violence if no agreement is reached before Annapolis and this round of talks fails.",
        "巴勒斯坦人对一旦在安纳波利斯和谈之前达不成协议或这一轮谈判破裂之后可能出现的另一波暴力风潮深感担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Allies of the nominee are recruited and pressed into service.",
        "被提名人的盟友也会被找出，并迫使他们就烦。"
    ],
    [
        "Before TV cameras and in the presence of the Palestinian Authority’s senior leaders, he lambasted Iran’s interference in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.",
        "哈巴什面对电视摄像机和巴勒斯坦当局的高级领袖，猛烈地抨击了伊朗队以巴冲突的干预。"
    ],
    [
        "With this in mind, Obamacare’s drafters made the purchase of insurance “mandatory.”",
        "奥巴马医改的起草者考虑到了这一点，因此将购买保险作为“强制”条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The only beneficiaries are the human traffickers that charge Syrian refugees some €6,000 for space in a dangerous boat or freighter.",
        "人贩子成了唯一的受益者，他们为危险偷渡船只上的弹丸之地而向叙利亚难民收取6，000欧元的高价。"
    ],
    [
        "Research is another area at risk.",
        "研究是另一个面临危险的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Second chances are rare in life, but both India and the US may be getting just that.",
        "生活中很少能获得第二次机会，而印度和美国可能恰恰获得了这一机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, more people may worry that humanity will suffer a more prolonged death through global warming.",
        "如今，也许更多的人担心的是人类将在全球变暖中慢慢死去。"
    ],
    [
        "They speak clearly and offer banalities while exchanging notes under the table.",
        "他们一边口齿清楚地扯淡，一边在桌子下面交换纸条。"
    ],
    [
        "Vaudeville may be a French specialty, like bread, cheese, and wine, but it does not strengthen the dignity and credibility of an already spectacularly unpopular presidency.",
        "综艺节目是法国特色，堪与面包、奶酪和葡萄酒相提并论，但这并没有加强这位支持率已然低得离谱的总统的尊严和信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "The allocation for the State Department’s educational and cultural exchange programs, including overseas research centers, libraries, and visitor programs, is boosted by nearly 25%.",
        "对包括海外研究中心、图书馆和访问者项目在内的国务院教育和文化交流项目的拨款增加了近25%。"
    ],
    [
        "But the illiberalism inherent in Russian imperialism is not limited to recent behavior, and, more disturbingly, it extends to the question of Georgia’s territorial integrity, as Russian troops continue to prop up secessionist regions.",
        "但是俄罗斯帝国主义内在的反自由主义并不局限于其最近的行为，更令人担忧的是，它延伸到了格鲁吉亚领土完整的问题上，因为俄罗斯的军队不断地支持想要脱离联邦的那些地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The first assumption – that violent conflicts destroy jobs – ignores the fact that every conflict is unique.",
        "第一种假设——即暴力冲突破坏就业——忽略了每一次冲突都各有特色。"
    ],
    [
        "These figures are a good deal weaker than originally stated.",
        "这些数字要比初报数字低很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Not even a young, buoyant prime minister can persuade them to stay.",
        "即使充满信心的年轻总理也无法说服他们留下。"
    ],
    [
        "The public should be relieved if the ECB raises rates, because this would most likely signal that the long-awaited economic recovery is well under way, and that inflationary repercussions are being addressed.",
        "欧洲央行提高利率会让公众感到如释重负，因为利率的提升可能意味着人们盼望已久的经济恢复已经开始，而通货膨胀的影响也正在得以解决。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sustainable Development Goals, which will be formally adopted in September by the United Nations’ 193 member states, foresee achieving that objective five years sooner.",
        "9月，联合国的193个成员国将正式开始实施可持续发展目标，在2030年根除结核病也是目标之一。"
    ],
    [
        "This leads to a clear increase in efficiency and provides overall income gains.",
        "这款软件显著提升了效率，并带来总体收入增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Salafi jihadism is not an organization, but an ideological trend based on the core belief that armed tactics of all kinds are the most effective – and, in some versions, the most legitimate – method of bringing about social and political change.",
        "沙拉菲圣战主义并不是一个组织机构，而是一个基于“各种形式的武装斗争策略都是最有效的——在某些说法中也是最具合法性的——社会和政治变革方式”这一核心信念的思潮。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early 1980’s, after a particularly bloody terrorist attack on French and American forces in Lebanon, France’s tolerance for military casualties seemed much higher than that of the United States.",
        "20世纪80年代初，黎巴嫩发生了针对法军和美军的严重流血恐怖袭击，此后法国对军事伤亡的厌恶程度便远远胜过了美国。"
    ],
    [
        "During Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Chinese and Russian troops engaged in joint military maneuvers, and the two countries became dominant powers in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which, to some Western observers, looked like an effort to counterbalance NATO.",
        "在弗拉基米尔·普京担任俄罗斯总统期间，中国军队和俄罗斯军队进行了联合军事演习，并且这两个国家成为上海合作组织(SCO)主要的国家。 对有些西方观察者来说，上海合作组织看起来像是一种平衡北约的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, no honest discussion of Obama’s presidency can ignore the role of his race.",
        "当然，若要诚实讨论奥巴马的总统任期，就不能忽视他的种族角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Francis, religious leaders of all the world’s major religions are urging us to take wisdom from faith and climate science in order to fulfill our moral responsibilities to humanity and to the future of Earth.",
        "和方济各一样，全球各大主要宗教的宗教领袖敦促我们从信仰和气候科学中汲取智慧，以旅行我们对人类和对地球未来的道德责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The Syrian people are caught in a bloodbath, with more than 400,000 dead and ten million displaced.",
        "叙利亚人民遭遇了一场血腥屠杀，400,000多人丧生，一千万人流离失所。"
    ],
    [
        "How should the former regime’s worst wrongdoers and security police, with their insidious archives, be treated? Should the former ruling party be banned?",
        "应该如何处置那些前政权的罪魁祸首和秘密警察，以及一大批秘密文件？"
    ],
    [
        "Of these, we believe that ten deserve to be at the forefront of the development agenda.",
        "对于这些主题和项目，我们相信有十个应该被列为发展日程的重点内容。"
    ],
    [
        "For Europe, the benefits of cheap oil might grow over time, because long-term gas-supply contracts are to a significant degree indexed to the oil price.",
        "在欧洲方面，低油价的好处或会随着时间推移不断增加，因为长期天然气供应合同在很大程度上与油价挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this history, it is a bit shabby to reproach China now for its exchange-rate policy – a policy that enabled the US to live beyond its means for so long.",
        "就这段历史来看，如今指责中国的汇率政策是有点卑鄙的。 中国的汇率政策使美国人能在这么长的时期内享受超出自己收入的生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of being viewed as a fire sale to fill fiscal holes, privatization would be part of a grand public-private partnership for development.",
        "私有化不会被视为为了填补财政窟窿而进行的大甩卖，而将是宏大的公私合作开发计划的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "What happened in both cases is that economists overlooked serious second-best complications, such as learning externalities and weak institutions, which blunted the reforms and, in some cases, caused them to backfire.",
        "在这两个例子中，经济学家忽略了严重的次优副作用，如学习外部性和制度弱点，这些副作用阻碍了改革，有时甚至让改革适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2016 alone, one million people around the world died from HIV-related causes, while 1.8 million more became infected.",
        "光是在2016年，全球就有一百万人死于与艾滋病毒有关的状况，另有180万人被感染。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so is cruel and inhumane, and it violates the spirit of all refugee, human rights, and immigration laws.",
        "这样做是残忍的、不合人道的，并且违反了所有难民、人权和移民法的精神。"
    ],
    [
        "His message is clear: he is not concerned about lower trading volumes.",
        "”，支持者回应说：或许许多交易“对社会来说都是无用的，”没有这些交易我们能过得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Only time will tell whether their current nonchalance constitutes another failure to assess and prepare for extreme events.",
        "只有时间才能告诉我们当前的漠不关心最后是否会变成失误，没有准确评估极端事件并未雨绸缪。"
    ],
    [
        "Complacency in a Leaderless World",
        "在群龙无首的世界里自鸣得意"
    ],
    [
        "It comes at a time when the West is increasingly being dragged down by short-term disruptions and continued policy inertia.",
        "它出现在西方不断被短期破坏因素和持续政策惯性所拖累的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The Growth Conundrum",
        "增长难题"
    ],
    [
        "A Chinese industry was classed as strong in innovation if Chinese players were capturing more than 12% of global revenue, the equivalent of China’s share of global GDP, in that sector.",
        "中国的某产业被归为擅长创新，如果中国企业占据该行业全球收入的12%（等于中国GDP占全球GDP的比重）以上的话。"
    ],
    [
        "ACCRA – The United States suffers rising job losses.",
        "阿克拉—越来越多的美国人丢掉了工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Not having fallen as hard as Greece, Ireland and Portugal have bounced back to positive growth.",
        "爱尔兰和葡萄牙都没有跌得像希腊那样惨，已经恢复正增长。"
    ],
    [
        "With governments preparing to sign the Paris agreement on April 22, there has never been a better opportunity to press ahead toward a brighter, cleaner, more prosperous future.",
        "政府正在准备在4月22日签署巴黎协定，从未有过如此好的机会推动更光明、更清洁、更繁荣的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment; the idea that the stars determine our fate has lost all intellectual currency.",
        "是的，占星依然在报纸上流行，但它们仅作为严肃科学挑战的标靶或是娱乐； 认为星座决定我们的命运的观念已经失去了所有的智力市场。"
    ],
    [
        "If inventors cannot expect to be rewarded for their achievements, they will stop inventing or investors will stop funding their ventures.",
        "如果发明家无法指望因为他们的成就而获得奖赏，他们就会停止发明，投资者也会停止资助他们从事发明冒险。"
    ],
    [
        "What resulted was a partly flawed answer to the problem.",
        "后来实际得到采纳的方案局部上包涵着某些缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "It is commonly accepted that what lay at the root of these conflicts was the failure of independent Sudan – one of Africa’s most racially, ethnically, religiously, and culturally diverse countries – to construct a polity informed by the principle and practice of unity in diversity.",
        "大家普遍认为引发这些冲突的症结就在于独立之后的苏丹——这个非洲大陆上人种、民族，宗教和文化最为多样化的国家——无法构建一个拥有多元团结理念和实践的政体"
    ],
    [
        "Without inclusive and dynamic growth, sustainable peace will remain elusive, and, in the current environment of higher scrutiny and significant competing needs, donors will be hard pressed to justify committing the large financial aid package that they have pledged.",
        "不具有包容性和充满活力的增长将使持久的和平难以实现。 而且，在目前审查更为严格、竞争更为激烈的环境下，捐助者们将难以说服自己真正掏出钱来把他们已经表达的巨额财政援助一揽子计划的捐助意愿付诸实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The faces of the mothers and fathers say it all: vaccines prevent illness and save lives.",
        "那里父母亲的脸色说明了一切：疫苗防止病痛，拯救生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic reality is reinforced by political reality.",
        "经济现实被政治现实所强化。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil prices are set in a world market, and depend mainly on the quantities demanded and supplied by different regions, not the currency of payment.",
        "石油价格是置于世界市场的，并且主要依靠不同地区的需求和供应的数量而不是支付货币确定。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the amateur painter does not increase her or his attractiveness much compared to a van Gogh or a Picasso.",
        "同样，比起梵高和毕加索，业余画家并不没有多少魅力。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, China’s new leadership has moved away from outsize fiscal and monetary stimulus and accepted an economic slowdown, betting on structural change, systemic reform, and sustainable longer-term growth.",
        "首先，中国新领导层将退出大规模财政和货币刺激，接受经济减速、押注于结构性变革、系统性改革和可持续长期增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The rule of thumb that chemical and biochemical processes double in speed with each increase of ten degrees Celsius is a reasonable approximation here, too.",
        "经验法则显示温度每升高十摄氏度化学生化反应速度提升一倍在污染消散问题上同样适用。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern schools look a lot more like those of 50 years ago than do modern manufacturing plants.",
        "现代学校跟50年前的差别似乎没有现代工厂与50年前的变化大。"
    ],
    [
        "With people flocking to its recruiting centers by the thousands, Boko Haram faces no shortage of willing soldiers to continue its war of attrition against the Nigerian government.",
        "成千上万人涌向博科圣地的募集中心，博科圣地从不缺乏志愿战士来维持其与尼日利亚政府的消耗战。"
    ],
    [
        "Racked by sectarian violence and civil war, the country has no functioning government to manage water resources.",
        "在暴力和内战的摧残下，也门政府已经无法正常管理水资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Deaths from malaria were soaring, partly because poor countries’ health systems were dramatically underfunded, and partly because the malaria parasite had developed resistance to the usual medicines.",
        "因疟疾丧生的人数不断攀升，一部分原因是由于穷国的卫生体系严重缺乏资金，另一部分是因为传染疟疾的寄生虫对常用药物已经具有的抗药性。"
    ],
    [
        "If a positive interest rate doesn’t suffice, then a negative interest rate should do the trick.",
        "如果正利率不足以奏效，那么应该采取负利率。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community has a profound stake in the future performance of emerging markets.",
        "对国际社会来说，新兴市场的未来表现所涉甚多。"
    ],
    [
        "In Trumpian terms, this is a “China First” option that could help “Make China Great Again.”",
        "用特朗普的话说，这是一个“中国优先”选项，有助于“让中国再次伟大”。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, in the West, an investment plan invites criticism from those who prefer that we do nothing but talk about growth strategies.",
        "当然，在西方，这样的投资计划都会招来那些只爱空谈发展计划却不愿动手者的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has never had it so bad as it does under the current chief censor, Pahlaj Nihalani.",
        "但情况从未向现任首席审查官帕拉伊·尼哈拉尼（Pahlaj Nihalani）治下那么严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, systems based on these principles have been used to treat more than 20 million people.",
        "今天，基于上述原则的系统已经治疗了超过2000万人。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the mysterious “ghost ships” that are carried to the Sea of Japan each autumn by southwesterly winds.",
        "比如每年秋天被西南季风吹到日本海的神秘的“鬼船”。"
    ],
    [
        "It is vital that Trump upholds America’s Clean Power Plan, which establishes state-by-state targets for carbon-emissions reductions, with the goal of lowering national emissions from electricity generation by one-third relative to their 2005 level by 2030.",
        "特朗普坚持美国清洁能源计划非常重要，该计划确立了各州逐步减少碳排放目标，即到2030年将发电产生的国内排放相比2005年减少1/3。"
    ],
    [
        "He has not, however, rethought his broader skepticism about human-driven climate change.",
        "尽管如此，他并未对人类驱动气候变化的整体怀疑进行重新思考。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama won not only because of his extraordinary personal resilience, but also because a sufficient number of middle-class voters, while unhappy with the pace of economic progress, sensed that an Obama presidency would help them more than the policies championed by his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, which were perceived as tilted to the affluent.",
        "奥巴马获胜的原因不仅在于其卓越的韧性，也在于足够多的中产阶级选民尽管不满经济复苏速度，但仍认为奥巴马当总统能够比其共和党挑战者罗姆尼偏袒富人的政策更好地帮助自己。"
    ],
    [
        "But this year, more than half of the students in the seminar (13 of 23) chose to examine whether China might be the next Japan.",
        "而今年却有一半以上的学生（23人中的13位）在研讨会选择研究中国是否会成为下一个日本。"
    ],
    [
        "All that is required is an application to the European Stability Mechanism, a fund capable of providing rapid financial assistance to all members of the eurozone.",
        "所需要的只是应用欧洲稳定性机制（European Stability Mechanism，能够为所有欧元区成员国提供快速金融援助的基金）。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, he has asked firms to increase their workers’ wages, and many firms are planning to provide a larger bonus than usual at the end of the fiscal year in March.",
        "比如，他要求企业增加妇女工资，而许多企业计划在3月结束的本财年发放比往年更高的奖金。"
    ],
    [
        "But East Asia’s wide variety of political systems makes such a democratic consensus highly unlikely, at least for now.",
        "但就在目前来说，东亚地区政治体制的多样性使得这一民主共识极难达成。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings us back to Gates, who announced in Paris an initiative to spend a total of $20 billion on climate-related R&D over the next five years.",
        "这让我们回到了盖茨的话，在巴黎，他宣布要在未来五年支出总共200亿美元用于气候相关的研发活动。"
    ],
    [
        "This has indeed been a mistake.",
        "这其实是一种误会。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while Colombia is not as bad off as some of its neighbors, the country will not be able to pull itself out of the crisis easily.",
        "然而，虽然哥伦比亚的情况没有其邻国那么糟糕，但它想要自己摆脱危机也并非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "Measures to reduce prices will need to be complemented by efforts to discourage overuse.",
        "降价措施需要配合有关规定来防止滥用。"
    ],
    [
        "Tocqueville noted that “Americans are fond of explaining…[how] regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist each other, and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the general welfare.”",
        "托克维尔指出“美国人热衷于解释……为自己考虑是如何一贯地让他们互相帮助，并促使他们牺牲部分时间和财物去创造福利的。"
    ],
    [
        "This may or may not work, but the decisions and announcements at least have the merit of existing, thereby demonstrating the willingness of the G-7 and others to uphold principles and values to which Russia is, in theory, also committed.",
        "这也许能奏效，也许不能，但这些决定和声明至少有其价值，从而说明了七国集团和其他国家愿意捍卫理论上俄罗斯也做出过承诺的原则和价值。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been and remains the most sustainable way of preventing radicalization and recruitment to terrorism.",
        "这才是防止极端主义和打击恐怖分子招募活动的行之有效并可持续采用的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "2008 Revisited?",
        "重温2008？"
    ],
    [
        "Human rights and freedom can be made to disappear not only from Web sites, but also from reality.",
        "人权和自由不但要在网络上销声匿迹，还要被消灭于现实之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, in guaranteeing the debt of Irish banks in September 2008, the Irish government did something that no responsible government should have contemplated.",
        "同样，为了担保2008年9月爱尔兰银行所负的债务，爱尔兰政府做出了一些任何负责任政府都不可能考虑的举动。"
    ],
    [
        "The normal rules of thumb would say that the market is now expecting 8.75 years of near-zero short-term interest rates before the economy returns to normal.",
        "常规经验法则告诉我们，如今市场预期在经济重回正轨之前将经历8. 75年的短期（近）零利率时期。"
    ],
    [
        "It is virtually certain that many of the MDGs will not have been met by the end of 2015, but there have been striking successes in some areas.",
        "几乎可以肯定的是，很多MDG在2015年底之前是实现不了的，但在不少领域还是取得了极大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, today’s “fencing in” of the rich world will increase the risk of a backlash against free circulation of goods and capital, as well as of political instability punctuated by terrorism.",
        "不然，当今“隔离”富国将会增加反对商品和资本自由流通以及因恐怖主义而加剧的政治不稳定的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, equity-price movements are a poor predictor of the real economy’s performance.",
        "毕竟，股市波动只是实体经济表现的拙劣预测指标。"
    ],
    [
        "Immigration should not be a cause for undue concern, either.",
        "移民问题也无须引起过多的担心。"
    ],
    [
        "Never mind that the CIA and FBI have concluded that Russia hacked both Democrats and Republicans, but only leaked Democrats’ emails; or that US President Barack Obama has now responded with a report detailing Russia’s involvement and sanctions against Russian intelligence agencies.",
        "别去管中央情报局和联邦调查局给出的俄罗斯黑客同时攻击民主党和共和党邮件，却唯独泄露了民主党的电邮； 也不用管美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马现在拿出了一份报告，详细说明了俄罗斯在总统选举中所做的手脚和对俄情报部门的制裁行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The oil-producing countries have suffered a sudden reversal of fortune.",
        "石油输出国的运势急转直下。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, the President of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an admired environmental group, recently remarked that “fracking is about the most complicated thing I have encountered.”",
        "毫不奇怪，广受尊敬的环境团体——自然资源保护委员会（Natural Resources Defense Council）主席最近评论说，“致裂法是我所见过的最复杂的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "So Donald Trump is widely believed to have more limited options for accumulating 270 votes.",
        "因此，人们普遍认为唐纳德·特朗普累积270张选举人票的可能性相对小得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Migration Beyond Crisis Mode",
        "超越危机状态的移民"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its technological lead and enviable record, Shinkansen trains were not exported overseas for decades.",
        "尽管在技术和安全方面都处于领先地位，但新干线在登台数十年来都没未曾出口。"
    ],
    [
        "In the European Union, coal combustion is responsible for 18,200 premature deaths and 8,500 new cases of chronic bronchitis per year.",
        "在欧盟范围内，煤炭燃烧每年造成18,200人死亡，新增慢性支气管炎8，500例。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet research on the impact of Chinese investment in Africa’s SEZs suggests that ties to local enterprises have been numerous and positive, and that they contribute to broader industrialization of the host economy.",
        "然而，对中国在非洲的经济特区投资影响的研究表明，中国投资者与本地企业的联系已经是数量庞大和积极的，它们有助于推进东道国经济的工业化发展。"
    ],
    [
        "He warns us not to be surprised if, in the coming generation, “shrill nationalism is replaced by macho militarism or even imperialism.”",
        "”他警告我们如果下一代人“用大男子气的军国主义甚至是帝国主义取代尖锐的爱国主义”，我们不要对此感到惊奇。"
    ],
    [
        "It was the collapse of these brutal systems in the wake of the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab Spring of 2011 that created the current refugee crisis.",
        "2003年美国领导的入侵伊拉克战争和2011年阿拉伯之春让这些暴政政权纷纷崩溃，造成了目前的难民危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Rwandans will teach their international guests that in Africa, family is an all-encompassing concept, and that, in Rwanda, an entire generation treats the next as its own children.",
        "卢旺达人将教会他们的国际客人们，在非洲，家庭是一个包罗万象的概念，而在卢旺达，一代人将下一代人全体都视为自己的孩子。"
    ],
    [
        "It is likely, too, that there will soon be a new Chair of the Basel Committee itself.",
        "也有可能，巴塞尔委员会本身也即将诞生新主席。"
    ],
    [
        "Pemerintah memiliki ruang fiskal yang lebih sedikit dan sektor swasta kurang mampu menciptakan lapangan kerja.",
        "政府财政空间缩水，私人部门也不再能够创造就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 70 years ago, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s founding father, launched the movement to create an independent state for the Muslims of British India.",
        "70多年前，巴基斯坦国父阿里·真纳（Muhammad Ali Jinnah）发动了为英属印度穆斯林建立独立国家的运动。"
    ],
    [
        "The military owns airlines and freight companies, petrochemical factories, power generation plants, sugar mills, cement and fertilizer plants, construction firms, banks and insurance companies, advertising agencies, and more.",
        "军方拥有航空公司和货运公司、石油化工厂、发电厂、糖厂、水泥和化肥厂、建筑公司、银行和保险公司、广告公司及其他各种企业。"
    ],
    [
        "But such policies seem politically untenable in the short term, even though – according to the World Bank’s estimation – an appropriate conclusion of the current trade round under the auspices of the World Trade Organization could contribute $350 billion a year to developing countries by 2015.",
        "但这些政策似乎在短期内还不能政治实现，虽然—根据世界银行的估计—如果在世贸组织主持下的现一轮贸易谈判圆满结束，到2015时会每年为发展中国家作出3500亿美元的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "These governments’ excesses lifted Greek consumption far above a sustainable level; a fall to earth was unavoidable.",
        "希腊前任政府的挥霍无度让希腊的消费达到了不可持续的水平，下跌回归正常是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s tax-paying salaried classes and even the poor initially welcomed the policy enthusiastically, viewing it as sweet revenge against tax evaders who had stowed away their ill-gotten gains; they reveled in anecdotes of corrupt officials burning bags of cash or throwing money into India’s rivers.",
        "印度纳税工薪阶层乃至穷人一开始热烈欢迎这一政策，将它视为对将非法所得藏匿起来的逃税犯的甜蜜复仇； 他们因为有传言说腐败官员将成箱的现金烧掉或扔进河中而欢呼雀跃。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Eurobarometer data collected over the last two decades, Italy’s political system, its leaders, and its democratic institutions have the lowest level of citizen satisfaction among the first 15 European Union countries.",
        "根据欧洲晴雨表（Eurobarometer）在过去二十年中所收集的数据，以人民满意度衡量，意大利的政治制度、它的领导人以及它的民主机构在第一批15个欧盟国家中叨陪末座。"
    ],
    [
        "Our lending can provide breathing space for countries in difficulty.",
        "我们的贷款能够为受困国家提供呼吸空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, rescuing the euro is not the same as rescuing the European project.",
        "此外，拯救欧元也不等于拯救欧洲工程。"
    ],
    [
        "Officials in Central and Eastern Europe should pay heed to recent comments by the UK’s Home Office, which said that “harm reduction underpins every element of our approach to tackling this complex issue.”",
        "中东欧国家的官员应当关注英国内政部最近的一次讲话，核心意思是“我们解决这一复杂问题的所有目的就是为了减轻危害。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "So, while China should not be complacent about local-government debt, panic is unwarranted.",
        "因此，尽管中国的地方政府债务不能说高枕无忧，但也没有理由需要恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "David’s father, Yohane Banda, suddenly in the media spotlight, said he had not understood that his son no longer belonged to him and might never return to Malawi.",
        "戴维的父亲尤罕·邦达（Yohane Banda）眨眼间成了知名人物，他说他原来不知道儿子将不再属于自己，也不知道儿子可能再也不会回到马拉维。"
    ],
    [
        "Strategic litigation helped ensure equality under the law.",
        "策略性诉讼帮助确保了法律面前人人平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Events with very low probability but high impact – so-called “tail risks” – have also been at the heart of the financial crisis.",
        "而这些发生概率极低但又影响极大的事件——即所谓“尾部风险”（tail risks）——也是金融危机的核心问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the deal’s implementation seems all but assured.",
        "简言之，该协议的实施似乎已是水到渠成。"
    ],
    [
        "The approach suggested here would cost more than EU member states can afford out of current budgets.",
        "这一建议方案将比欧盟成员国目前能拿出来的预算要多。"
    ],
    [
        "Empowering citizens means giving them both the power to decide and the knowledge to decide well.",
        "赋予公民权利意味着给他们做决定的权力以及作出良好决定的知识。"
    ],
    [
        "The US trade deficit has declined from $60 billion a month to just $26 billion, according to the most recent data.",
        "根据最新的数据，美国的贸易逆差已经从每月600亿美元下降到每月只有260亿美元了。"
    ],
    [
        "By much the same token, Europe’s governments should be making a determined new effort to strengthen Europeans’ sense of a shared history and common values.",
        "同理，欧洲各国的政府应该付出更为坚定的努力来强化欧洲人的共同历史感和共同价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Houses of Cards",
        "美国的房产危机"
    ],
    [
        "But we are genuine, and thousands of us – from Rangoon, Mandalay, Pegu, Arakan, Magwe, and Sagaing – demonstrated for peace.",
        "但事实是我们是真正的僧侣，并且数千名来自仰光、曼德勒、白古、阿拉干、马圭和实皆为了和平而参加游行示威的人都是真正的僧侣。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran has long made clear that it wants to resume its historic position as a major regional – and indeed global – power, an ambition that can only grow stronger as it watches Turkey’s geopolitical stature rise.",
        "伊朗早就明确地表示它希望重新获得作为地区——事实上是全球——主要大国的历史低位，而在看到土耳其地缘政治地位上升后，伊朗的这一雄心越发高涨了。"
    ],
    [
        "They have branched out into new lines of work and social engagement, as inventors, entrepreneurs, and bloggers.",
        "他们的职业选择也趋于多元化，一些人成为投资者，企业家和博客写手等。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time recovery finally arrived, much of Europe and Asia lay in ruins.",
        "当复苏最终来临时，欧洲和亚洲大部已是一片焦土。"
    ],
    [
        "Bans have since been implemented in 14 Chinese cities, including Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Guangzhou.",
        "其后禁令在上海、杭州和广州等 14个中国城市得以实施。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is all the more reason why countries entering new trade agreements with the US (for example, the post-Brexit UK, or post-NAFTA Canada) must be wary of any provisions that tie their hands in the war against obesity.",
        "正因如此，那些即将与美国签订新贸易协议的国家（例如脱欧后的英国，或废除《北美自由贸易协定》后的加拿大）更要特别警惕美国提出的任何可能束缚了反肥胖工作的条款。"
    ],
    [
        "The willingness to give up power if necessary is one of the advantages that professors bring to such positions.",
        "在必要时甘愿放弃权力，这正是教授身居高位的一大优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Addressing these deficiencies is critical to development – and India is no exception.",
        "解决这些短缺是发展的关键——印度也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "The post-2007 crisis was not simply a financial affair.",
        "2007年后的危机也不只是一起金融事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey, a responsible regional power, has so far resisted being drawn into the Syrian quagmire, but its effects can be seen in the rising tensions between the country’s Sunni majority and the Shia Alevi sect.",
        "而土耳其作为负责任的地区大国，到目前为止顶住了压力，没有卷入叙利亚乱局，但叙利亚冲突的影响可以在该国逊尼派多数人口和什叶派阿拉维派冲日益激烈的紧张中一窥端倪。"
    ],
    [
        "At times, the US seemingly sought to eradicate any knowledge of nuclear technology from a country of which it is deeply suspicious, whereas the European approach was to seek reliable assurances that Iran would never develop a nuclear weapon.",
        "美国多次想要根除它深度怀疑的国家的一切核技术知识，而欧洲的方针是寻求伊朗不会发展核武器的可靠保证。"
    ],
    [
        "In assessing America’s strength, China follows US debates on the merits of a uni-polar or a multi-polar world with keen interest.",
        "中国在评估美国实力的时候密切关注美国有关单极世界或者多极世界是非曲直的辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "The multiplicity of interlocutors inevitably creates a multiplicity of water systems with vastly unequal levels of efficiency.",
        "谈判方的多种多样不可避免地导致了水资源管理系统的多种多样，而不同系统的管理效率也大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "But diplomatic efforts during this time have been lamentable.",
        "但三年来，外交手段效果寥寥。"
    ],
    [
        "With no side able to gain the upper hand, the violence is likely to continue.",
        "由于没有哪一方能够占据上风，暴力很可能仍将持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the Eastern Partnership, if it is to be renewed, must embrace bold new initiatives for Ukraine, and not try to reheat old policies designed for very different circumstances.",
        "这就是为什么延续东欧伙伴关系必须大胆在乌克兰问题上采用全新举措，而不是抱定针对不同情况设计的原有政策旧事重提。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s leaders will also be interested in her thinking on Japan, particularly given the inclinations of her father, who served as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.",
        "中国领导人也希望了解她在日本问题上的立场，尤其鉴于其父的政治倾向，二战期间朴正熙曾在日本帝国陆军担任军官职务。"
    ],
    [
        "But a targeted assistance designed to improve the operations of Iraq’s police and government could help reduce violence.",
        "但是，有的放矢地改善伊拉克警察和政府的运作将会可能减少暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging infectious diseases like Ebola may be more compelling, but the health impact of chronic NCDs, not to mention their high and growing social and economic costs, is substantially larger.",
        "新兴传染病（如埃博拉）也许更加紧迫，但慢性非传染性疾病的健康影响要大得多，更不用说它们所导致的高昂且不断增加的社会和经济成本了。"
    ],
    [
        "Among eurozone members, however, the need for greater political integration is broadly accepted, and not just by the economic and political elites.",
        "但是，在欧元区国家中间，加强政治一体化的必要性已被广泛接受，并且不仅仅局限于经济和政治精英中间。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission should become a proper government, with a popularly elected president.",
        "欧盟委员会应该成为一个恰当的政府，并有民选总统。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the fiscal worries are threefold: the risk of a “cliff” in 2013, as tax increases and massive spending cuts kick in automatically if no political agreement is reached; renewed partisan combat over the debt ceiling; and a new fight over medium-term fiscal austerity.",
        "在美国，财政担忧是三重的：若不能达成政治协议，则2013年将自动发生税收增加和大规模支出削减的“悬崖”风险； 债务上限问题上党派斗争死灰复燃；"
    ],
    [
        "It is the responsibility of all Saudis – and not just the royal family – to work harder to tamp down radicalism within their country’s borders and beyond.",
        "更加努力地打击国内外激进主义是所有沙特人——而不仅仅是皇室——的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in April, United States Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced that the $5, $10, and $20 bills will be replaced with new designs that include women and civil-rights leaders.",
        "更换货币也有可能是为纪念某位民族英雄。 比如在4月，美国财政部部长杰克·卢宣布5、10和20美元的纸币将采用全新图案，上述全新图案包括女性及人权运动领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "LearnUp, a San Francisco startup that has attracted funding from some of the biggest venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, establishes partnerships with employers to offer online training modules that connect job seekers to specific jobs, primarily entry-level positions that do not require college degrees.",
        "旧金山创业公司LearnUp已经吸引了硅谷几家最大风险资本公司的资金。 该公司与雇主合作提供将求职者和具体岗位联系起来的在线培训模块，以不需要大学学历的入门岗位为主。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 2000 election campaign, Bush praised Bill Clinton’s Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) for its effectiveness.",
        "2000年竞选活动中，布什赞扬了比尔·克林顿联邦紧急措施署的高效工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The FAO blames the rise in hunger on a proliferation of violent conflicts and “climate-related shocks,” which means specific, extreme events like floods and droughts.",
        "粮农组织将饥饿情况的恶化归咎于暴力冲突的大爆发和“气候相关冲击”，即洪灾和旱灾等具体的极端事件。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, one dresses windows with what one knows the customer wants to see.",
        "毕竟，摆姿态也要摆出你认为别人想看的姿态。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while this strategy will moderate the impact of Eroom’s law, it will ultimately prove inadequate to sustain the industry.",
        "但是，尽管这一战略缓和了逆摩尔定律的影响，但最终也无法维持整个行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Freed of feudal-style legal restrictions on transfer of ownership and of traditional rights held by commoners who used communal land to pasture their animals, landholdings could now be sold to raise capital, which helped to finance the industrial revolution.",
        "从封建式的对所有权转让的法律限制以及使用公共土地来放养家畜的土地共有人所有的传统权利中解放出来，土地所有权现在可以被卖掉用来筹集资金，这有助于为工业革命提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest projections suggest that these economies will experience tepid recoveries in the coming years.",
        "最新预测表明，这些经济体未来几年的复苏也将非常缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a “public lending right” – that is, the government recognizes that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides a public good, but that doing so is likely to reduce sales of the book.",
        "很多欧洲国家，以及澳大利亚、加拿大、以色列和新西兰，已经通过了承认“公共借阅权”的法案，换句话说，政府认可让成百上千的人阅读书籍符合公共利益，但同时可能影响这本书籍的销售。"
    ],
    [
        "In the days since the anniversary of Rouhani’s election, Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, overcame his earlier reservations and expressed optimism about reaching an international deal on his country’s nuclear program by the original deadline of July 20.",
        "自鲁哈尼当选一周年以来，伊朗外交部长扎里夫（Mohammad Javad Zarif）抛弃了此前的保留意见，表示对在7月20日原定期限前达成关于伊朗核计划的国际协议感到乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, real rates have jumped around a lot, showing little correlation with asset prices.",
        "从历史上看，实际利率变化起伏颇大，却并未表现出与资产价格的相关性。"
    ],
    [
        "Temporary sites for rubble in affected areas are being piled with the remnants of building materials and domestic appliances and furnishings, creating little mountains here and there, as rules on recycling instituted since 1995 require sorting waste by material.",
        "在灾区临时废墟站里，残余建筑材料、家用电器和家具堆积如山，这是因为1995年开始实施的循环利用法要求对垃圾进行分类。"
    ],
    [
        "If German voters in the autumn follow the French and Dutch in moving back toward the political center, immigration will also be discredited as the root cause of populism.",
        "如果德国选民在秋天也步法国和荷兰的后尘，回归政治中间派，那么移民也将从民粹主义的原因清单中除名。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sunni tumult has underscored the fragility of almost all Arab countries, while diluting the centrality of the Israel-Palestine conflict.",
        "逊尼派骚动凸显出几乎所有阿拉伯国家都存在的脆弱状况，也淡化了以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突的中心地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Political union may remain possible in the distant future.",
        "政治联盟在遥远的未来仍然是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "While some internal devaluation is being achieved, it is producing so much economic and social dislocation – and, increasingly, political upheaval – that there is no supply response, despite the accompanying structural reforms.",
        "某些内部贬值目标已经实现，但造成了大规模的经济和社会混乱——政治局势也开始日渐趋乱，以至于尽管实施了相应的结构性改革，仍然没有带来供给面的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by reinforcing open trading and financial relations across Europe can we hope to subdue today’s crisis.",
        "只有在全欧洲加强开放贸易以及金融关系，我们才有希望战胜今天的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The pound initially fell sharply, and then recovered, while long-term government borrowing rates have risen by around 30 basis points.",
        "英镑先是暴跌，然后反弹，而长期政府借贷利率上升约30个基点。"
    ],
    [
        "Average annual economic growth of 8.5% over the eight-year period from 2003 to 2011 has led to a revolution of perceived possibilities.",
        "2003—2011年间所保持的年均8. 5%的经济增长率极大地改变了人们对不确定性的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "The voices of neglected swaths of the electorate, particularly in the rural north and northeast of the country, began to count.",
        "那些以往被无视的选民（尤其是北部和东北部农民）的呼声开始发挥威力。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that, over the past half-decade, the FDIC has made some progress formulating the design of a workable Title II.",
        "好消息是，在过去五年中，FDIC在制定可行的第二条方面取得了一定进展。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of Crimea, the deaths of hundreds of demonstrators in Kyiv and the possible Russian takeover of eastern Ukraine has called into question principles such as non-intervention.",
        "在克里米亚事件中，有数百人在基辅的示威中丧生，而俄罗斯有可能吞并东乌克兰，这使得不干预原则大有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Opposition leaders also intend to debate such issues as the rights of women and minority groups, and the place of Shari’a, the Islamic legal code, which has replaced civil courts in several northern states.",
        "反对党领袖还希望讨论妇女和少数民族的权利和伊斯兰教沙里亚教法的地位问题，沙里亚教法在北部几个州已经取代了民事法庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan and South Korea are perhaps too small to serve as useful precedents.",
        "日本和韩国规模太小，也不足以成为有用的先例。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the major problems highlighted in the just-published Africa Progress Report, prepared by the African Progress Panel, is the gap between plans and change on the ground.",
        "非洲发展小组刚刚公布的非洲发展报告牵涉到的一个重要问题就是计划内容和实际变化之间所存在的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The mutual interaction between the incentive to minimize equity capital and the incentive to gamble in order to exploit the upside risks caused America’s crisis.",
        "尽量减少股本金和充分利用上行风险的赌博行为，这二者的激励效应之间的互动，造成了美国的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries’ investment-promotion agencies – indeed, those of all countries, including developed ones – should increasingly target firms in China to lure them to their shores.",
        "这些国家的投资促进机构——事实上是所有国家，包括发达国家在内——应该更多地将目标投向中国公司，吸引它们前来投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite all of the pain caused by the Great Recession, there is no sign that the world is forsaking the greenback.",
        "尽管大衰退造成了诸多阵痛，但没有迹象表明世界正在抛弃美元。"
    ],
    [
        "So, when Pakistan’s military leaders finally allowed elections in late December 1970, East Pakistan voted overwhelmingly for the Bengali-nationalist Awami League, which won 167 of 169 seats in the province.",
        "于是，巴基斯坦军事领袖最终于1970年12月允许进行选举的时候，东巴基斯坦民众压倒性地把票投给了孟加拉民族主义人民联盟，致使该联盟赢得了该省169个席位中的167席。"
    ],
    [
        "Many emerging markets will also want to engage in countercyclical macroeconomic policy, but they are hemmed in by concerns of fiscal sustainability and fear of rampant inflation.",
        "许多新兴市场也将想要介入反周期的宏观经济政策，但对财政的连续性的担心和对大幅度通货膨胀的恐惧，使他们被捆住了手脚。"
    ],
    [
        "During a boom, people considering getting into asset markets weigh the fear of regret if they don’t against the pain of possible loss if they do.",
        "在繁荣时期，考虑进入资产市场的人们，会在不进入资产市场带来的遗憾和进入资产市场可能遭受的损失造成的痛苦之间，进行权衡。"
    ],
    [
        "When the global financial crisis began, French banks’ exposure to Greece, at €58 billion ($61.7 billion), was twice as high as that of German banks.",
        "全球金融危机爆发时，法国银行对希腊的风险暴露高达580亿欧元，是德国银行的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "For Merkel, Sunday’s election has opened a door, especially with respect to overcoming the euro crisis and to deepening European integration.",
        "对默克尔来说，星期天的大选开启了一扇门，特别是从克服欧元危机和深化欧洲一体化的角度看。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a significant portion of the Jewish community in the south of France votes for the far-right National Front, which, under the leadership of Marine Le Pen, has concentrated its xenophobia on Muslims.",
        "而来自马格里布（Maghreb）的犹太人憎恨一个事实——他们仍处于“阿拉伯人”的包围中。 事实上，法国南部很大一部分犹太人社区都支持极右翼的国民阵线（National Front），在马琳·勒庞（Marine Le Pen）的领导下，该党对穆斯林掀起了仇外主义。"
    ],
    [
        "(Though perhaps this is not automation proper – the supermarket has just shifted some of the work of shopping onto the customer.)",
        "（虽然这样的自动化并不恰当，因为超市将购物的工作部分转嫁给了顾客。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the task is to alter the political and socio-psychological context of the ratification process by addressing key questions.",
        "现在的任务就是通过解决那些主要问题来改变宪法批准进程的政治和社会-心理环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Many will be staying there, because the global economic downturn has hit China hard, costing them their jobs.",
        "许多人将会留在家里，因为全球经济放缓给中国造成了沉重的打击，致使他们失去了工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten Years after the Mouse Roared",
        "被弱者袭击十年后的反思"
    ],
    [
        "Yet one of my graduate students synthesized the polymers for his doctoral thesis.",
        "但我的一名研究生为撰写博士论文完成了高分子聚合物的合成任务。"
    ],
    [
        "· An overhaul of social-service delivery.",
        "提高社会服务触及面。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the establishment of the Japanese NSC is long overdue, it is not too late for Japan to benefit from the improvement in policy direction and coherence that it seems certain to bring.",
        "尽管日本NSC长期缺位，但对日本来说，现在成立NSC、获得它几乎必将带来的政策方向和一致性改进为时未晚。"
    ],
    [
        "There are exceptions to this rule, of course – Churchill, Adenauer, Deng, Reagan – but states cannot count on fortune bringing an exceptional ruler their way.",
        "当然，也有例外—如丘吉尔、阿登纳、邓小平和里根—但国家不能依靠幸运来赐予这样的领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no coincidence that one of the leading opponents – the ECB’s first chief economist, Otmar Issing – of the “unlimited interventions” policy under the ERM recently rebuked both the “extended-EFSF” and Eurobonds.",
        "那么当年“无限干涉”政策的主要反对者——欧洲央行第一任首席经济学家奥托马·伊辛——最近又开始指责“欧洲金融稳定基金广泛干涉”和欧元债券就并非巧合。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this was one reason why Japan was so little affected by the “Lehman Shock” that incited the global financial crisis.",
        "事实上，这是日本在“雷曼冲击波”所引发的全球金融危机中几乎未受影响的原因之一。"
    ],
    [
        "This highlights two fundamental structural imperatives.",
        "这凸显出两大根本性结构问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The costs usually strike in the prime of women’s economically productive lives, devaluing their future contributions to society.",
        "损失往往在妇女经济生产率最高的时候造成，这打击了她们日后为社会做出的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "The best defense against these pressures is to operate according to utterly unambiguous criteria.",
        "应对这些压力的最好办法是按照完全明确的标准来操作。"
    ],
    [
        "Western values may be under assault, but Western goods are welcome.",
        "西方价值观可能受到攻击，但对西方的商品却抱着欢迎的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kazakh fuel bank has very wide and high-level international backing, helped by the country’s credentials.",
        "哈萨克燃料银行获得了十分广泛的高级别国际支持，这要归功于哈萨克斯坦的国家信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "The Environment of the Economy",
        "经济的环境"
    ],
    [
        "MUMBAI – India’s economy could soon be on the move again.",
        "孟买—印度经济也许很快就会重新上路。"
    ],
    [
        "In raw numbers, the one-child policy’s human toll has been even greater than that of Mao’s Great Leap Forward, which caused a famine that killed around 36 million people from 1959 to 1961.",
        "从原始数字看，一胎政策的人道代价甚至比毛泽东的大跃进以及文化大革命还要大。 1959—1961年，大跃进造成的饥荒夺走大约3,600万人的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "America was just beginning to emerge as a world power during the surge of globalization in the last third of the nineteenth century, which coincided with the opening up of the American West.",
        "美国是在19世纪进入后三分之一阶段随着全球化刚刚开始崛起的世界大国，这与美国西部开放的时间恰好是一致的。"
    ],
    [
        "They apparently also used plants with medicinal properties.",
        "他们显然还使用草药。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who receive charity have their lives improved, but those who provide it also benefit. It feels good to be good.",
        "那些接受捐赠的人改善了他们的生活，而那些施与者同样也有所得益：做好人感觉真好。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the benefits of tolerating free speech outweigh the harm of abusing it.",
        "而且，容忍言论自由的利益要大于滥用言论自由的害处。"
    ],
    [
        "While economic interdependence among China, Japan, South Korea, and the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations continues to deepen, their diplomatic relations are as burdened by rivalry and mistrust as relations among European countries were in the decades prior to World War I.",
        "尽管中国、日本、韩国和东盟国家的经济联系仍在不断加深，但它们的外交关系充满了敌意和怀疑，一如一战前数十年间欧洲各国。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they often go undetected, until it is too late.",
        "结果，它们常常等到为时已晚时才被发现。"
    ],
    [
        "If home prices continue to decline in the United States and possibly elsewhere, there could be many more vivid images.",
        "如果美国和其他国家的房产价格继续下滑，就会有更多这样的景象。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, certain types of antidepressants may contribute to some of these conditions.",
        "而且，某些类型的抗抑郁药可也能促成以上疾病的产生。"
    ],
    [
        "China is fully embracing digital models, not just digitizing old models.",
        "中国全方位接受了数字模式，而不只是对旧模式进行数字化改造。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, while the Saakashvili government’s clampdown showed the structural weaknesses of Georgia’s democracy, the aftermath has also shown that Georgia’s Western ambition remains intact, because the government understands that it cannot afford any long-term deviation from democratic norms.",
        "事实上，尽管萨卡什维利政府的压制行动显示了格鲁吉亚民主在结构上的弱点，其后续行动还是表明了格鲁吉亚的西方梦并没有动摇，因为政府认识到它不能够长期偏离民主标准。"
    ],
    [
        "As in 2008, financial markets will amplify economic anxiety, breeding more anti-establishment anger and fueling still-higher expectations of political revolt.",
        "正如在2008 年那样，金融市场会放大经济焦虑，助长更多的反体制愤怒以及对政治反抗的更高期望。"
    ],
    [
        "Evolutionary theory’s current contretemps – and our inability to predict where the field will be in 50 years – are a cause for celebration.",
        "进化论当前的意外危机——以及我们的无力预测该领域50年后会怎样——是值得庆幸的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is becoming increasingly clear that China opened its economy only to maintain the country’s over-mighty rulers in power, not to respect and enhance the lives of ordinary Chinese.",
        "事实上，人们越来越清楚地认识到中国开放经济的目的不过是保持国内过度强大的执政统治，而并不是要尊重和改善普通中国人的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, China is setting itself up to be a major player in the fight against disease, and there are many reasons to believe that the country will play a central role in the life-sciences research of the future.",
        "尤其是，中国参与了与疾病的斗争，而且，人们有理由相信该国将在未来的生命科学研究中发挥核心作用。"
    ],
    [
        "A 10-year industrial policy program called Pro-álcool was crucial in the development of the industry.",
        "一项名为“Pro-álcool ”的十年期行业政策计划在可再生能源的发展中起到了关键的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "So they prefer to waste money seeking new reserves instead of maximizing shareholders’ cash payouts.",
        "因此他们宁可浪费钱去寻找新储量，也不愿意最大化股东的现金回报。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fact is that for many years, Prebisch seemed to have made the right call on long-term commodity price trends.",
        "但是，事实却是，普里比时可能对原料的长期价格趋势作出了正确的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy already seems to be growing at a 3% annual clip.",
        "经济似乎已经达到了3%的年增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "During the previous six years, there were six prime ministers, ten defense ministers, and 14 justice ministers (ten of whom came and went during the 39 months of rule by the Democratic Party of Japan).",
        "在过去六年中，日本有六位首相、十位防务大臣，14位法务大臣（其中在民主党执政的39个月中换了10任）。"
    ],
    [
        "The village, too, is mysteriously without phone service.",
        "该村的电话也被神秘地切断。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that China’s leaders seem intent on adopting a similar approach, including avoidance of monetary and fiscal expansion, unless growth seems set to collapse.",
        "好消息是中国领导人似乎倾向于采取类似地方方针，包括直到增长要崩溃才考虑货币和财政扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "But what distinguishes India from other emerging economies, in particular China and the Southeast Asian countries, is that domestic demand, rather than exports, is the primary driver of growth.",
        "但真正将印度与其他新兴经济体（尤其是中国和东南亚）区分开来的则是增长的主要动力并非来自出口，而是国内需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The private sector, while central in a modern economy, cannot ensure its success alone.",
        "私人部门是现代经济的核心，但单靠它并不能确保成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Trump’s proposed tax cuts would be very large – thus increasing the federal budget deficit and driving up national debt substantially.",
        "此外，特朗普提出的减税方案也将规模巨大——从而增加联邦预算赤字，大幅推高国民债务。"
    ],
    [
        "A subprime-mortgage problem that was initially estimated to imply losses of a few hundred billion dollars imposed far higher costs on the entire world.",
        "一场原本估计只会造成几千亿美元损失的次级抵押贷款问题最后为全球带来了极大的处理成本。"
    ],
    [
        "By pre-announcing the rate increase, which senior ECB officials call a move towards greater transparency, Trichet firmly demonstrated his leadership of the Governing Council.",
        "通过提前宣布利率上涨，特里歇坚定地展示了自己在管理委员会中的领导地位。 欧洲央行高级官员称此次提前宣告为向更大的透明度迈进的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, China’s trade surplus has decreased by 36% in absolute US dollar terms, and has dropped by more than half (53%) in proportion to GDP over the past two years.",
        "总体来说，中国的贸易顺差按绝对美元计算已经下跌了36%，占GDP的比例也在过去两年中下跌了超过一半（53%）。"
    ],
    [
        "The taxpayer is not called upon, even in extreme cases, and states can go bankrupt.",
        "该选择不会动用纳税人的钱，即使在极端情况下也不行，而且州可以破产。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 80 million barrels are produced (and consumed) daily, and a large part of that output is traded internationally.",
        "每天有超过8000万桶原油被生产和消费掉，而且其中很大一部分都进入了国际贸易环节。"
    ],
    [
        "How can the EU transform ramshackle decision-making mechanisms that have been re-jigged and subject to makeshift additions for almost 40 years into an efficient, working democracy?",
        "欧盟该如何将40年来一直可以临时改变的摇摇欲坠的决策机制改造为高效、实际的民主制度？"
    ],
    [
        "This credulousness is puzzling.",
        "如此轻信令人感到奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "We are a stronger movement when we join forces.",
        "当我们加入这股力量之中，就形成了一个更加强大的运动。"
    ],
    [
        "The sanctity of schools and health centers is a dead letter: more than 25% of all schools in Syria have been destroyed or forced to close.",
        "学校和医疗中心的神圣性成为一纸空文：叙利亚超过25%的学校被摧毁或被迫停课。"
    ],
    [
        "If China joined this race to the bottom, others would be tempted to escalate their actions and world financial markets would be subject to yet another source of serious instability.",
        "如果中国也加入这场贬值竞赛，其他人就有可能扩大动作，世界金融市场可能陷入又一场大动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The desire for peace is more urgent in Ramallah than in Tel Aviv.",
        "和平的渴望在拉马拉比在特拉维夫更迫切。"
    ],
    [
        "Ethiopians begin running in childhood as a means to reach, say, a distant school in the highlands.",
        "埃塞俄比亚人孩提时代就需要考跑步前往（比如）位于离家很远的高地上的学学。"
    ],
    [
        "At the turn of the century, there were more than 50% more low-skill workers than university graduates.",
        "世纪之交时，低技术工人比大学毕业生多50%。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if we did not incur the same costs as the US over the past decade – the hundreds of billions of dollars spent, and the many young people killed or injured – we have paid the price that regional uncertainty always imposes: lost trade, lost growth, refugees, and violence.",
        "即使我们不致于承担美国在过去十年中的成本——数千亿美元加上无数年轻人的死伤——我们也要付出地区不确定性不可避免的代价：失去的贸易、失去的增长、难民，以及暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "He graduated from – and later taught at – the US Military Academy at West Point, an institution guided by the motto “Duty, Honor, Country.”",
        "他毕业于——后来执教于——以“责任、荣誉、国家”为校训的西点军校。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, awareness of this challenge is starting to take root.",
        "幸运的是，对这一挑战的认识正在开始生根发芽。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, today’s NAM finds itself as a group in search of purpose and principle.",
        "于是今天的不结盟运动还没有找到确定的宗旨和原则。"
    ],
    [
        "So I remain skeptical that a services-led model can deliver rapid growth and good jobs in the way that manufacturing once did.",
        "因此，我对服务业推动模式是否能够带来制造业曾经带来的快速增长和好岗位仍然表示怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Mankiw’s standard description of outsourcing is very much like mine – indeed, like that of all neoclassical and neoliberal economists – and goes something like this:",
        "曼昆对外包的标准描述跟我十分类似¾实际上，所有新古典主义和新自由主义的经济学家都有着类似的说法¾具体内容是这样的："
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they tend to be employed mainly in very specialized contexts, such as efforts to explain the so-called “equity premium puzzle” (the empirical observation that over long periods, equities yield a higher return than bonds).",
        "结果，它们通常只会在相当专业化的教科书中出现，比如作为解释所谓的“股权溢价之谜”的内容被提及。 （股权溢价之谜是一项实证观察：从长期看，股票会产生比债券更高的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Most people are becoming better off, if unevenly.",
        "大部分人生活越来越好，尽管程度各不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro is the symbol of the European project.",
        "欧元是欧洲一体化的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, even if everyone had participated and continued to stick to Kyoto’s ever more stringent commitments, it would have had virtually no environmental effect.",
        "然而，即便是所有签约国继续履行京都的严苛承诺，最终也不会对环境产生什么影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed’s defenders will respond that it would be dangerous to alter the status quo.",
        "美联储的捍卫者会如此回应：改变现状是危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "This largely reflects the belief that, if a breakdown of negotiations triggers another Greek crisis, the systemic risks to the eurozone and the wider European Union would be far smaller than they were just a few years ago.",
        "这大约体现了一种观念，即，如果谈判破裂导致希腊再度爆发危机，对欧元区和更广泛的欧盟的系统风险将远小于几年前。"
    ],
    [
        "This will capitalize on the US military’s ability to project force around the world quickly, while providing a more flexible and politically palatable way of doing so.",
        "这样就能够充分发挥美军向世界各地快速派遣军队的能力，同时也使这种做法更为灵活、更符合当今的政治潮流。"
    ],
    [
        "While the situation in the Middle East currently looks hopeless, a new attempt that focuses on the essential points, not on minor ones, deserves support.",
        "尽管目前的中东局势似乎无望，但注重关键而非次要问题的新的努力理应得到国际社会的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Stocks of this highly prized fish have declined by up to 80% since the dawn of industrialized fishing, and this has been on ICCAT’s watch.",
        "从工业化捕捞的大幕开启后，这种高价金枪鱼的种群数量已经在国际大西洋鲔类资源保护委员会的监管下下降了80%之多。"
    ],
    [
        "“Their first point of attack,” he predicted, would be to point out that he suffers from depression.",
        "“他们的首要攻击目标，”他预测，就是指出他患有抑郁症。"
    ],
    [
        "Such unilateralism is impossible in today’s globalized world.",
        "在当今全球化的世界里，这一套单边主义已经行不通了。"
    ],
    [
        "With larger geopolitical earthquakes coming, the time for Israel to act is now.",
        "更剧烈的地缘政治地震就在不远处，以色列只有立刻行动，才能趋吉避凶。"
    ],
    [
        "A notorious example is Nicaragua after the earthquake that leveled the capital, Managua, in December 1972.",
        "一个臭名昭著的例子就是尼加拉瓜，1972年12月发生地震后，首都马那瓜被夷为平地。"
    ],
    [
        "This was the time of the “great population scare,” which transformed thinking worldwide, no doubt contributing to higher commodity prices while the fear lasted.",
        "那时是一个“巨大的人口恐惧”时期，它使人们在全球范围内思考，所以难怪会在担忧持续的时候导致商品价格上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, surface temperatures remain important.",
        "平心而论，地表温度仍是很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why they have tried to obtain political support against the nuclear ambitions of Iran, which periodically threatens Israel, at times proclaiming its desire to wipe it off the face of the earth.",
        "这也能够解释他们为什么在反对伊朗核野心的问题上试图获得政治支持，伊朗的核野心每隔一段时间就会威胁到以色列，而且不时宣称要将这个国家从地球上彻底抹去。"
    ],
    [
        "VIENNA – In today’s interdependent global economy, Africa remains a weak link.",
        "维也纳—在当今互相依存的全球经济中，非洲仍然是弱环。"
    ],
    [
        "On the supply side, a sharp increase in years of schooling, and especially in access to higher education, swelled the ranks of professionals and other skilled workers and helped lower their relative wages.",
        "在供给端，学习年限的大幅增加（特别是高等教育入学率的增加）扩大了专业人士和其他高技能工人的队伍，拉低了他们的相对工资。"
    ],
    [
        "To address them, it needs an economic program that is more likely to work than the measures policymakers have recently adopted – and which have failed to achieve their inflation target, restore confidence, or boost growth to the level desired.",
        "解决这些问题所需要的经济政策必须比决策者目前所采取的政策更有希望见效。 目前的政策没能实现通胀目标、重塑信心或将增长提振至希望水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy reform opens up electricity generation and oil exploration, extraction, and refining to private foreign or domestic investment through licenses, concessions, production sharing, or profit sharing.",
        "能源改革借助许可、特许、产品分成或利润共享等方式向国外私营及国内投资公司开放发电、石油勘探、开采和冶炼业务。"
    ],
    [
        "The judge refused without comment requests by the defense to remove the cage and to replace one of the prosecutors, who had already been a prosecuting counsel during the first trial.",
        "法官在没有发表任何评论的情况下，拒绝了撤去笼子和替换其中一位在第一次审判中曾担当过起诉律师的检察官的请求。"
    ],
    [
        "For one brief shining moment, the Royal Bank of Scotland was global top dog in rankings of commercial banks, and we know how that story ended.",
        "曾几何时，苏格兰皇家银行名列商业银行排名榜榜首，现在我们都知道最终的结果是怎样的。"
    ],
    [
        "While trying to build on the limited progress of recent years, they will have to confront a number of additional obstacles in building a cohesive and sustainable peace on the Korean Peninsula.",
        "在继续推动近几年取得的有限进展的同时，他们还会在建立朝鲜半岛凝聚与持久和平方面遭遇若干新的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "While voters chose Leave for a variety of reasons, many were concerned with the extent to which EU leaders have exceeded their original mandate, creating an ever larger and more invasive organization.",
        "虽然投票脱欧者的原因各异，但许多人都注意到欧盟领导人们已经僭越了他们最初的领受的任务，创造了一个更庞大且更具侵入性的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the examples given above suggest, the line between horizontal and vertical policies is inevitably fuzzy.",
        "但是，上述例子表明，横向和纵向政策之间的界线难免模糊。"
    ],
    [
        "Knowing the extent of his unpopularity in 2003, many believe that he was ready to leave power but needed a successor who would ensure that his legacy (and his wealth) survived.",
        "考虑到他在2003年多么不得人心，很多人认为他愿意交出权力，但需要找到确保他名声（和财产）的继任者。"
    ],
    [
        "A series of surveys in the Arab world last summer highlights some significant shifts in public opinion.",
        "去年夏天在阿拉伯世界开展的一系列调查凸显出了民意方面的一些重要变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only in Iran, but also in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq, history has shown that Islamists thrive amid political chaos and violence.",
        "不仅是伊朗，黎巴嫩、巴勒斯坦和伊拉克的历史都表明了伊斯兰主义者往往是在政治骚乱和暴力活动中兴盛起来的。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson for any administration appointee should be clear: only loyalty comes close to heredity in winning and holding an executive role.",
        "任何被政府任命者的教训都非常明确：在夺取和保住管理职位的道路上，只有忠诚能与血缘相提并论。"
    ],
    [
        "These are areas where there is not much that the state can do to help.",
        "还有一些领域国家是无能为力的。"
    ],
    [
        "Bringing in hedge funds as third parties will simply increase the cost.",
        "如果让对冲基金也来参与的话，局面会更糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries’ governments should request and be given information about their nationals’ accounts.",
        "发展中国家政府应该要求获得这些银行账户的有关信息，并且银行账户所在国应该给予发展中国家有关它们的国民的银行账户的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Known as the “Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-15,” the program prioritized four areas: health, housing, education, and employment.",
        "这个计划被称为“2005—15：包融罗姆人的十年”，包括四大优先事项：卫生、住房、教育和就业。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, 95 of the 100 largest metropolitan areas added jobs and increased their economic output in the five years following the Great Recession, but only 20 experienced median-wage growth.",
        "在美国，100个最大城市中的95个在大衰退后的五年中就业和经济产出有所增加，但只有20个中位工资有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, given the Union’s attraction for most ordinary Ukrainians, there is still hope that simple realism will persuade Yanukovych and Ukraine’s ruling elite to return to a path that would allow for the association agreement to be signed.",
        "幸运的是，鉴于欧盟对多数普通乌克兰民众的吸引力，纯粹的现实主义仍有希望说服亚努科维奇和乌克兰的执政精英回心转意并允许签署入盟协议。"
    ],
    [
        "What if, with only gene sequences, scientists could “animate” the appropriate genetic material?",
        "如果科学家仅凭基因序列就能“制作”想要的遗传物质呢？"
    ],
    [
        "India’s growth during the past decade had much to do with loose macroeconomic policies and a deteriorating current account – which recorded a deficit of more than 5% of GDP in 2012, having been in surplus in the early 2000’s.",
        "过去十年，印度增长与宽松的宏观经济政策和恶化的经常项目——2012年报告赤字超过GDP的5%，但在21世纪初期是有盈余的——不无关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The Non-Communicable Disease Paradox",
        "非传染病悖论"
    ],
    [
        "Whenever someone proposes turning the eurozone into a transfer union, as France’s economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, recently did, the presumption is that Germany will carry everyone else on its shoulders.",
        "每当有人提出把欧元区变成一个转移支付联盟，正如法国经济部长埃曼纽尔·马克朗（Emmanuel Macron）最近提出的那样，都是假设德国将肩负其他国家的重担。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, globalization is in fact fragile – and increasingly so.",
        "此外，事实上全球化十分脆弱——并且日甚一日。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is worth understanding the positive experiences that women – and men – can have in cultures where sexuality is more conservatively directed.",
        "在性较为保守的社会中，女人，也包括男人，他们也能获得的正面的体验，理解这些体验对我们是有益的。"
    ],
    [
        "The TTP’s stated objectives include jihad against the Pakistani army, enforcement of sharia law across the country, and a plan to unite with the Afghan Taliban to fight the NATO forces in that country.",
        "巴基斯坦塔利班的目标包括对巴基斯坦军队发动圣战，在巴基斯坦全境实行伊斯兰法，还计划联合阿富汗塔利班武装与该国的北约部队交战。"
    ],
    [
        "The Poles have paid a steep price, but they were right.",
        "波兰人付出了极高的价格，但他们是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "It turns out, however, that Indian politicians are not the only ones vulnerable to seduction by the Indian “miracle mafia.”",
        "但事实证明不止是印度政治家容易受到印度“奇迹派”的诱惑。"
    ],
    [
        "Also, private companies compete.",
        "此外，私营公司还要参与竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it did not want to repeat the experience of the Zacharias Moussaoui trial, in which, after many propagandistic appeals from the dock, the alleged twentieth September 11, 2001, hijacker was finally convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.",
        "然而，它不想重复审判穆萨维的体验。 在这个审判中，在被告次数众多的宣传性上诉后，最终宣布这位2001年9月11日的第20位劫机嫌疑犯有罪，处以终生监禁。"
    ],
    [
        "Major multinationals like Apple, Amazon, and Starbucks have structured their businesses to minimize taxes to such an extent that they are now facing sanctions from the likes of the European Union.",
        "像苹果、亚马逊和星巴克这样的大型跨国公司已经为避税重组了公司结构，以至于它们现在面临像欧盟等政体的制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Just ten years ago, the natural-gas industry was so sure that domestic production was reaching its limit that it made large investments in terminals to import liquefied natural gas (LNG).",
        "就在10年前，天然气行业还毫不犹豫地认定国内产量已经达到极限，因此在终端投入了大笔资金用于进口液化天然气（LNG）。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet we have a tax that could prevent hundreds of millions of premature deaths.",
        "但是，我们却有一个可以防止数以亿计的人提早死亡的税收。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is not only the monks who are united.",
        "其实不仅仅是是僧侣们联合起来了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, the US and EU should support civil society organizations in pressing Moldova’s government to guarantee more equitable distribution of television time, to stop police harassment of opposition political leaders and workers as well as journalists, to reform the police and end the ruling party’s abuse of state institutions, and to allow all political parties more opportunity to inspect election rolls and monitor polling stations.",
        "从长远来看，美国和欧盟应当支持民间社团组织，迫使摩尔多瓦政府保证对电视宣传时间更公平的分配，阻止警察骚扰反对党政治领袖、工作人员和记者，推行警务改革并结束执政党对国家机构的滥用，让所有党派有更多机会检查选举名单并对投票站进行监督。"
    ],
    [
        "After returning to power in 1958, he rescued his country a second time, putting down two attempted coups, ending the war in Algeria, and inspiring the Fifth Republic’s constitution.",
        "1958年重新掌权后，他再次挽救了自己的国家，镇压了两次未遂政变，结束了阿尔及利亚战争，并制定了第五共和国宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "But without the delivery service, much of those profits simply would have gone to others.",
        "但若没有递送服务，这笔利润的大部分将流入他人的腰包。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the need to act quickly – and given the slowness with which the developed world has been responding – this new institution is all the more welcome.",
        "由于迅速行动的需求迫切——而发达国家反应速度奇慢无比——这一新机构不啻及时雨。"
    ],
    [
        "It's an expression of prosperity, progress, and justice.",
        "它表达了繁荣、进步和公正。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of seeking a face-saving compromise on softening the troika program, Tsipras wasted six months on symbolic battles over economically irrelevant issues such as labor laws, privatizations, even the name of the troika.",
        "齐普拉斯没有向三驾马车提出的方案服软以争取颜面，而是在无关紧要的经济问题上——劳动法、私有化乃至三驾马车的名称——做出象征性斗争，白白浪费了六个月。"
    ],
    [
        "Given growing support for ending the senseless and bloody decades-long “war on drugs,” these signs of progress toward decriminalization and legalization should not pass unremarked.",
        "对终结几十年来“毒品战争”的无谓流血的支持与日俱增，这些通往除罪化和合法化的进步不应该不引起注意。"
    ],
    [
        "Myths about his wartime heroism and divine status soon followed, and a cult of personality was established.",
        "随后，关于他在战争时期的英勇事迹和神化地位蜂拥而出，个人崇拜随之建立。"
    ],
    [
        "Humanity faces no greater challenge than to ensure a world of prosperity rather than a world that lies in ruins.",
        "人类面临更严峻的挑战保障世界繁荣，防止世界变成一片荒芜。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, some potential solutions are politically easier to implement within existing systems than others.",
        "毕竟，从政治上说，一些潜在解决方案在现有制度下比其他方案更容易实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than attempting to control the lives and actions of forest peoples and peasant farmers, the effort in Paris should focus on ending large-scale deforestation and leaving fossil fuels in the ground.",
        "巴黎的措施不应该是控制森林民族和农民的生活和行为，而应该着重于结束大规模滥伐、把化石燃料留在地底下。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Commission foresees 1.3% growth this year, which is not bad by European standards. But it could be very bad for European reform.",
        "3%的增长，这在欧洲标准看来不坏，但对欧洲改革来说，这是一个非常糟糕的消息。"
    ],
    [
        "(Calderóntook three courses from me; unfortunately, dealing with violent drug lords was not on my syllabus.)",
        "不过不幸的是这些课程并不包括如何对付暴力毒枭。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The short answer is money.",
        "简单的说是因为钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and thus America’s highest ranking military officer, recently said, “The greatest danger to American security comes from the national debt.”",
        "美国参谋长联席会议主席（也就是美军官阶最高的人物）迈克尔·马伦上将最近就放言称：“美国最大的安全威胁就是国家负债。"
    ],
    [
        "Our almost exclusive focus on Nazis and WWII blinds us to other – and possibly more instructive – historical parallels.",
        "我们的关注点几乎完全集中在纳粹和二战，而对其他可能更具说明性的历史案例视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, if we are to succeed in creating a single market that is open to the world, builds on its internal strengths, and is at the cutting edge when it comes to shaping the international environment, our efforts at the EU level have to be matched by efforts at the national level.",
        "的确，如果我们要成功地建立一个向世界开放，能不断提升内部实力，并在国际环境形成方面举足轻重的单一市场，那么我们在欧盟层面上的努力就必须要有各成员国层面上的努力来配合。"
    ],
    [
        "A stable supply of affordable electricity is a prerequisite for economic development.",
        "廉价而稳定的电力供应是经济发展的先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "This was exactly the vision held by the German patriots who participated in the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944.",
        "这种见地完全就是和1944年7月20日阴谋暗杀希特勒德国爱国者们的一样。"
    ],
    [
        "But they can use extreme violence to consolidate their control over the state, its people, and its institutions.",
        "但他们却能利用极端暴力巩固自己对国家、人民和政府机构的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Even without the embargo, Cuba would still be held back by its dilapidated infrastructure; strict labor laws; restrictions on foreign-investment; an educated but unskilled workforce, unaccustomed to Western workplace practices; and a lack of contracts and legal instruments to enforce those practices.",
        "即使没有禁运，古巴仍将受困于其破败的基础设施、严格的劳动法、对外国投资的限制、受过教育但技能低下的劳动力、对西方工作场所风格的不适应，以及缺乏推行这些措施的契约和法律工具。"
    ],
    [
        "How democratic or undemocratic a regime is usually doesn't bother investors. All they need and care about is stable, predictable rules.",
        "通常，困扰投资者的问题不是一个政权民主与否，投资者需要并且在意的，是稳定且可预见的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks employ an army of experts to try to get it right, and other institutions are seldom so well resourced to present equally sophisticated counter-arguments.",
        "中央银行聘用大量专家尝试做好这件事，而其他机构很少能够拥有足够的资源给出同样成熟的反对意见。"
    ],
    [
        "Will its recent presidential election continue that tradition?",
        "那么最近选出来的新法国总统又是否将延续这一传统？"
    ],
    [
        "This not only hampers restructuring, but also makes firms hesitant to hire and inhibits innovation.",
        "这不但抑制了结构调整，而且也使公司不愿招人，阻碍了创新。"
    ],
    [
        "But, sensing the public’s excitement, they have made sure to be photographed by local and international media while registering to get their electoral ID card.",
        "但是，当感受到民众们的满腔热情后，皇室成员决定登记申请竞选身份证并允许国内外媒体摄影。"
    ],
    [
        "Queen Elizabeth II may have expected too much when she famously asked why economists had failed to foresee the disaster, but there is a widespread sense that much of their research turned out to be irrelevant.",
        "伊丽莎白女王二世有过著名的一问：经济学家为何不能预见灾难？ 她或许要求太高了些，但一个众人皆有的感觉是经济学家的研究有很多属于“无厘头”。"
    ],
    [
        "We need a democratic, competitive environment, initiative at all levels, an active civil society, and real public control.",
        "我们需要的是竞争性的民主环境，各级官员的积极参与、充满活力的民间社会和真正意义上的公共控制。"
    ],
    [
        "This danger was highlighted last week by a YouGov poll, which for the first time showed a plurality regretting the result of the Brexit referendum.",
        "上周公布的YouGov民调凸显出这种危险，该民调结果首次表明多数人后悔脱欧公投的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "What will happen is hard to foresee.",
        "现在很难预料结果。"
    ],
    [
        "In Venezuela’s case, these policies included expropriations, price and exchange controls, over-borrowing in good times, anti-business regulations, border closures, and more.",
        "在委内瑞拉的例子中，这些政策包括征用、价格和汇率管制、在繁荣期过度借贷、反商业监管、边境封闭，等等。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are also promising signs of an economic uptick.",
        "但令人振奋的经济信号还是存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "The populist rhetoric on trade may be excessive, but few deny any longer that the underlying grievances are real.",
        "关于贸易的民粹主义言论可能相当出格，但也没什么人能否认底层民众确实受了委屈。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, China’s breathtaking economic success seems to point to the existence of viable authoritarian alternatives to the Western idea that freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and the market economy are bound together.",
        "尤其是中国在经济上所取得的令人震惊的成功似乎表明存在着将自由、民主、法治以及市场经济捆绑在一起的西方观念可行的极权主义替代物。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because corporate tax revenue is now about 1.6% of GDP, the direct effect of halving the tax rate would reduce revenue by about 0.8% of GDP, or $160 billion a year at the current level of output.",
        "但由于企业所得税目前相当于GDP的1. 6％左右，所以减税的直接效应将使目前的收入减少相当于GDP0."
    ],
    [
        "A Yes invigorates the axis; a No weakens it.",
        "法国的赞成票将加强该轴心，否决票则将削弱它。"
    ],
    [
        "When asked about Trump’s behavior, Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager and now a White House counselor, replied, “He’s the president-elect, so that’s presidential behavior.”",
        "在被问及特朗普的行为时，特朗普的竞选经理、现任白宫律师的凯丽安妮·康威（Kellyanne Conway）回答说：“他是当选总统，因此这是总统的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "He deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his life work.",
        "他因其毕生从事的工作获得诺贝尔奖名至实归。"
    ],
    [
        "But these simple steps are easy enough to grasp – and within reach for everyone.",
        "但这些简单措施很容易掌握，并且人人可以做到。"
    ],
    [
        "The only beneficiaries of government officials’ telling Microsoft how to make computer software are Microsoft’s competitors -- and not competition.",
        "政府官员告诉微软怎样制作计算机软件所带来的唯一受益者是微软的竞争对手而不是竞争本身。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is undoubtedly facing serious political challenges, exacerbated by a mercurial, polarizing, and brash administration.",
        "美国无疑正面临着严峻的政治挑战，而这一状况在一个朝令夕改、极端化和草率形式的政府手下不断恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, there is indeed plenty of reason to worry.",
        "不幸的是，确实存在许多理由需要担心。"
    ],
    [
        "How to Prevent a Depression",
        "如何避免萧条"
    ],
    [
        "Why Bannon Had to Go",
        "为何班农必须走人"
    ],
    [
        "But many among the public and in the media want more.",
        "但公众和媒体要求的还要更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet these good-neighborhood policies did not work out as intended.",
        "但这些睦邻友好政策并没有达到预期的目的。 与亚美尼亚的复交进程停滞不前；"
    ],
    [
        "We humans are very good at figuring out ways to make scarce things desirable.",
        "我们人类最擅长想尽办法，让稀缺的事物变得供不应求。"
    ],
    [
        "Along with Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, we attach great importance to the world’s first global summit, being held this week in Abu Dhabi, aimed at ensuring that all children have access to the full benefits of vaccines.",
        "与阿布扎比太子阿勒纳哈扬（Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan）一起，我们将论述第一届旨在确保所有儿童都能获得疫苗的全部好处的全球峰会的巨大意义。 此次峰会将于本周在阿布扎比举行。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the question of President Asif Zardari’s government.",
        "而阿西夫·扎尔达里的政府也存在问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Only Umaru Yar’Adua’s doctors know for sure how sick he is.",
        "只有奥马鲁拉·杜瓦的医生确定地知道他的病有多严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Qaddafi’s Long Shadow",
        "卡扎菲的巨大阴影"
    ],
    [
        "Taken together, the growth of Japan’s GNI and the implications of tax data and 2008 SNA suggest that Japan’s economy has been doing significantly better lately than the national statistics seem to suggest.",
        "综合起来，日本国民总收入的增长以及税收数据和2008年版国民经济计算准则的影响表明，日本经济的表现明显优于国家统计数据。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortuyn’s outrageousness was deliberately provocative and always entertaining.",
        "佛杜恩肆无忌惮的故意挑衅常令人忍俊不禁。"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder so many people have trouble making ends meet.",
        "无怪乎那么多商家都难以做到收支平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "In a medical emergency, it can impose life-threatening delays in care.",
        "在紧急医疗事故中，它可能造成威胁生命的医疗延迟。"
    ],
    [
        "Once these industries figured out how to make their IT systems more efficient, interoperable, and user-friendly, and then realigned their processes to leverage technology’s capabilities, productivity soared.",
        "一旦这些行业认清如何让其IT系统更高效、更具互操作性、更加用户友好，然后重组程序以利用技术能力，生产率就会大幅攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "Small wonder that a huge majority of the population – and even a slight majority of CDU voters – prefer a strengthening of the welfare state to a more market-oriented system.",
        "拉方丹大打公共转移支付受惠人的意向这张牌，并牢牢地占据了左派阵地。 他梦想着一个在无限资源泽备下的永恒的福利国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Among other things, Trump has threatened a trade war with China and Mexico, and says he would renegotiate America’s existing trade agreements.",
        "特朗普威胁对中国和墨西哥开展贸易战，并说他要重新谈判美国现有贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Parts of East and West Africa are expected to get wetter, with rain falling in heavy, intense storms that not only bring greater risks of erosion, flooding, and crop damage, but also leave people more exposed to malaria and cattle herds to decimation by outbreaks of diseases like Rift Valley fever.",
        "东非和西非的部分地区降水量预计会增加，雨水伴随着强烈的风暴落下，不仅使侵蚀、洪水和庄稼损害的风险增大，而且会增加人类感染疟疾、以及牲畜因裂谷热等疾病爆发而大量死亡的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "But we are all liable to seek information that confirms our beliefs and ignore information that challenges them.",
        "但我们都愿意寻找证实我们想法的信息，而对挑战我们想法的信息选择性忽略。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere, the ethical debate is not about IVF itself, but the limits of its use.",
        "其它地方的伦理上的争议不是体外受精本身，而是对其使用的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps that lesson - the need to subject even the most powerful country to international law - will be one benefit of the otherwise disastrous war that the US launched in Iraq.",
        "美国对伊发动的战争是灾难性的，但要让最强大的国家也服从国际法的教训也许可以算作这场战争的好处之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But an increasing number of people – already nearly 300 million – are facing the harsh reality of the urban slum, where resources are scarce and economic opportunities are elusive.",
        "但越来越多的人——目前已接近3亿——面临着城市贫民窟的严峻现实，这里资源紧缺，经济机会微乎其微。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, certain drugs are used much more frequently than would be expected from their approved indications.",
        "其结果是某些药物的使用频度大大高于其适应症的期望频度。"
    ],
    [
        "The authors speculate that easier loan securitization may have made risky CRA-compliant loans seem less costly.",
        "作者推测，贷款证券化更加容易可能是为执行CRA而发放的高风险贷款成本下降的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "If the West decides that the government has become unreliable, television shots of demonstrators’ weekly clashes with the Baku police, Ilham’s refusal to hold televised debates, and the confiscation of all orange objects from stores will come in handy.",
        "”一旦西方认为阿塞拜疆政府不再可靠，那么抗议者每周与巴库警察发生冲突的电视画面、伊尔哈姆拒绝直播辩论和他从商铺没收所有橙色物品的新闻都是可以信手拈来的素材。"
    ],
    [
        "When the war ended, Germany – because of the victors’ denazification policies and its responsibility for instigating and carrying out the Holocaust – had no choice but to “work through” its murderous past.",
        "战争结束时，德国——由于战胜国的消灭纳粹化政策及其煽动和实施大屠杀的责任——别无选择，只能与其凶残的过去“决裂”。"
    ],
    [
        "But they also must become less dependent on others.",
        "但他们必须学会不那么依赖外国人。"
    ],
    [
        "D’Amato’s assistant, Edmund Janniger, served as an adviser to Macierewicz until 2015.",
        "阿马托的助手埃德蒙·詹宁格到2015年一直担任麦克瑞维奇的顾问职务。"
    ],
    [
        "For many, it has made life longer and better.",
        "它延长了许多患者的生命，提高了他们的生存质量。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who shut doors and build walls do not belong to the same family as those who welcome the needy in the name of higher values.",
        "那些关起大门、修建围墙者和以崇高价值的名义欢迎需要帮助者不可能成为一家。"
    ],
    [
        "It reminds Asians of the repulsive Japan of the 1930’s rather than the attractive Japan of today.",
        "它会让亚洲人想起二十世纪三十年代那个令人憎恶的日本而不是今天有吸引力的日本。"
    ],
    [
        "That is an arresting thought.",
        "这值得深思。"
    ],
    [
        "High spending was a mark of success: what Americans demanded of their rich was conspicuous enterprise.",
        "高消费是成功的标志：美国人对本国富人的要求是高度进取。"
    ],
    [
        "News reports indicate that the Fed has already started saying no to some bank mergers.",
        "新报告表明，美联储已经开始对一些银行并购说不。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2020, the vaccine is expected to protect more than 400 million people – preventing one million cases of meningitis A, 150,000 deaths from the disease, and 250,000 cases of severe disability among survivors.",
        "到2020年，该疫苗有望为超过4亿人口提供保护——防止100万人感染甲型脑膜炎、15万人因此惨死，以及避免出现25万严重残疾的幸存者。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for Russian and Western leaders to devise a grand bargain for peace in eastern Ukraine, one that goes beyond the Minsk Protocol to address the questions of global security and arms control that have impeded cooperation on issues like Syria’s civil war and Iran’s nuclear program.",
        "俄罗斯和西方领导人应该就东乌克兰问题做一笔超过明斯克协议（Minsk Protocol）的大交易，以解决阻挠叙利亚内战和伊朗核计划等问题上的合作的全球安全和武器控制问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in part because tsunamis are one of the risks of an asteroid collision, the Indian Ocean disaster has stimulated new interest in asteroid defense.",
        "实际上，部分由于大海啸是小行星碰撞的风险之一，因此，印度洋大海啸激发了对防止小行星碰撞地球的新的兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "The second challenge is to understand how the genes interact among themselves or with other factors to produce the condition, which should enable the development of new preventive measures or treatments based on the details of how the condition begins and how it progresses.",
        "第二大挑战是理解基因怎样通过相互作用或与其他因素互动来引发健康问题，从而在了解疾病发生发展进程的基础上，发明新的预防和治疗措施。"
    ],
    [
        "In Hungary, liberal-democratic values have come under systematic attack from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government.",
        "在匈牙利，自由民主的价值观遭到了总理维克托·欧尔班（Viktor Orbán）政府的系统破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the legacy of problematic loans and projects funded by Western-led infrastructure banks, it is reasonable to ask whether another one is needed, as opposed to reforming existing institutions.",
        "西方领导的基础设施银行留下了大量有问题的贷款和工程，质疑改革现有机构、认为需要新的基础设施银行是合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Understanding the Frankenstein Tradition",
        "理解科学怪人的传统"
    ],
    [
        "A rudderless US foreign policy is no response to a resurgent and neo-authoritarian Russia flexing its geopolitical muscle.",
        "群龙无首美国的外交政策是对展示地缘政治实力的复兴的新专制俄国不做任何反应。"
    ],
    [
        "But the numbers of visitors began to rise sharply after the city fell under the control of the Saudi royal family in 1924.",
        "但1924年该市落入沙特皇室控制后朝圣者数量开始急剧上升。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is critical that the country’s upcoming election does not jeopardize recent gains, particularly during the current low-transmission season, which is the best opportunity to stop the disease in its tracks.",
        "但关键在于即将进行的巴基斯坦选举不要影响最新获得的进展，特别是在目前的低传播率季节（即阻止其传播的最佳机会的节骨眼上）。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is a false trade-off.",
        "但这是错误的权衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor did Congress approve $30 billion in federal grants to states to enable them to employ about 135,000 teachers, police, and firemen, despite strong voter support.",
        "尽管选民支持强劲，但国会同样没有批准为州政府提供价值300亿美元的联邦补助，以使他们能够雇佣约135,000名教师、警察和消防人员。"
    ],
    [
        "The majlis plays a role in the political process, to the point of being able to induce or hinder policy changes: witness the way a conservative majlis blocked reformist President Mohammad Khatami in the last years of his term.",
        "议会在政治进程中发挥着自己的作用，它能够促进或阻碍政策变化：保守的议会在改革派总统卡塔米任期的最后一年对其施政的阻挠就是例证。"
    ],
    [
        "When the jubilation and the justly earned compliments for the Palestinians subside, both Arab rulers and Arab masses (the much hyped \"Arab street\") may start asking some hard questions.",
        "当人们的欢腾喜悦之情褪去，巴勒斯坦应得的赞扬之辞逐渐远去，阿拉伯统治者和阿拉伯大众（大多被媒体称为“阿拉伯街道”）也许将开始问一些尖锐问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, this has meant large flows of money either to big agricultural producers, like France, or to poorer member states, like Greece and Portugal.",
        "而实际上，这意味着会有大批的资金流入法国这样的农业生产大国，或者像希腊和葡萄牙这样的相对贫困的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "So the fate of Belgium should interest all Europeans, especially those who wish the Union well.",
        "所以，所有欧洲人、特别是那些希望欧盟安定的人都应当关心比利时的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the reasons for postponing activities that would stimulate the economy may be difficult to discern.",
        "事实上，暂停刺激经济活动的原因可能很难识别。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel simply cannot ignore the Americans in the way that the Egyptian army has as it massacres its Islamist opponents.",
        "以色列不过是不能像埃及军队屠杀伊斯兰反对派那样完全不顾及美国的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "The Polish Communists did not intend to build democracy; their plan was to absorb moderate opposition groups into a partially modified political system.",
        "波兰共产党不想建立民主； 他们的计划是将温和的反对团体吸收到经过部分改良的政治体制之中来，将权力移交给团结工会是他们最后的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The image of a bank run, of long lines of angry people lining up outside a failed bank, was briefly on our minds after the Northern Rock failure in Britain.",
        "当英国北石银行动摇之际，银行挤兑、愤怒的人们在破产银行排长队的景象短暂出现在我们的头脑之中。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these parties, whether on the right or the left, place national sovereignty at odds with the so-called “external powers,\" and seek to tilt the EU's political axis accordingly.",
        "无论右翼还是左翼党派都把国家主权与所谓的“外部势力”尖锐对立，并试图扭转欧盟的政治核心轴。"
    ],
    [
        "As regional neighbors and partners, we should exploit the convergence of interests that the US, Japan, China, India, Russia, ASEAN, Canada, a unified, nuclear weapon-free Korea, Pakistan, Australia-New Zealand, and others share – just as Western European exploited the Cold War stalemate between the US and the Soviet Union to consolidate and expand the EU.",
        "作为地区的邻国和伙伴，我们应该充分利用美国、日本、中国、印度、俄罗斯、东盟、加拿大、一个统一并无核化的朝鲜、巴基斯坦、澳大利亚—新西兰和其他国家共有的利益融合—正如西欧利用了美国与苏联之间的冷战僵局整合并扩大了欧盟那样。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s policy toward Libya, which differs significantly from previous policy, may or may not have been shaped by it; nevertheless, we cannot rule out the possibility of it becoming the mainstream of thinking in Chinese foreign-policy circles in the near future.",
        "尽管我们无法判断是否是中国的传统思想对中国此次制定对利比亚的政策起了重大作用； 但我们不能排除这些传统思想在可见的未来成为中国外交政策圈的主流思想。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Following weeks of financial and economic turmoil, public debate has finally turned to the horrific potential human ramifications of the collapse of the global financial system.",
        "伦敦 - 继数周的金融和经济动荡之后，公众讨论终于转到了全球金融体系崩溃的可怕的并潜在的对于人类影响的方面上来。"
    ],
    [
        "This would put Pakistan on sounder political footing than several other large Muslim countries, which are currently engaged in similar – but far less successful – efforts to institute more accountable governance.",
        "这将使让巴基斯坦迈出扎实的政治步子，胜过其他目前也处于类似局面（即建立更具可问责性的治理）但进展甚少的穆斯林大国。"
    ],
    [
        "By ignoring poor people’s needs, financial institutions are overlooking a massive potential market.",
        "因为忽视贫困群体的需求，金融机构正在忽视规模巨大的潜在市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The MPC also failed to respond to any of the three bouts of rapid growth in house prices that preceded the financial crisis, arguing that they were structural in nature –caused by the decline in inflation and interest rates since the 1980’s – so a monetary response was not appropriate.",
        "MPC也没能对金融危机前的三次房价快速上涨做出反应，并辩解说房价的上涨是结构性的，原因在于20世纪80年代以来的通胀和利率下降，因此用货币政策予以反应是不合适的。"
    ],
    [
        "So the recent collapse of gold prices has not really changed the case for investing in it one way or the other.",
        "所以近期黄金价格崩溃并没有改变人们对它的投资情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, distance is far from dead.",
        "不仅如此，距离还远远没有失去作用。"
    ],
    [
        "There is reason to feel reassured by Obama’s reactions.",
        "奥巴马的反应显然能够打消某些疑虑。"
    ],
    [
        "SAN FRANCISCO – Today’s turbulence in emerging-market equity markets has triggered a wave of obituaries for their growth miracles of recent decades.",
        "旧金山——目前的股市动荡让人们纷纷猜测几十年来新兴市场的增长奇迹已经走到了尽头。"
    ],
    [
        "Elgin sold them to the British government, which put them in the British Museum.",
        "埃尔金把雕像出售给英国政府，英国政府将这些文物放在大英博物馆展出。"
    ],
    [
        "But intervention in other states’ internal affairs must be legitimate, which requires clearly established rules.",
        "但干涉别国的内部事务必须合法，需要为此制定明确的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "But the battle against deforestation is not lost.",
        "但抗击采伐的战役没有失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Few Westerners grasp the challenges faced by decision-makers in developing countries confronting extremism from insurgents and terrorists.",
        "没有多少西方人能真正了解发展中国家决策者在应对叛乱和恐怖分子的极端主义挑战时所需要面对的难题。"
    ],
    [
        "By using this moment strategically and wisely, the EU would have a chance to reframe its relationship with the southern Mediterranean (as it is being redubbed) to promote generational development and growth in ways that can address Europe’s interests, too.",
        "通过有策略且明智地利用这一时刻，欧盟有机会重新建构自身与重组中的地中海南岸地区的关系，并推动符合欧洲利益的总体发展和增长。"
    ],
    [
        "There was also China’s seizure of the Paracel Islands from Vietnam in 1974, and the 1995 occupation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, amid protests by the Philippines.",
        "1974年中国从越南手中夺取西沙群岛、1995年在菲律宾的抗议声中占领南沙群岛美济礁亦是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "But the belief that America is the only virtuous country, the sole beacon of light in a dark and unstable world, continues to shape many Americans’ worldview.",
        "但美国是唯一正确之国、动荡世界一片黑暗中的唯一一丝曙光，这样的观念仍在决定很多美国人的世界观。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sarkozy factor is fundamental.",
        "萨科奇的因素至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they know how to work around inadequate infrastructure.",
        "另外，他们清楚该怎样应对基础设施不足。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, it has been estimated that if we were to use sections of about 35 square micrometers (millionths of a meter) at a thickness of 20 nanometers, we would need more than 1.4 billion sections to reconstruct fully just one cubic millimeter of tissue.",
        "比如，据估计，如果我们使用厚20纳米、面积35平方微米（一米的一百万分之一）的截面，我们就需要14多亿个截面来完整构造一立方毫米的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1982 citizenship law did not recognize them as one of the country’s 135 ethnic groups, and they have severely limited access to health care, education, and employment, in addition to facing restrictions on their freedom of movement.",
        "1982年公民法并未承认他们作为该国135个少数民族之一的地位，而他们在无法自由行动的同时，也几乎无法得到医疗、教育和就业等方面的服务。"
    ],
    [
        "That probably won’t happen right away; but, given the rise of populist leaders seizing on these adverse trends to win support, it may not be too far off.",
        "这也许不会马上发生，但考虑到民粹主义领导人抓住这些不利趋势赢得支持，这一天可能不会很遥远了。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, almost 3,000 Palestinian children were injured during that 50-day conflict, with about 1,000 permanently disabled.",
        "此外还有近3,000名巴勒斯坦儿童在这场为期50天的冲突中受伤，大约1,000名儿童永久致残。"
    ],
    [
        "Other films address a conflict that is closer to home here in France.",
        "另一部参赛电影则是讲述一场与主办国法国密切相关冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "“Hearing myself say that gives me pause.",
        "”“我自己说这番话的时候都禁不住感到犹豫。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach can be traced back to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, where climate policy embarked on a rocky and violent path of forgotten alternatives.",
        "这种做法可以追溯到1992年在里约热内卢召开的地球峰会，从那时起气候政策开始成为这条暴力崎岖之路上被遗忘的替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, literally two days before this year’s CDF began, the controversial Bo Xilai was removed as Party Secretary of Chongqing.",
        "但是，就在今年CDF召开前两天，颇具争议的重庆市委书记薄熙来被免去了职务。"
    ],
    [
        "Like many other developing countries, Sri Lanka simply enjoyed the fruits of high commodity prices in recent years (tea and rubber account for 22% of exports).",
        "跟其他许多发展中国家一样，斯里兰卡享受了商品价格高涨的成果（茶叶和橡胶占其出口额的22％），也本该利用这波繁荣来实现出口门类的多样化；"
    ],
    [
        "From former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was by virtually all accounts the favorite to win, to the Republicans who opposed his candidacy, people vastly underestimated the US president-elect.",
        "从几乎所有人都预期会获胜的前国务卿希拉里·克林顿，到反对让特朗普充当候选人的共和党，都低估了这位美国当选总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Most would agree that a crisis exists if just some of these “misery indices” are present.",
        "大部分人都认为，如果此类“痛苦指数”中的某些问题出现，就会引发危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Acknowledging that rating agencies were incompetent without doing anything to regulate them was inexcusable.",
        "单纯指出评级机构的无能，却不对他们进行任何监管，这也是不可饶恕的。"
    ],
    [
        "The extraordinary implosion of global financial markets may also work to the advantage of the Yes side in a second referendum, because Ireland’s economic future cannot be contemplated seriously outside of EU structures.",
        "全球金融市场的剧烈震荡可能也会在第二轮公民复决里对支持条约方有利，因为在仔细考虑爱尔兰的经济前景时，人们不可能脱离欧盟的架构。 。"
    ],
    [
        "Such new and creative partnerships can make progress on complex problems that governments, civil society, or the private sector cannot or will not solve alone.",
        "这些新的创新合作关系可以给那些政府、公民社会或私人部门不能或不愿单独解决的复杂问题带来进展。"
    ],
    [
        "The rationale for entrusting monetary policy fully to central banks is well understood: politicians, overly tempted during the electoral cycle to create more money, pose a threat to economic stability.",
        "将货币政策完全委托给中央银行，这样做的原因早已众所周知：政客在选举周期中有太大的诱惑去创造更多的货币，给经济稳定造成威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria, after all, sits at the center of mighty and antagonistic geopolitical forces.",
        "叙利亚毕竟被强大而敌对的地缘势力团团围住。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, there will also be a serious risk that some firms that sold protection will go bankrupt, triggering further losses for buyers of protection when their counterparties cannot pay.",
        "如果出现这样的情况，某些出售这类保险的公司极有可能会破产，从而使购买这些保险的机构面临进一步的损失，因为对方没有能力付款了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Germany’s 30-year bund yield is less than 0.7%, indicating that they expect ultra-low rates for a very long time.",
        "事实上，德国30年期国债收益率还不到0. 7%，表明投资者认为极低利率会维持极长时间。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, part of the plot that culminated in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was hatched by an Egyptian living in Hamburg.",
        "毕竟，以2001年9月11日恐怖袭击为高潮的阴谋部分地被居住在一名汉堡的埃及人发现了。"
    ],
    [
        "So Brazil and India are relative havens, even though their growth prospects are severely diminished as well.",
        "这么看来巴西和印度相对而言都属于天堂之地，尽管他们经济增长的前景也极大降低。"
    ],
    [
        "But the transition from here to there will be very challenging for financial firms, be they banks, asset managers or, particularly, insurers.",
        "但从现在到将来的转变对于金融企业来说将是个艰巨挑战，不管是银行、资产管理人还是（尤其是）保险商。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent collapse is reminiscent of a similar dive in the price of coal – which crashed from a brief high of $140 a ton in 2008 to about $40 a ton today – which led some deposits to become “financially stranded,” meaning that the cost of developing them outweighs potential returns.",
        "最近的油价暴跌让人想起了煤炭价格崩盘——从2008年每吨140美元的短暂高点下跌到今天的每吨40美元左右——煤炭价格崩盘导致一些煤炭储量“财务搁浅”，即开发它们的成本超过了潜在回报。"
    ],
    [
        "And for this the IMF’s strong, politically astute management – not exactly something from which the Fund has regularly benefited in recent years – deserves credit.",
        "它那强有力的、政治上不乏精明的管理层理应得到好评 —— 这样的管理层近年来并不多见。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as with macro-level economic reforms, there are limits to what can be learned from individual projects.",
        "此外，与宏观层面的经济改革一样，具体项目所能提供的经验也相当有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has staked his political future on the vote, pledging to step down (though not immediately) if the reforms are rejected.",
        "总理伦齐押上了自己的政治前途，宣布如果改革被拒绝就将下台（尽管不是立刻下台）。"
    ],
    [
        "While impressive and wholly welcome, poverty reduction has not come without a cost.",
        "尽管结果令人印象深刻并且值得欢呼雀跃，但减贫不是没有成本的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the task that Abbas faces will become impossible if the Israeli policy of “targeted killings” is allowed to continue while Palestinian leaders are working seriously to put an end to acts of violence against Israelis.",
        "确实，如果以色列的“定点清除计划”继续得以实行而巴勒斯坦领导人着手制止抵抗以色列的暴力事件，阿巴斯面对的就是不可能完成的使命。"
    ],
    [
        "With roughly 170 million inhabitants, Nigeria has Africa’s largest population.",
        "尼日利亚拥有居非洲首位的约1. 7亿人口。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to escape this impasse, we have helped to launch the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.",
        "为了跳出这一僵局，我们协助成立了全球经济和气候委员会（Global Commission on the Economy and Climate）。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar normality emerges from Thomas Harding’s portrait of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, a man proud of having excelled at his assigned task.",
        "” 托马斯·哈丁（Thomas Harding）对鲁道夫·霍斯（Rudolf Höss）的描述也体现了类似的正常性。 霍斯是奥斯维辛集中营负责人，他为以出色完成任务而自豪。"
    ],
    [
        "The classical concert that preceded the magisterial fireworks that ended the day was the closest thing to a French version of the Proms in London, mixing light classical and popular songs.",
        "那一天的压轴表演是古典音乐会及随后的庄严的火花。 音乐会堪称法国版伦敦逍遥音乐会（Proms in London），结合了轻古典乐和流行歌曲。"
    ],
    [
        "The science case that probably played the most significant role in the campaign was a suit filed by the British Chiropractic Association against science writer Simon Singh for an article he published in The Guardian in 2008, in which he discussed “bogus treatments.”",
        "英国整脊治疗协会因为2008年《卫报》发表的一篇探讨“伪疗法”的文章而对科普作家西蒙·辛格提出的诉讼在此次运动中起了最大的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "We disagree.",
        "这种说法我们不能同意。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the money is back in an expatriate’s homeland, it is put to good use.",
        "资金回到侨民祖国后会得到很好的使用。"
    ],
    [
        "So why, despite having burned his fingers two years ago, is Erdoğan taking up the issue again?",
        "两年前埃尔多安就曾提出该问题，结果是自讨苦吃，那么为什么现在又将该问题重提呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The first thing to do is to drop the metaphor of a “war on terrorism.”",
        "首要的是放弃“反恐战争”的比喻。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan's emergence as East Asia's leading power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved three brutal wars in China, in which the Japanese army committed dreadful atrocities.",
        "19世纪和20世纪早期日本作为东亚强国的历史牵涉到在中国发动的三次血腥战争，当时日军犯下了令人发指的杀戮罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcome of the standoff in Dhaka should provide an answer in Bangladesh, and its implications could reverberate far and wide.",
        "达卡僵局的结果应能为孟加拉人提供一个答案，其影响可能极其深远。"
    ],
    [
        "The unraveling of such a network – through panic and runs against financial institutions, asset fire sales, credit crunches, and the like – then becomes a nightmare for financial supervisors and monetary authorities alike.",
        "而这个网络的破碎和肢解——通过对金融机构的恐慌和敌意，低价甩卖资产，信贷紧缩等——将成为对金融监管这和货币主管部门的噩梦。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade between the communities is limited.",
        "两派民众之间的贸易联系非常有限。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is as much the result of speculators’ “hot money” plays as it is a conscious and perfectly reasonable effort by Chinese policymakers to remain focused on financial stability and manage currency appreciation in a gradual, disciplined, and orderly fashion.",
        "但对于这个问题，投机者的“热钱”所起的作用不亚于中国决策者有意识、极合理地专注于金融稳定大局、坚持渐近可控的升值之路。"
    ],
    [
        "If financial institutions do not have enough capital, and shareholders don’t have enough of their own skin in the game, they will push CEOs and bankers to take on too much leverage and risks, because their own net worth is not at stake.",
        "如果金融公司资本金偏低，也就是说股东投进赌局里的本钱并不多，他们就会鼓励CEO和银行家多用杠杆多冒风险，因为就算赌输了，他们自己也不会蚀多少老本。"
    ],
    [
        "Because financial markets notoriously overshoot, if the short-sellers win by pushing exchange rates and the real economy into a low-level equilibrium, the losses take the form of investment, jobs, and income.",
        "由于金融市场常常会发生“超调”，因此如果卖空者通过将汇率和实体经济打压到低水平均衡而获胜，那么损失将以投资、就业和收入下降的形式出现。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union (EU15) recorded 2.4% growth on average during these years.",
        "在这些年份，欧盟（欧盟15国）的平均增长率达到了2. 4%。"
    ],
    [
        "This historical leap is possible only for people whose political irresponsibility is matched by their proclivity for lazy analogy.",
        "只有政治上不负责任且总爱胡乱比喻的人才有可能实现这样的历史跨越。"
    ],
    [
        "The different applications do not talk to one another; it is difficult to match your exercise against your sleeping patterns, or to share data with other people.",
        "不同的应用软件之间无法同步； 很难把一个人的锻炼和睡眠模式统一起来，或者和其他人分享数据。"
    ],
    [
        "The most obvious reasons why earlier education makes for a better starting point is that people are most receptive to knowledge when they are young.",
        "关于早教可以提供更好的起点的最显而易见理由是人们在幼年时代吸收知识的能力最强。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that the commodity boom is ending, all of these countries face the challenge of building a new economic engine to sustain growth and create jobs.",
        "如今，商品繁荣正在终结，所有这些国家都面临寻找新经济引擎维持增长和创造就业的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But while the idea of California independence might seem comical, the Brexit referendum on June 23 is no laughing matter.",
        "加利福尼亚州独立的概念看上去滑稽可笑，但6月23日的英国退出全民公决绝非笑料。"
    ],
    [
        "If such change does occur, Europe will have an opening to promote its core values even more effectively.",
        "如果这一变革真的发生，欧洲将有机会更有效地推广其核心价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Change is not easy.",
        "改革绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "One thing is certain: The bill will put pressure on the Fed to pay more attention to inflation, avoiding a persistent rate above its own 2% target.",
        "有一件事是肯定的：法案施加压力将使美联储更加关注通货膨胀，避免通胀率持续高于2%的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "This will leave non-euro countries such as Denmark, Poland, and Sweden forming an outer ring of economic cooperation outside the eurozone.",
        "这将让丹麦、波兰和瑞典等非欧元国家形成一个欧元区外的经济合作外环。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with the country insisting on an answer to the question he posed, they see him as a liability.",
        "现在，当英国坚持要求回答他所提出的问题的时候，他们把布莱尔当成了累赘。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar mechanism underpins “optimum tariffs,” whereby a large country manipulates its terms of trade by placing restrictions on its imports.",
        "“最佳关税”背后也存在类似的机制，即大国通过限制进口达到操纵贸易条件的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – In the boldest move yet since President Xi Jinping launched his anti-corruption campaign, China has announced the start of a formal investigation into “serious disciplinary violations” by one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior figures, Zhou Yongkang.",
        "克莱蒙特，加利福尼亚—中国国家主席习近平所发起的反腐风暴实施了迄今为止最大的动作，宣布将开始对中共最高级官员之一周永康的“严重危机”进行正是调查。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Misrule of Law",
        "国际法暴政"
    ],
    [
        "But actions taken in the name of shareholder value often benefit only those whose wealth is closely tied to the company’s profits, and may actually be harmful to many shareholders.",
        "然而以股东价值为名实施的经营活动通常只有利于那些自身财富与公司利润关系密切的人，而且很可能实际上会损害许多股东的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "As US Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to present a framework agreement for a conclusive round of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, Netanyahu’s hardline position on Jerusalem is simply a non-starter.",
        "美国国务卿克里准备给以巴和平谈判成果轮带来一个框架性协议，而内塔尼亚胡对耶路撒冷的强硬立场决不是良好的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "India, a bright spot among emerging markets in these difficult times – indeed, the world’s fastest growing major economy – is an auspicious place to hold this gathering.",
        "作为困难时期新兴市场的一个亮点，印度的确是世界上增长最快的主要经济体，因此它是举办此次会议的一个吉祥场所。"
    ],
    [
        "I did not call Jongen a Nazi.",
        "我没有将琼根称为纳粹。"
    ],
    [
        "If all people conform to a particular set of beliefs, including moral codes of behavior, conflicts will disappear.",
        "如果所有人都能遵从一套包括行为道德准则在内的特定信念的话，冲突就将消失。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Soft and Sharp Power",
        "中国的软实力和锐实力"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, just as the movement to hold boards to account has gained greater traction, some companies have adopted new ways of convening annual shareholder meetings.",
        "有趣的是，就在董事会责任运动蔚然成风的同时，某些企业已经采取新的方式召开年度股东大会。"
    ],
    [
        "If she delivers, Brazil would join Mexico in anchoring a more stable Latin America in 2015, helping the region to overcome the disruptive effects of a Venezuelan economy roiled by lower oil prices.",
        "如果罗塞夫采取这一政策，巴西将与墨西哥一起稳定2015年的拉丁美洲，帮助该地区克服低油价扰动委内瑞拉经济带来的破坏效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Committee reports are usually deadly dull, and UN committee reports are among the dullest.",
        "委员会的报道常常是枯燥之极，而联合国安理会报告的枯燥程度可谓是登峰造极。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, almost simultaneously with the PLA incursion, scholars at an official Chinese think tank questioned Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa.",
        "事实上，在解放军入侵的几乎同时，中国官方智库的学者开始对日本的冲绳主权开炮。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the language of existential war, the most dangerous kind.",
        "这是一种认为敌我双方你死我活，不共戴天的“存在战争”论调，而且是最为凶险的一种。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, systemic risk proliferated beyond central bankers’ wildest imagination.",
        "结果，系统性风险悄然酝酿，并且超过了央行官员最大胆的想象。"
    ],
    [
        "The expansion of the ECB’s balance sheet and the targeted depreciation of the euro should help to bring the eurozone’s short-term inflation rate close to 2% and thus reduce deflationary risks.",
        "欧洲央行资产负债表的扩张以及欧元的定向贬值应该有助于让欧元区短期通胀率接近2%，从而降低通缩风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat and the reality of attacks will require greater social resilience and quite possibly a rebalancing of individual privacy and collective security.",
        "袭击的威胁和现实需要更大的社会恢复力，也许还需要平衡个人隐私和集体安全之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because such fines are erratic and difficult for banks and banking executives to predict, their impact on long-term organizational incentives is unclear.",
        "但是，由于这类罚款具有不确定性，银行和银行高管很难预测它的发生，因此它对长期组织激励的影响尚不清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is no longer merely sub-prime mortgages, but rather a “sub-prime” financial system.",
        "现在的问题已经不单单是次级抵押贷款而更像是一场“次级”金融体系的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Specter’s proposal also provides for reinforced security at the border, as well as a six-year non-renewable Temporary Workers Program without a path to residency, although it would allow unauthorized immigrants to remain in the US with a new, non-immigrant status.",
        "斯佩克特的建议同样规定加强边界安全，以及为期六年的不可续签无法获得居留权的临时工作项目。 这一项目允许非法移民以新的非移民身份留在美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Bracing for Stagnation",
        "准备迎接停滞"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Sweden’s public debt was reduced from 73% of GDP to 39% of GDP, while taxes have been cut repeatedly.",
        "与此同时，瑞典公共债务从GDP的73%下降至GDP的39%，税收也多次下降。"
    ],
    [
        "So, too, is the process for holding a eurozone finance minister accountable and ensuring his or her democratic legitimacy.",
        "问责欧元区财政部长、保证其民主合法性的程序亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "The British may turn their nose up at the euro – to which even the supposedly independent Swiss franc is pegged – but it will almost certainly remain the currency of nearly 300 million Europeans.",
        "英国人也许会对欧元——即使被认为是独立货币的瑞士法郎也是盯住欧元的——嗤之以鼻，但欧元几乎肯定仍将作为近3以欧洲人所使用的共同货币。"
    ],
    [
        "NEWPORT BEACH – Politicians and economists now join investors in a ritual that typically takes place on the first Friday of each month and has important consequences for global markets: anticipating, internalizing, and reacting to the monthly employment report released by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).",
        "纽波特海滩—如今，政客和经济学家加入了一个仪式，这个仪式原本属于投资者，在每月的第一个星期五进行，并且对全球市场产生重要影响：对美国劳工统计局（BLS）公布的月度就业报告进行预测、内部化并据之反应。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for the same reason, efficiency rules often do meet with protest when they are used or proposed for rationing medical services in everyday medicine.",
        "但由于同样的原因，效率法则用来调配日常医疗服务时却常常会引起人们的不满。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the nine states that the government has labeled “high focus” account for 62% of India’s maternal deaths and 70% of infant deaths, but contain only 48% of the country’s population.",
        "比如，9个邦的政府被认为需要“高度关注”，它们的人口只占全国人口的48%，但构成了62%的印度孕产妇死亡和70%的婴儿夭折。"
    ],
    [
        "After child care, there followed hordes of private tutors, test coaches, and university admissions consultants.",
        "儿童看护之外还有成群的私人教师、考试指导和大学招生顾问。"
    ],
    [
        "Najib has promised a full reckoning, but he has sacked Malaysia’s attorney general, who was investigating 1MDB.",
        "纳吉布已承诺开展全面清算，但却解雇了马来西亚总检察长，后者正在对1MDB展开调查。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1996, inconclusive clinical trials led US regulators to reject the drug.",
        "1996年，美国监管机构曾因临床试验的不确定性而拒绝审批该药。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists are rightly trained to treat unemployment as a lagging indicator, but these data can also be useful in forecasting the near future.",
        "经济学家受到正确的训练，将失业看作滞后指标，但这些数据对于预测近期未来也很有用。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding the worldwide legitimacy now enjoyed by the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, a disorderly collapse of the regime might yet lead to the country’s division into autonomous ethnic enclaves.",
        "尽管叙利亚国民革命联盟（National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary）和反对军（Opposition Forces）获得了全世界的承认，但巴沙尔政权的无序倒台仍可能导致该国分裂为多个自治领地。"
    ],
    [
        "ASEAN at 50",
        "东盟50年"
    ],
    [
        "What is increasingly apparent is that China’s leaders want the economic growth that capitalism produces, but without the downturns that come with it.",
        "一个日益明显的现象是中国领导人希望获得资本主义所制造的经济增长，但不想获得随之一起到来的减速。"
    ],
    [
        "Inevitably, there are problems.",
        "当然问题是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "Though such sanctions may not work as quickly, they would be targeted, temporary, and credible, enabling the US and Europe to control – and adjust – the impact on the Russian leadership and economy.",
        "尽管这类制裁或许无法迅速见效，但可以是定向、暂时且可信的，让美国和欧洲控制和调整其对俄罗斯领导层和经济的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "This process will inevitably lead to higher structural inflation and currency appreciation in China.",
        "这个过程将不可避免地导致中国出现更高的结构性通胀或货币升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the public does not have a long memory, a long time horizon, or an appetite for detail.",
        "此外，公众往往是健忘，短视而且不关注细节的。"
    ],
    [
        "Annual household spending on personal products and on dining out will more than double, to $770 and $720, respectively.",
        "用于个人产品和“下馆子”的年家庭支出将增长一倍以上， 分别达到770美元和720美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Persuasive explanations of the crisis point to linkages between today’s tepid demand and rising income inequality.",
        "对危机的令人信服的解释指向当今需求疲软和收入不平等性恶化两者之间的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Like fish in water, digital technologies are our infosphere’s true natives, while we analog organisms try to adapt to a new habitat, one that has come to include a mix of analog and digital components.",
        "数字技术才是信息域的真正土著居民，就像水里生活的鱼，而我们更像是适应混合了模拟和数字成分的新栖息地的生物。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, 17% of Italy’s population leaves education prematurely, and only 22% of young people receive tertiary education.",
        "此外，17%的意大利人口过早结束教育，只有22%的年轻人接受高等教育。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the most important message for everyone, atheists included, to take from the Christian story of Christmas.",
        "所有人，包括无神论者，都应该从基督的圣诞故事中领会这种最重要的精神涵义。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, the near ubiquity of mobile networks has created a new paradigm for sustainable development, putting technological advances at the forefront of policymaking.",
        "几乎无所不在的移动网络创造了可持续发展的全新范例，将技术进步推到了决策的最前沿。"
    ],
    [
        "Parts of the invasion and occupation were certainly badly mishandled by the US, leading to a much greater loss of life than was necessary.",
        "一部分入侵和占领行动显然被美国搞砸了，并因此导致了过多的伤亡。"
    ],
    [
        "These tools for keeping a New Year’s resolution can help us to make progress, not only in losing weight or staying out of debt, but also in living more ethically.",
        "这些帮助我们遵从我们的新年规划的手段不仅可以应用在减肥或者个人理财上，而且在实行更有道德的生活方式上都能够协助我们取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, if evidence of future economic strength makes a government worry about economic overheating and inflation, it might try to cool domestic demand by raising taxes and lowering government spending.",
        "比如说，如果某些与未来经济相关的证据使某国政府担心可能出现经济过热和通胀，它可能会尝试通过加税和降低政府支出来为国内需求降温。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year he was wanted for murder.",
        "去年他因为谋杀被通缉。"
    ],
    [
        "National and regional SDSN chapters are being formed worldwide, in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Africa, and Oceania.",
        "国家和地区SDSN章节将在全世界建立，包括南北美洲、欧洲、中东、南亚、东亚和大洋洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the services that people want are health and education, two sectors in which government naturally plays an important role (owing to inherent market imperfections in these sectors and concerns about equity).",
        "在那些人们想获得健康和教育的服务中，政府在其中两个领域起着很重要的作用——这是因为这些市场在这些领域中的固有缺陷并出于社会平等权益的考虑）。"
    ],
    [
        "A more democratic Iraq has become a more violent Iraq.",
        "更为民主的伊拉克成为了更为充满暴力的伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "The washing machine liberated women from spending endless hours carrying water and beating clothing on scrub boards.",
        "洗衣机将女性从倒水和在搓衣板上捶打衣物的无穷无尽的时间消耗中解放出来。"
    ],
    [
        "We would expect to see manufacturers holding job fairs, and when not enough workers showed up, we would expect to see manufacturers offering higher wages to attract workers into their plants, and then raising prices to cover their higher costs.",
        "我们会看到制造业四处招工，而当招工人数不足的时候，他们会提高工资水平来吸引工人，并提高产品价格来弥补因此而产生的高成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestically, there is fear of “spontaneous” massacres like the slaughter in December of schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut.",
        "就国内而言，存在对“自发”大屠杀的恐惧，如12月发生在康涅狄格州纽顿市的屠杀。"
    ],
    [
        "In turn, many Catalans may take to the streets, launching a revolt with scary consequences.",
        "反过来，许多加泰罗尼亚人可能走上街头，发起反抗并造成可怕的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But any agreement must also generate widespread confidence in the US and the region that it will place a meaningful ceiling on Iran’s nuclear program, and that any cheating will be discovered early and dealt with firmly.",
        "但不论任何协议，还必须让美国和中东地区产生普遍的信心，相信协议能够给伊朗核计划带来有意义的限度，任何舞弊行为都能及早发现并果断处理。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, economic progress requires that the invisible hand of the market be coordinated with the visible hand of the state.",
        "毕竟，经济进步需要市场的看不见的手和国家的看得见的手精诚合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider two issues that have been part of recent bilateral trade agreements pushed aggressively by the Bush administration.",
        "作为布什政府不遗余力地推进的双边协定的一部分，有两个问题值得深思。"
    ],
    [
        "But the killing of Eric Garner in New York City, like that of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer and of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland in November, reflect the heightened risk that young African-American men face at the hands of the police in many US cities.",
        "但埃里克·加纳在纽约被害、迈克尔·布朗去年夏天在密苏里州弗格森被害和年仅12岁的塔米尔·赖斯11月在克利夫兰遇害反映出非洲裔美国男青年在众多美国城市警察手中面临着更为严重的生命威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "But they never seem to mention that anyone who got huge government loans with near-zero interest rates could have made billions simply by lending that money back to the government.",
        "但他们似乎也没提到过任何人只要把手里那些接近零利率的（援助）贷款反过来贷给政府就能轻松赚取数十亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, the Business Talent Group provides “in-demand business talent on-demand,” across a wide range of professional services.",
        "更广泛地看，商业人才集团（Business Talent Group）“按需提供热门商业人才”，涵盖了范围非常广泛的各种专业服务。"
    ],
    [
        "In India, matters were aggravated by the investment slowdown that began as political opposition to unbridled development emerged.",
        "在印度，对着疯狂开发开始受到政治反对，投资也开始减速，这让问题更加严重了。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditional measures of an individual country’s global interconnectedness compare the size of its global flows to its GDP.",
        "传统的衡量个体国家全球互联性的方法是比较其全球流与其GDP的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "But the bubble was not confined to the United States.",
        "但是这一泡沫并不限于美国。"
    ],
    [
        "This, in turn, would enable them to appoint new Supreme Court justices willing to ignore or undercut women’s and workers’ rights, environmental protection, and public education.",
        "这反过来又让他们能够任命愿意忽视或打压妇女和工人权利、环境保护和公立教育的最高法院法官。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this picture is changing fast.",
        "但这一情景正在迅速变化。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it is not hard for Trump – or the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders, or Putin, or Duterte – to refute accusations of being fascists or Nazis.",
        "毕竟，特朗普——荷兰的威尔德斯、普京或杜特尔特——反驳法西斯分子和纳粹的指责并非难事。"
    ],
    [
        "That is, of course, the case for all presidents.",
        "当然，这对所有总统都一视同仁。"
    ],
    [
        "Lant Pritchett of the Harvard Kennedy School has coined a new name for India: a “flailing state” – a state where the government’s extremely competent upper echelons are unable to control its inefficient lower levels, resulting in poor performance.",
        "哈佛大学肯尼迪学院的兰特·普里切特为印度发明了一个新专属名词：“失控的国家”——在这个国家里，能力卓著的政府高层无法控制低效的底层人员，从而影响了执政效率。"
    ],
    [
        "As soon as a few experts are found to have been offering half-truths – or worse – the credibility of the entire field can be called into question.",
        "当人们发现有这么几个专家一直在提供半真半假的信息——有些甚至更糟——整个领域的信誉都遭到质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups.",
        "与此同时，两国的改革都面临着来自强势的既得利益集团和游说团体的巨大阻力。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that Rumsfeld’s Pentagon is irrelevant to American soft power.",
        "这并不意味着拉氏的五角大楼对美国柔性力量无关紧要。"
    ],
    [
        "What I encountered that day in Ein Kerem was the best of Israel – and a direct rebuttal to the frequent accusation that Israel is an “apartheid state.”",
        "我在隐加林遇见的是以色列最美的一面——也直接驳斥了那种认定以色列是个“种族隔离国家”的惯常指控。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is almost impossible to imagine an article being published in a reputable journal without an accompanying list of references.",
        "而是一种规范要求。 事实上，几乎无法想象著名杂志会发表不列明参考文献的文章。"
    ],
    [
        "The global population is set to stabilize.",
        "全球人口将会趋于稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "The Internet is essentially a country with both state and non-state actors as its citizens.",
        "互联网本质上是一个由国家（state）和非国家行为人组成的实体（country）。"
    ],
    [
        "Such organizations often take advantage of states that lack the legitimacy or capacity to administer their own territory effectively, launching a mix of political and armed operations that, over time, give them coercive control over local populations.",
        "这些组织常常利用国家缺乏合法性或能力有效管理领土的空子，政治和武装行动双管齐下，假以时日，它们可以牢牢控制当地人口。"
    ],
    [
        "Such are the EMU’s benefits that the visible costs of remaining a non-member are beginning to recast the political debate surrounding euro adoption in several countries.",
        "欧洲“经济和货币联盟”的好处是如此大，以至于仍然不加入欧元区成员国的有形成本已开始改写了数个国家中围绕是否加入欧元区的政治辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "Communist ideology is long gone, so the legitimacy of the ruling party depends on economic growth and ethnic Han nationalism.",
        "共产主义意识形态早已褪去，因此执政党的合法性只能依赖经济增长以及鼓动汉族民族主义。"
    ],
    [
        "But such disasters represent a much larger share of a single country’s wealth.",
        "但这样的灾难体现了一个国家的财富在全世界的份额。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so will allow programs to be tailored to the needs of women and girls everywhere.",
        "这样做将使项目能够适应世界各地妇女和女童的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama came to power when both the US and the world economy were in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.",
        "奥巴马上台时正逢美国和世界经济遭遇大萧条以来最严重的金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "A more likely development is the emergence of a mix of order and disorder at both the regional and global level.",
        "更有可能的发展趋势是在地区和全球层面出现秩序和失序的混合。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of the unification of two or more previously sovereign states, Bentham is sensitive to the problem of providing assurances to the smaller states that the larger ones will not dominate them.",
        "在联合两个和多个从前的主权国家的例子中，边沁对一个问题十分敏感：向较小的国家提供较大的国家不会主宰它们的保障。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the topic of political reform is taboo.",
        "今天，政治改革的话题是禁区。"
    ],
    [
        "One question always asked in this poll is whether voters tend to trust or mistrust different institutions, such as national parliaments, national governments, and the European Union.",
        "上述调查中始终涉及的一个问题是：选民们是否相信像国家议会、国民政府和欧洲联盟这样的政治机构。"
    ],
    [
        "In Kosovo, such clarity is and has been absent; as a result, NATO and the UN have no clear idea about when and how both should leave.",
        "在科索沃没有这样的清晰标准。 所以，北约和联合国对于何时以及如何撤离均不知所措。"
    ],
    [
        "He is also concerned that an increase in the size of the military will diminish funds available for advanced technology and systems.",
        "他还担心扩军会使在先进技术和系统方面的投入减少。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, fiscal consolidation becomes increasingly difficult to achieve, inviting renewed speculative attacks.",
        "结果，财政整合变得越来越难以实现，从而导致新一轮投机袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "The other key ingredient is direct engagement.",
        "另一个关键要素是直接参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Such campaigns go hand-in-hand with expanded farming, because sellers of these foods prefer nearby growers – even if these growers increasingly live in the city.",
        "这些活动都与农业规模的扩大紧密相关，因为这些卖家都更偏爱临近的种植者，即便这些“农夫”越来越都是些城里人。"
    ],
    [
        "In Guatemala, once again, President Oscar Berger was obviously proud to receive Bush, but failed to obtain a commitment from him to stop the inhuman, hateful Homeland Security raids by US law enforcement officers against undocumented immigrants, exemplified by the detention and attempt at deportation, on the eve of Bush’s visit, of nearly 300 Guatemalans working at a Massachussetts, military vest factory.",
        "在危地马拉，奥斯卡·伯格总统显然同样对能够接待布什来访感到很自豪，但是却没能得到他制止美国执法官员对于没有证件的移民进行的非人道的、可恶的国家安全搜查的承诺。 就在布什到访之前，在马萨诸塞州的一个军用背心厂工作的大约300名瓜地马拉人被拘禁并准备驱逐出境就是一个很好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Schmidt’s principled commitment to the so-called NATO Double-Track Decision in 1979, whereby intermediate-range nuclear missiles were eventually to be eliminated from Europe, came to the chagrin of many in his own party.",
        "1979年施密特宣布最终从欧洲消除中程核导弹的所谓北约双轨决定原则承诺令他的党内同僚倍感气愤。"
    ],
    [
        "Participants develop the capacity to allow distressing moods, thoughts, and sensations to come and go, without having to battle with them.",
        "参与者学会了顺利化解痛苦的情绪、思想和感受，而不必与它们苦苦纠缠。"
    ],
    [
        "Every year, 3.1 million children around the world still die of hunger.",
        "每年全世界仍有310万名儿童死于饥饿。"
    ],
    [
        "They told me how they had told their parents to quit smoking after learning about the consequences of the habit on health.",
        "他们告诉我，在学习了吸烟对于健康的后果后，他们纷纷回家要求父母亲戒烟。"
    ],
    [
        "Translators can help, but they are not always available in crisis settings.",
        "译员能够起到帮助作用，但在危机条件下，未必能够找到译员。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the victorious British, with their old institutions more or less intact, voiced skepticism, not so much about continental unity as about their own participation in Europe’s ambitious project.",
        "唯有获胜的英国人——他们的旧制度或多或少完好地保存着——对此表示怀疑，但其怀疑主要不是针对大陆的统一，而是对其自身是否参与雄心勃勃的欧洲工程犹豫不决。"
    ],
    [
        "Further fiscal easing is at least partly constrained by record-high levels of government debt, which will take many years to bring down.",
        "进一步财政改革至少部分受到位于创纪录水平的政府债务的掣肘，政府债务需要多年时间才能降下来。"
    ],
    [
        "The same point could have been made a century ago.",
        "一个世纪以前也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "And how many drugs are tested against more natural non-drug therapies – yoga for high blood pressure, for example, or brisk walking for diabetes – before being licensed?",
        "而有多少药物在拿到执照之前与更自然的非药物疗法——比如用瑜伽治疗高血压，用健步走治疗糖尿病——做过对比实验？"
    ],
    [
        "It seemed to many as though government’s reach had come to exceed its grasp, and that either its grasp had to be strengthened or its reach had to be reduced.",
        "许多人发现政府已经不能有效地实施职能，解决的方法只有两种：要么进一步加强监管，要么是放弃一部分监管的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "But that information is sold and traded, manipulated with algorithms to classify you and to determine what ads you see, what e-mails you receive, and often what offers are made to you.",
        "但这些信息却被贩卖出去，通过统计整理来将你归入一个门类，最终决定你看到什么广告，收到什么邮件，得到什么优惠信息。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, they are shut down.",
        "有时候，甚至被关闭。"
    ],
    [
        "That was the case at this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland.",
        "今年在瑞士达沃斯世界经济论坛年会上的情况就是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Apa yang sebenarnya menjadi tujuan dari perjanjian perdagangan?",
        "贸易协定真正的目的何在？"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, ruptures such as those at Myitsone and along the Mekong will recur, deepening China’s sense of isolation and panic.",
        "否则的话，像密松事件和湄公河事件这样的决裂还会再次发生，加深中国的孤立感和恐惧感。"
    ],
    [
        "Some may be like parasites that suffer if they kill their host, but others may be indifferent to such effects.",
        "有些可能像宿主被杀的寄生虫那样迅速覆灭，而有些可能根本不在乎这样的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate pledges will be made on the basis of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), or commitments to the reduction of emissions worldwide.",
        "气候承诺将在国家自主贡献预案（INDC）或降低全世界排放承诺的基础上做出。"
    ],
    [
        "Without growth, any austerity and reform will deliver only social unrest and the constant threat of a political backlash, without restoring debt sustainability.",
        "没有增长，瘦身和改革只会造成社会动荡和持续的政治反弹，而不会恢复债务的可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "He also wants to restore Egypt’s position as a major regional force.",
        "他还希望重塑埃及作为重要地区力量的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "By failing to address the impacts of rapid urbanization adequately, India is leaving these benefits unclaimed.",
        "如果解决不了快速城市化带来的挑战，印度就无法真正享受到上述好处。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to a revival of Scottish separatism, Britain’s inward turn in recent years could accelerate.",
        "除了苏格兰分裂主义的复兴，英国最近几年中出现的内向（inward turn）也可能加速。"
    ],
    [
        "In early 2005, three years after a new law on environmental impact assessments (EIA’s) was passed, the State Environmental Protection Bureau (SEPA), ordered the halt of 30 large projects, including 26 hydropower plants that had failed to submit proper EIA’s.",
        "2005年初，在新的环境影响评估法规通过三年之后，国家环保总局下令30个大型工程停工，包括26个没有提交合格的环境影响评估的水电厂。"
    ],
    [
        "The key to the program’s success is its focus on empowering women to fulfill their potential.",
        "这项计划成功的关键是重视授权妇女发挥自己的潜能。"
    ],
    [
        "The most recent threat of a US debt default has been avoided, but only temporarily. Another battle looms early next year, when the US government’s debt ceiling will have to be raised again.",
        "虽然最近一次美国债务违约的威胁警报已经解除，但这仅仅是暂时而已，因为另一场斗争将在明年年初美国政府债务上限必须再次调高时爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "The Pope believed that he could either condemn both totalitarian powers or condemn neither of them.",
        "教皇相信，他可以对这两种极权主义势力都予以谴责，或对两者都不谴责。"
    ],
    [
        "But his main policy initiatives for corporate tax reform and infrastructure spending remain on the drawing board.",
        "但他的主要政策计划——公司税改革和基础设施支出仍在勾勒阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Japan and the UK, much as they may not wish to admit it, depend on the global market.",
        "日本和英国都依赖着全球市场，尽管它们自己可能不愿意承认。"
    ],
    [
        "Complete eradication, elimination, or control of disease is complex, and that is particularly true of malaria.",
        "完全治愈、消灭或控制疾病是非常复杂的，对疟疾来说尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "While not all of the Fund’s 189 members could qualify for it, the number that do is a lot higher than three.",
        "虽然并非IMF的189个成员国都有使用资格，但实际数量远远不止3个。"
    ],
    [
        "The result, one hopes, would be a much-needed political realignment – indeed, a political renaissance.",
        "我们希望，结果将是急需的政治整顿——事实上，是政治文艺复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea that any nation is morally superior, or that it has been divinely chosen as a leader of nations, is dangerous.",
        "任何国家在道德上高人一等、或被庄严地推举为国家领袖的想法都是危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "The common currency, once portrayed as the start of a quasi-federal Europe, instead created serious tension between “creditor” and “debtor” countries when many debtors faced a protracted economic downturn.",
        "这一共同货币曾经被描述为准联邦欧洲的开始，但却在许多债务国面临长期经济衰退时在“债权国”和“债务国”之间制造了严重的紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "A victim of its backward-looking bias, the ECB chose to wait for the worst instead of preventing it.",
        "欧洲央行是其向后看的偏见的受害者，它选择等待最为糟糕的事情，而不是预防。"
    ],
    [
        "Cyprus’s Last Best Chance",
        "塞浦路斯最后也是最好的时机"
    ],
    [
        "“I don’t have time to be worrying about that!” he says.",
        "“我没时间担心这些！ ”他说。"
    ],
    [
        "The first key factor is deleveraging and the resulting shortfall in aggregate demand.",
        "第一个关键因素是去杠杆化以及由此导致的总需求短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, heat waves, droughts, floods, and other disasters induced by climate change are destroying crops and reducing the supplies of grains on world markets.",
        "另一方面，由气候变化导致的酷热、干旱，洪水及其他自然灾害都在破坏农作物并减少全球粮食供应量。"
    ],
    [
        "They can borrow from China’s high savers to finance a massive and rapid build-up of education, skills, and infrastructure to underpin their own future economic prosperity.",
        "他们可以从中国的高储蓄中借钱大量快速地构建教育、技能和基础设施，支持自身的未来经济繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "These states are electoral \"underachievers\" - weak political rights despite relative affluence.",
        "这些国家是选举\"落后国\"，尽管相对富有，但在政治权利上却非常软弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The story began in 1994, when Proctor purchased a bag of beans in Mexico.",
        "1994年Proctor在墨西哥购买一袋“Enola”黄豆，这个故事便从此发端。"
    ],
    [
        "To mitigate the serious systemic risks stemming from the power of China’s overweening, corrupt mandarins, Xi must rebalance their incentives.",
        "要想遏制由一些自负且腐败的官员导致的滥用权利的系统性风险，习近平必须在制度方面重新平衡官员的激励机制。"
    ],
    [
        "The real issue is a yawning gap between paper and practice.",
        "真正的问题是文件和行动之间的巨大鸿沟。"
    ],
    [
        "Market arrangements have a larger meritocratic component than the alternatives, and they encourage positive-sum entrepreneurship, making it easier to do well by doing good.",
        "市场安排比其他的方式有更多的精英成分，它们鼓励正和的企业家精神，使得人们更容易通过善行获得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "This asset meltdown is the reason for the likely recession.",
        "这一资产破灭就是可能到来的衰退的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Kennedy focused particularly on military power, but, in today’s world, successful economies enjoy status along many dimensions, and policymakers everywhere are legitimately concerned about national economic ranking.",
        "肯尼迪将最主要的注意力放在了军事实力上，但是，在当今世界，成功的经济体在多个领域都享受着超凡的地位，世界各国的决策者都无可厚非地纠结于国民经济排名。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Senator Charles Schumer of New York has indulged in Japan-bashing, China-bashing, and India-bashing – a singular record of truculence and economic illiteracy – while Senator Barbara Boxer of California attacked her most recent electoral opponent, Carly Fiorina, for eliminating 30,000 jobs at Hewlett Packard during her stewardship of the company.",
        "类似地，纽约州参议员舒默（Charles Schumer）热衷于排日、排华和排印——其野蛮和经济上的无知令人发指——而加利福尼亚州参议员波瑟（Barbara Boxer）抨击她最近的选举对手菲奥莉娜（Carly Fiorina）在担任惠普公司CEO期间裁掉了30000个工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynesian economics, in turn, abstracted from the problem of official incompetence and corruption by assuming that governments were run by omniscient, benevolent experts.",
        "凯恩斯经济学是依次通过假定政府是由无所不能的慈善专家管理的方式，从政府无能和腐败问题中抽象出来的。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, this is hardly a moment when any leader anywhere would be in a position to offer more concessions to the opposition.",
        "换言之，在这样的时刻不会有任何地方的任何领导人对反对党做出更多让步。"
    ],
    [
        "Deep and liquid markets are not built in a day.",
        "深化而流动的市场不是一天建成的。"
    ],
    [
        "The logic of centrality as a source of power creates a virtuous circle, in which members of a network gain advantage by bringing more members into the network and connecting more densely to them.",
        "以核心逻辑为实力来源形成了一个良性循环，即网络成员通过吸纳更多成员并强化相互联系来取得优势地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it is a “priority,” and countries will inevitably differ in the sequence with which they pursue it relative to others.",
        "它应该是一项“紧迫任务”，各国将该问题列于问题解决序列的哪个位置不可避免地会有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The global population is set to reach nine billion by 2050, while people in the developing world – where nearly all of the population growth will occur – are seeking more varied diets.",
        "全球人口将在2050年达到九十亿，而发展中世界的人口——增量人口几乎全部来自这里——正在追求更多样化的饮食。"
    ],
    [
        "Let the world stand with neither Kibaki nor the opposition, nor for an arbitrary compromise, but with Kenya’s voters.",
        "让世界不要站在Kibaki或反对派一边，也不要站在一场武断的妥协一边，而是要站在肯尼亚的选民们一边。"
    ],
    [
        "The third wave comprised refugees displaced during Afghanistan’s war against Soviet occupation.",
        "第三波以阿富汗反抗苏联占领战争中流离失所的难民为主。"
    ],
    [
        "Police use them to detect and repress dissidents.",
        "警方用它们发现并压制持不同政见者。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, persistent inefficiencies in the Russian defense procurement system result in foreign buyers receiving more new systems than the Russian military.",
        "但是，俄国国防采购体系持久的低效率造成外国买家收到的新武器系统要超过俄国军队。"
    ],
    [
        "The second critical aspect is how one treats future outcomes relative to current ones – an issue that has aroused much attention among philosophers as well as economists.",
        "第二个关键的方面是人们应该看待未来的结果与当前的人的关系，这个问题在哲学家以及经济学家都引起了很大的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "The CIA and Britain’s MI6 jointly toppled Mohammad Mossadegh’s democratically elected government in 1953, in order to block Mossadegh’s attempts to nationalize Iran’s oil reserves.",
        "1953年，中央情报局和英国军情六处联合颠覆了民选的摩萨德（Mohammad Mossadegh）政府，以阻止摩萨德将伊朗石油储量国有化的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the Czech Republic’s task, and that of the Swedish EU presidency that will follow our own, to maintain this unity as the PCA negotiations move forward.",
        "捷克共和国的任务，以及随后担任主席国的瑞典的任务就是在协议谈判的时候维持团结。"
    ],
    [
        "Though both governments support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and Iran allowed Russia to use its airbases in the fight against ISIS, Iran is keen to retain its role as Assad’s main patron.",
        "尽管两国政府都支持叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德，并且伊朗还允许俄罗斯使用空军基地打击伊斯兰国，但伊朗更热衷于保持其阿萨德主要保护者的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "The press could not imagine that a technocrat might voluntarily relinquish a sure shot at a position of great power – successor to Jean-Claude Trichet as ECB President – on a matter of principle.",
        "媒体无法想象技术官僚会因坚持原则自愿放弃唾手可得的大权——韦伯将继任特里谢成为欧洲央行行长。"
    ],
    [
        "The floodgates to nuclear proliferation would not open; a more likely outcome would be a “balance of terror” between Israel and Iran, as exists between India and Pakistan.",
        "核扩散的安全阀不会打开； 更可能的结果是在以色列和伊朗之间产生“恐怖平衡”，就像在印度和巴基斯坦之间存在的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "The presumption should be that governments with nothing to hide have nothing to lose by allowing their citizens and internationally recognized media to report on their actions.",
        "我们应该采取这样的假设：无可隐瞒的政府不会因允许其人民和得到国际认可的媒体报道其行为而失去任何东西。"
    ],
    [
        "As world leaders gather in Oslo, millions of parents will be struggling to ensure that their children receive the education they deserve – one that will enable them to build better lives for themselves and their families.",
        "在世界领导人齐聚奥斯陆举行峰会的同时，数百万家长在为确保他们的孩子获得应该获得的教育而发愁——这些教育能让他们为自己和家庭赢得更好的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "In both settings, leaders are expected to act in the best interests of the wider community, not simply their own constituencies, whether voters or shareholders.",
        "在两种情况下，领导人均应为广泛群体的最大利益行事，而不应仅仅顾及自己的选民（无论面对的是选民还是股东）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a declining share of the European food market and diminished investments in real estate undermine the capacity of agriculture and construction to absorb young workers.",
        "此外，欧洲粮食市场份额下降和房地产投资减少将影响农业和建筑业吸纳青年劳动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Is that still true?",
        "在当今世界，这还是真的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 34% of the 137,000 people who arrived in the EU from January 1 to June 29 were from Syria, with the next-largest contributor, Afghanistan, accounting for 12%.",
        "事实上，据联合国难民事务高级官员的数据，在今年1月1日到6月29日期间进入欧盟的137,000难民中，有34%来自叙利亚，位居次席的阿富汗贡献了12%。"
    ],
    [
        "Even small changes in fundamentals can have large effects on exchange rates, with up-front movements that far exceed what long-run adjustment requires.",
        "即使是微小的基本面变动也可能对汇率产生重大影响，导致远超长期调整需要的事先波动。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not a good sign that the high costs in many Chinese provinces have been weighing down overall growth.",
        "而中国多省出现的转型成本高昂拖累了总体的经济增长趋势，这并不是一个好征兆。"
    ],
    [
        "These are secular trends that call for forward-looking assessments and long-term responses.",
        "这些都是长期趋势，需要前瞻性评估和长期应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "It would also entail lifting the blockade and opening Gaza to the world.",
        "此外还要打破加沙的封锁，让它想全世界敞开大门。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, some government spending is desirable or necessary.",
        "当然，有些政府的开支是需要的或是必需的。"
    ],
    [
        "The authors claim this would boost economic growth, despite the fact that similar cuts in the past (for example, under President George W. Bush) had no such effect.",
        "作者宣称，这将提振经济增长，尽管事实表明过去类似的减税措施（如小布什执政期间）并无此类效应。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the hands of an unstable, vengeful narcissist, it can cause profound damage.",
        "但在不稳定、睚眦必报的自恋狂手中，它也可能带来难以磨灭的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "And it stood up to Hitler virtually alone in 1940.",
        "它在1940年几乎单枪匹马阻止了希特勒。"
    ],
    [
        "LEIPZIG – Traveling through Germany in the run-up to its federal election on September 24, one cannot help but be struck by the lingering signs of profound trauma from the 2015 refugee crisis.",
        "莱比锡—在德国即将迎来9月24日的联邦选举之际周游这个国家，你一定会被2015年难民危机所造成的挥之不去的深切伤痕所震撼。"
    ],
    [
        "But the tools of economics, as currently taught, provide little scope for investigating the links between economists’ ideas and the structures of power.",
        "但目前所教授的经济学工具无力研究经济学家观点与权力结构之间的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a fruitless debate borrows a page from the Bernanke-Greenspan incremental normalization script of 2004-2006.",
        "这一毫无结果的争论是2004—2006年伯南克-格林斯潘（Greenspan）渐进正常化手法的翻版。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil-rich states need global networks to sell their oil, to export their capital, and to import technologies and technologists.",
        "石油储量丰富的国家需要全球性网络来销售它们的石油、出口其资本并且进口技术和技术人才。"
    ],
    [
        "This month, the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office released an assessment of the Fund’s policy on reserve accumulation that implies that a “one size fits all” approach to reserve accumulation continues to prevail within the organization.",
        "本月，IMF独立评估办公室发布了一份对IMF储备累积政策的评估报告，报告显示，“放之四海而皆准”的储备累积方法仍在IMF内部占据主流。"
    ],
    [
        "After only five years in office, the Party leadership has anointed Xi as one of modern China’s two greatest historic figures.",
        "仅仅在位五年时间，党的领导层就已经将习近平拔高成了现代中国的两大历史人物之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar economies of scale characterize foreign investors’ use of a particular international financial center.",
        "外国投资者使用某一特定国际金融中心具有类似的规模经济特征。"
    ],
    [
        "During the last three decades, middle-income households in most developed countries enjoyed larger increases in disposable income than comparable US households.",
        "在过去30年中，绝大多数发达国家中等收入家庭的可支配收入增长要比同等的美国家庭要高。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama mentioned Kashmir as an unresolved issue, while pleading for stability in South Asian affairs.",
        "奥巴马提到克什米尔问题尚未解决，同时呼吁保持南亚的稳定局势。"
    ],
    [
        "For both China and America, the RMB-dollar exchange rate is important for achieving growth and a more balanced current account.",
        "对于中美两国来说，人民币/美元汇率对于实现增长和更平衡的经常账户都非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "A special Assembly of the European Parliament, comprising the eurozone members, should have powers – on the model of a national parliament – to legislate and control the executive.",
        "应该建立一个由欧元区成员国组成的欧洲议会特别大会，仿照国家议会模式，赋予其立法和控制执法的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "What better way to mark World Kidney Day than for global health leaders to take a bold step and urge countries to experiment with donor rewards?",
        "对于关注世界肾脏日来说，还有比全球的健康领袖们迈出勇敢的一步，敦促各国试行为捐赠者提供回报更好的方法吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Americans, however, have generally been averse to class warfare.",
        "而美国人一般对阶级斗争不感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the watchdog of Israel’s interests, the US Congress, remains vigilant.",
        "作为以色列的忠实守护者的美国国会，它的作用也不可小视。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, one should not overestimate the eurozone’s long-term economic strength.",
        "当然，我们不应该高估欧元区的长期经济优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all Gulf countries have been impermeable to change.",
        "并非所有海湾国家都与变化绝缘。"
    ],
    [
        "The locals are being dealt with as tribes, according to the modern colonial model.",
        "按照现代殖民模式，当地人正在被当作部落。"
    ],
    [
        "Studies that show an association between a factor and a health effect should be regarded as no more than a preliminary result that points researchers toward further research and analysis.",
        "所以说，那些查出某个因素与某种健康效应相关的研究只能被视为一个初步的研究成果，其作用仅限于指导研究人员继续深入研究和分析。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea’s recently elected president, Park Geun-hye, is the daughter of Park Chung Hee, who ruled the country from 1961 to 1979.",
        "最近当选的韩国总统朴槿惠是朴正熙之女，朴正熙在1961至1979年间曾在韩国执政。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is mounting evidence that this is not the case, with several recent studies indicating that sustainable investments do as well as – or even outperform – traditional investments.",
        "但越来越多的证据表明并非如此，一些最新报告表明，可持续投资和传统投资表现一样出色，甚至更胜一筹。"
    ],
    [
        "The fundamental difference is that a loosely tied Union is attractive to all sorts of aspirants, including Georgia, Ukraine, and other Soviet successor states – and perhaps even North African countries like Morocco – while a “deepened” Europe, with a clear political identity, high social-welfare entitlements, and growing cultural homogeneity, would naturally set itself apart and not be particularly attractive to these countries.",
        "根本区别是，一个松散的联盟对各类有意入盟的国家而言都有吸引力，包括格鲁吉亚、乌克兰以及其他苏联继承国，甚至像摩洛哥那样的北非国家； 而“深化的”欧洲，由于明显的政治特征、高昂的社会福利以及不断增长的文化同性，自然会与众不同，对于这些国家而言并无特别吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "As the economist Mark Cooper has put it, nuclear power is actually undergoing a “renaissance in reverse.”",
        "正如经济学家马克·库珀（Mark Cooper）所说，核能实际上在经历“复衰”。"
    ],
    [
        "Those sanctions could erode much of North Korea’s trade with China, the Kim regime’s economic lifeline.",
        "这些制裁可以削弱朝鲜与中国的大部分贸易，而这是金正恩的经济命脉所在。"
    ],
    [
        "This has created an unhealthy dependency from which there is no easy exit.",
        "这创造了一种不健康却又极难摆脱的依赖状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The ARF welcomed the adoption of “Guidelines for Implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea.”",
        "部长级会议欢迎各方对《落实<南海各方行为宣言>指导方针》的批准通过。"
    ],
    [
        "“It’s unusual,” she said, “to see a Disney movie in which they end up telling us not to marry someone we’ve just met.”",
        "“这部电影挺不寻常”，她说，“迪斯尼居然有一部影片没告诉我们和刚刚见面的人结婚。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "It was Gandhi’s belief that reflection could motivate action by recalibrating our moral compass.",
        "甘地相信思考能调整我们的道德指南，激励我们采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "It is clear that today's demagogues don’t much care about what they derisively call “political correctness.”",
        "很显然，今天的煽动者不太在乎他们以嘲笑的口吻所称谓的“政治正确”。"
    ],
    [
        "In early modernity, however, with the systematic expulsion of Muslims from Spain in 1492, and later from lands seized by other colonial empires, hijra acquired a more violent meaning that anticipated its later association with jihad.",
        "但在现代社会早期，随着1492年穆斯林被赶出西班牙、后来又被赶出其他殖民帝国控制的国家，迁徙又有了后来与圣战相关的更为暴力的含义。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chagossians want to return to the outer islands of the Chagos archipelago.",
        "查戈斯人希望能迁回查戈斯群岛的外围岛屿定居。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, we have got to heed the proven need for applying social – as well as economic – interventions in a time of economic crisis.",
        "总之，我们必须在经济危机时进行社会以及经济方面的干预，且这样做已被证明是必需的。"
    ],
    [
        "Young people seeking their first jobs and experienced workers who lose jobs in a weak job market suffer economic losses that will last their entire lives.",
        "在虚弱的就业市场上寻找第一份工作的年轻人和工作经验丰富的失业者受到的经济损失将影响他们的一生。"
    ],
    [
        "A “two-speed” Europe was the new normal.",
        "“两速”欧洲乃是新常态。"
    ],
    [
        "Following Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent election victory in the United Kingdom, my good friend Lord Norman Lamont, a former chancellor of the exchequer, remarked that the UK economy’s recovery supports our government’s position.",
        "首相卡梅伦赢得最新的英国大选后，我的好友、前英国财政大臣诺曼·拉蒙特勋爵（Lord Norman Lamont）评论道，英国经济的复苏支持我国政府的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, by the early to mid-2020’s, the Asian consumer market will be twice the size of the US market.",
        "事实上，亚洲消费市场的规模将在2020年中前期达到美国市场规模的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Salman Rushdie called her “the first refugee from Western Europe since the Holocaust.”",
        "拉什迪称她为“犹太人大屠杀以来来自欧洲的第一个难民”。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that monetary policy is the first and best line of defense against a recession, an urgent task for the new chair is to develop a better approach.",
        "货币政策是衰退的第一道也是最有效的一道防线，因此，新主席的一个紧迫任务是制定更好的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "To remain relevant, the Bretton Woods institutions must fully adapt to the needs of the world’s rapidly emerging countries, and they can begin that process at this spring’s IMF-World Bank meetings in Washington.",
        "布雷顿森林体系如果想要维持实际价值，就必须完全适应于世界快速兴起国家的需求。 它们可以从今年春天世界银行和国际货币基金组织华盛顿会议上开始这一进程。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, every dollar spent on mobile broadband in the developing world would yield an estimated gain of $17.",
        "因此，花在发展中国家移动宽带上的每一美元大约可以带来17美元收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, digital technologies have also played a vital role in facilitating the rise of independent work.",
        "当然，数字技术在便利独立工作崛起方面也起着关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries are getting tougher because migration flows can be diverted across jurisdictions.",
        "各国的移民政策日益严格是因为移民潮能够在不同国家间转移。"
    ],
    [
        "A lifetime of social reinforcement based on their genetically given looks may have encoded into their voice patterns a tone of confidence that could be projected over the phone.",
        "基于遗传的良好相貌并在社会生活中加以强化，可能已经在他们的声音模式中植入一个 通过电话可以投射的自信的语调。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, the Israeli military has set up a field hospital on the border with Gaza to treat wounded Palestinians.",
        "此后，以色列军队在与加沙接壤处建立了一座野战医院，收治受伤的巴勒斯坦人。"
    ],
    [
        "In the coming years, a more fully-fledged service economy will be an essential ingredient to increase employment and lessen China’s reliance on manufacturing.",
        "改变税收结构也会有帮助。 目前，工业是政府的主要税收来源，尤其是在地方一级，国家就没有什么动力来发展服务业经济。"
    ],
    [
        "This theory recalls that of the British historian Arnold Toynbee, according to which empires collapse because they are unable to react to external challenges.",
        "这种理论让人想起了英国历史学家阿诺德·汤因比的说法，他认为未能正确地应对外部挑战是国家崩溃的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "If in the past Cannes showcased films telling a hundred different kinds of stories, this year’s offerings made clear that in an increasingly flattened and wired world, there is really only one story – with a hundred different inflections.",
        "如果说过去的戛纳电影节所展示的电影包含上百种主题，那么，今年的参赛电影清晰地反映了这么一个现实，那就是在一个日益扁平化和联网化的世界里，故事的主题有且只有一个，只不过有一百种讲法罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, much of this increase cannot possibly be attributed to education, as workers in 2010 had the advantage of technologies that were 50 years more advanced than those in 1960.",
        "3年的国家却只富167%。 此外，即便上述增长也在很大程度上并非归功于教育，因为2010年的工人拥有比1960年工人先进50年的技术优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments should therefore restrict spending cuts to those that will not cause the economy to contract.",
        "政府因此应该限制那些无法导致经济收缩的压缩开支。"
    ],
    [
        "With few friends and even fewer sponsors in the region, Hamas had little choice but to return to its fellow Palestinian.",
        "因为在中东地区几乎找不到盟友和赞助者，哈马斯别无选择，只能重新靠拢巴勒斯坦阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge for China is to manage prudently the growth in housing supply needed to satisfy the demand requirements of urbanization, without fostering excessive speculation and dangerous asset bubbles.",
        "中国面临的挑战是审慎地管理住房供给的增长，从而既满足城镇化需求的需要，又不产生过度投机和危险的资产泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "We also have to find a way to provide funding for adaptation and mitigation – to protect people from the impact of climate change and enable economies to grow while holding down pollution levels – while guarding against trade protection in the name of climate change mitigation.",
        "而我们也必须为适应和减缓政策提供资金——以保护人们不受气候变化的影响并保证在减低污染程度的同时能取得经济发展——而且还要提防那些打着减缓气候变化措施旗号的贸易保护政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But we should not lose sight of what is at stake.",
        "但我们不应该对重要的问题视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "If REDD credits are approved in Paris, countries and companies could pay peasant farmers in Ecuador or elsewhere to protect trees that programs like REDD+ claim they otherwise would have chopped down – thereby avoiding the need to make difficult structural changes to cut emissions at home.",
        "如果REDD额度在巴黎获得通过，各国和各公司可以付钱给厄瓜多尔或其他地区的农民保护REDD+等项目规定可以采伐的树木——从而不必做出艰难的结构变化来削减国内排放。"
    ],
    [
        "In Nehru’s day, the best way to accomplish that was by building up structures of public ownership and state control of resources, as well as by boosting economic capacity through government intervention.",
        "在尼赫鲁时代，实现这一目标的最佳办法是建立公共所有权和国家控制资源，同时通过政府干预提振经济能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Three months into Ahmadinejad’s presidency, his views of the 12th Imam are being widely discussed in Tehran.",
        "艾哈迈迪内贾德任职三个月来，他对十二世伊玛姆的看法在德黑兰广为传播。"
    ],
    [
        "China and India, too, will face growing water crises in the coming years, with potentially horrendous consequences.",
        "中国和印度也将在今后若干年内面临日益严重的水资源危机，而且如果措置不力，很可能会引发可怕的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The ratio of job openings to applicants has exceeded parity, and the GDP deflator narrowed to close to zero.",
        "可申请岗位数/申请人数比超过1:1，而GDP 平减指数也收窄到接近于零。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the litany of complaints and legal cases now surrounding the firm.",
        "还有目前围绕该公司的冗长的投诉和法律纠纷。"
    ],
    [
        "Their credibility – not to mention the fate of the global economy – is on the line.",
        "他们的信誉——以及全球经济——命悬一线。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE/OXFORD – The Obama administration’s so-called “pivot to Asia” is the most important strategic shift that the United States has undertaken since the end of the Cold War – and it has profound implications for Europe.",
        "剑桥/牛津—奥巴马政府的“亚洲重心”是美国自冷战结束以来最重要的战略变化——它对欧洲有着深远的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, the IMF and major governments should support Venezuela’s decision to treat would-be holdouts no better than creditors with which it reaches agreement.",
        "在这样的情况下，基金组织和主要国家政府应当支持委内瑞拉平等对待抵制及达成协议的债权人的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps more importantly, he has turned words into deeds, volunteering at an animal shelter and working with the Humane Society of the United States to oppose dog fighting.",
        "可能更重要的是，他并不只是嘴上说说，而是在一间动物保护站当了义工，并和美国动物保护协会联手反对斗狗行为。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, a eurozone-membership referendum may not even be necessary.",
        "另一方面，欧元区成员地位公投也许根本没有必要。"
    ],
    [
        "As the surplus came down, so did the economy’s growth rate – indeed, almost point for point.",
        "随着盈余的减少，中国经济的增长率也随之下落——事实上，两者的下降几乎是一比一关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But this does not imply laissez-faire; on the contrary, it requires activist policies in many areas, such as education and training, infrastructure, R&D, business promotion, and the development of links to the global economy.",
        "但这并不意味着自由放任； 相反，它需要多个领域的积极政策，如教育和培训、基础设施、研发、促商以及发展与全球经济的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "The state should play as limited a role in the economy as possible, the thinking goes, intervening only in cases of “market failure.”",
        "这一观点认为，国家在经济中所扮演的角色应该尽可能小，只在“市场失灵”时出手干预。"
    ],
    [
        "The Doing Business project calculates dozens of separate indicators that are then averaged into a single number.",
        "《营商环境报告》项目计算众多独立制表，然后将其平均化成为一个单一数字。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 46% of the electorate is under the age of 30. In previous elections, younger voters have turned out in greater numbers than their elders, leading some to predict that half of the voters will be in the 16-to-29 age bracket.",
        "目前，约有46%的选民年龄在30岁以下。 以过去的选举经验来看，年轻的选民比年老的有更高的投票率，一些人士预测，超过半数的参与投票选民的年龄将在16—29岁之间。"
    ],
    [
        "We urgently need far-sighted companies to join the Sustainable Development Solutions Network.",
        "我们迫切需要具有远见卓识的公司加入到可持续发展解决方案网中来。"
    ],
    [
        "But most of those in Davos put aside these problems to celebrate the euro’s survival.",
        "但达沃斯的大部分人把这些问题摆在了一边，都在庆祝欧元的幸存。"
    ],
    [
        "The Limits to Panic",
        "恐慌的极限"
    ],
    [
        "The richest countries - the US, Germany, and Japan - must join this vital initiative.",
        "最富裕国家--美国、德国和日本--必须加入这个重要的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the environmental features, two stand out.",
        "在环境方面，有两点特别引人注目。"
    ],
    [
        "But Barack Obama’s administration apparently has concluded that Arab monarchs are likely to survive, whereas Arab presidents are more likely to fall, and that it is acceptable for the United States to continue to coddle tyrannical kings.",
        "但美国总统奥巴马则明确认为各个阿拉伯王朝都将继续存活下来，相反那些总统们则更可能下台，而美国也乐于继续关照这些专制帝王。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that the reversal has arrived, so have the consequences.",
        "现在逆转已经到来，因此出现这些后果也毫不奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "By opting for the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the Chinese Communist leadership set their country on a road starkly different from the one on which Russia subsequently embarked.",
        "与此同时，中国共产党领导层选择了另一条道路，通过1989年的天安门大屠杀事件，他们把国家送上了一条与俄罗斯截然不同的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "A Manpower Group survey shows that 48% of employers had difficulty filling vacancies in Asia in 2015, compared to 28% in 2006.",
        "万宝盛华集团（Manpower Group）的调查显示，2015年有48％的用人单位难以找到合适的人选填补在亚洲的职位空缺，而该比率在2006年仅为28％。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has the opportunity to turn today’s refugee crisis into a catalyst for renewal and progress.",
        "欧洲有机会将今天的难民危机转变为复兴和进步的催化剂。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s proposals also threaten to exacerbate the situation in the Middle East.",
        "特朗普的提议还可能令中东局势恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, President Uribe won re-election, but the big surprise in Colombia was the end of the two-party system that had dominated the country for decades, and the emergence of the left-wing Polo Democrático as the second largest political force in the nation.",
        "是的，乌里韦总统再次当选，但是，哥伦比亚令人惊讶的事件是统治该国长达几十年的两党政治宣告结束，左翼的民主中心党作为该国第二大的政治力量登上舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia Exposed",
        "陷于危局的亚洲"
    ],
    [
        "We like to think that older generations always leave a better world for those that follow.",
        "我们总是认为老一辈总是前人种树，后人乘凉。"
    ],
    [
        "The most obvious and dangerous consequence of low interest rates in the major industrial countries is their impact on commodity prices, which is especially pronounced for food and fuel.",
        "各大工业国低利率的种种后果中，最显著、最危险的就是对大宗商品价格的影响，尤其是粮食和能源。"
    ],
    [
        "Some jobs come with certain dress codes.",
        "某些岗位有着特定的着装规则。"
    ],
    [
        "They should begin by imagining what would happen if the child of a genetically modified human wanted to become an elite athlete.",
        "一开始，他们就应该想象如果经过基因改造者的后代希望成为精英运动员，会导致什么结果。"
    ],
    [
        "If only a regime of consistent enforcement of all loan contracts’ explicit terms were sufficiently practical to be worth pursuing.",
        "要是一致执行所有贷款契约的明白条款的机制足够实用、值得追求就好了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is sheer political chicanery to single out China, America’s NAFTA partners, or even Germany as the culprit in a saving-short US economy.",
        "将中国，各北美自贸协定伙伴，甚至是德国归咎为美国储蓄短缺经济的罪魁祸首是一种政治诡计。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, Werqit is both a flattering compliment (and complement!) to LinkedIn and a competitor for what LinkedIn does only in part.",
        "显然，Werqit既是对LinkedIn的直白致敬（以及补充！ ），也是LinkedIn只是部分涉足的领域的竞争对手。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iraqi Governing Council was not dominated by any single member, and Iraq’s subsequent governments have also operated collegially.",
        "伊拉克管理委员会并不是由任何单个成员统领，而且，伊拉克随后的政府也是集体领导，共享权力。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, Western powers backed military regimes in the Arab world, willingly ignoring their systematic repression of democratic movements and rights, in order to ensure that Islamists did not gain power.",
        "几十年来，西方列强一直支持着阿拉伯世界的军事统治，有意忽略它们对民主运动和权利的系统性镇压，以确保伊斯兰教不会赢得权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Within weeks, however, Strauss-Kahn fell from grace, without ever explaining what he meant.",
        "但是，不出几周，斯特劳斯·卡恩便失势，甚至没有来得及解释“这样”是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "We are not yet far into 2010, but studies show that fewer than half of those who make New Year’s resolutions manage to keep them for as long as one month.",
        "虽然 2010 年才没开始几天，但已经有一系列研究显示，在那些制定了新年计划的人中，能够坚持执行超过一个月的还不到一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe more important than those wars in the 1970’s was that people throughout the world got worried about running out of things.",
        "或许比20世纪70年代的战争更重要的是全世界的人们都开始担心资源会用完。"
    ],
    [
        "If major banks had had a “lean against the wind” strategy in reserve, that would have influenced expectations and at least partly stabilized asset prices, possibly mitigating – or even averting – the most damaging effects of the financial crisis.",
        "但它并未设定上限。 如果大银行采取“迎风而上”的策略储备，则可以影响预期并至少局部地稳定资产价格，有望减轻——甚至消除——金融危机最大的破坏效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether this becomes a systemic issue affecting the entire global economy will hinge on China.",
        "而这是否会成为影响整个全球经济的一个系统性问题，将取决于中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, it would put pressure on the rest of the international community to contribute.",
        "同样重要的是，这将给国际社会其他成员造成压力，促使它们做出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China leads the world in some sectors, from livestreaming (one example is Musical.ly, a lip-syncing and video-sharing app) to bicycle sharing (Mobike and Ofo exceed 50 million rides per day in China, and are now expanding abroad).",
        "从直播（例如Musical. ly这款唇音同步和视频分享手机app）到共享单车（摩拜和ofo在中国已经拥有每天超过5000万人次的骑乘量，并正在向国外扩张），中国正引领全球趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the Ottoman Empire’s fragmentation in 1922 or Nasser’s overthrow of King Farouk’s regime in 1952, the current transformation, too, must be shaped.",
        "就像1922年奥斯曼帝国分裂或1952年纳赛尔推翻国王法鲁克政权一样，目前的变革也同样需要孕育。"
    ],
    [
        "But the loss of the mountainous frontier where they lived was a terrible setback for Czech defenses.",
        "但失去他们所生活的山地边区对捷克的防御来说是一个巨大损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the old metaphysical puzzle: is a wooden boat whose planks are gradually replaced as they decay the same boat after all the planks have been changed?",
        "想想那道古老的哲学谜题：当木船上的厚木板逐渐腐烂到面目全非，以至破坏原船，这些木板是不是一直处于不断的替换之中呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This new group, born between 1986 and 1989, had first read Rowling as pre-teens and early adolescents, not college students, which meant they had practically grown into young adults alongside Harry, Ron, and Hermione.",
        "这是新一代学生，出生在1986和1989年之间，最初读到罗琳著作时并不是大学生，而是只有十几岁，刚刚步入青少年阶段。 这意味着他们是在哈利、罗恩和赫敏的陪伴下一起成长为青年。"
    ],
    [
        "Sisi, like former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, is wary of allowing private-sector players to gain political clout, and has instead propped up cronies whom he can trust, such as army corporations and some of the firms previously connected to the Mubarak regime.",
        "塞西和埃及前总统穆巴拉克一样，对私人部门参与者获得政治影响力持谨慎态度，而是反过来支持他可以信任的密友，如军队企业和曾与穆巴拉克政权有过联系的某些公司。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that Cuba should move slowly on its own reforms.",
        "这并不是说古巴应该缓慢执行自身的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The second challenge regards the competition.",
        "还有一个问题关乎竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank can serve as lender of last resort to emerging markets at risk of losing market access, conditional on appropriate policy reforms.",
        "IMF和世界银行可以作为最后贷款人，当新兴市场国家无法从市场上获得融资时，可以求助于IMF和世行，但要以适当的政策改革为条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the Central American nations do not wield huge influence in Mexico; if anything, it is the other way around.",
        "当然，中美洲国家对墨西哥没有巨大的影响力;要说影响力，相反倒是墨西哥对它们有着影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Higher education is a great investment, with each additional year of post-secondary education yielding a 10-15% return, on average.",
        "伯克利——高等教育是一项极好的投资，每多受一年高等教育意味着平均增加10-15%的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is also an important goal in its own right.",
        "同时这也是一个非常重要的培养目标。"
    ],
    [
        "If we don’t have a good way to fix a problem, it might be better to focus on something else first.",
        "如果我们缺乏一个很好的途径去解决一个问题，那么也许最好应该先去关注其他问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2008 recession was triggered by a financial crisis that erupted after the collapse of a credit-fueled asset bubble decimated the housing market.",
        "2008年衰退由金融危机引发，而金融危机由信用催生的资产泡沫破裂摧毁了房地产市场引发。"
    ],
    [
        "Think, for example, of a German (oral) test which was to apply only to immigrants from states belonging to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (the test in question was later withdrawn), and which asked, among other things, the applicant’s opinion about the fact that in Germany homosexuals hold high public office.",
        "比如某种只针对伊斯兰会议组织国家移民的德国（口语）测试（这项测试后来被取消），测试中除了提问其他问题，还询问申请人如何看待同性恋者在德国担任要职。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, financial markets are forcing fiscal retrenchment on governments, as will the planned new fiscal treaty (on which Germany, among others, insisted).",
        "与此同时，金融市场正在迫使各国政府采取财政整顿措施，计划中的新财政条约（为德国和其他一些国家所坚持）亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "(Since regional and country trade statistics assembled by the US Department of Commerce are not seasonally adjusted, all subsequent comparisons are presented on the basis of a comparable seasonal comparison from the first quarter of 2009 to the first quarter of 2012.)",
        "（美国商务部所做的地区和国家贸易统计并不进行季节调整，以下比较均以2009年一季度至2012年一季度可比季节比较为基础。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "As it celebrates its tenth anniversary, Al Jazeera is no longer new, but it remains a trendsetter.",
        "在庆祝十周年之际，半岛电视台不再是新鲜事物了。 但是，它还是在引导趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "While Mueller is investigating Kushner’s campaign activities, he is also understood to be taking a close look at Kushner’s immense real estate business.",
        "在调查库什纳竞选活动的同时，外界普遍认为米勒也正在关注库什纳庞大的房地产业务。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Prime Minister David Cameron and his government had to pretend that they would contemplate a breakup if the EU rejected their demands.",
        "毕竟，如果欧盟拒绝英国的要求，首相卡梅伦及其政府必须装作要考虑决裂。"
    ],
    [
        "The disaster confirmed the traditional view of Japan as a country that combines a dynamic private sector with an anemic public sector and central administration.",
        "这次大灾其实证实了一个观点：日本就是一个极富活力的私人部门与死气沉沉的公共部门与中央政府的结合体。"
    ],
    [
        "We have seen three very visible cases of such growth boosts in three different decades.",
        "我们在三个不同的十年里见证了三次非常显著的如此推动增长的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Natural capital is the ecosystems and primary resources that support agriculture, health, and cities.",
        "自然资本是支持农业、健康和城市的生态系统和基本资源。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed’s experience – shaped by a historically decentralized power structure – highlights the benefits of a policymaking process characterized by diverse views.",
        "美联储经验——由历史上分散的权力结构形成——突出了不同观点对决策制定过程的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans will continue to gravitate toward populism if they do not see improvements in their standard of living, which will happen only with higher productivity growth.",
        "只要欧洲人一天没有看到自身生活水平的改善，他们就将继续倾向于民粹主义，而这生活水平改善只能靠更高生产率增长来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "A focus on national (and in some places, like Catalonia and Scotland, regional) issues is gaining ground, in line with the incentives of policymakers, whose constituencies are national (or regional).",
        "对国家（也包括一些地区，如加泰罗尼亚和苏格兰）问题的关注正在增加，决策者的激励也是如此，因为选民是有祖国（或地区出身）的。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2030, the global workforce of 3.5 billion will include an estimated one billion workers who lack a secondary education, significantly hindering their countries’ economic prospects.",
        "到2030年，全球劳动力大军将达35亿，其中大约会有10亿工人缺少中学教育，极大地拖累他们所在国家的经济前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there is considerable talk among Western security services that the recently disclosed centrifuges were not actually assembled in the Nyeongbyeon facility, implying that Kim’s regime is hiding another facility.",
        "事实上，西方安全部门正议论纷纷，认为最近关闭的离心机其实并非在宁边核设施中组装，暗示金正日政权还隐瞒着另一处核设施。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it is a demonstration of tranquil and conscientious strength – and a precondition of good and realistic governance.",
        "相反，这是一种平和而善良的力量，也是实现良好以及现实主义政治治理的前提。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a good idea in theory; in practice, however, basket pegs tend to have chronic transparency problems.",
        "这是一个理论上的好主意； 然而在实践中挂钩一揽子货币会容易出现长期的透明度问题。"
    ],
    [
        "If successful, Algeria would become the first North African country to lead the AU.",
        "如果成功，阿尔及利亚将成为首个领导非盟的北非国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Had America really told others to bring in American banks to teach them about how to run their business?",
        "难道美国没有告诉其他国家让美国的银行进入它们的市场以便教它们如何经营它们的业务？"
    ],
    [
        "If a country fails to respond adequately to new challenges as they arise, economic growth and development stall.",
        "如果一国不能在新挑战出现时予以充分应对，经济增长和发展就会停滞下来。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor, it seems clear, will Mubarak secure the succession of his son, Gamel, before he goes.",
        "还有一点似乎同样显而易见，那就是穆巴拉克在卸任前无法达到让其子贾迈勒继承的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "Although trade negotiations require discretion to avoid political grandstanding by participants, the secrecy that currently surrounds the TPP talks is preventing important human-rights arguments from being aired.",
        "虽然贸易谈判需要谨慎从事以避免参与者在政治上哗众取宠，但跨太平洋伙伴关系谈判目前的遮遮掩掩妨碍了人们了解重要的人权观点。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Japan’s relationship with North Korea, the outlook remains far from rosy.",
        "至于日本和朝鲜的关系，其前景离乐观也相去甚远。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Trump’s actions will be challenged in court, and he will almost surely lose.",
        "不仅如此，特朗普的所作所为将在法庭受到挑战，几乎肯定他将会输。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The Chilcot report was finally released this month, seven years after it was commissioned by the British government to “identify lessons” from the United Kingdom’s participation in the Iraq War.",
        "华盛顿——在英国政府委托编写报告总结英国参与伊拉克战争教训七年后， 齐尔考特报告终于于本月面世了。"
    ],
    [
        "Housing prices are rising, and, while residential investment is increasing, it remains depressed as a share of GDP.",
        "房价正在上升，尽管住宅投资也在增长，然而其所占GDP比例仍然很低迷。"
    ],
    [
        "It certainly does not look that way.",
        "现在看来，显然不明白。"
    ],
    [
        "Many political leaders have expressed support for strong action on climate change, but what most of them regard as “strong action” will not be enough to get us back below 350 ppm.",
        "虽然许多政治家都赞成对气候变化采取强力行动，但其中大多数人所认为的“强力行动”并不足以把我们带回到350ppm的大气二氧化碳含量水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite strenuous debate about currency issues and trade imbalances at its summit in Seoul in November, the sole area of agreement concerned an issue on the G-20’s agenda for the first time – economic development.",
        "尽管在11月首尔会议上举行了有关货币和贸易失衡问题的艰苦辩论，但二十国集团议程首次也是唯一达成协议的领域是经济的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "When those left behind by globalization and London’s Big Bang complained that immigrants were making it even harder to find jobs, they were too easily dismissed as racists.",
        "当这些被全球化和伦敦的“大爆炸”抛弃的人抱怨移民让工作变得更加难以找到时，他们往往被轻易地驳斥为种族主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "In some countries, sales of public assets and the levying of one-off wealth taxes would also be helpful.",
        "在某些国家，出售公共资产和一次性财富征税也将起到一定帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "They agree that it is fair to broker an arrangement with your correspondent to publish together.",
        "他们说，应该斡旋安排让你们两人一起发表，这样公平。"
    ],
    [
        "Two types of political cleavage are exacerbated in the process: an identity cleavage, revolving around nationhood, ethnicity, or religion, and an income cleavage, revolving around social class.",
        "上述进程导致两种类型的政治分裂进一步加剧：那就是围绕国家、民族或宗教因素的分裂、以及社会阶层的收入差距。"
    ],
    [
        "Once again, Eurobonds, a green partnership with China, and unity within Europe could make all the difference.",
        "在这方面，欧元债券、与中国的绿色合作伙伴计划，以及欧洲内部的联合将能够造成巨大的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Checks and balances at home require a correlative balance of power abroad.",
        "只有相对均衡的国外力量，才能使对国内力量的平衡和牵制变为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "China's $10 trillion economy is bigger than those of France, Germany, and Italy combined.",
        "中国10万亿美元的经济比法国、德国和意大利的总和还要大。"
    ],
    [
        "What does it mean?",
        "这意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Park, too, had a dubious wartime career.",
        "朴同样有着不光彩的战时历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, Bangladesh’s Awami League government, which returned to power this year after a controversial election that was boycotted by the principal opposition party, has embraced an unprecedented level of cooperation with India on security and counter-terrorism issues.",
        "今年通过受主要反对党抵制的有争议的选举重新上台执政的孟加拉国人民联盟党（Awami League）政府已经与印度就安全和反恐问题作了前所未有的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But, alongside these sobering facts, the world is also full of shining and intelligent management.",
        "但是，除了这些沮丧的事实，这一世界还充满了聪慧和富有朝气的管理活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon after, the New York State Assembly passed a strict bill on medical marijuana, which the State Senate has yet to vote on.",
        "不久，纽约州议会通过了关于医用大麻的严格法案，还有待州参议员投票。"
    ],
    [
        "But instead of seeking reconciliation with the Tamils following their defeat, then-President Mahinda Rajapaksa continued to play on ethnic hatred as he subverted Sri Lanka’s democracy.",
        "但时任总统拉贾帕克萨（Mahinda Rajapaksa）没有在失败后寻求与泰米尔人和解，而是继续用种族仇恨破坏斯里兰卡的民主。"
    ],
    [
        "The cosmopolitan elites have stabbed “us” in the back; we are facing an abyss; our culture is being undermined by aliens; our nation can become great again once we eliminate the traitors, shut down their voices in the media, and unite the “silent majority” to revive the healthy national organism.",
        "我们的文化正在遭受外国人的破坏； 一旦我们消灭叛徒、不让他们在媒体上说话并团结“沉默的大多数”重振健康的国家肌体，我们的国家就可以再次复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "Yemen and Chad are likely to be next.",
        "也门和乍得可能成为下一批例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Few outside of the lumpen classes of unemployed workers and dispossessed peasants seem to have any gusto for political protest.",
        "”除穷苦潦倒的下岗工人和一贫如洗的农民外，似乎再没有什么人还抱有政治抗议的愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, that figure is 200,000, thanks in large measure to generous support from the United States (under its PEPFAR program) and the Global Fund in Geneva.",
        "今天，这一数字达到了200 000，这离不开美国（通过其PEPFAR项目）和日内瓦全球基金的慷慨支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting a Price on Rainforests",
        "为热带雨林定价"
    ],
    [
        "Today, with 70% of the planet at risk of premature death from preventable illnesses, “those people” are many of us.",
        "今天，70%的地球人面临因为可预防疾病而过早死亡的风险，“那些人”就是我们自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt’s public debt is around 80% of GDP, very close to the 90% level that economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart identify as a harbinger of slower growth and heightened vulnerability to financial and fiscal crises.",
        "埃及公债相当于GDP的80%，与经济学家肯尼斯·罗格夫（Kenneth Rogoff）和卡门·莱因哈特（Carmen Reinhart）所指出的90%临界点十分接近——超过90%将导致经济增长减缓、金融和财政危机风险大增。"
    ],
    [
        "In both of these cases, large groups of people in America decided to increase their spending.",
        "受到以上利好的鼓舞，大量的美国人开始增加消费。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there is acceptance of diversity, for “when the soul of a nation finally speaks, the institutions that arise may reflect customs and traditions very different from our own.",
        "最后，布什在讲话中认可了多样性，因为“当民族的灵魂被最终唤醒，建立的制度所反应的习惯和传统也许与我们自身的大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is not just the developing and emerging countries that must reconsider their approach to the world. The US must do so as well.",
        "而在这一点上，不但那些发展中和新兴大国需要反思它们的外交政策，美国也必须进行自我反省。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Now that Italy’s next general election has been set for March 4, the main contestants are limbering up for a tough eight-week campaign.",
        "伦敦—意大利新大选已经定在3月4日，目前，主要竞争者正在为艰苦的八周选战摩拳擦掌。"
    ],
    [
        "For the pessimists (or realists, depending on your perspective), Israel must remain on maximum alert to minimize the risks that it faces.",
        "悲观主义者（或者现实主义者，完全取决于你怎么看）认为以色列必须保持最高戒备状态才能最大限度地降低风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Given weak demand, which may be prolonged, Chinese exporters must accept increasingly thin profit margins to maintain market share.",
        "鉴于出口需求疲软且可能长期持续，中国出口商必须接受不断下降的利润以保持市场份额。"
    ],
    [
        "But beneath the politics, there are other substantial conflicts between the UK and its continental neighbors.",
        "但在政治的表象下，英国与其大陆邻邦还有其他众多纠结不清的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "As the US Treasury’s recent semiannual report to America’s Congress noted, for China these plans are to “rebalance its economy: boosting domestic demand and consumption-led growth; reforming its financial system; and achieving greater flexibility in its exchange-rate regime.",
        "就像美国财政部最近向国会提交的半年度报告中所提出的，对于中国这些计划就是要“调整它的经济：促进内需和由消费带动的经济增长； 改革它的金融体系；"
    ],
    [
        "When they failed to pay margin calls on time, their shares were sold by brokers, pushing stock prices down further.",
        "如果他们无法及时追加保证金，他们的股票就会被经纪商卖出，进一步打压股价。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, although Bush has given mainly national security reasons for his seeming change of heart, America’s federal system, helps the country get around even a roadblock as powerful as the president, as “localism” promotes eco-political initiatives at the state level and even within municipalities.",
        "而且，尽管布什主要是用国家安全的理由来解释其表明上的改弦更张，美国的联邦制度帮助国家绕过像总统那样强大的路障。 美国的“地方主义”在各州、甚至是城市的层面上促进生态政治倡议。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump, a vocal Putin fan, is unlikely to redress the tilting balance of power as part of, let alone as a condition for, a diplomatic “reset” with Russia.",
        "特朗普直言自己是普京“粉丝”，他不可能将纠正这个倾斜的实力平衡作为与俄罗斯的外交“重置”的一部分——更不用说作为条件了。"
    ],
    [
        "And the refugee crisis, whatever else it may be, is an economic problem.",
        "难民危机不论是什么，都属于经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In the new century, refugees have come increasingly from the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.",
        "进入新世纪，越来越多的难民来自中东和非洲之角。"
    ],
    [
        "In Brazil’s underdeveloped Nordeste, Dilma (in Brazil, politicians, like footballers, go by their first name) swept the vote.",
        "在巴西欠发达的东北部，迪尔马（在巴西，政客和足球明星一样，用首名称呼自己）取得压倒性胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "That might not sound like the most auspicious time for the European Council to give final approval for the preparation of a long-awaited new “global foreign and security strategy” for the EU.",
        "这听上去或许不像欧洲理事会最终批准起草期待已久的欧盟新“全球外交及安全战略”的最佳时机。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, many analysts have called for aligning the rules for public debt more closely with those governing the private sector.",
        "考虑到这一点，许多分析师呼吁让公共债务规则与私人部门规则更加一致。"
    ],
    [
        "He even added a racist dimension to the fear mongering on Election Day, warning that, “Arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls.”",
        "在选举日，他甚至给这一恐惧加上了种族主义色彩，警告说“阿拉伯选民正在成群结队走向投票箱。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "People fear that sharia law will replace secular legislation, and that Islamism will spoil the fruits of Kemal Atatürk’s drive to modernize post-Ottoman Turkey.",
        "人们担心伊斯兰教法将取代现有的世俗法律，伊斯兰教将毁坏后奥斯曼时期凯末尔·阿塔图尔克推动土耳其现代化所取得的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, some experts believe that a nation’s electric power grid may be particularly susceptible.",
        "例如，一些专家认为国家的电网可能特别容易受到攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this amounted to a human and economic disaster in the making.",
        "这样的推波助澜最终导致了人类和经济的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "My testimony about the election is categorical: the circumstances were difficult, but the voting was unconstrained and without cheating.",
        "我对大选的证言是绝对直观的：环境虽然困难，但投票没有受到干扰，也没有舞弊现象。"
    ],
    [
        "In Iraq, after years of declining sectarian violence, the casualty figures are up again, in part owing to the war in neighboring Syria.",
        "伊拉克在宗派暴力活动下降多年后，部分因为邻国叙利亚战争而导致伤亡人数再次增加。"
    ],
    [
        "It involves three steps: raise money from the globally rich, do not deal with governments, and transfers funds in cash to the poor.",
        "它包括三个步骤：从全球的富人那里募集资金，不要和政府打交道，并直接以现金的形式将资金分配给穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, ENIAC, the first electronic computer, was developed in secret during World War II.",
        "同样，在二次世界大战期间秘密研制了第一台电子计算机ENIAC。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, India’s space scientists have produced tangible benefits for ordinary citizens, launching meteorological satellites that have predicted cyclones and helped save thousands of lives, as well as telecommunications satellites that have knit a vast country together through shared networks.",
        "事实上，印度的太空科学家为普通公民带来了实实在在的好处，他们发射的气象卫星能预测飓风，从而帮助挽救了成千上万的生命； 他们发射的通信卫星通过共享网络把广袤的印度连接起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Electric utilities still largely burn fossil fuels and sell the power to homes and businesses.",
        "电力公司在大体上仍然依赖化石燃料为家庭和企业供电。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the end, everyone benefits.",
        "但是，最终人人都能获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Although possessing these weapons of mass destruction is technically not illegal, most states are parties to the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, which Syria has refused to sign.",
        "尽管拥有这些大规模杀伤性武器在技术上并不违法，但大部分国家加入了1993年化学武器公约，而叙利亚拒绝在该公约上签字。"
    ],
    [
        "Reality is more complex.",
        "现实更为复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine further that the “bad bank” helps the financial sector, which was recapitalized generously by strained Greek taxpayers in the midst of the crisis, to shed their legacy of non-performing loans and unclog their financial plumbing.",
        "“坏银行”有助于金融部门摆脱不良贷款历史负担、疏通金融渠道。 在危机期间，勒紧裤腰带的希腊纳税人慷慨出资让银行进行资本重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Presumably, Putin would not object to the infliction of such damage behind closed doors, during a debriefing with the Russian security services.",
        "我看在于俄罗斯安全部门的分析会上，普京不会反对幕后释放这些伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with austerity under fire and EU countries looking to encourage spending, the Council should also consider the budget’s shape, ensuring that the MFF does not impede future growth and investment.",
        "但是，在紧缩遭到口诛笔伐、欧盟成员国着眼于鼓励支出时，欧盟理事会还应该考虑预算的构成，确保MFF不会进一步阻碍增长和投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, on August 8, Putin launched the second act of this Russian tragedy, his long-planned attack on Georgia.",
        "然后，在8月8日普京又导演了俄罗斯悲剧的第二幕—发动对格鲁吉亚蓄谋已久的进攻。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, whereas the Koran requires four eyewitnesses as proof of adultery, mere suspicion of some unregulated, potentially sexual conduct by a woman warrants stoning under customary law.",
        "同样，古兰经规定必须有四名目击证人才能证实通奸罪，但仅仅怀疑一名女性可能发生过违法性行为就足以按照习惯法的规则对其处以石刑。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization played a role.",
        "全球化在其中扮演了一定角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, both infrastructure investment and climate action are urgently needed.",
        "如今，基础设施投资和气候行动都是当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, those who speak of American hegemony after 1945 fail to note that the Soviet Union balanced US military power for more than four decades.",
        "类似地，说美国在1945年后拥有霸权的人没有注意到苏联在四十多年的时间里都在制衡美国的军事实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Many autocratic rulers – in Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Belarus, and elsewhere – still lead the old-fashioned way.",
        "在津巴布韦、缅甸、白俄罗斯和许多其他地方的独裁统治者，仍然用老式的方法进行统治。"
    ],
    [
        "So, as Lenin once asked, what is to be done?",
        "事到如今，正如列宁曾经问过的：“该怎么办呢？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "In the long-term, however, what really matters is whether the Muslims of South Asia will be able to roll back the spread of Talibanization altogether.",
        "而从长远来看，真正重要的则是南亚地区的穆斯林能否合力抵御不断蔓延的“塔利班化”趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "In return for MILF cooperation, the US, Australia, and other interested countries must pick up political slack and build the government’s capacity to deliver a sustainable peace agreement for Mindanao.",
        "对于摩洛伊斯兰解放阵线的合作，美国、澳大利亚以及其他利益国家必须弥补政治上的疏漏，加强政府职能以达成棉兰佬岛的持久和平协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Other central banks have not expressed any view, which may suggest that they do not intend to retaliate, at least at this stage.",
        "其它国家的中央银行没有发表任何观点，这也许表明他们至少在现阶段不打算对货币采取回弹政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, 107 people – including Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president – were handed death sentences for their alleged role in a mass “prison break” during the January 2011 uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak.",
        "上个月，107人——包括埃及首位自由选举总统穆尔西在内——因为被控在2011年1月反前总统穆巴拉克的暴动中集体“越狱”而判处死刑。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.",
        "没有任何人道规定适用于对于那些在野外被捕杀的鱼类，而大多数鱼类养殖业也自行其是。"
    ],
    [
        "The Swedish EU Presidency will concentrate on starting up the concrete work – the nuts and bolts – of the Partnership.",
        "瑞典任欧盟轮值主席将启动具体工作——也就是伙伴关系的基本要素。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring that it is the latter will require the patience and discipline – in both domestic and foreign policy – befitting the major transformation now underway.",
        "而如果要实现后者的话，就需要耐心和纪律——在内政和外交两方面政策上——做到与当前进行的重大转型协调一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy, of course, is a process, not an event.",
        "当然，民主是一种程序，而不是一个事件。"
    ],
    [
        "As we saw a decade ago, financial institutions operating in an environment of uncertainty can become fragile and collapse, imposing high costs on society.",
        "十年前我们曾经看到，在不确定性环境中经营的金融机构可能变得非常脆弱甚至倒闭，给社会带来高昂的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way to harness the digital economy’s potential while avoiding downside risks is to build fair and inclusive social institutions that protect property rights and ensure efficient markets.",
        "为了实现数字经济的潜力，并避免其可能的弊端，中国需要构建公正包容的社会制度来保护产权及确保有效的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of Arabs throughout the Middle East took to the streets, so angered by the inability of anyone to stop the bloodshed that a huge schism has been created.",
        "中东数以百万计的阿拉伯人上街游行示威，他们对于没有任何人可以阻止流血感到愤怒，因此造成了巨大的分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "In retrospect, that was one of the great non-events of the twentieth century.",
        "事后看来，这是二十世纪的一桩规模巨大的没事找事。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of World War II, there were only five border walls around the world.",
        "第二次世界大战结束时，全世界只有五座边境墙。"
    ],
    [
        "Unable to pay the salaries of more than 40,000 public employees in Gaza, it was being slowly strangled by the Israeli and Egyptian authorities.",
        "它无力支付加沙40,000多公职人员的薪水，在以色列和埃及当局的扼杀中逐渐窒息。"
    ],
    [
        "Intelligence and military analysts debate how much of the violence is due to the presence of foreigners, though it is widely conceded that most of the attacks can be attributed to what American officials call “former regime elements,” with the Iraqi Sunni community the main pillar of the resistance.",
        "尽管大部分人都认同多数袭击应当归因于美国官方所谓的“残余政权因素”—— 伊拉克最大的反对派逊尼派，情报和军事分析家还是就暴力行动在多大程度与外国人的存在有关进行了辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "Lagarde has shown that she is such a leader, committed to making the IMF fit for the twenty-first century.",
        "拉加德已经证明她正是这样的领导人，她致力于让IMF适应二十一世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU buys half of Britain’s exports, whereas the UK accounts for only a little more than a tenth of exports from the rest of the EU – hardly a strong negotiating position.",
        "欧盟购买量占英国出口的半数以上，而英国则只占欧盟其他国家出口的略超过十分之一——这恐怕构不成有利的谈判位置。"
    ],
    [
        "Performing arts advocates in Europe point to the US where, among other things, music directors of even major orchestras are now expected to fully participate in fundraising activities and be active in the local community on the orchestras behalf.",
        "欧洲的表演艺术倡导者们以美国为例，指出即便是美国大交响乐团的音乐总监们现在都会全身心地投入筹款活动并在其乐团所代表的社区中有积极表现。"
    ],
    [
        "At least in the case of the Murdoch empire, it now appears that they pursue long and binding relationships with politicians and the police as well.",
        "现在看来——至少就默多克的例子而言——它也谋求同政界和警界建立长期、牢靠的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s approach to monetary expansion – central to his “Abenomics” program for economic recovery – is producing positive results, especially in the labor market.",
        "如今，首相安倍晋三的货币扩张方针——其经济复苏计划“安倍经济学”的核心——正在产生积极结果，特别是在劳动力市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush repeated this mistake in Iraq.",
        "布什在伊拉克再次犯下了这样的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia-Pacific leaders must shake off their complacency.",
        "亚太领导人必须摆脱自满情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "The Soviet economists seemed enthusiastic about a transition to a market economy, and I was struck by how openly they spoke to us during coffee breaks or at dinner.",
        "苏联经济学家们似乎热衷探讨如何向市场经济过渡，而我则每每被他们在咖啡茶歇或吃饭时的大胆言论所震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the average age at diagnosis is 71-73, men are likely to die from other causes before prostate cancer claims their life.",
        "由于患者的平均诊断年龄是71—73岁，因此很可能在前列腺癌夺走生命之前就因其他原因逝世了。"
    ],
    [
        "Their position is that a vote by Congress 15 years ago authorizing the use of armed force against those culpable for the 9/11 attack gives the president and military carte blanche to fight secret wars in the Middle East and Africa.",
        "他们的立足点是，15年前国会曾经投票批准对9/11袭击负责犯罪分子动用武力，这已经给了总统和军方在中东和非洲进行秘密战争的全权委托。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that simultaneous tensions over China’s claims to South China Sea islands and atolls – claims disputed by the Philippines and Vietnam – and a clash between China and the US was beginning to seem inevitable.",
        "与此同时，中国对南海岛礁的领土主张引起菲律宾和越南的反弹，中国和美国之间的冲突看上去不可避免。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic policymakers should heed this lesson so that they can gradually re-arm themselves; otherwise, they could be left with no firepower when they most need it.",
        "经济决策者应该吸取这一经验并以此逐步重新武装自己； 否则就会在事态最为紧急是陷入手无寸铁的窘境。"
    ],
    [
        "So here’s a primer on the swine flu pandemic risk communication, framed in terms of what health officials shouldn’t do when they’re telling you about this new disease.",
        "因此我编写了这本猪流感风险交流入门，列举了公共卫生官员在向公众讲解这种新型疾病时 不该 怎么做。"
    ],
    [
        "But the euphoria that came with the end of the Musharraf era is wearing off, as the new government faces stark choices.",
        "但是穆沙拉夫时代结束带来的喜悦，因为新政府面对的严峻选择，正在消失。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in place of the abstract bancor, it would feature a common digital currency – say, Kosmos – to be issued and regulated by the IMF.",
        "但是，它用共同数字货币——如宇宙币（Kosmos）——代替抽象的班科。 宇宙币将由IMF发行和监管。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the second-quarter GDP data show the economy’s immediate response to the hike.",
        "当然，二季度GDP数据表明了经济对消费税提高的最初反应。"
    ],
    [
        "If the DPJ can break free of mandarin control by centralizing policy formation in the office of the prime minister, as it intends, Japan can emerge as a more resilient democracy with a full-fledged two-party system and greater willingness to assume an international leadership role.",
        "如果民主党能像自己希望的那样通过集中首相办公室的政策制定来摆脱官僚家族的控制，日本就能够成为一个更有活力的民主国家，拥有更加完善的两党制度，也更愿意发挥国际领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Berlin is a construction site that has managed to transform its multiple pasts into positive energy.",
        "柏林是一个将多重过去成功转化为正能量的大工地。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump will also begin his presidency with an approval rating below 50%.",
        "特朗普还将在支持率低于50％的情况下开始自己的总统任期。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, however, has taken a very different approach, supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal with the US and ten other Pacific Rim countries.",
        "但是，日本首相安倍晋三采取了不同的方针，他支持与美国和其他十个环太平洋国家的跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, throughout time, religion has often been part of a political conflict.",
        "当然，从古到今，宗教从来就是政治冲突的其中一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Countering this will require proactive efforts by the IMF’s top leadership in recruitment, staffing, and promotion.",
        "要解决这些问题就需要货币基金组织的最高领导层在各方面采取主动攻势，如招募人才、员工管理与职位晋升方面。"
    ],
    [
        "This explains the popular hostility toward Obama.",
        "这就解释了奥巴马遭人仇恨的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – During three decades of favorable global economic conditions, China created an integrated global production system unprecedented in scale and complexity.",
        "香港—三十年来，在有利的全球经济环境中，中国创造了规模和复杂程度前所未有的一体化全球制造体系。"
    ],
    [
        "The next month, the Department of Health Research banned the importation of embryos to be implanted into surrogate mothers, making the procedure nearly impossible.",
        "之后一个月，卫生研究署禁止进口植入代孕母亲的胚胎，导致几乎没有可能进行代孕手术。"
    ],
    [
        "His latest reverie, envisioned in the thick of the recent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, was the New Middle East (NME), with US clients Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia serving as the pillars of regional order.",
        "他在以色列和真主党交战正酣之际最新提出的幻想被命名为“新中东计划”（NME），在这项计划里，美国的委托人以色列、埃及、约旦和沙特阿拉伯被当成了地区秩序的支撑力量。"
    ],
    [
        "UnitedHealthcare hopes its employees manage reimbursements honestly.",
        "联合健康保险公司（UnitedHealthcare）希望他的员工诚实地管理赔付。"
    ],
    [
        "They may overemphasize the likelihood of economic success (\"I will be making a lot more money in a few years\") and underemphasize the commonplace problems that regularly challenge family budgets (\"I will be losing my job or getting a divorce\").",
        "他们可能会过度强调经济成功的可能性（\"我会在未来几年赚很多钱\"）但却对时时威胁家庭预算的问题考虑不足（\"我会失业或离婚\"）。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Japan could become one of the few rays of light in an otherwise gloomy advanced-country landscape.",
        "事实上，日本可以称为死气沉沉的发达国家中的活力之光。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon after this incident, the highly effective Jordanian intelligence service began assisting the Iraqi government in going after the al-Qaeda network in Iraq.",
        "此次事件发生后不久，约旦高效的情报部门开始协助伊拉克追捕在伊拉克境内的基地组织网络。"
    ],
    [
        "And while its force – waxing and waning since the decades preceding World War I – is nowadays being tempered by geopolitics, and by the impulse to slow the pace of technological change, the digital transformation will propel globalization forward, albeit in a different form.",
        "全球化的力量——在一战前的几十年以来一直起起伏伏——最近受到了地缘政治，以及降低技术变革速度的力量的制约，但数字转型将推动全球化继续前进，不过是以不同的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, Europe and America have grown well below their capacity (despite huge unmet demand throughout the world) and unemployment has climbed to around 10% on both continents (with youth unemployment reaching an alarming 20%).",
        "从那以后，欧美的发展速度显著低于其实际潜力（尽管面对着全世界的巨大需求也是如此）而大西洋两岸的失业率也攀升到近10%（青年人失业率则上升到危险的20%）。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of today’s populist backlash is rooted in the belief, not entirely unjustified, that this scenario describes much economic policymaking in recent decades.",
        "当前的民粹主义反弹也部分根源于这一信念，而且不是完全没有道理的，这种情况解释了近几十年来的许多经济决策。"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, its balance sheet is not big enough.",
        "原因之一是它的资产负债表还不够大。"
    ],
    [
        "Does a nineteenth-century approach to pursuing economic gain justify ongoing enmity with one’s neighbors?",
        "19世纪追求经济利益的做法是否能为与邻国对抗作出合理的解释？"
    ],
    [
        "Senegalese firms seek to help their Spanish business partners, while Portugal extends an almost royal welcome to the leaders of their former colony, newly oil-rich Angola.",
        "塞内加尔的公司在寻求方法帮助其西班牙商业合作伙伴。 同时，葡萄牙为石油资源丰富的安哥拉---曾经是葡萄牙的殖民地的领导人举办了近乎皇室待遇的欢迎仪式。"
    ],
    [
        "Informal was married with formal.",
        "非正式与正式并存。"
    ],
    [
        "But they, too, don’t want default settings that leave them feeling exposed.",
        "但他们也不愿意使用那些可能泄露私隐的默认设置。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Europe should transform the ESM into a European Monetary Fund capable of providing policy assessment and advice, as well as financial assistance – possibly drawing on European Commission staff.",
        "最后，欧洲应该让ESM变为欧洲货币基金，让它负责提供政策评估和建议以及金融援助——可以通过欧盟委员会授权。"
    ],
    [
        "Collective punishment and targeting the innocent is forbidden in the Koran in more than 20 verses: “That no burdened person (with sins) shall bear the burden (sins) of another” (The Star Chapter 53:38).",
        "《古兰经》里有不止20行经文禁止集体惩罚以及攻击无辜者：“一个负罪的人，不负别人的罪”（53：38）"
    ],
    [
        "But support for Putin, though broad, may not be deep.",
        "但对普京的支持虽然普遍，根基并不牢固。"
    ],
    [
        "Mass hysteria at Nazi rallies was a form of ecstasy too.",
        "纳粹崛起时期的群众歇斯底里也是摇摆的一种。"
    ],
    [
        "But reducing the overall corporate rate would increase after-tax returns on past investments, while limiting accelerated depreciation would lower after-tax returns on new investments.",
        "但降低总体公司税率会增加过去投资的税后回报，而限制加速折旧会降低新投资的税后回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Italian men may pity the aging, isolated leader, who looks increasingly like his wax effigy at Madame Tussaud’s.",
        "意大利男性可能会同情这位日渐衰老孤立的领导人，因为他越来越像自己在杜莎夫人蜡像馆里的蜡像了。"
    ],
    [
        "For the 12 months ending in July, the St. Louis Fed reports that bank reserves rose 31%.",
        "在截至7月的12个月中，圣路易斯联邦储备银行报告其银行准备金增加了31%。"
    ],
    [
        "In poor households, they are also likely to receive less food than boys, placing their physical health and development at even greater risk.",
        "在贫困家庭中，他们得到的食物也往往少于男童，从而使她们的身体健康和发育处于更大的风险之中。"
    ],
    [
        "So this brings us to the need to increase “normal” access limits.",
        "所以，这使我们有必要增加“正常的”配额限额。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Chinese authorities only recently showed what they think of treaty obligations and of the “golden age” of Sino-British relations (much advertised by British ministers), by abducting a British citizen (and four other Hong Kong residents) on the city’s streets.",
        "事实上，通过在香港大街上绑架一名英国公民（和其他四名香港居民）的行为，中国政府最近才向外界表明他们对中英关系“黄金年代”条约义务（受到英国大臣们广为宣传）的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "But while it would be a strategic error for Erdoğan to enter Putin’s orbit, plenty of leaders have made strategic errors before.",
        "尽管埃尔多安进入普京的轨道是个错误，但之前犯下战略错误的领袖绝不在少数。"
    ],
    [
        "Though exchange rates are notoriously unpredictable, the best guess is that a slow unwinding of the massive US trade deficit will keep the dollar on a path of gradual long-term decline.",
        "尽管众所周知汇率的不可预测的，但是大家预言美国庞大的贸易赤字的缓慢冲销将使美元从长期来看会逐渐下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Geopolitical tensions, transport costs, and infrastructure bottlenecks mean that oil-consuming countries are willing to pay a premium for energy security, including the accumulation of strategic supplies on their own territory.",
        "地缘政治紧张局势、运输成本和基础设施瓶颈意味着石油消费国愿意为能源安全支付溢价，包括在本国囤积战略供给。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Russia's president is rallying behind Yanukovych, who has open backing from Russia's ambassador in Kiev, former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.",
        "俄罗斯总统站在维克多·亚努克维奇这一边，因为他得到了俄国驻基辅大使、前总理维克多·谢赫诺密丁的公开支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush frequently referred to the beneficial effects of democracy on security.",
        "克林顿和布什都频繁引证民主对安全的有益作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Kenen was mainly concerned with short-term transfers to smooth out cyclical bumpiness.",
        "柯南主要关心的是短期转移可以平滑周期性起伏。"
    ],
    [
        "As the economist Alberto Alesina has found from studies of fiscal stabilization in OECD countries, eliminating fiscal deficits through spending cuts tends to be much better for the economy than eliminating them through tax increases.",
        "经济学家阿尔贝托·阿勒西纳（Alberto Alesina）研究了经合组织国家的财务稳定状况，发现通过减支消除财政赤字比通过增税对经济好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "And, more broadly, policymakers at the national and international levels have begun to pay more attention to the threat of AMR.",
        "在更广的范围上，国家和国际层面的决策者也开始将更多注意力集中在AMR的威胁上。"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of leadership still exists.",
        "这类领导力仍然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Every day that we take a step toward delivering economic development, creating jobs, and raising standards of living, we undermine the ideologies of fear and hate that feed on hopelessness.",
        "我们在创造经济发展和就业机会、提高生活水平方面每进一步，都能削弱滋生绝望的恐惧和憎恨的意识形态。"
    ],
    [
        "This transformation was not achieved through independent start-ups. It was done through conglomerates, or chaebols in Korean.",
        "如此变化并不是通过独立的创业企业完成的，而是通过集团公司（韩语称之为财阀）完成的。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are still potential investors who cannot find any suitable investment opportunities in China, generating excess resources, which in turn are invested in US government securities.",
        "但仍然有不少潜在投资者在中国找不到任何合适的投资机会，他们手里握着过剩的资源，只能投资于美国国债。"
    ],
    [
        "We are about to learn that lesson again.",
        "我们即将再次领教这一教训。"
    ],
    [
        "But this factor alone demands serious attention, given the single market’s size and close geographic proximity.",
        "但鉴于欧盟单一市场的规模和隔海相望的地理位置，这一因素本身就需要高度关注。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also an uninhibited self-confidence about them. They take double-digit growth in their own companies for granted.",
        "而他们也拥有超乎寻常的自信，每年两位数的公司增长对他们来说是家常便饭。"
    ],
    [
        "Don’t rule it out.",
        "不要排除这一可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Civilizing the City",
        "城市文明化"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Roma-bashing is helping far-right political parties to mobilize and nationalist leaders to win votes.",
        "事实上，抨击罗马人正在成为极右翼政党煽动民众和民族主义领导人赢得选票的助推器。"
    ],
    [
        "The second macro-bloc is “Greater Eurasia,” featuring China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran, and possibly India.",
        "另一个宏观板块是“大欧亚”（Greater Eurasia），由中国、俄罗斯、哈萨克斯坦、伊朗，也许还有印度组成。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberal intellectuals and Western observers applauded the prosecution and hailed it as one of the greatest achievements of the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who had since come to power.",
        "自由派知识分子和西方观察家称赞这次起诉是之后开始掌权的雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安总理政府最伟大的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that UberPOP drivers, unlike taxi drivers, do not cover passenger insurance also amounts to unfair competition, and must be remedied.",
        "UberPOP司机不像出租司机那样缴纳乘客险同样构成了必须加以纠正的不正当竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "The government’s fixation on weiwen, or stability maintenance, has resulted in China becoming the world’s only important country whose official internal-security budget is larger than its official national-defense budget.",
        "中国政府的维稳需要已经导致中国成为世界上唯一一个内部安全预算高过国防预算的大国。"
    ],
    [
        "But these incentives stand the best chance of continuing the flow of productivity-enhancing technology, from startups to the research divisions of established companies in industries from technology to energy to health care.",
        "但这些激励因素却代表着了实现持续生产力提升的最佳机遇，从科技行业到能源行业再到健康产业，从创业企业到现有企业的研究部门，都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is what this would mean if he were to make it to the White House.",
        "问题在于如果他真的入主白宫，这将意味着什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The most realistic scenario is now a three-front war pitting Israel against Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah.",
        "现在最现实的情景就是一场叙利亚、哈马斯和真主党三方对以色列的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU must engage with Asia on at least three mutually beneficial fronts, with trade being the most important.",
        "欧盟必须在三个方面与亚洲展开互利互动，其中最重要的是贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of Hariri’s legacy was the award of quasi-monopolistic licences to cronies – for mobile telephones, for example – and the sale of government debt at highly profitable rates to local banks in which had a direct interest.",
        "哈里里遗策的一部分就是将半垄断式的许可授予亲信—例如移动电话业务—以及将政府债务以很高的利润率卖给有直接利益关系的地方银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany had a current-account surplus of 2.1% of GDP at the time, while Japan’s was 4.4%.",
        "德国当时的经常账户盈余占GDP的2. 1%，日本则占4."
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, with its outright monetary transaction (OMT) program, the European Central Bank has offered to buy peripheral eurozone countries’ sovereign bonds in the secondary market – provided that they sign up to agreed reforms.",
        "类似地，通过直接货币交易（OMT）计划，欧洲央行将在二级市场购买欧元区外围国主权债券——只要它们拿出说好的改革方案。"
    ],
    [
        "With the exception of international terrorists and remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime, almost everyone, including Iraqis who eye America's occupying forces with suspicion, wish to see the task of rebuilding Iraq, both politically and materially, fulfilled.",
        "除了国际恐怖分子和萨达姆政权的残余势力，几乎每一个人，包括对美国占领军持怀疑态度的伊拉克人，都希望看到伊拉克被重建，不管是在政治上还是物质上。"
    ],
    [
        "In parallel with the Scandinavian crisis, communism collapsed in Eastern Europe in 1989 and in 1991 in the Baltic states.",
        "与斯堪的纳维亚危机形成对照的是，共产主义于1989年在东欧崩溃，于1991年在巴尔干地区崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Officially regarded as an omnipotent genius, he is worshipped like a god and shown constantly surrounded by people, including his highest military officers festooned in medals, laughing or clapping, or shouting hysterically.",
        "朝鲜官方将其视为无所不能的天才，他像神一样被人们所崇拜，只要一露面身边总是如众星捧月，身上挂满了奖章的朝鲜最高军事指挥官追随在他左右，金正恩总是大笑或者鼓掌，或者歇斯底里地大声叫喊。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the CAPE ratio has been higher than it is today only twice in its 135-plus year history – in 1929 and in 2000. Those are not comforting precedents.",
        "事实上，在过去135年中只出现过两个该指数高于当前点位的年份——1929和2000年，而这可不是什么让人放心的先例。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even when the cause of human rights is being advanced, the Human Rights Act is now overlooked.",
        "事实上，即便人权的原则得到了推进，《人权法案》如今却遭到了忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, I’m suspicious of concentrations of power of any kind.",
        "最后我想说的是，我质疑任何形式的权威的高度集中。"
    ],
    [
        "A RAND study projects that by 2015, China’s military expenditure will be more than six times higher than Japan’s, and its accumulated military capital stock will be roughly five times higher (measured at purchasing power parity).",
        "一项RAND研究预计到2015年，（根据购买力平价估计）中国的军事开支将会比日本高出六倍，中国的累计军事资本股将大约高出五倍。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, many investors are nervous because China’s future growth story is unclear to them.",
        "简言之，许多投资者之所以紧张，是因为中国的未来增长故事不够清晰。"
    ],
    [
        "Power in a network flows from connectedness, or what network theorists call “centrality.”",
        "网络联结的力量来源于互联互通，也就是网络理论家所说的“集中”。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it means identifying and backing those groups whose anti-extremist messages resonate with the intended audience.",
        "相反，这意味着找到反恐信息能与目标受众产生共鸣的团体并且给予支持。"
    ],
    [
        "It could create a single bank supervisor, enhance the European Commission’s powers, or create a European Treasury.",
        "它可以创立一个单一的银行监管者，增强欧洲委员会的权力，或者创建一个欧洲财政部。"
    ],
    [
        "A final settlement of the lengthy dispute with Egypt over the waters of the Blue Nile – which rises in Ethiopia – appears to be in sight, and could have a powerful impact on economic growth.",
        "最终解决与埃及就蓝色尼罗河水域（埃塞俄比亚是尼罗河的发源地）的长期争端似乎胜利在望，这可能会对经济发展产生巨大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "And it means having in place adequate response plans, including for evacuation.",
        "这意味着制定充分的响应预案，包括撤离。"
    ],
    [
        "I am always amazed when governments think they are an exception to this rule.",
        "有些政府认为它们是这一规则的例外，我对此总是表示惊讶。"
    ],
    [
        "While this rivalry will have a military component, as evidenced by China’s enormous military buildup, it will manifest itself primarily in terms of economic, political, and normative spheres of influence.",
        "美中之间的较量包含一定的均是因素，中国大规模的军事建设就是明证，但主要领域还是经济、政治以及影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Resolving the island’s longstanding division would nest Cyprus more comfortably in the EU, and the economic effects would be manifold, extending throughout the eastern Mediterranean.",
        "消除岛上长期分裂会使塞浦路斯更充分地融入欧盟，并将产生波及整个地中海东部地区的全方位的经济影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2005, the UN Millennium Project recommended specific ways to scale up primary health care in the poorest countries, with the high-income countries helping to cover the costs that the poorest could not pay by themselves.",
        "2005年，联合国千年项目给出了如何增进最穷国家初级卫生保障的具体办法，其中高收入国家应该帮助最穷国家承担后者无法独力承担的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "As Trump moves from populism to policy, liberals should not turn away in disgust and despair, but rather engage with Trumpism’s positive potential.",
        "随着特朗普从民粹主义转向政策，自由派不应该带着厌恶和绝望转身，而应该携手特朗普主义的积极潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "The American press has reported that both D’Amato and Mogilevich have past ties to The Bank of New York Mellon, which extended loans to D’Amato’s Senate campaign in the early 1980s, and allegedly laundered money for Russian organized crime groups in the 1990s.",
        "据美媒报道阿马托和莫吉列维奇两人都曾与纽约梅隆银行有过联系，而这家银行曾在20世纪80年代初为阿马托的参议院竞选活动提供贷款，并据称参与了20世纪90年代俄罗斯有组织犯罪集团的洗钱活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia should have repented for Stalinism and the gulag system.",
        "俄国理应对斯大林主义和古拉格体系表示忏悔。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the dozen or so insecticides WHO has approved as safe for house spraying, the most effective is DDT.”",
        "在世卫组织批准的可用于家庭喷洒的十数种杀虫剂中，DDT是最有效的。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "I do not know if Wiesel was a “great” writer.",
        "我不知道维瑟尔是不是“伟大的”作家。"
    ],
    [
        "That incentive increases if it can command the resources of a more democratically governed state, where citizens agree to pay taxes (and pay off future debt) because they also control the government.",
        "上述动机随着对民主国家资源的控制力而增强，民主国家的民众愿意纳税（并清偿未来债务）是因为他们同样能掌控政府。"
    ],
    [
        "These late movers were also likely to have been sophisticated electronic or institutional traders; some were probably using arbitrage-based strategies that relied on the futures market for a calculation of the fair price.",
        "这些后觉者同样可能是久经沙场的电子或机构交易员； 有些人可能还在运用以期货市场公平价值为基础的套利策略。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Johns Hopkins University Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project, headed by Lester Salamon, the US leads major countries in private contributions to nonprofits.",
        "根据莱斯特·萨勒门领导的约翰·霍普金斯大学比较非营利部门研究项目的数据，美国在非营利机构的私人捐款上领先于其他主要国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, continuing to raise borrowing costs would be a mistake.",
        "在这种形势下，继续提高借贷费用将会是一个错误。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even if the optimists are partly vindicated, Xi’s claim that China has found a better way to run a modern society and economy seems far wide of the mark.",
        "但是，即便乐观派有一些道理，习近平所宣称的中国已经找到了一条更好的社会和经济现代化之路也似乎难以令人信服。"
    ],
    [
        "In these dynamic circumstances, Saudi Arabia stands out.",
        "在这种活跃的气氛中，沙特阿拉伯就显得尤为与众不同。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are deeper differences.",
        "但他们之间还有更深层次的差异。"
    ],
    [
        "His forecast represented a simple extrapolation of two trends: continued financial deepening worldwide (that is, faster growth of financial assets than of the real economy), and London’s maintenance of its share of the global financial business.",
        "他的预测只不过是两大趋势的外推：全球范围的持续金融深化（即金融资产增长快于实体经济）以及伦敦保持在全球金融业务中的份额。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Asian countries are helping to fuel one another’s innovative success.",
        "事实上，亚洲国家正在助推彼此的创新成功。"
    ],
    [
        "PALO ALTO – My close friend Kris Olson died last week.",
        "发自美国加州帕罗奥多市 —— 我的密友克里斯·奥尔森上星期离开了人世。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rule is merely a formula purporting to explain why the Fed set its policy interest rate as it did in the 1980s and early 1990s, the period Taylor considered in his original study.",
        "但泰勒规则只是一个公式，其目的是为了解释美联储为何要在20世纪80年代和90年代初（泰勒最初的研究所考察的时期）制定这样的政策利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, given today’s hyper-partisan environment in the US, there is a danger that fast-track negotiating authority – under which Congress binds itself to an up-or-down vote on trade agreements (thereby precluding amendments and filibusters) – will not be given to the president.",
        "当然，考虑当当今美国高度党派化的政治环境，美国总统未必能够获得“快车道”谈判权——国会对贸易协定仍坚持要么否决要么通过的态度（从而排除了修正和拖延的空间）。"
    ],
    [
        "“We must ensure that the people can buy; we must ensure that industries can produce…”",
        "“我们必须保证人们能够买东西； 我们必须保证工业能够生产东西……”"
    ],
    [
        "Efforts such as the Inclusive Growth in Cities Initiative and the United Nation’s Habitat III conference are helping to turn the tide against rising inequality one city at a time.",
        "城市包容性增长计划和联合国第三届人居会议等活动有助于逐一解决城市的不平等性加剧问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The result will be trade liberalization in an area that produces 40% of global GDP.",
        "其结果将是一个站全球GDP份额40%的自由贸易区。"
    ],
    [
        "All of the US strikes have occurred farther north, in Pakistan’s tribal Waziristan region, although the leadership of the Afghan Taliban and of its allied groups, like the Haqqani network and the Hekmatyar band, is not holed up there.",
        "所有美国的袭击都发生在偏远的北部，巴基斯坦部落的瓦齐里斯坦地区，尽管阿富汗塔利班及其哈卡尼组织和希克马蒂亚尔组织等盟友没有隐藏在那里。"
    ],
    [
        "Service-sector industries throughout the EU must be opened up.",
        "整个欧盟的服务行业必须开放。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of, say, building a new headquarters, renting a storefront, or purchasing a restaurant – traditional requirements that demanded large amounts of up-front capital – they can open a satellite sales office, create an online store, or launch a food truck.",
        "它们会放弃建设新总部、租用新店面或购买新餐厅等需要投入大量前期资本的传统需求，转而开设卫星销售点、设立网上商店或启用流动食品车。"
    ],
    [
        "Faced with a rapidly growing health crisis, the British authorities – equipped with little scientific understanding of the disease, and under pressure from a powerful industrial lobby – made a fatal mistake.",
        "面对迅速发酵的健康危机，英国当局——对该病几无科学理解并处于强大的行业游说压力下——犯下了致命的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "But once unification has happened, the pain of dismantling the political and economic settlement usually overwhelms the apparent gains from a break-up.",
        "但一旦统一事件发生了，废除政治和经济制度安排的痛苦常常会比分裂的直接好处更大。"
    ],
    [
        "So deregulation and integration of services will be essential if the Euro area’s TFP is to improve, as more than two-thirds of total income in most EU economies is generated in this sector.",
        "所以，欧元区的全要素生产率如果想要改善，解除服务领域管制并且加以联合将是至关重要的，这是因为大多数欧盟国家经济体总收入的三分之二是在这一领域创造的。"
    ],
    [
        "Facing external payments obligations, and with the currency under pressure, the government will again seek a proposed $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund and co-financing from other multilateral and bilateral sources.",
        "在面临外部支付义务且本国货币倍受压的情况下，政府再次向国际货币基金组织寻求48亿美元贷款，并从其他多边及双边来源进行融资。"
    ],
    [
        "With 59 dead and more than 500 injured, McConnell insisted that it was “[e]ntirely premature to be discussing about legislative solutions” to America’s gun-violence epidemic.",
        "面对59死500多伤的情况，麦康奈尔仍然坚持，就美国枪支暴力痼疾而言，“讨论通过立法方案解决仍然完全不成熟”。"
    ],
    [
        "As the World Bank’s Chief Economist under Wolfensohn, I had argued that failing to deal with corruption risked undermining growth and poverty alleviation.",
        "我在沃尔福森手下担任世界银行的首席经济学家。 我曾经提出，不对付腐败问题就会可能破坏增长和减少贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "They will naturally rely on the most accessible facts as their guide.",
        "他们自然会以最容易获得的事实为指导。"
    ],
    [
        "But what is the justification for that confrontation?",
        "但希腊与其债权人的冲突的合理性何在？"
    ],
    [
        "But the focus on governance reform has not proved nearly as effective as promised in fostering development.",
        "但专注于治理改革并不一定能够有效促进发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Nestlé was the first of the Big 10 to support this principle fully.",
        "雀巢公司是十大品牌中第一个全面支持这一原则的公司。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, good governance is an ostensibly technocratic answer to what donors and other well-meaning international groups consider bad policies and, especially, bad politics.",
        "换句话说，好治理是出资人和好意国际集团所谓的坏政策和（尤其是）坏政治问题的肤浅的技术官僚答案。"
    ],
    [
        "“Why did you do that?",
        "“为什么这么做？"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, many of the problems that we now face – whether climate change, financial crisis, development challenges, terrorism, or nuclear proliferation – reflect growing global interdependence.",
        "类似地，许多我们如今所面临的问题——不管是气候变化、金融危机、发展挑战、恐怖主义还是核浓缩——反映了日渐增加的全球相互依赖程度。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not for lack of political representation.",
        "并非政治上得不到代表。"
    ],
    [
        "But EU institutions have not been entirely inactive.",
        "但欧盟机构也不是完全无作为。"
    ],
    [
        "With American backing, Israeli bombs and missiles rained down on Lebanon.",
        "在美国的支持下，以色列的炸弹和导弹在黎巴嫩倾盆而落。"
    ],
    [
        "Protecting society from enemies, foreign and domestic, is once again the order of the day.",
        "当务之急再次变成保护社会免遭国内外敌人的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Putin is more reluctant than ever to offer territorial concessions, lest it tarnish his domestic image as a staunch defender of Russian national interests.",
        "8%。 因此，普京更加不愿意在领土问题上让步，唯恐玷污其俄罗斯国家利益坚定捍卫者的国内形象。"
    ],
    [
        "With Trump in the White House, the United States might get the white-supremacist agenda of his “alt-right” allies: massive discrimination against minorities and other groups, and probably some form of police state to detain and expel millions of residents.",
        "如果特朗普入主白宫，美国可能采取他的“高级右翼”（alt-right）盟友的白人至上主义日程：严重歧视少数族裔和其他群体，并可能实行某种形式的警察国家抓捕和驱逐数百万居民。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unless they ensure that public resources are not stolen, and that public power is not used for private gain, they will remain poor, right?",
        "除非它们保证公共资源不被窃取，公共权力不用于私利，否则它们就会一直穷下去，对吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The new Sustainable Development Goals that are to be agreed this year underscore the challenges that world governments must address by 2030.",
        "今年即将通过的新的可持续发展目标罗列了各国政府到2030年必须解决的难题。"
    ],
    [
        "Education remains a key area where the EU should contribute to the development of the southern neighborhood, if only because young people are a growing majority of the Arab population.",
        "欧盟应该推动其南部邻国的教育发展，因为年轻人占阿拉伯人口的比重正在逐年提高。"
    ],
    [
        "For further evidence of this phenomenon, consider Piketty’s own data.",
        "对于这一现象的进一步证据可参考皮克提自己列出的数据。"
    ],
    [
        "All take somewhat different approaches and offer different recommendations, making it hard for policymakers to see the forest through the trees.",
        "上述所有报告都采取了某种不同的研究路径并提出了各式各样的建议，也令政策制定者们如坠五里雾中。"
    ],
    [
        "Although one can readily agree that high-yielding government investments in education and infrastructure are especially justified today, the idea that demand permanently constrains supply in a significant way is dubious.",
        "虽然人们很容易认可教育和基础设施领域高效益的政府投资在今天看来尤其必要，但由此推定需求将永远限制供给的看法却在很大程度上值得怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "That legacy may be all the more painful when we consider that many homeowners suffered unnecessarily devastating losses because of their lack of insurance or their underinsurance, often owing to the belief that they could not afford the right coverage.",
        "而想到很多屋主遭受到不必要损失，或者是由于未上保险或者由于自认为无力承担全部保费而选择不足额保险所致，我们便更加痛心疾首。"
    ],
    [
        "The disqualification of both sends a strong message from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei.",
        "同时取消两者的竞选资格是最高领袖阿亚图拉·阿里·侯赛尼·哈梅内伊发出的一个强烈讯息。"
    ],
    [
        "Individual stalls for sows, already outlawed in the United Kingdom and Sweden, will be banned across the entire EU from 2013.",
        "英国和瑞典已经禁止用独立畜栏饲养育种母猪，并且从2013年开始，欧盟所有国家都将禁止采用这样的饲养方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Beijing’s coal-induced smog forced people to stay in their homes, closed highways, and diverted flights.",
        "北京煤炭引起的雾霾迫使人们不敢外出、高速公路关闭、航班延误。"
    ],
    [
        "Other interesting developments on the eve of the election include a fierce public debate over whether to vote or to boycott the presidential race.",
        "在大选前夕，还出现了一些其他的有趣现象，其中包括一场关于是投票还是要抵制总统竞选的激烈的公众辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an initiative must include a comprehensive regional aid and development package.",
        "这一方案必须包括一个全面的区域援助和发展计划。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1990s, even countries long known for strong civic trust, such as Sweden and Norway, recorded a decline.",
        "二十世纪九十年代，就连长期以来以公民信任而闻名的国家，如瑞典和挪威，也呈现出民众对政府信任下降的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Bank regulators in the US and elsewhere are now seriously considering such changes, but they have yet to determine how comprehensive the compensation makeover should be.",
        "美国和其他地区的银行监管者目前正在认真考虑这些变革，但仍未想出这一薪酬方案大变脸的全部细节。"
    ],
    [
        "Three factors are driving these developments.",
        "三个因素推动了这些发展趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Income support should be complemented by preventive health programs, while health literacy programs could help to diminish the link between low cognitive ability and bad health.",
        "这是一个错误，因为这一转变的后果——收入不平等性上升、社会保障网弱化以及卫生医疗普及度下降——会在长期加剧健康不平等性。"
    ],
    [
        "The higher the wage cost, the lower the subsidy, until it has tapered off to zero.",
        "工资成本越高补贴越低，直到为零。"
    ],
    [
        "As consumers stopped buying, real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates should have fallen to encourage thrifty households to spend.",
        "随着消费者不再买东西，真实（经通胀调整的）利率应该下降以鼓励节俭家庭增加支出。"
    ],
    [
        "And it was his policies that allowed war-devastated societies to rebuild and made strong allies of defeated Germany and Japan, in contrast to the havoc perpetrated at the end of World War I by the Treaty of Versailles.",
        "让饱受战争摧残的社会重建、让战败的德国和日本成为强大的盟友从而避免一战结束后凡尔赛和约所带来的浩劫的也是杜鲁门的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Alexander the Great is said to have done something similar when conquering Persia.",
        "亚历山大大帝据说在征服波斯的过程中也用了同样的计谋。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, whereas some states hope to revive the GGE process or enlarge it into a broader UN process, others are skeptical, and believe that future progress will be limited to discussions among like-minded states, rather than leading to universal agreements.",
        "此外，尽管一些国家希望修订GGE流程或将它扩大为一个更广泛的联合国流程，但其他国家对此持狐疑态度，认为未来进展将局限于观念相近的国家之间的讨论，而不是形成普适的协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestically oriented macroeconomists look at the situation roughly like this: at some point in the future, foreign central banks will become less willing to continue buying massive amounts of dollar-denominated securities in order to prop up the greenback.",
        "国内宏观经济学家的观点大致如下：未来的某个时刻，国外央行会不愿继续为了保持美元价值而购进大量以美元计价的证券。"
    ],
    [
        "In the new Congress' first couple of weeks, the House passed a bill scaling back the Dodd-Frank financial reform act.",
        "在新国会的最初几周中，众议院通过了削减多德-弗兰克（Dodd-Frank）金融改革法的法案。"
    ],
    [
        "As the IADB has pointed out in several earlier reports, productivity has been stagnant in most of Latin America for a half-century or more.",
        "泛美开发银行在此前的多份报告中指出，拉丁美洲大部分国家生产率处于停滞状态已逾半个世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "Not that Barientos would swap places with his father.",
        "但这并不是说巴兰托斯愿意和父亲易地而处。"
    ],
    [
        "Within weeks of assuming office, Obama publicly declared his intention to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan, before he even asked his team to work out a strategy.",
        "执政才几个星期，奥巴马就公开宣布他打算让美国部队从阿富汗撤离，此前他甚至没有要求他的团队制定相关战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump is adding to that recipe massive tax cuts for the wealthy.",
        "特朗普在此基础上又加上了对富人大量减税。"
    ],
    [
        "The citizens of the techno-polis appear oblivious to how the outside world’s perception of them has changed, and radically so.",
        "这座高科技城邦的公民不在意外部世界对他们的看法如何改变，完全不在意。"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, the debate about the Gülen movement should serve as an opportunity to clarify the relationship between religion and politics, while reminding the Turkish public – and Muslim-majority countries throughout the region – of the core democratic values that have enabled Turkey to develop and thrive.",
        "更一般地说，关于葛兰运动的争论应该成为一个澄清宗教和政治关系的机会，提醒土耳其公众——以及整个地区的穆斯林多数国家——什么才是让土耳其得以发展和繁荣的核心民主价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Non-state actors also play a crucial role in the Middle East’s balance of power.",
        "非国家行动方也在中东实力平衡重扮演关键角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of people around the world remain in limbo – often needed, or pitied, but nonetheless unwanted.",
        "目前全世界有数百万人都处于这种尴尬的状态——那些国家需要他们，怜悯他们，但却不欢迎他们。"
    ],
    [
        "The combination of climate change, erosion of biodiversity, and depletion of natural resources is propelling the planet toward a tipping point, beyond which objectives like sustainable development and poverty reduction will be more difficult than ever to achieve.",
        "气候变化、生物多样性丧失和自然资源枯竭正在把地球推向临界点，越过了这个点，可持续发展和减贫等目标实现难度就将大大增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent events in Georgia remind us that resolving the region's \"frozen conflicts\"- i.e., those in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, of Transdneistria in Moldova, and Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan - must be a priority.",
        "最近发生在格鲁吉亚的事件提醒我们：必须先铲除该地区\"根深蒂固的矛盾\"－也就是南奥塞梯和阿布哈兹、摩尔多瓦托斯德尼查、阿塞拜疆纳哥诺-卡拉巴赫的分离主义势力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, today, an erudite, westernized lawyer like Jinnah who isn’t a wadhera or a jagirdar would find it impossible to win a popular election in Pakistan.",
        "但是，如今，如果有象真纳那样的一位博学多才的西化律师，而又不是瓦德拉人或是领主，那他是不可能赢得巴基斯坦大选的。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe may be something of an exception to such trends, as the election of President Emmanuel Macron in France has given rise to a government that is committed to reforming the EU.",
        "欧洲也许是这一趋势的例外，马克龙当选法国总统，并将组建致力于改革欧盟的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, purchases of EIB bonds would enable the ECB to undertake quantitative easing without triggering the degree of controversy implied by intervening in 18 separate sovereign-bond markets, where concerns that ECB purchases would affect the relative pricing of sovereigns are very real.",
        "更重要的是，购买欧洲投行债券能让欧洲央行开启量化宽松而不触发干预18个独立主权债务市场所可能引起的争议——有许多人担心欧洲央行的购买操作会影响主权债券的相对价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, the West’s effective crackdown on domestic extremism has tended to drive would-be terrorists – now often based in remote parts of the world, where they hope to operate with impunity – to higher levels of technical sophistication.",
        "最重要的是，西方对其境内极端主义的有效压制迫使那些潜在的恐怖分子——大多数躲在全球偏远地区，希望因此逍遥法外——使用更高级别的技术（来逃脱搜捕）。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no other way to reverse the widespread perception across the region that the US has imperial ambitions.",
        "要想转变中东地区对美帝国主义野心的广泛猜测，除此之外再也别无他法。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy embargoes have generally proven counterproductive.",
        "从总体来看，能源禁运的效果有害无益。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, all European countries could redouble their efforts to educate and train their residents for the digital era.",
        "最后，所有欧洲国家都可以加倍努力去教育和训练自己的国民去拥抱数字化时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the prospect of further leadership changes and increasing instability, meeting that challenge has never been more important.",
        "考虑到领导权进一步变更和局势越来越不稳定的总体展趋势，迎接这一挑战从来没有今天这样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But, like most cities, Boston reports its assets at book value, which are tied to the historic cost.",
        "但像多数城市一样，波士顿报告的资产账面价值与其历史成本挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "To stay below the two-degree limit, the world’s governments must embrace a core concept: “deep decarbonization” of the world’s energy system.",
        "要想让升温幅度限制在2度以下，世界各国政府需要明白一个核心概念：世界能源体系的“深度去碳化”。"
    ],
    [
        "They point to worsening income inequality, as images beamed worldwide from post-hurricane New Orleans illustrated all too clearly.",
        "他们指的是日益拉大的收入差距，这一点在新奥尔良遭受飓风袭击后传送到世界各地的电视画面中已经有了清楚地证明。"
    ],
    [
        "Disruptive change may be required, and here each of us can make a profound difference.",
        "我们也许需要破坏性变革，在这方面，我们每个人都有可能造成深远影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, we should turn waste into energy and be smart about agricultural leftovers.",
        "的确，我们应该将废物转化为能源并对剩饭剩菜进行智能利用。"
    ],
    [
        "Emotions run high in Iran too, which is happy to return to its familiar role as eternal victim in plots by the Great Powers.",
        "“而伊朗国内也情绪高涨，伊朗欣然又扮演了它的老角色，即它是大国阴谋永恒的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "He is good at giving upbeat speeches, but this will not be enough.",
        "他善于做出激动人心的演说，但是这还不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, “optimal” political areas change over time, owing to changes in technology and demography, and their interaction with evolving cultural, ethnic, religious, and other factors.",
        "同样，由于科技和人口的变化，以及两者与不断变化的文化，种族，宗教等因素的相互影响，“最佳”政治区域也随着时间的推移而发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Renminbi Challenge",
        "人民币的挑战"
    ],
    [
        "But austerity will not work; this must be an investment-led recovery, with official measures oriented toward boosting growth by reducing the cost of doing business.",
        "但紧缩不会奏效； 必须来一场投资拉动的复苏，官方措施应以降低营商成本为手段刺激增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s threat, therefore, is an expression more of discontent with Turkey than of genuine concern that the Malatya facility will adversely affect its deterrent capacity.",
        "因此伊朗的威胁更多地是为了表达对土耳其的不满，而不是担心马拉蒂亚设施将削弱其遏制能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that many country-specific factors, such as political concerns and pressure from vested interests, can impede this process.",
        "问题在于许多国别因素——比如政治顾虑和来自既得利益的压力——可能阻碍这一过程。"
    ],
    [
        "But today, many Swedes, like others around the world, are having second thoughts.",
        "但是如今，和世界其他地方的人们一样，许多瑞典人却要再作考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is particularly concerned with Russian expansionism, because it is the only G-7 country that currently has a territorial dispute with Russia, which has occupied its Northern Territories since the waning days of World War II.",
        "日本特别担心俄罗斯的扩展主义，因为日本是七国集团中唯一目前与俄罗斯存在领土纠纷的国家，自二战末期以来，北方四岛便一直由俄罗斯占领。"
    ],
    [
        "After a few days or weeks, memory abruptly returns.",
        "在几天或几周之后，记忆突然间又恢复了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as our work in Bangladesh demonstrates, the Global South has the skills to beat it.",
        "但是，我们在孟加拉国的工作证明，全球南方拥有击败它的本事。"
    ],
    [
        "From 2015-2040, this group is expected to shrink by more than 115 million.",
        "从2015年到2040年，这一群体预计将减少1. 15亿人以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Another possibility would be to exploit, on an ad hoc basis, the existing flexibility in EU treaty provisions.",
        "另一个可能性是临时利用现有欧盟条约条款的灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "The second thing that must happen is that eurozone leaders and parliaments, with the cooperation of the courts, must be seen to push ahead with institutional reforms to establish not only the ESM, but also a banking union and partial debt mutualization.",
        "必须做到的第二件事情是欧元区的领导人和议会必须与法院合作积极推进机构改革，从而在建立欧洲稳定机制的同时建立银行工会，实现部分债务共同化。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial crisis laid bare the soft underbelly of globalization.",
        "这次金融危机暴露了全球化的软肋。"
    ],
    [
        "As agreed in the pact, India withdrew its “military escorts” from Tibet, and conceded to the Chinese government, at a “reasonable” price, the postal, telegraph, and public telephone services operated by the Indian government in the “Tibet region of China.”",
        "根据条约，印度从西藏撤回“军事防卫”，并以“合理”的价格向中国政府让渡印度政府在“中国西藏地区”所经营的邮政、电报和公共电话服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the global economy will remain at risk from renewed protectionist pressures and economic or political events that might trigger a disorderly resolution of the imbalances and undermine growth.",
        "否则，全球的经济将继续面临新保护主义压力的威胁，或者因某些经济或政治事件而触发对贸易失衡的无序的解决方案以及破坏经济的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, much remains to be done.",
        "平心而论，前路仍然漫漫。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, at stake in the mortgage settlement are fundamental and systemic breaches of the rule of law – perjury and fraud on an economy-wide scale.",
        "事实上，在按揭和解案背后是对法治精神的基础性、系统性的违背，是侵蚀了整个经济的伪证和欺诈。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this implies a disaster for developing countries.",
        "这些并不表明发展中国家大难临头。"
    ],
    [
        "But this strategy cannot work for large institutions.",
        "但这一策略对大机构束手无策。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent poll in the newspaper Reforma found that Calderon would now defeat him by 19 percentage points.",
        "改革报最近所作调查显示，卡尔德隆现在可以19个百分点击败洛佩斯。"
    ],
    [
        "There are now detailed manuals describing the effects of different kinds of exercise on both physical and psychological health.",
        "现在有详尽的手册描述各类运动与身体和心理健康的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "And when one looks more closely at how Chinese responded, both to the unrest in Tibet and the Sichuan earthquake, one sees tangible signs that the Chinese are embracing a greater degree of free speech.",
        "而且要是仔细看看中国人对西藏骚乱和四川地震是如何反应的话，就可以发现切实迹象，也就是中国人正在接受更大程度的言论自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s young children often see more of their grandmother than of their mother.",
        "今天的小孩与祖母待在一起的时间常常比母亲多。"
    ],
    [
        "When the European Union was created, it was the embodiment of an open society – a voluntary association of equal states that surrendered part of their sovereignty for the common good.",
        "欧盟创立时曾是开放社会的化身——平等的国家自愿加入，为了实现共同的利益而放弃部分主权。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet cow vigilantism is far from extinguished in India.",
        "然而与牛有关的私刑杀害在印度远未消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Protestants replied that if a vote were held within the geographical area of the entire island, the two-thirds Catholic majority would rule.",
        "新教徒回应说，如果在整个爱尔兰范围内进行投票，占三分之二多数的天主教徒就会获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank should reverse its mistaken decision to hike interest rates.",
        "欧洲央行应该收回升息的错误决策。"
    ],
    [
        "For many, this proposal has underscored a change in investors’ behavior.",
        "对很多人而言，这种投资动议标志着投资者行为的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "And trust in the US may be the quantity in shortest supply.",
        "而对美国的信任度供给量严重短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "They will not negotiate a separate peace.",
        "别斯兰； 巴厘等等。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not an easy choice, but it is one that Iran’s leaders cannot postpone for much longer.",
        "这不是一个容易的选择，但伊朗领导人无法将这一选择拖延多久。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, markets do have moods; indeed, that is what the authorities have to learn in order to deal with financial crises.",
        "毕竟，市场是有情绪的； 实际上，要应对金融危机，这是当局必须知道的。"
    ],
    [
        "These days the Chairman of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, Ben Bernanke, likes to talk about a “global savings glut” that has produced astonishingly low real interest rates around the world.",
        "近一段时间，布什总统经济顾问委员会主席Ben Bernanke总是把“全球储蓄过剩”挂在嘴边，说这一现象造成了全球范围出奇之低的实际利率。"
    ],
    [
        "It also enables comparison of health-care performance among countries.",
        "GBD也能够比较各国的医疗表现。"
    ],
    [
        "A key element of China’s strategy is the recently established Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and to some extent the BRICS’ New Development Bank, established last year by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.",
        "中国战略的一大关键要素是最新成立的亚洲基础设施投资银行（亚投行），在某种程度上，去年由巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非共同建立的金砖国家新开发银行也可以算上。"
    ],
    [
        "The public, appalled by this display, promptly humiliated the BJP in polls for the Delhi Assembly, which the party had nearly won the previous year.",
        "公众被这一打扮震惊了，结果，在德里议会选举中，印度人民党遭到了很大的抵制——而在前一年，印度人民党几乎在德里议会选举中胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "From Iran’s perspective, any future threat originating from Iraq needs to be averted by ensuring the participation in Iraq’s government of Shiites and Kurds.",
        "从伊朗的角度而言，未来来自伊拉克的任何威胁都需要通过确保什叶派和库尔德人参与伊拉克政府来避免。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the Reagan administration came close to balking at supporting Britain’s military campaign.",
        "即使是里根政府，也逡巡不前，没有支持英国的军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout this time, examples and lessons from other countries have been important.",
        "在此期间，来自其他国家的先例和教训十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Growth Commission led by Nobel laureate Michael Spence, 13 economies took full advantage of their latecomer status after World War II and achieved annual GDP growth rates of 7% or higher – at least twice as high as developed countries’ growth rates – for 25 years or longer.",
        "对此由诺贝尔奖得主迈克尔·斯彭斯（Michael Spence）所领导的发展委员会就指出，第二次世界大战后，13个充分利用自身后发地位的经济体在25年或更长的时间里实现了7%或更高的GDP年增长率——至少两倍于发达国家的增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "A cash-strapped North Korea might be tempted to sell nuclear arms to the highest bidder, be it a terrorist group or some country that decided that it, too, needed the ultimate weapon.",
        "囿于现金的朝鲜可能向出价最高者兜售核武器，买家可能是恐怖组织，也可能是同样认为自己需要这一终极武器的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – This year’s presidential election campaign in the United States is certainly unique.",
        "坎布里奇—今年的美国总统选战毫无疑问是独特的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Seoul, Mayor Park Won-soon is leveling the playing field for small and medium-size enterprises with targeted financial support, fairer transaction and subcontracting rules, and informal-work regularization.",
        "首尔市长朴元淳正在通过定向金融支持、更公平的交易和转包规则以及非正式工作转正等手段为中小企业打造公平的竞争环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, in 2008, Russia’s then-President Dmitri Medvedev identified the US war on terror as an opportunity to create strategic partnerships with rising powers such as Brazil, and with the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), a Venezuelan-inspired bloc opposed to US designs in the region.",
        "类似地，2008年，时任俄罗斯总理梅德韦杰夫认为美国的反恐战争是与巴西等崛起强国以及与美洲玻利瓦尔联盟（ALBA，由委内瑞拉发起的反对美国对拉美指手画脚的组织）建立战略合作伙伴关系的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a tolerant country such as Sweden must not tolerate those who preach intolerance.",
        "因为即便是像瑞典这样的包容国家，也不能纵容那些散布狭隘言论的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, this is also true for the “color revolutions” – first in Georgia, and now in Ukraine, where President Viktor Yushchenko, the hero of the “Orange Revolution” in 2004, was voted out in the first round of presidential elections a few weeks ago, having received less than 6% of the vote.",
        "先是格鲁吉亚，如今轮到了乌克兰。 2004 年“橙色革命”的英雄，乌克兰总统尤先科，在几周以前的首轮总统选举中落败，只拿到了 6% 的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States has been running a chronic current account deficit, which exceeded 6 percent of GDP at its peak.",
        "美国一直存在经常帐户赤字，最高的时候超过国民总产值的6%。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, high interest rates charged on rescue packages make it impossible for weaker countries to improve their competitiveness vis-à-vis stronger ones. Divergences will continue to widen, and weaker countries will continue to weaken indefinitely.",
        "其二，拯救方案所要求的高利率使得弱国无法提升自己的竞争力，结果导致与强国之间的差距继续加大，强国恒强，弱国愈弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Rodrik proposes the creation of public venture capital firms – sovereign wealth funds – that take equity positions in exchange for the intellectual advances created through public financing.",
        "罗德里克提出设立公共风险投资公司——主权财富基金——即在公共资金资助取得的知识产权中持有股份。"
    ],
    [
        "Those gains culminated in the interventions, unthinkable a decade ago, that the United Nations Security Council authorized this year to stop unfolding human-rights catastrophes in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya.",
        "这种进步在联合国安理会今年授权阻止科特迪瓦和利比亚人权灾难时达到了高潮，如此规模的干涉行动在十年前是无法想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the end of confrontation in Europe may be proving only temporary.",
        "但事实证明欧洲对峙的终结可能只是暂时现象。"
    ],
    [
        "America and the West claim that they cannot act significantly without a UN mandate, which Russia and China are denying them by vetoing anti-Syrian resolutions in the Security Council.",
        "美国和西方国家称没有联合国授权他们无法采取行动，而联合国授权则被俄中两国在安理会否决反叙利亚决议时否决。"
    ],
    [
        "So speculators remain convinced that they are making a one-way bet – win big or break even – and continue to push the yen higher.",
        "因此，投机者仍然心安理得地单边押注——要么大赚，要么打平手——继续推高日元。"
    ],
    [
        "The picture is little better in Italy, where the current-account balance has swung from a surplus of around 2% of GDP to a 3%-of-GDP deficit over the last ten years.",
        "意大利的情况要好一些，过去十年来经常项目收支在2%GDP盈余和3%GDP赤字之间波动。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all challenges, however, are external.",
        "不过并非所有的挑战都来自外部。"
    ],
    [
        "Such economies need not follow the same blueprint.",
        "新经济不一定要有同样的蓝图。"
    ],
    [
        "A third obstacle in the path toward Syrian peace is the US-Russia stalemate.",
        "通往叙利亚和平的第三个障碍是美俄僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "The right-wing response to this challenge – essentially to dismantle the welfare state – would leave the majority of citizens exposed to economic shocks and structural shifts (merely reinforcing their sense of isolation and vulnerability).",
        "右翼对这一挑战的应对措施——本质上是打破福利国家——将让大部分公民暴露在经济冲击和结构变化的影响下（这只能加剧他们的孤独感和脆弱感）。"
    ],
    [
        "Dangerous changes in climate have already begun.",
        "危险的气候变化已经开始显露迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "The Soviet Union wasn’t ideologically anti-Western, because Communism and Socialism were Western inventions, but it was anti-Western in political terms.",
        "苏联并非在意识形态上反对西方，因为共产主义和社会主义其实都是西方的发明，但它在政治层面上反对西方。"
    ],
    [
        "As part of the group of Asian countries that will tend to balance China, India has already begun to strengthen its diplomatic relations with Japan.",
        "作为试图制衡中国的亚洲国家集团的一员，印度已开始增强其与日本的外交关系。"
    ],
    [
        "These regimes can only read the West’s dithering as a green light for their cynical agendas.",
        "这些政权只会把西方的踌躇解读为对其自私议程的默许。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, German reunification only provided the final impetus for a project conceived in the 1980s to resolve a longstanding dilemma.",
        "事实上，德国重新统一只是20世纪80年代便已成型的、解决一个长期存在的难题的工程的最后一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasingly, pillars of the establishment are sounding like shrill critics.",
        "现存的社会体制听上去越来越像是尖锐的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "All told, we found little evidence to support the claim that accepting a reasonable number of refugees and migrants from developing countries deprives native-born workers of employment.",
        "总而言之，我们没有找到多少证据来支持接受来自发展中国家合理数量的难民和移民剥夺了本地出生的劳动者就业机会的说法。"
    ],
    [
        "In countries with high levels of financial exclusion, consumers are left to rely on unregulated informal services.",
        "在金融排斥水平较高的国家，消费者不得不依赖不受监管的非正式服务。"
    ],
    [
        "But the caricature of Iran as “the tip of the spear” of global terrorism, in Saudi King Salman’s words, is not only wrongheaded, but also extremely dangerous, because it could lead to yet another Middle East war.",
        "但将伊朗说成是全球恐怖主义“枪尖”（沙特国王萨勒曼语）不但是个顽固的错误，更加非常危险，因为这可能导致中东再次爆发战争。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though the measures agreed in Minsk earlier this month offer an opportunity to enter into a political process, other crises – for example, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the advance of ISIS – have presented new, urgent challenges.",
        "此外，尽管本月早些时候在明斯克达成一致的措施有望让乌克兰危机走向政治进程，但其他危机——比如西非埃博拉病毒的肆虐和伊斯兰国的兴起——带来了新的紧迫挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The program was gradually transformed over the years as students, whether out of choice or necessity, increasingly came to rely on school lunch rather than bringing their own.",
        "多年来，随着学生（不管是有意选择还是不得已而为之）日渐依赖校园餐而不是自带便当，该计划逐渐发生了改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But Bush, following the terrorist attacks of 2001, turned his back on conservatism. He sought to radically reinvent the Middle East, not only by overthrowing the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, but also through his strident calls for democratization.",
        "但是，布什自2001年恐怖袭击以来背离了保守主义。 他寻求改造中东，其途径不仅是推翻阿富汗的塔利班政权和伊拉克的萨达姆政权，而且还高声呼吁民主化。"
    ],
    [
        "In Britain, after three months of debate about Brexit, only 37% of voters agree that Britain would be worse off economically if it left the EU – down from 38% a year ago.",
        "在英国，在针对脱盟问题辩论了三个月之后，只有37%的选民同意英国经济将在脱盟后变得更糟——比一年前的38%还少。"
    ],
    [
        "His tirade in 2000 against the liberal reforms that have transformed countries like India and China into global growth engines, reduced poverty, and benefited marginalized groups shows that he lacked good judgment on fundamental issues.",
        "此人曾经在2000发表长篇讲话，反对那些将印度和中国这类国家转变成全球增长引擎，减少贫困，并且令边缘群体收益的自由化改革，这显示出他对某些基本问题缺乏判断。"
    ],
    [
        "That is certainly the case in the US today.",
        "现在的美国显然就处于这一状态。"
    ],
    [
        "While these recovery measures are put in place, the world must also build the institutions for the twenty-first-century economy.",
        "在落实这些复苏措施的时候，世界还必须为二十一世纪的经济建立各种机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Given these costs, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has rightly stressed that “killing” Schengen would undermine the EU’s foundational goal of “ever closer union” – an objective to which, admittedly, several EU members have signed up only reluctantly.",
        "考虑到这些成本，欧盟委员会主席容克强调“杀死”申根协议将破坏欧盟“比以往更紧密的联盟”的创始目标是正确的。 实事求是地讲，一些欧盟成员国在签署这一目标时并不是心甘情愿的。"
    ],
    [
        "Elements of this vision sound attractive.",
        "这一愿景的要素看似引人入胜。"
    ],
    [
        "According to former US Vice President Al Gore, “developing countries that were once reluctant to join in the first phases of a global response to the climate crisis have themselves now become leaders in demanding action and in taking bold steps on their own initiatives.”",
        "根据美国前副总统阿尔·戈尔的说法，“曾经不愿意参加应对气候危机第一阶段全球行动的发展中国家，现在成为主动要求采取行动和实施坚决措施的领导者了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed’s domestic mandate requires it to recognize, in Fischer’s words, that “the US economy and the economies of the rest of the world have important feedback effects on each other.”",
        "美联储的国内责任要求它承认——用费舍尔的话说——“美国经济，以及世界其他国家的经济，彼此之间存在重要的反馈效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Any minimum wage would automatically also apply to immigrant workers, mitigating “unfair” competition for low-skilled jobs.",
        "任何最低工资应该自动地适用于移民工人，以缓解低技能工作上“不公平”的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "What's Ailing France?",
        "什么在削弱法国"
    ],
    [
        "But no matter how clean and efficient renewable energy sources may be, they will never fully mitigate the climatic effects that are bringing more hurricanes like Maria ashore.",
        "但无论可再生能源如何清洁高效，导致玛利亚等飓风频繁上岸的气候效应却永远无法被彻底根除。"
    ],
    [
        "This leads to a simple conclusion: The euro’s long-term stability depends far more on completing plans for a European banking union than it does on creating some new budget for the eurozone.",
        "如此，我们可以得到一个简单的结论：欧元区长期稳定更加取决于完整的欧洲银行联盟计划，而不是为欧元区建立新的预算。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, the IMF’s panel would have to look past America’s current hypocrisy.",
        "应当承认，国际货币基金组织的专家小组将会放过美国目前的伪善。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last decade, GDP growth soared, but most indices of social justice, governance performance, and public welfare deteriorated.",
        "在过去的十年，中国GDP实现了高速增长，但社会正义、治理绩效和公共福利的大部分指标反而都恶化了。"
    ],
    [
        "More immediately important is the failure of the proposed “fiscal union” to do anything for European recovery.",
        "更紧迫的则是原本提出的“财政联盟”在欧洲复苏方面毫无建树。"
    ],
    [
        "The external environment is unfavorable.",
        "外部环境不尽如人意。"
    ],
    [
        "The surreal nature of this gathering reflects the increasingly bizarre nature of Putin’s regime.",
        "此次超现实主义聚会是普京政权怪诞现实的反映。"
    ],
    [
        "Enabling a president who is clearly a danger to democracy for the sake of immediate financial gain is unpatriotic and morally reprehensible.",
        "为了眼前的金融利益而充当显然是民主的威胁的总统的帮凶，这绝非爱国，并应受到道德的谴责。"
    ],
    [
        "People close to the president-elect are considering an import tariff, set at around 10%.",
        "接近当选总统的人士正在考虑进口关税，水平定在10%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "While the battle is not over, AIDS activists know that it can be won.",
        "尽管革命尚未成功，但艾滋病活跃分子知道胜利一定属于他们。"
    ],
    [
        "But against this shared background, France exhibits some important distinctive features.",
        "但在上面所说的大的背景下，法国又具备某些与众不同的重要特征。"
    ],
    [
        "This move has already borne fruit, with record numbers of rescues late last month.",
        "此举已经取得成果，上月底的救援数字刷新了记录。"
    ],
    [
        "The ancient city of Kaesong sits in a shallow valley just to the west along the Demilitarized Zone, on a traditional invasion route for troops heading north or south during more than two millennia of Korean history.",
        "开城古城位于非军事区西邻的浅谷钟，两千年来一直是朝鲜半岛南北行军的必经之地。"
    ],
    [
        "Some developing countries – including Chile, Botswana, Indonesia, Malaysia, and South Korea – took advantage of the boom years to run budget surpluses, pay down debt, and build up reserves.",
        "一些发展中国家——包括智利、博茨瓦纳、印度尼西亚、马来西亚和韩国——利用经济繁荣期实现预算盈余，减少债务并积累储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the frequent assurances of UN authorities that Kosovo is on a path toward reconciliation and true home rule, NATO officials indicate that there are plans to maintain a long-term military presence in the province in order to “guarantee that the political process will be concluded successfully.”",
        "尽管联合国经常保证说科索沃正在通往和解和真正的自治道路上，北约官员指出，计划在这一省份维持长久的军事存在以便“保证政治进程善始善终”。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, pioneers in non-tradable activities start with a captive market.",
        "相反，非贸易活动的先锋们从一开始就可以垄断市场。"
    ],
    [
        "This is reflected in the brutal, destructive campaign against climate science by powerful vested interests and ideologues, apparently aimed at creating an atmosphere of ignorance and confusion.",
        "这一点在强大的既得利益集团和理论家攻讦气候科学的残酷的、毁灭性的运动中得到充分的体现，制造混乱和无知的氛围显然是他们的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "This time around, the break between the US and Pakistan might not be easily repaired.",
        "这一次，美国和巴基斯坦之间的分歧已经不太可能轻易得到修复。"
    ],
    [
        "Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the CHP’s reformist leader, quickly recognized these dynamics: “The demonstrators don’t want us on the front lines,” he said, “and we have much to learn from these events.”",
        "CHP的改革派领导人吉利克哒罗格鲁（Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu）很快就认识到了这些动态：“示威者不希望我们站在前沿，”他说，“我们可以从这些事件中学到很多东西。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, they have implemented a plethora of detailed controls, scrutinizing banks’ books with unprecedented intensity and insisting on approving cash distributions, the appointment of key directors, and even job descriptions for board members.",
        "诚然，它们实施了众多详细的控制，以前所未有的力度检查了银行的账目，并批准派发现金、任命重要董事甚至对董事会成员的职业描述。"
    ],
    [
        "Given other North Korean institutions’ apparent indifference to the mess that the Kims have made of their country, there seems scant chance of any serious change of course being initiated from within.",
        "其他朝鲜机构似乎对金家给国家带来的混乱无动于衷，因此我们看不见朝鲜发生由内而外的重大变革的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "At currents rates of deforestation, the combined contributions to greenhouse gas concentrations from Brazil and Indonesia alone would offset nearly 80% of the emission reductions gained from the Kyoto protocol.",
        "发展中国家似乎第一次愿意承担欧洲、日本和其他发达的工业化国家（除美国以外）为了避免一场全球性的灾难而已经承担的那种承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, the north-south, core-periphery divide will harden, with taxpayer-backed banks on one side and banks that must fend for themselves on the other.",
        "更糟的是，南/北以及核心/外围的分裂将依旧存在，一些银行有纳税人撑腰，其他银行只能自谋生路。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer lies in the EU’s origins.",
        "应当从欧洲的起源中寻找答案。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the US has virtually pulled out of the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, with Obama acquiescing to greedy business lobbies that will not settle unless more of their demands are met.",
        "因此，美国已经实质性地退出了多边贸易谈判多哈回合，奥巴马默许了贪婪商人游说团，如果要求得不到满足，他们是不会在谈判协议上签字的。"
    ],
    [
        "But that does not justify disregarding the evidence.",
        "但这并不意味着可以忽视证据。"
    ],
    [
        "But not talking about priorities does not make the need to prioritize go away.",
        "但是不谈论优先权并不意味着没有必要给予优先权。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, there is no room for complacency.",
        "但现在却不是自满的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Fund was mistaken in assuming that “Europe is different,” and that “sudden stops could not happen within the euro area.”",
        "此外，基金组织错误地假设“欧洲是不同的”，并认为“欧元区内部不会出现突然崩盘状态”。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, public-sector asset management could be “outsourced,” with private asset managers competing for the job.",
        "事实上，公共部门资产管理可以“外包”，邀请私人资产管理者来竞争这一角色。"
    ],
    [
        "At its inception, the UN brought together 51 countries; it now has 193 member states.",
        "成立之初，联合国总共包括51个成员国； 如今有193个。"
    ],
    [
        "That impact partly reflects the highly problematic nature of the Chinese government’s long-awaited move to liberalize interest rates.",
        "这一冲击部分反映了人们期待已久的中国政府放松利率管制的政策有很大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Chile’s excellent economic performance has been the result of the free-market policies introduced during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet but confirmed and strengthened by democratically elected governments over the 25 years since he left office.",
        "智利的优异经济表现是在奥古斯托·皮诺切特将军（Augusto Pinochet）的军事独裁期间推出，随后由民选政府在前者离任后的25年间确立并强化的自由市场政策的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, Japan is a democracy, with freedom of expression.",
        "但日本却是个言论自由的民主国家。"
    ],
    [
        "We practiced discrimination and exclusion.",
        "我们实施了歧视和排斥政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The stakes for a peaceful regional order are too high for Israel and the United States to persist in refusing to put Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s current peace offensive to the test.",
        "一个和平的地区秩序对于美国和以色列而言利益攸关，它们无法坚持拒绝考验叙利亚总统阿萨德当前的和平攻势。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the famous astronomer Carl Sagan once said: “If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”",
        "但是，正如著名天文学家卡尔·萨根（Carl Sagan） 所言，“如果你想凭空做出苹果派，首先你得发明宇宙。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, there are 25 constituencies nationwide, but reformers have long argued that a smaller number – each with a larger number of voters – would be less susceptible to manipulation by the political elite.",
        "目前全国有25个选区，但是改革派长期以来坚持认为，减少选区数量、扩大选区选民数量可以降低选举被政治精英操纵的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Our primary aim is the restoration of peace and, if not stability, an acceptable political equilibrium.",
        "我们的首要目标是重塑和平以及可接受的政治均衡（如果不是稳定的话）。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2014 alone, the Hospital Preparedness Program, which links regional hospitals with local health departments to prepare for potential public health emergencies, suffered $100 million in budget cuts.",
        "仅2014年一年，连接地区医院与地方医疗卫生部门、为潜在公共卫生突发事件做准备的医院应急计划就蒙受了1亿美元的预算损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond these financial instruments, we need to improve on the status quo by investing in the research and development needed to modernize agriculture and reduce the risk of crop failures.",
        "除了这些金融工具之外，我们还需要通过投资现代化农业并降低减产风险的方式来改善现状。"
    ],
    [
        "None of these suggestions will be easy to implement. But, to address many of the crises currently besetting the world, a strong focus on combating corruption is vital.",
        "这些建议实施起来都不容易，但是要解决目前困扰世界的诸多危机，大力打击腐败是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, the progress that has been made in recent years – despite the lack of adequate investment – belies the naysayers.",
        "事实上，近年来已经取得的进展——尽管在投资严重不足的情况下——依然证实了反对者的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "These explanations are initially tested not by experiment but by criteria of reason, logic, applicability, and uniqueness at solving the mysteries of nature that they address.",
        "这些解释最初往往都无法通过实验来验证，只能通过用以解开自然之迷的推理，逻辑，适用性以及独特性等条件来检测。"
    ],
    [
        "His decision to challenge Abbas means that the “secular” forces within the Palestinian movement may be divided at a time when rivals with a robust Islamic agenda – principally Hamas and Islamic Jihad – are challenging them.",
        "他向阿巴斯发起挑战的这一决定意味着，一旦奉行伊斯兰计划的强硬派别，主要是哈马斯和伊斯兰圣战组织，向巴解组织内部的各\"传统\"派别发起挑战，该组织也许将发生分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Americans, having been told for decades by Charlton Heston, Wayne LaPierre, and other leaders of the all-powerful National Rifle Association that there is no better way to protect oneself and one’s family, now own more than 300 million firearms.",
        "事实上，几十年来，查尔顿·赫斯顿（Charlton Heston）、韦恩·拉皮埃尔（Wayne LaPierre）和其他炙手可热的美国步枪协会（National Rifle Association）领导人一直告诉美国人，除此之外没有更好的保护自己和家庭的方法。 目前美国人拥有超过3亿支枪支。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the often-nuanced language of central bankers, Tarullo conveyed a clear message: the cult of size has failed.",
        "但是，塔鲁罗还是用中央银行家惯有的微言大义隐晦地表达了明确的信息：规模崇拜已经不灵了。"
    ],
    [
        "The US financial institutions that went bankrupt in 2008 – or that would have gone bankrupt without government help – were in trouble because they lacked equity capital.",
        "在2008年破产的美国金融机构（或者说，没有政府的帮助，它们肯定已经破产）遇到了麻烦，因为他们缺股本金。"
    ],
    [
        "The deal has caused a split in Syriza, Greece’s leftist governing party; opened a rift between Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and her uncompromisingly tough finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble; and spurred an effort by France to reassert itself within the Franco-German axis that has always been the “motor” of European integration.",
        "该协议导致了希腊左翼执政党左翼联盟（Syriza）的分裂，也让德国总理默克尔和她的坚决不妥协的财政部长朔伊布勒之间的分歧，还促使法国重新评估其在一直充当着欧洲一体化“引擎”的法德轴心中的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this reverence for oaths, it is reasonable to assume that taking a truthfulness oath before initiating a campaign for public office would have some impact on candidates’ approach.",
        "考虑到对誓词的尊崇，一个合理的假设是在参与公职竞选活动前进行诚实性宣誓将对候选人的方针造成一定影响。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Financial commentators have likened Japan’s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophe to derivatives’ role in the 2008 financial meltdown. The resemblance is clear enough: each activity yields big benefits and carries a tiny but explosive risk.",
        "发自剑桥——许多经济评论家们都将本次日本地震，海啸与核灾难比作金融衍生品在2008年金融危机中所扮演的角色——两者的相似之处其实显而易见：一方面都能谋取巨额收益，另一方面却也暗含着概率极低的爆炸性风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Central bankers today are no longer so naive, and the public is better informed.",
        "中央银行今天已不再那么天真，公众也了解得更多。"
    ],
    [
        "My work provides a new and coherent approach to macroeconomics that explains how a lack of confidence can lead to persistent unemployment.",
        "我的研究提出了一种崭新且一致的宏观经济学观点，可以解释信心缺失为何会导致持久失业。"
    ],
    [
        "By enacting such a policy, any developed country can now establish itself as a global leader.",
        "通过引入这样的政策，任何发达国家都能够让自己成为全球领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "Another $10-15 billion in annual aid (that is, roughly $10-15 more per person in the high-income world), bringing total aid to around $40 billion per year, would enable still greater progress to be made in the coming years.",
        "如果年度卫生援助能增加100—150亿美元（即高收入国家居民每人再拿出10—15美元），达到每年400亿美元，那么未来几年还能取得更大进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Such staple food crops also can be modified to contain additional nutrients.",
        "主要粮食作物还可以通过转基因使其包含更多的营养素。"
    ],
    [
        "Standing in the wings is one possible candidate who might take up where Khatami left off and address the economic and cultural concerns of young Iranians.",
        "谁更能关心年轻伊朗人的经济文化需求？ 他就可能继承哈塔米的政治遗产而获得大家的拥护。"
    ],
    [
        "While average tariff rates in the original five member states (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand) have been virtually zero since 2010, some barriers must still be dismantled.",
        "尽管最初五个成员国（印度尼西亚、马来西亚、菲律宾、新加坡和泰国）的平均关税税率在2010年便已下降到几乎为零的水平，但仍有一些壁垒必须消除。"
    ],
    [
        "They must either explicitly renounce economic sovereignty or actively put it to use for the benefit of their citizens.",
        "他们要么选择完全放弃经济主权，要么积极用经济主权来为本国公民造福。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes China the source of cross-border water flows to the largest number of countries in the world.",
        "这使得中国成为全球跨国河流牵涉国家数量最多的源头国家。"
    ],
    [
        "This imperative has led many to demand larger contributions from Internet giants like Google, Netflix, and Facebook, which are frequently criticized for failing to pull their weight – and even lambasted as “free-riders,” intent on pillaging European assets and markets.",
        "这一使命让许多人要求谷歌、网飞（Netflix）和Facebook等互联网巨头做出更大贡献，这些公司常常被批评没有起到应有的作用——甚至被猛烈抨击为“免费搭车者”，想掠夺欧洲资产和市场。"
    ],
    [
        "How a concept is framed, the context and associations with which it is presented, affect human judgments enormously.",
        "人们如何构筑概念以及表述概念的背景和联系深刻地影响人们的判断。"
    ],
    [
        "Kennedy’s pragmatism prevented World War III.",
        "肯尼迪的务实阻止了第三次世界大战的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "With world trade shifting to a decidedly lower trajectory, political resistance to globalization has only intensified.",
        "随着世界贸易已确凿无疑滑入了更低的趋势，对全球化的政治抵制只能与日俱增。"
    ],
    [
        "And, to address volatile capital flows, countries should increase exchange-rate flexibility, maintain adequate international reserves, and implement carefully designed capital controls.",
        "此外，为了解决资本流剧烈波动的问题，各国应该增加汇率弹性，保持充足的国际储备，并实施精心设计的资本管制。"
    ],
    [
        "That is where my political trilemma begins to bite: We cannot have globalization, democracy, and national sovereignty simultaneously.",
        "这就是我的政治三难：我们无法同时实现全球化、民主和国家主权。"
    ],
    [
        "Both leaders can count on the other not to create additional problems, and even to help passively on geopolitical questions.",
        "双方领导人可以预期对方不会制造新问题，甚至可以给地缘政治问题带来消极支持。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Syria, the worst that can happen is unacceptable: effective partition of the country, with a poor, extremist-led Sunni state in the east, shut out from the sea and the country’s wealth.",
        "叙利亚的最差情况根本不能接受：换句话说即国家陷入分裂，东部是信奉极端主义的贫穷的逊尼派国家，既没有出海口也得不到国家财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing nations – especially China and India – will be the main greenhouse gas emitters of the twenty-first century – but were exempted from the Kyoto Protocol because they emitted so little during the West’s industrialization period.",
        "发展中国家——特别是中国和印度——将会是21世纪主要的温室气体排放国——但是，因为在西方国家的工业化时期，发展中国家排放的温室气体非常少，所以《京都议定书》豁免了它们的减排义务。"
    ],
    [
        "But corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.",
        "但腐败、洗钱和逃税是全球性问题，而不仅仅是发展中国家的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The banks know that they will receive more business if they run their trading desks from the part of their corporate group that has the strongest government backing.",
        "大银行的这一做法强化了这一解读。 银行知道，如果它们在受政府支持最大的公司集团中运营交易部门，将能够获得更多业务。"
    ],
    [
        "In both countries, extra investment – both political and financial – could have an outsize impact.",
        "在这两个国家，增加投资——包括政治方面和金融方面——都有望取得成效。"
    ],
    [
        "But the report’s fundamental legacy remains: we have inherited a tendency to obsess over misguided remedies for largely trivial problems, while often ignoring big problems and sensible remedies.",
        "但《增长的极限》的基本思想仍然成立：我们继续着一种趋势，纠结于对细枝末节问题的误导性解决，而忽视大问题和明智的解决。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Internet expands into new realms of physical space through the Internet of Things, the price of anarchy will become a crucial metric in our society, and the temptation to eliminate it with the power of big data analytics will grow stronger.",
        "随着互联网拓展至物联网实体空间等全新领域，无秩序主义代价将成为社会关键指标，利用大数据分析消灭无秩序主义将越来越具有诱惑力。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the most open and freest society today, the Unites States, leads the world in rates of severe mental disease – supplanting England, yesterday’s freest and most open society.",
        "这也说明为什么今天最开放自由的美国社会取代了昨天最开放自由的英国社会，登上了严重精神病患者比例世界第一的宝座。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2016 presidential election isn’t over, so it’s still possible that Trump could end up in the White House.",
        "2016年总统大选尚未结束，因此特朗普仍然可能最终入主白宫。"
    ],
    [
        "With services like Maghicle enabling people to get around safely, affordably, conveniently, and sustainably, Sam does not have to worry about his wife or daughters getting into automobile accidents, as his parents worried about him.",
        "Maghicle等服务让人们可以安全、廉价、便捷、持续地通勤，山姆再也不用想他的父母担心他那样担心妻子或女儿遭遇交通事故。"
    ],
    [
        "Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were Germans.",
        "卡尔·马克思（Karl Marx）和弗里德里希·恩格斯（Friedrich Engels）是德国人。"
    ],
    [
        "At the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January, Walter Kielholz, Chairman of Swiss Re, and former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown advocated for the creation of a new asset class for infrastructure – as we have done previously, as well.",
        "在1月份的世界经济论坛瑞士达沃斯年会上，瑞士再保险公司（Swiss Re）主席沃尔特·吉尔霍茨（Walter Kielholz）和前英国首相戈登·布朗（Gordon Brown）提出为基础设施设立一个新的资产类别——就像我们此前所做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Legislators need to educate themselves – and the public – and exercise more oversight.",
        "立法者需要在自我教育的同时教育公众，并落实更严格的监督。"
    ],
    [
        "The best ones are positive, like rapid economic growth and rising prosperity, which underpinned the European dream in the past.",
        "最佳的模式是巩固昔日欧洲梦的积极模式，如快速的经济增长和繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "India could even develop a major communication hub with the port as its nexus.",
        "印度甚至可以以恰巴哈尔港为节点开发重要的通信枢纽。"
    ],
    [
        "As Atul Gawande of Harvard University’s School of Public Health has shown, simple checklists can be effective in both collecting data and making better decisions.",
        "哈佛大学公共卫生学院的阿图尔·贾万德（Atul Gawande）指出，简单的检查清单就可以在数据收集和做出更佳决策方面起到效果。"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, policy must fuel asset bubbles to keep the economy growing.",
        "一方面，政策必须推动资产泡沫来维持经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, one could argue that the French are being unfair toward their president.",
        "无论如何，都有人会争辩说法国人对自己的总统有点不公平。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, it has been refuted both by political experience and statistical testing.",
        "自那以后，它同时遭到政治经验和统计检验的驳斥。"
    ],
    [
        "Rich countries will be asked to reduce subsidies; poor countries to open up their markets.",
        "富裕的国家将被要求减少补贴;贫穷国家将被要求开放其市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Without Russia to deal with, the US would have even more time to dedicate to Asian affairs.",
        "不再需要应对俄罗斯的美国将由更多时间用于亚洲事务。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not difficult, however, to determine which one is preferable.",
        "然而也不难去判断，究竟上面哪一条路径更可取。"
    ],
    [
        "Banking systems in several countries are already on life support.",
        "好几个国家的银行系统已经岌岌可危了。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be old wine in a new bottle, but old wine often rewards those who are willing to taste it.",
        "这也许是新瓶装旧酒，但如果你愿意尝试的话，陈酿常常是非常可人的。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the downside and upside risks for the world economy are balanced.",
        "迄今为止，世界经济的下行风险和上升机遇正处于某种平衡状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The most egregious examples of overreach have occurred in the US, where the initial response entailed enhanced screening of travelers from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.",
        "过度反应最惊人的例子来自于美国，美国的第一反应是加强筛查来自几内亚、利比里亚和塞拉利昂的旅客。"
    ],
    [
        "Private investors and philanthropic organizations finance the upfront costs of the pilot projects, and local or state governments (sometimes supplemented with federal money) pay the investors only if the project produces the promised results.",
        "私人投资者和慈善组织为前端成本和实验项目提供融资，地方或州政府（有时也有联邦资金补充）只有在项目产生了承诺结果的情况下才会支付。"
    ],
    [
        "We will not be defeated.",
        "我们不会被打败。"
    ],
    [
        "One key lesson ignored in the Greece debacle is that when a bailout becomes necessary, it should be done once and definitively.",
        "在希腊危机中被忽视的一个关键教训是，当援助不得不发时，应该果断地一次性完成。"
    ],
    [
        "But the warning is a stern one for Kim Jong-un: China may send him to the sidelines if he does not change his behavior.",
        "但对金正恩来说，警告是严厉的：如果他不改变行为，中国要把他罚出场了。"
    ],
    [
        "The coup’s failure will thus bolster Erdoğan’s authoritarianism and do little good for Turkish democracy.",
        "因此 ，政变的失败将加强埃尔多安的极权主义，对土耳其的民主毫无好处。"
    ],
    [
        "But when it comes to education, many countries in the West are more interested in building walls and detention camps than schools.",
        "但在教育方面，西方许多国家对修建围墙和收容所的兴致可比学校要高。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the divide between the security establishment and the politicians now governing Israel seems wider than ever.",
        "事实上，安全界与目前执政以色列的政客之间的这一分歧似乎比以往更大。"
    ],
    [
        "But what about India’s other billion people?",
        "但印度另外10亿人该怎么办呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Too often we waste international cooperation on overly ambitious goals, ultimately producing weak results that are the lowest common denominator among major states.",
        "我们经常将国际合作浪费在不切实际的目标上，最终却只在主要国家间获得最微不足道的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Spending $3.9 billion on family planning and maternal health initiatives, such as provision of emergency contraception in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, could avert 1.4 million infant deaths and 142,000 pregnancy-related deaths in women.",
        "在计划生育和妇科医疗方面（如在撒哈拉以南非洲和南亚地区提供紧急避孕服务）支出39亿美元，可以避免140万婴儿死亡和142000桩与妊娠相关的妇女死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "For most low- and middle-income countries, the incipient economic recovery appears to be fragile and uneven.",
        "对多数中低收入国家而言，刚刚开始的经济复苏不仅脆弱，也很不平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "But this prediction is close to a tautology.",
        "但是这样的预言简直跟废话无异。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina used to have a gas industry, but it was decimated by years of misguided government policies.",
        "阿根廷曾经有天然气行业，但毁于多年来的政府政策瞎指挥。"
    ],
    [
        "Last summer, UGHE began construction on a 250-acre campus in Butaro.",
        "去年夏天，UGHE开始在布塔罗（Butaro）建设占地250英亩的校区。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless checked by anti-trust authorities, they can engage in anti-competitive behavior that reinforces their monopoly power.",
        "除非受到反垄断当局制约，否则它们可能采取反竞争行为以强化垄断力。"
    ],
    [
        "Another milestone was the renovation and opening of the 1,100-year old Armenian Aghtamar Church in March 2007.",
        "另一个里程碑式的事件就是翻修并在2007年3月开放拥有1100年历史的亚美尼亚Aghtamar教堂。"
    ],
    [
        "Exposure to manganese can occur through dust, fumes, and air pollution.",
        "人们可能因为粉尘、烟气和空气污染接触锰。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brain Regain",
        "人才回流"
    ],
    [
        "And, most important, who – if anyone – should impose that responsibility?",
        "最重要的是，这项义务该由谁来落实？"
    ],
    [
        "(And, my Silicon Valley perspective told me, the restaurant could increase its revenue by selling ads on the sides of the doggy bags.)",
        "（而我的硅谷视角告诉我，饭店还可以通过出售打包袋广告增加收入。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "In his extensive international deal-making – which isn’t the same as diplomacy – Tillerson has developed a close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, toward whom Trump has been notably soft.",
        "在蒂勒森漫长的国际交易经验中——这和外交并不是一回事——他与俄罗斯总统普京建立了紧密的关系，而特朗普对普京的太对相当“软”。"
    ],
    [
        "Or China can try to maintain an exchange rate that is slightly lower than it would be otherwise.",
        "或者中国可以将汇率保持在比实际稍低一些的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama’s America, rendered prudent by the costs of the country’s military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, is only too happy to count on the interventionist traditions of Great Britain and France.",
        "总统奥巴马的美国因为用兵伊拉克和阿富汗的沉重代价而转向审慎，乐于见到英国和法国的干预主义传统。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost everybody complains, almost everybody aggressively defends their own narrow and short-term interests, and almost everybody abandons any pretense of looking ahead or addressing the needs of others.",
        "所有人都在抱怨，所有人在维护自己那些狭隘的短期利益，所有人都将社会长远利益和推己及人的理念抛诸脑后。"
    ],
    [
        "Playing ostrich about harm reduction does not harm only IDUs. HIV-infected IDUs of course have sex with non-users.",
        "在减轻危害方面实施鸵鸟政策不仅会伤害注射吸毒者，正常人也有可能在与感染者的性行为中遭殃。"
    ],
    [
        "While there is a price today that reflects those expectations, it is not a price at which distressed banks want to sell.",
        "虽然现在的价格反映了这些期望，但是，这个价格却不是资金困难的银行想出售这些资产的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Before Russia's annexation of Crimea, it argued that the United States had hired snipers to fire at pro-Western protesters in Kyiv in order to blame Russia for their deaths.",
        "俄罗斯吞并克里米亚前，克里姆林宫宣称美国雇用狙击手朝基辅的亲西方示威群众开火，然后指责俄罗斯造成了他们的死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most importantly, non-constitutional justice systems, such as sharia, must be monitored and checked, if not prohibited altogether.",
        "而或许更重要的是，要么将类似伊斯兰教法这样的非宪政司法系统全面禁止，要么对其进行检讨和修订。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his own bilateral meeting with Duterte this month, did raise concerns about the drug war in the Philippines.",
        "例如加拿大总理贾斯汀·特鲁多本月在与杜特尔特的双边会晤中确实对菲律宾的禁毒战争表达了担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "PRAGUE – It might seem an unlikely proposition, but central banking has become exciting.",
        "布拉格—听起来这是个不可思议的说法，但中央银行业务已变得令人兴奋。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, with the ECB running out of tools to keep Europe’s troubled banks from precipitating a financial crisis, follow-up financing was agreed upon, and from 2013 onwards the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is meant to take on that responsibility.",
        "去年，由于欧洲央行已没有工具能让欧洲受困银行摆脱金融危机冲击，欧洲各国达成了后续融资协议，从2013年开始，欧洲稳定性机制（ESM）将担起这一责任。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Premier Li Keqiang seems to recognize, this trend could actually be beneficial, spurring the structural reforms that China needs to achieve its longer-term goal of more balanced and stable GDP growth.",
        "但李克强总理似乎认为这一趋势实际对经济发展有利，因为它能刺激中国推进结构改革，实现确保GDP平衡稳定增长的长远目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The Changing Face of Energy Security",
        "能源安全变化中的表象"
    ],
    [
        "At the time, I was critical of the path Mazowiecki was taking.",
        "当时，我对马佐维耶茨基的做法持批评态度。"
    ],
    [
        "French President Emmanuel Macron is perhaps the most prominent of those who have promised to make investment in education in Africa a high priority.",
        "而法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙（Emmanuel Macron）也许是承诺将非洲教育投资作为优先选项的国家元首中最为突出的一位。"
    ],
    [
        "And here’s the even greater truth: to bestow it on one of our last popular poets, the distant relative of Rutebeuf, Villon, and all the minstrels and songsters of solitude and dereliction; to consecrate a troubadour, a bard of the brotherhood of lonely and lost souls; to crown the author of ballads that have been, to borrow André Suarès’s phrase about Rimbaud, “a moment in the life” of so many people in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries makes a lot more sense than pulling out of a hat the obscure Rudolf Christoph Eucken or picking poor old Sully Prudhomme instead of Tolstoy.",
        "为尊崇一位民谣歌手，一位有着孤独迷失灵魂的吟游诗人； 为颂扬借用苏亚雷斯有关兰波评价的民谣作者，二十及二十一世纪芸芸众生“生活中的一刻”比变戏法般地令鲁道夫·克里斯托夫·欧肯相形见绌或选择可怜的老普吕多姆而舍弃托尔斯泰有意义得多。"
    ],
    [
        "But German public opinion today suggests that the country has become warier of such bold gestures.",
        "但当下的德国公众态度表明，这个国家对如此激进的姿态变得更加谨慎了。"
    ],
    [
        "Why do otherwise intelligent, educated people put themselves in thrall to superstition?",
        "本来应当受过教育的聪明人为什么会被迷信所奴役？"
    ],
    [
        "This, in conjunction with the tightening of current sanctions, including the exclusion of Russian banks from Western capital markets, is bound to cause serious shortages, declining living standards, and major problems for Russia’s ownership class.",
        "这与加强现有制裁（包括阻止俄罗斯银行进入西方资本体系）一起，必然会在俄罗斯造成严重短缺，降低生活水平，给俄罗斯有产阶级带来严重问题。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC/MOSCOW – Four years ago, a devastating tsunami crashed into the coast of Japan.",
        "华盛顿/莫斯科—四年前，一场灾难性海啸蹂躏了日本海岸。"
    ],
    [
        "And, following this anniversary of the massacre, it is safe to say that, without international justice, all of Srebrenica’s victims – including my brother-in-law’s father, Huso Čelik, and the others who are still missing – would still be moldering anonymously in mass graves.",
        "而在屠杀发生15周年纪念之际，我们可以肯定地说，没有国际正义，所有斯雷布雷尼察的受害者——包括我连襟的父亲，胡梭·塞里克以及其他依然失踪的人——依然只会是万人坑中的无名枯骨。"
    ],
    [
        "Supporters of factory farming often point out that bird flu can be spread by free-range flocks, or by wild ducks and other migrating birds, who may join the free-range birds to feed with them or drop their feces while flying overhead.",
        "工厂式养殖的支持者常常指出：自由放养的家禽也能够传播禽流感，不仅如此，野鸭和其它候鸟与放养家禽争食或飞过时排出粪便也有可能传播这种疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "There are also unkind rumors swirling around outgoing President Lee Myung-bak.",
        "围绕着即将离任的总统李明博也有很多并不友善的传言。"
    ],
    [
        "But the massive scale of the challenges facing Afghanistan should not overshadow the opportunities for positive change.",
        "但是，阿富汗面对的重重挑战不应当掩盖其积极性变化的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "It recently pledged to reduce its CO2 emissions by 29% through unilateral measures by 2030, and by 41% with international support.",
        "最近印尼承诺在2030年前通过单边措施让二氧化碳排放量减少29%，在国际支持的帮助下减少41%。"
    ],
    [
        "No sooner was the deal announced on December 12 than the debate erupted.",
        "12月12日，协议一宣布，这一争论便应运而生。"
    ],
    [
        "Moving to a twenty-first-century currency system would make it far simpler to move to a twenty-first-century central-banking regime as well.",
        "转向二十一世纪货币体系可以让二十一世纪央行制度也变得更加可行。"
    ],
    [
        "His latest provocation is a short film denouncing Islam, which is yet to be shown, but has already caused panic all around.",
        "他最近的挑衅行为是一部抨击伊斯兰的电影短片。 这部电影还没有上演，但是已经在各地造成了恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "On an equally important front, the US is working with the United Nations to galvanize a global response to the danger posed by the Ebola virus.",
        "在另一个同样重要的阵线，美国正在与联合国一起努力激励全球应对埃博拉病毒的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea’s GDP growth dropped from 7-8% in the 1970s and 1980s to 4% in the 2000s.",
        "韩国的GDP增长率从1970~80年代的年均7~8％下跌到2000年的4％；"
    ],
    [
        "Now, the US is essentially playing the role of agitator, offering little more than displays of moral outrage and stale references to a stillborn Geneva process.",
        "如今，美国实际上已经沦为“搅屎棍”，除了表示义愤和言必称早已流产的日内瓦进程的陈词滥调再也拿不出什么东西。"
    ],
    [
        "The necessary reforms will open the way for public-private partnerships, which can provide investment for infrastructure development and maintenance.",
        "实施必要的改革能打开公私合作之门，而公私合作能提供基础设施开发和维护投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Wouldn’t futures contracts sound completely different if they were reframed as contracts for ”baskets” instead of “hiccups?”",
        "如果将期货交易合同重新框定为“篮子”而不是“暂停跌价”，它们听起来难道不会完全不同呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Europe and Europeans cannot wait for a new treaty to show that the Union is able to fulfill that promise.",
        "欧洲和欧洲人都不能干等着一个新条约的出现来表明欧盟有能力履行那个承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The sooner this purge is allowed to take place, the milder it will be, and the sooner Europeans and others will be able to breathe easy again.",
        "越早允许这一清洗过程发生，清洗的惨烈程度就越温和，欧洲和其他地区的人也越快能够摆脱困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Without the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte would have remained a gifted and frustrated junior military officer.",
        "如果没有法国大革命，拿破仑•波拿巴将仍然是一位怀才不遇的初级军官。"
    ],
    [
        "A Flat World and a Round Ball",
        "平面世界和圆的足球"
    ],
    [
        "Officials initially underestimated these effects, resulting in this summer’s unanticipated volatility.",
        "官僚机构在改革初期低估了这一效应，导致今年夏天爆发几个意料之外的市场波动。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain’s Moment of Truth",
        "英国的关键时刻"
    ],
    [
        "History clearly shows that it is impossible to establish and sustain global peace without ensuring peace and stability in the Balkans and the Middle East.",
        "历史已经清楚地表明：如果无法保证巴尔干和中东地区的和平与稳定，那么世界和平也只能是镜花水月。"
    ],
    [
        "(The company suspended its suit after President Donald Trump approved the project in January 2017).",
        "（2017年1月，特朗普总统批准了该项目，该公司随之撤诉。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "These initiatives are just part of a broader shift.",
        "这些计划只是更大变革的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to the mix the collapse in public-sector demand that comes from deep budget cuts, and you have all the ingredients necessary for prolonged stagnation.",
        "再加上因预算削减导致的公共部门需求大跌，英国已经具备了进入长期停滞的所有必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s nuclear programs continued to be financed by international commerce.",
        "伊朗的核子项目继续得到国际贸易的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters more than deficits is what we do with money; borrowing to finance high-productivity investments in education, technology, or infrastructure strengthens a nation’s balance sheet.",
        "比赤字更要紧的是我们如何花钱。 借钱资助投资于教育、技术或者基础设施这些高生产效率的项目可以强化国家的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "By enshrining so-called Xi Jinping Thought in the CPC charter, Party members established Xi alongside the People’s Republic’s two historical giants, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping – the only other Chinese leaders with officially recognized eponymous ideologies.",
        "所谓的习近平思想被写入中共党章，与共和国的两位历史巨人——毛泽东和邓小平相提并论。 毛和邓是仅有的两位被正式认可用本人姓名命名意识形态的中国领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "First, let the European Stabilization Mechanism (ESM) lend €27 billion ($30 billion), at long maturities, to retire the Greek bonds that the European Central Bank foolishly bought in 2010.",
        "首先，让欧洲稳定基金（European Stabilization Mechanism，ESM）发放270亿欧元长期限贷款，以替换欧洲央行2010年愚蠢地购买的希腊债券。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world looks for new ways to curb opportunistic epidemics, it must not overlook the science that developing countries already possess.",
        "当世界寻找遏制机会型疫情（opportunistic epidemics）的新方法时，决不能忽视发展中国家的现成的科学知识。"
    ],
    [
        "“What happens to a dream deferred?",
        "“延迟的梦想发生了什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Japan’s powerful bureaucracy – which has a long history of impeding reform (and has taken too little of the blame for the country’s “lost decades” of stagnation) – was probably not convinced that the election had authorized Abe to push for sweeping change.",
        "此外，日本强势官僚机构在掣肘改革方面有着悠久历史却又极少为“失去十年”的经济停滞承担罪责，这些官僚或许对选举结果已经赋予安倍推动彻底变革的权力并不认可。"
    ],
    [
        "Half the world's countries are democracies, yet none of the 22 Arab countries is among them.",
        "全世界有半数国家实现了民主，但22个阿拉伯国家却不在其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider South Korea.",
        "以韩国为例。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the crisis, rating agencies have been under attack, and major regulation, which could severely affect their business, has been discussed on both sides of the Atlantic.",
        "危机爆发后，评级机构已成为众矢之的，大西洋两岸都在讨论能严重影响其业务开展的重要监管措施。"
    ],
    [
        "But the extent to which hostility to immigration goes against the evidence of its salutary effects is surprising.",
        "但移民的积极效应显而易见，而对他们的敌意如此之深，这着实令人震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "We are drawn to heartwarming stories of an understanding teacher who sees a student’s potential and helps her get into university, or a frequent diner who funds a kitchen worker’s dream to start his own restaurant.",
        "我们为看到学生潜力、磅她进入大学的教师而感到温暖，因为频繁前来用餐只为支持厨房工人开餐馆之梦的食客而感到温暖。"
    ],
    [
        "With the government still having room to wield expansionary monetary and/or fiscal policy, the economic revival was only a matter of time.",
        "只要政府依然有使用扩张性货币和/或财政政策的空间，经济复苏就只不过是个时间问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the data show that corruption is highest in oil and gas-producing countries.",
        "最后，数据显示，石油和天然气生产国家的腐败最为严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher trade tariffs would raise the cost of imports, which would have a direct negative impact on ordinary Americans.",
        "提高关税将提高进口成本，给普通美国人造成直接负面影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while such judicial scrutiny may be effective in eliminating some egregious cases, it cannot ensure that raters do the right thing when courts are not expected to be able to tell after the fact what the right thing was.",
        "但尽管这样的司法审查可以有效地清除某些臭名昭著的案例，但如果法庭在事后也无法确定什么样的做法正确，那么这种制度也无法确保评级机构按正确的方法行事。"
    ],
    [
        "Independent national authorities would be better placed not only to assess implementation risks, but also to advocate for structural reforms.",
        "独立的国家当局不但能更好地评估实施风险，还有利于结构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Cold War’s end and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity quickly became a cornerstone of the European order.",
        "随着冷战的结束和苏联的解体，乌克兰的独立和领土完整很快就成为欧洲秩序的一大基石。"
    ],
    [
        "But if a central bank owns the debt of its own government, no net public liability exists.",
        "但如果一家央行也持有本国债券的话，那就再也不存在什么纯粹的公共债务责任了。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the relationship between native-born and new Americans starts out “cleaner.”",
        "在这一意义上说，美国土著和新美国人之间的关系就“比较干净”。"
    ],
    [
        "As much as many countries may dislike the US military, the availability and extraordinary capabilities of America’s soldiers, ships, aircraft, and intelligence assets often function as a global insurance policy.",
        "尽管很多国家可能不喜欢美国军队，但美国士兵、军舰、飞机及情报资产的存在及非凡能力却往往起到全球保险的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "What Trump has achieved, Berlusconi pioneered.",
        "特朗普的成绩，曾经是贝卢斯科尼的创造。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is how to build Europe with states that bury their heads in the sand at the mention of the use of force, while cynically admitting that France is defending all of Europe in Mali.",
        "问题在于如何与一提到使用武力就把头埋在沙子中、同时又不愿大方承认法国在马里捍卫了整个欧洲的的诸国一起建设欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "But rates have since risen again, and have now returned, in real terms, to pre-QE levels.",
        "但随后利率回升，用真实值衡量，现在已经恢复到量化宽松前的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "It was soon annulled by Pope Innocent III, who had formed an alliance with the king.",
        "很快，它就被与国王结盟的教皇英诺森三世（Innocent III）取消。"
    ],
    [
        "So score the stimulus a very expensive, largely wasted opportunity.",
        "因此这份刺激计划是一次开销巨大、但浪费严重的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "This builds on an impressive phase-out of older chemicals, such as chlorofluorocarbons and others, that has averted the equivalent of 135 billion tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere, while accelerating the recovery of the ozone layer.",
        "其基础是一个令人印象深刻的计划：逐步淘汰旧化学物质（如氯氟碳化物等），相当于减少1,350亿吨二氧化碳进入大气层，同时也加快了臭氧层的恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "This not only reduces the time they take to communicate; it improves energy efficiency by a factor of as much as 5,000 – potentially providing computers with efficiency close to that of a biological brain.",
        "这不仅缩短了它们的通讯时间； 也改善了能源效率，幅度可达5,000倍——有望产生能源效率接近生物脑的计算机。"
    ],
    [
        "They have only to point to the failed attempt to nominate Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, to be Hillary Clinton’s successor as Secretary of State, or to the similarly gut-wrenching nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense.",
        "他们只消提一下提名美国驻联合国大使苏珊·赖斯（Susan Rice）继希拉里·克林顿之任为国务卿的失败尝试，或令人痛心疾首的提名前参议员查克·哈格尔（Chuck Hagel）为国防部长。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments and major pharmaceutical companies must be sure that poorer nations receive the medical supplies they need.",
        "政府和大型制药企业必须确保贫困国家也能得到所需的医疗物资。"
    ],
    [
        "That is bad news for those who believe that US-China cooperation is essential for reviving the global economy, meeting the challenge of climate change, containing threats of nuclear proliferation, and managing a host of other problems without borders.",
        "这对于那些将中美合作视为重振全球经济，迎接气候变化挑战，遏制核扩散威胁，以及跨国合作应对各类难题所必不可少的前提的人来说，这是个坏消息。"
    ],
    [
        "The Good Fallout from Iraq",
        "来自伊拉克的正面影响"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, Greece would commit itself to an automatically implemented fiscal plan, specifying the long-run ratio of national debt to GDP, the convergence rate to this ratio, and the degree of fiscal counter-cyclicality.",
        "此外，希腊要致力于自动实施的财政计划，制定长期国民债务/GDP比率目标、向这一比率的趋近速度，以及财政反周期性的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "But impoverished and slow-growing African countries like Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Benin, and Malawi are ranked as having less corruption than fast-growing Asian countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Indonesia.",
        "然而，如加纳、塞内加尔、马里、贝宁和马拉维等经济增长缓慢的非洲穷国的腐败程度却要好于越南、孟加拉国和印度尼西亚等快速发展的亚洲国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Going it alone also seems politically advantageous domestically, because leaders can decide how much and how far they want to carry out a particular policy.",
        "自作主张也能在国内政治中拣到便宜，因为某项政策如何执行和执行到何种程度都由领导人自己决定。"
    ],
    [
        "While the Orange Revolution made ordinary Ukrainians more conscious of their rights than ever before, this alone cannot guarantee that they are certain to see those rights vindicated in the coming weeks.",
        "橙色革命使乌克兰老百姓的权利意识空前高涨，但仅靠革命无法保证这些权利在接下来的几周里得到维护。"
    ],
    [
        "Their country’s budget deficit was too large, causing its economy to overheat.",
        "巴西财政赤字太大，导致其经济过热。"
    ],
    [
        "Pursuit of these principals while encouraging the development of global markets is essential to greater overall growth prospects for the world economy.",
        "在促进全球市场发展的同时严格遵循上述原则对世界经济获得更大的总体增长无疑起着至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The pluto-populists who presided over the Roman Empire knew that keeping the populist mob at bay required substance as well as diversion: panem et circenses – “bread and circuses.”",
        "当年主政罗马帝国的财阀民粹主义者知道，如果想控制住这帮民粹主义暴民就得提供物质和消遣：面包和角斗。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk is that, by then, it could be too late to save the euro from a partial break-up: what might work if adopted promptly could be ineffective if adopted in six months.",
        "迟早人们会发现，最大的风险在于未能及时采取行动导致无法挽回欧元的局部分裂：马上采取行动要比等待半年再动手有效得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The long-term inflation outlook might be somewhat more uncertain today.",
        "长期通胀前景在今天可能不确定性更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Who Wants Peace in the Middle East?",
        "谁希望中东和平？"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, enabling foreign investment in the telecommunications sector has lowered prices for landline and cellular services, while improving quality and coverage.",
        "类似地，在通讯业引入外国投资降低了固定电话和移动电话服务价格，还改善了质量和覆盖率。"
    ],
    [
        "While investment in social housing should be welcomed, real-estate investment, currently running at 10-13% of GDP, is already far too high.",
        "社会住房项目投资值得欢迎，但目前占GDP高达10—13%的房地产投资已经显得太高。"
    ],
    [
        "The two events are intimately connected.",
        "这两个问题的关系盘根错节，密不可分。"
    ],
    [
        "Defense cuts are also happening at a time when Europe, for the first time in modern history, has been overtaken by Asia in terms of total defense spending.",
        "与此同时，欧洲的国防支出总额自近代以来首次被亚洲超越。"
    ],
    [
        "If “credibility” were purged from the debate and the focus placed squarely on advancing long-term US interests, it would become apparent that an attack on Syria might not yield even temporary geopolitical gains.",
        "如果“信誉”因为争论和真正将推进美国长期利益作为关注焦点而得到净化，那么显然对叙利亚的打击并不能产生哪怕暂时性的地缘政治好处。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – As Israeli planes and tanks exact a heavy toll on Gaza, India’s leaders and strategic thinkers have been watching with an unusual degree of interest – and some empathy.",
        "新德里--在以色列的战机和坦克横扫加沙地带之际，印度领导人和战略分析家们不禁有点不同寻常的兴趣以及同情。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, there is every reason to expect the German economy’s upswing to continue for the time being.",
        "但是，我们仍然有充分理由期待德国经济在目前持续上升。"
    ],
    [
        "(In fact, some banks have not much more than 3% equity.)",
        "（事实上，一些银行的股本比3%高不了多少。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most important, they have undermined the basis on which political union rests – namely, persuading European Union citizens to identify with the European idea.",
        "也许最重要的是，它们破坏了政治联盟的基石——即说服欧盟人民认同欧洲思想。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is their growing anxiety that is fueling the rise of identity politics, with populist leaders and movements appealing to ethnic or religious solidarity in the face of the impersonal forces of change.",
        "而他们日益增加的焦虑助长了身份政治的兴盛，民粹主义领导人和运动打着非人格化变革的力量的旗号号召种族或宗教团结。"
    ],
    [
        "In the euro area, such one-way transfers between countries are not foreseen (transfers do exist as part of the EU’s cohesion policy, but are limited in size and are primarily designed to support the “catching-up” process in lower income countries or regions).",
        "在欧元区，这一国家间的单向转移在可预见的未来不会存在（欧盟团结政策中确实有关于转移支付的内容，但规模有限制，并主要是为了支持低收入国家或地区的“赶超”过程）。"
    ],
    [
        "If the fallout of the New York decision is an extensive Argentine default on other obligations, foreign trade will become practically impossible, many goods will become scarce, and domestic inflation will increase further.",
        "如果纽约裁决引发阿根廷其他债务的连锁违约，实际上将中止该国的外贸，导致国内多重商品短缺和通胀的进一步攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as a few of us warned of impending crisis in the 2003-2006 period, some – including the Bank of International Settlements and the IMF– are sounding the alarm today, but to no avail.",
        "正如我们少数人在2003—2006年期间发出的危机迫在眉睫的警告，一些人——包括国际清算银行和IMF——今天也在大声疾呼，但没有人听他们的。"
    ],
    [
        "Factually incorrect statements from top officials, including Ukraine’s interior minister, Arsen Avakov, have undermined the credibility of the investigation.",
        "包括乌克兰内政部长阿尔森·阿瓦科夫（Arsen Avakov）在内的高官谎话连篇，令调查信誉扫地。"
    ],
    [
        "Although I felt that I, an exile in the land of exiles, belonged ever more to a world to which no one can really be said to belong, on September 11, 2001, I was finally able to proclaim, “I am a New Yorker,” just as President Kennedy had declared himself a Berliner when that former National Socialist capital was in danger of becoming a Communist capital.",
        "尽管是流亡者国度中的流亡者，尽管没有谁能够真正归属于这个国度，但我觉得自己的归属感却前所未有的强烈，2001年的9月11日，就像肯尼迪总统在柏林，这座前国家社会主义的首都即将沦为共产主义都会之际宣告自己是柏林人一样，我终于能够骄傲地宣称，“我是纽约人！ ”"
    ],
    [
        "TVET is rarely available to workers in small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) or the informal sector, and it receives too little public financing.",
        "在小型和中等规模的企业（SMEs）或者非正规部门工人基本上没机会到该系统受训，对此的公共投入也捉襟见肘。"
    ],
    [
        "If such research is truly to serve the public good, the safety, health, and dignity of human subjects should not be compromised.",
        "如果这样的研究的确是服务于公共利益，那么，就不应当损害人体研究对象的安全、健康以及尊严。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, concerns about the North Korean regime’s nuclear-weapons program are nothing new.",
        "各界对朝鲜核武计划的担忧早就不是一天两天了。"
    ],
    [
        "If markets cannot induce better behavior from Murdoch, it may be up to governments to step in.",
        "如果市场不能纠正默多克的行为，政府必须站出来。"
    ],
    [
        "And his brazen willingness to challenge the 40-year-old “One China” policy by speaking directly with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen – to say nothing of his subsequent anti-China tweets – leaves little doubt that his administration will follow Navarro’s prescription and take dead aim at America’s largest and most powerful trading partner.",
        "他还腆着脸挑战40年来的“一个中国”政策，直接与台湾“总统”蔡英文通话——更不用说随后发布的反华tweet了——这毫无疑问地表明，他的政府将遵循纳瓦罗的药方，与美国最大、最强的贸易伙伴死磕到底。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond issuing a flurry of administrative orders, it did little to interact with investors and the market, lacking the means to solicit public opinion and advice.",
        "除了发出一系列行政令，它并未与投资者和市场展开互动，也缺乏征求公共意见和建议的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "But the US and the West cannot leave the matter entirely to others or confine their efforts to the United Nations, where Russia and China prevent any effective action.",
        "但美国和西方不能将这一任务撒手任由其他人处理，也不能将努力局限于联合国，因为俄罗斯和中国会阻止任何有意义的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "History suggests otherwise, despite a vulnerable dollar.",
        "历史表明，尽管美元软弱，但是情况还是相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor, on balance, has liberalization of capital flows stabilized consumption.",
        "总体而言，资本流通的自由化也并没有稳定消费。"
    ],
    [
        "Powerful sugarcane cooperatives, led by major UPA supporters, supposedly drove the government to fix extravagant prices and write off sugar farmers’ bad debts, leading to over-production.",
        "据信，强大的糖业公司在UPA主要支持者的领导下，要求政府将价格维持在过高水平，并减记糖农的坏账，从而导致生产过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the nuclear deal with Iran, despite facing continued scrutiny in Iran and the US, has raised hopes that the country could play an important role in pushing for a political solution in Syria.",
        "第三，与伊朗的核协议尽管还面临伊朗和美国的后续审议，但让人感到伊朗可以在政治解决叙利亚问题方面起到重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Security may be the most pressing issue, but it is certainly not the only one.",
        "安全可能是最紧迫的问题，但决不是唯一的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And I suspect that we are going to come up with evidence that they helped to finance it.",
        "我甚至怀疑我们能拿到证据证明他们提供了部分资助。"
    ],
    [
        "Can China Rescue Europe?",
        "中国可以拯救欧洲吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The particular characteristics of the impending transformation remain unclear.",
        "即将到来的转型的具体特征尚不清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "That explains how so many commodity prices can be down in terms of dollars and up in terms of other currencies.",
        "这就解释了为何如此多的大宗商品的美元价格出现了下跌，而其他货币价格出现了上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "Little wonder that the EU has grown so unpopular.",
        "欧盟如此不受欢迎因此就不值得大惊小怪了。"
    ],
    [
        "I shall not pass judgment on his plans for the world economy as reported so far.",
        "我不应该对迄今为止所报道的奥巴马的世界经济计划进行评价。"
    ],
    [
        "The US became mired in Iraq. And, for the moment, Israel’s Syrian strike appears to have eliminated a potential threat.",
        "奥西拉克的毁灭促使萨达姆再次试验，美国陷入了伊拉克战争的泥潭，以及到目前为止，以色列对叙利亚的军事打击似乎已经清除了一个潜在的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Making sustainable urbanization a strategic priority might be the only way to overcome the interrelated crises of jobless growth, youth unemployment, and income inequality.",
        "将可持续城市化作为战略重点或许是克服盘根错节的无就业增长危机、青年失业及收入不平等的唯一方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, rumored to be replaced soon, is said to have called Trump a “moron.”",
        "据说很快就会被取代的国务卿雷克斯·蒂勒森曾用“白痴”一词来形容特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "It operates under a consensus rule, and its member states have different priorities.",
        "会议的运作基于共识原则，但其成员国却有着各自不同的利益考虑。 有些国家希望在裁军方面进行谈判；"
    ],
    [
        "Big agriculture gets paid for growing the corn (often subsidized by the government), and the food processors get paid for adding tons of chemicals to create a habit-forming – and thus irresistible – product.",
        "大农业种植玉米并从中获利（通常还能拿到政府补贴），食品加工企业则添加数以吨计的化学品，最终生产的产品让人成瘾，因而也就无法抗拒。 整个链条中，科学家负责找到精确的盐、糖和化学添加剂配比使新发明的速食食品最让人上瘾；"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its best efforts, Palestine, of course, is not recognized as a sovereign state by the US.",
        "”尽管巴勒斯坦尽力示好，但它显然不被美国承认为主权国家。"
    ],
    [
        "There are two reasons to doubt that the light-touch approach used in the case of health care is appropriate to reforming financial regulation.",
        "这时，那种无为而治的办法就不灵了，理由有两点。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcome will be messy.",
        "其结果将是混乱的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also clear that the West’s future role will depend on how America manages this new distribution of power.",
        "还有一点也是清除的，那就是西方未来作用将会取决于美国如何处理这一新的势力分配。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Muslim philosopher Osman Bakar, science comes under attack on the grounds that it “seeks to explain natural phenomena without recourse to spiritual or metaphysical causes, but rather in terms of natural or material causes alone.”",
        "按穆斯林哲学家奥斯曼·巴卡尔的话讲，科学受到攻击的理由是“它试图脱离精神或者形而上学的原因、单纯以自然或物质因素来解释自然现象。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The idea of using fiscal-policy instruments to improve trade competitiveness dates back to John Maynard Keynes.",
        "使用财政政策工具来提高贸易竞争力的想法可追溯到约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal contraction was supposed to restore confidence.",
        "财政收缩理应重塑信心。"
    ],
    [
        "But Erdoğan’s specific objective was more modest this time than it was in 2010, because Turkey does not want to play the role of mediator and will not seek to negotiate the details of an agreement.",
        "但埃尔多安这次的具体目标与2010年相比较为温和，因为土耳其不希望发挥调解的作用，也不会就该协议的具体细节进行谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, Americans will have to spend more money on debt service, leaving them with less to spend on consumption of goods and services.",
        "如果是这样，美国消费者在债息上的开支将增加，而商品与服务方面的消费就会相应减少。"
    ],
    [
        "As the domestically produced goods became competitive with the foreign goods, the subsidies would gradually be removed and the industry allowed stand on its own two feet.",
        "随着国内商品相对外国商品的竞争力逐步提升，补贴将逐渐消除，让行业自主运行。"
    ],
    [
        "Vietnam still remains outside the WTO.",
        "越南到今天还被挡在世贸组织的大门之外。"
    ],
    [
        "Comparisons between China’s economy and that of Latin America are stunning.",
        "中国与拉美地区的经济发展情况相差悬殊。"
    ],
    [
        "As Tory turned mercilessly against Tory, the schism in the Conservative establishment received much attention.",
        "保守党对保守党毫不留情，其建制内部的分歧饱受关注。"
    ],
    [
        "The first step that the Middle East can take is to align regulations across the region, with countries agreeing on the parameters for testing drugs’ safety and efficacy in the local population.",
        "中东可以采取的第一步是理顺地区监管措施，各国在测试药物对本地人口的安全性和效力的参数方面需要取得一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, today’s Saudi princes appear to recognize that something has genuinely changed in the Middle East: The younger generation of Arabs is no longer prepared to accept unaccountable, corrupt, and brutal governments.",
        "即便如此，当今的沙特王子似乎也意识到中东地区已经发生了某些真正的变化：年轻一代阿拉伯人已不再愿意接纳那些不负责任，腐败和残暴的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "At-home positions, frequently filled by women, are also on the rise.",
        "在家工作的情况（通常是女性从事的工作）也在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Russian officers are welcome to participate in military exercises and to visit NATO headquarters under the Partnership for Peace program.",
        "事实上，北约欢迎俄国官员在和平伙伴项目下参加军事演习并访问北约总部。"
    ],
    [
        "Having said this, Keynes’s theory of “underemployment” equilibrium is no longer accepted by most economists and policymakers.",
        "话虽如此，凯恩斯“就业不足”均衡理论已不再被大部分经济学家和决策者所接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Some companies have easier access to capital, whereas their competitors cannot get access to finance at reasonable interest rates.",
        "有些公司比较容易取得资金，然而它们的竞争对手却不能以合理的利率取得资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Public education is in shambles and France’s higher education system now faces competition from other European countries.",
        "公共教育步履蹒跚，法国的高等教育体系现在正面临着来自于其他欧洲国家的竞争压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the importance of the UN secretary-general’s vision, candidates should have the opportunity to share their ideas and goals publicly, as I was committed to doing.",
        "鉴于联合国秘书长目标的重要性，候选人应当像我所做的那样公开他们的想法和目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The key will be to focus on the many special features of the tax code that are equivalent to government spending.",
        "关键在于将注意力放在税法的诸多相当于政府支出的特别条款上。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of low-skill workers will need to be retrained and redeployed, and GDP may grow more slowly than expected, before assuming a moderately rapid, steady pace through 2030.",
        "到2030年实现适度快速稳健的增长之前，数以百万计的低技能工人将需要接受再培训并被分配到新的岗位，GDP的增长也将比预期缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "Some will doubt the importance of economic growth.",
        "有人会质疑经济增长的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is simple. Despite all of the optimistic talk about wind, solar, geothermal, and other sustainable, non-carbon-emitting energy sources, no alternative is remotely ready to shoulder the energy burden currently borne by fossil fuels.",
        "原因很简单，尽管风能，太阳能，地热能和其他可持续非碳能源前景一片乐观，但至今尚未有任何一个能取代化石燃料的能源供给作用（哪怕是其中一小部分）。"
    ],
    [
        "Note the word “territory.”",
        "注意这里的“领土”一词。"
    ],
    [
        "The authors note that “the strategic direction for Pakistan was set early by a narrow circle at the top of the Bush administration and has been largely focused on the war effort rather than on Pakistan’s internal situation.”",
        "该文的两位作者还指出“巴基斯坦的战略方向早先是由布什政府高层的一个小圈子设定的，其中心是战争而不是巴基斯坦的国内状况。"
    ],
    [
        "When all of these challenges are lumped together, the problem seems intractable, creating the impression that an isolationist response is EU countries’ only hope for protecting themselves.",
        "当所有这些挑战汇聚在一起时，问题就变得十分棘手，产生了一种孤立主义应对措施是欧盟各国保护自己的唯一希望的印象。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when officials over-reassure, they’re often accused of fear-mongering by critics who can’t bear any signs of public concern.",
        "甚至连官方做出过度保证的时候，那些接受不了任何公众担忧迹象的批评者也时常会指责他们制造恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran-backed militias only make matters worse.",
        "伊朗支持的民兵只能让事情变得更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "Because no social system can survive for long without a moral basis, the issues posed by anti-globalization campaigners are urgent – all the more so in the midst of the current economic crisis.",
        "因为一个没有道义基础的社会体系是很难长时间存在的，所以由反全球化运动所带来的问题非常紧迫，尤其是在目前的经济危机中。"
    ],
    [
        "Cultivating Energy",
        "培植能源"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin thinks that now is the time to buy assets cheaply, using the current financial crisis to emerge as a powerful global economic player.",
        "克里姆林宫认为，现在是低价购买资产，并利用当前的金融危机使俄罗斯以一个强大的全球经济参与者的姿态出现的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Exacerbating this trend, income inequality often goes hand in hand with inequality of opportunity.",
        "收入不平等常常与机会不平等相伴相生，这进一步恶化了这一趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "If workplace abuse is to be curtailed, business leaders and C-Suite executives need a fresh approach.",
        "如果真想阻止工作场合所曝出的虐待，企业领袖和高管人员需要采用全新的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "As the December 18 presidential elections approach, the front-runners could not look much different from one another.",
        "随着12月18日总统大选的临近，那些一路领先的候选人们已经很难拉开距离。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial reforms should top the agenda, beginning with interest-rate liberalization.",
        "以利率市场化为开端的金融改革将是主要举措之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Jung Chang’s famous biography of Mao, published in 2005, recounts those awful events in the sort of bleak detail that makes Communist propagandists nervous – and some academic Sinologists critical that Mao’s achievements go too little recognized.",
        "2005年出版的，由张戎所著的著名传记《毛泽东：鲜为人知的故事》详细讲述了那些可怕的事件，其中一些令人绝望的细节让这些共产主义的宣传者们非常恐慌——而一些学院派的汉学家甚至批评道毛泽东的成就被承认的部分太少。"
    ],
    [
        "Conspicuous consumption becomes less important when people already know your income.",
        "如果人们已经知道你的收入状况，为了炫耀而大肆消费就显得没那么重要了。"
    ],
    [
        "But investment agreements like those backed by the US demand that developing countries waive this presumption and permit the adjudication of suits according to procedures that fall far short of those expected in twenty-first-century democracies.",
        "但美国所支持的投资协定要求放弃这一推定，允许根据与21世纪民主要求差距甚远的先例的裁定诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, as we crunched the numbers, we had a special, and daunting, responsibility to fulfill.",
        "显然，在我们计算数字时，肩负着特殊的艰巨任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Entrusting monetary policy to an independent central bank promised to be a perfect way to counter the political pressure to print money.",
        "将货币政策授予独立的中央银行，可望成为一个对抗印刷钞票的政治压力的完美途径。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is the Westphalian state system itself, not just the postwar geopolitical paradigm, which is being tested by rapid technological, economic, and social changes.",
        "事实上，正在接受技术、经济和社会快速变化考验的不仅限于威斯特伐利亚国家体系本身，而且还包括战后建立的地缘政治模式。"
    ],
    [
        "But some leaders see moral obligations beyond their immediate group and educate their followers.",
        "但是，有些领导人对道德责任的看法超越了其直接所在的团体并教育其支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "Property rights and zoning.",
        "产权和区域分划。"
    ],
    [
        "And the same respect for creditor rights that reassures domestic investors reassures foreign investors – both official and private – as well.",
        "这种对债权的尊重既使国内投资者放心，同样也使国外的官方和私人的投资者放心。"
    ],
    [
        "The relentless pursuit of higher income is leading to unprecedented inequality and anxiety, rather than to greater happiness and life satisfaction.",
        "对高收入的不懈追求带来了前所未有的不平等和焦虑，而没有带来更多的幸福和人生满足感。"
    ],
    [
        "There are simply no alternatives right now, and applying the entire gamut of sanctions from the outset would leave the EU and the US without further options.",
        "目前并无其他替代方案可用，而从外部全方位开启制裁也让欧盟和美国没有了进一步的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors could take this as an indication that policies had deteriorated significantly and rush for the exits.",
        "投资者可能会将此视作有关国家政策剧烈恶化的一个信号，乃至蜂拥出逃。"
    ],
    [
        "A poetico-musical revolution in one man and one body of work.",
        "一个人、一部作品肩负着诗歌与音乐的革命。"
    ],
    [
        "That is still high, but it is far below the rate of 55 per 100,000 in Detroit.",
        "上述比率依然很高，但远好于底特律的每100，000人55起谋杀的现状。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, as a result of the counter-revolution, the EU club is shrinking, rather than growing.",
        "如今，拜反革命结果所赐，欧盟俱乐部正在解体而不是成长。"
    ],
    [
        "A Rio Report Card",
        "里约成绩单"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from costing billions of taxpayer dollars, Paulson’s plan violates the fundamental capitalist principle that whoever reaps the gains also bears the losses.",
        "除了耗资数十亿纳税人的钱之外，保尔森的计划还违反了资本主义的基本原则，即获得的收益的人也须承担损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent elections in France and Greece, together with local elections in Italy and continuing unrest in Spain and Ireland, have shown that the public has lost faith in the strict austerity forced upon them by Germany.",
        "法国和希腊的最新大选，以及意大利的地方选举和西班牙和爱尔兰没完没了的政坛乱象表明，公众已经对德国人强加在他们头上的严厉紧缩失去了信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Therefore, let me first present my anticorruption credentials: as Deputy Prime Minister in 1999 I was the first Polish politician to ask the World Bank to prepare a report on corruption in Poland and ways to eradicate it.",
        "因此，让我首先介绍本人的反腐败资历。 1999年，作为副总理，我是第一个要求世界银行准备一份有关波兰腐败问题以及如何消除腐败的报告的政坛人物。"
    ],
    [
        "To add insult to social media’s injury, it is newspaper articles that are being relentlessly quoted in congressional testimony.",
        "令社交媒体雪上加霜的是，在国会听证中被大肆引用的，正是报纸文章。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, other large Muslim countries like Indonesia and Malaysia have succeeded in establishing political orders that serve all segments of highly diverse populations reasonably well.",
        "相反，印尼和马来西亚等其他穆斯林国家已经成功地建立了非常适合高度多元化人口所有部分的政治秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are to get a grip on the global economy’s trajectory, is time to look up.",
        "要想控制全球经济的运行轨迹，现在我们必须抬头看月。"
    ],
    [
        "These measures alone will not ensure that all of democracy’s broken promises are fulfilled.",
        "仅靠采取上述措施，还无法确保实现民主所有的破碎承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "When objections were raised to Cuba being put on the drafting committee, Harry Dexter White, the American representative, remarked that Cuba’s function was to provide cigars.",
        "当古巴的反对意见被提交到起草委员会，美国代表哈里·德克斯特·怀特却说，古巴的职能就是提供雪茄。"
    ],
    [
        "America's Problems Run Deeper than Wall Street",
        "美国的问题不止于华尔街"
    ],
    [
        "Numerous other countries, notably European Union members, share our concerns.",
        "众多其他国家特别是欧盟成员国也持有同样的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest of the world – and especially the European Union – should take note.",
        "世界其他地区——特别是欧盟——应该对此感到关注。"
    ],
    [
        "What exactly are we doing if we insist on Turkey’s acknowledgement that the Armenian genocide did take place as a condition of its membership in the European Union?",
        "如果我们坚持把承认“曾对亚美尼亚人开展种族灭绝”作为土耳其加入欧盟的先决条件，我们是否清楚自己究竟在做些什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Surely that child has better life prospects. When we have a choice between lives with such different prospects – and can make the choice before the embryo or fetus has any awareness at all – shouldn’t we be able to choose the child with the better prospects?",
        "这个孩子显然会有有更美好的人生，而当我们可以在如此截然不同的生命前景中做出选择——并且可以在胚胎或者胎儿出现任何迹象之前就可以做决定——那么我们是不是应该选择前景更美好的孩子？"
    ],
    [
        "It is using military force in the Middle East and Afghanistan, increasing diplomatic pressure on North Korea to rein in its nuclear and missile programs, and renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.",
        "美国正在中东和阿富汗动武，对朝鲜施加压力迫使其克制核和导弹计划，也在与加拿大和墨西哥重新谈判北美自由贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "If nothing else happens, the chief transatlantic partners will be no better prepared for the next crisis than they were for the last.",
        "如果没有什么事情发生的话，这对大西洋两岸的重要合作者对下次危机的准备不会比上一次好到哪里去。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the US must reconsider its regional policy, which has long depended on alliances with despotic Sunni rulers.",
        "美国和必须反思其长期依赖于逊尼派暴君结盟的地区政策。"
    ],
    [
        "And they worry that foreign and domestic investors will be discouraged by the new labor rules.",
        "他们担心国内外投资者将被新的劳动法吓跑。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans can address this major problem of our generation only by working together to craft coherent foreign, security, economic-development, and immigration strategies, not by dismissing our neighbors and their policies.",
        "欧洲人只有合作制定一致的外交、安全、经济发展和移民战略才能解决我们这代人面临的主要矛盾，无视我们的邻国及其政策其实于事无补。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets responded euphorically, with stock prices in the US, for example, reaching post-recession highs.",
        "市场对此反应热烈，比如，美国股市重新回到危机前的高点。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Over the last five years, the eurozone has, without explicit popular consent, maintained a strict policy focus on fiscal austerity and structural reforms – despite serious social repercussions, not only in the Mediterranean periphery and Ireland, but even in a “core\" European Union country like France.",
        "华盛顿—在过去五年中，在没有明确的群众支持的情况下，欧元区的政策焦点严格地集中于财政紧缩和结构改革上——尽管这掀起了巨大的社会反弹，不仅在地中海周边和爱尔兰是如此，甚至在法国等欧盟“核心”国家也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Nancy Birdsall, the president of the Center for Global Development, cites the example of a Ghanaian citizen providing testimony to the US Congress in the hope of convincing American officials to pressure the World Bank to change its position on user fees in Africa.",
        "全球发展中心（Center for Global Development）的主席南希·伯索尔（Nancy Birdsall）引用了一个例子——一个加纳公民向美国国会提供证词以期说服美国官员向世界银行（World Bank）施压，使后者改变在非洲用户使用费上的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Ukraine Needs Weapons",
        "为何乌克兰需要武器"
    ],
    [
        "(Soon after the election, he suggested he may move cautiously in this area.)",
        "（大选后不久，他表示他会在这个问题上保持谨慎。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "But we do not expect such a strategy to improve US competitiveness for the simple reason that the US authorities maintain a flexible exchange rate.",
        "但我们不认为这样的策略能提高美国的竞争力，原因很简单，美国当局保持着灵活的汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "That was the 1990’s.",
        "那是二十世纪九十年代的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Our current global economy, however, is not sustainable, with more than one billion people left behind by economic progress and the earth’s environment suffering terrible damage from human activity.",
        "但是，当前的全球经济是不可持续的，10亿以上的人口没有赶上经济进步进程，地球环境也因人类活动而受到了可怕的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "The US government’s net debt as a share of GDP has doubled in the past five years, and the ratio is projected to be higher a decade from now, even if the economy has fully recovered and interest rates are in a normal range.",
        "过去五年来，美国政府净债务占GDP的比重翻了一番，十年后预计比现在更高，即使经济完全复苏，利率进入常态范围也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1919, the economist John Maynard Keynes described the possibility of an Englishman in London using a telephone to order goods from around the world to be delivered to his house by the afternoon.",
        "1919年，经济学家约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯（John Maynard Keynes）描绘了住在伦敦的英国人用电话从世界各地定购商品，然后就在家里坐等下午接收。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for now, Hirohito remains a singularly unfathomable and isolated character who defies common understandings – alas, to the detriment of a better understanding of “what actually happened.”",
        "但是，就目前而言，裕仁仍是一个非常不透明、非常孤立的角色，不同于我们对他的常规理解——呜呼，更好地理解“实际发生了什么”由从何谈起呢。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s high-profile guests will include the leaders of China, India, and North Korea, underscoring just how few friends Russia has these days.",
        "相反，俄总统弗拉基米尔·普京的高规格嘉宾包括中国、印度和朝鲜领导人，这凸显了当今俄国鲜有同盟的孤立环境。"
    ],
    [
        "In Tennessee, for example, business leaders were among the first to invest in early education.",
        "比如，在田纳西州，商业领袖是第一批投资于早教的人之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The main reason for the lag is not simply low demand or large debts.",
        "滞后的原因不仅仅是需求低和债务高。"
    ],
    [
        "Agreeing on the composition of such a council for Europe would be hard, but no harder than it was to agree on the makeup of the ECB’s board.",
        "欧洲很难在如何组成这样一个委员会的问题上达成一致，但要在欧洲央行委员会的组成上达成一致更难。"
    ],
    [
        "Research has shown that such teams outperform others, which means that this approach can lead to a tremendous competitive advantage.",
        "研究表明这样的团队表现胜过其他团队，这意味着该方法可以带来巨大的竞争优势，简言之，合作不但重要；"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Modern physics and cosmology suggest that basic truths about how nature operates, and how our universe arose, are visible only to those who can see events that occur faster than the time it takes for light to cross a proton, and whose vision can resolve sub-nuclear distances.",
        "麻省剑桥 —— 根据现代物理学和宇宙学可以推论，要看见自然界运行和宇宙生成的基本真相，必须具有一双超级眼：能看清比光穿过质子还快的动作、比原子还小的距离。"
    ],
    [
        "What the Dragon moment makes clear is that the ability to commercialize innovation, not just to create it, is what has made the US economy so robust over the long run.",
        "“龙”时刻清楚地表明，实现创新商业化，而不是单纯的创新能力，是美国经济长期繁荣的核心所在。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has sent a strong signal by being one of the first to offer this commitment to concrete climate action.",
        "美国成为首批承诺实质性气候行动的国家之一，这释放出强烈的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "The counter-argument – that any sell-off or failure by China to continue to buy US government securities would hurt China as much as America – is not valid.",
        "中国卖出或不再继续买入美国国债会像伤及美国那样有损于中国的反面论调并没有充分的依据。"
    ],
    [
        "If this is true, we are closer to John Maynard Keynes’s view of the market as a casino than to Friedrich von Hayek’s view of it as a marvelous mechanism for processing dispersed information.",
        "如果这是事实，那么，比起弗里德里希·冯·哈耶克（Friedrich von Hayek）的市场是一个处理分散信息的非凡机制的观点来，我们更接近梅纳德·凯恩斯（Maynard Keynes）的市场就是赌场的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "This date also happens to coincide with James Watt’s design of the steam engine in 1784.",
        "与此不谋而合的是，同时代的詹姆斯·瓦特在1784年设计出第一台蒸汽机。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, new revenues from carbon taxes would be a boon for governments.",
        "此外，来自碳税的新收入将是政府的福音。"
    ],
    [
        "Some settled in London (my European Parliament constituency).",
        "有些人定居在伦敦（我竞选欧洲议会议员的选区）。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, where they do consider harmonization, they could favor the less stringent of the original standards, unless there is credible evidence that it would not support the relevant regulatory objective.",
        "其次，在考虑协调的领域，它们可以倾向于原始标准中较不苛刻的一个，除非有充分的证据表明这样做不利于相关监管目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The discontent fueled by these failures is a major potential cause of unrest.",
        "上述问题引发的不满情绪是导致局势不稳的主要潜在原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Without blushing, Trump cites “alternative facts,” denies the scientific method, and proposes massive budget cuts for public research, including on climate change, which he believes is a hoax.",
        "特朗普可以面不改色地大谈“另类事实”，罔顾科学方法，提出要大幅削减公共研究包括气候变化研究的预算——他相信气候变化是一个骗局。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, by the end of Vladimir Putin’s second presidential term, Russia’s modernizing dreams had been shattered.",
        "第二，在弗拉基米尔·普京的第二任总统末期，俄罗斯的现代化梦想被粉碎了。"
    ],
    [
        "Although no one can know the future of energy prices, modest world prices may last for some time.",
        "尽管没人能够预测能源价格的未来，但在未来一段时间世界能源价格可能保持适中。"
    ],
    [
        "Because patents are essentially government-granted monopolies, they lead to the same inefficiencies and rent-seeking behavior as any other such market distortion.",
        "由于专利本质上属于政府授权垄断，因此会像其他类似的市场扭曲因素一样带来低效和寻租。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the international community has lacked the political will needed to meet these basic responsibilities to humanity, causing people to lose faith in politics.",
        "但是，国际社会缺乏满足这些人类的基本责任所需要的政治意愿，引起人们对政治丧失信念。"
    ],
    [
        "In his State of the Union address, Juncker boldly outlined his ambitious vision for Europe’s future.",
        "在盟情咨文中，容克大胆地提出了他的欧洲未来的宏大愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "This disparity reflected some differences in productivity growth but even more so differences in wage growth.",
        "这一分化一定程度上体现了生产率增长差异，但更多体现的是工资增长差异。"
    ],
    [
        "The US may be intent on creating a transatlantic trade-and-investment pact with Europe, which would make a political statement to the world that the West writ large constitutes the universal normative reference point.",
        "美国可能下定决心要与欧洲达成跨大西洋贸易和投资契约，这相当于一份政治宣言，向全世界表明西方存在着明确的共同规范参照点。"
    ],
    [
        "But European welfare states are better equipped to deal with asylum-seekers and other newcomers as needy dependents than as people in need of a job.",
        "但欧洲福利国家似乎更倾向于把政治避难者或者其他新来者视为身无分文的累赘，而不是一个需要工作的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Summits should be well prepared and provide a forum to debate today’s great global issues.",
        "为此，峰会必须精心准备并提供一个讨论当今重大全球事务的平台。"
    ],
    [
        "“I am bringing you what you need most: a stable and guaranteed source of energy.",
        "“我给你们带来了你们最需要的东西：稳定而有保证的能源。"
    ],
    [
        "This boosted confidence in Israel that the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s ruling party, would uphold the 1979 peace treaty.",
        "这提振了以色列的信心，认为埃及执政党穆斯林兄弟会将支持1979年和平条约。"
    ],
    [
        "Shabbir’s neighbors were Christian, and the extremists were keen to evict them and convert their home into a madrasa (religious school).",
        "沙比尔的邻居是基督徒，极端分子急切地想要驱逐他们，然后将他们的家改为马德拉赛（宗教学校）。"
    ],
    [
        "Most polls give Chávez a significant advantage (of up to 15 percentage points), but nonetheless offer a glimmer of hope to the opposition.",
        "大部分民调都显示查韦斯优势明显（大约有15个百分点），但尽管如此，反对派仍有一线生机。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to create the necessary culture of dialogue within industry and academia. And we need to encourage people to think and reflect more.",
        "我们需要在产业界和学术界建设必须对话文化，也需要鼓励人们更加深入的思考和反思。"
    ],
    [
        "And when soaring global prices for Argentina’s leading agricultural commodities provided a golden opportunity to boost output and raise chronically insufficient foreign-currency earnings, Fernández imposed heavy tariffs and quotas on exports of soy, wheat, and beef.",
        "而当主产农作物全球价格飙升为阿根廷提供了提振产出、增加长期不足的外汇收入时，费尔南德兹又给大豆、小麦和牛肉出口施加了沉重的关税。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, European exports could fall in response to geopolitical events in Asia or the Middle East, depressing overall economic activity in Europe.",
        "或者，欧洲出口可能因为亚洲或中东的地缘政治事件而下降，抑制欧洲的总体经济活跃度。"
    ],
    [
        "While many critics will be tempted to celebrate the end of “neoliberalism,” it remains to be seen whether or not what succeeds it represents an improvement.",
        "许多批评家会受到诱惑庆贺新自由主义“的终结，取代它的东西是否代表进步还有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "America's subsequent patronage of Israel had less to do with evangelical passion for the Holy Land, or a spontaneous love for the Jewish people, than with the Cold War.",
        "美国随后成为以色列的赞助者，其原因与其说是福音派对圣地（Holy Land）的向往或对以色列人民的自发的热爱，不如所是因为冷战。"
    ],
    [
        "The other two are its “mass balance” and the rate at which melt-water is discharged.",
        "另两大衡量尺度是冰川物质平衡和冰川融水径流量。"
    ],
    [
        "Bubble Spotting",
        "泡沫的测定"
    ],
    [
        "Customers can be happy even when faced by a monopoly, though they would grumble far more if they knew how much they were paying for good service!",
        "而即使面临垄断，客户也会很愉快，尽管如果知道自己花了多少钱才享受到上等服务，他们也免不了有所抱怨。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so usually leads to a focus on policies that are preferred by all members – such as lower taxes – instead of measures that are important to the productivity of each member.",
        "这样做常常导致注重所有会员都偏好的政策——比如减税——而不去关注对各会员生产率很重要的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is a day to recognize that, if family comes first, work does not come second; rather, life comes together.",
        "毕业当前他们还应当认识到，把家庭放在首位并不意味着工作就是从属； 相反，生活其实是各种因素的融合。"
    ],
    [
        "Changes in Israel are also contributing to the mood swing.",
        "以色列国内的变化也对人们的心态动荡产生一定影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The anniversary provides a reason to reflect on some of the country’s achievements and failings, especially in the field of education – the key to economic opportunity and professionalization of the public sector.",
        "在独立五十年之际，有必要反思肯尼亚所取得的成就和失败，特别是教育领域——该领域是经济机会和公共部门专业化的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that many Western economies got out of recession last year should not fool us into thinking that the crisis was only a brief interlude, and that the post-crisis world can return to the pre-crisis status quo.",
        "虽然许多西方经济体已经在去年成功摆脱了衰退，但这并不能阻止我们怀疑这场危机是否只是某出戏剧的中场休息环节，而接着的后危机时代是否会回复到前危机中的那种糟糕状况。"
    ],
    [
        "All of the above has implications for today’s challenges.",
        "以上所述都与今天我们面临的挑战有密切关系。"
    ],
    [
        "As University of California agricultural economist David Zilberman and his colleagues have written, the lost benefits are “irreversible, both in the sense that past harvests have been lower than they would have been if the technology had been introduced and in the sense that yield growth is a cumulative process of which the onset has been delayed.”",
        "加州大学农业经济学家齐尔伯曼（David Zilberman）和他的同事指出，损失的好处是“不可挽回的，因为如果该技术早已引入，那么过去的收成就会比当时高； 而收成增长是一个累积过程，现在相当于初始累积被延后了。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last decade, a right-to-food movement has taken root in the country, putting pressure on policymakers and approaching the problem from legal and political angles.",
        "在过去十年中，粮食权运动已经在印度生根发芽，给决策者带来了压力，也在从法律和政治角度接近这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The main problem is that a shift of this magnitude risks undermining hard-won central bank credibility; after all, central banks have been promising to deliver 2% inflation for a couple of decades now, and that level is deeply embedded in long-term financial contracts.",
        "主要的问题是如此大的动作有可能威胁到好不容易树立起来的央行信誉； 毕竟，几十年来央行一直承诺将通胀保持在2%，这一通胀水平也深深地嵌入在长期金融契约中。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Europeans continue to look inward, allowing accountants to dominate discussions of Europe’s future, they will miss a historic opportunity – one that will directly affect Europe’s security.",
        "如果欧洲人继续延续内向型思维，任由会计人员在关乎欧洲未来的讨论中唱主角，他们就会错过一次将直接影响欧洲安全的历史性机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "This applies not only to Egypt, but to almost all of the wider Middle East.",
        "不仅埃及是如此，整个中东几乎都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem in Bolivia is a lack of transparency, both when contracts are signed and afterwards.",
        "玻利维亚的问题是缺乏透明，不仅是签署协议的时候，也是签署之后。"
    ],
    [
        "No “right of return” for Palestinian refugees, but financial compensation for them.",
        "巴勒斯坦难民不得实施“返回家园”的权利，但是给予经济补偿；"
    ],
    [
        "Bio-fuel subsidies, which have encouraged the shift of land from producing food into energy, must be repealed.",
        "生物燃料补贴鼓励了把农田从生产粮食转移到生产能源。 这一补贴必须予以取消。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet none of that stopped Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, Raheel Sharif, and ISI Director-General Rizwan Akhter from rushing to Kabul after the Peshawar attack to demand that President Ashraf Ghani and the US-led military coalition extradite TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah or allow Pakistani forces to go in after him.",
        "但这并没有妨碍巴基斯坦陆军参谋长谢里夫和三军情报局局长阿赫塔尔在白沙瓦袭击发生后飞奔到喀布尔要求总统阿什拉夫·加尼和以美国为首的军事联盟引渡TTP首领毛拉·法兹鲁拉或允许巴基斯坦部队进入阿富汗对其采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Short-term considerations will not suffice.",
        "仅有短期考虑是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "It would help to realize a vision of Europe that supports both sustainability and growth – a vision that is clearly in line with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's priorities of creating jobs, sustaining growth, and developing a competitive energy union.",
        "它有助于实现支持可持续性和发展的欧洲愿景——这一愿景显然与欧盟委员会主席容克的优先目标（创造就业岗位、维持增长和发展有竞争力的能源联盟）相一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Saving Italy From Itself",
        "意大利的自救"
    ],
    [
        "The TTIP’s goal is to unleash the power of the transatlantic economy, which remains by far the world’s largest and wealthiest market, accounting for three-quarters of global financial activity and more than half of world trade.",
        "TTIP的目标是释放跨大西洋经济的力量——目前大西洋两岸仍是世界最大最富有的市场，占全球金融活动的四分之三和世界贸易量的一大半。"
    ],
    [
        "The figures that will be presented are the result of a lengthy process, in which the bureaucracy closely consulted with LDP.",
        "提交的预算数字需要经过繁琐的程序，在此期间需要官僚体系与自民党密切配合。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the International Monetary Fund, post-tax subsidies for coal (including environmental damage) reached 3.9 % of global GDP this year.",
        "据国际货币基金组织（IMF）统计，税后煤炭补贴（包括环境破坏）今年达到全球GDP的3."
    ],
    [
        "Special Drawing Rights never became an attractive alternative to the dollar, only modestly supplementing dollars and other national units in international use.",
        "特别提款权从未成为一种有吸引力的美元替代品，只是在国际间中作为美元和其他国家货币的补充物存在。"
    ],
    [
        "The strategic emphasis on “breakout time” is thus misplaced.",
        "因此对“突破时间”的战略性强调并不合理。"
    ],
    [
        "In the coming years, Europe appears set to lurch from the frying pan of depression to the fire of high inflation.",
        "在未来几年中，欧洲有可能经历从萧条到高通胀的过山车。"
    ],
    [
        "The federalist structure of Germany’s political system, moreover, favors parochial approaches over grander designs.",
        "此外，德国政治制度的联邦型结构有利于各自为政，不利于顶层设计。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets reacted sharply, with the yen strengthening by 2% against the dollar and the Japanese stock market falling 3%.",
        "市场对此反应强烈，日圆对美元当即升值了2％，日本股市则下跌3％。"
    ],
    [
        "SÃO PAULO – Brazil’s political crisis appears to be coming to a head.",
        "圣保罗—巴西政治危机似乎正在走向终结。"
    ],
    [
        "The ozone layer is healing and, according to the latest estimates, it could recover by 2065, saving trillions of dollars in global health-care and agriculture costs.",
        "臭氧层正在恢复，最新预测显示，到2065年臭氧层可能恢复如初，从而节约数万亿美元的全球医疗和农业开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this opportunity was squandered in the Uruguay Round, as developed countries advanced their own interests at the expense of less developed countries.",
        "遗憾的是，乌拉圭回合谈判浪费了这样的机会，因为发达国家以牺牲不发达国家的利益为代价，牟取他们自身的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "There are already more than 190 countries, and the emergence of new ones is neither simple nor straightforward.",
        "世界已经有了190多个国家，建立新国家既不简单，也不直接。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that it would have been simpler to merge the two, and the unwieldiness of the new means of articulating policy suggests that this might indeed have been a good idea.",
        "有人指出，把两者合并能让事情变得更简单，而阐明政策的新方式的笨拙表明这或许真的是个好主意。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists who, under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, talked such a good game about excessive tax burdens and the importance of balanced budgets went very quiet after Clinton took office in January 1993, and stayed quiet after January 2001, when George W. Bush’s administration dismantled so much of what the Clinton administration had accomplished.",
        "在里根总统和老布什总统执政期间大谈税务负担过重和平衡预算重要性的经济学家在1993年1月克林顿入主白宫后就收了声，而在2001年后小布什政府把克林顿政府大肆败坏克林顿政府的成果时，他们仍旧保持沉默。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries ask why they should pay attention to global warming if rich countries are not prepared to curtail their own emissions sharply?",
        "发展中国家问道，如果富国不愿意大幅度限制它们自身的排放，为什么它们就应该关注全球气候变暖问题呢？"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the government has intensified its censorship of the Internet, rendering popular portals and sites – including Google, Facebook, and the New York Times – all but inaccessible.",
        "首先，政府加紧了互联网审查，热门门户和网站——包括谷歌、Facebook和《纽约时报》——都上不去。"
    ],
    [
        "Pro-Europeans need to engage with the sources of discontent and rethink the forms used to express the European ideal.",
        "亲欧派需要战胜不满的根源，并反思欧洲理想的表达形式。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcome will certainly reflect what was learned from last year’s earthquake and tsunami, and seek to encourage deeper political and economic commitment to disaster-risk reduction and resilience worldwide.",
        "结果肯定会展示从去年地震和海啸中所学到的教训，并试图鼓励全世界各国致力于降低灾难风险，提高恢复力，进一步深化政治合作和经济投入。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists regard migration as a movement of individuals in search of a better life and call for more immigration to offset population aging, or to provide workers to do the “dirty jobs.”",
        "经济学家将移民视为个体追寻更好的生活的运动，支持用更多的移民来抵消人口老化或提供干“脏活”的工人。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, central banks could change their target rate of inflation from 2% to, say, 4%.",
        "第三，央行可以将通胀目标从2%调整到（比如）4%。"
    ],
    [
        "But I think that Barro misreads how his own evidence applies to our current situation.",
        "但我想，巴罗误读了其证据对我们目前情况的适用范围。"
    ],
    [
        "To move toward an ecologically sustainable and socially equitable agricultural model, we can leverage existing political frameworks, such as the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy.",
        "要想过渡到生态可持续、社会平等的农业模式，我们可以利用现有政治框架，如欧盟共同农业政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But a growing number of foundations – such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation – are increasing the share of assets they direct toward investments that further their philanthropy.",
        "但越来越多的基金会——如比尔和梅琳达•盖茨基金会、洛克菲勒基金会, 和 克雷斯基基金会（Kresge Foundation）——正在提高用于扩大慈善的投资的比例。"
    ],
    [
        "This is also true, more generally, of German dominance of the EU.",
        "更一般地说，德国对欧盟的主导力也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the increase in infrastructure spending is likely to be accomplished through tax credits, which will help hedge funds, but not America’s balance sheet: such programs’ long track record shows that they deliver little value for money.",
        "类似地，基础设施支出增加通过税收优惠实现，这有助于对冲基金，而无助于美国资产负债表：这些项目的长期历史记录表明，它们基本上不具有资金价值。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank of Japan seems well on its way to delivering on the first one – embracing what it calls quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE).",
        "日本银行的第一支箭射得还不错——采取了它所谓的量化和定性宽松（QQE）。"
    ],
    [
        "A foundation of the European integration process was recognition of the importance of a stable currency to political legitimacy.",
        "而欧洲一体化进程的其中一个基础就是承认一个拥有政治合法性的稳定货币的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Three components of this model incited today’s crisis and make it difficult for the French Republic to address it effectively.",
        "这一模式的三个要素引发了今天的危机，并且使得法兰西共和国难以有效地加以解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Whither North Korea?",
        "北朝鲜何去何从？"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, upward mobility is more myth than reality, whereas downward mobility and vulnerability is a widely shared experience.",
        "在美国，向上流动与其说是现实，不如说是传说； 而向下流动性和脆弱性倒是比比皆是。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, even as China’s economy has boomed over the past decade, structural adjustment in its domestic sectors slowed, mainly owing to political constraints.",
        "实际上，尽管在过去十年中中国经济实现了腾飞，但是由于政治上的约束，其国内部门的结构性调整却放慢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Akihito’s travel schedule contrasts sharply with that of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.",
        "明仁天皇的行程与印度总理辛格形成了鲜明对比。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, ECB chief economist Otmar Issing predicts long- term interest rates would go up—not down—as inflationary expectations increased.",
        "此外，ECB的首席经济学家Otmar Issing预测，随着通货膨胀的可能性增加，长期利率将走高，而非下降。"
    ],
    [
        "That will push total national saving even lower – notwithstanding the vacuous self-funding assurances of supply-siders.",
        "尽管供应方吹嘘说保证能内部筹措足够资金，这依然会继续拉低整个国家的储蓄水平。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, concern for the environment was viewed as a luxury; today, it is a necessity – a point grasped by some, but by no means all, economic architects yet.",
        "如今，这是一项必需品。 有些人认识到了这一点，但是，并不是所有的经济规划者也都有这样的意识。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, strained by decades of governmental failure to curb massive unemployment, the French are nowadays often perceived as having retired from the political sphere to concentrate on their lives and leisure.",
        "事实上，因为对政府几十年来未能制止居高不下的失业率感到失望，法国人现在通常被认为不再关心政治而只关注他们自己的生活和休闲。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that every senior prince has placed his favorite sons in important positions in the Kingdom.",
        "目前，所有年长王子都安插器重的儿子到沙特王国的重要位子上。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s recent recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as separate republics, despite their de facto autonomous status within Georgia since the early 1990’s, will make it more difficult to find solutions to the problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, and the resident population in the conflict zones.",
        "尽管阿布哈兹和南奥塞梯自20世纪90年代初起就在格鲁吉亚境内获得了事实上的自治地位，但俄罗斯最近承认它们为独立的共和国，这将使得解决国内流离失所者（IDPs）、回返者和在冲突地区的居民等问题变得更加困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe can no longer afford this standstill.",
        "欧洲已经无法忍受这样的停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the efforts of many publicly funded bodies have a real and lasting positive impact on the world.",
        "平心而论，许多公共资金部门的努力给世界带来了持续而积极的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The collective response to the #MeToo movement could mark a turning point in the way employers think about sexual harassment and other issues involving gender – like pay and power.",
        "人们对#我也是运动的集体响应可能标志着雇主思考性骚扰和其他涉性问题——如薪酬和权力——等方式的转折。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, I see a broad shift from understanding assets as something you have, to looking for a stream of utility.",
        "总的来说，我看到了从把资产理解为你所占有的东西，到把资产运作起来产生效用的显著转变。"
    ],
    [
        "They are common because we are neighbors, and because, like it or not, the world around us is irremediably global.",
        "我们面临着共同的威胁是因为我们是邻国，而且不管愿意与否，我们都生活在一个无可救药的全球化的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Everest College’s loan portfolio was valued at almost $3.9 million.",
        "滚动禧年以106,709."
    ],
    [
        "Such depictions are breathtaking in their audacity, given Japan’s seven-decade record as a peaceful and constructive member of the international community.",
        "这样的描述不可不谓厚颜无耻，因为七十年来日本一直是国际社会和平而具有建设性的成员。"
    ],
    [
        "Tolerance for other people’s religion is the price paid for tolerance of one’s own.",
        "对其他人宗教信仰的容忍是让别人容忍他们自己的宗教信仰所必须付出的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the country’s crumbling infrastructure will drag down economic growth for years to come.",
        "否则，美国拙劣的基础设施将拖累经济增长多年。"
    ],
    [
        "So what does China’s continuing slowdown imply for commodity prices?",
        "那么，中国持续减速对大宗商品价格意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet young people are the fastest-growing segment of the population in the developing world.",
        "而 发展中国家增长最快的群体就是年轻人。"
    ],
    [
        "This might appear to be somewhat surprising in light of all of the talk about Brussels imposed austerity.",
        "1个百分点）更严重。 这可能有些令人吃惊，因为布鲁塞尔所施加的紧缩政策一直是人们热议的话题。"
    ],
    [
        "Welcome to ordoliberalism, Dixie-style. Wolfgang Schäuble, meet Ted Cruz.",
        "沃尔夫冈·朔伊布勒（Wolfgang Schäuble），去见见泰德·科鲁兹（Ted Cruz）吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasingly, however, people see no difference between politicians from one party or another.",
        "但人们感到政党和政党之间的差别越来越小。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, we are all condemned to the continuation of the present cycles of violence.",
        "不然，我们都必将深受当前的暴力循环之害。"
    ],
    [
        "Indians today, he averred, want jobs, not handouts.",
        "他说，今天的印度人需要的是工作，不是宣传册。"
    ],
    [
        "One often hears about rising healthcare costs in the context of future government budget projections, with old-age health costs expected to dominate growth in government expenditures in coming years.",
        "人们经常听说政府预算预计中医疗费用上升，在未来几年中，老年人的医疗费用预计将会控制政府的开支。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, managing for the short run encouraged mortgage lenders to offer artificially low “teaser” interest rates to lure potential homeowners.",
        "毕竟，管理的短期化鼓励了抵押贷款人提供人为的低“诱惑”利率来引诱潜在的购房者。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s preferred successor, Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, will not be running in the June 14 election.",
        "华盛顿——伊朗总统马哈茂德·艾哈迈迪内贾德的首选继任者埃斯凡·拉希姆·马沙伊将不会参与6月14日的选举。"
    ],
    [
        "An individual today, faced with the option of working 20 hours a week or drawing unemployment benefits, might be tempted by the latter.",
        "对当今的个人来说，在每周工作20小时和领取失业保险之间往往会选择后者。"
    ],
    [
        "The only thing they would like less are obligations whose terms were enforced by courts as easy to manipulate as Argentina’s.",
        "要说还有什么让他们更加讨厌的话，那么只有法庭可以像操纵阿根廷债务一样容易地强制执行的债务了。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a real danger that religious conflict replaces the ideologically based struggles of the last century in an equally devastating form.",
        "宗教冲突取代上个世纪基于意识形态的斗争，并且破坏力不亚于后者，这是一个实实在在的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "A second reason for the disaster is the fragmentation of Britain’s two main political parties.",
        "这场灾难的第二个原因是英国两大政党的分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "The brain interprets our experiences and decides if they are threatening, and then controls our behavioral and physiological responses to them.",
        "大脑会解读我们的经历，判断这些经历是否具有威胁性，从而控制我们相应的行为和生理反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Given these flaws, reviews of old studies do not provide a reliable evidence base for diagnosing abuse.",
        "由于存在这些缺陷，对旧研究的再检视无法为确认虐待提供可靠证据。"
    ],
    [
        "People Power in the Caucasus",
        "高加索的人民力量"
    ],
    [
        "What made this collapse so remarkable is that it was not caused by some external factor, but originated within the financial system itself and spread from there throughout the global economy.",
        "问题之所以如此严重，原因是本次事件的起因不是由外部因素，而恰恰是由金融系统的内部引发的，由此不断蔓延，最终导致全球的经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Just a few weeks ago, it was feared that Syria’s crumbling regime might transfer part of its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction to Hezbollah, or that some of that arsenal might fall into jihadis’ hands.",
        "几周前，人们还在担心濒临崩溃的叙利亚政权可能会把大规模杀伤性武库部分转移给真主党，其中一部分可能落到圣战组织手中。"
    ],
    [
        "And measures that increase domestic research capacity – for example, by strengthening protection of intellectual property rights – can nurture innovation.",
        "而增加国内研究能力——比如通过强化知识产权保护——能够培育创新。"
    ],
    [
        "By embracing the kind of separatism that such schools represent, the British are now saying, “This is your identity and you can have nothing else.”",
        "通过接受这类学校所代表的隔离主义的观念，英国人现在在说的是：“这是你的身份，你不能再有其他身份了。"
    ],
    [
        "No one is looking for a sudden surge, and volatility is reduced by the absence of sharp up-movements.",
        "没人会寄望出现一次突然的暴涨，而市场的波动因为缺乏强烈的上涨而被大大减弱了。"
    ],
    [
        "It was therefore a bizarre coincidence that the merger’s collapse came on the day that the Commission unveiled its new industrial strategy for regaining Europe’s competitive edge in the face of Asian and North American competition.",
        "于是成就了一个奇怪的巧合，即合并失败和欧盟委员会公布其在面对亚洲和北美竞争时重新夺回欧洲竞争优势的全新产业战略就发生在同一天。"
    ],
    [
        "Another post-election route to deficit reduction would be to lower marginal tax rates and balance that revenue loss with cuts in tax expenditures.",
        "另一条在选举后赤字削减的办法是降低边际税率，同时用削减税收支出来弥补收入的减少。"
    ],
    [
        "Equity holdings are somewhat more concentrated, but many middle class Americans have still benefited indirectly through their pension funds.",
        "虽然股权更为集中化，但许多美国中产阶级仍然从他们的养老金中间接获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies around the world are making bold predictions that electric mobility is the future of transportation.",
        "世界各地的企业都在大胆预测电力将塑造未来的交通体系。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, the precautionary principle might suggest that we take drastic action to stop burning fossil fuels.",
        "到那时，预防性原则大概会建议我们采取紧急措施，停止燃烧矿物燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "This will devastate an already-desperate country, where the livelihoods of 95% of the population depend on climate-related services, from agriculture to animal husbandry and fisheries.",
        "这将摧毁这个已经陷入绝望中的国家，其95%的人口的生计都依赖气候相关活动，如农业、畜牧业和渔业。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi’s agenda also evidently includes an active foreign policy – as it should.",
        "莫迪日程也的外交政策也相当积极——理应如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The final, and arguably most important, factor shaping debt risk relates to investment.",
        "最后（也可以说是最重要）的债务风险塑造因素则与投资有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the issue of “bump stocks,” the gun modification that the perpetrator of the Las Vegas massacre used to be able to fire faster.",
        "以“撞火枪托”问题为例。 撞火枪托是对枪支的改装，让拉斯维加斯枪击犯能够更快地开火。"
    ],
    [
        "A proposed consolidation of rural and urban plans for pensions and critical health care is particularly important in this regard, as is the authorities’ commitment to allowing workers to transfer their hukou (residency permits) – and the associated social welfare benefits – wherever they move.",
        "在这方面，整合农村和城市退休金和大病医疗的方案尤其重要，另一个要点是当局承诺允许工人将户口——以及相关社会福利——迁往居住地。 对中国2."
    ],
    [
        "Mubarak has been re-elected four times, and rumors have persisted that he will either seek a fifth six-year term or establish a \"hereditary republic\" and groom his 41-year old son, Gamal, to succeed him, like Syria's Hafez al-Assad and son, Bashar.",
        "穆巴拉克已经连续四次当选，传言还表明他会谋求第五次六年任期，或者建立\"世袭\"共和国，培养41岁的儿子贾迈勒·穆巴拉克接班，就像叙利亚总统哈菲兹·阿萨德和儿子巴沙尔·阿萨德一样。"
    ],
    [
        "With a shrinking labor force, the standard estimate for Japan in 2012 – that is, before Abenomics – had output per employed worker growing by 3.08% year on year.",
        "这比美国稳健得多——美国去年人工作人口人均产出只增加了0. 37%；"
    ],
    [
        "Within the framework of multilateralism, countries must make the effort to smooth over their differences and deepen their relations: we must conquer the inertia that moves us towards old thinking – and old alliances.",
        "在多边主义的框架下，各国必须通力合作，减少分歧并深化关系，因此我们必须克服的，就是那种将我们引向旧思维——和旧联盟——的惰性。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, one may wonder if the world has made of Sharon a providential man because it wanted so much to believe that there was still “hope around the corner” in the Middle East.",
        "实际上，人们可能会追问世界是否因为渴望相信中东“仍有一线希望”所以才造就了沙龙这样的天赐伟人？"
    ],
    [
        "Were the Governing Council to miss the coming turn in the European economy while blithely raising interest rates, they would be portrayed as drunken sailors on a rate-raising binge.",
        "如果管理委员会错失欧洲经济这一即将到来的转折而毫无顾虑地提高利率，那么，他们就会被描绘成为加息胡闹中的喝醉的海员。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet such changes are critical to improve governance and competitiveness, especially in the service, knowledge, and innovation-driven sectors that will underpin future economic growth.",
        "但企业控制权市场对于改善企业治理和竞争力至关重要，特别是在未来经济增长的基础行业，如服务、知识和创新驱动行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 40% of the unemployed have been out of work for six months or more, which, as US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke noted in a recent speech, is far higher than in any other post-World War II recession.",
        "正如美联储主席伯南克（Ben Bernanke）在最近一次演说中提到的那样：大概有40%的失业者已失业超过6个月，比二战后任何一次衰退中出现的比率都要高。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – In the classical Greek tragedy The Bacchae, the god Dionysus, powered by a thirst for vengeance, battles the inflexible and closed-minded King Pentheus for the soul of Thebes.",
        "马德里—在希腊古典悲剧《酒神的女祭司》（The Bacchae），酒神狄俄尼索斯带着对复仇的渴望，与顽固保守的国王潘修斯为底比斯的灵魂而战斗。"
    ],
    [
        "They can do so by adopting international rules to manage openness and interdependency; establishing stronger social safety nets; investing in innovation, education and skills-training, and infrastructure; and creating a more conducive regulatory environment for businesses and entrepreneurs to foster stronger and more inclusive growth.",
        "投资于创新、教育和技能培训以及基础设施； 以及创造传导性更好的企业和创业监管环境以培养更强、更包容的增长等措施实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "They have little regard for democratic processes, and, as we now know, they will stop at nothing to undermine any process that could interfere with business as usual.",
        "他们几乎毫不顾及民主进程，而且，我们现在知道，他们将冲破一切阻碍破坏可能干扰其日常运营的任何流程。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, America’s Asian pivot is occurring at a time when its international credibility has been badly eroded by domestic political dysfunction and disappointing performance in the Middle East.",
        "此外，在美国提出亚洲支点的同时，其国际声誉因为国内政治僵局和令人失望的中东表现而大大受损。"
    ],
    [
        "A Year of Sovereign Defaults?",
        "主权违约之年？"
    ],
    [
        "SHANGHAI – Providing decent, affordable housing is a growing challenge in developing and developed economies alike.",
        "上海—提供平价、体面的住房已成为发展中和发达国家日益严峻的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding the persistent growth shortfall, central bankers remain steadfast that their approach is working, by delivering what they call “mandate-compliant” outcomes.",
        "尽管经济增长萎靡始终存在，但央行行长们仍然坚定地认为他们的方针正在起作用，因为这些方针带来了他们所谓的“符合使命”（mandate-compliant）结果。"
    ],
    [
        "And many are expecting a major downturn in the next five years; otherwise, the economy would have experienced an almost unheard-of decade-and-a-half expansion.",
        "许多人都预计未来五年将出现大幅下挫； 否则经济就将经历一场近乎前所未有的十年半扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "Following a military coup that overthrew her democratically elected government, Thailand’s former prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is facing charges of official malfeasance over rice subsidies.",
        "民选的泰国前总理英拉被军事政变推翻后，现在正面临大米补贴问题上的渎职指控。"
    ],
    [
        "His decision, though justified in light of Kim’s behavior, was largely symbolic, as was former President George W. Bush’s October 2008 decision to remove North Korea from that list in the first place.",
        "从金正恩的行为看，这一决定固然相当合理，但基本上属于象征意义，一如前总统小布什在2008年10月决定将朝鲜从这个名单中移除。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – I am one of the winners of this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which makes me acutely aware of criticism of the prize by those who claim that economics – unlike chemistry, physics, or medicine, for which Nobel Prizes are also awarded – is not a science.",
        "发自纽黑文——作为今年诺贝尔经济科学奖的获奖者之一，我深刻意识到外界对这一奖项的批评，在有些人眼中经济学不像化学，物理，医学等诺贝尔奖学科那样是一门科学。"
    ],
    [
        "But doing so could cost Democrats dearly in old industrial states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, where the arrival of Mexican migrants, transformed into immigrants, has stoked passions.",
        "但是这样做有可能在宾夕法尼亚、俄亥俄以及密西根等老的工业州让民主党付出代价。 在那些地方，墨西哥的移居者转变成为移民燃起了热情。"
    ],
    [
        "To be in debt can produce anxiety if one is uncertain whether, when the time comes, one will be able to repay what one owes.",
        "如果你对到时候无法偿还所欠的钱感到不确定，那么你的债务就会让你产生焦虑。"
    ],
    [
        "The vaccines work immediately, and can prevent cholera for up to three years, serving as a bridge to the implementation of longer-term solutions.",
        "疫苗能够立刻起作用，在三年内防止霍乱爆发，为实施长期解决方案争取时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The same disproportionate patterns of school assignment exist throughout much of Central and Eastern Europe.",
        "这样不成比例的学校分配在大多数中欧和东欧国家里存在着。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the deepest countryside. As I write this under a vine in my vegetable garden, I look west across wooded hills and cannot see another building.",
        "那是最富有乡村气息的地方， 我的这篇文章就是在菜园的葡萄架下写的，放眼向西边望去，满目都是郁郁葱葱的山岗，渺无人烟。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, perhaps, with women chaste for half or more of their childbearing years, the surplus population would diminish and conditions for the poor would be as good as they could be.",
        "接着，只要女人在一半或以上的育龄时期严守贞洁，新增人口就会减少，穷人所处的环境就能尽可能地改善。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, over any past period long enough for waves of optimism and pessimism to cancel each other out, the average earnings yield on the S&P index has been a good guide to the return on the portfolio.",
        "事实上，在过去，积极因素与消极因素这两股浪潮经历了足够长的时间才相互抵消，度过了任何一个这样的时期，S&P指数的平均收入输出便会持续对投资组合的回报起着良好的引导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Distributional struggles will look very different in that kind of world.",
        "彼时世界的分配斗争将发生巨大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "I have identified five.",
        "我在这里提出五点。"
    ],
    [
        "While last year’s drop in coal use may have been a technical blip, Chinese coal consumption is expected to peak very soon – probably next year.",
        "去年的煤炭使用量下降也许只是技术上的波动，但预计中国煤炭消费量很快就会见顶——有可能就在明年。"
    ],
    [
        "And threatening more sanctions in the future raises the question of why those sanctions have not already been imposed.",
        "威胁未来进一步制裁只能让人们疑惑之前的制裁措施为什么仍未落到实处。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, rejection of food products on the basis of aesthetic concerns is a major cause of wastage.",
        "比如，因审美观念而拒绝粮食生产是极大的浪费源。"
    ],
    [
        "The laws of war condone targeted killings only of “combatants” who “directly participate in hostilities.”",
        "战争法只容许定点清除“直接参与敌对行动”的“战斗分子”。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fear that rogue scientists will take advantage of athletes – or that athletes will seek to enroll in gene-transfer experiments in an attempt to receive some undetectable performance benefit – is very real.",
        "但人们对流氓科学家会利用运动员、或运动员会参加基因转移试验，以便获得无法预知的成绩提高的忧心与恐惧都是切实存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Education for all was among the goals that were assessed.",
        "全民教育也是评估目标之一。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”",
        "柏林——“己所不欲、勿施于人。"
    ],
    [
        "Asian economies were supposedly better coordinated because of strategic interventions by the government along the lines of the initial postwar practices of Japan’s MITI.",
        "当时，亚洲各经济体以战后日本通商产业省的政策为样本，对经济实施国家干预，人们以为它们会把各方面协调得比较好。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is reason to pursue reform, not to advocate the wholesale exit that people are increasingly supporting.",
        "但这是追求改革的理由，而不是鼓吹越来越多的人所支持的推倒重来的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries sharing rivers in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America have recognized that national interests and regional stability can be mutually reinforcing if human needs are given priority over chauvinism.",
        "共享河流的非洲、南亚和拉美国家已经认识到如果多关注人类需求、少考虑沙文主义，国家利益和地区稳定其实可以相辅相成。"
    ],
    [
        "What has kept Blair going?",
        "是什么让布莱尔马不停蹄？"
    ],
    [
        "A radical populist Trump would scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), repeal the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and impose high tariffs on Chinese imports.",
        "激进的民粹主义者特朗普将废除跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）、撤销北美自由贸易协定（NAFTA），并向中国进口品施加高额关税。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Graham, “At the extreme, a weak Russia, with its vast resources and sparse population east of the Urals, could become the object of competition among the great powers, notably China and the United States.”",
        "按照格雷厄姆的说法，“一个衰落的俄罗斯至多可以凭借乌拉尔以东稀少的人口及其广袤的资源成为大国，尤其是中美两国争夺的对象。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund’s most recent statistics suggest, unexpectedly, another pause in the dollar’s long-term decline.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）的最新数字表明，出乎意料，美元的长期衰落之势再一次停了下来。"
    ],
    [
        "The risks consist not so much in outright fraud – big lies that would be jailable offenses – as in more subtle forms of deception.",
        "这些风险未必是赤裸裸的欺诈——足以让人坐牢的大谎言——更多的是更加微妙的骗局。"
    ],
    [
        "The general, who offered the father of modern Turkey, Kemal Atatürk, as his model, also seemed to represent a vision for his country that combined economic growth with support for secularizing impulses.",
        "穆沙拉夫把土耳其国父凯末尔奉为楷模，也好像为巴基斯坦代表一种结合经济增长、支持世俗化要求的远景。"
    ],
    [
        "But any fair panel already would have issued a verdict on the political consequences of the common currency: utter failure.",
        "但只要法官持公平态度，就会裁定其给共同货币造成的政治后果：彻底失败。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1946, the US proposed the Baruch plan for UN control of nuclear energy, and the Soviet Union promptly rejected locking itself into a position of technological inferiority.",
        "这些努力没有取得成功。 1946年，美国提出了巴鲁克（Bauch）计划，让联合国来控制核能，而苏联断然拒绝让自己处于技术劣势。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given Greece’s small export sector, not to mention the weakness of the global economy, such a recovery may be impossible.",
        "但是，希腊出口部门规模很小，全球经济也处于疲软状态，强劲复苏是不可能的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "In effect, the administration tried to make the IMF more interesting, particularly to encourage Republicans in the House of Representatives to support the reforms.",
        "事实上，政府力求让基金组织更加有趣，特别是鼓励众议院的共和党人支持改革议案。"
    ],
    [
        "The most obvious explanation for the German peculiarity is an obsession with the lessons of German history, particularly the two episodes of runaway inflation in the twentieth century, in which holders of monetary assets were expropriated.",
        "德国如此特立独行，最明显的解释是，德国历史上的惨痛教训令它难以忘怀，尤其是20世纪的两次恶性通货膨胀，令货币资产持有者倾家荡产。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the plan seems to be working.",
        "这项计划到目前为止取得了不错的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "There are those who truly believe in the idea that America is exceptional.",
        "有人虔诚地相信美国经济与众不同。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, they are probably the commercial model of the future.",
        "事实上，虚拟组织也许代表了未来的商业模型。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, recent research points to a smarter way to tackle climate change.",
        "但幸运的是，最近的研究为我们指明了一条应对气候变化的更明智之路。"
    ],
    [
        "In India, the government’s failure to contain rising prices, pursue structural economic reforms vigorously, attract foreign direct investment, advance infrastructure development, manage expenditure, and avoid liquidity crunches underscores the many challenges it faces.",
        "在印度，政府既无法控制物价，同时又没能推动积极经济结构改革、吸引外国直接投资、推动基础设施建设，控制支出并避免流动性紧缩，使之面对的诸多挑战进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "A quarter of a million more Americans are employed in business and professional services than a year ago - a 1.6% annual rate of employment growth.",
        "商业和专业服务行业多雇佣了25万人-就业年增长率为1. 6%。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to understand and interpret the true and fundamental message of the Koran has brought only misfortune to Muslims.",
        "对古兰经真正的基本教义的不理解和误读给穆斯林带来的只有灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Advances in molecular biology offer analogous – but far more sophisticated – solutions.",
        "分子生物学的进步提供了类似——但远为成熟——的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "The one that understandably gets the most attention is the capacity to mount a rapid and effective response.",
        "其一是快速而有效的响应。 毫不奇怪，这一点引起了人们最多的注意。"
    ],
    [
        "While the war was still raging, they signed an agreement drafted by the diplomats Sir Mark Sykes and François George-Picot, which delineated their respective spheres of influence across the Levant – an agreement that entirely disregarded the region’s history, ethnic and religious traditions and affiliations, and the will of local populations.",
        "一战战火仍在肆虐时，他们就签署了由外交官马克·赛克斯爵士（Sir Mark Sykes）和弗朗索瓦·乔治-皮科（François George-Picot）起草的协定，划定了各自在黎凡特的势力范围。 该协定完全不顾该地区的历史、种族和宗教传统和从属关系，也没有考虑本地居民的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "But this should not obscure the fact that Brazil’s fiscal situation is unsustainable.",
        "但不应该因此对巴西财政状况不可持续的事实视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – Almost seven decades after it was created as the first Islamic republic of the postcolonial era, Pakistan is teetering on the edge of an abyss.",
        "柏林—巴基斯坦作为后殖民地时代第一个伊斯兰共和国已经成立了将近七十年，如今，巴基斯坦正在滑向深渊。"
    ],
    [
        "The more Royal returns to the “classics” of the Socialist Party, and the more Sarkozy openly courts the extreme right, the more Bayrou’s popularity rises.",
        "罗雅尔越发回归社会党的“经典”，萨尔科奇越发公开寻求极右翼的支持，贝鲁的受欢迎程度就越发高涨。"
    ],
    [
        "There were no DVD players or pay-per-view services.",
        "没有DVD播放机，也没有按次计费收看服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Kim, who has ignored the pecking order of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea to give his sister and brother high-ranking positions, Trump is likely to entrust his offspring with key assignments.",
        "以金正恩为例，他不顾执政的朝鲜工人党既定的尊卑秩序，任命他的姐妹和兄弟担任高级职务，特朗普很可能将关键任务委托给他的后代。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the regime’s vast means of censorship, its embrace of new communications technologies like the Internet make it increasingly difficult for the party to maintain effective control over people’s views.",
        "尽管当局审查方法众多，但采纳类似互联网那样的新通讯技术则使得中共愈发难以对民众的观念实施有效的监控。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is better positioned than any other power in this respect, particularly when it comes to applying these advantages in its immediate vicinity.",
        "在这方面，美国所处的位置比其他任何大国都要优越，特别是在把这些优势应用到近邻时。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1990 to 2004, for example, Ghana reformed its tax system and raised revenues from 11% to 22% of GDP.",
        "比如，从1999年到2004年，加纳改革了其税收制度，税收收入占GDP之比从11%增加到22% 。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowhere is the human cost of European policies more visible than in the Mediterranean Sea.",
        "为欧洲政策付出最大代价的莫过于地中海。"
    ],
    [
        "If it were really true that the fundamental existence of our democratic Western world were about to be destroyed by an Islamist revolution, it would only make sense to seek protection in the full force of the US informal empire.",
        "如果民主西方世界的根本生存果真会被一场伊斯兰革命所摧毁，只有寻求美国非正式帝国的全力保护才会有道理。"
    ],
    [
        "But what strikes me most about China’s economy is how remarkable it is.",
        "但让我印象最深的是中国经济的非凡之处。"
    ],
    [
        "When asked why he will run again, he replied – in a peculiar confession for a nationalist leader – that former Queen Sofía of Spain had encouraged him to “finish the job.”",
        "当被问及为何要再次参选时他回答（这一回答对国家领导人来讲可谓独树一帜），西班牙前王后索菲亚鼓励他“完成这项任务”。"
    ],
    [
        "· Because inflation remains low across most of the region, monetary policy should remain supportive of growth in case downside risks materialize.",
        "• 由于该地区大部分国家的通胀水平依然较低，货币政策应在下行风险出现时继续支持经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulatory institutions – such as bank supervisory agencies and bodies that oversee the telecommunications, food, and energy industries – play a vital role by maintaining the always-delicate balance between “free” markets and the actions of elected governments and legislatures.",
        "监管机构——比如银行监管机构和监督电信、食物和能源行业的机构——在维护“自由”市场与民选政府和立法机关的行为之间的微妙平衡中扮演着重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Fiscal Follies",
        "严肃财政纪律，德国恐徒劳无功"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, the SCAF has its own calculations, which probably have less to do with protecting a liberal Egypt than with protecting the military’s financial independence and shielding itself from accountability to civilian institutions.",
        "显然，SCAF有自己的算盘，它也许并不太愿意捍卫自由的埃及，而更愿意捍卫军队的财务独立性以及让自己免于民事机构的审查。"
    ],
    [
        "Latin American countries that embraced free-market policies in the 1990’s rejected them in the mid-2000’s, as a new wave of left-leaning leaders came to power.",
        "拉丁美洲国家在九十年代实行自由市场政策。 到了本世纪早些时候，随着新一轮的左翼倾向领导人掌权，这些国家拒绝这一新自由主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Distaste for the blocking of the Syrian resolutions has been particularly intense, and, at last count, 68 countries had given explicit support to the French proposal in various UN forums.",
        "对阻挠叙利亚决议的厌恶尤其强大，根据最新情况，68个国家在各种联合国论坛中明确支持法国的议案。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, at a time when finance is under a cloud, the party that defends the freedom of the financial gamblers over the freedom of the individual is winning favor with the electorate like no other.",
        "尽管如此，但在金融被阴影所笼罩的时刻，捍卫金融赌徒自由的政党比任何捍卫个人自由的政党都更能得到选民的认同。"
    ],
    [
        "The most notable is a significant movement towards providing finely focused risk-management services to the poor, which could ultimately prove to be worth far more than $40 billion.",
        "最显而易见的是向贫困国家提供重点突出的风险管理服务蔚然成风，而这种服务的加之也许最终远远不止400亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Uber and other digital platforms are redefining the interaction among consumers, workers, and employers.",
        "Uber 和其他数字平台重新定义了消费者、工人和雇主之间的相互作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Ivy League Investors",
        "长青藤联盟投资者"
    ],
    [
        "These funds may prove to be an effective short-term salve, but, over the long run, they will likely fuel moral-hazard problems, and potentially plant the seeds of deeper crises in the future.",
        "这些基金在短期内可能会是良药，但长期来说它们将滋生某些道德危险方面的问题，并为更深刻的危机埋下伏笔。"
    ],
    [
        "If a Muslim plants a tree or sowed a field and humans and beasts and birds eat from it, all of it is love on his part.”",
        "如果一位穆斯林种下一棵树或耕耘一片土地，其果实为人类和鸟兽所食，这就是他所奉献的挚爱。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Turning Off the Dividend Spigot",
        "关上红利的龙头"
    ],
    [
        "But overall, betting against big government financial institutions proved to be a richly rewarding business.",
        "但是总的来说，攻击巨大的政府金融机构被证明可以获得巨大的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Restoring it will require analysts, policymakers, business leaders, and civil-society groups to clarify causes, share blame for mistakes, pursue flexible solutions in which costs are shared equitably, and, most important, explain that hard problems cannot be solved overnight.",
        "重塑社会凝聚力需要分析师、决策者、商界领袖和公民社会团体厘清原因、共担错误责任、追求成本被公平分担的灵活方案，最重要的是，必须澄清这一难题无法在一夜之间得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Its current-account deficit remains large, and monetary policy has been confusing, as the objective of boosting competitiveness and growth clashes with the need to control inflation and avoid excessive credit expansion.",
        "它的经常项目赤字依然十分庞大，货币政策模糊不清，提振竞争力和增长的目标与控制通胀、避免信用过度扩张相矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "Romanian society nowadays is dealing with the consequences of decades of terror and lies, of demagogy and poverty that scarred several generations.",
        "罗马尼亚社会现在正应对着伤害了几代人、延续了数十年的恐怖与谎言、煽动与贫穷所种下的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – With Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election, and Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union enjoying a comfortable lead in opinion polls ahead of Germany’s general election on September 24, a window has opened for eurozone reform.",
        "发自伯克利——随着法国总统选举以埃马纽埃尔·马克龙的胜利告终，以及默克尔所属的基督教民主联盟在9月24日德国大选前的民调中遥遥领先，一个欧元区改革的窗口随之开启。"
    ],
    [
        "The US alone ran a current-account deficit of $739 billion (5.3% of its GDP).",
        "美国自己的经常项目赤字就达到7390亿美元 (占其国民生产总值的5."
    ],
    [
        "On April 28, Ukraine’s government will host a donor conference in Kyiv.",
        "4月28日，乌克兰政府将在基辅举行援助者会议。"
    ],
    [
        "But what counts nowadays is not where financial transactions physically take place, but rather the growing importance and globalization of finance in the operation of the world economy.",
        "但是现在，金融活动聚集在哪个地方并不重要，重要的是在世界经济运行中，金融越来越重要，越来越全球化了。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan has been at war since 1979, when Soviet forces launched a disastrous eight-year military campaign against multinational insurgent groups.",
        "阿富汗自1979年以来便一直处于战争状态。 1979年，苏联人发动了长达八年的针对跨国反对集团的军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s people must be allowed to gain confidence, dignity, and a sense of self-worth.",
        "非洲的人民必须被允许拥有自信心、尊严和一种自尊的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "How bad would that be?",
        "这样的结果会有多糟？"
    ],
    [
        "The third option would attempt to resolve this coordination problem through a set of rules and norms agreed in advance as part of an international debt-workout mechanism that would be similar to bankruptcy laws at the national level.",
        "第三个选择是尝试通过一组事先形成一致的、作为类似于国家层面的破产法的国际债务分期偿还机制的规则和规范解决这一合作问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2007-2009, the advanced economies managed to escape a liquidity crisis, largely because the US Federal Reserve was willing to engage in liquidity swaps with key central banks, mostly those of US allies.",
        "发达经济体之所以能在2007~2009年间摆脱流动性危机，在很大程度上靠的是美联储愿意与各大发达国家（多为美国盟友）的中央银行进行流动性货币互换。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s pragmatic leaders knew that the US presence helped to contain the Soviet Union (and subsequently Russia), prevented Japan from re-arming, and kept sea-lanes open.",
        "中国的务实领导人知道，美国的存在有助于遏制苏联（以及随后的俄罗斯）、防止日本重新武装、保持海路开放。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand humans’ social nature, it is crucial to understand how culture has driven our genetic evolution in ways that shape not only our physiology and anatomy, but also our social psychology, motivations, inclinations, and perceptions.",
        "要想了解人类的社会属性，关键是要了解文化是以何种方式驱动不仅影响我们的生理和解剖形态、而且影响社会心理、动机、倾向和看法的基因演化。"
    ],
    [
        "As I see it, we are simply not asking the right questions.",
        "就我所见而论，我们根本没有提出正确的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, a special variety of mental illness was first observed, which we would later call schizophrenia and depressive disorders – different from a multitude of mental illnesses already known.",
        "在此时期首次发现了不同于已知精神病患的特殊精神病，也就是我们后来常说的精神分裂症和抑郁症。"
    ],
    [
        "The second component of the Russian-Iranian proposal calls for international efforts, under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council, to rein in Syrian rebel forces’ chemical-weapons capabilities.",
        "俄伊提案的第二部分呼吁在联合国安理会主持下展开国际努力，以遏制叙利亚叛军使用化学武器。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinian people will never abandon their national struggle.",
        "巴勒斯坦人永远也不会放弃他们建国的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it boasts of reclaiming territories once ruled by the Kremlin and threatens to use force to “protect” ethnic Russians from purported threats.",
        "相反，它夸耀重新夺回曾由克里姆林宫统治的区域，并威胁使用武力“保护”所谓受到威胁的俄罗斯族。"
    ],
    [
        "The Post-Crisis Crises",
        "后危机时代的危机"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the smaller countries do not act independently of Venezuela, and that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez does not act without Cuba’s guidance on weighty matters such as these, it is now clear that the Cubans and their allies will cut US President Barack Obama no slack on Latin American issues.",
        "考虑到那些拉美小国不可能抛开委内瑞拉行事，而委内瑞拉总统雨果·查韦斯也不可能在这类重要事务上不看古巴的眼色做人，因此很明显，古巴及其盟友们可不会让美国总统奥巴马在拉美事务上有好日子过。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, China ranked 22nd in the 2017 Global Innovation Index (a survey of 127 countries and economies based on 81 indicators) ahead of Spain, Italy, and Australia.",
        "尽管如此，中国仍在2017年全球创新指数（基于81项指标对127个国家和经济体进行的调查）中位列第22名，高于西班牙、意大利和澳大利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the concerns of voters about animal welfare have been effective in influencing members of national parliaments, as well as members of the European Parliament, resulting in national legislation and EU directives that respond to those concerns.",
        "在欧洲，选民有关动物福利的忧虑有效地影响了国家议会和欧洲议会的议员，导致国家和欧盟制定法律对此做出回应。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, for a country as poor as India, only sustained rapid growth can lead to enduring development gains.",
        "不幸的是，在印度这样一个穷国，只有持续的快速增长才能持续产生发展的果实。"
    ],
    [
        "The best and most sustainable love story for markets is one based on a healthy and dynamic real economy that creates jobs and opportunities for many more people.",
        "市场最热烈持久的爱情只能以为更多人创造就业和机会的健康而有活力的实体经济为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN estimates that there are more than 65 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, and that more refugees live in formal and informal encampments than ever before.",
        "联合国估计当今世界上有超过6500万被迫流离失所者，而生活在正式和非正式营地的难民数量则比以往任何时期都更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Should a country with weaknesses in its financial system simply avoid letting capital in?",
        "一个金融体系还很薄弱的国家应该简单地拒绝资本进入吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The BOJ’s effort to weaken the yen is a beggar-thy-neighbor approach that is inducing policy reactions throughout Asia and around the world.",
        "日本银行的日元贬值政策是一种以邻为壑策略，正在导致整个亚洲和全世界的政策反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Many other developing countries face similar problems, with benefits intended for the poor accruing to better-off people, while many of the intended recipients miss out, owing to a combination of political and administrative collusion and genuine structural challenges.",
        "许多其他发展中国家也面临类似的问题，以扶贫为初衷的福利最后落入了境况较好的人手中，而许多福利发放对象却没有获得福利，原因既有政治和行政勾结，也有真正的结构挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Some analysts predict that only half of Britain’s MPs will be returned in next year’s election.",
        "一些分析家预测，只有半数的英国议员将在明年的选举中获得连任。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason why that cannot be achieved – the overall balance sheet of China, Inc. remains strong – but the domestic distributional consequences will require careful management.",
        "”没有理由表明无法实现这一点——中国有限公司（China, Inc. ）的资产负债表依然坚挺——但国内分配结果需要谨慎管理。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite this appalling record, the US occupation authorities in Iraq appointed a former director of the Texas prison system, Lane McCotter, to help set up operations at Abu Ghraib in May 2003.",
        "尽管有着如此骇人听闻的纪录，美国驻伊拉克的军事占领当局还是在２００３年５月指派德克萨斯监狱系统的前主管雷恩•麦考特协助建立阿布革勒布监狱的运作。"
    ],
    [
        "Presume for the moment that the US closes down trade with China and Mexico – the first and fourth largest components of the overall trade deficit – through a combination of tariffs and other protectionist measures (including the proposed renegotiation of NAFTA and a Mexican-funded border wall).",
        "假设有朝一日美国通过关税和其他保护主义措施（包括特朗普所提出的重新谈判NAFTA和由墨西哥出钱修建边境墙）关闭与中国和墨西哥的贸易——它们分别是贸易赤字第一大和第四大来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than being subject to an internationally agreed standard, the US and China want the fight against climate change to begin with countries’ individual commitments.",
        "相比于遵守国际公认的标准，美中两国更希望与气候变化的对抗源自各国所做出的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Gourdel was beheaded.",
        "古德尔最后被斩首了。"
    ],
    [
        "It was there, in July 1938, that 32 nations met for a shameful discussion that has been virtually airbrushed from our memory.",
        "1938年，就是在这里，32个国家进行了可耻的讨论，这段历史已经基本上从我们的记忆中抹去了。"
    ],
    [
        "The sofware offers nine visualizations that reflect behavior and trends over time, including quality time (a pie chart of whom you spend time with online and offline), pecking order (illustrated with chickens!), blow-off scorecard (relationship asymmetry), and temperature gauge.",
        "软件提供了反映行为和趋势的9个图像化指标，而且是随时间变化的，包括有效时间（用饼图显示你在线上或者线下花了多少时间在哪些人身上），强弱次序（用小鸡的身材大小来表示！ ），推辞计分卡（关系的不对称性）以及关系温度计。"
    ],
    [
        "The left was accused of being complicit in spreading foreign – Chinese, Korean, or American – propaganda.",
        "左翼被指合谋传播外国——中国、韩国或美国式宣传。"
    ],
    [
        "So, too, will we continue our efforts to foster democratic governance in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone. And, in the name of all of humanity, we will continue to push forward on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, in service of realizing a world free of nuclear weapons.",
        "伊拉克、阿富汗、民主刚果、塞拉利昂的民主治理进程亦然。 此外，以全人类的名义，我们将在核裁军和核不扩散方面继续前进，致力于实现无核武器的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "And targeting exchange-rate competitiveness doesn’t address the aggregate demand problem.",
        "而以汇率竞争力为目标无法解决总需求问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But it did adopt three other decisions, entitled Strengthening the Review Process for the Treaty , Principles and Objectives for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament , and Resolution on the Middle East .",
        "但是各国就另外三项决定达成了共识：《增强条约履行过程的审查》，《核不扩散和核裁军的目标和原则》以及《中东问题的解决方案》。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany ensures that Germans fill the leading positions in EU bodies.",
        "德国保证德国人在欧盟机构中担任要职。"
    ],
    [
        "If leadership could be built on brute force, schoolyard bullies would be class presidents.",
        "如果领导角色能靠穷兵黩武来建立，那么学校操场上的小混混也能成为校长。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent data suggest that, notwithstanding recent wage increases, consumption amounts to only about 35% of GDP.",
        "最新数据表明，尽管最近工资有所增加，消费占GDP之比仍只有35%。"
    ],
    [
        "The end result was a dirty war of graft allegations spread through social media, apparently by Gülen’s followers primarily.",
        "最终结果是一场肮脏的宣传战，在社交媒体上大肆指责腐败，主要指责者显然是葛兰的追随者。"
    ],
    [
        "Security would be a major concern.",
        "安保将会是主要问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The genes that you have make up your genotype.",
        "你所拥有的基因组成了你的基因型。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the most rudimentary understanding of psychology supports Hollande’s assessment.",
        "奥朗德的评估以最基本的心理学理解为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Erich Fromm, the late German psychologist and philosopher, once said that “history is a graveyard of cultures that came to their catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned and rational voluntary reaction to challenges.”",
        "已仙逝的德国心理学家和哲学家Erich Fromm曾说“历史是许多文化的墓葬。 这些文化走向灾难性终结的原因是它们不能以有计划的、理性的方式自发地应对挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is what the British government is doing now.",
        "但这正是英国政府正在做的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Central Bank Independence All It’s Cracked up to Be?",
        "央行果真独立吗？"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, turning creditor-country citizens’ tax payments into forced subsidies of other countries’ debts would undermine European cohesion.",
        "相反，要求拿债权国公民的税款来强制补贴他国债务只能破坏欧洲的凝聚力。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the recent deterioration of Sino-Japanese relations – a decline that accelerated in 2012, when Japan purchased the disputed Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu Islands in Chinese) from their private owner to prevent Japanese nationalists from taking control of them – the mere fact that Abe will attend the summit is a major step.",
        "最近，中日关系出现了恶化——这一趋势在日本从其私人所有者手中购买钓鱼岛（日本称尖阁列岛）以防止日本民族主义者控制该群岛后有所加剧——安倍出席峰会已经算得上是重大一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of our program’s graduates have even established community projects in their villages to address HIV/AIDS or to build shelters for orphans and young children.",
        "我们课程的某些毕业生已经在自己的村里设立了应对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的社区计划，还有人修建了孤儿和幼儿收容机构。"
    ],
    [
        "The speech was Cameron’s answer to the recent defections of two of his Conservative Party MPs to the anti-EU, anti-immigration UK Independence Party, which he fears could steal Conservative votes in the general election next May.",
        "这次演讲是卡梅伦对两名他所在的保守党议员倒戈投向反欧盟、反移民的英国独立党（UK Independence Party）的回应。 他担心这可能偷走保守党在明年5月大选中的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, and the European Central Bank have followed suit, each with its own version of so-called “quantitative easing” (QE).",
        "英格兰银行、日本银行和欧洲央行也纷纷步美联储后尘，都实施了各自版本的所谓“量化宽松”（QE）。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Chapter 11, companies with a solid underlying business generally swap debt for equity. Old equity holders are wiped out and old debt claims are transformed into equity claims in the new entity which continues operating with a new capital structure.",
        "根据第11章，具有坚实的基本业务的公司一般来说把债券变成股权。 老股东没有了，在以新的资本结构继续运行的新实体中，旧有债权转化为股权要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Homes are the most local of investments, rooted to a particular place like a tree, and thus thriving or withering in response to local economic conditions.",
        "住房是最具地域性的投资，如同一棵树一样扎根在一个特定的地方，随着当地经济状况的变化而兴衰。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kingdom is providing financial aid to Lebanon in an effort to rebuild a stronger, more stable country, and to roll back the influence of Iran.",
        "沙特王国正在向黎巴嫩提供金融援助以重建一个更强大、更稳定的国家并抵挡伊朗的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most compelling case of all is that of Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim state, with a rapidly expanding middle class, relatively stable democratic politics, and an economy that has been a star performer in Asia despite the global recession.",
        "恐怕最引人入胜的国家要数印度尼西亚了。 作为全世界最大的穆斯林国家，印尼中产阶级人数迅速增加，国内相对稳定的政局。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most important, labor markets must be made as flexible as possible, with well-trained workers secured by strong social-safety nets.",
        "也许最重要的是劳动力市场必须做到尽可能灵活，为工人提供优质培训和强大的社会安全网。"
    ],
    [
        "It could even help the EU recapture the spirit of unity and shared prosperity that led to its creation.",
        "这甚至能够帮助欧盟重新获得让欧盟得以诞生的统一精神和共同繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "They were the so-called back-stabbers who prevented Germany from being great again.",
        "他们是所谓的背后搞鬼者，让德国无法再次走向伟大。"
    ],
    [
        "The share of US imports in Latin America dropped from 50% in 2000 to 33% in 2016, while China’s share jumped from 3% to 18%.",
        "拉美地区的美国进口品比例从2000年的50%下降到2016年的33%，而中国的份额从3%上升到18%。"
    ],
    [
        "But differences will remain.",
        "但分歧仍将继续存在下去。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the June election could give rise to the second scenario: cohabitation with a parliamentary coalition comprising a small right-wing faction, a large centrist faction, and a hopelessly divided left-wing faction.",
        "因此6月选举可能导致第二种状况：与一小撮右翼阵营、大部分中间阵营和陷入绝望分裂的左翼阵营所组成的议会联盟共同执政。"
    ],
    [
        "Individual market actions, they said, would strike the public as wrong, unfair, and intolerable.",
        "他们指出单一的市场行为将对公众造成冲击，并为视为错误，不公且无法容忍的。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries as a whole accounted for more than 80% of global reserve accumulation during this period, and their current level of reserves approaches $5 trillion.",
        "整个发展中国家占了这一时期全球外汇积累的80%以上，它们的 储备量接近5万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the US could do more to curtail money laundering.",
        "最后，美国可以在打击洗钱方面做得更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil-dependent regimes that fail to meet these criteria are in trouble.",
        "结论是，未能满足上述这些条件并依赖石油的政权将处于困境。"
    ],
    [
        "They successfully portrayed themselves as victims of a firestorm, rather than as accessories to arson.",
        "而且，他们还成功地将自己描绘成经济危机的受害者，而不是引发经济危机的帮凶。"
    ],
    [
        "This identity-focused backlash is exemplified by US President Donald Trump, whose slogan, “Make America Great Again,” was code for “Make America White Again” – a message that appealed to the unemployed, bitter, and increasingly xenophobic white blue-collar voters that formed the core of Trump’s base.",
        "这一以身份为中心的反对力量的显著例子是美国总统特朗普，他的口号——“让美国再次伟大”实质是“让美国再次变白”，它对失业、愤怒、越来越仇外的白人蓝领选民充满了号召力，他们也构成了特朗普的核心票仓。"
    ],
    [
        "They shower their supporters with short-lived cash, in the form of tax cuts and income transfers, paid for by running up the public debt and leaving the bill to future generations.",
        "他们以减税和收入转移等方式向支持者抛洒短期现金，上述资金来源于提高公共负债和账单留给后代子孙来支付。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, TV channels with specific religious and sectarian affiliations have been very active, including on social media, in fundraising efforts.",
        "相比之下，特定宗教及宗派背景的电视频道（包括社交媒体）却在筹集善款时表现得相当活跃。"
    ],
    [
        "So we need not fear that it will decline.",
        "”因此我们不必担心宗教衰落。"
    ],
    [
        "It has ratified the UN Convention to Eliminate Discrimination Against Women and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.",
        "缅甸批准了联合国消除歧视妇女公约以及联合国儿童权利公约。"
    ],
    [
        "For instance, a substantial share of the loans given to Greece until early 2012 was indeed used to pay off maturing debt.",
        "比如，2012年初以来向希腊提供的贷款中有很大一部分被用于偿还到期债务。"
    ],
    [
        "That will leave no one with any credible reason to delay resumption of the six-party talks.",
        "如此，任何人都不再有站得住的理由推迟六方会谈的重启。"
    ],
    [
        "Try Everything",
        "尝试一切手段"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, China’s leaders have decided to stop using GDP growth as the primary criterion for evaluating officials’ performance.",
        "有鉴于此，中国领导人已决定停止将GDP增长作为评价官员政绩的主要标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Carbon pricing could experience a similar fate.",
        "碳定价机制也可能遭遇类似的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "Placing a high priority on support programs – trade adjustment assistance in the US and the European Globalization Adjustment Fund in the EU – with a focus on groups that are negatively affected by agreements is one obvious imperative.",
        "一个显而易见的当务之急是将支持计划——美国的贸易调整援助和欧盟的欧洲全球化调整基金列为重点，注重受贸易协定消极影响的群体。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason for doubt about the euro and the EU is that, since the spring of 2010, Europe’s leaders have rushed from one crisis summit to the next, each time devising supposed solutions that provided too little and arrived too late.",
        "质疑欧元和欧盟的理由之一是从2010年春天开始，欧盟领导人就接二连三地赶赴危机峰会，但每次出台的解决方案不是力度太弱就是执行太迟。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the record is mixed.",
        "到目前为止，中国的表现比较混合。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2000, sub-Saharan African countries have achieved economic growth of 5-7%.",
        "从 2000 年以来，撒哈拉南部非洲国家已经实现了 5-7% 的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a fitting way to start the trip, a reminder that the US Army is critical to forming the foundation for security in the Pacific.",
        "从第25步兵师开启这次视察之旅再恰当不过，因为这提醒人们美国陆军是构建亚太安全的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "In Brazil’s upcoming presidential election, both of the incumbent Dilma Rousseff’s main opponents are advocating policies that hark back to the good old days.",
        "在即将到来的巴西总统选举中，现任总统罗塞夫的两名主要对手都在鼓吹回归昔日好时光的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But the one driving today’s recovery in the eurozone, including the peripheral countries that were hardest hit by the crisis, may be set to persist for a while yet.",
        "但推动欧元区——包括遭受危机冲击最严重的欧元区外围国家——当前复苏的周期有可能会持续一段时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging Asia, excluding China but including India, has invested about 28% of GDP over the same period, while the investment share for Latin America has been just 21%.",
        "新兴亚洲（不含中国但包括印度）的同期水平是28%，而拉美的投资比例只有21%。"
    ],
    [
        "“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”.",
        "“通货膨胀总是并且在任何地方都是一个货币现象。"
    ],
    [
        "All told, the “BTP effect” – Brexit, Trump, Putin – has convinced even skeptical Europeans that EU-level cooperation is necessary.",
        "总而言之，“BTP效应”——英国脱欧、特朗普、普京——已经让即使持怀疑态度的欧洲人相信欧盟层面的合作是必不可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "But such interventions are complicated – not least because they must account for the relationship between the country’s monetary-policy approach and that of other relevant countries.",
        "但这类干预十分复杂——不仅是因为它们必须考虑该国货币政策方针与相关国家货币政策方针之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "One track would channel steps to improve the balance of power on the ground in Syria.",
        "一条轨是引导改善叙利亚地面力量平衡的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the country is projected to grow at an 8-8.5% rate in the next fiscal year.",
        "4%的增长。 此外，下一财年印度预期增长率为8—8."
    ],
    [
        "When Germany sneezes, Europe catches a cold.",
        "德国打喷嚏，欧洲就感冒。"
    ],
    [
        "Or does he go far beyond that, governing Russia and dealing with his neighbors and the rest of the world with reckless mendacity, abetted by a supine national media?",
        "或者他还远不止于此，在懒散成性的国内媒体教唆下，依赖不计后果的谎言来治理俄罗斯、与邻国和世界各国打交道。"
    ],
    [
        "The US gives Egypt $1.3 billion in annual military aid (second only to Israel), but just $250 million for civilian projects and programs.",
        "美国每年给埃及13亿美元军事援助（仅次于给以色列的数字），但民用项目和计划的援助只有2. 5亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "As controlled experiments confirm, Arabs have substantially less trust in strangers, foreign or domestic, than, say, Europeans.",
        "对照实验证实，阿拉伯人对国内外陌生人的信任比欧洲人要少得多。"
    ],
    [
        "A Good German Idea for 2018",
        "2018年的德国好概念"
    ],
    [
        "Companies that follow this approach are concerned with the skills of their future workforces; seek to build loyal and productive supplier bases; and make investment decisions based on sustainable value creation, not short-term profitability.",
        "寻求打造忠诚且富于生产率的供应商基础； 并以可持续价值创造而不是短期盈利性为基础做出投资决策。"
    ],
    [
        "But unplanned and uncoordinated urban development is risky, threatening to replace migrants’ hopes for a better life with unsanitary living conditions, joblessness, and high exposure to natural disasters.",
        "但缺乏规划协调的城市发展危险很大，有可能打碎新移民对未来生活的美好憧憬，而代之以生活条件脏乱、失业、易受自然灾害影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps a divine creator handed us these universal elements at the moment of creation.",
        "可能是某个神圣的造物主在创世之时就把普世成份交给了我们。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush not only chose to visit Brussels, the capital of the European Union, on his February trip to Europe, but stated that what “we seek to achieve in the world requires that America and Europe remain close partners.”",
        "”布什不仅选择在其二月份的欧洲之行中访问欧盟总部布鲁塞尔，他还声称“要达成我们在世界上所寻求的目标需要美国和欧洲保持紧密的伙伴关系”。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, the AIIB will (among other things) provide funding for China’s ambitious “one belt, one road” policy, which aims to enhance trade linkages throughout Asia, across the Middle East, and into Europe, through massive infrastructure investment.",
        "具体而言，亚投行（以及其它机构）将为中国宏大的“一带一路”政策提供资金。 一带一路旨在以大规模基础设施投资加强整个亚洲通过中东进入欧洲的贸易联系。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, Italy’s economic outlook remains highly uncertain.",
        "此外，意大利经济前景仍高度不确定。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they usually chose the most sensible candidate available.",
        "相反，他们选出的候选人往往是最明智的。"
    ],
    [
        "Although some producers – including Exxon Mobil’s Shute Creek plant near La Barge, Wyoming (until 2013, home to the world’s largest helium refinery) – once vented waste CO2 into the atmosphere, they are now installing carbon-capture facilities to reduce or eliminate emissions.",
        "尽管一些生产者——包括位于怀俄明州拉巴奇（La Barge）的埃克森美孚公司纬纱溪（Shute Creek）制氦厂（到2013年为止为世界最大的氦提炼商）——曾向大气中排放二氧化碳废气，但如今它们已经建立了碳捕捉装置减少或消灭碳排放。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s Asia, it is impossible to manage rival ambitions through hegemony, given the size of the countries involved and the structure of their alliances.",
        "鉴于当今亚洲的国家规模及联盟结构，通过霸权来控制对手的野心根本无法考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "There were two American strategies to prize open Japan’s supposedly closed economy.",
        "日本经济据说是封闭着的，美国要迫使它开放，可以采取两种策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with incremental investment largely financed by debt, and interest payments being tax-deductible, the corporate tax lowers the cost of capital and the returns to investment commensurately.",
        "事实上，增量投资主要通过债务融资，而利息可以抵税，因此，公司税相应地降低了资本成本和投资回报。"
    ],
    [
        "By emphasizing Party control – through a crackdown on SOEs, government opponents, and critics in the media and academia – Xi seeks to maximize his ability to impose economic reforms while minimizing the risk of a challenge from conservative forces.",
        "习近平强调党的控制——通过打压国有企业、政府反对派和媒体和学界的批评——以此寻求推动改革能力最大化和保守派挑战风险最小化。"
    ],
    [
        "Eliminating harmful fisheries subsidies by 2020 is not only crucial for conserving the ocean; it will also affect our ability to meet other goals, such as our promises to end hunger and achieve food security and to reduce inequality within and among countries.",
        "2020年取消有害渔业补贴不但是保护海洋的关键； 它还影响我们实现其他目标的能力，比如结束饥饿、实现粮食安全以及降低国家内部和国家之间的不平等性的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why a proactive approach – not to mention plenty of ingenuity – is so important.",
        "因此，积极主动的方针和另辟蹊径的才智至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Many outside the US thought it was high time that someone offered America a taste of its own paternalism – and even better that that someone was Putin, a politician who has, to put it gently, his own set of foibles.",
        "许多非美国人认为这是一个高光时刻，终于有人让美国尝到了它自己的家长作风的滋味——更妙的是，这个人正是普京，说得客气点，他自己身上满是小毛病。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there are some signs that cheaper energy could generate enough growth to drive oil prices back up.",
        "可以肯定，有迹象显示廉价能源可以带动增长促使油价回升。"
    ],
    [
        "And then there is the Penn State scandal, in which the university’s trustees turned a blind eye to a long-running cover-up of the serial pedophilia of Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach who gained access to his victims through his own charity for troubled youth.",
        "还有宾夕法尼亚大学丑闻，校理事会对该校前橄榄球助理教练杰瑞·山杜斯基（Jerry Sandusky）系列恋童案长期遭到隐瞒一事置若罔闻。 山杜斯基通过自己的问题少年慈善组织接近受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia chose not to attend the latest Nuclear Security Summit, held in Washington, DC, earlier this year.",
        "今年早些时候，俄罗斯选择不参加在华盛顿举行的最新核安全峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "And why does the housing market in so many other countries now reflect similar conditions?",
        "为什么现在很多其他国家的房地产市场也出现了类似的情况呢？"
    ],
    [
        "One way or another, these issues will dominate European politics in the years ahead.",
        "这些问题将以各种各样的方式主导未来多年的欧洲政治。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2012, as the debt-to-GDP ratio skyrocketed, Greece’s private creditors were given a significant 34% haircut.",
        "2012年，希腊债务-GDP之比一飞冲天，其私人债权人惨遭34%的“剃头”（haircut）。"
    ],
    [
        "In France alone over the past 20 years, roughly 2.5 trillion euros have poured into the financial world, which suggests a total of 30-60 trillion dollars for the world economy as a whole.",
        "过去二十年中仅仅在法国，大约两万五千亿欧元注入到了金融市场，也就是说，世界经济整体中总共是30万亿到60万亿之间。"
    ],
    [
        "But is the Gates affair the right way to enter into this discussion?",
        "如果不是盖茨教授，谁还能够引起关注？ 正因为他是名人显贵，才能吸引全国民众关注这一严重的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The currencies of the reform laggards would have depreciated against that of Germany, and there might have been a supportive cut in interest rates as well.",
        "如果哪个国家改革落后，那么其货币相对于德国马克的比价将会下跌，有可能还会引发辅助性的利率下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Alarmed by the public reaction, the Harbin magistrate ordered the case reopened, only to have the suspended sentence confirmed when the case was closed this March.",
        "在公众舆论的压力下，哈尔滨地方法院重新开庭审理了该案，但在今年三月结案时的结论也只是维持缓刑的原判。"
    ],
    [
        "The details of the reform legislation are important.",
        "改革立法的细节很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In the process, the risk of recession remains uncomfortably high, the unemployment crisis deepens, and inequities rise as already-stretched social safety nets prove even more porous.",
        "随之而来的是，衰退风险将继续阴魂不散，失业危机将继续深化，而不平等性将随着已然千疮百孔的社会安全网的进一步损坏而继续提高。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to treatment, the situation is different.",
        "在治疗问题上，情况有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries benefit most from producing and exporting what they are relatively best at producing and exporting, and from importing what other countries are relatively better at producing.",
        "国家应该生产和出口它们相对最擅长生产和出口的东西、进口其他国家相对更擅长生产的东西中，这样所获得的好处最多。"
    ],
    [
        "The condition for success in the American case was that the US raised its own revenue, with federally administered customs houses initially providing the bulk of its receipts.",
        "美国能够成功的条件在于它能获得收入——美国拥有联邦管辖的海关，建国初期，财政收入的大头都来自关税。"
    ],
    [
        "Those being attacked merely need weapons to defend themselves; if they get them, the entire dynamic of the conflict will shift, in turn ending the bloodshed.",
        "被袭击者只是需要自卫的武器； 得到了自卫武器，整个冲突局面就会改变，流血就会走向停止。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps German central bankers sense a longer-term shift in international preferences away from the dollar and want to be ready in some fashion.",
        "或许德国央行预测长期国际偏好将远离美国，希望对此未雨绸缪。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite calls in some Israeli media for Gaza to be bombed “back to the stone age,” the Israeli government seems to accept that that would be wrong.",
        "一些以色列媒体称遭遇轰炸的加沙“退回了石器时代”，但伊斯兰政府似乎接受了这可能是错误的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "But one little noticed, yet likely, aspirant has been sneaking up on the world economy: the growing tendency to limit the free circulation of people, to “fence in” the rich world.",
        "但是一个被人忽略、但却是可能的渴求者一直潜伏在世界经济当中，那就是不断增长的限制人口自由流通的、“隔离”富国的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "In the great software of the universe, we will remain a beautiful bug, and AI will increasingly become a normal feature.",
        "在宇宙这一伟大软件中，我们将仍然是一个美丽的漏洞（bug），AI也将日益变成一个普通的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "As a recent symposium, organized by the Kofi Annan Foundation and the International Center for Transitional Justice, concluded, truth commissions contribute most to peace by reasserting the rule of law, recognizing victims, and supporting institutional reform.",
        "不久前由科菲·安南基金会和国际过渡时期司法中心举办的研讨会得出结论，真相委员会通过恢复法治、承认受害者权利和支持机构改革而对和平贡献最大。"
    ],
    [
        "Australia provides a good example of how pro-competitive policies deliver results.",
        "关于利于竞争的政策如何产生效果，澳大利亚是个好例子。"
    ],
    [
        "For each, fill in the blank space with “obligatory,” “permissible,” or “forbidden.”",
        "对于每个情形，在空白处填上“有义务”、“可以”或者“禁止”。"
    ],
    [
        "The new multilateralism must maximize the strengths of interdependent and overlapping actors and institutions, public and private.",
        "新多边主义必须最大限度地发挥相互依存和相互重叠的行动者和公共及私人机构的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent developments reflect the widening rift between Erdoğan’s government and the Gülen movement, led by Fethullah Gülen, a self-exiled Islamic preacher currently residing near Philadelphia.",
        "最近的发展态势反映了埃尔多安政府和葛兰运动之间的日益扩大的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there was Wiesel’s last meeting with François Mitterrand, the Sphinx, the Machiavelli of the Élysée Palace.",
        "之后还有维瑟尔最后一次与弗朗索瓦·密特朗会面，后者是爱丽舍宫的斯芬克斯和马基雅维里。"
    ],
    [
        "But the problem runs deeper, giving Jews the impression that they have no future in Europe.",
        "但深层次问题无法解决给犹太人留下的印象是他们在欧洲没有未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Frankly, no.",
        "当然不是。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Iran may already see itself as victorious, with the current Iraqi government friendlier than any the Iranians have ever known.",
        "但是，鉴于目前的伊拉克政府比伊朗所知道的以往的任何前任政府都要友善，因此伊朗可能已经认为自己获胜了。"
    ],
    [
        "Realizing this potential will require efforts by both employers and governments to eliminate discriminatory practices that impede the recruitment, retention, and promotion of women, as well as credit, tax, and family support policies to help workers balance their responsibilities at work and at home.",
        "实现这一目标需要雇主和政府消除妨碍女性入职、留任和晋升的歧视性做法，并实行协助劳动者平衡工作及家庭责任的信贷、税收和家庭支持政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of these changes were embodied in the so-called “USA Patriot Act.”",
        "这些变化的大多数都体现在所谓的“美国爱国者法案”上。"
    ],
    [
        "They can also, it adds, obtain unsecured bank loans for themselves and their friends.",
        "报告还透露，总统公子可以为自己和朋友拿到不用任何担保的银行贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Some measures – unauthorized searches of bank records and wiretapping of telephone calls – compromise the liberty of all.",
        "某些手段，例如未经许可调查银行记录和窃听电话损害所有人的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2013, this share had soared to 26%, and, even on the most pessimistic assumptions for emerging-market growth, we expect it to rise to 39% by 2025 and to as high as 50% on more bullish assumptions.",
        "但是到2013年，这一比例一举飙升至26%，而且即使按照对新兴市场增长最为悲观的假设，我们预计该比例将在2025年达到39%，更乐观的估计甚至可能达到50%的份额。"
    ],
    [
        "To conduct this struggle effectively, Russia must abandon two hoary stereotypes: that all terrorists are bandits, and that they somehow are acting under some Western intelligence supervision to weaken Russia.",
        "为了更有效地进行这场斗争，俄罗斯必须摒弃两种长期形成的思维定式：即所有的恐怖分子都是强盗，且他们往往在西方情报部门的监督下行动以削弱俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiations were therefore a zero-sum game, with countries seeking to minimize their obligations while asking others to do more.",
        "因此谈判是一种零和博弈，各国都在尽力推卸自己的责任，同时要求他国承担更大责任。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the international community should work to improve the availability and effectiveness of official development assistance.",
        "与此同时，国际社会应该致力于改善官方发展援助（ODA）的普及型和效率。"
    ],
    [
        "By engaging fully with the main currents of modern thinking, their contemporary successors seek to better understand how universal principles can be expressed through Muslim tradition.",
        "他们当代的继承者通过与主流的现代思想的全面接触，力求更好地了解如何通过穆斯林的传统表达伊斯兰的公理。"
    ],
    [
        "It has led people throughout history to believe that some tasteful higher being created us, and that we inhabit a consciously designed world, like our notional Super Mario.",
        "这让历史上的人们相信，是一些情趣高雅的高等生物创造了我们，我们定居在一个刻意设计的世界中，就像我们的抽象的超级马里奥。"
    ],
    [
        "Engineering firms like CH2M are working with coastal communities in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond to find hybrid solutions that combine traditional and nature-based approaches.",
        "CH2M等工程企业正在于墨西哥湾沿岸及周边社区合作寻找将传统和基于自然的方针结合起来的混合方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The US economy would be highly vulnerable in the case of a euro collapse, so today’s lame ducks need to embrace each other.",
        "一旦欧元崩溃，美国经济将变得极为脆弱，如今的跛鸭们得赶紧抱成团。"
    ],
    [
        "Expanding education in countries where institutional failure, poor governance, and macro-economic mismanagement stymie investment is a prescription for low productivity and high unemployment.",
        "在制度失败、治理拙劣和宏观经济管理不善掣肘投资的国家扩大教育只能带来低生产率和高失业率。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea was to save the financial system from having to deal with safely dismantling the impossibly complex contractual edifices – which did not allow for the possibility of systemic collapse – that it had constructed.",
        "其理念就是想要使金融系统不至于去安全拆解其一手打造的复杂得难以置信的合同网络——而且不得出现系统崩溃的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "For every expansionist Czar, or commissar, from Catherine II to Putin, there have been leaders prepared to retreat.",
        "从叶卡捷琳娜二世到普京，虽然不乏奉行扩张主义的沙皇或政治委员，但也有领导人愿意让步。 亚历山大二世卖掉阿拉斯加；"
    ],
    [
        "As of October, the continent has an operational European Stability Mechanism to purchase new Italian and Spanish government bonds if investors go on strike.",
        "10月，欧洲大陆有了操作性的欧洲稳定性机制（ESM），用于在投资者拒绝购买时收购意大利和西班牙政府债券。"
    ],
    [
        "“Humanitarian” intervention – action that is motivated by our concern for the fate of fellow human beings – is often described as reflecting “moral concern.”",
        "“人道主义”干预——出于关注人类同胞命运所采取的行动——往往被说成是反映“道德关切”。"
    ],
    [
        "The theoretical debate could continue indefinitely.",
        "理论的争辩可能会无限期地延续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "In Central Europe, populist mobilizations have driven imperial conquests under the banner of proletarian internationalism.",
        "在中欧，民粹主义动员推动了打着无产阶级国际主义旗号的帝国主义征服。"
    ],
    [
        "As with the financial sector, however, crisis can be the mother of reform.",
        "但就跟金融部门所发生的一切同理：有时只有危机，才是改革之母。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is more to assessing Wen’s stimulus than the growth/reform trade-off.",
        "然而对温家宝刺激政策的评估不应仅局限于增长与改革之间的权衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Typically, development experts regard migration as a sign of failure: if development policies work, people should not want to move.",
        "发展专家往往将移民视为一种失败：如果发展政策奏效民众应当不想移民才对。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran-backed Shia militias would unleash a killing spree against Sunni communities in Mosul after ISIS withdrew.",
        "伊斯兰国撤出后，伊朗所支持的什叶派军阀将血洗摩苏尔的逊尼派社区。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Congress adopted legislation, signed by President Barack Obama, making such judgments unenforceable in American courts.",
        "美国国会通过由奥巴马总统签署的立法，规定上述判决在美国法院无效。"
    ],
    [
        "The fly, first detected in 2004 in Mombasa on the Kenyan coast, has since swept across the continent, decimating mangoes and other crops and devastating livelihoods.",
        "这一果蝇最早于2004年在肯尼亚沿海的蒙巴萨被发现。 从那时以来，它已经横扫非洲大陆，灭绝了芒果和其他作物，并且破坏了人们的生计。"
    ],
    [
        "PPPs’ new appeal may redefine not just development economics, but also the overall relationship between rich and poor countries – though not necessarily for the better.",
        "公私合作的新诉求不仅可能重写发展经济学，还可能重塑整个富国与穷国的关系——尽管未必朝积极的方向发展。"
    ],
    [
        "It was “a failure of the collective imagination of many bright people,” they explained.",
        "这是“许多聪明人集体想象的失灵，”他们解释说。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk of a vicious, self-reinforcing downward spiral would rise sharply.",
        "而催生一个自我强化的恶性堕落循环的风险将急剧上升。"
    ],
    [
        "It often begins with a surprise – for example, Donald Trump, the real-estate tycoon turned reality TV star, defies the odds to become the US Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.",
        "它常常从惊奇开始——比如，转型电视真人秀明星的房地产大亨唐纳德·特朗普令人大跌眼镜地成为美国共和党总统提名代表。"
    ],
    [
        "With its debt overhangs and property bubbles, its zombie state-owned enterprises and struggling banks, China is increasingly portrayed as the next disaster in a crisis-prone world.",
        "债务堆积和房地产泡沫、国企僵尸化、银行步履维艰，中国被越来越多的人描述成危机重重的世界中的下一场灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "They had to find some outlet, and football provided it.",
        "必需为它们寻找某种出口，而足球正好提供了这样通路。"
    ],
    [
        "When the evidence of these excesses became overwhelming, new credit stopped flowing, making it impossible to service existing debts.",
        "当充分的证据表明过度负债已经不堪重负，新的信用便不再涌入，希腊因此无法维持现有债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The urgency can hardly be exaggerated: nuclear weapons may come into the possession of states that might use them, as well as of stateless terrorists – creating new threats of unimaginable proportion.",
        "目前的局势迫在眉睫：核武器不仅仅在拥有核的国家手中，一旦落入无国界的恐怖分子手中——由此可能导致的局面无法想象。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, it is Italy’s most qualified who are most likely to leave.",
        "毫不奇怪，最有可能离开的正是质量最高的意大利年轻人。"
    ],
    [
        "When he gets around to economics, Cochrane aims his blows at two points: Krugman’s attack on the “efficient market theory” and his advocacy of “fiscal stimulus” for depressed economies.",
        "”“不幸的是”，这种经过简单化的经济模式使得我们绝大多数经济学家忽视了一些要素，从而导致他们出错。 ”于是，现在的经济学家将会不得不知晓“非理性行为，经常发生的不可预测行为的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Little wonder, then, that Egyptians and Jordanians, who live in countries where the state does not enforce piety, are more religious than Iranians or Saudis, who must cope with local \"virtue\" police backed by the state.",
        "因此，生活在不强制信奉宗教国度里的埃及人和约旦人，比不得不小心提防有国家撑腰的\"操守警察\"的沙特人或伊朗人，总的来讲表现出更多的虔诚，也没有什么值得大惊小怪的。"
    ],
    [
        "The free-trade regime of the liberal period was retained during this period – indeed it was deepened by the various rounds of global trade liberalization – but the dominant thrust was the creation of a generous welfare state.",
        "在这一时期里，自由化时期的自由贸易体制得到了维系，而且在不同的全球贸易自由化回合中得到了加深。 但是占居主导地位的要点却是建立慷慨的福利国家。"
    ],
    [
        "And, five years after the largest financial crisis in almost 80 years, one can count the number of properly qualified board members – across all megabanks – on the fingers of one hand.",
        "此外，在近80年来最大金融危机过去五年后，所有大银行的合格董事数量一只手都数得过来。"
    ],
    [
        "He had, after all, risen to the top of the military on the back of the Pakistani army’s Islamist elements, who came into their own (in what had previously been a rather Anglophile, British- and American-trained officer corps) during the decade-long reign of a fundamentalist military ruler, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.",
        "毕竟，他仰仗着巴基斯坦军队中的伊斯兰势力掌握了军权。 这些伊斯兰势力在原教旨主义军事统治者齐亚哈克将军长达十年的统治中称雄一时(他们原先则是经过英国和美国培训的亲英美派军官)。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic alarms rarely ring so loudly. The time has come for China to respond with equal clarity.",
        "经济的警钟声如此响亮，中国也是时候发出明确的应对措施了。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone does not have an answer for this inherently political conundrum, and therein lies one of its fundamental flaws.",
        "欧元区对于这一内在政治难题束手无策，而这就是根本缺陷之一。"
    ],
    [
        "When the investment environment is considered uncertain, as is the case in most developing countries, investors demand a risk premium on virtually any project, even those with potentially high rates of return.",
        "就像多数发展中国家那样，当投资环境被认为不确定时，投资者会对几乎任何项目要求风险溢价，就连潜在回报率很高的项目也无法幸免。"
    ],
    [
        "The third lesson is that a society’s capacity to absorb rapid change is limited.",
        "第三个教训是社会适应快速变革的能力其实是有限的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Maoists are disenchanted with the democratic process.",
        "毛泽东主义者不再对民主程序抱有幻想。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, European leaders have placed these new policies within a coherent longer-term framework that may also include “the issuance of common debt.”",
        "此外，欧洲各国领袖为上述新政制定了前后一致的长期框架机制，其中可能包括实施“统一的债务发行措施”。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, with more than $3.3 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, China is a particularly attractive target for international speculators.",
        "最后，手握超过3. 3万亿美元的外汇储备，中国成为国际投机者眼里特别有吸引的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Many OECD countries initiated various kinds of flexibility reforms in the hope of improving their economies along US lines.",
        "许多经合组织国家启动了各种各样的灵活化改革，希望按照美国的模式改善自己的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Any future European finance ministry would oversee the surveillance of both fiscal policies and competitiveness policies, and, when necessary, impose the “second stage.”",
        "未来的欧洲财政部将对各国的财政政策和竞争政策实施监督，而且在有必要的时候实施“第二阶段”。"
    ],
    [
        "Jobs, in particular, will help young people to create new lives through serious work.",
        "特别是工作可以帮助年轻人通过认真劳动创造新生活。"
    ],
    [
        "The Syrian crisis will not end any time soon.",
        "叙利亚危机不会很快结束。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, such countries receive just a fraction of the $3,000-5,000 per refugee required annually to provide adequate housing, food, health care, schooling, and job training during the first few years of displacement.",
        "为难民在失去家园的前几年中提供充足的住宿、食物、医疗、教育和就业培训的成本为每人每年3,000-5,000 美元，而目前主要接收国只能获得其中一小部分资金。"
    ],
    [
        "There was a lack of integrated emergency-response capability at the site and nationally.",
        "福岛核电站和日本都缺少综合紧急响应的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Is the Arab Spring turning into a gloomy autumn?",
        "华盛顿——阿拉伯春天之后阴沉的秋天是否正在来临？"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, China’s declining dependence on export-led growth is reducing its vulnerability to the whims of those who control access to global markets.",
        "与此同时，中国对出口拉动型增长的依赖程度不断下降，使其在面对控制全球市场渠道者的反复无常行为时可以不那么脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Remarkably, a mere three crops – maize, rice, and wheat – account for more than half of the calories and proteins that we derive from plants.",
        "引人注目的是，仅仅三种农作物——玉米、大米和小麦——就占了我们从植物中摄取卡路里和蛋白质的一大半。"
    ],
    [
        "Conventional wisdom suggests that Scottish independence is possible, albeit not very likely, while any country’s departure from the single currency is fanciful.",
        "传统智慧表明，苏格兰独立存在可能性，但不大，而由国家脱离单一货币的可能性几乎不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "That strategy would depart from the Modi government’s intervention in two fundamental ways.",
        "这个策略在两个基本方面与莫迪政府的干预有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The media will then praise their respective governments’ “courage” and “assertiveness,” and cast the outcome as “win on points.”",
        "而后媒体会夸奖各自政府的“勇气”和“自信”，把结果描绘成一场“局部的胜利”。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the UN ought to make good on its threat and impose sanctions against the Sudanese government unless it stops using its aircraft to destroy villages and unless it stops supporting the jangaweed.",
        "其次，联合国应该兑现自己的承诺，对苏丹政府实施制裁，除非它停止用飞机轰炸村庄、停止为Jangaweed提供支持。"
    ],
    [
        "And if things got bad enough, Trump and his generals could declare a state of emergency, suspend civil liberties, and transform America into a true pluto-populist authoritarian state.",
        "”如果情况变得足够糟糕，特朗普和他的将军们可以宣布进入紧急状态，停止履行公民自由，把美国变成一个真正的财阀民粹主义国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the Fed’s example, the ECB should abolish its OMT program – which, according to Germany’s Constitutional Court, does not comply with EU treaty law anyway.",
        "欧洲央行应该效仿美联储，放弃其OMT计划——根据德国宪法法院的裁决，OMT无论如何都不符合欧盟条约法。"
    ],
    [
        "But continuing for much longer with unconventional monetary policies also carries the risk of undesirable asset-price inflation, excessive credit growth, and bubbles.",
        "但大幅度延长非常规货币政策也会产生不良资产价格上涨，过度信贷增长和泡沫的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "As he spoke, his chief of staff, retired US Marine Corps General John Kelly, who was appointed in July to bring order and a degree of stability to Trump’s White House sanitarium, could be seen with his head in his hands, as if in shock or despair.",
        "在他讲话时，人们看到7月刚刚受命负责为特朗普白宫疯人院注入秩序和某种程度稳定的参谋长美国退休海军陆战队将军约翰·凯利双手抱头，似乎无法摆脱震惊或绝望的情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the man’s goals in immolating himself, according to the letter, was to force “the chairman of PiS and the entire PiS nomenklatura to recognize that my death is their direct responsibility, and that they have my blood on their hands.”",
        "公开信显示这名男性的自我牺牲是要迫使“法律与正义党主席和在该党担任要职的官员公开承认他们对我的死直接负责，他们的手上沾染了我的鲜血。"
    ],
    [
        "With German leaders insisting on charging penalty rates for providing assistance, the crisis festered – and the rescue costs continued to grow.",
        "德国领导人坚持，要想让德国提供帮助，就必须施加惩罚性利率，这进一步深化了危机，而救援成本水涨船高。"
    ],
    [
        "The shale-energy revolution in the US is perhaps the best-known example of this shift, but it is not the only one.",
        "美国页岩能源革命或许是这种转变最有名的例子，但并不是唯一一个。"
    ],
    [
        "“Cities of Tents are Filling with the Victims of the Economic Crisis,” read one headline a month ago on the front page of a mass-circulation American newspaper.",
        "一个月之前，美国主流报纸头版的标题是：“经济危机导致城市的露天帐篷里住满了无家可归的人群。"
    ],
    [
        "Previously autonomous regulatory bodies (such as the competition authority) have been quietly subordinated to the government, with no debate or discussion.",
        "那些原本自治的监管机构（比如竞争管理局）都已悄悄归顺政府，根本不容争辩和讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Cyprus is at a critical juncture.",
        "身为韩国人，我对于分裂的痛苦再清楚不过； 我也明白和解的难度之大。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Sinai Bedouins have the right of use but not ownership of land, because a lethargic, occasionally corrupt bureaucracy still deems the Sinai a military zone and its natives’ loyalty questionable.",
        "实际上，西奈的贝多因人有权使用却无权占有土地，因为行事昏庸、不时贪污腐化的政府似乎把西奈看作一块军事领地，根本不相信西奈人对国家的忠诚。"
    ],
    [
        "In Sweden, it amounts to 33.5% of “dependent employment” (total employment excluding the self-employed), and 32.9% in Denmark.",
        "9%。 平均而言，斯堪的那维亚国家里国家就业的份额在整个就业中占据32."
    ],
    [
        "For Janet Yellen – or her successor – it will take courage to forge a different path.",
        "对于珍妮特·耶伦（Janet Yellen）或其继任者来说创造不同的道路则需要勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "The shares of the major reserve currencies were stable, with the dollar accounting for 62% of foreign-exchange reserves in 2009 and the euro 27%.",
        "各大储备货币的份额基本保持稳定，2009年，美元占全球外汇储备的62%，欧元占27%。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not that there is “too much” saving around the world today, but that the amount of saving has been high enough that returns, as measured by real interest rates, are a lot lower than they once were.",
        "但当今全球的储蓄并不是“过多”，而是储蓄额高到了足够的程度，以至于以实际利率来衡量的收益要比以前低很多了。"
    ],
    [
        "Don Quixote, Dissident",
        "唐吉诃德是反对派"
    ],
    [
        "The correlation with O’Neill’s tenure was irrelevant.",
        "与奥尼尔任职的相关性完全不重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, standstill triumphed over progress.",
        "在布什和奥巴马任内，停滞都压倒进展成为中东问题的主旋律。"
    ],
    [
        "Breaking the Climate Deadlock",
        "打破气候的僵局"
    ],
    [
        "But that growth has lately slowed substantially, leading many to question whether economists spoke too soon when we labeled them the new engines of global economic growth.",
        "但这一增长最近大幅放缓，让许多人开始质疑经济学家给它们贴上全球经济增长新引擎的标签是不是操之过急了。"
    ],
    [
        "They are placing their faith in their ability to wash their own dirty laundry and drive economic, social, and political change from the top down.",
        "他们相信自己可以处理好丑闻，自上而下地推动经济、社会和政治改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps this balance sheet will look different a decade from now, but at this point most Americans have concluded that the skeptics are right, and that thinking has influenced current US foreign policy.",
        "这份资产负债表十年后给人的感觉也许会有所变化，但此时此刻，多数美国人认为怀疑者所言有理，并进而影响到美国当前的外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Poor regions have a low base of economic activity to tax, which prevents them from investing in human and physical capital.",
        "此外，贫穷地区经济活动较少，相应的税收总量也较低，阻碍了他们利用税收来提高人民生活质量和兴建基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "From Economic Analysis to Inclusive Growth",
        "从经济分析到包容性增长"
    ],
    [
        "But policymakers must recognize the damage being done by excessively high real interest rates.",
        "但决策者必须认识到过高真实利率正在造成什么风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Although oil prices have now fallen back from their peak, that debate must not be forgotten, for it has profound policy implications that government officials would be derelict to ignore.",
        "虽然油价现在已经从其最高点回落，但是，这样的争论不应该被忘记，因为它具有政府官员可能会不负责任地忽略的深刻的政策含义。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s government spends 4.7% of GDP on health care alone.",
        "巴西政府仅仅在医疗上的开支就占其GDP的4. 7%。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that the EU now has successful employment models that can be emulated.",
        "这意味着欧盟是可供模仿的最成功的就业模式。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The year 2015 was difficult, punctuated by declining growth forecasts, horrific terror attacks, massive refugee flows, and serious political challenges, with populism on the rise in many countries.",
        "华盛顿—2015年是艰难的一年，这一年，增长预测值下滑，发生了可怕的恐怖袭击、大规模难民和严重的政治挑战，许多国家都兴起了民粹主义。"
    ],
    [
        "I frequently advise people who approach me without an introduction that they should start with someone who knows them, not with a stranger they would like to know.",
        "我经常建议不经引见就接近我的人应该从认识他们的人开始，而不是从他们想认识的陌生人开始。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Carl Sagan observed, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” while here the existing evidence is still circumstantial.",
        "但是，根据卡尔·萨刚的看法，“非同一般的理论假设需要非同一般的证据。 ”在这方面的现有证据仍然是零散的。"
    ],
    [
        "But democratic governments fear that these processes are too cumbersome, and would undercut the flexibility of the “multi-stakeholder” approach, which stresses the involvement of the private and non-profit sectors, as well as governments.",
        "但民主政府却担心上述程序过于繁琐，并且会影响到强调政府和私有及非营利部门参与并重的“多方利益攸关者”策略的灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the valuation of Chinese innovators is many times higher than that of their Western counterparts.",
        "因此，中国创业企业的估值往往会比西方同行高出许多倍。 此外，中国在一些特定领域居于全球领先地位。"
    ],
    [
        "This time around, the International Monetary Fund and the German government should fill that role.",
        "如今，国际货币基金和德国政府可以担起这个责任来。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a tall order.",
        "这是一项异常艰巨的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, US officials face four tasks.",
        "因此，美国官员必须完成四项任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The world knew what was happening.",
        "国际社会明白其中的是非曲直。"
    ],
    [
        "But now the structure is more like the profile of a skyscraper, more or less the same from top to bottom.",
        "但是现在这一结构更像是一座摩天大楼，从上到下基本一样大小。"
    ],
    [
        "Royal Dutch Shell, for example, announced in 2003 that it would not drill in any spots designated by UNESCO as World Heritage sites.",
        "例如皇家荷兰壳牌石油公司在2003年宣布其不会在联合国教科文组织所认定的\"世界遗产\"保护地钻一口井。"
    ],
    [
        "With demand for electricity, mostly from the country’s expanding industries, rising by 7% annually, Morocco’s government has long known that it could not sit still.",
        "电力需求——主要来自摩洛哥不断扩张的各产业——每年都要增长7%，摩洛哥政府很早就明白不能原地踏步。"
    ],
    [
        "But pragmatism has its limits, particularly when it permits dangerous situations to fester.",
        "但是现实主义也有局限，特别是它让危险的局势恶化的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "In the second, more successful, phase, an increasing number of countries adopted either explicit or implicit inflation targets.",
        "第二阶段，越来越多的国家或公开或隐含地采纳了通货膨胀目标法（inflation targeting），而这一阶段在为稳定货币政策建立基础方面更成功一些。"
    ],
    [
        "A new report shows that a million American middle-class women will find themselves in bankruptcy court this year.",
        "最近新鲜出炉的一份报告显示，美国将有一百万中产阶级妇女面临破产。"
    ],
    [
        "This aid would save lives, improve well-being, and help strengthen economic development.",
        "这些援助将拯救生命，改善社会福祉，并有助于增强经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the meeting was ostensibly about updating telephony regulations, the underlying issue was the ITU’s role in Internet governance.",
        "虽然会议的表面议题是更新电话章程，但国际电信联盟在互联网治理中的作用才是根本性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "According to this view, those who favor austerity must be obsessed with the theory, given the availability of a kinder, gentler alternative.",
        "根据这一观点，支持紧缩者必然是沉迷于这一理论，因为有现成的更周到、更温和的替代方案可选。"
    ],
    [
        "We see these problems today in state-owned firms in Latin America, political unrest in Africa, tensions in the Middle East or through opaque business intermediaries, as in the questionable gas deal between Ukraine and Russia, known now as RUE (RosUkrEnergo).",
        "这些问题不仅在今天拉丁美洲的国有公司和非洲的政治动荡中可以看到，在中东的紧张局势或商业中介的阴暗交易中也时有反映，乌克兰和俄国现在名为俄乌能源公司(RosUkrEnergo)的机构所开展的令人质疑的天然气交易就是一例。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasingly, the Republican Party, once a fairly normal political party, has granted itself a license to live in an alternate reality – a world in which George W. Bush did find the weapons of mass destruction that he had thought were in Iraq; tax cuts eliminate budget deficits; Obama is not only a Muslim but was born in Kenya and thus should be disqualified from the presidency; and global warming is a hoax concocted by a cabal of socialist scientists.",
        "共和党是个再平常不过的政党，却日渐把自己当成通往异次元生活的通行证——在这个次元中，小布什确实发现了他认为存在于伊拉克的大规模杀伤性武器； 减税消灭了预算赤字；"
    ],
    [
        "It is people’s willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.",
        "真正推动变革的是人们不惜承担个人风险、直面权贵而敢于说出真相，而不是真相本身。"
    ],
    [
        "A third problem with the current approach is that its central objective is not full employment.",
        "目前手段的第三个问题是其核心目的不是实现充分就业。"
    ],
    [
        "It goes without saying that thorough deliberation is essential to good legislation, not just to secure the political buy-in of others, but also to avoid drafting errors and limit unintended consequences.",
        "毫无疑问，彻底的深思熟虑是好立法的必要条件，这不仅是为了确保在政治上被其他人所接受，也是为了避免起草错误、限制意料外的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "If North Korea had reciprocated in a timely manner following US envoy William Perry’s visit to Pyongyang in May 1999, President Bill Clinton’s policy of engagement with the North might have been upgraded to a push for normalization of diplomatic relations.",
        "如果朝鲜在1999年5月美国特使威廉·佩里访问平壤后及时回访，那么比尔·克林顿总统对朝接触政策可能已经升级为外交关系正常化的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The on-again, off-again talks on North Korea can fluster even the most experienced of negotiators.",
        "时断时续的关于北朝鲜问题的会谈可能让最具经验的谈判家也无所适从。"
    ],
    [
        "His research convinced him that the source of the outbreak was a shared water pump in the heart of the district.",
        "他的研究让他确信，霍乱爆发的根源是该区中央地带一口公用水井。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, though the existence of Iraq’s Osirak plant was public knowledge, uncovering Syria’s Al Kibar plant was an intelligence coup.",
        "事实上，虽然伊拉克奥西拉克反应堆的存在尽人皆知，但发现叙利亚的Al Kibar核反应堆却堪称一场情报政变。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to sustain growth, it needs to continue to invest half of its $9 trillion annual GDP – no easy task for a country that already has brand new highways and airports.",
        "为了维持增长，中国需要继续将其9万亿美元的年度GDP用于投资——这对一个遍地新建高速公路和机场的国家来说实属不易。"
    ],
    [
        "Businesses that ignore the broader social and environmental context in which they operate are likely to pay a price: reputational damage and loss of brand value, falling sales, difficulties in recruiting talent, lower worker productivity, corruption, tougher government regulation, or an increase in climate-change-related costs.",
        "忽视经营活动的广义社会和环境约束的企业有可能为此付出代价：名声损坏、品牌价值损失、销量下滑、难以吸引人才、工人生产率低下、腐败、更严格的政府监管、气候变化相关成本升高等。"
    ],
    [
        "We have only one Europe, and we all need to work together to reform it and drive it forward.",
        "我们只有一个欧洲，我们需要团结一致改革欧洲、使其前进。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost none of the writers had seen the exhibition - most had signed form letters.",
        "来信者几乎从未看过展览，很多人都在打印的信件上签了名。"
    ],
    [
        "The issuance of dollar bonds was a major source of abuse, with speculators buying dollar debt at the official exchange rate, selling it for greenbacks, and then exchanging them for bolivars at a much higher rate on the black market.",
        "美元债券的发行是滥用的主要源头，投机者以官方汇率买入美元债券，卖出后获得美元，然后以高得多的黑市价格兑回玻利瓦尔。"
    ],
    [
        "On these four major issues, Obama has clearly achieved little.",
        "敦促以色列总理内塔尼亚胡冻结定居点计划从而取得中东和平进程的重大突破； 以及与伊朗就其核计划展开对话。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republicans – with the exception of Trump, who rejects future Social Security “cuts” – would gradually slow growth, whereas the Democrats propose increasing Social Security benefits.",
        "共和党人——除了拒绝接受未来的社会保障“削减”的特朗普之外——会逐渐降低这项支出的增长，而民主党则要求继续增加社会保障福利。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than allow Erdoğan to use his relationship with Putin to manipulate his NATO allies, the West – and the EU, in particular – must condemn, more clearly than ever, his accelerating shift toward autocracy.",
        "西方国家，尤其是欧盟必须比以往更加明确地谴责埃尔多安朝着专制方向的转变，而不应坐视埃尔多安利用与普京的关系来操纵其北约盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "But, since the late 1990’s, countries like South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore have accumulated very large volumes of foreign reserves, reflecting both export-driven growth strategies and a desire to avoid a repeat of the speculative currency attacks that triggered the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis.",
        "但是，20世纪90年代末以来，韩国、台湾和新加坡等国家和地区积累了为数巨大的外汇储备，这是出口驱动增长战略以及渴望避免触发1997—1998年亚洲金融危机的投机性货币袭击卷土重来的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative – an attempt at negotiation between Syria’s government and an increasingly fragmented opposition – would serve only to prolong the war and raise the death toll.",
        "企图在叙政府和日益分散的反对派之间展开谈判只会延长战争时间并增加死亡人数。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments had no choice but to raise taxes or to adjust to leaner times.",
        "政府别无选择，只能增税或适应不景气。"
    ],
    [
        "But if they do not, the Fed’s continued interest-rate hikes would stimulate investors to trade their German and Japanese bonds, in particular – which are now bringing low and even negative returns – for higher-yielding US varieties.",
        "但如果它们不进行再平衡，美联储继续升息将驱使投资者卖出（尤其是）德国和日本债券——目前这些债券回报非常低，甚至为负——买入收益率更高的美国债券。"
    ],
    [
        "One way to increase it would be to convert the Palestinian demand for a “right of return” (to Israeli lands from which they fled in 1947-1948) into a right to compensation.",
        "一个增加机会的办法是把巴勒斯坦对“回归权”（回到他们在1947—1948年被以色列夺走的土地上）的要求转换为补偿权。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, all the Union’s future energy agreements should include an “energy security clause” that explicitly outlines a code of conduct and measures to be taken in the event of a supply disruption.",
        "比如，所有联盟未来的能源协议都应该包含“一个能源安全条款”明确地规定在遇到供应中断时应该采取的行动和措施的准则。"
    ],
    [
        "Allies will have to pay more for their defense.",
        "盟国将需要为国防支付更多费用。"
    ],
    [
        "In France – the other pillar of the European project – President Emmanuel Macron can count on a solid parliamentary majority.",
        "在欧洲工程的另一个支柱法国，总统马克龙能够倚赖坚强的议会多数。"
    ],
    [
        "Tobacco was de-glamorized, taxed, and regulated; it has not been banned.",
        "烟草并未被禁止，而是贬低了形象，施加了税款并受到了管制。"
    ],
    [
        "For five years, they have systematically blocked every attempt at a resolution emanating from the United Nations.",
        "五年来，他们系统性地阻挠联合国所提出的每一项解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Models that emphasize expectations are sometimes best for analyzing inflation and unemployment levels; at other times, models with Keynesian elements will do a superior job.",
        "强调预期的模型有时最好用于分析通货膨胀和失业水平，在其他时候，具备凯恩斯主义要素的模型更好。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in contrast to both the public and for-profit sectors, they can adopt a very long time horizon for problems that require decades to solve.",
        "此外，与公共和营利部门不同，它们可以采取非常长的时界，针对需要几十年时间才有可能解决的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Both sides have substantially reduced their options, thereby limiting the possibility of a diplomatic compromise.",
        "双方都极大减少了自身的选项，从而限制了外交妥协的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifteen years prior to onset, a positron emission tomography (PET) scan showed amyloid-beta being deposited in plaques in the brain itself.",
        "痴呆症状出现前十五年，正电子发射成像术（PET）扫描显示乙型淀粉样蛋白正在大脑本身的斑块中堆积。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the macro tradition vacillates between specific recommendations (“set low and uniform tariffs,” “remove interest-rate ceilings on banks,” “improve your ‘doing business’ ranking”) that find limited support in cross-country evidence, and broad recommendations that lack operational content (“integrate into world economy,” “achieve macroeconomic stability,” “improve contract enforcement”).",
        "此外，宏观传统在跨国证据支持力有限的具体建议（“实行统一的低关税”、“取消银行利率上限”、“改善你的‘做生意’排名”）和缺少操作内容的笼统建议（“融入世界经济”、“追求宏观经济稳定”、“改善契约执行”）之间摇摆不定。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifty years on, it is our generation’s turn to move the world towards sustainable development.",
        "’”五十年后，轮到我们这一代人用撬动地球走向可持续发展了。"
    ],
    [
        "If Monti’s administration is toppled – either in parliament or in the streets – the EU’s fourth-largest economy could come crashing down.",
        "如果蒙蒂的政权被推翻，无论是通过议会还是通过示威游行，欧盟的第四大经济体都可能会面临崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID ‒ The successful outcome of the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program provides a splendid validation for those who put their faith in diplomacy.",
        "马德里—伊朗核计划谈判的成功结果给了相信外交的人一个强有力的明证。"
    ],
    [
        "In their obsession with low corporate and personal taxes, and their loathing of organized labor and the federal government, rich donors, such as the brothers Charles and David Koch, or the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, appear to be manipulating Trump, rather than the other way around.",
        "醉心于降低公司和个人税收和打压劳工组织和联邦政府的富豪捐助者们——比如查尔斯和大卫·科赫（Charles and David Koch）兄弟，或赌场大亨谢尔顿·阿德尔森（Sheldon Adelson）——似乎正在操纵特朗普，而不是反过来被特朗普操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "The conventional hedge-fund strategy should be going short on Shanghai stocks and long on Tokyo stocks.",
        "传统对冲经济策略应该是做空上海股票，做多东京股票。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, that region’s Shia population is concentrated in urban areas, and largely comprises the descendants of the soldiers and other state functionaries who stayed behind in the conquered territories.",
        "今天，该地区什叶派人口集中在城市地区，主要包括当时留在被占领土上的士兵和其他国家公职人员的后代。"
    ],
    [
        "Political and legal reforms in Turkey in recent years have been remarkably far-reaching, for they have clearly been spurred by Turks’ wish to move closer to the EU.",
        "近年来土耳其的政治和法治改革极为广泛，因为土耳其人向欧盟靠拢的愿望促进了这些改革。"
    ],
    [
        "When she first started with Fundación Paraguaya, she was sharing a single-bedroom home with 16 other family members and cooking meals on a small fire pit on the dirt floor.",
        "当她从巴拉圭基金会起步时，她与16位其他家庭成员共享一个单间，在泥土地板上支起一个小火炉做饭。"
    ],
    [
        "It is how they create homes amid the homelessness of exile and displacement that is part of their modern condition.",
        "他们就这样在流亡和无家可归的绝望中重建家园，反复上演者着他们在现代无数次的经历。"
    ],
    [
        "But doesn’t China have a regime of strict capital controls that limits citizens from taking more than $50,000 per year out of the country?",
        "但中国不是有严格的资本管制、限制公民每年携外汇出国的规模不得超过50,000美元吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Might South Sudan, the mostly Christian state that seceded in 2011 from the Muslim Arab North after a long civil war, become the new paradigm for non-historical Arab states riven by ethnic and tribal rivalries?",
        "2011年，以基督徒为多数的南苏丹在长期内战后脱离穆斯林阿拉伯国家苏丹独立，这会是没有历史的阿拉伯国家因种族和部落对峙而分裂的新范式吗？"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – After nearly a month of belligerent bluster from North Korea, China appears to have had enough, ending its silence about North Korea’s brinkmanship and suddenly roaring its disapproval of its ally’s reckless threats.",
        "北京—朝鲜放出战争狂言近一个月后，中国好像是受够了，不再对朝鲜的边缘行为保持沉默，突然表示了对这一盟国鲁莽威胁的失望。"
    ],
    [
        "The main reason for the new dose of transatlantic drift is that the crisis is being experienced differently.",
        "新一轮大西洋关系疏远的主要原因是人们以不同的方式经历着危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump can only envy Xi.",
        "特朗普只能艳羡习近平。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, now, as in the recent past, whenever foreigners get jittery, financing and investment in Latin America are curtailed, and growth suffers.",
        "因此，与过去一样，如今只要外国人感到紧张，拉美的融资和投资就会削减，增长也会受阻。"
    ],
    [
        "The banking system needs to be guaranteed first, and recapitalized later.",
        "银行体系首先需要的是担保，然后才是资本重组。"
    ],
    [
        "The brunt of the stagnation has been borne by German workers.",
        "这种停滞不前的冲击只能由德国劳动者来承受，虽然他们的生产力在过去15年间提升了17."
    ],
    [
        "Instead of Schumpeter’s “creative destruction,” bankers have engaged in destructive creation in order to gouge customers at every opportunity while shielding themselves behind a veil of complexity from the prying eyes of regulators (and even top management).",
        "与熊彼特的“创新性破坏”相反，银行家参与破坏性创新是为了抓住一切机会糊弄客户，而它们自己躲在复杂性的面纱之后，逃脱监管者（甚至最高管理层）的监督。"
    ],
    [
        "For the US, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, opposition to Israel, and support for extremist groups have become increasingly intolerable in the context of the war on terror.",
        "在美国眼里，伊朗的核计划、反对以色列和支持极端组织在如今对恐怖主义宣战的背景下变得越来越无法容忍。"
    ],
    [
        "Such temptations are understandable, and need not be animated by improper motives.",
        "这样的诱惑可以理解，而且不必别有用心地大肆渲染。"
    ],
    [
        "The role of the private sector – with its multinational reach, vast piles of cash, and ability to innovate – has been neglected.",
        "私人部门——及其多方位的触及面、大量的现金持有量以及创新能力——的角色一直被忽视了。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the government’s determination to contain housing prices – which have, at various times, stoked concern about local bubbles – there is little reason to expect that real-estate investment will rebound anytime soon.",
        "政府决心要遏制住房价格——房价高企时常激起人们对地方泡沫的担忧——因此没有理由认为房地产投资能够迅速反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there was Kennedy’s ethic of service on behalf of the commonwealth: “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.",
        "最后，公益服务伦理观：“还有，我的美国同胞：不要问国家能为你做些什么——问问你能为你的国家做些什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro system was designed to deliver prosperity and stability for all. It has clearly failed for some countries, and it may fail for many.",
        "欧元制度的设立原本是为了给所有国家带来繁荣和稳定，可是，对许多国家而言，这种制度已经失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "Spooked by Glass-Steagall’s Ghost?",
        "格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法案阴魂不散"
    ],
    [
        "During its domestic infrastructure boom, China financed major projects – often connected to mining, energy, and infrastructure – in other emerging economies.",
        "在国内基础设施繁荣期间，中国为其他新兴经济体的大工程——主要与矿产、能源和基础设施有关——提供融资。"
    ],
    [
        "And bankers neglect to acknowledge the role of government guarantees and subsidies in making so much borrowing possible and attractive.",
        "银行家们也故意忽略政府担保和的津贴在导致借贷过于容易发放且如此吸引方面所扮演的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, the release of any synthetic organism must be carefully regulated, just like the release of any genetically modified organism.",
        "很显然，任何人造有机体的散播必须得到极为谨慎的规管，正如任何转基因生物的散播一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the reverse seems true.",
        "但是今天，情况看起来恰恰相反。"
    ],
    [
        "But Chen’s career as a legal activist met an abrupt end with a conviction for disturbing public order, and most experts inside and outside of China considered his ensuing confinement to be unlawful.",
        "但是作为一位法律活动家，陈光诚的职业生涯却因扰乱公共秩序的控告而突然宣告结束，中国内外的大多数专家认为他随后被禁闭是不合法令的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Unilateral Road to Peace",
        "通往和平的单边道路"
    ],
    [
        "As University of Johannesburg scientist Laura Tensen has noted, “wild animals are considered superior because of their rarity and high expense.”",
        "正如约翰内斯堡大学科学家劳拉·藤森所指出的那样，“野生动物因其稀少和昂贵而被视为具有更高的价值。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Today, with Europe increasingly seen as the sick man of the world’s economy, even the whole continent’s renunciation of nuclear energy would have little to no reverberation on the world stage.",
        "现在，由于欧洲越来越被人们看作是国际经济中的一个“病人”，即使整个欧洲大陆都在谴责核能的使用，在全世界的舞台上也不会有太大的反响。"
    ],
    [
        "Hatoyama’s mismanagement of Japan’s relations with the United States, centered on the relocation of a Marine base in Okinawa, had also dented the DPJ’s standing.",
        "鸠山首相对日美关系的不当处理——以冲绳岛海军基地迁移问题为焦点——也对民主党造成不利影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Natural talents should be respected for what they are: the occasionally awesome luck of the biological draw. Courage, fortitude, competitive savvy, and other virtues rightfully command our moral admiration.",
        "天才应该受到尊重：他们幸运地具备了常人所敬畏的身体素质、勇气、坚韧、竞争意识、和其它受到我们推崇的人类美德。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year’s congressional showdown over the federal debt ceiling may have cost the US its AAA sovereign rating with Standard & Poor’s, but the federal government’s borrowing costs are actually lower now than they were then.",
        "去年国会关于联邦债务上限的大斗争导致美国失去了标注普尔AAA级主权评级，但如今联邦政府的借贷成本却比那时候更低了。"
    ],
    [
        "Some adaptation will occur naturally, as rising energy and other commodity prices generate incentives to economize or seek alternatives.",
        "一些调整会自动发生，因为上涨的能源及其他商品价格将产生节约和寻找替代品的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe needs more cooperation, integration, risk sharing, and solidarity.",
        "欧洲需要更多的合作，整合，风险共担，以及团结。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, Australia, and Canada have all been built on immigration, and most of us are the progeny of people from somewhere else.",
        "美国、澳大利亚和加拿大都是移民建立的国家，而我们中的大部分人祖先也不是本地土著。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if a post-American world entails greater risk of chaos and its consequences than hope for a new, stable order – a risk that affects Europe in particular – then perhaps Europe should reverse course on its apparent determination to dismantle itself.",
        "而且，如果后美国世界带来更大的混乱风险而不是新的稳定秩序（欧洲尤其受到这种风险的影响），那么欧洲或许应该改变其自我解体的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "A clear example is the recent Egyptian airstrikes in Libya, which have not only undermined the UN-led peace process in a deeply divided country, but have also empowered the most extreme elements.",
        "最近埃及空袭利比亚就是明显的实例，埃及的空袭不仅破坏了这个严重分裂国家由联合国主导的和平进程，并且使某些最极端份子借此扩充势力。"
    ],
    [
        "(Over the course of the euro’s first decade, interest-rate spreads between ten-year government bonds nearly disappeared.)",
        "（在欧元的第一个十年中，十年期国债利差几近消失。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Western leaders can hardly denounce Zenawi while lauding Vladimir Putin for bringing a focus on modernization to Russia’s governance.",
        "西方领导人不能边谴责泽纳维边赞美普京，称赞后者将现代化建设作为俄罗斯执政的重中之重。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2008, on the eve of the crisis, three-quarters of Portuguese debt, one-half of Spanish and Greek debt, and more than two-fifths of Italian debt was held by foreigners, with foreign banks holding a significant proportion, especially in the case of Greece, Portugal, and Italy.",
        "2008年危机爆发前夕，葡萄牙债务的四分之三、西班牙和希腊债务的一半以及意大利债务的五分之二多由外国人持有，其中外国银行是大头，特别是希腊、葡萄牙和意大利债。"
    ],
    [
        "But globalization and technological progress, by making it easier to match supply and demand, will make such monopolistic behavior harder to maintain in the future.",
        "但全球化和技术进步降低了实现供需匹配的难度，这导致未来难以继续这样的垄断行为。"
    ],
    [
        "At that time, German and Dutch asset sellers who now hold central bank money will notice that their stocks are claims against their central banks that are no longer covered.",
        "到那时，现在持有央行资金的德国和荷兰的资产卖家将注意到，他们手里拿着的是对不再安全的本国央行的债权。"
    ],
    [
        "Both of these measures should help a lot in bringing the US and Chinese trade balances toward more sustainable levels.",
        "这些措施对增加美国和中国贸易之间的平衡起到一定的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Other exports that have increased, such as metals, raise a similar problem.",
        "其他有所增长的出口项目，比如金属，也存在着同样的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of these issues could be addressed relatively quickly.",
        "其中某些问题解决起来速度较快。"
    ],
    [
        "Then again, it could be worse.",
        "其实事情可能更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Entrepreneurship as a Diplomatic Tool",
        "作为外交利器的创业精神"
    ],
    [
        "The Europeans advanced their plans for regional monetary and economic integration.",
        "欧洲人加快了他们的区域货币和经济一体化进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments worldwide have frozen illicit assets stashed abroad by the regime – money that should be used to help the opposition to build a new society.",
        "全球各国的政府纷纷冻结了该政权隐匿的非法资产——这些钱正好可以用来协助反对派建立一个新社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Having gone through the food and fuel shock of 2007-2008 and the global financial crisis that followed, low-income countries may now face even larger disruptions in 2012.",
        "低收入国家刚刚经历了2007—2008年的食品和燃料冲击，随后又遭遇了金融危机，而在2012年，它们可能会面临更大的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "SYDNEY – In November 1965, US President Lyndon B. Johnson was presented with the first-ever government report warning of the dangers that could result from burning large amounts of fossil fuels.",
        "悉尼——1965年11月，美国总统林登·约翰逊拿到了有史以来第一份警告大量燃烧化石燃料可能带来危险的政府报告。"
    ],
    [
        "“Ultimately” can be a very long time.",
        "“最终”可能需要很长时间。"
    ],
    [
        "This is what we want to see in the future – and it is a future that is not possible without Russia.",
        "这是我们想要看到的未来—一个没有俄罗斯就无法实现的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Brexit and Trump were powered by an unstable alliance between two very different, even contradictory, movements.",
        "英国退欧和特朗普背后均有一个不稳定的联盟，它由两股截然不同甚至互相矛盾的运动组成。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision to leave the EU will dominate British national life for the next decade, if not longer.",
        "脱欧决定将影响今后10年英国国民的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us hope that the de-liberalization seen in developed countries can be checked before it spreads to other parts of the world and ultimately brings undesirable consequences for all.",
        "让我们共同盼望发达国家的反自由化浪潮能够在蔓延到世界其他国家之前得到有效的遏制，避免最终带来我们都不希望看到的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "US global leadership is therefore bound to shift away from free trade, globalization, and open markets.",
        "美国的全球领导力也因此必将从自由贸易、全球化和开放市场有所转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Distressingly, there has been very little improvement in this regard, despite high growth rates.",
        "糟糕的是，尽管非洲增长率很高，这方面却鲜有赶紧。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, conspiracy theories abound in Mexico about the origins of the virus, because government officials are viewed with such ingrained suspicion.",
        "关于疫情病毒的起源，目前在墨西哥有很多传言，民众莫衷一是，因为他们对政府官员早已不再信任。"
    ],
    [
        "All assumptions will need to be assessed and reassessed, starting points found and re-found, and new tools developed and perfected.",
        "所有的假设要慎之有慎，反复权衡，新的办法要不断修改，以求完美。"
    ],
    [
        "Although he doesn’t tell us what the second or third action is, he has turned up in a British court to defend six activists who damaged a coal power station. He argues that we need “more people chaining themselves to coal plants,” a point repeated by Gore.",
        "”尽管汉森没有告诉我们第二步或者第三步行动是什么，但他最近却出现在一个英国法庭上为6个破坏火电厂的环保分子出庭辩护，并宣称需要“更多人把自己捆绑在火电厂（来阻止其正常运行），”而这个观点也是戈尔所反复强调的。"
    ],
    [
        "“Europe remains America’s indispensable partner of first resort,” he declared. “And, if you forgive some presumptuousness, I believe we remain your indispensable partner.”",
        "“欧洲仍是美国不可分割的第一伙伴，”他说，“如果你们不介意我有些专横的话，我相信我们也仍是你们不可分割的伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a good chance, then, that we will learn what that ubiquitous, abundant, yet elusive substance is.",
        "这是一个好机会，可以让我们了解那些无处不在、极其丰富然而看不见摸不着的物质到底是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if the past 18 months are any guide, they soon will be.",
        "但鉴于过去18个月所发生的情况，他们很快会有所行动。"
    ],
    [
        "These and other payments are in addition to the hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies that continue to flow to the fossil-fuel industry.",
        "除了此类赔偿之外，化石燃料行业还能源源不断地获得数千亿美元的补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as China grows stronger and reclaims what it believes to be its historic position in Asia and the world, how long will it wait to insist on reshaping the international rules?",
        "但随着中国实力不断增长并重新争取其在亚洲和世界本来拥有的历史地位，它还会等多久才提出重塑国际规则的要求？"
    ],
    [
        "Peasants could be transformed into factory workers virtually overnight, implying significant productivity gains for the economy.",
        "农民可以不费吹灰之力地转变为工厂工人，给经济带来巨大的生产率提升。"
    ],
    [
        "The shift in the debate from just a year ago seems dramatic: no one even mentions the notion of trickle-down economics anymore, and few are willing to argue that there is a close congruence between social contributions and private rewards.",
        "讨论内容与去年大不相同，中间的转换似乎颇具戏剧性：没有人会再提到滴入式经济的概念（指一个体制中给予上层人的利益会传递给较低阶层的人），也很少人愿意声言社会贡献与私人报酬之间存在密切的一致性。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it requires a special focus.",
        "相反，需要对宗教给予特别关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Still others hold a more benign view: Sino-African relations constitute a partnership, in line with the New Partnership of Africa’s Development, a pan-African organization that seeks to empower African states in their international relations.",
        "还有一些人持有一个更善意的观点：正如“非洲发展新伙伴计划”——一个谋求增强非洲国家国际关系的泛非组织——希望的那样，中非之间形成了合作关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But efforts to overcome at least four – high unemployment, an aging workforce, climate change, and infrastructure deficiencies – would benefit significantly from policies promoting long-term investments.",
        "但促进长期投资的政策能够大大有利于克服其中至少四项挑战的措施——高失业、劳动力老龄化、气候变化和基础设施不足。"
    ],
    [
        "It therefore amounted to a devastating blow to India’s aspirations to be the undisputed leader of the Non-Aligned Movement.",
        "因此，这对于印度成为无可争议地不结盟运动国家领袖的雄心来说，是一次致命打击。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the adoption of the principle of freedom of movement within Europe has triggered massive, but largely unnoticed, intra-European migration flows.",
        "与此同时，欧洲内部自由迁徙原则的实施也引发了大规模（但基本没有得到关注的）欧洲内部移民流。"
    ],
    [
        "Very large banks in small territories with small-scale governments are vulnerable.",
        "小国家、小政府管辖下的大银行很脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Paula Flores founded a kindergarten in her neighborhood, Lomas de Poleo, named after the Carmelite martyr María Sagrario.",
        "保拉·弗洛雷斯开办了一家名叫Lomas de Poleo的社区幼儿园，这家幼儿园是以加尔默罗烈士玛丽亚·萨格拉里奥的名字命名的。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether this strategy will succeed in obscuring the government’s record of failure in the minds of voters remains to be seen.",
        "这一策略是否可以成功地在选民的头脑中掩饰政府的不良记录还有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "Gambling is illegal in Japan, except for some limited forms of public gambling such as horse racing, bicycle racing, and lotteries.",
        "在日本，赌博也是非法的，只有少数几种博彩方式（比如赛马，单车比赛或者彩票）可供民众参与。"
    ],
    [
        "But forebodings of crisis have become widespread in French business and economic circles.",
        "但在法国商界和经济界，危机的预感已经开始弥漫。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why addressing consumption bias must be the highest priority over the next few years. Several changes are needed to ensure that growth in EV usage and sales continues.",
        "这就是为什么在今后几年中消除消费偏见必定是最优先事项，也需要一些变革来确保电动车的使用和销售量继续增长。"
    ],
    [
        "At the moment, some two billion adults remain excluded from formal financial services.",
        "目前，仍有约20亿成年人无法享受到正式的金融服务。"
    ],
    [
        "In several countries, debt-financed housing booms have left households and companies over-leveraged; and governments have reduced deficits to contain their own debt.",
        "在一些国家，债务融资的住房繁荣让家庭和公司过度使用杠杆 ； 政府则削减预算以遏制自身债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Resettling the almost 750,000 people who have sought asylum in the EU this year – still only 0.14% of the EU population – has thus become an existential crisis.",
        "安置近750,000今年来欧盟寻求避难的难民——只占欧盟人口的0. 14%——也因此成为一场生存危机。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that everything the populists say is untrue.",
        "我并不是说民粹主义者所说的一切都没有道理。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting price hikes impede the adoption and use of ICT, lowering tax revenues from purchases of goods and services.",
        "由此带来的价格攀升阻碍了ICT的采用和使用，降低了来自商品和服务购买行为的税收收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Rightly or wrongly, we have more confidence in the correctness and appropriateness of political decisions made by democratically-elected representatives than of decisions implicitly made as the unanticipated consequences of market processes.",
        "不论如何，比起披着不可预测的市场后果外衣的暗箱操作，我们还是对由民选代表所做政治决策的正确性和恰当性更有信心。"
    ],
    [
        "The way to peace in Sudan is not simple, but it is achievable.",
        "实现苏丹和平的道路曲折，但前途是光明的。"
    ],
    [
        "While Hayek’s defense of the market system against the gross inefficiency of central planning won increasing assent, Keynes’s view that market systems require continuous stabilization lingered on in finance ministries and central banks.",
        "当哈耶克指出中央计划臃肿低效，并以此为市场辩护的理论日渐流行之时，凯恩斯认为市场需要持续干预以保持稳定的观点则得到了各国财政部和中央银行的认同。"
    ],
    [
        "Musharraf and his political allies cannot be seen as benefiting from Bhutto’s assassination; nor can they afford the perception of a cover-up.",
        "穆沙拉夫和他的政治同盟们不能被视为贝•布托遇刺事件的受益者；"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, goals are easier to adopt than to achieve.",
        "当然，目标实施容易实现难。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast, Obama’s goal concerning Iran was modest and focused on denuclearization. It has borne fruit.",
        "相比之下，奥巴马集中实现无核化的适度伊朗目标已经取得了成绩。"
    ],
    [
        "The human consequences of the education crisis among Syrian refugees are impossible to miss.",
        "叙利亚难民所遭受的教育危机的人道后果不容忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that these eight objectives are realistic and achievable; indeed, some progress is already being made.",
        "好消息是这八个目标具备现实性和可实现性； 事实上，我们已经开始取得一定的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike in the past, when Chinese Internet users passively received information, years of exposure to concepts such as human rights and democracy have emboldened them to challenge entrenched yet dubious views, even if it means iconoclasm.",
        "中国的互联网用户以往被动地接收信息，现在和以往不一样了。 经过几年接触类似人权和民主的概念，他们敢于质疑根深蒂固而又含糊不清的观点，即使是打破旧有观念也在所不惜。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, as the ongoing dispute in Doka La makes clear, such an approach can create serious risks.",
        "但是，没完没了的多卡拉纠纷清楚地表明，这套方法可能造成严重的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "So the talks may have been revealed not because they had advanced sufficiently, but because someone wanted to sabotage them.",
        "因此谈判之所以被披露，可能并不是因为进展令人满意，而是因为有人想破坏它。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, by tightening policy, it is narrowing its room for maneuver – and is champing at the bit to narrow it even more.",
        "相反，其收紧政策的举动压缩了施展空间——并且还在迫不及待地进一步压缩这一空间。"
    ],
    [
        "The seizure of Crimea was a swift, well-executed move, but the same tactics have not worked in the more complex and divided context of eastern Ukraine.",
        "占领克里米亚的闪电行动执行得非常到位，但同样的策略却没有在更复杂分裂的乌克兰东部地区发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "While completely legal, studies suggest that Wal-Mart’s labor policies exploit regulatory loopholes that, for example, allow it to sidestep the burden of healthcare costs for many workers (Wal-Mart provides healthcare coverage to less than half its workers).",
        "研究报告表明，沃尔玛的劳工政策尽管完全合法，但是却钻法规的空子。 例如，这些空子让沃尔玛规避给许多雇员承担医疗费用（沃尔玛只给一半的雇员提供医疗保险）。"
    ],
    [
        "On this board, power is chaotically distributed among non-state actors, and it makes no sense to call this world either uni-polar or multipolar.",
        "在这一层面，实力混乱地分配于非国家参与者之间，把这一世界称为单级或者多极都是毫无意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "Talking Sense About Global Warming",
        "对全球变暖的理性讨论"
    ],
    [
        "The Sustainable Development Goal for the Ocean (SDG 14) was adopted by world leaders in September 2015 as part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.",
        "世界领导人于2015年9月通过海洋可持续发展目标（SDG14），也是联合国2030年可持续发展议程的组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "It rejects the notion that there is a single civilizational ideal to which all countries should conform.",
        "它否认存在一个所有国家都感到合适的单一文明理想。"
    ],
    [
        "Most notably, in the South and East China Seas, China has been staking its claim to disputed island territories, deploying advanced military hardware, and aggressively patrolling an expanded security zone.",
        "最令人关注的是，在南海和东海，中国宣称拥有争议岛屿领土主权，部署先进军备，并在扩大安全区内进行侵略性巡逻。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the report says, officials can do what they like, unbound by law or transparency.",
        "简而言之，报告说官员们可以随心所欲，而不受法律或透明度的任何约束。"
    ],
    [
        "About 20% of voters backed the left-wing populist Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the presidential election’s first round. In the second round, one particularly illuminating Twitter hashtag was #NiPatronNiPatrie (“neither boss nor country”), reflecting many voters’ dissatisfaction with the election’s choice between neoliberalism and nationalism.",
        "大约20%的选民在总统竞选的第一轮中支持左翼民粹主义者让-卢克·梅朗雄（Jean-Luc Mélenchon），这表明许多选民不满于只在新自由主义和民族主义之间做出选择。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent decades, lay managers and workers in the church’s network of schools, hospitals, and social-service providers have largely replaced priests and nuns.",
        "最近几十年来，教会的学校、医院和社会服务机构网络中的俗家管理者和员工基本上取代了牧师和修女。"
    ],
    [
        "Various models have been proposed.",
        "人们为此提出了几种不同的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "One such revisionist power was Egypt, which resolved to undo its 1967 defeat by Israel and regain the Sinai Peninsula.",
        "埃及就是这类修正主义大国之一，当年曾决意挽回其在1967年埃以战争中的失败并夺回西奈半岛。"
    ],
    [
        "They argue that only poverty reduction matters.",
        "他们认为只有扶贫才是正道。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this vainglorious attempt by Kim Jong-il reminds Koreans of the mother bullfrog in Aesop’s Fables who puffed herself out to imitate an ox.",
        "其实，这只是金正日的自吹自擂，就像《伊索寓言》里的将自己吹大以冒充公牛的母牛蛙一样。"
    ],
    [
        "But the pharmaceutical industry, trying to consolidate its gains, has been pushing instead for an ever stronger and more imbalanced IP regime.",
        "但制药行业为了巩固自己的利益，一直在推行更强势、更不平衡的知识产权机制。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the ongoing tragedy in the Mediterranean is placing EU solidarity under serious strain.",
        "因此，仍在上演的地中海悲剧正在严重影响欧盟的凝聚力。"
    ],
    [
        "Wages in the small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that employ 88% of workers still lag behind those of major conglomerates, the chaebols; and the middle class is shrinking in terms of its share of earnings.",
        "中小企业雇用了88%的工人，但其薪水远低于财阀（大型集团公司），中产阶级占国民收入的比重也在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s capability of deploying combat forces is simply too small relative to the number of men and women in uniform. It is often half-jokingly pointed out that the number of generals and admirals in some European countries (none mentioned, none forgotten) is glaringly disproportionate to the number of fighting troops.",
        "相对其武装部队总人数来说，欧洲部署战斗部队的能力太弱了，以致有人半开玩笑地指出欧洲某些国家（在此姑隐其名）的将军人数相对其战斗部队数量来说显然有点夸张了。"
    ],
    [
        "Following this breakthrough, the first serious cross-party campaign explicitly aiming to stop Brexit, and not merely to mitigate damage by seeking a “softer” divorce deal, will be launched later this month.",
        "随着这一突破，第一波明确以阻止退欧为目标，而不仅仅是以通过“软”分手协议来降低伤害为目标的严肃的跨党派行动将在本月晚些时候发动。"
    ],
    [
        "What characterizes Turks today is not so much pride and hope in their country’s expanding influence as fear of its disintegration.",
        "如今，土耳其的特点是对该国不断扩大的影响力的骄傲和希望不如对其分崩离析的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, in a display of spectacularly incompetent diplomacy, the US set about pursuing that goal without any serious effort to marshal international support, or even to take stock of other opinions or interests.",
        "但是，美国外交表现得非常无能，它似乎想在完全不组织国际支持、甚至不考虑其他选项或利益的情况下追求这一目标。 不要弄错了：有许多（常常互相冲突的）观点和利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Two year later, much has changed.",
        "两年后的局面发生了极大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "It battled its way across North America in the nineteenth century and gained global dominance in the second half of the twentieth.",
        "它通过战争在十九世纪横扫北美，二十世纪下半叶开始主宰全球。"
    ],
    [
        "A multilateral deficit cannot be fixed by putting pressure on one of its bilateral components.",
        "多边赤字是无法通过向双边伙伴中的一边施加压力解决的。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if Asia has succeeded by relentlessly exporting manufactures, today’s poorest countries, especially in Africa, can realistically export only agriculture and textiles.",
        "即便亚洲通过大量出口工业品而取得了经济成功，当今最贫穷的国家，特别是非洲国家实际上却只能出口农产品和纺织品。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be no minor event, and it would take years for the organization to recover.",
        "但这一事件的影响将非常巨大，以致WTO要花费数年时间才能恢复元气。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, with the exception of a few progressive industry leaders, few companies have responded to this voluntary guidance.",
        "但是，除了极少数进步行业领导者之外，很少有公司响应这一自愿引导原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Sechin’s excuses for not showing up have been pretty standard: the summons was lost, and his schedule – which included big government trips to Vietnam and Turkey – did not allow it.",
        "谢钦拒绝出面的借口也非常普通：传票没有寄到，他的时间安排——包括对越南和土耳其进行高层政府访问——也不允许他这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Landline telephone service and electricity have diffused far less than guns and cellphones.",
        "固定电话服务和电力的传播能力远逊于枪支和手机。"
    ],
    [
        "They absorb more carbon dioxide than forests do.",
        "海洋吸收的二氧化碳比森林还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s intellectual-property regime – and the regime that the US has helped to foist upon the rest of the world through the TRIPS agreement – is unbalanced.",
        "美国的知识产权制度——也是美国借助TRIPS协议强加到世界其它地方的制度——是不平衡的。"
    ],
    [
        "Advising those governments on how to do their jobs became a new vocation for these institutions, which quickly developed new “technical” approaches to governance reform.",
        "向这些政府建议如何做成了这些机构的新工作，于是很快产生了关于治理改革的“技术”方针。"
    ],
    [
        "But, without a degree of prudence based upon comprehension of the context, visions turn from grand to grandiose and undercut the values that they seek to promote.",
        "但如果没有对背景的理解，没有基于这种理解的某种程度上的谨慎，远景很容易从宏大沦为浮夸，从而损害了它所追求的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "When such a culture takes root, people feel inspired to run further with their ideas, to aim higher with their ambitions, and to pursue bigger dreams.",
        "当这一文化站稳脚跟时，人们就能欢欣鼓舞地发展自己的想法，带着雄心壮志设定更高的目标、追逐更大的梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "If this was not caused by simple aggression on the part of Serbia, then the only grounds for intervention would be to prevent a massacre.",
        "如果这不仅仅是由于塞尔维亚方面的侵略造成的，那么，干涉的唯一根据就是为了阻止屠杀了。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to accept that not everything can be run from the center, which means more trust and more partnership, but also more willingness to shoulder responsibility further down the line.",
        "我们必须接受并不是所有事物都可以集中管理的事实，这就意味着更多的信任和伙伴关系，但还要有更强的担当未来责任的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 2,500 years ago, Sappho of Lesbos wrote:",
        "大约2,500年前，莱斯博斯的萨福（Sappho）写道："
    ],
    [
        "But, in the aftermath of the financial crisis, policymakers are too pre-occupied by the real problems posed by too-big-to-fail banks, and too terrified by the potential collapse of weaker banks, to allow such a solution.",
        "但在金融危机的阴影下，政策制定者过于关切大到不能倒的银行所构成的现实问题，也过于害怕小银行崩溃的潜在风险，以至于不会允许银行业出现大量兼并。"
    ],
    [
        "And the federal government, for its part, uses a variety of tools to encourage innovation among state and local governments, including waivers, pay-for-performance contracts, and challenge grants.",
        "而联邦政府自身也会动用各种政策工具来鼓励州和地方政府层面的创新，包括提供豁免，绩效回报合同和挑战性项目拨款。"
    ],
    [
        "So the advanced economies will suffer for a while, with obvious implications for the demand for exports from emerging markets.",
        "因此，发达国家经济将会在一定时间里受到打击，这会影响新型市场出口产品的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "To put the issue in perspective, the US defense budget constitutes 43% of all military spending worldwide, whereas China’s expenditure represents a little over 7%.",
        "对这一问题的正确看法是，美国的防卫预算占全世界总防卫开支的43%。 而中国的军费开支却只有7%。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, a few African countries have raised duties on rice, violating a key tenet of neo-liberal trade philosophy.",
        "作为回应，几个非洲国家已经提高了大米的关税，违反了新自由主义贸易哲学的一条关键原则。"
    ],
    [
        "He also testified that tax cuts are better than spending increases to keep surpluses from growing too large, but that uncertainty is enormous, so that any tax cuts should be canceled if they threatened to bring us back to an age of deficits.",
        "他还作证说减税比提高支出更能将盈余控制在一定的规模，但同时它也有相当的不确定性，因此任何有可能使我们重回财政赤字时代的减税政策都应该取消。"
    ],
    [
        "Careful studies need to be done to determine available energy, land, mineral, and biological resources before projects proceed.",
        "在项目开工前，应当认真研究，确定现有的能源、土地、矿产以及生物资源。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Corbyn will not be swept out of his job by an early display of public distaste and hostility.",
        "首先，柯比不会因为刚开始出现的公众厌恶和敌意就丢掉工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Forecasters need to come to terms with what has gone wrong; fortunately, as the post-crisis experience lengthens, some of the missing pieces are coming into clear focus.",
        "预测者需要找到真正的问题； 幸运的是，随着后危机时代经验增长，一些错过的因素正在获得明确关注。"
    ],
    [
        "It would not be the first time that a government misused aid intended for disaster victims.",
        "政府滥用针对灾民的援助已经不是第一次了。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Roma found themselves losers of the democratic transformation.",
        "但罗姆人发现自己是这次民主转型的输家。"
    ],
    [
        "Maternity and breastfeeding provisions are also weak, making it difficult for women to nurse their children.",
        "孕产妇和哺乳供应也很薄弱，导致妇女难以哺育她们的孩子。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Barack Obama’s first year in office has been a sobering exercise in the limits of presidential power.",
        "马德里 —— 巴拉克·奥巴马执政的第一年发人深省地告诉我们总统权力也是有限度的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is one of the interesting revelations in Varoufakis’s fascinating account of his tenure as finance minister.",
        "这是瓦鲁法基斯对其财政部长生涯的精彩论述中的一个有趣的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "China worries that the collapse of the Kim regime would fuel a major refugee crisis, with millions of Koreans pouring across its border in search of food, shelter, and security – and imposing heavy economic and social costs on China in the process.",
        "中国担心金正恩政权的崩溃会引发一场严重难民危机，数以百万计的朝鲜人会穿越中朝边界寻求食物和栖身之所以及躲避战乱，而中国将为此承受沉重的经济和社会代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way to end impunity for heinous crimes against children is by enforcing genuine accountability – and by bringing the perpetrators to justice.",
        "结束对儿童犯下令人发指罪行却不受惩罚的唯一方法是落实真正的责任追究制度——通过将肇事者绳之以法来制止侵害儿童权利的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the ground is shifting beneath the financial sector, and big banks could soon become a thing of the past.",
        "但如今金融业正发生着某种变革，而大银行可能很快也将沦为明日黄花了。"
    ],
    [
        "Its unemployment rate, at just below 5%, is half the European average.",
        "失业率还不到5%，比欧洲平均失业率低一半左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Their motives include more efficient use of prescription drugs, along with getting an edge on other PBM competitors.",
        "他们的目的在于更有效地运用处方药，同时相对于其他处方药集采企业占据竞争优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, to this day, German authorities ban the display of Nazi imagery, fearing that it might still tempt people to repeat the darkest episodes of their country’s history.",
        "尽管如此，时至今日，德国当局仍然禁止陈列纳粹形象，担心它仍有可能引诱人们重蹈国家的最黑暗历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, just last November, a member of the Philippines’ Congress, Wahab Akbar, a Muslim representing Basilan, was killed with five others in front of the House of Representatives by an improvised explosive device of the type used in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq.",
        "确实，就在去年11月，代表巴西兰岛的菲律宾议会穆斯林议员阿巴尔和其他五人在众议院门前被炸身亡。 这一拼装的爆炸装置与在巴基斯坦、阿富汗和伊拉克使用的是同一种类。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, even the economic powerhouses that are not US allies do not want to upend the existing world order, but rather to gain more space within it, such as through increased authority in international institutions.",
        "基于此，即便是非美国盟友的经济超级大国也不想颠覆现有世界秩序，而是希望在其中获得更大份额，比如增加在国际机构中的权威。"
    ],
    [
        "But does it make sense to stick to such a simple analysis after what occurred on September 11, 2001?",
        "但有了2001年9月11日的教训，这样的简单分析真的明智吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In striking the right balance between immediate economic stimulus and medium-term fiscal sustainability, the most urgent step will be to counter properly the looming fiscal cliff, as temporary tax cuts expire and deep, across-the-board spending reductions kick in automatically.",
        "在寻求短期经济刺激和中期财政可持续性之间的平衡的过程中，最要紧的步骤是合理处置因暂时性减税政策到期结束以及深度跨部门削减支出自动开始所导致的财政悬崖。"
    ],
    [
        "Reducing and redistributing the time required for unpaid care responsibilities requires investments by both the private and public sectors – in infrastructure, affordable care services, early childhood education, family leave, and family-friendly workplaces.",
        "减少和重新分配无薪看护责任所需要的时间需要私人和公共部门的投入——在基础设施、平价看护服务、早教、育儿假、家庭友好型工作场所等方面。"
    ],
    [
        "After expanding its balance sheet to nearly 60% of GDP – double the size of the Fed’s – the BOJ is finding that its campaign to end deflation is increasingly ineffective.",
        "日本银行将其资产负债表规模扩大至GDP的近60%——比美联储还要高一倍——但它发现，其结束通缩的努力正在日益失效。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment accelerated, and major infrastructure projects were realized.",
        "投资出现了加速，完成了不少重大基础设施工程。"
    ],
    [
        "Elite French managers are widely considered among the best in the world, and are frequently selected to head major international corporations.",
        "法国高级经理人被公认为世界顶尖的，经常是大型国际企业的高层人选。"
    ],
    [
        "The key will be for French leaders to say – as loudly as possible and as often as necessary – that there is no answer to the “hard questions” as the FN poses them.",
        "关键在于法国领导人要说出——尽可能大声、尽可能频繁地说出——国民阵线所提出的“难题”没有答案。"
    ],
    [
        "Some within the global mining industry have recognized that the winds are changing.",
        "一些全球矿业业内人士已经认识到风向的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The US should reverse course.",
        "美国需要转变方向。"
    ],
    [
        "The danger is that much of what the EU rightly pushed for during the good times could hasten its unraveling now, during the current interregnum.",
        "危险在于欧盟在好光景时所正确地推动的东西在如今的权力真空时期可能加速其分崩离析。"
    ],
    [
        "Many other countries have now identified extremism as their single most important challenge.",
        "许多其他国家更是将极端主义视为唯一最重要的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "“We are not going to save the planet by shutting down our steel mills, aluminum smelters, and paper manufacturers,” he declared in 2011.",
        "“我们不会为了拯救地球而关掉我们的轧钢厂、炼铝厂和造纸厂，”他在2011年说道。"
    ],
    [
        "While the system was effectively eliminated in 1971, the US dollar’s central role in the international monetary system has remained intact – a reality that many countries are increasingly unwilling to accept.",
        "尽管该体系在1971年已事实解体，但美元在国际货币体系中的核心地位并未受到动摇——许多国家日益不愿接受这一现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s citizens must believe that they are escaping grave injustice if they are to continue to trust their government during the difficult period that would follow an exit from the eurozone.",
        "希腊公民必然认为，如果他们在因为退出欧元区而导致的困难时期继续信任他们的政府，就可以摆脱严重的不公。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be changing.",
        "这也许正在改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the crises within and beyond the EU’s borders are directly affecting the lives of all European citizens.",
        "此外，欧盟内外的危机世界影响到所有欧洲公民的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "As the UN turns 70, it is time to reaffirm its founders’ guiding vision – a vision born of devastation that remains a source of universal hope for a better world.",
        "联合国已经70岁了，是时候重申其领导人的指导愿景了——一个产生于破坏、至今仍是建设更好的世界的全球希望之源的愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "In lending to Greece, it is as if the Fund had lent to a sub-national unit, such as a provincial or city government, without insisting on repayment guarantees from the national authorities.",
        "在对希腊的贷款中，IMF好像是在借钱给准国家单位（如省级或市级政府），而没有要求国家当局做出偿付担保。"
    ],
    [
        "To name one example, the British government recently attempted to recruit National Health Service mental-health professionals to report those suspected of being psychiatrically vulnerable to extremist ideology.",
        "举个例子，英国政府最近试图招募国家卫生服务机构的精神卫生专家来报告哪些人疑似容易接受极端意识形态。"
    ],
    [
        "But speculative bubbles are not so easily ended; indeed, they may deflate somewhat, as the story changes, and then reflate.",
        "但投机泡沫并没有那么容易结束； 事实上，它们可能先因为故事的改变而收缩一定幅度，然后再度膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "The current focus on the downpour in Greece is understandable.",
        "目前，欧洲的关注重点是希腊的暴风雨，这不难理解。"
    ],
    [
        "And China’s reliance on coal-based energy is decreasing, with the rate of decline targeted to accelerate.",
        "中国对煤基能源的依赖也在下降，并且提出了加速下降的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear trumped hope.",
        "恐惧战胜了希望。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – A new way of thinking about individual choice has taken the political landscape by storm. America’s new president Barack Obama and the leader of the British Conservatives, David Cameron (just to drop a couple of names) have shown an interest in it.",
        "牛津－对个人选择的新思考方法已经以风暴之势席卷了政治领域。 美国新总统巴拉克·奥巴马和英国保守党领袖大卫·卡梅隆（仅仅只提这几个名字）已经对此表示出了兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization – the web of travel, technology, trade, and information that binds the world ever more closely together – is hardly a new phenomenon.",
        "全球化——即旅行、技术、贸易和信息网络使世界更加紧密地联系在一起——已经不再是什么新闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Cancer World",
        "癌症世界"
    ],
    [
        "And so, from 1970 to 2000, a broad coalition of conservatives (who wanted to see the government stop encouraging immorality), centrists (who wanted government money spent effectively), and leftists (who wanted poverty alleviated) removed the “notches” from the social-insurance system.",
        "1970—2000年，保守派（他们想让政府停止鼓励伤风败俗行为）、中间派（他们想让政府把钱花在刀刃上）和左派（他们想减贫）组成了广泛同盟，把“等级”从社会保险体系中逐出。"
    ],
    [
        "If America’s competitive position is so weak, what magic is holding up the dollar?",
        "如果美国的竞争优势如此虚弱，那么又是什么魔力在支持美元呢？"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the security environment in East Asia is unpredictable and rapidly changing, unlike in Europe, where it is relatively stable.",
        "毕竟东亚的安全环境与相对稳定的欧洲不同，处于一种既不可预测又迅速变化的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether or not that is the case, all current and would-be nuclear power producers are entitled to be anxious about having an absolutely assured fuel supply, given the major economic and social consequences they would face in the event of a disruption.",
        "无论是否真的如此，所有当前和潜在核能生产商都有权利担忧有绝对保障的燃料供给，因为一旦发生干扰，将带来巨大的经济和社会后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, they expected to be better off than their parents.",
        "总体而言，他们希望比父辈过得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "But the No side has struggled to find a coherent point of reference and seems to have none of the dynamism and vigor that it projected last time.",
        "但反对派如今都未能找到一个连贯性的政治基准点，而且仿佛已经失去了上次公投中所表现出来的活力和人力物力。"
    ],
    [
        "Compensation needs to reflect whether the CEO won all the battles but lost the war.",
        "薪酬需要反应CEO们是否赢得了所有的战役但却输掉了这场战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called Common European Asylum System that prevails today is perceived as unfair by many member states, and violates the rights of many asylum seekers.",
        "很多成员国认为今天实行的所谓欧洲共同庇护制有失公平，而且侵犯了很多寻求庇护者的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "He “believes instinctively that it can’t be very good to pump lots of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere,” and yet he “is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.”",
        "他“凭直觉认为向空气中排放大量二氧化碳肯定不是好事，”但同时他又“同样相信那些认为自己确切知道结果的人是在胡言乱语。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In Syria, Saudi Arabia has dedicated itself to the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, a key Iranian ally, and has worked to unite the woefully disorganized opposition groups.",
        "在叙利亚，沙特致力于推翻伊朗的重要盟友总统巴沙尔·阿萨德，并竭尽全力团结乱成一团的反对派团体。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Facebook has helped them learn how to do that.",
        "事实上，正是Facebook教会了他们如何去做。"
    ],
    [
        "Brexit and King Canute",
        "英国脱欧和克努特王"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, however, we have \"fished down\" our stocks, until few large, old individuals remain.",
        "然而，就目前情况看，我们已经破坏了鱼类储备。"
    ],
    [
        "“Such assistance,” he declared, “must not be on a piecemeal basis as various crises develop.",
        "“这类援助，”他宣称，“决不能建立在随各种危机发展的碎片化的基础上。"
    ],
    [
        "Gig economy platforms that provide small jobs without benefits or career progression can supplement income and buffer other employment, but they do not add up to the security and advancement opportunities of a formal job.",
        "提供没有福利和职业发展的小就业岗位的零工经济平台能够起到补充收入、缓冲其他就业的作用，但不能提供正式就业岗位所带来的安全感和进步机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But, you know what, if it means I get to meet some new people and talk about it, then it’s definitely cool.”",
        "不过， 如果这意味着我能交到新朋友，跟他们聊天，那当然没有什么不好。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to Chinese Admiral Zheng He, who steered his naval fleet across the Indian Ocean seven times in the early fifteenth century, the Chinese wok became the favorite cooking vessel of women in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala.",
        "十五世纪初，七下印度洋的郑和让中国产品成为印度西南部喀拉拉邦妇女们最喜爱的炊具。"
    ],
    [
        "And if the two other conditions are fulfilled – removal of political backing for radicalism and help for the desperate – we will have a safer life not only in Afghanistan, but in Pakistan, India, and the rest of the world.",
        "如果另外两个条件得到满足，即消除对激进主义的政治支持并帮助绝望的人们，我们的生活才会过得更安全，不仅在阿富汗，而且在巴基斯坦、印度和全世界其它地方都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Dealing with deflation is impossible within the bounds of normal market operations.",
        "在常规市场操作的范围内应对通缩是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Never mind that the Russian constitution does not list hospitals among places forbidden for public assembly, or that sick people need democracy, too.",
        "不过俄罗斯宪法可没规定医院属于禁止公众聚集的区域，更别说病人也是需要民主的。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest polls indicate 34% support for Labour, and 32% for the Conservatives.",
        "最新民调显示34%的选民支持工党，32%支持保守党。"
    ],
    [
        "Strikingly energetic and self-confident, Obama has set out on a titanic journey to remake America’s economy and redress a broken and dysfunctional international system.",
        "在这个充满考验和动荡的时代需要如此魄力。 精力过人、信心满满的奥巴马已经开始了一次艰巨的旅程，重振美国经济并拯救残缺不全的国际体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain has a population of just over 65 million people and what was, at least until Thursday, the world’s fifth-largest national economy, with annual GDP totaling nearly $3 trillion.",
        "英国人口略多于6,500万，至少到星期四为止，它是全世界第五大国家经济体，年GDP总量接近3万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "While the average growth rate might remain above 2% for the next few years, as the remaining unemployed are absorbed and the long-term trend of older workers rejoining the labor market continues, the pool of unused labor will eventually be exhausted.",
        "未来几年，随着剩余失业人口得到吸收，以及年长劳动者重新加入劳动力市场的长期趋势维持下去，平均增长率有望继续维持在2%以上，但未利用劳动力最终会耗尽。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes it the best investment the world could make, reaping social benefits that outweigh the costs by 40 to 1.",
        "这使它成为全世界所能做出的最佳投资，其所收获的社会利益是花费的40倍。"
    ],
    [
        "If Chirac goes down, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder loses face as well.",
        "如果希拉克下台，德国总理格哈德·施罗德也会脸上无光。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, 2012 could prove to be the year in which the experiment with the euro, the culmination of a 50-year process of economic and political integration in Europe, comes to an end.",
        "事实上，2012年将可能是欧元实验——欧洲50年经济和政治一体化进程的高峰——的终结之年。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese President Xi Jinping, a keen student of history, is well aware of corruption’s destructive potential – and has confronted the phenomenon head-on.",
        "作为历史的好学生，习近平主席深知腐败的破坏力，并能直面这一弊端。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Romney, he refused to recognize any kinship between his bill and the ACA – sort of like when he refused to recognize details surrounding the participation in the 2012 Olympics of a Dressage horse that he owned,",
        "至于罗姆尼，他拒绝承认他的法案和ACA之间有任何关系——正如他拒绝承认关于他是一匹2012年奥运会马术盛装舞步比赛参赛马匹主人的细节。"
    ],
    [
        "Individual countries pledged to limit their emissions in the near term, with provisions for future monitoring and periodic reviews of targets.",
        "个体国家承诺在短期限制排放量，并规定了未来监督和定期评估目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The media termed this the “Twitter Revolution,” which was of course an exaggeration.",
        "媒体将这次事件定名为“推特革命”，这其实是有点夸张的。"
    ],
    [
        "Leverage is increasing, with some $57 trillion having piled up worldwide since the global financial crisis began.",
        "杠杆率正在上升，自全球金融危机爆发以来，全世界债务已高达57万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Talent management has gone from being an art to a science, as organizations have applied big data and supply-chain techniques to recruiting and retention.",
        "人才管理已经从一种艺术转变为一种科学，组织应用大数据和供应链技术招聘和留住员工。"
    ],
    [
        "But these were not the prions of classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.",
        "但它们并非典型克雅二氏症的朊病毒。"
    ],
    [
        "The possibility of restructuring balances the interests of stakeholders and uses legal protections to help potentially risky enterprises prevent or avoid bankruptcy if a bailout is worthwhile or possible.",
        "重组的可能使得各方的利益都得到了平衡，并且在存在或可能存在紧急援助的情况下，能够运用法律保护来帮助具有潜在风险的企业防止或避免破产。"
    ],
    [
        "People with fixed-rate mortgages are also vulnerable to rate increases, though less directly.",
        "办理了固定利率按揭贷款的人同样容易受利率上升的影响，只不过这种影响不那么直接罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Individually, they cannot compete with emerging markets; they need a strong EU to face the challenges posed by globalization.",
        "就个体国家而言，它们无法与新兴市场抗衡； 它们需要一个强大的欧盟来面对全球化带来的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is why Syria simultaneously generates revulsion at the regime’s atrocities and fear of what might follow if the regime is defeated.",
        "这也正是叙利亚同时产生对巴沙尔政权的厌恶以及对巴沙尔政权被推翻后会出现何种情景的担心的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "At the current rate, NASA may not complete the task for another decade, even though such mapping is the key to an asteroid defense because it may give us years of warning.",
        "按照目前水平，国家航空航天局可能无法完成下一个十年的任务，即使这样的测绘对于防止小行星撞击地球而言是关键因素，因为测绘可以给我们好几年的预警时间。"
    ],
    [
        "With the US economy growing faster than expected and long-term interest rates rising, excessive strengthening of the dollar is a third major risk.",
        "在美国经济比预期更快增长以及长期利率升高的背景下，美元过度升值成为第三个主要风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But it illustrates a simple point: Europe is trying to achieve a stronger federal model that responds to the weaknesses revealed by the eurozone crisis.",
        "但它说明了一个简单的点：欧洲正尝试实现一个更强大的联邦模式以应对欧元区危机所暴露出来的弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "Voters’ own relationships with content producers, their motivation to believe or disbelieve facts, and their critical thinking skills all determined how they interpreted and acted on information.",
        "选民本人与内容制造者的关系、他们相信或不相信事实的动机，以及他们的批判性思考的能力都决定了他们如何解读信息并据以行动。"
    ],
    [
        "You own your genes.",
        "你拥有自己的基因。"
    ],
    [
        "The weakness of the current wage insurance proposal is that it pays benefits only for a limited period and relies for its long-term effect on the retraining incentives that it creates.",
        "当前的工资保险提议的弱点在于：该保险仅为一段有限的时间支付福利，并且依赖于对自己创造的再培训动力的长期效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The task is daunting.",
        "任务是艰巨的。"
    ],
    [
        "Surely, they think, economic weakness must be due to something more tangible than a feedback loop.",
        "他们想，经济疲软的原因当然应该比反馈回路更加实在。"
    ],
    [
        "The ideal of the Confucian state is “harmony.”",
        "儒家邦国的理想状态即为“和谐”。"
    ],
    [
        "And a third unsettled issue is how long Israel or the US will tolerate Iranian efforts before striking militarily.",
        "第三个未解决的问题是在发动军事袭击之前，以色列或美国还能忍受伊朗的核计划多久。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the classical Greek case is not as straightforward as Thucydides made it seem.",
        "就连经典的希腊案例也不像修西得底斯所说的那样直截了当。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is probably closer to six million per year.",
        "事实上，也许每年准确的数字接近六百万。"
    ],
    [
        "This is changing rapidly.",
        "这一点正在迅速改变。"
    ],
    [
        "There are also signs of growing adoration of liberal countries such as the US and South Korea throughout North Korean society – a sentiment that the regime has sought to appease by broadcasting one or two Western films on state television.",
        "此外还有诸多迹象表明朝鲜社会对美国和韩国这类自由国家的向往正不断加深，以致金家政权只能通过在国营电视台播放一两部西方电影的方式来安抚民众。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Diplomatic relationships in East Asia have long been held hostage by history.",
        "东京—东亚外交关系长期被历史绑架。"
    ],
    [
        "Some civic groups have advocated increasing the number of directly elected legislators and opening up the functional constituencies to broader electorates.",
        "一些公民团体要求增加直选立法委员的人数并扩大功能选区的基数。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as major film studios have been forced to take action against abuse, a similar revolution – powered by the #MeToo movement of women speaking out – is sweeping workplaces everywhere.",
        "就像大型电影制片厂被迫采取行动打击虐待行为一样，由站出来揭露真相的女性#我也是运动所推动的一场类似革命——正在席卷所有地方的工作场所。"
    ],
    [
        "As the debate on the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals unfolds at the United Nations this year, it is my fervent hope that African governments will endorse the inclusion within these goals of measurable targets for access to justice.",
        "今年，联合国将就2015年后的可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals，SDG）展开讨论，我强烈地希望非洲政府能够支持纳入这些追求公正的可测目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Houphouët-Boigny’s support for France’s African policy led him to establish diplomatic ties with South Africa’s apartheid regime and make his country a supply-transit route for the Biafra secessionists.",
        "乌弗埃·博瓦尼对法国非洲政策的支持促使他与南非种族隔离政府建立外交关系，并默许自己的国家成为比拉夫分裂主义者的过境运输线路。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Arab educational institutions must begin to explore the development of high-quality online programs.",
        "的确，阿拉伯教育机构必须开始探索发展高质量在线计划的奥秘。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure to distinguish clearly between resources and reserves – and to recognize the importance of prices, costs, and technology in transforming resources into reserves – results in bad predictions about an imminent peak in oil production and misinformation that has had a negative impact on policymaking.",
        "石油峰值论者没能地清楚区分石油资源和石油储量两者之间的概念——同时也未能认识到把资源转换成储量过程中价格、成本以及技术的因素的重要性——不但导致了他们对即将来临的石油产量峰值的不断估计错误，还导致信息误传，对政策制订产生了负面影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The fiscal deficit must now be redressed resulted not just from internal financial imbalances, but also from a political system that for too long time has been in denial of reality, allowing the country to live beyond its means.",
        "眼下急需削减的财政赤字，不仅仅源自国内的收支失衡，其病根在于希腊的整个政治体制：它长期以来无视现实，让整个国家入不敷出。"
    ],
    [
        "He claimed that the cause of the second Peloponnesian War was the growth of the power of Athens and the fear it caused in Sparta.",
        "他声称雅典人崛起和斯巴达人因此产生的恐惧导致了第二次伯罗奔尼撒战争。"
    ],
    [
        "American investors, fearing an unwinding of the fiscal and monetary positions, might contribute to these changes by seeking to shift their portfolios to assets of other countries.",
        "由于担心财政和货币立场的放松，美国投资者可能会寻求将资产配置到别的国家，从而加速这一变局。"
    ],
    [
        "But in principle, Ukraine can succeed as well.",
        "但是在原则上来讲，乌克兰也同样可以成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Employment grew more slowly than the population, and annual real-wage increases averaged only about 1%.",
        "就业增长比人口增长更慢，每年实际工资增长率平均只约有1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Four billion barrels of oil were discovered off Ghana’s coast in 2007, and production began in 2010.",
        "2007年，加纳沿海发现了四十亿桶石油，并于2010年投产。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s political elite have, for the most part, been strongly integrationist.",
        "在过去的大部分时间里，欧洲政治精英极力主张融合。"
    ],
    [
        "The degeneration of the OHR's influence coincided with the withdrawal of the US military and the hollowing-out of Eufor, which now has little in the way of operational capacity.",
        "& 国际高级代表办公室(OHR)影响力的下降与美国的撤军和欧盟部队的空洞化——它现在只有很弱的行动能力——一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, journalism is one of the most dangerous professions anywhere.",
        "今天，新闻工作是全世界最危险的职业之一。"
    ],
    [
        "In the European Parliament, by contrast, all 27 EU members participate in the decision-making process, even concerning measures that will affect only the 23 “eurozone plus” countries (the 17 eurozone members and the six that have agreed to the Euro Plus Pact) – a method that could pose a political problem.",
        "相反，在欧洲议会，所有27个成员国都参与决策过程，即使相关措施只牵涉到23个“扩大化的欧元区”国家（17个欧元区成员国和6个同意加入欧元附加条约的国家），这可能造成政治问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is there much evidence that border walls work as intended.",
        "也没有多少证据表明边境墙起到了初衷。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1960 to 2010, the share of adults with a secondary education soared from 20% to an impressive 87%.",
        "从1960年到2010年，中学以上文化程度成年人比例从20%大幅增长至令人印象深刻的97%。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many reasons why the bubble has burst, and why gold prices are likely to move much lower, toward $1,000 by 2015.",
        "泡沫破灭的原因有很多，而金价可能在2015年下探1000美元每盎司水平的依据也不少。"
    ],
    [
        "First, we need equitable financing, with more investment in early childhood care and development, where there is the biggest potential for returns.",
        "首先，我们需要公平的融资，更多地投入早期看护和发展，这是回报潜力最大的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "It would have been nice if a relatively equal and prosperous society with full employment and equal opportunity had followed from a government that stood back from the economy and provided nothing but a minimal safety net, courts, and a constantly growing money supply.",
        "如果原理经济、只提供最低安全网、法律制度和恒定货币供应增长量的政府能实现相对平等和繁荣的充分就业且机会平等的社会，那也感情好。"
    ],
    [
        "China is a long way from posing the kind of challenge to American preponderance that the Kaiser’s Germany posed when it surpassed Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.",
        "相比二十世纪初叶凯撒的德国对英国的挑战而言，中国要对美国的优势形成挑战还差得很远。"
    ],
    [
        "No one will be happy.",
        "没人会感到高兴。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, the government, according to the largest banks’ CEOs, could not possibly impose a cap on their assets’ size, because to do so would undermine the productivity and competitiveness of the US economy.",
        "无论如何，在大银行CEO们看来，政府都不能限制它们的资产规模，因为这样做会破坏美国经济的生产率和竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "So we did not overreact.",
        "因此我们并没有采取过分的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "As before there were expressions of “deep regret,” a promise of “immediate investigation” and the explanation that dropped leaflets had warned families in the region to leave their homes.",
        "正如以往一样，以色列表示“极为遗憾”，保证“立即调查”并且解释说空投的传单已经警告该地区的家庭离开自己的家园。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries have experienced strong growth recently.",
        "两国最近都保持了强劲了经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Reaching an agreement with the FARC to end the conflict – which implies the group’s disarmament and demobilization – would allow Colombia’s star to shine more brightly than ever.",
        "与哥伦比亚革命武装力量达成协议结束冲突意味着该组织解除武装和遣散人员，这能使哥伦比亚的星空比以往任何时候都更明亮。"
    ],
    [
        "Poles had worked in some agricultural jobs – in sugar beet and wine harvesting – even during the communist era.",
        "波兰人已经在某些农业岗位上工作——种植糖用甜菜和酿造葡萄酒，甚至在他们还是共产主义时代就已经这样了。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of paying interest on commercial banks’ “excess” reserves held by the central bank, the central bank taxes these deposits.",
        "央行不对其所持有的商业银行“超额”准备金支付利息，而是对这些存款课税。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, Turkey’s governments since 2002 implemented bold economic reforms that paved the way for sustainable growth and provided a firewall against the financial crisis that hit in 2008.",
        "为此，土耳其政府自2002年起实施大胆的经济改革。 此举铺平了可持续增长的道路，并设下防火墙预防了2008年金融危机向国内扩散。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising geopolitical tensions reinforce the cycle, as the dollar represents stability, especially at a time when the US Federal Reserve is signaling faster normalization of interest rates.",
        "地缘政治关系恶化增强了这一周期性波动，因为美元代表安全与稳定资产，特别是在美联储表态将加快利率正常化的背景下。"
    ],
    [
        "Populist politicians have taken advantage of the current situation by politicizing migration and scapegoating migrants for socioeconomic problems such as unemployment, welfare-system strains, and deteriorating social cohesion.",
        "民粹主义政客通过将移民政治化以及指责移民为失业、福利制度困境和社会凝聚力下降的替罪羊利用了目前的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Encouraging lifelong learning will help people adapt their skills and knowledge to the demands of a changing economy.",
        "鼓励终生学习将会帮助人们将他们的技能和知识适应于不断变化的经济要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that become democracies do not, on average, achieve faster economic growth after their political transition; and, vice versa, democracies that fail and relapse into autocracy do not, on average, do worse than before.",
        "成为民主政体的国家在其政治转型之后通常不会获得更快的经济增长； 而反之亦然，未能成功实现民主或重归专制的国家的经济发展也通常不会比以前更糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "The war on terror has shown us the dangers that can arise from the social frustrations that often result.",
        "反恐战争告诉我们，危险来自于经常随之而来的社会挫折。"
    ],
    [
        "WARSAW – The seemingly never-ending debate over the eurozone’s fiscal problems has focused excessively on official bailouts, in particular the proposed purchase of government bonds on a massive scale by the European Central Bank.",
        "华沙—不知何时才能结束的欧元区财政问题争论过度地关注了正式援助，特别是计划中的欧洲央行大规模购买国债的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "It wants reassurance that the US will stand behind its debts. It therefore wants to see a credible program for balancing the US budget once the recession ends.",
        "它想要美国保证不赖帐，所以希望美国拿出一个在衰退结束后平衡预算的可行方案来。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the goal is not to inflate budgets, but to reallocate resources in ways that will ultimately boost citizens’ satisfaction and prosperity.",
        "毕竟我们的目标不是夸大预算，而是重新分配资源以期最终提高民众的满意度和物质繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "But the first potential vaccine to be tested for efficacy recently failed miserably.",
        "但第一种进入效力测试的潜在疫苗最终以惨败收场。"
    ],
    [
        "First, with respect to depositors or other creditors that are free to withdraw their capital on short notice, a protective government umbrella might be necessary to prevent inefficient “runs” on the institution’s assets that could trigger similar runs at other institutions.",
        "英国，欧洲大陆，以及其他的地方也是如此。 债券持有人之所以受到救助，是因为各国政府普遍选择以注资而非普通或优先股（从属于债券持有人的利益）的形式，或者以收购和资产价值担保来改善银行资产负债表的方式给与救助。"
    ],
    [
        "Both events reinforce Obama’s message to the Asia-Pacific region that the US intends to remain an engaged power.",
        "这都佐证了奥巴马政府的政策，即美国意图在亚太地区保有深度力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the Federal Reserve and foreign creditors like China are now financing the increase, their willingness to do so is not unlimited.",
        "尽管美联储和中国等外国债权人现在还能为债务增加提供资金，但它们的意愿并不是无限的。"
    ],
    [
        "And the public seems to understand this.",
        "公众似乎也明白这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Another conservative accusation is that a bailout would infringe free-trade rules.",
        "另一种保守的批评是，救助就将侵犯自由贸易的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so is the only chance to ensure that a united Europe, whatever form it takes, will be democratic, as well as economically beneficial.",
        "这样做是唯一确保统一的欧洲（不管以什么形式统一）民主和在经济上有益的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "But the AKP has made bitter enemies over the last 14 years, and millions of Turks would have applauded the jailing of its leaders, even as many of those leaders plausibly claimed that their support for Erdoğan was feigned.",
        "但正义与发展党过去十四年来树立了许多不共戴天的仇敌，数百万土耳其人都会对其领袖被捕入狱表示庆贺，即使那些领导人中有不少人宣称自己支持埃尔多安是假装的。"
    ],
    [
        "In such circumstances, unilateral claims of independence opposed by the national government or a sub-national unit often lead to a breakdown of trade and finance – and often to outright war, as we saw in the breakup of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and most recently, Sudan.",
        "在这样的环境中，被国家政府或亚国家单元反对的单方面宣布独立常常会导致贸易和金融决裂——还常常导致大战，苏联、南斯拉夫以及最近的苏丹解体都是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, governments could implement accelerated depreciation schemes for investment in low-carbon businesses; offer subsidies for investment in energy-efficient buildings; and create policies that favor industrial innovation aimed at reducing emissions and boosting competitiveness.",
        "为投资节能建筑制定补贴计划； 制定政策促进实现减排和提升竞争力的行业创新。"
    ],
    [
        "The nineteenth-century European bourgeoisie was a largely rentier class, and few questioned their work effort.",
        "例如十九世纪欧洲资产阶级是一个食利阶层，但很少有人会质疑他们的工作努力程度。"
    ],
    [
        "This time is different, though. The commodity price problem has snuck up on us, despite notable institutional reforms in macroeconomic policymaking all over the world.",
        "然后这一次却情况却不同，尽管在全世界范围内都有显著的宏观经济决策领域内的制度改革，但是这次商品价格上涨问题还是已经悄然进入我们的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "New schools may need to be constructed.",
        "我们需要建设新学校。"
    ],
    [
        "A final point worth emphasizing is that the Lisbon treaty moves away from many of the ideas that could serve as the foundations of a European federal super-state.",
        "值得强调的最后一点是，《里斯本条约》抛弃了许多本可用作一个欧洲联邦超级国家的立国之本的理念。"
    ],
    [
        "Norms set by the Environment Department of Tamil Nadu have largely been ignored, because politicians make common cause with builders in the name of development.",
        "泰米尔纳德邦环境部制定的规范在很大程度上被人们忽视，因为政界人士以发展为名与建设者有着共同的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But even that may not be enough if the virus spreads further.",
        "但如果病毒进一步蔓延，即使这样也不足够。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet progress on NCDs is possible.",
        "但在非传染性疾病领域完全可以取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2007, I visited the “Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance against Japanese Aggression,” an institution whose name reflects the sentiment expressed by the bulk of its exhibits.",
        "2007年，我参观了“中国人民抗日战争纪念馆”，这个纪念馆大部分展品所表达的情绪都体现在它的名称当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Attempts to tie the term to the “Black Monday” story may have resulted in the 20% definition, which journalists and editors probably simply copied from one another.",
        "将这个术语与“黑色星期一”事件联系在一起的尝试可能催生了与20％下跌有关的定义，而那些记者和编辑们可能只是一个接一个地复制前人的话语而已。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the real problem is that, for all their dabbling, the Western powers seem capable of neither war nor dialogue.",
        "恰恰相反，尽管西方列强不断参与中东事务，但他们似乎既不愿意挑起战争，也不愿意进行对话。"
    ],
    [
        "Financing for America’s current-account deficit would dry up.",
        "为美国经常项目赤字融资将成为明日黄花。"
    ],
    [
        "The legitimacy of “post-national” Europe – based on the EU’s obligation, enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty, to promote “the well-being of its people” – is at stake.",
        "《里斯本条约》规定的建立在欧盟义务基础上的“后民族时代”欧洲其促进“民众幸福”的存在合理性也处在风雨飘摇之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Other groups, including the leftist April 6 Youth Movement and the multi-ideological Coalition of the Revolution’s Youth, looked minute and insignificant.",
        "其他团体，包括极左翼的4·6青年运动（April 6 Youth Movement）和多意识形态的革命青年联盟（Coalition of the Revolution’s Youth）在内，则显得微不足道。"
    ],
    [
        "When European politicians claim that France, Britain, or The Netherlands are not traditional “immigrant countries” like the US, they are right only up to a point, as the examples of Spinoza, Disraeli, and Sarkozy show.",
        "当欧洲政治家们宣称法国，英国或者荷兰并非美国那样的“传统移民国家”时，他们只说对了其中一部分，因为斯宾诺莎，迪斯雷利和萨科齐的存在已经说明了很多问题。"
    ],
    [
        "One would have hoped that the banks might have managed the default risk on the bonds in their portfolios by buying insurance.",
        "你可能寄希望于银行通过买入保险设法消除了投资组合中的债券的违约风险。"
    ],
    [
        "China must remain committed to resuscitating the stalled Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, and support a global agreement on investment flows.",
        "中国必须继续坚定不移地重启陷入中止的多边贸易谈判多哈回合，支持投资流动的全球协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Social media did not exist, and the Internet had not yet become a means of spreading the views of the voiceless and disenfranchised.",
        "那时社交媒体尚未诞生，而互联网也还没有成为被剥夺权利的沉默群体表达意见的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics view this as a radical departure from seven decades of pacifism.",
        "批评者认为这严重偏离了七十年来的和平主义。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, because most of the eurozone’s 17 member states suffer from heavy debt burdens, they are all anxious to find fiscally responsible ways to promote growth.",
        "毕竟17个欧元区成员国中的绝大多数都背负着沉重债务负担，都渴望寻找一些在财政上可靠的方式去推动增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Peril and Promise in Algeria",
        "阿尔及利亚的危险和前途"
    ],
    [
        "Severe political and constitutional breakdown, as well as extensive social and institutional fragmentation, also hampers – or, in cases like Libya or Yemen, blocks – reform.",
        "严重政治和宪政崩溃以及大规模的社会和体制碎片化也限制——或是像利比亚或也门那样阻碍——改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy from the wind and sun can offset the need to burn fossil fuels, helping to mitigate climate change.",
        "风能和太阳能可以抵消燃烧化石燃料的需求，从而有助于缓解气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The other is capital-flow volatility, which has driven policymakers in some countries to pursue their own monetary easing or to impose capital controls, in order to prevent damage to growth in the tradable sector.",
        "二是资本流动波动，这促使一些国家的决策者实施本国货币宽松或资本管制，以阻止可贸易部门增长受损。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas also emerged as the moral victor after the latest – but surely not the last – military clash.",
        "哈马斯也是最近——显然绝不会是最后一次——军事打击的道德胜利方。"
    ],
    [
        "The government can spur innovation by offering incentives that tap many different players’ strengths.",
        "政府可以通过提供集中多个行动方的优势的激励刺激创新。"
    ],
    [
        "It is said that NBER working papers are even more prestigious than publication in refereed journals. Yet the Bureau does not require scholars to post their data and programs to its Web site as a condition for working-paper publication.",
        "据说发表在美国国家经济研究局的工作文件比发表在期刊上的更加权威，但该机构并未要求学者在其网站上公布其数据和研究程序。"
    ],
    [
        "To claim that Islam is incompatible with human rights is to consider it a civilization too hidebound to change.",
        "认为伊斯兰无法包容人权等同于认为这是一种十分古板而不会作出改变的文明。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, the United States Treasury is headed for a mistake of historic and catastrophic proportions by refusing to bail out America’s Big Three automakers.",
        "现在美国财政部又在以拒绝拯救美国三大汽车制造巨头的方式，朝着历史性和灾难性的错误迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "The American president would choose the Bank’s head, and Europe would collectively decide on the IMF leader, with the understanding that the other side would exercise its veto only if a candidate were totally unacceptable.",
        "世界银行行长由美国总统指定，而国际货币基金组织总裁则由欧洲集体决定，只有在候选人完全不合格时，另外一方才可以行使反对权。"
    ],
    [
        "An existing service in which I plan to invest, www.GetUpandMove.me, allows you to challenge a friend: “I will swim for 50 minutes if Alice runs around the block four times.”",
        "me网站，这个网站让你可以向一个朋友发出挑战：“如果爱丽丝能绕着街区跑四圈的话我就游泳50分钟。"
    ],
    [
        "Popes, Saints, and Religious Competition",
        "教皇、圣徒和宗教竞争"
    ],
    [
        "This segment of the population – usually politically crucial – enjoyed a 28% rise in per capita real income from 2007 to 2014.",
        "这部分人往往在政治上至关重要，从2007到2014年人均实际收入出现了28%的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the seeds of a new wave of \"reform\" have taken root, and await an early thaw to sprout.",
        "但新一轮\"改革\"浪潮的种子已生根，只待雪融后就会萌芽。"
    ],
    [
        "The most lethal strain of leadership degeneration is escalating predation among the ruling elites. The most visible symptom is corruption, but the cause is intrinsic to autocratic rule.",
        "领导层退化最致命的问题是统治精英阶层越来越疯狂的掠夺。 最明显的症状是腐败，但专制统治才是其内在的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, the stronger a country’s ability to generate additional national income, the greater its ability to meet debt obligations while maintaining and enhancing citizens’ standards of living.",
        "简而言之，一个国家创造额外国家收入的能力越强，它在维持和提高人民生活水平的同时履行债务责任的能力也越强。"
    ],
    [
        "The Water Hegemon",
        "水资源恶霸"
    ],
    [
        "A survey by David Evans and Richard Schmalensee describes numerous situations in which applying old assumptions could lead to mistakes by, say, an anti-trust regulator with only an undergraduate degree.",
        "一项由戴维·伊万斯（David Evans）和李察德·施马兰西（Richard Schmalensee）组织的调查描述了在许多情况下，只有本科学位水平的反垄断监管者运用旧有的假设可能会导致错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the Italian populist Beppe Grillo’s attempt to empower ordinary citizens is not a cause for concern; but his claim that his Five Star Movement deserves nothing less than 100% of seats in parliament, because all other contenders are corrupt and immoral, certainly is.",
        "同样，意大利民粹主义者毕普·格里罗为普通民众赋权的意愿不是引起关注的原因，真正引起关注的是他公开宣称因为其他竞争者的腐败和非道德行为，其五星运动应该占据议会的所有席位。"
    ],
    [
        "The first step is to make Russia honor its binding commitment to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as to the Council of Europe, to remove its troops from Moldova and Georgia.",
        "要使俄罗斯尊重他与欧洲安全和合作组织及欧洲议会签署的条款，第一步就是敦促俄从摩尔多瓦和乔治亚撤军。"
    ],
    [
        "“the party vanished, overnight, as if all of a sudden a giant sponge had drained the entire sea, Adriatic and Austral, leaving litter and clots of mud, and all the boats stranded.",
        "“党垮台了，在一夜之间垮台了，就好像是一块巨大的海面吸干了整个亚得里亚海和南海，留下一地狼藉，所有的船都搁浅了。"
    ],
    [
        "To maintain this momentum, deeper commitments are needed, especially from the global health community.",
        "要保持这一势头，需要更深度的承诺，特别是来自全球医疗界的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The consolation is that trying to rely on such an escape clause in most atrocity cases would not pass the laugh test.",
        "慰藉之处是在大部分暴行案例中祭出这一例外条款将沦为全世界的笑柄。"
    ],
    [
        "Euro-skepticism, on the other hand, and the looming threat of anti-European populism, is directly linked to the idea that the EU is not merely incapable of offering a solution to the crisis, but in fact is part of the problem.",
        "而在另一方面，欧盟怀疑论以及反欧盟民粹主义的兴起，则直接与另一种想法有关：那就是欧盟非但不能为危机提供解决方案，连其本身都是问题的始作俑者。"
    ],
    [
        "They view economic prospects through different lenses.",
        "它们评估经济前景的着眼点彼此相异。"
    ],
    [
        "It is generally agreed that European countries cannot cope alone with the major problems of our time, such as climate change, immigration, the challenges of a globalized economy, and, above all, security.",
        "人们普遍认为欧洲国家无法独自解决我们这个时代的重大问题，包括气候变化、移民、全球化的经济挑战以及最重要的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "But the policy also impaired the private sector’s balance sheet, because it functioned as a tax on financial institutions.",
        "但它也损害了私人部门的资产负债表，因为它相当于对金融机构征税。"
    ],
    [
        "Greg Mankiw thought a bunch of reporters were coming to talk to him about the state of the economy and the analysis made by the Council of Economic Advisers in its “2004 Economic Report of the President.”",
        "格里高利·曼昆以为这帮记者是来与他探讨目前的经济状况，探讨总统委员会的经济顾问在“2004年总统经济报告”中所做的分析。"
    ],
    [
        "Deception that is purely self-serving turns from a strategy that may benefit others into selfish manipulation.",
        "纯粹出于自利目的的欺骗让可能有利于他人的战略演变为自私的操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "This, together with the Federal Reserve’s gradual interest-rate hikes, will strengthen the dollar, weaken so-called emerging-market currencies, and shift money from the rest of the world to the US.",
        "这会与美联储的逐步加息一起令美元进一步走强，进而削弱所谓的新兴市场货币，并将货币从世界其他地区转移到美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Young political activists who wanted change quickly realized that ballots, strikes, and sit-ins would not change a corrupt regime – and might well get them killed.",
        "希望迅速发生改变的年轻政治活动家意识到，选票、罢工和静坐示威不能改变一个腐败政权——倒是很有可能引来杀身之祸。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, for “policies affecting the exchange rate” to become part of trade agreements, monetary and fiscal policies would have to become part of trade agreements.",
        "简言之，要在贸易协定中纳入“影响汇率的政策”方面的内容的问题，那么货币和财政政策都会变成贸易协定的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the 1983 legislation was enacted, life expectancy at age 67 has increased by another three years, bringing it to 85.",
        "自1983年立法实施以来，67岁人群寿命预期又增加了三岁，达到了85岁。"
    ],
    [
        "So half of incoming American college students don’t know what our democracy is, let alone how to defend it when it is threatened.",
        "所以，美国有一半新晋的大学生不知道我们的民主是什么，更不用提当民主受到威胁的时候如何来保卫它。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared with the original bankruptcy code, the 2006 code is firmly rooted in the needs of a market economy.",
        "与最初版本的破产法相比较， 2006 年的法律是牢牢扎根于市场经济的。"
    ],
    [
        "For anyone who believes in free markets, the most serious risk of the current situation is that the interest of a few financiers will undermine the capitalist system’s fundamental workings.",
        "对任何相信自由市场的人，目前的情况下最严重的风险是，几个金融家的利益将破坏资本主义制度的基本运作。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, this policy would have neither the fiscal cost associated with government-financed subsidies, nor the distortions caused by the difficulty of cutting subsidies once the government has offered them.",
        "与此同时，这一政策既不会有政府资助的补贴所带来的财政成本，也不会有政府提供补贴后减少补贴的难度。"
    ],
    [
        "Programs become entrenched, develop powerful constituencies, and are hard to shrink.",
        "政府项目会有强大的支持者，很难叫停。"
    ],
    [
        "US President Barack Obama has a limited opportunity to preserve the bitumen companies’ integrity.",
        "美国总统奥巴马没有能力保证沥青公司恪守诚信原则做事。"
    ],
    [
        "As Yanukovych’s Ukraine rolls back democratic reforms, Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Gryshchenko says that Ukraine should “use all that is best from China’s experience,” particularly “the ability to think and act strategically” – which is, of course, easier in countries where the government faces no opposition.",
        "当亚努科维奇的乌克兰政府取消民主改革时，外交部长康斯坦丁·格里先科说乌克兰应该“吸取中国经验的精华”，特别是“策略性思考和行动的能力”——当然这在政府毫无反对的国家更加容易。"
    ],
    [
        "They acknowledged that under the city's special constitution, the Basic Law, these elections could be the first opportunities for the territory to choose its representatives according to the principle of \"one person, one vote.\"",
        "他们承认在香港的特别宪法《基本法》的前提下，这些选举是该地区根据\"一人一票\"的原则选择自己代表的第一次机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in rapidly growing emerging-market countries, the rich tend to close their eyes to the suffering of the poorest, except when they feel threatened by the risk of political upheaval, as in, say, Saudi Arabia.",
        "即使在经济快速增长的新兴市场国家，新富们也对穷人的苦难视而不见，只有政治动乱迫近的威胁才能令他们有所醒悟，就像在沙特那样。"
    ],
    [
        "The post-modern realities of our grave present make a mockery of modernity.",
        "我们所生活的后现代的社会现实就是对现代化一种无情的嘲弄。"
    ],
    [
        "How will it enforce the rules?",
        "如何强化这些规则？"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the public cannot perceive a reduction of inflation from 20% to 15%.",
        "与此同时，通胀从20%变成15%对公众来说没有什么感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "If he wins a second term, he is likely to find it increasingly difficult to win by playing not to lose.",
        "如果他能够赢得第二个任期，那么他可能会更加难以通过立足不败之地获得胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "During his ten years in power, Blair and his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, gave Britain one of the longest periods of economic stability, relatively high growth, and low unemployment that it had ever known.",
        "在他的十年当政期间，布莱尔和他的财政大臣布朗给了英国历时最长的经济稳定、相对高增长以及低失业率的时期之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Trump seems to think that America’s commitment to its allies should have strings attached, exemplified in incendiary campaign declarations that the US would protect only the NATO allies who are “paying their bills.”",
        "而特朗普似乎认为美国对盟国的承诺应当有附加条件，美国只保护那些“付账”的北约盟国的煽动性竞选声明似乎证实了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Humpty-Dumpty Iraq",
        "覆水难收的伊拉克"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2001, China has increasingly become the focal point of much anxiety in the developed world.",
        "自从2001年以来，中国越来越成为发达国家严重忧虑的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the Federal Reserve kept interest rates low for a protracted period, the corporate sector did not increase its investment.",
        "虽然美联储宣布较长时间维持低利率，但企业部门并未增加投资。"
    ],
    [
        "With an incoming Republican administration hell-bent on reflating an economy already near full employment, and with promised trade restrictions driving up the price of import-competing goods, and with central-bank independence likely to come under attack, higher inflation – likely exceeding 3% at times – is a near-certainty.",
        "即将上任的共和党政府铁心要让已经接近充分就业的经济再通胀，并且其所承诺的贸易限制将推高进口竞争商品的价格，央行独立性也有可能承受压力，从这些方面看，通胀提高——时不时超过3%——几乎是必然之事。"
    ],
    [
        "And the US dollar reserve-currency system – the backbone of the current global financial system – is fraying.",
        "美元作为储备货币的机制是现今全球金融体系的基石，但是现在这一机制出现了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, although Asia is becoming more like Europe in terms of economic integration, political and diplomatic integration lags behind.",
        "虽然在经济一体化方面，亚洲越来越接近于欧洲，但政治和外交的融合还远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "For states that believe that time will merely enhance a lethal adversary’s ability to get the Bomb – Israel’s concern about Iran today – only vigilantism remains.",
        "对那些认为时间只会增强致命的对手获得核威慑能力的国家——例如现在以色列对伊朗的担心——只剩下自发的维护核安全的措施了。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Resources Institute has joined with companies like Goldman Sachs, General Electric, and Shell to develop an online platform, called Aqueduct, to help measure and map water risks.",
        "世界资源研究所（World Resources Institute）与高盛、通用电气和壳牌集团等公司合作开发了一个被称为“沟渠”（Aqueduct）的在线平台，用于帮助测量和勾勒水风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But his predecessor Pope Pius XI had already done that, in the Encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge (“With Burning Concern”).",
        "但是，他的前任皮亚斯十一世在教皇 Mit Brennender Sorge （ “随着燃烧的关怀” ）的通告中已经这样做了。"
    ],
    [
        "Your lights turn on when you get close to home, and your house adjusts to your choice of ambient temperature.",
        "您快到家时家里的灯会打开，房间会自动调整到您选择的环境温度。"
    ],
    [
        "Professor Carmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland and I systematically compared the run-up to the US sub-prime crisis with the run-up to the 19 worst financial crises in the industrialized world over the past 60 years.",
        "马里兰大学莱恩哈特教授和我系统地比较了美国次级房贷危机和过去60年整个工业化世界19个最为严重的金融危机之前的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "It could do so because its economy, apart from its excessive debt burden following the collapse of an asset bubble, was basically sound.",
        "它之所以能做得到，是因为除了资产泡沫破灭后暴露出来的过高债务负担之外，爱尔兰的经济总体上是健康的。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, it is time either for creative thinking about how funding can be channeled to the real economy in a way that bypasses modern finance, with its large negative alpha, or to risk being sucked dry.",
        "”照此看，现在要么应该提出关于融资如何能绕过现代金融（及其负阿尔法值）疏通到实体经济的创造性思路，要么风险已经消失殆尽了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, this does not bode well for their global reputations, which depend on users’ trust in the openness and independence of their products and services.",
        "这些公司的全球性声誉依赖于使用者对其产品和服务的公开性和独立性的信任。 从长远来看，他们这样的做法与其全球性声誉不符。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries include the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the core of the eurozone, and Japan.",
        "这些国家包括美国、英国、德国、欧元区核心国以及日本。"
    ],
    [
        "If this does not change soon, we may, as then-British Prime Minister David Lloyd George wrote of World War I, “[muddle] into war” yet again.",
        "如果这一点不马上发生改变，我们就有可能如同一战时期的英国首相劳埃德·乔治评论一战那样，再次“稀里糊涂地进入战争。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In Chile, President Michelle Bachelet was reelected, but her government is signaling a move to the right on economic policy.",
        "在智利，总统巴切莱特获得连任，而其政府正在表现出经济政策向右转的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it has clung to the view that the government is the main source of soft power, promoting ancient cultural icons that it thinks might have global appeal, often using the tools of propaganda.",
        "相反，中共坚持认为政府是软实力的主要来源，推广其认为具有全球吸引力的古代文化形象——通常是通过宣传工具进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, there remains the central question of trust and confidence in the system, which have been badly damaged and will take time to rebuild.",
        "同样的，目前的核心问题还是对市场的信心，看来恢复起来还需要一定时间。"
    ],
    [
        "That possibility could arise sometime in the future, when the proverbial brick wall comes into view.",
        "未来某个时候，看到前方的石墙，那种可能性才会变大。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, Mick Jagger told his Cuban fans in Spanish that “finally the times are changing.”",
        "上个月，米克·贾格尔（Mick Jagger）用西班牙语告诉他的古巴粉丝，“时代终于正在变化”。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be anti-bureaucrat, anti-oligarch, anti-West, and staunchly pro-nationalist.",
        "它将是反官僚、反寡头、反西方的，而且坚定地拥护民族主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone is now replicating how the global financial system dealt with such crises in 1982 and again in 1997.",
        "如今，欧元区正在复制全球金融体系1982年和1997年应对此类危机之道。"
    ],
    [
        "The Japanese authorities clearly learned a lesson from their detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain two years ago, when they eventually acceded to Chinese pressure – which included a range of harsh, and escalating, political and economic measures– to release him.",
        "日本当局显然已经得到了教训，因为两年前他们曾经逮捕了一位中国渔船船长，但最终屈服于中国的压力——包括一系列严厉且不断加码的政治和经济手段——将其释放。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past year, Darfur has spun out of government control.",
        "在过去的一年中，达尔富尔已不在政府的控制之下。"
    ],
    [
        "The CCP’s just-completed 19th National Congress showed the extent to which China’s leaders have taken Toqueville’s insights to heart.",
        "刚刚结束的中共十九大表明中国领导人深刻领会了托克维尔的洞见。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the American investigative journalist Robert I. Friedman, Mogilevich is “the most dangerous mobster in the world,” and is widely known to work closely with the GRU.",
        "”据美国调查记者罗伯特·弗里德曼介绍，莫吉列维奇是“全世界最危险的暴徒，”而且众所周知地与俄罗斯主要情报部门展开密切合作。"
    ],
    [
        "In the face of high systemic risk, private capital is leaving banks and the sovereign-debt markets, causing governments’ borrowing costs to rise and bank capitalization to fall.",
        "在系统性风险高企的情况下，私人资本正在逃离银行和主权债务市场，导致政府借贷成本升高、银行资本充足率下降。"
    ],
    [
        "This won’t be easy for a regime based on the twin pillars of bureaucracy and the security apparatus.",
        "这对一个建立在官僚主义和安全仪器两大支柱上的政权而言，可非易举。"
    ],
    [
        "A new constitution and elections invariably ensued. This vicious cycle of coups, constitutions, and elections defined Thai politics for decades.",
        "在随后颁布的新宪法及大选中种种乱象又会卷土重来，以致数十年来泰国政治就沉沦在这个政变，宪法和选举构成的邪恶轮回之中。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an emerging consensus on the need to address under-nutrition worldwide.",
        "解决全世界营养不良问题的需要正在形成共识。"
    ],
    [
        "Family members have been lost, homes destroyed, and livelihoods ruined.",
        "亲人离散，房屋遭毁，生灵涂炭。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Trump will focus on the one set of economic policies a president can pursue without close congressional cooperation, namely those affecting trade.",
        "首先，特朗普将专注于一些总统不必获得国会合作就能采取的经济政策，即贸易政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the deal deliver what it promises?",
        "最后的方案能够兑现承诺吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Debt investors, not the government, would have bailed out the banks, making the financial crisis substantially smaller, if it had occurred at all.",
        "债权人就会取代政府救助这些银行，使得可能发生的金融危机的影响力显著缩小。"
    ],
    [
        "It is designed to work in synergy with governments and their partners’ ongoing development efforts, while funneling additional funds and investments toward sectors that have high growth potential and are important to a particular government’s industrial-development agenda.",
        "它旨在与政府部门及其合作伙伴持续不断的发展努力协调合作，同时为具有高增长潜力和对政府工业发展议程至关重要的部门提供额外的资金和投资。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2005, it was operating across Australia and in Scotland and Hong Kong, and has since spread to more than 20 other countries.",
        "2005年，本课程在澳大利亚全国、苏格兰和香港开设，并在此后扩大到另外20多个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a senior cabinet minister suggested recently that the international community should write off Pakistan’s debts – an amount estimated at $40 billion.",
        "实际上，一名高级内阁部长不久前提出国际社会应取消巴基斯坦总额约400亿美元的外债。"
    ],
    [
        "Will you work to redefine the criteria by which countries get access to funds?",
        "你时候会重新制定各国获得资金的标准？"
    ],
    [
        "The more complex and costly the mechanisms used, the less fit the resistant population will be.",
        "实际采用的抗癌机制越是复杂昂贵，与之对抗的癌细胞的健康状况就越差。"
    ],
    [
        "But the government must overcome the spoilers, such as senior civil servants and the Remain majority in the House of Commons, who favor a Brexit in name only – a “false” version that could never deliver the benefits of the real thing.",
        "但政府必须克服干扰，如高级公务员以及下议院占多数的留欧派，他们支持仅在名义上退欧——这是“假”退欧，可能无法带来任何现实好处。"
    ],
    [
        "But, nearly four decades later, the battle remains focused on highly profitable efforts to develop drugs and technologies to treat the disease while virtually ignoring environmental factors that cause it.",
        "但近四十年后，这场战役的焦点仍然是开发具有高赢利性的治疗癌症的药物和技术方面的努力，而引发癌症的环境因素却几乎被忽略了。"
    ],
    [
        "The turn toward populism constitutes a revolt against intellectual orthodoxy, embodied by cosmopolitan professional elites.",
        "朝民粹主义转向构成了对正统思想的反叛，而这种反叛恰恰体现在国际化的专业精英们身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, an economic policy that tackles America’s debt and deficit makes up the main portion of the Strategy.",
        "因此一个缓解美国债务和财政赤字的经济政策被放到了显眼的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "And improved therapies mean that patients can be treated with drugs that work better (and that patients are more likely to receive the full dose needed).",
        "而改良的疗法意味着病人可以得到更有效的药物治疗（也更可能得到足够的所需剂量）。"
    ],
    [
        "Therein lies the catch to the politicization of America’s trade problems.",
        "这其中就埋伏着美国贸易问题政治化的关键点。"
    ],
    [
        "Will this mean a new style of both domestic politics and international relations?",
        "这会不会意味着国内政治和国际关系的一种新模式呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The risks are too high, especially when every development in the talks is spun for partisan advantage, to make leaders look smart, to label winners and losers, or to undermine progress by nit-picking the data.",
        "其中的风险太大，尤其是当谈判的每一次发展都围绕党派利益、都是为了表现领导者的英明、都要贴上胜败标签、都因为对数据吹毛求疵而破坏进展时。"
    ],
    [
        "They would make decisions based on what they believe is best for the economy, relying on evolving data, not on evolving political imperatives.",
        "他们会基于他们所理解的对经济最好的政策作出决定，依靠数据而不是不断变化的政治要求作出决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Oxfam International calls some of these deals “land grabs.”",
        "国际乐施会（Oxfam International）将部分交易称为“抢地”。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of the next year, the deficit had grown so large that China’s overall balance of payments (BOP), too, turned negative, even as China’s current-account surplus remained above $300 billion.",
        "到下一年年底，赤字变得非常巨大，导致中国国际收支余额（BOP）也由正转负，虽然中国经常项目仍保持3,000亿美元以上的盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "Virtue is defined by good accounting rules.",
        "良好的会计规则决定了公司管理要义。"
    ],
    [
        "The world is now so far down the path of integration that turning back is no longer a viable option.",
        "如今，世界已在一体化之路上走出了很远，调头折返已不再可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Sitting in the square became more than an act of defiance: in Spain, Greece, and in the Occupy Movements of the United States and the United Kingdom, the occupied zones became places where a new democratic society could be practiced, sometimes through the time-consuming General Assembly process of group decision-making.",
        "在广场上静坐被赋予了超乎挑衅行为之外的涵义：在西班牙、希腊和英美占领运动，被占领地区成了新民主社会的试验地，有时甚至通过极为耗时的大会做出集体决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond its own specific objectives, the initiative can help to catalyze a broader transformation of the Dutch tech culture.",
        "除实现具体目标外，该计划还能促成荷兰高科技文化更为广泛的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, border crossings between Israel and the Palestinian territories should be reopened for the sick, for students, and for families whose members were separated by the blockade.",
        "首先，以色列和巴勒斯坦领土之间的边境交界处应为病人、学生和家庭成员被封锁分开的家庭重新开放。"
    ],
    [
        "Deflation and Democracy",
        "通缩和民主"
    ],
    [
        "But Poland owes what limited economic growth it has experienced under the PiS government not to Morawiecki, but to Elżbieta Rafalska, the minister of labor and social policy, who has been propping up consumption with social measures such as a monthly child credit of 500 złoty ($140).",
        "但法律与正义党治下波兰有限的经济增长实际并不来自莫拉维茨基，而是来自劳动与社会政策部部长拉法尔斯卡。 拉法尔斯卡一直采取社会措施来支撑消费，比如发放价值500 兹罗提（合140美元）的儿童补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "The most recent EU members, Bulgaria and Romania, are both in the Balkans and both are examples of countries with special needs.",
        "最近加入欧盟的国家保加利亚和罗马尼亚都位于巴尔干地区，并且两国都有着特殊的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "BOGOTÁ – In Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, you can listen to an impressive presentation by the mayor’s office about emerging industrial parks and new technology firms.",
        "波哥大—在哥伦比亚第二大城市麦德林，你可以听到市长办公室令人印象深刻地介绍该市新涌现的工业园和新科技公司。"
    ],
    [
        "The courageous people of Burma, like people everywhere around the world, deserve what far too many of us take for granted.",
        "勇敢的缅甸人民和全世界人民一样，理应得到那些被我们太多的人看成理所当然的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "But today Greece has only a few private-sector obligations. Eurozone governments are the ones offering large amounts of funding.",
        "但如今希腊只对少数私营部门负有债务，欧元区各国政府才在提供大量资金的一方。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the kerfuffle sparked by the broadcast would not have happened before the 2008 financial crisis, which exposed the flaws in Europe’s monetary union and turned proud countries against one another.",
        "事实上，这个视频所造成的混乱在2008年金融危机爆发前根本不会发生。 金融危机暴露出欧洲货币联盟的缺陷，让自负的国家彼此怒目而向。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, as the British government insists, will it merely be a declaratory document that only describes rights already existing under national legislation in the member states.",
        "还是像英国政府强调的那样，沦为一部重复成员国现有法律规定权利的文件声明？"
    ],
    [
        "Reformers also have the Obasanjo government’s neo-liberal economic policies, which they describe as “punitive and intellectually bankrupt,” in their sights.",
        "改革派还提出讨论奥巴桑乔政府的新自由经济政策，这些政策被他们形容为“愚蠢和惩罚性的”。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine that Sachs’s Millennium Villages project had known the sequence of all previous successful moves out of subsistence agriculture, rather than relying only on guesswork or deduction.",
        "试想，如果萨克斯的千年村计划事先了解过关于走出生计农业的所有获得成功的历史案例，而不是只根据猜测和演绎会怎样。"
    ],
    [
        "Hans Kundnani of the German Marshall Fund surmises that by voting for the Euroskeptic FDP and the far-right Alternative für Deutchland (AfD), rather than the CDU and SPD, German voters have already expressed their views on Macron’s plan to reform the eurozone.",
        "德国马歇尔基金会（German Marshall Fund）的汉斯·坤德纳尼（Hans Kundnani）总结道，德国选民将选票投给疑欧派的FDP和极右翼的德国另类选择党（AfD），而不是投给CDU和SPD，这已经表达了他们对于马克龙的欧盟改革计划的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Deeper fiscal surveillance should be matched by broader economic surveillance, especially since current-account imbalances have become more acute during the crisis.",
        "深入的财政监督应辅之以更广泛的经济监督，特别是因为经常账户的失衡在危机中会变得更加突出。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, nothing could be further from the truth.",
        "毕竟一切都必将回归真相。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese government must, therefore, strike a balance between protecting China’s export sector and preserving its national welfare.",
        "对此中国政府必须在保护出口部门和维护国家财富之间取得平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "One core aim must be to establish basic standards of conduct for health workers and drug companies that reflect the needs of patients and communities.",
        "必须以制定反映患者和社团需求的医疗工作者和药企基本行为准则为核心目标。"
    ],
    [
        "She deserves respect and recognition.",
        "她值得人们的尊重和认可。"
    ],
    [
        "That order did allow powerful forces, at times beyond the control of elected officials and policymakers, to shape national economies.",
        "这种秩序确实会催生某种塑造一国经济的强大势力，有时连民选官员和政策制定者都无力控制。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU, despite its many challenges, has not only proved its value as a cornerstone of the international order; it has also vindicated the broader value of global vision and leadership, carried out through diplomacy and smart multilateralism.",
        "尽管面临诸多挑战，但欧盟不仅证明了其作为国际秩序基石的价值； 它还证明了通过落实外交和明智多边主义的全球愿景和领导力量的普遍价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, “Asian values” are not universal norms, but rather a self-preservation strategy harnessed to identity politics.",
        "因此，“亚洲价值”并不是普世规范，而是一种服务于身份认同政治的自我保护策略。"
    ],
    [
        "With each enlargement of the Union, this system of decision-making has been largely maintained.",
        "在欧盟每一次的扩容过程中，这一决策体系基本都得以维持原状。"
    ],
    [
        "Where this social glue is lacking – such as between Israelis and Palestinians – people cannot exploit all of the available economic opportunities.",
        "如果缺少这一社会粘合剂——如同以色列人和巴勒斯坦人——人们就无法利用所有可获得的经济机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But in its rush to make money, the company seems to have been greedy – and pretty tone-deaf – in its response to critics. The critics may not represent the majority of users, but they deserve a polite and considered response.",
        "但在忙于攫取利润的过程中，该公司在回应外界批评方面似乎有点吝啬——以及闭目塞听。 那些批评可能不代表大多数用户的意见，但也应该得到礼貌且严肃的回应。"
    ],
    [
        "At worst, however, it creates an image of arrogance that can only undermine the credibility on which central banks’ authority rests.",
        "往重了说，这将催生出一种傲慢自大的偏见，最终腐蚀中央银行得以构建其权威的基石——公信力。"
    ],
    [
        "Below-target inflation is not an excuse for a long and drawn-out normalization.",
        "低于目标的通胀不是正常化策略一再延长的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "Its ancient biblical past can now coexist seamlessly with its ultra-modern present.",
        "圣经记载的古老过去如今可以和超现代主义现实完美融合。"
    ],
    [
        "As was the case with computer-aided design and manufacturing, it is easier to run a 3-D printer than to master all the steps needed to make the same part the traditional way.",
        "就像计算机辅助设计和制造一样，运行3D打印机比掌握用传统方法生产同类部件所需要的所有步骤要简单得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the issue of scale.",
        "还有规模问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is obvious: China mounted a full-court press to change minds.",
        "答案显而易见：中国步步紧逼，迫使其改变态度。"
    ],
    [
        "While Annan has been trying his diplomatic best to resolve Syria’s crisis, upheavals in Senegal, Mali, Malawi, and Guinea-Bissau have been swiftly addressed by other regional powers.",
        "在安南正在竭尽全力用其外交技巧解决叙利亚危机时，塞内加尔、马里、马拉维和几内亚比绍等国的动荡被该地区的其他力量快刀斩乱麻地解决了。"
    ],
    [
        "If a government sprang from reasonably fair elections and the elected government is able to fill the most important political offices, the country is deemed \"electorally competitive.\"",
        "如果政府源自相对公平的选举，且当选政府能担任最为重要的政治职务，则我们认定该国\"具备选举竞争力。 \""
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Over the last few years, Saudi Arabia has become increasingly estranged from its long-time protector, the United States.",
        "伦敦—过去几年来，沙特阿拉伯与其长期保护人美国渐行渐远。"
    ],
    [
        "But opportunities to pursue the necessary policies have not been grasped.",
        "但我们并没有抓住实施必要措施的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The final aspect of any refugee program involves finding places for them to go.",
        "难民方案的最后一个角度是确定让难民去哪里。"
    ],
    [
        "Widening the scope of the next round of negotiations so that much more can be used as bargaining chips would make the job of the negotiators considerably harder.",
        "扩大下一轮谈判的范围，让更多的东西可以成为谈判筹码的举措可能会令谈判工作益发艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, groups like Freedom House and Human Rights Watch have documented widespread official repression of the Oromo people.",
        "比如，自由之家和人权观察等组织就报告说奥罗莫族遭受了普遍的官方压迫。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq's mayhem has hardened the antagonism of countries like France and Germany, which led the opposition to the war in the first place.",
        "对伊拉克的伤害已经加深了法德对我们的敌意，他们最先站出来反对这场战争。"
    ],
    [
        "It is easy for a president or prime minister to ignore a thousand Web sites; the multiplicity of outlets and voices online, paradoxically, has weakened the media’s power to force accountability from leaders.",
        "一位总统或一名首相可以很容易地忽略掉一千个网站； 而更荒谬的是，网络传播渠道和声音的多样性却反而削弱了媒体监督政治领导人履行其义务的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "As such weather events become increasingly frequent and intense, the need to mitigate and adapt to climate change is becoming more urgent than ever.",
        "类似的天气事件变得日益频繁和剧烈，减轻和适应气候变化的需求比以往任何时候都要紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "The warnings might help prevent the booms that we are now seeing from continuing much longer and becoming more dangerous.",
        "你的警告或能有助于防止我们目前仍在目睹的、来自维持时间更长、带来更大危险的繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "The wage premium is substantially larger in the US (300-400%) than in Europe (50-80%).",
        "美国的工资溢价（300-400%）比欧洲（50-80%）要大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether or not a new state is born in one of the most strategically sensitive areas of the world is of utmost concern to Sudan’s neighbors and others.",
        "是否会在全世界战略敏感度最高的地区诞生一个新国家是苏丹邻国和其他国家最关注的事件。"
    ],
    [
        "What is curious about Lindsey’s argument, however, is that the Fairtrade coffee campaign can be seen as doing just what he recommends – encouraging coffee farmers to produce a specialty coffee that brings a higher price.",
        "但是，林德赛主张的奇怪一面是，公平贸易咖啡运动就是在做他所推荐的事情，也就是鼓励咖啡农场主们生产可以带来更高价格的特色咖啡。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the French army supports such a move, while only a small segment of the Foreign Ministry is opposed.",
        "此外，法国军方也支持这一举动，只有外交部的一小部分人反对。"
    ],
    [
        "One extreme is the simplistic Keynesian remedy that assumes that government deficits don’t matter when the economy is in deep recession; indeed, the bigger the better.",
        "一个极端是简单照搬凯恩斯主义疗法，认为在经济陷入深度衰退时，政府赤字无关紧要，甚至可以说是越大越好。"
    ],
    [
        "This should not be the case.",
        "绝不应该如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the pro-farming argument assumes that commercial breeders will eventually supply horn at lower prices than poachers.",
        "最后，赞成养殖的说法假设商业养殖将最终以低于偷猎者的价格提供犀牛角产品。"
    ],
    [
        "And, by involving ourselves militarily in the conflict, even if only by supplying the rebels, we might give a propaganda boost to terrorist groups that are already willing to strike in the West.",
        "此外，如果我们在军事上介入到这场冲突，尽管可能只是给反抗者提供物资，可能就会给那些早就想袭击西方的恐怖组织宣传造势。"
    ],
    [
        "But such efforts have had limited success.",
        "但这些努力效果有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, an egalitarian climate does not promote innovation and a sense of dynamic development.",
        "而且，平等的环境并不促进创新和欣欣向荣的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is an essential global artery, feeding Western demand for hydrocarbons and facilitating the flow of goods between Europe and booming Asian markets.",
        "如今，它是至关重要的全球动脉，满足着西方对碳氢化合物的需求，便利着欧洲和新兴亚洲市场之间的商品流。"
    ],
    [
        "That is just a fact.",
        "这都是正在发生的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "No part of the world shares more values or has a greater capacity to influence American attitudes and power than does Europe.",
        "除了欧洲，世界上没有其他任何地方与美国具有共同的价值观或者具有更大的能力影响美国的态度和实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, ordinary Egyptians have responded viscerally and swiftly to Morsi’s moves, perhaps more so than he had anticipated.",
        "此外，埃及民众对穆尔西的举动做出了发自内心的快速回应，或许比穆尔西本人所预计的要多的多。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it seems that the June Brexit vote has chastened not only Juncker, but all of the Commission’s Europhiles, who have largely been sidelined in the ensuing battle over what Europe will look like. (The notable exception is Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager’s very public stand on taxation, the outcome of which is still to be determined.)",
        "事实上六月的英国脱欧公投似乎不仅打击了他，还给欧盟委员会中的所有亲欧派都泼了盆冷水，以致他们在随后关于欧洲应该呈现何种面目的争论中都被边缘化了——其中一个值得留意的例外是欧盟竞争事务专员玛格丽特·维斯塔格（Margrethe Vestager）在税收方面持有的受欢迎程度极高的立场，但其最终结果仍有待定夺。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, employ more traditional psychotherapies: Verbal interactions with the therapist aimed at helping patients work on changing beliefs, reevaluate memories, encourage acceptance of one’s circumstances, acquire coping strategies, and so on.",
        "最后，使用较传统的心理治疗：治疗师进行语言互动以帮助患者改变信念、重估记忆、鼓励接受周边环境、制定处理战略等。"
    ],
    [
        "This feeling is strengthened when the global economy turns out to be a global casino.",
        "当全球经济最终成为全球赌场时，这种情绪又被强化了。"
    ],
    [
        "While antibiotics are used excessively in some places, they are unavailable in others.",
        "尽管抗生素在某些地方被过量使用，但在其他地方却无法得到。"
    ],
    [
        "If France has replaced Germany as “the sick man of Europe,” it is for political reasons, above all: vision, courage, and strength on the northern side of the Rhine, and vacillation, inertia, and weakness on the southern.",
        "如果法国取代了德国“欧洲病夫”的位置，归根结底恐怕主要出于政治原因：莱茵河北岸展现的是远见、勇气和力量，而南岸却暴露出动摇、惯性和弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, with the military back in de facto control, the civilian government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is in no position to shape developments.",
        "相反，因为军方重新掌握实际控制权，由纳瓦兹·谢里夫总理领导的平民政府根本无力左右今后的局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Ebola is one high-profile example.",
        "埃博拉就是个举世闻名的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "India benefits from democratic politics, but suffers from overly bureaucratized government.",
        "印度得益于国内政治，但是深受官僚主义之害。"
    ],
    [
        "The report examines the grounds on which it might be claimed that this burden of justification has been met.",
        "报告还分析了为什么有人认为上述举证责任已经履行完毕。"
    ],
    [
        "In India, it is the poor who take the time to line up in the hot sun, believing that their votes will make a difference, whereas more privileged voters, knowing that their views and numbers will do little to influence the outcome, have been staying at home.",
        "在印度，只有穷人会花时间顶着毒日头排队投票，相信自己的选票会带来不同，而社会地位更高的选民知道他们的观点和人数都不会对结果有什么影响，于是便呆在家里。"
    ],
    [
        "The ESM's resources belong to everyone, just as one country's bankruptcy affects everyone.",
        "欧洲稳定机制的资源属于所有人，就像国家破产每个人都要遭殃。"
    ],
    [
        "Successful new political vehicles like Macri’s Propuesta Republicana (PRO) are still the exception.",
        "成功的政治运动，如马克里的共和国方案（Propuesta Republicana，PRO）仍然只是例外而不是普遍现象。"
    ],
    [
        "But times have changed since Johnson, Ford, and even Clinton.",
        "但从约翰逊、福特甚至克林顿之后情况已经发生了变化。"
    ],
    [
        "In times when the international system has been under assault, only America has had the standing to provide renewed credibility to the rule of law.",
        "在国际制度遭到攻击的时期，只有美国坚持立场，为法治赢回了信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "With the right policies and international support, these countries can invest in the infrastructure needed to achieve a more diversified energy mix.",
        "有了恰当的政策和国际支持，这些国家可以投资基础设施，以实现更加多元化的能源构造。"
    ],
    [
        "A second potential obstacle for Francis is that he, like his predecessors, is promoting a revolution from above.",
        "方济各面临的第二个潜在障碍是，与他的前任一样，他推动的是自上而下的革命。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the Saudi government faces massive demand from Muslims to be allowed to make the hajj, and it has introduced a quota system to limit their numbers.",
        "可以肯定，沙特政府面临穆斯林朝圣之旅的巨大需求，并引入配额制度限制朝圣者。"
    ],
    [
        "In purely economic terms, one could thus argue that youth unemployment (especially teenage part-time unemployment) is much less important than unemployment among those who are in their prime earning years.",
        "纯粹从经济学角度，可以这样说，年轻人失业（特别是十几岁人群的兼职失业）远没有进入主要收入年份者失业重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Fukuda has dropped Abe’s talk about an “arch of freedom” – an effort to forge a bloc with the United States, Australia, and India.",
        "福田停止了安倍有关“自由圈”的谈判——放弃了与美国、澳大利亚和印度组成联合集团的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "If a power struggle emerges, the large Bushehr reactor could be used as a bargaining chip.",
        "如果权力斗争浮出水面，那么大型的布什尔反应堆可能被作为讨价还价的筹码。"
    ],
    [
        "There has been widespread fear that Iran would abrogate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and use its enrichment facilities to develop a nuclear weapon.",
        "因为外界一直广泛担忧伊朗会撕毁《核不扩散条约》并将其铀浓缩设施用来制造核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, the investment climate is positively influenced by stability – both competent and alert macroeconomic management and political effectiveness and continuity.",
        "首先，稳定对投资环境产生积极的影响——包括有效灵活的宏观经济管理和政治上的有效性和连续性。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite its seeming lassitude, Europe retains significant strengths.",
        "但是，尽管欧洲看起来疲态尽露，但仍拥有巨大优势。 欧洲是高水平思想和创新的枢纽；"
    ],
    [
        "While Monti’s mandate was set to last until the election, he might be trying to extend it with the support of the new parliament.",
        "尽管其执政只能维持到大选，但他可能会在新议会的支持下谋求留任。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi Jinping has used his war on corruption to concentrate more power in his hands than any Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping, 30 years ago.",
        "习近平用其反腐斗争巩固更多的权力，这是30年前邓小平以来从未有过的。"
    ],
    [
        "Inclusive institutions create a level playing field and give incentives and opportunities to the great mass of people.",
        "包容性制度创造了公平的条件，为普罗大众提供激励和机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the abstention rate for a presidential election had never been higher before the contest between Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy.",
        "而事实上，总统大选的投票率在这场奥朗德和萨科齐的比拼中达到了一个历史性的最低位。"
    ],
    [
        "Doubts linger about whether longtime northern PDP leaders, used to cutting midnight deals with their southern counterparts, would break ranks and support Ribadu next year.",
        "不过，对于那些习惯了和南方派私分权力的人民民主党北方派大佬是否会在明年另立山头，转而支持利巴杜，人们还是有很大疑问的。"
    ],
    [
        "He did this by signing the Victims and Land Restitution Law in June 2011, in the presence of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.",
        "2011年6月他当着联合国秘书长潘基文的面签署了被害人与土地赔偿法。"
    ],
    [
        "But ultimately it did little good; in fact, by obscuring the problem, it might have delayed effective action.",
        "但这样做最终好处甚微； 事实上，掩盖问题可能会推迟有效的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, most politicians love to spend money they don’t have.",
        "毕竟，大部分政客都喜欢花不是自己的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Little wonder that Chinese families, fearful of such an uncertain future, save to excess.",
        "毫不奇怪，担心充满不确定性的未来的中国家庭要过度储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King warned of an outbreak of “border warfare,” diplomacy-speak for deteriorating political relations.",
        "加拿大总理金（Mackenzie King）提出了“边境战争”的警告——即政治关系恶化的外交语言。"
    ],
    [
        "But, just as we cannot afford to underestimate the forces of extremism that persist there, we also fail at our peril to comprehend the currents of restraint and good sense that run within the country, including at high policymaking levels.",
        "但正如我们不能低估盘踞当地极端派的力量那样，我们也同样不能不去理解这个国家（包括其高层）内部涌动着的那股克制和善意的潮流。"
    ],
    [
        "More than one-quarter of cumulative global solar photovoltaic capacity was installed just in the past year.",
        "全球累计太阳能光伏产能中有四分之一强是在去年建成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite a recent increase, real coal prices have been trending downward since the 1950s.",
        "尽管最近略有上涨，但实际煤炭价格自20世纪50年代后一直处于下降趋势之中。"
    ],
    [
        "In mid-2007, Cyprus qualified for eurozone membership by meeting the stringent Maastricht criteria, intended to ensure that new entrants would behave responsibly and flourish in the secure environment provided by the currency union.",
        "2007年年中，塞浦路斯因满足了严苛的马斯特里赫特标准而进入了欧元区——该标准旨在确保新成员行为负责并在货币联盟提供的安全环境中实现繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Such investors distill information on their own and have no need for a retirement savings adviser to help them sift through the huge variety of financial assets, products, and funds that is available, particularly in a country like the US.",
        "这样的投资者会自己分析信息，没有必要聘请退休储蓄顾问来帮助他们筛选各种各样的金融资产，产品和基金，特别是在像美国这样的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "As Harvard’s Leslie Valiant argues in his 2013 book, we learn the concept of “catness” in a theory-less way by inferring it from a set of pictures of animals that are appropriately labeled as either cats or non-cats.",
        "哈佛大学的莱斯利·瓦利安特（Leslie Valiant）在他2013的书中指出，我们学习“猫性”的概念是以一种无理论（theory-less）方法，通过从一组正确地标明“猫”和“非猫”的动物图片中推断而得。"
    ],
    [
        "Regional or local voting patterns are as old as democracy.",
        "地区或地方选举模式和民主一样古老。"
    ],
    [
        "Such misrepresentations, Mencken argued, reinforce the power of those who already hold it.",
        "Mencken）解释了为何经济学家会忽视全球化可能给美国这样的发达经济体所造成的负面社会影响。"
    ],
    [
        "As with their investments, the habitués of contemporary art markets relied not purely on their own judgment, but on teams of sophisticated advisers and dealers who could give opinions on what trends best caught the spirit of the age.",
        "随着他们参与投资，当代艺术市场里的常客并非纯粹地依靠自己的判断，他们同时也依靠高端顾问和经纪人团队，这些顾问和经纪人可以提供咨询告诉人们什么样趋势最能抓住的时代的精神。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese economy’s performance has thus maintained the cyclical pattern familiar from the past two decades: rapid investment growth, supported by expansionary policy, drives up the economic-growth rate.",
        "中国经济的表现因此保持了过去二十年来极为常见的循环模式:由经济扩张政策支撑的快速投资增长抬高了经济增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the effect they estimate is much larger than in the conventional models used in most studies, including those relied on by government revenue scorers.",
        "此外，他们预测的效果远远大于大多数研究中使用的传统模型，包括那些政府收入审计员所依赖的模型。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it unreasonable to point out that the inevitable creation of trade barriers that will ensue from Waxman-Markey could eventually cost the world ten times more than the damage climate change could ever have wrought?",
        "是不是指出华克斯曼-马基气候变化法案所产生的贸易壁垒将最终令全球付出比气候变化多十倍的成本就是蛮不讲理？"
    ],
    [
        "This would entail recognizing and trying to assuage the fears that China’s rise is causing among its neighbors, as Otto von Bismarck did after German unification in 1871.",
        "这将包括认清和尝试缓解中国崛起所引起的邻国恐慌（如俾斯麦在1871年德国统一后所做的那样）。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, this occurred through implicit guarantees of assets held by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.",
        "在美国，这是通过对联邦住房局（Federal Housing Administration，FHA）和房利美、房地美等按揭机构的隐性担保实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, however, the answer to Maoist totalitarianism is greater and more inclusive democracy, a vibrant free press, and civil liberties.",
        "然而，从长远来看，要解决毛泽东极权主义的方法就是建立更宽广更包容的民主制度，一个生机勃勃享有自由的新闻界，以及公民自由。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while it might not be popular to admit, Trump has a point.",
        "尽管承认这一点未必讨好，但特朗普不无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "To those of us who sought election to Parliament in order to participate in thoughtful debate on how to move India forward, and to deliberate on the laws by which we would be governed, the experience has been deeply disillusioning.",
        "对我们这些想通过选举进入议会进而参与深思熟虑的讨论、推动印度前进以及商议约束治理我们的法律的人来乱说，这样的体验实在让我们感到意兴阑珊。"
    ],
    [
        "The faster the new technology is introduced, the more jobs it eats up, but the quicker its promised benefits are realized.",
        "新技术引入得越快，吞噬的就业岗位就越多，但它的收益憧憬实现得也越迅速。"
    ],
    [
        "And the US is not alone.",
        "而美国绝非个例。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world of ubiquitous advertising, there is no natural limit to the hunger for goods and services.",
        "在一个广告无所不在的世界中，对商品和服务的渴望是没有天然的界限的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, Anita Silvers, a philosopher at San Francisco State University and a disability scholar and activist, has described such treatments as “tyranny of the normal,” aimed at adjusting the deaf to a world designed by the hearing, ultimately implying the inferiority of deafness.",
        "尽管如此，旧金山州立大学哲学家、残疾问题学者兼活动家阿妮塔·西尔弗斯曾将类此治疗统称为“来自正常人的专制”，其目的是让聋人适应由正常人所设计的世界，并最终隐含着聋人低人一等的含义。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the market is betting that the dollar will fall gradually in the next five years, and that the US current-account deficit will narrow without a financial crisis.",
        "换句话说，市场把赌注押在美元在接下来五年内会逐渐贬值，美国经常账户赤字将缩减，但不会发生金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Rationing is always worse than a market.",
        "配给制度总是不如市场高明。"
    ],
    [
        "But this simply is not credible.",
        "但这根本不具备可信度。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the gold standard, it still would have been possible for central banks to reflate their depressed economies had they moved together.",
        "即使在金本位下，如果各国央行能够集体行动，仍然可以对萧条的经济实施通胀措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the US had disproportionate economic clout, its room for political and military maneuver was constrained by Soviet power.",
        "尽管美国拥有无与伦比的经济实力，但其政治和军事腾挪空间因为苏联的力量而大受限制。"
    ],
    [
        "In Japan, as long as most of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party stands firm in supporting the TPP, it should be ratified.",
        "在日本，只要执政的自民党中大部分人坚定支持TPP，TPP应该就能获得批准。"
    ],
    [
        "If PolitiFact and other similar organizations are correct, politicians are not all the same when it comes to lying.",
        "如果政治事实和其他类似组织是正确的，那么政客在撒谎的问题上并不那么相似。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is fairly clear that even in the 1970s there was not enough empirical evidence in support of Friedman’s ideas to justify their growing dominance.",
        "但很显然，即使在20世纪70年代，也没有足够的实证证据支持弗里德曼的思想、证明它们的日占上风实至名归。"
    ],
    [
        "Research conducted in my own laboratory has indicated that there are systematic individual differences in the judgment and decision-making skills that Kahneman and Tversky studied.",
        "在我自己实验室中进行的研究显示：在卡纳曼和特沃斯基研究过的判断和决策技能中，存在着系统性的个体差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Women are not necessarily better than men at governing, but they often have different perspectives and habits of engagement that can be essential for cutting through the standoffs created by the need to defend male egos.",
        "女性并不天生比男性更能治国，但她们通常拥有不同的视角和交际习惯，这对于打破捍卫男性自尊需要竖立起来的藩篱十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the oldest excuse to justify wrongdoing: the end justifies the means.",
        "那是为错误行为狡辩的老套借口：用目的来验证手段。"
    ],
    [
        "All demand is not created equal, though, and it is instructive to examine the differences.",
        "并不是所有需求都具有同等效力，找到差异会对我们有所启发。"
    ],
    [
        "Abandoning the habit involves not only the inconvenience of losing perks and a certain lifestyle, but also the loss of power.",
        "放弃这一习惯不仅有失去特权以及某种生活方式的不便，更是失去权力。"
    ],
    [
        "To gain control of the mandarins, the DPJ plans to place 100 lawmakers in the ministries’ top leadership, as well as three dozen political appointees to policy staffs in the office of the prime minister.",
        "为了控制官僚体系，民主党计划安排100名立法人员担任各部的高层领导，并任命三十六名政治特派员承担首相办公室的政策工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Its enforcers were beyond the civilized pale, and the world’s patience with them had run out.",
        "其实施者在文明的映衬下显得异常苍白，世界对他们的耐心也已经走到了尽头。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the Orthodox Church did send a delegation, immediately after the funeral Patriarch Alexi warned that the disagreements between the two branches of Christianity go much deeper than the former Pope’s Polish nationality, which was always a particular sore spot for Russian Orthodox Slavs.",
        "尽管在葬礼后，东正教立刻就派出了代表团，但大主教亚力克西警告说，基督教两大分支之间的分歧已远不止于前任教皇的波兰国籍问题。 前任教皇的国籍问题一直是信奉东正教的俄罗斯斯拉夫人心头之痛。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when the number of displaced people is at an historic high, the European Union – which accounts for 29% of global wealth – hosts just 9% of refugees, leaving far poorer countries to carry most of the burden.",
        "目前流离失所人数超过了以往任何时候，而拥有全球29%财富的欧盟却只收容了9%的难民，而任由贫困得多的国家承受大部分负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, because derivatives and repo investors jump to the head of the repayment line in so many ways, they have less incentive to foster market discipline by closely monitoring their counterparties’ solvency and carefully rationing their exposure to any single counterparty.",
        "更糟的是，因为衍生品和再购协议投资者能以各种方式获取优先取回其资本，因此也缺乏足够的诱因去培育市场纪律——比如密切注意合作方的偿还能力，以及小心安排自己对任何单一另一方的信息披露。"
    ],
    [
        "When people who in other circumstances could be happy, healthy, and productive members of the workforce lack the skills, confidence, social networks, and experience needed to find work worth paying for, we obviously have a problem.",
        "当那些在其它情况下本该愉快，健康且努力工作的劳动者因为缺乏技能、信心，社会网络以及经验而找不到合适的工作之时，这个问题就突显出来了。"
    ],
    [
        "In this cloistered world, a prosperous and just society requires a state-directed economy.",
        "在这个与世隔绝的世界中，繁荣而公正的社会需要政府主导的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "The more efficient use of human and material resources would make firms more competitive and boost Brazil’s total-factor productivity, especially if Brazil’s human capital were enhanced.",
        "人力和物质资源的使用效率越高，企业的竞争力就越好，巴西全要素生成率也能得到提振，特别是在巴西人力资本得到增强的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, it would be premature to base bold new policies on happiness research alone, or to follow the example of tiny Bhutan by adopting Gross National Happiness as the nation’s principal goal.",
        "因此单纯依靠对幸福感的调查来制定新政策，或者将小国不丹的国民幸福指数作为国家的首要目标都是不成熟的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the US current-account deficit in 2013 had narrowed by half in dollar terms from its 2006 peak, and from 5.8% of GDP to 2.4%.",
        "结果，用美元衡量，2013年美国经常项目赤字较2006年减少了一半，占GDP之比从5. 8%下降到2."
    ],
    [
        "Then, suddenly, the economy’s seeming disconnect from politics might end, and not necessarily in a happy way.",
        "那么经济与政治的脱节可能会在短时间内结束，但不一定会以一种快乐的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Managing Iraq's Oil",
        "管理伊拉克的石油"
    ],
    [
        "While addicts may be in denial, thinking that they can control their “recreational use,” cocaine, to quote the famous song by J.J. Cale, “she don’t lie.”",
        "尽管隐君子们可能会否认，认为自己能够控制“娱乐式的吸食”，但可卡因，引用J. J."
    ],
    [
        "Unable to compete successfully with Thaksin for votes, they now want to dilute Thai democracy in order to prevent the electorate from ever again choosing a government that goes against their will.",
        "他们无力在选举中与他信一决雌雄，因此希望推翻泰国的民主制度，以防止当选者选择与他们的意愿作对的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The Central Asian Human Development Report, recently launched by the United Nations Development Program, argues that the countries of Central Asia have a great opportunity to capitalize on their location at the center of a dynamic continent, their abundant natural resources, and their still-strong potential to forge a prosperous, stable, and cohesive region.",
        "联合国开发计划署最近发表的《中亚人权发展报告》认为中亚国家应该利用其地处活跃大陆中心的绝佳机会，利用所拥有的丰富自然资源并发挥建设繁荣、稳定和统一中亚的强大潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "China has followed the same path over the last 30 years.",
        "中国在过去30年中遵循了同样的路径。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor are stevia farmers the only ones who should be concerned.",
        "理应担忧的也不止是种植甜叶菊的农民。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the Swiss representative condemned the measure.",
        "就连瑞士代表也谴责援助希腊的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "To address this problem, Alan Lopez and I launched the Global Burden of Disease project (GBD) in 1990.",
        "为了解决这一问题，艾伦·洛佩兹（Alan Lopez）和我在1990年启动了全球疾病负担（GBD）项目。"
    ],
    [
        "And spillover effects from Greece will continue to affect Balkan and other emerging European banking markets.",
        "而希腊的溢出效应将继续影响巴尔干和其他新兴欧洲银行市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Next month, the UN and the United States will host another round of refugee summits.",
        "下个月，联合国和美国将主办新一轮难民峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "It must recommit itself to feeding its population – and thus to attaining its stated objective of a “Second Green Revolution” in agriculture.",
        "它必须再次承担起实现人民温饱的责任——并因此实现其农业“第二次绿色革命”的既定目标。"
    ],
    [
        "I delivered a lecture in Myanmar in December 2009.",
        "2009年12月，我在缅甸做讲座。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel can dictate the terms of its military incursion and end it at will, whereas an Indian military action would immediately spark a war with a well-armed neighbor that neither side could win.",
        "以色列可以决定其军事入侵的方式并且随意终止，而印度的军事行动将会立即触发一场与装备精良的邻国的战争，哪一方都无法取胜。"
    ],
    [
        "With an innovation ecosystem organized along these lines, “obvious” advances could occur significantly faster.",
        "沿着这种思路构建的创新生态系统可以明显加快“显著”进步的频率。"
    ],
    [
        "The history of international maritime law is long, stretching back to ancient Greece.",
        "国际海洋法的历史十分悠久，可以追溯到古希腊。"
    ],
    [
        "And the prosecution of opposition members, which has now culminated in the arrest and detention of former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko – during an ongoing trial that most of the West has deemed political – seems to confirm that the rule of law is being brushed aside.",
        "而对反对派的指控——如今已发展到拘禁前总理季莫申科的新高度了，在大多数西方人看来，这场没完没了的审判根本就是政治迫害——表明，法治精神正在被抛弃。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that globalization and trade are one and the same.",
        "这并不是说全球化和贸易完全一样。"
    ],
    [
        "With resolute action, monetary authorities made a major contribution to preventing a repeat of the Great Depression.",
        "由于行动果断，货币当局对防止大萧条重演作出了重大贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Many past presidents have also used the position to throw their intellectual weight behind such important issues as education and India’s cultural diversity.",
        "许多前任总统也利用了这一职位来将他们的智力能力用于到诸如教育和印度的文化多样性等重要问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "The best approach, which would enable the government to avoid an endless political debate about which labor laws should be revoked, would be to approve a constitutional amendment that guarantees the right of workers to conclude private contracts with employers.",
        "最佳方针是批准宪法修正案以保证工人与雇主签订私人合同的权利，这将让政府免于就应该取消那些劳动法律进行没完没了的政治争论。"
    ],
    [
        "But could that really be the exit taken by Trump?",
        "但这能否真的成为特朗普的退出方式？"
    ],
    [
        "That may seem like a tall order, but filling it would help build a brighter future for everyone.",
        "看上去这是个艰巨的任务，但完成这个任务有助于为所有人带来更加光明的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "This will not be possible if business groups insist on putting taxes at the center of the discussion.",
        "如果商业组织坚持把税收问题作为讨论的核心，就无法达成这一契约。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the two geopolitical focal points demanding America’s attention, one represents the future and the other the past.",
        "上述两个吸引美国关注的地缘政治焦点中，一个代表未来、另一个则代表过去。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s reelection sends a message, but one that will resonate widely – including at home – only if rhetoric does not depart from reality, as was too often the case during Obama’s first term.",
        "奥巴马的连任给出了一个信号，一个只有在言论不脱离实际的情况下才会引起广泛共鸣（包括在过美国国内）的信号，这在奥巴马的第一个任期中屡试不爽。"
    ],
    [
        "And of course, we will hardly be able to engage in meaningful negotiations with the Americans on cyber issues unless we succeed in establishing a united stance within the European Union.",
        "当然，除非我们在欧盟内部成功形成了统一战线，否则不可能与美国人展开有意义的谈话。"
    ],
    [
        "In the face of growing global disorder – including turmoil in the Middle East, waves of migrants flooding into Europe, and China’s unilateral moves to enforce its territorial claims – does the UN have a future?",
        "面对日益严峻的全球失序——包括中东动荡、涌入欧洲的难民潮和中国的单方面领土主张——联合国还有未来吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, a win-win outcome from The Hague decision will also depend on ASEAN and US actions.",
        "当然，海牙仲裁最后是否可以形成双赢的结果，也取决于东盟和美国的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "They believe that government intervention tends to generate its own costly failures because of bureaucratic incompetence and rent-seeking, whereby private interests try to steer policy to their own advantage.",
        "他们相信政府干预本身会因为官僚的无能和寻租理论带来代价惨重的失败，私有利益通过这些因素试图使政策向有利于自身利益的方向发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Rich G-20 countries could go further and faster.",
        "G-20富国可以走得更快更远。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Even as the United States and its allies carry out aerial bombardments in Iraq and Syria, their target, the Islamic State (ISIS), may be preparing to retaliate on another front.",
        "华盛顿——即使在美国及其盟国在伊拉克和叙利亚展开空中轰炸的同时，他们的目标伊斯兰国可能正在准备在另一条战线上展开报复行动。"
    ],
    [
        "None of these leaders – Xi, Abe, or Park – wants a real war.",
        "习近平、安倍晋三和朴槿惠没有人希望真的开战。"
    ],
    [
        "The early 2000s held promise for the Arab world, and in today’s youth we can see it renewed.",
        "21世纪初的阿拉伯世界曾经充满希望，而今天我们看到希望又再次出现在年轻人身上。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, no one expects that we can ever attract people like Mohammed Attta or Osama bin Laden.",
        "的确，没有人会指望我们能够吸引阿塔或者拉登之流。"
    ],
    [
        "But no amount of money will succeed in modernizing Putin's kleptocratic regime, which has already squandered trillions in oil wealth.",
        "可是多少钱都无法实现普京窃国政权的现代化，他们已经挥霍了数万亿美元的石油财富。"
    ],
    [
        "But the wrong question leads to wrong answers, because Europe’s security interests can be defended only within a European and Western context, not at the national level.",
        "但错误的问题导致错误的答案，因为欧洲安全利益只有在欧洲和西方环境下才能解决，在国家层面上是解决不了的。"
    ],
    [
        "These problems preclude the sudden movement toward the ideal of greater leisure that thinkers like Keynes and Theobald proclaimed.",
        "这些问题阻止人们可以一下子进入凯恩斯和提奥巴德等思想家所认为的更多闲暇的理想状态。"
    ],
    [
        "After being a near-silent supporter of remaining in the EU during the Brexit campaign, May has now donned the mantle of Brexiteer populism, targeting both “international elites” and Britons with a cosmopolitan outlook.",
        "作为一个在脱欧运动期间近乎沉默的留欧支持者，如今的梅已经披上了脱欧民粹主义大衣，专门批评那些“国际化精英”和“具有国际视野的英国人”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek government is right to have drawn the line.",
        "希腊政府划清界线的做法是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "The near-certainty that Ahn will join the fray is not good news for the already-unstable GNP, especially for Park.",
        "安哲秀参选的极大可能性对于已经陷入风雨飘摇的大国家党（尤其是朴槿惠）来说可不是个好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Further destabilizing evolutionary theory is the growing realization that many factors, not just the genome, determine an individual organism’s development.",
        "进一步动摇进化论的是人们逐渐意识到，许多因素（而不仅仅是基因组）决定了个体生命的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Though, as International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde has noted, lower oil prices may boost overall global growth, with the oil-importing advanced economies gaining the most, the impact on efforts to combat climate change could be devastating.",
        "尽管如国际货币基金组织（IMF）总裁拉加德所指出的，较低的油价可能提振全球总增长，其中石油进口发达经济体获益最多，但对气候变化战役的影响可能是灾难性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher leverage creates macroeconomic risk – not least for fiscal balances when implicit guarantees must be honored.",
        "杠杆增加形成了宏观经济风险——不仅仅是在需要兑现担保时影响财政平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a formative experience for many central bankers over the past half-decade has been the need to prevent a potential collapse of output, including by preventing prices from falling.",
        "此外，在过去五年中，许多央行行长最重要的经验便是需要防止产出的潜在下滑，防止物价下降便是手段之一。"
    ],
    [
        "New data sources about relative impacts are becoming available, and are desperately needed.",
        "关于相对影响的全新资料来源正在形成，而这满足了人们对信息的迫切需要。"
    ],
    [
        "After Spain’s victories at Euro 2008 and the 2010 World Cup, the national team demonstrated once again how diversity can coalesce into a winning formula through identification with a common goal.",
        "自2008年欧锦赛和2010年世界杯之后，西班牙国家队再一次表明，多样化完全可以通过为共同目标奋斗的认同感而凝聚为胜利方程式。"
    ],
    [
        "National saving in the Nordic countries averages more than 20% of national income, compared to around 10% in the US.",
        "北欧国家的国民储蓄平均为国民收入的20%以上，而美国大约为10%。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Japan's current growth is being driven overwhelmingly by trade with China - a country with only one-thirtieth of Japan per capita GDP!",
        "事实上，日本目前的增长主要依靠对华贸易的驱动－而中国的人均国民生产总值不过是日本的三十分之一！"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets in the advanced economies provide risk capital through different sets of arrangements – venture funds, public trading of shares, private equity, etc.",
        "发达经济体的金融市场通过不同安排提供风险资本——创投基金、公开上市、私募股权，等等。"
    ],
    [
        "Any structural transformation involves costs, trade-offs, and uncertainties, and it is vital that we understand these properly.",
        "任何结构性变化都包括成本、权衡和不确定性，合理地理解这些因素十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, 125 years later, the rankings have reversed again, following decades of rapid economic development in China.",
        "如今，125年过去了，在中国经历了几十年的高速经济发展后，名次再次发生逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "Yushchenko’s recent moves in both politics and economics suggest that his instinct for self-preservation knows no limits.",
        "尤先科最近在政治和经济的动作表明他自我保护的本能是没有界限的。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic models indicate that a successful Doha round would make the global economy $11 trillion richer each year by 2030, with most of the benefits going to developing countries.",
        "经济模型表明成功的多哈回合谈判将使全球经济到2030年每年增加11万亿美元财富，其中多数收益将流向发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In Central European countries like Hungary, or indeed in France, they may actually understand the links quite well, and some of today’s far-right politicians are not shy about being openly anti-Semitic.",
        "在匈牙利这样的中欧国家、甚或是在法国，他们实际可能非常了解个中关系，而且今天某些极右翼政客毫不避讳地公然抨击犹太人。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom, Brexit has cast ardent Thatcherites in the role of enthusiastic defenders of the National Health Service.",
        "而在英国，脱欧使得那些撒切尔夫人的右派支持者摇身一变成为了国民医疗服务的热情拥护者。"
    ],
    [
        "This quiet majority is under-represented in the Knesset because its members steer clear of political careers.",
        "这一默默无闻的大多数人群在以色列议会中没有得到应有的代表，因为其成员远离政治事业。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – Successful political candidates try to implement the proposals on which they ran.",
        "斯坦福—成功的政治候选人总是尽力实施他们所提出的政策主张。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the participants in Évian could not have foreseen the Holocaust, or that Europe was being drawn into another devastating war; nonetheless, their lack of moral conscience was breathtaking.",
        "平心而论，埃维昂会议的参与者不可能预见到大屠杀或欧洲将发生又一场灾难性大战； 尽管如此，他们的缺少良知仍然令人心碎。"
    ],
    [
        "With nominal GDP stagnating, that deficit is causing the debt/GDP ratio to rise by 10% annually.",
        "在名义GDP停滞不前的情况下，如此赤字造成债务/GDP比率每年升高10%。"
    ],
    [
        "European countries must finally and honestly acknowledge that, like the United States, Canada, and Australia, they are lands of immigrants.",
        "欧洲各国最终必须如实承认，与美国、加拿大和澳大利亚一样，它们也是移民国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Facts are holy, but not all media that claim to report them, “new” or old, can be trusted.",
        "事实是神圣的，但并非所有声称报道事实的“新”老媒体都值得人去信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Some central-bank officials have even advocated the establishment of a supra-sovereign wealth fund for developing-country investment.",
        "一些中国央行官员甚至提出要建立一个超主权财富基金来执行发展中国家投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The courts can help, especially after they have developed a routinized process for restructuring banks, as they have done with airline restructurings.",
        "法院能起到帮助作用，特别是在它们制定出一套常规化的银行重组流程之后——就像它们对航空公司重组所做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Their meaning, it seems, has become more, not less, debatable with the passage of time.",
        "随着时间的推移，这些事件的意义好像越发值得辩论，而非相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Silicon Valley is risking a backlash that will not do anyone any good.",
        "硅谷有可能遭到谁也无法讨好的抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast to Europe, East Asia is composed of states that are radically different in terms of their size, development, and political-economic systems.",
        "相比之下，东亚各国在国土面积，发展程度和政治经济架构方面都存在巨大差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Motor City Meltdown",
        "汽车城的崩溃"
    ],
    [
        "Once a mania gets underway, the temptation to join is simply too strong.",
        "狂热一旦形成，加入其中的诱惑就会变得难以阻挡。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, most Western elites failed to appreciate the conditions of success.",
        "不幸的是，大部分西方精英没有意识到成功的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank has long proclaimed its dream of “a world free from poverty.”",
        "世界银行一直宣扬其“脱贫世界”之梦。"
    ],
    [
        "Solutions start with money, and a main objective of the One Planet Summit is to mobilize public and private financing to fund projects that can reduce climate-changing pollution today.",
        "兵马未动，粮草先行，同一个地球峰会的主要目标就是动员公共和私人资金来资助那些可以减少当前气候变化污染的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "But infrastructure spending is usually slow – and almost always driven heavily by parochial political considerations.",
        "然而，基础设施方面的支出通常进展缓慢——而且几乎总是受到狭隘的政治考虑地严重驱使。"
    ],
    [
        "One factor that is often cited is “reform fatigue.”",
        "常常被提到的一个原因是“改革倦怠”。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, the New York Fed has always had disproportionate sway; not all regional Fed presidents are created equal.",
        "在现实中，纽约联储可谓炙手可热； 并非所有地区美联储行长都是平等的。"
    ],
    [
        "At a press conference just hours after my car exploded, I announced my suspicion that the explosion had been organized by Gagik Tsarukyan, an MP nicknamed “Dodi Gago” (“dod” means stupid in Armenian) and one of the country’s richest men and a close friend of the president’s family.",
        "汽车爆炸几个小时后，在新闻发布会上，我怀疑这场爆炸是由议员Gagik Tsarukyan策划的。 Gagik Tsarukyan绰号为“Dodi Gago”（在亚美尼亚语中，dod是愚蠢的意思），他是亚美尼亚最富有的人，与总统家庭关系密切。"
    ],
    [
        "More precisely, confusion about that policy has been roiling the markets.",
        "更准确地说，是中国汇率政策的模糊性一直在冲击全球金融市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The advances in computing power underpinning the digital revolution have led not only to rapid quality improvements and product innovation, but also to new, connectivity-driven ways of exchanging and providing services.",
        "计算能力的进步带来了数字革命，数字革命不但促进的质量的迅速改进和产品创新，还带来了新的互联性驱动的交换和提供服务的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Trying to do so, moreover, could worsen the problem.",
        "不仅如此，这样做还有可能使问题进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "They all exhibit the same, unchanging pattern: the government, whether in Beijing or the localities, tolerates the low-decibel, smaller-scale, relatively non-disruptive marches and sit-ins by demonstrators bearing petitions and posters, especially if they appear to be spontaneous, un-organized, localized and leaderless.",
        "政治精英层对于那些可能由持不同政见者发动的，带有明显暴力性质的，体现出某种组织性的，以扩大化相威胁的或造成交通主动脉堵塞的动乱则不那么包容了。 的确，在中国大陆之外得以报道的少数事件往往都包含抗议者卧轨或阻塞城市主干道，攻击权力机关或与之发生冲突，拘留和逮捕等因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s dependence on Persian Gulf oil means that all countries have an interest in maintaining stability in that region, while improving energy efficiency and increasing the diversity of their overall energy supplies.",
        "世界依赖于波斯湾的石油意味着各国在改善能源效率、增加其总体能源供应的多样性的同时，对维护中东地区的稳定都利益相关。"
    ],
    [
        "Semakin jelas juga bahwa ketimpangan mengikis kohesi sosial dan menaikkan risiko kekerasan dan ketidakstabilan.",
        "同样明确的是不平等侵蚀社会凝聚，增加暴力和动荡风险。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation of 2010 could have done much more to curtail large banks' power and limit the damage they can cause.",
        "而2010年多德-弗兰克（Dodd-Frank）金融改革立法本可以大大限制大银行的权力和它们所造成的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "The EMU is now the world’s largest market, and continues to grow.",
        "欧洲“经济和货币联盟”是目前世界上最大的市场，而且在继续扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "Anger has come to focus on banking executives’ huge compensation packages, composed largely of bonuses.",
        "怒气集中在银行管理层的高额补偿金上，这些补偿主要由奖金组成。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the uncertainty about future house prices, they could reasonably expect gains, which induced them to pay even more in the first place.",
        "鉴于对未来房价的不确定性，他们可以合理地预估收益，这引诱他们一开始就想买更贵的房子。"
    ],
    [
        "Last but not least, the international monetary system requires governance reform, which includes giving a stronger voice to emerging and developing countries.",
        "最后，国际货币体系需要治理改革，包括给予新兴和发展中国家更大的话语权。"
    ],
    [
        "He who has the largest wallet speaks with the loudest voice.",
        "谁的钱包最鼓，谁说话的分量就最大。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, China may well be the best-equipped country for the job.",
        "而事实上，中国可能是最适合承担这项工作的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In Uganda, only about half of those with HIV/AIDS are being treated.",
        "在乌干达，只有一半的艾滋病患者/HIV携带者获得了医治。"
    ],
    [
        "The delegates overwhelmingly agreed that the movement must keep open the option of returning underground if negotiations for statehood fail, while being ready to become a political party if a Palestinian state is born.",
        "与会代表们以压倒性的优势赞成说如果巴勒斯坦建国谈判失败，那么组织就不排除要转入地下活动，而如果建国成功，那么就得准备好变成一个政党。"
    ],
    [
        "But, chances are, such cooperation will come only after a problem has had a sufficiently powerful impact on the perceived interests of individual actors.",
        "但是，极有可能这样的合作只有在问题给个体行动方的可感知利益造成充分巨大的影响时才会出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain is taking global leadership in combating hunger by inviting world leaders to Madrid in late January to move beyond words to action.",
        "西班牙正在对抗饥饿方面起着全球性的领导作用。 它将邀请世界各国领导人于一月底汇聚马德里，将言语付诸行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The story of Israel extends far beyond the current conflict, to recount an extraordinary symbiosis between Jewish heritage and European civilization that ended in calamity.",
        "以色列的故事远远超过了当前冲突的范围，而代表了犹太传统和欧洲文明之间的以悲剧收场的非凡的共生关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps what it requires most is a touch of Margaret Thatcher’s policies of the 1980’s, combined with Tony Blair’s rhetoric of today.",
        "或许它最需要的就是一点撒切尔在1980年代的政策，再加上一些布莱尔当今的能言善辩。"
    ],
    [
        "According to them, each country should defend its own by any means, even if the rule of law is tested along the way.",
        "根据他们的说法，每个国家都应该采取一切办法保护自己，即使这样会令法治受到考验。"
    ],
    [
        "To add to India’s woes, Salman Khurshid, the country’s bungling foreign minister, initially made light of the deepest Chinese incursion in more than a quarter-century.",
        "让印度更加被动的是，拙劣的外交部长库什德（Salman Khurshid）一开始对二十五年多来最深入的中国人入侵事件满不在乎。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s renminbi is internationalizing, but its share of global payments remains relatively small, with the dollar retaining its role as the world’s main reserve currency.",
        "人民币正在走向国际化，但其占全球支付的份额仍然相对较小，美元仍是世界主要储备货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has called on the IMF to examine the effects of unconventional monetary policy not just on the countries that implement them, but also on the rest of the world.",
        "印度储备银行行长拉詹（Raghuram Rajan）呼吁IMF不但要考察非常规货币政策在实施国的效应，也要考察它们对世界其他国家的效应。"
    ],
    [
        "As I have argued before, convergence of emerging countries’ real average incomes, in the aggregate, with advanced countries’ incomes is likely to continue into the 2020’s.",
        "正如我此前所指出的，新兴国家实际平均收入向发达国家趋近的总体趋势可能会一直持续到21世纪20年代。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to the profligacy of the current Bush administration (and the prudence of the Clinton administration), average Federal spending as a proportion of GDP under Republican presidents now exceeds that under Democrats during the measured period.",
        "由于目前布什政府花销无度(以及克林顿政府的勤俭)，在进行统计的时间内，在共和党当政时期联邦开支占GDP的平均比例现在超过了民主党当政时期。"
    ],
    [
        "This, as much as anything, helped to bring Japan’s long-running post-WWII economic “miracle” to its knees.",
        "在这一改变和其他多种因素的综合作用下，终于致使日本长期持续的二战后经济“奇迹”后劲不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Research from my think tank, Copenhagen Consensus, has long helped to focus attention and resources on the most effective responses to malnutrition, both globally and in countries like Haiti and Bangladesh.",
        "我的智库根本哈根共识（Copenhagen Consensus）长期以来一直帮助人们关注和集中资源以最有效地应对全球和国家（如海地和孟加拉国）层面的营养不良问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Such was the existentialist worldview of US President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Theodore Roosevelt, a major advocate of American expansionism: “A just war is, in the long run, far better for a man’s soul than the most prosperous peace.”",
        "他曾说：“从长期起来看，正义的战争比最富庶的和平年代更能让人的灵魂受益。 ”一个世纪后，现任美国总统奥巴马在中东身陷两场无望获胜的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet his essential message is optimistic, delivered with a joke and a big smile.",
        "但其核心信息是乐观的，采用了笑容满面和开玩笑的方式表达。"
    ],
    [
        "The state of education in Africa is one telling consequence of the continent’s energy crisis.",
        "非洲的教育状况是这块大陆能源危机的一个显著后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite the billions of dollars China has invested in developing Afghanistan’s natural resources, it is hard to see it undertaking a policy of broader and proactive engagement there.",
        "纵使中国在开发阿富汗自然资源方面的投资已达数十亿美元之巨，却依然难以观察到一个涵盖范围更广且更为主动的参与性政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The other reserve-currency countries will probably continue to allow their currencies to depreciate, in order to reflate their economies, and emerging economies will probably continue to use exchange rates to cope with capital-flow volatility.",
        "其他国际储备货币国可能继续允许货币贬值，以实现其经济体的再通胀，而新兴经济体可能继续用汇率变化来应对资本跨境流动的波动。"
    ],
    [
        "This would help reduce consumption of scarce natural resources.",
        "这样有助于减少对稀缺自然资源的消耗。"
    ],
    [
        "This has far-reaching costs.",
        "这带来了巨大的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "We need the likes of Musk, Lackner, General Electric, Siemens, Ericsson, Intel, Electricité de France, Huawei, Google, Baidu, Samsung, Apple, and others in laboratories, power plants, and cities around the world to forge the technological breakthroughs that will reduce global CO2 emissions.",
        "我们需要马斯克、莱克纳、通用电气、西门子、爱立信、英特尔、法国电力、华为、谷歌、百度、三星、苹果以及其他世界各地的实验室、发电厂和城市齐心协力促进能减少全球二氧化碳排放的科技突破。"
    ],
    [
        "But when the attacker is a solitary individual – an American citizen, no less– it raises serious questions about the system from which he or she (though almost always a he in these cases) emerged.",
        "但如果袭击者只是一个孤立的个体——而且居然还是美国公民——就严重质疑了他或她（虽然在类似情况下袭击者几乎无一例外是男性）背后的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Not unreasonably, President George W. Bush wants government grants to bail out only the approximately 20,000 homeowners who can’t be faulted for failing to buy flood insurance, because they lived outside the designated flood plains.",
        "并不奇怪，乔治·W·布什政府只愿为将近20，000位屋主赔偿损失； 这些屋主确实不需因未投保而受到任何指责，因为他们并不住在洪泛区。"
    ],
    [
        "Citations contextualize research and help to orient the reader.",
        "引用穿插在研究之中，有助于引导读者。"
    ],
    [
        "The uproar that Kumar’s statement triggered has forced government spokesmen to backpedal furiously, asserting that Kumar’s was not the final official view.",
        "库马尔的声明所引起的轩然大波迫使政府发言人不得不紧急“救火”，说库马尔并不代表最终官方观点。"
    ],
    [
        "When the co-founder of a company in which I invested mentioned to me that a famous person I happen to know had signed up for the service, our first reaction was that I should reach out to him with a friendly note.",
        "当我投资过的一个企业的联合创始人跟我提到某个我恰好认识的人也购买了公司的服务，我们的第一反应是我应该给他发一个祝贺信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Both the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army could survive without US patronage.",
        "中国共产党和中国人民解放军根本不需要美国的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "There can be no treaty or constitutional clause preventing the establishment of the EFA if the German electorate, as represented by the Bundestag, approves it; otherwise, the ESM could not have been created.",
        "如果德国联邦议院代表德国选民点了头，那么就不会有阻碍EFA成立的条约或宪法性条款； 否则的话，当初ESM也就不会成立了。"
    ],
    [
        "When we ask politicians to explain these deplorable results, they reply in unison: “It’s not our fault.”",
        "当我们要求政客们对这一凄惨结果给出解释的时候，他们异口同声地回答说：“这不是我们的错。"
    ],
    [
        "But suppose you do not like the outcome the market generates.",
        "但设想你不喜欢市场所产生的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Such market optimism led to de-regulation of financial markets in the 1980’s and 1990’s, and the subsequent explosion of financial innovation which made it “safe” to borrow larger and larger sums of money on the back of predictably rising assets.",
        "这样的市场乐观主义导致了20世纪80年代和90年代金融市场的放松监管，后来的金融创新大爆炸使在预期资产价格上涨的情况下，许多人认为借越来越多的钱很“安全”。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a better way.",
        "我们可以有一个更好的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the vulnerability of cross-border capital flows, Asia must also pursue joint action on financial supervision, surveillance, and regulatory issues to prevent and manage crises.",
        "鉴于跨境资本流动的脆弱性，亚洲还必须在金融监查，监督和监管问题上采取联合行动以预防和管理危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas leader Khaled Meshal’s boastful rhetoric cannot hide the fact that Hamas’s military power has been dealt a devastating blow.",
        "哈马斯领导人马沙尔（Khaled Meshal）的自吹自擂无法掩盖事实——哈马斯军事实力已经遭到毁灭性打击。"
    ],
    [
        "But we cannot afford to wait for that analysis before taking action.",
        "但我们不能坐等分析结果出来才采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Many believe that Russia will not risk its relations with Europe and the US, ultimately abstaining if Western countries hold firm.",
        "许多人相信俄国不会冒损坏其与欧洲和美国关系的风险，如果欧洲国家立场坚定则会最终会弃权。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Caplin testified in 2010 before the US House Committee on Financial Services that the FHA was at serious risk, a year after FHA Commissioner David Stevens told the same committee that “We will not need a bailout.”",
        "类似地，2010年卡普林在美国金融服务住房委员会（US House Committee on Financial Services）做听证时说，FHA具有严重风险，而在此前一年，FHA主管大卫·史蒂文斯（David Stevens）对金融服务住房委员会说“我们不需要援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Mohammed’s hijra is not narrated in the Koran, but the sacred book is structured around the event, divided into revelations he received in Mecca and those he received in Medina.",
        "《可兰经》并未记述默罕默德的迁徙，但圣书自始至终围绕着这一事件，分成麦加启示和麦地那启示篇。"
    ],
    [
        "On top of all of this, the government’s plan does nothing to control the source of black money.",
        "除了所有这些，政府的计划根本不能控制黑钱的源头。"
    ],
    [
        "I do not know by how much this extra risk will impede the growth of the US and global economies.",
        "我不知道这一额外风险会对美国和全球经济增长造成怎样的阻碍作用。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no formal model in his great book The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.",
        "他的名著《就业、利息和货币通论》中没有形式化模型。"
    ],
    [
        "I first opened my philanthropic foundation in Hungary in 1984, when the country was still under the domination of the Soviet Union.",
        "1984年我首次在匈牙利设立了慈善基金，当时这个国家仍然处在苏联的统治之下。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent establishment of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone will allow for the emergence of an offshore international financial center that offers real-world training to China’s regulators.",
        "最近成立的上海自由贸易区将允许离岸国际金融中心的出现，中国监管者将受到真实世界的训练。"
    ],
    [
        "As he put it, “You can feed on people’s grievances or you can give people a chance.",
        "如他所言，“你可以从别人的痛苦中寻找满足感，也可以给别人一个机会。"
    ],
    [
        "President Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines is the son of former President Corazon Aquino.",
        "菲律宾总统阿基诺三世是前总统科拉松·阿基诺之子。"
    ],
    [
        "The article, “Toward a Permanent Palestinian/Israeli Peace – the Case for Two-State Condominialism,” was published with the express aim of stimulating “productive thinking among a younger generation of Jews and Arabs not bound by the restricted vision and failed policies of the past.”",
        "这篇题为《通向永久巴以和平——两国安全套主义方案研究》（Toward a Permanent Palestinian/Israeli Peace – the Case for Two-State Condominialism）发表的目的是刺激“犹太人和阿拉伯人年青一代的创造性思维，不要深陷过去的短浅目光和失败政策之囹圄。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Estimates of the value of the Mau forest complex to the Kenyan economy, for example, are $1.5 billion a year.",
        "比如，据估计，Mau森林复杂性每年能够给肯尼亚经济带来15亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Like many dictatorships before them, they may be the first to believe their own propaganda – in this case, that they can succeed against a South Korean foe that is not buttressed by American military might.",
        "与此前的许多独裁政权一样，他们可能是最相信自己的宣传机器的人——即，只要韩国没有美国力量的扶持，他们就能成功战胜它。"
    ],
    [
        "But now it has to deal with two sources of existential crisis: Greece and Ukraine.",
        "但如今，它必须面对两大生存危机源头：希腊和乌克兰。"
    ],
    [
        "So how does Taylor arrive at his analogy?",
        "那么，泰勒为何要打这样的比方？"
    ],
    [
        "And, while the new official record depicts this well-known episode in some detail, it sheds no new light on how Hirohito understood his own action.",
        "而尽管新官方实录披露了这一众所周知的事实的一些细节，但并未就裕仁如何理解其自身的行动这一问题提供新的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, outbreaks among already vulnerable people could become even more common.",
        "同时对卫生保健工作者采取严格的预防措施。 否则感染就很可能会在本已缺乏抵抗力的人群中爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that, in any such conflict, there is one clear, unifying goal: ensuring the company’s long-term success.",
        "但好消息则是在任何这样冲突中，存在着一个明确的、统一的目标——确保公司的长期兴旺发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gas Memorandum signed earlier this year between the EU and Ukraine on the extension and exploitation of Ukrainian gas pipelines is a perfect example; in return for political support and for funding of the extension of its pipelines, Ukraine has agreed to adopt EU rules governing management and access to the gas transmission line.",
        "今年初，欧盟与乌克兰双方就乌境内天然气管道的扩展和开发所签订的天然气备忘录就是一个很好的例子。 作为政治支持和资助管道扩展的回报，乌克兰承诺采用欧盟准则来管理和利用其天然气传送管道。"
    ],
    [
        "This estimate helps us gauge the magnitude of growth we can expect from structural reform.",
        "这一估计有助于我们测算可以从结构改革中期待多大程度的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Enrich it further, in the same facilities, and you have bomb-grade highly enriched uranium (HEU).",
        "在同样的设施里进一步浓缩就能得到可用来制作原子弹的高浓缩铀（HEU）。"
    ],
    [
        "Text messages, Twitter, and the Web are infinitely superior to the smuggled cassettes of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s speeches that fueled the opposition in 1979.",
        "手机短信，推特 (Twitter) 以及网站的力量都远远超过了 1979 年时录有魯霍拉·穆薩維·霍梅尼讲话的走私录音带的作用 —— 当年这些录音带曾经有力地推动了反对派阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are concerns that, if not fundamentally divisive, are worrying.",
        "但有些问题如果没有直接造成分裂，至少也很令人担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – Last year, three of the world’s largest meat companies – JBS, Cargill, and Tyson Foods – emitted more greenhouse gases than France, and nearly as much as some big oil companies.",
        "柏林—去年，世界三大肉制品公司——JBS、嘉吉（Cargill）和泰森食品（Tyson Foods）——所排放的温室气体量比法国还要高，与一些大石油公司等量齐观。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, neither national governments nor European authorities are empowered to act.",
        "结果，不论是国家政府还是欧洲当局，都没有行动的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, we intend to facilitate and support similar contacts with Muslim groups.",
        "在德国，我们愿意支持并推动与穆斯林团体的类似接触。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of steering the economy, they are being driven by it, reacting with no clear sense of direction to the demands of the moment.",
        "他们非但没能引导经济，反而被经济牵着鼻子走，在没有明确方向的情况下面对当前要求被动作出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Each year, Chinese universities award more PhD’s in science and engineering than US institutions do – and more than twice as many undergraduate degrees in these fields.",
        "每年，中国大学所授予的理科和工科博士数量比美国机构更多——而本科生数量更是超过美国一倍有余。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the lack of jobs and housing in Nairobi, we ended up in Kibera, one of Africa’s largest slums.",
        "但是，由于在内罗毕找不到工作和房子，我们只能住在Kibera，这是非洲最大的贫民窟之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Vision Deficit",
        "欧洲的宏观理念缺乏症"
    ],
    [
        "Global merchandise trade slowed considerably over the last four years; in the first half of 2015, it contracted for the first time since 2009.",
        "过去四年来，全球商业贸易显著放缓； 2015年上半年出现了自2009年以来的首次萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Ideas for new business opportunities are sure to follow.",
        "这无疑会带来全新的商业机遇理念。"
    ],
    [
        "Reality is catching up with the US, as it already has elsewhere in the world.",
        "正如在其他国家已经发生的情况一样，现实正在逼近美国。"
    ],
    [
        "So could nationalism: there is a certain poetic symmetry at work when local left-wing activists complain about threats to national self-determination – just as Trump did – in arguing against the TPP and other trade agreements.",
        "民族主义也可以：当地方左翼活动家在反对TPP和其他贸易协定的过程中抱怨民族自决的威胁（如特朗普那样）时，仿佛一种诗般的对称在起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, independent central bankers are not Sarkozy’s favorite people.",
        "当然，独立的中央银行行长并非为萨尔科奇所宠爱。"
    ],
    [
        "In his words, “we need to take a deep breath and pause.”",
        "用他的话来说，“我们需要深呼吸，暂停一下。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Here is perhaps the biggest orphan idea: pro-market does not necessarily mean pro-business.",
        "也许最大的孤儿观点就在这里：支持市场并不一定就是支持商业的。"
    ],
    [
        "Russians are nostalgic not for the Cold War as such, but for the international status they lost when it ended.",
        "俄国人并非对冷战本身怀旧，而是思恋冷战结束之际他们所失去的国际地位。"
    ],
    [
        "In many developing countries, connectivity is too slow, unreliable, or expensive to allow entrepreneurs and individuals to take full advantage of the new global business and educational opportunities.",
        "在许多发展中国家，连通性太低，太不可靠，太昂贵，以至于企业家和个人无法充分抓住新的全球商业和教育机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The world has had much experience with “trade wars,” and it has never been positive.",
        "世界经历过多次“贸易战”，没有一次的结果是积极的。"
    ],
    [
        "What makes young men and women susceptible to the extremist Islamist message?",
        "什么导致年轻男女容易受到极端主义伊斯兰信息的影响？"
    ],
    [
        "The recipients will spend some of that additional income on foreign goods, boosting imports and worsening the trade balance.",
        "受益者将把一部分增加的收入用于外国商品，刺激进口，恶化贸易平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Extending an olive branch to Russia will have little or no voter appeal in most EU countries, and Putin’s efforts to retain power de facto if not de jure after Medvedev wins his likely victory next March are certain to make matters worse.",
        "向俄国伸出橄榄枝对于大多数欧盟国家的选民并没有什么吸引力，而明年三月选举梅德韦捷夫稳操胜券后，普京即使不是在法律上也会在事实上握住权力不放也肯定让形势更加不妙。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the sad lesson of Poland’s parliamentary election two weeks ago, and of Sunday’s indecisive presidential election (which will be decided by a run off between Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczynski on October 23rd.)",
        "这是两周前举行的波兰议会选举和星期日举行的非决定性总统选举（10月23日多·图斯克和莱赫·卡钦斯基的决选将最终确定选举结果）告诉我们的惨痛教训。"
    ],
    [
        "The reform efforts by the OECD, acting at the request of the G-20, represent welcome attempts to address so-called “base erosion and profit shifting” (BEPS), but they do not go far enough.",
        "经合组织应G-20的要求采取了改革措施，这些措施是解决所谓的“税基侵蚀和利润转移”（BEPS）问题的有益尝试，但步子迈得不够大。"
    ],
    [
        "We are a long way from the lopsided dynamic that defined African-European relations during the colonial era.",
        "殖民地时代的倾斜的非欧关系早已一去不复返了。"
    ],
    [
        "A study of agro-ecological farming practices by Jules Pretty in 2006 examined 286 sustainable agricultural projects in 57 countries and concluded that yields had increased an average of 79%.",
        "2006年朱尔斯·普雷迪（Jules Pretty）所做的农业生态实践研究考察了57个国家的286个可持续农业项目，结论是产量平均提高了79%。"
    ],
    [
        "And, of course, the new scoring will also be important to the companies themselves, and for policymakers who are trying to strike a balance between “pull” incentives and current priority-drug needs.",
        "当然，新评分标准不仅对企业本身、而且对试图在“拉动”机制和目前的优先药物需求间达成平衡的决策者也非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, while outsiders might view the desolate islands as insignificant, for Koreans, Japan’s position on Dokdo is tantamount to a challenge to their country’s independence and a denial of its right to exercise sovereignty over its own territory.",
        "因此，尽管外人也许认为这几个荒凉的小岛并不重要，但对韩国人来说，日本在独岛问题上的立场不啻挑战其国家的独立性、否认其在自身领土上行使主权的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting economic inequality – a result of politics as much as market forces – contributes to today’s overall economic weakness.",
        "由此产生的经济不平等性——这既是市场力量的结果，也是政治力量的结果——是如今总体经济疲软的原因之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Are we happy to live in a world where the rich can rely on ever more clever technical tricks, while we ignore the right of poor countries and communities to the basic requirements of survival?",
        "生活在一个富人可以依靠越来越精巧而花哨的科技成果的世界上，同时却忽视贫穷国家和人群的基本生存权利，我们是否心安理得？"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the proposed cuts in payments to providers of services to Medicare patients are unlikely to receive the necessary Congressional support in future years, especially if it turns out that doing so would reduce the volume of services, rather than just providers’ incomes.",
        "同样，拟议中付给Medicare医疗服务机构费用的缩减不大可能在未来得到必要的国会支持，特别是当事实证明这样做将缩减服务的数量，而不只缩减服务机构的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "It can be combined with a system of measured, limited help in the sense of partial coverage of investors against a country’s insolvency.",
        "该选择可以辅之以谨慎而有限度的援助体系，为投资者因一国无法偿付而遭受的损失予以部分补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Some blame a global savings glut for this state of affairs, and call for less thrift.",
        "一些人指责全球储蓄过剩是造成这一局面的罪魁，并要求不要如此节俭。"
    ],
    [
        "Its strength resides in its people, its culture, and the goodwill it has built up among its customers and suppliers.",
        "它的力量植根于它的人，它的文化以及在它的客户和供应商中建立起来的商誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Every decade, important people predict the end of American power.",
        "每一个十年，都有要人预测美国力量的终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s human rights record – including the denial of elementary rights for women – is under constant scrutiny.",
        "不仅如此，沙特的人权纪录——包括剥夺妇女最基本的权利——正在接受经常性的审查。"
    ],
    [
        "But as an American, I am so horrified by what has happened in my country - and what my country has done to others over the past two years - that I feel I must speak out.",
        "但作为一名美国人，国内发生的一切让我感到震惊¾过去两年来美国在国外的所作所为，让我感到必须站出来说话。"
    ],
    [
        "Its retail sector is already growing quickly, but it lags behind in areas like e-merchandizing and supply-chain efficiencies.",
        "其零售部门已经在迅速增长，但在电子商务和供应链效率方面仍相对落后。"
    ],
    [
        "Better to ban them.",
        "因此最好的方法是禁放风筝。"
    ],
    [
        "How EU Overreach Pushed Britain Out",
        "欧洲的雄心是如何吓跑英国的"
    ],
    [
        "A bulwark of secular government and anti-fundamentalism in a North Africa that is struggling to contain the spread of Islamic extremism, Libya is of strategic importance to Europe and the US beyond its oil riches, notwithstanding the overwhelming significance of its energy resources.",
        "在一个竭力遏制伊斯兰极端主义扩散的北非，作为一个世俗政府和反原教旨主义的堡垒，除了其丰富的能源资源的极大的重要性之外，利比亚对欧洲和美国具有除石油财富之外的重要的战略地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Such policies and institutional improvements increase productivity, promote competition, facilitate specialization, enhance the efficiency of resource allocation, protect the environment, and reduce risks and uncertainties.",
        "这些政策和制度性进步能增进生产率、促进竞争、有利专业化、增加资源配置的效率、保护环境并减少风险和不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, we are now at a critical point in what has become a global movement to stop irresponsible corporate practices from being viewed as business as usual.",
        "事实上，我们正处于掀起一场全球运动，不再承认不负责任的企业行为为正常现象的临界点上。"
    ],
    [
        "What would happen if a small group of huge state-owned SWF’s made very large investments in a variety of assets?",
        "如果少数大型国有国家财富基金大量投资于不同的资产将会怎样？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, global growth received a further boost from the completion of the Uruguay Round of free-trade negotiations in 1994 and the overall liberalization of capital flows.",
        "此外，全球增长因为1994年的乌拉圭回合自由贸易谈判的完成以及资本流动的总体自由化而得到了更多的提振。"
    ],
    [
        "As money dried up and federal programs were contracted out to private firms at higher rates, only the richest and politically most important states and communities could compete successfully for the scarce federal grants necessary to pay for services.",
        "由于资金枯竭，联邦项目以高价承包给市场上的私有企业，所以只有最富裕、政治上最重要的州和社区才能成功地获得用于交换服务的稀缺的联邦拨款。"
    ],
    [
        "The remaining two posts, president of the European Parliament and the “Mr. Euro” job currently held by Juncker, will also have to contribute to overall balance and reflect the outcome of the European Parliament elections in mid-2009.",
        "剩下的两个职位，也就是欧洲议会主席以及容克尔目前担任的“欧洲先生”职务也将会促进总体平衡并且反映2009年年中欧洲议会选举的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s structural problems – including restrictions on labor mobility, a rigid and risk-laden financial system, and excessive reliance on government investment – are threatening its stability and economic development.",
        "中国的结构性问题，包括对劳动力流动的限制，僵化且背负大量风险的金融系统，以及对政府投资的过度依赖——无一不在威胁着自身的稳定及其经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, elected officials in Russia have become an endangered species.",
        "的确，在俄罗斯，民选的官员已经成为濒危品种。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of development, Europe must move away from the idea that aid should be used to bolster trade linkages and acknowledge the importance of foreign investment.",
        "就发展而论，欧洲必须摆脱援助必须用于增进贸易联系的观念，认识外国投资的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Or are we also vulnerable?",
        "还是我们也像他一样脆弱？"
    ],
    [
        "The advantages of this hybrid status include the security and predictability of America’s rule of law, eligibility for federal transfer payments, and favorable tax treatment.",
        "这种混合状态的优点包括安全性和美国法治的可预见性，以及联邦转移支付和税收优惠资格。"
    ],
    [
        "As we enter a new era of sustainable development, impunity must turn to responsibility.",
        "随着我们进入一个可持续发展的新时代，豁免权应该转向责任制。"
    ],
    [
        "Such impairment is global in scope.",
        "这一制约效应是全球性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Before and during his visit to the US, his views on three issues – none of which is without controversy in the US – will have a particularly strong impact.",
        "在他访问美国之前和期间，他在三个在美国存在争议的问题上的观点将形成特别强大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But Germany has consistently rejected every policy that would provide a long-term solution.",
        "但德国一直拒绝任何可以提供长期解决方案的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet one man, the American former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, has shown how far removed from reality that claim remains.",
        "但一位名叫爱德华·斯诺登的美国前情报部门承包商已经证实这种说法距离现实有多远。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – The effects of the most devastating financial crisis in decades have begun to fade. But debate about the fundamentals of the global economy is far from over.",
        "发自日内瓦——虽然这场数十年来最严重金融危机的影响已经逐渐消退，但关于全球经济基本面的争论还远未结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The Srebrenica trials also yielded a soul-testing record of a crime whose gravity Serb political leaders, former UN officials, and others once shamefully denied.",
        "斯雷布雷尼察审判的另一个成果，则是提供了一份关于一项严重罪行的震撼人心的记录，而这项罪行是那些塞族领导人，前联合国官员和其他人曾无耻地否认过的。"
    ],
    [
        "Exploring potential future scenarios, as the WEF has done, is an important step in the right direction.",
        "如WEF那样探索潜在未来情景是这一方向的重要一步。"
    ],
    [
        "While some research-related deaths reach the popular media, the actual number of deaths in research is higher.",
        "尽管某些与研究有关的死亡事例被大众传媒所报道，研究中的实际死亡数量要更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas feels more confident next to an Egypt dominated by its parent movement.",
        "埃及落入了其母运动之手，这让哈马斯感到信心更足了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for the world to embed resilience to disasters into the industrialization process and the development of towns and cities, accounting for factors like seismic threats, flood plains, coastal erosion, and environmental degradation.",
        "世界应该讲灾难恢复力建设纳入工业化进程和城镇和城市的开发，在此过程中考虑地震风险、泛洪区、海岸腐蚀和环境破坏因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Even members of the more puritanical Islamist Nour Party were not invited to join the government.",
        "即使是更严格恪守教规的伊斯兰光明党（Nour Party）也没有参与政府组建。"
    ],
    [
        "What Europe needs more than structural reform within member countries is reform of the structure of the eurozone itself, and a reversal of austerity policies, which have failed time and again to reignite economic growth.",
        "与成员国国内的结构改革相比，欧洲更加需要欧元区本身的结构改革以及扭转紧缩政策——紧缩政策在提振经济增长方面一而再、再而三地失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Until the US displays appropriate deference to the sensitivities, pride, and honor of other peoples and cultures, it will continue to be resented around the world.",
        "除非美国对其他民族和文化的敏感性、骄傲和光荣表现出应有的尊重，否则它将继续为全世界所不齿。"
    ],
    [
        "But here – in the monetary union – is where Greece finds itself, and leaving in a lurch without a plan B would be disastrous.",
        "但“这里”——货币联盟——是希腊自己走进来的，在没有B计划的情况下突然走出去将是一场灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "And when large swaths of the working class turned against the establishment’s favorite sons and daughters (the Clintons, the Bushes, the Blairs, and the Camerons), endorsing militant parochialism, the commentariat blamed the riffraff’s illusions about capitalism.",
        "而当工作阶级大部转向反对建制派的“二代”（克林顿家、布什家、布莱尔家和卡梅伦家）、认可激进狭隘时，时事评论员们却在批评乌合之众对资本主义的幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, Marine Le Pen, the nationalist right’s candidate in the upcoming presidential election, explicitly appeals to the era when the French government controlled the borders, protected industry, and managed the currency.",
        "在法国即将到来的总统大选中，民族主义右翼候选人马琳·勒庞公然怀念的时代是由法国政府保护工业、管理货币和控制边境。"
    ],
    [
        "If successful, the bargain should also aim at a total normalization of relations between Iran and the US.",
        "如果成功，那么这种议价还应该以美国和伊朗关系的完全正常化为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, similar surveys in other Arab capitals find a decided tilt toward a Muslim identity.",
        "相比之下，类似的民意调查结果在其他阿拉伯国家的首都却显现出对穆斯林身份的坚决倾斜。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, an attorney’s knowledge of the personalities of the principals in a civil suit or a criminal case can be combined with big data and analytics when the time comes for jury selection.",
        "同样在选择陪审团成员的时候，律师在民事诉讼或刑事案件中对主要涉事人员性格的了解可以与大数据和分析相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite the vast incompleteness of our knowledge, recent research suggests that most people think that they know far more than they actually do.",
        "但是，尽管我们的知识犹如沧海一粟，最近的研究表明，大多数人认为他们所知道的事情要远远超过实际知道的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, Indian society has a complex relationship with sports.",
        "显然，印度社会与体育之间的关系非常复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, the symbol of the great revolution of 1989 has been the fall of the Berlin Wall.",
        "此后，1989年大革命的象征一直都是柏林墙的倒塌。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Weidmann does not deny the risk of deflation, he argues that the consequences of recent price data may be less serious than believed, while those of full-fledged QE could be more serious than assumed.",
        "虽然魏德曼不否认通缩的危险，但他认为最近价格数据所体现出来的后果不会如想象中严重，而全面量化宽松的结果则会比预计的更加危险。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, over-eager military-intelligence interrogators, as well as the Bush Administration's high-handed attitude toward international law, helped precipitate the crisis.",
        "确切地说，过于急切的军事情报审讯者和布什政府对国际法的蛮横态度促使了这场危机的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The Failed State of Egypt?",
        "失败之国埃及？"
    ],
    [
        "Dressed in a suit and tie, Abbas introduced professional Western-style management to the presidency, but had no idea what to do with grass-roots militants.",
        "西装革履的阿巴斯将专业的西方式的管理引入自己的总统职位，但却全然不知应该如何应对草根的民兵武装。"
    ],
    [
        "An increase in production of “medical” opium would address its lack of availability worldwide.",
        "提高“医用”鸦片产量将会解决世界范围内的供应不足问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Does the candidate come across as a snob, or a friendly guy whom one can trust?",
        "候选人看起来像是势利小人还是可以信赖的朋友？"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, the argument for talks is weak.",
        "在这样的背景下，谈判的基础非常薄弱。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Energy has become a focal point of global policymaking.",
        "马德里—能源已成为全球决策的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "High-income countries like Norway can borrow to finance such projects, allowing them to save their oil wealth in a sovereign fund.",
        "挪威等高收入国家可以通过借款为这些项目融资，从而把石油财富节省下来投入主权基金。"
    ],
    [
        "While some parts of the world are experiencing more and worse droughts, others are experiencing fewer and lighter droughts.",
        "局部地区正在经历更多更严重的干旱，但也有地区干旱变得更少更轻。"
    ],
    [
        "Little was accomplished, and the path ahead remains treacherous.",
        "习近平此次访美几乎没有达成任何成果，并且前景也相当险恶。"
    ],
    [
        "A quote often attributed to the Nobel laureate physicist Niels Bohr says it best: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”",
        "诺贝尔物理学奖得主尼尔斯·玻尔（Niels Bohr）的一句名言很有道理：“预测是件极难的事情，特别是关于未来的话。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, the underlying problem – a perverse incentive system whereby they are paid by the firms that they rate – has yet to change.",
        "更重要的是，一个根本性问题——在这个有悖常理的激励系统中正是这些机构为那些付钱给它们的企业评级——却没有得到改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s role in the International Monetary Fund is second only to that of the US (although the financial crisis dented confidence in the euro).",
        "欧洲在国际货币基金组织（IMF）的作用仅次于美国（尽管金融危机削弱了对欧元的信心）。"
    ],
    [
        "If, over the next decade, low- and middle-income countries could improve NCD prevention and treatment at the same rate as the average rich country from 2000 to 2013, they would avert more than five million deaths.",
        "如果未来十年，中低收入国家能以富裕国家2000到2013年的速度改善非传染性疾病的预防和治疗环境，五百万人的死亡将能够得以避免。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last two weeks, Israel has increased cooperation with Egypt’s generals to pursue Islamist extremists in Sinai.",
        "过去两周来，埃以两国增强了追捕西奈半岛伊斯兰极端分子的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Most leaders gain support by appealing to the existing identity and solidarity of their groups.",
        "多数领袖通过迎合所在团体现有身份认知和一致看法来获取支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The WHO’s plan provides a new strategy to strengthen vector control worldwide through increased capacity, improved surveillance, better coordination, and integrated action across sectors and diseases.",
        "世卫组织的计划提出了强化全球病媒控制的新策略，通过能力建设、改善监控、加强协作和多部门和疾病多管齐下等方法实现。"
    ],
    [
        "As BP, GM, and Royal Bank of Scotland have discovered, the world is watching, talking, and no longer willing to accept the old way of conducting business.",
        "英国石油公司、 通用汽车公司和 苏格兰皇家银行已经发现全世界都在注目其所作所为并且议论纷纷，人们已经不愿接受原有的商业经营方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, wage patterns suggest that this ratio, not the unemployment rate, is the better indicator of slack in the economy – and nobody ten years ago would have interpreted today’s employment-to-population ratio as a justification for monetary tightening.",
        "事实上，工资形势表明，该比率，而非就业率，才是更好的经济松弛度指标——而在十年前，没有人会将今天的就业-人口比作为货币紧缩的依据。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush Inherits the Wind",
        "布什收拾残局"
    ],
    [
        "President Rajapaksa’s predecessors spent years engaged in fruitless talks and ceasefires, during which the guerrillas remained committed to their aim of dividing the country, and making demands for political and socio-economic changes that no democracy could accept, even as they carried on killing and kidnapping.",
        "即使在猛虎解放组织成员杀人和绑架的时候，拉贾帕克萨总统的前任们仍然用了多年时间来进行毫无结果的谈判和寻求停火，然而在此期间，猛虎解放组织却依旧致力于分裂国家和要求进行民主社会都无法接受的政治和社会经济改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Moderate inflation in the short run – say, 6% for two years – would not clear the books.",
        "短期内的温和通胀——例如，两年内6%的通货膨胀——不会解决所有的债务问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The right to veto was the price demanded by China, France, Great Britain, Russia, and the US for joining the UN.",
        "否决权是中国、法国、英国、俄罗斯和美国加入联合国所要求的交换条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Pendekatan tersebut memiliki dasar pembenar.",
        "采取这样的方针无可厚非。"
    ],
    [
        "Some skeptics argue that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and that treating suppression of terrorism as a global public good is thus merely the hypocrisy of the powerful trying to disarm the weak.",
        "有些怀疑论者提出某人眼中的恐怖分子也许是别人眼中的自由战士，因此将镇压恐怖视作全球的公益事业不过是强者试图让弱者放下武器的虚伪借口。"
    ],
    [
        "Other data provide a similar picture.",
        "7%。 ）其他数据也给出了类似的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "None of us – and no one on the Latin American left – would have doubted for a moment that defending human rights was everyone’s responsibility, and that the international community should come down hard on governments that tortured and killed their own people.",
        "我们中没有人——拉丁美洲左翼中也没有人——曾经怀疑过捍卫人权是属于每个人的责任、国际社会应该对虐待和杀戮本国人民的政府严加追究。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these affect Lebanon, and are aggravated by the country’s own peculiar socio-political dynamics – i.e., its Maronite, Sunni, and Shia divisions.",
        "所有这些都影响黎巴嫩，而且该国自身特殊的社会政治格局，也就是其马龙派、逊尼派以及什叶派的分裂也使得局势雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "Apart from discouraging banks from investing abroad, outright restrictions on foreign banks’ market access cannot be ruled out, either.",
        "除了限制银行对外投资之外，对外国银行的市场准入实行完全限制也不是不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "So compelling is the US model, according to its leaders, that every decent country must surely choose to follow America’s lead.",
        "据美国领导人的观点，美国模式令人无法抗拒，每个体面的国家都必须决然跟随美国的领导。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, the Tea Party activists’ focus on supporting states’ autonomy – and even on property rights and the right to bear arms – can seem like a prescient effort to constrain overweening corporate and military power in national government.",
        "在这种情况下，茶党分子把注意力集中在州的自治权 —— 甚至财产权和拥有武器的权利 —— 是一种具有先见之明的，在联邦政府内部遏制傲慢的大企业和军队影响的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure may be the mother of success – but only if one makes the effort to learn from it.",
        "失败是成功之母——但只有在你汲取失败教训时是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, there is the Colombia of Gabriel García Márquez’s fictional Colonel Aureliano Buendía, who started 17 civil wars – and lost all of them.",
        "另一方面，这里是马尔克斯笔下的小说人物、掀起过17场内战并全部败绩的奥雷良诺上校的哥伦比亚。"
    ],
    [
        "Logistics pose another obstacle to intra-African trade.",
        "物流是非洲内部贸易的另一障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "During the summit’s “Climate Finance Day,” companies, banks, investors, and countries will announce new initiatives to help fund the costly transition to a carbon-free future.",
        "在峰会的“气候融资日”期间，各大企业，银行，投资者和国家将宣布新的举措以资助那些迈向一个无碳化未来的高成本过渡措施。"
    ],
    [
        "All four of the major international accords reached in 2015 – the TPP, the Security Council’s Syria resolution, the Paris climate agreement, and the Iran nuclear deal – required great effort to negotiate.",
        "2015年所达成的所有四项重大国际准则——TPP、安理会叙利亚决议、巴黎气候协定和伊朗核协议——都需要巨大的谈判努力。"
    ],
    [
        "And, of course, the last 2,000 years have shown that anti-Semitism is perfectly compatible with the worship of a Jew called Jesus of Nazareth.",
        "当然，最近2000年的历史也表明反犹太运动与对一个叫耶稣的拿撒勒犹太人的崇拜并存不悖。"
    ],
    [
        "It is essential that all major opposition groups achieve agreement about their aims and negotiating positions.",
        "各主要反对派能够就其目标和谈判立场达成一致是很重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the enclaves’ residents have presumably lost much of their cultural or personal ties with India since 1947, most are expected to remain where they are.",
        "自1947年以来，这些飞地的居民应该已经丧失了大部分与印度的文化和个人联系，因此预计大部分会留在原地。"
    ],
    [
        "His poll numbers reflect this ambivalence.",
        "他的民意测验数据反映了这种矛盾的心态。"
    ],
    [
        "Like competitors elsewhere, they need to invest abroad to acquire a portfolio of local assets that give then better access to the markets, skills, technology, and natural resources that they need to protect and strengthen their international competitiveness.",
        "像其他地方的竞争企业一样，他们需要投资海外收购当地的资产组合，通过这种方式，他们可以对保护并增强其国际竞争力必须的市场、能力、技术和自然资源进行更好的掌控。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been said that differentiating between refugees and immigrants is code for excluding everyone.",
        "有人说，区分难民和移民等于排斥所有人。"
    ],
    [
        "If we Indonesians had not been in charge of our own transition, it could easily have failed.",
        "如果印尼人没有领导我们自身的改革，那么改革很有可能会陷入失败。"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, he has been aggressively pursuing “tigers” and “flies” (lower-level officials), while curbing, at least temporarily, the privileges enjoyed by Chinese officials.",
        "一方面，他积极地“打苍蝇”（较低级别官员）和“打老虎”，同时（至少是暂时地）削减了中国官员所享有的特权。"
    ],
    [
        "But most observers believe that key Republicans in the House of Representatives, where impeachment would begin, have thrown in their lot with Trump, mainly because they fear his loyal base (about a third of the country, clustered in many congressional districts).",
        "但大部分观察者相信众议院（弹劾流程的起点）的共和党要人坚定“站边”特朗普，主要原因是他们担心他的票仓（大约占全国的三分之一，集中在许多国会选区）。"
    ],
    [
        "No more large-scale attacks have occurred inside the US, and everyday life has recovered well.",
        "自那以后美国并未遭遇任何大规模袭击，人们的生活也恢复如常。"
    ],
    [
        "Many religions instruct us that attachment to material possessions makes us unhappy.",
        "许多宗教教导我们，迷恋物质占有会使我们不幸福。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, for example, quarterly output volatility has fallen by more than half since the mid-1980’s.",
        "例如，在美国，季度产量波动从八十年代中期以来已经下降了一半还多。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, its Self Defense Forces must continue fulfilling their duties of \"humanitarian and restoration efforts,\" while cooperating with Japan's key ally, the US, as a member of an integrated multinational force under UN leadership.",
        "所以，日本自卫队必须继续忠于他们的\"人道主义和重建努力\"职责，同时在联合国框架下，与日本的核心盟军--美国一起合作战斗。"
    ],
    [
        "He defended the policemen, claiming that the victims had been killed in “self-defense.”",
        "他为这些警官出庭辩护，声称警方出于“自卫”目的才杀死被害人。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the few certainties in crafting economic policy is the need to adapt to external change.",
        "在制定经济政策过程中为数不多的确定性选项中就包括有适应外部变化的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The beauty of physical law is too impressive to be accidental.",
        "物理定律之美实在太炫目，它不可能是偶然的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet another scheme would deploy royalties for natural-resource extraction from the global commons, such as Antarctica and other areas beyond “exclusive [national] economic zones.”",
        "但另一项安排将使用全球共同领土（如南极洲和其他“专属（国家）经济区”之外的区域）自然资源开采特许费。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic change often happens not when vested interests are defeated, but when different strategies are used to pursue those interests.",
        "经济变迁通常并不伴随既得利益的倒台，而是伴随改变追求既得利益的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "The media must give people a reason to tune back in.",
        "媒体必须给人们一个重新关注的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "What was he to do?",
        "他能做什么？"
    ],
    [
        "But today is one of those days when I don’t think that Greenspan’s failure to raise interest rates above the natural rate to generate high unemployment and avert the growth of a mortgage-finance bubble was a mistake. There were plenty of other mistakes that generated the catastrophe that faces us today.",
        "不过今天我并不认为格林斯潘未能将利率调至自然水平之上以造成高失业率、但避免抵押融资泡沫的出现这一点是一个错误，有太多其他的错误使得我们如今面对的灾难得以生成。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because these covenant-light loans impose fewer conditions on the borrowers, they are more susceptible to default if economic conditions deteriorate.",
        "而由于这些低条件（covenant-light）贷款对借款人的要求较低，因此，当经济环境恶化时，它们的违约率也会更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Happiness is something I take personally and believe in passionately.",
        "幸福是我所热情信奉的个人理想。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the need to alleviate the human misery that fills television screens and front pages of newspapers lies the imperative not to miss the significant medium-term opportunities that migration provides.",
        "除了需要缓和充斥着荧屏和报纸头条的人道灾难，更重要的任务是不能错失这一大移民带来的巨大的中期机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But making a settlement freeze a precondition for negotiations was obviously unacceptable to the Israeli government, which maintained that no preconditions for negotiations should be set.",
        "但如果将其作为谈判前提的话，以色列政府肯定不能接受，这自然也意味着双方谈判不应附加有任何前提条件。"
    ],
    [
        "This will be an important test of Hollande’s ability to deal effectively with allies.",
        "这将是奥朗德能否自如应付盟友的一次重大考验。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to popular belief, obesity is often related less to an overabundance of food than to inadequate access to affordable, diverse, and balanced diets.",
        "与大众看法相反，肥胖与粮食过剩的相关性往往低于多样均衡及廉价的饮食不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Healing Europe and healing France are two parts of the same equation, with the same unknowns in play.",
        "欧洲康复和法国康复是同一个问题的两个部分，由同样的未知量起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Pew study, almost seven out of ten people believe that, given the limitations of technology, they would have to make major lifestyle changes.",
        "据皮尤研究，几乎七成人相信，考虑到技术的极限，我们将不得不做出重大生活方式变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences could not be more serious.",
        "这样的后果严重到了极点。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the young, almost 37% of 18-24-year-olds do not finish high school.",
        "3%。 有几乎37%的18到24岁的年轻人没有念完高中。"
    ],
    [
        "Even that futile scenario might be optimistic, as it assumes that talks get off the ground – an impossible feat, if Israel continues its illegal construction of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.",
        "即便这种徒劳状况也还属于乐观的估计，因为它假设谈判能够真正启动——而如果以色列继续在被占领土上非法建设定居点，启动谈判只能是一项不太可能实现的任务。 以色列这样的行为不仅有欠公正；"
    ],
    [
        "A second option would tax the global rich, who often hide their money in tax havens in the Caribbean and elsewhere.",
        "第二种方案是向全球富豪征税，这些人往往将财产隐藏在加勒比海和其他地方的避税天堂。"
    ],
    [
        "To ensure that it does, is, after all, the main purpose of accession talks.",
        "毕竟，确保这样的前景才是入盟谈判的主要目的。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the PIIE authors had used conventional methods to estimate total gains from trade, such benefits would comprise a very small share of the alleged gains from the TPP.",
        "但如果PIIT作者使用传统方法估算得自贸易的总收益，那么得到的结果将只有据称的TPP收益的九牛一毛。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, one need only consider the years-long stream of commentary – characterized by partisanship, hearsay, and hostility – following the 2012 attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi to understand leaders’ angst.",
        "事实上，你只要看一下2012年美国班加西领事馆遇袭后多年的评论情况——充满了党派之争、风言风语和针锋相对——的情况就理解领导人的担心之处了。"
    ],
    [
        "Many had much higher hopes for Russia, and the former Soviet Union more broadly, when the Iron Curtain fell.",
        "当铁幕崩塌时，许多人对俄罗斯和更广大的前苏联地区报有极高期望。"
    ],
    [
        "And a substantial share of China’s output goes abroad, with exports exceeding imports by enough to create a current-account surplus of more than $350 billion over the past year.",
        "此外还有大量的中国产品被输往国外，出口总额大幅超出进口总额，仅仅在去年就创造了3500亿美元的经常账户盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, governments cite all sorts of reasons, security concerns such as those relating to terrorism now being at the top of the list, to justify the repression of NGOs and other civil society groups.",
        "当然，政府会拿出各种理由，如与目前作为重中之重的恐怖主义相关的安全顾虑等，来论证压迫非政府组织和其他公民社会团体的合理性。"
    ],
    [
        "That gap can be closed rapidly through the adoption and imitation of existing technologies, which improve productivity, and through high rates of accumulation of physical capital, owing to higher returns on investment.",
        "这一差距可以通过采纳和模仿现有技术而带来的高生产率，以及高投资回报下的实物资本积累来迅速缩小。"
    ],
    [
        "That could plunge the global economy into another financial crisis, delivering a shock equivalent to the autumn of 2008.",
        "全球经济将由此陷入另一场金融危机，其所造成的冲击力不亚于2008年秋。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chávez Way",
        "查韦斯道路"
    ],
    [
        "Sneering comments were made about my alleged personal interest in the bill, to which I responded that one does not need to be a cow to defend the rights of animals.",
        "有人指责我在该法案中有个人利益，对此进行冷嘲热讽，而我的回应是，你不需要身为奶牛才能捍卫动物权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Surging Chinese Internet usage could well facilitate the pro-consumption initiatives of the recently enacted 12th Five-Year Plan.",
        "而不断增加的中国互联网使用量将极大有利于最近推行的第十二个五年计划中的消费促进方略。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Jordan, the precarious balance between the Palestinian majority and the Bedouin minority was difficult enough to maintain in stable times; it is a far more precarious undertaking now.",
        "还有约旦，多数派巴勒斯坦人和少数派贝多因人之间的微妙平衡在稳定时期便已极难维持； 如今更是岌岌可危。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest idea was that Britain’s monarchy serves to connect the country’s past to its future in ways that transcend the pettiness and ugliness of quotidian politics.",
        "最具意义的想法是英国王室摒弃过去繁琐的仪式和以往丑陋的政治色彩，将国家的过去与未来接轨。"
    ],
    [
        "France Goes to Hollande",
        "奥朗德入驻爱丽舍宫"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 15) on sustainable ecosystems acknowledges many developing societies’ close relationship with nature when it calls for increased “capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities.”",
        "事实上，联合国可持续生态系统的可持续发展目标 (SDG 15) 承认许多发展中社会与自然有着密切的联系，并呼吁强化“当地社会追求可持续谋生机会的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Only Germany can reverse the dynamic of disintegration in Europe.",
        "唯有德国能够扭转欧洲瓦解的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "In little more than a generation, the Internet has become the substrate of the global economy and governance worldwide.",
        "在短短一代人的时间里，互联网已经成为全球经济和治理的基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's division of Europe into \"new\" and \"old\" was, above all, a clever ploy that helped the Bush Administration get its way by using the old strategy of \"divide and rule.\"",
        "首先，美国国防部长唐纳德•拉姆斯菲尔德将欧洲划分为\"新\"与\"旧\"两部分是一个聪明的策略。 它帮助布什政府在欧洲继续实施\"分而治之\"的老战略。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama’s appointment of a “jobs czar” would also help to enhance the credibility, accountability, and coordination required to overcome today’s significant and rising employment challenges.",
        "总统奥巴马任命了“就业沙皇”，这也有助于提振信誉、加强可问责性以及强化克服当今重大且不断恶化的就业挑战所必须的协调。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first case, the US government eagerly supported efforts to make mortgages more affordable and accessible, including the creation of all sorts of “exotic” lending vehicles.",
        "在第一个例子中，美国政府急切地支持让按揭更廉价、更便利的措施，包括创造各种“有毒”贷款载体。"
    ],
    [
        "It has to do with many middle-class women’s emotionally complex expectations and projections about money.",
        "这个因素与许多中产阶级女性对金钱的冲动而又复杂的期望和估计有关。"
    ],
    [
        "So far there has been none.",
        "但这些承诺至今还未实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Goldstone’s United Nations-backed report accused both Israelis and Palestinians of war crimes, and called on both sides to investigate, prosecute, and punish their own personnel.",
        "以联合国为后盾的戈德斯通报告指控以巴双方均犯有战争罪，并呼吁交战双方对己方人员进行调查、起诉和惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "Now she has a cement floor, a brick house, a separate kitchen, and around $500 in personal savings.",
        "现在她有了水泥地板、砖瓦房和独立厨房，还有500美元个人储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "Each country’s political leadership would need to be guided – indeed, energized – by the objective of saving “Europe.”",
        "每个国家的政治领导层都需要以拯救“欧洲”的目标来指导——实际上是推动——自身的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk created by many of the regulatory measures under consideration in today’s crisis-scarred world is that they may end up over-regulating our markets to the point of blocking the emergence of valuable new products.",
        "在这个对危机依然心有余悸的世界，许多监管方式所引发的风险就是对市场的过度监管，以至于许多有价值的新产品都胎死腹中。"
    ],
    [
        "However, without domestic pressure, little will change.",
        "但是，没有国内压力就不可能出现多少变化。"
    ],
    [
        "In this year’s Asia-Pacific REO, we point out a little known fact: almost all of Asia is at risk of growing old before ever becoming rich.",
        "在今年的亚太REO中，我们指出了一个鲜为人知的事实：几乎所有亚洲国家都面临未富先老的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Any effective foreign policy clearly needs to rely on effective military and civilian resources.",
        "任何有效的外交政策显然需要有效的军事和民间资源作为后盾。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the rule of law is what Shi Tao is fighting for.",
        "毕竟，师涛全力争取的正是法治。"
    ],
    [
        "Wouldn’t you laugh (maybe in private, to avoid being impolite) at someone who pays more than 200 times as much as you do, and ends up with an inferior product?",
        "如果某人花了200倍于你的钱，最后买了一个还不如你的东西，你难道不会嘲笑他（或许为了避免失礼，你会在私下里嘲笑他）？"
    ],
    [
        "The GAO report also refers to the Dodd-Frank financial reforms of 2010, including the requirement that large bank holding companies create “living wills.”",
        "审计办公室的报告和提及了2010年多德-弗兰克（Dodd-Frank）金融改革，包括其中对大银行控股公司建立“生前遗嘱”的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2008, about 5.5 million working families in the UK received tax credits, including working and child credits, housing benefits, and local tax benefits.",
        "2008年，大约550万英国工作家庭获得税收减免，包括工作和儿童减免、住房补贴和地税补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization has led to a weakening of social contracts within nation-states and regional blocs and even among continents.",
        "全球化削弱了民族国家、地区集团甚至是各大洲间的社会契约。"
    ],
    [
        "For the Soviet Union, it was international proletarian solidarity – “workers of the world, unite.”",
        "对苏联来说，这是世界无产者大团结——“全世界工人联合起来”。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – America remains deeply divided on many economic and political issues.",
        "发自伯克利——美国国内在许多经济和政治问题上依然存在重大分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "In this view, the Federal Reserve should aggressively pursue low unemployment, until it is shown that inflation is rising.",
        "根据这种观点，美联储应该极力追求低失业率，直到有现象表明通货膨胀率开始上升为止。"
    ],
    [
        "If I didn’t take the incompetence of the Russian state at face value, I might suspect a conspiracy to discredit Putin.",
        "如果我没有看到俄罗斯的无能，我可能会怀疑这是有意让普京颜面扫地。"
    ],
    [
        "Many White House speechwriters have used that rhetoric, but almost no First Ladies have walked the talk and passed the popcorn.",
        "许多白宫讲稿撰写人使用过这样的措辞，但是，几乎没有第一夫人信守承诺，也没有第一夫人向客人分发过爆米花。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis originates with “excessive debt accumulation,” which makes economies “vulnerable to crises of confidence.”",
        "危机起源于“债务的过度积累”，债务过度积累导致经济“易受信心危机打击”。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the advanced economies need a medium-term plan to restore competitiveness and jobs via massive new investments in high-quality education, job training and human-capital improvements, infrastructure, and alternative/renewable energy.",
        "事实上，发达经济体需要出台中期计划，通过对高质量教育、职业培训和人力资本改善、基础设施以及替代/可再生能源的大手笔新投资来重塑竞争力、创造就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of dilemma has contributed to the fall of other developing-country dictatorships.",
        "其他专政统治下的发展中国家正是因这种困境而衰落的。"
    ],
    [
        "STOCKHOLM – Slowly but surely, Iran’s talks with the international community about its nuclear program are approaching the make-or-break point.",
        "斯德哥尔摩——伊朗就核计划与国际社会展开的谈判正缓慢而坚定地走向决定成败的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "But two can play that game: China can take similar actions, though its response is likely to be more subtle.",
        "但这个博弈可是双方面的：中国也可以采取类似但更为隐秘微妙的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider high technology, where America is supposed to excel.",
        "想想高科技，在这个领域人们认为美国应该超过其他国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The tone is overwhelmingly elegiac: back then, comrades came together to build a new world.",
        "诗歌的语气非常伤感：当年同志们聚集在一起去建立一个新的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, their constituents, the farmers, are the ones pocketing the money.",
        "毕竟，手里握着选票的农民是受益者。"
    ],
    [
        "Unable to contain the violence, suffering, and chaos engulfing the Middle East and North Africa – the consequences of which are increasingly being felt in Europe – Western leaders are falling back into the Cold War trap.",
        "因为无法遏制席卷中东和北非的暴力、痛苦和混乱——欧盟能越来越明显地感觉到上述后果——西方领导人正再度陷入冷战陷阱之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes the disease, can lay dormant for long periods, during which the victim shows no symptoms of having been infected.",
        "使人感染结核病的结核病杆菌可以在很长时间内处于休眠状态，而在此期间内受害者并未表现出任何感染症状。"
    ],
    [
        "But disenchantment with globalization – and, in some regions, fear of immigration– has since set in.",
        "但是对全球化的不满以及某些地区对移民的恐慌从那时以来就出现了。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the EU itself also has a proud tradition of muddling through the challenges it faces, long relying on messy arrangements to accommodate its various members’ needs and demands.",
        "幸运的是，欧盟本身也有着在挑战面前蒙混过关的优良传统。 长期以来，欧盟一直依赖乱七八糟的安排来满足其不同成员国的需要和要求。"
    ],
    [
        "However hard one tries, it is virtually impossible to root out corruption in a one-party system without press freedom, a robust civil society, or the rule of law.",
        "不管如何努力，一党体系都不可能在没有言论自由、强大的公民社会和法治精神的情况下根除腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "Tamarod, the grassroots movement that led the recent protests by collecting millions of signatures on a petition demanding an early presidential election, has forced the fragmented liberal parties to become more disciplined.",
        "“反抗”（Tamarod，通过征集数百万人签名请愿要求提前进行总统选举而引发最近的示威草根运动）迫使四分五裂的自由主义政党变得更具纪律性。"
    ],
    [
        "This toxic blame game benefits only Europe’s enemies.",
        "这一指责游戏贻害无穷，只能让欧洲的敌人渔利。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason why the US values its ties to the UK as much as it does is the UK’s role in Europe.",
        "美国之所以如此重视与英国的关系，原因之一便是英国在欧洲的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Last May, in a speech at the National Defense University, Obama defended America’s use of drones.",
        "去年5月，在国防大学（National Defense University）的演讲中，奥巴马为美国使用无人机开脱。"
    ],
    [
        "Golden Rules for the Eurozone",
        "欧元区的金规则"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine a WFP that is no longer arranging the logistics, procurement, storage, and distribution of 3.2 million metric tons of food, and taking 120 days to obtain and move food to recipient countries.",
        "试想一下世界粮食计划署不再安排320万吨粮食的物流、采购、仓储和发放，之后耗费120天将粮食筹集并运送至接收国。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is the Fed’s current governance that has become dangerous.",
        "但如今变得危险的是美联储的现有治理结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Taking advantage of Russia’s weaknesses and the lack of a counterweight, they refused to heed warnings against claiming a monopoly on global leadership.",
        "他们利用俄罗斯的衰落和缺少制衡力量的机会，根本没有注意到对垄断全球领导地位的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientific evidence has eliminated legitimate doubts about the scale of the risks that climate change poses.",
        "科学证据已经打消了对气候变化所带来的风险规模的质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s economic struggles are reflected in its political situation, with many European electorates now mired in a sense of hopelessness and sliding toward ideological extremes.",
        "欧洲经济低迷反映在其政治局面中，许多欧洲选民如今陷入了无望的情绪，日益滑向极端意识形态。"
    ],
    [
        "This explains Erdoğan’s accusation that the protesters in Gezi Park last summer, who demonstrated against his government’s plans to erect a shopping center, were not proper Turks at all.",
        "这就解释了埃尔多安对去年夏天格齐公园（Gezi Park）反对者的指控。 他们示威表达对埃尔多安建设购物中心的计划，被埃尔多安称为不配做土耳其人。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans made decisive progress on integration outside the scope of the EU treaties (but very much in the European spirit) when they agreed to open their borders with the so-called Schengen Agreement (today a part of the EU treaties).",
        "欧洲曾签署过所谓的申根协议（如今是欧盟条约的一部分），开放边境，这是在欧盟条约之外（但仍带有鲜明的欧洲精神烙印）迈出的具决定性意义的统一步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "The state now accounts for more than 40% of the country’s operating capacity for wind-generated power, and has one of the world’s highest penetration rates for solar (one in four households has a photovoltaic system).",
        "如今该州贡献了全国风电产能40%多，并拥有全球最高的太阳能渗透率之一（四分之一的家庭拥有光伏系统）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Congress of Vienna reinstated the principle of the balance of power, based on the belief that all parties shared a common interest transcending their respective ambitions, and re-established the Concert of Nations, which for two generations stopped territorial and ideological revisionism of the type seen from 1789 to 1815.",
        "维也纳会议恢复了实力平衡原则，其观念基础是所有各方拥有超越各自野心的共同利益，并重新建立了国联（Concert of Nations）。 国联在两代人的时间里阻止了1789—1815年间领土和思想修正主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Since a breakup of the euro would cause immense damage, Germany always does the minimum necessary to hold it together.",
        "因为欧元解体会造成巨额损失，德国总是采取最低限度的措施防止欧元垮掉。"
    ],
    [
        "The Three Fears Sinking Global Markets",
        "打压全球市场的三大担忧"
    ],
    [
        "But the proper course of action is that taken in Nuremberg, The Hague, Sierra Leone, and after the Bosnian conflict: prosecute those who designed, approved, and implemented the policy of torture and rendition, however high the chain of commission goes – including the lawyers who justified legal perversions that led to torture and murder – rather than targeting those farther down the chain of command.",
        "但是，行动的正确程序应该象纽伦堡，海牙，塞拉利昂和波斯利亚的冲突之后采取的那样：起诉那些设计，批准，实施虐待和引渡政策的人，无论涉及链条里面地位多高的人物—包括那些律师，他们为导致虐待和谋杀的法律滥用进行辩护； 而不是把目标对准那些处于命令链低端的人。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, some corporate short-termism may not be as strong as it is thought to be.",
        "更重要的是，一些企业的短期行为并没有人们想象中那么严重。"
    ],
    [
        "And they created a special tax and migration regime to attract regional headquarters of multinational companies.",
        "他们还制定了特殊的税收和移民机制以吸引跨国公司前来建立地区总部。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the elixir of growth in policymakers’ forecasts cannot be counted on to solve the problems, dealing with financial excesses becomes even more urgent.",
        "由于决策者预测的增长万灵丹不可能解决问题，因此对付金融过剩就成为更加紧迫的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the situation in which we now find ourselves, at least in the short run.",
        "这就是我们目前（至少在短期内）所处的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "What little chance there was of the US backing any global plan to limit or tax carbon emissions has disappeared.",
        "美国支持关于限制或者征收碳排放税的任何全球方案的微小可能性都已彻底破灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Citizens who can help to shape their country’s public policies through elections and other legal political activities are less likely to resort to extra-constitutional means.",
        "能够通过选举和其他合法政治途径左右祖国公共政策的公民不太可能会去寻求宪法之外的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina is another country where journalists are on the defensive.",
        "阿根廷是另一个冒犯记者的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "And paying to retain trade preferences could expose Britain to future changes in EU policy.",
        "而花钱保留贸易优惠待遇可能让英国受到未来欧盟政策变化影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Advances in cable technology would allow Ireland to link to France, providing an alternative route to European markets if the UK elects to remain outside the network.",
        "电缆传输技术的进步令爱尔兰和法国连接起来，那么即便英国议会投票选择置身于电网之外，也可以让前者有另一条连结欧洲能源市场的通路。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting deficits may be described as “supply-side economics,” rather than Keynesian stimulus, but the effect will be the same: growth and inflation will both increase.",
        "由此导致的赤字可以被称为“供给侧经济学”，而不是凯恩斯主义刺激，但效果是一样的：增长和通胀双升。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach has several advantages: by leaving the face value of the debt unaltered, EU officials could argue that restructuring Greece’s debt did not amount to a default, thereby limiting contagion.",
        "这个方案拥有几大好处：由于希腊债务的票面价值保持不变，欧盟官员就可以坚持重组希腊债务并不意味着债务违约，因此也限制了危机的扩散。"
    ],
    [
        "Up to 13 million tons of plastic waste end up in the ocean each year; by 2050, there could be more plastic in there than fish.",
        "每年都有高达1,300万吨塑料废品进入大海； 到2050年，大海中的塑料可能比鱼还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, we no longer smoke cigarettes to prevent infections.",
        "毕竟，我们不再通过吸烟来预防传染病了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is thus Europe’s responsibility – and especially Germany’s, as the current EU president – to act now.",
        "因此马上行动是欧洲的责任—更是欧盟现任主席国德国的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "In whatever area, a group of more deeply integrated member states would give the Union a noyau dur (a hard core) , which might be very helpful in strengthening the EU as a whole.",
        "无论在什么领域，一些相互更紧密融合的成员国将给欧盟带来核心凝聚力，从而有益于加强欧盟整体的统一。"
    ],
    [
        "The MDGs have engendered impressive progress in poverty reduction, public health, school enrollment, gender equality in education, and other areas.",
        "千年发展目标已经在扶贫、公共卫生、入学率和教育性别平等等方面取得了显著的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, those countries in which firms compete on price may have felt more pressure to move production abroad as domestic wages rose.",
        "相反，企业打价格战的国家，当国内工资升高时将面临更大的产品出口压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Changing Map of Middle East Power",
        "中东实力地图的变迁"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming that a combination of shale development, environmental pressure, and advances in clean energy keep the OPEC cartel paralyzed, oil will now trade like any other commodity in a normal competitive market, as it did from 1986 to 2005.",
        "假设页岩开发、环境压力和清洁能源的进步让欧佩克难以为继，石油将与其他所有正常竞争市场中的商品没有区别，1986—2005年间就是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, how many employers would not prefer a fresh entrant into the labor force to someone who has been out of work for years?",
        "毕竟，有哪个雇主会喜欢新晋劳动力市场大军胜过有多年工作经验的工人呢？"
    ],
    [
        "If anything, China has proven that a country can blend control, coercion, and patronage to stymie the Internet’s politically liberalizing elements.",
        "中国至少已经证明了一国可以融合控制、强制与施以恩惠等多种手段，以阻碍互联网在政治层面上具有自由化效应的元素。"
    ],
    [
        "The growth of terrorism responds to the strengthening of security forces.",
        "恐怖主义又为了应付日益加强的安全部队而增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 22 quarters since early 2008, real personal-consumption expenditure, which accounts for about 70% of US GDP, has grown at an average annual rate of just 1.1%, easily the weakest period of consumer demand in the post-World War II era.",
        "自2008年初至今的22个季度以来，占美国国内生产总值70%左右的实际个人消费支出年均增长率仅为1. 1%，无疑成为二战后消费者需求最弱的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there is also a compelling evolutionary explanation for xenophobia.",
        "事实上，对于仇外情绪，也有令人信服的进化论解释。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not because economics prizes logical argument, which is an essential check on faulty reasoning.",
        "这不是因为经济学注重逻辑推理。 逻辑推理是对有缺陷的理性的重要检查。"
    ],
    [
        "While the US is the principal exporter of reactors, it currently has just two under construction on its own territory.",
        "尽管是核反应堆的主要出口国，美国目前在建的核电站只有两座。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as banks are permitted to operate this way, the banks’ supervisors are betting on the banks’ ability to earn their way out of their current problems – even if the value of their assets doesn’t now significantly exceed their liabilities.",
        "按照这样的测试结果，为了摆脱目前的经济困境，银行的高管们就会放手一博，而不顾及实际真实资产的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "And new research is finding that what is true for the individual also holds true for populations.",
        "新研究发现，对个体来说成立的现象，对群体同样成立。"
    ],
    [
        "This leads to overcapacity in some sectors – reflected in China’s growing real-estate bubble, for example – and underinvestment in others.",
        "这样导致某些行业产能过剩——这体现在中国不断增长的房地产泡沫——而其他行业又投资不足。"
    ],
    [
        "For a long time, state and local governments were able to cover the shortfall, increasing their contribution to three quarters of total spending.",
        "长期以来，州和地方政府能够弥补缺口，它们对基础设施的贡献已提高到支出总量的四分之三。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, neighboring countries could take the opportunity, with enough international assistance, to build cities that would be valuable centers of commerce and education for their own people.",
        "或者，周边国家可以利用这一机会，在足够的国际援助的帮助下为本国人民建立能够作为无价的商业和教育中心的城市。"
    ],
    [
        "Only after very aggressive government intervention in taxes and transfers have some countries been able to hold families at least even.",
        "一些国家在经过了政府的大量税收和转移支付干预后才实现家庭收入不降。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, weakened leaders in France and Germany are now squarely focused on domestic problems.",
        "与此同时，法国和德国的弱势领导人现在全部精力都集中在国内问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "His alternative appears to be to abandon the euro.",
        "他的解决办法是放弃欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea and Taiwan grew on the back of rapid industrialization.",
        "快速工业化是韩国和台湾增长的背景。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, it would be better if powerful Frenchmen were to stop using “Latin culture” as an excuse for abusing their social inferiors.",
        "同样，如果强大的法国男性停止使用“拉丁文化”来为其虐待社会弱者的行为开脱，法国人的日子也会更美好。"
    ],
    [
        "First, software with a slight edge tends to get a significantly greater share of the available market; and, second, the available market is global, because it costs so little to make an extra copy and send it anywhere in the world.",
        "首先，只要软件拥有微小的优势就能占据极为巨大的市场份额； 第二，市场空间是全球性的，这是因为额外复制一个软件并将其发送到世界各地的成本极低。"
    ],
    [
        "Two US cities – New York and Seattle – have raised efficiency standards for new construction to record levels.",
        "纽约和西雅图两座美国城市对新建筑物能效标准做出了史无前例的提升。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the five European companies involved in the project (each with a 10% stake), their partnership with Russia’s Gazprom (which owns the remaining 50%) is simply a commercial business initiative.",
        "参与该项目的五个欧洲公司（各占10%的股份）声称它们与俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司（拥有余下50％股份）的合作伙伴关系就是个单纯的商业计划。"
    ],
    [
        "A Velvet Climate Revolution?",
        "一场事关气候的“天鹅绒革命”？"
    ],
    [
        "But it will not be enough for Bush to start his second term with grand rhetoric about values and increased investment in public diplomacy.",
        "但布什仅以关于价值的高谈阔论和对公共外交的投入来开始第二任期是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt, though, the prospects for women seem gloomier, because they failed to retain the pre-revolution quota system that had given them 64 parliamentary seats.",
        "但是，在埃及，妇女前景看起来颇为不妙，因为她们没能保住革命前的分配制度——当时，她们可以获得64个议会席位。"
    ],
    [
        "They should be the major source of IMF financing as well, replacing quota subscriptions or lending to the Fund by member countries (potentially making the IMF a purely SDR-based institution, as proposed decades ago by the late IMF economist Jacques Polak).",
        "SDR还应该成为IMF的主要资源，取代成员国的配额认购和IMF贷款（这有望使IMF成为纯粹的基于SDR的机构，如同已故的IMF经济学家波拉克（Jacques Polak）几十年前所建议的那样）。"
    ],
    [
        "If so much of the US productivity edge really amounts to letting Wal-Mart and its big-box cousins run amok, what will happen after this source of growth tapers off?",
        "如果美国生产效率领先的确意味着让沃尔玛以及其他巨型零售企业为所欲为，那么这一增长源泉枯竭后又当如何呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This lack of clarity may become particularly troublesome should China’s leaders underestimate the enduring quality of America’s Asian commitments.",
        "同时如果中国领导人也因为这种战略清晰性的缺失而低估美国对亚洲承诺的长期效力，那么问题就更加严重了。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial fragmentation has receded but not disappeared, meaning that a loan to a company in Austria does not carry exactly the same interest rate as a loan to the same company on the other side of the Italian border.",
        "金融分裂有所减少，但并未消失，这意味着给奥地利公司的贷款与对奥地利-意大利边境另一边的同一家公司的贷款，它们的利率并不完全相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Heterodox economics includes core theoretical concepts that are fundamentally incompatible with neoclassical economics in either of its two contemporary forms.",
        "非正统经济学含有与新古典主义经济学的任何一种现代模式都根本不兼容的核心理念。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, citizens should be able to continue to curate a news story.",
        "最后，公民应该有能力继续去描述一个新闻故事。"
    ],
    [
        "Latvia is already projected to lower its emissions by 46% by that date, even without implementing any additional CO2 reduction policies.",
        "拉脱维亚即使不实施任何额外的二氧化碳限制政策，到时候预计也能减少46%的排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "3. A policy for European food systems would treat production, processing, distribution, logistics, and retailing in combination.",
        "3、关于欧洲食品体系的政策应对生产、加工、分配、物流以及零售诸环节进行联合考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, it is still too early to judge the merits of the argument.",
        "首先，判断这种说法是否正确还为时尚早。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – With less than two months remaining before America’s presidential election, much attention is focused on the state of the American economy and the challenges that it will present to the next president.",
        "剑桥—在离美国总统大选还有不到两个月的时候，人们的注意力也大都集中在了美国经济的现状及下届总统在这方面所要面临的挑战上。"
    ],
    [
        "DENVER – The most recent North Korean nuclear test is the most dangerous of the three to date. How the international community responds, in both word and deed, will say much about the world we live in.",
        "丹佛——最近的朝鲜核试是迄今为止三次中最危险的一次：国际社会在语言和行动上做出的反应将真实地反映我们所生活的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "But, until that happy day arrives, or at least until the two sides have reached the contours of an agreement, direct talks and photo opportunities should be considered counter-productive.",
        "但只要这美好的一天还没有到来，或者双方没有达成一个协议框架之前，直接谈判和镁光灯都应被视为弊大于利的。"
    ],
    [
        "This, too, may prove temporary as two new geopolitical macro-blocs gain strength in the twenty-first century.",
        "而这一状况可能也是暂时性的，二十一世纪，两大新的地缘政治宏观板块正在形成。"
    ],
    [
        "Solidarity cannot be achieved when our most important institutions are excluded.",
        "如果众多重要机构都被排除在外的话，团结是无法实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico and Peru have much to fear from other countries becoming currency manipulators again.",
        "墨西哥和秘鲁十分担心其他国家再次变成货币操纵国。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the pivot to Asia sustainable?",
        "亚洲支点究竟是否可行？"
    ],
    [
        "Separatist pressures emerged in Crimea immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union.",
        "苏联解体后，由克里米亚分裂势力引起的紧张局势马上就出现了。"
    ],
    [
        "A deep feeling of injustice is spreading across large swaths of society.",
        "深刻的不公感觉正在大片的社会领域中迅速扩散。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, lower levels of mycotoxins in pest-resistant corn mean fewer birth defects, such as spina bifida, and less toxicity to livestock.",
        "此外，抗虫玉米中的真菌毒素水平较低，这可以降低脊柱裂等新生儿缺陷，对牲口的毒性也降低了。"
    ],
    [
        "But electrophysiological evidence later emerged suggesting that higher-level brain functioning may be affected as well.",
        "但后来电生理学证据证明，konzo也可以影响更高层次的大脑功能。"
    ],
    [
        "The compromises necessary for peace are likely to lead to a stark political confrontation in Israel as well.",
        "和平所需要的妥协可能同样会导致以色列内部的强烈的政治对抗。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian troops are to remain in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.",
        "俄罗斯军队会继续保留在南奧塞梯和阿布哈兹。"
    ],
    [
        "But is there any kind of pan-European consensus on where Europe should go next, whether federal state, demoi-cracy or status quo?",
        "但是是否存在一个泛欧洲的政治理解，可以就此达成共识，或者实现多数呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Although rumors of the imminent fall of former internal security chief Zhou Yongkang have been swirling for months, many observers remained unsure whether Xi would prosecute Zhou and thus break the party’s long-established unwritten rule of immunity for sitting or retired members of the Politburo Standing Committee.",
        "尽管关于前国内安全总管周永康即将落马的流言已经传播的几个月之久，但许多观察者仍不确定习近平是否会起诉周永康，从而打破中共长期存在的不成文规矩——刑不上政治局常委，不管现任还是退休。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in order to protect farmers, they can eliminate export restrictions and ensure that timely, accurate market information is accessible.",
        "决策者可以取消出口限制，并为保障农民利益提供及时、准确的市场信息。"
    ],
    [
        "He all but guaranteed that China’s annual growth would remain above 8% in 2009.",
        "他保证中国经济2009年的增长率会维持在8%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "We can also immediately take the initiative to establish a forum for negotiation and pressure akin to the “Normandy format” that President François Hollande and Chancellor Angela Merkel successfully conceived two years ago to contain the war in Ukraine.",
        "我们也可以立即采取行动成立一个磋商论坛施压，类似于两年前法国总统奥朗德和德国总理默克尔所成立的、成功遏制了乌克兰战争的“诺班底计划”（Normandy format）。"
    ],
    [
        "The world becomes a better place when we commit to giving our children a better start.",
        "当我们致力于让孩子们获得更好的人生起点时，我们就在创造更好的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "These complexities are lost on many observers when matched up against the convenient and catchy rhetoric of the “Shia Crescent.”",
        "许多观察家在涉及到简单时髦的所谓“什叶派新月”的时候都忽略了这些复杂情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear that expanded trade will destroy jobs and disrupt the American economy needs to be balanced by fear that reduced trade will destroy jobs and disrupt the American economy.",
        "对扩大贸易会造成失业和扰乱美国经济的恐惧应该由对缩减贸易会造成同样后果的恐惧来平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these productivity-boosting inputs require institutions that teach and extend industry-relevant knowledge and skills.",
        "所有这些增进生产率的投入都需要教授和扩张产业相关知识和技能的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Such possibilities were a marginal consideration in the euphoria preceding the 2007-2009 crisis: those selling at inflated prices were making profits; and buyers “knew” they were doing the right thing – even when they weren’t.",
        "这样的可能性在2007~2009年间那种极度兴奋的情绪下被抛到了一边：那些高价卖出者确实赚到了钱； 而接盘者则“知道”自己在做正确的事——即便他们根本是错的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eurozone, for example, aggregate demand in many member countries has been constrained by, among other things, Germany’s large current-account surplus, which amounted to 8.5% of GDP in 2015.",
        "比如，在欧元区，许多成员国的总需求一直受到德国巨大的经常项目盈余（2015年占GDP的8. 5%）等因素的制约。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – For the last five years, Europe has been shaken by financial and economic convulsions that have wreaked havoc on many of its citizens’ livelihoods.",
        "马德里—过去五年来，欧洲经历了金融和经济危机，许多欧洲公民的生活毁于一旦。"
    ],
    [
        "EU directives capping the CO2 emissions of cars, for example, are actually a kind of industrial policy aimed at protecting small French and Italian automobiles.",
        "比方说，欧盟设定汽车二氧化碳排放上限的指令实际是某种意在保护法意小型车的行业政策。"
    ],
    [
        "A better approach is to steer migrants from vulnerable rural areas to nearby medium-size cities equipped with the necessary services to absorb them; this, in turn, will prevent megacities from growing unsustainably.",
        "更好的方法是将移民从脆弱的农村地区引导到具备必要条件、能够吸收他们的中型城市周边； 而这反过来又能防止大城市不可持续地增长。"
    ],
    [
        "It is playing an active role in the UN – the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, and the Human Rights Council – and it is participating in numerous initiatives related to peacekeeping, development cooperation, climate change, non-proliferation, and human rights.",
        "它在联合国安全理事会、经济社会理事会和人权理事会都发挥了积极作用——并踊跃投身与维和、发展合作、气候变化、核不扩散及人权相关的众多举措。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – In September, the United States ratified the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, known as the International Seed Treaty.",
        "斯坦福——今年9月，美国批准了粮食和农业植物遗传资源国际条约，该条约亦称国际种子条约。"
    ],
    [
        "The costs of treating smoking-related diseases, not to mention the associated productivity losses, are considerable.",
        "治疗与吸烟有关疾病的费用，更不要说相关的生产力损失是非常惊人的。"
    ],
    [
        "But while such a future may indeed arrive, it remains, for the moment, a distant prospect.",
        "但尽管这一未来确实可能到来，目前还至相当遥远。"
    ],
    [
        "And these cuts have mostly hit public investment, thus undermining future growth prospects.",
        "而这些紧缩基本上都会影响到公共投资，从而破坏未来增长前景。"
    ],
    [
        "This perception could not have been more wrong.",
        "这种感觉大错特错。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifth, debt burdens that cannot be eased by growth, savings, or inflation must be rendered sustainable through orderly debt restructuring, debt reduction, and conversion of debt into equity.",
        "第五，无法用增长、储蓄和通胀纾解的债务负担必须通过有序债务重组、债务削减和债权-股权转换让其变得可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "In Hyderabad, countries and experts will consider how safeguards can ensure that both people and nature benefit from REDD+ activities.",
        "在海德拉巴，各国和专家将考虑如何让人民和大自然同时获得REDD+带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Western Europeans, who have been spared this legacy, should heed our warnings.",
        "西欧国家免于这一遗产，应当听取我们的告诫。"
    ],
    [
        "Such statements sounded new to Chinese ears, because they accentuated politics rather than trumpeting the Party’s usual emphasis on economic determinism.",
        "这些说法对于今天的中国人来说相当新鲜的，因为这些说法都是强调政治因素的重要性，而非党以往经常强调的经济决定论。"
    ],
    [
        "National sovereignty is becoming an ever more elusive concept.",
        "国家主权的概念越来越难以捉摸。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements.",
        "纽约—美国和全世界正在进行一场关于新贸易协定的大争论。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, massive suffering could be ended with a modest amount of global funding.",
        "无论是哪种情况，如此大规模的苦难都可以因适度全球资助而终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese officials hope that higher household incomes will boost consumer spending, as the tightening labor market causes wages to rise and as urbanization shifts workers from low-productivity farm work to higher-wage employment in the cities.",
        "中国官员希望，随着劳动力市场趋近推高工资以及城市化让工人从低生产率的农活转向更高收入的城市就业，因此提高的家庭收入能够提振消费支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Be it because of a sovereign default or because of large losses accumulated under complacent accounting rules, the insolvency of a large bank (particularly a European bank) is far from a remote possibility.",
        "只要爆发主权违约，又或是由于过度自信的会计规则而积累了大量的亏损，一家大型跨国银行（尤其是欧洲银行）出现资不抵债的状况是完全有可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Sigmar Gabriel and Emmanuel Macron, the German and French economy ministers, recently called for a common fund to address Europe’s refugee and security challenges and to finance joint policies.",
        "两国经济部长加布里埃尔（Sigmar Gabriel）和马克伦（Emmanuel Macron）最近呼吁成立一个共同基金解决欧洲的难民和安全挑战，并未共同政策提供融资。"
    ],
    [
        "As if to prove Meade wrong, the Mauritians have increased per capita income from less than $400 around the time of independence to more than $6,700 today.",
        "似乎是为了证明米德是错的，毛里求斯人的年均收入从独立时的不足400美元提升到如今超过6700美元。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and the EU – rooted in the post-war European Coal and Steel Community – began with similar small steps toward integration.",
        "毕竟罗马不是一天建成的，而奠基于二战后欧洲煤钢联营的欧盟，也是通过每一小步的积累而最终实现一体化的。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico’s competition in the US market from China has increased particularly in light manufacturing – mostly clothing and electronics.",
        "在美国市场，墨西哥产品正日益受到来自中国的挑战，特别是服装和电子产品为主的轻工业。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond all of these carrots, however, societies should consider using some sticks.",
        "但除了这些胡萝卜，社会还应该考虑使用大棒。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody, it appears, can put Humpty-Dumpty Iraq together again.",
        "不管有没有宪法，似乎没有人能够让一个积重难返，四分五裂的伊拉克的再次统一。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Standard and Poor’s, for example, “The rating on EFSF reflects our view that guarantees by ‘AAA’ rated sovereigns and freely available liquidity reserves invested in ‘AAA’ securities will, between them, cover all of EFSF’s liabilities.”",
        "打个比方，按照标准普尔的说法，“对欧洲金融市场稳定基金的评级反应了我们的看法，即‘AAA’评级的主权国家和投资于‘AAA’证券的自由提供的流动资金储备可以覆盖所有的欧洲金融市场稳定基金债务。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Those looking around the next corner also worry about the stability of an international economic order in which the difficulties faced by the system’s Western core are gradually eroding global public goods.",
        "那些担心自身未来的人同时也对全球金融秩序的稳定感到忧心，因为这个秩序的西方核心所面对的难题正逐渐扩散到全球公共产品之上。"
    ],
    [
        "That measure, the first projection of Chinese naval power so far from home, is consistent with Confucianism, which regards morality as the top priority of policymaking, rather than Marxism, according to which economic interests alone drive foreign policy.",
        "这一做法是中国政府第一次将中国海军部署到如此远的地方，这与儒家的理念是一致的，即将道义作为制定对外政策的首要标准，而不是像马克思主义理论那样将经济利益视为外交政策的唯一动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic growth in the United States is still weak, and growth in emerging markets seems poised to slow.",
        "美国经济增长形势依然严峻，而新兴市场似乎也面临着减速。"
    ],
    [
        "And broad-based tax cuts would blow a hole in the budget and excite congressional deficit hawks, of whom there are still a few.",
        "而全面减税将令预算不堪重负，刺激国会中仍有不少人的赤字鹰派。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria endured decades of French dominance after WWI, and then alternatingly hot and cold relations with the US and Europe since the 1960s.",
        "在一战后的几十年里，叙利亚一直由法国主宰，随后，自20世纪60年代以来，与美国和欧洲保持着时冷时热的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The long-term unemployed account for about 36% of total unemployment, down from nearly 46% in March 2011 but still far above the previous peak of 26% reached 30 years ago.",
        "长期失业占总失业的36%左右，低于2011年3月时的46%，但仍比30年前所录得的前期峰值26%高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, he has recognized that maintaining close alliances with Japan and Australia – and good relations with India – helps to maintain the hard-power capabilities that shape the environment for a rising China.",
        "以此同时，他还表示会保持与日本和澳大利亚的亲密关系——和印度保持良好的关系——以此保持一种硬实力来迎接一个正在崛起的中国。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bikaner cluster in Rajasthan is rich in oilseed and the quarrying and production of Makarana marble and limestone.",
        "拉贾斯坦邦的比卡内尔（Bikaner）城市集群富于含油种子和Makarana大理石和石灰石的开采和制造。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite several weeks of intense US pressure to soften - or even retract - the proposed law, China’s leaders did little more than attempt to reinforce their position that “non-peaceful” (i.e., military) measures would serve strictly as a last resort - which had already been assumed anyway.",
        "尽管几周来美国大力施压，企图软化——甚至阻止——这项法案，中国的领导人们却无动于衷，仅仅是重申了他们的立场，即绝不承诺放弃“非和平”（即军事化）手段——反正人们早就知道。"
    ],
    [
        "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the United States generally separates unplanned nuclear “events” into two classes, “incidents” and “accidents.”",
        "美国核管理委员会（Nuclear Regulatory Commission）将意外发生的核“事件”分为两个级别：“事件”以及“事故”。"
    ],
    [
        "While it may require charging $100 per ticket to recover the costs of a $1 million theater play, some filmmakers can make money on a $200 million film by selling $10 tickets to consumers who are unwilling to wait a few weeks until their cable TV provider offers it.",
        "有些花掉100万制作费的舞台剧可能需要100块钱门票，但某些电影制片人可以通过出售10块钱门票给那些不愿等到电视播放才看的消费者来赚钱，虽然他们的电影成本是2个亿。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, many liberals console themselves with the belief that the obvious dangers of being governed by an ignorant, narcissistic, authoritarian loudmouth backed by billionaires, ex-generals, peddlers of malicious fake news, and neophytes with extreme views will help to galvanize a strong political opposition.",
        "在美国，许多自由派用这样的信念聊以自慰：被一位由亿万富翁、前高级将领、恶毒假新闻炮制者和观点极端的新来者支持的无知、自恋、极权的大嘴总统统治显然充满了危险，这一危险有助于刺激强烈的政治反对。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed is a conceptual framework to help businesses, governments, and individuals anticipate the radical technology-driven shifts – in business models, ethics, and social issues – on the horizon.",
        "人们迫切需要在商业模式、伦理和社会问题上建立一整套能协助企业、政府和个人预测极端技术变化的概念性架构。"
    ],
    [
        "But today’s strong kizuna and mentality of mourning have led to sharply diminished consumption.",
        "但今天这种深厚情谊和悼念心态已经导致消费急剧萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Most modern demagogues may be only vaguely aware of these precedents, if they know of them at all.",
        "就算绝大多数现代煽动者知道这样的先例，他们的了解也大抵非常模糊。"
    ],
    [
        "But the PBOC’s monetary easing – accompanied by complementary fiscal and administrative adjustments – has done little to increase demand for new loans.",
        "但人行的货币宽松——以及配套的财政政策和行政机构改革——对于增加新贷款需求没有起到理想的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Several related factors underlie the region’s chronic instability.",
        "该地区长期动荡拜几大相关因素所赐。"
    ],
    [
        "The PLA National Defense University's Major General Ji Mingkui argues that the initiative can help China to craft a “new image\" and “win influence,\" especially as the US “pivot\" to Asia “loses momentum.\"",
        "中国国防大学少将纪明葵指出，这一计划有助于中国构建“新形象”、“赢得影响力”，特别是在美国的亚洲“支点”“失去动力”时。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, while online talent platforms cannot boost weak demand in advanced economies, solve complex development issues in the emerging world, or create better jobs across the board, they can have a major impact on seemingly intractable issues like unemployment, underemployment, and low job satisfaction.",
        "简而言之，虽然在线人才平台无法提振发达国家的需求疲软状况，无法解决新兴国家的复杂发展问题，也不能在整体范围内创造更好的职位，但却能对失业，不充分就业和就业满意度低这类看似无法处理的难题产生重大影响。 麦肯锡全球研究所最近发布的一项研究成果显示，到2025年这些平台每年可以增加2."
    ],
    [
        "The cognitive scientist Steve Torrance has pointed out that powerful new technologies, like cars, computers, and phones, tend to spread rapidly, in an uncontrolled way.",
        "认知技术学家史蒂夫·托伦斯（Steve Torrance）已经指出强大的新技术，诸如汽车，计算机和电话，有一种不受控制快速扩散的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, Germany, the EU’s largest country, has hesitated to contribute forces, funds, and even strategic advice, reflecting its dark military history.",
        "特别是，欧盟最大的国家德国在贡献部队、资金甚至战略建议方面显得颇为犹豫，这反映了其黑暗的军事史。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of media strategy, the contrast between the leaders of the Arab countries and bin Laden could not be starker.",
        "在媒体策略方面，阿拉伯国家领导人和本拉登之间有着天壤之别。"
    ],
    [
        "As a friend of Israel, I am surprised that more of us are not calling on the country’s leaders to seize the brief geopolitical opportunity of a viable two-state solution, while the offer remains on the table.",
        "当两国方案有效时，以色列却未能趁机把握住这个地缘政治机会，而作为以色列的友人，我对其他大多数友人的无所作为而感到震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "The continent's largest petroleum companies, and equipment suppliers, are ready to invest what is needed to reduce CO 2 emissions.",
        "欧洲大陆的最大石化公司以及设备提供商已开始投资于降低二氧化碳排放所需要的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – The United States, supposedly the world’s beacon of democracy, is practicing a strange form of it nowadays.",
        "普林斯顿—身为所谓世界民主灯塔的美国，眼下行为诡异。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that the global economy is recovering, other assets – equities or even revived real estate – thus provide higher returns.",
        "如今随着全球经济复苏，其他资产——股票或甚至是走出低谷的房地产——都能提供更高的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Chinese authorities have said that it is open for others to join, though that seems unlikely, given the scale of the Chinese commitment.",
        "但中国当局已表示欢迎其他国家加入其中，尽管从中国投入的规模看可能性较小。"
    ],
    [
        "A variety of studies confirming this proposition, including one by the IMF’s chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, have withstood considerable scrutiny and leave little room for ambiguity.",
        "大量研究确认了这一说法，其中就包括IMF首席经济学布兰查德（Oliver Blanchard）。 这些研究经得起考验，结论明白无误。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, we must make sure that all candidates adhere to a basic code of conduct.",
        "相反，我们必须确保所有候选人都遵守基本游戏规则。"
    ],
    [
        "But a best-case scenario provides a poor policy framework in our imperfect world.",
        "然而这种美梦式的设想会给我们这个从不完美的世界带来差劲的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Three lessons for the rest of us come to mind. First, there is no gain without pain.",
        "这让我们这些亚洲之外的人领悟到了三个教训：首先，有付出才有收获。"
    ],
    [
        "Going to court is practically unheard of, as it would mean renouncing family practices.",
        "上法院更是几乎闻所未闻，因为这意味着放弃家族决定权。"
    ],
    [
        "In post-communist Europe, banks had to be built from scratch out of the rubble of socialism.",
        "而后共产主义欧洲还需要在社会主义的废墟中建设它们的银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Its role has expanded over time, and the Fed, along with many of its developed-country counterparts, has engaged in increasingly unconventional monetary policy – quantitative easing, credit easing, forward guidance, and so on – since the 2008 global financial crisis.",
        "其角色随时间而扩大，和许多发达国家的同道机构一样，自2008年全球金融危机以来，美联储也采取了日益非常规的货币政策——量化宽松、信用宽松、前瞻指引，等等。"
    ],
    [
        "New reactors being built today incorporate significantly enhanced safety features, both active and passive, compared to the Fukushima generation of reactors.",
        "与福岛核电站所采用的那一代反应堆相比，眼下在建的新核反应堆采用了强化的主动和被动安全设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Does Europe Have a Korean Option?",
        "欧元区可以走韩国之路吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Finance is complex, and a lot of devils could be, and were, hidden in the details.",
        "金融交易较为复杂，许多恶魔可能（或已经）被隐藏在细节中。"
    ],
    [
        "A hedge fund can simply go out of business; that is not an option for a great nation.",
        "对冲基金可以破产了事，但大国不能如此。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not certain that the existence of such a fund prior to the recent Ebola outbreak would have led to the development of vaccines or treatments for the disease.",
        "在最近的埃博拉爆发前存在这样一个基金是否能推动埃博拉疫苗和治手段的开发，我们无法确定。"
    ],
    [
        "The survey also showed that although China's government ruled out universal suffrage in the 2007 and 2008 elections, over 40% of respondents still wanted democracy by then, with nearly 20% more wanting it by the next round of elections in 2011 and 2012.",
        "该调查还显示虽然中国政府取消了在2007和2008年选举中实施全民投票的计划，仍有40%的被调查者希望在那时实现民主，另有20%的人希望民主能在2011和2012年的下一轮选举中实现。"
    ],
    [
        "England would be left to wave its flag of St. George over Wales and Northern Ireland, a rather sour prospect.",
        "只剩下英国对威尔士和北爱尔兰挥舞圣乔治大旗，这样的画面相当酸楚。"
    ],
    [
        "Bernanke’s point was that Americans should worry about the combination of federal tax increases and spending cuts that are currently scheduled to begin at the end of this year.",
        "伯南克的出发点是美国人应该担忧联邦税增加和支出削减的双重挤压，按照日程，财政悬崖将在今年年底到来。"
    ],
    [
        "They stood to lose billions, and many financial-sector employees stood to lose their jobs.",
        "它们可能因此损失数十亿美元，不少金融部门员工还将丢掉工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Security along the border can run on parallel tracks.",
        "对边境沿线的护卫可以按照平行的轨道进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the US needs tax increases to move the federal budget into surplus and policies to boost private savings.",
        "是的，美国需要增加税收来扭转其财政赤字状况并推动私人储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "Before that, McCotter led Utah's corrections department, but was forced to resign after the death of a schizophrenic inmate who had been stripped naked and strapped to a restraining chair for 16 hours.",
        "在此之前，麦考特任犹他州改造部的主管，但却由于一个患精神分裂症的犯人的死亡而被迫辞职。 该犯人被剥光衣服绑在刑讯椅上长达１６小时。"
    ],
    [
        "And, when they lose their jobs, most lose their health insurance, too.",
        "当他们失去了工作，同时也失去了健康医疗保险。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so will show that relations need not be defined only through political conflict. Rather, there is now an opportunity to define connections between America and the Muslim world by sharing the richness and complexity of Muslim artistic expressions – as a vital step in finding grounds for mutual respect.",
        "这样做的目则是为了表明：文明间的关系并不只是以政治冲突来界定，相反，美国和穆斯林世界有机会通过分享穆斯林丰富复杂的艺术表现形式来重新定义彼此的联系——而这更是探索相互尊重共识所需的至关重要一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Don’t Cry for Doha",
        "不要为多哈哭泣"
    ],
    [
        "Social Security has helped reduce poverty among the elderly.",
        "社会保障有助于减轻老年人的贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the best performers are in Asia – the only region where several economies have grown by 5% or more for at least four decades.",
        "许多表现最佳的国家在亚洲——唯一一个有多个经济体在至少四时年的时间里保持5%或以上增长速度的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "As if that were not bad enough, the final session witnessed new lows in unruly behavior, with microphones broken, scuffles in the well of the house, and a legislator releasing pepper spray to prevent discussion of a bill he opposed.",
        "彷佛这还不够糟糕似的，这届议会还出现了各种刷新下限的奇葩行为，毁坏话筒、在议会大厅打架、甚至有一位议员喷洒胡椒喷雾阻止议会讨论他所反对的法案。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU has been a major force behind globalization, and only the EU has the power to help manage the consequences.",
        "欧洲曾经是全球化的主要推动力，也只有欧盟有力量改变结果。"
    ],
    [
        "It is possible that to reduce these transactions costs, Bush will propose restricting choice, which was the main argument for privatization in the first place.",
        "为了降低这些交易成本，布什将很有可能建议限制选择范围，这就是私有化讨论的首要争论点。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast to China, Russia’s economy depends heavily on its energy resources, leaving it vulnerable when global energy markets head south.",
        "与中国相反，俄罗斯经济严重依赖能源资源，当全球能源市场下跌时，其经济也会变得虚弱。"
    ],
    [
        "So it might be useful to step back and take one more look at our disagreeable negotiating partner – Iran – to see what should, and should not, be emphasized diplomatically.",
        "因此我们或许可以退后一步，再次审视伊朗这个令人不快的谈判伙伴，以便确定哪些问题可以被列为外交重点。"
    ],
    [
        "These are the real factors driving the confrontation that the Vienna negotiations are meant to defuse over the next six months.",
        "这些才是今后六个月维也纳谈判想要化解对抗的真正驱动因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Trump’s dystopian and dyspeptic speech conceded that the UN makes valuable contributions to world peace, through peacekeeping missions and other forms of assistance.",
        "即便特朗普的反乌托邦和暴躁言论也承认联合国通过维和行动及其他形式的援助为世界和平作出了宝贵的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while regulators often target bank executives’ incentives, they often leave intact the organization’s incentives to take risks – but then command them, via regulation, not to take those risks.",
        "此外，监管者的目标常常是银行高管的激励，却常常对组织的冒险激励视而不见，反而是在事后通过监管要求它们不要冒这些险。"
    ],
    [
        "The time has come to pay for these mistakes.",
        "如今，巴西要为此付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The pragmatic wisdom of early Zionism is easily explained: in contrast to the anti-Semitic cliché about “Jewish power,” Zionism was the national movement of a weak people, decimated by oppression and genocide – a people that might face annihilation if it made the wrong choice at a moment of decision.",
        "早期锡安主义的务实智慧很容易解释：与反闪族的“犹太势力”的陈词滥调相反，锡安主义是弱势民族的民族主义运动，这个民族因为压迫和大屠杀而饱受摧残，如果在抉择时刻做出了错误的选择，可能遭遇灭族之灾。"
    ],
    [
        "America, like the rest of us, is vulnerable to climate change, pandemics, and terrorism – challenges that require coordinated global solutions.",
        "与我们其他人一样，美国也无法逃避气候变化、流行病和恐怖主义——这些挑战需要全球合作解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Paradoxically, the current fighting and the masses of displaced persons that it produced have helped to draw attention to the crisis.",
        "荒谬的是，当前的战斗和其导致的大量难民有助于引起人们对危机的注意。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a collective responsibility to treat such problems not as Muslim issues, but as problems whose solutions will enhance the values on which European society is based.",
        "将这样的问题不是作为穆斯林的问题，而是作为其解决方法能提升欧洲社会建立基础的价值的问题来处理，人们具有共同的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "All have squandered lives, money, and prestige.",
        "这些国家都付出了生命、金钱和声望的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "This conditioning effect continues and increases after birth, leading to different degrees of epigenetic marking in different organs.",
        "这一条件性印象会在出生后继续存在和增加，导致不同器官不同程度的外生特征。"
    ],
    [
        "Compare this to the natural ratio of 105 boys per 100 girls.",
        "而自然男女比应该是105:100。"
    ],
    [
        "The risks of failure multiply whenever the UN Security Council as a whole does not back the military part of the intervention.",
        "当联合国安理会作为一个整体不支持干预的军事部分时，失败风险就会成倍增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The thing about clowns, though, is that few have any aspirations to rule their countries.",
        "但小丑的问题在于他们鲜有管理国家的愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "DENVER – One of the hallmarks of a presidential transition in the United States is a comprehensive policy review, aimed at determining which policies to retain and which to eliminate or change.",
        "丹佛—美国总统交接的一大标志是全面的政策评估，其目标是确定保留哪些政策、撤销或改变哪些政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Personal data is exactly that – personal.",
        "个人数据就是个人的数据。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ibrahim Prize was established only in 2007, which means that the candidates have served most of their terms in office at a time when the prize could not have influenced their behavior.",
        "莫·易卜拉欣奖在2007年才成立，意味着候选人们的任期主要都是在奖项设立之前，因此也无法为了奖金改变其行为。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, both John McCain and Barack Obama use the cost of inaction as a pivotal reason to support carbon cuts.",
        "在美国，麦凯恩和奥巴马都使用无所作为的代价作为支持减少二氧化碳排放的关键原因。"
    ],
    [
        "This can be done by making raters’ profits depend not on satisfying the issuers that select them, but on performing well for investors.",
        "这只有当实现评级机构的利润与选择他们的发行机构脱钩，并与为投资者所提供服务挂钩的时候才可能成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Time for Helicopter Money?",
        "从直升机上撒钱的时机到了？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, precisely because liberal democracy did not triumph worldwide, many pressing crises now require attention and action.",
        "事实上，正是因为自由民主不曾在全世界大获全胜，许多今天的紧迫危机需要引起关注和行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as people increasingly admire international celebrities, so they believe that world famous centers of business, technology, and culture - whose names are household words to people everywhere - are uniquely valuable.",
        "就如人们越来越崇拜国际名人一样，他们同样相信那些家喻户晓的、世界著名的商业中心，技术中心和文化中心具备其独有的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "The disastrous state of health care in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where Ebola is raging, reflects decades of horrific civil war in both countries.",
        "埃博拉病毒肆虐的利比里亚和塞拉利昂灾难性的医疗保健状况是两国数十年恐怖内战的反映。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, more than half of Algeria’s helium molecules head north, unrecovered, in gas pipelines via Spain and Italy.",
        "与此同时，一大半阿尔及利亚氦气在没有被分离的情况下向北通过输气管道输往西班牙和意大利。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s foreign ministry condemned the US-Japanese move as interference in Chinese internal affairs and expressed resolute opposition to Abe’s statement.",
        "中国外交部谴责美日的行为是对中国内政的侵犯，并对安倍的言论予以坚决反对。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Japan are doing just that under the name of “quantitative easing.”",
        "实际上，美联储、英格兰银行和日本银行正在以“定量宽松（quantitative easing）”的名义这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "From a monetary-policy perspective, there was also a need to cope with the deflationary legacy of financial crisis.",
        "从货币政策角度，欧洲央行还需要应对金融危机的通缩遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the United States, all major presidential appointments must be ratified by the Senate; even if rejections are rare, the vetting process is important, for the president knows that he can go only so far.",
        "在美国，总统所有的任命都必须要经过国会的认可，即使参议院很少提出反对意见，这一审查程序也非常重要，因为总统明白他的权力只能到此为止。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that Moscow should be given a veto over Ukraine's security orientation or that Ukraine can never become a member of NATO.",
        "这并不是说莫斯科就应该拥有对乌克兰安全防卫取向的否决权，或乌克兰就永远不能成为北约的成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rise of the Food Barons",
        "食品大亨的崛起"
    ],
    [
        "They ignore the fact that the NBU can control only the nominal appreciation of the hryvnia.",
        "他们忽略这一事实，也就是国家银行只能控制格里夫纳名义上的升值。"
    ],
    [
        "The more Europe suffers, the more its people will correctly perceive an incrementalist agenda for reform as nothing more than an exercise in futility.",
        "欧洲苦难越重，就有越多的欧洲人民能正确地感受到渐进式的改革日程纯属无用功。"
    ],
    [
        "India has a population of 1.2 billion people, but it has long been dominated by a tiny elite: a couple of hundred extended families, totaling perhaps 4,000-5,000 people.",
        "印度有12亿人，但长期以来一直由一小撮精英主宰：大约几百个大家族，总数在4,000—5,000人。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben recently emphasized, it appeared at the beginning of the postwar era.",
        "正如意大利哲学家阿加姆本（Giorgio Agamben）最近所强调的，这从战后伊始就开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "When he rightly opposed America’s war against Iraq, the pride of standing up to the world's only superpower was palpable.",
        "当他公开反对美国出兵伊拉克时，向世界上唯一的超级大国示威的自豪之情溢于言表。"
    ],
    [
        "And experts worry that the novel H1N1 virus could mutate into a more severe strain.",
        "专家们对新的H1N1充满了忧虑，担心病毒会变异为威胁更大的品种。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, Telefónica, the world’s fifth-largest mobile-network provider, tried to allay such fears by launching a digital confidence program to reassure customers that innovations in transparency would be implemented responsibly and without compromising users’ personal information.",
        "去年全球第五大移动网络运营航西班牙电信推出了数字信心计划，向顾客保证透明的创新将得到负责任的实施，不会包含用户的个人信息，试图以此减轻这类担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that sea levels will continue to rise is now clear.",
        "海平面将会继续升高的事实已经很清楚了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gülen movement operates at least one-quarter of these schools, which form a key component of the movement’s multi-billion-dollar education network and help it recruit new members.",
        "这些学校至少有四分之一是葛兰运动开的，它们也构成了葛兰运动数十亿美元教育网络的关键部分并为之输送新成员。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaria is an important example where specific investments can solve the problems of disease, hunger, and extreme poverty.",
        "疟疾只是定向投资如何解决疾病、饥饿和极端贫困问题的一个重要实例。"
    ],
    [
        "But that implies a stable business environment, including more transparency in government approvals, and looser capital controls.",
        "但这需要稳定的商业环境，包括增加政府批准的透明度和放松资本管制。"
    ],
    [
        "Most obviously, the US Federal Reserve’s target for the federal funds rate is still only 1.25%-1.5%.",
        "最显而易见的是，美联储联邦基金利率目标仍然只有1. 25%—1."
    ],
    [
        "It is also true that countries dependent on official aid and IMF loans can face unwarranted pressure to conform to outsiders’ wrongheaded policy views – from premature opening of capital markets in Asia in the 1990’s to force-fed austerity in Greece and Spain today.",
        "同时，那些依赖官方援助和国际货币基金组织的国家也要面对莫名其妙的压力去遵从别国的错误政策观点——从1990年代亚洲不成熟资本市场的贸然放开到当今对希腊和西班牙的强制紧缩都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But, contrary to the impression created by media reports, the Japanese economy is far from moribund.",
        "但是，与媒体报道所营造的印象相反，日本经济离行将就木还有十万八千里。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the private sector has largely resisted these policies.",
        "目前，私人部门大多抵制这些政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, inadequate education at the secondary and tertiary levels, including technical and vocational education and training, is leaving students unequipped to meet the job market’s changing demands.",
        "此外，中学和大学教育（包括技术及职业教育培训）的缺陷导致学生无法应对就业市场需求的不断变化。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this is to say that engaging North Korea is not an option.",
        "这并不是说接触朝鲜不是一种选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Khrushchev was ousted in a palace coup sponsored by the KGB and blessed by the military.",
        "赫鲁晓夫在由克格勃支持并得到军队认可的宫廷政变中被赶下台。"
    ],
    [
        "Are his patriotic credentials strong enough for him to renege on this pledge and pursue negotiations to withdraw without capturing the talismanic Osama?",
        "”他的爱国口碑是否足够强到让他违背自己的承诺而寻求撤军谈判，同时不去抓捕似乎有护身符保护的奥萨马？"
    ],
    [
        "The solution seems to lie in some variation on the “Responsibility while Protecting” idea first proposed by Brazil (with China and Russia privately showing some sympathy), which would require some form of ongoing monitoring and review of military mandates.",
        "解决之道似乎在某种程度上有赖于巴西首先提出的“负责任地保护”概念（中国和俄国对此私下表示支持），“负责任地保护”要求对军事行动进行某种形式的持续监控和审核。"
    ],
    [
        "Dozens of experts recently gathered in Bhutan’s capital, Thimphu, to take stock of the country’s record.",
        "几十位专家不久前会聚不丹首都廷布，总结不丹的发展之路。"
    ],
    [
        "MARTIGNY, SWITZERLAND – If we were able to capture and use the energy from just two minutes of sunlight falling on the earth, it would be enough to fuel our cars, light and heat our buildings, and provide for all of our other electricity needs for an entire year.",
        "瑞士马蒂尼——如果我们能够捕获并利用短短两分钟内照射到地球上的太阳能量，就足以为我们的汽车加油、为我们的建筑提供照明、采暖以及满足整整一年其他所有的用电需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranian citizens are not alone in taking issue with their country’s foreign policy.",
        "伊朗人民不是唯一对国家外交政策质疑的人。"
    ],
    [
        "In factories as well, Party bureaucrats wanted to know everything and decide everything.",
        "工厂的情况也同样糟糕，党内官僚想要无所不知，大权独揽。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the challenge posed by rapid population growth.",
        "以人口快速增长的挑战为例。"
    ],
    [
        "For every major problem - hunger, illiteracy, malnutrition, malaria, AIDS, drought, and so forth - there are practical solutions that are proven and affordable.",
        "对于每个主要问题，诸如饥荒、文盲、营养不良、疟疾、艾滋病、干旱等等，也有相应能够承受且已被证明可操作的解决方法。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the General Assembly should hold public hearings in which candidates are interviewed, thereby greatly enhancing the stature of the candidate who is eventually selected.",
        "例如，大会应当举行公开听证会面试候选人，这样大大提高最终获选的候选人地位。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, when this study was finally published, it stated categorically that there was “insufficient evidence” to link the increased losses to global warming.",
        "谁知当这一研究最终发表时，却明确声明在损失增加和全球变暖之间找不到“足够的证据”证明两者之间的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "The Economic Fundamentals of 2013",
        "2013年经济的基本面"
    ],
    [
        "But Iraqi leaders’ difficulty in forming a government following last spring’s elections bodes poorly.",
        "但伊拉克领导人未能在今年春天选举之后成功组建政府的情况确实是个不祥之兆。"
    ],
    [
        "Let them take it, but let’s also ensure they leave no worse a mess than Nature intended.",
        "让他们放手去做，但同时务必保证不让他们破坏环境。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, we have seen how internal and external security conditions are closely linked.",
        "近年来，我们亲眼目睹了国内外局势的密切联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is in their self-interest to turn to politicians who oppose these changes.",
        "事实上，转向反对这些变化的政客才符合他们的私利。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s complex system of national and state sales taxes distorts domestic trade.",
        "印度复杂的国家和邦销售税制扭曲了国内贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s government has promised Hong Kong’s citizens that they can freely elect their Chief Executive in 2017.",
        "中国政府承诺香港公民，他们可以在2017年自由选举首席行政长官。"
    ],
    [
        "One-quarter of China’s people drink substandard water; one-third of urbanites breathe badly polluted air.",
        "中国人口的四分之一饮用低于标准的水； 三分之一的城市居民呼吸严重污染的空气。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing economies that manage to grow rapidly on a sustained basis without relying on natural-resource booms – as most of these countries have for a decade or more – typically do so through export-oriented industrialization.",
        "那些无需依赖高价自然资源而持续实现快速增长的发展中经济体——跟它们十多年来的发展模式相反——通常都是通过出口导向的工业化。"
    ],
    [
        "In a campaign centered on the emergence of a new generation of political leaders, he lost his appeal.",
        "这一场竞选集中在新的一代领导人的涌现上，他失去了他的感召力。"
    ],
    [
        "The response is centered on a payroll-tax cut, which will be offset by spending cuts and a higher value-added tax.",
        "反应的核心是降低工资税，而税收的减少将用支出削减和增值税的提高抵消。"
    ],
    [
        "But de Gaulle later resigned of his own volition, over an issue of minor importance.",
        "但后来戴高乐却因为一个没那么重要的问题主动选择了辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "Today we live in a democratic society, but many people - not only in the Czech Republic - still believe that they are not true masters of their destiny.",
        "今天，我们生活在民主社会中，但是许多人——不仅仅在捷克共和国内——仍然相信自己无法真正主宰自己的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "The upheavals resulting from momentous technological change are rarely expected.",
        "人们很少料到重大技术革命所带来的动荡。 电报葬送了邮政。"
    ],
    [
        "Some, notably in China and Brazil, reached lows last fall and again in March, before rebounding sharply, with Brazil’s Bovespa up 75% in May compared to late October 2008, and the Shanghai Composite up 54% in roughly the same period.",
        "有些股票市场，特别是中国和巴西的股票市场，在大幅反弹之前——巴西Bovespa股指与2008年10月底相比上涨了75％，上证综指在同期大约上涨了54％——在去年秋天和今年三月份两次达到了低点。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Democratic Union Party – the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been fighting a guerrilla war against the Turkish state for the last three decades – is on its way toward establishing a Kurdish autonomous region along Turkey’s Syrian border.",
        "而民主联盟党（Democratic Union Party）——库尔德工人党（Kurdistan Workers’ Party，PKK）的叙利亚分支，过去三十年来一直在进行针对土耳其的游击战——正在迈向沿土耳其的叙利亚边境建立库尔德自治区。"
    ],
    [
        "In June Liu Liang finally got what he deserved - a BMW-325i sedan and a sincere apology from the lottery center.",
        "在今年6月，刘亮终于得到了他应得的奖品-一辆BMW-325i型轿车和来自彩票中心的诚挚歉意。"
    ],
    [
        "A useful starting point is to examine the key appointments that have been made since President Xi Jinping assumed office.",
        "我们可以通过分析自习近平就职后做出的一系列重要任命来推测。"
    ],
    [
        "A “boring” bank, shielded from competition and knowing that it “owns” its customers, would want to go the extra mile to help them, because it would get its pound of flesh from their future business.",
        "了解其“自身”客户的免于竞争的“无聊”银行将愿意多迈一步帮助其客户，因为这样做能够从客户身上榨取更多的油水。"
    ],
    [
        "Rescuing Annapolis",
        "拯救安那波利斯和平进程"
    ],
    [
        "Concerned that President Barack Obama will be less likely than Bush to use force to stop Iran, Israel must now contemplate its next steps should diplomacy continue to stall.",
        "由于担心巴拉克·奥巴马总统比布什更不情愿使用武力阻止伊朗，以色列现在必须考虑外交调停继续遇阻之后所能采取的步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "As the examples above show, conservation and improved livelihoods for the rural poor are feasible, and even mutually reinforcing.",
        "上面的例子表明，在保护的同时改善贫困农民生活不仅可行、甚至是相辅相成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Where on earth can you see a nuclear-armed, missile-shooting panhandler such as Kim Jong-il?",
        "你在哪里还能找到一个像金正日一样有着核武器和导弹发射系统的乞丐 ？"
    ],
    [
        "In determining the value of total wealth, Piketty included both the income generated by assets and their appreciation.",
        "在确定总财富的价值时，皮克提涵盖了通过资产所产生的收入及其升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Adopting children from developing countries does not address the causes of poverty.",
        "收养发展中国家儿童并没有消除贫困的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "The intellectual climate of the time was greatly influenced by the European Enlightenment, with its interest in reasoned construction of a social order, and its commitment to the creation of a society responsive to people’s preferences.",
        "Borda）和马奎斯·孔多塞（Marquis de Condorcet）。 当时的知识界气候受欧洲文艺复兴的巨大影响，人们对理性的社会秩序的构建兴趣浓厚，开始致力于创建响应人民偏好的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments, insurers, medical professionals, patients, and caregivers need to work together to ensure that the transition to this health continuum is well managed, so that access can be expanded, outcomes can be improved, and productivity can be enhanced.",
        "政府、保险商、医学专业人士、患者和护理人员需要齐心协力确保向这一健康连续统的转变得到良好管理，扩大其接触范围，改善其结果，强化其生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world looks to Silicon Valley and sees an echo chamber of self-righteous conceit, mature and law-abiding technology companies are assumed to be inside it, too.",
        "世界看向硅谷，看到的是自以为是的骄傲的回音室（echo chamber）； 而成熟的守法科技公司也应该在其中。"
    ],
    [
        "For these desperate people, the Dera Sacha Sauda and its charismatic leader – not to mention the several other, mostly smaller Deras dotting Punjab and Haryana – emerged as saviors.",
        "对这些绝望的人来说，真言之家和它的魅力非凡的领袖——更不用说其他一些分布在旁遮普和哈里亚纳邦的较小的真神宫了——简直是救世主下凡。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, a court in the United Kingdom has finally brought some clarity to the issue, ruling that Argentina's interest payments on bonds issued under UK law are covered by UK law, not US judicial rulings.",
        "如今，一家英国法庭给这一问题带来了一些澄清。 它裁定阿根廷根据英国法律发行的债券，其利息偿付只需遵守英国法律，不必顾及美国法院的裁决。"
    ],
    [
        "But NATO leaders will also lift their eyes from the immediate challenges of the day, and discuss a fundamental strategic question as well: how to use NATO to its fullest potential as a platform for holding political discussions and building transatlantic consensus across the wide range of the issues where Europe and North America share common interests and wish to defend common values.",
        "但是北约领导人也会将他们的目光从当前面临的挑战上移开，讨论基本战略问题：如何最大限度地发挥北约举行政治讨论的平台作用，以及如何在一系列欧洲和北美享有共同利益、维护相同价值观的问题上，创建跨大西洋两岸的共识。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in Washington, where I arrived at the beginning of the tournament, I was greeted at the airport by television screens showing the game.",
        "甚至当我在世界杯赛开始之际抵达华盛顿的时候，我在机场看到电视屏幕在转播比赛。"
    ],
    [
        "The first and most pressing issue is to stabilize the government in Kyiv.",
        "最迫切的首要任务是要稳定基辅政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The recession exacerbated such views: in 2009, one-half of the US public favored allowing fewer immigrants, up from 39% in 2008.",
        "衰退放大了这一观点：2009年，一半美国公众支持减少移民，而2008年只有39%。"
    ],
    [
        "The world has two chief aims in the area between Cairo and Teheran: to maintain peace in the wider Middle East so that oil flows freely through the Persian Gulf; to steer the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians toward a settlement that guarantees the safety of Israel in its internationally recognised borders, while meeting the Palestinian people’s legitimate national aspirations for their own state.",
        "国际社会在开罗和德黑兰之间的地区有两个首要的目标：维持更广泛的中东地区的和平以便让石油能够通过波斯湾畅流无阻； 朝和解的方向引导巴以冲突从而确保以色列在国际承认的边界内的安全，同时也满足巴勒斯坦人民建立自己国家的合法心愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, a government statistician cannot judge the increase in quality of everything from restaurant meals to medical care.",
        "不幸的是，一个政府统计人员无法评断从餐馆出品到医疗服务的质量提升。"
    ],
    [
        "But it knows that this would violate WTO rules.",
        "但它知道，这会违反世贸组织规则。"
    ],
    [
        "But personally, I will also remember my grandmother’s sentence “Thank God we lost that war!”",
        "但是，作为个人来讲，我还要记住我祖母的那句话：“感谢上帝，我们输了这场战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Using a measure of “comprehensive income” – money income, total capital gains on wealth, imputed rent on owner-occupied housing, non-cash government benefits, and public consumption – income taxes are generally progressive.",
        "美国使用的是“综合收入” 的衡量标准-货币收入、财富的资本总收益、业主自用住房的推算租金、非现金的政府福利和公共消费-因此一般都是累进所得税。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the high reserve ratio and forced purchase of central-bank bills squeezes commercial banks’ profits severely – a phenomenon that will be intensified by interest-rate liberalization.",
        "此外，高存款贮备金率和强制购买央行票据严重积压了商业银行的利润空间——该情况在利率管制放松之后还将进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "KYIV – Politics and sports are often an incendiary mix, as the controversy now swirling around the Euro 2012 football championship, to be co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland, demonstrates.",
        "发自基辅——政治和体育经常会成为某种煽动性的混合物，正如当前围绕着2012年欧洲国家杯——该项赛事由乌克兰和波兰合办——的论战所体现的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy peaked a few months later, and the Fed began aggressive easing in 2008.",
        "经济在几个月后见顶，美联储在2008年开始实行激进的宽松政策。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do not want to repeat the failures of past administrations, they will be well advised to do what none of Obama’s predecessors have tried.",
        "如果他们不想重复以前美国政府的失败，他们就非常应该做那些奥巴马的前任们所没有尝试过的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "With the core nuclear issue more or less settled, it is now imperative to resolve sanctions and normalization issues and grasp the opportunity for regional grand bargains that might then become possible.",
        "一待核心核问题或多或少地得以解决，现在必须要解决制裁和标准化问题，把握住届时或许会成为可能的正式谈判机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dutch were nonetheless disturbed.",
        "但这依然对荷兰人造成了不小的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whether we like it or not, there is a strong parallel between them: both countries are perceived to be dictating to Muslims.",
        "但无论我们愿意与否，两者之间都存在很强的相似关系：两国都被认为是在强行驱使穆斯林的意志。"
    ],
    [
        "Just five days after the FDA sent its letter, a California woman, Lisa Casey, filed a $5 million class-action lawsuit against the firm, alleging false and misleading advertising.",
        "在FDA寄出公函前五天，一位名叫丽莎·卡塞（Lisa Casey）的加州女性提起一项500万美元的集体诉讼，指控公司虚假和误导宣传。"
    ],
    [
        "The importance of this has been stressed repeatedly at recent international forums, including last August’s Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), and the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, the following month.",
        "这一点的重要性在最近的国际论坛中反复强调，包括去年8月的第六届东京非洲发展国际会议（TICAD VI）和9月的G20杭州峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin comes closest, but even he is not Hitler.",
        "普京离纳粹差距最小，但即使他也不是希特勒。"
    ],
    [
        "And it could prove expensive to Russia itself: it is only a matter of time before suicide bombings (such as the recent attack in Ankara) occur in Moscow.",
        "并且这对于俄罗斯本身来说也可能十分昂贵：莫斯科发生（类似于最近的安卡拉的）自杀式炸弹袭击只是时间问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Israelis and Palestinians came close to agreement on “land for peace” in the context of the Oslo peace process.",
        "以色列和巴勒斯坦在奥斯陆和平进程的条件下几乎达成了“土地换和平”的协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the Soviet Union, Russia is tightly integrated into the world economy, rendering the country vulnerable to the current global financial crisis.",
        "不同于苏联，俄罗斯与世界经济的关系密不可分，因此该国在当前的全球金融危机面前十分脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "In Finland, for example, ten years of sustained public funding is now catalyzing private investments and fueling regular increases in R&D budgets.",
        "例如在芬兰，十年以来的可持续性公共基金支持正对私人投资产生催化作用，从而促成了研发预算的规律性增长。"
    ],
    [
        "They may be doing productive work, but in economies where informality is effectively institutionalized, owing to a lack of data-collection mechanisms.",
        "他们可能从事着卓有成效的工作，但由于缺乏数据搜集机制，他们所从事工作的非正规性质被有效制度化。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – As US President Barack Obama begins his second term, he will have to devote much of his attention to figuring out how to get America’s domestic finances in order.",
        "普林斯顿——随着美国总统奥巴马第二任期的开始，他不得不耗费大量精力整顿国内财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But then comes the old imperial paradox.",
        "但随之而来的旧的帝国悖论。"
    ],
    [
        "For almost a decade, people have wondered how China would use its gargantuan foreign-exchange reserves, particularly whether it would challenge the supremacy of the dollar.",
        "近十年以来人们一直都在猜想中国会如何使用自身庞大的外汇储备，尤其是会否挑战美元的无上权威。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, just providing universal primary education would require at least $17 billion of additional spending per year, and a UN General Assembly intergovernmental committee estimates that eradicating poverty would require annual investments in infrastructure of $5-7 trillion globally.",
        "事实上，仅仅是提供全民小学教育就需要每年增加至少170亿美元支出，联合国大会政府间委员会估算，消灭贫困需要全球每年投入5-7万亿美元用于基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "It should signal a real willingness to replace an order that reflects the world of 1945 with one that reflects the world of 2015.",
        "它必须释放实实在在的信号，表示愿意用反映2015年的世界的秩序取代反映1945年的世界的秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Significantly, this alternative sourcing will most likely have a higher cost base than Chinese production, thereby imposing the functional equivalent of a tax hike on already-beleaguered middle-class Americans.",
        "更重要的是，这一外包替代极有可能比中国制造成本更高，最终形成的效应等同于向已经不堪重负的美国中产阶级进一步加税。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the outlines of what is required for a settlement are fairly well understood.",
        "归根结底，达成协议所需的轮廓性条款各方其实都心知肚明。"
    ],
    [
        "Back to the Future in Ukraine and Asia",
        "回到乌克兰和亚洲的未来"
    ],
    [
        "But that is not our problem now. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.",
        "但这并不是我们当前最紧迫的问题，因此无须忋人忧天，还是处理好眼前的事吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Four, in particular need to be corrected.",
        "特别是，有四个观念需要被纠正。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the army has sustained heavy losses – including two soldiers that were beheaded – it has managed to compel the militants, who were operating inside a Syrian refugee camp, largely to withdraw.",
        "虽然损失惨重——其中包括两名士兵被砍头——黎军却成功迫使盘踞在叙利亚难民营中的大部分武装分子撤退。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the European Dream Over?",
        "欧洲梦破灭了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, some people, alerted to the amount of information that is being collected about them, may refrain from using the service.",
        "例如有些人对所需收集的信息量有所戒备，因此不愿使用这些服务。"
    ],
    [
        "This contrasts sharply with Brazil’s success in developing innovative and globally competitive aerospace and agricultural sectors.",
        "这与巴西在开发具全球竞争力的创新性宇航和农业部门中所获得的成功形成了鲜明对比。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, although some of the Kremlin’s moves seem clear and reasonable, others can scarcely be described as rational or forward-looking.",
        "尽管克里姆林的某些举措似乎明确而合理，但另外一些做法却难以得到合乎情理、高瞻远瞩的赞誉。"
    ],
    [
        "In this environment, distributing largesse financed by the central bank would have dangerous systemic consequences in the long run, because it would create perverse incentives for everyone involved.",
        "在这样的环境下，康央行之慨分钱将造成十分危险的长期系统性后果，因为它会给所有参与者带来不当激励。"
    ],
    [
        "It was fear of extremism, as well as a more general increase violence, that led to the rise of the Kadyrov clan in 2004, when the Kremlin decided to engage in a “Chechenization” of the conflict.",
        "而正是对极端主义的恐惧和普遍升级的冲突使得卡德罗夫一派在2004年得以崛起，当时克里姆林宫决定在冲突中推动“车臣化”进程。"
    ],
    [
        "A significant appreciation of the renminbi will reduce or even eliminate that growth subsidy.",
        "因此人民币的大规模升值也将逐步使这种补贴措施失去效用。"
    ],
    [
        "Commentators have affixed the “populist” label to the wave of demagogic politics sweeping Europe (and much of the rest of the world).",
        "评论家给目前席卷欧洲（和世界其余大部）的煽动政治贴上了“民粹主义”的标签。"
    ],
    [
        "The move roiled markets and intensified depreciation expectations.",
        "这一举措扰乱了市场，加剧了贬值预期。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as goes China, so will go the rest of an increasingly integrated Asia.",
        "而中国一减速，其他日渐一体化的亚洲国家也得跟着减速。"
    ],
    [
        "An initial public offering in 2007 followed for Compartamos, valuing the company at $2.2 billion.",
        "2007年，康帕多成功IPO，估值达22亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Today, a quarter-century after the Cold War’s end, the West and Russia are again at odds.",
        "发自纽约——今天，在冷战落幕了1/4个世纪之后，西方和俄罗斯又再次爆发了冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent report by the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel, which we authored, identifies actions that governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and multilateral development agencies can take now to close these gaps and accelerate progress toward achieving the SDGs’ overarching goal of inclusive economic growth.",
        "一份由联合国秘书长高规格委员会组织、我们执笔的最新报告指出了政府、企业、非政府组织和多边发展机构可以采取什么措施弥合这些差距，加快实现SDG的首要目标——包容性经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "A European banking champion would be far more competitive globally, rivaling the brawn of America’s dominant banks.",
        "顶级欧洲大银行将拥有大得多的全球竞争力，挑战美资银行的主宰。"
    ],
    [
        "For many years, Japanese governments have taken a “let-sleeping-dogs-lie” approach to territorial disputes over the islands, ignoring repeated provocations by China (and Taiwan).",
        "许多年来，日本政府在岛屿领土争端上一直都采取“维持现状，不惹麻烦”的策略，沉默应对中国（和台湾）的一次次挑衅。"
    ],
    [
        "Officials were wise to acknowledge their country’s vulnerabilities and to commit the resources and capital needed to build resilience.",
        "官员明智地承认菲律宾的脆弱性，并致力于筹集构建恢复力所需要的资源和资本。"
    ],
    [
        "It is argued that, to avoid a default, private creditors should agree to shoulder part of the cost of the bailout.",
        "有人说为了避免违约，私人债权人应当同意承担一部分援助成本。"
    ],
    [
        "But the US saw things very differently in the 1960’s, when the ghosts of Munich hovered over Vietnam’s jungles.",
        "但在慕尼黑的幽灵盘旋在越南丛林中的1960年代，美国看到的东西可是大不一样。"
    ],
    [
        "All this, not production costs, lies at the heart of high oil prices and the scramble for oil contracts in Central Asia and Africa.",
        "所有这些、而非生产成本是高油价以及追逐中亚和非洲石油合同的本因。"
    ],
    [
        "How do you measure health improvement?",
        "如何衡量健康改善？"
    ],
    [
        "The next meeting (COP 13) will take place in Cancún, Mexico, in early December.",
        "下一次会议（COP 13）将于12月初在墨西哥坎昆举行。"
    ],
    [
        "So Saudi Arabia is ready to cooperate with Israel not only against Iran, but also against other “radicals,” such as Hamas.",
        "所以，沙特阿拉伯准备与以色列合作，不仅针对伊朗，而且针对其他“极端份子”，例如哈马斯。"
    ],
    [
        "While higher world farm prices help producers, they hurt urban households in developing countries, many of which are also poor.",
        "虽然更高的全球农产品价格帮助了农产品生产者，但是它们也伤害了发展中国家的城市家庭，许多这样的城市家庭也很贫穷。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the need to mobilize idle resources in the short run in order to maintain productive potential in the long run, a larger national debt would be, as Alexander Hamilton, the first US treasury secretary, put it, a national blessing.",
        "我们需要在短期动员闲置资源，以保持长期生产潜力，因此，正如美国首任财政部长亚历山大·汉密尔顿所言，增加国民债务利国利民。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there have been important institutional developments in terms of early-warning mechanisms and civilian and military preparedness, not least with President Barack Obama’s recent initiation in the United States of an interagency Atrocities Prevention Board.",
        "此外，在早期预警机制和军民准备工作方面已经取得了重要的制度性进展，其中以巴拉克·奥巴马总统最近在美国发起的跨机构暴行预防委员会最有代表性。"
    ],
    [
        "When we see political leaders in many rich countries pander to unions by bashing each other on free trade and immigration, there is every reason to worry about trouble ahead.",
        "当我们看到富有国家中的许多政治领导人通过在自由贸易和移民问题上相互抨击对方而取悦于工会之时，人们就有理由担心今后的麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "But Charles Dickens’s point was precisely that Scrooge was the great loser from his arrogance, miserliness, and insolence.",
        "但查尔斯·狄更斯要说的乃是，斯克鲁奇因为他的傲慢、贪婪和无礼而沦为人生大输家。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, not a few of them overestimate their actual influence and tend to compete for leadership rather than cooperate.",
        "结果，他们中有不少人高估了自己的实际影响力，更愿意竞争领导地位而不是合作。"
    ],
    [
        "MELBOURNE – According to the United States Federal Reserve, Americans’ net worth has fallen 40% since 2007, returning to its 1992 level.",
        "墨尔本——据美联储统计，美国人的资产净值自2007年以来下降百分之四十，跌回了1992年的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The fallacy, exemplified in a recent commentary by Philip Stephens of the Financial Times, is that, “Athens is unable or unwilling – or both – to implement an economic reform program.”",
        "菲利普·史蒂芬斯（Philip Stephens）的最新《金融时报》评论很好地说明了这一谬误：“希腊不能，或不愿，或既不能也不愿实施经济改革计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, two fixed notions underpin it.",
        "事实上，其根源是两个根深蒂固的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "And, most important, rural people themselves must be involved, not only as stakeholders or beneficiaries of aid, but as partners.",
        "而最重要的是，农村人口本身必须参与其中，不仅仅作为相关利益者或援助受益者，也要作为合作者。"
    ],
    [
        "A general expansion of health insurance would also lead to an increase in the provision of hospital services.",
        "健康保险的总体扩张还能增加医疗服务供给量。"
    ],
    [
        "A “learning account” would set the parameters for educational support, including lifelong opportunities to acquire new skills and to teach skills to others.",
        "“学习账户”将设定教育支持参数，包括终身学习新技能的机会和教其他人技能的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "One answer is independent agencies along the lines of the consumer watchdog Which?",
        "答案之一是类似《选择？ 》这样的消费者独立监督机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Their real job is to be \"against\" - and this time, it is the customers they are to be against.",
        "他们真正的任务是\"反对\"――这一次，他们反对的是他们的顾客。"
    ],
    [
        "The ensuing bloodbath of US soldiers generated images that the American public could not stomach, prompting the exit of American and then UN forces.",
        "美军士兵之后的大屠杀树立起美国公众难以接受的形象，迫使美国军队和联合国部队先后撤军。"
    ],
    [
        "Most banks complied. BNP did not, engineering secret transactions involving all three countries.",
        "大多数银行照办了，巴黎银行则反其道而行，一手操办了与全部三国有关的"
    ],
    [
        "Al-Mulla’s message was that the Islamists’ victory in Egypt’s recent election gives them neither executive power nor control of the framing of a new constitution.",
        "阿尔•穆拉的意思是，虽然伊斯兰主义者在埃及最近的选举中获胜，但是他们既不能获得行政权也无法控制新宪法的形成。"
    ],
    [
        "Through a public-private partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board, the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases has led the formation of a research consortium with this precise aim.",
        "诺华热带疾病研究所（Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases）与新加坡经济发展局进行了公私合作，领衔成立了目标明确的研究联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Even China is increasingly being pushed to take responsibility for its citizens and companies overseas.",
        "甚至中国也在日益为其海外公民和公司伸张利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In Italy, domestic demand was less exuberant, but foreign capital was still needed at the margin to finance a large public debt.",
        "意大利的国内需求不太旺盛，但依然需要低利率的外资来支撑庞大的公共债务。"
    ],
    [
        "We should defeat them, however long it takes, because otherwise they will not disappear.",
        "无论需要多长时间我们必须打败它们， 否则它们会持续存在。"
    ],
    [
        "These discussions are part of a growing international movement to re-orient government policies towards well-being and happiness.",
        "上述讨论是正在兴起的国际运动的组成部分，目的是把福祉和幸福作为政府政策追求的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The ultimate test may well lie in managing the exceedingly complex interplay among these developments.",
        "终极考验也许就在于管理这些发展态势之间的过于复杂的互动。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries qualifying for a PCL would have to meet some, but relatively minimal and unobtrusive, conditions.",
        "申请PCL的国家需要符合较少也较温和的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "China, the world’s second largest economy, is a useful addition to this collection of friendly anti-democratic states, as it has its own strategic grievances with the West.",
        "全世界第二大经济体中国因为有其自身对西方的战略不满，成为对友好反民主国家联盟的有益补充。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings us to the importance of stories – and very far from the kind of statistical analysis exemplified by Stock and Watson.",
        "这令我们认识到故事的重要性——这跟斯托克和沃森列举的那类统计分析相差十万八千里。"
    ],
    [
        "By announcing a huge program of bond purchases, much bigger relative to the eurozone bond market than the quantitative easing implemented in the United States, Britain, or Japan, ECB President Mario Draghi erected the impenetrable firewall that had long been needed to protect the monetary Union from a Lehman-style financial meltdown.",
        "欧洲央行行长德拉吉宣布了庞大的债务购买计划——相对欧元区债券市场而言，其规模远大于美国、英国和日本所实施的量化宽松——这等于竖起了不可撼动的防火墙。 这一措施早就应该实施，以便在发生雷曼兄弟式的金融崩溃时保护货币联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, the UN’s special representative for children and armed conflict, Leila Zerrougui, recommended that Israel and its adversary in Gaza, Hamas (which has a grim record, too), should be placed on the UN’s annual list of states and groups that gravely violate children’s rights.",
        "毫不奇怪，联合国儿童和武装冲突特别代表莱拉·泽罗圭（Leila Zerrougui）建议以色列及其加沙的对手哈马斯（也是双手沾满了鲜血）应该被记上联合国严重损害儿童权利年度名单。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain could still lose market access as political uncertainty adds to its fiscal and financial woes.",
        "西班牙的政局不明朗，使财政和金融困境雪上加霜，令其仍被资本市场拒之门外。"
    ],
    [
        "The National School Board is, in principle, instructed to approve an application if the proposed school is likely to fulfill the national goals and has a solid financial base.",
        "从原则上讲，如果提出申请的学校有达到国家目标的实力和稳定的财政基础，那么国家教育委员会都会批准其申请。"
    ],
    [
        "At bottom, the problem is one of legitimacy.",
        "归根结底，问题恐怕还是出在合理性方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Both democracy, with its concomitant sense of belonging, and globalization, driven by cosmopolitan cities open to the world, can thrive, without causing any country to lose sovereignty.",
        "民主及其所伴生的归属感，以及向世界开放的大都市所驱动的全球化，都可以在不导致任何国家丧失主权的情况下兴旺发达。"
    ],
    [
        "But this inspiring model is under threat, as Lebanon struggles to cope with massive debt and the spread of abject poverty in rural areas, especially among Sunnis.",
        "但如此令人振奋的模式正在经受挑战，因为黎巴嫩无力偿还巨额债务，且农村地区，特别是逊尼人口极度贫困的比例不断加大。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, all of them are under threat of destruction, thanks to the influential voice of the Islamist leader Mullah Fazlullah, whose father-in-law, Sufi Mohammad, founded one of the extremist orders.",
        "就在此刻，由于伊斯兰领袖Mullah Fazlullah的巨大影响，所有这些文物都正面临着灭顶之灾。 Fazlullah是Sufi Mohammad的女婿，正是后者创建了伊斯兰教的极端派别。"
    ],
    [
        "As the WHO begins to plan the ICD eleventh edition and the American Psychiatric Association begins to plan the fifth edition of the DSM, one wonders how to ensure additional moral, social, and political accountability in what traditionally have been viewed as the instruments and products of science.",
        "当世界卫生组织开始计划ICD的第十一版，美国精神病学协会开始计划DSM的第五版时，也许有人会想知道如何保证能将那些附加在传统观念中的科学工具和成果上的道德、社会和政治性解释清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "This can be accomplished through tax increases, government-spending cuts, faster economic growth, or some combination of these components.",
        "要达到这一目标，可以通过增税、削减政府支出、加快经济增长或以上三者的结合实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Xenophobic populism is on the rise in Europe.",
        "欧洲的排外正在抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission is proposing to increase budgetary appropriations to 1.24% of the EU’s combined gross national income.",
        "欧洲委员会建议将预算支出提高至欧盟共同国民收入总值的1. 24%。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, though the TPP will bring some benefits, they will mainly accrue to large corporations and come at the expense of ordinary citizens.",
        "事实上，尽管TPP将带来一些收益，但主要是对大企业而言，并且这些收益要以普通公民为代价。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not obviously the case.",
        "但情况显然并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas Turkey could appear too Oriental and too religious in Brussels or Paris, when viewed from Cairo or Tunis, it looked like an ideal Muslim bridge to the democratic West and economically dynamic Asia.",
        "尽管土耳其人对布鲁塞尔和巴黎来说太东方、太带宗教色彩，但从开罗和突尼斯城的角度看，土耳其堪称理想的通往民主的西方和经济活力四射的亚洲的穆斯林桥梁。"
    ],
    [
        "Even agricultural producers would prefer some price stability over the wild ups and downs of the last five years.",
        "此事不足为奇：今年早些时候，世界食品价格创出了新高，让人们想起了2008年的食品价格飙升潮。"
    ],
    [
        "This trend continues.",
        "这一潮流大有延续之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Major reforms are necessary to help middle-income families escape crushing monthly payments for housing and education.",
        "韩国需要进行重大改革来协助中等收入家庭摆脱每个月的房价和教育支出高压。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly 95% of Chinese and 75% of Indians use mobile phones regularly.",
        "大约95%的中国人和75%的印度人日常使用手机。"
    ],
    [
        "Such vote buying to win hearts and minds is, after all, a fair game for any party to indulge in.",
        "毕竟，这样赢得民心的选票收买，对任何参与其中的政党来说，都是一个公平的游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "They usually want to know how to get there.",
        "他们想要知道如何到达那里。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Russians do not regard Europe’s approach to their country’s borders as a sign that they have, at long last, fully united with the civilization of which they are a part, but as a source of insecurity.",
        "大多数俄罗斯人不把欧洲逼迫他们国家的边界当作是经过许久最终完全回归自己所属的文明的标志，而把它视为不安全之源。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing nations’ pursuit of growth-promoting trade and industrial policies are increasingly running afoul of restrictive WTO rules.",
        "发展中国家实行促进发展的贸易和产业政策与限制性世贸规则之间的冲突越来越明显。"
    ],
    [
        "It has done so, with spectacular success.",
        "中国已经变成了资本主义经济，并且取得了极大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Now America has had to pay the price for ignoring loud warnings about the weakened levees of New Orleans.",
        "现在美国必须为忽视新奥尔良大堤不再稳固的大声警告付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do not diffuse worldwide, they will widen the income divide between countries and regions.",
        "如果它们无法做到全球扩散，就会扩大不同国家和地区之间的收入差距。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most troubling from an operational perspective is the possibility that ISIS could use the dark web to coordinate with operatives to plan and plot a major attack in Europe or the US.",
        "也许从操作角度看最令人不安的莫过于伊斯兰国有可能利用黑暗网络在欧美协调执行人员制定并策划大规模袭击行动。"
    ],
    [
        "As humans, we are highly evolved to adjust to our surroundings: we tend to adapt to a culture, well-conceived or not, and lose sight of its failings.",
        "作为人类，我们是高度进化的，因此能够适应我们的环境：我们倾向于接受一种文化（不管相不相信），并盲目地认为这种文化不会崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s ponder this.",
        "让我们好好思考以下这些。"
    ],
    [
        "Having lived and worked long enough in Kosovo to see the outcome so far, I contend that such experiments require further research.",
        "我在科索沃生活工作已久，足以目睹迄今为止的效果。 我承认，这样的试验需要进一步研究。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, few researchers doubt that what Hwang and his colleagues claimed to do is, in principle, achievable.",
        "但是，几乎没有研究人员怀疑，黄禹锡及其同僚宣称所做到的在原则上是可以实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "A strategy that focuses not only on how the world impacts the EU, but also on how European values and interests can and should be projected abroad would provide a rallying cry, a broader mission, and a clear purpose.",
        "这项战略不仅关注世界如何影响欧盟，而且关注欧盟价值观和利益应当如何投射到海外，这将为欧盟吹响集结号，明确欧盟更广阔的使命以及明确的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "A key concern is the precedent of withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000.",
        "2000年从黎巴嫩南部撤离的前车之鉴让人不由得对沙龙的撤离计划担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Member countries could borrow at practically the same interest rate as Germany, and banks were happy to earn a few extra pennies by loading up their balance sheets with the government debt of the eurozone’s weaker economies.",
        "成员国可以以事实上与德国相同的利率借钱，银行业很乐意持有大量欧元区疲软经济体国债，赚取零星的利差。"
    ],
    [
        "The complaint of most Republican leaders since Obama took office in 2009 is that monetary policy has been too loose.",
        "自2009年奥巴马上台以来，大部分共和党领导人抱怨货币政策过于宽松。"
    ],
    [
        "His comparison of the Iranian threat to the Holocaust may be absurd and obscene, but it is politically effective.",
        "他将伊朗威胁与大屠杀相比的卑劣手法或许荒唐可憎，却能够收到不错的政治效果。"
    ],
    [
        "In the same way that iron can be made into products as different as skillets and swords, the usefulness or harmfulness of nanotechnology products depends on how they are crafted at the nanometer scale.",
        "以同样的方式铁可以被制造成像长柄平底煎锅和剑这样不同的产品，纳米技术产品的有用或有害完全要看它们在纳米范围上是怎样被制作的。"
    ],
    [
        "The final decision about which targets will become global policy will affect the flow of trillions of dollars over the next 15 years.",
        "那些目标成为全球政策的最终决策将对今后15年价值数万亿美元的资金流动产生影响。"
    ],
    [
        "As always, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict stands perched between diplomacy and violence.",
        "与往常一样，巴以冲突的形式在外交和暴力之间摇摆不定。"
    ],
    [
        "But appearances can be deceiving.",
        "但外表可能具有欺骗性。"
    ],
    [
        "The current political turmoil in Europe shows that, regardless of how sensible Chancellor Angela Merkel’s austerity prescriptions for debt-ridden peripheral Europe might be in the abstract, they resemble a German Diktat.",
        "最近的欧洲政坛乱象表明，不管从抽象角度看德国总理默克尔为重债外围国开出的紧缩药方是多么明智，其外表却总像是德国在颐指气使。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, the fear that Afghanistan will unravel once again risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.",
        "在这种情况下，恐怕阿富汗再次解体的预言将可能成为事实。"
    ],
    [
        "It is enough to make even the cynical shake their heads in disbelief.",
        "这些都足以让即便是愤世嫉俗的人也摇头叹息并表示难以置信。"
    ],
    [
        "Using the People’s Liberation Army to murder civilian protesters, not only in Beijing, but all over China in June 1989, further undermined the one-party system’s legitimacy.",
        "1989年6月，人民解放军在北京及去全国各地残杀异见人士的恶劣行径进一步削弱了一党专制的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The rationale for national health insurance is as clear now as it was to Bismarck 130 years ago.",
        "建立国民健康保险的理由130年来从未改变。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a growing awareness in Israel that the current situation – one of open-ended Israeli occupation of lands mostly populated by Palestinians – is inconsistent with Israel’s determination to remain a secure, prosperous, Jewish, and democratic state.",
        "当前形势下，以色列人越来越意识到，无限期占领居住者多为巴勒斯坦人的土地——有违于以色列要保持一个安全、繁荣、民主的犹太国家的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Jobs are scarce, and the future looks bleak everywhere.",
        "就业机会稀少，人们的未来一片黯淡。"
    ],
    [
        "The interconnectedness of the problems in the outer circle of the region and those pertaining to the Arab-Israeli conflict in the inner circle was shown by the first Bush administration, which, in October 1991, following the first Gulf War, organized a major international conference aimed at securing an Arab-Israeli peace.",
        "该地区的外围问题和与阿以冲突有关的内围问题的相互关联性已经由第一届布什政府展现出来。 在第一次海湾战争结束后的1991年10月，该届政府组织了一次旨在实现阿以和平的重要国际会议。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, modern government finance had come to resemble sub-prime mortgages, which created the illusion of universal home ownership; rules and limits no longer applied.",
        "换言之，现代政府财政已经变得类似于某种次级贷款，不但产生了一种全球共同分担债务的幻像； 规章限制也不再适用。"
    ],
    [
        "A year ago, knowing full well that Iran was irreversibly on its way to getting the bomb, he soberly challenged Netanuyahu’s dangerous distortion of history.",
        "一年前，充分认识到伊朗即将拥有核武器这一不可逆转的事实，他清醒地质疑了内塔尼亚胡对历史的危险扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "The plan establishes a framework for raising awareness of the problem, collecting more data, developing new drugs and diagnostic tools, encouraging practices to reduce infections, optimizing antibiotic usage, and investing in countries’ health-care and sanitation capacities.",
        "该计划制定框架提高对问题的认识、搜集更多数据、研发新药和诊断工具、鼓励减少感染的操作、优化抗生素的使用并投资于国家的医疗和卫生计划。"
    ],
    [
        "In an increasingly complex and specialized world, its provision must be supported, protected, and encouraged.",
        "在日益复杂和专业化的世界中，这种公共品的提供必须得到支持、保护和鼓励。"
    ],
    [
        "This means allowing the economy to continue to slow, while maintaining relatively tight macroeconomic policies that force local governments and the business sector to find new sources of growth.",
        "这意味着在允许经济持续放缓的同时保持宏观政策面相对偏紧，从而迫使地方政府及企业部门找到新的增长点。"
    ],
    [
        "But, more important, the outcome could mark a turning point for the wider – and increasingly volatile – Middle East.",
        "但更加重要的是，谈判结果可能标志着日益动荡的整个中东地区迎来转折。"
    ],
    [
        "But its transformative potential is obvious.",
        "但其转型潜力是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, international sanctions are unlikely to dissuade Iran’s government from pursuing nuclear weapons, while a preventive strike by Israel – which would not sit idly by when Iranian nuclear forces become operational – or by the US, would encourage terrorist attacks against their populations.",
        "与此同时，国际制裁不太可能劝说伊朗政府放弃追求核武器，而以色列不会坐视伊朗的核力量达到可操作的水平——或美国的预防性攻击只会促使恐怖分子攻击他们的人民。"
    ],
    [
        "While some researchers dedicate their lives to the search for truth, regardless of any personal gain, many are driven by the hope of academic stardom and the money that comes with it.",
        "一些研究者皓首穷经只为寻找真理，完全不计个人名利，但大多数研究者如此投入的目的成为学术明星、获得因此带来的滚滚财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2013, when another close Supreme Court decision gutted the Voting Rights Act, many, if not most, states with Republican majorities in both chambers have enacted laws and regulations that suppress voting.",
        "2013年，最高法院同样以接近多数裁定否决了选举权利法（Voting Rights Act）至此以后，许多甚至大多数共和党在立法两院占多数的州都实施了抑制选举的法律和规则。 这些规则包括减少少数派占优势的地区的投票站数量；"
    ],
    [
        "China and the Deep Blue Sea",
        "中国和蓝海"
    ],
    [
        "Sheik Dia al-Shakarchi, a leading Shi’ite theologian, argues that democracy is not only compatible with Islam, but is essential to it.",
        "Sheik Dia al-Shakarchi ，一位重要的什叶派理论家，认为民主制度不仅与伊斯兰国家协调相配，并且还必不可少。"
    ],
    [
        "In an open economy, deleveraging does not necessarily impair the tradable sector so thoroughly.",
        "在一个开放经济体中，贸易部门不会像非贸易部门那样受到去杠杆化如此彻底的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Western capitalism’s model of a society based on near-universal affluence and liberal democracy looks increasingly ineffective compared to the competition.",
        "建立在近乎普遍富裕和自由民主基础上的西方资本主义社会模式与竞争模式相比效率似乎越来越低。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, millions of children are being denied any chance to realize their talents.",
        "如今，数百万儿童无法获得实现天赋的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Under what circumstances, for example, is it right to curtail press freedom in order to protect the right to privacy, or vice versa?",
        "例如，在什么情况下，为了保护隐私权而减少新闻自由是正确的呢？ 或者在什么情况下，为了保护新闻自由而减少对隐私的保护是正确的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "With US government debt running at 82% of GDP, the danger is of a “fast upward shift in interest rates.” The “potentially massive” fiscal costs of this could well require “significant tax and spending adjustments” (economist’s code for increasing taxes and reducing public spending), which would increase unemployment.",
        "在美国政府债务总额相当于GDP82%的情况下，危险在于“利率的快速上升”导致的“庞大潜在”财政成本很可能会引发“大规模的税收和支出调整”（这句经济学行话就是说要加税和削减公共开支），并增加失业。"
    ],
    [
        "A gap emerged between the economy’s productive base, which remained stagnant, and Greeks’ expectations (and demands), which were rising fast.",
        "希腊经济的生产力基础（停滞不前）和希腊人民的期望（和需求）之间出现了差距并很快扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "But is there really a clear moral distinction between killing roughly 100,000 people in Hiroshima with one atom bomb and killing even more people in Tokyo in a single night of incendiary bombing?",
        "但用一颗原子弹在广岛杀死100，000人和用燃烧弹整晚对东京进行轰炸造成更多伤亡究竟有没有明确的道德区别？"
    ],
    [
        "It was part of a regional vision to promote stability from the Balkans to the Middle East. As a result, Greece and Turkey cooperated in humanitarian efforts in Kosovo and undertook a joint peace mission to Israel and Palestine.",
        "希腊和土耳其在从贸易和能源到环境保护和打击有组织犯罪的诸多领域签署了18个互利的协议。"
    ],
    [
        "By dramatically increasing interest rates to fight inflation, policymakers broke the power of organized labor, while avoiding blame for the mass unemployment that monetary austerity was bound to produce.",
        "通过大幅提高利率以对抗通胀，政策制定者击破了工会组织的力量，同时避免了因货币紧缩必然导致的大规模失业而受指责。"
    ],
    [
        "While conveying the possibility of a veto, Russia’s current strategy is to delay a Security Council vote as long as possible by prompting a new fact-finding mission to Kosovo, which will most likely be followed by renewed insistence on another effort to negotiate a settlement.",
        "俄国一方面表示有可能行使否决权，另一方面，其当前的战略是通过促成组织一个新的前往科索沃的真相调查团来尽可能地拖延安理会表决，几乎随之而来的将会是重新坚持再一次谈判解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that anyone holding to the moral doctrines of most Christian churches should nowadays be considered a second-class citizen in the European Union.",
        "这意味着任何坚守大部分基督教义的人们如今将在欧盟中被视为二等公民。"
    ],
    [
        "The first installment of the IPCC report showed that there is indeed a climate problem – emissions of greenhouse gases, especially CO₂, lead to higher temperatures, which will eventually become a net problem for the world.",
        "首期IPCC报告显示气候问题确实存在——温室气体、特别是二氧化碳的排放导致气温升高，最终会危及到这个世界。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, a former principal deputy director of national intelligence wrote that America’s interests could require major use of US armed forces.",
        "2013年，一位前国家情报首席副官写道，美国的利益可以要求美国大规模使用武装部队。"
    ],
    [
        "Some enter as students, and some come to find jobs.",
        "有人前来求学，也有人来找工作。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, Premier Wen Jiabao announced a series of measures during the NPC, ranging from phasing out agricultural taxes over the next five years to measures aimed at increasing farmers' income.",
        "作为回应，温家宝总理在全国人大会议期间公布了一系列措施，从在未来五年逐渐减免农业税到旨在增加农民收入的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, China’s stock-market bubble did not emerge until recently.",
        "可以肯定的是，中国股市的泡沫不是直到最近才出现的。"
    ],
    [
        "True, Yasser Arafat was not a model democrat, but his charisma and political acumen were crucial for holding all the Palestinian factions together.",
        "诚然，阿拉法特不是一位模范的民主主义者，但他的魅力和政治敏锐对将巴勒斯坦各派系团结起来至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Can such an arrangement now keep Britain in Europe?",
        "这样一种安排现在能否保障英国留在欧盟?"
    ],
    [
        "Witness the global impact of the 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa or the 2003 SARS outbreak, which jeopardized even wealthy economies like Singapore and Canada.",
        "看看2014年西非埃博拉危机或2003年“非典”爆发所造成的全球影响吧，就连新加坡和加拿大这样的富裕经济体也受到了波及。"
    ],
    [
        "In the coming days, I will be visiting China in my role as Chair of the British government's Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, and also as a participant in the Boao Forum for Asia, an event similar to the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos.",
        "在未来几天中，我将作为英国政府抗耐药性评估（Review on Antimicrobial Resistance）主席以及博鳌亚洲论坛（类似于达沃斯世界经济论坛的年度会议）与会者的身份访问中国。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Asia has been on such a roll in recent years that far too many believe that the region can shrug off almost anything that the rest of the world dishes out.",
        "毕竟，亚洲在最近几年表现出色，太多的人相信，不管世界其他地区情况怎样，亚洲地区都能顶住。"
    ],
    [
        "Denmark, for example, once served as a model for labor-market reform.",
        "比如，丹麦曾经被视为劳动力市场改革典范。"
    ],
    [
        "Alas, that did not happen. And it did not happen because the world described by the Friedmans is not the world in which we live.",
        "唉，可惜那似乎不是我们所生活的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "And, according to the UHC 2030 Alliance, which works to improve the quality of and access to health-care systems around the world, recipient countries have done far more than their international counterparts to establish more effective budgetary frameworks.",
        "而根据旨在改善世界各地医疗体系质量和普及程度的全民健康覆盖2030联盟的数据，受援国在建立更加有效的预算框架方面所做的工作远远超过国际上其他国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in a future of rapid technological change and widespread automation, the determining factor – or crippling limit – to innovation, competiveness, and growth is less likely to be the availability of capital than the existence of a skilled workforce.",
        "事实上，在技术变革迅速、自动化大行其道的未来，创新、竞争力和增长的决定性因素——或天花板——更可能在于能否获得高技能劳动力而不是资本。"
    ],
    [
        "The West should propose that if China’s consumption increases by 2-4 percentage points of its GDP over the next three years (entirely possible as it improves its social safety net, cuts taxes, and puts homeownership within reach of ordinary citizens), America and Europe will expand their public investment by similar amounts.",
        "西方应提议如果中国的消费占GDP的比例在未来3年内增长2~4%（假如中国改善其社会安全网，减税并令普通家庭都能拥有住房就完全能实现这一点），欧美都将增加同等比例的公共投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The West deserves a share of the blame for the current situation.",
        "西方理应为当前局势部分承担责任。"
    ],
    [
        "This group could chart a course for US-China relations in 2017, identify potential conflicts, and recommend solutions before tensions can reach a boiling point.",
        "该小组可以指导2017年的美中关系、识别潜在冲突并在紧张局势达到沸点之前提出解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, a clear division between a refugee-friendly west and a closed east would effectively end the Schengen Agreement, because the political disagreement would harden into a physical barrier blocking the free movement of people within the EU.",
        "类似地，对难民友好的西部和封闭的东部之间明确分裂将在事实上终结申根协定，因为政治分歧将深化为实体屏障，阻碍人们在欧盟内部的自由迁徙。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, Republicans – backed by their Tea Party activists – are threatening to close the government down just because President Barack Obama has offered undocumented immigrants who have lived and worked in the US for many years a chance to gain citizenship.",
        "在美国，由茶党活动分子支持的共和党正威胁要关闭政府，理由仅仅因为奥巴马总统为已经在美工作生活多年的非法移民提供了获得公民身份的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Though a precise comparison is difficult, there is no doubt that China’s capital coefficient is much higher, implying a larger gap between the growth rate of capital intensity (the total amount of capital needed per dollar of revenue) and that of labor productivity.",
        "尽管精确比较十分困难，但毫无疑问中国资本系数要远高于日本，这意味着更大的资本密集度（每一美元收入所需要的资本总量）和劳动生产率增长缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "In these dangerous times, the consequences of Europe’s disintegration must not be underestimated.",
        "在这个危险时期，欧洲解体的后果是难以想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "Opponents of new technologies may also employ slander, misinformation, and even demonization – an approach that has certainly succeeded in the past.",
        "新技术的反对者还可能采用诽谤、误导、甚至妖魔化等各种手段——上述手段过去无疑取得过成功。"
    ],
    [
        "For conservative rulers usually fall when they fail to grasp their own vulnerability, especially when the revolutionary challenge is cloaked in conservative garb.",
        "保守派统治者未能控制其自身弱点、特别是革命性的挑战以保守派的外衣包裹的时候就会倒台。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, arms provided to fight the regime will be used by factions to fight one another if and when the regime is removed, thereby making the aftermath in Syria that much more violent.",
        "此外那些用来与现政权斗争的武器可能会在政权倒台后沦为派系交战的工具，这将使叙利亚的后续状况变得更加血腥。"
    ],
    [
        "Sweet Caroline in Tokyo",
        "亲爱的卡洛琳来到东京"
    ],
    [
        "But the real reason Russia wants to build Nord Stream – which is more expensive than the existing gas-pipeline network – is that it will enable Russia to interrupt gas supplies to EU member countries like Poland, the Baltic states, and neighbors like Ukraine, while keeping its German and other West European customers snug and warm.",
        "但俄罗斯希望兴建北溪管道的真正原因——须知这条管线可比现有管网更为昂贵——则是这条管线可以让俄罗斯在切断某些欧盟国家（比如波兰），波罗的海国家和邻国（如乌克兰）天然气供应的同时，继续保持对德国以及其他西欧国家的天然气供应。"
    ],
    [
        "Calls for more constructive engagement may sound facile, naive, or even morally precarious.",
        "呼吁进行更具建设性的参与可能听起来像是夸夸其谈，过于天真，甚至在道德上站不住脚。"
    ],
    [
        "There are also concerns about limits to freedom of expression if materials are taken down for alleged copyright violations.",
        "还有人担心，如果材料因为被控侵犯版权而被记录下来，将限制言论自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, once in office, the Eisenhower administration had the sense to stick with containment in Europe, continuing a policy that is widely credited for winning the Cold War.",
        "幸运的是艾森豪威尔政府在当政之后保持了理智，在欧洲继续推行遏制政策，使得现在被认为是为最终赢得冷战立下卓著功勋的遏制政策得以延续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the key question for me.",
        "这对我来说是一个关键问题。"
    ],
    [
        "How will the associated conditions be classified?",
        "如何对这些相关情况进行分类呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But it is the agenda Europe needs to complete to make its monetary union work.",
        "但这恰恰是欧洲需要的纲领——如果它想让它的货币同盟正常运行的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Yields on Spanish and Italian government bonds have been inching up again, and equity investors’ mood is souring.",
        "西班牙和意大利政府债券收益率已经开始回升，股票投资者的情绪也在消沉。"
    ],
    [
        "Many low-income countries will suffer from the decline in commodity prices.",
        "许多低收入国家将遭受物价下跌的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The Stability Pact has now been transferred to local control, re-emerging as the Sarajevo-based Regional Cooperation Council, ready to develop regional and multilateral standards for its members.",
        "《稳定公约》现在已经被转交给地区管理，新的管理部门是总部设于萨拉热窝的地区合作委员会，它将为其成员国制定地区和多边关系标准。"
    ],
    [
        "The only question now is whether we will do enough to prevent similar developments elsewhere.",
        "现在唯一剩下的问题是我们能否阻止类似状况在其他地方出现。"
    ],
    [
        "The most prominent, known as CRISPR Cas9, cuts DNA with remarkable (though not perfect) accuracy.",
        "最著名的CRISPR Cas9能以令人赞叹的准确度（尽管还不完美）来切割DNA。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Though China’s leadership succession was completed earlier this year, the policy agenda for the coming decade has only just been revealed.",
        "北京—尽管中国领导层交接已在今年早些时候完成，但未来十年的政策日程才刚刚揭开。"
    ],
    [
        "The global economy has operated so far under a set of ideas and institutions emanating from the advanced countries of the West.",
        "目前，全球经济在以西方发达国家提出和制定的思想和制度运行。"
    ],
    [
        "Like outright default or the restructuring of debts to official creditors, such arrears are often swept under the rug, possibly because they tend to involve low-income debtors and relatively small dollar amounts.",
        "和对官方债权人完全违约或重组债务不同，这些拖欠常常不为人知，因为债务人往往收入很低，而债务的美元数字也相对较低。"
    ],
    [
        "But this interpretation is in large part wrong.",
        "但其实，人们的以上三点解读在很大程度上都是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s goal, achievable only with flexibility and courage, must be to remain a viable project – and thus be one of the authors.",
        "欧盟的目标只有通过灵活性和勇气才能实现，它必须是保持一项可行的工程——从而成为新秩序规则的撰写者之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s second vicious spiral runs from fiscal consolidation to slow growth and back to fiscal consolidation.",
        "欧洲的第二大恶性循环是财政整合-增长疲软-财政整合。"
    ],
    [
        "In Denmark, non-Western immigrants experience higher unemployment rates and lower educational achievement than others.",
        "在丹麦，非西方移民的失业率更高，教育成就更低。"
    ],
    [
        "She pushed for greater integration of the European single market, while questioning whether this really required ceding more political authority to the European Commission.",
        "她推进了欧洲单一市场的进一步一体化，但同时也质疑这是否真的需要将更多的政治主权割让给欧盟委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "First, we know that giving birth for the first time when younger carries a cost in increased infant mortality, but modern medicine and hygiene have strikingly reduced infant mortality, reducing the cost of younger age at first birth.",
        "首先我们知道妇女生育头一胎的年龄越小，婴儿死亡率的风险也会随之而增加，但现代医学和保健学已经令这个概率大大降低，减少了低龄生育的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "So there was a vacuum to fill, accompanied by a strong desire among the party faithful for revival.",
        "因此就出现了一个需要填补的真空，与此同时，社会党信徒强烈要求洗心革面。"
    ],
    [
        "The expectation of a surge in infrastructure spending in the US under Trump has caused a number of commodity prices to soar (overall uncertainty has also sent investors packing into metals such as gold and copper, which function as safe-haven assets).",
        "预计在特朗普治下，美国基础设施支出将急剧增加，这导致许多大宗商品价格飙升（总体不确定性也导致投资者纷纷购买黄金和铜的具备安全港资产功能的金属）。"
    ],
    [
        "Will it try to weaken the constraints? Or will it adjust to them?",
        "它是否会削弱其局限还是适应局限？"
    ],
    [
        "More important, actively blocking that step forces the political system toward a precipice from which democracy cannot return.",
        "更重要的是，积极阻挠这一步会破事政治制度迈向民主无法回头的绝境。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that there are more discouraged workers in the US than in the UK.",
        "2%——仍低于危机前水平。 这表明美国的失望工人比英国更多。"
    ],
    [
        "The defects in Europe’s asylum legislation and the difference among its member states’ practices have been evident for some time.",
        "欧洲庇护法的缺陷及其成员国之间的分歧已经持续了一段时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more broadly, they can take steps to create a market that more efficiently connects institutional investors seeking stable, long-term returns and projects that need financing.",
        "从广义角度看，他们可以采取措施创造将寻求长期稳定回报的机构投资者和有融资需求的项目联系在一起的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "This has dramatic consequences for liberal democracy and open societies.",
        "这对自由民主和开放社会产生了戏剧性的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The highly conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch has continually called attention to the issue, forcing the disclosure of emails that Clinton hadn’t turned over to the State Department.",
        "高度保守的游说团体司法观察（Judicial Watch）一直在鼓吹关注这一问题，施压披露克林顿没有转交国务院的邮件。"
    ],
    [
        "We have far more money and much greater technological ability to adapt than our forebears ever did.",
        "我们拥有更多的钱和更高的技术能力，因而使我们的适应能力远比我们的祖辈要高。"
    ],
    [
        "This outcome, which would sharply shift East Asia’s strategic balance in China’s favor, is not as unlikely as most people think.",
        "这一结果将极大地改变东亚战略平衡，而中国是最大赢家。 这一情景并不像大部分人认为的那样希望渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "This was due, above all, to Solidarity’s prudent policy.",
        "这样的成果主要归功于团结工会的审慎政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates have all reduced or abolished various fuel subsidies in the last year.",
        "但埃及、加纳、印度、印度尼西亚、马来西亚、墨西哥、摩洛哥和阿联酋都在去年降低或取消了各种燃料补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "He insisted that all of his staff spend at least a third of their time in the field, working with local officials and visiting villages, so that they could see firsthand the challenges of mass vaccination.",
        "他坚持要求他的手下至少把三分之一的时间花在实地工作上，与地方官员进行合作并访问村庄，从而获得关于群体免疫挑战的第一手资料。"
    ],
    [
        "But the failure of the referendum in France carries more serious consequences than the EDC’s rejection.",
        "但法国全民公决的失败比否决EDC的后果更为严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that several prominent critics of Syria have been killed since 2005, there is little room for compromise.",
        "鉴于从2005年以来，几个著名批评叙利亚的人士都被害，所以妥协的余地不大。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, health-care workers must expand efforts to prevent new infections and quickly treat fresh cases.",
        "此外，医疗工作者必须扩大预防新增感染病例的工作并迅速处理新发病例。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, during China’s Cultural Revolution, the imposition of martial law prevented attempts by rival factions to seize nuclear facilities in Xinjiang and Qinghai.",
        "类似地，在中国文化大革命期间，戒严令的实施阻止了敌对势力占领新疆和青海核设施的图谋。"
    ],
    [
        "Although 130 people were murdered – more than in any other episode of violence against civilians in France since World War II – France’s commemoration of the second anniversary was extremely subdued.",
        "130人被杀——这是自二战以来法国所发生的最严重的针对平民的暴力事件——但法国对该事件两周年的纪念活动保持了相当的克制。"
    ],
    [
        "Other Tibetans may conclude that China’s government has relegated governance of their region to local satraps who have their own interests to pursue.",
        "其他西藏人可能会因此认为：中国政府已经把该地的管治权下放到了那些心术不正的地方首脑手里。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires, first and foremost, abandoning the view that infrastructure assets fit into the paradigm of traditional asset classes like equity, debt, or real estate.",
        "这首先需要抛弃一个观点，即基础设施资产可以按照股本、债务或不动产等传统资产类别范式归类。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires a reversal of the broadly negative public-investment trend in the last couple of decades.",
        "这需要扭转过去二十年来总体消极的公共投资趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Malala’s Revolution",
        "马拉拉的革命"
    ],
    [
        "Any good international investment banker knows that the end of April is a bad time to come peddling his services, for that is when the world’s finance ministers return home from the IMF meetings in Washington, chastened that risks to the global economy could spill over into their own backyards.",
        "任何一个优秀的国际投资银行家都知道四月底不是一个叫卖服务的好时候。 因为这时正好是世界各国的财长们结束了在华盛顿举行的国际货币基金组织的各项会议返回本国的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Young people who are long deprived of a decent job – and youth unemployment in some countries is approaching or exceeding 50%, and has been unacceptably high since 2008 – become alienated.",
        "年轻人长期找不到体面的工作——一些国家年轻人失业率正在达到或超过50%，且自2008年以来便一直处于难以接受的高水平——对社会产生了离心感。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was a bubble – and a highly leveraged one at that.",
        "但这是一个泡沫，一个高度杠杆化的泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "Years of sclerosis have given way to a frantic push for reforms to match the aspirations and discontent of millions.",
        "多年以来的保守僵化如今让位于一股近乎疯狂的改革动力，以满足数百万民众的意愿并平息他们的不满。"
    ],
    [
        "While I understand that you are an Israeli patriot, I believe that much can be done to reduce the tensions between our two peoples, eventually leading to genuine reconciliation and peace.",
        "我理解您是一位以色列的爱国者。 我相信，在降低我们两个民族之间的紧张局势方面可以大有作为，最终导向真正的和解与和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the US is gradually disengaging strategically from the greater Middle East, creating a vacuum that China seeks to fill.",
        "此外，美国正在从战略上逐渐远离大中东，这位中国创造了能够填补的真空。 要想获得成功，中国更加关注该地区的复杂动态；"
    ],
    [
        "They traveled hundreds of miles and converted their cash for just 1% of the foreign exchange they would have received had they been allowed to exchange it at the official rate applicable for food and medicines.",
        "他们跋涉数百英里，用手中的现金换取外汇——所换来的钱还不到官方食品和药品价格汇率的百分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But the task of finding, appointing, and accepting independent judges remains. It will be particularly difficult in an environment in which the sharia – that is, Islamic religious law administered not by judges but by priests – is never far away.",
        "但寻找、委任和接受独立法官的过程仍然困难重重、任重道远，特别是当执行伊斯兰教教法的权力仍旧归属教士而不是法官时更是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In each of these areas -- physics, biochemistry and social science -- the theories are mature and largely uncontroversial.",
        "在物理、生物化学和社会科学的任何一个领域，理论构架都已经比较成熟，也不存在太多的疑义。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil, for all of its considerable problems, is higher in the world ranking today than even I had envisaged back then.",
        "而巴西即便有着相当多的问题，但全球排名甚至比我当初的设想要高。"
    ],
    [
        "I would be remiss if I did not note that I have sometimes been part of the problem.",
        "如果不指出我自己有时也有同样问题将是我的失职。"
    ],
    [
        "But this doesn’t mean that we should not weigh our words with care.",
        "但这并不意味着我们不应该言词谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "Women comprise just 10% of India’s parliament, and only two of 35 ministers with full Cabinet rank are women.",
        "妇女只占据了印度议会10%的席位，内阁35名部长中，只有2名妇女。"
    ],
    [
        "This is more likely when mothers are educated: they and their families tend to be healthier than in the case of less educated mothers.",
        "如果母亲受过教育会增加这种可能性：她们和她们的家人往往比那些受教育程度较低的母亲及其家人更加健康。"
    ],
    [
        "That idea is not popular with the eurozone’s creditor countries.",
        "这一方案在欧元区债权国并不受支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The Lost Generations",
        "失去的一代又一代"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, underlying this narrative is the view that this income is ill-gotten, made possible by Bush-era tax cuts, the broken corporate governance system, and the conflict-of-interest-ridden financial system.",
        "当然，这种感觉背后的观点是，这些收入来路不正，是通过布什时代的减税、失灵的公司治理体系以及充满利益冲突的金融体系获得的。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI –India’s democratic credentials do not impress Francis Fukuyama, who two decades ago prophesied the “end of history,” as being a catalyst for the country’s economic growth.",
        "发自新德里——美国学者弗朗西斯·福山在二十多年前预言了“历史的终结”，认为人类将最终走向自由民主制度，但却对作为印度经济增长催化剂的民主制度印象不佳。"
    ],
    [
        "The city’s previous victims are its latest victims as well.",
        "这座城市之前的受害者同样也是最近的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "The thickest file on his desk concerns the Lisbon agenda, an ambitious programme approved in 2000 by the EU heads of state and government with the goal of making the Union \"the most competitive and dynamic knowledge economy\" by 2010.",
        "巴罗佐办公桌上堆积如山的文案都与里斯本备忘录有关，2000年，欧盟国家和政府领导人批准了一项雄心勃勃的计划，2010年前把欧盟建成\"最有竞争力和活力的知识经济\"。"
    ],
    [
        "Its effect is almost as important as that of smoking.",
        "这些风险因素包括高血压、体重超重、高血葡萄糖以及高卡路里，其影响几乎与吸烟一样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that have elected such leaders should stand as a warning to others tempted to go down a similar path.",
        "选出了民粹主义独裁者的国家应该作为警示信号，警告有可能步后尘的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, these Internet firms are using their positions to invest in China’s digital ecosystem – and in the emerging cadre of tenacious entrepreneurs that increasingly define it.",
        "如今，这些互联网巨头正利用其强势地位不断投资中国的数字生态系统，以及那些层出不穷的，持续拓展着数字生态系统定义的创业群体。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Japan is not the first country to go down this path.",
        "当然，日本并不是第一个走这条路的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – To the extent that culture matters in politics, the recent spate of leadership changes in Northeast Asia suggests that Asian societies are more tolerant – if not supportive – of dynastic succession.",
        "新加坡——从文化对政治影响的角度，东北亚近期频繁的领导层更迭表明亚洲社会即使不支持、也更能容忍世袭继承。"
    ],
    [
        "Dismantling the Wall, we agreed, would likely be an issue for the twenty-first century.",
        "我们都认为，柏林墙的拆除将很可能要留待21世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "Sanders and O’Malley are in favor of this general idea; Clinton is not (yet).",
        "桑德斯和奥马利都赞成这一总体思路； 而希拉里则（尚）未点头。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, we need similar funds to emerge to protect all of the world’s 263 shared river basins and lakes.",
        "现在我们需要成立类似的基金来保护全世界263个共有的流域盆地和湖泊。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, trade protection does not help if Detroit is competing with Blue Springs, Mississippi.",
        "显然，如果底特律要与密西西比州布鲁斯普林斯竞争，贸易保护是没用的。"
    ],
    [
        "At the moment, the current shareholders’ revolt is failing to achieve any significant result.",
        "而到目前为止，此次股东造反还没有取得任何重大成果。"
    ],
    [
        "But the world needs a UN that not only deliberates on policy, but also delivers in the field.",
        "但世界需要的联合国不仅能讨论政策，而且能将讨论结果落实到实际当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Since crowds took to the streets of Tunis, Cairo, Benghazi, and other Arab cities, toppling decades-old regimes, spectators and analysts have wondered where the Arab world is headed.",
        "自群众走向突尼斯、开罗、班加西和其他阿拉伯城市街头以来、推翻几十年的旧制度以来，旁观者和分析家一直不能确定阿拉伯世界将何去何从。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why economists want to change the unemployment and welfare systems to raise the incentives to go back to work.",
        "因此，经济学家们希望改革失业和福利体系，重新刺激人们工作的积极性。"
    ],
    [
        "While the US “pivots” to the east, China is pirouetting west, applying the lessons of its development to its trading partners across Eurasia and beyond.",
        "在美国向东“转”的同时，中国正在向西迈进，将它的发展经验传播给欧亚地区及之外的贸易伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "The competitiveness debate should indeed be part of the debate about Europe’s renewal.",
        "事实上，竞争力争论应该成为欧洲重生争论的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The greatest harm comes from the cumulative burden of multiple risk factors, including neglect, abuse, parental substance abuse or mental illness, and exposure to violence.",
        "不过，有害压力产生往往来源于其他因素，例如被漠视，被虐待，以及来自父母的物质精神虐待和暴力等。"
    ],
    [
        "We are, in short, moving to a multi-polar world.",
        "简而言之，我们正在进入一个多极世界。"
    ],
    [
        "On the one hand, human-rights ideology – and it is an ideology, every bit as much as Communism was or neo-liberalism is today – is profoundly legalist, claiming legitimacy from treaties and other international and national instruments.",
        "一方面，人权这种意识形态¾就像过去的共产主义和现在的新自由主义一样，人权的确是一种意识形态¾从本质上来讲墨守陈规，依靠各项条约和其它国际国内协定确保其合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether we are from the north or the south, from Germany or Greece, we are all European.",
        "无论来自北部还是南部，德国还是希腊，我们都是欧洲的民众。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia actually withdrew from the World Psychiatric Association for most of the 1980s, in order to avoid being expelled for such practices.",
        "实际上，俄罗斯在20世纪80年代的绝大部分时间都从世界精神病学协会退出，就是为了避免这种做法导致被开除的厄运。"
    ],
    [
        "With GDP headed to 12% below 2010 levels, a second program was put in place.",
        "GDP比2010年水平低了12%，第二个援助计划开始实施。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s previous businessman-presidents – Warren G. Harding and Herbert Hoover – were around too long ago to provide much guidance.",
        "美国上一任商界总统沃伦·哈丁和赫伯特·胡佛任职期间已经过于久远，很难提供太多的具体线索。"
    ],
    [
        "Citizens must become reengaged with the political process, educated in public affairs, and provided with real (not merely virtual) platforms to air their differences and debate alternative views.",
        "公民必须愿意重新参与政治程序，在公共事务中接受教育，并得到真正（而不只是虚拟）的平台消弭分歧、争论替代观点。"
    ],
    [
        "The sight of Puget Sound in Seattle (one of my favorite cities).",
        "普吉特湾的迷人景色（西雅图是我最喜欢的城市之一）；"
    ],
    [
        "Asia is rich in dynamism, but relatively thin in influential political, economic, and security-related institutions, in contrast to Europe, which often lacks dynamism but is institution-heavy.",
        "亚洲富于变化和活力，但相对欧洲而言，其政治、经济和安全机构的影响都比较薄弱； 亚洲机构往往缺乏活力，而且复杂繁琐。"
    ],
    [
        "For Syria, a peace deal would also include an understanding that Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights is to be settled by serious negotiation, not war.",
        "对于叙利亚而言，一份和平协定还会包括叙利亚对解决以色列占领戈兰高地的问题的谅解，即解决手段应该是谈判而不是战争。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Middle East today, it is reckless and radical: invading a country, wrecking its institutions, and expecting that freedom will grow in the ensuing state of anarchy.",
        "在今日的中东，美国行事冒进、不计后果：入侵一个国家、破坏其所有的机构，而后期望在接下来的无政府状态中凭空衍生出自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s opposition parties offered no convincing alternative to the Abe government’s policies.",
        "日本的反对党拿不出令人信服的方案取代安倍政府的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon after the summit, I was invited to a small, high-level meeting to discuss the summit’s follow-up.",
        "峰会结束后不久，我被邀请参加一个小型的高级别会议来讨论峰会的跟进措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly every industrial sector that, according to the stimulus package, deserves direct and immediate government support is energy-intensive and polluting (cement and steel, for example) or heavily managed by the state sector, and therefore missing incentives to balance growth with environmental protection (as is the case with the oil industry).",
        "根据中国新的刺激经济一揽子计划，几乎每一个应该得到直接和快速的政府支持的工业部门，都是能源密集型和污染型的（例如，水泥和钢铁），或者是由国有企业严格控制的，因此，它们失去了平衡经济增长和环境保护的动力（像中国石油工业的情形那样）。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowhere has this phenomenon been stronger than in Turkey, where those military escapades have strained the two countries’ strategic alliance almost to the breaking point.",
        "在土耳其，这个现象没有比其它地方更强的了，那些军事冒险使得两国的战略联盟几乎紧张到了崩裂的低点。"
    ],
    [
        "While US presidents and defense secretaries have sometimes complained about its allies’ low levels of defense spending, they have always understood that alliances are best viewed as stabilizing commitments – like friendships, not real-estate transactions.",
        "虽然美国总统和国防部长有时会抱怨盟国国防开支水平太低，但他们一直清楚联盟的首要作用是稳定承诺——这就好比是建立友谊，而不是交易房产。"
    ],
    [
        "Long before the arrival of Muslim guest workers in the 1960’s and 1970’s Dutch society was in a sense ‘multicultural’ in that it was already organised into Protestant, Catholic, liberal and socialist “pillars,” each with its own schools, hospitals, TV stations, papers and political parties.",
        "早在在1960和1970年代穆斯林客籍劳工到来之前，荷兰社会就已具备“多元文化”感了。 其具体表现是社会组织架构中的清教、天主教、自由派和社会主义等几大“支柱”。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to herbicides, the IARC seems to be on a losing streak.",
        "在除草剂的问题上，国际癌症研究机构似乎正在创造连败记录。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider an (admittedly extreme) illustration.",
        "举个例子（平心而论，这是个极端例子）。"
    ],
    [
        "The hard truth is that the flip side of the consumption-led growth model that prevailed prior to the crisis has been deficient investment, particularly on the public-sector side.",
        "残酷的事实是：在危机爆发前盛行的消费拉动型经济增长模式的另一面就是在投资上的不足——尤其是来自公共部门的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brazilian real, which took a beating last year and during January 2016, has appreciated just as the government’s standing depreciates.",
        "去年和2016年1月，巴西里亚尔曾经大幅贬值，而随着政府状况的恶化，里亚尔开始了升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the crisis, a substantial amount of that money was invested in US, Spanish, or Irish real estate. Today, that market is dead and the money must go elsewhere.",
        "在危机发生之前，其中一大笔资金都被投入到了美国，爱尔兰和西班牙等国的房地产市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Inequality is Killing Capitalism",
        "不平等性正在杀死资本主义"
    ],
    [
        "But General Babangida also has deep pockets.",
        "但是，巴班吉达将军同样也财大气粗。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, future growth in Social Security benefits or the home-mortgage-interest tax deduction could be scaled back for more affluent individuals, as progressive indexation, proposed by conservatives in the US, and the adjustment of mortgage-interest tax deductions in the United Kingdom, started during the Thatcher administration, attest.",
        "比如，丰裕个人的社会保障金或住房按揭利息税收抵扣应该减少，美国保守派所提出的的累进指数化（progressive indexation）和英国在撒切尔夫人执政时期所实施的按揭利息税收抵扣调整证实了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas “Web 1.0” facilitated the storage and transmission of vast amounts of different kinds of information in cyberspace, “Web 2.0” supposedly renders the whole process interactive, removing the final frontier separating the transmitter and receiver of information.",
        "0”便利了网络空间中大量不同种类信息的储存和传输，而“网络2. 0”则应该让整个过程变得交互，从而消除了分离信息传输者和接受者之间的最后边界。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Trump branded it a “hoax” during the campaign, and has picked a climate-change denier, Scott Pruitt, to head the US Environmental Protection Agency, which Pruitt, the attorney general of oil- and gas-producing Oklahoma, has frequently sued.",
        "但特朗普在选战期间称之为“骗局”，并选择否认气候变化的斯科特·普鲁伊特（Scott Pruitt）领导美国环境保护署，而普鲁伊特在担任油气生产州俄克拉荷马州州长时经常与美国环境保护署打官司。"
    ],
    [
        "But it seems obvious that increasing economic inequality in the US and, indeed, throughout the OECD, has stoked a perception of injustice and growing anger.",
        "但有一点似乎非常明显，那就是美国、事实上遍及整个经合组织内部越来越严重的经济不平等已经在为不公和越来越高涨的愤怒情绪火上浇油。"
    ],
    [
        "But these organizations ultimately exacerbated violence, generated land dispossession and forced displacement, and helped to prolong the conflict for nearly five decades.",
        "但这些组织却最终导致暴力局势进一步恶化，它们在这场近五十年的漫长冲突中发挥了不可忽视的作用，导致平民因此而失去土地、流离失所。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that this approach reflects the view that policymaking is an art, not a science, that is a good thing: the world needs more flexibility in economic policymaking.",
        "这一方针体现了决策是一种艺术而不是一种科学的观点，这是件好事：在经济决策中，我们需要更多的灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, President Clinton proposed doing just that.",
        "事实上，克林顿总统提议的正是这个。"
    ],
    [
        "It is scandalous that drug lords enjoy more freedom to operate than aid agencies, while basic access to food, education, and health care suffers many restrictions, with up to 70% of Burma’s children are chronically malnourished in some border areas.",
        "令人震惊的是，毒枭们享受的自由远大于援助机构，而同时对食品、教育和医疗保健的基本保障却被制肘。 在缅甸的边境地区，多达70%的儿童长期营养不良。"
    ],
    [
        "His speech was clipped, as if under continuous rigorous control.",
        "他的演说不再从容，仿佛一直受着严格的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Some take consolation from this, viewing it as positive that Europeans prefer leisure to work.",
        "有些人从中得到慰藉，认为欧洲人相比工作更喜欢休闲是积极的。"
    ],
    [
        "We, the new democracies of Eastern Europe, have been taught by our legacy that behind Russia’s every diplomatic act lurks imperial ambition.",
        "作为东欧的新兴民主国家，我们深受历史的教训，那就是，俄罗斯的每一个外交行动后都潜伏着帝国主义野心。"
    ],
    [
        "Power is the ability to affect others to produce the outcomes one wants.",
        "实力是能够影响他人产生其所希望的结果的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "In this combustible environment, policymakers are desperately using various vehicles – including the ECB, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Financial Stability Facility – in an attempt to stem the financial panic, contagion, and risk of recession.",
        "在这个岌岌可危的境地，政策制定者们正不顾一切地运用各类手段——包括欧洲央行，国际货币基金组织以及欧洲金融稳定基金——来试图遏制金融恐慌，扩散以及陷入衰退的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The worst were those with blank stares of deep despair.",
        "最糟糕的是一些家长眼神空洞，神情绝望。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrasting the findings of these surveys demonstrates that over the two years when sectarian violence has increased, Iraqis increasingly view their fate in a national, rather than communal, context.",
        "两次调查结果的比照表明在过去的两年中，随着宗派暴力的增加，伊拉克人开始越来越多地站在国家而不是宗派的立场上审视自己的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "When my time under police supervision ended, the prosecutor’s office quickly brought a new criminal case of slander against me.",
        "在我被警察监控的那段时间里，检察官办公室很快又对我提起一项新的诽谤罪名。"
    ],
    [
        "Girls are particularly disadvantaged; according to UNESCO, in Sub-Saharan Africa, an estimated nine million girls under the age of 11 have never been to school, compared to six million boys.",
        "据联合国教科文组织统计，在撒哈拉以南非洲地区，估计有900万11岁以下女童从未接受过学校教育，而从未上过学的男童仅有600万左右。"
    ],
    [
        "In all these areas, a pro-active policy of American support is crucial.",
        "在所有这些国家，一个美国支持的主动政策非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact of such laws will be much more significant than many believe.",
        "这些法律的影响比很多人想象得更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the Democrats seize the opportunity?",
        "那么民主党人是否又能抓住这一机会呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment is at a cyclical low, and the economy appears to be less volatile than at any point in modern history.",
        "失业率处在周期性的低点，经济情况也比现代历史上的任何时候都要稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this history, it is clear that the governments of Sudan and South Sudan, as well as the overwhelming majority of the Sudanese people, have had enough of war and passionately desire peace.",
        "在这一惨痛经历之下，很显然苏丹全国和南部的政府，以及大多数苏丹人都已经能够厌倦了战争，并极度渴望和平。"
    ],
    [
        "We need not be overwhelmed by the dizzying array of problems plaguing migrants.",
        "我们不应该被移民所遭受的数不清的问题吓住。"
    ],
    [
        "It is just as preposterous to tell Venezuelan demonstrators the same thing.",
        "要委内瑞拉示威者这样做亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody would have bet a single euro on such a prospect a few months ago.",
        "几个月前，没有人会给这样的一个局面投下一欧元的赌注。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, the new animal-rights movement managed to reach the broader public.",
        "最终，新的动物权利运动成功接触到了更广大的公众。"
    ],
    [
        "Such forces exist in many common behavioral contexts, distorting our usual good nature by pushing us to engage in deviant, destructive, or evil behavior.",
        "这种力量存在于一些寻常的行为背景中，它们把我们推向不正常的、破坏性的或者邪恶的行为从而扭曲了我们平常的善良本性。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Xi, she had to struggle to reach the top.",
        "她凭借个人努力登上最高领导人的宝座。"
    ],
    [
        "For the most part, however, Asia’s political leaders retain a very positive view of the benefits of open trade.",
        "但是，在绝大部分地区，亚洲政治领导人对开放贸易的好处持非常积极的平价。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations’ member states adopted the Millennium Development Goals in September 2000.",
        "联合国各成员国在2000年9月通过了千年发展目标（MDG）。"
    ],
    [
        "His enemies are not just Muslims, but the liberal Western elites, and their children, who were destroying Europe from within through “multiculturalism” and “cultural Marxism.”",
        "他的敌人不仅仅是穆斯林，还有西方那些自由派精英及其子女，这些人都在利用“文化多元主义”和“文化马克思主义”来毁灭欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Divided by their different interpretations, Muslims do not play the role they once did in the world; instead, they are weakened and victimized.",
        "对教义的不同诠释使穆斯林成了一盘散沙，不再扮演他们曾经在世界上扮演的角色； 相反，他们变得虚弱，饱受迫害。"
    ],
    [
        "If disease trends are monitored, along with patients’ responses to treatment and the population’s exposure to risk factors, the success or failure of policies designed to prevent or control chronic diseases can be evaluated, resource allocation can be rationally prioritized, and the public can be kept fully informed of the risks that they face.",
        "如果发病趋势能受到监测，同时评估病人对治疗的反应以及人口面对的风险因素，那么相关慢性病防治政策的成败就能得到检验，医疗资源也能得到合理分配，而公众也能明确知晓自身所面对的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek authorities blame the EU for not providing funds, the EU blames Greece for not doing enough with available funds, and large NGOs are preoccupied with maintaining their own line of command and funding.",
        "希腊当局指责欧盟没有提供资金，而欧盟指责希腊没有充分利用可用资金，而大型非政府组织在使命和资金方面各自为政。"
    ],
    [
        "The current premier, Wen Jiabao, would seem to be this faction’s leader. He has made speeches about the need for democratic reform, and has been openly critical of Bo.",
        "现任国家总理温家宝似乎就是该派系的领军人物，也曾多次发表有关民主改革紧迫性的演说并公开批评薄熙来。"
    ],
    [
        "Start with maternal mortality.",
        "从分娩死亡率开始。"
    ],
    [
        "His depiction of former Florida governor Jeb Bush as a man of “low energy” has done real damage to a candidate whom many had assumed – even before he formally entered the race – would be the favorite.",
        "他将佛罗里达州前州长杰布·布什（Jeb Bush）称为“低能”人士，这严重挫伤了这位（甚至在他正式加入选战前就）被许多人当成最喜爱的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "They believed that the world would be safe from future Hitlers if it were, at least for some time, under the enlightened leadership of the democratic English-speaking peoples.",
        "他们相信如果世界能够至少在一段时期内接受讲英语民族的文明民主领导，就可以避免未来希特勒的统治。"
    ],
    [
        "The flawed nature of the current European Security Strategy – drafted in 2003, with a token revision in 2008 – reflects the circumstances surrounding its conception.",
        "起草于2003年并在2008进行过一次修订的现行欧洲安全战略（European Security Strategy，ESS）存在缺陷，其缺陷反映了其概念的所处环境。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s BRICS Balancing Act",
        "中国的金砖国家平衡法"
    ],
    [
        "Economic forecasting is necessarily imprecise: too many things happen for forecasters to be able to foresee all of them.",
        "经济预测必然是不精确的：即将发生的事情如此之多，以致经济预测者们根本无法全部预见。"
    ],
    [
        "As global financial uncertainty rises, it is time for Japan to change course.",
        "在全球金融的不确定性越来越大的时候，现在是日本改弦更张的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "And, despite Africa’s huge natural-resource deposits, heavy manufacturing remains elusive.",
        "尽管非洲的自然资源储量巨大，仍难以吸引重型制造业。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to get a hearing on international law in BAM land.",
        "”在贝阿铁路沿线听到国际法辩论真是一件少有的事情啊。"
    ],
    [
        "Global debt has grown some $57 trillion since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, reaching a back-breaking $199 trillion in 2014, more than 2.5 times global GDP, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.",
        "据麦肯锡全球研究所的数据，自2008年雷曼兄弟公司倒闭以来，全球债务增加了大约57万亿美元，在2014年底达到了令人咋舌的199万亿美元，比全球GDP大1."
    ],
    [
        "The mean average of their incomes is $25,000, but 90% earn $10,000.",
        "5万美元，但90%的人只能赚1万美元。"
    ],
    [
        "They now have a perfect opportunity finally to undertake comprehensive economic reforms.",
        "它们现在拥有一次最终实施全面经济改革的完美机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In sum, certain behavioral innovations seem to appear in Africa between 10,000 and 30,000 years before Neanderthals express them.",
        "总而言之，某些行为创新似乎在穴居人的集中展示之前就已经在距今1-3万年前的非洲出现了。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, with the New York Declaration, governments around the world made a collective promise to invest in refugees and the communities hosting them.",
        "去年，随着纽约宣言的发布，全世界各国政府做出了共同承诺要投资于难民和接收难民的社区。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The Greek catastrophe commands the world’s attention for two reasons.",
        "纽约—出于两个原因，希腊灾难必须引起全世界的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "But much remains to be done: the entire educational system, up through the university level, requires serious reform, and many taboos regarding employment rules, social security, and the functioning of the state must be questioned.",
        "但是还有许多工作要做。 直至大学阶段的整体教育体制需要认真的改革，必须对许多有关就业规则、社会保障以及国家运作的禁忌提出质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "People’s social allegiances are divided further by religion, race, occupation, gender, and even income bracket.",
        "人们的社会忠诚则进一步被宗教、种族、职业、性别甚至收入档次所分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be a pity.",
        "这将是一件憾事。"
    ],
    [
        "On several occasions, we have also been instrumental in facilitating peace and reconciliation.",
        "此外，我们还一直在多种场合促进和平与和解。"
    ],
    [
        "Therein lies one of the most glaring disconnects of Trumponomics.",
        "这就引出了特朗普经济学最刺眼的逻辑混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether that remains true will most likely determine the future of Europe.",
        "而这是否会保持真实则可能将决定欧洲的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "The ICTY is flawed, of course.",
        "当然，前南法庭也是有缺陷的。"
    ],
    [
        "Paranoia and antagonism must give way to sober politics, with Israeli leaders discussing potential strategic compensation with the US, working with other powers to address Iran’s support for Hamas and Hezbollah, and considering a credible revival of peace negotiations with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.",
        "偏执和对抗必须让位给清醒政治，以色列领导人应该讨论与美国的潜在战略报酬，与其他大国合作解决伊朗支持哈马斯和真主党的问题，并考虑可信地重启与巴勒斯坦总统阿巴斯的和平谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, all G7 central banks are worried about the temporary rise in headline inflation, and all are threatening to hike interest rates.",
        "固然，所有的G7国家都担心一般通货膨胀的临时上升，并且都威胁要提高利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Allegations of wrongdoing range from match-fixing and bribery among members of FIFA’s Executive Committee to questions about how Qatar was chosen to host the World Cup in 2022.",
        "针对国际足联的不当行为指控从国际足联执行委员会委员的假球和贿赂到卡塔尔为何被选为2022年世界杯的主办国。"
    ],
    [
        "When interest rates rise, the prices of those assets will fall as well.",
        "当利率上升时，这些资产的价格也会下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge of course, is that each kind of product has a different structure and a different set of attributes.",
        "其中的难度当然在于每种产品都有自己特定的结构和特色。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries are experiencing strong growth, inflation is low, and the threat of crisis has receded considerably.",
        "各国都在经历强劲的增长，通货膨胀很低，而且危机的威胁大幅减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "With his crafty use of code words and body language to encourage a sense of victimhood among Serbs, Milošević was one of the most demagogic nationalists Europe had seen in generations.",
        "通过狡猾地运用影射性字句和身体语言去在塞族人中鼓动一种受害者情绪，米洛舍维堪称欧洲近几代人中最能蛊惑人心的民族主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "When he published The Theory of Economic Development in 1911 at age 28, he emphasized that innovation came from the spirit of entrepreneurs in a process of creative destruction.",
        "1911年28岁的他发表经济发展理论一书时，强调创新来源于企业家的创造性破坏精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas’s victory in the parliamentary election earlier this year – a democratic watershed – demonstrated that it had come of age politically.",
        "哈马斯去年在民主政治分水岭的议会选举中获胜，表明它已经在政治上成年了。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, as attacks on the media continue in his adopted homeland, and with his own murder unsolved, the faith he placed in Ukraine is not being repaid.",
        "如今，他的第二故乡的媒体仍然在遭受攻击，他本人的被谋杀案件也迟迟得不到解决，他对乌克兰的信念没有获得回报。"
    ],
    [
        "If the economic frustration that drove so many Americans to vote for Trump is to be dissipated during his presidency, and if the market gains are to be validated and augmented, this prospect must become a reality.",
        "要想让促使大量美国人投票给特朗普的经济失望在任期中消失，要想让经济收益得到巩固和扩大，就必须让这一前景转变为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, forced labor, slavery, prostitution, and social exclusion are on the rise.",
        "结果，强迫劳动、奴役、卖淫和社会排斥日益兴起。"
    ],
    [
        "In an information age, however, it may be the state (or non-state) with the best story that wins.",
        "但在信息时代，真正的赢家是那些最会讲故事的国家（或非国家组织）。"
    ],
    [
        "Electorally competitive countries are not necessarily democratic: some do not fully control the state's territory; others violate both their constitutions and human rights.",
        "具备选举竞争力的国家不一定拥有民主：有些不能完全控制国家的领土，还有些侵犯了本国的宪法和人权。"
    ],
    [
        "As Mayor of Seattle, I supported the creation of energy-efficient buildings, the development of solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, and a shift toward walking, biking, and public transit as alternatives to driving – strategies that can help to build a more resilient economy and provide viable alternatives to fossil fuels.",
        "开发太阳能、风能和水电； 多采用步行、骑车和公共交通代替驾车出行——这些策略有助于构建恢复力更强的经济、提供化石燃料的替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The Turkish government’s reluctance to join the United States-led coalition against the Islamic State’s extremist Sunni fighters has isolated it from other Sunni Arab powers, such as Saudi Arabia, that have joined the coalition.",
        "土耳其不愿加入美国领导的针对伊斯兰国的极端逊尼派，这使它孤立于加入联盟的其他逊尼派阿拉伯强国（如沙特阿拉伯）。"
    ],
    [
        "In Bhutan, the economic challenge is not growth in gross national product, but in gross national happiness (GNH).",
        "在不丹，经济所面临的挑战不是GDP的增长，而是GNH（国民幸福总值）的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just delivered the bad news that the national debt is now rising faster than GDP and heading toward ratios that we usually associate with Italy or Spain.",
        "坎布里奇—美国国会预算办公室（CBO）刚刚公布了一则坏消息，眼下美国国民债务增长比GDP更快，其比率正在向意大利和西班牙靠拢。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an ambiguous declaration can be interpreted either as active support for the Russian police or as passive collaboration.",
        "这样的暧昧声明可以理解为对俄罗斯警方的积极支持或被动合作。"
    ],
    [
        "International politics is witnessing exceptional and far-reaching change.",
        "国际政治正在经历无与伦比的深远变革。"
    ],
    [
        "The discriminatory treatment of GMOs creates widespread mischief.",
        "歧视GMO危害甚广。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the 2009 urban household survey, a one-child household in China spends an average of 10.6% of its total income on education, whereas a household with twins spends 17.3%.",
        "2009年城镇住户调查显示，中国独生子女家庭教育费用占其总收入的比例平均为10. 6%，而双胞胎家庭为17."
    ],
    [
        "A large number of highly motivated and ambitious young people have already come to Japan from around the world, especially from neighboring Asian countries, to study or work.",
        "大量干劲足、志向高的年轻人从世界各地，特别是邻近的亚洲国家来到日本学习或工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The state then turns into a monopoly seller, and thus an enemy of its own society.",
        "于是，印度国变成了一位垄断卖家，因而成了印度社会的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, such strategies will not work in the long term if no one is willing to invest in the earliest stages of research in critical areas like biotechnology, digital technology, renewable energy sources, and the like.",
        "显而易见，如果没人愿意投资生物技术、数字技术，可再生能源等关键领域的早期研究，这样的策略不可能长期持续。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the debt will be higher and interest on that debt will have to be paid, but the British government can borrow now at extraordinarily favorable terms.",
        "诚然，债务负担会有所增加，而债务利息也必须支付，但英国政府现的借款条件还颇为宽松。"
    ],
    [
        "Revisiting the Iraq War",
        "再访伊拉克战争"
    ],
    [
        "The higher the index is, the less the exchange rate has depreciated to offset inflation – and the more uncompetitive India is.",
        "这一指数越高，汇率抵消通胀的贬值就越小——印度的竞争力也越低。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, on June 23, it will hold a referendum on whether to leave.",
        "今年6月23日，英国将进行是否脱离的全民公决。"
    ],
    [
        "It will not do much for good for developing countries to raise the specter of protectionism each time such concerns are voiced.",
        "当每次有人表达上述忧虑的时候，发展中国家就增强对保护主义的担忧，对它们是没有多少回好处的。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this makes it hard to fathom what the SNB was thinking.",
        "所有这些让人们难以捉摸SNB的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "Skill-biased technological change has propelled growing inequality in labor incomes both within and across occupations, in turn fueling the marked increase in overall income inequality.",
        "以技能为基础的科技变革导致各职业内部以及不同职业之间的劳动收入日趋不平等，又反过来加剧了整体的收入不均状态。"
    ],
    [
        "This, together with concerted action by governments elsewhere, will mean that the downturn will be less severe than it otherwise would be.",
        "再加上其他国家的政府的协调一致的行动，这将意味着经济衰退的严重性将比可能出现的情况要低。"
    ],
    [
        "They are long-lasting conditions, often contracted at an early age, and both the illnesses and their symptoms are progressive.",
        "这些疾病是长期的，通常在孩童时期感染，病情和症状都会越来越严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the risks associated with the new asset class would change as projects progress from feasibility study to construction to operation, implying that each phase would attract different sources of funding.",
        "此外，与新资产类别伴随而生的风险会随着项目从可信性研究演进到建设和经营而变化，这意味着每一阶段吸引的资金源不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush has long claimed that the number of troops in Iraq was a military decision and that he simply followed the advice of his generals, but now this is clearly not the case.",
        "布什长期以来一直宣称在伊拉克的士兵人数是一项军事决定，而他只不过是听从了他的将军们的建议，但是，现在这明显不是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "To implement the far-reaching vision of the Barcelona Process, the ENP will have to revisit the way it distributes its financial support, rebalance the funding that it provides to the EU’s eastern and southern neighborhoods, and place much greater emphasis on democracy, the rule of law, and human rights.",
        "为落实巴塞罗那进程具有深远意义的目标，欧洲睦邻政策（ENP）必须重新审核财政援助的分配模式，重新调整其向东南邻国提供的援助款项，并重点强调民主、法治和人权等目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment is down to 5%, with no signs of overheating.",
        "失业率已下降至5%，没有过热迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "But then along came iTunes, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and Netflix.",
        "但随后，诞生了 iTunes、 YouTube、 Facebook、 Twitter、 Skype和 Netflix。"
    ],
    [
        "And woe betide anyone who suggests that Russia’s malign interference in the election has anything to do with Trump’s own warmth toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.",
        "而上天保佑，所有认为特朗普对俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京的亲热态度与俄罗斯恶意干预大选有关的人都厄运缠身。"
    ],
    [
        "He urges women to try side-by-side activities, not only face-to-face verbalization, to experience closeness with their mates.",
        "他敦促女人尝试肩并肩的活动，而不是面对面的交流，通过这种方式来体验与伴侣的亲密关系。"
    ],
    [
        "What does last month’s trade fiasco mean?",
        "上个月的贸易谈判彻底失败说明了什么？"
    ],
    [
        "The proposal has generated an intense debate about whether it will improve the US trade balance.",
        "该提案引发了一场激烈的辩论，双方对于其能否改善美国的贸易平衡状况各执一词。"
    ],
    [
        "Chaired by former Mexican President Felipe Calderón and comprising former prime ministers, presidents, and finance ministers, the Commission is analyzing how investments in clean-energy infrastructure, agricultural productivity, and urban transport could stimulate sluggish economies.",
        "以墨西哥前总统卡尔德隆为首、由众多前总理、总统和财政部长组成的该委员会正在分析清洁能源基础设施、农业生产和城市交通方面的投资如何刺激陷入停滞的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with our renewed mandate, that is what we will do.",
        "如今，我们有了更新的权力，这也是我们将要做的。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, if the US had set a political opening in Cuba, or even a modicum of respect for human rights by the government, as a precondition for normalization of diplomatic relations, the two countries would still be at an impasse.",
        "毕竟，如果美国要求古巴采取政治开放，甚至要求古巴政府略微尊重一些人权，以此作为两国外交关系正常化的前提，那么两国将仍然处于僵局之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, almost two decades of economic stagnation have eroded Japan’s regional clout.",
        "尽管如此，近二十年的经济停滞削弱了日本的地区影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "But the US should be far more worried about promoting faster adjustment of its still-gaping trade deficit, which in many ways lies at the root of the recent sub-prime mortgage crisis.",
        "但是，美国应该更加担心推进加快调整仍在扩大的贸易逆差的措施，这在许多方面是最近的次级抵押贷款危机爆发的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "And even if a pragmatic Trump wanted to limit imports from China, his options would be constrained by a recent World Trade Organization ruling against “targeted dumping” tariffs on Chinese goods.",
        "而即使务实的特朗普想要限制中国进口品，其选择也将受到世贸组织最新裁决——反对向中国商品征收“针对性倾销”关税的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "But progress has not been evenly distributed across Africa.",
        "但非洲的进步并不平均。"
    ],
    [
        "In a more open system, Arab governments will need to privatize many state-controlled companies, and make it far easier for entrepreneurs to register start-ups and launch new businesses.",
        "在更加开放的体系中，阿拉伯政府需要实现国有控股企业私有化，同时大大降低企业家注册初创企业和开创全新业务的难度。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, several African countries have received ratings from credit agencies, which has opened up global financial centers to them.",
        "此外，有几个非洲国家已经得到信用机构评级，这意味着信用机构的全球金融中心已经对这几个非洲国家开放。"
    ],
    [
        "Tibet’s Peace of the Grave",
        "西藏的坟墓和平"
    ],
    [
        "All of this began to change with the rise of digital technologies and the Internet, but especially with the advent of social media.",
        "所有这些随着数字技术和互联网的崛起而开始变化，但社交媒体的兴起才是转折点。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, he kept the defense portfolio for himself and gave Peres the foreign ministry.",
        "这一回，他亲自兼任国防部长，而让佩雷斯担任外交部长。"
    ],
    [
        "In any event, imposing tariffs on foreign goods will not bring back lost manufacturing jobs.",
        "无论如何，对外国商品征收关税无法找回失去的制造业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 67 million Americans watched the first of this year’s three debates.",
        "6700多万美国人收看了今年三场辩论的第一场。"
    ],
    [
        "As revenues fall and the deficit widens even faster, they will insist on spending cuts to return the debt trajectory to its previous path.",
        "随着收入的下降和赤字更快的增加，他们将把减支进行到底，让债务轨迹重回此前的轨道。"
    ],
    [
        "And Turkey’s subsequent vote in the United Nations Security Council against imposing additional sanctions on Iran seemed to offer further proof that Turkey had adopted an “Islamic” foreign policy.",
        "而土耳其随后在联合国安理会投票反对对伊施加进一步制裁的行为似乎也证明该国正在推行一个“伊斯兰”外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The opposition, sensing that its moment had arrived, launched a wave of street protests.",
        "反对派认为时机已到，发动了一系列街头游行。"
    ],
    [
        "Flights From Freedom",
        "逃离自由"
    ],
    [
        "The government is taking quick steps to de-monopolize the economy and break the nexus between economic and political power that characterized the previous government.",
        "政府正在迅速采取手段打破经济过度集中的局面并切断经济与政治权力之间的利益关联——这都是前任政府所特有的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is happening despite the lack of a clear indication of the superiority of the state.",
        "事实上，人们对市场所抱有的信念已被削弱，而对政府和规制的信任却与日俱增。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also represents a major challenge for a government that has long relied on top-down decision-making.",
        "但这对长期依靠自上而下决策的政府来说也构成了一种挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in comparing groups, it is permitted to use an individual’s status as member of an under-represented minority in his or her favor.",
        "但在进行不同族群的比较时，该政策允许将个体的少数族群成员身份作为一项对个人有利的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – Regional integration is usually regarded as a way for countries to strengthen themselves.",
        "圣地亚哥——地区融合一向被视为国家增强自身实力的一种方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Peres began to play down the Nobel Peace Prize that he had shared with Yasser Arafat and Rabin after Oslo.",
        "奥斯陆协定成为他的一个污点。 佩雷斯开始淡化他与阿拉法特和拉宾因为奥斯陆协定而获得的诺贝尔和平奖。"
    ],
    [
        "The trade unions, employers’ associations, all opposition political parties, and even many of Berlusconi’s own MPs have united against what they consider to be an aberration.",
        "意大利众多的工会，雇主联合会，所有的反对党，甚至连贝卢斯科尼旗下的许多议员都已经联合起来，共同反对这个在他们看来有点神经不正常的提案。"
    ],
    [
        "The overall unemployment rate is down to just 5.5%, and the unemployment rate among college graduates is just 2.5%.",
        "总体失业率已降至5. 5%，大学毕业生失业率更是只有2."
    ],
    [
        "In a few sentences of his victory speech – the space of a magic moment – Obama celebrated “the mystery of democracy” in a very concrete, but also nearly religious manner.",
        "在简短的获胜演讲中——堪称魔法时刻——奥巴马以实实在在但又近乎虔诚的方式庆祝了“民主的魔力”。"
    ],
    [
        "Upset by crime?",
        "对犯罪不满？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, after a recent World Health Organization report warned that the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan had only slightly increased local residents’ risk of developing certain kinds of cancers, the environmental organization Greenpeace, deeming the figures too low, denounced the report as “a political statement to protect the nuclear industry.”",
        "比如，最新的世界卫生组织报告警告说，日本福岛核电站灾难只是轻微提高了当地居民罹患某些癌症的风险，这招致认定报告数字太低的环保组织绿色和平组织（Greenpeace）抨击报告是“保护核工业的一份政治声明”。 类似地，美国环保活动家小罗伯特·肯尼迪（Robert F."
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in the case of debt owed to foreigners, higher interest rates lead to a welfare loss for the country as a whole, because the government must transfer resources abroad, which usually requires a combination of exchange-rate depreciation and a reduction in domestic expenditure.",
        "相比之下，对外债而言，高利率会导致国家整体的财富流失，因为在这种情况下政府必须把资源转移到国外，而这通常需要结合汇率贬值与国内支出削减。"
    ],
    [
        "There was no accusation that Nakasone was “selling out” to Beijing.",
        "没有人指责中曾为了北京而“出卖国家”。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey is following a constructive and inclusive policy for these regions, which are marked by remarkable models of cohabitation, science, arts, culture, and civilization.",
        "土耳其针对该区域推动了建设性和包容性的外交政策，其中包含了一系列包括民族共存、科学、艺术，文化和文明在内的先进模式。"
    ],
    [
        "We know that infectious diseases cause the most deaths, but we do not know which ones.",
        "我们知道传染病造成的死亡最多，但我们不知道是哪些传染病。"
    ],
    [
        "The call went unheeded, in keeping with the general atmosphere of self-denial surrounding the issue.",
        "但这个呼吁却遭到了忽视，因为与那种强调那种黑人自我牺牲的总体氛围背道而驰。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that cut their emissions would, in effect, be subsidizing their competitors’ growth, not necessarily reducing the speed of global warming.",
        "实际上，减少排放的国家将会给其竞争对手予以补贴，同时也并不一定减少全球变暖的速度。"
    ],
    [
        "This rentrée is also marked (on both sides of the Atlantic) by the return of worries about how classical music is financed.",
        "这一回归也标志着（在大西洋两岸的）人们对古典音乐资金资源的担忧又上心头。"
    ],
    [
        "In Greece, tax increases amounted to 13% of GDP during the same period, but the tax ratio increased by only six percentage points.",
        "在希腊，某些时候增税幅度高达GDP的13%，但税收比只增加了六个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas, by contrast, has shown no interest in avoiding civilian casualties, either in Israel or in Gaza.",
        "相反，哈马斯并未表现出任何避免平民伤亡的意思，不管在以色列还是在加沙。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, recent studies indicate that a significant share of the corporate-tax burden falls on capital, so a reduction in corporate taxes would weaken the progressivity of the tax system at a time when income inequality is at an all-time high.",
        "此外，最新研究表明，公司税负担的很大一部分落在了资本头上，因此降低公司税率会减弱税收体系的累进性，而且这正逢收入不平等性高居历史最高水平的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "But they each suffered a substantial slowdown (albeit less sharp than Japan’s).",
        "但所有四小龙都经历了大幅放缓（尽管没有日本那么剧烈）。"
    ],
    [
        "It was Indian jawans who stopped the German advance at Ypres in the autumn of 1914, soon after the war broke out, while the British were still recruiting and training their own forces.",
        "一战爆发后不久，恰恰是印度士兵阻挡了1914年秋德军在伊普尔的脚步，从而为英军赢得了招兵买马和操练的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "What followed were many hours of harassment, humiliation, threats with live hand grenades, shots fired at the feet of one of our colleagues, and looting and ransacking of the IRC premises.",
        "接下来就是武装分子对救援人员长达数小时的折磨，羞辱，用点燃的手榴弹进行的威胁，对着我们一个同事的脚的开枪射击，以及对国际救援委员会所在地的抢劫和掠夺。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this seeming immortality that has led governments to tax certain environmentally damaging plastic products or ban them altogether.",
        "这种近乎不朽的性质让各国政府对有害塑料制品课以一定的税收，甚至一禁了之。"
    ],
    [
        "However, at the heart of the issue lies the Iranian regime’s aspiration to become a hegemonic Islamic and regional power and thereby position itself at eye level with the world’s most powerful nations.",
        "然而，问题的核心在于伊朗政权渴望成为伊斯兰世界的霸权力量和地区大国，从而与世界上最强大国家们平起平坐。"
    ],
    [
        "The gap between the Yes and No sides remains within the margin of error and could easily reverse itself, as it did in the weeks leading up to the June referendum.",
        "支持派和反对派在人数上相差无几，并且很有可能会发生逆转，就像在六月那次公民复决的几周之前发生过的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, academic economists repeatedly warned that Trump’s economic plans were little short of lunacy, and in the aftermath of his shocking election victory, some prophesied immediate economic catastrophe.",
        "在美国，经济学者一再警告特朗普经济计划近乎愚蠢，在他令人震惊地赢得大选之后，有些人预言经济灾难近在咫尺。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Western-friendly governments – including Brazil, India, South Africa, and Israel – were not prepared to take sides.",
        "即使亲西方的政府——包括巴西。 印度、南非和以色列——也不准备站队。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding its advocacy of public investment spending, even the IMF accepts that a sudden increase in public investment is more likely to cause developing-country indebtedness than growth.",
        "尽管IMF大力鼓吹公共投资支出，但它也同意共同投资的猛增更有可能导致发展中国家陷入债务而不是增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Last July, in highly charged negotiations with its official creditors – the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund – Greece defaulted on its obligations to the IMF.",
        "去年7月，在与官方债权人——欧盟、欧洲央行和国际货币基金组织（IMF）的谈判中，希腊对IMF违约。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as writing too fast can cause typographical errors that garble a text, rapid changes to the genome can undermine a species’ integrity.",
        "就像写字过快可能导致错字从而改变字意一样，基因的快速变化也可能破坏物种的完整性。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, the crisis will be economically and financial challenging for Eastern Europe.",
        "amp#160;amp#160;amp#160; 这一危机对于东欧的经济和金融都是具有挑战的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, like British empire-builders in the past, US elites often claim a moral mission to remake the world in America’s image.",
        "而且就像大不列颠帝国建设者们曾经做过的那样，美国精英们也往往宣称美国肩负着改造世界的道德使命。"
    ],
    [
        "Private non-profit organizations and private enterprise, rather than governments directly, are best equipped to provide this type of training and expertise for leadership development and capacity building.",
        "私人非营利组织和私人企业，而不是各国政府的直接干预，最适于提供此类关于领导力开发和能力建设的培训和专业意见。"
    ],
    [
        "The big, nontransparent, and dangerous subsidies are off-budget, contingent liabilities generated by government support for too-big-to-fail financial institutions. These subsidies do not appear in any annual appropriation, and they are not well measured by the government – which is part of what makes them so appealing to the big banks and so damaging to everyone else.",
        "大规模、不透明且危险的补贴都是预算外的或有负债，它是由政府对太大而不能倒的金融机构的支持而产生的。 这些补贴不会出现在任何年度拨款案中，政府也没有很好地计算其规模——这也是这些补贴对大银行如此具有吸引力、对其他人如此具有破坏力的部分原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, on the same basis, Adenauer could be (and was) considered a national socialist.",
        "事实上，根据同样的依据，阿登纳也可以（也曾被）被视为国家社会主义分子。"
    ],
    [
        "If they failed to do so, their “undervalued” exchange rates were criticized as unfair.",
        "如果它们不这样做，其“低估”的汇率就会被批为不公平。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, Asia’s rise is also a test of US competitiveness and commitment in Asia.",
        "从这个意义上讲，亚洲的崛起也是对美国在亚洲竞争力和决心的严峻考验。"
    ],
    [
        "President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s dictatorship is even more violent than that of Hosni Mubarak, the strongman whose 30-year rule was ended by the 2011 uprising.",
        "总统西西的独裁甚至比强人穆巴拉克还要暴力，后者统治了埃及30年，在2011年的暴动中被推翻。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, nearly one million people have fled Burma’s political and economic chaos for neighboring countries, and another million people remain internally displaced.",
        "而现在，有近100万人已从缅甸的政治和经济混乱中逃到了邻国，还有一百万人在缅甸国内处于颠沛流离的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "“We are all Americans,” wrote Le Monde on September 12, 2001. And so it was with most people in the Muslim world, who were as appalled as anyone else at the carnage of the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.",
        "2001年9月12日法国世界报写到：“我们都成了美国人”。 大多数穆斯林世界的人也是如此，他们也和其他人一样对在华盛顿和纽约的恐怖主义大屠杀袭击感到震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "JPM then announces a $2 billion loss, and CEO Jamie Dimon calls the problem “a tempest in a teapot” (as he did in 2012).",
        "事后JMP将宣布损失为20亿美元，CEO戴蒙（Jamie Dimon）称问题不过是“煮沸的茶壶顶了盖”（一如他在2012年做的那样）。"
    ],
    [
        "The likely losers in the @AP Twitter hoax were later movers who did not react quickly to the news, but reacted instead to the market’s movement.",
        "对消息反应不够迅速，却对市场运行做出反应的后觉者可能会沦为@AP推特骗局的失利方。"
    ],
    [
        "Women should be able to aspire to top jobs without squandering their fertility, and their success would encourage women in lower-ranking positions, because female managers tend to implement more gender-conscious hiring policies and serve as strong role models.",
        "妇女可以在不错过生育的情况下谋求最高的职位，而且，她们的成功将会鼓励职位较低的妇女，因为女性经理往往会落实更为考虑性别的录用政策，而且是强大的楷模。"
    ],
    [
        "Stronger commitments from the private sector will be needed as well.",
        "还需要来自私人部门的更强的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, pharmaceutical companies should do more to increase the availability of low-cost, generic medicines.",
        "首先，制药公司应该做更多的事增加低成本通用药物的普及度。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the renminbi performs well in trade-related statistics.",
        "平心而论，从交易相关数据看，人民币表现不错。"
    ],
    [
        "The consumption-tax hike was needed to sustain them in flight. Unfortunately, the hike was too large to keep them aloft.",
        "同时也需要提升消费税来维持这两支箭的顺利飞行，但不幸的是，此次提升的幅度过大，反而对这两项政策造成了阻碍。"
    ],
    [
        "As a last resort, the government could step in, as it did in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, to remove NPLs from banks’ balance sheets.",
        "最后，政府也可以介入，如20世纪90年代末、21世纪初那样将不良贷款从银行帐上剥离。"
    ],
    [
        "For better or worse, fighting epidemics like Ebola or preventing the most harmful consequences of climate change requires solidarity and cooperation.",
        "无论如何，对抗埃博拉等传染病防止气候变化最危险的后果需要团结与合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But Reagan’s 1986 reform prioritized working families over corporations, such as through the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit.",
        "但1986年的里根改革将家庭放在了公司之前，比如，它扩大了劳动所得税收优惠。"
    ],
    [
        "We can no longer presume that its institutional arrangements reflect its citizens’ preferences.",
        "我们无法继续假设非民主国家的制度架构真正反映民众的偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "The closest thing Brazil has is the International Monetary Fund, with which it should negotiate an adjustment program.",
        "巴西所具备的最接近于欧洲央行的是国际货币基金组织（IMF），它应该和IMF商谈调整计划。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, the large bilateral trade imbalance has exacerbated US-China tensions, and can be safely reduced only by changes in behavior on both sides – or, unsafely, though a dangerous crisis-driven correction.",
        "当前的双边贸易不平衡进一步恶化了美中两国的紧张关系，只有双方改变行为模式才能缓解目前的紧张状况——否则就要通过危机驱动变革的危险方式。"
    ],
    [
        "With around one billion people living in high-income countries, it would thus cost just $2 to $3 per person per year in the developed world to fund an effort that could save more than one million children annually.",
        "生活在高收入国家的人口大约在10亿左右，也就是说发达国家每人每年只需捐出2到3美元就可以支持每年拯救百万儿童的花销。"
    ],
    [
        "At a meeting organized for November 2005 by the Collège de France, Nobel laureates, science historians, and managers of European universities and research facilities will stress the need for a new science policy, including in the social sciences and humanities, in the presence of ministers and European commissioners.",
        "在法兰西学院组织的一次将于2005年11月召开的会议上，诺贝尔奖得主、科学史专家和欧洲大学及研究机构的管理者们会在各国部长和欧盟专员出席的情况下强调包括在社会和人文科学领域的新的科研政策的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "And all countries can’t depreciate their exchange rates at the same time.",
        "各国也做不到同时令其货币贬值，总会有个先后输赢。"
    ],
    [
        "One of Russia’s leading independent economists, Sergei Guriev, the rector of the New Economic School in Moscow, soberly noted in 2010 that",
        "此外，经过长期的谈判，最近俄罗斯已经达成协议加入世贸组织，这意味着要遵守透明度和贸易规则方面的所有相关义务。"
    ],
    [
        "For some health issues – such as elevated cholesterol – screening yields positive results: a simple blood test measures the amounts of good and bad cholesterol in the blood, making it easier to detect related cardiovascular disease, which could lead to heart attacks or strokes.",
        "对于某些健康问题——比如高胆固醇——筛查能产生积极效果：做一下简单的血液测试，测量一下血液中好胆固醇和坏胆固醇的数量就能让诊断相关心血管疾病更加容易，心血管疾病可能导致心脏病发或中风。"
    ],
    [
        "They failed to comprehend that Iraq has long been an occupied and externally manipulated country.",
        "但他们却未能了解伊拉克长期以来就是一个被占领和被外部势力操纵的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, those looking to the international community to deal with the world’s problems will be disappointed.",
        "简言之，指望国际社会解决世界问题的人将感到失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Bogus Banking Union",
        "虚假的欧洲银行联盟"
    ],
    [
        "German Chancellor Angela Merkel would do well to ponder that history.",
        "德国总理默克尔应该好好反思一下历史。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Corporate tax reform is one of the few issues that garner bipartisan support in a deeply divided US Congress.",
        "伯克利—在党派裂痕极深的美国国会中，公司税改革是极少数同时获得两党支持的问题之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when generic-brand essential medicines are available, they often are unaffordable for low-income patients in countries with scant state subsidies and no risk-pooling insurance mechanisms.",
        "即使存在仿制品牌的基本药物，但在缺少政府补贴及风险共担保险机制的国家，低收入患者往往也无力负担。"
    ],
    [
        "I hope that the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs will reconsider its behavior, and that the “Buttiglione affair” will remain only an ordinary political injustice against a single individual rather than the harbinger of second-class citizenship for religious believers.",
        "我希望欧洲议会公民自由、司法和内政执委会将重新考虑它的行为，“卜丁格利昂事件”也将会仅仅作为一起普通的针对个人的不公正政治事件，而不是预示着持有宗教信仰者的二等公民身份的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of words a child hears during that critical time has a huge impact on his or her future intellectual abilities.",
        "幼儿在此期间听到的词汇数量对于其未来智力能力有着巨大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In the mainstream understanding of finance, a firm’s debt level is primarily a trade-off between the benefits of the tax deduction for interest paid and the increased probability of bankruptcy or operational degradation.",
        "在主流金融理论中，企业的债务水平首先是一种权衡——一边是利息支付的税收扣减的好处，另一边是破产和经营不善概率的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Even for those not so lucky, economic risks were usually fairly low: the unemployment rate for married men during the 1960’s averaged 2.7%, and finding a new job was a relatively simple matter.",
        "即使是那些不太幸运的人，也通常无须承受什么经济风险：上世纪60年代已婚男性的平均失业率只有2. 7%，找份新工作是件再简单不过的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unlike in a complete currency union, such as that of the United States, eurozone members retained full financial sovereignty, meaning that they controlled all of the levers of macroeconomic policy.",
        "成员国之间人均GDP差距减小。 但是，和完整的货币联盟（比如美国）不同，欧元区成员国保留了完整的财政主权，这意味着它们控制着所有的宏观经济政策决定权。"
    ],
    [
        "Major emerging democracies like Brazil, India, and South Africa have been especially disappointing in their response to the Arab Spring.",
        "新兴民主大国，如巴西、印度和南非，均对其在阿拉伯之春中的反应特别失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Combined with the long-completed security fence around the Gaza Strip and one being built near Israel's border with the West Bank, pulling out of the most exposed positions is intended to reduce casualties and the number of clashes with the Palestinians.",
        "结合包围加沙地带的早已完工的安全屏障和正在以色列和约旦河西岸边界修建的屏障，以色列从最无掩护的地方撤退是为了减少伤亡和与巴勒斯坦人的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "These ideas will horrify dedicated euro-federalists.",
        "这些想法会令那些一心致力于实现欧元联邦化的人震惊不已。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Defense Department has valued Afghanistan’s untapped mineral deposits at $1 trillion.",
        "据美国国防部估计，阿富汗待开发矿产存量大约价值1万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a mechanism would prevent the need for government intervention.",
        "该机制将打消政府干预的必要。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany resisted the euro, arguing that full political union should come first.",
        "德国坚决反对欧元，指出必须政治联盟先行。"
    ],
    [
        "And some are even able to self-disrupt repeatedly – and thus consistently to remain at the technological frontier.",
        "有些甚至在自身内部反复破旧立新，从而始终保持在科技前沿。"
    ],
    [
        "Our reluctance to engage morally contested questions in politics has left us ill-equipped to deliberate about one of the most important issues of our time: Where do markets serve the public good, and where do they not belong?",
        "羞于在政治中提及存在道德冲突的问题使我们无力深刻思考我们时代中最重要的议题：市场究竟在哪些领域能促进公共福祉，而哪里又是市场不应涉足的地方？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Pascual’s conclusions should force Calderón to redefine Mexico’s relationship with the US in a more honest fashion.",
        "此外，帕斯夸尔的结论应该迫使卡尔德隆以更诚实的方式重新界定墨美关系。"
    ],
    [
        "“Systemic importance” has become an excuse for maintaining impenetrable entry barriers (yet another reason why executives want their firms to be regarded as too big to fail).",
        "“系统重要性”成为维持不可逾越的准入壁垒的接口（也是高管希望自己的公司变得太大而不能倒的又一原因）。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, in places like Egypt, Christians have faced harsh social discrimination and violence, sometimes at the hands of the nominally secular state.",
        "结果，在埃及等地，基督徒面临着严峻的社会歧视和暴力，有时连名义上的世俗国家也对他们进行打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Or “President Mubarak has our complete confidence.”",
        "也有人说“我们对穆巴拉克总统完全有信心”。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, underestimating Trump would be a huge mistake; he will always prove stronger, more slippery, and more enduring than expected.",
        "有鉴于此，低估特朗普将是一个巨大的错误； 事实将证明他总会比人们想象的更强大、更狡猾，也更持久。"
    ],
    [
        "Even US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has made no secret of his disdain for Iran, complains only that Iranian leaders are violating the “spirit” of the deal.",
        "就连毫不掩饰对伊朗鄙视情绪的美国国务卿雷克斯·蒂勒森也只是抱怨伊朗领袖正在违反这项协议的“精神”。"
    ],
    [
        "In the aftermath of the war, polls showed a dramatic decline in the popularity of the US even in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war.",
        "据民意调查显示，战争带来的后果是美国的受拥护程度即便在英国、西班牙和意大利这些政府支持对伊战争的国家也大幅下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Incredibly, the EU’s progress reports on Turkey have continued to call the Ergenekon trials, which are heavily supported by the Gülenists, an opportunity to strengthen the rule of law.",
        "令人难以置信的是，欧盟撰写的相关土耳其发展报告（progress report）一直都将谷兰主义者大力支持的“Ergenekon”组织审判称为一个增强法治的契机。"
    ],
    [
        "A second challenge for Japan is the dramatic rise of China’s economy.",
        "中国经济的戏剧性崛起是日本面临的第二大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Your training in financial theory, economics, mathematics, and statistics will serve you well.",
        "你们在金融理论、经济学、数学和统计学方面所受的训练将让你们如虎添翼。"
    ],
    [
        "But the experience raised questions about the effects of future moves by the Fed.",
        "但这一经验让人们质疑美联储后续措施的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "This was not because of “doles,” as critics call them, but because of more generous and effective government.",
        "这并不是因为批评者所谓的“施舍”，而是因为更慷慨、更高效的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s impressive signals since taking office – telephoning Arab leaders before European allies, appointing special envoy George Mitchell and speaking on Al-Arabiyeh for his first interview – reflect a different approach from the staid and unimaginative past.",
        "奥巴马自就任以来所发出的明显信号—在照会欧洲盟友之前与阿拉伯领导人通电话，指派中东特使乔治•米切尔并在Al-Arabiyeh上接受第一次采访，发表讲话—反映出一种与刻板和缺乏想象力的过去所不同的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "In Vietnam, the United States was not invading a country, but defending a corrupt authoritarian ally against an aggressive Communist regime.",
        "在越南，美国不是在入侵一个国家，而是在保护腐败的集权盟友不受强大共产党政权的侵害。"
    ],
    [
        "But they argued that long-delayed (and much-needed) pro-market reforms would result in a compensatory boost to the Greek economy.",
        "但它们认为，一拖再拖（并且急需）的亲市场改革能够给希腊经济带来补偿性提振。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, in most African markets, few categories have entered the slower-growth “chill-out” zone.",
        "包括品牌服饰在内的奢侈品则更加迟缓。 不出所料，在大多数非洲市场，只有少数商品已经进入了“冷却期”"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey, on the other hand, after some initial hesitation, has thrown its weight fully behind Assad’s opponents, including by providing refuge to them, as well as to defectors from Syria’s army.",
        "而另一方面土耳其起初有点迟疑，但随后开始大力支持反对派一方，包括为这些人以及叙利亚军叛逃者提供庇护。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this adds up to an industry that Bloomberg calculates reached $310 billion in investment last year.",
        "所有这些使得该行业在去年获得3,100亿美元投资（据彭博社计算）。"
    ],
    [
        "These ideas go well beyond the American system.",
        "这些方案已经超过了美国政策的边界。"
    ],
    [
        "One could argue that the repeated mass shootings in the United States over the past few decades have all had a Republican stamp on them.",
        "可以说，美国在过去几十年里一再发生的大规模枪击案，无不带有共和党的戳记。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the bulk of its obligations are social security and health care, which cannot be inflated away.",
        "与此同时，美国政府债务的大部分来自社会保障和医疗保障支出，这部分支出可不会因通胀而缩水。"
    ],
    [
        "But reducing carbon emissions has proved impossible, because such a commitment could constrain GDP growth (anathema to developed countries mired in economic malaise) and impede access to energy and electricity for billions of people in developing countries, which is unacceptable to China and India.",
        "但减少碳排放却难于上青天，因为这方面的承诺会制约GDP增长（对于深陷经济困境的发达国家来说，这不啻于诅咒），也阻碍了发展中国家数十亿人获得能源和电力，中国和印度无法接受这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, in view of today’s needs, macroeconomists have made little progress on policy since John Maynard Keynes explained how economies could get stuck in unemployment due to deficient aggregate demand.",
        "可悲的是，在目前看来，自从约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯解释了由于市场需求的不足，经济是如何受制于失业率的理论之后，宏观经济学家们并没有什么新的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s incoming administration is full of unknowns, but there can be no doubt that his rejection of multilateral institutions will endanger international efforts to cooperate on solutions to the world’s biggest problems.",
        "特朗普即将执政的新内阁充满了未知数，但毫无疑问他对多边机构的抗拒会危及合作解决全球最严重问题的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "While reforms have been slow in coming, the government cannot ignore growing public criticism forever.",
        "虽然改革进展缓慢，但日益增长的公众批评令政府不可能永远忽视下去。"
    ],
    [
        "One objection to delegating political authority to technocrats is that such appointments amount to a humiliating constraint on sovereignty.",
        "反对向技术官僚授予政治权力的其中一个理由就是此举对各国主权造成了一种堪比侮辱的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "When Hoyle turned to biology, he went astray.",
        "但霍伊尔跨入生物学领域后却误入歧途。"
    ],
    [
        "Host countries are best suited to provide that.",
        "难民接收国最适合提供这样的教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Herein lies Asia’s specific paradox: a high level of economic integration has not given rise to regional institutions that can support the stability required for sustained prosperity.",
        "在这里隐藏着亚洲的特殊矛盾：高度经济融合并没有带来能支持持续繁荣所需要的稳定的制度融合。"
    ],
    [
        "Various political leaders of different political parties flash across Russia’s television screens, but there is no real national discussion about how to lead the country forward.",
        "来自不同政党的党派领袖在俄国的电视银屏上一闪而过，却始终没有形成如何带领国家前进的真正的全国性讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, what appears to be driving Abe’s endeavors even more than the desire to revise the postwar order in Japan is a widely shared fear of China’s increasing regional dominance.",
        "事实上，除了渴望改变战后日本秩序，安倍的举动背后的更大原因是对中国地区主宰力日升的普遍担心。"
    ],
    [
        "After the much-heralded “Cedar Revolution” of 2005, Hezbollah even joined the Lebanese government, while at the same time maintaining its armed militia and control of the south.",
        "2005年被大肆赞扬的所谓“雪松革命”以后，真主党甚至加入了黎巴嫩政府，而与此同时维持其武装民兵对南部的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "In the future, however, the shift to non-tradable consumption may dominate.",
        "然而在未来，非贸易消费可能转而占据主导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The backbreaking drudgery of hand weeding often falls to women and children.",
        "”而人工除草的苦差事往往由妇女和孩子承担。"
    ],
    [
        "That would mean an increasingly unstable world for us all.",
        "我们所有人都将因此面对一个越来越不稳定的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Even among drugs that make it to human clinical trials, only one in five will clear that final hurdle.",
        "即使进入了人类临床试验阶段，也只有五分之一能够跨越这一最后一关。"
    ],
    [
        "We must teach people, especially our children, to think of themselves as “heroes-in-waiting,” ready to take heroic action in a particular situation that may occur only once in their lifetime.",
        "我们必须教导人们，尤其是我们的孩子，把他们自己想象成“将会成为英雄”，在遇到也许在他们的一生中只会发生一次的特定情境下会随时做出英雄的举动。"
    ],
    [
        "How many designers in America or Europe can say the same?",
        "有多少美国或欧洲的设计师会说出同样的话呢？"
    ],
    [
        "If they vote for legalization, it will probably be 20 years or more before anyone can say whether, on balance, they decided wisely.",
        "如果他们最终投票通过这项法案的话，那么至少要等到20年或者更长时间之后，才能下结论说他们的决定是否明智。"
    ],
    [
        "French President Jacques Chirac unguardedly speculated that an Iran with one or two nuclear bombs might not pose a serious a threat, given the possibility of nuclear retaliation -- his musings so startled French officials that they quickly jumped in to correct the President’s comments.",
        "法国总统雅克•希拉克毫无防备地推测说由于存在核报复的可能性，所以拥有一两颗核弹的伊朗不会成为一个严重的威胁—他的观点令法国官员们大为震惊，并很快地纠正了总统的评论。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, he recently called the disintegration of the Soviet Union a tragic mistake.",
        "的确，他最近说苏联解体是一个悲剧性的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, he was careful to let Kohl and others take the lead.",
        "与此同时，他小心翼翼地让科尔和其他人主导形势发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, young people must be a top priority.",
        "其次，必须优先考虑年轻人。"
    ],
    [
        "The Endgames in Iraq and Afghanistan",
        "伊拉克和阿富汗事务的终结"
    ],
    [
        "If pensions and governments both prove unable to provide for the elderly, countries across the continent could experience rising social instability – a broader version of the saga playing out in Greece.",
        "如果退休基金和政府都无法为老年人提供养老金，那么整个欧洲大陆的各国可能面临日益严重的社会动荡——即希腊闹剧的放大版。"
    ],
    [
        "I am not talking about 2011, but about 1964. We have been here before.",
        "请注意，我说的可不是2011年，而是1964年，历史又一次重演了。"
    ],
    [
        "And the problem isn’t limited to Australia.",
        "而问题不仅仅局限于澳大利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand why, it is helpful to take a broad view of Latin America’s history and economic development.",
        "想知道为什么，就必须先了解拉丁美洲的历史和经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The second argument needs to be made by those who care about America's national security.",
        "第二种观点应该由关心美国国家安全的人士来表达。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the central bank kept interest rates low, so that the inflation-adjusted cost of loans is zero or negative.",
        "与此同时中央银行则维持低利率，因此贷款成本在考虑通胀因素后基本保持在零或是负数水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Set at a low enough level – say, 0.25% – such a tax would have little adverse effect on the global economy while raising considerable revenue.",
        "将该税税率设定在一个足够低的水平——例如，0. 25%——这种税就会增加相当可观的税收，但是对全球经济产生的不利影响非常小。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact of the slowdown in real-estate investment on the economy was stronger than expected, as was that of Europe’s debt crisis.",
        "房地产投资放缓对经济的影响比预期的要严重，欧洲债务危机的影响也相当大。"
    ],
    [
        "Naturally, there may be a touch of geopolitical calculation about this. As Japan grows increasingly nervous about China’s rise, the case for increasing investment in the other Asian giant strengthens.",
        "当然伴随着日本人的还有地缘政治方面的考虑，因为随着日本对中国崛起的日渐忧虑，在另一亚洲大国身上投资下注的必要性也逐渐凸显出来了。"
    ],
    [
        "Power Africa takes a “transaction-centered approach,” creating teams to align incentives among “host governments, the private sector, and donors.”",
        "非洲力量采取了“以交易为中心的方针”，建立团队理顺“东道国政府、私人部门和出资人”之间的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, promoting economic interaction with Taiwan is not China’s ultimate goal; unification is.",
        "当然，大陆的最终目标并不是推动两岸经济互动，而是统一。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, these bankrupts are filing lawsuits to get the million-dollar bonuses to which they feel entitled.",
        "恰恰相反，破产的银行家们却都在提起诉讼，索回他们认为应得的百万美金红利。"
    ],
    [
        "It may seem strange to make middle-income countries pay for their own bailout insurance, but it isn’t.",
        "让中等收入国家为自己买救援保险听起来有些奇怪，但事实却不然。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these actors have their own ideas and motivations, and they are all manipulating our perspectives – and our moods – every day.",
        "甚至是在火车上举止粗鲁的陌生人都可能发挥同样的作用。 上述各方具有各自的想法和动机，并且每时每刻都在影响我们的情绪和看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Football Fury",
        "足球狂怒"
    ],
    [
        "The likely outcome – in typical European, consensus-driven fashion – will be to forgo deadlines and concrete targets in favor of an ambiguous, open-ended pledge to undertake further pension reform.",
        "对此可能产生的后果——在一个以达成共识为目标的典型欧洲做派下——就是放弃对限期以及明确目标的坚持，转而发表一个含糊不清且不设期限的养老金改革承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The most that can be realistically expected is an insipid statement of the two sides’ agreement to disagree.",
        "从现实角度，我们最多能够期待双方发表一些无关痛痒的承认分歧的声明。"
    ],
    [
        "Understandably, the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has taken the stand that Taiwan should seek closer ties with ASEAN countries rather than depend too much on Mainland China, but Ma does not see the two efforts as being mutually exclusive.",
        "可以理解的是，台湾的反对党民进党主张台湾应该拉近和东盟的关系，而不是依靠中国大陆。 但马英九并不认为两者是对立关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis that began in 2007 originated in the sub-prime mortgage sector in the United States, and in US banks that were “too big to fail,” prompting many observers at the outset to predict the end of American financial capitalism.",
        "肇始于 2007 年美国次贷危机的这一轮金融海啸，起源地是美国一些“大到倒不得”的银行。 危机伊始，不少观察家便由此断定，它标志着美国式金融资本主义的终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the most perilous phase of Xi’s purge may now be underway, given the recent arrest of the deputy commander of the Sichuan Military District – a key post, given the district’s large and restive Tibetan population.",
        "事实上，习近平的整风运动也许正在经历最危险的时刻，——最近，成都军区副司令员被拿下，他的职位至关重要，因为成都军区需要负责地域广袤、桀骜不驯的藏区。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Some economists overlook the modern idea that a country’s prosperity depends on innovation and entrepreneurship.",
        "纽约—一些经济学家忽视了一个现代观点，即，一国的繁荣取决于创新和企业家精神。"
    ],
    [
        "But I wonder whether, even within the next few decades, another factor will influence our work lives even more: the exponential rise of applications of artificial intelligence.",
        "但是我更想知道：今后几十年内，是否会有另外一个因素对我们的职业生涯造成更大的影响：这个因素就是人工智能应用的指数级增长。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time, I was Senior Policy Adviser for the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and Labor – a position that made me the top congressional staff member responsible for upholding labor standards in international trade treaties.",
        "当时，我是美国众议院教育和劳动委员会顾问，因此成为国际贸易条约劳动标准方面的国会最高负责人。"
    ],
    [
        "Such questions have triggered a wide-ranging constitutional debate.",
        "这些问题引发了广泛的宪政争论。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1990, he co-wrote a paper about executive pay, arguing that it was not sufficiently linked to performance.",
        "1990年，他与人合作写了一篇关于高管薪酬的论文，指出高管薪酬与他们表现并不是充分挂钩的。"
    ],
    [
        "Further contributing to the savings glut was growth itself.",
        "进一步扩大储蓄过剩的是增长本身。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than just making future illegal activities more difficult, they can also strike a blow against people who stockpiled cash from past illegal activities.",
        "这样做不仅可以使未来的违法活动变得更加困难，也可以对那些从过去的违法活动中囤积现金的人进行打击。"
    ],
    [
        "To some, green growth evokes a countryside covered with windmills and urban roofs lined with solar panels.",
        "在某些人看来，绿色增长就意味着遍布乡村的风车以及城市屋顶上的太阳能电池板。"
    ],
    [
        "Women hold around 30% of economics doctorates in developed countries, including Europe, and not one of them could be brought forward for the ECB post?",
        "女性获得了发达国家（包括欧洲）30%的经济学博士学位，难道就没有一人可以入主欧洲央行？"
    ],
    [
        "Why the Greek Bailout Failed",
        "失败的希腊援助"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s unwillingness to heed popular discontent, and his failure to develop relations with the West during his 12 years in power, has backed him into a corner – and he is running out of ideas.",
        "普京根本不屑于群众的不满，他在掌权的12年中也没有与西方发展好关系，这让他走进了死胡同，而他也正在计穷。"
    ],
    [
        "And this was followed by willful blindness, as governments refused to recognize that militant Islamic fundamentalism was actually Islamo-fascism, the third global variant of totalitarianism that diehard critics had been decrying for a quarter-century.",
        "然后又继之以一厢情愿的盲目，政府拒绝承认军事伊斯兰原教旨其实就是伊斯兰法西斯，即顽固派批评家四分之一世纪以来一直在大声疾呼的第三种全球极权主义变体。"
    ],
    [
        "The West was not prepared for global forces to push backward and to seek a future in the past.",
        "西方没有料到全球力量的回弹和向过去寻找未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu answered: “Correct.”",
        "”内塔尼亚胡回答：“对。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "One would think that a country like the US, with a current account deficit of roughly $800 billion a year, would realize that such a yawning external gap is inevitably financed only by selling off assets, which means that foreigners with money acquire ownership and control of US-based businesses.",
        "人们会认为像美国这样一个经常项目下的赤字每年高达约8000亿美金的国家，会意识到这样一个巨大的外部缺口不可避免地要靠出售资产来填补。 这就意味着资金雄厚的外国人能够获取美国公司的所有权和控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chimera of Stock-Market Short-Termism",
        "关于证券市场短期主义的迷思"
    ],
    [
        "Under these circumstances, there are greater calls in South Korea for a new approach towards the North.",
        "在这样的情况下，韩国有更多人呼吁对北朝鲜采取新的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Only such a pledge can provide the type of certainty that investors – any investors – will need if the Spratly resources are to be developed.",
        "也只有这样一个承诺能给于投资者——不管来自哪方——足够的信心来开发该海域的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as reputable firms ensure the quality of all their inputs, this loophole can allow unsafe products to enter the market, as occurred in 2008, when at least 81 Americans died after receiving doses of the blood thinner heparin that contained adulterated Chinese material.",
        "即使信誉卓著的企业能确保所有原料的质量，这一漏洞也足以导致不安全产品流入市场，比如，2008年至少81名美国人死于含有不合格中国原料的血液稀释肝素。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Hamas Win the Peace?",
        "哈马斯会赢得和平吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in 2015, just as the press began labeling him a lame duck, Obama achieved a string of foreign-policy successes – namely, a much-needed nuclear agreement with Iran, normalization of relations with Cuba, and agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).",
        "此外，在媒体开始将其称之为跛脚鸭总统的2015年，奧巴马却实现了一系列外交政策上的成就——比如与伊朗签订了急需的核协议，实现美国古巴关系正常化以及签订《跨太平洋伙伴关系协议》。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2012, the People’s Bank of China allowed commercial banks to float interest rates on deposits upward by 10% from the benchmark, and on bank loans downward by 20%.",
        "2012年，中国人民银行允许商业银行存款利率在基准利率基础上上浮10%、贷款利率下浮20%。"
    ],
    [
        "Those with large current-account deficits (India, South Africa, and more than 20 economies in East Europe from the Baltics to Turkey) may suffer from the global credit crunch.",
        "那些经常账户赤字数额巨大的国家（印度，南非，以及从波罗的海国家到土耳其的位于东欧的20多个国家）会因为全球信贷紧缩受到不利影响。"
    ],
    [
        "At some point, he must open discussions with countries like China, France, and Britain to understand better the conditions for transparency and verification that would be necessary for a clearer path toward eventual elimination of nuclear weapons in accordance with Article VI of the NPT.",
        "在一些问题上奥巴马必须与中国、法国和英国开诚布公地进行讨论，以便能更好地理解某些透明化以及验证性条件，而这些条件将有助于在依照《核不扩散条约》第六条的情况下找到一条更清晰的，可以最终实现全面消灭核武器的路径"
    ],
    [
        "The Dangers of Nuclear Disarmament",
        "核裁军的危险之处"
    ],
    [
        "For, above all, it is in this era of globalization that faith can represent reason and progress.",
        "毕竟在这个全球化时代，信仰也可以代表着理性和进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Such is Thaksin’s mixed legacy.",
        "但这就是他信留下的复杂遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "These Islamic terrorists, with their global reach, could well tilt the balance from one extreme to the other in a number of countries.",
        "这些伊斯兰恐怖分子的势力遍布全世界，他们或许会在几个国家中完全打乱平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when business has massive – perhaps even excessive – influence worldwide, companies, in their drive for profit or power, often disregard their own societal obligations.",
        "在这样一个企业对世界拥有巨大——甚至可能过于巨大的——影响力的时代，企业在利润或权力的驱动下往往会忽略自己的社会义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Foremost among those stories is the European financial crisis, which is talked about everywhere around the globe.",
        "首先大部分故事都是关于欧洲金融危机的，全球世界在都在谈论这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Friedman would respond that, given the state of the world in 1975, a move in the direction of his principles was a big improvement.",
        "弗里德曼会回应说鉴于世界在1975年时的情况，朝着他的那套原则方向的行动是一大进步。"
    ],
    [
        "When an event has never occurred, it cannot be predicted with any semblance of confidence.",
        "当一个事件从未发生过时，你不可能装出自信的模样预测它发生。"
    ],
    [
        "A “strongman” who cannot keep order in the streets is of no use to anyone.",
        "一个无力维持街头秩序的“强人”早就没什么利用价值了。"
    ],
    [
        "These debentures should be designed to create a strong incentive for bank managers and shareholders to issue equity rather than suffer conversion.",
        "这笔信用债的设计应该为银行管理者和股东提供极大的发行股票而不是接受债转股的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "But Greenspan’s memoirs, to be published later this month, will no doubt strongly defend his famous decisions to bail out financial markets with sharp interest rate cuts in 1987, 1998, and 2001, arguing that the world might have fallen apart otherwise.",
        "他分别在1987年、1998年和2001年大幅度降低利率拯救金融市场。 下个月下旬即将出版的格林斯潘的回忆录将会毫无疑问地为他的著名的救市决定辩护，他说如果不是这样，世界经济就可能崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "In October 2004, Hedgestreet.com began offering “hedgelets” on real estate prices in US cities – contracts that pay out if the rate of increase in home prices based on the OFHEO Home Price Index falls within a pre-specified range.",
        "在2004年10月，Hedgestreet. com开始提供针对美国城市不动产价格的“hedgelets”—一种当基于“OFHEO房价指数”的房价增长率达到某一既定幅度时就会赔付的合同。"
    ],
    [
        "When investment banking markets were booming – and the private sector easily recruited up top talent – regulators and supervisors found it difficult to get the budgets to keep up with innovation and police the markets.",
        "当投资银行市场快速发展——而且私营部门很容易招到顶级人才的时候——监管者发现预算资金很难跟上市场上创新的速度，并且也很难对市场进行监管。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the development and use of macroprudential tools faces considerable economic and political obstacles.",
        "不幸的是，宏观审慎工具的开发和使用面临诸多经济和政治障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "While markets tend to shrug off localized political crises and even larger geopolitical challenges, some dramas may be set to spin out of control.",
        "虽然市场倾向于无视本地性政治危机甚至更大的地缘政治挑战，但某些局面可能失控。"
    ],
    [
        "In the years ahead, successful companies will take the lead in tackling the most urgent development challenges of our time – everything from poverty and disease to climate change.",
        "未来几年，成功的公司将领导解决现时代最紧迫的发展挑战——从贫困和疾病到气候变化的一切挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "While forward guidance by central banks has also helped, it, too, is unlikely to be able to provide an effective buffer against a new shock.",
        "虽然央行的前瞻指导也有帮助，但也不太可能有效缓冲新的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "This is reflected in their cost of financing in general.",
        "这在它们的融资成本中得到充分的体现。"
    ],
    [
        "Rapid expansion of private debt raises other, larger concerns.",
        "私人债务的迅速扩张引起了另一个更大的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia can use its geography either to keep its states isolated, or to trade with one another and develop to the benefit of all.",
        "亚洲可以利用其地理条件保持各国各自为政的状态，也可以互相交易，开发共同利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Most experts agree that the ingenious technology behind virtual currencies may have broad applications for cyber security, which currently poses one of the biggest challenges to the stability of the global financial system.",
        "大部分专家都认为，虚拟货币背后的精妙科技可以在网络安全方面起到广泛作用。 目前，网络安全是全球金融体系所面临的最大额稳定性挑战之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The company – and others like it – are not just moving into the market; the simplified investment and savings processes they offer are expanding and transforming it.",
        "该公司——以及其他类似公司——不但正在进入市场，它们所提供的简单化投资和储蓄过程正在扩大和改变市场。"
    ],
    [
        "These benefits do not come without risk.",
        "这些好处并不是没有风险的。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite accounting for only one-eighth of the world’s population, the United States and Europe have long enjoyed economic dominance – accounting for half of global GDP – and disproportionate international influence.",
        "尽管美国和欧洲人口只占世界的八分之一，但它们长期占据着经济主宰地位——GDP约占世界的一半——并拥有不成比例的国际影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Colombia and the International Crisis",
        "哥伦比亚与国际危机"
    ],
    [
        "If and when wage pressure comes, the ECB, to remain true to its word, may be forced to increase interest rates much more than it now expects.",
        "一旦出现工资压力，为了不食言自肥，欧洲央行很可能被迫将利率提升到远远超过现在设想的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "So the “natural” rate of interest – the rate at which the demand for investment equals the supply of savings – has fallen, and arguably has become negative.",
        "因此，“自然”利率——使投资需求等于储蓄供给的利率——下降了，甚至下降到负水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Camara’s test – indeed, the test for most African rulers – consists in protecting civilians and their property, in establishing law and order without oppressive measures, and in fighting corruption.",
        "对卡马拉、实际也是对多数非洲统治者的考验在于保护普通民众及其财产，在不借助压迫性措施的前提下建立法律和秩序框架，以及消除腐败现象。"
    ],
    [
        "(War-torn Yemen, by contrast, scores green for both “Climate Action” and “Partnership for the Goals”.)",
        "（相反，饱受战火蹂躏的也门却在“气候行动”和“目标合作关系”等两项指标上得到了绿色。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "By 2100, one billion to three billion people worldwide are expected to suffer from water scarcity.",
        "到2100年，世界范围内十亿至三十亿的人口将遭受水荒。"
    ],
    [
        "The GDP-Wellbeing Gap",
        "GDP-幸福差异"
    ],
    [
        "On the organizational side, NATO describes itself as having developed “close working relations” with the United Nations, the European Union, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.",
        "在组织结构方面，北约号称自己与联合国、欧盟、欧洲安全与合作组织建立了“密切的工作关系”。"
    ],
    [
        "A comparison between trends in the US and Europe further weakens the “losers of globalization” argument.",
        "比较美欧之间的发展趋势进一步削弱了“全球化失败者”的论调。"
    ],
    [
        "Local governments’ indebtedness soared, and fixed investment surged toward an unprecedented 50% of GDP.",
        "各地方政府负债急升，而固定资产投资占GDP的比率也史无前例地逼近50%。"
    ],
    [
        "Before long, the colonies were exporting wood to the many nations that no longer had the timber they needed for ships, casks, shingles, and other construction materials.",
        "不久，殖民地把木头出口到那些已经不再有木材的国家供它们制造船只、木桶、木瓦和其他建筑材料。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dilemma of Multiculturalism",
        "多元文化主义的两难困境"
    ],
    [
        "Why not have “credible measures” to achieve that goal?",
        "为何不采取“可信措施”实现这一目标？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, if another product-safety issue involving Chinese imports makes headlines in the US, things could move quickly from disappointment to real anger.",
        "比如说，如果中国出口产品的安全问题再次出现在美国报刊头条的话，那么民众的情绪可能很快就会从失望发展到彻底愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "But I believe that corruption is not the main reason that the profession missed the crisis.",
        "但我相信腐败并非经济学家无法识别危机的主因。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a man who is a generous donor to the Long Now Foundation (I am on its board) and who personally founded and owns a rocket company, Blue Origin (I am on the board of a competing company called XCOR).",
        "贝索斯是今日永存基金会（我也是该基金会的董事成员）慷慨的捐助者，其个人还创办并且拥有一家叫蓝源（Blue Origin）的火箭公司（而我则是其竞争对手XCOR公司的董事）。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, then, does Avakov continue to make contradictory statements and indulge in poorly sourced conjecture?",
        "那么，阿瓦科夫为什么要不断地放出互相矛盾的口风，沉迷于没有确证的猜测？"
    ],
    [
        "China’s hard bargaining with Russia has exposed the limits of the two countries’ bilateral cooperation, which has important geo-strategic consequences for Asia and the world.",
        "中国的强势还价暴露出两国双边合作的局限性，而这对亚洲和世界具有重要的地缘战略影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if doing so takes some time, initiating the process would send a powerful political signal of the EU’s determination to support Ukraine.",
        "即使这样做需要一些时间，启动这一程序也可以传递一个有力的政治信号，表明欧盟决心支持乌克兰。"
    ],
    [
        "Our diplomacy is also focused on protecting the well-being of the roughly ten million Filipinos working overseas.",
        "其二则是关注保护1000多万菲律宾籍海外劳工的福利。"
    ],
    [
        "The world is struggling to fight climate change, sustain a growing global population, and find decent jobs for millions of young people.",
        "气候变化斗争、维持不断增长的全球人口、为千百万年轻人找到体面工作，这些都是当今世界所面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s role reflects the huge stake that the rest of the world – advanced and developing countries alike – has in Europe’s recovery: it is a high-return investment.",
        "IMF的角色体现着世界其他地区在欧洲复苏问题上的利益——不管是发达国家还是发展中国家——这是一笔高回报投资。"
    ],
    [
        "But nearly 16 million Americans are either unemployed or have dropped out of the labor force, while more than half of the jobs created during the recovery are low-wage positions that usually do not offer such plans.",
        "但有近1600万美国人要么无人聘用，要么退出了劳动力大军，与此同时，复苏期间创造的工作岗位一大半属于低薪职位，通常并不提供退休计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The most promising investment is in tuberculosis treatment.",
        "最为有前途的投资是在于治疗肺结核。"
    ],
    [
        "This formula worked with the Monetary Union.",
        "这一公式曾经在货币联盟中卓有成效。"
    ],
    [
        "The new colonialists call to mind the settlers from Europe who spread across the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, benefiting not just themselves, but also their homelands.",
        "新殖民主义者让人回想起18及19世纪从欧洲分散到全世界定居的殖民者，这样做不仅惠及他们自身，而且惠及了他们曾经生活的祖国。"
    ],
    [
        "He could have added the Rome Statute and UN resolutions establishing the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda.",
        "”他本来还可以再加上国际常设刑事法院公约和联合国为前南斯拉夫和卢旺达成立特别法庭的决议案。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2015, China announced plans to create the world’s largest carbon-pricing system.",
        "2015年，中国宣布建立世界最大规模的碳定价系统。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Fed tapers its purchases of long-term assets, including US treasury securities, it is a perfect time for the ECB to step in and buy some itself.",
        "随着美联储逐渐退出其长期资产（包括美国国债）买入计划，欧洲央行站出来购买美国国债正当其时。"
    ],
    [
        "But that rate would have been even higher had average weekly hours for workers in manufacturing remained at 45.",
        "而如果制造业劳动者的每周平均工作时间依然维持在45小时的话，那这个比率估计要升得更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Many predicted this trend, but for the wrong reason.",
        "许多人都预测到了这一趋势，但理由是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "The degree of mistrust of business leaders, mainstream politicians, and expert economists is evident in the extent to which voters are ignoring their warnings not to endanger the gradual restoration of prosperity by upending the status quo.",
        "对商界领袖、 主流政治家和专家经济学家的不信任情绪已经相当明显，以至于选民都扭头忽略了他们关于颠覆现状将会危及复苏的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "Odiousness Ratings for Public Debt",
        "公共债务的可恶评级"
    ],
    [
        "I have little doubt that learning by doing will eventually lead to coherent programs.",
        "我毫不怀疑在实践中学习将最终使我们的各项计划具有连贯性。"
    ],
    [
        "Several weeks ago, the government of Tajikistan blocked YouTube and reportedly shut down communications networks in a remote region where government forces were battling an opposition group.",
        "几个星期前，塔吉克斯坦政府屏蔽了YouTube，据说还切断了边远地区的通信网络，因为政府军在这些地区与反对派组织交了火。"
    ],
    [
        "But, compared to other asset classes, the market for NFC bonds is relatively thin.",
        "但相比于其他资产门类，这类债券的市场还相对薄弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the alternative to global integration holds little attraction.",
        "在这种大环境下，全球化已成千夫所指，批评者甚至包括可从中受益良多的发展中国家的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – Why did the household savings rate in the United States plummet before the Great Recession?",
        "芝加哥—美国家庭储蓄率为什么会在大衰退前剧减？"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed has indicated that it will eventually end its program of long-term asset purchases and allow rates to rise to more normal levels.",
        "美联储已经暗示它将最终结束其长期资产购买计划，让利率升至较为正常的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro will become progressively overvalued, just as the gold bloc was in the 1930’s.",
        "欧元将向过高估值持续迈进，正如1930年代的金本位国家集团那样。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to make business engagement and investment sustainable, the BDI has also sought assurances that migrants who find employment will not be deported.",
        "为保障企业参与和投资的可持续性，德国工业联合会还要求确保已经就业的移民不被驱逐。"
    ],
    [
        "The rush towards bio-fuels has also strongly contributed to rising food prices, which have tipped another roughly 30 million people into starvation.",
        "一股风地发展生物燃料还极大地推动了食品价格的上涨，造成大约另外三千万人陷入饥饿。"
    ],
    [
        "The CEO needs to be talking about the business of the company to its workforce, investors, and the wider world, not be stuck at the AGM defending the executive team’s salaries.",
        "CEO需要面对员工、投资人和外界来谈论公司业务，而不是仅仅忙于在股东周年大会上辩解高管团队的薪酬。"
    ],
    [
        "You can decide to mow the grass, in which case you produce one kind of ecosystem, one kind of future.",
        "你可以决定修剪草坪，在此情况下你就创建了一个生态系统，一种未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Regrettably, a large and relatively disproportionate share of the fruits of that growth is going toward military expansion.",
        "遗憾的是，这一果实的大到有些不成比例的部分被用在了军事扩张上。"
    ],
    [
        "Kerri Miller of Minnesota Public Radio tweeted that she had covered the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which was first reported as a gas explosion, then as an attack by foreign terrorists, and finally as the work of domestic extremists.",
        "明尼苏达公共电台（Minnesota Public Radio）的米勒（Kerri Miller）发推特说，她在1995年报道了俄克拉荷马城爆炸案，一开始该案被当做煤气爆炸案报道，随后又成为外国恐怖主义袭击案，而最后则是国内极端分子干的好事。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an institution would facilitate the efficient distribution of capital to infrastructure development around the region, enhancing national trade capabilities and promoting sustainable economic growth.",
        "这一机构能够便利资本有效地分配到整个地区的基础设施开发，加强国家毛一能力，促进可持续经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the French themselves are among the first to lament their bleak situation, inventing a new concept – “la déclinologie” – to describe this loss of self–confidence.",
        "的确，法国人自己也最先开始哀悼这种凄凉处境，他们发明了一个新概念--“la déclinologie”—来描述这种自信心的丧失。"
    ],
    [
        "By definition, this target would be country-specific.",
        "顾名思义，这一目标应该具体到国家。"
    ],
    [
        "If the world does not act this time, we risk losing one of the most precious legacies of early Buddhist history.",
        "如果世界这次还不采取行动，我们就可能永远地失去早期佛教历史上最为珍贵的遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "But what disturbs me is not the photograph.",
        "但令我感到不安的并不是照片。"
    ],
    [
        "Senior bank managers and regulators have a common interest in developing a more effective system – one that punishes the guilty and creates the right incentives for the future.",
        "发展更有效的体系——一个惩罚罪行、为未来提供正确激励的体系——符合银行高管和高层监管者的共同利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The fear was that powerful banks would exploit national government help, asking for intervention too soon.",
        "人们担心那些权势巨大的银行将滥用本国政府的救助，过早地要求政府介入。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries will fill the gap and gain the benefits, and they should make that known loud and clear.",
        "其他国家将填补它留下的空白并获得收益，而它们必须让所有人都明白和理解这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called “theory of everything” would reconcile the inconceivably small with the unimaginably large, providing a comprehensive understanding of the universe’s physical properties.",
        "所谓的“万有理论”将不可感知的微观与不可想象宏观调和起来，提供了对宇宙物理性质的全面理解。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, we should focus our efforts on a shorter time frame, say, the next 15 years.",
        "换言之，我们应当关注短期措施，比如说今后15年的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, when Airbus moved from injection molding to 3D printing to produce the metal hinges for its airplanes’ doors, it reduced their weight by half, yielding phenomenal savings in material and associated fuel consumption over a lifetime of flying those hinges around the world.",
        "以空中客车公司生产的机舱门铰链为例，用三维喷射技术取代原有注射成型工艺可使铰链的重量减少一半，不但节省了大量生产材料，在这些铰链全球飞行的生命周期中也随之减少了许多燃料消耗。"
    ],
    [
        "Morsi’s timing was remarkable: the day after winning international acclaim for his successful efforts to broker a truce in Gaza, he staged a frontal assault on Egypt’s nascent democracy.",
        "穆尔西选择的时机颇值一提：在因牵线加沙停战协议而赢得国际喝彩后的那一天，他正面袭击了襁褓中的埃及民主。"
    ],
    [
        "These new billions do seem to demonstrate renewed government resolve, but is throwing money at the war on terror enough?",
        "这笔新的巨款似乎表示政府重拾反恐的决心，但仅仅把钱砸进反恐战争就万事大吉了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Rent, broadly defined, is income derived solely from the ownership and control of an asset, rather than from innovative, entrepreneurial deployments of economic resources.",
        "广义上说，租金作为一种收入形式，完全来源于对资产的所有权和控制权，而不是对经济资源的创新和创业型部署。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s claim to great-power status and his great-power policies are structurally very vulnerable.",
        "普京的强国地位主张以及其强国政策，在结构上都是很脆弱的。"
    ],
    [
        "Central bank alchemy, to borrow a term from the US journalist Neil Irwin’s new book, has its limits.",
        "央行炼金术——借用美国记者尼尔·埃尔文（Neil Irwin）新著的用词——总归有限。"
    ],
    [
        "The list, dominated by intellectuals who in the 1990’s had called for freedom of speech and political participation, appeared with the statement: “This is the time when China is facing the most problems in its unprecedented transformation, and when it most needs public intellectuals to be on the scene and to speak out.”",
        "二十世纪九十年代间呼吁言论自由和政治参与的知识分子在这份名单中榜上有名。 该名单说明：“当今中国在前所未有的转变中正面临最大的问题，现在是最需要公共知识分子现身直言的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "“Bashar al-Assad is the Syrian state,” the same people say.",
        "“巴沙尔·阿萨德就是叙利亚政府”，同样这些人说。"
    ],
    [
        "And ensure that all countries in the region reaffirm the basic rules of freedom of navigation in a way that allows them to claim vindication.",
        "同时还要保证该区域所有国家都能重申自由航行权的基本原则，并以一种允许它们提交辩护的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, commercial vessels successfully navigated the Northeast Passage.",
        "而就在今年，商船却成功打通了这条“东北航道”。"
    ],
    [
        "A spontaneous cry was heard from the lawyers and the families of victims when they were announced: “The people want to cleanse the judiciary.”",
        "当判决宣布时，受害者家庭及其律师们情不自禁地流下了眼泪：“人民恨不得清洗司法部。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Robust exports from Japan and Europe supported economic recovery and steadied investor confidence, providing, in turn, further export opportunities for newly industrializing countries, most notably China.",
        "日本和欧洲的强劲出口支持经济恢复增长、也稳定了投资者的心态，进而又为新兴的工业化国家，特别是中国，提供了进一步的出口机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s cohorts, many of whom are not accustomed to life in the spotlight, only make matters worse.",
        "特朗普的很多追随者都不习惯在聚光灯下生活，这只能让局面进一步失控。"
    ],
    [
        "Another factor is the spread of ideologies, both secular and religious, that encourage us to care for distant others, that persuade us to expand our kindness beyond our immediate circle.",
        "而另外一个因素则是意识形态的传播，无论是世俗还是宗教的，这会鼓励我们去关怀远方的他人，说服我们将自己的善行延伸到生活圈子之外的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Hitler, she noted sarcastically, had solved Germany’s problem by “painting the Black Forest white and putting down linoleum in the Polish Corridor.”",
        "她语带讽刺地指出，希特勒通过“把黑森林涂白以及给波兰走廊铺地毯”解决了德国的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the debate is characterized by dissent and division, exemplified by the United Kingdom’s recent vote to leave the European Union – an outcome that was shaped largely by overblown fears about immigration.",
        "在欧洲，这场争论的特点是异议和分歧，英国最近投票脱离欧盟就是明证——这一结果很大程度上是拜英国人过度担心移民所赐。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama has proclaimed that he will close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility within a year, and he has declassified the legal memos that were used to justify what is now widely regarded as torture of detainees.",
        "奥巴马宣称将在一年内关闭关塔纳摩湾的羁押设施，并将相关的法律备忘录公之于众。 这些备忘录是用来开脱那些现在被认为是对被羁押者的折磨行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Evangelicals were brought in on the basis of so-called “family values,” meaning opposition to abortion and gay marriage, and promises of active government support for religious activities, including direct payments to religious groups for social services that they provide locally and internationally.",
        "福音基督教会的加入则是建立在所谓的“家庭价值观”（即反对堕胎和同性恋婚姻）和政府积极支持宗教活动的许诺（包括直接为宗教团体在地方和国际上提供的社会服务买单）上的。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the late twentieth century, most employment growth has come in services, particularly personal services – a pattern that looks like a reversal of a previous historical trend.",
        "二十世纪后期以来，大部分就业增长转向了以个人服务为代表的服务业，这种模式似乎逆转了以往的历史趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "That strategy supported technology transfer, helping to close the knowledge gap and rapidly improving the quality of manufactured goods.",
        "这一战略支持了技术转移，帮助弥补知识差距并且快速提高了制成品的质量。"
    ],
    [
        "I sure can’t.",
        "这更糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Viewed from this perspective, the apparent beauty of the laws of physics – our attraction to their symmetry and exuberance – is not surprising.",
        "从这个角度看，物理学定律的显而易见的美——我们被它们的对称性和繁茂所吸引——并不令人奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, market concentration in the agriculture sector is on the rise, owing to increased demand for the agricultural raw materials needed in food, animal feed, and energy production.",
        "此外，拜粮食、饲料和能源生产的农业原材料需求增长所赐，农业的市场集中度也在升高。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, establishment politicians are compromised because they have been at the helm all this time.",
        "当然，在任政治家因为长期以来一直掌舵而威望受损。"
    ],
    [
        "But one should not overlook the role of government in these successes.",
        "但人们不应忽视政府所扮演的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Arab Spring erupted in 2011, Western democracies were struggling with the consequences of the global financial crisis of 2008.",
        "2011年阿拉伯之春爆发时，西方民主因为2008年全球金融危机的而焦头烂额。"
    ],
    [
        "They certainly appeal to the hero narrative that so many of my fellow environmentalists favor.",
        "他们当然会诉诸许多我的环保主义同道们所钟爱的英雄故事。"
    ],
    [
        "They will eventually seek integration with fellow Pashtuns in Pakistan, across the British-drawn Durand Line – a border that Afghanistan has never recognized.",
        "他们终将跨越英制杜兰德线与巴基斯坦的普什图人实现汇合，这条英制边境线从来就没有被阿富汗人承认过。"
    ],
    [
        "Voters can never be sure of what the correct policy was, but they suspect the politician of exaggerating the size of the shock to explain away lost jobs.",
        "选民们永远无法确定正确的政策是什么，但他们怀疑政治家夸大了外部冲击的影响，并借此来推卸工作机会丧失的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Women make up half of the Middle East’s population, and any hope of political and economic development must account for that fact.",
        "妇女占据中东人口的一半，任何政治和经济发展希望都必须考虑到这一事实。"
    ],
    [
        "And we should also be very careful about the accounting used for derivatives.",
        "我们还应该对衍生品会计非常小心。"
    ],
    [
        "I have announced that I intend to contest this upcoming presidential election as a way of opening debate on these essential reforms.",
        "我在这里宣布：我打算加入到即将到来的总统大选的角逐中去，从而开启对上述实质性改革的公开讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Achieving this will not come without suffering.",
        "解决危机的过程会是痛苦的。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the world is a closed system, this raises the question: Who will run the world’s deficits?",
        "世界是一个封闭系统，因此这就造成了一个问题：谁来负责世界赤字？"
    ],
    [
        "The Nordic countries have led the way in experimenting with new ways to deliver public services while adopting “flexicurity” in labor relations.",
        "北欧国家是实验新方法提供公共服务、同时采取劳动力关系上的“弹性保障”（flexicurity）的先锋。"
    ],
    [
        "But at the heart of a Dera’s appeal is social and economic security, the ability to fulfill people’s basic needs.",
        "但真神宫的号召力的核心在于社会和经济安全，即满足人的基本需要的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless a political solution is somehow found, Syria’s fate will come down to the prophetic words a Sunni frontline fighter from Homs told a German reporter in 2012.",
        "除非以某种形式实现政治解决，否则叙利亚的命运将应验2012年逊尼派霍姆斯前线的一名战士告诉一位德国记者的预言。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China’s policies have damaged its relations with nearly all of its neighbors.",
        "实际上，中国政策已经损害了它与几乎所有邻国的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "And spending so much on interest payments will leave Brazil’s government with few resources for much-needed infrastructure investments.",
        "而利息支付支出如此之高将让巴西政府没有资源可用于急需的基础设施投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Virtually no one predicted this spectacular outcome.",
        "事实上，没有人会预测到选举的结果会是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring universal access to contraception would cost $3.6 billion annually, but would mean 150,000 fewer maternal deaths and 600,000 fewer orphans.",
        "确保避孕手段的全民普及每年需要花费36亿美元，但也意味着150,000位母亲免于死亡，600,000儿童免于沦为孤儿。"
    ],
    [
        "Business has a clear interest in reversing the decline in ocean health.",
        "商界有明确兴趣扭转海洋健康状况的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, no one holds high office without making mistakes, even fundamental ones, and this is especially true in tumultuous periods.",
        "当然，没有人鼓吹政府能够不犯错误，甚至是根本性的错误，而且时局越是动荡就越是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Early movers may pay a slightly higher price today for these strategies, but they and the world will reap long-term economic and environmental benefits.",
        "先行者或许会在当下付出更高的代价，但它们和全世界会因此收获长期经济和环境好处。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – Since the late 1970’s, the academic diffusion of game theory has led macroeconomists to emphasize the importance of “commitment,” a strategy that aims to enhance long-term economic outcomes by restricting policymakers’ discretion.",
        "芝加哥—自20世纪70年代以来，博弈论在学术上的流行使得宏观经济学家开始强调“承诺”的重要性。 承诺本是意在通过限制决策者自由裁量权改善长期经济结果的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries and organizations are already mobilizing.",
        "各国和国际组织已经行动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "If policymakers do go this route, there are serious risks.",
        "如果决策者真的按照这条路走，将带来严重的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the choice of a Latin American pope echoes a prior shift in the geographical distribution of new saints.",
        "事实上，选择拉丁美洲人当教皇印证了此前新圣徒地理分布的变化趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet few have paused to consider that the government provided nearly the same amount to Tesla to help it develop the Tesla S car, a product that is considered an archetype of Silicon Valley innovation.",
        "但很少有人停下来想一想，政府也为Tesla公司提供了类似规模的融资帮助它开发Tesla S汽车，而该产品被认为是硅谷创新的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "A few years earlier, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt called “freedom from want” – which, presumably, includes freedom from hunger – one of four essential freedoms of which people “everywhere in the world” should be assured.",
        "几年前，美国总统富兰克林·罗斯福称“免于匮乏的自由”——相比包括免于饥饿的自由——是“世界所有地区”人民都应该确保的四大基本自由之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But if inflation in India is 5% and zero in the US, it will cost the Indian manufacturer 66.2 rupees to make it today – and still just a dollar for American competitors.",
        "但如果印度通胀率为5%，而美国为零，那么现在印度制造商的成本是66. 2卢比，而美国竞争对手仍然为1美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Only very recently, as a result of the Greek government’s intense negotiations with its creditors, did Europe’s citizens realize that the world’s largest economy, the eurozone, is run by a body that lacks written rules of procedure, debates crucial matters “confidentially” (and without minutes being taken), and is not obliged to answer to any elected body, not even the European Parliament.",
        "直到最近，作为希腊政府与其债权人紧张谈判的结果之一，欧洲公民才认识到，身为世界最大经济体的欧元区是由一个没有成文程序规则、“秘密”讨论关键问题（而且不进行记录）、并且没有应答任何民选机构（甚至欧洲议会也不行）义务的集团运行的。"
    ],
    [
        "But with a concerted effort from all relevant parties – especially the media, civil society, and human-rights activists – plus the support of regional and international actors, it is possible.",
        "但若所有重要各方精诚合作——特别是媒体、公民社会和人权活动家——再加上地区和国际行动方的支持，它是可以完成的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, it has powered its explosive economic growth almost exclusively with highly polluting coal, lifting 680 million people out of poverty.",
        "其后，中国全靠高污染的煤炭让6. 8亿人摆脱贫困，并实现了爆炸式的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "As rates of economic growth have declined, this has meant growing unemployment.",
        "随着经济增长率的下降，失业的人数也就越来越多。"
    ],
    [
        "Four years into a disastrous military adventure in Iraq and with the global war on terror against ill-defined forces of darkness still inconclusive, the collapse of America’s grand strategy has exposed how ill-conceived was its simplistic recipe for democratic change in the Arab world.",
        "在伊拉克的军事冒险已经历时四年，针对概念模糊的黑暗势力的全球反恐战争依旧没有了结。 美国宏伟战略的崩溃表明，其在阿拉伯世界进行民主变革的简单化手段是如何地准备不良。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most disturbing, a third recent bill would allow for the imposition of Chinese-style population control on any group with a growth rate that is higher than the national average.",
        "也许最令人不安的是第三项立法，该立法将对任何人口增长率高于全国平均水平的群体采取类似中国的人口控制政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The cost of services compared to the cost of goods depends on productivity.",
        "服务成本和商品成本的比较其实取决于生产力。"
    ],
    [
        "So our daily behavior and reactions must be based on incomplete, and occasionally misleading, mental models.",
        "所以我们的日常行为和反应必须基于不完整的，偶尔误导性的思维模型。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Italy’s top bureaucrats are the highest paid in history, according to OECD data, with several retired officials drawing larger pensions than former US presidents receive.",
        "此外，经合组织数据显示，意大利高官享受有史以来的最高薪酬，某些退休官员的退休金甚至超过了美国前任总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike in the early summer of 2010, it has been largely stable relative to the dollar on foreign-exchange markets.",
        "一改2010年夏天的颓势，这一段时间，欧元兑美元汇率基本稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "To begin with, there is a moral element. There is something wrong in looking the other way when one’s fellow human being is being slaughtered.",
        "首先，这涉及道德因素，在自己的同类遭受杀戮的时候别过头去本身就是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "A renewed campaign of violence by the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and attacks by the Islamic State, including suicide bombings in Ankara that killed more than 100 people, created a backdrop that reinforced the AKP’s message.",
        "分裂派库尔德工人党（PKK）的暴力行动卷土重来，伊斯兰国的袭击也层出不穷——包括100余人被杀的安卡拉自杀式炸弹袭击——这让AKP的口号更有号召力。"
    ],
    [
        "Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia have all made some moves in this direction, but they cannot do it alone.",
        "阿尔及利亚、摩洛哥和突尼斯都已经朝这一方向采取了一些行动，但它们需要配合。"
    ],
    [
        "Two of the three Baltic countries and Greece are in deep financial distress. Much the same is true of Portugal, Spain, Hungary, and Iceland.",
        "当前法国政坛的危机和目前的社会现实不相匹配。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only could it happen again today; it could happen on a much larger scale than in the past.",
        "如今，这一情形不但可能再度发生，其规模也可能比以往大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, despite its massive problems, Greece’s economy is still larger than New Zealand’s.",
        "事实上就算是问题丛生的希腊都比新西兰的经济规模要大。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is precisely what many city administrators are demonstrating.",
        "而这正是许多城市管理者所表现出来的特质。"
    ],
    [
        "But its potential can be fulfilled only if regulatory oversight is based on science, sound risk analysis, and an appreciation of the mistakes of history.",
        "但彻底释放这一技术的潜能则要求政府的监管要建立在科学严格的风险分析，以及对过去谬误的正确评估之上。"
    ],
    [
        "But I am certain that the more intently outsiders invest in Palestinian civil society on its own terms, the less exasperated the Palestinian intelligentsia – and the Muslim world – will become with the often-coerced terms of Palestine's creativity.",
        "因此我确信只要资助者能更加专注于巴勒斯坦市民社会中的某些独有元素，而不是经常将某些条款强加于巴勒斯坦人的创造力之上，那么巴勒斯坦知识界——以及穆斯林社会——将更少被激怒。"
    ],
    [
        "But the deal can – and must – serve as the basis for saving Greece and the eurozone.",
        "但该协议能够——也必须——成为拯救希腊和欧元区的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Both sides must take care that an incident concerning Taiwan does not lead in that direction.",
        "双方都必须确保事关台湾的事件不要朝这一方向演进。"
    ],
    [
        "It is about time that German voters understood that the largest grasshoppers are in the center of their own towns.",
        "德国选民应该明白，最大的蚱蜢就来自堡垒内部中心。"
    ],
    [
        "Previously, Murdoch and his sons were somehow deemed “fit and proper” owners for a UK television license.",
        "此前，默多克和他的儿子们在一定程度上被视为英国电视执照的“合适的”所有者。"
    ],
    [
        "Armies do not mobilize 150,000 troops within days, or have vehicles and thousands of uniforms without insignias ready, or hold military exercises in peaceful regions of the world without warning.",
        "否则军队不可能在几天内动员150,000大军，不可能准备好大量汽车和数千名身穿无标识制服的部队，也不可能在没有警告信号的和平地区举行军演。"
    ],
    [
        "In principle, the EU’s banking rules are common to all member states.",
        "原则上，欧盟银行规则对所有成员国通用。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem now appears to be one of re-starting bank lending.",
        "现在的问题是重新让银行发放贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Smith’s minimal capitalism was transformed into Keynes’ mixed economy, we need to contemplate a transition from the national version of the mixed economy to its global counterpart.",
        "在这一新世纪中，经济全球化的力量要远远大于以往。 正如亚当斯密基本资本主义转变成为凯恩斯的混合经济，我们需要考虑各国混合经济转型到全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "In Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the West promised to stabilize emissions, but overshot by 12%.",
        "1992年在里约热内卢，西方承诺要稳定排放，但目标却定高了12%。"
    ],
    [
        "There will be no medals for effort.",
        "没有结果的努力不会有任何用处。"
    ],
    [
        "No one expects a state government to interfere in inter-state payments, rewrite bankruptcy rules, or issue its own currency in case of extreme distress.",
        "没人会认为州政府会干预跨州偿付、修订破产规则或在极端情况下发行自己的货币。"
    ],
    [
        "These infections are known as the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs).",
        "这些其他的疾病被称作“被忽视的热带病”（NTD）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the current EU member states will not only have to be able to tolerate the criticism by central, eastern, and southern Europeans of western civilization, but also to take such criticism into consideration as they ponder policy.",
        "欧盟现有的成员国不但要能够容忍来自西方文明的中、东和南方的欧洲人的批评，还要在制定政策时考虑到这些批评。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank has cut a lot of ribbons on development projects, but has solved far too few global problems.",
        "世行弄砸了大量的发展项目，解决的全球问题却少之又少。"
    ],
    [
        "The Congress seemed to demonstrate three main points: Fatah has moved toward peace with Israel; it has adopted democratic procedures; and a new generation, or even a specific group called the Young Guard, has assumed leadership.",
        "此次大会似乎是为了向人们证明三个重点：法塔赫正在向对以色列和平方面靠拢，并在自身运作方面引入了民主程序。 此外，新一代领导人，或者说是一个被称为“青年卫队”的特殊组织已经承担起法塔赫的领导责任。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, enforcement has failed, owing to flaws in the eurozone’s foundations.",
        "目前，执行规则的方针已经失败，原因在于欧元区基础的漏洞。"
    ],
    [
        "In Tunisia, meanwhile, the technocratic government that had taken charge for several months was replaced democratically.",
        "与此同时，在突尼斯，执政数月之久的技术官僚政府有了民主选出的继任者。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there are also new challenges.",
        "当然，现在也有新挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "During this period, real wages and employment were hit hard – almost 37% of young people and 19% of people in southern Italy are unemployed – and as many as 1.5 million young Italians have left the country, with 90,000 departing in 2014 alone.",
        "在此期间实际工资和就业都遭到了重创——南部地区有近37％的年轻人和19％的劳动者失业在家——多达150万年轻意大利人离开了这个国家，仅仅在2014年就有9万人离开，同时又涌入了500万外国移民，占到了全体居民总数的8."
    ],
    [
        "None of these institutions in the West is ready for Asia’s re-emergence.",
        "这些机构和行业没有一个愿意看到亚洲的复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "Paradoxically, this is not altogether illogical.",
        "矛盾的是，这并不完全不符合逻辑。"
    ],
    [
        "This is wrong.",
        "这一观点是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "That stance is making the alliance much more a partnership of equals than it has been for the last six decades.",
        "这一立场让美日同盟比过去六十年中更像是平等的合作关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging countries can enhance their resilience to fluctuations in global interest rates by pursuing sound fiscal and monetary policies, continuing necessary structural reforms, and strengthening their financial systems.",
        "新兴国家可以通过追求稳健的财政和货币政策，继续进行必要的结构性改革以及巩固金融体系来增强其对全球利率的抗波动能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Somehow, scientists have been pushed aside by political operators.",
        "不知如何，科学家被政治运作者所排挤。"
    ],
    [
        "An estimated 75 million people have been exposed to the smoke this year, and 500,000 in Indonesia alone are believed to have contracted fire-related respiratory illnesses.",
        "今年据估计有7,500万人受到影响，仅印尼一国据信就有500,000人罹患与火灾有关的呼吸系统疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, rapid structural change in these countries has come at the expense of mostly negative labor productivity growth within non-agricultural sectors.",
        "其次，这些国家的快速结构性变化大多都是以非农部门劳动生产率的负增长为代价的。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Saakashvili became famous as Georgia’s justice minister for submitting corruption charges against the Shevardnadze family, and early in his presidency was able to reclaim for the state $15 million dollars of the Shevardnadze fortune. But Saakashvili’s government never touched Shevardnadze and his family.",
        "可以肯定，萨卡什维利出名是因为任格鲁吉亚司法部长期间对谢瓦尔德纳泽家族提出腐败指控，并且在其执政早期成功从谢瓦尔德纳泽手中为国家追回了1500万美元的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Such measures have also deeply affected, and in some cases transformed, public discourse for the better.",
        "这些措施也深深地影响甚至改变了积极的公共披露。"
    ],
    [
        "But what about longer-term risks?",
        "但长期风险情况如何？"
    ],
    [
        "But he was not right in laying out his cards in public and emboldening the enemy.",
        "但是他在公众面前摊牌，为敌人壮胆，这是不对的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Muslim threat is, of course, not a fantasy.",
        "当然，穆斯林威胁并非一个幻影。"
    ],
    [
        "That, in turn, allowed them to escape even the very weak special conditions that had been laid down by the government relating to bonuses and remuneration.",
        "在经过近期在马萨诸塞州选举中的失败之后，由前美联储主席保罗 · 沃尔克起草的一份减少银行权限的报告，开始被重新重视起来。"
    ],
    [
        "But those who believe that this trade agreement, like previous ones, will provide lopsided benefits have ample reason to be concerned.",
        "但如果你认为这一贸易协议和以往的贸易协议一样，将带来不对称的好处，那么你有充分的理由表示担心。"
    ],
    [
        "In many places, the location of field trials now must be identified, even including GPS coordinates – a practice that facilitates vandalism.",
        "在许多地方，田间试验的地点必须标出，甚至要包含GPS坐标——这让破坏变得更加容易了。"
    ],
    [
        "In societies where women are treated like second-class citizens, ISIS has an easier time recruiting women with its quasi-female empowerment propaganda, like one image that shows a woman clad in a burqa with the words “Covered girl...because I’m worth it.”",
        "在妇女被视为二等公民的社会里，伊斯兰国能够更轻松地利用似是而非的女性赋权宣传来进行女性招募，比如有一幅画画着一位身着长袍的女性，宣传词是“蒙面女孩. ."
    ],
    [
        "Most are home to significant ethnic and religious minorities.",
        "大部分西欧国家是大量种族和宗教少数群体的家园。"
    ],
    [
        "While authoritarian countries like China and Russia seek “information security,” including the kind of overt censorship that would be prohibited in countries like the United States, Western democracies pursue “cyber security.”",
        "中国和俄罗斯等专制国家寻求的所谓“信息安全”也包括美国和西方民主国家追求“网络安全”的公开审查制。"
    ],
    [
        "The hard-fought independence of the former Soviet republics must not be tacitly traded away in acquiescence to Russia’s desire for regional hegemony.",
        "前苏联共和国努力争取来的独立地位不能因为对于俄罗斯妄图拥有地区霸权的野心的默认而被出卖。"
    ],
    [
        "The real risk lies in countries that are heavily dependent on oil.",
        "真正的风险位于严重依赖石油的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Another casualty was the legitimacy of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For two decades, Khamenei deceptively cultivated an image of an impartial and magnanimous guide, but his defiant public support for Ahmadinejad exposed him as a petty, partisan autocrat.",
        "而另一个受损的则是阿亚图拉阿里·哈梅内伊作为最高领袖的合法性。 哈梅内伊用了20年时间把自己装扮成一个公正而仁慈的领袖，但他对内贾德的公然支持却暴露出此人只不过是一个卑鄙的派系独裁者。"
    ],
    [
        "The prolonged boom that followed World War II falsified Hansen’s projection.",
        "二战后的长期繁荣证明汉森的预言是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Japan, the policy uncertainty concerns whether the third arrow of Abenomics – structural reforms and trade liberalization to boost potential growth – will be implemented, and whether the expected rise in the consumption tax in 2014 will choke economic recovery.",
        "在日本，政策不确定性在于安倍经济学的第三支箭——结构性改革和贸易自由化以刺激潜在增长——是否能被实施，以及2014年提高消费税的预期是否会阻碍经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the jobs that are lost in, say, the public sector or among commodity exporters may be largely offset by new jobs in government and rebel armed forces, informal production substituting for imports, and illegal activities like drug production and smuggling.",
        "毕竟，在公共部门或产品出口商那里丧失的工作机会可以很大程度上在政府及反叛力量的新增就业机会那里得到补偿。 非正规生产代替进口，此外，新增就业机会还部分来源于毒品生产和走私等非法活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Also conscious of the risk to financial stability if interest rates remain at artificially low levels, the Fed is expected to increase them when its policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee meets on December 15-16. The move marks a turning point in the Fed’s approach to the economy.",
        "美联储也认识到，如果利率保持在人为的低水平，将给金融稳定造成风险，因此预计它将在12月15—16日的美联储公开市场委员会政策制定会议上提高利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Several of his colleagues share his reservations.",
        "他的几位同僚也同样对此持保留意见。"
    ],
    [
        "An analysis by McKinsey & Company of new jobs in the US and the EU from 1995 to 2008 suggests that, while the US created 20 million new jobs, 19 million of them were attributable to population growth.",
        "麦肯锡公司分析了美国和欧盟1995—2008年的就业创造情况，结果表明，美国创造了2 000万个新岗位，其中1 900万个可以归因于人口增加。"
    ],
    [
        "There are no active negotiations to regulate, cap, or further reduce nuclear stockpiles.",
        "没有积极的谈判推动监管、限制或进一步减少核库存。"
    ],
    [
        "Eliminating the “spiritual guide” (as opposed to the organizational leaders) of a militant group might be perceived as a political victory for a government in the short term, but it probably makes a comprehensive de-radicalization process less likely, and it will not necessarily mean the end of the organization in question.",
        "消灭好战组织的“精神领袖”（而不是组织首脑）可能被政府视为一种短期的政治胜利，但这也许会令全面的去激进化进程更加被动，而且也不一定就意味着这个恐怖组织的结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the reports will highlight the close links between biodiversity loss and climate change, which should be addressed simultaneously.",
        "此外，这些报告还将强调生物多样性丧失和气候变化之间的紧密联系，这两个问题可以同时解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Initially, neither the income tax nor the Fed was associated with the explicit concepts of fiscal and monetary policy.",
        "最初，所得税与美联储都与财政及货币政策的基本概念无关。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing has been formally agreed yet, but the ECB is expected to announce a new government bond-buying program following next week’s meeting of its Governing Council.",
        "虽然到目前为止还未形成正式一致，但预计欧洲央行将在下周治理委员会会议后出台新的债券购买计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Research shows that women’s rights to own and inherit property, including land, are critical to breaking the cycle of poverty.",
        "研究表明，妇女拥有和继承财产（包括土地）的权利决定了能否打破贫困循环。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, according to moral psychology, our moral sentiments, on which Adam Smith wrote his other famous book, evolved to regulate behavior.",
        "事实上，据道德心理学，我们的道德情操——亚当·斯密就此写过一本名著——演化为行为控制器。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show",
        "金融监管，八仙过海"
    ],
    [
        "If Pakistan also advances, demilitarization of politics elsewhere in the Islamic world might not be far behind.",
        "而如果巴基斯坦也能向前推进的话，伊斯兰世界其他国家的政治去军事化也不会太远了。"
    ],
    [
        "But whether renminbi appreciation will work depends on reducing China’s net capital inflows and current-account surplus.",
        "但人民币升值能否见效取决于是中国净资本流入和经常项目盈余是否减少。"
    ],
    [
        "The Clinton era gave us active democracy-promotion as the principle tool of American foreign policy, which George W. Bush’s administration took to unprecedented extremes.",
        "克林顿执政时期将积极推行民主制度作为了美国外交政策的原则性工具，而这一做法又被乔治·W·布什发挥到了登峰造极的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, fundamental change is needed.",
        "相反，现在需要根本性的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "A day earlier, I had had lunch at the Venezuelan central bank, sitting next to the deputy governor, Gastón Parra Luzardo.",
        "一天前，我在委内瑞拉央行进午餐，坐在我身旁的是副行长卢萨多（Gastón Parra Luzardo）。"
    ],
    [
        "The implicit preferred-creditor status is based on central-bank practices that establish that the lender of last resort is the “last in and first out.”",
        "默认的优选债权人地位是建立在确定最后贷款人“后进先出”的央行行为的基础上的。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, almost across the board in his administration, he chose as advisors people akin to Ken Lay.",
        "但事实却恰恰相反：几乎政府中的每一个职位，他都选择使用肯·雷这样的人。"
    ],
    [
        "President Putin tolerated a US presence in Central Asia to assist in the campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan and raised no serious objections when the US trashed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty prohibiting strategic missile defenses.",
        "美国进军中亚，参与打击阿富汗塔利班的行动，普京总统予以默许； 美国撕毁限制战略性导弹防卫系统的“反弹道导弹条约”，他也没有提出严肃的抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s Sunni population, inspired by the revolutions in other Arab countries and outraged by the regime’s brutality, simply stopped being afraid – a potentially game-changing development for Arab authoritarianism.",
        "叙利亚逊尼派人民受其他阿拉伯国家革命的鼓舞、出于对巴沙尔政权残酷统治的愤怒，变得不再害怕——这是巴沙尔独裁游戏的转折点。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranians, apparently surprised that the candidate whom a majority of them had backed (over six harder-line candidates) had won, poured into the streets and hailed a victory “for the people.”",
        "伊朗人民显然对大部分人支持的候选人（压倒六名强硬派候选人）获胜感到惊喜，他们涌上街头，欢呼“人民”的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the eurozone would still need to strengthen its firewalls, as well as its mechanisms for cooperation.",
        "类似地，欧元区仍然需要强化其防火墙和合作机制。"
    ],
    [
        "As spontaneous protest overtakes organized political movements across the Arab world, the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya’s nascent democracies should heed Le Bon’s warning.",
        "”随着阿拉伯世界自发形成的示威取代有组织的政治运动，刚刚诞生的民主突尼斯、埃及和利比亚领导人应该小心勒庞的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that Trump likes disorder; that’s how he had run his business, and he doesn’t take well to being managed.",
        "问题在于特朗普喜欢无序； 这正是他经营企业的方式，而他很不习惯被管着。"
    ],
    [
        "In parts of New Jersey, many people fortunate enough still to have a house are cut off by rivers of raw sewage lapping at their doors.",
        "在新泽西州的不少地方，许多仍拥有自己的房子的幸运者被汹涌的污水流灌进的家里。"
    ],
    [
        "What the figure of 8% signals to provincial officials and industrial managers is that the emerging promise of green GDP – wherein a local government had to show not only growth, but also clean and energy-efficient growth – has been abandoned.",
        "中国8%的经济增长率向各省官员和工业管理人员传递的信号是，中国政府新兴的绿色GDP承诺——为此，地方政府不仅要显示经济有增长，还要显示是清洁节能的增长——已经被抛弃了。"
    ],
    [
        "To protect the stratospheric ozone layer, international agreements have been reached to ban the use and trade of the ozone-destroying chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s).",
        "为了保护平流层臭氧层，国际上已经达成一致，禁止买卖和使用破坏臭氧的化学剂：氯氟碳（CFC’s）。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent decades, conventional agriculture has become more environmentally friendly and sustainable than ever before.",
        "近几十年中，常规农业已变得比以往更加环境友好和可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "The Risk of a New Economic Non-Order",
        "新经济无序的风险"
    ],
    [
        "But rapid change is always unnerving, and not everyone has emerged better off.",
        "但迅速的变化多少会令人忐忑，而改革也不是给所有的人带来了好处。"
    ],
    [
        "In this case, the condition is slow economic growth, also known as secular stagnation, caused by depressed investment, which in turn reflects financial problems and policy uncertainty.",
        "在贸易的例子中，基础性病症是经济增长缓慢，也称为长期停滞，其原因是投资抑制，而投资抑制反过来反映了金融问题和政策不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, it is more likely to prove disruptive to friend and foe alike, as well as damaging to those countries that indulge this temptation.",
        "然而今天，这种做法无疑会给朋友和敌人同样地造成损害，甚至威胁到沉湎于这种诱惑者的自身利益。"
    ],
    [
        "When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was preparing for his historic visit to Jerusalem, a group of settlers created the settlement of Elon Moreh near Nablus, the most populated West Bank city.",
        "当埃及总统安瓦尔·萨达特正准备他对耶路撒冷的历史性访问之时，一群犹太定居者在约旦河西岸人口最多的城市纳布卢斯附近建立起一个名为埃隆·莫热赫的犹太定居点。"
    ],
    [
        "Slow growth there, especially in Europe, is economically depressing.",
        "工业化国家的增长减速，特别是欧洲，具有抑制经济的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "One very senior government official of a northern European country did not even put down his fork when interrupted by an earnest dinner companion who pointed out that many Spaniards now eat out of garbage cans.",
        "当被一起用餐的同伴发言打断其晚餐的时候，来自某北欧国家的一位高级政府官员甚至没有放下他的叉子，这位同伴指出现在很多西班牙人正在从垃圾桶里寻食。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, however, is the fact that the IMF made its decision while facing an existential crisis.",
        "但是，同样重要的是以下事实：IMF在做决定是面临着生存危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that citizens in every EU member country are increasingly aware that national policies are determined by decision making at the European level, over which they have little influence.",
        "事实上，每个欧盟成员国的公民越来越意识到，他们的国家政策现在由欧洲级别的决策来决定，而他们对此几乎无法施加任何影响。"
    ],
    [
        "They focus too much on their initial responses to changes in their lives and overlook how quickly the pleasure of a new car, a pay increase, or a move to sunnier climes will fade, leaving them no happier than before.",
        "他们过度关注自身对生活中各种变化的初始反应，而且并未意识到买新车，加工资或者搬到更温暖的地区所带来的快感其实很快会消退，因此也无法为他们带来更多幸福感。"
    ],
    [
        "An early warning system in the Philippines, for instance, mobilizes government agencies to react quickly to crises, while a special fund pays for emergency evacuations.",
        "比如，菲律宾的早期警告系统动员政府机构快速响应危机，并成立了特别基金出资紧急撤离。"
    ],
    [
        "Apostles of monetary expansion believe that all you have to do is speed up the printing press.",
        "货币扩张派认为你所要做的无非是加速开动印钞机。"
    ],
    [
        "The uprisings ousted reliable old allies like Hosni Mubarak, and turned regimes such as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s into implacable enemies.",
        "暴乱推翻了穆巴拉克等可靠的旧盟友，也让叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德等政权成为不可调和的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "The US would not stoop to Putin’s level and interfere covertly in Russia’s electoral processes.",
        "美国不会降格到普京的水平去秘密干预俄罗斯大选。"
    ],
    [
        "The democratic movement’s main objective is to bring about a non-violent, constitutional process to replace Lahoud with a new president in free and open elections.",
        "此次民主运动的主要目标是开启非暴力宪政进程，通过自由公开的选举选出新的总统来取代拉胡德。"
    ],
    [
        "The minerals and rare-earth elements that we exploit to build ingenious devices – extending our bodies and minds – are also a part of this rhythm, and are accessible only because of a great chain of circumstances, from planetary origins to plate tectonics and asteroid impacts.",
        "我们用来制作巧妙装置延展身心的矿物质和稀土元素也是这种节奏的组成部分，产生于从行星起源到板块构造及小行星影响等一系列独特环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Republicans’ uncompromising stance has been reinforced by the extreme position taken by many within its congressional delegation that Planned Parenthood – a health-care provider that primarily serves women – must be defunded as a condition of any budget deal.",
        "此外，共和党国会代表团不少议员坚持必须将停止资助主要服务于女性的医疗提供商计划生育组织作为达成任何预算协议的先决条件，这也再次凸显了共和党的不妥协立场。"
    ],
    [
        "A more comprehensive and accurate representation of Japan’s economic progress is vital to give investors the confidence that Japan’s economy merits.",
        "对日本经济发展更全面准确的呈现对投资者对日本经济的信心至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Concretely, this means introducing land reform and privatization, regulating food and drugs, protecting human capital and intellectual property, safeguarding the value of household savings, ensuring market access, and executing fair and transparent taxation.",
        "具体地说，这意味着引入土地改革和民营化，监管食品和药品，保护人力资本和知识产权，保护家庭储蓄价值，确保市场准入以及执行公平透明的税收。"
    ],
    [
        "These reforms transformed Turkey into a vibrant democracy and a more stable society, at peace with itself and able to view its external environment in a different light.",
        "这些改革使土耳其成为充满活力的民主国家，国内稳定和谐，同时能够以新的眼光观察其外部环境。"
    ],
    [
        "They must decide whether to continue trying to control the economy or to follow through on their promise to build a genuinely market-oriented system.",
        "他们必须决定是要继续控制经济，还是兑现其承诺，建立真正以市场为导向的体制。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans are generally wary of “big government,” but they do want solutions to their country’s biggest social problems.",
        "美国人总是担心“大政府”，但他们也确实希望找到解决美国最大社会问题的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Such reviews typically take place only after a crisis – when it is already too late.",
        "过去这样的审查通常只发生在危机之后——但却为时已晚了。"
    ],
    [
        "With, for example, China bullying the Philippines over possession of disputed islands in the South China Sea, the Confucius Institute that China established in Manila to teach Chinese culture can win only so much goodwill.",
        "比如，中国与菲律宾的南海岛礁所有权争议中恃强凌弱，这使得中国在马尼拉建立的孔子学院无法赢得美誉。"
    ],
    [
        "But that’s bad news for leopard seals and Adelie penguins, humpback and blue whales, and many other species, because most organisms in the Antarctic marine ecosystem eat either krill or something that eats krill.",
        "但是那对于海豹、阿黛利企鹅、座头鲸、蓝鲸以及其他许多物种来说却是一个坏消息，因为绝大部分南极海洋生态系统的生物体依靠吃磷虾或者其他吃磷虾的东西为生。"
    ],
    [
        "Mahatma Gandhi criticized the biblical justification of retribution, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”",
        "甘地批评圣经把“以牙还牙，以眼还眼”的报复合法化。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this makes any sense, and the administration’s claims that these measures will spur an economic boom – with annual growth accelerating from 2% to 3% – are pure fantasy.",
        "但这一切根本站不住脚，而政府所谓这些措施将刺激经济繁荣——将年增长率由2％提升到3％——的说法都纯粹只是些空想而已。"
    ],
    [
        "The catalyst for these broad-based protests is the proposed construction of hundreds of dams throughout western China.",
        "这次大规模抗议活动的导火索是在中国西部建设成百上千个水库的提议。"
    ],
    [
        "This moment must be seized not only to beef up MONUC, but, more importantly, to use all existing leverage with the combatants and the governments that back them to get all the parties to return to the negotiating table.",
        "人们必须抓住这个机会，不但用它来作为加强联合国维持和平部队刚果民主共和国特派团的契机，而且，更重要的是，利用现存的可以支持武装分子和政府让冲突各方回到谈判桌上的一切途径。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, almost entirely dependent on revenues from its energy resources, is a “one crop economy” with corrupt institutions and insurmountable demographic and health problems.",
        "俄罗斯几乎完全依赖能源资源收入，属于“单一作物经济”，机构腐败，人口和卫生问题积重难返。"
    ],
    [
        "“The man who dies rich,” he is often quoted as saying, “dies disgraced.”",
        "他有一句名言：“死于富贵，是为死之耻。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But Chinese policymakers should also recognize the significant risks inherent in relaxing capital controls.",
        "但中国的决策者也应该意识到放松资本管制所隐含的重大风险。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, migrant workers are forced to initiate more than one billion separate transactions worldwide each year.",
        "结果，全世界赴外工人每年被迫进行超过10亿笔汇款操作。"
    ],
    [
        "Others claim that renewables are the way to go.",
        "其他人认为，可再生能源是必由之路。"
    ],
    [
        "And one of the most urgent is Europe’s security: each day that passes without taking joint action is an opportunity lost and leads to greater risk.",
        "欧洲安全是最紧迫的问题之一：没有采取联合行动的每一天都将失去一次机会，并且意味着更大的风险来临。"
    ],
    [
        "What, then, should be done to bring about a new Middle East?",
        "那么，究竟怎样才能建设一个新的中东？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the emperor’s overseas visits remain deeply political, setting the tone – if not the agenda – for Japan’s foreign policy.",
        "事实上，日本天皇的出国访问仍有着深刻的政治意义，决定着日本外交政策的节奏甚至日程。"
    ],
    [
        "Resentful and restless, the children are seeking opportunities elsewhere – to the detriment of the family firm.",
        "心怀不满又焦虑不安的孩子们则纷纷另辟蹊径——以不利于家族企业的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last 500 years, in 16 cases where a rising power threatened to displace a ruling power, 12 led to war.",
        "在过去500年间，在崛起大国威胁要取代执政大国的16个案例中，其中12个以战争结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Even former creditors benefited from this rebound.",
        "即便是此前的债权人，也从阿根廷的经济反弹中获了益。"
    ],
    [
        "The shift favors hardline creditors in bond issuances governed by US law.",
        "根据美国法律，这一变化有利于债券发行中的强硬债权人。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings us to the central question of our era: How can leaders address the externalities produced by rapid technological change, and thereby ensure economic and political sustainability?",
        "这就引出了现时代的核心问题：领导人如何解决迅速的科技变化所造成的外部性，从而确保经济和政治的可持续性？"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, North Korea’s nuclear aspirations are a hearty perennial for any US president.",
        "最后，朝鲜的核野心一直以来都是美国总统的心腹大患。"
    ],
    [
        "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility in California is getting impressive results by firing high-powered lasers at capsules of fuel, crushing the particles together to trigger fusion reactions.",
        "位于加利福尼亚州的劳伦斯·利弗莫尔国家实验室的国家点火装置向燃料舱发射高能激光粒子、通过粒子挤压诱发聚变反应也取得了不俗的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Tailoring policies to specific problems, without disregarding the lessons from the past or from elsewhere, involves risks, and any responsible leader will necessarily feel the anxiety this creates.",
        "为具体问题量身定制政策，不忽视来自历史和其他国家的教训，拥抱风险，顺势而为的领导人未必会因此而焦虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, 8 May 1945 was a day of liberation to which the Soviet army contributed decisively.",
        "是的，1945年5月8日是苏军起到绝对性贡献作用的一个解放日。"
    ],
    [
        "It needs policies that hold out the promise of lower unemployment and better times.",
        "欧洲需要坚持更低通胀、更高景气的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But analysts accustomed to working on emerging markets understand that such paralysis is very difficult to avoid after a financial crisis.",
        "但习惯于研究新兴市场的分析师早就明白，类似的政治僵局在金融危机爆发后是很难避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "But pollution is worsening and taking lives in high-income countries as well.",
        "但是，日益严重的污染目前已经波及到高收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The self-defeating proclivities of such laxly monitored executive power are now visible for all to see.",
        "现在，人们都可以看到无法无天的行政权力倾向于自我毁灭。"
    ],
    [
        "During the electoral campaign, he mostly just rehashed the traditional French view: a common European government and a eurozone finance minister, with a separate budget to finance public investment.",
        "在选战期间，他大部分情况下只是重申传统的法国观念：一个共同的欧洲政府和一个欧元区财政部，以及各管各的公共投资融资预算。"
    ],
    [
        "The second implication, related to the first, is that the widely feared economic “hard landing” for China would have a devastating global impact.",
        "第二个影响与第一个有关，即人们广泛担心的中国经济“硬着陆”将带来灾难性的全球影响。 中国GDP增长每下降一个百分点，都将直接拉低近0."
    ],
    [
        "Benefit-sharing may be fair in that it includes giving special assistance to research participants, such as access to medical care or to new treatments stemming from the research, but it may be unfair in failing to define the recipients of such benefits.",
        "分享收益在为研究的参与者提供特别援助的意义上是 公平 的，这些援助包括接受医疗救护，或使用研究带来的全新治疗方法，但从未能清楚界定受益者这个意义上，这种模式又显得 有失公平。"
    ],
    [
        "And, second, will the somewhat undefined Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – continue to be a major priority for China’s leadership?",
        "另一方面，那个在某种程度上尚未定义的“一带一路倡议”是否将继续成为中国领导层的重点优先事务？"
    ],
    [
        "Africa is ready to break out of poverty if the US and other rich countries help.",
        "如果美国和其他富国施以缓手，非洲是能够摆脱贫困的。"
    ],
    [
        "The cumulative loss in this “lift-off” scenario is about ten times as large as any lost economic output under the “delayed lift-off” alternative of only minimal changes to rates over the next couple of years.",
        "而这一“发射”情境所带来的累计损失要比尽量减少利率变化的“延迟发射”选项在未来几年内造成的任何GDP损失都大十倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Before World War I, Europe's civil-law countries were developing securities markets as fast as the US and the UK.",
        "一次大战前，欧洲民法国家证券市场的发展速度与美英两国相当。"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries are moving in the right direction.",
        "一些国家正在向正确的方向迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "The power of such an approach can be seen in Russia, where Western sanctions, imposed following Putin’s annexation of Crimea, are the main factor limiting the pro-Russian rebels’ incursion in eastern Ukraine.",
        "在俄罗斯就可以看出这种方法的效力，普京吞并克里米亚后实施的西方制裁限制了亲俄叛军入侵乌克兰东部。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, given its huge potential, teams of scientists have been mobilized almost everywhere for embryonic stem cell research.",
        "鉴于其巨大的潜力，几乎世界各地的科学家都投身于胚胎干细胞的研究也就并不奇怪了。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States has led the international diplomatic response, but its approach has been deeply flawed.",
        "美国引领着国际外交界对此的回应，但其方式却存在严重问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has repeatedly declared that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.",
        "伊朗也是《核不扩散条约》的签订国之一，并且反复强调其核计划将完全用于和平用途。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is possible for advanced countries to fall behind by under-investing, particularly in the public sector, relying instead on less sustainable debt-fueled means of generating demand.",
        "发达国家则可能因投资不足（特别是公共部门方面的投资）而落后，转而依赖可持续性较差的债务驱动型需求创造方法。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem exists in all countries affected by the threat of terrorism, though in many it has not become quite as specific.",
        "这一问题存在于所有受到恐怖主义威胁的国家，尽管在许多国家中这已经变得非常具体。"
    ],
    [
        "Having misdiagnosed the ailment, policymakers have prescribed untested experimental medicine with potentially grave side effects.",
        "决策者诊错了病，开出了未受过检验的实验性药方，这一药方的潜在副作用巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "SHANGHAI – China’s economy has followed a remarkable course in recent years: from record-breaking powerhouse to major global risk, at least in the eyes of some.",
        "上海—近几年来，中国经济的运行轨迹不可不谓引人注目：从打破纪录的增长发动机沦为了重大全球风险，至少在某些人眼里是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadr opposes federalism because a Shia regional government would obey his enemies, Sistani and the SCIRI, and, he says, fall under Iranian influence.",
        "Sadr反对封建主义是因为一个什叶派的地方政府会听命于他的敌人，西斯坦尼和SCIRI，并因此（按他的说法）被置于伊朗的影响之下。 为了强调他的讯息，Sadr让他的民兵去攻击Badr民兵。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that paleoanthropologists commonly refer to the Neanderthals as “archaic” humans, owing to their primitive features, could lead to the semantic trap of regarding living humans with greater inputs of DNA from ancient interbreeding as somehow less “evolved” than the rest of humanity.",
        "古人类学家因其原始特征一致地将尼安德特人称为“古代”人，这一事实可能导致语义陷阱——将带有更多杂交祖先DNA的活着的人种视为“进化”不全者。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not the moment when a government wants its deceit to be exposed, especially given that the agreement May reaches may well divide her own party.",
        "这绝不是政府希望自己骗术被曝光的时间点，尤其考虑到梅所达成的协议很可能分裂她自己的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "Confirmation of a stricter and more rigorous Stability Pact is also imperative to achieve greater integration.",
        "批准更加严格和严密的《稳定公约》对于实现进一步一体化也必不可少。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of the nineteenth century the huge amount of investment and technological progress in America's railroads appeared to benefit everyone but the stockholders and bondholders of railroad companies, as bust followed boom and ramming worthless securities down the throats of investors became Wall Street's favorite sport.",
        "19世纪末，美国铁路系统获得的巨额投资和技术进步似乎使除了铁路公司股东和债主之外的所有人受益。 当铁路经济泡沫在繁荣之后破裂时，投资者自食垃圾证券的苦果成为华尔街最受欢迎的游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China and other major emerging economies appear committed to designing financial systems that serve the long-term imperatives of inclusive and sustainable development.",
        "事实上，中国和其他主要新兴经济体致力于设计服务于包容性、可持续发展的长期目标的金融体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Has the time come for NATO to declare victory and leave?",
        "北约是时候宣布胜利并离开了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Here, perhaps the most important observation relates to how the solution is linked to the reality on the ground.",
        "在这方面，最重要的观察与方案如何与现实联系起来有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, plenty of policies enacted during President Barack Obama’s administration, in which they admirably served, fit that description, as do others from prior administrations.",
        "毋庸讳言，奥巴马执政期间制定的许多政策——也是两位当年出色执行的那些——都符合这一论断，其他前任政府的政策也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Prosecutors must follow the evidence wherever it leads.",
        "检察官必须遵循证据而行事。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast, other companies have swung to the opposite extreme and embraced fully virtual meetings.",
        "相比之下，其他公司纷纷走向另一个极端，即完全采用虚拟形式召开股东会议。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is the Arab world that tends to use Turkey the way that Europe did in the past.",
        "今天，阿拉伯世界对土耳其的态度类似过去的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "I do, however, believe that sporadic interventions may be needed to punish speculators who are taking advantage of temporary market psychology to keep the yen far above its market value.",
        "但是，我也确实相信需要采取偶尔为之的干预以惩罚利用暂时性市场心理让日元大大高于市场价值的投机者。"
    ],
    [
        "Such central-bank policies, together with Basel III, mean that financial repression will likely define the economic landscape for at least another decade.",
        "这类央行政策与巴塞尔III一道，意味着金融抑制至少将在未来十年继续决定经济图景。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with debts in many countries rising to 80% or 90% of GDP, and with today’s low interest rates clearly a temporary phenomenon, trouble is brewing.",
        "而对于那些那些债务高达GDP80%甚至90%的国家来说，问题会变的越来越严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Forget Inflation",
        "忘掉通胀"
    ],
    [
        "This pillar relies heavily on planning, large-scale fixed investment, and administrative controls, and its quality, scale, and relative efficiency were strategic to Chinese competitiveness and productivity.",
        "这一支柱严重依赖规划、大规模固定投资和行政控制，其质量、规模和相对效率对于中国的竞争力和生产率具有战略意义。"
    ],
    [
        "The American Comeback Kid",
        "美国：主演归来"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights was adopted in 1948, and why we need, more urgently than ever, to establish universal equality for all human beings.",
        "这就是为什么联合国在1948年通过了人权宣言，也是为什么我们比以往任何时候都更迫切需要建立人人平等的普世价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "Unity among the former revolutionary opposition is critical for the success of any democratic transition, and Egypt is no exception.",
        "与昔日革命反对者联合起来是任何民主转型成功的关键所在，埃及也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Poaching also has a negative impact on communities, benefiting a few at the expense of the many.",
        "偷猎活动还对社会产生了负面影响，以牺牲多数人的代价来满足少数人的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The recent decline in China’s currency, the renminbi, which has fueled turmoil in Chinese stock markets and drove the government to suspend trading twice last week, highlights a major challenge facing the country: how to balance its domestic and international economic obligations.",
        "华盛顿—最近，人民币贬值给中国股市动荡推波助澜，让政府在上周两次中止交易，这彰显出中国所面临的一个重大挑战：如何平衡国内和国际经济责任。"
    ],
    [
        "At its most meaningful, hijra bridges the gap between how believers wish they lived and how they actually do live.",
        "迁徙最大的意义在于弥合了信徒所希望生活和实际生活间的鸿沟。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hazardous, therefore, for politicians simply to rely on opinion polls and focus groups to discover what will truly enhance people’s happiness.",
        "倘若政治家们希望找出究竟哪些事物能真正增加人们的幸福感，但却仅仅依靠民意测验或者市民讨论小组这类手段的话，最终得到的结果往往会是错误的"
    ],
    [
        "The negative effect is reinforced by the fact that, because CDS contracts are tradable, they tend to be priced as warrants, which can be sold at any time, rather than as options, which would require an actual default to be cashed in.",
        "更为糟糕的是，CDS合同是可以交易的，作为一种保证书，它们可以标上价格，随时可以出售。 而期权只能是在实际违约发生时才能变现。"
    ],
    [
        "In both countries, the long-run implications of such angry populist movements for the health of democratic institutions need to be pondered.",
        "美印两国都需要思考如此愤怒的民粹运动对民主制度的长期影响。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the current strategy has not really worked either as a deterrent against conventional attacks (which persisted throughout the years that Israel supposedly developed its nuclear arsenal) or as a warning to rivals (such as Iran) against developing a nuclear weapon.",
        "毕竟，目前的核战略既没有真正发挥出对常规袭击的威慑作用（在外界推测以色列发展核武库的这些年间，袭击事件层出不穷），也未能成功地警告其对手（如伊朗）不要发展核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaving Bosnians to explore the options that befall a failed state (with a Muslim plurality) – located within Europe but on the margins of its prosperity, unity, and relative social cohesion – is to acknowledge policy bankruptcy and let others roll the dice on ways to end the current stalemate.",
        "坐视波斯尼亚去尝试成为一个失败国家的可能性（而且穆斯林占大多数） —— 位于欧洲却无法享受到这片大陆的繁荣，团结以及相关的社会凝聚力 —— 等于告诉大家自己的政策已经破产，而把打破僵局的可能性拱手让给其他人。"
    ],
    [
        "As a Rwandan doctor who contributed to building my country’s health-care system from its infancy, I am proud of what we have accomplished in so short a time.",
        "作为一名为我国白手起家建立医疗体系做出过贡献的医生，我非常自豪于我们在如此短的时间内所取得的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "In country after country, that Manichean mindset, with its oversimplifications and manipulations, was merely re-fashioned to serve the new people in power.",
        "在一个接一个的国家，这种要么过于简单化要么进行操纵的二元论心态只不过是重新粉饰来为掌权的新一代服务而已。"
    ],
    [
        "From the “People Power” revolution that toppled Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in 1986 to Boris Yeltsin’s defiance of the attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev of August 1991, to the Rose, Orange, and Cedar Revolutions of recent years, dictators have been forced to admit defeat when enough people stand up to them.",
        "从1986年菲律宾推倒费迪南德·马科斯的“人民权力”革命，到1991年8月叶利钦反抗针对戈尔巴乔夫的政变阴谋，再到近年来的玫瑰革命、橙色革命和雪杉革命，只要有足够的人站出来，独裁者只能被迫承认失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Changing the system and easing their grip on power was a risky move that could undermine their authority.",
        "而改革整个政治系统以及放松对权力的掌控则是一个极可能动摇其权威的危险行动。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a more fundamental issue at play that stems from the accumulated imperfections of representative democracy in countries where social and economic conditions are less than ideal.",
        "但对这些社会和经济条件远为达到理想状态的国家来说，代议制民主的不完美名的日积月累造成了一个更加根本的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The final reason why negative incentives alone are inadequate to mitigate climate change may be the most irrational: after some years of rising taxes, the public is staunchly opposed to any policy that may increase energy prices, regardless of whether current prices are high or low.",
        "单靠负面激励不足以减缓气候变化的最终原因或许最缺乏理性：在若干年的税收增加后，公众不管目前价格高低，都坚决反对可能提高能源价格的任何政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush must be willing to accept Europeans as genuine partners and stop treating them like recalcitrant vassals.",
        "布什必须愿意接纳欧洲人作为其真正的伙伴，而不是顽抗的附庸。"
    ],
    [
        "What he did not know was that the article was book-length.",
        "他没料到我的文章长得像本书。"
    ],
    [
        "In Russia, those who predicted the immediate collapse of Ukraine and the establishment in its eastern and southern provinces of a pro-Russian “Novorossia” have been similarly disappointed.",
        "在俄罗斯，预测乌克兰马上就会崩溃、其东部和南部省份马上就会建立亲俄的“诺沃罗沙”（Novorossia）的人也收获了失望。"
    ],
    [
        "With its decision to send thousands of soldiers to Lebanon to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, the EU took its boldest step yet in creating a common foreign and security policy.",
        "欧盟决定向黎巴嫩派遣数千名士兵落实联合国安理会1701号决议，从而再一次在建立共同外交和安全政策上迈出了一大步。"
    ],
    [
        "Chest X-rays for lung cancer and Pap tests for cervical cancer have received similar, albeit less definitive, criticism.",
        "此外肺癌胸部X光检测与子宫颈癌帕氏抹片检查都受到了类似（但不那么明确）的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, however, is his recognition that a political leader should also be a leader of thought and culture for his or her country – and the world.",
        "但是，更重要的是，他认识到政治领袖也应该是其祖国乃至全世界的思想领袖和文化领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "After more than fifty years, Europe as a community of values remains as necessary as ever.",
        "在50多年以后，欧洲作为一个价值观共同体的必要性仍然一如既往。"
    ],
    [
        "One proposal aims to protect native birds on Hawaii’s Kauai Island by using gene drives to reduce the population of a species of mosquito that carries avian malaria.",
        "一项方案准备使用基因驱动器减少某种携带禽疟疾的蚊子的数量，以此保护夏威夷考艾岛的本土鸟类。"
    ],
    [
        "While China’s military capacities are no match for America’s, its current military build-up is viewed as posing unacceptable risks nonetheless, because China also is seeking technological means to negate America’s military advantages.",
        "尽管中国的军事实力与美国不可同日而语，但因为中国正在寻找削弱美国优势的技术手段，其目前的军事集结仍被视作为不可接受的危险之举。"
    ],
    [
        "JERUSALEM – Although the crisis over Israel’s naval interventions to defend its blockade of Gaza is gaining all the headlines around the world, something of far more historic importance is taking place in the Middle East.",
        "发自耶路撒冷——虽然全世界媒体的头条都聚焦在了以色列为继续封锁加沙而进行的海上拦截行动上，但实际上中东地区还有某些更具历史意义的事件正在酝酿着。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that those assets amount to an estimated $18 trillion, a higher return on capital would boost GDP and reduce debt.",
        "据估计，这类资产高达18万亿美元，因此提高此类公共资产的资本回报率将刺激GDP增长、减少债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The New Climate Economics",
        "新气候经济学"
    ],
    [
        "The question for regulators is whether, in responding to the financial crisis, they have created perverse incentives that are working against a recovery in long-term private-sector investment.",
        "对监管者来说，问题将是为了应对金融危机，它们是否制造了不利于长期私人部门投资的不当激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Are Uber drivers Uber employees?",
        "Uber司机算不算Uber员工？"
    ],
    [
        "The threat of a US default may well end in a political agreement to raise the US government’s debt ceiling, as occurred in 2011.",
        "美国违约的风险很有可能因为关于提高美国政府债务上限形成了政治一致而结束，这一幕在2011年就发生过。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries are not like humans with predictable life spans.",
        "国家毕竟不同于寿命可以预测的人类个体。"
    ],
    [
        "Here in Australasia, we imported this perspective from overseas, actively suppressing more holistic Maori and Aboriginal understandings about human distress.",
        "在澳大拉西亚，我们从海外引入了这种观点，并积极地压制毛利人和当地土著对人类忧虑的更为完整的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution is straightforward.",
        "解决方案显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "The new plants, like Iran’s first Russian-built reactor at Bushehr, would be subject to International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring and use only Russian-made nuclear fuel, which would be returned to Russia for storage to prevent Iran from developing dangerous nuclear technologies.",
        "这些新建核电站与位于布什尔（Bushehr）的伊朗首个俄建反应堆一样，将接受国际原子能机构监督并且只使用俄制核燃料，这些核燃料可以运回俄罗斯储存以防止伊朗开发危险的核技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Learning disabilities occur almost twice as frequently among children in households earning less than $35,000 a year than they do in households earning more than $100,000.",
        "年收入低于35,000美元家庭的儿童学习无能比例比年收入高于100,000美元家庭的儿童高出近一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "This is all the more true of the persecutors.",
        "迫害人的情况更是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "They have even linked a player for India’s national team to the fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, widely suspected of being the architect of the 1993 Bombay bombings, who has been hiding in Pakistan.",
        "他们甚至将某印度国家队队员和流亡分子伊布拉西姆（Dawood Ibrahim）联系在一起，后者被广泛认为是1993年孟买爆炸案的嫌疑主谋，现藏身于巴基斯坦。"
    ],
    [
        "They say that the ability of cyber-terrorists and blackmailers to take the global economy to the brink, as in the 2007 Bruce Willis movie Die Hard 4, is utterly fictional.",
        "他们表示网络恐怖分子和恐吓勒索者再现2007年布鲁斯·威利斯电影《虎胆龙威4》中的恐怖一幕，将全球经济推向崩溃边缘的能力完全是虚构的。"
    ],
    [
        "The second lesson is that Trump will probably pursue what is essentially a permanent political campaign, injecting himself directly into conversations.",
        "第二个教训是特朗普很可能实行本质上永无止境的政治竞选，让自己直接融入对话的主题当中。"
    ],
    [
        "And isn’t identifying opportunity one of America’s great strengths?",
        "难道寻找机会不一直是美国的一项优势？"
    ],
    [
        "Old people who have families are often found in a new role as educators of the young.",
        "生活在家庭中的老年人通常会负担起教育年轻人的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – A successful society needs effective, affordable government to perform its necessary functions well, and that includes sufficient revenue to fund those functions.",
        "斯坦福—成功的社会需要高效、实惠的政府卓越地行使其必要功能，而这包括为这些功能提供充足的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "And, under his rule, Turkey has become a regional power.",
        "而在他的统治下土耳其也成长为一大区域势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing will.",
        "不过其他方式也都解答不了。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, the euro also provided booming external demand in southern Europe, while China’s breakneck industrial development raised demand for Germany’s traditional exports.",
        "当中国的高速工业发展提升了对德国传统出口需求的同时，欧元也为德国在欧洲南部地区创造了极为蓬勃的外部需求。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a goal that sends an unambiguous signal that CO2-emitting industries will either have to change or die, and that the future lies with zero-emissions technologies and businesses.",
        "这向世界传递了二氧化碳排放行业要么改变要么消亡的明确信号。 它向世人表明，未来属于零排放的技术和企业。"
    ],
    [
        "The End of the World as We Know It",
        "正如我们所预料的世界末日"
    ],
    [
        "A game-changing solution presupposes substantial political will; it is essential that European leaders show that they know what needs to be done.",
        "局面改变方案需要强大的政治意愿； 欧洲领导人表现出他们明白需要做什么，这一点至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The conventional (and accurate) wisdom is that diseases are named and classified on the basis of scientific research.",
        "常规（且精确）的公认说法是，根据科学研究来命名并分类疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the need for international intervention in crises is often time-specific and a fairly swift response is frequently required.",
        "显而易见，国际危机干预的需要通常时间确定，而且要求足够迅速的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "This crisis, like so many others, would be a terrible thing to waste.",
        "这次危机和其他很多千载难逢的机遇一样，我们绝对不该错失。"
    ],
    [
        "It might even prop up the price of government bonds in Europe, thereby forestalling a sovereign-debt crisis.",
        "它甚至推高了欧洲政府债券的价格，从而阻止了一场主权债务危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But, after six months or so passed without successful reemployment, they tended to become discouraged and distraught.",
        "但是，在找工作半年而未果后，他们变得灰心丧气、心烦意乱。"
    ],
    [
        "And even these figures tend to understate the problem, which is less about spending money or employing researchers than about the basic quality of the science being produced.",
        "而且即便这些数据也往往无法对问题予以充分的反应，因为与其说这关系到花钱或雇用研究人员还不如说关系到科学的基本质量。"
    ],
    [
        "Military or development assistance is not apolitical.",
        "军事或发展援助并非无关政治。"
    ],
    [
        "His cabinet, in terms of its members’ positions on economic reform and international relations, is one that few observers believed he would be capable of assembling.",
        "从成员的经济改革和国际关系立场看，他能够组成如此内阁着实令观察者大跌眼镜。"
    ],
    [
        "There is nothing really new in that if one only looks at the foreign policies of France and Great Britain.",
        "如果只考虑法国和英国的外交政策，这里并没有什么东西真正令人感到新奇。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, fear of insufficient consumer protection, distorted by vested interests, is dominating the TTIP debate.",
        "既然如此，对消费者保护不力的担心在既得利益的扭曲下正主宰着跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than focusing on shrinking the size of existing fleets, European leaders should focus on getting more out of them.",
        "此外与其将注意力放在缩减现有舰队的规模之上，欧洲领导人们应当更注重从中挖掘出更多的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear of major fighting has already sent many Palestinians into Egypt, leading to the deployment of Egyptian troops on the border to control any mass exodus.",
        "许多巴勒斯坦人由于害怕大规模的作战而逃入埃及，迫使埃及在边境部署军队来控制大规模的逃难。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the regime sought 240,000 tons of nutritional support in its recent negotiations with the US and South Korea, though the North was forced to return 30,000 tons of rice from a previous food-aid package as part of its recent agreement with the US.",
        "与此同时，朝鲜当局还在于美国和韩国的最新谈判中获得24万吨营养物资，但与此同时，朝鲜也被迫从先前的粮食援助计划中返还3万吨，作为与美国最新协议的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to reduce the risks associated with investing in Afghanistan, the government must create a system that benefits local communities and foreign investors alike.",
        "为了减少投资阿富汗的相关风险，政府必须建立有利于本地社区和外国投资者的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Having known Wang for more than 15 years, my sense is that he is very well suited to this vital task.",
        "我认识王岐山已逾15年，在我看来，他十分适合这一关键职位。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF created the SDR in 1969 to supplement existing reserve currencies, thereby providing the global financial system with additional liquidity.",
        "1969年，IMF创造了SDR以补充已有的储备货币，从而为全球金融体系增加流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "Selfish interests prevailed.",
        "自私自利开始盛行。"
    ],
    [
        "In May 2010, the Greek government agreed to a fiscal adjustment equal to 16% of GDP from 2010 to 2013.",
        "2010年5月，下列政府同意在2010—2013年做出相当于GDP的16%的财政调整。"
    ],
    [
        "As public anxiety has abated, and senior officials have felt less pressure to show that they are doing something, the most flagrant abuses have declined.",
        "随着公众对恐怖主义的忧虑缓解下来后，高级官员们的压力就小了些，他们不再急于向公众表现。"
    ],
    [
        "These arguments are easily rebutted.",
        "这些观点轻易就能驳倒。"
    ],
    [
        "Thaksin’s rural base rewarded him by returning him to power, ignoring his personal corruption.",
        "他信在农村的支持者使其重新执政作为对他的回报，而忽略了他个人的腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "The SPD should hold out for ministerial leadership on economic and financial policy, while the CDU/CSU holds the chancellorship.",
        "SPD应该坚持掌握经济和金融政策的部门领导，而CDU/CSU则拥有总理。"
    ],
    [
        "And now, on the European and American attempt to impose UN-mandated sanctions on Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, the BRICS have gone from bad to worse.",
        "而如今，欧洲和美国试图对叙利亚总统阿萨德实施联合国授权的制裁行动，对此金砖国家的举动甚至比利比亚问题还不如。"
    ],
    [
        "Firm-level data show that productivity growth has held up relatively well for firms that are at the technological frontier.",
        "企业层面的数据表明，位于技术前沿的企业，生产率增长相对维持得较好。"
    ],
    [
        "The genome can be viewed as a kind of musical score.",
        "基因组可以视为一种乐谱。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s problematic foreign policy is the result not of mismanagement, but of toxic ideology.",
        "伊朗问题重重的外交政策不是管理不善的结果，而是不良意识形态的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But I said nothing of the sort.",
        "但是我没有说过这类话。"
    ],
    [
        "Disappointment about the raters’ performance, and skepticism about the effectiveness of regulation, has led to calls to eliminate any regulatory reliance on ratings.",
        "对评级机构所作所为的失望、以及对监管有效性的怀疑，已经导致人们呼吁取消依赖评级的监管原则。"
    ],
    [
        "For too long, the world’s oldest and largest democracies have failed to fulfill the promise of their relationship.",
        "长久以来，全世界最老和最大的民主政体未能充分发掘相互关系中所蕴含的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "From the start, the ICTY’s aims were ambitious, having been launched under the UN Security Council’s peacemaking powers.",
        "从一开始，由联合国安理会维和力量控制的前南国际法庭就抱着雄心壮志。"
    ],
    [
        "Such automatic borrower-initiated filings, if made legal by Congress, could reduce the household-debt overhang without the need for government subsidies.",
        "这样一种由借款人发起的自动破产机制如果能通过国会成为成文法律，将可以在不需要政府补贴的情况下减轻家庭债务宿醉。"
    ],
    [
        "China, 37 (38); 3.",
        "中国37（38）； 3."
    ],
    [
        "Its program Al Itijah al Mu’akess (“the opposite direction”) brought the sort of verbal jousts that most of the world takes for granted but Arabs had never seen televised.",
        "它的名叫”反方向“的节目带来了世界大多数地方习以为常、而阿拉伯人从来没有在电视上见过的唇枪舌战。"
    ],
    [
        "“It’s ok,” he said, “I will walk between the raindrops.”",
        "“没关系”，他说，“我能行走在雨滴之间而不被淋到。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "More than 40% of these treatments were for rare or difficult-to-treat conditions, including hepatitis C, meningococcal B, and metastatic melanoma.",
        "这些医药的40%以上为针对罕见病或疑难杂症的对策，包括丙型肝炎、乙型脑膜炎和转移性黑色素瘤。"
    ],
    [
        "And two years ago, protesters at the University of Oxford demanded the removal of a sculpture of Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College, where the old imperialist had once been a student, because his views on race and empire are now considered to be obnoxious.",
        "而在两年前，牛津大学的示威者要求移除奥里尔学院（Oriel College）的塞西尔·罗兹（Cecil Rhodes）塑像，因为他对种族和帝国的见解现在看来令人憎恶。 这位昔日的帝国主义者曾在奥里尔学院就读。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be absurd to set US President Barack Obama and EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso against each other as equals.",
        "将美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马和欧盟委员会主席若泽·曼努埃尔·巴罗佐进行对等的比较甚至近乎于荒谬。"
    ],
    [
        "Tunisians worry that social upheaval will destroy their remarkable but fragile young democracy.",
        "突尼斯人担心社会动荡或将破坏他们令人赞叹但却依然脆弱的年轻的民主体制。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s vision of European defense is very different from the French and British perspectives.",
        "德国对欧洲防务目标的看法与英法大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to 2014, however, the largest outbreak was in Uganda, in 2000, when 425 people were infected and 224 died.",
        "但是，在2014年前，最大的爆发发生在2000年的乌干达，425人被感染，224人死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "At best, there were temporary successes, but the policies always broke down.",
        "它们充其量只是起到了暂时的效果，最后无一例外地失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "Global trade and economic performance in the eurozone appear to be dragging each other down.",
        "全球贸易和欧元区经济表现似乎在互相拖后腿。"
    ],
    [
        "Liquid larvicides can be applied directly to water using backpack sprayers, and introducing fish into ponds, particularly in residential areas, can also help to eliminate larvae.",
        "喷撒液体杀虫剂，在池塘里养鱼（特别是在居民区）也可以帮助消除幼虫。"
    ],
    [
        "That scenario now looks all the more likely.",
        "目前来看这样的情况更有可能出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the corruption that was endemic in Qaddafi’s regime endures, with ministry officials accepting bribes, for example, in exchange for contracts.",
        "最后，卡扎菲执政时期曾流行的腐败依然流行，政府官员依然在签订合同时收受贿赂。"
    ],
    [
        "The US presence allows East Asia’s rival powers to act irresponsibly.",
        "美国存在容许东亚对手国可以不负责任地行事。"
    ],
    [
        "But if we think that both objectives – efficiency and solidarity – should play some role, perhaps we should turn a blind eye to hiring the unemployed to stand in line in lieu of busy lawyers, so long as they do not corner all of the seats.",
        "但如果我们两个目标——效率和凝聚力都应该起作用，也许我们应该对繁忙的律师雇用失业者替自己排队的现象睁一只眼闭一只眼，只要他们被霸占所有席位。"
    ],
    [
        "Past performance is also important: the visibility and prestige of a sport increases after Olympic success, as does funding.",
        "过去的表现也很重要：一种运动会因在奥运会中大放异彩而在会后获得更高的关注度和地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor did the press report Korolev’s name.",
        "而报纸也没有报导科罗廖夫的名字。"
    ],
    [
        "In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has made important contributions to truth seeking.",
        "在波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那，前南问题国际刑事法庭（ICTY）为揭露真相做出了重要贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "While China’s outstanding local-government debt totaled CN¥29 trillion ($4.7 trillion) at the end of 2011, its land and fixed assets are worth some CN¥90 trillion, meaning that even if asset values were written down by half, local governments would remain solvent.",
        "2011年末，中国未偿还地方政府债务总额为29万亿人民币，而其土地和固定资产总价值为90万亿人民币，这意味着即使资产价值缩水一半，地方政府作为一个总体仍不会资不抵债。"
    ],
    [
        "The worst part of Blair’s legacy, of course, is the war in Iraq.",
        "当然，布莱尔留给世人的最为糟糕的东西就是伊拉克战争。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this implies that economic policymakers require an enormous dose of humility, openness to various alternatives (including the possibility that they might be wrong), and a willingness to experiment.",
        "所有这些意味着经济决策者需要高度的谦卑，对各种替代方案持开放态度（包括它们出错的可能性），并愿意进行试验。"
    ],
    [
        "While specific objectives have changed, the overarching belief that scientific knowledge transforms people’s lives – as cultural, educational, and institutional factors converge with technological and industrial dynamics – has remained strong.",
        "尽管具体的目标发生了变化，但最重要的信念——随着文化、教育和制度因素随技术和工业动态而趋同，科学知识改变人类生活——依然坚挺。"
    ],
    [
        "The special representative monitors six types of violations of children’s rights: killing and maiming, sexual violence, military recruitment, attacks on schools and health centers, abduction, and denial of humanitarian access.",
        "特别代表监控六种类型的儿童侵权行为：致死和伤残、性暴力、征兵、袭击学校和医疗中心、绑架及拒绝人道主义援助。"
    ],
    [
        "The people do want democracy, but they will be disdainful of Western critics whom they will see as utterly naive in the face of the threat to democracy that the Muslim Brotherhood posed.",
        "民众的确希望民主，但却对穆兄会民主威胁中在他们看来极端天真的西方评论家嗤之以鼻。"
    ],
    [
        "In a 2011 editorial, the French biologist François Jacob described the research that led to his 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.",
        "在一篇2011年的社论中，法国生物学家弗朗索瓦·雅各布（François Jacob）描述了让其获得1965年诺贝尔生理学和医学奖的研究。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditionally, the IMF has insisted on two criteria: a currency’s issuing country must be among the world’s leading exporters, and the currency must be “freely usable” – widely used and traded.",
        "传统上，IMF要求两个标准：货币发行国必须是世界领先的出口国； 并且该货币必须“可自由使用”——即被广泛使用和交易。"
    ],
    [
        "A Formula for Health Equity",
        "医疗平等的秘诀"
    ],
    [
        "For Britain’s rivals, the financial panic of 1907 demonstrated the necessity of mobilizing financial power themselves.",
        "而对英国的对手，1907年的金融恐慌向他们展示了掌握金融力量是多么必要。"
    ],
    [
        "These types of approaches – what I call “all good things go together” policies – could be applied to other sectors of the economy that are being squeezed by imperfect competition.",
        "这些类型的手段——我称之为“十全十美”的政策——可以应用于受到不充分竞争挤压的其他经济部门。"
    ],
    [
        "But this “hardware” is inefficient without the “software” needed to manage it – namely, as Coase suggested, an efficient property-rights infrastructure (the laws, procedures, and administrative capacity needed to support efficient, fair, and innovative markets).",
        "但因缺乏管理“硬件”所需的“软件”，其硬件的效率难以充分发挥。 在科斯看来，这里的软件就是有效的产权基础设施（支持高效、公平和创新性市场所需要的法律、程序和行政管理能力）。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s most ambitious effort to date, the Silk Road Fund dwarfs the activities of the more traditional international financial institutions, in terms of both scale and range of activities.",
        "作为目前为止中国最雄心勃勃的计划，丝绸之路基金在活动规模和范围上都让更传统的国际金融机构相形见绌。"
    ],
    [
        "As Wolfers explains,",
        "沃尔夫斯解释说："
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s banks followed suit.",
        "日本的银行紧随其后。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the self-correcting mechanisms of truly democratic regimes can ensure the right balance.",
        "只有真正民主政权自我调整的机制才能够确保正确的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, trade systems have ranged from rather open to severely restricted by rules, tariffs, or non-tariff barriers, driven by shifts in the relative strength of liberalizing or protectionist economic and political forces.",
        "从历史上看，贸易体系既有极其开放的，也有受规则、关税和非关税壁垒严格限制的，其变迁受自由派或保护主义经济和政治力量的相对优势驱动。"
    ],
    [
        "But then came the Balkans crises of the 1990s, culminating in the realization that only American military power could put a stop to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing of Kosovo.",
        "但是九十年代出现了巴尔干危机，最终人们意识到只有美军才能阻止塞尔维亚总统米洛塞维奇对科索沃的种族清洗。"
    ],
    [
        "Five ministries – information, higher education, youth, labor, and housing – were given to the Muslim Brothers’ Freedom and Justice Party (FJP).",
        "信息、高等教育、青年、劳工和住房建设部等五部部长由穆斯林兄弟会自由与公正党（FJP）占据。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, the road to disaster has usually been paved with good intentions and grave errors of judgment.",
        "从历史上看，通往灾难之路通常都是由良好的意愿以及严重错误的判断所铺就的。"
    ],
    [
        "In her debate with Biden, Palin actually attacked Obama for saying that, in her words, “All we’re doing in Afghanistan is air-raiding villages and killing civilians.”",
        "在与拜登的辩论中，佩林攻击奥巴马的言论，用她的话来说就是“我们在阿富汗所做的一切就是空袭村庄以及杀害平民”。"
    ],
    [
        "Virtually all European Union members are expected to post higher output in 2014; but, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest projections, the average growth rate in the eurozone will barely exceed 1%.",
        "几乎所有欧盟成员国2014年产出预计都会有所提高，但根据国际货币基金组织的最新预测，欧元区平均增长率很难超过1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Even America’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, responsible for providing relief after natural disasters and man-made catastrophes, was in the hands of inept political cronies rather than professionals.",
        "甚至是在自然灾害和人为灾难后负责提供援助的美国联邦紧急情况管理局也落于不称职的政治密友之手而非专业人士。"
    ],
    [
        "The two sides’ increasingly similar views on international security issues as well, particularly where China is concerned, no doubt also contributed to the decision by the US Congress and President Barack Obama’s administration to honor Abe.",
        "双方关于国际安全问题的观点也日趋一致，特别是在涉华问题上，这毫无疑问推动了美国国会和总统奥巴马政府授予安倍国会演讲的荣誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Thailand’s Stunted Transition",
        "泰国过渡受阻"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – A few days ago, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab television network, that he would use his warships to prevent Israeli commandos from again boarding Gaza-bound ships, as they did last year.",
        "巴黎——前几天，土耳其总理雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安向泛阿拉伯电视网半岛电视台透露他将再次像去年那样，动用军舰阻止以色列突击队员登船驶往加沙。"
    ],
    [
        "New bus routes between India and Pakistan may not make headlines, but they deliver a degree of normalcy to relations riddled with mistrust.",
        "印度和巴基斯坦的新巴士路线或许登不上报纸头条，但它们预示着互不信任的两国有了些许关系正常化的苗头。"
    ],
    [
        "That said, the wide disparities and development gaps between ASEAN members call for a multi-track and multi-speed approach to deepening economic integration.",
        "而这也意味着东盟各国需要采取多轨道多增速的策略来加深内部经济整合，并以此克服各国间的发展程度差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, with oil prices back above $100 per barrel, the Gulf states are enjoying a bonanza.",
        "此外，随着原油价格上升到100美元/桶，海湾国家正享受着一笔巨大的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "The abuse of minorities, and reactions to it, often are linked to fault lines in conflicted societies.",
        "冲突社会中存在的断层往往会引发对少数族裔的虐待以及由此产生的连锁反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, export dependence partly reflects the high degree of difficulty of doing business in China.",
        "具体来说，出口依赖部分反映了在中国做生意的高难度。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the Church, after all, that has vigorously sought to impose its opposition to contraception on the population, opposing even the provision of contraceptives by the government to the rural poor.",
        "毕竟，是教会大力寻求向菲律宾人施加反避孕观点，他们甚至反对政府向农村贫困人口提供避孕手段。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that many developing countries have growing economies that allow them to devote more resources to helping their poorest people.",
        "好消息是许多发展中国家的经济增长使得它们可以将更多的资源用於帮助最穷国民。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom is the most vocal skeptic, but Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and pretty much the rest of Eastern Europe have never been enthusiastic about shifting their focus from national prerogatives.",
        "英国的怀疑声音最大，但波兰、匈牙利、斯洛伐克和其他许多东欧国家也从未放松关注国家特权。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost nothing became too dear in this quest: technology transfers, upgraded relations, association agreements, and even, reportedly, the prospect of joining the EU.",
        "但在这方面以色列似乎对什么都不太感兴趣：不管是技术转让，关系升级，合作协议，甚至是加入欧盟的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when it comes to the protection of the weakest and the struggle against rising social injustice, perhaps “global deculturation” creates an opportunity to combine the best of what remains in particular traditions.",
        "但是，在保护弱势者、抵抗社会不公加剧势头方面，这种“文化差异的全球化消除”也许恰恰创造了一个机会，令我们可以把各个传统中的精华部分结合起来。"
    ],
    [
        "A perfectly legal approach is to lend in renminbi and be repaid in foreign currency.",
        "一个完全合法的做法是对外出借人民币并要求以外币偿还。"
    ],
    [
        "Re-nationalization through extortion is likely to accelerate.",
        "通过国家敲诈来实现回复国有化的行为很可能会加速。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why European leaders took the ambitious steps that they did.",
        "这也是为何欧洲领导人们迈出了如此富有野心的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not clothing or cars, but America’s largest, and most renowned, export sector.",
        "这不是服装或汽车，而是美国最大最有名的出口部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Preparations for a second wave of military action began in November, when Putin provided separatists with a new influx of armored columns and personnel.",
        "第二轮军事活动在11月开始准备，此时，普京还为分裂主义者提供新的装甲装装备和人手。"
    ],
    [
        "Before there was widespread automobile ownership, land prices depended on location, and proximity to the central city or to the local railroad station carried a premium.",
        "在汽车进入千家万户之前，地价是由土地所在位置和距离市中心或当地火车站的远近等溢价因素来决定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Far-right groups infamously dubbed the attack by which at least 30,000 people were killed “Dresden’s Holocaust of bombs.”",
        "极右势力卑鄙的导演了“德累斯顿大屠杀”，在侵袭中至少三万人被杀害。"
    ],
    [
        "Previous transatlantic clashes over diverse issues such as climate change, the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and the Iraq War exposed a breakdown of mutual understanding, sometimes stemming from sharp differences over how best to achieve certain common objectives.",
        "此前，大西洋两岸在气候变化、关塔那摩监狱囚犯和伊拉克战争等诸多问题上的分歧暴露了互相理解方面的裂痕，有时候，分歧来自关于如何达到某些共同目标这一问题上的尖锐不同。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite all this diplomatic friction, Wen’s entourage for his visit is dominated by a large business delegation.",
        "但即便存在着如此程度的外交摩擦，温家宝依然带来了庞大的商业代表团。"
    ],
    [
        "What do you expect when the big banks are bankrolling our political system?",
        "在大银行为政治体制出资的情况下你还有什么选择？"
    ],
    [
        "The barrel bombs caused 70,000 civilians to flee to Turkey; the ground offensive could uproot many more.",
        "桶装炸弹导致70,000人逃往土耳其； 地面进攻可能导致更多人流离失所。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the EU’s chief failures have little to do with democracy.",
        "事实上，欧盟的主要问题与民主没有多大关系。"
    ],
    [
        "As Hungary’s Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany found out when a recorded admission that his government was lying incited riots, openness in government doesn’t come easily in Eastern Europe’s new democracies.",
        "匈牙利总理久尔恰尼因为在一次录音谈话中承认他的政府撒谎而引发暴乱，使他认识到要到东欧新兴民主国家的政府里实行公开并不是件容易事。"
    ],
    [
        "These governments have no interest in any form of multilateralism, as they have embraced a narrow view of their interests.",
        "上述政府对任何形式的多边主义都不感兴趣，因为他们只在乎自身的狭隘利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The \"divergence\" of economic performance and monetary policy among three of the world's most systemically important economies – the eurozone, Japan, and the United States – has added another layer of confusion for the rest of the world, with particularly significant implications for small, open economies.",
        "世界上系统重要性最强的经济体——欧元区、日本和美国——经济表现和货币政策的“趋异”让世界其他地区更加摸不着头脑，特别是对小型开放型经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Britain needs more effective rules and regulations to ensure that privatized utilities deliver cheaper, more sustainable services.",
        "最后，英国需要更有效的规则和监管以确保私有化的公用事业能提供更廉价、更可持续的服务。"
    ],
    [
        "In Russia, President Vladimir Putin has been operating according to a nineteenth-century worldview, in which great powers dominate their spheres of influence unchallenged.",
        "在俄罗斯，普京总统一直奉行某种19世纪的世界观，认定大国毋庸置疑地主宰自己的势力领域。"
    ],
    [
        "The return to autocracy in Egypt in 2013, via Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s coup d’état, certainly was not aided by the US or Europe, both of which supported the democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood.",
        "美国或欧洲肯定从未支持2013年埃及借助阿卜杜勒 - 法塔赫·塞西政变回归专制，美欧双方都对通过民主选举产生的穆斯林兄弟会表示支持。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that this narrative is inaccurate, it is aspirational.",
        "这一叙事从某种程度上说并不正确，但它鼓舞人心。"
    ],
    [
        "But the whole world, including most ASEAN countries, perceived Cambodia’s stance as the result of enormous Chinese pressure.",
        "但全世界，包括大部分东盟国家，都认为柬埔寨的立场是在中国的巨大压力做出的。"
    ],
    [
        "True, almost all regions of the world are currently experiencing an increase in the prevalence of NCDs – in part because, as deaths from acute infectious diseases and injuries decline, people live long enough to develop these diseases.",
        "诚然，几乎在世界所有地区，都在经历NCD的普遍发生，这部分是因为随着急性传染病和伤害致命人数的下降，人们的寿命得到了增加，使得越来越多的人患上了NCD。"
    ],
    [
        "The Higgs boson provides mass for these particles; without it, the physical world, as we understand it, would have no atoms, chemistry, or life.",
        "希格斯波色子为基本粒子提供质量； 没有它，我们所理解的真实世界就不会有原子，不会有化学，也不会有生命。"
    ],
    [
        "We fact-checkers would joke about the lazy reporters who would hand us copy such as, “Juan Tigar, tk years old, grew up in tk before studying at tk.",
        "我们这些事实核查员会拿偷懒的记者开玩笑，这些人送到我们手中的稿件中写道“Juan Tigar，年龄待查，幼年居住地待查，学校待查。"
    ],
    [
        "Easing can boost growth by lifting asset prices (equities and housing), reducing private and public borrowing costs, and limiting the risk of a fall in actual and expected inflation.",
        "宽松可以通过提升资产价格（股票和房地产）刺激增长、降低私人和公共借贷成本、限制实际和预期通胀下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In the run-up to that conference, a global campaign put pressure on governments.",
        "在那次会议期间，有全球团体对政府施压。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans fear their markets being flooded by Chinese goods.",
        "美国人害怕他们的市场被中国货占领。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Japan, the Bush administration’s relatively moderate stance toward North Korea has changed since the talks broke down last year.",
        "在去年会谈破裂后，布什政府和日本政府一样，改变了原来对北朝鲜相对温和的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, this injustice is self-perpetuating.",
        "更糟糕的是这种不公平可以自我延续。"
    ],
    [
        "When China's National People's Congress (NPC) concluded its annual meeting recently, it voted to enshrine protection of human rights and private property in the constitution.",
        "在最近结束的中国全国人民代表大会（全国人大）年会上，对人权和私有财产的保护被写入宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "Other companies – like the financial research firm Morningstar – have followed suit.",
        "其他公司——如金融研究企业晨星公司（Morningstar）——也效仿了谷歌的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "They subordinated domestic monetary and fiscal policies to maintaining the fixed exchange rate – even during the 1997-98 Asian crisis, despite great pressure to devalue.",
        "3%）的水平。 当局让国内的货币和财政政策都服从于维持固定汇率—即使是在贬值压力极大的1997-98年亚洲（金融）危机期间。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has the world’s largest market, but it lacks unity.",
        "欧洲拥有全世界最大的市场，但却缺乏统一性。"
    ],
    [
        "To do that, Pakistan would need help from some of the Afghan Pashtun tribes with which it had developed strong relations during the war against the Soviet Union.",
        "要想独自对抗这些叛乱分子，巴基斯坦需要得到某些阿富汗普什图族的帮助，巴方在对抗苏联的那场战争中与这些普什图部族的关系非常牢固。"
    ],
    [
        "And, offensive as this has been to Mexican sensibilities – and harmful to finding long-term solutions to America’s immigration dilemma –these complacent arrangements have never presented so clear and present danger as they do today.",
        "而且，这样的方式对墨西哥情感是有冒犯的——并且对为美国的移民难题找到长期的解决办法有害——这些自鸣得意的安排从来没有像现在这样明显并且带来危害。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, Musharraf, in order to preserve his country’s alliance with the world’s sole superpower (and his country’s largest donor), had to betray his own.",
        "现在，为了保持巴基斯坦与世界唯一超级大国(以及该国最大的援助国)的联盟，穆沙拉夫不得不背叛自己人。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel is now more endangered in its existence than it was at the time of the Oslo Agreement.",
        "以色列与奥斯陆协议时代相比，其生存处境更为困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Cleaning up high private-sector debt and lowering public-debt ratios by growth alone is particularly hard if a balance-sheet crisis leads to an anemic recovery.",
        "在资产负债表式危机拖累经济复苏的情况下，想单靠经济增长来清理私人部门债务和降低公债比率是非常困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, just 4% of FDI moved to Eastern Europe in the 1990s, reaching 30% at the turn of the century. As a result, Austria became much more integrated with Eastern Europe.",
        "而德国转向东欧的外国直接投资在1990年代只有4%，在世纪之交才达到30％，可见奥地利与东欧的整合程度更高。"
    ],
    [
        "With German Chancellor Angela Merkel struggling to form a government after September’s general election, all eyes are now on Macron.",
        "因为德国总理安格拉·默克尔正竭尽全力在9月大选后组建新政府，所有人的目光都盯住了马克龙。"
    ],
    [
        "Another area of serious concern is health care.",
        "另一个令人严重关注的领域是医疗。"
    ],
    [
        "The most glaring injustice in this respect has been the failure of the US and the European Union to deliver substantially on their promises of market access to agricultural exports from poor countries.",
        "上述领域最引人注目的不公之处是美国和欧盟未能在实质上兑现它们在贫困国家农产品出口准入方面作出的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom line, as the youngsters gathered in Melbourne fully understood, is that the UN provides fabulous value for what the world spends on it, and that if it ever ceased to exist, we would have to reinvent it.",
        "聚首于墨尔本的年轻人都十分明白，根本出发点在于世界花在联合国上的钱产生了极高的价值，如果联合国寿终正寝，我们还得重新创造一个。"
    ],
    [
        "Such talks could aim for a compromise over how resources and territory might be divided or shared.",
        "谈判的目标可以是就资源和领土如何分割或共享问题达成妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "Such “solutions” have only worsened the industry’s already-poor record on worker and animal welfare, and exacerbated adverse environmental and health-related effects.",
        "这样的“解决办法”只能恶化该行业已然相当拙劣的工人和动物福利记录，并加剧负面的环境和卫生相关影响。"
    ],
    [
        "CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – China has recently held a series of solemn, high-profile ceremonies, barely noticed by the outside world, in honor of the 110th anniversary of former leader Deng Xiaoping’s birth.",
        "克莱蒙特，加利福尼亚州—最近，中国举行了一系列鲜为外界关注的高规格隆重仪式纪念前领导人邓小平110年诞辰。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important outcome of these renewed contacts was the Pakistani cabinet’s decision, on November 2, to grant India most-favored-nation (MFN) status in trade relations.",
        "而双方再度合作的最重要成果就是促成了巴基斯坦内阁在9月2日决定给与印度在贸易最惠国待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "The shift in power from the Sudeiris to King Abdullah and his sons was accelerated by the death of the two Sudeiri crown princes within a period of eight months.",
        "权力从苏德里兄弟转移到阿卜杜拉国王和及其儿子手中的过程因为两位苏德里王储在八个月内接连去世而加快了速度。"
    ],
    [
        "These are times of trial and upheaval that call for such daring.",
        "这位总统的当选是美国历史上最具革命性的事件之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Annual sales in the United States are expected to reach seven million units by 2020, and many are already predicting a future in which drones reshape our cities – through remote delivery of goods, airborne surveillance, or as yet unforeseen applications.",
        "到2020年，美国的无人机年销售量预计将达到700万架，而许多人已经在预测无人机将通过远程送货、机载监控或现在仍然无法预见的应用方式重塑我们城市的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Printed newspapers offer the added advantage of reliability, in a country where Internet access cannot be guaranteed all the time, owing to still-patchy electricity supplies, which cause frequent blackouts even in the capital.",
        "由于电力波动较大，印度还无法保证全天候不间断的互联网接入，甚至连首都也时不时会陷入一片黑暗，因此纸媒能提供更多的可靠性优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the shop floor can be swept better and cheaper by a Roomba robot than by any worker.",
        "就连商场楼面，Roomba机器人也能比任何工人更好更廉价地打扫完毕。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, neither Geert Wilders, nor even rabidly anti-Islamic bloggers in the United States, such as Scott Spencer and Pamela Geller (both of whom were quoted extensively in Breivik’s manifesto), have called for physical violence.",
        "虽然可以确信无论是霍尔特·怀德斯，还有美国那两个极端反伊斯兰的博客写手斯科特·史宾沙和佩内拉·高勒（两人的言论也被布雷维克广泛引用），都没有号召使用暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "In Syria, the biggest obstacle to the vaccination effort has been the central government.",
        "在叙利亚，疫苗接种工作的最大障碍一直是中央政府。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given that it is in everyone’s interest to ensure that developments hew more closely to the reform-oriented path, it should be clear to all that the diplomatic work with regard to Iran is far from complete.",
        "但是，确保事态发展更加倾向于改革导向路径符合所有人的利益，因此我们都必须清楚，伊朗问题上的外交使命还远远没有完成。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that courageous structural reforms must still be pursued in the peripheral countries – indeed, throughout Europe.",
        "这意味着外围国（事实上，是整个欧洲）仍必须实行大胆的结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, we have come to understand ourselves as composites; often contradictory and internally incompatible.",
        "如今，我们已把自我理解为复杂混合体； 经常是矛盾的而且内在是不协调的。"
    ],
    [
        "From persistent differences in unemployment rates depending on skills and education to record-high income and wealth inequalities, each economic decision will be accompanied by the need for social judgment – whether explicit or, more likely, implicit – regarding its distributional impact.",
        "根据技能和教育程度的不同，失业率存在持久差异； 收入和财富不平等性正在创出历史记录——从分配效应看，任何经济决策都将伴随着社会调整的需要，这种需要可能是直接的，但更多情况下将是隐含的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is strong evidence, however, that it would not cost the world huge amounts to undertake large-scale carbon capture and storage.",
        "但有足够的证据表明进行大规模的碳捕获和储存不会给世界带来过高的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "They provide imposingly tangible evidence that something is being done about migration.",
        "高墙可以提供铁证，证明他们为移民问题做了些什么。"
    ],
    [
        "As a recent Brookings Institution paper shows, higher marginal tax rates would do little to diminish income inequality in the US.",
        "布鲁金斯研究所的一篇最新文章显示，提高边际税率对于降低美国收入不平等几乎毫无用处。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Angola’s economy is grinding to a halt.",
        "如今，安哥拉经济已经陷入停顿。"
    ],
    [
        "But even the financial “stress tests” conducted by regulators did not require the banks to acknowledge that inconvenient truth.",
        "但即使是监管者所组织的财务“压力测试”也没有要求银行承认这一令人不安的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade agreements are, by definition, pacts of reciprocal sovereign obligations regarding tariff and nontariff barriers.",
        "从定义上看，贸易协定是有关关税及非关税壁垒的互惠互利的主权义务条约。"
    ],
    [
        "COLD SPRING HARBOR – Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2000, genome science has accelerated at a remarkable rate.",
        "冷泉港—自2000年人类基因组首次被排序以来，基因组科学便开始了日新月异的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Will this be debated at the G-20?",
        "20国集团峰会会讨论这个议题吗？"
    ],
    [
        "After all, as Executive Director of UN Women Michelle Bachelet has put it, “violence against women is…a threat to democracy, a barrier to lasting peace, a burden on national economies, and an appalling human-rights violation.”",
        "毕竟，如联合国妇女署执行董事米歇尔·巴切莱特（Michelle Bachelet）所指出的，“针对妇女的暴力是……对民主的威胁，是维持和平的障碍，是国民经济的负担，也是可怕的人权暴行。"
    ],
    [
        "The poor in developing countries have none of these benefits, which proves fatal for an estimated 18 million of them each year.",
        "所有这些福利，发展中国家的穷人却是一项也没能享受。 这每年造成了估计有一千八百万人的死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "It can continue to do so in Turkey, Russia, and Ukraine, or, through inattention and inaction, Europe could lose credibility, influence, and economic opportunities.",
        "欧盟可以在土耳其，俄罗斯和乌克兰继续完成这样的使命，但也有可能因为漫不经心和无所作为而丧失公信力、影响力和经济机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "The women of Hollywood may have initiated what has become a global call for equality at work, but the workplace revolution is no less significant for those of us who walk on less colorful carpets.",
        "好莱坞女性或许已经开启了呼吁工作场所平等的全球事业，但对于我们这些在不那么有诱惑力的环境中工作的女性来说，工作环境革命也同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "It is after retooling their mindset towards innovation and self-criticism that Asian countries have become modern.",
        "亚洲国家只是在把它们的心态转向了创新以及自我批评之后才变得现代化。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, and for much the same reasons, Israel became popular on the right.",
        "与此同时，很大程度上出于同样的原因，以色列受到了右翼的欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s most successful economies today are in Scandinavia.",
        "目前世界上最成功的经济体都在斯堪的纳维亚半岛。"
    ],
    [
        "Both sides will have to show more foresight.",
        "双方都必须拿出更大的远见。"
    ],
    [
        "A striking fact about climate change is that there is little overlap between the countries that are most vulnerable to its effects – mainly poor countries in the South that can ill afford to deal with the consequences – and the countries, like the US, that are the largest polluters.",
        "有关气候变化的一个惊人事实是：在气候变化中受害最深的国家¾主要是那些承担不起气候变化后果的南部贫困国家¾与以美国为首的头号污染国几乎是完全不同的两大阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the government has improved educational opportunities.",
        "此外，政府还改善了教育机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s poorest countries are experiencing the fastest population growth.",
        "世界最贫困国家正在经历最快速的人口增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that China’s GDP growth rate remains respectable relative to the rest of the world, the need to emphasize structural reform is clear.",
        "考虑到中国的GDP增速相对于其他国家来说依然较高，推行结构性改革的需要也更为明确了。"
    ],
    [
        "US regulators, for example, cannot first try bankruptcy before deploying their expanded powers under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation; if they did, the bankrupt firm’s counterparties in the derivatives and repo markets would close out their contracts and dump their collateral as soon as they could.",
        "比如，美国监管机构首先无法在根据2010年多德-弗兰克（Dodd-Frank）金融改革立法扩大权力之前尝试破产； 如果它们尝试了破产，破产公司的衍生品和回购市场对手方将了结它们的合约，尽快甩卖它们的抵押品。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkish diplomacy has thus become a well-calibrated balancing act, moving closer to European positions in the Middle East, but eager to maintain close relations with the US.",
        "正因如此，土耳其外交就成了需要准确调校的平衡行动，不断在中东问题上接近欧洲立场的同时也希望与美国保持密切的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "And by January, Britain, having just kicked the EU in the teeth, could find itself attempting to negotiate, under a new prime minister and cabinet, a new political and economic relationship with the EU’s 27 other members.",
        "而到明年一月，刚刚给过欧盟当头一棒的英国可能就要在新首相及其内阁的领导下开始谈判，试图与欧盟其他27个成员国建立新的政治和经济关系。"
    ],
    [
        "A strong narrative is a source of power.",
        "强大的述事是实力的源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "FLORENCE – Richard Nixon has been dead for 15 years, but he is making another comeback in America.",
        "佛罗伦萨——理查德·尼克松死了15年，最近却好像在美国借尸还魂了。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, political wrangling over issues of Internet governance and cybersecurity have dominated the preparations for the meeting, and there has been little discussion of the revolutionary possibilities that an open, dynamic, and free Internet can provide.",
        "不幸的是，关于互联网治理和网络安全等问题的政治争论主宰了会议的准备工作，而对于一个开放的、有活力的、自由的互联网所能带来的革命性影响，却鲜有讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution lies between these two options, and the West – especially Europe – must accept that.",
        "他的解决方案介于这两者之间，西方——特别是欧洲——必须接受它。"
    ],
    [
        "But the situation is far different concerning the safety of prescription drugs.",
        "但是，一想到处方药的安全性，情势就完全不同了。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi is well aware that a case-by-case approach will not address the root causes of widespread corruption.",
        "他心里很清楚，那种就事论事，逐个处理的方式方法，已经无法解决从根本上消除广泛存在的腐败问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Democrats are still widely expected to retake the Senate, though not the House, where they would need to flip an unlikely 30 Republican seats.",
        "目前，人们仍广泛认为民主党将重新入主参议院——尽管众议院仍无法撼动，因为他们需要掀翻30个共和党席位，这是无法完成的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Without food security, individuals can have no chance of achieving social mobility.",
        "没有食物的安全，其他一切的社会流动都无从谈起。"
    ],
    [
        "Both main candidates for German Chancellor are eager to rebuild post-Brexit Europe by strengthening the Franco-German axis – and the start of a French reform process would reassure German voters that their government, by easing EU austerity, would not merely be pouring money into a bottomless pit.",
        "德国的两位主要总理候选人都渴望通过强化法德轴心重塑英国脱欧后的欧洲——而法国启动改革过程将让德国选民放心地相信德国政府放松欧盟紧缩不会是徒劳地填补无底洞。"
    ],
    [
        "Then financial liberalization could proceed with market interest rates remaining at normal levels.",
        "如此一来，金融自由化就可以在保持正常利率水平的情况下推进。"
    ],
    [
        "The French, he alleged, being from a Latin culture, have a more liberal understanding of sexual behavior.",
        "他说，法国人受拉丁文化哺育，对性行为持有更为自由的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "It is senseless for each national government to invest limited resources identically.",
        "各国政府各自为政投入有限资源是无济于事的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is remarkable language, which merits deconstruction.",
        "这些说辞引人注目，值得进行解构。"
    ],
    [
        "That is partly a function of rapidly changing demographics.",
        "这部分是拜人口结构的快速变化所赐。"
    ],
    [
        "Local police stopped them near an army checkpoint.",
        "当地警方在一个军队检查站附近拦住了她们。"
    ],
    [
        "The welfare state is the flip side of the open economy.",
        "福利国家是开放经济的另一面。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, on-the-job training would make the program attractive to workers and to society as a whole.",
        "与此同时，在职培训可能让这一项目对于工人们和社会整体具有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "So, to reduce the trade deficit, households, businesses, and governments must increase their saving – obviously the preferred solution – or invest less.",
        "如果要减少贸易赤字，家庭，企业和政府都必须增加储蓄——这显然是首选解决方案——或是减少投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfit for modern markets, France’s tax system actually stifles the country’s businesses, reflected in a disturbing increase in bankruptcies among small and medium-size companies.",
        "中小型企业破产数量增加的苦恼现状也反映出与现代市场不相适应的法国税务体系正在扼杀本国商业。"
    ],
    [
        "The increase in energy demand has already led to power shortages in the oil-producing countries, which are expected to reduce exports this summer.",
        "不断增加的能源需求已经在某些产油国造成了能源短缺，并可能在今年夏天导致出口量减少。"
    ],
    [
        "If a mere photo and a few identifying details can do that, what might Skyping with the person do?",
        "既然一张照片和些许身份信息就能做到，为何让人们取得联系做不到？"
    ],
    [
        "The NPT is a voluntary agreement.",
        "核不扩散条约是一个自愿加入的协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, in the 2012 documentary The Gatekeepers, six former heads of Shin Bet reflect on the lessons of the past few decades and issue a call for peace with the Palestinians.",
        "类似地，在2012年的纪录片《守门人》（The Gatekeepers）中，六名辛贝特前主管反思了过去几十年中的教训，呼吁与巴勒斯坦实现和平。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea, he insisted, must not allow itself to be used by China.",
        "他坚持认为，朝鲜决不能任由中国摆布。"
    ],
    [
        "In the parliament, a vocal but fragmented minority of critics, cranks, and bigots is likely to push the center-right and center-left groups, which still have a combined majority, to club together even more closely.",
        "在欧洲议会，一群掷地有声但一盘散沙的批评者、怪人和偏执狂少数派可能把中右翼和中左翼团体——他们加起来仍占有多数——推向更紧密的联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposal does not necessarily imply hardship for EU migrants; it simply means that any support they may require over the four-year period is to be financed by their home country.",
        "这一建议未必会给欧盟移民造成困难； 它只是意味着，移民在四年等待期期间的任何支持要求都必须由母国出资。"
    ],
    [
        "Political prisoners from both sides have been released, and a senior Fatah delegation just visited Gaza.",
        "双方均释放了政治犯，法塔赫还派出高级代表团访问了加沙。"
    ],
    [
        "MP’s would have read and analyzed it attentively, asked ministers many questions, and, if necessary, insisted on re-writing various tables presented in the draft.",
        "议员将会对之进行仔细的阅读和分析，询问部长们大量问题，并且在必要的时候会坚持要求改写草案中的各种表格。"
    ],
    [
        "Existing alternatives for diversifying energy production are limited.",
        "能源生产多元化的现有替代方案是有限的。"
    ],
    [
        "So I didn’t ask him any questions.",
        "因此我没有问他任何问题。"
    ],
    [
        "They see economic disintegration all around them, raising the possibility of a further increase in violence.",
        "她们认为经济崩溃随处可见，这让暴力进一步升级的可能性大大增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that as a result of projected increases in demand for goods and services – driven primarily by rising incomes, the growing health-care needs of aging populations, and investment in infrastructure, energy efficiency, and renewables – enough new jobs are likely to be created to offset job losses.",
        "好消息是由于预计商品和服务需求增加——背后的推动力量主要是收入增加、老龄化人口的卫生保健需求增加以及在基础设施、能源效率和可再生能源领域的投资——很可能会创造出足够数量的新工作以弥补原有工作岗位的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that both of these problems cause the official measure of real GDP growth to understate the true growth of the standard of living that real GDP is supposed to indicate.",
        "我相信这两个问题都会导致对实际GDP增长的官方测量低于该指标希望反映的生活水平实际增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was a series of wars in northeast Africa over the Somali nationalist question.",
        "结果，在索马里民族主义问题上，在非洲东北部爆发了一系列的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the engineers and scientists involved in the launch probably put their lives on the line.",
        "事实上，与这次发射相关的工程师和科学家可能已经命悬一线了。"
    ],
    [
        "If such actors obtain nuclear and biological materials, the world will look very different.",
        "如果这样的势力掌握了核武器和生物材料，世界将会发生翻天覆地的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Stifled Celebration",
        "欧洲：被压抑的庆典"
    ],
    [
        "Such transfers were never supposed to be a feature of the Economic and Monetary Union, and it is clearly not within the ECB’s mandate to force fundamental changes to the EMU system – especially if those changes favor one group of countries.",
        "这种转移支付从就不是这一经济和货币联盟的特点，欧洲央行显然也不具备强制推动该联盟根本性变革的职权——尤其是在这些变化只有利于一个国家集团的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "TOLEDO, SPAIN – The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that began three months ago at Annapolis do not suffer from a lack of ideas about how to address the conflict’s core issues.",
        "西班牙托雷多--三个月前在安那波利斯开启的巴以和平会谈并不缺乏对于如何解决双方冲突的核心问题的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "Meeting the challenge of drug-resistant microbes will be difficult. It will require not only major investments in research and development of new anti-microbial drugs, but also a system to control and restrict new treatments, in order to preserve their efficacy.",
        "迎接耐药菌发起的挑战绝非易事，这需要大规模投资研发新的抗菌药，还要为确保药物有效性建立起控制及限制新疗法的医疗制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, all these comparisons are made with how things stood last month rather than with the country’s pre-crisis economic performance.",
        "但当然，所有这些成绩都是与上个月的情况相比，而不是与该国危机前的经济相比较而言的。"
    ],
    [
        "What it did was help to consolidate political power.",
        "它们所做的是巩固政治权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Central Banking Goes Negative",
        "央行奔负"
    ],
    [
        "Higher prices for oil substitutes spur research into other energy technologies - research that is much needed today if we are to tackle the problems of global climate change tomorrow.",
        "高油价替代了研究其它能源科技的激励政策－而如果我们想要避免今后的全球气候变化，这种研究正是目前的当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "Studies with “negative” results are particularly unlikely to see the light of day.",
        "结果不那么令人鼓舞的研究尤其难以得见天日。"
    ],
    [
        "But the current classification of the domains of life is based on the ribosome – the production apparatus of proteins – which does not exist in these viruses.",
        "但目前对生命类别的分类依然基于核糖体——合成蛋白质的场所，但核糖体是不存在于这些病毒中的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, since the industrial revolution, the development of such new urban areas is a central theme in the history of the world.",
        "确实，自从工业革命以来，发展新的城区便是世界历史的中心主题。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, China claims that its intentions toward India are peaceful.",
        "当然，中国宣称其对印度的打算都是和平的。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all banks voluntarily loaded up on distressed government bonds – some were pressured by supervisors, others by governments – but many have made unwise bets.",
        "并非所有的银行都是自愿买入受困国政府债券的——一些是迫于监管者压力，一些是迫于政府要求——但确实有很多银行做出了不明智的投资决策。"
    ],
    [
        "African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilizers heavily.",
        "相较于大量施用化肥的中国农民每公顷四吨的产量，非洲农民每公顷的粮食产量只有约一吨。"
    ],
    [
        "“Abenomics” has several components: aggressive monetary stimulus by the Bank of Japan; a fiscal stimulus this year to jump start demand, followed by fiscal austerity in 2014 to rein in deficits and debt; a push to increase nominal wages to boost domestic demand; structural reforms to deregulate the economy; and new free-trade agreements – starting with the Trans-Pacific Partnership – to boost trade and productivity.",
        "“安倍经济学”包括数个部分：日本银行的激进货币刺激、今年施以提振需求的财政刺激然后在2014年施以抑制赤字和债务的财政紧缩、推进名义工资增长以提振内需、结构性改革以减少对经济的监管，以及提振贸易和生产率的新自由贸易协定——首先便是跨大西洋合作伙伴协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Academic research points to all three.",
        "对此学术研究认为：这三点都可能存在。"
    ],
    [
        "As an American, I am appalled, ashamed, and embarrassed by my country’s lack of leadership in dealing with global warming.",
        "作为美国人，我对我们国家在处理全球气候变暖问题上缺乏领导作用感到惊讶、羞愧以及尴尬。"
    ],
    [
        "Even before the Ukraine conflict began in 2014, there were growing signs of a brewing confrontation between rival blocs.",
        "即使在2014年乌克兰冲突爆发前，也已经有越来越多的信号表明对立阵营之间正在酝酿冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "This, too, fits strongly with the spirit in which Ban has approached his new position.",
        "这与潘基文对自己新职务的态度不谋而合。"
    ],
    [
        "Overcoming Puerto Rico’s crisis will require restoring growth, implementing a sustainable fiscal policy, and debt restructuring.",
        "克服波多黎各的危机需要恢复经济增长，实现可持续的财政政策，以及进行债务重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Although social unrest did not emerge, a prolonged period of moribund equity prices did, even as the economy continued to grow rapidly.",
        "虽然社会动荡并没有出现，但即使经济持续快速增长，股票价格依然长期停滞不前。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Jacek Rostowski, Poland’s finance minister until last November, recently suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have dared to annex Crimea if he had not observed Europe agonizing over a solution to the euro crisis.",
        "巴黎—去年11月份卸任的亚采克·罗斯托夫斯基（Jacek Rostowski）最近指出，要不是俄罗斯总统普京看到欧洲因为寻找欧元危机解决办法而焦头烂额，他是不敢吞并克里米亚的。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the role of technological innovation, much of which is youth-led, even a small reorientation of policies could have a meaningful and rapid impact on the economy.",
        "鉴于技术创新主要由年轻人主导，就连细微的政策调整也能对经济产生迅速、积极的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The Forum succeeded in this effort, and a fresh and reassuring message on the impact of radiation was made public in September.",
        "9月份则发表了一份有关辐射影响的全新和令人安慰的报告。 通过以下联接可以找到这份报告的通俗易懂的摘要：http://www."
    ],
    [
        "My colleagues and I, serving on an advisory committee for the Spanish initiative, have recommended that donors pool their funds into a single international account, which we call the Financial Coordination Mechanism (FCM).",
        "作为西班牙政府此项计划的顾问委员会成员，我和我的同事们建议捐助方将他们的资金集中到同一个被我们称为“融资协调机制(FCM)”的国际账户。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, determined and decisive policies must be taken against extremists.",
        "与此同时，必须对极端分子采取坚决果断的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "For long-term results, capture is almost always more effective than killing.",
        "要想取得长期的效果，抓捕几乎总比杀死更为有效。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration seems to have assumed in its approach to post-Saddam Iraq that both democracy and a market economy were default conditions to which societies would revert once oppressive tyranny was removed, rather than a series of complex, interdependent institutions that had to be painstakingly built over time.",
        "布什政府看起来在后萨达姆时代的伊拉克的对策上假定，一旦压制专制被铲除，社会就会转变到民主和市场经济默认条件之中，而不是一系列长时间费尽周折所建立起来的复杂、相互依赖的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "I detest the implicit notion behind so much of our commentary that the Arabs or, even worse, the people of Islam, are unable to understand what a free society looks like, that they cannot be trusted with something so modern as a polity where religion is in its proper place.",
        "他们清楚不该在专制和政教合一之间做出选择。 我厌恶我们众多评论背后所隐含的潜台词，即阿拉伯人、甚至伊斯兰人根本无法理解自由社会，我们不相信他们能够接受赋予宗教恰当地位的现代化政治制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the speculative-inflow scenario will play out, but in slow motion.",
        "或许投机性资金涌入的情况最终会发生，只不过较慢而已。"
    ],
    [
        "But my organization won’t be declaring victory when the new report comes out.",
        "但我所在机构不会在新报告发表时庆祝胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew made such an argument in a recent congressional testimony, in the context of explaining why the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) should be allowed to consider whether any kind of firm or activity could pose a risk to the broader system.",
        "美国财政部长杰克·卢（Jack Lew）在最近的国会听证中表示了这一担忧，并解释了为何应该让金融稳定监督委员会（Financial Stability Oversight Council，简称SFOC）考虑某个企业或某种活动是否可能给整个体系造成风险。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet there is considerable reason to hope not only for formal handshakes and bilateral meetings among Northeast Asia’s “Big Three” leaders, but also for substantive discussions aimed at lowering tensions in the region.",
        "但也有很强的理由期待东北亚“三大”领导人之间不但会有正式的握手和双边会晤，还会有旨在缓和地区紧张局势的重要对话。"
    ],
    [
        "The deterioration of Ukraine’s situation is accelerating.",
        "乌克兰局势的恶化正在加速。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who argue that suicide bombers express understandable grudges have themselves sold out their freedom.",
        "那些声称自杀性袭击者表达不满的方式可以理解的人自己就出卖了自己的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese understand the game being played.",
        "中国明白游戏正在进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of entrusting America with the arduous task of safeguarding international stability on its own, the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) will assume a more prominent role in policing their own backyards.",
        "金砖四国（巴西，俄罗斯，印度和中国）将在管理本国的势力范围内发挥更明显的作用，而不是将维护国际稳定的艰巨任务托给美国一家。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a democracy that has been at peace for 70 years, with a stable society and a high standard of living.",
        "日本是和平建设长达70年的民主政体，拥有稳定的社会和高水平的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, November’s Third Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee will show whether China is serious about reforms aimed at shifting from investment-led to consumption-led growth.",
        "在中国，11月的中共十八大三中全会将表明中国是否会认真实施旨在将经济从投资拉动转向消费拉动增长的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "WARSAW – The global economy’s glory days are surely over.",
        "华沙—世界经济的光荣岁月毫无疑问已经结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "Its rapidly expanding Internet community has repeatedly raised national awareness of tough local issues.",
        "该国迅速扩大的互联网社区使得民众对重大区域性事件的关注度迅速提升。"
    ],
    [
        "This sentiment does not appear to be mitigated much by a recognition of the complexity of the challenge of maintaining incentives and dynamism while addressing rising inequality (which, at its most extreme, undermines equality of opportunity and intergenerational mobility).",
        "这一情绪并没有因为人们认识到在维持激励和活力的同时解决不平等性加剧的挑战的复杂性而降低多少。 （在极端情形中，这一挑战破坏机会平等和代际流动。"
    ],
    [
        "If ExxonMobil persists in its dangerous business strategy, the company’s investors should quickly conclude that the time has come to pull up stakes and move on.",
        "如果埃克森美孚坚持其危险的商业战略，该公司投资者应该迅速下决心抛售股份，转投其他公司。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, we could have handled that confrontation better.",
        "平心而论，我们本可以更好地处理这一冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "One would expect that the shock from the financial crisis should be comparable for the United States and the eurozone, given that they are of similar size, exhibit a similar degree of internal diversity, and experienced a similar increase in house prices (on average) in the years preceding the bust.",
        "人们会预期说金融危机对美国和欧元区的冲击是有可比性的，因为两地国土面积近似，内部差异性程度相近，在泡沫爆发前那些年的住宅价格上升幅度（平均算来）差不多。"
    ],
    [
        "It remains to be seen whether it can effectively restore some monetary-policy influence.",
        "但该措施能够有效地恢复某些货币政策的影响力，还需继续观察。"
    ],
    [
        "For carriers of the C/C variant (which occurs in roughly 20% of the population), the risk of psychosis increased seven-fold – but only for the people who used cannabis every day.",
        "对C/C变体的携带者来说（大约占总人口的20%），精神病风险会提高七倍——但只局限于每天使用大麻者。"
    ],
    [
        "STOCKHOLM – Particle emissions into Earth’s atmosphere affect both human health and the climate.",
        "斯德哥尔摩——进入地球大气层的颗粒物排放会影响气候和人类的健康。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Trump rarely misses an opportunity to refer to Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, without attaching the prefix “Crooked.”",
        "类似地，特朗普在提及推定民主党提名人希拉里·克林顿时也不会错过加上“不诚实的”前缀的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The Olympics’ Lesser Gods",
        "奥利匹克山上的小恶神"
    ],
    [
        "There is always a risk that our arguments will be hijacked in the public debate by those with whom we disagree.",
        "我们的观点被我们所反对的人在公共辩论中劫持，这样的风险永远存在。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not that Abe’s 2012 campaign lacked ambition; he set out a bold economic-reform agenda and promised to boost Japan’s global influence.",
        "这并不是说2012年安倍竞选缺少雄心壮志； 他制定了大胆的经济改革计划，并承诺提升日本的全球影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Technology Kill Convergence?",
        "技术会扼杀趋同吗？"
    ],
    [
        "And the digital revolution is disrupting entire industries in ways that could benefit the planet.",
        "数字革命正在以能为地球造福的方式对整个产业链进行重构。"
    ],
    [
        "Civil-society organizations were not so complacent, using the courts, the media, and civil disobedience to lobby for change.",
        "但民间社会组织并没有这样自以为是，他们利用法院、媒体和公民非暴力反抗组织来争取改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from having too much math, economists need more, in order to “keep the logic straight.”",
        "反而会购买政府新发行的债券，从而使得政府的救助政策失灵。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Combined with sweeping government benefit policies that classify millions of people living in Chernobyl-affected areas as invalids, such myths encouraged fatalistic and passive behaviors and created a “culture of dependency” among affected communities.",
        "政府大幅度提供福利政策给那些被规划为残疾人的生活在受到切尔诺贝利影响地区的数百万人，这些谎言鼓励了宿命主义和悲观行为，并且在受到影响的社区中产生了“依附文化”。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, and most important, Europe and the world have no better alternative.",
        "最后也是最重要的是，欧洲和世界找不到更好的替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, the issue was Hasina’s treatment of the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the microcredit pioneer and founder of the Grameen Bank.",
        "这次的焦点在于哈西娜如何对待诺贝尔奖得主穆罕默德·尤努斯，尤努斯是小额信贷的先驱和孟加拉乡村银行的创始人。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as in war, crises fundamentally disrupt the status quo, which means that they create an opportunity – without war’s destructive force – for change that in normal times is hardly possible.",
        "正如战争那样，危机彻底打破了现状，这意味着新的改革机会得以产生——却不具备战争的那种破坏性——而这些机会在平时是很难有机会出现的。"
    ],
    [
        "This was a true parliamentary revolution.",
        "这是一场真正的议会革命。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if the euro crisis is resolved, austerity in Europe, along with anemic growth or worse in the US, will mean a slowdown in export-dependent Asia.",
        "即使欧元危机得到了解决，欧洲的紧缩和美国的疲软仍意味着依赖出口的亚洲会减速。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that our decision on where to draw the poverty line probably will influence not just the World Bank’s mission but also the development agenda of the UN and all countries around the world.",
        "这意味着我们决定将贫困线画在哪里可能不但会影响世界银行的使命，也会影响联合国及世界全体国家的发展日程。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2015, these two powerful industries, and the world as a whole, can start to put things right.",
        "2015年，这两个强大的行业以及全世界整体可以开始纠错了。"
    ],
    [
        "Young people, women, and minorities are under-represented in his coalition.",
        "年轻人、女性和少数族裔在对他的阵营中代表不多。"
    ],
    [
        "The operation of European institutions – the European Central Bank, the European Commission, and the Stability Pact – is facing severe criticism, but not in the name of a nostalgia for national sovereignty.",
        "欧盟机制的运作，包括欧洲央行、欧盟委员会以及稳定和增长公约等面临严重的批评，但是这些批评并非是以对于国家主权的怀旧的名义进行的。"
    ],
    [
        "They note that the enormous expansion of commercial banks’ reserves has not led to a comparable increase in the supply of money and credit.",
        "他们指出，商业银行准备金的大幅扩张并没有导致相应规模的货币供给和信用增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Austria’s concern is that as long as nuclear weapons exist, the risk of their use exists, either by accident or design.",
        "奥地利认为只要核武器依然存在，因巧合或故意而使用核武器的危险就没有消除。"
    ],
    [
        "Morawiecki has now been sworn in as prime minister, succeeding Beata Szydło, under whose premiership the PiS enjoyed higher favorability – reaching 47% in October – than at any other time in its history.",
        "莫拉维茨基现已宣誓接替贝亚塔·希德沃出任总理一职，在希德沃就任总理期间，法律与正义党一直享受着高规格待遇——10月在民意调查中的受欢迎程度达到47%——是该党有史以来的最高值。"
    ],
    [
        "Religion’s largest growth is in China.",
        "宗教人口的最大增长其实发生在中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the financial world a safer place today?",
        "如今，三年过去了，金融业变得安全了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "A Greek exit may serve as a warning to countries like Spain, Italy, and France, where strong anti-Europe or anti-establishment parties are on the rise.",
        "希腊的退出之举可能会对西班牙、意大利和法国这样的国家起到警示作用，在这些国家，强烈反欧洲反建制的呼声正在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "They show the power of partnerships that bring together the United Nations, governments, development agencies, civil society, foundations, and the private sector.",
        "它们证明了把联合国、政府、发展机构、公民社会、基金会和私人部门联系在一起的合作的力量有多大。"
    ],
    [
        "From the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, Trump likes to reverse past policies, without devising anything to replace them.",
        "从平价医疗法（奥巴马医保）到暂缓遣返青少年（DACA）政策，特朗普想要扭转过去的政策，但没有拿出任何取而代之的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "It is probably too early to say with certainty that India will soon take its place as the world's third largest economy, behind China and the United States.",
        "笃定地认为印度很快就会成为仅次于中国和美国的世界第三大经济体可能还为时尚早。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are also plenty of bad actors “gaming” online information systems to promote extreme views and inaccurate information, lending them the appearance of mainstream popularity and acceptance.",
        "但同时存在大量的不良机器人“欺骗”在线信息系统宣传极端观点和不准确信息，并将其装扮成主流民意借以欺骗用户。"
    ],
    [
        "Is this too much to ask?",
        "那么这算是个过分的要求吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In Sudan, China supported a UN Security Council resolution establishing an international operation and committed 315 engineers to the UN-African Union force.",
        "在苏丹，中国支持联合国安理会进行国际行动的决议并向联合国－非盟军队派出了315名工程师。"
    ],
    [
        "Anchoring its currency to the dollar, the Chinese built up a huge stake in US Treasuries, which helped America fund record budget deficits.",
        "中国则将货币盯住美元，囤积了巨量美国国债，这让美国得以为其创纪录的预算赤字融资。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as the 2008-2009 crisis demonstrated, merely cleaning up after the bubbles burst is very costly and inefficient.",
        "2008—2009年危机表明，仅仅在泡沫破裂后收拾局面事倍功半。"
    ],
    [
        "For me, the choice is simple – and not only because I am, by temperament and history, a Democrat.",
        "对于我而言，选择非常简单——这不光是因为我从天性和历史上看都是个不折不扣的民主党。"
    ],
    [
        "The Pandora’s Box of the Digital Age",
        "数字时代的潘多拉魔盒"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the downside risk to this scenario lies in the systemically important economies of Europe, the US, and China.",
        "这一情境中的大部分下滑风险都存在于欧洲，美国和中国等系统性重要的经济体内部。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, a new generation of educated and ethical entrepreneurs, like those I met in Senegal, is emerging across Africa, demonstrating a profound commitment to building a stronger Africa.",
        "就像我在塞内加尔所遇到的那样，非洲各地正在涌现新一代受过教育且讲道德的企业家，体现了建设更强大非洲的深远的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, in facing the difficult adjustment challenges that lie ahead, China’s $3.6 trillion in foreign-currency reserves can serve as a buffer against unavoidable losses.",
        "幸运的是，在面临前方艰巨的调整挑战时，中国3. 6万亿美元的外汇储备可以作为不可避免的损失的缓冲垫。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is Missing in Action in Afghanistan",
        "欧盟在阿富汗碌碌无为"
    ],
    [
        "The same can be said of the approximately 450 nuclear reactors around the world.",
        "同样的道理也适用于全世界大约450个核反应堆。"
    ],
    [
        "With an offline population of more than 1.4 billion people, these countries had an average Internet penetration rate of 19% in 2013.",
        "上述国家未联网人口超过14亿，2013年平均互联网普及率为19%。"
    ],
    [
        "Some estimates put the Internet’s economic contribution to global GDP as high as $4.2 trillion in 2016.",
        "有人估计2016年互联网对全球GDP的经济贡献高达4. 2万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "ZURICH – Eighty-five years ago this month, Credit-Anstalt, by far the largest bank in Austria, collapsed.",
        "发自苏黎世——八十五年前的五月，Credi Anstalt这个当时奥地利最大的银行宣告破产。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the crisis should have served as a wake-up call, spurring the financial sector, policymakers, and multilateral organizations to take action to enhance systemic stability.",
        "从这个角度讲，此次危机本应成为警世钟，促使金融业、决策者和多边机构采取行动强化系统稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, it should clearly communicate that the issue is proliferation, not the nature of the Iranian regime.",
        "其次，它必须清楚的表明问题在于（核）扩散，而不是伊朗政权的性质。"
    ],
    [
        "But Russia’s self-destructive confrontation with the West can be halted, and its centuries-old debate between Westernizers and the Slavophiles put to rest once and for all.",
        "但是俄罗斯的自我毁灭式的和西方的对抗可以停止，并且它的在亲西方和亲斯拉夫派之间的争论也可以彻底的告一段落。"
    ],
    [
        "So, does the collapse in gold prices – from a peak of $1,900 per ounce in August 2011 to under $1,250 at the beginning of July 2013 – represent a vote of confidence in the global economy?",
        "那么，黄金价格的跳水——从2011年8月的1,900美元/盎司跌到2013年7月初的1,250美元/盎司——就代表着人们对全球经济投下了信任票吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Just why the Islamic State decided to stage its attacks now is a matter for conjecture; it may well be that it is going global to compensate for its recent loss of territory in Iraq.",
        "伊斯兰国为什么要组织袭击现在仍停留在猜测阶段； 很有可能是因为它因为最近在伊拉克丧失领土而追求全球报复。"
    ],
    [
        "If, for example, America offers support to Iranian students who are genuinely striving for greater freedom, they are now more likely to be endangered by US support, as the regime’s hardliners are strengthened.",
        "举例来讲，如果美国给真心争取自由的伊朗学生提供支持，可能反而会给他们带来麻烦，因为美国的支持会增强政府内部强硬派的势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Barack Obama’s Missing Freedom Agenda",
        "巴拉克·奥巴马错失的自由议程"
    ],
    [
        "The organic waste is processed in a fermentation plant, producing compost and methane, which is used to produce electricity in a 25-megawatt power plant.",
        "有机废物进入发酵厂处理产出堆肥和甲烷，再输送到一座25兆瓦的发电厂生产电力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for lower-income countries, significant progress toward establishing strong health-care systems would be virtually impossible without support from a sustainable international fund.",
        "但对于低收入国家来讲，如果没有国际基金的长期协助，建立强效医疗卫生系统几乎是不可能完成的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in order to create a level playing field, it is essential to recognize that the Arab League (which has already given Syria’s seat to the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled SNC) represents the autocratic states that are encouraging sectarianism and extremism in Syria.",
        "为了创造公平的竞争环境，认识到阿盟（已将叙利亚的成员资格给了穆斯林兄弟会控制的SNC）代表鼓励叙利亚宗派主义和极端主义的专制国家是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "This could be added to the amount of long-term bonds issued to support asylum-seekers in Europe.",
        "这些资金不包括为支持欧洲寻求庇护者而发行的长期债券。"
    ],
    [
        "The development of TB chemotherapy from the 1940’s through the 1970’s transformed the once deadly “white plague” into a curable disease.",
        "20世纪40年代到70年代结核病化学疗法的发明将曾几何时的“白色瘟疫”转变成了可以根治的疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "The meaning of these words became clear with the subsequent announcement of the ECB’s “outright monetary transactions” (OMT) scheme, under which it would purchase short-term government bonds issued by countries benefiting from the European rescue fund’s conditional support.",
        "”这句话意味着什么呢？ 随后欧洲央行宣布实施“直接货币交易”（OMT）说明了一切，在OMT计划下，欧洲央行将买入由从欧洲援助基金有条件支持中获益的国家发行的短期政府债券。"
    ],
    [
        "People can decide when to stop consuming or what they want to consume.",
        "人们能够决定什么时候停止消费或者他们希望消费什么商品。"
    ],
    [
        "Arguably, joining a terrorist organization hostile to the US is even worse than joining a foreign army, because terrorist organizations are more likely to target civilians.",
        "可以指出的是，参加与美国敌对的恐怖组织比加入外国军队还要糟糕，因为恐怖组织更有可能针对平民。"
    ],
    [
        "Communism had left Poland politically and economically bankrupt.",
        "共产主义已经让波兰的政治经济陷入破产的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is hard to be confident.",
        "但形势让人很难有信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Al Jazeera has no shortage of enemies, from the most radical Islamic fundamentalists to American and Israeli intelligence gatherers.",
        "“半岛电视台”不乏敌人，从最极端的伊斯兰原教旨主义份子到美以情报搜集者。"
    ],
    [
        "But they carry powerful implications that clash with the received wisdom of globalization’s advocates. One such implication is the right of individual countries to safeguard their domestic institutional choices.",
        "但其深层内涵却与全球化倡导者的普遍信念相背离，其中之一是各国捍卫其国内制度选择的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "ATHENS – On July 12, the summit of eurozone leaders dictated its terms of surrender to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who, terrified by the alternatives, accepted all of them.",
        "雅典—7月22日，欧元区领导人峰会向希腊总理齐普拉斯宣布了投降条件。 因走投无路而惊慌失措的齐普拉斯全盘接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Tax and other incentives to encourage more business investment in workforce training, especially by small and medium-size companies, may be necessary.",
        "鼓励更多企业（尤其是中小型企业）对劳动力培训投资的税收和其他激励机制可能是必须的。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, the world is headed backward, as once-treatable microbes become resistant to existing therapies, and new infections for which there are no effective interventions continue to arise.",
        "从某种程度上说，世界正在倒退，因为一些曾经可治的微生物对现有疗法产生了抗药性，而没有有效干预手段的感染仍在继续产生。"
    ],
    [
        "It will become safer still in the coming years, provided that governments, plant operators, and regulators do not drop their guard.",
        "在未来几年中，只要政府、核电站运营商和监管者做好自己的工作，核电的安全性将继续提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Israeli leaders are unable to summon the statesmanship required to manage the strategic readjustment occurring in the region.",
        "不幸的是，以色列领导人无法拿出处理中东地区所发生的战略再调整的政治才能。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, the process of selecting the right candidate has reflected rivalries among countries and popularity contests played out among governments, NGOs, and the media.",
        "在过去，选择合适候选人的过程反映了各国之间的竞争以及哪些人在各国政府，非政府组织和媒体眼中最受欢迎的拉票角逐。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq has been partitioned in all but name into Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish regions, while Libya seems headed toward a similar tripartite, tribal-based territorial arrangement.",
        "伊拉克除名义外已分成什叶、逊尼和库尔德三块区域，而利比亚似乎也正走向类似的三方部落领土安排。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite these positive developments, quotas alone will not achieve parity.",
        "尽管事态出现了这些积极的进展，但单纯依靠配额仍无法达到平等的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON -- Opinions about Vladimir Putin run the gamut.",
        "对于普京各方看法迥然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The Asian Paradox",
        "亚洲悖论"
    ],
    [
        "In October 2000, Sharm el-Sheikh was the scene of another summit, with most of the same actors.",
        "2000年的10月，沙姆沙伊赫迎来了又一场峰会，与会者绝大多数还是上次的那些人。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not want to prosecute the Guantánamo detainees in federal courts, but it is unlikely that it can prosecute them under the law of war as interpreted in the Hamdan decision.",
        "它不愿意在联邦法院起诉关押关塔那摩未在押犯，但是，它也不可能按照哈姆丹判决中对战争法的解释根据战争法来起诉他们。"
    ],
    [
        "His sentiment seems more apt than ever nowadays, but not because humanity has turned pacifistic.",
        "” 他的这种感觉比以往任何时候都更正确，但却不是因为人类比以往更加向往和平。"
    ],
    [
        "While the asymmetrical impact of the ECB’s policy is appropriate in principle (because unemployment is much higher in the periphery), the reality is that a recovery supported by the least solvent economies is not sustainable.",
        "但虽然欧洲央行政策的不对称影响在原则上是合理的（因为外围国家的失业率要高得多），无奈现实告诉我们，仅靠那些个麻烦最大的国家是无法可持续支撑经济复苏的。"
    ],
    [
        "But no matter how loud they raised their voices – either alone or collectively – they were disparaged as ignorant or dismissed as serial complainers.",
        "但无论以个人或集体名义的投诉如何激烈——均被斥之为无知或恶意抱怨而无人理睬。"
    ],
    [
        "The addition of the renminbi as a possible reserve option would free today’s lame ducks from their forced marriage.",
        "把人民币列为一种储备选项，可以把今天的跛鸭从它们被迫的联姻中解脱出来。"
    ],
    [
        "President George W. Bush’s declaration of “mission accomplished” in Iraq five years ago was as hubristic as his current assessment that the “surge” has “delivered a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror” is a fantasy.",
        "五年前，布什总统宣布伊拉克战争“使命胜利完成”时过于狂妄。 现在，他评价说“增兵”已经“在更为广泛的反恐战争中赢得了一场重要战略胜利”则是胡言乱语。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike their neighbors in Egypt, Libyans are not clamoring for the elections deemed by many Westerners to be of paramount importance.",
        "不同于邻国埃及，利比亚民众对很多西方人视为最重要的选举并不热衷。"
    ],
    [
        "As these structures lost popularity on Wall Street, however, they gained popularity on the other side of the Atlantic.",
        "这项业务在华尔街失宠的同时，却在大西洋彼岸迅速普及。"
    ],
    [
        "In Chile, it is less than 2%.",
        "在智利，这一比例不到2%。"
    ],
    [
        "These sites will rely on a new technique that allows tiny samples of key organs, such as the liver or lungs, to be extracted with a needle, causing minimal damage to the body of a deceased child.",
        "这些站点将依靠新技术，只需要用针头采集微量的关键器官（如肝脏和肺脏）样本，对死亡儿童的尸体伤害降到了最低。"
    ],
    [
        "But much of the onus for inclusion will remain on financial institutions.",
        "但金融机构仍将承担扩大金融服务的大部分职责。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump assumed office promising to “drain the swamp” in Washington, DC.",
        "特朗普带着要“清理华盛顿的沼泽”的承诺入主白宫。"
    ],
    [
        "Many successful businessmen are putting some of their wealth into foundations that run schools and colleges.",
        "许多成功的商人则拿出钱来投入到那些运作学校和学院的基金会中。"
    ],
    [
        "While all of them could be beneficial in some respects, they also have features that, if left unchecked, could lead to dystopian outcomes.",
        "从不同角度看，这三种情景都有有利的一面，但如果不仔细检视，也都可能导致反乌托邦结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider, for example, the real possibility that a large indebted financial institution faces a run on its deposits, as Lehman did, and starts dumping loans onto the market.",
        "例如，想象一下一家大型负债金融机构像雷曼兄弟那样面临挤兑存款，并开始向市场倾销贷款的现实可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "But the contraction will be primarily because of declining exports, a large portion of which consists of investment goods, as well as the drop in domestic equipment investment.",
        "但是这一萎缩主要将会由于出口和国内设备投资下降而造成，而德国出口的一大部分包括投资设备。"
    ],
    [
        "If they are right, Boko Haram will continue to thrive.",
        "如果他们是对的，博科圣地组织将继续繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "To manage exorbitant demand for financial and physical assets, China’s leaders must address its root cause: the low cost of capital.",
        "要消除对金融及实物资产的过度需求，中国领导人必须解决其根本问题，即资本的价格太低。"
    ],
    [
        "Krugman’s answer is typically ingenious: the old macroeconomics was, as the saying goes, “good enough for government work.” It prevented another Great Depression.",
        "克鲁格曼的答案果然极为巧妙：正如大家所认定的那样，旧有的宏观经济学“对政府工作来说已经足够了”，也阻止了另一场大萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "And so, as Muslims were intellectually regressing, Europeans began their renaissance, developing improved ways of meeting their needs, including the manufacture of weapons that eventually allowed them to dominate the world.",
        "于是，在穆斯林世界理性衰退的同时，欧洲人开始了文艺复兴，发展出更好的办法来满足自己的需要，包括武器的制造，并最终凭借这些成就支配了整个世界。"
    ],
    [
        "But 1914 is not the only possible or attractive point of comparison in interpreting Britain’s past.",
        "但对于解读英国的过去来说，1914年并非唯一可行的或具有吸引力的比较点。"
    ],
    [
        "Beginning with Japan, every rapidly growing East Asian economy sustained investment rates in the range of 38-40% of GDP over its rapid-growth phase.",
        "从日本开始，所有高速增长的东亚经济体都在其高速增长阶段将投资率维持在GDP的38—40%。"
    ],
    [
        "History teaches us that rising powers inevitably compete with status quo leading powers, and that this conflict often leads to war.",
        "历史告诉我们崛起中的大国不可避免地会与目前处于统治的地位的大国出现竞争，而这种冲突往往会导致战争的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than parse killers’ motives, we better affirm our own values by denying that any reasons could ever justify such acts.",
        "与其分析凶手的动机，我们还不如肯定自己的价值观，否认有任何理由能够证明这种行为的合理性。"
    ],
    [
        "Although an Atlantic Monetary Union (between the US and the EU) is a long-term prospect, it should be considered as a grand design for the future.",
        "虽然大西洋货币联盟（美国和欧盟之间的联盟）是一个长期以来的期望，然而，它仅可以作为一个未来的宏大蓝图来考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "More likely than not, sovereign debtors will have to interact with the same creditors and international actors again.",
        "更有可能的情况是，主权债务人必须再次与同样的债权人和国际行动方打交道。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, there are few celebrity campaigners calling on politicians to sort out the Doha Round.",
        "然而即便如此，也甚少有名流活动家呼吁政客们让多哈回合善始善终。"
    ],
    [
        "If not addressed through direct measures, all of Asia will suffer.",
        "如果不采取直接有效的措施，那么这个问题将殃及整个亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "But such groups still have powerful lures at their disposal.",
        "但这些组织仍然有强大的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "That fight will be intense.",
        "针对这项权利的斗争将会异常激烈。"
    ],
    [
        "On the question of what caused the crash, the debate is more even.",
        "在谈到是什么导致市场崩盘这个问题上，双方打了个平手。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout this period, McKinnon argued that, by forcing America’s trade partners to bear the burden of adjustment, the dollar’s predominance leads to “conflicted virtue”: surplus countries like Japan, Germany, and China faced pressure to strengthen their currencies, at the risk of triggering deflation.",
        "在此期间，麦金农指出，通过强迫贸易伙伴承担调整负担，美元的主宰地位导致了“品德矛盾”（conflicted virtue）：日本、德国和中国等贸易盈余国面临货币升值的压力和触发通缩的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, there are highly de-centralized ethics committees with varied qualities to protect human subjects.",
        "例如，极为松散的不同伦理委员会保护人体实验对象。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to empower individuals and communities, as it creates new opportunities for economic, social, and personal development.",
        "第四次工业革命可能让个体和社区获得强大的力量，因为它开创了经济、社会和个人发展的新机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The other supply-side measures will have to be taken by governments.",
        "另一个供给端措施必须由政府实施。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, foreign companies will have an incentive to shift their headquarters to the US, where they could enjoy the advantages of being a US corporation without incurring the current tax penalty.",
        "与此同时，外国公司也将有机会将总部转移到美国，在美国，他们既可以享受美国公司的优势，又不会遭到目前的税收惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they have huge potential for productivity gains, which would strengthen global economic growth, and massive demand for sustainable infrastructure to reduce resource depletion and address global warming.",
        "这些新兴经济体的高增长可以激活庞大的需求并强化全球经济增长，特别是通过在当地建设旨在减少全球资源消耗和应对全球变暖的可持续基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Their approach, a concept called “Air-Sea Battle,” implies a mix of defensive and offensive tools to address the new challenges posed by the proliferation of precision-strike weaponry.",
        "他们的方针——所谓的“空海战”（Air-Sea Battle）概念——需要结合进攻和防御力量解决精确打击武器扩散带来的新挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "And similar calculations for the 30-year Treasury bond show even longer and more anomalous expectations of continued depression.",
        "以30年期国债为基础做类似的计算则指向时间更长、幅度更深的萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "They are spoon-fed models of the economy, based on unreal assumptions, and tested on their competence in solving mathematical equations.",
        "他们学习精美的经济模型，基于不现实的假设，考的是他们解数学方程式的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "These reactions are a reminder that the biggest changes that the Security Council needs are to the mindset of its permanent members.",
        "上述举措提醒人们安理会最需要改变的是其常任理事国的心态。 他们必须记住面临的全球责任多么艰巨；"
    ],
    [
        "The earthy case, seldom made clearly in polite company, was that the countries in southern Europe spent too much, taxed too little, and thus borrowed in excess.",
        "从俗案角度讲——很少以礼貌的方式争论——问题在于南欧国家支出太多、征税太少，因此借贷过度。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while France faces huge economic challenges, its northern and southern features permit it to play a proactive role in the European project’s survival.",
        "因此，尽管法国面临着巨大的经济挑战，但南北欧特征兼备让它可以在拯救欧洲工程的行动中处于主动地位。"
    ],
    [
        "It is tempting for politicians and analysts to overplay simple narratives that place the blame entirely on one side or the other.",
        "政客和分析家容易过度简化论点，把责任完全推到一边或另一边。"
    ],
    [
        "One night in December 2015, a local group of Islamist extremists petrol-bombed Shabbir’s neighbor’s home and waited outside for the fleeing family.",
        "2015年12月的一个晚上，一群地方伊斯兰极端分子用汽油弹袭击了沙比尔邻居的家，等着房子里面的人跑出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Five Shocks",
        "德国受到的五次冲击"
    ],
    [
        "But here, his record is weak, and his pronouncements only exacerbate the problem by increasing Iran’s isolation from the global economy.",
        "但是在这一领域，他乏善可陈，其豪言只会通过伊朗不断孤立于全球经济而加剧问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The nationalist government that followed, which established the Republic of China, also failed to address the tension between centralization and fragmentation – what the macro-historian Ray Huang called China’s “mathematical unmanageability.”",
        "随后成立的中华民国国民政府同样未能缓和中央集权和地方分治之间的矛盾——这就是宏观历史学家黄仁宇（Ray Huang）所谓的中国无法实现“数目字管理”。"
    ],
    [
        "Never before have I been at a conference that was taken so seriously by a national government.",
        "此前我还从未参加过受到国家政府如此重视的会议。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, there must be dollar depreciation to keep global imbalances in check.",
        "简而言之，必须要通过美元贬值来防止全球性的不平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Who then will stop their advance towards Russia’s southern borders from Afghanistan and Central Asia?",
        "到那时候谁来阻止他们越过俄罗斯南面的边界向阿富汗和中亚挺进？"
    ],
    [
        "But they can strive to shape a more cooperative future.",
        "但他们可以致力于构建更加合作的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "NATO has created a Comprehensive Crisis and Operations Management Center that brings together civilian and military expertise on crisis identification, planning, operations, reconstruction, and stabilization capabilities in ways that are explicitly designed to connect NATO headquarters in Europe to “the networked world.”",
        "北约已经建立了综合危机和行动管理中心，汇集了民用和军事领域的危机识别、策划、行动、重建和稳定能力，目的是在欧洲的北约总部和“联网世界”之间加强联系。"
    ],
    [
        "By allowing the private sector to flourish, and encouraging the shift toward a services-oriented economy, China’s government could bolster employment growth and, in turn, domestic consumption.",
        "通过允许私营企业蓬勃发展，并鼓励向以服务为导向的经济结构转变，中国政府可能会加强就业增长，继而增加国内消费。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the behavior her startup looks for is not purchasing behavior (like so many “social” tools), but actual social behavior.",
        "换句话说，她的创业公司的所寻找的行为并不是购买行为（如同各种“社交”工具那样），而是实际社交行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, China continues to regard North Korea as an important strategic asset, because it serves as a buffer state shielding China’s border from American troops on the peninsula – which has historically been used as an entry point by invading troops.",
        "尽管如此，中国仍将朝鲜视为重要的战略资产，因为朝鲜是防止中国边境遭受美军入侵的缓冲国——过去美军曾利用朝鲜半岛来入侵中国。"
    ],
    [
        "They come from Iran’s complex post-revolutionary institutional architecture, which is beset by a labyrinth of decision-making entities interlaced with yet more bodies and agencies created to ensure compliance with Islamic tenets and revolutionary standards.",
        "这些挑战来自伊朗复杂的后革命时代制度结构，决策实体叠床架屋，更有各式各样的机构和部门确保它们符合伊斯兰教义和革命标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Green energy, especially wind, can indeed help African countries, for example, get some electricity to remote, rural areas; but the grid will do the most good for the most people.",
        "绿色能源，特别是风能，的确可以帮助非洲国家，例如为边远地区提供一些电力； 而电网将使大多数人受益。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to use these lessons to develop a cooperative strategy that will finally enable Greece to make real progress toward a more stable future.",
        "如今，应该利用这些教训发展合作战略，最终让希腊朝更稳定的未来迈出真正的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Evsey Domar, a legendary growth economist (and one of my MIT professors) counseled that the problem of alleviating the debt burden is essentially a problem of achieving growth in national income.",
        "杰出的增长经济学家多马尔（Evsey Domar，我在MIT的教授之一）建议，缓解债务负担的问题本质上是取得国民收入增长的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, by approving the 2017-2026 fiscal plan, the PROMESA Oversight Board put itself in a difficult position.",
        "相反，通过批准2017到2026年财政计划，波多黎各监管、管理和经济稳定法案监管委员会让自己陷入两难的境地当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the US has never had a woman president, Senate majority leader, Secretary of the Treasury, or Secretary of Defense.",
        "事实上，美国从来没有出过女总统、女参议院多数派领袖、女财政部长和女国防部长。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while machines work everywhere, managers must abide by local traditions and belong to indigenous social networks.",
        "但是，尽管机器可以在任何地方运转，经理人员却必须遵守地方传统并且隶属于本地社会网络。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama often has a plan A, but never a plan B. When it comes to conducting a successful foreign policy, plan A is never enough.",
        "奥巴马总是能拿出方案，但永远不会有备选方案。 但要在外交政策上获得成功，只做一手准备是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "But this metric is very deceptive.",
        "但是这个衡量标准是极具欺骗性的。"
    ],
    [
        "But too much democratic self-defense can ultimately leave no democracy to defend.",
        "但太多的民主自卫可能最终导致没有民主可卫。"
    ],
    [
        "But suddenly, without notifying even his own aides, Trump went for it.",
        "但突然间，特朗普就同意了它，甚至连自己的助手都没有通知。"
    ],
    [
        "That is what people used to say years ago about cable TV.",
        "若干年前，人们也曾这样谈论过有线电视。"
    ],
    [
        "Pundits argued that if the Republicans resisted reform, they would lose the Latino vote for the next generation, relegating their party to near-permanent opposition status.",
        "专家们认为如果共和党人反对这一改革的话，他们就将在下一代选民中丢失拉丁裔选票，并使之降格成为一个几乎永远在野的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Analysis of the coup has tended to focus on the rivalries within the Turkish elite, and on Erdoğan’s failings (which, to be sure, are plentiful).",
        "对政变的分析往往把重点放在土耳其精英阶层和埃尔多安决策不利方面（在上述方面寻找原因肯定有不小的收获）。"
    ],
    [
        "These four levers, if used systematically, can reduce the costs of housing for those who need it the most, while creating a better-functioning market that provides more choices for households across income levels.",
        "如果得到系统性的使用，这四个杠杆能够降低最需要住房者的居住成本，同时建立功能更加健全的市场从而为各个收入层次的家庭提供更多选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The best answer I have come across is German: Immanuel Kant’s, to be precise.",
        "我所见过的最佳答案是德国的：准确的说，是康德的。"
    ],
    [
        "Who can honestly say that public debate has become more rational and less paranoid when our governments have become more transparent?",
        "谁能拍胸脯保证公共争论会随着我们的政府变得更透明而变得更多理性、更少偏执？"
    ],
    [
        "None of this fazes the Scottish nationalists.",
        "所有这些都没有让苏格兰民族主义者退缩。"
    ],
    [
        "The incipient tiger in the Indian economy will be released.",
        "印度之虎开始松绑，走向经济振兴之路。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to defeat them, the opposition needs more sophisticated weapons – and its backers are ready to oblige.",
        "为了打败他们，反对派需要更先进的武器——而支持者已经做好了提供准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the US and authoritarian China have mutually beneficial trade and financial ties, and have shown on occasion that they can work together on strategic issues, for example in shaping North Korea’s behavior.",
        "如今，美国和威权主义的中国在贸易和金融上有着双边的合作。 在某种程度上，两国也有战略的合作，例如对朝鲜政权的改变等。"
    ],
    [
        "The third position falls somewhere between these extremes.",
        "第三种立场处于这两种极端之间。"
    ],
    [
        "And, third, exporters who wish to preserve their share in world markets – where prices are largely denominated in dollars – choose to keep their dollar prices stable, to avoid falling victim to idiosyncratic exchange-rate movements.",
        "第三，欲保持其在世界市场——价格主要用美元计价——占比的出口国选择保持美元价格稳定以避免成为不利汇率波动的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "RIYADH – No issue in the world today is of greater immediate importance than the need to end the civil war in Syria.",
        "利雅得—放眼当今世界，没有哪个问题比结束叙利亚内战具有更紧迫的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "A Debt Agenda for the G7",
        "G7债务日程建议"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, there was no relapse, because the West had learned its lessons from historical mistakes.",
        "幸运的是，故态没有复萌，因为西方从历史错误中汲取了教训。"
    ],
    [
        "An early leader, the Bay Area Equity Fund, raised $75 million from banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and individuals; created about 15,000 jobs, 2,218 of which were in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods; and generated a 24.4% annual return for its investors.",
        "早期领导者Bay Area Equity Fund从银行、退休基金和个人手中筹集到7,500万美元，创造了大约15,000个工作岗位，其中2,218个岗位位于低收入或中低收入社区，还给投资者带来24. 4%的年回报。"
    ],
    [
        "And that means that China also must reconsider its rigid notion of sovereignty.",
        "对此中国也必须重新检讨自身对于主权的旧观念。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the UN has had two major recent triumphs, with two more on the way before the end of this year.",
        "事实上，联合国近来已经取得了两次重大胜利，今年年底前还有两次将变为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "But blasting sulphates into the stratosphere does not reduce CO2 concentrations; it merely delays the impact for as long as the spraying continues.",
        "但向平流层添加大量硫酸盐并不减弱二氧化碳的集中； 它仅仅是将影响推迟，只要添加不停止，影响就不会显现。"
    ],
    [
        "The problems we see in the financial markets have very much to do with lack of good information, misaligned incentives, and, in fact, rational responses to the environment.",
        "我们在金融市场发现的问题和有益信息的缺乏、动机的不当以及事实上对环境的 理性 反应有很大关系。"
    ],
    [
        "History has not come full circle.",
        "历史并没有回到原处。"
    ],
    [
        "But even before convicts became part of China’s overseas development effort, some Chinese projects, especially dam-building schemes, were embroiled in disputes with local communities in Botswana, Burma, Pakistan, Ghana, and Sudan.",
        "但即使在服刑人员参与中国海外开发项目之前，有些中国项目，特别是大坝修建计划，已经在博茨瓦纳、缅甸、巴基斯坦、加纳和苏丹卷入了与当地社区的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond this carefully targeted – and, in principle, limited – task, there remains the need to strengthen the sphere of common values and cooperation in societies that will, after all, remain multicultural.",
        "除了这个目标仔细确定——并且目标大体限定的任务之外，还需要在全社会加强共同价值和相互合作的范围，毕竟这个社会还要继续保持多元文化。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – How difficult is it to erase one’s past as a colonial power?",
        "发自巴黎——要抹去一个殖民帝国的过去有多难？"
    ],
    [
        "With nothing to lose, Hamas decided that another round of fighting with Israel was the only way to shake things up.",
        "哈马斯已输无可输，认为与以色列展开新一轮战斗是唯一的改变局面的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Blunders are not only inevitable; they are essential to innovative thinking, because they point the way for other explorers.",
        "错误不但是不可避免的； 也是创新性思想的必要条件，因为它们为其他探索者指明了方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Perversely, it is furiously attempting to capture the moral high ground by claiming that coal is essential to ending energy poverty.",
        "该行业宣称煤炭对于结束能源贫困来说至关重要，以此顽固地试图占据道德高点。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2010, the European Union has essentially banned the use of great apes in experiments.",
        "自2010年起欧盟彻底禁止利用大猩猩进行试验。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be unfair to blame China’s leaders for the ASEAN debacle.",
        "但指责中国领导人造成了东盟的分裂也是有失公平的。"
    ],
    [
        "International finance economists see a financial crisis as likely, followed by a painful and perhaps prolonged recession in the United States.",
        "国际金融经济学者认为巨额赤字可能带来金融危机，紧随其后的也许就是漫长而痛苦的国内衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "A democrat who opposed ballot rigging in his town, his body was broken by mafia networks in “safe” Turkey, in a succession of torture sessions for ransom.",
        "身为一名反对地方选举被操纵的民主派，他在“安全”的土耳其被黑手党打残了身体。 他们为了获得赎金而折磨他。"
    ],
    [
        "And Berlusconi, consumed as he is with defending his difficult position as the main protagonist in a seemingly endless soap opera of sex scandals, is not capable of reining in such blatant provocations on the part of the Lega Nord.",
        "而贝卢斯科尼则像一部肥皂剧的男主角那样疲于应付自己接连不断的性丑闻，根本无力遏制北方联盟这边大张旗鼓的挑衅。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowhere in the document is there even a hint of the revolutionary role that the nascent explosion in connectivity, information, and data could play in ending poverty.",
        "整套SDG中没有任何一处涉及到方兴未艾的连通性、信息和数据大爆炸在结束贫困方面可以起到怎样的革命性作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Rolling Jubilee bought it for $106,709.48, or about three cents on the dollar.",
        "48美元买下了它，相当于面值的3%。"
    ],
    [
        "The political response to deflation is to call for a stronger state.",
        "对通缩的政治回应，是呼吁国家变得更为强有力。"
    ],
    [
        "Now China must choose between the export-based, investment-driven growth model of the past and a new, more viable economic order.",
        "现在，中国必须做出选择：以出口投资为驱动的旧的经济增长模式，还是可持续的经济增长新秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "There is obvious potential for the EU to engage constructively with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (created in 2001 by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, with India and Pakistan set to join next year).",
        "显然，欧盟建设性参与上海合作组织（2001年由中国、俄罗斯、哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、塔吉克斯坦和乌兹别克斯坦创立，明年印度和巴基斯坦也将加入其中）的潜力是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "Out in Eighteen Months or One Hundred Years?",
        "十八个月撤军还是百年撤军？"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, it will require some adjustment for New Yorkers seeking to hedge their own real estate investments to sell futures contracts that have a built-in price decline.",
        "然而，这将要求那些寻求套期保值其自身不动产投资的纽约人作出调整。 出售势必价格下跌的期货合同。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of us providing you with images, maps, the weather, news, or translated versions of foreign-language sites, they would rather go back to ten blue links.",
        "他们不希望我们直接提供图片、地图、天气、新闻或经过翻译的国外网站，而宁愿退回到10个蓝色的链接。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the late twentieth century, the conventional wisdom was that this market failure could best be rectified by introducing another one: private monopolies, created through stringent patents strictly enforced.",
        "在二十世纪末期，传统的观点认为这种市场失灵状况可以通过引入另一个失灵状况来纠正：通过严格执行严苛专利所创造的私人垄断。"
    ],
    [
        "From this perspective, it is vital to ensure that an economic system is open to institutional reform.",
        "从这个角度讲，关键是要确保经济体制能够许可全面的制度改革。"
    ],
    [
        "On becoming President, Barack Obama replaced it with a bust of Abraham Lincoln.",
        "奥巴马当选总统后把它换成了亚伯拉罕·林肯的半身像。"
    ],
    [
        "Rank Mysteries",
        "排名之谜"
    ],
    [
        "But what is one to make of the criticisms of Greenspan’s tenure at the Federal Reserve?",
        "但对格林斯潘执掌美联储的生涯横加指责又有什么道理呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Under conventional quantitative easing (QE), the central bank buys government securities from banks or corporations and relies on the extra cash that it “prints” to stimulate private spending.",
        "在传统量化宽松下，央行从银行或公司买入政府债券，并依靠它所“印”的新增现金刺激私人支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Across the West, the 2008 financial crisis triggered a political fight that is still in progress.",
        "放眼西方，2008年金融危机所引发的政治斗争仍然没有结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Three months later, Tung resigned for “health reasons” and was elected Vice Chairman of the largely symbolic Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.",
        "三个月后，董建华以“健康原因”辞任，并当选为基本只有象征意义的中国政协副主席。"
    ],
    [
        "But if high turnout, albeit based more on communal self-interest than belief in democracy, was the good news from Iraq’s election, the bad news is the leadership they chose, which is not democratically minded.",
        "但是，如果说投票人数之多是来自此次伊拉克大选的好消息（虽然与其说是对民主持有信念，还不如说是基于公利与私利的考虑），那么坏消息就是，他们所选择的这个政权，也并非具有民主思想的政权。"
    ],
    [
        "Their plight evoked some sympathy (Lord Byron made a brilliant speech in their defense in the House of Lords); their arguments, however, did not.",
        "他们的不幸引来了一些同情（拜伦勋爵（Lord Byron）在上议院为他们做过出色的演讲）； 但他们的诉求并不值得同情。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the Third Plenum ended and the scope of Xi’s reforms has become clear, many China watchers have hailed him as the most transformative leader since Deng.",
        "自十一届三中全会结束习的改革计划公诸于世以来，许多中国观察家都称赞他是邓小平以来最具变革精神的领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, TPP member states have not only failed to do this; they have also excluded independent organizations from the assessment process by refusing to provide access to draft texts.",
        "遗憾的是，跨太平洋伙伴关系成员国不仅没有这样做，而且还拒绝提供文本草案，从而不允许独立机构参与评估过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, a small event caused a major stir in Russian politics.",
        "最近，一起小事件在俄国政坛激起千层波浪。"
    ],
    [
        "With just a week left before the election, the presidential candidates are crisscrossing the country: whereas Republican nominee Donald Trump is struggling to cobble together the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win, Clinton is trying to lock up as large a victory – in both the popular vote and the Electoral College – as possible.",
        "距离选举已经不到一周，两位总统候选人正在周游全国：共和党提名人唐纳德·特朗普忙于聚集胜选所需要的270张选举人票，而克林顿则在试图尽可能锁定获胜优势——包括总票数和选举人票。"
    ],
    [
        "National movements driven by a historical mission or an uncompromising quest to assert group identity against a dominant power normally do not succumb to economic considerations and last-minute economic bait.",
        "受历史使命或面对主宰势力主张群体身份的不可妥协的要求驱动的国家运动通常不会屈从于经济考虑或最后时刻的经济诱惑。"
    ],
    [
        "The dominant “efficient markets theory” says only that markets reflect what is publicly known, and that it is hard to make money off markets consistently – something verified by the hit that most investor portfolios took in the crisis.",
        "当前主流的“有效市场管理论”只是说市场反映了公众所知的信息，也难以持续地从市场中赚钱——我们从某些投资者在危机中遭重创的投资组合中可以发现这点。"
    ],
    [
        "It was their success in conforming to male values that enabled their rise to leadership in the first place.",
        "她们首先满足了男性的价值观，这是她们获得领导权的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason for this difficulty is the other side of Smith’s invisible hand.",
        "这个难点的原因就在斯密的看不见的手的另一面。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent agreement is far from ideal.",
        "我们不是这样。 最新协议远非理想。"
    ],
    [
        "So how should we choose among alternative simplifications of reality?",
        "那么我们应该如何在简化和现实这两者之间做出选择？"
    ],
    [
        "This stands as an example that the world should emulate – one of shared rights and responsibilities, including the obligation to help the less fortunate.",
        "这是全世界应当加以学习借鉴的榜样，即责任和权力共享，包括帮助穷苦人的义务。"
    ],
    [
        "But the banks are profitable ongoing enterprises in the current low-interest-rate environment, because they typically engage in short-term borrowing and longer-term lending at higher rates, with leverage.",
        "但在目前的低利率环境下银行其实是盈利部门，因为它们一般利用杠杆进行短期借款，再以更高的利率放出长期贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that everyone will either be personally affected by a mental-health problem or have close contact with someone who is.",
        "这意味着你要么受到了心理健康问题的影响，要么和某位这样的人关系密切。"
    ],
    [
        "If they are right, one can only hope that America has a plan B.",
        "他们如果是正确的话，但愿美国还有第二套方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Chidambaram's 2004/2005 budget puts those fears to rest.",
        "奇丹巴拉姆的2004/2005财年预算平息这种猜测。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of catering to European fears and prejudices about exchange rates, the Fed chairman should put politics aside and stick to sound economics.",
        "美联储主席应该做的不是迎合欧洲对兑换率的恐惧和偏见，而是把政治放到一边，坚持维护一个稳健的经济形势。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a majority spoke last year, when it elected Morsi.",
        "去年，多数人的意见是选择穆尔西。"
    ],
    [
        "But that does little to let China off the hook in the eyes of Washington.",
        "但这并没有让华盛顿的官员们停止对中国指手画脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Antanas Mockus looks like the figure best suited to realizing these possibilities.",
        "安塔纳斯·莫卡斯似乎是实现这一目标最适合的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, it is not.",
        "但不幸的是，情况恰恰相反。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, devising solutions should be a high priority, with the policy debate centering on measures that would help to create truly inclusive economies.",
        "相反，制定解决方案应该成为重点事项，政策争论要集中在能够创造真正的包容型经济的手段上。"
    ],
    [
        "Bailouts of too-big-to-fail banks are unpopular among economists, policymakers, and taxpayers, who resent special deals for financial bigwigs.",
        "经济学家、决策者和纳税人都不支持援助太大而不能倒的银行，他们对于与金融大亨做特殊交易深恶痛绝。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraqi girls suffer no less than boys – and often more.",
        "伊拉克女童所遭受的痛苦并不比男童少—甚至更多。"
    ],
    [
        "That raises an obvious question: When regimes in the region collaborate with terrorist groups, how can intelligence cooperation with them, let alone a coalition to fight Islamic extremism, be credible?",
        "这就引出了一个显而易见的问题：如果地区政权与恐怖组织合作，那么与他们的情报合作有多大可信度，更不用说与他们组建打击伊斯兰极端主义的联盟？"
    ],
    [
        "A 2012 paper examined what happens when students are allowed to choose (presumably better) schools after winning a lottery.",
        "一份2012年的论文考察了当允许学生在赢得彩票后选择（理应是更好的）学校时会发生什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Large reductions in the use of insecticides cut costs for growers of GM varieties, while providing an important health and ecological benefit.",
        "另一半掌握在公共资金支持的公共研究体系中，其研究成果不会受到私人部门垄断力量的制约。 事实上，几乎所有美国种植玉米、大豆和木瓜的农民都使用转基因种子，并从中获益良多。"
    ],
    [
        "So Indians place their trust in international diplomacy and watch, with ill-disguised wistfulness, as Israel does what they could never permit themselves to do.",
        "所以，印度就寄希望于国际外交努力并且毫不掩饰地看着以色列如何做自己永远也不会做的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that some countries in the eastern part of the EU are much more dependent on Russian gas than the average figures suggest.",
        "但问题是许多位处东部的欧盟国家对俄罗斯天然气的依赖度高于平均水平。"
    ],
    [
        "First, a referendum reduces complexity to absurd simplicity.",
        "首先，公投荒谬地简化了原本复杂的事务。"
    ],
    [
        "It began with the ability to transfuse not only red blood cells into anemic patients, but also platelets, reducing the threat of life-threatening bleeding that can accompany cancer therapy.",
        "现在可以将红血球和血小板同时输入到贫血患者体内，从而缓解癌症治疗引发的危及生命的出血现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Such individualism fit neither Leninist nor traditional Chinese proscriptions for behavior by a high official.",
        "这样的人既不符合列宁主义者对高官行为的准则，也远远超出了中国传统的禁权主义者所坚持的标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Desecrating a shrine, defacing a cross, or, in the US, burning a flag, is an aggressive and insulting act, one that causes real pain for believers.",
        "亵渎神社、丑化十字架、或在美国焚烧国旗都属于冒犯和侮辱行为，会引起信仰者的真正痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush’s invocation of democracy to justify the invasion of Iraq implied that democracy could be imposed at the barrel of a gun.",
        "布什以民主之名行入侵伊拉克之实就意味着民主可以用枪炮强加于人。"
    ],
    [
        "So ours is, in essence, a G-Zero world.",
        "所以说，我们的世界本质上是个G0世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics of trade agreements have marshaled countless anecdotes about the adverse effects of imports on wages and employment in affected communities.",
        "贸易协议的批评者们提出了数不胜数的掌故来说明进口对受影响社区的工资和就业的消极效应。"
    ],
    [
        "So the crisis keeps growing.",
        "因此，危机还在持续发酵。"
    ],
    [
        "The first such technology transfer was the Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR), which began operating in January 2001.",
        "其第一次技术转让则是在2001年1月通车的台湾高速铁路。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, this requirement is rooted in history.",
        "事实上，这种改革要求植根于历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Some cynics shrug off such exchanges between candidates as typical behavior by politicians.",
        "一些犬儒主义者对候选人之间的这些“往来”嗤之以鼻，认为这是政客的典型做派。"
    ],
    [
        "The consultancy McKinsey argues in a recent report that India needs to invest at least $1.2 trillion in its urban infrastructure over the next two decades, or $134 per capita annually.",
        "咨询公司麦肯锡在最新报告中指出，未来20年，印度需要投资至少1. 2万亿美元或每年每人134美元于其城市基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the recent federal election campaign, both of Germany’s main political parties ruled out proposals to raise the retirement age to 70, even though there are good reasons for doing precisely that.",
        "但在最近的联邦大选选战中，德国两大主要政党都排除了将退休年龄提高到70岁的方案，虽然有很强的理由支持这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "If the rest of the world caught up to the United States – where meat consumption averages 125.4 kilograms per person annually, compared with a measly 3.2 kilograms in India – the environmental consequences would be catastrophic.",
        "4千克——而印度却只有可怜的3. 2千克——那么将对环境造成灾难性的的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "It is nonsense to argue that central banks are impotent and completely unable to raise inflation expectations, no matter how hard they try.",
        "说央行无论如何努力也无法胜任、完全不能提升通胀标准是没有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Global power is shifting towards Asia and the Pacific.",
        "全球力量正向亚洲和太平洋转移。"
    ],
    [
        "Now tk title at Widgets Corp., he…” Our job was to fill in the tk’s.",
        "此人目前在Widgets公司任职，具体职务待查，他…”。 我们的工作是填满这些待查。"
    ],
    [
        "The world would also have seen why so many of us were rooting for her.",
        "而全世界也都能看到我们中的许多人为什么会支持这位女士。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of this Caspian oil is in Kazakhstan, giving that country a critical role in the regional energy market.",
        "里海的油储量大多集中在哈萨克斯坦，这个国家在地区能源市场上所占据的位置至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the force of the wind was grossly underestimated and worksmanship was inferior.",
        "然而，这座桥严重低估了风力的影响，修造工艺也十分粗糙。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences could be disastrous.",
        "由此带来的后果可能是灾难性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond corporate governance, we must restore balance to the profit-investment relationship through institutional as well as public-policy initiatives, and with proactive industrial policies.",
        "除了公司治理，我们还必须通过机制性以公共政策性的法案和积极的产业政策来恢复利润和投资关系的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The other 30% is also emblematic of a deeper strategic issue that America faces – a profound competitive challenge.",
        "其余这30%也象征美国所面临的更深层次的战略问题——同时也是深刻的竞争挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "At the Cold War’s end, East European countries did not try to form local alliances, as they did in the 1920’s, but looked toward Brussels as the magnet for their futures.",
        "冷战末期，东欧国家并没有像他们在1920年代所做的那样试图形成一个当地联盟，而是把欧共体总部看作吸引他们未来的磁场。"
    ],
    [
        "Lowering trade barriers would mean that all countries could focus on doing what they do best, making everyone better off.",
        "降低贸易壁垒意味着所有国家都能集中精力做最擅长的工作，让所有人过得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "But the same goes for the rest of Iraq: the US is now lamely asking for a UN resolution mandating a transfer of power to a legitimate Iraqi government - but such an authorization is highly unlikely, nor is there anyone in Iraq to whom authority can conceivably be transferred.",
        "在伊拉克其它地区情形也是一样：美国正说服联合国，授权它将权力移交给合法的伊拉克政府，但真正获得授权的机会却小得可怜，伊拉克也不存在任何党派，能够接受这样的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "But they cannot get so close to private firms that they end up in companies’ pocket, or, at the other extreme, simply order them around.",
        "但政府机构又不能与私营企业走得太近，沦为公司的傀儡，或者走向另一个极端，对公司发号施令？"
    ],
    [
        "This is regarded as inefficient because firms cannot adjust quickly to changing business conditions.",
        "这被视为低效之举，因为企业在变化的商业环境中无法及时调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these experts were cross-examined in court.",
        "上述专家中的许多人都在法庭上接受了原告和被告双方的质询。"
    ],
    [
        "Both would achieve these ambitious cuts by the same method: a cap-and-trade system that imposes limits on industry emissions and forces businesses to buy rights to any additional emissions.",
        "两人都打算用同样的方法来取得这些雄心勃勃的减排目标，这个方法就是对工业排放施加限制并且强迫企业购买额外排放权利的总量管制与排放交易体系。"
    ],
    [
        "An expansive monetary policy is partly to blame, but the real problem is an institutional setting that favors bullish sentiment.",
        "扩张的货币政策会被归咎于一部分原因，但是真正的问题在于人们由来已久的习惯，更加偏好乐观的消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump is essentially a “whatever works” kind of guy.",
        "特朗普本质上是个“拿来主义者”。"
    ],
    [
        "For Schmidt, thorough analysis was a necessary prerequisite for all political action.",
        "施密特认为，透彻的分析是采取政治行动的必要前提。"
    ],
    [
        "In essence, this option represents a return to the parameters of the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, at which a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation represented the Palestinian cause.",
        "从本质上，这一选择代表着对1991年马德里和平会议方案的回归。 在马德里会议上，巴勒斯坦由约旦-巴勒斯坦联合代表团代表。"
    ],
    [
        "The West is well placed to play its part in global renewal.",
        "西方在全球经济重建方面其实早已准备就位。"
    ],
    [
        "If Iran gains nuclear weapons, it may, like Nazi Germany before it, be engulfed by murderous folly, threatening disaster for Israel.",
        "如果伊朗掌握了核武器，就可能像之前的纳粹德国一样陷入一个凶残而愚蠢的错误，并为以色列带来灾难性的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Next Fed Chair",
        "下一任美联储主席"
    ],
    [
        "The first notable success occurred early in the year, when a Guinness World Record was set for the most donations of medication made during a 24-hour period.",
        "第一项令人瞩目的成功发生在年初，吉尼斯世界纪录为24小时最大规模药物捐赠设立了一条记录。"
    ],
    [
        "Introduced last year, the new legislative provisions lift restrictions on deploying Japanese forces overseas and expand the definition of self-defense to include aiding an ally.",
        "去年推出的新的立法规定解除了对日本海外派兵的限制，并将自卫的定义拓展至包括协助盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "Then again, many of his proposals are not policies designed to be implemented, but slogans crafted to appeal to an insular populist mood among a segment of the population.",
        "但话又说回来，他的很多提案不过是为唤起部分人孤立民粹主义情绪提出的口号，而不是可以真正落实到位的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "To me, uncertainty should make us act more resolutely today, not less.",
        "在我看来，不确定性应该使我们今天更坚定地采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether evaluating an assumption about the rise of house prices or whether a news story is true, the market does not provide a definitive answer instantaneously.",
        "无论是评估房价上涨假设还是消息真实与否，市场确定答案都不会在瞬间给出。"
    ],
    [
        "The adverse wealth effect from the decrease in the value of carbon assets would be small; and, with the capital stock badly out of sync with the new price system, the investment unleashed would be large, unless there were bottlenecks in closing the gap.",
        "碳资产贬值的负财富效应规模将相当小； 而由于资本存量与新价格体系的严重不同步，所释放的投资将十分巨大，除非存在弥合缺口的瓶颈。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, after Britain lost its American colonies at the end of the eighteenth century, Horace Walpole lamented Britain’s reduction to “as insignificant a country as Denmark or Sardinia.”",
        "例如，当英国在十八世纪末失去美洲殖民地后，霍勒斯·沃波尔曾哀叹英国已沦落到“像丹麦或撒丁岛一样微不足道”。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, the progress has been impressive.",
        "总体而言，进步令人瞩目。"
    ],
    [
        "That centralization of taxes and spending creates an automatic stabilizer for any region that experiences an economic downturn: the affected region’s residents send less money to Washington and receive more in transfers.",
        "如此集中的税收和支出创造了一个自动稳定器，能在任何地区发生经济衰退时起作用：衰退地区居民向华盛顿交的钱更少了，而收到的转移支付更多了。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the exchange rate has an impact on investment and trade.",
        "勿庸讳言，汇率确实对投资和贸易有影响。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the euro, Juncker stressed that it is meant to be the currency of the entire EU, not just select countries.",
        "对于欧元，容克强调它要成为整个欧盟的货币，而不仅仅是一部分国家的货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Correspondingly, RMB liabilities owed by mainlanders and multinationals decreased, as did RMB assets held in Hong Kong.",
        "相应地，大陆居民和跨国公司持有的人民币债务下降了，香港居民持有的人民币资产亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, developing petrochemical or steel plants, or moving low-wage diamond-cutting jobs from India or Vietnam to Botswana – a country that is more than four times richer – is as unimaginative as it is constricting.",
        "相反，发展石化或钢铁厂，或将低薪钻石切割岗位从印度或越南转移到博茨瓦纳——后者比前两者富裕四倍——是不可想象的，也具有很大的制约性。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of demand, investment and jobs will fail to materialize.",
        "没有需求，投资和就业就无法实现。"
    ],
    [
        "We are seen as paying our alliance dues, not least by having fought alongside the US in every one of its foreign wars – for better or worse – over the past century.",
        "我们被视为履行了我们的联盟职责，比如，我们在过去一个世纪中的每一场美国对外战争中都与它站在一边——不论是帮忙还是帮倒忙。"
    ],
    [
        "What’s Blocking Gender Equality?",
        "什么在阻挡性别平等？"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order to govern, Bersani would need both chambers, and he is unlikely to muster 50.1% in the Senate.",
        "不过贝尔萨尼必须控制参众两院才能掌控政局，但他不太可能得到50."
    ],
    [
        "Yet, the towers could have been a symbol of worldwide poetry, not commerce.",
        "但也可以说双塔是全世界诗歌、而不是贸易的标志。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, by banning new coal plants and shifting fossil-fuel subsidies toward the financing of renewable energy through feed-in tariffs, sustainable energy could be brought to billions of people worldwide, while reducing fossil-fuel dependency.",
        "比如，通过禁止新的煤电厂、将化石燃料补贴改为通过趸售电价（feed-in tariffs）进行的可再生能源融资，全世界数十亿人都可以用上可持续能源，同时减小化石燃料依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Things became more complicated after World War II.",
        "二战后事情就得更加复杂了。"
    ],
    [
        "The most interesting explanation I heard was that economics has become more interesting, because it no longer seems to be a finished and closed discipline.",
        "对此我听到的最有趣的解释是经济学之所以显得更有趣，是因为它似乎不再是一门完美和封闭的学科。"
    ],
    [
        "That means vetoing any extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, and then working to enact the Obama tax cuts.",
        "这意味着否决任何延长布什时代减税方案的动议，然后推出奥巴马减税方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The 45-kilometer Mount Eburu fence was completed last year.",
        "45公里长的厄布鲁山电网去年完工。"
    ],
    [
        "Administrative measures in the agricultural sector, aimed at alleviating supply bottlenecks for pork, cooking oil, fresh vegetables, and fertilizer, have pushed food-price inflation lower.",
        "政府在农业部门采取了旨在缓解猪肉、食用油、蔬菜和化肥等供应瓶颈的行政措施，并成功控制了食品价格的上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "I am, therefore, deeply disappointed that a package of measures adopted in this area in 2004 – aimed at simplifying and modernizing procedures – has not been transposed within the agreed deadline by several member states.",
        "因此，我在这里对2004年在这一领域通过的一揽子方案深表失望。 有几个成员国未能在既定的期限内转换这套旨在使流程简单化和现代化的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, rigorous analysis requires testing these historical analogies for fitness with current circumstances.",
        "再次强调一点，严格的分析需要检验这些历史类推法对当前情况的适用性。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, shoring up the eurozone was the common thread in major speeches by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and French President Emmanuel Macron last month.",
        "事实上，巩固欧元区是上个月欧盟委员会主席容克和法国总统马克龙的重要讲话的共同主题。"
    ],
    [
        "And, across the continent, women’s life expectancy at birth is just 58 years, compared to more than 80 years in developed countries.",
        "而就整个非洲而言，女性出生寿命预期只有58年，而发达国家高达80多年。"
    ],
    [
        "But how can one explain the fact that the global financial crisis led to no regional banking crises in the US, whereas several eurozone countries’ banking systems are under such stress that their governments have had to rescue them (and then be rescued in turn by the eurozone’s bailout fund)?",
        "但你如何解释全球金融危机并未在美国引发地区性银行危机，而不少欧元区国家的银行系统却受到了严重的压力，以至于政府不得不出手相救（最后反顾来又被欧元区援助基金所救）？"
    ],
    [
        "Because oil consumers generally spend extra income fairly quickly, while governments (which collect the bulk of global oil revenues) usually maintain public spending by borrowing or running down reserves, the net effect of lower oil prices has always been positive for global growth.",
        "总体而言，石油消费者会相当快地将新增收入花掉，而政府（它获得了全球石油收入的大头）常常通过贷款或减少储备为公共支出融资，因此油价下跌的净效应永远对全球增长起到积极作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though the Alliance certainly lost, the main opposition Swedish Social Democratic Party and its allies on the left did not win.",
        "但是，尽管中右翼联盟输掉了选举，但主要反对党瑞典社会民党（Swedish Social Democratic Party）及其左翼盟友也没有获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments, in order to contain the fallout of the crisis, ran up public debt, including in countries whose balance sheets had already been weakened significantly by declining GDP growth.",
        "政府为了收拾危机的残局大量举债，包括哪些资产负债表已经因为GDP增长减缓大受损伤的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Post-National Football?",
        "后民族主义时代的足球？"
    ],
    [
        "Their responses, however, have fallen short, following a familiar sequence that begins with waiting for an endogenous bounce and aspiring to self-reliance.",
        "但他们的共同特点是应对不力，先是静候内源性反弹又片面强调自力更生解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For its part, Europe needs to mount a charm offensive to persuade Putin and Medvedev that Russia’s real interest is in improving bilateral relations.",
        "在欧洲方面，它需要展开魅力攻势来劝说普京和梅德韦捷夫，表明俄国的切实利益是改善双边关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, for example, initially had strong objections to the Convention on Tobacco Control, but dropped them in the face of international criticism.",
        "例如，美国起初强烈反对《烟草控制框架协议》，但在国际舆论的谴责下也做出妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "But, befitting this increasingly exsanguinous imperium, Naif, 82, is known to suffer from leukemia.",
        "但是，奈伊夫虽然适合作为日渐贫血的沙特帝制大统继承者，但他也已经82岁了，而且人人都知道他患上了白血病。"
    ],
    [
        "Combining environmental and developmental frameworks is a good idea – one that builds on the success of a host of legally binding international conventions and agreements crafted under the UN’s auspices to protect the climate, conserve biodiversity, uphold human rights, and reduce poverty.",
        "环境和发展框架相结合是一个好主意——构建在一系列具法律约束力、在联合国的支持下起草、能够保护环境、维持生物多样性、坚持人权和减少贫困的国际公约和协定的基础上。"
    ],
    [
        "Next year will almost certainly see a massive rise in US corporate defaults, even though many firms entered the recession with relatively strong balance sheets.",
        "下一年度美国企业的欠贷比率几乎可以肯定会大幅攀升，尽管许多公司在衰退刚刚开始的时候资产负债表的情况还算乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, China is willing and able to fill the gap.",
        "幸运的是，中国愿意也有能力填补这个空白。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the crisis, it has been widely assumed – at least so far – that the eurozone core would remain solid, and would continue to write the checks for the periphery’s distressed governments and banks.",
        "在整个危机过程中——至少到目前为止是如此——人们都认为欧元区核心国将保持坚挺，并会不断向外围国受困政府和银行输血。"
    ],
    [
        "To meet the latter objective, they turn to prudently managed countries, placing upward pressure on their currencies, too – and, again, beyond what would be warranted by domestic fundamentals.",
        "为了达到后一个目标，他们转向那些谨慎管理的国家，给其货币带来升值压力，而且又一次超过本国经济基本面可以担保的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – The conflict in Syria becomes more complex every day that it continues, and the country’s prospects have gotten only worse.",
        "马德里—叙利亚冲突每持续一天都会变得更加复杂，国家前景也变得更加渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "A group of countries, international agencies, and NGOs has made a strong case to the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (the body responsible for facilitating deliberations on the post-2015 agenda) that migration can help reduce poverty and generate economic growth.",
        "一个由国家、国际机构和非政府组织组成的小组有力地向联合国可持续发展目标工作小组（负责促进审议2015年后日程的机构）证明，移民能够有助于减少贫困、促进经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The internecine rivalries that began in earnest last November between fighters from Zawiya and Warshefana, and among Tripoli’s various factions, will be difficult to defuse, as the thowar (revolutionaries) have refused repeated calls by the NTC to disarm.",
        "去年11月扎维耶和沃尔舍法纳（Warshefana）爆发的冲突以及的黎波里诸多派系间的倾轧便是内讧的最佳写照，内讧问题很难解决，因为“索瓦”（即革命者）拒绝响应NTC放下武器的主张。"
    ],
    [
        "A transnational undertaking is the superior option.",
        "建立跨国机构是更好的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the 400 cases examined by both Supreme Courts, 120 were referred to the Constitutional Council, which has issued 102 rulings, including 22 striking down the challenged legislation.",
        "在最高法院审查的400起案例中，有120起被提交到宪政委员会，委员会共发布102次裁决，其中有22次推翻了受到质疑的法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Geospatial maps can pinpoint areas that are making outstanding progress, allowing us to identify communities that have done things differently from their neighbors.",
        "地理空间地图可以指出正在取得重大进步的地区，让我们看到那些社区完成了与相邻社区不同的事。"
    ],
    [
        "He will scandalize the summit by seeking to intimidate the former Soviet clients in the room.",
        "他将会在峰会期间力图恐吓前苏联的附庸国而使会议变成一桩丑闻。"
    ],
    [
        "These links have often been obvious.",
        "这些联系往往是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "Illiquid but potentially solvent economies, such as Italy and Spain, will need support from Europe regardless of whether Greece exits; indeed, without such liquidity support, a self-fulfilling run on Italian and Spanish public debt is likely.",
        "缺少流动性但偿债能力并不缺乏的国家（如意大利和西班牙）不管希腊是否退出欧元区都需要欧洲的支持，没有欧洲流动性支持，意大利和西班牙将可能爆发自我实现的公债挤兑。"
    ],
    [
        "· protectionism is avoided and markets stay open;",
        "· 防止保护主义，开放市场；"
    ],
    [
        "Blame should go to the phenomenon of “securitization.”",
        "问题应该是出在“证券化”现象上。"
    ],
    [
        "The agreement “parked” the nuclear problem, rather than resolving it.",
        "该协定“挂起”了核问题，而没有解决它。"
    ],
    [
        "Education, it is said, cannot wait.",
        "人们说，教育不等人。"
    ],
    [
        "Political interference in the stock market is not merely about taxes on capital gains, dividends, and income.",
        "对股市实行政治干预不仅限于资本收益、股息和收入等项税收。"
    ],
    [
        "A model curriculum need not be limited to teaching the Golden Rule or making optimistic appeals to universal religious axioms. It should also support courses that teach pupils that diversity is a strength and a public good for their societies.",
        "示范课程不必局限于教授黄金法则或乐观看待普世宗教公理的影响力，还应当支持向学生讲授多样化力量对社会有利的课程。"
    ],
    [
        "In a country where two-thirds of the population is still dependent on agriculture and small holdings are all that a majority of Indians live on, the new law helps those who have often felt exploited and deprived of their livelihoods by the state’s power of eminent domain.",
        "在三分之二人口仍依赖农业、大部分人民所赖以生活的资产还相当小的印度来说，这项新法律能帮助那些通常感到自己被国家土地征用权力掠夺和驱逐的印度人。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of a fixed period of time – say, five years, as India’s MPs are currently accorded – the public would be able to judge their leader’s success at improving citizens’ lives, rather than at keeping a government in office.",
        "在固定任期结束后——比如印度国会议员目前的任期是5年——民众可以对领导人改善民众生活的效果做出评判，而不是如何保持政府执政。"
    ],
    [
        "The foundations of the Maastricht Treaty are shaking—not to mention the difficulties that the United Kingdom and Switzerland are facing in protecting their overgrown banks.",
        "《马斯特里赫特条约》的基础正在动摇，更别提英国和瑞士在保护它们畸形发展的银行方面所面临的困难了。"
    ],
    [
        "True, cancer therapy is complex.",
        "诚然，癌症治疗十分复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "These senior officials are henceforth to be selected “through an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process.”",
        "今后，这些高级官员要“通过一种公开、透明与优良品质为先的选举程序”进行选拔。"
    ],
    [
        "There also should be limits on the extent to which one democratic government can bind its successors.",
        "还应该限制国内政府可以“绑架”其继任者的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, exceptions to this pattern are rare: South Africa is one, owing to the genius of one of the century’s most outstanding statesmen, Nelson Mandela.",
        "事实上，很少有国家能逃出这一宿命：南非是一个例外，这是因为南非出了一位不世出的伟大政治家纳尔逊·曼德拉。"
    ],
    [
        "The UAE and Bahrain have joined Saudi Arabia in downgrading relations with Qatar.",
        "阿联酋和巴林加入沙特阿拉伯的行列，降低了与卡塔尔的关系级别。"
    ],
    [
        "True, the British are still more inclined toward free markets than the French, but the gap between them has become much narrower.",
        "诚然，英国人仍然比法国人更倾向于自由市场，但他们之间的差异已经小了很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Bhutto’s contacts with Mushararf’s military government drew criticism, but she remained adamant that a return to democracy was possible only through a transition in which Musharraf would give up his military post, become a civilian head of state, and conduct free and fair elections.",
        "虽然布托与穆沙拉夫军政府的联系招致批评，但她仍坚持只有通过穆沙拉夫放弃军职，成为一名文职国家元首，并实施自由和公正的选举，巴基斯坦才可能重返民主。"
    ],
    [
        "Such arbitrary cuts are likely to inflict more damage on the economy than sensibly targeted cuts of the same magnitude.",
        "如此武断的削减可能比相同程度的明智定位削减造成更大的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "The US must focus once again on the arts as a meaningful way to promote stronger cultural engagement and, ultimately, to find new channels of communication with the Muslim world.",
        "因此美国必须再次将艺术视为一种能进一步加强文化交流的有力手段，并最终找到与穆斯林世界之间的沟通新渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "To make matters worse, when a compromise is reached, the burden falls disproportionately on the debtor, in the form of enforced austerity and structural reforms that make the residual debt even less sustainable.",
        "更糟糕的是，当妥协达成时，债务人要接受绝大部分负担——以强迫紧缩和结构改革的形式，结果是剩余债务更加不可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "What’s Wrong with Ethnic Profiling?",
        "“种族歧视”的弊端"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps respectful debate in economics is possible only in academia.",
        "也许经济学中值得尊敬的争论只可能在学术界出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Jean Monnet, one of the EU’s founding fathers, once said that, given the chance to start the European integration process again, he would have begun with culture – a dimension in which we neither need nor want centralization.",
        "欧盟之父让·莫内（Jean Monnet）曾说，如果他有机会重新启动欧盟一体化过程，他会从文化开始——这是一个不需要也不想要集中化的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a move is unprecedented, and not particularly welcome.",
        "这样的做法可谓前无古人，也不是很受欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – US President-elect Donald Trump has yet to take office, but his brand of flawed industrial policy has been on full display since his surprise win in November.",
        "坎布里奇—美国当选总统唐纳德·特朗普尚未履新，但自11月出人意料地赢得大选以来，其漏洞百出的产业政策已经充分展现在人们眼前。"
    ],
    [
        "Add continued anger over financial bailouts, rising spending, and the exploding national debt, and even America’s Democrats – the country’s traditional big-spending party – are finally talking deficit reduction.",
        "财政援助、支出上升和国民债务爆炸激起了民众的愤怒情绪，即使是民主党（该党传统上支持大规模支出）也开始谈论削减赤字了。"
    ],
    [
        "It remains a good idea today.",
        "现在也不失为一个好主意。"
    ],
    [
        "How long can the party go on?",
        "派对能持续多久？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, boosting returns on public investment – critical to any growth plan – demands complementary policies and conditions, in areas ranging from resource allocation to the institutional environment.",
        "比如，提振公共投资回报——对任何增长计划，这一点都是关键——需要相辅相成的政策和条件，从资源配置到制度环境在内的诸多领域都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The social sector also has an important role to play in combating recidivism.",
        "社会部门在打击再犯方面也起着重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "So how do we keep up this progress?",
        "那么，我们如何保持这一势头？"
    ],
    [
        "To succeed, each country must ensure that it has the capabilities, resources, and structures in place to manage refugees’ needs efficiently.",
        "要想成功，各国必须确保它有能力、资源和现成的安排有效管理难民的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "The next president will have to educate Americans about how to deal with a globalization process that many find threatening.",
        "下一任总统必须教育美国人如何面对他们视为威胁的全球化进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Many became dependent on food aid, while some acted on the conviction that eradicating hunger is merely a matter of fostering GDP growth.",
        "许多国家依赖于粮食援助，也由国家信封消除饥饿无非是刺激GDP增长的问题并据此行动。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, the piglets that consumed the modified corn achieved a greater final weight, a measure of overall health, despite no difference in feed intake between the two groups.",
        "更重要的是，在进食量相同的情况下，改造玉米喂大的小猪体重更重，说明其健康状况更佳。"
    ],
    [
        "Reinventing Europe’s Financial Markets",
        "重塑欧洲金融市场"
    ],
    [
        "Standing on the streets of one of these vibrant cities, one gains a deeper appreciation of recent data on China’s rising domestic consumption.",
        "站在这些活力城市的街道上，人们可以对中国最近不断攀升的国内消费数据有更深切的体验。"
    ],
    [
        "In devising solutions, the role of women should be the main focus.",
        "妇女应该在其中担当重要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of mourning the liberal world order, as so many seem eager to do, we should be seeking to advance a new, shared purpose that can anchor a truly global system – and guarantee a better future for all.",
        "我们不必如许多人急不可耐的那样宣判自由世界秩序死亡，而应该寻求推进新的共同目标，使之成为真正的全球体系之锚——并保证所有人都能拥有更美好的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, legislative recourse for the injustice of Section 377 may not be available as long as the BJP is in power.",
        "事实上，只要印度人民党仍在台上执政，关于刑法典第377条存在不公的立法程序就无从实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Bad Money, Good Money",
        "坏钱·好钱"
    ],
    [
        "· Security cooperation with the PA to prevent terrorist attacks on Israel, in exchange for economic aid and assistance to prevent a Hamas takeover;",
        "· 与巴勒斯坦民族权力机构进行安全合作，防止对以色列的恐怖袭击，以此来交换经济援助，并协助防止哈马斯接掌政权；"
    ],
    [
        "Not likely this time, at least for the next year.",
        "而这次却似乎不竟然，这少不会在未来这一年。"
    ],
    [
        "In India, Rahul Gandhi is waiting in the wings, preparing to step into the shoes of his great-grandfather (Jawaharlal Nehru), grandmother (Indira Gandhi), and father (Rajiv Gandhi).",
        "印度的拉胡尔·甘地正伺机而动，准备接过曾祖父贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁、祖母英迪拉·甘地和父亲拉吉夫·甘地的衣钵。"
    ],
    [
        "Because market interest rates rise to compensate for high inflation, even the government must now pay an interest rate of about 25% to borrow in pesos for short periods.",
        "为了补偿高通胀，市场利率也随之上升，这导致即使是政府现在也必须为短期比索借贷支付25%左右的利率。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way to reform the system and make real progress toward mitigating climate change is to work to eliminate fossil fuels completely.",
        "改革这一体系、取得迈向减轻气候变化的真正进步的唯一办法是致力于完全消灭化石燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, developing and emerging countries invest about $1 trillion a year in infrastructure.",
        "如今，发展中和新兴国家每年在基础设施上的投入大约为1万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "It will be more than sufficient to ask the Palestinians to recognize the legitimacy of the state of Israel, a state whose territorial boundaries and political identity are known to all.",
        "这其实对和巴勒斯坦的和解人为地制造了障碍，已经超过了要求巴勒斯坦人承认以色列国家的合法地位，国界等，这些是大家已经认可的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "But a Henry Wallace presidency (which would have occurred if FDR had not switched him for Harry Truman as vice president in 1944) might have changed the style of the US response.",
        "但如果亨利·华莱士（Henry Wallace）当了总统（如果罗斯福没有在1944年用杜鲁门替换他做了副总统，这完全是可能的），可能会改变美国的反应风格。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the north can inflate.",
        "第三，北方可能通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the Moldovan government balks at any attempt to lure away its citizens.",
        "当然，摩尔多瓦政府回避任何诱使民众离开摩尔多瓦的企图。"
    ],
    [
        "When it does, it must write down the principal value of that debt by at least 50%.",
        "一旦采取该行动，它必须将全部债务的本金削减至少50%。"
    ],
    [
        "Here lies the conundrum.",
        "而难题也正在于此。"
    ],
    [
        "They read budget speeches, reviewed stability programs, and even watched news interviews with government figures.",
        "他们研读预算报告，检讨金融稳定政策，甚至观看那些政府高官的新闻采访。"
    ],
    [
        "That shift, like any great political rupture, was driven by a combination of deep underlying dynamics and the particular circumstances of the moment.",
        "那次转变像任何一次伟大的政治决裂一样，都是由背后深层次动力和当时的特殊情况所共同驱动。"
    ],
    [
        "Our smiles help us to connect with others, ensuring that we pull roughly in the same direction.",
        "我们的笑容让我们彼此保持联系，确保可以心往一处使。"
    ],
    [
        "France is thought to have particularly cumbersome labor laws.",
        "法国劳动法被认为尤其麻烦重重。"
    ],
    [
        "With most countries worldwide facing continued economic uncertainty, the international community has a vested interest in emerging economies’ resilience, collective capacity to sustain global demand for goods and services, and ability to confront the challenges, such as gender inequality, that threaten their success.",
        "全世界大部分国家面临着持续的经济不确定性，国际社会对新兴经济体的韧性、维持全球商品和服务需求的集体能力以及应对性别不平等等威胁其策划你公公的挑战的能力翘首以待。"
    ],
    [
        "But Mauritius, a small island nation off the east coast of Africa, is neither particularly rich nor on its way to budgetary ruin. Nonetheless, it has spent the last decades successfully building a diverse economy, a democratic political system, and a strong social safety net.",
        "但毛里求斯这个位于非洲东部大洋上的岛国，既不特别富裕，也没有什么严重的预算问题，却在过去数十年间成功建立了一个多元化经济，一个民主政治系统，还有一套完善的社会安全网络，而包括美国在内的许多国家都可以从它身上学到些东西。"
    ],
    [
        "The people of Palestine yearn for peace and relief from suffering.",
        "巴勒斯坦人民渴望和平以及从受难中解脱出来。"
    ],
    [
        "But they failed to do so, and the transfer was effected soon after.",
        "但他们也没有这样做，而转移支付很快就实施了。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when political processes are stalled on both sides of the Atlantic, the US Federal Reserve and the ECB have been engaging in a series of policy innovations, feeling their way toward a solution that could promote and sustain economic recovery.",
        "如今，大西洋两岸的政策进程都陷入了停滞，美联储和欧洲央行已经实施了一系列政策创新，寻找可以促进和保持经济复苏的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "The End of Banks?",
        "银行的末日？"
    ],
    [
        "Now is the time for a major shift to an alliance with the region’s overwhelming Sunni majority.",
        "如今，以色列应该转变方向与在中东占压倒多数的逊尼派结盟。"
    ],
    [
        "The size of these transfers, however, would depend on the EU's financial policies at the time of admission, the outcome of accession negotiations, and economic developments in Turkey.",
        "但拨款的具体数额要看欧盟当时的金融政策、进入谈判的结果和土耳其自身的经济状况。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, CEOs of major banks have been forced out before.",
        "当然，大银行的CEO被迫辞职并非没有先例。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey has committed itself to a vast legislative effort to improve human rights, freedom of thought, treatment of prisoners, and civilian control over the military.",
        "土耳其启动了庞大的立法程序以改善其在人权、思想自由、囚犯待遇和军队的文官控制方面的现状。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously we will have to modernize France’s administration to achieve this, looking to other countries for best practices.",
        "显然，为了达到这一目标，我们需要实现法国政府的现代化，以其他国家为榜样看齐。"
    ],
    [
        "Top-performing countries such as Singapore and South Korea do not consider projects in isolation; they consider how each supports their policy objectives, and they weigh it against other projects that might yield better returns.",
        "新加坡和韩国等基础设施搞得最好的国家并不是以孤立的观点来思考项目； 他们考量每个基础设施项目能为政策目标提供怎样的支持，并与其他可能产生更好回报的项目进行权衡比较。"
    ],
    [
        "At home, Merkel can hope to reap the rewards.",
        "在国内，默克尔有希望收获其改革成果。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is the price of risk that is the source of our current distress.",
        "而我们现在的困境归根结底是拜风险价格所赐。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, moreover, little evidence that a deep involuntary restructuring would be any more traumatic than a deep voluntary restructuring.",
        "但是，没有证据显示深度非自愿重组会比深度自愿重组造成更大的混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "These dynamics are stoking trade tensions and raising the risk of economic fragmentation.",
        "这些动态助长着贸易紧张，也提高了经济分裂的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there is not much left of the “first nations” in these countries.",
        "事实上，在这些国家，已经没有多少“原住民”剩下了。"
    ],
    [
        "As the economist Jagdish Bhagwati points out, maintaining increased protections for, say, intellectual property may encourage research and innovation.",
        "经济学家贾格迪什·巴格瓦蒂（Jagdish Bhagwati）指出，保持增加对（比如）知识产权的保护可以鼓励研究和创新。"
    ],
    [
        "As 2012 comes to a close, it is in trouble, and every effort must be made to nurture and strengthen it.",
        "2012年即将结束，而欧元区陷入了麻烦，我们必须竭尽所能支持和强化它。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s inflation problem was a byproduct of its central banks’ reluctance to tighten policy more aggressively, and European countries’ hesitancy to let their currencies rise, reflecting their long-standing commitment to export-led growth.",
        "通胀其实是各国央行不愿进一步收紧货币政策所产生的副作用，此外欧洲长期奉行的出口型增长政策也导致各国在本国货币升值问题上踌躇不定。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial regulation and supervision will surely be strengthened, but they will remain national in character, with little safeguard against cross-border spillover and regulatory arbitrage.",
        "金融法规和监管肯定会有所增强，但监管措施仍将局限在国内，对跨国溢出和法律仲裁鲜有保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Organized psychiatry appears to have little interest in ECT, or is scared of harassment from patient advocates.",
        "有组织的精神病学界似乎对ECT缺乏兴趣，或者是他们对来自病人支持者的骚扰感到害怕。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, no one in a position of power is likely to heed such arguments.",
        "但不幸地是，没有一个当权者会留意这样的争论。"
    ],
    [
        "If G-20 leaders can reach specific and effective agreements on exchange rates and global imbalances without overshadowing other issues, the prospects for a soft-landing for the global economy will improve greatly.",
        "但如果G-20集团的各国领导人能够在不影响其他议题的情况下就汇率和全球失衡问题达成具体和有效协议的话，那么全球经济的软着陆就大有希望。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world will see during Obama’s visit, Japan is back and thriving.",
        "正如世界将从奥巴马访日之旅中所看到的，蒸蒸日上的日本已经归来。"
    ],
    [
        "The Spaak committee devised a system that balanced the voting power of states of varying size.",
        "斯巴克设计了一套平衡大小各异国家投票权力的体系。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump as US president that really reflected the move to upend the long-established balance among globalization, the nation-state, and democracy.",
        "但却是英国脱欧公投和唐纳德·特朗普当选美国总统这两大事件真正反映了全球化、民族国家和民主之间所达成的长期平衡被彻底破坏了。"
    ],
    [
        "63% of American Muslims report no conflict between religious devotion and living in modern society.",
        "63%的美国穆斯林并不表示在宗教忠诚和在现代社会中生存之间存在冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "I favor all of these proposals, in some form.",
        "从某种意义上讲，我支持所有这些提案政策。"
    ],
    [
        "It is still too early to gauge the impact of his economic and foreign policies, but there is one area where his government is making palpable progress: taming India’s entrenched elite.",
        "现在评估他的经济和外交政策的影响还为时过早，但有一个领域他的政府正在取得显而易见的进展：驯服印度根深蒂固的精英。"
    ],
    [
        "In the developed world, 2017 will likely be recalled as a period of stark contrast, with many economies experiencing growth acceleration, alongside political fragmentation, polarization, and tension, both domestically and internationally.",
        "在发达世界，2017年可能因为其鲜明的对比而被人铭记，许多经济体经历了增长加速，与此同时，国内和国际政治却发生了分裂、极化和紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "The prevailing belief was that, by 2015 or so, Japan’s per capita GDP would more likely than not be 10% higher than in the US (in PPP terms).",
        "当时的普遍观点是，到2015年左右，日本的人均GDP很有可能将比美国高出10%（以购买力平价衡量）。"
    ],
    [
        "From a climate-change perspective, this is a world turned upside down: for every $1 in support for renewable energy, another $6 promotes carbon-intensive fuels.",
        "从气候变化角度看，这是颠倒是非：对应支持可再生能源的每1美元，促进碳密集燃料花费6美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding all the self-congratulatory flourishes in Xi’s political report, there is good reason to believe that the Chinese economy is only in the early stages of its long-heralded structural transformation.",
        "尽管习近平的政治报告充斥着自我表扬，但有理由相信中国经济依然处于其长期鼓吹的结构转型的早期阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "The world runs on abstractions – calories, miles, pounds, and now tons of CO2e – that are seemingly objective and reliable, especially when embedded in “expert” (often economic) language.",
        "世界运行靠的是卡路里、英里、磅以及现在的碳当量吨数等等貌似客观可靠的抽象概念，尤其当它们与“专业”（往往涉及经济领域）的语言相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "So China’s cut in imports could not shave more than a few tenths of a percentage point from US GDP, and even that would be spread over several years.",
        "因此中国削减出口对美国GDP的影响最多只有零点几个百分点，并且这一影响也需要好几年才会充分显现。"
    ],
    [
        "As for post-secondary education – the crucible in which tomorrow’s leaders will be forged – the picture is dismal.",
        "而在高等教育方面——高等院校是未来领袖的摇篮——情况更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "And, on the world stage, Russia and China have been encouraged to believe that America will never push past a veto, effectively giving them the final word.",
        "而在世界舞台上，俄罗斯和中国也知道美国绝不会投反对票，于是最终决定权掌握在它们手上。"
    ],
    [
        "These measures were rationalized in various ways, but the reality is that by yielding to the demands of a minuscule number of disingenuous activists, the companies opted to offer less safe products to consumers, thereby exposing themselves to legal jeopardy.",
        "人们列举了许多种理由来证明上述措施是有必要的，但事实上在向一小撮狡猾的抗议分子屈服的同时，这些企业转而选择向消费者提供更不安全的食品，并因此将自身暴露在法律风险之下。"
    ],
    [
        "As one of the architects of policy after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, I know the controversy, anguish, and cost of the decisions taken.",
        "身为2001年911恐怖袭击后的决策者，我清楚这些决策所带来的冲突、痛苦和代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The state’s extensive environmental and energy regulation, including micromanaging carbon emissions, in combination with globalization, has driven away much of California’s manufacturing and many of its middle-class jobs.",
        "该州广泛实施的环境和能源使用限制，包括对碳排放的微观管理，加上全球化的影响，已经导致本州许多制造业企业倒闭，大量中层职位流失。"
    ],
    [
        "At this rate, current oil output and oil exports now exceed post-invasion predictions.",
        "照此速度，目前的石油产量和出口量都超过了入侵后的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "It might generate additional tax revenues, by discouraging international companies from engaging in “transfer pricing” between their subsidiaries, or from shifting profits to low-tax countries.",
        "它可能通过阻止国际公司在子公司之间实行“转让定价”或者将利润转移到低税率国家，从而创造额外的税收。"
    ],
    [
        "Children are given intelligence tests to determine eligibility for admission to school programs for the gifted.",
        "孩子们接受智力测验来决定是否能被学校录取进专为天才儿童所设的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "They argue that Russians’ specific nature leads them to support Putin, just as they allegedly supported Stalin and the Romanovs.",
        "他们认为俄国人的独特个性导致他们支持普京，就像他们曾经对斯大林和罗曼诺夫表示支持。"
    ],
    [
        "My personal memories of North Korea, now almost ten years old, are of a poor and depressed country.",
        "我个人的朝鲜记忆已经是10年前的往事了，我记得这是个贫穷而压抑的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The European project, as idealistic as it was, was always a top-down endeavor.",
        "虽然相当理想化的欧洲一体化宏愿一直都是个自上而下推动的。"
    ],
    [
        "But debt relief should be viewed as just a start.",
        "但债务免除只应被看作是一个开端。"
    ],
    [
        "If they don’t, Europe will largely cease to matter when the going gets rough.",
        "如果做不到，那么当事态恶化时，欧洲就没有了发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, countries must strengthen their resilience against adverse external shocks, including through efforts to strengthen their own financial systems.",
        "一方面，各国必须强化应对不利外部冲击的恢复力，包括强化自身金融体系的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Quite often in confrontational situations, people and politicians create a zero-sum game culture, which results in authoritarian and militaristic leadership.",
        "通常在冲突状态下，人们和政治家就会创造一种零和游戏文化，最终导致独裁主义和军事主义占据领导上风。"
    ],
    [
        "Corrections from the “elitist” mainstream media are dismissed as enemy propaganda.",
        "来自主流“精英”媒体的纠正被视为敌对宣传。"
    ],
    [
        "Remittances normally grow more than 15% a year, and will continue to do so.",
        "汇款额通常的年增长率是15%，且这种增长趋势是持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "Diplomats, instead, should be judged by their ability to enter into a dialogue with all social actors: government representatives and business leaders, of course, but also representatives of civil society (even if it exists only in embryonic form).",
        "相反，判断外交官的优劣应该依据他们与所有社会角色进行对话的能力： 这其中当然包括政府代表和企业领袖，但也包括民间组织的代言人（即使民间组织只是某种雏形）。"
    ],
    [
        "The country is developing a strong processing industry, especially in fertilizers, based in part on having the world’s largest phosphate reserves.",
        "摩洛哥正在发展强大的加工业，特别是依托世界最大磷肥储量的肥料加工业。"
    ],
    [
        "Recall that Russia’s pro-Western liberals, ascendant a decade ago, have been relegated to the ideological fringe, with the very word “democrat” (let alone “pro-West”) now a term of abuse.",
        "回想起十多年前俄罗斯内地位优越的亲西方自由主义者，现在已经被人们用“民主人士”（更不用说“亲西方”）——一个已经被滥用的术语称呼，被归到了意识形态的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "Vladimir Putin needs his own “Nixon moment.”",
        "普京需要其自己的“尼克松时刻”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Turkish-Dutch headmaster of the Muslim school in Uden that was burned down after van Gogh's murder voiced the inhibitions we all feel when he asked, rhetorically, \"Is the enemy not within us?\"",
        "范霍赫死后，被烧毁的于登（Uden）穆斯林小学的土耳其裔荷兰校长一语道出了我们的心声，他反反复复地询问\"难道敌人不在我们内部吗？ \""
    ],
    [
        "In other words, China could easily reach the target set by the “indicative guidelines” for reducing global imbalances by 2015, as proposed by US officials recently at the G-20 ministerial meeting in Seoul last November.",
        "换言之，中国能轻易地达到美国官员在去年11月首尔G20部长级会议上提出的在2015年减少全球不均衡的“标志性指导方针”。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan, Australia, Germany, or Canada might be just such powers.",
        "日本、澳大利亚、德国或者加拿大可能就是这样的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "When we compare the genetic material of humans and chimpanzees, we do, indeed, find that it corresponds at nearly 99 of every 100 comparable sites.",
        "如果比较一下人类和黑猩猩的遗传物质，就会发现确实每100个可比位置中，有99个都完全相同。"
    ],
    [
        "These assets are, in a sense, spoken for – there are claims on them in the form of liabilities, which have grown as expected risk-adjusted returns on assets decline; but they do represent a partial funding of public liabilities and are an element of resilience.",
        "这些资产，某种意义上说，都已经名花有主了——它们会以应付款项的形式支付给应得的人，而随着在预期中资产风险调整收益的下跌这些支付责任还有所增加； 但它们的确代表了一部分公共负债的资金来源并且也是实现经济复苏的一项要素。"
    ],
    [
        "But the talks failed to deliver a comprehensive, legally binding agreement, causing investors to lose confidence in a low-carbon economy and delaying progress by several years.",
        "但谈判并没有形成全面的、具有法律约束力的协定，这让投资者们对于形成低碳经济的信心大减，也将这方面的进展推迟了数年之久。"
    ],
    [
        "That may not have been a problem when China’s economy was growing, but it represents a serious economic risk today, which is why the government has set deleveraging as one of its major tasks for this year.",
        "当中国经济节节增长时，这也许不是问题，但如今，这是一个严重的经济风险，也是政府将去杠杆列为今年主要任务之一的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Together with new technologies enabling Super-Short Takeoff and Landing (superSTOL) a digital airspace would put safe, quiet, affordable, street-in-front-of-your-house personal air vehicles within sight.",
        "电子空间将会和超短起飞和降落新技术一道，让安全、安静、可以承受并且是就在你家房子面前的马路的个人空中交通工具摆在面前。"
    ],
    [
        "Reuniting the United Kingdom",
        "重新统一英国"
    ],
    [
        "NGO's do not have coercive \"hard\" power, but they often enjoy considerable \"soft\" power - the ability to get the outcomes they want through attraction rather than compulsion.",
        "NGO没有强迫性的\"硬\"权力，但却往往拥有相当的\"软\"权力-一种通过吸引而不是强迫来达到目的的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "French and German banks have been able to sell their holdings of Greek government bonds, largely to the ECB, which has acted as bond purchaser of last resort.",
        "法国和德国的银行都得以出售自身持有的希腊政府债券，其中大部分卖给了欧洲央行这个最终债券采购者。"
    ],
    [
        "And all of these things seem to contradict our belief in the Koran.",
        "所有这一切似乎都与我们对古兰经的信仰相矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s increasingly gloomy prospects make these reforms more necessary than ever.",
        "欧洲日渐灰暗的前景令这些改革目标具有了前所未有的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, the RMB’s slow appreciation resumed fairly promptly after December’s dip, while investors’ bearish sentiments about China’s economy remain consistent.",
        "更重要的是，在12月的贬值之后，人民币又相当稳健地回到了缓慢升值的轨道上，而与此同时，投资者看熊中国经济的情绪并没有缓解。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to lift people out of poverty and ensure food security, a sustained effort is needed to develop Africa’s agriculture and the associated infrastructure – notably roads, telecommunication, and energy – needed to unleash agricultural potential.",
        "为确保粮食安全、实现脱贫，需要为发展释放农业潜能所必须的非洲农业及相关基础设施——特别是道路、通讯和能源——付出不懈的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, women and their sexual purity were linked with the honor of men and their families – a connection that was defended by grounding it in Islam.",
        "例如，妇女和她们的性纯洁与男人和他们家族的荣誉紧密相连，通过把它作为伊斯兰的基本教义而维护这一联系。"
    ],
    [
        "The breakthrough fund will support the education of refugees for up to five years, instead of the mere months of patchwork provisions that are presently on offer.",
        "这一突破性基金将支持长达5年的难民教育，而不是像现在这样东拼西凑出短短几个月的补给。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because diplomats are their countries’ official representatives abroad, their symbolic function is much more important than their individual personalities.",
        "但因为外交官是国家在国外的官方代表，他们的象征意义远远超过自己的个性。"
    ],
    [
        "Why can’t we start right now?",
        "那么改变为什么不能从现在开始呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This, more than loose monetary policy, would have boosted private spending and rapidly restored full prosperity.",
        "这将比放松货币政策更加能够提振私人支出和快速重建充分繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s fond hope to contain terrorism regionally promises instead to ensure that Afghanistan and Pakistan remain a festering threat to regional and global security.",
        "美国最希望遏制地区的恐怖主义，但这反而确保了阿富汗和巴基斯坦仍然将进一步威胁地区和全球安全。"
    ],
    [
        "When Putin made the most important appointment of his life – the choice of his successor – one can be sure that his calculations were thorough.",
        "我们可以肯定，当普京做出他人生中最重要的任命也就是挑选他的继任者经过了周密的考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "It is quite certain that sea levels have risen over the last century, and continue to rise, in response to changing climate.",
        "可以肯定海平面由于气候变化的作用已经在上个世纪上升，并且还将继续升高。"
    ],
    [
        "We exclude the prices of commodities (oil, copper, and other such goods that are traded on an exchange), as these prices are not sticky.",
        "我们排除了大宗商品（石油，铜以及其他在交易所交易的商品）的价格，因为它们并不具备粘性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Limits of Oil’s Rebound",
        "石油反弹的极限"
    ],
    [
        "Even Jaitley, now India’s finance minister and a prominent cabinet member, has not expressed any opposition.",
        "就连贾特里——他目前担任印度财政部长和重要内阁成员——也没有表示任何反对。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, Europe’s neighborhood is bad and getting worse.",
        "与此同时，欧洲周边情况糟糕并且每况愈下。"
    ],
    [
        "China and India have become genuine competitors who deserve respect, if not sheer awe.",
        "中国和印度已经成为真正意义的竞争者，他们值得尊敬，如果不是纯粹的惧怕。"
    ],
    [
        "Then it was shaken by a series of financial shocks that culminated in the 2008 global financial crisis, which triggered cascading economic failures that pushed the world to the edge of a devastating multi-year depression.",
        "接着，它遭遇了一系列金融冲击，2008年全球金融危机为其高潮，它触发了一连串经济失灵，让世界几乎跌入灾难性的多年萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Financial markets have rallied since July on the hope that the global economic and geopolitical outlook will not worsen, or, if it does, that central banks stand ready to backstop economies and markets with additional rounds of liquidity provision and quantitative easing.",
        "巴黎—7月份以来，金融市场因为寄希望于全球经济和地缘政治前景不会再恶化——即使真的恶化了，各大央行也早已做好了准备通过更多轮的流动性供应和量化宽松力挺经济和市场——而出现了反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, at the current rate, the world’s fish resources will be extinguished in the next half-century.",
        "比方说按照目前的速度，世界鱼类资源将在未来半个世纪走上彻底灭绝之路。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that people want to come to the US enhances its appeal, and immigrants’ upward mobility is attractive to people in other countries.",
        "人们愿意来美国这一事实增强了美国的吸引力，移民地位的向上跃升吸引了来自其他国家的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq provides numerous examples of the dangers created by misplaced priorities.",
        "伊拉克在不分主次所造成的危险方面的例子更是不胜枚举。"
    ],
    [
        "Many years ago, without the help of a lie, Mariama would have died.",
        "多年前，要不是一个谎言，玛利亚玛已经死了。"
    ],
    [
        "Reported cannabis use at the study’s start increased the likelihood of being diagnosed with schizophrenia in the next 15 years.",
        "报告开始时报告的大麻使用增加此后十五年中被诊断为精神分裂症的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "For 50 years after the Great Depression of the 1930’s, the Money Power was held to account by the countervailing power of government.",
        "20世纪30年代大萧条之后的50年里，大银行一直是政府动刀的对象。"
    ],
    [
        "The PLA troops in Daulat Beg Oldie are a reminder that China has no intention of allowing unresolved border issues to be swept under the rug.",
        "道拉伯格玉尔地的解放军提醒我们，中国不会允许悬而未决的边境问题一直被掩盖。"
    ],
    [
        "China, the poster child for state-led growth, reduced its rate from 114.2 to 17.7.",
        "国家领导型增长的模范中国的这一比率从114. 2下降到17."
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Economic reality is beginning to catch up with the false hopes of many Britons.",
        "伦敦—经济现实正在开始追上许多英国人错误的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Many member states will worry about leaping straight to the contentious issue of ultimate membership for Ukraine, but the EU already recognizes Ukraine’s theoretical right to join once it has met the Copenhagen criteria; and it cannot be beyond EU leaders’ verbal dexterity to play up the prospect.",
        "欧盟许多成员国担心直接讨论乌克兰的最终成员国资格这一富有争议的问题，但是欧盟已经承认，一旦乌克兰满足哥本哈根标准它就在理论上有权加入欧盟。 而且欧盟领导人也在言辞上可以抬高乌克兰入盟前景。"
    ],
    [
        "During the Cold War, Western intelligence agencies developed an immense catalogue of indicators and correlations.",
        "冷战时，西方情报人员编制了非常复杂的现象和相关性手册。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s one new priority – to expand US support for African farmers – reflects a shrewd appreciation of how the expansion of agriculture can quickly lift many rural Africans out of poverty.",
        "奥巴马扩大美国对非洲农民支持的全新优先政策表明美国已机敏地认识到农业领域的拓展能够如何迅速地帮助众多非洲农民脱贫致富。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, when we seek solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, they, too, are likely to be found, at least in part, in new technologies that can resolve old and seemingly intractable problems.",
        "因此，很多全球最困难问题的解决，至少是部分解决实际就有赖于新的技术，这些技术可以让许多原有的复杂问题迎刃而解。"
    ],
    [
        "The champagne corks were popped prematurely in 1989.",
        "1989年的庆祝操之过急了。"
    ],
    [
        "But solving Europe’s growth problem requires more than just throwing money at it.",
        "但解决欧洲的增长问题需要的不仅仅是扔钱。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, translation and interpretation increasingly proceed in two steps, from a lesser-used language to half a dozen “relay” languages, and from those into other, smaller languages.",
        "其结果是笔译和口译越来越倾向于以“两步走”的方式进行。 先从一种较为不常用的语言翻译成十数种“接力”语言，然后再以此为基础，翻译成更小的语种。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does the administration want to face up to the military’s recruiting and retention problems.",
        "而且，政府也不想面对军队的招募以及保留问题。"
    ],
    [
        "There is some reason for optimism that efforts to stem the tide of violence can succeed.",
        "抱有阻止暴力活动将会胜利的乐观态度并非全无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall will be commemorated in November, and it has been five years since the European Union’s “Big Bang” enlargement.",
        "推倒柏林墙20周年的纪念活动将于11月举行，而距离欧盟上一轮“宇宙大爆炸”式的大规模扩张也已整整5年。"
    ],
    [
        "Chronic malnutrition, or “hidden hunger,” shows itself in other ways – but it can be just as devastating and deadly.",
        "慢性营养不良，也叫“隐性饥饿”，还体现在其他方面——但其破坏性和致命性却丝毫不减。"
    ],
    [
        "His shot flew into the treetops, even as three bullets entered the bear’s heart from the snipers who guaranteed the dictator’s marksmanship.",
        "他猎枪里的子弹飞上了树梢，与此同时却有三颗子弹射入了黑熊的心脏，开枪的是保护独裁者安全的狙击手。"
    ],
    [
        "One prescription that is bandied about with increasing frequency certainly sounds sensible: the world should drastically cut the amount of greenhouse gases that it pumps into the atmosphere each day.",
        "对此有一种解决方案正日渐流行，而且听上去似乎也合情合理，那就是全世界必须大幅削减每天的温室气体排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "I am convinced that as the consequences of Brexit unfold in the weeks and months ahead, more and more people will join us.",
        "我相信，随着未来几周和几个月英国退出的后果逐渐显现，更多的人将加入我们的行列。"
    ],
    [
        "Some scenarios, including an “electronic Pearl Harbor,” sound alarmist, but they illustrate the diffusion of power from central governments to individuals.",
        "某些场景，包括“电子珍珠港” ，似乎是危言耸听，但它们确实是权力从中央政府向个人扩散的真实写照。"
    ],
    [
        "Safeguards such as a moratorium on such developments or registering the equipment needed to implement them should be considered.",
        "我们应该考虑采取一些防护措施，如要求暂停这种开发或对需要的相关仪器进行登记等。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate over how to value the yuan is at the heart of the two-year struggle by the country’s policymakers to slow down China’s overheating economy.",
        "关于如何评估人民币价值的争论是该国政策制定者们两年来为缓解中国经济过热所作努力的核心。 对这个问题，一种回答是中国人民银行将一年期利率从5."
    ],
    [
        "With a neat twist of logic, our cognitive imperfections are turned on their heads, and made to work to achieve System-II choices.",
        "我们的认知缺陷随着一个灵巧的逻辑扭曲，在他们的脑中显现出来，并被用来努力去获得方法II的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "As the competition heats up, we should expect amazing developments – and no doubt more public relations gimmicks.",
        "在竞争越发激烈之时，我们可以预料将会有令人惊叹的发展，而且，毫无疑问，会有更多的公关诡计。"
    ],
    [
        "The Invisible-Border War",
        "无形边境战争"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, they stressed yet again the need for a “high standard” bilateral investment treaty; but there was little indication of serious movement on the industries that would be shielded from such an agreement (the “negative list.”).",
        "类似地，双方再次强调有必要签订“高标准”双边投资条约； 但没有迹象表明将被排除在这一协议之外的行业（“负面清单”）有真动作。"
    ],
    [
        "The Strategy nurtures the ambition of strategic autonomy for the EU, which is necessary to promote our citizens’ common interests, as well as our principles and values.",
        "该战略提出要培养欧盟战略自主（strategic autonomy）的雄心，这是推进我们的人民的利益以及我们的原则和价值观的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there is Britain, usually seen as perhaps the most secular country in Western Europe, and thus the least likely candidate to see the return of religion of any kind (outside its Muslim community).",
        "最后还有英国，人们一般认为英国是西欧世俗化程度最高的国家，因此，英国最不可能（在穆斯林团体之外）出现任何形式的宗教回归。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund enthusiastically endorsed it at the time, calling it a potential fiscal “game changer.”",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）当时予以热烈支持，称之为可能的财政“局面改变因素”。"
    ],
    [
        "If anything, the new and growing dimension of transnational threats, when added to traditional security concerns, makes the future of the Japan-US alliance look more promising than ever.",
        "不管怎样，新的和正在出现的跨国威胁，加上传统的安全问题，使日美同盟看上去比过去更牢固。"
    ],
    [
        "These are particularly important goals for Angola, Nigeria, and South Africa.",
        "对安哥拉、尼日利亚和南非来说，这些目标尤其重要。"
    ],
    [
        "We usually reckon that it is easier for young, unformed minds to handle changes like these.",
        "我们通常认为年轻而又没有定型的头脑更为容易应付类似这样的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Surely, there is a lesson here.",
        "这其中肯定有什么教训值得吸取。"
    ],
    [
        "This has not been true of most countries since 2008.",
        "但自2008年以来大多数国家都未达到这一状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, as their economies mature, both will need to embrace structural change – and to address the challenges of overdue political reforms.",
        "随着两国经济逐步走向成熟，结构性变革变得势在必行——同时还要应对那些拖延已久的政治改革所带来的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "As a practical matter, Putin certainly does not seem to be suffering any adverse domestic political consequences from his bashing in the US.",
        "从实际角度讲，普京显然没有因为抨击美国而造成任何负面的国内政治后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But, increasingly, it will be generational rather than geographical.",
        "但是，这一鸿沟将日益从地理鸿沟变成代沟。"
    ],
    [
        "If drug companies target diseases that affect only people who are unable to pay high prices for drugs, they cannot expect to cover their research costs, let alone make a profit.",
        "如果制药公司针对的疾病仅仅是困扰那些付不起高药价的人，那就无望收回研发成本，更妄谈盈利了。"
    ],
    [
        "This new “Turkish Stream\" is an alternative to the “South Stream\" Black Sea pipeline from Russia to Bulgaria – a project that the Kremlin abandoned in December, in response to the sanctions imposed by the European Union after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.",
        "这条新的“土耳其溪”（Turkish Stream）将成为从俄罗斯至保加利亚的“南溪”（South Stream）黑海管道的替代品。 克里姆林宫在12月放弃了后者，以此作为欧盟在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰、吞并克里米亚后对俄罗斯实施的制裁的回应。"
    ],
    [
        "True, not long ago the renminbi was substantially undervalued, and China’s trade surpluses were very large.",
        "诚然，人民币不久前还处于严重低估的状态，中国的贸易盈余也相当巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Though there is no clinically proven vaccine against Ebola, this could soon change.",
        "虽然现在还没有经临床验证的治疗埃博拉的疫苗，但这种状况可能很快发生改变。"
    ],
    [
        "The Colombian government’s pioneering approach seems to have benefited from a gender sub-commission that considered proposals from nongovernmental organizations representing women’s rights and the LGBT community.",
        "哥伦比亚政府如此开创性的做法似乎也离不开性别小组委员会的工作，该委员会负责审议提案，对代表女性及同性恋群体利益的非政府机构提案展开审议进程。"
    ],
    [
        "But the final straw was America’s support for the recent interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program.",
        "但最令沙特切齿的是美国支持最近关于伊朗核计划的过渡协议。"
    ],
    [
        "That may not be the sort of outside intervention that could cure the ills of centuries of repression and underdevelopment overnight, but “we” need to stop searching for a non-existent panacea, and instead do something better than feeding the Egyptian military.",
        "这可能不是那种外部干预，可以彻底消除数世纪以来积累的镇压弊病，但我们需要停止搜寻一种不存在的灵丹妙药，而是做一些比供给埃及军队更好的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "The work of mourning, to use Freud's formula, is continuous.",
        "缅怀心理，套用佛洛伊德的公式，是有延续性的。"
    ],
    [
        "But both opposed pro-cyclical policy, such as the misguided US fiscal and monetary tightening of 1937: before the economy had fully recovered, President Roosevelt raised taxes and cut spending, while the Federal Reserve raised reserve requirements, prolonging and worsening the Great Depression.",
        "但两人都反对顺周期政策，比如误入歧途的美国1937年财政与货币紧缩：在经济尚未完全恢复前，罗斯福总统提高税收并削减开支，而美联储提高存款准备金率，结果这些举措延长并恶化了经济大萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "The Scots have been part of the British state for more than 300 years, at the heart of the Protestant, imperial, adventuring, outward-looking culture that forged Britain’s identity.",
        "苏格兰人成为英国的一部分已逾三百年，他们是铸就英国身份的新教、帝国、冒险和向外看文化的中流砥柱。"
    ],
    [
        "The next century of progress depends on it.",
        "未来一个世纪的进步取决于这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The second round went to the extremists.",
        "极端分子赢得了第二回合。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither perspective is wrong; on the contrary, the problem is how to reconcile them.",
        "这两种视角都是对的； 问题只是如何将两者协调一致。"
    ],
    [
        "All manner of new legal and constitutional difficulties constantly arise.",
        "各式各样的法律和宪法难题层出不穷。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s private sector was notoriously bad in allocating capital and managing risk in the years before the global financial crisis, while studies show that average returns to the economy from government research projects are actually higher than those from private-sector projects – especially because the government invests more heavily in important basic research.",
        "美国私人部门在全球金融危机前几年的配置资本和管理风险水平之低已是众所周知，而研究表明，经济得自政府研究项目的平均回报其实要高于私人部门项目——特别是因为政府投资更偏向重要的基础研究。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the most recent World Energy Investment report from the International Energy Agency, global expenditure in the oil and gas sector totaled $649 billion in 2016.",
        "根据国际能源署的最新《世界能源投资》（World Energy Investment）报告，2016年全球石油和天然气行业总支出高达6,490亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In September 2008, US President George W. Bush wanted to “free up banks to resume the flow of credit to American families and businesses.”",
        "2008年9月，美国总统小布什希望“解放银行以使信用重新流向美国家庭和企业。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, average public debt has soared to 87% of GDP, leaving little space for policy flexibility or innovation.",
        "同时公共债务规模飙升，相当于GDP总量的87%，导致留给政策调整和创新的空间极为有限。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for the Sunni world to recognize the need for a federalist approach to manage the instability and conflict that plagues it.",
        "逊尼派世界应该认识到采取联邦制治理影响该地区的动荡和冲突的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Bangladesh needs only to look west to India and Pakistan to see the threat posed by Islamist terrorism.",
        "孟加拉国只需要向西看看印度和巴基斯坦，就可以看到伊斯兰恐怖主义所造成的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "As an Ocean Elder, I was also heartened by Francis’s emphasis in Laudato Si' on the need for strict mechanisms of regulation and control on the open seas – a real step forward in this regard.",
        "身为资深海洋人士，弗朗西斯在通谕Laudato Si' 中强调有必要建立严格的公海调控机制——从而向削减碳排放迈出了坚实的一步——这一举措令我备受鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "This latest round looked at 51 banks and, contrary to previous tests, was not designed to identify capital shortfalls, but rather to provide “a common analytical framework to consistently compare and assess the resilience of large EU banks to adverse economic developments.”",
        "该轮测试包括51家银行，与此前的测试不同，它们的目标并不是发现资本短缺，而是提供“通用的分析框架对欧盟大银行面临不利经济发展形势时的恢复力进行持续的比较和评估。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "If Erdoğan’s AKP hopes to avoid a similar fate, it must not continue its march toward a latter-day Sultanic order.",
        "如果埃尔多安的正义与发展党希望避免类似的命运，那么就必须停止其日后向苏丹式秩序进军的步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "What Japan needs is a stronger economy.",
        "日本需要的是更加坚挺的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in the twentieth century, the Speenhamland principle was revived – and by none other than the free-market liberal Milton Friedman.",
        "接着，在二十世纪，斯宾汉兰原则复兴——推动者不是别人，正是自由市场自由派米尔顿·弗里德曼（Milton Friedman）。"
    ],
    [
        "So the key question now is how the world’s leaders will respond.",
        "因此，现在的关键问题是世界领导人们如何应对。"
    ],
    [
        "Established powers’ resistance to their rising counterparts’ demands for a larger role in setting the global agenda fuel tensions and disrupt the existing world order.",
        "老牌列强拒绝接受崛起新贵在决定全球日程中扮演更重要角色的要求，从而助长紧张、干扰既成世界秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a Tobin tax moves financial traders – talented people with strong work habits – into other activities, which (policymakers hope) will benefit the economy more.",
        "此外，托宾税能让金融交易者——大多是有着良好工作习惯的人才——转行，（决策者希望）这能够让经济获得更多的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Another post, published in July, explicitly challenged the BoE’s “official” view that as the economy recovers, we can expect non-financial companies to begin to run down their cash balances to fund investment.",
        "7月份发布的另一篇帖子矛头直指英格兰银行的“官方”观点——随着经济的复苏，我们可以预期非金融公司开始削减现金余额，出资投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike China’s goal-setting exercises in the past, there are no quantitative targets attached to these “twin centenary goals” (which roughly align with the Party’s founding in 1921 and the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949). They celebrate the long-awaited national rejuvenation that Xi has dubbed the China Dream.",
        "跟中国过去的目标制定做法不同，这两个“百年奋斗目标”（与1921年中共建党和1949年中华人民共和国成立时间大致配对）并没有提出任何量化指标，只是颂扬了期待已久的民族复兴（习近平称之为“中国梦”）。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditionally, a visit from the Japanese emperor – except for a coronation or royal anniversary celebration – signified a turning point in a bilateral relationship.",
        "传统上，日本天皇的访问——除加冕礼和皇室周年庆典以外——标志着双边关系的转折点。"
    ],
    [
        "We expected an increasingly peaceful and tolerant world, in which technological advances, together with well-governed markets, would generate ever-expanding prosperity.",
        "我们期待一个日益和平和宽容的世界，在这个世界里，科技进步和治理良好的市场能产生不断扩大的繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way that a Chinese merger with the TPP could gain credibility would be to make all non-trade-related provisions optional.",
        "而唯一能使中国融入协议使之具备获得公信力的方法就是将所有与贸易无关的条款列为可选项。"
    ],
    [
        "The BRICS countries are home to around half of the world’s population and the bulk of unexploited economic potential.",
        "金砖国家拥有世界近一半人口和大部分未开发经济潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Putin risking his political future by accepting a formally secondary role and making himself accountable for all socio-economic policy?",
        "普京会甘愿接受一个形式上的二号人物角色以及必须为所有的社会经济政策负责而拿他的政治未来冒险吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The experience of European democracies confronted with a long-term terrorist threat shows that human rights and the rule of law are our strongest assets. That is why terrorists want to destroy them.",
        "”在这方面，欧洲民主国家与恐怖主义威胁长期斗争的经验告诉我们，人权和法治这两项价值观是我们最有力的武器，同时也是恐怖分子殚精竭虑要破坏的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Islamist terrorism is a reflection, indeed an extension, of today’s wars in the Middle East.",
        "伊斯兰恐怖主义是当下中东战争的一种反映——实际上也可以说是扩展。"
    ],
    [
        "When the first Soviet soldiers came up our little street in the Western suburbs of Berlin, we knew that the great slaughter was coming to an end.",
        "当第一名苏联士兵踏上柏林西郊的小道时，我们知道这场规模最大的屠杀终于要到尽头了。"
    ],
    [
        "Even China’s highly lucrative and fast-growing trade with India has not curbed its rising territorial assertiveness.",
        "甚至颇为诱人的对印贸易的高速增长也没有让它减弱领土主张。"
    ],
    [
        "Using the SASB’s proposed standards for 45 industries, as well as other metrics, a new study – the most definitive so far – has found that companies that perform well on material sustainability factors have better operational performance, are less risky, and earn significantly higher shareholder returns than companies that perform poorly.",
        "一份新研究——目前为止结论最强的研究——使用SASB对45个行业的建议标准和其他指标，发现在实质可持续性因素方面表现出色的公司经营表现更好，风险更低，股东回报也显著高于表现不佳的公司。"
    ],
    [
        "A rough rule of thumb implies that every $100 decline in wealth leads to a $4 decline in household spending.",
        "粗略的经验法则表明，财富每缩水100美元，家庭支出将下降4美元。"
    ],
    [
        "And the CEA goes further, estimating that conflicted investment advice leads to a one-percentage-point drop in return.",
        "CEA更进一步，估算出冲突投资建议导致回报下降了一个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "The company’s model laudably calls for research participants to help in the analysis of their own genomes, thereby relieving researchers of the burden of returning all results at once.",
        "该公司的模式值得称赞——它呼吁研究参与者为分析自身基因组提供帮助，从而减轻研究者立刻返回所有结果的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rampant consumption of sugar that marks this time of year is nothing to celebrate.",
        "但是无节制地食用糖毫无可喜之处。"
    ],
    [
        "But, above all, it is necessary - just as it was during the Communist era - that we not lose faith in the meaning of alternative centers of thought and civic action.",
        "但是，最重要的是——如同在共产主义时期一样——我们决不能丧失对另一种思维核心和民众行为的意义的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, when Arab public opinion opposed Palestinian concessions, Mubarak remained aloof from US peace initiatives. For example, in 1996, he declined President Bill Clinton’s invitation to come to Washington, along with Arafat and the leaders of Israel and Jordan, to settle a bout of Palestinian violence. And when Clinton asked Mubarak to pressure Arafat to facilitate an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal during negotiations at Camp David in 2000, he refused.",
        "比如1996年他就回绝了美国总统克林顿的邀请，没有赴华盛顿与阿拉法特以及以色列和约旦领导人共同调解巴勒斯坦暴力行动。 而当克林顿要求穆巴拉克在2000年的戴维营谈判中促成一份以巴和平协议时，巴拉克也拒绝了这一要求。"
    ],
    [
        "We are faced with forging a new long-term policy that affects both states and societies. That task requires patience and strategic perseverance.",
        "对此，我们需要塑造一个能同时对国家政府和民间社会起作用的，崭新的长期政策，这要求我们有足够的耐心和战略持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister David Cameron claims that the concessions he has won from Britain’s EU partners should lay to rest popular concerns about a loss of sovereignty to Brussels and an influx of foreign workers from Eastern Europe.",
        "首相卡梅伦宣称他已经赢得英国欧盟伙伴国的让步，这应该消除公众对于向布鲁塞尔让渡主权和东欧工人涌入英国的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "With so many people on the move, it is even possible to become a settler superpower without being recognized as a state.",
        "因为移民人数如此之多，在没有认可国家地位的情况下就成为移民超级大国是完全可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, Western pressure had managed to keep Hun Sen in check.",
        "过去，西方压力已经能够制约洪森的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa’s father was jailed for smuggling drugs to the US when the future leader was five years old.",
        "而厄瓜多尔总统拉斐尔·科雷亚的父亲在这位未来的领袖只有五岁时因走私毒品而被捕入狱。"
    ],
    [
        "It is highly likely that desired health expenditures will be enormous for some things and trivial for others.",
        "很可能有些领域需要巨额经费，而另外一些领域能得到的却少之又少。"
    ],
    [
        "There are a number of websites now devoted to fact checking and debunking putative news stories.",
        "现在已经出现了几家网站专门从事事实核查和揭露新闻内幕的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "With so many challenges ahead, Nigeria can ill afford an ailing president.",
        "面临这么多的挑战，尼日利亚就不能有一个生病的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Unseasoned in the art of politics, the NTC frequently lacks the foresight needed to make critical decisions.",
        "没有经过政治的洗礼，委员会经常会缺乏做出关键决策所需要的远见卓识。"
    ],
    [
        "The German government can use its considerable leverage to compel France and Italy to pursue the structural reforms that both countries need, while allowing a growth-friendly demand stimulus to lift the threat of deflation hanging over the eurozone.",
        "德国政府可以利用手中巨大的杠杆去迫使法意两国实施双方所需的结构性改革，同时允许实施一个促进增长的需求刺激计划去驱除高悬在欧元区之上的通缩威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an annoyance when a software virus crashes our computers; but what if the virus crashes our cars?",
        "软件病毒让我们的电脑崩溃着实令人恼怒； 但若病毒可以让我们撞车呢？"
    ],
    [
        "All of this does not mean that there are necessarily “radicals” and “moderates” within the clerical regime in Teheran.",
        "所有这些并不意味着德黑兰的教权主义统治集团内部就一定有什么“激进派”和“温和派”。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU has already undertaken deployments that combine military and civilian capabilities.",
        "欧盟已经进行了军民力量相融合的部署。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom has already committed itself to a binding target to reduce emissions by that amount, and President Barack Obama has expressed intention that the United States should also set that target.",
        "英国已经承诺了一项具有约束力的目标，以减少排放量，而奥巴马总统也已表示，美国也打算建立这样的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more important, the trials have had the strong backing of the Gülen movement.",
        "更重要的是，这些审判极大地支持了葛兰运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Moving to an electronic government currency would not require a destabilizing change in the inflation target.",
        "转向电子政府货币不需要通胀目标的破坏性变化。"
    ],
    [
        "In Tocqueville’s world, the destruction of caste was only partial.",
        "在托克维尔的世界中，等级的消灭只是局部的。"
    ],
    [
        "Patching up holes in the budget and individual initiatives are not enough to ensure economic renewal.",
        "对预算方案和具体计划漏洞的修修补补不足以确保经济获得重生。"
    ],
    [
        "Because per capita incomes are higher in cities than in rural areas, the world’s cities today are estimated to account for more than 80% of global income, with the largest 600 accounting for around half.",
        "城市的人均收入高于农村，因此预计如今世界城市占据着全球收入的80%以上，其中最大的600个城市就占据了一半。"
    ],
    [
        "What needs to be done has long been clear.",
        "需要采取哪些措施早就已经一清二楚。"
    ],
    [
        "· Will the proposed policy be effective in remedying the market failure?",
        "•即将提出的政策是否能有效弥补该市场失灵？"
    ],
    [
        "Lahoud’s absence is not surprising, as the discussions deal with the fate of his illegal presidency and how to break the deadlock that his continuance in office has imposed on the country.",
        "拉胡德的缺席并不出人意料，因为此次会议将要讨论他的非法总统职位的命运以及如何打破由于其恋栈而导致的僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "Facing the Fourth Industrial Revolution",
        "直面第四次工业革命"
    ],
    [
        "REDD+ Handed in Paris",
        "巴黎的REDD+"
    ],
    [
        "The capital ratios most frequently highlighted by banks and officials are misleading, because they include items – such as goodwill and deferred tax assets – that are incapable of absorbing losses.",
        "银行和官员常常强调的资本比率有误导作用，因为它们包括了无法用来吸收损失的项目——如商誉和递延税收资产。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1950’s, Asia conjured up images of poverty and starvation.",
        "二十世纪五十年代，亚洲呈现的是贫穷和饥荒的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "Jensen, a researcher of the highest integrity and fame, is free to write on both sides of this issue.",
        "延森是一位大名鼎鼎的诚实研究者，大可以随心所欲地撰写关于这一问题任何一面的文章。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a dangerous game: The US has broken with the international community to support Israel in the past; it is less willing to do so today.",
        "这是个危险的游戏：美国在过去为了支持以色列而与国际社会决裂； 如今它不太愿意再这么做。"
    ],
    [
        "And by pre-selecting fixed categories of people for heightened scrutiny, the authorities overlook those who do not fit the profile.",
        "因为预先选择出一些固定群体进行详细审查，当局反而忽略了那些并不符合种族特征的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s Constitutional Albatross",
        "日本的宪法负担"
    ],
    [
        "Between 2010 and 2012, the center-left PASOK was in government, doing whatever it took to preserve Greece’s membership of the euro and ward off formal default.",
        "在2010到2012年间，偏左翼的泛希腊社会主义运动党执政，它实施了一切可以保持希腊欧元成员国身份并避免正式违约的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s desire to punish India was then reinforced by the Doklam standoff.",
        "中国对惩罚印度的渴望因为洞朗对峙而强化。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1907, in the wake of an epochal financial crisis that almost brought a complete global collapse, several countries started to think of finance primarily as an instrument of raw power that could and should be turned to national advantage.",
        "1907年，随着一场几乎令全球陷入崩溃的划时代的金融危机，一些国家开始把金融视为能够而且应当转化为国家优势的代表原始力量的工具来加以运用。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of the government’s threat to the independence of the judiciary, they concluded, “the bone and sinew of the results of our long and hard labors thus become as running water.”",
        "由于政府给司法独立带来威胁，他们得出结论，“我们长期辛勤劳动的结果全都付之东流了”。"
    ],
    [
        "But while the incomplete-contract approach was necessary during the transition to a market economy, it is not a long-term solution.",
        "尽管不完全契约的改革策略在向市场经济转型期间是不可或缺的，它并不是长期解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Where in the world can you find a more isolated, regimented and militarized dynastic mutation of a communist totalitarian system than in North Korea?",
        "你还能在世界上哪个地方找到一个比朝鲜更加孤立的共产主义军事化编制管理的制度体系？"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, blaming the creditors for their “punitive” conditions, as Greek negotiators have done, would also be a mistake, for this simplistic narrative too obscures a complicated truth.",
        "但是，希腊谈判者指责债权人施加“惩罚性”条件也是一个错误，因为这一简单化的叙事也掩盖了复杂的真相。"
    ],
    [
        "He was the NEC’s deputy director from its beginning in 1993 until 1996, and its director from 1996 to 2000.",
        "他曾国家经济委员会成立之初的1993年到1996年间任副主管，1996年至2000年期间升任主管。"
    ],
    [
        "The evidence of the ongoing political change comes in many forms.",
        "方兴未艾的政治变革迹象呈现出多种形式。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the world’s fires will burn longer and hotter this year.",
        "这就是为何世界之火将在今年烧得更旺。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it was cheaper only because it passed some of its costs on to others – for example, to people who lived downstream or downwind from the factory farms, and could no longer enjoy clean water and air.",
        "但实际上它廉价的原因只是把部分开支转嫁到了他人身上¾比如居住在养殖场下风下水的居民，洁净的饮水和空气对他们来讲几乎成了一种奢望。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, until the mid-1970's, the number of hours worked on either side of the Atlantic was roughly the same.",
        "实际上，20世纪70年代为止，大西洋两岸劳工的工作时数还大体相同。"
    ],
    [
        "In Pakistan, they come to the army headquarters, they come to the army chief, they run there, and they ask them to act.",
        "在巴基斯坦，人们跑向军队总部，跑向军队领导人，请求军队采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy is the realm of things that have value. Things have value when they are both desirable and scarce.",
        "经济是由有价值的事物构成的，只有人人想要但却稀缺的事物才会有价值。"
    ],
    [
        "While this may be true in rare cases, there are many areas where fast and effective tests exist, but are not yet used widely – either in developing or developed countries.",
        "也许偶尔确实会有这样的情况，但很多地区能够快速有效的皮试却没有广泛使用——在发展中国家还是发达国家都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the ability to plan ahead in anticipation of the price increases would allow more effective responses, as farmers plant different crops, manufacturers switch to more energy-efficient equipment, and so forth.",
        "同时，预期价格上涨的情况下提前制定计划的能力将允许更有效的对策，农民可以转而种植不同的作物，制造商可以选择更节能的设备等等。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the decision radically to loosen evidentiary standards when deciding to incarcerate terrorist suspects in Guantánamo Bay or elsewhere.",
        "让我们考虑一下这一局面，也就是在决定把恐怖疑犯关押在关塔纳摩基地或者其他地方的时候大幅度放松证据标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, there is still no clear US strategy on how to ensure that the endgame does not undermine Western interests or further destabilize the region.",
        "更加糟糕的是，该如何确保在不损害西方利益或导致该地区更加动荡的情况下结束阿富汗战争，美国还没有清晰的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "SEATTLE – Before the horrors of the latest Ebola outbreak in West Africa could even begin to fade from our minds, the Zika virus emerged as a major global health risk, and is now occupying researchers and doctors in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.",
        "西雅图—最近的西非的埃博拉疫情爆发的恐怖尚未在人们脑海中散尽，寨卡病毒便崛起成为全球主要健康威胁之一，目前令南美、中美和加勒比地区研究者和医生们焦头烂额。"
    ],
    [
        "That is an investment worth making.",
        "这样的投资是非常值得的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet stabilizing the climate requires sustained and consistent action over an extended period.",
        "但稳定气候要求在相当长的时期内采取持续一致的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Germans want the ECB to focus only on large systemic banks, and leave smaller savings banks (like those that invested heavily in subprime mortgages) to national authorities.",
        "德国人希望欧洲央行把注意力仅仅放在大型系统性银行之上，把较小型的储蓄银行（比如那些曾经大笔投资在次级贷上的）留给各国当局。"
    ],
    [
        "Multidisciplinary partnerships driven by the sustained leadership of senior government officials must guide progress, beginning at the planning stage.",
        "必须通过高级政府官员的持续领导推动的多学科合作来指引进程，第一步是规划阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "There wouldn’t be enough regulation for them to feel the need to escape.",
        "不会有足够的监管措施让他们觉得有必要选择另一条道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Aid cutoffs regularly fail to produce desired political results for at least two reasons.",
        "取消援助一般不会带来预期的政治效果，这里面至少有两个原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless, that is, we take EPO to make up for our genetic deficiency.",
        "除非他们服用EPO以弥补基因的不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when football doesn’t lead to actual bloodshed, it inspires strong emotions – primitive and tribal – evoking the days when warriors donned facial paint and jumped up and down in war dances, hollering like apes.",
        "即使足球并未引发真实的流血事件，它也能激起人们强烈而原始的部族情感，让人联想到脸上涂满油彩的战士上窜下跳地跳起战舞，并像猩猩一样大声呼喊。"
    ],
    [
        "Are we seeing a fundamental shift in relations between Arab nationalism and Islamic sectarianism?",
        "我们是否在目睹阿拉伯民族主义和伊斯兰宗派主义关系中根本性的变化呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The recent wave of protests in Moscow and throughout the country has exposed the limits of his power.",
        "最近在莫斯科和全国各地的抗议浪潮已经暴露出他的权力是有限度的。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, if the IST’s aim is to evoke the possibility of show trials rather than bolstering the rule of law, Talabani is quite right: problem solved.",
        "当然，如果IST的目标只是做一场审判秀而不是支持法制，那么Talabani完全正确：问题已经解决了。"
    ],
    [
        "We assumed that family ties and non-directedness would preclude coercion and commerce.",
        "我们假定亲属关系和不定向捐赠可以避免强制和商业因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Some preach that Muslims are destroying Western civilization.",
        "有人宣扬穆斯林正在摧毁西方文明。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain might emerge from such a process in a situation resembling that of Norway: a member of the European Economic Area that pays most of the regular costs of EU membership to retain most of the same trade privileges.",
        "这一过程可能让英国身处类似于挪威的境况：作为欧洲经济区成员国，承担欧盟成员国的大部分常规成本以获得大部分相同的贸易特权。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – It begins in a world now gone, lying at the borders of Ruthenia, Bukovina, and Galicia, forgotten places that were the glory of the Habsburg Empire and of European Judaism.",
        "巴黎——这一切起源于一个逝去的世界，这个世界位于罗塞尼亚、布科维纳和加利西亚之间，这片被遗忘的土地曾经是哈布斯堡帝国和欧洲犹太人的荣耀所在。"
    ],
    [
        "An even more spectacular example of a statistical error and sleight of hand is the widely cited claim of Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff that countries’ growth slows sharply if their debt/GDP ratio exceeds 90%.",
        "而统计方法错误和捏造事实的更惊人例子是哈佛经济学家卡门·莱因哈特（Carmen Reinhart）和肯尼斯·罗格夫（Kenneth Rogoff）最为广泛引用的断言——如果一国债务对GDP比率超过90%，其经济增长会大幅度放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "He laments that the Japanese are especially fond of the idea of “Japaneseness,” making it possible that Japan may become the “last hero” of a dying ethos.",
        "他悲叹日本人特别喜欢“日本的”的观点，使日本可能成为一个垂死的社会思潮的“最后的英雄”。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the root cause of the Eastern European attitudes now on grim display is to be found in World War II and its aftermath.",
        "相反，如今东欧的残酷态度的根源可以追溯到二战及其后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if negotiators overcome the most recent sticking points, it will be difficult to trust in their implementation if the Greek people remain unconvinced.",
        "即使谈判者克服了最近的症结，如果说服不了希腊人民，也很难信任调整方案的实施。"
    ],
    [
        "As the fish stocks collapsed in 2005, 5,000 people decided to put their redundant fishing boats to a different use, by fleeing to the Spanish Canary Islands.",
        "2005年，随着渔业存量的暴减，5,000人决定将闲置渔船用作其他用途，逃往西班牙加纳利群岛。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists call it “disguised unemployment.”",
        "经济学家们称之为“隐性失业”。"
    ],
    [
        "China began investing heavily in Sri Lanka during the quasi-autocratic nine-year rule of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and China shielded Rajapaksa at the United Nations from allegations of war crimes.",
        "中国大量投资斯里兰卡始于拉贾帕克萨总统九年的半独裁统治时期，并帮助拉贾帕克萨逃脱联合国的战争罪指控。"
    ],
    [
        "The status quo would be reinforced further by the principle that no country may increase its security to the detriment of another. But it is unclear who decides what is detrimental.",
        "普京时代的经济增长与对格鲁吉亚的胜利一道——在俄罗斯人看来，出兵格鲁吉亚意味着俄罗斯在政治上的重新崛起——使俄罗斯充满了信心，欲重塑大西洋两岸安全模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, in order to lighten smugglers' boats, the EU should commit to resettling many more than the 30,000 Syrian refugees it has pledged to accept thus far.",
        "与此同时，要减少蛇头船只上的人数，欧盟所承诺的安置人数应该远远多于目前所承诺的30,000叙利亚难民。"
    ],
    [
        "As economic deregulation increased, financial crises began erupting: since 1990, there have been three distinct crises in Latin America, one each in Russia and Asia, the Internet bubble, and now the sub-prime crisis.",
        "经济管制解除增加之际，金融危机开始爆发。 从1990年以来，拉美、俄国和亚洲出现三起突出的危机，又有互联网泡沫，现在又是次级房贷危机。"
    ],
    [
        "And not by a little, but by an enormous amount.",
        "不是略微错误，而是大错特错哦。"
    ],
    [
        "Such wishful thinking is predicated on the notion that conflict between Russia and the West would once again come to define the entire international system, thereby returning Russia to its former superpower status.",
        "如果认为俄罗斯语西方之间的冲突将再次决定整个国际体系、进而让俄罗斯重获从前的超级大国地位，那么这些一厢情愿的预言并不难理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, most enthusiasts of this type of entertainment do not actually go out and kill people.",
        "但绝大多数这类娱乐产品的爱好者都不会动手杀人。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where an “Energy Alliance” of consumers and suppliers could be useful, starting with the nations of Europe helping to guarantee the energy supplies of others in a major disruption.",
        "这就是消费国和生产国之间“能源联盟”的益处所在，这样的联盟始于欧洲国家在严重破坏发生时确保别国能源供应的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "CLAREMONT – The news from China these days is mostly depressing, owing to the government’s escalating crackdown on its critics.",
        "克莱蒙特—这些天关于中国的消息大多令人沮丧，因为政府在加紧对批评者的镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "In May 2006, the fairly free domestic interbank rate was just 1.62%, while the US Federal Funds rate was 5%.",
        "在2006年5月，相对自由的国内银行间利率只有1. 62%，而同期美国联邦基金利率则是5%。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, China’s current position on domestic-market access is less clear than its economic ambitions abroad.",
        "无须讳言，中国目前在国内市场准入问题上的立场比其在海外的经济野心更为模糊。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to escape that fate, existing institutions must adapt to shifting global power dynamics.",
        "为了摆脱关闭的命运，现有机构就必须适应全球实力动态的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Agriculture accounts for more than 70% of water use in the world.",
        "农业用水占了世界用水70%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "At the beginning of this century, President George W. Bush threw away the large fiscal surpluses that he had inherited from Bill Clinton, enacting large tax cuts and rapid spending increases even from 2003 to 2007, as the economy neared its peak.",
        "本世纪初，小布什肆意挥霍从比尔·克林顿手中继承的巨大的财政盈余，在2003到2007年间经济处于巅峰时大幅减税并迅速提高支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the average twin receives far less support after age 15 than the average only child, creating large differences in education outcomes.",
        "事实上，双胞胎在15岁以后得到的平均支持远小于独子，导致教育结果大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this kind of arrogance can lead to complacency and competitive failure.",
        "不幸的是，如此傲慢可能导致自鸣得意和竞争失败。"
    ],
    [
        "All stick and little carrot has failed to quell Chechen nationalism, and President Vladimir Putin’s similarly heavy-handed attempts to control Russia’s so-called “near abroad” – as in Ukraine during the Orange Revolution – have proven no more successful.",
        "毫无怀柔可言的高压政策并未平息车臣的民族主义，弗拉基米尔·普京总统在乌克兰橙色革命中用类似的高压手段意图控制俄罗斯所谓的“近外邻”也收效甚微。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran, for example, is on the verge of losing the faithful junior partner that it had in Syria.",
        "比方说伊朗正快要失去叙利亚这个忠实的小兄弟。"
    ],
    [
        "Even today, boards are sometimes choosing to defend their reputations at the expense of basic human decency.",
        "即使在今天，董事会有时也会选择保护名誉，牺牲基本人道尊严。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because the European Union did not want Greece to exit the eurozone (which would have been a major setback for Europe as a political project), Greece would be offered enough aid, support, debt forgiveness, and assistance with payments to offset any advantages it might gain by exiting the monetary union.",
        "但是，由于欧盟不希望希腊退出欧元区（这将是作为政治工程的欧盟的一次重大挫折），希腊本应该获得足够的援助、支持、债务豁免和偿付协助，以抵消任何它可能从退出货币联盟中获得的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "But, again, despite it all, the country is experiencing rapid economic growth and has just implemented a major reform – widely considered impossible until recently – of the power sector.",
        "尽管存在这些不稳定因素，但尼日利亚正在经历快速的经济增长，并刚刚完成了一项针对电力行业的重大改革（不久前这项改革还被普遍认为是不可能的）。"
    ],
    [
        "At first sight, that makes a lot of sense. Harmonized systems of rules make it easier for capital and labor to move around in search of their best use.",
        "这上看去非常合理，因为一个统一的规则之下，资本和劳动力都能自由流动并实现最优配置。"
    ],
    [
        "News junkies still need a tangible paper that can be read in the sunlight without a fully charged battery.",
        "新闻“瘾君子”仍然需要不需要给电池充电就能在阳光下阅读的实体报纸。"
    ],
    [
        "The draft treaty supported by Russia and China would constrain only weapons in space, not their ground-based ASAT programs.",
        "俄罗斯和中国所支持的条约草案只约束空间中的武器，不约束它们的地基ASAT计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is a grain yield (for example, maize) that is roughly one-third less than what could be achieved with better farm inputs.",
        "其结果就是粮食产量（例如玉米）比在有更好的农业投入的情况下大约要少三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The experience of the recent eurozone crisis stands in sharp contrast to the Latin American debt crisis in the 1980s, when banks were not allowed to exit precipitously from their loans.",
        "最近的欧元区危机与20世纪80年代的拉美危机形成了鲜明对比。 在拉美危机中，银行不允许突然收回贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The message to the establishment is clear: we don’t trust you anymore.",
        "对建制派来说，信号是明确的：我们再也不信任你们了。"
    ],
    [
        "So China continues to run a giant trade surplus, and the US continues to spend and borrow.",
        "于是乎，中国还是维持着巨大的贸易顺差，而美国继续透支着借贷和消费。"
    ],
    [
        "For some unknown reason, Trichet is keen not to surprise markets over the very short term.",
        "不知出于什么原因，特里谢致力于不给市场短期的意外。"
    ],
    [
        "The Hedge Fund Hegemon",
        "对冲基金霸权"
    ],
    [
        "Engineering and medicine remain the subjects of choice for middle-class Indian parents.",
        "工科和医科仍是印度中产阶级家长的科目选择。"
    ],
    [
        "If the benefits do not come quickly – and for most people they do not – they get restless.",
        "大多数人并不能马上受益。 他们因此浮躁不安。"
    ],
    [
        "The most difficult job is the one that awaits Rahul Gandhi.",
        "摆在拉胡尔·甘地面前的是一项最艰巨的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "It will merely be the start of a new chapter in the struggle for freedom for Palestinians.",
        "这可能仅仅标志着巴勒斯坦人争取自由斗争新篇章的启动。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the very structure of the IT sector allows for the formation of monopoly power.",
        "首先，IT行业的结构有利于垄断力的形成。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – For far too long, the West has harbored illusions about Vladimir Putin’s Russia – illusions that have now been shattered on the Crimean peninsula.",
        "柏林—长久以来，西方一直对普京的俄罗斯抱有幻想——如今，这一幻想在克里米亚半岛被一举击碎。"
    ],
    [
        "The notion that this critical transition has occurred risks generating complacency at a time when China should be focused on the wrenching, but essential, process of structural adjustment – one that will take at least another decade to complete.",
        "这一关键转变已经发生，这样的概念有可能形成自满情绪，而目前中国应该专注于痛苦但关键的结构调整过程——这一过程至少还需要十年才能完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Huge bets have undoubtedly been placed on the bonds of GM, Ford, Chrysler, and GMAC, and bankruptcy will be a CDS triggering event requiring repayment of these bonds.",
        "毫无疑问，大家都想对通用、福特、克莱斯勒和通用金融公司的债券大赌一把，而它们的破产将由CDS触发，这一事件会要求偿还这些债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty years of such shortsighted policies, whatever the party in power, have fueled government debt, hindering private investment.",
        "近20年来执政党派诸如此类的短视政策令政府债务激增，严重妨碍了相关的私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Money, to recall Lenin’s definition of politics, is about “who does what to whom.”",
        "货币，用列宁的政治学定义讲，有关“谁对谁做什么。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Given that no one knows what the peso will be worth when future claims are paid, why would anyone buy insurance with today’s pesos?",
        "没人知道未来被索偿时比索价值几何，既然如此，还有谁会以今天的比索来购买保险呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Then you give the tablets to the 150 “treatment” schools and wait.",
        "然后，你向150家“治疗”学校分派平板电脑，静待效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The world watched, seemingly helpless to do anything.",
        "世界似乎只是无奈地冷眼旁观。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while this is good news for some, it is inadequate to arrest the rising inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity – or to unleash the inclusive prosperity that Western economies can and should be generating.",
        "但是，尽管这对某些人来说是好消息，但它不足以解决收入、财富和机会不平等性加剧的问题——也不足以带来西方经济可以和应该形成的包容性繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Initially, the US backed Maliki in order to keep the Sadrist bloc from gaining a share of power.",
        "最初，美国支持马利基是为了阻止一部分权力落到萨德尔派手里。"
    ],
    [
        "Ratification of the agreement has been delayed by the stalemate among Cambodia's bickering political parties following last year's elections. But a breakthrough appears close.",
        "虽然该协议的批准由于去年大选以后政党纷争的僵局而被延误，但突破性的进展似乎为时不远了。"
    ],
    [
        "A third reason to go slow on easing capital controls is that China’s economic reforms remain incomplete, with property rights not yet clearly defined.",
        "解除资本控制必须缓步推进的第三个原因是中国的经济改革一直都不彻底，其产权到现在还没有明确的定义。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, the total also would be seven times cheaper than the Kyoto Protocol, and many times cheaper than the Copenhagen Protocol is likely to be.",
        "然而，这样做的总投入仍然比《京都议定书》所需的支出便宜七倍，并且比《哥本哈根议定书》可能的支出便宜许多倍。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while Germany’s Foreign Trade and Payments Act protects against takeovers in the defense industry (though the law needs strengthening) elsewhere Germany has no system for examining investments by SWFs that may be strategically motivated.",
        "但是，尽管德国的《对外贸易和付款法案》保护国防工业不被并购（虽然该法律仍需强化），而在其他产业，德国却没有审查可能具有战略目的的SWFs投资的体系。"
    ],
    [
        "If China does not improve its behavior, all of us – including the Chinese – will suffer.",
        "如果中国不改变自己的行为，我们所有人——包括中国人在内——都会因此而受苦。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last three years, the Islamic State (ISIS) captured the Tabqa, Tishrin, Mosul, and Fallujah dams on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.",
        "过去三年来，伊斯兰国（ISIS）夺取了底格里斯和幼发拉底河流域的泰巴盖、提歇利、摩苏尔和费卢杰水坝。"
    ],
    [
        "Keeping SDRs as pure “central-bank money” would eliminate such opposition, enabling them to complement and stabilize the current system, rather than upend it.",
        "将SDR作为纯粹的“央行货币”能消除这一番队，让SDR完胜和稳定当前体系而不是动摇它。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Concerns about state capture are nothing new.",
        "华盛顿—关于俘虏（capture）的担忧由来已久。"
    ],
    [
        "They have made it clear that one of their key goals for the next five years is to narrow the gap between the international standing of the renminbi and that of the world’s “great currencies,” as they promote use of the renminbi far beyond the Asia-Pacific region.",
        "他们明确表示，未来五年的关键目标之一是缩小人民币的国际地位与“大货币”的差距，他们将大力推动人民币在亚太地区之外的使用情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Addiction to Middle East oil distorts foreign policies, causes wars, and ravages the environment.",
        "对中东原油的高度依赖扭曲外交政策、引发战争，并造成环境破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, euro-area nations must strive harder to find common positions on international issues and to speak with a single voice in the global arena.",
        "最后，欧元区国家必须更加努力以在国际问题上找到共同立场，在全球舞台上用一个声音说话。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1920’s, Swedish economist Knut Wicksell defined it as the interest rate at which, economy-wide, desired investment equals desired savings, implying no upward pressure on consumer prices, resource prices, or wages as aggregate demand outruns supply, and no downward pressure on these prices as supply exceeds demand.",
        "在上世纪二十年代，瑞典经济学家克努特·维克塞尔将之界定为：利率处于这一水平时，在整个经济体范围内，意愿投资与意愿储蓄持平，这意味着当总需求超过总供给时产生的消费者价格、资源价格或工资水平的上行压力不会出现； 同样，也不存在当供给超过需求时产生的各项价格的下行压力。"
    ],
    [
        "In the name of reducing US inequality, presidential candidates in both parties would stymie the aspirations of hundreds of millions of desperately poor people in the developing world to join the middle class.",
        "而在减少美国国内不平等状况的口号下，民主共和两党的总统候选人们很可能令发展中国家中数以亿计的极度贫困人口晋身中产阶层的梦想最终破灭。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, the High Court concluded that customary laws on inheritance were “discriminatory in more ways than one,” but it refused to overturn them.",
        "2006年，高等法院认定惯例继承法“在不止一个方面带有歧视性”，但却拒绝推翻它。"
    ],
    [
        "To get there, Trump’s administration will have to offer something in return.",
        "要想达到这一目标，特朗普政府也必须给予一些回报。"
    ],
    [
        "That is all the more true because the Brussels summit flung open the door to a fiscal union for the EU-17+.",
        "而这一切也逐渐成为现实，因为布鲁塞尔峰会已经为在欧盟17+基础上建立财政联盟的打开了缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, for 19 out of the PMI’s 36 months of existence, the value has been below 50, while Chinese manufacturing growth has averaged 7.5%.",
        "事实上，在有PIM数据的36个月中，19个月的数值低于50，而这段时间中国制造业增长率平均为7. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with the possible exception of Thailand in 1997, the IMF’s long-time resident historian, James Boughton, finds little evidence for that view in internal documents.",
        "但是，IMF长期专职历史学家詹姆斯·波顿（James Boughton）发现，除了1997年的泰国可能是个例外，内部档案中也不存在有过此类警告的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "The second group comprises religious fundamentalists.",
        "第二个群体是原教旨主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "She also sent an unmistakable signal to those who would steal votes: at worst, they might have to share a few cabinet positions with the opposition.",
        "她也向那些窃取选票的人发出了一个明确无误的信号：最糟糕的结果也不过是与反对派分享几个内阁的职位而已。"
    ],
    [
        "As technology reduces the cost of transportation and communications to near the vanishing point, achieving this equalization is increasingly feasible.",
        "随着技术让运输和通讯成本降低到接近于消失的水平，实现这一价格一致化也变得越来越现实。"
    ],
    [
        "In concert with the development bank’s virtuous impact, credit and investment flows would flood the Greek economy’s hitherto arid realms, eventually helping the bad bank turn a profit and become “good.”",
        "信用和投资流将与开发银行的积极效应形成一股合力，让久旱的希腊经济迎来甘霖，最终帮助坏银行实现盈利，成为“好”银行。"
    ],
    [
        "In both countries, the unemployment rate is therefore slightly above the pre-crisis (end-2007) level, with no significant net difference over the business cycle from the end of 2007 until now.",
        "7%。 因此，两个国家的失业率均略高于危机前（2007年底）水平，在2007年底至今的商业周期中没有出现较大净差异。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an alternative to a robot tax that is easy to implement and simple to justify: a universal basic dividend (UBD), financed from the returns on all capital.",
        "有一种方法可以用来代替机器人税，易于实施且论证起来很简单：全民基本红利（UBD），用全部资本的回报来融资。"
    ],
    [
        "But no one should ever underestimate the power of hatred to undermine a democracy from within.",
        "但决不可低估仇恨从内部破坏民主的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Central to these companies’ success has been their understanding of a fundamental trend affecting nearly all industries: individual empowerment through the Internet, app technology, digitalization, and social media.",
        "这些公司成功的核心是它们对影响几乎所有行业的根本趋势的理解：通过互联网、应用技术、数字化和社交媒体实现的个体赋权（individual empowerment）。"
    ],
    [
        "Overreaction and herding behavior by market participants could trigger a sudden reversal of capital inflows, with a severe dollar shortage – as occurred in 1997 and 2008 – straining Asian banks and corporations.",
        "市场参与者的过度反应和羊群行为可能会引发资本流入的突然逆转，美元严重短缺——正如1997年和2008年发生的那样——将使亚洲各国银行和企业承受巨大压力。"
    ],
    [
        "To paraphrase Winston Churchill, elections are the worst way to select a political leader, save for all other methods that have been tried – and nowhere more so than in America.",
        "在此请让我略为修改一下温斯顿·丘吉尔的一句名言：除了其他方式之外，选举是甄选一个政治领导人的最糟糕方式——而这一点在美国显得尤为突出。"
    ],
    [
        "The private sector – focused on the production of home appliances, machinery equipment, construction materials, textiles, and food – accounts for more than 60% of Foshan’s GDP.",
        "私营部门贡献了佛山GDP的60%以上，主要生产家用电器、机械设备、建筑材料、纺织品和食品。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a strategy that ignores the potential that is in 100% of today’s labor force, 98% of next year’s, and a huge number of people who will be around for the next half-century.",
        "如此的战略无视今天100%劳动力的潜力，明年98%，以及今后半个世纪仍有劳动能力的数量巨大的民众。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, the new notes’ design prevents them from fitting into existing ATMs, and their denomination – 2,000 rupees – is too high to be useful for most people, especially given that the government’s failure to print enough smaller-denomination notes means that few can make change.",
        "更糟糕的是，由于设计问题，新钞无与现有ATM机不兼容，而他们的面额——2,000卢比——对于大多数人的用途来说也太大了，特别是考虑到政府无法印制足够的小面额钞票应对找零的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "The new party—barely six months old—has realigned Israeli politics by transforming the entire framework of ideological assumptions underpinning the country’s security strategy.",
        "新成立还不到6个月的政党重新整合了以色列的政治局势，改变了支撑该国安全策略的整个意识形态构架。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen will attempt to turn the upcoming presidential election into another anti-establishment upset.",
        "在法国，极右翼的国民阵线（National Front）的马琳·勒庞（Marine Le Pen）将试图在即将到来的总统大选中掀起又一场反建制意外。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans thought that their close geographic proximity and shared cultural inheritance might enable them to produce answers where global debates had become stalled.",
        "欧洲人认为，接近的地理位置和共享的文化遗产可以让他们在陷入僵局的全球议题上率先给出答案。"
    ],
    [
        "SAN FRANCISCO -- The French government should be honoring Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer for saving Société Générale from certain bankruptcy in the current rogue trader scandal, not criticizing him, as some high government officials have done.",
        "旧金山--法国兴业银行胆大包天的交易员爆出丑闻后，法国中央银行行长努瓦耶挽救了该银行免于破产。 法国政府应该向他致敬，而不应当像某些政府高官那样批评他。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Abulhassan Banisadr, the Islamic Republic’s first president, fell out with Khomeini over the division of authority.",
        "同样，伊朗伊斯兰共和国首任总统巴尼萨德尔因权力分配问题与霍梅尼闹翻。"
    ],
    [
        "For refugees like Hany, staying connected is not only a matter of survival; it also provides a route to self-reliance and independence, boosting their own wellbeing and enabling them to contribute to the communities that host them.",
        "对哈尼这样的难民而言，保持连通不但事关生存； 也提供了通往自我恢复和独立之路，提高了他们自身的福利，也让他们能够为接收他们的社会贡献力量。"
    ],
    [
        "But, at the same time, the international community must strengthen the existing framework for managing global-health issues.",
        "但是，与此同时，国际社会必须强化管理全球卫生问题的现有框架。"
    ],
    [
        "By pricing carbon pollution and harnessing our collective abilities, we can address the former and seize the latter.",
        "通过为碳污染定价、理顺我们的集体能力，我们能够解决挑战，抓住机会。"
    ],
    [
        "When Interest Rates Rise",
        "当利率上升"
    ],
    [
        "Governments lack a national currency to depreciate, and lack the power to relax credit, having delegated monetary policy to the European Central Bank.",
        "各国政府没有本国货币可实施贬值，也不能放松信贷，货币政策由欧洲央行代为执行。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary policy cannot overcome structural impediments to growth.",
        "货币政策是无法压倒增长的结构性阻力。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1998, the share of the German population with academic degrees was 15%, more than double the Austrian level.",
        "1998年时拥有学历的德国人口比例为15％，是奥地利的一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Interrupting this second vicious spiral will require jump-starting growth, which, under current circumstances, is easier said than done.",
        "中断第二大恶性循环需要提振增长，而在当前环境下，提振增长说起来容易做起来难。"
    ],
    [
        "Issues relating to wages and working conditions will be particularly important to Mexico, where the prevailing approach can be called “patriotic exploitation.”",
        "与工资和工作环境相关的问题对墨西哥来说尤其重要，墨西哥的通行方针可称之为“爱国剥削”（patriotic exploitation）。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, structural reforms alone cannot be relied upon to stimulate growth in 2012.",
        "简言之，光靠结构性改革是无法但其刺激2012年增长的重任的。"
    ],
    [
        "The point is to step outside of one’s comfort zones, distance oneself from the voices around the table that sound just like one’s own, and remember that board members are responsible for the direct and indirect impact of their decisions.",
        "要点在于跨出你的舒适区，让你自己与周边和你差不多的声音保持距离，并且记住董事要为他们的决定的直接和间接后果负责。"
    ],
    [
        "The fighting has heightened instability in the region; US and European citizens are streaming into Syria to take up jihad; and there is a growing consensus that the post-World War I Middle East boundaries are coming undone.",
        "美国和欧洲公民正涌入叙利亚参加圣战； 而且一战后中东边界正在解体的看法也越来越被人们所接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Another, more fundamental, dimension to current and future changes in the region may come into view as well.",
        "观察该地区当前和未来变局，还有一个更基本的维度亦需考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "The government’s willingness to address squarely questions about shoddy infrastructure will be a key test of the genuineness of its supposed new found tolerance of freeish speech.",
        "政府是否愿意直接处理伪劣基础工程可以验证它是否果真容忍更为自由的言论。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe better-educated workers do their jobs more efficiently, in which case we will surely find a clear relationship between educational attainment and economic growth.",
        "没准儿受过更好教育的员工效率更高，这样我们就能看到教育目标和经济增长间清楚的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Tony Blair has a powerful claim to being one of the most successful British politicians of any recent generation, at least in domestic economic and social policy.",
        "布莱尔完全可以自称为最近几十年中英国最为成功的政治人物之一，至少在国内经济和社会政策方面如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Contracts are sacrosanct.",
        "契约神圣。"
    ],
    [
        "The trick for the Chinese government will be to quell inflation in a way that does not compromise its long-term goal of continued strong economic growth.",
        "中国政府的难题是在不损害其长期持续强劲经济增长的情况下治理通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "The imperative is clear.",
        "当务之急非常明确。"
    ],
    [
        "On his home front, he needs to cultivate, at the lowest possible price, an image as a champion of the Palestinian cause.",
        "在他自己的地区，他需要以尽可能最低的代价捍卫他作为一个巴勒斯坦事业的捍卫者的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, inflation has been brought within the official target range.",
        "此外，通货膨胀被限定在官方目标范围内。"
    ],
    [
        "For the US, the combination of a stronger economy and less accommodative monetary policy will put additional upward pressure on the dollar’s exchange rate – which has already appreciated significantly – against both the euro and the yen.",
        "对美国来说，走强的经济和不再有利的货币政策的组合将给美元汇率带来更多的对欧元和日元升值压力——目前美元已经有了大幅升值。"
    ],
    [
        "In many of the poorest parts of the world, the lack of energy stifles economic development.",
        "在世界许多最贫困地区，能源的缺乏仍在扼杀经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "To keep warming well below 2°C, emissions in 2030 must be more than 30% below those envisaged in the INDCs.",
        "4°C 。 要将升温幅度限制在2℃以内，2030年排放量就必须比INDC的目标水平减少30%。"
    ],
    [
        "But it can avoid the pitfalls of such an approach by placing it within a broader, more comprehensive strategy that accounts for the underlying causes of the increase in funding costs for businesses.",
        "但它可以通过更广、更全面的策略实施宽松，针对企业融资成本上升的根本原因，从而避免货币宽松政策的陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "So it was only a matter of time until this powder keg was ignited.",
        "因此这个矛盾积压的火药桶被点燃只是一个时间问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last two decades, the world grew accustomed to US-led international coalitions for war in the Middle East.",
        "二十年来，世界已习惯了以美国为首的国际联盟在中东战争中扮演调停的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The movement’s rapid growth was fueled by widespread opposition to what many regard as official efforts to regiment lifestyles, as well as by frustration over perceived economic inequities.",
        "对许多人所认为的生活集体化的官方尝试的普遍反对，以及对经济不平等感的沮丧使这场运动快速发酵。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, a model of individual pathology is invaluable to politicians.",
        "其次，一种个体病理学的模式对政客们而言是无价之宝。"
    ],
    [
        "The election of the Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi as Prime Minister in May 2014 may be accelerating cooperation.",
        "2014年5月，印度教民族主义者莫迪当选印度总理，这有可能加速合作。"
    ],
    [
        "He could have groveled his way through the trial, like other senior Party officials brought down by corruption scandals, and as most defendants have done in the long grim history of communist show trials beginning with Stalin.",
        "薄原本可以在庭审过程中卑躬屈膝，就像其他因腐败丑闻落马的中共高官和从斯大林开始的长期残酷的共产党审判秀中绝大多数被告人一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Their damaged morale certainly affects others as a sort of externality, which matters very much; but it does not matter to the firm that has laid them off.",
        "他们的士气低落显然会影响到其他人，此乃外部性，所涉体大； 但只要企业把他们裁掉，便万事大吉。"
    ],
    [
        "After a military attack by the United States, both promises would be history.",
        "在美国军事袭击后，两个保证都将会成为历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Requiring that people in particular occupations – including high-school teachers, nurses, and police officers – acquire a mental-health first-aid certificate would significantly enhance participation, thereby strengthening support for those who are struggling with mental-health problems.",
        "要求特殊岗位的工作者——包括高中教师、忽视和警察官员——具有心理健康紧急救助资格将极大地提高参与率，从而增强对陷于心理问题的人的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Romney, it would plummet to new lows.",
        "若罗姆尼执政，这三项支出将创造新低。"
    ],
    [
        "But there were good reasons to oppose the ban – reasons that had nothing to do with religion, morality, or alcoholism.",
        "但有很好的理由应该反对该禁令——这些理由与宗教、道德或酗酒无关。"
    ],
    [
        "Building a knowledge-based economy using oil wealth is clearly possible.",
        "以石油创造的财富来打造知识经济是完全可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has already done as much as it can to support political stability in Georgia since independence.",
        "自独立以来，美国已经尽全力支持格鲁吉亚的政治稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "So one can sense that the monetary authorities are very concerned to prepare the ground for their next moves.",
        "因此，你可能会觉得货币当局非常关注为后续动作做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the merits – and they are considerable – of her arguments against the bigotry of Islamic or African customs, especially those concerning the treatment of women, she lent respectability to bigotry of a different kind: the native resentment of foreigners, and Muslims in particular.",
        "不管她对偏执地遵从伊斯兰或非洲习俗的批评，尤其是对待妇女方面的习俗，有多大价值——事实上有很大的价值，她遵从的是另一种偏执——国人对外国人，尤其是穆斯林的憎恨。"
    ],
    [
        "This focus could easily turn to the health of central banks’ balance sheets if they continue to expand.",
        "这一关注可能轻易转向央行负债表的健康情况，如果它们继续扩张的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, we want to continue to find ways to make ourselves less vulnerable and terrorists more so.",
        "当然，我们需要继续想办法，让我们变强，让恐怖分子变弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a warming of the Russia-US relationship could lead to subtle changes in the Russia-China relationship, which has deepened since Russia’s annexation of Crimea wrecked its relations with the West.",
        "此外，俄美关系回暖也可能导致中俄关系出现微妙变化，自俄罗斯因为吞并克里米亚与西方闹僵以来，中俄关系大大地深化了。"
    ],
    [
        "Most governments are still clinging, to varying degrees, to destructive fossil fuels, with their volatile prices and devastating environmental impact, even as this dependence destabilizes their economies.",
        "绝大多数政府依然在不同程度上坚持使用破坏性的化石燃料，尽管化石燃料价格动荡并能造成毁灭性的环境影响，即使这种依赖造成本国经济动荡他们也不改初衷。"
    ],
    [
        "Supported by extensive genealogies, including centuries of church and national health registries, their argument is convincing.",
        "他们的结论有大量族谱、包括延绵数百年的教堂和国家医疗记录为证，因此说服力很强。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, Afghanistan’s neighbors must not play power politics within the country, in the hope of gaining some slight advantage over one another.",
        "最重要的是，这些邻国不能继续在阿富汗国内玩弄强权政治以企图获得战胜另一个国家的微弱优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, piracy in the Gulf of Guinea and the Indian Ocean, particularly along the coast of Somalia, threatens Europe’s maritime activities, including its extensive sea-borne commerce.",
        "类似的还有几内亚湾和印度洋的海盗行为（尤其是索马里沿岸）已经威胁到了欧洲的海上活动，包括其大规模的海上商业贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Turning North Korea Around",
        "改变朝鲜的前进方向"
    ],
    [
        "So I do my best to persuade my Republican friends in Congress that reducing the revenue loss from tax expenditures is really a way to cut government spending even though the deficit reduction appears on the revenue side of the budget.",
        "因此我竭尽全力说服我在国会的共和党朋友，减少来自税收开支的收入损失着实是降低政府支出的好办法，尽管这一赤字减少体现在预算的收入端。"
    ],
    [
        "Will attendees at the FCTC and UNFCCC conferences defend democratic principles, or will they defer to big business?",
        "FCTC和UNFCCC会议与会者能捍卫民主原则吗？ 还是会屈从于大企业？"
    ],
    [
        "Thus far, there is little evidence of willingness on the part of politicians, policymakers, and perhaps the public to reduce current consumption further via taxation in order to create room for expanded growth-oriented investment.",
        "但迄今为止，没有太多迹象表明政客，政策制定者以及公众愿意通过税收来进一步减少消费从而为扩大以增长为目的的投资创造空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, apart from the original nuclear powers – the US, the UK, France, and Russia – the only other countries with these weapons are China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea.",
        "如今，除了最初的四个有核国家——美国、英国、法国和俄罗斯外，只有中国、以色列、印度、巴基斯坦和朝鲜拥有核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Automation and other technological changes, globalization, weaker trade unions, erosion of minimum wages, financialization, and changing norms about acceptable pay gaps within enterprises have all played a role, with different weights in the United States relative to Europe.",
        "自动化和其他技术变革、全球化、工会式微、最低工资的侵蚀、金融化和企业内部可接受薪酬差距范式的变化都起到了作用，只不过在美国的权重与在欧洲不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Westminster’s writ no longer runs north of the border, at least as far as things like education and health are concerned. Equally, it is now far harder for Scots to blame a distant government in London for their problems, although the SNP will now try to make blaming Westminster for all ills even more of an art form.",
        "同样，尽管苏格兰国民党现在试图把责任推卸到英国议会上变成一种艺术形式，但是苏格兰人现在也很难把他们的问题责任推卸到伦敦政府上。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from control of the region’s energy supplies, water has become a potential source of conflict, given China’s serious shortages.",
        "除了控制该地区的能源供应外，由于中国严重缺水，水已经成为冲突的潜在因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The US should now leverage that relationship to work on regional and even global issues.",
        "美国现在应该利用这种关系在地区乃至全球问题上展开合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, bonus targets are fundamentally flawed.",
        "此外，奖励目标存在着根本上的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries may eventually decide to leave.",
        "最终，这些国家也有可能决定离开。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, a corpse cannot carry out reforms.",
        "但一具尸体无法进行改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Liu Liang may have been just a working-class kid, but there was wisdom in his words that there is still a \"silent majority\" who can affect the workings of China's fragile society.",
        "刘亮或许只是一个工人阶层的小孩，但他的话语中却透出睿智。 他说仍然有一群\"沉默的大多数\"可以影响脆弱的中国社会的运转方式。"
    ],
    [
        "In countries with little or no such endowments – where innovation, competitive efficiency, and a focus on production rather than rents is all the more important – the lack of good governance will lead to failure more rapidly.",
        "在那些资源缺乏的国家——创新，竞争效率和对生产力的关注在这里变得更为重要——没有好的治理就只会堕落得越快。"
    ],
    [
        "This has led to a ratcheting up of tensions, in particular between China and the United States, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressing that the Obama administration is now ready to step in and help ensure the fair adjudication of disputes relating to the South China Sea.",
        "这导致了一系列紧张态势，尤其是在中美之间，对此美国国务卿希拉里强调说奥巴马政府正准备介入以确保对南中国海争端的公平裁定。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no obvious substitute for such industries at home.",
        "而德国国内还没有找到真正的替代产业。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Egypt, with its highly centralized and bureaucratized state, has devolved certain policing and security functions in marginalized urban communities or rural areas to baltagiyyeh (thugs) and to former henchmen of the ruling party, village headmen, and clan elders.",
        "即便是埃及这种高度集中和官僚化的国家也在那些边缘化的城市社区或农村地区发展出了应对那些匪帮（baltagiyyeh）和前执政党党员，村庄首领和部族长老的特定警务和安全部门。"
    ],
    [
        "And now the safety and security of US debt are at risk.",
        "而如今美国债券的安全和保障都无法保证。"
    ],
    [
        "The arrival of large-scale investment in agriculture will alter the relationship between these worlds of farming. It will exacerbate highly unequal competition.",
        "但大规模农业投资的到来将颠覆小型农业与环境，社区之间的上述联系，使得原本已经高度不对等的竞争进一步恶化，并将在全世界的农村区域导致大规模的社会动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "With elites everywhere being accused of neglecting “real” people, frustration and anger are now trumping fact-based deliberation.",
        "如今，各国精英都被指责忽视了“真正”的人民，失望和愤怒压倒了基于事实的深思熟虑。"
    ],
    [
        "The host, Chávez’s successor Nicolás Maduro, confronts a collapsing economy and tensions within his own party.",
        "查韦斯的继任者马杜罗面临着经济崩溃和党内关系紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "That approach would be a mistake.",
        "这一观点是错的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Abuse of History and the Iranian Bomb",
        "滥用历史和伊朗的核武器"
    ],
    [
        "Lambert demonstrates how, in a grand strategic gamble, Britain began to marry its military – and especially naval – predominance and its global financial leadership.",
        "兰伯特展示了在一场宏伟的战略赌局中，英国如何把其军事——尤其是海军优势与全球金融领导力相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments agree to accept the rulings of the World Trade Organization because on balance they benefit from an international trading order even if a particular decision requires that they alter a practice that is their sovereign right to carry out.",
        "政府同意接受国际贸易组织的裁决，因为总体上看它们从国际贸易秩序中获益非浅，即便世贸组织可能在某个特定的裁决中要求主权国家修改其做出的决定也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Reshaping the reality around us is our duty to future generations.",
        "改写我们周边的现实是我们对子孙后代的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Phasing out kerosene has an immense impact on the lives of M-KOPA’s customers, their children’s health, and the environment.",
        "告别油灯立刻对M-KOPA公司客户的日常生活、孩子的健康和环境形成了影响。"
    ],
    [
        "This new approach to company valuation reflects the view that the most successful companies will be those that deploy all four kinds of capital responsibly.",
        "这一新的公司估值方法反映了一个观点：最成功的公司将是那些负责任地配置所有四类资本的公司。"
    ],
    [
        "(Farmers are also subsidized via agricultural inputs – electricity, water, and fertilizer – to the detriment of the environment.)",
        "（农民还通过农业投入品——电、水和肥料获得补贴，而环境遭到了破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Christians sometimes attempt to explain this suffering by saying that all humans are sinners, and so deserve their fate, even if it is a horrible one.",
        "基督徒有时候试图通过这样的说法来解释这样的不幸：所有的人都是罪人，因而他们命该如此，即使这样的命运非常可怕。"
    ],
    [
        "They are, above all, gaining time.",
        "总的来说，他们在拖时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past two decades, unilateral actions in disregard of the UN Security Council’s primary responsibility in matters of war and peace have led to greater uncertainty and instability.",
        "过去的二十年来，单方面行动破坏了联合国安理会在国际战争与和平领域的权威，导致动荡和不确定性加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Without both dynamism and inclusion, the path to peace will be elusive, as recent experiences in Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq, and many countries in Africa illustrate.",
        "没有活力和包容，通向和平的道路就会迷惘。 近年来科索沃、东帝汶、阿富汗、伊拉克以及其他许多非洲国家都说明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "In an era of instant access, people often expect immediate relief from symptoms, which is difficult to achieve when it comes to chronic pain.",
        "在“立竿见影”（instant access）时代，人们通常希望马上能从症状中解脱，而对于慢性疼痛很难达到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Machine learning algorithms can analyze billions of signals to route customer service calls automatically to the most appropriate agent or determine which customers are most likely to purchase a particular product.",
        "机器学习算法可以分析数以十亿计的信号，从而将客户服务电话自动转接给最合适的代理人，或确定最有可能购买某种特定商品的某位客户。"
    ],
    [
        "Decentralization enables employees at lower levels of the corporate hierarchy to devise and implement new ideas.",
        "分散化让公司层级较低的员工也能参与构想和实施新观点。"
    ],
    [
        "The Horse Association of America issued leaflets declaring that, “A mule is the only fool-proof tractor ever built.”",
        "美国马业协会发布了宣称“骡子是有史以来唯一一款傻瓜型拖拉机”的小册子。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are serious about addressing climate change and securing every human being’s right to proper nutrition and food security, we must challenge the presumption that an industrial agricultural model, let alone meat, is necessary to feed the world.",
        "如果我们真要解决气候变化、确保每个人类获得合理营养和食品安全的权利，就必须挑战必须用某种工业农业模式（更不用说肉食了）养活全世界的假设。"
    ],
    [
        "Off With Their Heads.",
        "砍下他们的头"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently, nationalization of the central bank became a major platform of the British or French left.",
        "而央行的一国化倾向也构成了英国和法国左翼政治力量的主要活动平台之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Analysts and investors have at least two related concerns.",
        "分析师和投资者至少有两大相关疑虑。"
    ],
    [
        "And bilateral or regional trade deals can chip away at some of the barriers in the current global system.",
        "双边和地区性的贸易协议可以消除目前全球体制下的一些壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "However, this demand is as unwarranted now as was pressure on Japan to make the yen appreciate.",
        "然而，这种需求就如同当初迫使日元升值的压力一样，是毫无根据的。"
    ],
    [
        "As a major transit hub through which 90% of all West African migrants pass on their way to Italy, Niger succeeded in securing €600 million ($680 million) in the last EU aid budget.",
        "作为90%西非难民前往意大利的主要交通枢纽，尼日尔成功地从上一份欧盟援助预算中获得了6亿欧元（约合6. 8亿美元）的援助保障。"
    ],
    [
        "The remaining gains would come from people working more hours – the time they would have spent traveling to bank branches and waiting in queues.",
        "其余的收益或将来自延长工作时间——以前跑银行和排队等候的时间可以用来处理工作。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, leaders will appeal to a common identity – for example, religion in the case of contemporary conflicts in the Middle East, or ethnicity in many African conflicts – to mobilize followers.",
        "在那种情况下，领导层会利用某种共同身份来动员追随者——如中东地区现代冲突中这种共同身份是宗教、而非洲许多冲突的共同身份则是种族。"
    ],
    [
        "Until the recent commodity-driven boomlet, growth in Latin America was mediocre.",
        "在最近的商品驱动繁荣之前，拉美的增长并无亮点可寻。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization’s Government",
        "全球化之下的政府"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s Asian nervousness exists not only because isolationism appears to be gaining ground once more in America, but also because Afghanistan’s stability remains in doubt, while China’s power is rising in the absence of any pan-Asian consensus or institutional structure.",
        "如今孤立主义在美国国内再次抬头，阿富汗的稳定仍然堪忧，而在缺乏发亚洲共识或制度框架的情况下，中国却正如日东升，这一切都让亚洲坐立不安。"
    ],
    [
        "Barientos’s claim to be the last US boomer rests on Hawaii’s position as America’s most westerly state in a time zone two hours behind the Pacific coast.",
        "巴兰托斯据称是夏威夷岛最后出生的婴儿潮成员，位于美国最西端的夏威夷岛比同时区的太平洋沿岸晚两个小时。"
    ],
    [
        "His rhetoric about openness is not mere political posturing.",
        "他的开放言论不仅仅是政治姿态。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Chagossians eventually moved away from the Seychelles and Mauritius.",
        "许多查戈斯人最终离开了塞舌尔和毛里求斯。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Green New Deal, which UNEP launched as a concept in October 2008, responds to the current economic malaise.",
        "联合国环境规划署在2008年十月推出了全球绿色新政这一概念，目的是应对当前的经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The world needs you to succeed.",
        "世界需要你们的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it agreed to participate in the six-party talks with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the US (which I represented as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs).",
        "首先，它同意参加与中国、日本、俄罗斯、韩国和美国进行的六方会谈（我以负责东亚和太平洋事务的助理国务卿的身份代表美国）。"
    ],
    [
        "The objective should be to improve the efficiency of government, to make sure that we get the most value for what we spend.",
        "我们的目标应该是提高政府效率，确保花出去的钱实现最大的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, China does need to address its domestic debt overhang.",
        "尽管如此，中国确实需要解决国内债务积压问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s confidence in dealing with terrorism reflects the design of Russia’s security state.",
        "普京应对恐怖主义的信心反映了俄罗斯的安全国家设计。"
    ],
    [
        "The choice is now Obama’s.",
        "奥巴马现在要做出抉择了。"
    ],
    [
        "But these goals can be achieved only if the EU resolves its financial crisis, embarks on a sustainable recovery, and, above all, becomes an inclusive economy.Otherwise, Roma will inevitably serve as the EU’s convenient scapegoats.",
        "但这些目标只有在欧盟解决自身金融危机、迎来可持续复苏并（也是最重要的）成为包融性经济体的情况下才能实现。 否则的话，欧盟将心安理得地把罗姆人当作替罪羊。"
    ],
    [
        "With mortgages amounting to 95% or more of the value of the house, debt restructuring will not be easy.",
        "当按揭总额达到房产价值的95%或以上时，债务重组就不那么容易了。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is also the possibility of it all going terribly wrong.",
        "但也有可能一切都变得无比糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Eradicating mosquito-transmitted diseases must therefore be a top priority, eliciting not just effective government stewardship, but also the involvement of civil society, private-sector engagement, and the participation of affected communities.",
        "因此消除蚊子传播的疾病当属首要任务，不仅仅要求政府实施有效组织管理，还要民间社会，私营部门和受影响社区的参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Moldova is more dependent on the EU than any other former Soviet republic.",
        "摩尔多瓦比任何前苏联共和国更依赖欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "If we prohibit drugs in the Olympic Games, we owe it to the athletes to deter, detect, and punish those who cheat.",
        "如果我们禁止在奥林匹克运动会上服用兴奋剂，那么我们就应该负起责任，奉劝运动员不要做这种傻事、对运动员进行严格检测、并惩罚那些服用了兴奋剂的运动员。"
    ],
    [
        "The sole exception is Ireland, which is suffering not from a lack of competitiveness, but from capital flight.",
        "唯一的例外是爱尔兰，爱尔兰的问题不在于缺乏竞争力，而在于资本外逃。"
    ],
    [
        "These governments’ leaders have seen the Millennium Villages day in and day out over almost a decade.",
        "这些政府的领导人在十年的时间里几乎每天都关注着千年村。"
    ],
    [
        "The common values that the EU was established to uphold have been fatally undermined in Hungary.",
        "前人建立通过欧盟来维护的共同价值观念在匈牙利遭到了致命的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s finance minister referred to these numerous actions as the “currency wars.”",
        "巴西财政部长称这些动作为“货币战争”。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the cliché, power does corrupt, and the late Blair era, like that of Margaret Thatcher before it, has been a squalid spectacle.",
        "尽管是陈词滥调，但是权力确实会腐败，已逝的布莱尔时代，和在其之前的玛格利特撒切尔时代一样，已现道德败落之景。"
    ],
    [
        "The director-general of the World Health Organization has warned that if the world falls back into a pre-antibiotic age, a scratch or throat infection could become lethal once again.",
        "世界卫生组织总干事警告说，如果世界退回前抗生素时代，那么抓伤或喉部感染将再次成为致命伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Three California cities have recently declared bankruptcy: Stockton, the largest American city ever to do so; San Bernardino, the second-largest bankrupt city; and Mammoth Lakes.",
        "有三个加州城市不久前宣告破产：包括美国有史以来最大的破产城市斯托克顿； 第二大破产城市圣贝纳迪诺和猛犸湖。"
    ],
    [
        "To make real progress toward reviving their economies, the individual countries need to depend less on quantitative easing by the ECB and focus squarely on structural reforms and fiscal stimulus.",
        "要实现重振经济的真正进步，个体国家必须减少对欧洲央行量化宽松的依赖，坚决地着重于结构改革和财政刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Saõ Paulo, Brazil’s industrial powerhouse, now depends for most of its energy on Bolivian natural gas.",
        "例如，巴西的产业基地圣保罗的大部分能源供应现在都依赖于玻利维亚的天然气。"
    ],
    [
        "Teachers will always remain essential for students’ growth and maturity, but new digital technologies can enhance secondary education.",
        "教师始终在学生的成长和成熟中起着不可或缺的作用，但新兴数字技术也能使中学教育有很大提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Europe seemed finally to be escaping the euro crisis, refugees, especially from Syria, began flooding in.",
        "欧洲终于眼看就要摆脱欧元危机了，而难民，特别是来自叙利亚的难民却在此时开始涌入欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Regarding the stock market and the housing market, there may well be a major downward correction someday.",
        "在股票市场和房产市场，随时可能发生大幅向下调整。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why America’s new digital agenda must rectify the fact that, despite living in one of the world’s wealthiest countries, one-third of the US population still lacks broadband access at home.",
        "因此，美国的新数字日程必须纠正一个事实：尽管身为世界上最富有的国家之一，但仍有三分之一的美国人口家中没有宽带网络。"
    ],
    [
        "And Iran’s reformers also risk losing political ground to their hardline rivals, who can be expected to adopt an iron-fisted approach to security, at the expense of Rouhani’s gradual loosening of restrictions.",
        "伊朗改革派还有可能将政治优势拱手让给强硬派对手，可以预期后者会采取铁腕安保手段，鲁哈尼逐步放松限制的措施将成为牺牲品。"
    ],
    [
        "By now, of course, 133 defendants from all parties to the wars in ex-Yugoslavia have appeared before the Tribunal, charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even genocide.",
        "当然，到目前为止，前南斯拉夫战争各方的133名被告都已经出庭，他们被控犯有战争罪、反人类罪甚至是种族屠杀。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an age, most tellingly, of proliferating new terminology.",
        "更贴切地讲，这是一个新词泛滥的年代。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the ratio of tax revenue to total spending this fiscal year has fallen below 50% for the first time in Japan’s postwar history.",
        "结果在本财政年度，日本政府税收占总支出的比例下降到50%以下，这对战后的日本来说尚属首次。"
    ],
    [
        "Bjørn Lomborg, known for his skepticism toward traditional approaches to fighting climate change, has described this idea as “a much smarter approach and more likely to actually succeed.”",
        "”比约恩·隆伯格（Bjørn Lomborg）因为对传统遏制气候变化方针持怀疑态度而闻名，他认为我们的想法“是更加明智的方针，也更有可能获得实际成功。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, rules that make it difficult to fire established workers discourage employers from hiring new ones.",
        "结果不出所料，令解雇现有员工变得困难重重的规定使得雇主们不敢轻易尝试雇佣新人。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is here that Russia’s renewed confrontation with the West begins, because the new Europe is based on the principle of the inviolability of boundaries, peaceful conflict resolution, and the rule of law, so to forgo this principle for the benefit of imperial zones of influence would amount to self-abandonment.",
        "事实上，就是在这一点上，俄罗斯开始了新一轮和西方的对峙，因为新欧洲是建立在国境线神圣不可侵犯、以和平方式解决冲突以及法制的理念上的； 所以，如果为了帝国的影响圈而放弃这个理念，那就等于自暴自弃。"
    ],
    [
        "But the British should also be worried about the consequences of withdrawal, if only because of how little is known about what it would entail.",
        "但英国人也应该担心退出欧盟的后果，谁也不知道这到底意味着什么。"
    ],
    [
        "China has elevated the reduction of external imbalances to a major national objective in 2007.",
        "中国已经把减少外部的不平衡上升到其在2007年国家要实现的一个重要目标的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin, knowing that the Russian Army’s current logistical systems for supplying Crimea are insufficient, appears to be readying plans to secure a land corridor from the Russian border through southeastern Ukraine.",
        "普京知道俄军现有的后勤保障体系不足以覆盖克里米亚，所以似乎正在制定计划，开拓从俄边境到乌克兰东南部的陆路走廊。"
    ],
    [
        "A key question is whether the Palestinian masses, fed up with their leadership's bickering, corruption, and incompetence, could make their wishes known to find an end to a conflict that has cost them so much.",
        "关键问题是厌烦了领导人无休止的争论、腐败和无能的巴勒斯坦民众是否能够让政府听到自己的愿望，结束这场已经让他们付出了太多代价的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "But exports are equivalent to only 13% of GDP, far below the level in India (24%) or Mexico (33%).",
        "但出口只占GDP的13%，远远低于印度（24%）和墨西哥（33%）。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, so far the world seems to have learned very little from the recent financial crisis.",
        "不幸，最近这场金融危机之后，世人并没有多少长进。 实际上，今日之情形同2007年时一般险恶：美国经济复苏有气无力，令人心焦；"
    ],
    [
        "As someone with some background in politics, I understand the strategy of today’s government: create an extreme threat, first and foremost through shadowy associations with fascist organizations, and then say to citizens, “You can’t deal with this threat on your own, so you should trust us to figure out what to do with it.”",
        "作为一个有政治阅历的人，我理解当今政府的策略：首先主要通过与法西斯主义组织的暧昧关系来制造一种极端威胁，然后告诉民众，“你们无法靠自己来处理这种威胁，因此你们应该相信我们，我们会告诉你们如何应对这种威胁”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Lima conference had two goals.",
        "利马会议有两个目标。"
    ],
    [
        "First of all, the Walloons do.",
        "首先，瓦隆人关心。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as capital becomes more mobile, relatively immobile workers are bearing more of the burden in the form of lower wages and fewer job opportunities.",
        "但是，随着资本流动性的增加，流动性相对较低的工人正在以更低工资、更少就业机会的形式承担更大的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-standing programs in better-off countries received greater amounts of money, while a string of poorer candidates were once again overlooked.",
        "相对富裕国家的长期计划获得了更多资金，而一系列贫困国家则再次遭到忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "We need a comprehensive strategy aimed at making markets – and politics – truly competitive, and ensuring that public policy works for the benefit of all.",
        "我们需要全面的战略让市场——以及政治——具有真正的竞争性，并确保公共政策有利于所有人。"
    ],
    [
        "My plea to discuss plans and strategies alongside specific emissions targets might seem to risk impeding the negotiations. But if we don’t have a strategy to accompany our targets, the world’s governments might not accept such targets in the first place, or might accept them cynically, without any intention of actually meeting them.",
        "虽然笔者提出要在具体减排目标之外制定计划和战略的请求似乎有阻碍谈判进行之嫌，但如果没有跟目标相配套的具体策略的话，各国政府首先都不会接受这一目标，即便接受了，或许也没打算真正去实现它。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, he has the opportunity to follow through.",
        "现在，他有机会实现这一点了。"
    ],
    [
        "Hirschman’s interests shifted away from economic development over the course of his illustrious career.",
        "在其卓著的生涯中，赫希曼的治学兴趣从经济发展转移开来。"
    ],
    [
        "But the poorest people – those who live on less than $2 per day – are often not considered important when a pandemic threat emerges.",
        "然而，当流行病的威胁出现后，那些最为贫穷的人——每天收入不超过2美元——却常常无法引起重视。"
    ],
    [
        "Might it be possible for China to establish limits on arbitrary executive power and strengthen creditor rights sufficiently without undertaking a full-fledged transition to democracy?",
        "那么中国是否可以不需要实现民主全面过渡，就足以限制恣意妄为的行政权力并强化债权？"
    ],
    [
        "The aim of these negotiations is a comprehensive agreement between Iran and the 5+1 group that would resolve both the nuclear conflict and address regional security issues (Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Persian Gulf, Afghanistan) while opening up extensive international and regional cooperation.",
        "这些谈判的目的是在伊朗和五加一小组之间达成全面协议，而这一协议将会同时解决核子冲突以及地区安全问题(伊拉克、巴以冲突、黎巴嫩、波斯湾以及阿富汗)，与此同时开启大范围的国际和地区合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, he wants them to focus on courses in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), where the good jobs will be.",
        "相反，他希望这些人能把注意力放在科学、技术、工程学和数学上——这里才是好工作的所在。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s that time again: the World Cup is upon us.",
        "又到了这个世界杯即将拉开战幕的特殊时刻 。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the UK itself may not survive.",
        "此外，英国本身亦有可能不保。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the 160 countries that committed to implementing the Paris climate agreement, only 36 have specified land-use management in their emissions-reduction strategies.",
        "在160个承诺实施巴黎气候协定的国家中，36个在减排战略中详细阐述了土地使用管理。"
    ],
    [
        "There can be no solution in isolation, because no single government can tackle the problem on its own.",
        "孤立不是出路，因为没有哪个政府能够单枪匹马解决自身的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless they want to settle for slower growth, lagging labor absorption, and heightened risk of social instability, they must move aggressively to shift focus to the region’s own 3.5 billion consumers.",
        "如果它们不想让增长减速，让劳动力迟迟得不到吸收，让社会不稳定风险与日俱增，那么他们就必须果断地将注意力转向该地区内部的35亿消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "If a trade war were to break out, what would happen?",
        "那么如果真爆发一场贸易战的话，将会出现何种状况？"
    ],
    [
        "Some Britons (perhaps even a majority), and many other EU citizens, still want future generations to think of themselves as Europeans (albeit with a proud British, German, or Spanish origin), and are prepared to take another shot at reforming Europe’s governance structures. And they are right to think that the world would be a far better place with a united, democratic Europe as a major force for both stability and change.",
        "一些英国人（或许甚至是大多数）和许多其他欧盟国家公民仍然会希望自己的下一代（尽管拥有一个令人自豪的英国，德语或西班牙血统）自认为欧洲人并准备好再次改革欧洲的治理结构，也有理由认定如果有一个团结民主的欧洲作为实现稳定和变革的主要力量的话这个世界将变得更为美好。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly true of public-facing organizations.",
        "面向公众的机构尤其负有这方面的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "A good-faith, well-publicized official declaration would signal to India’s citizens and the world that the country intends to save its growing population from the life-shortening effects of urban environmental degradation.",
        "发布善意、公开的官方声明将向印度民众和全世界表态该国愿意保护民众免遭城市环境退化带来的减寿威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "A new documentary, “When Muppets Dream of Peace,” tracks the harrowing joint production of Sesame Street in Israel and Palestine, with a Jordanian production team brought in to help facilitate.",
        "而一部由约旦团队负责拍摄，纪录以色列和巴勒斯坦双方在联合制作本土版《芝麻街》中令人痛心的合作过程，名为《当玩偶期望和平》的新纪录片则在最近面世。"
    ],
    [
        "It is merely to point out what should be obvious: Israel’s efforts to find a unilateral solution to its security problems – whether occupation, withdrawal, or separation – have failed.",
        "它只是为了指出明显的事实，那就是以色列寻求单边解决其安全问题的努力，不管是占领、撤退还是隔离均已失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe's New Dawn",
        "欧洲新的黎明"
    ],
    [
        "A Global \\",
        "全球“新政”？"
    ],
    [
        "This would inevitably have caused other countries in the region, probably beginning with Saudi Arabia, to go the same way.",
        "这难免会导致该地区其他国家——极有可能从沙特阿拉伯开始——效而仿之。"
    ],
    [
        "Flows of low-value, labor-intensive goods like apparel are declining as a share of global flows, while flows of R&D-intensive products, such as pharmaceuticals and business services, are gaining share.",
        "低价值、劳动密集型商品流（如服装）展全球流的比重在下降，而研发密集型商品流（如制药和商业服务）份额在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "For 63 years, the vast majority of India’s people have waited for this promise to be fulfilled.",
        "给每一位公民都带来正义和完美的生活。 ”时间已经过去了63年，绝大多数的印度人还在等待这个美好承诺的实现。"
    ],
    [
        "This is also why pro-European center-right and center-left coalitions remain in power in most of the EU.",
        "这也是为何大多数欧盟国家依然由亲欧洲的中右和中左联盟掌权。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Bush tried to deceive America about the wars’ costs, he underfunded the troops, refusing even basic expenditures – say, for armored and mine-resistant vehicles needed to protect American lives, or for adequate health care for returning veterans.",
        "但是，由于布什一心想隐瞒美国打这两场战争的花费，于是他不得不削减军费，甚至拒绝基本支出，比如保护美军士兵所需的带有装甲和自我保护装置的汽车； 也不愿向归国老兵提供充分的医疗服务。"
    ],
    [
        "But that was the last of Samuelson’s successful predictions.",
        "但这是萨缪尔逊最后一次成功的预言。"
    ],
    [
        "But, to avoid a crisis, it should immediately implement comprehensive reforms to address the root causes of the corporate debt problem.",
        "但为了避免危机爆发，它应立即实施全面改革以铲除企业债务问题的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "Generally, those that have fared better, such as India, have combined sound growth fundamentals and reforms with pragmatic and activist measures to counter the external sources of volatility.",
        "总体来说，那些表现较好的新兴经济体（比如印度）已经将健康的增长基本面和改革与务实积极的措施结合起来对抗外部波动。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade and exports accounted for 67% and 37% of the country’s GDP, respectively, before the global crisis, but have since fallen significantly.",
        "在全球金融危机之前，贸易和出口分别贡献了全国 GDP 的 67% 和 37% ，但危机发生之后这两项所占的比重都严重下滑。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s Censored Fight Back",
        "印度被审查者的反击"
    ],
    [
        "Does this suggest that the world economic crisis is coming to an end?",
        "股市的上涨意味着世界经济危机即将结束吗？"
    ],
    [
        "We need to find a forward-looking rationale that, after 50 years of integration, shows how acting together can help Europe achieve its goals in a changed global environment.",
        "我们需要向前看的理由，在一体化进行了50年后，需要有东西向我们证明携手共进有助于欧洲在变化了的全球环境中实现其目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it time to start thinking about what steps to take to prevent our own creations from becoming hostile to us?",
        "是不是该考虑一下采取什么措施，以防我们受到自己所发明之物的伤害呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Shell and other oil companies are now promising to work as “advisers” to national governments on how to deal with climate change.",
        "壳牌和其他石油公司现在承诺承担国家政府“应对气候变化目标”的顾问任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The currency, the real, has been strengthening steadily, to nearly twice its value against the US dollar in October 2002, when Lula was first elected.",
        "货币、不动产一直在稳步攀升，较之2002年10月卢拉首次当选总统时对美元的比价增长了将近两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Should China have to back its aggressive tactics in, say, the South China Sea or the Taiwan Strait with force, its military must not be led by venal and perfidious generals.",
        "如果中国不得不动用武力支持其在（比如）南海或台湾海峡的激进策略，那么解放军决不能由腐化不忠的将军领导。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sensational interview before the election in the Russian newspaper Kommersant , one of these previously unknown KGB managers explained how they use state extortion against private enterprises to accomplish their “velvet re-privatization” through state corporate raiding.",
        "大选前，一名以前不为人所知的克格勃官员接受商业日报的采访轰动一时。 他解释了他们如何对私营企业进行国家敲诈来实现他们的“丝绒回复私有化”。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth is still high, at about 10% per year, but has started to moderate.",
        "虽然当前的通货膨胀是一个值得关注的问题——居民消费价格指数（CPI）年比从9月的3."
    ],
    [
        "If, in the worst case, a terrorist attack were to occur – especially one that could, in some way, be linked to refugees – the nationalist-populist reaction would be powerful, potentially weakening the very fabric of German society.",
        "在最糟糕的情况下，如果发生恐怖袭击——特别是以某种方式与难民联系起来的恐怖袭击——那么民族主义-民粹主义反应将十分强大，可能削弱德国社会的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "As with the covert war that the US waged in the 1980’s in Afghanistan against Soviet military intervention, so, too, have short-term interests driven US policy in the current overt war.",
        "20世纪80年代，出于短期的利益，美国在阿富汗发动了秘密战争，应对苏联的军事干预，但是在当前这场众人皆知的战争中，引导美国政策的还是短期的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But as mandatory sentencing rules have landed more and more Americans behind bars, incidents that bear a disquieting resemblance to the degenerate cruelties photographed in Iraq have come increasingly to light.",
        "但随着强制判决的法规将越来越多的美国人送进监狱，越来越多的事件被曝光。 这些事件与在伊拉克拍下的残酷情景惊人的相似。"
    ],
    [
        "Political apathy reflects many factors, but two stand out.",
        "这种政治冷漠反映出很多问题，但有两点最为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "It is widely assumed that economic migrants, from inside or outside the EU, are mainly poor people out to live off the tax money of the relatively rich.",
        "人们普遍认为来自欧盟内外的经济移民主要靠相对富裕阶层的税收生活。"
    ],
    [
        "They reflect a broader trend – one that demands a fundamental rethink of the prevailing approach to trade and free-trade agreements.",
        "它们反映了一个更为广泛的趋势——这一趋势需要从根本上重新思考贸易和自由贸易协定的流行观点。"
    ],
    [
        "The rapid decline in costs and increase in performance capabilities of a range of digital technologies – including mobile Internet, cloud computing, and expert systems – make large-scale adoption a distinct possibility in the coming decade, even in relatively poor India.",
        "成本的快速下降和各种数字技术性能的增强——包括移动互联网、云计算和专家系统——让未来十年大规模应用成为可能，即使是在相对贫穷的印度。"
    ],
    [
        "They are not about to accept their “disempowerment” without a struggle.",
        "他们不会束以待毙，接受其被“夺权”的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "After a year of Hollande, France is witnessing a fundamental political revolution.",
        "奥朗德上台一年后，法国正在发生根本性的政治革命。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, the strategy’s launch should be put on hold until after the referendum.",
        "基于此，该战略的宣布应该推迟到全民公决之后。"
    ],
    [
        "After monetarism was discredited – at great cost to those countries that succumbed to it – the quest began for a new mantra.",
        "货币主义名声丧失，那些推崇这一理论的国家付出了高昂的代价。 从那以后，人们开始寻找新的理论。"
    ],
    [
        "Through it, the world’s main industrialized and emerging countries have worked together toward constructing a shared global order that can deliver increasing prosperity.",
        "通过G20，世界主要工业化和新兴国家共同致力于构建能带来不断增进繁荣的共同全球秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the war in Iraq and abuses associated with it have tarnished America’s image in Eastern Europe.",
        "此外，伊拉克战争以及虐俘丑闻玷污了美国在东欧国家的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations’ Dutch battalion promised to protect the Muslims there, even though it was in no position to do so.",
        "虽然实际上无能为力，但驻当地的荷兰派驻联合国部队却依然承诺会保护当地的穆斯林。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, efforts are needed to strengthen deterrence near and en route to Europe’s borders, through partnerships with major source and transit countries.",
        "同时，需要通过与主要来源国和过境国建立伙伴关系，强化前往欧盟边境途中和靠近欧盟边境的威慑力。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Russia’s GDP is no bigger than that of Belgium and the Netherlands combined, and its military spending is a fraction of the EU’s, the Kremlin has consistently managed to get the better of the Union.",
        "尽管俄国的GDP并不大于比利时和荷兰相加之和，其军费开支也只是欧盟的一小部分，但是克里姆林宫却一贯占据欧盟的上风。"
    ],
    [
        "Put simply, “governance” refers to a dynamic framework of rules, structures, and processes that help a government manage its economic, political, and administrative affairs.",
        "简言之，“治理”指的是一个动态规则、结构和过程框架，以帮助政府管理经济、政治和行政事务。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee to contest the United States’ presidential election in November, is clearly not a standard Republican.",
        "华盛顿—唐纳德·特朗普，共和党角逐11月美国总统大选的推定提名人，显然不是标准的共和党。"
    ],
    [
        "But scientists and software engineers regularly face such daunting challenges, and, with DNA serving as the reference language of modern biomedical research, the technical barriers to constructing disease networks will be short-lived.",
        "但科学家和软件工程师遇到此类棘手问题可谓家常便饭，且现代生物药学研究由DNA作为参考语言，建设疾病网络的技术壁垒不消多久就能攻克。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas’s political moment has come.",
        "哈马斯的政治时刻已经到来。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, an interview in early May with an “authoritative insider,” published in China’s flagship official newspaper, People’s Daily, underscored an increasingly open and intense debate among senior officials over how to avoid ending up like Japan.",
        "相反，中国最权威的党政机关报《人民日报》在五月初对“权威知情人士”的一次采访就体现出政府高层之间对如何避免重蹈日本覆辙的讨论正日益公开和激烈。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was the detention of most of the senior judiciary, as well as bar association presidents across the country and all leading lawyers and human rights activists seeking to defend judicial independence.",
        "结果，大多数高级法官被捕，同时被捕的还有全国所有企图捍卫司法独立的律师协会主席、主要律师，以及人权活动家。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the rescue plan that was just defeated was far better than what the Bush administration originally proposed.",
        "可以肯定，刚刚被否决的救市计划确实比布什政府原来的提议要好很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Restoring growth in the short term while addressing debt problems in the medium and long term may well be the only valid response to the crisis.",
        "但是，短期内重振经济增长，中长期内解决债务问题，毕竟是应对危机的唯一恰当方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic-growth rates have fallen to less than a third of their pre-crisis levels.",
        "经济增长率较危机前下降了三分之二多。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, what will follow from that?",
        "如果答案是肯定的话，接着又会发生些什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Following the successful Malaysian example in 1997, developing countries could also temporarily suspend all capital withdrawals to stabilize capital flows and exchange rates.",
        "参照1997年马来西亚的成功例子，发展中国家也可以暂时停止所有资金提款以稳定资本流动和汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "Deng, who famously declared, “A cat’s color does not matter as long as it catches mice,” is generally remembered as an unabashed pragmatist.",
        "邓小平有一句名言，“不管黑猫白猫，能抓到老鼠就是好猫。 ”这被认为是邓小平坚定务实主义的写照。"
    ],
    [
        "Once Trotsky was out of the way, Stalin turned on all the other senior Bolsheviks, calling them “enemies of the people” – a phrase that Trump’s populist supporters, like United Kingdom’s hardline Brexiteers, have revived to denounce anyone who dares challenge their “blood and soil” code.",
        "托洛茨基出局后，斯大林将矛头转向了所有其他布尔什维克高层，说他们是“人民的敌人”——特朗普的民粹主义支持者们，比如英国的强硬退欧派，让这个词死灰复燃，拿它来谴责所有胆敢挑战他们的“血和土”（blood and soil）信条的人。"
    ],
    [
        "And, by raising the cost of extracting fossil fuels, it would contribute to the eventual phase-out of a sector that has no place in a climate-safe world.",
        "此外，通过提高提取化石燃料的成本，该项目还有助于最终扼杀这个在气候安全的世界中无立足之地的行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall unemployment has climbed to 12%, while the rate for youth not attending school has soared to 44%.",
        "总体失业率攀升至12%，未在校年轻人比率暴增至44%。"
    ],
    [
        "And this is the time to do it – not in spite of the financial crisis, but because of it.",
        "而且，现在就是采取行动的时机——这样做不是无视当前的金融危机，而是因为当前的金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "And central banks’ failure to regard their primary job to be the stabilization of nominal income – their failure not only to be good Keynesians, but even good monetarists – raises the question of whether central banking itself needs drastic reform.",
        "而那些中央银行在履行其本职工作（稳定名义收入）方面的失职使之不但没能成为优秀的凯恩斯主义者，连好的货币主义者都算不上，也令人们不禁质疑这些机构是否也需要来一场大改革。"
    ],
    [
        "· Launch a global campaign, tailored for different regions, to improve public awareness of AMR.",
        "· 发起一场针对不同地区特点的全球运动，以提高对细菌耐药性上升问题的公众认识。"
    ],
    [
        "The unemployed win, because some of them get jobs. And even bond investors win, because they get their money back, with the interest for which they contracted.",
        "甚至债券投资者也是赢家，因为他们拿回了借出去的钱，而且还获得合同中规定的利息。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community’s over-arching concern must be to seal a serious and significant deal at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December to curtail C02 emissions and assist vulnerable countries to adapt.",
        "国际社会压力巨大的关注之声迫切要求在12月于哥本哈根召开的联合国气候峰会上通过一个严肃且意义重大的二氧化碳减排条约，并协助某些成为众矢之的国家举手同意。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless we do that better, fewer people will vote for MEPs, more of them will be elected simply on a protest vote and represent Europe’s murky extremes, and the whole practice and principle of European democracy will be discredited.",
        "只有我们作出成绩出来，大家才会对欧盟选举感兴趣。 如果被选举出来的人只是来投反对票或是代表着欧洲黑暗势力的极端分子，那么整个欧洲民主的精神和进程都会蒙上阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to immigration, politicians usually are driven by fear – a tendency that has become even more acute since the onset of the global financial crisis.",
        "每当论及移民问题，政治家们通常被恐惧所左右——这种趋势自全球金融危机开始后更是变本加厉。"
    ],
    [
        "And so it has, driven primarily by Chinese exports to Germany. But German exports to China have also been increasing.",
        "尽管这股潮流主要是由中国向德国的出口推动的，但德国对中国的出口也在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB must, of course, maintain its full monetary-policy independence, despite its new role.",
        "当然，尽管将迎来新使命，但欧洲央行必须保持完全的货币政策独立性。"
    ],
    [
        "This is precisely what needs to change.",
        "正是这一点才需要改变。"
    ],
    [
        "There cannot be universal educational opportunity for the worlds’ children without an agreement that we will cater to children in conflict zones.",
        "没有关于为冲突区儿童提供教育的协议，我们就无法实现全世界儿童都能获得教育机会的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Bangalore’s citizens prepare to go to the polls in state elections, their concerns are not merely economic.",
        "但是，准备邦选举的班加罗尔市民担心的可不仅仅是经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For at least two years, though, Musharraf tried to have it both ways, cracking down at America’s behest on the Islamists on Pakistan’s western border with Afghanistan while sponsoring them on the eastern border with India.",
        "但是至少在两年的时间里，穆沙拉夫想要兼得鱼和熊掌。 他一方面按照美国的要求在与阿富汗接壤的西部边境上打击伊斯兰分子，另一方面则在与印度接壤的东部边境上扶植他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Its dilemma is stark.",
        "其矛盾是明显的。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is also a dark spot: Greece, where GDP has shrunk by 20% since 2009 and where the public debt/GDP ratio is now higher than anticipated at the launch of the program, despite the debt reduction negotiated with private creditors in February 2012.",
        "但有两点也有暗点：希腊GDP自2009年以来下降了20%，如今公债/GDP比率仍比援助计划开始时预计的高，尽管2012年2月与私人债权人进行了债务削减谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Eastern Ukraine has close linguistic, cultural, and economic ties to Russia, while western Ukraine leans more toward continental Europe.",
        "东乌克兰与俄罗斯的语言、文化和经济联系十分紧密，而西乌克兰则更倾向于欧洲大陆。"
    ],
    [
        "It was far easier for him to criticize Zimbabwe, Cuba, and Burma than Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and his initial criticism of Egypt was soon toned down.",
        "对他而言，批评津巴布韦、古巴和缅甸比非议沙特阿拉伯和巴基斯坦要容易得多。 他先前对埃及的批评之声也很快变得温和了。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya are all dealing with a mix of civil and proxy wars.",
        "叙利亚、伊拉克、也门和利比亚都面临着内战和代理战争的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Nuclear terrorism, a slowdown in China, or a sharp escalation of violence in the Middle East could all blow the lid off the current economic dynamic.",
        "恐怖主义、中国经济增长放缓、或中东暴力冲突的突然升级都可能完全破坏现有的经济局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, American and European economic advisers generally believe that a short sharp stimulus will be enough to restore economic growth.",
        "然而，美国与欧洲的经济顾问通常都相信，一个为期短而有力的刺激方案就能足以恢复经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, a gap between supply and demand when the corresponding excess demand is for financial assets is a recipe for economic meltdown.",
        "与此相反，由当前对金融资产过度需求所引发的供需缺口则是经济衰退之源。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, we underestimate the younger generation of scientists.",
        "此外，我们也低估了年轻一代科学家的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Paris – The European Union’s Lisbon treaty was initially greeted with enthusiasm, pride, and even hubris.",
        "巴黎—起初人们用热忱、自豪甚至是骄傲来欢迎欧盟的 《里斯本条约》 。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that, while Deng deserves appreciation for having brought China back from the abyss of Maoism, his approach – “Dengism,” or authoritarian developmentalism – is now impeding China’s prospects.",
        "事实上，尽管邓小平理应因为领导中国走出毛泽东极左思潮的深渊而受到国人爱戴，但他的治国大政方针——即所谓的“邓小平理论”，或者说是专制发展观（authoritarian developmentalism）——如今正在阻碍中国的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "That battle was lost in 1980, when the United States Supreme Court decided that a genetically modified micro-organism designed to clean up oil spills could be patented. (Obviously, given the damage caused by the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there is still some work to be done on that particular organism.)",
        "也有一些人提出反对，认为不应该拿活着的东西来申请专利，不过他们在1980年时就吃了败仗，当年美国联邦最高法院裁定一个被设计用来清除泄漏石油的转基因微生物可以申请专利（考虑到英国石油公司墨西哥湾漏油事故所造成的破坏，相关的微生物显然大有前途）。"
    ],
    [
        "A wage premium based solely on citizenship is grating.",
        "仅仅以国籍为基准的工资津贴令人反感。"
    ],
    [
        "This time around, instability in the Middle East is far more severe and widespread.",
        "这一回，中东的动荡远比此前几次更严重、范围更广。"
    ],
    [
        "The Corporate-Tax Conundrum",
        "公司税难题"
    ],
    [
        "Unless corporations step up to the plate, “American business will suffer from an inadequate workforce, a population of depleted consumers, and large blocs of anti-business voters.”",
        "”除非公司采取行动，否则“美国企业将因为劳动力不足、消费者囊中羞涩以及大量反商业选票而受损。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "She said essentially the following: “The role of the world is to improve the world.",
        "她的讲话大意如下：“世界的未来将会越变越好。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Herald Tribunerecently quoted Winston Churchill: “It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”",
        "《国际先驱论坛报》最近援引温斯顿·丘吉尔的观点：“单纯说竭尽全力还远远不够，有时我们必须达标。"
    ],
    [
        "Financing for refugee education must be sustainable, predictable, and holistic, both to enable education systems in refugee-hosting countries to plan accordingly, and to ensure that children’s schooling is not suspended when a new crisis erupts somewhere else.",
        "难民教育融资必须是可持续、可预测、全面性的，既要根据具体情况规划难民接收国的教育系统，也要确保在其他地区爆发新危机时，儿童不会因此辍学。"
    ],
    [
        "It is unlikely that EU regulators have heard the last from Schrems, who has already filed several claims similar to the one that overturned the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles.",
        "欧盟监管者不可能听从施雷姆斯。 施雷姆斯已经提出了多项类似于推翻了安全港隐私原则的诉讼的指控。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, educational attainment correlates strongly with income and labor-market performance.",
        "不仅如此，受教育程度与劳动力市场表现有着极强的相关性。"
    ],
    [
        "Of all the weaknesses revealed by the financial crisis, policy paralysis has been the most profound.",
        "金融危机所揭示的最大的弱点之一正是政策瘫痪是如此严重。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, changing the CPC charter is straightforward: Anyone who dares to disagree openly with a proposed amendment can look forward to a visit from the Party’s anti-corruption police.",
        "毕竟，修改中共党章非常简单：任何人胆敢公开反对修改提议都会迎来党的反腐警察的拜访。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan is now at a crossroads, facing an uneasy moment of truth.",
        "巴基斯坦眼前正处于十字路口，此刻面对着真理，却让人心烦不安。"
    ],
    [
        "And participants, speakers and organizers alike are eager for the next gathering.",
        "与会者、发言人和主办者都同样期待下一次聚会。"
    ],
    [
        "Many emerging economies achieved rapid growth for years – even decades – enabling billions of people to escape extreme poverty and reducing the wealth gap between developed and developing countries.",
        "许多新兴经济体实现了好几年——甚至好几十年——的高速增长，让数十亿人摆脱了极端贫困，也缩小了发达国家和发展中国家之间的财富差距。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who do not share this view must be overcome.",
        "不持有这一观点的人必须征服。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the World Trade Organization, merchandise and commercial-services exports have quadrupled since 1995.",
        "根据世界贸易组织的统计，商品和商业服务出口自1995年以来增长了四倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations climate agreement forged in Paris last December reconfirmed the level of 2°C above pre-industrial levels as a hard upper limit for global warming, beyond which the consequences for the planet become catastrophic.",
        "去年12月在巴黎签署的联合国气候协议再次确认了全球变暖的硬性上限是比前工业化水平高2℃，如果超过这一温度将为地球带来灾难性的后果。 但巴黎气候协议同样包含了“继续努力”将全球变暖限制在1."
    ],
    [
        "New York’s Lincoln Center announced last month that the billionaire entertainment industry mogul David Geffen has donated $100 million toward the renovation of its concert facility, Avery Fisher Hall, on the condition that it is renamed David Geffen Hall.",
        "纽约林肯中心上个月宣布，亿万富翁、娱乐业大佬大卫·格芬（David Geffen）为其音乐会设施艾弗里·费雪音乐厅（Avery Fisher Hall）捐献1亿美元，条件是将该音乐厅改名为大卫·格芬音乐厅。"
    ],
    [
        "A persuasive experiment recently demonstrated the interaction between nature and nurture.",
        "最近的一个具有说服力的试验证明了天生的因素和后天的培养之间的互动。"
    ],
    [
        "The current crisis may have seriously eroded the wealth of many of the very rich, destroying their assets in an unprecedented way.",
        "当前这场危机可能严重侵蚀了许多巨富的财产，以一种前所未有的方式将他们的资产毁于一旦。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, China seems to be on the same path that made Japan an aggressive, militaristic state, with tragic consequences for the region – and for Japan.",
        "事实上，中国似乎走在让日本成为激进军事化国家的老路上，这将给地区（以及日本）带来灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond government cooperation, the creativity and dynamism of businesses, NGOs and private citizens in both countries hold the key to what India and the US can offer each other and the world.",
        "除政府合作外，美印两国的企业、非政府组织和公民个人的活力与创造力是印美两国相互作用和对世界贡献的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, in March 2012, a consortium of large corporations led by IBM created the web-based Supplier Connection to make it easier for small businesses to become suppliers to large companies.",
        "类似地，2012年3月，以IBM为首的大企业联盟成立了基于网络的供应商网络（Supplier Connection），让小企业更容易成为大公司的供应商。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that there are other, deeper factors that underlie the differences in Chinese and US saving rates – factors that reflect different life experiences and how these experiences are filtered through the two countries’ cultures.",
        "事实说明中美储蓄率的巨大差异背后隐藏着其他的深层原因¾它们反映了两国民众迥异的生活经历，以及这些经历对两国文化不同的渗透作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, it is a wasted opportunity.",
        "更糟糕的是，这是一个被浪费的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the emergence of an ever more capable Iran, not a transformed one, is likely to be one of the main challenges confronting the Middle East, if not the world, in the coming years.",
        "事实上，一个实力更强而不是有所转变的伊朗的崛起有可能将成为未来几年中东乃至全世界所面临的主要挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "True, Palestinian resistance and sacrifices were a contributing factor in Ariel Sharon’s decision to reverse a policy he had espoused for decades. But it would be a mistake to attribute the Israeli withdrawal exclusively to Palestinian militancy.",
        "没错，巴勒斯坦人的抵抗和牺牲对阿里埃勒·沙龙在摒弃和平政策几十年后的重新回归作出了贡献，但将以色列撤军完全归功于巴勒斯坦的抵抗肯定是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Until a short while ago, I could certainly distinguish a computer from a human opponent.",
        "不久以前，我还可以轻易地对电脑和真人对手加以区分。"
    ],
    [
        "And can the ECB accept the government debt of Greece as collateral beyond certain limits?",
        "欧洲中央银行是否能超越某些限定为希腊的国债提供担保？"
    ],
    [
        "Then, to the surprise even of scientists, it stopped.",
        "接着，升温停止了，连科学家也大吃一惊。"
    ],
    [
        "But when it comes to nuclear security, complacency remains a major problem.",
        "但在核安保（nuclear security）问题上，自满也是个大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Hungary opened its borders, hoping that the human tide would flow onward, but then erected a razor-wire fence when it turned out that there were too few welcoming destinations.",
        "匈牙利开放了边境，希望人流只是过境，但随后建起了铁丝网隔离障，因为情况表明受欢迎的目的地太少了。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than pressure China to shut down the cross-border flow of fuel and food in order to “teach Pyongyang a lesson,” the US and its allies must find ways to support North Korea’s economic integration with the region.",
        "美国及其盟国不应为了“给平壤一个教训”而向中国施压，迫使该国切断与朝鲜之间的燃料与粮食跨境流动； 而是必须找出途径，为朝鲜与这一地区的经济融合提供支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The political instability following June’s inconclusive election had been compounded by a sharp decline in domestic and regional security.",
        "6月的无果选举所带来的政治动荡因为国内和地区安全局势的急剧恶化而恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "But most countries that are unburdened by such a threat have, quietly or spectacularly, rallied to the liberal order over the past decades.",
        "但多数未受上述威胁拖累的国家数十年来平静而壮观地汇聚到自由秩序的旗帜下。"
    ],
    [
        "This quixotic strategy met with unexpected success when Federal Judge Thomas Griesa ruled in the holdouts’ favor.",
        "这一异想天开的战略取得了出人意料的成功，联邦法官托马斯·葛里萨（Thomas Griesa）做出了有利于顽固派的裁决。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides being unjust, this is deeply tragic.",
        "除了不公平之外，这还是沉痛的悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "When Americans paid $120 per barrel, Europeans paid only about €76 per barrel.",
        "当美国的油价达到每桶120美元的时候，欧洲的油价每桶只有76欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, a dramatic shift occurred on the demand side, as emerging economies grew and became middle-income countries.",
        "与此同时，需求端产生了巨大的变化，新兴经济体成长为中等收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Ini harus diubah. Segera.",
        "这必须有所改变——并且要快。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet an analysis of Chile’s voucher program found no positive effect on students’ test scores or years in school.",
        "然而对智利教学补助金券计划进行的一项分析却没有发现对学生的考试成绩或入学的年份有何积极的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Trump administration is weakening the checks and balances between the executive and legislative branches of government, and his indifference to the rule of law could pose a direct challenge to the judicial branch.",
        "但如今特朗普政府正在削弱行政和立法部门之间的制衡，而他对法治的漠然可能对司法部门构成直接的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, there have been various schools of authoritarian right-wing thought about the relationship between the market and the state.",
        "历史上，关于市场和国家的关系，出现过众多极权主义右翼思想流派。"
    ],
    [
        "Although precipitation may be affected, higher temperatures would enable agricultural production in colder regions, and CO2 is known to bolster plant growth, even in dry areas.",
        "尽管降水量可能受到影响，但温度升高能让较冷地区适合农业生产，而二氧化碳能刺激植物生长，即使在干旱地区也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Such data collection can accelerate sustainable development by improving decision-making.",
        "上述数据收集可以通过改进决策促进可持续发展。"
    ],
    [
        "For a tight-knit community, reputational costs and other forms of social punishment transcend geography: not paying for goods might mean not being able to marry your children well.",
        "对一个紧密社会（tight-knit community）来说，名誉成本和其他形式的社会惩罚能超越地域：买货不给钱可能意味着你的孩子找不到好对象。"
    ],
    [
        "This is surprising in an era when treatments that work should supposedly be used with some uniformity.",
        "在一个有效的治疗方法应该在一定程度上统一使用的时代，这是很令人惊讶的。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN is far from perfect.",
        "联合国远非完美。"
    ],
    [
        "Also, if exit occurs by selling the long-term assets purchased during QE, a sharp increase in interest rates might choke off recovery, resulting in large financial losses for holders of long-term bonds.",
        "而且，如果退出采用出售QE所购买的长期资产这种手段，会导致利率剧增，打击经济复苏，给长期债券持有者带来巨额金融亏损。"
    ],
    [
        "So is the world itself.",
        "世界本身也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The fruits of prosperity should be reinvested in improving people’s lives, not in weapons that can take them.",
        "繁荣的果实应该再投资于改善人民的生活，而不是夺走人命的武器。"
    ],
    [
        "God, one realizes, is one’s only friend and only available family, because – deprived even of access to a trusted priest – there is no one else in whom to confide one’s worries and hopes.",
        "你会觉得上帝才是你唯一的朋友和家人，因为在连一个可信赖的牧师都被禁止接触的时候，没有人能聆听你的忧虑和希冀。"
    ],
    [
        "I have long believed that the true holder of power since Kim Jong-il’s death has been his sister, Kim Kyong-hui, and no one else.",
        "长期以来，我一直认为金正恩死后的真正掌权者没有其他人，只有他的妹妹金敬姬一人。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, thanks to their highly skilled labor forces, they are better equipped than their developing-country counterparts for activities like the production of made-to-measure specialized goods or, indeed, anything that requires a highly trained team to work in close proximity.",
        "换句话说，由于它们拥有高技能劳动力，因此比发展中国家更适合生产定制专业化产品或一切需要受过良好训练的团队紧密合作的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic ties are also growing, along with India’s economy.",
        "随着印度经济的增长，印美经济关系也在加强。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, France, under its new center-left government, must demonstrate that the “European model” of a market economy coupled with strong social solidarity can be reformed and strengthened, rather than abandoned – not just in Europe’s more pragmatic north, but also in its more ideological south.",
        "其次，在其中左翼政府领导下，法国必须证明，具有强大社会凝聚力的“欧洲模式”市场经济是可以改革和强化的，而不应该抛弃它——不仅更具现实主义的北欧是如此，更具理想主义的南欧也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Committed to regime change in Syria, Turkey turned a blind eye to some of these groups’ brutal tactics, radical ideologies, and big ambitions.",
        "土耳其致力于叙利亚的政权更迭，对这些组织的野蛮做法、极端意识形态和巨大野心睁一只眼闭一只眼。"
    ],
    [
        "The soldiers then take half the proceeds.",
        "而采矿的收益的一半则归这些士兵所有。"
    ],
    [
        "A financial crisis ends when the doubtful debt either has been socialized, or its valuation has stabilized, and it has migrated to investors who are solvent enough to bear the risk.",
        "当可以债务要么被社会化，要么估值得到稳定并转移到了有能力充分承担风险的投资者手中时，金融危机就结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the US, one finds all kinds of personal services that do not exist on a similar scale in Europe.",
        "确实，美国有各种各样的个人服务，欧洲就没有这样的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "What these groups do not seem to recognize is that the alternative they wish for is a fantasy.",
        "上述群体似乎并未意识到他们所心仪的选择仅仅是个幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Since Syria’s civil war erupted in 2011, the death toll has reached more than 250,000, and half of the population has been displaced, causing a flood of refugees into surrounding countries and into the European Union.",
        "2011年叙利亚内战爆发以来，死亡人数已经超过250,000人，一半叙利亚人流离失所，造成大量难民涌入周边国家和欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, idealistic activities also received little of the extra money: 3% for welfare and religious activities, and a similar share for education.",
        "令人遗憾的是，只有很少一部分投入了实现人类理想的活动：3%用于福利和宗教活动，教育所得到的份额也相差无几。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Yemen is geographically part of the Arabian Peninsula, it was excluded from the Gulf Cooperation Council, primarily because its size – it is the most populous state on the peninsula – would have given it great influence.",
        "尽管也门在地理位置上归属于阿拉伯半岛，但却由于国土面积的原因被排除在海湾合作委员会之外 —— 也门是半岛上人口最为稠密的国家 —— 这本来应该是增加也门影响力的砝码。"
    ],
    [
        "Until this changes, all other efforts will ultimately be in vain and current levels of international engagement with Afghanistan will become unjustifiable.",
        "近期持续打击亲塔利班的哈卡尼组织等行动，都是在正确的方向上取得的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2017 Economic Survey in Kenya showed that the Jua Kali generated 747,300 jobs the previous year, whereas the formal sector added only 85,600.",
        "2017年肯尼亚经济调查表明，朱阿卡丽在此前一年中创造了747,300个工作岗位，而正式部门只创造了85,600个工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet its population is more than six million, not including the 1.5 million Syrian refugees who currently reside in the country.",
        "但约旦人口超过六百万，并且尚不包括目前居住在约旦的150万叙利亚难民。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, Britain’s libel laws had been living down to Mr. Bumble’s expectations.",
        "”几十年来，英国的反诽谤法辜负了班布尔先生的期望。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the World Health Organization, about seven million deaths each year are caused by air pollution, with the majority a result of burning twigs and dung inside.",
        "根据世界卫生组织的数据，每年大约七百万人因为空气污染而死亡，其中大部分是因为在室内燃烧柴枝和粪便而致死。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – There is a kind of war underway in the United States nowadays between fact and fantasy.",
        "纽约—如今的美国存在一场事实和幻想之争。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization’s cheerleaders do considerable damage to their cause by framing the issue as a stark choice between existing trade arrangements and the persistence of global poverty.",
        "全球化的鼓吹者们把这个议题套进了一个死框架，仿佛人们只能在现有贸易安排和全球贫困现象的持续存在之间做出非此即彼的选择，并最终对全球化议程产生了反作用。"
    ],
    [
        "· Ratify and enforce all relevant regional and international treaties, and implement laws that prohibit violence against women and ensure effective punishment of offenses.",
        "· 批准并实施所有相关地区和国际条约，并实施禁止针对妇女的暴力的法律，确保暴力行为的有效惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2050, there will be 135 million Alzheimer’s sufferers worldwide, a threefold increase from today, with three-quarters of cases occurring in low- and middle-income countries.",
        "到2050年，全球将有1. 35亿阿尔茨海默症患者，较目前增加三倍，其中四分之三发生在中低收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Intellectual property protection is related to economic development, so the question should be whether China has reached the stage at which effective protection is possible.",
        "知识产权保护与经济发展水平息息相关，因此，问题应该是中国是否达到了可以实施有效保护的阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Koizumi had relied on the bureaucrats to implement his reforms, but he did so at the price of postponing an overhaul of the civil service, which became a poisoned chalice that he passed on to Abe.",
        "小泉依靠官僚实施改革，代价是不得不推迟公务员制度的全面革新，结果这在安倍接手后就成了毒瘤。"
    ],
    [
        "There is something to be said for this attitude.",
        "对于这种态度，我有话要说。"
    ],
    [
        "Suppose you are concerned about children in Africa dying from preventable diseases.",
        "设想一下你关心死于可防治疾病的非洲儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republic of Korea, which is losing jobs for the first time in more than five years, has also spotted the green lining to grim economic times.",
        "韩国在五年来第一次出现了失业上升的情况，但是也在严峻的经济时期中发现了绿色内容。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it was never able to use the former to advance the latter.",
        "但是人道主义援助并没有进一步实现和平调解。"
    ],
    [
        "First, private sector solutions have been tried but have failed in a breathtakingly short space of time.",
        "首先，人们已经尝试了私营部门的解决方案，但是都迅告失败。"
    ],
    [
        "With scientists working tirelessly to refine such technologies, the public must become more knowledgeable about their socioeconomic implications.",
        "在科研工作者孜孜不倦改进相关技术的同时，公众必须更加了解它们的社会经济影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Colombia’s unresolved and cruel conflict persists.",
        "最后，哥伦比亚悬而未决的残酷冲突仍在持续。"
    ],
    [
        "The Nazis must have reveled in the knowledge that their virulent anti-Semitism found an echo – sometimes not so faint – in the rest of Europe.",
        "残暴的反犹主义在欧洲其他地区取得了回音——有时还相当有力——这一定让纳粹欣喜不已。"
    ],
    [
        "The world should beware.",
        "全世界都必须引以为戒。"
    ],
    [
        "While the discourse of sacrifice persists, the logic that has shored it up for millennia has been abandoned.",
        "尽管牺牲言论依然存在，但数千年来支撑这种言论的逻辑却已被彻底抛弃掉。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, like Clinton before him, Obama has been unable to get Republican senators like Susan Collins to vote for her own campaign-finance policies, McCain to vote for his own climate-change policy, and – most laughably – Romney to support his own health-care plan.",
        "事实上，像前任克林顿一样，奥巴马无法说服柯林斯（Susan Collins）等共和党参议员支持其本人的竞选金融政策，麦凯恩支持其本人的气候变化政策，以及——最可笑的——罗姆尼支持其本人的医疗计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But the bad cop, Putin, is the real boss.",
        "但是，恶警察普京才是真正的老板。"
    ],
    [
        "Shi Tao, in his jail cell, was undoubtedly pleased to learn that China is ruled by law, not by the Communist Party.",
        "被关进牢房的师涛无疑该为中国的法治而非共党专制而感到高兴。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason why an assisted Grexit was never offered seems clear: Greece’s European creditors were vehemently opposed to the idea.",
        "为什么从未有过协助希腊退出的选项，原因很明白：希腊的欧洲债权人强烈反对这个主意。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Future history books, depending on where they are written, will take one of two approaches to assigning blame for the world’s current financial and economic crisis.",
        "北京－未来的历史书籍，由于写作地点的不同，会采用下述两种方式中的一种，来归咎当前世界金融和经济危机的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Taking their cue from the sacred Rome Treaty’s reference to “ever closer union,” the European Commission’s theologians view every crisis as an opportunity to advance their federalist agenda.",
        "欧盟委员会的神学家们根据神圣的罗马条约中所提及的“最紧密的联盟”的说法，将每一次危机都视为推进其联邦日程的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Among those who acted pro-cyclically were some US politicians.",
        "采取顺周期政策的就包括一些美国政客。"
    ],
    [
        "Neonaticide (killing infants that are less than one day old), infanticide (killing infants that are more than one day old), and the practice of disposing of female children in favor of male offspring are not only barbaric; they have led to imbalanced gender ratios in many emerging markets.",
        "当日杀婴（对象是出生不到一天的新生儿）、杀婴（对象是出生已满一天的新生儿）和抛弃女婴的重男轻女行为不但野蛮； 还在许多新兴市场国家造成了性别比率失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1970, Germany’s business cycles have been surprisingly regular: a downswing in the first half of each decade, followed by an upswing in the second half.",
        "从1970年起，德国经济就保持着令人吃惊的规律性：每十年的前五年呈下滑走势，而在后五年上升。"
    ],
    [
        "For the European Union and the United States, the gain from that decline is worth about 2-3% of GDP.",
        "对于欧盟和美国来说，从油价下跌中所取得收益相当于各自GDP的2~3%。"
    ],
    [
        "(Relative to its population and income, Myanmar is one of the world’s smallest recipients of international assistance.)",
        "（从人口和收入水平看，缅甸是世界上接受国际援助最少的国家之一。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, such distances seem implausible, given electric cars’ poor range: the Nissan Leaf, for example, can go only 117 kilometers on a charge.",
        "事实上，如此长的里程根本不可能达到，因为电动汽车的电池太不给力：比如，日产Leaf每充一次电只能跑117公里。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically, though, EEA membership would be a raw deal. Britain would have to comply with single-market rules and legislation in areas such as consumer protection, the environment, and social policy – rules that it would have no say in creating.",
        "但在政治上，欧洲经济区成员资格将是一项不公正的待遇，因为英国将必须在诸如消费者保护，环境和社会政策领域遵守单一市场规则和立法——而在制定这些法律法规的过程中不享有任何发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "The demise of one species or trophic level (which contains organisms performing the same function in the food chain), leads to changes in others in a rapid sequence that is difficult to foresee.",
        "单个物种或食性层级（包含在食物链中起到同样作用的有机体）的消亡对其他物种造成影响的速度难以预测。"
    ],
    [
        "They have resisted the temptation to use short-term fiscal or monetary stimulus to increase their popularity, relying instead on identity politics to maintain electoral dominance.",
        "他们抵挡住诱惑，不采取短期财政或货币刺激来提高支持率，而是依靠身份政治和来保持选举优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, in Japan, the private sector’s patience with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s three-pronged strategy to reinvigorate the long-stagnant economy – so-called “Abenomics” – will be tested, particularly with regard to the long-awaited implementation of structural reforms to complement fiscal stimulus and monetary easing.",
        "与此同时，在日本，私营企业对首相安倍晋三重振长期停滞经济的三项战略——所谓的“安倍经济学”——的耐性将受到挑战，特别是期待已久的用来补强财政刺激和宽松货币政策的结构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the most powerful economic adviser remaining in the White House is Gene Sperling, head of the National Economic Council (NEC), the agency created by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to serve as his main source of economic policy (somewhat shunting aside the Council of Economic Advisers).",
        "如今依然留在白宫且权力最大的经济顾问是吉恩·斯珀林（Gene Sperling）——国家经济委员会(NEC)主任，NEC是由克林顿（Bill Clinton）总统于1993年创立的机构，充当他经济政策的主要来源——这在某种程度上疏远了经济顾问委员会（Council of Economic Advisers）。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries once felt insulated – by wealth, strength, or distance – from external dangers.",
        "许多国家曾经绝缘于外部威胁——通过财富、实力和距离等。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment is high, income disparities have worsened, and corruption remains widespread, notwithstanding important improvements in recent years.",
        "尽管最近几年有了重要的改善，格鲁吉亚的失业率居高不下，收入差距一直不断恶化，腐败现象仍普遍存在。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the possibility of a further downshift in private-sector fixed-asset investment could exacerbate ongoing pressures associated with deleveraging, persistently weak external demand, and a faltering property cycle.",
        "特别是，私人部门固定资产投资进一步下滑的可能性可能加剧去杠杆、外部需求持续低迷以及房地产周期由盛转衰所带来的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fatah movement has a long way to go before it becomes a full-fledged political party.",
        "由此可见，如果要变成一个货真价实的政党，法塔赫还有很长的路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge is no less than to prevent the life sciences from becoming the death sciences.",
        "与防止生命科学变成死亡科学相比，这一挑战的重要性也丝毫不差。"
    ],
    [
        "Many governments are debating how to prevent or slow further advances in North Korea’s capacity and what should be done if such efforts fail.",
        "多国政府正在讨论如何阻止或延缓朝鲜核能力的进一步增长，以及如果阻止失败应该怎么做。"
    ],
    [
        "I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path – not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.",
        "我很享受这样； 我的海外经验让我知道保持开放思维的重要性，也让我愿意不走寻常路——不但是为了保持生活情趣，也是为了以一种有意义的方式理解，从不同角度看待事物会得到不同结论。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, a billion people go hungry each day.",
        "与此同时，十亿人却每天生活在饥饿的阴影之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Perverse incentives are only one reason that many of the hoped-for benefits of low interest rates did not materialize.",
        "负面激励措施只是导致低利率的预期好处无法兑现的其中一个原因。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in response to an embargo affecting a particular country, other EU members would draw on their reserves, increase their own production, pay more for imports, or cut consumption a bit.",
        "比如，当禁运影响到某个具体国家时，其他欧盟成员国要拿出自己的储备，增加自己的产量，话更多的钱进口，或略微削减一些消费。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, students in impoverished rural schools that currently lack books, electricity, and trained teachers would be connected online – via solar panels and wireless broadband – to quality educational materials, free online courses, and other schools, thereby closing a resource gap that, until recently, seemed insurmountable.",
        "与此同时，目前缺少书籍、电力和受过培训的教师贫困农村学校的学生将通过网络接入——太阳能电板和无线宽带——获得高质量教育素材、免费在线课程和其他学校，从而缩小到目前为止仍显得不可逾越的差距。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Those who lead Israel’s defense establishment often come to consider peace with the Palestinians a necessary condition for the country’s security.",
        "普林斯顿—以色列的国防领导者常常认为与巴勒斯坦的和平是国家安全的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The ratings could then be used to guide drug-purchasing decisions.",
        "然后可以使用评级来指导购药决策。"
    ],
    [
        "The second lever for investment is regulatory in nature.",
        "第二种投资杠杆是监管。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if the past is any guide to the future, we should be aware of the limits of regulation.",
        "但是，所谓前车之鉴，后事之师，我们必须清醒认识到监管的局限性。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, Spain’s success, coupled with lax credit policy in the eurozone, resulted in a financial bubble whose collapse exposed structural challenges.",
        "此外，西班牙的成功与欧元区的宽松信用政策不无关系，它们都是金融泡沫的产物，泡沫破裂后，结构性问题便浮出了水面。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, some transfers flow the other way.",
        "实际上，某些转移的方向正好相反。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, after consulting closely with South Korea and Japan, should meet with Chinese officials to discuss what a unified Korea would look like, so that some Chinese concerns could be met.",
        "在于韩国和日本进行紧密磋商后，美国应该与中国官员会晤讨论统一的韩国应该怎样，以打消中国的部分顾虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey's formal recognition as a candidate state in 1999 led Turkey to undertake unprecedented reform efforts in the area of human and minority rights, including abolition of the death penalty, safeguards against torture, promotion of religious freedoms, gender equality, and restriction of the military's role in political life.",
        "1999年正式承认候补资格后，土耳其在人权和少数民族权利领域开始了前所未有的改革，包括取消死刑、反对酷刑、推动宗教自由、性别平等和限制军队在政治生活中的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "It could and should transfer at least $90 billion of that to development aid.",
        "美国可以而且应当将其中的至少900亿美元转用于发展援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries are, in principle, free to join the TPP.",
        "原则上各国都可以自由加入协议。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not difficult to see the parallels between Putin’s approach and that of Joseph Stalin, who declared at the start of WWII that the “enemy” aims to “destroy” Russia’s “national culture,” to “Germanize” its people, and “convert them into slaves.”",
        "不难看出普京和斯大林的做法有相似之处，后者曾在二战伊始宣布“敌人”想要“消灭”俄罗斯“民族文化”、将俄国人“德国化”并奴役俄国民众。"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder, then, that while Obama used his eight minutes in Panama to delineate concrete policy initiatives that would bring happiness to the greatest number, Castro spent 48 minutes reinventing the past.",
        "因此，毫不奇怪，奥巴马用他的巴拿马八分钟来描绘能给最广大人民带来幸福的务实政策，而卡斯特罗用了48分钟重新阐述了过去。"
    ],
    [
        "One has go back to the “Year of Three Popes” (1978) to find a succession drama as strange as what has been happening at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the two pillars of the global financial system.",
        "只有回到“三教皇更替之年”（1978年）才能找到与国际货币基金组织和世界银行这两大全球金融支柱刚刚发生的领导人更替同样怪诞的继承戏剧。"
    ],
    [
        "If we do not reform, we will be enslaved.",
        "如果我们不改革，我们就会被奴役。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Obesity Threat",
        "全球肥胖威胁"
    ],
    [
        "Even wages for routine data-entry tasks in Africa are usually no less than those paid in south Asia.",
        "就算是一般的数据录入工作在非洲所获得的报酬也不比在南亚的低。"
    ],
    [
        "The pattern in other Western nations is similar.",
        "其它欧洲国家的情况也大体相似。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s recent move marks the beginning of a new phase of its financial-market development, in which green-finance goals are central, rather than an add-on, to relevant initiatives.",
        "中国的新举动标志着其金融市场发展的新阶段，绿色金融目标将是核心措施而不再只是一个附加项。"
    ],
    [
        "The occasional argument that it is a genuine Lebanese political movement, tied to Iran but ultimately Lebanese, is simply wrong.",
        "偶然论——这确实只是黎巴嫩的政治运动，与伊朗有关但最终只属于黎巴嫩——大错特错了。"
    ],
    [
        "Now more than ever, the EU and Turkey have a responsibility to act together, before an already appalling situation gets even worse.",
        "现在欧盟和土耳其有责任采取共同行动，以防止本已令人震惊的局势进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "RCTs may be appropriate for clinical drug trials.",
        "RCT也许适用于临床药物实验。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing illustrates Russia’s malaise under Putin better than the case of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer working for a British investment fund.",
        "在普京的领导下俄罗斯萎靡不振，没有什么例子比英国投资基金工作的律师谢尔盖·马格尼茨基更合适了。"
    ],
    [
        "Large reductions in public-sector wages brought down the primary deficit, but employment maintenance lowers productivity, raises costs, and delays adjustment.",
        "大规模降低公共部门工资拉低了基本赤字，但保持就业岗位拉低了生产率，推高了成本，也推迟了调整。"
    ],
    [
        "However, on financial matters (in particular the distribution of profits and losses), the voting rules are different: the Executive Board does not participate and the votes of the national central bank presidents in the Governing Council are weighted by their respective capital shares.",
        "然而，对于金融问题（尤其对于利润和损失），投票规则是不同的：首先执行董事会不会参与，并且委员会各国央行行长的投票权的分量由他们各自认缴的资金份额决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The air surrounding Greenland and Antarctica has recently become warmer and more humid. Warm and humid air will increase melting of ice in low regions at the edges of the ice sheets while boosting snowfall over cold high regions in the interior.",
        "最近，环绕格陵兰岛和南极洲的大气日益变得温暖而潮湿，暖湿空气会加大冰川边缘低地内覆盖冰雪的融化速度，并且在内陆高寒地区刺激降雪量上升。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is different.",
        "但这次的情况却有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long period of American weakness, European leaders will have to demonstrate statesmanship for the West as a whole. It is a role for which decades of US supremacy have scarcely prepared them.",
        "在美国长期的衰弱中，欧洲领导人将不得不表现出以整个西方为重的政治家才能，而这样的角色是在美国数十年的霸主地位下他们极少有机会担当的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet he faced all the prejudice that would be directed at any Dalit.",
        "但他仍面临着所有达利特人可能遇到的偏见。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, to address existing regulatory conflicts, the FMLC recommends establishing a “conflict of regulation” framework to determine which legal regime – that of a global firm’s home country or that of its local subsidiary’s host country – has jurisdiction in a specific cross-border dispute.",
        "其次，要解决当前的监管冲突，FMLC建议成立“监管冲突“框架以决定哪种法律机制——以跨国企业的母国为准还是以当地分支所在国为准——对具体的跨境纠纷拥有司法权。"
    ],
    [
        "The plan’s main point is to establish an Ad Hoc Working Group to reach a detailed global agreement by 2009 that will set “measurable, reportable, and verifiable” commitments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "该规划的要点是建立一个临时工作组以便在2009年前达成一项具体的全球性协议。 这一协议将确定降低温室气体排放的“可以衡量、可供汇报以及可以核实”的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the Paris meeting is to be successful – in terms of both fulfilling the moral imperative and capturing the economic benefits of confronting climate change – every participating country must submit its national contributions for the period beginning in 2020 as soon as possible.",
        "但如果巴黎会议要想取得成功——既包括兑现道德使命，又包括抓住对抗气候变化的经济利益——所有参与国都必须尽快递交2020年后的国家承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – The just-adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are expected to herald the start of a new era in global development, one that promises to transform the world in the name of people, the planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership.",
        "日内瓦—刚刚实施的可持续发展目标（SDG）预示着全球发展新时代的开始，这个时代有望以人民、地球、繁荣、和平和合作的名义改变世界。"
    ],
    [
        "This, in turn, has fueled speculation that Zhu will be a candidate to become the next managing director.",
        "这引得外界纷纷猜测，朱民将成为 IMF 下一总裁的一个人选。"
    ],
    [
        "Given these findings, it is clear that the distress experienced since the beginning of the economic crisis is not far out of line with historical experience.",
        "有见及此，很显然自经济危机开始以来的惨痛经历也与历史经验不相上下。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most politically sensitive topic for China has little to do with cyber security or the South China Sea. It is China’s ongoing crackdown on civil liberties and human rights.",
        "但对中国来说，政治上最敏感的话题既非网络安全，亦非南海，而是中国一直在镇压公民自由和人权的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "While 1.2 billion people in the developing world still live on less than $1.25 per day – a problem that we certainly must address – the rate of extreme poverty has never been lower.",
        "尽管12亿发展中世界的人们每天的生活费仍不到1. 25美元——这毫无疑问是必须得到解决的问题——但极端贫困率从未如此之低。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, Sharon was the ideal center candidate: a leader who reconciled a dovish approach with a hawkish outlook.",
        "简而言之，沙龙是理想的中间派候选人，他是一个调和了鸽派手段和鹰派观念的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "Because persistent high or rising inequality can contribute to political instability and undermine social cohesion, it is critical that Indonesia address it.",
        "因为持续高企或加剧的不平等性可能导致政治动荡、破坏社会凝聚力，因此印尼必须解决这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this backdrop, institutional investors self-insured – quite rationally – against a eurozone breakup by withdrawing behind safer borders.",
        "针对这一背景，机构投资者通过将资金撤到安全线以外实现自我保护，这相当理性。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe appears to be more stuck than ever.",
        "欧洲似乎比以往更加沉闷。"
    ],
    [
        "In this new era of “vetocracy” in Europe, the diplomacy that underpinned the creation of the enlightened and forward-looking European project cannot function, leaving the EU ungovernable.",
        "在新的“否决政体”时代的欧洲，作为开明前瞻的欧洲工程创立之基的外交不可能起作用，这让欧盟变得不可治理。"
    ],
    [
        "This, too, suggests a campaign advantage for Trump over his opponent in November, Hillary Clinton, whose candidacy is heavily financed by Wall Street.",
        "这也是特朗普对其11月总统大选的竞争对手希拉里·克林顿的竞选优势之一。 克林顿获得候选人资格，华尔街金主出力甚多。"
    ],
    [
        "They replicate the practices of the elitist regimes they replaced, clamping down on the press and civil liberties and emasculating (or capturing) the judiciary.",
        "它们会复制它们所取代的精英治国制度，抑制言论和公民自由，阉割（或绑架）司法。"
    ],
    [
        "And then there were those confirming e-mails.",
        "然后就是那些确认这一噩耗的邮件。"
    ],
    [
        "The leader of a government that is supposed to be of, by, and for the people has been elected by a clear minority of those people.",
        "一个本该民有、民治、民享的政府其选举结果却明显来自少数人。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, white-collar managers and employees – the brainpower that keeps the intricate global corporate machinery whirring, and once the backbone of the middle class – are no longer in such high demand.",
        "此外，对白领管理者和雇员——让复杂的全球公司机器保持运转的昔日中产阶级中间力量——的高需求不再。"
    ],
    [
        "The victims, who had recently absconded from a military construction crew, were known to be unarmed and not dangerous.",
        "被害者不久前曾从军队施工建制中私自脱逃，据了解他们没有携带武器，也不会构成危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Road safety is a grave concern.",
        "道路安全是一个大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the Arab countries, Eastern Europe and the Balkans benefited from a common starting point and a common path forward: all are part of a continent that has taken historic steps toward integration since World War II.",
        "与阿拉伯国家不同，东欧和巴尔干国家有一个优势，它们拥有共同的起点和共同的前进道路：它们都处在二战后走向一体化的历史进程的大陆中。"
    ],
    [
        "What is really limiting private infrastructure investment is, to some extent, public opposition to the private ownership of public assets and, mainly, impediments to matching private capital with infrastructure opportunities.",
        "从某种程度上说，真正限制私人基础设施投资的是公众反对私人拥有公共资产，以及（这才是主要原因）将私人资本与基础设施相匹配的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "If the growth rates of the past 15 years continue, and if India remains united, its labor productivity in 2050 will be comparable to that of Spain today.",
        "如果保持过去15年的增长速度，如果能够继续统一，那么它2050年的劳动生产率将能和今天的西班牙相媲美。"
    ],
    [
        "They were convinced that it was a controlled experiment.",
        "决策者认为，这是一个受控实验。"
    ],
    [
        "Natural disasters strike with greater fury, and in greater numbers, than ever before.",
        "自然灾害以前所未有的数量和破坏烈度降临到人们身上。"
    ],
    [
        "PALO ALTO – Elections often turn on the state of the economy, especially in hard times.",
        "帕罗奥图—经济通常会左右选举，特别是在世道不景气的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The market is far better in making such judgments.",
        "在这方面，市场的判断要好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "It is much too early for a verdict on Bush’s second term policies.",
        "现在就对布什第二任期的政策下定论还为时尚早。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, it seems unlikely that Trump will change his tune on climate change, not least because the cabinet members he has selected are largely singing the same song.",
        "尽管如此，特朗普似乎不太可能改变他对气候变化的看法，特别因为他所挑选的内阁成员大多秉承同样的腔调。"
    ],
    [
        "But the literature on “exit strategies” – on how to replace a currency peg with a more flexible exchange rate – makes clear that the moment when China could have navigated this transition smoothly has now passed.",
        "但“退出战略”方面的文献——即关于如何以更具弹性的汇率取代货币盯住——清楚地表明，中国已经错失平稳过渡的时机。"
    ],
    [
        "The Jews’ return to Israel was not colonialism, as the Arabs thought.",
        "犹太人重返以色列并不像阿拉伯人所想的那样是殖民主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The Internet also allows people to establish a more diverse set of political communities.",
        "因特网还允许人们建立更多样的政治团体。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, nationalism trumps religion.",
        "57%的人认为政府实行伊斯兰教法“非常重要”或“重要”。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s refusal, at the close of the summit, to appear onstage with French President François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel all but confirmed fears that rudderless leadership is fueling institutional dysfunction.",
        "与此同时，意大利总理伦齐在峰会闭幕时拒绝与法国总统奥朗德和德国首相默克尔同台，这确认了人们对领导层失去方向正在加剧机构功能失调的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, flights to Haneda airport, a convenient connection to the Tokyo city area, have been rationed.",
        "同样，飞往羽田机场这个通往东京市区的便利转接点的航班也受到限制。"
    ],
    [
        "What’s more, it is threatened by a de-facto anti-Iranian coalition of all other regional powers, united by their fear of Iranian ascendancy.",
        "不仅如此，伊朗还处在其他地区大国构造的反伊联盟的威胁之下，对伊朗强势地位的恐惧把这些国家紧紧联合在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "India was historically strong at field hockey, winning almost all of the gold medals between 1928 and 1968, but, since the Games switched from grass to expensive synthetic turf, the Indians have won just one field hockey medal.",
        "历史上，印度是曲棍球强国，在1928—1968年间几乎垄断了奥运曲棍球金牌，但是，随着奥运会曲棍球比赛不再采用天然草坪，而是转用昂贵的人工草坪，印度人从此以后只获得过一块曲棍球奖牌。"
    ],
    [
        "This pattern of anti-Zionism and anti-Americanism returns again and again.",
        "这样的反美和反犹太复国主义一再呈现。"
    ],
    [
        "Several factors appear to explain the Nordic countries’ economic success.",
        "若干因素似乎可以解释北欧国家经济成功的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "To succeed, Africa must develop a more coherent and coordinated approach to courting capital, while at the same time working to mitigate investors’ risk exposure.",
        "要想取得成功，非洲必须制定一种更为协调一致的方法来讨好资本，并同时竭尽全力控制投资者的风险敞口。"
    ],
    [
        "This process is only beginning, but it is off to a strong start.",
        "这一过程才刚刚开始，但这仍是个好的开局。"
    ],
    [
        "But this can be ruled out in today’s Russia, because the instruments to implement it – notably an army that would obey orders to mow people down in the streets – are lacking.",
        "但是这种结果在今天的俄罗斯是不可能出现的，因为缺乏实施它的工具，就是说一支会遵从命令走上街头用机枪扫杀群众的军队。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, while competition will improve the quality of research and education, this does not imply reduced public funding, a lower priority for basic research, or the elimination of scholarships.",
        "与此相似，尽管竞争能改善研究和教育的质量，但也并不一定要削减公共投资、牺牲基础研究或取消研究基金。"
    ],
    [
        "A new age seemed to be dawning in Europe, in which the rule of law, democracy, and individual rights were unassailable.",
        "欧洲似乎迎来了一个法治、民主和个人权利毋庸置疑的新时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the World Food Program, which announced in July 2015 that it had no choice but to reduce aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon – a move that risked leaving 440,000 refugees without food, thereby spurring yet more perilous voyages across the Mediterranean.",
        "以世界粮食计划署为例，该机构于2015年7月宣布它别无选择只能削减对约旦和黎巴嫩境内叙利亚难民的援助——该措施有可能导致440,000名难民断绝口粮，从而促使更多人踏上横渡地中海的危险之旅。"
    ],
    [
        "The global financial crisis adversely affected a small number of Islamic financial institutions as the real economy contracted and some issuers of Islamic bonds defaulted.",
        "由于实体经济收缩，一些伊斯兰债券发行者违约，全球金融危机也对伊斯兰金融机构造成了些许影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The two parties are not allied, but both are nurtured by anti-establishment sentiment and favor “national solutions” to Italy’s problems – beginning with a return to the Italian lira.",
        "这两个政党没有结盟，但都得益于反建制情绪并支持用“民族方案”解决意大利的问题——首先就是恢复意大利里拉。"
    ],
    [
        "The possibility of such an apocalyptic scenario suggests that the threat of infectious diseases – either from microbes that develop resistance to existing therapies or new microbes that emerge – is among the most important challenges that humankind faces.",
        "这一启示录情景的可能性意味着传染病威胁——不管是来自产生了对已有疗法抗性的微生物还是新出现的微生物——是人类所面临的最重要的挑战之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But most West Europeans prefer “difficult partner.”",
        "但是，大多数西欧国家倾向于认为俄罗斯是一个“难以相处的伙伴”。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike in a democracy, where citizens elect their government officials based on whatever criteria they choose, in China’s selectocracy, the Chinese Communist Party chooses officials for promotion based on their ability to advance the party’s main objectives – especially growth.",
        "与民主国家公民根据自己所选择的标准选举政府官员不同，在中国的选拔制中，中共遴选升迁官员的基础是他们是否有能力推进党的主要目标——特别是增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Some regional institutions have already been established, including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ASEAN+3 (the ten members of the ASEAN plus China, Japan, and South Korea) and the East Asia Summit (EAS).",
        "一些区域性架构，包括东南亚国家联盟（东盟），东盟+3（东盟的十个成员加上中国，日本和韩国）和东亚峰会（EAS）都已经建立。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why their leaders remain committed to preserving open internal borders, while maintaining a stronger external border – even if that means, as has been made clear to Greece, revoking the Schengen membership of a country deemed incapable of doing its part.",
        "因此，这些国家的领导人依然承诺捍卫开放的内部边境，同时保持更强的外部边境控制——即使如希腊所表明的，这意味着剥夺被认为没有做好本职工作的国家的申根区成员资格。"
    ],
    [
        "If that is his intention, it is a move fraught with great danger.",
        "如果这是他的目的，那么这举动会带有危险。"
    ],
    [
        "BUDAPEST – Populists such as US President Donald Trump and de facto Polish leader Jarosław Kaczyński, and authoritarians such as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin, do not just share Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s brand of so-called “illiberal democracy.” Each also espouses a form of “illiberal capitalism.”",
        "布达佩斯—美国总统特朗普和波兰的事实领导人卡钦斯基（Jarosław Kaczyński）鞥民粹主义者，以及土耳其总统埃尔多安和俄罗斯总统普京等极权主义者，他们不但都具备匈牙利总理欧尔班的所谓“反自由的民主”的特征，还各自孕育了一种形式的“反自由资本主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "The spectacular profits on Wall Street and elsewhere in the financial industry also have a huge macroeconomic impact.",
        "华尔街和其他地区的金融业所赚取的惊人的利润同时也给宏观经济带来了巨大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "One agency where large-scale graft and corruption was traditionally rampant was the Department of Public Works and Highways.",
        "而政府中腐败渎职风气泛滥的机构之一就是公共工程和高速公路部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the US, relying on the same flawed theory, is doing it again.",
        "如今的美国使用的也是同一条错误理论。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue remains less settled in Egypt, while in Pakistan a small but highly motivated part of the population has embraced extreme violence as a form of political expression.",
        "埃及的这一问题就没有那么简单，而在巴基斯坦，一小部分相当热情的国人将极端暴力作为政治压迫的一种形式。"
    ],
    [
        "This power follows from the nature of debt.",
        "这个力量来自于债务的本质。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast to a majority of West Europeans, East Europeans do not consider their elections free and fair.",
        "东欧居民认为国内选举缺乏自由和公正，这与大多数西欧居民形成了鲜明的对照。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while waste may be tolerable, avoidable harm to patients is not.",
        "但即便我们可以容忍浪费，也无法容忍对患者造成本可以避免的危害性。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynes graduated in mathematics, but was steeped in the classics (and studied economics for less than a year before starting to teach it).",
        "凯恩斯毕业于数学专业，但浸淫经典多年（在教授经济学之前，他只学了不到一年经济学）。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Sudan is not a small, insignificant country; it is the tenth largest – the biggest in Africa and in the Arab world.",
        "毕竟苏丹不是个无足轻重的小国，这个国家排名世界第十 —— 在非洲和阿拉伯国家中排名第一。"
    ],
    [
        "Personally, I regard the investment policy as first aid.…Less work is the ultimate solution.”",
        "就个人而言，我认为投资就好比是急救……而减少工作则是最后手段。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "It will be like what happened in Britain after it abandoned its exchange-rate peg and allowed the pound to depreciate relative to the Deutschmark , or what happened in the US in the late 1980’s, when the dollar depreciated against the pound, the Deutschmark , and – most importantly – the Japanese yen.",
        "这种情况将与放弃固定汇率并允许英镑对德国马克贬值后英国的状况非常相似，或者可以类比20世纪80年代的美国，当时的美元对英镑、德国马克特别是日元都出现了大幅度的贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they will have to focus on rebuilding and reenergizing Fatah.",
        "实际上，他们将不得不将精力集中到重建和重振法塔赫上来。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, investment growth has been strong in sectors like technology and – until recently – energy, where demand has been expected to rise.",
        "与此同时，技术和能源（直到不久之前）等行业的投资增长一直表现强劲，因为人们一直预期需求将会上升。"
    ],
    [
        "As of December 29, the CAPE ratio is highest for the US.",
        "到12月29日，CAPE市盈率最高的国家是美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Houphouet-Boigny’s successor, Henri Konan Bédié, had neither his talent nor his courage.",
        "但乌弗埃-博瓦尼的继任者亨利·科南·贝迪埃（Henri Konan Bédié）既没有前任的才智，也缺乏足够的勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "The Perils of a Trumped Fed",
        "特朗普治下美联储的危机"
    ],
    [
        "Although the tax take is far less, the UK government still collected a hefty £750 billion in taxes in the last fiscal year.",
        "虽然税收收入的规模远不及国债，但上一财政年度英国政府依然收到了7500亿英镑的巨额税金。"
    ],
    [
        "A partnership between governments, non-profit research institutions, charities and pharmaceutical companies might be one way to clean up the approval process for new drugs.",
        "政府、非营利性研究机构、慈善机构和制药公司之间的伙伴关系可能是扫清新药审批流程障碍的一种途径。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, this model worked extraordinarily well, and China, Japan, South Korea, and the countries of Southeast Asia benefited greatly from it.",
        "几十年来，这一模式表现十分出色，中国、日本、韩国和东南亚诸国都从中获益良多。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, by creatively using social media to collect, collate, and amplify young people’s priorities in the Kenyan elections, Jiactivate helped spur their interest in politics.",
        "比如，Jiactivate创造性地利用社交媒体收集、整理和放大年轻人在肯尼亚选举中的重点关注点，提高了他们对政治的兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Such people cannot be dismissed as useless, since we need the innovation that they deliver, even if we think Russia doesn’t need democracy.",
        "即便我们认为俄罗斯不需要民主，但考虑到这些人为我国创新所作的贡献，他们也不应该被视为无用的人而遭到驱散。"
    ],
    [
        "If you include partially employed workers and discouraged workers who left the US labor force, for example, the unemployment rate is already 16.5%.",
        "比方说，如果把非全日制雇工和就业意愿丧失者（discouraged workers）也计算在内，美国的失业率就会高达16."
    ],
    [
        "Is there really any more to be said?",
        "谈论这个问题是否真有意义？"
    ],
    [
        "If Japan’s government can overcome a demand setback after the tax increase takes effect – leaving the economy functioning smoothly and initiating a recovery in government revenue – Abe will be able to declare Abenomics an unequivocal success.",
        "如果日本政府可以克服增税实施后出现的需求不振——让经济平稳运行并让政府收入复苏——那么安倍晋三可以宣布安倍经济学取得了不可否认的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Pius XI thought that “the leadership and teaching guidance of the Church...in this field also” precluded abuse of authority.",
        "庇护十一世认为“教会在上述领域的领导和训诫指引也”能避免滥用权力。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Prime Minister David Cameron felt obliged to offer the British people a referendum on a simple question: in or out.",
        "这就是首相卡梅伦认为有义务为英国人民提供公投机会决定是否留在欧盟这一简单决策的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "If the survey’s results are representative of broader trends, one of the world’s most important pillars of democracy – a free and open press – is in jeopardy.",
        "如果调查结果反映了广泛的趋势，那么全球民主最重要的支柱之一——自由开放的媒体——就岌岌可危。"
    ],
    [
        "Was poverty the cause of his juvenile offenses in Romania and his crime in Italy?",
        "贫穷是造成他在罗马尼亚的少年犯罪和意大利的罪行的原因么？"
    ],
    [
        "When well-intentioned pledges fail to reach those in need, the result is measured in a lack of resources – from a shortage of doctors to a lack of vehicles to transport the sick and bury the dead.",
        "如果善意的承诺未能到达那些需要的人手中，结果必然造成资源的缺乏——从缺少医生到缺少运送患者和掩埋死者的车辆。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody likes to be found wrong.",
        "而没有人愿意被挑错。"
    ],
    [
        "The Memorial Society meticulously compared their archeological findings with the \"shooting protocols\" kept in the KGB's archives.",
        "纪念团体把这些考古发现和克格勃保存的\"枪决备忘录\"小心地进行对比。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach to child-rearing is not unrelated to happiness: there is abundant evidence that those who are generous and kind are more content with their lives than those who are not.",
        "这种培养孩子的方式并非与快乐无关：大量的证据显示那些慷慨友善的人对自己的生活更加满意。"
    ],
    [
        "But China will try to draw Europe into this new global game.",
        "但中国会试图把欧洲也拖如这场新的全球较量。"
    ],
    [
        "Attacks on pipelines have recently intensified ahead of a planned summit meeting between the government and various militia leaders, as small groups of militants stage attacks on oil infrastructure in the Delta to establish their relevance and win a potentially lucrative seat at the negotiating table.",
        "对输油管道的袭击在原计划的政府首脑和各种武装团体领导人之间的会谈前更频繁了，因为小规模的武装团体对三角洲地区的石油基础设施进行袭击，并试图以此确立他们和会谈的相关性并赢得在谈判席上可能有利的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "As I argue in my book Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies, the answer is not simply that people are afraid of the unknown.",
        "我曾在著作创新及其敌人：人们为什么抵制新技术中提出，答案并不仅仅是人们在面临未知时的恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "I call this “Development Economics 2.5.”",
        "我称其为“发展经济学2. 5”."
    ],
    [
        "But no one should think that they can be the West’s tool for subduing the Sunni heartland of Iraq and Syria.",
        "但任何人都不应认为他们能够充当西方征服伊拉克和叙利亚逊尼派腹地的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "You would have difficulty finding many members of the US Congress who do not ascribe some of America’s problems, including the hollowing out of the middle class, to China’s alleged currency manipulation.",
        "事实上，你很难找到几个不把美国所遭遇的问题归罪于中国的国会议员，包括中产阶级的流失，到中国所谓的货币管制。"
    ],
    [
        "The early nineteenth century was characterized by high tariff rates in both the US and Europe.",
        "十九世纪早期的特点是美国和欧洲都实施高关税。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Bush administration can seek ways to contain global energy prices – and it should begin by refusing to be baited into escalating tensions whenever Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pleases.",
        "但是布什政府可以寻求办法来遏制全球的能源价格，而这应该首先从拒绝被伊朗总统内贾德引诱进他随心所欲地逐步增强的紧张局势开始。"
    ],
    [
        "New Light on Income Inequality",
        "收入不平等的新视角"
    ],
    [
        "In all four countries, the legal framework is badly in need of reform to clarify the boundaries of freedom of expression for bloggers and journalists.",
        "四国都迫切需要改革法律框架，以明确博主和记者言论自由的边界。"
    ],
    [
        "But the lack of political reform meant that there was nothing to stop the ruling elites from appropriating a disproportionate share of the new wealth.",
        "但缺乏政治改革意味着没人能够阻止执政精英将新创造的财富的大头揽入自己腰包。"
    ],
    [
        "Preventing Toxic Stress in Children",
        "如何防止对儿童有害的压力"
    ],
    [
        "From India to Japan, every Asian country must play its part.",
        "从印度到日本，每个亚洲国家都必须加入其中。"
    ],
    [
        "If the G-20 members fully implement their commitments under these strategies, their collective GDP is expected to increase by another 1%.",
        "如果G-20成员国根据这些战略充分兑现它们的承诺，预计它们的总GDP可以再增加1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, full-fledged “society”-building started only after the 1868 Meiji Restoration, which tipped the balance of power definitively in favor of the state.",
        "实际上，全方位的“社会”建设在1868年明治维新之后才真正开始，从而导致权力的天平彻底地向国家方向倾斜。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s leaders, alarmed that they were being encircled, lost no time in offering the West a grand bargain covering all contentious issues, from nuclear-weapons development – they halted their military nuclear program – to regional security, including the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and their backing of Hezbollah and Hamas.",
        "伊朗领导人警觉地发现自己陷入了包围中，毫不迟疑地向西方提出了一个大妥协，包括了从核武器开发（他们中止了军用核计划）到地区安全（包括以色列-巴勒斯坦和平进程以及他们对真主党和哈马斯的支持）的所有争议问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is the IMF, whose staff tell anyone willing to listen that Greek debt must be cut by approximately one-third, or €100 billion ($112 billion).",
        "当然还有国际货币基金组织，该组织工作人员告诉所有愿意倾听者希腊债务必须削减三分之一，或者1万亿欧元（合1. 12万亿美元）的总额。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Six months after Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century generated so much buzz in the United States and Europe, it has become a bestseller in Japan.",
        "东京—托马斯·皮凯蒂（Thomas Piketty）的书《二十一世纪资本论》（Capital in the Twenty-First Century）出版半年来，在美国和欧洲引起了极大的反响，如今，它在日本也成了畅销书。"
    ],
    [
        "Israelis are rediscovering Europe.",
        "以色列人正在重新发现欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "But memories of atrocity never seem to fade, as the government-fanned anti-Japanese riots now taking place in China remind us.",
        "但是，当下在中国发生的政府煽动的反日骚乱提醒我们，留在记忆中的暴行场面永远不会褪去。"
    ],
    [
        "The precise policy reaction of EU leaders is unclear; but, given the inept way the eurozone crisis has been handled since 2010, a return to more dynamic growth seems unlikely.",
        "欧盟领导人会采取怎样的具体政策反应尚不清楚； 但是，从2010年欧元区危机处置失当的情况看，恢复更有活力的增长不太可能。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a flip side to the problem: capital is flowing to Germany as the regional safe haven, making credit more readily available there.",
        "但是这个问题也有其另一面，德国作为区域安全的避风港，资本不断流入，使得信贷在德国变得很容易。"
    ],
    [
        "That US-led global order has enabled 70 years of prosperity.",
        "美国领导的全球秩序造就了过去70年的全球繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "In political terms, China, India, and Russia are vying with each other for power in Asia.",
        "从政治上讲，中国、印度和俄罗斯是亚洲领导权的竞争对手。"
    ],
    [
        "Even taking into account the impact of quantitative easing since 2008, long-term rates are higher than expected.",
        "即使考虑到2008年以来的量化宽松的影响，长期利率仍显著高于预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s transition team sent surveys to the US Department of Energy, seeking the names of employees who have worked on climate-change policy.",
        "特朗普的过渡团队在美国能源部搞了一个调查，希望找出哪些员工参与了气候变化政策制定。"
    ],
    [
        "The indirect negative effects of such regulations on long-term investment are, by nature, more difficult to discern, but they can be just as harmful as the direct effects – especially if they leave investors with fewer funds available for long-term investment.",
        "这些监管措施对长期投资的间接消极影响自然更加难以识别，但其伤害性不亚于直接影响——特别是当它们导致投资者可用于长期投资的资金减少的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the issue of whether countries should fund health care publicly, through taxes, or privately, through health insurance and user fees.",
        "让我们来看一下国家应该通过税收以公共的方式还是应该通过健康保险和病人付费以个人的方式来给健康护理注资的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that real per capita GDP growth will slow from an annual rate of 2.1% in the 40 years before the start of the recent recession to just 1.6% between 2023 and 2088.",
        "国会预算办公室预测实际人均GDP增长将从最近这场衰退之前40年间的年均2. 1%下降到2023至2088年间的仅仅1."
    ],
    [
        "Some governments and individuals are likely to resist these suggestions, believing that such intervention constitutes an unwarranted intrusion into Iran’s sovereignty.",
        "某些政府和个人将很可能会反对这些建议，因为他们相信这类行为是无端干涉伊朗主权的行径。"
    ],
    [
        "Does he not know that more than 90% of financial transactions in India are conducted in cash, or that over 90% of retail outlets lack so much as a card reader?",
        "他难道不知道印度90%的金融交易是用现金进行，或者90%以上的零售商店根本不能刷卡消费？"
    ],
    [
        "Because there is no clear villain, an Italian version of the United Kingdom’s “Brexit” referendum is implausible.",
        "由于无法辨认哪方面才是真正的症结，因此意大利版的英国脱欧公投也不太可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "A rapidly implemented, national-scale solution would be ideal.",
        "迅速实施全国规模的方案是最理想的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Tailgating, or picking up dimes in front of a steamroller, is another source of febezzle.",
        "追尾，或在压路机前捡硬币，是另一种等价占款来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Oops!",
        "晕！"
    ],
    [
        "These are normal activities of insurance companies.",
        "这些都是保险公司的常规项目。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no way to achieve lift without creating a vast amount of both noise and air disturbance.",
        "不产生巨大噪音和空气扰动实现起飞根本不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, the true value of banks’ toxic assets must be estimated before concluding that banks are armed with sufficient capital to carry out their critical roles.",
        "不管以上的哪一种可能性出现，银行的实际资产都应该考虑到有毒资产的因素，这样银行才真正拥有足够的资本来扮演它的重要职能。"
    ],
    [
        "Even after the proposed doubling of the consumption tax, the rate will remain half the 20% (or more) that almost all European countries levy.",
        "即使在建议消费税翻番之后，日本的税率仍然只有欧洲几乎所有国家所征20%（或更高比例）的一半左右。"
    ],
    [
        "We plan to have 60% of our naval fleet based in the Pacific by 2020, and America’s defense budget has preserved, and even boosted, investment in new and more capable assets needed in the Pacific theater.",
        "到2020年我们计划将60%的海军舰队派遣到太平洋，其后美国的国防预算仍将持续甚至加大对太平洋地区所需更新更强资产的投入力度。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though research in these two distinct fields is beginning to overlap, too many scientists still see themselves as being strictly on one side or the other.",
        "但尽管两个独立领域的研究正在趋向重合，太多科学家仍然孤立地从预防或者治疗领域来看待自己的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "At first, Turkey seemed to support Syria’s Alawite leadership under President Bashar al-Assad, then switched sides, joining a coalition of Sunni Arab states in the so-far disastrous effort to remove Assad.",
        "起初，土耳其似乎支持叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德领导的阿拉维派，其后又转变立场加入逊尼派阿拉伯国家联盟，参与了迄今为止消灭阿萨德的灾难性努力。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, we must do more not just to expand the opportunities available to neurologically exceptional candidates, but also to ensure that these opportunities are well publicized.",
        "在更广的层面，我们不仅仅要扩大神经异能求职者的机会面，还要确保这些机会能够广而告之。"
    ],
    [
        "But $8.9 billion?",
        "但89亿美元？"
    ],
    [
        "This approach, if overused, can amount to borrowing future demand; in that case, it is clearly unsustainable.",
        "如果过度使用这一手段的话，等于提前透支了未来的需求； 这种情况下显然是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "Meat of any kind is so scarce that the market price of a kilogram is equivalent to more than a week of minimum-wage work.",
        "任何一种肉类都极端稀缺，以至于一公斤肉的市场价格相当于一周以上的最低工资。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, throughout the world, central banks have focused on the systemically significant banks, the financial institutions whose excessive risk taking and abusive practices caused the 2008 crisis.",
        "相反，放眼全世界，央行注重的是具系统重要性的银行，这些金融机构的过度冒险和不当行为导致了2008年危机。"
    ],
    [
        "In international politics, one side’s strength often reflects the other side’s weakness.",
        "在国际政治中，某方的实力经常反映出对方的弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "That solution, while complicated, is a good outcome for the region.",
        "这样的解决方案虽然复杂，但却是上述地区一种很好的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukrainians hope that Poroshenko, with his moderate approach and willingness to negotiate, will be better equipped to resolve the country’s perilous security situation than his more ardent rivals.",
        "乌克兰人希望持温和态度并愿意谈判的波罗申科能够比其更激进的竞争对手更有利于解决乌克兰所面临的危急安全局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Here is where things get interesting.",
        "局面的要害之处正在于此。"
    ],
    [
        "Only incredible hubris and naiveté could bring US (and UK) leaders to believe that Western troops would be greeted as liberators rather than as occupiers.",
        "错就错在令人难以置信的傲慢和天真使美国（和英国）领导人相信：人们会像迎接救星那样欢迎西方军队，而不会把他们看成占领者。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the prevalence of poverty and disease, many of these citizens would be motivated to contribute to global poverty-reduction efforts.",
        "由于贫困和疾病的普遍性，很多人会有动力为全球减贫事业做出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "But addressing scarcity will inevitably imply revising agricultural practices and policies worldwide to ensure their sustainability.",
        "但是处理水资源短缺将不可避免地意味着世界范围内修改农业惯例及政策，以确保其持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the 20th anniversary of the collapse of communism is overshadowed by the global financial and economic crisis.",
        "然而，当下的全球金融和经济危机却给欧洲共产主义瓦解的20周年纪念日蒙上了阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "Until elections can be organized, it may be necessary to do what was done in Lebanon just after the war: appoint members to an interim Iraqi parliament.",
        "直到选举之后，才有必要在伊拉克实施黎巴嫩的战后措施：委任伊拉克过渡议会的成员。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal is to combat a severe drought by reducing residential consumption by 20%.",
        "这一规定的目标是通过将居民用水削减20%来对抗严重干旱。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies that, while the first two arrows are helping to improve Japan’s actual growth path, the third arrow has yet to do much for potential growth.",
        "。 这意味着尽管前两支箭帮助改善了日本的实际增长路径，但第三支箭对于潜在增长并未起到多少作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Stagnant growth or shrinking output in many emerging economies has serious consequences.",
        "许多新兴经济体的增长停滞或产出萎缩产生了严重后果。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 5,000 global leaders, policymakers, and advocates from 150 countries are convening to discuss, among other issues, how to break the cycle of poverty and gender inequality that undermines women’s health.",
        "来自150个国家的5,000多名全球领导人、决策者和支持者与会讨论如何打破损害妇女健康的贫困和性别不平等的循环以及其他问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The corruption scandal at energy giant Petrobras is finally causing ratings agencies to reassess Brazil, but the move comes too late, and their downgrades probably will not be sufficient to reflect the true risk.",
        "能源巨头巴西石油公司（Petrobras）的腐败丑闻最终导致评级机构重新评估巴西，但这一动作来得太迟了，并且降级幅度也许也不足以反映真正的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The logic is that conditionality will ensure that countries are solvent, while OMTs will restore trust to a market that has broken down because investors fear that the countries concerned will exit the eurozone.",
        "其中的逻辑是，这一条件将确保各国保持偿债能力，而OMT将能重塑人们对因投资者担心相关国家可能退出欧元区而崩溃的市场信心。"
    ],
    [
        "The Treasury has asked for authority to purchase $700 billion of mortgages to get them off of the private sector's books.",
        "财政部已经要求政府购买七千亿美元的抵押贷款，让这些贷款不再计入私有部门的帐上。"
    ],
    [
        "Within this new peace paradigm, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would become amenable to a truly international solution.",
        "新和平模式下，以巴冲突将要经受真正意义上国际解决方案的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, sources of income have become more mobile: There is an increasing focus on intangible assets and mobile investment income that can easily be “optimized” from a tax point of view and transferred abroad.",
        "与此同时，收益源也变得日益流动：越来越多的注意力投向了无形资产和流动投资收益，它们可以轻易地根据税收需要“优化”和迁往国外。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in a mediocre year, the global health community saved millions of lives.",
        "即使这是平凡的一年，全球卫生界仍然拯救了数百万生命。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – On May 26-27, the heads of the Group of Seven leading industrial countries will gather in Japan to discuss common security and economic problems.",
        "坎布里奇—5月26—27日，领先工业国七国集团首脑将在日本开会讨论共同安全和经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It has replaced Israel’s early pioneering ethos with the temptations of modernity, liberalism, and “normalcy.”",
        "它已经摒弃了以色列早期的开拓精神，代之以对现代化、自由主义和“正常化”的向往。"
    ],
    [
        "First, growth-promoting structural change has been significant in the recent experience of low-income countries such as Ethiopia, Malawi, Senegal, and Tanzania, despite the absence of industrialization.",
        "首先，尽管缺乏工业化，但埃塞俄比亚，马拉维，塞内加尔和坦桑尼亚等低收入国家近年的经验表明增长促进型的结构性改革作用显著。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – The depression that followed the stock-market crash of 1929 took a turn for the worse eight years later, and recovery came only with the enormous economic stimulus provided by World War II, a conflict that cost more than 60 million lives.",
        "纽黑文—1929年股市崩盘之后的萧条开启了此后八年更加惨淡的岁月，复苏直到导致6,000多万人死去的二战带来巨大的经济刺激才正式开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Cuba is the most dramatic case of dependence: Without subsidized Venezuelan petroleum and the enormous sums paid for the Castros’ doctors – some excellent, some fraudulent – the island’s economy would sink, causing a wave of Cubans to leave, as has occurred repeatedly over the past half-century.",
        "古巴对委内瑞拉的依赖最大：如若没有受补贴的委内瑞拉汽油和给卡斯特罗医生（有些是名医，有些则是骗子）的巨额医疗费，古巴经济就将陷入萧条，促使一大批古巴人逃离，这在过去五十年中发生过多次。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, broader changes are afoot in Turkey.",
        "事实上，在土耳其内，更大范围的变化蓄势待发。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact of biodiversity is often insufficiently understood, which means that we have undervalued its contribution to tackling global challenges.",
        "生物多样性却常常得不到充分重视，这也表明我们低估了生物多样性在应对全球挑战方面的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in South Africa, it rose from 9% in 1987 to 19% in 2012.",
        "而在南非，这一数字从1987年的9％上升到了2012年的19％。"
    ],
    [
        "The first obstacle is international law’s lack of enforcement authority.",
        "首要障碍就是现行国际法缺乏执法机构。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), China's real effective exchange rate – an inflation-adjusted trade-weighted average of the renminbi's value relative to the currencies of a cross-section of China's trading partners – has increased by 26% over the last four years.",
        "根据国际清算银行（BIS）的数据，中国实际有效汇率——经通胀调整的、贸易加权的人民币相对中国贸易伙伴的横截面价值——在过去四年中升值了26%。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s strong economic fundamentals mean that policymakers have the space to avoid such an outcome – as long as they bring the country’s shadow banking system under control.",
        "但中国强大的经济基本面意味着决策者有空间避免这一结果——只要他们能将中国的影子银行系统控制住。"
    ],
    [
        "(This is not so novel as many think: Italy’s Red Brigades sometimes worked in the same manner.)",
        "（这并不像很多人所认为的那样离奇：意大利的红色旅有时也会这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "AMMAN – This year’s World Water Day, on March 22, provides an opportunity to highlight what in many countries has become a grim reality: The availability of fresh water is increasingly a defining strategic factor in regional and global affairs.",
        "安曼——今年3月22日的世界水日有机会凸显出许多国家所面临的严峻现实：淡水供应已日益成为地区和全球事务中一种决定性的战略因素。"
    ],
    [
        "But why did the pieces of the puzzle fall into place as they did?",
        "但，有一点疑惑的是，为什么他们会这么做呢？ 是运气不好？"
    ],
    [
        "In Britain, Brexit opponents insisted that if voters decided to leave the European Union, a recession, if not a full-blown economic crisis, would be inevitable.",
        "在英国，退欧反对者坚称如果选民决意要离开欧盟，那么即使不爆发全面经济危机，陷入到经济衰退也是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically, the path is clear for the ECB to act.",
        "从政治上讲，欧洲央行的行动是不会有风险的。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush is similarly mistaken.",
        "布什也是同样错误。"
    ],
    [
        "At the most fundamental level, Britain’s interest in the EU has centered on its status as a kind of supercharged free-trade area and an enabler of a “common passport” for financial services.",
        "在最根本的层面上，英国在欧盟的利益集中在后者是一个超强自由能贸易区，并能带来金融服务“通用护照”。"
    ],
    [
        "The trade debate of the current presidential campaign heightens that risk.",
        "而目前总统竞选中的贸易辩论则加剧了这种风险。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – As US President Donald Trump’s administration throws sharp elbows in trade negotiations and systematically rescinds regulations introduced by President Barack Obama, one casualty is likely to be efforts to fight the global obesity epidemic.",
        "发自剑桥——当美国总统特朗普的政府在贸易谈判中上窜下跳，并有计划地撤销奥巴马总统所引入的条例时，其中一个深受其害的事务很可能是抗击全球肥胖症流行现象的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "America's Other 87 Deficits",
        "美国的其他87处赤字"
    ],
    [
        "Lagarde challenges policymakers and business leaders alike to make changes that broaden economic participation and opportunity for women.",
        "拉加德敦促决策者和企业领袖推进扩大女性经济参与和机会的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed in Denial",
        "拒绝接受现实的美联储"
    ],
    [
        "But such treatments will mean little if they are not affordable or accessible to ordinary people.",
        "但如果普通民众难以负担或者承受，这种治疗的意义就会大打折扣。"
    ],
    [
        "One might even add a fifth generation, in which technologies like drones and offensive cyber tactics allow soldiers to remain a continent away from their civilian targets.",
        "你也可以再加上第五代现代战争，无人机和网络进攻战术可以让士兵在距离民用目标千里之外破敌。"
    ],
    [
        "Left unchecked, it will leave India’s next generation of men with a severe shortage of women.",
        "如果不加以遏止，将导致下一代印度男人严重匮乏女性伴侣。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the challenge facing all of the region’s current winners is to translate today’s gains into credible, long-term power.",
        "）事实上，该地区当前所有赢家都面临着将今天的胜利果实转变为可信的长期实力的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "We should have learned by now that the US, under administrations with far more prima facie credibility than Trump’s, is perfectly capable of making terrible mistakes, such as the wars in Vietnam and Iraq.",
        "现在，我们应该已经领教，在表面上比特朗普信誉高得多的政府领导下的美国也照样会犯各种可怕的错误，比如发动越南和伊拉克战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, better finance should mean better corporate governance.",
        "最后，更棒的金融意味着更棒的公司治理。"
    ],
    [
        "Never mind that the eurozone has no centralized fiscal authority and only an incomplete banking union.",
        "欧元区没有集中的财政当局，只有一个不完整的银行联盟，这没有关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The history of drugs, and drug control, at the Olympics is discouraging - a farrago of ill-informed rules, outright state-sponsored cheating, and half-hearted and erratic attempts at enforcement.",
        "兴奋剂的使用历史和兴奋剂的控制情况，在奥林匹克运动会上的表现是令人泄气的--一个漏洞百出的大杂烩条例、毫无疑义的国家支持的欺骗、和半心半意不规则的执行情况。"
    ],
    [
        "The University of Louvain economist Frédéric Docquier and his colleagues have been researching the economic impact that immigrants from developing countries have on host-country budgets, wages, and consumer markets.",
        "鲁汶大学经济学家多克尔及其同事一直致力于研究发展中国家移民对东道国预算、工资和消费市场所产生的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – Liberal democracy is under siege.",
        "圣地亚哥——自由民主正处在重重包围之中。"
    ],
    [
        "And aging populations – a result of rising longevity and declining fertility – are putting pressure on public finances.",
        "而人口老化——寿命延长和生育率下降的结果——也在给公共财政制造压力。"
    ],
    [
        "It will only deprive the country of a leading voice in shaping the response to new and existing challenges.",
        "这样将剥夺英国在制定新旧挑战应对方案上的领导权。"
    ],
    [
        "It can be informal – a “coalition of the willing” that would include the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Arab states, and even Russia under the right circumstances – or carried out under NATO or United Nations auspices.",
        "可以是非正式的形式——一个包括美国、法国、英国、阿拉伯国家，甚至在正确的前提下包括俄罗斯在内的“志愿联盟”——也可以在北约或联合国的支持下进行。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other side, Europe and the United States face stagnation – indeed, a Japanese-style malaise – and stubbornly high unemployment.",
        "而另一方面，欧美却面临着滞胀（其实就是一种日本式的经济萎靡）以及挥之不去的高失业率。"
    ],
    [
        "The good reasons have to do with African self-reliance and a growing awareness among scholars and policymakers that trade within the region – especially between urban and rural Africa – will ultimately deliver enormous benefits.",
        "好的原因关乎非洲的自力更生，而且学者和决策者们越来越意识到地区内的贸易，尤其是非洲的城乡贸易，最终将会带来巨大的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Dismantling Schengen would be a significant economic setback.",
        "废除申根协定将是一次巨大的经济退步。"
    ],
    [
        "And policymakers have moved to a risky credit-easing policy as QE’s effectiveness has waned.",
        "当QE的效果逐渐弱化，政策制定者已经走向了风险很大的信贷宽松政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to greatly improved policy performance over the previous decade, low-income countries entered the crisis far better positioned to withstand shocks than in the past.",
        "得益于过去十年政策表现的改善，低收入国家在面临此次危机时所处的状况要比前几次好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, consumers are generally not adept at dealing with interest-rate risk.",
        "第三，消费者普遍不善于面对利率波动的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has also taken a strong stand against the Belarusian dictator.",
        "欧洲安全与合作组织（OSCE）也对白俄罗斯独裁者采取了强硬的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the International Monetary Fund’s forecast of a modest improvement in 2013 is predicated on the government’s ability to breathe life into a spate of stalled economic reforms.",
        "就连IMF也预测，2013年印度经济只会略有改善，因为政府难以令陷入停顿的一系列经济改革重获生机。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil has none of neighboring Argentina’s hefty export taxes, but its heavy transport costs have the same effect.",
        "邻国阿根廷所实施的高昂出口税巴西一项都没有实施，但沉重的交易成本起到了一样的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, their costs and risks are lower.",
        "结果，它们的成本和风险更低。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the international community similarly misconceives the nature of the “war” that it is fighting.",
        "如今，国际社会对它们所进行的“战争”的性质也存在类似的误解。"
    ],
    [
        "Do we need still more losses at poorly run trading operations for JP Morgan Chase?",
        "我们需要JP摩根大通的不慎交易给我们带来更大损失吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Much the same is true for Ukraine and NATO.",
        "对于乌克兰和北约来讲情况大体也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "And when the company does screw up – as with Beacon and more recently its plans for user data-sharing with favored vendors such as Pandora – it needs to show more humility.",
        "而当该公司在其广告系统Beacon方面遭遇挫折，最近又与Pandora这类专属供应商在用户数据分享方面闹翻之时， 企业就需要表现得更加人性化了。"
    ],
    [
        "Where we face uncertainty, though, we are confident in our knowledge of possible outcomes, but not of their likelihood – owing either to difficulties in prediction or to lack of information.",
        "当面对不确定性的时候，我们自认了解的只是可能发生的后果，而不是这些后果发生的可能性——原因可能是预测的困难性或是缺乏相关信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Lee Kuan Yew, who presided over Singapore either directly or indirectly for more than a half-century – remaining influential right up to his death at 91 – had more time in power than most to do so.",
        "直接或间接主宰新加坡半个多世纪的李光耀直到91岁逝世前都极富影响力——他的掌权时间超过了大多数人。"
    ],
    [
        "During my brief spell in the British government, I helped then-Chancellor George Osborne persuade Cameron that we should aspire to make China our third-largest export market within a decade.",
        "在我在英国政府任职的短暂时期，我协助时任财政大臣的乔治·奥斯本（George Osborne）说服卡梅伦应该在十年内使中国成为第三大出口市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In the new Five-Year Plan for 2011-2015, some binding targets are set for the social safety-net reforms.",
        "在2011-2015的新五年计划中还针对社会安全网的改革设定了一系列政策目标。"
    ],
    [
        "While Mexico had a petroleum-based boom in the wake of the second oil-price shock of the 1970’s, Argentina suffered from economic mismanagement under a military dictatorship that then staged its disastrous invasion of the Falkland Islands/Malvinas.",
        "趁着20世纪70年代的第二次石油价格冲击，墨西哥渡过了一段石油经济繁荣期； 在军事独裁下饱受经济弊政之苦的阿根廷，正在为发动马岛战争作准备；"
    ],
    [
        "While this approach has succeeded in boosting financial markets, it has failed to cure bruised and battered developed economies, which remain mired in subpar recoveries and plagued with deflationary risks.",
        "这一方针成功地提振了金融市场，但并未治愈伤痕累累的发达经济体，它们仍困于复苏萎靡和通缩风险。"
    ],
    [
        "When it became clear that no private investor was willing to take over Lehman, the US Treasury lacked the resources needed to prevent a disaster.",
        "当显然没有私人投资者愿意接管雷曼兄弟时，美国财政部却缺乏阻止灾难所需要的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Koizumi remains defiant.",
        "然而小泉却一意孤行。"
    ],
    [
        "He was famously protectionist during the primaries, declaring he would unilaterally rewrite NAFTA.",
        "他在预选阶段是出了名的保护主义者，声称要单方面改写《北美自由贸易协定》。"
    ],
    [
        "Everywhere there is talk of a “military option,” which means air strikes.",
        "到处都在谈论“军事选项”，也就是是空袭。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a shift in strategic focus would be needed to anchor monetary policy with a long-run target range for low inflation.",
        "只需要改变战略关注点就可以在长期指标范围内为低通胀制定货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "For those who want a stable Asia, the interest in establishing close links with Japan should be obvious.",
        "对于希望亚洲稳定的人来讲，与日本建立密切合作的好处应该显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "When I chaired the United Kingdom’s regulatory body, the Financial Services Authority, I believed in the idea that lawyers should be on tap, not on top.",
        "我在主持英国监管机构——金融服务局（Financial Service Authority）时相信，律师只能做事而不能指挥做事。"
    ],
    [
        "For taxpayers, the lifetime return on investment is better than six to one.",
        "对纳税人来说，这项投资的终身回报超过六笔一。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – It’s hard to be optimistic about Europe.",
        "伯克利—对欧洲，你很难抱以乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in May 2010, the IMF endorsed the European authorities’ decision not to impose losses on Greece’s private creditors – a move that was reversed only after unprecedented fiscal belt-tightening sent the Greek economy into a tailspin.",
        "2010年5月，IMF支持欧洲当局不要求希腊私人债权人承担损失的决定——这一决定直到前所未有的财政紧缩将希腊经济推下悬崖后才被改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But he was not popular because the public viewed him as a puppet of China and a crony of big developers, particularly Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong’s richest person.",
        "但他却不得民心。 因为公众将他看作是中国的傀儡并认为他与商业巨子们过从甚密，特别是与香港首富李嘉诚。"
    ],
    [
        "The manufacturers fall back on the simplistic assertion that there is no scientific proof that violent video games lead to violent acts.",
        "制造商们武断地认为没有科学证据证明暴力电子游戏会引发暴力行为。"
    ],
    [
        "In many countries, such as India, obesity-related illnesses like heart disease are consuming up to 30% of families’ annual incomes.",
        "在印度等许多国家，与肥胖有关的疾病，如心脏病，消耗了家庭年收入的30%。"
    ],
    [
        "They must also increase – and sustain – investment to address glaring infrastructure gaps and bring down high logistics costs.",
        "它们还必须增加——并维持——投资以解决巨大的基础设施空白、抑制高企的物流成本。"
    ],
    [
        "It also takes substantial steps to limit subsidies for fishing fleets – which in many countries waste taxpayer money and accelerate the depletion of marine life.",
        "它还规定了重大措施限制对捕鱼船队的补贴——在许多国家，这一补贴浪费了纳税人的钱，也加速了海洋生物的耗竭。"
    ],
    [
        "The Economist, for example, points out that some 45% of British exports go to other EU countries, and that the atmosphere for negotiating a post-Brexit trade deal would likely be frosty.",
        "比如，《经济学人》指出，英国出口中有45%流向其他欧盟国家，而谈判英国退出后贸易协议的氛围相当严峻。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy will be decisive because it generates investments in education, health, and economic empowerment that reward ordinary voters.",
        "民主制度则是决定性因素，因为普通选民在通过它促进教育，医疗方面投资的同时还可以参与制订经济政策并从中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States government, for example, spends about $22 billion on foreign aid, while Americans privately donate perhaps another $10 billion.",
        "比如，美国政府的对外援助额约220亿美元，而美国私人捐赠额可能还有100亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan has surpassed the US as a country of the middle class.",
        "日本已经超越美国成为中产阶级之国。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumers know if they have been ripped off. And they know if someone helps them get their money back.",
        "消费者是能意识到自己是否中了圈套的，同时也知道是否有人在他们把钱拿回来。"
    ],
    [
        "Excessive penalties lead to negative-sum games, in which the debtor cannot recover and creditors do not benefit from the larger repayment capacity that recovery would entail.",
        "过度惩罚导致负和博弈，债务人无法实现复苏，债权人也无法获得复苏后偿债能力提高所带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom’s citizens voted to leave, and its political leaders insist that they will respect the referendum’s outcome, so it is not “punishment” to insist that they do so as soon as possible.",
        "英国民众投票脱欧，而且政治领袖坚称将尊重公投结果，因此要求他们尽快完成脱欧程序算不上是什么“惩罚”。"
    ],
    [
        "But the best and most likely responses are those that accelerate domestic consumption growth by increasing household income, effectively deploy income from state-owned assets, and strengthen China’s social-security systems in order to reduce precautionary saving.",
        "但最佳也是最可能的应对则是通过家庭收入增长，国有资产收入的有效分配，以及强化社会保障体系以减少预防性储蓄等方式来加速国内消费的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, moving to a path that offers a reasonable chance of preventing the average global temperature from rising more than 2oC above the level reached in the late nineteenth century – the established international goal – requires that other countries, too, accelerate progress.",
        "事实上，若要提高将全球平均气温较十九世纪末的水平的上升幅度限制在2℃的机会——这是国际社会所制定的目标——其他国家也需要加快进度。"
    ],
    [
        "In an address to the United Nations General Assembly in September, Trump made clear that his priority would be sovereignty rather than rights.",
        "在9月进行的一次联大发言中，特朗普已经明确表示主权、而不是权利，将成为他的重中之重。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that only eight “Big Pharma” firms are even attempting to develop new antibiotics and vaccines is a cause for serious concern.",
        "仅有“八家大型药企”试图研发新抗生素和疫苗的现实是引发人们严重关切的一个原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, they should produce 25% of the world’s helium during 2014.",
        "加在一起，它们将在2014年产出世界氦气总产量的25%。"
    ],
    [
        "That could be a description of today’s Middle East.",
        "这可以是当今中东的写照。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK, Spain, and Ireland are experiencing similar developments, with housing bubbles deflating and excessive consumer debt undercutting retail sales, thus leading to recession.",
        "英国，西班牙以及爱尔兰都经历着同样的事情，伴随着住房泡沫的缩小和过度的消费者债务减少零售销售，从而导致衰退的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "In advance of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the authorities are pushing for a regionally integrated plan to balance economic growth with environmental management, including the greening of manufacturing processes and the elimination of “excess capacity” in energy production.",
        "政府在2022年北京冬奥会召开前大力推动平衡经济增长与环境管理的区域一体化计划，其中包括生产过程的“绿化”和消除能源生产领域的“过剩产能”。"
    ],
    [
        "FRANKFURT – Last week, the government of newly elected Argentine President Mauricio Macri launched a bold plan to revitalize a bruised and beleaguered economy plagued by high inflation.",
        "法兰克福—上周，新当选的阿根廷总统马克里启动了一项雄心勃勃的计划，意欲重振因为高通胀而饱受折磨、困难重重的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "A key question is whether incoming Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and his new Italian counterpart, Mario Monti, both highly regarded economists, have the leadership skills to navigate these treacherous waters.",
        "一个关键问题就是即将就任希腊总理的卢卡斯·帕帕季莫斯和他的意大利同行马里奥·蒙蒂——两人都是知名经济学家——是否拥有纵横这些危险海域所需的领导技巧。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, analogical reasoning both shapes and distorts policy.",
        "结果，历史类推法既塑造也扭曲了政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This opened the way for new development projects and increased bilateral and regional investment.",
        "这打开了新的开发项目，也提高了双边和地区投资。"
    ],
    [
        "To see this, consider what a market economy is all about.",
        "要想弄懂这一点，必须明白什么才是市场经济的根本。"
    ],
    [
        "And that will require careful consideration of the factors that have contributed to – and impeded – its progress so far.",
        "而这就需要审慎考察推动及制约技术进步的各种因素。"
    ],
    [
        "A good metaphor might embody the idea of an “inclusive economy.”",
        "好的比喻可能体现一种“融合经济”的理念。"
    ],
    [
        "Each attributed the Great Depression to different causes, leading them to prescribe different remedies, which they administered unilaterally.",
        "每个国家所看到的大萧条原因各不相同，因此（单方面）开出的补救措施也彼此相异。"
    ],
    [
        "Though nothing is yet known about the claim that Russia says it will present in the spring, there is no doubt that it will argue the opposite.",
        "俄罗斯表示它将在春天给出它的领土主张，目前它会怎么说还不得而知，但毫无疑问肯定会持相反意见。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – Stoking tensions with Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines over islands in the South and East China Seas has not prevented an increasingly assertive China from opening yet another front by staging a military incursion across the disputed, forbidding Himalayan frontier.",
        "新德里—与日本、越南和菲律宾在东海和南海岛屿整个不休并没有让越来越专断的中国停下脚步，它又新开辟了一条前沿，出兵越界侵入争议中的喜马拉雅边境禁区。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin intensified its macho element.",
        "普京进一步凸显了它的男性元素。"
    ],
    [
        "They do not regard modern science as indifferent or neutral with respect to Islamic teaching.",
        "他们不认为现代科学对伊斯兰教义的影响无关紧要或者中性。"
    ],
    [
        "German taxpayers have paid dearly for German banks’ mistakes.",
        "德国纳税人已经为德国银行的错误付出了沉重代价。"
    ],
    [
        "With net debt of around 130% of GDP – much higher than in other advanced economies – the country is currently forced to allocate a large share of government expenditure toward servicing its liabilities.",
        "日本净债务相当于GDP的130%左右——比任何其他发达经济体都要高得多——目前被迫将很大一部分政府支出用于维持负债。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past decade, economics has pulled the US and India closer.",
        "过去10年来，经济拉近了美印之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "These factors, together with rent capture and winner-take-all markets, can entrench inequality and blunt markets’ competitiveness.",
        "这些因素加上租金捕获（rent capture）和赢家通吃的市场，可能进一步稳固了不平等性，破坏了市场竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Like previous technologies, automation today promises major productivity gains, benefiting individuals, communities, and societies.",
        "像此前的技术一样，今天的自动化有望实现重大的生产力提升，从而使个人、团体和社会受益。"
    ],
    [
        "With the US economy yet to recover fully from the global economic crisis, and American politics increasingly dysfunctional, there is a global power vacuum that China, with shrewd diplomacy and economic might, hopes to fill – beginning in Asia.",
        "美国经济尚未从全球经济危机中完全复苏，美国政治也日益陷入功能失调，这给拥有精明外交和经济实力的中国带来了其所希望填补的全球实力真空——起点就是亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Finance ministers everywhere need to think more imaginatively about their fiscal options.",
        "各国财政部长需要以更具想象力的方式考虑他们的财政选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China continues to run a large current-account surplus, in contrast to the outsize external deficits that proved so problematic for other Asian economies in the late 1990s.",
        "此外，中国仍保持巨大的经常项目盈余，这与20世纪90年代末其他亚洲经济体纷纷出现大规模外部赤字截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s proclamation that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a “red line” – and his implicit threat to use force if that line were crossed – reflects the commitment that the US has made during the past four decades to promote human rights worldwide.",
        "奥巴马宣布，叙利亚使用化学武器将跨越“红线”——并暗示如果越线将动用武力——这反映了美国过去四十年来所形成的在世界范围内推行人权的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The happy transitions across much of Central Europe following the end of the Cold War were made easier by the fact that the old communist order more or less died on its feet and surrendered power peacefully.",
        "但是每一个不愉快的转变都有它自己独特的方式。 冷战以来，旧的共产主义秩序或多或少地势力减弱，并且和平地让出了权力，这有利于中欧大部分地区的愉快转变。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dollar",
        "美元"
    ],
    [
        "Today, another split is occurring, this time between those countries that are continuing to muddle through and Great Britain.",
        "今日，又一次分裂正在酝酿之中：一方在继续得过且过，另一方是英国。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmental damage threatens our food supplies, the air we breathe, and the rich biodiversity that sustains the balance of life.",
        "环境破坏威胁着我们的食物供应、我们所呼吸的空气以及维系生命平衡的生物多样性。"
    ],
    [
        "China and India are enjoying swift growth that is helping millions of people lift themselves out of poverty.",
        "中国和印度现在正在经历帮助几百万人口脱离贫困的快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The question, then, is not whether",
        "因此，真正的问题就不在于是否"
    ],
    [
        "Now more than ever, we need the kind of dialogue that builds strategic trust between great powers.",
        "现在比以往任何时候都更需要在大国间建立战略互信的对话。"
    ],
    [
        "(US regulators have also imposed high penalties on foreign banks for breaches of American sanctions policies in relation to Iran.)",
        "（美国监管机构还向外国银行美国分支开出了巨额罚单，理由是它们违反了美国与伊朗有关的制裁政策。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Small countries have little incentive to pay for such global public goods.",
        "小国鲜有意愿为全球公共产品付费。"
    ],
    [
        "These are obviously important questions, but they are not the only ones.",
        "这些都是重要的问题，但不是仅有的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "We estimate that about 280 cities – among the candidates are Campinas (Brazil), Daqing (China), and Izmir (Turkey) – could host large companies for the first time.",
        "我们预计巴西的坎皮纳斯、中国的大庆和土耳其的伊兹密尔等约280座城市可能首次迎来大公司的进驻。"
    ],
    [
        "As the film clearly shows, however, the war on drugs became a war on the poor, especially on poor minority groups.",
        "但是，正如该片所清楚显示的，毒品战争演变成了一场穷人战争，特别是针对贫穷少数族裔的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of these and other changes, including the removal of key officials, such as Deputy Commander Badr Bin Abdul Aziz, the Guard’s power is now equal, if not superior, to that of the army.",
        "此外，他还更换了关键官员，包括副副总司令巴德尔·本·阿卜杜勒·阿齐兹（Badr Bin Abdul Aziz），通过这些变化，国民卫队的实力已经不下于军队。"
    ],
    [
        "In Tunisia, too, the budget deficit has widened sharply in the wake of the revolution, rising from 2.6% of GDP in 2010 to 6% in 2011.",
        "突尼斯也是如此，自革命以来预算赤字迅速增加，占GDP的比重从2010年的2. 6%上升为2011年的6%。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these decisions turned out badly, largely because information technology (computers and how they are used) eliminated many middle-class jobs.",
        "但其中许多这类决定却导致了糟糕的后果，而这很大程度上是因为信息技术（电脑以及其运用方式）消灭了很多中产阶级的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the leadership of UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, Chair of the Global Partnership for Education Julia Gillard, and World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim – and with the support of the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon – an unprecedented humanitarian fund for education in emergencies is about to be established.",
        "在联合国儿童基金会执行主任安东尼·雷克、联合国教科文组织总干事伊琳娜·博科娃、联合国难民事务高级专员菲利波·格兰迪、全球教育伙伴关系主席朱莉娅·吉拉德、世界银行行长金墉（Jim Yong Kim）——及联合国秘书长潘基文的支持下——一个前所未有的紧急人道主义教育基金即将成立。"
    ],
    [
        "It did not obstruct the renminbi’s admission to the basket of currencies that constitute the International Monetary Fund’s reserve asset, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).",
        "它并未阻止人民币被纳入构成国际货币基金组织的储备资产（特别提款权）的一揽子货币。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the AIIB has not sought to amend the principle that the largest contributor to a multilateral organization gets the largest say in running it.",
        "目前，亚投行并没有试图改变一条国际组织通行原则，即多边组织的最大贡献者获得最大的运营话语权。"
    ],
    [
        "The claim that gun ownership ensures freedom is especially absurd, given that most of the world’s vibrant democracies have long since cracked down on private gun ownership.",
        "持枪保证自由的说法尤其荒谬——世界上生机勃勃的民主国家早就撤消了私人枪支拥有权。"
    ],
    [
        "The process of reducing interest rates – anchored on a solid tax policy and enabled by the removal of institutional obstacles (such as the rule of remuneration of savings accounts) – was extended to the second half of 2012, leading to a real annual rate under 2%.",
        "降低利率的过程——以扎实的税收政策为锚，以消除制度壁垒（如储蓄账户补贴）为手段——在2012年下半年有所扩大，将真实年利率压低到2%以下。"
    ],
    [
        "They have reason to be proud.",
        "他们完全有理由为此而感到骄傲。"
    ],
    [
        "Al Qaeda is said to have established a network in fifty or more countries.",
        "据称基地组织在50多个国家设立了恐怖网络。"
    ],
    [
        "But potential GDP can be only estimated, not observed.",
        "但潜在GDP只能靠估算，无法观察得到。"
    ],
    [
        "Low- and middle-income countries should thus provide more residency programs, and the US and the UK, which bear some responsibility for the current doctor-supply imbalance, should assist them with funding and know-how.",
        "因此 ，中低收入国家应该提供更多的住院训练，而对当前医生供给失衡负有一定责任的美国和英国应该用资金和知识帮助中低收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Because Europe lacks the widespread share ownership that exists in the United States, quantitative easing cannot be used to stimulate consumer spending by raising household wealth.",
        "欧洲银行缺少向美国那样的多样化股份所有权，因此量化宽松不能用于通过增加家庭财富刺激消费支出。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Will they or won’t they?",
        "剑桥－他们会还是不会呢？"
    ],
    [
        "After almost 70 years of peace, Europeans seem to have forgotten why unity was so important, indulging nationalist sentiment without regard for its potential consequences.",
        "在经历了近70年的和平后，欧洲人似乎忘了为何统一如此重要，他们沉迷于民族主义，丝毫不顾其潜在后果。"
    ],
    [
        "It was also the first Asian country to emerge as a world power, defeating Manchu-ruled China and Czarist Russia in separate wars.",
        "它还是亚洲第一个成为世界列强的国家，在战争中打败了清朝和沙皇俄国。"
    ],
    [
        "Individuals earn “claims” over their lifetimes, first by being legal residents, and then by, say, obtaining educational degrees, earning professional certifications, performing community service (including military service), and making money.",
        "个体赚得对他们的生命的“权利”（claim），首先是通过身为合法居民，然后通过（比如）获得学历、执业资质、提供社区服务（包括服役）和赚钱。"
    ],
    [
        "If growth does not recover, the fiscal problems will worsen while making it more politically difficult to enact the painful reforms needed to restore competitiveness.",
        "如果经济不能恢复增长，它们的财政问题就会进一步暴露，要推行改革以恢复外贸竞争力的政治难度也会进一步加大。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Islam. Proposing secularism – the historic approach of Western liberals – is political suicide.",
        "拿伊斯兰来说，提倡世俗主义——西方自由主义者曾经运用过的方法——无异于政治自杀。"
    ],
    [
        "This raises their costs and limits demand for their services.",
        "这增加了它们的成本，也限制了它们的服务的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Complexity Problem",
        "中国的复杂性问题"
    ],
    [
        "Governments, in short, need long-term investment strategies and ways to pay for them.",
        "它们需要更好地明白如何区分公路、铁路、电力和港口投资的优先顺序； 如何通过转向低碳能源系统让投资在环境上更加可持续；"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the overwhelming evidence currently calls into question the preventive effect of antioxidant pills.",
        "事实上，现在有压倒性的证据可以使我们对抗氧化药片的防治效果产生疑问。"
    ],
    [
        "Owing to the former, the risks to Asia from a European banking crisis cannot be taken lightly.",
        "因此，对于亚洲来说，欧洲银行危机绝对不容小觑。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand why, we can appeal to game theory, which provides economists and others a powerful framework with which to explain the dynamics of both simple and complex interactions.",
        "为了理解其中的原因，我们可以用博弈论来分析。 博弈论给了经济学家和其他人强大的框架以解释简单或复杂互动动态。"
    ],
    [
        "But when respondents were told how many foreigners actually reside in the US before being asked that question, their views changed significantly: just 21% replied that there were too many.",
        "但如果在问问题之前告诉受调查者实际上有多少外国人生活在美国，他们的观点就会发生重大改变：只有21%表示移民太多了。"
    ],
    [
        "Confronting Africa’s Water Challenge",
        "直面非洲的水资源挑战"
    ],
    [
        "However, like-minded mid-level powers with similar intentions could complement what the UN or the US lacks, effectively generating sufficient clout to stabilize the global security environment.",
        "但是，具有相似意图的志同道合的中等强国却可以补充联合国或者美国的不足，有效地产生足够的影响力来稳定全球安全环境。"
    ],
    [
        "I cannot recall any occasion at that time when the West or any of its organizations (NATO, the European Community, etc.) issued some public appeal, recommendation, or edict stating that some specific group of independently-minded people – however defined – were not to be invited to diplomatic parties, celebrations, or receptions.",
        "我想不起西方国家或组织（北约、欧盟等等）有哪次曾经公开发表呼吁、建议或法令，规定某些持独立思想的特定人群¾不管具体如何界定，都不能应邀参与外交聚会、庆祝会或招待活动。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – When World War II ended 70 years ago, much of the world – including industrialized Europe, Japan, and other countries that had been occupied – was left geopolitically riven and burdened by heavy sovereign debt, with many major economies in ruins.",
        "米兰—70年前，当二战结束时，世界大部——包括工业化的欧洲、日本和其他占领国——因为地缘政治而被割裂，并背上了沉重的主权债务，许多主要经济体满目疮痍。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so will be difficult, especially because it is not clear whose claims to the region’s disputed islands and outcroppings should be recognized, and the US has no intention of trying to impose a solution.",
        "这决非易事，特别是考虑到哪一方对该地区的争议岛礁的主张应该获得承认尚不清楚、并且美国并无意提出解决方案的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Its status as a nuclear-weapons state will never be accepted.",
        "它作为核武器国的地位永远不会被接受。"
    ],
    [
        "As George H.W. Bush declared, “We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.”",
        "正如乔治·H·W·布什所言：“我们明白应如何为世人确保一个更加公正、更加繁荣的生活：其方法便是通过自由市场、自由言论、自由选举、以及不受国家阻碍的、自由意志之行使。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "There is much to be gained by studying carefully the lessons of Japan.",
        "仔细学习日本的教训，必定获益良多。"
    ],
    [
        "But many observers believe that the veterans could easily be reactivated and equipped from hidden arms caches.",
        "但许多观察者认为这些老兵很容易就能重新动员并用藏匿的武器武装起来。"
    ],
    [
        "A transaction involving potatoes happens at one point in time only: the buyer parts with her money, the seller parts with his tubers, and that is it.",
        "土豆交易只在某一个时点发生：买家交钱，卖家交货，交易完毕。"
    ],
    [
        "Complicating matters further is the need for Park to devise a viable response to a new diplomatic charm offensive by North Korea’s usually charmless leader, Kim Jong-un.",
        "让情况更加复杂的是朴槿惠需要找到可行的应对之道来对付常常毫无魅力可言的朝鲜领导人金正恩的外交魅力攻势。"
    ],
    [
        "No follow-up stories or editorials appeared, and no New York Times reporters assessed the story on the ground.",
        "没有后续报道，没有社论点评，更没有一名《纽约时报》记者去实地考证过这篇报道。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia’s Reform Trinity?",
        "亚洲的改革三位一体？"
    ],
    [
        "That is why I am proud to be a founding Corporate Impact Champion of the UN Women’s HeForShe movement.",
        "因此我为成为联合国女性他为她运动最初的企业影响创始者而感到自豪。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Turkish government sought to acquire its own nuclear weapons, it would jeopardize these security guarantees and turn NATO against it.",
        "如果土耳其政府寻求获得自身的核武器，将破坏安全保障，让北约转而与其敌对。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a movement that is institutionally invertebrate and split between Islamists, who dream of a borderless Arab nation, and ineffective secular nationalists who four times (1937, 1947, 2000, and 2008) rejected offers for the creation of a Palestinian state.",
        "这个运动缺少制度主心骨，分裂为两端，一端是各个梦想建立一个无边界阿拉伯国家的伊斯兰派系，另一端是四度（1937年、1947年、2000年和2008年）拒绝建立巴勒斯坦国机会的无能的世俗民族主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "With the help of import licensing, then-Finance Minister Konan Bédié earned his first billion CFA francs within a year.",
        "拜进口许可所助，时任财政部长柯南·贝蒂（Konan Bédié）在一年之内赚到了人生第一个10亿CFA法郎。"
    ],
    [
        "If a shock is temporary, central banks should not react to it; they should normalize monetary policy, because eventually the shock will wear off naturally and, with tighter product and labor markets, inflation will rise.",
        "如果一切只是暂时的，央行不应对此作出回应； 它们应该使货币政策正常化，因为最终冲击会自然而然地消失，同时随着商品和劳动力市场的收紧，通胀将会上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Woodrow Wilson was not a gifted student as a child, but he taught himself oratory because he regarded it as essential for leadership.",
        "伍德罗·威尔逊在孩提时期并不是个有天分的学生，但他刻苦自学了演讲方法，因为他认为这是一种必须的领导能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Deficits in excess of 10% of GDP can be found in many advanced economies, and debt-to-GDP ratios are expected to rise sharply – in some cases doubling in the next few years.",
        "财政赤字超过 GDP 的 10% ，在许多发达经济体成了司空见惯的事情，今后几年，发达经济体的债务 —GDP 比率肯定会大幅走高，有的甚至会翻一番。"
    ],
    [
        "He was determined to “speak as men do in the marketplace,” and more than 100,000 copies of the “Luther Bible” were printed in Wittenberg over the following decades, compared to just 180 copies of the Latin Gutenberg Bible.",
        "他决心“像市场里的商贩一样大声叫卖”，接着那几十年在维滕贝格地区印刷了超过10万册《路德圣经》，而拉丁古腾堡圣经只印了180本。"
    ],
    [
        "Death from the sky came.",
        "死亡的确从天而降。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas labor-force participation in the eurozone is on the rise, it has been declining in the US since around 2000.",
        "劳动力参与率在欧元区呈现上升之势，而在美国自从2000年左右以来一直在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "As summer beckons, we should take a moment to focus on the sun's dark side.",
        "当夏季又向我们走来，我们真该花点时间，了解一下太阳阴暗的一面。"
    ],
    [
        "The champagne that Enron’s Jeff Skilling drank when the US Securities and Exchange Commission allowed him to mark long-term energy contracts to market was paid for by the company’s shareholders and creditors, but they would not know that until ten years later.",
        "安然公司（Enron）的杰夫·斯基林（Jeff Skilling）为庆祝美国证券交易委员会（Securities and Exchange Commission）允许他用市场价值给长期能源合同记账而开的香槟是安然公司股东和债权人买的单，但他们直到十年后才知道这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Legal integration is increasing within the EU, but the integration of foreign and defense policy remains limited.",
        "欧盟内部的法律融合不断加强，但外交和防务政策融合仍停留在很低限度。"
    ],
    [
        "This movement resembles the Great Migrations (Völkerwanderung) that marked Europe between the fourth to sixth centuries.",
        "这一人口移动足以与四世纪和六世纪间席卷欧洲的大迁徙相比。"
    ],
    [
        "Short of bringing the global population down to sustainable levels, MSF reforms are the world’s only hope.",
        "在无法让全球人口降到可持续水平以下的情况下，MSF改革是世界唯一的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "The net result in the first half of this year – an average decline of 0.3% – is broadly in line with the 0.2% contraction now estimated for the fourth quarter of 2013.",
        "净结果是今年上半年平均衰退0. 3%，与目前所估算的2013年一季度水平——收缩0."
    ],
    [
        "Putin, too, also seems to suspect his regime’s impotence.",
        "就连普京自己似乎也对政府的能力产生了怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Many say that these problems are the price to be paid for ensuring that companies do not engage in anti-competitive behavior, or receive trade-distorting subsidies.",
        "许多人说这些问题都是为了确保公司不从事反竞争行为或者接受扭曲贸易的补贴付出的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Stagnating or falling real incomes do not just act as a brake on consumption demand and GDP growth; they also fuel social and political discontent, as citizens lose confidence in existing economic structures.",
        "停滞或下降的真实收入并不只是遏制了消费需求和GDP增长； 随着公民对现有经济结构丧失信心，它们还助长了社会和政治不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Savvy investors will look for companies that can withstand the current populist revolt against globalization and take advantage of incipient economic and technological trends.",
        "精明的投资者会去寻找能够经受住当前民粹主义对全球化的抵制并利用新兴经济和技术趋势的公司。"
    ],
    [
        "An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.",
        "昂贵的手工机械表并不比廉价的石英表走时准确； 但是，由于鲜有人买得起手工机械表，因此它成了富裕的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States remains a democracy governed by a constitution and the rule of law, with pluralistic media, yet there are disturbing signs that the propaganda methods Orwell described have taken root here.",
        "美国依旧是由宪法和法治管辖的民主国家，拥有多样性的媒体，但是还是有令人不安的迹象表明奥威尔所描绘的宣传手段已经在这里生根。"
    ],
    [
        "They write blogs.",
        "他们写博客。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund’s estimate of the output gap (see its World Economic Outlook database) for both countries does not suggest that, as of 2014, the UK is more cyclically depressed than the US.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）对两国的产出缺口（见IMF世界经济展望数据库）估计并不表明（如2014年）英国的周期性萧条比美国严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Although gender norms are clearly undermining men’s health worldwide, key international organizations continue to disregard the problem or address only those issues that are specific to girls and women when devising strategies to improve global health.",
        "尽管性别规范显然影响着全世界范围男性的健康，但重要国际组织仍无视这一问题，或者在做出改善全球健康建议时只针对女孩和妇女的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It would also have shown the international community to be unanimous in its rejection of repression and committed to protecting the Syrian people (though the draft made no mention of military intervention).",
        "这样做还能证明，国际社会在反对镇压和承诺保护叙利亚人民方面是完全一致的（尽管该草案并未提及任何军事干预）。"
    ],
    [
        "NAFTA and other previous trade agreements are unpopular.",
        "NAFTA和此前的其他贸易协定并不受支持。"
    ],
    [
        "One or both of these agencies would then have an account with several billion dollars.",
        "这样这一两家机构就会拥有数十亿美元的扶贫账户。"
    ],
    [
        "The hypocrisy of some of Israel’s critics in no way vindicates its colonial encroachment on Palestinian space, which makes it the last developed, “Western” country occupying and manhandling a non-Western people.",
        "一些以色列批评者的伪善并不能为其殖民巴勒斯坦领地开脱，殖民行为使以色列成为最后一个占领和粗暴对待非西方人民的发达的“西方”国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, many police devote their energies to shaking down citizens for bribes, and some moonlight in death squads.",
        "目前，许多警察投入精力对民众敲诈勒索，有些人还在死亡行刑队里挣取外快。"
    ],
    [
        "And it should take the opportunity to respond to today’s refugee crisis as it would have liked the world to respond to its suffering – and to prove that the EU’s value extends far beyond its borders.",
        "它应该承担责任，像希望世界如何应对它的苦难那样应对今天的难民危机——并证明欧盟价值观远远不局限于它的边界之内。"
    ],
    [
        "So, it is worth asking if he thinks his successor will be better suited than he is to carry out the critically important duties of public service.",
        "因此，我们应当探究他是否认为他的继任者履行公共服务的重要职责会比他更为适合？"
    ],
    [
        "The Scottish National Party’s crushing victory left Labour with only one seat in the country.",
        "苏格兰民族党（Scottish National Party）的大获全胜导致工党在该地区只获得一席。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In 1935, John Maynard Keynes wrote to George Bernard Shaw: “I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about its economic problems.”",
        "伦敦—1935年，凯恩斯给萧伯纳写信说：“我在写一本经济理论的书，我自信它将掀起一场世界看待经济问题的大革命——不是立刻，而是在十年后。"
    ],
    [
        "The same could be said of the current conflict between Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the West: It is, at root, a collision between the West’s supposedly universal values and Russia’s quest for a distinct identity.",
        "目前普京的俄罗斯与西方的冲突也是如此：根本上，这是一场西方持有的普世价值与俄罗斯所追求的独特身份之间的碰撞。"
    ],
    [
        "Chairman Mao’s rule combined elements of the Chinese imperial system with Communist totalitarianism.",
        "毛泽东主席的统治，便是对中国帝制体系与共产主义极权制度诸元素的结合。"
    ],
    [
        "Sequential GDP growth slowed to a low single-digit pace – a virtual standstill by Chinese standards.",
        "在此影响下GDP增长率也只剩一位数且数字较小——以中国标准来说就算是停止增长了。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, Thaksin will have to do something about Myanmar if the international community is to accept his wider role.",
        "此外，如果国际社会打算接受他地区领袖的角色，他信愿意采取一些与缅甸有关的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the true believers cite America’s better-funded and hyper-competitive university system, which sucks in a disproportionate share of the world’s top students and researchers.",
        "不仅如此，这些虔诚的崇拜者还用美国资金充足、竞争激烈的大学体系来证明自己的正确，这些大学吸纳世界顶尖学生和研究人员的数量之多令人惊讶。"
    ],
    [
        "Those eight goals became the centerpiece of the development effort for poor countries around the world.",
        "MDG的八个目标成为全球贫穷国家发展政策的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "So why not believe him?",
        "既然人家都这样说了，凭什么不相信他？"
    ],
    [
        "The discrepancy between the two-term, four-year US presidency and one-term, five-year South Korean presidency has sometimes been problematic, and the respective policies toward North Korea of US and South Korean administrations have often collided.",
        "在美国的总统最多连任两届、每届任期四年和韩国的总统只能任职一届、每届任期五年之间存在的差异，有时也会产生问题，而且，美国政府和韩国政府的朝鲜政策还经常发生冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – On my desk right now are reporter Timothy Noah’s new book The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It and Milton and Rose Director Friedman’s classic Free to Choose: A Personal Statement.",
        "伯克利—眼下，我案头摆着两部书：记者诺阿（Timothy Noah）的新书《大分化：美国日益严重的不平等性危机以及我们可以如何做》（The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It and Milton and Rose Friedman’s classic Free to Choose）以及弗里德曼夫妇的经典之作《自由选择：自白》（Free to Choose: A Personal Statement）。"
    ],
    [
        "With two more trial stages to go, the vaccine would not be ready for deployment before 2015.",
        "因为还要完成两个阶段的试验，疫苗不会在2015年之前面世。"
    ],
    [
        "Others, such as Lyndon Johnson, were highly egotistical, but also had great political skill in working with Congress and other leaders.",
        "也有一些总统，比如约翰逊，非常自负，但同时也具备高超的政治技能与国会和其他领导人共事。"
    ],
    [
        "A first reason to doubt projections of a stronger dollar is that none of the news on which they are based is really news.",
        "质疑美元升值预期的第一个原因是，这一预期所基于的消息早已不再是新闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Operating from sanctuaries established in the tribal agency, various terrorist groups, in association with organizations elsewhere in the country, have already attacked Pakistan’s four neighbors – Afghanistan, China, India, and Iran.",
        "各色恐怖组织以部落机构庇护所为据点、与国内其他机构合谋组织恐怖活动。 他们已经向阿富汗、中国、印度和伊朗等巴基斯坦四大邻国发动了恐怖袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the Vienna Initiative must become an effective “voice” for the host countries in the Europe-wide debate on debt resolution and banking union.",
        "这就是为什么维也纳计划必须成为东道国在泛欧洲债务解决方案和银行联盟争论中更有力的“声音”。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that have protected their agricultural development from the threats posed by international markets – such as India or Vietnam – have achieved substantial reductions in agricultural poverty.",
        "像印度和越南那些将其农业发展排除于国际竞争构成威胁之外的国家也大幅度削减了农村贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "The Paris climate agreement was made possible by a simple method called “Indaba,” adopted from the Zulu and Xhosa people of South Africa. Negotiators had the right to withhold consent, but only if they put forth alternate proposals aimed at finding common ground.",
        "巴黎气候协议就是借助南非祖鲁和科萨人称为“因达巴会议（Indaba）”的简单方法达成的——谈判者有权拒绝共识，但只能是在提出旨在寻求共同点的替代建议之后。"
    ],
    [
        "One key priority area is teachers, who need strong incentives, effective training, and dependable support systems to deliver real learning.",
        "一个重要的当务之急是教师，他们需要强大的激励、有效的培训和可靠的支持体系以普及真正的学习。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy is a classic example – and is disastrous for EU budgets, economic efficiency, and consumer pocketbooks.",
        "但这取决于政府如何管理储备。 历史记录并不乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Were the reforms put forward by Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders adopted, the financial system’s ability to prey on those already leading a precarious life would be curbed.",
        "如果希拉里·克林顿和伯尔尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）提出的改革能得到实施，金融体系鱼肉生活已然飘摇的人们的能力将被遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "Is America Healing Fast Enough?",
        "美国经济康复够快吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, trading was suspended for about 50% of listed securities (more than 1,400 of 2,800 stocks).",
        "此外，大约50%的上市公司停牌（2,800家上市公司中的1,400多家）。"
    ],
    [
        "But no special training is needed to know that it is unwise and dangerous when bank executives get the upside (huge bonuses) when things go well and everyone else bears the downside risks (bailouts and recession).",
        "但不需要任何特别训练就能看出，银行高管在一切顺利时收获好处（巨额奖金）而 下行风险（援助和衰退）由所有人一起承担，这绝对是不明智的，也是危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, deficient storage and refrigeration systems turn safe medicines into dangerous substances.",
        "在一些情形中，不符合要求的储藏和冷冻系统让安全的药品变成了危险的劣质药。"
    ],
    [
        "It is easy to forget how critical things were back in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.",
        "你很容易就会忘记2008年四季度和2009年一季度的关键事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the issues raised at the Copenhagen climate conference last December was the EU member states’ failure to perfect a post-Kyoto international system for fighting global warming.",
        "欧盟成员国未能成功完善应对全球变暖的后京都国际体系是去年十二月哥本哈根气候会议的议题之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece has also once again reminded us of how badly the world needs a debt-restructuring framework.",
        "希腊也再次提醒我们有多么需要债务重组框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Most other developed countries, by contrast, have adopted “territorial” systems that largely exempt their MNCs’ foreign earnings from home-country taxation.",
        "其他发达国家大多采用“领地”原则，基本豁免跨国公司海外利润的母国缴税义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Skeptics immediately reply that women have not made war simply because they have rarely been in power.",
        "质疑者马上就可以反驳说，女性之所以不曾引发战争，只是因为她们很少掌权。"
    ],
    [
        "But the erosion of traditional law remains most pronounced in the international arena.",
        "但国际法的式微最显而易见的仍然是国际领域。"
    ],
    [
        "And where China leads geopolitically, its currency, the renminbi, is likely to follow.",
        "而在中国领衔地缘政治的地方，人民币也会跟进。"
    ],
    [
        "Colombia and Panama illustrate the contrast between these approaches.",
        "哥伦比亚和巴拿马可以说明这两种方针之间的对比。"
    ],
    [
        "“There are a lot of surprising innovations coming from South Africa,” says David Kaplan, an economist at the University of Cape Town who specializes in tracking technological change. “But the gap between esoteric knowledge and economic applications remains large.”",
        "开普敦大学关注技术变革的经济学家大卫·卡普兰强调，“南非涌现了许多令人赞叹的创新成果，但是在深奥理论和实际经济应用之间的差距仍然很大。"
    ],
    [
        "Without any defined responsibilities, he intruded where he wished – and ended up with a lot of enemies.",
        "在缺乏任何明确责任的情况下，他肆意进入他所希望的领域——最终结下了很多仇敌。"
    ],
    [
        "Avoiding a massive withdrawal of foreign capital therefore implied taxing all deposits below the €100,000 ($130,000) threshold.",
        "于是，避免外资大规模撤离意味着对10万欧元门槛以下的储户课税。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, media organizations must find ways to finance worthwhile reporting, investigation, and analysis.",
        "诚然，媒体组织必须找到办法为值得的报道、调查和分析提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Part-time employment is spreading and may become the labor market’s new normal.",
        "兼职就业情况在扩大，或将成为劳动力市场的新常态。"
    ],
    [
        "Align G-20 membership with the composition of the International Monetary Fund’s Executive Board.",
        "G-20 的组织形式可以效法国际货币基金组织的执行委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern information societies require us to go beyond the “big man” approach to leadership.",
        "现代信息社会需要我们超越对领导人的“大人物”的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Control of Syria’s territory is now divided between President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, various armed opposition groups, the Kurds, and the Islamic State.",
        "现在总统巴沙尔•阿萨德政权、各路武装反对势力、库尔德人和伊斯兰国共同掌握着叙利亚的控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "And every year, the fallout widens.",
        "而每一年争议都会扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "The small suppliers actually provide you with 80% of the value and innovation but only receive 20% of the reward.",
        "小型供应商实际提供了80%的价值和创新，但仅仅拿到了20%的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "And the European Union has now lifted its ban.",
        "欧盟已经取消了禁令。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the politically shrewd Prime Minister Narendra Modi is far too smart to even contemplate attempting to distort the investigation of Singh for partisan gain.",
        "事实上，政治上相当精明的总理莫迪绝不会蠢到为了党派利益扭曲对辛格的调查，连想都不会这样想。"
    ],
    [
        "The world needs fewer hedgehogs and more foxes.",
        "由此可见，世界需要更少的刺猬，和更多的狐狸。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the second assumption – that unemployment is a major cause of violent conflict – misses crucial nuances.",
        "同样，第二种假设——即失业是暴力冲突的主要原因——并没有考虑到关键的微妙之处。"
    ],
    [
        "But Abe’s courtship has so far yielded little for Japan, and much for Russia.",
        "但安倍的追求没有给日本带来什么好处，倒是给俄罗斯送去了很多利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Senate, the French parliament’s upper house, a conservative bastion between the two world wars and ever since, swung to a Socialist majority for the first time in history at the end of 2011.",
        "与此同时，法国参议院（法国立法机关由参议院和国民议会两院组成）这座在两次大战之间以及战后时期一直牢不可破的保守派壁垒也在2011年年末有史以来第一次落入了社会党多数派之手。"
    ],
    [
        "Both are frequent occurrences in Indian political life.",
        "这两种情况在印度的政治生活中经常会遇到。"
    ],
    [
        "The following year, crude precursors of the blood-thinning medication heparin were contaminated, causing hundreds of allergic reactions and 19 deaths in the United States, and at least 80 serious adverse health events in Germany.",
        "第二年，血液稀释药肝素前体遭到污染，导致美国数百人产生过敏反应，19人死亡。 德国也发生了至少80起严重的健康事件。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact of a debt default would be cataclysmic, and it seems unlikely that Trump would be foolish enough to go so far.",
        "债务违约的影响将是灾难性的，特朗普不太可能会蠢到走到这一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if researchers themselves are motivated by only the noblest of goals, their need for funding forces them to take into account the demand for ideas.",
        "即使研究者本身的唯一动机是目标的高尚性，他们也需要筹资，因此不得不算计观点的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Secular Stagnation Heads South",
        "长期停滞南进"
    ],
    [
        "Several other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, such as Hungary, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, were also living dangerously, with large current-account deficits and firms and households running up huge debts in foreign currency.",
        "还有其他一些中东欧的国家，比如匈牙利、乌克兰和波罗的海国家也处于极大的危险中，它们拥有庞大的经常项目赤字并且公司和家庭都背负着巨额的外汇债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, less risky treatments are crucial.",
        "同样，低风险治疗也很关键。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – With the likelihood of a contagious sovereign-debt implosion and European bank failures greatly reduced by the Greek debt deal and the European Central Bank’s lending program, it is time to look ahead.",
        "北京—希腊债务协议的达成和欧洲央行贷款计划的实施大幅减少了传染性主权债去大爆发和欧洲央行大批倒闭的可能性，现在，我们应该把目光朝前看。"
    ],
    [
        "These are precisely the people needed to help foster a vibrant middle class – the bedrock of a stable democratic market economy.",
        "而正是这些人需要得到帮助来促使形成一个充满活力的中产阶级，也就是一个稳定的民主市场经济的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Without rebalancing and reforms, the days of the automatic Chinese soft landing may be over.",
        "如果不进行再平衡和改革，中国自动软着陆的好日子也许就再也不会有了。"
    ],
    [
        "But images of the 1987 crash, driven by computers in tall modern steel-and-glass office buildings, do seem to be on people’s minds today.",
        "但是1987年股市大跌的情形确实好像还在人们的头脑之中。 高大的现代化钢筋玻璃办公大楼中的电脑推动了那次事件。"
    ],
    [
        "It has now taken the first step toward returning its benchmark policy interest rate – the federal funds rate – to a level that imparts neither stimulus nor restraint to the US economy.",
        "现在，它已经迈出了使其基准政策利率——联邦基金利率——回到既不会带来刺激，又不会制约美国经济的水平的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe we haven’t taken into account all of the geopolitical consequences deriving from this new logic of mutual dependence.",
        "也许我们还没有将这种新的相互依赖逻辑的所有地缘政治后果纳入考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Last but not the least, the central government needs to strengthen the guidance of crisis management and exit strategies.",
        "最后，中央需要强化危机管理和退出战略指引。"
    ],
    [
        "Wealth effects that benefit a small but extremely affluent slice of the US population have done little to provide meaningful relief for most American families, who remain squeezed by lingering balance-sheet problems, weak labor markets, and anemic income growth.",
        "财富效应，让一些数量稀少但极端富裕的人收益，而没有为大多数美国家庭提供真正意义的救济，这些家庭仍在承受挥之不去的资产负债压力，疲软的劳动力市场以及缓慢的收入增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But that – the real revolution – will happen only when true representatives of citizens, rather than the military, begin to set their countries’ political course.",
        "但真正的革命只有在人民有了真正的代表，而不是军队开始左右国家的政治进程时才会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Some say that governments did not do enough to stoke demand.",
        "有人说政府在提振需求方面做得不够。"
    ],
    [
        "We will all be better off when companies’ impulse to do the right in the worst of times defines how they behave all the time.",
        "如果用公司在最糟糕时期做正确的事情的动力来评判它们在所有时候的表现，那么我们所有人境况都会得到改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Faith has an especially important role to play in politics in circumstances where secular liberals are rendered impotent, as in the case of Nazi occupation, Communist rule, or military dictatorship.",
        "当世俗民主派人士无所作为的情况下，信仰在政治中可以发挥极为重要的作用，正如纳粹占领、共产统治或者军事独裁这些情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of impeding local and regional democratic governance, the EU should be fostering it.",
        "欧盟不应该妨碍地方和地区民主治理，而应该支持这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies win, because goods and workers get to use the improved infrastructure.",
        "失业者也是赢家，因为不少人将得到工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even the country’s sovereign wealth fund has gotten into the act.",
        "事实上，就连中国主权财富基金也采取了行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland Votes, Europe Waits",
        "全欧洲关注爱尔兰投票"
    ],
    [
        "But, while government policies, according to this school, are ineffective, that matters little.",
        "根据这种流派的理论，政府的政策是没有效力的，成事不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Government debt must be restructured.",
        "政府债必须进行重组。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People’s Bank of China, recently suggested that replacing the dollar with the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights as the dominant reserve currency would bring greater stability to the global financial system.",
        "剑桥——中国人民银行行长周小川近日表示，如果用特别提款权（SDR）取代美元成为主要储备货币，这将对世界金融的稳定起到积极的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no need to know any economics in order to be fascinated by this book: it is about power, pure and simple.",
        "阅读这本书并不需要任何经济基础：因为书中的内容都是关于——纯粹而简单的——权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the commercial development of lithium-ion batteries – the rechargeable batteries common in consumer electronics – in the early 1990s, the challenge of storing and releasing power effectively enough to make sustainable energy sources viable alternatives to fossil fuels has been a vexing one.",
        "自20世纪90年代锂电池（电子消费品中常见的可重复充电电池）实现商业开发以来，足够有效地储存和释放电能从而让可持续能源资源成为化石燃料的可靠替代品一直是令人心焦的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, US sanctions eventually brought Iran to the table to negotiate a nuclear deal; but sanctions were effective only because a broad international coalition, ultimately backed by the United Nations Security Council, isolated Iran financially.",
        "举例来讲，美国的制裁最终迫使伊朗谈判达成核协议； 但制裁取得效果仅仅因为建立了拥有联合国安理会终极支持的广泛的国际联盟，从财政方面对伊朗进行孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it has become an article of faith that any move toward a more open or “pluralist” approach to economics portends regression to “pre-scientific” modes of thought, just as the results of the European Parliament election threaten to revive a more primitive mode of politics.",
        "此外，任何通向更开放或“多元”的经济学运动都预示着向“前科学”思维模式的回归已经成为一种信条，正如欧洲议会选举结果可能让更原始的政治学模式复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has publicly declared the Dalai Lama to be the “personification of nonviolence,” India has let it be known that it does not support his political objectives.",
        "尽管印度总理辛格公开宣布达赖喇嘛是“非暴力的象征”，印度表示并不支持他的政治目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Al-Ahmar’s relationship with jihadists is a source of serious concern.",
        "阿赫玛尔与伊斯兰圣战分子之间的关系总会引起极大的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, developments in southern European will remain a key factor determining Europe’s course in 2013.",
        "因此，南欧的发展局势将仍是决定2013年欧洲状态的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "This led to the build-up of national public debt, which, in turn, compelled the central bank to over-issue currency, fueling inflation.",
        "这导致了国家公共债务高企，反过来迫使中央银行过度发行货币，造成通货膨胀加速。"
    ],
    [
        "That was the best of him.",
        "因为那才是他最美的品质。"
    ],
    [
        "The burden of adjustment will be borne by everyone.",
        "调整的成本将由我们每一个人来承担。"
    ],
    [
        "The interest rate on Japan’s ten-year government bonds is now less than 1% – the lowest in the world, despite a very high level of government debt and annual budget deficits.",
        "10年期日本国债利率现在还不到1%，为世界最低，尽管日本国债水平和预算赤字水平极高。"
    ],
    [
        "On the Israeli side, which political leaders really want a Palestinian state and are prepared to take the political risks associated with trying to establish one?",
        "在以色列方面，那个政治领导人真正想要巴勒斯坦国家而且愿意冒着伴随试图建立巴勒斯坦国的政治风险呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But not all targets are equally good.",
        "但并不是所有目标都能带来同等效益。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the features that distinguish the US from “the dominant great powers of the past,” according to the distinguished British strategist Lawrence Freedman, is that “American power is based on alliances rather than colonies.”",
        "按照英国著名战略学家劳伦斯·弗里德曼的说法，在凸显美国不同于“以往主导大国”的各项特色中，最重要的是美国的实力基础是联盟而非殖民。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, without returning to the illusion of economic planning, these countries need to be able to set conditions for foreign investors that aim to maximize the local impact on employment, technological diffusion, strategic partnerships, and so forth.",
        "的确，这些国家需要为国外投资者创造条件，但却不能重蹈计划经济梦想的覆辙。 国外投资者的目标是尽可能扩大对当地就业、技术传播以及战略合作的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite support for the state as the ultimate arbiter of law, increasing social polarization in many Arab states over the last two decades has impeded consensus on how to restructure and reform policing.",
        "尽管支持国家作为法律的最终仲裁者，但许多阿拉伯国家在过去二十年中的社会两极分化状况使得人们难以就如何重组和改革警务工作达成共识。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas must recognize Israel’s right to exist, stop all terrorist activities, and commit itself to carry out all previous international agreements signed by the Palestinian Authority.",
        "哈马斯必须承认以色列的生存权、停止一切恐怖活动并切实执行巴勒斯坦当局已签署的一切国际协议。"
    ],
    [
        "With the completion of the latest report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we can now see that this narrative is mostly wrong.",
        "联合国政府间气候变化委员会（IPCC）最新报告完成后，我们知道这种说法错得多么荒诞。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding a recent slowdown, Germany could soon export more to China than to its crucial neighbor and partner France, and it already exports more to China than it does to Italy.",
        "虽然最近有所放缓，但德国对华出口可能很快超越其比邻而居的合作伙伴法国（意大利已经被超越）。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a jump in wealth and an immediate production boom.",
        "社会财富将有跳跃式增长，生产力将会即刻提高。"
    ],
    [
        "But an even deeper difference concerns the fundamental issue of who owns information in the first place.",
        "但一个更深层次的差别在于谁拥有第一手信息这一根本问题。"
    ],
    [
        "While GCC countries have made major improvements in hygiene and maternal and child health, they form the global epicenter of chronic non-communicable diseases – such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and, increasingly, cancer – that result from lifestyle and diet.",
        "GCC国家在卫生和母婴健康方面确实取得了巨大的进步，但也因为生活方式和饮食方面的原因沦为慢性非传染病的全球集中爆发地区，如肥胖、糖尿病、心脏病以及越来越多的癌症。"
    ],
    [
        "Without the JCPOA, however, those challenges would become even more daunting.",
        "但是，没有JCPOA，这些挑战会变得更加艰巨。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Yemen has suddenly joined Afghanistan and Pakistan as a risk to global security.",
        "伦敦 —— 人们突然发现，也门正和阿富汗及巴基斯坦一样对全球安全造成着威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "It had generally been expected that Labor would come in second in the election and form a coalition government with Kadima.",
        "一般预计，该党会在大选中名列第二并与前进党组成联合政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is a mix between a criminal organization and a privatized, parasitic state.",
        "相反，一个有组织的“上层”精英占据了包括寡头在内的整个经济体，最终造就出一个犯罪集团和私有化寄生性国家的混合体。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be that leaders and their staffs were naive in believing that their communications were really secure.",
        "或许因为领导人及工作人员居然天真到相信他们的信息联络真正安全。"
    ],
    [
        "The vetting process will even go back to one’s teenage years – all to ensure that anything that the Senate’s own investigators can find is known before the nomination is formally submitted.",
        "审查程序甚至要回溯到当事人十几岁的孩提时代，所有这些都是为了确保参议院本身的调查员所能找的发现的东西在提名正式提交前便已众人皆知。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, at least all shareholders, not just senior-executive insiders, will benefit.",
        "如此，至少所有股东，而不是仅仅是高管内部人士，都能获益。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, journalists face another kind of psychological threat: harassment from their own government.",
        "在美国，记者面临另一种心理威胁：本国政府的骚扰。"
    ],
    [
        "Forget it.",
        "省省吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s maritime-security strategy has long been founded on two key tenets. First, sea-borne trade routes, which account for nearly 85% of the European Union’s total exports and imports, must be kept free and safe.",
        "欧洲的海上安全策略一直以来基于两大关键原则：首先，占欧盟总进出口量近85%的海上贸易通道必须保持自由通畅和安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1881, the correlation of the past decade’s real earnings growth with the price-earnings ratio is a positive 0.32.",
        "自1881年以来，过去十年的真实盈利增长和市盈率的相关性为正0."
    ],
    [
        "Women are not monolithic: they have various ideological backgrounds and diverse governing styles.",
        "女性不顽固：她们有不同的思想背景和多元化的执政风格。"
    ],
    [
        "This has made bilateral negotiations to settle these disputes unviable.",
        "这使得双边协商解决争端成为一纸空文。"
    ],
    [
        "By the 1990’s experts were calling it “the disorder of the decade,” insisting that as many as one in five Americans suffers from it.",
        "到了1990年代，专家们称之为“近十年最大的精神疾病”，并坚持认为有近五分之一的美国人罹患此病。"
    ],
    [
        "But word play will get India nowhere.",
        "但这对印度来说于事无补。"
    ],
    [
        "And because expectations and confidence about future events are crucial, governments must, like European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, stand ready to do “whatever it takes” to stabilize financial markets.",
        "而由于对未来事件的预期和信心具有关键重要性，因此政府必须向欧洲央行行长德拉吉那样时刻准备着“不惜一切代价”稳定金融市场。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the new digital economy is less capital-intensive than the old brick-and-mortar economy.",
        "与此同时，新数字经济的资本密集程度不如旧的砖块水泥经济。"
    ],
    [
        "The two Spanish aid workers were released last July, and al-Shabaab has attempted only one abduction since.",
        "两名西班牙医务人员于去年7月被释放，此后索马里青年军劫持事件也只发生了一起。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the democracy watchdog Freedom House, in the 2012 election, “the opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles, was able to hold rallies and engage in traditional forms of campaigning.”",
        "据民主观察组织自由之家（Freedom House）透露，在2010年选举中，“反对派候选人卡普里莱斯（Henrique Capriles）能够构筑选举联盟，并进行传统竞选活动。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that easy access to cheap money and debt financing have not favored the high-tech sectors that contribute the most to productivity growth.",
        "这表明容易获取的廉价资金和债务融资并不青睐对生产率增长率贡献最高的高科技行业。"
    ],
    [
        "On December 19, Sonia Gandhi, President of the Congress party, and her son, Rahul Gandhi, the party’s vice president, were forced to appear in court on corruption charges.",
        "12月19日，国大党主席索尼娅·甘地（Sonia Gandhi）及其子、国大党副主席拉胡尔·甘地（Rahul Gandhi）被迫现身法庭出席腐败判决。"
    ],
    [
        "The October 2006 test suggested the possibility of a faulty design, while there were questions about whether the 2009 effort was even nuclear in nature.",
        "2006年10月的核试显示在设计方面可能出现失误，而2009年试验是否算得上核试都值得怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "During the past decade, many state and local governments have focused their attention on environmental policy.",
        "近十年来，许多州和地方政府都把注意力集中在环境政策上。"
    ],
    [
        "So they do not ask what job they would like; they simply ask what job will enable them to pay their college loans, which often will burden them for 20 years or more.",
        "因此他们不问喜欢什么工作，只想什么工作能让他们能够偿还学生贷款——常常需要20年甚至更长时间才能偿清。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, decisions can always be reversed; parliaments can simply pass another law.",
        "平心而论，决定永远可以逆转； 议会只要通过另一项法律就可以了。"
    ],
    [
        "Solar power can be produced on the required scale but is too expensive under current technologies.",
        "太阳能发电的总量能满足需求，但在目前的技术条件下成本过高。"
    ],
    [
        "First, and most important, there is no market for control over the biggest banks.",
        "首先也是最重要的是，控制最大银行没有市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The fourth option is to impose capital controls on inflows (or liberalize controls on outflows). Leaving aside the issue of whether or not such controls are “leaky,” evidence suggests that controls on inflows of short-term “hot money” do not affect the overall amount of capital inflows.",
        "第四种办法是对资本流入加强管制（或对资本流出放松管制）。 姑且不论此类管制是不是漏洞百出，有证据显示，对短期“热钱”流入实施的管制措施并不能影响总体的资本流入量。"
    ],
    [
        "For everyone else, a kind of state of emergency was proclaimed that has allowed state interference in essential civil rights.",
        "对于其他所有人而言，好像是宣布了某种紧急状态，允许国家干涉基本民权。"
    ],
    [
        "Its financial statements underestimate the true value of public assets, reporting total assets worth $3.8 billion, of which $1.4 billion is real estate.",
        "这座城市的财务报表低估了公共资产的真实价值，报告总资产为38亿美元，其中14亿美元是以房地产的形式存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China is now the top trading partner of most major regional economies, particularly in East Asia and ASEAN.",
        "中国目前是大多数主要地区经济体，特别是东亚和东盟的第一大贸易伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, a political reshuffling is almost inevitable; the party shifts and conflicts that have characterized the ongoing US presidential election exemplify this.",
        "在这一背景下，政治改组几乎是不可避免的； 正在进行的美国总统选举所表现出的党派转变和冲突就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "As things stand now, the right is likely to win the first round, but with less than 50%.",
        "从目前的情况看，右翼可能赢得首轮选举，但得票率不到一半。"
    ],
    [
        "The return of the state, even when it is the power of the European Commission to sanction Microsoft, is on everyone’s lips.",
        "国家地位的回归，即便是欧盟动用权力惩罚了微软，正成为大家议论的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if this does not trigger a crisis, it sharply narrows the government’s scope for using expansionary fiscal policy to stimulate the economy.",
        "即便这不会引发危机，它也会急剧减少政府使用扩张性财政政策来刺激经济的运作余地。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the financial crisis erupted in 2008, consumers buoyed US demand by borrowing heavily against their rising house prices.",
        "2008年金融危机爆发以前，消费者利用上涨的房价大量举债，撑起了美国的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, too, the world will need to create informal platforms that supplement traditional multilateralism.",
        "在这方面，世界还需要建立非正式平台以补充传统多边主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bundestag now counts six factions, compared to four in the previous electoral term.",
        "如今，德国联邦众议院分为六个阵营，而上一次选举只有四个阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Iraq insurgency deviates from its forebears in vital ways.",
        "但伊拉克叛乱在本质上背离了其先例。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this massive balance-sheet expansion has had little to show for it.",
        "但这一庞大的资产负债表扩张却没有体现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "OECD countries need to lead by example and meet the commitments that they have made.",
        "经合组织国家需要有榜样指引，并兑现它们所作出的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "This sort of verbal trickery to hide a strategic objective has been seen before.",
        "这种用文字游戏来掩盖战略目标的把戏在从前也曾出现过。"
    ],
    [
        "The forthcoming negotiations on the EU’s 2014-2020 European budget are an opportunity to change direction and cut the funding for unpromising mega-projectslike the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) effort in southern France.",
        "欧盟即将展开的2014－2020年欧洲预算谈判是转变方向的绝好机会，应该削减像法国南部国际热核试验反应堆（ITER）这样没有前途的大型项目的资金投入。"
    ],
    [
        "Moltke wanted to invade and defeat Russia before it was \"too late\" for Germany to triumph.",
        "因此毛奇想在德国难以取得胜利这一天来临之前，趁早先侵略并打败俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "London would cease to be Europe’s financial capital because regulations would be deliberately changed to shift business activities into EU jurisdictions.",
        "伦敦将不再是欧洲金融首都，因为监管将有意识地做出改变，让商业活动转移到欧盟司法辖区。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that it changes course soon, before we all are forced to wear swimsuits to work.",
        "人们希望在我们所有人被迫穿游泳衣上班之前美国马上改弦更张。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, projections from McKinsey & Company suggest that the purchasing power of this rising middle class in emerging markets may rise to $20 trillion over the next decade – twice the current level of consumption in the United States.",
        "而麦肯锡公司则预计这一不断崛起的阶级将在未来十年内实现20万亿美元/年的购买力——这是美国目前全国购买力水平的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "And it recognizes that only greater unity will enable Europe to confront the challenges of terrorism, migration, and climate change.",
        "全球战略认识到要想应对恐怖主义、移民和气候变化的挑战，欧洲只有加强团结。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, President Thein Sein’s government has begun to release thousands of political prisoners, including the monk who led the massive street protests of 2007.",
        "实际上，吴登盛总统的政府早已经开始释放数以千计的政治犯，包括那位领导了2007年大规模街头游行示威的僧侣。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising global temperatures and an increasingly unstable climate will influence all aspects of development and jeopardize existing investments unless adequate mitigation and adaptation strategies – which are also central to the new Sustainable Development Goals that the United Nations will adopt later this month – are put in place.",
        "除非充分落实缓解和适应政策——这也是联合国本月晚些时候即将通过的全新可持续发展目标的核心——否则不断升高的全球温度和日益不稳定的气候将影响发展的一切领域并危及现有投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite these challenges, China’s leaders anticipate that, in the longer term, the renminbi’s inclusion in the SDR basket will help to bring about the currency’s steady appreciation and, by serving as a kind of certification of credibility, support its continued internationalization.",
        "尽管又这些挑战，但中国领导人认为，从长期看，人民币纳入SDR篮子有助于人民币的稳步升值，并且可以充当某种形式的信誉证明从而支持其继续国际化。"
    ],
    [
        "Jean-Claude Juncker’s Roadmap for European Disaster",
        "容克的欧洲灾难路线图"
    ],
    [
        "Regional integration is a recipe for long-term stability in Asia, and a second line of engagement for the EU.",
        "地区融合是亚洲长期稳定的关键，也是欧盟介入亚洲的第二个角度。"
    ],
    [
        "If world leaders take advantage of cost-benefit analysis to separate the wheat from the chaff, the next 15 years could be a boon for global development – including the preservation of biodiversity.",
        "如果世界领导人利用成本-收益分析去芜存菁，那么未来15年有望成为全球发展——包括生物多样性保护——的大繁荣时期。"
    ],
    [
        "For some time, scientists have believed that individual human beings were 99.9% genetically identical.",
        "曾经有一段时间，科学家们认为人类单个个体99. 9%的基因都是相同的。"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities, seeing no solution, kicked the can down the road – an approach that usually works, because problems become easier to solve when markets calm down.",
        "当局似乎对此束手无策，只能拖一天是一天——这一方法通常会管用，因为随着市场的冷静，问题会变得容易解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu seals the image of Israel as a nation totally incapable of breaking out of the prison of its past.",
        "内塔尼亚胡为以色列的形象打下了烙印，证明以色列根本无法摆脱过去的束缚。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first of the protests that rocked the communist world in 1956, huge crowds in Georgia demanded that Khrushchev be fired and Stalin’s memory reinstated.",
        "1956年震惊共产主义世界的第一次抗议声浪中，在格鲁吉亚共和国，大批群众要求赫鲁晓夫下台，恢复斯大林名誉。"
    ],
    [
        "This should give us hope about the future.",
        "这应该令我们对未来有所期待。"
    ],
    [
        "NATO enlargement may have rendered the treaty’s detailed provisions obsolete, but its underlying approach – a transparent inspections regime that enforces limitations on the overall quantity and, crucially, the regional concentrations of ground forces – remains applicable today.",
        "北约扩张让这一条约的具体条款成为废纸，但其基本方针——控制总量并且（关键性地）实现地区地面力量的集中的透明的检查机制——在今天仍然适用。"
    ],
    [
        "With their neighbors embroiled in internal conflict or in the midst of difficult transitions, and with discontent rising at home, the Gulf states are eager to stem the tide of revolution.",
        "它们的邻国中不乏深陷内部冲突或艰难转型者，国内不满情绪也在不断升级。 海湾国家急切地想平息革命浪潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of the serious threat that the illegal drug economy poses to stability and democracy in Afghanistan, we must start thinking in terms of regulated poppy growing for medical purposes, in particular for painkillers, with the active participation of donor countries and the UN itself.",
        "由于非法毒品经济在阿富汗对稳定和民主构成严重的威胁，我们必须开始考虑为医学目的、特别是止痛药而调节罂粟种植，捐助国以及联合国自身都应当积极参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Such higher-density construction must be the best possible outcome, for it will please the most people.",
        "这种高密度建筑肯定是可能的最佳方案，因为它可以满足多数人的愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership fail and economic globalization slows, technology is promoting ecological, political, and social globalization in the form of climate change, transnational terrorism, and migration – whether Trump likes it or not.",
        "即使跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）和TTIP等贸易协定失败、全球化速度减慢，技术仍然在推动生态、政治和社会全球化——以气候变化、跨国恐怖主义和移民等形式——不管特朗普是否喜欢。"
    ],
    [
        "This was proposed late in the Bush administration in order to forge links with some ASEAN members – Singapore, Vietnam, and Brunei – as well as others across the Pacific.",
        "这个理念在小布什执政后期已经提出，目的是为了和某些东盟成员国构建联系——比如新加坡，越南和文莱——同时也涵盖其他太平洋国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Put another way, the net costs of reducing CO2 emissions – in terms of growth, income, and other measures of economic and social performance – are not all that high in the short and medium term.",
        "换言之，降低二氧化碳排放量的成本——用增长、收入和其他经济和社会表现指标衡量——在短期和中期并不十分高昂。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, experience shows that there is no substitute.",
        "事实上，经验表明，除此之外没有替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy remains the one area of Iranian life where Ahmedinejad retains considerable power.",
        "经济是伊朗生活中内贾德保留大量权力的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "The best way to make one would be for Merkel’s next government to appoint an independent expert commission to evaluate the alternatives, without regard to the prevailing taboos.",
        "最好机会摆在默克尔面前——她的新政府应该任命独立的专家委员会评估替代方案，不要被现存禁忌所束缚。"
    ],
    [
        "Two types of power shifts are occurring in this century – power transition and power diffusion.",
        "21世纪正进行着两种关于权力的变革——一种是权力的转移，另一种则是权力的扩散。"
    ],
    [
        "After WWII, Western governments devised policies that aimed to balance the economic benefits of immigration (cheap labor) with protection of domestic jobs and ways of life.",
        "二战后，西方政府设计了旨在平衡移民的经济利益（廉价劳动力）和保护本国工作岗位和生活方式的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Article 9 of the constitution, drafted by American lawyers in 1946, when Japan was under Allied occupation, Japan renounces “war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.”",
        "根据由美国律师起草于1946年的该宪法第九条，当日本处于盟军占领状态时，日本放弃“将战争作为国家主权以及将威胁使用武力作为解决国际争端手段”的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Conventional wisdom has always held that the state with the largest military prevails.",
        "传统观念认为那些拥有最强大军事力量的国家将夺得优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Air-Sea Battle’s underlying logic poses serious risks of miscalculation – beginning with the name.",
        "不幸的是，空海战战的基本逻辑存在极高的误算风险——从其名称开始就是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The standoff came to an end on May 6, as suddenly as it had started.",
        "僵局在5月6日被打破，与它的开始一样突然。"
    ],
    [
        "Solar and wind power was subsidized by $60 billion in 2012. This means that the world spent $60 billion more on energy than was needed.",
        "2012年有高达600亿美元的资金用来补贴风能和太阳能，也就是说全世界在能源消费领域比必要状况多花了600亿美金。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – Once again, China has defied the naysayers.",
        "发自纽黑文市——中国又一次藐视了它的反对者们。"
    ],
    [
        "Reality has become even more complicated since then: the family’s role continues to decline in Asia; philantropy, despite a few extraordinarily generous individuals, has more than met its limits in America; and, with the possible exception of the Nordic countries, the state in Europe, overburdened by debt, no longer has the means or the will to shoulder new responsibilities.",
        "美国的慈善事业遭遇瓶颈，除了几个慈善家特别慷慨以外，整体上不进反退； 而欧洲的国家被债务压得喘不过气来，已没有能力和意愿去肩负新的责任——北欧国家可能算是例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of modern medicine’s success is built on new drugs, in which pharmaceutical companies invest billions of dollars on research.",
        "现代医学的成功部分是建立在新药之上的，制药公司投入几十亿美元来研发新药。"
    ],
    [
        "The Assad regime has consistently adopted an anti-Western stance, aligning itself with the Soviet Union and later with Russia.",
        "巴沙尔政权一直采取反西方立场，与苏联（后来与俄罗斯）站在同一条战壕里。"
    ],
    [
        "GDP growth is generated via the interaction between the supply side and the demand side of the economy.",
        "GDP增长是通过经济的供给侧和需求侧之间的相互作用来推动的。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe and an increasingly unstable world need a viable framework for global security.",
        "欧洲和日益动荡的世界需要可靠的全球安全框架。"
    ],
    [
        "The Stressful Life of Laboratory Animals",
        "实验动物充满压力的生活"
    ],
    [
        "His demeanor was crisp yet easy-going.",
        "他的举止轻快而随和。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a suspicion that dirty capitalist pigs want to profit from the sale of opiate substitutes, regardless of whether they work.",
        "还有人怀疑“肮脏的资本主义走狗”一心利用鸦片替代物来牟利，根本不管这些东西是否有用。"
    ],
    [
        "The last thing that Europe needs is another sudden reversal, as we saw at the height of the Greek debt crisis.",
        "欧洲最不需要又一次突然间的逆转，就像我们在希腊债务危机高潮期间所看到的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "But it does raise questions about how important an individual leader’s legacy should be in shaping policy toward an endearing but impoverished and still-repressive country.",
        "但这确实引出了一个问题：某位领导人的遗产应该对一个令人喜爱但十分贫穷、并且仍然处于压迫状态的国家的政策产生多么重要的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, each time the question of European solidarity was raised, the answer was: “Yes, but only if absolutely necessary, and only to the minimum possible extent.”",
        "简言之，每一次出现欧洲团结问题时，答案都是：“没问题，但必须在绝对必要并且可能范围最小的情况下。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s economy and currency have plummeted along with the price of oil.",
        "委内瑞拉经济和货币随着石油价格的暴跌而崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Special European facilities, along with the IMF, lend money at below-market interest rates, which reduces the extent of austerity required.",
        "专门的欧洲便利机制和IMF一道以低于市场水平的利率提供贷款，这有助于降低所需的紧缩程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides the slow pace of poverty reduction, human development has not kept up with the pace of income growth, either.",
        "55亿。 除消除贫困的进度较慢的原因以外，个人生活质量的改善也未能跟上收入增长的步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "This will now happen, because Germany will insist on it.",
        "这一点有望实现，因为德国会坚持到底。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Trump’s appearance indicates that the US political system has also deteriorated markedly, the Democrats still favor policies like wage insurance and universal health insurance, and the Republicans still oppose them.",
        "尽管特朗普的出现表明美国政治制度也遭到了严重的扭曲，但民主党仍然支持工资保险和全民医疗保险等政策，而共和党依然反对这些政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This race to restrict pervaded decision-making on transitional arrangements following accession of 10 new members – eight of them postcommunist countries – to the EU last May.",
        "包括8个后共产主义国家在内的10个新成员去年5月加入欧盟后，避免跨国事务决策的相互影响更成了当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Whatever one thinks about the tactics of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s government in negotiations with the country’s creditors, the Greek people deserve better than what they are being offered.",
        "伯克利—不管你如何评论希腊总理齐普拉斯政府在与希腊债权人谈判中所使用的策略，希腊人民理应获得比目前所得到的更优厚的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, some of the predatory and discriminatory lending and abusive credit-card practices have been curbed; but equally exploitive practices continue.",
        "同样，一些掠夺性和歧视性的贷款以及信用卡滥用行为都受到了抑制； 但同样的剥削行为依然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "As resources dwindle and tensions rise, these countries need help to ensure that refugee assistance is aligned with longer-term national development plans, such as Jordan’s National Resilience Plan and Lebanon’s Stabilization Plan.",
        "随着资源减少和对峙加剧，这些国家需要帮助才能确保难民援助和长期国民发展计划的协调——比如约旦的国民恢复计划（National Resilience Plan）和黎巴嫩的稳定计划（Stabilization Plan）。"
    ],
    [
        "As it ponders why, it would benefit from comparing itself to its role models in terms of the proportion of the population that is foreign-born.",
        "在探讨个中缘由时，比较自己与榜样的外国出生人口比例很有裨益。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that the existence of exceptional circumstances can now be invoked to distribute the burden of any needed adjustments over more than one year is helpful.",
        "如今，可以以存在特殊情况为由将任何必须的调整负担分配到一年以上的时间短 ，这一事实是大有裨益的。"
    ],
    [
        "The result, as we are now witnessing, is that a moderate sell-off can easily turn into a stampede.",
        "结果我们都看到了——小规模甩卖可以轻易演变为崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, they generate half of global income, a share that will continue to rise.",
        "如今，它们贡献了一半的全球收入，并且这一比重仍在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "And they must do everything they can to defend liberal-democratic institutions, if Trump tries to weaken checks and balances.",
        "他们必须竭尽全力捍卫自由民主制度，如果特朗普试图削弱制衡的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany is preparing for a national election in which – much like in last year’s French presidential election – the European crisis is to play no part, or at least only a minor one.",
        "德国大选像去年举行的法国大选一样，不会讨论（或至少不会重点讨论）欧洲金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the EEA arrangement, Norway (along with Iceland) has full, unfettered access to the EU’s single market, including for financial services.",
        "根据欧洲经济区协定的安排，挪威（以及冰岛）拥有全部且不受阻碍地进入欧洲单一市场的权限，其中包括金融服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The original construction of the euro postulated that each member would abide by the limits set by the Maastricht Treaty.",
        "欧元的创始国设定了共同遵守的 马斯垂克条约 。"
    ],
    [
        "But the protracted conflict contributed to the decline of both empires and devastated Iraq, leaving behind a deep sectarian cleavage.",
        "但后续冲突一直持续到两大帝国崩溃并摧毁了伊拉克，留下的是深刻的宗派割据。"
    ],
    [
        "Precautionary types aspire to a “sustainable” humanity, which invariably means bringing fewer of us into existence, with each of us making less of an impact on the planet.",
        "持预防性观点的人希望实现人类的“可持续性”，而这总是意味着人越少越好，每个人对地球造成的影响越小越好。"
    ],
    [
        "To add legitimacy for its delicate mission within an Arab country, soldiers from Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and perhaps Pakistan, should be added.",
        "为了增加其在一个阿拉伯国家境内的微妙使命的合法性，应当增加来自摩洛哥、沙特阿拉伯以及可能巴基斯坦的士兵。"
    ],
    [
        "If deregulation looks like such a bad idea now, why didn’t it then?",
        "问题是如今人人喊打的金融自由化，当年为何就能招摇过市呢？"
    ],
    [
        "A classical economist would argue that, given this, the country should export wood, which Finland has done.",
        "古典经济学家会说，考虑到这一条件，芬兰应该出口木材。 芬兰也这么做了。"
    ],
    [
        "So Germany will be left with a grand coalition – just as the German electorate wanted.",
        "因此，德国只能选择大联盟——而这正是德国选民希望看到的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rule needed to form the foundation of such a network must obviously adhere to international law, and the ARF meeting’s final declaration clearly reflected this concern.",
        "但构建这样一个网络的基础所需的规则很显然必须遵循国际法，而东盟区域论坛会议的最终声明也清晰地反映了这一理念。"
    ],
    [
        "If the third “arrow” of Abenomics fails to materialize, investors’ risk aversion will rise yet again, hampering efforts to stimulate growth and avoid deflation.",
        "如果安倍经济学的第三支“箭”不能成功，投资者的风险厌恶程度将再次提升，阻碍刺激经济增长，导致避免通缩的努力付诸东流。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with drug companies increasingly seeking to develop medications that target particular racial groups, the long-taboo subject of racial genetics has reemerged.",
        "现在，随着制药公司越来越频繁地试图针对特定种族群体研发药物，一直为人们所避讳的种族遗传学问题再度被人们提起。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis thus led to the demise of China’s export-led growth model, which had helped to buoy commodity prices and, in turn, bolster GDP growth in commodity-exporting developing countries.",
        "因此，危机导致了中国的出口拉动经济模式萎靡不振，出口拉动模式有助于提振商品价格，而商品价格的上升反过来刺激了商品出口发展中国家的GDP增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Smaller and developing economies will probably gain the most, relative to size, but everyone will benefit overall.",
        "规模较小的发展中经济体或将收益最多（相对规模而言），但总体而言所有成员国都将受益。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – The number of elected governments competing to be the world’s worst has now fallen by two.",
        "圣地亚哥—竞争世界最差的民选政府现在只剩下两个。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the difference between opening a restaurant and reimagining what the experience of eating could be like.",
        "或许开餐馆和重新定义美食体验能够揭示创业和就业之间的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "And, just as the British made the transition from “Rule Britannia” to “Cool Britannia,” Japan, too, can engage in an internal process to define better its identity as a vibrant modern culture in the context of globalization.",
        "而正如英国人实现了从充满爱国激情的“统治者不列颠尼亚（Rule Britannia）”向洋溢文化自豪感的“酷帅不列颠尼亚（Cool Britannia）”转型那样，日本也可以启动一个内部进程来将自身更好地定义为全球化背景下一个生机勃勃的现代文明。"
    ],
    [
        "In Yemen, around one-third of the fighters are children.",
        "在也门，大约三分之一的战士是儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN itself appears too divided to make the vital difference.",
        "联合国自身似乎也矛盾重重，难以带来实质性的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, South Africa’s push to join the world’s technological leaders is not limited to space research.",
        "可以肯定的是，南非加入世界技术领先国家的努力不仅局限在太空研究领域。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the NPT review conference is not to end in tears, with all the accompanying risks for world order that failure would entail, the five nuclear-armed states that are NPT signatories can and must be prepared to bring more to the table than they have so far.",
        "但如果不想让NPT评估会议形同虚设，避免NPT失败给世界秩序所造成的危险，五大签署了NPT的有核国家可以也必须带来比目前做到的等多的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "The prospect of Islamic State-inspired terrorist attacks in the US are not remotely real or imminent enough to justify reliance on the self-defense exception.",
        "伊斯兰国在美国发动恐怖袭击绝不是不可能的，甚至可以说随时都有可能发生，这样才能证明依靠自卫例外（self-defense exception）的合理性。"
    ],
    [
        "Now those dreams, too, are receding.",
        "但现如今，这种梦想也随之减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Participating clinics have been equipped with an online system to track drug inventories and avoid shortages.",
        "参与诊所配备一套在线系统，跟踪药物存货情况，避免断药。"
    ],
    [
        "As in many other countries, conservative governments are arguing for cutbacks in government spending, on the grounds that fiscal deficits imperil their future.",
        "和其他许多国家一样，保守派政府认为要削减政府支出，以免财政赤字威胁国家的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – When economists discuss “fiscal adjustment,” they typically frame it as an abstract and complex goal.",
        "发自华盛顿——当经济学家谈到“财政调整”时，他们通常会将其描述成一个抽象复杂的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, I would venture to predict that the northern powerhouse project, which has already attracted the attention of local and foreign investors, will be one of the UK’s most important structural economic policies for many years to come.",
        "事实上，我愿意打赌北方强区工程——目前它已经吸引了本地和外国投资者的注意——将是未来多年英国最重要的结构性经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and China are discussing various scenarios on the Korean Peninsula involving their troops, nuclear weapons, and local instability.",
        "美国和中国正在讨论朝鲜半岛涉及各自部队，核武器和当地动荡局势的各种情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Lack of coverage in employer-based plans and insufficient personal savings leave more than one-third of all households (and more than 75% of low-income households) entirely dependent on Social Security for their retirement income.",
        "基于雇主的退休计划覆盖不足和个人储蓄不足导致三分之一以上家庭（以及超过75%的低收入家庭）完全依靠社会保障获得退休收入。"
    ],
    [
        "And, since then, the EU has moved closer to finalizing an even more important trade agreement with Japan, and, separately, with the founding countries of Mercosur – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.",
        "而且，从那以后，欧盟已经接近完成甚至更加重要的与日本的贸易协定，同时接近协议签署的还包括与阿根廷、巴西、巴拉圭和乌拉圭在内的南方共同市场创始国。"
    ],
    [
        "The tyranny of pragmatism seems to mark all of the complex dilemmas of our time.",
        "实用主义大行其道似乎已成为现时代复杂困境的共同特征。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporate leverage in China rose from 2.4 times equity in 2007 to 3.5 times last year – well above American and European levels.",
        "2007年，中国公司杠杆为股本的2. 4倍，去年为3."
    ],
    [
        "More important, the US and the international community can work to ensure that the bulk of the funds go not to the military and to business-as-usual politicians, but to grassroots causes and groups.",
        "更重要的是，美国和国际社会可以共同努力，确保大量资金不是流向军方和政治家手中，而是基层事业和团体中。"
    ],
    [
        "Strikingly, both advocates and skeptics of the concept of traumatic dissociative amnesia adduce the same studies when defending their diametrically opposed views.",
        "值得注意的是创伤离解性失忆症的鼓吹者和怀疑者在捍卫其截然相反的观点时，都从同样的研究中引证。"
    ],
    [
        "An investigation by the military of the death of its own prisoners violates the Geneva Conventions, which demand that illness, transfer, and death of prisoners be registered independently with a neutral authority (such as the ICRC), and that deaths be investigated independently.",
        "由军方自己对其内部囚犯来展开死亡调查的行为，显然违背了《日内瓦公约》的要求：囚犯的病患、移交和死亡都要由某个中立的职权机构进行登记（例如国际红十字会）,而对死亡案例也需进行独立调查。"
    ],
    [
        "Because IBM, according to the article, produced in 14 countries and sold in 109, it “contains in itself the globalization (mondializzazione) of capitalist imperialism.”",
        "这么说的理由是，文章认为，IBM在14个国家从事生产，在109个国家从事销售，它“内含着资本帝国主义的全球化（mondializzazione）”。"
    ],
    [
        "She would never have withstood the searching inquiries of months of campaigning.",
        "她绝不会顶得住数月的总统竞选活动中她要经受的对她要进行的搜索和调查。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, all the teams should agree not to select and report only the data that seem most impressive.",
        "此外，所有的研究小组都必须同意不会只选择和报告那些看上去最吸引人的数据。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Lisbon treaty has instead brought chaos to the Union.",
        "但《里斯本条约》却给欧盟带来了混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "They feared going the way of the Catholic pope, who lost considerable authority during the Protestant Reformation, when the printing press played a key role in spreading new ideas to the faithful.",
        "他们害怕步天主教教皇的后尘，教皇在新教改革过程中失去了很大的权力，而印刷机在向信徒传播新理念的过程中发挥了关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Will it raise the money by hurriedly selling CITGO, now wholly owned by Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA?",
        "它会通过紧急出售CITGO筹资吗？ CITGO目前为委内瑞拉国有石油公司PDVSA独有。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Financial markets serve two crucial purposes: to channel savings toward productive investments, and to enable individuals and businesses to manage risks through diversification and insurance.",
        "纽约—金融市场服务于两个基本目的：将储蓄引向生产性投资，以及让个人和企业通过多样化和保险管理风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The aftermath was the key.",
        "这一次，经济停滞所造成的后果扮演了至关重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet few reflect and apologize.",
        "但是却没有几个迫害人反思并道歉。"
    ],
    [
        "The best opportunity to align overall organizational incentives is to be found in tax rules.",
        "协调整体组织激励的最好机会存在于税收规则中。"
    ],
    [
        "Erecting a wall along the 5,525-mile border with Canada would cost almost $50 billion and would cut through an airport runway, an opera house, homes, and businesses that currently straddle the border.",
        "照此推算，在剩余1,300英里墨西哥边境依样画葫芦的代价将超过126亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "And Japan’s external position was strong, just as China’s is now.",
        "而日本的外部头寸与目前的中国一样坚挺。"
    ],
    [
        "For the moment, Putinism is the only game in town.",
        "迄今为止，没有其他势力能与普京主义竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, marine ecosystems are at risk of unraveling and becoming less stable and less productive.",
        "结果导致海洋生态系统稳定性和效率下降，并有可能面临四分五裂的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, however, their paper does a poor job of explaining how their model works, and the particulars of their simulation are somewhat murky.",
        "不幸的是，他们的文章在解释模型如何起作用方面写得很差，而他们的仿真计算的细节也有些拙劣。"
    ],
    [
        "Complicating the issue further, some congressional Republicans – such as Senator Paul Rand of Kentucky and Congressman Mark Meadows of North Carolina – seem not to oppose some form of partial default or other reneging on debt by the US government.",
        "让问题进一步复杂化的是，一些国会共和党——如肯塔基州参议员保罗·兰德（Paul Rand）和北卡罗来纳州众议员马克·米道斯（Mark Meadows）——似乎并不反对美国政府以某种形式的局部违约或其他赖账方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a deep political restructuring aimed at building new progressive majorities will be difficult, and it will not happen overnight.",
        "这种旨在建立新进步多数派的深刻政治改革将是相当艰难，而且无法一蹴而就。"
    ],
    [
        "This process has been accelerated by a confluence of defense-industry reforms, comprehensive military upgrading, and integration of innovative operational concepts.",
        "通过一系列国防工业改革，军备综合性升级以及创新运作概念的整合，上述进程已经得到进一步加速。"
    ],
    [
        "When we observe them, they appear to lumber along like holiday shoppers in a crowded store.",
        "在我们观察时，这些粒子就像是假日期间在拥挤的商店里推推搡搡的购物者。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of settling for a future of 1.3% annual GDP growth, Japan could attain roughly 3% annual growth through 2025.",
        "日本不应该满足于1. 3%的未来年GDP增长率，它可以到2025年实现大约3%的年增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – It is increasingly common to hear prominent American and European central bankers proclaim, with respect to the crisis of 2008-2010, the following verdict: “We did well.”",
        "发自华盛顿特区——最近耳边充斥的都是各大欧美央行主管们对自身在2008~2010年危机中所作所为的评价：“咱们干得不错。"
    ],
    [
        "As bad as his administration will be for America’s economy and workers, its policies on climate change, human rights, the media, and ensuring peace and security are likely to be no less damaging for everyone else.",
        "特朗普上台对美国经济和工人固然是个坏消息，其气候变化、人权、媒体和确保和平与稳定的政策对所有人的伤害也一样深远。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, the Nobel Prize-winning German author Günter Grass’s disclosed that, 60 years earlier, he was, as a teenager, a member of the Waffen-SS.",
        "2006年，诺贝尔奖获得者德国作家君特·格拉斯被揭露在60年前，当他还是一个十几岁的孩子的时候，曾是武装党卫队的成员。"
    ],
    [
        "More important still is the news that more people (certainly in Britain) are going to Christian churches of all denominations.",
        "更重要的是新闻中报导英国有越来越多的人走进各教派基督教堂做礼拜。"
    ],
    [
        "And that will only lead to more civilian and military casualties in Egypt’s neglected war.",
        "这只会在这场被埃及忽视的战争里导致更多的平民和军队伤亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Once in power, they simply make for bad government.",
        "他们一旦掌权，只会形成糟糕的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The composite dialogue was put on hold, with both sides unable to cast off the heavy burden of decades of hostility and intense rivalry.",
        "由于两国都无法消除数十年积累下来的仇恨和强烈敌意，全面对话活动也被束之高阁。"
    ],
    [
        "Oddly, the European Investment Bank, the EU’s financial arm, is authorized to provide only loans and guarantees, not equity investment.",
        "奇怪的是，欧盟的金融部门——欧洲投资银行只获得了贷款和担保的权力而没有股本投资权力。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet even a cursory acquaintance with fairly recent history is enough to know that “bombing the shit” out of people does little to win wars.",
        "而即便是对最近一段历史的最粗浅的了解也足以让我们知道，把人“炸出屎来”根本无法赢得战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations Chernobyl Forum, a consortium of eight UN agencies and representatives of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, reinforced these findings.",
        "由八个联合国机构和白俄罗斯、俄罗斯以及乌克兰组成的联合机构联合国切尔诺贝利论坛加强了这些结论。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy’s debt barely budged and stayed well above 100% of GDP.",
        "国债毫无改观，债务总额远超其 GDP 。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, millions of deaths in impoverished nations are avoidable with prevention and treatment options that the rich world already uses.",
        "实际上，富有国家已经使用的防治和治疗手段是可以避免贫穷国家数以百万计的人的死亡的。"
    ],
    [
        "Other American politicians took the same stance.",
        "其他美国政客们也持同样立场。"
    ],
    [
        "When stressed, a big surface bifurcates in big chunks, but then the disintegration continues into smaller and smaller fragments.",
        "当受到挤压时，一个大的表面会裂为几大块，但随后，这些大块又会继续分裂为越来越小的小块。"
    ],
    [
        "The negotiations, known as the Round Table Talks, led to the Communist world’s first competitive – though not entirely free – parliamentary election, on June 4, 1989.",
        "此次谈判史称圆桌会议，并由此拉开了1989年6月4日共产党世界首次竞争性——尽管还不是完全自由的议会选举的序幕。"
    ],
    [
        "But a gradual phase-in of an overall cap on tax deductions and exclusions (so-called tax expenditures), combined with reform of entitlement spending, could achieve the long-run fiscal consolidation that America needs without risking a new recession.",
        "但逐渐实施的税收减免总额上限（所谓的税收支出）可以和福利支出改革一起构成美国所需要的能够避免再次衰退的财政整合方案。"
    ],
    [
        "But will they also prevent him from succeeding?",
        "但同样的外部环境是否也会阻止他取得成功？"
    ],
    [
        "Those who understand Americans’ deep-rooted passion for “making it” know why class or any other civil warfare has not succeeded in destroying America from within.",
        "只有那些理解美国人根深蒂固的“争胜”热情的人才能明白为何阶级或是其他民间冲突无法从内部破坏美国。"
    ],
    [
        "That is roughly 11% of the company’s total sales over that period.",
        "这相当于同一时期该公司总销售额的11%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond European specifics, the troika experiment answers a question of major importance to other parts of the world: Can the IMF cooperate with regional institutions?",
        "除了欧洲的具体情况，三驾马车的实验也回答了世界其他地区的一个重要问题：IMF可以与地区机构合作吗？"
    ],
    [
        "As US President-elect Barack Obama and his advisers assess their foreign-policy priorities, they will encounter the immediate challenge of addressing Iran’s nuclear program and the country’s growing strategic importance in the Middle East and South Asia.",
        "当美国当选总统奥巴马和他的顾问们评估其外交政策重点之际，他们将会马上遇到处理伊朗核子计划问题以及该国在中东以及南亚地区日益增长的战略重要性的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Inequality adds color and variety to societies; it is one of the marks of lively, flexible, and innovative countries.",
        "不平等给社会添滋添色，它是充满活力、灵活以及创新国家的标志之一。"
    ],
    [
        "When women participate in the job market and engage actively in business or political decision-making, patriarchal power dynamics shift, elevating the social status of women.",
        "如果妇女能够进入就业市场，积极参与商业或政治决策，父权社会的动态就会发生改变，提高妇女的社会地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Success is measured not only by the number of children we enroll, nor by their achievements on standardized tests; the most important outcomes are the tangible and intangible impacts of education on the quality of students’ lives.",
        "成功的标准既不是招收的儿童数量，也不是标准化考试的成绩； 对学生生活质量有形无形的影响才是最重要问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But Abe’s idea of normality is not yet shared by the majority of Japanese, let alone other Asians.",
        "但安倍的正常化思维并不为大部分日本人所认同，更不用说其他亚洲人了。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama has pledged to revitalize the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.",
        "奥巴马表示，他将令于1970年签订的核不扩散条约（NPT）恢复活力，这一条约旨在防止核武器的扩散。"
    ],
    [
        "This was important because about half of the trials had not been published in peer-reviewed journals.",
        "这一点相当争议颇多，因为有近一半的案例没有在同类医学期刊中出现过。"
    ],
    [
        "The US consumer, whose gluttony helped fuel growth throughout the world for more than a decade, seems finally set to go on a diet. In addition to tighter credit, falling home prices and high unemployment will continue to put a crimp on US consumer spending.",
        "美国的消费者在过去的10多年里都是世界经济发展的带动者，现在看来，应该节制他们的消费能力，此外，紧缩的信贷市场，下滑的房价以及攀升的失业率都会进一步降低美国人的消费能力。"
    ],
    [
        "How Accurate Are Your Pet Pundits?",
        "您所宠爱的专家准确度到底有多大？"
    ],
    [
        "Syrians have experienced uninterrupted dictatorship for 40 years, and, with it, extreme economic hardship, including high unemployment, rising food prices, and endemic corruption.",
        "叙利亚人40年来一直忍受着独裁统治及由此带来的极端经济困难，包括高失业率、粮食价格上涨和贪污之风盛行。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, a debate and the compromises that follow are not what the Republicans have in mind.",
        "不幸的是，辩论和随之而来的妥协并不符合共和党人的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "The war in Algeria played the key role in enabling de Gaulle to return to power in May 1958, at the age of 67.",
        "阿尔及利亚战争在促使戴高乐以67岁高龄于1958年重新掌权的过程中发挥了重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important tool the world has for doing the right thing – and reaping vast economic benefits – is a universal climate-change agreement.",
        "世界所拥有的做正确之事——并收获巨大的经济收益——的最重要的工具是全球气候变化协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s government has failed, and now, owing to the parliament’s inability to choose a new Greek president, an early general election will be held on January 25.",
        "总理萨马拉斯政府已经倒闭，如今，由于议会无法选出新的希腊总统，可能将于1月25日举行提前大选。"
    ],
    [
        "The video of five police officers subduing and then killing a man, despite his pleas that he could not breathe, could have come from many countries around the world.",
        "五名警察不顾嫌疑人无法呼吸的苦苦哀求，制服并杀害嫌疑人的视频或许会发生在世界任何一个角落。"
    ],
    [
        "To gain the needed motivation, monetary policymakers should recall the “traveler’s dilemma,” a game theory parable that highlights the pitfalls of individual rationality.",
        "要产生必要的激励，货币决策者应该回顾一下“旅行者悖论”，这个博弈论例子突显了个体理性的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, an Iranian diplomat in Oslo, Mohammed Reza Heydari, resigned in protest against the regime’s behavior after the December riots.",
        "不仅如此，身为伊朗派驻奥斯陆的外交人员，穆罕默德·礼扎·埃达里为了抗议政府在 12 月暴动后的报复行为而辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "The most dramatic increase, though, is in investment.",
        "但最显著的增长依然是在投资方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifty leaders from government, business, civil society, and academia identified gender inequality as the most urgent constraint to sustainable growth, social cohesion, and political stability, and agreed on the steps needed to address the issue effectively.",
        "五十位来自政府、企业、公民社会和学界的领袖将性别不平等视为可持续发展、社会凝聚力和政治稳定性的最紧迫约束，并同意采取必要措施有效解决这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Though there was no market failure to remedy, the government obliged, introducing high import tariffs and subsidies for powerful local growers; as a result, productivity declined.",
        "虽然不存在需要弥补的市场失灵，但是政府却就范于该产业，强行引入高进口关税并补贴本地大种植者； 结果水稻生产力一路下滑。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, all is not lost.",
        "尽管阿富汗局势出现了恶化，但是还有希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq is already one of the largest recipients of US assistance ever.",
        "伊拉克已经是有史以来美国外援最大的接受国之一了。"
    ],
    [
        "Every month there are 31 billion searches on Google.",
        "每个月谷歌的搜索数量达到三百一十亿次。"
    ],
    [
        "That message was confirmed on July 4, 2003, when American forces arrested several Turkish Special Forces troops in the town of Sulaimaniya, humiliating them by putting sacks over their head as they took them into custody.",
        "2003年7月4日，美军在苏莱曼尼亚逮捕了几名土耳其特种部队成员，并在押送过程中把布袋套在他们头上以示羞辱，这再次表明了美国不许土耳其军事干预的强硬态度。"
    ],
    [
        "If a mother lives in an area where stunting rates are high and she is in her mid-teens, her child is more likely to be stunted – and thus more susceptible to disease and largely irreversible cognitive underdevelopment, adversely affecting their ability to benefit from education and reach their full potential.",
        "如果一位母亲生活在发育不良率较高的地区，并且十多岁就生孩子，那么她的孩子就更有可能营养不良——从而也更容易罹患疾病和很难逆转的认知发育不良，从而影响到他们受益于教育、实现全部潜力的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "At the very least, we should be clear that military intervention is the third-best (that is, worst) option.",
        "至少，我们应该清楚军事干涉是第三优选择（也就是说，是最糟的选择）。"
    ],
    [
        "But a second reason is that they each have important weaknesses, which they have not overcome in good times.",
        "但第二个原因是它们各自有着重大弱点，并且没能在繁荣期克服这些弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "It appears that during an upcoming visit to Havana, the Mexican foreign minister will not meet with local dissidents, breaking with precedents established since 1993.",
        "听说在即将到来的对哈瓦那的访问当中，墨西哥外长将不再接见当地持不同政见人士，从1993年以后一直生效的惯例就此被破坏殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why we now need the Integrated Global Action Plan.",
        "这就是为何我们需要全球统一行动计划。"
    ],
    [
        "If there were some life-or-death need that humans could meet only by killing whales, perhaps the ethical case against it could be countered.",
        "如果有什么重大的需求使人类必须要捕杀鲸鱼，那么这里面的伦理问题也许可以不去考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "In many emerging markets and developing countries, widespread infrastructure gaps persist, notably in power and transport.",
        "许多新兴市场和发展中国家还持续存在广泛的基础设施缺口，电力和运输领域尤甚。"
    ],
    [
        "The same conclusion emerges from a seminar on “The Lessons of Japan” that I have taught at Yale for the past six years.",
        "同样的结论也出现在我于耶鲁大学教授了六年的《日本的教训》课程上。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time this new orthodoxy spread to the leveraged financial sector, the world was on a crash course.",
        "到这种新传统扩散到杠杆化的金融行业时，世界已经走上了崩溃的轨道。"
    ],
    [
        "Did the Israelis really want a resurgence of Islamist violence in Gaza, the potential collapse of peaceful politics on the West Bank, and now the right of a recognized Palestinian state to take Israel to the International Criminal Court for war crimes?",
        "以色列真的愿意看到加沙伊斯兰暴力重新抬头、约旦河西岸和平政治遭受崩溃危险、而如今得到承认的巴勒斯坦国有权以战争罪将以色列送上国际刑事法庭？"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe various homegrown “single issue” extremist groups need close monitoring.",
        "在欧洲大量本地化的“单一议题”极端组织需要密切监控。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the maize harvest ensured that Joyce’s family had enough to eat – and even enough extra income for Joyce to pay her children’s school fees.",
        "但玉米收成确保了乔伊斯家有足够的食物——甚至还有结余供她孩子上学。"
    ],
    [
        "After recently leading the UK’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), and having thought long and hard about educational initiatives, I believe that it is time for a more adventurous response to both long-term and cyclical challenges, especially for developing countries.",
        "我最近负责领导英国抗生素耐药性评估（Review on Antimicrobial Resistance，AMR评估），并且长期以来一直在深入思考教育措施，我认为现在应该采取更加冒险的措施应对长期和周期性挑战，特别是发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Home countries must also contribute.",
        "母国也应该有所贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "The Modi government does not fit that description.",
        "莫迪政府并不符合这一标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in the US, many Trump supporters also excoriate globalists for what they experience as sneering disdain.",
        "回到美国，许多特朗普支持者也抨击全球主义者对他们的轻蔑鄙视。"
    ],
    [
        "Avoiding a post-exit implosion of the Greek banking system, however, might require temporary measures, such as bank holidays and capital controls, to prevent a disorderly run on deposits.",
        "但是，为了避免退出欧元后希腊银行系统出现崩溃，可能需要实施暂时性措施，比如休业和资本管制，以防止发生无序的存款挤兑。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, throughout history, governments have had strong political incentives to monetize the deficit, with the subsequent inflation reducing the debt burden (and effectively confiscating the borrowed savings).",
        "事实上，纵观历史，政府存在强烈的政治激励将赤字货币化，由此产生的通货膨胀降低了财政负担（以及对被借走的储蓄的实际没收）。"
    ],
    [
        "FTA’s cannot substitute for multilateral liberalization.",
        "FTA不能取代多边自由化。"
    ],
    [
        "So, these “export” activities face a level of competition that the local grocer, coffee shop, or barber does not.",
        "因此，这些“出口”活动面临着一些本地杂货铺、咖啡店和理发店不会面临的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, our understanding of electromagnetic force, developed mostly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, gave rise to today’s breathtaking developments in telecommunications, computers, chemistry, and material sciences.",
        "比如我们在19世纪和20世纪早期对于电磁力的理解就催生了当今种种在电信、电子计算机，化学和材料学方面的惊人发展。"
    ],
    [
        "And the private sector has come around to viewing renewable energies as a potentially profitable business.",
        "私人部门也开始将可再生能源视为有潜在盈利能力的业务。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the foundation backed by the financier George Soros did not fabricate the Rose Revolution, as Russian nationalists claim, it certainly nurtured, encouraged, and supported democracy’s preconditions.",
        "尽管金融家索罗斯支持的基金会并没有像俄罗斯民族主义者宣称的那样制造玫瑰革命，但是它的确培育、鼓励以及支持了民主的先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "SHANGHAI – The International Monetary Fund’s recent decision to add the Chinese renminbi to the basket of currencies that determine the value of its reserve asset, the Special Drawing Right, has captured headlines around the world.",
        "上海—国际货币基金组织（IMF）最近决定将人民币纳入决定其储备资产——特别提款权（SDR）价值的货币篮子中，这吸引了全世界的目光。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a way out of the current tangle: a strategic approach that makes the most of rapprochement with the EU, recognizes the importance of stabilizing Syria as soon as possible, and clarifies, once and for all, Turkey’s role in the fight against the Islamic State.",
        "但有一个办法可以走出当前的困境：一套充分利用与欧盟重建关系，认识到尽快稳定叙利亚的重要性，以及一劳永逸地明确土耳其在打击伊斯兰国中的作用的战略方针。"
    ],
    [
        "But such dreams always hit a formidable obstacle: national rivalries that date back decades – in some cases centuries – and that repeatedly keep mutually profitable energy-integration agreements from being signed.",
        "但这一梦想总是遇到可怕的障碍：几十年——有的时候是几百年——之久的民族对立一再将可以创造共同利润的能源一体化协议拒之门外。"
    ],
    [
        "Political scientists have suggested scores of ideas, ranging from the re-introduction of double mandates (giving national MPs a seat in the European Parliament) to the creation of an EU Senate in a bicameral system.",
        "政治学家提出了不少观点，从重新引入双重任务（赋予国家议员欧洲议会席位）到成立欧盟参议院推行两院制。"
    ],
    [
        "And the US-India nuclear deal effectively recognizes India’s legitimacy as a nuclear power while continuing to treat Pakistan, with its record of proliferation, as a pariah.",
        "美印核协议有效地承认了印度作为一个拥有核武器的大国的合法地位，同时继续把有核扩散纪录的巴基斯坦视为作为一个地位低下的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmentalists are right to focus on education and individual choices, even when their policy proposals are not always on target.",
        "环保主义者重视教育和个人选择是完全正确的，尽管他们的政策主张并不是个个都在点子上。"
    ],
    [
        "While the aid may keep them alive, they are left economically paralyzed for years to come.",
        "尽管援助会延续他们的生命，但他们在未来几年内都无法摆脱经济上的贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there has been substantial post-crisis re-convergence toward German levels.",
        "事实上，已经出现了一些在危机后向德国生产力水平靠拢的切实迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "While this might seem to suggest that the ECB’s focus on boosting inflation is the right one, the reality is that a straightforward expansion of the bond-purchase program ignores the underlying structural issues afflicting the eurozone’s weaker economies.",
        "虽然这似乎暗示欧洲央行将重点放在提振通胀是正确的，但事实上债券购买计划的简单扩张忽略了困扰欧元区内部各弱势经济体的基础结构问题。"
    ],
    [
        "JERUSALEM – In Iran, elements from within the regime are reportedly offering a $1 million reward for the assassination of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak because of his opposition to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.",
        "耶路撒冷－据报道，因埃及总统胡斯尼·穆巴拉克反对加沙地带的哈马斯，伊朗政权内部机构出价一百万美元，作为对暗杀他的奖赏。"
    ],
    [
        "Qatar’s Jihad",
        "卡塔尔的圣战"
    ],
    [
        "He bore his imprisonment for the sake of his cause.",
        "他为了自己的事业忍受着监禁生活。"
    ],
    [
        "And the aggregate foreign-exchange reserves held by emerging countries declined for the first time since 1994, when they began the steep upward climb that has been a defining feature of the global economy during the last two decades.",
        "新兴国家外汇储备总量自1994年以来首次出现下降。 从1994年开始，新兴市场外汇储备大幅攀升，成为过去二十年来全球经济的一个显著特征。"
    ],
    [
        "They exact their highest toll in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.",
        "其中南非和撒哈拉以南非洲情况最为严重。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, there is no indication that he will.",
        "目前，没有迹象表明他会这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "For the moment, however, nobody can predict whether Sanders will be able to convert the impressive crowds he has been drawing into electoral strength, or even how long he will remain in fashion.",
        "但到目前为止，我们还无法预测桑德斯能否将吸引到的大量关注者转化为选举拥趸，甚至无法确定他还能在多长时间内受人关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Women currently hold an estimated 9% of senior management positions in Japan, compared to 40% in the Philippines, 24% in France, and 22% in the United States.",
        "据估计，目前妇女只占日本高级管理职位的9%，而菲律宾为40%，法国为24%，美国为22%。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, France has long had a strand of cultural anti-Americanism.",
        "此外，法国长期存在着一种文化上的反美主义。"
    ],
    [
        "But this axiom no longer holds.",
        "但这一公理不再成立。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, US-Pakistan relations have regressed to their level before September 11, 2001, a time marked by deep mutual distrust.",
        "事实上，美巴关系已经退回了2001年9月11日之前的水平，当时，两国之间弥漫着相互不信任的情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "In the interest of social cohesion, market outcomes need to be modified to create a more even distribution of incomes and benefits, both now and in inter-temporal terms.",
        "为了保持社会凝聚力，市场结果需要有所调节，以造成更均等的收入和利益分配，不管从现期角度还是跨期角度看都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The way forward cannot be a return to the past, with its clashing nation-states.",
        "前进之路不能开道车，欧洲不能倒退回民族国家互相碰撞的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – As Chinese President Xi Jinping begins his trip to the United States in Seattle, home to many of the world’s leading technology firms, most observers are looking ahead to his subsequent meeting with President Barack Obama.",
        "克莱蒙特，加利福尼亚—中国国家主席习近平在西雅图开始了访美之旅。 西雅图是许多世界领先的科技公司的总部所在地。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2001, a combination of devaluation (exit from the currency straitjacket) and partial default was inevitable.",
        "到了2001年，本币贬值（脱掉货币紧身衣）和部分违约的前景变得不可避免。"
    ],
    [
        "The huge Vaca Muerta (Dead Cow) field, owned by the energy company YPF, is just now beginning to be explored.",
        "能源公司YPF拥有巨大的死牛（Vaca Muerta）气田，并刚刚开始勘探。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmental regulation was sometimes viewed with suspicion and concern for business and labour.",
        "环境监管一度受到产业和劳工组织的怀疑和担心。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of further loosening its grip on the exchange rate, the PBOC is reasserting control and reducing the role of market sentiment in its decision-making.",
        "中国人民银行不再放松对汇率的管制，而是再度抓紧并减少市场情绪在决策中的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Drugs for young people produced in the West are often liquids that require refrigeration.",
        "西方所生产的年轻人用药通常为液态，需要冷藏。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, Americans should worry about the potential of their institutions to facilitate evils that are, as loath as we are to admit it, as American as apple pie.",
        "相反，美国人应当担心本国制度催生这种邪恶的可能性，尽管我们不愿承认，但这种可能性的存在就像苹果派一样代表着美国。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, changes in broadly shared economic assumptions are far more likely to trigger a sell-off, by prompting investors to reassess the likelihood of actually realizing projected cash flows.",
        "相反，如果被广泛接受的经济假设发生改变的话，就很有可能引发甩卖潮，因为投资者将重新评估实现预期现金流的实际可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Don’t look to emerging markets, either.",
        "也不要寄希望于新兴市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In absolute terms, the decline will exceed that of developed economies, where annual employment growth is expected to fall from 0.9% to 0.1% the coming years.",
        "以绝对值计算，这一下跌幅度将远超发达国家，而后者在未来几年的下跌幅度为从0. 9%跌至0."
    ],
    [
        "And the tools and technologies we have now aren’t enough to get us to where we need to be.",
        "我们现在掌握的工具和技术并不足以实现我们的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in a more homogeneous country like China, the absence of open public discourse does the opposite, as evidenced by the state’s mishandling of ethnic unrest among Tibetans and Uighurs.",
        "即使是在中国这样的同质性较强的国家，缺少公开公共对话也会适得其反，中国对藏族和维吾尔族的压迫就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the two are not necessarily directly related. A considerable proportion of world hunger occurs in countries suffering from domestic strife or severe government dysfunction.",
        "当然这两者不一定直接相关，因为世界上有相当比例的饥饿发生在遭受内乱或政府严重失能的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The concentrated interests that oppose the agreement may turn out to be more influential than the diffuse interests of all consumers.",
        "反对该协定的集中利益可能比所有消费者的分散利益更有影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Source and destination countries urgently need to make it easier and safer for people to move, or to remain where they are if they cannot afford or choose not to leave.",
        "来源和目的国都急需让人们的迁徙——或在无力或选择不迁徙时留在原地生活——变得更容易、更安全。"
    ],
    [
        "China deflects attention from its refusal to share water, or to enter into institutionalized cooperation to manage common rivers sustainably, by flaunting the accords that it has signed on sharing flow statistics with riparian neighbors.",
        "为了把公众主意力从拒绝分享水资源或者拒绝加入可持续地管理河流合作机制等方面引向别处，中国四处宣扬自己与下游国家签订的水流量统计数据分享协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Such risks demand examination and planning.",
        "这一风险需要检验和计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Output fell sharply.",
        "产量跌入低谷。"
    ],
    [
        "Both political parties serve their rich campaign contributors, while proclaiming that they defend the middle class.",
        "两大党虽然都自称捍卫中产阶级利益，但其实只为那些富有的选举捐款人服务。"
    ],
    [
        "In the spring of 1996, the so-called “moderates” – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan’s King Hussein, Yasser Arafat, and even some representatives of the Gulf dynasties – convened in Sharm el-Shekh with President Bill Clinton and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a desperate bid to block radical Islam’s emergence.",
        "在1996年的春天，所谓的“温和派”，即埃及总统穆巴拉克、约旦国王侯赛因、阿拉法特、甚至一些海湾君主国家的代表与克林顿总统和联合国秘书长安南在沙姆沙伊赫召开会议以极力阻止伊斯兰激进组织的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "It was unwise to attach the map in a note verbale responding to a joint submission by Vietnam and Malaysia to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in May 2009.",
        "2009年5月，作为对越南和马来西亚共同向联合国委员会提出的《大陆架范围》的回应，中国不明智地在一份照会附加了一份上述地图。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – In 1983, the American economist and Nobel laureate Wassily Leontief made what was then a startling prediction.",
        "巴黎——1983年，美国经济学家兼诺贝尔经济学奖得主瓦西里·列昂惕夫做出了在当时称得上是令人震惊的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "But as Democrats discovered in other recent debates, and as Republicans realized with a little help from the CNN organizers, who skewed the questions toward issues they feel strongly about, immigration is an issue that just won’t go away.",
        "但是正如民主党人在最近的辩论中所发现的以及共和党人在有线电视新闻网组织者帮助下认识到的那样，移民问题是一个挥之不去的问题。 这些电视台组织者拼命对那些他们有强烈感觉的问题提出问题。"
    ],
    [
        "While there have been numerous well-intentioned attempts to improve management of these resources, all rely on individual actors’ willingness to concede the short-term economic benefits of intensive resource use for the sake of the long-term common good.",
        "虽然已有不少改善资源管理的善意尝试，但成败与否全部取决于参与者是否愿意为保护长期共同利益而牺牲集约利用资源的短期经济利益。"
    ],
    [
        "There were other options.",
        "还有其他选择。"
    ],
    [
        "But the tides are shifting.",
        "但潮流正在发生改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s policy style represents a sharp break from that of his predecessors.",
        "特朗普的政策风格与其诸位前任大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, journalists picked up on these trends, too, and it would now be hard to find anyone who has not heard of the “1%” – shorthand for those at the top of the global wealth and income scales.",
        "最后，记者也开始关注这些趋势，时至今日，已经很难找出水谁没有听说过“1%”——对位于全球财富和收入分布顶层的简称。"
    ],
    [
        "But, now that the Games have ended, Chinese leaders cannot quite say, “Mission accomplished.”",
        "但是现在奥运会结束，中国领导人还不能说完事大吉。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Phillips curve fared poorly in the 1970’s, when many countries experienced “stagflation” (high levels of both inflation and unemployment).",
        "但菲利普斯曲线在20世纪70年代表现不佳，当时许多国家经历了“滞涨”（高通胀和高失业并存）。"
    ],
    [
        "Should Germany spurn the first part of this formula, the European project would suffer serious damage – and so will German national interests.",
        "假如德国拒绝了口号的前半部分，欧洲一体化方案就会受到严重损害，德国的国家利益也会连带受损。"
    ],
    [
        "These deaths are completely preventable – by a jab that is already available in many parts of the world, the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.",
        "上述儿童的死亡完全可以避免——通过注射在世界很多地方已经面世的肺炎球菌结合疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "But cheap credit promotes bad investment and excessive debt, which borrowers often are unable to repay.",
        "但廉价信用刺激了坏投资和过度债务，借款人常常无法偿还。"
    ],
    [
        "Equivalent to 1% of US GDP, it is large by all accounts.",
        "这一减税相当于美国GDP的1%，其规模无论用什么标准来说都是庞大的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, sports teams surely lobby governments as aggressively as any big business.",
        "此外，体育运动队对政府的游说肯定跟任何大企业一样无所不用其极。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia’s King Salman referred to the mosque when he warned Trump just how harmful the Jerusalem decision would be.",
        "沙特阿拉伯国王萨勒曼在警告特朗普其耶路撒冷决定的危险性时也提到了这座清真寺。"
    ],
    [
        "Global leadership today seems to be held hostage by financial interests and associated media, ideologists, and oligarchs whose political influence enables them to secure more rents and pay lower taxes in what must truly be the most vicious of circles.",
        "如今，全球领导人似乎沦为了金融利益集团和相关媒体、智囊和政治寡头（他们利用政治影响力获得更多的租金，支付更少的税收，这绝对是最为恶性的循环）的人质。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, we must close the income gap.",
        "其次，我们必须缩小收入差距。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a great mistake of neoclassical economists not to see that capitalism is a socioeconomic system, and that institutions are an essential part of it.",
        "古典经济学家没有把资本主义视为社会经济体系，也没有把制度视为其中的关键部分，这是一个严重的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Total demand and its growth do matter, but so does market share.",
        "总需求及其增长确实重要，但全球份额同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries’ degree of labor-market flexibility varies considerably, and the reforms that increase it are critically important.",
        "各国劳动力市场灵活度大相径庭，增加其灵活性的改革至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But they should also focus on overhauling and accelerating bankruptcy procedures, so that losses can be recognized more quickly and over-indebted households can start afresh, rather than being shackled for years.",
        "但他们还应该修正并加速破产程序，以使损失能够得到更快的承认，让过度负债的家庭能够重新开始，而不是被债务束缚多年。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the UK’s GDP has only just regained its 2008 level, lagging behind even France.",
        "事实上，英国GDP才刚刚恢复2008年的水平，表现连法国都比不上。"
    ],
    [
        "Autor, Dorn, and Hanson document that the expansion of Chinese exports has produced “substantial adjustment costs and distributional consequences” in the US.",
        "奥拓尔、多恩和汉森指出，中国出口的扩张给美国造成了“巨大的调整成本和分配后果”。"
    ],
    [
        "You came to realize that you were in virgin intellectual territory.",
        "你感觉到你处在知识领域的处女地。"
    ],
    [
        "Tentunya pendekatan tersebut hanya akan sukses jika pemerintah memperbaiki penyelenggaraan layanan publik, termasuk peningkatan kualitas aparatur negara dan pembebasan dari tekanan politik.",
        "当然，这一方针只有在政府改善自身服务提供的情况下才有效果，包括提高公务员质量和摆脱政治压力束缚。"
    ],
    [
        "He used the example of three (now forgotten) bestselling authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to show the deep aversion of many Germans to the modern world, notably to market economics and democratic politics.",
        "书中列举了十九世纪末二十世纪初三位畅销书作家（现在已经少有人知了），来说明很多德国人对现代世界，特别是市场经济和民主政治的切齿憎恶。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans would benefit directly through improved Internet access, lower energy costs, and more efficient transport links.",
        "欧洲人可以直接得益于互联网接入的改善、能源成本的降低和交通路线效率的提高。"
    ],
    [
        "He may have gained popularity back home, but in today’s difficult economic times, the temptations of cheap populism are more dangerous than ever.",
        "他可能在国内是得到了一些民意支持，但在今天的经济困难时期，廉价的民粹主义的诱惑比以往任何时候都更危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing that the most effective approach to thinning Boko Haram’s ranks is to address the north’s deepening economic and social problems, Jonathan has backed an initiative to build new schools in the north that will equip young people with valuable skills.",
        "认识到最有效的削弱博科圣地组织之道乃是解决北方深刻的经济和社会问题，乔纳森已开始支持一项在北方建设新学校的计划。 该计划将为年轻人带去宝贵的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "The Internet revolution will also disrupt the labor market, with some jobs being automated away and companies facing a shortage of technologically proficient workers.",
        "互联网革命还将扰动劳动力市场，一些岗位将被自动化，而公司将面临技术熟练工人（technologically proficient worker）短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet no such thing has occurred.",
        "然而，这些事件还没有发生。"
    ],
    [
        "(The larger Hurricane Irma hadn’t yet hit.)",
        "（当时，更大的飓风厄玛尚未登陆。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The dilution of Glass-Steagall, and its ultimate repeal in 1999, allowed banks to engage in so-called “proprietary trading” – enabling them to use depositors’ savings to trade for their own account, mainly in risky mortgage-backed securities.",
        "1999 年，格拉斯 - 斯蒂格尔法案被修改，允许银行从事所谓的“自营账户交易” —— 使用储户的资金来进行交易，主要是被用在颇具风险的按揭证券化产品上。"
    ],
    [
        "The program developed by acting Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa in September 2014 deserves serious consideration.",
        "这个由代理总理迈赫迪·朱马（Mehdi Jomaa）在 2014年9月发展的项目很值得认真考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Low interest rates can sow the seeds of financial booms and busts.",
        "低利率可以成为金融繁荣和爆破的诱因。"
    ],
    [
        "During a long subsequent career, involving work with UCLA’s Shlomo Benartzi and others, Thaler has proposed mechanisms that will, as he and Harvard Law School’s Cass Sunstein put it in their book Nudge, change the “choice architecture” of these decisions.",
        "在随后的职业生涯中，通过与加州大学洛杉矶分校的什洛莫·贝纳提兹（Shlomo Benartzi）等人合作，泰勒提出了一些机制——就像他和哈佛法学院的卡斯·桑斯坦（Cass Sunstein）在两人合著的《轻推：改善关于健康，财富和幸福感的决定》一书所指出的一样——来改变了这些决定的“选择架构”。"
    ],
    [
        "People would change their thinking accordingly.",
        "人们将学习教训，据此改变思维。"
    ],
    [
        "Brussels, the capital of the European Union, stands for everything populists, whether left or right, hate.",
        "欧盟首都布鲁塞尔代表了不分左右的民粹派所憎恨的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic growth, of course, has never been linear in any country.",
        "当然，任何国家的经济增长都绝非一帆风顺。"
    ],
    [
        "The American economist Clarence Ayres once wrote, as if describing EU officials: “They pay reality the compliment of imputing it to ceremonial status, but they do so for the purpose of validating status, not that of achieving technological efficiency.”",
        "美国经济学家克莱伦斯·亚里斯（Clarence Ayres）曾经写道——仿佛是在描述欧盟官员——“他们用给予崇高礼遇恭维现实，但他们这么做的目的确立地位，而不是实现技术效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the claim that the ECB’s purchases of asset-backed securities amount to “toxic loans” that transfer risk to German taxpayers is unfounded; after all, there have been almost no defaults since 2008.",
        "此外，那种那种认定欧洲央行购买“有毒贷款”中有资产担保的证券是在向德国纳税人转移风险的说法根本站不住脚； 毕竟自2008年以来这些证券几乎都没有出现违约。"
    ],
    [
        "But, of course, Asian security and prosperity is in everyone’s interest.",
        "但是，亚洲的安全与繁荣当然事关所有人的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "A strategy for inclusive growth must empower people by including them in the networks that make them productive. Inclusiveness should not be seen as a restriction on growth to make it morally palatable.",
        "包容增长战略必须将人们纳入使他们具有生产力的网络，以此赋予他们力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Was it capitulating to American hegemony?",
        "还是向是美国霸权缴械投降？"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, droughts of this severity have led to conflict and even wars between neighboring communities and states.",
        "过去，如此程度的严重干旱曾导致临近社区与国家间爆发冲突乃至战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, inadequate access to safe water and sanitation is one of the leading causes of diarrheal illness – a major killer and the reason that hundreds of millions of people take antibiotic treatments each year.",
        "如今，安全水源和卫生设施不足是痢疾的主要发病原因，而痢疾每年要夺走大量生命，也是数亿人使用抗生素治疗的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Estonia and Latvia are alarmed at Russia’s geopolitical ambitions, especially given the pretext of protecting ethnic kin.",
        "此外，爱沙尼亚和拉脱维亚也对俄罗斯的地缘政治野心引起了警惕，特别是考虑到俄罗斯保护同族人民的借口的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of the decision, outside spending in the 2016 election cycle reached nearly $1.4 billion in 2016, compared less than $100 million in the 2006 cycle.",
        "这项裁决导致2016年选举周期的预算外支出达到了近14亿美元，而2006年的选举周期的预算外支出只有不到1亿美元，使得美国的民主制度在公平、道德、及合法性方面出现倒退。"
    ],
    [
        "The countries of the European Union have been more willing to experiment with limiting state sovereignty, and they may push for more institutional innovation.",
        "而欧盟各国则更愿意尝试去限制主权，并推动更多的制度创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Small farmers, for their part, are required to be organized in cooperatives or other groups that allow democratic participation.",
        "对于小农场主而言，他们必须以合作社或者其他组织等允许民主参与的形式组织起来。"
    ],
    [
        "In short: “Far from refuting religion, the Neo-Darwinists have helped us understand why it matters.”",
        "”简而言之，“新达尔文主义绝不排斥宗教，反而有助于我们理解为何宗教很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "What is becoming clearer by the day is that the formula defining Western policy towards Russia since communism’s collapse – “Let’s engage Russia if we can, let’s contain Russia if we must” – must now be completely rethought.",
        "现在明确的一点就是：西方应该对其自共产主义瓦解以来用以界定对俄政策的规则进行重新思考。 这一规则就是：“尽我们所能接触它，在必要的时候遏制它。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also feared that Islamists may one day turn Turkey into a fundamentalist state.",
        "人们害怕有一天，伊斯兰份子会把土耳其变成原教旨主义国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The key to success will be effective penalties for non-compliance, focused on the withdrawal of trade benefits.",
        "成功的关键在于对违反规定予以有效的惩罚，以收回贸易收益为主。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, we are far more likely to see unions’ growing political influence become a major destabilizing force in trade and growth, with highly uncertain consequences.",
        "不幸的是，我们更有可能发现工会不断增长的政治影响力成为贸易和经济增长的一个主要不稳定力量，其后果令人难以预料。"
    ],
    [
        "There might be some money in repackaging, but not the billions that banks made by slicing and dicing sub-prime mortgages into packages whose value was much greater than their contents.",
        "通过重新打包也许可以产生一些钱，但是银行绝对无法通过把次级抵押贷款分割后包装成价值远远超出其实质价值的产品而获利几十亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "It was like a customer, happily ordering dinner in a favorite restaurant, suddenly being asked to go into the kitchen and prepare the meal.",
        "这种感觉就像你原先是一位在最喜欢的饭店预定晚宴的快乐客户，突然之间被要求进入厨房准备晚宴。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the long lead time for bringing new projects onstream, efforts to address the coming shortfall must begin today.",
        "考虑到新工程投产需要很长时间，解决未来短缺的工作必须现在就开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Journalists, researchers, and human-rights defenders can use the data to inform their work as well.",
        "记者、研究者和人权卫士可以使用OONI数据了解他们的工作情况。"
    ],
    [
        "For their sake, and ours, we must not let them down.",
        "为了他们、也是为了我们起见，我们不应该让他们失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Others (think Cyprus, Iceland, Ireland, the UK, and the US) resorted to unsustainable surges in leverage among financial institutions to fund private-sector activities, sometimes almost irrespective of underlying fundamentals.",
        "有些国家（试想塞浦路斯、冰岛、爱尔兰、英国和美国）则利用金融机构杠杆不可持续的短期提升来资助私人部门活动，有时甚至罔顾其经济基本面。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from these obvious benefits, education is also a widely accepted humanitarian obligation and an internationally mandated human right.",
        "除了这些显而易见的好处之外，教育也是一种广泛认同的慈善义务和一种国际认可的人权。"
    ],
    [
        "“We have learned from the mistakes of the past 15 years, especially the manner of which we may have, to some degree, neglected the people’s movement,” he said in April, before his African National Congress swept to victory.",
        "“我们已经从过去15年的错误中，特别是从在某种程度上忽略了人民运动的错误中，吸取了教训。 ”他在四月份于非洲国民大会党横扫对手取得胜利之前，如是说。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the United States’ economic and political model, and that of the West, with its individual rights and open society, proved to be its sharpest weapon in the Cold War.",
        "相比之下，美国（以及西方）的经济和政治模式，及其对个人权利和公开社会的倡导，成为了冷战中最有力的武器。"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, the focus on using gene-drive technology for conservation is a ruse to gain public acceptance and regulatory cover.",
        "在我看来，将焦点集中在用基因驱动技术保护物种只不过是骗取公共接受和监管覆盖的伎俩。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer the US obsesses over its own political dysfunction and attendant economic stagnation, the less likely it is to bear the mantle of global responsibility and leadership.",
        "被自身政治障碍及随之而来的经济停滞困扰的时间越长，美国承担全球义务和领导责任的可能性就越弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the government debt-to-GDP ratio is about 20%, compared with more than 80% in the United States, 160% in Japan, and 60-90% in Europe.",
        "事实上，政府债务和国内生产总值的比例约为20 ％ ，而美国为80 ％以上， 日本为160 ％，欧洲则是60-90 ％。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as penniless graduate students, the economists Jon Steinsson and Emi Nakamura borrowed money to pay people to do their household chores, calculating that “spending an extra hour working on a paper was better for their lifetime expected earnings than spending that same hour vacuuming.”",
        "在生活拮据的研究生阶段，经济学家琼·斯坦森（Jon Steinsson）和艾米·纳卡穆拉（Emi Nakamura）就借钱雇人负责家务活，认为“在论文上多花一小时带来的终身预期收入比花在吸尘器上更大。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, since the US intervention in Iraq, many West Europeans see the EU's new members from Europe's East as something of a bloc.",
        "的确，自从美国入侵伊拉克以来，许多西欧人将来自欧洲东部的欧盟新成员国看作一个阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "But the market price would depend especially on how much insurance a government decided to auction off, because the supply would influence the price both directly and through the insurance’s effect on the underlying recession risks.",
        "但是市场价格将会尤其取决于政府决定拍卖多少保险，因为供应将会直接影响价格，并且通过保险对基本衰退风险的效力间接影响价格。"
    ],
    [
        "In a popular novel by the Nobel laureate José Saramago, the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from the European mainland and drifts away.",
        "诺贝尔文学奖得主萨拉马戈（José Saramago）写过一篇流行的小说，在这篇小说中，伊比利亚半岛脱离欧洲大陆漂走了。"
    ],
    [
        "Women need opportunities and support to develop and run their own businesses, to innovate, and to become financially independent.",
        "妇女需要支持和机遇来发展和经营自己的企业、开展创新活动，并实现经济独立。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries had been fiscally responsible, but were overwhelmed by the liabilities that they had assumed from others (for example, Ireland’s irresponsible banks sank their budget).",
        "其他国家过去在财政上一直尽职尽责，却无力应对那些从别处承担的债务（例如那些不可靠的爱尔兰银行就毁了本国的预算）。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators, meanwhile, are now starting to require banks to develop their own internal ratings processes.",
        "与此同时，监管者现在开始要求银行开发自身的内部评级程序。"
    ],
    [
        "But the costs don’t stop there.",
        "然而，成本还不止这些。"
    ],
    [
        "It is because America has embraced a policy agenda in recent decades that has caused its economy to become wildly unequal, leaving the most vulnerable segments of society further and further behind.",
        "而是因为美国在近几十年中采取的政策日程导致其经济变得普遍不平等，让最脆弱的社会细分群体越来越落后。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, despite the obvious “reform fatigue” of Latin American electorates, the debtor countries had engaged in a substantial measure of reform.",
        "此外，尽管拉美选民表现出明显的“改革疲劳”，各债务国还是承诺进行实质性的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to note that countries like India and Brazil – unlike, say, Germany and Japan a century ago – are not seeking to overturn the world order.",
        "值得注意的是，印度和巴西等国家与（比如）一个世纪前的德国和日本不同，它们并不追求颠覆世界秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "In a forthcoming paper, the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance estimates that bringing new antimicrobials to market and improving their administration will cost about $25 billion – a significant sum, but one that pales in comparison to the costs to society if the problem is not checked.",
        "在一篇即将发表的文章中，抗耐药性评估（Review on Antimicrobial Resistance）估计，实现新抗生素上市并改善它们的管理需要耗资大约250亿美元——一笔巨款，但和问题得不到解决所引起的社会成本相比只是九牛一毛。"
    ],
    [
        "A fundamental fact should be borne in mind when assessing the Global Strategy’s usefulness: The threats to Europe’s security are not common because some treaty or intergovernmental consensus has said so.",
        "评估全球战略有效性的时候必须牢记一个基本的事实：并不是因为某些协议或政府间共识的规定才有了共同的欧洲安全威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, or a kind of virtual currency that uses cryptography and distributed ledgers (the blockchain) to keep transactions both public and fully anonymous.",
        "比特币是私密货币，或者说是一种用加密算法和分布式记账（区块链）来保证交易公开和完全匿名的虚拟货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Movement Politics Renew European Democracy?",
        "运动政治能让欧洲民主焕然一新吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Today, a farmer's annual income is only one-sixth that of an urban dweller's, but he has to pay three times more in taxes.",
        "如今，一个农民的年收入只有城市居民的六分之一，但他的纳税额却是城市居民的三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the allies thought that the Nazi project of exterminating an entire people called for an entirely new legal approach, to ensure that such an atrocity would never happen again.",
        "但同盟国依然认为必须有一个全新的法律手段来应对纳粹试图灭绝整个民族的计划，以确保这类暴行不再重演。"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries will be much more adversely affected than others.",
        "有些国家受的不利影响会比其他国家更严重。"
    ],
    [
        "To do that, we must redefine what it means to be a competent business leader.",
        "为了实现这一目标，我们必须重新定义什么才是胜任的商业领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "While even a major air attack would fall short of destroying all of Iran’s nuclear installations and, moreover, leave the technical know-how intact, it might at least slow down the program for a while and serve as a warning to other potential proliferators.",
        "尽管即使是一场大规模空袭也无法摧毁伊朗所有的核子设施，而且让技术诀窍毫发无损，但是，空袭可能至少在一段时间减缓核子项目并且警示其他潜在的核子扩散者。"
    ],
    [
        "In a 2011 book, the economist Arvind Subramanian projected that the renminbi would become a global reserve currency by the end of this decade, or early next decade, based on his observation that the lag between economic and currency dominance is shorter than traditionally believed.",
        "经济学家阿尔文德·萨布拉曼尼安（Arvind Subramanian）在其2011年的著作中预测人民币将在这个十年之末或下个十年之初成为全球储备货币。 这一结论建立在他的一项观察的基础上：经济和货币主导地位的时滞要比传统观点更短。"
    ],
    [
        "Nine out of ten refugees do not leave their region, fleeing to countries very close to or bordering their own.",
        "十分之九的难民没有离开地区，只是从本国逃往紧邻或接壤的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "It was the support of the international community that helped bring Sudanese parties together in 2005.",
        "是国际社会的支持促成了苏丹各党派 2005 年的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifth, the distribution of gains from economic growth cannot be ignored.",
        "第五，不要忽视了经济增长收益的分配状况。"
    ],
    [
        "But, more important, it holds out the prospect that a people can chart its own path, free from external pressure – a particularly attractive proposition for countries that remain scarred by their colonial pasts.",
        "但更重要的是它描绘了一个民族在挣脱外来压力的情况下选择自身道路的前景，而这在仍试图走出过去殖民阴影的国家看来是特别有诱惑力的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, Iran’s Shia clerics were both organized and politically active in a way that Pakistan’s Sunni clergy have not been.",
        "更为重要的是，伊朗的什叶派教徒拥有良好的组织，并且在政治上很活跃，而巴基斯坦的逊尼派教徒却不是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the goal of a nuclear-free world was incorporated in the US administration’s arms control and disarmament agenda.",
        "实际上，美国政府已经将无核世界的目标放在了武器控制和消除的议事日程上。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Scots want sovereignty, they will need their own currency – and their own central bank: no British lender of last resort would be available to Scotland’s banks.",
        "如果苏格兰人希望获得主权，他们就需要自己的货币——以及自己的中央银行：苏格兰银行将无法求助于英国最后贷款人。"
    ],
    [
        "Many governments censor services that they think threaten their political control.",
        "很多政府都审查其认为会对国内政治控制造成威胁的服务。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Lisbon treaty is to be respected, solidarity must be viewed as a political tool for moving towards a European defense policy that works for the common good.",
        "如果我们希望遵重里斯本条约精神的话，那么团结必须被视为一个重要的政治工具，并以此实现一个服务于集体利益的欧洲防御政策。"
    ],
    [
        "She must build on her domestic support, but she can rely on economic and security cooperation with America to safeguard the country’s stability.",
        "她必须获得国内的支持，但是她可以依靠与美国的经济和安全合作来保护国家的安定。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is only half the story: we also need to support and promote alternative, credible voices online to counter the extremist narrative.",
        "但这只是问题的一个方面：我们还要支持和推动替代性宣传，在网上发掘可信的观点来对抗极端主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, growing unemployment, widening skill and productivity gaps, and the “informalization” or “casualization” of labor markets have exacerbated income inequalities worldwide, as the number of “working poor” and the incidence of “jobless growth” has spread.",
        "同时，随着“贫困劳工”和“无工作增长”的蔓延，日益严重的失业问题，日渐扩大的技能和生产力差距，和劳力市场的“非正式化”或“随意化”更加重了世界范围内的收入不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "The DPJ, now temporarily aligned with low-profile bureaucrats behind the scene, can now either obstruct any bill in the Upper House that is sponsored by Abe’s administration, thereby cornering him into dissolving the Lower House, or they can engage in meticulous deliberations in the Diet in the hope of demonstrating to the electorate their fitness to govern.",
        "现在，暂时与幕后的低调官僚结盟的日本民主党可以在上议院阻挠安倍政府提倡的任何法案，从而逼得安倍解散下议院，也可以在议会中表现得十分谨慎，以便向选民证明他们才适合管理国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The carbon-dioxide effect can also change the preferred patterns of atmospheric circulation, which can exacerbate extremes of heat, drought, or rainfall in some regions, while reducing them in others. The problem is that a reduction in those extremes to which we are already well-adapted provides only modest benefits, whereas the new extremes to which we are not adapted can be devastating, as recent events in Pakistan show.",
        "二氧化碳效应同时还会改变大气环流的较佳模式，一方面令某些区域的炎热，干旱和暴雨状况加剧，另一方面却会缓解其它区域的灾情，问题是减轻那些我们已经适应了的极端气候状况只能带来有限的好处，而那些我们未能适应的新极端气候则是灾难性的，正如当前巴基斯坦所经历的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "The resultant wave of capital flows into the US would push up the value of the dollar even further.",
        "结果，资本将蜂拥流向美国，从而进一步推高美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Decreased rates of household formation – young Americans, for example, are increasingly moving back in with their parents – depress housing prices, leading to still more foreclosures.",
        "家庭形成速度的下降——比如，年青一代美国人越来越多地搬回家去和父母同住——抑制了房价，导致了更多的人被剥夺了按揭权。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, two other researchers addressed the problem.",
        "这次，另两名研究人员解决了这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "I firmly believe that the new technology age, if shaped in a responsive and responsible way, could catalyze a new cultural renaissance that will create the sense that we are part of something much larger than ourselves – a true global civilization.",
        "我坚信，只要以敏感和负责的方式塑造新科技时代，它就能够刺激一场新的文化复兴，让我们感到我们是比我们自身大得多的东西——真正的全球文明的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "When we power our computers and lights, we are unaware of the carbon emissions that result.",
        "我们打开电脑和电灯时，并不了解会造成多少碳排放。"
    ],
    [
        "But the deeper truth is that Darfur is unstable because it is home to an impoverished and fast-growing population without adequate supplies of water, food, health clinics, schools, and other basic services.",
        "其中更深层次的原因是：由于达尔富尔贫困人口快速增长，缺乏足够的水、食物、医院、学校和其他基本服务，才造成了达尔富尔的动荡局面。"
    ],
    [
        "To do that, resources much be used efficiently.",
        "要想做到这一点，资源必须得到有效的利用。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel, a country in shock following its failure to destroy Hezbollah last summer, and humiliated by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejhad’s vow to “wipe Israel off the map” – a threat backed up by Iran’s support of Hamas and Hezbollah – now talks about a “quartet of moderates” as the region’s only hope.",
        "以色列去年夏天未能摧毁真主党而惊愕不已，又因伊朗总统内贾德发誓将以色列“从地图上抹去”并且辅以对哈马斯和真主党的支持而蒙受羞辱。 现在它开始谈论起“温和派四方”是该地区的唯一希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in my view, policymakers, academics, and the media have rejected too resolutely the idea that corporate taxation played no more than a minor role.",
        "事实上，在我看来，决策者、学者和媒体否认公司税制起着很大作用的做法太过武断。"
    ],
    [
        "For Cameron, evidently, the answer is: no one of importance.",
        "但在卡梅隆心目中，答案显然是——那些无关紧要的人。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, some 90% of Syrian refugees have access to smart phones, through which they could access financial services.",
        "举例来说，约90%的叙利亚难民拥有智能手机，他们可以利用这些终端来获取金融服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine a development bank levering up collateral that comprises post-privatization equity retained by the state and other assets (for example, real estate) that could easily be made more valuable (and collateralized) by reforming their property rights.",
        "开发银行接受由私有化后仍由国家持有的股权以及其他可以通过产权改革轻易地提升价值（和抵押品化）的资产（如不动产）组成的抵押品。"
    ],
    [
        "And then it became a convoy, as Malaysia, Mexico, Canada, and finally – in 2013 – Japan joined the negotiations.",
        "然后，它有变成了一支船队，马来西亚、墨西哥、加拿大纷纷加入，2013年，日本也终于加入了谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Though we are becoming accustomed to breaking records – in 2013, more than 90% of all data ever accumulated in human history had been accumulated in the previous two years – the reality is that the speed and scale of this transformation pose major challenges.",
        "尽管我们正在习惯于打破纪录——2013年，人类历史上累积数据总量中的90%以上为最近两年所累积——但现实是这一转变的速度和规模构成了严重挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "China, Inc. Goes Global",
        "走向全球的中国公司"
    ],
    [
        "The convergence of interest rates was broken when a newly elected government in Greece revealed that the deficit incurred by the previous government was much larger than had been reported.",
        "希腊新当选政府上台后披露，前任政府任内的赤字要远远高于报告的数字，这使得利率趋同成为了历史。"
    ],
    [
        "In the government’s thinking, it does not have to accept responsibility for the attack, the attackers’ identity will remain a mystery, and no one will even be accused of or tried for breaking the law.",
        "在伊朗政府的思维中，它不必为此次袭击负责，袭击者的身份将被保密，甚至不会有人因违法犯罪而受到起诉。"
    ],
    [
        "One area where such an opportunity is already apparent is financial reform.",
        "一个已经显现出这一机会的领域是金融改革。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, energy will be significantly cheaper in the US than in Europe or China for the foreseeable future.",
        "于是，在可预见的未来，美国的能源价格将远低于欧洲和中国。"
    ],
    [
        "None predicted the crisis; and in very few of these economies has a semblance of full employment been restored.",
        "没人预测到危机； 并且这些经济体中几乎没有一个看上去恢复了充分就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Implementing policies to facilitate and reward long-term investments will be key to exiting the current crisis and boosting the world’s growth potential.",
        "实施政策以刺激和奖励长期投资将是走出当前危机、提振世界增长潜力的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Even healthy economies like South Korea are keen to weaken their currencies, leaving the US alone in its willingness to tolerate significant currency appreciation.",
        "就连韩国等健康经济体也急于让货币贬值，宁愿忍受货币大幅升值的仅美国一家而已。"
    ],
    [
        "What should the new fiscal rules be, and how – in the eurozone – should they be enforced?",
        "新财政规则应该如何？ 对欧元区来说，又应该如何执行？"
    ],
    [
        "Much of what socialism built needed to be undone.",
        "社会主义的多数成果都需要推翻重建。"
    ],
    [
        "The press covering Clinton were furious to learn that two days earlier she had been diagnosed with pneumonia and had kept it to herself.",
        "克林顿团队先是说她太疲劳了，后来又披露她两天前被诊断为肺炎。 许多媒体对她不早点披露这一信心感到愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "From Greece's perspective, leaving the euro would be highly disruptive, which explains why there is very little support for it in the country.",
        "从希腊角度看，离开欧元区将具有极大的破坏性，因此对这一选择国内几乎无人支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the very weak performance of state-owned enterprises, which continue to play a large role in heavy industry and in some service sectors, represents a powerful brake on growth.",
        "此外，国有企业——它们在重工业和一些服务业中仍扮演着主要角色——的拙劣表现也是增长的一大障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that Kim Kyong-hui is in poor health, owing to years of alcohol abuse.",
        "问题在于金敬姬长年酗酒，这导致她健康状况很差。"
    ],
    [
        "This was the same Greenspan who in 1996 warned of “irrational exuberance” and, then, as Fed chairman, did nothing to check it.",
        "正是这一格林斯潘在1996年对“非理性繁荣”发出了警告。 而且，当时作为美联储主席，他却对此听之任之。"
    ],
    [
        "But it soon came to light that he had falsified his evidence, and his “research” was retracted.",
        "但很快他就被曝光篡改了证据，并且他的“研究”已被收回。"
    ],
    [
        "Ocean degradation is not as visible as deforestation, but it is at least as dangerous.",
        "海洋环境恶化不像森林退化那样清晰可见，但其危害并不在其下。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, frequent exposure to localized, temporary volatility forces systems to become more dynamic and flexible, enhancing their capacity to thrive under pressure.",
        "相反，经常性的局部及临时波动会迫使系统变得更加灵活高效，从而获得在压力下实现繁荣昌盛的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Right Choices for 2015",
        "2015年的正确选择"
    ],
    [
        "As the wave of synchronized attacks unfolded, people around the world followed it in real time via Twitter, and Parisians reached out to those who found themselves stranded by posting offers of safe havens with the hashtags #PorteOuverte and #OpenDoor.",
        "随着一波同步袭击的展开，全世界人民通过Twitter实时跟进，而巴黎人民通过#PorteOuverte 和 #OpenDoor等话题标签为被困者提供帮助和安全藏身地。"
    ],
    [
        "The Way Ahead on Climate Change",
        "气候变化的未来之路"
    ],
    [
        "French President François Hollande has already given a rather successful preview of this role, meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on his first day in office, and, a month later, participating in a high-profile meeting with the Italian and Spanish prime ministers in Rome.",
        "法国总统奥朗德已经成功地给出了这一角色的预览，一上任，他就在柏林会见了德国总理默克尔； 一个月以后，他又赴罗马参加了与意大利总理和西班牙首相的高规格会面。"
    ],
    [
        "The focus, instead, should be on accelerating the process of balance-sheet repair, while at the same time returning monetary and fiscal policy levers to more normal settings.",
        "相反，在复原货币财政政策杠杆的同时加速修复资产负债表应当引起足够的重视。"
    ],
    [
        "This failure would coincide with the emergence of a new world order, as two centuries of Western predominance come to an end.",
        "这样的失败将伴随世界新秩序的出现，两个世纪以来的西方主导模式将寿终正寝。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the West, particularly Europe, is slowly taking the measure of the Asian challenge.",
        "首先，西方，尤其是欧洲，正逐步探究亚洲将带来怎样的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, a closer look at Japan’s performance over the past decade suggests little reason for persistent bearish sentiment.",
        "有趣的是，仔细考察日本过去数十年的经验，你会觉得没有什么理由持续看空。 事实上，从工作人口人均产出增长看，日本从上世纪末以来表现相当出色。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, an irascible interlocutor in the past, is now seeking reconciliation.",
        "就连土耳其总统埃尔多安，曾经动辄发怒的对话者，现在也在追求妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "If it allows the officials implementing the program to define which sins are eligible, and what timing makes them “original,” it could create new rent-seeking opportunities, augmenting the burden on entrepreneurs, rather than removing uncertainty.",
        "如果让实施该计划的官员来定义哪些原罪可以赦免，以及什么时间之前的罪才可以称为“原罪”，就会制造新的寻租机会，增加企业家的负担而不是消除不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Another problem in top-ranked Germany and Austria is the lack of educational opportunities for certain groups, which contributes to a lack of opportunity and mobility in the labor market.",
        "名列前茅的德国和奥地利的另一个问题是特定人群的教育机会的缺失，这造成劳动力市场缺少机会和流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country’s pre-World War II past.",
        "在1968年的捷克斯洛伐克，共产主义改革派求助于二战后该国根深蒂固的民主理想。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland is a case in point.",
        "爱尔兰就是一个例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, unlike major developed economies, most of which have used up all of their conventional monetary-policy ammunition by reducing their policy interest rates to zero, China has plenty of monetary stimulus on reserve to address cyclical disruptions.",
        "此外，主要发达经济体已将政策利率下降至零水平，用尽了常规货币政策，而中国有足够的货币刺激储备解决周期性干扰。"
    ],
    [
        "The remaining third tried to have it both ways, arguing that governments intervened too much in some areas, and too little in others.",
        "剩下三分之一学生则两可之，认为政府在某些方面干预过多，在另一些方面干预过少。"
    ],
    [
        "An offer of a “Grand Bargain” would unite the international community and present Iran with a convincing alternative.",
        "提供一份“优惠协议”将把国际社会团结起来，向伊朗提供一个令人信服的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "This is Chalalan Lodge, a wholly Indian-owned and -operated ecotourism outfit through which a hundred indigenous families lifted themselves out of poverty – while creating benefits worth a half million dollars for the Bolivian economy each year.",
        "这就是查拉澜小屋，一个完全由印第安人拥有和经营的生态旅游项目。 因为它的存在， 当地100多个家庭在摆脱贫困的同时，还为玻利维亚创造了每年高达50万美元的利润。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, because more people are evading taxes, tax administrations are under increasing pressure to become more lenient or to accept bribes.",
        "此外，因为越来越多的人在逃避纳税，税务机关面临着越来越大的压力对他们表现得很宽容，或者，接受贿赂。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the euro exchange rate – the one mechanism whereby current policies could still make a difference – cannot be pushed down much further.",
        "与此同时，欧元汇率——货币政策仍能造成不同的领域——已无法进一步下降。"
    ],
    [
        "At a more modest level, hackers were able to destroy a blast furnace at a German steel mill last year.",
        "在相对温和的水平上，黑客去年毁坏了一座德国钢厂的高炉。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the old problem of Arab-Israeli peace is now seen in the new context of an Iranian nuclear threat.",
        "于是，阿拉伯-以色列和平的就问题有了新背景——伊朗核威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "This October, 128 leading experts in the fields of human rights and equality from 44 countries launched a landmark attempt to build on the epochal 1948 UN declaration to establish universal human equality.",
        "今年10月， 来自44个国家的128名人权和平等领域的著名专家，开展了一项里程碑式工作，我们要在1948年联合国具有划时代意义的声明的基础上，建立普遍的人类平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Sure, some companies always like to complain about regulation, and exaggerated numbers regarding the impact of various rules abound.",
        "诚然，一些公司总是喜欢抱怨监管，夸大各种冗余规则的影响数字。"
    ],
    [
        "The labor market has tightened, with unemployment standing at 3.5% and the job-to-applicant ratio above parity.",
        "劳动力市场得到了巩固，失业率维持在3. 5%，而职位和求职者的比率则高于1。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe’s Long March",
        "安倍的长征"
    ],
    [
        "Germans, understandably, have a problem with national symbolism, but I spotted a few fans in quasi-Bavarian dress.",
        "不难理解的是，德国球迷在民族象征主义方面有一些问题，但我看到有几位德国球迷身着准巴伐利亚式的礼服。"
    ],
    [
        "Long gone are the days when the prospect of accession to the European Union sustained a powerful dynamic of democratic reform.",
        "为了被欧盟接纳而有十分的动力实施民主改革的日子早已一去不返。"
    ],
    [
        "But, rather than encouraging conservation, Bush has pursued a policy of “drain America first,” leaving America more dependent on external oil in the future.",
        "但是，布什非但没有鼓励节能，反而追求一种“先抽干美国”的政策，使美国在未来更加依赖外国的石油。"
    ],
    [
        "A French No would sit well with the Union’s newer members from Eastern Europe, who know Chirac is not their friend, and who are more attracted by promises of rapid economic growth than social protection and corporate state mischief.",
        "法国的否决票将正合那些来自东欧的新欧盟成员国之意，他们知道希拉克并非善友，比起社会保障和合作主义国家这些招数，他们对快速经济增长更感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "But they must do so in a way that provides genuine direction, and that Japan’s people, military, and neighbors find convincing.",
        "但是其方式必须能指出真正的方向，并且能让日本的人民、军队和邻国信服。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the modicum of political insecurity Germany faces today may well be just what the country needs to give rise to new ideas and voices, and a better future.",
        "换句话说，德国目前所面临的一点点政治不安全，可能正是这个国家产生新思维、新声音和获得更好的未来所需要的。"
    ],
    [
        "But to do so would be a big mistake.",
        "但是如果这么做的话，就会铸成大错。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Yi Gang, China’s director of state administration of foreign exchange, explained that “Chinese investments in US Treasuries are market investment behavior, and we don’t wish to politicize them.”",
        "相反，中国国家外汇管理局局长易纲解释说，“中国对于美国国债的投资是市场行为，我们不想将其政治化。"
    ],
    [
        "Such funding will support the steps needed to fulfill the promise, contained in our country’s constitution, that the state will “provide free and compulsory secondary education within minimum possible period.”",
        "这笔资金能够支持实现被写入巴基斯坦宪法的承诺——巴基斯坦将“在尽可能短的时间内实现免费中学义务教育”——的必要措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany ranks a distant second, with 21% of those surveyed saying they would prefer a permanent position.",
        "德国位于列第二，但与奥地利差距明显：21%的受访问临时工说更愿意找固定工作。"
    ],
    [
        "High-denomination notes are often used for tax evasion, bribery, drug trafficking, and even terrorism, so governments use demonetization to frustrate criminal enterprise.",
        "高面额纸币往往普遍用于逃税、贿赂、毒品贩运甚至恐怖主义，因此政府打击犯罪集团的一种方式是废止货币流通。"
    ],
    [
        "That may be changing.",
        "这一点或许正在发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The inclusion in Part II of the draft on \"social rights\" - such as the right not to be unjustly dismissed, or the right to receive old-age pensions, unemployment compensation, and health benefits (regardless of cost) - is in no way necessary to the functioning of the whole.",
        "该草案的\"第二部分\"包括了\"社会权利\"-如不被非正当开除的权利，或领取养老金，失业救济金和医疗保障（不计成本）的权利-这些并不是整部宪法的机能所必需的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "But Renzi’s bigger problem is that he is a mid-term, unelected prime minister who promised, in 2014, to bring change to a country that has heard it all before.",
        "但伦齐更大的问题在于他是一个在上一任总理任期中间切入的非选举上台总理，而且在2014年承诺为这个国家带来变革——这个词汇早就让意大利人听得耳朵起茧子了。"
    ],
    [
        "ATHENS – Greece’s public debt has been put back on Europe’s agenda.",
        "雅典—希腊公共债务又回到了欧洲日程上。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, crime, terrorism, conflict, and political instability severe enough to cause a total breakdown of law and order significantly impede creativity and innovation.",
        "当然，犯罪、恐怖主义、冲突和严重到导致法律和秩序全面崩溃的政治动荡会极大地阻碍创造力和创新。"
    ],
    [
        "It also created a more buoyant market for the securities of Freddie and Fannie, feeding the originate-and-distribute machine.",
        "这也为房地美和房利美的证券创造了一个活跃的市场，滋养了创设和发行的机器。"
    ],
    [
        "It should simply mark a sea change, a break with the past five years of adding new loans on top of already unsustainable debt, conditional on further doses of punitive austerity.",
        "它只需要标志一个巨变，一个与在已经不可持续的债务负担头上继续增加新贷款的过去的五年的决裂，并以未来惩罚性紧缩为条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Oddly, it was Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who, by requesting that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, reopened the 1948 file.",
        "奇怪的是，重新翻开1948年档案的是以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡，他的目的是要求巴勒斯坦人承认以色列这个犹太国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The limits of technocratic utopianism have been reached.",
        "技术官僚乌托邦已经达到了极致。"
    ],
    [
        "By mid-August, the world was at war.",
        "到8月中旬，全世界都卷入了战争。"
    ],
    [
        "As evidence emerged of widespread corruption in contracts and resource allocation, ministers, bureaucrats, and high-level corporate officers were arrested, and some have spent long periods in jail.",
        "随着关于合约和资源分配腐败横行的证据浮出水面，政府部长、官僚和企业高管纷纷被捕，一些人被判处长期徒刑。"
    ],
    [
        "Their aim should be holistic engagement of clients, who seek not only convenience and security, but also more control over their financial destiny.",
        "它们的目标应该是客户的全盘参与——客户不仅追求便利和安全，也追求更多地掌控他们的金融命运。"
    ],
    [
        "That looks unlikely.",
        "这看起来并不太可能。"
    ],
    [
        "What we saw, instead, was a moral surge among the French – an act of self-defense by the body politic.",
        "相反，我们看到的是法国人的道德崛起——全体人民的自我防卫行动。"
    ],
    [
        "So Big Pharma is seeking “incentives” to pursue research and development of new antibiotics, such as extended patents or tax breaks; the alternative would be to charge astronomical prices for new drugs.",
        "因此大型药企要求“激励措施”才愿开展新抗生素的研发，比方说延长专利期限或减税； 另外一种办法是为新药开出天文数字的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "If China and India are next to fall, Asia would be at risk, and it would be hard to avoid a global recession.",
        "如果中印两国经济下滑，亚洲将会陷入危险之中，而且全球经济衰退也将很难避免。"
    ],
    [
        "The first two, in particular, have lately been the source of considerable public outrage – and rightly so.",
        "特别是前两个问题，它们是最近民情汹涌的源头——理应如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The global nature of environmental challenges creates an important opportunity for international cooperation based on shared interest.",
        "环境挑战是个全球性问题，这为基于共同利益的国际合作创造了重要机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "What hard power the UN has must be begged and borrowed from the member states.",
        "联合国所拥有的硬实力必须从其成员国求借而来。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the course of the deployment, the readiness of these forces actually increases, because of the quality and rigor of the training they undertake with partners from the Republic of Korea’s Army.",
        "在此次驻军过程中，这支部队的备战能力实际有所提升，因为他们与来自韩国友军的同伴共同接受了高质量的严格训练。"
    ],
    [
        "But they appear only sparsely anywhere in such rankings, if even at all.",
        "然而这些国家充其量只是个别大学能够勉强上榜。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite the pivotal economic role that the informal sector plays, it has no access to conventional bank loans.",
        "但尽管上述非正规部门发挥了如此关键的经济作用，它仍然不具备获得传统银行贷款的资格。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the pages of these books continued to be made of animal hide, which could easily be written over.",
        "但是，这些书的页面还是用兽皮做的，就可以很容易地复写。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, superior investment managers change over time, so that past performance is no guarantee of future performance.",
        "此外，顶尖投资管理人随时间变化而变化，因此过去的表现绝不保证未来表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Several well-managed, randomized, long-term human trials have shown almost no survival benefit for those who are screened, diagnosed, and treated, compared to those who were never screened.",
        "不少精心组织的长期随机人体试验表明，与从未被筛查人群相比，被筛查、诊断和治疗的人群几乎没有获得任何生存优势。"
    ],
    [
        "While this makes them awkward candidates for any academic discipline, such is the ambivalence of any intellectual’s legacy.",
        "这也使得他们的理论难以归类于任何学院派的学科，这也是人们对于一切知识分子的精神遗产的矛盾情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "For Saudi Arabia is a country in which both rulers and ruled are equally arch- conservative, adhering, for the last two centuries, to the puritanical Wahhabi doctrine of Islam.",
        "两个世纪以来，沙特阿拉伯的统治者和被统治者遵循着伊斯兰教瓦哈比教派的教条，极其保守，相互依靠。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike many other leaders of her Liberal Democratic Party, Koike has no real family connection to any major political figure.",
        "与她所在的自民党其他成员不同的是，小池与各大政治人物都没有特别的亲缘关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2016, the hottest year on record, average global temperatures were 0.9º C above the twentieth-century average.",
        "2016年是有记录以来最热的一年，地球平均温蒂比二十世纪平均水平高出0."
    ],
    [
        "But that was possible not because of Mitterrand’s superior wiles, but rather because France had a stronger position vis à vis Germany than it does today.",
        "但密特朗之所以成功，并不是此计甚妙，而是因为当时的法国具有比如今更大的对德国的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "But more attention needs to be paid to the impact of either outcome on different economic players.",
        "但我们应该把更多的注意力放在不同经济参与者所产生的任意后果之上。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s domestic market is now the source of its power, which means that the choices it makes in this area in the near term will largely determine its global standing for decades to come.",
        "国内市场是当今中国的力量源泉，这意味着它近期内在这一领域做出的决策将在很大程度上决定其未来几十年的全球地位。"
    ],
    [
        "On that point, the demonstrators have so far remained curiously mute: they have yet to articulate any wider demands or a sense of what a different society, or “real democracy” – a stock phrase of the Spanish movement – should be all about.",
        "从这个角度看，抗议者到目前仍令人惊讶地保持着沉默：他们既没有提出任何宏观要求也没有说清不同的社会、或者“真正的民主”（西班牙抗议运动的标志性词汇）是个什么样子。"
    ],
    [
        "Feldstein calculates that the one-time cost of principal reduction would be around $350 billion.",
        "据菲尔德斯坦测算，本金削减的一次性成本大约在3 500亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "After the Catalan parliament declared independence, the Spanish national government invoked a constitutional provision to take administrative control of the region, escalating the crisis.",
        "加泰罗尼亚议会宣布独立后，西班牙国家政府援引一项宪法规定正式接管该地区，令危机进一步升级。"
    ],
    [
        "If one considers the strategic ambitions of the separatists and their Russian patrons, Ukraine's prospects are even bleaker.",
        "如果考虑分裂分子及其俄罗斯庇护者的战略野心，乌克兰的前景就更加黯淡了。"
    ],
    [
        "In Afghanistan, the Taliban is also a largely Pashtun movement, but its attitude toward the polio eradication effort could not be more different.",
        "在阿富汗，塔利班很大程度上也是普什图运动，但其对小儿麻痹疫苗根除计划的态度却有着很大差异。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been several episodes in recent years in which perceptions of blasphemy have led to threats of violence or actual killings, starting with the publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses more than two decades ago, and including the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten’s cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.",
        "近年来，因认为渎神而引起的暴力威胁甚至杀戮发生了多起，首先是二十多年前萨尔曼·拉什迪（Salman Rushdie）的《撒旦诗篇》（The Satanic Verses）的出版，此外还包括丹麦报纸《日尔兰邮报》（Jyllands-Posten）刊登先知穆罕默德漫画事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Once subsidies are in place, they are extraordinarily difficult to remove.",
        "一旦补贴实施，就很难收回。"
    ],
    [
        "After correlating per capita income and self-reported happiness levels across a number of countries, he reached a startling conclusion: probably not.",
        "在将多个国家的人均收入和自我评估的幸福水平做了相关性分析后，他得到了一个令人吃惊的结论：或许并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Individual derivatives and repo transactions are hardly nefarious.",
        "单一的金融衍生品和再购协议交易其实危害性都很低。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China’s investment resources are abundant.",
        "此外，中国的投资资源十分丰富。"
    ],
    [
        "In Wukan, simple villagers were unafraid to challenge the might of the local party and police when officials stole their land for a development project.",
        "在乌坎村，当官员打着开发土地的名号盗用村民土地时，手无寸铁的村民无惧挑战当地党组织和警察的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Yellen, it might best be described as a democratic republic.",
        "在耶伦治下，美联储可以说是民主共和制。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan will hold a presidential election on April 5.",
        "阿富汗将于4月5日举行总统选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets have reacted so strongly because investors now comprehend that “sovereign debt” is the debt of a sovereign that can simply decide not to pay.",
        "金融市场反应强烈，因为投资者们已经看穿，“主权债务”无非是主权国家可以决定不偿还的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks and markets cannot achieve an orderly global rebalancing on their own.",
        "各国央行和市场无法凭一己之力构建全球经济再平衡秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar doubts apply to Abbas.",
        "阿巴斯同样也存有疑虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, policymakers decided to focus on “net” emissions, considering biological processes involving land, plants, and animals together with those associated with the burning of fossil fuels.",
        "第三，决策者决定以“净”排放量为重点，将涉及土地、植物和动物的生物进程与化石燃料燃烧相关进程同时加以考量。"
    ],
    [
        "Secretary of State John Kerry was right to call the use of gas “a moral obscenity.” But so is torturing children, which is how the civil war in Syria actually began more than two years ago.",
        "国务卿约翰·克里将使用毒气称为“道德沦丧”无疑是对的，但同样道德沦丧的还有折磨儿童，而这恰恰是两年前叙利亚内战爆发的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "A massive government subsidy package also accounted for domestic calm.",
        "一揽子大规模政府补贴计划被用来安抚国内民众。"
    ],
    [
        "Kunstler’s view is harsh, but perhaps prophetic: India’s “climate-change-related problems are doing heavy damage to the food supply.",
        "昆斯勒的观点可谓犀利，却颇有些预言的意味：印度的“气候变化相关问题正在严重影响食品供给。"
    ],
    [
        "(What I had actually said, to a reporter at a reception, was that all countries need to work on their human-rights record, “even the United States, but North Korea’s is arguably the worst in the world.”)",
        "（事实上，我是在一次招待会上对记者说这句话的，我说的是所有国家都需要改善其人权纪录，“即便是美国也不例外，但朝鲜大概是世界最差。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the Arab Spring in 2011 was supposed to herald a new, more democratic future for the Middle East and North Africa.",
        "类似地，2011年的阿拉伯之春理应成为中东和北非更民主的新未来的先声。"
    ],
    [
        "As the country becomes increasingly important to global R&D, its contributions will be a boon for the fight against disease, both in China and worldwide.",
        "随着中国全球研发地位的不断提升，它所做出的贡献将在中国国内和世界各地促进人类与其病的斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "It can unite Keynesians and supply-side advocates; proponents of public spending and supporters of private business can stand together.",
        "投资可以统一凯恩斯主义和供给面支持者； 公共支出派和私人企业派可以因此站在同一条阵线上。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the level of trade between two countries often decreases as the geographic distance between them increases.",
        "首先，两国之间的贸易额通常会随着两者之间地理距离的增加而减少。"
    ],
    [
        "As for anti-phishing and malware downloads, there are a number of services that track “bad” sites and warn users off. Users can still go where they want, but at least there are signposts warning that they are entering a dangerous neighborhood.",
        "至于反钓鱼软件和木马软件，有好几种方法来追踪和屏蔽“非法网站”，用户可以自由的浏览网站，当他们进入一些危险网站的时候，会收到一些安全提示信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The generalized version of this proposition is that secular stagnation – the persistent underuse of potential resources – is the fate of all economies that rely on private investment to fill the gap between income and consumption.",
        "将这一观点推而广之，长期停滞——即潜在资源的持久的使用不足——是一切依赖私人投资填补收入和消费之间的空白的经济的必然命运。"
    ],
    [
        "The story of the BRICS is a familiar one.",
        "金砖国家的故事非常熟悉。"
    ],
    [
        "These examples should spur the world to find ways forward for cooperative action.",
        "这些例子应该刺激世界寻找合作行动的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Did Humans Invent Modernity?",
        "人类发明了现代性吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The scientific community rigorously seeks consensus about knowledge produced so far, but it knows that there is still much more to be discovered.",
        "科学界严格地寻找目前所产生的知识的共识，但科学界知道，仍有许多东西有待发现。"
    ],
    [
        "The US interest in overthrowing Assad’s regime was precisely its reliance on Iranian and Russian backing.",
        "美国之所以对推翻阿萨德政权感兴趣，正是因为后者仰仗伊朗和俄罗斯的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "As obvious as this conclusion might seem, the world has taken millennia to reach it – and, in many ways, has yet to accept it fully.",
        "这一结论显而易见，但世界用了几千年的时间才得出这一结论——并且，从很多角度看，仍然没有完全接受这一结论。"
    ],
    [
        "Creative Europe",
        "创意欧洲"
    ],
    [
        "This means introducing new initiatives to address global-leadership challenges, even when an existing initiative may fail.",
        "这意味着引入全新举措应对全球领导权挑战，即使目前实行的措施有失败的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "So maintaining NAM is not some nostalgic longing for an influential past; rather, it is a means for countries to maintain as much international influence as possible in our globalized world.",
        "因此延续不结盟运动并不是对过去辉煌的缅怀，相反是成员国在全球化世界里尽可能保持国际影响力的现实需要。"
    ],
    [
        "If the OIC wishes to change many people’s perception that Islam violates human rights, suppressing freedom of speech is hardly the best way to go about it.",
        "如果伊斯兰会议组织希望改变人们心目中伊斯兰教侵犯人权的看法，压制言论自由恐怕并不是达到目的的最佳方式。"
    ],
    [
        "The repo buyer thus lends to the seller, with the difference between the immediate “spot” price of the obligation and the “forward” repurchase price representing the interest on the loan.",
        "因此，在回购交易中，买方是在向卖方贷款，即期的债券“现货”价格与“远期”回购价格之间的差额便是这笔贷款的利息。"
    ],
    [
        "But small countries’ economic growth is often more volatile – a tendency that younger states must learn to contain if they are to prosper in the long term.",
        "但小国的经济增长通常波动更大——如果较年轻国家想获得长期繁荣，就必须学习如何遏制这一趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, his initiative triggered a much broader discussion of the principles underpinning the euro, its governance, and the very rationale for its existence.",
        "事实上，他的方案激发了关于作为欧元、欧元治理模式以及欧元存在理由基础的原则的大讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Concessionary financing may help China’s state-owned companies bag huge overseas contracts; but, by spawning new asset-quality risks, it also exacerbates the challenges faced by the Chinese banking system.",
        "优惠融资可能有助于中国国有公司拿下巨额海外合同； 但这也埋下了新的资产质量风险，从而加剧了中国银行系统所面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it is one thing to deliberate on the pros and cons of confronting external forces of irrational violence; it is something else to lash out against the producers of brutal, politically charged, and upsetting imagery.",
        "毕竟，权衡直面不相关的外部暴力势力的利弊是一回事； 猛烈打击带政治目的的、令人不快的野蛮影像的炮制者是另一回事。"
    ],
    [
        "Conventional wisdom regards it simply as a reaction to stagnant living standards.",
        "传统智慧认为这只不过是对生活水平停滞不前的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "The share of net investment in GNP is now the second lowest in all OECD countries.",
        "在经济合作发展组织（OECD）国家中，现在德国GNP中净投资所占的比例名列倒数第二。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while references to the Great Depression are justified, the lesson of that crisis, and of the New Deal, is that effective programs can at best cushion the fall and bring about stabilization.",
        "但是，如果以大萧条的经验正确的话，危机的教训是：罗斯福新政执行的计划最多只是使得经济不再继续下滑，逐渐企稳而已。"
    ],
    [
        "And it was Japan, rather than China, that was the trade bogeyman, stalking – and taking over – global markets.",
        "当时日本、而非中国，扮演着困扰并接管全球市场的贸易怪兽的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they may become an invaluable asset not only to their country of destination but also, and importantly, to their country of origin.",
        "因此，他们可以成为宝贵的资产，不仅对于迁入国是如此，对于祖国也是如此。 后一点尤其重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Now these policies have to be reversed, which implies similar political challenges and costs.",
        "眼下，必须反其道而行之，而这意味着同样的政治挑战和成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the anguish and sorrow of survivors - almost all of whom lost loved ones - have not found redress.",
        "而同时，幸存者的痛苦和悲伤-几乎他们所有人都失去了亲人-也没有得到抚恤。"
    ],
    [
        "Even taking into account imports of materials tied to Chinese-built infrastructure, this is an exceptionally wide bilateral deficit.",
        "即便考虑到与中国建造基础设施相关的材料进口，这也是非常大的双边赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "The Quality of Mercy",
        "慈悲的品质"
    ],
    [
        "When I welcomed Mario Draghi’s strong statement in August, I argued that the ECB’s new “outright monetary transactions” program needed to be complemented by progress toward a more integrated eurozone, with a fiscal authority, a banking union, and some form of debt mutualization.",
        "8月份，我为德拉吉的强硬发言欢欣鼓舞，我指出，欧洲央行新的“直接货币交易”（OMT）计划需要辅之以更加一体化、拥有财政当局、银行联盟和某种形式的债务共同化的欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "Firms are cutting jobs because there is not enough final demand.",
        "由于最终需求不足，企业正纷纷裁员。"
    ],
    [
        "So what should be our top global priorities?",
        "因此，什么应该是我们全球首需解决的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet many societies around the world do not meet the challenge of ensuring basic health and a decent education for each generation of children.",
        "但世界上有许多国家没能应对好保证每一代儿童获得基本健康和优秀教育的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not because the country trades mainly with other dynamic emerging economies, or because there is huge global demand for uniquely Polish products.",
        "但这不是因为波兰主要与其他充满活力的新兴经济体做贸易，或者因为世界对波兰独特的商品有巨大的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "This repayment contributed to a slow improvement in its credit rating and its eventual return to international capital markets in 2014.",
        "这一偿还债务行为使厄瓜多尔的信誉慢慢得到改善，最终在2014年重返国际资本市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s internal conflict has now become a Sunni-Shia sectarian war that is spreading across the region.",
        "叙利亚内战已成为逊尼派-什叶派之间的宗派之战，并在全地区蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, outside parties have thus played a decisive role.",
        "从历史上看，外部行为人因此扮演着决定性作用。"
    ],
    [
        "We must make the vast seas stretching from the Pacific to the Indian Oceans a zone of peace and freedom, where all adhere to the rule of law.",
        "我们必须让从太平洋到印度洋的广袤海域成为和平与自由之地，所有国家都恪行法治。"
    ],
    [
        "It took Europe gruesome religious wars, two world wars, and more than one genocide to resolve its endemic disputes over borders and nationalism.",
        "欧洲进行了可怕的宗教战争，两次世界大战以及不只一次的大屠杀，来解决其在边界和民族主义上的地方性争端。"
    ],
    [
        "This seemed to be an ethically acceptable price to pay, because those who were losing were already so much wealthier (and healthier) than those who were gaining.",
        "在道德上，这似乎是可以接受的代价，因为蒙受损失的人已经比获得收益的人富裕得多（也健康得多）。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the process was opened up to the public, with ordinary citizens allowed to contribute via a government blog.",
        "整个过程完全向公众开放，普通公民可以通过一个政府博客贡献自己的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The American National Academy of Sciences has warned that, “Just a few individuals with specialized skills…could inexpensively and easily produce a panoply of lethal biological weapons.…The deciphering of the human genome sequence and the complete elucidation of numerous pathogen genomes…allow science to be misused to create new agents of mass destruction.”",
        "美国国家科学院警告说：“只需几个具备专门技能的人……就能以极少的代价轻易地制造出各种致命的生物武器……人类基因组序列的破译和无数病原体基因组的完全解密……使科学能够被用于制造具有大规模杀伤作用的新药剂。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Although the Trade Facilitation Agreement – dubbed the “Bali package,” after the Indonesian island where the meeting took place – did not address the most pressing North-South trade issues, it remains an important economic and political milestone.",
        "虽然贸易促进协议——因会议在印尼岛举行而被命名为“巴厘岛一揽子计划”——并未解决最紧迫的南北半球贸易不均衡贸易问题，但它仍然是一个重要的经济和政治里程碑。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a representative of the Age of Reason, Cesare Beccaria, who first advocated in 1764, in a few pages of a seminal booklet, the abolition of capital punishment.",
        "它所代表的是一个理性的时代，1764年切萨雷·贝卡利亚（Cesare Beccaria）在一份仅有几页的发展手册中首次提出了这样的概念，并竭力倡导废除死刑。"
    ],
    [
        "No one can say for sure that Iran’s regime has formally adopted a nuclear weapons program.",
        "没有人可以肯定地说伊朗政府已正式开始了研制核武器的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "As evidence that this is not merely a hypothetical possibility, advocates of fiscal consolidation point to cases like Denmark in the early 1980’s, Ireland in the late 1980’s, and Finland in the 1990’s.",
        "为了证明这不仅仅是一种理论假设，巩固财政的支持者举出20世纪80年代前期的丹麦、80年代后期的爱尔兰和20世纪90年代的芬兰作为例证。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent months, North Korea has fired several ballistic missiles and conducted a nuclear test, spurring an exchange of incendiary rhetoric between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump.",
        "在最近几个月中，朝鲜多次发射弹道导弹并进行了一次核试验，其领导人金正恩和美国总统特朗普之间也爆发了嘴仗。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s leaders must act now to minimize the risks, lest they find their shelters inadequate to the extreme weather that could lie ahead.",
        "欧洲领导人必须立刻行动起来让风险最小化，否则他们将发现他们根本没有足够的庇护所抵御前方的极端天气。"
    ],
    [
        "This same urban-rural split is evident in every country that has experienced an uptick in tribal populism in recent years.",
        "同样的城乡分割也见于所有近几年中部落民粹主义有所抬头的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "So the new global development agenda now taking shape should empower cities to help lead the way to sustainable development in the twenty-first century.",
        "因此，正在确定中的全球发展新日程必须赋予城市力量，让它们成为二十一世纪可持续发展的领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the long dreaded impact of climate change is already upon us.",
        "实际上，人们已经在遭受惧怕已久的气候变化的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that there has been no economic or financial progress in 2013.",
        "这并不是说2013年在经济和金融方面没有任何进步可言。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then can we create a framework to preserve the cross-border nature of the Internet, protect human rights, fight abuse, and sustain a truly global digital economy.",
        "惟其如此，我们才能建立一个保护互联网的跨国性质、保护人权、打击滥用，并维持真正的全球数字经济的框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Without fundamental change, China faces slower economic growth, inadequate job creation and innovation, and popping bubbles.",
        "如果没有根本性变化，中国面临着经济增速减慢、就业创造和创新不足和泡沫破裂的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "During the Peloponnesian War, according to the Greek historian Thucydides, “It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.”",
        "根据古希腊历史学家修昔底德（Thucydides）的说法，在伯罗奔尼撒战争期间“是雅典的崛起以及这一崛起令斯巴达产生的恐惧使得战争变得无法避免。"
    ],
    [
        "We know that bombs and special operations alone won't make us safer, for we must fight the poverty that breeds terrorism.",
        "我们清楚地知道只靠炸弹和特种部队不能保证安全，因为我们必须战争蕴育恐怖的极端贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Distrust and power politics are the order of the day.",
        "不信任和实力政治就是当前的秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "The two are inextricably linked; they reinforce each another in a pattern that touches women at every stage of their lives.",
        "这两个问题密不可分； 它们互相强化，影响着所有年龄阶段的妇女。"
    ],
    [
        "Interest spreads for Italian government bonds began to rise, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s administration was alarmed enough to implement an austerity program, and the European Central Bank helped with extra liquidity.",
        "意大利国债息差开始上升，贝卢斯科尼政府再三收到警示，必须采取财政紧缩计划，欧洲央行也伸出了援手，提供了额外流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "In the real world, accidents occur, so more proliferation means a greater chance of eventual inadvertent use, weaker capacity in managing nuclear crises, and greater difficulty in establishing controls and reducing the role of nuclear weapons in world politics.",
        "现实世界中，事故在所难免，因此，核武器扩散意味着不当使用的可能性增大，处理核危机能力变弱，确立控制并减少核武器在世界政治中的作用越来越困难。"
    ],
    [
        "To believe otherwise is to ignore how international politics has changed over the last quarter-century.",
        "认为美国衰落忽视了国际政治在过去25年的变局。"
    ],
    [
        "But that re-boot must start now, and the UN, specifically the General Assembly, is the place to begin.",
        "但启动必须现在就开始，而联合国，特别是联合国大会则应该是始发地。"
    ],
    [
        "In Greece, the problem is even worse, as the €86 billion ($94 billion) plan now under discussion follows a €110 billion bailout in 2010 and a €130 billion rescue in 2012.",
        "希腊的问题比韩国还要糟糕，在如今正在谈判中的86亿欧元援助计划之前，已经在2010年和2012年进行了1,100亿欧元和1,300亿欧元规模的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, by contrast, pervasive corruption, the absence of a free press, and state capitalism mean that princelings’ conduct is unconstrained – and typically shrouded in secrecy.",
        "相反，中国腐败现象泛滥，没有新闻自由，国家资本主义意味着太子党的行为不受约束——并且通常不为人所知。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this backdrop, it was hardly surprising that the S&ED produced so little.",
        "在这样的背景下，战略和经济对话成果甚微也就不足为奇了。"
    ],
    [
        "In size, scope, and fame, the wall will surpass the Hoover Dam and Mount Rushmore.",
        "无论从规模、范围还是知名度上，这堵墙都将超越胡佛大坝和拉什莫尔山。"
    ],
    [
        "Those boom-time profits were in any case overstated, because they were not adjusted for risk.",
        "这些繁荣期利润毫无疑问被夸大了，因为它们未经风险调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, these institutions will remain ineffective in confronting collective problems related to macroeconomic-policy spillovers, and in providing insurance against crises.",
        "否则，这些机构将依然无法有效应对与宏观政策溢出有关的集体性问题和提供危机保险。"
    ],
    [
        "If social media are full of falsehoods, counter them with facts.",
        "如果社交媒体充满谬误，必须用事实来进行回应。"
    ],
    [
        "The objective should be to initiate a productive dialogue – and, ultimately, achieve consensus – among relevant actors.",
        "目标应该是启动相关行动方之间的建设性对话——并最终达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "But aid agencies need access.",
        "但是，救援机构需要进行救援的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "They argued that the lessons of modern China – especially the reforms and opening up spearheaded by Deng Xiaoping – are more important than the lessons of Japan.",
        "他们认为，当代中国的经验——尤其邓小平领导之下的改革开放——比日本的经验更为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Chimerical Capital-Markets Union",
        "欧洲的空想资本市场联盟"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, Turkey has a long way to go.",
        "土耳其的确还有很长的路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.",
        "事实上，没有比这更深的误解了。"
    ],
    [
        "The efficient integration of global supply chains has created employment opportunities in developing countries and in the higher value-added sectors of advanced countries.",
        "全球供应链的高效一体化为发展中国家和发达国家的高附加值部门创造了就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt, the old regime under Hosni Mubarak, having failed to democratize, collapsed in the face of massive protest.",
        "在埃及，未能实现民主化的胡斯尼·穆巴拉克旧政权最终在大规模示威下倒台。"
    ],
    [
        "These features add complexity to the tax code, raise the cost of tax compliance, and reduce corporate-tax revenues.",
        "这些特征会增加税法的复杂性，增加依法纳税成本，减少公司税收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Last week, I visited the Ledra Street crossing.",
        "四十年来，位于尼科西亚市中心的莱德拉街始终是塞浦路斯分裂的象征；"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond public-sector underinvestment, there is monetary policy, which, whatever its benefits and costs, has shifted corporate use of cash toward stock buy-backs, while real investment has remained subdued.",
        "除了公共部门投资不足，还有货币政策——不管货币政策成本收益如何，它促使公司用现金进行股票回购，而实际投资依然萎靡。"
    ],
    [
        "The plan was to convene world leaders in Copenhagen and renew vows to cut carbon while committing to even more ambitious targets.",
        "哥本哈根会议的原定计划，是将全球领导人召集至哥城，并在制订更具雄心之目标的同时重申削减碳排放的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The answers to these questions should become clearer during the campaign.",
        "随着竞选的深入上述问题的答案应当越来越明确。"
    ],
    [
        "Loss-adverse sovereign wealth funds, emerging-market millionaires parking their money in the US and Europe, and governments seeking to ensure freedom of action have pushed full-prosperity interest rates down substantially and extended the time it takes for shocks to dissipate.",
        "厌恶损失的主权财富基金、把钱存在美国和欧洲的新兴市场富豪以及寻求确保行动自由的政府持续性地拉低了充分繁荣利率，延长了冲击消散所需要的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – Why do high-profile economic tussles turn so quickly to ad hominem attacks?",
        "新德里—为何高水平经济争论会这么快演变为人身攻击？"
    ],
    [
        "But, in terms of practical company management, such ideological polarization is not particularly useful.",
        "但对企业管理的实际操作而言，这种意识形态的两极分化并不是特别有用。"
    ],
    [
        "For Stern, this was part of the cultural soil in which National Socialism flourished.",
        "施特恩认为，正是在这样的文化土壤之上国家社会主义得以滋生。"
    ],
    [
        "National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon called her arrest “despicable” and “barbaric,” and Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid refused to take a conciliatory phone call from US Secretary of State John Kerry.",
        "国家安全顾问米农（Shivshankar Menon）表示科巴拉加德的被捕是“卑劣”而“野蛮”的，外交部长胡尔西德（Salman Khurshid）拒绝接听美国国务卿克里的调停电话。"
    ],
    [
        "The third development occurred in Japan, where the newly-elected Liberal Democratic government of Shinzo Abe, commanding a two-thirds parliamentary majority, is pressing the Bank of Japan to stimulate growth – a “discussion” that looks set to evolve into something much more assertive.",
        "第三项进展来源于日本，新当选的自民党安倍晋三政府控制着三分之二的议会席位，正向日本央行施压刺激经济发展——这场“讨论”似乎注定避免不了沸沸扬扬的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal of bringing about a transition to a different and more broad-based government should be maintained. But that is a long-term proposition.",
        "向一个管治方式且具备更广泛群众基础的政府过渡的目标应该持续维持，但这会是一个长期的主张。"
    ],
    [
        "The proof was provided by a third traditional event on Bastille Day, between the morning’s military parade and the evening’s music and fireworks: President François Hollande’s speech to the nation, which took the form of an interview with two prominent journalists.",
        "巴士底日的第三项传统节目提供了证明。 这个节目处于上午的军事游行和晚上的音乐和烟花之间：总统奥朗德发表全国演讲，今年的形式是由两名著名记者对他进行采访。"
    ],
    [
        "All told, Trump has governed like a plutocrat in populist clothes – that is, a pluto-populist.",
        "总而言之，特朗普就像个披着民粹主义外衣的财阀统治者——也就是一个财阀民粹主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "In support of Ariel Sharon's plan to evacuate unilaterally all Gaza settlements and a few in the West Bank, the Bush administration backed Israel's stance on borders and refugees, two of the most important issues of Palestinian-Israeli final status negotiations.",
        "为支持沙龙从加沙和部分西岸定居点的单方面撤军计划，布什政府全力支持以色列在边界和难民问题上的立场，这是巴以最后阶段谈判中最重要的两个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Its tragedies and failings are a result of what is happening in God’s name, not Jinnah’s.",
        "其悲剧和失败是那些以上帝的名义而不是以真纳的名义发生的事情的结局。"
    ],
    [
        "The most generous interpretation is that the Commission simply does not believe economists’ estimates and analysis, and views an FTT as more workable than is commonly realized (a scenario that calls to mind the debate surrounding the creation of the euro).",
        "最大胆的解释是，欧盟委员会根本就不相信经济学家的估计和分析，它认为金融交易税比学界公认的要可取（此情境令人回想起当年关于创设欧元的大辩论）。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – The legendary American investor Warren Buffet once said, “It’s when the tide goes out that you find out who has been swimming naked.”",
        "柏林-美国富有传奇色彩的投资家沃伦·巴菲特曾经说过， “只有当潮水退去的时候，你才知道谁一直在裸泳。"
    ],
    [
        "Very little was added to current spending.",
        "只有很少的一部分被加入到现有支出之上。"
    ],
    [
        "DUBLIN – One of the top priorities established by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker ahead of his election last summer was the creation of a European energy union.",
        "发自都柏林——在去年夏天当选之前，欧盟委员会主席让-克劳德·容克（Jean-Claude Juncker）提出的其中一个核心议题就是创立一个欧洲能源联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, together with the US, has already resisted Chinese (and Russian) demands for greater Internet censorship.",
        "欧洲，以及美国，拒绝了中国（和俄罗斯）加强互联网审查的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "She concluded that the positive effect of “pent-up demand” and government measures can “make sense only when viewed against the background of our changed economic and political philosophy.”",
        "” 只有在我们的 社会政治观念发生改变之后，她对“压抑的需求”和“政府职责”的积极方面才能体现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "People who lose high-paying jobs in manufacturing can find alternative work – but typically at a much lower wage in a low-productivity part of the service sector.",
        "丢掉高薪制造业工作的人可以找到其他工作——但常常是工资低得多的低生产率私营部门工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this policy has failed.",
        "但这项政策遭到了失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Immigration has always been an immensely complex and delicate issue inside the US, and now for Latin America as well.",
        "移民问题总是美国国内的一个极为复杂和微妙的问题，现在对于拉美国家也是一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Korea and Japan maintain massive duties on imported rice simply to protect the livelihoods of their own rice farmers.",
        "甚至韩国和日本为了保护国内米农的生计也仍然维持着针对进口大米的高额关税。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s Deadly “Great Game”",
        "普京在自杀吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Human society simply does not follow the rules of a termite colony; order must accommodate freedom and individuality.",
        "人类社会根本不可能遵守白蚁殖民地的规则； 秩序、自由和个性缺一不可。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent editorial in a Chinese state-run newspaper asserted that while China would stay neutral if North Korea attacked first, US strikes aimed at regime change would cause China to intervene.",
        "中国一份官方报纸发表社论称尽管中国在朝鲜首先发起攻击的情况下会保持中立，但美国以政权更迭为目标的打击行动将会导致中国介入。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, these areas have become safe havens for all religious and ethnic groups escaping the war.",
        "事实上，库尔德地区已经成为所有宗教种族群体逃离战争的避风港。"
    ],
    [
        "These behemoths’ innate conservatism, having calmed bond and currency markets, is now having a similar effect on stocks.",
        "这些庞然大物天生的保守思想使债券和汇率市场变得平静，并且现在对股票市场也正在发挥同样的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But their daughter Mika got a reprinted chair made from the same old materials plus a little more, marking her growth from her last birthday.",
        "但他们的女儿米卡得到了一张复制椅——用相同的原料在稍稍添加一点东西做成——以庆祝她又大了一岁。"
    ],
    [
        "India is unlikely to develop the power to become a global challenger to the US in the first half of this century.",
        "在本世纪上半叶，印度没有希望发展出能成为美国的全球挑战者的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Sunni insurrection and the Mahdi army in Iraq are very different forces, but President George W. Bush’s global war on terror prevents us from differentiating between them and dealing with them accordingly.",
        "基地组织、哈马斯、真主党和逊尼派起义以及伊拉克的马赫迪军队之间存在着巨大的差异，但是布什总统的全球反恐战争阻止我们对此进行区分并分别对待。"
    ],
    [
        "(Greece’s young people – who now often take a couple of extra years to complete college, because their teachers are so often on strike – certainly did not cause it.)",
        "（希腊的年轻人——他们往往需要多读几年书才能完成大学学业，因为教师总是罢工——绝非问题的原因。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The idea behind the policy is that demand for labor is a constant, and that this fixed number of aggregate working hours required by employers to meet final demand can be spread more evenly among workers to reduce unemployment.",
        "这一政策背后的思想是劳动力需求是不变的，而雇主为满足最终需求所需要的这一固定数量的总劳动时间可以在工人之间更加平均地分配，以减少失业。"
    ],
    [
        "Reconciling morals with how a society is organized - in other words, reconciling ethics with politics - is one of humanity's oldest ambitions.",
        "使道德与社会的组织方式和解-换句话说，使道德规范与政治和解-是人类最古老的雄心壮志之一。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, expanded trade holds great promise for promoting development and democracy.",
        "扩大贸易确实很有可能会促进民主与发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Or will he follow the path of Hugo Chávez, a popular autocrat who seems to prefer building a cult of personality over raising living standards for the poor.",
        "还是会走上一条雨果·查韦斯式的道路，做一个受欢迎的独裁者，和提高穷人的生活水平相比，更愿意建立起个人崇拜呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, Amazon enraged many Indians by offering doormats with pictures of Indian gods and goddesses, prompting the furious hashtag #BoycottAmazon.",
        "去年，亚马逊因为出售印有印度诸神的门垫而激怒了许多印度人，催生了愤怒的热门标签#BoycottAmazon（抵制亚马逊）。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, China should not be working to restore past rates of GDP growth. That would be a waste of time.",
        "当然，中国不应想方设法去重拾过去的GDP增长率，这将是缘木求鱼之举。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone survived its crisis for two key reasons.",
        "欧元区从危机中存活下来，主要原因有二。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, real estate and other assets are not even included in the accounting.",
        "此外，不动产和其他资产甚至没有被纳入通胀的计算中。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason, of course, was the common knowledge that Germany, vehemently opposed to our government, was about to switch off the green light required by the ECB to maintain the exemptions allowing it to accept Greek collateral.",
        "究其原因，显然是因为大家都知道德国强烈反对我们这届政府，即将禁止欧洲央行继续维持接受希腊抵押品的豁免要求。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, the G-7 made a truly important contribution in offering debt relief.",
        "另一方面，西方七国在提供救灾援助方面做出了不少贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "For that we should be grateful.",
        "为此我们应当感激。"
    ],
    [
        "If inflation expectations do start rising, this will push up rates.",
        "如果通胀预期真的开始上升，将推高利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Although output is now higher than it was in the fourth quarter of 2007, it remains far below what could be produced if labor and capacity were fully utilized.",
        "尽管如今产出已经高于2007年第四季度，但仍要比劳动力和产能充分调动情形低很多。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In October, two groups researching the effectiveness of a potential breakthrough drug in the fight against HIV did something unusual.",
        "伦敦——10月，在抗击艾滋病工作中研究某种潜在突破性药物的两个小组取得了非同寻常的突破。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Other people’s elections are usually baffling and boring, which is certainly true of the United Kingdom’s coming vote on May 7; indeed, many Britons share the sentiment.",
        "发自伦敦——世界各国的选举通常都是迷乱且沉闷的，而英国即将在五月七号举行的大选也是如此； 许多英国人无疑也深有同感。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s Lawless Legality",
        "俄罗斯法律权威的非法性"
    ],
    [
        "Yet rapid urbanization everywhere in Africa has given rise to a dynamic informal sector unconnected to the modern economy.",
        "但非洲各地快速城市化已经催生出一个与现代经济无关的活跃的非正规部门。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, eliminating commercial banks' right to select a majority of each Reserve Bank's board would be a useful step in the direction of greater openness and diversity.",
        "比如，取消商业银行选择每家联储银行理事会多数的权利将是迈向更开放、更多元的正确方向的有益的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "The disappearance from the treaty of such terms as “constitution” and “minister of foreign affairs” clearly show that the constitutional treaty’s ambitions have been scaled back.",
        "诸如“宪法”和“外交部长”等字眼的消失，清楚地表明了这部宪法条约已收敛了雄心壮志。"
    ],
    [
        "The Hazards Behind the Headlines",
        "新闻头条背后的伤害"
    ],
    [
        "His decision followed a three-hour meeting between Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, the Pakistani army’s chief of the army.",
        "优素福•拉扎•吉拉尼总理和巴基斯坦陆军参谋长阿什法克•佩尔韦兹•基亚尼将军经过三个小时的会谈之后，他作出了决定。"
    ],
    [
        "US oil demand has fallen 8% as consumers tighten their belts, and electricity demand in China is down by 10% as energy-intensive industries cut production.",
        "美国的石油需求已经滑落了8%，因为消费者紧缩开支； 中国的电力需求则下滑了10%，因为高能耗产业削减了生产。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite a long history of alliance dating back to the American Revolution and including two world wars, France has always had a somewhat ambivalent attitude toward the US, and the Iraq War was not the first time that a controversial security policy undercut America’s attractiveness in France.",
        "尽管两国自美国独立战争时期起就保持了合作，包括在两次世界大战期间，但是法国对于美国一直怀有一种矛盾心理，而伊拉克战争并不是第一次出现一项有争议的安全策略削弱了美国对法国的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "For its part, the international community must embrace Hamas’s involvement in the pursuit of a peaceful settlement of the Palestine-Israel conflict.",
        "国际社会必须在追求巴以冲突的和平和解时必须把哈马斯纳入进来。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then we will know if the trade-off at least made sense, even if for many it was unacceptable: authentic social justice and progress in exchange for authoritarian rule, international ostracism, and a cultural desert.",
        "即便对很多人来讲根本无法接受，但只有到那时我们才知道这种交易是否起过作用：牺牲真正的社会正义和进步，得到的却是独裁统治、国际排斥和文化沙漠。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea was to pressure countries to reduce their current-account surpluses.",
        "其思想是要施压各国降低经常项目盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "The banking system will be reinforced.",
        "银行系统将会得到再融资。"
    ],
    [
        "When he does so by outsourcing to firms abroad that do things that would be illegal here – for example, prevent their workers from organizing and bargaining collectively – I may have a real gripe.",
        "但如果对手通过将工作外包给一些国外企业，放任他们做一些在本国触犯法律的事——比如禁止工人组织起来集体谈判——而导致我失业，那我可能就有话要说了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the emerging world, Brazil's government has faced multiple corruption scandals.",
        "在新兴国家，巴西政府正面临多重腐败丑闻的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Whoever wins will have to choose between deeply transforming Chile’s institutions and letting social unrest spin out of control.",
        "不管谁当选，都必须做出选择，要么深化智利制度改革，要么让社会动荡迈向失控。"
    ],
    [
        "Stopping the Syria Contagion",
        "遏制叙利亚传染病"
    ],
    [
        "Among other things, Basel III stipulates that banks do not have to set aside cash against their investments in government bonds with ratings of AA- or higher.",
        "巴塞尔III规定银行不必为AA-及以上信用级别的政府债券投资拔备现金。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China has been shifting from hard power to soft throughout the region, and is using its economic power to challenge Western-dominated multilateral institutions.",
        "事实上，中国在整个地区正在从硬实力转向软实力，并且正在利用其经济实力挑战西方主导的多边机构。"
    ],
    [
        "These technologies currently are too expensive.",
        "1%。 这两项技术目前都成本过高。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that the international community’s credibility in promising universal education has been compromised; it has pledged to achieve this goal in at least 12 UN-sponsored declarations since 1950.",
        "问题在于国际社会的普及教育承诺的信誉的让步； 自1950年以来，国际社会至少在12项联合国宣言中做出过实现这一目标的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Such circumstances include, first, a high debt/GDP ratio, with rising interest rates impeding growth.",
        "这些环境包括哪些？ 第一，高债务/GDP比率，同时利率较高妨碍增长时。"
    ],
    [
        "They turned their farmers into manufacturing workers, diversified their economies, and exported a range of increasingly sophisticated goods.",
        "农民转变为制造业工人，经济实现多元化，并开始出口一系列日益成熟的商品。"
    ],
    [
        "Every ton of carbon dioxide that is emitted into the atmosphere by burning coal, oil, or gas adds to long-term global warming, and therefore to the long-term costs that society will incur through droughts, floods, heat waves, extreme storms, and rising sea levels.",
        "因燃烧煤炭、石油或天然气而排入大气的每一吨二氧化碳都加剧着长期气候变暖，因此给社会带来通过干旱、洪水、热浪、极端风暴和海平面升高等现象体现的长期成本。"
    ],
    [
        "As Greece and other eurozone countries have already learned, attempting to rush fiscal adjustment increases the debt burden, as the liquidity squeeze and concomitant uncertainty undermine output and reform efforts.",
        "希腊和其他欧元区国家已经知道，匆忙进行财政调整会增加债务负担，因为流动性挤压和伴生不确定性会拖累产出和改革措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The Lemmings of QE",
        "QE者，负鼠也"
    ],
    [
        "As wages in China rise, Southeast Asian economies have a window of opportunity to become the next “factories to the world.”",
        "随着中国工资的上升，东南亚经济体迎来了成为下一个“世界工厂”的机会窗口。"
    ],
    [
        "It helps participants explore and develop their abilities, and then apply them in practical settings, such as acquiring funding to start or expand their own businesses.",
        "它帮助参与者探索和开发自身能力，而后在实际环境中加以应用，例如为启动或拓展自有业务获取资金支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The Pakistan Conundrum",
        "巴基斯坦迷局"
    ],
    [
        "The difference is ultimately minor, and should not be allowed to overshadow what is really at stake: democratic self-governance in an age of high public debt.",
        "两者的区别其实归根究底也不大，而且也都不应该掩盖了真正的危机：在一个高公共负债时代下的民主自我治理问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, despite Trump’s aggressive rhetoric on immigration, his policies have been relatively moderate, perhaps because many of the businesspeople who supported his campaign actually favor a milder approach.",
        "同样，尽管特朗普在移民问题上言辞激烈，但他的政策却相对温和，这或许是因为许多投钱支持他竞选的商人确实更喜欢比较温和的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "What if they quarrel?",
        "如果他们发生争吵怎么办？"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, they faced criticism when the United States, Germany, and other countries overtook Britain in the late nineteenth century.",
        "诚然，当美国、德国和其他国家在十九世纪末超过英国时，他们受到了批评。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only has Hu’s administration failed to protect the rights of the poor and the oppressed, but police and government-hired thugs now frequently harass lawyers and other activists who lobby on behalf of the country’s dispossessed.",
        "胡锦涛当局不仅没有保护穷人和受压迫人的权利，而且，警察和政府雇佣的痞子现在经常骚扰维权的律师和其他活动份子。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, America’s three-week “shock and awe” campaign in Iraq in 2003 ended in “victory,” but opened the gates of hell for occupiers and ordinary Iraqis alike.",
        "同样，美国2003年在伊拉克发动的为期三周的“震慑行动”战役以“胜利”告终，但却为占领者和普通的伊拉克人打开了地狱之门。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, we recognize that clogged credit channels can cause an economic downturn.",
        "如今，我们认识到信贷渠道受阻可以导致经济下行。"
    ],
    [
        "With more than 100 million people still below the official poverty line and per capita income currently just over $6,000 in nominal terms, robust economic growth must be maintained.",
        "1亿多人仍生活在官方贫困线以下，名义人均收入刚刚跨过6000美元，在这样的情况下，稳健的经济增长是必不可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "So Russia seems doomed to continue its decline – an outcome that should be no cause for celebration in the West.",
        "因此俄国似乎注定要继续衰落——这样的结果不值得西方为之庆贺。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most important – and the most worrying – qualities they share is an ability to substitute salesmanship for substance, a willingness to tell bald-faced lies in pursuit of publicity and advantage, and an eagerness to intimidate critics into silence.",
        "但最重要——同时也最令人忧虑的是，他们们所共有的特质包括以推销来替代实质、为宣传和取得优势愿意赤裸裸地撒谎，以及迫不及待地恐吓批评者让他们不再出声。"
    ],
    [
        "As we grapple with our joint water future, we will face a time of trial and error in finding workable solutions.",
        "在与共同的水资源未来抗争的同时，我们在寻找有效的解决方法时面临着严峻的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "But governments can help make the long run shorter.",
        "但政府可以帮助让长期变得更短。"
    ],
    [
        "However, this is probably not a viable alternative.",
        "但这或许不是一个可行的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring a peaceful outcome will be the greatest geopolitical challenge of the twenty-first century.",
        "21世纪最大的地缘政治挑战将是确保一个和平的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "They also run large, sophisticated media campaigns aimed at persuading policymakers and the public that what is good for their special interest is good for the country.",
        "他们还纯熟地大肆使用媒体宣传说服决策者和公众，符合他们的特殊利益的东西也是对美国有利的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 40% of the population still lives below a poverty line drawn just this side of the funeral pyre.",
        "停电更是家常便饭，有40%的人口终生生活在贫困线以下。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, all of which happen to be on the Security Council currently – two vetoed and the rest abstained (along with Lebanon, for obvious reasons).",
        "金砖五国——巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非，目前正好全部都是安理会理事国——中有两国投了反对票，其他投了弃权票（黎巴嫩也投了弃权票，不过它这样做的原因是显而易见的）。"
    ],
    [
        "The First Amendment to the US Constitution states that.",
        "美国宪法第一修正案规定“国会不应制定任何法律. ."
    ],
    [
        "For Solow, GDP growth is determined by the factor inputs of land, labor, and capital, together with the economy’s total factor productivity (TFP, or the change in output not accounted for by changes in the volume of inputs, but by factors like technological innovation and institutional reform).",
        "在索洛看来，GDP增长率由土地、劳动力、资本等投入要素和全要素生产率共同决定。 全要素生产率（TFP）指不是因为投入量的变化、而是由于技术创新和制度改革所导致的产出变化。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach has clearly found an audience in India, where millions of people live in hunger and poverty, even as the country’s net wealth grows.",
        "显然，这一方针已经有了一个身体力行者——印度，尽管该国净财富在增长中，但仍有几百万人生活在饥饿和贫困中。"
    ],
    [
        "Across Europe, the discussions are growing more intense as anti-immigration platforms gain supporters in otherwise liberal countries, from Germany to France to traditionally inclusive and tolerant Denmark itself.",
        "有关这个问题的讨论在全欧洲都日趋激烈，反移民政党在其他自由主义国家都获得了更多的支持，从德国，法国，一直到传统上比较平等包容的丹麦。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – Compensation practices at financial firms stand accused of being a primary cause of the recent global financial crisis.",
        "芝加哥 —— 在本次金融危机中，金融机构的薪酬体系成为主要的攻击目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Amid increasingly intense international competition to attract foreign investment, reducing the corporate tax would actually increase Japan’s tax revenues, by spurring companies to invest their vast cash stockpiles in more productive activities.",
        "在国际间日渐激烈的外国投资争夺战中，通过驱使企业将自身的巨额现金储备投入到更具生产力的活动当中，减少企业税率将在事实上增加日本的税收收入。"
    ],
    [
        "In such a scenario, there is no way the world could avoid another full-blown recession.",
        "在这个情形中，世界将无法不免又一次大衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "There are seven high-rises in Moscow that Russians still call “Stalin’s vysotki.”",
        "至今，莫斯科还有7大高层建筑被俄罗斯人称为“斯大林摩天大楼”。"
    ],
    [
        "But this scenario does not correspond to reality.",
        "但是这与现实并不相符。"
    ],
    [
        "Righting the Wrongs of Leprosy",
        "纠正麻风病人所受的不公正待遇"
    ],
    [
        "There is no question that such a framework has already been established in relations with the US.",
        "毫无疑问，中美关系之间已经建立了这样一个框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Truman almost lost the 1948 election to the Republican Thomas Dewey.",
        "在1948年的总统选举中，杜鲁门险些输给共和党的托马斯·杜威（Thomas Dewey）。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is important for the public and members of Congress to understand the real reason for their opposition.",
        "但对公众和国会议员来说，很重要的一点是要理解他们的反对的真实原因。"
    ],
    [
        "If just one of every 20 Chinese citizens exercised this option, China’s foreign-exchange reserves would be wiped out.",
        "如果20个中国人中有一个采取此做法，中国的外汇储备就会灰飞烟灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a united Korea will have inherited the North’s nuclear weapons.",
        "此外，统一后的朝鲜国将会继承前朝鲜的核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Those of us who are in favor of continuing to advance cannot remain silent.",
        "我们这些希望欧洲继续前进的人不能沉默不语。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, of the three initial Arab Spring countries, Libya has become a failed state, Egypt has returned to authoritarian rule, and Tunisia is being economically and politically destabilized by terrorist attacks.",
        "事实上，在率先爆发阿拉伯之春的三个国家中，利比亚已成为失败之国，埃及恢复了极权统治，而突尼斯正在因为恐怖袭击而出现经济和政治动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The International Monetary Fund, many say, has had a good crisis.",
        "伯克利 —— 许多人说，国际货币基金组织（ IMF ）也曾遭遇过一场危机。"
    ],
    [
        "First, investors might be telling themselves that in the worst-case scenario, the northern European countries will effectively push out the weaker countries, creating a super-euro.",
        "首先，投资者可能会告诉自己，在最坏情形下，北欧国家将抛弃疲软国家，创造新的超级欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, Uribe’s absence allowed Chávez to avoid responding to Colombia’s accusations that Venezuela and its ally Ecuador support the narco-Marxist FARC.",
        "另外，Uribe的缺席使得查韦斯避免了回应哥伦比亚关于委内瑞拉和其盟国厄瓜多尔支持毒品马克思主义的FARC的指控。"
    ],
    [
        "Sunstein and Thaler merely say that the default option should be set in a way that is good for people, and clearly they have an idea of what is good.",
        "桑斯坦和泰勒仅仅是说，默认选项应该以对人们有利的方式设置，且他们显然知道什么是“有利”。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s own constituencies, whether netizens or competing official institutions, have contributed to an international record that is earning China derision from small neighbors and great powers alike.",
        "但是中国国内政治，无论是网民或者是相互打架的各种官方机构，现在都已经在世界范围内成为各国——不论弹丸小国还是强权大国——的笑柄。"
    ],
    [
        "It is simply more difficult for 193 states to reach agreement than it was for the original 51 signatories of the post-World War II conventions that established the contemporary international order.",
        "在193个国家之间达成协议当然要比在这个建立了当代国际秩序的公约的51个最初签署国之间达成协议难得多。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is disingenuous.",
        "但事实并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Temer’s government also hopes to tap investment in human capital as a source of productivity growth.",
        "特梅尔政府还希望增加人力资本投资，以此作为生产率增长的源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "But very different choices – for better and for worse – were made in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, in the Baltic states, across the former Soviet Union, in Central Asia, and in East Germany.",
        "不管效果好坏，波兰、匈牙利、捷克斯洛伐克、波罗的海诸国、前苏联内部，中亚和东德都选择了自身独特的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "But sometimes democracy is best served by refusing to participate.",
        "但是有时最好通过拒绝参与来帮助民主。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, loose US monetary policy in the middle of the last decade helped to set the stage for the Great Recession by contributing significantly to an explosion of leverage and fueling the housing bubble that burst in 2007-2008.",
        "类似地，过去十年中期美国宽松的货币政策大大提高了经济的杠杆率，助长了房地产泡沫，这个泡沫在2007—2008年破裂，引发了大衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, with a sufficiently strong commitment from policymakers and businesses, China could reach its clean-energy goals ahead of schedule.",
        "事实上，中国的决策者和企业都做出了郑重承诺，中国能够提前完成清洁能源计划目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the world expected more elevated behavior from Obama.",
        "世界在眼巴巴地指望奥巴马拿出更多的提振措施来。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, there is little reason to be optimistic.",
        "悲哀的是，找不到乐观的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Public-private partnerships are helping to change this.",
        "公私合作正在改变这一状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany was sandwiched between an imperialist Russia and a vengeful France.",
        "德国被夹在帝国主义俄国和卧薪尝胆的法国之间。"
    ],
    [
        "The tribe can be a club, a clan, or a nation.",
        "这里的部族可以是一家俱乐部、一个家族乃至一个民族。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, if a company that produces a generic consumer good like food, or even cars, sells less in Russia than it did before, one should not necessarily count the reduction as a loss.",
        "比如，如果某生产一般消费品的公司——如食品公司，甚至汽车公司也是如此——对俄销售较以前有所下降，你并不一定要把这一下降记为损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The neuroArm actually has two arms, which can hold various surgical tools while the surgeon maneuvers them from a remote workstation.",
        "神经之手实际上有两只手，外科医生可以在远端工作站操纵它们，使用各种外科手术工具。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, not everyone considered EU membership to be worth the sacrifice.",
        "可以肯定的是，并不是每个人都认为值得为欧盟成员国资格作出如此牺牲。"
    ],
    [
        "The remaining Russian lands would then have no other choice but to attach themselves to Ukraine, which should by then have become a successful member of the European Union.",
        "剩下的俄罗斯领土将除了依附乌克兰以外没有其他的选择，而乌克兰到那时候已经成为欧盟成功的一员。"
    ],
    [
        "This week, the international community will have a chance to do something about this scandalous state of affairs.",
        "本周，国际社会将有机会为改变上述可耻状态尽一份力。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the US armed the mujahedeen who fought the Soviets in neighboring Afghanistan in the 1980s, but then all but abandoned the region soon after the Soviet military exit in 1989.",
        "例如，美国人在1980年代为在巴基斯坦邻国阿富汗对抗苏联的圣战者提供武装，但是在1989年苏联撤军后不久就抛弃了这个地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic opposition forces, while distancing themselves from the US, have been markedly emboldened in Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere.",
        "尽管黎巴嫩、埃及、沙特阿拉伯及其他地方的国内反对派力量与美国保持着一定距离，但这增加了他们的勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "Most observers believe that Bersani will carry the day, thanks to the much-criticized electoral law, which will give him control of the lower chamber if he wins a majority – regardless of how many people vote or how slim the margin.",
        "多数观察家认为贝尔萨尼将最终获胜，因为无论多少人参与投票及优势多么微弱，只要贝尔萨尼能赢得多数，那么根据饱受诟病的选举法他就可以控制下院。"
    ],
    [
        "First, potential growth in developed and emerging countries has fallen because of the burden of high private and public debts, rapid aging (which implies higher savings and lower investment), and a variety of uncertainties holding back capital spending.",
        "首先，发达和新兴国家的潜在增长因为私人和公共债务高企、人口迅速老化（这意味着更高的储蓄和更低的投资），以及各种让人们收紧资本支出的不确定性而下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In secretive North Korea, that seems to be a clear sign that something is afoot.",
        "在神秘的朝鲜，这似乎是不对劲的型号。"
    ],
    [
        "I welcome Medvedev’s emphasis on social concerns and his anti-bureaucratic rhetoric.",
        "我对梅德韦杰夫关注社会热点及其反官僚言论持欢迎态度。"
    ],
    [
        "So it does nothing, even as Europe's borders are challenged, Ukrainian citizens are bombed in their homes by Russian troops, and a violent, bandit army ravages the greater Middle East, from the beaches of Libya to the borders of Iran.",
        "因此，当乌克兰公民在家中遭遇俄罗斯军队轰炸时，当暴力的匪帮蹂躏大中东、席卷利比亚海岸直至伊朗边界的广袤地区时，欧洲毫无作为，即使欧洲的边界也受到了挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to stop resisting it and, armed with facts, start managing it.",
        "现在，我们应该停止抵制这一现象，并以事实为武器开始管理它。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab Revolutions’ Reality Check",
        "阿拉伯革命的现实考验"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s regime is openly tsarist.",
        "普京公然采用了沙皇主义专制制度。"
    ],
    [
        "David Cameron prides himself on a successful campaign to make 40% of all Conservative parliamentary candidates in Britain are women.",
        "卡梅隆在一次成功的竞选活动上自豪地称英国40%的保守党议员候选人是女性。"
    ],
    [
        "Because he has not thought about the question for one moment.",
        "原因是这个问题他连想都没想过。"
    ],
    [
        "But who is the “self” that makes this determination?",
        "但谁构成了自决的“本体”？"
    ],
    [
        "More than that, the struggle now underway at the top of the world may well determine whether this will be an “Asian Century” or a “Chinese Century.”",
        "更重要的是，这场位于喜马拉雅山脉世界之巅的斗争将决定未来究竟是“亚洲的世纪”，还是“中国的世纪”。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Trump is not wrong to try to improve relations with Russia.",
        "当然，特朗普试图与俄罗斯改善关系并没有错。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is thus caught between demands for more solidarity from the young in its southern members and dissatisfaction with open borders among the elderly in the north.",
        "因此，欧盟陷入了一场拉锯：南欧成员国年轻人要求更加团结，而北欧年长者不满于边境开放。"
    ],
    [
        "Although this stance is technically wrong, it is strategically rational, given the West’s wariness regarding Iran’s true intentions.",
        "尽管这一立场在技术上是错误的，但是在战略上，鉴于西方国家对伊朗的真实意图抱有戒心，它却是理性的。"
    ],
    [
        "If the financial crisis reveals a structural problem in banking, it is more likely to come from insufficient capital to cushion a bank’s fall, or from too many financial institutions having become too big to fail.",
        "如果金融危机暴露了银行业的结构性问题，那么这一问题更可能产生于银行资本不足以缓冲倒闭，或者产生于太多的金融机构变得太大而不能倒。"
    ],
    [
        "But Ukrainians have now given their seal of approval to democracy and an open society.",
        "但是现在乌克兰人已同意进行民主主义改革和社会开放。"
    ],
    [
        "The real issue is whether societies are willing to provide elderly people with equal access to ever newer and improved medical techniques.",
        "真正的问题是各国社会是否愿意向老年人一视同仁地提供日新月异的医疗技术。"
    ],
    [
        "The latter status may or may not include a path to residency and citizenship; fudging the issue may be a negotiating tactic to avoid debate over whether this is a form of disguised amnesty (which, fortunately, to a certain extent, it is).",
        "回避这一问题可能是为避免讨论这是否是一种变相大赦的谈判战术而已。 而不幸的是，在某种程度上这的确是一种变相的大赦。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s collapsing asset values could trigger financial turbulence.",
        "中国资产价值崩盘可能引发金融动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – By invading Ukraine in 2014, President Vladimir Putin’s Russia has posed a fundamental challenge to the values and principles on which the European Union was founded, and to the rules-based system that has kept the peace in Europe since 1945.",
        "纽约—2014年入侵乌克兰意味着俄罗斯总统普京对作为欧盟成立基础的价值和原则以及对自1945年以来保持欧洲和平的基于规则的体系进行了根本挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Their governments should encourage them.",
        "他们的政府应当鼓励他们这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "The reference in the final version, drafted by the United States, was removed in light of US interests in building strategic partnerships with both South Korea and Japan.",
        "起草最终版本的美国之所以删去这一条，是为了同时与韩国和日本建立战略合作伙伴关系，以符合美国利益。"
    ],
    [
        "What, many people are asking, is NATO really fighting for in Afghanistan?",
        "许多人质疑，北约在阿富汗，究竟为什么而战？"
    ],
    [
        "Muslim history is full of such cases.",
        "穆斯林的历史中，这样的例子不胜枚举。"
    ],
    [
        "You can’t – but showing that you noticed their unhappiness with you counts for a lot.",
        "事实上你根本无法弥补 —— 但你要表现出他们的不满意对你有多重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In our lifetimes, we have seen a welcome change from the darkest days of the Cold War, when a devastating conventional and nuclear war in Europe was a real possibility, to a new era in which no state faces this type of existential threat.",
        "我们在有生之年亲眼见证了从冷战最黑暗的时期到一个崭新时代的令人欢欣鼓舞的过渡，冷战时期的欧洲面临着毁灭性常规及核战争的现实威胁，但现在类似这样的现实威胁已经解除。"
    ],
    [
        "Barclays, it was claimed, had come through the 2008-2009 crisis without benefiting from government support.",
        "据说，巴克莱银行没靠政府支持就挺过了2008~2009年的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Income and wealth inequality in the United States has grown steadily since the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, but monetary-policy normalization could mark the beginning of the end of this trend.",
        "自2008年全球金融危机爆发以来，美国收入和财富不平等稳步加剧，但货币政策正常化可能标志着这一趋势结束的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "We need greater innovation in finding solutions.",
        "我们需要更伟大的创新以找到解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Studies have shown that this huge experiment had very large positive effects on the economy and on skilled locals.",
        "研究表明这场巨型实验对以色列经济和高技能本地人产生了巨大的积极效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Popular anger is channeled to the ballot box.",
        "民众的愤怒会在投票箱里呈现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that China is testing its growing power by claiming territories, not just in the East China Sea, but also in the South China Sea, Japanese nationalists insist that Japan must act as a big power, and be seen as a serious player, fully prepared to defend its sovereignty, even over a few insignificant rocks.",
        "由于中国通过在东海和南海提出领土主权声明来测试其不断增强的国力，日本的民族主义者坚持认为日本必须像一个大国那样回应，应当被视作一个严肃的对手，做好保卫主权——甚至是保卫一些无关重要的石头——的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Some Brexit defenders could point to the example of the successful US free-trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, which contains no provision for labor mobility.",
        "有些脱欧捍卫者可能会引用加拿大和墨西哥两国与美国达成自由贸易协议的正面例子，其中并未限制劳动力流动。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, even if markets are not fully saturated in many areas, it will be hard to maintain double-digit growth rates for exports.",
        "更加重要的是，即使各国市场在许多方面都并不完全饱和，维持两位数的出口增长是困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Metternich sought to deter any possible French resurgence, he restored France’s prewar frontiers.",
        "尽管梅特涅竭力阻止法国复兴，但是他恢复了法国的战前边界。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it has already created a detailed strategy to cut household gas consumption by more than half, with the goal of dispersing the corrupt gas monopoly of Naftogaz and ending Ukraine’s energy dependence on Russia.",
        "事实上，它已经制定了一个详细战略将家庭天然气消费降低一大半，计划拆分腐败的天然气垄断商国家天然气公司并摆脱对俄罗斯的能源依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "By keeping banks and other private-sector firms at lower levels of debt, vulnerability to shocks is reduced.",
        "如能减少银行和其他私人部门企业的债务水平，它们抵抗冲击的能力也会有所提高。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom is the latest victim of this fantasy-driven populism.",
        "英国是上述幻想民粹主义的最新受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "His daughter is proud of his legacy, which marked the beginning of South Korea’s economic boom.",
        "他的女儿为父亲取得的成就感到骄傲，在他执政期间恰好是韩国经济繁荣的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, President Viktor Yanukovych’s contempt for the rule of law has put Ukraine’s relations with the European Union in cold storage, with a comprehensive free-trade and association agreement on hold pending the release of Tymoshenko and other political prisoners.",
        "特别是总统亚努科维奇对法治精神的蔑视导致乌克兰和欧盟关系冷淡，全面自由贸易和合作协议也被冻结，在季莫申科和其他政治犯重获自由之前不会重启。"
    ],
    [
        "The unemployment rate in the US and the eurozone has increased by about the same amount as well – three percentage points.",
        "美国和欧元区的失业率也出现了近乎相同幅度的上升——3%。"
    ],
    [
        "This variation of the genome is exceptionally common, present in 30% of individuals of European ancestry and more than 50% of those of Asian ancestry.",
        "这类基因变异非常普遍，30%欧洲血统和50%亚洲血统的患者是这类变异基因的携带者。"
    ],
    [
        "What can American Tea Party enthusiasts, Russian chauvinists, fearful Dutch and Danes, and Singaporean leftists possibly have in common that is driving this anti-immigrant sentiment?",
        "美国茶党狂热份子、俄国沙文主义者、忧心忡忡的荷兰和丹麦人以及新加坡左翼人士究竟有哪些共同诉求推动着这样的反移民情绪？"
    ],
    [
        "These countries’ success has depended on sustained high-level political commitment to providing high-quality maternal and newborn care.",
        "这些国家的成功依赖于在高阶层作出政治承诺，持续提供高质量的母婴和新生儿护理。"
    ],
    [
        "Latin America’s Moment",
        "拉丁美洲时刻"
    ],
    [
        "They are an alarm.",
        "他们在敲打警钟。"
    ],
    [
        "A European Cure for Balkan Depression",
        "巴尔干衰退的欧洲式疗法"
    ],
    [
        "The devil is in the details, as many less developed countries discovered that EBA’s complicated rules of origin, together with supply-side constraints, meant that there was little chance for poor countries to export their newly liberalized products.",
        "问题出在了细节之中。 许多不发达国家发现，这一项目复杂的原产地规则以及供应方限制意味着贫穷国家几乎没有机会出口它们刚刚获得贸易自由的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "The investments will generate jobs, household income, and consumption.",
        "投资将产生就业、家庭收入和消费。"
    ],
    [
        "Inequality can corrupt and paralyze a country’s political system – and economic growth along with it.",
        "不平等性可能侵蚀甚至崩坏一国的政治制度，经济增长也将随之东流。"
    ],
    [
        "Two DNA sequences generated at random must be 25% identical, by virtue of the fact that DNA is a sequence of only four bases.",
        "两个任意组合的DNA序列肯定有25%的共同之处，这是由于DNA序列仅仅由4个基数构成。"
    ],
    [
        "The renminbi rebounded, and calm was restored.",
        "人民币随之反弹，市场重归平静。"
    ],
    [
        "But shutting down discussion simply means the disappearance of reason from public policy.",
        "而这种关闭辩论之门的思维方式只能意味着理性在公共政策中的消亡。"
    ],
    [
        "The students have promised to continue to fight the program until it is scrapped.",
        "学生们已经承诺会继续斗争直到该课程被废除。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the negotiations have attracted plenty of critics, including in the US Congress and Iran’s parliament, as well as in Saudi Arabia, Israel, and even France.",
        "当然，谈判也招致了大量批评，包括美国国会和伊朗议会以及沙特阿拉伯、以色列甚至法国的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "This would force people to exercise choice.",
        "这将迫使人们执行选择。"
    ],
    [
        "In the fourth quarter of 2015, households, businesses, and foreign investors saved $940 billion in the United States.",
        "2015年四季度，家庭、企业和外国投资者在美国存了9,400亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "But a more instructive precedent is 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt offered inspiring rhetoric and “bold experimentation” to a nation facing economic meltdown and a breakdown in public confidence.",
        "但1933年的先例能给我们以某种启示，当时富兰克林·罗斯福为一个处在经济灾难和公众信心崩溃边缘的民族奉献了鼓舞人心的讲演和“大胆的实验”。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan’s Tipping Point",
        "巴基斯坦的临界点"
    ],
    [
        "It is, in essence, an intellectual stress test – forcing Chinese leaders to defend newly formulated strategies and policies before a tough and seasoned audience of outside experts.",
        "本质上，这是知识压力测试——迫使中国领导人在严格而理性的外部专家面前为其新制定的战略和政策辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions are at risk of konzo, and outbreaks can occur at any time.",
        "数百万人有罹患konzo病的风险，其爆发随时随地都可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, a majority of that growth was within the eurozone itself, where an integrated European banking market was emerging, leading some to believe that a common currency and shared rules meant country risk had almost disappeared.",
        "4万亿。 最重要的是，增长主要来自欧元区内部，一体化的银行市场正在出现，导致某些人相信共同货币和共同规则意味着国家风险几乎消失。"
    ],
    [
        "“Break up Citigroup, end dangerous government subsidies, and bring back the market.”",
        "“拆分花旗集团，结束危险的政府补贴，让市场回归。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to invent a more potentially explosive moniker, for the name proudly proclaims a division between “us” and “them” – the most ancient and most destructive of human instincts. And it is hard to rationalize so atavistic an effort being initiated by a government and supported with taxpayers’ money.",
        "再没有比这个字眼更具有潜在爆发性的名号了，它傲慢地将“我们”和“他们”区分开来——而这是人们最古老也最具危险性的意识，同时也很难为这么一个由政府发起并由纳税人的钱支撑起来的返祖行为找到合适的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a typical example of what economists like Joseph Stiglitz call “cognitive capture.”",
        "这是约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨（Joseph Stiglitz）等经济学家所谓的“认知俘虏”（cognitive capture）的典型例子。"
    ],
    [
        "But, compared with Chinese private entrepreneurs, representatives of large Western firms are a privileged group, and are not victimized as frequently by official corruption.",
        "但与中国民营企业家相比这些西方大型企业的代理人就是一个特权集体，甚少成为官员腐败行为的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statements seem to recall the Soviet era with nostalgia.",
        "俄国总统普京的某些言论看起来对苏联时代很怀旧。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, images of life in our own societies are shifting.",
        "与此同时，我们自己的社会生活也发生了改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Export-led growth meant that China could produce without worrying about developing the domestic market.",
        "出口带动型增长意味着中国可以在不必担心国内市场的情况下发展经济。"
    ],
    [
        "For longstanding members, enlargement presents an opportunity to prepare public finances for coming demographic challenges.",
        "对于老牌成员国而言，欧盟扩大使他们有机会在公共财政方面为即将到来的人口结构变化的挑战做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "To illustrate, he posted the diagram below, showing how business confidence collapsed in Greece during the late spring of 2015, and picked up again only after my resignation from the finance ministry.",
        "他拿出下面的图表来说明问题：该图标显示希腊商业信心在2015年春崩溃，直到我从财政部长任上辞职后才开始反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Like a bad driver, a nation that looks left and right but never ahead is bound to crash.",
        "正如一个技术蹩脚的司机一样，一个左右观望却永远不前进的国家定会垮台。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1980’s, recombinant DNA technology led to the development of vaccines against hepatitis B and human papillomavirus.",
        "20世纪80年代，DNA重组技术带来了乙肝和人乳头瘤病毒疫苗的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The steady stream of improvements in driverless cars has convinced me that before too long the roads will be filled with cars and trucks operating without humans at the wheel.",
        "坎布里奇——熙熙攘攘的无人驾驶车流令我相信过不了多久路上就会满是无人驾驶的轿车和卡车。"
    ],
    [
        "It points out that while many countries succeeded in moving people out of poverty, the lives of many are still precarious.",
        "报告指出，尽管许多国家在减少贫困方面取得了成功，但仍有许多人情况危急。"
    ],
    [
        "But now its policymakers must deal with the triple challenges of the unfolding European debt crisis, slow recovery in the United States, and a secular growth slowdown in China’s economy.",
        "但是，如今，中国决策者必须应对欧债危机深化、美国复苏缓慢以及中国经济增长显著放缓的三重挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to these issues, financing proposals to achieve the MDG’s should be discussed from a central banker’s perspective.",
        "除了这些问题以外，实现MDG的财政提案还应该从中央银行的角度去探讨。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Yemen Be Saved?",
        "也门还有救吗？"
    ],
    [
        "With the inflation rate close to 2%, the real federal funds rate would still be negative.",
        "在通胀率接近2%的情况下，真实联邦基金利率仍为负值。"
    ],
    [
        "But it may be said to mark the point when the European Commission openly acknowledged that it has become little more than a secretariat to EU governments.",
        "但可以说这次合并失败标志着欧盟委员会公开承认自己已沦为欧盟各国政府的秘书处。"
    ],
    [
        "MELBOURNE – In the sixteenth century, the alchemist Paracelsus offered a recipe for creating a living being that began with putting sperm into putrefying “venter equinus.” This is usually translated as “horse manure,” but the Latin “venter” means abdomen or uterus.",
        "发自墨尔本——早在16世纪，一位叫巴拉塞尔西斯的炼金术士就提出了一个创造新生命的秘诀，那就是把精子注入腐烂的“venter equinus”里面，这个词通常被翻译为“马粪”，但拉丁文的“venter”其实是腹部或者子宫的意思。"
    ],
    [
        "And the attempted solution – hard-wiring the guidelines into computerized “decision support tools” – has been largely a flop, given computer models’ inability to accommodate messy, real-world clinical practice.",
        "而尝试性解决办法——将指引与计算机化的“决策支持工具”进行硬连接——基本宣告失败，因为计算机模型无法协调混乱的真实世界临床实践。"
    ],
    [
        "Pessimists are already seeing a replay of the late-1990’s Asian crisis or, worse, an emerging-market echo of the 2008-2009 crisis in the advanced countries.",
        "悲观者已经看到了20世纪90年代末亚洲危机的重演，甚至2008—2009年发达国家危机在新兴市场的重演。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, if the financial industry’s leaders are misleading investors, it is the culture of the entire industry that needs to be changed.",
        "毕竟，如果是金融行业的巨头们在误导投资者，那整个行业的文化都需要被改变。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1960 to 1982, the current account was basically in balance, with a surplus averaging 0.2% of GDP.",
        "从1960年到1982年，经常项目大体保持平衡，盈余平均为GDP的0."
    ],
    [
        "By 2030, China will have more elderly dependents than children.",
        "到2030年，中国将更多地依靠老人而非儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "In the era of conventional monetary policy, transmission channels were largely confined to borrowing costs and their associated impacts on credit-sensitive sectors of real economies, such as homebuilding, motor vehicles, and business capital spending.",
        "在常规货币政策时代，传导渠道主要局限于借贷成本以及相应的对实体经济的信用敏感部门（如房屋建设、汽车和商业资本支出）的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon became independent countries, modeled on the Westphalian idea of the modern nation-state.",
        "最终，伊拉克、叙利亚和黎巴嫩成为以威斯特伐利亚思想（Westphalian idea）为基础的独立国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed would extend dollar credits to a foreign bank in exchange for its currency, which the foreign bank agreed to buy back after a specified period at the same exchange rate, plus interest.",
        "美联储扩大了用外国央行货币换取美元信用的规模，其中外国央行同意在规定时期后以相同汇率购回本币加上利息。"
    ],
    [
        "What has the Conway-Bannon dichotomy produced?",
        "康韦-班农格格不入的结果是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Keeping poor people and entrepreneurs off the Internet is no way to fund a government.",
        "让穷人和企业家无法上网绝不是有利于政府收入的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, severe environmental conditions in much of the Middle East and North Africa’s Sahel region contribute to the sense of desperation that fuels Islamic extremism.",
        "毕竟，中东大部分地区和北非萨赫勒地区恶劣的环境条件助长了伊斯兰极端主义的绝望感。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there were those who preferred not to fight any enemy at all, particularly the US, whose long-term war-making power, the government knew, far surpassed Japan’s own.",
        "进而，还有人希望根本不要打仗，特别是与美国打仗。 政府知道，美国的长久作战实力远远超过日本。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – What is wrong with Israel?",
        "发自巴黎——以色列究竟出了什么问题？"
    ],
    [
        "But he will not be able to overturn the EPA’s regulation of CO2 emissions.",
        "但他却无法推翻环保局对二氧化碳排放的监管规则。"
    ],
    [
        "But putting in place an effective regulatory and enforcement infrastructure can be equally important, especially in areas where consumers have difficulty assessing the value of products and the risks they can pose.",
        "但构建有效监管和执法基础设施也同样重要，特别是在消费者难以评估产品价值和潜在风险的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, they hold nearly 25,000 nuclear warheads – 96% of the global nuclear arsenal.",
        "除非大国之间，特别是美国俄罗斯，紧急行动起来，否则无核的世界不可能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "That has caused enough concern for the government to act, including by relaxing collateral requirements to permit real-estate assets to be used to cover margin calls.",
        "而这足以引起政府的关注并采取行动，包括放松抵押品要求、允许用不动产充抵保证金。"
    ],
    [
        "For the commemoration of Kim Jong-il’s birthday in February, a kilogram of fish was provided to residents in one district, but nowhere else.",
        "2月份，为纪念金正日70诞辰，某区居民获发每人一公斤鱼（其他地方的居民无此待遇）。"
    ],
    [
        "To Thailand’s east, Vietnam is the latest Asian country to feel pinched by China’s policy of creating facts on the ground, or in this case at sea, to enhance its sovereignty claims on disputed territory.",
        "泰国以东，越南是中国捏造土地事实——对越南来说是海洋事实——推行其在争议领土主权主张的最新的不堪忍受者。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, the urge for Western-style freedom and democracy remains the dream of the Middle East’s younger generations; it has merely been obscured by the autocratic response to the Arab Spring uprisings, and the subsequent proliferation of radical Islamists.",
        "更广泛地说，追求西方式自由和民主仍然是中东年轻一代的梦想； 只不过这一梦想被阿拉伯之春暴动的极权反应及随后激进伊斯兰教的兴盛压制了。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of these countries have not yet matched China’s success in unlocking their economic potential.",
        "这些国家中的大多数仍未能借助中国的经济繁荣来解放自身的经济潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidently, the global economy’s growth in recent decades – including the last half-decade when many developing countries did quite well – has not created enough good jobs.",
        "显而易见，全球经济最近几十年的增长——包括过去五年许多发展中国家的出色表现——并未能创造出足够的好工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Judgment .",
        "判断力。"
    ],
    [
        "Under such an approach, NATO’s expansion is represented as an extension of America’s sphere of influence, to the detriment of Russia, of course.",
        "而在这种路线指引之下，北约组织的扩张即代表了美国影响范围的延伸，对于俄罗斯来说显然也是十分不利的。"
    ],
    [
        "Joseph Schumpeter, one of the great economists of the twentieth century, argued that one shouldn’t be worried by monopoly power: monopolies would only be temporary.",
        "二十世纪伟大的经济学家约瑟夫·熊彼特指出，我们不必为垄断权力担忧：垄断只能是暂时的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is vital that countries take advantage of the opportunity offered by the Istanbul summit to reaffirm their legal commitments to safeguard civilians in conflicts and to expedite the development of new mechanisms to prevent the victims of catastrophes from being abandoned.",
        "重要的是各国抓住伊斯坦布尔首脑会议赋予的这次机遇重申其对保护身陷冲突民众的法律承诺并加快制定全新机制防止抛弃灾难的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "But effectiveness requires agnosticism about the policies required to achieve lofty ends.",
        "但要取得效果，就需要对实现崇高目标的政策抱以怀疑态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Claims that the TTIP would benefit primarily the wealthy have thus struck a chord with labor unions and others.",
        "声称TTIP 主要有利于富人的观点因此打动了工会和其他人的心。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true of poor banking regulations or macroeconomic policies that aggravate the business cycle and generate financial instability.",
        "加剧经济周期和造成金融动荡的糟糕的银行法规和宏观经济政策也同样如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is a poster child for the fear.",
        "日本是通缩恐慌的典型代表。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the government’s anti-deflation effort will help not only China, but the rest of the world as well.",
        "类似地，中国政府的反通缩措施将不但有助于中国，也将有助于世界其他地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term national interest must take precedence over short-term political goals, vested interests, and political patronage.",
        "必须将长期的国家利益置于短期政治目标、既得利益和政治庇护之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Authoritarians have always beaten up their opponents – physically, in the courts, and now on Twitter – to make them keep quiet.",
        "极权主义者总是会不遗余力打压反对者——从肉体上，在法庭上，现在则是在Twitter上——从而让他们闭嘴。"
    ],
    [
        "Money put into reserves is income not spent.",
        "投入储备的资金就是没有花掉的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "The presidential election of 2009 – in which Hamid Karzai gained a second term – was a highly contentious affair, and neither the Afghan political system nor the international community came through it with flying colors.",
        "在2009年的总统选举中，卡尔扎伊成功连任。 这次选举充满了争议，不管是阿富汗政治制度还是国际社会，都没有将它视为成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Empathy and care toward out-group members does not come quite as easily.",
        "对外人的同情和关爱难度较大。"
    ],
    [
        "Rolling it over at higher rates of 4% or 5% would add more than $100 billion to the budget deficit.",
        "以更高的利率——4%或5%——展期将导致预算赤字增加1000多亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "MIAMI – According to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, “Climate change harms the poor first and worst.”",
        "迈阿密——联合国秘书长潘基文曾说，“最先受到气候变化损害且受损最严重的是穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "But a mere two days after its creation, the embryonic Council suffered its first big setback.",
        "但成立仅仅两天后，尚在雏形中的委员会就遭遇了第一次重大挫折。"
    ],
    [
        "Two-thirds of UN member states have called for a nuclear-weapons convention similar to existing treaties banning other categories of particularly inhumane and indiscriminate weapons, from biological and chemical arms to anti-personnel land mines and cluster munitions.",
        "三分之二的联合国成员呼吁签订与现有条约相似的核武条约，特别取缔包括生物、化学、人员杀伤地雷和集束炸弹在内的其他类型的非人道和肆意杀伤性武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Downward mobility is a real threat, while upward mobility is limited.",
        "向下流动是一个实实在在的威胁，而向上流动性饱受制约。"
    ],
    [
        "This is too often forgotten in discussions about trade agreements, especially in such charged political atmospheres as currently prevail in the United Kingdom and the US.",
        "人们经常会在对贸易协定的讨论中遗忘这点，特别是在英国和美国当前火花四溅的政治气氛当中。"
    ],
    [
        "His move marked the beginning of a new way of governing.",
        "他的举动标志着新治国方针的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, around the world there is a gap between civil-society organizations and the societies they profess to serve.",
        "实际上，世界各地的民间团体机构和他们声称服务的社会之间都存在鸿沟。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even on this front, the devices have had considerable success, with PNV use increasing exponentially in the last few years.",
        "但是，即使在这个方面，PNV也取得了显著的成功，在过去几年中，PNV的使用呈现出指数增长之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Mental illnesses can often lead to other health problems.",
        "精神疾病往往会诱发其他健康问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s position was, to say the least, perceived badly by the “Arab street.”",
        "至少，土耳其的立场被“阿拉伯街”向坏的方面做了理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina’s Sovereign Bondage",
        "阿根廷的主权债券困局"
    ],
    [
        "The US government also is culpable.",
        "对此美国政府也有责任。"
    ],
    [
        "SEATTLE – Humans have been battling tuberculosis since the Stone Age.",
        "西雅图——人类自从石器时代起就开始与结核病进行战斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Both will be discussed extensively at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, which starts next week in Marrakech, Morocco.",
        "下周将在摩洛哥马拉喀什召开的年度联合国气候变化会议将对这一问题展开广泛探讨。"
    ],
    [
        "If the assumption or the model is wrong, so is the estimate.",
        "如果这种假设或模型是错误的，那么由此得出的估计也是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to the 2009 election that brought him to power, Netanyahu campaigned on the Iranian danger, and his government made the issue its cardinal concern.",
        "2009年让他登上总理宝座的选举之前，内塔尼亚胡竞选的时候提出了伊朗的危险性，其政府还将这个问题当作主要的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Once we can do this, we are much more likely to develop AI tools that are capable of unexpected breakthroughs in understanding how the body supports and resists illness.",
        "一旦我们能够做到这一点，开发出能够在理解身体支持和拒绝疾病方面取得出人预料突破的AI工具的可能性就会大大提高。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, in both Europe and the United States, much of the debate over immigration is dominated by illiberal voices, the most insistent belonging to politicians who promise to protect the cultural integrity of the homeland against the presumed degeneracy of the alien.",
        "其结果是，在欧洲和美国大部分有关移民问题的争论中占据主导的是反自由的声音，在这其中最强硬的声音来自那些承诺保护祖国文化的完整性以对抗臆想中异族人的堕落的政治家们。"
    ],
    [
        "That may have been plausible, but the two banks also wanted to demonstrate publicly that they had better balance sheets than their weaker rivals.",
        "这个动机也许成立，但两家银行也想向公众表明，它们的资产负债表状况好过实力较弱的竞争对手。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, an ostracized Russia is a dangerous Russia.",
        "很明显，受到孤立的俄罗斯是危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is crucial that we identify the full scope and scale of their impact on the allocation of capital.",
        "关键点是我们需要厘清它们对资本配置的影响的全部范围和规模。"
    ],
    [
        "Online courses may work for teaching technical topics, but is there a way to automate, at least partly, the training of all the people who need to be mobilized to foster health?",
        "在线课程可能可以传授技术，但有办法至少部分实现所有构建健康所需要的人手的培训的自动化吗？"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, we should focus on where medical training happens.",
        "首先，我们应该关注医学训练地。"
    ],
    [
        "Another reason to worry is that the global recovery is still fragile.",
        "另一个担心的理由是，目前全球经济的复苏仍然很脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "And, besides, the Catalonian players feel uncomfortable with the national anthem, which was much promoted under the late dictator Francisco Franco, who hated Catalan nationalism.",
        "此外，加泰罗尼亚籍球员对这首国歌并不感冒，因为这首歌在已故独裁者弗朗西斯科·佛朗哥治下曾经被广为传唱，而佛朗哥则仇恨加泰罗尼亚民族主义。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, around 150 million migrants sent roughly $300 billion to their families in developing countries.",
        "2006年，约1亿5千万移民为他们在发展中国家的亲人汇去约3千亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Not even Mao Zedong, with the fury unleashed during China’s Cultural Revolution, could make the “Four Olds” (old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas) vanish.",
        "即使是毛泽东本人及其在中国文化大革命时期释放的狂潮也不能使“四旧”（旧风俗、旧文化、旧习惯、旧思想）完全消失。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be dangerous to turn the EU framework into a thicket of country-specific political bargains.",
        "但让欧盟框架沦为各国各自为政的政治讨价还价场所是危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "Mass introduction of such stoves could deliver multiple green-economy benefits.",
        "而这类产品的大规模推广将使人们获得来自绿色经济的多方面好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Legal and illegal migration triggers far-right hostility in countries that customarily brag about their commitment to civil liberties.",
        "但在那些平时吹嘘自己奉行公民自由的国家里，无论是合法还是非法的移民都激起了极右势力的敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "Selain itu, jumlah penduduk hidup yang hidup dalam kemiskinan ekstrem sudah berkurang setengahnya.",
        "此外，全世界生活在极端贫困状态下的人口也降低了一半。"
    ],
    [
        "The potential power of these three markets’ joint action is immense.",
        "这三个市场采取联合行动的潜在力量是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "These weapons, which terrified people 30 years ago, still remain in countries’ arsenals and continue to pose a grave risk to human security and safety.",
        "30年前曾令人们胆战心惊的这些武器仍然保存在各国的核武库，并继续对人类安全构成严重的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "There were also signals emanating from Iran that, having , having mastered uranium enrichment technology, the authorities could envisage continuing enrichment in a third country in a joint consortium with the West.",
        "还有迹象表明，在掌握了铀浓缩技术以后，伊朗当局可以设想在第三国与西方联合继续铀浓缩。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not “because the budget committees are too busy....[T]he House and Senate...are not doing much of anything...[because] they don't want to.”",
        "”这不是“因为预算委员会应顾不暇……（而是）参众两院……漠然置之……（因为）他们不想采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "It is up to Germany to live up to the leadership responsibilities thrust upon it by its own success.",
        "德国必须做出选择，不能辜负了自身成功给自己带来的领导责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rise of Mid-Level Powers",
        "中等强国的崛起"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, it has become a food-industry craze, driven in part by fear of obesity lawsuits.",
        "部分出于对肥胖诉讼的恐惧，近来这种植物正在食品行业引发热潮。"
    ],
    [
        "While Japanese officials are not being unreasonable in worrying about the country’s huge national debt, near-zero interest rates show that creditworthiness is not the problem today.",
        "日本官员担心为数巨大的国民债务不无道理，但接近于零的利率表明信誉并不是当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "Responsibility for convincing Assad to stop bombing and shelling opposition-held areas would fall primarily on his international allies, Russia and Iran.",
        "阿萨德的国际盟友俄罗斯和伊朗需要承担起说服他停止轰炸和炮击反对派控制区的主要责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Proclaiming fiscal virtue enabled them to practice fiscal vice.",
        "摆出一副财政美德的样子让他们得以行财政恶行之实。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorism has not exacerbated them.",
        "恐怖主义并没有使它们恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "But Britain remains attracted to something else, and so unwilling to engage in “voice.”",
        "但英国仍因其他原因而对美国趋之若鹜，而且极不情愿参与到“呼吁”中去。"
    ],
    [
        "A Better EU Budget",
        "更好的欧盟预算"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike many equally poor countries, India already has a strong entrepreneurial class, a reasonably large and well-educated middle class, and a number of world-class corporations that can be enlisted in the effort to provide these public goods.",
        "与其他同等水平穷国不同的是，印度已经拥有了强大的创业家阶层、规模大、教育程度高的中产阶级，以及一大批可以动员起来提供这些公共品的世界级公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukrainians know that the choice they make now, that their decision to stand firm with Viktor Yushchenko today, will determine their freedom forever, as well as the health of their nation – its independence as well as its economic strength.",
        "乌克兰人已经清楚的知道：他们今天的选择，他们和尤申科同舟共济的决心会决定他们能否得到永久的自由，以及他们的国家能否健康地发展¾会决定国家能否独立自主、经济能否欣欣向荣。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Spanish indictment, Cavallo belonged to the operations unit of a group actively involved in kidnapping and torturing people whom the military regime perceived as leftist.",
        "根据西班牙的起诉书，卡瓦略曾属于某个团伙的执行部门，该团伙积极参与绑架和折磨当时的军政府视为左派的人士。"
    ],
    [
        "Morsi’s political incompetence and lack of vision in the face of economic collapse would have been enough to diminish support for his government.",
        "穆尔西在政治上的无能以及缺少应对经济崩溃之策足以让他的政府的支持丧失殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "There are several reasons.",
        "这么说有几个理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Veiled Sexuality",
        "被遮掩的性欲"
    ],
    [
        "But his half-brother and more powerful rival, Prince Naif, the Minister of Interior, ordered the arrests, trial, and imprisonment of 13 reformers in March 2004.",
        "但是他同父异母的兄长以及更为强大的竞争对手——内政大臣纳伊夫亲王（Prince Naif）在2004年3月下令逮捕、审判并拘禁了13名改革者。"
    ],
    [
        "This would probably have brought Syria into the war.",
        "这可能使叙利亚卷入战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of taking scientific evidence as dogma, we should consider it as tentative information that should be ascribed a level of credibility.",
        "我们不应把科学证据当作教条，而是把它们看做有一定可信度的试探性的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "They are intended to protect members from manipulation and aggression, and in a way that can garner global support.",
        "它们是为了保护成员国免受操纵和侵略、保证它们能获得全球支持而成立的。"
    ],
    [
        "How the Middle East develops will determine the extent of the risks for, or even probable challenges to, Europe’s security.",
        "中东局势如何发展将决定欧洲安全的风险程度，甚至对其安全构成可能的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "How much safer, however, depends upon the returns on the pool of bonds that compose the CDO.",
        "但实际的安全程度还取决于构成债务抵押债券的债券组合收益。"
    ],
    [
        "And a minority government would be unable to pass any controversial legislation that the Scottish Nationalists opposed.",
        "而少数派政府也将无法通过任何苏格兰民族党反对的争议立法。"
    ],
    [
        "This lack of trust has brought the eurozone to the cusp of implosion, and is calling into question the very future of European unity.",
        "缺乏信任把欧元区推向了崩溃边缘，也把欧洲统一大业逼到了墙角。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – During a visit to the Middle East, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned that enemies of the United States should not use the power vacuum there to try to alter the status quo or to undermine the new American president’s objectives.",
        "巴黎-在访问中东的过程中，国防部长罗伯特·盖茨曾警告说，美国的敌人不应利用美国出现的权力真空来试图改变现状或是破坏美国新任总统的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "And oftentimes, you’re measuring success anecdotally when it comes to things like gender and education data.”",
        "通常当涉及到性别和教育数据等问题时，你只能以讲故事的方式来衡量成功问题。"
    ],
    [
        "As Michael Nielsen discusses in his recent book Reinventing Discovery, the “publish or perish” mentality that dominates the field means that many substandard or incomplete papers are published, while those people who are supposed to benefit from the research are often little more than an afterthought.",
        "迈克尔·尼尔森（Michael Nielsen）在其新书《重新发明发现》（Reinventing Discovery）中指出，“要么发表，要么沉沦”（publish or perish）心态主导研究领域意味着许多次等或不完备的论文被发表出来，而本应从研究中获益的人群并没有得到优先考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Some experts argue that if covert operations against Iran’s nuclear and military programs – such as the assassination of nuclear scientists and explosions at the Revolutionary Guard’s missile arsenals – are already taking place, war has already begun.",
        "一些专家指出，针对伊朗核和军事计划的隐蔽行动——比如暗杀核科学家和引爆革命卫队的导弹库——一开始进行，那么可以说战争已经开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate over the irrationality of financial markets is no mere academic argument.",
        "对金融市场的非理性的争论，不仅仅是学术上的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "But in other cases, opposition to America's preferences is wrought by public sentiment and goes against the instincts of leaders who know better.",
        "但有些情况下，公众情绪的压力迫使领导者抵制美国的要求，虽然有见地的领袖们清楚应该这么做。"
    ],
    [
        "And, less surreptitiously, the Kremlin has spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding propaganda outfits – such as the Sputnik “news” agency – even as the Russian economy implodes.",
        "此外，克里姆林宫还比较公开地投入数亿美元用于宣传机构——比如Sputnik“新闻”社——虽然俄罗斯经济举步维艰。"
    ],
    [
        "But what is true of financial markets need not be true of other markets.",
        "但对金融市场成立的东西对其他市场未必成立。"
    ],
    [
        "In recanting on this basis, Goldstone conveys to the Israelis that they can receive absolution from a highly respected voice of the international community by making a show of investigations.",
        "在这种情况下公开放弃原则，戈德斯通告诉以色列人他们可以借上演调查秀获得德高望重的国际机构的赦免。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese citizens cannot vote, but they can – and do – make their displeasure known, which places a premium on what Chinese bureaucrats call “stability maintenance.”",
        "中国民众无权投票，但他们却能够表达自己的不满，这使得中国官僚所谓的“维稳”显得至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there may be a further hidden agenda behind the 97% proposal.",
        "确实，97％建议后面可能还有更大的不可告人的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "Then he began methodically destroying Russia’s fragile democratic institutions, stifling the press, and curtailing civil liberties, including freedom of assembly.",
        "然后，他开始系统性地破坏俄罗斯脆弱的民主制度、压制媒体、收紧公民自由，包括集会自由。"
    ],
    [
        "And the European Union?",
        "欧盟呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, UK growth has been slightly slower, but the British economy has also faced, among other factors, the headwind of sharply falling North Sea oil production during this period, whereas the US benefited from a shale-oil boom.",
        "诚然，英国增长率要略低一些，但在此期间英国经济面临着北海石油产量急剧下滑等不利因素，而美国则得益于页岩油繁荣。 显然，这些长期趋势都不能完全归因于现任政府。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to create tightly knit networks of personal relations between the members of different social and religious groups.",
        "我们需要在不同的社会和宗教团体间创造出紧密联系的私人关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In this respect, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan has been leading the way.",
        "在这方面，喜马拉雅的不丹王国走在了世界的前面。"
    ],
    [
        "With its alleged involvement in the recent cyber attack on Sony Pictures, the regime has backed itself further into its tiny corner.",
        "因为涉嫌参与对索尼电影公司最近的网络攻击，该政权再次将自己逼入了死角。"
    ],
    [
        "If someone aims a gun at you, demands your money, and takes your wallet, what you think and want is irrelevant. That is hard power.",
        "如果有人拿枪指着你，要你拿出钱包来，你的想法和意愿显然是无关紧要的，这就是硬实力。"
    ],
    [
        "To get an idea of the scale of the Nihalani-led review board’s moral policing, a kiss in the James Bond movie Spectre was deemed too long (and therefore trimmed).",
        "尼哈拉尼领导下的审查委员会对于道德监督严格到什么程度呢？ 007系列电影《幽灵党》的吻戏被认为太长（因此被剪掉）。"
    ],
    [
        "But is their heart in it?",
        "但他们是全力而为的么？"
    ],
    [
        "Have you been “scooped”?",
        "你有没有被别人捷足先登呢？"
    ],
    [
        "That claim, as well as Hassett’s recent attacks on the TPC, made former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers angrier than I can ever recall having seen him with respect to a public-policy issue.",
        "这种说法以及哈塞特最近对税收政策研究中心的攻击令美国前财政部长拉里·萨默斯（Larry Summers）大为震怒，连我都从未在任何公共政策问题上看见他那么生气过。"
    ],
    [
        "McFadden has pinpointed the central solution to globalization’s challenges: giving people “the tools to reap the benefits” of the globalized world, thereby making the “connected world work better for people.”",
        "麦克法登已准确地找到了的全球化挑战的核心解决方案：那就是赋予民众“谋取全球化世界利益的工具”，从而使“高度互联的世界更好地为人们服务”。"
    ],
    [
        "So now the question is how the EU and, in particular, the eurozone, will move forward.",
        "因此，现在的问题是，欧盟，尤其是欧元区，会如何前进。"
    ],
    [
        "For Israel, security is the top priority; for Palestinians, what matters most is an end to Israeli occupation.",
        "安全对以色列而言是头等大事，而结束以色列占领则是巴勒斯坦人梦寐以求的愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – Leading members of the governments of India and South Korea recently met to begin a new “strategic partnership.”",
        "发自新德里——印度和韩国政府的高级官员最近展开会晤，寻求启动一个新的“战略合作关系”。"
    ],
    [
        "As Asia’s spectacular growth has demonstrated, it is transferable across cultures.",
        "亚洲令人瞩目的增长证明，这一方法可以移植到不同文化。"
    ],
    [
        "A complete ban on all nuclear explosions would hamper the upgrading of existing nuclear arsenals and the development of new weapons, diminishing the capabilities of both current and potential nuclear-armed states.",
        "一条全面禁止核爆的禁令将阻碍现有核武器库的升级以及新武器的研究开发，消灭现有以及潜在核武国家的核能力。"
    ],
    [
        "In Putin’s speech following the annexation of Crimea, he charged that the West’s refusal “to engage in dialogue” left Russia with no choice.",
        "在吞并克里米亚后的讲话中，普京指责西方国家拒绝“参与对话”令俄罗斯别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "China can leverage its considerable influence over the AIIB to bolster its international image, particularly by strengthening its relationships with developing countries.",
        "中国可以借助自身对亚洲基础设施投资银行的巨大影响力来壮大其国际形象，尤其是通过进一步加强与发展中国家的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The federal government can currently borrow at record-low interest rates, and there are many projects in education, infrastructure, and research that would earn a higher return, create jobs now, and bolster US competitiveness in attracting high-wage jobs.",
        "当前，联邦政府能够以极低利率借钱，而在教育、基础设施和研究领域，有很多项目都能带来较高的回报、立刻产生新增就业并提振美国吸引高工资岗位的竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Less evidently, there are plants in the rain forest whose gene pool might be useful to us.",
        "不那么明显的是，热带雨林中有一些植物的基因库可能对我们有用。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the Fed is focused on cleaning up after a crisis rather than on how to avoid another one.",
        "因此，美联储似乎更关注危机善后，而不是避免新一轮危机爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "The PiS’s efforts to bring Poland’s courts under political control violate the EU’s fundamental democratic values and threaten its governance of the single market.",
        "PiS用政治控制波兰法院的企图违反了欧盟的基本民主价值观，也威胁到其单一市场的治理。"
    ],
    [
        "Before 2007, banks enjoyed high returns and soaring stock prices.",
        "2007年以前银行享受着高回报以及不断飙升的股价。"
    ],
    [
        "For most, including the Fed, there is still no clean exit in sight, and this has made the problem of political insulation more difficult, with or without an election.",
        "对大部货币当局（包括美联储）而言，目前仍没有明确的退出日期，而这让政治独立问题变得更加困难，不管是否面临选举。"
    ],
    [
        "This anti-austerity camp believes that even when private markets totally lost confidence in Europe’s periphery, northern Europe could easily have solved the problem by co-signing periphery debt, perhaps under the umbrella of Eurobonds backed ultimately by all (especially German) eurozone taxpayers.",
        "这一反紧缩阵营认为，即使私人市场完全丧失了对欧洲外围国的信心，北欧也能够通过联署外围国债务轻而易举地解决问题，也许可以在最终由所有欧元区纳税人（特别是德国）共同买单的欧元债券的支持下实现这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "But it will be more important than ever for people of all ages to update their skills and renew their training continuously, given how their occupations will continue to be reshaped by technology.",
        "比以往任何时候都更重要的一点在于，考虑到各年龄层人士的职业都会持续被技术所重塑，他们都得不断更新自身技能并反复接受培训。"
    ],
    [
        "And what if it triggers a regional nuclear arms race?",
        "如果它触发了地区核军备竞赛呢？"
    ],
    [
        "During the twentieth century, Europe was America’s partner of first resort.",
        "二十世纪，欧洲曾经是美国首选的伙伴国。"
    ],
    [
        "For Xi to join their ranks, he must create a modern, rules-based state.",
        "习近平要想和毛邓看齐，就必须建立以基于规则（rules-based）的现代中国。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Council, as in all cases of “enhanced cooperation,” only participating members have the right to vote.",
        "在欧洲委员会，和所有“加强合作”的情形一样，只有参与国有投票权。"
    ],
    [
        "With more key currencies in place, the perspective of a truly multipolar currency system comes in sight, with an increased role for the SDR.",
        "随着更多的货币登上历史舞台，一个多币种世界金融结构将出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the obvious imperative for cooperative solutions to address transnational and global security threats, this could not be more important.",
        "显然，合作性方案是解决跨国和全球安全冲突的关键，因此这非极其重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Grappling with the crime of aggression also threatens to open rifts among members of the Court and other Court supporters.",
        "在侵略罪方面纠缠不清同时也可能导致成员国内部以及法院支持者之间的互相指责。"
    ],
    [
        "One can also dismiss the killer’s connection to terror groups; the Islamic State (ISIS) did not own the incident until after the killer himself, in the midst of the attack, pledged his allegiance and thus put a label on his actions.",
        "你还可以否认杀手与恐怖组织有涉； 伊斯兰国直到杀手本人在行凶途中宣布效忠、从而给他的行动贴上了标签后才宣布对此事件负责。"
    ],
    [
        "Many emerging-market companies are in the highly vulnerable position of having borrowed heavily in foreign currencies.",
        "许多新兴市场公司十分虚弱，背负着沉重的外币债务。"
    ],
    [
        "They are probably right, up to a certain point, because the second lesson from the OAS assembly concerns the behavior of the Latin American democracies, mainly Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia.",
        "在某种意义上说它们可能是对的，因为美洲国家组织大会的第二个值得关注之处则是墨西哥、巴西、智利和哥伦比亚这些拉美民主国家将如何行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly the US Congress was clueless; its members were still busy lobbying for the government-backed housing-mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, thereby digging the hole deeper.",
        "美国国会肯定是一无所知的； 其成员仍然忙于为政府支持的住房抵押贷款机构——房利美和房地美——四处游说，从而把危机推向更深处。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a choice will be determined by hard power, particularly if China agrees to economic sanctions.",
        "只有钢性力量才能决定这一选择，特别是如果中国同意经济制裁的话。"
    ],
    [
        "High-level officials at the US Treasury and Federal Reserve actively try to dissuade advocacy of direct intervention, including by me.",
        "美国财政部和美联储高官积极地试图劝阻直接干预的支持者，包括我。"
    ],
    [
        "The politicization of foreign aid reflects the same hubris.",
        "对外援助的政治化同样反映了这种傲慢自大。"
    ],
    [
        "The inheritors of the Soviet empire never anticipated that their future was to become the West’s “junior,” poorer, repentant, and admiring partner.",
        "苏维埃帝国的继承者们做梦也没有想到他们的未来竟是成为西方的“小字辈”，成为西方更贫穷，并充满悔悟和羡慕的伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "While the Fund remains wedded to eventual financial liberalization, it now acknowledges that free movement of capital rests on a much weaker intellectual foundation than does the case for free trade.",
        "IMF的目标仍是终极金融自由化，但它现在也承认，资本的自由流动的理论基础要比自由贸易弱得多。"
    ],
    [
        "It almost certainly will have not.",
        "这一点几乎不可能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Hardliners in Israel naturally regret the end of the Bush administration, for they know that, even if President Barack Obama does not dramatically change US policy toward Israel once he assumes power, he will not repeat Bush’s unconditional support.",
        "自然，让以色列强硬派感到遗憾的是，布什政府快走到尽头了，因为他们知道，即使奥巴马总统不大刀阔斧地改变美国对以色列的政策，一旦他上了台，他也不会重复布什政府对以色列无条件地支持的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The northern powerhouse strategy provides valuable lessons for other countries.",
        "北方强区战略为其他国家提供了非常重要的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "During our visit, my friend and I visited an orphanage to which she had sent a dozen computers the previous year.",
        "在我们的旅途中，我的朋友和我访问了一家孤儿院。 去年她为这里捐赠了几十台电脑。"
    ],
    [
        "In such a context, Sims argued, monetary policy alone would not be adequate to raise inflation; fiscal policy that increases the budget deficit would also be necessary.",
        "再这样的环境下，西姆斯指出，光靠货币政策不足以提高通货膨胀； 增加预算赤字的财政政策也必不可少。"
    ],
    [
        "Allowing the renminbi to appreciate as a way of encouraging imports may also discourage exports, the traditional motor of Chinese growth.",
        "允许人民币升值以鼓励进口同时也会抑制出口，而出口是中国经济的传统引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, central bankers, like other bankers, do not like losses.",
        "诚然，央行官员就像银行家，不喜欢损失。"
    ],
    [
        "While other struggling eurozone members also turned to the troika, Ireland stands out in at least two notable ways.",
        "其他陷入麻烦的欧元区成员国也转向三驾马车寻求帮助，但至少从两个方面看，爱尔兰特别引人关注。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, few assert that Iran is actually failing to comply with its obligations under the JCPOA.",
        "目前的状况是，很少有人公开认为伊朗实际违反了《全面联合行动计划》 的规定。"
    ],
    [
        "Sachs is concerned with how such a system’s rules will shape the world’s economies in the longer run.",
        "萨克斯关注这一制度的规则如何在长期影响世界经济。"
    ],
    [
        "And where this does not suffice, banks will need immediate capital injections by their governments.",
        "如果这还不够，就必须由政府出面对有关银行注入资本。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fund could stand ready to buy and sell SDR claims to all comers, private as well as official, at narrow bid/ask spreads competitive with those for dollars.",
        "IMF可以在官方和民间，进行特别提款权的买卖。 缩短和以美元为单位的竞价差距。"
    ],
    [
        "The one-year drop in February 1980 came immediately after Paul Volcker took the helm of the Federal Reserve in 1979.",
        "1980年2月的年度跌幅出现在保罗·沃尔克（Paul Volcker）1979年出任美联储主席后。"
    ],
    [
        "As firms shed workers during the economic downturn, output fell more slowly. The resulting rise in output per worker, together with slow wage growth, reduced unit labor costs.",
        "由于公司在经济不景气时期削减人手，因此产量更加缓慢地下降，并引发工人人均生产量上升，加上缓慢的工资增长，最终导致了单位劳动成本的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings us back to the conundrum of correlation versus causation.",
        "这个例子又把我们带回到了相关关系和因果关系的难题上。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while measuring nucleotide similarity in homologous regions is indeed in the 98-99% range, this number does not incorporate or acknowledge the measured difference in the size of the human and chimp genomes, or the widespread differences in chromosome or genome structure.",
        "因此，尽管对相应位置核苷酸测量的近似度确实在98-99%之间，但这个数字并不包含或反映人类和黑猩猩染色体在尺寸方面的差异，以及染色体或染色体组结构的巨大不同。"
    ],
    [
        "In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents – those constantly striving for betterment – have any hope of surviving.",
        "在竞争性行业中，只有执着的先入者——持续地追求改善者——才有希望生存。"
    ],
    [
        "Allegations like these have whipped up nationalism, hatred, and anti-Western hysteria, distracting Russians from Putin's culpability for their country's economic crisis.",
        "类似的指控助长了民族主义、仇恨和反西方西斯底里，将俄罗斯人的注意力从普京对俄罗斯经济危机的责任上移开。"
    ],
    [
        "Québec and São Paolo, to cite just two examples, are aiming for cuts of 20% below 1990 levels by 2020.",
        "比方说其中的魁北克和圣保罗就制定了到2020年比1990年实现减排20%的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "(Your chances are almost twice as good in the northeast as in Northern Ireland.)",
        "（如果你生活在东北地区，那么中彩的机会比居住在北爱尔兰大一倍。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Western Governors University, a nonprofit online institution, offers accredited college-degree programs in teaching, nursing, health-care informatics, and business.",
        "比如，非盈利在线机构西部州长大学（Western Governors University）提供或认可的教师、护士、医学信息和商学大学学位课程。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether one considers the accusations of currency manipulation against the US in 2010, its trading partners in 2015, or a future defendant, designating some trade agency to rule on them would merely cause trouble.",
        "对于货币操纵指控而言，不管是2010年的美国，2015年的美国贸易伙伴国，还是未来的被告，指定某个贸易机构来执法只会让情况更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "The group also agreed to enhance the CMIM’s flexibility by reducing the minimum portion of crisis lending to be tied to the International Monetary Fund’s lending program from 80% to 70%.",
        "集团各成员国同时也同意把即将与国际货币基金组织借款计划挂钩的危机借款最低比例从80%降低到70%来增加协议的灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "Like forests, coral reefs provide multiple services – including tourism and fish nurseries, which help to sustain commercial fishing – and have an intrinsic value to people.",
        "与森林一样，珊瑚礁也起着多方面作用——包括作为旅游景点和鱼类营养源（有助于商业捕鱼）——并且具有对人类的内在价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, as scientists, should they not adorn their endorsements with the appropriate caveats?",
        "即是如此，难道他们不应该和科学家一样装模做样地表示对合理警告的支持？"
    ],
    [
        "The African economic landscape’s dominant feature – an informal sector comprising microenterprises, household production, and unofficial activities – is absorbing the growing urban labor force and acting as a social safety net.",
        "非洲经济图景的主要特征——由微型企业、家庭生产和非官方活动组成的非正式部门在吸收日益增长的城市劳动力并充当社会安全网。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because few features of the corporate tax law can be changed to reduce that revenue loss, I think the corporate tax rate will be reduced to about 25%. That would still be substantially less than the current rate and in line with the OECD average.",
        "同时由于公司税法只有很小部分可以改动以减少收入损失，我认为公司税率将降低到25％左右，但这仍将远远低于目前的税率，并向经合组织的平均水平看齐。"
    ],
    [
        "Six of the world’s largest economies – China, the United States, Russia, India, Japan, and the European Union – remain the biggest polluters.",
        "世界六大经济体——中国、美国、俄罗斯、印度、日本和欧盟——仍是最大的污染者。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, by contrast, their heirs are openly criticizing the Asian capitalist model.",
        "相比之下，今天，这些人的后代们却在公开批评亚洲资本主义模式。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest of Central Europe and the Baltic states followed his lead.",
        "其他东欧和巴尔干国家纷纷群起效仿。"
    ],
    [
        "Better still, we do not need to wait for new inventions to implement the changes we need; the transformation can happen right now, with profitable solutions delivered by businesses and driven by markets.",
        "更妙的是，我们不需要坐等新发明的出现来落实我们所需要的变化； 转型可以立刻开始，由企业提供受市场推动的有利可图的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the domination of a select group of countries over tax norms has meant that, in reality, the global governance architecture for taxation has not kept pace with globalization.",
        "但一小撮国家主宰税收规范意味着，在现实中，税收问题的全球治理结构早已与全球化脱节。"
    ],
    [
        "But events and economic research since the crisis have demonstrated three things.",
        "但危机以来的事件和经济研究说明了三点。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization, therefore, has resulted in both economic and political polarization.",
        "因此，全球化导致经济和政治都出现极化。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of North Korea, where nuclear arms are in play, it cannot afford to be.",
        "但对于拥有核武器的朝鲜，我们玩不起实验。"
    ],
    [
        "He is determined that his plan becomes his political legacy.",
        "他是决心要让这项计划成为其政治遗策。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it appears that the world is witnessing a triple conflict.",
        "的确，世界似乎正在经历三重冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many reasons to be hopeful.",
        "我们有很多理由保持乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "European unity is indivisible.",
        "欧洲各国紧密相连，不可分割。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the fight against the common enemy, the secularist old guard, has been decisively won, an eventual break between Erdoğan and the Gülenists is perhaps inevitable.",
        "考虑到对共同敌人——旧世俗主义守护者——的斗争已经取得了决定性胜利，厄尔多安和谷兰主义者之间的分裂或许也无法避免。"
    ],
    [
        "If this window closes, the monetary-policy paradigm shift now visible in the US, Britain, and Japan would risk a damaging loss of credibility and political independence for institutions that are critical to well-managed economies.",
        "如果失去这个机会，美、英、日等国当前货币政策思维模式的转变可能丧失对管理经济至关重要的可信度和政治独立性。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, Turkey’s bout with political instability has damaged its foreign policy and international standing.",
        "然而，土耳其政局不稳已经严重损害了它的外交政策和国际地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans and Chinese should question whether they really want to assume the risks associated with a position at the center of a large and complex global financial system.",
        "欧洲人和中国人都应该问一问，他们是否真的愿意承担成为全球金融体系复杂大舞台中心所伴随的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The continent’s fastest-growing economies are those that have been willing and able to allow yawning external gaps from 2000 to 2013: 26% of GDP, on average, in Liberia, 17% in Mozambique, 14% in Chad, 11% in Sierra Leone, and 7% in Ghana.",
        "这片大陆上增长最快的经济体正是那些在2000—2013年能够忍受巨大外部赤字的经济体——利比里亚平均为GDP的26%； 莫桑比克17%，乍得14%，塞拉利昂11%，加纳7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Many individual donor countries have declared that they are now prepared to increase their financial support for smallholder agriculture, but are searching for the appropriate mechanisms to do so.",
        "许多捐助国都各自宣称正准备增加对小型农业的资金支持，但现在正寻求一种合适的实施机制。"
    ],
    [
        "BARCELONA – The United Kingdom’s recent general election provided a clear example of how the question of national identity is reshaping Europe’s political landscape.",
        "巴塞罗那—最近的英国大选是一个显著的例子，表明了民族身份问题如何左右着欧洲政治格局。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the UN is increasingly taking the blame for these conferences’ failures, which not only leave the issues unresolved, but also undermine the UN’s authority.",
        "结果导致联合国越来越多地为这些会议的失败而承担指责，这样做不仅不能解决问题，而且还导致联合国的权威遭到削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike Greece, Asia’s problem was not an insolvency crisis, but a liquidity crisis, caused by a sudden reversal of capital flows.",
        "与希腊不同，亚洲的问题不是偿债能力危机，而是流动性危机，其原因是资本流的突然逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "Alterations accomplished using CRISPR, which enables scientists to edit a cell’s DNA with unprecedented precision, are different in one crucial respect: The process can result in “gene drive,” a naturally occurring feature of some genes that enables them to spread through a population over generations, even if they do not help survival (and thus reproduction).",
        "但CRISPR疗法带来的改变可以让科学家以前所未有的准确度修改DNA，并因此导致了至关重要的不同：上述过程可能会导致“基因驱动”，具体来讲就是即便不具备提高生存（以及繁殖）能力的效果，但同样可以实现在种群内部代际传递某些基因自然产生的功能。"
    ],
    [
        "The constitution is open to interpretation, and he argues that Fretilin, which won the largest share of the vote (29%), should have been asked first to form a government – even a minority one.",
        "对宪法的解释没有定论。 他认为作为赢得最多票数的独立政党（29%），Fretilin应该首先被要求组建政府—即使是一个少数派政府。"
    ],
    [
        "And it still could be a qualified American.",
        "当然也会有合格的美国人选。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Ahmed Mekki, the former deputy head of the Court of Cassation, Egypt’s highest appeals court, will lead the justice ministry, which is in need of real change.",
        "最后，曾出任埃及最高上诉法院副院长的Ahmed Mekki将统领拯待改革的司法部。"
    ],
    [
        "Concern for its own national interest explains why America has charted a course of tacit neutrality regarding the revival of Sino-Indian territorial disputes, including China’s sudden resurrection of a claim to the large Himalayan Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.",
        "对其自身国家里的关心可以解释为何美国在中印领土纠纷重燃——包括中国突然重新提出对广袤的印度喜马拉雅山区的阿鲁纳恰尔邦的领土主张——时保持中立。"
    ],
    [
        "Fillon, for his part, can probably muster the same level of support, and he may even be able to skim votes from Le Pen, given that around 8% of primary voters described themselves as National Front backers.",
        "鉴于约8%的初选投票者自我描述为国民阵线的支持者，菲永或许可以得到与勒庞同等水平的支持，甚至可以从勒庞那里夺走选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only is Russia building a civilian nuclear reactor in Iran, thereby helping to advance Iranian knowledge of the nuclear process; it is also reluctant to support efforts by the United Nations Security Council to press Iran not to develop nuclear weapons.",
        "俄罗斯不但在伊朗建造了一座民用核反应堆，由此增进了伊朗人对核聚变过程的认识； 并且还不愿意支持联合国安理会要求伊朗不要发展核武器的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "But how can it be applied to the mess now in Syria?",
        "但如何把它应用于当前的叙利亚乱象？"
    ],
    [
        "The most efficient approach to reducing global cancer mortality rates would be to bring existing therapies to cancer patients in developing countries.",
        "降低全球癌症致命性的最有效办法是将现有癌症患者疗法移植到发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "People were intimidated into voting for United Russia on a mass scale.",
        "大量的选民被恐吓投票支持统一俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally significant was the Fifth Plenum’s emphasis on using state capital to fund a more robust safety net through an increase in taxes on state-owned enterprises that was proposed a couple of years ago.",
        "同样重要的是五中全会强调动用国有资本通过几年前便已提出的提高国企税收的方案为更强大的安全网注资。"
    ],
    [
        "When these fossil fuels are burned, they emit carbon dioxide, which in turn changes the Earth’s climate.",
        "当这些化石燃料燃烧时，会释放二氧化碳，而二氧化碳会改变地球的气候。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important question to ask of any financial system is how much loss-absorbing equity major banks have on their balance sheets.",
        "对任何金融体系来说，最重要的问题是大银行资产负债表上有多少可用于吸收损失的股本。"
    ],
    [
        "For the moment, the right looks right.",
        "且在目前看来，右派是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "When they eventually find work, it will be at a much lower wage.",
        "即使他们最终找到了工作，工资也会低得多。"
    ],
    [
        "So you can set a high price to offset the inconvenience and make money on the side.",
        "这样的话，你大可以开个高价来补偿给自己造成麻烦，顺便赚点钱。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in another sense, this misses the point.",
        "但在另一种意义上，这其实是不得要领的。"
    ],
    [
        "These include “trade and investment in innovative products and services, including digital technologies, and ensuring state-owned enterprises compete fairly with private companies and do not distort competition in ways that put US companies and workers at a disadvantage.”",
        "其中包括“数字技术等创新性产品和服务的贸易和投资、确保国有企业与私人企业公平竞争以及不以导致美国公司和员工处于劣势的方式扭曲竞争。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The other reason for giving Third Way ideas a second hearing is that they work.",
        "另一个让第三条道路思想重获市场的原因是它管用。"
    ],
    [
        "Speculation about the outcome of the election is an interesting parlor game.",
        "推测选举结果是一项有趣的空谈游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of their lack of trust, Arabs will often pass up potentially lucrative opportunities to gain through exchange.",
        "因为缺乏信任，阿拉伯人常常会错过通过交换得到的有利可图的潜在机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Jokowi has risen from humble beginnings to the apex of power without compromising his image as a “man of the people” or his reputation for pragmatism and honesty.",
        "佐科维以卑微的出身稳定权力巅峰，并且从未在其“人民之子”的形象和务实诚信的声誉方面妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "Cities like Foshan have benefited substantially from the effective coordination of these networks.",
        "佛山这样的城市正是从这些供应链网络之间的有效协调中受益及成长起来的。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they made local pilgrimages to the major shrines that still garland the Muslim world.",
        "相反，他们前往穆斯林世界随处可见的当地主要圣地朝圣。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the financial system – both banks and non-bank institutions – is severely damaged.",
        "第二就是金融体系——这包括银行和其他金融机构——几近摧毁。"
    ],
    [
        "And police departments around the world should exercise more caution before acting on an alert they receive through Interpol.",
        "而世界各国的警察部门应当在针对国际刑警组织下发的通报采取行动之前采取更加谨慎的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "With around one-fifth of advanced economies’ populations over 65 (a proportion that is expected eventually to rise to one-third), public-pension expenditures will increasingly crowd out other public spending.",
        "约有1/5的发达国家人口超过65岁（预期最终将达到三分之一），公共养老金支出将越来越多地挤占其他公共支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas Syria denies political freedom to its citizens, it tolerates significantly more social freedom than many other Arab countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, which is leading the charge to oust Assad.",
        "叙利亚拒绝给予公民政治自由，但该国社会自由其实要胜过许多其他阿拉伯国家，特别是沙特，而沙特正是驱逐巴沙尔的领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "In the non-Arab Muslim-majority subset, both Polity IV and Freedom House rate nine countries as having experienced at least three consecutive years of substantial political rights.",
        "非阿拉伯穆斯林国家集合中，《政治》第四期和自由之家组织都认为有9个国家实现了连续3年享有重大政治权利。"
    ],
    [
        "These three together make it possible for Europe to open its doors to a great diversity of peoples and at the same time to speak as a community of peoples prepared to take responsibility for one another.",
        "在这三个概念的共同作用下，欧洲才可能在为高度多元化的不同民族敞开大门的同时作为肝胆相照的不同民族的共同体而发言。"
    ],
    [
        "The additive (produced by a company where I am a director) dismantles the molecular structure of the polymer at the end of its useful life and enables natural decomposition in an open environment.",
        "这种添加剂（由我担任董事的公司生产）会在聚合物使用寿命终点拆散其分子结构，使之能够在开放环境中自然分解。"
    ],
    [
        "Taking all of this into consideration, we have created the Al Ghurair Open Learning Scholars Program, aimed at making some of the best education in the world available to Arab youth through online degree programs.",
        "考虑到所有这一切，我们成立了古赖尔开放教学奖学金计划，旨在通过在线学位课程为阿拉伯年轻人提供世界最好的教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, the IEO argues that the Fund was captive to European interests – hardly surprising, given that Europeans constitute one-third of the Fund’s executive board.",
        "具体来说，独立评估办公室认为基金组织被欧洲利益绑架了——这不足为奇，因为基金组织执行委员会中有1/3是欧洲人。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, extrapolations of global supply that foresee an increase in uranium mining are based on claims about the ability to expand output in Kazakhstan.",
        "事实上，当前对铀开采量增加的预期都是基于哈萨克斯坦的产能提升。"
    ],
    [
        "And it ranks 58th for institutional quality, owing to excessive government regulations, opaque corporate governance, and policy instability.",
        "而在制度评分方面，韩国名列第58名，原因在于过度的政府监管、不透明的公司治理以及政策不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe ’s failure to play a role in resolving this conflict does not result from its supposed anti-Israeli views, but from the fact that the EU is not a state.",
        "而欧洲无法在解决冲突方面扮演一个角色的原因并不在于其在人们心目中的反以色利观点，而是因为欧盟并不是一个国家。 国家并不需要别人赋予它角色；"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, unions were a driving force behind last year’s Domestic Workers Convention, which seeks to protect the rights of the world’s estimated 50-100 million domestic workers.",
        "事实上，工会是去年家政工人公约背后的推动力量，这份公约旨在保护世界上大约5000万到1亿家政工人的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Last October, the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) decided to consider what a development-oriented intellectual property regime might look like.",
        "去年10月，世界知识产权组织（WIPO）成员国大会决定研究什么样的知识产权制度才有利于促进发展。"
    ],
    [
        "So, what will it take to write the happy ending?",
        "那么，我们怎样做才能实现幸福的结局？"
    ],
    [
        "(I discuss them in more detail in my new book, The Globalization Paradox.)",
        "（我在新作《全球化悖论》中对这些原则进行了更深入的探讨）。"
    ],
    [
        "Immigrant kids who go to US schools learn that America – ideally – is about freedom, aspiration, and tolerance.",
        "在美国学校上学的移民子弟知道，在理想上而言，美国就是自由、渴望以及宽容。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, neither the US nor Britain has reached that point.",
        "虽然美国和英国的政府都不会残暴至此。"
    ],
    [
        "China contends that a stronger BRICS grouping would help to safeguard the interests of all developing countries.",
        "中国认为，加强金砖国家合作有助于捍卫所有发展中国家的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The discrimination continues, despite overwhelming evidence showing that women are more likely to invest business loans wisely and to meet repayment schedules.",
        "歧视仍在继续，尽管有大量证据显示女性明智运用商业贷款、并遵守还款计划的可能性更大。"
    ],
    [
        "No one knows exactly when Santos decided to seek new negotiations with Latin America’s oldest – and one of its most vicious – guerrilla groups; nor do any but his closest aides know how many meetings have already taken place, where and when, or what happened.",
        "没人知道桑托斯是什么时候决定于拉美最老牌、同时也是最残忍之一的游击队组织进行新谈判的； 也只有他的亲信部下才知道双方已经进行了多少次会面，在哪里和何时会的面，会面时又发生过什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, the US and Europe must cooperate much more closely than they have so far.",
        "最重要的是，美国和欧洲必须比现在更加紧密地合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Modi personally commanded the campaign in Uttar Pradesh, whose fabled city of Varanasi he represents in parliament.",
        "事实上，莫迪亲自指挥了北方邦的竞选活动，并在议会代表瓦拉纳西这座传说中的城市。"
    ],
    [
        "Where there is less consensus – or so it seems – is in accounting for this weakness.",
        "比较不一致（或者似乎比较不一致）的是对经济弱势的描述。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is a slippery slope.",
        "但这是个危险的斜坡。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite these deteriorating security conditions, a slim majority of Britons voted in June 2016 to withdraw from the EU – a decision that could fatally undermine the United Kingdom’s relationship with its European NATO partners.",
        "尽管安全状况持续恶化，2016年6月略超过半数的英国人投票决定退出欧盟——这一决定可能会严重破坏英国与欧洲北约伙伴国的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In the midst of all that pain, it is tempting to point fingers.",
        "不管经历什么痛苦，指责责任总是颇有诱惑力的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "After what happened in 2016, support for a concept forged in the Enlightenment can no longer be taken for granted.",
        "在2016年的一切发生后，对启蒙运动中形成的概念支持不能再继续被认为是理所当然。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed is a process that rebuilds trust and communication so that the give-and-take of negotiation is perceived as serving mutual interests rather than serving up insults to national dignity or identity.",
        "现在所需要的是重建信任和沟通的进程，这样就可以把相互讨价还价的谈判视为服务于双方利益而非羞辱国家尊严或身份。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an especially grave risk for Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia.",
        "这可能给印尼等穆斯林占多数的国家造成巨大的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The hope for many in the region is that political change can catalyze faster growth, by revamping existing policies and pursuing more effective anti-corruption campaigns.",
        "该地区的很多人寄希望于政治变革能改正现有政策、发动更有效的反复运动，从而刺激更快的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "How the end of US-led combat operations shapes Afghanistan’s future will affect the security of countries nearby and beyond.",
        "如何结束以美国为首的作战行动既决定阿富汗的未来也影响周边及其他国家的安全局势。"
    ],
    [
        "They – along with Brazil, India, and South Africa (the BRICS) – have established their own development bank, motivated partly by the International Monetary Fund’s failure to fulfill its 2010 pledge to adjust voting rights to reflect the global balance of economic power.",
        "它们与巴西、印度和南非（所谓金砖国家）一起成立了自己的开发银行，之所以要如此，部分是因为国际货币基金组织（IMF）没有履行其2010年调整投票权以反映全球经济实力平衡的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But the research seems to be aimed at building a scientific case for a resumption of commercial whaling; so, if whaling is unethical, then the research itself is both unnecessary and unethical.",
        "但是研究的目的似乎只是为了给恢复商业捕鲸提供一个科学的依据； 因此，既然捕鲸是不符合伦理的，那么研究本身既不必要也是不符合伦理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past two centuries, the world has made significant strides in reducing infant mortality, such that the typical woman no longer has to spend five years of her life pregnant and another ten years nursing.",
        "在过去两个世纪中，世界在降低婴儿死亡率方面取得了重大进展，普通妇女不再需要将生命中的五年时间用来怀孕，再将十年时间用来哺乳。"
    ],
    [
        "Adherence to the NPT has increased steadily, reaching a stage of near universal acceptance.",
        "基于各国对《核不扩散条约》（NPT）的认同度的不断增加，该条约现已获得近乎全世界的承认。"
    ],
    [
        "As events in Egypt and elsewhere have shown, we are only just beginning to comprehend the effects of the information revolution on power in this century.",
        "正如埃及和其他地区的事件所表明的，对于本世纪信息革命对实力的影响，我们的理解才刚刚开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Start with nonconscious exposures (using subliminal stimulation to bypass conscious thoughts and feelings that can be aroused and interfere with the exposure process) to dampen the response of areas like the amygdala.",
        "首先用无意识暴露（包括阈下刺激以避开可能产生并干扰暴露过程的有意识思考和感觉）抑制杏仁体等区域的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "In this, the conservatives have it right: Let’s reduce the power of the federal government and turn more revenues and regulations back to the states, subject to the constitutional limits on the division of powers and fundamental rights.",
        "在这方面，保守派也有可取之处：减少联邦政府的权力，把更多岁入和监管，根据宪法对权力分割和基本权利的限制，还给各州。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone – even the US – would benefit from that.",
        "所有人——包括美国——都能从中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese leadership’s split personality explains a curious phenomenon that former US State Department adviser Susan Shirk noted in her book China: Fragile Superpower.",
        "中国领导层的分裂型人格也解释了前美国国务院顾问苏珊·舍克在其著作《中国：脆弱的超级大国》中所提到的一个有趣现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The proof is in the data.",
        "证明就在数据中。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not the only reason for bleaker prospects for America and the world in 2006.",
        "但这并非 2006 年美国和全球前景暗淡的唯一原因。"
    ],
    [
        "That alleyway is a platform, bringing together multiple sellers of separate legal services together with buyers, in contrast to a traditional law firm, which requires clients to purchase multiple services from the same source.",
        "这条小巷就是一个平台，集结了不同法律服务的众多卖家和买家，这和传统律师事务所不同，后者需要当事人从同一家律所购买多种服务。"
    ],
    [
        "One way to maintain a commitment to openness when addressing the vexing question of national borders is to recognize that cosmopolitanism is a two-way street.",
        "维护对开放的承诺同时又能应对国家疆界的复杂问题的一种方式是认识到世界主义是一条双向道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider southern Europe. From the standpoint of growth and employment, public and private debt masked an absence of productivity growth, declining competitiveness in the tradable sector, and a range of underlying structural shortcomings – including labor-market rigidities, deficiencies in education and skills training, and underinvestment in infrastructure.",
        "以南欧为例,从经济增长和就业的角度来看，公共和私人债务掩盖了以下事实：生产率缺乏增长，贸易部门竞争力下降，以及一系列根本的结构性缺陷——包括劳动力市场僵化、教育和技能培训缺乏以及对基础设施投资不足。"
    ],
    [
        "The “New” Iraq Insurgency",
        "“新”伊拉克叛乱"
    ],
    [
        "Chronic pain is difficult to treat; even the most effective medications provide only modest relief to a minority of patients.",
        "慢性疼痛很难治愈； 即便是效力最强的药物也只能略微减轻少数病人的疼痛。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, she failed to create harmony out of discord.",
        "结果，她无法从不和中创造和谐。"
    ],
    [
        "He argued that a timid BOJ should learn from its more aggressive counterparts, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.",
        "他指出过于谨慎的日本央行应该向它更为激进的同行——美联储和欧洲央行——学习。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s reform process shows that the latter is not an unavoidable destiny for the countries of the region.",
        "土耳其的改革进程证明后者并不是该地区不可避免的宿命。"
    ],
    [
        "For both borrowers and creditors, the risks and costs are enormous.",
        "对债务人和债权人来说，违约的风险和成本是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "QE helped American exports by weakening the dollar relative to other currencies.",
        "量化宽松政策通过削弱美元兑其他货币的汇率协助美国出口。"
    ],
    [
        "Evangelicalism is the fastest-growing world religion by conversion – a trend that underlies the strong expansion of Protestantism in traditionally Roman Catholic Latin America.",
        "从皈依角度讲，福音派是世界增长最快的宗教——这也是新教在罗马天主教的传统基地拉丁美洲呈迅速扩张之势的原因。 1900年，拉丁美洲新教徒只占人口的2."
    ],
    [
        "Mao Zedong was responsible for the deaths of more than 40 million Chinese in the 1950’s and 1960’s.",
        "毛泽东要为20世纪五六十年代4000多万中国人的死负责。"
    ],
    [
        "But it will not.",
        "然而这种方法是行不通的。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the worst anti-Japanese bombast has disappeared from Chinese television in recent weeks, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is due to meet with Xi in Beijing this week.",
        "最近几周，中国电视屏幕上已不再有最糟糕的反日宣传，前日本首相福田康夫将在本周在北京与习近平举行会晤。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, a higher propensity to save in emerging economies, together with investors’ growing preference for safe assets, has increased the supply of saving worldwide, even as weak growth prospects and heightened uncertainty in advanced economies have depressed investment demand.",
        "换句话说，即便发达国家的疲软的增长预期以及不断增加的不确定性抑制了投资需求，但新兴市场国家的储蓄偏好，再加上投资者对安全资产的日渐偏爱，导致全球的储蓄供应有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Tingginya ketimpangan juga berkorelasi dengan kemungkinan adanya political capture oleh sekelompok elit yang ingin membela kepentingannya dengan menghambat reformasi egaliter.",
        "严重不平等也与精英把持政治的可能性相关。 精英阻挠平等化改革，以此捍卫自己的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, more than a million Syrian refugees have poured into Lebanon – the equivalent, in proportional terms, of 80 million Mexicans suddenly arriving in the United States.",
        "雪上加霜的是，此时有一百多万叙利亚难民涌入黎巴嫩——从比例上讲相当于8000万墨西哥人突然进入到美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet rich countries also fail.",
        "但发达国家也做得不好。"
    ],
    [
        "Tax cuts for the richest Americans were part of the package.",
        "为最富裕的美国人减税也是方案的内容之一。"
    ],
    [
        "In Malaysia, the country's highest court last month rejected opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's appeal against a five-year prison sentence and a ban against running for public office for a further five years – a shocking and indefensible decision.",
        "上个月，马来西亚最高法院驳回了反对派领袖安瓦尔·易卜拉欣（Anwar Ibrahim）对其五年有期徒刑、剥夺五年政治权利的判决的上诉——这一决定令人震惊，毫无道理可言。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, for all its bellicosity, the North Korean regime is unlikely to start a full-scale military conflict, because that would surely spell its demise.",
        "然而朝鲜政权纵使四处挑衅，却不大可能首先发动全面的军事冲突，因为简直就是自取灭亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, just as it has shared its innovative goods and technologies with the world, Japan could end up exporting successful policies, with the same or similar measures increasing standards of living in other advanced countries as well.",
        "同样重要的是，正如日本与全世界分享其创新产品和技术，日本也能够输出成功的政策，用同样或类似的措施提高其他发达国家的生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1900, when the global human population was 1.5 billion, almost three million people – roughly one in 500 – died each year from air pollution, mostly from wretched indoor air.",
        "1900年，全球人口只有15亿，而每年有近300万人——相当于500人中就有一人——死于空气污染，其中大部分是室内空气污染。"
    ],
    [
        "This has not always been so. In the ancient Greek, Jewish, and Christian religions, women were perceived as inferior to men.",
        "情况并不总是这样。 在古希腊、犹太和基督教地区，妇女被视为低人一等。"
    ],
    [
        "Once this sizeable swath of voters begins participating in municipal elections – which they have so far avoided, lest they be viewed as legitimizing Israeli rule – control of the city council is likely to pass to a Palestinian majority.",
        "5%。 当如此比例的人口结构作用于市政选举时——目前仍没有举行过，唯恐给以色列的统治落下合法的口实——耶路撒冷市议会很有可能落入巴勒斯坦多数之手。"
    ],
    [
        "For their part, the militias that overthrew Qaddafi have released prisoners in exchange for ransom payments.",
        "推翻卡扎菲的民兵组织收取赎金释放囚犯。"
    ],
    [
        "Given traditional Republican priorities, reflected in President-elect Trump’s cabinet choices, federal government programs (with the notable exception of the military) are likely to be slashed.",
        "考虑到共和党的政策重点传统——从当选总统特朗普的内阁人选中可见一斑——联邦政府项目可能遭到大量削减（军事是一个显著的例外）。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth is essential to bringing down public debt/GDP ratios, and thus is a key part of fiscal stabilization.",
        "增长是降低公债/GDP比率的关键，因此也是财政稳定的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is in America’s national interest to ensure that the Vienna Convention is respected – without question and as a matter of routine – in order to ensure the safety and inviolability of its own missions abroad.",
        "但确保维也纳公约得到尊重——作为惯例的不容置疑的尊重——符合美国利益，这能确保其本国驻外使团的安全和不可侵犯性。"
    ],
    [
        "But they should not be alone. Is it reasonable that Europe’s countries give up a niche of prosperity on ideological grounds that are irrelevant from a global perspective?",
        "欧洲国家放弃繁荣的发展方式，依仗追求理论化的观点，并且这些观点脱离了国际视角，这样做对欧洲而言真的是理智的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The remarkable increase in agricultural productivity over the past two centuries demonstrates this clearly.",
        "农业生产力在过去两个世纪的显著增长清楚地证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – Many analysts and observers believe that the global imbalances that characterized the world economy in the years before the 2008 crisis have substantially dissipated.",
        "新加坡—很多分析师和观察员认为，2008年危机之前伴随世界经济的全球失衡已经大大消散了。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia is also economically weak because of its dependence on oil revenue at a time when prices are down dramatically.",
        "俄罗斯在经济上也十分疲软，因为它依赖石油收入，而石油价格出现了暴跌。"
    ],
    [
        "There is widespread resistance to the idea that the chief function of modern states is to slot their peoples into a global market dominated by the imperatives of efficiency and cheapness, heedless of the damage to non-economic activities.",
        "有一种理念认为现代国家的首要职能就是将其各民族分配到以效率和廉价为第一要旨的全球市场，而不顾对非经济活动的破坏。 而这一理念现在遭到了广泛的抵触。"
    ],
    [
        "But the communiqué also reflects distinct divisions – particularly with regard to the role of monetary and fiscal policy in stimulating growth – among the finance ministers and central bankers who agreed on its text.",
        "但公报也体现出一致同意这一协议的财政部长和央行行长们之间存在深刻的分歧——特别是在货币和财政政策在刺激增长中的作用方面。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, the only viable course was massive confiscation – the creation of biens nationaux as the basis for the issuance of state debt.",
        "最后，大面积充公成为唯一的可行方案——以创造国家财产作为发行国家债务的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But we do need to save the climate in which humans have evolved and prospered.",
        "但我们确实需要拯救人类在其中演化和繁荣的气候。"
    ],
    [
        "They suffered from chronic vomiting, seizures, and muscle weakness, sending them and their parents on an odyssey of medical examinations and tests.",
        "他们于1996年出生于加利福尼亚州圣迭戈，身患慢性呕吐、癫痫和肌无力。 他们和他们的父母长期进行着没完没了的体检和测试。"
    ],
    [
        "Chief among these is the poverty endured by the majority of her country’s population.",
        "其中主要的问题是她的祖国的大部分人口所遭受的贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the BJP government has increased so many other taxes (which it simply should have eliminated) that the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy estimates that the GST would have to amount to as much as 27% to prevent revenue loss.",
        "此外，人民党政府已经增加了其他很多税种（这些税种其实都应该取消），以致国家公共财政与政策研究所估计商品与服务税需要达到27%才能防止收入减少。"
    ],
    [
        "That leaves only the far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon (13%) and the photogenic but waffling Arnaud Montebourg, whom Macron succeeded as economy minister.",
        "此外只剩下极左翼候选人让·吕克·梅朗雄（支持率13%）和表面光鲜但优柔寡断的蒙特布赫，后者曾担任马龙的前任经济部长。"
    ],
    [
        "Such people exist in universities.",
        "这些人存在于大学中。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan After the Peshawar Massacre",
        "白沙瓦大屠杀后的巴基斯坦"
    ],
    [
        "The first is the relentless human tendency to classify the world as \"us\" versus \"them,\" and then to reduce \"them\" to sub-human status.",
        "首先是人们冷酷无情地将世界划分为\"我们\"和\"他们\"，再将\"他们\"降格到非人类状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Solutions may come from tech hubs, but they will also come from villages and developing cities, from farmers and manufactures with vastly different perspectives on the world around them.",
        "解决方案可以来自各个枢纽，但它们也将来自村庄和发展中城市，来周边前景各异的农民和制造商。"
    ],
    [
        "Citigroup estimates that, by 2020, oil will cost just $75 per barrel, and the former head of international forecasting at the OECD suggests that the number could be closer to $50.",
        "花旗集团预测到2020年石油售价将降至仅75美元一桶，而经合组合国际预测部前负责人认为石油价格将逼近每桶50美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Fans of American culture were not prepared to overlook the excesses of Guantánamo.",
        "美国文化的拥趸尚无法忽视关塔那摩的过分行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the plebiscite was only supposed to provide final confirmation.",
        "事实上，公决应该只是提供最终确认。"
    ],
    [
        "It made for a disturbing flight.",
        "看完后令人不安的情绪挥之不去。"
    ],
    [
        "Should these countries’ governments continue to invest heavily in developing indigenous labor forces, with the aim of decreasing dependency on foreign workers?",
        "这些国家的政府应该继续大力投资于开发本国劳动力，从而降低对外国工人的依赖吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Some radical leftist Muslims, obsessed with their opposition to Western “imperialism” and Israel, saluted Mousavi’s defeat, for, as one such activist put it, “the [anti-Zionist] resistance cannot afford a pro-American velvet revolution.”",
        "一些极端左翼穆斯林，满怀着对西方“帝国主义”和以色列的反感，欢迎穆萨维的落败，其原因就像一位行动者表述的那样“（反犹太复国主义的）抵抗可不能承受一场亲美的天鹅绒革命”。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest of the Arab world faces two alternatives.",
        "其余阿拉伯国家面临着两种选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Now China may become the target of a full-fledged trade war that could destroy – or perhaps rescue – the chances of bringing rich and poor nations together to fight global warming.",
        "现在中国也许会成为一场全面贸易战的目标，这一贸易战也许会摧毁或者挽救穷国和富国携手对付全球变暖的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, the spirit of surfing’s early days (think of the harmony of wave and human action portrayed in the 1971 movie Morning of the Earth) contrasts sharply with the razzamatazz of today’s professional circuit.",
        "尽管如此，早年的冲浪精神（1971年陆地早晨这部影片中波浪和人类运动和谐共存的景象）与今天职业冲浪圈的核心生命力形成了鲜明的反差。"
    ],
    [
        "A viable future means security as well as bread.",
        "可靠的前途意味着安全以及温饱。"
    ],
    [
        "One never knows, for example, when rising debt levels might alarm international investors, who then start demanding sharply higher interest rates, as happened to countries on the European periphery in 2010.",
        "比如说，没有人会知道增加债务水平何时会使国际投资者受惊并开始追求高利率——一如2010年发生在欧洲外围国家的情况一样。"
    ],
    [
        "But by the time I was arrested in 1980, as a university student in Aleppo, the future my parents once envisioned had begun to vanish.",
        "但在1980年我作为阿勒颇一名大学生被捕时，我父母曾经梦想的未来已经开始消失了。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising regional tensions also provided the backdrop to US President Barack Obama’s trip to Southeast Asia shortly after his re-election.",
        "在地区紧张局势加剧的大背景下，奥巴马总统重新当选后不久就展开了对东南亚国家的访问。"
    ],
    [
        "Designed to secure the legitimacy of the Saudi monarchy at home, it is indoctrinating young Western Muslims with values antithetical to open and free societies.",
        "这一教育目的在于确保沙特王室统治的合法性，向西方的年轻穆斯林灌输与公开和自由社会所对立的价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "But, looking at the world now, one could easily conclude that the inspirational leader whose credo was Franklin Roosevelt’s injunction to fear only “fear itself” has lost, and that the fanatic who wanted fear to dominate the world of the “infidels” has prevailed.",
        "但是，看看当下的世界，我们可以轻易地看出，以富兰克林·罗斯福关于唯一的恐惧是“恐惧本身”的训喻为圭臬的鼓舞人心的领袖失败了，想要恐惧主导“异教徒”世界的狂热分子胜利了。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the initiative has secured €110 million through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, which is financed primarily by governments.",
        "目前，该计划已经从对抗艾滋病、结核病和疟疾全球基金获得1. 10亿欧元资金，主要出资者是政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of what has happened was predictable, as well over 1,400 men, women, and children have died and more than 4,000 have been injured.",
        "超过1400名男子、妇女和儿童丧失，另有四千多人受伤，而大部分事情都是在预料之中的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the ingredients of an effective strategy to spur economic growth and employment are similar: available balance sheets (sovereign and private) should be used to generate additional demand and boost public investment, even if it results in greater leverage.",
        "尽管如此，刺激经济增长和就业的有效战略要素是类似的：可动用的（主权和私人）资产负债表应该用于制造总需求、刺激公共投资，即使这会增加杠杆。"
    ],
    [
        "While providing returns to innovators can help to spur more innovation, it can also allow businesspeople to capture too large a share of the transformation process.",
        "向创新者提供回报有助于更多创新，但也让商人攫取了转型过程的太大比例。"
    ],
    [
        "If its relevance declines – if it slowly becomes “just another NGO” – countries will change their fundamental assumptions about how to deal with one another in the future.",
        "如果其重要性下降——如果它慢慢变为“仅仅又一个非政府组织”——那么各国对未来如何相处的基本认识将会因此而发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The formation of a new Israeli government, one more centrist in its composition and support, is another positive development.",
        "以色列新政府组成中所出现的更多的中间派及其支持者，是另一个积极发展的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "By building a better-trained workforce, the Foundation’s programs are helping to empower the next generation of Africa’s community members and leaders, so that they can help their families, communities, and countries achieve a brighter and more prosperous future.",
        "通过建设更加训练有素的劳动队伍，万事达基金会项目正在协助授权下一代非洲的社区成员和领导者，以便他们能够帮助自己的家庭、社区和国家实现更加光明和繁荣的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "I consider this ideology to be the greatest danger that the world will face in the next decade.",
        "我认为，这一意识形态是全球未来十年将面临的最大威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Syrian doctors face “many, many years” of retraining in Canada, and often struggle to fund the high cost of recertification.",
        "叙利亚医生在加拿大需要经过“许多许多年”的再培训，他们常常无力承担高昂的重新考证成本。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is also a fact that we are happier saving and accumulating if we receive positive and negative feedback on our decisions on a time scale that allows us to believe that we can do better next time by altering our strategy – hence marketwatch.com and CNN/Money.",
        "同样，我们储蓄和积累财富的前提是我们可以吸取成功经验和失败的教训，这样我们下次在做投资的时候可以通过改变战略而做的更好一些——这也是marketwatch. com和CNN/Money节目的作用所在。"
    ],
    [
        "As a consequence, chaos looms in Greece, as does the prospect of subsequent bank runs in Spain, Italy, and France – and thus a financial avalanche that would bury Europe.",
        "结果，混乱笼罩了希腊，西班牙、意大利和法国也很可能随之发生银行挤兑，从而引发葬送欧洲的金融雪崩？"
    ],
    [
        "And the qualifications that Reagan did have on Inauguration Day eroded over time, after he was wounded in a failed assassination attempt 69 days into his presidency, and, later, when he began to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.",
        "而在上任69天后遭刺杀受伤后，里根在就职时表现的总统资质也随着时间的推移而逐渐泯灭，而情况在他罹患阿尔茨海默病后则变得更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "What is different today is that it is emanating from China and India, rather than from the conventional bastions of capitalist prowess.",
        "如今，来自中国和印度的救助和那些传统的老牌资本主义国家比较起来，究竟又有什么区别呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The adverse weather resulting from the phenomenon – which originates in the Pacific, but affects the ocean worldwide – is expected to affect adversely over 60 million people this year, compounding the misery wrought last year.",
        "由这一现象产生的恶劣天气——起源于太平洋地区，却影响着全球所有的海洋 ，预计今年将对超过6000万人产生不利影响，延续着去年的种种痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "The large number of long-term unemployed may make the problem more difficult this time by causing the unemployment rate to remain high even when product markets are beginning to experience rising inflation.",
        "大量长期失业人口的存在可能导致产品市场开始经历通胀抬头时失业率仍然保持较高水平，因此，这一回问题将特别棘手。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Mousavi’s defeat by the hardliner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in what looked like a rigged electoral process, was greeted by some neo-conservatives in the US with relief.",
        "然而在一场看起来类似作弊的选举程序中，穆萨维被强硬派艾哈迈迪·内贾德击败了。 美国的一些新保守主义者对此如释重负。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, China’s economy remains a source of significant uncertainty.",
        "不过，中国经济仍然是巨大的不确定性来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries in Latin America, such as Mexico and Bolivia, undertook such policies in a fiscally prudent manner, ensuring that government deficits would not lead to high debt and macroeconomic instability.",
        "许多拉丁美洲国家（如墨西哥和玻利维亚）以财政审慎的方式采取了这类政策，以确保政府赤字不会导致债务高企和宏观经济动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "European leaders must explain to their voters why nationalism cannot.",
        "欧洲领导人必须向选民解释民族主义为什么行不通。"
    ],
    [
        "But a Europe that weakens in 2016 could damage both sides.",
        "但2016年欧洲的削弱可能会对双方利益造成损害。"
    ],
    [
        "The DPJ’s feckless dithering over whether to renew the US Marines’ lease on a base on Okinawa signaled to the world – and to China, in particular – that the party did not value the US alliance and America’s security guarantee as highly as previous governments did.",
        "民主党在是否延长美国驻冲绳海军基地租期的问题上尽显反复和无能，等于告诉全世界（特别是中国）该党不像前任那样重视美日同盟和美国安全保障的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is possible that we are entering a period in which major adaptations in employment models, work weeks, contract labor, minimum wages, and the delivery of essential public services will be needed in order to maintain social cohesion and uphold the core values of equity and intergenerational mobility.",
        "事实上，也许我们正在步入这样的阶段：需要就业模式、工作周、合同工、最低工资和基本公共服务的供应方面的大适应来维持社会凝聚力、保证公平和代际流动的核心价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Preparing for the Trump Trade Wars",
        "准备迎接特朗普贸易战"
    ],
    [
        "And those payouts are modest compared to the research and development efforts they stimulate.",
        "而且这些报酬相比于由此刺激的研发努力可谓微不足道。"
    ],
    [
        "Exhibit A in a hearing on Trump’s sanity would have to be his recent address to the United Nations General Assembly, which resembled the lunatic ramblings of Aerys Targaryen, the “mad king” in the television show “Game of Thrones.”",
        "有关特朗普精神是否健全听证会的附录A是他最近对联合国大会的讲话，这次讲话与电视连续剧《权力游戏》中的疯子国王伊里斯·坦格利安漫无边际的疯话非常相似。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent increase in South Korea’s minimum normal retirement age has done little to improve the labor-market outlook.",
        "最近，韩国提高了最低正常退休年龄，但这对改善劳动力市场前景来说只是杯水车薪。"
    ],
    [
        "If only one party truly represents the people, why should the state not become the instrument of the people?",
        "既然只有一个政党真正代表人民，那为什么不让国家变成人民的工具呢？"
    ],
    [
        "People can just change their minds and behave completely differently.",
        "人可以随时改变主意并做出截然不同的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, fortunately, there is no need for resignation.",
        "然而，幸运的是，我们并不需要听天由命。"
    ],
    [
        "The global shocks affected all European countries alike, as did the entry of China (and other Asian countries) into the WTO, but French exports, for example, suffered much less, while German exports actually increased.",
        "全球动荡对所有欧洲国家都有影响，中国（以及其它亚洲国家）加入世贸组织同样如此，但是例如法国的出口损失甚微，德国的出口竟然有所增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists, as opposed to those who make their living gambling on stocks, make no claim to being able to predict when the day of reckoning will come, much less identifying the event that will bring down the house of cards.",
        "”相对于那些靠在股市搏杀为生的人，经济学家们从未声称能预测清算日何时到来，更别说确认什么事件会令房产市场崩盘。"
    ],
    [
        "The world has witnessed similar tactics elsewhere, from Uruguay to Australia, where tobacco companies launch costly legal challenges against legitimate regulation of its deadly products.",
        "人们在世界其他地方也目睹了类似的手段，从乌拉圭到澳大利亚，烟草企业都对针对其致命产品的合法监管提出了昂贵的法律诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "Is there an alternative to waiting for the Security Council and acting unilaterally?",
        "除了等待安理会采取行动和由国家采取单边行动以外，就没有其他方法了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "After all, along with reduced current-account and trade surpluses, China’s consumer-led shift to saving absorption likely entails diminished accumulation of foreign-exchange reserves and reduced recycling of those reserves into dollar-based assets such as US Treasuries.",
        "毕竟，在经常项目和贸易盈余下降的同时，中国消费拉动的吸收储蓄转型可能意味着外汇储备积累放缓，降低其外汇储备再转变为美国国债等美元计价资产的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "Just ask any of the large international banking groups headquartered in financially stressed eurozone countries.",
        "只消问问坐落于受困欧元区国家的任何大型国际银行集团总部便可推知一二。"
    ],
    [
        "Lack of robust credit growth will hamper private consumption and investment spending.",
        "没有活跃信贷的支持，私营经济的消费和投资就是无本之源。"
    ],
    [
        "There has been a great deal of speculation about the consequences of Bo’s fall, and of the daring escape of the human-rights activist, Chen Guangcheng, after 18 months of house arrest.",
        "外界对薄熙来倒台以及盲人人权分子陈光诚在遭受18个月软禁后大胆脱逃所产生的后果有诸多猜测。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s not happening.",
        "但这一切都并未发生。"
    ],
    [
        "He can invoke the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, restricting imports on the grounds that they threaten US “material interests.”",
        "他可以援引1962年贸易扩张法，以进口威胁美国的“实质利益”为借口限制进口。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, aggressive counter-terrorism activities and the separation barrier have decisively reduced cross-border attacks, containing mounting pressure in Palestine as the conflict remains on the back burner.",
        "此外，积极的反恐措施和修建隔离墙成功地抑制了跨境袭击，并随着冲突的不断发酵而导致巴勒斯坦内部压力越积越多。"
    ],
    [
        "These purchases would need Treasury support, since this tactic is in effect a fiscal policy, not a monetary policy.",
        "政府的买入行为需要财政部的支持，因为这一策略本质上是财政政策而非货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "CAIRO – Last year’s events in Egypt and Tunisia drew the curtain on a tottering old order and delivered much of the Arab world into a long-awaited new era. But what that new era will look like remains very much an open question, given the many challenges that the region’s countries still face.",
        "开罗——去年，埃及和突尼斯发生的事情终结了摇摇欲坠的旧秩序，为阿拉伯地区开启了期待已久的新时代。 但这个新时代会是什么样，目前仍是个有待观察的问题，因为该地区的国家仍然面临着诸多挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "China is Not Collapsing",
        "中国没有在崩溃"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, if such an intervention failed either to stop Assad’s massacre of civilians or to create the conditions for a negotiated peace, Syria would be no worse off than it is today.",
        "最后，如果干预行动未能阻止阿萨德屠杀平民或者为和谈创造条件，叙利亚的情况也不会比今天更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "The very downstream access Gazprom wants in Europe is the EU’s trump card.",
        "俄罗斯天然气工业公司希望获得欧洲的下游资产是欧盟手里的一张王牌。"
    ],
    [
        "As China becomes richer, its middle-class citizens will not just buy more tradable goods like cars, electronics, and appliances; they will buy housing and a host of non-tradable services, too.",
        "随着中国的变富，其中产阶级公民不但会购买汽车、电子产品和电器等可贸易商品，也会购买住房和一系列不可贸易服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Though cyberspace offered the advantages of access to information and easy communication to a growing number of people, it became a breeding ground for crime, hacker attacks, and threats to governments.",
        "虽然网络空间让越来越多人掌握了信息获取及沟通便捷的优势，但它也逐渐成为滋生犯罪、黑客攻击的温床，并威胁到政府的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Rulers who rely mostly on military or economic might divorced from morality, he argued, cannot achieve long-term success on the international stage.",
        "他认为，不顾道义而仰仗军事或经济实力维持统治的君主是不可能长期屹立于国际舞台之上的。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – In this, the 400th year since William Shakespeare’s death, the United Kingdom faces an existential question: To be or not to be “European.”",
        "斯坦福—值此莎士比亚逝世400周年之际，英国面临一个生存问题：做还是不做“欧洲人”。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, as China, India, and Japan maneuver for strategic advantage, they are transforming their mutual relations in a way that portends closer strategic engagement between India and Japan, and sharper competition between them and China.",
        "比如，中国、印度和日本都在追求战略优势，正在形成一种印日战略合作日渐紧密、与中国竞争日渐尖锐的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1879, the longest bridge in the world spanned the River Tay at Dundee, Scotland.",
        "1879年，横跨苏格兰敦提泰河的世界第一长桥宣告落成。"
    ],
    [
        "Here come the dominoes – wrong in Vietnam but not necessarily in the South Asian sub-continent.",
        "在此多尼诺骨牌效应将再次发挥它的威力，它曾经在越南被证明是谬误的，但在南亚次大陆，情况可能会截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "But the US current-account deficit – about 6% of GDP in 2004 and 2005 – mainly reflects a new round of deficit spending by the US federal government and surprisingly low personal savings by American households (perhaps because of the bubble in US residential real estate).",
        "但美国经常项目下的赤字—约为2004和2005年GDP的6%--主要反映了美国联邦政府的新一轮赤字开支和美国家庭不可思议的低个人储蓄率（很可能是美国住宅不动产市场的泡沫造成的）。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, recent research suggests that some, if not all, of the microlives lost from living in Beijing could be recovered by moving to, say, Vancouver, with its pristine air.",
        "此外，近来的研究结果表明在北京损失的某些 “微生存率”搬到空气洁净的温哥华就可以恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, scientists have developed techniques that take this process a step further, using genetic engineering to induce agricultural crops to synthesize high-value pharmaceuticals.",
        "更晚近一些，科学家发展出将这一过程更进一步的技术，使用基因工程将农作物合成为高价值药物。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, Abe will not need to worry about elections for the next three years.",
        "幸运的是，未来三年中安倍都不需要担心选举的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "If this inflation is allowed to continue and deepen, it is likely to have effects easily as pernicious as the exchange-rate appreciation the region’s leaders are striving so hard to avoid.",
        "如果允许这样的通货膨胀继续并加深的话，可能很容易产生与该地区领导人努力避免的汇率升值一样的有害后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether on the European Union’s doorstep or just inside, they compete for the attention of foreign direct investors, for whom a flat tax provides an important signal: You are welcome, we will not steal your money, and you can keep what you earn.",
        "上述有些国家刚刚加入欧盟，有些正争取加入，但它们都千方百计地吸引国外直接投资者的注意，而统一税率发出了一个重要的信号：欢迎你们来投资，我们不会拿走你们的钱，你们所挣的钱都归你们自己。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the option of using domestic saving to boost foreign investments.",
        "另一个选择是用国内储蓄提振外国投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there is the question of the Muslim world’s relations with the West, particular the United States.",
        "最后还有穆斯林世界与西方特别是美国的关系问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The international agencies involved in post-conflict reconstruction have so far failed to understand how to start or restart economic development in a low-income setting.",
        "参与战后重建的国际机构到目前为止还没有学会如何在低收入环境中启动经济的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Since its inception, the Islamic Republic has had a weak presidency; ultimate authority rests with the Supreme Leader, first Ayatollah Khomeini and now Ayatollah Khamenei.",
        "伊朗伊斯兰共和国建立以来，一直都是弱势总统制度，最终的权力属于最高领导人，首先是霍梅尼，现在是哈梅内伊。"
    ],
    [
        "Investments that would yield 2% are “expected to yield less than nothing.”",
        "”在经济衰退期则相反，那些收益2%的投资却被视为“预期收益率小于零。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "With a growth rate of some 33%, it is also the fastest-growing such market.",
        "尽管互联网使用大幅增长——上网人数从2008年的2."
    ],
    [
        "Risk eliminated by regulations in one place reappears somewhere else.",
        "在一地通过监管消除的风险在另一地重新出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders worldwide should take note.",
        "世界各国领袖应该多加听取。"
    ],
    [
        "Now we in Europe have every reason to prepare for the long-term effort needed to help our neighbors along their chosen paths.",
        "现在，我们欧洲人绝对有必要做好长期行动准备，在必要时帮助我们的邻国走自己选择的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The West’s blind support for autocratic Arab rulers has reduced all hope of peaceful change.",
        "西方对阿拉伯独裁者的盲目支持已经令所有和平变革的希望都消磨殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese economy is not over-heating.",
        "中国经济并未过热，增长率依然居高不下，每年都能达到近10%。"
    ],
    [
        "On a smaller scale, the migration of Ukrainians to the Czech Republic, Bulgarians to Turkey, and British citizens to Spain is also noteworthy.",
        "在比较小的程度内，乌克兰人移居到捷克，保加利亚人移居到土耳其，而英国人移居到西班牙这些现象也是引人瞩目的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while increased supply – particularly from North American shale resources – has put downward pressure on prices, so has weaker demand in the eurozone, Japan, China, and many emerging markets.",
        "供给的增加——特别是来自北美的页岩资源的供给——给价格造成下降压力，与此同时，欧元区、日本、中国和其他新兴市场需求减少也起到了同样的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The effects of technology on workers’ occupational and wage prospects will continue to depend on their education for the foreseeable future.",
        "在可预见的将来，科技对劳动者职位和工资前景的影响将持续取决于他们的教育程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Supporters of the European Constitution in France, on both the left and the right, shrug and say that including the Social Chapter in the draft is a compromise.",
        "法国的《欧盟宪法》支持者，不论左翼还是右翼，都不以为然地认为将社会章程纳入宪法草案是一种妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, efforts to bring the Kim regime back to the negotiating table – spearheaded largely by China – are misguided.",
        "在这样的背景下，试图让朝鲜政权回归谈判桌的策略——主要是中国在牵头——是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU has a common currency and the ECB, but it does not have a common fiscal policy or treasury.",
        "欧盟有着共同的货币还有欧洲中央银行，但是它并没有一个共同的财政政策或国库。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East is a place where the dust hardly ever settles.",
        "中东战争的尘埃从未落定。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is very different.",
        "但现实情况却截然相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the US has acted as a buffer to insulate Israel—whose prime minister has boasted about its nuclear weapons—from any international scrutiny, while ignoring calls by Iran and other countries to create a Middle East nuclear-free zone.",
        "的确，美国的缓冲器作用将以色列（该国首相公开吹嘘其核武器）从国际审查中隔离开来，而又对伊朗及其他国家建立中东无核区的呼吁充耳不闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Simple partisanship helps to explain why some states want to push these mergers through.",
        "单纯的党派偏见有助于解释为什么某些州希望上述合并能获得通过。"
    ],
    [
        "After weeks of swirling wrath, primary responsibility eventually landed on BP’s shoulders.",
        "在持续数周的愤怒声讨之后，主要责任最终落到了英国石油公司身上。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a fleshed-out version of an ideal traceable to antiquity.",
        "这是自古有之的理想的详细版本。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even a mammogram (almost 40 million are given annually in the US) that detects a cancer does not necessarily save a life.",
        "事实上，即便是一张可以检测出癌症的乳房X光片（全美每年为此支出达4000万美元）也不一定能拯救一条生命。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is richer on average than Sweden, but the income gap between America’s richest and poorest is vastly wider than it is in Sweden, and the US treats its poor punitively, rather than supportively.",
        "平均而言，美国比瑞典更富，但美国最富和最穷之间的收入差远大于瑞典，且美国对待穷人的态度是惩罚，而不是支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey benefits from republican reflexes and values that have been built over decades, as well as from humanist wisdom anchored in centuries of history.",
        "土耳其从共和习惯和价值中获益良多。 这是数十年经营的结果，也是几百年历史积淀中的人文智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s bank-market ratio was 3.2 in 1990; by 2011, it had risen to 3.8.",
        "2； 但在2011年，上升到3."
    ],
    [
        "To succeed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will need to channel more resources toward improving children’s lives.",
        "如果要取得成功，联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯（António Guterres）将需要投入更多的资源来改善儿童的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "On one side is Assad’s minority Alawite tribe, which over the years has attracted secular Sunnis to share in the spoils of a one-party, authoritarian state.",
        "一方是总统阿萨德所属的少数伊斯兰什叶派阿拉维派部族，多年来他们一直与世俗逊尼派共同分享一个一党独裁国家所带来的甜头。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy remains the big question, with the IMF forecasting GDP growth of 0.8% this year and next.",
        "意大利仍然是一个大问题，国际货币基金组织预计该国今明两年的GDP增长率为0."
    ],
    [
        "Though the SBS hypothesis was incorporated into medical training and judicial decisions worldwide, it remained untested for almost two decades.",
        "尽管SBS假说已在全世界范围被纳入医学训练和司法判决，但在近20年的时间里，它并没有经受过测试。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of an urgent eye problem upon my arrival in Israel in late June, I had to spend seven hours in the ophthalmology department of the Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem, which is the main center of treatment, teaching, and research in Jerusalem.",
        "而笔者之所以有此判断是因为到达以色列后突患眼疾，只好在隐加林（Ein Kerem）的哈达萨医院眼科部呆了7个小时——该院是耶路撒冷进行医学治疗，教学和研究的主要机构。"
    ],
    [
        "In broad and efficient markets, that exchange does not mean much.",
        "在广义而有效的市场中，这一交换没有多大意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the conversions that the World Bank currently uses are based on an international exercise that was conducted for 2005, they fail to account for recent factors that are significantly affecting the poor and vulnerable, such as much higher prices for staple foods.",
        "世界银行目前使用的转换方法基于2005年制定的国际执行标准，无法解释对贫困和脆弱（比如主食价格大幅上涨）具有重大影响的最新因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The result has been a disaster in Africa, with farm productivity stagnant for decades.",
        "其结果是引发了非洲的灾难，使得其农业生产力几十年持续走低。"
    ],
    [
        "These factors fostered a new political environment, and Thaksin, who was a telecommunications tycoon at the time, was well positioned to seize the opportunity.",
        "这些因素共同孕育了一个新的政治环境，而当时身为电信业大亨的他信则敏锐地抓住了这个机会。"
    ],
    [
        "India slowly repealed many of these burdensome regulations in the 1980s, when Nehru’s grandson, Rajiv Gandhi, was in power.",
        "20世纪80年代尼赫鲁外孙拉吉夫·甘地（Rajiv Gandhi）执政期间，印度逐渐取消了许多造成沉重负担的监管。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially urgent now, with the search for new energy sources and a “renaissance” of nuclear power.",
        "——这是非核国家学习核技术的先决条件，也是由英国首相戈登·布朗针对目前核现状提出的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the eurozone, and Germany in particular, must fully acknowledge the fundamental causes of Greece’s exit and pledge to move towards fiscal union, while acknowledging that an austerity-only approach towards other at-risk members is a dead end.",
        "但是，欧元区，特别是德国，必须深刻认识希腊退出的基本原因，并承诺朝财政联盟的方向前进，并认识到对其他高风险成员国采取只顾紧缩不论其他的政策是死路一条。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries like ours should take a clear stand when China overreaches externally (as it has in the South China Sea with its indefensible “nine-dashed line” asserting historical rights with no known justification in international law).",
        "对于我们这样的国家来说，当中国向外延伸过度时（如在南海以“九段线”主张没有已知国际法依据的历史权利），我们应该拿出鲜明的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Relatives of most report that they were abducted.",
        "多数失踪者的亲属报告他们被人绑架。"
    ],
    [
        "Opinion polls placing Fillon as a distant third were proven wrong, partly because many voters seem to have made up their minds just days before the vote.",
        "事实证明了显示菲永处于第三且与前两位差距巨大的民调结果错误，部分原因可能是许多投票者似乎是在投票前几天才做出决定的。"
    ],
    [
        "“Big Blue” (as IBM is known) allowed other companies (notably the infant Microsoft) to develop its software.",
        "“蓝色巨人”（人们这样称呼IBM）允许其他公司（著名的是襁褓之中的微软）来开发软件。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to his adventurism in Ukraine, he has injected obstructionism into European politics through his support of populist and euroskeptic parties, escalated the conflict in the Middle East by his military intervention in Syria and, as a consequence, aggravated the refugee crisis.",
        "除了在乌克兰的冒进，他还通过支持民粹主义和欧元怀疑派政党在欧洲政坛中作梗，通过军事干预叙利亚升级中东冲突并因此加剧难民危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Some stem from social-protection mechanisms, focused on jobs and sectors rather than individuals and families.",
        "一些刚性来自社会保障机制，其关注点是就业和部门，而不是个体和家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent street demonstrations could easily turn into an outbreak of ongoing resistance to Israeli rule.",
        "最近发生的上街游行随时都可能演变成反对以色列统治的持续抵抗运动。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while agricultural trade liberalization may enhance export earnings for some poor countries, the main beneficiaries will be the more well-to-do agricultural exporters.",
        "农业贸易自由化可能会增加有些穷国的出口创收，但主要的获益者将会是更富有的农业出口国。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearby, Uganda has discovered 3.5 billion barrels, and Tanzania has found vast reserves of natural gas.",
        "其近邻乌干达已经发现了35亿桶，坦桑尼亚则发现了大量天然气储量。"
    ],
    [
        "The Struggle for Syria",
        "叙利亚的斗争"
    ],
    [
        "QE is a special instrument used when a central bank’s short- and medium-term policy rates are already at zero and it wants to lower long-term interest rates.",
        "QE是一种特殊工具，在央行短期和中期政策利率已经接近于零并且希望降低长期利率时使用。"
    ],
    [
        "What, then, are the PBOC’s options?",
        "那么，人行有什么选择？"
    ],
    [
        "Consider just a few of the divisions that have come up among NATO allies over the past decades.",
        "想想在过去几十年中北约联盟内部出现的一些分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the entry of the United States into the (European) war had something to do with the post-war order. But there were actually two views about that order.",
        "也许美国参与（欧洲）战争与战后秩序有着某些联系，但人们对上述秩序有着两种不同的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Even assuming a very large carbon tax, this amounts to a rather paltry $142 million, meaning that the project’s value – $261 million in savings – stems largely from the $1.04 billion saved on electricity payments.",
        "42亿美元，这意味着该项目的价值所在——节约2. 61亿美元——主要来自节省的10."
    ],
    [
        "“Where beautiful people",
        "“这片土地上生活着美丽的人民，”他们唱道，"
    ],
    [
        "Taiwan’s missed opportunity reflects its government’s sheer incompetence, arrogance, and ignorance.",
        "台湾错失的机会反映了它的政府绝对的无能、傲慢和无知。"
    ],
    [
        "This needs to be carried out for insolvent governments, households, and financial institutions alike.",
        "资不抵债的政府、家庭和金融机构都需要经历这样一个过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s request was rebuffed by the US Senate’s Democratic majority leader, Harry Reid.",
        "奥巴马的要求被美国参议院民主党多数派领袖哈里·里德（Harry Reid）断然绝。"
    ],
    [
        "The Second Opening of Japan",
        "日本第二次开国"
    ],
    [
        "Unless and until we recognize and address this reality, the liberal world order that has brought unprecedented peace and prosperity to the world over the past seven decades will continue to erode.",
        "除非我们承认并解决这一现实，否则过去七十年来为世界带来了前所未有的和平与繁荣自由世界秩序将继续土崩瓦解。"
    ],
    [
        "Households have slashed their debt – often through painful foreclosures and bankruptcies – and their debt relative to income has sunk to its 2005 level, significantly below its 2008 peak. Helped by low interest rates, debt service relative to household income has fallen back to levels not seen since the early 1980’s.",
        "家庭债务已得到了削减——往往是通过痛苦的按揭止赎和破产实现——家庭债务/收入比率已降至2005年的水平，显著低于2008年的峰值。 受低利率推动，债务偿付占家庭收入比重已降至20世纪80年代初的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Imagine two central banks.",
        "发自伯克利——让我们设想有两种中央银行。"
    ],
    [
        "But when billions of people take antibiotics, and livestock producers use them to boost efficiency, they often become ineffective.",
        "但如果数十亿人都使用抗生素，畜牧业者也使用抗生素增产，抗生素就会失去效果。"
    ],
    [
        "But the danger is that those who are attracted to inspirational rallying cries and sweeping proposals will lack the patience required to identify which side to support in the numerous complex battles over financial regulation that take place every year.",
        "但危险在于被激动人心的呐喊和彻底的方案吸引的人没有必需的耐心辨别应该在每年都要发生无数起的复杂的金融监管之战中支持哪一边。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason to think that this recent trend will reverse in the near future.",
        "没有理由认为这一当前趋势会很快逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "Namun, kepentingan yang sama dalam kelompok-kelompok industri di berbagai negara bisa berujung pada kebijakan yang menguntungkan industri secara global.",
        "但是，不同国家产业集团之间的共同利益可能带来隐含全球寻租的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Sweden, which has transformed its immigration policy by allowing employers to identify the immigrant workers whom they need (the policy has built-in safeguards to give preference to Swedish and EU citizens).",
        "比如瑞典。 瑞典已经修改了移民政策，允许雇主为所需要的移民员工争取身份（该政策包括一项保护措施，优先对待瑞典人和欧盟公民）。"
    ],
    [
        "Solutions do exist.",
        "解决办法确实是存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "And even 2% growth will not render Europe’s triple-digit debt/GDP ratios sustainable.",
        "而即便是2%的增长也无法让欧洲的双位数债务/GDP比率得以持续。"
    ],
    [
        "But are officials going about it in the right way?",
        "但这些官员们选择的道路又是否正确呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Consider, for example, policy toward the banking system.",
        "比如，以银行系统政策为例。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while granting supreme status to the “crime of crimes” may seem morally attractive, the gravitational effect of genocide distorts international law and politics.",
        "但尽管授予“罪中罪” 至高无上的地位似乎在道德上极有诱惑力，但种族灭绝强大的引力作用造成了国际法和国际政治的扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "Eight years after the 2008 financial crisis, industrial production is still down by 25% from pre-crisis levels, and youth unemployment is hovering at more than 40%.",
        "2008年金融危机已经过去了八年，但意大利工业产量仍比危机前水平低25%，年轻人失业仍徘徊在40%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "On this basis, the ECB is recasting itself as the incubator of a new intellectual and philosophical synthesis.",
        "在此基础上，欧洲央行正在重塑自己的身份，试图成为新思想和哲学综合的催化器。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with the creation of the NSC, each ministry and agency will report important national-security information to the new secretariat, which will then carry out integrated analysis and issue reports to the prime minister and others.",
        "但是，随着NSC的组建，各省和各机构将向新的秘书处报告重要国家安全情报，由后者进行综合分析，写成报告呈送首相和各部门。"
    ],
    [
        "It is perhaps true that unhealthy habits are more concentrated among poor Americans, a disproportionate number of whom are black.",
        "这或许是事实，因为不健康的生活习惯更集中于美国的贫困人口身上，其中黑人占的比例又高于其在全国总人口中的比例。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand what these models are trying to achieve, it is useful to consider the science that underlies them.",
        "要理解这些模式试图实现什么，一个有用的办法是考虑它们所基于的科学。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the imperative is to improve the match between potential jobs and worker skills.",
        "在美国，当务之急是改善潜在工作岗位和工人技能之间的匹配度。"
    ],
    [
        "More computing power can now be held on a desktop or in a person’s hand than could be gathered in a room only a generation ago.",
        "一代人之前需要用大如房间的计算机才能实现的计算能力，现在在一台桌面电脑或个人手持设备上就能实现了。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Wolfensohn, the World Bank followed through on this comprehensive and coordinated approach in a concrete fashion, making significant inroads into global poverty.",
        "在沃尔芬森的领导下，世界银行以具体行动坚持行进在这条全面与协作的道路上，有力打击了全球性贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Reconciliation among the Palestinians will certainly open the way for peace, not least because the new elections will deliver the needed legitimacy to those tasked with handling negotiations with Israel.",
        "巴勒斯坦和解必将开启和平进程，特别是因为新选举将为与以色列谈判人员提供所必须的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, because it covered only those countries projected to emit roughly half of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions by mid-century, it was not an effective long-run safeguard against the dangers of global warming.",
        "一方面，由于议定书只涉及到本世纪中叶排放全世界温室气体大约一半的国家，因此它并不是针对全球气候变暖危险的长期有效的防备措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The process could take many years, and the short-term effects on US unemployment easily could be negative.",
        "这个过程可能需要许多年，而短期内则很容易对美国失业率产生负面影响。"
    ],
    [
        "When the first – and only – strategy was launched in 2003, it was meant as a long-term guide, to endure through multiple European Commissions.",
        "2003年，欧洲第一次也是唯一一次发布战略。 根据计划，这是一项长期指引，将跨越诸多欧洲委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, China wants to cultivate a pleasant atmosphere for Hu’s state visit.",
        "盖茨甚至造访了中国人民解放军二炮司令部。 显然，中国意在为胡主席的国事访问营造和谐氛围。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it can be accessed at an early stage of a country’s modernization.",
        "此外，民主制度所带来的好处在国家现代化的初期就可以享受到。"
    ],
    [
        "Rebuilding the Asylum System",
        "重建避难制度"
    ],
    [
        "But, by the time of the Iraq war, conditions had changed: the US had grown so powerful relative to the rest of the world that the lack of reciprocity became an intense source of irritation even to America’s closest allies.",
        "但是，伊拉克战争爆发时，条件已经发生了变化：美国相对于世界其它国家力量变得如此强大，缺乏协商互动即便对美国最亲密的盟友来说也成为了愤怒的源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "And, finally, looking ahead to the UN’s High-level Meeting on Non-communicable Diseases in 2018, government leaders must be prepared to demonstrate their commitment to protecting people from heart and lung disease, cancer, and diabetes, by supporting stronger tobacco controls.",
        "最后，展望联合国2018年非传染病高级会议，政府领导人必须通过支持强力控烟来展示他们保护民众避免心肺疾病、癌症和糖尿病的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2016 election is still 17 months away.",
        "还有17个月才举行2016年大选。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Cold War ended, the Bulletin’s clock was put back to 17 minutes to midnight.",
        "冷战结束后，《公报》上的时钟退回到午夜前17分钟。"
    ],
    [
        "Kremlin Murder Incorporated",
        "克里姆林杀手组织"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers must pursue aggressive action to curb the spread of risk factors like the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and obesogenic foods.",
        "决策者必须追求果断行动遏制烟草、酒精和致胖食物的消费等风险因素的传播。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as important, however, was President Barack Obama’s reaction to the Colorado and Washington votes – both states that he won easily in his re-election bid.",
        "但是，同样重要的是总统奥巴马对科罗拉多州和华盛顿州投票的反应——在总统连任竞选过程中，奥巴马在这两个州中轻松获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Should instability ignite into open warfare, Russia will find it impossible to avoid the consequences.",
        "如果不稳定因素最终引燃了战火，俄国会发现自己很难逃避战争带来的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Autocratic rulers, by contrast, face no such pressures.",
        "相比之下，独裁统治者就无需面对这样的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Older Democrats express not the slightest reservation about the use of US power during the Cold War.",
        "老一辈民主党人毫无保留地表示要使用美国在冷战时期的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "New Arab leaders – such as Abdullah II in Jordan, Mohammed VI in Morocco, and Bashar al-Assad in Syria – were coming to power and generating hope for change.",
        "新任阿拉伯领导人——如约旦的阿卜杜拉二世、摩洛哥的穆罕默德六世和叙利亚的巴沙尔·阿萨德——都陆续上台，而且带来了变革的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "A decline in the proportion of people who use tobacco, consume unhealthy diets, are physically inactive, and/or have elevated blood pressure and cholesterol does more than just prevent disease.",
        "吸烟、饮食不健康、缺乏体育锻炼、高血压和胆固醇人口比例的下降所起到的效果不仅仅局限于预防疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "But too many American leaders are shirking this responsibility.",
        "但太多美国领导者逃避了这一责任。"
    ],
    [
        "And the extremists are good at jumping on the back of political grievances.",
        "极端分子最善于利用政治仇恨。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, dozens of renowned scientists, NGOs, and international and Australian lawyers have demanded that the WHC counsel Australia not to continue supporting developments that will exacerbate the impact of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef.",
        "类似地，数十著名科学家、非政府组织和国际和澳大利亚律师要求WHC劝告澳大利亚不要继续将恶化气候变化对大堡礁的影响的开发项目。"
    ],
    [
        "How do northern Europeans do it?",
        "这些北欧国家是怎么做到这一点的？"
    ],
    [
        "Carbon finance is an effective vehicle for channeling funds for climate-friendly investments, including to the developing world.",
        "二氧化碳金融是将资金导向气候友好的投资的有效手段，这包括向发展中国家提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us hope that his dictum proves correct for Europe as well.",
        "希望他的名言也可以在欧洲身上应验吧。"
    ],
    [
        "But to call these hate-mongers “preachers” is fitting nonetheless, because they invariably appeal to higher values to sanctify criminal acts.",
        "但是，把这些仇恨传播者称为“鼓吹者”恰如其分，因为他们一直宣扬着尊崇犯罪行为的更高价值。"
    ],
    [
        "But this new, bottom-up framework, in which states determine the conditions for a multilateral agreement, lacks an authority to establish standards.",
        "但这一各国自主决定多边协议条件的自下而上的新框架缺乏设定标准应有的权威性。"
    ],
    [
        "How fair is that comparison?",
        "如此比较公平吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Kim Kyong-hui has returned to the methods of her father, the dynasty’s founder, Kim Il-sung, who viewed party control as the most convenient and reliable means of exercising power.",
        "金敬姬则回归了其父、金氏王朝创始人金日成的路子，认为对党的控制才是最传统、最可靠的权力行使之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the planned elections in Iraq be regarded as legitimate internally as well as externally?",
        "正在运筹之中的伊拉克大选在内部和外部程序上都将具有合法性吗？"
    ],
    [
        "My “personal safety was threatened,” he wrote on August 30 in the last email I received from him.",
        "在8月30日我收到他的最后一封电子邮件中，他说他的“个人安全受到了威胁。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The decision, coming at the cabinet’s regular meeting on February 15th, was not intended to coincide with Kim Jong-il’s 63rd birthday the following day.",
        "虽然日本政府在1月15日的内阁例会上，即金正日63岁生日的前一天，达成这一决定并非刻意安排， 但也确实表明了日本政府不受胁迫的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "Because all of them compete for these proportional seats, government infighting remains acute.",
        "由于所有人都拼命争夺比例席位，政府的内部争斗仍然异常激烈。"
    ],
    [
        "This August, they passed up the opportunity to mark the 90th anniversary of the start of World War I, which led to calamities that echoed until the twentieth century's end.",
        "但今年8月，他们却错过了第一次世界大战爆发90周年的日子，而这场战争所引发的灾难一直影响到20世纪末。"
    ],
    [
        "The most urgent, feasible, and relevant steps involve electoral and legal reforms aimed at avoiding a repeat of the current protests over the presidential vote.",
        "最为急切、可行以及相关的步骤就是旨在避免当前抗议总统大选结果重演的选举和法律改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, it is hoped that an artificial surge in asset prices will make people feel richer and more optimistic, thus triggering “wealth effects” and “animal spirits” that stimulate consumption and investment spending, bolster job creation, and, in the process, “validate” the artificial asset pricing.",
        "具体地说，是希望人为的资产价格飙升会让人觉得更富有更乐观，从而引发“财富效应”和“动物精神”，从而刺激消费投资支出、创造就业机会并在这个过程中使人为的资产定价“得以生效”。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody expects it to be infallible.",
        "毕竟没人指望它的工作能毫不出错。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of both technological displacement and technology-enabled globalization, the share of employment in occupations in the middle of the skill distribution has declined rapidly in both the United States and Europe.",
        "作为科技替代以及科技引发之全球化的结果，美欧两地处于技能分布中间区间的职位在整体工作职位中所占的份额显著下滑。"
    ],
    [
        "The new transatlantic formula must be greater say in decision-making in exchange for a greater share of responsibility.",
        "新的跨大西洋关系必须在决策方面拥有更大的发言权以换取更多的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "How to Feed the World",
        "如何养活世界"
    ],
    [
        "Growth has been virtually flat in developed economies and, at 5.6% in the emerging world, is well below the 7.6% average in the previous five-year period.",
        "发达国家的经济增长几乎停滞，而新兴国家则为5. 6%——远低于上一个五年段的7."
    ],
    [
        "With an estimated 122 million people expected to join the African workforce by 2022, keeping up with labor trends – and delivering enough good jobs – will only become more difficult.",
        "由于截止2022年估计将有1. 22亿人加入非洲劳动力队伍，因此把握劳动力市场动态——并提供足够数量的优质岗位——难度只会越来越大。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach to economic policy is classic populism: Promise voters impossible things, particularly when the negative fallout from the promises becomes apparent only well down the road.",
        "这一经济政策方针是经典的民粹主义：承诺选民不可能的东西，特别是在承诺的副作用在很久以后才会显现出来的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to change the parameters of the debate and recognize that globalization has become an entirely different animal: The global goods trade has flattened for a variety of reasons, including plummeting commodity prices, sluggishness in many major economies, and a trend toward producing goods closer to the point of consumption.",
        "应该改变在争论的“参数”，承认全球化已经完全今非昔比：全球商品贸易出于多种原因陷入停滞，包括大宗商品价格暴跌、许多主要经济体经济停滞以及在生产地向消费地靠近的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Education Bubble",
        "美国的教育泡沫"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does he bother to control his temper when dealing with aides.",
        "他也不会在助手面前控制脾气。"
    ],
    [
        "Public spending tends to rise with inflation more than government revenues do, because revenues depend on the tax on exports, which is calculated at the pegged official exchange rate.",
        "公共开支往往会随着通胀而超过政府收入，因为收入依赖出口税，而该税率又是依照官方固定汇率来计算的。"
    ],
    [
        "It was clear to him that Israel was a nuclear power that, in October 1973, had once again proven itself to be unbeatable in a conventional war – a war Sadat himself had never expected to win when he launched it.",
        "他很清楚以色列拥有核力量，并且在1973年10月的战争中，再一次证明了它在常规战争中是无法被击败的。 这是一场萨达特本人在发动时就没指望会获胜的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Sweden’s pension system recently created a link between national income growth and benefits, but the reforms did not include creating GDP-linked bonds, a natural adjunct to such a scheme.",
        "瑞典最近在国家收入和效益之间建立一种联系，但是这项改革却没有包括GDP连动式债券，它应当成为如此一项计划中不可或缺的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "But the way the debate has evolved since the first bill was proposed in 2008 illustrates the rapid change in how the practice is viewed.",
        "但2008年首份法案提出后辩论的演进状况说明了在实践中人们观点的快速变化。"
    ],
    [
        "One might like to contrast India’s sclerotic bureaucracy with China’s efficient one, India’s red tape with China’s red carpet for foreign investors, and India’s partisan politics with China’s Party hierarchy.",
        "人们可能愿意用印度僵化的官僚体制和中国的高效进行对比，外国投资者在在中国面对红毯，而在印度却要面对繁琐的程序；"
    ],
    [
        "But Griesa's ruling, based on a peculiar – and in our view, indefensible – interpretation of certain terms in Argentina's contract, showed that US commercial interests can dominate its courts' decisions.",
        "但格里萨的裁决基于对阿根廷合同的某些条款的特殊解读——在我们看来，这样的解读根本站不住脚——这表明美国的商业利益可能左右法院判决。"
    ],
    [
        "What has gone so wrong?",
        "这究竟是怎么回事？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it was essential to China’s economic development.",
        "事实上，这对中国经济发展起到了关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Humans’ rapid expansion in terms of population and per capita use of Earth’s resources has continued apace.",
        "随着人口和人均使用地球资源的不断增加，人类正在不断飞速地发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, though party officials had been in place for some time, they waited until the votes were cast before putting their cards on the table, and even then did so behind closed doors.",
        "事实上，尽管政党官员就位已有一段时间，但他们一直等到投票过后，才把手里的牌摊上桌面，而且还是闭门进行。"
    ],
    [
        "It joined late, and its voters will be asked on June 23 whether they want to leave early.",
        "英国加入欧盟很晚，其选民将在6月23日决定是否想要早早离开。"
    ],
    [
        "Right-wing populism has gained traction in strong economies (Austria) and in countries where the benefits of EU membership are palpable (Hungary and Poland).",
        "右翼民粹主义在某些强大经济体（如奥地利）和通过欧盟成员国资格获益甚多的国家（如匈牙利和波兰）都获得了动力。 比如法国从来没有遭遇过任何欧盟强加的紧缩政策；"
    ],
    [
        "They suggest partially funding the required research and development with a “slowly rising but initially low carbon tax” that would avoid undermining economic growth.",
        "他们建议对所需的研究进行专门资助，并征收“缓慢上升但起始费率较为低廉的碳排放税”以免阻碍经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a clause could come with stronger or weaker teeth.",
        "这一条款的松紧程度大有商榷余地。"
    ],
    [
        "We live in a tough neighborhood.",
        "我们生活在艰苦的环境当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet fracking has increased supply so rapidly that these facilities are now being converted to export LNG.",
        "但液压裂解技术却实现了供应快速增长，以致于这些设施现在转而用于出口液化天然气。"
    ],
    [
        "The mudding-through countries lag behind.",
        "得过且过国家次之。"
    ],
    [
        "What has trumped these missteps, and enabled each side to focus on opportunities rather than excuses, is that both the US and Russia now understand that they have common interests in Syria.",
        "美国和俄罗斯现在清楚他们在叙利亚拥有共同利益掩盖了这些失误，使得各方对机会而不是借口更加关注。"
    ],
    [
        "This would make government services more effective, while helping to catalyze additional development aid from traditional donors and mobilize private-sector resources.",
        "这将让政府服务更加有效，同时有助于刺激传统赞助者提高发展援助以及动员私人部门资金源。"
    ],
    [
        "As Mark Kleiman of NYU’s Marron Institute points out, the Republican Party’s rigid and die-hard ideological opposition to “taxing the rich [has] destroyed, on a practical level, the theoretical basis for believing that free trade benefits everyone.”",
        "纽约大学麦伦研究所（Marron Institute）的马可·克莱曼（Mark Kleiman）指出，共和党僵化而死硬地在思想上反对“向富人征税[已经]在实际层面破坏了相信自由贸易让所有人都能获利的理论基础”。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, Putin’s response could be even more damaging.",
        "果真如此的话，普京的反应可能会更加具有破坏性。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1974, when Bacha coined his term, it went without saying that the prosperous and modern Brazil was just a tiny sliver of the total.",
        "1974年，当巴查发明“比利印度”一词时，毫无疑问繁荣而现代的巴西只占总体的极少部分。"
    ],
    [
        "That makes it even more important to clarify the choices.",
        "这意味着澄清选择更加重要了。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Security Council must be extremely cautious in considering any suspension of ICC proceedings.",
        "但是，安理会在考虑是否中止任何国际刑事法院诉讼程序的时候，必须极为谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "National projects ring hollow, and the so-called international community remains an abstraction.",
        "国家工程听上去大而无当，而所谓的国际社会仍然只是抽象概念。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s Socialist technocrats appear to have concluded from the failed Mitterrand experiment with Keynesianism in the early 1980s that domestic economic management was no longer possible, and that there was no real alternative to financial globalization.",
        "法国社会党技术官僚似乎从20世纪80年代初密特朗未能成功的凯恩斯主义试验中得出结论，认为国内经济管理任务是不可能完成的，而且没有其他真正的措施能够取代金融全球化。"
    ],
    [
        "How to do this and maintain freedom of enterprise is one of the great unsettled questions of political economy.",
        "如何实现这一点并保持企业的自由是政治经济学的未解难题之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, we must complete the global inventory of species.",
        "简而言之，我们必须完善全球物种目录。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike Germany, both participated in the Libyan intervention, but with highly limiting rules of engagement for their forces.",
        "和德国不同，这两个国家都参与了利比亚干预，但军队介入的程度均非常浅。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracies are necessarily soft-hearted, whereas markets and nature are not; government inevitably expands to fill the gap.",
        "民主制度总是心太软，而市场和大自然则太过残酷； 于是政府便无可避免地挺身而出，填补了双方之间的空白。"
    ],
    [
        "On current trends, the fourth quarter’s growth rate will turn negative.",
        "2%。 若按现有趋势发展，第四季度增长率将为负数。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa must find the confidence it desperately needs in the way others look at it.",
        "非洲必须找到它所急需的对其他地区看待它的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "For those who dread the threat that automation poses to low-skilled labor, a ready answer is to train people for better jobs.",
        "安抚害怕自动化对低技能工人就业构成威胁的现成理由是培训工人从事更高级的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of Deepwater Horizon, a huge dome could be put in place, despite the greater depth, thanks to deployment of modern unmanned underwater vehicles, robots, and positioning tools, but the formation of methane hydrates clogged the device and rendered it useless.",
        "而在“深水地平线”事故中，由于运用了现代无人水下器械、机器人和定位设备，所以尽管漏点更深，人们仍然将一个巨大的穹顶放置到位。 但甲烷水合物的形成堵塞了相关设备，让它成了无用的摆设。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this priority, the main policy response follows automatically: massive investment, on a “Marshall Plan scale,” in education and workforce training to ensure that humans are taught the critical skills to enable them to cope with the transition.",
        "根据这一轻重缓急的顺序，主要政策响应手段便自动浮出了水面：以“马歇尔计划的规模”大量投资于教育和劳动力训练，以确保人们获得关键技能的培训，从而能够应对这一转型。"
    ],
    [
        "The new and old political forces should initiate a dialogue to create a consensus on the rules of political engagement.",
        "新旧政治势力应该展开对话，就政治参与的规则达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "The White House Mountaineer",
        "白宫登山家"
    ],
    [
        "Russia began 2006, the year of its chairmanship of the G-8, by launching a gas war with Ukraine.",
        "2006年俄国担任西方八国集团主席。 新年伊始，俄国就同乌克兰展开天然气之战。"
    ],
    [
        "So, too, the renminbi’s stability has helped the region maintain strong growth, from which the world as a whole benefits.",
        "因此同样地，人民币的稳定帮助着这一地区保持强劲的增长，而整个世界也因此受益。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is important to know where devolution ends and dysfunction begins.",
        "但很重要的一点是知道何种程度的分权会导致功能丧失。"
    ],
    [
        "When it re-emerged, it was not burdened with debt and bankrupt firms like so many of its neighbors.",
        "走出危机后，它也没有像许多邻国那样背上了债务和破产公司的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Fast forward to Paris in May 2011.",
        "让我们快进到2011年5月的巴黎。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the Egyptian authorities brazenly use Article 98(f) of the Egyptian Penal Code – which prohibits citizens from defaming a “heavenly religion,” inciting sectarian strife, or insulting Islam – to detain, prosecute, and imprison members of non-majority religious groups, especially Christians.",
        "特别是，埃及当局明目张胆地使用埃及刑法典第98条（f）款——禁止公民诽谤“神圣的宗教”、煽动宗派冲突或冒犯伊斯兰教——逮捕、起诉和关押非多数宗教群体成员，特别是基督徒。"
    ],
    [
        "Liu is too invisible to ordinary Chinese for that to happen.",
        "刘在普通民众中知名度太小，起不到这样的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "What is clear, however, is that there still remains much to be done – and that the opportunities are nearly limitless.",
        "”但是，清楚的是，我们还有很多事需要做——而机会可以说无穷无尽。"
    ],
    [
        "For some years now, synthetic biology has been looming as the next big issue in bioethics.",
        "这些年来，人造生物技术正逐渐凸显为生物伦理学领域的下一个重大议题。"
    ],
    [
        "If they continue their explosive growth over the next 20 years, will Americans someday come to regard their proliferation as a spectacular example of the failure to adopt region-wide blueprints for balanced growth?",
        "如果在未来20年中继续爆炸式的增长，美国人是否会在某一天把它们的扩散视为未能采纳地区性平衡增长的巨大失败的例子呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But some will not. The issue is not a simple one for the Security Council’s two Latin American non-permanent members, Brazil and Colombia, or for Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, and Honduras, which have already recognized Palestine, but have not yet voted to grant it “observer” status at the UN.",
        "这个问题不论对于安理会的两大非常任理事国巴西和哥伦比亚，还是对古巴、尼加拉瓜、委内瑞拉、哥斯达黎加、阿根廷、玻利维亚、厄瓜多尔、秘鲁、乌拉圭和洪都拉斯（这些国家已经承认了巴勒斯坦，但还未在联合国投票赞成授予其“观察国”地位）来说，都不是一个简单的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "No one is predicting war in Europe today.",
        "如今，没人会认为欧洲将爆发大战。"
    ],
    [
        "And strong institutions need outstanding leaders who can build consensus among increasingly bad-tempered governments, while attracting sufficient resources and mobilizing talented people to get the job done. This is no time to compromise for short-term political expediency.",
        "世界比以往任何时候都更需要强大的国际机构，而强大的机构需要那些可以在对抗气氛日渐浓厚的政府间建立共识，同时吸引足够的资源和动员优秀人才完成这项工作的领袖人物，切不可为了短期政治权宜妥协而所托非人。"
    ],
    [
        "When people have no other choice but to trust each other, they will be able to do so and feel better for it.",
        "当人们别无选择只能信任别人的时候，他们就能做到这一点而且因此感觉更好。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be too late to avoid a recession in the advanced countries and a slowdown in emerging and low-income countries. But it is not too late to avoid a global depression.",
        "也许现在阻止发达国家的经济衰退以及新兴和低收入国家的增长放缓为时已晚，但是阻止一场全球性的衰退为时并不晚。"
    ],
    [
        "Hard times tend to concentrate minds.",
        "艰难时世有利于人心齐。"
    ],
    [
        "Creditors have known this since at least the sixteenth century, when Spain’s King Philip II became the world’s first known serial sovereign defaulter.",
        "债权人至少在六百年前就已经知道哦这一点。 当时，西班牙国王菲利普二世成为世界上首位已知的系列主权违约者。"
    ],
    [
        "They will remain an important source of import demand, especially for high technology and industrial goods.",
        "它们将会继续是重要的进口需求来源，特别是对于高科技和工业产品而言。"
    ],
    [
        "I vividly remember the children’s delighted squeals as they ran through the yard playing with the bubble-blowing pens that we had brought them.",
        "我清楚地记得孩子们带着兴奋的尖叫跑着穿过院子来玩我们带给他们的泡泡笔。"
    ],
    [
        "Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe echoed this sentiment, declaring that Japan will play a larger role in safeguarding regional security, including by providing patrol ships, training, and military surveillance equipment to countries engaged in territorial disputes with China.",
        "日本首相安倍晋三也持有这一态度，声称日本将在捍卫地区安全方面扮演更重要的角色，包括为与中国存在领土纠纷的国家提供巡逻舰船、训练和军事监控设备。"
    ],
    [
        "If Greece had experienced the same growth in exports as Portugal (a country of similar size and per capita income), it would not have experienced such a deep recession, and tax revenues would have been higher, making it much easier for the government to achieve a primary budget surplus.",
        "如果希腊能实现葡萄牙（一个与其体量和人均收入都相近的国家）那样的出口增长，它不会出现如此深层次的衰退，而税收收入也会更高，令其政府可以更容易地实现基本预算盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "And they will offer various strange justifications that deflect attention from the essentials of their policy: lower taxes for the oligarchs and people like them, and higher taxes – not to mention significant losses of high-paying jobs – for almost everyone else.",
        "他们还将进行各种奇特的论证，将人们的注意力从他们的政策的本质上分散：为寡头和喜欢寡头的人减税，为几乎所有其他人加税——更不用说高薪岗位的巨大流失了。"
    ],
    [
        "An iPad, for example, must not just be built; it also needs coding services.",
        "比如，一个iPad不仅仅包括制造过程，还需要编程服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifty years ago, American chicken farmers found that by keeping their birds in sheds they could produce chickens for the table more cheaply and with less work than by traditional farmyard methods.",
        "50年前，美国的鸡农发现大棚养鸡不仅可以提供价廉物美的餐桌肉食，还能比传统庭院养鸡的方式省不少力气。"
    ],
    [
        "Its gas blackmail of Ukraine frightened the entire Continent, and its new Baltic pipeline to Germany has provoked howls of outrage from Poland and the Baltic states, which are angry at losing the economic and political dividends a land route gives them.",
        "其对乌克兰的天然气勒索让整个欧洲大陆惊恐不安，通往德国的新波罗的海管道已经挑起了波兰和波罗的海各国的公愤。 失去陆上通路带来的经济和政治红利让这些国家愤怒不已。"
    ],
    [
        "Saddam's regime caused most of the volatility in the oil market in the last 30 years.",
        "过去30年来，萨达姆政权炮制了石油市场的多数动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The aim should not be to negotiate the terms of departure, but to negotiate the terms on which most British voters would want to remain.",
        "欧盟的目标不应是谈判退欧条件，而应是谈判在何种条件下英国选民愿意留欧。"
    ],
    [
        "Small wonder, then, that Western populations look ahead with foreboding.",
        "因此，毫不奇怪，西方人会有不祥的预感。"
    ],
    [
        "Their massive asset purchases are a life-support system for the financial economy.",
        "它们的大规模资产购买操作是金融经济的续命丹。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this backdrop, it is hardly surprising that China has been using its growing global influence to help engineer a new economic order – one in which the US dollar does not reign supreme.",
        "在这一背景下，中国利用其不断增长的全球影响力引导新经济秩序——一个美元不再拥有霸主地位的秩序——不足为奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Tourism alone attracted more than 36 million visitors in 2012, making Turkey one of the world’s top destinations.",
        "仅旅游一项2012年就吸引了超过3600万名游客，让土耳其跨入到世界最热门旅游目的地的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "The proactive fiscal policy that Li pledged at Davos will help, but monetary policy also needs to change.",
        "李克强在达沃斯所承诺的积极财政政策有所助益，但货币政策也需要改变。"
    ],
    [
        "That has been compounded in the US by a sizeable decline in business spending on training as well.",
        "伴随上述趋势的还有美国企业培训支出的大幅下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The hope is that, as technology develops, more researchers will recognize the importance of returning results – especially those that could have a significant medical impact – to participants.",
        "希望在于，随着技术的发展，更多研究者能够认识到把结果返回给参与者的重要性——特别是那些可能具有重大医学效果的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "A review in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in April 2004, claimed that most papers on SSRI trials overstated the evidence for efficacy and understated the risk of harm.",
        "《英国医学杂志》(《British Medical Journal》)2004年4月称，关于SSRI临床案例的大部分论文都夸大了它的实际效用，而对它的危险性却轻描淡写。"
    ],
    [
        "The conclusion was that official financing would carry Greece past its short-term liquidity problems.",
        "”该报告的结论是，正式融资将解决希腊的短期流动性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Confidence in the JGB market will likely decline.",
        "对日本国债市场的信心将可能降低。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, neither oil exporters nor importers are adequately insulated from price shocks.",
        "如今，石油出口国和进口国都无法避免受到价格冲击的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "If economic sanctions are to play an increasingly important role in twenty-first-century statecraft, it might be worth reflecting on how they have worked in the past.",
        "如果经济制裁要在二十一世纪扮演重要的治国角色，我们就必须认真想一想它们在过去表现如何。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, British Petroleum, which has invested more in Russia than any other company to date, has recently discovered that its rights to the Kovytkino gas field are not guaranteed at all. This property, it now seems, could be reclaimed by the state at any moment.",
        "与此同时，目前为止在俄罗斯境内投资最多的英国石油公司最近已经发现他们在Kovytkino油田的权利已完全得不到保障。"
    ],
    [
        "The intense pressure to expand intelligence agencies’ capabilities is evident in the pressure that national governments have put on the European Parliament to adopt legislation allowing for the collection of airline passenger data.",
        "彰显扩大情报机构能力的巨大压力的一个现象是国家政府向欧洲议会施压，要求采取允许收集航空乘客数据的立法。"
    ],
    [
        "But under Putin, Russia no longer makes even a pretense of talking.",
        "但在普京领导下，俄罗斯已经撕下了和谈的伪装。"
    ],
    [
        "Phonograph records (an early example of information technology) created musical superstars who sell their services to millions of people, putting out of business countless local performers who found their talents obsolete.",
        "留声机唱片（信息技术的早期产物）走进千家万户，缔造了音乐界的超级巨星，也使无数不合时宜的乡土艺人失业。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why we call climate change “an accelerant of instability.”",
        "这就是为什么我们将气候变化称为“动荡催化剂”的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that Europe does manage to move ahead, but step by step through mutual compromise.",
        "而现实是虽然要通过彼此妥协来逐步实现，但欧洲还在往前走。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria has commanded attention for years because of the horrific violence to which children there are subjected.",
        "叙利亚多年来一直受到关注，因为那里的儿童遭受了可怕的暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s Statute of Virtual Liberty",
        "巴西的虚拟自由法"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank is focused on representing the interests of its borrowing countries, helping them to develop assets for carbon trading according to their own priorities.",
        "世界银行将重点放在维护其债国的利益之上，帮助他们根据各自的优势来发展碳贸易的资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Individuals who are never criticized by companions whom they trust, and with whom they share a basic value orientation, have a hard time remaining mentally balanced.",
        "从来不受信任以及具有共同价值取向的同伴批评的人难以保持心理上的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU faces a delicate balancing act between the need to foster investment and the need to remain cautious, especially with public money.",
        "欧盟面临着一个脆弱的平衡，一边是提振投资的需要，另一边是保持谨慎（特别是公共资金）的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Russia is coming to the fore, firmly and confidently, to regain its Great Power status.",
        "更有甚者，俄罗斯正在走到前台，坚决而又自信地重新获得大国地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Zidane incarnated values that seem threatened nowadays, but to which ordinary people remain attached: loyalty to family, diligence, and cooperation.",
        "而且，齐达内体现了当今受到威胁的价值观，而普通人依然保持这些价值观，那就是对家庭的忠诚、勤劳以及合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Pooling the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit found in countries and businesses will enable us to fight climate change, strengthen our economies and societies, and leave our children and grandchildren a healthier planet.",
        "将各国和企业的创新和企业家精神集合起来，我们就能遏制气候变化，强化我们的经济和社会，让我们的子孙后代拥有更加健康的地球。"
    ],
    [
        "As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession – not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, or Irving Fisher – made public statements anticipating the Great Depression.",
        "就我的发现而言，几乎没有一位经济学家——即使是凯恩斯、哈耶克和费雪这样的巨擘——公开预言过大萧条的来临。"
    ],
    [
        "For others, actually setting those preferences or defining what they want may take more attention than they care to devote to the task.",
        "而在另一些人看来，实际设定喜好或说明希望所耗费的精力可能超过其忍受限度。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to achieve that goal led many Rohingya to take up arms in a self-declared jihad.",
        "这一目标的失败让许多罗兴亚人拿起武器，自称要进行圣战。"
    ],
    [
        "The Right Left for Europe",
        "欧洲的正确左派"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1950s the Soviet Union was thought to have surpassed the United States; today, the Soviet Union no longer exists.",
        "20世纪50年代，苏联被认为已经超越美国； 如今，苏联早已不复存在。"
    ],
    [
        "So what accounts for the partisan performance gap?",
        "）那么，是什么造成了党派表现差距。"
    ],
    [
        "Although GDP growth is not higher than in the US, most people share a high standard of living, and surveys show that Scandinavians (particularly Danes) are some of the happiest people in the world.",
        "尽管GDP增长不比美国高，但大部分人都拥有较高的生活水平，民调显示斯堪的纳维亚人（特别是丹麦人）是世界上最快乐的人群之一。"
    ],
    [
        "I would suggest several measures, both to reduce the risks of catastrophic feedback loops in the short term and to maximize the benefits of reform in the long term.",
        "我将提出一些措施，既是为了降低短期灾难性反馈环的风险，也是为了尽量扩大长期改革收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, this simply would not have been possible, at least not on the immunization front.",
        "到目前为止，这几乎是个不可能的任务，至少在免疫阵线是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, instead of investing in new infrastructure, companies patch up the old.",
        "同样，企业不再投资修建新的基础设施，而是对旧的修修补补。"
    ],
    [
        "The Party has long believed that these two features of economic life are compatible – the so-called blended economy with Chinese characteristics.",
        "长期以来，党始终认为经济生活的这两大特征是可以兼容的——也就是所谓中国特色的混合所有制经济。"
    ],
    [
        "They range from subdued bank lending to unusually high risk aversion, and from discredited credit vehicles to the withdrawal of some institutions from credit intermediation altogether.",
        "其范围涵盖从银行抑制贷款到异常的高风险规避行为、从信贷工具信誉崩溃再到某些机构完全撤出信用中介机构的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Uzbekistan, a former Soviet Republic, is a poor country without many employment opportunities.",
        "曾是前苏联加盟共和国的乌兹别克斯坦，是一个贫穷的没有多少工作机会的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "If this approach succeeds, Europe's bridge to Asia may also become its bridge to America.",
        "如果能取得成功，那么这座连接欧亚的桥梁也可能会同时沟通欧美。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that fiscal rescue will be extremely difficult if and when trouble starts – and underscores the urgent need for real political leadership now.",
        "这意味着一旦问题恶化，就很难找到相应的财政拯救对策——这也是日本目前急需一个强有力的政治领导层的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "And Abenomics 2.0 may not succeed, not least because young people, unconvinced that they can support larger families, are increasingly delaying marriage and children.",
        "安倍经济学2. 0没有成功，因为年轻人没有信心能够支持规模扩大的家庭，结婚生育越来越晚。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early 1980’s, China’s saving rate was twice as high.",
        "20世纪80年代初，中国的储蓄率是美国的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the G-8 had made a clear promise, there was no plan on how to fulfill it; indeed, there were clear instructions that there would be no such plan.",
        "尽管八国集团已经做出了明确的承诺，但是却没有如何实现的规划； 实际上，却有明确的指示，那就是不做这样的规划。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider sedition, against which a draconian law that was established in 1870 to suppress any criticism of British policies – even criticism that, as one Briton candidly put it, did not involve “an absolute breach of the peace.”",
        "以暴动为例，1870年制定了一项镇压对英国警察的批评的严苛的反暴动法律，任何批评，甚至如一位直率的英国人所指出的，不包括“绝对违反和平”的批评，都是镇压对象。"
    ],
    [
        "Without debt restructuring, a low target for the primary budget surplus (net of debt payments), a “bad bank” to deal with non-performing loans, and a comprehensive reform agenda that tackles the worst cases of rent seeking, Greece is condemned to permanent depression.",
        "如果不进行债务重组，降低初级预算盈余（扣除债务偿付）目标，成立“坏银行”处理不良贷款，拿出全面改革日程解决最糟糕的寻租问题，希腊必将陷入持久萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though Gates was right to ask why climate-change negotiations have not included R&D, let’s not pretend that any of this is simple.",
        "但是，尽管盖茨正确地质疑了为何气候变化谈判从未包括研发，但我们不能假装这是个简单的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Going beyond present demands, the fund is based on the needs of the future.",
        "该基金超越了现实需求，转而以未来的需求为依据。"
    ],
    [
        "This insular program of national revival increasingly estranged her from continental Europe’s more dirigiste approach.",
        "这一孤立的国家复兴计划让他与欧洲大陆的国家干预经济方式渐行渐远。"
    ],
    [
        "But that reflects science-based research and old-fashioned technological ingenuity on the part of farmers, plant breeders, and agribusiness companies, not irrational opposition to modern insecticides, herbicides, genetic engineering, and “industrial agriculture.”",
        "但这反映的是农民、作物育种家和农业公司的基于科学的研究和老派技术创新，而不是对现代杀虫剂、杀菌剂、基因工程和“工业农业”的不理性的反对。"
    ],
    [
        "The countries of the Middle East have become associated with extremist ideologies and terror the world over.",
        "中东国家已经成为极端意识形态的温床，向全世界输出恐怖。"
    ],
    [
        "Congress has authorized the President to impose import duties on Chinese products if China remains unwilling to increase the value of its currency substantially against the dollar.",
        "（美国）国会已授权总统，如果中国仍旧不愿大幅提高人民币对美元的价值，那么就对中国商品强加进口税。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders around the world responded to Annan’s call; within months, the Global Fund was born.",
        "世界各国的领袖们都对安南的呼吁做出了回应； 几个月内，全球基金会宣告成立。"
    ],
    [
        "As Lynn Stout of Cornell Law School has put it, they are “human beings with differing investment time frames, different interests ex ante and ex post, different degrees of diversification, and different attitudes toward sacrificing personal wealth to follow ethical rules and avoid harming others.”",
        "正如康奈尔商学院的史陶特（Lynn Stout）所指出的，他们是“时间框架不同、先验和后验利益不同、多样化程度不同、对为了追随伦理规则和避免伤害他人牺牲个人财富的态度也不同的人类”。"
    ],
    [
        "But these benefits are diluted in China, owing to its excessive reliance on public funding.",
        "但这些好处在中国被稀释了，因为中国过度依赖公共融资。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial crisis came on the heels of food and fuel crises.",
        "金融危机紧跟着粮食和燃料的危机来临。"
    ],
    [
        "He refused to settle privately, because he believed that if he let corrupt government officials off the hook, \"they'll keep scamming the public.\"",
        "他拒绝了私下调解，因为他相信如果他放过了腐败的政府官员，\"他们会继续欺骗公众。"
    ],
    [
        "There were some who foresaw danger.",
        "不过有些人却从中看到了危机。"
    ],
    [
        "After years of insisting that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was the problem, a growing number of Western policymakers and strategists are now suggesting that he may actually be part of the solution – or at least the transition.",
        "西方多年来一直坚持叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德是问题所在，但现在却有越来越多的西方决策者和战略家将其视为解决方案——或至少是过渡方案的组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the most conscience-stricken consumer would ensure that horns they purchase are sourced from licensed breeders.",
        "只有最讲良心的买主才会确保他们所购买的犀牛角来自于持证的繁育商。"
    ],
    [
        "LAGUNA BEACH – The US dollar is on the move.",
        "拉古娜海滩—美元在行动。"
    ],
    [
        "These early signs of deglobalization of financial markets have their parallels in commercial banking, with some of the biggest global institutions retrenching rapidly.",
        "金融市场的这些反全球化早期迹象也可以在商业银行中找到，这群全球最大的金融机构中已有一些开始迅速收缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, not everyone would share this optimistic vision.",
        "当然，不是所有人都抱着如此乐观的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "So why not use this well-established approach to solve the financial sector’s current problems?",
        "那么为什么不利用这个建立良好的办法来解决金融业当前的难题呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The abuses that have been documented at places such as Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo may not have been an inevitable consequence of the administration's legal memos, but surely those memos increased enormously the likelihood that torture would be viewed as acceptable.",
        "阿布格莱布和关塔那摩记载的虐俘事件也许不是政府法律记录的必然后果，可勿庸置疑的是：这些记录大大增加了人们接受这种折磨的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Ongoing domestic political upheaval, including two parliamentary elections in just six months, has complicated Turkey’s situation further.",
        "未结束的政治剧变，包括短短六个月内举行的两次议会选举，进一步复杂化了土耳其局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, though successful companies must constantly innovate, they should not be afraid to imitate.",
        "最后，虽然成功企业必须不断创新，但他们也不应害怕模仿。"
    ],
    [
        "The real-world purpose of an ideology is not to provide understanding, but to offer its adherents a sense of certainty as they navigate a complex world.",
        "意识形态的真实世界目的不是提供理解，而是向其信徒提供一种面对复杂世界时的确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The near-term impact will be the equivalent of an “anti-stimulus” policy intervention, and the consequent drag on demand will be significant.",
        "短期影响等于实施了“反刺激”政策干预，而随后的需求拖累将十分巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, while not all is sweetness and light, there has been progress.",
        "尽管有这些小插曲， IMF 还是取得了长足的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "But, like stability, good governance cannot be imposed from the outside; rather, it must develop organically, supported by sturdy roots within a society.",
        "但善政和稳定一样无法从外部强加； 而是必须从内部滋长，在国内社会树立牢固的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "The BRICS are emerging at a time when the future of the international system that arose in the immediate aftermath of World War II is increasingly being called into question.",
        "金砖国家的出现恰逢二战后建立的国际体系未来日益受到质疑时。"
    ],
    [
        "Common opinion suggests that this state of affairs is unjust.",
        "一般民意认为这种情况是不公平的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that almost two-thirds of the Ryan budget’s spending cuts would come from such programs.",
        "预算和政策优先事项中心（Center on Budget and Policy Priorities）发现，莱恩预算支出削减的三分之二将来自这些计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Such is now the loss of hope in a negotiated solution that those who advocate an internationally imposed solution seem to be gaining ground.",
        "正是因为双方会谈解决问题的希望渺茫，所以人们要求国际社会为双方提供强制解决方案的呼声越来越响。"
    ],
    [
        "Big business won't stand up for the oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, singled out by the Kremlin as a political enemy and imprisoned since last year.",
        "石油大亨米凯伊•克多科夫斯基作为克里姆林宫的敌人在去年被投进监狱，而没有一家大公司出面为他说话。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, governments were running large deficits – a legacy of the economic downturn – which renewed growth was supposed to shrink.",
        "与此同时，政府出现了巨额赤字——这是经济衰退的后遗症——这应该由复苏的增长来消化。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Last month, the European Commission unveiled its much-anticipated blueprint for banking reform, aimed at reining in risk-taking by the European Union’s largest banks.",
        "巴黎—上个月，欧盟委员会发布了人们期待已久的银行改革蓝图，目标是抑制欧洲最大银行的风险承担行为。"
    ],
    [
        "In the recent Manhattan and New Jersey bombings, the arrested suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was radicalized in a Pakistan seminary located near the Pakistani military’s hideout for the Afghan Taliban leadership.",
        "在最近的曼哈顿和新泽西爆炸案中，被捕的嫌犯拉哈米（Ahmad Khan Rahami）亦是在坐落于巴基斯坦军方为阿富汗塔利班领导层提供的藏身之所附近的巴基斯坦神学院极端化的。"
    ],
    [
        "This seems to be the approach that inspired outgoing US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent speech at the Brookings Institution on US-European relations.",
        "这似乎也是即将离任的美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿在布鲁克林研究所美欧关系演讲的主旨。"
    ],
    [
        "One might think that the details of trade agreements and tariff barriers with Ukraine would baffle most Dutch voters, and one might also wonder why they should care enough to hold a referendum.",
        "有人可能认为与乌克兰贸易协定和关税障碍等繁琐细节将难住多数荷兰选民，而且有人也可能会问他们怎么会关心到举行公投的地步。"
    ],
    [
        "We live in a world where everything is being rated, whether you are a professional judge or an individual trying to make sense of modern life.",
        "在我们生活的世界中，一切都在被打分，不管你是职业法官还是试图弄清现代生活的个人。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Kiyosaki, his poor but scholarly dad tended to be pessimistic about one’s ability to achieve anything in the real world, so he discouraged his son from even trying.",
        "在他看来，他的爸爸清贫但是有学问，而且，对于人们在现实生活中做出成就倾向于悲观，因此他就劝他的儿子连尝试都不要。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, in practice, the dominance of the belief in “one economics,” particularly in North America and Europe, has led increasingly to a narrow and exclusionary view of the discipline.",
        "但在实际上，“一个经济学”信念的主导地位，特别是在北美和欧洲，已经越来越明显地导致了对该学科狭隘排他的片面理解。"
    ],
    [
        "A nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula would be characterized by both sides’ incentive to strike first to wipe out the other’s ability to counterattack.",
        "在朝鲜半岛这块狭小地域上的核对峙意味着双方都想先下手为强以消灭对方的反击能力。"
    ],
    [
        "By pursuing fiscal reform one sector at a time, Zhao left room for local governments to form alliances with SOEs, which provided subsidies to local bodies and enabled them to withhold income from the central government.",
        "赵紫阳试图在各部门之间逐一进行财政改革，这给了地方政府与国企形成勾结的空间，地方机构因此获得了补贴，并可以截留中央政府的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "But de Gaulle’s legacy would most likely be snuffed out gently, with nostalgia for both Mitterrand and Chirac possibly proving very tempting for a people disaffected with the political system but desiring to be reassured.",
        "但是戴高乐留给世人的东西最有可能温柔地消亡，而法国民众对政治体制不满而又想要得到安心，这就可能让他们对密特朗和希拉克二人十分怀旧。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund Stand-By Arrangement of 2013 provides a similar starting point.",
        "国际货币基金组织2013年的备用信贷安排提供了一个类似的启动点。"
    ],
    [
        "They allow people of many creeds to work in them—a workplace of multiple faiths.",
        "它们允许多种信仰的人在里面工作，这也就是一个多种信仰的工作场所。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, today’s prosperous and innovative tech giants now face the prospect of redoubled efforts to regulate and tax their activities.",
        "事实上，当前这些繁荣创新的科技巨头的各类活动都面临着加倍细致的监管和税收查验。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, Trump’s apparent restraint cannot be expected to last.",
        "尽管如此，不可认为特朗普显而易见的克制态度会继续保持。"
    ],
    [
        "Hope Amid the Middle East’s Turmoil",
        "中东动荡中的希望"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they have called for a complete rethinking of deterrence strategy, in order to minimize, and ultimately eliminate, reliance on the most indiscriminately destructive weapons ever invented.",
        "此外，他们还呼吁重新思考威慑战略，以便尽可能减少并最终摆脱人类对有史以来最不分青红皂白的破坏性武器的依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "The country also benefits from its enormous size, vast natural resources, and educated population, including a multitude of skilled scientists and engineers.",
        "这个国家还拥有辽阔的领土、丰富的自然资源和受过良好教育的民众，包括一大批熟练的科学家和工程师。"
    ],
    [
        "Another solution is to appoint a governor from outside the central bank, preferably one who has enough external experience to avoid being captured by groupthink.",
        "另一个解决方法是从中央银行以外的部门来选拔行长，最好有足够的外部经验，避免受困于群体思维。"
    ],
    [
        "False information, such as counterfeit goods, jeopardizes the competition-based selection process.",
        "假冒商品所释放的虚假信息损害了以竞争为本的选择性过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the euro could fall sharply in value.",
        "最后一条路是欧元大幅贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether in Africa, Asia, Latin America, or the Middle East, entrepreneurship has improved individual capability, capacity, and connectivity.",
        "无论在非洲、亚洲、拉丁美洲还是中东，创业都提升了个人能力、资质及交流。"
    ],
    [
        "The adjustment mechanism usually provided by exchange-rate movements could instead be delivered by wage changes.",
        "通常由汇率运动提供的机制调整可以用工资变化来推动。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, those Chinese who use the Internet as a source for news awakened to the fact that no account – Chinese or Western – is flawless.",
        "结果，那些把互联网作为新闻来源的人清醒了，原来无论西方还是中国的报导都不是十全十美的。"
    ],
    [
        "GOP politicians, funders, and advocacy group leaders are now trying to convince themselves that Trump, in the White House, could be managed to implement the Republican agenda.",
        "共和党、政客、资助者和宣传组织领袖现在正在说服自己，特朗普一旦入主白宫，他们可以做工作让他执行共和党的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "All candidates should be known by the end of January – the deadline for printing the ballots.",
        "候选人报名将截止到1月底，那也是选票印刷的最后期限。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this spectacular economic performance, Americans could spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined.",
        "而这种强大的经济实力令美国的国防军费几乎超过世界其他国家军费的总和。"
    ],
    [
        "The Slovak koruna was initially kept within pre-defined fluctuation bands around target parities with the Deutsche Mark and the US dollar, before moving to a fully floating exchange rate in 1998.",
        "一开始，斯洛伐克克朗在事先确定的范围中围绕对德国马克和美元的目标平价波动，直到1998年才变为完全浮动汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "One way to read such bellicose rhetoric is to assume that those who indulge in it must be bloodthirsty monsters.",
        "一种解读这些好斗言论的方式是认为执迷于此的都是嗜血狂魔。"
    ],
    [
        "This would require politically difficult shifts in consumption and investment, with America increasing its savings and China increasing domestic consumption.",
        "这要求消费和投资的改变，要求美国增加储蓄，中国增加国内消费。 这在政治上做来并不简单。"
    ],
    [
        "By insisting on its voluntariness, the ECB may be trying to ensure that the restructuring is not deep; but, in that case, it is putting the banks’ interests before that of Greece, for which a deep restructuring is essential if it is to emerge from the crisis.",
        "欧洲央行或许是想通过坚持自愿违约确保重组程度不至于很深，但是，这样一来，欧洲央行便将银行的利益置于希腊利益之前了，因为对希腊来说，深度重组是走出危机的必经之路。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the risk of becoming locked in a protracted, low-intensity war against militancy and warlordism is likely to outweigh any geopolitical advantages that the US would gain from military bases in the country.",
        "事实上，在阿富汗保留军事基地可能让美国陷入针对军阀和割据势力的长期低强度战争，其风险或许比由此带来的地缘政治优势更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, recent progress in the cognitive science of rational thought suggests that nothing – save for money – would stop us from constructing an “RQ” test.",
        "尽管如此，认知科学近来在理性思维研究上取得的进展意味着：没有什么因素—金钱除外—会阻止我们设立“RQ”测试（理性测试）。"
    ],
    [
        "A conference is to be held in May to renew and review it.",
        "因此将在今年五月召开一个会议对条约重新进行审议和修订。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kaesong Industrial Region has had special symbolic resonance.",
        "开城工业园曾经引起了特别的象征性共鸣。"
    ],
    [
        "As workers and companies struggle to compete in a rapidly changing – and increasingly winner-take-all – global economy, the need for policies that will ensure long-term growth could not be more urgent.",
        "随着工人和公司都要奋力在一个快速变化的——而且越来越赢家通吃——全球经济中进行竞争，推行确保长期增长的政策也变得刻不容缓。"
    ],
    [
        "For once, the faltering Czech presidency of the EU reflected a European consensus when it defined Obama’s astronomic financial stimulus as a “road to hell.”",
        "举步维艰的欧盟轮值主席国捷克终于头一次反映了欧洲共识：将奥巴马的庞大财政刺激计划称为“通往地狱之路。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iraq War, in particular, increased public awareness of the mistakes in Bush’s first term, but other issues are changing as well.",
        "伊拉克战争尤其加深了公众对布什在第一任期所犯错误的认识，但其它情况也在变化中。"
    ],
    [
        "That makes private lenders susceptible to larger haircuts if the country eventually defaults – and thus more hesitant to lend in the first place.",
        "这使得私人贷款人会怀疑如果该国最终违约，则其损失会更大，从而在一开始就对贷款犹豫不决。"
    ],
    [
        "This, in turn, requires the forced redenomination of prices, wages, and financial contracts, which can create serious disruptions, owing to heavy and asymmetrical balance-sheet effects, as well as a massive redistributive impact.",
        "由于严重不对称的资产负债表而引发严重的混乱及巨大的财富再分配效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Containing China will therefore require, first, efforts to restrict the country’s maritime activities – such as measures to safeguard vital sea lines and build maritime domain awareness – and, second, geo-economic initiatives to counter China’s coercive leverage over smaller countries.",
        "因此，遏制中国首先需要致力于限制中国的海军活动——如采取保护重要航道、构建海域改制（maritime domain awareness）等等——其次要采取地缘-经济措施防止中国裹挟利用小国。"
    ],
    [
        "The first concerns the length and scope of the transition from the human to the automated economy.",
        "第一个问题是从人力经济到自动化经济的转型的长度和规模。"
    ],
    [
        "More than any Iranian president since 1979, Rouhani can deliver his part of the bargain – that is, if and when a bargain is struck.",
        "自1979年以来，没有哪位伊朗总统能够像鲁哈尼那样提出谈判条件——我的意思是，能够决定是否以及何时提出谈判条件。"
    ],
    [
        "It aspired to promote trade as a vehicle of partnership between developed and developing countries.",
        "这次谈判将贸易作为促进发达和发展中国家间伙伴关系的重要工具。"
    ],
    [
        "For Turkey’s new middle class, the survival of democracy could not be more important – and, as recent events have shown, they are willing to fight for it.",
        "对土耳其新生中产阶级而言，没有什么比民主制度的生存更加重要——而且，不久前发生的事件表明，土耳其民众愿意为捍卫民主而奋斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, car production soared from only 640,000 in 2000 to 3.1 million by 2005, and annual growth is expected to continue rising by 80%.",
        "此外，汽车生产量从2000年到2005年由640,000辆飙升至三百一十万辆，并且预计将以80%的年增长速度持续增加。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – You would think that 600,000 comments on a petition would be sufficient to bring an issue to the top of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s agenda.",
        "芝加哥—你大概以为，有60万评论的请愿书足以让一个问题成为美国证券和交易委员会（SEC）日程的优先项。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is the first signs of serious public discontent with the regime since the violent repression of the Green Movement in 2009.",
        "结果，伊朗出现了自暴力镇压2009年绿色运动（Green Movement）以来首次严重的反对现有政权的公共不满。"
    ],
    [
        "This may seem to be the most stable solution.",
        "这或许是最稳定的解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "The new facility should once and for all remove the main excuse that has been advanced, sincerely or not, for building and maintaining homegrown enrichment capability.",
        "该新银行理应一劳永逸地消除一直以来为了维持本国铀浓缩能力而有意或无意地宣传的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "All of its miracles, as well as its terrifying contradictions, can be explained as consequences of an ethos that is initially European.",
        "工业文明带来的所有奇迹，连同那些可怕的副作用，都可以被看作是一种源自欧洲的社会思想的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "During Japan’s economic boom, its total factor productivity (TFP, or the efficiency with which inputs are used) contributed about 40% to GDP growth.",
        "在日本经济繁荣期，其全要素生产率（TFP，或投入的使用效率）贡献了40%的GDP增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But the truth is that Trump’s agenda has plenty of momentum; it is just focused on demolishing Obama’s legacy.",
        "”但真相是特朗普的日程充满了动能； 只不过它的重点是摧毁奥巴马的遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "This was followed by approval of the law, a request for its revision, and a surprise official meeting with the leader of Hamas.",
        "接着，选举法被批准，但又被要求进行修订，还出人意料地与哈马斯领导人进行了正式会晤。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, Asia led the way, accounting for 33% of the total US export surge over the past three years.",
        "毫不奇怪，亚洲在其中首屈一指，贡献了美国过去三年出口增加量的33%。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, next door, Libya is primed to explode.",
        "与此同时，隔壁的利比亚眼看就要爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, participants rated interstate conflict with regional consequences as the top risk, in terms of likelihood, facing the world in 2015, with extreme weather events coming in second.",
        "具体而言，与会者将有地区后果的国家间冲突列为2015年世界所面临的首要风险（按可能性排名），极端气候事件紧随其后。"
    ],
    [
        "But travel there nowadays can be extremely disorienting; indeed, developments that were impossible to contemplate just a few months ago are becoming reality.",
        "但今时今日去那里旅行让人异常迷惑； 事实上，短短几个月前还无法想象的事态目前正在发生。"
    ],
    [
        "This has spurred a shift toward informal mechanisms like the G-20 and new, untested institutions like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.",
        "这促使体系向G-20以及最新成立、尚未经过考验的亚洲基础设施投资银行等机构的非正式机构转变。"
    ],
    [
        "President Bush assured the Israelis that, given the \"new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers,\" Israel does not have to return all the territories it occupied in 1967.",
        "布什总统向以色列保证，\"在包括已经存在以色列人口中心这样的环境下，\"以色列不必归还1967年侵占的所有领土。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is a hush-hush society, where everyone is supposed to guess what is going on, and the media are careful not to provoke social division.",
        "日本是习惯遮遮掩掩的社会，每个成员都必须猜测到底发生了什么，媒体也小心翼翼地避免引发社会成员的对立。"
    ],
    [
        "The implications go well beyond academia and policy circles.",
        "变化的影响远远超出了学术和政策领域。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as people felt that they were getting richer, demands for more freedom of speech, better protection of human rights, and the right to vote could be postponed.",
        "只要人们感到他们在逐渐致富，对言论自由、保护人权以及选举权力的要求就可以推后。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, China’s Defense Ministry proclaimed that “China and India are not enemies, not opponents, but neighbors and partners.”",
        "”中国国防部则回应说“中国和印度不是敌人，也不互相反对，而是邻居和伙伴。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The majority of these children are female.",
        "这些孩子中大部分是女孩。"
    ],
    [
        "To my occasional irritation, many people still wonder what exactly the Northern Powerhouse is.",
        "偶尔令我不快的是，许多人对北方经济引擎究竟是什么仍然一无所知。"
    ],
    [
        "People actually tend to move to areas in which a majority of others share their values, whether Republican or Democratic.",
        "不管是共和党还是民主党的支持者，他们都趋于搬往一个与大部分其他人享有一致价值观的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "This debate has a long history.",
        "这一争论由来已久。"
    ],
    [
        "First, China’s housing market is on the brink of collapse.",
        "首先，中国房地产市场已处于崩溃边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "But conservative groups are shortsighted in their opposition to mandatory disclosure of such information.",
        "但保守主义团体反对强制披露此类信息是短视的。"
    ],
    [
        "Venezuela could further distinguish itself from Argentina by committing to a strong reform program and seeking IMF support.",
        "委内瑞拉可以通过采纳强力改革方案和寻求国际货币基金组织的帮助进一步区别自己和阿根廷。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the failure of officials to convey how their inability to make accurate predictions has prompted them to update their model is leading many to lose confidence in the Fed’s capacity for sound decision-making.",
        "事实上，美联储官员没有证明在做出正确预测方面的无能已经促使他们更新了模型，这正在让很多人失去对美联储做出可靠决策的能力的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "KYIV – Imagine it is 2020.",
        "基辅—想象一下现在是2020年。"
    ],
    [
        "But South Korea’s future prosperity, if not its very survival, depends on its leaders’ efforts on both fronts in the months and years ahead.",
        "但韩国未来的繁荣乃至生存，都取决于未来几个月到几年中其领导人在这两个日程上的作为。"
    ],
    [
        "While his supporters have staged protests against the police raid and interrogation of their leader, Indian officials have expressed apprehension that China may be funding Ogyen Trinley Dorje as part of a plan to influence the Karmapa’s Kagyu sect, which controls important monasteries along the militarized Indo-Tibetan border.",
        "当他的支持者发动示威抗议警方对多杰的搜查和审问之时，印度官员则担心中国正在幕后资助多杰以便增加对藏传佛教噶玛噶举派的影响力，须知该教派控制着军事对峙中的印藏边境的众多重要寺院。"
    ],
    [
        "Media saturation obviously makes a critical difference.",
        "很明显，媒体报道的饱和度导致了一个关键区别的形成。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, as far as policy is concerned, we Britons have deluded ourselves to think that our system of government – increasingly shown to be unrepresentative, inefficient, and over-centralized – could survive with a little tinkering here and there.",
        "最后，就政策而言，我们英国人自欺欺人地相信我们的政府体系可以通过零敲碎打的修补生存下去。 而事实上，这一体系的代表性越来越低，越来越低效，越来越过度集中。"
    ],
    [
        "Although changes in market psychology are difficult to understand, the broad concerns that underlie such episodes of irrational exuberance are almost always clear.",
        "虽然市场心理的变化令人难以理解，但支撑这种非理性繁荣的主要因素却几乎总是明了的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is one of dozens of similar operations – from the world’s largest salt flats in the south, to Lake Titicaca in the west, to the eastern Pantanal wetlands – that combine economic growth with conservation.",
        "从南部全球最大的盐沼、到西部的的的喀喀湖，再到东部的潘塔纳尔沼泽地，类似这样把经济增长和生态保护相结合的旅游项目还有许多。"
    ],
    [
        "Good Times at Last?",
        "终于迎来了好时光？"
    ],
    [
        "China’s government is doing itself a disservice by demanding that Hong Kong’s citizens bow before their sovereign, while blaming “outside hostile forces” for spurring some kind of unconstitutional rebellion.",
        "中国政府要求香港公民屈服于主权，同时谴责“外部敌对势力”煽动违反宪法的暴乱，这只能适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "But to squeeze cultural excellence into the group of characteristics defining “the fittest” is not so easy and requires some leap of faith.",
        "但是，要将卓越文化揉进定义“适者”的特征群体却并非易事，需要信念的跨越。"
    ],
    [
        "And Africa only has about 60% of the large firms it needs to put it at the same level as the emerging economies.",
        "而非洲还要增设40%的大型企业才能与其他新兴经济体等量齐观。"
    ],
    [
        "That calls for a legal system that can adjudicate disputes and ensure fair, equitable, and timely treatment.",
        "这需要能仲裁纠纷和确保公正、公平、及时处理的司法体系。 在印度，每 100,000人只拥有1."
    ],
    [
        "Among these priorities, one of the most important is education.",
        "在这些当务之急中间，教育无疑是最重要的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with the exception of the London summit in April 2009, when a consensus was reached on joint monetary and fiscal stimulus, the G-20 has become just another bureaucratic forum where much is discussed, but little is agreed upon.",
        "说实话，除了2009年4月伦敦峰会这个例外，G20简直成了另一个官僚主义的论坛，讨论的问题很多，达成的一致很少。"
    ],
    [
        "But the plain truth is that neither the BRICS nor the SCO is remotely close to being a cohesive bloc capable of insulating Russia from the consequences of its behavior in Ukraine.",
        "但简单的真相是金砖国家和上合组织结构松散，根本不足以成为团结一致的集团使俄罗斯从其对乌克兰的行为中“洗白”。"
    ],
    [
        "The need to placate such interest groups is a serious obstacle to jump-starting economic growth, because comprehensive reform is more effective than piecemeal reform.",
        "如何安抚这些利益集团是重启经济增长的重大障碍，因为全面改革要比外围改革更加有效。"
    ],
    [
        "New leaders in China, Japan, South Korea, and now India are political nationalists in regions where territorial disputes remain serious and long-held historical grievances fester.",
        "中国、日本、韩国以及现在的印度的新领导层都是政治民族主义者，该地区的领土纠纷依然严重，由来已久的历史恩怨也愈演愈烈。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, the framework of power itself – the old-fashioned party hierarchy that takes command of the state or municipality – is a kind of abuse.",
        "如今，权力框架其本身——掌握国家或市政权传统的政党等级——其实就是一种滥用职权。"
    ],
    [
        "The current downturn, already a half-decade long, will not end any time soon.",
        "此次衰退已经延续了五年，而且仍不会马上结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The diminutive border guard looked into my eyes, smiled warmly, and asked where I was from.",
        "身材矮小的边境卫兵注视着我，露出温暖的微笑，问我从哪里来。"
    ],
    [
        "Laissez-faire will not do it.",
        "放任自流是达不到这些目标的。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a narrow path forward that should be acceptable to both sides.",
        "但其实存在一座双方都应该能接受的前进独木桥。"
    ],
    [
        "Within Lebanon itself, Hezbollah is still strong, but its comfort level has declined.",
        "在黎巴嫩内部，真主党是一股强实力，但是舒适度有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, despite serious difficulties, Turkey has a good chance of overcoming its internal tensions and becoming the example that its Middle East neighbors (and perhaps a few of its European neighbors as well) so desperately need.",
        "这就是为何面临重重艰难险阻的土耳其仍有很大的机会克服其内部紧张、成为中东邻国（或许还包括一些欧洲邻国）渴望的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao, by contrast, does not believe that there will be a “major change to the world of development finance,” though he conceded that “there can be interpretations as to the symbolic meaning of this.”",
        "”相反，亚洲开发银行（亚开行）行长中尾武彦（Takehiko Nakao）则认为亚投行的成立不会导致 “发展金融的重大变化，”尽管他也承认“对于它的象征意义，可能存在各种解读。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "A false dichotomy is created in which Muslims must choose between a Western and European identity or a supposedly separate Islamic identity.",
        "因此，产生了一个假二歧式，其中，穆斯林必须在西方及欧洲身份或者号称独立的伊斯兰身份之间作出选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The basic thrust of Confucianism has changed little since Confucius’s disciples recorded his aphorisms a generation before Socrates.",
        "自从孔子的门徒在早于苏格拉底的一代人以前将其格言辑录成册以来，儒教的本质几乎没有发生过变化。"
    ],
    [
        "In the words of Senator Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine who first put together the outlines of a deal and took it to the Senate floor, the shutdown “hurt all the small businesses” around Acadia National Park in her home state, “and that is plain wrong.”",
        "用缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins）的话说，政府关门对其缅因州阿卡迪亚国家公园（Acadia National Park ）周边“所有小企业都造成了伤害”，“这是完全错误的。 ”是她首先提出了和解协议纲要并送交参议院。"
    ],
    [
        "We see this in widespread resistance to acceptance of immigration.",
        "这一点我们在普遍抵制接收移民的浪潮中可以亲眼见证。"
    ],
    [
        "The sanguine view is that as long as those selling expertise compete vigorously for the attention of discriminating buyers (the mass media), market mechanisms will assure quality control.",
        "乐观的看法是只要那些兜售专长的人为赢得有识之士（即大众传媒）的注意而拼命竞争，那么市场机制就一定能够控制质量。"
    ],
    [
        "Venezuela has tried to finance itself with the help of the China Development Bank, which does not impose the kind of conditionality that IMF bashers dislike.",
        "委内瑞拉求助于中国国家开发银行为其融资，该银行不会对委内瑞拉施加IMF批评者所不喜欢的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Spain, where too much fiscal decentralization to regional governments contributed significantly to weakening otherwise strong public finances.",
        "以西班牙为例，对地方政府的过度财政分权也大大削弱了在其他方面非常强大的公共财政。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1999, we co-founded a firm, Macro Securities Research, LLC, to promote the development of such institutions, working with the American Stock Exchange to create securities that would allow people to manage real estate as well as other risks.",
        "在1999年，我们共同创建了一家名为Macro Securities Research, LLC的公司旨在促进这些机构的发展。 我们与美国证券交易所（American Stock Exchange）合作开发能够让人们管理不动产和其他风险的有价证券品种。"
    ],
    [
        "The key reason is that several recent “reforms” announced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel – raising the value-added tax, increasing user charges for healthcare, and taxing interest payments as a part of so-called corporate tax reform – promise to reduce German economic growth, perhaps significantly, in 2007.",
        "主要原因在于德国总理默克尔最近宣布的几项“改革”措施，也就是提高增值税，提高医疗使用者收费及作为所谓的企业税收改革的一部分的征收利息税。 这些措施将肯定会大幅降低德国经济增长，或许在2007年将会得到集中体现。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, his opposition to governments’ authority to prohibit or regulate human behavior extended to licensing requirements for doctors and car drivers, as well as to anti-drug laws, which he believed operated as a subsidy to organized crime.",
        "例如，他反对政府禁止或者调节人类行为的权力的立场扩展到对于医生和汽车司机的执照要求，以及反毒品法律。 他认为反毒品法律实施实际上成为了有组织犯罪的补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "But this can only happen with considerable investment. Now.",
        "但是只有在现在进行大量投资，这种可能才会变成现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe we'd be better off without these gadgets.",
        "没有这些玩意儿可能对我们更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Where Obama’s strategy is weakest is in reaching ordinary people: the networked web of human relationships that transmits rage, hatred, and despair or hope, trust, and loyalty.",
        "奥巴马政策最薄弱环节是面向普通民众：即传播愤怒、仇恨、绝望或希望、信任、忠诚的人际关系网络。"
    ],
    [
        "One important proposal comes from Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, who proposes, quite reasonably, that the president of the New York Fed should be nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, just like members of the Board of Governors – or any other important economic policymaker.",
        "一个重要提案来自罗德岛民主党参议员杰克·里德（Jack Reed），他十分合理地提出，纽约联储行长应该由总统提名并由参议院确认，与其他理事会成员（或任何其他重要的经济决策者）一样。"
    ],
    [
        "But no decision should be made until the third-quarter results are released, providing a clearer picture of what will happen to Japan’s economy after it absorbs the first rate increase.",
        "但在三季度结果发布、搞清楚日本经济在承受了消费税率第一次调高后发生了什么之前，不应该做出任何决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Any new agreement would need the support of other EU countries, some of which buy more from Britain than they sell to it.",
        "任何新签协议都需要欧盟其他国家的支持，其中有些从英国的进口比向英国出口还多。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization keeps cheap goods and services flowing from China and other emerging markets.",
        "全球化使得廉价商品和服务从中国和其他新兴市场不断涌出。"
    ],
    [
        "A weak German economy makes the necessary structural adjustments in the eurozone periphery much more difficult.",
        "疲软的德国经济让欧元区外围所必须采取的结构性改革变得更加艰难了。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever Nidaa Tounes decides, the new government will have to act quickly.",
        "无论如何决定，新政府必须迅速行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, events in China in recent months have revealed internal unease.",
        "事实上，近几个月来在中国发生的事情体现了其内部的不安定。"
    ],
    [
        "Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti seem to understand these points, but the reform programs that they have unveiled are not adequate to the challenge.",
        "西班牙首相拉霍伊和意大利总理蒙蒂似乎已经理解列这一点，但他们所给出的改革计划并不足以应对挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even according to the highest estimates, China’s military budget is only now about equal to that of Japan and, of course, much less than the combined military budgets of Japan, India, and Russia, all of which border China – not to mention Indonesia, South Korea, and a militarily modernizing Taiwan.",
        "但即使按照最激进的估计，中国的军事预算也只相当于与日本持平，当然与日本、印度和俄罗斯（上述三国均与中国接壤）——更不用说印尼、韩国和军事现代化台湾的军事预算总额相去甚远。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel now faces three scenarios, all of them bad.",
        "如今，以色列面临三个前景——都是糟糕的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Fayyad has also gained the backing of Fatah and most other Palestinian groups in the West Bank.",
        "法耶兹同样争取到了法塔赫和西岸地区其他多数巴勒斯坦团体的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "If the broad social goals sound “Democratic,” the method and strategy are in many ways “Republican.”",
        "如果广泛的社会目标听起来很“民主党”，那么方法和策略在很多方面相当“共和党”。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – At first glance, the eurozone economy seems like it might finally be on the mend.",
        "发自伦敦——乍眼看来，欧元区经济似乎终于走上了复苏的轨道。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, these economies can opt for greater self-insurance.",
        "另一方面，新兴经济体也可以选择进一步自我保护。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Obama seizes what we believe is a rare historic opportunity this could change decisively – for the long-term benefit of America, India, and the world.",
        "但如果奥巴马抓住我们眼中罕见的历史机遇，就有可能决定性地改变这种状况——并让美国、印度和全世界都从中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "That is now likely to change.",
        "如今，这一局面可能发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "What gives?",
        "这是为什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Mark Bedau, a professor of philosophy at Reed College, wrote that the technology’s “new powers create new responsibilities.",
        "里德学院的哲学教授马克·贝多这样写到，该项技术的“新潜能创造了新的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in the Atlas of Economic Complexity, my co-authors and I show that these indicators are weakly related, if at all, to economic growth.",
        "此外，在《经济复杂性地图集》（Atlas of Economic Complexity）中，我与我的合作者证明了这些指标与经济增长的相关性很弱（如果存在相关性的话）。"
    ],
    [
        "ISLAMABAD – Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan stands virtually alone today while facing the most serious challenge to his presidency: possible impeachment by the new democratically-elected government.",
        "伊斯兰堡－现在，巴基斯坦的佩尔韦兹·穆沙拉夫在面对对其总统职位最严重的挑战——新的经过民主选举出来的政府可能对其进行的弹劾——的时候，他事实上是孤零零的。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be difficult to identify more compelling reasons to accelerate progress toward gender parity.",
        "很难再找到更令人信服的理由来推动朝着性别平等的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Can you start a fire without matches?",
        "你们会不会不用火柴点火？"
    ],
    [
        "Together, we can build a lasting legacy of health and progress for our peoples.",
        "齐心协力的我们能够为我们的人民留下持续的卫生和进步遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a large-scale campaign, as some observers have portrayed it, was not a political purge in disguise.",
        "正如一些观察员描述的那样，指控100万名官员不可能是一种伪装的政治清洗。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why current Russian policy seeks to destabilize Ukraine permanently, especially militarily and financially.",
        "因此，目前俄罗斯寻求永久动摇乌克兰，特别是从军事上和金融上动摇乌克兰。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike other SDGs – such as those related to health, education, or hunger – there is no single international body charged with driving forward the implementation of the ocean SDG.",
        "跟其他可持续发展目标——比如那些有关健康，教育，或饥饿 ——不同的是，并没有一个单一的国际机构来主导推动海洋可持续发展目标的实施。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is more difficult when neighboring countries are exploiting the country's heterogeneous makeup to pursue their own hegemonic agendas.",
        "但邻国利用叙利亚的复杂构成实现自身霸权目标的企图为叙利亚实现上述目标增加了难度。"
    ],
    [
        "The sector’s most important component, Pemex, owned all of Mexico’s oil and gas reserves, and was exclusively responsible for exploration, production, and retail distribution.",
        "该部门最重要的组成部分——墨西哥石油公司（Pemex）拥有墨西哥全部油气储备，并独家全权负责勘探、生产和零售。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the information revolution provides inexpensive means of communication and organization that allow groups once restricted to local and national police jurisdictions to become global.",
        "最后，信息革命提供了价格低廉的沟通和组织方式，使以前限于本地和本国警力管辖的恐怖组织具备了全球性特征。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to end the divisions among those in Syria who oppose ISIS.",
        "我们必须结束叙利亚反对伊斯兰国之士之间的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "By clearly defining property rights and implementing effective land-use systems that are coordinated with infrastructure, particularly transport, policymakers can help cities to attract private investment, connect people with jobs, reduce environmental and social risks, and decrease vulnerability to natural hazards.",
        "通过明确产权并落实与基础设施（特别是交通设施）相适应的有效土地使用制度，决策者即可协助城市吸引私人投资、联系人员及就业岗位、降低环境社会风险，并增强自然灾害的抵御能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Even robust China and India are experiencing slower growth, curtailed ambitions, and broken dreams.",
        "甚至连生机勃勃的中国和印度也在放慢增长速度，雄心被抑制，美梦正破碎。"
    ],
    [
        "There is seldom applause, and often no outward evidence of movement.",
        "很少得到赞扬，而且经常没有进展的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain may now be poised to do so once again.",
        "英国或许现在准备再次书写历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Republicans have opposed them.",
        "但共和党反对这些政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, while the Case-Shiller index of US home prices is now up 10.2% over the year ending March 2013, it remains 28% below its 2006 peak.",
        "类似地，尽管Case-Shiller美国房价指数在2013年3月累计同比增长10. 2%，但仍比2006年峰值低了28%。"
    ],
    [
        "The last time a slightly smaller election committee met (to choose Leung), less restrictive constraints on candidate selection were in place, and the leader of the Democratic Party was able to be nominated (though he still received less than 7% of the vote).",
        "上一次较小规模（选出梁振英）选举委员会会议上，实施了对候选人选择的较轻的限制，民主党（Democratic Party）领导人也能获得提名（尽管仍然只获得不到7%的选票）。"
    ],
    [
        "Taking Sides in the War Within Islam",
        "在伊斯兰教内战中站边"
    ],
    [
        "Our job as policymakers is to enable business activity, not to dictate its course.",
        "作为决策者，我们的职责是让企业活跃起来，而不是决定企业的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Unlike in the past, there probably will not be large protests at the upcoming Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, or at the subsequent World Trade Organization meeting of trade ministers in Bali.",
        "发自华盛顿特区——跟过去不同，在即将召开的国际货币基金组织和世界银行年会，或者是巴厘岛世界贸易组织贸易部长会议期间或许不会出现大规模抗议行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Sarkozy, for example, proposes to establish a ministry of immigration and national identity.",
        "比如，塞尔科奇就提议组建一个“移民与民族身份部”。"
    ],
    [
        "Osborne’s defenders might make the same argument for his fiscal policy.",
        "奥斯本的辩护者可以如法炮制为他的财政政策辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "But achieving that objective will require the standstill in Britain’s EU arrangements to continue until new global agreements are ready to implement.",
        "但实现这一目标需要英国的欧盟安排一直保持静止，直到新全球协定准备就绪。"
    ],
    [
        "To its credit, the British egg industry accepted the situation, and developed new and less cruel methods of keeping hens.",
        "值得赞扬的是，英国禽蛋行业接受了这个现实并发展出了不那么残酷的新型养鸡方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the entire process of building a strong and equitable economy should aim not just to improve citizens’ lives today; it must also prepare France for the future.",
        "事实上，建设强大、公平的经济的整个过程不但应该致力于改善当下的公民生活； 也必须为法国的未来打下基础。"
    ],
    [
        "A month later, the influential International Institute for Strategic Studies in London estimated that US troop withdrawals next year were likely to be small, and that it would take at least five years for Iraq to build the 300,000-strong army needed to fight the insurgency on its own.",
        "一个月后，颇具影响力的伦敦国际战略研究所做出预计：明年美国的撤军行动规模会比较小，并且伊拉克要建设30万有能力单独镇压叛乱的强大军队，至少还需要5年时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Cheney’s influence resulted in the bloody disaster of Iraq, the moral humiliation of Guantanamo, water-boarding and “extraordinary rendition,” the despair of friends and the contempt of critics, a full-dress parade of double standards around the globe.",
        "切尼的影响导致了伊拉克的血腥灾难，关塔那摩的道德耻辱、水刑和“特别引渡”，朋友的绝望和批评家的轻视，双重标准在全球各地的盛装展示。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the gap is widening, and that is likely to continue.",
        "如今，差距正在扩大，并且这一趋势可能会继续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "And now they are in urgent need of protection.",
        "如今，它们急需保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Capital is flowing out of the country, and official reserves are slowly being depleted.",
        "资本正不断流出这个国家，而政府储备也逐渐走向枯竭。"
    ],
    [
        "The overwhelming victory of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe – who has touted the idea of establishing a “democratic security diamond” in the Asia-Pacific – in his country’s recent general election is also likely to help to drive cooperation forward.",
        "日本首相安倍晋三——他提出了构建亚太地区“民主安全钻石”的概念——在最近举行的日本大选中大获全胜，这或许也有助于推动合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth collapsed; unemployment spiked.",
        "增长崩盘； 事业飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "And in the Networked Society, we have an obligation to ensure that we exploit mobile and broadband technologies not just for collaboration and entertainment, but also for sustainable development.",
        "在网络化社会里，我们有责任确保移动宽带技术不仅用于合作娱乐，而且应用于可持续发展。"
    ],
    [
        "If not addressed, they will make Security Council resolutions in support of military action in R2P cases almost impossible to obtain in the future.",
        "如果这些问题得不到解决，安理会支持R2P情形军事行动的决议就几乎不可能通过。"
    ],
    [
        "The divisions within and between the Democratic and Republican parties will make compromise and the formation of coalitions that are essential for governing all but impossible.",
        "民主党和共和党内部和彼此之间的分歧将形成妥协和联盟，这是治理不可能的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "It is (now) no secret that they have operated so far as large sophisticated compensation schemes, masking probabilities of low-risk, high-impact “Black Swan” events and benefiting from the free backstop of implicit public guarantees.",
        "（如今）人人都知道，它们运作着十分复杂的报酬机制，掩饰低概率、高影响的“黑天鹅”事件，并从隐性公共担保安全网中免费渔利。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s world, the national interest lies in managing openness – not in throwing it away.",
        "在当今世界，国家利益在于如何管理开放，而不在于放弃开放。"
    ],
    [
        "In a time of global uncertainty, a vision of “made in the Americas” prosperity provides a unifying agenda for the continent.",
        "在这个全球不确定性时代，“美洲制造”繁荣的愿景为这片大陆提供了一个联合的日程。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, the uptick proved to be short-lived.",
        "3%。 结果，这两次的乐观形势最终都只是昙花一现。"
    ],
    [
        "They don’t protest much, but many end up in prison.",
        "这些人倒不会上街抗议，不过大多会最终走上犯罪道路。"
    ],
    [
        "It obviously means worse than average, which would be three.",
        "这显然意味着低于平均分（三分）。"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder, then, that – viewing the choice this way – the UK opted for Brexit.",
        "从这个意义上看，也难怪英国选择了退出欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are associated with more targeted, selective removal of key obstacles, rather than broad liberalization and economy-wide reform efforts.",
        "但它们伴随着针对性更强的、有选择的消除重要障碍的措施，而不是宽泛的自由化和广义经济改革措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Should We Trust Our Moral Intuitions?",
        "我们应该相信道德直觉么？"
    ],
    [
        "The prevailing belief in a reliable tendency to return to some normal degree of inclusion has little ground to stand on.",
        "返回某种正常程度包容的可靠趋势，众人对此笃信不疑，但是，却并不牢靠。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most urgent regulations will always be time- and context-specific, because narratives change.",
        "但最紧迫的监管永远因时而异、因具体状况而异，因为叙事会发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "As an American recipient of a kidney who was once desperate enough to consider doing that myself (fortunately, a friend ended up donating to me), I agree wholeheartedly that we should offer well-informed individuals a reward if they are willing to save a stranger’s life.",
        "作为一位美国的肾脏接受者，我也曾经绝望到想要这样做，幸运的是一位朋友离世的时候把肾脏捐给了我。 我全心全意地赞同：如果有人在了解情况后愿意拯救陌生人的生命，我们应该报答他。"
    ],
    [
        "The High Cost of Cheap Meat",
        "廉价肉类的高成本"
    ],
    [
        "Meeting best practices could unlock huge value: as it stands, the price tags for similar projects can vary by 50-100% from country to country.",
        "采用最佳的施工方法可以释放出巨额价值：目前的状况是，类似项目的标价在不同国家可以相差50%到100%之多。"
    ],
    [
        "But it does recommend a legally binding commitment to keep investment levels at least as high as the rate of depreciation of state assets, and to use unexpected budget surpluses, first and foremost, for increased public investment.",
        "但计划确实建议采取有法律约束力的承诺将投资至少保持在与国家资产折旧率相当的水平，并首相将意料外预算盈余用于增加公共投资。"
    ],
    [
        "It is true that not all debt is created equal, and there is a strong case for adding more of it if the purpose is to finance highly productive infrastructure investments.",
        "诚然，并非所有债务都是以相同方式创造出来的，有强烈的理由认为，如果目的是为高生产率的基础设施投资，就应该增加债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they have pursued a cooperative approach to reform of the international monetary system, which they argue should not be dependent on any one currency.",
        "相反，他们对国际货币体系改革采取合作方针，指出国际货币体系不应该只依赖任何一种货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorist organizations usually have no such ties to a particular government.",
        "而恐怖组织通常不会与具体国家的政府有联系。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, relations among regional actors remain tense.",
        "结果，地区势力间的关系依然紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "Both prospects would be reason enough for staying away from the project altogether.",
        "两个前景都足以使大家有足够的理由远离这项计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Another Fed governor, Jeremy Stein, has pointed out that foreign banks have dollar liabilities of roughly $8 trillion, much of it short-term wholesale funding.",
        "另一位美联储理事——杰里米·斯坦因（Jeremy Stein）曾指出外资银行有大约8万亿的美元债务，其中大部分是短期的大规模融资。"
    ],
    [
        "The overhang is a blockade against growth.",
        "债务积压是增长的一大障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast, spending for other objectives – for example, research and development on new products and processes – increased very little.",
        "与此形成鲜明的对照，用于其他目标的开支——如研发新的产品和流程——则几乎没有多少增长。"
    ],
    [
        "With almost daily terrorist attacks, ordinary citizens victimized by shell and gunfire or misconceived bombing, the abuses of Iraqi prisoners, and the hostility of Iraq's Shiites - on whom the US had pinned high hopes for the peace process - American policy is in jeopardy of failure.",
        "在几乎每天都有恐怖袭击，普通公民不断成为炮弹炮火或误弹袭击的受害者、以及虐俘事件曝光和伊拉克什叶派对抗的情况下，美国对和平进程的高希望正遭受挫折，美国政策处于失败的危险境地。"
    ],
    [
        "Though their vision of “information security” could legitimize authoritarian governments’ censorship, and is therefore unacceptable to democratic governments, it may be possible to identify and target behaviors that are illegal everywhere.",
        "虽然两国的“信息安全”愿景因为可能令独裁政府审查制度合法化而不被民主政府所接受，但或许可以识别和打击随处可见的违法行为。"
    ],
    [
        "With the BJP sweeping to power on a platform of aggressive nationalism and business-friendly corporatism, has the socioeconomic consensus dating to India’s first prime minister, the democratic socialist Jawaharlal Nehru, come to an end?",
        "印度人民党在激进民族主义和亲商社团主义的背景下获得了权力斗争的压倒性胜利，这是否意味着可追溯到印度首任总理、社会民主党人尼赫鲁的社会经济共识走向终结？"
    ],
    [
        "Worldwide energy demand has increased by more than 50% since 1980, and is expected to grow annually by 1.6% between now and 2030.",
        "从1980年以来，全球能源需求增加了50%以上，而且预计将会从现在起到2030年每年增加1. 6%。"
    ],
    [
        "NATO allies could make a similar statement.",
        "北约盟国也应该发表类似声明。"
    ],
    [
        "For Islamist militants, this confirmed that polio immunization efforts are a cover for gathering intelligence to identify targets for drone attacks.",
        "在伊斯兰激进分子看来，上述做法证实了小儿麻痹免疫工作的目的是掩护收集情报，确定无人机袭击目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, we must limit the scope of competition: there is no reason, for example, to extend it to taxation.",
        "当然，我们必须对竞争的范围严加限制：举例来讲，没有必要在税收领域引入竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now, the argument goes, another region’s turn.",
        "有人由此推论说，应该轮到其他地区来分享权力了。"
    ],
    [
        "The rule of law and ethics, built into the fabric of corporate governance, must now take center stage.",
        "而那些融入了公司治理的法治和道德精神如今也必须占据中心舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "So far this year, the average profitability of China’s top 500 companies is 4.34%, down 33 basis points from 2012.",
        "今年截至目前中国前500家公司平均利润率为4. 34%，比2012年下降33个基点。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the invention of coins, commerce depended on precious metals.",
        "硬币发明前，商业活动完全依赖贵重金属。"
    ],
    [
        "The paradox is that, though the threat to both countries is the same, each is worsening the outlook for the other by the policies they are pursuing.",
        "然而，在这里存在的悖论是，虽然圣战分子对沙特阿拉伯和也门造成的威胁是一样的，但是，这两个国家却都因为其执行的政策，而使对方打击恐怖分子的前景变得恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "“My country right or wrong” is the parent of much misery.",
        "“我的国家是对还是错”是许多仇恨的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "And it will strengthen the national anti-terrorism effort, which Modi previously denounced as an assault on Indian federalism.",
        "此外，莫迪政府还将强化全国反恐，而此前莫迪称此为对印度联邦主义的攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "Raising debt for the purposes of significantly increasing or ensuring long-run growth makes sense, especially in an environment of low real interest rates.",
        "为了大幅提高或确保长期增长而正价债务是值得的，特别是在实际利率低下的环境中。"
    ],
    [
        "Meritocracy: the word sounds nothing but good. It means rule by those who have merit.",
        "精英一词让人感觉良好，它也是事业有成者的代名词。"
    ],
    [
        "Francis is certainly in a strong position to initiate such a shift; his political capital is extraordinarily high, surpassing even that of US President Barack Obama in his early days in office.",
        "方济各显然强烈反对发动这样的变化； 他的政治资本非常雄厚，成为教皇之初甚至要超过美国总统奥巴马。"
    ],
    [
        "The Liquidity Time Bomb",
        "流动性定时炸弹"
    ],
    [
        "Despite Wakefield’s ostracism from the medical community and the exposure of his deceptions – not to mention numerous scientific studies that did not find any link whatsoever between vaccines and autism – he has retained a devoted following in the US.",
        "尽管威克菲尔德已被医学界驱逐，并且其骗局也已经曝光——更不用说无数科学研究从未找到任何疫苗和孤独症之间的关系——但他在美国仍有许多铁杆拥趸。"
    ],
    [
        "It is far better for France to be perceived as an unreliable arms dealer than as an irresponsible strategic actor, caring only about its mercantile interests.",
        "对法国来说，让人们觉得它是不可靠的军火贸易上远比让人们觉得它是靠不住的战略行动者、只考虑自己的商业利益更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Contextual intelligence is the intuitive diagnostic skill that helps a leader align tactics with objectives to produce smart strategies in different situations.",
        "情景智力是帮助一个领导人将战略和目标结合起来，从而在不同的环境中能产生明智的战略的直观判断技巧。"
    ],
    [
        "Because a formal bankruptcy regime for governments does not exist (though Anne Krueger, the International Monetary Fund’s then-deputy managing director, proposed one more than a decade ago), countries have had to rely on a market-based approach to resolve excessive debt problems.",
        "由于不存在适用政府的正式破产机制（尽管时任国际货币基金组织副总裁的安妮·克鲁格（Anne Krueger）在十年前曾提出过这样一套机制），各国不得不依靠基于市场的办法解决过度负债问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, India’s election commission has introduced a “none of the above” option to the ballot for this election, following a ruling by the Supreme Court last year.",
        "有趣的是，此次印度选举的选票上有一个“以上都不选”的选项，这是最高法院在去年做出的裁定。"
    ],
    [
        "Multilateral lenders have long understood the importance of debt relief to poverty reduction.",
        "多边贷款方长久以来理解债务减免对于减少贫困的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the procrastinating leader is unlikely to benefit if ever-widening gaps force an even bigger retail-price rise when the day of reckoning comes.",
        "类似地，如果不断扩大的差距最终导致更大的零售价格攀升，那么动作缓慢的领导人也不可能得到好处。"
    ],
    [
        "President George W. Bush’s desire to shatter the Arab world’s frozen societies was meant to pit the forces of modernization against the traditional elements in Arab and Islamic societies.",
        "布什总统打破阿拉伯世界僵化社会的愿望原本意在利用现代化力量反对阿拉伯和伊斯兰世界中的传统势力。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation can be summarized simply.",
        "可以简单地总结一下局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Greater Western engagement is needed to ensure that the “Europe factor” is equally prominent.",
        "西方应该更多地接触来确保“欧洲因素”也同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The program has practically been forgotten, and will expire next year unless it is renewed.",
        "该计划事实上已经被人遗忘，而且除非到时更新，否则明年就要到期了。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent Green Paper released by the European Commission on international migration is no exception.",
        "欧洲委员会最新发布的国际移民绿皮书也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks also provide critical services to governments and business, by providing direct access to global buyers of debt and equity, and by establishing large, consistent markets of buyers and sellers.",
        "银行同时也向政府和企业提供非常重要的服务，比如提供与国际债券和股票买家对接的路径以及在买卖双方之间建立大规模且连续运行的交易市场。"
    ],
    [
        "But for young refugees missing out on an education, the crisis can also be tracked by an irreversible metric: the passage of time.",
        "但对失去受教育机会的年轻难民来说，难民危机还可以用不可逆转的指标来追踪：时间的流逝。"
    ],
    [
        "This comparatively benign situation reflects Colombia’s relatively favorable macroeconomic conditions.",
        "这种相对良好的形势反映了哥伦比亚较为有利的宏观经济环境。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise of China and India may create instability, but it is a problem with precedents, and we can learn from history about how policies can affect the outcome.",
        "中国和印度的崛起可能会带来不稳定，但是这是一个有先例的问题，并且我们可以从历史中学习政策能怎样影响结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The US turned against them not because they were autocrats, but because they were inefficient autocrats.",
        "美国抛弃他们，并不是因为他们是独裁者，而是因为他们是无能的独裁者。"
    ],
    [
        "Rapid normalization – like that undertaken in the space of a year in 1994 – would crash asset markets and risk leading to a hard economic landing.",
        "像1994年实施的那种快速正常化可能导致资本市场崩溃和经济硬着陆。"
    ],
    [
        "This might appear surprising.",
        "这可能有些出乎意料。"
    ],
    [
        "In January, the New York Times finally reported on a secret 2013 Presidential order to the CIA to arm Syrian rebels.",
        "1月，《纽约时报》终于报道了2013年的一份秘密总统令，命令中央情报局武装叙利亚叛军。"
    ],
    [
        "When he has fully identified himself with their cause, he joins a movement that is essentially a counterinsurgency, even a jihad (“Let’s show the Sky People [the US] whose land this is!”).",
        "”当他完全明白了那些官僚的动机后，他转而加入了一场堪称是反抗进攻的行动中，那甚至可以称之为圣战。 （“让那些天空中的〔美国〕人看看这是谁的土地！"
    ],
    [
        "Oil exports and output of automobiles – Iran’s leading manufacturing industry – had each declined by two-thirds, and restless industrial workers were demanding back pay.",
        "石油出口和伊朗最重要的制造业——汽车产量都下跌了三分之二，焦躁不安的产业工人要求偿还欠薪。"
    ],
    [
        "Standards of living in the region have improved dramatically – even if full convergence with Western Europe is far from achieved.",
        "该地区生活水平大幅改善——尽管还远远不能与西欧看齐。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a wise American saying: “If you are in a hole, stop digging.”",
        "美国有句明智的谚语，那就是，“如果你在洞中，就不要再挖洞。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2000, at the Durban AIDS Summit, I recommended a new “Global Fund” to fight these diseases, precisely on the grounds that the World Bank was not doing its job.",
        "2000年，在德班艾滋病峰会上，我建议成立新的“全球基金”来对抗这些疾病，而我之所以如此建议，正是因为世行的不作为。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Failed Militarized Foreign Policy",
        "美国失败的军事化外交政策"
    ],
    [
        "There are many interested parties.",
        "有许多利益相关方。"
    ],
    [
        "Globally, the health IT industry should not wait to be forced by government regulators into doing a better job.",
        "全球来看，医疗IT行业不应该坐等政府监管者的驱使以改进工作。"
    ],
    [
        "But the costs of moving into a non-defaulting environment are high.",
        "但进入无违约环境的代价是昂贵的。"
    ],
    [
        "For investors, that outcome justified the creation of the catchy acronym.",
        "对投资者来说，这一结果表明“金砖”一词名副其实。"
    ],
    [
        "But falling core inflation (which excludes volatile energy and food prices) also points to weak aggregate demand.",
        "但核心通胀（排除较多变动的能源和食品价格）的下降也意味着总需求疲软。"
    ],
    [
        "Now he is faced with a strategic nightmare come true: Iran’s possible integration into the international community without having to dismantle its nuclear-weapons potential.",
        "现在他面临一个成为现实的战略噩梦：伊朗可能在不拆毁其核武器潜力的情况下融入国际社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Even without such a bargain, however, Iran will have to do certain things if it wants to be seen as a constructive regional player.",
        "但是，即使没有这样的交易，如果伊朗想被当作一个有建设性的区域行国家，它也必须做一些事情"
    ],
    [
        "Some will object that dire warnings of political reaction are overdrawn.",
        "有人会反对说，政治反应的可怕警告言过其实了。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate research dates back at least two centuries, to Joseph Fourier’s discovery of the effects of greenhouse gases on planetary climates; in 1859, John Tyndall demonstrated in his laboratory which gases cause this effect.",
        "气候研究始于两个世纪前，约瑟夫·傅里叶（Joseph Fourier）发现温室气体能影响行星的气候。 1859年，约翰·丁达尔（John Tyndall）在实验室证明了哪种气体造成了这一效应。"
    ],
    [
        "In Portugal, by contrast, the trade deficit amounted to only about one-third of exports in 2008, meaning that exports had to increase by one-third to close the external deficit, without reducing imports.",
        "相比之下，葡萄牙的贸易赤字仅相当于其2008年出口额的1/3，意味着在不削减进口的情况下，出口只需要增加1/3就能填补其外部赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "More money aimed at helping poor countries become middle-income countries and at middle-income countries to help them provide transport, energy, and communication for their people is a good thing.",
        "更多的资金将用于帮助帮助穷国成为中等收入国家和帮助中等收入国家为其人民提供交通、能源通讯，这是一件好事。"
    ],
    [
        "Deterrence always depends on who and what one is trying to deter.",
        "这取决于由谁出手，以及遏制的对象是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Persistently high unemployment signals inefficiency in mobilizing human resources. It is also an obvious barrier to reducing poverty and inequality.",
        "居高不下的失业率意味着人力资源动员效率低下，也是减少贫困和不平等的明显障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The legacy of 1989 echoes even in Iran, whose leaders seem clearly to have learned from Tiananmen Square and the collapse of the Iron Curtain that a committed government can, indeed, demobilize a public demanding reform.",
        "1989年的遗训甚至在伊朗也产生了回音； 看上去很明显的一点是，伊朗领导人已从天安门广场以及铁幕的崩溃中明白了一点：立场坚定的政府的确可以驱散一群要求改革的公众。"
    ],
    [
        "Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman developed transformational objectives only in response to external events after they entered office.",
        "威尔逊、富兰克林·罗斯福和杜鲁门均在入主白宫后、在应对外部事件时才发展出了变革型目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe it is excessive skittishness, or perhaps it is the result of global financial volatility in recent years – crises in Mexico in 1994-5, East Asia in 1997-98, Russia in 1998, and then in Brazil, Turkey, and Argentina – but we economists are more concerned about monetary affairs and possible future disasters than we have been in many decades.",
        "也许是因为过于变化无常，抑或是近几年全球金融市场的风云变幻—1994-95年在墨西哥，1997-98年在东亚，1998年在俄罗斯及之后在巴西、土耳其和阿根廷发生的金融危机—我们这些经济学家变得比过去几十年更关注货币关系和未来可能发生的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "One thing we know from the Latin American episodes is that the answer depends, first of all, on initial conditions.",
        "拉美故事告诉我们要看具体情况，其中以初始条件最为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "It makes little sense to expect the old alignments to be able to respond adequately to today’s policy needs or political dynamics.",
        "寄望旧的安排能够对当前政策需求或政治动态作出充分反应是没有意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "First, and most evident, the rise of e-commerce is far from over.",
        "首先，也是最明显的，电子商务的兴起还远未结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Taken together, these three developments help to explain the rise of a new class of voters: highly skilled, highly paid, and poorly educated in the values underpinning liberal democracy.",
        "总而言之，这三大发展趋势有助于解释新选民阶层的兴起：高技能、高薪酬，没有受过作为自由民主基础的价值观的教育。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would require a more sophisticated analytical framework than the current one, which merely distinguishes between countries on the basis of whether they meet the EU’s 60%-of-GDP ceiling on public debt.",
        "但它要求比现在更成熟的分析框架，只根据是否符合公债不超过GDP的60%的欧盟标准区分各国。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s indifference is particularly, though not exclusively, evident in the United States.",
        "今天的冷漠在美国特别显而易见（尽管美国不是唯一冷漠的国家）。"
    ],
    [
        "In March 2015 a new global framework for disaster reduction will be agreed in Sendai, Japan.",
        "2015年3月，新的全球减灾框架将在日本仙台达成。"
    ],
    [
        "That model was transferred to many other countries, and became the bedrock on which modern financial stability was built.",
        "那种模式传播到许多国家，成为近代财政稳健的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "The large deficits will eventually force much higher taxes, such as a national value-added tax similar to those in Europe, or gigantic increases in everyone’s income taxes.",
        "巨额的赤字最终会导致类似于欧洲国家的高额国家增值税，或者导致每人缴纳的所得税大幅飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "This allowed Germany to improve its competitive position in world markets vis-à-vis the other large euro-zone economies, where there were no productivity revolutions, silent or otherwise.",
        "这使德国与其他欧元区大国相比在国际市场上的竞争力有所提高，后者一直默不作声，既没有改革生产率，也没有采取其他相应措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the staggering amount of programming needed to fill the time slots, content monitoring must be implemented with maximum efficiency.",
        "由于电视节目的需求量如此巨大，使得对电视节目内容的监控必须有最高的效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Resources should be a blessing, not a curse.",
        "资源应该是福，而不是祸。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a scenario looks great in the movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” but it is unsubstantiated.",
        "这样的情形非常适合《后天》这样的灾难片，但实际上却是天方夜谭。"
    ],
    [
        "Switzerland’s central bank reports that foreigners hold $2.4 trillion in Swiss banks alone.",
        "瑞士中央银行报告，外国人自瑞士银行的存款高达2."
    ],
    [
        "A new lung cancer drug developed by my company, Novartis, is effective only in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer who have a particular genetic mutation.",
        "我的公司诺华所研发的一种新肺癌药物只对发生了一种特殊基因突变的非小细胞（non-small-cell）肺癌患者有效。"
    ],
    [
        "After the turmoil of the 2008 crisis subsided, a variety of indices of financial conditions displayed comparatively low levels of volatility (by historic standards) through the spring of 2013.",
        "2008年危机退去后，各项金融状况指标显示，2013年春季波动性相对较低（从历史标准看）。"
    ],
    [
        "At hearings before a US Senate subcommittee, BP CEO Tony Hayward’s evasive maneuvering and failure to answer point-blank questions infuriated Congressmen and the American public alike.",
        "在美国参议院小组委员会的听证会上，该公司CEO东尼·海伍德的敷衍塞责和答非所问不但激怒了议员们，还惹火了美国公众。"
    ],
    [
        "East Asia needs to maintain a fine balance of political-security requirements in much the same way.",
        "东亚也需要采取类似的方式来平衡各种关于政治安全的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "But many of those sitting at home watching cable news (or reading commentaries about the SDGs) hail from the top 50% of the income distribution in the Global North, or from the top 20% in the Global South.",
        "但很多坐在家里观看有线电视（或阅读关于SDG的评论）的人来自全球北方收入分布较高的50%，或全球南方收入分布最高的20%。 我们应该是真心实意感恩我们当前所处环境的人。"
    ],
    [
        "The person with the most responsibility for the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution is, of course, Mao, yet he remains China’s savior.",
        "对文化大革命的灾难负有最大责任的人当然是毛泽东，然而他现在仍然是中国的救星。"
    ],
    [
        "If Francis’s appeal is to be respected, these steps must include commitments to help indigenous people secure the right to their land and empower them to protect their forests against destruction.",
        "如果弗朗西斯的吁能够得到重视，那么上述步骤必须包括承诺协助土著居民保护其土地权，授权他们保护自己的森林免遭破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "But those cities cannot all grow the same way as Chennai has.",
        "但那些城市的增长方式不能都和钦奈一样。"
    ],
    [
        "What is interesting is that Indian businesspeople no longer dwell on what India’s government needs to do.",
        "更有趣的是，印度商人如今已经不再把眼光放在政府身上了。"
    ],
    [
        "The latter category includes an increasing assault on civil liberties within the United States that now compares to that of Richard Nixon’s administration more than thirty years ago.",
        "后一种包括在美国对公民自由的攻击变本加厉，足可以同三十多年前尼克松当局相比。"
    ],
    [
        "Such reforms should include dedicated redundancy schemes for bank employees (to facilitate consolidation), an overhaul of solvency law and court procedures (to redress repossession delays), and profound changes in corporate governance, particularly in the cooperative banking system.",
        "这些改革应该包括专门针对银行员工的冗余机制（以便利整合），修订偿债能力法和法庭程序（以纠正拖延补偿），大幅变革公司治理、特别是合作性银行系统的公司治理等。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, has contributed $30 million to the Roll Back Malaria partnership, the preeminent global framework for action against malaria.",
        "因此，阿布扎比王储谢赫·穆罕默德·本·扎耶德（Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed）为消灭疟疾（Roll Back Malaria）合作基金捐赠3,000万美元。 消灭疟疾基金会是最重要的全球疟疾防治计划。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s basic problem, like that of the countries most affected by the crisis, is that the wave of cheap credit that the euro’s introduction made possible fueled an inflationary bubble that robbed it of its competitiveness.",
        "与受危机影响最重的国家相同，法国的基本问题是欧元诞生所带来的廉价信贷催生了通胀性泡沫，从而破坏了其竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "It is easy to conclude that no one is in charge: not the national governments, and certainly not the ineffective European Commission in Brussels, with which the large member countries seem to be practically at war.",
        "很容易得出结论说这事儿没人管：各国政府不管，效率低下的欧盟委员会显然也不管——在布鲁塞尔，欧盟各大国没完没了地扯皮。"
    ],
    [
        "We feel this, Smith believes, because we naturally sympathize with others (if he were writing today, he would surely invoke “mirror neurons”).",
        "斯密认为，我们之所以这样认为，是因为我们天生对他人怀有同情心（如果他在今天写这个话题，他一定会提到“镜像神经元”）。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that have not signed the convention should quickly do so.",
        "那些尚未批准反腐败公约的国家应该尽快行动。"
    ],
    [
        "At times an old woman in traditional dress appeared to feed the animals.",
        "一位身着传统服饰的老年妇女不时走来饲喂动物。"
    ],
    [
        "Women are among those most vulnerable to the impacts of unsustainable practices and climate change, because they often have no independent income or land rights.",
        "妇女是最容易受到不可持续行为和气候变化的影响的群体之一，因为她们常常没有独立的收入源或土地权。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also includes choices made on a much smaller scale: farmers pondering which crops to plant, how much fertilizer to apply, and when and where to sell their produce.",
        "但也包括规模小得多的选择：农民要决定种植哪种庄稼、使用多少肥料，何时以及在哪里出售收成。"
    ],
    [
        "The infrastructure put in place to deliver polio vaccines there is now being used to increase coverage of routine immunization, like the 5-in-1 pentavalent vaccine.",
        "当时用来普及脊髓灰质炎疫苗的基础设施现在被用来提升五合一五价疫苗等常规免疫覆盖。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the variety of schools has increased throughout Sweden.",
        "其结果是不同种类的学校在瑞典快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The best solution would be to reinforce the effectiveness of both channels by using both – and by doing so immediately.",
        "最好的解决办法就是二者并用，而且立刻行动，来增加这两种方式的有效性。"
    ],
    [
        "And who can blame him?",
        "谁又能指责他呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The big question for Europeans is whether they can find ways to exploit some of the efficiency gains embodied by the Wal-Mart model without being overrun by it.",
        "欧洲人的大问题是，他们是否可以找到在不被吞没的情况下利用沃尔玛模式所体现的某些效率提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Many societies view healthcare as a right, not a luxury.",
        "许多社会把医疗视为一项权利，而非奢侈品。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure of private firms that lack access to subsidies or affordable financing deters others from innovating and challenging the status quo.",
        "民营企业无法获得补贴和低成本融资，它们的失败让其他人不敢从事创新和富有挑战的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Both public and private investments are needed to provide such access.",
        "而我们需要公共和私人的投资来为他们提供这些元素。"
    ],
    [
        "And Swiss federal prosecutors are looking into shady deals behind the decisions to award the World Cup competitions in 2018 and 2022 to Russia and Qatar, respectively.",
        "瑞士联邦检察官正在调查2018年和2022年世界杯主办权（分别授予了俄罗斯和卡塔尔）决定的幕后交易。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, an Australian nephrologist, Gavin Carney, held a press conference in Canberra to urge that people be allowed to sell their kidneys.",
        "去年，澳大利亚肾病学家嘉文·卡尼在堪培拉举行了一次新闻发布会，主张应该允许人们出售他们的肾脏。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the deep human need to be part of a group has yet to disappear.",
        "但人类成为集体的一部分的深层次需要并没有消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Developed countries will have to do far more to help poor countries through the transition to sustainability.",
        "发达国家需要通过向可持续发展的过渡来更多地帮助贫穷国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than ask the Asian panelists to theorize about the impact of austerity in the overly indebted developed West, I asked them to assess their own experiences during and after the crisis of the late 1990’s.",
        "但我并没有让与会者们去推导紧缩政策将对这些过度负债的西方发达国家造成何种影响，而是询问他们在1990年代末经济危机期间和之后的经历。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, however, things were not what they seemed, because the Middle East has undergone a significant change in the past two years.",
        "但是，这一回，事情不像表面上那么简单，因为中东在过去两年里发生了重要的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Those that operate in an ethical manner and seek to improve the lives of all who are associated with the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of their products will benefit from kudos, more business, or simply not being singled out as a bad actor.",
        "那些以高道德标准精英、寻求改善所有与产品制造、营销和分销相关的人的生活的公司将会赢得信誉和更多的生意，而就算只是不再名列坏公司名单，也会让它们受益良多。"
    ],
    [
        "More needs to be done, especially in terms of domestic resource mobilization.",
        "还有更多事情需要完成，特别是在国内资源动员方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Arabs must take charge of their own agenda, and become the primary force defining their future and that of their countries.",
        "阿拉伯人必须掌控自己的未来计划，将自己和祖国的未来牢牢掌控在自己的手中。"
    ],
    [
        "The effect of that on households’ budgets and companies’ costs is hardly cause for celebration.",
        "而这对家庭支出和企业成本所造成的影响当然是不值得庆祝的。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the doctrine of “preemption,” which was devised in response to the 2001 attacks, was inappropriately broadened to include Iraq and other so-called “rogue states” that threatened to develop weapons of mass destruction.",
        "首先，为回应2001年袭击制定的“先发制人”的总体策略被不恰当地扩大到涵盖伊拉克和其它威胁要发展大规模杀伤性武器的其它所谓“流氓”国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Convincing banks to lend to private enterprises, rather than to SOEs and LGFVs, will require substantial structural shifts in China’s economy.",
        "说服银行贷款给民营企业而不是国有企业和地方政府融资平台仍需要中国经济做出重大结构性调整。"
    ],
    [
        "But resolving these issues would require an inclusive and accommodating approach, both domestically and regionally, and Saudi Arabia, in particular, is not prepared to take that route.",
        "但解决这些问题需要包容性、适应性的方针，并且需要国内外双管齐下，而沙特阿拉伯显然还没有做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Often we had to go to court to force disclosure of information, using Romania’s 2001 Freedom of Information Act.",
        "我们经常必须运用罗马尼亚的2001年信息自由法案通过法院来强制公开信息。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when teams lose, these stereotypical virtues are damned with equal conviction as characteristic defects: German lack of imagination, Italian fear of attack, Dutch selfishness, the absence of national feeling among ethnic minorities in France, and so on.",
        "但是如果球队输球，这些一成不变的美德就会成为民族固有缺陷的证据：德国的缺乏想象力，意大利对于进攻的畏惧，荷兰的自私，法国少数族裔间欠缺民族情绪等等。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the horrible growth numbers of the last couple quarters don’t seem to discourage this optimistic thinking.",
        "即使有了前几个季度令人糟糕的经济数据，也没有吓退投资者的热情。"
    ],
    [
        "The other target audience consists of younger children, whose openness and inborn curiosity have not yet been stifled by formal schooling.",
        "另一个目标群体就是儿童，他们的开放心态和与生俱来的好奇心还没有被正规的学校教育扼杀。"
    ],
    [
        "If the US were to impose new sanctions for any purpose at any time, it would likely find itself alone.",
        "不论美国在什么时候，出于什么目的实施新的制裁，都有可能陷入孤军奋战。"
    ],
    [
        "By promoting sound macroeconomic and fiscal policies and implementing solid, structural reforms, we have made significant progress toward our objective of expanding the G-20’s collective GDP by 2.1% by 2018.",
        "我们推进了可靠的宏观经济和财政政策，实施了扎实的结构性改革，向我们的目标——到2018年实现G-20总GDP增长2. 1%迈出了一大步。"
    ],
    [
        "NE W DELHI – On November 8, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that, at the stroke of midnight, some 14 trillion rupees worth of 500- and 1,000-rupee notes – 86% of all the currency in circulation – would no longer be legal tender.",
        "新德里—11月8日，印度总理莫迪宣布，当日午夜，价值14万亿卢比的500和1,000卢比面额钞票——占所有流通中货币的86%——不再是法定货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Lacking a framework to adjust to new economic realities, Italian real (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth has suffered, averaging just 0.3% per year from 1999 to 2015.",
        "由于缺乏一个框架以适应新的经济现实，意大利的（排除通胀因素）实际GDP增长受到了损害，在1999~2015年间平均每年只的0. 3％。"
    ],
    [
        "As we know from Deuteronomy, “Man does not live by bread alone.”",
        "但正如《圣经》申命记所说：“人可不是单靠面包活着的。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Goldstone says that his revised judgment is based on the fact that “Israel has dedicated significant resources to investigate over 400 allegations of operational misconduct in Gaza.”",
        "相反，戈德斯通却说改变结论只是因为“以色列花费大量人力物力调查400多起加沙不当行为指控。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "At best, Russia is a potential partner in the effort to manage globalization’s challenges; at worst, it is a potential problem.",
        "最好的局面是俄罗斯成为管理全球化挑战的潜在伙伴； 最坏的局面是它成为潜在的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "To enhance the credibility of public finances, Monti’s government substantially increased taxes, particularly on real estate, while preserving the already record-high income-tax rate.",
        "为提升公共财政可信度，蒙蒂政府在维持创纪录所得税率的同时大幅增加税收，尤其是针对房地产领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Snyder’s estimate of the total number of Stalin’s victims does not take into account those who managed to survive forced labor or internal exile in harsh conditions.",
        "斯奈德对斯大林受害者总数的估计并未考虑在劳动营和国内流放的严酷环境中幸存下来的人。"
    ],
    [
        "As these expectations drive an increasing amount of capital out of China, thereby intensifying depreciation pressure, the PBOC continues to intervene in the foreign-exchange market, often in unpredictable ways (in order to discourage speculation).",
        "这些预期让越来越多的资本逃离中国，从而加剧了贬值压力。 中国人民银行继续干预外汇市场——常常是以无法预料的方式（以阻止投机）。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – Chinese President Xi Jinping’s tenure has been marked by high ambition.",
        "香港—中国国家主席习近平带着巨大的野心走上权力高峰。"
    ],
    [
        "In the twentieth century, communists politicized economic inequality, but they made sure that their agenda could in no way be interpreted as creating alms or charity for the less successful.",
        "在二十世纪，共产党将经济不平等政治化，但他们确保了他们的日程绝不会被解读为向不太成功者施舍或做慈善。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, a new National Initiative for Human Development is helping to end poverty and social exclusion among Morocco’s most vulnerable citizens, especially women.",
        "与此同时，全国人本发展计划（National Initiative for Human Development）帮助摩洛哥最脆弱公民群体（特别是女性）摆脱贫困、融入社会。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK, unable to attract short-term capital inflows, was forced to borrow from the International Monetary Fund.",
        "无力吸引短期资本流入的英国人只好求助于国际货币基金组织的贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "No, the cause is far worse.",
        "不，真正的原因远比这些更糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s overall trade deficit will not disappear without an increase in domestic savings and a more fundamental change in global monetary arrangements.",
        "如果不增加国内储蓄，并对全球货币安排实施更加根本性的改革，美国的总体贸易逆差就不会消失。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s not that I am a genius. It’s simply that, having worked at a rape crisis center and been trained in the basics of sex crime, I have learned that all sex predators go about things in certain recognizable ways.",
        "这并不是因为我是个天才，而仅仅是因为我曾在一个强奸危机中心工作过，并接受过关于性犯罪的基本知识的训练，我知道所有的性罪犯都是用一定的可识别的方式进行犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "During the darkest days of the Soviet Union, the chiefs of the NKVD were the country's second most important officials.",
        "在苏联最黑暗的时期，内务部头目是苏联第二重要的官员。"
    ],
    [
        "The Taliban Reborn",
        "塔利班的重生"
    ],
    [
        "And because US corporate taxes are among the world’s highest, firms will go to great lengths to assign as much value as they can to foreign subsidiaries, and as little as possible to US companies.",
        "同时由于美国也是全球企业税最重的国家之一，企业都会尽力为外国子公司分配尽可能多的产值，而尽可能少地分配给美国公司。"
    ],
    [
        "It is undeniably a great “show” with all the ingredients of a Hollywood blockbuster, including a surprising plot twist: the emergence of a “Third Man,” François Bayrou.",
        "毫无疑问，这场大选是包含了好莱坞大片所有成分的大“秀”，包括令人惊讶的惊险情节，那就是佛朗索瓦贝鲁。"
    ],
    [
        "But “there is room to invite others, including Australia, to build on the shared objectives and initiatives.”",
        "但“仍有空间邀请包括澳大利亚在内的其他国家加入进来，构建共同目标和计划。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Jordan, for example, has a sophisticated health-care system and a thriving medical tourism sector.",
        "比如，约旦拥有成熟的医疗体系和繁荣的医疗旅游业。"
    ],
    [
        "US policymakers, unlike those in most of the rest of the world, don’t find the concept inherently attractive.",
        "和世界多数其他国家决策者不同，美国的决策者对这一理念从本质上并不看好。"
    ],
    [
        "Any solution to hunger and malnutrition must place such women at its core.",
        "任何解决饥饿和营养不良问题的方案都必须把这些妇女放在核心地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Conservative Sunnis, such as those who adhere to fundamentalist Wahhabism, favor theocratic authoritarian rule, whereas more moderate Sufi Sunnis would prefer liberal and inclusive political systems.",
        "保守逊尼派，比方说奉行原教旨主义瓦哈比教派更推崇政教合一的专制统治，而相对温和的苏菲逊尼派则更钟情于自由和包容的政治制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe and Britain are married, but Britain wants to deepen its relationship with America, while America cares more about Europe.",
        "欧洲和英国是夫妻，但英国希望深入开展和美国的关系，而美国又更关心欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Arab and Muslim leaders can do their part by speaking out to challenge the Islamic State’s vision and delegitimize its behavior.",
        "阿拉伯和穆斯林领导人也可以做出贡献，挑战伊斯兰国的愿景、破坏伊斯兰国行为的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN vote (which coincides with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People) would not grant Palestine full membership. Rather, it would upgrade Palestine’s status to a level comparable to that of the Vatican, allowing its political leaders to bring war-crimes charges against Israelis to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.",
        "联合国投票（投票日正好与国际声援巴勒斯坦人民日是同一天）并不会授予巴勒斯坦完全的成员地位，而是将巴勒斯坦的地位提升到与梵蒂冈相当的水平，允许其政治领袖向海牙国际刑事法庭提起以色列战争罪诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "For the many emerging-market firms that borrowed in dollars to generate local-currency revenue, the recent depreciation is triggering plenty of financial trouble.",
        "对许多借入美元产生本币收入的新兴市场企业来说，目前的贬值正在触发大量金融困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, there may have been failed experiments under that rubric a quarter- or half-century ago; but today’s experiments bear no resemblance to those of the past.",
        "是的，在社会主义的名义下，四分之一或二分之一世纪之前有过一些失败的实验； 但今天的实验和过去绝无相似之处。"
    ],
    [
        "But the issues raised by the gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia go beyond energy security, reviving questions about Ukraine’s place in Europe and the world.",
        "但乌克兰和俄罗斯天然气争端所提出的问题已经超越了能源安全的范畴，它再次将乌克兰在欧洲和世界的地位问题摆在了我们面前。"
    ],
    [
        "The experts rated responses to climate change extremely low on the “to do” list.",
        "专家们把对气候变化的反应措施排在“该做”清单的最末处。"
    ],
    [
        "In America, the \"new economy\" has proven to be real, and there is every reason to think that growth in the next decade will be faster than it was in the past.",
        "在美国，\"新经济\"是实实在在的，并且人们完全有理由相信未来10年的经济增长速度会再创新高。"
    ],
    [
        "These challenges must be addressed through stronger governance at all levels, particularly given that state authority has been badly eroded in roughly a quarter of the country, where complex factors have created distrust in the name of ethnicity, politics, and religion, resulting in a massive breakdown in law and order.",
        "这些障碍必须通过在各个层面上加强治理解决，特别是在约四分之一的邦级政府权威受到严重侵蚀的情况下——复杂的因素导致种族、政见、信仰间的各种不信任，使法律和秩序大规模瘫痪。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be in the long-term interest of the permanent members to do so.",
        "这样做符合常任理事国的长期利益。"
    ],
    [
        "India has a strong relationship with Iran, underpinned by long-standing cultural, social, political, and economic ties, with India now funding an overhaul of the Iranian port of Chabahar, which will give it direct access to Afghanistan.",
        "印度与伊朗的密切关系建立在长期文化、社会、政治和经济关系的基础之上，目前印度正在出资进行伊朗港口查赫巴尔的修缮工作，以期通过该港口打通阿富汗的直达通道。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Global Ocean Commission issues its recommendations for reform next year, economics will be at their heart.",
        "在全球海洋委员会明年发布其改革建议中，经济分析将是核心内容。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though the global economy today looks relatively robust in general, international economic cooperation is more fragile now than at any moment in the post-1945 world.",
        "尽管全球经济如今看似普遍复苏，国际经济合作却比1945年以来的任何时期都要脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "When peace appears to be close at hand, radicals on one side of the conflict or the other provoke an explosion to derail it.",
        "当和平看起来垂手可得的时候，冲突一方或者另一方的激进者挑起爆炸性事件进行破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "This was followed by an embarrassing surrender to the demand of protestors that a powerful new anti-corruption agency be established.",
        "最后政府只能尴尬地屈从于游行者的要求，成立了一个新的反腐权力机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, the region suffers from tremendous transport and transit constraints.",
        "目前，中亚地区深受严重交通和运输限制的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "But that shouldn’t stop the West from reaching out to him directly, or pressing him to publicly appoint the representatives who negotiate with the West.",
        "但这也不应阻止西方直接向他伸出橄榄枝，或敦促他公开任命与西方进行谈判的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "Relations between Europe and Russia have been deteriorating for several years, but once manageable economic issues, including energy, are now being aggravated by much more volatile political differences.",
        "欧洲和俄国之间的关系几年来每况愈下，但是原先尚且可以控制的包括能源在内的经济问题现在正在由于更为起伏不定的政治分歧而恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "This reduction reflects the cuts in government spending on defense and non-defense programs mandated by the budget “sequester” that took effect in March, as well as the rise in revenue caused by higher rates for income and payroll taxes since the end of 2012.",
        "这一减少幅度反映了去年3月生效的国防和非国防项目上的预算“封顶”所带来支出削减以及2012年底生效的提高所得税和工资税税率所带来的收入增加。"
    ],
    [
        "ISLAMABAD – Since mid-December, Pakistan has experienced political and economic volatility that is extraordinary even by Pakistani standards.",
        "伊斯兰堡—自12月中旬以来，巴基斯坦经历了一系列政治和经济动荡，即使从巴基斯坦的标准看，这几次动荡也可谓剧烈。"
    ],
    [
        "But prospects for a deal will hinge on resolving three broad issues.",
        "但能否达成协议将取决于能否解决三大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Many studies have focused on the possible negative impact of cannabis use on memory and other cognitive functions.",
        "许多研究关注大麻使用对记忆和认知功能的可能消极影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, given that local-government debt comprises 27% of China’s 2010 GDP, while central government debt and policy loans stand at 20% and 6% of GDP, respectively, the total public debt-to-GDP ratio is approximately 53% – lower than Germany’s.",
        "此外，由于地方政府债务占中国2010年GDP的27%，而中央政府债务和政策贷款分别占20%和6%，因此中国的债务-GDP比率总水平大约为53%，低于德国。"
    ],
    [
        "Major stock-market indices hit record highs in September, in the United States and elsewhere, and equity prices are high relative to benchmarks like earnings and dividends.",
        "在美国和其他地区，主要股市指数在9月纷纷创出新高，并且股价与收益和分红等基准的比值也非常高。"
    ],
    [
        "Presenting himself as the last pillar of respect for international law, Putin offered ethics lessons to the United States – and specifically to President Barack Obama.",
        "普京摆出充当国际法最后支柱的姿态，给美国——特别是总统奥巴马——上了一堂伦理课。"
    ],
    [
        "The multi-ethnic nature of the 1998 champion was widely touted as a mark, not of a long and often bloody colonial past, but of national superiority born from the tolerance of the French Enlightenment and the fraternity of the French Revolution.",
        "1998年冠军球队的多种族特质被广泛地标榜为从法国启蒙运动的包容和法国大革命的兄弟情谊中产生民族优越感的标记，而不是过去一段很长并且经常是血腥的殖民主义历史的标记。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is exposed to other risks, especially if it confines its investments to that slice of the asset pool, US Treasury and high-grade corporate bonds, that American politicians are comfortable having foreigners own.",
        "但这种做法会面临其它的风险，特别是当这种投资局限于小部分的资产形式，即美国政客们特别愿意让外国人持有的美国国库券和高级别公司债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the United States is seeing alarming signs, with the frontrunner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, Donald Trump, directing vitriol – and arguably inciting violence – toward journalists during his campaign rallies.",
        "甚至美国也出现了令人警惕的迹象，在共和党总统候选人提名战中领先的特朗普（Donald Trump）在其竞选集会上向记者大泼脏水——甚至可以说在煽动针对记者的暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "This consensus is almost always qualified by declarations that the United States has been well served by its Federal Reserve chairmen since at least Paul Volcker’s tenure, and that those of us who have not sat in that seat know that we would have made worse mistakes.",
        "人们在谈及这一共识时几乎总不忘附上说上一句：至少从保罗·沃尔克时期开始，美联储的主席们就已经干的不错了。 另外，我们作为从未担此重任的旁观者应该明白，如果换作我们，错误将会更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s rulers rarely wash their dirty linen in public.",
        "中国领导人们极少会在公众面前披露内部丑闻。"
    ],
    [
        "A few days later, David Sanger of The New York Times confirmed.",
        "几天后，纽约时报的大卫·桑格再次在报道中予以证实。"
    ],
    [
        "The US share of the world economy will fall, and its ability to wield influence and organize action will become increasingly constrained.",
        "美国在世界经济中的占比将会下降、而其施加影响和组织行动的能力将遭到削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The view from North Africa is equally bleak.",
        "北非的情况也同样凄惨。"
    ],
    [
        "So, as it stands now, regulators need to preempt bankruptcy, not rely on it, because as soon as any failed financial firm files for bankruptcy, it has signed its own death warrant.",
        "因此，和现在一样，监管机构需要先发制人地实施破产而不是依赖它，因为只要倒闭金融公司递交破产申请，就相当于签署了死亡保证书。"
    ],
    [
        "Another kind of violence is mass incarceration.",
        "还有一种暴力是大规模监禁。"
    ],
    [
        "Rowhani promised to sustain progress on the nuclear program while adopting stronger and wiser diplomatic measures to prevent the imposition of new sanctions and pave the way for lifting the existing ones.",
        "鲁哈尼承诺在推进核计划的同时采取更强硬、更睿智的外交手段防止新制裁的实施并为取消现有制裁铺平道路。"
    ],
    [
        "True, the Congress of Vienna is mostly viewed as marking the victory of Europe’s reactionary forces after the defeat of Napoleon.",
        "诚然，维也纳会议常常被视为标志着拿破仑倒台后反动势力的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Opportunistic thugs foment fear and chaos – real and perceived – that far exceed their number and power, amplifying the country’s general sense of malaise.",
        "机会主义暴徒煽动远超过他们人数和力量的恐惧和混乱——无论是真实的还是人们感觉到的，这扩大了该国总体的不安意识。"
    ],
    [
        "But public opinion is becoming more skeptical about the wisdom of the president’s signature policy: using the armed forces to launch an all-out drive against drug dealers.",
        "但是，公众舆论对总统特有的政策的明智程度变得越来越怀疑了：使用武装力量来对毒贩进行全力的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, more encompassing knowledge of personal genomics can engender a new sense of commonality.",
        "事实上，关于个人基因组的更全面的知识能造成新的共性。"
    ],
    [
        "Most observers attribute the recent provocations to the anticipated succession of power in Pyongyang.",
        "大多数观察家都将朝鲜最近的挑衅行为归隐于平壤当局的权力更替。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt, the military counter-revolution will prevail, but the Islamist revolution eventually will return as long as its causes have not been eliminated.",
        "在埃及，军队反革命将继续盛行，但伊斯兰革命最终将卷土重来，只要其根源没有被根除。"
    ],
    [
        "When I was a regulator, I would certainly have denied it.",
        "当我还是个监管者的时候，我可以断然否认上面第二点指控。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, America’s preventive war against an Iraq that ignored the UN and was thought to possess weapons of mass destruction showed that sovereignty no longer provides absolute protection.",
        "与此相似，美国不顾联合国的反对单独对伊拉克发动了预防性质的战争，因为后者被怀疑拥有大规模杀伤性武器，这些都说明主权再也不能为胡作非为的国家提供绝对的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "MUMBAI – As India gears up for its general election next month, it has some cause to celebrate: extreme poverty is finally in retreat.",
        "孟买—在即将迎来下个月的大选之际，印度颇有些值得庆贺的东西：极端贫困终于开始减少了。"
    ],
    [
        "If Africa’s small and diverse nations do not come together, they will never integrate properly into the world economy, and so will not reap the benefits of our globalised world.",
        "如果非洲形形色色的小国无法团结在一起，它们或许永远也无法与世界经济实现有效的融合，因此也无法从我们全球化的世界中收获好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Integrating cleaner power into national energy systems would not only raise local capacities; it would also free up hydrocarbons for export.",
        "将更清洁的电力纳入国家能源体系不但能够提高地方产能； 还能释放更多碳氢化合物用于出口。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea of a “new deal” was conceived during his first presidential election campaign in 1932, though at the time he was still very vague about what the term stood for.",
        "1932年他首次竞选总统期间就提出了“新政”的概念，虽然那时候他也并不清楚这个词的涵义。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us hope that their oaths to defend and uphold the Constitution are more than just words.",
        "我们希望他们捍卫和支持宪法的誓言不仅仅是誓言。"
    ],
    [
        "But, since Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, took office at the beginning of August, the West, to put it bluntly, has not demonstrated sufficient will to explore possible openings.",
        "但是，自伊朗新总统鲁哈尼8月就职以来，坦白说西方并没有拿出足够的意愿试图打开局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Socially, America also offers something to Muslims that Europe does not.",
        "在社会领域，美国也能赋予穆斯林某些欧洲无法赋予的宽容。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States’ failure so far to cut off its military aid to Egypt in response to the regime’s massacre of hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters, in the streets and in prisons, is as clear a recent case as one can find.",
        "美国至今没有因为军队在街头和监狱中屠杀数百名穆斯林兄弟会支持者而砍掉其对埃及的军事援助，这是人人都看到的最新例子。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009, it is still the first force in the new parliament, with 267 deputies out of a total of 736: the decrease in its membership is also due to the stated commitment of the British Conservatives and the Czech right party to defect from the EPP to create their own party, with a stronger right-wing line. That opens the way to the possible return for a second term of José Manuel Barroso as president of the Commission.",
        "虽然今年英国保守党和捷克右翼党派相约脱离EPP另组右翼色彩更浓厚的新党团参选，令EPP会员数目有所减少，不过它仍然是最强大的力量，把736个席位中的267个收入囊中，而这也为何塞·曼努埃尔·巴罗佐再次当选欧盟委员会主席铺平了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and the EU should also make clear that any support on their part for Kurdish separatism is not a precedent for others.",
        "美国和欧盟还应该明确表示，它们对库尔德分离的任何支持，都不构成其他人的先例。"
    ],
    [
        "Avatars of liberal capitalism like the United States and the United Kingdom continued to perform anemically in 2012, while many Asian countries, relying on various versions of dirigisme, have not only grown rapidly and steadily over the last several decades, but have also weathered recent economic storms with surprising grace.",
        "美国和英国等自由资本主义的化身在2012年继续表现萎靡，而许多亚洲国家依靠各式各样的政府干预，不但在过去几十年中实现了快速稳步增长，而且成功抵御了最近的竞技风暴，令人刮目相看。"
    ],
    [
        "The two 50-basis-point RRR increases just locked up the same amount of liquidity.",
        "而两次提升存款准备金率50个基点的措施恰好就锁住了相等金额的流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, more incidents of global terrorism associated with Pakistan, such as July’s London bombings, will bring new pressures.",
        "的确，更多全球性的恐怖主义都和巴基斯坦相关，例如今年7月的伦敦爆炸案。 这势必带来新的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "BRISBANE – The G-20’s upcoming meeting in Brisbane, Australia, comes at a time when a precarious global economy requires big decisions to be made.",
        "布里斯班——G-20会议即将在澳大利亚的布里斯班召开，恰逢此时，我们需要为拯救摇摇欲坠的全球经济做出重大决策。"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, voters are not impressed by Modi’s transformation from the chai-wallah (tea-seller) of the election campaign, who had sacrificed domestic bliss to serve the nation, into an omnipresent, gaudily attired celebrity hobnobbing with other bold-face names.",
        "更一般地看，对于莫迪从舍小家为大家而参选的茶叶商转型为衣着浮夸的名人，到处现身与其他显要人物应酬，选民并不买账。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, China’s leaders seem convinced that they have little reason to bend to US pressure.",
        "目前，中国领导人似乎认为他们没有理由屈从于美国的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Working in a hospital, I saw that almost all polymers used in medicine were derived from household objects.",
        "因为在医院工作，我知道几乎所有的医用聚合物全部取材于家用物质。"
    ],
    [
        "These collaborations can shepherd promising compounds through the lengthy and expensive process of drug development and approval.",
        "这些合作能够让大有希望的合成药通过漫长而昂贵的药物开发和批准流程。"
    ],
    [
        "This made them appear a source of greater currency stability than the the US and Britain.",
        "这使得它们显得胜过美国和英国，可以充当货币稳定性的来源。"
    ],
    [
        "But the extent of that lending is largely unknown, because much of it came from development banks in China that are not included in the data collected by the Bank for International Settlements (the primary global source for such information).",
        "这些贷款的数字基本无从知晓，因为其中有许多来自中国的开发银行，它们的数据不在国际清算算银行（这类信息的主要全球来源）所收集的数据之内。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Hungary still holds the world record for hyperinflation, with the currency debased by 1027 in the 1940’s, paving the way for the imposition of Communist dictatorship.",
        "须知这个国家依然保持着恶性通货膨胀的世界纪录——1940年代该国货币竟然贬值了1027倍，直接导致了共产主义独裁政权的上台。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the rarity of such behavior in football, the initial reaction would no doubt have been surprise.",
        "然而，虽然此举会减少舞弊的机会，但却不能根除舞弊行为，而且关键也并不是这一点。 我们不应该为运动中故意的舞弊行为找借口。"
    ],
    [
        "To re-launch agriculture in the developing world would require an estimated $30 billion per year, representing 0.05% of global GDP.",
        "在发展中国家重新启动农业发展将需要每年300亿美元的资金，这等同于全球GDP的0."
    ],
    [
        "And governments should improve our information infrastructure, so that financial contracts can better capture the outcomes of economic risks.",
        "政府应该改善我们的信息基础设施，以便金融合同能够更好地描述经济风险的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But emphasizing the health of one gender undermines gender equality and misses the point of global health initiatives, which is – or should be – to improve health outcomes for all.",
        "但强调一种性别的健康破坏了性别平等，也不符合全球卫生行动计划的（合理）初衷——改善所有人的健康状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider China’s East Asian neighbors – in particular, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.",
        "以中国的东亚近邻为例——特别是日本、韩国和台湾。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is an erosion of the stature of mainstream political parties and trade unions, and all-time low levels of trust in governments writ large.",
        "结果导致主流政党和工会地位下降，以及对政府政令的信任度跌至历史新低。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time, the majority of Indians will be living in cities – a significant transformation for a country whose rural population currently constitutes two-thirds of the total.",
        "印度大部分人口将首次在城市中生活——这对目前农村人口占总人口三分之二的印度不啻为一次重要的转型。"
    ],
    [
        "To bolster long-term economic growth, business investment will have to increase.",
        "要提振长期经济增长，商业投资必须增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Another 1,029 foreign observers came from as far away as India and Thailand.",
        "另外还有1029名国外观察员从印度和泰国远道而来。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s international standing has thus suffered enormously from Erdoğan’s strategy of internal polarization.",
        "土耳其的国际形象也因为埃尔多安的内部计划战略而大受影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In such cases, there is a duty to guarantee that all sentences are passed “by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.”",
        "在此类情况中，有责任保证所有的判决都是由“提供文明社会认为不可或缺的司法保障的正常组建的法院”作出的。"
    ],
    [
        "They called many charities, but eventually realized something that seemed extraordinary: the information was just not there.",
        "他们给很多慈善组织打电话，但是最后认识到某些不同寻常的事情，那就是说根本就没有这样的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Andrei Lugovoi, the KGB agent that the British government suspects of delivering the polonium that killed Litvinenko, sits in the Russian Duma.",
        "如今，安德烈·卢戈沃伊（Andrei Lugovoi，克格勃特工，英国政府怀疑是他用钋投毒杀了利特维年科）在俄罗斯杜马供职。"
    ],
    [
        "Put a Texas oilman and his buddies in charge and what do you expect, conservation?",
        "让一个德克萨斯州的石油商人和及其好友们执掌大权，你能指望什么呢？ 难道是环境保护妈？"
    ],
    [
        "The whole nation, with no exception, should have repented, the way the Germans have repented since 1945.",
        "全国上下无一例外都应该表示忏悔，就像德国人从1945年以来一直坚持的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "To close these gaps, the IMF is now experimenting with “spillover reports” that focus on cross-country impacts.",
        "为了填补这一空白，IMF最近尝试发布了一些所谓“外溢报告”，重点关注跨国效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s investment plan could be the foundation stone for a formal global agreement that delivers higher levels of growth to all corners of the world and creates millions of new jobs.",
        "奥巴马的投资计划将可能成为一份正式全球协议的奠基石，而该协议不但会为全球各地带来更高程度的增长，还将创造数百万个新就业职位。"
    ],
    [
        "The cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings (CAPE) ratio is found by dividing the real (inflation-adjusted) stock index by the average of ten years of earnings, with higher-than-average ratios implying lower-than-average returns.",
        "通过将实际（计入通胀后的）股票指数除以十年的平均收益水平，可以计算出周期调整后的市盈率比率，而如果该比率高于平均水平则意味着低于平均水平的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "The plan certainly sounds reasonable.",
        "整个方案听起来相当合理。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, the world has the potential to do just that.",
        "今年，世界有望在这方面有所作为。"
    ],
    [
        "Our brains need to create a shared sense of self, an “imagined community,” as the political scientist Benedict Anderson put it, on whose behalf collective decisions are made.",
        "我们的大脑需要创造一种共同的自我意识，一个政治学家本尼迪克特·安德森（Benedict Anderson）所谓的 “想象的共同体”，集体决策的代表对象。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing (short of the death of a major contender) interrupts the franchise.",
        "已经没有什么（除了主要候选人死亡）能够中断印度的选举了。"
    ],
    [
        "This gives confrontational politicians a powerful advantage, and produces the electoral polarization on which the PEKOs have fed.",
        "这让对抗式政客赢得强大的优势，并造成了皮克赖以兴起的选举极化。"
    ],
    [
        "Managing the labor market by decree is difficult.",
        "用法令管理劳动力市场是困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "For the beleaguered middle class, the benefits were negligible.",
        "至于困难重重的中产阶级，得到的好处可以忽略不计。"
    ],
    [
        "Mundell’s insight can be applied much more broadly.",
        "蒙德尔的见解可以得到更广泛的应用。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite many positive developments, governance is becoming more complicated within certain European countries, owing to an increasingly fractured political landscape.",
        "尽管事态不乏积极的进展，但由于政治格局日益割裂，欧洲某些国家的治理正在变得更为复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "With the world economy growing slowly, many center-left politicians are trying to mobilize markets and jump-start growth while investing in jobs and skills.",
        "随着世界经济增长放缓，许多中左翼政客试图在投资于就业和技能的同时动员市场、刺激增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the election of the next Chief Executive will not take place until July, China has let it be known that our present Chief Secretary, Donald Tsang, is the chosen one.",
        "虽然下一届行政长官选举要到7月才会举行，但中国已经明示现任政务司司长的增荫权就是不二人选。"
    ],
    [
        "But where do these intuitive judgments come from?",
        "”但这些直觉判断从何而来呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Now there is yet another challenge, which is becoming larger by the year.",
        "如此还有另一种在今年不断加剧的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank has been more thoughtful, though no less enthusiastic, arguing that a banking union should have three objectives.",
        "欧洲央行尽管热情程度要低一些，但想得更深，它认为银行联盟必须具备三大目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The modern hajj has its origins in the rise of religious tourism to Mecca in the nineteenth century, when steamships began transporting large numbers of pilgrims to the Arabian Peninsula.",
        "现代麦加朝圣最初起源于19世纪麦加宗教旅游的兴起，那时的蒸汽轮船开始将大量朝圣者运抵阿拉伯半岛。"
    ],
    [
        "The need for certainty extends beyond religion.",
        "对于确定性的需求超出了宗教的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "Its execution, however, was crippled by its very narrow scope for application, the absence of corresponding laws governing corporate restructuring, excessive government intervention, incompatibility with the policy-based bankruptcy procedure then in place, technical errors, and a general inability to make the code operational.",
        "但这部法律的执行却受制于种种原因，包括其过度狭窄的应用范围，指导企业重组的相关法律的缺失，政府的过度干预，与当时的政策性破产程序的冲突，技术上的失误，以及宏观上无法使法律具有可操作性。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments have agreed to voluntary reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions that will prevent the planet from heating more than 2° Celsius.",
        "政府已经同意自愿减少温室气体排放，以使地球升温幅度不超过2℃。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, investing in forest conservation and sustainable land use is one of the most cost-effective means of mitigating climate change.",
        "此外，投资森林保护和可持续土地利用也是减轻气候变化成本最低的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as different as they are, they share one key feature: none has a military solution.",
        "它们尽管彼此大不相同，但有一个共同点：都不存在军事解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "While China’s achievement is worthy of genuine esteem, its efforts to gain a full measure of international respect and real “great power” status will not succeed until it matches its new economic and military power with a certain essential moral force.",
        "尽管中国的成就值得真心的敬重，但是在以某种基本道德力量对应其新的经济和军事实力之前，其赢得完整的国际尊重和确实的“大国”地位的努力尚难以成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The rationale underlying this policy is that Iran’s leaders, fearful of losing political control as popular discontent increases over the sanctions’ effects, will recalculate the costs and benefits of their nuclear activities and become receptive to negotiated constraints in exchange for removal of sanctions.",
        "这项政策的原理是，随着人们对制裁带来的影响日益不满，伊朗领导人会担心在政治上失去控制，进而重新盘算进行核活动的利弊，为了消除制裁接受谈判中的约束条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s yearning for authoritarian rule is clear for all to see.",
        "特朗普对专制统治的渴望显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "A plane with the UN envoy for human rights was denied landing rights in Baidoa (seat of the Somali parliament) not long ago, and pilots sometimes refuse to fly foreigners to Mogadishu, because it is too dangerous.",
        "前不久，一架载有联合国人权特使的飞机被拒绝在Baidoa（索马里议会所在地）着陆。 飞行员有时会拒绝将外国人送到摩加迪沙，因为那里太危险。"
    ],
    [
        "And now Japan will provide up to $2.8 billion dollars to help improve US bases on Guam, which will have even greater strategic significance in the future.",
        "如今，日本将提供多达28亿美元帮助改善未来将具有更大的战略重要性的美国关岛基地。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Bush administration insists: \"The US views South Korea as a strong and steadfast ally. We are committed to South Korea's security and to our alliance and partnership with Seoul.\"",
        "而布什政府强调：\"美国眼中的韩国是强大稳定的联盟，我们会全力维护韩国的安全，维护与汉城的盟友和伙伴关系。"
    ],
    [
        "And in countries like Singapore and South Africa, companies listed on the stock market are obligated to disclose their environmental and social performance, a requirement that investors and regulators increasingly view as essential to the efficient functioning of financial markets.",
        "在新加坡和南非等国，股市上市公司必须披露它们的环境和社会表现，投资者和监管者日益将这一要求视为金融市场有效运转的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "In the process, markets take investors on a wild rollercoaster ride, with the European crisis (riddled with even more confusion and volatility) serving to aggravate their queasiness.",
        "在市场的左右摇摆之间，投资者仿佛坐上了过山车，而欧洲危机（更令人困惑、更大起大落）进一步加剧了乘客的头晕反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil has significantly reduced the rate of deforestation in the Amazon.",
        "巴西极大地降低了亚马孙森林的采伐速度。"
    ],
    [
        "Even today, Arab territories remain under occupation.",
        "即使今天，阿拉伯领土仍在被占领当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Official diplomacy begins where the battlefield ends.",
        "战场的战斗结束后，正式的外交于是就开始清理战斗未解决的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea that eliminating a wealth tax can benefit an entire economy is difficult to defend.",
        "取消财富税将惠及整个经济的概念很难论证。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet hesitations are palpable.",
        "但对此的犹豫情绪也是明显存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "In a shift from the illogical import policy of the past, we focused our energies on revitalizing rural irrigation, which boosted the first dry-season crop yields.",
        "在转变过去那种非理性进口政策的过程中，我们把精力放在激活郊区灌溉系统上，提高了旱季第一季稻的收成。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, Hong Kong’s government is now launching legal challenges against four more legislators – all relatively moderate pro-democracy activists – arguing that their oaths of office were also invalid.",
        "事实上，香港政府目前正在对其他四名立法会议员——均为相对温和的民主活跃分子——采取法律手段，指责他们的就职宣誓也是无效的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, yes, European leaders must agree to take a fair share of those in need, by allowing refugees to apply for asylum in the EU directly from the countries in which they are currently residing.",
        "是的，欧洲领导人还必须同意承担公平负担，允许难民直接在当前所在国申请赴欧洲避难。"
    ],
    [
        "But if these allegations are true, no one has told the Dutch.",
        "但是，如果这些说法属实，没有一个来自荷兰。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Italy, where Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi replaced Mario Monti, the Commission's most successful and effective member, with a politician enmeshed in the arcane games of Italian party politics.",
        "以意大利为例，总理贝卢斯科尼派人接替了马里奥·蒙蒂，这位执委会曾经最成功、最高效的成员。 接替他的是位意大利党派政治神秘游戏中的政客。"
    ],
    [
        "Wedded to a “Phillips curve” mentality conditioned by the presumed tradeoff between economic slack and inflation, central bankers remain steadfast in their view that an accommodative policy bias is appropriate as long as inflation falls short of their targets.",
        "他们拘泥于一种受限于经济萧条和通胀之间假设性权衡的“菲利普斯曲线”心态，坚持认为只要通货膨胀低于目标值，宽松的政策偏向就可以适用。"
    ],
    [
        "Instability in the Middle East has sparked a large-scale migration crisis.",
        "中东地区动荡局势引发了大规模移民潮。"
    ],
    [
        "While these are “sins of commission,” the “sins of omission” at Rio+20 are even more glaring.",
        "相比这些“做不该做的事”，里约+20“不做该做的事”的问题更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "It has often joined with the IMF in strong-arming countries into accepting this “advice”: unless they do, they will not only be cut off by the IMF and the World Bank, but also by other donors, and capital markets will be discouraged from providing funds.",
        "世界银行还经常和国际货币基金组织联手，强迫这些国家接受建议。 否则不仅世界银行和国际货币基金组织会中断对该国的援助，而且还会设法阻止其他捐赠者和资本市场为该国提供基金。"
    ],
    [
        "It might also be a prerequisite for China to deepen its financial markets, particularly the bond market, laying a solid foundation for floating the renminbi’s exchange rate and opening China’s capital and financial accounts further – a precondition for the renminbi’s eventual adoption as an international reserve currency.",
        "此外，它也是中国拓展金融市场、尤其是债券市场的先决条件，为人民币汇率浮动和进一步开放中国资本和金融账户奠定坚实的基础——这也是人民币最终成为国际储备货币的必要前提。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson for Europe – and for the US – is clear: it is time to stop listening to what banks say, and start focusing on what they do.",
        "欧洲——还有美国——能从中吸取的教训相当浅显：不要再听银行的鬼话，而应该开始关注它们的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, to cool domestic political tensions, some of the Gulf countries have announced additional spending packages that include significant wage hikes, substantial increases in public-sector jobs for their citizens, and higher unemployment benefits.",
        "此外，为了平息国内政治紧张局面，一些海湾国家还宣布了额外支出计划，比如大幅提高工资水平、大幅增加公民公共部门就业岗位、提高失业保险等。"
    ],
    [
        "Indian families’ tendency to prefer sons has resulted in an adverse sex ratio, particularly in some northern states.",
        "印度家庭的重男轻女导致了畸形的性别比率，特别是在北方各邦。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin, meanwhile, has ratcheted up his much more explicit anti-American rhetoric since the Ukraine crisis, which he sees as a prime example of Western interference in Russia’s domestic affairs.",
        "与此同时，自乌克兰危机以来，普京加强了其比中国直白得多的反美立场。 他认为乌克兰危机时西方干预俄罗斯内政的明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the unemployed, they do not want a political party devoted to their plight.",
        "和失业工人一样，他们并不希望出现专注于自身命运的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "If Trump’s proposed tax reforms are implemented in full, the dollar will appreciate along with demand for US goods: a 20% tax cut will push the value of the dollar up by 20%.",
        "如果特朗普提议的税收改革得以全面实施，美元将与美国商品的需求一起受惠：20％的减税将推动美元的价值上升20％。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, climate change, energy security, and demographic challenges have been part of the European discourse for many years; now that discourse is starting to be shared by other parts of the world.",
        "毕竟欧洲在应对气候变化，能源安全和人口挑战等问题上的内部辩论早已持续了很多年。 而今，这一讨论也开始在世界其他国家中扩散开来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Serbia has no viable strategy for integrating Kosovo’s two million people into Serbian political institutions and public life.",
        "确实，塞尔维亚并没有将科索沃二百万人融入塞尔维亚政治体系与社会生活的可行方案。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of balanced growth in developed and developing countries alike, it must not be squandered.",
        "为了实现发达国家和发展中国家的平衡增长，这个机会可不能被轻易浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "The primary purpose of Russia’s foreign policy seems to be to tap Russia’s state companies for the benefit of Kremlin officials.",
        "俄罗斯外交政策的首要目的似乎就是利用国有公司来满足克里姆林宫官员的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "This silence is vital to the princes, for what the al-Saud care about most is US support.",
        "这种沉默对亲王们至关重要，因为邵德家族最为在意的正是美国的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "But they risk ending up with debt/GDP ratios north of 100%, which would leave them at the mercy of financial markets should sentiment turn against them.",
        "但它们也冒着债务/GDP比率超过100%的风险，一旦市场情绪向不利方向转换，就只能任由市场摆布了。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, they are unwilling to contribute anything to resolve the greatest refugee crisis facing Europe since World War II.",
        "如今，它们不愿意拿出一分一厘去解决二战以来欧洲所面临的最大的难民危机。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, we are at the dawn of “neuroeconomics.”",
        "简言之，我们正迎来“神经经济学”的发轫。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, shifts in human attitudes and norms may also have an impact.",
        "此外，人的态度和规范的变化也有可能造成影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, the Reagan tax cuts hammered manufacturing in the Midwest, creating what is now known as the “Rust Belt.”",
        "最终，里根减税重创了中西部制造业，造就了今天的著名的“锈带”。"
    ],
    [
        "They are constantly under threat from innovation and new competitors that could disrupt their business.",
        "他们不断受到来自创新和可能对其业务造成破坏的新竞争者的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Although recent data from the US and China – and surprisingly also from the eurozone and the UK – suggest that GDP growth in the fourth quarter could improve upon the sluggish performance earlier in the year, a strong case can still be made for fresh policies to strengthen the world economy.",
        "尽管来自美国和中国的最新数据——令人惊讶地，也包括欧元区和英国的数据——表明四季度GDP增长可能较今年早前的萎靡表现有所改善，但采取新政策强化世界经济仍然很有必要。"
    ],
    [
        "But the external context in which those countries reformed – characterized by surging globalization and rapid growth – was very different from that prevailing today.",
        "但上述国家改革的外部环境是以全球化激增和快速经济增长为特色——与今天的普遍环境存在很大的差别。"
    ],
    [
        "It shows that current conditions are good, but that expectations about future conditions have dropped off significantly.",
        "调查显示，当前情况良好，但是对于未来状况的期望值显著下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the political parties finally realize that they must stop looking to the US and start being more responsive to their own people?",
        "各政党是否能最终认识到他们必须停止唯美国马首是瞻的做法，转而开始更加顺应其本国民众的诉求？"
    ],
    [
        "Other than oil, gas, and other commodities, China has rather limited interests in Russia.",
        "除了石油、天然气以及其他商品外，中国对俄罗斯的兴趣相对有限。"
    ],
    [
        "By violating basic scientific principles, they defy the fundamental ethical criterion for compulsory public-health action.",
        "因为违反了基本科学原理，这些举措挑战了强制公共卫生行动的基本道德准则。"
    ],
    [
        "Defaults stemming from an unwillingness to pay do not deserve international support.",
        "因为不愿付款而造成的违约不应当得到国际支持。"
    ],
    [
        "For a relatively poor country like China, real unions could help balance employers’ power, bringing quality-of-life benefits that outweigh the growth costs.",
        "对于一个类似中国那样相对较穷的国家，真正的工会可以制约雇主的权力并且带来超过经济增长代价的生活质量的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "So we are nowhere near switching back to renewables anytime soon.",
        "因此，我们远没有站在重归可再生能源的门槛上。"
    ],
    [
        "And the euro’s appreciation in recent years – driven in part by the European Central Bank’s excessively tight monetary policy – was the final nail in the competitiveness coffin.",
        "欧洲中央银行过分宽松的货币政策一定程度上导致欧元近年来持续升值，成了棺材上最后一颗钉子，彻底葬送了这些经济体的出口竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "“When the facts change, I change my mind.",
        "“当事实改变时，我改变我的思维。"
    ],
    [
        "Are we on the road to full health or mired in “secular stagnation”?",
        "我们正走在完全恢复的路上，还是陷入了“长期停滞”？"
    ],
    [
        "The Saudi reform agenda mainly concerns domestic issues.",
        "而沙特的改革日程则主要涉及国内事务。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unfortunately, those are the people who need the most attention.",
        "而且不幸的是，他们恰恰是最需要关注的人群。"
    ],
    [
        "But realism in international economic affairs requires accepting that official development assistance can help achieve the broad political objectives of stability and democracy only in the long run.",
        "但国际经济事务中的现实主义要求我们必须承认：官方发展援助只有从长远的角度看才有可能实现稳定和民主的广泛政治目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The Congress-imposed government shutdown and near-default in October were particularly harmful to the country’s global standing.",
        "而今年10月因国会导致的政府关门和几近违约给美国的全球地位造成了特别严重的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, shadow banks’ activities must be regulated in a way that enhances transparency and deters excessive risk-taking, while allowing the sector to continue to contribute to financial-sector development by providing savings options to households and credit to small and medium-size firms.",
        "最重要的是，在允许影子银行部门继续通过为家庭提供储蓄选项以及为中小企业融资的方式来为金融部门发展作贡献的同时，也必须以一种增加透明度和遏制过度承担风险的方式来监管其活动。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – A group of hikers has lost its way.",
        "慕尼黑—一群徒步旅行者迷了路。"
    ],
    [
        "But this course must be pursued prudently and with great care.",
        "但是在实行过程中，它们必须非常谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "Elected with only 35% of the vote, lacking a majority in Congress, and taking office on the eve of an economic slowdown in the United States, things would be difficult anyway.",
        "仅以35%的得票率勉强当选、身后没有多数议员的支持、在美国经济增长即将放缓之际当选总统，这些都意味着他的总统任期将会充满艰辛。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s temporizing approach to the crisis cannot work indefinitely.",
        "欧洲用敷衍了事的方法应对危机并不能无限期地奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the link between “reform” and growth is broken – as it has been in Greece – his argument collapses.",
        "只要“改革”和增长之间的关系不成立——希腊的情况正是如此——他的观点也就破产了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Chinese growth has decelerated – owing partly to decreased exports to Europe – the German GDP forecast has been halved.",
        "但是，随着中国增长的放缓——部分是因为对欧出口下降——德国GDP预测值也被腰斩。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1955, Garfield created the Science Citation Index (SCI), a database containing all of the cited references across the most highly respected scientific journals, thereby capturing the sprawling web of connections among texts.",
        "1955年，加菲尔德创建了科学文献索引（Science Citation Index，SCI），该数据库包括了名望最高的科学期刊中的所有被引用文献，构成了一张连接文献的庞大的网络。"
    ],
    [
        "If they are right, NPLs could amount to 6-7% of China’s GDP.",
        "如果他们的估算正确，不练贷款占中国GDP比重可能高达6—7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Good rules can help stabilize markets.",
        "好的规则可以帮助稳定市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The exotica do not end there.",
        "印度选举中的新奇事物到此还没有结束。"
    ],
    [
        "(And yet, he will carefully avoid what he considers the mistakes of the last Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev.)",
        "（然而，他将会谨慎从事，以避免他认为前苏联总统戈尔巴乔夫所犯的那些错误。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "This entails abandoning the prevailing dogma that taxes should only be increased when absolutely necessary.",
        "这要求抛弃流行的教条——税收只有在绝对必要时才能增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Relations between the two countries collapsed in 1980, after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power in Iran’s Islamic Revolution and severed ties in response to Egypt’s formal recognition of Israel the previous year.",
        "阿亚图拉·霍梅尼在伊朗伊斯兰革命后上台并因埃及在一年前正式承认以色列而在1980年断绝了两国关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic demand may not respond to unconventional policy.",
        "国内需求可能不会响应非常规政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was a flowering of science and mathematics.",
        "其结果就是自然科学和数学的繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "The likeliest outcome of the current flurry of diplomacy will be a fudge, which both sides will present as the “best result possible.”",
        "当前外交风暴最有可能的结果是顽固不化，双方都将此作为“最好结果的可能”。"
    ],
    [
        "More than one billion people in the world today do not have enough food to meet their basic daily nutritional needs, and the situation in developing countries is getting worse.",
        "世界上目前有超过10亿人缺乏足够的食物，以应每日营养之基本所需，而且发展中国家的情形还在日益恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "America's Renminbi Fixation",
        "人民币现实主义"
    ],
    [
        "Since its inception in 1991, GEF funding has declined by almost 10 % as a share of the combined GDP of the 38 contributing nations;",
        "自1991年成立以来，该基金的总量以其占38个参与国GDP总量的份额计算下降了10%。"
    ],
    [
        "China, India, Brazil, Turkey, and others may have firms operating close to the world’s technological frontier, but they still have a lot of unused catch-up potential.",
        "中国、印度、巴西、土耳其和其他国家可能会有经营水平接近世界技术前沿的企业，但它们仍拥有大量待开发赶超潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – As the US Congress considers whether to authorize American military intervention in Syria, its members should bear in mind a basic truth: While Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has repeatedly used extreme violence to retain power, the United States – and other governments in the Middle East and Europe – share responsibility for turning Syria into a killing field.",
        "纽约—在美国国会在考虑是否授权军事干预叙利亚，各位议员应该记住一个基本事实：叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德为了把持权力而一再使用极端暴力，但美国——以及其他中东和欧洲政府——也要为叙利亚变成屠杀场承担一定责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Ghana had introduced free compulsory education at the primary and junior high school levels in 1995, but implementation had been painfully slow – and students’ educational dreams were often cut off before high school.",
        "加纳1995年开始在小学和初中阶段实行免费义务教育，但执行情况不尽人意——学生的求学梦往往在升读高中之前就告终。"
    ],
    [
        "Here is a universe of fakery in which one consigns to the oblivion of a now-obsolete history the precariousness of the exiles, migrants, and other voyagers who, on both sides of the Atlantic, have built the true human aristocracy.",
        "这是个虚幻变形的宇宙，人们渐渐忘记了过去的历史，忘记了正是来自大西洋两岸那些危险的流亡者、移民和其他航行的旅人开创了真正的人类贵族社会。"
    ],
    [
        "True, major commercial banks, like Citibank and Bank of America, tottered, but they were not at risk because of their securities underwriting for corporate clients or their securities-trading divisions, but because of how they (mis)handled mortgage securities.",
        "诚然，花旗和美国银行等主要商业银行也遭受了重创，但原因并不是面向公司客户的证券承销和证券交易业务，而是它们（错误地）处理按揭证券的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Resolution 1701 presupposes – in addition to separating the combatants – enforcement of the internal and external sovereignty of Lebanon’s elected government, without saying how this is to be accomplished given Hezbollah’s superior military power relative to the government’s forces.",
        "1701号决议除了分隔交战人员之外，假定了强加黎巴嫩经过选举政府的内部和外部主权，而没有表明在真主党相对于政府军事占优的情况下如何实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, President-elect Donald Trump must decide whether he wants to plow forward with his divisive agenda or actually advance America’s best interests.",
        "现在，当选总统特朗普必须决定要推进他的分离计划还是要真的推进美国的最佳利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Though India’s specialization levels were much higher than those in the United States in the early 1990s, the two countries have converged over time.",
        "尽管印度的专业化水平远高于20世纪90年代初的美国，但随着时间的推移两国逐渐趋于一致。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, a university may select a black student with a satisfactory score on the admissions test, even if there is a white student with a better score.",
        "其结果是，即使是另一个白人学生的成绩更高，大学仍可能录用一个在入学考试中成绩合格的黑人学生。"
    ],
    [
        "The West is not “striking back.”",
        "但西方并没有“回击”。"
    ],
    [
        "In the contest between fact and fantasy, fact suddenly had a powerful ally.",
        "在事实与幻想之争中，事实来了一次突然袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "If Xi’s fight against corruption is genuine, it will engender fear and resentment among the Chinese bureaucracy.",
        "如果习近平的反腐斗争动真格，就会引起中国官僚系统的恐慌和不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in 1934, resentment against growing corruption led Calles to choose an “honest idealist” to become president, a young man who had fought for him early in the revolution, who he thought he could control but who would help the government regain popularity.",
        "然后，1934年，出于对愈演愈烈的腐败的愤恨，卡列斯选择一个“忠实的理想主义者”出任总统。 这是一位在革命早期曾为他浴血奋战的年轻人。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, Saudi Arabia dragged all of OPEC into the price war.",
        "最终，沙特阿拉伯将整个欧佩克拖入了价格战。"
    ],
    [
        "The downsides are real, but we need to remember the immortal words of Dag Hammarskjold, the UN’s second secretary-general: “The UN was created not to bring us to heaven, but to save us from hell.”",
        "联合国的衰落是实实在在的，但我们必须铭记联合国第二任秘书长哈马舍尔德的不朽名言：“联合国不是用来把我们带上天堂的，它是用来把我们带离地狱的。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "If public-sector deleveraging is not a complete growth policy – and it isn’t – why is there so much attention on fiscal austerity and so little action (as opposed to lip service) on growth and employment?",
        "如果公共去杠杆化并不是一个完整的增长政策——事实上确实不是——那为什么人们这么关注财政紧缩而不去切实促进（而不只是口头上说说）增长和就业呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Third, it can simultaneously or subsequently implement domestic austerity measures (such as higher taxes or spending cuts) that free up resources to make debt payments.",
        "第三，它可以同时或随后实施国内紧缩措施（如提高税收或降低支出），以释放资源偿还债务。"
    ],
    [
        "This narrative puts the blame for stagnant wages and rising inequality on technological forces beyond our control.",
        "这种说法将工资停滞和不平等上升归咎于我们无法控制的技术力量。"
    ],
    [
        "China deploys tens of thousands of “ cyber police” to block Web sites, patrol cyber-cafes, monitor the use of cellular telephones, and track down Internet activists. But the threat to the new global commons comes not from what China does domestically.",
        "中国部署了数万名“网警”，以封锁网站、在网吧中进行巡查、监控移动电话的使用、并追踪互联网上的活跃人士。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eurozone’s “core” countries, they purport to protect taxpayers from relentless demands for debtor-country relief.",
        "在欧元区的“核心”国家，他们宣称要保护纳税人免受拯救债务国的无理要求的折磨。"
    ],
    [
        "Close to the Belomorkanal, one of the Gulag's major construction sites, a large mass grave was uncovered at Sandarmokh.",
        "在古拉格主要所在地Belomorkanal的Sandarmokh，发现了一座大型集体坟墓。"
    ],
    [
        "But Latin America has a long – if not always fruitful – history of centrist liberal reformers.",
        "但拉丁美洲的中间派自由主义改革历史悠久——尽管并非总能产生成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Chile made its transition to high growth in the 1980’s on the back of a large depreciation.",
        "智利在货币大幅贬值的背景下于1980年代实现了向高经济增长的过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "Essentially, what he said to the Iranians was this: “Why are you entering this conflict?",
        "哈巴什对伊朗人讲话的内容主要是： “你们为什么要卷入这场冲突？"
    ],
    [
        "Building Pax Asia-Pacifica",
        "构建亚太区域共治下的和平"
    ],
    [
        "As it happens, I have a complex relationship with Google.",
        "事实上，我与谷歌的关系是复杂的。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though the world economy is desperately in need of rebalancing, their declaration was deliberately vague enough to accommodate any set of domestic policies that countries might choose.",
        "虽然世界经济亟待重新平衡，他们所发表的宣言却依然含糊其辞，模棱两可，与任何国家的国内政策都不相违背。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not the outcome that the G-20 – or anyone else – sought back in 2009.",
        "这可不是G-20——或其他任何人——在2009年想要的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "During China’s infrastructure boom, it was importing huge volumes of commodities, pushing up their prices and, in turn, growth in the world’s commodity exporters, including large emerging economies like Brazil.",
        "在中国基础设施繁荣期间，它进口了巨量大宗商品，推高了大宗商品的价格，反过来提振了大宗商品出口国的增长，包括巴西等大型发展中经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "If anything, that image reflects circumstances that have been imposed upon refugees and reinforced by the world’s incomplete response.",
        "如果说这种形象反应了什么，那么它所反应的是强加给难民的各国不完全对策下难民的境况。"
    ],
    [
        "Mutual resentment between creditors and debtors is liable to grow, and there is a real danger that the euro may destroy the EU’s political and social cohesion.",
        "借贷者和放贷者之间的矛盾也会逐渐加剧，最危险的情况则是欧元反过来损害了欧盟的政治和社会凝聚力。"
    ],
    [
        "The TPP is just one of the pillars of that new edifice.",
        "TPP只是这一新庞然大物的支柱之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, in principle, it would be a much better world if emerging markets could somehow pool their resources, perhaps through an International Monetary Fund facility; but the trust required to make such an arrangement work simply is not yet there.",
        "虽然在原则上，如果新兴市场可以以某种方式储备其资源——或许可以通过国际货币基金组织机制，这个世界就会变得更加美好； 但实现这种安排所需的国际信任尚未存在。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Who has not seen what looks like water on a highway on a hot summer’s day?",
        "马德里—你见过酷暑时节高速公路上的水吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it must also press for Gazprom’s ultimate restructuring and real market entry into Russia for European companies, because Russia’s unwillingness to do so guarantees energy insecurity for Europe.",
        "然而它还必须促使俄罗斯天然气工业公司最终重组以及让欧洲公司真正地进入俄罗斯市场，因为俄罗斯不同意这样做只会导致欧洲能源的不安全。"
    ],
    [
        "With a thin majority in the lower house and a narrow plurality in the upper house (which has adopted a censure resolution against Noda), the DPJ on its own is unable to pass fiscal and other legislation essential to running a government.",
        "民主党在众议院和参议员都只占微弱优势（参议院还通过了针对野田佳彦的谴责议案），无法靠自己的力量通过运转政府所必须的财政和其他立法。"
    ],
    [
        "The right policies – less fiscal austerity in the short run, more public investment spending, and less reliance on monetary easing – are the opposite of those that have been pursued by the world’s major economies.",
        "正确的政策——减少短期财政紧缩、增加公共投资支出、减少货币宽松依赖——与世界主要经济体所追求的政策截然相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientific research is usually conducted to improve our lives, but it is also an industry, one that represents a massive investment by governments and corporations alike.",
        "开展科学研究主要是为了改善提高我们的生活，但是，这也是一项产业，代表了来自政府和企业界的巨额投资。"
    ],
    [
        "This disparity can be at least partly explained by its 43rd-place ranking for “connectedness” in terms of flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data and communications.",
        "这一反差至少部分可归因于巴西在以商品、服务、金融、人口以及数据和通信流为标准的“连通性”（connectedness）上只名列第43位。"
    ],
    [
        "This would make food more affordable for the poor.",
        "这样穷人就更能买得起食物。"
    ],
    [
        "EBM guidelines focus on asthma treatment or diabetes, but not both, or even how they may interact and change over time.",
        "EBM指导要么以哮喘治疗为中心，要么以糖尿病为中心，而不可能同时以两者为中心，甚至不关注两者之间的互动和随时间的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, a state of emergency could be warranted. But, given Musharraf’s lack of legitimacy, such a move would further infuriate Bhutto’s supporters, whose street power Bhutto had contained since October.",
        "在当前的情况下，当然有理由宣布进入紧急状态，但是由于穆沙拉夫总统的不合法地位，这一举动将进一步激怒布托的支持者，自十月份以来，布托一直在竭力遏制这些支持者民众武装的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "And the use of cyber instruments in Russia’s “hybrid” wars in Georgia and Ukraine has been relatively limited.",
        "而在俄罗斯对格鲁吉亚和乌克兰发动的“混合型”战争中，网络手段的应用也是相对有限的。"
    ],
    [
        "Stating goals is merely the first step in implementing a plan of action.",
        "宣布目标只是实施行动计划的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "The first step is a reckoning.",
        "第一步是清算。"
    ],
    [
        "Pervez Musharraf’s Long Goodbye",
        "佩尔韦兹·穆沙拉夫的漫长告别"
    ],
    [
        "It has also purchased a clutch of Russian-made submarines, and it spent eight times more in arms procurement between 2011 and 2015 than it did in the previous five years.",
        "越南还采购了一批俄制潜艇，2011—2015年军备采购开支比此前五年增长八倍。"
    ],
    [
        "These two nutritional maxims give credence to the food industry’s self-serving corollaries: If a calorie is a calorie, then any food can be part of a balanced diet; and, if we are what we eat, then everyone chooses what they eat.",
        "前述两大营养箴言给了食品行业自私的理由：既然一卡是一卡，那么任何食物都可以成为均衡膳食的组成部分； 如果吃啥变啥，那么人人选择自己吃什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brexit vote has unleashed a storm of populist sentiment that will be difficult to control.",
        "英国脱欧公投已经启动了一场难以控制的民粹主义情绪风暴。"
    ],
    [
        "One approach is to encourage “counter-narratives.”",
        "方法之一是鼓励表达“相反的观点”。"
    ],
    [
        "No number of slaughtered Iraqis will bring peace.",
        "被杀害的伊拉克人没有带来和平的曙光。"
    ],
    [
        "The first wave of a breakthrough innovation chiefly benefits a few entrepreneurs.",
        "第一波突破性创新主要让少数企业家获益。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an important opportunity for reform and renewal.",
        "这是一次改革和更新的重要机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "In identifying the top “eight tasks” for 2016, Li put supply-side reforms at number two – second only to the government’s focus on economic stability in countering China’s growth slowdown.",
        "在确定2016年的“八大任务”中，李克强将供给侧改革排在第二——仅次于应对增长放缓的经济稳定政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, however, a central bank’s anti-inflation policies can work only within the context of a macroeconomic and political framework that is consistent with price stability.",
        "然而最终，央行的反通胀政策只能在符合价格稳定的背景下，在宏观经济和政治框架内运作。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund’s recent World Economic Outlook reports that the US and its allies will account for just 39% of global output in 2020, down sharply from 64% today, with the US share falling from 22% to 15%.",
        "国际货币基金组织在最近发表的《世界经济展望》中指出，美国及其盟国占全球总产出的比值将从目前的64%大幅降至2020年的39％，而其中美国所占的份额也将从当前的22％降到15％。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro was introduced without serious problems and has since functioned well, with the European Central Bank delivering the low inflation that is its sole mandate.",
        "欧元的引进没有产生严重的问题，并且此后运行良好，与此同时欧洲中央银行将低通胀作为其首要任务"
    ],
    [
        "In 1750, Asia had roughly three-fifths of the world’s population and accounted for three-fifths of global output.",
        "早在1750年，亚洲人口约占世界的五分之三，总产出占全球的四分之三。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach should favor China’s global strategy, which is premised upon Xi’s desire to build a new type of “major power” relationship between China and the US (the Chinese government prefers “major power” to “great power,” probably in order to highlight its stated renunciation of hegemonic ambition).",
        "这一立场有利于中国的全球战略——该战略的前提是习近平建立中美新型“大国”关系的渴望（中国政府喜欢用“大国”而不是“强国”，可能是为了突出其不称霸的原则）。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be impossible to predict the next “killer app,” they argue, but it will always be developed.",
        "他们指出虽然无法预测哪一种是下一个“杀手应用”，但总有一天会被研制出来的。"
    ],
    [
        "The declaration, these critics attest, was created by colonial powers with a long history of gross human-rights violations, and amounts to yet another attempt by a few Western players to impose their will upon Muslim countries.",
        "这些批评者认为，制定该宣言的殖民列强长期侵犯草根人权，该宣言只是一小撮西方国家将自己的意志凌驾于穆斯林国家之上的又一阴谋。"
    ],
    [
        "Bernanke’s defense was robust and unequivocal.",
        "伯南克的辩词其实是站得住脚的。"
    ],
    [
        "Though no one can condone Fischer’s virulent rants and dark thoughts in his later years (he died in 2008), it is sad to realize that someone of such towering creativity and genius, who inspired so many people through his chess, might have had his career ended at a much earlier stage today.",
        "尽管我们不能原谅费舍尔晚年的恶毒攻击和黑暗思想（他死于2008年），但意识到创造力和天才如此发达的人，一个通过棋局激励了无数人的人，若放在今天有可能早就结束了他的职业生涯，这着实令人悲伤。"
    ],
    [
        "They will also bring back some of the previously earned foreign profits that have been left outside the US, estimated by the Treasury to be worth $2.5 trillion.",
        "他们还将带回从前在美国以外留存的一些利润，据财政部统计总规模达2. 5万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, almost 10% of total ODA is allotted for humanitarian relief, which should be similarly uncontroversial.",
        "此外，ODA总量中有近10%用于人道主义救济，这也应该是毫无争议的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "With so many potential dangers on the horizon, central bankers should at least consider rethinking the fundamental assumptions underlying their policies.",
        "面对重重潜在危险，央行至少应该反思它们的政策背后的基本假设。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Greenspan, immediate action needed to be taken to avert this looming disaster, which would impede the Fed’s ability to conduct monetary policy!",
        "格林斯潘认为，应当立即采取行动避免这一即将到来的灾难，因为这一灾难将会阻碍美联储实施货币政策的能力！"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that the developed economies need a jolt to escape their post-2008 malaise and their excessive reliance on easy monetary policy.",
        "我认为，发达经济体需要一次地震来摆脱2008年后的疲软以及对宽松货币政策的过度依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "It is women who you will see buying and selling the goods on offer.",
        "你会看到是女性在买卖各种货物。"
    ],
    [
        "This political model is now seen as a serious rival to American-style liberal democracy, and perhaps it is.",
        "这种政治模式现在被视作美国式自由民主的强劲对手，或许事实也的确如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Using monetary policy to compensate for deficiencies in other policy areas constitutes an institutional breakdown: monetary policymakers are not necessarily getting it wrong, but they are constrained by the configuration of other policies.",
        "用货币政策补偿其他政策领域的低效率构成了制度性故障：货币决策这未必造成了错误，但他们被其他政策设置束缚住了手脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Together with political uncertainty, they will re-emerge with full force in the second half of the year.",
        "加上政治上的不确定性，这些问题都将会在今年下半年全面重新凸显出来。"
    ],
    [
        "And large-scale farmland bubbles are quite rare: there was only one in the US in the entire twentieth century, during the great population scare of the 1970’s.",
        "6万亿美元。 同时大规模的农地泡沫也非常罕见：在20世纪的美国仅仅发生过一次，那是在1970年代人们恐慌人口过度暴增的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, unlike existing parallel arrangements, which have always been regional in nature and intended to complement the work of the IMF and the World Bank, the BRICS’ New Development Bank and contingent reserve agreement are not based on cultural, geographical, or historical links.",
        "事实上，与一直地区性质、以补充IMF和世界银行作用为初衷的现行类似安排不同，金砖国家的新开发银行和应急储备协议并不以文化、地缘政治或历史渊源为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Breaking the cycle of terror and violence that has plagued Myanmar for decades will require the country to address the deep-seated sectarian tensions that are driving Rohingya toward jihadism.",
        "打破困扰了缅甸几十年之久的恐怖和暴力的循环需要缅甸解决好深刻的宗派紧张。 宗派紧张是将罗兴亚人推向圣战的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "But referendums are notoriously unpredictable.",
        "但公投这东西的结果是谁也说不准的。"
    ],
    [
        "JERUSALEM – The interim agreement reached in Geneva between the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany (the P5+1) and Iran is probably the best deal to curtail Iran’s nuclear program that could be reached, given current circumstances.",
        "耶路撒冷——鉴于当前形势，联合国安理会五大常任理事国加上德国（P5+1）与伊朗达成的日内瓦临时协议或许是遏制伊朗核计划可能的最好结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The global economy is suffering from a chronic demand shortfall, which can be remedied through sustained growth in government spending.",
        "全球经济正受困于长期需求不足，可以通过持续增加政府支出来弥补事态。"
    ],
    [
        "If it can happen here – in the homeland of Edmund Burke and Tony Benn – it truly can happen anywhere.",
        "如果作为伯克（Edmund Burke）和贝恩（Tony Benn）的故乡的英国可以发生这种事，其他地方绝对也可以发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, rebuilding trust will require a new definition of news itself.",
        "最后，重建信任需要重新定义新闻本身。"
    ],
    [
        "For maximum impact, and in order to restore public trust in corporations, the standards must be global, clear, and consistent.",
        "为了获得最大效果，也为了重塑公众对公司的信任，标准必须是全球性的、明确的、一致的。"
    ],
    [
        "After two terms, Morales would in theory be prohibited from running again.",
        "本来连任两届的莫拉莱斯理论上禁止再竞选连任。"
    ],
    [
        "Without directly acknowledging America’s central role in causing the financial crisis, the US Federal Reserve has already offered to exchange up to $30 billion each with the central banks of Korea, Brazil, Mexico and Singapore.",
        "在没有直接承认美国在引发金融危机中的主要作用的情况下，美国联邦储备系统已经分别为韩国、巴西、墨西哥和新加坡的中央银行提供了高达300亿美元的货币互换。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-sleeve shirts, long pants, and insect repellants can help minimize bites when staying inside isn’t an option.",
        "如果必须要留在户外，穿著长袖衣裤和使用驱虫剂可以帮助减少叮咬。"
    ],
    [
        "While such policies may promote price stability, his proposal neglects the two most important issues for the BCB: legal autonomy and institutional reforms that ensure accountability to citizens.",
        "尽管这些政策或有助于价格稳定，但他的方案忽略了巴西央行问题最重要的两个方面：法律自主权和保证公民问责权的制度改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the issue is not one of pure doctrine.",
        "与一般认识相反的是，这一事务并不单纯是理念之争。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the early reforms have already been implemented, and reasonably sophisticated banking systems are in place.",
        "许多早期改革已经实施，相当成熟的银行系统也已经建立。"
    ],
    [
        "The cult of the “Greenspan put” stemmed from the previous Fed chairman’s avowed belief that the Fed should not try to resist a sharply rising stock market, except to the extent that such a market undermines the long-term stability of prices for ordinary goods.",
        "这种对“格林斯潘对策”的迷信源自于这位前美联储主席一条众所周知的理念：美联储不应尝试压制一个快速上涨的股票市场，除非市场已经发展到了危及一般商品长期价格稳定性的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, though, the Griesafault will carry a high price – less for Argentina than for the global economy and countries needing access to foreign financing.",
        "但是，最终葛里萨违约会带来高昂代价——相对于阿根廷，全球经济和需要外国融资的国家受影响更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Some flagship initiatives proposed by the European Commission will finally see the light of day as well, and new projects and initiatives are likely to be developed.",
        "欧盟委员会拟议中的某些旗舰计划也将最终问世，同时有可能制定新的项目和计划。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the US has probably been lured into serving these countries’ own narrower interests, whether it be Israel’s unconvincing vision of its own security or the Sunni countries’ opposition to Shia Iran.",
        "事实上，美国可能被这些国家自身的狭隘利益所利用，不管是以色列对其自身安全的无法令人信服的愿景还是逊尼派国家队什叶派伊朗的反对。"
    ],
    [
        "But the economic urgency is not reflected in the policy response, which has been painfully slow or non-existent.",
        "但经济紧迫性并未反映在缓慢（如果不是没有的话）的政策反应中。"
    ],
    [
        "A late-evening meeting of most opposition parties in Lahore on January 16 rejected Qadri’s demands, while telling the government to stay the course toward the general election.",
        "1月16日，拉合尔大部分反对党举行连夜会议，拒绝了塔德里的要求，同时通知政府坚守到大选。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, some of Europe’s leaders recognize the problem.",
        "幸运的是，一些欧洲的领导人已经认识到了这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Even fossil fuels can produce zero-carbon electricity, if carbon capture and storage is used.",
        "即使是化石燃料，也可以产生零碳电，如果采取碳捕捉和储存（碳捕存）技术的话。"
    ],
    [
        "But Karzai’s relationship with his sponsors has begun to sour, in part owing to charges that his government has failed to stop the resurgence of Afghanistan’s huge opium trade.",
        "但是卡尔扎伊与其资助人之间的关系已经开始恶化，一部分原因是由于他的政府未能阻止阿富汗大规模的鸦片贸易的兴起。"
    ],
    [
        "As with America’s Mafia, police zeal has imprisoned many Yakuza leaders.",
        "正如美国对付黑手党那样，日本警方也成功令许多黑帮头子当啷入狱。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge facing China as it confronts the problem of excess capacity is that those who would otherwise lose their jobs will require some form of support; firms will argue for a robust bailout to minimize their losses.",
        "而中国在产能过剩问题方面面临的挑战是，那些失去工作的人将需要某种形式的援助； 企业会要求大笔救助款以减少自身损失。"
    ],
    [
        "As the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, many are asking if this is what “socialism with Chinese characteristics” really means.",
        "随着穷者愈穷、富者愈富，许多人证遭拷问这是不是“中国特色社会主义”的真正含义。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2000, it has made up fully 96% of the cumulative current-account shortfall.",
        "自2000年以来更是占到了累计经常项目赤字的96%。"
    ],
    [
        "My principles would start from the observation that market economies and free and democratic societies are built atop a very old foundation of human sociability, communication, and interdependence.",
        "我的原则始于这样一个认识，即：市场经济和自由、民主的社会是建立在人类的社会性、沟通和相互依赖这一非常古老的基础之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, when prices collapsed, the government moved fast, suspending trading of a substantial number of stocks and pursuing price-keeping operations that resembled those pursued by Japan in the 1990s.",
        "但股价暴跌时，政府迅速行动，暂停了相当数量的股票交易，并采取了类似日本20世纪90年代所采取的价格保护行动。"
    ],
    [
        "We should not focus attention exclusively on economists, however.",
        "但无论如何，我们不应该仅仅把注意力集中在经济学家身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, many more of the unemployed now have to demonstrate that they are “deserving” of unemployment assistance, which is increasingly given on a discretionary basis, contingent on fulfillment of specified behavioral obligations.",
        "与此同时，更多的失业者现在不得不证明他们“应该”获得失业援助，而给予这种失业援助视完成指定的义务的情况而定，给予的基准也越来越随意。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it could be argued that new “leap-frogging” may become possible.",
        "事实上，可以说，新的“蛙跳”会成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "In his conquest of power, Mao Zedong used military tactics derived from Sun Tzu, who lived around 500 BC; Confucianism, dating from around the same time, remains at the heart of China’s social thinking, despite Mao’s ruthless attempts to suppress it.",
        "在其权力征程中，毛泽东采取了生活在公元前500年左右的孙子的兵法。 而产生于差不多时期的儒家思想至今仍占据中国社会思想核心地位，尽管毛泽东对其进行了无情的镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "America's Retreat from Asia",
        "美国从亚洲撤军"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, as Sir Adrian Bradshaw, NATO's second in command, recently suggested, war can be contemplated only if Russia invades a NATO state – a step that Putin is unlikely to take, even as he ramps up his provocations, including cross-border kidnappings.",
        "北约二把手阿德里安布拉德肖爵士因此在 不久前表示只有在俄国入侵北约国家时才会考虑发动战争——尽管普京进一步加大了包括跨境绑架在内的挑衅力度，但他不太可能会入侵北约盟国。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iran deal has turned into one of the most serious crises of trust ever in the United States’ relations with its Middle East allies.",
        "伊朗核协议已成为美国及其中东盟友之间最严重的信任危机之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Like many diplomatic compromises, the outcome left everyone a bit happy and a bit disappointed.",
        "但正如许多外交上的妥协方案那样，上述结果令所有人都喜忧参半。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these countries are responding to China’s rapid emergence as the foremost threat to regional stability.",
        "所有这些国家都在应对迅速崛起为地区稳定最大威胁的中国。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson to be drawn from the Greek debacle is that the eurozone must develop sovereign insolvency procedures as quickly as possible, thereby preventing other sovereigns from becoming creditors through debt mutualization.",
        "从希腊危机中我们可以汲取一个教训：欧元区必须尽快制定主权破产流程，从而防止其他主权主体通过债务共同化变成债权人。"
    ],
    [
        "Will it be different this time?",
        "这次会有所不同吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Few countries – if any – have so effectively internalized the lessons of their history.",
        "很少有国家能够如此有效地吸取历史教训。"
    ],
    [
        "But this raises the risk of fragmentation, which, if allowed to go far enough, could curtail the Internet’s economic benefits.",
        "但这样做增加了“隔离”的风险，如果任由这种趋势发展下去，可能会影响互联网的经济效益。"
    ],
    [
        "Full-scale human evolutionary engineering is still far off, but, at some point in the future, it may well become routine.",
        "全面人种进化工程还远没有起飞，但是，在未来，它迟早会变成常事。"
    ],
    [
        "But the line between refugees and economic migrants blurs over time.",
        "但难民和经济移民之间的界限逐渐模糊。"
    ],
    [
        "No worldview rooted in the nineteenth century – much less in the ninth century – is adequate to the complexities of today’s globalized world.",
        "没有哪种植根于19世纪——更不用说9世纪——的世界观能够应对今天全球化世界的复杂局势。"
    ],
    [
        "And social capital is the communal trust that makes efficient trade, finance, and governance possible.",
        "社会资本是使有效贸易、金融和治理成为可能的公信。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe lags when it comes to such mergers, owing to a broader lack of financial integration.",
        "但在这类兼并方面，欧洲却落后了，这是因为缺乏范围更广的金融一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, somehow, we did not bring all this understanding to bear and collectively shout our warnings.",
        "但让人困惑的是经济学家们竟没有将这些认识转化为结论，并集体发出警告。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial institutions chose to keep their money with the Fed instead of lending to the real economy, earning nearly $30 billion – completely risk-free – during the last five years.",
        "6万亿。 金融机构选择把自己的钱留在美联储而非向实体经济贷款，收并因此在过去五年间无风险套利近300亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The prohibitionist approach, based on repression of production and criminalization of consumption, has clearly failed.",
        "无数的证据表明，那种着眼于打击毒品生产和吸毒罪行的封堵策略已经彻底失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "Net contributors would be locked into a relationship with the markets – a convincing creditor.",
        "净出资国将被锁定在市场关系中——可信的债权人。"
    ],
    [
        "He looks more reassuring than Sarkozy and sounds more competent than Royal.",
        "他比萨尔科奇看起来更为让人信服，比罗雅尔更为有能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Two accounts, both broadly socio-political, stand out. One was put forward by the controversial Muslim activist Tariq Ramadan.",
        "对此分别出现了两种拥有广泛社会政治基础的说法。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though the insurgency has remained largely limited to Egypt’s periphery, primarily Northeastern Sinai and parts of the Western Desert, with occasional strikes in the Nile Valley, it has also reared its head in Cairo.",
        "此外，尽管叛军仍然主要局限在埃及外围，主要是东北部的西奈半岛和西部沙漠的部分地区，以及尼罗河谷地区的零星打击，但在开罗也有所抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "The husband, reading the morning newspaper, exclaims, “Great Scott!",
        "丈夫看着日报，大声说：“了不起的斯科特！ 我获得了诺贝尔奖！"
    ],
    [
        "Crewe Alexandra’s board, for example, actively discussed sexual abuse allegations against a coach, Barry Bennell, in the late 1980s, but decided not to report him to the police or even to fire him. Bennell turned out to be a serial pedophile.",
        "比如，克鲁亚历山大（Crewe Alexandra）俱乐部董事会积极讨论了针对该俱乐部一名教练——巴里·贝奈尔（Barry Bennell）在20世纪80年代末进行性侵犯的指控，但决定不把他交给警察，甚至也不解雇他。"
    ],
    [
        "Come to think of it: whatever happened to the Poles, whom Russia so successfully put down in 1863?",
        "试想一下，1893年被帝俄军队成功镇压的波兰人，如今又是什么样的状况？"
    ],
    [
        "If the Philippines does not overplay its victory at The Hague, and if other interested parties step back a little and give China space to recognize the dangers of its own aggression, Chinese leaders may yet become more willing to negotiate a regional agreement.",
        "如果菲律宾不对海牙仲裁庭的胜利大做文章，并且其他利益相关方略作退步从而让中国有余地认识到其自身侵略的危险，中国领导人也许更有兴趣进行地区协定谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "More than one-third of Americans in 1917 could trace their heritage back to Germany and its allies.",
        "1917年超过三分之一的美国人都来自德国及其盟国。"
    ],
    [
        "Rubio’s slick speaking style and Hispanic heritage make Democrats nervous.",
        "卢比奥华而不实的演讲风格及其西班牙移民身份令民主党人感到紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "Banishing Starvation",
        "驱逐饥饿"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank’s “outright monetary transactions” scheme provides an important backstop for debt sustainability.",
        "欧洲央行“直接货币交易”机制为债务可持续性提供了重要支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, the fact that it cannot be triggered easily does not pose a significant problem.",
        "果真如此的话，火箭炮不会轻易发射这一事实并不构成严重问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Though China’s government established preliminary rules governing online privacy in 2012, many gray areas remain, including basic issues like the types of information companies can share, how that information can be used, and what constitutes consumer consent.",
        "尽管中国政府在2012年就建立了初步的在线隐私规则，但仍存在许多灰色地带，包括公司可以共享何种形式的信息、这些信息可以如何使用、怎样才算获得消费者同意等。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the number and severity of problems currently plaguing civil aeronautics, the conventional approach of evolutionary changes to current paradigms is no longer sufficient.",
        "amp#160;amp#160;amp#160; 鉴于目前困扰民用航空事业的问题的数量和严重性，传统的对目前的模式进行渐进性改造的方法已经不再足够有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Aron wrote cool, sleek prose about the most heated geopolitical conflicts, while Sartre could turn any triviality into an existential crisis.",
        "阿隆针对最热门的地缘政治学的冲突撰写冷静，圆滑的散文，而萨特擅长将一切琐事转化成存在主义的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "MELBOURNE – Humanity has just about run out of time to address climate change.",
        "墨尔本—人类再不解决气候变化问题就快没有时间了。"
    ],
    [
        "COPENHAGEN – Global warming will mean that more people die from the heat.",
        "发自哥本哈根——全球变暖对于我们来说，意味着将有更多人将死于高温。"
    ],
    [
        "Last June’s arson attack on the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association’s center in the city’s Muswell Hill district (which followed the murder of British Army fusilier Lee Rigby by religious extremists) served only to unite its different communities.",
        "去年六月在伦敦Muswell Hill区索马里布拉瓦福利会（就在英国陆军燧发枪手Lee Rigby被宗教极端分子谋杀之后不久）发生的纵火案所起的作用仅仅是将不同的宗教群体团结在了一起。"
    ],
    [
        "At first glance, the evidence supports the possibility that demand for advanced skills is falling.",
        "咋一看，证据支持对高级技能需求下降的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "A week later, a Dutch diplomat in Moscow was beaten up at his home by armed thugs (no connection between the two cases has been proved).",
        "一周后，一名驻莫斯科的荷兰外交官在家中遭到武装暴徒的殴打（没有证据证明这两起案件有关）。"
    ],
    [
        "In a way, Santorum’s canards must come as a relief to a country that has increasingly been in the news for outrageous statements by right-wing populists about Muslims and Greeks.",
        "在某种程度上，桑托勒姆的谬论对美国这个新闻频道中日益充斥着右翼民粹主义分子反穆斯林反希腊夸张言论的国家来说可算是温和的了。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s membership in the European Union gives its creditors significant leverage, but evidently not enough to change the fundamental calculus.",
        "希腊的欧盟成员资格给了其债权人很大的杠杆（leverage），但显然仍不足以改变基本面。"
    ],
    [
        "Adoption of the Euro should foster even greater trade integration by eliminating exchange-rate risk, lowering transaction costs, and promoting greater price transparency and competition.",
        "欧元的采用会通过消除汇率风险，降低交易成本和倡导更高的价格透明度及竞争来进一步鼓励贸易一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute has proposed what he calls the “negawatt,” or energy that is never used.",
        "洛基山学院的Amory Lovins曾提出他所谓的“负瓦”概念，即从未被使用的能源。"
    ],
    [
        "Mitt Romney and America’s Four Deficits",
        "米特·罗姆尼和美国的四重赤字"
    ],
    [
        "More globally, however, it is as if “Old Europe” had decided that it was time to set the record straight and prove more dynamic than the world’s emerging forces.",
        "但是，就更为全球化的范围而言，这好像是“老欧洲”决定现在是拨乱反正、证明自己比世界上的新兴力量更为富有活力的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "But the confusion that has resulted is anything but harmless.",
        "但由此产生的混淆代价沉重。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial firms in the United States pay about 34% of their profits in taxes, and, while they can deduct interest payments to creditors from taxable income, equity is not taxed as favorably.",
        "美国的金融企业利润中34%要缴税，此外尽管它们可以把向债权人支付的利息从应税所得中扣除，但股本仍需要纳税。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Western journalists and news organizations seem to accept as a fact of life censorship within countries that routinely control the media.",
        "事实上，西方记者和新闻机构好像认为在一个例行控制传媒的国家中审查制度不可避免。"
    ],
    [
        "More capital should flow to countries with younger populations – with their growing manufacturing bases and consumer markets – to support investment and employment growth; and more labor should flow to countries with aging populations, to fill gaps in the workforce.",
        "更多的资本应该流向人口较年轻的国家——它们的制造业基础越来越好，消费市场越来越大——以支持投资和就业增长； 而更多的劳动力应该流向人口老龄化国家，以填补劳动力缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "But a clear-headed analysis of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s behavior indicates that EU sanctions would lead to more trade diversion, with China, Russia, Turkey, or Dubai benefiting from reduced levels of European exports to Iran.",
        "但只要头脑冷静地分析一下伊朗总统内贾德的言行就会发现欧盟的制裁只会引起贸易的多元化，使中国、俄罗斯、土耳其或迪拜都从欧洲对伊朗的出口缩减中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar approach was adopted in China’s 1994 fiscal reform to handle tax-sharing between the central and local governments, with control rights relating to land and local economic development delegated to local officials, particularly at the municipal and county levels.",
        "1994年，中国以类似的方法进行了财政改革，解决中央和地方政府的税收分配问题，与土地和地方经济发展有关的控制权利被委托给地方官员，特别是在市和县的层面。"
    ],
    [
        "These desperate and vulnerable people are crowded into refugee camps, and there is a high risk that conditions may lead to a deadly cholera epidemic.",
        "这些绝望又脆弱的人们住在拥挤的难民营中，生活条件导致致命霍乱疫情的风险很高。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unlike Yugoslavia’s successor states, which could look to Europe, the lack of a legitimate Arab democratic role model makes crafting a democratic order even more difficult.",
        "而且，南斯拉夫的继任国家可以向往欧洲，伊拉克与其不同的是没有一个合法的阿拉伯民主模范，也就让制定一个民主秩序更为困难。"
    ],
    [
        "And simply waiting will have no effect.",
        "而消极等待不会有任何效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the oil industry has often been able to drill on federal land and offshore without paying the full market rate for the leases.",
        "类似地，石油业常常能够在联邦土地或离岸进行钻井活动而不必支付足额市场租金。"
    ],
    [
        "Another major risk of interest-rate liberalization in China stems from rising public debt, particularly local-government debt, which has grown significantly in the wake of the global financial crisis.",
        "中国利率市场化的另一个主要风险在于公共债务不断上升，特别是全球金融危机爆发以来不断攀升的地方政府债务。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, his outlook has been heavily influenced by the writings of Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian theoretician of the Muslim Brotherhood.",
        "尤为重要的是他的观点深受穆斯林兄弟会埃及理论家赛义德·库特卜著作的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The data are analyzed by obstetricians and gynecologists elsewhere, allowing women at high risk of illness to be identified and treated early.",
        "这些数据由其他地区的妇科和产科医生分析，使高患病风险的妇女及早获得诊断和治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "Rich countries could justify the expense in terms of the savings that would result from early detection of a major threat.",
        "富国在这些方面投资的回报体现在及早发现重大威胁所能带来的利益上。"
    ],
    [
        "This provides a rare opportunity to boost economic growth, save and improve lives, and help families, communities, and countries move from poverty to prosperity.",
        "这是提振经济增长、拯救和改善生命以及帮助家庭、社区和国家从贫困走向繁荣的的宝贵良机。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever government emerges in Germany in the weeks ahead, its leaders will need to devote more effort to explaining their policy choices to citizens and international partners alike.",
        "不管几周后德国出现一个什么政府，其领导人都需要花更大的力气向公民和国际伙伴解释政策选择。"
    ],
    [
        "But the move is not a game changer; it only buys time for policymakers to implement the tough measures needed to resolve the crisis.",
        "但这一动作并不能扭转局势； 而只能为决策者赢得一些时间来实施解决危机所必须实施的痛苦措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Their electoral platform – which also promotes a sense of generational change – is centered on their rejection of illegality and corruption, two issues that galvanize broad popular support.",
        "他们的竞选纲领宣扬世代更替，重点打击非法行为和腐败现象，上述两个主张为他们赢得了广泛的群众支持。"
    ],
    [
        "But the human population has almost doubled since 1970, while the global economy has grown even faster.",
        "但自1970年以来，人口数量已接近翻番，而全球经济增长速度更加迅速。"
    ],
    [
        "If Trumponomics is to deliver on its promise, key countries – in particular, Germany (the largest and most influential European economy) and China and Japan (the world’s second- and third-largest economies, respectively) – must promote their own pro-growth policy adjustments.",
        "如果特朗普经济学旨在兑现承诺，那么关键国家——特别是德国（欧洲最大、最有影响力的经济体）以及中国和日本（分别是世界第二大和第三大经济体）——就必须推进自身的促增长政策调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Delivering change will take political will and require joint efforts by governments, businesses, and civil society.",
        "带来变化需要政治意愿，也需要政府、企业和公民社会的共同努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, “Taliban” means “students.”",
        "其实“塔利班”就是“学生”的意思。"
    ],
    [
        "The last Quadrennial Defense Review was published a few weeks after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.",
        "上一次四年一度的评估在2001年9月11日恐怖袭击以后的数周发布。"
    ],
    [
        "As someone who was deeply involved in the British government’s “northern powerhouse” project, I take the Swiss example to heart.",
        "作为英国政府“北部强势经济带”项目的深度参与者，我真心将瑞士视为榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is true that China’s growth rate has slowed substantially, and there are plenty of reasons to believe that the deceleration is not temporary.",
        "当然，中国的增长速度已经显著放缓是事实，并有充足的理由相信，这种减速并非是暂时的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is as if an untrained couch potato ran an 800-meter race with the world record-holder.",
        "其情景就好像是让没有受过训练的懒人与世界纪录保持者同台竞技八百米。"
    ],
    [
        "The US basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalization.",
        "撰写全球化规则和创建全球化机构都是美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "We have our work cut out for us.",
        "我们面临的任务十分艰巨。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, the HFEA appears to be attempting to preempt the government by softening its regulatory touch.",
        "而HFEA则似乎已先于政府放松了自己的监管力度。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the trials and tribulations of the American economy, dollar securities remain the dominant form of reserves because of the unparalleled depth and liquidity of US markets.",
        "虽然美国经济面临种种困难，美元以其不可比拟的深度及美国市场良好的流动性一直把持着各国外汇储备的比重。"
    ],
    [
        "The archaeology of early modern and Neanderthal populations suggests that we are not the chosen people who received from God the light, the divine mandate to go forth, multiply, and eliminate their subhuman neighbors.",
        "对于早期的现代人和穴居人的考古发现说明我们并不是唯一受上帝青睐，沐浴智慧之光，奉圣谕进化、繁衍并淘汰了类人邻居的那一群人。"
    ],
    [
        "But both Sadat and Begin became respected worldwide for taking risks for peace and won a joint Nobel Peace prize.",
        "但萨达特和贝京同样由于敢为和平承担风险而受到全世界的尊敬，并共同获得诺贝尔和平奖。"
    ],
    [
        "It should also reduce the high levels of exchange-rate volatility – “a tax on international specialization,” as the economist Charles Kindleberger once put it – that we have seen in recent years, including among major currencies.",
        "改革还应该降低近几年来出现的剧烈的汇率波动水平——经济学家金德尔伯格（Charles Kindleberger）称之为“国际专业化税”——包括主要货币对在内。"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, he would have many new questions – including about our increasingly psychological approach to philosophical discussion.",
        "在我看来，他会有许多新问题——包括我们在哲学讨论中日益增加的心理方法。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the strategy that most EU countries, Germany in particular, have chosen. It results in mass unemployment that is inefficient and financially unsustainable.",
        "大多数欧盟国家特别是德国采用了这一战略，结果造成大量失业，因而没有效率而且在财政上也难以为继。"
    ],
    [
        "While the cost estimates are necessarily provisional, especially in this era of disruptive technological change, the new study suggests that proper data systems for the SDGs will require at least $1 billion per year to cover all of the 77 lower-income countries.",
        "尽管成本估计只能是临时性的，特别是在这个破坏性技术变革时代，但新研究表明，为SDG建立合适数据系统每年至少需要10亿美元以覆盖所有77个较低收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In Pakistan, for example, there are sectarian killings almost daily; in Malaysia, the tiny Shia population is viewed as an existential threat; and incendiary language dominates discourse about rival sects in Wahhabi circles in Saudi Arabia and far beyond.",
        "在马来西亚，为数很少的什叶派被视为生存威胁； 而在沙特阿拉伯和其他许多国家，瓦哈比派在讨论敌对派别时动辄扬言烧杀抢掠。"
    ],
    [
        "Like airplanes, nuclear reactors are conceived and constructed to mind-boggling standards.",
        "与飞机的情况相同，核反应堆的设计和建设需要满足足以令你感到头大的各种标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Those changes can be highly positive.",
        "上述改变可能会产生显著的积极作用。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is a growing reality for millions of other vulnerable people worldwide.",
        "对于世界上其他数百万脆弱人民来说，气候变化的灾难也在日益成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "And, when fully implemented (in 2027), it will increase taxes on a majority of Americans in the middle (the second, third, and fourth quintiles).",
        "而在其2027年全面实施时，它将增加大多数中间阶层美国人（位于收入分布中段的那60%）的缴税额。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States may play an unexpected role in this drama.",
        "在这场大戏中，美国可能会扮演出乎意料的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "What countries must do to join the World Trade Organization is precisely what they must do to become productive and democratic: accept the rule of law, reduce corruption, and become open, accountable, and transparent.",
        "各国为加入世贸组织所必须做的正是他们要成为生产性的民主国家所必须做的：接受法治，减少腐败，成为开放、负责且具有透明度的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The exclusion from organic agriculture of organisms simply because they were crafted with modern, superior techniques makes no sense.",
        "仅仅因为它们经过现代高科技处理而将生物体排除在有机农业之外毫无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "Every year, more than a million foreign tourists visit the country.",
        "每年都有超过一百万外国游客来到纳米比亚。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet that could very well happen.",
        "不过这种情况随时可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, the international community must move decisively from pledges to action in the effort to reduce poverty.",
        "今年，国际社会必须切实将承诺落实为行动来减少贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, these soldiers are also serving as important ambassadors in the region.",
        "从这个意义上讲，这些士兵同样在亚太地区起到了重要的使者作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Where is the concern about the millions who are becoming physically dependent on antidepressants?",
        "对几百万人变得在身体上依赖抗抑郁剂的担心在哪里？"
    ],
    [
        "The tension on the peninsula increased further with the annual joint military exercises conducted by the US and South Korea – especially when American nuclear-capable B-52 and B-2 bombers were added to the drills.",
        "一年一度的美韩联合军演进一步恶化了半岛紧张局势，美国能发射核武器的B-52和B-2轰炸机参与演习则更是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "To complete the process of democratic transformation, Ukraine needs a declaration by Europe affirming Ukraine's European and Euro-Atlantic prospects.",
        "乌克兰需要欧洲出面认可其欧洲和欧洲¾大西洋国家的地位，才能完成民主改革的进程。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in international relations, collective misperceptions can create their own reality.",
        "但是，在国际关系中，集体误判可以制造其本身的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be more conducive to peace than trying to impose on them a hated occupation or an equally hated Shia hegemony.",
        "这可能比试图强加给他们一种天怒人怨的占领和同样招致憎恨的什叶派霸权更能带来和平。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the current Bosnia-Herzegovina is an example of another failed attempt to keep a decrepit multi-ethnic entity alive: it doesn’t work, and the country is held together only by the almost dictatorial power of the international community’s High Representative and the presence of foreign troops.",
        "相形之下，目前的波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维纳就是让一个衰老的多民族实体苟延残喘的失败例证：这是行不通的。 这个国家避免分裂完全是靠国际社会的“高级代表”近乎独裁的权力和外国军队的坐镇。"
    ],
    [
        "Succumbing to the temptation to consolidate power in the hands of the president, ostensibly to protect his government’s authority, could limit checks and balances and restrict space for political opposition, including within his own party.",
        "屈服于巩固总统手中权力的诱惑表面上看是在保护政府权威，但实际却有可能限制制约力量和政治反对派（包括总统自身所在政党）。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, these companies invented mail order as the “killer app” of the railroad age, creating a continental market for consumer goods, with all of the economies of scale that followed.",
        "而正是这些公司一起发明了邮购——它成为了铁路时代的“杀手级应用”，为日常消费品创造了一个横跨整个大陆的市场，其他所有的规模范畴也随之兴起。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumption-tax hikes will be borne by consumers; the TPP will create new challenges for farmers; and deregulation will run counter to some bureaucrats’ interests.",
        "消费税提高的负担将由消费者承担； 跨太平洋合作伙伴将给农民带来新挑战；"
    ],
    [
        "New research shows that vaccines improve cognitive development in children, raise labor productivity, and contribute to a country’s overall economic growth.",
        "新研究表明，疫苗能改善孩子的认知发展，提高劳动力生产率，有助于一国的总体经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Then again, many apparently sophisticated analysts may simply be in a state of psychological denial.",
        "而许多显然是非常老练的分析家可能再次完全陷入了一种心理否认的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – As the world’s financial leaders gather in Washington, DC, for the annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund, their hopes – and fears – center on China.",
        "新德里—全世界金融领导人正准备齐聚华盛顿参加国际货币基金组织（IMF）春季年会，他们的希望——以及恐惧——都集中在中国身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Other Arab societies now must undertake similar dialogues, with the ultimate goal of creating economies and institutions that meet their people’s needs.",
        "其他阿拉伯社会现在也必须进行同样的对话，最终目的是建设能满足民众需求的经济和制度体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Some social scientists assert that poverty is not just a matter of poor nutrition, lack of medical care, and inadequate shelter; it also means exclusion from global networks of trade, science and commerce.",
        "一些社会科学家主张，贫困不仅仅意味着营养不良、缺医少药、家徒四壁； 也意味着被排斥在全球贸易、科学和商业网络之外。"
    ],
    [
        "Unsure of the right approach, they wavered somewhere between moderation and left-wing nonsense.",
        "因为拿不准正确道路，他们在中庸和左翼胡言乱语间来回摇摆。"
    ],
    [
        "The job was done with all the care and precision of a grand hotel: boxed corners and neatly turned-down cover.",
        "她的工作的仔细和精确与大饭店相比毫不逊色——铺盖整洁，有棱有角。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, whether it is in 2030 or at the end of this century, the robots will truly have taken over, and AI will consign war, poverty, disease, and even death to the past.",
        "到了这一步——不管是2030年还是本世纪末——机器人将真正接管，而AI将把战争、贫困、疾病甚至死亡抛入历史的垃圾堆。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, in 2015 – a watershed year for global commitments – world leaders established conservation and restoration of the world’s oceans as a key component of the new United Nations development agenda, underpinned by 17 so-called Sustainable Development Goals.",
        "幸运的是，在2015年 ——一个全球承诺的分水岭 ——全球领袖们将全球海洋的保护和恢复设为新联合国发展议程的一个重要组成部分，并以17项所谓可持续发展目标为其构筑了基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But not all countries are so fortunate to have a large arsenal.",
        "但是并非所有国家都是如此殷实。"
    ],
    [
        "These trends are exacerbating income inequality.",
        "这些趋势正在恶化收入不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "These assumptions took a hard hit in the crisis, causing an abrupt shift to far more intrusive regulation.",
        "这些假设在经济危机中遭受了致命打击，导致突然转向更具干预性的监管。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel still refuses to accept the new Palestinian national unity government as a negotiating partner because Hamas is part of that government.",
        "以色列依然拒绝接受新的巴勒斯坦民族团结政府作为谈判对手，因为哈马斯是那个政府的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "From the extreme right, National Front leader Marine Le Pen chides Merkel for the “suffering” that she is imposing on the peoples of Europe.",
        "极右翼的国民阵线领导人勒庞谴责默克尔带给欧洲人民的“痛苦”。"
    ],
    [
        "China has undertaken a 6%-of-GDP stimulus package aimed (mostly) at infrastructure; the United States has enacted a two-year $800 billion spending and tax rebate package.",
        "中国承诺将国内生产总值的6%做为经济刺激并（主要）用于基础设施的建设； 美国则颁布了一个两年计划：共投入8000亿美元的公共开销与退税措施。"
    ],
    [
        "In October, hundreds of millions of people all over the world learned about a one-year-old boy from Malawi called David.",
        "10月份，全世界几十亿人都知道了马拉维的一岁男孩戴维。"
    ],
    [
        "It has to do with the deep admiration of markets that has developed during the boom, in line with the “efficient markets theory” in academic finance.",
        "当前的危机和对繁荣时期发展起来的市场的高度崇拜有关，这与理论金融学中的“有效市场理论”是一致的。"
    ],
    [
        "And there were complaints about urban pollution and inhumane factory conditions in what William Blake called Britain’s “dark Satanic mills.”",
        "此外还有关于城市污染和不人道的工厂环境的抱怨，威廉·布莱克（William Blake）称之为“黑暗作坊”。"
    ],
    [
        "And a large corporation may be more patient than angel and venture capitalists – and thus more willing to take risks and bet on longer-term projects, as AT&T did.",
        "而大型企业可能比天使和风险投资资本更有耐心——而且像美国电话电报公司那样更愿意冒险押注于更长期的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Small neighbors without options will suffer, but Europe may not.",
        "没有选择的弱小邻国会遭殃，但是欧洲并不会这样。"
    ],
    [
        "And Spain’s recent general election, held three days after the Brexit referendum, suggests that, despite high unemployment, austerity, and painful structural reforms, moderate, pro-European forces remain a majority.",
        "和西班牙最近的大选中——就在英国脱欧公投三天后举行——也表明即便遭遇失业率高企，财政紧缩和痛苦的结构改革，温和派亲欧洲势力依然占多数。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Japan has attempted to atone for its past actions, including by offering enthusiastic support to Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to open up the Chinese economy.",
        "事实上，日本尝试了为过去的行为赎罪，包括对邓小平经济开放政策提供热情的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Are investors too complacent, or is their apparent lack of concern rational, given that the actual economic and financial impact of current geopolitical risks – at least so far – has been modest?",
        "是投资者过于自满了吗？ 或者，考虑到当前地缘政治风险至少到目前为止实际经济和金融影响颇为有限，投资者显而易见的莫不关系是理性的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But, unlike most of the reams of macroeconomic information with which we are bombarded every day, central bankers’ speeches and opinions have relatively foreseeable effects, especially when the bank’s chair, president, or governor speaks, or other officials speak in concert.",
        "但于每天轰炸我们的大多数海量宏观经济信息不同的是，中央银行家的言论和观点拥有相对可预测的效应，尤其是当这些银行的主席，总裁，行长发话，或者其他官员一致表态的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The world market is being re-divided – peacefully, because territories and markets are separated, so that no power occupies another power’s territory.",
        "世界市场也正被和平地重新划分，之所以说是“和平”，则是因为一个国家的领土在全球化之下早已和它的市场分离，再没有任何一方需要为打入另一方的市场而占领别国的领土了。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have even lost their jobs.",
        "有些人甚至因此失业。"
    ],
    [
        "That was then, this is now.",
        "那是过去的事情了，下面要说的是现在。"
    ],
    [
        "An adjustment program succeeds or fails at home, not in Brussels or Washington.",
        "调整计划成功与否体现在采取调整的国家，而不是体现在布鲁塞尔或华盛顿。"
    ],
    [
        "But that responsibility also requires being thoughtful individuals who can see the bigger picture.",
        "但这一责任还需要能大处着眼的有思想深度的个体。"
    ],
    [
        "Short-term interest rates are astonishingly low: only 2% in the euro zone, just 1% in the US, and zero in Japan.",
        "短期的利率低得惊人：在欧元区只有2%。 在美国是1%，而日本是0。"
    ],
    [
        "In the field of human origins, it is well-known that a human DNA sequence is nearly 99% identical to the corresponding part of a chimpanzee’s DNA.",
        "在人类起源领域，人们都知道人类的DNA序列近99%都与黑猩猩完全相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Runaway population growth becomes controllable when women have access to literacy and business opportunities as well as to contraception.",
        "原本失控的人口增长率在妇女得到受教育权和经商权，以及学会避孕之后也变得有章法了。"
    ],
    [
        "Other applications are in development.",
        "其他运用正在开发中。"
    ],
    [
        "This has created a degree of dependency that should be redressed, if only to relieve the Americans of their burden and give Europe the political influence to match its economic clout.",
        "这就导致了一定程度的依赖，哪怕仅仅为了减轻美国人的负担、赋予欧洲与其经济地位相称的政治影响力这个问题也必须得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe’s predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, was a mold-breaking leader, reviving Japan’s economy, reforming the postal savings system, and smashing the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s faction system.",
        "安倍的前任小泉纯一郎是一个打破传统框架束缚的领导人。 他振兴了日本的经济，改革了邮政储蓄系统，并且打破了长期执政的自民党的派系体系。"
    ],
    [
        "But any violation could put a company’s entire operation and investment at risk.",
        "但任何违规行为都可能导致公司全部经营和投资面临风险。"
    ],
    [
        "As someone who believes that China’s rise should be good for the world, I hope that Deng’s wise advice will be heeded by those Chinese officials who seem to think that this is a good moment to start stamping their feet.",
        "而我作为一个觉得中国崛起将对世界有利的人，则希望那些以为目前正是时候大展拳脚的中国官员们，能听一下邓小平的箴言。"
    ],
    [
        "Her first stint as prime minister (1988-90) was brief and disorganized.",
        "她作为首相的第一个任期(1988-90)是短暂而混乱的。"
    ],
    [
        "When business investment committees become more cautious, we expect to see the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and others lower interest rates to make the numbers more attractive.",
        "如果企业投资委员会变得更为谨慎，那么我们希望美联储、欧洲央行、英格兰银行和其它银行会降低利率，增大贷款的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "And, given Japan’s high level of public indebtedness, the risks of collateral damage and unintended consequences are potentially higher.",
        "而且考虑到日本公共负债的高水平，其遭受附带损害和意外后果的风险可能更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, political gridlock over fiscal adjustment is likely to persist, regardless of whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins November’s presidential election.",
        "此外，不管是奥巴马还是罗姆尼赢得11月总统大选，关于财政调整的政治僵局都可能会持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial institutions need to enhance pre-lending screening and post-borrowing monitoring.",
        "金融机构需要加强贷款前检查和借款后监测。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who want the EU to survive should resist the temptation to assert more control.",
        "谁想要欧盟的存续下去的人应当抵制夺取更多控制权的诱惑。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then will the world have a fighting chance to keep the global temperature rise in this century under two degrees, build resilience against a changed climate, and truly transform the energy structures of the past – and thus the development prospects for six billion people in the future.",
        "只有这样世界才有机会将本世纪全球升温控制在两度以下，形成针对气候变化的抗灾能力，并真正改变过去的能源结构，从而确保全球六十亿人口未来的发展前途。"
    ],
    [
        "Collective bargaining, once left to economic actors, is becoming increasingly politicized.",
        "集体谈判一旦任由经济参与者摆布，就开始变得越来越政治化。"
    ],
    [
        "That was last year.",
        "但这都是去年的陈年旧事了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, if British Prime Minister Theresa May follows through on her stated goal of reducing annual net immigration to less than 100,000, the UK would have to implement drastic – potentially costly – measures to close off the UK labor market.",
        "此外，如果英国首相特蕾莎·梅（Theresa May）维持其原定每年净移民减少到10万以下的目标，英国将不得不采取大规模——也可能耗资巨大——的措施去关闭英国劳动力市场。"
    ],
    [
        "They have already been sharply criticized by Democrats as being too risky and pro-bank – which they largely are. That said, one of Hensarling’s ideas is well worth exploring: an “off-ramp,” as he put it, from Dodd-Frank regulation for banks that willingly increase their available capital.",
        "即便如此，亨萨林的其中一项理念是非常值得探讨的：那些愿意增加自身可用资本金的银行是否可以摆脱多德-弗兰克法案的监管，照他的话说，与其大家都挤在一条路上，为何不能安排一条“匝道”让一些人能选择另一条路线？"
    ],
    [
        "I felt as if I could perhaps fall into a relationship with him that might work against the interests of the locals in Namibia.",
        "我觉得兴许我和他可以建立一种关系，与纳米比亚当地人对着干。"
    ],
    [
        "Groups like is Argentina’s Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and the Mothers of Srebrenica have always bravely led the way; they will, no doubt, continue to do so.",
        "阿根廷的“五月广场母亲”（Mothers of Plaza de Mayo）和“斯雷布雷尼察母亲”（Mothers of Srebrenica）等组织一直在勇敢地充当开路先锋； 毫无疑问，它们会继续这样做下去。"
    ],
    [
        "The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) limits the right to possess nuclear weapons to the Security Council’s five permanent members, and then only temporarily.",
        "核不扩散条约（NPT）限定拥有核武器的权利仅限于安理会五大常任理事国，而且只能暂时拥有。"
    ],
    [
        "They now know better, and Ferguson should now know better as well.",
        "现在，他们已经有了更好的了解，弗格森现在也应该有了更好的了解。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Europeans have contributed to this dynamic: witness their own haste in exiting the NATO mission in Afghanistan.",
        "可以肯定，欧洲人同样起了推波助澜的作用：迫不及待地退出阿富汗北约行动就是证明。"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, Americans view immigrants as being welcome to combine their culture of origin with their new American-ness, while immigrants see no conflict between their ethnicity and religion and their embrace of America.",
        "在广义而言，美国人对移民的看法就是欢迎他们把原始国家的文化同美国化结合起来，而移民本身并不认为自己的种族和宗教与接纳美国观点有什么矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also faces acute social and public-health problems and has 1.3 billion Chinese on its eastern border, and it has important common interests with Europe, including trade in gas and oil and a shared preoccupation with Islamic extremism.",
        "但这个国家其实也正面对着一些严峻的社会和公众健康问题，还有 13 亿中国人在东边虎视眈眈，此外俄罗斯人其实也和欧洲有着共同的利益，比如天然气和石油贸易，还有迫在眉睫的伊斯兰极端主义威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006 alone, China added about 93,000 megawatts of coal- fired electricity generating capacity, and this trend is expected to continue as the country tries to meet its huge energy needs.",
        "仅仅在2006年，中国增加了大约93000百万瓦特的煤炭发电产量，而且这一趋势预计将会随着中国努力满足其巨大的能源需求而继续。"
    ],
    [
        "The IPCC’s fifth report, the product of several years of work by hundreds of climate scientists around the world, reviews our established understanding of climate change and explains more recent findings.",
        "这份IPCC的第五份报告由全世界数百位气候学家耗时数年完成，它检视了我们已有的对气候变化的理解，并解释了更晚近的发现。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, China’s recent embrace of sustainable development, which will serve the planet’s long-term interests, is driven by the domestic challenges posed by air, water, and land pollution.",
        "比如，中国最近提出要可持续发展，这符合地球的长期利益，推动它这样做的是空气、水和土地污染所造成的国内挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "What Europe needs, instead, is a reform strategy that increases competitiveness and reduces barriers to competition.",
        "相反欧洲需要的是一个改革战略以提高竞争力并减少竞争壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "Batten down the hatches.",
        "我们还是未雨绸缪为妙。"
    ],
    [
        "Under these circumstances, inflation expectations are not a cause for concern.",
        "在这种情况下，通胀预期就不是一个大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, for example, complained that the institution was operating at the bounds of legality.",
        "此举看上去似乎明显违反了欧洲央行相关法律第21条，该条规定禁止给政府或欧盟机构提供信贷便利。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a vague warning against diabetes is a lot easier to ignore than the fact that your risk of diabetes is 22% (as mine is, slightly above normal), but that you can lower it substantially (as I have) by eating right, exercising, and so forth.",
        "比如说，人们经常会忽略一些关于糖尿病的笼统警告，但当你发现自己的糖尿病风险是22%时（跟我一样，稍高于正常值），就会留下深刻印象并像我那样通过控制饮食，运动等行为来降低这个比率。"
    ],
    [
        "UKIP is popular in some parts of England where immigrants are rarely seen.",
        "英国独立党受欢迎的某些区域移民非常罕见。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, governments and global health agencies should apply lessons learned from the successful fight against infectious diseases.",
        "在这方面，政府和全球卫生机构应该应用从成功打击传染病中获得的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent report sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, we highlight the contrast between rising rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other NCDs in developing countries and the success of international efforts on HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases.",
        "在由外交关系委员会资助的一份近期报告中，我们重点强调心脏病、癌症、糖尿病和其他非传染性疾病在发展中国家不断上升和国际抗击艾滋病毒/艾滋病及其他传染性疾病所取得重大成就间的对比。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, at the onset of the crisis, then-IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was a leading candidate to become President of France.",
        "首先，危机爆发时，时任IMF总裁斯特劳斯-卡恩（Dominique Strauss-Kahn）在法国总统选举中领先。"
    ],
    [
        "Anat Admati of Stanford would like capital ratios well above 20%.",
        "斯坦福大学教授阿纳特·阿德玛蒂（Anat Admati）希望资本比率远高于20％。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, however, the CMI has been all horse and no saddle. Its credits and swaps have never been activated.",
        "然而，迄今为止，CMI是有马无鞍——在其框架下承诺的信贷和货币互换还从来没有投入过实际应用。"
    ],
    [
        "Hardly a day goes by when we don’t read something in the local press that refers to our status as Asia’s world city.",
        "几乎每天我们都可以在地方报纸上读到有关香港作为亚洲国际都会方面的报道。"
    ],
    [
        "The slow buy-in so far of Arab states to Obama’s campaign attests to the nervousness that many of them feel on all of these grounds.",
        "阿拉伯国家对于奥巴马的决定迟迟不予响应证明其中不少国家顾虑这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "First, major advances in our knowledge of genomics – specifically, the way diseases manifest and develop in the body at the genetic level – are improving our ability to target illness at each stage and improve the patient experience.",
        "首先，基因组知识的重大进步——具体而言，即疾病在基因层面上的表征和体内发展情况——改善了我们在各个阶段定位疾病的能力，也改善了患者体验。"
    ],
    [
        "This process of labor substitution and disintermediation has been underway for some time in service sectors – think of ATMs, online banking, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, mobile payment systems, and much more.",
        "这一劳动力替代和脱媒过程在服务部门已经开始了一段时间——如ATM机、在线银行、企业资源规划、客户关系管理、移动支付系统，等等。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a WHO review committee recommended just such a fund, amounting to at least $100 million, in 2011.",
        "事实上，世卫组织评审委员会曾于2011年提议设立这样的基金，当时的建议额度至少在1亿美元以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, we can safeguard the curative powers of our medicines.",
        "只要齐心协力，我们能够捍卫我们的药品的疗效。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent inflation in many countries has been the result of higher commodity prices, especially fuel and food prices.",
        "目前，不少国家的通胀是由商品价格，特别是燃料和食品价格的大涨引起的。"
    ],
    [
        "This will render meaningless EU-wide debt-management agreements, including the Stability and Growth Pact, which limits the overall deficit to 3% of GDP, and the 2012 “fiscal compact,” which stipulates that countries whose debt-to-GDP ratios exceed the 60% limit should reduce them by one-twentieth annually until they are in compliance.",
        "这会导致欧盟范围内债务管理协议形同虚设，包括将总体赤字限制在GDP3％的稳定与增长公约，以及2012年 “财政契约”，该契约规定债务占GDP比率超过60%的国家在完全符合契约规定前必须每年削减二十分之一的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a grim paradox at work here.",
        "这里面存在着一个深刻的悖论。"
    ],
    [
        "But, starting in 2010, the imbalances returned, and, according to the International Monetary Fund’s recently released World Economic Outlook, they will not shrink between now and 2016.",
        "但在2010年麻烦又卷土重来，国际货币基金组织最近发布的《世界经济展望》报告更指出这一状况直到2016年前都无法消除。"
    ],
    [
        "Do people think it is easy for a 12-trillion-dollar economy to spend beyond its means year after year just to prop up other countries’ reputations for stability?",
        "让一个有着12万亿美元经济总量的国家仅仅为了支撑其他国家经济稳定的声誉而年复一年，不记后果地支出，是件容易的事吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Liquidity in banking systems is ample, and borrowing costs have declined, even turning negative for some governments.",
        "银行系统流动性充足，借贷成本有所下降，一些政府的借贷成本甚至成为负数。"
    ],
    [
        "The hotels and restaurants were so poorly run that it seemed shocking that the military could be run competently enough to pose a genuine threat to the Soviet Union’s adversaries.",
        "从饭店和餐馆经营不善的情况看，难以置信苏联的军事能够给敌人造成真正的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "This may serve Germany’s narrow self-interest, but it will create a very different Europe from the open society that fired people’s imagination and propelled European integration for decades.",
        "这也许符合德国的狭隘私利，但会让欧洲远离启发人民想象力、促进欧洲一体化数十年的开放社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Making Asia’s service sector more dynamic is essential to future growth.",
        "让亚洲服务业更有活力是未来经济发展的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "One is the great increase in energy demand from the rapidly growing economies of Asia, particularly China.",
        "其中一个就是亚洲快速增长经济体，特别是中国的能源需求大幅增加。"
    ],
    [
        "In Spain, the proportion has soared to 42% in 2002, from just 7% in 1995 – and it has no doubt risen again since then.",
        "在西班牙，这一比例从1995年的仅7%攀升到2002年的42%--而自那以后肯定还在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Tensions among member states have reached a breaking point, not only over refugees, but also as a result of exceptional strains between creditor and debtor countries within the eurozone.",
        "成员国之间的紧张状况已经达到了一个极限，不仅是因为难民问题，也是因为欧元区内部债权国和债务国之间的极端对立。"
    ],
    [
        "For a country with large foreign debts, the opposite is true.",
        "对于一个存在大量外国债务的国家来说，情况正好相反。"
    ],
    [
        "One day after Nicolae Ceausescu’s execution, most of these people suddenly became fierce anticommunists and victims of the system they had served for decades.",
        "在处决了齐奥塞斯库后，这些人中的大部分突然变成了激烈的反共产主义者以及他们曾服务了几十年的那个体制的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "By discontinuing some or all of these subsidies – which, of course, do not include expenditures in areas like health, education, nutrition, rural and urban development programs, and environmental protection – the government could secure the funds to offer everyone, rich and poor, a reasonable basic income.",
        "只要取消一些或全部这些补贴——当然，卫生、教育、营养、农村和城市发展计划以及环境保护支出除外——政府就可以确保向所有人——无论穷富——发放合理的基本收入的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not to say that Le Pen’s claim – that those who vote for her party are the only true patriots – should be casually dismissed.",
        "这并不是说勒庞的观点——投票支持她的政党的选民才是真正的爱国者——一无是处。"
    ],
    [
        "They are not extreme: a guarantee that non-eurozone members gain full access to the single market; less red tape at the EU level; a British exemption from “ever-closer union.”",
        "改革要求并不极端：保证非欧元区成员国自由进入单一市场； 减少欧盟层面的繁文缛节；"
    ],
    [
        "Governments will suffer, too, as their foreign debt – boosted by fiscal and monetary expansion that yielded little growth – becomes much more burdensome, while the export stimulus from lower exchange rates will be small, owing to the absence of new capacity outside the commodity sectors.",
        "政府也会遭遇损失，它们的外债——因几乎没有刺激增长的财政和货币扩张而大幅增加——负担越来越重，而降低汇率对贸易的刺激作用将十分有限，因为除了大宗商品部门之外它们没有新的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s Other Deficit",
        "希腊的其他赤字"
    ],
    [
        "Whether the eurozone will survive in the meantime will be determined by the European Council’s capacity to establish intermediate arrangements that can halt the crisis and restore trust among its members.",
        "在此过程中欧元区是否能继续存在将取决于欧盟理事会能否建立中间制度，制止危机进一步发展并恢复各成员国的信任能力。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the international community should offer emergency funding to help provide deposit insurance for the banking system, thereby re-establishing a modicum of confidence in financial institutions.",
        "此外，国际社会应该提供救急资金，帮助为银行系统提供存款保险，使人们重新树立对金融机构的哪怕是一点点信心。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the $2 billion oil pipeline that China is seeking to build from Burma’s southern coast to China’s Yunnan province will allow China to get Middle East oil to its southern provinces more easily and securely.",
        "同时，中国正力图投资20亿美金修建从缅甸南部海岸到中国云南省的输油管道，这将会使中国更方便和安全地将中东原油输送到南方各省。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Moldovan emigrants work in the EU, and almost 75% of Moldova’s population support EU membership.",
        "绝大多数摩尔多瓦移民在欧盟工作，且摩尔多瓦总人口的约75%支持加入欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "However, many questions about the vaccine’s deployment – and its integration into the health systems of some of the world’s poorest countries – remain to be answered.",
        "但疫苗实际应用——及融入世界某些最贫困国家卫生系统方面仍有很多问题需要解答。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet many differences still separate societies within the EU. There are divergent views on many vital global problems.",
        "然而，许多分歧仍然在割裂着欧盟内部的各个社会，而在许多关键的全球性问题上也依然存在着不同的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "On a hot day in New York, locals sprawl out on the grass fields of Central Park, not on asphalt parking lots or concrete sidewalks.",
        "在纽约的一个大热天里，当地人躺在中央公园的绿地上，而不是沥青地面的停车场或混凝土路面的人行道上。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s investment in US government securities and other sovereign debt will continue to yield extremely low returns.",
        "中国对美国政府债券以及其他主权债券的投资将继续收获极低的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Any semblance of fiscal prudence would go out the window, with cuts in health, welfare, and education spending being reversed.",
        "任何形式的财政审慎都会被彻底抛弃，并且逆转削减医疗、福利和教育支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Annual GDP growth was close to 5%, just behind China and India.",
        "年GDP增长率接近5%，只有中国和印度能超过这里。"
    ],
    [
        "Self-criticism, even more than innovation, is a defining characteristic of the West.",
        "自我批评与创新相比更加能够确定西方的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "The prospect that such policies will be able to keep the economic engines humming, even at low levels, looks increasingly dim.",
        "这类政策能够维持经济引擎轰鸣——哪怕是以低转速轰鸣——的前景日益渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "Each case is, of course, utterly different, but all have something in common: America has not been on the front line of intervention.",
        "当然，这三件事本身大相径庭，但它们有一个共同点：美国不再站在敢于最前沿。"
    ],
    [
        "These frightening numbers raise doubts about the stability of the West’s financial system, and they dwarf all measures, such as “bad banks” and government guarantees, that attempt to solve a mere liquidity crisis.",
        "这些惊人的数字引发了人们对西方金融系统稳定性的普遍忧虑。 这几乎抵消了之前我们所作出的一切努力，例如包括建立“坏帐银行”和用政府的信用担保来解决信贷市场的问题等。"
    ],
    [
        "The group’s initiative, led by Räsänen, is called eCars - Now!",
        "一项命名为“eCars - Now! ”的项目已经启动。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, the loss of a two-state perspective would be a recipe for further indignities and deepening misery.",
        "在这样的情况下，分别建国的希望日益渺茫只能让巴勒斯坦民众进一步丧失尊严，并进一步加深他们的痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Local systems in one building could be connected to local low-voltage DC or 230V AC grids to improve the security of supply.",
        "建筑供电系统可以和当地低压直流或230V交流电网相连，以此来改善供电的安全性。"
    ],
    [
        "But a clearinghouse is no panacea, and its limits, although easy to miss, are far-reaching.",
        "但清算所并非万能灵药，它的局限性影响十分深远的——虽然人们经常忽略这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world’s swing producer, with boundless reserves of cheaply extractable oil, Saudi Arabia can flood or throttle the market at will.",
        "作为世界影响力最大的生产国，拥有可以廉价开采的无限石油储备的沙特可以随意淹没或挤压石油市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way to restore growth without compromising the future is through pension reform that reduces future outlays from the state-run system.",
        "而恢复经济发展，又不对未来造成影响的唯一方法就是进行养老金改革削减国有体系的未来费用。"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities also need to strengthen regulatory capacity to ensure the safety of food, buildings, medicines and much else.",
        "当局还需要加强在食品，建筑，医药和其他许多方面的安全监管能力。"
    ],
    [
        "In that tradition, the economist Milton Friedman wrote, in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom : “there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”",
        "在传统上，经济学家米尔顿·弗里德曼在他1962年的著作《资本主义与自由》中写道：“对于企业来说有且只有一个社会责任——那就是在遵守游戏规则的情况下尽量利用资源并进行营利活动，而所谓游戏规则，指的就是除欺诈和作伪行为之外的开放、自由竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "This era was ended in 1996, when the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.",
        "而这个时代终于在1996年联合国大会通过《全面禁止核试验条约》后走到了尽头。"
    ],
    [
        "No one said that Iran was the democratic model that China’s Communist bureaucracy had in mind, with the Chinese government authorized to exercise an effective veto over candidates.",
        "没有人说中共官僚体系的民主榜样的伊朗，因此中国政府可以对候选人行使实际否决权。"
    ],
    [
        "Rwandan President Paul Kagame has initiated a national emergency plan to address the fundamental causes of malnutrition.",
        "卢旺达总统卡加梅（Paul Kagame）推出了一项全国紧急方案来纠正营养不良的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – In 1973, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, following a period of American preoccupation with Vietnam and China, declared a “year of Europe.”",
        "坎布里奇——1973年，美国国务卿亨利·基辛格在对越南和中国一段时间的全神贯注后，却宣布了“欧洲年”的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Poor 2012 corporate financial results will further undermine credit ratings.",
        "糟糕的2012年公司财务结果将进一步拖累信用评级。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chávez Challenge",
        "查韦斯挑战"
    ],
    [
        "Chile’s is more formal than that of its neighbors, but many people – especially women and the young – either have no job or work without a contract.",
        "智利与邻国相比经济比较正规——但很多民众——尤其是妇女和年轻人——要么没有工作，要么没有合同。"
    ],
    [
        "But the differences between Europe’s economies were never so dramatic as to form an insurmountable barrier to embarking upon the most ambitious project of all: adopting a common currency.",
        "但是，欧洲各经济体制之间的差异还没有这么剧烈以至于对启动所有计划中最为艰巨的一项——采取共同货币制——形成一个难以逾越的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "During the past century, Britain, France, the US, and Russia have all misplayed the Middle East power game.",
        "在过去的一个世纪中，英国、法国、美国和俄罗斯都在中东实力博弈中栽倒过。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, declared: “There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism.",
        "印度环境部部长拉姆·拉梅什说：“在气候科学和气候传教之间是有清晰的区别的，而我本人站在气候科学这一边。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that this task has been made slightly simpler by the publication of a book in which the Copenhagen Consensus economists boil down their insights.",
        "哥本哈根共识经济学家们将他们的高见发表在一本专著之中，人们因此希望这一任务稍许变得简单一些。"
    ],
    [
        "Having received different training and developed different mindsets, public-health officers and medical doctors (and their subordinates) often operate in silo-like environments – to the detriment of the people they serve.",
        "由于接受的培训不同，形成的心态也各异，公共卫生人员和医生（及其下属）经常在类似于筒仓的环境下工作，而这对他们所要服务的人群会有害。"
    ],
    [
        "MELBOURNE –At a time when the horrific events in Norway remind us how much murderous bigotry there still is in the world, perhaps a story from the other side of it can restore a little optimism that some positive, historically significant, changes in attitude really are occurring.",
        "发自墨尔本——当挪威惨案再次警醒我们这个世界上还存在着多少危及他人生命的偏执之时，或许在世界另一端发生的一个故事能带来些许乐观情绪，使人们意识到某些积极的，历史性的态度转变已经正在发生了。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the joint statement issued by Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev after their April 1 meeting in London, while mentioning that US-Russia relations would be “guided by the rule of law, respect for fundamental freedoms and human rights, and tolerance for different views,” placed far greater emphasis on reducing nuclear arms, addressing Iran’s nuclear program, and stabilizing Afghanistan.",
        "以此同时，在4月1日的伦敦峰会之后，奥巴马总统和俄罗斯总统德米特里·梅德韦杰夫发表发表联合声明表示，美俄的关系应该是“以法律为指导，双方在尊重基本自由和人权的前提下，可以各自保留自己的观点。 ”双方还表示，两国应该加大了对核武器的消减力度，关注伊朗的核设施，稳定阿富汗的局势。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short term, there are good reasons to believe that the most powerful among Iraq’s three main groups will do so.",
        "就短期来看，我们有理由相信伊拉克的三大主要集团中最强有力的（派系）将会这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "India is far from the only country that has been humiliated at the hands of China.",
        "印度也绝非唯一一个受到中国羞辱的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "All agree that eradication is decades away.",
        "各方都认为离彻底消灭疟疾只有几十年的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "But it will become increasingly difficult for us to maintain our “out of sight, out of mind” attitude.",
        "但要维持这种“眼不见心不烦”的态度已经越来越难了。"
    ],
    [
        "No single party can dominate Indian politics as the Congress Party has done since independence, implying a future of difficult and quarrelsome coalitions.",
        "没有哪个党能像国大党那样主宰独立后的印度政治，这意味着印度未来必须走一条艰难而充满争吵的联盟之路。"
    ],
    [
        "The age of the Renaissance man is long gone.",
        "文艺复兴时代博学之人的时代早已逝去。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, our fragile democracy risks falling victim to extremists who pose a mortal danger not just to Syria, but to the wider Middle East and the world.",
        "更糟糕的是，我们脆弱的民主制度可能成为给叙利亚、中东和全世界带来致命威胁的极端势力的牺牲品。"
    ],
    [
        "In initiatives of this sort, agreement is obtained reluctantly and pressure could provoke harsh responses.",
        "在这类动议中，在犹豫和压力下达成的协议可能刺激过度反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Leading journalists have been assaulted, the culprits never found.",
        "知名媒体工作者被袭击，被起诉后不明不白地消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction – in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.",
        "科学意味着不断在好奇心和迷信、专业知识和创造力、偏见和开放、经验和顿悟、雄心和激情、傲慢和信念——简言之在已经过去的昨天和崭新的明天之间走钢丝。"
    ],
    [
        "But the boom generated by such beliefs cannot go on forever, because prices can’t go up forever, and there are already signs of a hard landing.",
        "但这种心理所造就的繁荣不可能永远继续下去，因为价格不可能永远上涨，而且已经出现了硬着陆的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "As Sack put it: “This debt does not bind the nation; it is a debt of the regime, a personal debt contracted by the ruler, and consequently it falls with the demise of the regime.”",
        "萨克指出，“这笔债务对国家不具有约束力； 它是政权的债务，是统治者签订的个人债务，因此随着政权的倒台而消灭。"
    ],
    [
        "For Europeans, Spain now represents a different kind of fantasy than in days past.",
        "对欧洲人来说，如今的西班牙代表着一种与昔日不同的幻想。"
    ],
    [
        "Qaddafi used strong security services and paramilitary revolutionary committees to safeguard his rule, leaving state institutions dysfunctional and fragmented.",
        "卡扎菲利用强大的安全机构及准军事革命委员会来捍卫自己的统治，致使国家机构在运行不畅的同时四分五裂。"
    ],
    [
        "He could not counter the view among some of the region’s politicians that success for Syriza would embolden and strengthen other non-traditional parties around Europe.",
        "他无法反驳该地区某些政客的观点——左翼联盟的成功将让其他欧洲非传统政党更大胆、更强大。"
    ],
    [
        "With the ongoing revolution in information and communications technology, the phones and computers will cost less and less, even as the costs of many commodities needed for development grow.",
        "随着信息和通讯技术的不断革命，即便发展所需的很多商品成本会不断上涨，但电话和电脑所需的成本却会越来越低。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, tasks beat titles.",
        "其次，任务比职务更重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Global capital markets lost confidence in Venezuela in 2013, and the price of oil plummeted in 2014, making these policies unsustainable and sending the economy into a tailspin.",
        "全球资本市场在2013年就对委内瑞拉失去了信心，再加上2014年石油价格大跌，导致这些政策不可持续，将经济推向了混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "That hope soon proved illusory.",
        "那一希望马上被证明是虚幻的。"
    ],
    [
        "The latter condition may already have been partially met, but US policies to stabilize its financial system should help avoid a major dollar slide.",
        "后者可能部分地实现，但随后美国政府推出的有效政策，稳定了金融市场，防止美元地位的下滑。"
    ],
    [
        "That is roughly the same number of Syrians allowed to seek refuge in the entire European Union since the crisis began in 2011.",
        "这一数字与2011年危机爆发以来被允许以难民身份进入欧盟的叙利亚人数差不多。"
    ],
    [
        "The dollar’s strength in the latter part of 2008 was due not to an increased desire to hold dollars but to increased difficulties in borrowing them.",
        "美元在2008年下半年的强势并不是由于人们更多地想要持有美元，而是因为借美元变得更为困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The term “risk-free asset” has become an oxymoron in contemporary Europe.",
        "在当代欧洲“无风险资产”已经成为一种矛盾语。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, China is discussing a “new economic model.”",
        "今天，中国正在讨论一个“新的经济模式”。"
    ],
    [
        "That means initiating a public conversation with countries like Nigeria, Uganda, Gambia, and Russia on the importance of inclusion in the battle against HIV.",
        "这意味着就包容对抗击HIV病毒斗争的重要性方面与尼日利亚、乌干达、冈比亚和俄罗斯等国家展开公众对话。"
    ],
    [
        "If orderly treatment of unsecured senior creditors requires a new cross-border regime to close down insolvent European banks, such a regime should be implemented without delay.",
        "如果这个过程中，需要建立一个新的跨境机制来清算资不抵债的欧洲银行，那就事不宜迟赶紧建立。"
    ],
    [
        "Although no one can be sure how this complex problem will be solved, here is my best guess: Soon after the election, the US Congress will vote to postpone the fiscal cliff for about six months to allow time to work out an acceptable legislative solution.",
        "尽管没人知道这一复杂问题会如何解决，但我还是来猜测一下：大选结束后，国会马上会投票暂时中止财政悬崖，将其延后半年，为可接受的立法方案创造时间。"
    ],
    [
        "But they expressed concern that major reform could undermine political stability and economic development.",
        "但他们同时也对大刀阔斧的改革可能会影响政治稳定和经济发展表示担心。"
    ],
    [
        "Our generation’s most pressing challenge is to convert the world’s dirty and carbon-based energy systems and infrastructure into clean, smart, and efficient systems for the twenty-first century.",
        "我们这一代最紧迫的挑战是将全球肮脏的碳基能源系统和基础设施改造成清洁、智能、高效的二十一世纪系统。"
    ],
    [
        "It was allowed to fly for about half an hour over southern Israel before being shot down by the Israeli air force over a sparsely populated area.",
        "它在以色列南部上空飞行了月半小时，然后被以色列空军击落在人口稀疏地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The strategies and programs developed by the Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, the Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues, the Senior Adviser for Civil Society and Emerging Democracies, the Special Representative for Outreach to Muslim Communities, the Special Representative for Global Partnerships, and the Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs often present a very different face of the US.",
        "比如全球妇女事务大使、全球青年事务特别顾问、公民社会及新兴民主国家高级顾问，穆斯林社区沟通特别代表、全球伙伴关系特别代表，还有商业与企业事务特别代表，而这些负责人所各自设立的战略和项目也往往能体现出美国完全不同的一个侧面。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s leaders, who closely follow Israeli political debates, believe that Israel would not launch an assault on their nuclear facilities without America’s full cooperation, because unilateral action would jeopardize Israel’s relations with its most important strategic ally.",
        "密切关注以色列政坛争论的伊朗领导人认为以色列不可能在没有美国全面合作的情况下袭击伊朗核设施，因为单边行动会影响以色列与其最重要战略盟友之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But will their efforts prove as futile now as they have in the past?",
        "但是，他们今天的努力回合过去一样以失败收场吗？"
    ],
    [
        "You will also be rooting for US judges to seize assets and impound money to pay you.",
        "您也想让美国法官出手查封资产和扣押资金来支付您的债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Five other countries – Egypt, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand – face medium to high barriers across the board, especially when it comes to infrastructure and incentives.",
        "埃及、印度、印尼、菲律宾和泰国等其他五国在各领域都面临中高壁垒，尤其当涉及到基础设施和激励机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Dire predictions that the rise of the SWF’s means that the global financial system is becoming a form of state capitalism may be exaggerated.",
        "国家财富基金意味着全球金融体系正在成为国家资本主义的一种形式，这一悲观的预言可能有失偏颇。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, motives are often mixed (Roosevelt, after all, was referring to Cuba).",
        "一开始，各种动机往往是混乱地捆绑在一起（比如当年罗斯福的目标其实是古巴）。"
    ],
    [
        "With Venezuelan oil production still running far below its level when Chávez took over, there is little doubt about how this story will end.",
        "当查维斯在委内瑞拉掌权时，它的原油产量比它应该有的水平要低很多，其结局会怎样就不言自明了。"
    ],
    [
        "I am writing this from Cape Canaveral, Florida.",
        "我写这篇文章是在佛罗里达的卡纳维拉尔角。"
    ],
    [
        "We have designed the corporate-tax credit to maximize its positive impact on the economy: labor costs will fall immediately without depressing aggregate demand in 2013, because the spending cuts (€10 billion) and household tax increases that will fund the credit will begin only in 2014.",
        "我们已经设计了公司税优惠措施，以最大化其对经济的积极影响：劳动成本将在2013年立即下降，并且不会抑制总需求，因为支出削减（100亿欧元）和填补税收优惠空缺的家庭税收增加将在2014年开始。"
    ],
    [
        "The next generation was born between 1935 and 1955, and in many respects represents a generation “in between.”",
        "其后一代出生于1935到1955年之间，在很多方面都是“过渡性”的一代。"
    ],
    [
        "When the eurozone panic ensued in July 2011, inflows came to a halt and fled to the “safety” of the United States, Switzerland, and beyond.",
        "当欧元区恐慌在2011年7月随之而起时，资本流入戛然而止，资本纷纷逃向美国、瑞士和其他“安全”之地。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, supporters of the EU must face the facts: an ever-closer union is not the European people’s will, even in the member states that would never choose to leave it.",
        "如今欧盟的支持者必须面对这样的事实：一个不断紧密联合的联盟并非欧洲人民的意志，即使是那些绝不会选择离开的成员国中也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In almost all of the rich-country proposals about targets, limits, commitments, and permits for greenhouse gases, there is hardly a word about helping poor countries to finance the transition to sustainable technologies.",
        "在几乎所有富裕国家提出的关于温室气体目标、限制、承诺与许可的提议书中，几乎找不到一个词语是关于提供财政援助帮助贫穷国家实现可持续科技的过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the program’s most innovative feature was its focus on teaching consumers how to detect emotional manipulation, and how to disengage from such information.",
        "也许该项目最具创新性的特点是它着重于教会消费者如何识别情绪操纵，以及如何摆脱这些信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The Assembly’s first responsibility will be to draft a new constitution that can help reunify Nepal’s disparate communities.",
        "议会的首要职责是起草一部能够帮助把四分五裂的尼泊尔重新联合起来的新宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not as difficult as it sounds.",
        "这没有听起来那么复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "International telephone minutes have doubled, and cross-border Internet traffic has increased by 1,800%.",
        "国际长途电话时长出现了翻番，跨境互联网流量增长了1800%。"
    ],
    [
        "But while this deserves attention, the bigger story is that, because more carbon dioxide fertilizes vegetation, climate change has actually increased the world’s green matter (plants of all sorts) since 1982 by the equivalent of an entire continent.",
        "虽然这一点值得注意，但大背景是因为更多二氧化碳为植被提供营养，气候变化导致世界自1982年来实际增加了相当于一整块大陆的绿色物质（各类植物）。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the rest, the amounts that are not already committed to the peripheral countries could be used to support borrowing that can be lent onward to Italy and Spain.",
        "在剩下的资金中，尚未承诺用于外围国家的部分可以用于支持那些将转手贷给意大利和西班牙的贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Fully-fledged democracy might lead to victory for Islamists, as it did in 1991.",
        "尚处于襁褓之中的民主很可能会像1991年那样导致伊斯兰主义者的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "It took a long time, but the contagion of a sound financial idea has been unmistakable.",
        "这个过程花了很长时间，但是一个完美的金融概念的普遍运用是不会错的。"
    ],
    [
        "They can make credible commitments to future suppliers and influence the business ecosystem to make new industries feasible.",
        "它们可以向未来供应者做出可信承诺，并改变商业生态环境使新行业成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "But Bush had made a deliberate choice not to humiliate the Soviets or gloat: “I won’t beat on my chest and dance on the wall,” was his response – a model of emotional intelligence in a leader.",
        "但老布什深思熟虑地选择不去羞辱苏联，也不幸灾乐祸：“我不会在柏林墙上手舞足蹈，”这就是他的反应——堪称领袖心理智慧的样板。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, America’s gun culture is a threat to freedom, after the murder of a president, senator, and other public leaders, and countless assassination attempts against public officials over recent decades.",
        "事实上，美国的枪文化已是自由的威胁——近几十年来，总统、参议员、公众领袖都被枪杀过，更有数不清的刺杀官员事件发生。"
    ],
    [
        "He believes that, given the new balance of power in Asia, the alliance will be meaningful only if each partner has a real choice, and the wherewithal, to act autonomously or with regional allies.",
        "他认为，在亚洲新实力平衡的环境下，美国和日本都必须拥有自主或与地区盟友联合行动的真正的选择权和手段，惟其如此，联盟才会有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "But solving the complex coordination and distributional problems that such adjustments will generate will not be easy, and, convinced that we cannot afford an aggressive mitigation strategy at a time when we are faced with so many other pressing challenges, policymakers could be tempted to defer action on the ground.",
        "但解决调整所产生的复杂的合作和分配问题决非易事，而在认定我们在面临如此之多的其他紧迫挑战时无法承受激进的遏制气候变化战略的情况下，决策者可能会推迟行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s government can no longer claim that the nuclear program is a national cause with broad support.",
        "伊朗政府不再能够宣称核计划是有广大群众支持的国家行为。"
    ],
    [
        "But the world saw in Russia’s onslaught against so puny an antagonist a thuggish state determined to recapture its lost empire.",
        "但是，全世界从俄罗斯攻击如此弱小的对手这一事件中，看到的却是一个一心想重温帝国之梦的恶棍国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In the near future, Europe may no longer be able to rely on the US to defend it and should prepare for a scenario in which it is forced to fend for itself.",
        "在不久的将来，欧洲可能无法再依赖美国为其提供防御，并应当做好准备防御其自身。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, intervention planners should assume worst-case rather than best-case scenarios.",
        "第三，干预策划者应当设想最坏、而不是最好的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Greece’s combative former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, and his nemesis, former German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, were at loggerheads on Greek debt throughout Varoufakis’s term in office.",
        "坎布里奇—富有战斗精神的希腊前财政部长雅尼斯·瓦鲁法基斯（Yanis Varoufakis）和他的敌人、德国前财政部长沃尔夫冈·朔伊布勒（Wolfgang Schäuble）就瓦鲁法基斯任职期间的希腊债务问题斗得不可开交。"
    ],
    [
        "Sarkozy Goes to War",
        "萨科奇发起战争"
    ],
    [
        "But the Socialist “yes” to Europe should not be confused with the “yes” given by the right.",
        "但是社会党人对欧洲说“是”并不能与右翼人士说“是”混为一谈。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2014-2015, 81% of the budget went to debt service, subsidies, and wages, crowding out education and other investments essential to long-term growth.",
        "2014-2015年，81%的预算都用来还债、支付补贴和工资，挤占了对长期增长至关重要的教育和其他投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The Eastern Partnership does not offer any quick remedies to the crisis.",
        "东部伙伴关系并不能迅速弥补危机造成的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank recently announced that it will phase out its €500 mega-note.",
        "欧洲央行近日宣布将逐步淘汰500欧元纸币。"
    ],
    [
        "If the euro were fully ready for prime time, we might well be seeing it’s dollar exchange rate jump to over 2.00, and not just to 1.65 or 1.70, as it seems poised to do anyway.",
        "如果欧元已经进入了黄金时段，我们就很可能看到它与美元之间的汇率飙升到2. 00以上，而绝不仅是1."
    ],
    [
        "Market mechanisms are not enough to achieve this.",
        "市场机制不足以实现这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, though some evidence suggests that there is an over-supply of university graduates in China, ongoing demographic and sectoral shifts mean that China will encounter a supply deficit of 24 million highly skilled graduates of universities or higher-level vocational schools by 2020.",
        "最后，尽管有证据表明中国存在大学毕业生供过于求的迹象，但持久的人口和部门变迁意味着到2020年，中国将面临2,400万高技能大学和高层次职业学校毕业生的供给缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "For Pakistan’s small and embattled liberal and left-wing forces, he is yet another military dictator who seized and holds power by force, undermining the development of democracy.",
        "对于巴基斯坦弱小而严阵以待的自由派和左翼力量而言，他是又一个通过武力篡权的军事独裁者，阻碍了民主的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The British have nearly the opposite perspective.",
        "英国则观点几乎相左。"
    ],
    [
        "With a war-exhausted US having run out of patience, outside forces are in no position to prevent Afghanistan’s partition along Iraqi (or even post-Yugoslav) lines, with the bloodiest battles expected to rage over control of ethnically mixed strategic areas, including Kabul.",
        "随着厌战的美国逐渐失去耐心，外部势力已无法阻止阿富汗沿伊拉克（甚至后南斯拉夫）边境发生分裂，最血腥的战争可能出现在喀布尔等民族混居的战略地带。"
    ],
    [
        "The national mood transcends the election campaign and will pose a real challenge to the new president and Congress.",
        "国家情绪超越选战，将给新总统和国会带来真正的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the debtor countries’ bond prices would collapse, interest rates would soar, and banks would be threatened with collapse.",
        "结果，债务国债券价格将暴跌，利率将飙升，银行极有可能崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "The urgency consists partly in the scope of financing that the SDGs will require – an amount that will far exceed the resources needed to implement the MDGs.",
        "紧迫性部分来自为ＳＤＧ融资所需要的资金规模——这个数字将远远超过实施MDG所需要的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "So talks began.",
        "接着，波兰共产党和反对派的会谈开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "While most Egyptians may support Morsi’s aims, a dramatic expansion of presidential power in order to attain them was, for many, a step too far. Given Egypt’s extreme polarization and distrust between its Islamist and secular forces, Morsi should have anticipated the protests.",
        "大部分埃及人或许支持穆尔西的目标，但在很多人看来，为了达到这些目标而大幅扩张总统权力步子迈得太大了。 埃及伊斯兰教徒和世俗势力之间严重两极分化，彼此互不信任，穆尔西应该料到会造成示威。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, India has accomplished the extraordinary feat of rationing grain to consumers at artificially low prices, while simultaneously suffering excess supply, because farmers are paid high prices.",
        "结果，印度完成了一个壮举：以人为压低的价格为消费者配给小麦，同时又经历过度供给，因为农民可以获得高价。"
    ],
    [
        "Trees stand mute despite our betrayal.",
        "树木面对我们的背叛依然默默地树立在那儿。"
    ],
    [
        "The banks, however, are not just part of the problem, but an essential part of the solution.",
        "但是，银行不仅是问题的一部分，也是解决方案的关键组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "This creed has clearly not survived its creator.",
        "很显然这个信条救不了毛泽东。"
    ],
    [
        "The conclusion is thus that each dollar spent on conserving forests would yield $5-15 worth of social good, including tangible benefits, such as from logging or carbon capture, and “soft\" gains, like preserving forests' intrinsic beauty.",
        "因此，结论是花在保护森林上的每一美元能产生价值5—15美元的社会商品，包括来自伐木和碳捕捉等活动的有形回报和保护森林内在美等“软”收益。"
    ],
    [
        "He did not disagree that the eurozone needs more integration, but correctly noted that the required degree of political integration is beyond the comfort zone of British citizens and of others in the EU.",
        "”他并不否认欧元区需要更多的统一，但正确地指出，这所要求的政治一体化程度超过了英国和其他欧盟国家人民的舒适域。"
    ],
    [
        "And the “security fence,” which was to allow for unilateral separation, may hold back suicide bombers but not modern missiles of the kind currently employed by Hezbollah.",
        "而为单边隔离设置的“安全墙”虽然挡住了自杀性爆炸者，但却挡不住真主党现在拥有的现代化导弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, property rights are critical to environmental protection.",
        "类似地，产权对于环境保护也是至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer seems to be no.",
        "答案似乎是否定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Banning Hitler’s Mein Kampf or forbidding the display of Nazi symbols has not stopped neo-Nazis in Germany from murdering immigrants.",
        "查禁希特勒的《我的奋斗》一书或者不准展示纳粹标志都未能制止新纳粹主义者杀戮外国移民的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "In Colombia, scholarships were provided to 125,000 students from poor, urban communities in the early 1990’s.",
        "哥伦比亚在二十世纪九十年代的早期向来自贫困和农村地区的125000名学生提供奖学金。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while it may not be necessary to employ measures now to prevent harm in the future, it makes sense to identify which measures might be needed, together with the changes in social norms and behaviors that might be required to implement them.",
        "因此，或许现在尚无必要采取措施防止未来伤害，但指出可能需要哪些措施以及那些实施措施所必须的社会规范和行为的变化是大有裨益的"
    ],
    [
        "This might have been only a fleeting thought had I not seen Duch’s family members, who attended the hearings.",
        "如果不是在听证会上看到杜赫的家人，我的这种想法可能也是一闪而过。"
    ],
    [
        "Even concentration camps like Buchenwald changed their guards and inmates but remained in use.",
        "像Buchenwald等集中营，即使更换了守卫和犯人，但仍然在使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the two sides’ competitive positions, Sino-American cooperation on issues like trade, financial stability, energy security, climate change, and pandemics will benefit both countries. The rest of the region stands to gain, too.",
        "尽管中美两国存在分歧，双方在国际贸易、金融秩序、能源安全、气候变化和疫病控制方面的合作对彼此以及亚太各国均有益处。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s why we need to keep an eye on the figures and keep reminding world leaders of the needs of those in the developing world that live in their shadow.",
        "因此我们必须记住这个数字，不停地提醒世界领袖生活在他们阴影之下的发展中世界民众的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "While growth is usually needed for poverty reduction, it does not necessarily translate into job creation, as many countries’ recent record of jobless or job-poor growth demonstrates.",
        "尽管扶贫需要经济增长，但很多国家近来的失业或在职贫困增长表明，经济增长不一定能转化成就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent successes in Brazil against AIDS, in Mozambique against malaria, and in China against TB, show what can be achieved on a global scale with more resources. There are new ways of directing aid to where it is most needed.",
        "近日，巴西成功抵抗艾滋病、莫桑比克成功抗击疟疾以及中国抵御肺结核的例子，显示了全球范围内更多资源所能带来的成功，并产生了一种新方式将援助发放至最需要它的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Utah Governor and Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman addressed this issue clearly and repeatedly as he sought – unsuccessfully – to win his party’s nomination to challenge President Barack Obama.",
        "前犹他州州长、共和党总统候选人约恩·亨茨曼（Jon Huntsman）在寻求赢得党内提名以挑战总统奥巴马（以失败而告终）的过程中明确地提出了这一问题并一再强调。"
    ],
    [
        "Small farmers need options other than slash-and-burn farming to boost their meager incomes.",
        "小农需要获得不同于刀耕火种的农业方法以增加他们微博的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "But they might well be misreading their citizens’ concerns.",
        "但他们也很有可能误读了其公民的关注点。"
    ],
    [
        "I sense a growing willingness to forego the benefits of innovation – not least financial innovation – in exchange for a slower pace of change, which is assumed to be more controllable.",
        "上述情况发生的同时，却没有明确迹象能显示国家具有优越性。"
    ],
    [
        "But in April and May 2009, they threw diplomatic caution to the wind, launching a long-range rocket (as well as various missiles) and conducting a second nuclear test – all in the space of several weeks.",
        "但在2009年的4月和5月，他们将审慎的外交姿态抛到了九霄云外，在短短几周时间里发射了远程火箭（以及各式导弹）并实施了第二次核试验。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators are now appreciably tougher and more intrusive than their counterparts in New York.",
        "现在伦敦的银行管理者明显比纽约的同行们要严格并进行着更多的干预。"
    ],
    [
        "The view from the United States is completely different.",
        "从美国看来则一切都不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also harbors some centers of technological excellence, such as the factories that produce important spare parts for Russian military helicopters.",
        "但那里也有不少高科技枢纽，比如为俄罗斯军用直升机生产重要部件的工厂。"
    ],
    [
        "If the US maintains a relatively free labor market, employees will adjust positively to the changing technology.",
        "如果美国保持一个相对自由的劳动力市场，员工将能很好地适应不断变化的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republicans’ defeat in this month’s mid-term Congressional elections is a sign that Americans want to sanction their leaders for their strategic and ethical shortcomings, and they did so with gusto.",
        "本月共和党在国会中期选举中东失败表明，美国人想要惩罚其领导人的战略和道德缺失，而且他们让共和党一败涂地。"
    ],
    [
        "If Britain, with a relatively low share of public debt to GDP (64.6%) is worried, the implication is that many other countries should be much more concerned.",
        "英国的公债GDP占比（64. 6%）其实不算最高，连它都着急了，说明好些别的国家更应该是如坐针毡。"
    ],
    [
        "By investing now in nutrition and improved food security, by 2020 we can lift 50 million people out of poverty, prevent stunting in 20 million children under the age of five, and save 1.7 million lives.",
        "现在投资于营养和食品安全可以让我们在2020年使5000万人走出贫困，预防2000万五岁以下儿童生长迟缓，并拯救170万条生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the most powerful of all central banks – the United States Federal Reserve – is also the most reluctant to acknowledge its global reach.",
        "但最强势的央行——美联储也是最不愿意承认其全球地位的央行。"
    ],
    [
        "The same principles of solidarity must guide us as we mobilize to meet the other health challenges that afflict the world populations, and the poorest in particular.",
        "在我们动员起来迎接影响世界民众、特别是贫困人群的其他健康挑战的时候，我们也必须遵守同样的团结原则。"
    ],
    [
        "The revolution’s leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, did not hide his contempt for the Saudi royal family; he quickly positioned Iran as a champion of “the oppressed” against “the forces of arrogance” – the United States and its local allies, Saudi Arabia and Israel.",
        "革命领袖霍梅尼毫不掩饰他对沙特王室的蔑视； 他迅速将伊朗定义为代表“被压迫者”反抗包括美国及其地区盟友沙特和以色列在内的“傲慢势力”。"
    ],
    [
        "Kennedy’s eyes had been opened by a July 1962 US atmospheric nuclear test that inadvertently destroyed at least six satellites, including some belonging to the USSR.",
        "肯尼迪的眼界被1962年7月美国大气层核试验打开。 这次核试验不经意地摧毁了至少六科人造卫星，其中一些属于苏联。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the fading dream of an Islamic caliphate will weaken the ability of ISIS and kindred groups to recruit disaffected youth.",
        "诚然，伊斯兰哈里发梦碎将削弱伊斯兰国和相关组织招募不满的年轻人的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s governments are now negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals, which will guide the world’s development agenda from 2015 to 2030.",
        "世界各国政府正在谈判可持续发展目标（SDG），这套目标将指导2015—2030年的世界发展日程。"
    ],
    [
        "The TPP could help change this by easing trade in intermediate inputs and helping build Pacific-wide value chains.",
        "TPP可以让中间投入品贸易更加便利，有利于构建泛太平洋价值链，从而有助于改变这一局面。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – One of the most extraordinary things about the current protests in Iran – the largest since the Green Movement in 2009 – is that the very people that they are directed against may well have been the people who started them.",
        "伦敦—对于最近的伊朗示威——这是自2009年大运动（Great Movement）以来规模最大的示威——有一件事相当不同寻常，那就是示威者所针对的人，也许就是发动示威的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than being subjected to explicit price regulations and guidelines, these institutions operate in a “financial repression” regime in which key benchmark interest rates have been held at levels below what would otherwise prevail.",
        "金融机构不受明确的价格监管和指引约束，而是在一个“金融抑制”机制中经营，在这个机制中，关键基准利率保持在比无该机制的情况下更低的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "A clear case of imperial overstretch, the war strained America’s military, undermined the America’s moral standing worldwide and its reputation in the Middle East, severely threatened its economy, and showed to both friends and foes the limits of American power.",
        "它是帝国实力过度延伸的明显例证，让美国军队疲惫不堪，破坏了美国在世界上的道德地位及其在中东的声誉，严重威胁了美国经济，并且向美国的盟友和敌人展示了美国实力的局限。"
    ],
    [
        "But we benefit from these delusions.",
        "但我们也可以从这种错觉中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – 2009 was a good year for China.",
        "东京 —— 对于中国而言， 2009 年可是一个好年头。"
    ],
    [
        "The fear is that tightening monetary policy to bear down on inflation could snuff out the faltering economic recovery.",
        "人们担心用以平抑通胀的紧缩货币政策将扼杀步履蹒跚的经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced his country’s readiness to host an international conference this summer on major disasters, giving Japan an opportunity to share lessons learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.",
        "日本首相野田佳彦就宣布已经准备好今夏在本国主办一场关于主要灾害的国际会议，为日本提供一个分享2011年日本东北太平洋海啸地震中所吸取教训的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The Manchester students argue that “the mainstream within the discipline (neoclassical theory) has excluded all dissenting opinion, and the crisis is arguably the ultimate price of this exclusion.",
        "曼彻斯特大学学生指出“该学科（新古典理论）主流排斥所有异见，危机便是这一排斥的最终代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly half of global GDP growth from 2010 to 2025 will come from 440 emerging-market cities, many of which Western executives may not even know exist.",
        "2010到2025年近半数的全球GDP增长将来自440个新兴市场城市，其中不少西方高管甚至可能都从未听说。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, contrary to what Putin claims to the Russian public, the Chinese are not fully committed to backing him in his confrontation with the West.",
        "事实与普京向俄公众宣扬的恰恰相反，中国并未全力支持他与西方的对抗。"
    ],
    [
        "Some characterize these activities as speculative trading, and even caricature financial markets as casinos.",
        "有些人批评这些行为是投机买卖，甚至将金融市场夸张地比喻成赌场。"
    ],
    [
        "At that time, one had to be careful, given the government’s sensitivities, even about how one framed the country’s problems – its poverty, lack of rural productivity, and unskilled workforce.",
        "当时，身居缅甸需要如履薄冰，因为政府对你如何界定该国的问题——即使是贫困、农业生产率低下、劳动力素质不高这样的问题——颇为敏感。"
    ],
    [
        "But, far from indicating that sanctions don’t work, Kim’s move shows that they still aren’t tough enough.",
        "但这远远不能表明制裁无效，而是金正恩的举动显示这些制裁还不够强硬。"
    ],
    [
        "And in September, three major pension funds from North America and Europe announced plans to increase their holdings in low-carbon investments by more than $31 billion by 2020.",
        "9月，三家来自北美和欧洲的主要养老基金宣布计划到2020年将增加低碳投资持有量增加310亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, because Bolivia’s Constitution requires the approval of Congress for such sales, it isn’t clear that Morales is nationalizing anything: the assets were never properly sold.",
        "实际上，由于玻利维亚宪法规定此类交易需要得到国会批准，因此并不清楚莫拉莱斯是否在国有化，因为这些资产从来就没有被合法地出售。"
    ],
    [
        "They just might find that their worst nighttime fears have vanished by the light of day.",
        "他们会发现，他们最糟糕的噩梦情景已经消失在朗朗乾坤之下。"
    ],
    [
        "New circumstances imposed new challenges for most people.",
        "新的形势给大多数人带来了新的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet environmentalists are overwhelmingly opposed to fracking, evidently for three reasons.",
        "但环保人士强烈反对液压裂解技术，主要有三个明显的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "International sanctions, it now seems, were the door through which China rushed to gain access to Africa’s mineral wealth for its voracious industries.",
        "看上去国际制裁似乎已经成为中国为满足本国企业需求而大量开发非洲矿产资源的方便之门。"
    ],
    [
        "But policymakers seem trapped in a cat’s cradle of economic, political, and legal constraints that is preventing effective action.",
        "但决策者似乎沉迷于经济、政治和法律约束的翻线游戏，无法做出有效的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, over half-a-century has elapsed.",
        "从那时起已经过去了半个世纪的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "As the great Cuban-Argentine-American economist Carlos Díaz-Alejandro pointed out long ago, financial markets are not disciplined by the threat of bankruptcy.",
        "伟大的古巴-阿根廷-美国经济学家卡洛斯·迪亚兹-亚历杭德罗（Carlos Díaz-Alejandro）早就指出，金融市场的纪律不是来自破产威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, those who in other circumstances might see activist investors as natural adversaries can agree with the positions that they take, such as concerns about executive compensation or corporate social responsibility.",
        "同样，在其他情况下有可能将活跃投资者视为天敌的人可能会赞同他们的立场，比方说关注高管薪酬或企业的社会责任。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason to believe that he intervened in Syria in order to aggravate the European refugee crisis.",
        "没有理由认为加剧欧洲难民危机是他干预叙利亚的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent studies suggest that adult male circumcision can be a promising prevention strategy, if properly and hygienically performed and accompanied by appropriate counseling and post-surgical care.",
        "最近的研究表明给成年男子实施包皮环割术会成为一个很有指望的预防措施，条件是如果得到正确和卫生的实施，以及适当的咨询和术后护理的话。"
    ],
    [
        "To reduce the risk of runs in derivatives markets, regulators around the world are poised to require that derivatives trades be carried out through clearinghouses or exchanges.",
        "为了减少衍生品市场发生挤兑的风险，世界各国监管者准备要求将衍生品交易纳入清算所或交易所。"
    ],
    [
        "A second study, the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Report 2014, corroborates these findings.",
        "第二项研究是联合国发展计划署的2014年人类发展报告，该报告印证了第一项研究的发现。"
    ],
    [
        "For their part, some current CIA officials continue to insist on the value of America’s “enhanced interrogation” program (which Obama halted), despite the Senate report’s conclusion that the techniques it employed yielded no valuable intelligence.",
        "”某些现任中情局官员仍坚持强调美国“强化审讯”计划（该计划已被奥巴马勒令停止）的价值，尽管参议院报告的结论是所采用的技术并没有产生任何有价值的情报。"
    ],
    [
        "Class and race overlap in the US.",
        "美国的阶级和种族问题错综复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, Africa needs more of these ventures to overcome its infrastructure challenges.",
        "显而易见，非洲需要更多这样的合资公司才能迎接基础设施所带来的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have sovereign wealth funds.",
        "有些国家有主权财富基金。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither Iran nor Turkey has reached that point.",
        "伊朗和土耳其都没有走到这一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, Trump would reduce the highest rate for personal income tax from 39.6% to 33%.",
        "第三，特朗普将把个人所得税最高税率从39. 6%调低到33%。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that intergovernmental agreements will be needed for some time to come, and that the eurozone will develop in the direction of inter-governmental federalism.",
        "这意味着到了某些时候就需要达成一些政府间协议，而欧元区将朝着跨政府联邦制度的方向发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The armistice that was agreed four years later, after about 20 million people had died, amounted only to an interlude before the horror of World War II.",
        "四年后，当停战协议最终达成时，已有2,000万人失去了生命，而在短暂的停战期后爆发了更加恐怖的第二次世界大战。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic growth surged ahead, and returns on public investment soared, reaching an annual growth rate above 9% of GDP, shortly after the reforms were implemented.",
        "经济增长大踏步向前，公共投资回报也大幅上升，改革是时候不久年GDP增长率就达到了9%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt’s political elite, fearful of critical media coverage, defeat in fair elections, and even imprisonment, prefer the existing regime and oppose any significant reform.",
        "埃及的精英政治人物惧怕媒体的批评报导、惧怕自己会在公平选举中落败乃至锒铛入狱，所以他们更愿意维持独裁现状，反对进行任何重大的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, it creates a solid framework to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons for the next 10-15 years – and that is a very positive development.",
        "尽管如此，它建立了一个可靠的框架阻止伊朗在未来10—15年制造核武器——而这是一个非常积极的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, banks are bound to lend on adequate collateral; and, in the run-up to the crisis, rising house prices provided it.",
        "毕竟，银行一定会在抵押品充足的情况下发放贷款； 而在危机酝酿过程中，上涨的房价提供了抵押品。"
    ],
    [
        "The neoclassical elimination of Christmas gift exchange, or even the containment of Christmas largesse, would be disastrous during recessionary periods.",
        "新古典学派取消圣诞礼物交换，甚至只是节制圣诞大派送的做法，在衰退时期不啻一场灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "This would represent a departure from early in his presidency, when, in his bid to broker a settlement, he failed to confront AIPAC.",
        "这将偏离其就任总统初期的方向，当时，他所提出的和解方案没有与AIPAC发生冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Forty years after rich countries promised to dedicate 0.7% of GDP to aid, their commitments remain at less than half that level.",
        "四十年前，富裕国家承诺将0. 7%的GDP用于援助，四十年后，他们只兑现了不到一半。"
    ],
    [
        "The only viable path to peace and stability, observers almost unanimously proclaim, is a diplomatic one.",
        "观察者几乎异口同声地表示，唯一可行的和平与稳定之道是外交。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is analogous to that which arose at the beginning of the twentieth century, when rapid productivity growth in agriculture forced labor to move from rural areas to urban manufacturing centers.",
        "这一问题与20世纪初的问题非常相似，当时，农业生产力的快速增长将劳动力从农村地区逐出，驱赶到城镇制造业中心。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to see how this ends well.",
        "很难看得出来这会有个好结果。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not difficult to imagine why the notion of a borderless, peaceful world in which political divisions and conflicts were overcome was deeply appealing after WWII.",
        "不难想象，为何克服了政治分歧和冲突的无国界的和平世界会在二战后大受欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "But democracy promotion is too uncertain a proposition, and the world too dangerous a place, for it to occupy center stage in what the United States does.",
        "但是，推动民主化在外交政策中所占得的比重值得商榷，如果将它作为美国外交政策核心的话，那是很危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "Buying time to secure their own political future, Venezuelan officials carefully stage-managed Chávez’s illness and eventual death, even suggesting near the end, while he was undergoing complex and agonizing cancer treatments, that he was still “walking and exercising.”",
        "委内瑞拉官员需要时间来确保自身的政治未来，他们精心地安排着查韦斯的病情和最终的死亡，即使在查韦斯弥留之际、接受复杂而痛苦的癌症治疗时，他们仍宣称他仍在“散步和运动”。"
    ],
    [
        "What happens in Afghanistan as America begins to draw down its troops will test the willingness of all of Asia’s powers to work together to build a secure regional order.",
        "随着美国开始撤军，阿富汗的后续发展将成为一块试金石，检验亚洲各国齐心协力构建区域安全秩序的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "In a bubble, valuations are based on collectively evaluated evidence, and those who enter the market earliest often benefit.",
        "泡沫估值基于共同评估证据，抢先入市者往往获利丰厚。"
    ],
    [
        "In urban Africa, costs - for food and transport in particular - are relatively high, which forces wages up.",
        "在非洲的城市，成本-特别是在食品和交通方面-相对较高，这就迫使工资上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "Humanity will pay the price for communism until such a time as we learn to stand up to it with all political responsibility and decisiveness.",
        "人类将为共产主义付出代价，直到我们学会怀着政治责任感和决断心挺身而出与之对抗。"
    ],
    [
        "While reports that cater to the sometimes virulent nationalist sentiments of readers, viewers, and listeners can succeed in garnering a larger market share – as in any other capitalist country – they can also mislead.",
        "尽管有时候迎合读者、观众和听众颇为刻毒的民族主义情绪能保证成功获得更多的市场份额——就像任何其他的资本主义国家一样——但这也可能会使他们受到误导。"
    ],
    [
        "Ending the exception française in NATO has removed the suspicion that French support for developing European defense was really aimed at competing with the alliance or weakening it.",
        "因为结束北约事务“法国例外”的历史将有助于消除这么一种怀疑，即法国支持和发展欧洲防务的目的是为了与北约分庭抗礼，或者是试图削弱北约。"
    ],
    [
        "Abandoning it would be tantamount to declaring the entire European integration project a failure.",
        "放弃欧元就等于宣布，整个欧洲一体化方案以失败告终。"
    ],
    [
        "This is astonishingly shortsighted, given the relative costs of prevention versus response.",
        "这是令人震惊的短视，因为与响应相比，预防的成本要低得多。"
    ],
    [
        "It has remained at peace, despite regional wars.",
        "虽然周边战火纷飞，土耳其国内局势一直保持稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Japan starts to intervene directly in global currency markets to ensure a weaker yen, neighboring competitors will respond in kind.",
        "但如果日本开始直接干预全球货币市场以确保弱势日元，邻国竞争者也会以同样的政策作为回应。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, many countries offer subsidies on water, not to mention gasoline and food, in an effort to “buy” social peace.",
        "最后，许多国家提供水补贴——更不用说汽油和食品补贴——以“购买”社会和平。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, within two years of taking power, Sadat expelled the Soviets from Egypt and began to build a friendship with the US that, despite challenges and periodic differences, has proven important and valuable ever since.",
        "上台两年内，萨达特把苏联人驱逐出了埃及，而且开始与美国建立友谊。 尽管存在挑战和不时的分歧，这一友谊证明是重要的而且比以往更为具有价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranians had had the temerity to elect a progressive, secular prime minister who believed that the country’s oil belonged to its people, not to the United Kingdom or the US.",
        "伊朗人冒失地选择了一位进步的世俗总理，他认为伊朗的石油属于伊朗人民而不是英国或美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the court staff was entirely Muslim, which meant that testimony was viewed solely from a Muslim perspective.",
        "其次，法院工作人员全部由穆斯林组成，这意味着完全从穆斯林的视角来审视证词。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that left-wing populists are inevitably compelled to compete with right-wing populists for the support of exactly the same groups that turned to fascism between the wars: young unemployed males, the “small man” who feels threatened by the “oligarchy” of bankers, global supply chains, corrupt politicians, remote European Union bureaucrats, and “fat cats” of all kinds. Today’s populists, of whatever political stripe, increasingly target not just the same potential supporters, but the enemies as well.",
        "这意味着左翼民粹主义难免要被迫与右翼民粹主义争夺在两次大战之间转向法西斯的那群人：年轻失业男性，那些感到受到银行家、全球供应链、腐败政客、遥不可及的欧盟官僚和各种“权势人物”所组成的“寡头”的威胁的“小人物”。"
    ],
    [
        "It is always tempting to claim that what happens behind sovereign borders is nobody else's business.",
        "声称内政部容他人干涉向来是诱惑力极大的说辞。"
    ],
    [
        "For that, you have to be a Nobel laureate or at least the author of a couple of well regarded books.",
        "你要想出类拔萃，就必须获得诺贝尔桂冠，或至少写出了若干颇受欢迎的作品。"
    ],
    [
        "For this we need good strategic assessments of intelligence.",
        "为此，我们需要对情报进行良好的战略评估。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK is one of two EU countries (alongside the Czech Republic) that refused to sign this “fiscal compact,” acceptance of which is required to gain access to European bailout funds.",
        "英国是两个拒绝签署这一“财政契约”的欧盟国家之一（另一个是捷克）。 （只有接受这一规定，才能获得欧洲援助基金。"
    ],
    [
        "Yingluck, in an effort to defuse the situation, called for a parliamentary election in February.",
        "为了平息事态，英拉宣布在2月举行议会选举。"
    ],
    [
        "The behavior of the New York City police played into their deepest fears.",
        "纽约警察的行为恰恰触动了他们内心最深的恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been used repeatedly: by Japan beginning in the last decades of the nineteenth century; by the Asian Tigers in the second half of the twentieth century; and now by China.",
        "它被反复使用：19世纪最后一个十年的日本、二十世纪下半叶的东亚诸小龙，以及现在的中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Rich countries have long promised to increase their aid levels to 0.7% of national income (from around only 0.25% today).",
        "他们很久以前就承诺过要把援助水平提高到国民收入的0. 7%（而今天只有约0."
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere in Europe, the United Kingdom has followed a similar trajectory, with gross public debt increasing from 85.3% of GDP in 2012 to 89.3% of GDP in 2015.",
        "在其他欧洲国家，英国的情况类似，总公共债务从2012年占GDP的85. 3%增加到2015年的89."
    ],
    [
        "What is required is full integration of the Tamils, Sri Lanka’s embittered minority, into the country’s economic life.",
        "现在需要的是将泰米尔人这个斯里兰卡的贫苦少数族裔全面整合入该国的经济生活之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The view that flexibility is the key factor in employment is no longer tenable.",
        "将灵活性视为保障就业关键因素的观点再也站不住脚了。"
    ],
    [
        "Health officials should guide people through their adjustment reactions, not demand that they skip that step.",
        "卫生官员应引导人们度过适应性反应期，而不是强行要求他们越过这个阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "The year 2016 should mark the start of a new century of homegrown Middle Eastern politics focused urgently on the challenges of sustainable development.",
        "2016年应当标志着中东自主政治新世纪的开始，迎接可持续发展挑战将是中东政治最迫切的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unsurprisingly, the cuts largely targeted scenes and dialogue highlighting the government’s failure to curb – and some politicians’ complicity in promoting – Punjab’s widespread drug abuse.",
        "毫不奇怪，被剪掉的内容大多是强调政府没有遏制——以及一些政客串通“促进”——旁遮普邦普遍存在的滥用毒品的问题的镜头和对话。"
    ],
    [
        "And we have to deploy more naval resources in the Mediterranean and spend more on Europe’s border security.",
        "我们必须在地中海部署更多的海军资源，并增加用于欧洲边境安全的经费。"
    ],
    [
        "Such investment is essential in a world in which net private capital flows to developing countries outstrip official development assistance by a margin of ten to one.",
        "如今，流向私人净资本流是官方发展援助的十倍，在这样的背景下，这类投资十分关键。"
    ],
    [
        "But tensions with the US did diminish.",
        "但与美国之间的紧张的确有所消弭。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that the choice between spending money on carbon cuts and on direct policies is unfair.",
        "不过，有人认为对减少碳排放和直接政策两者所耗费的成本作比较是不合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "If Russia’s economy continues to decline, and if the West succeeds in deterring Putin from further use of force, it is still conceivable that some acceptable resolution (a form of which I recommended publicly by talking about the Finland model) may be contrived.",
        "如果俄罗斯经济继续衰退，并且西方继续威慑普京使之不敢扩大武力，我们仍然可以认为可以形成某种可接受的解决方案（我在谈及芬兰模式时曾公开建议过）。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, though studies suggest that the short-term economic benefits of immigration are relatively small, and that unskilled workers may suffer from competition, skilled immigrants can be important to particular sectors – and to long-term growth.",
        "此外，尽管研究表明短期移民的经济利益相对较小，低技能工人将因竞争而遭受打击，但高技移民对于某些特定部门十分重要，对长期增长也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, it is their responsibility to be true leaders.",
        "简单点说，他们有责任成为真正的领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "If his successor is a Brexit leader, Britain can look forward to being led by someone who has spent the last ten weeks spreading lies.",
        "如果他的继任者是某位退欧领袖，那么英国将接受过去十周谎言传播者的领导。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Iran, called a “terrorist state” by US hardliners, is now America’s de facto ally in the fight against Sunni jihadists in Iraq and Syria.",
        "正因如此，被美国强硬派称为“恐怖国家”的伊朗，现在实际上是美国对伊拉克和叙利亚逊尼派圣战组织的斗争的盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why reducing domestic violence belongs on the short-list for the world’s next set of development goals.",
        "控制家庭暴力也因此在全球下一组发展目标清单上赫然在目。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, in principle, there should be a way to fix the ills of the financial system without resort to inflation.",
        "是的，原则上，应该有一个不需要借助通货膨胀来修正金融体系弊病的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "The best example is Rosneft, which borrowed about $40 billion in 2013 to buy its competitor, TNK-BP.",
        "俄石油就是最好的例子，2013年它借贷大约400亿美元b用于收购竞争对手秋明-英石油（TNK-BP）。"
    ],
    [
        "Nuclear Vigilantes",
        "核警察"
    ],
    [
        "The main lesson of Japan’s approach is that launching an aggressive buying spree overseas merely upsets established international balances of interests – thus generating greater tensions with the rest of the world – while hiding the seriousness of structural problems at home.",
        "日本做法的主要教训是发动海外收购狂潮，结果破坏了现存的国际利益平衡，从而造成于世界各国关系紧张，而与此同时却隐藏了国内结构性问题的严重性而陷入僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "It could also undermine its own commercial interests in the world’s fastest-growing major economy, which sits astride China’s energy-import lifeline.",
        "对抗方针也有损于其自身在作为世界增长最快的主要经济体、又位居中国能源进口生命线的必经之路的印度的商业利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Such realistic models, based on empirical research in psychology and the neurosciences, would allow societies to cultivate their sense of compassion and build a new kind of “caring economics” that reflects more fully what it is to be human.",
        "上述以心理和神经学为基础的实证研究将引导社会培养爱心意识，建立一种全方位反应人类心理的新型“关怀经济学”。"
    ],
    [
        "One issue that Obama is certain to have in his sights is a problem that shadowed the world for years.",
        "对此，奥巴马肯定会考虑的一个问题就是那个笼罩了世界多年的阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they would have to negotiate with the ECB and other European governments a plan for managing euro-denominated debts.",
        "此外，它们还需要和欧洲央行和其他欧洲政府谈判，制定管理欧元计价债务的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But now demand for cocaine in most of the world is stable or dropping.",
        "但现在全世界大多数地方对可卡因的需求平稳或呈下降之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Income growth for the middle class in most advanced countries has been stagnant, and employment opportunities have been declining, especially in the tradable part of the economy.",
        "在大部分发达国家，中产阶级的收入增长早就停滞不前了，而且就业机会也一直在减少，尤其是经济中的可贸易部分。"
    ],
    [
        "If a citizen disappears due to another citizen’s actions, the kidnapper or murderer must be brought to account.",
        "如果一位公民由于另一位公民的行为而失踪，绑架者或谋杀者必须被绳之以法。"
    ],
    [
        "The presence of Brazilian peacekeepers in countries like Haiti and Lebanon underscores Brazil’s contribution to maintaining peace and security worldwide.",
        "巴西向海地和黎巴嫩等国派驻维和部队凸显了巴西为维护世界和平及安全所做的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "This reflects a broader tendency, which has been gaining traction since the end of the last century, to couch anti-Muslim rhetoric in the language of human rights, as though equal rights for women or gays were ancient Western customs that must be defended against alien religious bigotry.",
        "这反映了某种从上世纪末就逐步壮大的更广泛的趋势，将反穆斯林言论隐藏在人权的外衣下，就好像妇女或同性恋权利平等是西方古老的法则，必须要在外来宗教所谓的偏执面前得到维护。"
    ],
    [
        "The second solution is to capture CO2 emissions for storage underground.",
        "第二种解决方法是捕获排放的二氧化碳并储存在地下。"
    ],
    [
        "They want Britons to believe not only that the City of London would remain Europe’s top financial center, but also that the UK would retain access to the EU’s single market, even without free movement of labor.",
        "他们希望英国人相信，不但伦敦金融城将仍然是欧洲顶级金融中心，英国也能继续进入欧盟单一市场，甚至连劳动力的自由流动也能保留。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of this debt is owed to Russian companies’ offshore owners, who will certainly be happy to roll it over.",
        "其中一些债务的债权人是俄罗斯公司的离岸所有人，他们肯定乐于展期。"
    ],
    [
        "We’re fighting terrorists, and we’re securing democracy.”",
        "我们在与恐怖分子作战，而且我们在保护民主”。"
    ],
    [
        "As university attendance becomes more common, fewer capable young people enter vocational training.",
        "随着上大学的机会越来越普遍，有能力的年青人选择职业培训的也越来越少。"
    ],
    [
        "But keeping it there will be a major challenge for the Fed in the year ahead.",
        "但保持这一势头将是美联储在未来一年中的主要挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But, although Madoff was only the tip of the iceberg of rampant financial malfeasance, most suspect financiers need not fear arrest, either because their behavior merely skirted the law, or because financial impropriety more subtle than outright fraud is often difficult to prove.",
        "但是，尽管麦道夫丑闻只是猖獗的金融违法行为的冰山一角，但大多数有嫌疑的金融家并不需要担心被捕，因为他们的行为只是打了法律的擦边球，或者是因为比彻底的欺诈更微妙的金融不当行为通常很难取证。"
    ],
    [
        "As Ukraine’s agonizing struggle for democracy continues, Europeans wonder if the politics of principle can ever eclipse the politics of power.",
        "随着乌克兰的民主进程继续痛苦地进行，欧洲人不知道原则政治能否有一天超越权力政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, developing countries, particularly those in the earlier stages of economic development, must find new external markets for their goods, by maximizing trade opportunities with their counterparts in the developing world, many of which have considerable purchasing power.",
        "相反，发展中国家（尤其是那些处于经济发展早期阶段的国家）必须为本国商品找到新的外部市场，并尽力拓展与发展中国家之间的贸易机会，因此其中许多国家其实具有相当强大的购买力。"
    ],
    [
        "If this scenario plays out, the impact on economic activity and employment will be minimal.",
        "如果此梦能圆，那么经济活动和就业率受到的影响就能降到最低。"
    ],
    [
        "His own links with the scandal-plagued Gupta family will feature prominently.",
        "他与陷入丑闻的古普塔（Gupta）家族的个人关系将十分碍眼。"
    ],
    [
        "But technological change also carries risks, especially for workers who lose their jobs to automation or lack the skills to work in higher-tech fields.",
        "但技术变革也带来了风险，尤其是对那些因自动化失业或没有掌握先进技术的工人来讲。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the global system of international law and governance remains too weak to prevent the determined misbehavior of the president of the world's most powerful country if he is hell bent on starting a war on his own.",
        "遗憾的是，国际法律和管辖的全球系统还太弱小，如果世界最强大国家的总统决意独自跳起战争，上述体系阻止不了他的一意孤行。"
    ],
    [
        "But this reduction is quite modest compared to the 15-percentage-point increase that occurred during 2000-2007.",
        "但这一降幅与2000—2007年间15个百分点的升幅相比相当温和。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the worst was Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s announcement in June of a consumption-tax hike just before the Upper House elections, which the DPJ went on to lose badly.",
        "其中最严重的要数首相菅直人在上议院选举之前对提高消费税问题所发表的讲话，这直接导致了民主党的惨败。"
    ],
    [
        "During the early days of the search, almost everything that could go wrong did – from overlooked or misunderstood data to poor communication and uncoordinated and misallocated resources – as attention remained focused on the aircraft’s scheduled route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.",
        "在这次搜索行动早期，所有能出问题的地方都出了问题——从忽视误读数据、到通讯不畅和资源错配——究其原因是航班从吉隆坡到北京的既定航线吸引了人们的注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon, however, this could all change.",
        "然而，这种情况将很快改变。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there is only one difference between the two episodes: During today’s crisis, huge international rescue packages have been available.",
        "事实上，这两场危机只有一个区别：在今天的危机中，你可以获得大量国际援助。"
    ],
    [
        "The developing countries were disappointed with the results of Europe’s EBA initiative, and Europe has responded by committing itself to dealing with at least part of the problem that arises from the rules of origin tests.",
        "发展中国家对于欧盟的开放市场项目的结果感到失望，作为回应，欧盟承诺解决至少一部分由原产地规则检验引起的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Saleh’s dilemma is that Western aid may now come with increased interference in Yemen’s internal affairs at a time when he wants the world to turn a blind eye to his conduct of the country’s civil wars.",
        "萨利赫的两难之处在于他希望世界对他的内战行径视而不见，而西方援助国可能会籍此加大对也门内政问题的干预力度。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is only because acknowledgement of suffering has become identified so dogmatically with one crime that anything else seems inadequate.",
        "但这其实只是因为对苦难的认可被与某种罪行教条地联系在一起，以致于其他任何形式都显得不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Dawn, Pakistan’s largest-circulation English-language newspaper, reported that Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban’s leader, had ordered his foot soldiers to target media organizations in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Islamabad in response.",
        "巴基斯坦发行量最大的英语报纸《黎明》（Dawn）报道，巴基斯坦塔利班领袖马哈苏德（Hakimullah Mehsud）已要求其步兵将目标对准卡拉奇、拉合尔、拉瓦尔品第（Rawalpindi）和伊斯兰堡的媒体组织作为应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a close Trump adviser and possible member of Trump’s cabinet, has identified defeating ISIS as the administration’s first foreign-policy priority.",
        "前纽约市长、特朗普亲信顾问、有可能进入特朗普内阁的朱利安尼（Rudy Giuliani）将消灭伊斯兰国定义为特朗普政府第一外交要务。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are far more troubling problems with the conceptual foundation of the banking union itself, in particular with its resolution framework.",
        "但银行联盟本身的概念基础存在更加麻烦的问题，特别是其清算框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Today's great powers have relied on similar methods, also heavy with rhetoric, against puny opponents, but with far less convincing results.",
        "当今超级大国走的也是类似的路子，针对孱弱的反对者，超级大国口气强硬，但最后结果总是不能令人信服。"
    ],
    [
        "He’s taken time off from managing his transition to hold a few rallies – which he apparently enjoys more than the chores of governing – and to pull off stunts, such as lauding his deal with Carrier, which manufactures furnaces and air conditioners, to keep jobs in the US.",
        "他没有将时间用于管理过渡期，而是用于举办集会——显然和治国的杂务比起来，他更享受这样的场合——和搞点小噱头，比如吹嘘他的锅炉和空调制造商开利（Carrier）公司达成的协议能把就业岗位留在美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Google's acquisition of Nest Labs for $3.2 billion is a good example of the value that companies are placing on this kind of data.",
        "谷歌以32亿美元收购Nest Labs就是一个很好的例子，证明了公司对这类数据的看重。"
    ],
    [
        "Machel was wrong.",
        "马谢尔说得不对。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Saleh’s support among his top generals is dwindling.",
        "如今，萨利赫在高级军官中的支持度已经江河日下。"
    ],
    [
        "In the streets of Jerusalem, Israelis and Palestinians give the impression of deliberately trying not to see each other.",
        "在耶路撒冷街头，犹太人和巴勒斯坦人看上去仿佛刻意都装着看不见对方。"
    ],
    [
        "Electronic voting, used at 10% of polling stations, also caused problems.",
        "选举中约有10%的投票站采用了电子投票，而这也带来了一些问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Security Council’s composition wouldn’t be substantially different if an “ideal” distribution of seats were to be achieved.",
        "要想让安理会席位达到“理想”的分配状况，其构成就不会发生重大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, we must not submit to panic and despair, or allow ourselves to be drawn into a vortex of negative inertia.",
        "尽管如此，我们也决不能向恐慌和绝望投降，或放任我们自己陷入恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, committing to maintain zero policy rates for, say, three years implies that interest rates on securities with up to a three-year maturity should also fall to zero, given that medium-term interest rates are based on expectations concerning short-term rates over the next three years.",
        "比如，承诺保持零政策利率（比如）三年意味着期限三年以下的证券的利率应该也降低到零，因为中期利率是基于未来三年的短期利率的预期决定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans continue to look inward, obsessed with their own problems of declining competitiveness and how to pay for entitlements that they have come to regard as theirs by right.",
        "而欧盟也自顾不暇，因为它们既头痛于如何处理竞争力下降的问题，又为如何支付那些人们自以为应得的福利而苦恼。"
    ],
    [
        "About a third of young people around the world pursue a college degree or advanced training; but, despite scholarships and other incentives, the percentage of refugees who do so is a mere 1%.",
        "全球而言，三分之一的年轻人有机会追求大学学历或高级培训； 但尽管有奖学金和其他激励手段，难民接受高等教育的比例只有1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Projects aimed at boosting efficiency and transparency, supported by development banks and bilateral donors, have made a dramatic difference. In East Africa, procedural improvements have reduced the average clearance time for cargo crossing the Kenya-Uganda border from almost two days to only seven hours.",
        "由开发银行和双边机构支持、旨在增加效率和透明度的项目将产生极大不同。 在东非，程序上的改进让肯尼亚-乌干达边境货物清关的平均耗时从接近2天缩短为7小时。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, various provisions in the area of labor practices, particularly in Southeast Asia, are progressive.",
        "类似地，劳工实践领域的诸多条款，特别是在东南亚，也具有进步性。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, countries supportive of a democratic Egypt should focus on encouraging the institutional and social underpinnings of democratic process and market reform.",
        "最后，支持民主埃及的国家应该专注于鼓励国际和社会支持埃及的民主进程和市场改革。"
    ],
    [
        "A storm will surely come, and when it does, we will be poorly prepared for the deluge.",
        "风暴肯定会到来，而当它真的来临时，我们将完全没有做好应对洪水的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Current developments around the world are proving her right.",
        "全球目前的事态发展证明了她的正确性。"
    ],
    [
        "That justification will not convince economists, who prefer a dryer sort of reasoning.",
        "这一理由也许并不能说服那些喜欢枯燥推理的经济学家。"
    ],
    [
        "Developed countries have been raising their retirement ages gradually, but trade unions and pensioner groups lobby hard against any increase.",
        "各发达国家正逐步提高退休年龄，但工会和养老金群体也在竭力游说来抵抗任何增幅。"
    ],
    [
        "Technology and new approaches to public health are important; but they will be ineffective if they are not tailored to meet the real needs of local people.",
        "公共卫生的技术和新方法十分重要，但如果它们不是根据本地人民的真是需要量身定制，也起不到效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The simplest solution is to treat official funding no differently from private debt – best achieved if official lenders buy sovereign bonds as they are issued (possibly at a predetermined yield) and agree to be treated on par with private creditors in a restructuring.",
        "最简单的解决办法是对官方融资和私人债务一视同仁，最佳实现方式便是在发行主权债券时由官方贷款人购买（可以固定收益率），官方贷款人同意在重组中与私人债权人具有同等地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Political enemies are collaborating to minimize security risks, and religious leaders advocate coexistence and tolerance.",
        "政治对手协作控制安全风险，同时宗教领袖也主张共处和宽容。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who stayed behind began to vote in strange ways – electing, for example, the successors of the old Communist parties that they had been glad to get rid of only a few years before.",
        "那些被甩在后面的人开始用奇怪的方式投票，例如，选举那些原共产党的继承者，而他们仅仅在几年前还巴不得让这些共产党份子下台。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese households do save a lot, about one quarter of their income.",
        "中国家庭确实把大约他们收入的四分之一都存进了银行。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1999, when Laar became Prime Minister again, he abolished the tax on corporate profit, which was harming entrepreneurship.",
        "1999年，拉尔再度成为总理，他废除了对企业利润征税的做法，这会伤害企业家精神。"
    ],
    [
        "When America went to war, there was a deficit.",
        "美国开战的时候还有赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "A not-so-generous interpretation of modern aid history is that rich countries’ legislatures were too cheap to give outright grants to the poorest countries, and could be persuaded to help out only if they were told that the money would be repaid.",
        "还有不那么宽容的解释，那就是现代援助史中的富国议会吝啬到不愿为贫困国家直接提供赠款，而只有得到还钱的许诺后才可能同意帮忙。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece is currently too interconnected to be allowed to collapse: since it has about $400 billion of public debt – three-quarters of which is held abroad, mostly by European financial institutions – a disorderly default would lead to massive losses and risk a systemic crisis.",
        "希腊破产的后果不堪设想，它牵涉了太多的利益：约4000亿美元的公债，三分之一由外国债权人持有，其中主要是欧洲的金融机构——如果出现失控性违约，将导致巨额损失，引发系统性风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed no doubt fears that if the principle of requiring a formal rule is accepted, Congress could tighten the requirement, forcing a more restrictive monetary policy.",
        "美联储无疑会担心：如果正式规则的需求原则被接受，国会可以加强要求，迫使实施更严格的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The acid test came in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis: because it overestimated the fiscal dimension of the crisis and underestimated its financial dimension, the eurozone performed worse than the United States and the United Kingdom.",
        "2008年全球金融危机后，严峻的考验来临了：欧元区高估了危机的财政维度，低估了它的金融维度，因此其表现不如美国和英国。"
    ],
    [
        "Goodhart takes no position on whether cultural diversity is intrinsically or morally good or bad.",
        "古德哈特不预设文化多样性是否具有内在或道德上的优劣。"
    ],
    [
        "These problems were simmering beneath the surface of autocratic repression for decades.",
        "这些问题在专制镇压的表面下发酵已长达数十年之久。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, 22 leading groups have united to create The European Nutrigenomics Organization, or NuGO.",
        "为此，22个尖端团队已经联合组成一个欧洲营养基因学组织（The European Nutrigenomics Organization），即NuGO。"
    ],
    [
        "The agreement on contributions is significant, it is said, because China and Japan will both contribute 32%.",
        "人们都说就出资比例达成的共识很重要，因为中国和日本将各自出资32%。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, no one can guarantee that intervention would not quickly lead to another war with Israel.",
        "此外，没人能保证干预不会立刻导致另一场与以色列的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the state uses its apparatus to deter competition – both informally, through arbitrary enforcement of property rights, and formally, through trade restrictions – crony capitalism is not only unjust, but also inefficient.",
        "由于国家利用其下属机构来遏制竞争——无论是非正式地利用针对财产所有权的执法，或是正式利用种种贸易管制政策——权贵资本主义不仅不公平，而且也缺乏效率。"
    ],
    [
        "It also entails jointly planning infrastructure projects, managing floods and droughts, developing an integrated strategy to combat climate change, ensuring the quality of water courses, and holding regular summits to negotiate tradeoffs between water and other public goods.",
        "它还需要共同策划基础设施项目、实行洪涝管理、制定应对气候变化的综合战略、确保水资源质量以及定期举行就水资源及其他公共产品进行权衡和协商的首脑会议。"
    ],
    [
        "The “street” is boiling and increasingly radicalized, with violence against women, minorities, and politicians on the rise.",
        "沸腾的“街道”越来越激进，暴力侵害妇女、少数族裔和政客的事件时有发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom and France, which contributed the bulk of the peacekeeping force, insisted on a peacekeeping mandate, because they did not want to put their troops in harm’s way.",
        "而为维和部队贡献了大部分兵力的英国和法国坚持要首先获得一个维持和平任务的授权才采取行动，因为它们不想让自己的部队卷入冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "We will gladly offer a helping hand to whoever is willing to reach for it.",
        "只要愿意向这方面努力，我们十分乐意施以援手。"
    ],
    [
        "A year ago, Snowden alerted the world to governments’ egregious violation of people’s privacy.",
        "一年前，斯诺登警告世界政府如何严重破坏个人隐私。"
    ],
    [
        "(It has notably not asked for cuts in the face value of its debt).",
        "（值得关注的是，它没有要求减少债务的面值）。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracies have proved to be much more peaceful than authoritarian regimes and dictatorships.",
        "民主已经被证明比极权统治和独裁要和平得多。"
    ],
    [
        "We are now initiating clinical trials to determine how efficient these PARP inhibitors are in the treatment of metastasized breast tumors.",
        "我们正准备启动临床实验以测定这些PARP抑制剂在治疗转移性胸壁肿瘤中如何有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Europe promote fair play in international affairs, or must it accept a new game of great power rivalry as inevitable and throw itself into the fray?",
        "欧洲能否在国际事务中促进公平竞争？ 还是不得不承认新的大国竞争游戏不可避免，然后也投身到这场喧嚣之中？"
    ],
    [
        "Black Swan World",
        "黑天鹅世界"
    ],
    [
        "The comparison between Trump and Berlusconi is far from superficial.",
        "特朗普和贝卢斯科尼之间的比较还远远不能停留在表象上。"
    ],
    [
        "The Syrian people, oppressed and brutalized by their own government, should see that the American people have a different relationship with their leaders.",
        "叙利亚人民饱受本国政府的压迫和欺凌，他们应该看看，美国人民和领导人之间的关系大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the ECB must develop a strategy that works in the eurozone’s unique system, instead of continuing to follow the Fed’s lead.",
        "显然，欧洲央行必须发展出一套符合欧元区独特制度的战略，而不是继续跟在美联储后面亦步亦趋。"
    ],
    [
        "These are essentially “beggar thyself” policies.",
        "这些基本上都属于“风险自担”政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Many highly intelligent people suffer from mental illness.",
        "许多智商很高的人都患有精神病。"
    ],
    [
        "The military-plus-security budget soared by more than 2% of GNP, while tax revenues fell by much more.",
        "军事加安全的预算猛增到了GNP的2%，而税收的减少却更多。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – I may not be the only finance professor who, when setting essay topics for his or her students, has resorted to a question along the following lines: “In your view, was the global financial crisis caused primarily by too much government intervention in financial markets, or by too little?”",
        "伦敦—我想必绝非唯一这样的金融学教授：在为学生设定文论主题时，会提出诸如“在你看来，全球金融危机的主因是政府对金融市场的干预太多还是太少？ ”这样的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Pengembangan sektor energi dan infrastruktur juga penting, sebab keduanya akan menyokong pertumbuhan manufaktur dan menghasilkan pendapatan negara yang sangat dibutuhkan.",
        "能源和基础设施部门的发展也很重要，因为这有助于打好制造业增长基础并提供急需的政府收入。"
    ],
    [
        "TEL AVIV– The crisis in the Sinai Peninsula seems to have been dwarfed by Sunday’s drama in Cairo.",
        "特拉维夫—西奈半岛危机似乎因周日开罗发生的事情而相形见绌。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiations could subsequently progress to include other major actors, especially Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey.",
        "之后谈判可能会纳入其他重要力量，特别是沙特阿拉伯、伊朗和土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "The developing countries fear that the rich countries won’t deliver the money, at least not cash; and they are right.",
        "发展中国家担心富裕国家不会给钱，至少不会给现金； 它们是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "The two countries have so much in common.",
        "这两个国家有很多共同之处。"
    ],
    [
        "We must never forget the seemingly anonymous victims of Castro’s “acts of rejection.”",
        "我们决对不能忘记卡斯特罗的“排异行动”中那些看似无名的受害人。"
    ],
    [
        "The following year, China’s foreign ministry confirmed this.",
        "”第二年，中国外交部又确认了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "As these and many other examples show, business can become more efficient if governments provide the right combination of a diverse, relatively specific, and evolving set of public goods.",
        "这些和其他许多例子表明，如果政府能提供多样化的、相对具体的、与时俱进的正确的公共品组合，企业可以变得更加高效。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Following its recent free elections, Pakistan is rebounding politically.",
        "剑桥－在最近的自由选举之后，巴基斯坦正处于政治上的恢复过程之中。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, the task force recommends broadening the education of science-focused students to include humanities, social sciences, languages, and communication.",
        "为此，特别小组建议拓展理科学生的学习范围，加入人文科学、社会科学、语言和沟通技巧。"
    ],
    [
        "Aggravating this situation is the global refugee crisis, which has displaced some 30 million children, six million from Syria alone, very few of whom are likely to return home during their school-age years.",
        "全球难民危机令这一状况雪上加霜。 难民危机导致3,000万儿童流离失所，光是叙利亚就有六百万，其中极少部分有望在学龄阶段返回家园。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the world will not have to wait for moral suasion to carry the day.",
        "幸运的是，世界将不必期盼道德说教获得胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s crises reflect the lightning speed of an interconnected world.ampnbsp; The factors that produced this globalization offer great opportunities to overcome poverty, increase opportunity, and open societies.ampnbsp; But we will need a new multilateralism to expand the availability of these benefits to all.",
        "这些促成了全球化的因素提供了极大的机会以克服贫困、增加机会和开放社会。 但是，我们将需要一个新多边主义，以便让所有的人能更多地获得这些好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Puigdemont did declare a Catalan state “in the form of a republic.”",
        "普伊格蒙特确实宣布加泰罗尼亚国“采取共和国的形式”。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as it progressed, disturbing parallels appeared – not to 1914, but to some of the nastier features of the interwar years.",
        "但是，随着2014年的深入，出现了令人担忧的比较——不是和1914年，而是一些两次大战之间的更凶险的特点。"
    ],
    [
        "A robust scientific establishment is the root of any economy, and there will be no real development in the Third World without it.",
        "充满活力的科学机构是经济发展的根源，没有它也就谈不上第三世界的任何发展。"
    ],
    [
        "But the form of Chinese support for Greece will likely benefit China far more than Greece in the long term.",
        "但在长期上看，中国对希腊的支持形式为前者带来的好处显然要远大于后者。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece largely succeeded in following the dictate set by the “troika” (the European Commission the ECB, and the IMF): it converted a primary budget deficit into a primary surplus.",
        "希腊在遵循“三驾马车”（欧盟委员会、欧洲央行和IMF）所制定的政策方面相当成功：其初级预算已从赤字转为盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "While cynics say that its only achievement is to make consumers feel better about their purchases – rather like buying indulgences in the old Catholic Church – this is to sell fair trade short.",
        "即便批评者们说该运动的唯一成就就是让消费者们对自己感觉良好——就像从前在天主教堂购买赎罪券那样，但这其实是低估了公平贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Their political world wasn’t big enough for both.",
        "他们的政治世界不够大，容不下两个人。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, it is unclear what kind of landing China faces – not least because official statistics may be overstating current GDP growth considerably.",
        "不过，目前还不清楚中国将以何种方式着陆——这不仅是因为官方统计数据可能极大夸大了当前的GDP增长。"
    ],
    [
        "For their leaders, too, an agreement with the US was out of the question.",
        "同样，对这些国家的领导人来说，与美国签订协议想都不要想。"
    ],
    [
        "The conclusion that Saunders and his co-authors draw from this is both surprising and hard to dispute: rather than shrinking our electricity use, the introduction of ever more efficient lighting technologies is much more likely to lead to “massive…growth in the consumption of light.”",
        "桑德斯及其同事在这个问题上得出的结论既惊人又很难驳斥： 与其指望能够降低用电量，采用更加高效的照明技术导致“照明用电大幅增加”的可能性更大。"
    ],
    [
        "And once the pump’s handle was removed, the pace of the outbreak slowed dramatically.",
        "把水井泵的手柄换掉后，霍乱爆发速度大幅降低。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is significant that Bush decided to voice this view during Pakistan’s political transition.",
        "但是布什决定在巴基斯坦政治过渡过程中说出这个观点意义重大。"
    ],
    [
        "The glorification of single mothers represents a collective exasperation on the part of women in America – and women who make decisions in the mainstream media.",
        "美化单身母亲的潮流反映出美国女性——特别是主流媒体决策层女性的一种集体愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "At the moment, America’s economy is limping along with slow growth and high unemployment.",
        "此时此刻，美国经济在低增长和高失业的围追堵截下步履蹒跚。"
    ],
    [
        "For any other infectious disease or global health threat, achieving this kind of reduction in incidence rate and mortality would be nothing short of miraculous.",
        "对其他任何传染病或全球健康威胁来说，达到类似的降低致病率和死亡率目标不啻奇迹。"
    ],
    [
        "It is still unclear exactly how much of the $1 trillion pledged at the London G20 summit will find its way to Africa.",
        "伦敦二十国峰会上承诺的一万亿美元究竟如何投向非洲仍不明朗。"
    ],
    [
        "The ability to mobilize a group effectively is certainly an art rather than a predictive science, and varies with situations, but that does not mean that it cannot be profitably studied and learned.",
        "有效动员一个团体的能力肯定是艺术，而非可以预测的科学； 这种能力视情境而定，但这并不表示对它的研究与学习得不偿失。"
    ],
    [
        "Vested interests may also play a role.",
        "既得利益也在起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Let him live here, let him work here, let him be an Afghan.”",
        "让他住在这里，让他在这里工作，让他成为一个阿富汗人吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Now they must recognize that what populists call a weakness could be Austria’s best hope for reviving growth.",
        "如今他们必须认识到民粹主义者口中的弊端可能就是重振增长奥地利的最大希望。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the fundamentalists benefited from years of political organizing and activism, and thus were better able to mobilize their supporters, whereas the liberals, who led the uprising against the former regime, lacked nationwide organization and had little time to translate their newly acquired political capital into votes.",
        "首先，原教旨主义者从多年的政治组织和活动中受益，因此能够更好地动员其支持者，而领导起义对抗前政权的自由主义者缺少全国性的组织，也没有什么时间将刚刚获得的政治资本转化成选票。"
    ],
    [
        "What happens in Ukraine – not the financial standoff with Greece – will be the ultimate test of whether European and transatlantic unity endure.",
        "乌克兰发生的情况——不是希腊的金融僵局——将是欧洲和跨大西洋联盟能否生存的终极考验。"
    ],
    [
        "The drastic deterioration in Turkey’s relations with Israel is related to this emerging Iranian-Turkish rivalry.",
        "此外土耳其与以色列关系的迅速降温也与伊朗-土耳其敌对状态的出现有关。"
    ],
    [
        "The Japanese work ethic would persist, the reasoning went, and Japan’s high savings rate and slow population growth would give it a substantial edge in capital intensity – and thus in labor productivity – on top of whatever economy-wide advantage it might develop in total factor productivity.",
        "这一预测认为，日本的工作伦理将会持续，日本的高储蓄率和低人口增长率将让它获得显著的资本密集度——以及劳动生产率——优势，此外还有全要素生产率方面的全经济优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, too, a large segment of the electorate told pollsters that they doubted the legitimacy of the official result.",
        "在墨西哥也是一样，选民的很大一部分告诉民意调查机构说他们怀疑官方结果的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, the macroeconomic logic that large current-account deficits signal that currencies are overvalued continues to escape the world’s international financial investors and speculators.",
        "即便如此，大规模经常帐户赤字表明货币价值高估的宏观经济逻辑却继续被国际金融投资者和投机者们视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "Indian voters decisively rejected the Congress party, which had governed India virtually without interruption since it gained independence from Britain in 1947.",
        "印度选民果断地拒绝了自1947年脱离英国独立以来几乎一直统治印度的国大党。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, many companies are taking steps now to limit their emissions to avoid future financial liabilities and a lack of investor confidence.",
        "其结果是许多公司都开始采取措施限制排放以避免在未来承担不必要的经济责任并以此保持投资者的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite concerns over conflict in southern Thailand, there are no secessionist enclaves beyond government control, and no indications of foreign terrorist involvement.",
        "尽管泰国南部的争端使人担忧，但分裂主义并没有超越政府的控制，没有任何外国恐怖主义介入的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, there is the temptation to regard Osama bin Laden as a type of violent Robin Hood, whose actions, while impossible to condone officially, have helped them to recover a sense of Arab pride and dignity.",
        "相反，奥萨马·本·拉登视为暴虐的罗宾汉很具诱惑力，其行为虽然不可饶恕，却帮助他们赢得了阿拉伯人的自豪感和尊严。"
    ],
    [
        "So religion cannot be imposed; individuals must practice it according to their own decisions.",
        "因此，宗教是不能被强加的，每个人必须根据自己的意愿决定来信奉宗教。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank also pushed for privatization of national health systems, water utilities, and road and power networks, and grossly underfinanced these critical sectors.",
        "世界银行同时也推动国家卫生体制、水力、道路、电力网络的私有化，使这些重要部门得不到足够的经济支持。"
    ],
    [
        "How perfect, I thought, as I imagined Russia’s president climbing the stairs to the attic of his palace to play the role of Peter the Great.",
        "想象着俄国总统登上官邸阁楼的台阶，扮演着彼得大帝的角色，我觉得简直太完美了。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Erdoğan does need to consolidate his political base, including by renewing ties with loyal supporters.",
        "当然，埃尔多安的确需要巩固自己的政治基础，包括恢复与忠实支持者之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The very structure of society has come to be shaky.",
        "社会结构本身已变得摇摇欲坠。"
    ],
    [
        "A prohibition against “bump stocks,” the device used by the Las Vegas killer to enable his semi-automatic rifles to fire like fully automatic weapons, appears possible; but there will be little more federal action than that.",
        "但除此之外很难再有联邦层面的行动。 拉斯维加斯枪击犯就是使用撞火枪托将使他的半自动步枪能够像全自动武器那样开火。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the recent standby arrangement with Latvia, whose conditions include a massive 25% cut in public-sector wages, a similar reduction in government expenditures, and a huge tax increase.",
        "想想国际货币基金组织最近和拉脱维亚的备用贷款安排（standby arrangement）——这一安排的条件包括拉脱维亚大幅削减25％的公共部门薪水、削减同样幅度的政府开支以及大量增加税收——就知道为什么是这样的了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Pheu Thai party, led by Yingluck Shinawatra, the youngest sister of exiled fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, secured a resounding triumph, winning 265 seats in the 500-member assembly, while the ruling Democrat Party mustered just 159.",
        "由流亡前总理他信最小的妹妹英拉·西那瓦领导的为泰党大胜，一举夺得下议院500个议席中的265席，反之目前执政的民主党只拿下159席。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, outcomes may – and often do – depend on the amorphous yet essential qualities of integrity, trustworthiness, and interpersonal “chemistry.”",
        "最后的结果可能——也常常——取决于诚信、信誉和人际“化学”的无形但重要的品质。"
    ],
    [
        "Five years after the credit crunch of 2007-2008, it seems that they cannot.",
        "从2007—2008信贷动荡后的五年来看，答案是否定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments must also identify radical tendencies within Europe’s Muslim communities and devise strategies to counteract them.",
        "政府还必须了解欧洲穆斯林社区中的激进倾向，并制定战略以应付这些倾向。"
    ],
    [
        "The various components, and the subdivisions within them, do not appear to be centrally commanded.",
        "其内部的不同组织和派别似乎并没有集中的指挥。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, the answer is none at all.",
        "目前的情况是没有任何报偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody I know thinks she is likely to stumble so badly; still, the Clintons are known to be accident-prone, and they have been full of surprises – scandals and scandalettes – since they first appeared on the national scene a quarter-century ago.",
        "据我所知没人认为她会摔得那么惨，不过克林顿家族一贯事故多发，他们也一直令人惊奇。 从他们二十五年前首次登上全国性舞台的那一刻起，丑闻就一直没有停止。"
    ],
    [
        "So the key issue for China, its neighbors, the US, and rest of the world is not how many aircraft carriers, missiles, submarines, and next-generation fighters China may produce and deploy in the coming years and decades. Rather, it is how China intends to use its newly acquired economic and military strength in pursuing its domestic and foreign-policy goals – and how the world’s leading powers can ensure that they do not end up harming each other by accident or misunderstanding.",
        "因此对中国及其邻国，还有美国以及世界其他国家来说，最关键的问题不是中国将在未来几十年内部署多少航母、导弹，潜艇和战斗机，而是中国将如何运用新近获得的经济和军事实力去实现其内政外交政策——以及这些世界大国如何防止因为意外或者误解而互相伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Periodic famines devastate the population.",
        "定期发生的饥荒摧毁了朝鲜民众。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet history shows the opposite pattern, with decision-making seldom factoring in environmental consequences or citizens’ opinions.",
        "但历史模式却恰恰相反，决策过程极少考虑到民众意见和环境后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though accusations of biopiracy may have emotional appeal, impartial analyses have shown that they have little factual basis.",
        "但尽管指控生物剽窃可能符合某些人的情感诉求，但公正的分析显示这样的做法不具备事实基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixty-two years after the North Atlantic Treaty was signed, binding the United States, Canada, and ten European states to consider an attack on one an attack on all, NATO is transforming itself into a twenty-first-century global security organization.",
        "六十二年前，“北大西洋公约”的签订令美国、加拿大和10个欧洲国家将针对一国的攻击视为针对全体的攻击，六十二年后，北约正逐步转变为二十一世纪的全球安全组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Although full modernization of the financial sector is a long way off even in the best of circumstances, the minimal reforms that we recommend could strengthen the banking system sufficiently in the near term to support a more flexible exchange rate anchored by an inflation objective.",
        "即使在最佳情况下实现金融体系的现代化还都是遥远的事情。 尽管如此，我们建议的最低程度的改革应当可以在近期内有力地加强银行体系，从而支持通胀目标所包含的更为灵活的汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Pakistan is a signatory to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which include attainment of universal literacy for both boys and girls by 2015, the country is far from achieving the target, with literacy rates of 70% for boys and only 45% for girls in 2010.",
        "尽管巴基斯坦是联合国千年发展目标的签署国（其中包括在2015年前让所有男孩和女孩识字的目标），但该国距离达成目标还差得很远，2010年男孩识字率为70%，女孩更是只有45%。"
    ],
    [
        "With fixed investment nearing the unprecedented threshold of 50% of GDP, they fear that another investment-led fiscal stimulus will only hasten the inevitable China-collapse scenario.",
        "中国固定资产投资占GDP的比重正在接近前无古人的50%，因此西方分析师担心新的投资导向的财政刺激只能让中国加速迈向崩溃的宿命。"
    ],
    [
        "Moral relativism has damaged public life.",
        "道德相对论破坏了公众生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Opponents of Obamacare have failed to stop it in the courts and, more recently, in Congress.",
        "奥巴马医改的反对者没能在法院阻止它，最近在国会再次受挫。"
    ],
    [
        "Between now and September 2015, when heads of state will gather for the UN General Assembly, we have a historic chance to set the world on a more sustainable path that will eradicate poverty and enhance prosperity for all.",
        "从现在到2015年9月各国首脑齐聚联合国大会期间，我们拥有一个历史性机会为世界设计更加可持续的道路，从而消灭贫困、改善所有人的前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, France and Germany would need to implement interim arrangements to safeguard their banking systems’ stability.",
        "当然，法国和德国需要实施过渡性安排以保证银行系统的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "They are desperate to enter the global community and rid themselves of a damaged international reputation.",
        "他们不顾一切地要融入全球社会，永远洗刷掉身上狼藉的国际恶名。"
    ],
    [
        "He pointed out, with some justification, that other countries also put their own national interests first.",
        "他指出，其他国家也把自己的国家利益放在第一位（这有一定道理）。"
    ],
    [
        "In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has unleashed a combination of aggressive monetary and fiscal expansion along with promised reforms of the labor market, corporate governance, regulation, and trade.",
        "在日本，首相安倍晋三同时抛出了激进的货币和财政扩张，并承诺改革劳动力市场、公司治理、监管和贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Global energy consumption, however, is rising at around 3% per year, implying that we’re still digging our hole deeper, rather than filling it in.",
        "但是，全球能源消费量以每年3%左右的速度增长，这意味着我们仍在继续给自己挖坑，而不是填坑。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent decades, that strategy has proved remarkably successful.",
        "近几十年来，这一战略取得了令人瞩目的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "If a reform is as good as we think it is, then so is public debt to finance its political acceptability.",
        "如果改革措施真像我们预期的那样好，那么资助其政治可行性的公共债务也就算得上是物有所值。"
    ],
    [
        "Such countries evolve a hierarchical authoritarian society in which the only incentive is to compete for privileged access to commodity rents.",
        "此类国家往往演化出一个金字塔形的威权社会，人们唯一的动力就是争夺商品寻租的特权。"
    ],
    [
        "By revealing underlying weaknesses that more traditional risk-assessment methods may miss, we could pinpoint the structural reforms, behavioral changes, and strategic investments that increased resilience requires.",
        "通过揭示传统风险评估方法所不能揭示的弱点，我们可以让结构性改革、行为改变和增加韧性要求的战略投资更精确。"
    ],
    [
        "But the scheme was criticized for allowing employers to pay below-subsistence wages, because the taxpayer would make up the difference.",
        "但该机制受到了批评，被认为这让雇主支付低于生存水平线的工资，因为纳税人会补偿差额。"
    ],
    [
        "The manufacturing of scientific uncertainty endangers the public’s health, as well as programs to protect public health and to compensate victims.",
        "制造科学不确定性使大众健康和保护大众健康及赔偿受害者的计划都处于危险之中。"
    ],
    [
        "But more recently – and especially since 2012, when President Xi Jinping came to power – China has been tightening its grip on Hong Kong.",
        "但后来——特别是2012年国家主席习近平掌权后——中国开始收紧对香港的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments must therefore act decisively to make the needed investments and provide the right signals.",
        "因此，政府必须果断行动，做好必要的投资并提供正确的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "But, although Chinese officials should be applauded for their commitment to implementing painful – and badly needed – structural reforms, the supply-side focus largely ignores the present.",
        "但是，尽管中国官员承诺实施痛苦——也是急需——的结构改革值得赞赏，但聚焦于供给端在很大程度上忽略了当下。"
    ],
    [
        "In this environment, the upcoming European Parliament elections seem tailor-made for extremist parties, with recent public-opinion polls suggesting that the National Front will come out on top in France.",
        "在这样的背景下，即将到来的欧洲议会选举似乎成为为极端主义政党量身定做的机会，最新的公共观点调查表明国民阵线将成为法国首屈一指的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "According to official data, China’s old-age dependency ratio – the ratio of those aged 65 and up to working-age people (aged 15-64) – currently stands at 13%.",
        "据官方数据，中国老龄赡养比——65岁及以上人群与工作年龄人口（15—64岁）之比——目前为13%。"
    ],
    [
        "Men who wish to maintain their control over women will no doubt continue to use culture and religious tradition to justify their dominance.",
        "为了维持他们对女性的控制，穆斯林男性毫无疑问会继续借助文化和宗教传统来为自己的支配地位寻找合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "(If you want a widget, any widget will do, but once you have widget 94303, only part 94303A will satisfy you.)",
        "但如果你有了物件94303，那么只有零件94303A才符合你的要求。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the US needs a financial system that serves all of society, rather than operating as if it were an end in itself.",
        "最后，美国需要一个能服务整个社会，而不是看上去像是在自我了结的金融系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Through improved seed stocks and more efficient water management, we can have crops that require less water, grow at higher density, and thrive in wider temperature ranges.",
        "通过改良种子储备和更有效的水管理，我们可以获得水需求更低的作物，以更高密度种植，并且能适应更大的温度范围。"
    ],
    [
        "One-third of the Guantánamo detainees are Yemeni, but Yemen cannot guarantee the United States that the detainees will be controlled effectively if they are returned home.",
        "关押在关塔那摩的人中，有三分之一的人是也门人，但是，也门不敢向美国保证，如果这些被关押者被送回了也门国内，也门能够有效地控制他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, we would expect less opportunity for transformational leadership.",
        "因此，出现变革型领袖的机会更低。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, it is in Saudi Arabia's interest for oil prices to rise high enough to sustain its own economy, but not so high that they can sustain significant increases in non-OPEC supply.",
        "简而言之，最符合沙特利益的情况就是让油价飞得足够高以维持本国经济，但又不能特别高，以免引发非欧佩克国家的供应增加。"
    ],
    [
        "On the output side, and after many years of persistent deflation (prices fell 0.5% last month), Japan is now targeting a 2% inflation rate within two years, thus underscoring its commitment to avoid a pre-mature withdrawal of monetary support for growth.",
        "在产出方面，在多年的通货紧缩之后（上个月价格下降了0. 5%），日本现在的目标是两年内通货膨胀率达到2%，从而坚定了自身的承诺——不会提前撤回对经济增长的货币支持。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a pity that the Russian leadership of today has chosen not to condemn the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that damaged the development of the whole Baltic Sea region for so many years – and still is a source of political pollution threatening to poison relations between neighbors around the Baltic Sea.",
        "遗憾的是当今的俄罗斯领导人选择不对多年以来对整个波罗的海地区的发展造成破坏的《莫洛托夫与里宾特洛甫协议》加以谴责。 而该协议至今仍是严重威胁俄罗斯及其波罗的海邻国之间关系的政治污染源。"
    ],
    [
        "But Ethiopia poses a dilemma for anyone who cares about human rights and democracy.",
        "对那些关心埃塞俄比亚的人权和民主问题的人士来说，他们一直处在一个两难的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the environmental policies that are urgently needed to improve air and water quality absorb resources and impede growth.",
        "与此同时，改善空气和水质量所急需的环境政策也需要吸收资源、妨碍增长。"
    ],
    [
        "So the risk remains that a severe enough financial shock in the EU will affect all other borrowers in the same country in a self-fulfilling manner.",
        "于是，如果欧盟发生足够严重的金融冲击，仍有可能以自我实现的方式影响到同一国家内的所有其他借款人。"
    ],
    [
        "China is America’s third-largest and most rapidly growing export market.",
        "在中国崩溃情形中，这一出口需求将干涸——大约会将2016年美国经济增长率拉低0. 2—0."
    ],
    [
        "The elimination of fossil-fuel subsidies and the implementation of carbon pricing are particularly important; with oil prices very low, now is the ideal time for countries to implement such reforms.",
        "取消化石燃料补贴和实施碳定价尤其重要； 目前油价低企，是实施这些改革的理想时机。"
    ],
    [
        "The conversation must begin today.",
        "对话必须从现在开始。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as is often the case, success led to excess.",
        "但是，与往常一样，成功总是导致冒进。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators could not go back and fix it with their new Dodd-Frank powers, because the firm would already be ripped asunder.",
        "监管机构无法回头凭借新多德-弗兰克权力拯救它，因为该公司已经支离破碎了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rift Valley Railway project, which will eventually link Mombasa on the Kenyan coast to Kampala in Uganda, is a good example of the benefits that investments in transportation could provide.",
        "最终将连接肯尼亚蒙巴萨海滨和乌干达坎帕拉的东非大裂谷铁路工程很好地说明了交通投资所能提供的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "A semblance of political legitimacy, especially among the educated middle class, was purchased with the promise of greater wealth.",
        "中共用更多财富的保证从特别是受过教育的中产阶级那里收买了政治合法性的外表。"
    ],
    [
        "Campaigns must – and, increasingly, do – focus on genuine changes to defamation laws, to ensure that governments cannot use them to stifle dissent.",
        "运动必须——也确实这么做了——将重点放在诽谤法的真正改革上，以确保政府不能使用诽谤法来扼杀异见。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, a code can help to embed ethics in all aspects of scientific research from its inception.",
        "简而言之，从初期开始，这套规范就有助于将道德纳入科学研究的方方面面。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, however, the TFP growth rate has fallen by almost half.",
        "但是从那以后，全要素生产率增长速度已经下降了近一半左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Second-order issues are presented as red lines, with largely technical questions – for example, about refugee family reunions, a new health insurance scheme no one asked for (Bürgerversicherung), or the role of the federal government in funding education – taking center stage.",
        "次要问题被当成是红线，而主要是技术性质的问题——比如难民家庭团聚、无人问津的新医疗保险机制（rgerversicherung），以及联邦政府的教育拨款等——成了核心议题。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, regulators should adopt a flexible approach.",
        "相反，监管者应该采取灵活的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN Climate Change Conference in 2011 – initiated and hosted by South Africa – produced an agreement to adopt a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon as possible, no later than this year.",
        "由南非发起和主办的年联合国气候变化会议形成了一个协议——尽快实施全球气候变化法律协议，最晚不能超过今年。"
    ],
    [
        "But Italians are torn between antipathy toward the European Union, which disciplines the Italian government, and discontent and frustration with that government itself, owing to its failure to present a credible reform plan.",
        "但意大利人其实也相当左右为难：他们一方面反感欧盟对意大利政府的处处掣肘，另一方面又对本国政府感到不满和沮丧——因为其始终未能拿出一套可信的改革方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Do we need Barclays and UBS to manipulate Libor (a key benchmark for interest rates around the world)?",
        "我们希望巴克莱和瑞银操纵Libor（世界关键性基准利率之一）吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, bubbles are social epidemics, fostered by a sort of interpersonal contagion.",
        "在我看来，泡沫是一种社会流行病，由某种人与人之间的互相传染而催生。"
    ],
    [
        "Once increasing fixed investment becomes impossible – most likely after 2013 – China is poised for a sharp slowdown.",
        "一旦不断增加的固定资产投资无以为继——这很可能在2013年发生——中国经济的发展就可能严重放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "More ambitious initiatives have been proposed.",
        "德国和法国也提出了一些更有雄心的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Leading the Middle East Into the Future",
        "领导未来"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Europe needs peace between cultures as much as it once needed peace between nations, and it is for this reason that we must welcome Turkey into our midst.",
        "今天，欧洲需要文化之间的和平共处，正如它曾经需要国家之间的和平一样，并且正是由于这个原因我们必须欢迎土耳其加入到我们中来。"
    ],
    [
        "Around the same time, the Luddites smashed the textile machinery that they saw as taking their jobs.",
        "大约同时代，勒德份子捣毁了纺织机械，他们认为正是这些机器抢走了他们的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Multiple players are integrated into a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.”",
        "而多个参与者整合为一体的力量要大于他们作为各自分散的个体的总和。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that major Internet companies – most of which are based in the United States – are already contributing billions of dollars to establish and maintain the networks and data centers that are essential to the Internet’s functioning.",
        "现实是大型互联网公司——大部分总部设在美国——已经在投入数十亿美元用于建设和维持对互联网运行至关重要的网络和数据中心。"
    ],
    [
        "Hezbollah militants in south Lebanon then killed three Israeli soldiers and captured two others, and insisted on Israel’s withdrawal from disputed territory and an exchange for some of the several thousand incarcerated Lebanese.",
        "黎巴嫩南部的真主党武装分子随后又杀死三名以色列士兵并且俘虏了其他两名士兵，并且坚持要求以色列从有争议的领土撤军以及交换几千名被关押的黎巴嫩人。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the Treaty makes the EU more open and more transparent.",
        "第三，条约使欧盟更加开放和透明。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is running out of time.",
        "欧洲的时间非常紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "With huge current-account and budget surpluses, it had accumulated international reserves of $600 billion by July.",
        "在拥有巨额经常项目和预算盈余的情况下，到今年7月为止它已经积累了6000亿美金的外汇储备。"
    ],
    [
        "But the longer-term rise in the annual deficits – owing to an aging population, changing medical technology, and rising interest rates – and the resulting increase in the debt-to-GDP ratio were inevitable (and were clearly predicted by the CBO and others).",
        "但年度赤字的长期性上涨——由于人口老龄化、医疗技术不断提升和利率上升——以及因此导致的债务相对GDP比率上升是无可避免的（国会预算办公室和其他机构对此已有明确预测）。 大量有资格领取社会保障福利的美国老年人将在未来30年使得社会保障计划支出相对GDP的比例从当前的4."
    ],
    [
        "Crucially, health care needs to become connected.",
        "一个关键问题是医疗需要具有连通性。"
    ],
    [
        "ATHENS – Much is at stake in Greece’s upcoming election.",
        "发自雅典——即将举行的希腊大选事关重大。"
    ],
    [
        "It is in the oil-rich border areas that a new war might erupt.",
        "富含石油资源的边界地区可能再次开战。"
    ],
    [
        "A relatively small amount of melting beneath the Amundsen Sea’s ice shelf has pushed its grounding line to the top of a sub-glacial hill, from which it is now “rolling down.”",
        "阿蒙森海冰架下的少量融冰已将其地平线推到了被冰川掩盖的丘陵上，现在正处在一种“下滑”的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Events following the crash of 2008 clearly show that monetary policy on its own cannot achieve a level of economic activity close to its potential.",
        "2008年危机之后的一系列事件清楚地表明，光靠货币政策无法实现接近潜力的经济活动水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Could it be that a candidate of fear – McCain or, increasingly, Clinton – really serves Europe’s interests better than a candidate of hope?",
        "令人害怕的侯选人像麦凯恩或者害怕程度越来越高的希拉里·克林顿是否确实要比一个让人怀有希望的侯选人更为符合欧洲的利益呢？"
    ],
    [
        "More important, the current situation reflects a lack of wisdom, responsibility, and basic decency on the part of political and religious leaders, who prefer to fuel, rather than dampen, inter-communal strife.",
        "更重要的是，当前的局面反映了政治和宗教领袖缺乏智慧、责任和基本尊重，他们更喜欢助推而不是消弭宗派冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the court order, Argentina may not pay the holders of the new bonds unless it also pays the holdouts, and no US financial institution can serve as an intermediary to make payments for Argentina.",
        "在法院判决之下，阿根廷只能在偿付了反对者的同时才能向新债券的持有者进行偿付，同时也没有美国金融机构能作为为阿根廷进行支付的中间人。"
    ],
    [
        "While East Africa is blazing the trail when it comes to electronic money, other parts of the world are adopting different innovative approaches.",
        "在电子货币方面，东非可谓开路先锋，而世界的另一端正在采取不同的创新方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, when asked by friends in Norway or Switzerland whether they should support their countries’ entry into the EU, my answer is negative.",
        "事实上，挪威和瑞士的朋友问我他们是否应该支持国家加入欧盟，我的回答是消极的。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, nearly 100 million people have been added to the voter rolls since the last national election in 2009.",
        "首先，在2009年全国选举以来，选民数量增加了近一亿人。 大约8."
    ],
    [
        "Hirschman’s framework, which is instructive in helping us to think about how loyalty and affection can be generated, suggests that it cannot.",
        "赫希曼的框架——有助于指导我们思考忠诚和感情如何产生——表明不会。"
    ],
    [
        "They also contribute to further income concentration at the top by hurting small savers, while creating opportunities for large financial players to benefit from access to savings at negative real cost.",
        "此类政策还将损害小储户的利益，促进收入进一步在顶层集中，同时它还将创造机会，让实际成本为负的储蓄资金惠及大型金融机构。"
    ],
    [
        "A Fresh Start for China and Japan?",
        "中日关系的新开始？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, nuclear plants are prone to a form of “panic transference.”",
        "事实上，全球核电站很容易感染恐慌情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "The labeling is working.",
        "这一标识起了作用。"
    ],
    [
        "From Libya to Mali, France and Britain are largely seen as the extended arm of an America that is increasingly reticent to commit its own troops – or even weapons.",
        "从利比亚到马里，法国和英国被广泛视为美国之手，后者对于出兵（甚至出武器）越来越谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the 1980’s deficit limits set by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law were not met, and, like the SGP, were revised and extended.",
        "在美国，1980年的格拉姆-罗德曼-霍林斯（Gramn-Rudman-Hollings）法所规定的赤字上限从未被执行过，与GSP一样，该上限也被修订和扩大了。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems that Saudi Arabia has embraced this challenge.",
        "沙特阿拉伯似乎已经接受了这一挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "And that makes all the difference.",
        "这就是所有的区别所在。"
    ],
    [
        "But the gap is smaller for young people, the better educated, and the professional classes.",
        "但这种差距在年轻人，受过更好教育者以及中产阶级等群体中要小得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Convincing American, Russian, Nigerian, or Chinese citizens that corruption can indeed be controlled might seem to be a futile task.",
        "说服美国、俄罗斯、尼日利亚还有中国的民众腐败其实是可以控制的可能看似有些徒劳。"
    ],
    [
        "If, as expected, GDP grows by about 2% next year, Spain will outperform the eurozone average and create an environment conducive to significant long-term employment gains.",
        "如果GDP能如预期般在明年实现约2%的增长，西班牙将超越欧元区平均水平并创造出一个可以实现明显长期就业增长的经济环境。"
    ],
    [
        "While we recognize the commitment of the United Kingdom in promoting the new Scaling Up Nutrition movement, coordinated by the United Nations, we also know that who sits at the table to design solutions determines who eats at the table later.",
        "我们欣赏英国所做出的与联合国合作促进新“加强营养”（Scaling Up Nutrition）运动的承诺，但我们也知道，谁设计方案决定了谁能得到最多。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese leaders are well acquainted with how difficult it can be to implement drastic reforms.",
        "中国领导人很熟悉实施彻底改革可能面临的困难。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not a smooth road, because it threatens resistance by the capital-exporting countries’ taxpayers and trade unions against the outflow of capital.",
        "但这条路不会平坦，因为存在资本出口国纳税人和反对资本外流的贸易联盟的阻力。"
    ],
    [
        "China in particular should use its considerable influence in Sudan to bring the country’s decision-makers to a definitive peaceful settlement of the dispute.",
        "中国特别应该利用其在苏丹的影响力促成该国的决策者们达成和平解决争端的确切方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Surveys reveal that most European citizens are not fully aware of the extent of intergenerational redistribution.",
        "调查显示，大部分欧洲公民不是特别清楚不同代人之间收入再分配的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "This goal was especially dear to the cantons, the states of the Swiss Confederation, which rely on transfers from the SNB for a significant share of their budgets.",
        "这一目标对瑞士联邦各州来说尤其代价高昂，它们的预算有很大一部分依赖来自SNB的转移支付。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth in high-end services employment is matched by contraction in high-employment components of manufacturing supply chains.",
        "高端服务业就业岗位的增加与制造业供应链高就业要素的衰减相匹配。"
    ],
    [
        "As the example of Saddam Hussein teaches us anew, to overturn a monument is easier than to try a dictator.",
        "正如萨达姆·侯赛因的例子让我们认识到，推倒纪念碑比审问独裁者更加容易。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent speech in Dresden, she proposed three concrete and action-oriented proposals to the North that would address its humanitarian problems, build infrastructure for the common welfare and prosperity of the two Koreas, and promote integration of the Korean people.",
        "在德累斯顿最近一次讲话中，她提出了三项具体可行的建议，以解决朝鲜人道主义问题、建设有利于南北朝鲜共同福祉及繁荣的基础设施并促进朝韩民众一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the creditors were no longer protected under global legal rules.",
        "因此，债主们不再受到国际法律规则的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a slow process that started many years earlier.",
        "这是一个缓慢的过程，肇始于多年前。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider this: America’s roads and bridges are crumbling, and the national transportation infrastructure requires investment and maintenance.",
        "想想这一点：美国公路和桥梁破败不堪，全国交通基础设施需要投资和维护。"
    ],
    [
        "And the introduction of a Western-style rental market will allow families without substantial cash or parental support to move to cities (where families currently must purchase their apartments).",
        "引入西方式的租市场能够让囊中羞涩或无法获得父母亲支持的家庭移民到城市中（目前这样的家庭必须买房）。"
    ],
    [
        "Navigating it will require Italy to retain its credibility with other European Union member states and international investors.",
        "要合理引导未来的走向需要意大利与欧盟成员国和国际投资者之间构建信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Sticks as well as carrots have been used – by both sides – to maintain this alliance.",
        "而为了维持这个联盟，双方都用尽了胡萝卜加大棒等十八般手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Asians, including some Japanese, see this as a sign of new militarism.",
        "许多亚洲人（包括一些日本人）将此视为新军国主义信号。"
    ],
    [
        "That figure has been declining ever since.",
        "这一比例此后一直在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that fusion involves joining two positively charged nuclei – and, as basic science shows, same-sign charges repel each other.",
        "问题在于核聚变要连接两个带正电的原子核——基础科学显示同符号电荷是相互排斥的。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment in high-quality vocational education and training and work-based learning will be essential.",
        "投资于高质量职业教育和培训以及在职学习至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "They also struggled to pursue a united approach to Azerbaijan and Ukraine, and continued to seek a coherent approach to Turkey as accession negotiations remained blocked.",
        "在阿塞拜疆和乌克兰问题上，欧洲也没有统一意见，对于土耳其入盟谈判也是众说纷纭，导致谈判仍无法取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "That is because there is so much that unites us: common values, shared histories, and an abiding faith in democracy.",
        "那是因为有太多的东西将我们紧紧连在一起：相同的价值观、共享的历史以及对于民主永恒的信念。"
    ],
    [
        "People could work an average of 1,800-2,000 hours per year until they reach their 50’s, taper off to 1,300-1,500 hours in their early 60’s, and move toward the 500-1,000 range as they approach 70.",
        "在50岁之前，人们每年平均可以工作1800—2000小时，60岁出头时可以降低到每年1300—1500小时，在70岁时再降低到每年500—1000小时。"
    ],
    [
        "An obvious solution is to build more schools in places where girls and boys must be educated separately.",
        "一种显而易见的解决方案就是在男女不能同校的地方建立更多的学校。"
    ],
    [
        "China executes three times as many people every year as the rest of the world combined.",
        "中国每年处决的犯人是世界其他国家总和的三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "There seems to be a common thread to most of Chávez’s foreign policy: to provoke a major confrontation with the United States.",
        "这些都是贯穿查韦斯的大部分外交政策的主线，即挑起与美国的重大对抗。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1973 to 1985, US energy consumption per dollar of GDP declined by 28% – five times faster than during the previous quarter-century, according to the DOE.",
        "从1973年到1985年，美国单位美元GDP能耗下降28%——按照能源部的说法，比之前的25年速度快5倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Even including related programs and organs (like the UN Development Program and the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees), as well as peacekeeping activities (which involve more than 110,000 international military, police, and civilian personnel), the UN system’s total cost is still only around $30 billion a year.",
        "即使包括了相关项目和分支（比如联合国发展项目和联合国难民事务高级专员办公室）以及维和活动（包括110 000多人的国际军队、警察和文职岗位），联合国系统的总成本也只有300亿美元左右一年。"
    ],
    [
        "In this subdued and challenging context, world leaders are now convening in the city at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to hammer out a new global agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "在这样阴郁而艰难的大背景下，世界领导人正在这里召开联合国气候变化大会制定新的全球协议实现温室气体减排。"
    ],
    [
        "This would allow the reform programs to shift the balance of risk back toward the favorable scenario.",
        "这可以让改革计划将风险平衡拉回有利情景。"
    ],
    [
        "So it advocates a strict separation between the state and private business.",
        "因而它提倡要将政府企业与私人企业严格隔离开来。"
    ],
    [
        "Why does slow productivity growth translate into high costs?",
        "为什么缓慢的生产率增长转化成了高成本呢？"
    ],
    [
        "For 50 years, Buffett, now 75, has worked at accumulating a vast fortune.",
        "巴菲特今年75岁，50年来一直努力积累巨额财富。"
    ],
    [
        "· Are there universal human rights that transcend conflicting claims of particular cultural traditions?",
        "· 存在超越特殊文化传统观念冲突的普世人权吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Those who believe that the Peshawar massacre might serve as a wakeup call to the Pakistani military should ask why the generals have ignored hundreds of earlier wakeup calls.",
        "认为白沙瓦大屠杀可能使巴基斯坦军方警醒的那些人应当问问将军们为什么对之前的数百次警示置若罔闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Global cooperation is doubly vital.",
        "全球合作具有双重重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "The political right in Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic warned against a possible loss of sovereignty should the Constitution be adopted.",
        "在匈牙利、波兰和捷克，政治权利都警告说接受宪法可能会导致主权的丧失。"
    ],
    [
        "We must proceed cautiously, however.",
        "然而，我们必须步步为营。"
    ],
    [
        "They feel comfortable taking big risks, because if they lose, they just turn the bank over to the government to pay off depositors and other creditors.",
        "它们毫不介意去冒巨大的风险，反正出事了只要把银行交回给政府来去偿还储户和其他债权人就行了。"
    ],
    [
        "Every person could decide to draw on her IAA to prepare for, or when making, a job change.",
        "每个人都可以利用自身的个人活动账户来准备或进行工作变动。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, stories of illegal or unethical labor practices – for example, among Apple suppliers in China – have inspired companies to take a close look at their supply chains.",
        "类似地，关于非法或不道德劳工使用情况的报道——比如中国的苹果供应商——促使公司严密关注供给链。"
    ],
    [
        "To many, the duo of Olmert and Peretz seemed to invite trouble.",
        "对于很多人而言，奥尔默特和佩雷茨这一对组合看起来就会引来麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "It is critical, therefore, that the EU demonstrate its commitment to the Iranian people through actions, rather than words – a complaint that many Iranians level against Western powers – by taking a tougher stance against the regime.",
        "因此，欧盟需要通过行动，而不是语言 —— 许多伊朗人民也如此埋怨西方 —— 向伊朗政府采取强硬立场来向伊朗人民表明自己的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "So, even with rebalancing, exports will remain a significant determinant of their growth, and China is already their major export market.",
        "因此，即使实施了再平衡措施，出口仍将是这些国家的重要增长支柱，而中国已然成为了它们的主要出口市场。"
    ],
    [
        "If Renzi fails – as is increasingly possible – the anti-euro Five Star Movement (which recently did well in municipal elections) could come to power as early as next year.",
        "如果伦齐失败——目前这种可能性越来越大——反欧元的五星运动（Five Star Movement，在最近的市政选举中表现出色）可能早在明年上台掌权。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Germany, after even worse performance than France, has now taken decisive steps.",
        "即使是德国，在经历了比法国更为糟糕的表现之后，现在也采取了决定性的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "German, French, and Dutch taxpayers? Bondholders?",
        "是债券持有者，金融机构，还是股东？"
    ],
    [
        "Governments can impose regulations, but in the end we will get the kind of journalism for which we ask.",
        "政府将负责制定法规，但我们最终将得到我们所要的新闻报道。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign investors now hold more than half of that debt.",
        "目前，外国投资者持有了一大半债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s political landscape is changing.",
        "欧洲的政治图景正在改变。"
    ],
    [
        "If central bank holdings of government debt were converted into non-interest-bearing perpetual obligations, nothing substantive would change, but it would become obvious that some previously issued public debt did not need to be repaid.",
        "即便央行持有的政府债券被转化成无息长期债券，也不会有任何实质性的改变，但很显然一些从前发行的公共债权都不再需要偿还了。"
    ],
    [
        "The organizing principle seems to be to discard pragmatism entirely and advance an extreme and discredited ideology.",
        "其组织原则似乎是完全抛弃务实主义，推行极端的、不可信的意识形态。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan is a case in point.",
        "阿富汗就是个很好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, inflation “hawks” argue that inflation must be attacked preemptively.",
        "与之相对照，通货膨胀的“鹰派”争辩说，应当对通货膨胀先发制人。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, the culprit was precisely identified as a defective O-ring that became too stiff at low temperatures and caused a leak.",
        "最后，报告认定，问题出在一个有缺陷的O型环上，该环由于低温而失去了弹性，导致泄漏。"
    ],
    [
        "Poor countries must believe that rich countries will honor their pledges.",
        "穷国必须相信发达国家会兑现承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the factory of the future may be 1,000 robots and one worker manning them.",
        "事实上，未来工厂可能由1,000个机器人加上一名操纵它们的工人组成。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Hollywood tradition, of course, the American hero fighting an indigenous enemy is innocent and moral, a reluctant warrior bringing democracy, or at least justice, to feral savages.",
        "当然，在好莱坞电影的传统中，那些被迫与土著作战的美国英雄通常都是些纯洁无瑕，道德高尚的人，为未开化的野蛮人带来民主，或至少是正义。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than backing individual sectors, some countries promoted innovation with across-the-board subsidies and tax breaks, while opening their economies to foreign competition and embracing market-oriented reforms.",
        "相对于支持个别行业，一些国家提倡一刀切的补贴和税收减免来推动创新，同时向外国竞争者开放市场并进行市场化改革。"
    ],
    [
        "His mobile phone was utterly essential.",
        "他的手机功能非常基本。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach is based on the assumption that, if everyone is fully compensated for the net benefits that they confer on others, individuals pursuing their own self-interest will, as Adam Smith put it, be led, “as if by an invisible hand,” to serve the public interest as well. According to this view, everyone is Homo economicus: a self-interested, fully rational individualist.",
        "这一观点基于一个假设，即如果所有人都因为彼此提供好处而获得充分的净收益补偿，追求自身私利的个人就会像亚当·斯密所说的那样，“如同被看不见的手”引导服务于公共利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, in the absence of negotiations, a unilateral withdrawal is the only meaningful step towards de-escalation and stabilization.",
        "所以，在没有进行谈判的情况下，单方面的撤离是通向平息事态和稳定大局的唯一有效步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, however, there are no indications that Iran is interested in more than reducing external pressure and the impact of the sanctions.",
        "不过，在这个节骨眼上，对伊朗来说，最要紧的是减轻外部压力和制裁的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "There used to be a national debt clock in the hearing room of the House Financial Services Committee, and Republicans would rant about government profligacy as it ticked upward.",
        "过去，众议院金融服务委员会（Financial Services Committee）听证室里有一个国民债务钟，当这个钟向上走动时，共和党就会批评政府乱花钱。"
    ],
    [
        "If managers had to choose between fulfilling the expectations of shareholders and meeting their social and ethical responsibilities, their companies would probably collapse.",
        "如果管理者必须在满足股东的期望和满足自身社会和道德责任之间做出选择，那公司很有可能会崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, as the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow observed in 1987, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”",
        "或者用诺贝尔经济学奖得主索洛（Robert Solow）在1987年的观察讲，“电脑时代无处不在，就是不见于生产率统计数字。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Refugees are coming by land as well as sea.",
        "难民从陆路和海路进入欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy on the Nile?",
        "尼罗河畔的民主？"
    ],
    [
        "At the start, it need not be that many.",
        "开始阶段其实并不需要很多。"
    ],
    [
        "This fear comes at a time when the wider Middle East is abuzz with talk of democratic change.",
        "这场病危监护的发生正值更广泛的中东地区开始遍布民主改革讨论之时。"
    ],
    [
        "The military’s incorporation into the state was most prominent in the Ottoman Empire, whose rulers created a new type of military force that drew its manpower mostly from Islamic-ruled parts of Europe.",
        "军队全面干预国家的顶峰是奥斯曼帝国，其统治者建立了一支新式军队，军士大多来源于伊斯兰教控制的欧洲国家。"
    ],
    [
        "It is putting forward economically and politically impossible recommendations, telling Argentina to cut public services to the extreme, when schools and hospitals are already on the verge of collapse.",
        "国际货币基金组织提出的建议在经济上、政治上都不可行，在阿根廷的学校和医院都几近崩溃的边缘时却劝其将公共服务减至最少。"
    ],
    [
        "Those with large surpluses (such as China) will be under increasing pressure – including the threat of retaliation – to rein in their “mercantilist” policies.",
        "而那些有大额盈余的国家（比如中国）在控制其“重商主义”政策方面将面临越来越多的压力——包括面临受到报复的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "But to encourage Israel to do what others with far greater means are not prepared to undertake is to expect a great deal of a small country in the Middle East with problems far and wide, most notably among its neighbors.",
        "但鼓动以色列去做办法更多者不准备承担之事是在指望一个有着诸多大问题（最显著的是其与邻国之间的矛盾）的中东小国去办大事。"
    ],
    [
        "To avoid that outcome, in May the Review on AMR that I lead published its strategy for tackling such infections, laying out proposals to ensure the development of the necessary new antibiotics, and to use existing antibiotics more efficiently in humans and agriculture.",
        "为避免出现这样的后果，今年5月，我所领导的《细菌耐药性上升评论》公布了应对上述感染的策略，就确保必要的新抗生素开发和将现有抗生素更有效的用于人类健康和农业生产提出了建议性方案。"
    ],
    [
        "It is only a question of time – no longer very much time – before economic destabilization gives rise to political instability.",
        "经济不稳定迟早会导致政局不稳定，这仅仅是一个时间问题，并不需要太多的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "At the International Telecommunications Union summit in Dubai in December 2012, Michał Boni, a former Polish minister of administration and digitization, played an important role in blocking efforts to impose government controls on Internet use.",
        "在2012年12月迪拜举行的国际电信联盟峰会上，波兰前行政及数字化总理米哈尔·博尼在抵制政府控制互联网应用领域发挥了重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "What motivates people to write poems, paint, or sing?",
        "是什么触动人们写诗、绘画、歌唱？"
    ],
    [
        "Even as the US rhetorically champions democracy in the Middle East, its first response to Hamas’s victory was to demand that the newly elected government return $50 million in US aid.",
        "即便美国一再声称支持中东民主，它对哈马斯获胜的第一反应就是要求新当选的政府归还5000万美元的美国援助。"
    ],
    [
        "According to an American diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks, “Libyans put forward for employment with foreign (oil) companies often lack formal qualifications or applicable practical experience.”",
        "一份由维基解密披露的美国外交电文称：“前来应聘外国（石油）公司的利比亚人往往缺乏正式资质或合格的操作经验。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone asked: will the world be ready next time?",
        "每个人都在询问：如果再有这样的事情发生，世界是否做好了应对的准备？"
    ],
    [
        "They attract more than 18% of the global total of foreign investment, hold 40% of all foreign-exchange reserves, and account for 30% of total foreign holdings of US Treasury bonds.",
        "它们吸引着全球外国投资总量的18%，持有外汇储备总量的40%和美国国债海外持有总量的30%。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be good news for the US economy, which currently devotes nearly 18% of GDP to health care, by far the largest share among developed countries.",
        "这对于美国经济来说是件好事，目前美国GDP的18%被用于医疗支出，为发达国家中最高。"
    ],
    [
        "How does it define its interests in these countries?",
        "它如何界定本国在这些国家的利益？"
    ],
    [
        "In the UK, “Leave” campaigners assured voters that the UK could maintain access to the single market after withdrawing from the EU, while limiting the entry of European workers to the UK.",
        "在英国，“脱欧”阵营向选民保证英国在脱离欧盟后能够继续进入单一市场，同时又可以限制欧洲工人流入英国。"
    ],
    [
        "Global meat consumption is predicted to double by 2020.",
        "全球肉类消费量预计到2020年将增加一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "We should evaluate the AIIB by how it chooses and fosters projects, not just by how much financing it provides.",
        "我们需要通过亚投行如何选择和推进工程，而不是仅仅通过它提供了多少融资，来评估亚投行。"
    ],
    [
        "But none of the various nightmare scenarios materialized, which augurs hope for the future.",
        "但人们想象中的噩梦并没有在现实中出现，这预示着未来仍有希望。"
    ],
    [
        "The global consensus, reflected in the Commission report, calls for more exceptions, so that, say, drugs can be made available in any case where to do so could save a life.",
        "委员会的报告中所反映的全球性共识呼吁更多的特例，以便人们在任何性命攸关的情况下都能得到药品。"
    ],
    [
        "(2) Hoarding disorder. If you resist discarding possessions that others (a spouse, say, or a clinician) find of limited value, and consequently clutter your living space, and you are distressed about this or are creating what others consider an unsafe environment, you are diagnosable.",
        "（2）囤积行为失调：如果你拒绝抛弃一些他人（例如配偶或者临床医生）认为价值有限的物品，并持续在居住区域内堆积此类物体，而且对自己的行为感到沮丧或者制造一个令他人感觉不安全的环境，那么就可以诊断为囤积行为失调。"
    ],
    [
        "The Terror Next Door.",
        "邻国恐怖袭击"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, all presidential elections come down to the intangibles of leadership.",
        "最终，所有的总统选举全部归结为无形的领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "But they provide the arenas of consultation, cooperation, and give-and-take among opposing social groups that are crucial in times of turbulence and shocks.",
        "但它们为各个社会反对团体提供了协商、合作和互谅互让的舞台，这些反对团体在动荡不安的时期往往发挥着重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "While the basic risks originated outside the systems – a tsunami for Fukushima, over-investment in real-estate mortgages for financial institutions – design defects and bad luck meant that the system couldn’t contain the damage.",
        "当基本风险来自系统之外的时候——正如福岛的海啸以及金融机构对房地产抵押贷款的过度投资——设计缺陷和坏运气意味着系统无法承受其破坏效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany unilaterally suspended application of the EU’s asylum rules and pledged to accept all arriving Syrian refugees.",
        "德国单方面中止了欧盟庇护申请规则，承诺接受所有到达德国的叙利亚难民。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey has been deft in seizing these new opportunities, with exports increasingly headed south and east to the emerging economies, rather than west to high-income markets.",
        "土耳其敏锐地抓住了新的机遇，出口越来越多地流向东部和南部的新兴经济体，而不是西方高收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics might cite the moral-hazard risk generated by liquidity support.",
        "批评家可能会举出流动性支持产生的道德风险问题。"
    ],
    [
        "When Habré was deposed, he fled to Senegal with a substantial portion of the national treasury, living there in comfort with much of his extended family, as well as key supporters.",
        "哈布雷在被废黜时带着乍得的很大一部分国家财产逃到了塞内加尔，在塞内加尔与庞大的家族和重要支持者一起过着舒适的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "A third constraint stems from trends in the international system.",
        "第三个因素来自于国际体系的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "The less we expect from a “normal” politician, the more we look for a hero.",
        "我们对“普通”的政客期望值越低，就越想要寻找英雄。"
    ],
    [
        "But that alliance is unraveling as Germany’s own status declines, owing to its mediocre economic performance and the loss of its prestigious Deutschemark.",
        "但是，由于德国经济表现平平，久负盛名的德国马克又贬值，那个联盟随着德国的地位下降而开始变得清晰。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in most of continental Europe a person can be discharged of his or her debt only after a lengthy period, often 5-7 years, during which almost all income must be devoted to debt service.",
        "此外，在大部分欧洲大陆国家，个人只有在相当长的一段时间——通常需要5—7年——才能摆脱债务，在此期间，他的大部分收入都必须用于偿还债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Boris Yeltsin was utterly unique.",
        "鲍里斯·叶利钦绝对是独一无二的。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, as the European Commission notes, less than 1% of institutional assets worldwide are invested in environmentally friendly infrastructure assets.",
        "但是，欧盟委员会指出，全世界只有不到1%的机构资产投资于环境友好型基础设施资产。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been more than 20 years since Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait, prompting the near-unanimous adoption of United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding the withdrawal of Iraqi forces.",
        "20多年前，萨达姆·侯赛因的伊拉克入侵科威特，结果联合国安理会几乎全体一致地通过决议，要求伊拉克撤军。"
    ],
    [
        "The US continues to subsidize authoritarian Arab regimes, such as Egypt (which receives at least $2 billion a year), because it buys peace with Israel and maintains US geopolitical influence in the Arab-Israeli conflict.",
        "美国继续资助埃及这样独裁的阿拉伯政府（年资助额少说也有20亿美元），原因是埃及赞成与以色列实现和平，在阿以冲突中维持了美国对地域政治的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But in Africa, this imbalance is doing more than threatening individual futures.",
        "但在非洲，不仅是个人未来正受到这种失衡的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "In his recent speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke forcefully complained that political paralysis has possibly become the principal impediment to recovery.",
        "在最新的俄怀明州杰克森霍尔讲话中，美联储主席伯南克大力抨击了政治僵局，指出这可能已经成为复苏的最大障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "As Franklin D. Roosevelt said at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, where the IMF and the World Bank were established, “Economic diseases are highly communicable.",
        "富兰克林·罗斯福在IMF和世界银行宣布成立的1944年布雷顿森林会议上说，“经济病很容易传染。"
    ],
    [
        "It signals China’s openness to working with other countries to avoid a repetition of the tragedies of 431 BC and 1914 AD.",
        "它体现出中国愿意与其他国家开放合作以避免重复公元前431年和公元1914年的大悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "For these countries, honest competition at the ballot box, free and open debate, and respect for minority rights – the foundation of liberal democracy – are not currently on the agenda.",
        "在这些国家，选票箱的诚实竞争、自由的公开辩论以及尊重少数派权利——自由民主的基础——并不在当前日程之中。"
    ],
    [
        "In three days, Mechel’s shares lost half their value, triggering the Russian stock market’s decline.",
        "在三天之内，Mechel的相关股值蒸发了一半，从了触发了俄罗斯股市的下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "The mutual-fund industry, one can assume, feared that the SEC’s rules would induce customers to redirect much of their cash directly into banks.",
        "因此可以推测，共同基金行业害怕证券交易委员会的监管规则会令消费者将大部分现金转入银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if all 15,000 UN troops could be found and deployed, the challenges in Lebanon will remain daunting.",
        "即便是15000名联合国维和士兵可以全部到位，黎巴嫩所代表的挑战依然是令人生畏的。 联合国坚持《1701号决议》不是要强制解除真主党武装；"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the European Union’s declining cohesion is undermining its moral authority on the world stage.",
        "与此同时，欧盟凝聚力江河日下正在危及其在世界舞台上的道德权威。"
    ],
    [
        "The indirect effect, which might be substantial, is that cost-competitive light manufacturing in emerging markets increases.",
        "间接影响可能更大，即成本竞争力强的新兴市场制造业的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "For a decade, Gülen-connected companies played a widely acknowledged – and appreciated – role in Turkey’s economic growth and development, while Gülen-movement schools trained students to pursue public-service jobs.",
        "在十年的时间里，与葛兰有关的公司对土耳其的经济增长和发展做出了广为人知——和支持——的作用，而葛兰运动学校毕业的学生纷纷追求公务职位。"
    ],
    [
        "Only four trials, with 373 patients, could provide data on death or dependency (becoming dependent on others for activities of daily living).",
        "只有四项针对373位病人的试验能够提供死亡或者需要他人来护理（需要依靠其他人帮助来进行日常的活动）的数据。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because nominal GDP fell in 2014 and continues to fall, the debt/GDP ratio, which was supposed to stabilize three years ago, continues to rise.",
        "而由于2014年名义GDP继续下降，本应在三年前就稳定下来的债务/GDP之比还在继续上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, privatization of major public-sector behemoths is no longer mentioned.",
        "事实上，主要公共部门巨头企业的私有化早已无人再提。"
    ],
    [
        "That agenda, with obvious country differences, spans five important areas, which together should be the focus of policy attention aimed at solidifying the region’s transformation.",
        "虽然不同国家的改革计划差异显著，但它们同样涉及到五大重点领域，这五大领域相互结合就构成了旨在巩固地区转型的焦点政策领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Managers and board members often receive stock-based compensation, which gives them equity ownership rights and, in turn, creates a powerful incentive to maximize the market value of their companies’ shares.",
        "管理层和董事会成员常常获得股权补偿，这不但使他们获得了权益，反过来又创造了一个使公司股票市场价值最大化的强大诱因。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, in the coming era of negative saving, the US will find itself increasingly dependent on surplus saving from abroad.",
        "讽刺的是，在即将到来的负储蓄时代，美国将越来越依赖来自海外的盈余储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "It might even help to steer the bitter debates over migration and trafficking of drugs and firearms in a more productive direction.",
        "这一战略甚至有可能帮助引导关于移民、贩毒和军火走私的激烈争论向更有建设性的方向转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Smart plans, good intentions, and strong negotiating skills are essential, but they are never enough – not even close.",
        "明智的计划，良好的意图和强大的谈判技能至关重要，但它们绝不是全部——甚至不是远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, insecurity resulted not from an external threat, but from top policymakers’ own actions.",
        "在这两个例子中，不安全并非来自外部威胁，而来自最高决策者自身的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is an argument for reforming it, rather than leaving it.",
        "但这应该改革欧盟的理由，而不是离开它的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland, long one of the EU’s bright spots, will be a source of great anxiety in the days to come.",
        "爱尔兰长久以来一直是欧盟的亮点，现在将会在未来几天内让人忧心忡忡。"
    ],
    [
        "The slaves – and generations of their descendants – were routinely murdered.",
        "奴隶——以及他们的后代——经常被杀致死。"
    ],
    [
        "The third challenge in establishing a Palestinian state is to create the institutions of statehood: hospitals, ports, airports, roads, courts, police stations, tax offices, and government archives.",
        "建立巴勒斯坦国的第三个挑战是建立国家机构，也就是医院、机场、道路、法院、警察局、税务局以及政府档案。"
    ],
    [
        "You are obliged to take care of your family, your friends, or even your fellow countrymen.",
        "你有义务照顾你的家人、朋友甚至你的同胞。"
    ],
    [
        "Because most media attention has shifted to Lebanon, the Israelis have had a free hand to continue pressing the Palestinians without international protest.",
        "由于大多数媒体的注意力都转移到了黎巴嫩，以色列可以从容不迫地继续给巴勒斯坦人施加压力而不招致国际社会的抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "So the most important way to control inflation – while regaining the monetary and credit policy autonomy needed to control inflation – is to allow currencies in these economies to appreciate significantly.",
        "因此控制通货膨胀最重要的方法－在收紧控制通货膨胀必要的货币和信贷政策的同时－是允许这些经济体的货币大幅升值。"
    ],
    [
        "In the fifth act, investment will seize up.",
        "在第五幕中，投资将会停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "Yemen is strategically important, not only for Saudi Arabia, but for the world, because it is the only country on the Arabian Peninsula from which oil can reach the open seas without passing through a narrow strait – either the Strait of Hormuz or the Suez Canal.",
        "在战略上，也门不只是对沙特阿拉伯很重要，它对全世界都很重要，因为它是阿拉伯半岛上唯一一个石油可以不通过狭窄的海峡——不管是霍尔木兹海峡还是苏伊士运河——直接到达公海的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s defense posture and Russia’s threat to European security are sure to be near the top of the next prime minister’s agenda.",
        "英国的防御态势和俄国对欧洲安全的威胁无疑将高居下一届首相议程的榜首。"
    ],
    [
        "But no Middle Eastern country today is a captive client of the Kremlin in the way that, say, Egypt was during the Cold War.",
        "但如今没有一个中东国家如同冷战时期的埃及那样沦为克里姆林宫的“走狗”（captive client）。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s deposed president, has only himself to blame for his political demise.",
        "事实上，被推翻的埃及总统穆尔西丢掉政治前途只能怪罪自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, younger patients, at least, can better withstand the side effects of cancer treatment.",
        "此外，年轻患者至少能够更好地抵抗癌症治疗的副作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Only Tunisia has reasonable democratic credentials, whereas Libya, Yemen, and Syria have joined Somalia as failed states, and Egypt, the most populous country in the Arab world, has reverted to an autocracy verging on dictatorship.",
        "只有突尼斯相当民主，而利比亚、也门和叙利亚都加入了索马里的行列，沦为失败之国，而埃及，阿拉伯世界人口最多的国家，已经倒退回专制，即将进入独裁。"
    ],
    [
        "But governments and political leaders can and should advocate the shared values – what Rawls called the “overlapping consensus” – that define a liberal society.",
        "但政府和政治领袖可以也 应该支持作为自由社会基础的共同价值观——罗尔斯称之位“重叠的共识”。"
    ],
    [
        "But lower oil prices, coupled with expectations of a decline in demand, would in turn put pressure on oil-producing countries to reduce planned investments in production capacity or even to mothball major projects, as they have done in the past, leading to a decline in oil supplies.",
        "但是更低的油价，加上预期的需求下降，会反过来迫使石油生产国减少计划中对于生产能力的投资，或者甚至把一些重大的项目束之高阁。 过去它们正是这样做的，从而带来石油供应的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "As the party’s narrative became an endless litany of the good social things it had done (or was about to do), Poles came to view the campaign as a cynical attempt to buy their votes – and to do so with their own money.",
        "因为该党连篇累牍地赘述所做（或要做的）种种好事，波兰人开始认为竞选就是用他们自己的钱来购买他们的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest – more than half – is spent by the UN’s specialized agencies, which are located around the world and often play an important role in managing global trade, development, health, and humanitarian assistance.",
        "剩下的预算—一半以上—都由联合国的特别机构开支掉了。 这些机构分布于世界各地，通常在管理全球贸易、发展、卫生和人道主义援助方面发挥着重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite vocal support for locally led research and development, severe constraints to developing-country innovation remain – and must urgently be removed.",
        "但尽管很多人嘴上支持由当地来领导研究和开发，但发展中国家创新所面临的限制依然非常严重——而且必须立即消除。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they sought to prevent the displacement of farm animals, by pursuing a campaign touting their virtues.",
        "相反，他们试图阻止农场动物被拖拉机所取代，发起一场规模浩大的运动来宣传它们的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The regime’s proclivity to threaten war against its neighbors did not start with Kim 3.0, of course.",
        "当然，朝鲜政权威胁对其邻国发动战争的倾向并非自金氏3. 0始。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, world leaders already pledged to do so.",
        "事实上，全球领导人已经在致力于这一方向了。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar tradeoffs repeatedly arose in the course of the euro crisis.",
        "类似的权衡在欧元危机期间再度出现。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – Beware of czars bearing gifts.",
        "布鲁塞尔——小心带着礼品的沙皇。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the same forces that led to an upward shift in the global savings curve will soon enough begin operating in the other direction.",
        "首先，导致全球储蓄曲线上移的力量很快就会在相反的方向上起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "This assumption is based on a number of such trades, including 1,150 Arabs, mostly Palestinians, for three Israelis in 1985; 123 Lebanese for the remains of two Israeli soldiers in 1996; and 433 Palestinians and others for an Israeli businessman and the bodies of three soldiers in 2004.",
        "1996年用123名黎巴嫩人交换两名以色列士兵的遗体； 以及2004年用433名巴勒斯坦人和其他人交换一名以色列商人以及三名士兵的遗体。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is an important caveat, which has largely been ignored in public discussions: if this funding is senior to private debt (as IMF funding typically is), it will be harder for these countries to regain access to markets.",
        "但这里有一个在公众讨论中往往被忽视的重要警告：如果该融资比私人债务级别高（IMF融资通常如此），那么这些国家重回资本市场将难上加难。"
    ],
    [
        "Launched in 2014 in Barcelona, the forum, which meets annually, operates on the principle that healthy and sustainable urban centers – a key component of any country’s dynamism and success – depend on the equal rights, duties, and opportunities of its residents.",
        "该论坛2014年在巴塞罗那成立，每年举行会议，其运作原则是可持续的健康城市中心——国家活力和成功的关键要素——取决于居民之间平等的权利、责任和机会。"
    ],
    [
        "For some time, senior military officials have been concentrating on rooting out terrorism at home, and they have scored some impressive successes.",
        "一段时间来，军方高级官员一直专注于铲除国内恐怖主义，并且也取得了某些令人钦佩的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Both political parties, and the White House, would rather cut taxes than spend more on education, science and technology, and infrastructure.",
        "无论民主共和两党还是白宫都宁愿减税而非在教育、科技和基础设施领域增加开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Individuals gravitate to organizations that are compatible with their personal preferences.",
        "个人被与个体偏好相容的组织吸引。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that the Fund has squarely acknowledged the huge capital holes in many European banks, it should start pressing forcefully for a comprehensive and credible solution to the eurozone debt crisis, a solution that will involve either partial breakup of the eurozone or fundamental constitutional reform.",
        "如今，IMF已经承认大量欧洲银行存在巨大的资本漏洞，那么，它应该开始大力推行全面可信的欧元区债务危机解决方案了。 这一方案包括部分分解欧元区以及基础宪政改革。"
    ],
    [
        "That fact at first depressed Jiri Räsänen, a civil servant in Helsinki – but then it gave him and his friends a good idea. Why not keep the cars but replace their engines?",
        "面对如此的现实，住在赫尔辛基的公务员Jiri Räsänen刚开始也同样感到沮丧，但随后他和他的朋友们想到了一个好主意：为什么不能在保留汽车的前提下，而只是更换发动机呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The joint declaration by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and British Prime Minister David Cameron, calling for a “broad-based government” and “free and fair elections” in Egypt stands in stark contrast to the embarrassed silence that was heard at the outset of Tunisia’s democratic uprising.",
        "德国总理安格拉•默克尔、法国总统尼古拉·萨科奇和英国首相大卫·卡梅伦呼吁在埃及成立“广泛的联合政府”并举行“自由及公正选举”的号召与突尼斯民主起义初期令人尴尬的沉默形成了鲜明的对比。"
    ],
    [
        "Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change",
        "飓风桑迪和气候变化"
    ],
    [
        "I believed that I could not open our country while dictating to others.",
        "我相信我们不能自己开放，却要求别人服从命令。"
    ],
    [
        "Nigerian, Indonesian, and Vietnamese young people will shape global work trends at an increasingly rapid pace.",
        "尼日利亚、印度尼西亚和越南年轻人将以越来越快的速度影响全球工作趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "With such federalization in the EU or, more likely, the smaller eurozone (within which the degree of integration is higher), policy conflicts would place elected national governments in opposition not to an opaque system, but to a politically legitimate federal institution.",
        "如果欧盟——或更小的规模的欧元区（可能性更大，因为一体化程度更高）——能够联邦化，政策冲突将不会让民选的国家政府面对一个不透明的制度，而是面对一个政治上合法的联邦制度。"
    ],
    [
        "At a rally in May, he declared, “The only important thing is the unification of the people, because the other people don’t mean anything.”",
        "在5月的集会上，他宣称“唯一重要的是人民的团结，因为他者等于什么都不是。"
    ],
    [
        "But the poor have a much higher propensity to spend than the rich.",
        "但穷人的消费倾向比富人高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "One small hike and the Fed owns every bad outcome, no matter what the real cause.",
        "就因为一个小加息，无论造成坏结果的真实原因是什么，都要由美联储来背黑锅。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most important factor supporting America’s currency dominance is the institutionalized system of checks and balances that operates among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of its government.",
        "但支撑美国货币统治的最重要因素则是美国行政，立法和司法机构三者之间分立制衡的制度体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Water Wars.",
        "水资源之战"
    ],
    [
        "There are no Japanese demagogues, like Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, or Rodrigo Duterte, who have exploited pent-up resentments against cultural or political elites.",
        "没有像吉尔特·威尔德斯、马琳·勒庞、唐纳德·特朗普、纳伦德拉·莫迪和罗德里格·杜特尔特那样的日本煽动者利用民众对文化和政治精英阶层压抑已久的怨恨。"
    ],
    [
        "Eight million Muslim refugees fled India and entered Pakistan, and six million Hindus and Sikhs moved in the opposite direction.",
        "800万穆斯林难民逃离印度，进入巴基斯坦，600万印度教徒和锡克教徒反其道而行之。"
    ],
    [
        "In September of this year, world leaders will gather at the United Nations to adopt a set of Sustainable Development Goals to address these rising threats.",
        "今年9月，世界领导人将齐聚联合国，制定一套可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals，SDG）解决这些威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Fossil-fuel projects could also be exempted from investment protection in new environmental treaties, such as the Global Pact for the Environment presented by French President Emmanuel Macron to the UN General Assembly in September.",
        "新环境条约的投资保护条款也应该剔除化石燃料项目，如法国总统马克龙在9月的联合国大会上所提出的《全球环境公约》（Global Pact for the Environment）。"
    ],
    [
        "(Medicare provides health coverage for retirees, and Medicaid provides coverage for low-income Americans and their children and those with disabilities.)",
        "（医疗保险为退休人员提供医疗保障，而医疗补助为低收入美国人及其子女以及残疾人提供医疗保障。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "It is larger, for it now has to explain not just why the universe isn’t collapsing, but why its expansion is accelerating.",
        "它变得更加宏大，因为不仅要解释为何宇宙没有坍塌，还要说明为何在加速膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "It was the willingness of some large financial institutions to trade in discounted debt that established a market that could clear out the legacy of past mistakes.",
        "要不是一些大型金融机构愿意交易打折债权，从而构成了一个市场，那些昔日失误所遗留下来的负担是无法得到清理的。"
    ],
    [
        "The raging violence in southern Thailand over the past 15 months has made him look bad, as his myriad strategies and tactics have failed repeatedly.",
        "过去15个月以来，泰国南部的大规模暴力冲突让他信非常难看，他提出了无数的战略、战术，却一再失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Interest-rate cuts after bubbles burst would be a safer way to safeguard the economy.",
        "而一旦泡沫爆破，利率削减将是一个保护经济的安全之策。"
    ],
    [
        "The third process is what is known as the First Age of Globalization, between 1850 and 1914, when living standards and labor productivity levels converged in the global north.",
        "第三个过程被称为第一全球化时代，即1850年到1914年全球北方生活水平和劳动生产率趋同期。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while others have to step forward to do their part, it is best if Greece steps back from the brink.",
        "因此，其他国家必须踊跃做好自己该做的部分，与此同时，如果希腊能够起死回生，对全世界都是件大好事。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – For most of the beginning of 2014, the eurozone seemed to be in a state of recovery – weak and unsteady, but nonetheless real.",
        "华盛顿—在2014年初的大部分时间里，欧元区似乎进入了复苏状态——疲软又踉跄，但确实是复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Child mortality rates have declined in all Central European countries over the past 20 years, especially in Poland, where the rate fell from 17 per 10,000 live births to seven.",
        "所有中欧国家的儿童死亡率在过去20年都有所下降，尤其是波兰——从万分之17降到了万份7。"
    ],
    [
        "All political factions must remain committed to the eradication drive if it is to succeed.",
        "所有政治派系都必须承诺当选后致力于消灭小儿麻痹症。"
    ],
    [
        "These participants argued that specific legal duties, such as the right to a minimum wage and the right to vocational training, are more effective than the vague extension of anti-discrimination law to cover poverty as such.",
        "这些与会者认为，具体的法定义务，如最低工资权和职业培训权，比起反歧视法含糊的延伸以包括贫困等等，会更为奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "Austrian School libertarians: Supporters of Friedrich von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises have two major objections to Christmas.",
        "奥地利学派自由主义者：哈耶克（Friedrich von Hayek）和米塞斯（Ludwig von Mises）的支持者对圣诞节有两大反对点。"
    ],
    [
        "But giving up is not an option.",
        "但我们绝不能轻言放弃。"
    ],
    [
        "Thousands of ordinary citizens defied the tanks when Marcos threatened to crush “People Power” with force, but the presence of priests and nuns gave the rebellion its moral authority.",
        "当马科思用武力威胁镇压“人民权力”运动的时候，数以千计的普通民众不顾坦克的镇压，但是，在场的牧师和修女们给了起义以道义权威。"
    ],
    [
        "But, politically, the failed coup is a boon for Erdoğan.",
        "但是，在政治上，失败的政变是埃尔多安之福。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the United States-Japan Security Treaty, a central feature of stability in East Asia for half a century.",
        "坎布里奇——明年是《美日安全条约》五十周年纪念日，半个世纪以来它一直是东亚稳定的核心特色。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither history nor economic logic supported that view.",
        "然而历史和经济学逻辑都无法支撑上述观点。"
    ],
    [
        "This time we will need global cooperation.",
        "这次我们需要全球合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2003 European Convention that produced the ill-fated EU Constitution offers no blueprint for the future.",
        "制定出命运多舛的欧盟宪法的2003年欧洲公约并没有勾画出未来的蓝图。"
    ],
    [
        "But what sometimes gets lost in this narrative is that, while practically all sectors of Palestinian Arab society rejected the UN plan, Palestinians were unable to devise coherent political institutions and a unified military command with which to confront the much smaller Jewish community.",
        "但是在谈到这个问题时大家往往忽略的情况是，尽管事实上巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人的所有部门都反对联合国的计划，但是巴勒斯坦人却未能设计出有凝聚力的政治机构和一支统一领导的军队来对抗比他们小得多的以色列族。"
    ],
    [
        "But global leadership does not simply mean enjoying the prestige that accompanies presumed power.",
        "但是，全球领导地位并不意味着仅仅享受伴随着假定权力的威望。"
    ],
    [
        "Their idea – now called “global governance” – was to create an institutional architecture that could foster international cooperation, elaborate consensual global norms, and establish predictable, universally applicable rules, to the benefit of all.",
        "他们的办法——现在称为“全球治理”——建立一套能够促进国际合作、健全全球共同规范、制定全球适用的可预测的规则，从而造福全人类的制度基础上。"
    ],
    [
        "They will attempt to preserve as much of it as possible.",
        "他们将竭尽全力保住尽可能多的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Will she run out of time, or will the food shortage be resolved first?",
        "是她先撒手人寰，还是食品短缺先得到解决？"
    ],
    [
        "It would have meant accepting in 2012 what has been called “redenomination risk” – economic newspeak for a eurozone breakup.",
        "在2012年时，这意味着接受所谓的“重新计价风险”——欧元区崩溃的经济学说法。"
    ],
    [
        "Last week’s summit sharply defined the issue and focused attention in capitals the world over.",
        "上周召开的峰会明确地阐述了这个问题，吸引了世界各国政府的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "As Yanzhong Huang of the Council on Foreign Relations recently pointed out, “If only 1% of China’s smoking population turned to e-cigarettes, it would mean a market of about 3.5 million e-cigarette users.”",
        "就像外交关系委员会委员黄严忠最近指出的那样，“只有有1％的中国吸烟人口转向电子烟，就意味着约350万用户的庞大电子香烟市场。"
    ],
    [
        "But the cost of capital is something over which a country can maintain a certain amount of control.",
        "但资本成本是一国多多少少可以控制的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "However, following China’s intellectual pirouette to maintain one-party rule while embracing the capitalist credo, history’s interpreters shifted their focus to the economy: not everybody would be free and elect their government, but capitalist prosperity would hold sway worldwide.",
        "然而，中国在意识形态上的长袖善舞——既坚持一党执政，又采用资本主义信条——让历史解读家们将注意力转向了经济：不是所有人都有自由选择自己的政府，但资本主义繁荣可以支配全世界。"
    ],
    [
        "But Eastern Europe does not simply lack the will to welcome migrants; it is actively opposed to doing so, in line with Władysław Gomułka’s maxim that “countries are built on national lines, not multinational ones.”",
        "但东欧并不只是缺少欢迎移民的意愿； 东欧积极地反对接收移民，瓦迪斯瓦夫·哥穆尔卡（Władysław Gomułka）的格言——“国家是民族的，不是多民族的。"
    ],
    [
        "How to Emerge from the Crisis in 2009",
        "怎样在2009年摆脱危机"
    ],
    [
        "We are accustomed to the idea that owners of capital hire laborers and set the rules.",
        "我们习惯的想法是资本所有者雇佣劳动力并制定规则。"
    ],
    [
        "This has infuriated many, especially given the recent warning by the body that represents hospitals across England that underfunding has pushed the NHS to the brink.",
        "此举激怒了许多人，尤其是在代表英格兰地区各医院的组织警告说资金不足已经令英国国家医疗体系危如累卵的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "First and foremost, the fact that the Argentine debt negotiations were preempted by an American court – which was then contradicted by a British court – is a stark reminder that market-based solutions to sovereign-debt crises have a high potential for chaos.",
        "首先也是最重要的是，阿根廷债务谈判被一家美国法院先发制人——但随后被一家英国法院反制——这一事实尖锐地提醒我们，基于市场的主权债务危机解决方案可能造成重大混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "How can we judge how well a society as a whole is doing in light of its members’ disparate interests?",
        "我们如何判断社会作为一个整体在其成员利益完全不相干的情况下运行的如何？"
    ],
    [
        "People everywhere want a new relationship with power – more autonomy and more respect.",
        "世界各地的人们都要求建立新权力关系——寻求更大自治权与更多尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "Could the Malayan military strategy to contain the rebellion have been imported?",
        "马来亚遏制叛乱的军事战略本可以从别国舶来吗？"
    ],
    [
        "If China cannot do very much about existing gross assets and gross liabilities, it should address new assets and liabilities in order to minimize future capital losses.",
        "如果中国不能对已有的总资产和总负债动太大的手脚，那么应该修正新的资产和负债，以使未来资本损失最小化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Perils of Planned Extinctions",
        "计划灭绝的危险"
    ],
    [
        "With Italy too big to fail, too big to save, and now at the point of no return, the endgame for the eurozone has begun.",
        "意大利太大，因此不能倒； 同样，因为它太大，因此救不起。"
    ],
    [
        "But whether the Republican plan “would” do something depends largely on those “mights.”",
        "但共和党的计划是否“会”做成一些事情在很大程度上取决于这些“可能”。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, however much your model reduces risk-weighted assets, you cannot take credit for more than a 27.5% cut.",
        "换句话说，无论模型如何减少风险加权资产，产生的减值都不得超过27. 5％。"
    ],
    [
        "A common will usually emerges without any emphasis on conflicting political tendencies and ambitions.",
        "共同的意愿通常根本不会强调相互矛盾的政治倾向和政治目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true of the semi-theocratic regime in Iran.",
        "伊朗的半神化政权也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Perverse subsidies must be removed and recent new ones favoring products such as bio-fuels reconsidered.",
        "不当的补贴必须取消，近来有利于生物燃料等产品的新补贴则需加以重新考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea, with its volatile and mercurial regime, is another source of concern.",
        "政权动荡善变的朝鲜是另一个忧虑情绪的策源地。"
    ],
    [
        "There are useful analogies for policies in other countries.",
        "其他国家的政策有一些有用的类比。"
    ],
    [
        "In less than three years, this popular online resource has been transformed from a respectable American start-up to a shady Moscow-based enterprise, co-owned by the Kremlin’s favorite oligarchs.",
        "在不到三年的时间里，这一颇受欢迎的在线资源已经从一个受人尊重、由美国人创办的新兴实体转化为一个可疑的、莫斯科控制的企业。 克里姆林宫宠爱的寡头们也共同拥有这一企业。"
    ],
    [
        "One consequence of this is that Ukrainians are often shy about asserting Ukraine’s independent interests plainly – exemplified by Ukraine’s acceptance of a deal that leaves its energy future so insecure.",
        "后遗症之一是乌克兰人常常不好意思公开主张自己的独立利益¾乌克兰接受这样一个根本无法确保未来能源安全的协议就是最好的证明。"
    ],
    [
        "But, after last year’s botched military coup, the regime has empowered itself to seize businesses owned by those accused of sympathizing with the so-called Gülenist movement, which Erdoğan accuses of having masterminded the coup attempt.",
        "但在去年的未遂军事政变后，埃尔多安政权授权给自己没收由被控同情所谓的居伦运动（Gülenist movement）的人所拥有的企业。 埃尔多安指控居伦运动策划了政变。"
    ],
    [
        "Michel is not Desi’s biological child.",
        "米歇尔并不是德茜的亲生子。"
    ],
    [
        "But in a mafia state, their position is subsumed in a system of patron-client dependency, often through regime-led corporate raiding and rent-seeking.",
        "但在黑手党国家，他们往往通过一个政权主导的企业劫掠和寻租行为而被纳入了一个政治依附体系。"
    ],
    [
        "More children also mean less education investment per child, which could lead to lower human-capital attainment.",
        "子女数量增多意味着单个子女教育投资减少，导致人力资本成就下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The development of a conscious robot that (who?) was not widely perceived as a member of our moral community could therefore lead to mistreatment on a large scale.",
        "如果我们研制出拥有意识的机器人，但却并不将其视作人类道德群体的一分子的话，就将导致大范围的虐待行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though humans have engaged in exchange since before the birth of civilization, the impersonal system of trading is only around 1,000 years old.",
        "虽然人类之间的交流早在文明诞生以前就已存在，但非个人的贸易体系却只有一千年的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Abuse of this role, with governments addressing excessive debt by inflating it away, was deeply destructive of political order in the first half of the twentieth century.",
        "而对这种角色的滥用——比如政府利用通胀的方式摆脱巨额债务——对二十世纪前半叶的政治秩序造成了极大破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Putin has never made a mistake about the loyalty of the people he promotes.",
        "此外，普京在他推举的人的忠诚度上从来没有犯过错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Both human and financial resources will be attracted to the center, leaving the periphery permanently depressed. But the periphery is seething with discontent.",
        "人力和财力资源都将被吸引到核心国家，导致外围国家经济长期低迷，引发了外围国家的强烈不满。"
    ],
    [
        "The same should apply to Turkey.",
        "对土耳其的态度也应如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Most European countries, and the European Union as a whole, however, have not matched this commitment by offering their own incentives for peace and consequences for war.",
        "但与此同时，大多数欧洲国家以及欧盟却尚未提出任何激励或者惩罚措施来响应美国的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU can stiffen it even more by demanding much greater clarity in the fight against corruption.",
        "欧盟可以通过要求增加反腐透明度来进一步巩固这一趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, the NSA has taken a different stance.",
        "有趣的是，国家安全局采取了不同的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Regime change is no panacea; it can be difficult to achieve and nearly impossible to consolidate.",
        "政权更迭不是万灵丹； 它可能难以实现，并且几乎不可能巩固。"
    ],
    [
        "At the center of any effort to resolve the debt crisis must be the understanding that just as today’s debt restructuring affects Puerto Rico’s future growth, Puerto Rico’s future growth affects how much debt restructuring is needed.",
        "解决债务危机一切工作的核心必须是理解就像今天的债务重组将影响波多黎各未来的经济增长那样，波多黎各未来的经济增长同样将影响所需的债务重组规模。"
    ],
    [
        "We know that a Serb truck driver rescued a boy who survived a firing squad and, crying for his father, crawled from a twisted scrum of bodies.",
        "我们知道一个塞族卡车司机拯救了一个在处决中幸存，哭着找自己的爸爸，从死人堆中爬出来的小男孩。"
    ],
    [
        "For China, North Korea is not so much a foreign-policy problem as a multifaceted set of issues that impinge on China’s own internal debates as it charts its future course.",
        "对中国而言，朝鲜与其说是中国未来道路上的外交问题还不如说是影响其内部辩论的多层面事务。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a triumph for common sense.",
        "按常理来讲，这应该算是件好事。"
    ],
    [
        "Each time, the vetting essentially started from scratch.",
        "每一次，审查都会从头开始。"
    ],
    [
        "“We need to tap into the trillions of dollars held by institutional investors… and direct those assets into projects,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim.",
        "“我们需要获得机构投资者手中的数万亿美元……将这些资产导向各类工程，”世界银行行长金墉说。"
    ],
    [
        "Faced with the grassroots popularity of this movement, by 1982 the government of then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed decided to co-opt Anwar Ibrahim into his United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the dominant party within the country’s ruling coalition.",
        "由于这场运动在百姓中开展得轰轰烈烈，到了1982年，当时的马来西亚首相马哈蒂尔· 穆罕默德决定邀请安瓦尔·伊伯拉罕加入自己的马来民族统一机构(UMNO，简称巫统)，该政党在国家执政联盟中占据了统治地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab World’s Vanishing Christians",
        "正在消失的阿拉伯世界基督徒"
    ],
    [
        "Paradoxically, despite recent hits to the Russian stock market, Russia remains awash with cash.",
        "荒谬的是，尽管最近俄罗斯股票市场遭受了严重的打击，俄罗斯仍然现金充裕。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, things will never be quite the same again.",
        "无论如何，破镜即使重圆，也不再是原来的镜子。"
    ],
    [
        "So how does such a system block offending content?",
        "那么这种管制体系究竟是如何将不合适的内容拒之门外的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Two other fundamental and inter-related security challenges in the region – the Arab-Israeli conflict and the growing danger of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) – also must be resolved in order to ensure that the Middle East’s historic transformation leads to security, stability, and prosperity.",
        "阿以冲突和大规模杀伤性武器（WMDs）扩散风险日益增强这两大相互关联的地区性根本安全挑战必须得到解决，才能确保中东历史性转型带来稳定、繁荣和安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, it takes about the same amount of time for a teacher to grade a paper as it did 100 years ago.",
        "同样地，对老师来说现在给一篇论文打分所花的时间跟100年前所花的时间是一样的。"
    ],
    [
        "France is not Imperial Rome, where panem et circenses made a fundamental difference.",
        "法国不是罗马帝国，面包和游戏（panem et circenses）就能造成根本性的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "It is therefore vulnerable to price fluctuations, and has to follow the lead of Saudi Arabia and other big OPEC producers.",
        "因此，委内瑞拉极易受价格波动影响，只能跟在沙特和其他欧佩克产出大国后面亦步亦趋。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Many people still believe that the attacks of September 11, 2001, were not just acts of political terrorism, but part of a cultural war, a clash of civilizations.",
        "纽约——很多人仍然认为，2001年的9·11袭击并非仅仅是政治恐怖主义那么简单，它是文化战争的一部分，体现了文明之间的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "At one point in his book, Sperling jokes that maybe the US needs a third political party, called the “Humility Party.”",
        "在其书中某处，斯珀林开玩笑说到也许美国需要第三个政党，叫做“谦逊党”。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the next half-century, even large reductions in CO2 emissions would have only a negligible impact.",
        "在今后五十年中，即使大幅降低二氧化碳的排放量也只会起微不足道的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Smart machines and global connections have also boosted income inequality in two other ways: by increasing the size and scope of global markets for top-rated talent in a variety of fields (the so-called winner-take-all effect), and by generating huge excess returns or monopoly rents from the creation and ownership of intellectual property and intangible capital.",
        "智能机器和全球互联同时也以另外两种方式促进了收入不均：一是通过扩大特定领域的顶尖人才所面对的全球市场规模和范围（所谓胜者通吃理论）； 二是让那些知识产权和无形资产的创造和拥有者们获取超额回报或是垄断收入。"
    ],
    [
        "The generation that came of age in the 1960s felt much like Zweig had felt in his youth.",
        "20世纪60年代生人的青年时代与茨威格十分相似。"
    ],
    [
        "The US economy is performing far better these days, and the moment for raising rates further is likely near.",
        "美国经济近期表现要好得多，并且进一步提高利率的日子可能已经很近了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, without a strategic policy roadmap to guide further financial-technology (fintech) development, these new “connector” models will remain limited in terms of the services they can provide.",
        "但如果没有战略性政策路线图来指导进一步的金融技术（fintech）研发，这些新的“连接”模式所能提供的服务依然是有限的。"
    ],
    [
        "Understanding and reducing these health inequalities remains a major public-policy challenge worldwide.",
        "理解并减少这一健康不平等性仍是全世界面临的主要公共政策挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s median age is today 34.5 years, compared to 36.9 years for the US.",
        "中国目前的中间年龄为34. 5岁，而美国的数字则是36."
    ],
    [
        "Zakaev looked ready to accept the proposal. His position in the nationalist opposition was weak.",
        "而扎卡耶夫看来也已经准备好接受这个邀请。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the beginning of the century, more than a million people have died in storms like Hagupit and other major disasters, such as the 2010 Haitian earthquake, with economic damage totaling nearly $2 trillion.",
        "本世纪以来，有一百多万人因为黑格比和其他大灾难而丧生——如2010年的海地地震，造成的总经济损失接近2万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while it is right to believe in the power of education – indeed, many scholars are convinced that it creates healthier, more prosperous citizens – such enthusiasm doesn’t tell us how to get more children to stay in school longer, or how to ensure that they learn useful skills while they are there.",
        "但是，尽管相信教育的力量是正确的——事实上，许多学者认为它能够创造出更健康、也更成功的公民，这种热忱并没有告诉我们怎样才能使更多的孩子更久地呆在学校里，或者怎样确保他们在学校里能学到有用的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the small handful of relevant studies exploring possible risks lacked a guiding focus, giving no indication that the information developed would help decision-makers ensure that nanotechnology is developed safely over the long term.",
        "即便少得可怜的探索可能存在的危险的相关研究也缺乏明确的研究方向，无法令人相信其所开发出的信息能够帮助决策者确保纳米技术被长期安全地开发。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider “Green GDP.”",
        "看一看“绿色GDP”就可以知道了。"
    ],
    [
        "Egyptians now fear an outcome like that in Algeria in 1992, when the military scrapped elections and sparked a bloody civil war, or in Pakistan in 1999, when General Pervez Musharraf led a widely celebrated – and soon regretted – coup against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.",
        "如今，埃及人担心1992年阿尔及利亚或1999年巴基斯坦的局面重演——1992年，阿尔及利亚军队宣布选举无效并掀起血腥内战； 而在1999年，穆沙拉夫将军领导了一场大受欢迎但马上成为遗憾的政变推翻了总理谢里夫。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany is open to foreign investors, but in return we Germans demand the same market access abroad.",
        "德国对外国投资者开放，但作为回报，我们德国人要求在国外享有同样的市场准入。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most important changes must come from within the media industry itself.",
        "但最重要的变革必须来自媒体行业本身。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama will need to put forward a medium-term fiscal plan that restores government finances.",
        "奥巴马需要提出修复政府财政状况的中期财政计划。"
    ],
    [
        "In April 2011, Tunisian women successfully pressed for an electoral-parity law, thanks to which they won 49 of 217 parliamentary seats in last October’s elections.",
        "2011年4月，突尼斯妇女成功地施压通过了选举公平法，这使得她们在去年10月的选举中赢得了217个议会席位中的49席。"
    ],
    [
        "Journalists don’t necessarily do this by choice; many are glued to their screens because their companies lack resources, or force them to follow and report on twitter feeds.",
        "记者未必是刻意这样做； 许多人离不开屏幕是因为公司缺乏资源，或强迫他们跟踪推特消息源上的报道。"
    ],
    [
        "Taken together, these meetings promise to generate transformative action that can set the world on a safer, more prosperous, and more sustainable path.",
        "这些会议有望形成一股转型力量，让世界走上更安全、更繁荣、更可持续的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "But times are hardly normal.",
        "但市道很难正常。"
    ],
    [
        "But before rushing to impose tariffs, it is important to remember that cap-and-trade policies would not be the only government source of differences in competitiveness.",
        "在忙于推出关税之前，我们还应该知道，除了“总量管制和排放交易”系统，各国政府还有其他手段来提高本国的竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, giving female farmers access to the same resources as their male counterparts could reduce the number of undernourished people worldwide by 100-150 million.",
        "事实上，让女性农民得到与男性一样多的资源能减少全世界1—1. 5亿营养不良者。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s leaders will not surmount this crisis by pounding their citizens with bleak demands for austerity.",
        "欧洲领导人若通过冷酷无情地要求公民一味节俭，是不可能克服此次危机的。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, let national negotiators, local leaders, and communities determine what their economic needs and priorities are, and let insurgents determine their preferred venue for reintegration.",
        "因此最好让中央政府谈判代表，地方领袖和社区自己决定其经济利益和优先事项，并让武装人员决定推动重新整合的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why debt relief and reforms must be offered together, not reforms “first” with some vague promises that debt relief will come in some unspecified amount at some unspecified time in the future (as some in Europe have said to Greece).",
        "这就是为什么债务减免和改革必须同时进行，而不是改革“第一”，而债权方仅仅做出某种模棱两可的承诺，未来将在某个不确定的时点免除不确定数额的债务（就像欧洲某些国家对希腊所做的承诺）。"
    ],
    [
        "At the beginning of the 1980’s, when Europe was faltering and the media catchword was “Eurosclerosis,” 50% of people polled for the Eurobarometer surveys viewed membership as positive for their country. About 19% said its effects were negative, and the rest didn’t know.",
        "在二十世纪八十年代初，当欧洲处于动荡之中并且媒体上的流行语是“欧洲僵化症”时，在接受欧洲晴雨表调查的人群中，50%的人认为他们的国家成为成员国带来了积极影响，大约19%的人认为产生了负面影响，其余的人不置可否。"
    ],
    [
        "Take health-care services.",
        "以医疗服务为例。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, however, measles has become increasingly common, with the number of cases climbing above 150 in 2013, and then jumping to 644 last year – the most cases recorded in a single year since the late 1990s.",
        "但是，近几年来，麻疹日益普遍，2013年病例数达到了150以上，去年又增加至644人——这是20世纪90年代以来全年报告人数最多的一年。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, this created a rich web of economic interdependence, which promotes stability.",
        "随着时间的推移，经济的相互融合能带来政治的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "One would have thought that the AIIB’s launch, and the decision of so many governments to support it, would be a cause for universal celebration.",
        "人们会认为亚投行的启动，以及如此多的政府支持该行的决定，将成为全球共同庆祝这一盛事的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "· Short-run economic policy should be left in the hands of the central bank, with the legislature and the executive focusing on the long run and keeping their noses out of year-to-year fluctuations in employment and prices;",
        "· 短期的经济政策应该由央行掌握，立法机构和行政部门关注长期政策，并且不干预每年在用工和价格上出现的波动；"
    ],
    [
        "Mayors and local administrators are building social and physical infrastructure that supports the reception of migrants and refugees into local communities.",
        "市长和地方政府们正在构建社会和实体基础设施以支持容纳移民和难民进入本地社区。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this risks serious skill atrophy.",
        "这可能导致严重的技能萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – The annus horribilis of 2016 is behind us now.",
        "马德里—流年不利的2016已经成为前尘往事。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the European Union adopted the ETS in 2003 as a cost-effective way to achieve the commitments it had made under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.",
        "在欧洲，设限+交易在十年前成为主导。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s India Land Grab",
        "中国掠夺印度领土"
    ],
    [
        "We also tried to curtail the arms race and address other areas of conflict between East and West.",
        "我们还力图减少军备竞赛，解决造成东西方冲突的其它问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This money should be loaned out to small and medium-size enterprises, which are the lifeblood of Europe’s economy.",
        "这笔钱应该贷给中小企业，它们才是欧洲经济的生命线。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, Americans don’t demand that immigrants regard their cultural or ethnic background as being in contrast to or in opposition to their American-ness.",
        "第二，美国并不要求移民把其自身文化或者种族背景看作是美国化的对比或者相反的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Populism and Euroskepticism are the enemies of that project. The only way to beat them is to build a Europe that works for its citizens.",
        "民粹主义和欧洲怀疑论是欧洲整合项目的敌人，只有建设服务于民众的欧洲才能将其打败。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, by identifying and bringing to the fore issues that may influence political agendas and public life for years to come, the impact of such reporting can be enormous.",
        "但是，这类报道辨别可能影响多年后的政治日程和公共生活的问题，并把它们曝光于天下，其影响可能十分巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Rebuilding the Ruins of Qaddafi",
        "重建卡扎菲留下的废墟"
    ],
    [
        "Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China’s economic rise, advised his colleagues to move stealthily in dealing with the rest of the world.",
        "中国经济起飞的总设计师邓小平曾经告诫他的同志们，在跟其它国家打交道的时候要采取暗中行事的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "For those who are uncertain about what might constitute a sexual service, the term is helpfully defined by Canada’s Department of Justice to include lap-dancing, but not stripping or “acts related to the production of pornography.”",
        "有人也许不确定什么构成性服务，加拿大司法部对该用语进行了有帮助的定义，其中包括了大腿舞，但不包括脱衣舞或“与产生色情有关的行为”。"
    ],
    [
        "We can also rehabilitate the technocrats who served under Saddam, so that they, too, have a chance to serve their country.",
        "我们还可以为萨达姆统治时期的技术官员平反，这样他们也可以有机会为国效力。"
    ],
    [
        "The IRGC has evolved into something like a mafia organization, with extensive economic interests that lead both to corruption and potential vulnerability to sanctions imposed by the international community.",
        "伊斯兰革命卫队已经越来越变得像一个黑社会组织，它的经济利益非常广泛，在产生腐败的同时，也使它面对国际社会的制裁又可能会变得非常脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The costs of developing those vessels – multiple carrier task forces and submarine fleets – create enormous barriers to entry, enabling US naval dominance.",
        "多航母特遣部队和潜艇舰队的舰船研发成本创造出巨大的进入壁垒，确保了美国的海上优势。"
    ],
    [
        "The significant changes in the social composition of India’s politicians and bureaucrats since Independence are indeed proof of democracy at work.",
        "独立以来，印度政客和官僚群体的社会构成方面的变化的确反映了民主的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent geopolitical developments, such as the Middle East’s refugee crisis, are complicating government budgets and agendas.",
        "近期的地缘政治发展，比如中东难民危机，正在为政府预算和议程增加难度。"
    ],
    [
        "In May, the largest teachers’ union was banned for promoting the education of Turkey’s 14 million Kurds in their own language.",
        "5月，最大的教师协会也因为提倡1400万库尔德人使用本民族语言进行教学而被取缔。"
    ],
    [
        "Compounding the challenge are the economic sanctions imposed by the US and Europe in response to President Vladimir Putin’s aggressive policies toward Russia’s immediate neighborhood.",
        "美国和欧洲因为其总统给普京对近邻的侵略性政策而采取了经济制裁，这进一步加剧了俄罗斯面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Ebola appears to have been eradicated from Nigeria, in no small part because that country had a Gates Foundation-supported hospital with personnel trained and equipped to control infectious diseases.",
        "埃博拉似乎已经被赶出了尼日利亚，这很大程度上要归功于尼日利亚拥有盖茨基金会（Gates Foundation）所支持的一家医院，该医院有受过训练的人手和设备控制疫情。"
    ],
    [
        "Democratic transitions need to be driven by societies that want democracy, and since the latter requires institutions, it is usually a fairly long and drawn out process.",
        "民主转型需要想要民主的社会来驱动，而后者要求一定的机制，因此这通常是一个漫长的进程。"
    ],
    [
        "With that speech, Mukherjee threw down the gauntlet to the right-wing BJP government.",
        "慕克吉的这番话不啻向右翼的印度人民党政府下战书。"
    ],
    [
        "The Economic Imperatives of the Arab Spring",
        "阿拉伯之春的经济使命"
    ],
    [
        "Havel captured this idea perfectly when he criticized Obama’s silence in Beijing on human rights.",
        "当哈维尔批评奥巴马访问北京时在人权问题上的沉默，他恰恰抓住了问题的本质。"
    ],
    [
        "Financing development aid with SDR’s – or even to replace budget-financed aid with such allocations – is comparable to financing budget deficits with central bank money.",
        "用SDR对发展援助进行财政支持—或甚至以此代替以预算为财政支持的援助—就如同用中央银行的资金来填补财政赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "For others, like former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, the promise of discretion and anonymity may be the most appealing aspect of buying sex.",
        "对另一些男性来说，像纽约州前州长艾略特·斯皮策（Eliot Spitzer）那样，嫖娼最吸引人的地方可能是小心翼翼和匿名的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "None of these five achievements could have been predicted a year ago.",
        "这五大成就在一年前都无法预测。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the eurozone economy is extremely interconnected.",
        "首先，欧元区经济互相之间紧密相连。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo use Usina Trapiche sugar in their products.",
        "可口可乐和百事可乐都使用Usina Trapiche糖用于生产。"
    ],
    [
        "For domestic demand to act as an engine of growth, policies should shift resources from investment to consumption.",
        "由于内需成了增长引擎，因此政策应该将资源从投资引向消费。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps we should consider it a stroke of luck that these geniuses created their mess somewhere else.",
        "但我们或许应该庆幸这些天才在别的地方留下了他们的烂摊子。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while Zimbabwe has around 50 fewer registered Chinese companies than Kenya, Kenya’s economy is around 4.5 times the size of Zimbabwe’s, clearly implying that those firms that are operating there contribute more to the country’s economy.",
        "而且，尽管津巴布韦的注册中国企业比肯尼亚少近50家，但肯尼亚经济规模约为津巴布韦的4. 5倍，这显然意味着在津巴布韦运营的中国企业对该国经济的贡献更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the rules have been carefully crafted to prohibit such adventures, while allowing Japan to work more closely with the US on direct threats to Japanese security.",
        "事实上，精心修改后的规则禁止这样的动作，尽管它允许日本就直接的安全威胁与美国开展更紧密的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – The rise in US arms sales to India is being widely cited as evidence of the two countries’ deepening defense relationship.",
        "新德里—美国对印军售增长被广泛解读为两国深化防务关系的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF Needs More Lagarde",
        "IMF需要更多拉加德"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Political Recession",
        "美国的政治衰退"
    ],
    [
        "THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA – Even as world leaders were meeting in Paris to address climate change, the city of Chennai (formerly Madras), the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, reeled under the onslaught of the heaviest rainfall in 104 years.",
        "特里凡得琅，印度——就在世界领导人在巴黎开会应对气候变化的同时，印度南部泰米尔纳德邦的首府钦奈市（原名马德拉斯市）在104年来最严重的降雨过程中遭受了严重的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2015, as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, world leaders pledged to cooperate on migration issues and to “facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration.”",
        "2015年，作为联合国2030年可持续发展目标的一部分，世界领导人承诺在移民问题上进行合作并“为有序、安全、合规、负责任的移民提供便利”。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 2001-2002 and 2007-2008, social-welfare spending in countries with abundant natural resources increased by around 55% in real terms, with spending relative to GDP rising by nearly 3.5 percentage points.",
        "2001－2002及2007－2008年间，拥有丰富自然资源国家的社会福利开支扣除物价因素的实际涨幅约为55%，其相对于GDP的占比也提升了将近3."
    ],
    [
        "Individual scientific disciplines are understood fairly well.",
        "我们对单一学科都有了非常深入的了解。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a difficult adjustment for any country to make, especially one like China, which has a history of imagining itself as being at the center of the world while also remaining an inviolable entity that can close its doors whenever it chooses to do so.",
        "这种转变对任何国家来说都是个非常艰难的过程，尤其是中国这个曾经自以为是世界中心，同时也保留着一种不可侵犯的特质，随时都可以闭门谢客的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Would food aid help to ensure the survival of a state whose treatment of its own citizens is among the most abysmal in the world?",
        "面对着一个用世界上最为残忍的手段虐待本国公民的国家，食品援助是否是在助纣为虐？"
    ],
    [
        "America isn’t happy with Musharraf, either.",
        "美国也对穆沙拉夫感到不满。"
    ],
    [
        "The precautionary principle is the better known of the two, and increasingly figures in environmental and health legislation.",
        "在这两者中预防性原则更加广为人知，而且在环境和卫生立法方面也日渐流行。"
    ],
    [
        "What is most interesting about Norway’s 1814 constitution is not that it contains this clause, but why.",
        "挪威1814年宪法的有趣之处不是它包含上述规定，而是其中的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "This power may vary by population; and short and tall subjects with equal BMI scores, from the same population, may have a different body composition.",
        "不同人群的次方数可能有所差别； 来自同一群体且体重指数相同的高个和矮个受试者可能有不同的身体结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Some scientists say that the average human lifespan could reach 90 years or more by mid-century.",
        "一些科学家称，人类平均寿命能在本世纪中叶能达到90岁。"
    ],
    [
        "Would they allow me to carry out this magic trick?",
        "那么他们会允许我来玩这个小把戏吗？"
    ],
    [
        "If the handoff fails, the financial volatility experienced earlier this year will not only return; it could also turn out to have been a prologue for a notable risk of recession, greater inequality, and enduring financial instability.",
        "如果转换失败的话，在今年年初经历的金融动荡不仅会重演； 还可能演变成一场经济衰退，更严重不平等和持久金融动荡的巨大风险的序幕。"
    ],
    [
        "While this trend has many causes – most of which have been debated extensively – one very important factor is rarely discussed.",
        "这一趋势的根源是多样的，其中许多广受争议，但一个非常重要的因素鲜被论及。"
    ],
    [
        "The curative review raises hope that it will do so again, creating an India in which the law embodies constitutional values of privacy, equality, dignity, and non-discrimination for all citizens.",
        "效果审查有望再次如此，创造一个法律体现隐私、平等、尊严和绝不区别对待任何公民的宪法价值的印度。"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently, every government now feels under even greater pressure to deliver the second of the global Millennium Development Goals (“achieve universal primary education”) by the end of 2015.",
        "因此，各国政府如今面临着更大的压力在2015年底前实现千年发展目标（Millennium Development Goals）第二号目标（“实现全民小学教育”）。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is a broken supply chain.",
        "造成的结果是供应链损坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor do the World Bank and regional development banks have the in-house expertise – or, as a rule, the funds – to provide technical assistance.",
        "世界银行和区域性开发银行也没有自己的专家—或，相应的资金—来提供技术支援。"
    ],
    [
        "Kissing and fondling in public, even by spouses, is taboo.",
        "公共场合下即使夫妻之间亲吻拥抱也是为社会所不容。"
    ],
    [
        "Which Thinkers Will Define Our Future?",
        "哪些思想家定义我们的未来？"
    ],
    [
        "But no one really qualifies at the moment.",
        "但目前还没有哪个国家真正具备这样的素质。"
    ],
    [
        "And, to some extent, they are right.",
        "从某种程度上讲，确实如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The theory’s publication at a time of worldwide alarm about double-digit inflation offered central bankers exactly the pretext they needed for desperately unpopular actions.",
        "当时全球正面对两位数的通胀忧心不已，而该理论的出世恰恰为央行行长采用那些极为不受欢迎的行动提供了借口。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time of the Bretton Woods conference, the US accounted for more than half of the world’s manufactured output.",
        "在布雷顿森林会议的时代，美国占据着世界制造业产出的一半强。"
    ],
    [
        "Revolutions are probably never as they seem, but Romania’s was especially ambiguous.",
        "革命或许从来就不是看起来的样子，但罗马尼亚这场革命尤其模糊。"
    ],
    [
        "But the possibility of near simultaneous successions in North Africa is striking nonetheless.",
        "尽管如此，北非诸国世袭继承几乎同时发生的情况还是非常引人瞩目。"
    ],
    [
        "My reasoning is simple.",
        "我的想法很简单。"
    ],
    [
        "Although their revolutionary zeal may have waned over the years, they still tend to share the outlook of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, who likened the relationship between Iran and the US to that “between a sheep and a wolf.”",
        "虽然革命热情随着年龄的增长而有所消减，但他们还是愿意追随已故的阿亚图拉·霍梅尼的世界观，把伊朗和美国之间的关系比作“羊和狼”的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the pressures only added to the station’s popularity among Arab viewers.",
        "实际上，这些压力只增加了电视台在阿拉伯观众中的受欢迎程度。"
    ],
    [
        "For the West, the principle of not redrawing borders by force is a vital political concern – indeed, it is a pillar of a civilized world order.",
        "对西方而言，避免以武力重划边界是一项重要的政治原则——事实上也是文明世界秩序的支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "And this competition concerns not only the level of technology and speed, but also of safety.",
        "而这场竞争不仅停留在技术和速度的层面，也极为关注安全问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The lifecycle of companies should teach governments that the secret of eternal youth is constant innovation – seizing opportunities and behaving like the dynamic, entrepreneurial companies that are defining today’s world and shaping its future.",
        "公司的生命周期应该教会政府，永远年轻的秘诀是持续创新——抓住机会，并像决定着当今世界及其未来的充满活力和企业家精神的公司那样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Do international tribunals of the sort Milosevic faced before his death promote or postpone serious self-reflection and reconciliation in damaged societies?",
        "米洛舍维奇死前所面对的这种国际审判庭究竟是推动还是阻碍着遭到重创的社会中的自省与和解呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The avuncular John XXIII, who wanted to loosen up a hidebound Church, and the combative John Paul II, who struggled to rein in what he viewed as the excesses of the Second Vatican Council that John XXIII had convened, appear to be ideological opposites.",
        "叔辈的若望二十三世希望放松墨守成规的天主教，而好斗的若望·保禄二世致力于遏制在他看来有些越界的第二次梵蒂冈公会（Second Vatican Council），而这次会议的发起人正是若望二十三世。 他俩的思想看起来截然相反。"
    ],
    [
        "By gaining a foothold in the Middle East, he hopes to revive Russia’s long-faded image as a world power, restore its status as America’s main geopolitical foil, and gain bargaining chips with which to promote his more immediate concerns in Russia’s near-abroad.",
        "他希望通过在中东建立根据地重振俄罗斯已失去多时的世界强国形象，重塑其作为美国主要地缘政治对手的地位，并赢得让他在俄罗斯周边紧迫问题上拥有优势的筹码。"
    ],
    [
        "They have been tightfisted when it comes to short-term equity investments.",
        "对于短期股票投资，他们颇为吝啬。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s monetary and foreign exchange policies are now in a state of limbo.",
        "中国的货币政策和外汇政策正处在不稳定状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Many who spoke to me directly in my Facebook community believe that Congress is utterly broken and regard faith in either of America’s major parties as naïve.",
        "许多在我的 Facebook 社区上留言的人都认为国会已经彻底崩溃了，而对美国两大党的信仰的都是很傻很天真。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s evolution will likely entail smaller main streets and malls, with large distribution centers near city limits.",
        "中国的发展方向可能是较小规模的街市和购物城，而在城市周边建造大规模物流中心。"
    ],
    [
        "As the “big three” increasingly pursue their own narrowly defined national interests, however, other EU member states are emerging as leaders in key foreign-policy fields.",
        "“三巨头”越来越追求自己狭隘的国家利益，而其他欧盟成员国正在成为重要外交政策领域的领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "But Sarkozy has not governed effectively, as his party’s disenchantment with him and polling data make abundantly clear.",
        "但是萨科奇的执政效果不如人意，这可以从他的政党对他不抱幻想以及民意调查中很清楚地显现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary: it was far too optimistic.",
        "相反，教科书是过度乐观了。"
    ],
    [
        "But bucking gender roles works both ways.",
        "但抗拒性别角色是双向的。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the avowed intention of the EU Common Fisheries Policy is \"to protect fish resources by regulating the amount of fish taken from the sea, by allowing young fish to reproduce , and by ensuring that measures are respected.\"",
        "例如， 欧盟共同渔业政策就是\"通过调节海上捕捞数量、允许鱼苗繁殖和保证此类政策被切实执行来保护渔源\"。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, neglecting the threat posed by communicable diseases in the developing world invites catastrophe not just in those countries, but in developed economies, too.",
        "与此同时，忽视发展中国家传染病所造成的威胁不仅会在那些国家引发灾难，而且还会波及发达经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain’s post-referendum economic and political travails will make other EU member states think twice before holding their own popular votes on membership.",
        "英国公投后的经济和政治阵痛将让其他欧盟成员国在进行成员资格投票前三思而后行。"
    ],
    [
        "The user signs up and recruits friends and family to sponsor a reward of their choice for a specified goal.",
        "用户注册并邀请其朋友家人加入活动，他的朋友和家人要选定一个具体目标并在目标实现后提供奖励。"
    ],
    [
        "And, like most journalists, we have opted to do our jobs quietly, rather than burdening readers and viewers with how dangerous the profession has become.",
        "而且像多数记者一样，我们选择静静地完成工作，而不是抱怨记者行业的危险性从而增加读者的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Rise Up and Walk",
        "站起来向前走"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign investors are already reshuffling their portfolios, moving into euros, pounds, and even emerging-market currencies like the Brazilian real and the South African rand.",
        "外国投资者们已经开始重新分配他们的投资组合，将货币转换成欧元、英镑，甚至是新兴市场国家货币例如巴西的雷亚尔和南非的兰特。"
    ],
    [
        "In its own interest, Europe must not allow this policy to prevail.",
        "出于自身利益，欧洲决不能允许这一政策得逞。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, a stable, orderly, and secular Afghanistan serves China’s interests as much as it benefits the rest of the world.",
        "当然，一个稳定，有秩序而且世俗的阿富汗既符合中国的利益，也符合全世界的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "This acknowledgement is only partly reassuring, as it enables another fringe position on the Taj: the late chauvinist historian P.N. Oak’s claim that the monument was originally a Shiva temple named “Tejo Mahalaya.”",
        "但这种承认还没法令人完全放心，因为它引出了另一种让泰姬陵边缘化的说法：已故沙文主义历史学家P·N·奥克（P. N."
    ],
    [
        "Odiousness ratings could become part of soft international law, used by courts when deciding how to enforce debt contracts, and they could help determine which bonds are included in the calculation of emerging-market indexes.",
        "可恶评级可以成为软国际法的一部分，法庭可用它来裁定如何强制执行债务契约。 它也可以帮助确定哪些债券可以纳入新兴市场指数的计算。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) wants to introduce a five-year ban on immigration for permanent settlement.",
        "英国独立党（UKIP）正力推一项计划，在五年内禁止移民取得永久定居资格。"
    ],
    [
        "The first concerns the complexity and vulnerability of our world.",
        "第一个是有关于我们这个世界的复杂性和脆弱性。"
    ],
    [
        "Another is the new inter-ministerial coordination and cooperation that appears to be taking place under the auspices of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs, a body established in January 2015.",
        "还有就是在2015年1月成立的经济发展事务委员会主持下似乎正在开展的全新部门间协调合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Many surgical operations now considered routine, including joint replacements and Caesarean sections, can be performed safely only when antibiotics prevent opportunistic infections.",
        "许多如今被视为常规手段的外科收入，包括人工关节和剖腹产，只有在抗生素能够预防偶发感染的情况下才能实施。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to unleash this potential and ensure that the next decade of growth brings sharp reductions in poverty, Nigeria’s leaders must pursue reforms aimed at increasing productivity, raising incomes, and delivering essential services like health care and education more efficiently.",
        "为了充分发挥潜力并确保今后十年经济增长能显著降低贫困，尼日利亚领导人必须着力推进以提高生产率、增加收入及有效提供医疗保健和教育等基本服务为目的的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But polls in the United States show that two-thirds of Americans think the UN is doing a poor job, and many believe it was tarnished by corruption during the Iraq oil-for-food program under Saddam Hussein.",
        "但在美国的民意调查表明三分之二的美国人认为联合国行事不力。 很多人认为这个组织被在萨达姆掌权时的“石油换食品”计划中所产生的腐败玷污了。"
    ],
    [
        "In this scenario, spending limits would have saved about $5.8 billion.",
        "假设如此，那么支出上限在58亿美元左右。"
    ],
    [
        "The true believers view the deficits as evidence that the world recognizes how special the US is and wants to buy in. Skeptics see an empire living on borrowed money and borrowed time.",
        "狂热的崇拜者把赤字作为全世界认可美国特殊性，愿意大宗买进的证据，而怀疑论者看到的却是一个依靠借钱、借时间度日的没落帝国。"
    ],
    [
        "They try to report the world as it is, but theirs is not the world of most people – their business depends on the disruption of “ordinary” business, so they systematically underestimate people’s desire for law and order (or at least order).",
        "这些人想要真实地报道这个世界，只可惜他们眼中的世界却与普通人风马牛不相及——记者们的生计要靠打乱“正常”生活来维系，因此他们常常刻意低估人们对法律和秩序（或者仅仅是秩序）的渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "As Lenin pointed out, financial capitalism is the highest form of capitalism – that is, it is the end of capitalism.",
        "正如列宁所指出的，金融资本主义是资本主义的最高形式——换句话说，也就是资本主义的终点。"
    ],
    [
        "The bigger problem remains uncertainty about who is on the hook if a bank’s losses imply potential insolvency.",
        "更大的问题仍然是不确定如果银行损失可能导致破产，谁将是受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Given all of this, Europe is losing relevance internally and externally.",
        "考虑到所有这些因素，欧洲正在失去对内和对外的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "The elections had to be repeated, and democracy won.",
        "竞选必须重来，民主最终获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was meant for others.",
        "但是这是针对其他国家而言的。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, Bush’s 2002 National Security Strategy, which came to be called the Bush Doctrine, proclaimed that the US would “identify and eliminate terrorists wherever they are, together with the regimes that sustain them.”",
        "相反，被称为布什主义的2002年国家安全战略高调宣布美国将“挖出并清除恐怖主义者，连同他们所依赖的制度一并消灭，无论他们藏身何处。"
    ],
    [
        "Having fallen from $100 to $50, the oil price is now hovering at exactly this critical level.",
        "如今，油价从100美元跌至50美元，已徘徊在这一临界水平左右。"
    ],
    [
        "If sea levels rise by more than one meter, entire populations of Pacific-atoll and reef-island countries might have to relocate.",
        "如果海平面继续上升超过一米，太平洋岛礁和珊瑚礁国家的全体人口都需要重新安置。"
    ],
    [
        "Once investors see that the fossil-fuel game is over, governments must let the effects of the resulting capital reallocation play out.",
        "一旦投资者看到化石燃料的盛宴已经结束，政府必须让由此产生的资本再分配顺利发生。"
    ],
    [
        "For the last two years, things have been different.",
        "但在过去的两年间，情况发生了变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the end, there is no problem to be solved – or even an issue that concerns Facebook in particular.",
        "但最后没有什么问题非解决不可——甚至是特别涉及到Facebook。"
    ],
    [
        "Where to Build Trump’s Wall?",
        "特朗普的墙建在哪里？"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s Fiscal Crisis Comes of Age",
        "源于老龄化的日本财政危机"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the economy usually ends up in ruins.",
        "相反，经济往往以遭到破坏收场。"
    ],
    [
        "Mousavi was regarded by many Iranians as a second chance.",
        "穆萨维被许多伊朗人视为是第二次机会。"
    ],
    [
        "And, although the most urgently needed measures will not have an immediate effect on Greece’s finances, the IMF has little choice but to emphasize the short-term spending cuts that boost the chances of being repaid – even when that makes longer-term reforms more difficult to enact.",
        "此外，尽管最紧要的措施不会对希腊财政造成即刻的影响，但IMF别无选择，只能强调增加获得偿付概率的短期削减支出——哪怕这会导致更长期的改革更难实施。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is too good to be true.",
        "事实上，这确实过于美好了。"
    ],
    [
        "Now China, India, and Japan are pressing to get in.",
        "现在，中国、印度和日本也正积极谋求加入。"
    ],
    [
        "A bridge financed by the EIB may be more affordable than one financed by capital markets, but it remains the same bridge and has the same economic impact.",
        "通过欧洲投行融资的过桥贷款也许比通过资本市场融资更加可行，但仍然是相同的过桥贷款，产生相同的经济影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Expanding Crime and Punishment in Tibet",
        "西藏，不断膨胀的罪与罚"
    ],
    [
        "The prevailing obsession with the “governance” agenda entails a broad-based effort to remold institutions in developing societies as a prerequisite for economic growth.",
        "对于“管治”议程的盛行关注带来了大范围工作，力图在发展中国家重塑机制，作为经济发展的前提条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The Subsidy Trap",
        "补贴陷阱"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits of this initiative quickly became apparent, with evaluation studies showing that participants became more accepting of the health significance of mental illnesses, more confident in their ability to help others, and motivated to apply their knowledge after completing the course.",
        "这一项目的好处很快显现出来，评估研究表明，参与者变得更能接受心理疾病对健康的影响，对他们帮助他人更有信心，并且随时准备着在完成课程后把所学知识应用到实际中。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, similar patterns are characteristic of most post-modern societies.",
        "事实上，类似的过程是大部分后现代社会的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "And the familiar cliché is all too often true: older middle-class women fail to become financially literate in their own households, leaving brokerage accounts, pension accounts, taxes, life insurance, and so on to their husbands.",
        "请记住，以下这一陈词滥调往往是正确的：如果把投资账户，养老金账户，税单，人寿保险等等都留给她们的丈夫来处理，年龄较大的中产阶级女性仅仅在家庭中是无法学到财务知识的。"
    ],
    [
        "When oil prices were high and growing, the government could compensate for poor performance by throwing money at problems.",
        "当油价保持在高位并不端攀升之时，政府可以通过大洒金钱来掩盖低劣的执政能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The entrance of a new player with initial authorized capital of $100 billion – along with the United States’ Power Africa program, which has garnered $26 billion in commitments since its launch last year, and the World Bank’s new Global Infrastructure Facility – promises to help ease infrastructure financing significantly.",
        "拥有1,000亿美元初始授权资本的新开发银行的加入——以及自去年启动以来以筹集到260亿美元出资承诺的美国非洲加油计划（Power Africa program）和世界银行新成立的全球基础设施基金（Global Infrastructure Facility）——能够极大地缓解基础设施融资难问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Or will such elections be based on “one man, one vote, one time?”",
        "或者，这些民主选举能够建立在“一人一次投一票”的基础上吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, predicting the future is beside the point.",
        "归根结底，预测未来并非这篇文章的本意。"
    ],
    [
        "The excitement of the moment, however, does not tell us what the future holds.",
        "但这样令人兴奋的时刻并没有告诉我们未来将走向何处。"
    ],
    [
        "Maintaining a choice of currencies in a national as well as an international setting seems odd and counterintuitive.",
        "国家和国际货币并行的方案看似奇怪，违反直觉。"
    ],
    [
        "In the run-up to the downgrade, an analyst at Moody’s said that the decision would be based largely on whether the government heeded the Gallois report’s call for a “competitiveness shock” to France’s economy.",
        "穆迪公司的一位分析师说，降级决定大体上是根据政府是否留意加洛瓦报告对法国经济“竞争力冲击”的呼吁。"
    ],
    [
        "There are 684 physicians in Rwanda, a total that is far below the 1,182 physicians proposed by the Ministry of Health, and only 27% of the World Health Organization’s recommended minimum of 2,576 physicians.",
        "卢旺达有684名医生，这个数字远远低于其卫生部提出的1,182名医生的目标，也仅占世界卫生组织所建议的2,576名医生的27%。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, some investors feared that governments would unleash inflation to ease the burden of soaring public debt and address persistent unemployment.",
        "后来,一些投资者担心政府会为减轻不断增长的公共债务负担并解决居高不下的失业率而释放通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then can monetary policy achieve its goal: supporting productive investment, innovation, the scaling of private-sector businesses, and real economic growth.",
        "惟其如此，货币政策才能实现目标：支持生产性投资、创新、民营企业壮大和实体经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Where such loosening of the bonds is still not enough, it may be possible in some cases to arrange an amicable divorce, as happened when Czechoslovakia peacefully divided into two sovereign countries in 1993.",
        "在对限制进行这样的放松后仍然不够的地区，在有些情形下，可以安排一个友好分离，就像1993年捷克斯洛伐克和平分立成为两个主权国家一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank should not have to agree to an explicit write-down of Greek debt.",
        "欧洲央行不应该同意直接减记希腊债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The MKO, which was once on Saddam Hussein’s payroll and responsible for the loss of many innocent lives in Iran and Iraq, is now under the protection of the US government in Iraq and operates freely in the US itself.",
        "MKO，这个曾一度得到萨达姆的金钱支持并在伊朗及伊拉克大量杀害无辜的组织，现在美国政府的保护之下在伊拉克和美国境内自由行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the roughly 275 million adults with social-security numbers in the eurozone, some 90% are on the electoral register.",
        "欧元区有大约2. 75亿拥有社会安全号的成年人，其中90%左右是注册选民。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not willing to underwrite with hard cash Russian pretensions to world power status.",
        "但它不愿拿出真金白银支持俄罗斯的全球霸权之争。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the world seems fascinated by the fact that Poland is now governed by a set of identical twins who first became famous as child movie actors: President Lech Kaczynski and Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski.",
        "世界上很多人似乎都对波兰现在由一对长相一模一样的双胞胎兄弟——总统莱赫·古钦斯基和总理雅罗斯瓦夫·古钦斯基掌权的事实感到非常有趣，他们一开始是作为童星而成名的。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be understandable if Cameron were to conclude that Europe was the last thing he wants to spend time on this summer.",
        "即使卡梅伦认定今年夏天他最不愿解决欧洲问题也可以理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike some months ago, now the European Central Bank can intervene and buy troubled countries’ debt.",
        "与几个月前不同，如今欧洲央行可以干预并购买受困国的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, much of what has been described as \"secessionism\" in the east is in fact regionalism.",
        "最终，东部所谓的\"分离主义\"实际上就是地方主义。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Taliban’s assurances of a lower profile were upended by two incidents that exposed its real face. First, private news channels broadcast across the country a video clip recorded on a cell phone of the public flogging of a 17-year-old Swat girl.",
        "然而塔利班低调存在的承诺却最终宣告无效，因为有两个事件揭露了其真正嘴脸：一是私营新闻频道在全国广泛播放的一段手机视频，显示塔利班是如何公开鞭打一个17岁斯瓦特女孩的。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic prices would rise, helping farmers, and the external value of the dollar would fall, helping exporters.",
        "国内物价上升，帮助了农场主，国际美元价值下跌，扶持了出口商。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the marchers simply want the system to open its doors and let them in.",
        "许多游行参与者只是想要体系能开一扇门，让他们进去。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is coming to an end at a time when economic populism is replacing technocratic management, often with white males turning to nativism in response to the destruction of their jobs and livelihoods by the impersonal forces of globalization.",
        "而它的结束正逢经济民粹主义正在取代技术官僚管理——常常伴随白人男性面对岗位和生计的被全球化的非人力量破坏而转向本土论。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, global warming is happening, and mankind is partly responsible, but these statements are – however eloquent – seriously wrong or misleading.",
        "是的，全球变暖正在发生，而人类是要承担部分责任，但上述的声明-不管再怎么雄辩-也存在着严重的错误或误导性。"
    ],
    [
        "C.auris was first identified in Japan in 2009, in the ear of a patient who complained of an infection. (Auris is Latin for ear.)",
        "耳道假丝酵母菌在2009年于一个报称感染的日本患者耳朵中首次发现（Auris是拉丁语中“耳朵”的意思）。"
    ],
    [
        "Postponing fiscal consolidation risks aborting it, but consolidating too aggressively risks temporarily hindering growth.",
        "叫停财政整合可能会导致它半途而废，但整合太猛又有可能会暂时拖累增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The basic idea of the structuralist approach is that while market forces are always fluctuating, the unemployment rate actually has a homing tendency.",
        "结构主义观点的基本思想是，市场力量是不断波动的，但失业率其实具有回归倾向。"
    ],
    [
        "There are about three billion bases, and the sequences in which they occur is our genetic code, or human genome.",
        "这样的碱基大约有三十亿个，它们的排列顺序组成了我们的遗传密码，或者说人类基因组。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis also reminds us of the importance of government and civil society.",
        "埃博拉危机还提醒我们政府和公民社会的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent research has shown that nutrition can be a major catalyst of inclusive economic growth, with each dollar of investment yielding a return of $15-138 dollars.",
        "最新研究表明，营养可以成为包容性经济增长的强大催化剂，每一美元投资可以产生15—138美元的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa is on the rise, while Russia is on the decline.",
        "非洲正在崛起，而俄罗斯正在走向衰落。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, though Zhu’s reforms were piecemeal, they could easily have led to double-digit GDP growth.",
        "事实上，尽管朱镕基的改革是碎片化的，但本可以轻松地带来两位数的GDP增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporate profits may be near all-time highs, but their variance among firms and industries has also increased significantly.",
        "企业利润或许接近历史高点，但不同企业和行业间的差异也显著上升。"
    ],
    [
        "QE benefits the few who need it the least. That is not exactly a recipe for a broad-based and socially optimal economic recovery.",
        "量化宽松政策让那些最不需要它的少数人得益，也不是一个真正具有广泛基础和社会效应最优的经济复苏药方。"
    ],
    [
        "A country can also influence the short-term exchange rate by intervening directly in the foreign-exchange market.",
        "一国也可以通过直接干预外汇市场影响短期汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "In some of his statements, and in his recent interview with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, Obama compared the deal with Iran to Richard Nixon’s opening to China in 1972.",
        "在作某些声明和最近接受纽约时报托马斯·弗里德曼采访时，奥巴马将伊朗协议与1972年理查德·尼克松向中国开放相比。"
    ],
    [
        "Fewer than half of the young people that McKinsey surveyed claimed to have even basic knowledge of average wages or the prevalence of job opportunities in their chosen field.",
        "在接受麦肯锡调查的年轻人中，只有不到一半具有关于平均薪资水平或他们所选择的的领域的就业机会情况的基本认识。"
    ],
    [
        "The forecasts of the proportion of East Europeans who were expected to move west within a 15 years ranged from 2.5% to 6%.",
        "预计在15年内东欧人移民到西欧的比例是2. 5%到6%。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Fed, along with almost all other central banks, appears to have lost faith in that story.",
        "但美联储，与几乎所有他家央行一道，显得已经对这个神话失去了信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East, in particular, is experiencing a moment of intense transformation.",
        "特别是中东正在经历密集转型的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only do they face direct threats; they also have the best opportunities to identify and deliver solutions.",
        "城市不但面临着直接的威胁，也拥有最好的机会认识并给出解决防范。"
    ],
    [
        "In July 2011, following the highly publicized crash of a supposedly state-of-the-art high-speed train in eastern China, Qiu Qiming, a news anchor for the national broadcaster CCTV, turned the disaster into a metaphor.",
        "2011年7月，在东部发生尽人皆知的高铁事故后，中国国家电视台中央电视台的主播邱启明针对这场灾难打了个比喻。"
    ],
    [
        "Although economic growth and poverty reduction in many developing countries has been impressive in recent years, a significant increase in investment in areas such as infrastructure is required to sustain such growth in the future.",
        "尽管很多发展中国家在经济发展和脱贫方面取得了令人瞩目的成就，但仍需要在基础设施等领域大大增加投资以满足将来可持续性发展。"
    ],
    [
        "In these cases, the cause of death is often recorded simply as a “neonatal death,” a label that provides no hint as to what caused the illness.",
        "对于这些死亡案例，致死原因常常简单地归为“新生儿死亡”，这根本无助于找到致病原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe’s commitment to the rules and institutions of the post-1945 world order, which helped bring Japan out of the ruins of World War II and has allowed China to rise so peacefully, gives the US another reason to honor him.",
        "安倍对1945年后规则和机构的承诺——这些规则和机构让日本从二战的废墟中复苏，也让中国得以和平崛起——是美国授予他国会演讲荣誉的另一个原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the panel called these ventures – including Kyoto – “bad projects,” because they cost more than the good they do.",
        "事实上，与会的经济学家们将这些冒险行为—包括京都（议定书）--称为“不良项目”，因为它们事倍功半。"
    ],
    [
        "But all the talk of wondrous returns could spur what psychologists call “wishful thinking bias,” leading people to believe that their personal accounts will be so valuable in the future that outside saving is unnecessary.",
        "但是所有关于惊人报酬的讨论将会刺激心理学家所说的“愿望思维偏向”，引导人们相信他们的私人账户会在将来变得如此值钱以至于他们不需要任何除此之外的储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet many policymakers in the United States and around the world still don’t seem able to grasp that examining the behavior of women and men alike can improve their analysis and their proposed measures.",
        "但美国和世界各地的众多决策者似乎仍然无法理解同时研究女性和男性的行为模式可以提高他们的分析能力并改进他们所提出的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, while Interpol recently rejected Russia’s request to pursue the investment banker William F. Browder (a fierce critic of the Russian government since the death of his lawyer, Magnitsky), it should apply Article 3 of its constitution, which bars it from participating in political matters, much more scrupulously.",
        "比如，国际刑警组织最近拒绝了俄罗斯通缉投资银行家布劳德尔（William F. Browder，自律师马格尼茨基死亡后，他猛烈地抨击俄罗斯政府）的要求，但它应该使用其宪章第三条，该条极为谨慎，禁止国际刑警组织参与政治案件。"
    ],
    [
        "One might think that long-term interest rates tend to be high when there is evidence that there will be higher inflation over the life of the bond, to compensate investors for the expected decline in the dollar’s purchasing power.",
        "你也许会认为，当有证据表明债券存续期内通胀会变高时，长期利率会趋于高企，从而补偿投资者预期的美元购买力下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the consensus view that the global economy will soon bottom out has proven – once again – to be overly optimistic.",
        "因此，经济学家曾一致认为全球经济很快就会见底回升的观点，再次被证实是过于乐观了。"
    ],
    [
        "Undertaking massive investment now and deciding only later how to finance it looks irresponsible – and so it is.",
        "现在进行大量投资、日后在决定如何为投资融资看上去很不负责任——确实如此。"
    ],
    [
        "A hyperactive amygdala, along with abnormal activity in other regions of the brain, leads to disrupted patterns of sleep and physical activity, as well as irregular patterns of secretion of hormones and other chemical mediators that control many of the body's structures.",
        "亢进的类扁桃体，加上大脑其他区域的不正常活动，会导致中断的睡眠模式和身体活动，以及控制身体许多组织的荷尔蒙和其他化学调节因子的无规律分泌。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 50 distinguished US academics signed a letter protesting the Hannah Arendt Center’s decision to invite Jongen to speak.",
        "50多位美国著名学者联名签署了一封抗议信 ，抗议汉娜·阿伦特中心邀请琼根发言的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Some, like Poland and the Baltic states, have consistently denounced Russia's actions and have demanded a firm response.",
        "一些国家，如波兰和波罗的海国家，一直在谴责俄罗斯的行为并要求予以强硬应对。"
    ],
    [
        "Whoever triumphs in future elections will lack the legitimacy that only a majority can provide.",
        "不管在未来选举中谁能胜出，都将缺少只有多数人才能提供的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics repeatedly pointed out that the fundamental contradictions had not been resolved, and that if the euro was to survive in the long run, there would have to be a fiscal and banking union, which would require morepolitical unification than most Europeans are willing to accept.",
        "批评家们再三指出基本矛盾并没有得到解决，如果欧元要在长期内生存下来，就得有一个财政和银行联盟，这就需要构建更多超出大部分欧洲人意愿的政治联合。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of government spending crowding out the private sector, there could be development spending to “crowd in” the private sector.",
        "政府支出不会挤出私人部门，相反，可能出现“挤进”私人部门的发展支出。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The low rate of inflation in the United States is a puzzle, especially to economists who focus on the relationship between inflation and changes in the monetary base.",
        "美国剑桥—美国通胀率低是一个谜，特别是对于关注通胀和货币基础变化的关系的经济学家来说。"
    ],
    [
        "Many large financial institutions have recently joined a global initiative promoting fossil-fuel divestment.",
        "许多大型金融机构最近联手参与了一个促进减少化石燃料投资的全球性计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Until we do, an honest debate about Islam in Europe will be impossible.",
        "在实现这一目标之前，在欧洲展开对伊斯兰教的诚实探讨是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Its location on the Black Sea ties it to Southeast Europe, the Balkans, and the Caucasus, as well as Turkey.",
        "地处黑海的地理位置将它与东南欧、巴尔干、高加索和土耳其密切相联。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – When the United Kingdom joined the then-European Economic Community in 1973, it was at the rearguard of European integration.",
        "巴黎—1973年，当英国加入当时的欧洲经济共同体时，它是欧洲一体化的殿军。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlikely as it may be in view of Turkey's deeply rooted secularism, such a risk cannot be totally excluded.",
        "虽然根深蒂固的世俗主义使这种转变不太可能发生，但毕竟不能完全排除这样的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "However, in recent years, a new set of economies has emerged that is contesting the affluent countries’ economic dominance.",
        "然而，最近这些年出现的一些新的经济体对富裕国家的经济主导地位发起了挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, the US came to preside over the alliance.",
        "也正因为此，美国掌控着整个联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "At its peak, Japanese investment stood at 33% of GDP, compared to 47% in China.",
        "在顶峰时期，日本投资占GDP的33%，而中国为47%。"
    ],
    [
        "Experience teaches us to be prudent.",
        "经验告诉告诉我们要谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Copenhagen Consensus showed us not only what we should be doing, but also what should not be done – at least not right now.",
        "但是“哥本哈根共识”告诉我们的不仅仅是我们应该做什么，还有不该做什么——至少此时此刻不该做什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The third policy area – eliminating discrimination in health-care settings – must become an international priority.",
        "第三个政策领域——消除医疗环境中的歧视——必须成为国际关注的优先领域。"
    ],
    [
        "But few people took those promises seriously.",
        "但没人把这个目标当回事。"
    ],
    [
        "But this may be a vision that gives Europe a chance to remain big and inclusive, while retaining the politically integrated core that the eurozone needs.",
        "但这是能让欧洲保持大而包容的方案，同时还能保留欧元区所需要的统一核心。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time of writing, more than 1,600 Palestinians have been killed, most of them civilians, by Israeli air and ground strikes.",
        "当我撰写本文时，已有1,600多名巴勒斯坦人死于以色列的空中和地面袭击，其中大部分是平民。"
    ],
    [
        "His aim seems to be to make Hong Kong more like the rest of China, rather than the other way round.",
        "他的目标是让香港向中国其他部分靠拢，而不是相反。"
    ],
    [
        "“devotes himself forever to the pursuit of wealth and greatness....With the most unrelenting industry he labors night and day....serves those whom he hates, and is obsequious to those whom he despises....[I]n the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and diseases, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments....he begins at last to find that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility....Power and riches....keep off the summer shower, not the winter storm, but leave him always as much, and sometimes more exposed than before, to anxiety, to fear, and to sorrow; to diseases, to danger, and to death...”",
        "……生活在最底层的人，其身体总是被劳作和病痛折磨着，其思想总是被一次又一次的受伤和失望羞辱和蹂躏着……最终，他发现财富和伟大是可笑的效用的装饰品。 ……权势人物和富人……拿走的是夏日的阵雨，而不是寒冬的凛风，但总是让他像以前一样，甚至比以前更甚地，陷入焦虑、恐惧和悲伤；"
    ],
    [
        "All of the relevant states in the region have accepted the legal obligation to assist in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes.",
        "该地区所有相关国家都认可协助战争罪调查和起诉的法律义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Frustrated by the reality that much of our advice went unheeded (so many free-market solutions still waiting to be taken up!), we turned our analytical toolkit on the behavior of politicians and bureaucrats themselves.",
        "我们的许多建议被忽视（如此之多的自由市场解决方案从未被使用过！ ），这一事实令我们颇为尴尬，于是我们把政客和官僚本身的行为也纳入了我们的分析范围。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the West never made that offer, and Russian democracy went astray.",
        "不幸的是，西方从未伸出这片橄榄枝，而俄罗斯的民主也误入歧途。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the 2008 global financial crisis, an enormous number of new rules have been put in place.",
        "自2008年全球金融危机以来，欧洲已经实施了大量新规则。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, the United Nations Environment Program published a report comparing measures targeting soot particles and other so-called “short-lived climate pollutants” to measures reducing CO2, which showed that the former would achieve a more rapid decrease of global warming in the coming decades.",
        "2011年，联合国环境计划署发表了一份比较烟尘颗粒物及其他所谓“短效气候污染物”的减排和二氧化碳减排措施的报告，显示前者能够在未来几十年内更快地缓解全球变暖现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The last time Europe faced such a turning point on migration was in 2011, when the Arab Spring triggered a flood of new arrivals fleeing violence and chaos in North Africa.",
        "欧洲上一次面临类似的移民政策转折点是在2011年。 当时，阿拉伯之春导致大量逃脱北非暴力和混乱的移民来到欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, recent tensions have been more old-fashioned, pitting the US against the eurozone, with the UK and others stuck in between.",
        "事实上，最近的紧张局面变得更加似曾相识，美国与欧元区针锋相对，英国和其他国家夹在中间。"
    ],
    [
        "MOSCOW – Strategic vision has never been a Russian attribute, and it certainly was absent in 2012.",
        "莫斯科—战略愿景从来不是俄罗斯的习惯，2012年，俄罗斯显然没有战略愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "The ugly facts have been apparent for a while, but people cannot abandon one mental framework unless another one can take its place: in the end, beautiful old theories are killed only by newer, more powerful theories.",
        "这些丑陋的事实尽露无疑已经多时，但人们就是无法抛弃心理框架，直到一个新框架能够取而代之：最终，美妙的旧理论一定会被更新更有力的理论所杀死。"
    ],
    [
        "Accidents at the Savannah River reprocessing plant released ten times as much radioiodine as the accident at Three Mile Island, and a fire at the Gulf United facility in New York in 1972 scattered an undisclosed amount of plutonium, forcing the plant to shut down permanently.",
        "比如位于美国南卡罗莱纳州的瑟维那河核废料再处理厂（Savannah River reprocessing plant）就曾释放出比三里岛事故高十倍的辐射强度，而1972年在纽约海湾联合（Gulf United）钚燃料转化工厂发生的一场火灾则引发了数量不明的钚元素泄漏，直接导致该厂永久关闭。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – By the time China overtakes the United States as the world’s largest economy sometime in the next few years, it will have cemented its status as a major military power – one whose drive to assert itself strategically already is inspiring serious anxiety among its neighbors.",
        "发自首尔——在数年后中国超过美国成为世界最大经济体之时，它也已经巩固了自身作为主要军事强国的地位——而其在战略上维护自身利益的举动已经在临近各国引发了强烈忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "The girls have now been held captive for over five months.",
        "这些女孩已经被劫超过五个月。"
    ],
    [
        "At short distances, gluons create an attractive force that is pretty weak and well understood.",
        "在短距离的情况下，胶子会产生一个相当弱且已经被充分研究理解的引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Pursuing this agenda is essential to China’s long-term financial and economic health.",
        "追求这些日程对于中国的长期金融和经济健康来说是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps, though, Saddam was too eager to sell oil concessions to French, Russian, and Italian companies rather than British and US companies.",
        "不过，或许萨达姆太急于将石油开采权卖给法国、俄罗斯和意大利的公司，而不是英美的公司。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the rich have successfully pressed for tax cuts and reductions in government spending, children from poor and working-class households are far less likely to receive a high-quality education, and the US government has failed to provide for training or adequate infrastructure.",
        "但随着富裕阶层成功迫使政府减免税务以及政府支出削减，其他贫穷及工薪家庭的子女比以往更难以得到高质量教育，此外美国政府也未能提供培训机会及足够的基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "These distortions, not any shortcomings of the single currency, account for the euro area’s dismal economic performance.",
        "造成欧元区经济表现低迷的正是这些扭曲，而不是单一货币的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "A world in which everybody expects a falling dollar is a world in economic crisis.",
        "人人认为美元即将贬值的世界将是一个陷入经济危机的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States did something similar in 1933, when it depreciated the dollar by 69% and abandoned the gold standard.",
        "1933年，美国也这样做过，将美元贬值69%并抛弃金本位。"
    ],
    [
        "In Spain and Greece, more than one-quarter of the labor force is jobless, while the unemployment rate hovers around 60% among young people.",
        "在西班牙和希腊，四分之一以上劳动力找不到工作，年轻人失业率更是徘徊在60%。"
    ],
    [
        "Kim responded to Trump’s UN speech by calling him “mentally deranged” and a “dotard.”",
        "金正恩用“精神错乱”和“老糊涂”来回应特朗普在联合国的演讲。"
    ],
    [
        "Would it encourage the middle-class professional and urban workers in Pakistan, disgusted by the excesses of the extremists, to dig in and see off fundamentalism?",
        "这是否又能激励那些延误恐怖行动的中产阶级和城市工人阶层，让他们深刻反省并与极端主义思想一刀两断？"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, Malaysia may soon become prone to the same type of violent protest and economic decline that have gripped Thailand in recent years.",
        "不幸的是，马来西亚可能很快就陷入与近几年来的泰国同样的暴力示威和经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s visit in May was presented as an effort to reinvigorate relations in the context of the rise of the Asia-Pacific region.",
        "奥巴马5月的拉美之行表现出试图在亚太地区崛起的环境下振兴拉美关系的姿态。"
    ],
    [
        "But European elites, preoccupied with short-term fixes, have not considered the long-term need for such revisions – to their own detriment.",
        "但欧洲精英被短期问题缚住了手脚，并未考虑到长期修正的需要——这会给他们自身带来伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe needs fiscal consolidation, reductions in carbon emissions, and a strategy for economic growth.",
        "欧洲需要巩固财政，减少二氧化碳排放，制定经济增长战略。"
    ],
    [
        "They were given new powers to regulate the financial system, and encouraged to adopt new and highly interventionist policies in an attempt to stave off depression and deflation.",
        "它们获得了新的监管金融体系的权力，并被鼓励采取新的、高度干预的政策来遏制萧条和通缩。"
    ],
    [
        "These new rules have certainly pushed transaction costs higher.",
        "这些新规则显然推高了交易成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The failed putsch created a rare opportunity for national unity.",
        "这场未遂政变创造了一个实现民族团结的难得机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Such was the epistemic position of the Middle Ages, which presumed all humans to be mutually equal but subordinate to an inscrutable God.",
        "这也是中世纪的认知立场，该立场假定所有人都是相互平等的，但却是听从于不可知的上帝。"
    ],
    [
        "Each factor has special resonance here.",
        "其中的每个因素都能引起特殊的共鸣。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a Machiavellian explanation for the replacement of Monti.",
        "还有对蒙蒂下台事件中权力内幕的揭示。"
    ],
    [
        "But much depends on how governments present their accounts.",
        "但这在很大程度上取决于政府如何管理它们的账户。"
    ],
    [
        "True, in the endgame of the talks, the US caved in to its wealthy and powerful agribusiness lobby.",
        "诚然，在谈判的最后阶段，美国屈服于其富有而强大的农业综合企业的游说。"
    ],
    [
        "The value of 98-99% similarity between human and ape DNA stands outside the rest of life.",
        "人与猿之间98-99%的DNA相似性远远超过了其它的生命类型。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is not clear what will occur to reverse the decline in GDP and end the economic downturn.",
        "由此可见，如何真正才能解决GDP的下降，结束经济下滑呢？ 目前看来还没有什么良方。"
    ],
    [
        "Magris’s main character is a rebel in more than one embodiment: as Salvatore Cipico, one of the inmates in the communist concentration camp in Yugoslavia; as Jurgen Jurgensen, ephemeral king of Iceland and a convict forced to build his own jail; and as Jason, the mythic adventurer searching for the volatile truth.",
        "马格里斯小说中的主角是一个多重反叛角色：如萨尔瓦多·西皮科（Salvatore Cipico），南斯拉夫共产主义集中营中的一员； 又如约根·约根森（Jurgen Jurgensen），被迫自掘坟墓的短命冰岛国王；"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, instead of specifying a comprehensive debt-restructuring proposal, the plan simply specifies the amount that will be repaid to creditors during the next decade.",
        "最后，该计划没有确定全面的债务重组方案，而仅仅规定了今后十年将要偿还给债权人的金额。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s government must recognize that, while increased participation allows China to advance its interests, it also brings greater responsibilities.",
        "但是中国政府必须认识到，在增大参与让中国增进其利益的同时也带来更大的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the total fertility rate (TFR) required to maintain current population levels (the replacement rate).",
        "这是维持目前人口水平（替代率）所需的总生育率（TFR）。"
    ],
    [
        "He has been probably the most outstanding Chancellor of the Exchequer in British history, not because of any inspiration or genius, but simply because he has built on a new tradition of prioritizing low inflation, low interest rates, and stable government finances.",
        "他或许是英国历史上最杰出的财政大臣，其原因不在于任何灵感或天赋，而仅在于他发挥了一项新的传统，将保持低通胀、低利率和稳定的政府财政放在首位。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, they have the economies of weak states.",
        "首先，这些国家都是新生国家，其主权自1991年诞生以来就陷入争夺，并且一直孱弱。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no evidence that this would significantly boost growth, as Romney claims.",
        "没有证据表明这会如罗姆尼所称那样极大地提振增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Not that national feeling is dying, even as a new European spirit is being born.",
        "这并不是说民族情感在消逝，即便一种新的欧洲精神正在诞生。"
    ],
    [
        "When the country turned to its creditors for help, it was only because it could not cover some large payments on maturing loans.",
        "希腊之所以向债权人求助，只是因为拿不出偿还到期贷款的巨大金额。"
    ],
    [
        "HIV/AIDS patients are also prone to other infections: an estimated 70% of South Africans with AIDS also contract tuberculosis, while half of those carrying the HIV virus are expected to do so during their lifetime.",
        "病毒携带者/艾滋病患者也容易感染其他疾病：估计70%的南非艾滋病患者同时感染肺结核，而半数病毒携带者在一生中会有感染肺结核的经历。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because China chooses its projects according to their long-term strategic value, they may yield short-term returns that are insufficient for countries to repay their debts.",
        "而由于中国根据长期战略价值来遴选项目，这些项目的短期回报可能不足以让所在国偿还债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The authors find another intriguing effect, too.",
        "两位作者还发现了另一个有趣的效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas won.",
        "哈马斯是赢家。"
    ],
    [
        "That would widen the wage distribution, create jobs, and maintain the living standard of the poor.",
        "这将会扩大工资分配，创造就业机会，并且维持穷人的生活水准。"
    ],
    [
        "The first mover is happy to make such trades without verifying that the news is true.",
        "先行者无需核实消息真假即可交易。"
    ],
    [
        "A Dutch analysis of land use has shown that by employing the best technical and ecological means on the best available land, substantial gains could be made in food production.",
        "一份荷兰的土地使用分析已经表明，通过在最好的可使用土地上运用最佳的技术与生态手段，食物生产可以显著增加。"
    ],
    [
        "A country of 9.5 million people, it is providing refuge to 2.9 million non-citizens, including 1.265 million Syrians, and facing the influx of additional Syrians uprooted by Russian bombing.",
        "这个950万人口的国家为290万非本国公民提供了庇护，其中包括126."
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, populations are rejecting regional and global institutions.",
        "与此同时，群众不再愿意接受地区和全球机构。"
    ],
    [
        "If, at this time, the answer is no, counselees do not need to waste time and money dealing with the test.",
        "如果在现阶段答案是否定的，那么咨询者就没有必要费钱费时地接受测试。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Flawed Election",
        "有缺陷的美国大选"
    ],
    [
        "Governor Jerry Brown (who was also Governor in the 1970’s) inherits a budget deficit of $26 billion. And that’s before the coming deluge from generous public employee pensions and health costs.",
        "现任州长杰瑞·布朗（此人曾于1970年代担任州长）接手的是一笔历届政府积累下来的总额达260亿美元的财政赤字，这还是在大规模支出公共雇员养老金和医疗支出之前的数字。"
    ],
    [
        "As Hannah Arendt pointed out six decades ago, the rise of anti-Semitism fueled Europe’s descent into totalitarianism.",
        "正如汉娜·阿伦特六十年前曾经指出的那样，反犹主义兴起推动欧洲陷入极权主义。"
    ],
    [
        "That was the initial view of David Ricardo, the most influential economist of the nineteenth century.",
        "这就是十九世纪最有影响力的经济学家大卫·李嘉图的最初看法。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, regulatory disparities are not just a product of divergent national interests; how effectively diplomacy is practiced and coordinated can play a role as well.",
        "毕竟，监管分歧并不仅仅是国家利益差异的产物； 外交实践和协作效率的高低也起着作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s Lost Illusions",
        "土耳其失去的幻想"
    ],
    [
        "Governments promptly obliged with more of the same.",
        "欧洲各国政府随即变本加厉。"
    ],
    [
        "But America’s political system is about to deliver a balance of power in Washington that is likely to produce stalemate and paralysis.",
        "但美国的政治体制的核心却使华盛顿内部的权力相互制衡，并因此导致了政治僵局和瘫痪。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the climate system’s time horizon does not align well with the world’s much shorter political and economic cycles.",
        "显然，气候系统的考虑时界很长，二政治和经济周期很短，两者恨不匹配。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this is only one study, and many poor countries still suffer from a chronic talent exodus.",
        "当然，这仅仅是一项研究，许多贫穷国家仍然因为长期的人才流失而损失惨重。"
    ],
    [
        "At the moment, the very governments leading the fight against climate change continue to support and protect investment in fossil-fuel exploration, extraction, and transportation.",
        "目前，领导气候变化斗争的各国政府，都仍然在支持和保护化石燃料勘探、采掘和运输的项目投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s stance was in keeping with his now-famous foreign and security-policy mantra: “Don’t do stupid shit.”",
        "奥巴马的立场是保持其如今名声大噪的外交和安全政策咒语：“不要干傻事。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in April, G-20 leaders accepted that investing in a low-carbon infrastructure, particularly energy services, is key to a truly sustainable economic and environmental future.",
        "回到今年四月，二十国集团领袖已经承认投资于低碳的基础设施、特别是能源服务是确保真正可持续经济和环境未来的关键所在。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why international action to address both global poverty and global inequality is needed.",
        "这就是为什么需要采取国际性的行动同时应对全球贫穷和全球不平衡的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The legalization of prostitution in October 2000 merely codified a long-standing Dutch tradition of tolerance towards buying and selling sex.",
        "荷兰在2000年10月将卖淫合法化，只不过是将荷兰长期存在的容忍卖淫嫖娼的传统条文化而已。"
    ],
    [
        "But the triangle is not equilateral, because the US is allied with Japan, and China need not become a threat to either country if they maintain that alliance.",
        "但是这个三角并不是等边的，因为美国是与日本结盟的，而如果它们维持这一同盟关系，中国就不会成为它们任何一个国家的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, because genomes multiply and spread with reproduction, modifying an entire population would require modifications to only a limited number of individuals, especially if the organism’s lifecycle is short.",
        "首先，由于基因组通过复制大量增长和传播，修改全部基因组只需要修改有限数量的个体，特别是对于生命周期较短的生命体而言。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Emir will now need to navigate skillfully between the Al Sabah family’s factions and a newly empowered parliament.",
        "新的埃米尔现在必须在萨巴赫家族不同派别以及新近获得权力的议会之间灵巧地周旋。"
    ],
    [
        "It is far too indebted to be the ultimate strategic and economic insurance policy for its allies, as it was in the past.",
        "美国身上背负的像从前那样成为盟友的终极战略和经济保险政策的重任太过沉重。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the country partners include all of Europe’s non-NATO countries, such as Austria, Switzerland, Finland, and Sweden, and aspiring and possible NATO members such as Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Ukraine, Belarus, and even Russia.",
        "事实上，合作伙伴国包括欧洲所有的非北约国家，如奥地利、瑞士、芬兰和瑞典，以及有意加入北约的波斯尼亚、塞尔维亚、马其顿、乌克兰、白俄罗斯，甚至还有俄国。"
    ],
    [
        "Singh argues that this requirement by itself would have prevented the suit against him by the British Chiropractic Association from going forward.",
        "辛格认为这一要求本身就可以阻止英国整脊协会对他提起诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s unending appetite for oil, beyond its ability or willingness to produce, has contributed a third factor.",
        "世界对石油永无休止需求，超出了地球的产油能力或是产油国的意愿，这是第三个因素。"
    ],
    [
        "But does Amazon’s success mean that traditional brick-and-mortar retailers are slackers for not upgrading their stores, or for not building new stores in better locations?",
        "但亚马逊的成功是否就意味着传统实体零售商是一帮不升级其商店或不在更好地段建新店的懒虫？"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past 33 years, I have had plenty of opportunity to study both oil prices and foreign exchange rates, including overseeing a research department of talented people trying to predict their movements.",
        "在过去的33年里，我有足够的机会来研究石油价格和汇率，包括带领一个汇集众多人才尝试预测石油价格走势的研究部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the extensive exposure of the UK population to BSE in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, what explains the low number of confirmed cases?",
        "由于20世纪80年代末和90年代初英国人口普遍感染了牛海绵状脑病，那么确认的发病病例数不高又做何解释呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This saves resources, but it also implies a considerable loss of meaning.",
        "这能够节省资源，但它也意味着信息的大量流失。"
    ],
    [
        "Combining the challenges cited by Gordon and Summers to the view that advanced economies are gradually healing leads to some depressing conclusions.",
        "将戈登和萨默斯提出的挑战与发达经济体正在回暖的观点相结合，推出的结论令人沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "ISIS will eventually be defeated, just as other transnational terrorists were.",
        "伊斯兰国最终会被击败，这和其他跨境恐怖分子没有区别。"
    ],
    [
        "Laying a foundation for future engagement requires ongoing commitment and effort that goes beyond mere publicity.",
        "打好未来参与的基础需要不断的承诺和努力，光靠宣传是不行的。"
    ],
    [
        "After centuries of isolation and colonial slumber, the region is now awake to the potential benefits of greater unity.",
        "在孤立和殖民地时期后，亚洲地区正在意识到更加统一的潜在好处。"
    ],
    [
        "He failed, but the idea did not vanish.",
        "他没有成功，但是这个观点却保留了下来。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, food-related research and development should focus on facilitating the production of nutrient-rich foods and the diversification of farming systems.",
        "同样，与粮食相关的研究和开发应着眼于推动营养丰富食品的生产及确保农业系统多样性。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while British Prime Minister Gordon Brown agrees with Obama that the world’s leading industrialized countries must stimulate their domestic economies as much as they can, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King has warned that Britain may already have taken on too much debt for another round of stimulus.",
        "英国首相戈登·布朗却大加赞赏奥巴马，认为作为世界最大的工业化国家的美国必须尽可能地刺激国内经济。 然而，英国央行行长默文·金却警告说，如果再推行一次经济刺激方案的话，英国人就会背负太多的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – In recent years, the number of tourists visiting Japan has been increasing rapidly, reaching a record 13.4 million last year, a 29% increase from 2013.",
        "东京—近几年来，访日游客数量迅速增长，去年创出1,340万人次新高，比2013年增加29%。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Golden Opportunity",
        "德国的黄金机会"
    ],
    [
        "A single homicide in America costs the individual and society $9.1 million.",
        "美国一起凶杀案给个人和社会造成的损失高达910万美元。"
    ],
    [
        "These protests are striking not only for the sensitive nature of the issues they address, but for the broad-based support they have elicited.",
        "这些抗议颇具威力，不仅因为他们针对的问题非常敏感，还因为他们获得了更为广泛的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, because central banks now recognize that their responsibilities extend beyond stabilizing prices to include the prevention and management of financial tensions, they would undoubtedly be quick to respond to any shock with a battery of market operations.",
        "当然，由于各国央行已经意识到自己的职责已不仅是稳定物价，还得包含预防和应对财政紧张局势，自然将会迅速使出一连串市场运作来对任何冲击做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Though achieving a substantive settlement was always a pipe dream, this latest disappointment will render the United States unable to preserve even the façade of a “peace process” that was all process and no peace.",
        "尽管达成实质性和解一直是一个遥远的梦，但最新的失望结果意味着美国连为这一其实一点都不和平的进程保留“和平进程”的外表也无法做到。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of the day, the president was given an ultimatum.",
        "当天傍晚，总统接到最后通牒。"
    ],
    [
        "A subsequent investigation into the work of the Commission was more thorough than the Commission’s investigation of the crisis.",
        "一项针对安吉莱德斯委员会成果的后续调查要比安吉莱德斯委员会对危机的调查彻底多了。"
    ],
    [
        "How could such a rich country score so low?",
        "一个如此富裕的国家怎么会得分如此之低？"
    ],
    [
        "They expect reforms to continue, albeit at a rather gentler pace.",
        "他们希望改革能继续下去，即便改革的进程往往会过于缓慢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Given how hard it is for governments to initiate a shift to a new policymaking mode (that is, to disrupt themselves), pressure will build from the outside.",
        "鉴于政府启动新决策模式（亦即自我破坏）困难重重，必须从外部施加压力。"
    ],
    [
        "In the name of “realism,” diplomats and foreign-policy strategists are naturally conservative.",
        "在“现实主义”名义的掩护下，外交官和外交战略制定者们自然而然选择了保守。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets have also made clear that the ability of other major deficit countries, like Brazil and India, to absorb capital flows is reaching its limit.",
        "金融市场也明确无误地显示出其他主要赤字国家，如巴西和印度吸收资本流的能力到达了极限。"
    ],
    [
        "In late 2009, Zhao was officially arrested; he has been in police custody ever since.",
        "在2009年年末，赵连海被正式逮捕； 自此被警方拘留。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, a strong effort must be made to bolster job creation.",
        "同时必须竭尽全力创造更多就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But the crucial question – and one that is rarely asked – is how US households were able to reduce their debt burden during a period of high unemployment and almost no wage gains while sustaining consumption growth.",
        "但鲜有人问及的关键问题是为何美国家庭能够在高失业和工资几无增长的时期减少债务负担，同时还能维持消费增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Like housing partnerships, this would be a fundamental reform, for it would address the core problem that underlay the financial crisis.",
        "与合伙买房一样，这将是根本性改革，因为它将解决金融危机背后的核心问题。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the American scientist who was invited to see it, the facility, in contrast to the regime’s aging plutonium technology, appeared to be state-of-the-art, thus reinforcing the suspicion that North Korea has no genuine interest whatsoever in fulfilling its nuclear-disarmament responsibilities.",
        "据受邀参观该设施的美国科学家所言，这套设施与该国原本落后的钚技术相比简直是一个飞跃，并在某种程度上印证了外界的疑虑：朝鲜根本毫无诚意去履行解除自身核武装的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Serious criticism comes from unexpected places: philosophers you knew and learned from, scientists to whom you had entrusted your priceless collections to describe.",
        "严肃认真的评论来自意想不到的地方。 他们是那些你所认识以及求教过得哲学家，还有你所委托你价值连城的收集品的科学家。"
    ],
    [
        "This moment holds potential: spending cuts could be transformed into an opportunity to coordinate and integrate Europe’s defense industry, thus maximizing overall efficiency.",
        "目前有一个潜在契机：支出削减可以成为协调和统一欧洲防务行业的机会，从而实现整体效率最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "At least one hundred older and smaller reactors will most likely be closed over the next 10-15 years.",
        "在未来10到15年内，至少会有100座旧式或小型反应堆停止运行。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Moody’s announcement in November that it had downgraded France’s sovereign-credit rating by one notch from its AAA rating prompted one blogger to poke fun at rating agencies’ tendency either to get things completely wrong or to recognize suddenly a crisis that had long been staring them in the face.",
        "巴黎—11月，穆迪公司宣布将法国主权信用评级从AAA级下调一档，某博客博主讽刺道，评级机构总是要么把事情完全弄错，要么突然识别出在其眼皮底下存在多时的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "France, Spain, and Poland have attempted to keep major industries firmly in “national hands.”",
        "法国、西班牙和波兰试图把重要的产业收归国家控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the illegal syndicates that smuggle wildlife products, often with assistance from government officials, are adept at evading detection.",
        "不幸的是，偷运野生动物制品的非法集团往往拥有政府官员的协助，因此逃避侦查是他们的强项。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to build such a multi-currency system, however, the world would need to undertake far-reaching reforms of the international institutions.",
        "但要构建这样一个多货币体系，世界需要采取深刻的国际机构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, financial incentives would probably succeed, because cutting down forest to create pastureland is not profitable enough to induce farmers to forego payments for protecting the land.",
        "在另一方面，财政刺激可能会成功，因为砍伐森林来创造牧场土地并不有利可图，从而使得农民为了保护土地而放弃付款。"
    ],
    [
        "Households, it seems, have largely missed out on the benefits of economic development in China.",
        "这似乎表明，普通中国家庭在很大程度上未能分享中国经济增长的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "What is specific to Poland is that the past eight years have apparently created a pronounced case of cognitive dissonance.",
        "波兰特有的情况是过去八年显然出现了明显的认知失调。 年均GDP增长率为3."
    ],
    [
        "Second, they spend less time taking care of simple financial transactions and more on productive work or running a small business of their own.",
        "其次，他们不需要花那么多时间照看简单的金融交易，可以将更多的时间用于生产工作或经营自己的小本生意。"
    ],
    [
        "But central banks accept that their policies have led to distortions in financial markets.",
        "但央行也接受其政策导致金融市场扭曲的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither track of Palestinian politics – resistance or negotiation – offers hope of achieving independence.",
        "巴勒斯坦政治的两条路线——抵抗和谈判——都无法点燃人们独立的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s be realistic: people like Buffett and Bill Gates have very few followers even among the very rich in the US.",
        "我们得现实一点看问题：像巴菲特和比尔·盖茨那样的慈善富豪，即便是在美国这样的富裕国家，也响应者聊聊。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a vicious cycle; the more the poor are deprived of resources, the more damaging their decisions can become.",
        "这是一个恶性循环;穷人越是被剥夺了资源，他们的决定就变得越危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth, however, is that the US remains indispensable to any solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.",
        "但是，真相是任何以巴冲突解决方案都离不开美国。"
    ],
    [
        "In this stripped-down example, AIG, Bear Stearns, and BofA – as well as their attorneys, lobbyists, and supportive policymakers – promote the clearinghouse on the grounds that it reduces risk for its participants.",
        "在这个简化的例子中，AIG、贝尔斯登和美国银行——以及它们的律师、游说团和支持政客——都会表扬清算所减少了对手方风险。"
    ],
    [
        "And such an increase is eminently achievable.",
        "这些增加都是可以预期的。"
    ],
    [
        "Such efforts should aim to advance democratization, economic development, and the emergence of a strong civil society and progressive media.",
        "这些措施应该着眼于推进民主化、经济发展和培养强大的公民社会和进步媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, at least, he has refused to intercede in the discussion of whether federal law should trump state legislation, having said that he has “bigger fish to fry.”",
        "至少到目前为止，他拒绝参与联邦法律是否应该压倒州立法的讨论，声称自己“有更大的事要做”。"
    ],
    [
        "This would entail using reintegration and other economic programs as a carrot to support the negotiations, and would also support peace and stability in the long run.",
        "这意味着重新整合项目以及其他经济项目将成为胡萝卜，一方面鼓励谈判，另一方面也可用来维持长期和平与稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "All three have lately employed expansionary monetary policies; and, as the US Federal Reserve normalizes its policy, emerging economies will be hit again by a sudden withdrawal of global liquidity.",
        "这三个经济体最近都采取了扩张性货币政策； 而随着美联储政策的正常化，新兴经济体可能因为全球流动性突然撤回而再次受到冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast to a year ago, people are increasingly acknowledging that the global economy is stronger than they had thought.",
        "和一年前相反，人们日益接受全球经济比他们曾经设想的更强的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "In this conflict, China has actually become something of a US ally.",
        "在这场冲突中，中国实际成为美国某种意义上的盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are doing more than just talking about it; their proposed budget actually assumes that they will succeed.",
        "但他们可不只是说说而已； 他们提出的预算真的假设他们能取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the WHO, the world suffers from a deficit of some seven million health-care professionals; by 2035, that number is expected to reach 13 million.",
        "据世界卫生组织统计，全世界专业医务人员存在约700万的缺口； 截至2035年，这一数字预计将达到1300万。"
    ],
    [
        "The current balance of probabilities is that two years from now, the North Atlantic’s principal labor-market failures will not be demand-side market failures that could be easily remedied by more aggressive policies to boost economic activity and employment.",
        "目前看来，发生概率较大的情况是，两年后北大西洋主要劳动力市场数据将不再指向需求面市场失灵（这类失灵可以通过更积极的经济活动和就业刺激政策较为容易地解决）。"
    ],
    [
        "Right now, this market is incoherent, much like the early days of the personal computer.",
        "当然，这个市场尚未完全成形，就跟早期的个人电脑一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an approach to sovereignty would essentially communicate to governments and their leaders that the rights and protections they associate with statehood are in fact conditional, and that governments and leaders would forfeit some or, in extreme cases, all of these rights and protections if they failed to meet their obligations.",
        "这样的主权观实质上会告诉政府和它们的领袖，享有与主权相关的保护和权利是有条件的，如果他们没尽到自己的义务，那么就会相应地丧失部分、乃至在极端状况下，全部的保护和权利。"
    ],
    [
        "One for the groin, one the forehead, temple, eye.",
        "一条关于私处，一条关于前额，一条关于太阳穴，一条关于眼睛"
    ],
    [
        "The Nation State Revisited",
        "重返民族国家"
    ],
    [
        "It promises to decouple the management of finance from that of production, implying faster innovation and economic growth.",
        "它能把财务管理和生产管理区别开来，促进创新和经济的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has led some international attempts to address competitive depreciation, including an agreement among G-7 ministers in February 2013 to refrain from foreign-exchange intervention and a November 2015 side agreement to the Trans-Pacific Partnership to address currency manipulation.",
        "美国领导了一些国际行动解决竞争性贬值问题，包括2013年2月G-7同意不进行外汇干预以及2015年11月达成解决货币操纵问题的跨太平洋合作伙伴关系补充协议。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, he has launched an equally ferocious campaign against political liberalization, arresting and jailing leading human-rights activists and cracking down on China’s once-vibrant social media.",
        "另一方面，他对政治自由化也采取了铁腕政策，逮捕并拘禁了人权活动领袖，封禁了曾经非常活跃的社交媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Commission also put forward a set of legislative proposals to establish the single supervisory mechanism and confer key supervisory tasks on the ECB.",
        "欧盟委员会还更进一步，提出了一系列立法方案，欲成立单一监督机制并将主要监督职责授予欧洲央行。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it was during the period of rapid progress on human rights that Europe seemed to turn its back on the country.",
        "但在土耳其人权状况快速进步的时期，欧洲并没有伸出橄榄枝。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this interconnectedness, it is unsurprising that the EU’s compartmentalized responses – such as the European Agenda on Migration, the Eastern Partnership, and the Energy Security Strategy – while important, have proved inadequate.",
        "鉴于这样一种相互关系，事实证明欧盟条块化对策——如欧洲移民议程、东部伙伴关系和能源安全战略——虽然重要，但远远跟不上形势发展其实并不出人意料。"
    ],
    [
        "Even today, Pakistan produces less than 1% of the world’s emissions.",
        "即使在今天，巴基斯坦的排放量也不到世界总量的1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditional models for funding drug development are faltering.",
        "传统药物研发融资模式岌岌可危。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere, political parties are weak or are tools of the regime.",
        "在其他四国，政党要么力量十分薄弱，要么沦为了当局的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps one should not be surprised that at such a time, the oldest of our ugly – indeed, deadly – resentments, anti-Semitism, is re-emerging from the shadows.",
        "在这样一个时代或许大家不应该对此感到吃惊，那就是我们古老的而且是致命的反犹主义仇恨正死灰复燃。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important that the United States (ideally, joined by other countries) let Iran know that any action to put itself in a position to field nuclear weapons after 15 years, though not explicitly precluded by the accord, will not be tolerated.",
        "很重要的一点是美国（最好与其他国家联手）让伊朗明白，任何表明它意欲在15年后染指核武器的举动——尽管没有在协议中明文禁止——都将是不可容忍的。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis – together with the prolonged economic downturn that followed – caused diversified shareholders to lose on their other investments, too.",
        "这次危机——加上随之而来的长期经济低迷——也导致了那些进行多样化投资的股东们在其他投资项目上遭受了损失。"
    ],
    [
        "With trade alone no longer capable of underpinning global cooperation, it is time to add more investment linkages to the mix.",
        "7%。 光靠贸易已无法支持全球合作，因此必须辅之以更多投资联系。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the Fed has only one effective instrument – interest rates – its two goals of economic and financial stability cannot be pursued simultaneously.",
        "可如果美联储只有利率一种有效工具，经济和金融稳定的两大目标就无法兼顾。"
    ],
    [
        "This outlook is understandable, but shortsighted.",
        "这种行为虽然有它的道理，但却是目光短浅的。"
    ],
    [
        "Gabungan antara kesenjangan/ketidaksetaraan yang bersifat vertikal dan horizontal ini bisa menyebabkan memperpanjang kemiskinan dan ketimpangan inter-generasi.",
        "纵向和横向不平等相结合，可能导致极端的排斥和边缘化，这反过来让代际贫困和不平等永久化。"
    ],
    [
        "So foreign-policy restraint has gone out the window, and Xi has enabled the Communist Party of China to reassert its control over the economy.",
        "因此，外交政策的克制被抛在了一边，而习近平也让中共重新掌控了经济。"
    ],
    [
        "They were in their mid-twenties, earning six-figure incomes at an investment company – more than they needed – and were thinking about donating money to help make the world a better place.",
        "他们二十多岁，在一家投资公司收入达到六位数。 这些钱他们花不完，因此考虑捐款帮助改良世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Those were the days when global peace was sustained by a concept known suitably enough by the acronym MAD – Mutually Assured Destruction.",
        "在那些日子里，支撑全球和平只有一个众所周知的概念——“互相保证毁灭”（Mutually Assured Destruction，亦称共同毁灭原则）。"
    ],
    [
        "Peretz’s strategy may draw voters from other parties on the left, but Labor will most likely lose centrist voters (and those for whom national security is paramount) to Sharon.",
        "佩雷茨的战略可能是从左翼政党争取选民，但是工党几乎肯定会失去中间派别选民（以及那些视国家安全为首要任务的人士）的支持而流向沙龙。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with another display of reactive and ad hoc decision-making, we are no wiser about how Europe intends to resolve its dilemmas.",
        "但是，在新的应急性临时决策面前，我们并不了解欧洲想如何解决两难。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the shortage of dollars had not yet affected the CNY, which remained relatively stable.",
        "与此同时，美元短缺尚未影响到CNY，CNY市场继续保持相对稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all of these policies directly affected the UK; nonetheless, they widened the intellectual and political gap between Britain and the EU’s eurozone members.",
        "虽然不是所有这些政策都对英国产生了直接影响； 但它们扩大了英国和欧盟欧元区成员之间的理念和政治差距。"
    ],
    [
        "But these innovations do not seem to have been widespread.",
        "但这些革新似乎并没有广为流传。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of genuinely robust global growth, which is unlikely in the near term, financial markets are relying on extremely loose monetary policy to prop up prices.",
        "在全球增长无力、并且近期难见起色的情况下，金融市场需要依赖极端宽松的货币政策来支持价格。"
    ],
    [
        "The list goes on: events in the Middle East have killed all prospects for peace in the region; the measures taken to aid global recovery –ampnbsp;including regulatory improvements, such as separation of retail and investment banking, elimination of tax havens, and cracking down on rating agencies’ conflicts of interest –ampnbsp;have been feeble; and the last two G-20 meetings have been gross failures.",
        "类似的例子不胜枚举：中东局势进展断绝了实现区域和平的所有希望； 监管机制改革等辅助全球复苏的措施（如分离零售和投资银行业、消除避税天堂、打击评级机构的利益冲突等）绵软无力；"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, it has been difficult to convince Asians that international trade is not a zero-sum-game, with Asia invariably the losers.",
        "一直以来，尽管亚洲人常常是游戏的输家，但要说服亚洲人使他们明白国际贸易不是零和游戏却是件很困难的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, as important as these high-tech contributions may be, they are only partial fixes.",
        "但是，这些高科技的贡献固然重要，但它们只是解决办法的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to distributing the tablets, you would perform a so-called baseline survey to assess how much children are learning in school.",
        "在分配平板电脑前，你应该做一番所谓的基线调查，评估有孩子们在学校的学习情况。"
    ],
    [
        "They combine fear with corruption to maintain kleptocracies dominated by “the big man” and his coterie.",
        "他们把恐惧和腐败结合起来，来维持由“大人物”和他们的同伙进行的盗贼统治。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Trump Save the Euro?",
        "特朗普能拯救欧元吗?"
    ],
    [
        "Nor are there any signs of America’s economic hegemony starting to fold under the weight of maintaining its unilateral military dominance.",
        "此外美国经济霸权也没有在保持单边军事统治的重压下显露出彻底失败的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "But “more versus less” isn’t so much the issue; the details are.",
        "但“更多与更少”其实不是核心问题；"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, given China's highly politicized atmosphere, politics can leak into even the most innocuous areas of discourse, and the many talk shows and audience participation formats necessitate a less intrusive but nonetheless effective system of content regulation.",
        "当然，在中国高度政治化的大环境下，政治会渗透到即便是最无伤大雅的话语之中，许多谈话节目和观众参与的形式也需要一种较为含蓄但却仍然有效的内容管制体系。"
    ],
    [
        "If a lot of people are leaving their seats during a sporting event, you might consider it an indication that the event is not exciting.",
        "如果体育比赛时有很多人纷纷离场，你很可能会想到这场比赛不太激动人心。"
    ],
    [
        "They cram into leaky rafts and place themselves at the mercy of the waves, and sleep on the floors of railroad stations.",
        "他们挤进漏水的木筏，把生命交给汹涌的海水，并在火车站地上就寝。"
    ],
    [
        "But the origins of those attempting the trip indicate that many are political refugees, not economic migrants.",
        "但这些人的偷渡原因表明其中许多人是政治难民而非经济移民。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of whether some in the United States encouraged Saakashvili, he did not expect – but he should have – the “hyper-charged” reaction from Russia.",
        "无论是否美国有人怂恿萨卡什维利，他本应该但是并没有预料到俄国会如此反应强烈。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a large proportion of Russian imports from the EU are precisely of these generic consumer goods, which are not affected by sanctions.",
        "事实上，相当大一部分俄罗斯从欧盟进口的商品正属于这些一般消费品，它们不会受到制裁影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Given expectations of RMB appreciation and a positive interest-rate spread between Mainland China and Hong Kong, the RMB had a higher value in dollar terms on the CNH than on the CNY market.",
        "在人民币升值以及大陆-香港正利差的预期下，人民币的CNH市场美元价值要高于CNY市场。"
    ],
    [
        "And isn’t that what the battle for democracy is all about?",
        "这不正是民主斗争的目的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Unless the US can get its fiscal house in order, it will be forced to abdicate leadership on a wide range of critical global issues.",
        "除非美国能理顺财政状况，否则将被迫让出一系列全球关键问题上的领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are unable to use the knowledge we have gleaned from past experience to prevent them from taking the stage, they will continue to take aim at audiences.",
        "如果我们无法用我们从过去的经验学到的知识来防止他们登上舞台，他们将继续把观众当作目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, wrongheaded policymaking continued long after the crisis began.",
        "事实上，方向错误的决策在危机开始后仍然能维持了很长时间。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, his campaign has featured the same advisers, the same devotion to higher military spending, the same belief that tax cuts for the rich are the solution to every economic problem, and the same fuzzy budget math.",
        "相反，他的竞选活动使用同样的顾问团，同样致力于更高的军事支出，也怀着同样的信念——即给富人减税是解决所有经济问题的办法，还有同样含糊不清的预算计算方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Watching for progress on these key elements of structural change and reform seems to be the right stance.",
        "寻找在这些结构性变化和改革的关键要素上的进步似乎是正确的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, in December 2003, after hiding construction of the Natanz uranium-enrichment facility and other plants from the IAEA, Iran agreed to sign – but not ratify – the so-called Additional Protocol, allowing broader application of IAEA safeguards.",
        "类似地，2003年12月，在对IAEA隐藏了纳坦兹铀浓缩设施和其他核项目后，伊朗同意签署——但并未批准——所谓的附加协议，允许更广范围的IAEA监督保障。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, Turkey is moving closer to the EU, with the government overcoming nationalistic objections in the Parliament to push through comprehensive reforms.",
        "与此同时，土耳其与欧盟的关系正日益密切，政府战胜了议会中的民族主义势力，开始推行全面的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "In exchange, private banks must live up to their collective responsibility to smooth the deleveraging process and limit the systemic impact of their actions.",
        "作为交换，私有银行必须承担起集体责任，平滑去杠杆化过程，限制其行为的系统性影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Let our next failing not be the result of a lack of cooperation.",
        "但愿我们的下一次失误不是因为缺乏协调合作而导致。"
    ],
    [
        "He insisted that Israel could guard against threats from the east only if it maintained a military presence in the West Bank and controlled the Jordan River – which runs along the border separating Jordan from Israel and the West Bank.",
        "他坚持说，以色列只有在保持其在约旦河西岸的军事存在并控制约旦河（约旦和以色列及约旦河西岸的界河）的情况下才能抵挡威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2008 financial crisis highlighted two dangerous features of today’s financial system.",
        "2008年金融危机凸显出当今金融体系的两大危险特征。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond this ceiling, the government can spend only from current revenues.",
        "一旦超出该限额，政府就只好从当年财政收入中掏钱支出了。"
    ],
    [
        "The former rebels have received the maximum number of seats in the constituencies where counting is complete.",
        "在记票完整的选区，这些原先的反叛人员获得了最大多数的议席。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, the brutal oppression of the Kurds over many generations has been totally overlooked.",
        "更糟糕的是，外界还无视了相关各国几十年来对库尔德人的残酷压迫。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the needs of krill-dependent species were previously considered for large areas of the Southern Ocean, the CCAMLR must still scientifically subdivide the overall catch limit into smaller units.",
        "尽管人们以前认为以磷虾为生的物种生活在南大洋的大片地区，南极海洋生命资源保护公约依然必须科学地把总体上的捕捉限制再加以细分。"
    ],
    [
        "The main questions are how authoritarian he will become, or whether this pathetic campaign will weaken him.",
        "主要问题是他将会在多大程度上极权，或者，这一悲哀的竞选是否会削弱普京。"
    ],
    [
        "But that just means that we are lucky to be living now rather than a century ago (and even luckier to be living now than two centuries ago or in the middle ages).",
        "但这无非意味着我们幸运地生活在现在，而不是一个世纪前（当然，比生活在两个世纪前或生活在中世纪就更加幸运了）。"
    ],
    [
        "But exchange rates do affect the pattern of growth, and it is in China’s own interest to restructure and move away from high dependence on export-led growth.",
        "但是汇率确实会影响经济的增长方式。 脱离对出口引导的增长形式的高度依赖，重组增长结构，是符合中国自身利益的。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s size and high rate of economic growth will almost certainly increase its relative strength vis-à-vis the US in the coming decades.",
        "中国的巨大体积及其高速经济增长率几乎肯定会在未来几十年内改善其与美国的实力对比。"
    ],
    [
        "The inadequacy of the current framework for global governance compounds the problem.",
        "当前全球治理框架的不充分性加剧了这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it wants to socialize not only government debt by introducing Eurobonds, but also banking debt by proclaiming a “banking union.”",
        "如今，欧洲委员会不但欲用欧元债券将国债社会化，还试图搞一个“银行联盟”把银行债券也社会化。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason, I proposed, was that “[t]here are two sustainable ways to make money in finance: find people with risks that need to be carried and match them with people with unused risk-bearing capacity, or find people with such risks and match them with people who are clueless but who have money.”",
        "我认为，原因在于“金融业有两种可持续的方法可以创造金钱：找到一个有风险需要被承担的人，然后给他匹配一个有风险承担余力的人； 或者找到一个有这类风险的人，然后给他匹配一个人傻钱多的家伙。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate is raging in cities from Paris to San Francisco, and one can be sure that similar controversies will erupt in many more cities and countries – and not just over Uber.",
        "这样的争论席卷从巴黎到旧金山的每一个城市，我们可以肯定类似的争论——而且不仅仅限于Uber——将在更多城市和国家中爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Economics, unlike the natural sciences, rarely yields cut-and-dried results.",
        "经济学不同于自然科学，其结果几乎无法预先设定。"
    ],
    [
        "In the worst case, they will be hit by a new vicious circle of panic and bank runs, also derailing the incipient European recovery.",
        "在最糟糕的情形中，它们将遭遇新的恐慌和银行挤兑恶性循环，扼杀刚刚露出萌芽的欧洲复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico, singled out for criticism by Trump during the campaign, faces a unique set of issues concerning both trade and immigration.",
        "墨西哥在竞选期间受到了特朗普的单独批评，因此在贸易和移民方面都面临着一系列独特的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Gates, however, is due to step down from his post shortly, which is unfortunate, because the Obama administration’s apparent lack of any explicit Asia strategy means that Gates’s reassurances might not reassure for very long.",
        "但很不幸的是，盖茨很快就要离职了，鉴于奥巴马政府明显缺乏清晰的亚洲战略，因此盖茨的保证似乎也将命不久矣。"
    ],
    [
        "The loss of confidence that Americans have expressed may be rooted in a deeper shift in people’s attitudes toward individualism, which has brought about decreased deference to authority.",
        "美国人所表现出来的信心下降也许植根于人们对个人主义的态度的更深层次的变化。 对个人主义的态度的变化导致了对权威的顺从程度有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, its performance continues to astound me.",
        "事实上，它的表现仍然让我震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Closed economies also can have fiscal crises, and open economies can avoid them if they follow the right policies.",
        "封闭的经济体也可能爆发经济危机，而开放的经济体如果实行恰当的政策同样可以避免危机的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "The main parties write their own anti-trust legislation, vote their own subsidies, and choose their own elected officials.",
        "各主要党派自己制定反托拉斯法，自己决定补贴的去向，自己指定候选官员。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a coordinated group within the judiciary is suspected of planting evidence – allegations that have led to the calls for military personnel to be retried.",
        "此外，司法部门内部的一个有组织团体被质疑编造证据——这项指控导致人们要求军方相关人员辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, diplomats cannot be prosecuted according to a host country’s laws.",
        "维也纳外交关系公约规定，不能依据东道国法律对外交官提起诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brain-Drain Panic Returns",
        "“人才流失”担忧卷土重来"
    ],
    [
        "This was not Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s first act of defiance against the military.",
        "这已不是总理沙里夫（Nawaz Sharif）第一次挑战军方。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea is one of the most insular countries in the world.",
        "朝鲜是世界上最为孤立的国家之一。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the world needs stronger international governance of the movement of people and money, and fewer restrictions on speech, association, and dissent.",
        "首先，世界需要更强的人员和资金流动国际监管，并减少对言论、结社和异见的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest of the world shares that benign inflation environment.",
        "世界其他国家也分享到这一温和的通胀环境。"
    ],
    [
        "The average life expectancy of Russian men, slightly below 60, is more African than European (or even Asian, for the most part).",
        "俄罗斯的人口平均寿命稍稍低于60岁。 这一数字更接近非洲，而并非欧洲（或者说，即使连大多数亚洲国家也不如）。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution lies in bulletproofing the banks by strictly applying the demanding capital standards of Basel III and limiting concentrated holdings of government bonds.",
        "解决办法是通过严格执行《巴塞尔协议 III》 的较高资本金标准并限制政府债券的集中持有来保障这些银行。"
    ],
    [
        "As was evident in both 2000 and 2008, it doesn’t take much for overvalued asset markets to fall sharply.",
        "从2000和2008年的历史都告诉我们，被高估的资产市场大幅下滑也就是一瞬间的功夫。"
    ],
    [
        "Patients will need to be trained in generating the appropriate neural signals to direct the prosthetic limb.",
        "患者需要接受培训，才能恰如其分地发出神经信号来指挥假肢活动。"
    ],
    [
        "But this system, too, is badly flawed.",
        "但这一系统也有极大的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "The evidence is clear: big countries can lose small wars.",
        "历史经验明白无误地表明，大国可能输掉小战争。"
    ],
    [
        "In some ways, the success of cancer research is fueling pressure to “cure” cancer quickly, steering clinical and laboratory researchers away from the tricky problems of metastasis and long-term tumor dormancy.",
        "在某些方面，癌症研究的成功也给迅速“治愈”癌症施加了压力，导致临床和实验室研究者们更倾向于回避那些棘手的扩散和长期肿瘤休眠问题。"
    ],
    [
        "As for current analogies, today’s power gap between the US and China is much greater than that between Germany and Britain in 1914.",
        "回到当前类比，今天美中之间的实力差距远大于1914年的德国和英国。"
    ],
    [
        "But they could never have gotten as far as they have on their own.",
        "但他们仅凭一己之力可能永远对现在的地位望尘莫及。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially treacherous terrain for economies desperately in need of productivity-enhancing investment.",
        "对于急切地需要生产率强化型投资的经济来说，这尤其危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The “bling-bling” president, as Sarkozy has been dubbed, can wear all the gold he wants and heap yet more diamonds on his bride.",
        "被人称为喜欢名牌服装的总统的萨尔科奇可以穿上他所想要的所有金饰并且让新娘戴上更多的钻石。"
    ],
    [
        "International comparisons of corruption are not flattering.",
        "腐败的水平恐怕在国际上都无出其右。"
    ],
    [
        "The Economist reports that American bank JP Morgan has estimated that the disaster set back global industrial production by a surprisingly large 2.5%.",
        "根据《经济学人》的报道，美国银行摩根大通估计这场灾难使全球工业生产量降低了2. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, successful democracies believe that nobody is irreplaceable.",
        "相反，成功的民主体制认为没有哪个人是不可替代的。"
    ],
    [
        "China has lately taken more to the spotlight than to the shadows.",
        "最近，中国越来越自豪于亮剑而不是韬晦。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, natural-resource companies will push back, emphasize the sanctity of contracts, and threaten to leave.",
        "当然，自然资源公司也会逆袭，强调契约精神不可侵犯，还会以离开相威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "This comes down to structural reforms that spur competition, reduce unnecessary red tape, and make labor markets more adaptable.",
        "这就需要采取结构改革刺激竞争、减少不必要的繁文缛节、增强劳动力市场的适应力。"
    ],
    [
        "After decades of actively participating in international economic institutions – including the G-20, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization – China has begun to resemble a revisionist power seeking to create a new world order.",
        "在数十年如一日积极参与国际经济机构——包括G20，国际货币基金组织，世界银行，世界贸易组织——的运作之后，中国开始变得像一个试图创建新世界秩序的修正主义势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans had a unique relationship with which no one – especially the United States – should interfere.",
        "欧洲人之间的关系是独特的，容不得外人——特别是美国人——干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Hadjiev’s sister, the journalist Olgusapar Muradova, died in prison several weeks later, under suspicious circumstances.",
        "Hadjiev的姊妹，新闻记者Olgusapar Muradova几周后在可疑的情况下死于狱中。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has a chance to get on the right side of history and help shape its direction by supporting real reform and advancing a deadlocked peace process.",
        "美国有机会参与正确的历史行动，通过支持真正的改革和推进陷入僵局的和平进程来决定这一地区的走向。"
    ],
    [
        "A Republican presidential victory, together with Republican control of the House and Senate, would likely lead to substantial reduction, repeal, and replacement of many Obama initiatives, attempts to reform taxes and entitlements, and measures to impose greater fiscal discipline.",
        "若共和党在大选中胜出并控制众议院和参议院，那么他们可能会大幅度地削减、取消甚至逆转奥巴马的不少举措，实行税收和福利改革，采取更有纪律性的财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But precisely which immigrants should be up to Europe.",
        "但欢迎什么样的移民应该由欧洲决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest of the region’s mafia states, such as Russia, Azerbaijan, and other Central Asian former Soviet republics, either passed through a period of oligarchic flux, or took a direct path from communist dictatorship to criminal enterprise.",
        "而该地区的其他黑手党国家，如俄罗斯、阿塞拜疆和其他中亚前苏联加盟共和国，要么经历了寡头统治的时期，要么直接从共产主义独裁转为国家犯罪集团。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, as the euro weakens, the periphery countries’ external accounts have swung from deficit to balance and, increasingly, to surplus.",
        "事实上，随着欧元贬值，外围国的外部账户已经从赤字转为平衡并且日益向盈余迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest problem is water pollution, with discharges into canals and rivers growing faster than treatment capacity.",
        "印度目前最大的问题是水污染，因为污物直接排放进入运河以及河流，它们的生长速度已经远远超过实际的水污染处理能力。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Oklahoma’s Keyes natural-gas field – which relieved a major helium shortage just as the US government started purchasing the gas from private producers during the space race – now lies dormant.",
        "比如，俄克拉荷马的凯斯（Keyes）天然气田如今已处于休眠状态，而在美国政府自星际竞争期间开始从私人生产者手中收购氦气以来，凯斯气田缓解了巨大的氦短缺状况。"
    ],
    [
        "“I will tell you that if the 2% inflation figure gets out of this room,” he warned, “it is going to create more problems for us than I think any of you might anticipate.”",
        "“我告诉你们，如果2%的通胀数字流出这个房间，”他警告说，“给我们造成的问题将超过你们的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking at Egypt’s prospects realistically, one should not exclude the possibility that the two strongest forces in the country – the military and the Muslim Brotherhood – ultimately will find a way to share power.",
        "现实地看待埃及的前景，也不应排除另一种可能性：该国最大的两股势力——军队和穆斯林兄弟会最终找到一种办法分享权力。"
    ],
    [
        "But those voices, especially in revolutionary times, are rarely moderate.",
        "但尤其在革命时期，上述话语权却极少持有温和立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent statements by a Republican senator from Tennessee, Bob Corker, suggest that the tide is turning against Trump.",
        "最近，田纳西州共和党参议员鲍勃·考尔克（Bob Corker）发言说，潮流正在转向对特朗普不利。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood are playing a double game.",
        "与此同时，穆尔西和穆斯林兄弟会则在唱双簧。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, for example, created a unified national market once its federal government wrested sufficient political control from individual states.",
        "比方说美国，在联邦政府从各州政府手中获得足够的政治控制权后，就创立了一个统一的国家市场。"
    ],
    [
        "As young people consider themselves immortal, not even appeals to lifelong vanity, let alone warnings about cancer, are sufficient to deter them from the tanning booths.",
        "年青人自认为长生不老，甚至不留意保护一生的美丽，单纯的癌症警告更无法将他们从日光棚中拉开。"
    ],
    [
        "Eliminate such practices, the logic goes, and officials will be unable to reap large rewards from economic growth – and thus will be less motivated to encourage it.",
        "逻辑上，消灭这一行为意味着官员将无法从经济增长中获得大量好处——因此也就没有很强的动力刺激增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The real problem is relations between the US and European countries, 21 of which belong to both organizations.",
        "真正的问题是美国和欧洲的关系。 有21个国家同时是这两个组织的成员。"
    ],
    [
        "Predatory lenders went further, offering negative amortization loans, so the amount owed went up year after year.",
        "贪婪的贷方进而推出了负摊销贷款（negative amortization loans），从而使借款人的负债连年攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "That is no accident: on the economic front, Trump’s approach might have some redeeming qualities.",
        "这可不是个偶然现象：在经济方面，特朗普的做法可能还是有一些可取之处的。"
    ],
    [
        "Which side wins in any situation depends on the extent of debtor distress and the strength of the opposing creditor-debtor coalitions.",
        "在任何时候，哪一方获胜取决于债务困境的严重程度和对立的债权人-债务人联盟的紧固程度。"
    ],
    [
        "These are heady times at the BoE (in the heart of the financial district of Ontario-on-Thames).",
        "这是英格兰银行（位于泰晤士河畔的安大略的金融区核心）的兴奋期。"
    ],
    [
        "In inflationary periods, high outstanding government liabilities impair fiscal policy, because higher taxes are needed to finance the same level of real government spending.",
        "在通胀时期，政府未偿还债务高企会影响到财政政策，因为需要加税才能维持同样水平真实政府支出。"
    ],
    [
        "TILBURG, THE NETHERLANDS – Two years ago, the leaders of the world’s central banks were considered heroes for their efforts in preventing financial crisis from turning into Great Depression II.",
        "发自荷兰蒂尔堡——两年前，各国央行的领导人都受到了英雄般的待遇，因为他们成功阻止了经济危机演变成另一场大萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "Virtually all of the Central Asian countries – from Turkmenistan to Kazakhstan, as well as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan – are partners, as is the entire Maghreb, from Morocco to Egypt, as well as Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.",
        "此外还包括几乎所有中亚国家——从土库曼斯坦到哈萨克斯坦，以及亚美尼亚、阿塞拜疆、阿富汗、巴基斯坦，以及整个马格里布地区，从摩洛哥到埃及，还有以色列、约旦、伊拉克、巴林、卡塔尔、科威特和阿拉伯联合酋长国。"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, there is the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which promises to transform our economies and societies in fundamental ways.",
        "一方面，第四次产业革命将彻底改变我们的经济和社会。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet India, like so many other countries, maintains its NAM membership, because NAM does provide an additional platform, which India needs and treats as one tool among others in its diplomatic toolkit.",
        "但印度像其他国家一样仍然是不结盟运动成员，因为不结盟运动为印度提供了其他必要的外交工具和舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "The US needs to improve the quality of its workforce by developing the skills that are relevant to the jobs that its firms are creating.",
        "美国必须让提高劳动人口与企业提供的职位相关的技能，这样才能改善平等性。"
    ],
    [
        "Distributing a burden between creditors and debtors is inevitably acrimonious, because it is a purely zero-sum game.",
        "在债权国和债务国之间分配负担难免会引起激烈的争议，因为这是一个纯粹的零和博弈。"
    ],
    [
        "Has Trump Captured the Fed?",
        "特朗普拿下美联储了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet those involved have recognized publicly that without greatly improved institutional capacity – for example, well-resourced and competent local and national health systems – further progress will be limited.",
        "但相关人士已经公开承认，如果不具备大幅度提升的机构能力——如资源充足且能力出众的地方和国家医疗系统——那么取得更大进步的空间将会受到限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, productivity in the services sector amounts to just 45% that of the manufacturing sector, on average, compared with an OECD average of 90%.",
        "最后，服务业生产率平均而言只有制造业的45%，而经合组织平均水平为90%。"
    ],
    [
        "It is precisely what happened to the Fed’s balance sheet after its wartime and postwar buying of US government bonds came to an end in 1951.",
        "而这也正是美联储的资产负债表在1951年结束购买美国政府战时和战后债券后所发生的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike China, however, Russia is not a rising superpower.",
        "但不同于中国的是，俄罗斯并不是崛起中的超级大国。"
    ],
    [
        "But India is nowhere to be seen in all of this.",
        "但印度看不到任何类似迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters is dynamic comparative advantage, or comparative advantage in the long run, which can be shaped.",
        "起作用的是动态比较优势，或曰长期比较优势，这是可以培育的。"
    ],
    [
        "We are not moving toward a choice reached after countless discussions.",
        "我们的选择并没有经历过无数次讨论的检验。"
    ],
    [
        "· demarcate the uncontested 80% of the border and refer the remaining 20% to binding international arbitration;",
        "· 对于其中80%的无争议边界，可以直接划定，而余下那20%则交由国际仲裁。"
    ],
    [
        "The key to combating resistance is to delay the rate at which the pathogens can adapt.",
        "对付抗药性的关键在于拖延病原体的适应。"
    ],
    [
        "But more has gone to the regulators themselves and onward to national governments.",
        "但更多的钱进了监管机构本身的腰包，然后流入了国家政府。"
    ],
    [
        "UGHE’s founders believe that, by the time the university celebrates its ten-year anniversary, 480 students will have graduated; another 870 will be earning their degrees; and over 2,500 professionals will have attended executive education courses.",
        "UGHE的创始人们相信，在大学成立十周年之际，将由480名学生毕业； 另有870人在校攻读学位；"
    ],
    [
        "This is the main reason why the US security state refuses to tell the truth.",
        "这是美国安全机构拒绝说出真相的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "During the visit, we were scheduled to meet with Anwar Sadat.",
        "我们预定在在访问中会见萨达特。"
    ],
    [
        "We met the niece and son of a farmer caught in the “buffer zone” between the Israeli border and Gaza.",
        "我们拜访了一位在以色列边境和加沙之间的“缓冲带”被抓住的农场主的侄女和儿子。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite widespread misperceptions about the practical impact of genomic research, the science has hit its stride, and we need to capitalize on this momentum if we are to realize the opportunity of individualized medicine.",
        "尽管对基因组研究的实际影响普遍存在误解，但这门学科已经开始渐入佳境，如果我们想要抓住实现个性化医疗的难得机遇，我们就必须很好地利用这样的势头。"
    ],
    [
        "When considering Yemen’s future, therefore, the stakes could hardly be higher.",
        "因此，在人们考虑也门的未来的时候，怎么强调这其中的利害关系都不过分。"
    ],
    [
        "The fourth process consists of two recent high-growth generations in China and one high-growth generation in India, which has been a significant factor underlying global wealth convergence since 1975.",
        "第四个过程包括中国最近高增长的两代人和印度高增长的一代人，他们是1975年以来全球财富趋同的重要支撑因素。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there is ongoing tension between the role of the state and that of markets in guiding resource allocation.",
        "首先，国家与市场在指导资源配置方面所扮演的角色依然存在冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if a flat tax is such a bad idea, why have so many countries embraced it?",
        "但如果统一税率真的那么糟糕，为什么还有那么多国家实行统一税率？"
    ],
    [
        "More fundamentally, investment is a bet that cannot pay off if growth is structurally depressed.",
        "更为根本的是，投资是一项赌博，如果增长被结构性抑制，就无法产生收益。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest of Egypt, however, only felt this money in the form of an ever-expanding state apparatus that solidified Mubarak’s rule, crushed dissent, and repressed millions.",
        "但是，在埃及人民看来，这笔钱唯一的作用是让国家机器越来越庞大，用于巩固穆巴拉克的统治、迫害异见人士以及镇压千万埃及人民。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2010, India’s parliament passed the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, a precondition for activating that agreement.",
        "2010年，印度议会通过了《核伤害民事责任法案》，作为激活这一协议的先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The attention attracted by Vision 2030 is not surprising.",
        "《愿景2030》吸人眼球并不意外。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the two-state solution was always an illusion.",
        "事实上，分别建国的解决办法从来都无法实现。"
    ],
    [
        "If those countries’ economies recover and return to anything near full employment, the German surplus will likely rebound.",
        "如果这些国家的经济复苏，恢复接近充分就业的状态，德国盈余有可能重新增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Setting the clock back would thus not simply return Europe to the mid-twentieth century.",
        "因此，开倒车不会简单地让欧洲回到20世纪中叶。"
    ],
    [
        "And lower oil prices may trigger further political change, ultimately ushering in a government that begins the process of making Venezuela a country of institutions and laws, not personality cults and abuse of power.",
        "而石油价格下跌或能触发进一步政治变革，最终形成一个启动让委内瑞拉成为制度和法律之国，而非黑帮和权力滥用之国的进程的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "He had barely won the controversial 2000 election, and polls showed the American people remained doubtful about him.",
        "他刚刚在充满争议的2000年大选中险胜，民意调查显示美国人对他能否胜任还疑虑重重。"
    ],
    [
        "So there was the topic, inescapably, right in the middle of the room.",
        "这样，这就不可避免地成为了屋子里的话题。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, Trump has already diminished respect for the presidency and will most likely leave behind a more divided country.",
        "在美国，特朗普已经让总统的民望大幅下降，他身后几乎肯定会留下一个更加分裂的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "If Indonesia is to hit the targets set by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals for reducing inequality by 2030, it must follow these countries’ example.",
        "如果印尼想要达到联合国可持续发展目标对2030年降低不平等性的要求，就必须效仿这些国家的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Many people are uneasy about offering lump-sum cash payments.",
        "许多人都为提供一次性的现金偿付感到担心。"
    ],
    [
        "But the genteel ladies and gentlemen in the shires of Little England, cheering the lies of Farage and Johnson with the kind of ecstasy once reserved for British rock stars abroad, are no less disquieting.",
        "但小英伦（Little England）各郡的优雅的女士和绅士带着从前只属于出国演出的英国摇滚明星的痴迷为法拉奇和约翰逊的谎言欢呼，这同样令人不安。"
    ],
    [
        "The two-party parliamentary model emerged in nineteenth-century Great Britain.",
        "议会两党制出现于19世纪的英国。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, amid all the stories of trauma and loss, what affected me the most was these refugee families’ unquenchable thirst for education.",
        "但在所有的创伤和损失故事中，最深深打动我的却是这些难民家庭难以抑制地渴望教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Adolf Hitler used the principle to undermine fragile states in the 1930’s.",
        "阿道夫·希特勒在20世纪30年代利用这一原则来破坏脆弱的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Large firms face an increasingly fluid economic, technological, and political environment – owing to more global and competitive markets, to the greater potential of technological change to alter firms’ business environment, and to governments’ growing influence over what makes business sense.",
        "大企业面临着日以多变的经济、技术和政治环境——其原因包括日渐全球化、竞争日渐激烈的市场、技术变化改变企业经营环境潜力的日渐提高以及政府对商业利益影响的日渐增加。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems that fear of the US rather than Israel has been the main reason for Iran’s nuclear ambition.",
        "伊朗产生核野心的主要原因似乎是对美国而不是对以色列的恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it led through a valley of tears.",
        "相反，这条路充满荆棘坎坷。"
    ],
    [
        "Leadership change in most democracies is a relatively transparent process; it follows national elections.",
        "大多数民主国家的领导人更替都是一个相对透明的过程； 只待全国大选后尘埃落定。"
    ],
    [
        "MONTEVIDEO – Out-of-control globalization has destroyed jobs, caused middle-class incomes to stagnate, and deepened income inequality.",
        "蒙得维的亚——失控的全球化已经摧毁了就业、导致中产阶级收入停滞不前和收入不平等进一步深化。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a surprising proposition, given that commodity bonds have an obvious latent market, rooted in real economic fundamentals.",
        "这个答案颇令人吃惊，因为商品债券显然拥有潜在市场，这是由实体经济基础决定的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was not the intelligence services that decided to go to war; it was Tony Blair, with the support of Gordon Brown.",
        "但是并不是情报机构决定发动战争的。 决定是由布莱尔在布朗的支持下做出的。"
    ],
    [
        "Apple and Google should not rest easy.",
        "苹果和谷歌也不能高枕无忧。"
    ],
    [
        "First, when in recent memory has a Republican-sponsored tax cut not created a deficit?",
        "首先，在最近的历史中，共和党支持的减税何时不曾造成赤字？"
    ],
    [
        "The government balked, and now the Court is working to ensure that the executive branch carries out its orders.",
        "当局不愿这样做，目前最高法院正在努力确保行政部门执行其命令。"
    ],
    [
        "The US endlessly drains its resources and energy in Syria and Iraq in the same way that it once did in Vietnam.",
        "美国没完没了地在叙利亚和伊拉克浪费其资源和能源，一如曾经在越南所做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "We may see some compromise between European (Sarkozy-style) capitalism and an authoritarian, protectionist model with a lot of industrial policy.",
        "人们可能会见到萨尔科奇式的欧洲资本主义与具有大量产业政策的独裁和保护主义模式的某些妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "The prime minister’s statement was received with cheers, not the jeers that some of his aides had feared.",
        "辛格的助手原本担心这番声明会引来嘘声，谁知现场却一片欢呼。"
    ],
    [
        "This, and the indirect negotiations with Israel that are now underway in Turkey – which Assad knows cannot produce major results, given Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s political weakness and Bush’s lame-duck status – have helped to open for Syria the gates of Europe, where he had also once been a pariah.",
        "这，以及正在土耳其进行的与以色列的间接谈判——鉴于以色列总理埃胡德·奥尔默特的政治软弱和布什的跛脚鸭处境，阿萨德知道这次谈判不会取得重大成果——已经帮助叙利亚打开了欧洲的大门，而阿萨德也曾在欧洲是一个被排斥的人物。"
    ],
    [
        "This is as true as astronomical facts get, particularly because we have sent artificial satellites into orbit and seen that our planet is indeed roundish.",
        "这在天文学上属于事实，特别是因为我们已经把人造卫星送入轨道，亲眼目睹了我们的星球呈圆形。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, however, the world economy grew by a respectable 3%.",
        "但是，去年世界经济增长率相当出色，为3%。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk premium attached to the interest rate is the critical variable: once it starts rising, the existing rate of deficit financing becomes unsustainable.",
        "利率中所包含的风险溢价是其中的关键变量：如果风险溢价上升，那就意味着现有赤字融资率是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is likely to be followed by rate increases in China, the Eurozone, and elsewhere.",
        "这有可能进一步带动中国、欧元区和其它地区调高利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as late as 1950 – more than a half-century after the US had replaced Britain as the world’s largest industrial power – 55% of foreign-exchange reserves were held in sterling, and many countries continued to peg their currencies to it.",
        "即使在1950年——此时美国超越英国成为世界第一大工业国已逾半个世纪——仍有55%的外汇储备是英镑，大量国家仍选择将本国货币盯住英镑。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, compared to Eastern Europe in 1989, the Middle East in 2011 lacks any stabilizing external structures, such as NATO and the European Union, that could influence domestic reforms by holding out the prospect of membership.",
        "此外，相对于1989年的东欧剧变，2011年的中东革命缺乏任何像北约和欧盟这样的外部稳定性架构，而这些组织可以用获取成员国资格的前景来影响地方改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Through careful design and sequencing, these five measures can help not only to deal with immediate economic and financial problems, but also to create the conditions for higher growth, job creation, and financial stability in the longer term.",
        "通过精心设计和排列，这五项措施不但有助于应对当下的经济和金融问题，还能为更高的长期增长、就业创造和金融稳定创造条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Non-governmental monitors need to scrutinize the proceedings to ensure that errors are identified early enough to be corrected.",
        "非政府的监督人需要对审讯程序进行严格监控以确保尽早发现和纠正错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the five BRICS countries, two (Brazil and Russia) are in recession, one (South Africa) is barely growing, another (China) is experiencing a sharp structural slowdown, and India is doing well only because – in the words of its central bank governor, Raghuram Rajan – in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.",
        "在金砖五国中，两国（巴西和俄罗斯）进入了衰退，一国（南非）几乎没有增长，另一国（中国）正在经历急剧的结构性减速，而印度表现出色只是因为——用其央行行长拉古兰·拉詹（Raghuram Rajan）的话说——在瞎子王国，独眼龙就可以称王。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent analysis estimates that new tasks and job titles explain about half of the recent employment growth in the US.",
        "最近发布的一项分析估计近期近一半的美国就业增长都是由新工种和职位贡献的。"
    ],
    [
        "With our ability to generate ever-rising oceans of molecular data – now approaching the zetabyte scale (that’s a one followed by 21 zeros) – comes the challenge of storing and deciphering this information.",
        "我们打造不断扩大的分子数据海洋的能力在日渐成长，当前数据容量已经达到了ZB级别（即1后面跟21个0），随之而来的问题是如何储存和破译这些信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, skepticism persists with regard to the Mexican economy’s capacity to achieve sustainable 4-5% annual economic growth – the bare minimum needed to ensure long-term prosperity.",
        "最后，很多人仍然怀疑墨西哥经济能否持续实现4-5%的年度经济增长——这样的增长速度是确保长期繁荣所必须的。"
    ],
    [
        "Veteran China watcher David Shambaugh recently went so far as to warn that the challenges facing the political system, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), may be severely compromising the government’s ability to implement the package of ambitious economic reforms that it unveiled in 2013.",
        "老牌中国观察家沈大伟（David Shambough）最近警告说，以中共为领导的中国政治制度所面临的挑战可能将严重制约政府实施2013年所提出的宏大经济改革的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, given the vast inequalities of power and wealth in Latin America, and with a large part of the population bereft of land and education, the region has long been vulnerable to populist politics and rebellions, with leaders promising quick gains for the dispossessed by seizing property from the elites.",
        "不仅如此，由于拉美权力和财富现状极不平等，很大一部分人被剥夺了土地和受教育的权利，这一地区一直受到民粹政治和叛乱的困扰，希望当权的领袖许诺从上层人士手中夺取财富赈济穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "An agenda that powerful corporate interests would rather stifle might be a bitter pill for world leaders, but it is one that they should swallow sooner rather than later.",
        "强大的公司势力意欲扼杀的日程对全球领导人来说是一剂苦药，但我们迟早要吞下它。"
    ],
    [
        "But in practice, the entire system is subject to control by the president.",
        "但是在实际上，整个体系都受到总统的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "They regarded the economic risks as unimportant relative to their agenda of political unification.",
        "他们认为，与政治统日程相比，经济风险乃小菜一碟。"
    ],
    [
        "The 17 goals range from ending poverty and improving health to protecting the planet’s biosphere and providing energy for all.",
        "这17项目标从结束贫困、改善健康到保护地球生物圈和为所有人提供能量。"
    ],
    [
        "On February 15, at least 50 people, including women and children, were killed by missile attacks on schools and hospitals in northern Syria, according to the United Nations.",
        "联合国称，2月15日，包括妇女和儿童在内的至少50人被针对叙利亚北部学校和医院的导弹袭击杀害。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor will it be news to anyone familiar with the many successful efforts to bring philosophy to a broader market.",
        "对于熟悉让哲学打入更广阔的的市场的成功努力的人来说也不是新闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as the BRICS have rejected Western-led economic institutions, developing economies would do well to expel foreign banks and allow local financial institutions to create money for productive purposes.",
        "正如金砖银行拒绝西方主导的经济机构，发展中经济体可以很好地驱逐外国银行并允许地方金融机构为生产性目的创造货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the new dams are planned for the biodiversity-rich southwest, where natural ecosystems and indigenous cultures are increasingly threatened.",
        "这些新大坝大多位于生物多样性丰富的西南地区，那里的自然生态系统和土著文化正在日益受到威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "But he will not lead Russia forever.",
        "但他不会在俄罗斯永远领导下去。"
    ],
    [
        "His university, like mine and many others, has a plan to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "他的大学和我和其他很多人的大学一样，都有削减温室气体排放的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Japan's demographics are among the worst in the world.",
        "此外，日本的人口质量几乎也可以在世界垫底。"
    ],
    [
        "Significant inflation might be hard to contain, however, especially if the central bank loses credibility: Would the public really believe that the central bank is willing to push interest rates sky high and kill growth in order to contain inflation, after it abandoned its earlier inflation target in order to foster growth?",
        "不过，大幅通胀可能难以控制，特别是在央行可信度有所缺失的情况下：公众真的会相信，在抛弃早先的通胀目标来刺激增长后，央行还会愿意把利率大幅提升，不惜牺牲增长来控制通胀？"
    ],
    [
        "But Germany’s thrifty savers – households, banks, and insurance companies – are furious about ECB policies that tax them (and others in the eurozone core) to subsidize the eurozone periphery’s alleged reckless spenders and debtors.",
        "但节俭的德国储户——家庭、银行和保险公司——对欧洲央行从他们（以及其他欧元区核心国）身上征税补贴欧元区外围饱受诘难的不知节制的花钱大户和借款人十分愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe we are not measuring output well.",
        "也许我们测量产出的方式有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In the showcase capital, Pyongyang, there is not even enough electricity to keep the lights on in the largest hotels.",
        "样板间式的首都平壤甚至提供不了充足的电力保证最大饭店的灯都亮着。"
    ],
    [
        "Success in maintaining peace, the rule of law, and a functioning democracy matter greatly.",
        "维护和平、法治和有效民主至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, microeconomics textbooks have remained practically unchanged for at least two decades.",
        "事实上，微观经济学教科书的内容有至少20年没被修改过。"
    ],
    [
        "Justice for Srebrenica’s Dead",
        "带给斯雷布雷尼察死难者的正义"
    ],
    [
        "Now, however, the rise of “e-tail” (consumer-facing e-commerce) in China is enabling Hangzhou – the base of Alibaba, China’s largest online retailer – to join their ranks.",
        "但是，如今中国的“电子零售”（e-tail，面向消费者的电子商务）的崛起正在让中国最大在线零售商阿里巴巴总部所在地——杭州跻身技术创新中心行列。"
    ],
    [
        "Ending the Syrian Horror",
        "结束叙利亚恐怖"
    ],
    [
        "The blessings of the Internet are many, but one casualty of our segmentation into online subcultures is the loss of a common focal point.",
        "虽然网络拥有众多优点，但新闻业介入网络次文化之后的一大牺牲则是失去了公众共同关注的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "There has always been reason for concern.",
        "人们的担忧总是不无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe and Japan can increase their growth by stepping up the pace of structural reform.",
        "欧洲和日本可以通过加快结构改革的步伐保持增长。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, and other countries pursue nuclear programs with renewed vigor.",
        "北朝鲜、伊朗、巴基斯坦和其它国家又鼓起勇气投入了核武器的研究。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, German sovereign yields have fallen sharply, lowering public and private-sector borrowing costs.",
        "与此相反，德国主权债务收益率出现了暴跌，拉低了公共和私人部门借贷成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than trying to rebut the experts’ warnings with detailed analyses, Boris Johnson, the leader of the Leave campaign, has responded with bluster and rhetoric identical to Trump’s anti-politics: “Who is remotely apprehensive about leaving?",
        "脱盟运动的领袖鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）也没有试图用详尽的分析来反驳专家的警告，而是用咆哮以及与特朗普反政治宣言类似的口号来回击：“谁还对脱盟心存顾虑？"
    ],
    [
        "German leaders believe, with some justification, that if France and Italy were to adopt similar reforms, the changes would work wonders for their economies’ long-term growth.",
        "德国领导人相信——有一定根据——如果法国和意大利也采取类似的改革，它们的经济长期增长前景将迎来巨大的改观。"
    ],
    [
        "The anti-Japanese demonstrations are a symptom of the old syndrome, fueled by grievances born at a time when China was, indeed, aggrieved and humiliated.",
        "反日游行便是这一古老综合症的症状之一。 引发这些游行的怨恨产生于多年以前，那时中国确实遭到了伤害，饱受了屈辱。"
    ],
    [
        "But such agreements do not apply to a court-run bankruptcy process; authorities everywhere would move to protect local creditors and taxpayers by seizing assets in their jurisdiction.",
        "但这类协议不适用于法庭主持的破产过程； 各国当局将采取行动，通过抢夺司法辖区内的资产保护本国债权人和纳税人。"
    ],
    [
        "India is larger, so Rousseff won.",
        "印度比比利时大，所以罗塞夫赢了。"
    ],
    [
        "And the open sore of the Israel-Palestine conflict plays into every other rivalry.",
        "而以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突之痛不亚于任何其他对立。"
    ],
    [
        "Such region-wide instability is not just a theoretical scenario; it follows from developments on the ground.",
        "这一地区级动荡绝不仅仅是理论上的可能； 而是实实在在的发展态势的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it might be that the party will push as far as it can until it is stopped by fear of a military coup or a rejection of its program by the voters.",
        "而且，也有可能这一政党将会尽力推动，直到害怕军事政变或者选民拒绝其规划而停止。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU was supposed to be a supranational endeavor, shaped by the spirit of collective action for the common good that Havel championed.",
        "欧盟本应是一次超国家尝试，主导它的是哈维尔所倡导的弘扬共同利益的集体行动精神。"
    ],
    [
        "When the United States and the European Union decided to impose sanctions on the Libyan regime, including freezing shares owned by the LIA in European and American companies, many executives at these companies were surprised by how dramatically their firms were affected by the ownership structure.",
        "当美国和欧盟决定对利比亚政权予以制裁的时候——包括冻结LIA所持有的欧洲和美国公司股份——许多涉案公司高管对所在公司所有权结构受到的影响大惊失色。"
    ],
    [
        "All these things might happen.",
        "所有这些都有可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "LAGUNA BEACH – From changes in government in Argentina and Brazil to mid-course policy corrections in Chile, Latin American politics appears to be undergoing a rightward shift.",
        "拉古娜海滩—从阿根廷到巴西的政府更迭到智利的政策半途调整，拉丁美洲政治似乎正在向右转。"
    ],
    [
        "One deploys soldiers to the fight against terrorism; another provides critical energy supplies or access to raw materials.",
        "它可能派遣部队打击恐怖主义，可能提供着关键的能源或原材料供应。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE, UK – US President Barack Obama’s first trip to China was like a splendid stage play.",
        "发自剑桥——美国总统奥巴马的首次中国之行就像一场辉煌无比的舞台表演。"
    ],
    [
        "There has been an overall decline in the prevalence of FGM over the last three decades.",
        "过去三十年中，割礼的普及度总体而言是下降的。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, East Asia’s economies paid heavily for excessive accumulation of dollar-denominated debts.",
        "1997—1998年亚洲金融危机期间，东亚经济体为过度积累美元债务付出了沉重代价。"
    ],
    [
        "As it becomes clear that Assad is likely to lose the war, his closest allies – as well as world powers and regional players – are beginning to plan for the end game.",
        "随着阿萨德可能在战争中失败的局势逐渐清晰，他最亲密的盟友——以及全球大国和地区势力——都开始筹划最后的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Delivering sustainable infrastructure at scale will require strong public policy leadership and responsive private-sector entrepreneurship.",
        "实现成规模的可持续基础设施需要强大的公共政策领导力和积极响应的私人部门企业家精神。"
    ],
    [
        "With such wage subsidies, competitive forces would cause employers to hire more workers, and the resulting fall in unemployment would cause most of the subsidy to be paid out as direct or indirect labor compensation.",
        "有了这样的工资补贴，竞争性力量将会让雇主们雇佣更多的工人，而随之而来的失业率降低将会让大多数补贴以直接或间接的劳动力补偿形式支付。"
    ],
    [
        "When Ukrainians earlier this year ousted their corrupt president, Viktor Yanukovych, after he backed out of an association agreement with the EU, Russia set out to destabilize the country.",
        "乌克兰腐败总统维克托·亚努科维奇今年初因退出欧盟联合协议而被民众驱逐时，俄罗斯开始对乌克兰稳定起破坏作用。"
    ],
    [
        "For me, the decision was straightforward: the crimes demanded justice, and Cavallo was more likely to be held to account in Spain than in Argentina.",
        "对于我来说，做出这一决定是毫不犹豫的：所犯的罪行要求正义的审判。 而卡瓦略在在西班牙比在阿根廷更可能被追究责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Rebuilding Libya",
        "重建利比亚"
    ],
    [
        "China quickly became Sri Lanka’s leading investor and lender, and its second-largest trading partner, giving it substantial diplomatic leverage.",
        "中国很快就成为斯里兰卡的主要投资者和贷款人、第二大贸易伙伴，从中获得极大的外交影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa has embedded sustainable development into listing requirements on its stock exchange.",
        "南非则将可持续发展纳入其证券交易所的股票上市要求之中。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s leaders have already demonstrated that they understand the need to implement modern management techniques, and that doing so requires them to update and recalibrate the tools of central control on which they have long relied.",
        "中国领导人已经表明，他们知道实施现代管理技术的必要性，也明白这样做需要更新和重新调整长期以来所依赖的中央控制工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The US will not solve its energy security problem until it gets better at fuel economy, possibly by a combination of technology, gasoline taxes, and regulations.",
        "除非美国或许通过技术、汽油税以及法规相结合而改善燃料经济，否则美国将无法解决其能源安全问题。"
    ],
    [
        "As Solzhenitsyn wrote in his memoir The Oak and the Calf : “as late as 1966, he [Khrushchev] sent me New Year’s greetings—which astonished me because I was on the brink of arrest.",
        "索尔仁尼琴在他的回忆录amplt;amplt;橡树和小牛ampgt;ampgt;中记述道：“直到1966年，他 [赫鲁晓夫] 还给我寄贺年卡。 这让我好不惊讶，因为我处于被捕的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "As for those who managed to survive and cross the Mediterranean, France dumped them in segregated, under-served ghettos.",
        "而其中得以幸存并横渡地中海逃到法国的人则被抛弃在了少数民族聚居区——不但遭到隔离，而且无法享受任何政府服务。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s economy, many sectors – telecoms, cable TV, digital branches from social media to Internet search, health insurance, pharmaceuticals, agro-business, and many more – cannot be understood through the lens of competition.",
        "在今天的经济中，许多部门——电信、有线电视、从社交媒体到互联网搜索的数字行业、医疗保险、制药、农企集团，等等——都无法用竞争角度理解。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – For more than three decades, China’s GDP has grown by an average of more than 10% annually.",
        "香港——三十多年来，中国以超过10%的GDP增长率快速发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative strategy lies at the opposite end of the distribution of firm size – with big business.",
        "另一种策略有赖于企业规模分布的另外一端——也就是大企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, perhaps, it has finally come home.",
        "如今，终于轮到他的祖国了。"
    ],
    [
        "The structure that Britain seems to have in mind is, according to some, reminiscent of the loose alliance binding the British Commonwealth.",
        "据某些人的看法，英国看起来所设想的结构令人联想起联合英联邦的松散联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all of them would be a good choice.",
        "这五人并不都是好选择。"
    ],
    [
        "India, for example, enacted legislation ten years ago to provide sons and daughters with equal claim to inherit family land in most situations.",
        "举例来说，印度在十年前就已颁布立法，规定在多数情况下儿子和女儿拥有对家庭土地同等的继承权。"
    ],
    [
        "But the asymmetry in European Union-Russian energy relations must end.",
        "但是欧盟与俄罗斯能源关系的不对称绝对不能再继续下去了。"
    ],
    [
        "The technical lead held by Europe’s traditional trading economies is being eroded, while wage competition is encouraging fears of deflation.",
        "欧洲传统贸易经济所保持的技术优势正在消失，而工资竞争助长了通缩恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "We are not a ferry, a railroad, a telecommunications network, or an electricity grid with only one line serving you and no competitors allowed.",
        "我们不是一艘渡船、一条铁路、一张电网或电信网，为您提供单向、没有竞争空间的服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The stock imbalances include large and rising public and private debt as a share of GDP.",
        "存量失衡包括庞大且不断上涨的公私债务-GDP比重。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet people are not waiting for their leaders to act.",
        "但人们并没有坐等领导人采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia is no longer implementing the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which led to the removal of tens of thousands of tanks and heavy weapons from Europe in the years after 1990.",
        "俄罗斯已不再实施欧洲常规武装力量条约，1990年以来，该条约成功减少了数万辆坦克和重武器。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if such talks were held more frequently, and the issue were addressed seriously (and repeatedly), surely progress could be made in overcoming suspicion on this question.",
        "但如果更频繁地举行会谈，问题也（一再）得到认真解决，对于消除在这个问题上的疑虑肯定会有益处。"
    ],
    [
        "There would be more reason to reduce taxes in Norway, for example, than in Latin America, where the general course would be to increase spending.",
        "比方说，挪威比拉美国家更有理由减轻税负，而增加开支则应是拉美国家具有共性的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this makes sense for global security, or even for the financial interests of donor countries.",
        "这对全球的安全，甚至这些捐赠国家本身的经济利益都并无好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Effective cooperation will also require a broader scope for joint action – an imperative that is not reflected in the recent intelligence-sharing agreement.",
        "有效合作还需要更广泛的联合行动——最新的情报共享协议并没有体现这一当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, FDR’s framing of the threat posed by Hitler, and his preparation for taking advantage of an event like Pearl Harbor, were crucial factors.",
        "显然，罗斯福所勾勒的希特勒的威胁，以及他对利用珍珠港事件所做的准备，都是关键性因素。"
    ],
    [
        "An orphan who was educated by monks, Fourier was a professor at the age of 18, and became Napoleon’s governor in Egypt before returning to a career in science.",
        "出身孤儿的傅立叶在修道士的教育下长大，18岁就当上教授，在回国开始科研生涯前曾担任拿破仑的埃及总督。"
    ],
    [
        "Back then, global commerce was collapsing, presaging a 10.7% drop in the volume of world trade in 2009 – the sharpest annual contraction since the 1930s.",
        "当时全球商业都陷入崩溃，世界贸易总额很可能比2009年下跌10. 7%——堪称自1930年代以来最严重的紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaysian society is now gripped by a fundamental question: is the country, which is more than half Muslim, an Islamic state?",
        "马来西亚社会现在面临一个根本性的问题，那就是，马来西亚的人口一半以上是穆斯林，国家是否是一个穆斯林国家呢？"
    ],
    [
        "We were reverting to Cold War politics, in which the West was unwilling to use force and Russia was willing to keep arming and supporting its client.",
        "我们正在回归冷战政治，西方不愿使用武力，而俄罗斯愿意为其客户提供武装和支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the share of trade taxes is typically low.",
        "此外，贸易税的比重通常很低。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the US will invariably face new challenges, all of which are on vivid display in Ukraine.",
        "当然，美国将一直面临新挑战，乌克兰就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems that there is room in the labor market for a little optimism, after all.",
        "归根结底，对劳动力市场的拓展性还是应该保持一定乐观的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the third phase, lasting three to five years, aid supports the first phase of post-war economic development, including restoration of schools, clinics, farms, factories, and ports.",
        "第三阶段一般会持续3到5年，援助的任务是启动首阶段的战后经济发展，包括重建学校、诊所、农场、企业和港口。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is where industrial policy à la Trump fails to pass the test.",
        "而这正是特朗普式产业政策的失败之处。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps no country outside of Syria has shown greater concern about the crisis.",
        "叙利亚以外最关注这一问题的莫过于土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "The natural next step for many of them should have been to return home and immediately implement that principle. Instead, they returned home.",
        "对其中不少人而言，回国立即奉行这项原则本该是再自然不过的举措，但事实却恰恰相反，他们回国后却没有采取进一步动作。"
    ],
    [
        "Or consider M-Pesa itself.",
        "或者来审视一下M-Pesa本身。"
    ],
    [
        "A third risk is that future debt workouts will become harder to agree.",
        "第三个风险是未来债务解决方案（debt workouts）将更难形成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is why growth continues to slow.",
        "问题在于为何增长持续低迷。"
    ],
    [
        "In barely 15 years, these countries have moved from central planning and economic backwardness to “normal” market economies with impressive GDP growth.",
        "在短短的15年里，这些国家从中央计划和经济落后的状态过渡到“正常”的市场经济和GDP的快速增长状态。"
    ],
    [
        "These investment failures have been great for Americans, who owe a lot less to foreigners than they would otherwise.",
        "这些投资失败对美国人来说却不失为一件好事，若非如此他们会欠外国人更多的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "How else can the crisis-battered housing market finally clear for the remainder of US homeowners?",
        "还有什么其他办法能让剩余的美国房主摆脱房地产市场的影响？"
    ],
    [
        "The pervasive soul-searching prompted by such questions has nurtured a growing recognition that capitalism’s success depends not only on macroeconomic policy or economic indicators.",
        "对这些问题的普遍而深刻反思越来越让人们感到，资本主义的成功只是凭借着宏观经济政策和经济指标。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the West appears to be hedging its bets by sustaining contacts with the opposition.",
        "尽管如此，西方似乎想隐藏自己的底牌，仍然与反对派保持着密切的接触。"
    ],
    [
        "The bases on the chip are selected because they are informative, tagging bins of the genome, like a post-code directory.",
        "芯片上的基因就好比邮编索引，是特别选定的信息丰富且有代表性的基因储藏库。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if you ask Indians whether their governance is marked by widespread corruption, they will answer with gusto: yes!",
        "因此如果你问一个印度人他的政府是否充斥着贪污腐败，他们会热情地回答：“没错！"
    ],
    [
        "The political epicenter of this troubled region has shifted from the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians toward the Persian Gulf and the struggle for regional mastery between Iran on one side and Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and now Egypt on the other.",
        "这一麻烦地区的政治震中已从巴以冲突转向波斯湾和地区霸权之争，这场争夺的一方是伊朗，另一方是沙特、土耳其和现在的埃及。"
    ],
    [
        "An academic by profession, Abbas has tried mightily to lead the Palestinian people with civility, adherence to democratic principles, and public disdain for violence.",
        "作为一名学者出身的领导人，阿巴斯竭力以文人作风领导巴勒斯坦民众，恪守民主原则、鄙视暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand (there always is another hand in diplomacy), the agreement permits Iran to keep far more nuclear-related capacity than it would need if it were interested only in civil research and in demonstrating a symbolic ability to enrich uranium.",
        "另一方面（在外交领域，永远有另一方面），该协议允许伊朗保有大量核相关能力，程度远超民用研究和象征性地证明拥有核浓缩能力的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Such allegations have been a part of the government’s conspiratorial rhetoric since last summer’s protests, and the authorities dismissed the recent corruption accusations against Erdoğan in the same way.",
        "这些指控自去年的示威以来便已成为政府阴谋论的一部分，而当局打击针对埃尔多安的腐败指控也是如法炮制。"
    ],
    [
        "Supporters also point out that immigrants launched 28% of all new American businesses in 2011, even though they accounted for just 13% of the population.",
        "支持者还指出，2011年，美国新创企业中有28%是由移民创办的，尽管其人口只占总人口的13%。"
    ],
    [
        "If he had the money, Barientos says he would probably be a “snow bird” – spending summers on the US mainland and winter in Hawaii.",
        "如果有钱，巴兰托斯称自己可能变成一只“雪鸟”——在美国本土避暑，而后到夏威夷过冬。"
    ],
    [
        "The HKMA’s Compensation Committee had the sole responsibility for setting Yam’s salary.",
        "香港金管局薪酬委员会全权决定任的薪水。"
    ],
    [
        "And why did it manifest itself in a lurch to the right?",
        "为何这会表现为政治右倾？"
    ],
    [
        "These findings should embolden policymakers to be more proactive in designing pathways for legal migration and policies to integrate migrants.",
        "这些发现应该鼓励决策者更加主动地设计合法移民途径和让移民融入本地社会的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "So the premium reflects the opportunity cost to the prostitute of performing sex work.",
        "”因此，妓女收入的高溢价体现了从事性工作的机会成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The smartest thing for Chinese leaders to do would be to drop it, once and for all.",
        "对中国领导人来说，最聪明的做法是一劳永逸地抛弃这一概念。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the US spends roughly the same amount spent by the rest of the world combined – a pattern that the Obama administration shows no signs of ending.",
        "4万亿美元。 换言之，美国的军费约是世界其他国家的军费之和—没有任何迹象表明奥巴马政府想要终止这一模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Since its inception, the EU has made each member state’s language one of its official tongues.",
        "自建立以来，欧盟就将每一位成员国的语言作为其官方语言的一种。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Ukraine remains on the verge of becoming a failed state.",
        "事实上，乌克兰仍处于崩溃边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "Five Steps to Peace in Myanmar",
        "缅甸和平五步走"
    ],
    [
        "The existing UN force in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL, is a sad joke.",
        "联合国现有的在黎巴嫩南部的部队，即驻黎巴嫩临时部队是一个悲惨的笑话。"
    ],
    [
        "Young voters, in particular, seem to have less interest in working for traditional parties, which they view as overly bureaucratic, and thus boring.",
        "特别是年轻选民不再热衷于为传统政党工作，他们认为这些政党过于官僚主义，所以无聊透顶。"
    ],
    [
        "Will you support the initiative of developing countries to have a development-oriented intellectual property regime?",
        "你是否会支持发展中国家建立面向发展的知识产权体系的倡议？"
    ],
    [
        "He won the crucial Democratic firewall states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania by only 107,000 votes – 0.09% of all votes cast across the country.",
        "他仅以107,000 票的优势赢得了密歇根、威斯康星和宾夕法尼亚等关键的民主党防火墙州——占全国投票总数的0."
    ],
    [
        "Hawks in the West may try to dismiss actions like these as weak.",
        "西方的鹰派也许会将这样的行为斥为软弱。"
    ],
    [
        "This time around, thanks to the deterioration of the US fiscal position and the Federal Reserve’s expansionary monetary policy, “the long-term risk [for] emerging markets’ external balance sheets is shifting,” as Eswar Prasad of the Brookings Institution has pointed out, “to the asset side.”",
        "这一回，由于美国财政状况恶化以及美联储扩张性的货币政策，“新兴市场外部资产负债表的长期风险正在移向资产项，”布鲁金斯研究所的帕莱萨德（Eswar Prasad）。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers in many countries have recently been considering the role of financial standard-setting bodies (SSBs) in advancing financial inclusion.",
        "许多国家的决策者最近都在考虑金融标准设置机构（SSB）在推进金融包容方面的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly they were working hard to figure out exactly how bad my condition was.",
        "好几天过去了都没有出个结果。 显然他们正努力弄明白我的情况究竟有多坏。"
    ],
    [
        "The apparent paradox is resolved by noting that rapid productivity growth in the pockets of innovation has been undone by workers moving from the more productive to the less productive parts of the economy – a phenomenon that my co-authors and I have called “growth-reducing structural change.”",
        "这一显而易见的悖论的解释是创新产业生产率的迅速提高被工人从经济中生产率较高的部分转移到较低的部分——我的合作者和我称之为“遏制增长的结构变化”——所抵消。"
    ],
    [
        "Cruz, as well as the supposedly more moderate Jeb Bush, even suggested that only Christians should be allowed into the US.",
        "科鲁兹，以及理应更加温和的杰布·布什，甚至建议美国只允许基督徒进入。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that cooperation with non-EU countries should not be to the detriment of solidarity and common rules within the EU.",
        "这意味着与非欧盟成员国的合作不应对欧盟内部的团结和共同原则造成损害。"
    ],
    [
        "And more than 2,500 would-be migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean this year, most of them attempting to cross from North Africa to Italy.",
        "2,500多名潜在移民今年葬身地中海，其中大部分试图从北非穿越至意大利。"
    ],
    [
        "The history of the world economy shows the trilemma at work.",
        "世界经济的过往历史表明确实存在这样的三难选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States Congress is currently debating a law that would impose asset freezes and visa bans on the 60 people identified as having had some responsibility for Magnitsky's detention and death.",
        "美国国会目前正在讨论一项法律，该法律上将会对那些已经确定的对马格尼茨基的拘留和死亡负有责任的60余人实行冻结资产和签证禁令。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while there are currently more than 100,000 troops from various nations serving in UN peacekeeping missions around the world, member states are not providing adequate resources, training, and equipment.",
        "但是，尽管全世界现在驻扎有来自多个国家的10万多联合国的维和部队，各个成员国并没有提供适当的资源、训练和装备。"
    ],
    [
        "In response to Abe’s overtures, Putin has doggedly tried to drive a hard bargain.",
        "作为对安倍的姿态的回应，普京一直奉行强硬的讨价还价。"
    ],
    [
        "It expands opportunities for more types of firms, individuals, and countries to participate in the global economy.",
        "交货方法； 以及全球经营所需要的资本和规模。"
    ],
    [
        "But then the tough conditionality of IMF bailouts and adjustment programs – Asia’s own dose of austerity – kicked in.",
        "也就是在那时，世界货币基金组织那些条件严苛的援助和调整项目——亚洲自己的紧缩政策——开始启动了。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi leaders also denounced Hezbollah – Lebanon’s Iran-backed Shia militia – for aiding the Houthis.",
        "沙特领导人还谴责真主党——伊朗支持的黎巴嫩什叶派军阀——援助胡赛武装。"
    ],
    [
        "None of these goals (perhaps with the exception of the last one) were partisan issues.",
        "所有这些目标（大概最后一个是例外）都是跨越党派的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Publication of their plans sends an additional signal of their commitment and provides a valuable roadmap with which to assess progress, and thus help build confidence that all countries are working to reduce imbalances.",
        "它们公布计划的举动表明了它们所作出的承诺，同时也为评估其进展提供了一个颇有价值的路线图，从而有助于使所有努力减少贸易不平衡的国家建立起信心。"
    ],
    [
        "According to official statistics, China’s investment rate is approaching 50% of GDP.",
        "根据官方统计数字，中国的投资率已接近GDP的50%。"
    ],
    [
        "I even offered to do the cost-benefit analysis for free.",
        "我甚至表示可以免费帮他们做成本-效益分析。"
    ],
    [
        "In one influential interpretation, popularized by the novelist, Labour Party MP, and future Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Angell in 1910, the interdependency of the increasingly complex global economy made war impossible.",
        "”根据小说家、工党议员兼1910年诺贝尔和平奖获得者诺曼·安吉尔的著名解释，复杂全球经济的相互依赖彻底消除了战争的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Other rice varieties are being developed that can withstand drought, heat, cold, and soil problems like high salt contamination.",
        "其他米种也在培育中，它们具有抗旱、抗热、抗寒、抗盐碱化等特性。"
    ],
    [
        "Because reforms can become part of “our” heritage, traditional conservatives can adapt to change, even taking credit for negotiating the connection between past and future.",
        "因为改革可以成为“我们”遗产的一部分，所以传统保守主义也会适应变化，甚至以能够连接过去和未来为荣。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Agreement among negotiators from 12 Pacific Rim countries on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) represents a triumph over long odds.",
        "美国剑桥—来自12个环太平洋国家的谈判员终于在跨太平洋洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）上达成一致，这是一次非常难能可贵的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Russia Problem",
        "欧洲的俄国问题"
    ],
    [
        "The last thing that interests any of them is the truth.",
        "而这些人最不感兴趣的东西，就是真相。"
    ],
    [
        "Once a haven of political and economic stability amid the turmoil of the euro crisis, the United Kingdom is about to become the European Union’s most politically unpredictable member.",
        "作为曾经欧元危机中的政治和经济稳定的避风港，英国即将成为欧盟政治局面最难预测的成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "Cynically dismissive of both his European allies and his security advisers, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who supported military intervention in Syria, Obama minces no words in his fatalistic depiction of the troubled region.",
        "奥巴马毫不理会那些欧洲盟友和手下那些支持武装介入叙利亚事务的安全顾问们(包括前国务卿希拉里)的呼声，而是直白地陈述了他对这一动乱地区的宿命式结论。"
    ],
    [
        "Exhibit A for Surowiecki is Stephen Schwarzman, the chairman and CEO of the private equity firm the Blackstone Group, whose wealth now exceeds $10 billion.",
        "索罗维基举出的首屈一指的例子是私募股权公司百仕通集团（Blackstone Group）主席兼首席执行官史蒂芬·施瓦茨曼（Stephen Schwarzman），他的财富目前超过100亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "It is about making the best decisions for the community as a whole.",
        "善政就是为整个社会做出最佳决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, consider a recent matter-of-fact report from a sober and respected US magazine.",
        "仍以某冷静客观、广受尊敬的美国杂志的最新事实报告为例。"
    ],
    [
        "How do you control it?",
        "这样的问题怎么控制？"
    ],
    [
        "Another scenario – almost as probable as a Labour-led coalition – is a weak and unstable Conservative government.",
        "另一个情景——与工党领导的执政联盟情形可能性几乎相当——是弱势且不稳定的保守党政府。"
    ],
    [
        "But silencing these people by force, and calling them foreign-backed terrorists, can have only one result: more violence.",
        "但用武力让这些人闭嘴并将其称为受外国操纵的恐怖分子只能导致暴力这一个结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if they fail to gain power, the emergence of such an alternative would surely influence the Arab world’s agenda for years to come.",
        "即使他们没能赢得权力，如此替代方案的出现也必将影响阿拉伯世界未来多年的日程。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, we need universities in all parts of the world to help their societies face the challenges of poverty reduction, clean energy, sustainable food supplies, and the rest.",
        "如今，我们需要全世界的大学帮助所在社会应对减贫、清洁能源、可持续食品供给等挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Using language reminiscent of the Stalinist 1950’s, the federation – which has led student protests demanding better education in Chile – condemned their Venezuelan counterparts for “defending the old order” and “deviating from the path the people have chosen.”",
        "该联合会用让人想起20世纪50年代斯大林主义者的语气谴责委内瑞拉学生“捍卫旧秩序”、“偏离了人民所选择的道路”。 而正是这个学生联合会，曾经领导过要求智利政府改善教育的学生示威。"
    ],
    [
        "The shift in the growth pattern, if successful, will occur over several years.",
        "如果成功，增长模式的改变将在数年内发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Germans waited for the French prime minister and president, who had both been visiting Russia (France’s ally), to leave St. Petersburg, at which point they rapidly pressed Austria to deliver an ultimatum that they knew the Russians could not accept.",
        "与此同时，德国人静待当时正在俄国（法国盟友）访问的法国总理和总统离开圣彼得堡，马上通知奥地利发布他们料定俄国不可能接受的最后通牒。"
    ],
    [
        "In law, when two criminals seal a contract with the blood of their victims, that act remains a crime, even if the two criminals later have a falling out and spray bullets at one another.",
        "在法律中，当两个罪犯用受害人的鲜血密封一份契约时，这种行为已经构成犯罪，即使那两个罪犯后来发生争执举枪射杀彼此。"
    ],
    [
        "In the future, China will have to rely more heavily on interest rates to manage monetary policy, using the price of capital, not political considerations, to influence how firms make investment decisions.",
        "将来，中国必须更多地依靠利率来管理货币政策，利用资本价格而不是政治考虑来影响企业的投资决策。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is probably far too revolutionary for an EU that took 50 years to fashion today’s unsatisfactorily hybrid decision-making structures.",
        "但是，对于欧盟这个用了50年时间才形成今天这样的不能令人满意的杂交式的决策结构来说，这可能是过于革命性了。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan’s elite have an opportunity to overcome their differences, unite in opposition to militants, and transform their failing state into a stable and prosperous democracy.",
        "巴基斯坦的精英阶层可以趁此机会克服他们之间的分歧，团结起来共同对付国内的好战分子，扭转当前的溃败状态，建立一个稳定繁荣的民主国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Gouging the Gauchos",
        "讹诈南美牛仔"
    ],
    [
        "This is a challenge for the general proposition of self-help, and also for my own new venture: the Health Initiative Coordinating Council (HICCup), which will advise five communities competing to win the HICCup Prize for the greatest improvement, according to five metrics, in health (not health care) over five years.",
        "这是一个一般性的自助挑战，也是我本人的新企业——健康项目协调委员会（Health Initiative Coordinating Council，HICCup）所面临的的挑战。 HICCup为五个竞争HICCup健康（而非医疗）最大进步奖的社区提供咨询。"
    ],
    [
        "In January 2009, Gazprom ordered cutbacks of deliveries through Ukraine, causing severe shortages in six countries in eastern and southeastern Europe.",
        "2009年1月，俄天然气决定削减经乌克兰的天然气护送，导致东欧和南欧六国天然气严重短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Selecting the president of the European Council required considerable time and horse-trading, with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk emerging as the final choice.",
        "选择欧洲理事会主席需要长时间的讨价还价，最终的人选是波兰总理唐纳德·塔斯克（Donald Tusk）。"
    ],
    [
        "The agreements that emerged in 1992 at the first Rio summit were good ones: thoughtful, far-sighted, public-spirited, and focused on global priorities.",
        "1992年首届里约峰会达成的协议用心良苦：深思熟虑、高瞻远瞩，热心公益，并集中关注全球重点问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first place, it is necessary to fill the increasing security vacuum in the Middle East.",
        "首先，有需要填补中东地区不断扩大的安全真空。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is clear that no one will benefit from a new round of heated historical debate.",
        "但显然，掀起新一轮激烈的历史争论不能让任何人受益。"
    ],
    [
        "But as the catalogue of lies that Fox has promoted in the first six months of the Trump presidency has demonstrated, there is no man more unfit for ownership of a media outlet in a democracy than Rupert Murdoch.",
        "但在特朗普上台的第一个半年中福克斯新闻台炮制谎言的情况看，没有比鲁珀特·默多克更加不合适的民主国家媒体组织所有者了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also reflected in social-enterprise start-ups designed to achieve both social and financial returns, as well as in new impact-investing platforms aimed at the growing number of investors who are also seeking both types of returns.",
        "另一个体现是旨在同时实现社会和财务回报的社会企业创业（social-enterprise start-ups）以及旨在增加同时追求这两种回报的投资者数量的影响力投资平台（impact-investing platforms）"
    ],
    [
        "The BJP may preach development, but it is practicing bigotry – a contradiction that Modi could resolve only by repudiating the forces that helped ensure his electoral victory.",
        "印度人民党嘴里说的固然是发展，但他们的所作所为相当偏执——莫迪要想解决这一矛盾，就必须否定帮他确保选举胜利的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the Bank’s current policy of fighting inflationary pressures by slower growth, a stronger euro, and the credit crunch seems just about right for the time being.",
        "相反，它现在所实施的通过更缓慢的经济增长、更强的欧元和信贷紧缩来应对通胀压力的政策暂时还是有效的。"
    ],
    [
        "In India and China, the prevalence of obesity in cities is 3-4 times the rate in rural areas.",
        "在印度和中国，城市肥胖率比农村高2—3倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Like so many others before and since, I was captivated from the first moment by Mandela’s huge, luminescent smile, by his unending charm and grace, and by the lucid intelligence with which he discussed his country’s transition problems.",
        "像之前和之后很多别的人一样，我从第一刻起就被曼德拉咧着大嘴的温暖笑容、无休无止的魅力风度和他探讨自己国家过渡问题时清晰的智慧所彻底俘获。"
    ],
    [
        "But as Merkel herself has warned, it would be “grotesque and absurd” to expect that she could carry the standard of liberal internationalism.",
        "但正如默克尔本人所警告的，期待她引领自由国际主义标准是“怪诞荒谬的”。"
    ],
    [
        "But money is not all that is needed.",
        "但也不是有了钱就万事大吉了。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, if the regime balked, it would have to explain to its own people why it was not prepared to abandon its nuclear-weapons program, despite a reasonable US proposal that was not designed to humiliate Iran, and that, if accepted, promised a major improvement in Iranian living standards.",
        "如此一来，如果伊朗政权出尔反尔，就不得不向自己的人民解释，既然美国提出的计划并没有羞辱伊朗，且如果伊朗接受，美国还承诺极大地改善伊朗人民的生活水平，为什么伊朗还没有做好放弃核武器计划的准备？"
    ],
    [
        "The only sure way to guarantee drug development, the argument goes, is to allow prices to rise until demand matches supply.",
        "该观点还认为，担保药物开发的唯一办法是允许提高价格直到需求匹配供给。"
    ],
    [
        "If governments let no outside entity investigate the circumstances of such deaths, what will keep them from “disappearing” whomever they take into custody, for whatever reason?",
        "如果连政府都禁止其他第三方机构介入调查这类死亡案例的话，那又有什么能制止政府用任何理由去“消灭”任何被关押的人呢？"
    ],
    [
        "To maintain his domestic image as a strong leader, he must stick to his nationalist rhetoric and policies.",
        "要想维持其强势领导人的国内形象，他必须坚持其民族主义口风和政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, emissions have not decreased as a result of these policies, but are doing so now as the world economy moves into recession.",
        "颇具讽刺意味的是，这些政策并没有成功地降低排放，而世界经济陷入衰退却达到了减排的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "But what they see confounds them, because Germany is openly refusing to lead.",
        "但这次人们却倍感挫败，因为德国公然地拒绝领军。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – In many of history’s most successful economic reforms, clever countries have learned from the policy successes of others, adapting them to local conditions.",
        "发自纽约——在历史上许多最为成功的经济改革过程中，明智的国家都会借鉴其他国家的成功政策并使之适应本国国情。 在经济发展的历史长河中，18世纪的英国拜荷兰为师；"
    ],
    [
        "August 30 was the International Day of the Victims of Forced Disappearance.",
        "8月30日是强制失踪受害者国际日。"
    ],
    [
        "With Europe’s banking system triple the size and twice as leveraged as its US counterpart, and the ECB lacking genuine lender-of-last-resort authority, the sudden halt in capital flows to peripheral countries in 2009 created a liquidity-starved system that was too big to bail out.",
        "欧洲银行系统规模是美国的三倍，杠杆是美国的两倍，欧洲央行也没有真正意义上的最后贷款人权力，因此2009年外围国家的资本突然断流导就造成了一个太大而救不了的流动性枯竭的系统。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Nazi Party in its early days did not find the bulk of its support among the least educated.",
        "但纳粹党初期的支持者主要不是来自教育程度最低的群体。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a brilliant strategic decision, allowing the firm to offer dozens of new product lines and services.",
        "这是一个高明的战略决策，让雀巢公司能够提供几十种新产品线和服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Democrats and Republicans agree that FDI, or “insourcing,” is important to US jobs and competitiveness.",
        "民主党和共和党都同意，外国直接投资（FDI），即“内包”（insourcing）对美国就业和竞争力至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "One group – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (BELL) – experienced a surge in yields on their government bonds in 2009, followed by a sharp decline.",
        "一组国家——保加利亚、爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚和立陶宛——2009年时经历了国债收益率的飙升，但随后就快速回落了。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the party has been reduced to junior-partner status in Tymoshenko’s coalition government.",
        "其结果是，他的党在季莫申科组建的联合政府中被摆在一个次要的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "Just one condition must be met.",
        "只需要满足一个条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrasting its fighters’ bravery and commitment with the “comfort” of Muslim bystanders, Al Qaeda tries to rally more fighters to its cause in Iraq.",
        "基地组织通过对比其斗士的勇猛和忠诚以及穆斯林旁观者的“养尊处优”来招募更多的战斗人员投入伊拉克的行动之中。"
    ],
    [
        "To return to the analogy, urban street gangs cannot seize political power, but they can certainly keep their neighborhoods dangerous, backward, and grim.",
        "再回到我们先前的类比，街头的帮派不能攫取政治权力，但他们肯定能将使所在的街区置于危险、落后和可怕的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s upsurge of micro-nationalism is not just a consequence of the revolt against empires: it is also a revolt against globalization.",
        "当今的微型国家主义高涨不仅是反抗帝国的结果：它也是对全球化的反叛。"
    ],
    [
        "Gross public and private external debt is below 40% of GDP, and much of it is denominated in rubles.",
        "毛公共和私人外债还不到GDP的40%，其中许多未卢布计价。"
    ],
    [
        "But that potential will be realized only if more knowledge, not less, flows across member countries’ borders.",
        "但只有在更多而非更少知识正在成员国之间实现跨境流动的情况下，这一点才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if the US avoids a fundamentalist dark age, it clearly risks losing its global research dominance.",
        "即使美国能避免陷入一个原教旨主义的黑暗时代，它也显然面临着丧失全球科研主导地位的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not only China and India that are growing faster. Central Europe, Central Asia, and the violence-ridden Middle East are growing faster, too.",
        "不单单是中国和印度保持着高增长，中欧、中亚，甚至是充斥着暴力的中东增长的速度也要快得多。"
    ],
    [
        "We first construct beautiful equations, then derive their consequences, and, finally, craft experiments to test them.",
        "我们首先构造美妙的方程组，然后导出结果，最后设计实验验证它们。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is individual training and the ability to make split-second decisions in a fluid situation that are required in anti-terrorist operations.",
        "但反恐活动需要单兵训练和在变化中当机立断的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "For most of the twentieth century, programmers were patently unsuccessful in designing chess computers that could compete with the best humans.",
        "20世纪大多数时候，程序员们在设计能与顶尖人类选手较量的国际象棋电脑时显然都未获成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is slowly trying to build up resilience to the kind of trauma it experienced in 2015.",
        "欧洲正在缓缓试图构建恢复力，弥合2015年所经历的创伤。"
    ],
    [
        "At such a sensitive time, it is no surprise to hear politicians pitching the idea of “tax reform” – suggesting that they can simplify the system, close loopholes, and use the proceeds to reduce tax rates.",
        "在如此敏感的时刻，毫不奇怪，政客们又开始兜售他们的“税收改革”计划了——他们说，他们可以简化税收系统，堵上漏洞，用堵漏得到的税金来降低税率。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Peru’s economic growth – which is based largely on exports of raw materials and hydrocarbons – is already slowing, from annual rates of 5.5-6.9% over the last three years.",
        "事实上，秘鲁的经济增长主要依靠原材料和碳氢化合物出口，已呈现出减速之势，过去三年年增长率高达5. 5—6."
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, this would cause the cost of drilling to increase significantly.",
        "这无疑将导致钻井成本大幅上升。"
    ],
    [
        "But all of these human costs are symptoms of a deeper problem – and, contrary to popular belief, that problem is not Islam.",
        "但所有这些人道损失只不过是更深层次的问题的症候——与流行的信念相反，这个问题并非伊斯兰教。"
    ],
    [
        "Not likely.",
        "而形势却似乎并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Albert Einstein once said, “I have no special gift, but I am passionately curious.”",
        "爱因斯坦曾说：“我没有特殊的天分，但我有极强的好奇心。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet here, too, neither the neo-Keynesians nor the supply-siders have exerted much effort to improve the institutions of development finance.",
        "但是，在这方面，新凯恩斯主义和供给学派也都没有致力于改善发展金融机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent opinion polls suggest that this is the view of much of Russia’s cynical public.",
        "最近的民意调查显示这是很多不满的俄罗斯民众的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "They cannot justify developing new drugs unless they can expect to recoup their costs through sales.",
        "制药公司只有在预计到销售该药能赚回成本的前提下，才会考虑开发一种新药。"
    ],
    [
        "The temporary calm provided some support for those who claimed that what was required, above all, was a restoration of confidence.",
        "目前的平静支撑了那些声称首先需要恢复信心的人。"
    ],
    [
        "A German Europe?",
        "德国的欧洲？"
    ],
    [
        "Western Politics’ Locust Years",
        "世界政治的荒年"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, no one would deny Park’s professional credentials.",
        "相比之下朴槿惠的专业资历则无可置疑。"
    ],
    [
        "“Deepening” and “widening” European integration are the superficial opposites here.",
        "在此，“加深”和“扩大”欧洲联合只是表面对立。"
    ],
    [
        "There are already institutions within Europe, such as the European Investment Bank, that could help finance needed investments in the cash-starved economies.",
        "欧洲内部已经有了合适的机构（如欧洲投资银行）可以帮助资金受困国为必须的投资融资。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is not whether, but how much, fiscal stimulus is appropriate.",
        "问题不在于财政刺激是否合适，而在于多少财政刺激合适。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, while assets nowadays are much more liquid, this has not boosted long-term productive investment.",
        "最后，如今的资产更为具有流动性，这并未提高长期生产性投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The renminbi, however, has recently stabilized, and capital flight has dwindled, as evidenced by the better-than-expected reserve figures released by the People’s Bank of China on October 7.",
        "但是，人民币最近已经稳定下来，资本外逃也得到了遏制，好于预期的10月7日中国人民银行储备数字证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, freedom of expression should almost never be repressed, a point that the United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes emphasized in a dissenting opinion in a case concerning the US Constitution’s guarantee of free speech.",
        "平心而论，言论自由应该永不遭遇镇压，美国最高法院法官霍姆斯（Oliver Wendell Holmes）在一宗与美国宪法对自由言论的保护的案例中，通过反对意见强调了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "While one can understand the domestic political imperatives that have led to subsidies and guarantees, developed countries need to recognize the global consequences, and provide compensatory assistance to developing countries.",
        "尽管人们可以理解国内政治的准则——这些准则导致了补贴和担保的出现，但是发达国家需要认识到自身行为的全球性后果，并且为发展中国家提供补偿性的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the environmental and national-security arguments in favor of discouraging fossil-fuel consumption work better if the increase in energy prices is phased in gradually.",
        "此外，如果能源价格的上涨是渐进式的，那么那些支持减少化石燃料消耗的环境和国家安全的论据将准备得更加充分。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund will certainly require Ukraine to reform its gas and coal subsidies as a precondition for implementing its package of financial support (of which a substantial contribution comes from the European Union).",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）必然会要求乌克兰改革其天然气和煤炭补贴，以此作为实施金融援助计划的先决条件（金融援助计划大部分将来自欧盟）。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Hamas is seeking to capitalize on its growing popularity by winning elections.",
        "与此同时，哈马斯在寻求通过赢得选举最大程度地利用其日益增长的支持度。"
    ],
    [
        "What Next After the Gaza Withdrawal?",
        "加沙撤离之后又会是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Behind the critiques directed at the EU and national governments as “not being social enough,” lurks an image of the Union as a trap that is forcing its members to bend to the fateful disciplines of the market, thus depriving national leaders of their ability to realize important social goals.",
        "潜伏在针对欧盟以及欧盟成员国政府的“社会福利不足”的评论背后的是对欧盟的印象，即欧盟是一个强使成员国顺从于致命的市场戒律、并剥夺国家领导人实现重要社会目标的能力的陷井。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the world faces a potential shortage of 30-40 million college-educated workers in 2020, and a potential surplus of 95 million low-skilled workers.",
        "事实上，到2020年，世界将面临3 000—4 000万大学学历工人缺口和9 500万低技能工人潜在过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "Both were necessary, but, with few exceptions, the region is not using the commodity windfall to do what it must: improve technological capacities sufficiently to ensure that future economic growth does not depend entirely on the fickle furtunes of finite natural resources.",
        "这两种做法都很有必要，但除少数国家外，拉美国家并没有利用这笔商品横财完成必须要完成的任务： 那就是充分提高技术能力，确保未来的经济增长与有限自然资源的起起落落脱钩。"
    ],
    [
        "Two Europes in One",
        "二合一的欧洲"
    ],
    [
        "But there is also an alternative, much less ambitious view, according to which neither fiscal nor political union is needed.",
        "但还有另一条路，这条路的目标没有那么宏大，财政和政治联盟都不是必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Appropriate modifications could turn these into secondary schools for part of each day, bringing secondary education closer to children’s homes.",
        "适度改建可以让上述学校在一天中的某段时间负担起中学的职能，把中学教育送到孩子们家门口。"
    ],
    [
        "The general stimulus goes to everyone, not just the former borrowers.",
        "一般刺激针对的是所有人，而不是之前的举债人。"
    ],
    [
        "We encourage donors to follow through on their commitments to increase effective aid for trade – assistance to help developing countries take full advantage of trade opportunities as a lever for growth.",
        "我们鼓励捐助方实践其增加有效贸易援助的承诺—帮助发展中国家充分利用贸易机会促进经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Why are neuroscientists, molecular biologists, geneticists, and developmental biologists – men and women whose discoveries have forever changed the way we understand ourselves – so uneasy about their futures?",
        "为什么神经学家、分子生物学家、遗传学家和发展生物学家—这些以科研成果永久地改变了我们对自身的认识的男性和女性—对他们的未来却如此彷徨不安？"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, they have failed abysmally in institutional nation-building, a necessary requirement for any successful national movement.",
        "时至今日，巴勒斯坦人在建国家的制度化建构方面都做得非常失败，但制度化也是任何成功的建国运动所必须具备的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "By failing to clearly delineate presumed or potential “red lines” for Taiwan, the law leaves open the possibility of substantial miscalculation or misinterpretation.",
        "由于没有明确说明台湾假定或潜在的“红线”，这项法律既有可能导致严重的错误估计或误解。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – With its presidential election over, the United States can finally take a breather from campaign politics, at least for a while.",
        "发自剑桥——随着总统大选落下帷幕，美国终于（至少有一段时间）可以从选举政治中伸出头来透一口气了。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-time Tunisian activists fear that Ennahda, which dominates the assembly, will use the presence of women MPs to restrict women’s rights.",
        "突尼斯的长期活动家担心在制宪大会占多数的社会运动党将利用妇女议员阻挠妇女权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The weapons should be used to help preserve the independence of all states, rather than for imperial aggrandizement, and steps should be taken to reduce arsenals as political conditions permit.",
        "这些武器应当被用于帮助维护所有国家的独立，而不是帝国扩张，并且应当在政治允许的条件下采取措施减少兵工厂。"
    ],
    [
        "Doubling the area of protected coastal land and bringing substantial areas of open ocean into reserves is a particularly formidable task.",
        "将受保护海岸面积扩大一倍并将大量公海海域纳入保护范围是一个艰巨无比的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Loss of the ancient cedar, pine, fir, and oak forests on the slopes above is another matter.",
        "山坡上的古杉木、松树、枞树和橡树林的消失是另外一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "If this is China’s “new normal,” it would still be the envy of the rest of the world.",
        "如果这就是中国的“新常态”，那么依然会是个令全世界羡慕不已的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer they stay in power, the more violent the Islamist rebellions will be.",
        "它们掌权的时间越长，伊斯兰就会发生更加猛烈的叛乱活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Aylwin went on television to share the grim truth with citizens.",
        "埃尔文现身电视，与公民分享残酷的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "But, under Lula (and under Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón in Mexico, for that matter), they became a direct anti-poverty program aimed at the current generation of poor.",
        "但是此举很可能会助长腐败——这一顽疾已经困扰巴西政坛数十年，在卢拉任内也鲜有改观。"
    ],
    [
        "This scenario is all the more dangerous, given the possibility that the suspension of missile and nuclear tests may not actually lead to a concomitant weakening of North Korea’s nuclear program.",
        "这一情景非常危险，因为中止导弹和核试验的可能性事实上并不会阻碍朝鲜的核计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson from many developed and developing countries is that underinvestment in infrastructure, human capital, institutions, and the economy’s knowledge and technology base reduces long-term growth.",
        "许多发达和发展中国家的教训是，基础设施、人力资源、制度和经济的知识和技术基础的投资不足会抑制长期增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The Political Importance of Elizabeth Warren",
        "伊丽莎白·沃伦的政治重要性"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, existing national health-care systems in wealthier countries can serve as models for emerging-market economies that choose to adopt similar systems.",
        "第四，较富裕国家现行的国家卫生保健系统可以作为选择采用类似系统的新兴市场经济体效仿的模型。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed would then delay tightening for longer than anticipated.",
        "美联储也可能因此推迟预期中的紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "We must resist the temptation to believe that a meddling, paternalistic state is the way of the future. Not only business, but also society as a whole, would lose out if we moved in that direction.",
        "政府在本国市场假定具有的安全性中寻求慰藉的做法是可以理解的，但本国市场所提供的庇护却是水中之月：强化金融市场稳健程度、并确保降低此类危机重演概率的唯一方法仍在于，建构一种与一体化市场相称的规制框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, all operating costs were born by the Communist Party and the state, and nobody was much concerned about making money.",
        "不用说，所有的营运成本是由共产党和国家负担，并且没人在意是否盈利。"
    ],
    [
        "One fact is not in doubt: the NPT is the legal linchpin for the nuclear nonproliferation regime now signed and ratified by all but three nations – India, Pakistan, and Israel – and one drop-out, North Korea.",
        "有一个事实是毫无疑问的：除了三个国家——印度、巴基斯坦和以色列——以及一个退出的国家，北朝鲜之外，《不扩散核武器条约》是签署并核准它的国家的核不扩散制度的法律支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, reports claiming that sanctions imply a high cost – because EU exports to Russia amounted to €120 billion ($161 billion) last year and represent tens of thousands of jobs – are highly misleading.",
        "因此，宣称制裁意味着高昂成本的报告——因为欧盟对俄出口去年高达1,200亿欧元，并且贡献了成千上万工作岗位——具有相当的误导性。"
    ],
    [
        "So, America’s most powerful sanctions instrument is its ability to block a criminal or rogue bank from making US-dollar transactions.",
        "因此，美国最强大的制裁手段是它能阻止罪犯或流氓银行进行美元交易。"
    ],
    [
        "One faction primarily comprised elites opposed to state intervention in the market.",
        "其中的一个派系主要由反对国家介入市场的精英组成。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of these reductions were implemented to fight what was seen four years ago as a temporary downturn.",
        "实行减税措施是为了抵御四年前暂时性的经济低迷。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s real-estate, credit, and stock-market bubbles – which produced ghost towns, bad local debts, and stock-price volatility – attest to that.",
        "中国的房地产、信贷和股市泡沫——它们造成了鬼城、地方坏账和股价波动——就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "It will be necessary to harness grass-roots dynamism and entrepreneurial potential to achieve social solidarity and equity.",
        "驾驭草根动力和企业家潜能以达到社会团结公正是十分必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Syrian people’s demands are the same as those heard in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt: a dignified, democratic life.",
        "叙利亚民众像突尼斯、利比亚和埃及民众一样要求尊严民主的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be a Faustian bargain – prosperity in exchange for political obedience – but so far it has worked.",
        "这也许是一个浮士德式的交易，用富有换取政治上的顺从，但是迄今为止似乎一切都很不错。"
    ],
    [
        "Reliance on the traditional method has resulted in missed opportunities, particularly given that productive public-sector investment can more than pay for itself.",
        "依赖传统方法导致错失机会，特别是在生产性公共部门投资完全可以收回成本的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "That said, while the IMF’s proposed code is a step in the right direction, it is misguided.",
        "如此说来，IMF的简易办法虽然方向正确，但却有误导嫌疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Nkrumah invited W.E.B. Du Bois, the most important black intellectual of the twentieth century, to Ghana in 1961.",
        "恩克鲁玛邀请二十世纪最重要的黑人思想家威廉·爱德华·布格哈特·杜博斯于1961年访问加纳。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments or commercial banks distributing the money would be credited with a deposit or be given cash, but no claim would be created on the left-hand side of the central bank’s balance sheet.",
        "分配钱的政府或商业银行资获得一笔存款信用或得到一笔现金，但央行资产负债表的资产栏不会出现债权。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an opportunity that should be on the minds of cancer experts, government officials, and representatives from the private sector and civil society.",
        "癌症专家、政府官员和私人部门和公民社会代表决不能忽视这个机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Deadlock in Durban",
        "德班僵局"
    ],
    [
        "I was told that he was one of the best surfers around, but at a time when there was no money in it.",
        "有人告诉我他曾是最好的冲浪者之一，但当时冲浪运动还无法带来经济回报。"
    ],
    [
        "While we need to be passionate about climate change, we must also be pragmatic about how we address it.",
        "我们需要对气候变化保持热情，但也必须在解决气候变化问题时采取务实态度。"
    ],
    [
        "These megabanks are making a determined attempt to repeal as much of Dodd-Frank as possible, and the House Republicans seem keen to help them.",
        "这些巨头们决心一定要将多德-弗兰克法案尽可能废除，而众议院共和党人似乎也非常愿意助一臂之力。"
    ],
    [
        "Marginalization generates frustration, which is subsequently fed by growing Islamophobia and the rise of raucous right-wing movements throughout the continent.",
        "边缘化带来挫败感，日益严重的伊斯兰恐惧症和整个欧洲大陆吵吵嚷嚷的右翼运动崛起又为这种挫败感火上浇油。"
    ],
    [
        "The deep price cuts and improved service ushered in by these regulatory changes prompted other countries to adopt the American model.",
        "这些监管变化促使其他国家采取了美国模式，大减价和服务改善随之而来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, from the Bank of Japan’s dramatic policy U-turn to the Bank of Mexico’s surprise interest-rate cuts, the Fed’s approach is affecting central banks in a growing number of countries.",
        "事实上，从日本银行的一百八十度政策大转弯到墨西哥银行出人意料的降息，美联储的方法正在影响越来越多的央行。"
    ],
    [
        "We do not live in a “post-American world,” but we also do not live in the American era of the late twentieth century.",
        "我们并没有进入“后美国世界”，但20世纪末的美国时代已经过去了。"
    ],
    [
        "Vanguard Scotland?",
        "先锋苏格兰？"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas finds itself in a difficult position, since its policy calls for strong resistance, alongside politics.",
        "哈马斯发现自己陷入了非常尴尬的境地，因为在政治斡旋的同时进行强力抵抗是它的既定政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of wasting time on fear-based strategies, the international community must leverage human and financial resources to ensure fact-based, concerted, collective action.",
        "国际社会不应该把时间浪费在基于恐惧的战略上，而必须利用人力和金融资源确保基于事实的、紧密合作的集体行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Limits to Green Growth",
        "绿色增长的极限"
    ],
    [
        "Water stress is becoming a major obstacle to economic development in many parts of the world.",
        "水资源压力成了世界很多地方发展经济的主要障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "A great Eurasian bloc suddenly appeared in opposition to America’s hegemonic global pretensions, prefiguring a new fluidity in geopolitical relationships, if not a tectonic shift in alignments.",
        "一个反对美国全球霸权的大规模欧亚大陆集团的突然出现即便不意味着联盟关系的彻底改变，至少也预示着新的变数在地缘政治关系中逐渐形成。"
    ],
    [
        "But Solidarity was still something more.",
        "而“团结”的作用还不只于此。"
    ],
    [
        "Dialogue between the US Congress and Facebook, Twitter, and Google has intensified in the last few weeks, as clear evidence of campaign-ad purchases by Russian entities has emerged.",
        "美国国会与Facebook、Twitter和Google等企业已经在近几周加强了对话，因为有明确证据显示已经出现了俄罗斯实体购买竞选广告的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, arguments about the size of world oil reserves and when global production will peak misses the key security issue.",
        "无论如何，有关世界石油储备大小以及全球生产何时会达到顶峰的争论都没有击中关键性的安全问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that many governments could not justify accepting refugees without a thorough vetting process – and that demands data.",
        "现实情况是，许多政府不经过彻底的审查过程就找不到合理的接收难民的依据——而它们需要数据才能完成审查程序。"
    ],
    [
        "The world economy is increasingly threatened by volatile market reactions to global imbalances at a time when the IMF has largely lost its original raison d’être as the world’s central monetary institution.",
        "在国际货币基金组织（IMF）几乎已丧失其起初作为世界性中央货币机构而存在的理由的情况下，世界经济正越来越受到来自对全球不平衡的动荡市场反应的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "It would recommend policies for eliminating imbalances and describe what kind of exchange-rate and reserve changes must accompany any adjustments.",
        "该报该还应就消除收支失衡作出政策建议，规定就何种汇率和储备变化应当出台那些调整政策。"
    ],
    [
        "While China's rulers may fear losing control, they also need to recognize that the current system is causing intense discontent.",
        "虽然中国的领导人们可能会担心失去对香港的控制，但他们也应该意识到现行体制正造成强烈的不满。"
    ],
    [
        "The abduction of an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip, as well as the abduction and subsequent murder of an 18-year old Israeli civilian in the West Bank, have brought to the fore that question, which has haunted Israeli-Palestinian relations since Hamas won parliamentary elections in January.",
        "哈马斯一月份赢得议会选举以来该问题就一直萦绕着巴以关系。 一名以色列士兵在加沙地带遭绑架，一位18岁以色列平民在约旦河西岸被绑架后遭杀害事件使得该问题变得更加突出。"
    ],
    [
        "The voices from the Climate Parliament join a growing crescendo of influential actors who are speaking out about the need to clean up our energy habits.",
        "这些来自气候议会的呼声也汇入到了那些著名公众人物日渐增强的诉求之中——他们提出我们需要清理自身的能源使用习惯。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, despite the more rapid rise in German wages, the country’s exports rebounded faster than Spain’s – or those of any other European Union country.",
        "但是，尽管德国工资增长得更快，但德国出口的反弹也快于西班牙——或其他任何欧盟国家。"
    ],
    [
        "After three terms in office, it could hardly be otherwise.",
        "在三届任期之后，几乎没有别的路可走了。"
    ],
    [
        "This led to the imposition of US sanctions – and America’s third exit from Pakistan.",
        "巴基斯坦核试验决策招致美国制裁——以及美国第三次从巴基斯坦撤出。"
    ],
    [
        "Designing the right institutions for public venture capital can be difficult.",
        "设计正确的公共创投资本制度是困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 20 years ago, I wrote a paper called “America’s Only Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s,” in which I challenged this narrative.",
        "20多年前，我写了一篇题为《和平时代美国唯一的通胀时期：70年代》（America’s Only Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s）的文章，对这一观点提出了挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China is moving forward with its “one belt, one road” initiative, aimed at deepening China’s economic ties with countries throughout Central and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and eventually Europe.",
        "此外，中国正在推进其“一带一路”计划，旨在深化中国与整个东亚和东南亚、印度洋、中东乃至欧洲的经济联系。"
    ],
    [
        "At the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in July, governments agreed to establish an “R&D Collaboration Hub,” and to begin to phase out antibiotics in agriculture, where producers use them to promote animal growth.",
        "在7月的G20德国汉堡峰会上，各国政府同意成立“研发合作中心”，着手逐步停止将抗生素应用于农业。 农业生产上使用抗生素促进牲畜生长。"
    ],
    [
        "Cutting off aid could have calamitous humanitarian consequences for the nation’s 80 million people. It could also destabilize a fragile region, sparking fresh wars with neighboring Somalia and Eritrea.",
        "终止救援就会影响到8000万人民的生活，造成该国地区的不稳定，引发埃塞俄比亚和邻国索马里和厄立特里亚新一轮的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "The existing multilateral institutions were designed for a vanishing Western-centric world.",
        "现存的多边机构是为以西方为中心的世界设计的，而以西方为中心的世界正在消失。"
    ],
    [
        "The traits that enable people to feed and protect themselves increase the likelihood that they will live long enough to produce offspring, whom they will be able to feed and protect until maturity.",
        "让人们得以果腹和保护自己的特征增加了我们活得足够长能生育后代，并且把后代哺育和保护直至成年的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "In the immortal words of James Carville, Bill Clinton’s campaign manager in 1992, “It’s the economy, stupid.”",
        "比尔·克林顿的竞选主管詹姆斯·卡维尔1992年曾说过一句不朽名言，“傻瓜，经济才是根本问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unlike Russia, China de-emphasized the relevance of traditional hard power to achieve its goals.",
        "不过与俄国不同的是，中国弱化了对传统硬实力与实现其目标之间相关性的强调。"
    ],
    [
        "And corporate performance has improved – primarily in the export industries, which have benefited from a depreciated yen – with many companies posting their highest profits on record.",
        "公司表现也有所改善——特别是受益于日元贬值的出口部门——许多公司都报告了创纪录的盈利水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Tax revenue can be raised without increasing marginal tax rates by limiting the tax subsidies that are built into the current tax code.",
        "税收收入可以通过限制现行税法中的税收补贴在不增加边际税率的情况下实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Temperatures remained at over 40°C (104°F) for days at time.",
        "连续几天的某些时候，温度都保持在40°C （104°F）以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Universities should be bastions of freedom in any society.",
        "大学应当是一切社会的自由堡垒。"
    ],
    [
        "And Xi will have to judge what he can give to satisfy his American visitor without jeopardizing his or the Party’s standing in the eyes of the Chinese people.",
        "而习近平需要判断他可以做出什么让步，即让美国来访者感到满意，又不会有损于他和中共在中国人民心目中的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "The question, then, is why residents of some cities face extremely – even prohibitively – high prices.",
        "接下来的问题是为何某些城市的居民会面临畸高——甚至无法负担——的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans need to recognize that strength lies in unity, and that Europe’s integration cannot be guaranteed without a common constitutional framework that promotes a common identity.",
        "欧洲人需要承认团结才有力量。 没有一个推进共同身份的统一宪法框架，欧洲的一体化就得不到保证。"
    ],
    [
        "Order in Pakistan could break down irretrievably.",
        "巴基斯坦国内的秩序可能会遭到无法挽回的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, thanks to the prejudices of a few dozen vocal and motivated BJP members, parliament is not up to the task.",
        "不幸的是，由于几十名印度人民党议员的颇有用心的大放厥词，议会不会承担这一任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Many European governments, for example, suffered humiliating losses defending currencies that were misaligned in the early 1990s.",
        "比如，20世纪90年代初，许多欧洲政府因为试图捍卫估值不正确的货币而蒙受了巨大损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Republicanism grants each individual, regardless of his or her other identities equal rights in order to achieve universal equality.",
        "共和主义给每一个人——不管他或她是什么身份——同等的权利，以获得全体的平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Last April, Gül’s candidacy brought a threat of a coup from the military, precipitating the recent elections.",
        "去年四月，居尔的总统候选人资格引发了军方的政变威胁，也促成了最近的大选。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, however, these distinctions are breaking down.",
        "但如今这些差异都逐渐不复存在。"
    ],
    [
        "So the US labor market, while healing, is still far from where it should be.",
        "因此，美国劳动力市场尽管在升温，仍远没有达到该有的热度。"
    ],
    [
        "Licensing and regulation of exploration and production are decided at the national level.",
        "开采和生产的许可和管制权属于国家层面的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "If policymakers viewed such spending as an investment, they could start thinking about how to maximize returns.",
        "如果政策制定者认为这种支出视为一种投资，他们就会开始考虑如何将回报最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "The sudden influx of Chinese and Indian technologies represents the “browning” of African technology, which has long been the domain of “white” Americans and Europeans who want to apply their saving hand to African problems.",
        "中国和印度技术突然的涌入代表了非洲技术的“黄种化”。 而这里原本是由“白种”的美国人和欧洲人占领的，他们试图为非洲的问题伸出援助之手。"
    ],
    [
        "But the same could have been said of the early utterances of Deng, modern China’s greatest reformer.",
        "但邓小平——现代中国最伟大的改革家——在掌权之初亦是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The Real Lima Deal",
        "真正的利马协议"
    ],
    [
        "Developing-country governments should also encourage the conversion of such debts to GDP-linked or other types of indexed bonds.",
        "发展中国家政府也应鼓励将这类债务转换为与GDP挂钩或其他类型的指数化债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Some limited cooperation in countering terrorism and in Afghanistan might still be possible.",
        "在打击恐怖主义和阿富汗方面展开一些有限合作仍然是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the quantitative easing (QE) that has defined many major central banks’ monetary policy in recent years does not involve buying or selling foreign assets.",
        "类似地，近几年来成为众多主要央行货币政策主流的量化宽松（QE）并不包括买入和卖出外国资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Price inflation forces creditors to accept repayment in debased currency.",
        "价格上涨迫使债权人接受以减色货币进行的还款。"
    ],
    [
        "At a glance, Abe’s proposal seems deeply unpopular.",
        "乍看上去，安倍的提案似乎是很不受欢迎的。"
    ],
    [
        "Many observers highlight the important physical and military differences between Libya and Syria that would make Syrian no-fly zones or no-drive zones problematic.",
        "许多观察家强调利比亚和叙利亚两国在实力和军力上的差异将使叙利亚禁飞区和车辆禁行区的设立困难重重。"
    ],
    [
        "Exiting the Middle East Labyrinth",
        "走出中东迷宫"
    ],
    [
        "The neoliberal agenda of the last four decades may have been good for the top 1%, but not for the rest.",
        "过去四十年的新自由主义日程对最顶层1%有益，而对其他人无益。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, various private or semi-private entities have been investing abroad.",
        "与此同时，各种私营或半私营实体已经开始进行国外投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Cities will be in the front lines of the battle for sustainable development.",
        "城市将是可持续发展之战的最前线。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet Putin’s approval rating remains at 80%.",
        "但普京的支持率仍高达80%。"
    ],
    [
        "That outcome is likely to confirm Russia’s emergence as the most divisive issue in the European Union since Donald Rumsfeld split the continent into “old” and “new” Europe.",
        "自从拉姆斯菲尔德把欧洲大陆划分为“新”欧洲和“老”欧洲以来，这一结果有可能会确认俄国成为最为引起欧盟分化的事务。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel is often mentioned as a reason.",
        "人们经常把以色列提为一个原因。"
    ],
    [
        "We thought that the issuers of such securities would have, in effect, a form of recession insurance.",
        "我们认为发行这些证券者将会实际上得到某种衰退保险。"
    ],
    [
        "Then they set the price of liquidity as an administered price in normal times.",
        "然后，它们将流动性价格设定为正常时期的管制价。"
    ],
    [
        "Many have advocated the use of “double majorities” – which require a majority of votes according to two separate criteria, population and economic output – to elicit action from a manageable number of states while enhancing weaker states’ influence in decision-making.",
        "许多人助长应该采取“双重多数”——根据人口和经济产出这两个独立的标准衡量的多数票——从可管理数量的国家中产生行动，同时增强弱国对决策的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "The clash occupied the front pages of newspapers all over Europe, especially in Germany, where the press, like the political opposition, was eager to chastise Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s government for its failure to uphold fiscal rectitude.",
        "这场冲突占据了整个欧洲的报纸头条，特别是德国，其媒体就像是政治反对派，热衷于批评总理施罗德政府不能坚持财政正确。"
    ],
    [
        "Other global challenges appear relatively minor in comparison.",
        "相比之下，其他全球挑战是次要的。"
    ],
    [
        "The dispersion of “total factor productivity” – the joint productivity of capital and labor – inside emerging countries has been found to be large.",
        "新兴国家内部的“全要素生产率”——即资本和劳动的联合生产率——的分散度很大。"
    ],
    [
        "But here, too, the potential benefits are slim.",
        "但是，在这里，这些措施潜在的好处也很小。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – “Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor.",
        "发自巴黎——“英国和法国必须在战争与耻辱之间做出选择。"
    ],
    [
        "For more than a decade, the question “Whose issue is it?” has been part of the policy debate about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Israel’s former prime minister, Ariel Sharon, used to caution his colleagues against “rushing to the head of the line” on Iran.",
        "去年12月份，美国总统贝拉克•奥巴马在向革新犹太教联会发表演讲时称，“对以色列、美国和世界的另一项威胁是伊朗的核计划。"
    ],
    [
        "American behavior and self-perceptions reveal the ease with which a civilized country can engage in large-scale killing of civilians without public discussion.",
        "美国的这种行为与意识证明了一点，在没有公众舆论的环境里，即使是一个文明国家也很容易对平民大开杀戒。 十月下旬，英国医学杂志《Lancet》刊登了一篇关于美国发动战争以来伊拉克平民死亡的调查研究。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, the AIIB is a positive development.",
        "总体而言，亚投行是一个积极的发展趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "A 2011 African Development Bank report finds that “getting women into science and technology ultimately promises to benefit society as a whole.”",
        "2011年一份非洲开发银行的报告显示“让女性参与科学和技术最终有利于整个社会。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "“Fourth, let us once again outlaw the presence of the military on our streets, as the Founders intended.",
        "第四，让我们再次宣布军队出现在我们的街道上是非法的，就像开国先贤计划的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with the election of Evo Morales, the main source of Petrobras’s natural gas has suddenly been nationalized.",
        "现在，随着莫拉莱斯的当选，该公司天然气的主要来源顷刻间被收归国有。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has also been revisiting his mendacious claim about Barack Obama having not been born in the US – the bogus allegation that launched his political career, which, under pressure from advisers, he’d renounced prior to the election.",
        "特朗普也在不断重提巴拉克·奥巴马并非美国出生的虚假言论——恰恰是依靠这样的虚假指控他才开启了自己的政治生涯，因为承受不住来自顾问的压力，他在大选之前就已经放弃了这一说法。"
    ],
    [
        "In Japan, for example, the US Army stores more than 100 watercraft that can be used to deliver supplies quickly in the event of a natural disaster or other contingency.",
        "比如在日本，美国陆军就存储了100多艘船只，可以在发生自然灾害或其他紧急状况时被用于物资的迅速运送。"
    ],
    [
        "Support for the proposed change dropped with each one of these alternatives.",
        "这次对转变的赞同度则随着上述选项依次递减。"
    ],
    [
        "Most elected Republicans view him as too ill-informed and bombastic to be President.",
        "多数当选的共和党代表认为特朗普太过缺乏教养和夸夸其谈，因此不适合担任总统。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as cohabitants in the Anglosphere, we are in Trump’s cultural comfort zone.",
        "而作为英语文化圈中的同道，我们也在特朗普的文化舒适区中。"
    ],
    [
        "The bilateral accord stipulates that Egypt can station only 22,000 troops in the western part of the peninsula, known as Zone A. In the eastern section bordering Israel, known as Zone C, the Egyptian presence is restricted to Central Security Forces personnel.",
        "因为双边协议规定埃及只能在划为A区的西奈半岛西部部署22,000人的部队。 而在与以色列接壤的东部的C区，埃及允许派驻的只限于中央安全部队。"
    ],
    [
        "The purpose was to settle a conflict between rebellious barons and their king, a ruler described by a contemporary as “brimful of evil qualities.”",
        "集会的目的是调和反叛贵族和国王之间的冲突，用当时人的话说，国王“恶贯满盈”。"
    ],
    [
        "He wants to build a “sovereign, united, and democratic Europe,” where citizens again feel a sense of allegiance to the idea of Europe itself.",
        "他想构建一个“主权、联合、民主的欧洲”，让公民再次对欧洲概念本身产生效忠感。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has no Sarkozy or Silvio Berlusconi, but also no Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl, or José Maria Aznar.",
        "欧洲没有了萨科齐或者贝卢斯科尼，也没有了英国前首相撒切尔夫人，德国前总统赫尔穆特·科尔以及西班牙前首相何塞·玛丽亚·阿斯纳尔这样的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Teaching PIIGS to Fly",
        "“欧猪五国”的金融流感怎么治？"
    ],
    [
        "But, as North Korea is one of the world’s poorest and least globalized states, the effectiveness of sanctions will be limited.",
        "但是，由于朝鲜是世界上最贫穷和最封闭的国家，所以制裁效果有限。"
    ],
    [
        "More than anything, the pre-announcement controversy demonstrates that a renewed spirit of consensus and collegiality in the ECB’s Governing Council is sorely needed.",
        "最为重要的是，对预先宣告的争议表明在欧洲央行的管理委员会中，迫切需要一致精神和权力分享精神的重新兴起。"
    ],
    [
        "The Human City",
        "人类城市"
    ],
    [
        "The US believed that shifting Pakistani leaders’ attention from nuclear-weapons development to power-plant construction would, in addition to bolstering efforts to close the energy gap, limit Pakistan’s dependence on China for nuclear technology and reduce the risk of an immensely destructive war in South Asia.",
        "美国认为将巴基斯坦领导人的注意力从研发核武器转向发电厂建设除了能缩小能源缺口，还能限制巴基斯坦对中国核技术的依赖，并避免在南亚地区爆发造成巨大破坏的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan's warships can help with sanctions monitoring and minesweeping.",
        "日本的战舰可以协助监控禁运和扫雷。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a deeply confused speech.",
        "这真是个令人困扰的演讲。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Obama’s victory on the nuclear deal may have been inevitable, but it was far from easy.",
        "毕竟，奥巴马在核协议问题上的胜利或许不可避免，但却绝非垂手可得。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the north and south have struggled to overcome cultural differences and unequal economic conditions, preventing them from viewing the situation from each other’s perspective.",
        "事实上北欧和南欧一直都无法弥合双方的文化差异以及经济不平等状况，使得他们无法通过彼此的角度来判断形势。"
    ],
    [
        "Others are so highly fortified with vitamin A or D that ConsumerLab advises against giving them to young children.",
        "而有的食品的强化维他命A和D的含量也是高得离谱，以至于ConsumerLab建议不能将它们给儿童食用。"
    ],
    [
        "But would the UK be better off losing access to the market of its main trading partner?",
        "但彻底失去主要贸易伙伴的市场准入是否是更好的选择？"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, this is nonsense: Hitler never promoted Palestine as a Jewish state.",
        "从历史角度看，这是无稽之谈：希特勒从未宣扬巴勒斯坦是犹太国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan and India – especially the latter – will also watch carefully how the transitions play out.",
        "巴基斯坦和印度¾尤其是印度¾也将密切关注着权力更迭所带来的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us hope that they remain confined to the printed page.",
        "我们希望它们永远只存在于印刷品中。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so would give whomever he chooses an edge when Raúl, who is 76, passes on, and he and Fidel do not necessarily agree on who should come next.",
        "当76岁的劳尔去世时，这样做会让他选中的任何人获得优势，而他和菲德尔却并不一定能在由谁接任的问题上达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "We must find ways to prevent the political polarization that gave rise to totalitarian systems – communist and fascist – in the twentieth century.",
        "我们必须想方设法阻止曾在20世纪导致集权制度（共产主义和法西斯主义）的政治两极化。"
    ],
    [
        "With the recent missive to the derivatives industry, they are now starting to deal with bankruptcy – and well they should.",
        "这封最近的致衍生品行业的公函表明，它们现在开始解决破产问题了——早就应该如此了。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank classifies Namibia as upper middle income, but the authorities insist that theirs is in fact a developing country.",
        "世界银行将纳米比亚归为中高收入国家，但当局仍坚持纳米比亚实际为发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "And the euro has failed to engineer prosperity and stability.",
        "欧元也没有带来繁荣与稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign banks could never hope to achieve such comprehensive coverage without a local partner.",
        "没有本地合作伙伴，外国银行永远也别想实现如此全面的覆盖率。"
    ],
    [
        "So why does this not seem to work in Iraq?",
        "那么为什么这些在伊拉克却不起作用？"
    ],
    [
        "Or the reverse?",
        "还是将70％投资于股票，30％投资于房产？"
    ],
    [
        "He will be remembered for accepting the painful secession of Eritrea in 1993, rather than prolong the civil war, and for his efforts to reach an agreement with Egypt over the use of the Blue Nile waters.",
        "他将因在1993年痛苦地接受厄立特里亚独立而不是延长了内战时间而被人铭记，也将因与埃及达成了如何使用青尼罗河河水的协议而被人铭记。"
    ],
    [
        "In either case, policymakers in emerging countries have identified inequality as a major problem, and rallied around efforts to improve social mobility, lest globalization and new technologies displace their middle and working classes, and clear a path for their own versions of Trump and Brexit.",
        "无论如何，新兴国家的决策者都将不平等性视为主要问题之一，着力点围绕改善社会流动性，唯恐全球化和新技术取代中产和工作阶级并未本国特朗普和英国退欧铺平道路。"
    ],
    [
        "That might well change if governments took simple steps like allocating more funding on a project basis and organizing contests.",
        "如果政府采取一些简单步骤，比如将更多资金根据项目进行配置或者组织竞争，就有可能带来极大的改观。"
    ],
    [
        "Some critics of globalization might welcome such an outcome.",
        "某些全球化的批评者可能愿意看到这样的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The most obvious is that Iran’s nuclear program did not take off, whereas North Korea – which, unlike Iran, withdrew from the Non-Proliferation Treaty – already has an estimated 60 nuclear warheads, and seems to be making progress toward a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the US mainland.",
        "最明显的不同是伊朗的核计划还没有起步，而朝鲜——与伊朗不同，它已经推出了核不扩散条约——已经拥有了大约60枚核弹头，并且正在朝拥有能打到美国本土的装有核弹头的战略弹道导弹迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "Their goal was to learn more about the rates of cellular mutation and the generation of antibody diversity.",
        "他们的目标是更多地研究细胞突变率和抗体多样性的产生。"
    ],
    [
        "To some extent, this is already happening, with visionary entrepreneurs in cities like Nashville, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Wichita, and Salt Lake City adapting Silicon Valley’s recipe for success to local conditions and opportunities – and creating much-needed middle-class jobs in the process.",
        "从某种程度上说，这已经开始发生，纳什维尔、辛辛那提、新奥尔良、威奇托（Wichita）和盐湖城等城市中的有远见的企业家调整硅谷的成功秘诀以适应本地环境和机会——并在此过程中创造出急需的中产阶级工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "And there remains plenty to talk about: the grotesquely disproportionate number of black men in US prisons; the lack of educational opportunities in poor, mostly black areas; the appalling healthcare system; and the very real brutality used by police officers against blacks, who don’t have the privilege of a Harvard ID.",
        "可以谈论的话题还有很多：包括美国监狱中比例畸高的黑人在押犯、穷人聚居区、绝大部分是黑人聚居区教育机会的匮乏、可怕的医疗体制、以及警官对没有哈佛身份的黑人所采用的真实的暴力行径。"
    ],
    [
        "During the missile crisis, most senior security officials advising the president wanted to launch military action against Soviet forces, a course that could well have ended in nuclear annihilation.",
        "在导弹危机期间，总统的最高安全官员想发动针对苏联力量的军事行动，这极有可能演变为核灭绝。"
    ],
    [
        "At the current market price, this would require selling about a quarter of the Fund’s holdings of 103.4 million fine ounces.",
        "按现行的市场价，这将需要该组织将其1. 034亿盎司的黄金储备出售约四分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, just as Ralph Nader’s candidacy (and the US Supreme Court) prevented Al Gore from defeating George W. Bush in 2000, one must recognize that Okonjo-Iweala was undercut by the candidacy of José Antonio Ocampo, a former finance minister of Colombia, who was backed by Brazil.",
        "此外，正如拉尔夫·纳德（Ralph Nader）的参选（以及美国最高法院）阻止了阿尔·戈尔在2000年大选中击败小布什那样，我们也必须承认奥孔乔-伊韦拉也被哥伦比亚前财政部长何塞·安东尼奥·奥坎普（José Antonio Ocampo）的参选所削弱了（此人的背后支持者是巴西）。"
    ],
    [
        "The sooner the authorities act, the faster the Chinese Dream will be realized.",
        "当局越快行动起来，中国梦就能越早实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Li, however, stood by Tang.",
        "而李则加入了唐英年的阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been a long time coming.",
        "我们为这一刻已经等了很久。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent speeches and discussions with current and former central bankers, I have been criticized for focusing too much on the 0.9% trend of the past 21 quarters and paying too little attention to the 2% recovery phase of the post-crisis period.",
        "在最近的演讲与现任和前任央行行长的讨论中，我被批太关注过去21个季度0. 9%的增长趋势，而没有关注到危机后时期2%的复苏节奏。"
    ],
    [
        "Policy must also chart a stable long-term course, which implies the need to reconsider the paradigm of the past 25 years.",
        "政策必须制定出一个长期的路线，这意味着需要重新考虑过去25年来的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "The arrival of the wise men bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.",
        "带着黄金、乳香和没药等礼物的智者。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, just 30% of Africa has access to reliable electricity.",
        "如今只有30%的非洲地区能够获得可靠电力。"
    ],
    [
        "Myriad overlapping programs with different eligibility rules are difficult for the poor to navigate, create bad work incentives, and are unnecessarily costly to taxpayers.",
        "各种发放标准不一的叠床架屋的计划让贫困人口难以驾驭，形成了坏的工作激励，也给纳税人造成了不必要的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "It has also been one of the least impacted by the global economic crisis, with growing foreign trade, a strong banking system, and diverse and prospering small and medium-size enterprises.",
        "土耳其是受世界金融危机影响最小的几个国家之一，对外贸易持续增长，银行系统稳健，同时拥有大量兴旺发达的中小企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless you’re a giant like Alphabet, Apple, or Tesla, you can’t justify the risk and expense of a blue-sky R&D program.",
        "除非你是像Alphabet、苹果或特斯拉那样的巨星企业，否则你无法证明一项蓝天研发计划是合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "One candidate for US President in 2016, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, recently launched his campaign by asking why not a single Wall Street CEO was convicted of a financial crime in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown.",
        "2016年美国总统候选人马里兰州前州长马丁·奥马利不久前启动了自己的竞选，质疑2008年金融危机后为什么没有一个华尔街首席执行官被追究金融罪责。"
    ],
    [
        "Are We Still Evolving?",
        "我们是否还在进化？"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the Chinese government’s later, and quite sudden, about-face in recognizing the rebel Transitional National Council as Libya’s government aroused considerable sneering at home.",
        "与此类似，随后中国政府的态度突然来了一个大逆转，承认了国家过渡委员会为利比亚政府，国内一片哗然。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, another pair of countries in the process, Turkey and Russia, appear headed down the road to mutual enmity.",
        "如今，该进程中的另一组国家——土耳其和俄罗斯似乎也走向了为敌的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Gone are the hopes that the boy-dictator Kim Jong-un and his regents are more interested in economic development than they are in following the Kim dynasty’s traditional military-first policies.",
        "但独裁男孩金正恩及其辅政班子对经济建设比传统金氏王朝的军事优先政策更有兴趣的希望已经彻底破灭了。"
    ],
    [
        "A battle between the president and legislature over control of federal spending has not been fully resolved.",
        "在总统和议会之间关于联邦开支控制的斗争还没有完全得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "As with the response to climate change, an effective strategy will require international coordination.",
        "就像应对气候变化问题一样，国际协调行动是任何有效策略的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "BAGHDAD – Ten years have passed since Saddam Hussein was removed from power, following more than three decades of tyrannical rule.",
        "从萨达姆·侯赛因三十余年残暴统治被推翻的那一刻起，10年时间已经过去了。"
    ],
    [
        "In January 2003, a gang of Russian Orthodox activists destroyed an exhibition in the Sakharov Museum and Public Center called \"Caution!",
        "2003年1月，一群俄国东正教激进分子砸毁了萨哈罗夫博物馆和公共中心的一次展览，名为\"小心！"
    ],
    [
        "Getting it right matters if we are to find cost-effective solutions to this and other global problems.",
        "如果想找到解决这些全球问题的经济有效的办法，第一步就是要先确定暴力的来源。"
    ],
    [
        "In the second ballot of France’s presidential elections, he will prove to be a Queen or more like a King maker.",
        "在法国总统选举第二轮投票中，他有可能成为皇后甚至是拥立国王者。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Before America and the world settle in firmly to the new Donald Trump-based reality, let’s take a little trip down the road not taken.",
        "华盛顿—在美国和世界踏实既受新的基于特朗普的现实之前，让我们来窥探一番美国人民没有选择的那条路。"
    ],
    [
        "Are we dating more people who share our perceived interests?",
        "我们的约会对象是不是有更相同的兴趣爱好？"
    ],
    [
        "Regrettably, many of the news channels being watched through these dishes are hostile to the West.",
        "令人遗憾的是，通过这些卫星电视观看的许多新闻频道都对西方怀有敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "Across university campuses, particularly in the US but also in Britain, students claim the right to deny others free speech or to rewrite history that offends them – a complete denial of what universities should be all about.",
        "在大学校园——特别是美国，英国也有——学生们主张否认其他人的言论自由的权利和重写冒犯他们的历史的权利——这完全与大学应有的价值观背道而驰。"
    ],
    [
        "If further research backs up this finding, countries might actually welcome the inflow of labor.",
        "如果更进一步的研究支持这一发现，那么各国也许就会欢迎劳动力的涌入了。"
    ],
    [
        "As Finance Minister Mauricio Cárdenas observed in a spirited speech to a banking convention last week in Medellín, though President Juan Manuel Santos’ administration is historically rooted in Colombia’s center-right political forces, its fiscal prudence and activist social policy qualify it as an adherent of the social-democratic “third way.”",
        "上周，在麦德林的一次银行业会议上，财政部长毛里西奥·卡德纳斯（Mauricio Cárdenas）发表了热情洋溢的演讲，他指出，尽管总统桑托斯政府的历史根基在于哥伦比亚中右翼政治力量，但其财政审慎和积极的社会政策表明它走的是一条社会民主的“第三条路”。"
    ],
    [
        "But to compete with the world’s economic powerhouses, like China, we also needed to improve the overall quality of our labor stock.",
        "但要想与中国等世界经济强国竞争，我们还需要改善劳动力存量的总体质量。"
    ],
    [
        "This lack of foresight about and planning for the aftermath of armed intervention is not only dangerous to the people who have ostensibly been “saved”; it is counterproductive.",
        "缺乏对武装干预后局面的远见以及计划对于那些表面上被“解救”的人们而言不仅危险，而且具有反作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In the rich world, the focus is on food wasted by the consumer.",
        "富裕国家重点关注被消费者浪费的食品。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps even this is optimistic.",
        "但也许“中高速”也有些乐观了。"
    ],
    [
        "Many are now wondering whether China’s current growth rate will be as good as it gets for a long time to come.",
        "现在，许多人疑惑中国的当前增长率是否能够长时间“尽善尽美”。"
    ],
    [
        "President George W. Bush’s Iraqi patient now seems to have reached that point.",
        "布什总统的伊拉克病人现在看起来已经达到了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries should draw on the example of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, a successful program of collaboration on nuclear security among the United States, Russia, and ex-Soviet states.",
        "各国应该以成功的美国、俄罗斯和前苏联之间的核安保合作项目——纳恩-卢格减少威胁合作计划（Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction）为榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "They could not simultaneously debase the currency and back it with gold at a fixed rate.",
        "它们无法同时实现货币贬值又维持其与黄金的固定兑换率。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the richer European economies tend to have large automatic stabilizers built into their public finances.",
        "这也解释了富裕的欧洲经济体为什么在公共财政领域往往自然而然就更加稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Reason and the End of Poverty",
        "推理和贫困的终结"
    ],
    [
        "These new ties offer Latin America and the Caribbean both a new market and an example of how a dynamic economy can reduce poverty.",
        "这一新型合作关系将为拉美国家和加勒比海地区开拓一个新市场，同时也给他们带来一个范例，如何依靠发展经济减少贫穷。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the numerous post-election casualties was the notion of Iran as an “Islamic Republic.”",
        "在选举后所发生的一切留下了许多伤痕，而其中之一就是伊朗作为“伊斯兰共和国”的理念。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sun Will Rise Again",
        "太阳将照常升起"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the TPP’s emphasis on regulatory policies suggests that business interests will trump human rights.",
        "事实上，跨太平洋伙伴关系注重调控政策显示各成员国会牺牲人权来换取商业利益。"
    ],
    [
        "This has forced productive research laboratories to close, putting potentially life-saving research – like that on an Ebola vaccine – on the back burner.",
        "成绩斐然的实验室因此被迫关闭，导致像埃博拉疫苗这样有可能挽救生命的研究被搁置一边。"
    ],
    [
        "The third group includes economies – such as Brazil, several eurozone countries, and Japan – that are not growing fast enough, and face downside risks.",
        "第三类包括巴西、某些欧元区国家和日本等经济体，它们的增长速度放缓，面临着经济下行压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Many workers are unemployed and in danger of being evicted from their homes, while no important banker has been put in jail.",
        "许多劳动者都面临着失业以及被银行收回物业的危险，却没有一个大银行家获罪入狱。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, the list is not only long; it is also open ended.",
        "更糟糕的是，先决条件不但多，而且“无底”。"
    ],
    [
        "In their recent book Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe, Kenneth Scheve of Stanford and David Stasavage of New York University use two centuries of data on tax rates and on income inequality to examine outcomes in 20 countries.",
        "在近著《对富人课税：美国和欧洲财政公平史》（Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe）中，纽约大学的肯尼斯·谢夫（Kenneth Scheve）和大卫·斯塔萨维奇（David Stasavage）用两个世纪以来的税率和收入不平等性数据考察了20多个国家的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Options",
        "欧洲的选择"
    ],
    [
        "Their central banks, he argues, should raise inflation targets to 3% or even 4% per year.",
        "他指出，这些国家的央行应该将通胀目标提高到每年3%甚至4%。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States and its NATO allies would, of course, prefer a democratic, Western-oriented regime to emerge in Syria.",
        "当然，美国及其北约盟国希望叙利亚产生一个民主的西方导向的政权。"
    ],
    [
        "Race, too, is a factor.",
        "种族也是一个因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The average drop for the nine emerging countries – including the still hugely unequal South Africa – that she compares is more than three points (55.7 to 52.5).",
        "在她所比较的九个新兴国家——包括不平等性情况仍然十分严重的南非——基尼系数平均下降幅度超过3点（55. 7至52."
    ],
    [
        "Among the rest of the emerging economies, there are some sources of concern. But, overall, the situation is relatively stable.",
        "在其他新兴经济体中也有一些关注的问题，但总的来说情况比较稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, debates about the use of religious terms lend credibility to fundamentalist efforts to apply these ideas to conditions in the modern world.",
        "事实上，关于使用宗教词汇的辩论反倒为原教旨主义者们在现代世界的条件下使用这些理念提供了可信度。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the 23andMe Privacy Statement stipulates that it “uses Genetic and Self-Reported Information [only] from users who have given consent.”",
        "诚然，23andMe隐私协议规定它“只使用自己同意的用户遗传和自我报告的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi’s early focus on Sino-Indian relations is unusual for a Chinese leader.",
        "习上任伊始对中印关系的关注有别于其他中国领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an oasis of peace, if not dynamism.",
        "它是一片和平绿洲——如果不是动力之源的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Kouassi is right.",
        "库瓦希说的完全正确。"
    ],
    [
        "That means ending trade deficits that drain spending and jobs, and restoring the link between wages and productivity.",
        "这就意味着结束拖累开支和就业的贸易赤字，并且恢复工资和生产效率的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Another is to decentralize direct funding through, say, tax credits.",
        "另一个是通过例如税收抵免等方式来实现直接资助的分散化；"
    ],
    [
        "Like the US after World War II, China is putting real money on the table – a lot of it – to build strong economic and infrastructure links with countries around the world.",
        "就像二战后的美国，中国拿出真金白银——而且是大量真金白银——用于构建与全世界的强大经济和基础设施联系。"
    ],
    [
        "A country that confidently counsels others on democratic practice has elected a president who suggested that, if he lost, he might not recognize the result.",
        "一个自信地劝诫其他国家的内政的国家选出了一位宣称败选就不承认结果的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "The #DeleteUber movement punished the ride-sharing company for undermining a taxi strike at New York City’s Kennedy Airport in support of those caught up in Trump’s travel ban, and helped push the company’s CEO, Travis Kalanick, to resign from Trump’s economic advisory council.",
        "#删除优步运动因为其破坏纽约肯尼迪机场一次支持受特朗普旅行禁令影响者的出租车罢工运动而惩罚这家拼车企业，并促使这家企业的首席执行官特拉维斯·卡拉尼克辞去特朗普经济咨询委员会顾问职务。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, these countries are maintaining current-account surpluses while their growth rates rise; in other words, far from relying on fickle capital inflows, they are repaying their external debt.",
        "此外，这些国家在经济增长率上升的同时保持了经常账户盈余； 换句话说，它们远远不需要依靠反复无常的资本流入就可以偿还外债。"
    ],
    [
        "Donations are flowing in, but the total will be small relative to what is needed.",
        "捐赠正在涌入，但数量跟不上需要。"
    ],
    [
        "The IPL can continue as sporting entertainment, good for a fun evening with the kids in front of the idiot box.",
        "IPL可以继续成为体育娱乐，成为带着孩子在电视前享受快乐夜晚的不错选择。"
    ],
    [
        "What happens in Gaza after Israel leaves will have a profound impact on Israeli politics.",
        "自从色列撤军后，发生在加沙地带的事件对以色列政治产生了深远的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Now that impeached Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is out of office, it is up to the newly empowered administration of President Michel Temer to clean up Brazil’s macroeconomic mess.",
        "华盛顿—被弹劾的巴西总统罗塞夫已经下台，清理巴西宏观经济乱局的担子落在了新掌权的总统特梅尔政府肩上。"
    ],
    [
        "Zheng’s expeditions involved the use of military force in present-day Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and India to install friendly rulers and control strategic chokepoints across the Indian Ocean.",
        "郑和在下西洋的过程中在今天的印尼、马来西亚、私利兰克和印度使用暴力扶持友好统治者、控制印度洋沿岸战略要塞。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important factor behind Germany’s success is that the structure of its firms improves the quality of their products.",
        "德国成功背后的最重要的因素是德国企业的结构改善了产品质量。"
    ],
    [
        "This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was granted to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström for their contribution to understanding contracts, a fundamental device for private-private coordination.",
        "今年的诺贝尔经济学奖被授予奥利佛·哈特（Oliver Hart）和本特·霍姆斯特罗姆（Bengt Holmström），以表彰他们对契约理解的贡献。 契约是私私协作的基本机制。"
    ],
    [
        "And his thinly veiled threats against the Baltic states, Poland, Finland, and now Turkey – whose airspace and relations with NATO have been probed by Russian aircraft – reveal a strategy of aggression that has as its chief goal the weakening of Europe.",
        "而他对巴尔干国家、波兰、芬兰以及现在的土耳其的几乎不加掩饰的威胁——这些国家的空域以及与北约的关系都受到俄罗斯飞机的威胁——揭示出他的一套侵略战略，其主要目标是削弱欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "The first scenario that participants considered is a world ruled by so-called “megacities,” where governance is administered largely by major urban agglomerations.",
        "第一种情景是，参与者考虑一个有所谓“特大城市”主宰的世界，治理主要由大型都市圈来管理。"
    ],
    [
        "Ingredients that are being replaced or are likely to be exchanged for products made through synthetic biology include vanilla, saffron, coconut oil, patchouli, olive squalene, and rose oil.",
        "合成生物技术正在取代或可能替换的产品包括香草、藏红花、椰子油、广藿香、橄榄角鲨烯和玫瑰油。"
    ],
    [
        "But blindly sticking to principle would have been a highly risky option for the ECB.",
        "但盲目坚持原则对于欧洲央行来说是危险的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and the EU must use the strong hand that they still hold to ensure that their vision prevails, bringing lasting peace to a region that has repeatedly dragged great powers into conflict.",
        "美国和欧盟必须运用它们手上依然掌握的强大手段确保它们预想的局面占据上风，从而给这个一再把大国拖进冲突的地区带去最终的和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, over 450 organizations from more than 70 countries signed the Lofoten Declaration, which explicitly calls for the managed decline of the fossil-fuel sector.",
        "最近，来自70多个国家的450多家组织签署了《罗佛敦宣言》（Lofoten Declaration），宣言明确呼吁有序退出化石燃料行业。 宣言要求有能力者承担起领导责任；"
    ],
    [
        "Third, though China’s public debt/GDP ratio is officially still under 20%, since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, its fiscal position has deteriorated. If the government’s contingent liabilities are included, China’s debt/GDP ratio may be closer to 50%.",
        "此外，尽管中国国债对GDP比率官方宣称仍然在20%以下，由于2008的爆发的全球金融危机，其财政状况已经恶化，如果将政府的或有债务计算在内的话，中国的债务对GDP比率可能接近50%。"
    ],
    [
        "Recovering from Kosovo",
        "从科索沃复苏"
    ],
    [
        "Nationalistic young people, proud of China’s newfound global economic and political power, gladly volunteer their time to show off their patriotism on the Internet.",
        "那些民族主义情怀的年轻人对中国新近的全球经济和政治实力感到自豪，乐不得贡献时间来在互联网上展示其爱国主义。"
    ],
    [
        "But the country’s leaders have been stalling on the terms of a much-needed International Monetary Fund loan.",
        "但该国领导人还在急需的IMF贷款条件上扯皮。"
    ],
    [
        "But creationists, whether biblical fundamentalists or believers in “intelligent design,” do pose a threat to scientific thinking.",
        "但是，神创论者，不论他是圣经原教旨主义者还是“智能设计”信徒，确实构成了对科学思维的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it will contribute to the ongoing transformation of the international order.",
        "事实上，它将有助于正在发生的国际秩序变迁。"
    ],
    [
        "The better-developed welfare states to which the poor flock may then find themselves in a ruinous deterrence competition, with local populations taking to the streets to defend “their” benefits.",
        "穷人竞相涌入的较发达福利国家将陷入一场毁灭性的威慑竞争（deterrence competition），本地人口将涌上街头捍卫“他们的”福利。"
    ],
    [
        "For the elderly, remaining active is a clear source of happiness, whether that means exercising, volunteering, or engaging in paid employment.",
        "对老人而言，活跃显然是幸福的源泉，无论这意味着锻炼、志愿服务抑或从事带薪工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth Out of Time",
        "超越时间的增长"
    ],
    [
        "Malaria not only took the lives of children and adults; it perpetuated poverty and limited global economic growth, preventing millions from reaching their full potential.",
        "疟疾不但会导致儿童和成人死亡； 还会导致贫困永久化、遏制全球经济增长，使数百万人的潜力得不到充分发挥。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is there any plan on offer from other emerging powers, though in time India may show growing alarm about China’s muscle-flexing, and Brazil may question whether it has really been wise to cosset Venezuela and Cuba.",
        "其他新兴国家同样没有任何计划，虽然印度迟早会对中国炫耀武力越来越警惕，而巴西则可能最终质疑是否真有必要纵容委内瑞拉和古巴。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be a shame if a misunderstanding of what has happened in the US, combined with a strong dose of ideology, caused its leaders to fix what is not broken.",
        "不能理解美国所发生的事情而又被意识形态所蒙蔽，以至于其领导人向根本不必纠正之处开刀，这将是澳大利亚之祸。"
    ],
    [
        "These principles are clearly what people in the developed world want to see enforced.",
        "这些原则恰恰是发达国家民众所愿意看到的。"
    ],
    [
        "They are bracing for a 2007 US growth slowdown that already has taken place with little consequence for both the US and European economies.",
        "他们坚持认为美国经济在2007年增速会放缓，但是其实这种增速放缓已经发生了而它对美国经济和欧洲经济都影响甚微。"
    ],
    [
        "The first of these pillars, the China-based “world factory,” was largely created by foreign multinational corporations and their associated suppliers and subcontractors, with labor-intensive processing and assembly carried out by small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that have direct access to global markets through a complex web of contracts.",
        "第一大支柱是设在中国的“世界工厂”，它们大多由外国跨国公司及其相关供应商和转包商开设，通过复杂契约关系网直接面向全球市场的中小企业承担了劳动密集型处理和组装业务。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the messages that Chinese President Hu Jintao delivered to Kim Jong-il at their bilateral summit on May 5 – concerning North Korea’s need to launch serious economic reform and open up to the world – has provided a clue as to how to move forward.",
        "中国主席胡锦涛在5月5日举行的双边会议上向金正日传传达的有关北朝鲜急需启动真正的经济改革和对外开放的相关信息为下一步应当何去何从提供了线索。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time in 45 years, the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) failed to agree to a joint communiqué, ostensibly because ASEAN’s current chair, Cambodia, did not want the communiqué to refer to bilateral disputes in the South China Sea.",
        "东盟部长会议自召开45年里来首次无法在联合公报上达成共识，表面上是因为现任东盟主席国柬埔寨不希望在公报中谈及南中国海的双边争端。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin has established a purely personal dictatorship.",
        "普京建立了完全个人的独裁统治。"
    ],
    [
        "It is simple, too.",
        "这种方法同样非常简单。"
    ],
    [
        "Diplomatic efforts failed to achieve much in the way of saving Aleppo or its inhabitants, and they are no more likely to bring an end to the war.",
        "外交努力未能在挽救阿勒颇或其居民方面取得什么成就，也不再可能结束战争。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though 35 years of major reforms have brought about considerable change, with the private sector now accounting for the bulk of job creation, there remains much to be done – exemplified in the fact that the state, especially local governments and state-owned enterprises, still command most of China’s credit resources.",
        "尽管35年以来的重大改革带来了巨大变化，民营部门已成为创造就业的主力军，但中国仍有很多方面有待改善——一个显著的例子便是国有部门，特别是地方政府和国有企业仍掌握着中国大部分信贷资源。"
    ],
    [
        "And for now, the Saudis are flooding the market.",
        "而现在，沙特人正在淹没市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel, the Middle East’s only nuclear power, wants to retain its strategic monopoly.",
        "而中东唯一的核力量以色列希望保持其战略垄断地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to some skeptical press reports, Obama’s summit meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in November was a quiet success.",
        "不像一些悲观的报道，奥巴马和中国国家主席胡锦涛在11月的峰会相当成功。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, by contrast, 200,000 to 300,000 more people enter the labor market than leave it in each generation – and this does not include immigration, which, although slowing recently, represents a large number of job seekers.",
        "进入劳务市场的人数要比同时期的退出人数高200，000到300，000¾而移民还未被计算在内，虽然近年来的移民数量有所减少，但仍然是寻找工作的主要力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Green finance is at an early stage in China, just as it is in the rest of the world.",
        "中国的绿色金融正处于初级阶段，全球范围亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Immigrants, however, face a different set of alternatives; with wages in Brussels far higher than in Manila, for example, Filipino immigrants are generally happy to do such work.",
        "但是，移民却面临一种不同的选择。 例如，布鲁塞尔的工资要远远高于马尼拉，菲律宾移民通常很高兴做这种工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The more people believe that it is the hardworking and the deserving who have money, the more they are willing to tolerate transactions for money (though some transactions remain beyond the pale).",
        "人们越是认为多劳多能者才能多得，就越是愿意忍受金钱交易（尽管仍有某些交易超出了仍受界限）。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this plausibly will help prevent runs because it means sudden withdrawals by some won’t damage the accounts of others who did not withdraw.",
        "但这很有可能有助于预防挤兑，因为这意味着一些人的突然提现不会影响尚未提现者的账户。"
    ],
    [
        "But this alone would not have been enough; indeed, the Cold War could well have turned hot if Western strategy had consisted only of military competition and confrontation.",
        "但仅仅对抗是不够的。 的确，如果西方战略仅限于军备竞赛和军事冲突，冷战肯定会演变成一场热战。"
    ],
    [
        "The two cities have a similar number of residents, but Atlanta’s transport-related carbon-dioxide emissions exceed Barcelona’s by a factor of six.",
        "这两座城市居民人数相近，但亚特兰大与交通运输相关的二氧化碳排放量超过了巴塞罗那的六倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States and Japan remain important drivers of the global economy but face major debt and deficit challenges.",
        "美日两国仍是推动全球经济发展的重要力量，但必须解决巨额债务和赤字问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Mustafa Kamal’s clear-sightedness saved Islam in Turkey and saved Turkey for Islam.",
        "穆斯塔法·凯末尔的敏锐眼光拯救了土耳其的伊斯兰教，也为伊斯兰教拯救了土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "But India’s government has few good options.",
        "但是印度政府几乎没有什么好的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "They are people who cry out “Europe!",
        "他们高喊“欧洲！ 欧洲！"
    ],
    [
        "Lung cancer cells that are resistant to the chemotherapy gemcitabine are less proliferative, invasive, and motile than their drug-sensitive counterparts.",
        "对吉西他滨化疗产生抗药性的肺癌细胞比对药物治疗敏感的其他肿瘤细胞的扩散性、侵略性和能动性都有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "By some accounts, Sparta’s sister state, Athens, had implemented the purest historical example of democracy.",
        "从某些方面看，斯巴达的姊妹城邦雅典堪称最纯粹的民主历史榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s civil war, in which a growing number of regional players have become involved, is beginning to look increasingly like a trial run for all-out war between Sunni Muslims (Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States, Turkey, and Egypt) and Shia Muslims (Iran and Hezbollah) for regional dominance.",
        "导致越来越多地区力量卷入其中的叙利亚内战已经越来越像是（沙特阿拉伯及其他海湾国家、土耳其、埃及的）逊尼派穆斯林和（伊朗及真主党的）什叶派穆斯林之间为争夺区域霸权发动全面战争的试验场。"
    ],
    [
        "While such adjustments will surely be enormously challenging – especially for middle-income countries like Saudi Arabia, which lack the massive wealth funds of, say, the United Arab Emirates – they present these countries with an important opportunity to consider more productive ways to organize their societies.",
        "这些挑战固然极具挑战性——特别是对沙特阿拉伯这样的缺乏（比如）阿联酋的大规模财富基金的中等收入国家而言——但也给这些国家带来了重要的机会考虑效率更高的组织社会的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "They typically get repaid, regardless.",
        "因为他们知道不管怎样，自己的钱都能拿得回来。"
    ],
    [
        "By 1960, he was able to prove that CO2 was indeed on the rise.",
        "直到1960年，他才成功地证实了二氧化碳含量的确呈上升趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "With Brexit, we have now seen Donald Trump-style populism come to Britain.",
        "随着英国退欧，我们现在目睹了唐纳德·特朗普式的民粹主义来到英国。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite some notable successes, such as the aircraft manufacturer Embraer in Brazil and salmon farming in Chile, governments largely picked losers – not least because political pressure, not firms’ competitive potential, drove the selection process.",
        "尽管拥有如巴西航空工业公司（飞机制造商）和智利鲑鱼养殖这样的优秀榜样，但各国政府却基本上选择了失败者——而推动这个选择过程的可不仅仅是政治压力和企业竞争潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "On January 1, 2007, Ban Ki-Moon, South Korea’s former foreign minister, will become United Nations Secretary-General, following Kofi Annan’s ten-year tenure.",
        "2007年1月1日，南朝鲜前外长潘基文（Ban Ki-Moon）将在科菲·安南（Kofi Annan）10年任期届满后成为新任联合国秘书长。"
    ],
    [
        "Where Greek debt is concerned, a clear pattern has emerged over the past five years. It remains unbroken to this day.",
        "在希腊债务问题上，过去五年中早已浮现出一个清晰的模式，至今仍未打破。"
    ],
    [
        "Ceding the immigration debate to extremists has abetted another extraordinary distortion: people generally believe that the number of immigrants in their countries is far higher than it actually is.",
        "将移民事务讨论交给极端主义者的做法已经滋生出另一个奇怪的误解：人们普遍认为的本国移民数量比实际移民要多得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing Business does not provide policy solutions.",
        "《营商环境报告》并不提供政策解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "But even the appearance of competition between Kim and the other candidates, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and José Antonio Ocampo, served to expose a deep fissure within the field of development policy, because Kim and his two rivals represented dramatically different approaches.",
        "但仅仅是金墉需要与另两名候选者奥孔乔-伊韦拉和奥坎波竞争这个事实便已表明在发展政策领域存在深刻的分歧，因为金墉和两位竞争对手的观点是完全不同的。"
    ],
    [
        "The trouble is that residential water use accounts for less than 15% of total consumption.",
        "麻烦在于居民用水只占总消费量的15%弱。"
    ],
    [
        "For a message to be effective, it must reach and influence those in control – whether they are elected officials, regulators, or private actors.",
        "信息要想得到有效传递，就必须触及并影响包括民选官员、监管机构或私营部门在内的当权者。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s sensitivity to potential Chinese encirclement is similar to China’s fears of encirclement by the US and its allies.",
        "印度对可能被中国包围十分敏感，正如中国担心被美国及其盟国包围。"
    ],
    [
        "Until then, all we can do is speculate.",
        "在此之前，我们只能猜测。"
    ],
    [
        "Is there something in it for him – a higher stock price, an advertising fee, or someone else’s gratitude?",
        "他是否在其中有利可图——更高的股价、广告费、或收获其它人的感谢？"
    ],
    [
        "Some compromise will be necessary.",
        "必须在这两种体系之间达到妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "Sonia Gandhi is rumored to have cancer, but, rather than capitalizing on it, she has kept the details within the walls of the Gandhi family compound in New Delhi.",
        "索尼娅·甘地被传已罹患癌症，但她并没有利用这一点大做文章，而是将它作为甘地家族的内部秘密。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, it is premature to link the storm’s severity to warmer sea-surface temperatures, because regional variability is known to occur.",
        "此时就将风暴严重程度与海表温度升高联系在一起似乎还为时尚早，因为不同区域的情况一般会有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "As the economist Lionel Robbins recalled: “Confronted with the freezing deflation of those days, the idea that the prime essential was the writing down of mistaken investments and…fostering the disposition to save was…as unsuitable as denying blankets and stimulus to a drunk who has fallen into an icy pond, on the ground that his original trouble was overheating.”",
        "正如经济学家利奥尼尔·罗宾斯回忆的那样：“面对当时那种陷入停滞的通货紧缩，那种认为首先必须处理错误投资……以及推动储蓄行为的理念……就变得不合时宜，就像拒绝给一个掉入冰窟的醉汉提供毛毯和保暖品，因为觉得此人最根本的问题是（身体因饮酒）过热那样。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s hope the odds improve in the New Year.",
        "我们希望，随着新的一年到来，这种机率能有所提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the two countries share similar national development goals:increasing their citizens’ prosperity, narrowing social inequities, and addressing environmental sustainability.",
        "然而，两国也有相同之处，即类似的国家发展目标：增加民众福祉，缩小贫富不均，以及应对环境可持续性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – I have spent my whole political life somewhere called “the West.”",
        "伦敦——我把自己的整个政治生涯都奉献给了所谓的“西方”。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as the global shift toward renewable energy has already contributed to a massive drop in oil prices, climate policies that will be adopted in future years will render new Arctic drilling a huge waste of resources.",
        "正如向可再生能源的全球转型大大拉低了石油价格，将在未来几年采取的气候政策将让新北极圈钻井沦为巨大的资源浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, by contrast, derives much of its soft power not from the government, but from civil society – everything from universities and foundations to Hollywood and pop culture.",
        "相反，美国的软实力很大程度上并非来自政府，而来自公民社会——从大学和基金会到好莱坞和流行文化的一切。"
    ],
    [
        "Among other things, new legislation would make polygamy the rule, rather than the exception, and would deprive women of an equal right to divorce.",
        "此外，新立法还将让一夫多妻成为规则而不是例外，并剥夺妇女平等的离婚权。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it should ponder if its policies actually make Europe hospitable for innovating enterprises.",
        "事实上，它应该深思它的政策是否真的能让欧洲成为对有创造力的企业持欢迎态度的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Such measures should focus on what makes ratings valuable for the investors who use them – their accuracy in forecasting financial health.",
        "衡量标准应当着重考察对应用评级结果的投资者的价值——也就是它们在预测财务状况方面的准确度。"
    ],
    [
        "With American-style capitalism and America’s financial markets in disrepute, will America now lead the world into a new era of protectionism, as it did once before, during the Great Depression?",
        "当美式资本主义和美国的金融市场声名狼藉之时，美国还将领导世界进入一个保护主义的新时代，就像它在大萧条之中曾经做过的那样吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It is a dangerous and volatile mix, relying on principles and methods that led Russia’s empires – Czarist and Soviet – to failure and ruin.",
        "这是个危险而动荡的组合，其理论和方法基础曾经导致俄罗斯帝国——不管是沙皇帝国还是苏联帝国——失败和毁灭。"
    ],
    [
        "But nothing more clearly demonstrates that science and creationism are polar opposites than the latter’s assumption that disagreement signals failure.",
        "但是，没有比神创论者的“分歧等于失败”观点更能说明它与科学之间的极端对立的了。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on what the Chinese press has disclosed thus far, it is clear that the Zhou case will be the ugliest and most sensational scandal involving a senior party leader that the country has ever seen.",
        "根据中国媒体已经披露的报道，周永康案毫无疑问将是前所未见的最丑陋、最令人发指的牵涉中共高级领导人的案件。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that protectionism is the way forward, only that taking account of specific issues that affect international farm trade – weather, price volatility, or health risks – may be necessary from time to time.",
        "这并不意味着应该采取保护主义，而是有必要不时地考虑到影响国际农业贸易的具体问题，例如天气、价格波动或者健康风险等等。"
    ],
    [
        "Each country should focus on what it needs to do to achieve sustained long-term growth.",
        "每个国家都应该集中精力做自己应该做的事，实现持续的长期发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Multipliers are higher – perhaps around 1.7 – when the nominal interest rate is at its lower bound of zero, as it was during 2009...” (and is today).",
        "当利率只有零时，系数就会较高 —— 约为 1. 7 ，就像 2009 年出现的情况那样。"
    ],
    [
        "A German-style grand coalition has never been tested in Sweden; and Austria’s experience suggests that it could play into the extremists’ hands.",
        "德国式的大联盟从未在瑞典接受过考验； 而奥地利的经验表明这可能有利于极端分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, the total fiscal deficit exceeded 10% of GDP.",
        "去年，总财政赤字超过了GDP的10%。"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities did not understand the complexity of the crisis, let alone see a solution.",
        "当局根本不了解这场危机的复杂性，更诓论拿出解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Judged by the last standard, at least, Chávez may have crossed the line.",
        "根据最后一项标准衡量，查韦斯至少越线了。"
    ],
    [
        "The consensus among the negotiating partners – one of the few points of agreement regarding the Middle East among the Security Council’s permanent membership – was crucial in convincing Iran to take the negotiations seriously.",
        "谈判伙伴之间的共识——安理会常任理事国之间关于中东少数形成一致的地方之一——对于伊朗认真对待谈判至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "(Medina was acquitted of murder.)",
        "（梅迪纳被判谋杀罪名不成立）"
    ],
    [
        "As Frederick the Great supposedly said, “He who defends everything defends nothing.”",
        "据说腓特烈大帝曾说过，“想要捍卫一切，结果什么都捍卫不了。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it could be that the United Kingdom’s veto of the summit’s proposed changes to the EU’s Lisbon Treaty drowned out all else, while further increasing distrust on the part of the public and financial markets of a divided Europe.",
        "当然，或许英国否决峰会里斯本条约修订案的行为压倒了对其他议题的关注，而在欧洲内部意见不合的情况下，公众舆论和金融市场中的不信任也逐渐增加。"
    ],
    [
        "And if continental Europe eventually recovers, as the US and the United Kingdom are, export growth could pick up again.",
        "而如果欧洲大陆最终如美国和英国那样复苏，出口增长也有可能重拾涨势。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, China’s government has supported Myanmar’s efforts to protect its national security.",
        "同样，中国政府一直支持缅甸维护国家安全的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite fierce competition for academic tenure, for space in journals and in other media, and for advancement in general, people talk to each other as colleagues.",
        "尽管对学术职务、对期刊和其他媒体上文章的刊载和对一般意义上的提升机会竞争都同样激烈，人们相互之间还是能够像同事一样地互相交谈。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s a clunky label, but his analysis and policy prescriptions are compelling.",
        "这是一个笨重的主题，但他的分析和政策建议极具说服力。"
    ],
    [
        "All else being equal, per capita incomes and productivity in countries with high proportions of elderly people tend to grow more slowly than in younger countries.",
        "在其他因素不变的情况下，老年人口占较高比例国家的人均收入和生产效率增长相对于年轻国家而言趋向于更为缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "Today Starbucks employs roughly 182,000 people worldwide – 50,000 more than Facebook, Google, and Apple combined.",
        "今天的星巴克全球员工约 182,000人——比Facebook、Google和Apple合起来还多50，000人。"
    ],
    [
        "Did companies that compensated their traders (and not just their CEOs) more highly take more risk?",
        "那些给交易员（而不仅仅是首席执行官）更多薪酬的公司承担了更多的风险吗？"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,the combined volume of trade between Germany and the V4 in 2016 was €256 billion ($303 billion), far outweighing China (€170 billion) and France (€167 billion).",
        "据《法兰克福汇报》（Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung）2016年德国和V4的总贸易量为2,560亿欧元，远超中国（1,700亿欧元）和法国（1,670亿欧元）。"
    ],
    [
        "And we will do it in five years or less.",
        "我们可以在五年以内达到这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an implicit subsidy to the industries that use oil and gas intensively and may attract some inward foreign investment.",
        "这是密集使用石油和天然气的行业的隐性补贴，并可能吸引一些外国投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, debt is making it difficult for developed countries to resume pre-2008 growth rates, let alone restore the levels of GDP that would have been attained if the subsequent Great Recession had not happened.",
        "如今，债务让发达国家难以回归2008年前的增长率，更不用说重塑大衰退不发生情况下GDP所能达到的水平了。"
    ],
    [
        "For economic policymakers, the proverbial sunny day has arrived: with experts forecasting strong growth, now is the best time to check whether we are prepared for the next recession.",
        "对经济决策者来说，谚语中的艳阳天已经到来：专家们纷纷预测给力的增长，因此，这是检查我们是否为下一次衰退做好准备的最好时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Supporters of the secular-stagnation hypothesis, it seems, have identified the wrong problem.",
        "长期停滞假说的支持者似乎看错了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But a country without sovereignty, or control over its domestic politics, does not have a democratically serviceable state.",
        "但是一个没有主权、或对其民主政治无掌控权的国家，是无法拥有一个享有民主的政府的。"
    ],
    [
        "Social psychologists have shown that simply getting an experimental subject to take another person’s perspective will make the subject care more about the person and be more likely to help.",
        "社会心理学家们发现仅仅让试验对象接受另外一个人的观点，就会让该对象更加关注他人，且更乐于提供帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Curiously, this finding did not spur much interest, and no similar studies were reported until 2002.",
        "有趣的是，这一发现并没有刺激多少兴趣，并且在2002年以前再无类似研究出台。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the G-20 in its current composition may not really represent the forces that can and will shape the twenty-first century.",
        "从现有组成情况看，即使是G20也不能真正代表能够也将决定21世纪地球的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Slower growth means less revenue, and a faster downward spiral.",
        "增长放缓意味着岁入减少，也意味着下跌螺旋加速。"
    ],
    [
        "In this national crisis, Mexico’s people have closed ranks, collaborated, and showed that they are capable of working together to achieve common goals in the public interest.",
        "面对这场全国性的危机，墨西哥人民齐心协力、共克时艰，展现出为公共利益团结奋斗的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The hope is that the reduction in borrowing costs on new loans, plus the austerity programs promised by governments, will enable bond prices to recover to par without the need for the creditor banks to take a hit.",
        "投资者的希望是，新贷款借贷成本的下降加上政府承诺的财政紧缩计划能够让债券价格重新回到面值，债权人银行不会受到损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The TPP represents an important opportunity to write better rules for international trade and investment.",
        "TPP是一次给国际贸易和投资制定更好的规则的重要机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Peace is frequently not about justice but about stability.",
        "和平的核心通常不是公平而是稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s leaders might be ready to let their people “eat grass and even go hungry” for the sake of their nuclear ambitions, but Iran’s squeezed middle class, one hopes, will not submit to such degradation.",
        "为了核野心，伊朗领导人可能已准备好人民“吃草，甚至挨饿”。 但人们希望，伊朗饱受剥削的中产阶级不会向这种屈辱低头。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than congregating with like-minded people in silos, they must create platforms that connect people of more diverse backgrounds and circumstances – including those whose experiences with globalization are very different.",
        "他们不能只和思维相近的人闭门聚会，而必须建立连接背景和条件更加多样化的人群的平台——包括那些对全球化有着非常不同的体验的人。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach is no longer tenable.",
        "这一方针早已不合时宜。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of investing in weapons of mass annihilation, governments must allocate resources towards meeting human needs.",
        "政府不应把资金投向制造血光之灾的武器，而应把资源投向满足人类的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The investors that I talk to these days are not sure whether to worry more about future inflation in the United States or about future deflation.",
        "发自剑桥——这几天来和我聊天的投资者都非常困惑，弄不清是应该担心美国未来的通货膨胀，还是要准备好迎接通货紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the north’s troubles are only part of a wider national story of surging unemployment, restless young people, endemic corruption, and a growing sense of hopelessness.",
        "此外，北方的麻烦只是全国失业飙升、年轻人焦躁不安、腐败横行和无助感与日俱增的一个侧面。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead – in an obvious criticism of capitalism – they worked for their country, and for one another.",
        "相反——很显然带着对资本主义的批判——他们为自己的祖国和彼此而工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Water abounds in nature, and most of humanity will have lived more than ten millenniums without ever wondering about it.",
        "自然界的水资源十分丰富，大多数人即便再活一万年也不会认真考虑水的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "As one columnist put it, “there is nothing much European governments can do in East Asia, save serve as marketing managers for their domestic businesses.”",
        "某专栏作家指出，“欧洲政府在东亚没什么事可干，无非是为本国企业当好营销经理。"
    ],
    [
        "Chen’s record suggests he will hang on to his failed presidency.",
        "陈过去的历史显示他会继续留在他那已经遭受失败的总统职位上。"
    ],
    [
        "For private-sector debt, much depends on its type: the hedging sort, where a debtor’s cash flow covers all obligations; the speculative type, where cash flow covers interest only; or the Ponzi kind, where cash flow does not even cover that.",
        "而私人部门债务则很大程度上取决于其类型：对冲型，债务人的现金流能够支付所有负债； 投机型，现金流只够覆盖利息；"
    ],
    [
        "And the peace process will creep forward – more process than peace – until it encounters the next roadblock.",
        "而和平进程将蹒跚向前——“进程”多于“和平”——直到遇上下一个路障。"
    ],
    [
        "Let national governments take responsibility for their countries' economic performance.",
        "让各国政府去为国家经济状况的问题负责吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Some neo-conservative pundits drew the conclusion that the US was so powerful that it could decide what it thought was right, and others would have to follow.",
        "一些新保守派专家认定美国是如此强大，以至于它可以按自己的意志决策，而其它国家不得不遵从。 Charles Krauthammer高调地将这种观点称为“新单边主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece followed through, but the depression continued.",
        "希腊履行了改革，但萧条仍在继续。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the resources generated by human ingenuity remain far ahead of human consumption.",
        "相反，人类天才所创造出来的资源满足人类消费绰绰有余。"
    ],
    [
        "Previously, it had also been disclosed that funds from the Trump Foundation had been used to contribute to the election campaigns of attorneys-general in Florida and Texas, which would also be illegal.",
        "此前，据披露特朗普基金会资金还被用于佛罗里达州和德克萨斯州检察长的竞选活动，这也是非法的。"
    ],
    [
        "But this right is unrealized for the 28% of the world’s school-age children who are not enrolled in school.",
        "但是这种权利在占全世界28%的那些失学的学龄儿童身上并没有得到体现。"
    ],
    [
        "However, this growth has not been inclusive: income inequality in cities is higher than the national average in all OECD countries surveyed, except Canada.",
        "但是，这一增长不是包容性的：所有经合组织国家的城市收入不平等程度都高于国家平均水平，只有加拿大是例外。"
    ],
    [
        "The NDB makes sense for the BRICS, and it has a future.",
        "“全新开发银行”对金砖国家具有实际意义。"
    ],
    [
        "A secondary intention is to show the world that Israel is ready to withdraw from most of the remaining territories it captured in 1967 in exchange for real peace.",
        "第二层意图则是向世界显示以色列准备从其在1967年占领的大多数领土撤退以换取真正的和平。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Earlier this month, Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf warned that Africa would continue to be stalked by poverty, hunger, and famine until governments provide smallholder farmers with secure rights to land.",
        "华盛顿—本月早些时候，利比里亚总统、诺贝尔和平奖得主赛尔利夫（Ellen Johnson Sirleaf）警告说，非洲将一直受到贫困、饥饿和饥荒困扰，除非政府让小农获得有保障的土地权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Here is where the Holy Alliance concept of moral restraint comes in.",
        "在这一背景下，要求道德限制的神圣联盟应运而生。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in France and Italy, where house prices have increased almost as much as in the US, there is no evidence of a housing overhang.",
        "与此相比，尽管法国和意大利的房地产价格增长几乎和美国一样多，但是没有证据表明存在房地产过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "The Carbon Pricing Panel, led by the IMF and World Bank, will further increase the policy momentum at the national, regional, and municipal levels.",
        "以IMF和世界银行为首的碳定价委员会将进一步推动加大国家、地区和市政水平上的政策力度。"
    ],
    [
        "International law, China understands, is a double-edged sword that can be used against China in other territorial disputes, or even in its domestic affairs.",
        "中国认为国际法是把双刃剑，可以在其他领土争端问题上，甚至在其国内事务上对自身不利。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does the appearance of hypocrisy end there.",
        "但表面装出的伪善并未结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The crucial point is that many green technologies are not cost-effective, at least not yet.",
        "关键的问题在于许多绿色技术并不具有成本效益，至少到目前为止还不是。"
    ],
    [
        "With a reliable support structure and adequate economic opportunity, households – and, in turn, countries – become more resilient.",
        "可靠的支撑结构和充分的经济机会可以增强家庭和国家的适应能力。"
    ],
    [
        "All people want healthy and productive lives for themselves and their loved ones, so they will welcome new insights into why people in their community die or get sick.",
        "所有人都希望自己和所爱的人获得健康和有活力的生活，因此他们必定欢迎关于所在社区的人为何死亡或得病的洞见。"
    ],
    [
        "It has a presence in more than 80 countries, and its regional teams provide technical support and strategic information, which helps the Global Fund direct its grants to the right programs, locations, and populations at sufficient scale.",
        "它在80多个国家设有办事处，其地区团队可以提供技术支持和战略性信息，从而有助于全球基金将足够规模的资金投向正确的项目、地区和人口。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain now pays almost 1% of its GDP in subsidies for renewables, which is more than it spends on higher education.",
        "目前，西班牙将GDP的1%用于补贴可再生能源，比花在高等教育上的钱还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "Out of this massacre, however, the tribunal and foreign-backed war-crimes courts in Bosnia and Serbia have delivered the international justice effort’s most significant achievement to date.",
        "而在这起大屠杀发生之后，特别法庭和外国在波斯尼亚和塞尔维亚设立的战争罪行法庭都成功地执掌了国际正义，这也是法庭迄今为止最重大的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese officials have done a poor job communicating their intentions, encouraging the belief that they don’t know what they’re doing.",
        "中国官员在沟通他们的意图方面做得太差，导致人们认为他们不知道他们在干什么。"
    ],
    [
        "I have an old fountain pen that belonged to my grandmother; it’s a nice memento of her, but I wouldn’t dream of using it to write this column.",
        "我有一支旧钢笔，是我祖母的遗物； 对她来说，这是一件很好的纪念品，但我才不会想用这支笔来写这个专栏。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1931, France refused to help stem the Central European financial crisis because it believed that Germany was rearming, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, signed at the end of World War I. Political tensions between France and Germany may very well grow in the coming months and years, following François Hollande’s victory in the French presidential election, but they will not begin to rise to that level.",
        "1931年，法国拒绝帮助阻止中欧金融危机，因为它认为德国正在重建武装力量，违反了一战后签署的凡尔赛和约。 奥朗德在法国总统大选中胜出后，法德之间的政治冲突可能会在未来数月到数年时间里逐渐激烈，但不会严重到当年的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest risk in many markets is not that subsidies and other supports will be withdrawn, but that the regulatory structure will not adapt as the sector develops.",
        "许多市场的最大风险并非补贴和其他支持将被取消，而是监管结构不随着行业的发展而调整。"
    ],
    [
        "It is easier to run down something that is partly invisible because it is not regularly or effectively measured.",
        "具有一定程度不可见性的东西更容易耗尽，因为没有定期、有效的度量方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Women need access to guidance, workshops, and longer-term training programs that prepare them to participate in the labor market, while ensuring that they know – and can defend – their rights.",
        "妇女需要获得指导、参与讲习班和长期培训计划，为进入劳动力市场做好准备，同时确保她们知道——并有能力保护——自己的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The Courage to Normalize Monetary Policy",
        "实现货币政策正常化的勇气"
    ],
    [
        "As India in the 1990’s and Brazil in the early 2000’s showed, economies in deep distress can recover quickly once the right policies are implemented.",
        "正如20世纪90年代的印度和21世纪的巴西所表明的那样，实行正确的经济政策可以令经济从危机中迅速复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "First, they should push for new rules that make financial crises less likely and their consequences less severe.",
        "首先，发展中国家应该推进降低金融危机发生可能性以及金融危机后果严重程度的新规则。"
    ],
    [
        "How events in the Middle East will play out is anyone’s guess, but in today’s information age, upholding the freedom to access it will be an important component of smart power.",
        "中东局势的走向依然是未知之数，但在当今这个信息时代，维护获取信息的自由将成为巧实力的重要组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "At home, awareness is rising that Putin is damaging Russia’s interests by insulting and intimidating everybody.",
        "在国内，人们正愈渐意识到普京对所有人的侮辱和恐吓正损害着俄罗斯的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The world is no longer bipolar or Eurocentric.",
        "现在的世界格局不再是两极模式或欧洲中心。"
    ],
    [
        "This was clearly demonstrated late last year when a South Korean consortium won a contract to build four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates late last year, beating out the French.",
        "去年底韩国财团击败法国中标阿联酋四座核反应堆修建工程显而易见地证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "They certainly do, but so what?",
        "当然会这样，但那又如何呢？"
    ],
    [
        "We have now entered the Year of Sustainable Development.",
        "如今，我们已经步入了可持续发展年。"
    ],
    [
        "The patience even of free traders will wear thin in 2010.",
        "即便是自由贸易者，也将在2010年逐渐失去耐心。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom line is that making migration part of the world’s development strategy will have a meaningful impact on the lives of migrants, affording them greater access to rights and to the fruits of their labor.",
        "总之，让移民成为世界发展战略的一部分将对移民生活产生具有深远意义的影响，让移民拥有更多权利，并能更好地享受自己的劳动成果。"
    ],
    [
        "By the standards of Western, and even emerging Third World democracies, the Saudi municipal elections are an extremely modest affair.",
        "按照西方的标准，甚至在崛起中的第三世界民主国家眼里，沙特的市政选举并非大事。"
    ],
    [
        "My personal experience with Francis suggests that his reputation is well deserved.",
        "我与方济各交往的个人经验表明他是一个名副其实的人。"
    ],
    [
        "However, despite remittances’ evident value in supporting development goals, it must be remembered that they are private funds and should not be considered a substitute for official aid.",
        "但是，尽管侨汇在支持发展目标方面具有极高的价值，但必须记住，它们是私人资金，不应该作为官方援助的替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chicago School claims that real-world market economies produce roughly efficient (so-called “Pareto optimal”) outcomes on which public policy cannot improve.",
        "芝加哥学派声称真实世界的市场经济能够创造出公共政策无法改善的模糊高效（即所谓的“最优”）结果。"
    ],
    [
        "And, using new technology to analyze large amounts of data, they should boost the efficiency of social programs, while encouraging the active participation of concerned citizens.",
        "此外，通过使用新技术分析大数据，它们还可以增加社会计划的效果，同时鼓励相关公民的积极参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately for him, Greece does not want to exit, and it cannot be forced to do so under the treaties governing the European Union.",
        "但令他感到遗憾的是，希腊却不愿退出，而且按照欧盟条约规定无法强制希腊这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "It has since moderated its opposition to the euro.",
        "它缓和了对欧元的反对。"
    ],
    [
        "A warning system based solely on how widely a virus has spread, but that does not consider the nature and severity of the illness it causes, would classify as “pandemics” not only seasonal flu, but also the frequent but largely inconsequential outbreaks of virus-caused colds and gastroenteritis, for example.",
        "如果警报系统只考虑病毒流行范围是否广泛，而不考虑其所造成疾病的性质和严重性，就会不仅将季节性流感划入“流行病”的范畴，同时也将病毒性感冒和肠胃炎等后果轻微的病毒爆发囊括进去。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the early focus of the Obama administration will undoubtedly be on the economy and the war in Iraq.",
        "奥巴马政府早期的施政重点无疑将是经济和伊拉克战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The current violence against children is a far cry from what Machel envisaged two decades ago.",
        "目前针对儿童的暴力行为马谢尔在二十年前远远没有预料到。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, perverse incentives led financial institutions to assume excessive risks.",
        "第二，扭曲的内部激励制度致使金融机构过度冒险。"
    ],
    [
        "The eight original MDGs, which include reducing child mortality and achieving universal primary education, are lauded for their simplicity and measurability.",
        "原有的八项千年发展目标，包括降低儿童死亡率和普及小学教育因其简单明了和容易量化而备受称赞。"
    ],
    [
        "And migration pressure will increase markedly if global warming unfolds according to climatologists’ baseline predictions.",
        "而如果全球变暖根据气候学家的基线预测那样展开，移民压力还将进一步增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the next several years, as the traded or tradable share of the state-owned sector’s market capitalization increased from today’s low base of 10-15%, more institutional investors, such as pension funds and insurance companies, would become involved in Chinese equity trading, which is currently dominated by retail investors.",
        "在未来数年中，随着国有部门的市场资本的已交易或可交易份额从目前10~15%的较低水平逐步上升，更多机构投资者，例如养老基金和保险公司，都将参与到中国的股市交易之中——而目前这还主要是散户在操作。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth about her disappearance will, undoubtedly, remain murky for some time.",
        "显然，关于她消失的真相在相当一段时间内都无法水落石出。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to take the long view seriously, because we have tried the short view, and it has not worked.",
        "现在是时候认真对待长远视角，因为我们以前的短视已经带来了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "America can no longer regard itself as the land of opportunity that it once was.",
        "美国不能再向从前那样自视为希望之地了。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this underscores one of the more obvious, yet overlooked, implications of an increasingly interdependent world: we are all in it together.",
        "所有这些都体现了日趋相互依赖的世界所带来的一大显而易见却被忽视的影响。 欧元危机是一次严重冲击，正在全世界制造连锁反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it was a pittance compared to the $2.5 million that each fighter was guaranteed in the 1971 Ali-Frazier fight.",
        "当然，这与1971年阿里和弗雷泽（Frazier）拳王争霸战双方都能保证获得的250万美元来说只是九牛一毛。"
    ],
    [
        "The traditional argument for an independent central bank is that politicians can’t be trusted to conduct monetary and macroeconomic policy.",
        "传统的央行独立观点主张，货币政策和宏观经济政策不应该交给政客们实行。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, just as the Industrial Revolution transformed the productive potential of societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a new wave of technological breakthroughs is reshaping economic and even social dynamics today.",
        "事实上，正如工业革命改变了十九和二十世纪社会的生产潜力，新一轮技术突破也在改变今天的经济乃至社会动态。"
    ],
    [
        "Of that amount, $185 billion was invested in newly issued government bonds, and the other $755 billion flowed into interest- and dividend-paying savings vehicles such as loans, corporate bonds, and new equity issues, which in turn added to the US private sector’s productive-capital stock.",
        "当是时，1,850亿美元投资于新发行政府债券，7,550亿美元流入产生利息和红利的储蓄工具，如贷款、公司债券和新股发行，这反过来增加了美国私人部门生产性资本存量。"
    ],
    [
        "An instrument for it already exists: the new Union for the Mediterranean.",
        "一个实现目标的工具已经存在：新成立的地中海联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "As we make progress on that front, we must pursue agreements on issues relating to fishing, tropical fruits, tourism, and infrastructure that support China’s maritime Silk Road initiative in and around the Philippines.",
        "与此同时，我们必须追求就渔业、热带水果、旅游和基础设施等相关问题形成一致，支持中国在菲律宾及其周边的海上丝绸之路计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK’s rationale for its refusal – that no protocol was included in the treaty exempting the financial sector from certain regulations – suggests that similar outcomes can be expected in future negotiations.",
        "英国的拒绝理由——条约没有包括让金融部门免于某些监管的协议——表明，后续谈判也可能出现类似结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But the growth returns have dwindled, while imbalances have worsened.",
        "但增长回报已经变小，而失衡更加严重了。"
    ],
    [
        "One important constraint is labor supply.",
        "一个重要的限制条件是劳动力供给。"
    ],
    [
        "Welcome back to the pre-antibiotic era!",
        "欢迎回到前抗生素时代！"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there are plenty of examples of security enduring strife.",
        "当然，也不乏大量冲突爆发后保持安全的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The current era offers a parallel.",
        "当前时期也颇为相似。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Shanghai Jiao-Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities, for example, 17 of the world’s 20 best universities are American, with Harvard topping the list by a substantial margin.",
        "比如，在上海交通大学的世界大学学术排名榜上，前20名中有17所来自美国，其中哈佛大学以绝对优势雄踞榜首。"
    ],
    [
        "In September, Ben Emmerson, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, reported that the US had caused at least 400 civilian deaths in Pakistan, with another 200 of those killed being “probable noncombatants.”",
        "9月，联合国人权和反恐特别书记员埃莫森（Ben Emmerson）报告说美国在巴基斯坦造成了至少400平民死亡，另有200名被杀者“可能并非战斗人员”。"
    ],
    [
        "One central concern is that, unlike Europe’s bloody wars of the first half of the twentieth century, which made war there unthinkable today, the wars in Asia in the second half of the twentieth century only accentuated bitter rivalries.",
        "一个关键问题在于，亚洲和欧洲不同。 欧洲在20世纪上半叶经历了两次惨烈的战争，时至今日，欧洲人已对战争深恶痛绝。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for the same reason, I am optimistic that the stalemate will end after the election.",
        "但是，出于同样的理由，我对僵局将在大选后不复存在十分乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "The disease is caused by a bacillus called Myobacterium leprae, first identified in 1873 by G.H. Armauer Hansen.",
        "这种病的罪魁祸首是麻风分枝杆菌，是由阿莫尔·汉森在1873年首次发现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Social norms determine economic outcomes for women in several ways: they shape women’s decisions about which occupational and educational opportunities to pursue; they affect the distribution of unpaid work within households and wages in paid care activities such as nursing and teaching, which employ a high proportion of women; and they reflect and reinforce discriminatory gender stereotypes and implicit biases that limit women’s pay and promotion prospects.",
        "社会规范通过多种方式决定妇女的经济成就：它们影响妇女决定追求哪些就业和教育机会； 它们影响无薪家政工作在家庭中的分配以及护士和教师等带薪看护活动的工资；"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of the ruling, a complicated issue is likely to become even more so.",
        "在此判决之后，这件本已凌乱的事件将变得更为复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "A Democratic Burma?",
        "民主缅甸？"
    ],
    [
        "The Unfinished Cold War",
        "没有结束的冷战"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East conference to be held in Annapolis, Maryland should be a forum for final status negotiations between the parties, dealing above all with the establishment of a Palestinian state and its borders (those of June 1967, with some negotiated exchanges of territory), its capital (Jerusalem), Israeli settlements, and the right of return for Palestinian refugees.",
        "将在马里兰州安娜波利斯举行的中东问题会议应该是各方之间最终地位谈判的论坛，首先处理巴勒斯坦建国问题及其边界(1967年的边界，其中一部分谈判交换领土)、首都(耶路撒冷)、以色列定居点以及巴勒斯坦难民返回家园的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially true in polarized political and social environments – the most obvious cases today being Egypt, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen, not to mention Bahrain and Syria.",
        "而这点在两极化的政治和社会环境下显得尤为突出——最明显的例子莫过于如今的埃及、 伊拉克、 利比亚和也门，更别提巴林和叙利亚了。"
    ],
    [
        "The very mention of debt restructuring was considered inadmissible and a cause for ridiculing those of us who dared suggest its inevitability.",
        "债务重组的想法连提都不能提，而像我们这样胆敢提出债务重组不可避免的，马上回招来嘲笑。"
    ],
    [
        "But this compares favorably with the Special Court in Sierra Leone (more than $70 million over three years), and the $100 million spent annually on the international courts for Rwanda and Yugoslavia.",
        "但与塞拉利昂特别法庭（三年内花费7千万美金）和每年分别花费1亿美金的卢旺达和前南联盟国际法庭相比，这一预算已经不错了。"
    ],
    [
        "This was irrespective, Samuelson thought, of the ideological preferences of those in power.",
        "萨缪尔逊认为，这一点无关于掌权政党的意识形态偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump favors a more protectionist future, which would take the pressure off US companies to be globally competitive or truly innovative.",
        "特朗普想要更加保护主义的未来，这将降低美国公司的全球竞争和真正创新的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy is the key to Turkey’s new geo-political position.",
        "能源是土耳其新的地缘政治地位的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Gurian even posits that the male brain actually can’t “see” dust or laundry piling up as the female brain often can, which explains why men and women tend to perform household tasks in different ways.",
        "古瑞甚至假设男性的大脑事实上不能像女性那样“看到”成堆的灰尘或待洗的衣物，这可以解释为什么男人和女人以不同的方式处理家务。"
    ],
    [
        "With the WTO lacking any benchmarks or indicators to determine when a country should be weaned off S&D, it is no surprise that no developing country has ever “developed.”",
        "由于世贸组织并没有任何基准或指标来确定一个国家何时应该脱离特殊和差别性待遇，因此没有任何发展中国家会变成“发达”。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, debt buybacks would be a massive waste of official resources, as the residual value of the debt increases as it is bought, benefiting creditors far more than the sovereign debtor.",
        "同样，债务回购也将是对官方资源的严重浪费，因为回购使会高估这些债券的折余价值，从中受益的将主要是债权人，而不是主权债务人。"
    ],
    [
        "By definition, non-members of the EU cannot belong to the Single Market.",
        "根据定义，非欧盟成员国不能参加单一市场。"
    ],
    [
        "France, too, has become uncompetitive, owing to the cheap credit brought by the euro in its initial years.",
        "使用欧元最初几年的便宜信用同样拖累了法国的竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "At least for the Obama administration, the rush to conclude the TPP negotiations is doubtless driven by the desire to close the deal well ahead of America’s midterm election in November.",
        "至少对奥巴马政府来说，急匆匆地完成TPP谈判背后的驱动力毫无疑问是希望在11月美国中期选举之前把此事完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s assume that Britain’s ultimate aim is to create completely new global trading relationships, without any special EU trading privileges.",
        "不妨认为英国的终极目标是建立全新的全球贸易关系，而不是特殊的欧盟贸易特权。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s complex security environment, with terrorist attacks by non-state actors occurring alongside traditional state-to-state wars, demands a nimble, integrated strategy.",
        "当前安全因素复杂多变，除了传统的国与国之间的战争外，非国家的活动分子实施的恐怖袭击也频频发生，因此需要一个敏捷、统一的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt once quipped that politicians who have a vision should go and have their eyes checked.",
        "前德国总理赫尔穆特·施密特曾经开玩笑说有梦想的政治家应该去看眼科。"
    ],
    [
        "It is Arafat’s last hurrah.",
        "这是阿拉法特生命中最后的欢呼。"
    ],
    [
        "In Zimbabwe, after 4,300 people died in the 2008-2009 cholera pandemic, the AfDB and other donors supported the $43.6 million Urgent Water Supply and Sanitation Rehabilitation Project, which made emergency repairs to wastewater systems in urban areas, helping 2.5 million people.",
        "在津巴布韦，在4，300人死于2008-2009年爆发的霍乱疫情后，非洲开发银行和其他捐助者出资支持了4，360万美元的紧急供水和卫生设施修复项目，该项目对城市地区废水系统进行了紧急维修，惠及当地超过250万人口。"
    ],
    [
        "The China Threat, Part Two?",
        "中国威胁论，第二部？"
    ],
    [
        "But a newly hired neurosurgeon with 27 years of education may have to read a thick user manual, attend tedious classes, and accept periodic tutoring from a “change champion” to master the various steps required to use his hospital’s IT system.",
        "但一个受过27年教育的新入职的神经外科医生可能必须读完厚厚的使用手册、上完乏味的培训课程，并接受“一日三变大师”（change champion）的定期辅导才能驾驭使用医院IT系统的众多步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, nothing much has changed.",
        "表面上什么都没有改变。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – The US Federal Reserve’s gradual exit from so-called quantitative easing (QE) – open-ended purchases of long-term assets – has financial markets and policymakers worried, with warnings of capital flight from developing economies and collapsing asset prices dominating policy discussions worldwide.",
        "东京—美联储的逐渐退出所谓量化宽松（QE，即无限期购买长期资产）让金融市场和决策者担忧不已，关于资本将从发达经济体外逃、资产价格将崩溃的警告充斥着全世界的政策讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "The further removed from it he is, the greater the temptation will be to alter the policy approach in response to popular pressures.",
        "他越不参与新政府，那么改变政策以回应民众压力的诱惑就会更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with peace, major problems were left unresolved.",
        "即便维持了和平，但是一些关键的问题依然悬而未决。"
    ],
    [
        "A Year of Reckoning for France and Europe",
        "法国和欧洲的清算之年"
    ],
    [
        "For Europeans, Israel’s creation was to compensate for the sins committed against the Jewish people.",
        "对欧洲人来说，以色列的建立是为了补偿他们对犹太人所犯的罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "Thousands of unaccompanied children, the most vulnerable of migrants, have yet to find a place.",
        "数千名没人陪护的儿童——最脆弱的移民群体——尚未找到容身之所。"
    ],
    [
        "Building the needed support for a new social contract will require an appeal to fairness, not just to fiscal rectitude.",
        "形成对新社会契约的必须的支持要求公正，而不仅仅是财政清明。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important finding of the GMF’s Transatlantic Trends survey is that concern about immigrants falls sharply when people are given even the most basic facts.",
        "GMF的《跨大西洋趋势》（Transatlantic Trends ）调查的最重要的发现是，当人们获得最基本的事实时，对移民的担忧就会迅速减少。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether Europeans like it or not, Muslims are part of Europe.",
        "不管欧洲人喜不喜欢，穆斯林是欧洲的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "In Jerusalem, mounting tension over holy sites has highlighted the difficulty of moving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process forward.",
        "在耶路撒冷，圣城不断升级的紧张局势凸显出推进以色列-巴勒斯坦和平进程的困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Implementation will be very difficult even without excessively tight fiscal targets; with them, it may be impossible.",
        "即使没有过紧的财政目标，实施也十分困难； 如果有过紧的财政目标，那么实施根本无从下手。"
    ],
    [
        "If European nation-states are reconciled with each other, they are not yet fully reconciled with themselves, with their dark or grey spots, and in particular their treatment of minorities.",
        "如果欧洲民族国家间的矛盾已经化解，那么他们还未能充分化解自身的矛盾，未能消除其黑色点或灰色点，特别是他们对少数民族问题的处理。"
    ],
    [
        "The standard approach to answering this question takes a relatively normal base year and measures how much a country’s currency has depreciated since then.",
        "会的这一问题的标准方法是选取一个相对正常的基年，然后测量一国货币自该年以来贬值了多少。"
    ],
    [
        "And while the major central banks are planning, or have already begun, to tighten monetary policy, interest rates will remain low for now.",
        "而尽管主要央行无不在计划或已经开始了货币政策紧缩，目前的利率水平仍然很低。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether it makes sense for leftists to advocate exit hinges on whether a nation-state freed from EU institutions provides more fertile ground for cultivating a progressive agenda of redistribution, labor rights, and anti-racism.",
        "左派鼓吹退出是否明智取决于摆脱欧盟机构的民族国家是否能提供更加肥沃的土壤培育再分配、劳动权利和反种族主义的进步日程。"
    ],
    [
        "In Greece and Argentina, it is both political and economic.",
        "在希腊和阿根廷，这个陷阱既是政治上的，也是经济上的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is precisely the Eurocrats’ detachment from everyday politics that has enabled the EU to deliver.",
        "事实上，正是欧盟官员与日常政治的脱节才使欧盟得以提供上述好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The Scandinavians figured this out long ago; it was part of the social contract that maintained an open society – open to globalization and changes in technology.",
        "斯堪的纳维亚人早就想通了这一点：它是维持一个开放社会——全球化和技术变革开放——的社会契约的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Animal-feed production, and the intensive cultivation of agricultural land that it requires, is not only destroying ecosystems and reducing biodiversity; it is also fueling climate change.",
        "动物饲料生产，及其所要求的农地密集栽培，不但破坏了生态系统、降低了生物多样性； 也助长了气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "They support the almost two decades of reform that have stripped away much of the “license raj.” They recognize that India has the most economically literate leadership in the world.",
        "他们对20年以来打破了大部分“许可证统治”的改革表示支持，也意识到印度是世界上经济最自由的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Lebanon could return to the democratic track, and Hezbollah might use democratic, not military, politics as its survival strategy in the newly sovereign Lebanon, especially if an international peacekeeping force were consensually allowed to demilitarize the Golan Heights.",
        "黎巴嫩又能重新回到民主轨道上，并且真主党也许能在一个新获独立自主权的黎巴嫩使用民主而非军事和政治手段作为其生存之道，特别是在双方一致同意下允许一支国际维和部队解除戈兰高地的武装。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost everywhere, those with a university degree are much less likely to be unemployed than those without a secondary education.",
        "几乎在所有国家，拥有大学学历的劳动者都比那些没有受过中等教育的人失业的几率低很多。"
    ],
    [
        "It is too early to tell how the political uncertainty now confronting Germany and Europe will be resolved.",
        "确定德国和欧洲目前所面临的政治不确定性还为时过早。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US today, while the economy is growing and the unemployment rate is at a low 4.9%, many feel excluded from the country’s prosperity.",
        "今天的美国，虽然经济仍在增长且失业率处于4. 9%的低位，但很多人仍然感觉自己无法享受国家的繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "All in all, the BRICS no longer seem to be rising.",
        "总而言之，金砖国家的崛起似乎已经告一段落。"
    ],
    [
        "Sales taxes vary, and are augmented by “octroi” taxes on cross-border shipments of goods destined for local consumption.",
        "销售税五花八门，跨越各州边境的国内消费品还要缴纳“货物入市税”。"
    ],
    [
        "Those pressing for military intervention in Darfur would probably say that this is a bad thing.",
        "那些力促对达尔富尔实行军事干预的人可能会说这太糟糕了。"
    ],
    [
        "Mass anti-austerity protests are one warning sign.",
        "大规模反紧缩游行是一个警示信号。"
    ],
    [
        "But, according to the German Constitutional Court, the policy violates European Union treaties – a ruling that the European Court of Justice is now reviewing.",
        "但是德国宪法法庭判决该政策违反了欧洲联盟条约——虽然欧盟法院正在对此判决进行复核。"
    ],
    [
        "This discord is threatening to derail these countries’ burgeoning democratic processes, owing to growing competition between what Le Bon called the “sovereignty of the crowds” and the sovereignty of political elites.",
        "这一分歧让这些国家方兴未艾的民主进程时刻面临着脱轨危险，因为勒庞所谓的“群众威权”和政治精英威权之间的斗争越来越激烈。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump continues to govern as a pluto-populist – a plutocrat pretending to be a populist – who has not hesitated to betray the people he conned into voting for him.",
        "特朗普继续着他的富豪民粹主义治国之道——即披着民粹主义外衣的财阀治国——他向来不惮于背叛收他蛊惑投票给他的人民。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for central banks to accept this fact and adopt a comprehensive, long-term monetary-policy approach – even if it means that, in the short term, consumer-price inflation deviates from what is currently understood as “price stability.”",
        "央行应该接受这一事实，采取全面、长期的货币政策方针——即使这意味着短期消费物价通胀偏离目前所认为的“物价稳定”。"
    ],
    [
        "Inequality is clearly a serious problem that merits political attention. But focusing on trade is not the way to resolve it.",
        "不平等状况显然是值得在政治上关注的严重问题，但着眼于贸易可不是解决问题的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Our challenge is like that of Industrial Revolution-era moths, which adapted to their new soot-laden environment by becoming darker (and thus better able to hide from predators).",
        "我们的挑战就像工业大革命时的飞蛾——它们通过变得更黑（从而能更好地躲避天敌）来适应新的烟尘环境。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, in what spirit should they conduct their work?",
        "如果需要，他们应以怎样的态度开展工作？"
    ],
    [
        "All of this seemed to me to be well understood among German politicians and business leaders.",
        "在我看来，德国政客和商界领导人对此心知肚明。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Twenty years ago this month, the United Nations General Assembly received a report by former Mozambican Education Minister Graça Machel detailing the effects of armed conflict on children.",
        "伦敦——二十年前的这个月，联大收到了莫桑比克前教育部长格拉萨·马谢尔的一份报告，该报告详细阐述了武装冲突对儿童的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The US went from owing $3 billion (mostly to Great Britain) to being a net creditor for about the same amount, thanks to $6 billion in war credits given to the Western Allies.",
        "在向西方盟友发放了60亿美元战争贷款之后，当时的美国由欠债30亿美元（大部分欠英国）的穷亲戚摇身一变成为手握30亿美元净债权的大财主。"
    ],
    [
        "Stronger and more focused US-China cooperation is essential if sanctions are to have a chance of working.",
        "更强、更集中的中美合作是让制裁起作用的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "The best way to accelerate the transition from hydrocarbons to greener forms of energy would be to redirect a portion of national oil subsidies to renewables.",
        "加快从碳氢化合物到绿色能源的转型的最佳办法是将一部分国家石油补贴用于可再生能源。"
    ],
    [
        "The right approach must combine reasonable wage restraint and low (but not negative) inflation with microeconomic policy measures aimed at encouraging productivity increases.",
        "正确的办法必须结合合理工资限制和低（但非负）通胀并辅之以旨在刺激生产率增长的微观经济政策措施。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Middle East, much of the world’s focus has been on the threat posed by ISIS to civilian populations everywhere – including Europe and the United States.",
        "在中东，全世界的目光大多集中在伊斯兰国对全球文明人口带来的威胁上——包括欧洲和美国。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as a region, East Asia will now get more of the roughly $8 trillion that the Asian Development Bank has estimated that the region will need to keep growing through 2020.",
        "此外，亚洲开发银行估计，到2020年，东亚地区维持增长需要大约8万亿美元，而如今，该地区可以获得不止这个数。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the problems that are likely to emerge are already becoming obvious.",
        "一些可能出现的问题已经显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda insists that so-called QQE (quantitative and qualitative easing) has ended a corrosive deflation – even though he has now opted for negative rates and pushed back the BOJ’s 2% inflation target to mid-2017.",
        "类似地，日本银行行长黑田东彦坚持认为所谓的QQE（量化和质量宽松）已经结束了有害的通货紧缩——即使如今他也采取了负利率并将日本银行2%的通胀目标实现日期延后至2017年年中。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, recipient countries need to be informed about the year-to-year increases in aid that they can expect, so that they can plan ahead.",
        "最后，受援国需要知道它们所可以预期的每年的援助增加额，这样，它们就可以提前规划。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of structure and culture, these arrangements resemble an adopted family, which the regime creates by systematically replacing political and economic elites.",
        "在结构和文化方面来说，这些安排类似于一个统治者通过系统地替换政治和经济精英而创立的寄养家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "These arrangements apply both to parliament and the executive branch.",
        "这些规定被同样应用于议会和行政机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, given the money at stake, enhanced oil recovery could actually be one of the motives behind the push for CCS.",
        "事实上，考虑到其中涉及的金钱，强化石油开采可能正是推动CCS的幕后动机。"
    ],
    [
        "Tens of billions of chickens produced today never go outdoors.",
        "我们今天生产的数百亿只肉用鸡从来没有过户外活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Restoring shared prosperity would require policies that expand access to affordable housing and medical care, secure retirement with a modicum of dignity, and allow every American, regardless of family wealth, to afford a post-secondary education commensurate with his or her abilities and interests.",
        "重塑共同繁荣需要扩大平价住房和医疗、确保退休基本尊严、让所有美国人（不论家庭贫富）都上得起与其能力和兴趣相配的大学的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Observers believe that roughly 60% of China’s liquid reserves are in US Treasury bills.",
        "观察者认为，中国高流动性外汇储备中有60%是美国国债。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, industries that have traditionally operated independently – from energy to utilities to transportation – are moving quickly toward cross-sector collaboration, radically altering the business environment, and creating opportunities for new low-carbon business models to thrive.",
        "传统上一直独立经营的能源、公用事业、交通运输等行业已迅速走向跨部门合作，不仅从根本上改变了经营环境，还为全新低碳商业模式创造了茁壮成长的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure of Lehman Brothers in 2008 not only roiled global financial markets, but also brought global trade practically to a standstill as wholesale banks refused to fund each other for fear of counterparty failure.",
        "2008年的雷曼兄弟倒闭事件不仅动摇了全球金融市场，还让全球贸易陷入了事实上的停顿，因为对交易对手倒闭的担忧使得批发银行拒绝彼此提供融资。"
    ],
    [
        "That is nearly double the four-percentage-point increase that was initially envisioned in the 12th Five-Year Plan, which is about to come to an end.",
        "其比重增长比即将结束的十二五规划一开始所构想的四个百分点高出近一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "As US President in the 1980’s, the conservative icon Ronald Reagan described his approach to fiscal policy as “starve the beast”: cutting taxes will eventually force people to accept less government spending.",
        "作为保守派标志性人物，罗纳德·里根（Ronald Reagan）在其20世纪80年代担任美国总统期间将其财政政策描述为“饿死官僚巨兽”：减税将最终迫使人们接受更少的政府开支。"
    ],
    [
        "That will be unfair.",
        "这么说并不公平。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the technologies and situations that brain-machine interfacing devices present might seem new and unfamiliar, they pose few new ethical challenges.",
        "尽管脑机接口设备所牵扯到的技术和状况可能不为人知，但它们所带来的道德挑战却是我们所熟悉的。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, one ethical issue on which neither candidate has campaigned has been shown to have the potential to move voters.",
        "有趣的是，有一个两党候选人在竞选中都还没有涉及到的一个伦理问题却有可能会打动选民。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of our moral sentiments and moral motivations are the product of biological evolution.",
        "我们的某些道德观或者道德动机都是生物进化的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why it is time for Japan’s leaders to shift their focus from the demand-focused first and second arrows to the supply-oriented third arrow: a new growth strategy.",
        "因此，日本领导人应该将注意力从聚焦于需求的第一和第二支箭转向供给导向的第三支箭：新的增长战略。"
    ],
    [
        "So America and Europe must help him reach this conclusion.",
        "因此，美国和欧盟必须帮助他做出正确的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that there is nothing Western governments can do.",
        "这并不是说西方政府无事可做。"
    ],
    [
        "Pensioners do spend the money they receive, so this revenue isn’t wasted; but it could be better spent to propel stronger economic growth.",
        "虽然养老金领取者也在花钱消费，不至于令这笔收入闲置； 但它其实可以被善用以推动更强劲的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "A secular and pragmatic response, which makes Islam a private matter; A conservative stance that reconciles cultural, religious, and familial ties with ‘Britishness’; A radical response to the perceived collision between the foreign policies of their new homelands and the welfare of the Islamic world.",
        "世俗的以及现实主义的反应，这样使得伊斯兰成为一件个人的事情； 调和文化、宗教以及家族联系与“英国国民性”的保守立场；"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, more nitrogen fertilizer is applied in agriculture than is fixed naturally in all terrestrial ecosystems, and nitric-oxide production from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass also surpasses natural emissions.",
        "氮肥料也大量运用在自然生态系统中。 由于化石生物的燃烧而产生的一氧化氮也超过了自然界释放的总量。"
    ],
    [
        "And where did the Generalissimo find the inspiration for this claim?",
        "中国声称对于这片水域的所有权已经有了上千年历史。"
    ],
    [
        "In case of insolvency, a bank’s computers would not be turned off, its employees would not instantly be dismissed, and payment transactions would not collapse.",
        "在发生破产案时，银行的电脑不会关闭，其雇员不会被马上遣散，支付交易也不会陷入崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "With thriving economies came increased strategic clout, leading to the rise of regional geopolitics shaped by national interests and fears, rather than by external forces.",
        "和经济繁荣一起到来的是战略实力的增加，这使得地区地缘政治开始受国家利益和忧虑主导，而不再是外部势力。"
    ],
    [
        "In suburban areas near Paris, such as the town of Sarcelles, known for its climate of religious and ethnic tolerance, groups of young people have deliberately targeted Jewish properties.",
        "在法国近郊地区，比如以宗教和种族容忍氛围著名的萨尔塞勒镇（Sarcelles），年轻人们有组织地故意针对犹太人财产发动攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "The shift away from a “Europe without borders,” instigated by images of refugees walking across internal frontiers, was fortified by the news that most of those who carried out last month’s Paris attacks came from Belgium, and that some may have entered the EU via the Balkans, posing as refugees.",
        "远离“没有边界的欧洲”的变化因为难民穿越欧洲内部边界的影响而被煽动，因为上个月巴黎袭击的大部分恐怖分子来自比利时、其中一些以难民身份从巴尔干半岛进入欧盟而得到强化。"
    ],
    [
        "If he becomes indigent after receiving a residence permit, he cannot automatically be returned to his home country, as was possible before.",
        "如果他在取得居留许可后陷入贫困，也不可能如以往一样被遣返回祖国。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the US remains the world’s leading destination for FDI, accounting for 15% of global flows.",
        "实事求是地说，美国仍是世界最大的FDI目标国，占全球FDI流量的15%。"
    ],
    [
        "“There are things I’d like to do with my family that we just can’t do here, such as [going to] museums, amusement parks, or large sporting events.”",
        "“有些想和家人一起做的事在这儿根本做不了，比方说参观博物馆、游乐园，或观看大型体育赛事。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond that, we need to end the policies that are contributing to their desperate flight.",
        "除此之外，我们还必须结束导致他们绝望地逃亡的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Zionists in Palestine rejoiced in 1947, following the UN General Assembly vote for partition into a Jewish and an Arab state.",
        "巴勒斯坦的犹太复国主义者在1947年的联合国大会投票后拒绝分为一个犹太国家和一个阿拉伯国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The current distance is rooted as much in ignorance as in hard political issues, many of which go beyond what arts and culture can realistically address.",
        "因为目前在两种文明的对立问题上，距离感植根于与棘手政治问题同等严峻的文化无知之上，而其中许多问题已经超出了艺术与文化所能解决的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "Protection, settlement, and integration.",
        "保护、安置和融合。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that the gap between the emerging and advanced countries has narrowed greatly in the last three decades.",
        "好消息是新兴国家与发达国家之间的差距在过去三十年里已经大大缩小了。"
    ],
    [
        "Before long, Sweden had succumbed to deflation, from which it is still struggling to recover.",
        "不久，瑞典就陷入了通缩，至今仍无法顺利复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2000, growing political pressure finally led to a consensus between the German government and energy companies, which agreed to limit the life span of nuclear-power plants to 32 years.",
        "2000年，越来越强的政治压力最终导致德国政府和能源企业达成共识，同意将核电厂的寿命限制在32年之内。"
    ],
    [
        "This trend must be reversed, before it structurally cripples the advanced world and sweeps up the emerging economies, too.",
        "这一趋势必须扭转，否则它将破坏发达经济的结构，并让新兴经济体也陷入困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, in Austria, the upcoming presidential election – pitting Hofer against independent left-wing candidate Alexander Van der Bellen – will be more about the country’s politics than about its economy.",
        "与此同时，在奥地利，即将到来的总统选举——霍福尔对阵独立左翼候选人亚历山大·范德贝伦（Alexander Van der Bellen）——的政治意义大于经济意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Britons will soon start spending again and economic growth will ensue.",
        "因此，英国的支出很快就会复苏，经济增长也会再次启动。"
    ],
    [
        "Bilateral trade agreements have been gaining traction lately.",
        "双边贸易协议最近呈现了蓬勃发展的势头。"
    ],
    [
        "The ESDP does not necessarily require Security Council authorization as a condition for its missions, and it retains an independent role in executing them.",
        "该政策并不一定要求安理会授权作为其使命的先决条件。 而且，它也在执行使命上保持独立作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The emphasis on loyalty is particularly glaring on the national-security front.",
        "对效忠的强调在国家安全方面最为明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Greece – the one country that remains, to some extent, in crisis mode – continues to muddle through.",
        "甚至是希腊——从某种程度讲，它是唯一一个仍陷在危机模式中的国家——也一直能够勉强维持。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end IMF surveillance should include regular updates on supervisory regimes in systemically important countries.",
        "为了达到这个目标，IMF的监管应该包括定期对一些重要国家进行监管。"
    ],
    [
        "They must also ensure that career choices are as open to their Muslim citizens as they are to everyone else.",
        "他们还必须确保事业的选择像其他任何人一样也向穆斯林公民敞开。"
    ],
    [
        "At a stroke, Citi executives demonstrated both their continued political clout in Washington and their continued desire to take on excessive amounts of financial risk (which is what this particular legal change permits).",
        "花旗集团此举既证明了他们在华盛顿仍拥有政治实力，也表明他们想继续承担过多金融风险（这一特别立法变化允许这样做）。"
    ],
    [
        "And the current regional and sectarian confrontation in the Middle East affects the nuclear negotiations directly.",
        "而当前的中东地区和宗派对抗才是核谈判的直接影响因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this is a winning strategy.",
        "不幸的是，这是一个成功的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Until they get it, the best investment advice may be to assess your adviser carefully, bearing in mind a well-tested performance metric: “Where are the customers' yachts?\"",
        "在此之前，最佳投资建议也许是仔细评估你的顾问，在脑海中随时铭记一个久经考验的业绩指标：“客户的游艇在那里？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "ASEAN has signed free-trade agreements (FTAs) with China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, and established an ASEAN economic community.",
        "东盟与中国、日本、印度、韩国、澳大利亚和新西兰签署了自由贸易协定（FTA），并成立了一个东盟经济共同体。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, according to a UN Human Rights Council report published earlier this year, South Sudanese government forces have been heavily implicated in such activities, which may explain why no one has been held accountable for the May 2015 murder of 130 children in Unity State.",
        "而且事实上，今年早些时候公布的一份联合国人权理事会报告显示，南苏丹政府军已经被大规模牵连进这些活动，这或许可以解释为什么2015年5月在团结州谋杀130名儿童的嫌犯至今逍遥法外。"
    ],
    [
        "The state capitalism of the Greek Bronze Age or the Inca Empire was not motivated by economic inefficiency; nor did it necessarily create a more efficient economy.",
        "希腊青铜时代和银家德国的国家资本主义的动机并非经济上的无效； 让经济更具效率也不是它们的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, as soon as the oil price exceeds two standard deviations of that equilibrium, they should start to ignore the fashionable advice of colleagues, analysts, and industry insiders.",
        "一旦石油价格超过这个均衡的两个标准差，就可以无视各同僚，分析师和业内人士那些跟风式的所谓建议了。"
    ],
    [
        "As in America, the issue is not racial and class reservations and preferences, but ensuring high-quality primary education for all, rich and poor alike.",
        "正如美国的情况，问题不在于种族和种姓保留和优先，而在于确保所有人，无论贫富都能接受到高质量的初级教育。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s a futile quest.",
        "这样的努力是徒劳的。"
    ],
    [
        "In truth, however, other than reflecting the French preference for the politics of the street, the two phenomena have nothing in common.",
        "但是，实际上，这两者之间除了反映法国人对街头政治的偏好以外没有任何共同之处。"
    ],
    [
        "A Devaluation Option for Southern Europe",
        "解决南欧问题的方案——货币贬值"
    ],
    [
        "Modern services – such as Internet connectivity technology, or financial, legal, and other professional business services – account for less than 10% of Asia’s service economy, well below the 20-25% in advanced economies.",
        "包括互联网接入技术、或金融、法律和其他专业商务服务在内的现代服务业在亚洲服务经济中占比不到10%，这一比例远低于发达经济体20%至25%的份额。"
    ],
    [
        "Their misery, however, is not the consequence of unbridled capitalism, but of a capitalism that has been bridled in just the wrong way.",
        "但是，他们的苦难不是放肆的资本主义造成的，而是被错误地约束的资本主义造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Given all this, Saudi Arabia could no longer be expected to incur the growing short- and long-term cost of being the stabilizing market force that it had been for decades.",
        "考虑到这些因素，不必期待沙特阿拉伯像过去几十年来那样继续承担日益增加的稳定市场的短期和长期成本。"
    ],
    [
        "His first year in office included a speech in Prague in which he established the goal of a nuclear-free world; a speech in Cairo promising a new approach to the Muslim world; and his Nobel Peace Prize speech, which promised to “bend history in the direction of justice.”",
        "在开罗的演讲上承诺将开启新的穆斯林世界； 而在诺贝尔和平奖获奖演讲中，他承诺“让历史驶上公正的方向”。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called C-6 might argue that, given their price-stability mandate, only central banks of countries whose economic fate might destabilize domestic prices should receive privileged access to domestic currency.",
        "所谓的C-6会说，在价格稳定使命的前提下，只有经济前景可能破坏国内价格稳定的国家的央行才应该拥有获得本币的特权。"
    ],
    [
        "Her mother was born there, and so was she.",
        "她的母亲就出生在那里，她也是。"
    ],
    [
        "In earlier times, crises of much lesser intensity would have brought the military rushing onto the political stage, as happened in 1958, 1969, 1977, and 1999.",
        "追溯历史可以发现，程度轻得多的危机就会导致军方重返政坛，1958年、1969年、1977年和1999年都发生过此类事件。"
    ],
    [
        "But such contagion risk is trivial compared to the wildfire that could be ignited by imposing losses on small depositors.",
        "但这一传染风险与让小储户承受损失所可能引起的燎原大火比起来根本不值一提。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, this is not surprising.",
        "从某种意义上讲，这并不值得大惊小怪。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s right: with the American consumer on ice in the aftermath of the biggest consumption binge in history, the US economy has drawn its sustenance disproportionately from foreign markets.",
        "这就对了：在经历了历史上最大的消费狂欢后，美国消费者再也无力回天，美国经济需要大量依靠外国市场过活。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2001, Berlusconi signed a “contract with the Italians” containing promises that have gone unfulfilled.",
        "2001年，贝鲁斯科尼签订《与意大利公民契约》，包括种种无法兑现的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "And Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, at age 41, is Italy’s youngest prime minister ever.",
        "41岁的总理伦齐也是意大利历史上最年轻的总理。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Zhou indicated that the SRF will adopt at least a 15-year time horizon for investments, rather than the 7-10-year horizon adopted by many private equity firms, to account for the slower return on infrastructure investment in developing countries.",
        "例如，周小川表示丝路基金将采取至少15年时间的投资项目，而不是大多数私募股权公司采取的7-10年，因为发展中国家的基础设施投资回报率相对较慢。"
    ],
    [
        "One is likelier to be struck by lightning than to be killed by a terrorist.",
        "人们死于雷击的可能性都比恐怖行动要大。"
    ],
    [
        "When doctors from the developing world complete their residency programs in the US and UK, they rarely return home.",
        "如果来自发展中世界的医生在美国和英国完成住院阶段，他们很少会回国。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems that, like Abe, markets recognized the need to balance the imperatives of debt reduction and economic growth.",
        "似乎市场与安倍一样认识到平衡降低债务和经济增长的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Their version of tax reform would mean reducing deductions for the wealthy and corporations, with no rate reductions.",
        "他们的税收改革路线图意味着减少富人和公司减税额，他们的税率不再能够削减。"
    ],
    [
        "Fueling Israelis’ fear and resentment of Palestinians does not only undermine the chances of a political solution; it also exacerbates Palestinians’ frustration and anger with Israelis.",
        "激起以色列人对巴勒斯坦人的恐惧和不满不仅破坏了政治解决机会； 同时还加剧了巴勒斯坦人对以色列人的失望和愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Ukraine demands a bilateral protocol on market access, which would force Russia to abolish roughly 100 trade sanctions, primarily in agriculture.",
        "首先，乌克兰要求签订有关市场准入的双边协议，迫使俄罗斯废除主要集中在农业方面的将近100项贸易禁令。"
    ],
    [
        "Some economists certainly think so.",
        "一些经济学家显然认为是的。"
    ],
    [
        "He disliked his predecessor, Mikhail Gorbachev, as much his predecessors disliked their predecessors.",
        "他讨厌他的前任戈尔巴乔夫一如他的前任者不喜欢他们各自的前任者一样。"
    ],
    [
        "As a recent article in the Financial Times points out, in two areas notoriously immune to productivity increases, education and health care, technology is already reducing the demand for skilled labor.",
        "《金融时报》最近有一篇文章指出，在出了名地不受生产率提高影响的教育和医疗两大领域，技术的应用都已经开始影响对熟练劳动力的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "While a basic income can replace some egregiously dysfunctional welfare spending, it cannot substitute for, say, public education and health care, preschool nutrition programs, or employment guarantees in public works.",
        "进本收入可以取代一些被极端扭曲的福利支出，但它无法代替（比如）公共教育和医疗、学前营养计划或公职岗位就业保障。"
    ],
    [
        "For many, Alexander Hamilton has become a contemporary hero.",
        "对许多人来说，亚历山大·汉密尔顿称得上是一位当代英雄。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Chinese Internet is evolving and adapting in ways that shore up the regime’s legitimacy.",
        "确实，中国互联网正在朝巩固其政权合法性的方面演进和适应。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, when it comes to workers dedicated to our diets, we can add some of the 4% of the labor force who, working as nurses, pharmacists, and educators, help us solve problems resulting from having consumed too many calories or the wrong kinds of nutrients.",
        "事实上，就致力于我们的饮食的工人而言，不妨加上另外4%的劳动力，他们是护士、药剂师和教育者，帮助我们解决因消费过多卡路里或错误的营养素所造成的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But few businesses are currently able to raise money to do so.",
        "我们想要通过让企业不仅投资于这些项目，而且还投资于那些具有风险或者前途未卜的项目来迅速提高开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Consolidating peace following violent conflict has little chance of success unless jobs are created and the economy is quickly stabilized and brought onto a path of investment and growth with low inflation.",
        "除非创造就业机会、经济迅速得到稳定并且走上低通胀的投资和增长之路，否则，暴力冲突后巩固和平就几乎没有成功的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Have the Dutch now done it again, holding back the wave of populist politics that seemed to be threatening Europe after last year’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s victory in the United States?",
        "现在，荷兰人再次建成了一座大坝——阻挡民粹主义浪潮政治的大坝吗？ 自去年英国脱欧公投和特朗普当选美国总统以来，这股民粹主义浪潮便威胁着欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "If the US moves to a territorial system, it should follow suit.",
        "如果美国转向领地税收制度，也应该这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "That demographic trend could unlock future growth by advancing economic diversification, spurring domestic consumption, and supporting industrialization.",
        "这样一种人口趋势完全可能通过推进经济多样化、刺激国内消费和支持产业化来达到解锁未来经济增长的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "These structural adjustments are aimed at reducing China’s dependence on heavy industry and manufacturing exports while fostering domestic consumption, promoting higher-tech activities, and strengthening the services sector.",
        "这些结构性调整的目标是降低中国对重工业和制造业出口的依赖，同时提振国内消费，扶持高科技活动，并加强服务业。"
    ],
    [
        "Summit meetings were held and agreements signed.",
        "但并没有自由贸易跟进。"
    ],
    [
        "ANKARA – After decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities, and thus to guarantee that the rule of law is applied equally for all Turkish citizens, regardless of individuals’ religion, ethnicity, or language.",
        "发自安卡拉——在长达几十年的故意忽视和不信任之后，土耳其官方终于开始采取一系列措施来保障该国非穆斯林群体的权利，并以此确保所有土耳其公民，无论拥有何种信仰，种族和语言，都能平等地享受到法治。"
    ],
    [
        "With regard to mitigating portfolio risk, the increase in government bond prices leaves little room for this traditionally safe asset to compensate for a possible decline in stocks.",
        "在降低投资组合风险方面，政府债券价格的上涨减少了这一传统安全资产弥补股价潜在下跌的空间。"
    ],
    [
        "The ANC’s identity as the party that liberated South Africa from the scourge of apartheid in 1994 has delivered it every election since.",
        "1994年，非国大党将南非从种族隔离的桎梏中解放出来，这一政党身份让它能够赢得此后的每一次选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking ahead, stopping the eurozone financial crisis does not require political union or a commitment of German financial support.",
        "展望未来，停止欧元区金融危机并不要求政治联盟或德国的财政支持承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the World Economic Forum is predicting $21.3 trillion in losses from these diseases in developing countries by 2030.",
        "事实上，世界经济论坛目前预测到2030年发展中国家因上述疾病造成的损失高达21. 3万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The American public has proven remarkably susceptible to the manipulation of truth, which increasingly dominates the country’s political discourse.",
        "美国公众极为容易受到真相的操纵，而这越发统治着国家的政治话语。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, that was the course advocated in most international discussions.",
        "历史上的讨论多数是遵循这个思路。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Two new studies show, once again, the magnitude of the inequality problem plaguing the United States.",
        "纽约—两项新研究再次证明，不平等问题的程度正在困扰美国。"
    ],
    [
        "But don't hold your breath.",
        "但也请不要屏住呼吸（但也请做好持久的准备-译者）。"
    ],
    [
        "(Such low-hanging fruit has been increasingly scarce for the Republican Party, which is beleaguered by the perception that it has been hijacked by its most extreme elements.)",
        "（对共和党来说，如此良机正变得越来越少，共和党越来越感到被其最极端元素绑架了。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Last July, Chelsea Football Club paid a former footballer £50,000 ($62,000) to agree not to speak of the abuse he allegedly endured in the 1970s.",
        "去年7月，切尔西足球俱乐部用50,000英镑让一位前球员封口，不要说出他据称在20世纪70年代所经历的虐待。"
    ],
    [
        "Next month’s mobilizations against fossil-fuel projects are an important step in the right direction.",
        "下个月的反化石燃料项目动员活动是向正确方向迈出的重要一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Often, the security forces are holdovers from the old regime, and there is no independent judicial system.",
        "通常安全部队都来自旧政府的残余势力，独立的司法制度也没有建立。"
    ],
    [
        "Shareholders used to put up with relatively meager dividends compared to today.",
        "与当今相比，股东们大多容忍了相对较低的股息。"
    ],
    [
        "The call for democratizing the Middle East has become a battle cry for the Bush administration, especially after the invasion and occupation of Iraq.",
        "尤其在美国入侵和占领伊拉克以后，呼吁中东民主化对美国政府而言已成为一种战争口号。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, rather than atrophying, the amygdala, the seat of emotional memories, becomes hyperactive both in post-traumatic stress disorder and depressive illness, and there is evidence from animal studies of a hypertrophy of nerve cells after repeated stress.",
        "另一方面，在创伤后压力障碍症和抑郁症中，类扁桃体--感情记忆的所在--非但不萎缩，还会变得亢进。 动物研究得到的证据还显示反复的压力之后神经细胞会变得过度肥大。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s victory has sounded a death knell for the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Obama had made the centerpiece of his Asia strategy.",
        "特朗普的胜选相当于给12个国家的跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）敲响了丧钟，而TPP是奥巴马亚洲战略的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, America’s tactics, Krepon argues, heighten “its estrangement with Pakistan.",
        "此外，克里潘认为美国的策略加深了“它与巴基斯坦的不和”。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there is room for debate on that topic.",
        "事实上，就这个问题是有探讨空间的。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, when the chimpanzee itself was new and interesting (in the 1700’s), contemporary scholars commonly judged it to be overwhelmingly similar to the human form – so much so, that it was commonly classified as a variant of humans.",
        "毕竟，当黑猩猩刚被发现，还引起人们很大兴趣的时候（大约是在18世纪），多数学者都认为它与人类极其近似－甚至普遍把它作为人类的变种。"
    ],
    [
        "But the multilateral approach, using the World Trade Organization, has proved less effective than they hoped, so now they are attempting to achieve this goal through bilateral and regional agreements.",
        "但事实证明利用世贸组织等多边形式并不像他们所希望的那样有效，因此他们现在正试图借助双边和区域协定来实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "“This is as intractable a problem as you get,” he admitted after a wasted year of more error than trial.",
        "“这是你所能遇到的最棘手的问题，”他在浪费了一年时间，犯了无数错误后承认。"
    ],
    [
        "The Spanish had grown so inured to acts of violence from Basque separatists that the murder of 191 people in Madrid by Islamist extremists in 2004 was met with remarkable sang-froid.",
        "西班牙人对巴斯克分离主义份子的暴行麻木不仁，以致于2004年伊斯兰极端份子在马德里杀害191人的暴行并未引起多大反应；"
    ],
    [
        "China’s growth slowdown is not in itself surprising or alarming.",
        "中国的增长减速本身并不令人惊奇或值得警惕。"
    ],
    [
        "But, after the Philippines withdrew, China occupied the shoal – and, despite a mutual-defense treaty between the US and the Philippines, the US did little in response.",
        "但是，在菲律宾海军舰只撤出后，中国占领了黄岩岛，而尽管美国和菲律宾签订了共同防务条约，美国对此几乎无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1930s and 1940s were a time of great social and political change in the region.",
        "20世纪30和40年代是拉丁美洲发生重大社会和政治变化的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Its deployment in Lebanon, its fighting capacity, and its thousands of missiles are all still intact.",
        "他在黎巴嫩的部署，战斗力和数以千计的导弹仍旧原封不动。"
    ],
    [
        "His party’s legislative priority, he added, would continue to be tax cuts.",
        "他还说，他的共和党的立法重点仍然是减税。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, US policy toward nuclear non-proliferation and the NPT regime is a case in point of double standards and the lack of sensitivity to other countries’ security concerns.",
        "与此同时，美国对核不扩散及NPT体系的政策完全显示了他的双重标准和对其他国家的安全考虑缺乏敏感。"
    ],
    [
        "Both were among the longest structures of their kind and were thought to be just natural applications of existing technology.",
        "这两座大桥拥有各自类型中最长的构架，被看成是现有技术的自然应用。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Poland and Lithuania border Kaliningrad, Russia’s exclave in the middle of Europe (and the scene of its most recent combat-readiness exercise).",
        "最后，波兰和立陶宛都和俄罗斯的中欧飞地（及其最近的备战行动地）加里宁格勒接壤。"
    ],
    [
        "Is China Overplaying Its Hand?",
        "中国是否用力过猛了?"
    ],
    [
        "As they come under pressure, their transformations are unlikely to be peaceful.",
        "随着他们承受压力，转型不可能和平。"
    ],
    [
        "In developed countries from 1945 to 1975, capitalism brought rapid growth, an average of 5% per year for long periods.",
        "在1945年到1975年期间，发达国家的资本主义带来了快速增长，很长一段时间都是每年5%。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s mission in Lebanon is risky.",
        "欧盟在黎巴嫩的使命充满风险。"
    ],
    [
        "This can be explained partly by the fact that the United States boasts the world’s deepest and most liquid financial markets.",
        "这在某种程度上可以用美国拥有全世界最深厚也最具流动性的金融市场的事实来解释。"
    ],
    [
        "China ran a very large current-account surplus during the early 2000s and accumulated a vast stock of foreign reserves – including at least several trillion dollars’ worth of US Treasury debt.",
        "21世纪最初几年中，中国存在巨额经常项目盈余，累积了庞大的外汇储备存量——包括至少数万亿美元的美国国债。"
    ],
    [
        "Two people who have never run a presidential campaign, and whose political instincts contradict each other’s, are now running Trump’s operation.",
        "两个从未管理过总统竞选、且政治直觉相互矛盾的人正在管理特朗普的总统选举。"
    ],
    [
        "But the authorities remain cautious, given that China’s economic outlook depends heavily on external conditions, which is the source of most current uncertainty.",
        "但当局仍然谨慎，因为中国的经济前景严重依赖外部条件，而外部条件目前充满了不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Festivals should happen only when they turn up on the calendar.",
        "节日应该在它到达的那一天才发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump did not accomplish much in his first 100 days.",
        "特朗普在就任首100天内并未取得多少成就。"
    ],
    [
        "And with each new attack, in France or elsewhere, the trauma is reawakened.",
        "而伴随着法国和其他国家的每一次新袭击，这个创口都会被再次揭开。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of applying their home countries’ ethical requirements and standards in the countries where they operate, Western companies draw a veil of subsidiaries, contractors, and supply chains over behavior that consumers and investors would consider reprehensible.",
        "西方公司在经营所在国不采用母国道德要求和标准，而是通过各种分支机构、承包商和供应链掩盖消费者和投资者可能认为不道德的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Russian officials have indicated that Putin is prepared to become the first head of state to meet with Kim, who is eager to deepen ties with Russia to compensate for his faltering relationship with China.",
        "事实上，俄罗斯官员表示，普京准备成为第一个与金正恩会晤的国家元首。 金正恩渴望通过深化朝俄关系补偿朝中关系的恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, good economic policies – including openness – benefit the domestic economy first and foremost, and the price of bad economic policies is primarily paid domestically as well.",
        "恰恰相反，明智的经济政策——包括开放——首先是要有利于国内经济，承担经济政策不善所付出的代价也同样如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But the CDF’s formal proceedings never even hinted at the elephant in the chambers of Diaoyutai.",
        "但CDF的正式进程与钓鱼台国宾馆内的真正关注点一点关系都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "For the world, this trend has been more decisive: maximum ACE was reached in 1994, and has plummeted for the past three years, while hurricanes around the world have for the past year been about as inactive as at any time since records began being kept.",
        "对全世界来说，以下这个趋势已是更具决定性的：ACE在1994年达到了最大值，并已在过去三年里大幅下降，而自从有记录以来，世界各地的飓风在过去的一年中几乎可以说是没有动静。"
    ],
    [
        "Debt exceeding that amount would be left to the responsibility of the member states.",
        "超过这一限度的债务将由成员国自己负责。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, financial markets are beginning to address longevity risk.",
        "幸运的是，金融市场正开始分析长寿风险。"
    ],
    [
        "And the crisis itself almost surely will spread.",
        "而危机本身几乎肯定会蔓延开来。"
    ],
    [
        "In September, General George Casey, the senior American military commander in Iraq, testified to Congress that modern insurgencies last about a decade, and that the Iraqi army had only one battalion capable of fighting without help from American military forces.",
        "九月，驻伊美军指挥官乔治•凯西（George Casey）将军向国会证实，现代化的武装叛乱已经持续大约十年，在没有美军支援的情况下，伊拉克军队只有一个营的力量可以与之抵抗。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, war between world powers is no longer a realistic option, owing to the threat of mutual nuclear destruction.",
        "幸运的是，在相互核毁灭的威胁之下，大国强权之间的战争已经不再是一个现实的选项。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the 1980’s, governments have been pressed to promote exports to earn foreign exchange and import food.",
        "自从二十世纪八十年代以来，各国政府受到压力，要求推动出口以赚取外汇以及进口食品。"
    ],
    [
        "Some resist appreciation actively and openly; others do so in a less visible manner.",
        "有些国家积极并公开地抵制升值； 另一些国家则做得不这么明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, it should emphasize policies beyond aid and trade that have an equal, if not greater, impact on poor countries’ development prospects.",
        "第二，它应该强调援助和贸易之外的、对贫穷国家的发展前景具有同样（如果不是更大）推动的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe plans to supplement the easy-money strategy with an increase in government spending of some $120 billion, or 2% of GDP.",
        "安倍晋三计划在宽松的货币战略之外辅之以政府增支1 200亿美元（或GDP的2%）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, can we wait?",
        "它代表了提出国的创造性和社会承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, though the region continues to be beset by serious problems, the gates of hell have remained closed – as they have in Rwanda.",
        "因此，尽管该地区一直受到严重问题的困扰，但地狱之门仍然没有打开——卢旺达也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Another obstacle to applying the French model elsewhere is that France enjoys certain unique advantages that are arguably critical to its success.",
        "另一个在其他地方法国模式的障碍是法国享有某些导致其成功的独特优势。"
    ],
    [
        "I have been arguing for four years that our business-cycle problems call for more aggressively expansionary monetary and fiscal policies, and that our biggest problems would quickly melt away were such policies to be adopted.",
        "四年来，我一直指出，我们的商业周期问题需要更积极的货币和财政扩张政策，只有采取这样的政策，我们最大的问题才能较快地解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Defending Japanese Defense",
        "防卫日本的国防"
    ],
    [
        "In Kim, a public-health professor who is now President of Dartmouth College and previously led the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department, the United States has put forward a good candidate.",
        "金辰勇是公共卫生专家，现任达特茅斯大学校长，此前曾担任过世界卫生组织艾滋病部门。 这是一个相当好的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, these parties should take a binary approach, addressing both “hardware” factors (which remain constant, such as physical distance to treatment centers and elongated supply chains) and “software” factors (the intangibles that vary greatly in each region, such as the role of family and cultural beliefs).",
        "这些方面应该齐心协力双管齐下，同时解决“硬件”因素（这些因素是固定的，比如到治疗中心的物理距离和延长的供应链）和“软件”因素（因地区不同而大相径庭的无形因素，比如家庭和文化信仰的作用）。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the US Department of Justice apparently decided to fight the “backdating” practices, which where especially common in Silicon Valley.",
        "美国证券交易委员会和司法部显然决定同所谓“倒签”现象做斗争。 这一现象在硅谷司空见惯。"
    ],
    [
        "Through dialogue, research, advice, technical assistance, and training, the IMF has helped create a global community of practice.",
        "通过对话、研究、建议、技术支持和培训，IMF帮助构建了一个全球实践界（community of practice）。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters at any point in time is to alleviate a society’s immediate binding constraints – another reason why different policies are needed for different places.",
        "任何时候重要的问题都是减轻社会当前的强力局限，这也是为何不同的地方需要不同的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "It amounts to a pre-approved loan that eligible countries can obtain whenever they want, on the basis of the strength of their fundamentals and policy record. It is thus the perfect tool for preventing self-fulfilling liquidity crises.",
        "这相当于符合资格的国家可以根据其基本面状况以及政策记录随时获取一笔预先批准好的贷款,因此也是防止自我强化型流动性危机的完美工具。"
    ],
    [
        "But when Putin invaded Ukraine, China showed the hollowness of its adherence to this principle. Instead of condemning Russia for invading and annexing Crimea, it abstained at the United Nations Security Council, and has offered more criticism of Ukraine’s new popular government than it has of Putin’s thuggish behavior.",
        "但中国并没有谴责俄罗斯入侵并吞并克里米亚，而是在联合国安理会投了弃权票，更多地批评乌克兰新选出的政府而不是普京的暴行。"
    ],
    [
        "A federal appeals court justice struck down a North Carolina law of this sort, because it suppressed African-American turnout with “almost surgical precision.”",
        "一位联邦上诉法院法官否决了北卡罗莱纳州的一项此类法律，因为该法律以“外科手术般的精确度”打压非洲裔美国人的投票率。"
    ],
    [
        "Strict border controls can never be more than one part of the solution to the EU’s migration challenge.",
        "加强边境控制永远无法解决欧盟移民所面临的全部问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Following that failed attack, US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown jointly pushed a conference in London to propose solutions for the previously overlooked crises in Yemen.",
        "这次失败的袭击活动后，美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马和英国首相戈登·布朗联合发起召开伦敦会议，为此前被忽略的也门危机寻找解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "But the consequences are equally grave.",
        "但后果一样严重。"
    ],
    [
        "What sort of democratic reform, then, might be envisaged?",
        "那么，究竟什么样的民主改革应当尽快落实？"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, German critics complain that the ECB’s monetary policy is not geared to German economic conditions.",
        "最后，德国批评者抱怨欧洲央行的货币政策不与德国的经济状况相契合。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the new purchasers have a similar attitude.",
        "一些新的资源买家也抱有相同态度。"
    ],
    [
        "But that would require the TPP to foster, not impede, the flow of knowledge around the Pacific Rim.",
        "但这需要TPP促进而不是阻碍环太平洋的知识流动。"
    ],
    [
        "I favored the approach of \"dollarization\", or replacing the Peso by the US dollar and thereby ending the fear of a future change of the exchange rate.",
        "我支持“美元化”（以美元取代比索）的方法，以消除人们对未来汇率变动的恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks then began to focus on low and stable inflation as their primary objective, and became more independent from their political masters.",
        "此后，央行开始将稳定的低通胀作为其首要目标，并越来越独立于行政。"
    ],
    [
        "Yemen, for its part, is considered among the clearest examples of the tangible consequences of climate change.",
        "也门则是气候变化后果最真切的写照之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Political fervor, it seems, has not vanished in the land of Rousseau and Danton.",
        "看起来政治热情并没有在孕育过卢梭和丹东的国土上消失。"
    ],
    [
        "The old deadlock on security issues is relaxing, and the Japanese public, recognizing the changed international environment, mostly embraces the Self-Defense Forces' deployment in pursuit of international and regional responsibilities.",
        "在安全问题上的僵局开始缓和，大多数日本公众在意识到国际环境的变化以后都支持自卫队出兵海外以履行其国际和地区性的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Romney has provided few details about his deficit-reduction plan.",
        "罗姆尼并没有给出其赤字削减计划的细节。"
    ],
    [
        "But if effective demand is adequate, average skill and average good fortune will be enough.”",
        "而如果有效需求充分的话，只要拥有平均水平的技术和财富就足够了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is strange but true that even American unilateralism under President George W. Bush has not provoked a genuine debate over Europe’s future role in the world.",
        "奇怪但却真实的是即便美国在布什总统领导下实行的单边主义也未能引发关于欧洲在世界的未来角色的辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "To the rest of the world, Clinton represents continuity, and Trump means dramatic change.",
        "在外界看来，克林顿代表连续性，而特朗普则代表戏剧性的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Gallup, only 7% of Muslims are politically radical and condone the use of violence, and their motives are not so much religious as inspired by the demeaning political and social treatment that Muslims are perceived to suffer.",
        "据盖洛普公司的调查，只有7 ％的穆斯林在政治上属于激进并宽恕对暴力的使用，而且他们的动机，与其说源于自宗教信仰，还不如说源于被所见的穆斯林所遭受的低下的政治和社会待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been myriad academic contributions to the debate as well.",
        "学界也纷纷为这一话题出谋划策。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is difficult to have so much confidence in the power of “free and fearless reasoning,” especially if it is supposed to be “applied through the processes of popular government” – which presumably requires that it influence elections.",
        "今天，尤其在本应“由民主政府通过特定程序来贯彻执行的前提下”，很难对“自由和无畏推理”的力量抱有如此强烈的信心——这个假设成立的前提条件是“自由和无畏的推理”能够影响选举进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, Malaysia has no law that would impose the death penalty on apostates.",
        "目前，马来西亚对于背离宗教者并无法律规定判处死刑。"
    ],
    [
        "There have also been extensive beatings and arbitrary detentions.",
        "整个过程充满了无情的殴打以及肆意的囚禁。"
    ],
    [
        "So in a sense, the Chinese bubble – as much an intellectual and political bubble as an economic one – has burst.",
        "因此，从某种程度上说，中国泡沫——智识上、政治上、经济上的泡沫——已经破灭了。"
    ],
    [
        "That does not mean that there is not or cannot be such a connection, but rather that the scientific research needed to prove (or disprove) it must still be conducted.",
        "但这并不是说这样的关系不存在或不可能存在，而是说必需实际进行证明（或否定）其存在的科学研究。"
    ],
    [
        "Such media capture is vital to enable governments – especially those pursuing what could be unpopular policies – to sustain public support.",
        "这些媒体捕获行为是政府——特别是实施可能不受欢迎的政策的政府——保持公共支持的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy security, climate change, the rise of China, and the revival of Russia are among the many issues that require effective responses.",
        "能源安全、气候变化、中国崛起、俄国复兴是需要进行有效应对的众多问题之中的几个。"
    ],
    [
        "Tellingly, Benedict quoted Gilles Bernheim, the Chief Rabbi of France, who has expressed similar views on the threats to conventional family life.",
        "本笃十六世还引用了法国首席大拉比Gilles Bernheim的话，后者表达了类似的传统家庭生活受到了威胁的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "By liberalizing energy prices, governments allowed markets to encourage conservation and new supply.",
        "政府通过解除能源价格管制允许市场来鼓励节能和寻找新的供应源。"
    ],
    [
        "Ominously, the conflict looks increasingly like a proxy war between Iran and the Sunni Arab states, which regard their own minority Shia populations as a potential Iranian fifth column.",
        "更不祥的是，这场冲突越来越像一场伊朗和逊尼派阿拉伯国家之间的代理人战争，而后者将本国的少数什叶派教徒视为伊朗的第五纵队。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing short of a massive, Marshall Plan-style outlay of financial resources, especially to rebuild the Middle East, will ensure long-term stability.",
        "至少必须有规模相当于马歇尔计划的金融资源援助——特别是以重建中东为目标的援助——才能确保长期稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Another class of academic theories follows Bernanke (and, even earlier, Michael Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau, and Peter Garber) in attributing low long-term interest rates to the growing importance of emerging economies, but with the major emphasis on private savings rather than public savings.",
        "另一组学术理论支持伯南克（或为时更早的杜雷（Michael Dooley）、福克尔茨-朗道（David Folkerts-Landau）和加珀（Peter Garber）），将低长期利率归因于新兴经济体重要性的增加，但他们更强调私人储蓄，而非公共储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "Left unchecked, it will kill millions of people every year, and have serious adverse economic consequences for the world.",
        "据称（有待核实）这一问题每年要杀死数百万人，并且对世界经济表现造成严重的消极影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, this one will be no different.",
        "可悲的是这一篇也不会例外。"
    ],
    [
        "But it will not be enough.",
        "但光靠开发新药是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, by analyzing online comments about their products, manufacturers can identify which features consumers are most willing to pay for, and develop their business and investment strategies accordingly.",
        "此外，通过分析产品的在线评论，制造商可以识别哪些功能是消费者最愿意掏钱购买的，并据此开发商业和投资战略。"
    ],
    [
        "But cooperation – even just to exchange ideas and emulate best practices – can help the process considerably.",
        "但合作——哪怕仅仅是交换思路和模仿最佳实践——大大有助于这一过程。"
    ],
    [
        "“We are sitting on a time bomb,” Dr. Mugyenyi told me.",
        "“我们正坐在定时炸弹上，”莫缘依医生告诉我。"
    ],
    [
        "They have fueled tensions among member states.",
        "它们助长了成员国之间的紧张之势。"
    ],
    [
        "The devastation of World War I, however, highlighted the need for stronger international cooperation on peace-keeping, leading to the establishment of the League of Nations.",
        "但是，第一次世界大战凸显出需要更强的国际合作来维持和平，这催生了国际联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "In the second quarter of 2016, Alibaba announced that its revenue from China’s retail market had increased by 49% year on year; another online platform, Tencent, reported a 52% increase.",
        "2016年二季度，阿里巴巴公告其中国零售市场收入同比增加49%，而另一家在线平台公司腾讯公告收入增加52%。"
    ],
    [
        "Her husband, Jonathan Bennett, a retired philosophy professor, and her children supported her decision, but she refused to allow them to assist her suicide in any way, as doing so would have exposed them to the risk of a 14-year prison sentence.",
        "”她的决定得到了丈夫乔纳森·贝内特，一位退休哲学教授，和她的子女们的支持。 但她拒绝让他们以任何形式为她的自杀提供协助，因为这么做有可能使他们面临14年的刑期。"
    ],
    [
        "First, and most obviously, the supposed turn to the left is running out of steam, fast.",
        "第一而且是最为明显的是，所谓的左倾江河日下。"
    ],
    [
        "The very question of which states of mind, characteristics, and circumstances a language has words for tells us something about cultural peculiarities.",
        "一种语言用以描绘某种思想状态、特征和环境的词汇就能向我们展示一些文化特性。"
    ],
    [
        "Eastern Europeans’ gratitude lies elsewhere.",
        "东欧人的感激之情在别处。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the high-quality population data needed for credible estimates may not be available due to their “sensitive nature,” or because they never have been collected (sometimes the case in developing nations), or because refugee movements have made data obsolete.",
        "不仅如此，可靠估算所需的高质量人口数据也许因其“敏感性”而难以获取，也许根本就没有做过这方面的统计（有时在发展中国家会发生这种情况），也可能随着难民的流动这些数据已经失效。"
    ],
    [
        "Using local systems and capacities, it turns out, can strengthen them.",
        "事实表明，动用本地制度和能力能强化进展。"
    ],
    [
        "This neglect has left North Koreans perpetually on the edge of survival – and often with their palms extended to the international community, especially the South.",
        "而这种忽视行为已经将朝鲜人推到了死亡的边缘——并转而向国际社会伸手讨要食品，尤其是向韩国。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the US middle class is also falling behind.",
        "如今美国的中产阶级也步了前者的后尘。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina reportedly has the world’s third-largest shale-gas reserves, after the US and China.",
        "据报道，阿根廷拥有世界第三大页岩气储量，仅次于美国和中国。"
    ],
    [
        "FEZ – Since 2012, more than 12 million migrants and refugees have landed in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.",
        "费斯—2012年以来，有1,200万多移民和难民抵达欧洲、中东和北非。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is one more issue that negotiators must consider: financial services.",
        "但这些谈判者们还必须考虑一点：金融服务业。"
    ],
    [
        "If China maintains its growth momentum over the next two decades, the global system will face huge challenges.",
        "如果中国在以后二十年中继续维持其增长势头，全球体系将面临巨大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "And that could well be the greatest tragedy of all.",
        "美国正在倒行逆施，大玩抹黑他人的游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course there were challenges.",
        "当然，那时有那时的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are demanding that their monthly wage be almost tripled, to $70.",
        "如今她们要求将工资上涨三倍到70美元。"
    ],
    [
        "With all of that comes a culture of questioning that which was previously unquestioned – including how companies are run and whether an organization’s actions are ethical.",
        "随之而来的是对曾经禁区的质疑文化——包括质疑企业的运营方式和机构行为是否合乎道德。"
    ],
    [
        "Violent intelligence wars between Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) have become a brutal reality in South Asia.",
        "巴基斯坦国内情报局（ISI）和印度调查分析局（RAW）之间无所不用其极的情报大战已经成为南亚地区一个残酷的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Those directly involved in the Middle East’s myriad conflicts do not need any help generating heat.",
        "中东大小冲突的直接参与者不需要外界帮忙制造任何紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, despite China’s massive GDP and trade volume, the renminbi’s share in the global foreign-exchange market remains negligible.",
        "相反，尽管中国GDP和贸易量巨大，但人民币在全球外汇市场中的份额仍可忽略不计。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, existing and newly created jobs provide less of an earnings upside.",
        "与此同时，现有和新创造岗位给的薪水都不高。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s propaganda war on Ukraine – a well funded, widely distributed, and highly sophisticated media drive meant to undermine the Ukrainian government’s legitimacy – has been ongoing for years.",
        "俄罗斯在乌克兰的宣传战——用资金充裕、散播广泛、高度成熟的媒体手段来动摇乌克兰政府的合法性——已经持续了多年。"
    ],
    [
        "A well-crafted regulatory framework minimizes the adverse consequences for long-term investment, while maximizing the positive effects.",
        "设计合理的规则框架能最小化长期投资的不利后果，同时最大化积极效应。"
    ],
    [
        "They wanted a strong charismatic man to reawaken France economically and to reassure them in security terms.",
        "他们想要一个强有力的、具有魅力的人来在经济上重新唤醒法国，并且在安全问题上为他们提供保证。"
    ],
    [
        "Power by itself has no principles.",
        "权力其本身无原则可言。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Princeton University historian Harold James has pointed out, the tables had turned: the US had taken up Keynes’s arguments, but creditor European countries, along with Japan, successfully resisted them.",
        "普林斯顿大学历史学家哈罗德·詹姆斯（Harold James）指出，局面倒转过来，美国拾起了凯恩斯的观点，但作为债权人的欧洲国家以及日本成功地把它挡了回去。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Kim regime really wants an opportunity to join the international community, it has everything it needs, written, agreed, and ready to be implemented.",
        "如果金政权确实希望有机会加入国际社会，它所需要的一切就摆在面前，白纸黑字、双方同意，而且随时可以执行。"
    ],
    [
        "Implementation and accountability are key.",
        "执行和问责才是关键。"
    ],
    [
        "By stimulating daily public debate about local human-rights violations, they spread the message of discontent more efficiently than traditional parties ever have.",
        "他们通过激发对本地侵犯人权行为的日常争论，更有效地传播不满情绪，这是此前的传统政党无法做到的。"
    ],
    [
        "Bismarck’s legacy was a Germany that dominated European politics until the end of World War II.",
        "俾斯麦身后留下的德国一直主导着欧洲政治，直到二战结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Salam Fayyad, the energetic Western-trained Palestinian prime minister, has implemented a detailed blueprint for declaring a de facto Palestinian state by August 2011.",
        "萨拉姆·法耶兹这位精力充沛而又受过西方训练的巴勒斯坦总理正在努力描绘一张细节化的蓝图，力促在2011年8月宣布巴勒斯坦国的事实成立。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that it will need to overhaul its state-owned firms and the financial sector so that resources can flow to the most productive investment projects.",
        "这意味着中国需要整顿国有企业和金融部门，使资源能够流向生产率最高的投资项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Workers may leave Ireland or Greece not because their productivity there is lower, but because, by leaving, they can escape the debt burden incurred by their parents.",
        "劳动者们离开爱尔兰或者希腊并不是因为那里的生产力低下，而是因为只有离开那里，他们才能摆脱掉父母遭受的债务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, the impact of natural disasters is less systemic; but if a calamity takes out key components of networks that lack redundancy and backup, the effects are similar.",
        "诚然，自然灾害的影响不那么具有系统性； 但如果一场灾害袭击了缺少充足性和后援的网络的关键部分，将造成类似影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet neither of the two major political forces that have emerged in Spain in recent years, Ciudadanos and Podemos, has so much as a whiff of right-wing authoritarian tendencies, nor anti-European bombast.",
        "但这两股主要政治力量最近几年在西班牙都难觅踪迹，西班牙公民党（Ciudadanos）和社会民主力量党（Pedomos）几乎没有右倾极权主义的倾向，也从来不大放反欧厥词。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – Joseph Yam, the head of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and a career civil servant, is retiring.",
        "香港——香港金融管理局总裁兼职业公务员任志刚就要退休了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the event of new US tariffs, it seems reasonable to expect China to respond by reducing such purchases, reinforcing a strategy of asset diversification away from US dollar-based assets that has been under way for the past three years.",
        "在美国施加新关税的情况下，可以预计中国会通过减少国债采购来进行应对，这也进一步强化了该国在过去三年以来推行的去美元资产多元化战略。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this demands a more meritocratic and unbiased approach to filling the top positions at the international institutions.",
        "所有这一切都需要一个更加任人唯才及公正的方式来填补在各大国际机构的最高职位空缺。"
    ],
    [
        "(Though there will be exceptions; for example, fossil-fuel development in the poorest countries will continue even after cutbacks are demanded in the rich countries, in order to advance poverty reduction.)",
        "比如，最贫穷国家的化石燃料开发将继续存在，即使富国被要求削减开发，这是为了推进减贫。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, civil bankruptcy procedures will need to be reformed, to ensure the reasonably fast action on defaulted borrowers’ assets.",
        "与此同时，民事破产程序需要改革，以确保对违约借款人的资产采取适当的快速行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Isn’t that a choice that everyone should have?",
        "难道这不是每一个人都应该享有的一种选择吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, there is one area in which large budget cuts are certainly warranted: the military.",
        "讽刺的是，有一个领域的开支是必须进行大规模削减的——军事。"
    ],
    [
        "Catastrophic disasters associated with climate change are easy to invent, but the effects of remedial actions may be difficult to predict.",
        "想要臆造一场与气候变化有关的悲惨灾难非常容易，但想要预测某些补救措施的效果则非常困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Most importantly, the US and China should avoid developing exaggerated fears of each other’s capacities and intentions. The expectation of conflict can itself become a cause of conflict.",
        "最重要的是，美国和中国应当避免激发对各自实力和意图的过度恐惧，因为对冲突的预期本身也可能成为冲突的导火索。"
    ],
    [
        "The US did not offer any clear indication of what it thought should follow such an outcome, apart from some kind of election process, which in a largely sectarian conflict like Syria’s would amount to nothing more than an elaborate census.",
        "除某种形式的选举外，美国并没有明确说出今后的行动步骤，而选举进程在像叙利亚这样宗派冲突中不过是一次煞费苦心的人口普查。"
    ],
    [
        "Larry Summers, who was then Deputy Secretary of the United States Treasury, repeatedly warned the Japanese government that if it proceeded with a scheduled consumption-tax hike, Japan’s economy would slide back into recession.",
        "当时拉里•萨默斯任美国财政部副部长，他一再警告日本政府，一旦其推行上调消费税的计划，那么日本经济将重新陷入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, media organizations should take at least six steps.",
        "在这方面，媒体组织应该至少采取六项措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Across the OECD, students who attend preschool for one year or more scored significantly higher (30 points) on its Programme for International Student Assessment reading tests than those who did not. This has important implications in terms of lifetime achievement.",
        "在经合组织，接受学前教育一年或以上的学生比未接受学前教育的学生在国际学生评估项目（Programme for International Student Assessment）中的得分显著更高（30分）。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, it is a tactic that can work only until the next attack.",
        "果真如此，那么这样的策略只能在下一次袭击前奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "But the metamorphosis tends to go hand in hand with localized monetary contractions that exacerbate the correlated risk of sovereign default and bank failures.",
        "但质变总是与放大主权违约和银行倒闭相关风险的局部货币收缩有关。"
    ],
    [
        "This is largely because the natural sciences have most closely imitated the productivity measures associated with industry. The result is a “bigger is better” mentality that stresses ever more publications, patents, and citations.",
        "这主要是因为自然科学最密切地复制了与工业相关的生产力方法，其结果是“越大越好”的思想观念被在越来越多的出版物，专利和引证中加以强调。"
    ],
    [
        "But embracing the strategy is also the right thing to do for the international community.",
        "但对国际社会来说，采纳这一战略也是一件正确的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Among those recently ranked from 101 to 200, just 24 were not in the top 5% in 2006, and only ten others had moved up by more than 200 places.",
        "在目前排名101至200名的经济学家中，只有24人在2006年没有跻身前5%，另只有十人名词提高了超过200名。"
    ],
    [
        "These tiny organisms harbor codes for metabolic processes that have been preserved across eons – the same processes responsible for shaping the world.",
        "这些微生物携带着将会永久传承的代谢过程密码——恰恰是这些过程决定了我们这个世界的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – For 19 years, the West (America and Europe) has been putting off answering a critical strategic question: what role should post-Soviet Russia actually play globally and in the European order?",
        "柏林－19年来，西方（美国和欧洲）一直在推延回答一个关键的战略问题：苏联后的俄罗斯应该在国际上、在欧洲秩序中扮演什么角色？"
    ],
    [
        "Piñera blamed the incoming Bachelet administration, and its plan to raise taxes, for the drop in the growth rate.",
        "皮涅拉因此指责即将上任的巴切莱特政府及其增税计划是增长率下降的罪魁。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a fantasy.",
        "但这不过是幻想而已。"
    ],
    [
        "So there are clear positive outcomes. But questions remain.",
        "这些是显而易见的积极成果，但也有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The market is the best arbiter of how to allocate scarce resources, and thus should serve as an economy’s main driver.",
        "市场时如何配置稀缺资源的最佳裁判，因此应该成为经济的主要推动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest of the world, however, has marveled at the admirable, dignified manner in which ordinary Japanese are dealing with terrible adversity.",
        "然而世界其他国家则惊叹于普通日本人在面对大灾难时的优秀高贵品质。"
    ],
    [
        "That left individual eurozone members exposed to brutal pressure by financial markets at a time when excessive private debt was turned into unsustainable public debt.",
        "这导致欧元区成员国在过度私人债务转化为不可持续的公共债务期间承受着残酷的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "But for this to be possible, interest payments must always be made on time, and the sanctity of debt contracts must always take precedence over electoral promises regarding pensions, wages, and public spending.",
        "但要让这一幕发生，必须按时支付利息，并且债务契约的神圣性永远高于关于退休金、工资和公共支出的选举承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, no single government can bear all the costs of the policies needed to correct today’s global imbalances.",
        "当然，没有哪个国家能够单独承担纠正当今全球经济的不平衡的政策的所有代价。"
    ],
    [
        "In March 2009, the S&P 500 index was down to 660, earnings per share (EPS) of US companies and banks had sunk to a financial-crisis low, and price/earnings ratios were in the single digits.",
        "在2009年3月，标准普尔500指数下跌到660点，美国企业和银行的每股收益率都降到了危机以来的最低点，市盈率降到了单数。"
    ],
    [
        "This boost in future-oriented spending today pulls people out of unemployment and pushes up capacity utilization.",
        "这一当今面向未来的开支把人们从失业中摆脱出来并且提高了产能利用。"
    ],
    [
        "In the fight against childhood cancer, this concept evolved into what is now the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), which unites more than 8,000 experts at more than 200 leading children’s hospitals, universities, and cancer centers across North America, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Europe.",
        "在与儿童癌症的斗争中，这一理念逐渐演变为目前的儿童肿瘤团体（COG），将横跨北美、澳大利亚、新西兰和欧洲部分地区200余家顶级儿童医院、大学及癌症中心的8，000余名相关专家聚集在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "It can be argued that during the colonial era, France willed the happiness of Algerians, not only the greatness of France.",
        "有人可以说在殖民时期，法国人不但关心法兰西的荣耀，还不忘阿尔及利亚人的福祉。"
    ],
    [
        "Can we do this?",
        "我们能做到这一点吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It may not be long before we can identify genes that improve the odds of success in this quest.",
        "要不了多久我们可能就会开始寻找能提高成功率的基因。"
    ],
    [
        "Wasting Food in a Hungry World",
        "在饥饿的世界中浪费粮食"
    ],
    [
        "But the impact of the EU’s unexpected budget invoice is not just financial, for it has arrived at a time when the anti-EU, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) is riding high in opinion polls.",
        "但欧盟出人意料的账单不仅仅是金融上的，因为它的到来正逢反欧盟的英国独立党（United Kingdom Independence Party）在民调中狂飙突进之时。"
    ],
    [
        "Such change will occur regardless of whether British voters choose to exit the EU.",
        "不管英国选民是否选择离开欧盟，这一变化都会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Repairs are needed so frequently that scaffolding often obscures its famous minarets. The town of Agra in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where the Taj is located, is crowded and grimy.",
        "频繁的修理工作使其著名的尖塔经常都在脚手架的包围之下，而泰姬陵所在的北方邦阿格拉镇则极为拥挤而肮脏。"
    ],
    [
        "By now, all of the actors in Syria are known.",
        "目前，叙利亚的行动各方都是已知的。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadat’s spectacular leap into the future needed to be met by Israel’s prime minister, Menachem Begin, at almost every juncture down a tortuous road to peace.",
        "萨达特向未来迈出的惊人一步还需要以色列总理贝京在通往和平的曲折道路上的几乎每一个关口的协作。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the cuts will result in a cumulative deficit of about $1.4 trillion over the next decade.",
        "据无党派立场的国会预算办公室（CBO）的计算，减税将在未来十年造成大约1. 4万亿美元的累计赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "The network will work alongside and support governments, UN agencies, civil-society organizations, and the private sector.",
        "该网将配合并支持政府、联合国机构、公民社会团体和私人部门。"
    ],
    [
        "In this effort, the emerging economies – with their large populations, rising wealth, and growing international clout – have a particularly important role to play, with China leading the way.",
        "在与AMR的抗争中，新兴经济体——它们拥有庞大的人口、日益增加的财富和国际势力——能扮演非常重要的角色，首屈一指的便是中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese leaders have been extremely risk-averse in their forays into international financial affairs, and, on the eve of a leadership transition (expected to take place a year from now), no senior official dares to risk his political prospects by advocating bold and controversial action.",
        "中国领导人在涉水国际金融事务时极度厌恶风险，此外，在领导人交接前夕（大约会在一年后发生），也没有哪个高级官员敢拿自己的政治前途冒险，支持激进且充满争议的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Japanese were not ready for it and Kishi was tainted by his wartime record as Minister of Munitions.",
        "日本人还未做好准备，而岸信介本人也有污点——他在战时担任军需大臣。"
    ],
    [
        "That recent New York Times headline might sound like the synopsis of a horror movie.",
        "”最近纽约时报的头版头条可能听上去像一部恐怖电影的剧情梗概。"
    ],
    [
        "False Alarm on China",
        "错误的中国警报"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – There was a dog that didn’t bark during the financial crisis: protectionism.",
        "剑桥—— 在金融危机盛行期一直没有这方面的警示——保护主义。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – Because China has pegged its undervalued currency, the renminbi, to the dollar, every weakening of the dollar in the wake of America’s financial crisis has also meant a weakening of the renminbi vis-à-vis other world currencies.",
        "慕尼黑——由于中国已经将其估值过低的货币人民币与美国挂钩，因此美国金融危机后美元每次贬值都意味着人民币对其他世界货币贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "This effort – which has so far entailed the creation of the 36-member Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) and the 250-member National Reform Council to help write the new constitution – marks the third key factor influencing domestic politics over the past year.",
        "上述做法——到目前为止已创立由36名成员组成的宪法起草委员会（CDC）和250名成员组成的国家改革委员会协助起草新宪法——成为过去一年里影响国内政治的第三个关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, the world should not expect free-market zealotry from Macri.",
        "但世界不应指望在马克里身上看到自由市场狂热。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, elements of the “Beijing Consensus” are increasingly entering the region by the back door.",
        "第四，“北京共识”的元素不断从后门进入这一地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The year began with rising food, oil, and commodity prices, giving rise to the specter of high inflation.",
        "年初高企的粮食、石油和商品价格，唤醒了高通胀的幽灵。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Putin not only wants to stop European political, civic, and social norms from taking root within Ukraine; he wants to roll them back in the Baltics, the Balkans, and anywhere else in Europe made politically brittle by economic crisis and/or demagogic populism.",
        "事实上，普京不但要阻止欧洲政治、公民和社会规范在乌克兰扎根； 他还想逆转因经济危机和/或蛊惑人心的民粹主义政策导致政局脆弱的波罗的海、巴尔干半岛和欧洲其他国家的民主化风潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Developed and developing countries alike would benefit from greater economic-policy coordination.",
        "发达和发展中国家能从进一步经济政策协作中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Brezhnev era, expansionist policies reflected the country’s new energy-derived wealth.",
        "在勃列日涅夫时代，扩张主义政策反映了苏联得自能源的新财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Hers is a success story that can – and must – be replicated across the continent.",
        "乔伊斯是一个可以——也必须——在整个非洲大陆复制推广的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "So, instead of going to school, he sorts lumps of coal for sale as fuel.",
        "因此，他没有上学，而是拣选煤块作为燃料出售。"
    ],
    [
        "And being rich is how some people get the chance to do more pleasant work.",
        "而变富是一些人有机会做比较令人愉快的工作的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a serious problem for political parties on the left, which increasingly seem to be speaking for the metropolitan elites, while provincial populists are pushing traditional conservatives further to the right by fishing in the dark waters of popular resentment.",
        "这个摆在日益代表都市精英利益的左翼政党面前的问题十分严重。 与此同时，乡村民粹主义者正在推动传统的保守派人士在民众仇恨的黑暗领域转向右翼。"
    ],
    [
        "These special interests included Wall Street, Big Oil, the big health insurers, and arms manufacturers.",
        "这些特殊利益包括华尔街、大石油公司、大人寿保险商以及军火商。 它们要求减税，得到了满足；"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, they are examples of crisis-mode policymaking, which tends to favor impressive-seeming stopgap measures (not to mention lofty declarations that can verge on hollowness or hyperbole), instead of real solutions.",
        "事实上，它们是危机模式决策活生生的例子，相比于真正的解决办法，更倾向于采取看似令人印象深刻的权宜性措施（更不用说称得上空洞或夸张的豪言壮语）。"
    ],
    [
        "The opposition parties have gained wide support for their position, with Nepal's largest media organizations, key civil-society leaders, minority activists, and women's groups all opposing the ruling coalition's effort to railroad a constitution through the Constituent Assembly.",
        "反对党的立场赢得了广泛支持，尼泊尔最大的媒体组织、重要公民社会领袖、少数派活动家和妇女群体都反对执政联盟通过立宪大会强行推行宪法的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "The persistence of power rivalries, historical resentments, and territorial disputes, together with pronounced disparities in economic and military might, create substantial obstacles to unity.",
        "势力对抗，历史不满和领土争端的持续存在，以及经济和军事力量上的显着差异都对区域一体化造成了实质性障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the fact that China surpassed the US to become Japan’s largest trading partner last year, the top leaders of the two countries have not visited each other’s capitals since 2001.",
        "尽管中国已经在去年超越美国成为了日本最大的贸易伙伴，两国的高层领导人自2001年起就再也没有相互访问过彼国首都。"
    ],
    [
        "But this experience also underscores the impotence of monetary policy in a deflationary environment, owing to the unwillingness of banks to lend and of enterprises to borrow.",
        "但这一经验也彰显出通缩环境中货币政策的无力，因为银行不愿放贷，企业也不愿借钱。"
    ],
    [
        "For some, immigration has become a symbol of a society gone astray.",
        "对一些人来说，移民已成为社会迷失的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "In the coming years, the scope and pace of innovation will transform how we produce, distribute, and consume.",
        "在未来几年中，创新的规模和节奏将改变我们如何生产、分配和消费。"
    ],
    [
        "Much will depend on how Abbas handles himself and how he governs.",
        "这得看阿巴斯如何把握自己、如何执政。"
    ],
    [
        "On a first approximation, low-carbon paths are the dominant strategies, implying a completely different and far more favorable view of the incentive structures at work.",
        "在最初的近似（first approximation）中，低碳路径是主要战略，并产生了完全不同也远远更加有利的起作用的激励结构观。"
    ],
    [
        "Without the National Security Council and the Domestic Policy Council, the US president would have no routine way to control and coordinate different bureaucracies.",
        "没有国家安全委员会和国内政策委员会，美国总统就没有常规方法控制协调各式官僚机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Defeated and divided, it became a French colony in the nineteenth century, regaining independence in 1960.",
        "被击败并分崩离析后，19世纪马里成为法国殖民地，1960年赢得独立。"
    ],
    [
        "The bitter medicine that Germany and the ECB want to impose on the periphery – the second option – is recessionary deflation: fiscal austerity, structural reforms to boost productivity growth and reduce unit labor costs, and real depreciation via price adjustment, as opposed to nominal exchange-rate adjustment.",
        "德国和欧洲央行计划对外围国实施第二选择，这个药方更为痛苦，是衰退性紧缩：财政紧缩、结构性改革以提振生产率并降低单位劳动成本，以及通过价格调整实现的真是贬值（而不是名义汇率调整）。"
    ],
    [
        "But his public statement offered no answers and no balm – indeed, nothing but platitudes.",
        "但他的公开讲话并不构成强奸案的答案，也起不了镇抚人心的作用——事实上，这全是一番陈词滥调。"
    ],
    [
        "By making himself, in effect, the state, Putin, like the gerontocracy that collapsed with Gorbachev’s rise, is increasingly viewed as responsible for all state failures.",
        "在早就自己的过程中——事实上也是造就国家的过程中——普京与随戈尔巴乔夫上台而崩溃的老人政治一样，正在日益背上国家失败责任人的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "And, even if they are stopped, can the damage they have already wrought be reversed?",
        "即使这些魔鬼被阻止，它们已经造成的伤害能够逆转吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But China is not waiting for the One Belt, One Road initiative to be completed before pursuing increased trade with Middle Eastern countries.",
        "但中国并没有等到“一带一路”计划完成后再去增加与中东国家的贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "The various departments, programs, organs, and agencies within the UN system address a broad spectrum of issues, from peace and security between and within states to human rights, health, education, poverty alleviation, disaster relief, refugee protection, trafficking of people and drugs, heritage protection, climate change and the environment, and much else.",
        "联合国系统的各个部门、项目、分支和机构处理着范围甚广的一系列问题，从国内国际的和平和安全到人权、卫生、贸易、减贫、救灾、保护难民、人口和毒品贩卖、遗产保护、气候变化和环境，等等等等。"
    ],
    [
        "For the same reason, my bet is that the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would cost several billion dollars, will never be built.",
        "出于同样原因，我打赌耗资数百亿美元的基斯顿输油管道将永远不会开工。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s time to let red states and blue states go their own way.",
        "是时候让红州和蓝州各走各的路了。"
    ],
    [
        "The BRICS, and developing countries generally, have immense infrastructure needs.",
        "金砖国家和一般发展中国家都有巨大的基础设施需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The expansion of renewable energy production also holds great potential for boosting economic growth.",
        "扩大使用可再生能源还极有可能拉动经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, even under the most optimistic scenario, the US and the world will still be relying mainly on conventional fossil fuels until the hydrocarbon era comes to an end (which few of us will live to see).",
        "而且，在碳氢化合物时代结束以前(我们没人会活到那一天)，即使在最为乐观的情形下，美国和全世界还是主要依赖常规矿物燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, there would still be small fluctuations; but, as he wrote in 1966, “Great Depressions – cumulative slumps that feed on themselves – are indeed extinct.”",
        "诚然，小波动仍会发生； 但是，如他在1966年所写，“大萧条——互相强化的累积下滑——确实已是过去。"
    ],
    [
        "From Great Game to Grand Bargain",
        "从大博弈到大协定"
    ],
    [
        "A regulator focused on that objective would be especially rigorous in overseeing the transparent disclosure of information, and would seek to promote vigorous competition among companies and also, crucially for this objective, among investors.",
        "专注于这一目标的监管机构会在监督信息披露透明度方面特别严格，并将努力促进企业以及投资者之间的激烈竞争——后者对这一目标的实现极为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the Kremlin was able to smack down the uppity Mikheil Saakashvili’s hope of reuniting his country by force.",
        "是的，克里姆林宫是能毁灭米哈伊尔·萨卡什维利武力统一国家的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is that emerging-market energy importers have a much larger global economic footprint than they did in the 1980s, and their approach to oil markets is much more interventionist than in the advanced countries.",
        "一个原因是新兴市场能源进口国对于全球经济的作用远远大于20世纪80年代时，它们对石油市场的方针也远比发达国家更有干涉性。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, climate change carries significant economic costs – for example, those associated with more frequent and extreme weather events.",
        "毕竟，气候变化造成了巨大的经济成本——比如频繁极端天气带来的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither moved the country’s ruling mullahs.",
        "而统治伊朗的毛拉们对它们则无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "Given his role in justifying electoral fraud, this argument seems like an effort to buy time to clear the streets of demonstrators, put opposition leaders under severe physical and psychological stress, and isolate Mir Hossein Mousavi, the presumed winner of the real vote.",
        "考虑到他本人就是选举是否舞弊的裁决者，这一声明似乎更像是缓兵之计，好让他有时间清理街头示威者，在肉体和精神上双重打压反对派领导人，并采取手段孤立米尔·侯赛因·穆萨维这个原本预测要赢得大选的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "The value of all ODA in 2006 was $126 billion, less than half the value of private remittances, even though it includes assistance from OECD and non-OECD countries, as well as from China.",
        "尽管经合组织及非经合组织国家的援助都包括在内，还有来自中国的援助，但2006年官方发展援助价值1260亿美元，还不到私人汇款的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, universal primary education has nearly been achieved.",
        "毫无疑问，我们几乎实现了普及小学教育的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But over time, this frustration will probably help Tunisia’s economy, while hurting Egypt’s.",
        "但随着时间的推移，这样的不满情绪很可能帮助突尼斯经济而损害埃及。"
    ],
    [
        "Public opinion has so far succeeded in blocking the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would accelerate the production of Canada’s oil sands – a shocking prospect, given that neither Canada nor the US yet have committed to a climate plan.",
        "民意已成功地抵制了加速加拿大油砂生产的Keystone XL管道——该项目是十分危险的，因为加拿大和美国都没有做出气候计划承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, to the Fund could lend to those countries that suffered shocks from the increase in petroleum prices.",
        "其结果就是该组织能向受到石油价格提升冲击的国家发放贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "It exists, in part, because individuals know that civilized societies will never stand by and watch the elderly starve.",
        "这一制度的存在部分是因为人们知道文明社会不会坐视老年人饥寒交迫。"
    ],
    [
        "China has also placed new limits on Chinese corporations’ foreign direct investments, and it is scrutinizing other cross-border transactions.",
        "中国也对本国企业的外商直接投资提出了新的限制，并对其他跨境交易进行仔细审查。"
    ],
    [
        "That question was specifically listed in the Jordanian-Israel Peace Treaty.",
        "约旦-以色列和平条约中特地列进了这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It would still pay large sums into the EU budget and adhere to EU laws, but it would have no say over how that money is spent or how those laws are made.",
        "它将为欧盟预算提供巨款，并遵守欧盟法律，但它无权置喙这些钱怎么用，或这些法律如何制定。"
    ],
    [
        "Who will repair Lebanon’s bridges and roads?",
        "谁来修复黎巴嫩的桥梁和道路？"
    ],
    [
        "Obama will be forced to help craft a compromise to keep the state financially afloat.",
        "奥巴马将被迫帮助仔细推敲出一种妥协方案以使加州的财政不至于破产。"
    ],
    [
        "The comparable figure for China today is only about 30%.",
        "今天，中国的可比数字只有30%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than flourishing as a result of austerity, Spain is in many ways getting a free pass.",
        "因此与其说西班牙是因为执行紧缩而变得欣欣向荣，倒不如说是在很大程度上拿到了一张免费通行证而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, Tsai’s academic background (she studied at Cornell University and the London School of Economics) was probably one of the reasons for her loss to President Ma Ying-jeou in the 2012 election – a campaign in which she appeared stiff and ill at ease with the give-and-take of politics.",
        "颇具讽刺意味的是，蔡英文的学术背景（她曾就读于康奈尔大学和伦敦经济学院）或许是她在2012年大选中输给总统马英九的原因之一——她在那次竞选中态度僵硬，对政治妥协表现得很不自然。"
    ],
    [
        "The rich countries’ mistakes wouldn’t matter if African countries had enough money to adopt the needed technologies on their own, but Africa is so poor that it must get financial help to escape poverty.",
        "如果非洲国家有足够的资金自主采用所需技术，那么富裕国家的错误就没那么重要，但问题恰恰在于非洲国家太过贫困，它们必须获得金融援助才有可能摆脱贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Using facilities that are more familiar and more conveniently located could reduce this barrier to attendance.",
        "利用更为方便和熟悉的设施可以进一步降低入学障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The “made in America” digital economy exhibits ample momentum in the private sector.",
        "“美国制造”数字经济在私人部门表现出强劲动力。"
    ],
    [
        "I have no doubt that sometime later this century, one will be able to buy pocket professors – perhaps with holographic images – as easily as one can buy a pocket Kasparov chess computer today.",
        "我毫不怀疑地确信：本世纪晚些时候，人们可以买到袖珍教授¾没准还带有教授的全息影像¾就像今天购买袖珍卡斯帕罗夫象棋电脑那样易如反掌。"
    ],
    [
        "I suppose it is entirely possible that “Jayalalithaa” has attained political successes that might have eluded a mere “Jayalalitha.”",
        "我认为她改叫“Jayalalithaa” 时完全有可能取得了超过“Jayalalitha”的政治成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Tunisia’s revolution is a unique historical opportunity, and the EU’s stake in the outcome can hardly be overestimated.",
        "突尼斯革命是一次独一无二的历史机遇，而其结果对欧盟产生的影响无论如何评估都不过分。"
    ],
    [
        "The Extremists Unbound",
        "不受约束的极端主义者"
    ],
    [
        "DAKAR – This month, Africa’s Francophone countries will mark the 50th anniversary of their independence, and of the ties they maintain with France.",
        "达卡尔——本月，非洲法语国家将纪念独立五十周年，纪念它们与法国保持的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "It received the backing of the legislature, which had previously favored a ban.",
        "这份契约得到了此前偏向禁止的立法机关支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, when viewed through the long lens of history, China’s ghost towns will prove to be potholes on the path to development.",
        "同样，从历史的长镜头看，中国的鬼城也将不过是发展道路上的坑洼。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet some of the worst human rights violators are Commission members.",
        "然而一些最坏的人权侵犯者却成为了该委员会成员。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to the prevailing perception in the West (especially among business leaders), the current Chinese government is riddled with clever apparatchiks like Bo who have acquired their positions through cheating, corruption, patronage, and manipulation.",
        "与当前流行于西方（尤其是商界领袖之间）的观念恰恰相反，当前的中国政府中充斥着像薄熙来这样机灵的官僚，而他们之所以能占据这些位置，就是通过撒谎，腐败，送礼以及捏造事实。"
    ],
    [
        "It was an unprecedented move, whether in India or almost anywhere else, and it is by far Modi’s boldest policy intervention to date.",
        "这是一项前所未有的举措，不仅是印度，在全世界几乎所有地方都是如此，其程度之激进远超莫迪迄今为止的所有政策干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Any candidate claiming to represent the interests of developing countries must distance himself from these policies.",
        "任何宣称代表发展中国家利益的候选人都必须与这些政策保持距离。"
    ],
    [
        "Rouhani’s main challenges, however, are internal.",
        "但是，鲁哈尼的主要挑战在于国内。"
    ],
    [
        "If it does have the desired effect, we should start seeing winners in more years.",
        "如果该奖确实能实现其预想效果的话，那么我们将在未来看见更多的获奖者。"
    ],
    [
        "We are now seeing this strategy at work again as President Vladimir Putin stealthily seeks to restore Kremlin supremacy over the lands treated as “lost” when the USSR imploded in 1991.",
        "现在我们却又看到了弗拉基米尔·普京正在不动声色底秘密谋求恢复克林姆林宫的统治霸权，找回1991年苏联解体后“丢失的”对这片土地的控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "And it was fitting that this token of a possible future should be found in an ophthalmology department, an enterprise devoted to restoring vision.",
        "而在眼科部这个致力于恢复人们视力——也是眼界——的地方发现某种潜在未来的象征也是非常恰当的。"
    ],
    [
        "My father was a (genuine) rocket scientist, and I figured that just as airplanes had become commonplace over the course of his life, space travel would become commonplace over the course of mine.",
        "我父亲是一位货真价实的火箭专家，而照我推测，正如飞机旅行在他那代人的一生中逐渐变得司空见惯那样，太空旅行也会在我这代人的时光中走下神坛。"
    ],
    [
        "The struggle between religion and state in the Maghreb is less violent, but potentially explosive nonetheless.",
        "马格里布（Maghreb）的宗教和国家之争没有那么暴力，但也具有爆发性潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Credit Overdose",
        "中国的信用过量"
    ],
    [
        "And we still don’t know whether such drones could be protected from hackers, terrorists, or other criminals, or how air traffic control systems might guide people safely.",
        "而且我们还不知道这些无人机能否抵御黑客、恐怖分子或其他犯罪分子的进攻，也不知道空中交管系统将怎样为人们提供安全指引。"
    ],
    [
        "In Syria, a central element of such an approach would have been engagement with Assad.",
        "在叙利亚，这一手段的核心内容就是与阿萨德建立接触和互动。"
    ],
    [
        "Donor countries urgently need to reverse that trend.",
        "捐助国迫切需要扭转这一趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "We have a detailed plan for the rebalance in our budget, and we have made decisions that will make our military more cost-effective, efficient, and productive.",
        "我们制定了调整预算的详细计划，并已经采取措施让我们的军队更加节约和高效。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why they are now determined to use their collective economic weight to circumvent these institutions.",
        "正因如此，如今它们决心团结起来，依靠其自身经济实力绕过这些机构。"
    ],
    [
        "The fall of the Tunisian regime had deep domestic roots, but the timing caught outsiders, including the US government, by surprise.",
        "突尼斯政权的崩溃是有其深刻根源的，但它爆发的时间点则令外界（包括美国政府）措手不及。"
    ],
    [
        "Across ten areas – including health, education, war, gender, air pollution, climate change, and biodiversity – the economists all answered the same question: What was the relative cost of this problem in every year since 1900, all the way to 2013, with predictions to 2050.",
        "在十个领域中——包括健康、教育、战争、性别、空气污染、气候变化和生物多样性——经济学家回答同一个问题：自1900至2013年的每一年，这一问题的相对成本是多少？ 并且对2014—2050年的这一数字做出预测。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Green Movement is to mount a serious challenge to the government it must incorporate support from bazaar merchants, workers in major industries, transportation unions, and government workers. Sustained strikes by these groups would bring the country’s economy to a halt.",
        "而如果绿色运动要对当局形成真正挑战的话，它就必须赢得小商人，关键工业部门的工人，运输工会以及政府职员的支持，因为这些团体的持续抵抗将会导致国内经济的停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s destruction of Iraq as a regional power handed hegemony in the Persian Gulf – whose centrality to Western interests cannot be overstated – to Iran’s Shia Islamist regime on a silver platter.",
        "美国将伊拉克这一地区强国摧毁，从而把波斯湾的霸权拱手让给了伊朗的什叶派伊斯兰政权。 而波斯湾对于西方利益的重要性无以复加。"
    ],
    [
        "And less than 2% of that money was directed at combatting chronic diseases.",
        "而这些援助资金中只有不到2%被用于遏制慢性病。"
    ],
    [
        "To some extent, this is understandable, given the focus on short-term liquidity and capital flows.",
        "从某种程度这不难的理解，因为政策焦点集中在短期流动性和资本流。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Clinton and the Republican Congress based landmark 1996 welfare reform on policies originated by Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and successfully emulated by New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, both reformist Republicans.",
        "比如，克林顿和共和党国会1996年的福利改革便是基于最先由威斯康辛州州长汤米·汤普森实施、然后被纽约市市长鲁迪·朱利安尼成功模仿的政策的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Fellini’s film “La Strada,” the circus artists lived on the margins of society; in the “Wall Street Circus,” they lived like gods, making millions.",
        "在费里尼的电影《La Strada》（中文名《大路》）中，杂技团的艺术家们生活在社会的边缘； 在“华尔街杂技团”中，投资银行家们过着神仙 般的生活，赚着大钱。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, progress towards meaningful economic and political integration can be painfully slow during the good times.",
        "结果，在好光景时，通往真正经济和政治一体化之路困难又缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "When Tibetan demonstrators outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi attacked the premises, the Indian government stepped up its protection for the Chinese diplomats.",
        "当西藏示威者在新德里的中国大使馆外袭击馆舍的时候，印度政府提高了对中国外交人员的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Another crucial innovation has been the development of the European Stability Mechanism, which, like the International Monetary Fund, has the capacity to execute vast financial bailouts, subject to conditionality.",
        "另一个关键创新是欧洲稳定性机制（European Stability Mechanism），与IMF一样，它有能力执行大规模有条件的金融援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Studies by the US Western Electricity Coordinating Council have found that finding better ways to store energy could cut total waste by about 18% and boost the efficiency of electricity use by up to 11%.",
        "美国西部电力协调委员会的研究已经发现寻找更好的方式来储存能量可以削减总浪费量的约18%，并提高11%的电能使用效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, the gold standard collapsed, after governments were forced to abandon it during World War I and thereafter were never able fully to re-establish public trust.",
        "最终，政府在第一次世界大战期间被迫放弃金本位并且在此后再也无法充分重塑公众信任，金本位也寿终正寝。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet we are all bound by the desire to see ourselves and our loved ones thrive and be the best we can be.",
        "但我们都愿意看到我们所爱的人和我们自己茁壮成长，并最大限度地发挥自己的潜能。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Non-Deal of the Century",
        "欧洲世纪性交易的失败"
    ],
    [
        "Some two decades after border controls were first abolished under the Schengen Agreement – which now includes 26 countries, including four non-members of the European Union – Germany has reinstated controls at its border with Austria, and France at its border with Belgium.",
        "申根协议首次取消边境控制大约二十年后——目前申根协议包括26个国家，其中四个为非欧盟成员国——德国重新开始了奥地利边境的控制，法国也开始了比利时边境的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "The US did not experience hyperinflation in the 1920s – or at any other time in its history.",
        "美国在20世纪20年代没有经历恶性通胀——或者说在其历史上都没有经历过。"
    ],
    [
        "They breathed life back into a civic tradition of Umuganda, where one day a month, citizens, including the president, gather together to weed their fields, clean their streets, and build homes for the poorest among them.",
        "它们的源头可以追溯到“乌姆甘达”（Umuganda）的民间传统，每个月的某一天，包括总统在内的全体公民一起为土地除草，为街道打扫卫生，为最穷的人造房子。"
    ],
    [
        "BOGOTA – The crushing defeat of the long-ruling Chavista government in Venezuela’s recent parliamentary election, together with the end of 12 years of Peronist rule in Argentina, mark the end of a cycle of left-wing hegemony in much of Latin America.",
        "波哥大—长期执政的查韦斯主义政府在最近的委内瑞拉议会选举中遭遇惨败，执政12年的阿根廷庇隆主义统治亦然，这标志着拉美多国左翼霸权周期的结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The development challenges in Africa are just one example of how tough societal problems can be addressed by the design and spread of improved technologies.",
        "非洲的发展挑战只是设计推广革新技术能如何解决棘手社会问题的一个例证。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Republicans’ proposed tax reform, it threatens to engulf the US economy.",
        "而共和党的税收方案有可能让整个美国经济都陷入这片沼泽。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries recognized Israel, but Israel did not recognize Palestine, and Israel’s construction of settlements on occupied land continued.",
        "这两个国家承认了以色列，而以色列却不承认巴勒斯坦，并且他们在巴勒斯坦被占领土内的定居点的建设还在继续。"
    ],
    [
        "I concluded my pitch by saying, with perhaps a little more cheek than was appropriate, “But of course I’m preaching to the converted.”",
        "我如此总结我的观点（也许语气稍微显得重了些）：“但是，很显然，我是在给信徒布道。"
    ],
    [
        "Where their obligations are held by foreigners, and by foreign banks in particular, writing them down may only destabilize other countries.",
        "如果债权人主要来自国外，尤其是外国银行，减记只会连累其他国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Will my students from 1999 and 2000 be proved right, with Harry Potter fading from relevance, never to become an enduring classic?",
        "事实会否证明1999到2000年的学生是对的，哈利波特的地位不断下降，永远不会成为永恒的经典著作？"
    ],
    [
        "These countries now require painful, far-reaching reforms to attain economic prosperity, a goal that presupposes cultural change as well.",
        "这些国家如今需要痛苦、深远的改革以实现经济繁荣，这既是目标，也是文化变革的先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "And concerned Southeast Asian countries have been entreating the US to remain in the region as a counterweight to China.",
        "忧心忡忡的东南亚国家也恳求美国留在该地区制衡中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere, Japan is contracting, too.",
        "在其他的地方，日本经济也在收缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Two decades later, Germany may be in a different mood.",
        "时隔二十年后，德国人的想法可能已经不一样了。"
    ],
    [
        "Lebanon is yet another ethnic tapestry that cannot be immune to events in Syria.",
        "黎巴嫩是难逃叙利亚局势影响的多民族国家。"
    ],
    [
        "What the Auriol-Fanfalone study does show, though, is that rolling out Internet access is money very well spent.",
        "但是，奥瑞尔-范法伦研究的确表明，增加互联网接入花的钱物有所值。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, these are not competing regulatory regimes, but complimentary ones.",
        "归根结底这两种管理制度的关系不是相互对立、而是相互补充。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, all countries responsible for the degradation and destruction of the South China Sea’s shallow-water ecosystems must halt activities that threaten the region’s biodiversity and economic productivity.",
        "更广泛地讲，所有对南中国海的浅水生态系统的退化和破坏负有责任的国家必须停止威胁该地区生物多样性和经济生产率的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes it more worthwhile for businesses to invest in expanding their capacity, thus trading away cash they could distribute to their shareholders today for a better market position that will allow them to reward their shareholders in the future.",
        "这样，各企业投资于扩大产能就越发具有价值。 它们把能够在今天分配给股东的现金交换用来获得更佳的市场地位从而可以在今后回报他们的股东。"
    ],
    [
        "The group’s report, “The Hartwell Paper,” outlines a new direction for climate policy after the collapse of last year’s attempts to negotiate a global climate deal.",
        "在去年达成全球气候协议的尝试遭遇失败之后，该研究小组所得出的研究成果《哈特维尔报告（The Hartwell Paper）》为我们指明了一条新的路径。"
    ],
    [
        "These advances are at the forefront of a growing trend toward “frugal innovation” that is increasingly being adopted in developed markets, too.",
        "这些进步站在日益明显的通往“朴素创新”的趋势的前沿，而发达国家市场也越来越接受这一趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "The third message is that if the existing nuclear powers sincerely want to prevent others from joining their club, they cannot keep justifying the possession of nuclear weapons as a means of protection for themselves or their allies against other weapons of mass destruction, especially biological weapons, or conventional weapons.",
        "另外就是如果现有核国家真心希望阻止别国加入到有核俱乐部，他们就不能继续借口防卫其他大规模杀伤性武器（特别是生物武器或常规武器）为自己和盟国拥有核武器进行辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most obvious candidate is China.",
        "也许最显而易见的候选者是中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine’s powerful industrialists praised the NBU’s low exchange-rate policy, believing it makes the country more competitive.",
        "乌克兰势力强大的企业家们赞扬国家银行低汇率政策。 他们相信这让乌克兰更加具有竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "But such innovation does not always begin at home, which is why city governments need to know about potentially applicable ideas and lessons from other cities and countries.",
        "但是，这种创新并不一定总是从国内开始，这就是为什么城市政府要学习其他城市和国家的经验教训并借鉴可能对他们有用的想法的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Why has Germany performed so badly?",
        "6%。 德国的表现为什么这么差？"
    ],
    [
        "In the future, companies and countries should agree on a simple principle: there should be, to paraphrase President Woodrow Wilson’s memorable words, “open contracts, openly and transparently arrived at.”",
        "未来，公司和国家之间应当达成一个简单的原则，那就是，借用美国前总统威尔逊令人难忘的话来说，“合同应当正大光明”。"
    ],
    [
        "In the words of a senior NGO human rights leader: “They’re punishing the Syrian people because they were unhappy that NATO took the mandate of protecting civilians in Libya and transformed it into a mandate for regime change.”",
        "用某高级非政府组织人权领导者的话说，“它们在惩罚叙利亚人民，原因是它们不满北约下令保护利比亚平民，最终却变为下令改变利比亚体制。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Though the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the eurozone have kept central-bank policy rates at zero for several years already, the perception that this was a temporary aberration meant that medium- to long-term rates remained substantial.",
        "尽管美国、英国、日本和欧元区维持央行政策利率为零已有多年，但仍有许多人感觉这只是暂时的反常现象，这意味着中期到长期利率仍然坚挺。"
    ],
    [
        "Where such damage looms as a threat, early prevention is required.",
        "一旦这些危害构成了危险，提早预防是很有必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel and America continue to have mechanisms to integrate new migrants.",
        "以色列和美国仍然具备融合新移民的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the meeting in Mainz will be one of those diplomatic courtesy calls that gloss over important bilateral differences.",
        "因此，马恩斯会议只是那些用以掩饰双边重要分歧的外交礼节性拜访的其中之一。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there was no serious criminal prosecution – meaning that no one will be charged with a felony, and no one will go to jail.",
        "首先，该案没有导致任何严重的刑事诉讼——这意味着没有人会被判重罪，也没有人会被丢进监狱。"
    ],
    [
        "Namun, kenyataannya lebih rumit daripada itu.",
        "但现实要远远复杂得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Middle-class savers have watched the real value of their bank deposits decline annually at a rate of about 2%, and many retirees have suffered a real decline in their pensions, which are invested in safe assets and thus yield minimal returns.",
        "中产阶级储蓄者眼看着自己的银行存款的真实价值以每年2%的速度缩水，许多退休者也遭遇到退休金真实价值缩水，这些资金被投资于安全资产，因此几乎无法产生回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, diplomats know that war can be preferable to humiliation, which is why saving face is just as important as threatening force – and why other countries should step in and provide the room that both sides need to avoid a head-on collision.",
        "但外交官们也知道战争要比丢脸更好，这也是为何维护面子跟武力威胁同样重要的原因——也是为何其他国家必须介入并提供某些空间，以免双方迎头相撞的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even more important, tax avoidance on Romney’s scale undermines belief in the system’s fundamental fairness, and thus weakens the bonds that hold a society together.",
        "但更重要的是，向罗姆尼这种规模的避税活动破坏了人们对制度基本公平性的信任，从而削弱了将社会凝聚力。"
    ],
    [
        "Recall the Luddites, who responded to the early nineteenth-century mechanization of the textile industry by smashing the new technology, and the Swing Riots, in which workers destroyed threshing machines.",
        "比如应十九世纪初纺织业机械化而起、摧毁新技术的卢德派和工人摧毁打谷机的施荣暴动（Swing Riots）。"
    ],
    [
        "But international pressure on the P5 has been mounting for the last 15 years – and especially since the General Assembly’s unanimous embrace in 2005 of the “responsibility to protect” (R2P) principle.",
        "但在过去15年中，对“五常”的国际压力不断增加——特别是2005年联合国大会一致通过“保护责任”（R2P）之后。"
    ],
    [
        "Significantly, it does next to nothing to alleviate the twin problems of excess leverage and inadequate saving.",
        "特别是，对于负债过度和储蓄不足这一孪生问题，它根本没有疗效。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, for the tech sector, there is a distinct downside to this development.",
        "但对于科技行业来说，目前这一发展态势存在着一个明显的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "An Earthquake in Chinese Politics?",
        "中国官场地震"
    ],
    [
        "The concept of national unity governments might, indeed, be the formula that makes it possible to hold together the political families in the Arab world.",
        "民族团结政府的概念可能确实是有可能让阿拉伯世界的政治家族团结在一起的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Once winded political elites had recovered their breath, they began telling a story designed to preclude any further fiscal stimulus.",
        "一旦焦头烂额的政治精英获得了喘息之机，他们就开始编制阻挠一切后续财政刺激的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "Break Up Citigroup",
        "拆分花旗集团"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Merkel’s refugee policy has actually reinforced her popularity among younger voters.",
        "事实上，默克尔的难民政策加强了她在年轻选民中间的受欢迎程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, as long as China provides political, financial, and military support for Burma’s rulers, it will be all but impossible for any meaningful change to occur.",
        "最后，只要中国继续为缅甸的统治者提供政治、财政和军事支持，缅甸就不可能发生真正有意义的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, no particular climate event can be directly related to the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.",
        "当然，具体的气候事件，都未必与大气中温室气体含量上升直接相关。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the ghosts of the 1930’s have returned, too – in particular, the fear of unfair trade advantages caused by competitive devaluation.",
        "1930年代的幽灵有些又借尸还魂了，尤其是由货币竞相贬值所引起的对不公平贸易优势的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that have their own currency, like the United Kingdom – and especially the United States, which can borrow from foreigners in dollars – do not face a direct financing constraint.",
        "那些拥有本国货币的国家，像英国——尤其是美国，可以向国外借入美元——不需要面对直接融资限制。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the US has effectively balkanized global banking by requiring all foreign banks operating there to become subsidiary companies and requiring international banks with US-dollar clearing accounts to comply fully with US tax, regulatory, and even, to some degree, foreign policy (for example, refraining from trading with US enemies).",
        "比如，美国由于发行世界主要储备货币而获得了额外的优势，而美国正要求所有在美经营的外国银行采取子公司的形式，并要求有美元清算账户的国际银行完全遵守美国的税收、监管甚至在某种程度上外交政策（比如不与美国的敌人做贸易），这实际上造成了全球银行业的分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is still a lot of “internal” room for catch-up growth, as less efficient domestic firms become more competitive with more efficient ones.",
        "但随着效率较低的国内企业对高效企业的竞争力有所提高，还有大量“内部”空间可用于赶超增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, and just as importantly, governments must indicate that, if conditions deteriorate, further fiscal expansion will be implemented.",
        "最后，也同样重要的是，政府必须表示，如果情况恶化，还会实施进一步的财政扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "The “yes” campaign hoped to win supporters with a utopian vision of an independent Scotland that included European Union and NATO membership; a currency union with England, but no fiscal union; improved public services and social benefits; and lower taxes.",
        "“是”阵营希望凭借一个拥有欧盟和北约成员资格的独立的苏格兰、一个和英格兰一起构成的货币而非财政的联盟、改善的公共服务和社会福利以及更低的税收这一乌托邦前景赢得支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "A Less-is-More Growth Strategy for Africa",
        "非洲“少即多”的发展战略"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, undercapitalized banks in the US are forced to halt all forms of capital distribution if they fail a stress test.",
        "相反，在美国，资本不足银行如果不能通过压力测试，将强制停止一切形式的资本分配。"
    ],
    [
        "Time for a Carbon Tax",
        "碳税正当时"
    ],
    [
        "The commission will be seen as a facilitator of the discussion, rather than a leader or a dominant player.",
        "委员会将被视为讨论的促进者，而不是领导者或主要参与方。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the recurring complications of adjudicating sovereign-debt contracts in foreign courts, and the world’s inability to organize a credible and fair procedure for foreign bankruptcies, perhaps the best idea is to steer the bulk of international debt flows through debtor-country courts.",
        "由于在外国法庭裁定主权债务合同会一再引发各种状况，而世界有不能阻止可信而公平的外国破产程序，也许最好的办法是通过债务国法院引导国际债务流大部的流向。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom’s referendum decision to leave the European Union only strengthens the case for more stimulus and unconventional measures in Europe.",
        "英国全民公决决定脱离欧盟，这进一步加强了欧洲加码刺激和非常规措施的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "It leaves open basic metaphysical commitments and takes a plural and tolerant view of religious life.",
        "它开启基本的形而上学承诺并且对宗教生活采纳更为多元和宽容的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Useful traits in business, like aggressiveness or political savvy, might be poorly suited to philanthropy.",
        "生意上的某些有用的特性，例如积极进取或者政治上敏感，对于慈善事业而言可能并不适合。"
    ],
    [
        "The second Intifada may very well have proven fatal to the Israeli left.",
        "第二次巴勒斯坦人暴动对以色列的左派构成了致命打击。"
    ],
    [
        "The key elements were agreed on, but only in the form of guidance, not as requirements.",
        "关键要素已经形成一致，但只是指导原则而不是要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Ukraine Next?",
        "下一个目标是乌克兰吗？"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Sputnik Moment in Beijing",
        "美国坐视中国崛起"
    ],
    [
        "EU civilian crisis management is funded directly from the Common Foreign and Security Policy budget.",
        "欧盟的民事危机管理直接由共同外交和安全政策预算提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "But they remain committed to pursuing their inflation targets, convinced that even a slight bout of deflation could initiate a downward spiral, with falling demand causing prices to decline further.",
        "但他们仍致力于追求通胀目标，认定即使是轻微的通缩也可能引发下降螺旋，需求下降导致物价进一步下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "A lack of compassion is arguably the cause of many of humankind’s most devastating failures.",
        "可以说缺乏同情心导致了人类许多最惨痛的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, setting eurozone members apart from the wider EU would be inadvisable.",
        "与此同时，将欧元区成员国与更广的欧盟区别对待是不合适的。"
    ],
    [
        "Just over two weeks later, ECOWAS announced that it had reached an agreement with the coup leaders to return the government to civilian rule in exchange for lifting the sanctions.",
        "区区两周后，西非国家经济共同体就宣布它与政变领导人达成了一致，马里恢复文官政府，以换取去取消制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the government must stop coddling the militias, and focus on building the national army – something that the NTC neglected.",
        "首先，政府必须停止纵容民兵，全力组建国家军队，而这一点恰恰曾被全国过渡委员会所忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "For years, the pragmatic answer has been the dollar, and to some extent other national currencies, giving rise to complaints of an “inordinate privilege” for the US.",
        "多年来，一直由美元充当着这一角色（从某种程度上说也包括某些其他国家的货币），这引发了诸多关于美国拥有“过分特权”的抱怨。"
    ],
    [
        "Prejudice has tended to fall as participation increases.",
        "在参与者增多后，偏见就很容易减少。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the rest of us, they believe that their nationalism is natural and does not have to be emphasized.",
        "和我们其他人一样，他们认为民族主义是很自然的情感，不用刻意强调。"
    ],
    [
        "The hanging, India’s first in three years, has prompted reactions ranging from dismay to scarcely concealed bloodlust.",
        "这是三年来印度首次执行绞刑，引发了从惊慌到几乎毫不掩饰的嗜血等各种反应。"
    ],
    [
        "But the EU can do no such thing, without effectively hastening its own demise.",
        "但欧盟不能做出这样的事情，因为这将切切实实地加速自身的灭亡。"
    ],
    [
        "More than any other incoming American president in recent memory, Obama raised expectations worldwide.",
        "与其他近期美国总统相比，奥巴马更高地提升了国际预期。"
    ],
    [
        "This perception can no longer be taken for granted, as the interaction of technology and globalization has exacerbated income and wealth inequality within countries, even as cross-country gaps have narrowed.",
        "公平感已不再是理所当然之事，技术和全球化扩大了国家内部的财富不平等，尽管国家间差距已有所缩小。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, it will fall apart faster than leaders and citizens currently realize.",
        "否则，欧盟将比领导人和公民目前所认识到的更快的速度解体。"
    ],
    [
        "But this may not necessarily be bad news.",
        "但这未必是坏消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Although they are physically a fantasy sci-fi mix of blue skin and cat-like movement, they are culturally a mix of Native Americans and Vietnamese, with Arabic accents thrown in.",
        "尽管在形体上，他们是一种蓝色皮肤和猫科动物动作的科幻混合，但在文化上，他们却是美国本土人和越南人的综合，再加上一点阿拉伯口音。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would behoove the CCP – if for no other reason than simple respect for one of Asia’s great statesmen – to stop appropriating the Singapore brand in the service of a completely different agenda.",
        "但中共——如果单纯只是尊重这位亚洲最伟大政治家之一——应该停止打着新加坡模式的旗号让它为完全不同的日程服务。"
    ],
    [
        "If this trend continues, the global economic and financial configuration will become increasingly unstable, amplifying geopolitical and security threats at a time when better cross-border coordination is vital to address threats from non-state actors and disruptive regimes, such as North Korea.",
        "如果这一趋势继续下去，全球经济和金融格局将越来越不稳定，加剧地缘和安全威胁，而与此同时，加强跨境合作才是解决来自非国家行动方和破坏性政权（如朝鲜）的威胁的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the original agreement, the five large powers that would be represented permanently on the IMF Executive Board were the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, and France – the same countries with permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council.",
        "事实上，在最初的协定中，IMF执行委员会五大常任成员将由美国、英国、苏联、中国和法国代表——与联合国安理会的常任理事国安排相同。"
    ],
    [
        "But what makes all of a firm’s stakeholders behave in a way that maximizes value?",
        "但是什么让企业的所有相关利益方，以价值最大化的方式行动？"
    ],
    [
        "He is a ruthless operator who presents himself as the champion of the developing world, protecting the interests of Africans, Asians, Arabs, and South Americans against the arrogant West.",
        "他是一个无情的“作手”（operator），把自己打造成发展中世界的旗手，保护非洲、亚洲、阿拉伯和南利益免受傲慢的西方的侵蚀。"
    ],
    [
        "One is policy-induced uncertainty, which, by most accounts, amounts to a major impediment to investment.",
        "其中之一是政策所带来的不确定性，这从很大程度上对投资形成巨大障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "In Latin America, economy-wide productivity has stagnated despite significant innovation in the best-managed firms and vanguard sectors.",
        "在拉丁美洲，尽管管理优秀的企业和先锋产业涌现出重大创新，但整体经济生产率依然停滞不前。"
    ],
    [
        "Confronting them effectively will require root-and-branch change in order to inspire Russian security officials to take the initiative.",
        "要想有效地对抗恐怖主义，就需要进行彻底的改革，鼓励安全官员们发挥主观能动性。"
    ],
    [
        "The current situation is due not to a deliberate plan, but to the lack of one.",
        "产生现状的并不是有意为之的计划，而恰恰是缺少这样的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The third winner, though she is mathematically in a much less favorable position, is Segolène Royal.",
        "第三个胜利者是罗雅尔，尽管她在数字上处于下峰。"
    ],
    [
        "In Darfur, the human rights and humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate, and the peace process there has made little headway.",
        "达尔富尔地区的人权和人道主义状况持续恶化，而该地区的和平进程也鲜有进展。"
    ],
    [
        "The Common Market was defended at the outset in terms of the gains that would follow from increased trade.",
        "从一开始，支持统一市场的论据便是增加贸易能够带来好处。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot afford to let that happen.",
        "这次，我们不能再让他们得逞。"
    ],
    [
        "The Environment of Poverty",
        "贫困的环境"
    ],
    [
        "The real crisis facing Europe is one of economic governance.",
        "同时经济治理结构也已成为欧洲面临的真正危机之一。"
    ],
    [
        "And those who care most about having an impact on others show a “need for power.”",
        "最关注影响他人的人有“权力需求”。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, if the cancer was aggressive, I would take more treatment now just to stay alive.",
        "当然如果癌症迅速蔓延的话，我会接受更多治疗来保命。"
    ],
    [
        "There are simply no rational grounds for expecting either the Conservatives or Labour to achieve the decisive victory needed to form a stable government.",
        "预期保守党或工党取得组建稳定政府所需要的决定性胜利绝非理性预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Most infrastructure investment requires public-sector leadership to forge partnerships with the private sector.",
        "多数的基建投资都需要国家公有部门做为领导力量，来与私有企业形成合作关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine, which has been occupied for more than 300 years of its history, knows what it is like to have its language threatened.",
        "但曾经经历了三百多年被占领史的乌克兰深知自己的语言受到威胁是种什么样的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Shinzo Abe of the Liberal Democratic Party, who is likely to become Japan’s next prime minister, has vowed to take a tougher line on Senkaku and other disputes with China.",
        "自民党的安倍晋三很可能成为下一任日本首相，他已承诺将在钓鱼岛问题上和其他对中纠纷中采取更强硬的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "What accounts for voters’ growing revolt against the status quo?",
        "究竟什么应该为选民不断增长的对现状的反抗负责？"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – China’s management of its exchange-rate peg continues to rattle global financial markets.",
        "纽约—中国对其汇率盯住机制的管理仍在影响全球金融市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, Goldstone’s retraction is either not warranted by the evidence on which he says that he now relies, or it is premature.",
        "换句话说，戈德斯的看法改变或者并非依据他自称所掌握的证据，或者并非在时机成熟的情况下所采取的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "But realizing the potential of Islamic finance requires strong supervisory oversight.",
        "但实现伊斯兰金融的潜力需要强大的监管。"
    ],
    [
        "The real test of Obama’s strategy of dialogue and cooperation will come only when it fails, and tough choices will have to be made.",
        "”奥巴马的对话与合作战略的真正考验只有在其失败使他不得不做出艰难的抉择之时才会到来。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, Trump backers similarly rail against the country’s estimated 11 million undocumented residents, mainly Hispanic, who overwhelmingly live peaceful and productive lives, but without proper visas or work permits.",
        "在美国，特朗普的支持者也将矛头指向了1,100万未注册居民（主要为西班牙裔），他们绝大多数过着和平的生活，从事生产性生计，但没有合法签证和工作许可。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, there were only passing mentions of consumer-led rebalancing.",
        "相反，对于消费者推动的再平衡，张高丽只是一带而过。"
    ],
    [
        "“Our success depends on a coalition of strong and independent nations that embrace their sovereignty to promote security, prosperity, and peace for themselves and for the world.”",
        "”他指出，“我们的成功取决于一个由热爱自身主权的强大和独立国家组成的联盟，来促进本国和世界的安全、繁荣与和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite many misgivings regarding its conduct in other areas, the Saudi regime should be commended for this initiative.",
        "虽然沙特在其他领域有很多令人疑虑和担忧之处，沙特政权的这次主动变革还是值得赞赏的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, when discretionary spending on items such as motor vehicles, furniture, appliances, and travel was deferred, a surge of “pent-up demand” quickly followed.",
        "在过去，当花在汽车、家具、电器和旅游方面的自由支配支出被推迟时，“被压抑的需求”会马上爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Greek economics minister, Michalis Chrysochoidis, has said, this is attributable to European Union subsidies, which drove entrepreneurs to follow the easy money into the import sector.",
        "正如希腊经济部长米哈利斯·赫里索希季斯（Michalis Chrysochoidis）所说，这都要怪欧盟实施的补贴政策，搞得企业家们都跑到进口部门去挣快钱了。"
    ],
    [
        "And, however regrettable the uneven application of the EU’s fiscal rules, the European Commission’s recent decision to give France more time to reduce its budget deficit to 3% of GDP is welcome, coming as it did against the backdrop of a weak economy.",
        "而与此同时，虽然本人对欧盟的财政管治无法一碗水端平表示遗憾，但欧盟委员会最近给予法国更多时间去将本国预算赤字降到相当于GDP3%的决定还是值得肯定的，因为该国的经济确实处于弱势。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Commission’s proposal is misguided, both in terms of its emphasis on investment and its proposed financing structure.",
        "但欧盟委员会的方案是错误的，不管是其对投资的强调还是其所建议的融资结构。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is another reason for the lack of interest in the EU elections.",
        "还有一些其他因素会导致对欧盟选举的漠视。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, my government strongly supports the Philippines’ call for a resolution to the territorial dispute in the South China Sea that is truly consistent with the three principles of international maritime law, just as we support Vietnam’s efforts to resolve conflicting territorial claims through dialogue.",
        "类似地，我的政府强烈支持菲律宾呼吁就南海领土纠纷形成于国际海洋法的三大原则真正相符的解决方案，正如我们支持越南通过对话解决领土主张冲突的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the election of a new, democratic, and lawful president has become accepted nationally as a necessary point of departure from the murderous path taken by the country with the extension of Lahoud’s mandate.",
        "然而，选举一位全新的民主合法总统已经成为全国人民的共识，这是与这个国家脱离因延长拉胡德的统治而走过的血腥道路所必不可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "The False Economic Promise of Global Governance",
        "全球治理的虚假经济承诺"
    ],
    [
        "When the TTIP was first proposed, Europe seemed to recognize its value.",
        "TTIP首次提出时，欧洲似乎能够认识到其价值。"
    ],
    [
        "The Baker Plan was a universal disappointment.",
        "贝克计划令各方失望。"
    ],
    [
        "John Maynard Keynes famously said: “I would rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.”",
        "约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯曾讲过一句名言：“我宁愿要模糊的正确也不要精确的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Every company should assign someone to play the role of “dissenter.”",
        "每个公司都应该指定人手扮演“持异见者”的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Last month, Faisal bin Ali Jaber traveled from his home in Yemen to Washington, DC, to ask why a United States drone had fired missiles at, and killed, his brother-in-law, a cleric who had spoken out against Al Qaeda.",
        "普林斯顿—上个月，阿里贾比尔（Faisal bin Ali Jaber）从祖国也门来到华盛顿，质问美国为何将导弹瞄准他的反基地组织牧师妻舅并把他杀死。"
    ],
    [
        "Competing for the EU’s more discriminating consumers would force Ukrainian producers to improve their competitiveness by raising productivity, quality control, and marketing and logistical capabilities.",
        "争夺欧盟更挑剔的消费者将迫使乌克兰企业通过改善生产率、质量控制、市场营销和后勤保障来提升竞争能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Except for the weather, the highway has the feel of Switzerland.",
        "除了天气，这条高速公路颇有些瑞士的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "But not all Chinese economists agree.",
        "但并非所有中国经济学家都同意这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The British security services were deeply suspicious of him.",
        "英国安全部门非常怀疑他。"
    ],
    [
        "This is Cameron’s best argument on the financial front.",
        "这是卡梅伦在金融阵线上的最佳论点。"
    ],
    [
        "Grasping a handful of dirt from a riverbank does leave one’s hand more oily than tarred, and the greasy dirt is somewhat sandy.",
        "抓一把河岸边的泥土手上确实能沾上不少油脂，而油质粘土的确也含有沙质成份。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is one thing to be circumspect in the midst of a crisis; it is quite another to spew nonsense.",
        "但在危机中保持细心周到是一回事，信口胡说则是完全不同的另一回事。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, not only are Italians, on average, much richer than Germans; Italy’s overall wealth distribution is much more balanced.",
        "事实上意大利人不仅平均下来比德国人富裕得多； 意大利的整体财富分配也更为平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobel laureate Amartya Sen wisely reminds us that “it is important that the practical case for tobacco control is not dismissed on the basis of an incomplete libertarian argument.”",
        "诺贝尔奖得主森睿智地提醒我们说，不要用不完整的自由派论点驳斥烟草控制的实际理由，这是非常重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "The only reason the country has not long since defaulted on its debts is that the European Central Bank continues to provide funds to the Greek central bank through its emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) scheme.",
        "希腊此前没有违约的唯一原因是欧洲央行一直在通过其紧急流动性援助（ELA）机制为希腊央行提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, Trump, too, is unlikely to have a good month.",
        "在美国，特朗普这个月也不太可能好过。"
    ],
    [
        "This is commonly attributed to the currency reputation as a safe haven during troubled times.",
        "这一般归因于瑞士法郎的名声，即在困难时期能成为安全的避风港。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important not to underestimate the cultural change that this will require of governments and economic advisers.",
        "很重要的一点是不要低估文化变化，这需要政府和经济顾问。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Senate spent weeks on a bill to force Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,179-mile conduit to carry oil from Canada's tar sands to the US for refinement and export.",
        "此外，参议院花了数周时间讨论了迫使奥巴马批准基石XL（Keystone XL）输油管道的法案。 这条长1,179英里的管道将加拿大油砂中的石油运往美国用于精炼和出口。"
    ],
    [
        "Some are inclined to push harder.",
        "一些人倾向于更用力地推动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Russian Revival",
        "俄国的复兴"
    ],
    [
        "But there is one sector of our lives where adoption of information technology has lagged conspicuously: health care.",
        "但生活中有一个方面采取信息技术的步伐大大地落后了，这就是医疗卫生。"
    ],
    [
        "The current mess stems partly from adherence to a long-discredited belief in well-functioning markets without imperfections of information and competition.",
        "从某种程度上讲，当前的乱象来自欧洲对一个早已破产的信念的坚持——市场能够在信息和竞争不完美的情况下完美运转。"
    ],
    [
        "Faced with this poor record, in 2001 the European Council committed itself to achieving a target of no more than 1.5% at any given time.",
        "面对这样一个不良纪录，欧洲理事会在2001年承诺实现使该赤字在任何时候都不高于1. 5%的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Responsibility must be put back at the heart of a system that has sunk into excess.",
        "在一个陷入过度挥霍的体系当中，责任必须放在第一位。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, the situation certainly appears worrisome – especially when viewed through the currency lens, which captures shifts in Chinese prices relative to those in the rest of the world.",
        "表面上，当前的局面颇可忧虑——特别是从货币角度，即中国价格相对世界其他地区价格的变化看。"
    ],
    [
        "Images of 1929 – of financiers leaping from buildings, unemployed men sleeping on park benches, long lines at soup kitchens, and impoverished boys selling apples on the street – are not on our minds now.",
        "我们已经忘记了1929年的情形。 当时，金融家门跳楼，失业者睡在公园的椅子上，救济食品站排起了长龙，而穷孩子们则在街头兜售苹果。"
    ],
    [
        "Only when it does will its people be able to recognize their obligation to save those fleeing in the face of evil.",
        "只有完成了这一决裂，东欧人民才有能力认识到他们拯救逃避恶魔的难民的义务。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with language training and the implementation of something like the Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs (which aimed to create an innovative “learning economy,” underpinned by inclusive social and environmental policies), mobility could be enhanced.",
        "但是，随着语言培训和类似于里斯本增长和就业战略（旨在创造创新型“学习经济”，以包容性社会和环境政策为基础）的政策的实施，流动性能够得到强化。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the eurozone recovery has been sustained, somewhat unexpectedly, even in the absence of continuous fiscal stimulus.",
        "此外，有些出乎预料，即使在没有进行持续的财政刺激的情况下，欧元区的复苏也得到了维持。"
    ],
    [
        "Do they strengthen or undermine the political stability needed to rebuild wrecked communities and shattered economies?",
        "它们到底是在加强还是在削弱重建满目疮痍的社会和经济所必需的政治稳定性呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Change will not occur from one day to the next, but the results obtained in the end will be better and more enduring.",
        "变化不会在短期内发生，但最终取得的成果将更为完美而且更具有可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Resolving problems that extend across borders is a good place to start, with strategies involving specific tasks for various groups and countries to undertake that advance the greater good.",
        "解决跨境问题是一个很好的起点，给不同群体和国家分配具体任务的战略能推进更大的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin, like Trump, is a warrior for national greatness against the evil forces of multilateralism and cultural pluralism.",
        "和特朗普一样，普京也是对抗多边主义和文化多元主义、捍卫国家伟大的战士。"
    ],
    [
        "And if any country can claim to be the victim of this climate injustice, it is Pakistan.",
        "而最有资格声称是气候不公平受害者的国家莫过于巴基斯坦。"
    ],
    [
        "One of those fundamentals is the idea that, to achieve social goals, it is better to use – rather than repress – the market.",
        "其中一个基本面是以下思想：要实现社会目标，最好利用——而不是抑制——市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, we live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to build nations.",
        "此外，我们生活在一个多文化的世界上，而且对如何推动社会进程以及如何建立国家所知甚少。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany is willing to do more in this area internationally.",
        "德国愿意在这一方面起到更大的国际作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Diversification in natural gas transportations is a long-term cross-border asset development proposition requiring enormous investment and political commitment on a multilateral level.",
        "天然气运输的多样化是跨越国境的长期资产发展计划，需要巨大的多边投资以及持续的政治支持。"
    ],
    [
        "To prevent that, we seek to shore up our current intention to lose weight.",
        "为了防止这种情况，我们会寻找一些东西来支撑当前的减肥意图。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The decision whether to remain part of the European Union is obviously one for the British people and their elected representatives to make.",
        "纽约—是否继续成为欧盟的一部分的决定显然应该由英国人民和他们所选出的代表做出。"
    ],
    [
        "But the system’s extreme progressivity makes proceeds so volatile that the state continually experiences boom-bust cycles of rapidly rising revenue, inevitably followed by collapse.",
        "但这一系统的极端累进税却使得收入高低不定，陷入了一时收入猛增，接着又必定发生锐减的怪圈。"
    ],
    [
        "A third way that goals matter is to spur epistemic communities – networks of expertise, knowledge, and practice – into action around sustainable-development challenges.",
        "目标之所以重要的第三个原因是它能刺激认知共同体（epistemic communities）——由专家、知识和实践组成的网络——转化为围绕可持续发展挑战的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the biggest risk lies with the US shale-oil industry.",
        "但也许最大的风险在于美国页岩油行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Are they?",
        "果真如此吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Current low interest rates do not cover the risk that banks would take.",
        "当前的低利率不能覆盖银行所冒的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, areas dedicated to energy production, particularly biofuel, may not reach the level that societies would wish.",
        "因此，专门用于能源生产，特别是生物燃料生产的土地面积可能达不到社会的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Two recent proposals incorporating these conditions call for the creation of “individual security accounts” analogous to US Social Security accounts, but encompassing portable benefits that would be available to all workers, regardless of employment status, and would accrue via pro-rated automatic payroll contributions.",
        "包含上述条件的两份近期提案呼吁设立与美国社会安全账户类似的 “个人安全账户” ，包括适用于所有劳动力且与就业状况无关的便携式福利，并通过按比例自动工资拨付的形式累积到个人账户。"
    ],
    [
        "But Turkey now finds itself increasingly isolated from both camps, owing to its downing of the Russian fighter and its staunch opposition to Assad, whom both American and European leaders increasingly believe will have to play some role in any political settlement.",
        "但土耳其现在发现自己在两大阵营之间越来越孤立，因其击落俄罗斯战机并坚决反对阿萨德，而美欧领导人越来越相信后者在政治解决中能够发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Japanese economist Ryuichiro Tachi has pointed out, Japan also benefited from a high savings rate and a low capital coefficient (the ratio of capital to output) of less than 1.",
        "日本经济学家馆龙一郎（Ryuichiro Tachi）指出，日本还从高储蓄率和小于1的低资本系数（资本与产出的比率）中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does the ideal of national unity account for internal diversity and conflict.",
        "民族统一的理想也不能解决民族内部的差异和冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "But Egypt’s government is angry with Hamas for opposing the formation of a coalition government.",
        "但是，哈马斯反对组建联合政府，埃及政府对此感到愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar scenario is already unfolding in Iraq.",
        "伊拉克也在出现类似的情景。"
    ],
    [
        "The US not only encouraged these changes, but has benefited hugely from them.",
        "美国不但鼓励这些变化，也从中获得了巨大的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "The returns they can provide to investors and pensioners have similarly fallen.",
        "它们能够像投资者和退休者提供的回报也相应减少。"
    ],
    [
        "With Europe and the US still accounting for the largest shares of China’s end-market exports, there can be no escaping the tight linkages of Asia’s China-centric supply chain to the ups and downs of demand in the major developed economies.",
        "欧洲和美国仍然占据着中国终端产品出口的最大比重，因此紧密相连的亚洲以中国为中心的供给链并不能与主要发达国家的起伏脱钩。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The United States Federal Reserve’s decision to undertake a third round of quantitative easing, or QE3, has raised three important questions. Will QE3 jump-start America’s anemic economic growth?",
        "发自纽约——美联储实施第三轮量化宽松（QE3）的决定引出了三大重要问题：QE3能否紧急启动美国当前乏力的经济增长？"
    ],
    [
        "Those who have been writing obituaries for the emerging-market boom should give serious consideration to these trends.",
        "为新兴市场繁荣撰写讣告的人应该认真考虑上述趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Could they expect to see US troops and bases along the Chinese border on the Yalu River, or perhaps a string of listening posts to gather intelligence?",
        "美军是否会在鸭绿江沿岸部设立基地，是否会设立一连串监听站搜集情报？"
    ],
    [
        "Coupled with this is a zero-sum view of the world, in which any Chinese gain in the share of the global economy, or any increased presence in many parts of the world, must be at the expense of the US or other powers.",
        "与此观点并列的则是一个零和博弈的世界观，认为中国不断扩大的世界经济份额或者势力存在必然会以美国或者其他大国的利益为代价。"
    ],
    [
        "But they will not be enough to ensure measured responses to even the slightest provocation, much less to underpin a sweeping and consistent strategy.",
        "但它们不足以确保特朗普能够对哪怕最轻微的挑衅采取克制的反应，更不用说支持大范围的一致战略了。"
    ],
    [
        "This caused the industry to resist strongly efforts to rein in practices like proprietary trading.",
        "整个行业都强烈反对削减业务领域的努力，比如削减不动产交易业务。"
    ],
    [
        "There is only one problem: there is no “international community.”",
        "问题只有一个：没有“国际社会”。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimatums from unelected institutions that have compromised their own legitimacy have inflamed anti-EU sentiment across the continent.",
        "来自非选举产生因此自身合法性有疑问的机构的最后通牒点燃了整个欧洲大陆的反欧盟情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries have only a small export sector, which makes external adjustment much more difficult; and both have an export structure that is skewed toward commodities, the supply of which is unlikely to change much, even as structural reforms are pursued or wages decline.",
        "两个国家的出口部门规模都相当小，使得外部调整更加艰难； 两国的出口结构及也更偏向商品，但即便实现了结构性的改革或是工资下调，商品的供应都不太可能出现大的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The most leveraged big US bank, Morgan Stanley, has less than 4% equity, meaning that 96% of its balance sheet is some form of debt.",
        "杠杆率最高的美国银行是摩根士丹利，其股本率还不足4%，也就是说，其资产负债表上有96%左右来自债务。"
    ],
    [
        "They argue that his penchant for setting up consultative commissions is the best way to forge the consensus required for structural reform, whereas Sarkozy’s combative style was counterproductive.",
        "他们指出，奥朗德热衷于成立协商委员会，这是形成结构性改革所必须的共识的最佳方法，而萨科齐的战斗风格是反生产的。"
    ],
    [
        "That said, as China undergoes structural economic transition, the stabilization potential of macroeconomic policy is limited.",
        "但是，中国正在经历结构性经济转型，宏观经济政策的稳定潜力有限。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the goal of “global realignment” away from the advanced countries has catalyzed these five very disparate countries’ efforts to forge their own bloc.",
        "目前，摆脱发达国家，实现“全球重组”的目标刺激着这五个截然不同的国家打造它们自己的集团。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who intends to stage a glorious return to the Kremlin as President in the election scheduled for March next year, should reflect on that choice.",
        "俄罗斯总理弗拉基米尔•普京应该考量下这个选择。 他有意在明年3月的大选中，光荣回归克林姆林宫担任总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a massive diversion of resources “away from goods and services directly useful this year,” I argued, “is a good bargain only if it boosts overall annual economic growth by 0.3% – or 6% per 25-year generation.”",
        "资源“从有直接用途的当年商品和服务上”如此大规模的“转移”，我指出，“只有在它能提振年度总体经济增长0. 3%以上，或在25年时间里提振6%，它才是划算的买卖。"
    ],
    [
        "The vultures’ business was enabled in part by litigation over the so-called champerty defense – based on a longstanding English common-law doctrine, later adopted by US state legislatures, prohibiting the purchase of debt with the intent of bringing a lawsuit.",
        "兀鹫之所以能如此行事，部分是拜所谓的帮诉辩护（champerty defense）诉讼所赐——其基础是由来已久的英国普通法概念，随后被美国州立法机关所采纳，禁止以打官司为目的购买债券。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is no superior alternative.",
        "但除此之外找不到更好的办法了。"
    ],
    [
        "MANILA – To hear some pundits tell it, China’s economic miracle – one that lifted 300 million people out of poverty and shifted the world’s geopolitical center of gravity – is coming to a tumultuous end.",
        "马尼拉—一些专家说，中国的经济奇迹——让3亿人摆脱贫困并改变了世界地缘政治重心——正在走向混乱的终局。"
    ],
    [
        "It deals with peace building and the resilience of states and societies in and around Europe.",
        "它讨论了和平建设以及欧洲内部和周边国家和社会的恢复力。"
    ],
    [
        "Since ill health forced Fidel Castro to retire from Cuba’s leadership, Raúl has opened the doors to the military and pushed out even those civilians who had been his brother’s trusted associates.",
        "自从健康问题迫使菲德尔·卡斯特罗退出古巴领导班子以来，劳尔彻底向军队敞开了大门并开始排挤那些备受其兄器重的文官。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat of more malaria has been used to argue for drastic carbon cuts.",
        "疟疾肆虐的威胁曾作为要求大幅度削减碳排放的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "This narrative is simple and increasingly popular.",
        "这种简单的说法越来越受人们欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the two faces of science are much more intimately interwoven – less like faces than like two ingredients of a thoroughly stirred mixture.",
        "实际上，科学的两个侧面关系更加紧密——与其说是它们是不同的侧面还不如说是彻底混合在一起的两种成份更妥当。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1993, he had had enough.",
        "在1993年，他已经受够了。"
    ],
    [
        "Any country with a sensible development strategy has the opportunity to make its economy grow, with assistance from trade.",
        "任何采取理智发展策略的国家都有机会借助贸易实现经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, in today’s context, the pursuit of Keynesian policies looks even more profitable than the pursuit of market fundamentalism!",
        "不管怎样，在今天的背景下，采取凯恩斯主义的政策看上去比追求市场基要主义可以获得更大的利益！"
    ],
    [
        "On the one hand, there’s the safe pair of hands personified by Jean-Claude Juncker, the veteran prime minister of tiny Luxembourg, who knows the ins and outs of the EU’s political machinery and chairs the euro zone’s ministerial set-up.",
        "在一方面，小国卢森堡老牌首相容克尔是一个稳妥的侯选人。 他对欧盟的政治机器了如指掌，而且主持欧元区的部长会议。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy’s December 4 constitutional-reform referendum may have been the final wake-up call for Europe to get its act together in order to address social divisions, political extremism, and deepening economic and political crises.",
        "意大利12月4日的宪法改革公投或许是唤醒欧洲最后的机会，欧洲必须共同行动，解决社会分裂、政治极端主义和不断深化的经济和政治危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, some have proposed replacing state income taxes with payroll taxes that employers can deduct at the federal level.",
        "同时还有些州提议用雇主可以在联邦一级抵扣的工资税替代州所得税。"
    ],
    [
        "That needs to change if major vulnerabilities are to be addressed successfully.",
        "这一状况需要有所改变，如果我们想解决主要弱点的话。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s emerging powers lack any sense of urgency in addressing abuses, preferring the pursuit of narrower, short-term interests to investing in long-term peace and justice.",
        "世界新兴强国缺乏制止暴力的紧迫感，总是组回球狭隘的短期利益而不进行长期和平与正义投资。"
    ],
    [
        "China, on the other hand, provides a sobering example of the consequences of withdrawing publicly financed health insurance.",
        "另一方面，中国的健康保险撤回政府投资，这一做法产生的严重后果发人深省。"
    ],
    [
        "But only those with income and wealth can provide meaningful support.",
        "但只有那些拥有收入和财富者才能提供有意义的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "To be fair, Trump chose a moderate, when many in his party were pushing for an extremist.",
        "平心而论，当特朗普所属党派中的很多人都推崇一名极端主义者时，他却选择了一位温和派。"
    ],
    [
        "But when I concluded that no country would leave the eurozone, I failed to imagine that Germany would force another member out.",
        "但我在下结论说没有一个国家将离开欧元区时，我没有想到德国会强迫另一个成员国退出。"
    ],
    [
        "The demographic burden of a rapidly growing labor force appears to be greatly increased when that labor force is not very literate, especially when inadequate infrastructure, crime, and official corruption also take their toll.",
        "对于未能完全解放的劳动力而言，劳动力的增长速度越快，其人口负担所造成的影响也就越重，如果其基础建设不完全，犯罪问题严重，腐败的官僚还要再剥削一番，那么情况就更加严重了。"
    ],
    [
        "The struggle to secure the victory of Viktor Yushchenko, the true winner in last Sunday’s presidential election, as Ukraine’s new president is not one that we sought.",
        "争取尤申科胜利、成为乌克兰新总统的斗争不是我们曾经期望的，尤申科是上周日总统大选中真正的获胜者。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1990, the number of women dying as a result of childbirth has been nearly halved, to 289,000 per year.",
        "20世纪90年代后，死于分娩的女性人数为289,000人，相比之前减少了将近半数。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the invasion was manifestly illegal and provocative, Pakistan denied that official soldiers were involved, with the result that when they were repulsed, at great cost to both sides, Musharraf refused to accept his own soldiers’ bodies.",
        "由于这次入侵完全是非法和挑衅性的，因此巴基斯坦否认正规军参与其中。 结果，当双方损失惨重、巴基斯坦被击退的时候，穆沙拉夫拒绝认领自己士兵的尸体。"
    ],
    [
        "It was left to his spinners to explain, as The Economist put it, that this was “necessary rubbish, concocted to persuade the fanatics who vote in the Republican primaries.”",
        "正如《经济学人》评论说：这要留给他背后的写手智囊团去解释，这是一个“试图去说服那些在共和党内初选中投票的狂热分子的‘必要的废话’”。"
    ],
    [
        "A World of Pain",
        "疼痛的世界"
    ],
    [
        "If profit maximization requires cutting costs and downsizing, the corporate leader can eliminate jobs and issue severance payments to redundant workers.",
        "如果利润最大化要求削减成本，精简人手，那么公司领导人就会缩减岗位，向冗余员工支付遣散费。"
    ],
    [
        "The Next Trade Breakthroughs",
        "下一个贸易突破"
    ],
    [
        "As long as this internal divergence persists, the euro crisis cannot be fully resolved, because current-account deficits and/or slow growth will continue to stalk the southern European countries, perpetuating worries about sovereign debt and commercial banks.",
        "只要这一内部分化存在，欧元危机就不能得到完全解决，因为经常项目赤字和/或增长缓慢将继续缠住南欧国家，关于主权债务和商业银行的担心将长久存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico could even become an energy exporter, supplying excess capacity to nearby neighbors in the US and British Virgin Islands.",
        "波多黎各甚至可能成为能源出口国，向临近的美国和英属维京群岛输出过剩产能。"
    ],
    [
        "This most likely reflects the consistent and credible threat of US retaliation.",
        "这很可能反映了遭受美国报复的威胁是持续存在和可信的。"
    ],
    [
        "Both obstacles can be overcome.",
        "这两个障碍都可以克服。"
    ],
    [
        "· a government that rules from within the national territory;",
        "· 一个在其领土内进行统治的政府"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the United Kingdom has 270 doctors per 100,000 people.",
        "相反，每100,000英国人拥有270名医生。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason why it can’t be effective against the world’s superpower.",
        "没有理由认为这在反对世界超级大国上是无效的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a striking result – all the more so because it comes from the IMF, an institution hardly known for heterodox or radical ideas.",
        "这是一个令人惊讶的结果——考虑到这一结果来自极少出现异端或极端思想的IMF就更加值得惊讶了。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, these criteria were abandoned when NATO began to invite even the most backward and corrupt states to join.",
        "后来，随着北约开始向最腐败落后的国家发出邀请，这些标准更是被弃之不顾。"
    ],
    [
        "The donors promised to double aid to Africa by 2010, but are still far off track.",
        "捐助方承诺到2010年将援助资金增加一倍，但现在仍是任重道远。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution that was eventually adopted was considered brilliant at the time, because it avoided formal default by any of the big Latin American borrowers (though Brazil briefly defaulted five years later, in 1987).",
        "最后所采取的办法，当时被认为是卓有成效的，因为拉美各大债务国没有一个出现正式违约的情况（只是巴西于5年后，也就是1987年，曾短暂出现过违约）。"
    ],
    [
        "But if a failing mega-bank runs out of cash during such a delay, the risk that its bankruptcy will be disorderly – as with Lehman Brothers in 2008 – rises, as does the potential that it will wreak havoc on the real economy.",
        "但如果倒闭大银行在这一拖延过程中耗尽现金，就有可能陷入无序破产——2008年的雷曼兄弟（Lehman Brothers）就是如此——并给实体经济造成严重破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to describe emerging socio-technological patterns – including the merging of scientific disciplines and the fusion of human life with progress in these fields – the current era should be called the “Hybrid Age.”",
        "为了描述新兴的社会技术模式（包括学科合并以及人类生活与上述领域进步的融合），将当今时代称之为“混合时代”最恰如其分。"
    ],
    [
        "What struck me was not the announcement itself, but the name of the CEO: Cliff Reid, the CEO when I knew him in the 1980’s of a text-search company called Verity.",
        "让我印象深刻的不是声明本身，而是首席执行官的名字Cliff Reid，我在20世纪80年代就认识一个Reid，他当时在一家名叫Verity的内容搜索公司担任CEO。"
    ],
    [
        "Together they point to a gradual and steady improvement in overall labor-market conditions.",
        "这两个数据表明总体劳动力市场条件在缓慢但稳健地改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Closing Asia’s Security Gap",
        "缩小亚洲的安全差距"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Commission published a progress report on Turkey that granted that reforms were continuing, albeit at a slower pace, under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s mildly Islamic-minded government.",
        "同时，委员会公布了一份关于土耳其的国家发展报告，承认在总理雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安带领的伊斯兰温和派政府的领导下，土耳其的各项改革正在进行中，虽然步伐比较缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "Subsidy rules can be improved by requiring economic cost-benefit analyses that incorporate potential consequences for both static and dynamic efficiency.",
        "我们可以借助包含静态和动态效率潜在后果的经济成本效益分析来改进补贴规则。"
    ],
    [
        "But, by enabling the rise of monopoly power, and by facilitating barriers to entry, the growth of IT has also had major negative economic, social, and political side effects, including the proliferation of “fake news.”",
        "但IT的成长也导致了垄断力和进入壁垒，从而带来了巨大的经济、社会和政治消极副作用，包括“假新闻”的泛滥。"
    ],
    [
        "But the number one priority for economists – indeed, for humankind – is finding ways to spur equitable economic growth.",
        "但经济学家——事实上，是人类——的首要关注点是找到办法刺激平等的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "This has created a policy dilemma.",
        "这就形成了一个政治两难。"
    ],
    [
        "As for norms, major states have agreed that cyber war will be limited by the law of armed conflict, which requires discrimination between military and civilian targets and proportionality in terms of consequences.",
        "具体到标准而言，主要国家一致认为网络战争应受武装冲突规则的管辖，即要求区分军事和民用目标，并在袭击后果方面遵循对应原则。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if China comes out of the crisis as the big winner and continues to boost its power, zero-sum thinking will soon replace win-win cooperation.",
        "而且，如果中国作为大赢家从危机中脱颖而出，实力继续飙升，那么零和博弈将很快取代双赢合作。"
    ],
    [
        "He was sure he would end up in hell.",
        "他认为自己一定会堕入地狱。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade among these countries had been higher, on average, than among their Arab peers, but it has collapsed as violence has mounted.",
        "曾经，这些国家之间的平均贸易规模要大于其他阿拉伯国家之间，但如今因为暴力的升级，贸易已经崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "A balance of energy imports and exports is only a first approximation of independence.",
        "能源进出口的平衡只是通往能源独立的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, largely unbeknownst to the protagonists in this debate over models, an evidentiary revolution is already underway.",
        "事实上，这场关于模型的争论的主角们大多不知道，一场证据革命已经开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike in some other developing economies, where the rights of farmers or tribals have never stood in the way of development, in India politicians and NGOs took up their cause.",
        "与其他发展中经济体体不同——它们的农民和部落权利从来不会构成开发的障碍——印度政客和非政府组织会挺身而出。"
    ],
    [
        "To Europeans, the International Monetary Fund, which supervised exchange-rate arrangements in the post-Bretton Woods world, looked like a perfectly American committee, and France did not like that.",
        "”在欧洲人看来，监督着布雷顿森林汇率安排的国际货币基金组织，正是这样一个“美国委员会”的绝佳代表，法国人不喜欢被它统治。"
    ],
    [
        "But Solidarity’s old guard has also been cast aside.",
        "可团结工会的老战士们也被抛到了一边。"
    ],
    [
        "Common variants typically explain a small fraction of genetic risk.",
        "常见变异通常只能解释一小部分遗传风险。"
    ],
    [
        "That exemption was created for Greece, because there was no “high probability” that Greek sovereign debt was sustainable, and the IMF’s European members worried that a Greek restructuring would spread financial contagion to other eurozone countries.",
        "系统性豁免为希腊而设，因为不存在“高概率”认为希腊主权债务可持续，而IMF的欧洲成员国担心希腊重组将导致金融传染病蔓延到其他欧元区国家。"
    ],
    [
        "China is the latest and largest beneficiary of the economic model dubbed “Bretton Woods II.”",
        "中国是这一被称为“布雷顿森林II”的经济模式的最新也是最大的受益者。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, it provides an important bridge between our modern economy, which relies heavily on carbon-intensive fossil fuels, and a future in which CO 2 emissions are greatly reduced.",
        "这为严重依赖碳密集的化石燃料的现代经济和二氧化碳排放量大幅下降的未来之间架设了一道桥梁。"
    ],
    [
        "As President, she pledged, half her cabinet would be women, and she would further the State Department initiatives launched during her tenure.",
        "作为总统，她承诺内阁中将有一半是女性，并将进一步推进她在国务院任内退出的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, it would launch a critical shift toward a comprehensive and, for the first time, effective climate agreement.",
        "欧盟这样做能启动一次关键的过渡，首次签署全面而有效的气候变化协议。"
    ],
    [
        "In the international debt crisis that began in 1982, IMF country adjustment programs went hand in hand with “bailing in” creditor banks through “voluntary” coordinated loan rollovers.",
        "在肇始于1982年的国际债务危机中，IMF国家调整计划与通过“自愿”合作贷款展期进行的债权人“自救”（bailing in）双管齐下。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unlike Asian countries, America would not really suffer from a Chinese “Monroe Doctrine” declaring that China would not accept any outside intervention in Asia.",
        "而与亚洲国家不同，美国不会因为中国的“门罗主义”——中国不会接受对亚洲的任何外部干预——而真正受损。"
    ],
    [
        "The increase in treatment has been spectacular – more than 500 million people in 51 countries treated for elephantiasis in 2007, and 60 million in 19 countries have been treated for river blindness.",
        "受治疗人数的增长非常可观——2007年，51个国家超过5亿人接受了象皮病治疗，19个国家的6000万人接受了河盲病治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, 30 years of tax cutting has left the US government without the financial resources needed to carry out effective programs in key areas such as the transition to low-carbon energy.",
        "此外，30年的减税也让美国政府失去了实施关键领域（如面向低碳能源的转型）的财源。"
    ],
    [
        "That foundation had a hard enough time functioning when human societies had 60 members – eight orders of magnitude less than our current global society’s six billion.",
        "这一基础在人类社会只有60个成员的情况下难以发挥作用—现代全球社会的60亿人口要高出8个数量级。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where rules that impose term limits on officeholders, such as the Twenty-Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, have their place.",
        "这也解释了为什么像美国宪法修正案第二十二条这样限制执政者任期的规定很有必要。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of having more time for leisure, they spent more time at and commuting to work.",
        "他们更多的时间不是花在休闲上，而是花在工作或是上班的路上。"
    ],
    [
        "With credit flows disrupted, the economy could not continue to expand.",
        "一旦信贷流中断，经济也无法继续扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, concern focuses on the legitimacy of the process that produced the laws.",
        "在某些情况下，制定法律进程的合法性才是人们最主要的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "The school of Muslim thought promoted by these scholars, who come from both Sunni and Shia backgrounds, offers a way forward for Islam.",
        "由这些既有逊尼派、也有什叶派背景的学者推动的穆斯林思想流派为伊斯兰教提供了一个前进方向。"
    ],
    [
        "It can also provide technical expertise to Arab policymakers on debt management.",
        "其次，国际社会可以派技术专家支援阿拉伯决策者管理债务。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they often seem to be advocating for a half-in, half-out relationship with Europe – for a Britain that is semi-detached, rather than fully engaged.",
        "结果他们似乎往往倡导一脚在内、一脚在外的对欧关系——宣扬英国对欧的半脱离状态，而不是全心全意地参与其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Electric vehicles will need large adjustments to infrastructure.",
        "电动汽车的出现也会对现有的基础设施提出挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "It won’t only be in Britain that politics, from time to time, becomes a bit too exciting.",
        "须知有机会发生政治险情的地方，可不仅仅只有英国。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that managed to leverage globalization, such as China and Vietnam, employed a mixed strategy of export promotion and a variety of policies that violate current trade rules.",
        "即那些设法利用全球化牟利的国家(如中国和越南)会采用一些混合策略，一方面鼓励出口，另一方又实施各类违反现行贸易规则的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a precedent for Trumponomics’ potential benefits for Europe.",
        "特朗普经济学这类政策对欧洲的潜在益处是有先例的。"
    ],
    [
        "And here, the EU is lagging behind.",
        "在这方面，欧盟正在落后。"
    ],
    [
        "Flake, whose memoir is called The Conscience of a Conservative, recently delivered a searing speech on the Senate floor denouncing Trump, whom Flake sees as threatening American “principles, freedoms, and institutions,” disregarding “truth and decency,” and engaging in petty and “reckless provocations.”",
        "用《一个保守主义者的良心》（The Conscience of a Conservative）为自己的回忆录命名的弗莱克最近在参议院发表了热情的演讲，批评了特朗普。 弗莱克说特朗普威胁着美国的“原则、自由和制度”，他不尊重“事实和体面”，经常搞一些小家子气的“不计后果的挑衅”。"
    ],
    [
        "Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is a far more appealing individual than “The Donald,” but his anti-trade rhetoric is almost as dangerous.",
        "而民主党总统候选人伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）虽然比“老唐（纳德）”更具号召力，但他反贸易言论的危险性其实跟后者不相上下。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – “If the law supposes that,” says Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist, “the law is a ass – a idiot.”",
        "巴黎——“如果法律做出这种假设”，《雾都孤儿》中的班布尔先生说，“那法律就是混蛋、白痴。"
    ],
    [
        "How that question is answered is crucially important, because it will determine the character of a global power, and thus how it deals with other, weaker countries.",
        "而这个问题将如何得到解答是极端重要的，因为它将决定一个全球势力的特性，并以此决定它将如何与那些比它弱小的国家相处。"
    ],
    [
        "As the one-child generation ages – adding some ten million retirees annually – this ratio will skyrocket, with the labor surplus that supported China’s economic miracle giving way to a severe shortage that depresses growth.",
        "随着独生一代老龄化——每年将增加大约1,000万退休者——这一比例将会猛增，支持中国经济奇迹的劳动力剩余将变成遏制增长的严重短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Most of the world’s governments – eager to mobilize more tax revenues to finance development and curb pervasive tax-avoidance schemes, such as those revealed in the so-called Luxembourg Leaks scandal last year – have an interest in collaborating on taxation matters.",
        "纽约—全球大部分政府急于动员更多的税收收入为发展融资以及遏制无处不在的避税机制（比如去年所谓的卢森堡泄密所揭示的），在税收问题上展开合作符合它们的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The debtor economies, such as Spain and Portugal, now run small current-account surpluses, and are gradually reducing their debt.",
        "债务经济体，比如西班牙和葡萄牙，现在都有销量经常项目盈余，并在逐步降低债务。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, customer expectations will evolve as the millennial generation increasingly accounts for a larger portion of earning, spending, borrowing, saving, and investing.",
        "首先，客户预期将随着千禧年一代占收入、支出、借贷、储蓄和投资的比重日渐上升而发生改变。"
    ],
    [
        "And it may have had this pull as recently as the 2013 Euromaidan protests, when young Ukrainians died in the name of their country’s potential links with the EU.",
        "就在2013年新欧盟示威期间欧盟或许仍拥有这样的影响力，当时年轻的乌克兰人为争取本国与欧盟的联系而勇敢地奉献生命。"
    ],
    [
        "I had the honor of attending the premiere of The Most Dangerous Man in America , the new documentary about Daniel Ellsberg and his daring release of the Pentagon Papers – against the will of the US government – to The New York Times back in 1971.",
        "我曾有幸参加了纪录片《美国最危险男子》的首映式，这部新片讲述了早在1971年，丹尼尔·埃尔斯伯格大胆地将五角大楼文件——这当然美国政府不愿看到的——泄露给《纽约时报》的故事。"
    ],
    [
        "And this applies above all, as it did in the past, to Germany, in the heart of the continent, with the EU’s largest population and economy, and, last but not least, with its difficult past.",
        "和过去一样，这一点首先适用于德国—因为它位于欧洲大陆的中心，是欧盟的第一人口和经济大国，更因为它有一段曲折的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, at first glance, pursuing such a change in Italy appears simple.",
        "事实上，咋一看，意大利追求类似变化好像易如反掌。"
    ],
    [
        "But the scale of the aid remains massive, especially when one considers how little progress Greece has made in implementing the reforms it promised in the past.",
        "但援助规模仍然十分巨大，特别是考虑到希腊在实施过去所承诺的改革方面几乎还无进展的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "All democratic societies today are faced with the challenge of redefining their identity in dialogue with some elements that are external, and some that are internal.",
        "在与自身内部或者外部的因素对话的过程中，所有的民主社会都面对着类似的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Dokdo has been a thorn in relations between the two countries for decades.",
        "结果，几十年来，独岛一直是两国关系的绊脚石。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel is now expected, for example, to ease its blockade of Gaza and allow the transport of humanitarian and construction supplies.",
        "比如，如今哈马斯希望以色列放松对加沙的包围，允许人道主义和建设供应的运输。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic costs of the impasse have been catastrophic for Greece, and pose a grave threat to Europe.",
        "僵局令希腊付出了灾难性的经济成本，并且严重威胁到整个欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whatever the probabilities, the fact remains that there will generally be a high percentage of false positives when screening for rare conditions.",
        "但不管可能性几何，事实依然是在筛查某些罕见病症时总会出现高比例的假阳性结果。"
    ],
    [
        "So non-Americans should be more appreciative of America’s deficits.",
        "因此非美国人更应该对美国的赤字心存感激。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these weapons can be launched within minutes, increasing the risk of miscalculation.",
        "这些武器中许多可以在几分钟内发射，这增加了误算的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The defaults proved to be costly.",
        "违约的代价是沉重的。"
    ],
    [
        "We need people on both sides of the Vistula River to do their part to build a fair and ambitious universal climate agreement by 2015.",
        "我们需要维斯瓦河两岸的与会者都做出努力来构建一个公平的、充满雄心的2015年全球气候协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Gradually, this would become the norm, and tradition would adjust accordingly.",
        "而这渐渐会成为新的标准，传统因此会进行相应的调整。"
    ],
    [
        "For developing economies, the three key growth fundamentals are acquisition of skills and education by the workforce; improvement of institutions and governance; and structural transformation from low-productivity to high-productivity activities (as typified by industrialization).",
        "对发展中经济体而言，劳动力教育和技能培训、机构及治理改善和从低生产率到高生产率活动的结构转型（例如工业化）是三大关键增长基本面。"
    ],
    [
        "But there remain many areas in which further debate and choice are needed.",
        "但在诸多领域，还需要做进一步的争论和选择。"
    ],
    [
        "More telling, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation held an extraordinary summit in Istanbul, where its members reaffirmed “the centrality of the cause of Palestine and Al-Quds Al-Sharif [Jerusalem] to the Muslim Ummah,” recognized East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, and strongly condemned Trump’s actions.",
        "更能说明问题的是，伊斯兰合作组织在伊斯坦布尔举行了一次特别峰会，其成员国重申了“巴勒斯坦和耶路撒冷在穆斯林心目中的核心地位”，承认东耶路撒冷为巴勒斯坦首都，并强烈谴责特朗普的举动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fung Group (where one of us is a managing director), in partnership with IBM and Pico, has set up a “retail laboratory” in Shanghai to provide a controlled setting for businesses to observe – in real time – how consumers react to new technologies and products.",
        "冯氏集团（我们其中之一为其常务董事）与IBM和Pico合作，在上海成立了“零售实验室”，为企业提供可控设置实时观察消费者如何响应新技术和产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it seems to be recurring, largely unchanged, in the Middle East.",
        "如今，这一幕似乎又要在中东几乎一模一样地重演。"
    ],
    [
        "In an industry in which the conventional wisdom has long dismissed efforts to “buck the market,” this is a surprising – and welcome – development.",
        "在这个传统智慧一直在抵制“反市场”努力的行业，这是个令人惊讶——并且受人欢迎的——突破。"
    ],
    [
        "There was no institutionalized write-down of Latin American debt until five years after the crisis, when a haircut no longer threatened banks’ stability.",
        "直到五年之后，各金融机构才开始就拉美债进行资产减记，此时对银行自身的稳定性已不再构成威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "But its close association with the United States-led invasion leaves it vulnerable to the charge of “victor’s justice.”",
        "但它与以美国主导下的侵略的密切关联，使其很容易被指责为“胜利者的审判”。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this trend, it is not surprising that some people foresee a point known as the “Singularity,” when AI systems will exceed human intelligence, by intelligently improving themselves.",
        "考虑到这一趋势，毫不奇怪一些人预测将出现所谓的“奇点”，AI系统将超越人类智能，智能化地改善自身。"
    ],
    [
        "Fitting a rising power into a decaying international system has rarely occurred peacefully.",
        "）将崛起的力量纳入正在消亡的国际体系很少能够和平实现。"
    ],
    [
        "But because we Muslims like to add qualifications that often derive from sources other than the Koran, our religion’s unity has been broken.",
        "但是我们穆斯林喜欢从古兰经以外的地方推导出新的条件，结果我们的宗教的统一性被破坏了。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, budgetary waste exists, but it is not the cause of an extreme macroeconomic crisis.",
        "预算浪费的问题的确存在，但不是这场宏观经济极端危机的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "All this is a success, not only for anti-death penalty radicals, for the “Hands off Cain” association, the Italian government, and for the European Union and its friends in the world.",
        "所有这些都是一个成功，这不仅对废除死刑的极端人士而言如此，而且对于废除死刑协会、意大利政府、欧盟及其在全世界的朋友而言也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The Geopolitics of Environmental Challenges",
        "环境挑战的地缘政治"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the involvement of heads of state and government must complement the UN process, rather than supplant it.",
        "最后，国家和政府首脑的参与必须为联合国程序起到锦上添花的作用，而不是取而代之。"
    ],
    [
        "Such information is both a product and a motor of continuing reform.",
        "这种信息是不断改革的产品同时也将推动改革不断向前推进。"
    ],
    [
        "And was not Silvio Berlusconi’s candidate for the presidency of the Italian Senate, Giulio Andreotti, a junior member of one of Italy’s first post-1945 governments?",
        "贝鲁斯科尼推举的意大利参议院主席候选人安德雷奥蒂不就是1945年后首届政府中的一个低级别部长吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Some even call for more active US assistance.",
        "有人甚至呼吁美国给予积极的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "As devoted followers of Thomas Malthus and Paul Ehrlich, the club argued that bad things come from exponential growth, and good things from linear growth.",
        "作为托马斯·马尔萨斯和保罗·埃尔利希的忠实追随者，该俱乐部认为线性增长是件好事，而指数级增长将带来可怕的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Bank debts have to be converted into equity and, where banks are insolvent, written off.",
        "银行债必须搞债转股，银行资不抵债时则应注销。"
    ],
    [
        "While those on the left support cautious acceptance of refugees, the further one moves to the right, the more negative the attitude becomes.",
        "左翼支持谨慎接受难民，而越是右倾的人，对待难民的态度就越强硬。"
    ],
    [
        "And that’s not all: 40% of the gains of quantitative easing in the United Kingdom have gone to the richest 5% of households, not because they were more productive, but because the Bank of England directed its cash toward them.",
        "而这还不是全部：在英国，量化宽松所产生的40％收益都归最富有的那5％家庭所有，这并非因为他们更有效率，而是由于英国央行向他们定向供应现金。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in that case, the battle against entrenched power is not only a battle for democracy; it is also a battle for efficiency and shared prosperity.",
        "事实上，在这一情形中，打击既得权力不但是民主的战争，也是效率和共同繁荣的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Simultaneous revolutions swept Europe in 1848, in the aftermath of crop failures whose most notorious manifestation was the Irish famine.",
        "1848年，欧洲各地同时爆发革命，导火索就是当年的普遍歉收，最突出的代表是爱尔兰大饥荒。"
    ],
    [
        "A more likely scenario, however, is that both countries would initiate disputes in specific sectors, particularly traditional manufacturing industries like iron and steel production.",
        "但是，更有可能的情景是两国在个别部门发生纠纷，特别是钢铁等传统制造业。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, they make it possible for majorities to exploit minorities.",
        "相反，民主可能会导致多数人掠夺少数人。"
    ],
    [
        "This, too, is showing up as further improvement in Europe’s competitiveness.",
        "这同时也令欧洲的竞争力进一步改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Who speaks for the other 173 internationally recognized countries?",
        "谁来为另外 173 个国际承认的国家代言呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Many, indeed, tried to present to the outside world their own version of the Tibet story, rebutting the orthodox narrative – be it Chinese or Western – and posting comments and footage on YouTube and the BBC's bulletin board.",
        "的确，有许多人试图把自己有关西藏骚乱事件的版本向外界展示，反驳无论是中国还是西方正统的说辞，并且在YouTube和英国广播公司的留言板上张贴评论和上载录像。"
    ],
    [
        "What the country’s leaders are patently not ready for is to meet America’s own requirement: that negotiations are based on the international commitments made in 2005, at the end of the fourth round of the so-called six-party talks.",
        "但朝鲜领导人显然没有准备好去遵守美国自己的要求：这场谈判应当基于2005年所谓六方会谈第四轮结束时所作出的国际承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "With none of these goals fully achieved, America’s intervention – like every other intervention in Afghanistan’s history – is ending unsatisfactorily.",
        "这些目标一个也没有完全实现，美国的干预——与历史上其他对阿富汗的干预一样——在未取得令人满意的结果的情况下走向了终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Such extraordinary backlogs have persisted – and can undermine the rule of law.",
        "如此大规模的案件积压持久存在，破坏了法治精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the agreement’s main significance consists in the fact that it was struck at all: US Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Geneva, that most traditional of diplomatic venues, and cut a deal on an issue of intense mutual interest.",
        "相反，这一协议的主要影响在于它集合了所有要素这一事实：美国国务卿克里与俄罗斯外长拉夫罗夫在最传统的外交场合——日内瓦举行了会晤，并就一个严重影响双方共同利益的问题达成了一致。"
    ],
    [
        "California’s government collects about one-half of its income-tax revenue from the top 1% of the state’s taxpayers.",
        "加利福尼亚州政府大约一半的年收入都来自对最富有的那1%纳税人征收的个人所得税。"
    ],
    [
        "The PBOC now has three options: it can stop all interventions and let the renminbi float; link it to a basket of currencies; or peg it tightly to the US dollar, as it did during the Asian financial crisis of 1997.",
        "现在，中国人民银行有三个选择：停止一切干预让人民币自由浮动； 让人民币与一揽子货币挂钩；"
    ],
    [
        "To tackle the problem permanently, the only option is to prevent infections from occurring in the first place – with improved hygiene, sanitation, and disease surveillance.",
        "要永久解决这个问题，唯一的选择是在源头上组织传染的发生——这需要改善卫生、卫生设施和疾病监控。"
    ],
    [
        "Western leaders could probably be bolder when they phase out big bills as slowly as they do.",
        "西方领导人或许可以放大胆量，加快废止大额纸币的步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order to maximize the impact of such an operation, the ECB would also have to find a way to ensure fair distribution.",
        "但是，为了让这一措施的影响最大化，欧洲央行还必须找到办法确保公平分配。"
    ],
    [
        "But blanket distrust in government, framed by glaring examples of boondoggles and fueled by ideology, too often focuses on the wrong question: How big should government be?",
        "但一边倒地对政府不信任始于令人瞩目的小例子，受到意识形态的推动，它们往往关注了错误的问题：政府多大合适？"
    ],
    [
        "Sino-Japanese amity was hardly enhanced in mid-November, when a Chinese nuclear sub encroached into Japanese waters.",
        "十一月中旬，中国核潜艇侵入日本海域，中日友好关系停滞不前。"
    ],
    [
        "Spitfire pilots were replaced as vigorous symbols of liberty by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Kinks, whose music swept across Europe and the United States like a gust of fresh air.",
        "Spitfire战机飞行员被披头士、滚石、奇想等有力的自由象征所取代，他们的音乐如同一股清风横扫欧洲和美国。"
    ],
    [
        "The Joint Statement, while clinically welcoming the agreement, states that both parties “thereby turn their focus to the future of their bilateral relationship,” underscoring “the benefits an expansion of ties would provide for both countries as well as for the American and Libyan peoples.”",
        "在签署协定后的联合声明中，在对这一协定表示欢迎的同时，声明双方“从此将把关注的焦点转向未来的双边关系”，强调了“双边关系的发展给两国以及两国人民带来的实惠”。"
    ],
    [
        "Observers in the West, focused largely on the slowdown of headline GDP growth, continue to miss this key point.",
        "西方的观察者大多将注意力集中在标题GDP增长的放缓上，一直没有注意到这个关键点。"
    ],
    [
        "How can it be implemented without looking like bribery (in case the company gives the funds directly to the government)?",
        "怎样实施而又不会有贿赂之嫌（在公司将资金直接支付给政府的情况下）？"
    ],
    [
        "Wolf and Eichengreen would agree that the main shortcomings that led to the 2008 financial crisis – and that continue to underpin our inadequate response to it – are intellectual.",
        "沃尔夫和艾肯格林会认为，导致2008年金融危机的主要缺陷——以及继续破坏我们对危机的不充分反应的主要缺陷——是知识缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Women and the World Economy",
        "女性和世界经济"
    ],
    [
        "Credit constraints in fast-growing developing economies may be the reason why the glut emerged in the first place.",
        "而高增长发展中国家的信贷限制可能就是为何过量首先会出现在这些地方的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "John Kerry is focused upon the same type of security problems as Bush. This leaves many observers skeptical about the possibility for real change.",
        "约翰·凯利关注的安全问题和布什一样，这也使不少观察家怀疑他能否带来真正的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "While some pundits and politicians now suggest that the GNP could collapse sooner than corrupt and poverty-stricken North Korea, Park Geun-hye, an iconic woman in South Korean politics, has made it clear that she will not abandon the GNP.",
        "但当某些专家和政界人物预言大国家党将比腐败贫穷的朝鲜更早崩溃的时候，朴槿惠这位韩国政坛的标志性女性却明确声明不会抛弃自己的党派。"
    ],
    [
        "But this does not imply that these mechanisms also provide insurance against shocks (sudden changes in income for individual states).",
        "但这并不意味着这一机制能够提供冲击保险（所谓冲击是指个别州收入的突然变化）。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynes’s Cambridge disciple, Joan Robinson, was particularly worried because Hitler seemed to have grasped this point more quickly than democratic governments had.",
        "凯恩斯的剑桥大学信徒琼·罗宾逊因为希特勒比民主政府更快地抓住了这一要点而感到焦虑万分。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly 16% of total energy needs (up to 25% in the highly industrialized countries) are now met by electric energy.",
        "全球大概有16%的能源需求（发达国家为25%）是由电来提供的。"
    ],
    [
        "But income data suggest that it is the neoliberals who may benefit from therapy. Large segments of the population in advanced countries have not been doing well: in the US, the bottom 90% has endured income stagnation for a third of a century.",
        "但收入数据表明该接受治疗的是那些新自由主义者：发达国家的大部分人口的生活水平都未能获得改善：美国位于金字塔下层的那90％民众的收入已经停滞了1/3个世纪之久。"
    ],
    [
        "For Europe, as well as for other regions, it is a path worth following.",
        "对欧洲以及其他地区而言，这是一条值得尝试的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that the answer is more of the same: continued monetary easing and additional fiscal stimulus. Accumulating more debt (at lower interest rates) can indeed buy time for economic restructuring.",
        "一些人认为答案与发达国家采取的措施类似：继续货币宽松及加码财政刺激，包括以较低利率、更长的期限、及更多的债务来置换现有的坏账，从而为调整经济结构赢得时间。"
    ],
    [
        "National economies are so interconnected that shifts in market sentiment tend to cascade globally.",
        "国家经济体之间彼此密切相联，市场情绪的变化总是会带来全球影响。"
    ],
    [
        "What China Wants in 2012",
        "2012年，中国想要什么"
    ],
    [
        "With years of experience in foreign affairs, George H. W. Bush had excellent contextual intelligence.",
        "在多年的外交实践经验中，老布什练就了卓越的肆应商。"
    ],
    [
        "First and foremost, every eurozone country needs to keep its own house in order.",
        "首先，每个欧元区成员国都要打理好自己的地盘。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, this transformation was framed in terms of broad goals and aspirations.",
        "到目前为止，这一转型已经有了广泛的目标和方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Military intervention may help to hold the line against Iraq’s further disintegration and the spread of the Islamic State cancer into countries like Jordan.",
        "军事干预或许有助于守住底线，不使伊拉克进一步分裂、伊斯兰国之癌蔓延到约旦等国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Corruption cripples the country´s institutions and the government´s inaction on this problem is also having an economic impact.",
        "腐败已经严重侵蚀了该国的各种机构，且政府在腐败问题上的不作为已经造成了经济后果。"
    ],
    [
        "When China fell to Mao’s Communists, however, and North Korea got Chinese and Soviet backing for an invasion of the south, democratic idealism was stopped in its tracks.",
        "但当中国在毛泽东的领导下建立起共产党统治、而北朝鲜在中国和苏联的支持下侵入南部的土地，民主理想主义的发展就突然间陷入了停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the six governments seem determined to continue with what has been their strategy so far.",
        "但是六国政府看起来好像决心继续它们目前为止的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "These are the core principles that I believe a new progressive political economy should embrace.",
        "我认为，这些便是新进步政治经济学应该具有的核心原则。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – For almost two centuries, starting around 1800, the history of the global economy was broadly one of divergence in average incomes.",
        "华盛顿—从大约1800年开始，近两个世界以来，全球经济大体上是一部平均收入逐渐分化的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Or rather: all that wiring in the prefrontal cortex must be ethical, because it is good for survival.",
        "或者说，所有前额皮质内的通路都是道德的，因为这有助于我们的生存。"
    ],
    [
        "Here’s something to think about.",
        "下面是需要思考的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The result will be a stronger, more efficient eurozone – one in which the benefits really do outweigh the costs.",
        "结果将是更强大、更有效的欧元区——这个欧元区将利远大于弊。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, the power of competitive markets can ensure that, once a drug is developed, it is made available at the lowest possible price – not at an inflated monopoly price.",
        "这样一来，竞争性市场的力量将能保证只要药品被开发出来，就能以尽可能低的价格（而不是大大膨胀的垄断价）为患者所获。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brigade attracted public attention last June as well, when around 300 armed members staged a rally in Benghazi, sparking outrage among Libyans.",
        "这个组织在去年六月也引起过公众的注意——300名全副武装的成员在班加西游行，煽动利比亚人民的愤怒情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "But when such a crisis does occur, central banks could power out of it far more quickly than is possible today.",
        "但当这样的危机真的发生时，央行可以以比现在可行的快得多的速度采取强力手段解决危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The Muslim Civil War",
        "穆斯林内战"
    ],
    [
        "The same reasoning applies to the Greek crisis.",
        "同样的原理也适用于希腊危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But does this mean the death of news, or its evolution?",
        "但这是否就意味着新闻业正在走向衰亡，还是正经历一场革新？"
    ],
    [
        "The current tone surrounding the peak oil debate is reminiscent of that surrounding the global war on terror, with the phrase “you’re either with us or against us” recycled to polarize observers and analysts.",
        "现在，围绕石油峰值论所产生的论调不禁令人回想起在反恐战争论辩中弥漫的论调：“你要么站在我们这边，要么站在敌人那边”。 如今这句话重新将众多观察员和分析家切割为两派。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, in India’s Rajasthan state, high-quality complementary foods produced by decentralized women’s self-help groups are improving the nutrition of children aged 6-36 months.",
        "类似地，在印度的拉贾斯坦邦，由分散性妇女自助团地制作的高质量补充性食物正在改善6—36个月大的儿童的营养。"
    ],
    [
        "Looser standards for issuers weaken protection for investors, and there is evidence that lax regulation of new issues may reduce investor demand for them, raising the cost of finance.",
        "放松的发行人标准会削弱投资者保护，并且有迹象表明对新股发行监管的放松会降低投资者对新股需求，增加融资成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, for every dollar spent on strong climate policies, we will likely do about $0.02 of good for the future.",
        "而事实上，我们扔在强力气候控制政策上的每1个美元，在未来大概只能收到相当于0. 02美元的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "But they also stressed their sense of powerlessness against those perceived as unfairly advantaged.",
        "但他们也强调，他们面对被认为是不公平地获得优势的人的无力感。"
    ],
    [
        "Financing the reforms – not to mention a massive $2 trillion public investment fund to support a post-oil economy – will require improved efficiency, rapid privatization, effective public-private partnerships, broad-based taxation (including a value-added tax of 5%, to be introduced in 2018), and spending cuts on existing infrastructure projects.",
        "为改革进程融资——更不要说筹集高达2万亿规模的公共投资资金以支持后石油时期经济——将需要提高工作效率、实现快速私有化、建立有效的公私伙伴关系、采纳基础广泛的税收制度（包括将于2018年开始实行的5%的增值税），以及削减现有基础设施的项目开支。"
    ],
    [
        "But the sheer scale of the disaster relief “industry” – plus the longer-term development efforts of NGOs – is raising serious concerns about how to measure their performance.",
        "但赈灾“业”本身的规模—加上NGO长期发展的努力—正引起对其进行绩效评估的严重关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Some worthwhile new risk-management proposals include advance commitments for new vaccines, subsidies to drug manufacturers to make their products more affordable, and regionally pooled catastrophe insurance.",
        "一些颇有价值的新风险管理计划包括对新疫苗的进一步承诺、对药品制造的补贴以使产品变得更加廉价，以及地区级灾难保险资金池。"
    ],
    [
        "With rising public debt worldwide placing fiscal constraints (real and imagined) on global economic recovery, such cooperation is more urgent than ever.",
        "全球性公债增长正在为全球经济复苏制造财政约束（既有真实的，也有想象的），合作的紧迫性前所未有。"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel will reintroduce the warmth that has been missing under Schroeder, but she will not become America’s yes-woman.",
        "默克尔会重拾在施罗德执政时期所缺失的温情，但她也不会对美国言听计从。"
    ],
    [
        "China is at a turning point.",
        "中国正站在十字路口。"
    ],
    [
        "But, then, in this last meeting, Wiesel learned, bit by bit, that Mitterrand the Marist prince had blithely gone off to play golf the day his loyal lieutenant, Pierre Bérégovoy, committed suicide, and that Mitterrand had continued, to the very last, to defend René Bousquet, head of the Vichy police and denouncer of Jews.",
        "但之后，在最后一次会面时，维瑟尔一点一点了解到密特朗和马瑞斯特王子居然在其忠实副手皮埃尔·贝雷戈瓦自杀那天兴高采烈地去打高尔夫球，而且密特朗直到最后一刻都在为维希警察头目和犹太人的控诉者勒内·布斯凯辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "The shadow of such fragmentation, with its unfathomable perils, now hangs over Iraq.",
        "伴随着它难以预见的危险，这种分裂的阴影现在正威胁着伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "China has nearly two dozen currency-swap arrangements, which serve as an alternative to IMF liquidity support.",
        "中国已经签订了二十多宗货币互换协议，作为IMF流动性支持的替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet serious reform was impeded by the usual disagreement about what should be done – a dispute that Emmanuel Macron, France’s new president, once described as a “holy war” between German and French elites.",
        "但深度改革遇到了常见的障碍——对应该怎么做产生了分歧，法国新总统马克龙曾经将这一分歧称为德国和法国精英之间的“神圣战争”。"
    ],
    [
        "But action can and should be taken.",
        "但我们可以而且应当采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "But its diplomatic cognitive dissonance – criticizing the Egyptian regime while continuing to supply it with military hardware – can serve only to undermine bilateral relations, just as the same American approach to Musharraf’s regime thoroughly eroded US-Pakistani ties.",
        "但其外交认知失调——在批评埃及政权的同时继续向其提供军事装备——只能破坏双边关系，一如美国针对穆沙拉夫政权的方针彻底破坏了美巴关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The difficulties of living in such circumstances, however, are surely less daunting than the hazards David would have faced had he stayed in the orphanage – assuming that he would have survived at all.",
        "但在这样的环境中生活的难度却远远不像继续在孤儿院生活那样令人望而生畏，而这种假设的前提是戴维在孤儿院里能够存活下来。"
    ],
    [
        "That such a meeting took place is a sign that both Pope and King believed that there was something to achieve.",
        "这一会见本身就表明教皇和国王都相信应当有所作为。"
    ],
    [
        "With relatively slow growth, corporate profitability, upon which the returns of the shadow banking system’s asset pools are based, is low and falling.",
        "由于增长相对缓慢，公司的利润率——这是影子银行系统资产池的收益来源——很低且一直在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In a turbulent world of market volatility, however, they risk being overwhelmed.",
        "当世界动荡不安，市场振荡不已，它们面临的风险就压倒了保持独立的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, Japan faces serious long-term challenges.",
        "尽管如此，日本面临的长期挑战依然严峻。"
    ],
    [
        "So, will the global economy stage a sustained recovery?",
        "那么，全球经济会进入可持续复苏吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the US allowed a political vacuum to form in the absence of any movement on the part of Israel’s government. This vacuum has now been filled by the Arab Awakening.",
        "相反，美国容许在以色列政府缺乏任何行动的情况下出现一个政治真空，而如今这个真空就被“阿拉伯觉醒”所填补了。"
    ],
    [
        "The English were every day’s villains.",
        "英格兰人是天天与苏格兰人相伴的恶棍。"
    ],
    [
        "That view reflects Saudi Arabia’s tough stance against the Muslim Brotherhood, which it has declared a terrorist organization.",
        "这一观点反映出沙特阿拉伯对穆斯林兄弟会（沙特称其为恐怖组织）的强硬立场。"
    ],
    [
        "In deciding its next move – whether to initiate more bond purchases, lower interest rates even further, or do both – the ECB must recognize that any positive impact on demand probably will be limited to the eurozone’s weaker economies – that is, the economies that can least afford it.",
        "在决定下一步行动前——是否发起更多的债券购买计划，进一步降低利率，或者双管齐下——欧洲央行必须认识到，任何对需求的积极影响都可能仅限于欧元区较弱的经济体——也就是至少有能力偿付的经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "And others have helped him during his barroom-brawl campaign, as he turns civil policy disagreements into ad hominem attacks.",
        "还有些人在他将民事政策分歧演变为个人偏见攻击的下流选战中为他提供了帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Human suffering and victims’ dignity are too powerful to be erased by others’ political pacts.",
        "任何人的政治协定都不能以罔顾人类苦难和受害者尊严为代价。"
    ],
    [
        "But, amid the resulting political and religious confusion – and, because religious authorities remain silent in the face of Islamist rhetoric – no Muslim state can solve its problems domestically.",
        "但是，在随之而来的政治和宗教混乱中——也因为宗教当局在面对伊斯兰口号时保持缄默——没有一个穆斯林国家可以从内部解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "While all ministries have their external constituencies, some ministries have more of a front-end, “account executive” nature: their core mission involves coordinating the provision of public goods to different parts of the economy.",
        "所有部门都有其外部负责对象，但一些部门的前端“客户代表”性质更重：它们的核心任务包括协调经济中不同部分公共品的供应。"
    ],
    [
        "There is ample evidence that restrictions on immigration in one country divert migrant flows to other EU countries, and that migration is attracted by generous welfare entitlements.",
        "有充分的证据表明，一国对于移民的限制会把移民潮分散到其他欧盟国家，并且移民会更多地涌向有高额福利补贴的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1996, when Japan’s public debt/GDP ratio reached 80%, many Japanese economists and officials worried about a looming crisis.",
        "1996年，日本公共债务/GDP之比达到了80%，许多日本经济学家和官员担心危机随时可能爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "First, no evidence yet exists that any of the Paris attackers actually came from Syria as refugees.",
        "首先，没有证据表明任何一位巴黎袭击者真的是来自叙利亚的难民。"
    ],
    [
        "With an election looming in 2018, the House Republicans are determined to deliver a reform package and send it to the Senate for enactment.",
        "随着2018年选举的临近，众议院共和党决定要拿出一揽子改革方案，送参议院表决执行。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the health department created a system to gauge statistically the quality of the care it was delivering.",
        "最后，卫生部门建立了一套用统计数据追踪其所提供的看护的质量的体系。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an attempt at a real revolution, not a return to an earlier capitalist past. It is about experimenting with creative new economic institutions that have never been seen before.",
        "这是一个真正的改革尝试，一个前所未有的创意新经济制度的试验，并非重回往昔的资本主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The central weakness of democratic systems also contributes to the problem: The quest for votes favors the extension of social benefits and discourages unpopular measures that would put the economy on a more sustainable footing.",
        "民主制度的核心弱点也使问题变得愈加严重：拉选票需要扩大社会福利，从而使能确保经济可持续发展但不受民众欢迎的举措无人问津。"
    ],
    [
        "Sovereign wealth funds and institutional and private investors are increasingly recognizing that climate change will undermine their returns, and that governments eventually will begin to address the problem.",
        "主权财富基金以及机构和私人投资者日益认识到气候变化将制约他们的回报，政府最终将开始纠正这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Current levels are so low – debt funds around 95% of total credit exposure in most big US banks (and a slightly higher share in big European banks) – that banks’ equity can be substantially wiped out by even moderate negative shocks.",
        "目前的要求水平太低了——大部分美国大银行的总信用暴露有大约95%来自债务融资（欧洲大银行的比例比美国还要略高一些）——即使是温和冲击也可能侵蚀大部分银行股本。"
    ],
    [
        "American capitalism in recent years has been marked by unbridled greed – the 2008 financial crisis provides ample confirmation of that.",
        "美式资本主义近年来被打上了贪婪无止境的烙印——2008年金融危机就是充分的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Mao’s communists had clearly won the civil war and secured control of mainland China, the conference organizers disagreed about which government – Mao’s People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing, or Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China (ROC) in Taipei – truly represented China.",
        "尽管毛手下的共产党人已经毋庸置疑地赢得内战、取得了中国大陆的控制权，会议组织者仍然无法就北京以毛氏为首的中华人民共和国政府还是台北蒋氏中华民国政府真正代表中国达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "But an attack by either Israel or the US on Iran’s nuclear installations would be a calamitous mistake, or, as Meir Dagan, a former chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, put it, “the stupidest idea” possible.",
        "但如果以色列或者美国对伊朗核设施发起攻击，这将是一个灾难性的错误，或者就像以色列摩萨德情机构前首脑梅厄·达甘说的那样是“最愚蠢的想法”。"
    ],
    [
        "It should not be difficult to spur countries to take action to protect their shark populations, given that a shark’s economic value plummets when it is killed.",
        "敦促各国采取护鲨行动应该并非难事，因为鲨鱼一旦被杀其经济价值就大幅降低。"
    ],
    [
        "Every institution, Mill wrote in On Liberty, had to justify its keep; if it could not, it deserved to be swept away.",
        "穆勒在《论自由》中写道，任何制度都必须证明其合理性； 若非如此，就应该推翻它。"
    ],
    [
        "The winners and losers are clear, and the political landscape has changed profoundly.",
        "赢家和输家已经一目了然，政治图景发生了深远变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The rhetoric surrounding “gene doping” relies heavily on its moral status as a form of cheating. Yet, this status relies on existing anti-doping rules.",
        "围绕着“基因兴奋剂”的老生常谈往往说它是某种形式的道德欺骗，但这个前提却有赖于现行的反兴奋剂规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Those that have not been hit have been protected by host-country opposition to projects in strategic sectors, and by the fact that SWFs, aware of the sensitivity of their investments, and afraid of potential retaliation, have mostly taken small stakes (1-2%) in their targets.",
        "没有受到冲击的主权财富基金得益于东道国反对在战略部门的引资以及主权财富基金充分明白其投资的敏感性，担心潜在报复，因而对目标项目的所有权占比不大（通常只有1—2%）"
    ],
    [
        "As markets collapse, unemployment skyrockets, and the foundations of our institutions shift in seismic ways, this could be a moment of great opportunity for women and those for whom they care.",
        "随着市场崩溃，失业高涨，还有我们制度基础的剧变，这对于所有女性以及那些她们关心的人来说，现在就是个绝佳的时机。"
    ],
    [
        "The same applies to the Islamic Group, a movement implicated in violent acts in almost a dozen countries throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, including armed insurgency in Egypt, bombings in the United States and Croatia, assassination attempts in Ethiopia, and training camps in Afghanistan.",
        "20世纪80到90年代曾牵涉到十几个国家的暴力活动（包括埃及的武装叛乱、美国和克罗地亚的炸弹爆炸、埃塞俄比亚的暗杀行动和阿富汗训练营）的好战组织伊斯兰集团也属于这种情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Worldwide, public-health policy is moving toward more multidisciplinary integration of engineering, medicine, social and management science, and the humanities.",
        "从全球看，公共卫生政策的方向是工程、医学、社会和管理学以及人类学多学科综合。"
    ],
    [
        "There would be no Union and no integration, were it not built on the principles of democracy.",
        "如果没有民主的原则作为基础，就不会有欧盟，更不会有欧洲的一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "The rich world somehow expects poor countries to restrict their use of fossil fuels without any significant help in financing new and sustainable sources of energy.",
        "可富裕国家期待贫穷国家限制其对生物燃料的使用，而不为这些国家提供必不可少的财政援助去开发新的能源并进行能源资源的可持续发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Bangkok, which has been tackling air pollution since the 1990s, has planted 400,000 trees.",
        "曼谷从20世纪90年代便开始治理空气污染，种植了400,000株树木。"
    ],
    [
        "As one former adviser put it, he was “irresistibly drawn to Big Ideas like bringing democracy to the Middle East, Big Ideas that stood in sharp contrast to the prudent small ball played by his father.”",
        "正如一位前白宫顾问指出的那样，小布什“痴迷于把民主带到中东这样的宏大理想，与其父亲谨慎渐进的作风截然不同”。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, the world’s most pressing challenges – from climate change to cyber-crime – increasingly transcend national borders, making them extremely difficult to address effectively.",
        "如今，世界最紧迫挑战——从气候变化到网络犯罪——日益超越国界，这使得它们很难有效解决。"
    ],
    [
        "China is reforming its policy, as a part of a move to a more market-determined exchange rate.",
        "中国正在改变其政策，作为其转向更为由市场决定的汇率的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "A crime subculture is spreading in Russia, and it is attaining the status of official culture.",
        "某种犯罪亚文化正在俄罗斯蔓延，并且它正在取代官方文化的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "As terrorists often brag, we have to succeed in stopping their assaults every time; they only have to succeed every now and then.",
        "恐怖分子常常会大肆吹嘘，因此我们必须成功地阻止他们的每一次破坏； 而他们只需要偶尔成功一次。"
    ],
    [
        "Paying interest to them requires sending more goods and services to the rest of the world than the US receives from the rest of the world.",
        "向他们支付利息需要向世界其他地区输送商品和服务，其数量超过了美国得自世界其他地区的数量。"
    ],
    [
        "At the just-concluded Shangri-La Security Dialogue in Singapore, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called China’s actions “destabilizing.”",
        "而在刚刚结束的新加坡香格里拉安全对话（Shangri-La Security Dialogue）上，美国国防部长哈格尔称中国的行动“破坏稳定”。"
    ],
    [
        "To Serbia’s credit, the Ministry made its policy decision knowing that the change would require belt-tightening elsewhere in its budget, but it took the action because it concluded that protecting human rights was more important than saving a few dinars.",
        "值得赞扬的是，社会事务部作此决定时已经考虑到要缩减其他方面的预算，但这项举措还是获得了通过，因为他们认为保护人权比省下几个第纳尔更加重要。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – At the COP21 conference in Paris last December, world leaders made a binding pledge to set national targets, including energy-efficiency benchmarks, for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "布鲁塞尔—在去年12月的巴黎COP21会议上，世界领导人做出了制定包括能源效率基准在内的减少温室气体排放的国家目标的有约束力的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The key questions for the world economy today, then, are how significant the growth slowdown will be, and how long it will last.",
        "因此对于当前的世界经济来说，关键问题就是增长放缓的程度究竟有多大，并将持续多长时间。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also correct that if OPEC had excess capacity, it would have already used it to flush out speculators to bring oil prices down.",
        "同样，如果OPEC拥有超额产能，它已经用其来对付投机者从而降低油价的假设也是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Schmidt’s relationship with US President Jimmy Carter was difficult, as many people have chronicled.",
        "施密特与美国总统吉米·卡特的关系并不融洽，这一事实很多人都有过记录。"
    ],
    [
        "They can announce the votes of individual board members on all policy-relevant matters and release minutes without undue delay.",
        "它们可以在所有政策相关事宜上公布各个董事会成员的投票情况，并及时发布会议记录；"
    ],
    [
        "The one thing you cannot do is fail to decide.",
        "你不能够无所适从。"
    ],
    [
        "The notion that Americans have gotten better at everything while other rich countries have stood still is thus wildly misleading.",
        "因此，其他富国停滞不前之时美国人一枝独秀的观点是大为误导的。"
    ],
    [
        "First, neither the US nor European countries have much standing as legitimate arbiters of “good governance.”",
        "首先，无论是美国还是欧洲国家都没有裁定政府好坏的合法权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kingdom and the Power",
        "王国和权力"
    ],
    [
        "As of 2016, nine out of ten Rwandans were enrolled in one of the country’s health insurance programs.",
        "2016年，九成卢旺达人民在国家医疗保险计划之一注册。"
    ],
    [
        "Decent living conditions – including housing, nutrition, and health care – must be guaranteed, in addition to educational and employment opportunities.",
        "体面的生活条件——包括住房、营养和医疗——必须保证，除此之外还有教育和就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The standard of living is high, with per capita income in 2015 (in terms of purchasing power parity) amounting to $38,000, close to the $41,000 average in France and Britain.",
        "生活水平相当高，2015年的人均收入（按购买力平价计算）达3. 8万美元，接近英法两国4."
    ],
    [
        "Israeli voters chose the politics of fear over the politics of possibility.",
        "以色列选民选择了恐惧的政治，而没有选可能性的政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, low prices should continue to support growth, even if emerging-market importers continue to use the savings to cut subsidies.",
        "因此，低油价应该会继续支持增长，即使新兴市场进口国继续利用节省下来的支出削减补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Russiagate in Poland",
        "波兰的通俄门"
    ],
    [
        "Without it, the junta will continue to have a free hand to act against the human rights of the Burmese people.",
        "否则，军政府将继续不受约束的侵犯缅甸人民的人权。"
    ],
    [
        "In the advanced countries, the causes of rising inequality are still being debated.",
        "在发达国家，不平等程度增加的原因仍在争论中。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is hard to overstate the outcome’s importance to the rest of the world.",
        "但结果对于世界其他国家的重要性怎么估计也不为过。"
    ],
    [
        "The third pillar is the “Chinese financial supply chain,” which provided the financing needed to construct and maintain the infrastructure network.",
        "第三大支柱是“中国的金融供应链”，它为建设和维系基础设施网提供所需要的融资。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – There are many moving parts in China’s daunting transition to what its leaders call a moderately well-off society.",
        "纽黑文—在中国向其领导人所谓的中等富裕社会的艰巨转型中，有许多不断活动的部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan must do whatever is necessary to convince everyone that it will not play a hidden game with the Taliban – assuming, of course, that it has no such intention.",
        "巴基斯坦必须竭尽所能让人相信它不会暗地里与塔利班勾结玩猫腻——当然，是在假设其没有这样的打算的基础上。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, even if Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU does emerge with the most votes next year, it will need help to build a new Europe, with more joint responsibilities for countries in Europe A and flexible arrangements with countries in Europe B. Specifically, the pro-European elements of the CDU must work with allies on the left – namely, most of the Social Democrats and the Greens.",
        "在这种情况下，即使安吉拉·默克尔总理领导的基民盟明年能拿到最多票，它也将需要别人的帮助才能建立一个新的欧洲，对此欧洲A集团的国家将负有更多的联合责任，而欧洲B集团国家将实施灵活安排。 具体来说，基民盟的亲欧派成员必须与左翼盟友——即大多数社会民主党和绿党人——通力合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Hamas Stay in Power?",
        "哈马斯当局能否维系？"
    ],
    [
        "Why oppose such a beneficial technology?",
        "为什么要反对这样一种有益的技术？"
    ],
    [
        "To increase the likelihood of this, they agreed on immediate spending cuts and tax increases that would automatically kick in (the “fiscal cliff”) if agreement on a comprehensive set of fiscal reforms eluded them.",
        "为了增加这种改革的可能性，他们同意立刻削减开支、增加税收，只要关于全面财政改革计划的协议不对此问题作出新安排，就会立刻实施（即“财政悬崖”）。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the reform sets out clearly for the first time what is expected of surveillance, and so should promote candor and evenhanded treatment of every country.",
        "最后，这些改革第一次明确地规定了对于监控的期望，因而应当会促进对于每个国家都一视同仁。"
    ],
    [
        "Kosovo would acquire limited independence, with its status rising from a province of a sovereign state to an international subject capable of entering into certain agreements with other states and even joining the UN.",
        "科索沃会获得有限的独立，它的地位将从一个主权国家的省上升到一个能够与其他国家签署某种协定、甚至加入联合国的国际主体。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that it is all smooth sailing ahead.",
        "这并不是说前途一帆风顺。"
    ],
    [
        "In this social context, and if economic hardship persists, protests and even revolt may not be a distant prospect.",
        "在这一社会环境下，如果经济困难继续下去，示威乃至暴乱都不是遥远的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than exerting discipline, global financial markets have increased the availability of debt, thereby weakening profligate governments' budget constraints and over-extended banks' balance sheets.",
        "全球金融市场并未带来纪律，而是让负债变得更加容易，从而减弱了挥霍政府的预算约束，也导致银行资产负债表过度膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a year ago, at the IMF’s annual meeting in Washington, DC, senior staff were telling anyone who would listen that the whole European sovereign-debt panic was a tempest in a teapot.",
        "一年前，在IMF华盛顿年会上，只要你愿意听，高级官员就会告诉你，整个欧洲主权债务危机纯属小题大做。"
    ],
    [
        "In return, new arrangements should call on emerging countries to contribute more to addressing climate change, paying for peacekeeping and state-building, promoting free trade, and sanctioning those who support terror or develop weapons of mass destruction.",
        "作为回报，新的国际秩序应该要求新兴大国要在解决气候变化，资助维和行动和国家重建，促进自由贸易，以及制裁支持恐怖主义和发展大规模杀伤性武器的组织等方面作出更多的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "But these measures will be successful only if they are not taken in an isolated and populist way.",
        "但是，只有不是用孤立和民粹化的方式来采取这些措施，它们才能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "As moral creatures, we are driven to enforce justice.",
        "作为道德动物，我们也被驱动着去实现公平。"
    ],
    [
        "But the consequences have been much more dire in Greece than in Japan.",
        "但希腊的后果远远比日本悲惨。"
    ],
    [
        "Early data from a Mastercard Foundation initiative aimed at reversing these trends show that a comprehensive approach to plugging the leaks can make a difference.",
        "来自万事达基金会旨在扭转上述趋势行动的早期数据表明全面采取措施来堵住漏洞能够使整个局面得到改观。"
    ],
    [
        "This was also one of the few occasions when international public opinion became aware that there was a refugee problem on the island, because few people knew that refugees from that war still exist.",
        "这也是国际公众舆论认识到该岛还存在难民问题的有数几个场合之一，究其原因，已经很少有人知道这场战争中仍然有难民存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev in an eerie style that one might call the “realism of despair,\" the film is both epic and deeply nuanced.",
        "该片由安德烈·萨金塞夫（Andrey Zvyagintsev）执导，风格诡异，你也许可以称之为“绝望现实主义”。 它叙事华丽并且极其细腻。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Syria, with North Korean assistance, tried to develop a nuclear program (presumably destroyed by Israel’s officially unacknowledged “Operation Orchard” in 2007).Iran will not consider abandoning its nuclear insurance policy unless a broad agenda is agreed upon that addresses Iran’s concerns as a regional power and secures the immunity of its Islamist regime from American actions.",
        "叙利亚因此在朝鲜的协助下试图发展核计划（这项计划有可能被以色列2007年未公开承认的“果园行动”所摧毁）。 除非制定全方位计划解决伊朗身为地区强国的关注并确保美国不对伊斯兰政权采取行动，否则伊朗绝不会考虑放弃核保险政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Orchids are the kinky exhibitionists of the botanical world.",
        "兰花是植物界中的变态暴露狂。"
    ],
    [
        "Biodegradable plastics, for example, make sense only if they decompose quickly enough to avoid harming wildlife.",
        "比如，可生物降解塑料只有在降解速度快到足以能够避免伤及野生动物时才有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "The very fact that we are posing this question is novel and notable it its own right.",
        "我们正面临如此问题，这一事实既令人瞩目，又令人不可思议。"
    ],
    [
        "Its population is exploding, as are its economic-growth rates.",
        "其人口正在急速膨胀，经济增长率也正在爆炸式增长。"
    ],
    [
        "A second round of adjustment will need to involve other fast-paced economies without crushing the voice of the poorest.",
        "第二轮调整将需要其他快速发展的经济体参与其中，同时又不压制最贫穷国家的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Dostoevsky was referring to life in a mid-nineteenth century czarist prison, not a modern liberal state.",
        "”但陀思妥耶夫斯基指的是在十九世纪中叶沙俄监狱里——而非现代自由国家——的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly 75% of China’s food is now produced by small, private, and un-licensed operations that are difficult to regulate.",
        "目前中国大约有75%的食品是由私人的无证的小作坊生产的，这些小作坊很难进行监管。"
    ],
    [
        "The sanctions were backed by all other members of the Security Council’s anti-terror committee, not least because India had presented evidence linking Azhar to the terrorist killings at its two military bases.",
        "该制裁受到了其他所有安理会反恐委员会成员的支持，因为印度展示了证明阿扎尔与两起印度军事基地恐怖主义杀戮案有关的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "But any clear division of tasks and responsibilities between governments and central banks has, it seems, been jettisoned.",
        "但任何各个政府和央行之间的明确的任务和责任分割都被放弃了。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, the US objective of a denuclearized North Korea disarmed of ICBMs is unachievable by diplomatic means.",
        "在这一大背景下，美国关于实现朝鲜无核无洲际弹道导弹化的目标是无法通过外交手段实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "This risk of backsliding is real.",
        "这一倒退风险是实实在在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1999, the MDC has offered a democratic alternative to President Robert Mugabe’s regime.",
        "从1999年以来，民主变革运动对穆加贝总统政权提出了民主性的代替选择。"
    ],
    [
        "So the world should take note when they do not – such as when US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, at a recent conference in Washington, DC, on Asian security, publicly scolded South Korea for its seemingly endless vilification of Japan.",
        "因此，当他们不这么做的时候，世界就要注意了——比如，美国副国务卿谢尔曼（Wendy Sherman）在最近的华盛顿亚洲安全会议公开斥责韩国没完没了地中伤日本。"
    ],
    [
        "That approach, along with his record as Obamacare’s greatest congressional foe and his displays of religiosity, is clearly working for him.",
        "这样的做法，加之其奥巴马医改国会最强对手的名誉和对宗教的虔诚态度，显然成为他竞选的推动力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge will be to provide for the needs of more than ten billion people while safeguarding our planetary life-support systems.",
        "难度在于养活一百多亿人的同时保护地球的生命支持系统。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s an unappealing prospect for most investors.",
        "对于大部分投资者而言，这样的前景毫无吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "In this case, the issue is the cost of Greece's exit (“Grexit\") from the eurozone – a prospect that was widely discussed in the media throughout the recent negotiation, with considerable speculation about the stance of the various players, especially the Greek and German governments.",
        "在希腊的例子中，这一成本便是希腊退出欧元区（希腊退出）的成本。 在最近的讨论过程期间，媒体广泛讨论了希腊退出的情景，并且就各参与方的立场（特别是希腊和德国政府）做出了各种猜测。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade agreements like the TPP and TTIP address it only obliquely.",
        "TPP和TTIP等贸易协定只是旁敲侧击。"
    ],
    [
        "And here, Obama appears determined to undermine his own signature reform, owing to pressure from the powerful US pharmaceutical lobby.",
        "但这次，奥巴马似乎屈从于来自美国制药公司的强大游说压力，决意要破坏自己的标志性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Closing Asia’s Emerging Skills Gap",
        "弥合亚洲不断扩大的技能鸿沟"
    ],
    [
        "What kinds of power plants will be acceptable in the future?",
        "这些发电站会被允许像过去那样排放二氧化碳吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Germany, for obvious reasons, will not take the lead.",
        "由于显而易见的原因，德国不会出面领导。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Japan, like the US and Europe, continues to display a quixotic tendency to tilt at deflation windmills, with rock-bottom interest rates and purchases of massive amounts of government debt.",
        "但和美国和欧洲一样，日本仍然像堂吉诃德那样执着地向通缩的风车发动进攻，将利率设置在极低水平，买入大规模政府债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is not hard to fathom.",
        "其中原因并不难理解。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – In recent years, the European Union – or, more accurately, the powerful countries of northern Europe – has been subjecting its weaker members to social and political “stress tests” in the name of fiscal rectitude.",
        "普林斯顿—近几年来，欧盟——或者更准确地说，是北欧强国——一直在以财政清明的名义迫使其较弱成员国进行社会和政治“压力测试”。"
    ],
    [
        "Its schools are financed by local communities and work within the framework of a national curriculum designed by the parliament and government.",
        "它的学校通过各地的社区获得资助，并在议会和政府制定的课程框架内开展教学活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The next president of the World Bank will, of course, need to rebuild credibility and deliver on the Bank’s promises to work vigorously with our country partners in the fight for good governance.",
        "当然，世界银行的下一任行长需要重建公信力并履行世行的承诺，与我们的国家伙伴同心协力为推进良好的治理而战。"
    ],
    [
        "After Viktor Yanukovych’s election last year, the Constitutional Court rescinded constitutional changes made in 2004 as part of the settlement that brought about a peaceful end to the Orange Revolution.",
        "亚努科维奇去年当选总统后，宪法法院废除了2004年的修宪内容，这部分内容原本是为了和平解决橙色革命而加上去的。"
    ],
    [
        "Crippling economic austerity, imposed by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and Washington, is not only a social calamity; it is also poses a dangerous threat to democracy.",
        "非选举产生的布鲁塞尔和华盛顿官僚们推行着有害的经济紧缩，不仅造成了社会灾难，也为民主带来了危险。"
    ],
    [
        "In South Korea, President Lee Myung-bak’s political base wants to roll back, not reinvigorate, the Sunshine Policy, and there is a widespread (though by no means universal) weariness with engagement.",
        "在韩国，李明博总统的政治基础也意在弱化阳光政策，而非反其道而行之，同时韩国国内对于经济接触政策也存在着广泛的疲劳感（尽管这种感觉绝非普遍存在）。"
    ],
    [
        "If these options fail, all like-minded countries in the region, regardless of their South China Sea claims or ASEAN membership, should form a larger caucus to address the issue, by formulating a shared position in region-wide platforms such as the ASEAN Regional Forum and the East Asia Summit.",
        "如果这些选择失败，所有地区内立场相近的国家，不管它们是否在南海有领土主张或是否是东盟成员国，应该结成更大的小组，通过在东盟地区论坛和东亚峰会等地区级平台上展现共同立场来解决该问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising income inequality, by redistributing income from those who spend more to those who save more, has exacerbated the demand shortfall.",
        "收入不平等的加剧——拜收入从支出更多者转移到储蓄更多者所赐——放大了需求短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, every economy needs to focus on both the supply and the demand sides of its growth equation.",
        "毕竟，所有经济体都需要同时注重增长等式的供给和需求侧。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, the shift is most apparent among North Korean soldiers in the DMZ, for whom the South’s recent broadcasts were highly demoralizing.",
        "目前，最明显的变化出现在非军事区的朝鲜士兵身上，对他们来说，韩国最近的广播喊话让人十分沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if Greece’s tussle with its European creditors was not a left-right standoff, what was it?",
        "那么，如果希腊与其欧洲债权人的角逐不是左右之争，又是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "On the stimulus, though, Krugman achieves a knock-out punch. The view that extra government spending “crowds out” an equal amount of private spending, so that its net stimulus effect is zero, would be true only if the economy were at full employment.",
        "简而言之，克鲁格曼在“经济崩盘的原因，如何防止危机再次发生，以及我们在此问题上能吸取什么教训”等问题上，没有任何贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Most are elite organizations with narrow membership bases.",
        "大多数的NGO是建立在严密的成员制度基础之上的精英组织。"
    ],
    [
        "And, by 3 p.m., the house must be ready for Sally’s graduation party.",
        "接着，在下午3点，家里必须准备好迎接莎莉的毕业派对。"
    ],
    [
        "Even these limited efforts are obstructed by the hardline Wahhabi camp, which controls the security forces, the judiciary system, and the real levers of domestic power.",
        "但这些有限的努力却也遭到强硬派瓦哈比阵营的阻挠，瓦哈比控制了安全部队、司法体系，并操纵着国内权力的真正控制杆。"
    ],
    [
        "By the standards of centuries ago, we live in a world of unbelievable wealth.",
        "按照几百年前的标准，我们现在生活的世界拥有难以置信的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Postponing the second consumption-tax increase seems like a good compromise between pushing Abenomics to escape velocity and maintaining long-run credibility.",
        "暂停第二次消费税增加似乎是将安倍经济学推向逃逸速度和维持长期信誉之间的合理妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "Here we have memory converted to drama.",
        "这里，回忆变成了闹剧。"
    ],
    [
        "It is too painful to believe that humanity would destroy millions of other species – and jeopardize our own future – in a fit of absent-mindedness.",
        "人类在心不在焉之际会摧毁数以白万计的其他物种并威胁到我们自己的未来，要相信这一点是过于痛苦的。"
    ],
    [
        "That factor is education.",
        "这就是教育因素。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the protection that American forces offer Iraqi officials will diminish as troops are gradually withdrawn, and Iran will race to fill the security vacuum.",
        "同时，美国给与伊拉克官员的保护将随着军队的逐渐撤退而削弱，而伊朗将会迅速填补这个安全真空。"
    ],
    [
        "The youth unemployment rate is 65%.",
        "青年失业率高达65%。"
    ],
    [
        "It was certainly a key moment when Bush chose him.",
        "布什选择他无疑是一个关键时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the disaster in New Orleans – and elsewhere along America’s Gulf Coast – exposed and aggravated such rifts.",
        "恰恰相反，同样的裂痕却在新奥尔良和美国墨西哥湾沿岸其它地区发生的这场灾难中日益严重，暴露无遗。"
    ],
    [
        "PISA has already prompted important advances in education worldwide.",
        "PISA已经在推动全球教育重要进步方面起到了作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor mobility is also incomplete without a common pensions and benefits system: under current arrangements, a worker who spends five years in France, five years in Greece, and five years in Germany is left with a fragmented collection of small entitlements.",
        "在缺乏共同退休金和福利制度的情况下，劳动力流动性也是不完全的：在现有安排下，一位在法国、希腊和德国各呆了五年的工人退休后只能得到几项少量福利的简单组合。"
    ],
    [
        "So we are caught between a financially unsustainable pattern of global demand and the need for politically difficult changes in many countries’ domestic policies.",
        "因此我们陷入了一个困境之中，一边是经济上不可持续的全球需求模式，一边是难以改变的各国国内政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the internecine squabbles are said to be so vicious that there have been rumors, denied by the regime, that the Communist Party’s congress at which a new president and prime minister are to be anointed this autumn, might be postponed.",
        "这场两败俱伤的斗争激烈到什么程度？ 据说（但被当局否认）原本将于今秋决定上台新主席和新总理的十八大将会推迟举行。"
    ],
    [
        "Another source of doubt about America’s enduring influence lies in the fact that multilateral engagement is still needed, and this is always more difficult than bilateral engagement.",
        "对美国影响力存续的另一个质疑源来自一个事实：多边参与仍然必要，并且永远比双边参与更难。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing is completely isolated, and “foreign affairs” no longer exists: everything has become national, even personal.",
        "没有哪件事是完全孤立的，“外交”概念已经荡然无存：所有问题都与民族、甚至个人息息相关。"
    ],
    [
        "They are also more likely than older women to die of birth-related complications, and are more prone to abuse.",
        "与较年长的妇女相比，她们更有可能死于与生产相关的状况，也更有可能遭到虐待。"
    ],
    [
        "A debt-pooling scheme that satisfies the requirements outlined here would signal that the eurozone member countries are serious about sticking together.",
        "这里所提出的的满足要求的债务集中机制将释放一个信号——欧元区成员国对于团结一致坚持到底是认真的。"
    ],
    [
        "The process has not been easy, because EU negotiators are worried that if the exit terms are too generous, other member states might follow the UK out of the bloc.",
        "这一过程绝非轻而易举，因为欧盟谈判代表担心如果自己开出退出条款太过慷慨，其他成员国可能会纷纷仿效英国退盟。"
    ],
    [
        "These public statements acknowledge that the companies – Philip Morris USA, RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard, and Altria – knew the damage their products cause but kept selling them anyway.",
        "这些公开声明承认这四家企业——包括美国菲利普·莫里斯公司、雷诺烟草公司、罗瑞拉德公司和奥驰亚公司——清楚其产品所造成的损害但仍然继续销售。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, to borrow a phrase from the late Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman, that is like wishing that our cats could bark.",
        "悲哀的是，借用诺贝尔经济学奖获得者米尔顿·弗里德曼（Milton Friedman）的话说，这就好比是希望猫能吠一样。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, had hoped that caste consciousness would wither away after independence.",
        "印度首任总理尼赫鲁希望独立能够消除种姓意识。"
    ],
    [
        "We are facing a technical challenge in capturing it and delivering it to consumers; and one of the most efficient ways to meet that challenge is to invest in better ways to store it.",
        "我们所面临的是捕获能量并将其提供给消费者的技术难题； 投资于更好的储存方法是解决这一难题最有效的方式之一。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – In the early days of the global financial crisis, there was some optimism that developing countries would avoid the downturn that advanced industrial countries experienced.",
        "发自剑桥——在全球经济危机早期，有些人乐观地认为发展中国家不会重蹈发达国家的覆辙。"
    ],
    [
        "By some estimates, since President Lyndon B. Johnson launched his “War on Poverty” in 1964, total spending on the fight has exceeded $22 trillion.",
        "据一些统计数据，自1964年约翰逊总统发动“扶贫战争”以来，总支出已经超过了22万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Autumn of the Patriarchs",
        "独裁者的黄昏"
    ],
    [
        "The result is a profound cleavage that carries serious risks.",
        "结果是十分危险的深刻分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Ferdinand Marcos’s main opponent, Cory Aquino, actually boasted of having a direct pipeline to the Lord.",
        "马科思的主要对手阿基诺实际上吹嘘他与上帝直接通话。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the EU has grown over the last decade, while the number of those based in the US has fallen.",
        "过去十年来，财富500强公司中将总部设在欧洲者有所增加，而设在美国者有所减少。"
    ],
    [
        "The sophistication of the plot has stunned investigators.",
        "局面之复杂让调查者大吃一惊。"
    ],
    [
        "The current moment of American weakness coincides with a substantially changed international political environment, defined largely by the limits of US power, Europe’s ineffectiveness, and the emergence of new global giants like China and India.",
        "美国现时的软弱是与经历了深刻变化的国际政治环境相关的，其特点是美国势力的局限，欧洲的无所作为和中国、印度等新的全球大国的出现。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gallup Index dropped sharply between the first week of July and the first week of August – the period when US political leaders worried everyone that they would be unable to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling and prevent the US from defaulting on August 2.",
        "盖洛普指数在7月第一周到8月第一周的这段时间里出现了暴跌——这段时间也正是人们担心美国政治领袖无法提高联邦政府债务上限、美国将在8月2日违约的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Although there's nothing like Soviet oppression, the alienation between state and society resembles that of Soviet days.",
        "虽然没有了苏维埃的压迫，国家与社会之间的疏远却与苏维埃的年代如出一辙。"
    ],
    [
        "But, over the past year, as goods exports have slowed, the real effective exchange rate has been rather flat.",
        "但是，在过去的一年里，商品出口减速，而实际有效汇率几乎没有什么变化。"
    ],
    [
        "If we succeed, human mobility can become one of the great assets of the twenty-first century.",
        "如果能够成功，人力流动将成为21世纪的优良资产。"
    ],
    [
        "We now have a plan; all that is needed is the will to implement it.",
        "如今，我们已经有了一个计划，所需要的只是实施计划的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer, and the other millionaires and billionaires of Microsoft are brilliant, hardworking, entrepreneurial, and justly wealthy.",
        "比尔·盖茨、保尔·阿兰、鲍莫尔以及微软公司其他的百万富翁和亿万富翁们是杰出的、努力工作、具有创业精神，因此也就理所当然地富有。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the view of most people in Europe.",
        "这也是多数欧洲和美国人的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "The party has simply stepped in where the Greek state – long plagued by inefficiency and corruption – has retreated, providing basic welfare and other services to desperate citizens, while engaging in unprecedented violence against people who are or look like immigrants.",
        "该党只是抓住了希腊国家政府——长期以来饱受低能和腐败困扰——的弱点，向绝望的公民提供基本福利和其他服务，同时还参与了前所未有的针对貌似移民的暴力活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The deployment of human capital has become an important factor in explaining why some countries remain stuck in a “middle-income trap” and why others cannot break out of low-income status.",
        "人力资本的有效利用已成为解释为何一些国家仍陷于“中等收入陷阱”，而另一些国家可以摆脱低收入地位的重要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rocky Road to Recovery",
        "曲折的复苏之路"
    ],
    [
        "In the poorest countries, where illiteracy is high, desperate people are subject to government manipulation, and there is a lack of independent control through the media and professional organizations, governments face only weak control by society.",
        "在最贫穷国家，文盲比例很高，绝望的民众受到政府操纵，缺乏通过媒体以及专业组织的独立监督，政府只面对来自社会的微弱的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Certain elements of this European path may be relevant to Asia’s own regional cooperation.",
        "这种欧洲道路的某些因素也许非常适合亚洲自己地区的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, they should deal with both creditors and debtors – some countries’ solutions address only one or the other, sowing the seeds for future problems.",
        "其次，应同时处理好债权人和债务人的问题— — 有些国家只解决了其中一方的问题，为日后其他问题播下种子。"
    ],
    [
        "One day you get bankruptcy, another day loans with few strings attached.",
        "某一天你破产了，另一天几乎没有限制的贷款来了。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as the war in Iraq was a mistaken response to the threat of al-Qaeda, the Bush administration’s green light to Israel’s military assaults in Gaza and Lebanon offers no real solution.",
        "伊拉克战争是对极地组织威胁的错误反应，布什政府同意以色列对加沙和黎巴嫩的军事攻击并不能提供实际解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the much-noted Energiewende, or energy turnaround, that she announced in 2010 is arguably one of the most audacious acts of environmental statesmanship yet.",
        "事实上，她2010年推出的广受关注的能源转向（Energiewende）可谓具有最果敢的环保主义政治家精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Figuring out which side is right requires, first and foremost, an understanding of the six ways that humans have historically created value: through our legs, our fingers, our mouths, our brains, our smiles, and our minds.",
        "要指出哪一方是正确的，首先要理解历史上人类创造价值的六种方法：通过我们的腿、我们的手指、我们的嘴、我们的大脑、我们的笑容和我们的精神。"
    ],
    [
        "This may sound utopian; in a way, it is.",
        "这听起来可能有点乌托邦；"
    ],
    [
        "But these incremental changes in Japan's military capacity and policies, though necessary and effective, can be sustained only with a clear national consensus on the country's defense interests.",
        "日本的军事潜力和政策的渐进式变化虽然是必要的和有效的，但也只能建立在对其国防利益的全民共识的基础之上。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of its success, is it really too much to ask of the US that it play its part internationally with a bit more skill and professionalism, and that it treat its partners with respect?",
        "为了协定的成功，欧洲对美国要求——应该在处理国际事务中多点技巧和专业性、尊重它的伙伴——真的太过分了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "We have not found the nearest such world yet, but statistically it should be within about 15 light years of us – a stone’s throw in cosmic terms.",
        "人类尚未找到距离我们最近的世界，但从统计学的角度它应该离我们约15光年——这在宇宙学中仅仅是一箭之遥而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they may worry that heirs apparent will seek to force them out of office prematurely.",
        "此外，他们也可能担心自己指定的继承人会企图迫使他们提前让位。"
    ],
    [
        "They cannot forget that Maliki was in charge during the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad’s Sunni Muslims.",
        "他们无法忘怀在马利基当政期间巴格达爆发逊尼派穆斯林被种族清洗的惨剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, like any marathon, it is best not to start too fast.",
        "当然，基础设施建设就像一场马拉松，起始阶段最好不要跑得太快。"
    ],
    [
        "During his primary and general election campaigns, Trump lied incessantly about himself, his businesses, his opponents, other countries’ behavior and motivations, America’s electoral system, the size of trade deficits, the actions of the Federal Reserve, and data on everything from labor to crime (to name a few examples).",
        "在初选和大选期间，特朗普不断地撒谎，撒谎对象包括他自己、他的对手、其他国家的行为和动机、美国选举制度、贸易赤字规模、美联储的行动、从劳动力到犯罪的各种数据，等等（以上只是小部分例子）。"
    ],
    [
        "Leading companies are showing that sustainable water management benefits all involved.",
        "领先公司证明，可持续水管理能让所有人受益。"
    ],
    [
        "But this can happen only when the US and Pakistani governments disengage from their “war on terror.”",
        "但只有美国和巴基斯坦政府停止“反恐战争”，这样的梦想才有可能成真。"
    ],
    [
        "But eradication and alternative livelihood projects mainly affect the lowest end of the value-added chain, the farmers, with no real impact on those higher up, such as large landowners and local traffickers, not to mention the extremely powerful drug lords and the international cartels and mafias.",
        "但是，清除以及替代型生计项目影响的主要是增值链条中的最底端，也就是农民。 对位于高端的人，例如大地主和当地毒贩并无实际影响，更不用说呼风唤雨的大毒枭以及国际卡特尔和黑社会。"
    ],
    [
        "That argument is debatable – and the record of the Kosovar government suggests that it is wrong.",
        "这种观点值得商榷—而科索沃政府的纪录意味着它是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Home sales, prices, and construction all rose last year, while foreclosures declined.",
        "去年，住房销量、价格和建筑量均有所上升，而按揭止赎有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Subsidizing labor, by contrast, is a pure injection of liquidity.",
        "相反，补贴劳力是纯粹的流动性注入。"
    ],
    [
        "Removing structural rigidities is easier said than done.",
        "打消结构钢性说起来容易做起来难。"
    ],
    [
        "Amid the bread and circuses, Trump continues along his path of demolition.",
        "凭借这些小恩小惠和疯狂表演，特朗普继续坚持其毁灭之路。"
    ],
    [
        "When Vladimir Putin complained during a conference in Munich last year that US unilateralism stoked conflict around the world, an offended Senator John McCain responded that confrontation was unnecessary in “today’s multipolar world.”",
        "”当弗拉基米尔·普京去年在慕尼黑的一次会议上抱怨说，美国的单边主义在世界各地挑起冲突时，生气的参议员约翰·麦凯恩回答说， 在“当今多极世界 ”中，对抗是不必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of the year, a meeting of EU foreign ministers and their colleagues from the six partners will assess the progress made so far and give guidance on the way ahead.",
        "今年年底，欧盟各国及六大伙伴国外长会议将评估迄今为止取得的进展，并进一步指导今后的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The retail sector is a huge source of inefficiency that effectively places a massive tax on India’s poor by driving up prices.",
        "零售部门是低效率的一个巨大源头，该部门通过让价格提升而给印度穷人造成了极重的实质税负。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditional reductionist views of science, with their focus on “bottom-up” mechanisms, do not suffice in the quest to understand top-down and circular causality and a world of nested processes.",
        "传统科学还原论者专注于“自下而上”机制，不足以理解自上而下和循环的因果关系，也不能理解嵌套过程的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue is coming to a head in ongoing World Trade Organization negotiations.",
        "这一事务在世界贸易组织（WTO）正在进行的谈判中得到处理的时机已经成熟。"
    ],
    [
        "This question has long divided economists along a right-left axis, at least since University of Chicago economists George Stigler and Milton Friedman argued that many, if not most, regulations were motivated by rent-seeking among bureaucrats and business incumbents.",
        "长期以来，这一问题把经济学家分为左右两派，其历史可以追溯到芝加哥大学经济学家施蒂格勒（George Stigler）和弗里德曼（Milton Friedman）指出许多（如果不是全部的话）监管的动机是官僚和现有企业的寻租。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there was a 2.2% annualized decline from the first quarter of 2008 through the second quarter of 2009.",
        "首先是2008年一季度到2009年二季度，此阶段出现了2. 2%的年化下降。"
    ],
    [
        "ZURICH – Over the last two decades, inflation targeting has become the predominant monetary-policy framework.",
        "苏黎世—过去二十年中，通胀目标已成为货币政策框架的主要内容。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Census Bureau’s estimate of income is too narrow, given that middle-income families have received increasing government transfers while benefiting from lower income-tax rates.",
        "此外，人口普查局的收入测算口径过窄，中产阶级家庭不但收到越来越多的政府转移支付，也从所得税率的降低中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – “The golden age of finance,” the economist Barry Eichengreen has said, “has now ended.”",
        "华盛顿特区——经济学家巴里•艾肯格林说过：“目前金融的黄金时代已经终结”。"
    ],
    [
        "The proponents of helicopter drops today include some eminent figures, including former US Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and Adair Turner, former head of the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority.",
        "如今，直升机撒钱的支持者包括一些要人，包括美联储前主席本·伯南克（Ben Bernanke）、英国金融服务局前局长阿代尔·特纳（Adair Turner）等。"
    ],
    [
        "There is simply no justification for withholding the results of health-research studies.",
        "隐瞒医学研究的结果根本不存在任何理由。"
    ],
    [
        "How we answer these questions will in large part determine whether, in a relentlessly globalizing world, fear has the last word.",
        "我们对这些问题的答案将在很大程度上决定，在这个残酷地全球化的世界中，恐惧是否是最后的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "The IADB report provides a balanced assessment of that episode.",
        "泛美开发银行的报告提供了关于这段历史的平衡的评估。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt’s case, the crucial tourist sector contracted sharply after the revolution.",
        "在埃及的例子中，关键的旅游业因为革命而大幅萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other, there are lukewarm Remainers, such as former Prime Minister David Cameron, who never made a strong case for continued membership in the EU.",
        "另一方面，有些留欧派不够热情，如前首相卡梅伦，他们从未强烈支持保留欧盟成员资格。"
    ],
    [
        "The other countries situated between Germany and the USSR were similarly sentenced to disappear as nations – sooner or later.",
        "地处德国与苏联之间的其他国家也相同地被判了亡国的死刑——只是时间早晚的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Herein lies the dilemma (one that China currently faces) of market-oriented reforms.",
        "这里就凸显出中国目前所处的市场化改革困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Stabilizing Ukraine",
        "稳定乌克兰局势"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s resurgence of illiberal state capitalist regimes and leaders is nowhere close to inciting a war, because center-right and center-left governments still committed to liberal democracy, enlightened economic policies, and solid welfare systems still rule most of Europe.",
        "今天，不自由国家资本主义政权和领袖的卷土重来距离引起战争还十分遥远，因为中右翼和中左翼政府仍致力于捍卫自由民主，开明经济政策和坚固的福利制度仍是大部分欧洲国家的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "Our work will benefit enormously from the current push for more international cooperation in curbing illicit financial flows.",
        "我们的工作将极大地受益于目前正在推进的遏制非法资金流动的更加国际化的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But it should force us to consider whether the cure is costlier than the disease – and ask what other approaches might be better.",
        "但它却应当迫使我们思考治疗方案是否比疾病本身还要昂贵——并询问还有没有更好的解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, Europeans are beginning to understand that they have lived well beyond their means materially, and well below their means intellectually, spiritually, and ethically – a process that might be described as the beginning of Europe’s “Montization,” to pay tribute to Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti’s embodiment of responsibility and courage.",
        "换言之，欧洲人开始认识到他们的物质生活过于充裕，但其智慧、精神或道德食粮却相对不足。 也许可以将这一过程称为欧洲“蒙蒂化“的开端，以向责任和勇气的化身——意大利总理马里奥•蒙蒂——致敬。"
    ],
    [
        "Members of the European Union are still divided and continue to hope for a compromise and other options.",
        "欧盟成员国尚未达成一致，它们仍在寄希望于形成妥协或其他方案。"
    ],
    [
        "With initial capital of just $100 billion, it is too small to make a major contribution to global infrastructure needs.",
        "仅仅1000亿美元的初始资金根本不足以满足全球基础设施所需。"
    ],
    [
        "Intra-European competition in services is restricted by innumerable national regulations that, for instance, strictly determine the requirements for becoming a hairdresser or a plumber.",
        "欧盟各国内部难以计数的规章限制了各国间服务业竞争。 例如，有的规定成为理发师或水管工的条件要求。"
    ],
    [
        "But the country’s future is anything but predetermined.",
        "但国家的未来是无法预先设定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 2001 and 2005, current non-interest expenditure rose by 2% of GDP, revenues fell by 0.5% of GDP, and the general government deficit rose by 1% of GDP.",
        "2001年到2005年间，国民生产总值中经常性无息支出增长了2%，税收下降了0. 5%，政府赤字增加了1%。"
    ],
    [
        "And, although the United States is beginning to show signs of economic recovery, the country faces a political stalemate over the so-called “fiscal cliff.”",
        "而尽管美国开始显露出经济复苏信号，但它仍面临着所谓“财政悬崖”的政治僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision was motivated by cost concerns.",
        "成本问题驱动了上述决定。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as China’s claims and tactics have come under growing scrutiny, its approach has faced diminishing returns.",
        "但是，随着中国的主张和策略受到日益严格的审视，其方针的回报也越来越差。"
    ],
    [
        "The consensus has been that it inevitably leads to the state “backing losers.”",
        "经济学家的一致意见是，这不可避免地会导致国家“支持输家”。"
    ],
    [
        "All have merit and would have some impact, but they would lead to incremental advances at best.",
        "它们各有长处，能起到一定效果，但充其量只能带来增量进展。"
    ],
    [
        "She is far from being a weak contender, and she is a fast learner with a strong campaign team.",
        "她远远不是弱小的竞选人，而且她善于学习，竞选班子雄厚。"
    ],
    [
        "Biofuels were subsidized by another $19 billion, with essentially no climate benefit.",
        "还有190亿美元用于补贴生物燃料，而这笔钱所带来的气候利益几乎为零。"
    ],
    [
        "Protestants and Catholics alike turned for support to their co-religionists within the territories that would one day become Germany.",
        "新教徒和天主教徒都转向日后成为德国的领地内宗教盟友寻求支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese government has neither censored nor refuted Hu’s dreadful findings.",
        "1%。 中国政府并没有限制或反驳胡提出的这些数据。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the euro area, which is far more cohesive than the world as a whole, has not quite figured out how to use its central bank as lender of last resort.",
        "即使比作为一个整体的世界要有更多凝聚力的欧元区，也没有完全明白怎样将其中央银行作为最终贷款人加以使用。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Alexis de Tocqueville, a liberal French aristocrat, visited the United States in 1831 ostensibly to write a study of its “enlightened” prison system (locking people up in solitary confinement like penitent monks was the latest modern idea).",
        "纽约—1831年，法国自由派贵族托克维尔访问美国。 名义上，他是为了写一篇关于美国“开明”监狱系统（最新的概念是将犯人如同忏悔的僧侣那样关押在单间中）的研究。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not among the Arabs in Gaza, but in our midst, that we must seek Roi’s blood.”",
        "罗伊血债的源头不在加沙的阿拉伯人，在我们自己的脑海里。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the direct annual hospital costs attributable to ADR’s run into the billions of dollars, and this does not include all the suffering that ADR’s cause that does not lead to hospitalization (or death).",
        "此外，医院每年用于ADR’s的直接成本高达几百亿美元，这还不包括那些由ADR’s引起的住院治疗（或死亡）的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Mark Carney, in his first policy action as Governor of the Bank of England, announced forward guidance for short-term interest rates.",
        "类似地，马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）成为英格兰银行行长后的第一个政策动作是公布了关于短期利率的前瞻性指引。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever his personal beliefs, if Peña Nieto wins, he will be the PRI’s first-ever democratically elected president – the first to become head of state because he won more votes at the polls, not because his predecessor hand-picked him.",
        "无论他个人信仰什么，只要佩纳·聂托能获胜，他就将成为革命制度党首位民主选举的总统——也是该党首位并非由前任指定，而是因为得票更多而当选的国家元首。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world riven by geopolitical rivalries large and small, such ambiguity and saber-rattling in the cyber realm could have catastrophic results.",
        "在这个由大大小小的地缘政治对手构成的世界里，这样的模糊暧昧和武力威胁可能带来灾难性的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Some states suggested new norms to address data integrity and maintenance of the Internet’s core structures.",
        "一些国家提出了新的规范来解决数据完整性和维护互联网核心构架的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Stealthy movement of bombs or materials amid the unrest would further complicate targeting.",
        "在动乱过程中偷偷转移核弹及材料将进一步加大袭击难度。"
    ],
    [
        "Fundamental tax reform must strengthen incentives, reduce distorting “tax expenditures,” and raise revenue.",
        "基本税收改革必须加强激励、减少扭曲性“税收开支”，同时增加岁入。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment banks, in particular, are known for their minimalist equity approach.",
        "尤其是投资银行，以最低的股本行事而著称。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as China has replaced Japan as the world’s second largest economy, so its military might has grown rapidly in recent years.",
        "中国的经济规模已超过日本，成为世界第二。 其军力近年来亦有了迅速提升。"
    ],
    [
        "Populism, Past and Present",
        "民粹主义的过去和现在"
    ],
    [
        "A study by the economist Homi Kharas of the Brookings Institution gives us a sense of the scale of this change.",
        "布鲁金斯学会经济学家荷米·卡拉斯（Homi Kharas）的一项研究向我们展示了这一变革的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, depression is now the most commonly diagnosed condition in outpatient psychiatric treatment.",
        "事实上，抑郁症是目前经心理门诊确诊的最为常见的心理疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s hard-working farmers can now see added value in co-existing with the fence.",
        "该地区勤劳的农民现在已经看见与电网共存所带来的新价值。"
    ],
    [
        "So the relevant question is: why would a government adopt harmful policies, and why would society go along?",
        "因此，要害问题是：为何政府采取有害政策，以及为何社会还能容忍？"
    ],
    [
        "But those who know Putin say that he brooks no argument; he is the only one setting the limits.",
        "但了解普京的人说他绝不容忍任何争论； 他是限度的唯一把控者。"
    ],
    [
        "New research, from Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan, suggests that temperatures could rise even higher – by 3.5 degrees Celsius.",
        "由气候互动组织（Climate Interactive）和麻省理工学院斯隆商学院的新研究表明，温度可能升得更高——达3."
    ],
    [
        "A rapid and determined response could have done much to contain the virus.",
        "迅速、坚决的响应可以在很大程度上遏制病毒。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher prices fuel higher growth in these countries, which, accompanied by a population boom, leads to higher domestic energy consumption.",
        "高油价推动这些国家的高增长，并伴随着人口的大幅增加，推高国内的能源消耗水平，反过来又减少了原油出口，导致油价进一步上升。"
    ],
    [
        "· America’s declining competitiveness as an attractive place to locate production and employment.",
        "· 美国竞争力下降，不再具有对生产和岗位的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "And, critically, radical Islamists are not the only group with a disproportionate share of engineers.",
        "而且，关键问题是，激进伊斯兰主义并非拥有超大比例工程师的唯一团体。"
    ],
    [
        "In the intervening years, that idea has made steady progress.",
        "在组织成立以来的这些年，这一理念取得了长足的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "With an overvalued rupee, there are no good policy choices.",
        "由于卢比被过度高估，政府就没有什么好的政策选择。"
    ],
    [
        "And NATO membership was not part of the deal.",
        "而北约成员资格并非协议的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "In a time of growing complexity – and thus uncertainty – investors want to hedge their bets.",
        "在复杂性——以及随之而来的不确定性——与日俱增的时候，投资者需要对冲赌注。"
    ],
    [
        "They are prepared to accept the inconveniences and sacrifices that will arise during the transition; indeed, they view the challenge of creating a zero-carbon economy as an opportunity to renew and improve their societies and communities.",
        "他们已经做好准备接受这一转型期间的不方便和需要作出的牺牲； 事实上，他们认为创造零碳经济的挑战是一次更新和改善社会和社区的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "While people in a wide range of countries accept some degree of market-determined income variation, based on differential talents and personal preferences, there are limits.",
        "在一个多层次国家中，人民能够接受一定程度的由市场决定的收入差异，但这种差异必须建立在天分和个人偏好不同的基础上，而且必须有个限度。"
    ],
    [
        "And more regulatory changes are in the works.",
        "更多的监管改变也开始运作。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it possible for oil companies to temper their excitement during periods of rising prices, and not to fall into a malaise when prices are low for lengthy periods?",
        "它们是否有可能在价格上涨时保持镇定，而在长时间价格低迷的情况下避免过度消沉？"
    ],
    [
        "Short-term interest rates, most macroeconomists would say, could always be set low enough to generate reasonable rates of employment and demand.",
        "大部分宏观经济学家会说，短期利率总是可以降至足够的水平，刺激合理的就业率和需求。"
    ],
    [
        "But humans have now become the single largest driver of ecosystem change on earth, marking the start of a new geological age that some call the Anthropocene.",
        "但人类已经成为改变地球生态系统的唯一最大力量，标志着世界进入到一个全新的地质时代，有人将其称之为人类世。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s combination of strong growth, low unemployment, favorable financing conditions, and large budget surpluses present it with a golden opportunity.",
        "德国的高增长、低失业、有利的融资条件和大量预算盈余并存的局面是一个黄金机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Paris recently experienced humanity at its worst.",
        "巴黎刚刚经历了人性中最丑恶的一面。"
    ],
    [
        "They want to work.",
        "他们想要工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Fahd, the eldest Sudeiri son, ruled for 23 years, the longest reign for a Saudi king.",
        "苏德里兄弟中的老大法赫德（Fahd）执政23年，为沙特王国之最。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, assume further that 0.5% of people – one of every 200 – actually have this type of cancer.",
        "最后，我们进一步假设有0. 5%的人——也就是1/200——真的会患上这种癌症。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider another telling indicator.",
        "再看看另一个颇具说明性的指标。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community, which has a shared interest in a prosperous, stable, and cohesive Central Asia, can and should play a supporting role in these efforts.",
        "繁荣、稳定和统一的中亚符合国际社会的利益，因此后者也应该全力支持这方面的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The emphasis at SpaceX is on getting the job done, rather than just doing the job.",
        "SpaceX关注的不只是工作本身，而是在预算内保质保量的完成工作。"
    ],
    [
        "But repealing Obamacare has proved much harder than Trump expected.",
        "但取消奥巴马医保看起来要比特朗普预期的困难得多。"
    ],
    [
        "And in the north, the Tajik Northern Alliance and Abdul Rashid Dostum’s Uzbek militia were supported and equipped by Afghanistan’s northern neighbors and Russia.",
        "在阿富汗北部，塔吉克族背景的北部同盟和阿卜杜勒·拉希德·杜斯塔姆领导的乌兹别克族武装背后则是阿富汗的北方邻国和俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Right now there is only one candidate for this role: the US.",
        "眼下只有一个扮演这一角色的候选人：美国。"
    ],
    [
        "In most West European countries, however, such agitators use their professed admiration for Israel as a kind of alibi, and direct their racism at Muslims.",
        "但在多数西欧国家，煽动者利用对以色列毫不隐讳的钦佩作为某种托词，并将种族主义仇恨指向穆斯林民众。"
    ],
    [
        "But the effect was similar: an unsustainable pattern of income and employment generation, and lower productivity and competitiveness in these economies’ tradable sectors, leading to trade deficits, stunted GDP, and weak job creation.",
        "但最终效果是一样的：不可持续的收入和就业创造模式以及可贸易部门生产率和竞争力低下，这导致了贸易赤字、GDP增长受阻以及就业创造不力。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever damage radiation has wrought, human habitation has caused far greater destruction.",
        "无论辐射造成的伤害有多大，都比不上人类居住。"
    ],
    [
        "These are controversial questions, and we often try to avoid addressing them in public discourse.",
        "这些都是些富有争议性的问题，而我们也常常试图避免在公共论述中提到它们。"
    ],
    [
        "By 1877, more than 60% of Egypt’s revenue was servicing this debt.",
        "到1877年，埃及超过60%的收入都用来还债。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, smaller groups of armed militants – supported, or even manipulated, by external actors – will dictate Syria’s future.",
        "否则的话，小规模的武装军事力量——由外部行为人支持甚至控制——将主宰叙利亚的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "What is most striking is the discovery of niggling little rules, outlined in CIA manuals and co-opted by the government’s legal executives.",
        "最令人震惊的发现是CIA指导手册中规定的、政府的法律专员采纳的琐细规定。"
    ],
    [
        "Money not spent on tobacco would be spent on other goods and services.",
        "不花在香烟上的钱就会花在其他食品和服务上。"
    ],
    [
        "Its share of global exports fell from 9.1% in 2007 to 8% in 2013 – as low as in the “sick man” era, when Germany was struggling with reunification.",
        "德国占全球出口的份额从2007年的9. 1%下降到2013年的8%——这个数字跟两德刚刚统一的“病人时期”相同。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1994, his units put down a secessionist movement in the south.",
        "在随后的1994年，阿赫玛尔的部队又在也门南部地区镇压了一场分离主义运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of Europe’s leaders will meet this week at the Munich Security Conference.",
        "众多欧洲领导人将在本周的慕尼黑安全会议上会面。"
    ],
    [
        "The first and most fundamental is to take steps to ensure that people need not flee their countries or, if they have, to create conditions that permit them to return home.",
        "首先也是最基本的是采取措施确保人们不需要逃离祖国，或者，对于已经逃离祖国的人，创造可以让他们回家的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "And on transnational issues such as climate change, where both countries can benefit from cooperation, soft power can help build the trust and create the networks that make such cooperation possible.",
        "而在气候变化等跨国问题上，两国都可以从合作中受益，软实力可以帮助建立信任，并创造出使这种合作成为可能的网络。"
    ],
    [
        "· A eurozone breakup (including a Greek exit and loss of access to capital markets for Italy and/or Spain).",
        "· 欧元区解体（包括希腊退出以及意大利和/或西班牙无法金融资本市场）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whereas advanced economies rarely implement this advice, China and many other developing countries do tend to adjust regulation, including reserve requirements for banks and ceilings on homebuyers’ borrowing, counter-cyclically.",
        "但是，发达经济体很少实施这一建议，而中国和其他许多发展中国家确实常常反周期地调整监管措施，包括银行准备金要求和限制住房抵押贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Watching the parents was difficult.",
        "观察家长令人十分难受。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s rise reflects the extent to which political polarization in the US has deepened during the last eight years.",
        "特朗普的崛起反映出美国政治极化在过去八年已经深化到了什么程度。"
    ],
    [
        "It cannot have escaped their notice that to uphold indefinite detention of foreign nationals without judicial process would have made them virtual pariahs on the conference circuit.",
        "他们当然会考虑到如果支持在未经过相关司法程序的情况下对外国公民进行无限期拘押会使自己成为国际司法界被人诟病的对象。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout my premiership, I kept a quote of hers in mind: “I am not a consensus politician; I am a conviction politician.”",
        "在我担任总理期间，我时刻铭记着她的话：“我不是共识政客； 我是信念政治家。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, there are two further and even more problematic aspects of uncertainty.",
        "不幸的是，不确定性还有两个更深层次且麻烦更大的方面。"
    ],
    [
        "In a normal competitive market, prices will be set by the cost of producing an extra barrel from the cheapest oilfields with spare capacity.",
        "在正常竞争市场中，价格由存在闲置产能的最廉价油田额外生产一桶石油的成本决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Now they will get it: there will be no business as usual. But seldom has there been more uncertainty.",
        "但如今他们会意识到真相：再也没有什么常态可言，但也不会存在更多的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the main threat to the long-term sustainability of energy supplies is the mismatch between investment in additional capacity and energy infrastructure, on one hand, and growth in demand for energy on the other.",
        "事实上，对于长期可持续的能源供应的主要威胁是在额外的生产能力和能源基础设施上的投资与对于能源越来越大的需求之间的不协调。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was a refusal to buckle to the values of Nazism and Communism in the twentieth century that assured the success of freedom.",
        "但 20 世纪是拒绝向纳粹主义和共产主义屈服最终确保了自由的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a useful account of why there is a poverty trap – which is the question the book seeks to answer – but it does not clarify why there is a middle-income trap.",
        "这个说法对于解释为何存在贫困陷阱很有用——这也是该书试图回答的问题——但并没有澄清为何会有中等收入陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "In the run-up to the championship, Fischer trounced two very good opponents with unheard of 6-0 scores, an astonishing result when so many grandmaster games end in draws.",
        "在赢得冠军的征途中，费舍尔以前所未闻的6比0的比分横扫两位强大的对手，这在许多特级大师对局以和局告终的当时令人嗔目结舌。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The international community’s attention in the Middle East nowadays is inevitably focused on the Islamic State’s military advances in Syria and Iraq, the failed states of Yemen and Libya, the activities of Islamic extremists everywhere, and the continuing efforts to complete a deal to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions.",
        "伦敦—如今，国际社会对中东的关注难免集中于伊斯兰国在叙利亚和伊拉克的军事扩张、也门和利比亚的国家失败、伊斯兰极端分子在各地的活动，以及完成遏制伊朗核野心的协议的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "However, every study I know of – whether British, Scandinavian, or American – agrees that large numbers of these “graduate” jobs require no more than they did when non-graduates performed them perfectly well.",
        "但据我所知，所有研究－不管在英国、斯堪迪纳维亚还是美国－都得出了几乎相同的结论：所谓“高学历”工作的要求跟以前没多大差别，没有学历的人也一样能完成的很好。"
    ],
    [
        "The first view is that “we have done a lot” since the global financial crisis erupted in 2008.",
        "第一种观念是，我们自2008年全球金融危机爆发以来“已经做了很多”。"
    ],
    [
        "And, over time, economic managers succeeded in drastically curtailing sector-by-sector Soviet-style planning.",
        "此外，随着时间的推移，经济管理者成功地逐步彻底取消了苏联式的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, capitalism offers the best safeguard of individual freedom, choice, and entrepreneurial initiative.",
        "但其实凯恩斯和其关系比较复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "When Hitler’s Wehrmacht struck West, the USSR duly supported Germany in its war against Poland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, and the United Kingdom.",
        "当希特勒的纳粹德国国防军进攻西欧时，苏联不失时机地支持德国对波兰、法国、比利时、荷兰、卢森堡、丹麦、挪威和英国发动战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that the various party platforms, meant to inform the electorate and provide a basis for coalition talks, reveal a shocking lack of imagination and paucity of new ideas.",
        "真相是各种政党平台——原本它们应该起到让选民知情、为组阁谈判打下基础的作用——表现出现象力和新思维方面的惊人的缺乏。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the trap into which Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government has fallen, and it seems to be the logic behind the decision articulated by Ross to withdraw from NAFTA.",
        "委内瑞拉总统马杜罗的政府就陷入了这个陷阱，而罗斯所宣布的退出NAFTA的决定背后似乎也是这一逻辑。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1950’s and 1960’s, few leading Indians believed that their country could compete with the industrialized economies.",
        "在1950和60年代，印度人几乎不该相信本国能和工业化经济的国家展开竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "One key problem for China’s science-based industries is the long time horizon for new discoveries to be perfected and commercialized.",
        "中国基于科学的产业的一个关键问题是新发现的打磨和商业化需要极长时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, there is plenty more room for growth.",
        "5%。 显然，P2P贷款还有巨大的增长空间。"
    ],
    [
        "We did.",
        "我们。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting cash-based economy is an invitation to corruption.",
        "由此产生的基于现金的经济不啻于催生腐败的温床。"
    ],
    [
        "The Clinton camp has decided to pursue both strategies.",
        "克林顿阵营已决定双管齐下。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan are remembered for the laissez-faire revolution they launched in the early 1980s.",
        "巴黎——历史铭记玛格丽特·撒切尔和罗纳德·里根是因为他们在二十世纪八十年代发动了一场自由放任主义革命。"
    ],
    [
        "The current consensus blames the “elites” – in academia, media, and business – for becoming so caught up in their relatively cosmopolitan and connected world that they failed to listen carefully to less educated and connected groups.",
        "目前的共识指责“精英”——学术、媒体和商业精英——过度沉浸在他们相对大同互通的世界中，而没有去聆听教育和互通程度较低的人民的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, France’s rapidly worsening foreign-trade deficit is boosting already-excessive debt levels, while output is falling and unemployment is rising.",
        "此外，法国迅速恶化的外贸逆差也在不断推高业已超标的负债水平，同时社会生产力不断下降，失业率却逐步攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "The point to which Keynes kept returning was that the attempt to extract debt payments over many years would have disastrous social consequences.",
        "凯恩斯所欲纠正的是，试图在多年内收取过度债务还款的举措会造成灾难性的社会后果。"
    ],
    [
        "New private-sector jobs could generate a wave of dynamism in the Gulf region, helping it to move away from overreliance on energy exports and forge a new path towards sustainable long-term growth.",
        "新的私人部门就业岗位能够为海湾地区创造新的活力，有助于使该地区不再过度依赖能源出口、打造通往可持续长期增长的新道路。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been the case in much of the Arab world since late 2010.",
        "2010年末以来的阿拉伯世界便是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of introducing more legislation that is tainted both in the popular imagination and in its utility, Britain could, after all, trust its constitution to act as and when required to safeguard liberty and fair play.",
        "与其引入更多法律，既在民众中留下坏印象，又不堪大用，不如在需要维护自由和公平竞争时相信自己的宪政体制。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1999, the international community’s policies with regard to Kosovo have had wide international support, including from Russia.",
        "1999年后，国际社会制定的关于科索沃的政策得到了全世界的支持，其中也包括俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "The sources of instability include not only the threat of weapons of mass destruction, but also – and more immediately – efforts to alter the territorial status quo through force or coercion.",
        "不稳定的源头不但包括大规模杀伤性武器的威胁，也包括通过武力或吞并改变领土现状的企图的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "With respect to financial supervision, there has been increasing support since the crisis for countercyclical capital requirements, at least for banks.",
        "在金融监管方面，自危机发生以来对反周期资本需求的支持不断增加（至少对银行来说）。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, in the Greek debacle, both sides have made countless mistakes, misjudgments, and misdeeds over the last decade, and even before.",
        "可以肯定在希腊崩溃的过程中，双方在过去十年甚至更早时间里的错误、判断失误和不当行为都难以计数。"
    ],
    [
        "Most likely, it will result in a new Tory administration that tightens the screw of austerity further and erects new fences to keep despised foreigners out.",
        "最有可能的是，这将产生一个新的保守党政府，它会进一步收紧紧缩，竖起新的屏障将讨厌的外国人排除在国门之外。"
    ],
    [
        "The major difference now is that the European unification process rules out war – even economic war – between the two countries.",
        "当前的主要差别是欧洲统一进程排除了两国交战、甚至是经济战的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "It also means protecting environmental systems, particularly wetlands, which can play an important role in absorbing the impact of storms.",
        "这还意味着要保护环境同，特别是湿地。 湿地对于吸收风暴影响具有重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Coastal regions are the most vulnerable to many kinds of extreme weather events.",
        "沿岸地区极易受到许多极端天气事件的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason for governments to make things worse by tampering with their citizens' liberties.",
        "政府没有理由通过干预公民自由来雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "But the first step is ensuring that we have the best peer-reviewed knowledge available to make sound decisions; the forthcoming IPBES assessments will move us in that direction.",
        "但第一步是要确保我们具备最好的同行审议知识来保证可靠的决策； 即将发布的IPBES评估将是迈向这一方向的重要一步。"
    ],
    [
        "In some places, such measures have already been introduced.",
        "某些地方已经出台了上述举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasingly, that means gaming the system, by focusing on work that promises short-term yields, pursuing “hot” research topics, spending more time on self-promotion (facilitated by the proliferation of social media), and slicing and dicing their work to attract maximum attention.",
        "逐渐地，这意味着与制度周旋，专注于能带来短期效益的工作，追求“热点”研究主题，将更多的时间用于钻营（社交媒体的兴盛起到了推波助澜的效果），将工作切割包装以最大程度地吸引关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Borodin and Khobragade are not aristocrats.",
        "鲍罗廷和科巴拉加德均非贵族。"
    ],
    [
        "He appears on CNN , but has he actually visited Gaza since his appointment in the summer of 2007?",
        "他出现在有线新闻网之中，但是，从2007年他得到任命后有没有实际访问加沙呢？"
    ],
    [
        "People vote for all kinds of parties, from the far right all the way to the left, so long as they are convinced that the parties will deal with their social concerns and grievances.",
        "波兰人会选各种各样的政党，从极右到极左，只要他们确信这些政党会解决他们关心的社会问题和苦难。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the data, prostitutes make a lot more money than women working in ordinary jobs.",
        "根据数据，妓女比从事普通工作的妇女收入高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "That behavior made Arpaio the subject of lawsuits that, from 1993 to 2015, cost $142 million to settle.",
        "这种行为使阿帕约成为起诉对象，这些诉讼从1993到2015年间耗资1. 42亿美元才达成和解。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union, the United States, and other interested countries hope that Syria’s warring parties will stop fighting each other, and turn their weapons instead on ISIS and other extremist groups, such as Jabhat al-Nusra.",
        "欧盟、美国和其他相关利益国家希望叙利亚战争各方停止战斗，将枪口对准伊斯兰国和救国阵线（Jabhat al-Nusra）等其他极端组织"
    ],
    [
        "So, how should the US economy’s jobs deficit, investment deficit, and long-run fiscal deficit be addressed?",
        "那么，如何解决美国经济的就业赤字、投资池子和长期财政赤字呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Two possibilities stand out: either there is no consensus within the Iranian elite for a policy change, or the elite remain united in their determination to continue backing Assad.",
        "两种可能性最大：要么伊朗精英内部完全没有政策变化的共识，要么伊朗精英仍下定决心要继续支持巴沙尔。"
    ],
    [
        "“Re-emergence” would be more accurate, since by size and history the Middle Kingdom has long been a major power in East Asia.",
        "“再次出现”也许更为确切，因为无论是从面积还是历史来说，中国长久以来一直是东亚地区的主要力量。"
    ],
    [
        "There is significant potential domestic demand for coal briquettes to replace wood for cooking and domestic and industrial heating.",
        "煤饼的潜在需求巨大，以取代木材用于做饭、家用和工业取暖。"
    ],
    [
        "Fearing domestic asset-price bubbles and upward pressure on their currencies from an inward rush of capital, many emerging-economy leaders complained loudly about what Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega called an “international currency war.”",
        "许多新兴经济体领导人担心本国资产价格出现泡沫和资本涌入导致货币升值压力，一时间怨声四起，巴西财政部长曼特加（Guido Mantega）称之为“国际货币战争”。"
    ],
    [
        "It also needs to speak with one voice on matters of foreign policy in order to play a more important international role in solving major conflicts and shaping a more peaceful and balanced world order.",
        "它还必须保持外交政策上用同一种声音说话，以便在解决重大的冲突和形成一种更和平和平衡的国际秩序的问题上扮演一个更重要的国际角色。"
    ],
    [
        "And he supports Japan’s entry into the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership, an emerging regional trading bloc that will exclude China.",
        "安倍也支持日本加入美国领衔的、不含中国的新兴地区贸易协定跨太平洋合作伙伴关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the European Union has no history of imposing conditionality, and ECB financing could be perceived as a form of bailout, a formal IMF program would be the better approach.",
        "由于欧盟制定贷款附加条件，历史上尚无先例，而欧洲央行的资金支持也可以视为某种形式的政府救助，因此由 IMF 提供正式贷款救援可能是更好的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "And that may mean giving many more dollars directly to those who need them.",
        "而这可能意味着我们要把更多的美元直接送到需要它们的人手中。"
    ],
    [
        "If implemented, his innovative idea would reduce homeowners’ leverage.",
        "如果该方案实施，他的创新思维将能降低屋主的杠杆。"
    ],
    [
        "The OUN conducted terrorist attacks in pre-war Poland, was persecuted by the Soviets after they occupied Eastern Poland in 1939, allied itself with the Nazis after they invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and slaughtered thousands of Poles and Jews in a drive to “purify” Ukraine.",
        "OUN在战前的波兰就组织过恐怖袭击，1939年占领东波兰后遭到苏联人迫害，1941年纳粹德国入侵苏联后，OUN与纳粹勾结，以“净化”乌克兰为名屠杀了数千波兰人和犹太人。"
    ],
    [
        "The cease-fire is holding, and prospects for a peace agreement are good.",
        "停火已经形成，达成和平协议的前景十分乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "This would require prolonging the ratification deadline until 2008.",
        "这将要求把批准宪法的最后日期延缓至2008年。"
    ],
    [
        "Extrajudicial executions and disappearances were common under Calderón.",
        "卡尔德隆治下的法外处决和失踪已经是家常便饭。"
    ],
    [
        "There is reason to believe that these economies can do much better.",
        "我们有理由相信这些经济体可以表现得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s real-estate price bubble is often named as a likely catalyst for a crisis.",
        "中国的房地产泡沫经常被认为是危机的一大可能催化因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Intellectuals, journalists, and politicians are now saying and writing things about Japan’s role in the world that were unthinkable a decade ago.",
        "知识分子、记者和政治家都热衷于谈论日本在世界上的作用或撰写相关文章，如果倒退十年，很难想象日本的作用会有这么大。"
    ],
    [
        "This means shedding some four million workers, a number equal to about 0.5% of China’s workforce.",
        "这意味着要分流四百万工人，相当于中国劳动力数量的0."
    ],
    [
        "This partly reflected the decision by France, Germany, and Italy in 2003 to violate and later “reform” the Maastricht rules, effectively declaring them null and void.",
        "法国，德国和意大利在2003年对马斯特里赫特规则的违犯和随后的“改革”就在某种程度上体现了这一点，基本上让这一规则变成了一纸空文。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s Kyoto Shell Game",
        "欧盟的京都骗局"
    ],
    [
        "The UK may negotiate a bilateral free-trade agreement with, say, Canada, but UK firms will secure few benefits, unless Canadian firms can sell products with UK components to their other trading partners.",
        "英国或许可以与（比如）加拿大谈判双边贸易协议，但英国企业无法就此保证多少收益，除非加拿大企业可以将包含英国产零部件的产品卖给其他贸易伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "We also need a regular scientific process to present the world with the evidence on species abundance and extinction, just as we now have such a process for climate change.",
        "我们还需要定期的科学进程来向世界展示物种繁荣和灭绝的证据，正如有关气候变化的进程一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that much is different in today’s financial sector.",
        "事实上如今的金融系统早已脱胎于以往了。 银行的借款数额比往年要少；"
    ],
    [
        "And the adoption of work-displacing digital technologies may need to be paced, so that the economy’s structural adjustment can keep up.",
        "而那些替代工作人员的数字技术的采用步伐可能需要进行规划，以便实现与经济结构调整同步。"
    ],
    [
        "If today’s globalization continues to widen income gaps, the waves of migration will grow.",
        "如果今天的全球化继续扩大收入差距，那么，移民浪潮将增加。"
    ],
    [
        "These targets, endorsed by all UN member countries, comprise the eight Millennium Development Goals.",
        "这些目标将由联合国全体成员国共同支持，由8个迁徙发展计划目标（Millennium Development Goals）组成。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, if Brazil is to enjoy growth above the modest levels of the past few years, the country badly needs to reform its labor laws, open itself more to foreign trade, and improve the quality of its primary education system.",
        "然而，如果巴西要超越过去几年间在经济上取得的增长水准，就迫切需要改革它的劳工法律，对外贸更加开放，以及提高它的基础教育体系的质量。"
    ],
    [
        "(It did not help matters that the same system bailed out the main driver of the economic crisis, the financial sector – a move that exposed a stark disparity between exigency and fairness.)",
        "（同一套制度援助了经济危机的主要推手——金融部门，这一做法暴露出紧急性和公平性之间的尖锐对立，这也无助于改善情况。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "A better choice, however, would be “to try to create a world in which we will be comfortable living, when we are no longer top dog on the global block.”",
        "”但更好的选择是“建立一个我们不再是全球领头羊的时候也能自在生活的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "But the magnitude of domestic challenges that Japan faces nowadays seems too great for its political leaders to play a proactive international role.",
        "但日本当前面对的国内挑战是如此之艰巨，使其领导人无力在国际上扮演一个积极的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "It triumphed with Charles Maurras’ Action Française and its protracted war with “Jewish and Germanic abstractions.”",
        "仇德思想与查尔斯·莫拉斯的“法语行动”及其对“犹太与德国抽象概念”的持久战一同广为传播。"
    ],
    [
        "Its Islamist agenda put crucial state institutions – namely, the army and the judiciary – on edge and clashed with the liberal, modernizing demands of its opponents.",
        "其伊斯兰日程把关键的国家机构——即军队和司法系统——推向了边缘化，也与反对者的自由主义和现代化要求相悖。"
    ],
    [
        "Military intervention, with all of its problems, has been avoided for now; but Assad knows that the US will have no option but to attack – with or without explicit Security Council and Congressional resolutions – should he perpetrate another such horror.",
        "能造成诸多问题的军事干预至少目前得以避免； 但阿萨德知道不管有没有明确的安理会和国会决议，如果他再次进行这样的恐怖活动，美国将别无选择只能干预。"
    ],
    [
        "As we await additional evidence, let us appreciate how rarely we witness, in real time, such a momentous policy shift.",
        "但在等待额外证据之时，请让我们为能实时见证到一场如此巨大的政策转变尔感到庆幸。"
    ],
    [
        "Three deaths in just three weeks.",
        "三起死亡事件相隔不到三周。"
    ],
    [
        "When the International Monetary Fund announced in December that the renminbi would join the US dollar, the British pound, the euro, and the Japanese yen in the currency basket underlying its unit of account, the Special Drawing Rights basket, the decision was clearly political.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）在12月宣布人民币将加入美元、英镑、欧元和日元，成为决定其账户单位特别提款权（SDR）价值的货币篮子，这一决定显然是政治性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Russia’s economic fundamentals, Putin’s diminished popularity might appear surprising. The International Monetary Fund’s forecast of 4% growth in 2011 and subsequent years puts Russia well behind China and India, but far ahead of average growth rates in the rich G-7 countries.",
        "普京上一个总统任职期间（2000年至2008年），8年来的国内生产总值年均增长率达7%，这让俄罗斯偿还了债务，积累了近6000亿美元的外汇储备并跻身主要的新兴经济体之列。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s perpetual war-making in the Middle East shows the worst.",
        "美国在中东的持久战则是最坏的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "And the UN and Arab League’s special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has created a set of working groups, chaired by Europeans, to “create a framework for concrete talks between Syria’s government and opposition.”",
        "联合国及阿盟叙利亚问题联合特使斯塔凡德·米斯图拉联手创建了一系列由欧洲人担任主席的工作组，“为叙利亚政府和反对派之间的具体谈判构建框架”。"
    ],
    [
        "Looser fiscal policy would help short-term economic growth; but tighter monetary policy would undercut those gains.",
        "更加宽松的财政政策将有助于短期经济增长； 但更加紧缩的货币政策将破坏这些收益。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the growth of private organizations associated with the rise of the middle class prevents state institutions from monopolizing political resources.",
        "同时，与中产阶级崛起相关的民间组织成长防止国家机构垄断政治资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Next, his Diamond VIP Hilton HHonors card; she calmly slaps hers on the rickety table where they are sharing drinks.",
        "随后在机舱中分享一杯饮料时，他掏出了希尔顿酒店荣誉客会钻石贵宾卡； 而她也不动声色地把自己那张放到了小桌板上。"
    ],
    [
        "The facts are hard to dispute; indeed, the historical record is now so stark that diehard Republicans are probably starting to wonder if there is a curse.",
        "事实难以抵赖。 实际上，历史对比无比鲜明，乃至共和党人可能开始怀疑他们是否遭诅咒。"
    ],
    [
        "The contribution that inflation targeting makes to macroeconomic stability is difficult to discern for a simple reason: it is impossible to know what would happen if a country’s central bank pursued the opposite course.",
        "通胀目标对宏观经济稳定的作用很难确定，原因很简单：你不可能知道如果央行追求相反的目标国家会怎么样。"
    ],
    [
        "His hugely influential “dependency” theory argued that if poor countries relied too much on commodity exports, they would never achieve the industrial depth needed to sustain rapid growth.",
        "他影响深远的“依附”理论认为，如果穷国过度依赖于原料出口，那么。 它们将永远不会达到维持快速增长所需要的产业深度。"
    ],
    [
        "But this view neglects a crucial factor in the debate: the techniques being developed involve permanent genetic alterations passed on to future generations.",
        "但这种观点忽略了辩论中的一个关键因素：这项技术将造成遗传改变并永久传递给子孙后代。"
    ],
    [
        "The final piece of India’s long-term growth puzzle is investment more broadly.",
        "印度实现长期增长的最后一个组成部分是更广泛的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "His staff leaked the contents of a conversation he claimed to have had with Paul Tucker, a senior Bank of England official, suggesting that the BoE had told Barclays to report inaccurate interest-rate numbers.",
        "巴克莱员工泄漏出来一段据称是博达文同英格兰银行副行长保罗·塔克（Paul Tucker）的谈话，其内容似乎意味着，是英格兰银行授意巴克莱虚报利率的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, absentee farmers face unexpected problems.",
        "此外，这些远程农业从业者们还会遇到意想不到的难题。"
    ],
    [
        "The best way to bring youth to the performing arts is through education.",
        "吸引年轻人欣赏表演艺术的最佳方式就是通过教育。"
    ],
    [
        "The actors in the Spanish drama are facing what political scientists call a social dilemma: either side gains from selfish behavior unless the other side behaves selfishly, too, in which case both sides lose.",
        "这台西班牙大戏的演员们正面临着被政治学家称之为社会困境的局面：冲突的任何一方均可从自利行为中获益，除非另外一方也同样采取自利的行为。 但如果双方都坚持自利的原则，那么双方都会失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Toxic fly ash kills some 800,000 people per year and sickens millions more.",
        "有毒煤炭粉尘 每年要夺走800,000人的生命，导致数百万人生病。"
    ],
    [
        "The road to pan-European regulation over the last two decades has been winding and rocky.",
        "过去二十年的泛欧洲监管之路充满了曲折和坎坷。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet most of them, including Schrag’s and mine, continue to invest part of their multi-billion-dollar endowments in companies that extract and sell coal.",
        "但这些大学，包括施拉格和我的大学，仍在把数十亿美元规模的捐赠基金的一部分投资于炼煤和卖煤的公司。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2013 report includes quantitative data grouped in 11 sets of indicators, ranging from the ease of starting a business to the availability of credit.",
        "2013年的报告包括了由11组指标组成的量化数据，从创办企业容易度到信用获得容易度无所不包。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately not: progress resulted almost exclusively from the pressure of the much-maligned financial markets.",
        "不幸的是：我们所取得的进步基本上都来自于那个遭万人唾骂的市场所产生的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON –Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has many positive attributes, including great charm.",
        "伦敦--英国前首相布莱尔具有许多优秀的品质，包括巨大的魅力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite these trumpeted results, the reality is much harsher.",
        "但是，尽管希腊大肆吹嘘这些成果，现实却更加严酷。"
    ],
    [
        "He remains personally popular and well regarded, but the public is increasingly dissatisfied and disappointed with his government’s actual performance.",
        "他个人仍然很受欢迎，并且深受尊敬，但是，公众越来越对其政府的实际表现感到不满和失望了。"
    ],
    [
        "The reasons for this profound change are obvious: the reunification and the historical resolution of the hitherto open “German question”; the failure of the EU constitution and thus of the European vision; the institutional weakness of an expanded 27-member EU; and the increasing inefficiency and slowness of EU institutions.",
        "这种深刻转变的原因显而易见：两德统一和迄今无解的“德国问题”的相关历史决议； 因欧盟宪法失败而破灭的欧盟愿景；"
    ],
    [
        "The US Still Runs the World",
        "美国仍然主宰世界"
    ],
    [
        "Mindful of such concerns and persistent pessimism in global financial markets, Merkel is now taking bold political initiatives at home and overseas.",
        "默克尔对这一担忧以及金融市场的持久悲观心知肚明，她正在国内外推出一系列大手笔政治计划。"
    ],
    [
        "On its corruption perception index of 175 countries, Transparency International ranks South Africa 61st, Brazil and India 76th, China 83rd, and Russia 119th.",
        "在透明国际的腐败印象指数上，南非名列第61名，巴西和印度第76名，中国第83名，俄罗斯第119名。"
    ],
    [
        "And they should recall Nelson Mandela’s dictum: “Promises to children should never be broken.”",
        "它们还应该回忆一下纳尔逊·曼德拉的名言：“对儿童的承诺永远不能破坏。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Even if the major advanced economies’ current monetary strategies do not lead to rising inflation, we may look back on these years as a time when official policy led to individual losses and overall financial instability.",
        "即便主要发达国家的当前货币战略并未导致通胀上升，从未来回首现在，我们仍会认为这是个官方政策导致个人损失和总体金融动荡的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Motorized transport now accounts for half of premature deaths from ambient particulate matter in the 34 OECD countries.",
        "摩托化运输所释放的环境颗粒物现在占34个经合组织国家早亡人数的半数以上。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, emerging markets would gain the full benefits of expansionary monetary policy in the US, to the extent that it boosts demand for their exports.",
        "与此同时，新兴市场可以获得美国实施宽松货币政策的全部好处，因为这样能够刺激它们的出口需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Japanese companies have yet to digitize paper-based processes and replace outdated information-technology systems.",
        "许多日本公司至今仍未实现纸面流程的数字化和更新过时的信息技术系统。"
    ],
    [
        "American companies export more than $300 billion in goods and services to countries in the region each year.",
        "美国公司每年向该地区各国的商品和服务出口超过3 000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "This self-serving impulse was on display in European Parliament President Martin Schulz’s fiery comments calling for the UK to invoke Article 50 (the withdrawal procedure) immediately – a move surely intended as a shot across the bow of his political rival, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had called for deliberation and time.",
        "这一自利冲动可以从欧洲议会主席马丁·舒尔茨激烈的评论中一窥端倪。 舒尔茨要求英国立刻启动第50条（退欧程序）——这显然是为了警告他的政治对手、呼吁谨慎考虑和给英国时间的德国总理默克尔。"
    ],
    [
        "Without EU participation, US sanctions would have been far less effective.",
        "如果没有欧盟的参与，美国的制裁效果将大打折扣。"
    ],
    [
        "So what is new?",
        "那又有什么是以前没有过的？"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, the mantra has changed to, “Don’t worry, we still think they’re coming.”",
        "”最近，口头禅变成了“不要担心，我们仍然认为会来的。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, the idea of European integration transformed our continent.",
        "简单地说，欧洲一体化的理念改变了欧洲大陆。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, no central banker can be the Oracle of Delphi.",
        "简而言之，没有一个央行行长是预言家。"
    ],
    [
        "The post-Ebola recovery will not be quick, easy, or cheap.",
        "后埃博拉时期的恢复绝不可能是迅速、容易、便宜的。"
    ],
    [
        "It was, in fact, the authorities’ clampdown on margin borrowing, together with a loss in confidence as global markets declined, that is thought to have triggered the market meltdown.",
        "事实上，人们认为当局对保证金借贷的严打——以及全球市场下跌导致的信心损失——才是引发市场崩溃的罪魁。"
    ],
    [
        "GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA – There are about 70 million dogs living in human homes in the United States. That’s 10 million more dogs than children under the age of 15.",
        "佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔——美国约有7000万条狗生活在人类家庭中，比15岁以下儿童还多1000万。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries then export their anti-Shia discourse to countries, like Egypt, that do not necessarily have a history of Sunni-Shia conflict.",
        "之后上述国家将反什叶派言论输出到埃及等并不一定有过逊尼什叶派冲突的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank is active in the development of producer and credit cooperatives around the world.",
        "世界银行致力于在全球范围内发展生产商合作社和信用合作社。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestine would then be relegated to an obscure corner of the international agenda.",
        "届时，巴勒斯坦将被沦为该地区的一个不起眼的角落。"
    ],
    [
        "And public anxiety about employment and living standards has replaced the fears about global warming that inspired the 2009 movement.",
        "而关于就业和生活水平的公众焦虑也取代了触发2009年行动的对全球变暖的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries – namely, Morocco and Jordan – have already taken some important steps in this direction.",
        "一些国家——摩洛哥和约旦——已经朝这一方向迈出了重要步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "Watanabe laments the fact that after Japanese war criminals were tried by the Tokyo Tribunal of 1951, “No efforts were made in the name of Japan or the Japanese people to look into where responsibility for the war rested.”",
        "渡部感到痛心，那就是在1951年东京特别法庭审判了日本的战争罪犯之后，“没有人以日本或日本民众的名义对调查谁应该对这场负责”。"
    ],
    [
        "This explains why there are roughly 25,000 orchid species.",
        "这解释了为何我们会有大约25,000种兰花。"
    ],
    [
        "The Intervention Syndrome",
        "干预综合症"
    ],
    [
        "So what, then, does “disproportionate force” mean, and what is its place in the law of war?",
        "那么，“过度武力”究竟为何物，其在战争法中地位究竟如何呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she wrote, “We believe this approach could be a blunt and imprecise instrument of fear, rather than one of persuasion, that will take us down a dangerous path and adversely impact US manufacturers, farmers, and consumers.”",
        "她最近给众议院能源和商业委员会写信说道：“我们相信这一措施是明显和无的放矢的恐吓手法，而不是劝导手法。 这将会走向危险的道路并且给美国的制造业、农民以及消费者造成负面的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran, however, wants to become a (non-military?) nuclear power and shape a region in which it is heavily involved militarily (in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq).",
        "但伊朗则力争成为（非军事？ ）核国家，在本国大量驻军的地区（叙利亚、黎巴嫩和伊拉克）扮演举足轻重的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "China could generate more soft power if it would relax some of its tight party control over civil society.",
        "如能放松一些党对民间社会的控制，中国也可以产生更多的软实力。"
    ],
    [
        "A prominent democracy activist, Esraa Abdel Fattah, has denounced Morsi’s party as a gang of foreign-backed terrorists.",
        "著名民主活动家以斯拉·阿卜杜尔·法塔赫用受国外操纵的恐怖势力来谴责穆尔西的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, however, the attitudes of President Bush, leading Republicans, and now Sarah Palin, have been the opposite of scientific.",
        "但是，在美国，布什总统、共和党的领袖人物们，加上现在的萨拉. 佩林，他们的态度走到了科学的对立面。"
    ],
    [
        "Most notably, Germany, despite facing the arrival of a predicted 800,000 asylum-seekers this year, has suspended implementation of the EU’s Dublin Regulation, which would have led to the deportation of thousands of Syrian refugees.",
        "其中以德国最为显著，该国在今年面临 800,000名庇护寻求者入境的情况下已暂停执行可能导致数千名叙利亚难民被驱逐的欧盟都柏林公约。"
    ],
    [
        "Rich labor-importing countries and poor labor-exporting countries have a mutually dependent relationship; but labor importers can unilaterally tighten or loosen immigration or labor-market regulations, leaving exporters in a constant state of uncertainty.",
        "富裕的劳动力输入国和贫穷的劳动力输出国存在互相依赖的关系； 但劳动力输入国可以单方面收紧或放松移民或劳动力市场规则，而劳动力输出国永远需要面临不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "As we detail in our new report “High and Dry: Climate Change, Water and the Economy,” limited and erratic water availability reduces economic growth, induces migration, and ignites civil conflict, which fuels further potentially destabilizing migration.",
        "正如我们在新报告“高纬度和干旱：气候变化、水资源和经济”中所提到的那样，有限和不稳定的水资源供应限制经济增长、诱发移民潮并导致内部冲突，而这又助长了可能进一步造成动荡的移民潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Beloved Argentine children’s songwriter María Elena Walsh once penned a ditty entitled “The World Upside Down,” in which thieves serve as judges, years last only a month, babies sport moustaches and beards, and dogs fall up, not down.",
        "广受欢迎的阿根廷童谣作家玛利亚·伊莲娜·沃什（María Elena Walsh）曾经写过一首名为《世界颠倒》（The World Upside Down）的小曲，在这首歌中，盗贼成为法官，一年只有一个月的长度，婴儿长着胡须，狗腿长在背上而不是肚子上。"
    ],
    [
        "Two related but distinct political processes – the Democratic and Republican parties’ nominating contests – will play out over the next year.",
        "今后一年将开展民主及共和党提名赛这两项相互关联而又各自独立的政治进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, financing rapid urban development requires significant capital outlays to build efficient systems for transport, water provision, solid waste management, and sewage removal and treatment.",
        "当然，支持快速城市发展需要大量的资本支出，以建设高效的运输、供水、固体废物管理、污水排放和处理系统。"
    ],
    [
        "As we know, science and religion offer different answers.",
        "我们都知道，科学和宗教给出的是不同答案。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, the Gulf states are relying on their wealth to ward off revolution.",
        "简单说，海湾国家正在用财富收买革命。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the first year of Romania’s accession to the EU on January 1, 2007, for example, roughly a million Romanians migrated to Italy and Spain.",
        "例如，2007年1月1日罗马尼亚加入欧盟后一年之内，大约一百万罗马尼亚人迁移到了意大利和西班牙。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important question of the day is not the government’s perspective, that is, its desire to instill fear and eliminate checks and balances on its power.",
        "现在最重要的问题不是政府的想法，即其希望向民众慢慢灌输恐惧心理，消除对其权力的制衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Support for Maliki’s government from Iraqiya, the multi-sectarian political coalition supported by most Sunnis, will remain in question.",
        "多数逊尼派阿拉伯人支持的多教派政治联盟“伊拉克名单”是否支持马利基政府仍然无法确定。"
    ],
    [
        "The large gap between US and foreign long-term interest rates that should emerge from and signal expectations of a falling dollar does not exist.",
        "这种预期理应产生的美元和外国长期利率间的巨大息差并没有出现，而如果息差出现，就能够反应出人们对美元的贬值预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Loss of trust probably has multiple causes, including analytical failure: central banks, regulators, market participants, rating agencies, and economists almost all failed to detect rising systemic risk in the years preceding the current crisis, much less to take appropriate corrective action.",
        "信任缺失的源头是多样的，其中就包括分析失灵：中央银行、监管者、市场参与者、评级机构和经济学家几乎全都没有在危机爆发前的几年中看到系统性风险的上升，更不用说采取适当的正确行动了。"
    ],
    [
        "It was typically practical and kind.",
        "这既务实，又周到。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while India urgently needs to reform its tax system, spending policies, and regulation, political change is difficult in a multiparty federalist democracy of 1.2 billion people spread over a large subcontinent.",
        "此外，尽管印度迫切地需要改革其税收制度、支出政策和监管，但对于一个占据着广袤次大陆的拥有12亿人口的多党制联邦民主国家来说，政治变化是件难事。"
    ],
    [
        "The garrulous minister called the intrusion just “one little spot” of acne on the otherwise “beautiful face” of the bilateral relationship – a mere blemish that could be treated with “an ointment.”",
        "这位多嘴部长称入侵只是双边关系“漂亮脸蛋”上的“小粉刺”，只消“略施药膏”就能轻易除去。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way to extricate Syria from the fatal Iranian embrace is to draw it into a regional scheme for peace.",
        "使叙利亚摆脱伊朗人的死亡拥抱的唯一办法就是将其引进一项区域性的和平计划。"
    ],
    [
        "If escape from poverty is the goal, disguised unemployment is a bad thing.",
        "如果我们的目的是摆脱贫困，那么隐性失业是一件坏事。"
    ],
    [
        "To my eye, however, the old Obama was not back.",
        "但是，在我看来，奥巴马并没有归来。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD/BERKELEY – Virtually everyone in the scientific community agrees that ensuring sufficient food supplies for a surging human population, which is set to grow by 2.4 billion by mid-century, will require serious work.",
        "斯坦福/伯克利—几乎所有的科学界人士都同意，确保数量日益增加的人类的充足粮食供应需要很大的努力。 到本世纪中叶，全球人口预计将增加25亿。"
    ],
    [
        "The discussion quickly turned to the difficulty of measuring inflation accurately and the need to build in a “safety cushion” to avoid deflation.",
        "讨论很快转向了准确衡量通胀的困难性和建立避免通缩的“安全缓冲”的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Any military confrontation with Pakistan will only empower Pakistani radicals.",
        "任何与巴基斯坦的军事对抗都只会增强巴基斯坦极端组织的势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, although investment in development assistance is key to supporting Africa’s advancement, nations will ultimately have to take responsibility for their own development.",
        "最后，尽管发展援助投资是支持非洲发展的关键所在，但国家终究要为自己的发展负责。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a deeper problem that has been overlooked: the US economy relies upon asset price inflation and rising indebtedness to fuel growth.",
        "但是人们还忽视了一个更为深刻的问题，那就是美国经济依赖于资产价格膨胀以及债务攀升来推动增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek economy’s performance also looks weak relative to that of Iceland, a country that, lacking the external support that Greece received, endured a vicious market adjustment.",
        "希腊经济的表现也比冰岛相对更弱。 冰岛没有获得希腊所获得的外部支持，它经历了恶性市场调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, to see the crisis coming would have required someone who knew about each of these areas – just as it takes a good general practitioner to recognize an exotic disease.",
        "但预测危机却需要对各个经济学领域都有所涉猎的人——正如我们需要一个优秀的全科医师去辨认某种外来病一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The Security Council has the power to defer the warrant for Bashir’s arrest for renewable periods of one year.",
        "安理会有权将对巴希尔的逮捕令推迟一年，这种推迟还是可以延续的。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran at History’s Fork in the Road",
        "站在历史十字路口的伊朗"
    ],
    [
        "I contend that their concern for world opinion-if that concern played the role I am suggesting it did-was for their country, not for themselves.",
        "我坚持认为他们对国际舆论的考虑-如果这种考虑如我所料地影响了他们的判决的话-也是为了国家利益而不是个人得失。"
    ],
    [
        "Greenspan did: “I would say that number is zero, if inflation is properly measured,” he replied.",
        "格林斯潘满足了她：“我得说这个数字是零，如果通胀可以合理衡量的话。 ”他回答说。"
    ],
    [
        "In any serious variation of this Grand Strategy, Turkey will need to play a central role – politically, militarily, economically, and culturally.",
        "要对这套宏大战略进行任何重要的改动，土耳其应该发挥核心作用——政治上、军事上、经济上、以及文化上。"
    ],
    [
        "There are now two options for the region: one is a “shock integration” program that takes all of the Western Balkan states into the EU; the other is a journey into the unknown.",
        "事到如今，该地区面临两个选择：一是选择“休克式整合”计划，即把巴尔干半岛西部的所有国家不管好坏一股脑全部纳入欧盟；"
    ],
    [
        "So, as has lately been recognized, investment must come from the private sector, as must critical skills and access to more developed markets.",
        "因此，人们最近开始认可投资必须来源于私营部门，私营部门还必须提供关键技术和发达国家市场准入能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The justification for not censoring Israel too harshly in international institutions or using boycotts to punish Israel for war crimes is no longer valid.",
        "不再有合理理由要求不要在国际机构中对以色列太为难或不要使用抵制以惩罚以色列的战争罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "Sustained high growth is enabled by and requires engagement with the global economy that goes beyond simply being able to produce for a potentially massive export market.",
        "参与全球化经济造就了持续的高增长，而高增长必须参与全球化经济。 这不仅仅意味着能够为潜在的巨大的出口市场生产产品；"
    ],
    [
        "Created in 2003, the iTunes Music Store recently surpassed its 100 millionth sale.",
        "99美元。 2003年创办以来，线上音乐店不久前已经完成了超过1亿次的销售。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there are real disagreements within the US bureaucracy when it comes to assessing the threat that Al Qaeda in Mali poses for US interests.",
        "此外，在评估马里基地组织对美国利益的威胁的问题上，美国官场内部确实存在分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "European law forbids outright payment for eggs, but the Authority suggests that increasing “expenses” considerably would not constitute an impermissible inducement.",
        "欧洲法律禁止直接买卖卵子，但当局认为大幅提高“收费”并不构成不能容许的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "An eight-lane highway must carry traffic to generate tolls.",
        "正如一条八车道的高速公路必须要有车走才能赚回过路费。"
    ],
    [
        "For him and the team that took over after Helmut Kohl’s 16-year reign, Germany had become a normal country, no different from other European heavyweights like France or Britain.",
        "对于他和从执政16年的科尔手中接过大权的那个团队来说，德国已经成为一个普通的国家，与欧洲其他如法国或英国这样的重量级国家没有什么不同。"
    ],
    [
        "If Yar’Adua were to die in office, his vice president would succeed him – returning the presidency to a southern Christian.",
        "如果杜瓦在任期内去世，他的副总统就会继任——就是说南部的基督徒再次当上总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the prisoners had committed heinous acts of terror.",
        "这批关押者中很多人都犯下过令人发指的恐怖罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent downturn in France’s industrial output has created large trade deficits, and is undermining the competitiveness of small and medium-size enterprises.",
        "近期法国工业产出的下降导致了巨额贸易赤字，并破坏了中小企业的竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "They show convincing evidence for these basic facts.",
        "他们为这些基本事实提供了有力的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Few would argue that Japan has recovered fully from its malaise.",
        "但没有人可以说日本已经从萎靡不振中完全复苏了。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, the two agreements will boost our chances of delivering environmentally sustainable economic growth.",
        "这两个协定加起来将增加我们实现环境可持续经济增长的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In a revolutionary atmosphere of solidarity and self-sacrifice, people tend to think that when their victory is complete, paradise on Earth is inevitable.",
        "在团结和自我牺牲的革命气氛中，人们趋向于认为当他们取得胜利的时候，人间天堂就指日可待了。"
    ],
    [
        "The worst consumer recession in modern history, featuring a record collapse in durable-goods expenditures in 2008-2009, should have triggered an outsize surge of pent-up demand.",
        "现代史以来最严重的消费衰退——2008—2009年耐久品支出下降创出历史记录——应该触发被抑制需求的全面爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Each country may hope that others will stimulate their demand while it preserves its fiscal headroom, thereby relying on exports as the engine of recovery.",
        "各国可能希望在其保持财政平衡的情况下其他国家将会刺激需求，从而以来出口作为复苏的发动机。"
    ],
    [
        "How do they do that?",
        "他们要怎样才能做到？"
    ],
    [
        "Inequality is not merely compatible with freedom, but is often a result of and stimulus for freedom.",
        "不平等不仅仅是与自由相容的，而且也经常是自由的结果和推动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the campaign for child-marriage-free zones, which began with schoolgirls in 20 areas of Bangladesh uniting to fight against child marriage.",
        "以无童婚区运动为例，该运动的源于孟加拉国20个地区的女学生联合起来抵抗童婚。"
    ],
    [
        "No single entity keeps track of the real extent of the abuse of all human subjects engaged in research either in the United States or worldwide.",
        "没有任何一个单位记录在美国或者世界范围内所有用于研究的人体对象遭到滥用的实际程度。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, however, the scheme leaves much to be desired.",
        "但是，在实践上，这一制度距离完美还相去甚远。"
    ],
    [
        "The question of how to balance work and family, typically posed to young women, is actually a critical consideration for young men as well.",
        "年轻女性往往面对平衡工作和家庭关系的问题其实也是年轻男性需要考虑的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not only local governments that have benefited; through cash transfers created during the so called neo-liberal years, families have gained as well, most importantly through a universal and non-contributive old-age pension benefit given to persons over 60, which reaches slightly more than 30% of households.",
        "但需要强调的是借助所谓“新自由主义”时代转移资金流获益的不仅是地方政府，普通的玻利维亚家庭也从中得到了好处，这种好处主要来自于无需缴费即自动向60岁以上公民发放的全民退休金，约有30%以上的家庭能够享受到全民退休金所带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Zika and Reproductive Rights",
        "寨卡和生育权"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Since its introduction by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, the “one belt, one road” initiative – an ambitious plan to revitalize the ancient Silk Road overland and maritime trade routes linking East and West – has attracted considerable attention.",
        "北京—2013年，中国国家主席习近平主席提出了“一带一路”战略，这是一个复兴连接东西方的陆上和海上丝绸之路的宏大计划。 一带一路战略引起了广泛的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "They shared a common history, in which the French Revolution, with its slogan of liberty, equality, and fraternity, left a lasting legacy.",
        "它们拥有共同的历史，法国大革命自由、平等、博爱的口号留下了不可磨灭的传统。"
    ],
    [
        "But identity politics need not require an appeal to ethnicity, let alone race.",
        "但身份政治不需要诉诸民族性，更不用说种族了。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these problems can be solved only through long-term sustainable economic development.",
        "所有的这些问题通过长期可持续的经济发展都可以解决。"
    ],
    [
        "The CITES framework, combined with strong national conservation policies, can simultaneously protect wild species and benefit poor, rural, and indigenous people, by encouraging countries and communities to adopt sound environmental management plans.",
        "野生动植物濒危物种国际贸易公约框架结合强势的国内保护政策，可以通过鼓励国家和社会采纳健全的环境管理计划，同时实现保护野生物种并惠及穷人、农民和土著民众的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Aid dollars should be earmarked to help programs like these expand to other regions.",
        "需要特别拨付援助资金协助这样的项目向其他地区推广。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the phenomenal rate at which science advances these days, it is not too early to start thinking about how we are going to handle this awesome new responsibility.",
        "鉴于现代科技的飞速发展，我们应该从现在就开始思考如何履行这份非同寻常的新责任。"
    ],
    [
        "A local court, prompted by shocked and fearful public opinion, decided that the display of swastikas, distribution of leaflets, and the wearing of Nazi uniforms should be banned.",
        "受震惊而恐慌的公共观点的驱使，地方法院裁定，展示纳粹十字、发布传单和身穿纳粹制服应该禁止。"
    ],
    [
        "Partisan polarization in Congress has also undermined the executive branch, unduly blocking government appointments – including routine and essentially uncontroversial ones – and placing unwarranted obstacles in the way of implementing even the most sensible and seemingly bipartisan legislative proposals.",
        "国会中的党派分化也妨碍了行政系统，不恰当地驳回了政府任命——既有常规任命，也有事实上的非常规任命——也给实施最明智的、看似能够超越党派分歧的立法批准制造了不必要的阻挠。"
    ],
    [
        "But major disagreements about how to achieve that goal remain.",
        "但关于如何实现这一目标，仍存在大量分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Through skills-based workshops and fake news awareness campaigns, we sought to equip citizens with tools to identify Russia’s fabricated stories.",
        "通过基于技能的研讨班和假新闻识别运动，我们试图用能够辨别俄罗斯伪造的消息的工具来武装人民。"
    ],
    [
        "This shift would seem to favor the advanced economies, whose industries are at the frontier in employing digital technologies in their products and operations.",
        "这一转变似乎有利于发达经济体，这些经济提的各个产业在运用数字技术于产品和经营方面位于前沿位置。"
    ],
    [
        "But the FTT, despite its noble intellectual lineage, is no solution to Europe’s problems – or to the world’s.",
        "而金融交易税，尽管出自学术名门，却不是欧洲问题——或世界问题的药方。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic slowdown in 2009, the worst year of the crisis, was nothing short of catastrophic.",
        "2009年（危机最严重的一年）的经济衰退完全可以称之为灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "These centers are not household names, but they deserve to be.",
        "这些中心并非人尽皆知，但它们的确是无名英雄。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, China’s wounded psyche and the desire for restitution from its former tormentors deserve sympathy.",
        "当然，中国的心灵受到过创伤，希望从以前给他们带来过痛苦的人那儿获得补偿，这一点值得同情。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, this group is rather small (and has been declining in size over time).",
        "幸运的是，这一群体数量很小（并且随着时间的推移越来越小）。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in their heyday, mercantilists certainly did defend some very odd notions, chief among which was the view that national policy ought to be guided by the accumulation of precious metals – gold and silver.",
        "当然，在其鼎盛时期，重商主义确实维护了某些非常奇怪的观念，其中最主要的一个观点就是国家政策应该致力于贵金属——黄金和白银——的积累。"
    ],
    [
        "Congress will be in session only briefly before the election, and a supplemental appropriation will pass only if President Bush pursues it vigorously as a bipartisan measure.",
        "美国国会在总统选举前只会短暂开会，只有布什总统积极地以两党法案推动，增拨法案才会得以通过。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, it remains to be seen whether healthcare pressures will ultimately cause the current trend towards free (and freer) market capitalism to reverse, with a very large chunk of the economy reverting to a more socialist system.",
        "但是，医疗压力最终是否会让目前的自由(以及更为自由)的市场资本主义潮流逆转，而经济中的很大部分转向更为社会主义的体制，这还有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "The cloud of a sharp rise in personal and corporate income-tax rates, now scheduled to occur automatically at the start of 2013, must be removed.",
        "个人和企业所得税率将在2013年自动开始大增这一阴云必须移除。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past decade, Chinese subsidiaries of Western multinationals accounted for more than 60% of the cumulative rise in China’s exports.",
        "在过去十年中，西方跨国公司子公司贡献了中国出口累计增量的60%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past year, European leaders have accepted that Europe will have to take more responsibility for its own affairs.",
        "过去一年来，欧洲领导人已经认识到欧洲需要为自身事务承担更多责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps Germany’s ability to reach sociopolitical compromise – again demonstrated by the formation of a right-left coalition after the 2013 elections – has been more fundamental to its recent economic success than the details of the fiscal and structural policies it has pursued to achieve it.",
        "或许相对于一些细节性的财政和经济结构政策，德国实现社会政治妥协的能力——在2013年大选后左右联合政府上再度体现出来——才是实现最近一系列经济成就的更基础性因素？"
    ],
    [
        "And, with each passing day, the European Commission will be running out of time to pursue any new initiatives that could realistically be finalized before 2019.",
        "而且，随着时间的流逝，欧盟委员会将没有时间推行2019年前能够实际敲定的任何新举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the worsening of China’s terms of trade will play an even more fundamental role in reducing its trade surplus in the future.",
        "最后，中国贸易条件恶化在未来降低贸易盈余上将扮演一个更基本的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The risks of waging a two-front war are obvious.",
        "两线作战的风险是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, fame could be negatively, not positively, correlated with long-run accuracy.",
        "因此，某位专家的声誉高低可能与其长期观点的正确与否成反比、而不是正比关系。"
    ],
    [
        "It is deficit reduction, not debt, that is profligate, because it implies wastage of available human and physical capital, quite apart from the resulting misery.",
        "真正作恶的是赤字削减而不是债务，因为削减意味着浪费可用的人力和物质资本，更别提其导致的痛苦后果了。"
    ],
    [
        "The material gains of these commercial relationships fostered empathy among Europeans, fueling increased support for – and trust in – shared institutions.",
        "上述商业关系所带来的物质利益推动了欧洲的文化转移，从而为共同制度赢得了更多的信任和支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s response must be tough, but it must not deviate from the rule of law.",
        "欧洲的对策必须强硬，而且绝不能偏离法治。"
    ],
    [
        "The exit process would generate prolonged uncertainty. Officially, it is meant to take two years.",
        "退出进程也将产生长期的不确定性，官方程序上这个“长期”指得是两年。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, it was in this manner – as a bacteria’s defense against invading viruses – that the CRISPR-Cas process first emerged.",
        "事实上，CRISPR-Cas过程第一次出现就是以这种方式——作为细菌对入侵病毒的抵抗。"
    ],
    [
        "The observers have long since left the country, however, and the reports that have filtered out suggest that in some parts of the country, Mugabe’s opponents are now experiencing a reign of terror.",
        "然而在这些观察员早就离开这个国家后，传出的报道称在该国的部分地区，穆加贝的反对者正在遭受恐怖镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the two million people working in Bangladesh’s garment industry are women, and they are the lowest-paid garment workers in the world, earning $25 a month.",
        "在孟加拉服装产业中工作的两百万人中绝大多数都是女性，而她们则是世界上薪水最低的制衣工人，每月到手的只有区区25美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Disintegration in the Arab Middle East reflects the region’s failure to find a path between the bankrupt, secular nationalism that has dominated its state system since independence and a radical brand of Islam at war with modernity.",
        "阿拉伯中东地区的分裂反映出该地区在独立后一直主导其国家体制的破产的世俗民族主义和与现代化为敌的激进伊斯兰教派之间找不到出路。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world of ultra-low returns, Greece would be seen as a splendid opportunity, sustaining a steady stream of inward foreign direct investment.",
        "在回报极低的环境中，希腊将被视为巨大的机会，保持稳定的外国直接投资流入。"
    ],
    [
        "As for women in Muslim countries, there may not be much that people in the West can do to improve their lot.",
        "而对穆斯林国家的妇女而言，那里的人民不像西方人那样可以为大大改善她们的现状助一臂之力。"
    ],
    [
        "In Finland, at least, all you need from the government is a certificate of inspection, which costs about €100 ($135).",
        "至少目前在芬兰，你只要花费100欧元（相当于135美元）从政府那些获得检测执照，就可以进行改装了。"
    ],
    [
        "Any undercounting of output pales in comparison with the IT-assisted undercounting of working hours.",
        "产出的低估与信息技术所导致的工作时长低估相比不值一提。"
    ],
    [
        "Such appeals range from demanding an immediate transfer of power to a coalition of revolutionary presidential candidates (although the mechanism is vague) to the formation of a united presidential front in the runoff, with Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brothers (MB) as President and left-leaning Nasserist Hamadin Sabahi and liberal-leaning moderate-Islamist Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh as Vice-Presidents.",
        "这类吁求包括要求立即将权力移交给革命派总统候选人联盟（尽管其中的机制非常模糊）以及组成联合总统阵线参选，由穆斯林兄弟会（MB）的摩西（Mohamed Morsi）担任总统，左倾的纳赛尔主义者萨巴希（Hamadin Sabahi）和自由派温和伊斯兰主义者福特乌（Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh）担任副总统。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Ratko Mladić is an easy man to hate.",
        "发自纽约——拉特科·姆拉迪奇是那种一看就令人生厌的人。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Iraqi government, even supported by US military might, will simply not be able to guarantee a predictable flow of oil, and output will remain quite volatile.",
        "新任的伊拉克政府即便有了美国军事力量的支持，也根本无法确保石油的有序流动，油产量仍然很不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, such as Northern Nigeria, social resistance to the vaccine has blocked adequate coverage of the population.",
        "有些情况下，如尼日利亚北部，社会对疫苗的抵制阻碍了人口接种的覆盖率。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the American Red Cross and other organizations have been following the Rotary model, using private donations and private volunteers to fill the gap left by our political leaders.",
        "幸运的是，美国红十字会和其他组织效仿扶轮社，利用私人捐助和志愿者来填补政治领袖们留下的空白。"
    ],
    [
        "Creative Self-Disruption",
        "创造性自我破坏"
    ],
    [
        "Whether this approach will endure, and bring about successful integration, will depend on both the Germans and the refugees.",
        "这一方针能否持续下去并实现成功的融合取决于德国人，也取决于难民。"
    ],
    [
        "But, after 2000, some began to pursue pro-cyclical budgetary policies.",
        "但是，2000年后，一些国家开始采取顺周期预算政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks that also regulate the banking industry were asked tough questions about their insouciance in the face of rapid credit expansion, but they were widely praised for their prompt and decisive response when trouble hit.",
        "面临信用极速扩张的局面，同时肩负着监管银行业责任的央行因为漫不经心而被严厉诘问，但当麻烦发生时，它们有因为迅速果断的反应而饱受赞美。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, his administration has been using executive orders to roll back many of the regulations that former US President Barack Obama introduced.",
        "结果，他的政府一直在用行政命令推翻诸多前总统奥巴马所引入的监管。"
    ],
    [
        "And some presidents have indeed done great things.",
        "有些总统也确实颇有成就。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as they accept elections and election results, they may be gone almost as quickly as they arrived.",
        "只要他们承认选举和选举结果，垮台的速度几乎可以和他们崛起的速度媲美。"
    ],
    [
        "The late effects of cancer treatment include permanent organ and tissue damage, hormonal and reproductive dysfunction, and second cancers.",
        "癌症治疗的后期影响包括永久性器官组织损伤、激素生殖功能减退及癌症复发。"
    ],
    [
        "These Janissaries (Christian boys conscripted to serve in Ottoman infantry units) were either recruited from Europe or abducted from countries under Ottoman control.",
        "这些苏丹亲兵（被编入奥斯曼帝国步兵的基督教雇佣军）要么从欧洲征召，要么从奥斯曼帝国控制下的国家强征。"
    ],
    [
        "Wen’s critique paved the way for China to face its rebalancing imperatives head on.",
        "温家宝的批评为中国扫清了再平衡之路上的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that progress is finally being made in redeveloping the European Union’s economic and monetary architecture, which should help to bring about a return to growth.",
        "好消息是欧盟经济和货币制度终于又有了新的进展，这将有助于回归增长之路。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike in the 1930’s, decision-makers acted quickly, ignoring dogmas that warned against rapid intervention.",
        "与1930年代不同的是，决策者们反应相当迅速，把那些反对政府过早干涉市场的教条抛在了脑后。"
    ],
    [
        "This December, South Korea will elect a new president. Japan is likely to hold fresh elections soon as well.",
        "今年12月，韩国将选出新总统，日本可能也将在此后不久进行新选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Government officials presumably recognize the embarrassment that would be caused were Britain to fall short of the 2% target, so they seem to be looking for programs that can be squeezed into the Defense Department’s budget to pad spending.",
        "政府官员想必已经意识到英国达不到2%的目标所能带来的尴尬，因此他们在四处寻找能塞进国防部预算、以抬高开支的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But should any one of the resolutions on my list come to pass, the result would be momentous.",
        "但上述决心中实现任何一个，都能带来巨大的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "(The authors wish to thank Hannah McKinnon of Oil Change International for her help with this commentary.)",
        "（作者要感谢国际石油变化组织（Oil Change International）的汉娜·麦金农（Hannah McKinnon）对本评论的帮助。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The package may or may not prevent Spain and Portugal from becoming undone in a similar fashion, or indeed even head off an eventual Greek default.",
        "这项援助计划或许能、或许不能防止西班牙和葡萄牙同样变得一蹶不振，甚至可能都无法防止希腊债务违约的最终发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s blind spot in dealing with Europe until now is only partly due to European voting power.",
        "在应对欧洲问题上，IMF至今仍存在盲区，欧洲在IMF所拥有的投票权只是原因之一。"
    ],
    [
        "This finding is no reason for complacency, as some commentators (not scientists) seem to think.",
        "与某些评论人士（而非科学家）不同的是，这一发现并非自满的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the years, however, as the world economy continued to grow without interruption – and, in the current age of globalization, seemingly without limits – the dire predictions of the Club of Rome have become increasingly an object of ridicule.",
        "但是，多年以来，世界经济继续不停顿地增长，而在当前全球化的时代看似不可限量。 罗马俱乐部悲观的预计已经越发成为笑柄。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem with identity politics is that it places the “in” group at odds with the perceived “other” – an approach that can easily foster chauvinism, invidious discrimination, and open antagonism.",
        "身份政治的问题在于它将“我”族和观念上的“他”族对立起来——这一方法很容易导致沙文主义、不公平歧视和公开对抗。"
    ],
    [
        "For poor people in the developing world, such transboundary cooperation generates significant dividends.",
        "发展中国家的贫困民众可以从上述跨界合作中享受到显著的红利。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain is also a preferred location for investors from the rest of the world who seek an attractive base within what is still a growing single market.",
        "英国也成为全世界投资者的首选之地，因为他们希望在仍旧处于成长状态的单一市场找到有吸引力的落脚之地。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China had 718 million square meters of unsold commercial and residential floor space at the end of 2015; when space under construction is factored in, inventory expands to more than five billion square meters.",
        "据国家统计局的数字，到2015年底，中国为出售商业和住宅楼面面积高达7. 18亿平方米；"
    ],
    [
        "It then proceeds to allocate funds to all existing commitments and entitlement programs.",
        "然后，财政部开始将资金配置给所有当前的承诺和福利项目。"
    ],
    [
        "It is irrelevant that President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party, unlike the CCP, makes no claim to any form of Marxist ideology.",
        "弗拉基米尔·普京总统的统一俄罗斯党并未像中共那样宣扬任何形式的马克思主义意识形态根本没有关系。"
    ],
    [
        "His damage-control effort further backfired, because he falsely claimed that Clinton and her 2008 presidential campaign had started the birther rumor.",
        "他的止损举动带来了更多的副作用，因为他错误地宣称克林顿及其2008年总统选战是从出身论流言开始的。"
    ],
    [
        "China is now also motivated by nationalism, and it will rise as high as a motivated population of 1.3 billion people can.",
        "中国也在受民族主义推动，13亿人的动力有多大，它就将走得多高。"
    ],
    [
        "A cleanup is impossible. That leaves only one solution: pile on new claims to such an extent that old debts appear paltry.",
        "既然如此，只有一条出路：源源不断地提出新诉求，让旧债相形见绌。"
    ],
    [
        "A sizeable fiscal stimulus in a sluggish economy produces a pickup in growth and job creation.",
        "在经济低迷期推行大规模财政刺激可以加速增长和创造就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But with increasing foreign participation and interaction, maintaining stability means anchoring market confidence with transparent, credible policymaking and action.",
        "但随着外部参与和互动的日益增加，保持稳定意味着通过透明可信的决策和行动锚定市场信心。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese private sector may have the biggest problem.",
        "中国的私营部门可能面临最严重的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite such headaches, significant progress toward a single financial market is being made.",
        "尽管有这些令人头疼的问题，欧盟在走向单一金融市场方面也正取得巨大的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "For Australia and other US allies and partners in the region, this presidential election makes it clear that we can no longer – assuming we ever could – take coherent, smart American leadership for granted.",
        "对澳大利亚和其他美国在该地区的盟友和合作伙伴来说，这场总统竞选清楚地说明，我们不再能够——假设我们曾经能够——将连贯明智的美国领导视为理所当然。"
    ],
    [
        "The same goes for resettlement.",
        "安置问题也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the (few) positive achievements of America’s Dodd-Frank legislation, enacted to address the causes of the financial crisis of 2008, is – or should have been – the requirement that the US Securities and Exchange Commission repeal the current rules that prevent institutional investors from appointing their own representatives to corporate boards.",
        "美国多德-弗兰克（Dodd-Frank）法案的（少数几个）积极成果之一是——其实早就应该这么做了——要求美国证券和交易委员会（Securities and Exchange Commission，SEC）撤销禁止机构投资者在公司董事会自身安插代表的规定，这是为了修正导致2008年危机的弊端。"
    ],
    [
        "Our vision for an inter-Korean economic community is based on sharing our experiences with the North.",
        "我们建立朝鲜经济共同体的目标是要与北朝鲜分享我们的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "The harsh mathematics of greenhouse gas accumulations in the atmosphere simply does not allow for another lost decade.",
        "大气中温室气体累积的数学计算严酷无情，根本不容许再失去一个十年。"
    ],
    [
        "One can easily imagine the ranting in Germany about this kind of program: still more debt!",
        "不难想象，德国人会对这一计划怨声载道：更多的债务！"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, member countries – including the UK, Europe’s greatest military power, which has traditionally been committed to international-minded policies – have been downsizing their defense expenditures.",
        "与此同时，欧盟成员国——包括欧洲最大军事力量英国，传统上它 一直致力于国际视角的政策——一直在削减防务开支。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not make sense to me. The problem is surely the slaughter, not the methods used.",
        "这在我看来没有道理，因为有问题的肯定是屠杀，而不是屠杀的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "That depends on whether the cost to the looters of being shot so clearly outweighs the value of the stolen goods that the storeowner should do nothing, at least at the moment.",
        "那就要取决于打劫者被枪击的代价是否明显地高于被盗商品的价值，以至于店主应当至少在当时不什么也不做。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the International Monetary Fund, China’s national savings is likely to hit 45% of GDP in 2017, well above Japan’s 28% saving rate.",
        "据国际货币基金组织（IMF）数据，2017年中国国民储蓄可能高达GDP的45%，远高于28%的日本储蓄率。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq may be in trouble, but about 90% of its oil is produced in the south, near Basra, which is fully under Shia control, or in the north, under the control of the Kurds.",
        "伊拉克也许麻烦重重，但其90%左右的石油产自什叶派完全控制的南部巴格达附近或库尔德人控制的北部。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe and Asia’s Arms Race",
        "欧洲和亚洲的军备竞赛"
    ],
    [
        "The lack of legitimate institutions needed to rebuild the rule of law is evident in the debate over what authority and whose judgment ought to be exercised over Saddam Hussein.",
        "关于由什么权力机构以及谁来审判萨达姆的争论充分证明了重建法制所需要的合法制度的缺失。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not too soon to address the question of what effect US foreign policy is having on the campaign and what it reveals about how Americans see the world.",
        "但是现在来讨论美国的外交政策将对竞选活动产生怎样的影响以及它显示了美国人是如何看待世界的问题却并不嫌早。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel, blaming Hamas, arrested hundreds of its members in the West Bank, though it has never explained the basis of its accusation.",
        "以色列指责哈马斯需对此事负责，在约旦河西岸抓捕了数百名哈马斯成员，但从未解释这一指控的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "If they grow faster, at the average rates recorded in the 2000’s, the poverty rate will fall to 5.5%.",
        "7%。 如果增长得更快，达到2000年代的平均增长率，则贫困率将下降至5."
    ],
    [
        "They already are.",
        "已经如此了。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of remaining preoccupied with the present, world leaders should view 2015 as an opportunity to ensure that today’s disruptive crises provide the foundation for tomorrow’s sustainable prosperity.",
        "世界领导人不应该被当下缠住，而是应该讲2015年视为一次确保今天的破坏性危机为明天的可持续繁荣打下基础的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Cold War containment of the USSR meant virtually no trade and little social contact.",
        "毕竟在美国对苏联的冷战遏制过程中，双方基本不存在任何贸易往来，社会间接触也少之又少。"
    ],
    [
        "Some government reports had anticipated the extent to which non-state actors could hurt large states, but their conclusions were not incorporated into official plans.",
        "有些政府报告预测到非国家参与者可能对大国造成破坏，但这些结论却并未在官方策略中得到采纳。"
    ],
    [
        "They are comfortable with protracted uncertainty about who is right even in bitter debates, conceding gaps in their knowledge and granting legitimacy to opposing views.",
        "即便是在艰苦的辩论中，他们也会对长时间无法确定谁对谁错安之若素。 他们承认自己的知识存在着漏洞、也承认对方的观点具有其合理的一面。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, animal studies have shown that changes in stress or diet can alter the behavior and genes of future generations.",
        "此外，动物实验表明，压力和饮食变化可能改变未来世代的行为和基因。"
    ],
    [
        "Social media were also credited, again, with playing a key role.",
        "社交媒体再次被认为发挥了关键的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "This means, first and foremost, adopting a zero-tolerance policy toward the Islamic State at home, aimed at preventing the group from fundraising and recruiting on Turkish soil.",
        "这首先意味着对国内伊斯兰国组织采取零容忍政策，旨在防止该组织在土耳其境内洗钱和招募人手。"
    ],
    [
        "That nerves are now on end in America is perfectly understandable.",
        "美国现在神经紧绷也是完全可以理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "That 0.5% is all that is left for job growth, because that's all the job growth required to meet demand given the remarkably strong rate of growth of productivity.",
        "而就业率的增长就只能达到0. 5%，因为尽管劳动生产率增长强劲，要满足需求却只需要这样就业率增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, regional policies that promote “balanced” growth could lower overall growth, thereby impeding poverty reduction.",
        "其次，以促进“平衡”增长为中心的区域政策反倒会拉低整体的增长，反倒阻碍了贫困状况的改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Free trade would lead to an overwhelming boost to welfare everywhere, but especially in the developing world.",
        "自由贸易极大地提高世界各地的福祉，尤其是在发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009, after Khamenei rejected Ahmadinejad’s decision to appoint Mashai as his first deputy, Ahmadinejad brazenly appointed him Chief of Staff, a move that infuriated Khamenei.",
        "2009年哈梅内伊否决内贾德任命马沙伊为第一副总统的决定后，内贾德公然任命其为参谋长的举动彻底激怒了哈梅内伊。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s not as if Western governments don’t know that far more is needed. Several detailed recent calculations provide credible estimates of how much external financing developing countries will need to achieve SDG 4.",
        "我们不能说西方政府没意识到存在那么大个缺口，因为最近几项详细计算都提供了可靠的估算来说明发展中国家需要多少外部资金才能实现可持续发展目标4订立的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians saw little need to vote for further reforms, especially those that would upset powerful vested interests.",
        "政客们认为不再需要为进一步改革费心了，特别是那些可能让手握重权的既得利益集团不满的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Who Lost Turkey?",
        "谁丢失了土耳其？"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2013, Syria has become the main focus of Saudi Arabia’s attention in the region.",
        "2013年以降，叙利亚成为沙特阿拉伯在该地区的主要关注点。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer, it seems, is that they cannot quite explain their current approach.",
        "看起来，答案似乎是他们无法很好地解释当前的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the US today, hundreds of thousands – possibly two million – households are bankrupt and thus will default on their mortgages.",
        "事实上，在今天的美国，几十万、也许是两百万的家庭已经破产，因此将不会归还它们的抵押贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The great stain on Meles’s record will always be his intolerance of dissent.",
        "对持异见者的不容忍是泽纳维的一大污点。"
    ],
    [
        "As recently as the 1990’s, many experts were suggesting that technology would make cities irrelevant.",
        "在1990年代时，许多专家建议说科学技术将淘汰城市。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there have been plenty of other repellent stories of intolerance that have nothing to do with cows.",
        "当然，还有其他许多与牛无关的令人反感的排斥性报道。"
    ],
    [
        "If there is one lesson to be learned from all of this, it is that well-executed, tenacious diplomacy still holds extraordinary power to resolve conflicts.",
        "如果说我们可以从所有这些发展趋势中学到什么的话，那就是坚韧不拔地做好外交工作依然能够在解决冲突方面起到极大的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "To explain this abrupt and radical change requires examining more closely the relationship between the monetary base and inflation, and understanding the changing role of the reserves that commercial banks hold at the Federal Reserve.",
        "要解释这一突然而彻底的变化，需要更仔细地考察货币基础和通货膨胀的关系，理解商业银行存放在美联储的准备金的角色变化。"
    ],
    [
        "New attempts to multilateralize flows of assistance (including the BRICS countries’ launch of the New Development Bank last July) are similarly likely to contribute significantly to global development.",
        "那些将援助多边化的新尝试（包括金砖五国在去年七月启动的新发展银行）也同样会对全球发展产生极大的促进作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Even now, in the midst of an inflationary crisis, the NBU wants to move in small steps, evidently failing to grasp the severity of the crisis.",
        "即使是现在处于通货膨胀危机的当口，乌克兰国家银行还是想要亦步亦趋，很明显没有完全理解危机的严重性。"
    ],
    [
        "Looser US monetary policy has thus set the tempo for inflation in a significant chunk – perhaps as much as 60% – of the global economy.",
        "美国松弛的货币政策因此就大幅度确定了全球经济通货膨胀的速度，可能达到60%。"
    ],
    [
        "They must give real power to environmental officials to implement existing laws and close gaping legal loopholes.",
        "他们必须赋予环保干部以实权来实施现有的法律并堵塞巨大的法律漏洞。"
    ],
    [
        "The private virtual monopolies in telecommunications (Telmex), television (Televisa), cement (Cemex), bread and tortilla manufacturing (Bimbo and Maseca, respectively), banking (Banamex/Citigroup and Bancomer/Banco de Bilbao) may face competition abroad, but not at home.",
        "私有资本在电讯（Telmex）、电视（Televisa）、水泥（Cemex）、面包和玉米饼生产（分别是Bimbo和Maseca）、银行（Banamex/Citigroup和Bancomer/Banco de Bilbao）等领域的垄断经营也许在国外面临挑战，而在国内却仍然是惟我独尊。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Roma live in deplorable conditions unworthy of modern Europe.",
        "许多罗姆人都生活在与现代欧洲根本不相称的糟糕透顶的环境中。"
    ],
    [
        "Successful leaders are careful to identify their company’s blind spots and introduce mechanisms to ensure that no harm will come from them.",
        "成功的领导者会十分仔细地识别公司的盲点，引入相应机制确保不会因此造成伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in the face of investor pressure, pharmaceutical companies have cut their research activities dramatically, relying instead on acquisition strategies.",
        "比方说，面对投资者的压力，医药企业纷纷大幅削减研发项目，转而依靠所谓的收购战略。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, not nearly enough has been done to assess Asia’s exposure to climate impacts, much less to strengthen protections for vulnerable areas or reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "到目前为止，评估亚洲气候变化影响的工作还做得远远不够，更不用说加强对脆弱地区的保护或减少温室气体排放。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in conflicts in which no side has been defeated, the peacemaker’s job becomes more challenging.",
        "但是，在尚未产生胜败的冲突中，和平缔造者的职责更具挑战性。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no global anti-trust authority, no global lender of last resort, no global regulator, no global safety nets, and, of course, no global democracy.",
        "没有全球性的反托拉斯机关，没有全球性的最终贷款人，没有全球性的调控者，没有全球性的安全网，以及当然没有的全球性的民主。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the election of President Donald Trump, the United States, which remains one of Africa’s top donors, has focused more on the principles China favors – like political stability, trade, and counterterrorism – than on human rights.",
        "自特朗普当选总统以来，仍然是非洲首要捐助国的美国，开始更加注重中国所中意的原则——如政治稳定、贸易和反恐——而非人权。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal activism need not stop at infrastructure.",
        "财政积极主义不能只停留在基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the early 1990s, interventions by the United Nations and the African Union in Somalia have included troops from the United States and from the country’s predominantly Christian neighbors, Kenya and Ethiopia.",
        "20世纪90年代初以来，联合国和非盟在索马里的干预包括派驻来自美国和该国主要基督教邻国，肯尼亚和埃塞俄比亚的部队。"
    ],
    [
        "But the democratic transitions in Eastern Europe made Fidel Castro wary, so the first opportunity for a similar transition in Cuba was lost.",
        "但东欧的民主转型使菲德尔·卡斯特罗顾虑甚多，并因此丧失了古巴实现类似转变的第一个机会。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, it will be difficult to sustain a reform program that is vigorous enough to satisfy the ECB and the eurozone core.",
        "从而令一个足以满足欧洲央行和欧元核心区的改革计划变得无以为继。"
    ],
    [
        "Consolidating Latin America’s Gains",
        "巩固拉丁美洲的成就"
    ],
    [
        "That promises not only more timely and effective therapies for cancer, but also similar advances against other currently intractable diseases.",
        "这不但能带来更及时、更有效的癌症疗法，也能给其他目前的疑难杂症的医治带来类似的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is no going back to a global order defined by isolated nation-states – even if one would not know it from the populist rhetoric dominating today's discussions.",
        "但就算人们无法从今天占主导地位的民粹主义言论中意识到，回到以孤立民族国家为特点的全球秩序已经不可能了。"
    ],
    [
        "While such investment in long-term productive assets like infrastructure is essential to generating the income that these investors demand, less than 1% of pension-fund assets are allocated directly to infrastructure projects.",
        "尽管长期生产性资产（如基础设施）投资是制造投资者所要求的收益的关键，但养老基金资产直接配置于基础设施项目的比例还不到1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump need not acknowledge that his predecessor saved the US economy from the depths of depression; he can simply take credit for the results, including rising job creation and asset prices.",
        "特朗普不需要承认他的前任挽救美国于深度萧条之中； 他只需要“摘桃子”就行了——就业岗位增加了，资产价格上涨了。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – Big economic crises often cause iconic companies to falter.",
        "慕尼黑——经济大危机常令一些标志性公司走上下坡路。"
    ],
    [
        "In time, strategic arms control treaties became the measure of the political relationship.",
        "在那个年代，战略武器控制条约上的进展就是衡量两国关系的标尺。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, due to the Western engineering and management that became available after Gorbachev launched his perestroika reforms, the country was soon producing more oil than ever – indeed, more than was ever believed possible – and oil men like Mikhail Khodorkovsky arose out of the blue.",
        "当然，由于戈尔巴乔夫发动改革后提供了西方的工程技术和管理，苏联马上就生产出了前所未有的石油。 实际上，产量惊人，令人难以置信。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, China’s government is confusing a path with the final destination – a point that I stressed in my remarks to the CDF, in which I argued that China is in the early stages of rebalancing its economy toward services and consumption.",
        "简言之，中国政府将路径与最终目的混淆了起来——我在我对中国发展高层论坛的评论中强调过这一点。 我在评论中指出，中国正处在经济向服务和消费再平衡的早期阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "So, unlike in Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgizstan, and Lebanon, it does nothing to encourage popular opposition.",
        "因此，与乌克兰、格鲁吉亚、吉尔吉斯和黎巴嫩不同，美国支持强烈反对派毫无意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, helping the Kurds to confront the Islamic State could send the right message to the Kremlin.",
        "同样，协助库尔德人抵抗“伊斯兰国”能对克里姆林起到警示作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2005, growth is estimated to have been about 4.3%, and a similar rate can be expected in 2006, marking a period of sustained rapid global growth unseen since the 1970’s.",
        "3%，预计2006年也会有类似的增长率。 这将是自上世纪七十年代以来所没有出现的全球经济快速持续增长的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "This deficit is entirely of Bush’s own creation, having enacted – and now seeking to extend – tax cuts that are not cuts at all, because they merely shift the burden of fiscal consolidation onto future generations.",
        "上述赤字完全是布什本人的杰作¾现在又想要继续推行¾根本不能减税的减税政策，它们只是将财政整合的负担留给了我们的后代。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the Iraqi government must immediately establish “Protection of Women” security patrols in Iraq’s southern cities.",
        "首先，伊拉克政府必须立即在伊拉克南部城市建立“妇女保护”安全巡逻。"
    ],
    [
        "Decoupling is an idea that is based on bad economics – and on some Europeans’ reluctance to accept the fact that Europe’s short but sweet economic expansion is also coming to an end.",
        "脱藕一说是建立在经济状况变坏以及某些欧洲人不愿意接受欧洲短暂但却甜蜜的经济扩张同样也在走向尽头的基础上的。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson from Chernobyl is that if nature is to thrive, it must be given space – from us.",
        "切尔诺贝利灾难的教训是人类必须要留出空间才能让自然兴旺繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, positive role models like Nitish Kumar of Bihar, Narendra Modi of Gujarat, and Navin Patnaik of Orissa have all been returned to power as Chief Ministers at least once; all have delivered remarkable results while maintaining an unblemished record of personal integrity.",
        "与此同时，积极的榜样，如比哈尔邦的库马尔（Nitish Kumar）、古吉拉特邦的穆迪（Narendra Modi）和奥里萨邦的帕特奈克（Navin Patnaik），均至少重新夺回首席部长（Chief Minister）之职一次； 交出了令人瞩目的成就，个人记录也没有污点。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there are strategic suspicions.",
        "其次是严重的战略怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest sanctions cap oil imports, ban textile exports, and penalize designated North Korean government entities.",
        "最新制裁内容包括限制石油进口，禁止纺织品出口，并惩罚指定的朝鲜政府实体。"
    ],
    [
        "The existence of thousands of unemployed young people, without income or roots, idle and knowing only violence to express their quest for recognition, is not particularly French.",
        "这个社会里，有成千上万的年轻人既无收入也无根基。 他们无所事事，只知道用暴力来要求社会对他们的承认，这样的问题不仅仅出现在法国。"
    ],
    [
        "Last March, on World Water Day, Jordan’s Prince Hassan bin Talal and I called for the establishment of a Marshall Fund for the world’s shared river basins.",
        "去年3月的世界水日，我和约旦哈桑·本·塔拉勒王子呼吁为全球共有的流域盆地建立马歇尔基金。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the enlargement process itself is also manifestly a symbol of European social, civic, and cultural unity.",
        "最后，东扩进程本身就明明白白地显示了欧洲在社会、人文和文化领域的团结。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2012, China is on the verge of becoming the world’s largest economy and is by far the leading emerging power.",
        "当前中国是遥遥领先的新兴力量； 到2012年，中国将成为世界上最强大的经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "With the labor-force participation rate five percentage points higher that it was back then, it seems clear that fewer workers have been discouraged from job-seeking today than at the start of the EMU, and thus that there is less underused potential in the economy.",
        "劳动力市场参与率要比当时高五个百分点，看上去因沮丧而不再找工作的人，在今天显然要比EMU刚刚成立时更少，因此，经济的未利用潜力也更小。"
    ],
    [
        "And still other FOMC members want to hold down interest rates in order to drive the unemployment rate even lower, despite the prospects of accelerating inflation and further financial-sector risks.",
        "其他一些委员希望维持低利率以使失业率进一步下降，尽管这有可能加速通胀、继续增加金融部门风险。"
    ],
    [
        "International phone calls were prohibitively expensive, and the idea of actually seeing someone while you talked to them was the stuff of science fiction.",
        "越洋电话贵得惊人，而面对面谈话更是科幻小说里才有的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, one of the most revealing facts to come to light about Silicon Valley in recent months is the extreme ethnic and gender imbalance at large technology companies, including Apple, Google, Facebook, and Twitter.",
        "事实上，最近几个月来关于硅谷的最有说明性的事实是包括苹果、谷歌、Facebook和Twitter在内的大型科技公司的极端道德和性别失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, indicators of economic freedom and competitiveness compiled by the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the World Economic Forum, and others show that Taiwan’s relative ranking has stagnated or even declined on Chen’s watch.",
        "事实上，由遗产基金会、卡托协会、世界经济论坛和其他一些组织所编制的反映经济自由度和竞争力的指数显示，台湾相关的排名在陈执政期间停滞不前甚至是倒退了。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – After months of wrangling, the showdown between Greece and its European creditors has come down to a standoff over pensions and taxes.",
        "巴黎—在经历了几个月的争吵后，希腊及其欧洲债权人之间的摊牌最终可以归结为关于退休金和税收问题的僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist Party members and others who wanted to bring about “socialism with a human face.”",
        "布拉格之春和天鹅绒革命之间的主要区别在于，前者主要是共产党员所为，而其他人则想要带来“具有人性的社会主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "A variety of trends are coming together to make this happen.",
        "这个现象是由几股不同的潮流汇聚而成的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as an empirical matter, these fears are hard to understand.",
        "但是，从实证角度看，这些担忧让人难以理解。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a war that is ideological, theological, and political, a war that cuts across worlds, cultures, and what we are right to call civilizations, from the lost city neighborhoods of France to those areas – for example, Kurdistan, Morocco, Bosnia, and Bangladesh – where enlightened Islam remains alive and well.",
        "这是一场意识形态战争，一场神学战争，一场政治战争，它席卷全世界、各种文化和所有名副其实的文明，不管是陷落的法国城市社区，还是开明伊斯兰教依然活跃的地区——如库尔德斯坦、摩洛哥、波斯尼亚和孟加拉国。"
    ],
    [
        "The fires in Bangladeshi garment factories have raised new questions about the governance of global supply chains.",
        "孟加拉国制衣厂的大火引起了全球供应链管理的新问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue is not only what could be lost in the race to the bottom in which many EU national governments are now engaging, but also the manipulative anti-EU sentiment coming from many quarters of the European press, which appears intent on pushing various national leaders into another budget showdown.",
        "问题不仅在于输掉这场欧盟各国政府都加入其中的向下竞争的代价几何，也在于欧洲各大媒体所操纵的反欧盟情绪，后者似乎不把众多国家领导人拖入另一场预算危机不罢休。"
    ],
    [
        "They have the backing of luminaries like the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman, who, building on the pioneering work of economists David Card and Alan Krueger, argues that raising the minimum wage need not destroy a lot of jobs (as conservative opponents insist) – and may even create some.",
        "他们身后有诺贝尔经济学奖得主保罗·克鲁格曼等杰出人物的支持，克鲁格曼在经济学家大卫·卡特和艾伦·克鲁格开创性工作的基础上，提出提高最低工资并不一定会（像保守反对派所坚持的那样）破坏大量就业机会——甚至可能反而创造出一些。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is only the ratio of new species to taxonomists describing them that is declining.",
        "其实是新物种与分类学家的比例是在逐年降低的。"
    ],
    [
        "But identity politics, it is well known, can be very destructive.",
        "但众所周知，身份政治可能带来极大的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Less visibly, Italy has also led a quiet rebellion against the pre-Keynesian economics of the German government and the European Commission.",
        "不太令人关注的方面是意大利还在领导着一场反对德国政府和欧盟委员会的前凯恩斯时代经济学的反叛。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a growth target can help to stabilize employment, lower financial risk, and achieve the country’s goal of doubling income by 2020.",
        "这一增长目标有助于稳定就业、降低金融风险、实现2020年收入翻番的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s talks with Ukraine on a proposed Association Agreement, for example, provide some leverage, which the EU should not hesitate to use.",
        "比如，欧盟与乌克兰就某合作协定（Association Agreement）提议的谈判就产生了一些影响，欧盟应该毫不犹豫地利用它。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Basel III package of global banking reforms may increase funding costs further for some borrowers, while reducing the availability of finance, especially for longer-term debt.",
        "新巴塞尔III全球银行改革规则将导致某些借款人的借贷成本进一步上升，同时减弱资金的可获得性，特别是长期债务。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, anti-miscegenation laws were the product of America’s democratic system, which gave full voice to many Americans’ racism.",
        "相反，反异族通婚法恰恰是美国民主制度的产物，让许多美国种族主义者有机会充分表达。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU-led Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe has since 1999 successfully stimulated regional cross-border cooperation, for the first time since the breakdown of Yugoslavia.",
        "欧盟领导的《东南欧稳定公约》自1999年以来成功地促进了地区间的跨国界合作，在南斯拉夫解体后还是第一次有这样的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The victory of Mahmoud Abbas in the Palestinian presidential election poses a huge challenge to the Palestinian leadership.",
        "马哈茂德·阿巴斯在巴拉斯坦民族权力机构主席的选举中取得胜利，这对巴勒斯坦领导层而言是一个挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "More than half of middle-income households spend more each month than they earn.",
        "超过一半的中等收入家庭每个月的支出超过其收入。"
    ],
    [
        "His trouble was with powerful opponents in Iran’s security apparatus, who sabotaged his pragmatic foreign-policy initiatives by staging terrorist attacks in France, Germany, and Argentina.",
        "拉夫桑贾尼的麻烦对付伊朗安全部队中有权有势的反对者，他们通过在法国、德国和阿根廷组织恐怖袭击暗中破坏他的务实外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "And any changes made would need to translate into relatively large growth benefits.",
        "而任何变化，都需要转化为相对较大的增长收益。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, eurozone leaders must ask themselves tough questions about the sustainability of the current system for managing debt in the EMU.",
        "在这样的背景下，欧元区领导人必须扪心自问一个严肃的问题，即目前欧洲货币联盟债务管理制度的可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "A slightly revised version of that legislation remains in force.",
        "如今，这一立法仍然有效，只是略微做了一些修订。"
    ],
    [
        "By now, the pattern is all too familiar.",
        "到目前为止，一切都是那么熟悉。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach – endorsed as a basis for negotiation in the recent EU Council – amounted to allowing some member states not to fulfill their supposedly binding Kyoto burden-sharing targets.",
        "这个方案－在最近的欧盟理事会上被作为谈判的基础通过－总体上允许一些成员国可以不履行它们按理应当履行的京都议定书排放量分担目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The Pentagon’s East Asia Strategy Review, which has guided American policy since 1995, offered China integration into the international system through trade and exchange programs.",
        "美国军方1995年发布的《东亚战略评论》是美国的亚太政策的导引。"
    ],
    [
        "New businesses in the services sector – 3.6 million of which were started just last year – are generating incremental employment, thanks partly to a new streamlined licensing framework.",
        "新民营企业——去年一年就有360万家新企业开张——正在产生增量就业，这部分要归因于许可制度新流程。"
    ],
    [
        "But cooperate they did.",
        "但现实中它们却是合作关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011 we may begin to see whether those incentives lead China’s rulers to re-appraise their diplomatic conduct, which has left them with only the corrupt, basket case economies of Burma and North Korea as reliable friends in Asia.",
        "2011年，我们可能目睹上述意愿是否会引导中国领导人重新评价自己的外交政策，这样的外交政策导致中国在亚洲的可靠盟友只剩下腐败并陷入经济困境的缅甸和北朝鲜。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s growing reservations about Turkey’s membership have been expressed unambiguously by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.",
        "欧盟对土耳其加入欧盟所持的越来越保留的态度已由法国总统萨科齐明确地表达了。"
    ],
    [
        "Private funding that turns out to be public funding tied to the ruling family or government ministers presents different political and financial risks and should therefore be valued differently.",
        "套着公共资金外衣、实际上来自统治家族或政府高官的私人资金具有不同的政治和财务风险，因此应该用不同的方法评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Navigating China’s New Silk Road",
        "中国新丝绸之路导航"
    ],
    [
        "High-level corruption is so rampant that Russia appears unable to build major public infrastructure projects.",
        "高层腐败如此泛滥，以至于俄罗斯似乎无法建设重要的公共基础设施项目。"
    ],
    [
        "That type of system is possible to create.",
        "这类系统的创建不是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese audiences are as fed up with the glowing encomiums broadcast by CCTV as they are with the simplistic, context-free reporting of Western media.",
        "中国的受众已经厌倦了中央电视台的歌功颂德，也厌倦了西方媒体简单化、没有新闻背景的报导。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Swedish authorities, the number of prostitutes in Sweden has dropped 40% as a result.",
        "按照瑞典政府的说法，在瑞典的妓女数量因此而减少了40％。"
    ],
    [
        "After 35 years of dependence on such arrangements, China must embrace the rule of law and establish a reliable, independent judicial system capable of facilitating the liberalization of the services sector, protecting intellectual-property rights, and underpinning a competitive market-based system.",
        "中国依赖这一安排已逾35年，现在必须接受法制精神，建立能够刺激服务部门自由化、保护知识财产权利、成为竞争性市场经济制度基石的可靠而独立的司法体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Practitioners use a variety of formal and informal empirical methods with varying skill.",
        "经济学者用各种技巧使用各种正式和非正式实证方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, there is lack of trust among the social groups called on to make sacrifices.",
        "第三，被要求做出牺牲的社会团体之间也缺乏互信。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Economic Forum still rates the American economy as the world’s most competitive, owing to its labor-market flexibility, higher education, political stability, and openness to innovation.",
        "因为其劳动力市场的弹性，较高的教育水平，政治稳定以及对创新的接受能力，世界经济论坛仍然将美国经济评为世界上最有竞争力的经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing of the sort.",
        "实际情况并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, though, we had to think about some old tools that our ancestors passed down to us – namely, how to think for the long term and how to work together.",
        "但同时，我们要思索祖先留给我们哪些古老的工具——也就是说如何放眼长远及如何协力合作。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2010, its right-wing government adopted media legislation that requires all news organizations to register with the state and stipulates that the stories they report should be “balanced,\" of “relevance to the citizens of Hungary,\" and “respect[ful of] human dignity.\"",
        "2010年，其右翼政府通过媒体立法，要求所有新闻机构必须在政府注册，并规定新闻报道应“平衡”、“关乎匈牙利民众”和“尊重人类尊严”。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1950s and 1960s, an average of some 300,000 houses were being built every year; that figure has now dropped to less than half.",
        "在20世纪50和60年代，平均每年都要建造300,000间左右的房屋； 如今还不到这一数字的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "This whole tangle of debts was finally de facto written off in 1932 in the middle of the global slump.",
        "1932年，在全球崩盘中，这一整条三角债链条事实上已经名存实亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Its leadership had no experience in disaster management.",
        "紧急措施署的领导人根本不具备灾害管理的任何经验。"
    ],
    [
        "A lower debt burden would certainly help Japan deal with its economic slowdown.",
        "而更少的债务负担显然有助于日本应对其经济增长放缓问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Such decisive improvements are certainly possible and economically realistic.",
        "在这方面的决定性改良是可实现的，而且具有经济上的现实性。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, life expectancy at age 65 is about six years higher than it was in 1940.",
        "如今，65岁人群的预期寿命比1940年时长了六年。"
    ],
    [
        "We now have a daily index for the US, the Gallup Economic Confidence Index, so we can pinpoint changes in confidence over time.",
        "如今，我们有了跟踪美国且每日更新的盖洛普经济信心指数（Gallup Economic Confidence Index），因此随时都能看到信心的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "These allocation decisions are understandable, given the paltry yields available in fixed-income investments, but the resulting second-order impact could ultimately prove devastating.",
        "这些配置决定不难理解，因为固定收益投资收益率低迷； 但由此造成的二阶影响可能是灾难性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that the global economy cannot afford adaptation.",
        "有人指出，全球经济无法承担适应成本。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Middle East interests are not identical with those of Europe.",
        "须知美国在中东的利益跟欧洲可是截然不同的。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as it was developing countries that were whipsawed by global finance, it was fashionable to blame the victim.",
        "当受全球金融折磨的只是发展中国家时，将矛头指向受害者成了惯用伎俩。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Syria is a living nightmare.",
        "伦敦——活生生的噩梦笼罩着叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "Our dependence on many modern conveniences makes us the subject of vast uncontrolled experiments to which none of us is asked to consent.",
        "我们对现代生活方便性的依赖使我们非自愿的情况下成为许多不受控制的实验的对象。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if China manages to mitigate such risks, unseating the US dollar as the dominant global currency will be no easy feat.",
        "而即使中国成功降低了这些风险，与美元争夺主要全球货币地位也绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "Societies and governments must drive this shift by boosting technology’s role in both the form and content of educational curricula.",
        "社会和政府必须通过提升技术在教育课程内容和形式中的运用来推动上述转型过程。"
    ],
    [
        "As such, the long-term consequences are likely to be regrettable.",
        "而这样的动作可能带来令人遗憾的长期后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, most human motives are mixed.",
        "实际上，多数人类动机都非常复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Consensus is emerging in a few areas: the new goals should address the unfinished MDGs; they should include not only poverty, but also planetary limits, including climate change; and they should be universal in scope, addressing challenges such as widening inequality in poor and rich countries alike.",
        "应该不仅包括贫困，也要包括地球的极限，包括气候变化等； 应该不限范围，解决各国（不论贫富）不平等性恶化等挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA – Back in June 2000, when the draft human-genome sequence was announced, US President Bill Clinton proclaimed, “It will revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases.”",
        "加利福尼亚拉霍拉——2000年6月人类基因序列草图刚刚公布时，美国总统比尔·克林顿曾踌躇满志地宣告，“即便不能治愈所有人类疾病，这项发现也将为绝大多数人类疾病的诊断、预防和治疗工作带来革命性的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Libyan civilians are now under the protection of international law.",
        "利比亚民众因此已经处于国际法的保护之下。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor did the endless debates on the shape of the table in the Vietnam negotiations advance the effort to end that malign conflict.",
        "为越南谈判的谈判桌形状争执不休对于结束这场恶性冲突也无济于事。"
    ],
    [
        "It appears to ease depression’s most severe symptoms within minutes or hours, even in patients who have a dismal track record with other treatments.",
        "它似乎可以在几分钟到数小时内缓解抑郁症最严重的症状，甚至对于其他疗法记录很差的病人也有效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Witness also an unprecedented convening of 48 African heads of state and senior officials in Beijing in 2006 to signal unequivocally that China would speak with the loudest voice.",
        "2006年，来自48个非洲国家的首脑和高级官员参加的北京会谈，更加说明了中国不可撼动的在非洲的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Since independence in 1947, Pakistan had vied to establish itself as India’s equal in South Asia, joining alliances led by the United States or cozying up to China to demonstrate its strategic relevance.",
        "1947年独立后，巴基斯坦一直自视为与印度地位等同的南亚国家，用加盟美国领导的联盟或倒向中国证明其战略重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whichever way the vote goes, the spectacular rise of nationalism, in Scotland and elsewhere in Europe, is a symptom of a diseased political mainstream.",
        "但是，不管公投结果如何，民族主义的崛起已成为苏格兰和欧洲其他地区的一个壮观景象，这是政治主流有恙的一个病症。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither of the existing paradigms for assessing individual potential – intelligence quotient and emotional quotient – can assess a person’s ability to compete against the growing “robo-collar” workforce.",
        "以智商和情商为代表的评估个人能力的现有范例均无法有效评估人能否与日渐壮大的“机器领”劳动大军相抗衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, Guerrero has worked with the Inter-American Development Bank to develop programs that help other Latin American countries reduce violence in their communities.",
        "此后，格雷罗与泛美开发银行合作制定计划，帮助其他拉美国家降低了社区暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the stagnant state of Russian science and technology, even the best Russian equipment nowadays seems out of date.",
        "但是，鉴于俄罗斯科学和技术停滞不前的状态，现在即使最好的俄罗斯装备也似乎过时了。"
    ],
    [
        "The hearings, reminiscent of Joe McCarthy’s witch hunts in 1950’s America, humiliated the SLD and, in large part, compromised the entire post-1989 period.",
        "使人想起50年代美国的乔·麦卡锡推动的政治迫害的这场听证会羞辱了民主左翼联盟，并且在很大程度上拖累了89年后的整个阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "The US administration must recognize that foreign policy is not security policy, and that a powerful military is not a magic wand.",
        "美国政府必须承认外交政策不同于安全政策，拥有强大的军事实力也不是能使所有问题迎刃而解的魔杖。"
    ],
    [
        "Journalists report tragic stories of middle-class Americans losing their jobs and homes, potentially putting their lives at risk without any social protection.",
        "”媒体连篇累牍地报导有关失去工作和家庭的美国中产阶级的悲惨故事，缺乏社会保障体系自然是他们沦落如此的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas short-term demand largely dictates an economy’s real growth rate, its potential growth rate is determined on the supply side.",
        "短期需求大致上表明了一个经济体的实际增长率，但其潜在增长率由供给面决定。"
    ],
    [
        "They want easy connectivity and expanded scope for customization.",
        "他们想要轻松的连通性和更大的定制规模。"
    ],
    [
        "The industrial agriculture system’s production chains must be replaced with local, decentralized, and sustainable production chains.",
        "工业农业系统的生产链必须替之以地方的、分散的、可持续的生产链。"
    ],
    [
        "With several years to adjust, we would expect a powerful supply-side response to higher commodity prices now prevailing all over the world.",
        "由于有多年的空间进行调整，我们预期对目前高涨的商品价格将会有一个有力的供应端回应。"
    ],
    [
        "Because their currencies are not widely used internationally, many of their bank liabilities are in euros.",
        "由于它们的货币在国际上并不广泛使用，它们许多银行债务是用欧元结算。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite ample funding and abundant media access, Asar finished third.",
        "可尽管有充足的资金和无条件的媒体支持，Asar党还是只获得了第三的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "It was impossible to short the lira or the franc because there were no more lire or francs.",
        "既然里拉或者法郎已经废除，那么自然也无从做空了。"
    ],
    [
        "I was also right to say that all but a tiny and unbalanced fringe of economists approve of central-bank guarantees of system stability, in order to prevent the risk of a collapse of the payments system from becoming a first-order consideration boosting the demand for cash to unnatural levels.",
        "我当时还指出中央银行保持系统的稳定性，防止金融支付系统崩盘，首要问题就是提供足够多的现金来支撑整个系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama steers clear both of interventions for humanitarian purposes and of attempting to export democracy by force.",
        "对此奥巴马避开了两类行为：以人权为目的的干涉行动，以及用武力输出民主的理念。"
    ],
    [
        "But now we have come to the most unconventional policy tool of them all: negative nominal interest rates.",
        "但如今我们迎来了其中最不常规的政策：负名义利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Southeast Asia’s Widening Arms Race",
        "东南亚日渐高涨的军备竞赛"
    ],
    [
        "Russian President Dmitri Medvedev does understand – with no “buts” – that “freedom is better than not freedom,” that “legal nihilism” is bad and democracy is good.",
        "而作为总统的梅德韦杰夫分明知道——这里可没有“但是”——“有自由比没自由好”，“法律无政府主义”是坏的而民主制度是好的。"
    ],
    [
        "Although inflows of international financial assistance remain substantial, reconstruction money from abroad will begin to dry up as Iraq puts its central government in place.",
        "尽管国际经济援助的数量仍然巨大，但随着伊拉克的中央政府建立起来，来自海外的重建资金就会开始枯竭。"
    ],
    [
        "The only question is whether these payments turn out to be permanent, as they would if May really wants a “deep and special partnership,” or continue only for the 5-7 years required to negotiate new trade agreements after a hard Brexit.",
        "唯一的问题是这一支付是持久的——如果梅真的想要“深刻而特殊的关系的话”，还是只延续到在硬退欧后进行新贸易谈判所需要的5—7年。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – This year marks the 100th anniversaries of two distinct institutional innovations in American economic policy: the introduction of the federal income tax and the establishment of the Federal Reserve.",
        "发自剑桥——今年是美国两项重大经济政策制度创新的100周年纪念：开征联邦收入所得税以及成立美联储。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s export-led growth model has limits – and the country is reaching them.",
        "但中国的出口拉动型增长模式存在极限，并且已肯快靠近那个极限。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is also a risk that assistance for tsunami victims is diverting aid from disasters that are of a more chronic character or that are less amenable to sensational media coverage.",
        "但对海啸灾民的救助，也可能使得对于具有长期性特点并且不会受到媒体大肆报导的灾难所进行的援助发生转移。"
    ],
    [
        "The decline in governments’ borrowing costs is unlikely to boost growth much, as European Union rules preclude fiscal expansion.",
        "政府借贷成本的降低也不太可能大幅刺激增长，因为欧盟的相关法规不允许财政扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "They buttress their argument that the deficit is not an immediate problem by pointing to very low interest rates on long-term government debt, with a 2% yield on the ten-year Treasury bond and a negative real interest rate on Treasury inflation-protected bonds (TIPS).",
        "他们用长期政府债务利率极低——十年期美国国债收益率只有2%，通胀保护国债（TIPS）实际利率为负——为依据论证预算并非紧迫问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the structure of the two countries’ economies, and what drives their energy needs – and thus greenhouse gas emissions – are very different. It is this difference that offers the best chance for addressing climate change head-on.",
        "但是两国的经济结构，以及推动能源需求的因素—于是包括温室气体的排放—却大相径庭。 正是这种差异为正面处理气候变化提供了最佳时机。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last several decades, public confidence in many influential institutions has plummeted.",
        "在过去几十年中，对许多高影响力机构的公众信心出现了暴降。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires, first and foremost, better diagnosis.",
        "而这首先需要实现更准确的诊断。"
    ],
    [
        "The controversy stems from the kind of evidence that is used.",
        "争议来自什么样的证据被使用。"
    ],
    [
        "This dearth of expertise threatens a number of Sustainable Development Goals, such as food security, health care, clean water and sanitation, energy, and infrastructure.",
        "这种专业知识的缺乏可能威胁几项可持续发展目标的实现，例如粮食安全、医疗卫生、清洁饮水、卫生设备以及能源和基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "The French experience exacted a high long-term price: French society was poorer relative to Britain in the century after the Revolution.",
        "法国的经历带来了高昂的长期带价：法国社会在大革命后的一个世纪里一直比英国更穷。"
    ],
    [
        "Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, meanwhile, has even reportedly considered removing democracy promotion from the State Department’s mission.",
        "与此同时，国务卿雷克斯·蒂勒森甚至据称曾考虑从国务院的使命清单中去除宣传民主。"
    ],
    [
        "These are examples of restraints on economic policy that take the form of delegation to autonomous agencies, technocrats, or external rules.",
        "这都是一些以授权自治机构，技术专家或外部规则的形式实施经济政策限制的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor can it be used to establish a European deposit protection scheme, which is arguably the most urgent requirement, to stem the outflow of deposits from southern European banks.",
        "同时它也无法建立一个当前最为急需的欧洲存款保障计划来遏制南欧地区各银行的存款流失。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been less worried than Sharon was about Israel’s perceived role.",
        "与沙龙相比，以色列现任总理本雅明•内塔尼亚胡对以色列应发挥的作用担心较少。"
    ],
    [
        "The contrast with matters of peace and security is stark.",
        "和平和安全事务的对比是鲜明的。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Americans must buy cars because public transport is so lousy.",
        "例如，由于公共交通太糟糕，所以美国人不得不买车。"
    ],
    [
        "Two days later, voters in the United Kingdom will decide whether the UK should exit the EU.",
        "两天后，英国选民将决定英国是否应该退出欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "On December 11, another rally was held at site of the murder, and moved into the very center of Moscow, Manezhnaya Square, just outside the Kremlin’s walls.",
        "到了12月11日，人们在施维利多夫遇害地点又发动了另一场示威，并游行到莫斯科市核心区域，与克里姆林宫仅一墙之隔的涅什纳亚广场。"
    ],
    [
        "COLOMBO, SRI LANKA – Last year was a memorable one for the global economy.",
        "发自科伦坡——去年对于全球经济来说堪称难忘的一年。"
    ],
    [
        "As Robert Kaplan argues: “stabilizing Afghanistan is about much more than just the anti-terrorist war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban; it is about securing the future prosperity of the whole [region], as well as easing India and Pakistan toward peaceful coexistence through the sharing of energy routes.”",
        "正如罗伯特·卡普兰（Robert Kaplan）所指出的：“稳定阿富汗局势比针对基地组织和塔利班的反恐战争更重要； 这事关确保整个（地区的）未来繁荣，还能缓和印巴关系，促使它们通过共享能源管道实现和平共存。"
    ],
    [
        "When the permit prices become large enough to have a significant effect on CO2 emissions, there will be political pressure to introduce tariffs on imports that offset the advantage of countries with low permit prices.",
        "当执照的价格对二氧化碳的排放量影响力足够大时，国内就会有政治上的呼吁，要求对那些牌照费用较低国家的产品增收进口关税。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the AJA would have offered some balanced-budget stimulus – the kind of stimulus that would boost the level of economic activity without increasing the volume of government debt.",
        "此外，该法案原本还可以提供一些平衡预算的刺激——是那种可以不用增加政府负债就能促进经济活动水平的刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is almost certainly wrong yet again.",
        "但几乎可以肯定，IMF又错了。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, Rouhani is expected to win re-election, not least because every president of the Islamic Republic has served two terms.",
        "但是，鲁哈尼仍有望赢得连任，因为伊朗伊斯兰共和国的每位总统都能得到两个任期。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, South Korea had the highest average score (590) in 2011 on the science test for secondary students, while Ghana scored the lowest (306).",
        "《国际数学和科学研究趋势》显示韩国在2011年中学科学测试中平均分最高（590），而加纳最低（306）。"
    ],
    [
        "The authors used crude death rates (CDR’s), which reflect the number of deaths per thousand people, in explaining the rise in mortality.",
        "作者用反映每千人死亡数量的总死亡率（CDR’s）来说明死亡率的上升。"
    ],
    [
        "The current machines of this genre are direct descendants of the Boeing 707, and, after many decades of evolutionary improvement, this design approach simply lacks the scope to address the many problems that must be solved.",
        "目前这种用途的机器是波音707直接改造过来的，而且，经过几十年演变提高，这一设计方式根本缺乏解决必须加以解决的众多问题的范围。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Europe’s phone number has a German dialing code, it goes through to an automated answer: “Nein zu Allem.”",
        "”但如果欧洲电话号码加上了德国区号，就会来到自动应答：“什么都不行。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But that is a misreading of what happened. The UN was only the tour operator in Copenhagen.",
        "但这只是他们错误解读了目前所发生的一切。"
    ],
    [
        "The policy needs a complete overhaul.",
        "该政策需要彻底大修。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, broadening the corporate tax base will not be easy.",
        "结果是扩大公司税基绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "The report shows that in their desire to remain or become more competitive, governments and employers around the world have taken many steps to increase labor market flexibility.",
        "该报告显示，为了保持竞争力或者变得更具竞争力，世界各国政府和雇主们已经采取了许多措施来增加劳动力市场的弹性。"
    ],
    [
        "So long as nuclear weapons remain, states can justify maintaining a minimum nuclear-deterrent capability.",
        "只要核武器依然存在，各国就可以名正言顺地保留最基本的核威慑力。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the Fund has not fully exploited its unique position, because it has often been passive in reaching out, giving clear messages, and making recommendations to its members.",
        "目前为止，该组织尚未完全利用其独特的地位，因为它一贯懒于主动向其成员国发出明确的信息和提出建议。"
    ],
    [
        "Non-committal multiculturalism has long kept the conservatism of Dutch Moroccans and Dutch Turks hidden from the public eye.",
        "对多元文化主义的暧昧态度使得荷兰籍摩洛哥人长久固守着保守作风，也让荷兰籍土耳其人一直避开公众的视线。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the overwhelming majority of new power stations in China and India – necessary to drive the industrialization that will lift hundreds of millions out of poverty – will be coal-fired.",
        "目前，中国和印度正在兴建了大量的能源厂——这可以使得数亿人摆脱贫困——煤炭能源。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who are unable to work are fully entitled to tax-financed welfare benefits after five years at the latest.",
        "没有工作能力的人最多只需要五年就可以完整地获得税收融资的福利。"
    ],
    [
        "Hefty fines for currency-trading violations are not new (HSBC, for example, was hit with a $1.9 billion fine in 2012); but a fine close to $10 billion is.",
        "虽然对违反货币交易条例的巨额罚款并不是头一遭（例如汇丰银行就是在2012年被罚19亿美元）； 但一笔近100亿美元的罚款就真是史无前例了。"
    ],
    [
        "Plastic products may not be all that good for humans, either.",
        "塑料制品对于人类也未必有百利而无一害。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization Marches On",
        "全球化继续前进"
    ],
    [
        "The world is poised to act.",
        "世界正准备采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Long before Russia's armed annexation of Crimea and its invasion of eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin played similar games when it engineered the secession of Georgia's South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions and propped up the bandit territory of Transnistria in Moldova.",
        "在俄罗斯武装吞并克里米亚并入侵乌克兰东部之前，克里姆林宫早已开始了类似的游戏：煽动格鲁吉亚南奥塞梯和阿布哈兹地区分裂、支持摩尔多瓦德涅斯特河沿岸地区的动乱。"
    ],
    [
        "An autocratic or corrupt regime has a strong incentive to spend in a way that benefits the elite.",
        "独裁或腐败政府具有为精英阶层谋利的强烈动机。"
    ],
    [
        "There has never been an official explanation of why lenders to a sovereign should not share the pain, despite the “no bailout” principle on which the eurozone was founded.",
        "从来没有任何官方解释说明为何主权债务债权人不应该分担痛苦，尽管“无救援”正是欧元区建立原则之一。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason for this is the introduction of technologies such as anti-lock brakes, airbags, and electronic stability control.",
        "一个原因是引入了防抱死制动、安全气囊和电力稳定性控制等技术。"
    ],
    [
        "As Trump attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, he would do well to remember this.",
        "当特朗普试图与加拿大和墨西哥重新谈判《北美自由贸易协定》最好记住这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, there would have been risks, as IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard has pointed out, but running those risks would have been well worth it.",
        "是的，如IMF首席经济学家奥利佛·布兰查德（Olivier Blanchard）所言，这会带来风险，但承担这些风险是很值得的。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that, from an economic perspective, there is still plenty of low-hanging fruit for restoring growth.",
        "好消息是，从经济角度看，要让印度经济重塑增长，还有充分的现成策略可用。"
    ],
    [
        "Monarchs and their courts can, to some extent, still act as leaders of art, music, and fashion, as they did in the eighteenth century.",
        "）从某种程度上说，君主和王室仍能成为艺术、音乐和时尚界的领袖，十八世纪就是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Belarus’s economy can function only if Russia subsidizes energy prices and allocates non-repayable credits.",
        "只有在俄罗斯在能源价格上给予补贴并提供不必偿还的贷款的情况下，白俄经济才能运转起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Macroeconomic policies interact with on-the-ground microeconomic realities in subtle but powerful, rarely remarked-upon ways.",
        "宏观经济政策会以一种微妙却有力，而且鲜有人提到的方式与微观经济现实进行互动。"
    ],
    [
        "While it may be convenient to hold others accountable for America’s problems, this is bad economics driving bad politics.",
        "给美国的问题找个替罪羊也许只是权宜之计，但仍不可不谓是坏算盘驱使的坏政策。"
    ],
    [
        "They are also unreliable (we still have no idea what to do when the wind is not blowing).",
        "而且相关技术也并不可靠（不刮风的时候怎么办我们还不知道）。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to ignore important US-China trade issues that need to be addressed.",
        "这并不是要忽视必须修正的美中贸易问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Remarkably, a new European demos and public sphere are emerging from the economic crisis.",
        "全新的欧洲样板和公共氛围正在经济危机中形成，这一点颇为引人注目。"
    ],
    [
        "In each country where conflict is present or emerging (Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Paraguay, and Ecuador) the hard-left will push hard, the democracies will look the other way, and Obama will either give in (as at the OAS) and pay a domestic political price, or step back from Latin America, for fear of appearing isolated.",
        "以至于在每个正在或即将发生冲突的国家（比如玻利维亚、危地马拉、萨尔瓦多、巴拉圭和厄瓜多尔），极左势力都会大肆活动，那些拉美民主国家也只能挣一只眼闭一只眼，而奥巴马要么举手投降（正如在美洲国家组织大会上那样）并在美国国内的抗议声中输掉政治资本，要么就害怕显得孤立而对拉美地区望而却步。"
    ],
    [
        "When these areas are disturbed, carbon is released.",
        "如果这些区域遭到破坏，碳就会被释放。"
    ],
    [
        "Using two complementary genome-wide technologies, with subsequent validation studies, a total of 1,447 CNVs were identified.",
        "通过使用两种互补的整组基因技术以及随后的有效研究，总计有1,447 份CNVs被识别。"
    ],
    [
        "Whichever path emerging economies choose for addressing these challenges must also account for the fundamental shift driven by digital capital-intensive technologies.",
        "新兴经济体应对这些挑战的路径选择还必须考虑到由数字资本密集型技术所驱动的根本性转变。"
    ],
    [
        "SHANGHAI – China’s “Two Sessions” – the annual gatherings of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference held every March – have always drawn global attention.",
        "上海——中国的“两会”（每年三月召开的一年一度的全国人民代表大会和中国人民政治协商会议）一直吸引着全球的目光。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe is bordered to its south and east by two great regions that give cause for significant concern.",
        "但与此同时，欧洲也与两个备受世界瞩目的区域为邻。"
    ],
    [
        "The recovery has been weak; but we are nowhere near a new Dark Age.",
        "虽然复苏依然疲软，但总不会让我们陷入另一个“黑暗时代”。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only is the public almost entirely ignorant of the EU’s policy agenda for boosting competitiveness, economic growth, and employment, but this ignorance extends to many intellectuals, academics, CEO’s, and even some MP’s.",
        "不仅广大公众对欧盟增强竞争力、促进经济发展和增加就业的施政日程几乎全然不知，甚至连很多知识分子、理论学者、首席执行官甚至议员都所知寥寥。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, at the time of my single most magical surfing moment, I wasn’t on a wave at all.",
        "事实上，我最神奇的一次冲浪体验根本就没有在冲浪。"
    ],
    [
        "The public also favors psycho-social approaches, such as talking to someone and getting advice, or help finding friends or a job, rather than drugs, electro-shocks, or admission to psychiatric hospital.",
        "公众也很愿意采用心理—社会疗法，比如与人交谈和寻求建议，或结交朋友乃至找一份工作，而不是通过药物、电击或进入精神病院治疗的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "That requires, first and foremost, efforts to strengthen and modernize institutions, guided by Western examples.",
        "这首先需要以西方为榜样增强机构实力并实现其现代化。"
    ],
    [
        "And while relative calm has returned to financial markets, the three causes of volatility are yet to dissipate in any meaningful sense.",
        "虽然金融市场已经相对恢复了平静，但导致波动的三大因素却尚未在真正意义上被消除。"
    ],
    [
        "The diplomacy of sanctions, ostracism, and brinkmanship has failed resoundingly.",
        "外交制裁、排斥和边缘化政策已经彻底失败。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, the world’s banker, had mutated into the world’s hedge fund.",
        "而美国这个世界银行家也蜕变成为了一个世界级的对冲基金。"
    ],
    [
        "George W. Bush has shown the dangers of excessive secrecy and confining decision-making to a narrow circle of sycophants.",
        "乔治·W·布什为我们树立了暗箱操作、把决策权交给一小撮溜须拍马之徒的反面典型。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, meanwhile, continues to run a sizeable current-account deficit of around $350-400 billion.",
        "与此同时，美国继续保持巨大的经常项目赤字，在3,500—4,000亿美元左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Promising avenues for international cooperation are now opening up.",
        "如今，大有希望的国际合作之门正在敞开。"
    ],
    [
        "They also played the Shia card, an effective trump in Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia.",
        "他们同时也会利用什叶派因素——这一手在以逊尼派为主的沙特社会无往而不利。"
    ],
    [
        "He believed that lawlessness began with unorthodox kinds of musical entertainment, and advised the authorities to put a stop to such things.",
        "他认为无法性（lawlessness）始于非正统音乐娱乐，并建议当局取缔这些东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Calling for a European Brady plan today does not guarantee the necessary conditions for such a plan to succeed.",
        "尽管如今有人呼吁出台欧洲布雷迪计划，但此类计划取得成功的必要条件却未必具备。"
    ],
    [
        "Centuries of experience with financial crises, including in countries with FTTs, strongly suggests otherwise.",
        "数百年来的金融危机经验——包括实施了金融交易税的国家的经验——都表明事实正好相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Progress would reduce dangerous over-reliance on banks.",
        "这方面取得的进展将减轻危险的过度依赖银行的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "That ambition has become more attainable in view of the damage to the US system's credibility in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.",
        "考虑到2008年金融危机后美国体系的信誉扫地，这一雄心的可行性更强了。"
    ],
    [
        "Advertisements directly embedded in the show would reach five million additional – illegal – viewers, in effect doubling their audience.",
        "剧中的直接植入广告将被500万新增——非法——观众看到，增加一倍受众。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, investment agreements enable companies to sue the government over perfectly sensible and just regulatory changes – when, say, a cigarette company’s profits are lowered by a regulation restricting the use of tobacco.",
        "更糟糕的是，投资协定让公司能够因为完全合理合规的变化起诉政府——比如当某香烟公司利润因为监管规则限制烟草的使用而利润下降时。"
    ],
    [
        "A rate cut also may be required to restore confidence.",
        "也许还需要降息来恢复信心。"
    ],
    [
        "To that end, G20 leaders are calling for an international “R&D Collaboration Hub” to “maximize the impact of existing and new anti-microbial basic and clinical research initiatives.”",
        "在这方面，G20领导人呼吁建立一个国际“研发合作枢纽”，以“实现现有和新抗生素基础和临床研究的效果最大化”。"
    ],
    [
        "Surveillance must be improved, however, in order to give countries timely notice when they are in violation.",
        "但与此同时，监督也必须加强，以便各国及时注意到即将撞线的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Just five months ago, Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, told an audience in Singapore that contemporary art has become one of the two most important stores of wealth internationally, along with apartments in major cities such as New York, London, and Vancouver.",
        "仅仅五个月前，全球最大资产管理公司贝莱德（BlackRock）主席兼CEO拉里·芬克（Larry Fink）在新加坡告诉人们，当代艺术品已成为国际财富最重要的两个储藏工具之一，另一个是大都市高级公寓，如纽约、伦敦和温哥华等。"
    ],
    [
        "In his effort to restore seemingly irreparably damaged relations with the West, Gaddafi has played the oil and gas cards that he holds extremely well.",
        "在修复与西方似乎无法补救的关系的努力中，卡扎菲极好地打出了他拥有的石油和天然气这两张牌。"
    ],
    [
        "SHANGHAI – For more than a year, headlines worldwide have been pointing to a Chinese economic slowdown.",
        "上海一年多来，全球经济新闻头条纷纷指向中国经济放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Bernanke’s original speech emphasized several factors – some that decreased the demand for global savings, and some that increased supply.",
        "伯南克的原始讲话强调了几个因素——一些因素降低了全球储蓄需求，另一些因素增加了供给。"
    ],
    [
        "Senegal’s first president, Léopold Sédar Senghor, was a strong believer in white supremacy who once wrote that “reason is Helennic; emotion is Negro.”",
        "塞内加尔的首位总统列奥波尔多·赛达尔·桑戈尔坚定地信奉白人至上，他曾经写道“白人的代名词是理智，而黑人的代名词是感情。"
    ],
    [
        "But long-term relationships are based on friendship and respect; coherent, well-argued positions will earn that respect.",
        "但长期关系是基于友谊和尊重的； 前后一致而经过充分思考的立场才能赢得尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "Just last month, Dmitri Medvedev’s first visit to China as Russia’s prime minister resulted in a ten-year, $85 billion oil-supply deal for the state-owned energy giant Rosneft.",
        "上个月，梅德韦杰夫首次作为俄罗斯总理访华，为俄国有能源巨头俄罗斯石油公司谈成了850亿美元的石油供应合同。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the United States decided not to create a national biobank like the United Kingdom’s, owing to the high set-up costs – estimated at about a billion dollars – 23andMe may well view its growing biobank as saving it a massive outlay.",
        "由于昂贵的建造成本——据估计高达10亿美元左右，美国决定不像英国那样建立国家级的生物银行，因此23andMe踌躇满志地认为不断增长的生物银行可以节省一大笔开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Not so long ago, there was jubilation that the free world and its values had prevailed in the Cold War.",
        "不久前，人们为自由世界及其价值观在冷战中的胜利而弹冠相庆。"
    ],
    [
        "No one who is not well versed in financial legerdemain can make much sense of this battle of the bonds.",
        "不太精通金融的人往往难以深刻理解这场围绕着债券的斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the terms of the UN treaty on climate change, the signatories – virtually the whole world - are to gather each year to discuss the treaty’s implementation.",
        "在联合国这项关于气候变化的条约规定下，签约各方—实际上是全世界—每年都要聚首讨论该协定的执行。"
    ],
    [
        "But that perspective has led foreign observers to misinterpret some of this year’s most important developments in the foreign-exchange and stock markets.",
        "但这个角度让外国观察者误读了今年汇率和股市的一些最重要的发展态势。"
    ],
    [
        "In the UK, every financial disturbance leads to calls to revamp the system.",
        "在英国，每一次金融乱象都会引起人们修正制度的大声疾呼。"
    ],
    [
        "But is there any reason to believe that new loans will go to worthy projects rather than to politically connected borrowers?",
        "但是有任何理由让我们相信新的贷款能够流向有价值的项目而不是那些有政治门路的借款人么？"
    ],
    [
        "The result will be a new concert of powers, tied together by their fixation with national economic growth and the objective of discouraging others from causing instability that risks intervention.",
        "结果就是产生新的强国之间的协调，他们拴在一起是因为关注国家经济增长，也是为了阻止他国引发不稳定：这种不稳定可能会引来干预。"
    ],
    [
        "No one believes that Palestinian leader Abu Mazin can or will do anything to stop such attacks.",
        "无人相信巴勒斯坦领导人阿巴斯能够或者将会采取措施来制止此类攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "In office since February, he won a resounding 41% of the vote, twice that of his nearest rival.",
        "自2月履新以来，他赢得了令人瞩目的41%的支持率，是最接近的对手的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar coalitions can be assembled to dent global poverty by fostering a second green revolution in Indian agriculture, to enhance India’s role in the global economy through vocational and higher education, and to tackle the worldwide spread of AIDS.",
        "此外印美两国还可以结成解决全球贫困问题的类似同盟，发起印度农业的第二次绿色革命，通过职业和高等教育增强印度在全球经济中的作用，并解决在世界范围内蔓延的艾滋病问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Mothers, young children, the elderly, and the disabled are among the most vulnerable to the pitfalls of undernourishment, and should be given special attention in efforts to end food insecurity and undernourishment.",
        "母亲、儿童、老人和残疾人最容易受到营养不良的侵害，因此在终结粮食不安全和营养不良的工作中应当受到重点照顾。"
    ],
    [
        "But another is to encourage economic development while diversifying their own economic base, establishing coalitions, fostering state-directed industrialization, or pursuing a variety of other strategies limited only by the elites’ imagination.",
        "但另一种方法是鼓励经济发展同时过氧化其自身经济基础，建立联盟，培育国家指导下的工业化，或推行仅由精英想象决定的各种政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Federal Reserve, the US Treasury, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and other public financial regulatory entities are being pushed toward a further expansion of their roles.",
        "美联储、美国财政部、欧洲央行、英国银行和其他公共金融监管机构正被迫扩大其监管范围。"
    ],
    [
        "Every American president since John F. Kennedy has made his first foreign visit either to Mexico, Canada, or Europe.",
        "自肯尼迪以来，历任美国总统履新后的第一次出访目的地都是墨西哥、加拿大或欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "While voters wisely prefer that he and his cabinet, rather than the conservative opposition, implement a program that an overwhelming majority of Greeks detest, the reality of the austerity agenda will test public patience.",
        "尽管选民明智地选择了他和他的政府而没有投票给保守反对派，但推行一项绝大多数希腊人厌恶的紧缩计划的现实将会考验公众的耐心。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, as Sibal points out, NAM did not protect India from decades of “US/Western technology-related sanctions,” even when it was the movement’s leader.",
        "其实正如西巴尔所说，即使在印度领导不结盟运动期间，该运动对长达数十年的“美国/西方技术制裁”也没有提供任何帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "To date, however, this legislation has lain dormant.",
        "但迄今为止，这项法案还处在休眠状态。"
    ],
    [
        "But what we often fail to realize is that the story only starts here.",
        "但我们却往往未能意识到这只是故事的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it needs to be reversed.",
        "这是应对危机的临时且有效的办法。 现在，这种情况应该逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "The flu also revealed some of Mexico’s other fundamental flaws.",
        "这场猪流感疫情同样也暴露出墨西哥其他根本性缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators around the world have worked hard to make the financial system safer.",
        "全世界机关机构一直在努力让金融系统变得更安全。"
    ],
    [
        "There will also be a new US president elected this year.",
        "今年还将迎来美国新总统选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Before his death, Fortuyn is said to have been terrified of the prospect of becoming Prime Minister.",
        "据说佛杜恩死前想起担任首相就不寒而栗。"
    ],
    [
        "And the CSF’s track record is dismal at best.",
        "中央安全部队的过往记录充其量也只能说令人沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "Its report maintains that the ESAs have “quickly established well-functioning organizations aimed at contributing to restoring confidence in the financial sector,” and that market participants seem broadly satisfied with their work.",
        "其报告认为诸ESA“以重塑金融部门信心为目标，迅速建立了功能完善的组织，”市场参与者对它们的工作普遍满意。"
    ],
    [
        "The alignment of incentives lies at the heart of modern financial theory.",
        "激励机制是现代金融理论的核心部分。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, the EU must tie its economic strategies to long-term competitiveness, which is ultimately determined by the value added to goods and services.",
        "更加重要的是，欧元区经济体必须将其经济增长策略与长期的竞争力联系在一起，而竞争力最终由产品和服务的附加值决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Homosexuality is considered an abomination in Jewish law, and Texas tried to ban gay marriage.",
        "同性恋被犹太法律视为丑行，德克萨斯州也曾试图禁止同性恋婚姻。"
    ],
    [
        "While much has already been accomplished, it is time to finish the job.",
        "虽然我们已经取得了不错的成绩，但现在是到了完成这项工作的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "Government policy should thus be subject to a longer-term test: How effectively is initiative being enabled and skills developed?",
        "因此，政府政策应该以更长期的眼光考量：其措施实施效果如何？ 对技能的促进作用怎样？"
    ],
    [
        "She seems clueless about how an open market economy works, and unaware that international trade, investment, and migration are intertwined.",
        "她似乎对开放市场经济如何运作没有意识，也不知道国际贸易、投资和移民是相互交织的。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, any improvement in GDP derived from stronger exports leads to an increase in imports.",
        "其二，任何源自于更强劲出口的GDP改善都会引发进口增加。"
    ],
    [
        "When 52 people were killed in a suicide bombing on the London Underground the following year, the British, too, reacted with relative calm, having lived through years of Irish terrorist violence in the 1970’s.",
        "而次年当自杀式炸弹袭击在伦敦地铁夺去52条生命的时候，英国人也因为经历过20世纪70年代爱尔兰恐怖主义的暴行而显得相对冷静。"
    ],
    [
        "The message to all of these groups should be consistent: We will continue to support you politically, financially, and in negotiations with the Syrian regime, but we will no longer support a military solution.",
        "所有这些群体所获得信息必须是一致的：我们将在政治上、金融上以及在与叙利亚政权的谈判中继续支持你，但我们不会再支持军事解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "This plays well back home, where indicted war criminals are still touted as war heroes.",
        "这一招在国内收到了很好的效果，那些受到指控的战争罪犯都像英雄似的被人崇拜。"
    ],
    [
        "It did well to force Syria to give up its chemical weapons, and to authorize humanitarian access without the regime’s consent.",
        "它迫使叙利亚放弃化学武器，并在没有征得叙政权同意的情况下授权开展人道主义行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The bankers failed this test dismally.",
        "但可耻的是，银行家们却未能通过这个原则的检验。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, Abe should reaffirm the country’s 1995 statement; apologize again, even more firmly; and revise or close the Yūshūkanmilitary and war museum at Yasukuni, which glorifies Japan’s militarist past while ignoring its concomitant atrocities.",
        "相反，安倍应重申该国1995年发表的声明并再次致歉，并且此次致歉的态度应当更加坚决； 此外还应改造或关闭靖国神社军事战争博物馆游就馆，停止美化日本军国主义过去并无视因此而造成的暴行。"
    ],
    [
        "On my first free evening, I was invited to a place called “Shinok.”",
        "第一个自由活动的夜晚，我应邀来到了一个叫“Shinok”的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "The New Growth Conundrum",
        "新增长难题"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s leaders are entitled to the world’s understanding as they struggle to overcome generations of Soviet misrule.",
        "俄罗斯的领导人在他们努力克服数代以来的苏联暴政时有权得到世界的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "After the election, the real politicking began, but even then, pains were taken to obscure those activities from Germany’s Michels.",
        "选举后，真正的政治活动开始了，但即便如此，也要不惜承受痛苦来让这些活动从德国的米切尔们的眼前消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these scientists became leading proponents of human rights and liberalization inside the USSR.",
        "这些科学家中的许多人成为苏联主要的人权和自由化鼓吹者。"
    ],
    [
        "The average population of the EU-15 is about 25 million, many more than the six million in the average US state, which more closely resembles the average population of EU regions, such as Bavaria, Wallonia, Île-de-France and the Canary Islands.",
        "欧盟15国的平均人口大约是2500万，比美国各州的平均人口600万要大得多，后者与欧盟地区，比如巴伐利亚、瓦隆区、法国和加纳利群岛的平均人口差不多。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems natural to draw connections among them, especially after a “superstorm” shut down Wall Street this past October.",
        "自然地，这三者之间存在联系，特别是在去年十月让重创华尔街的“超级风暴”之后。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, much progress has been made.",
        "诚然，我们取得了很大的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "It sympathizes far more with Chávez, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Cuba, the Sandinistas, and now the FMLN than with the moderate left elected in Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, and Peru. They will read Funes’ victory as one more notch on the barrel of “the people’s” rifle and one more hair plucked from Uncle Sam’s beard.",
        "比起与在智利、巴西、乌拉圭和秘鲁在竞选中获胜的温和派左翼的关系，墨西哥的左翼远远要与查韦斯、玻利维亚总统莫拉莱斯、古巴以及桑地诺民族解放阵线在思想上更为合拍，他们会把富内斯的当选解读为“人民的”枪杆子的又一次胜利，也视为又拔下了一根山姆大叔的胡子。"
    ],
    [
        "But those are big “ifs.”",
        "但这些“如果”都仅仅是如果。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, automation in manufacturing has expanded even to areas where labor has been relatively cheap.",
        "近来，制造业自动化甚至扩展到劳动力相对便宜的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "When throngs of citizens took to the streets of Istanbul in the middle of the night, in an effort to push back the military coup makers, it was a powerful show of collective action – one that should interest any political leader, particularly those seeking to develop their countries.",
        "当成群结队的市民为打击军事政变制造者深夜走上伊斯坦布尔街头，这是集体力量的充分展示——这种力量应当引起任何政治领袖，尤其是那些试图发展自己国家的政治领袖的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "An astute politician, Park did not hesitate to campaign wholeheartedly for Lee the last time around – a move that, as part of long-term political strategy, made perfect sense.",
        "作为精明的政治家，朴槿惠上次失利后毫不犹豫地全力为李明博助选——这样的举动作为长期政治策略的组成部分是很有意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is true for health care.",
        "这样的情况在卫生保健领域也同样存在。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un seized all South Korean assets in the region, giving the 248 managers living there only a few hours to pack their personal belongings and leave.",
        "朝鲜领导人金正恩对此的反应是没收所有园区内韩国资产，勒令生活在其中的248位管理人员在几小时内收拾个人物品离开。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing the potential effects as “catastrophic” for a significant portion of the population, they urged Exxon’s top executives to take action.",
        "科学家们认识到这可能会对很大部分人产生“灾难性”的影响，并因此敦促埃克森的高管采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain is convulsed by a scandal about parliamentary expenses that has no equivalent since the attacks on “old corruption” in the early nineteenth century.",
        "英国则因为议员骗领津贴丑闻闹翻了天——自打19世纪上半叶声讨“陋规”（old corruption）以来，英国还没出过这么大的腐败丑闻。"
    ],
    [
        "The Domestic Workers Convention, adopted in 2011, enters into force on September 5, promising to extend labor protections to tens of millions of the most vulnerable migrant workers.",
        "2011年通过、9月5日生效的《本国工人公约》（Domestic Workers Convention）承诺为数千万最脆弱的移民工人扩大劳动保护。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also financially noxious, because the proceeds will go toward servicing what even the IMF now admits is an unpayable debt.",
        "该计划在金融上也贻害无穷，因为所获款项将用于偿还如今IMF也承认无法偿还的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Israel’s current government and its supporters in the West are quick to denounce criticism of Israeli policies as anti-Semitism.",
        "纽约—以色列现任政府及其西方支持这十分矫健地斥对以色列的批评为反犹主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The figures are grim: before the summit, the European Central Bank slashed its eurozone GDP growth forecast for 2012 from 1.3% to 0.3%.",
        "数字是残酷的：在峰会之前，欧洲央行把2012年的欧元区GDP增长预期从1. 3%大幅调低到0."
    ],
    [
        "The proposed legislation is full of excessive and impossible requirements, and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives may not be able to pass it, even in modified form.",
        "提议的法案充满过度和不可能的需求，即使是修改的形式，共和党控制的众议院也不可能通过。"
    ],
    [
        "Cultural barriers are the real stumbling block.",
        "文化壁垒才是真正的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – It’s been a better year for God.",
        "伦敦——上帝在这一年运气不坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Fueling Big Tech’s remarkable growth further, many of these companies’ services are ostensibly free, facilitating quick adoption by consumers.",
        "另一个助推大科技企业进一步显着增长的因素在于这些公司的许多服务在表面上看都是免费的，从而可以快速在消费者中推广开来。"
    ],
    [
        "These costs have been estimated at between $14,000 and $42,000 per worker and family (shared equally by migrants and host governments).",
        "据估计，这些成本是每个工人和家庭14000美元到42000美元(移民和接收国政府平摊)。"
    ],
    [
        "But Cuba is just part of what might be called Latin America’s “left” problem.",
        "但是，古巴仅仅是可以被称作拉丁美洲“左派”问题的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unlike allowing individuals to offer their furniture to the whole world, crowdfunding is supposed to raise money fast, from those in the know, for businesses that bankers might not understand.",
        "但是，与允许个人向全世界提供家具（furniture）不同，众筹是为了快速筹集资金，出资者都是内行，而筹资项目未必为银行家所理解。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, Europe paid a lot of money only to expose its own weakness.",
        "到最后，欧洲白白花了一大笔钱，却把自己的弱点暴露无遗。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists applauded Argentina’s attempt to avoid this outcome through a deep restructuring accompanied by the GDP-linked bonds.",
        "经济学家对阿根廷试图通过伴随GDP关联债权的深度重组避免这一结果赞不绝口。"
    ],
    [
        "Dahlan, accused by some of being responsible for the loss of Gaza to Hamas, gave a strong speech accusing the previous Fatah leadership of having lost Gaza long before it actually fell to Hamas in June 2007.",
        "有人认为达赫兰应该为法塔赫让加沙地区落入哈马斯之手的事件负责，而他则在大会上措辞强硬地指责上一任法塔赫领导层早在2007年7月之前已经把加沙拱手让给了哈马斯。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early 1990’s, the Fed, and many others, thought that the NAIRU was around 6%-6.2%.",
        "在二十世纪九十年代早期，美联储和其他一些中央银行认为，NAIRU应该在6%到6. 2%之间。"
    ],
    [
        "In Asia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan were (and have been) among the beneficiaries.",
        "在亚洲，香港、韩国、新加坡和台湾便曾是受益者。"
    ],
    [
        "We have distorted that history by thinking of bubbles as a period of dramatic price growth, followed by a sudden turning point and a major and definitive crash.",
        "我们认为泡沫是一段价格狂飙突进的时期，接着是突如其来的转折点和决定性的大跌，这扭曲了历史。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the economic situation in China, there is certainly reason for concern.",
        "至于中国的经济状况，这毫无疑问是一个担忧点。"
    ],
    [
        "If the EU’s defense and security policy is to be strong, global, and effective, it is imperative to take advantage of both the specialization and pooling of member states’ technology and resources.",
        "要想让欧洲的防务和安全政策变得强硬、全球化并且卓有成效，一个当务之急是利用好各成员国技术和资源的专长和合力。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany is Not Volkswagen",
        "德国不是大众"
    ],
    [
        "Europe must become a stakeholder in Asia if both sides are to gain maximum benefit from cooperation and help shape the world of the future.",
        "如果欧洲和亚洲希望从相互合作中获得最大的利益以及为世界未来的发展制定走向，那么欧洲就必须成为亚洲的利益相关者。"
    ],
    [
        "France is not a Shangri-La, isolated from global markets or the pressures of international research.",
        "法国不是香格里拉，可以摆脱全球市场或国际研究压力的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Within a month, the US military was on the ground in Afghanistan.",
        "一个月内，美军就登上了阿富汗的领土。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because the current bout of high unemployment is self-reinforcing, once the equilibrium is broken for a while, the economy could move to a higher-employment equilibrium permanently, without the need for any further government support.",
        "而且因为目前爆发的高失业率是自我强化的，一但均衡被打破一段时间，经济就有可能长期步入一个就业水平更高的均衡状态，而且无需政府提供进一步的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "By dismissing European concerns about how such surveillance is carried out, Obama has demonstrated one of America’s worst habits – that of patronizing Europe.",
        "奥巴马对欧洲人关于监视如何进行的担忧不屑一顾，这表明了美国的一个最坏的习惯——对欧洲居高临下。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who spoke up for children’s right to go to school – even after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban – served poignant notice that not educating a child in the developing world is significantly more costly than doing so.",
        "事实上，马拉拉·尤沙夫赛（Malala Yousafzai）的例子深刻地表明，在发展中国家，不让孩子受教育比让孩子受教育的成本大得多。 马拉拉是一位年轻的巴基斯坦女孩，为儿童上学权利而疾呼，即使在遭遇塔利班的暗杀图谋后仍坚持不悔。"
    ],
    [
        "The old Anglo-French Middle East mapped out by the Sykes-Picot Agreement in May 1916 would be gone for good.",
        "1916年5月赛克斯-皮科协定描绘的英法划界中东的原有格局将一去不复返。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2016, China shipped more than $2 trillion worth of goods around the world, 13% of total global exports.",
        "2016年，中国向全世界输出了2万亿多美元的产品，占全球总出口量的13%。"
    ],
    [
        "John McCain managed to defeat his more conventional Republican rivals by seeming to be totally different from them: a maverick who says what he damned well wants, a tough guy with the knowing wink of the old ladies’ man.",
        "约翰·麦凯恩力图以与众不同的方式来击败其它更为传统的共和党对手：他是坦率说出他内心所想的特立独行者，也是拥有老妇杀手般会意眼神的硬汉。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a low point in Indo-Pakistan relations, and no one in Delhi was prepared to trust Musharraf ever again.",
        "这是印巴关系史上的最低潮，而且，印度没有人愿意再次信任穆沙拉夫了。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the alliance faces three major challenges in a new external environment.",
        "尽管如此，同盟还是在新的外部环境中面临三大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "To say that the medicine is working because the unemployment rate has decreased by a couple of percentage points, or because one can see a glimmer of meager growth, is akin to a medieval barber saying that a bloodletting is working, because the patient has not died yet.",
        "说解药正在起效，因为失业率下降了几个百分点或者能够看到一丁点儿微弱的增长迹象，就好比是中世纪理发师宣布放血疗法起了效果，因为病人还没有死一样。"
    ],
    [
        "East Asian countries were told to raise their interest rates, in some cases to 25%, 40%, or higher, causing a rash of defaults.",
        "它们告诉东亚国家要提高利率，在某些情况下达到25%、40%甚至更高，造成一大片拖欠。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is China’s strength that is guiding its view of the US president.",
        "如今，影响中国对美国总统态度的是中国的强大。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world of increasing complexity, perhaps what is needed are simple solutions.",
        "在一个变得日益复杂的世界里，也许恰恰需要简单的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "The “future position of the City of London,” according to Keynes, depended on the pound sterling continuing to serve the business world as the equivalent of gold.",
        "凯恩斯认为，“伦敦市的未来地位”取决于英镑继续作为黄金的等价物为工商界服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The verdicts are likely to boost support in the runoff for Morsi, who split the Islamist vote with two other candidates in the election’s first round.",
        "这些裁决或许有助于增加摩西的支持率，在首轮选举中，摩西和其他两位候选人分散了伊斯兰主义者的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Powered by a fundamentalist Wahhabi ideology and a boundless appetite for bloodshed, the Islamic State seeks a return to an imagined pre-modern caliphate that subjugates Shia and treats non-Muslims as second-class citizens.",
        "伊斯兰国信奉原教旨主义的瓦哈比派思想，他们极度嗜血，目标是回归想象中的前现代哈里发帝国，征服什叶派并将非穆斯林打为二等公民。"
    ],
    [
        "Its space launch vehicles (SLVs) can be used for satellites with a range of applications – including communications, weather, observation, and navigation – which may significantly enhance the effectiveness of China’s military space operations and systems.",
        "其航天发射运载工具（SLVs）可以用来发射具备各种功能的卫星——包括通信，天气预报，观测和导航——而这将大大增强中国军事航天行动和系统设备的效用。"
    ],
    [
        "After the ensuing financial thunderstorm died down, the sun would come out again very quickly.",
        "在在随之而来的金融风暴逐渐散去之后，阳光将很快重新普照大地。"
    ],
    [
        "On top of this, José Alencar, Brazil’s vice-president, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez have reintroduced the nuclear question with statements that seem to point beyond legitimate peaceful use of nuclear energy.",
        "这些还不是全部，巴西副总统若泽·阿伦卡尔和委内瑞拉总统 乌戈· 查韦斯已经发表声明，并似乎在其中暗示了超越核能和平合法应用以外的意图，这重新引发了人们对于核问题的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers need data and, equally important, the ability to analyze it.",
        "决策者需要数据以及——同样重要的——分析数据的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "And just as competition authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have been losing sleep over the Windows monopoly, Microsoft’s desktop model is threatened today by handheld devices and Google’s dispersed online computing model.",
        "而当大西洋两岸的竞争监管机构正在为微软的垄断而难以入眠时，微软的桌面模式今天受到了手提设备和谷歌的分散网上计算机模式的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "NATO and EU leaders denounced the threats, which seemed especially gratuitous coming one day after the American people had elected a new President who has expressed interest in improving relations with Russia.",
        "北约和欧盟领导人谴责了这些威胁，但这些谴责在美国人民刚刚选出了一位有意改善美俄关系的新总统之后一天做出，显得尤其无稽。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes the competition with China is direct.",
        "有时与中国的竞争是面对面的。"
    ],
    [
        "The pressure on employment and household budgets is likely to persist.",
        "就业和家庭预算压力可能会长久存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless we are extraordinarily fortunate and learn that climatologists have overlooked some enormously important channels of carbon sequestration, the models predicting global warming will still be grimly accurate in 2009.",
        "除非我们极为幸运，而且知道气候学家忽略了碳隔离的某些极为重要的渠道，在2009年的时候，预测全球气候变暖的模型还将会特别不精确。"
    ],
    [
        "The final lesson relates to the danger of the ideological echo chamber.",
        "最后的一个教训则与在意识形态上闭目塞听的危机有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Populists deny this.",
        "而民主是复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "In Afghanistan, the United States and NATO must make clear that they are at war with al-Qaeda and those who support its global objectives, but have no objection if either the Afghan or Pakistani government negotiates with insurgents who renounce ties to Osama bin Laden.",
        "在阿富汗，美国和北约必须清楚地表明，他们是在与基地组织和那些支持基地组织的全球目标的人作战，但他们不反对阿富汗或巴基斯坦政府同不再与本拉登联系的武装分子进行谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "In sum, the EU “federal” corporate tax should be thought of as a benefit tax, based on a broad measure of activity, applied at a moderate rate, and unrelated to current returns; nor should it be deductible from other taxes.",
        "总之，欧盟的“联邦”公司税应该被看作是一种福利税，它以对广泛的经营行为的度量为基础，采用适中的税率，不与当前收益挂钩； 它也不应该从其他税收中扣除。"
    ],
    [
        "There are conflicting views about whether legalization of voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands, and of physician assistance in dying in Oregon, has led to an increase in the number of vulnerable people being killed or assisted in dying withouttheirfull, informed consent.",
        "对于荷兰自愿安乐死以及美国俄勒冈州医生协助死亡的合法化是否导致更多的易受害人群在缺乏完全知情同意的情况下被杀或者协助死亡，人们有着针锋相对的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "The nineteenth-century physicist William Thomson, later known as Lord Kelvin, made his own brilliant blunder when he calculated that the Earth was less than 100 million years old – about fifty times younger than the age deduced from modern radiometric measurements.",
        "十九世纪物理学家威廉·汤姆孙（William Thomson），即后来的开尔文勋爵（Lord Kelvin）也犯过杰出的错误——他测算地球的寿命不超过1亿年——比用现代辐射测量测定的年龄年轻五十倍。"
    ],
    [
        "While that means continuing to demonstrate the benefits of new strains of cassava and other staples, the first priority must be to educate people, especially village women, about the hazards of eating unprocessed cassava, and to teach them how to prepare it safely.",
        "这意味着需要继续说明新木薯种株和其他主食的好处，但最重要的仍是教育人民，特别是农村妇女，让他们知道食用未处理木薯的危害，并教会他们如何安全地处理木薯。"
    ],
    [
        "Thankfully, it has strong prospects in both areas.",
        "幸运的是，这两方面均前景可期。"
    ],
    [
        "Some object to it on the grounds that it typically exploits the poor, for whom the choice to sell their bodies may not be truly voluntary.",
        "有些人反对卖淫，理由是这是典型的剥削穷人行为，因为那些选择去出卖自己肉体的人可能不是真正自愿的。"
    ],
    [
        "Self-pity lay close to the surface.",
        "很容易看出他身上自怨自艾的情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "STOCKHOLM – On a recent visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan, I could not fail to notice the increasingly frequent international calls for an “endgame” in Afghanistan.",
        "斯托克霍姆—在最近对阿富汗和巴基斯坦的访问中，一件令我不得不关注的事情是国际社会越来越频繁的“结束”阿富汗的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "An independent and vigorous press that checks the truth is crucial to preserving the integrity of democracy; but so is an electorate that resists cynicism and the debasement of political discourse.",
        "检查事实的独立严格的媒体对于保证民主的诚信来说至关重要； 但选民抵制犬儒主义和贬损政治叙事也很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet reforms in this area are not only untried; they are not even under discussion.",
        "但这方面的改革尚未尝试，甚至连讨论都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, however, those representative elements that have been added incrementally are not powerful enough to overcome the growing corruption and excessive influence of vested interests.",
        "不过，目前，这些逐渐增加的代表要素还不足以克服日益增长的腐败和利益集团的过度影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to forestall another US invasion – and teach the US a lesson – by surreptitiously installing nuclear missiles in Cuba, thereby triggering the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation.",
        "1962年，苏联领导人赫鲁晓夫决定先发制人阻止美国再次入侵——也给美国一个教训——秘密地在古巴部署核弹，从而引发1962年古巴导弹危机，世界徘徊在核覆灭的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "Capital spending by governments, unlike current spending, can be self-financing through user charges.",
        "政府的资本支出（而非经常支出）可以通过向用户收费收回投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities have recognized this, at least to some degree.",
        "这一点也在某种程度上得到了政府的认可。"
    ],
    [
        "Such programs have been shown to be transferable.",
        "这些计划已经证明是可以“移植”的。"
    ],
    [
        "Many factors contribute to this disarray, beginning with the shocking inability of the US, Europe, and the international organizations to understand things from the perspective of poor and displaced people.",
        "造成这种混乱的原因非常复杂，但归根结底，美国、欧洲和国际机构根本不愿为流离失所的穷人考虑是一切混乱的源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "Dealing with Russia has probably been the biggest failure in the attempt to make European foreign policy.",
        "跟俄罗斯打交道的政策可能是尝试制定统一欧洲对外政策的最大败笔。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, Tsai Ing-wen, the woman nominated by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), mounted a late charge on the Kuomintang incumbent, Ma Ying-jeou. But China did not bluster as Tsai surged in the polls.",
        "在本次大选中，在野台湾民主进步党所推举出来的候选人蔡英文在选举最后阶段对执政的国民党总统马英九造成了极大威胁，但大陆方面却并未对此作出过激举动。"
    ],
    [
        "“Just like marketing, it seems it’s only about 50% effective.”",
        "”他问，“这和营销一样，好像只有50%的效率。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, such violence – including sexual assault and arbitrary deprivation of individual and public freedoms – is widespread and multifaceted, owing to the combination of religious beliefs, cultural tradition, race and ethnicity, war, and politics that influences it.",
        "相反，这些暴力——包括性侵害和任意剥夺个人和公共自由——无处不在、形式多样，它们是宗教信仰、文化传统、种族和民族、战争以及政治综合影响的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, despite what pundits claim about strong balance sheets, firms’ debt levels, relative to assets and net worth, also remain near record-high levels.",
        "然而，尽管权威人士大谈资产负债表如何如何健康，但企业债务水平（相对应于资产和净值来说）也处于历史最高点附近。"
    ],
    [
        "The bigger problem is the modern paradox of choice.",
        "更突出的问题是现代选择悖论。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s politicians focus narrowly on how high a carbon tax should be to stop people from using fossil fuels.",
        "但当今的政治家们只是狭隘地把目光放在碳排放税究竟要高到什么水平，才能阻止人们使用化石燃料的命题之上。"
    ],
    [
        "But we who chose Putin were charged with finding someone to continue Yeltsin’s reforms, not shield him and his family.",
        "有人指责我们这些普京的拥戴者只顾找人继续叶利钦的改革，而不顾他和他的家庭在未来是否安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it because they cannot give voice to their pain?",
        "还是因为它们无法用声音表达自己的痛苦？"
    ],
    [
        "At the moment, who will succeed Putin is not important; what counts is the process that will result in the choice of Russia’s third president.",
        "目前，何人继任普京已经不是重要的了； 重要的是产生俄国第三位总统的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Older upper-middle-class Americans and Europeans have had a good life.",
        "年龄较长的中上阶级美国人和欧洲人已经过上了优渥的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it would be like providing massive blood transfusions to a patient suffering from vast internal hemorrhaging.",
        "可这样做就像是为内出血的病人大量输血，根本无法收到根本的疗效。"
    ],
    [
        "The AKP came to represent this new elite and its quest for political power.",
        "AKP成为这个新精英阶层及其政治权利诉求的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – When caricature takes the place of dialogue, everyone suffers – especially when it comes to understanding issues affecting women, who struggle worldwide against being silenced.",
        "发自纽约——当鹦鹉学舌取代了沟通对话，所有人都深受其害——尤其是当话题关乎如何理解全世界反抗压制的女性之时。"
    ],
    [
        "To stop the world from being divided between a few alpha programmers and many drones, he wants the potential drones to stop taking easy liberal arts courses in college.",
        "为了防止世界被分裂成少数高端程序员和大量工人的两个极端，他希望那些有可能将来沦为机械工人的人不要在大学里修读简单的文科课程。"
    ],
    [
        "This reality extends back to imperial times.",
        "这一现实可以上溯到帝国时代。"
    ],
    [
        "The structuralist perspective also explains why recovery has been slow.",
        "结构主义观点还解释了为何复苏一直如此缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "Exchange rates have a nasty habit of overshooting their equilibrium values, then knifing back on countries, especially those who have been spending too much based on inflated income valuations.",
        "汇率有突破其均衡价值的可恶习惯，并重创相关国家，特别是那些基于通胀状态下的收入计算而大肆支出的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "While our compassion is great, our resources are limited.",
        "尽管我们富有同情心，但是资源有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, as competition for promotion within the Chinese bureaucracy has escalated, even fake academic credentials and GDP growth records have become insufficient to advance one’s career.",
        "更糟糕的是，随着中国官僚系统中向上爬的斗争逐渐升级，连假冒文凭和GDP增长记录都不足以让他们更进一步。"
    ],
    [
        "But one wonders how Obama would have reacted in 1933 had the German military toppled Hitler (who, after all, was appointed Chancellor after winning an election).",
        "但人们不禁要问奥巴马会对1933年德国军队推翻希特勒作何反应（希特勒毕竟是在赢得大选后担任了总理职务）。"
    ],
    [
        "And we should apply more pressure on companies like Advance Publications to take responsibility for the sites they own and what happens there.",
        "我们也应该向Advance Publications等公司施加更多压力，要求它们在为它们所拥有的网站所发生的事情负责。"
    ],
    [
        "Some progress has been made toward safeguarding emerging Europe’s banking system.",
        "在捍卫新兴欧洲银行系统方面，我们已经取得了一些进步。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Roadmap",
        "中国的路线图"
    ],
    [
        "How will financial firms react?",
        "金融企业的反应会是如何呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Now, the focus is on achieving sustainable long-term growth, underpinned by domestic consumption, a stronger services sector, entrepreneurship, and innovation.",
        "如今，焦点转向了实现以国内消费、更强大的服务业、企业家精神和创新为基础的可持续长期增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Scotland’s most recent survey showed a decline in literacy, with less than half of the country’s 13- and 14-year-olds now performing well in writing.",
        "苏格兰的最新调查表明，识字率呈现出下降，该国13—14岁年龄段群体只有不到一半写作表现良好。"
    ],
    [
        "So where is China’s economy now?",
        "那么，中国经济目前状况如何？"
    ],
    [
        "Both work in practice like a wage subsidy for those with low incomes, cutting poverty – particularly among women with young children – while strengthening incentives to work.",
        "两者都起到了类似低收入者工资补贴式的现实作用——在削减（尤其是需要养活幼童的妇女）贫困的同时鼓励人们去工作。"
    ],
    [
        "From Lahore to Lagos, Mexico City to Mumbai, governments are looking at their own populations as pools of talent waiting to be tapped.",
        "从拉合尔到拉各斯、从墨西哥城到孟买，各国政府正在将其民众视为亟待开发的人才库。"
    ],
    [
        "Moscow will understand a policy based on mutual respect for each other’s interests better than simple appeals to goodwill and friendship.",
        "相比单纯地呼唤善意和友好，莫斯科会更加理解一项兼顾双方利益的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In the process, the US damaged the reputation for effective economic management that it had earned during the global financial crisis, when bold and timely measures prevented a period of reckless private risk-taking and financial leverage from ending in Great Depression II.",
        "在此过程中，美国在全球金融危机期间所赢得的高效经济管理的声誉遭到了破坏。 金融危机爆发时，美国采取了果断而及时的措施防止了鲁莽的私人冒险和金融杠杆演变为大萧条II。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, President Barack Obama asked Congress for $6.2 billion, including $2.4 billion to reduce the risk of the disease becoming established in America and set up 50 US Ebola treatment centers.",
        "在美国，总统奥巴马要求国会拨款62亿美元，其中24亿美元用于降低埃博拉进入美国的风险和建立50座美国埃博拉治疗中心。"
    ],
    [
        "These challenges, insufficiently addressed, soon led many to question the sustainability of liberal democracy’s appeal at home and its universality abroad, and to probe the alleged merits of the “Chinese model,” best characterized as a form of authoritarian or state capitalism.",
        "由于这些挑战没有得到充分的解决，很快导致很多人开始怀疑自由民主制度在国内的持续性和国外的普遍性，并开始探讨所谓“中国模式”的优势，而“中国模式”往好处说也不过是某种形式的独裁或国家资本主义。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an election about social responsibility – a society’s obligation to support those who are struggling, through no fault of their own, to find jobs and make ends meet.",
        "这是一场事关社会责任的选举。 所谓社会责任，即社会支持因并非由其自身造成的错误而承受寻找工作、实现收支平衡压力的群体的义务。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU, the United States, and Japan are in fiscal jeopardy, and several countries – Japan, Greece, Italy, and Belgium – have public debts exceeding their GDP.",
        "欧盟、美国和日本正处于财政危机中，一些国家——日版、希腊、意大利和比利时——的公共债务已经超过了GDP。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s film industry has long suffered stoically under the pressure of the paternalistic censors.",
        "印度电影业长期在一言堂式的审查者的压力下痛不欲生。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that, despite being demoralized by years of futile “peace processes,” the Palestinian masses are in no mood for a third intifada.",
        "事实上，尽管巴勒斯坦人民因为“和平进程”多年来徒劳无功而感到沮丧，但他们并不想发动第三次暴动。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Perhaps the most impressive current example of leadership based on the ability to communicate is Barack Obama, who has given three times as many interviews as George W. Bush and held four times as many prime press conferences as Bill Clinton at this stage in their presidencies.",
        "坎布里奇——巴拉克·奥巴马或许是当前以沟通能力著称的最知名领袖的例证，他在总统任期相同阶段的受访次数为乔治·W·布什的三倍，召开重要新闻发布会的次数则是比尔·克林顿的四倍之多。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Much attention in the United States and elsewhere is focused on whether US presidential candidate Donald Trump will shift away from the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, and anti-rational rhetoric that carried him to the Republican Party nomination.",
        "华盛顿—在美国和其他国家，许多人都在关注美国总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普是否会转变让他赢得共和党提名的反移民、反穆斯林和反理性的言辞风格。"
    ],
    [
        "What is the message to Muslims of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003?",
        "美国所领导的2003年入侵伊拉克对穆斯林来说意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "The fate of the Chagossians, the former residents of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, is particularly harrowing.",
        "查戈斯人，这些印度洋查戈斯群岛原住民的遭遇尤其令人嘘叹不已。"
    ],
    [
        "Historical proof that globalization does not necessarily mean homogenization can be seen in Japan, a country that deliberately isolated itself from earlier waves of globalization.",
        "历史证明全球化并不一定意味着同一化。 例如日本。"
    ],
    [
        "But, before millions of people are submerged, many will be struck by extreme weather events.",
        "但是，在数百万人被水吞没之前，许多人将受到极端天气事件的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, massive corruption scandals have also severely eroded Rousseff’s standing, and are the key reason why she is now facing impeachment proceedings.",
        "诚然，大规模腐败丑闻也严重削弱了罗塞夫的地位，也是她现在面临弹劾程序的关键原因。"
    ],
    [
        "They will.",
        "它们能做到。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, every central bank that published a financial stability report (in other words, most of them) concluded that their country’s banking system was in fine shape: well-capitalized and endowed with robust governance and strong risk management.",
        "2006年，所有央行发布金融稳定性报告的央行（也就是说，大部分央行）认为它们的国家银行体系结构合理：资本充沛，治理强健，风险管理强大。"
    ],
    [
        "Low-income countries in the normal process of development, for example, receive steady inflows of official foreign assistance of about 3% of their gross national income.",
        "例如，正常发展进程中的低收入国家比较稳定地接受相当于国民生产总值3％的正式外国援助。"
    ],
    [
        "This prompted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to challenge political, economic, and financial leaders in January to intensify their efforts to achieve a new global agreement on climate change by 2015.",
        "这促使联合国秘书长潘基文在今年1月敦促政治、经济和金融各界领导人加紧努力，争取在2015年达成新的全球气候变化协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Koizumi’s government demonstrated the best way to tackle fiscal consolidation.",
        "事实上，小泉政府已经展示了进行财务整顿的最佳方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Not for the people of North Korea.",
        "但朝鲜人除外。"
    ],
    [
        "· A synchronized pickup in global economic growth, which continues to strengthen.",
        "· 全球经济增长同步回升并继续走强。"
    ],
    [
        "There were other times when we have stood by while a militaristic European power insisted that it had the right to intervene wherever it wanted to advance the interests of those who claimed shared ethnicity from the Baltics to the Caucasus.",
        "曾经有过那些时刻，从巴尔地干到高加索，当某个军事欧洲国家坚认，为了维护那些声称享有相同文化的人们的利益，它有权去干涉它想干涉的任何国家，那时我们曾袖手旁观。"
    ],
    [
        "But it turned out to be impossible to eliminate alcohol consumption.",
        "但事实证明是不可能消除酒精消费。"
    ],
    [
        "Each new revelation in the investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 campaign brings the vulnerability of the US democratic process into sharper focus.",
        "对俄罗斯操纵2016年选战的调查的每一次案情公布，都让美国民主程序的脆弱性遭到更严重的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "The price of liberty, Americans are fond of saying, is eternal vigilance.",
        "美国人总喜欢说自由的代价是永远保持警惕。"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder domestic consumption cannot grow in a manner commensurate with GDP.",
        "难怪中国的国内消费不能以与GDP相适应的方式增长。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, efforts to build a more sustainable economy would bring far-reaching benefits.",
        "相反，构建更加可持续的经济的措施将带来影响深远的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Monti, for example, was among the first to sound the alarm about Italy’s dire finances.",
        "例如，蒙蒂是首先对意大利财政危机发出警告的人之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But it will take courage and sheer determination to tackle what is perhaps the biggest obstacle of all – resistance from deeply entrenched local and provincial power blocs.",
        "但勇气和坚定的决心在对抗来自根深蒂固的地方及省级权力集团的最强力障碍时也同样必不可少。"
    ],
    [
        "Suppose that John got richer by $300 because he worked harder, saved and invested more, and created better products, driving Nicholas out of business and causing him a loss of $200.",
        "约翰工作更努力，更多地进行储蓄投资，并生产出更好的产品，于是他不但比尼古拉斯多300美元，而且把后者的公司挤出市场并导致其损失200美元。"
    ],
    [
        "What famous people – indeed ordinary people, too – do in private should be off limits to the media unless they give permission for those activities to be reported, photographed, or filmed.",
        "名人——事实上普通人也是如此——在私下里做的事情对媒体报道没有限制，只有在他们允许这些行为被报道、拍摄或录像的情况下才可以。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of this year, the EU is to decide whether to open membership talks with Turkey - a country that is not only poor and big, but Muslim.",
        "在今年年底，欧盟会决定是否与土耳其展开成员国资格谈判。 而土耳其既大且穷，还是个穆斯林国家。"
    ],
    [
        "They should not repeat that mistake by waiting for inflationary pressures – fueled by rising oil and commodity prices and economic recovery – to return.",
        "如今，央行应该不会重蹈覆辙，坐等通胀压力——受石油和商品价格上涨以及经济复苏推动——回归了。"
    ],
    [
        "For the presidential election, however, the practice of holding three televised debates between the two major parties’ candidates should be an opportunity for a thorough airing of those issues.",
        "不过，对总统大选来说，两大党候选人之间的三次电视辩论理应成为彻底亮出底牌的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "It is certainly preferable to a plutocracy, in which wealth determines status, or a gerontocracy, in which age leads one to the top, or even an aristocracy, in which what counts are inherited titles and properties.",
        "这肯定好过富豪统治中的财富决定地位，也强过老人政治中的年龄决定尊卑。 甚至连贵族政治都难望其项背，因为决定贵族地位的不过是与生俱来的头衔和财产。"
    ],
    [
        "During the same period, US emissions grew 29%, but its GDP grew 39% more than Denmark’s, indicating a simple truth: CO2 cuts and subsidies don’t necessarily mean no growth, but they probably do mean slower growth.",
        "在同一时期，美国的排放量增加了29%，但是它的GDP增长率高出丹麦39%，这表明了一个简单的事实：降低二氧化碳排放量以及提供补贴并不一定意味着 没有 增长，但是它们可能会造成增长放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "If not made mandatory, insurance must at least be promoted effectively.",
        "如果不实行强制，就必须要采取有效方法推广保险。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment fell to 3.8% without any surge in inflation.",
        "8% 时并没有带来通货膨胀率的猛升。"
    ],
    [
        "At present, for example, the government spends as much as 16% of its budget to subsidize the price of energy for every citizen.",
        "例如到目前为止，政府预算的高达16%被用于补贴民用能源价格。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, the Arab world is stuck between an unsustainable economic and political status quo and the inclusive, merit-based economic system that less myopic people in the region know must replace it.",
        "现在的情况是，阿拉伯世界在难以持续的经济政治现状和稍有远见的地区群众知道必将取而代之的包容性、基于业绩的经济制度之间陷入到两难之中。"
    ],
    [
        "While only Congress can officially declare war or ratify treaties, presidents may use (or refuse to use) military force without explicit congressional approval.",
        "只有国会可以正式宣战或批准条约，但总统可以在没有国会明确批准的情况下使用（或拒绝使用）武力。"
    ],
    [
        "Their management certainly benefited as long as everything went well.",
        "只要不出问题，企业就能日进斗金。"
    ],
    [
        "It must be believed.",
        "我们必须要相信它。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, however, it must focus on workers and elevating the experience of their work, which economists from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and Alfred Marshall placed at the center of their concerns.",
        "但是，与此同时，中国必须关注工人，提升他们的工作体验——从亚当·斯密到艾尔弗雷德·马歇尔的大批经济学家无不把这作为经济思想的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "The recently completed “stress tests” of US banks are but the latest indication that crony capitalists have now captured Washington, DC.",
        "美国财政部最近完成的银行 “压力测试”，只是裙带资本主义占领华盛顿特区的一个最新标志而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Western prosperity relied increasingly on debt.",
        "相反，西方繁荣越来越依赖于举债消费。"
    ],
    [
        "But global warming will cause damage worth possibly 1-5% of GDP by the end of the century, when the UN expects developing-world incomes to have risen by 1,400-1,800%.",
        "但全球变暖问题将在本世纪末导致大概价值占GDP1~5%的损失，而联合国预计那时发展中国家的收入已增长了1400~1800 %。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s government has denied that people are starving and has relaxed its import restriction regime.",
        "以色列政府已经否认加沙人正在挨饿，并且已经放松了进口限制制度。"
    ],
    [
        "That, in turn, should help to rebalance the demand side of the growth pattern.",
        "这也相应会有助于重新平衡增长模式的需求方面。"
    ],
    [
        "The real issue is whether shaking or abuse can be inferred on the basis of a hypothesis that lacks scientific support.",
        "当然是可能的。 真正的问题在于是否可以根据缺少科学依据的假说推断震动或虐待。"
    ],
    [
        "The approach to North Korea is similar.",
        "对北朝鲜也要采用类似的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "That does not augur well for a rational debate about whether incest between adult siblings should remain a crime.",
        "这对展开是否应将成人兄弟姊妹间的乱伦继续视为犯罪的理性辩论似乎不是好兆头。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – In the last few weeks, the idea of establishing a European banking union has become the latest remedy advanced as a solution to the long-running euro crisis.",
        "巴黎—在过去几周中，成立银行联盟成了解决爆发已久的欧元危机的最新药方。"
    ],
    [
        "But this aim does not appear to be creating a European identity, as the euro has.",
        "但上述目标并没有像欧元那样让欧洲融为一体。"
    ],
    [
        "· The “Laffer Proposition.”",
        "· “拉弗方案”。"
    ],
    [
        "So shouldn’t everyone get the same benefits?",
        "那么每人得到的福利是否应该相同？"
    ],
    [
        "But, in cases like that of Chen, even sympathetic legal colleagues are often afraid to speak out, much less take action.",
        "但是，在诸如陈光诚这样的案例中，即使有同情心的法律人士往往也不敢站出来说话，更不要说采取行动了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the firms listed on China’s stock exchanges are not representative of the country’s companies.",
        "此外，中国上市公司并不代表中国企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Strengthening democracy means working with the Kenyan developers of a crisis-mapping platform that allows anyone with a cell phone to text information about election fraud or violence to a central monitoring station.",
        "加强民主则要与肯尼亚程序开发者一同建立一个危机地图定位平台，让每一个有手机的民众都可以把选举舞弊行为或暴力事件发送短信报告给中央监控中心。"
    ],
    [
        "As a first step, the GCC states are moving toward new tax regimes in early 2018, including a value-added tax, a corporation tax, property taxes, and taxes on fuel, tobacco, and alcohol.",
        "作为第一步，GCC国家正在着手从2018年初实施新税制，包括增值税、公司税、房产税以及能源、烟草和酒税。"
    ],
    [
        "I claimed in the book that, in the absence of a more concerted government response, too much globalization would deepen societal cleavages, exacerbate distributional problems, and undermine domestic social bargains – arguments that have become conventional wisdom since.",
        "我在书中说，如果没有更加协调的政府应对机制，过度全球化将深化社会分裂，加剧分配问题，破坏国内社会契约——该书出版后，这些观点都成为常规智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "Aware of a potential threat from within their ranks, Musharraf has populated his inner circle with relatively junior (and reliably loyal) officers.",
        "认识到来自军队的潜在威胁，穆沙拉夫把他身边的核心成员换成了相对低级别（同时也是更忠心）的军官。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with the economy slowing, it has become a model in need of renewal.",
        "但随着经济不断放缓，韩国已经转变为一个需要复兴的典型。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, Russia, and the US must finish the “unfinished war.”",
        "欧洲、俄国和美国应当结束这场“没有结束的战争”。"
    ],
    [
        "In many cases, migrants’ physical security improves as well.",
        "在许多情况下，也会显著改善移民的人身安全状况。"
    ],
    [
        "For some countries, this is currently the only viable option, but over the long run this dependence can mean higher energy costs and vulnerability to price volatility and supply shocks.",
        "对某些国家来讲目前这是唯一的选择，但长远来看这样的依赖可能意味着更高的能源成本和易受价格波动及供给冲击的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "We have been here before, of course, only to see prospects for improved India-Pakistan relations snuffed out.",
        "我们曾经也走到过这一步，最后却眼睁睁地看着改善印巴关系的前景毁于一旦。"
    ],
    [
        "The sense that Europe was uniting around common institutions made it strongly attractive for the EU’s neighbors, though this eroded somewhat after the financial crisis.",
        "欧洲团结在统一制度下的认知对欧盟邻国产生了强大的吸引力，尽管这种吸引力在金融危机后有所减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "China has faced much worse on numerous occasions; each time, it muddled through.",
        "中国不止一次面临过更遭的状况，但每次都挺了过来。"
    ],
    [
        "The key is engagement – among branches of the US government, between the US government and the public, and between the US and the rest of the world.",
        "关键在于参与（engagement）——美国政府各部门的参与，美国政府和公众之间的参与，以及美国和世界其他国家之间的参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet that distinction may not be as powerful as the Socialists may believe.",
        "但这一区分或许并不像社会党认为的那么有力。"
    ],
    [
        "Arguably, the best legacy Anwar might eventually leave Malaysia would not be what he can achieve for the UMNO and the National Front, but what role he might play in entrenching a contest of ideas into Malaysian politics – a project he has shown himself keen to promote.",
        "或许，Anwar最终可以为马来西亚留下的最好的遗产不是他能为UMNO和民族阵线赢得什么，而是他能为马来西亚政坛开创百家争鸣的局面发挥什么样的作用—这也是他极力推动的一项事业。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the ECB’s model, the euro’s 10% depreciation over the past year (in real, trade-weighted terms) may lift growth this year by a mere 0.2%.",
        "根据欧洲央行的模型测算，欧元去年10%的贬值（以贸易加权的实际值计算）仅仅贡献了今年0. 2%的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "While the crisis featured North Korea’s familiar belligerence and aggressive rhetoric, there were also some interesting new twists.",
        "在这场危机中，朝鲜的反应依然是为人所熟知的好斗和咄咄逼人，但也体现出一些颇为有趣的新动向。"
    ],
    [
        "To resolve outstanding issues with Iran, the West should be dealing with the only person powerful enough to make deals and deliver concessions.",
        "为了解决与伊朗之间悬而未决的问题，西方应该与唯一一位有足够的权力达成协议并做出让步的人打交道。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting fiscal austerity plunged many below the poverty line and accelerated economic inequality, while many private institutions, having caused the 2008 bust, recovered on the public dime.",
        "由此造成的财政紧缩加剧了经济不平等，导致很多人跌落到贫困线以下，而很多造成2008年萧条的私营机构却利用公共经费迅速恢复了元气。"
    ],
    [
        "Secrecy is, of course, necessary in national-security affairs.",
        "当然，在国家安全问题上保密是必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Institutionally, it is simply an extension of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel.",
        "从制度上说，它只是国际清算银行根据巴塞尔协议的简单扩展。"
    ],
    [
        "This marks a return to a pre-Westphalian world of linguistic, religious, and sectarian solidarity, of the sort Czarist Russia practiced when it regarded itself as the protector of all Slavs.",
        "这标志着回归前威斯特伐利亚的语言/宗教和宗派团结时代，当时的沙皇俄国以所有斯拉夫民族的保护人自居并据此行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The second ethical argument is based on the commandment “thou shalt not kill” which also enjoins the state from killing.",
        "第二条道德理由来自于“不可杀人”的圣经训诫，这条训诫同样也禁止国家杀人。"
    ],
    [
        "The current international norm of simple majority rule is, as we have just seen, a formula for chaos.",
        "如我们刚刚看到的，当前国际简单多数的规则不啻致乱法宝。"
    ],
    [
        "A vibrant rural sector generates local demand for locally produced goods and services.",
        "生机勃勃的农村部门创造出土产商品和服务的当地需求。"
    ],
    [
        "When it was only an aspiration, the European Union was an immensely attractive idea that fired many people’s imagination, including mine.",
        "当还停留在美好愿望的时候，欧盟这个有诱惑力的想法激发了包括我在内很多人的想象力。"
    ],
    [
        "So why hasn’t more adjustment taken place already?",
        "那么，为什么还没有出现更多的调整呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This is why GCC countries should encourage and invest in technological development at the local level, and create room for engineers to work with local public-health professionals.",
        "因此，GCC国家应该鼓励投资于地方水平的科技发展，并为工程师与地方公共卫生工作者的合作创造空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Some believe the only salvation is a return to the gold standard era of the late 1800s, when governments fixed the price of their currency in gold, leaving little scope for political interference.",
        "有人认为唯一的解决之道是回归19世纪末的金本位，政府将货币价格与黄金挂钩，这样就杜绝了政治干预空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, as is true of many of America’s diplomatic transactions, accepting advice could open the way to a better relationship and to additional assistance.",
        "有时（正如大量美国外交交易所显示的）接受建议开启改善关系之门，从而带来进一步的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "As Nicholas Burns, a former under-secretary of state, has argued, US strategic interests in the century ahead will align more closely with India’s than with those of any other continental Asian power, making India central to America’s strategic rebalancing toward Asia.",
        "前副国务卿尼古拉斯·伯恩斯（Nicholas Burns）指出，美国在本世纪的战略利益与印度的联系胜过其他仍和亚洲大陆强国，这使得印度成为美国偏向亚洲的战略性再平衡的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "For some people, this will mean expensive genetic testing and designer diets, but for most, it will mean realistic advice based on visibly demonstrable phenotypes – a tendency to gain weight, for example, or an intolerance or allergic response to certain food types.",
        "对一部分人而言，这将意味着昂贵的基因测试和饮食设计，但是对大多数人来说，它意味着根据显而易见的表现型而提出的实际建议——比如，体重加剧的倾向，或者对某个食品种类的过敏现象。"
    ],
    [
        "What is missing is a new, 13th convention that closes the loophole that seems to permit governments to decide what constitutes terrorism and what does not.",
        "允许政府来决定什么是恐怖主义的构成是一个漏洞，现在缺少的是一个新的第13个公约来弥补这一漏洞。"
    ],
    [
        "But philanthropy is only one way to address social and environmental challenges.",
        "但慈善只是解决社会和环境挑战的方法之一。"
    ],
    [
        "While the previous model brought 30 years of success in terms of GDP growth, it generated considerable risks and imbalances – including environmental degradation, social inequities, excessive debt, industrial over-capacity, and a bloated state sector.",
        "尽管此前的发展模式带来了前30年的成功（从GDP增长的角度），但也产生了大量风险和失衡，包括环境恶化、社会不平等、债务过度、工业产能过剩和国有部门臃肿等。"
    ],
    [
        "It worked well in the United Nations General Assembly last September, when he had something solid to offer – a deal on his country’s nuclear program – raising hopes that Iran’s hardline foreign-policy stance would finally soften.",
        "去年九月，鲁哈尼的魅力攻势在联合国大会上大放异彩，当时他可以提供实实在在的东西——关于伊朗核计划的协议——让人们认为伊朗的强硬外交政策立场终于要软化了。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, a new global downturn would hit low-income countries hard.",
        "因此，新的全球减速将极大地冲击低收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But voters who opposed previous EU treaties for centralizing power would almost certainly welcome reforms that restored authority to national parliaments.",
        "但反对此前集中权力的欧盟条约的选民几乎肯定会援引让国家议会重获权威的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, celebrations of the attacks were held at the National Front’s headquarters, and German neo-Nazis burned US flags.",
        "”法国国民阵线总部为这次袭击举行庆典，德国的新纳粹分子焚烧美国国旗。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, many young people in the 1950’s, like my Belgian mother, ardently supported the vision of a new Europe.",
        "有趣的是，20世纪50年代的很多年轻人，比如我的比利时母亲，热烈支持新欧洲的愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, advanced countries should issue them first.",
        "相反， 发达 国家应该首先发行它们。"
    ],
    [
        "If Iran fails to qualify, this could turn some young voters against the incumbent.",
        "如果伊朗队输球的话，一些年轻选民就会将怨气撒在现任的执政者头上。"
    ],
    [
        "Kissinger focuses on inter-state relations – on how, from one country’s perspective, to avoid war with other countries while deterring them from aggression or other actions likely to upset a regional or global balance of power.",
        "基辛格重点探讨国家关系——即从某个国家的角度来看，如何在阻止其他国家发起侵略或可能破坏地区或全球权力平衡的其他行为的同时避免与这些国家发生战争。"
    ],
    [
        "While the appeal of nuclear power has declined considerably in the West, it has grown among the so-called “nuclear newcomers,” which brings with it new challenges, including concerns about proliferation of nuclear weapons.",
        "而当西方对核能的认可度大幅减少之时，核能却在那些所谓“核能新玩家”中走红，并为其带来了新的挑战，包括对这些国家将核燃料浓缩制成核武器的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "They recognize that stable, equitable markets are better than physical infrastructure at creating jobs and driving long-term growth.",
        "地方政府已经认识到，稳定公平的市场在创造就业、驱动长期增长方面比实体基础设施更有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet technology will be only part of the story.",
        "但技术只是整个故事的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – Many Europeans feel like their countries are under assault, as huge numbers of migrants flow across their borders.",
        "布鲁塞尔—因为大量移民穿越国境，许多欧洲人觉得他们的国家正在遭受袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "Conditions in this vital economic sector will become even more precarious than they currently are.",
        "与现有状况相比，这一生死攸关的经济领域的稳定性将会进一步下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The aim should be to produce viable ideas, build consensus, and find linkages – first and foremost within the EU, but without forgetting allies and partners.",
        "我们的目标是在不忘记盟友和伙伴的前提下首先在欧盟内部拿出可行的想法，凝聚共识并且找到联系。"
    ],
    [
        "A letter to Congress with a similar conclusion was signed by 120 academics with expertise in bankruptcy, banking regulation, finance, or all three.",
        "120名破产、银行监管、金融或这三方面兼顾的专家学者联署了一份相同的结论并致信国会。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s economics textbooks assume that a primary objective of central banks is to stabilize consumer prices, rather than the value of money.",
        "今天的经济学教科书假设中央银行的主要目标是稳定消费物价，而不是货币价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than exhibiting enlightened leadership, Western policymakers have consistently lagged realities on the ground, with a bewildering mixture of denial, misdiagnosis, and bickering undermining their responses.",
        "西方决策者并没有表现出开明的领导力，反而一直不能直面事实，他们的反应混合了否认、错误诊断和有害无利的扯皮，使人难以摸着头脑。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Palestinian president faces a challenging agenda and high popular expectations.",
        "新一届巴勒斯坦主席面临着极富挑战的任务和民众很高的期望。"
    ],
    [
        "The underlying explanation lies in the culture and prejudices of France’s governing elite, the so-called grands commis formed by the National Civil Service School of which Hollande – like virtually all of his predecessors, except Nicolas Sarkozy – is an alumnus.",
        "关键的解释在于法国治国精英的文化和偏见，即奥朗德——以及除萨科齐之外的几乎所有前任——亦是其中一员的国家公务员学校所塑造的“宏大承诺”（grands commis）。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rebalancing does have strategic implications for Europe.",
        "但再平衡确实对欧洲形成了战略影响。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON , DC – China has weathered the Great Recession well.",
        "中国已经平稳地度过了大萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "Relations with Egypt and Jordan will also be affected, and hopes of collaboration with the moderate Arab camp will be frustrated.",
        "与埃及的约旦的关系也会受到影响，与阿拉伯温和阵营合作的希望也会受到打击。"
    ],
    [
        "The Germans are deeply conflicted.",
        "德国人在这个问题上颇为纠结。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberalizing policies are justified in theory only by the assumption that political decisions will redistribute some of the gains from winners to losers in socially acceptable ways.",
        "政策自由化只有在政治决定能够以社会可接受的方式将一些收益从赢家手中再分配给输家的假设下才能在理论上成立。"
    ],
    [
        "Recapitalization has not yet reached the point where there are enough strong banks.",
        "在没有足够强大的银行之前，资本重组无从实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Collective goods like fire and police protection are allocated on a per capita basis.",
        "如消防和警察保护那样的集体事项的分配则按人头来计算。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the Kremlin finally wake up to this?",
        "克里姆林宫是否会最终清醒，意识到这一点呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The Day After, now cited as the highest-rated film in TV history, left then-US President Ronald Reagan “greatly depressed” and caused him to rethink his nuclear strategy.",
        "这部现在被引为电视史上收视率最高的纪录片《浩劫后》使得美国总统罗纳德·里根感到“万分沮丧”，并重新思考自己的核战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who are immersed in a field have an established view of what is possible, based on some combination of previous successes, citation bias, current limits of knowledge, and truth – and it is often difficult to distinguish these sources.",
        "因为来源往往很难分清，所以此前的成功、引用偏好、目前的知识局限和公理让圈内人对“可能”的定义产生了约定俗成的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "The Unraveling of Europe’s Peace",
        "欧洲和平的撕裂"
    ],
    [
        "MUMBAI – The ongoing weakness of America’s economy – where deleveraging in the private and public sectors continues apace – has led to stubbornly high unemployment and sub-par growth.",
        "孟买——私有和公共部门的去杠杆化在美国经济持续疲软的背景下齐头并进，已经导致失业率居高不下和经济增长低于预期。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences of underfunded education are tragic.",
        "基础教育资金不足的后果是悲剧性的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the “smartest” cities are not necessarily the most technologically advanced. Rather, they are the places where technology and public policy support citizens’ welfare and aspirations.",
        "虽然“最智能”城市并不一定在技术上最为先进，但它们的技术和公共政策必须注重民众的福利和愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the Cold War in Europe was declared over, the truth is, it never really finished.",
        "尽管人们宣称欧洲冷战已经结束，但真实情况是，冷战从未真正退出历史舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, budget rules should segregate public investment, thereby facilitating a differential response in fiscal consolidation.",
        "相反，预算规则必须将公共投资排除在外，从而促进不同的财政整合应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the release of the Stern Review, one British newspaper reportedly wrote: “Act now or the world we know will be lost forever.”",
        "斯特恩报告发布后，据称一家英国报纸曾经报导：“要么即刻采取行动，要么听任我们熟悉的世界永久失去。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher investment in the US by both domestic and foreign companies would boost economic growth, while the resulting increase in capital – new businesses, factories, equipment, and research –would improve productivity.",
        "国内外公司均增加在美投资能够刺激经济增长，与此同时，由此带来的资本增加——新企业、工厂、设备和研究——能够改善生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider this: Fifty years ago, emerging markets and developing economies accounted for about a quarter of world GDP.",
        "想一想，五十年前，新兴市场和发展中经济体只占世界GDP的大约四分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Recession Insurance",
        "衰退保险"
    ],
    [
        "This is also roughly the amount needed to fill the vast infrastructure gap that is preventing the world from addressing critical developmental challenges – from rapid urbanization to climate change and job creation.",
        "这也与填补阻碍世界解决从快速城市化到气候变化和就业创造的各种关键发展的巨大的基础设施缺口所需要的资金量相当。"
    ],
    [
        "But what would a good agreement look like?",
        "但好协议到底是什么样的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "With one daily minimum wage in Venezuela, you can buy barely a half-pound (227 grams) of beef or 12 eggs, or 1,000 liters (264 gallons) of gasoline or 5,100 kWh of electricity – enough to power a small town.",
        "在委内瑞拉，最低日薪勉强可以购买半磅（227克）牛肉或12个鸡蛋，或1,000升汽油或5,100千瓦时电力——足以够一个小镇使用。"
    ],
    [
        "If Qaddafi finally goes, it will not be because his army is dependent on the US.",
        "即使卡扎菲最终下台，也绝不会因为他的军队需要依赖美国。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies critical faculties and the ability to tolerate criticism.",
        "这还意味着批评和容忍批评的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – The United Nations has declared 2015 to be the International Year of Soils, and April 19-23 marks this year’s Global Soil Week.",
        "柏林—联合国宣布2015年为国际土壤年，4月19—23日将是今年的全球土壤周。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, given that, aside from Italy, Germany recorded the EU’s lowest growth rate from 1995 to 2005, the improving performance of Europe’s largest economy is a source of relief.",
        "但是，除了意大利，德国是1995－2005年欧盟增长率最低的国家，欧洲经济实力最强的国家有了改善，仍然让人松了一口气。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2008 global financial crisis compounded uncertainty and mistrust, disrupting key trends like globalization.",
        "2008年全球金融危机加剧了不确定性和不信任，破坏了全球化等重要趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "The Landmines Treaty was created despite the opposition of the strongest bureaucracy (the Pentagon) in the world's largest military power.",
        "《地雷公约》也突破世界第一军事大国最强大官僚机构（五角大楼）的反对而诞生了。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, it is important to note that Turkey continues to confront the threat of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an organization listed as a terrorist group by both the United States and the European Union.",
        "最后，必须注意到土耳其仍在面临库尔德工人党（PKK）的威胁。 PKK被美国和欧盟列为恐怖组织。"
    ],
    [
        "When, beginning in the nineteenth century, book publishing became not only a lucrative business, but also made books increasingly affordable to many more households, the sources of learning in society exploded.",
        "在十九世纪初，当书籍出版不仅是一项有利可图的生意，还使书籍能以日渐低廉的价格进入千家万户的时候，社会的学习资源便出现了爆炸式的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Chávez, and then Maduro, adopted policies that put Venezuela in a very weak position: lavish spending, expropriation, price and foreign-exchange controls, and reckless borrowing abroad.",
        "查韦斯，以及随后的马杜罗，所采取的政策让委内瑞拉岌岌可危：挥霍、征没、价格和外汇管制，以及肆无忌惮地从海外借钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Requiring invigorated administrative and operational resources, it comes at a time when the Kingdom is not only dealing with lower oil earnings and drawing down its large reserves, but also is increasingly asserting its regional role, including in Syria and Yemen.",
        "这需要动员管理和经营资源，而与此同时，沙特王国不但有面对石油收益下降、巨额储备流失，同时也在日渐强调其地区角色，包括在叙利亚和也门。"
    ],
    [
        "Another example: To commemorate Facebook’s ten-year anniversary, Time, Inc. offered to assess people’s newsfeeds to estimate how much time they had wasted on the site.",
        "另一个例子：为纪念脸书面世十周年，《时代》杂志向人们提供了一个网页插件去估算自己总共在这个网页上浪费了多少时间。"
    ],
    [
        "In Chile, immigrants from non-neighboring countries are four times more likely to be entrepreneurs than natives.",
        "在智利，来自不相邻国家的移民成为企业家的可能性是本国居民的四倍。"
    ],
    [
        "How businesses handle this transition – which is already contributing to China’s growth slowdown – will determine the transformation’s progress.",
        "而企业如何应对这一转变——虽然已经导致了中国的经济减速——将决定转型的进程。"
    ],
    [
        "And the implication that the Führer’s hatred of the Jews put him on the same side as Jews who wished to build their own state to escape from violent anti-Semitism is offensive, to say the least.",
        "而暗示元首对犹太人的仇恨让他与渴望建立自己的国家以逃避暴力反犹主义的犹太人站在同一边绝对是一种冒犯甚至更糟糕的说法。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, the results have been one-sided: workers’ bargaining position has been weakened further, compounding the effects of legislation undermining unions and employees’ rights.",
        "毫不奇怪，结果是单边的：工人的讨价还价地位进一步削弱，这将强了支持工会和雇员权利的立法的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Top business salaries were rarely more than 20 or 30 times higher than average wages, and for most people differentials were far less.",
        "顶端企业薪酬很少有超过平均工资二三十倍的时候，对大部分人来说，收入差距要小得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, this question crops up whenever unemployment rises.",
        "如今，每当失业率上升就会有人提到这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The EITC also has broad backing (more than three-quarters of economists surveyed by the American Economic Association support expanding it).",
        "EITC也获得了广泛的支持（在美国经济学会进行的调查中，四分之三的受访经济学家支持扩大EITC）。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks are increasingly using such guidance to communicate monetary policy and anchor market expectations.",
        "各国央行越来越多地使用前瞻性指引传达货币政策、锚定市场预期。"
    ],
    [
        "If they don’t, sponsors will leave themselves exposed to a consumer backlash as FIFA’s poor reputation rubs off on their brands.",
        "如果他们继续缄默，赞助商会因为足联声名狼藉影响其品牌形象而招致消费者的厌恶。"
    ],
    [
        "But the US Federal Reserve’s move to increase interest rates, together with slowing growth (and, in turn, investment) in China and collapsing oil and commodity prices, has brought the capital inflow bonanza to a halt.",
        "但美联储提高利率的举动，以及中国增长（从而投资）增长放缓和石油和大宗商品价格暴跌让资本流入潮戛然而止。"
    ],
    [
        "But why does this surprise us?",
        "但是为什么这让我们感到惊讶呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Spending just $25 million annually to create stoves that better fit household cooking habits, and identifying how to maximize community-wide adoption of cleaner cooking solutions, would likely improve uptake of clean stoves by 10-20%, suggesting that approximately 60,000 to 120,000 lives could be saved every year.",
        "只需要每年花2,500万美元用于建造更适合家庭烹饪习惯的炉灶，并找出如何让清洁烹饪方案的社会接受程度最大化，就能让清洁炉灶使用率增加10—20%，每年拯救大约60,000—120,000人的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent research indicates that electric cars may reach break-even price with hybrids only in 2026, and with conventional cars in 2032, after governments spend €100-150 billion in subsidies.",
        "最新研究表明，电动汽车价格要到2026年才能与混合动力车相当，到2032年才能等同于常规汽车，到时政府补贴总量将达到1000—1500亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "For most of our evolutionary history, human beings – and our primate ancestors – have lived in small groups, in which violence could be inflicted only in an up-close and personal way, by hitting, pushing, strangling, or using a stick or stone as a club.",
        "在我们进化史的相当一部分，人类—和我们灵长类的祖先—都以小群体聚居。 在小群体中，暴力只能通过击打、推搡、掐勒或使用棍棒或石头等近距离个人化的方式引发。"
    ],
    [
        "As a rule, governments monitor people.",
        "作为一条规则，政府监视着人民。"
    ],
    [
        "To do that, companies and governments must recognize that antibiotics are not a commodity like any other.",
        "为了实现这一目标，企业和政府必须认识到抗生素不同于其他任何商品。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to whether and how to regulate the economy, Western societies have a history of liberal theory upon which to rely.",
        "当谈到是否应该以及如何管制经济时，西方社会一贯倾向的是自由主义的理论。"
    ],
    [
        "Arab Spring governments condemned the outrageous movie smearing the Prophet of Islam, but they should have stressed that American official and unofficial bodies had nothing to do with the film’s production.",
        "阿拉伯之春后诞生的政权都谴责抹黑伊斯兰先知穆罕默德的离谱电影，但他们本应该同时强调美国官方及非官方组织与这部电影的制作没有任何关系。"
    ],
    [
        "This new EU is neither equal nor voluntary.",
        "这一新欧盟既不平等，亦非自愿。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been few convictions for these crimes.",
        "没有人被裁定要为这样的暴行负责。"
    ],
    [
        "A future in which regional powers like Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia (which has worked closely with Pakistan on the nuclear front) possess threshold nuclear capabilities is becoming more likely that ever.",
        "土耳其、埃及和沙特阿拉伯（已经与巴基斯坦在核方面展开紧密合作）等地区力量未来拥有临界（threshold）核能力的可能性大增。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries should consider establishing politically independent energy agencies with high technical expertise.",
        "各国应考虑设立掌握专业技术且政治独立的能源机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s English-Speaking Peoples",
        "欧洲的英语民族"
    ],
    [
        "This has not only sustained the lack of public awareness of the foreign and security strategy development process, but has also altered the environment in which the strategy is to be introduced.",
        "这不仅导致公众对外交和安全战略制定流程缺乏了解，也改变了战略的实施环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Libya’s lack of democratic experience, some view this as a likely outcome in the post-Qaddafi era.",
        "考虑到利比亚缺乏民主经验，有人认为停滞将成为后卡扎菲时代最有可能的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamic Democratic Paradox",
        "伊斯兰民主的悖论"
    ],
    [
        "It is true that employment data are already seasonally adjusted to allow for normal weather differences in temperate zones; construction is always higher during spring than winter.",
        "诚然，就业数据已经经过季节调整以考虑不同温度带的正常天气差异； 但建筑业在春天总是比冬天兴旺。"
    ],
    [
        "The focus on a balanced budget in the United States, for example, has led some elements of the Republican Party to block normal functions of state and even federal authorities, supposedly in the name of fiscal discipline.",
        "比如，美国对平衡预算的关注导致共和党的某些人打着财政纪律的名义阻挠州乃至联邦机构正常运转。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that it has, it is time to rethink the rules of the game.",
        "这一次转到了子弹，因此是时候反思游戏规则了。"
    ],
    [
        "Because Rumsfeld is the primary architect of the upcoming defense review, it is very unlikely to recommend an increase in the size of the force.",
        "由于拉氏是即将出台的国防评估的首要负责人，所以这份评估不大可能会建议扩大军队规模。"
    ],
    [
        "It will be interesting to see how Hammond navigates the path toward higher infrastructure spending, while sticking to the Conservative Party’s platform of fiscal responsibility.",
        "观察哈蒙德如何制定通往增加基础设施支出之路，同时坚持民主党财政责任承诺令人很感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "The third, and most important, claim is the subject of Noah’s The Great Divergence.",
        "第三个也是最重要的一个结论便是诺阿新书的标题《大分化》。"
    ],
    [
        "NORWICH – With the United Nations’ climate change conference underway in Bonn, Germany, rising global temperatures are once again at the top of the world’s agenda.",
        "诺维奇—联合国气候变化会议正在德国波恩召开，全球气温的升高再次成为世界议程的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "India has a large number of talented computer engineers, including some who might be sympathetic to the Islamist cause.",
        "印度拥有大量有才华的计算机工程师，其中一些可能对伊斯兰教运动持同情态度。"
    ],
    [
        "The police cracked down on young people and took hundreds into custody.",
        "警方对年轻人进行了镇压，并拘押了数百人。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, back in the 1970’s, confidence in the credit of the British government collapsed, forcing it to borrow from the IMF so that spending could be cut and taxes raised gradually rather than abruptly.",
        "让我们回溯到20世纪70年代一探究竟。 彼时，英国政府遭遇了信心危机，被迫向IMF借款，从而得以削减支出并逐渐（而非立刻）提高税收。"
    ],
    [
        "She is taken seriously more for her own experience and political power than for her family connections.",
        "她对自身的经验和政治实力的关心也比家族的政治人脉更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Agreements about how to make things better already frequently include NGOs and corporations in various capacities – and sometimes exclude governments altogether.",
        "有关改进已经经常包括不同身份的非政府组织和公司，有时候干脆就排除政府在外。"
    ],
    [
        "This virtuous feedback loop has now turned vicious, with capital inflows amounting to only a fraction of outflows.",
        "由于资本流入只占了流出的一小部分，这种良性反馈循环如今已经走向了负面。"
    ],
    [
        "I still remember the warning uttered by a top US diplomat in Strasbourg in the early 1990’s, on the eve of the Balkan wars. “If we leave Europeans in charge of themselves, they will prove irresponsible, divisive, and suicidal, and then we will have to rescue them from themselves.”",
        "我至今仍记得，20世纪90年代初巴尔干战争前夕一位美国高层外交官在斯特拉斯堡的警告：“如果我们离开，让欧洲人自己领导自己，他们必然会被证明是扶不起的阿斗，群龙无首，自取灭亡，我们不得不出手把他们从自己手中救出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, China, and Israel have also developed cyber weapons, which they are busy trying to implant in systems around the world.",
        "俄罗斯、中国和以色列也已经开发了网络武器，并忙于将它们植入世界各地的系统。"
    ],
    [
        "And, third, reforms must be sensitive to the needs of low-income households, especially those that are unbanked.",
        "第三，改革必须关注低收入家庭（尤其是那些无银行账户者）的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "But the availability of long-term capital appears to have been impaired, as traditional providers of equity to infrastructure projects, for example, have become less able or willing to invest.",
        "但长期资本的可获得性已经受损，因为（比如）基础设施项目的传统权益资本提供者已不再能够或愿意投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond Trump’s capriciousness is a broader crisis in US politics.",
        "除了特朗普的变幻莫测之外，美国还面临更大的增值危机。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to emphasize, too, that leprosy can be cured at any time.",
        "重要的是强调任何阶段的麻风病均可治愈。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, the main worry for most experts on globalization has been excessive government intervention in the economy.",
        "直到目前，大多数专家对全球化的主要担心是政府对经济的过度干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Few in Hong Kong are buying the political elite’s mantra that the national education program is the “right” thing to do.",
        "香港人很少相信政治精英的那套说辞——即国民教育计划是“正确”的事。"
    ],
    [
        "And this will not occur quickly, especially given the policy shortcomings in both advanced and emerging countries.",
        "而这不可能马上实现，特别是考虑到发达和新兴国家都存在各种政策缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "This raises the issue of who should pay for such a mission and, more fundamentally, who can authorize it.",
        "这样问题就来了：谁来为这个大工程埋单呢？ 再往深里说，谁有资格授权启动这个计划呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Electricity production and distribution, too, was entirely in the hands of the government.",
        "发电和输电也完全控制在政府手中。"
    ],
    [
        "The addition of the renminbi to the basket, which currently includes the US dollar, the euro, the British pound, and the Japanese yen, would provide China with a boost to its prestige.",
        "SDR篮子目前包括美元、欧元、英镑和日元，将人民币加入其中将让中国获得提高其声望的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, bankruptcy has played a second-tier role in reform efforts, even though bankruptcy law does for industrial firms much of what regulators want for financial firms.",
        "到目前为止，破产在改革中扮演的一直是二等角色，尽管破产法对产业公司做了监管者希望它对金融公司做的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "The takeaway from this story is that the central bank gained credibility.",
        "这段历史的一个副产品是土耳其央行赢得了信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2005, a much higher percentage than in 2000 defined themselves as “Iranian, above all” rather than “Muslim, above all.”",
        "在2005年的调查中，认为自己“首先是伊朗人”而不是“首先是穆斯林”的人的比例也比2000年显著增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, the pact even limits market competition to protect powerful special interests, undercutting the core principles of free trade.",
        "讽刺的是，为了保护强大的特定利益集团的利益，该协定甚至限制市场竞争，从而颠覆了自由贸易的核心原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers must recognize these risks, and implement policies to mitigate them.",
        "政策制定者们必须认识到这些风险并实施政策对其进行缓冲。"
    ],
    [
        "Or should they rely on a “nominal income” target?",
        "还是它们应该依赖“名义收入”目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Apart from avoiding the excess burden and injustice of taxation, they also have the benefit of inducing banks’ owners to choose a prudent investment strategy, while persuading creditors to scrutinize and select carefully the banks to which they want to lend.",
        "除了避免征税负担和不公之外，这样做还能诱导银行所有人采取更为审慎的投资策略，同时促使债权人仔细调查和选择债务银行。"
    ],
    [
        "But, so far, efforts to lower funding costs have had a limited impact.",
        "但是，到目前为止，降低融资成本的措施效果有限。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, your value as a lobbyist seems to depend very highly on whom you worked with in the past.",
        "特别是，你作为游说者的价值与你过去的工作背景有着非常紧密的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "When the state of Israel was founded in 1948, the Soviet Union and leftists in general were quite sympathetic.",
        "1948年以色列建国时，苏联和一般左翼都持有相当同情的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "She admitted, realistically, that building one will be difficult because “there are important matters on which we all disagree.”",
        "她现实地承认，建设这样的关系很困难，因为“在不少重大问题上我们彼此道不相同”。"
    ],
    [
        "He sought to banish Islam as a political and social force from the public sphere, though of course the vast majority of the population remained Muslim by religion.",
        "尽管土耳其人口的绝大部分在宗教上还是穆斯林，他寻求将伊斯兰作为政治和社会势力从公共领域中驱逐出去。"
    ],
    [
        "In ten countries, largely in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, fixed broadband prices exceed per capita GDP.",
        "在非洲和亚太地区的十个国家，固定宽带价格甚至超过人均GDP。"
    ],
    [
        "To grasp the importance of the Stones’ performance in front of hundreds of thousands of adoring Cubans, one has to understand what rock and roll meant to people living under Communist dictatorships.",
        "要理解滚石在数十万狂热的古巴“粉丝”面前表演的重要性，你必须先理解对于共产党独裁统治下的人民来说摇滚乐意味着什么。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of the first condition, the eurozone will respond to Greece by saying, \"Be our guest, leave.\"",
        "如果第一个条件不成立，欧元区将这样对希腊说：“请便。"
    ],
    [
        "Healthy soils are crucial to human nutrition and the fight against hunger.",
        "健康的土壤对于人类营养和战胜饥饿至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "We are the most cooperative species on earth because our feelings evolved to sustain cooperation, to put “us” before “me.”",
        "我们是地球上最有合作精神的物种，因为我们的感觉演化让我们保持合作，将“我们”置于“我”之前。"
    ],
    [
        "The investment deficiency in Asia relative to rates of a decade ago amounts to an annual shortfall of $400 billion a year, with the decline in investment in Japan – a consequence of more than a decade of economic stagnation – accounting for more than half of the total.",
        "在亚洲，与十年前的投资率相比较的投资缺口，每年为4000亿美金，而日本的投资下降—作为十多年以来经济滞胀的结果—则占其中的一半强。"
    ],
    [
        "In November 2004, the European Investment Bank (EIB), working with the private bank BNP Paribas, announced that it would issue the world’s first long-term longevity bond.",
        "2004年11月，欧洲投资银行（EIB）和私人银行法国巴黎银行一起宣布，他们将合作发行世界首张长期寿命债券。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem, of course, is access.",
        "当然，问题在于普及。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, many university graduates – including a whopping 45% in South Korea – are struggling to find jobs.",
        "与此同时却有许多大学毕业生——包括高达45％的韩国毕业生——在努力四处求职。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, while an air strike might set back Iran’s program by a few years, it would solidify nationalist support for the government and the nuclear program, particularly because one attack would not be enough.",
        "而且，空袭虽然可能会将伊朗的核计划推迟几年，但也会促使民族主义者团结起来支持政府和核计划，特别是在一次打击不够的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, efforts to set strict limits on emissions are quietly being dropped.",
        "尤其是人们正悄悄放弃对排放制定严格限制的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The SDR was introduced 40 years ago to supplement what was then seen as an inadequate level of global reserves, and was subsequently enshrined in the IMF’s amended Articles of Agreement as the future principal reserve asset.",
        "特别提款权是在40多年前开始使用，当时主要为了应对外汇储备币种的不足，这同时也是IMF改革计划的一部分，为的是将SDR作为全球主要的外汇储备币种。"
    ],
    [
        "Adding these individuals to those officially classified as unemployed implies that about 15% of potential labor-force participants are working less than they want.",
        "将这些个人加到被官方失业统计口径中，则有15%的潜在劳动参与者不能如愿工作。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not the first – or the most devastating – pandemic the world has faced.",
        "但它并不是世界所面临的第一场瘟疫——也不是最灾难性的瘟疫。"
    ],
    [
        "Taken at face value, the economic justification for a spending cap is surprisingly weak.",
        "乍一看，支出上限的经济原因非常弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who had invested in the stock market saw much of their wealth wiped out; those who had put their money in safe government bonds saw retirement income diminish to near zero, as the Fed relentlessly drove down both short- and long-term interest rates.",
        "这些曾投资于股市的人眼看着大笔财富灰飞烟灭； 由于美联储无情地压低了短期和长期利率，那些把钱放在在政府安全债券的人发现退休后的收入减少到近乎零。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Financial Markets Underestimate Risk",
        "为何金融市场低估风险"
    ],
    [
        "It may turn out to be easier for Germany’s coalition parties – not to mention the French and German governments – to forge a new framework for bilateral and European security cooperation.",
        "对德国执政联盟来说——更不用说法国和德国政府了——为双边和欧洲安全合作构建新框架也许更为容易。"
    ],
    [
        "But I am bemused when a minister’s swearing-in ceremony is delayed because an astrologer told him that the time was not auspicious to take the oath, or when a candidate’s election papers are filed at the last possible minute to avoid the malign influences of the stars at other times of the day.",
        "但每当看到有部长因为占星家认为不吉利而推迟就职典礼，或者候选人为了避免一天中其他时间星象的恶劣影响而拖到最后一刻才提交选举文件，我总是感到非常困惑。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do not raise their game, the Council’s global authority will wane, and it will face the real possibility of sliding back to the marginalized impotence of the Cold War years.",
        "如果他们不尽快改进，安理会的全球权威将逐渐涣散，它将真正有可能再次蜕变为冷战时期边缘化的无能机构。"
    ],
    [
        "EU leaders must take responsibility for this latest failure.",
        "欧盟领导人必须为最近的失败负责。"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, China’s rebalancing is more genuine – and more fundamental – than the Fund recognizes, and the prediction of an eventual rebound in China’s external surplus/GDP ratio will most likely turn out to be wrong.",
        "依我来看，中国的再平衡进程比IMF所理解的更实在且更基础，中国外部盈余对GDP比率将最终反弹的预测也很可能是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the bombing of Dresden in 1945 was not exactly peaceful.",
        "当然了，1945年轰炸德累斯顿也不是和平。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite the obvious benefits that women bring, they remain under-represented in senior leadership positions at companies around the world.",
        "但尽管女性能够带来如此明显的好处，她们在世界各地的高层领导岗位却仍然严重代表不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Their demands for equal rights therefore do not have the potency that demands for property and political rights have.",
        "因此他们争取平等权利的要求并不具备财产权和政治权所具备的效力。"
    ],
    [
        "Eichengreen thinks returning fiscal policy to national authorities would require preventing banks from holding too much government debt, in order to minimize the risk that national fiscal mismanagement topples the banking system.",
        "艾肯格林认为，将财政政策交还国家当局要求杜绝银行持有过多政府债务，从而使国家财政管理失当拖累银行系统的风险最小化。"
    ],
    [
        "We have a rich history and ancient cultures.",
        "我们历史悠久，文明古老。"
    ],
    [
        "There are several reasons why it is.",
        "有很多理由认为答案是肯定的。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Brazil’s international role, a subtle competition is emerging with the US.",
        "巴西在国际作用领域正在同美国进行着微妙的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "The majority of working people are in the informal sector, often engaged in low-status, low-productivity, and low-incomes activities that can, just like unemployment, generate dissatisfaction and potentially motivate young people to join violent movements.",
        "绝大多数就业人口都集中在非正规行业，往往从事低社会地位、低生产率和低收入的工作。 这样的工作就像失业一样，可以带来不满并有可能促使年轻人参加暴力活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Official crisis lending can buy time to prepare, and it can help to stop a banking-sector crisis, but it cannot substitute for reform.",
        "正式的危机贷款可以为一国赢得应对时间，可以阻止银行部门危机，但不能代替改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Pre-1914 Britain anticipated the private-public partnership that today links technology giants such as Google, Apple, or Verizon to US intelligence agencies.",
        "1914年前，英国就对今天将谷歌、苹果或威瑞森等科技巨头与美国情报机构相联系的公私伙伴关系有所预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Latin America, Argentina and Brazil have been running comfortable external surpluses recently.",
        "在拉美，阿根廷和巴西在最近几年中一直有较高的对外盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "GAZA CITY – It is easier to enter a maximum-security prison than it is to enter the strip of land – 45 kilometers long and maybe eight wide – that is home to Gaza’s 1.5 million Palestinians.",
        "加沙城——进入加沙地带比进入警戒级别最高的监狱还要难，这块地带只有45公里长、可能8公里宽，却是加沙150万巴勒斯坦人生活的家园。"
    ],
    [
        "Protest that works must disrupt business as usual and, ideally, stop traffic.",
        "有效的示威必须能中断商业活动，甚至在理想的层面来说，要中断交通。"
    ],
    [
        "This represents an unparalleled proportion of renewable energy at both the regional and the international levels.",
        "不论从地区还是国际层面看，可再生能源比重之高都是鲜有匹敌的。"
    ],
    [
        "As an angel investor, I did not normally engage with them.",
        "作为天使投资人，我通常并不参与其中。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as the recent impasse in the US demonstrates, political minorities with effective veto power can abuse statutory ceilings in an economic downturn, when dependence on external debt finance increases.",
        "而正如美国最近这次僵局所体现的那样，在对外部债务融资的需要增加的情况下，拥有有效否决权的政治上少数派可以在经济不景时滥用法定债务上限。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier this month, Czech President Miloš Zeman addressed a group called the Bloc Against Islam, telling its supporters that they were “not extremists.”",
        "本月早些时候，捷克总统泽曼向一个叫作“阻止伊斯兰”（Bloc Against Islam）的团体发表讲话，对支持者说，他们不是“极端分子”。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in that case, they violated the first rule of exchange-rate management: Don’t cut off a cat’s tail in slices.",
        "但如果这样的话，他们就破坏了汇率管制的第一条法则：切不能一段段地砍猫尾巴（意即措施必须一步到位）。"
    ],
    [
        "The genius of The Limits to Growth was to fuse these worries with fears of running out of stuff.",
        "《增长的极限》的意图是让人们担心资源耗尽。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump convinced a sizable portion of the electorate to ignore – if not condone – his flagrant policy reversals and lack of knowledge.",
        "特朗普成功说服相当大比例的选民忽视甚至纵容他耸人听闻的政策转向和知识匮乏。"
    ],
    [
        "A timely reminder by EU leaders of the strategic importance of the aerospace sector would have helped allay many of the misgivings in Berlin, and to a lesser degree in London, that ultimately sank the deal.",
        "由欧盟领导人出面及时提醒人们航空航天产业的战略重要性或许有助于打消柏林抱有的众多疑虑，但对最终否决交易的伦敦却起不到多少作用。"
    ],
    [
        "By drawing on its holdings in an International Monetary Fund reserve account, it was able to repay €750 million ($851 million) – ironically to the IMF itself – just as the payment was falling due.",
        "借助其在国际货币基金组织（IMF）储备账户中的资金，它得以在最后一刻偿还7. 5亿欧元——讽刺的是，还的正是IMF本身。"
    ],
    [
        "The 9/11 terrorists’ second blunder was to believe that their terrorist attacks would inspire irresistible surge in anti-Western Islamist extremism.",
        "而9·11恐怖分子的第二个错误则是自以为能激发反西方伊斯兰极端主义的汹涌浪潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while the devastating consequences of the Soviet Union’s Afghan adventure are now well known, at the time the invasion was viewed as a major defeat for the West.",
        "事实上，尽管如今苏联入侵阿富汗所造成的灾难性后果已是众所周知，但在当时，入侵阿富汗被视为对西方的重大胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important country to be kept in the club is Italy, which faces a referendum in October that could pave the way for the anti-euro Five Star Movement to take power.",
        "要留在欧盟俱乐部的首要国家是意大利，意大利正面临着10月即将举行的公投，此次公投有可能为反欧元五星运动得势铺平道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks should normalize crisis-induced policies as soon as possible.",
        "中央银行应该尽快将引发危机的政策正常化。"
    ],
    [
        "This “pulling power,” central to US financial dominance, underpins the dollar’s global role, as investors in search of safe, liquid assets pour money into US Treasury securities.",
        "这一“牵引力”正是美国金融主宰力的核心，也是美元全球作用的基础，因为寻找安全、流动的资产的投资者纷纷把钱投向美国国债。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are “efficient” only in the sense that they dampen the threat to Musharraf posed by the military.",
        "但它们的“效益”仅仅在于能够抑制军方对穆沙拉夫的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Improved rural productivity or better market access would do little good if roads and harbors were lacking.",
        "如果没有公路和港口，得以提高的农村产量以及更为良好的市场准入就没无甚优势可言。"
    ],
    [
        "The other is to shore up their alliances and friendships with one another, in anticipation of an “America First” rupture with old partnerships and the liberal international order that has prevailed since the 1940s.",
        "还有一种是加强彼此之间的联盟和友谊，准备面对原有伙伴和20世纪40年代后一直奉行的自由主义国际秩序因“美国第一”原则而被打破。"
    ],
    [
        "But a Syrian-Israeli peace would drive a wedge between Syria and Iran, thereby cutting off Hezbollah’s lines of arms supply while allowing the vital task of stabilizing Lebanon to succeed.",
        "但叙－以和平将会如同在叙利亚和伊朗之间插入一只楔子，切断真主党的武器供应线并使稳定黎巴嫩的重要任务能够成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The extra focus on implicit pension debts would also help to inform citizens.",
        "对隐性养老金债务的额外关注还会更有利于公众了解养老金体系。"
    ],
    [
        "The question of Palestine is at the root of the asymmetrical wars that Israel has been facing in recent years, not only against Hamas, Qatar’s Palestinian client, but also against Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy in the region.",
        "巴勒斯坦问题是近几年来以色列所面临的不对称战争的根源。 以色列的对手不仅包括卡塔尔的巴勒斯坦代理人哈马斯，也包括伊朗的地区代理人真主党。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only did Chinese regulators enable the bubble’s growth by allowing retail investors – many of them newcomers to the market – to engage in margin trading (using borrowed money); the policy response to the market correction that began in late June has also been highly problematic.",
        "不仅因为中国监管机构允许散户投资者——其中很大一部分都是第一次炒股——（用借来的钱）从事融资融券交易促使泡沫增长； 而且6月下旬开始的响应市场回调的政策也存在极大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump, by not backing the Kurds in their bid for independence from Iraq, committed not just a moral error, but also an irreparable political mistake.",
        "特朗普不支持库尔德人脱离伊拉克独立，这不仅是一个到的错误，也是不可挽回的政治失策。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar outcome this time would not be surprising.",
        "这一次也是如此并不令人奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "In the latter case, the interbreeding derived from a population known so far from only one site – Denisova cave in southern Siberia.",
        "在后一个例子中，杂交来源于目前只被一个考古点——南西伯利亚的德尼索瓦（Denisova）山洞——的人种。"
    ],
    [
        "But this remains to be seen, and the US Constitution grants him extraordinary personal power as Commander-in-Chief, if he chooses to exercise it.",
        "但这仍有待观察，美国宪法授予他统帅地位，拥有无与伦比的个人权力，如果他选择行使这一权力的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Things have changed since the days when venal men from poor countries were paid off to further Western political or commercial interests.",
        "来自穷国的贪婪之辈收钱推动西方政治或商业利益以来，这一情况已经开始改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, such institutions are often able to absorb formal anti-corruption training and yet continue with business as usual.",
        "此外，这类机构往往会一边接受正式反腐败培训，一边照常收受钱财。"
    ],
    [
        "Sandy interacted with a weather system moving toward it from the east, posing difficult challenges for forecasters and nearly unprecedented weather conditions for the region.",
        "桑迪与从东部顶头而来的天气系统相互影响，为预报员出了一道极大的难题，也为该地区带来了几乎前所未有的天气条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The decrease ranges from 40% in Lagos – Nigeria’s most cosmopolitan city – to 70% in Kano, a predominantly Muslim state.",
        "具体降幅从尼日利亚最国际化城市拉各斯的40%到以穆斯林为主的卡诺州的70%不等。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that he had to “coddle” his employees.",
        "前谷歌首席执行官施密特（Eric Schmidt）说，他必须“骄纵”手下的雇员。"
    ],
    [
        "Those most immediately at risk are children, who are in danger of having their genetic material manipulated in damaging ways.",
        "最先面对风险的是儿童，他们面临着遗传物质受有害操纵的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "For good reason: the rapprochement between the world’s two most populous democracies could shape the world’s future.",
        "其来有自：世界上人口最多的两个民主国家之间的关系缓和可以决定世界的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "The conservative economist responds that it is precisely because the government has become so free with taxpayers’ money that households, fearful of future taxes, are hunkering down and increasing savings.",
        "保守派经济学家回应正是因为政府对纳税人的钱财如此大手大脚，才导致害怕未来加税的美国家庭放低姿态，增加储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "But lavish subsidies today simply enable an expensive, inconvenient, and often environmentally deficient technology.",
        "但今天的慷慨补贴只能助长昂贵、不便且通常对环境有消极作用的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "It needs to rethink how to address financial stability in its day-to-day work with members.",
        "它需要重新考虑如何在其与成员国的日常工作中处理金融稳定问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether poor borrowers can avoid such a financial squeeze will depend on several factors.",
        "穷借款国是否能避免这一金融困局取决于几个因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Local militants are suspected of having ties with the Islamic State (ISIS), al-Qaeda, and other terrorist organizations.",
        "本地军人被怀疑与伊斯兰国、基地组织和其他恐怖组织有涉。"
    ],
    [
        "To the first two counts, Greenspan now pleads guilty.",
        "对于前两项罪名，格林斯潘供认不讳。"
    ],
    [
        "Private enterprises, too, benefit from an understanding of iCrowd politics.",
        "私人企业也可以从理解iCrowd政治中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "When the oil price halved last year, from $110 to $55 a barrel, the cause was obvious: Saudi Arabia’s decision to increase its share of the global oil market by expanding production.",
        "去年油价腰斩，从每桶110美元暴跌至55美元，原因显而易见：沙特阿拉伯决定通过扩大产能增加其占全球石油市场的份额。"
    ],
    [
        "The augmented equations, today known as the Maxwell equations, described a unified theory of electricity and magnetism.",
        "经过完善的方程组，即麦克斯韦电磁方程组描述了关于电和磁的统一理论。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the Bush administration’s unilateralism shattered the belief that the US would continue to provide the world with “multilateral” leadership; indeed, US unilateralism was a cue for Russia to pursue its own unilateral policy.",
        "第二，布什政府的单边主义打破了美国将会继续以“多边主义”领导世界的信念； 的确，美国的单边主义引发俄国实行其自身的单边主义政策。"
    ],
    [
        "We are also working to ensure that current and future generations gain the skills they will need to thrive in an evolving labor market.",
        "我们还在致力于确保当前和未来几代学生获得必要的技能适应不断变化的劳动力市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Others had their eyes gouged out.",
        "一些尸体被挖去了双目。"
    ],
    [
        "But the scale of China’s economy and its role in global trade and financial markets compel us to try to understand the intentions of China’s new leadership.",
        "但中国经济的巨大规模及其在全球贸易和金融市场中所扮演的角色迫使我们设法去理解中国新领导班子的意图。"
    ],
    [
        "* Hungary continues to segregate its most disabled citizens and spent millions of dollars on the construction of a new institutional behemoth which sits empty because it does not meet EU fire and safety standards.",
        "* 匈牙利继续让多数残疾公民与世隔离，耗费成百上千万美元建造新的大型精神病院。 由于不符合欧盟火灾和安全标准，这些庞然大物只能闲置。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate-change policies must be steady and consistent.",
        "气候变化政策必须一贯保持稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy grew by 7.4% last year, the lowest rate since 1990; it is unlikely to meet the official target of 7% this year, and, according to the International Monetary Fund, will probably grow by a mere 6.3% in 2016.",
        "今年也不可能达到7%的官方目标。 此外，据国际货币基金组织（IMF）的数据，2016年经济增长率只有6."
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Distant Mirror?",
        "欧洲的前车之鉴"
    ],
    [
        "That is not the case in Poland. Parties’ programs changed with the public opinion polls, and their economic proposals were either too complicated or too muddled for voters to grasp.",
        "各党派的纲领随着民意调查的结果变化，他们提出的经济议案也不是过于复杂就是过于含混，让选民们很难理解。"
    ],
    [
        "The last major challenge for Germany’s next government is its policy toward Europe.",
        "德国下一届政府的最后一项重大挑战是欧洲政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the new leadership will have to reach some agreement with the Islamists regarding the rules of the game, both domestically and vis-à-vis Israel.",
        "当然，新的领导人要在游戏规则上与伊斯兰份子达成一致，国内事务和巴以问题都不能例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Genes interact – amplifying, dampening, or even silencing one another.",
        "不同的基因之间不断互动——相互放大、衰减甚至让彼此失去效用。"
    ],
    [
        "With the exception of countries like the Philippines, where voters opted in last month’s presidential election for a blatantly anti-establishment candidate in Rodrigo Duterte, the tendency in the emerging world has been for adaptations within the confines of existing political elites.",
        "除了菲律宾等国家（上个月，菲律宾选民在总统大选中选择了大放异彩的反建制候选人杜特尔特），新兴世界的潮流一直是在既有政治精英的边界内进行调整。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a dangerous combination that erodes social cohesion, political effectiveness, current GDP growth, and future economic potential.",
        "这是个危险的组合，它侵蚀社会凝聚，破坏政治效率，拉低当前GDP增长，抑制未来经济潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 15% of men in this age group are not employed.",
        "其中超过15%的人没有被雇用。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, we can now collectively look back at our slave-owning, wife-beating, child-brutalizing, heretic-burning, colonizing forebears and wonder how even the most profoundly moral among them failed to see that they should not behave that way.",
        "尽管如此，如今我们仍可能集体回忆我们的蓄奴、家暴、虐童、烧死异端、殖民他人的祖先，奇怪于即使是他们当中最讲道德的人也没有意识到他们不应该这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Civil servants cannot defend themselves in the same way; they have to be defended by their ministers.",
        "公务员不能以同样的方式自我辩白，而必须由部长们代为辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "But the new measures ultimately amount to more of the same: a fragmented policy approach that will prove inadequate to solve Afghanistan’s fundamental economic problems.",
        "但新措施最终还是要走上老路：分裂的政策方法将不足以解决阿富汗的根本性经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Islamic Republic, those interested in opening up to the West are typically those with little authority.",
        "在伊朗，那些亲西方的派别都是些没有多大权威的。"
    ],
    [
        "The power of private fortunes to sway public opinion, especially in the US, also upsets the traditional order.",
        "私人财富左右公共观点的力量也在干扰传统秩序，特别是在美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Their brain trust is either in prison, under virtual house arrest, or unable to communicate freely. They lack organization and strategy.",
        "他们的智囊团成员要么就被关进大牢，变相软禁，要么被禁止自由交流，同时还缺乏有效的组织和行动战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Each faces a greater risk of manipulation by outsiders than other countries in the region.",
        "这两个国家受国外势力操纵的危险也与该地区其他国家不可同日而语。"
    ],
    [
        "And Erdoğan’s recent victory will embolden him to continue his polarizing politics as the basis of a presidential run.",
        "埃尔多安的最新胜利将使他敢于继续将极化政治作为总统选举的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Notably, US courts invalidated the domestic bankruptcy law, ruling that because the island is, in effect, a US colony, its government had no authority to enact its own legislation.",
        "值得注意的是，美国法院的国内破产法无法管辖此地，因为这个岛实际上是美国的殖民地，而当地政府却没有为自身立法的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of 2010, the CDB’s reach extended to more than 90 countries, whose total indebtedness reached $141.3 billion.",
        "至2010年年尾，中国国家开发银行的触角已经延伸到世界90多个国家，总贷款额达1413亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Revaluation would accelerate this trend.",
        "人民币升值将加速这种趋势的形成。"
    ],
    [
        "More immediately, China's leadership is committed to excising the cancer of corruption.",
        "更重要的是，中国领导层决心铲除腐败的毒瘤。"
    ],
    [
        "In historical terms, the Syrian crisis, not the Arab Spring, will most likely be regarded as the Middle East’s seminal event in this decade – and the crucible of the region’s future.",
        "从历史角度看，叙利亚危机而非阿拉伯之春最有可能成为近十年中东的开创性事件和今后的严峻考验。"
    ],
    [
        "Most likely, he would have done worse.",
        "实际上，他的情况可能更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "This was also true in Germany when Hitler came to power.",
        "希特勒掌权的德国也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, Brexit will be the detonator for that demolition.",
        "果真如此的话，英国退欧就是爆炸的引信。"
    ],
    [
        "If properly managed, migration can enhance Europe’s cultural wealth and meet its labor-market needs, as fertility rates in the EU fall and its population ages.",
        "在欧盟各国人口的生育率下降，老龄化日益严重的情况下，如果管理得当，移民可以增加欧洲的文化财富，并满足劳务市场的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, for example, the ratio of foreign to total assets at the three largest banks flipped, from 65% in 2007 to 33% in 2016.",
        "例如在德国，三大银行外资占总资产的比例开始发生逆转，从2007年的65%下降到2016年的33%。"
    ],
    [
        "Contemporary Japan, a stalwart supporter of the US-led postwar system, was also transformed by it.",
        "坚定支持以美国为首战后体系的现代日本也经历了逐步的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Trichet went on to appeal for inspiration from other disciplines – physics, engineering, psychology, and biology – to help explain the phenomena he had experienced.",
        "特里谢不断寻求来自其他学科的灵感——物理学，工程学，心理学，生物学——来帮助解释他所经历的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "It is both tragic and inevitable that the areas of India and China bordering Burma now suffer from those countries’ highest concentration of drug addiction and HIV infection., My own country, Thailand, receives up to 900 million amphetamine pills from Burma every year, and about a third of our regular drug users are below the age of 16.",
        "具有悲剧性，同时也不可避免的是印度和中国与缅甸接壤的地区成为上述国家毒瘾和HIV感染最集中的地区。 我自己的国家，泰国，每年从缅甸接收多达9亿片的安非他明，我国经常性毒品使用者中，有三分之一的年龄在16岁以下。"
    ],
    [
        "Far more than Nazism, Communism belongs to our common European heritage.",
        "共产主义是欧洲的共同遗产，这一点远远超过纳粹主义。"
    ],
    [
        "It affects every element of life on this planet – from ecosystems and food production to cities and industrial supply chains.",
        "它影响到地球上的所有生命要素——从生态系统和粮食生产，到城市和工业供应链。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no denying that advanced democracies largely failed to preempt the financial and sovereign-debt crises, while most emerging economies pursued better economic policies.",
        "不可否认，发达民主国家大体上在此次金融和主权债务危机上失去了主动权，而大部分新兴经济体采取了更好的经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, they don’t want someone controlling them who is both able and serious.",
        "毕竟，他们并不想要让既有能力又脚踏实地的人来领导。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an alarming list: “more frequent extreme events, more intense and changing rainfall patterns, more ocean acidification and ocean warming, coral bleaching, rising sea levels, coastal erosion, salinization of aquifers, the greatly accelerated emergence of new communicable diseases, reduced agricultural productivity, and a disruption of fishing traditions.”",
        "这份清单十分令人恐惧：包括“更频繁的极端事件、更强降雨及降雨模式改变、更严重的海洋酸化及海洋变暖、珊瑚白化、海平面上升、海岸侵蚀、地下水盐碱化、新型传染性疾病加速出现、农业生产力降低以及对渔业传统的破坏”。"
    ],
    [
        "But Hamas has not taken what the US considers the critical step of recognizing Israel – and thus accepting a two-state solution.",
        "但它却没有满足美国心目中的最关键因素，那就是承认以色列——并因此接纳一个两国方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Suffer the Children, Suffer the Country",
        "少年难则国家难"
    ],
    [
        "And, as the US and the broader international community attempt to address the unfolding events, it would be a mistake to leave the peace process off the agenda.",
        "在美国和国际社会解决问题时，将和平进程排除在外是一种错误的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "This depreciation should have helped our merchandise exports, and yet it coincides with their relative underperformance, because other currencies have depreciated against the dollar, too.",
        "这一贬值理应有助于我们的商品出口，但实际上商品出口表现相对来说十分低迷，因为其他货币兑美元也有所贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet that was not enough to stop the United Kingdom’s electorate from voting to leave.",
        "饶是如此，仍不足以阻止英国选民选择脱离。"
    ],
    [
        "It was an idea born of disillusion.",
        "这是一个源于幻灭的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "By filing its claim with the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, Denmark has joined our era’s “great game”: the contest for economic control over a large part of the Arctic.",
        "丹麦向联合国大陆架边界委员会（United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf）递交了它的主张，加入了现时代的“大博弈”：争夺北极圈大部的经济控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "The experts recognized that the world’s health problems are shifting away from communicable diseases toward NCDs.",
        "专家认识到，世界健康问题正在从可传染疾病转移到NCD上。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumers are diverting what little income they earn away from spending toward paying down debt and rebuilding savings.",
        "消费者把赚取的微薄收入用来还债和重建储蓄，而不是用来支出。"
    ],
    [
        "These parallels point to one conclusion: many working- and middle-class voters, who feel left behind by globalization, are far angrier than establishment leaders realized.",
        "这些共同之处指向了一个结论：许多感觉被全球化抛下的工人和中产阶级选民的怒气远比建制派领导人所意识到的更深。"
    ],
    [
        "The share of female employment in total employment is among the lowest in the world.",
        "女性占总体就业人口的比例是全世界最低的。"
    ],
    [
        "Eurozone governments, however, face no such constraints, and were thus free to put in place a program that would have been sustainable.",
        "但是，欧元区政府没有类似的约束，因此可以自由地实施可持续的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Belonging to a particular cultural group is merely a pretext for battles between the winners and losers of globalization.",
        "分属特定的文化团体只不过是全球化胜利者与失败者爆发冲突的一个借口。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush and Putin both came to power in 2000, a year when their countries were scrambling to regain international respect, Russia from the chaos of the Yeltsin years and the US from the failed impeachment of President Clinton.",
        "布什和普京同在2000年掌握大权，那一年正是两国努力重获国际社会尊重的时候：俄罗斯要从叶利钦时代的混乱中走出； 美国要摆脱对克林顿总统弹劾未遂的阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia and Jordan, for example, are engaged in a silent race to pump the al-Disi aquifer, which they share.",
        "比如，沙特阿拉伯和约旦正在进行一场从两国共享的al-Disi含水层取水的沉默的竞赛。"
    ],
    [
        "On October 15 – a typical day – Chuikov’s battle diary records that a radio message was received from the 416th Regiment at 12:20 PM: “Have been encircled, ammunition and water available, death before surrender!”",
        "10月15日——一个平常的日子——崔可夫在战争日记中写道，下午12:20，收到416团无线电报：“我军被包围，弹药和水源充足，誓死不降！"
    ],
    [
        "These policies have raised capital costs, with monetary tightening, in particular, taking a large toll on local governments and real estate developers.",
        "这些政策提高了资本成本，特别是，在货币紧缩的情况下，地方政府和房地产开发商成熟了很大压力。"
    ],
    [
        "There you will find a set of thoughtful proposals ranging from raising the minimum wage to establishing model “Promise Neighborhoods” that will attempt to turn around areas with high levels of poverty and low levels of educational achievement by providing services such as early childhood education and crime prevention.",
        "在那里你可以找到一整套规划，内容遍及提高最低工资到建立模范“保证邻里”项目等。 这些都试图通过提供类似早期幼儿教育以及阻止犯罪等服务项目来整治高贫困以及低教育地区。"
    ],
    [
        "By transcending strictly national limits, these treaties chart the future path of European defense and will help determine the course of Europe’s relations with the United States and NATO.",
        "通过跨越国家之间的严格界限，条约为欧洲防务指明了未来的道路，还会影响欧洲与美国及北约关系的发展进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the beginning of this decade, at least a few economists (including me) have warned that the global trade and current-account imbalances needed to be reined in to reduce the chance of a severe financial crisis.",
        "早在十年前，包括我在内的几个经济学家就已经发出警告，全球贸易和活期帐户的长期不平衡最终会导致金融危机的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "A second option is living with a nuclear North Korea.",
        "第二种选择是任由北朝鲜去拥有核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "When Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi exchanged phone calls with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on April 6, he expressed China’s rejection of rhetoric and action aimed at destabilizing the Northeast Asian region.",
        "中国外交部长王毅与联合国秘书长潘基文4月6日通电话时表达了中国拒绝动摇东北亚地区稳定的口头和实际行动。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in that endeavor, he succeeded.",
        "而且他成功进行了这方面的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "But those from whom they buy them should provide a guarantee, so the public does not have to pay the price for their bad investment decisions.",
        "但证券的出售方应该提供某种担保，这样公众就不必为他们糟糕的投资决策埋单。"
    ],
    [
        "The story smelled even worse after a bit of digging. Al-Hanashi, it turned out, had been elected by the detainees to serve as their representative.",
        "如果你继续向下挖掘这个问题的话，这就更像一桩疑案：据证实，哈纳什已在狱中被选为在押者代表。"
    ],
    [
        "On average, far-right votes increase by about a third in the five years following systemic banking distress.”",
        "平均而言，极右翼选票在系统性银行困境出现五年内会增加三分之一。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Germany Steps Up",
        "德国站出来"
    ],
    [
        "But Muslims cannot simply disregard such ideas on the grounds that humans had not developed them at the time the Quran was written.",
        "但穆斯林不能仅仅依据人类在古兰经形成时还没有发展出这些思想而否定它们。"
    ],
    [
        "If co-workers are repeating fake-news headlines or ignorant, prejudiced claims, challenge them on it.",
        "如果您的同事在重复伪造的新闻头条或无知偏见的说法，我们应当站出来勇敢纠正。"
    ],
    [
        "Does Europe Really Need Fiscal and Political Union?",
        "欧洲真的需要财政和政治联盟吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The barriers to entry are negligible, because competition is just one click away.",
        "行业门槛几乎可以忽略不计，因为我们和竞争对手间只隔一次点击。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet some political forces in Europe (as well as the United States) are now speaking out against international economic integration, proposing a return to the protectionism of the past.",
        "但欧洲（以及美国）的一些政治势力正在反对国际经济合作，要求回归昔日的保护主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Some dismiss this strategy, arguing that countries end up merely assembling other people’s stuff.",
        "一些人对这一战略嗤之以鼻，认为这样做最终智能跟在别人后面亦步亦趋。"
    ],
    [
        "Things came to a head in 2015, when the US and the other five permanent members of the UN Security Council (plus Germany) reached a nuclear accord with Iran, agreeing to lift economic sanctions while allowing the country to maintain its regional influence.",
        "2015年局势发展到高潮，美国及联合国安理会（外加德国）等五大常任理事国与伊朗达成核协议，同意在解除经济制裁的同时允许该国保持其地区影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Kondisi ini mencerminkan asimetri kekuatan dan kegagalan politik di masyarakat.",
        "它们反映了权力不对称和社会内部的政治失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Its laborers earn wages, consume, and save part of that income.",
        "那里的劳动者挣钱、消费，并储存部分劳动收入。"
    ],
    [
        "For if Russia’s anti-Western paranoia continues and the Kremlin’s Eurasian fantasy of allying with China lasts another 10-15 years, Russia will end up seeing China swallowing its Far East and Siberia.",
        "因为如果俄罗斯的反西方偏执狂以及克里姆林宫想与中国结盟的欧亚白日梦再持续另一个10到15年，俄罗斯将最终看到中国吞下它的远东和西伯利亚地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does it undercut wages, since most Europeans do not want these jobs.",
        "这也不会压低工资，因为大多数欧洲人不想要这些工作。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for this approach to work, GDP growth would have had to remain steady, rather than decline sharply.",
        "但是，这一方针要想起效，就必须保持GDP增长稳定，而不是让它急剧放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "The Congressional Budget Office is assuming 3.4% average growth in real GDP over the 2013 to 2016 period.",
        "国会预算办公室假设2013—2016年间真实GDP平均年增长率为3. 4%。"
    ],
    [
        "In difficult economic times, it may seem logical to cut investments that yield results only in the long term, and thereby conserve money and resources to address short-term problems.",
        "经济困难时期，削减只能收到长期效益的投资、从而节省下资金和资源来解决短期问题看似合情合理。"
    ],
    [
        "There are indications that Germany is finally emerging from years of economic stagnation, not least thanks to the reforms started under Schroeder.",
        "有迹象表明德国正在走出长期的经济滞胀，这少不了要归功于施罗德时代开始的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Less affluent individuals are also more threatened by longevity than those for whom living longer mainly means leaving a smaller inheritance to their children.",
        "与那些寿命更长主要意味着留给儿孙的财产缩水的人相比，长寿给不太富有的个人带来的威胁更大。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese are looking to regions like Africa, hoping to find stable trading partners.",
        "中国正在寻求类似非洲那样的地区，希望找到稳定的贸易伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "This could, of course, quickly change.",
        "当然这一局面可能马上改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is an element of deeply unfair subjectivity in this perception.",
        "当然，在这个观点中有很深且不公平的主管因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Corbyn promises to take action to stop employers from driving down pay and working conditions.",
        "科尔宾承诺要采取行动阻止雇主降薪和降低工作条件。"
    ],
    [
        "When they are considered at all, they are deemed to be the inevitable price of progress.",
        "即便在我们考虑到这些因素时，也认为它们是进步的必然代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the formal banking sector provides a large share of shadow-banking finance, this could initiate a chain reaction affecting the entire financial sector.",
        "考虑到影子银行金融的很大一部分资金来自正式银行部门，这可能导致影响整个金融业的连锁反应。"
    ],
    [
        "The decline of India’s Congress party reduced the influence of the political force most associated with maintaining distance from the US.",
        "印度国大党的衰落降低了最支持与美国保持距离的政治力量的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Plans for flexible, incentive-led cooperation between developed and developing countries (so-called “clubs”) would become increasingly important, with progress depending on the cooperation of major emitters like the United States, China, and India.",
        "发达和发展中国家（所谓的“俱乐部”）之间灵活的、基于激励的合作计划将日益重要，能否取得进展取决于美国、中国和印度等排放大户的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Global temperatures rose and fell by no more than one degree Celsius (compared with swings of more than eight degrees Celsius during the last ice age), and resilient ecosystems met humanity’s needs.",
        "全球气温升降不超过一摄氏度（上个冰河期全球气温有超过八摄氏度的波动），生态系统也有着满足人类需求的足够弹性。"
    ],
    [
        "But as frightening as the ups and downs of stock prices can be, they are mere froth on the waves compared to the real threat to the global economy: the enormous tsunami of debt bearing down on households, businesses, banks, and governments.",
        "但股价涨落固然可怕，与这同样可怕的是，与全球经济所面临的真正威胁相比，这些涨落只是浪尖上的涟漪。 巨大的债务海啸正在摧毁家庭、企业、银行和政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Some question the scale of the investment needed to install and maintain the systems necessary for capturing and storing CO 2.",
        "一些人质疑建立和维持捕捉和储存二氧化碳所需要的系统必须投入大量资金。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to having become the world’s industrial park, China now has more mobile phone subscribers than the combined populations of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the number of Internet users has just surpassed that in the US.",
        "中国不仅已成为世界工厂，中国的手机用户数已经超过了美国、英国、加拿大、澳大利亚和新西兰人口总和，中国互联网用户数也已经超过了美国。"
    ],
    [
        "The new legislation adds insult to injury: rather than offsetting this disturbing trend, the Republicans’ “reform” gives even more to the top.",
        "而新立法则令这一状况从侮辱变成了损害：共和党的“改革”并未抵消这种令人不安的趋势，反而让位居顶层者获益更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the French elites today are increasingly held in suspicion, and even reviled, by part of the population.",
        "但今天的法国精英们却日益受到部分居民的质疑、甚至辱骂。"
    ],
    [
        "The Report said little about the legacy of the Iraq War, but it is important to consider.",
        "报告对伊拉克战争的遗产几乎只字未提，但考虑这个问题很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "With a savings rate of barely 4% of GDP, the average US household is unlikely to be over-saving.",
        "美国的储蓄率只有GDP的4%左右，平均而言，美国家庭的储蓄绝非过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "NEWPORT BEACH – The United States’ reputation for sound economic policymaking took a beating in 2013.",
        "纽波特海滩—美国经济决策的“靠谱”声誉在2013年遭到重创。"
    ],
    [
        "Family and friends assumed that Public Security Bureau police detained them and that the couple would be released after the June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of fifteen years ago passed.",
        "家人和朋友都认为是公安局拘留了他们，夫妻俩应该在六月四日天安门事件15周年纪念日之后被释放。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest edition of the Pew Global Attitudes Survey shows that favorable opinions of the United States have fallen again in 12 out of 15 countries polled, a sad reflection of a country’s loss of image.",
        "最新一期的佩尤全球态度调查（Pew Global Attitudes Survey）显示：在接受调查的15个国家中，12个国家对美国的欢迎程度再次下降，这反映出美国形象尽失的悲哀。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the great transformational leaders in history, Otto von Bismarck, became largely incremental and status quo-oriented after achieving the unification of Germany under Prussian direction.",
        "历史上最伟大的变革型（transformational）领袖——俾斯麦在实现普鲁士领导下的德国统一后变得渐进（incremental）而现实导向。"
    ],
    [
        "And Chinese President Xi Jinping used this month’s 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to consolidate his position further, by shifting more power from the provinces to the central government in Beijing.",
        "而中国国家主席习近平利用本月召开的中共十九大会议将更多的权力从各省转移到了北京的中央政府，从而进一步巩固了自身的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "On this view, if America is determined to use force to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state, it would have to establish a quasi-permanent empire in the Middle East.",
        "从这一点上考虑，如果美国决定使用武力阻止伊朗成为一个拥有核武器的国家，它将不得不在中东建立一个似乎永久的帝国。"
    ],
    [
        "And more often than not, when the messenger is silenced, so is the message.",
        "而通常情况下，当传递某一新闻的信使被捂住了嘴时，这个新闻也会是同等下场。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, as China’s power grows, will it help provide global public goods?",
        "今天，随着中国力量不断壮大，它是否会为提供全球公共产品贡献自己的力量？"
    ],
    [
        "Only an Israel seriously willing to seek security through agreement, not one that wants to impose her security on her neighborhood by fiat, can be partner to an international effort to bring stability to Lebanon and beyond.",
        "只有当以色列认真地想通过协议寻求和平，而不是想通过法令向它的邻居强加安全，它才能成为为黎巴嫩及其周边地区带来稳定的国际社会努力的伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "We get countless e-mail admonitions: “Please consider the environment before printing.”",
        "我们收到无数的警告邮件：“打印前请先考虑环境。"
    ],
    [
        "When I first heard of Bhutan’s goal of maximizing its people’s happiness, I wondered if it really meant anything in practice, or was just another political slogan.",
        "当我首次听到不丹把追求国民幸福当作目标的时候，曾经怀疑这样一种提法是否只是政治口号，还是具有实际的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Continued greenhouse-gas emissions on the massive scale of today would have devastating consequences, including more frequent and more intense weather events.",
        "今天的持续大规模温室气体排放可能造成包括更频繁、更剧烈天气事件在内的灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump, in the comedian Jon Stewart’s words, is “America’s id,” or at least the id of a large number of mostly white, mostly older, mostly small-town Americans.",
        "用喜剧演员乔恩·斯图尔特的话说，特朗普就是美国的代表，或者至少代表为数众多的生活在小镇且年龄偏大的白人一族。"
    ],
    [
        "While in principle, chess is solvable, the game’s computational complexity is almost incomprehensible.",
        "尽管从原则上看，国际象棋是可解的运动，但其计算的复杂程度几乎超出了所有人的想象。"
    ],
    [
        "It is like sharing an apartment: you reduce your costs, but you have to adapt to your roommates’ habits.",
        "这就像是分享公寓：你降低了成本，但必须适应室友的习惯。"
    ],
    [
        "EU aid today to Turkey, though doubled last week, still amounts to just €1 billion.",
        "欧盟对土耳其援助上周增加了一倍，但仍只有10亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would probably take much longer.",
        "但它可能需要更长的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the Palestinian bid at the UN will internationalize the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and discredit US mediating leverage.",
        "不过，巴勒斯坦人的入联动议能够将巴以冲突国际化，削弱美国的调停作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given that many IT entrepreneurs were young at the start of their careers, with limited ownership of stocks, a more refined explanation is needed.",
        "但是，许多IT企业家在开始创业时非常年轻，只拥有有限的股权，因此，必然有更合理的解释存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Many people believe that it does, and seek to explain phenomena ranging from guerrilla insurgencies to Islamist terrorism accordingly.",
        "许多人这样认为，并且寻求用这一理论来解释从游击队叛乱到伊斯兰恐怖主义的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The Irish “No” emboldened Euro-skeptics in other member states, not least the irascible Czech president, Václav Klaus, who has signaled that he may refuse to sign the Lisbon Treaty until Ireland’s ratification is secured.",
        "爱尔兰说“不”给欧洲其他成员国内的欧盟怀疑论者壮了胆，尤其是容易发火的捷克总统瓦茨拉夫·克劳斯。 他已经发出风说，在确定爱尔兰批准《里斯本条约》之前，自己可能会拒绝签署这一条约。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European Parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe’s fiscal, banking, and monetary union.",
        "最后，政治联盟意味着将国家立法机构的法权移交给欧洲议会，由后者来决定如何构建欧洲的财政，银行和货币联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Serious medium-term budget reforms are needed to deal with the legacy of repeated congressional failures.",
        "深度中期预算改革是应对国会一再不作为所造成的问题之所必须。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, one might wonder how such trials are initiated at all if clinicians do not tentatively explore a problem in the first place.",
        "事实上，你或许会问，如果临床医生不在一开始主动地尝试探索问题，这类试验如何会启动呢？"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, it would reduce the incentive for consumers, companies, and governments to pursue more energy-efficient practices.",
        "更一般地，这抑制了消费者、公司和政府追求能源节约型行为的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Facing Up to Chronic Disease",
        "直面慢性病"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, democracy’s strength lies not just in its character, but in its achievements as well.",
        "相反地，民主政治的优势不仅在于它的特性，也在于它的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "A Global Green New Deal",
        "全球绿色新政"
    ],
    [
        "This raises serious risks: as beneficial as Big Tech’s innovations are, they can also serve as important channels for state or non-state actors to bring about their own disruptions.",
        "这也带来了严重的风险：大科技企业的创新虽然有益，但这些创新也可以成为国家或非国家行为者用以执行自身破坏行为的重要渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "But Americans just don’t like to talk about it, even when they are whining about the follies of the “elite.”",
        "但美国人就是不喜欢讨论这个话题，即便是对那些“精英”的闹剧大发牢骚时也一样。"
    ],
    [
        "If the first such meeting of North Korea’s highest organ in more than 35 years had any impact at all, it was to dash any hopes that the country’s irascible leader, Kim Jong-un, would turn his attention to economic reform.",
        "如果说35年来首次召开的朝鲜最高机构此类会议有任何影响的话，那就是浇灭了暴躁的国家领导人金正恩将注意力转向经济改革的任何希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Careful, though.",
        "但一定要小心。"
    ],
    [
        "In strategic terms, China is not a revisionist power, but instead a “satisfied,” status-quo power.",
        "从战略上讲，中国并不是一个修正论的强国，而是一个“满足于”现状的强国。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in hindsight, it seems clear that financial engineers outperformed the real economy only with the support of super-financial engineers – that is, central banks.",
        "事实上，事后看来，显然金融工程师只能在超级金融工程师（即各国央行）的支持下其表现才能超越实体经济。"
    ],
    [
        "\"Social rights\" should not become mandates for judges; they should remain a guide to legislators.",
        "\"社会权利\"不应该成为法官的训令； 它们仍然应该作为立法者的指南。"
    ],
    [
        "From a Turkish perspective, both are unacceptable.",
        "从土耳其人的角度看，以上两股力量都无法接受。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in each instance, Bush was limiting his short-term gains in order to pursue long-term stability.",
        "但是，在所有这些事件中，老布什都为了长期稳定而牺牲短期利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Selectivity and narrow reinterpretation can only weaken the Treaty.",
        "选择性地狭义地解释协议条款只会弱化条约的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "A lack of data about, say, riparian flows, including how much water is diverted for agriculture and human consumption, undermines efficient resource management.",
        "缺少（比如）沿岸流的数据，包括多少水被分流用于农业和人类消费，阻碍着有效的资源管理。"
    ],
    [
        "The bad news is that low prices will place even greater strains on the main oil-exporting countries.",
        "坏消息是低油价将给主要石油出口国带来更大的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Some concepts that are designed as criticisms are quickly inverted to become celebratory.",
        "某些为了批判而想出来的概念很快就转变成歌颂。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1834, the Speenhamland system was replaced by the New Poor Law, which confined relief to workhouses, under conditions sufficiently odious to force people back into the labor market.",
        "1834年，斯宾汉兰制度被新济贫法（New Poor Law）取代，新济贫法规定救济只限于救济院，并且需要满足非常苛刻的条件以迫使人们回到劳动力市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Having just dined with him in a public restaurant, I wish his security was a little tighter.",
        "我刚刚和萨卡什维利在一家公开餐馆吃完晚餐。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, 60% of pensioners who voted backed the “Leave” campaign, as did 59% of voters with disabilities.",
        "与此同时，60%的退休者以及59%的残疾选民投票支持“脱欧”阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "It is therefore vital that the United States and other NATO allies speak out now and insist that functioning democratic checks and balances are safeguarded.",
        "因此至关重要的是美国及其他北约盟国必须立刻表态并保障一个民主制衡体制的合理运行。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite overwhelming evidence that gender-based stereotypes and expectations can adversely impact health, gender-related health issues are largely ignored or misunderstood, with international health organizations often limiting gender-specific efforts to women or, even more narrowly, to mothers.",
        "尽管压倒性的证据表明基于性别的成见和期望会给健康带来负面影响，但与性别有关的健康问题仍被大量忽视或误解，国际健康组织通常把针对特定性别的努力限制在女性——甚至更狭隘地，限制在母亲。"
    ],
    [
        "UK banks are also, on average, more oriented toward non-European markets, which makes the banking sector seem larger.",
        "平均而言，英国银行业更加偏向于非欧洲市场，这让其银行业看上去更大。"
    ],
    [
        "With the fall of Nigeria’s dictatorship and the introduction of democracy in 1999, governors in the mainly Muslim northern provinces believed they had struck a deal with their southern counterparts on a regional rotation of the country’s presidency.",
        "在1999年，随着尼日利亚独裁统治的垮台和民主政治的引进，主要是穆斯林的北部省份的地方长官认为他们已经和南部的地方长官就两地轮流担任国家总统达成了共识。"
    ],
    [
        "No mainstream German, French, or Spanish politician would dare discuss the matter openly, let alone advocate divorce.",
        "主流德国、法国或西班牙政客都没有胆子公开谈论这一问题，更不用说鼓吹脱离欧盟了。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – The recriminations over US spying activities, triggered by the revelations of the former American intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden, have now reached fever pitch.",
        "马德里—由前美国情报承包商斯诺登的大揭秘掀起的对美国间谍行为的控诉目前进入了白热化。 疑问重重——总统奥巴马知道了什么、何时知道的；"
    ],
    [
        "But so far in the third millennium, this skill – or simply run of luck – has deserted the US.",
        "但在第三个千禧年中，这项技能（也许只是运气）离美国而去了。"
    ],
    [
        "As hard as it may be to admit, Trump has a key role to play in saving the world.",
        "虽然很多人不愿承认，但特朗普在拯救世界时可以发挥关键的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republicans would slow growth in spending in most areas, while increasing defense spending.",
        "共和党人将调低大多数地区的支出增长，同时增加国防开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Every year, an estimated two million people worldwide die prematurely, owing to the effects of breathing polluted air.",
        "每年，全球估计有200万人由于呼吸遭到污染的空气而过早死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "We now know of several mechanisms that enable cells with identical DNA to have different characteristics, which are transmitted to daughter cells.",
        "我们现在知道，有能使拥有相同DNA的细胞遗传给子细胞不同特征的几个机制。"
    ],
    [
        "This, in turn, will place a burden on national budgets and banking systems – and will challenge politicians across the region.",
        "上述现象将反过来对国家预算和银行体系造成负担——这将考验本地区政治家的应对能力。"
    ],
    [
        "One sees the same phenomenon across many rich countries as well.",
        "在很多富裕国家，人们也看到了同样的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of poor people were dying of AIDS, even though the new medicines could have kept them alive.",
        "数百万人因为等不到新药的到来而丧命。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, when it became clear that the bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were Chechens who had emigrated from the Russian province of Dagestan, the reaction – at least among regular participants in public debate – was far more nuanced than a decade ago.",
        "类似地，当人们确定爆炸嫌疑犯——塔莫兰·萨尔纳耶夫和哲卡·萨尔纳耶夫（Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev）是来自俄罗斯省份达吉斯坦的车臣移民时，人们的反应——至少经常参与公共争论者是如此——比十年前微妙得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Other initiatives are springing up in Denmark, Latvia, Spain, and Turkey, says Räsänen.",
        "Räsänen. 表示，该项目在丹麦，拉托维亚，西班牙和土耳其也蓬勃发展起来。"
    ],
    [
        "But ensuring such support requires policies that nudge (or even shove) conglomerates toward export industries that can grow beyond the limits of the domestic market – industries in which competition will encourage the discipline that they lack as a result of dominating local markets.",
        "但确保集团公司的支持需要促使（甚至迫使）集团公司进入可以冲破国内市场限制的出口行业的政策——在这类行业中，竞争能改进它们因为主宰国内市场而有所缺少的纪律。"
    ],
    [
        "This plays into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party and its stooges in Hong Kong.",
        "这正中中国共产党及其香港傀儡的下怀。"
    ],
    [
        "The Logic of the Informal Economy",
        "非正规经济的逻辑"
    ],
    [
        "A solution to the Palestinian problem would serve such a strategy.",
        "巴勒斯坦问题的解决方案可以充当这一战略。"
    ],
    [
        "This is roughly the journey of discovery that the American biotechnologist J. Craig Venter and his colleagues have been taking for the past two decades – only their marvelous devices are not archeological remains, but living organisms.",
        "这就是过去20年来美国生物技术学家克雷格·文特尔及其同事所走过的发现之旅——不过他们的神奇设备并非某种古代遗迹，而是活的生物体。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the CO2 is not yet being produced and will not be vented, the field’s helium remains inaccessible.",
        "二氧化碳并不是产品之一，也不会被排放，因此该气田中的氦仍然无法提炼。"
    ],
    [
        "The Liberal Party, a coalition comprising a cross-section of the center-left, and the leftist Polo Democrático have no chance of victory, although their support for a Mockus government would be important in forging a stable parliamentary majority.",
        "由中左翼和左翼民主变革中心党组成的自由党竞选联盟几乎没有获胜的希望，但他们对莫卡斯政府的支持对于获取稳定的议会多数席位至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "This diminished my ministry’s capacity to repay the International Monetary Fund, which was insisting on drastic pension cuts and on the removal of the last protections for Greek workers.",
        "这削弱了我治下的希腊财政部偿还国际货币基金组织贷款的能力，而正是该组织坚持要求大幅削减养老金和取消对希腊工人最后的保护屏障。"
    ],
    [
        "The most energetic actor behind the early thinking on banking supervision was a BoE official, Brian Quinn.",
        "在对银行监管的早期思考中最积极的人就是英国央行官员布莱恩·奎因（Brian Quinn）。"
    ],
    [
        "She therefore had to take the final steps while she was still competent to do so.",
        "因此她不得不在有能力自我了断的情况下迈出这最后的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Embittered and unemployed, young Yemeni men often become subject to another Saudi policy gone awry – its propagation for export of the Sunni Wahhabi form of Islam.",
        "而且，愤怒而失业的年青也门男子经常成为另一个沙特错误政策的目标——沙特向他们宣传输出伊斯兰逊尼派瓦哈比教义。"
    ],
    [
        "Where the trade agreements failed, it was not because the US was outsmarted by its trading partners; it was because the US trade agenda was shaped by corporate interests.",
        "在那些贸易协议失效的领域，并不是美国遭到了贸易伙伴的抛弃； 而是因为美国的贸易议程被大企业利益所左右。"
    ],
    [
        "But the main beneficiary would be Germany.",
        "但那样一来最大的获益者将是德国。"
    ],
    [
        "Cynical political leaders ruthlessly capitalized on popular anxiety by promoting an odious nationalist vision that either ignores or distorts real-life experiences with immigration.",
        "犬儒主义政治领导人通过鼓吹可恶的民族主义愿景冷血地利用群众焦虑，他们忽视或者扭曲移民的真实情况。"
    ],
    [
        "The trip – the first foreign visit of his second term – carries important implications for US foreign policy.",
        "这次访问——奥巴马第二个任期的首次出访——对美国外交政策有着重要含义。"
    ],
    [
        "After oil was discovered in the 1920s, Britain assumed control over the new oil fields, using military force as needed.",
        "20世纪20年代石油被发现后，英国又控制了仅有的几个油田，必要时甚至不惜动用武力。"
    ],
    [
        "Escaping abject destitution, though an important milestone, is not the same as achieving a decent standard of living and sense of economic security.",
        "摆脱赤贫虽然是重要的离成本，但决不可与实现体面生活水平、感到经济安全同日而语。"
    ],
    [
        "The referendum’s outcome will not be legally binding on the government; but it is inconceivable that Britain will stay if the public’s verdict is to quit.",
        "此次全民公决的结果对政府不具有法律约束力； 但很难想象在公众决定要退出的情况下英国仍然留在欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the value of work extends beyond income, the logic goes, this could pose a serious problem.",
        "其逻辑认为，由于工作的价值不止于收入，因此这可能带来严重的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And they use coercive measures that generate resistance.",
        "它们采用了导致抵制的武力手段。"
    ],
    [
        "To keen observers, the IPL represented more than a sports league; it signaled nothing less than the emergence of a new India.",
        "对敏锐的观察者来说，IPL代表的不仅仅是一个体育联赛； 它的意义不下于新印度崛起的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, according to this new paradigm, savings, while useful, are not an essential prerequisite to investment and thus to economic growth.",
        "事实上，根据这一新范式，储蓄尽管有用，并非投资的先决条件，因此也不是经济增长的先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other, it must seek to replace the rule of force with the rule of law, and geopolitics with the pursuit of democracy, open society, and international cooperation.",
        "另一方面，欧洲必须寻求用法治取代武治，用民主、开放社会以及国际合作取代地缘政治。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative to this price-oriented approach – continued dependence on the quota system – would incur considerable administrative expenses, efficiency losses, and social costs stemming from rent-seeking and corruption.",
        "而这些替代市场导向价格机制的管控机措施往往需要持续依赖配额制度，并会产生相当大的行政费用、效率损失及源于寻租和腐败的社会成本。"
    ],
    [
        "When Americans use the term, it is usually to differentiate white Americans from the rest, which is not something that most Americans, least of all presidential candidates, would now choose to do in public.",
        "美国人使用这个短语通常是为了区分白种美国人，这可不是多数美国人，尤其是总统候选人，愿意公开做的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Until gains are made in these areas, the threat to America’s democratic process will grow, resurfacing every time the country votes.",
        "在这些领域取得进步之前，对美国民主程序的威胁还会不断加剧，每次选举都会浮出水面。"
    ],
    [
        "But the quest for a single set of global governance standards is misguided.",
        "但是，追求单一的一套全球治理标准却是具有误导性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Once such an alliance was shaped, nothing but revolution could stop it – in this case, the Bolshevik revolution.",
        "这样的联盟一旦形成，就没有什么可以阻止它，除了革命——当时，发生了布尔什维克革命。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has reinterpreted Article 9, which renounces war, to allow for Japan to come to the defense of its allies.",
        "目前，日本首相安倍晋三政府已经重新解释了放弃战争权利的宪法第九条，允许日本参与盟国防务。"
    ],
    [
        "I know from my own experience that taking a course in philosophy can lead students to turn vegan, pursue careers that enable them to give half their income to effective charities, and even donate a kidney to a stranger.",
        "从我个人的经验出发，我知道上哲学课能让学生成为素食主义者，让他们追求将一般收入贡献给慈善事业，甚至让他们向陌生人捐献肾脏。"
    ],
    [
        "Things may, however, be starting to change, especially following the release three years ago of Joshua Oppenheimer’s extraordinary documentary film, The Act of Killing.",
        "但是，事情可能正在发生改变，特别是在三年前约书亚·奥本海默（Joshua Oppenheimer）制作的杰出纪录片《杀戮行为》（The Act of Killing）播出之后。"
    ],
    [
        "Where will the next saints come from?",
        "下一批圣徒会来自哪里？"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, past industrial projects that fell victim to the hostilities should be revived and made more legitimate in the eyes of Hamas through the participation of the Arab state.",
        "此外，过去成为敌对状态牺牲品的工业建设项目应该重新开始，并通过阿拉伯国家的参与使其在哈马斯眼中更具合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Treaties between countries can harmonize rules governing commerce and other areas.",
        "国家间条约能够协调管理商业和其他领域的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "We now know that as the ink was drying on the Communist Manifesto, wages in Europe and the United States were beginning a 160-year-long rise, making workers part of the middle class, with cars, mortgages, pensions, and petty bourgeois concerns.",
        "现在我们知道，《共产党宣言》墨迹未干，而欧洲和美国的工资便开始了长达160年的增长，让工人跻身中产阶级，拥有汽车、按揭、退休金和小资产阶级情调。"
    ],
    [
        "At some point, it may be possible to reinforce these steps with certain rudimentary norms and arms control, but the world is at an early stage in this process.",
        "某些时候或许可以通过某些基本规则和军备控制来强化上述步骤，但世界仍处于这一进程的早期阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "On October 10, the villagers’ lawyers were told that the court hearing scheduled that day was canceled.",
        "10月10日，村民的律师们被告知说原订于当天举行的法院听政会取消了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, large companies are run by two boards: a management board and a supervisory board, divided equally between shareholders and employee representatives, which take strategic decisions.",
        "事实上，大公司由两个委员会管理：管理委员会和监督委员会，股东和员工代表各占半边，共同决定战略决策。"
    ],
    [
        "But for this to be tolerable, the US needs to relieve China of existing risks.",
        "为了打消中国的顾虑，美国得想办法帮助中国规避一些既存的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the United States had been attacked.",
        "毕竟，美国也曾被攻击过。"
    ],
    [
        "But for such a system to be successful, the extreme poverty in the south of the country must first be our top priority.",
        "但这样一个体系要取得成功，该国南方的赤贫问题就是我们的当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "After its 1986 tax overhaul, the United States had one of the lowest corporate tax rates among OECD countries.",
        "1986年税法修订后，美国的公司税率为经合组织中最低之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Big meetings like the one getting underway this week and the Paris Climate Summit next month can kick-start these conversations.",
        "本周正在举行的会议和相隔约的巴黎气候峰会这样的大会能够为这些谈判提供起点。"
    ],
    [
        "As he argued, unregulated capitalism can lead to regular bouts of over-capacity, under-consumption, and the recurrence of destructive financial crises, fueled by credit bubbles and asset-price booms and busts.",
        "正如他所论证的，无节制的资本主义会定期导致产能过程，消费不足，信贷和资产价格泡沫循环消长，破坏性的金融危机一再爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, President George H.W. Bush could not have dragged the recalcitrant Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to the Madrid Peace Conference in October 1991 had he not been willing to take on what he described as “some powerful political forces” made up of “a thousand lobbyists on the Hill.”",
        "类似地，1991年10月，如果老布什不愿拿出他描述为由“一千名国会山游说者”所组成的“一些强大的政治力量”，他就无法迫使顽固的以色列总理沙米尔（Yitzhak Shamir）出席马德里和平会议。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of large-scale projects, some host countries are raising questions about the contracts that define their relationship with TNC’s, and governments are reviewing such contracts because they believe (rightly or wrongly) that they did not get a fair deal.",
        "特别在涉及到大型项目时，有些东道国正在对界定自身与跨国企业之间关系的合同提出疑问，东道国政府也在对上述合同进行审查，理由是他们相信（不管这种想法是对是错）自己并没有得到公正的对待。"
    ],
    [
        "With the commodity boom unlikely to return, Latin America urgently needs new export products – and here a bit of modern, if unorthodox, industrial policy could prove useful.",
        "大宗商品繁荣很难复现，因此拉丁美洲急需新的出口品——而在这方面，现代——乃至非正统的——产业政策是大有裨益的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the UK’s premier security think tank, the Institute for International Strategic Studies, recently warned that, while the world focuses on the fight against international terrorism and the unfolding events in the Middle East, China is rapidly expanding its influence from Asia to Africa.",
        "实际上，英国的主要安全思想库国际战略研究所最近警告说，当世界关注于国际反恐战争以及中东不断演化的事件之时，中国正在从亚洲到非洲快速扩充其影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "This trap becomes deeper the longer the alphabet and the longer the words.",
        "字母表和词汇越长，这一陷阱就越深。"
    ],
    [
        "India, which guarantees tiny Bhutan’s security, quickly sent troops and equipment to halt the construction, asserting that the road – which would overlook the point where Tibet, Bhutan, and the Indian state of Sikkim meet – threatened its own security.",
        "印度为微型国家不丹提供安全保障，立刻派遣军队和设备阻止中方建设，认为这条公路——它可以俯视西藏、不丹和印度锡金邦的交界点——威胁到其自身安全。"
    ],
    [
        "For the US, a concomitant problem is that Secretary of State John Kerry has made peace between Israel and Palestine a high priority.",
        "对美国来说，还有一个伴生问题，即国务卿克里已经将以色列和巴基斯坦和平列为高级优先事项。"
    ],
    [
        "And so, 70 years ago this November – on November 19 to be precise – the million-soldier reserve of the Red Army was transferred to General Nikolai Vatutin’s Southwestern Front, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky’s Don Front, and Marshal Andrei Yeremenko’s Stalingrad Front.",
        "同样是在70年前的这个11月——确切地说，是11月19日——百万苏联预备役大军开入瓦图京大将的西南前线、罗科索夫斯基的顿河前线以及叶廖缅科元帅的斯大林格勒前线。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, for countries like Greece, Portugal, or Spain, regaining competitiveness would require them to lower the prices of their own products relative to the rest of the eurozone by about 30%, compared to the beginning of the crisis.",
        "事实上，对希腊、葡萄牙和西班牙等国来说，重获竞争力需要降低本国产品相对于欧元区其他国家的价格，降幅（较危机开始时）应达到30%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "As we have seen in Europe since 2010, as well as in Ukraine and Puerto Rico more recently, the ability to rush for the exit at any time removes investors’ incentive to compromise.",
        "2010年来我们在欧洲、乌克兰、最近又在波多黎各看到，随时有退出机会导致投资人不愿妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "The just-concluded deal establishes a bridge between the old climate regime and a new, as-yet-undefined one.",
        "刚刚结束的谈判在旧气候机制和新的仍有待定义的机制间搭起了一座桥梁。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, citation data have become the vital statistics of academia, with researchers routinely including IF data and h-indexes – along with raw citation scores generated from sources like Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (Garfield’s database), Elsevier’s Scopus, and Google Scholar – on their curricula vitae.",
        "事实上，引用数据已成为学术界的重要统计数字，研究者通常会在简历中写上他的IF数据和h指数——以及来自汤森路透（Thomson Reuters）的科学网（Web of Science，加菲尔德的数据库）、艾斯维尔（Elsevier）的斯高帕斯（Scopus）和谷歌学术（Google Scholar）等来源的原始引用分数。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless the US and the EU relinquish their grip, the Fund’s latest bid for relevance may well turn out to be its last.",
        "除非美国和欧洲放松它们对IMF的把持，否则IMF重获重要性的最新努力也许将是最后一次。"
    ],
    [
        "But the impact of changing fuel prices is partial and delayed.",
        "但燃料价格变化的影响具有局部性和延迟性。"
    ],
    [
        "Representing a combined membership of more than sixty million Indonesians, they called directly upon the government to act against groups who engage in violence in the name of Islam, and denounced the behavior of such groups as un-Islamic, criminal, and a threat to national unity.",
        "这两个在印尼共拥有超过六千万成员的组织直接要求政府打击以伊斯兰的名义进行暴力活动的团体，并且宣布他的行为是非伊斯兰主义的，是犯罪行为，并且是对国家统一的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent article, one of us (David Brady) shows the correlation between rising political instability and declining economic performance, pointing out that countries with below-average economic performance have experienced the most electoral volatility.",
        "在一篇最新文章中，本文作者之一（大卫·布雷迪）发现政治动荡加剧与经济表现下滑之间存在相关性，指出经济表现低于平均水平的国家，选举波动性最大。"
    ],
    [
        "Relations between states are driven by cooperation, competition, and confrontation.",
        "国与国之间的关系由合作、竞争和对抗驱动。"
    ],
    [
        "So, why is the ECB set on a tougher course?",
        "那么，为什么欧洲央行要选择一条更艰难的道路呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Experienced observers remind us that crises, rather than vision, have tended to drive progress at critical stages of Europe’s historic integration – a multi-decade journey driven by the desire to ensure long-term peace and prosperity in what previously had been one of the world’s most violent regions and the site of appalling human suffering.",
        "有经验的观察家提醒我们，危机，而不是愿景，更能在欧洲历史性一体化的关节阶段推动进步。 欧洲一体化是一个几十年的历程，其背后的推动力是对确保在这个曾经是全世界最暴力地区、饱受可怕人道灾难摧残的地区实现长期和平与繁荣的渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "Some were obsessed with the supposed global domination of Jews.",
        "有些则沉湎于所谓的犹太人统治全球。"
    ],
    [
        "Concern about the paradox all but vanished.",
        "关于生产率悖论的关注也烟消云散。"
    ],
    [
        "The introduction of the euro in 1999, it was claimed, would narrow the economic differences between the member countries of the monetary union.",
        "据称， 1999 年引入的欧元能够缩小货币联盟成员国之间的经济差距。"
    ],
    [
        "Euphoria and triumphalism went to Western leaders’ heads.",
        "西方领导人脑子里装满了欢欣鼓舞和赢家心态。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring that the right type of aid reaches those most in need in a timely and effective manner requires development policymakers to embrace the type of multidimensional poverty data that aid organizations like Fundación Paraguaya have learned to gather.",
        "确保正确的援助类型及时高效地到达最需要的人需要发展政策制定者采用巴拉圭基金会等组织已经学会收集的多维贫困数据类型。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking to 2013, the biggest risks are in the US and Europe.",
        "展望2013，最大的危机在美国和欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the scale of capital flows, I am also urging the governments and central banks of the advanced countries to provide parallel financing to the IMF’s crisis-response programs.",
        "但是考虑到资本流动的规模，我还正在敦促发达国家的政府和中央银行向国际货币基金组织的危机响应计划提供我们所需要的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "It was Singh, serving in mid-1991 as India's Finance Minister, who began India's market reforms.",
        "辛格1991年中就任印度的财政部长，开始了印度闻名于世的市场改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But these same people often want both.",
        "但同一批人往往两者皆取。"
    ],
    [
        "That statistic alone should be a cause for grave concern to everyone in the industry.",
        "这一统计数字已足以让新闻业全体同仁感到深切的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Generously interpreted, past loans reflected naïve optimism that with a bit of seed money, politically and economically backward countries would generate majestic growth and effortlessly repay their loans.",
        "往好里说，过去的贷款反映了人们天真的乐观想法，认为只要有了种子基金，政治和经济领域的落后国家就可以实现真正的发展，并毫不费力地偿还贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "In firing rockets at Israel, Hamas invited a military response.",
        "哈马斯打向以色列的火箭弹引来了军事反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Post-1945 West Germany was vulnerable for a long time, because it sat on the Cold War’s fault line.",
        "因为处在冷战的分界线上，后1945年的西德在很长一段时期内非常脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "And right now, the United States is leading the world.",
        "眼下，是美国引领全世界。"
    ],
    [
        "In some countries, most notably the US, a private-sector credit boom created jobs in low-skilled industries like construction, and precipitated a consumption boom as people borrowed against overvalued houses.",
        "在有的国家（以美国为甚），私人部门的信贷繁荣为低技能行业（如建筑业）带来了大量工作岗位，而居民则通过以价值高估的房地产作抵押，借钱来维持消费繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "But when the world finally reaches the point when women are not a rarity at the tables of power, when their numbers reach a tipping point, their voices will be heard differently, and their opinions will hold more weight with the men around them.",
        "但当女性终于不再是权力桌上的稀客时，当女性数量达到临界点时，她们的声音将有所不同，她们的观点将对周边男性具备更大分量的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rest of the world learned different lessons.",
        "但是世界其他国家却从中得到了不同的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Though lower oil prices depress consumer prices, they should boost production and overall GDP.",
        "虽然低油价压制了消费者物价，也将刺激生产和整体GDP。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama broadly follows Ronald Reagan’s (second-term) security policy, George H.W. Bush’s spending policy, Bill Clinton’s tax policy, the bipartisan Squam Lake Group’s financial-regulatory policy, Perry’s immigration policy, John McCain’s climate-change policy, and Mitt Romney’s health-care policy (at least when Romney was governor of Massachusetts).",
        "奥巴马全面仿照了里根（第二任期）的安全政策、老布什的支出政策、克林顿的税收政策、跨党派斯夸姆湖集团（Squam Lake Group）的金融监管政策、佩里的移民政策、麦凯恩（John McCain）的气候变化政策以及罗姆尼（至少在其担任马萨诸塞州州长期间）的医疗政策。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, tropical deforestation is responsible for three billion tons of additional atmospheric CO2 annually – more than the world’s entire transportation sector.",
        "据相关科学家联盟统计，热带雨林砍伐每年多造成30亿吨 二氧化碳大气排放——其贡献比例甚至超过全球整个交通运输部门。"
    ],
    [
        "No one can be sure that Trump won’t take some dramatic action – whether related to international affairs or to the Russia investigation – during his sojourn in Palm Beach.",
        "没人能确定在棕榈滩度假期间特朗普不会采取极端措施——不管是关于国际关系问题还是俄罗斯调查。"
    ],
    [
        "The disturbance to so elemental a part of this region’s natural architecture is a measure of only one of the many kinds of severe weather aberrations – from floods and droughts to unseasonal blizzards and massive dust storms – that have been unsettling China of late. No one can say with any certainty what the causes are.",
        "而这种对该区域自然景观的控制只是应对最近侵扰中国的严酷气候灾害——从洪水，干旱，再到非季节性暴风雪以及大规模沙尘暴——的其中一项措施，也没有人能说明白这些灾难背后的成因究竟是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Basic incomes are no panacea; but for overworked developing-country citizens living in extreme poverty, they would certainly be a relief.",
        "但对于生活在极端贫困之中的超负荷工作的发展中国家公民而言，基本收入显然可以让他们喘口气。"
    ],
    [
        "Official US policy is so activist in downturns (regardless of its effectiveness) partly because unemployment is so costly to workers – who have little savings, unemployment benefits that run out quickly, and health care that is often tied to a job.",
        "美国官方政策之所以在经济不景时如此活跃，某种程度上就是因为劳动阶层对失业极为敏感——他们没有储蓄，失业救济也很快花光，而医疗往往又和工作挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, aggregate GDP has been dragged down since 2010 by faltering growth among oil exporters and security-related crises in the Sahel and North Africa; but in the rest of Africa, GDP growth has accelerated, from 4.1% in 2000-2010 to 4.4% in 2010-2015.",
        "事实上，石油出口国经济摇摇欲坠以及萨赫勒和北非地区爆发安全危机已经将2010年以来的GDP总量拉了下来； 但在非洲其他地区，GDP发展呈加速之势，从2000到2010年的4."
    ],
    [
        "And, as the Myriad case shows, they can even result in unnecessary loss of life.",
        "而且正如麦利亚德案例所示，这些知识产权规则也会导致不必要的生命损失。"
    ],
    [
        "He has to manage the situation with greater care.",
        "他不得不更为小心地应对局势。"
    ],
    [
        "But the message of Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution rings loud and clear: democracy – and the liberal political order in which it is rooted – is not merely a Western concept (or a Western conspiracy), but holds universal attraction, powered by the craving for “recognition.”",
        "但突尼斯“茉莉花革命”所传递的信息既明确又响亮： 民主及其扎根其中的自由政治秩序并非仅仅是一种西方理念（或者说西方阴谋），它的确有着广泛的吸引力，人类对于“承认”的渴望就是其背后的推动力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Such reform must include a reconsideration of the US dollar’s outsize role in shaping the international monetary system.",
        "这种改革必须包括重塑美元对国际货币体系的过分影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Baker and his cohort won the political debate.",
        "贝克尔和他的同伙们赢得了政治争论。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the international community collectively fails to protect vast populations of vulnerable migrants, such as the millions stranded by the recent conflicts in North Africa.",
        "与此同时，国际社会都没有保护大量易受伤害的移民群体，比如因最近北非冲突陷入困境的数百万人。"
    ],
    [
        "In South Africa, the government-backed",
        "这一计划也在危机中看到了机遇。 南非每年大约花费六千万美元清除威胁本国野生动物、水供应、重要旅游景点以及农地的外国侵入植物。"
    ],
    [
        "The US economy is relatively flexible, and this kind of structural adjustment in the private sector occurs reasonably quickly.",
        "美国经济相对灵活，这种私人部门的结构性调整也因此较为迅速。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, technological change acted as a powerful driver of productivity and employment growth.",
        "但这两个预测都未能兑现。 相反，技术变革成为了生产力和就业增长的强大动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it not time to give human development, environmental sustainability, and social equity an equal footing with GDP growth?",
        "将人类发展、环境可持续、社会公平置于与GDP增长同样重要位置的时机难道还没有到吗？"
    ],
    [
        "There is a risk that, by tempting policy complacency, this year’s economic upturn could end up being counterproductive.",
        "这里还存在这一项风险，如果实施的政策过于自负的话，本年度的经济上扬可能是最后会是削弱生产力的。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the report – which surveyed some 70,000 Internet users in 36 countries – 29% of respondents said they were avoiding news altogether.",
        "报告调查了36个国家的大约70,000名互联网用户，有29%的受访者说他们根本不看新闻。"
    ],
    [
        "There are three explanations for the ECB’s position, none of which speaks well for the institution and its regulatory and supervisory conduct.",
        "欧洲央行采取这一立场可能有三个原因，但没有一个能很好地为该机构及其监管和监督行为开脱。"
    ],
    [
        "And their myriad interdependencies increase the risks of transnational threats, such as disease outbreaks, and resource-related confrontations.",
        "它们彼此之间有着错综复杂的相互依赖关系，这增加了跨国威胁的风险，比如传染病暴发和争夺资源的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment banks then earn fees for re-packaging these securities in tranches of collateralized debt obligations, or CDO’s (and sometimes into CDO’s of CDO’s).",
        "投资银行然后再把这些证券打包成债务抵押债券（有时是债务抵押债券的债务抵押债券）来赚取费率。"
    ],
    [
        "One suggested approach is to leave an uninhabited buffer zone extending shoreward from the water.",
        "一个潜在的方法是在近海留出一块无人缓冲区。"
    ],
    [
        "In the weeks leading up to the elections, it seemed that the public had grown weary of a prime minister who had been in office long enough to be corrupted by the arrogance of power and tainted by a raft of petty scandals.",
        "在选举前几周，公众似乎已经对他感到疲倦——他执政已久，也许已被权力的傲慢所侵蚀，被众多琐碎的丑闻所缠身。"
    ],
    [
        "The growing popularity of strongmen in much of the world may or may not herald the dawn of a new autocratic age.",
        "世界上许多地方强人支持率日渐高涨，这也许预示着独裁时代的开始，也许不是。"
    ],
    [
        "So Americans are lucky that they have inherited the innovations of the past, and that real incomes will continue to grow in the future.",
        "因此，美国人是幸运的，他们继承过去了的创新，真实收入在未来也将继续上升。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with growing over-capacity, investment in goods production may fall even further, with serious implications for GDP.",
        "而且，随着过剩生产力的不断增加，在产品生产领域的投资会进一步减少，这会对GDP造成严重的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In such a poor society, inadequate education leaves people without the knowledge they need to improve their lot, such as by limiting pregnancies or taking advantage of opportunities to boost economic productivity.",
        "在如此贫穷的社会中，缺乏教育机会令人们无法通过限制怀孕或提高经济生产率来改变自己的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Caucasus, Azerbeijanis, Armenians, Georgians, Abkhazians, and Chechens all demanded states on the basis of self-determination.",
        "在高加索地区，阿塞拜疆，亚美尼亚，格鲁吉亚，阿布哈兹以及车臣都基于民族自决要求建立国家。"
    ],
    [
        "It used to be that if you wanted to export a shirt, you had to be able to design it to the taste of people you didn’t really know, procure the appropriate materials, manufacture it, distribute it through an effective logistical network, brand it, market it, and sell it.",
        "曾几何时，如果你想出口衬衫，你必须能够设计出符合你其实不认识的人的口味的衬衫，取得合适的材料，做出衬衫，通过高效物流网络送货，还要树品牌、做市场、实现销售。"
    ],
    [
        "To cite only one comment, addressed to the King: “Shame on you for claiming to be Custodian of the Two Holy Sanctuaries” in Mecca and Medina.",
        "其中一个帖子是写给国王的，它写道：“你自称是两个圣地的守护人，真是恬不知耻”。 这两个圣地在麦加和麦地那。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, given the effects of last December’s Asian tsunami, the weight of evidence provided by the MEA, and deforestation statistics from key forest regions, our efforts must continue.",
        "然而，由于去年12月份的亚洲海啸，“千年生态系统评估”的数据分量和对主要林木区的采伐统计，我们还必须继续努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the worries are about a stagflationary supply shock – say, a war with Iran – coupled with a deflationary demand shock as housing bubbles go bust.",
        "现在的人们的担忧是滞胀供应冲击－例如，和伊朗爆发战争－以及在房地产泡沫破灭时的通货紧缩需求冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s Renegade Puppet",
        "叛变的俄罗斯傀儡"
    ],
    [
        "This curriculum, exported Westward by fat Saudi subsidies, is heavily punctuated with denunciations of the infidels and calls to jihad.",
        "这一体系建立在对其制度的忠诚以及对异教徒的敌意之上。 沙特的大量补贴将这一教育向西方出口，其内容充满了对异教徒的谴责并呼吁圣战。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, most governments separate their environmental authorities from those focusing on energy, agriculture, and planning.",
        "如今，大部分政府将环境部门从专注于能源、农业和规划的部门中分离出来。"
    ],
    [
        "If the G-20 fails to put policy meat on its rhetorical bones, it will risk looking weak and irrelevant.",
        "如果G-20集团只是夸夸其谈而没有相应的政策出台，就会在世人面前显得脆弱且无关紧要。"
    ],
    [
        "The Roma, and Europe, have suffered a great defeat.",
        "罗姆人以及全欧洲都遭受到一次惨重的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Protecting Civilians Responsibly",
        "负责任地保护平民"
    ],
    [
        "The pivot toward Asia does not mean that other parts of the world are no longer important; on the contrary, Europe, for example, has a much larger and richer economy than China’s.",
        "视亚洲为关键并不意味着世界其他地区不再重要（例如，与中国相比，欧洲的经济总量更大，消费水平也更高），而是将亚太地区发展的深远影响纳入美国外交政策的考虑范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "By eliminating the two assumptions critical to negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel’s current leadership – and, indirectly, the majority of Israelis – has destroyed the thin veneer of legitimacy that the international community had erected around a country that has been occupying another people for nearly five decades.",
        "以色列的当前领导层——间接地说，是以色列大多数人——打破了与巴勒斯坦谈判的两大关键前提，也摧毁了国际社会给这个侵占另一个民族近五十年的国家所编织的可怜的合法性外衣。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, Britain has always had one foot in Europe and one foot out.",
        "无论如何，英国在融入欧洲上总是三心二意。"
    ],
    [
        "Greater involvement by business could increase the likelihood of getting there by 2030.",
        "商业的更大的参与能够增加在2030年实现这一目标的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Such states are vulnerable, and the past is littered with small and successful globalizers that lost out because of power politics: the Italian city states of the Renaissance, the Dutch Republic, or, in the twentieth century, Lebanon and Kuwait.",
        "这样的国家容易受到冲击，而历史上不乏成功的全球化小国由于权力政治而衰败。 文艺复兴时期的意大利城市国家，荷兰共和国或者二十世纪的黎巴嫩以及科威特都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not a coincidence that its last two slowdowns followed closely on the heels of growth slumps in its two largest foreign markets, Europe and the United States.",
        "中国最近两次经济减速都紧随其最大的两个国外市场——欧洲和美国——的经济衰退之后，这可并不是巧合。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, not every problem can be solved.",
        "最后，不是所有的问题都能够解决的。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s Fragile Power",
        "俄罗斯脆弱的势力"
    ],
    [
        "It is a creature of the intellect rather than a product of power.",
        "它是理智的作品，而非权力的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so will require knowledge, patience, and, above all, open minds and hearts.",
        "而这需要知识、耐心，以及最重要的，开放的思维和心态。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider a city like Boston, which, at first glance, does not appear to be particularly wealthy.",
        "比如波士顿这样的城市，这座城市乍看上去似乎并不特别富有。"
    ],
    [
        "The FARC guerrillas have held some of their kidnapping victims for many years.",
        "有些被绑人质已经被哥伦比亚革命武装部队（FARC）民兵关押了多年。"
    ],
    [
        "That brief conversation – the first between the two countries’ presidents since 1979 – recalls the last attempt to revive bilateral diplomacy, undertaken 12 years ago by Iran’s then-President Mohammad Khatami.",
        "联大上的简短对话——这是1979年以来两国总统的首次对话——让人想起了上一次恢复双边外交关系的努力。 那是在12年前，伊朗总统是哈塔米。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there has been some promising forward movement on the Cyprus issue, a longstanding impediment to Turkey’s EU accession.",
        "此外，在塞浦路斯问题上也出现了一些非常积极的发展趋势。 塞浦路斯问题一直是土耳其加入欧盟的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "He has weathered serious challenges and experienced firsthand the consequences of political and economic policies gone awry.",
        "他经受住了严峻的挑战，并且曾经亲身经历了因为以前政治和经济政策走偏失误所造成的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Good economic analysis can enable “constructive populists” to debate the “post-fact, fanciful populists” who seem to be on the rise, with a realistic alternative discourse – one that is transparent and based on credible expectations of economic policies and outcomes.",
        "好的经济分析能够让“建设性民粹主义者”有能力与大有崛起之势的“事后空想民粹主义者”争论现实的替代方案——一个透明的、基于可信的经济政策和结果的预期的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the “Greenspan put” (former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan’s monetary-policy approach) eliminated the downside risk by setting a floor under asset prices; but it set no ceiling on the upside.",
        "事实上，“格林斯潘看跌期权”（前美联储主席艾伦·格林斯潘的货币政策方针）通过设定资产价格下限打消了下跌风险；"
    ],
    [
        "How Long for Low Rates?",
        "低利率能维持多久？"
    ],
    [
        "Buchanan was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1986 for bringing to the study of government and the behavior of government officials the same rigorous analysis that economists had long applied to private economic decision-making.",
        "1986年，布坎南因将经济学家使用已久的对私人经济决策的有效分析引入对政府和政府官员行为的研究而获得诺贝尔经济学奖。"
    ],
    [
        "There can be no doubt that technology will forge ahead as well, in scores of expected and unexpected areas.",
        "毫无疑问，技术也将在众多预期和预期外的领域勇往直前。"
    ],
    [
        "A speech by Germany’s leader in a Greek city could go a long way toward delivering it.",
        "由德国领导人在希腊城市发表演讲，这将极大地有利于实现这一转型。"
    ],
    [
        "Using legislative language apparently drafted by Citi’s own lobbyists, the firm successfully pressed for the repeal of some of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms.",
        "用显然是花旗集团自身游说者操刀的立法语言说，该公司成功要求撤销2010年多德-弗兰克（Dodd-Frank）金融改革的部分内容。"
    ],
    [
        "In Smart Solutions to Climate Change, Eric Bickel and Lee Lane of the University of Texas offer compelling evidence that a tiny investment in climate engineering could result in bigger and faster reductions in global warming than would a vastly more expensive program of carbon cuts.",
        "在《气候变化的明智方案》一书中，美国德克萨斯州大学的埃里克·比克尔和李·莱恩就提供了可靠的证据，证明只要在气候工程进行少量的投资，就能更大幅度并更快地降低全球变暖效应，省下削减碳排放所需的庞大费用。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, all that plastic poses a serious threat to wildlife.",
        "此外，所有这些塑料都会给野生动物造成严重威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, debt-conversion schemes such as Debt2Health and debt-for-nature swaps would allow countries to redirect debt-service payments to development projects.",
        "类似地，Debt2Health和债务换自然（debt-for-nature swap）等债务转换机制将能使各国把债务利息支付引导给发展项目。"
    ],
    [
        "In The Growth Report , published in May, we tried to understand why most developing countries fell far short of this achievement, and explored how they might emulate the fast growers.",
        "在5月发表的“发展报告”里，我们试图去理解为什么大多数发展中国家远未达到这一成就，并探讨了这些国家如何向高速发展的国家学习。"
    ],
    [
        "Interest-rate cuts will run into the zero lower bound before they can have a meaningful impact on the economy.",
        "降息措施将在对经济产生有意义的影响之前就下降到零下限。"
    ],
    [
        "Mueller has hired experts on financial crime – an ominous development for other targets.",
        "米勒专门聘请了金融犯罪专家——这在其他目标人物看来绝对是不祥的预兆。"
    ],
    [
        "One group, comprising students, entrepreneurs, and researchers, seeks solutions that are local, original, and tailored to the needs of their societies. Its members are quick to share ideas and eager to collaborate.",
        "其中一个由学生、企业家和研究人员组成的团体热衷于合作及思想交流，一直以寻找能满足当地社会需求的创新解决方案为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "For too long, Arab governments have simply thrown money at problems, with the rich Gulf countries effectively subsidizing their troubled neighbors’ public services.",
        "长期以来，阿拉伯国家政府总是把钱浪费在问题上，富有的波斯湾国家实际上补贴着它们陷入麻烦的邻国的公共服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Until July, only Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain had drawn Target credit, for a combined total of €330 billion.",
        "到7月份为止，只有希腊、爱尔兰、葡萄牙和西班牙获得了目标信用，总量为3300亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if independent technocrats are allowed to determine long-term policy and set objectives that cannot be influenced by democratic majorities, democracy itself is in serious jeopardy.",
        "但如果独立的技术官员有权决定长期政策并设定目标——且不会被多数派民主所影响，那民主本身就受到了严重的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The first mass in decades was held in August 2010, led by Bartholomew and attended by hundreds of worshippers from Greece, Russia, Georgia, Europe, the United States, and Turkey.",
        "数十年以来的第一次祈祷在2010年8月举行，由巴塞洛缪一世主持，还有数百位来自希腊、俄罗斯、格鲁吉亚，欧洲，美国和土耳其的朝拜者前来出席。"
    ],
    [
        "The only significant period of “balanced” economic expansion was in the early nineteenth century.",
        "唯一一个相当长的“平衡”经济扩张时期是十九世纪初。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s why channeling dispersed knowledge into new businesses requires a regulatory framework that favors the genuinely enlightened and honest.",
        "因此，将分散化的知识引导进入新企业需要有利于真正开明和诚实的监管框架。"
    ],
    [
        "They have also paid back a significant share of external debt and converted much of what remains into more manageable local-currency liabilities.",
        "它们还偿还了大部分外部债务，剩余部分也大多转换为了更易管理的本币债务。"
    ],
    [
        "During my first post-1989 trip to China, a bartender introduced me to a phrase that perfectly characterized the new official mood: “Meiyou yundong, shenme dou keyi” (As long as there are no political movements, anything goes).",
        "在我的第一次后1989年中国之旅中，一个酒吧间男服务员向我介绍了一个明确反映新的官方精神的习语：“没有运动，什么都可以”（只要没有政治运动，干什么都可以）。"
    ],
    [
        "That the EU needs a new security strategy is clear.",
        "欧盟显然需要新的安全战略。"
    ],
    [
        "“If marriage is a source of income for women,” write Edlund and Korn “then the prostitute has to be compensated for foregone marriage market opportunities.”",
        "“如果婚姻是女性的一个收入源，”埃德伦德和科恩写道，“那么妓女必须获得远离婚姻市场机会的补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Where does this leave us?",
        "这对我们意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Their research identified hundreds of regions of the human genome where the number of copies of a particular DNA segment varied from individual to individual.",
        "他们的研究涉及到成百上千的人类基因区域，在这些区域，特殊DNA片断的组数因个体而不同。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, special relativity asserts that the fundamental laws of physics remain the same when we view the world from a platform moving at constant velocity.",
        "比如，狭义相对论认为，当我们从匀速运动的平台看世界时，物理学基本定律不会发生改变。"
    ],
    [
        "As a typical country becomes richer, more educated, and more politically open, support for democracy and readiness for civic engagement rise, and obedience to authority and support for patriarchal values fall.",
        "一个典型的国家，随着它日益富裕、教育程度日增、政治日益开放，对民主的支持和对公民参与的准备也会增加，而对威权的副总和对父权价值的支持则会降低。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers should maintain close collaboration with the technologists and entrepreneurs leading the revolution, lest they fall behind.",
        "决策者必须与领导革命的技术人员和企业家保持密切合作，以免陷入落后。"
    ],
    [
        "Health-Care Innovation in the Global South",
        "全球南部的医疗创新"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, we need to enhance the public’s grasp of the energy sector as a whole.",
        "最重要的是，我们需要增强公众对整个能源部门的掌握。"
    ],
    [
        "Science, Heal Thyself",
        "科学，治好你自己"
    ],
    [
        "Tackling gender inequality will require us to identify where, how, and why these biases materialize, and to develop systematic strategies and interventions to root them out.",
        "改变性别不平等需要我们明确上述偏见在哪里、为什么和怎样付诸实施，并制定系统的战略和干预措施来加以铲除。"
    ],
    [
        "By not committing resources to invest in new, cost-efficient, environmentally-friendly operations, or in developing the skills and knowledge of employees, or in innovation, companies will find that their short-term savings come at the expense of their long-term success.",
        "如果不投入资源为高效环保的新项目提供资助、或者提升员工的技术和知识、或者着力推进创新研究，企业终将发现他们的短期节约最终以牺牲长期成功为代价。"
    ],
    [
        "While Francis’s soothing manner seems to be helping to slow this erosion, whether he will be able to reverse the trend remains far from certain.",
        "尽管方济各的抚慰做法似乎有助于延缓这一不利局面，但能否扭转趋势远未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "Or did it require special talent?",
        "还是说着需要特别的天分？"
    ],
    [
        "Some analysts have even predicted a “slow death” of the Greek economy.",
        "有些分析家甚至预测希腊经济将走向“慢性死亡”。"
    ],
    [
        "The forecast was for world GDP to grow at about 4.5% annually until 2015, which is slightly higher than the pace during the pre-crisis decade, while the average annual inflation rate was projected to be lower, at 2.9%.",
        "IMF预测世界GDP将在2015年之前保持4. 5%的年增长率，略高于危机前十年的速度，而平均年通货膨胀率预计会有所降低，为2."
    ],
    [
        "And what other economic giants are waiting in the wings?",
        "还有哪些蓄势待发的经济强国？"
    ],
    [
        "Football matches can, it seems, revive national rivalries and conjure the ghosts of past wars.",
        "足球比赛似乎可以唤醒国家间的对抗，召回过去战争的幽灵。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, where consumption accounts for the bulk of the shortfall in the post-crisis recovery, is a case in point.",
        "在美国，消费是危机后复苏疲软的主要原因，这正说明了牵引因素的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has made it abundantly clear that his foreign-policy priorities do not include European security.",
        "特朗普已经非常明确地表示欧洲安全不包含在其外交政策优先事项当中。"
    ],
    [
        "These instructions casually referred to Kim family business, indicating that “the teachings should be executed by Kim Kyong-hui” (Kim Jong-il’s sister), that “Kim Kyong-hui and Kim Jong-un should take care of the family,” and that “Kim Kyong-hui should handle management of all assets inside and outside the country.”",
        "这方面的指令总是由金氏家族临时做出的，这表明“指令应该是金敬姬（金正日之妹）下达的”，“金敬姬和金正恩应该掌握着金家大权”以及“金敬姬应该控制着金家在朝鲜内外的所有资产”。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009, the Greek budget deficit was 15% of GDP; with an IMF program, the deficit fell in 2010, but only to 11% of GDP.",
        "2009年时希腊预算赤字相当于GDP的15％； 参与国际货币基金组织项目后的2010年赤字有所下降，但仅跌至11％。"
    ],
    [
        "The question now, for the United States and the world, is what will he do with a fresh four-year term?",
        "对美国和世界来说，现在的问题是，在新的四年任期里他会做些什么。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the Free World, in Western Europe and East Asia, became a US dependency.",
        "结果，西方和西欧的自由世界沦为美国的附庸。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a state of being involuntarily gripped by something that is difficult to ward off and for which, since one cannot act otherwise, one is accountable only in a limited sense.",
        "它是一种不自觉地被某些难以抵挡的事物攫住的状态。 正因为如此，我们对这种别无选择的情况只能做出理性有限的解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Becker was remarkable for applying his penetrating insights, especially concerning economic incentives, to issues that had been mostly underexplored by economic analysis. This included viewing education as an investment, asking who gained and lost from discrimination, examining how families allocated their time, and explaining women’s fertility decisions.",
        "贝克尔的引人注目之处是将他的敏锐洞见（特别是关于经济激励的洞见）应用于经济分析不常探索的问题，包括将教育视为一种投资、提出歧视的受益者和受害者是谁的问题、考察家庭如何配置他们的时间、解释女性的生育决策等。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Internet now such an important resource in the modern world, broadband has become a vital technology, promising to boost economic growth, lift people out of poverty, and improve their health, nutrition, and education.",
        "如今，互联网已成为现代世界中极其重要的资源，宽带也成为一项关键技术，带来提振经济增长、让人们摆脱贫困、改善人民健康、营养和教育的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The cultural rights of the large Kurdish minority, including the right to use their own language, had advanced greatly.",
        "人数众多的少数派库尔德人的文化权利（包括使用自己的语言的权利）有了很大进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The swap lines would also serve American interests.",
        "互换额度也将为美国利益服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas, say, Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan clearly confronted the Soviet Union in their speeches at the Berlin Wall, a succession of Western leaders has spoken in nods and winks about the crisis in Ukraine and China’s aggressive stance toward its neighbors.",
        "尽管（比如）肯尼迪和里根等美国总统在柏林墙前的演讲中明确反苏联，但他们的后辈西方领导人对乌克兰危机和中国对其邻国的逼人立场只能说些无关痛痒的话。"
    ],
    [
        "But development professionals, whose first duty is to “do no harm,” should be more conscious of the complex strains brought upon developing societies.",
        "但是首要任务是“无害”的发展专家应该更加注意发展中国家所面临的复杂的紧张关系。"
    ],
    [
        "That process – setting clear goals, picking the right approach, and then measuring results to get feedback and refine the approach continually –helps us to deliver tools and services to everybody who will benefit.",
        "这一过程——设置明确的目标，采取正确的方法，然后度量结果以持续地获得反馈和改进方法——有助于我们将工具和服务交到能从中获益的群体手上。"
    ],
    [
        "High taxes and burdensome regulations stifle the labor market and potential new businesses.",
        "高税收和过度监管阻碍了劳动力市场和潜在的新企业。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, Subramanian develops an index of economic dominance that should become a focus of conversation anywhere that people want to think about changes in world economic leadership.",
        "尤其重要的是，苏布拉曼尼恩制定出了用以一个衡量经济强权的指数，而这一指数应当被那些正在思考世界经济领导权变迁的人们视为议论的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "It may come as a shock to non-economists, but banks play no role in the standard economic model that monetary policymakers have used for the last couple of decades.",
        "对于非经济学家来说也许令人震惊，但在货币决策者过去几十年所使用的标准的经济学模型中，银行无足轻重。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the Michigan Cyber Civilian Corps has organized itself to respond to cyber-attacks.",
        "在美国，密歇根网络平民团已经组织起来应对网络袭击事件的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in important respects today’s Sweden is moving back to the liberal economic regime that existed before the explosion of government interventionism in the 1960’s.",
        "确实，今天的瑞典在某些重要的方面正在转移回到六十年代政府干预爆炸前的自由经济体制之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider China, by many measures the most significant emerging country.",
        "让我们来看看中国这个从各方面来说都是最为重要的新兴大国。"
    ],
    [
        "“But I cannot promise that you will.\"",
        "“您应该赢，”有一次他说，“但我无法保证您会赢。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In the UK, the diplomatic spat served as an occasion for the British press to air criticism from those who believe that the government should adopt a stronger stance on China.",
        "在英国，这场外交口水让英国媒体抓住机会传播那些认为政府应该对中国采取更强硬立场的人的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was the 1991 Maastricht Treaty – the point when European integration went into overdrive.",
        "结果签署了1991年的马斯特里赫特条约——也就是欧洲一体化进入超速阶段的标志。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no coincidence that these are also the states where the BJP fared best in 2014.",
        "这不是巧合，因为它们正是人民党2014年竞选表现最佳的几个邦。"
    ],
    [
        "VillageReach also started a company that delivers propane gas to health centers in northern Mozambique, where, like in many of the country’s rural areas, electricity is unreliable or completely unavailable to power the refrigerators that keep vaccines cool.",
        "VillageReach还开设了一家公司负责为莫桑比克北部的卫生中心输送丙烷气，与莫桑比克的许多农村地区一样，那里的电力供应很不可靠，甚至根本无法获得用于冷藏疫苗的冰箱所需的电力。"
    ],
    [
        "This includes the core leadership of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, which is now supported by Hezbollah and Iraqi militias, as much as the ISIS, which is composed largely of non-Syrian fighters who are unconcerned about rebuilding the country or safeguarding its people’s future.",
        "这其中包括总统巴沙尔·阿萨德政权的核心领导，阿萨德政权目前拥有黎巴嫩真主党、伊拉克民兵和伊拉克与叙利亚伊斯兰教国（ISIS）等团体的支持。 ISIS成员大多由非叙利亚籍战士组成，他们不关心国家重建，也不关心保护叙利亚民众的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration continues to delay and to avoid sound science.",
        "布什政府仍继续拖延并回避有效的科学论证。"
    ],
    [
        "With the expectation of a V-shape recovery increasingly difficult to justify, the “new normal” finally gained widespread acceptance.",
        "V型复苏预期日益难以服众，“新常态”终于被广泛接受。"
    ],
    [
        "At his zenith, many saw Thaksin as a worthy successor to former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, buoyed by authoritarian rule at home and assertive leadership abroad.",
        "而众多的双边协议则将会加强其与该地区大国的关系。 他信如日中天之时，许多人认为他是马来西亚前总理马哈蒂尔优秀的继承人，其地位依靠国内的专制统治以及在国际上发挥当仁不让的领导作用来得以维持。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change is not very different from these unsustainable or defective growth patterns.",
        "气候变化和这些不可持续或有缺陷的增长模式并无多大差别。"
    ],
    [
        "But he is likely to have made all the calculations related to the charges and other allegations before leaving London, and to have concluded that his chances of remaining free are high.",
        "但是他在离开伦敦以前就可能对所有指控的做了周密的盘算，并且得出结论认为他保持自由的机会还是很高的。"
    ],
    [
        "Special youth insertion programs should become a normal part of public support for employment and career formation, with exemption from social-security contributions for the first one or two years of employment.",
        "年轻人特别干预计划应该成为支持就业和职业形成的公共支持的常规部分，在职业生涯刚开始的一两年中，应该免于缴纳社会保障费用。"
    ],
    [
        "The current international economic order, spearheaded by the United States and its allies in the wake of World War II, is underpinned by multilateral institutions, including the IMF and the World Bank.",
        "当前的国际经济秩序由美国及其盟友在二战后引领，其基础是包括IMF和世界银行在内的多边机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Then the Americans offered Bakiyev $160 million a year, and now there may be no official base, but a “transit center” that serves the same functions.",
        "随后美方则给巴基耶夫开价1. 6亿美元一年，结果现在美军虽然在当地取消了正式基地，却保留了个照样执行同样任务的所谓“运输中心”。"
    ],
    [
        "With clearly defined positions, each country could pursue a policy of strategic restraint, avoiding the swaggering displays of force that have sometimes tempted them in the past.",
        "在明确立场约束下两国都可以采取战略克制政策，避免像过去那样有时夸张地炫耀武力。"
    ],
    [
        "To begin, we asked Iraqis to reflect on the fall of Saddam: Was Iraq better off without him?",
        "首先，我们要求伊拉克人回顾萨达姆政权的崩溃：没有了他，伊拉克人是不是过得更好了？"
    ],
    [
        "Or it may deal with its problems and become a “responsible stakeholder” in world politics.",
        "或者，它会处理其问题并且成为世界政治中一个“负责任的利益相关者”。"
    ],
    [
        "In Manipur in 2002, the 1991 ban was lifted in five hill districts, where alcohol consumption is a centuries-old local tradition.",
        "2002年，曼普尔邦的1991年禁令在五个有着数百年饮酒风俗的山区被取消。"
    ],
    [
        "French electors did not vote for a dream.",
        "法国选民并未能为梦想投下一票。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared to 250 years ago, the average person in the United Kingdom today has access to 50 times more power, travels 250 times farther, and has 37,500 times more light.",
        "与250年前相比，今天平均每个英国人可以获得多50倍的电力、250倍的旅行距离、37500倍的光明。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of the original Apple-Ireland deal, ASI pays a miniscule tax on these earnings, effectively exempt from the ultra-low 12.5% corporate-tax rate.",
        "根据苹果和爱尔兰最初的协议，苹果国际销售公司只需为这些利润支付微乎其微的税款，有效地豁免了12. 5％的超低企业所得税。"
    ],
    [
        "Or perhaps the Justices were simply reacting to the Administration's constant overreaching.",
        "抑或这可能仅仅是法官们对布什政府持续的过火行为的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "To walk towards economic and political freedom.",
        "去奔向经济和政治的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "They may now regard themselves as indispensable.",
        "他们也许觉得自己是必不可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s Get Fiscal",
        "回归财政"
    ],
    [
        "These recommendations, based on physiological and observational studies, proved profoundly misleading.",
        "这些基于生理和对比研究的建议被证明完全是一种误导。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the international community has woken up.",
        "幸运的是，国际社会已经觉醒。"
    ],
    [
        "This supportive context provided a roadmap for national policymakers, helping them to build democratic institutions and marginalize extremists.",
        "这种支持性的背景为国家的决策者提供了路标，帮助他们建立民主的体系，排除极端主义。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, that finding alone would shake economics to its foundations.",
        "果真如此的话，光是这一结论就将从根本上动摇经济学。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberalism has been under continuous attack for decades from religious extremists and religious institutions, and liberal organizations were stifled by oppressive rules.",
        "几十年来，自由主义受到宗教极端分子和宗教机构的不断攻击，自由组织也受到了压迫性法规的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "With respect to monetary policy, the United States’ unemployment rate, at around 5%, is close to what most economists consider full employment, and the Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise its target interest rate again in December. But the Fed is moving at a very slow pace.",
        "在货币政策方面，美国的失业率（约5％）接近大多数经济学家认定的充分就业状态，外界普遍预期美联储会在12月再次提高其目标利率，但该机构却总是一副慢条斯理的样子。"
    ],
    [
        "Prabhu's pledges include improving and expanding rail lines, introducing wireless Internet at railway stations, eliminating unmanned level crossings, creating a 24-hour toll-free number for users to phone in complaints, and installing security cameras to protect women passengers.",
        "帕布的承诺包括翻修和扩建铁路线、在火车站建设无线互联网、消除无人值守道口、设立24小时免费投诉热线和为保护女性乘客安装监控摄像头。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is a melting pot, whereas Europe is a mosaic of different peoples and cultures that has developed over the course of its long history.",
        "美国是一个熔炉，而欧洲是一张历史悠久的由不同民族和文化组成的马赛克。"
    ],
    [
        "That proved to be a missed opportunity not only to alter the momentum of the conflict, but also to underscore the principle that any government that uses weapons of mass destruction will regret it.",
        "这个不仅错失了改变冲突势头的机会，也违背了任何使用大规模杀伤性武器的政府都要后悔的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, President Xi Jinping’s recent drive against corruption high and low has made many Communist Party plutocrats jittery.",
        "当然，国家主席习近平最近的反腐运动让很多中共富豪不寒而栗。"
    ],
    [
        "In the previous assembly, work stalled on several significant pieces of legislation, including laws on public-private partnerships, foreign investment, and banking reform.",
        "在以往的议会中，若干重要的立法工作停滞，包括对公私合作关系的法律，外国投资以及银行业改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Systemically important emerging economies are also subject to considerable uncertainty.",
        "主要的新兴经济体也受到相当大的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "And as the cost of existing goods falls, consumers will have more money to spend on more of the same goods or different ones.",
        "而随着现有商品价格的下降，消费者将有更多的钱用于买更多商品或不同的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Judges have sentenced too many killers to absurdly lenient prison terms, diminishing any deterrent effect that the tribunal might generate.",
        "法官们对大多的屠杀者都太过仁慈，没有从重判刑，削弱了法庭可能产生的巨大威慑力。"
    ],
    [
        "But any increase in corporations’ market power is de facto a lowering of real wages – an increase in the inequality that has become a hallmark of most advanced countries today.",
        "但公司市场权力的任何提高事实上都是在降低真实工资——这一不平等性已经成为当今大部分发达国家的显著特征。"
    ],
    [
        "If Xi’s administration is successful – a big if – its reforms may enable China to negotiate the necessary transition from an economy driven by exports and government investment to a more sustainable growth model based on domestic consumption.",
        "如果习政府执政成功——这当中具有很大的不确定性——其改革或许可以帮助中国完成从出口驱动型经济和政府投资到以国内消费为基础的可持续增长模式的必要过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks are not borrowing as much; they have more capital; and they have far more stable and liquid sources of funds to lend.",
        "资本金则更多； 它们也拥有更稳定且更具流动性的资金来源来实施贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the financial sector has, in previous eras, proven that it can operate as a public good by providing trustworthy, efficient services.",
        "但是，金融部门的历史已经证明，它可以作为一种公共产品来运行——通过提供值得信赖的高效服务。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The remarkable thing about Jeremy Corbyn, the hard-left outsider who stunned the British establishment by capturing the leadership of the Labour Party, is not his alleged lack of patriotism.",
        "伦敦—对杰里米·科尔宾（Jeremy Corbyn）来说，值得注意的不是人们指责他缺少爱国主义。 这位强硬左派外部人士成为工党领袖，堪称对英国传统的一次颠覆。"
    ],
    [
        "In a not-so-subtle reference to that last conflict, in which India suffered a disastrous defeat, the Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Colonel Wu Qian has warned India to “learn from historical lessons.”",
        "中国国防部发言人吴谦上校毫不讳言地援引印度惨败的上一次冲突，警告印度“吸取历史教训”。"
    ],
    [
        "Competing against an older Peres (who had taken over after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin) Netanyahu dyed his hair white to appear more mature, and then took advantage of a badly handled mini-war and the anger of Israel’s Arab voters.",
        "为了与佩雷斯竞争(佩雷斯是在拉宾总理遇刺身亡后接替总理职位的)，内塔尼亚胡把他的头发染白以便看起来更为成熟。 他还利用了一场处置不当的小型战争以及以色列的阿拉伯选民的愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "Back home, many more face a brutal winter without adequate food, medicine, or shelter.",
        "回国后，许多人面临着缺少食物、药品和居所的严冬。"
    ],
    [
        "There was little recovery – only faster inflation.",
        "但是没有出现任何复苏迹象——只是加速了通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Reducing economic inequality will require reforms of education and taxation, with the tax burden shifting decisively from labor to capital.",
        "降低经济不平等性需要教育和税收改革，让税收负担决定性地从劳动力转移到资本。"
    ],
    [
        "But that will not be true this year, because consumer prices are falling, whereas the GDP deflator (and nominal GDP) is still increasing.",
        "但这种情况在今年度将不会发生，因为消费者物价正在下跌，而GDP紧缩指数（以及名义GDP）依然正在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "In Spain, it jumped by 70%, and in France by 60%.",
        "在西班牙，该比例上升70%，法国则是60%。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as these investments bolster economic growth, increased tax revenues would imply more sustainable financing, as would local governments’ ability to leverage land markets and approach local-currency debt markets.",
        "但随着基础设施投资促进经济增长，由此增加的税收有可能提供长期资金，地方政府利用土地和本币债券市场的能力也将随之提高。"
    ],
    [
        "But the share of models developed by Chinese carmakers is negligible.",
        "但由中国制造企业自主研发的车型却屈指可数。"
    ],
    [
        "West Africa, too, would be affected, having become in recent years the main transit point for South American drugs headed to Europe.",
        "西非也将受到影响，近几年来，该地区已成为南美毒品流向欧洲的主要中转站。"
    ],
    [
        "This was the most moderate Israeli government conceivable, and the same can be said about the Fatah movement controlling the Palestinian Authority.",
        "那届以色列政府堪称是最为温和的一届，而他们的谈判对手，控制巴勒斯坦民族权力机构的法塔赫也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Relatively small fiscal deficits – only around 2% of GDP in 2010 – leave China with an added dimension of policy flexibility should circumstances dictate.",
        "5%的强制准备金率调降了50个基点——如果情况需要，中国还拥有更大的政策灵活度。"
    ],
    [
        "Within 24 hours, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would prohibit the sale of gasoline- and diesel-fueled cars by 2040.",
        "不出24小时，法国总统马克龙就宣布，法国将在2040年禁止汽油和柴油汽车销售。"
    ],
    [
        "Irresponsible behavior threatening the health of the global economy?",
        "不负责任的行为威胁到全球经济的健康？"
    ],
    [
        "The smartest way to safeguard national sovereignty is to minimize the risks migrants face when trying to reach safety, and to maximize the means at their disposal to build productive lives.",
        "维护国家主权最明智的办法莫过于在实现安全的过程中尽可能减小我们所面临的移民风险，并尽可能让他们有能力建立起富有成效的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "In developing countries, life expectancy has increased by 20 years since the mid-1970s, and the illiteracy rate among adults was almost halved in the last 30 years.",
        "发展中国家预期寿命自20世纪70年代中期以来延长了20年，且过去30年来成人文盲率几乎降低了一半左右。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context – and in view of the robust economic growth recorded in 1999 and 2000, the still-booming stock markets, and the continued accumulation of excess liquidity – the ECB’s Governing Council progressively tightened policy, thereby keeping upward risks to price stability from materializing.",
        "考虑到这些因素¾和1999、2000年经济的迅猛增长，还有持续繁荣的股市和流动性过剩的不断积累¾欧洲央行管理委员会逐渐收紧货币政策，从而防止了物价的上涨成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Skeptics warned that it would be far harder to reach agreement among 20 or more countries than it had been among the dozen pre-crisis Basel Committee members (mainly European countries, with only the US, Canada, and Japan representing the world beyond).",
        "怀疑派警告说，在20多个国家之间达成一致要比在十多个危机前巴塞尔委员会成员国（主要是欧洲国家，其他地区的代表只有美国、加拿大和日本）之间达成一致要困难得多。"
    ],
    [
        "But the decision to prolong Bouteflika’s presidency will not provide the kind of strong, transformational leadership that Algeria needs to materialize the regime’s stability promises.",
        "但延长波特弗利卡总统任期的决定并不能给阿尔及利亚带来实现政权的稳定承诺所需要的强大的转型性领导。"
    ],
    [
        "And his gift for motivating people was unmatched; indeed, it outlasted him, with his assassination cementing a powerful legacy.",
        "他鼓舞人的天赋无与伦比； 事实上，在他死后，他的暗杀巩固了他所留下的传统。"
    ],
    [
        "To protect the oil fields and other facilities, the Americans dedicated a massive, overwhelming force of soldiers and private contractors.",
        "为了保护油田和其它设施，美国派出了势不可挡的庞大部队和私有承包商。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the US runs a massive trade deficit with China – around $295 billion in 2011, or fully 40% of America’s total merchandise trade gap of $738 billion.",
        "没错，美国对中国存在着巨大的贸易逆差——2011年约为2950亿美元，相当于美国7380亿美元商品贸易总缺口的40%。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe today does not need inspirational leaders who can whip up a populist frenzy. Instead, it needs locally respected leaders who are capable of working in a complex and multi-dimensional political world.",
        "今日的欧洲不需要能够煽起民众狂热的传奇领袖，而需要能在一个复杂而多维的政治环境下工作的、受当地人民爱戴的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, factory farms are not biologically secure.",
        "不仅如此，工厂式养殖从生物角度讲并不安全。"
    ],
    [
        "The people of Eastern Europe were eager to embrace this kind of capitalism.",
        "而当时的东欧人也非常渴望能拥有这样的资本主义制度。"
    ],
    [
        "When the computer encounters the phrase “killed the bill,” it would deduce that “bill” can only be a proposed law submitted to a legislature, and that “kill” could mean only “stop.”",
        "当计算机遇到“ killed the bill” 这一词组时，它会推断， “ bill”只能是一个提交给立法会的法律草案，而“kill”仅可能是“停止”的意思 。"
    ],
    [
        "One Dark Age is one too many.",
        "须知人类只需要一个黑暗时代就够了。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, M-Pesa’s cashless transactions are underpinned by cash contributed by its customers, which is held in trust at any given time.",
        "比方说，M-Pesa的无现金交易由客户提供的现金支持，并在任何特定时点以信托的形式持有。"
    ],
    [
        "Or it could come by starvation, with the US refusing to do or pay its share.",
        "或者也可能“饿死”，美国拒绝采取行动或贡献应有的比例。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, sharks are global wanderers; they have no regard for the boundaries of economic exclusion zones, protected areas, or countries’ territorial waters.",
        "归根结底，鲨鱼是全球迁徙的物种； 它们根本不管国家领海、专属经济区或保护区。"
    ],
    [
        "If investors flock to “safe” US financial assets, these capital flows must keep the dollar significantly stronger that it would be otherwise, which is an unambiguous cost, especially at a time of idle resources and unutilized capacity.",
        "如果投资者涌向“安全”的美国金融资产，这些资本流必然会让美元大幅升值，这毫无疑问是一种成本，特别是在满是闲置资源和闲置产能的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "The controversy represents yet another opportunity to stoke prejudice against an unpopular minority, in the hope of siphoning votes from the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen in the 2017 election.",
        "这场争论代表了又一次挑起针对不受欢迎的少数族裔的偏见，并且借机在2017年大选中从极右翼国民阵线候选人马琳·勒庞手中争夺选票的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "This creates an opportunity for China to lead the establishment of a trade pact for Asia – an opportunity that Chinese leaders are already set to seize.",
        "这为中国牵头在亚洲建立贸易协定创造了机会——而中国领导人也已经抓住了这个机会。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – India’s parliamentary system, inherited from the British, is rife with ineffiencies.",
        "新德里——从英国继承的印度议会制充斥着低效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Even South Korea, which is a giant in comparison, was only half a country.",
        "即使是相比之下是巨人的南韩也只是半个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, if we want more information, we should ask more questions.",
        "类似地，如果我们想获得更多信息，我们应该提更多问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Like many others in Russia who are allowed to enjoy their wealth in peace today (or maybe are lamenting its loss due to the financial crisis), he made his money in thoroughly obscure ways during the early post-Soviet years.",
        "同俄罗斯其他许多可以安心享受他们的财富（或是因金融危机而感叹财富的损失）的人一样，在苏联解体后的最初岁月里，他以令人完全捉摸不透的方式积累了财富。"
    ],
    [
        "So cutting interest rates would not only be stupid—it would be crazy.",
        "因此，降级利率的做法不仅是愚蠢的，更是疯狂的。"
    ],
    [
        "Namely, it would not further undermine European stability, which also happens to be Britain’s biggest security asset.",
        "具体来讲，那就是它不会进一步威胁欧洲的稳定，而欧洲的稳定同样恰巧是英国最大的安全财富。"
    ],
    [
        "For Latin America, a return to the facile rhetoric and self-defeating policies of populism would be the most dangerous side effect of Trump’s victory.",
        "对拉丁美洲而言，回归民粹主义的肤浅修辞和适得其反的政策也许是特朗普胜选最危险的副作用。"
    ],
    [
        "It is here – in the rapid development of export industries and the dramatic rise in export volumes – that NAFTA made the difference.",
        "正因它如此神奇的造就了出口业的飞速发展和出口量的成倍增长，北美自由贸易协定才堪称是一大成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama is correctly attempting to explain that effective energy policy, by its very nature, requires long-term goals and steady progress toward achieving them.",
        "奥巴马试图解释节能政策的本质决定了这是一项长期目标，需要逐步完成，这是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "This proved too much for one Iranian legislator, Akbar Alami, who publicly questioned Ahmadinejad’s judgment, saying that even Islam’s holiest figures have never made such claims.",
        "这对于一位伊朗立法者Akbar Alami而言是难以接受的，他曾公开质疑艾哈迈迪内贾德的看法，认为即便是伊斯兰最神圣的人物也从未做过这种声明。"
    ],
    [
        "The US invasion of Iraq, a country that was not connected to the 9/11 attacks, squandered that good will, and the attractiveness of the US in Muslim countries like Indonesia plummeted from 75% approval in 2000 to half that level today.",
        "美国在印度尼西亚等穆斯林国家的吸引力指数已经从2000年的74%大幅下降至上述比例的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the grand bargain between the eurozone core, the ECB, and the periphery – painful austerity and reforms in exchange for large-scale financial support – is now breaking down, as austerity fatigue in the eurozone periphery runs up against bailout fatigue in core countries like Germany and the Netherlands.",
        "此外，欧元区核心国、欧洲央行和外围国之间的扯皮——用痛苦的紧缩和改革交换大规模金融支持——正在走向失败，欧元区外围国的紧缩疲劳正和德国和荷兰等核心国的援助疲劳针锋相对。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, as now, the first two years of a reformist administration were thwarted by adverse external developments in the international oil markets.",
        "和现在一样，哈塔米政府两年的改革成绩因为国际石油市场的不利外部影响而功败垂成。"
    ],
    [
        "New World, Less Order",
        "缺乏秩序的新世界"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, it was the war in Iraq – and thus former President George W. Bush and his neoconservative advisers – that brought Iran to its current position of strategic strength.",
        "归根结底，让伊朗拥有目前战略地位的恰恰是前总统乔治·W·布什及其新保守主义顾问发动的伊拉克战争。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the pursuit of the collective good looks sadly quaint.",
        "简言之，追求集体好处看上去如此不合时宜。"
    ],
    [
        "The country then implements a reform program while receiving financial assistance from the Fund.",
        "然后，债务国实施改革计划，同时获得IMF的金融援助。"
    ],
    [
        "How to Default on Sovereign Debt",
        "怎样对主权债务违约"
    ],
    [
        "When oil companies misbehave in Nigeria or elsewhere, they are protected by the power of their home countries.",
        "当石油公司在尼日利亚或其他国家恣意妄为时，它们会受到母国政权保护。"
    ],
    [
        "The effects of that duty will radiate throughout the supply chain, hitting the 4,200 employees of Bombardier UK.",
        "这笔关税的影响将贯穿整个供给链，冲击到英国庞巴迪的4,200名员工。"
    ],
    [
        "And there is no alternative to be seen without America.",
        "美国的力量仍然无法代替。"
    ],
    [
        "Another is the Supreme Court; the court already has one vacant seat for the next president to fill and is likely to have more over the next four years.",
        "另一个动机是最高法院； 最高法院已经空出了一个席位，将由下任总统来填补，并且在未来四年中可能还有更多空位。"
    ],
    [
        "As historians are trained to do, I based my argument on the archives.",
        "历史学的训练促使我立论于资料的基础上。"
    ],
    [
        "But I think of them as complements: if you cannot build your plant, you do not benefit from more accommodating trade rules.",
        "但我认为这些指标是互补性的：如果你无法建立你的工厂，就无法通过调整贸易规则获益。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Kremlin quickly deployed battalion-size tactical groups from the Russian army to support the rebels.",
        "但克里姆林宫迅速从俄军中抽调营级战术性部队部署至顿巴斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Be that as it may, nation-states were often formed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to promote common interests that transcended cultural, ethnic, linguistic, or religious differences.",
        "历史就是如此。 民族国家通常成立于十八和十九世纪来促进超越文化、种族、语言或者宗教区别的共同利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, faculty, students, researchers, and practitioners who have an interest in developing appropriate solutions to global health problems should be afforded the opportunity to do so.",
        "此外，有兴趣为全球健康问题创设适当解决方案的教师，学生，研究人员和从业者都应该得到付诸实践的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Our first MacroShares have been for oil price risk, but plans for GDP risk are on the drawing board.",
        "我们的第一批宏观股份就是针对石油价格风险，但是有关GDP风险的计划还在酝酿之中。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, fiscal policy and the monetary-policy regime have a decisive influence both on the depth of the collapse and how long before the economy recovers.",
        "换句话说，财政政策和货币政策机制在崩溃的深度和经济复苏所经历的时间长度上均具有决定性的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But the really big money now, more often than not, is made outside the West, in China, the Persian Gulf, and even Russia.",
        "但如今，真正的“大钱”更多地来自西方以外，来自中国、波斯湾乃至俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a strain to think that governments have the same motivations as private citizens.",
        "认为政府和私人国民有着相同动机是一个局限。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, during the first half of the twentieth century, Africa offered the blood of its inhabitants, and then recourse to its territories, to a European continent in the throes of two world wars.",
        "然后，在二十世纪上半叶，欧洲在两次世界大战中泥足深陷，而非洲为此付出了居民的鲜血和资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to mobilize the resources and muster the political will to put an end to this senseless tragedy would be unforgivable.",
        "未能集中资源和政治意愿结束这场无知的悲剧是不可原谅的。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1988, the United States Society of Plastics Industry (SPI) developed a coding system in which each kind of resin is labeled with a number, 1-7, to facilitate sorting.",
        "1988年，美国塑料行业协会（SPI）制定了一套规则，每种树脂都被标以1—7中的一个数字以方便储存。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, Kiev might witness the type of protests - and the risk of civil war - that brought down Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia in 2000 and Eduard Schevardnadze's government in Georgia last year.",
        "否则，基辅也许会出现一些示威抗议活动，甚至有发生内战的危险，2000年发生在塞尔维亚的内战就推倒了斯洛博丹·米洛舍维奇，去年格鲁吉亚的厄杜德·舍瓦得纳兹的政府也被同样的方式推翻。"
    ],
    [
        "The last challenge can be stated as a question that is rarely posed: Is China’s political system an obstacle to renminbi internationalization?",
        "最后一个挑战可以用一个很少被提出的问题来阐明：中国的政治体系会不会是人民币走向国际化的障碍？"
    ],
    [
        "But the euro was not just the outcome of an idiosyncratic quest to reduce the wear on pockets stuffed with odd national coins, or to facilitate intra-European trade.",
        "但欧元可不仅是为了减少衣服口袋遭各国大小硬币磨损而做出的怪异探索，也不是为了方便欧洲内部贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the situation is cause for growing concern, because the global economic crisis is relentlessly laying bare the European Union’s flaws and limitations.",
        "在欧洲，情况越来越令人担心，因为全球经济危机正在把欧盟的缺点和局限性无情地暴露出来。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, Japan knows that a deeper strategic collaboration with India – which is also seeking to blunt increasing military pressure from China – is its best move.",
        "在这样的背景下，日本知道，与印度开展更深层次的战略合作是上上之策，而印度也在寻求遏制来自中国的日益增加的军事压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the root causes of that failure go deeper, to Iraq’s creation as an artificial entity in the 1920’s by British imperialist planners, who stitched together three disparate provinces of the defeated Ottoman Empire into a state that never had a coherent identity.",
        "但是，这一失败的根本原因还要深刻，一直可以追溯到二十世纪二十年代英国帝国主义份子规划者人为地建立了伊拉克这样一个实体。 这些人把战败的奥托曼帝国完全不同的三个省份合并成为一个国家，而这个国家从来就没有一个统一的身份认同。"
    ],
    [
        "Think about what would happen if the Bank of Japan actually managed to convince the public that inflation will average 2% on a sustained basis.",
        "想一想，如果日本银行真的让公众认为通胀将持续处于平均2%的水平，十年期利率还会是0."
    ],
    [
        "The planet has entered a new era of irreversible consequences from climate change.",
        "地球现已进入气候变化不可逆后果的崭新时代。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this changed in 2008, when a legislative reform allowed the Fed to pay interest on excess reserves.",
        "2008年改变了一切。 立法改革允许美联储向超额准备金付息。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s Diaspora to the Rescue",
        "非洲海外移民拯救非洲"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, the only thing that might stop the system from continuing to work is the low confidence of its greatest proponents.",
        "讽刺的是，唯一可能阻止系统继续运转的东西乃是对其最伟大组成部分的信心不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany cannot, however, indulge its obsession with supply-side reforms without also pursuing growth-enhancing policies.",
        "然而德国不可一面纵容自身对供应这一端改革的偏好，一面却不去施行刺激增长的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, many clubs had previously heard allegations of sexual abuse of young players, but had chosen to ignore them or cover them up, at times even doling out hush money to the victims – all for the sake of protecting their own reputations.",
        "毕竟，许多俱乐部此前早已听闻关于小球员遭受性侵犯的指控，但选择了忽视和掩盖，有时甚至用钱封受害者之口——所有这些都是为了保护自己的名誉。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, which might have taken the lead in the past, has ceded its global leadership position in recent years – a process that has been greatly accelerated during the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency.",
        "昔日领袖美国在最近几年中让出了全球领导地位——这一过程在特朗普担任总统的第一年里大大加速了。"
    ],
    [
        "The charge of colonialism, meanwhile, is simply reflex: colonialism no longer exists.",
        "与此同时，有关殖民主义的指责完全是不加思索，脱口而出：殖民主义已经不存在了。"
    ],
    [
        "These systematic reviews have shown that for-profit hospital care leads to higher death rates than not-for-profit care, despite higher charges to third-party payers.",
        "这些系统评价表明盈利性医院护理所产生的死亡率比非盈利性护理的死亡率要高，尽管它们对第三方付费者收取更高的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "The immediate impact is a halt to 60 years of integration momentum.",
        "最直接的影响是逆转长达六十年的整合势头。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with Austrian money and World Bank support, officials are drawing up a privatization program that will cover a significant proportion of the country’s mainly state-owned industry.",
        "同时在奥地利和世界银行的支持下，政府正在起草一个覆盖大多数本国主要国有企业的私有化项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Successive G-20 summits have asked its chairman, Mario Draghi (now a favorite to succeed Jean-Claude Trichet as President of the European Central Bank), for updates on progress in reforming regulation, but the FSB has no authority over the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, or any of the other standard setters.",
        "在此前多届G20峰会上与会各国都要求金融稳定委员会主席马里奥·德拉吉（如今也是顶替让-克劳德·特里谢出任欧洲央行行长的热门人选）汇报监管改革的进程，但该委员会的权力无法凌驾于巴塞尔银行监管委员会或其他标准制定者之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the result of this deregulation was a short-lived housing bubble, not a sustained boom in productive private investment.",
        "不幸的是，去监管化的结果是短命的房地产泡沫，而不是生产性私人投资的持续繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Russia’s leaders have become more interested in consolidating state power at home and abroad than in promoting democracy, protecting human rights, and cooperating with the West.",
        "与此相反，俄罗斯的领导人们却对在国内外加强国家权力要比促进民主、保护人权以及同西方合作更为感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "But no effort to address the issues surrounding the global surge in migrants and refugees will succeed unless it specifically targets the plight of the world’s rural poor.",
        "但是，除非人们明确地将目标指向世界农村贫困人口的困境，否则解决全球移民和难民数量激增问题的措施就不可能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The top-down approach that has guided the effort since 1992 is slowly being replaced by a bottom-up model.",
        "自下而上的模式正逐渐取代自1992年来一直指导这项工作的自上而下的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a recent British meta-analysis, ammonia emissions, nitrogen leaching, and nitrous-oxide emissions per unit of output were higher in organic systems than in conventional agriculture, as were land use and the potential for eutrophication – adverse ecosystem responses to the addition of fertilizers and wastes – and acidification.",
        "英国最新一项汇总分析显示有机系统单位产量的氨排放、氮淋失及氧化氮排放均高于传统农业，这还不算土地过度使用和可能的富营养化——化肥及废物所造成的不利生态影响——以及土壤酸化过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does religion play a discernible role; while Roman Catholics used to fear independence as being liable to result in Protestant hegemony, today Catholics and Protestants are roughly equal in their support of Scotland’s institutions.",
        "宗教起的作用也并不明显。 信仰罗马天主教的人以前担心独立会带来清教徒的霸权，现在，天主教徒和清教徒在支持苏格兰机制上大体上相等。"
    ],
    [
        "Surely a twenty-first-century fisherman does not want to see the basis of his or her living degraded and destroyed, nor does a modern conservationist want to ring-fence the environment and stop people from making a living.",
        "一位21世纪的渔民肯定不愿看到自己的生存基础遭到削弱和破坏，而另一方面现代环保主义者也不愿意将环境圈起来，不让人们赖以维持生活。"
    ],
    [
        "That is one reason why all ten ASEAN countries signed on as founding members of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, despite US opposition.",
        "这也是为什么东盟十国不顾美国反对，成为以中国为首的亚洲基础设施投资银行创始成员国的原因之一。"
    ],
    [
        "They have made tax systems less progressive and slashed spending on education, industrial policies and regional subsidies, pouring money instead into health care, pensions, and cash hand-outs that encourage early retirement and disability.",
        "它们降低税制的累进性，削减教育、产业政策和地区补贴支出，而将钱用于医疗、退休金和现金救济，鼓励人们早早退休和失能。"
    ],
    [
        "On the Thai coast, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 4,500 fishing vessels were smashed, jeopardizing the livelihoods of 120,000 people in fishing villages there.",
        "在泰国海边，据联合国食品和农业组织报告，4,500艘捕鱼船被击得粉碎，沿海渔村约有120,000人遇险。"
    ],
    [
        "The effort must be sustained until the pipelines funneling Russian cash to European parties are shut down for good.",
        "这一措施必须一直持续到俄罗斯向欧洲政党的出资渠道完全切断为止。"
    ],
    [
        "They do business in whatever country is most advantageous.",
        "他们在最具优势的国家做生意。"
    ],
    [
        "But crowdfunding is still not a major factor in world markets.",
        "但众筹在全球市场上仍然不是主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, Trump has failed to deliver any major legislative policy achievements.",
        "到目前为止，特朗普还没有实现任何重大立法政策成果。"
    ],
    [
        "First, even if each individual debt-holder benefits, he or she will benefit even more if everybody else cuts the face value of their debt and he or she does not.",
        "首先，即使每一个债务持有人都将得益于此，但是如果别人都削减债务的面值而他或她不削减，他或她将得益更多。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance has collected information on prevalence, patterns, and trends of drug resistance since 1994, focusing on resistance to first-line drugs and contributing much to our understanding of MDR-TB. But surveillance for XDR-TB has been more limited, as drug susceptibility testing for second-line drugs is not well-standardized and for some drugs is poorly reproducible, while few countries perform such testing within the context of their national TB programs.",
        "有关抗结核病药物耐药性的全球计划已经搜集了1994年以后有关流行状况、类型和耐药性发展趋势的大量信息，重点关注一线药物的耐药性状况，为我们对耐多种药物型结核病的了解做出了很大贡献。 但是对严重耐药型结核病的监控却非常有限，对二线药物的药物敏感性测试也没有制定完善的标准，对某些药物的敏感性测试很难再现，而且没有几个国家在国家级结核病计划中进行这样的敏感性测试。"
    ],
    [
        "From that point on, the specter of a Jewish minority ruling over an Arab majority in an apartheid state is bound to become a reality, turning Israel into an international pariah, unless a more sober coalition replaces Netanyahu’s suicidal alliance with religious fundamentalists and extreme nationalists.",
        "从此以后，种族隔离国家少数犹太人统治多数阿拉伯人的状态将成为现实，这将导致以色列成为国际贱民，除非更加清醒的联盟取代内塔尼亚胡与原教旨主义者和极端民族主义者的自杀式联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "One thing we can know for sure, however, is that it is in the EU’s best interest to maintain strong ties with the UK, despite the fact that British voters made their decision unilaterally.",
        "但有一件事是确定无疑的，就是虽然英国选民单方面作出了自己的决定，但保持与英国的紧密联系依然符合欧盟的最佳利益。"
    ],
    [
        "There certainly are very difficult issues that must be sorted out before a peacekeeping mission could go into Donbas, notably the composition and formal mandate of whatever force is deployed.",
        "必须在维和部队开进顿巴斯前解决部队组成和正式任命等艰难问题。"
    ],
    [
        "With swelling urban populations, it will become increasingly difficult to keep a lid on these pressures.",
        "随着城市人口的膨胀，减轻他们的压力将变得越来越困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic and social burden on countries such as Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, and Pakistan, all of which are being asked to house large numbers of refugees, is immense.",
        "约旦、土耳其、黎巴嫩和巴基斯坦等国家的经济和社会不堪重负——它们都被要求接收为数巨大的难民。"
    ],
    [
        "In the twenty-first century, however, Silicon Valley’s competition has gotten fiercer – as reflected by the increasing number of locations affixing the chemical element to their names: Silicon Alley (New York), Silicon Wadi (Tel Aviv), Silicon Sentier (Paris), etc.",
        "但是，进入二十一世纪，硅谷的竞争变得更加激烈了——越来越多的地方将这一化学元素嵌入了名字当中：硅巷（Silicon Alley，纽约）、硅峪（Silicon Wadi，特拉维夫）、硅路（Silicon Sentier，巴黎），等等。"
    ],
    [
        "The Milošević regime then sounded exactly like the Kremlin now.",
        "当时米洛舍维奇政权的口吻和现在的克里姆林宫如出一辙。"
    ],
    [
        "Shaking off his addiction to booze speaks extremely well of Bush, his strength of character and the support of his wife and family.",
        "改掉酗酒的恶习足以为布什正名，证明他的人格力量及其妻子和家庭的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "In fairness to Blair, this is not mere stubbornness, as it seems to the case with Bush and his current and erstwhile minions, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and, of course, Vice President Dick Cheney.",
        "公平地说，布莱尔不像布什及其现任的和以前的幕僚唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德，保罗·沃尔佛维兹，当然，还有副总统迪克·切尼那样纯粹的顽固不化。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, to describe genetically modified athletes as mutants or inhuman is morally suspect, for it invokes the same kind of prejudice that we deplore in relation to other biological characteristics, particularly race, gender, and disability.",
        "无论如何，把经过基因改造的运动员贬斥为突变异种或非人类在道德上站不住脚，因为它引发了与其它生物特征，尤其是种族、性别和残疾相联系的同样的偏见，而我们对这些偏见理应深恶痛绝。"
    ],
    [
        "Microsoft’s chief executive is of Indian origin, as is the inventor of the Intel Pentium processor, the former chief technology officer at Motorola, and the CEO of Google.",
        "微软的首席执行官是印度裔，同样情况的还有英特尔奔腾处理器的发明人、摩托罗拉前首席技术官和谷歌的首席执行官。"
    ],
    [
        "Its burgeoning population far outstrips the country’s ability to feed itself.",
        "国家现有的资源难以应对急剧膨胀的人口数量。"
    ],
    [
        "Before 2007, there was little political interest in tougher global standards, and individual countries resisted the idea that an international body might interfere in their sovereign right to oversee an unsound banking system.",
        "2007年前，收紧全球标准不符合政治利益，个体国家也不接受国际机构干预主权权利监督不可靠的银行体系。"
    ],
    [
        "And have its creditors given anything at all?",
        "它的债权人给予过任何东西吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Again, higher prices will ration global oil demand, but only after a period of economic pain in some regions around the world.",
        "更高的价格再次将遏制全球石油需求，但这只会发生在世界某些地方经历一段经济阵痛期之后。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is clear that they have not tried enough: the “stop” signal of unanchored inflation expectations, accelerating price growth, and spiking long-term interest rates – all of which tell us that we have reached the structural and expectational limits of expansionary policy – has not yet been flashed.",
        "但显然，它们做得还不够：未锚定通胀预期的“停止”信号尚未闪现，通胀预期仍在推高价格、提高长期利率——所有这些告诉我们，我们已经到达了扩张性政策的结构和预期极限。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a concert of democracies can block this strategy.",
        "民主国家只有齐心协力才能阻挡这一战略。"
    ],
    [
        "IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde recently put it more starkly, noting that the world’s 85 richest people control more wealth than the world’s 3.5 billion poorest people, and that this degree of inequality is casting a dark shadow over the global economy.",
        "”IMF总裁克里斯汀·拉加德（Christine Lagarde）最近更加尖锐地指出，如今全世界最富有的85人所控制的财富超过了35亿最贫穷人口，并且这一不平等程度正在严重印象全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "But NAFTA’s US-based supporters and many Mexicans argue that the deal actually created more American jobs than were lost in Rust Belt states that Trump won in the election, because it increased US exports to Mexico.",
        "但北美自由贸易协定的美国支持者以及许多墨西哥人认为该协定实际上为美国创造的职位要比在特朗普胜选的老工业州流失的更多，因为它增加了美国对墨西哥的出口。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s rapid economic growth, strategic potential, huge internal market, and enormous investment in infrastructure, education, and research and development, as well as its massive military buildup, will see to that.",
        "该国高速的经济增长，战略潜力，庞大的国内市场以及对基础设施，教育和科研的巨额投资，还有大规模军备建设都证明了这一判断。"
    ],
    [
        "Where Has Global Warming Gone?",
        "全球变暖已达何种程度？"
    ],
    [
        "Two features of Chinese e-commerce stand out.",
        "中国电子商务有两大显著特征。"
    ],
    [
        "The legal obstacle is not merely an inconvenience; it also represents a valid economic concern about the moral hazard that ECB bailouts present for members’ fiscal policies in the long term.",
        "政治障碍不仅在于不方便，也彰显出一个合理的经济担忧，即欧洲央行的援助会造成成员国长期财政政策的道德风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, had the EU not supported the creation of an administrative and social infrastructure of liberty, there might well have been a more serious communist or even fascist backlash in Poland, Hungary, and elsewhere.",
        "同等重要的是，如果欧盟没有支持建立自由的行政和社会基础设施，波兰、匈牙利和其他地方就会出现更为严重的共产主义甚至是法西斯主义的强烈反应。"
    ],
    [
        "The international climate negotiations that are expected to culminate in an agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in November and December have been hampered by the requirement of consensus among the 195 countries participating.",
        "195个参与国达成一致的要求也阻碍了十一、十二月巴黎联合国气候变化大会上预期将因协议的签署而达到高潮的国际气候谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "At this low price, companies have little incentive to cut back on their CO2 emissions – and little faith that a market-based incentive will return.",
        "如此低价很难激励企业减少二氧化碳排放，并且市场化激励机制重新发挥作用的希望也非常渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – The United Nations is seeking a new secretary-general. The World Bank presidency is up for grabs.",
        "发自牛津——联合国正在甄选下一任秘书长，世界银行行长的职位正虚位以待，而世界卫生组织也在物色一位新带头人，其他一些国际组织也面临着类似的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, financial repression lowered the cost of capital.",
        "与此同时，金融抑制降低了资本成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Comeback Cancers",
        "癌症的复发"
    ],
    [
        "We must lead the world, by deed and by example.”",
        "我们必须领导世界，用作为和榜样领导世界。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But it remains an open question as to whether the EU will actually be able to stabilize the most fractured polity in the most dangerous area of conflict in Europe’s immediate neighborhood.",
        "但是，欧盟是否有能力稳定这一欧洲近邻中的最为危险冲突地区最为四分五裂的国家尚且不得而知。"
    ],
    [
        "A large part of the money and credit that was created out of nothing from former interbank transactions, now excluded from official guarantees, would return to nothing.",
        "货币和信用的一大部分原本无非是银行间交易所产生的浮云，如今它们被排除在官方担保之外，将恢复其浮云的本来面目。"
    ],
    [
        "The Thais flew consular and embassy officials to the affected areas, aware of the sense of helplessness among those stranded far from home.",
        "泰国人组织外国使领馆的官员飞赴灾区，体验远离家园的被困者所感受到的无助。"
    ],
    [
        "“The credit belongs to the man in the arena,” Roosevelt continued, “who spends himself in a worthy cause, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”",
        "“荣誉归属于参与竞技的人，”罗斯福还说，“因为献身于有价值的事业，而且就算事情糟糕到极点，如果最终失败，至少他在失败前曾经勇敢尝试过，这样他就永远不会和那些不敢经历成败的胆小冷漠的灵魂为伍。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "One example of such a policy is to link banks’ mandatory reserve ratios to the speed at which credit is expanding or to the stage of the business cycle.",
        "这类政策的其中一个例子是将银行的法定存款准备金率与信贷业务扩大的速度或商业周期的不同阶段联系起来。"
    ],
    [
        "We need you to overcome a prolonged period of congressional paralysis and polarization in order to address the country’s malaise.",
        "我们需要你们克服旷日持久的国会扯皮和两极分化，从而治愈我们国家的顽疾。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community must resist shortsighted calls to withdraw from middle-income nations on the ground that they could now “go it alone.”",
        "国际社会必须抵制撤出中等收入国家的短视呼吁。 这些呼吁的理由是它们现在可以“单干”。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it may also represent the regime’s success at co-opting dissatisfaction with a quarter-century of radical Islamist rule.",
        "但它还可能代表着现政权在拉拢和利用伊朗人对25年来激进伊斯兰统治的不满方面的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "That controversy prevented most other changes in education from going forward.",
        "这场对立阻碍了教育领域其他变革的推进。"
    ],
    [
        "Religious knowledge was a different matter.",
        "宗教知识则是另外一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider tourism.",
        "以旅游业为例。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, other Europeans may end up agreeing with Cameron that ever closer political union in Europe is undesirable – if they have a choice, that is, which is by no means certain.",
        "此外，其他欧洲人也许会同意卡梅伦，更加紧密的欧洲政治联盟毫无必要，如果他们有选择的话——也就是说，如果这不是板上钉钉的话。"
    ],
    [
        "But only with significantly greater cohesion within the US and Israel will Iran’s leaders even consider accepting a compromise on their nuclear program.",
        "但只有美国和以色列内部形成了更大的合力，伊朗领导人才会考虑在核计划问题上妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The mood at the International Monetary Fund-World Bank spring meetings here earlier this month was grim.",
        "华盛顿—本月早些时候在这里举行的国际货币基金组织（IMF）-世界银行春季会议的情绪是阴沉的。"
    ],
    [
        "The delay is significant, because Kuwaitis are unaccustomed to this kind of parliamentary influence.",
        "耽搁是显而易见的，因为科威特人不习惯于这种议会影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "For Iraq, this is a brain drain that will be hard to repair.",
        "对伊拉克而言，这种人口流失很难恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "A key challenge here lies in stemming the migration of China’s top talent to the private sector.",
        "这里还有一个关键的问题在于防止中国顶尖人才向私营部门的流失。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has also exploited many Americans’ economic anxieties, tapping the same anti-immigrant, anti-elite rage that is sweeping across European countries.",
        "特朗普还利用了许多美国人的经济焦虑，煽动与横扫欧洲诸国类似的反移民、反精英愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, population aging and low fertility rates are already causing the prime working-age population, people aged 15-59, to decline.",
        "在中国，人口老龄化和低生育率已经造成主要工作人口——即15—59岁人群——开始下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, however, the economic tumult shaking Europe, the erosion of the middle class in the West, and the growing social inequalities worldwide are undermining capitalism’s claim to universal triumph.",
        "然而，如今，经济动荡困扰的欧洲，西方中产阶级的衰落以及全世界不断恶化的不平等性问题正在破坏资本主义夺取全面胜利的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, we leave the realms of policies, and even of politics, and enter the murky domain of symbols and myth.",
        "无论是哪一种情况，我们都离开了政策、甚至政治领域，进入了模糊不清的符号和虚构范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "Jobs are created directly in the organization providing the network and indirectly in the supply chain.",
        "就业岗位被直接（在提供网络的组织中）和间接（在供应链组织中）创造出来。"
    ],
    [
        "There are plenty of great potential non-American candidates.",
        "有许多不错的非美国籍的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Orthodox fundamentalists found the art blasphemous and offensive, and some trashed the exhibition.",
        "但东正教原教旨主义者认为展览亵渎神明，令人不快，于是捣毁了这次活动。"
    ],
    [
        "If we recast these benefits as annual installments, a realistic Doha outcome could increase global income by more than $3 trillion every year throughout this century.",
        "如果我们将这些收益重新计为年度的分期偿付，那么多哈回合谈判的一个最现实的成果就能够在这个世纪中的每一年为全球增加超过3万亿美元的收入。 而每年流向当今发展中国家的数额近2."
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, increasingly sophisticated DNA studies of extinct populations have shown that, despite their general classification as the distinct species Homo neanderthalensis, Neanderthals interbred with modern human groups as they dispersed out of Africa.",
        "此外，越来越复杂的灭绝人种DNA研究表明，尽管“尼安德特人”是一个不同的物种，但他们也与走出非洲的现代人杂交。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gulf States’ Expat Dividend",
        "海湾国家的侨民红利"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, the Fed should certainly not take the lead in raising interest rates when there is no evidence of excess supply in savings vehicles.",
        "与此同时，美联储显然不应该在尚无证据证明储蓄工具供给过剩的情况下领衔提高利率。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – On August 11, China devalued its currency by 2% and modestly reformed its exchange-rate system.",
        "发自伯克利——八月十一日，中国将其人民币汇率下调了2%并稍微改革了其汇率体系。"
    ],
    [
        "We cheer them on.",
        "我们为他们加油打气。"
    ],
    [
        "For Muslim-majority Bangladesh, this struggle within Islam amounts to a battle for the soul of the country.",
        "对穆斯林占多数的孟加拉国来说，这场伊斯兰教的内斗已经成为国家灵魂的斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "By leaving Pinchuk off this list, Yushchenko may be hinting that he wants a truce with Ukraine's most powerful magnate should he become president.",
        "他没有提到平强克的名字，也许通过这种方式暗示如果他成为总统的话，他还是希望同乌克兰最有势力的大富豪和平共处。"
    ],
    [
        "Having said that, the outcome will certainly not be as dramatic as in the movie – if only because, unlike Hans, the Fed is not out to take over the markets.",
        "话虽如此，结局肯定不会像电影那样戏剧化，因为美联储不像汉斯那样以接管市场为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, after the largest credit expansion in history, that point has clearly been reached.",
        "如今，在经历了史上最猛的信用扩张之后，引爆点显然已经被触发了。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the calm that has set in in Britain is tenuous.",
        "平心而论，英国的冷静相当脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "For animals also suffer from floods, fires, and droughts, and, since they are not descended from Adam and Eve, they cannot have inherited original sin.",
        "因为动物也会因为洪水、火灾和干旱遭受不幸，并且，既然它们不是亚当和夏娃的后代，它们不可能继承原罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the IMF concludes that “the evidence is not unequivocal.”",
        "就连IMF也认为“证据含糊。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – One does not need to be particularly good at hearing to decipher the dog whistles being used during this year’s election campaign in the United States.",
        "伯克利—你不需要特别擅长倾听，就可以破解今年美国选战期间所使用的狗哨（dog whistles）。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixth, it is important to establish sustainable growth patterns early on.",
        "第六，是重要的是尽早建立可持续的增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Civilian exchanges and information flows could nurture forces that would bring about fundamental change from the inside.",
        "民间交流和信息流动有助于培养从内部发生根本性变化的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, political accountability – not to mention tax money – flows from citizens to the national capitals.",
        "毕竟，政治责任——更不用说税金——在公民和国家首都间流动。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Obama combine hard and soft power into a smart-power strategy that works?",
        "这种组合着硬实力和软实力的“巧实力”能否生效？"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, most Arab countries’ institutions are nowhere near being able to meet this imperative.",
        "不幸的是，绝大部分阿拉伯国家机构根本不具备完成任务的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Relief for Greece is an especially fraught issue in countries where far-right parties are on the rise or center-right governments face popular left-wing opposition.",
        "在极右翼政党崛起或中右翼政府面临汹涌的左翼群众反对的国家，救希腊是一个特别不讨好的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "His position is a refutation of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan’s doctrine that the central bank should not adjust policy in response to financial-sector excesses, but instead should concentrate on reacting to any problems that subsequently arise.",
        "他的立场与前美联储主席格林斯潘的教条针锋相对。 格林斯潘认为中央银行不应该因为金融部门出现过剩而调整政策，而应该集中于对随后产生的任何问题做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Southerners are up in arms because the Houthi rebellion halted plans for the adoption of a federal system, which would have given the region greater autonomy.",
        "南方人之所以武装起来，是因为胡塞叛军中止了采取联邦制的计划，而联邦制将带给南部更大的自治权。"
    ],
    [
        "For emerging Europe and the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), however, taking advantage of economies of scale will require reduced trade barriers and better connectivity.",
        "但对新兴欧洲和中东和北非（MENA）国家来说，利用规模经济需要降低贸易壁垒、加强联动性。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 2014 soccer World Cup in Brazil, a country with a chronic shortage of hotel rooms, more than 100,000 people used home-sharing Web sites to find accommodation.",
        "2014年世界杯期间，10万多人通过住房共享网站在饭店房间长期短缺的巴西找到了住宿场所。"
    ],
    [
        "The unilateral overstretching of American power offers a chance for a new beginning in US-European relations.",
        "美国实力的单边过渡延伸给欧美关系的新起点提供了机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But climate change is not going to wait.",
        "但气候变化不会等待。"
    ],
    [
        "Short of a nightmare scenario like terror-driven nuclear war, you can expect my successors in 2075 to look back and relish that, once again, their world is three times better off than ours is today.",
        "只要没发生恐怖主义核战争这类噩梦场景，你可以期望我的后继者们在2075年回顾往事，并欣喜地发现他们的世界也比我们今天要好上三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "American banks have incurred more than half of these massive penalties.",
        "美资银行占了这些巨额罚金的大头。"
    ],
    [
        "Someday, of course, this will come to an end.",
        "当然，总有一天这种情况会终结。"
    ],
    [
        "C. auris is not easy to identify.",
        "耳道假丝酵母菌不容易被识别出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Anticipating the prospect of such future fire sales (of loans, financial assets, or institutions), it is understandable that even strong banks will restrict their lending to very short maturities, and their investments to extremely liquid securities.",
        "预想到将来这样降价出售（降价出售贷款、金融资产或者机构）的前景，就连资金雄厚的银行也对短期贷款和流动性非常好的证券的投资进行了限制，就是可以理解的了。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, the central bank looked as if it was doing something other than traditional monetary policy.",
        "2008年，人们对美联储也作出了类似的评论。"
    ],
    [
        "The ongoing witch hunt causes citizens of all persuasions to fear for their jobs and their lives.",
        "正在进行的政治迫害导致所有派别的民众担心自己的工作和生活。"
    ],
    [
        "One, mainly the province of the European Central Bank, involves price stability and the value of the euro.",
        "第一个问题主要与欧洲央行有关，包括价格稳定和欧元的价值。 第二个问题是财政问题。"
    ],
    [
        "There are other reasons why Turkish officials have welcomed the interim agreement so warmly.",
        "土耳其官员如此热烈地欢迎临时协议还有别的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Initial perception-based data gathered by the Forum is pointing toward the importance of leadership ability, transparency, efficiency, and good relationships between public and private-sector stakeholders.",
        "世界经济论坛所收集的首批基于感知的数据包括领导层能力、透明度、效率以及公私利益相关部门之间的良好关系等。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brexit referendum will also have political repercussions, particularly if the Conservative Party splits over the issue – a distinct possibility, regardless of the outcome.",
        "英国退出公决还将具有政治反响，特别是如果保守党因为这一问题而分裂的话——不管结果如何，这个可能性很小。"
    ],
    [
        "What kinds of triggers should be specified for mobilizing buy-down funds?",
        "为了动员补贴资金，应该设置那些触发条件？"
    ],
    [
        "I hope citizens in the US, Europe, and the Pacific answer with a resounding no.",
        "我希望美国、欧洲和太平洋地区的公民果断地说“不”。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the popular hunger for sporting success, and the celebratory outpouring that it evokes, is bound to provoke some disquiet.",
        "尽管如此，大众对体育成功的渴望以及体育成功所带来万人空巷的庆祝场面注定会引起一些不安。"
    ],
    [
        "Last November, Volker Kauder, the majority leader in the Bundestag, bragged that “suddenly Europe is speaking German.”",
        "去年11月，德国联邦议院多数派领导人沃克尔·考德（Volker Kauder）大言不惭地说“欧洲突然开始说德语了。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community could not agree on a way forward at NPT review conferences in 2005 and 2015.",
        "在2005年和2015年的NPT评估会议上，国际社会都无法就未来政策形成统一意见。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama’s administration is trying to stop the construction of new coal-fired power plants, unless they are equipped with CCS technology.",
        "奥巴马总统政府试图停滞新煤电站的建设，除非采用CCS技术。"
    ],
    [
        "And last year’s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster only made a grim fiscal picture worse by requiring huge new spending on reconstruction.",
        "而去年爆发的地震、海啸及核灾难需要巨大的重建开支，这无疑进一步恶化了本已严峻的财政状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Others believe that this continuity works through national character.",
        "还有人认为这种持续性源于民族性格。"
    ],
    [
        "This view, propagated since World War II by a quasi-Marxist intelligentsia, is so ingrained that the French do not even bother to understand how markets operate.",
        "这个观点的宣扬始于二战期间的一群准马克思主义知识分子，现在这个观点根深蒂固，以至于法国人从来就未尝试去理解市场如何运作。"
    ],
    [
        "Assad’s defeat would break the “axis of resistance,” choke off Hezbollah’s arms supplies, and drive a permanent wedge between Turkey and Iran.",
        "巴沙尔的倒台将打破“反以轴心”，切断真主党的武器供应，并在土耳其和伊朗之间打入一枚永久的楔子。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK, without a presence at those talks, will simply have to accept or reject whatever the EU offers.",
        "英国在所有谈判中都没有话语权，只能接受或拒绝欧盟所提供的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "In the years since, Russia has annexed Crimea and destabilized eastern Ukraine.",
        "从那以后，俄国吞并克里米亚造成东乌克兰局势动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinians are looking instead to Iran, Hamas’ ally, for signs of any revival in discussions between Fatah and Hamas.",
        "巴勒斯坦人于是寄希望于哈马斯的盟友伊朗，寻找法塔赫和哈马斯恢复谈判的蛛丝马迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the next few years, the world economy slumps into what future historians will call the Second Great Depression.",
        "再过几年，世界经济的衰退程度会被未来的历史学家们称为第二次大萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "Comet Ping Pong was harassed by constant, abusive, and often threatening phone calls.",
        "彗星乒乓餐厅经常接到辱骂、往往还带有威胁意味的骚扰电话。"
    ],
    [
        "So, how will the European Union distinguish between “good” current-account deficits – a government creates a favorable business climate, generating inflows of foreign direct investment – and “bad” current-account deficits?",
        "而欧盟将如何分辨政府为创造有利投资环境以及增加外国直接投资而造成的“良性”经常性项目赤字和“不良”经常性项目赤字呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The foreign population also provides a human-capital dividend to the local population, as talented expats introduce knowledge and innovation in sectors that the GCC wants to develop.",
        "外国人口还给本地人口带来了人力资本红利，侨民人才为GCC想要发展的部门引入了知识和创新。"
    ],
    [
        "In Bangalore, my home, investment is pouring into a city at the forefront of the Indian economy’s transformation – home to companies like Infosys and Wipro, and named by Forbes Magazine as one of the “Fastest Growing Cities of the Next Decade.”",
        "在我的家乡班加罗尔，投资正在涌入Infosys、Wipro等公司的大本营，被《福布斯》杂志称为“未来十年增长最快城市”之一的印度经济转型前沿城市。"
    ],
    [
        "The median age of Africa’s population is just 19.5 years.",
        "非洲人口的中位年龄只有19. 5岁。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial storm that swept in from the United States, and the onset of a severe economic downturn, confronts Europe with unprecedented challenges.",
        "在这样的背景下，欧元迎来了它十周年的诞辰。"
    ],
    [
        "Only such a system can effectively advance sustainable development.",
        "唯有这样一个体系能够有效推进可持续发展。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The world economy is visibly sinking, and the policymakers who are supposed to be its stewards are tying themselves in knots.",
        "伯克利—世界经济显然正在萎缩，本该成为世界经济守护神的决策者正在黔驴技穷。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese public is growing restive and increasingly questioning the system’s ability to deliver on official promises that the country’s economic “miracle” will continue.",
        "中国公众情绪日益躁动，并且对体制能否兑现延续国家经济“奇迹”的官方承诺感到怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "That positive energy contrasts starkly with the decadent beauty of Paris, a city that is on a path of “museification.”",
        "这种正能量与巴黎的颓废美形成了鲜明的对比，后者的一切正日趋“博物馆化”。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it is China’s turn.",
        "现在轮到了中国。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer others remain dependent on the US, the less capable they will be of taking care of their own affairs, including their security.",
        "其他国家依赖美国越久，就越没有能力自力更生处理事务，包括安全事务。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the partisan struggle can play to the parties’ extremes.",
        "恰恰相反，党争有时会让一个党派走极端。"
    ],
    [
        "(Full disclosure: my firm, together with a large global financial institution, is launching a series of tradable equity indices for stock markets of advanced economies and emerging markets, using a smart beta approach).",
        "（充分披露：我的公司正在与一家大型全球金融机构合作发布一系列关于发动大经济体和新兴市场股市的可交易股票指数，我们采用的是聪明贝塔方法）。"
    ],
    [
        "When analyzing events at a horizon of 3-7 years, one could safely assume a “classical” model: the economy would return to full employment, while changes in policy and in the economic environment would alter the distribution but not the level of spending, production, and employment.",
        "在分析3—7年期的事件时，我们最好假设“古典”模型：经济将回到充分就业，政策和经济环境的变化将改变支出、产出和就业的分配而不是水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Others, however, expect China’s GDP growth to continue to trend downward, with the possibility of a hard landing.",
        "但是，其他人认为中国ＧＤＰ将继续下行，并且可能出现硬着陆。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that the IMF has already shown some interest in the idea of forward guidance.",
        "好消息是IMF已经显示出一些关于前瞻性指引的兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, Turkey moved decisively onto the path of political and administrative reform in order to start EU accession negotiations.",
        "与此同时，土耳其坚定地朝着政治与行政改革的方向前进以启动与欧盟的入盟谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "They see going nuclear as a way of limiting US military and geopolitical involvement in the Middle East. They bank on eventual American acquiescence, as happened with India.",
        "他们将核作为限制美国在中东的军事和地缘政治介入的手段，并且期望美国的最终默许，就像在印度成为核国家时美国的态度的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "For most of the relevant actors, highly perilous geopolitical competition is overshadowing vast economic opportunities.",
        "对最相关的行动方而言，高度危险的地缘政治竞争使巨大的经济机会黯然失色。"
    ],
    [
        "The federal government must promote national-level goals; impose tough criteria for project selection and rigorous performance metrics in construction and maintenance; and push state and local governments to eliminate bureaucratic red tape and costly internecine squabbles.",
        "联邦政府必须推进全国性目标； 制定苛刻的遴选项目标准和严格的建设和维护表现指标；"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, these upheavals may act as informal checks on official power.",
        "事实上，这些剧变是对正式权力的非正式制衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2012, major conferences have been hosted by Norway, Mexico, and Austria, and more than 155 states have pledged support for appropriate action, with only the nuclear-armed states and their allies and partners dragging their feet.",
        "自2012年以来，挪威、 墨西哥和奥地利召开了重要会议，超过155个国家承诺支持合理的行动，只有有核国家和它们的盟友与伙伴没有加入其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, political modernization faces massive opposition from the Chinese Communist Party, which has no interest in surrendering its monopoly of power.",
        "事实上，政治现代化进程遭到了中国共产党的极力反对，因为他们根本没兴趣放弃自身对权力的独家垄断。"
    ],
    [
        "For the lesson of the years of communist misrule is this: no one man or party can know enough to manage a modern economy.",
        "因为共产党多年的暴政所留下的教训就是：没有哪个人或哪个政党能足够清楚如何管理现代经济。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that it is good at what it does.",
        "问题在于它擅长他所做的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a culture that, through its carelessness, threatens democratic freedom because it fails to create any sense of obligation – to society, to history, to community.",
        "这一文化通过其毫不在乎威胁到民主性自由，因为它未能创造任何对于社会、历史和社区的责任感。"
    ],
    [
        "The policy front will be equally unsettling.",
        "政策面也同样令人不安。"
    ],
    [
        "He looked me up and down, sized me up, and then said, “Since you are going for so long, I would suggest you keep two strips.”",
        "他上下打量了我一下，想了想，然后说：“既然你要出差那么长时间，我建议你买两盒”。"
    ],
    [
        "A high turnout in favor of pro-democracy candidates is expected, although this won't guarantee them a majority in the legislature because of Hong Kong's unusual political structure.",
        "亲民主的候选人获得较高的支持率是意料之中的，虽然由于香港特殊的政治架构这并不能保证他们在立法机构中获得多数席位。"
    ],
    [
        "One way is to have a correct theory of the relationship between actions and outcomes and then to implement actions that achieve our goals.",
        "一个办法是拥有一套关于行动和结果之间的关系的正确的理论，然后实施实现我们的目标的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "With this aim in mind, it must enter into talks with democratically elected Palestinian representatives.",
        "带着这个目标，它必须与民主选举出来的巴勒斯坦代表进行谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "If products such as glyphosate and 2,4-D were to become unavailable, farmers would be forced to resort to other methods to control weeds – none of them as efficient.",
        "如果像草甘膦和2,4-D这样的产品不能使用，农民将被迫改用其他有效性更低的除草方法。"
    ],
    [
        "But Sarkozy has a point.",
        "但是萨尔科奇还是有点道理。"
    ],
    [
        "The emerging consensus among economists is that growth next year will be close to the trend rate of 2.5%.",
        "经济学家间逐渐达成的共识是明年我们将看到接近2. 5%的趋势增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest can come from technological, operational, and business innovations – for example, developing new seeds to increase agricultural yields, using new materials (such as carbon-fiber composites) to make cars and airplanes lighter and more resilient, or digitizing medical records.",
        "其余则可以源于技术、运营和商业创新——比方说研发新种子提高农业产量、利用新材料（如碳纤维复合材料）生产更轻、更牢固的汽车飞机以及数字化病例。"
    ],
    [
        "But if market nervousness persists and interest rates remain high relative to rates for secure German debt, the debt burden will rapidly become unsustainable.",
        "但如果市场依旧过度焦虑，而现行利率持续高于稳定安全的德国国债利率的话，各国的债务负担状况将迅速恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation is especially dismaying, given that, for several years, Turkey’s human-rights performance had been improving dramatically under Erdoğan’s leadership.",
        "多年来，在埃尔多安的领导下，土耳其的人权状况一直在显著改善，出现这样的状况令人无比沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "He was convinced that any exercise of unlimited power, be it by an individual despot or a political majority, is bound to end in disaster.",
        "他相信，任何无限权力，不管是个人暴君还是政治多数，都注定要在一地狼藉中结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Obama has energetically confronted the issue from the start.",
        "相反，奥巴马从一开始就选择积极面对。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Commission and multilateral lenders should help to facilitate ongoing structural change in the banking sector, including bank acquisitions and balance-sheet restructuring for viable export-driven companies.",
        "欧盟委员会和多边贷款人应该为正在进行的银行部门结构性变革提供便利，包括银行并购和健康的出口导向公司的资产负债表重组。"
    ],
    [
        "But China will lose even more face if it is shown to have pirated the Shinkansen technologies that it now claims as its own.",
        "但如果中国真正被发现剽窃了新干线技术的话，那么它丢的面子肯定会更大。"
    ],
    [
        "The newly created regulation need not apply to everyone.",
        "新创设的监管规则没有必要对每个人都适用。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s octogenarian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has recently awakened to the desperate need for renewed momentum.",
        "印度年近耄耋的总理辛格最近终于警醒，意识到了重获动力的迫切需要。"
    ],
    [
        "That was the purpose of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, which established the European Union.",
        "而这便是1992年《马斯特里赫特条约》的目的，欧盟便诞生于马约中。"
    ],
    [
        "Sri Lanka is fortunate to have a low level of urbanization today; but this is likely to change in the next two decades.",
        "但这一情况很可能在未来二十年内发生转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Changes in the news industry are increasing that risk.",
        "新闻业的变化正在增加这一风险。"
    ],
    [
        "After his father was purged by Mao Zedong, he went to work in the countryside, even before the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, experiencing firsthand all of the hardships that many of his generation endured.",
        "其父遭毛泽东清洗后，他在1966-1976年的文化大革命爆发前就开始到乡下工作，并因此亲身体验到与他同代的很多人都曾经体验过的艰辛。"
    ],
    [
        "Others suggest that the International Monetary Fund could augment the supply of international liquidity by issuing Special Drawing Rights.",
        "还有人建议说国际货币基金组织可以通过发行特别提款权来增加国际流动性供给。"
    ],
    [
        "Such conditions do not yet exist in a world where undemocratic states cheat on legal obligations.",
        "但是非民主国家在法律规定上瞒天过海导致这些条件还无法在这样一个世界中存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, China’s foreign assets are denominated almost exclusively in US dollars, while its foreign liabilities are denominated mostly in renminbi.",
        "其二，中国的国外资产基本上全部是以美元计价，而其国外债务则大多以人民币结算。"
    ],
    [
        "With luck, Italy may soon get a credible government of national unity, Spain will obtain a new government in November with a mandate for change, and Greece will do enough to avoid roiling the markets.",
        "幸运的话，意大利将很快出现一个国民一致拥护的可信政府，西班牙将在11月形成一个握有改革大权的新政府，希腊也会拿出足够的措施安抚市场。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, even as the reforms of the 1990s rolled back the state’s economic role – in Egypt, state spending fell from 60% of GDP in 1980 to 30% of GDP in the 1990s – politics continued to shape markets.",
        "因此，即使20实际90年代的改革转变了国家的经济角色——在埃及，国家支出占GDP之比从1980年的60%下降到20世纪90年代的30%——政治仍在左右市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Control of the system is the chalice of global leadership; but, for economies that are not adequately prepared for it, what should be an elixir may turn out to be poison.",
        "控制金融体系是全球领导力的圣杯； 但是，对于对此尚未准备充分的经济体来说，这杯美酒可能会成为毒药。"
    ],
    [
        "A century ago, the idea of decolonization sounded just as absurd.",
        "一个世纪以前，非殖民化听起来很荒谬。"
    ],
    [
        "With President Bush at the table, the “spin masters” who put a victorious gloss on all his actions had little need to lower expectations concerning the outcome of the G-8 meeting in Scotland. Any agreement would be seen as a major achievement.",
        "有了布什总统的御驾亲征，那些为他的一举一动讴歌的“军师”们就没有必要降低他们对在苏格兰举行的八国首脑峰会的成果的期望值。 任何 协议都会被看作是一项重大成就。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, if companies reduce investment, they will weaken growth and boost their leverage ratio further.",
        "比如，如果公司降低投资，就会危及增长，从而进一步增加杠杆率。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Fed in 2007-2008 entered into swap agreements with 14 central banks, including those of four emerging economies (Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, and South Korea), it de facto acknowledged that it is the world’s lender of last resort in dollars.",
        "2007—2008年，美联储与14家央行签订互换协议，包括四个新兴经济体（巴西、墨西哥、新加坡和韩国），它实际上是承认了它是全世界美元最后贷款人。"
    ],
    [
        "If voters in France’s upcoming presidential election prove closer to the Dutch than to Americans and Britons in their susceptibility to xenophobia and protectionism, their decision will have global implications for politics, economics, and the ideology of global capitalism.",
        "如果在即将举行的法国总统选举中，选民再次表现出更加接近于荷兰而不是美国和英国的对仇外主义和保护主义的敏感性，他们的决定将影响到全球政治、经济和资本主义意识形态。"
    ],
    [
        "They know how to stoke momentum in an argument by multiplying reasons why they are right and others are wrong.",
        "他们最了解如何通过搜罗自己正确而别人错误的理由来激起辩论的热情。"
    ],
    [
        "The growing role of the government, and the shrinking role of the private sector, almost surely portends slower growth later this decade.",
        "如果政府的权力越来越大，民营经济逐渐萎缩，这样对经济的发展没有什么好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, of the 13 students in my seminar who chose to consider China as the next Japan, two-thirds ultimately rejected the comparison.",
        "有趣的是，那13位在我的课程中选择研究中国会否作为下一个日本的学生最终有2/3最终撤回了这一比较结论。"
    ],
    [
        "It has to stop.",
        "必须停止这一局面。"
    ],
    [
        "That is exactly what happened in Argentina and Venezuela during the run-up to the recent elections.",
        "阿根廷和委内瑞拉在最近的选举前的情况就是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Both developed and developing countries – caught up in rapid economic expansion and technological development – got distracted.",
        "无论是发达国家还是发展中国家——两者都忙于在快速经济扩张和技术发展中你追我赶——都犯了同样的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "But Macierewicz is not the only PiS official under a Russian cloud.",
        "但麦克瑞维奇并不是被俄罗斯阴云笼罩的唯一一名法律与正义党官员。"
    ],
    [
        "It cannot offer the kinds of radical, impossible, or illiberal solutions that populists use to win support.",
        "它不能提出民粹主义者借以赢取支持的那种激进，不可行或不自由的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the world’s state-of-the-art climate models have explored albedo modification, and each of them has found that the process does have the potential to mitigate climate change.",
        "如今，全世界大部分最新气候模型都探索了改变反射率的问题，并且都发现该过程确实有遏制气候变化的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes it all the more important to examine how some developing countries succeeded in reversing the outward flow.",
        "这就使研究某些发展中国家如何成功扭转人才外流趋势显得愈加重要。"
    ],
    [
        "A solution that will not work is for economists to second-guess how their ideas will be used or misused in public debate and to shade their public statements accordingly.",
        "一种不合理的方式是让经济学家凭空猜测他们的理论将如何在公众辩论中被运用甚至滥用，并在公开声明时采取相应的防范措施。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while inflation is very likely to remain low for the next few years, I am puzzled that bond prices show that investors apparently expect inflation to remain low for ten years and beyond, and that they also do not require higher interest rates as compensation for the risk that the fiscal deficit will cause real interest rates to rise in the future.",
        "但是，虽然通货膨胀极可能在在未来几年内维持较低的水平，但令我感到困惑的，是当前的债券价格显示投资者显然希望这种状况能维持10年甚至更长的时间，而另外使我感到奇怪的一点，则是面对财政赤字可能导致实际利率上升的风险，他们也不需要用更高的利率来进行补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s populists, however, demand simple – indeed, simplistic – answers outside the scope of mainstream consensus.",
        "但是，今天的民粹主义者要求的是主流共识范围之外的简单甚至一根筋的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "There has been no subsequent outright disavowal of these apologies; indeed, this month Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said that Abe’s cabinet members “have never denied” the Kono and Murayama statements.",
        "其后日本从来没有对上述道歉做出过直接的否认； 事实上，就在这个月外交部长岸田文雄还表示安倍的内阁成员“从未否认过”河野和村山的声明。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Within hours of US President Barack Obama’s re-election last month, a powerful belief took hold: overwhelming support from Latino voters had helped to secure his victory.",
        "发自伦敦——就在上月美国总统奥巴马成功连任的几个小时内，一个强大的理念就也随之树立了起来：是拉丁裔选民压倒性的支持确保了他的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Javier Solana, the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, will continue to press for results.",
        "欧盟共同外交和安全政策高级代表索拉纳将会继续促成结果。"
    ],
    [
        "This leads to the final variable, the role of politicians and policymakers.",
        "这随之引入最后一个变量：政治家和政策制定者的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last two decades, however, this has begun to change.",
        "但是，在过去二十年中，这一点开始发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "According to one Swiss Re study, Barbados loses the equivalent of 4% of its GDP every year to hurricane-related costs.",
        "据瑞士再保险公司的一项研究，巴巴多斯每年因为飓风相关成本而损失GDP的4%。"
    ],
    [
        "The religious element of the conflicts raging in the Middle East today is a major reason why they have been so difficult to defuse.",
        "今天中东冲突如此难以化解缘于其背后大量的宗教因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, it is unclear what South Africa has to gain from the BRICS.",
        "类似地，没有明确的迹象表明南非一定要从金砖国家中获得什么好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, silent epidemics have taken hold, particularly in lower-income countries, as the combination of mega-trends like urbanization, population aging, obesity, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, and alcohol consumption has spurred the rise of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs).",
        "此外，由于不少大趋势的共同作用——比如城市化、人口老龄化、肥胖、久坐、吸烟、饮酒等——导致慢性非传染性疾病的大幅增长，还存在着一些静默的流行病，特别是在收入较低的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "We would be well served to go down a different path.",
        "如果我们选择第二条道路，那我们的境况会变得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a critical moment for Russia.",
        "这是俄国的关键时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "The ongoing financial crisis will almost surely slow the integration of the accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe, whose young populations are the single most dynamic source of growth in Europe today.",
        "经济危机的出现显然会减缓中欧和东欧加入欧盟的脚步。 年轻的人口或许是欧洲成为世界最有活力地区的保证。"
    ],
    [
        "And, like Trump, he knows who his friends are.",
        "和特朗普一样，他也知道谁是他的朋友。"
    ],
    [
        "Under that commitment, we promised to work together with governments to slow the development of resistance, by increasing our investments in R&D and making high-quality antibiotics available to patients who need them.",
        "在这个宣言中，我们承诺与政府合作，提高我们的研发投资，让需要的患者能够获得高质量的抗生素，以此遏制耐药性的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Calderón’s contradictory stance is rooted in the reflexive habits of a Mexican political class trained to gain points by kicking the US.",
        "墨西哥政界习惯借谴责美国来给自己加分，卡尔德隆的立场因此自相矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Aborted Openness",
        "中国的开放半途而废"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, we must face the fact that globalization has made crises the rule, not the exception.",
        "首先，我们必须面临一个事实：全球化让危机成为规则而不是例外。"
    ],
    [
        "MEXICO CITY – By all indications, the international community has resigned itself to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Crimean “land grab,” as US Vice-President Joe Biden has called it.",
        "墨西哥城—从各种指标看，国际社会已经顺从于俄罗斯总统普京的“土地掠夺”（美国副总统拜登语）。"
    ],
    [
        "What will matter most for Cameron’s future is whether he can convince the losers to accept the voters’ verdict, instead of slinking away to plot another insurrection.",
        "能否说服失利的一方接受选民的裁决、而不是躲到一边谋划另一次叛乱对卡梅伦的未来至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Afterwards, he went to Vietnam, allegedly for discussions about the US Navy’s use of Cam Ranh Bay, a major American base during the Vietnam War.",
        "之后，他到访越南，据说是为了和越南谈论美国使用金兰湾进行海军活动，该地是美国在越南战争中的一个主要基地。"
    ],
    [
        "The micro-story is more dramatic.",
        "微观的分析则更具戏剧性。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ukraine, too, a huge boom in 2004-2007 was followed by a contraction amounting to almost 15% GDP in 2009 – a direct result of domestic policies.",
        "乌克兰也一样，2004~2007年间的大泡沫之后就是2009年相当于GDP总额15%的收缩——也是其国内政策所导致的直接后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Factory conditions in parts of China are all too reminiscent of the early twentieth-century, pre-union US.",
        "在中国的一些地方，工厂的条件让人想起二十世纪早期工会发展之前的美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us cherish economics in all its diversity – rational and behavioral, Keynesian and Classical, first-best and second-best, orthodox and heterodox – and devote our energy to becoming wiser at picking which framework to apply when.",
        "我们应该珍视经济学的多样性——理性人和行为人、凯恩斯主义和古典主义、最优和次优、正统和非正统——把精力用在更明智地选择何时应该选择何种框架上。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China has sought to improve trade and transit ties with Central Asia over the last decade, reflecting its growing interests there.",
        "不仅如此，中国在过去10年间一直试图改善与中亚的贸易和运输关系，这反映出中国在该地区日益增加的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "During this time, the global economy benefited from the confluence of several unique developments: an information and communications revolution; a “peace dividend” resulting from the end of the Cold War; and the implementation of market reforms in many former communist and other developing economies.",
        "在此期间，全球经济得益于几大独特发展趋势的合力：信息和通信革命、冷战结束带来的“和平分裂”，以及许多前共产主义国家和其他发展中经济体实施了市场改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Secretary of State John Kerry’s effort to jump-start the Arab-Israel peace process was a laudable initiative.",
        "国务卿约翰·克里重启阿－以和平进程的努力是一项值得称道的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "But, all too often, clichés become established because they are true.",
        "但是，陈词滥调往往会成为现实，因为它们是事实。"
    ],
    [
        "If the North abandons its nuclear weapons program, many benefits can be gained.",
        "如果北朝鲜放弃核武器计划，就能获得许多收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Article 125 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union expressly forbids the mutualization of debt.",
        "欧盟运行条约（Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union）第125条明文禁止债务共同化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Seed Treaty also brought under the control of its parties and secretariat the 15 research institutions that comprise the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), an influential global research partnership.",
        "种子条约缔约国及秘书处还控制着组成国际农业研究磋商小组（CGIAR）的15家研究机构，上述研究合作机制具有全球影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "One thing we know about the North Koreans is that, unless they can use such rhetoric in their own propaganda (they got far more traction out of former US President George W. Bush’s infamous “axis of evil” remark than he ever did), they simply don’t care what is said about them.",
        "有一点我们对朝鲜了如指掌，那就是除了能在自己的政治宣传中引用国际社会的谴责之辞（他们从美国前总统乔治·W·布什臭名昭著的“邪恶轴心”说法中捞取的好处远胜于布什自己），他们根本不在意外界对于他们的评论。"
    ],
    [
        "Another policy area that has lost its centrality is the internal market – a notable decision, given that it has been the centerpiece of the European project since the Commission was created in 1958.",
        "另一个重要性下降的政策领域是内部市场——这是一个值得关注的决定，因为自1958年欧盟成立以来，它一直是欧洲工程的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "It is to be expected that the majority of research findings are rapidly contradicted and refuted; indeed, it is part of how progress of science occurs.",
        "绝大部分的研究成果确实会被很快地驳斥和否定； 事实上，这是科学要取得进步的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "(In fact, as sovereign countries, California and Texas would have been the world’s 12th and 14th largest economies, respectively, in 2012 – ahead of the Netherlands, Mexico, and South Korea.)",
        "（事实上，若作为主权国家，加州和得州分别是2012年世界第12大和第14大经济体，位于荷兰、墨西哥和韩国之前。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, China should not try to eliminate overcapacity by maintaining the high growth rate of real-estate investment.",
        "一方面，中国不应该通过保持房地产投资的高增长率来解决产能过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "The French, German, and Irish governments would be particularly delighted to see UK-based banks and hedge funds shackled by EU regulations, and UK-based businesses involved in asset management, insurance, accountancy, law, and media forced to transfer their jobs, head offices, and tax payments to Paris, Frankfurt, or Dublin.",
        "法国、德国和意大利政府尤其乐于见到英国银行和对冲基金被欧盟监管束缚手脚，英国资产管理、保险、会计、法律和媒体公司被迫将工作岗位、总部和税金转移给巴黎、法兰克福或都柏林。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a 2016 review of cash transfer programs in Africa found that the absence of stress and shame enhanced confidence in recipients, leading to improved decision-making and productivity.",
        "比如，关于非洲转移支付项目的一份2016年的评估发现，摆脱了压力和羞耻后，接受者信心有所增强，从而带来决策的改善和生产率的提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasing worries about global warming, and its effects on food prices, or about the cold and snowy winter in the northern hemisphere and its effects on heating fuel prices, are contagious stories. They are even connected to the day’s top story, the revolutions in the Middle East, which, according to some accounts, were triggered by popular discontent over high food prices – and which could themselves trigger further increases in oil prices.",
        "对全球变暖及其对食品价格影响的担忧，以及北半球寒冷冬天及其对取暖用油价格影响的恐惧都成为了人们之间流传的故事，甚至与当今的头条新闻——中东革命——联系了起来，因为某些说法认为革命是被大众对高食品价格的不满所激发的——而且还会因此引发油价的进一步上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries can choose to use their resource bonanzas for the long-term economic advancement of their people, not just that of their leaders.",
        "那些国家可以利用其自然资源为其国民谋求长期的经济改善，而不是仅仅为了领袖个人或者家族。"
    ],
    [
        "But will future generations, particularly in advanced economies, realize such expectations?",
        "但子孙后代，特别是发达国家的子孙后代，能够实现这一预期吗？"
    ],
    [
        "When disturbed by a question, she usually replies, “Would you have asked the same question to a man?”",
        "”法比尤斯挖苦地问她说：“孩子们谁来照顾？ ”法比尤斯由此在民意中大跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in Bush's view, Israel need not worry about allowing Palestinian refugees to return to their homes inside Israel.",
        "不仅如此，在布什看来，以色列不必为允许巴方难民重返以色列境内家园的问题发愁。"
    ],
    [
        "The promise of Western integration is one reason that conflict seems impossible, for it is a question of geography as much as shared values and culture.",
        "融入西方的许诺是使得冲突看似不可能的一个原因，因为这不仅是一个地理上的问题，也是共同价值观和文化的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The BRICS Fallacy",
        "“金砖国家”的谬误"
    ],
    [
        "The US will have to find agreement with its allies and enter into direct talks with all the other players to try and achieve a new regional consensus.",
        "美国必须与盟国达成一致，同其他国家展开直接对话，以图达成新的地区共识。"
    ],
    [
        "This has created fertile ground for anti-immigrant populists and Islamist terrorists alike.",
        "这为反移民的民粹主义者和伊斯兰恐怖分子创造了肥沃的土壤。"
    ],
    [
        "To implement effective security, the entities best equipped to do so, the Internet service providers, must take the lead.",
        "为了有效地保障网络的安全，作为网络服务的门户，网络服务提供商（ISP）应该担负起主要的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The income earned from such tourism could help the country to shore up its own health system, ensuring that all Indians – including the poor and especially children, among whom malnourishment remains rampant – have access to quality health care.",
        "这种旅游所赚取的收入可以帮助该国建立自己的卫生体系，确保所有印度人——包括贫困人口，特别是营养不良的儿童——都能获得优质的医疗保健服务。"
    ],
    [
        "As we head into the second decade of the century, innovative ideas like using global savings or surpluses to finance infrastructure in emerging and developing countries should be pursued seriously.",
        "随着我们进入本世纪的第二个十年，利用全球储蓄或盈余来资助新兴发展中国家基础建设的创新理念将受到追捧。"
    ],
    [
        "Because vaccines are useless if parents refuse to give them to their children, a big part of my job is to collaborate with health workers, community leaders, school teachers, and local political figures to educate parents about vaccines.",
        "如果父母拒绝给孩子接种，那么疫苗将毫无用处。 因此，我工作的一大重点是与高薪工作者、社区领袖、学校教师和地方政治人物合作对父母进行疫苗教育。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to believe that if the Philippines had been colonized by, say, Protestant Britain rather than Catholic Spain, the use of contraception would be an issue there today.",
        "如果菲律宾当初是被（比如）英国新教徒而不是西班牙天主教徒殖民，很难想象时至今日使用避孕手段还会成为问题。"
    ],
    [
        "He agrees that there are activities that yield higher social returns than private returns.",
        "他指出，确实有社会回报高于私人回报的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Each country thought it was getting an unthreatening mediocrity.",
        "两国都认为自己正陷入一种不尴不尬的中不溜境地。"
    ],
    [
        "The larger party has limited ability to disarm or destroy the enemy, occupy territory, or use counterforce strategies effectively.",
        "规模大的一方解除对方武装或消灭敌人、占据领土或有效使用的反击策略的能力都受到限制。"
    ],
    [
        "When they are frustrated with their government, they vote against its leaders in the next election, rather than launching revolts or insurrections.",
        "如果政府让他们感到沮丧，他们会在下届选举中投票反对其领导人，而不是发起暴动和叛乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the great unspoken factor of racial prejudice, something even hard-core right-wing Republicans try not to express openly.",
        "还有不可言说的种族偏见因素，即使是最顽固的共和党右翼也会尽力掩饰不让这一点公开亮相。"
    ],
    [
        "Impaired banks that do not want to lend must somehow be “made whole.”",
        "不愿借贷的受损银行必须设法“使其完整”。"
    ],
    [
        "As Americans debate their readiness to accept a woman such as Hillary Clinton as president, India has already done so, with the election of Pratibha Patil.",
        "正当美国人辩论他们是否准备好接受一名像希拉里·克林顿那样的女性担任总统的时候，印度通过选举普拉蒂巴·帕蒂尔已经这样做了。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, “in the 1962 conflict with China, NAM did not back India’s position.”",
        "同样在1962年与中国的冲突中，不结盟运动也没有支持印度的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "The other 134 million workers who escaped poverty did so earlier, in 2000-2007.",
        "事实上，只有15%的工人，或2400万人，设法在2007—2011年间成功脱贫。 另有1."
    ],
    [
        "But instead of accepting the compliment, they demurred.",
        "但他们非但没有接受赞美，反而陷入了沉默。"
    ],
    [
        "Gazprom’s dominance is reinforced by activities coordinated with the Kremlin to assert its influence in markets like Spain and Italy.",
        "通过克里姆林宫在西班牙和意大利等国家的市场施加影响力这样的协作行动，俄罗斯天然气工业公司的垄断地位得到了进一步加强。"
    ],
    [
        "They have no right to deny a decent future to our grandchildren.",
        "他们无权剥夺子孙后代的美好未来。"
    ],
    [
        "As the McKinsey Global Institute noted, with the exception of cross-border finance, global flows are just as robust now as they were before the crisis.",
        "麦肯锡全球研究所（McKinsey Global Institute）指出，除了跨国金融，全球流动与危机前一样强劲。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Greeks voted “no” based on unrealistic expectations that other eurozone democracies would be forced to bend to their wishes, they may be in for another deep disappointment – and their own lesson in democracy.",
        "如果希腊人说“不”是基于不切实际的期望——其他欧元区民主国家将被迫满足他们的愿望，那么等待他们的也许将是又一次深深的失望——以及他们自己的民主教训。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in the midst of this tussle, the US sent Navy Seals to find Bin Laden at a compound deep in Pakistani territory, informing Pakistan’s government only after the raid was over.",
        "而且在这次争斗同时，美国派遣海豹突击队在深入巴基斯坦境内的一栋建筑中找到本·拉登，而且只在袭击行动结束后才通知了巴基斯坦政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Lee Buchheit, the veteran sovereign-debt attorney who should have been in the negotiating room, and Mitu Gulati of Duke University have proposed an elegant “reprofiling” of Cyprus’s €15 billion sovereign debt that would instantly reduce the financing pressure on the country.",
        "应该身处谈判桌的资深主权债务律师巴克海特（Lee Buchheit）以及杜克大学的古拉提（Mitu Gulati）建议对塞浦路斯的150亿欧元主权债务来一个漂亮的“修饰”，这能马上减轻该国的融资压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, most investors have thought that they would rather risk high inflation for a couple of years than accept even a short and shallow recession.",
        "直到目前，大多数投资者认为他们宁可冒着几年通货膨胀的风险也不接受短暂而轻微的衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "The GDP growth rate was only 1.7% in 2011, and it is not significantly higher now.",
        "2011年GDP增长率只有1. 7%，现在也好不到哪里去。"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to travel to Asia again in July to meet foreign ministers at the ASEAN Regional Forum, and to visit India.",
        "新加坡——美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿定于7月再访亚洲，与东盟地区论坛外长会晤，并访问印度。"
    ],
    [
        "The error is called the “money illusion ” – the belief that a nominal unit of currency is the best measure of value, even though its real value is unstable.",
        "这一误解被称为“货币错觉”，也就是相信，货币的名义单位是价值的最佳衡量标准，即使实际价值并不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Surging economic growth has done nothing to reduce the disparity.",
        "奔腾的经济增长并没有缩小差异。"
    ],
    [
        "So what really matters is the composition of debts and liabilities – or, to put it simply, who owes what to whom.",
        "因此真正重要的是带息债务和总债务的构成状况——或者简单地说，谁欠了谁什么东西。"
    ],
    [
        "This November, Nord Stream was given a surprising go-ahead by three Scandinavian countries that will lend their seabed to the project: Denmark, Sweden, and Finland.",
        "而在今年11月，北溪管道计划意外地得到了三个斯堪的纳维亚半岛国家（丹麦，瑞典和芬兰）的批准，三国还同意在本国领海的海床上铺设管线。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if Congress decides to do nothing on this front, Trump’s anti-Iran rhetoric and other Republican initiatives in Congress have strained the JCPOA and left it vulnerable.",
        "即使国会决定在这方面不做出改变，特朗普的反伊朗论调和其他国会的共和党计划也制约着JCPOA，使其岌岌可危。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the best evidence that this is not an ideologically-driven sea change is to be found in what triggered it: an economic downturn.",
        "也许证明这并非是一场意识形态驱动的剧变的最佳证据便是其触发因素：经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to determining whether or not a country is conducting a covert nuclear weapons program, IAEA inspectors often have their hands tied, either because they lack the legal authority to gain access to all the locations they consider necessary, or because the IAEA’s analytical laboratories are outdated, or because the Agency does not have adequate access to satellite imagery.",
        "当国际原子能机构在判定一国是否正在从事秘密核武器计划时，该机构检查人员常常感到力不从心，这或是因为他们缺乏进入被其认为是必须检查的场所的法律权威，或是因为国际原子能机构的分析实验室已经过时，又或是因为该机构无法获取充足的卫星图片。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is pushing for ambitious targets but is having trouble with its own vested interests.",
        "欧洲正在推动雄心勃勃的目标但是在自身既得利益上存在麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "For less skilled workers, however, service-sector jobs meant giving up the negotiated benefits of industrial capitalism.",
        "但是，对于技能较弱的工人来说，服务业岗位意味着放弃与产业资本主义商定的福利。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments can, however, provide a credible guarantee, given their power to tax.",
        "不过，政府有收税的权力，因此可以提供可信的担保。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the three economists who have signed on as advisers to the Trump campaign has suggested that, with Trump in the White House, the rate of GDP growth will somehow double.",
        "加入特朗普阵营充当其顾问的三名经济学家之一指出，特朗普入主白宫后，GDP增长率可以翻番。"
    ],
    [
        "It would seek to reduce the cost of electricity from sources that do not emit greenhouse gases below that of coal power by 2025.",
        "我们的计划寻求在2025年让无温室气体排放的电力成本下降到煤电以下。"
    ],
    [
        "It is obviously not ideal that the US has the Volcker rule and [the UK has] Vickers…”",
        "美国采取沃尔克规则，[英国有]维克斯……这显然是不妥的。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The deep security crisis in Pakistan is mirrored across the border in Afghanistan, which offers a model of what not to do.",
        "而巴基斯坦如今所面临的深重安全危机，其实是阿富汗边境地区状况的翻版，而阿富汗则提供了一个前车之鉴。"
    ],
    [
        "Even putting aside moral and legal questions – which one should never do – it is doubtful whether the strategy of torture and assassination can achieve its pacifying purpose.",
        "即使将道德和法律问题放在一边——当然我们绝不能这样做——严刑拷打和暗杀策略是否能够达成平息叛乱的目的也值得怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the concern over the past few years has centered on America’s yawning current account and fiscal deficits, and its effort to get China to let the yuan float more freely against the dollar.",
        "过去几年里，世界对于美国巨大的经常项目赤字和财政赤字，以及试图让中国允许人民币更为自由地针对美元浮动而忧心忡忡。 相比之下，中国认为其经济增长需要稳定的货币，并且即使在今年七月人民币上浮2."
    ],
    [
        "Today, if we divided up equally what we produce worldwide, would it give us a standard of living ten times that of our pre-industrial ancestors?",
        "今天，如果我们把全世界生产的产品平分，会不会得到比工业时代以前的祖辈们高十倍的生活水平？"
    ],
    [
        "In Xinjiang itself, the current agitation is more social than nationalist in character, and targets cultural oppression (Han Chinese by now make up half of the region’s population) rather than expressing aspirations for independence.",
        "而对于新疆来说，最近的暴动在本质上是社会意义而不是国家意义上的，目的是反对文化压迫（汉族已经占到了本地区人口的一半）而不是表达独立的诉求。"
    ],
    [
        "Healthy children attend school more regularly, are better able to learn, and become more productive adults.",
        "健康的孩子能稳定地上学，获得更好的学习能力，将来成为生产率更高的成年人。"
    ],
    [
        "The world can afford the needed investment.",
        "世界能够负担所需要的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "If these were commercial loans, creditors would consider restructuring them – extending the payment schedule and typically writing down principal.",
        "如果这些贷款都是商业贷款，那么债权人可以考虑对其进行重组——即延长偿还期，通常还包括减记本金。"
    ],
    [
        "But austerity in Europe has had a profound impact on the eurozone’s current account, which has swung from a deficit of almost $100 billion in 2008 to a surplus of almost $300 billion this year.",
        "但欧洲的紧缩对欧元区经常项目造成了深远影响，从2008年的近1000亿美元赤字变为今年的近3000亿美元盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "Incredibly, NATO has invited its fiercest critic, Russian President Vladimir Putin, to attend.",
        "难以置信的是，北约竟然邀请了它最尖锐的批评者，俄罗斯总统普京与会。"
    ],
    [
        "I was Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in 1994, when President Bill Clinton successfully championed the last gas-tax increase, of just 4.3 cents per gallon.",
        "1994年，我是经济顾问委员会主席，当时，克林顿总统成功地实行了最后一次汽油税提高，提高幅度仅为每加仑4. 3美分。"
    ],
    [
        "Fully general frameworks, such as economists’ beloved Arrow-Debreu model of general equilibrium, are so broad and encompassing that they are totally unhelpful for real-world explanation or prediction.",
        "全面通用型框架，比如经济学家喜欢使用的阿罗-德布鲁一般均衡模型，是如此宏观而包罗万象，以致根本无法用于任何现实世界的解释或者预测。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unless the proper policies to nurture job growth are put in place, it remains uncertain whether demand for labor will continue to grow as technology marches forward.",
        "但是，除非实施合适的政策提振就业增长，否则劳动力需求是否会随着技术长征的前进而继续增长还不得而知。"
    ],
    [
        "Neo-conservatism has served as a badge of unity for those in the Bush administration advocating an aggressive foreign policy, massive military spending, disdain for international law and institutions, an assault on the welfare state, and a return to “traditional values.”",
        "新保守主义曾经是布什政府里那些鼓吹采取攻击性的外交政策、大规模军备开支、蔑视国际法和组织、攻击福利国家以及回归“传统价值观”的人的团结标志。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments are also cracking down on popular social movements.",
        "政府也在镇压群众社会运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if it does, it will not get through the Democratic-controlled Senate.",
        "即使通过，也不会通过民主党控制的参议院。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq differs from Vietnam in another way as well.",
        "伊拉克和越南的区别还体现在另外一个方面。"
    ],
    [
        "We must ensure that all countries adopt a verifiable strategy for environmentally sound technology, and that rich countries fulfill the Bali Action Plan’s promise to provide “financial and other incentives” to enable poor countries to adopt the new technologies.",
        "我们必须确保所有国家采纳可以核查的、运用环境上可行技术的战略。 富国则必须履行巴厘行动规划的保证来提供“财政和其他激励措施”来让穷国采纳新技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Intelligence reports had not established that there were weapons of mass destruction in the country, yet British Prime Minister Tony Blair dutifully followed US President George W. Bush in ordering his military to invade.",
        "当时并未有足够情报确认伊拉克拥有大规模杀伤性武器，然而英国首相托尼·布莱尔（Tony Blair）依然顺从地追随美国总统乔治·布什（George W. Bush）进行军事入侵。"
    ],
    [
        "There always are.",
        "永远会有改进的余地。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere, state governments have taken the more radical step of establishing special redistricting commissions that are independent of the two dominant political parties.",
        "其他州政府采取了更加果断的措施，成立了独立于两大主要政党的选区重划特别委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand the advantage of maintaining a flexible exchange rate, one need look no further than the recent growth trajectories of the advanced economies.",
        "要理解保持弹性汇率的好处，我们应该让眼光跳出发达经济体目前的增长轨迹。"
    ],
    [
        "A country favoring change, they will conclude, is unlikely to keep a Democrat in the Oval Office for a fourth term.",
        "他们会这样认为：一个喜欢变化的国家不可能让民主党主宰椭圆办公室四个任期。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – An interesting phenomenon is happening to health care in the United States, quite apart from all the noise about changes to the country’s system of health insurance: individuals are starting to take charge of their own health and trying to avoid needing care in the first place.",
        "发自纽约——在美国的医疗卫生领域正涌现出一个非常有趣，却又跟国家医疗保险制度变革所产生的争议无关的现象：民众正逐步开始掌握自己的健康状况并尝试避免在第一时间使用医疗服务。"
    ],
    [
        "In the latest caucus, in Nevada, Clinton’s presumed advantage among non-white voters, who are a far greater factor in Nevada than in Iowa or New Hampshire, seems to have served her well, with Sanders failing to win enough African-American voters, in particular, to defeat her.",
        "在最近的内华达州预选中，克林顿的非白领票仓——他们在内华达州的力量远大于艾奥瓦州和新罕布什尔州——十分“给力”，特别是桑德斯没有赢得足够多的非洲裔美国人选票，因此没能击败克林顿。"
    ],
    [
        "But, without the freedom to express other views and beliefs, democracy will remain illiberal.",
        "但如果不能自由地表达其他的意见和信仰，民主政体依然不等同于自由。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, good-governance solutions tend to distract from more effective development efforts.",
        "结果，好治理方案往往会对更有效的发展措施形成掣肘。"
    ],
    [
        "None of these explanations is an adequate excuse for the ECB’s opposition to deep involuntary restructuring of Greece’s debt.",
        "这三大理由都不足以成为欧洲央行反对希腊债务深度非自愿重组的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "He used the example of a child born with one limb missing.",
        "他举了一个一出生就少了一只手臂的小孩作为例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The printing press greatly expanded the accessibility of the religious controversy that Luther helped fuel, galvanizing the revolt against the Church.",
        "印刷机让数量庞大的民众参与到了路德协助引发的宗教争议之中，激发了对教会的反抗。"
    ],
    [
        "One of those gains was my country, Lithuania, whose incorporation into Stalin’s empire was accompanied by countless tragedies.",
        "其中之一就是我的祖国，立陶宛。 在被吞并入斯大林帝国的过程中，伴随着她的是无数的人间悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "The ICTY’s first chief prosecutor, Richard Goldstone, called for condemnation of ethnic persecution in order to enable all sides to transcend identity politics and move towards a more liberal political order.",
        "前南国际法庭的第一位首席检察官理查德·戈德斯通（Richard Goldstone）呼吁谴责种族迫害，目的是使所有各方超越身份政治，建立起更为自由的政治秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Before suggesting a way forward for Hong Kong’s ham-fisted authorities, three things need to be made clear.",
        "在给香港的愚蠢当局指出前路之前，有三点必须澄清。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor, therefore, is their interest in housing as a major speculative investment asset likely to change.",
        "因此，他们对住宅作为主要投机资产的兴趣似乎也将延续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "That is because we have created a patent system that gives innovators a temporary monopoly over what they create, which encourages them to hoard their knowledge, lest they help a competitor.",
        "这是因为我们所创造的专利制度给了创新者对其所创之物的暂时垄断权，这促使创新者对知识敝帚自珍，唯恐助了竞争者一臂之力。"
    ],
    [
        "The seductive call of extremism will not be silenced with pleas to fundamentalist imams in European mosques to stop indoctrinating young Muslim men.",
        "极端主义的迷人召唤是不可能通过恳请欧洲清真寺中的原教旨伊玛目停止灌输年轻穆斯林男性平息下去的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is only one way to explain the US administration’s decision to exert such diplomatic pressure in favor of Iran’s favorite in Iraq: Obama’s pledge during his presidential election campaign to disengage from Iraq during his first term.",
        "在伊拉克问题上，唯一能够解释美国政府如此施压来支持伊朗青睐的马利基的原因，就是奥巴马在竞选总统选举时曾经许下要在第一届任期内从伊拉克撤军的诺言。"
    ],
    [
        "But reaching an accord that sets binding ceilings for what each country will be allowed to emit is not an option in Copenhagen. The consensus simply does not exist.",
        "但哥本哈根会议的选择不应该是达成一个明确规定各个国家排放限额的条约，因为达成这一条约的基本共识根本就不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, another group of MONUC peacekeepers – this time from India – came to the rescue and helped evacuate the aid workers on helicopters.",
        "最后，来自联合国维持和平部队刚果民主共和国特派团维和人员中的另一个团体——来自印度的维和人员——来进行了营救，并用直升机帮助救援人员撤出。"
    ],
    [
        "But the real problem for my office is neither ignorance nor legal infirmity, it is that in an under-developed legal system such as Russia's, my authority is mostly personal, and requires help from the mass media.",
        "但我面临的真正问题不是愚昧，也不是法律不完善，而是在俄国这样不健全的体系中，多数时候要靠我的个人威望，还需要大众媒体的鼎立支援。"
    ],
    [
        "To this day, the proceeds of every iPhone sold in Paris or in Stockholm (net of its Chinese assemblers’ production costs) go to Apple’s Irish subsidiary Apple Sales International.",
        "直到今天，每一台在巴黎或斯德哥尔摩出售的苹果手机产品所得的款项（除去在中国装配的生产成本）都会被记入苹果的爱尔兰子公司苹果国际销售公司。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – In an era of divisive social media and partisan “fake news,” the notion that “actions speak louder than words” is no longer true.",
        "发自日内瓦——在这个充斥着分裂性社交媒体和偏向性“假新闻”的年代，“行动胜于雄辩”的观念已经有点过时了。"
    ],
    [
        "Both historically compensated for their isolation with strong central governments, powerful navies, dynamic entrepreneurship, vibrant culture, and imperial ambition.",
        "历史上，为了补偿其孤立性，两国均存在强势中央政府、强大的海军、充满活力的企业家精神、生机勃勃的文化和帝国雄心。"
    ],
    [
        "- Delaying bank restructuring is costly, in terms of both the eventual bailout costs and the damage to the overall economy in the interim.",
        "——银行重组方案越迟推出，救助费用的支出和对整个经济所造成的短期影响就越大。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot build a more peaceful, sustainable world without ensuring the freedom, safety, and education of every child.",
        "如果无法确保每个孩子的自由，安全和教育，我们就不能建设一个更和平，更可持续的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "In October and November, the ECB will announce the results of its bank stress tests.",
        "在10月和11月，欧洲央行将宣布其银行压力测试结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But how else is his peculiar nostalgia for Churchill’s bust to be understood?",
        "但他对丘吉尔半身像特别的怀旧情绪还能怎么解释？"
    ],
    [
        "And many central bankers have been rightly lauded for their role in preventing a global meltdown during the financial crisis.",
        "许多中央银行家也因为自身在金融危机中为防止全球崩溃而扮演的角色得到了公正的赞誉。"
    ],
    [
        "US President Barack Obama’s administration also opposes a move in Congress that would officially brand Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism.",
        "美国总统奥巴马政府还反对国会正式将巴基斯坦列为恐怖主义支持国的动作。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, he became embroiled in a dispute with an American Muslim couple whose son, a US soldier, was killed in Iraq, and in a petty feud with Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, after Trump felt slighted.",
        "例如，他与一名在伊拉克战死的美军士兵的穆斯林父母爆发冲突，又在自觉被冷落时与众议院议长保罗·瑞安（Paul Ryan）斗气。"
    ],
    [
        "His fellow leaders began to think Schmidt arrogant.",
        "但他之后几任德国领导人觉得施密特当初有点自以为是。"
    ],
    [
        "That seems like an approach worth trying.",
        "这似乎是值得尝试的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the latest military intervention, another 20,000 Rohingya have arrived.",
        "自最近的军事干预以来，又有20,000罗兴亚人到达。"
    ],
    [
        "To that end, the earned-income tax credit should be replaced by a generous negative income tax – an idea that the economist Milton Friedman proposed decades ago, when robots were still the stuff of science fiction.",
        "为此，以收入为基础的所得税应该被慷慨的负所得税所取代，这是经济学家米尔顿·弗里德曼（Milton Friedman）几十年前提出的一个想法——当时机器人还只是科幻小说里的玩意儿。"
    ],
    [
        "The US would be wise to react before the sovereign-debt market migrates from New York.",
        "美国最好在主权债务市场抛弃纽约之前采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The theory does not say that markets cannot plummet if the news is bad, or if investors become risk-averse.",
        "但该理论可没有说市场在碰到坏消息或是投资者变得厌恶风险时不会大幅下挫。"
    ],
    [
        "I don't have one.",
        "但我没有。"
    ],
    [
        "We are clearly harmed if fish stocks dwindle to extinction.",
        "如果鱼类资源减少到灭绝边缘，对我们明显不利。"
    ],
    [
        "Around the same time, the Philadelphia Eagles, an American football team, offered a second chance to former star Michael Vick, who was convicted of running a dog-fighting operation in which unsuccessful fighters were tortured and killed.",
        "就在差不多同时，美国橄榄球队——费城鹰队——为前球星迈克尔·维克提供了第二个机会。 维克曾因经营非法斗狗交易被判刑，斗狗比赛中战败的狗被折磨并杀死。"
    ],
    [
        "The report also confirms that greater openness to global flows has been a significant source of economic growth for individual countries and worldwide.",
        "报告还证实，增加对全球流的开放度是个体国家和全世界经济增长的重要源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "De Mistura's plan aims to stabilize the situation by shifting the policy focus away from a relentless military campaign – an approach that is benefiting only the Islamic State.",
        "德米斯图拉的计划旨在通过将政策焦点从无情的军事行动上移开稳定局面——以军事为焦点只能令伊斯兰国受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Social scientists – and economists in particular – analyze the world using simple conceptual frameworks that they call “models.”",
        "社会科学家——特别是经济学家——使用简单的概念框架——他们口中的“模型”——来分析世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of it involved costly churning of portfolios, while increased leverage implied fragility for the financial system as a whole and imposed severe social costs as over-exposed households subsequently went bankrupt.",
        "这大多与投资组合的高成本搅动有关，而杠杆的增加意味着作为整体的金融系统脆弱性的增加，而随着风险暴露过大的家庭随后陷入破产状态，还导致了严重的社会成本。"
    ],
    [
        "That raises a simple question: What is Kenya doing in Somalia, and is it worth the price?",
        "这带来了一个简单的问题：肯尼亚在索马里做了什么？ 值得为此付出如此代价吗？"
    ],
    [
        "If the market is correct, then the UK’s future growth will depend even more on policymakers’ ability to boost post-Brexit trade.",
        "如果市场正确，那么英国的未来增长将更加取决于决策者是否能够提振退欧后的贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "It is fueled enormously by social media (itself a revolutionary phenomenon).",
        "它的发展极大地受到社交媒体（其本身也是一种革命性现象）的推动。"
    ],
    [
        "Excessive debt caused not only the 2008 crisis, but also the East Asia crisis in the 1990s and the Latin American crisis in the 1980s.",
        "过度负债不但导致了2008年危机，20世纪90年代的东亚危机和80年代的拉美危机也是拜过度负债所赐。"
    ],
    [
        "A fortnight before Obama’s Cairo speech, a delegation of the United Nations Security Council visited four African countries to express concern about the resurgence of unconstitutional change on the continent.",
        "就在奥巴马发表开罗讲话前两个星期，一个联合国安理会代表团访问非洲四国，表达了对非洲大陆违宪行为沉渣泛起的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Competition for the market drove innovation.",
        "为创造市场而竞争推动了创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Transit countries such as Hungary try to divert refugees elsewhere.",
        "匈牙利等中转国试图将难民转移到别处。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if South Korea is not careful, it could end up in much the same place.",
        "而如果韩国稍有差池，就会陷入同样的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Kuwaiti life reflects the many and varied political trends throughout the Arab world, as the country’s open society and economic opportunities have made it a powerful magnet and regional safety valve since the 1950’s.",
        "科威特人的生活反映出了整个阿拉伯世界形形色色的政治趋向，因为自从20世纪50年代以来这个国家开放社会和经济机会已经使之成为了一个强力磁体和地区安全阀。"
    ],
    [
        "A comprehensive regional settlement, however, requires dealing with a wider circle of interests.",
        "不过，完整的地区和解方案需要处理好更广的利益圈。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidence from India and Nepal suggests that women’s involvement in decision-making is associated with better local environmental management.",
        "印度和尼泊尔的经验表明，妇女参与决策能改善本地环境管理。"
    ],
    [
        "Along the coast of the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, some 30% of the fishery capacity was lost.",
        "印度沿海的Andhra Pradesh和Tamil Nadu 两省的渔捕能力损失高达30%。"
    ],
    [
        "(These thresholds may sound low, but the World Bank uses similar cutoffs.)",
        "（这些阈值也许听上去很低，但世界银行也使用类似的标准。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "But soon it will be over.",
        "但它马上就要结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "The obvious answer is the International Monetary Fund.",
        "答案很明显——国际货币基金组织（IMF）。"
    ],
    [
        "But GFCI’s detailed results do not bear out that explanation.",
        "但GFCI的结果并不体现这些解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than offering grants or concessionary loans, China provides huge project-related loans at market-based rates, without transparency, much less environmental- or social-impact assessments.",
        "中国并不提供援助或优惠贷款，而是提供按市场利率计息的巨额项目相关贷款，这些交易没有什么透明度可言，更不用说环境和社会影响评估了。"
    ],
    [
        "Together with Germany, France intends to draw up a list of uncooperative countries and to design a tool kit of appropriate sanctions.",
        "法国会与德国一起，将打算草拟一份拒绝合作的国家清单，并筹划对它们采取适当的制裁手段。"
    ],
    [
        "In the two years since the Paris climate agreement was adopted, deforestation increased sharply in Indonesia and parts of the Amazon, where much of the world’s largest and most vital tropical forests stand.",
        "在巴黎气候协定通过两年间，世界现存最大最重要的热带雨林所在地印尼和亚马逊部分地区的森林砍伐急剧增加。"
    ],
    [
        "It is too early to speculate whether Germany will be able to break this pattern and reverse that trend.",
        "如果预计德国将打破这一模式或者逆转这一趋势，还为时过早。"
    ],
    [
        "An official who saw him in the corridor of the palace recalled him muttering: “What a business!",
        "据一位在总统府走廊上看到他的官员回忆他当时正在小声嘟囔： “麻烦极了！"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – Carlos Barientos III was born at 6:45 on the evening of December 31, 1964, a few miles northwest of Honolulu.",
        "慕尼黑——卡洛斯·巴兰托斯三世出生于1964年12月31日晚6：45分檀香山西北几英里处。"
    ],
    [
        "The MDGs worked because they were few in number and sharply focused.",
        "千年发展目标相对有效是因为其数量较少而且重点集中。"
    ],
    [
        "One of us (Lo) has carried out simulations of diversified funds for early- and mid-stage cancer drugs, which show that a so-called megafund of $5-30 billion, comprising 100-200 compounds, could sufficiently de-risk the investment while generating returns of between 9-11%.",
        "作者之一（罗闻全）模拟了癌症药物早期和中期研发的多样化基金，结果表明，所谓的巨型基金（megafund）——规模在50—300亿美元，包含100—200种药物——能够有效降低投资风险，同时产生9—11%的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, no one is immune from climate change.",
        "今天，没有人能逃避气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "At www.350.org you can find out what is happening near you and join in, or put your own idea online.",
        "350. org 这个网站你可以查询到你附近人们的活动方案并参与其中，还可以在网上发表自己的点子。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, the Fed has become more involved in how markets function, the valuation of assets, and fluctuations in their prices.",
        "在此过程中美联储更多地参与市场运作、资产估值及其价格波动。"
    ],
    [
        "He should take pains to present Japan as a strong country that looks forward rather than backward, and that wants to contribute to economic development, peace, and security around the world – and especially within Asia.",
        "他应当煞费苦心地向世界证明日本是一个展望未来、而非纠结过去的大国，他应当让人们看到日本希望促进世界和平、安全与经济发展——尤其是在亚洲内部。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States has already taken the next logical step.",
        "美国已经采取了下一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s World Cup performance was a brilliant demonstration of the importance of deep, long-term reforms.",
        "德国在世界杯上的表现显示出长期、深层次改革有多么重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Engaging in discussions with Iran does not necessarily mean that we believe or deny those declarations.",
        "与伊朗接触并不意味着我们相信或否认这些说法。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe and Japan, not to mention South Korea, have become too dependent on US military protection.",
        "欧洲和日本——更不用说韩国了——过于美国的军事保护。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent survey by the Federation of Korean Industries, 38% of the single female respondents said that they do not want children, mostly because they fear that they will struggle to keep up at work or lose their jobs.",
        "韩国工业联合会的一份最新调查显示，38%的单身女性受访者称自己不想要孩子，大部分是因为担心要了孩子就无法胜任工作或失去工作。"
    ],
    [
        "There is now a regular season for discussing drugs in sports, one that arrives every year with the Tour de France.",
        "现在讨论体育运动中的违禁药物问题似乎有了一个常规的季节，它每年和环法自行车大赛一同到来。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that this disconnect has led to mounting financial-market excesses, the exit will be all the more problematic for markets – and for America’s market-fixated monetary authority.",
        "由于这一矛盾已经导致了金融市场过度，退出政策将会给市场以及依赖市场的美国货币当局造成相当大的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A formula for “just” prices keeps all prices artificially low (setting higher prices buys violators a ticket to prison), causing shortages, rationing, and queues that consume many hours of most Venezuelans’ days.",
        "“公平”价公式人为压低所有商品价格（违法提价者往往会因此而获刑）。 结果造成商品短缺、配给制和每天耗费多数委内瑞拉人高达数小时排队的购物长龙。"
    ],
    [
        "Why did the US not follow the more direct path of redistribution, of taxing or borrowing and spending on the anxious middle class?",
        "为什么美国政府不采取更直接的经济手段呢，比如再分配、增加税收、发国债、增加开支？"
    ],
    [
        "To allow disorderly self-correction by markets would require confidence at all levels of governance, from the central government to village administrations, and among SOEs.",
        "要利用市场的抗脆弱能力，从中央到地方的各级行政机构以及国有企业都需要对市场抱有更多的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, a default in 2010 would have left some room for adjustments.",
        "更重要的是，如果在2010年违约，就可能留下些许调整的余地。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most urgent example is Europe’s moral leadership on climate change, which, supported through policies such as the Lisbon Strategy, should be translated into technical leadership and early entry into lucrative markets for low-carbon products.",
        "可能最急迫的例子莫过于欧洲在气候变化上的道德领导力。 在“里斯本战略”等政策的支持下，它应该被转化为技术领导力和率先进入低碳（排放）产品的诱人市场的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Some UCK leaders, lionized by the local Albanian population as the victors of 1999, are now running Kosovo’s government.",
        "被当地阿尔巴尼亚人视为1999年胜利者而与之结交的某些科索沃解放军领袖现在掌管着科索沃政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The funds are sorely needed.",
        "现在急需资金。"
    ],
    [
        "But, outside Russia, no responsible economists can even begin to say whether the crisis is truly over.",
        "而在俄罗斯之外，还没有哪一位经济学家敢下结论说经济危机真的结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast, blaming the undeserving 1% offers a redistributive policy agenda with immediate effects.",
        "相反，将矛头指向无辜的1%有利于立刻可以减小的再分配政策的出台。"
    ],
    [
        "One idea is research into cleaner cooking stoves.",
        "一个主题是研究更加清洁的炉灶。"
    ],
    [
        "Inside Iran’s Nuclear Reasoning",
        "伊朗求核的潜台词"
    ],
    [
        "The rapid changes occurring in the Asia-Pacific region demand policies to maximize growth opportunities while minimizing risks.",
        "亚太地区所发生的急速变化需要既能将增长机会最大化又能尽量减少风险的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, they are not the first step in the process of democratisation, but the last step in a preparatory phase in which at least two conditions have been created.",
        "因此，选举不是民主进程中的第一步，而是在至少具备两个前提的条件下整个准备阶段的最后一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Successful reform will be an important step in preventing the decline of American power.",
        "成功的改革将是阻止美国实力衰落的重要步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, things happen slowly, and, meanwhile, more bad news may be revealed.",
        "因此，事情的发展就很缓慢，同时，更多的坏消息也可能会被披露出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Although failure to comply would in principle lead to automatic financial penalties, it is difficult to imagine how such failure could be determined in a country like Spain.",
        "尽管违反这一规定在原则上会引发自动财政惩罚，但你很难想象在西班牙这样的国家如何定义“违反”。"
    ],
    [
        "How Iran Is Winning",
        "伊朗是怎样占据上风的"
    ],
    [
        "Trade is one of the few policy areas where he can be said to have an ideology.",
        "贸易是他可以说有一套思想的极少数政策领域之一。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders is exactly what US President Barack Obama has called for.",
        "事实上，基于1967年边界的巴勒斯坦国正是美国总统奥巴马所呼吁的。"
    ],
    [
        "The disintegration of the business empire is then accompanied and amplified by bitter disputes between the children and the substitute children.",
        "子女和代子女的混战，伴随着商业帝国的分崩离析，并且加剧了分崩离析的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany's global inter-connectedness, which has long been vital for our prosperity and security, does not allow us to pretend that we are either an island or a world historical force.",
        "德国的全球连通性长期以来一直是我们的繁荣与安全的基础，它不允许我们装作是一座孤岛或者世界的历史力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Implementation of public policy is just as important to good governance as the vision that underlies it.",
        "对良好的治理来说，公共政策实施与实施它们的愿景一样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a glorious welcome, even in fog.",
        "即便在浓雾弥漫的时刻，它的壮阔也无时无刻不吸引着我的目光。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain needed to determine how best to establish a constructive relationship with a China intent on weaponizing trade, while standing up for the rights and promised freedoms of Hong Kong’s people.",
        "英国需要决定如何与日益将贸易武器化的中国建立建设性关系，同时捍卫香港人民的权利和许诺的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the gradual reappearance in Russia of a more politically assertive liberal middle class.",
        "也许是俄罗斯逐渐在再现政治上更积极的自由中产阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "Mohammed’s life changed when Lebanon’s government opened the country’s public schools to refugees.",
        "黎巴嫩政府向难民开放本国公立学校后，穆罕默德的生活发生了变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Female representation in parliaments and government cabinets after the Arab Spring has been either absent or meager, and women activists worry that Islamist parties will implement reactionary policies that discriminate on the basis of gender.",
        "阿拉伯之春后，国会和政府内阁中的女性代表要么不存在，要么无足轻重，妇女活动家担心伊斯兰政党会采取性别歧视的反动政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to delay the spread of resistance long enough to allow new drugs to come onstream, an urgent short-term objective must be achieved: preventing resistance from taking hold in South and Southeast Asia and spreading elsewhere.",
        "为了延缓抗药性的蔓延，争取足够的时间让新药投入生产，必须实现一个紧迫的短期目标：阻止抗药性占领南亚和东南亚并向其他地区蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – There is something odd and disturbing about the conventional wisdom surrounding the upcoming Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).",
        "东京—即将到来的中共十八大三中全会有些不同寻常和令人不安。"
    ],
    [
        "But if left to Israelis and Palestinians alone, the goal of Palestinian independence within the 1967 borders of Palestine will most likely remain out of reach.",
        "但是如果把这一问题仅仅丢给以色列和巴勒斯坦，那么巴勒斯坦在其1967年的边界内独立的目标将会遥不可及。"
    ],
    [
        "By the beginning of the 2016 presidential cycle, it seemed clear that many would seek a unifying “anti-establishment” candidate.",
        "到2016年总统竞选周期开始时，一个似乎显而易见的事实是很多人都在寻找一位统一的“反体制”候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has adopted a parallel argument for its support of Sunni forces in Yemen and Syria, as has Iran in backing its Shia allies in both countries.",
        "在中东，沙特阿拉伯采取了同样的借口论证其对也门和叙利亚逊尼派力量的支持，正如伊朗支持其在上述两国的什叶派盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, there are many taxes that the authorities can impose that would increase efficiency, growth, and equity.",
        "幸运的是，当局可以征收众多税项以提高效率，增长和公平。"
    ],
    [
        "European illusions about Asia will no longer be directed at Russia, which, apart from its natural resources, will simply have nothing to offer.",
        "欧洲的亚洲幻想不再会以俄罗斯为对象，因为除了自然资源之外，俄罗斯什么都拿不出来。"
    ],
    [
        "It is estimated that this unlikely “Rockstar Baba” attracted tens of millions of fanatical worshippers to his Dera Sacha Sauda movement.",
        "据估计，这位不可思议的“摇滚明星巴巴”（Rockstar Baba）为他的真神宫（Dera Sacha Sauda）运动吸引了数千万狂热崇拜者。"
    ],
    [
        "However, these reserves represent an important “hidden” asset that lends strength to the Fund’s balance sheet.",
        "然而，这些储备代表了一项重要的“隐藏”资产，它在该组织的资产负债表中发挥着重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the League of Nations approved the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child in 1924, and why the international community adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.",
        "因此，国际联盟在1924年通过了日内瓦儿童权利宣言，国际社会也在1989年实施了儿童权利公约。"
    ],
    [
        "At first glance, there seems to be no problem.",
        "这件事初看上去没有什么问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But changes in the political process would help move matters ahead.",
        "但政治过程的变化有助于推进进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally – and most fatally – the bankruptcy of any large US financial firm today would induce a scramble for assets by regulators around the world.",
        "最后——也是最致命的——如今任何美国金融大企业的破产都会引起全球监管者争夺资产。"
    ],
    [
        "But, odd as it might seem, getting its cash out could be a good long-term strategy for Apple.",
        "但是，尽管听起来十分奇怪，派发现金对于苹果公司来说或许是高明的长期战略。"
    ],
    [
        "But Netanyahu’s school of thought is radically different.",
        "但内塔尼亚胡的算盘与此有很大不同。"
    ],
    [
        "So the global nature of this problem must be recognized and addressed in places where environmental degradation is already bringing about a dangerous deterioration in peoples’ lives.",
        "因此，在那些环境恶化已经使人们生活严重恶化的地区，这一问题的全球性应该被认识到并被重视起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the arms used were yesterday’s weapons.",
        "在这次战争中使用的大部分武器都是过时了的。"
    ],
    [
        "The study of these interactions should provide a precise understanding of the strong force.",
        "对这些相互作用的研究将提供一个对强相互作用力的精确理解。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, that pattern – seen in Spain in 1936, Iran in 1953, Chile in 1973, Turkey in 1980, Sudan in 1989, and Algeria and Tajikistan in 1992 – usually leads to military dictatorships, civil wars, or both.",
        "相反，曾在1936年西班牙、1953年伊朗、1973年智利、1980年土耳其、1989年苏丹和1992年阿尔及利亚和塔吉克斯坦上演的戏码却往往导致军事独裁、内战或两者兼而有之。"
    ],
    [
        "In East Asia, which has experienced rapid growth and development in recent years, policymakers have not only allowed, but encouraged, higher corporate profits, so long as they are channeled into productive investments.",
        "在近年来经历了快速增长和发展的东亚地区，政策制定者不仅允许，甚至鼓励企业赚取更高利润，只要后者能转向生产性投资。"
    ],
    [
        "These burdens weigh far more heavily on people than any price tag can represent.",
        "这些成本给人们所造成的负担远远不是价格标签所能体现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, the private sector has an obligation to be the engine of growth and employment, and banks have a vital role to play in achieving that end.",
        "简而言之，私人部门理应成为带动增长和就业的引擎，而银行则在实现这一目标的过程中扮演着重要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, intellectuals want their audiences to think for themselves, not simply shift allegiances from one expert to another.",
        "简而言之，知识分子们要求他们的听众自己思考，而不是仅仅向一个个的权威显示他们的愚忠。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that Libya’s leaders have so far done more to perpetuate fragmentation and dysfunction than to ameliorate it.",
        "问题是利比亚领导人迄今为止更多是去固化分裂和混乱状况，而不是去改善它。"
    ],
    [
        "China will serve as the standing chairman of the negotiators’ meetings, which will be co-chaired by the member country hosting the talks.",
        "中国将成为谈判会议的常务主席，与轮值主席的其他成员国联席主持会谈。"
    ],
    [
        "What these paradoxical interpretations have in common is that they abandon realism, the doctrine that a physical world, existing in reality, accounts for all of our experience.",
        "而这类自相矛盾的解释的共同点就是都抛弃了现实主义，而现实主义这一基本信条认为存在于现实中的物理世界解释了我们的所有经验认识。"
    ],
    [
        "The global health sector needs far more independent advocacy and accountability, which the UN and civil-society groups, in particular, are in a strong position to provide.",
        "全球健康领域需要更独立的宣传和问责制度，而提供相关制度恰恰是联合国和民间社会团体的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "“Tel Aviv” embraces secularism, hedonism, and economic growth, and views the State of Israel as a legal entity, in contrast to the dangerous, faith-driven “Jerusalemite” concept of “Eretz Israel.”",
        "“特拉维夫”派信奉世俗主义、享乐主义和经济的增长，并且把以色列国看成是一个合法的实体，而不是“耶路撒冷”派心目中危险的、为宗教信仰所驱动的“以色列的土地”。"
    ],
    [
        "Unable to reform their labor markets because of the fear of street protests, French governments of all political stripes seek to protect their ailing firms, only to face limits imposed by the rules of the Common Market.",
        "由于害怕改革劳力市场会引发游街抗议，法国政府寻求方法以保护他们体制不全的公司，结果却发现不得不面对共同市场所强加的规定条例。"
    ],
    [
        "China took full advantage of the Kremlin’s desperation, securing rock-bottom rates for Russian energy resources.",
        "中国充分利用了克里姆林宫的急切心理，确保了以最低价获得俄罗斯能源资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this backdrop – and that of the fear sown by the terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen – the European Union is set to develop a new – and critically important – agenda on migration.",
        "在这一背景下——以及在巴黎和哥本哈根恐怖袭击造成的恐慌的影响下——欧盟即将制定新的关键性移民议程。"
    ],
    [
        "But a proactive, strong Europe capable of determining its own fate will not be in the cards for quite some time.",
        "可是一个能够决定自己命运的积极、强大的欧洲却在未来一段时间内都不会浮出水面。"
    ],
    [
        "He challenged the prosecution vigorously, defending himself with a feistiness that surprised nearly all who read the transcripts released by the court in real time on the trial’s first day.",
        "薄不遗余力地挑战公诉人为自己辩护，这让看到法院实时发布首日审判记录的所有人都感到吃惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Herein lies the most important lesson in Nokia’s fall.",
        "这里可以找到诺基亚垮台最重要的一课。"
    ],
    [
        "But all bubbles eventually burst.",
        "但是，是泡沫终究会破。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the progress made in expanding vaccination programs in recent years, this revelation represents a unique opportunity for the global community, particularly as we begin to close the lid on polio.",
        "最近几年，扩大疫苗项目进展迅速，这一信息代表了全球社会的独特机会，特别是在我们即将彻底消灭小儿麻痹症时。"
    ],
    [
        "One problem is that academic models assume that central banks actually know what output and inflation are in real time.",
        "问题之一是，学术模型假定央行行长实际上知道即时的产出和通货膨胀信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The brinkmanship and bargaining that this approach encourages make it impossible to develop and present pan-European visions to the public.",
        "这一方针鼓励边缘政策和讨价还价，使形成泛欧洲愿景并将其展现在公众面前成为不可能的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "No other country has the necessary combination of capability and outlook.",
        "没有其他国家拥有必须的能力和远见的组合。"
    ],
    [
        "And he will have a hard time winning over his more cautious European counterparts, not least German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose room for maneuver was crimped by her party’s poor showing in last weekend’s federal election.",
        "而他想要赢得更加谨慎的欧洲同僚也绝非易事，比如，德国总理默克尔的施展空间就因为她的政党在上周末的联邦选举中表现拙劣而大受限制。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while doing so, they are not likely to be expanding private-sector lending to support economic growth.",
        "但是，在此期间，它们很可能不会扩张私人部门贷款以支持经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign investors are willing to live with the resulting current-account deficits, but only up to a point.",
        "外国投资者愿意接受经常项目赤字增加的结果，但有一个限度。"
    ],
    [
        "Other factors already complicate the relationship.",
        "其他因素让个中关系变得更加复杂了。"
    ],
    [
        "European economies as a whole have stagnated relative to the developing world. But trade among EU member states has still grown at a brisk pace over the past decade.",
        "欧洲经济体作为整体相对发展中国家已经处于停滞状态，但近几十年来欧盟成员国之间的贸易增长依然迅速。"
    ],
    [
        "It might have convinced Assad to give up his chemical weapons, but Russia’s threat to veto any muscular Security Council resolution against Syria guaranteed that his murderous regime would retain control.",
        "阿萨德的确可能因此放弃了使用化学武器，但俄国否决对叙利亚任何强力安理会决议的威胁确保了阿萨德的杀人政权将继续执政。"
    ],
    [
        "This question eventually was resolved in favor of monetary policy.",
        "”这一问题最终以有利于货币政策的结论结束。"
    ],
    [
        "There can also be negative incentives to loyalty that induce everyone to keep up appropriate standards of behavior.",
        "也可能发生对忠诚的消极激励，导致人人维持适当的行为标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama, too, is highlighting the economic aspects of the US “pivot,” portraying his Asia tour as an effort to generate more domestic manufacturing jobs through higher exports to “the most rapidly growing and dynamic region in the world.”",
        "奥巴马也在强调美国“重心”的经济方面，将其亚洲之行描述意在为通过增加对“世界增长最快、最有活力的地区的出口”来早就更多国内制造业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with an enhanced resource-mobilization effort, roughly $22 billion annually in aid will be needed to achieve universal lower-secondary education.",
        "虽然资源动员努力有所加强，但每年仍需要220亿美元援助以实现全民初中教育。"
    ],
    [
        "As a consequence, in most countries, credit is still contracting.",
        "所以在大部分国家，借贷仍然是很难办的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s focus on ineffective and costly climate policies shows poor judgment.",
        "由此可见，当今那些针对效率极低且耗资巨大的气候政策的关注言论，只能显示出某些人判断力的低劣。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Galbraith were writing the same book in 2017, he probably would call the 1970s The Age of Assurance.",
        "但如果加尔布雷斯在2017年写作这本书，他可能会将20世纪70年代称为《确定的时代》。"
    ],
    [
        "As private companies know, transformations – deep changes in the way things are done – often cost money before they bring savings.",
        "私营公司知道，转型——做事方式的深刻变化——常常需要花掉很多钱，然后才能带来节省。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine a health club that does not threaten you, but rather sends a message: “Juan and Alice will be waiting for you to join them lifting weights today at 4 p.m.”",
        "试想有这么一个健康俱乐部，它从不用那些不健康的后果恐吓你，而是传达这样一种信息：“胡安和爱丽丝会在今天下午4点等你来参加体重提升训练”或者是“你的团队目前正落后蓝队4分，赶紧来助我们一臂之力。"
    ],
    [
        "However, in my family’s next generation, all of my nieces and nephews have a high-school diploma and most have attended university.",
        "但是，在我家的下一代中，我所有的侄辈都拥有高中文凭，大部分还上了大学。"
    ],
    [
        "Two of my friends, a gynecologist and a pediatrician, have applied to go.",
        "我的两位朋友——一位妇科医师和一位儿科医师——已申请加入该计划。"
    ],
    [
        "This progressive blueprint remains a powerful source of inspiration in the effort to realize equal opportunities for women and girls.",
        "这一进步蓝图一直是实现妇女和女孩权利平等的一个强有力的动力源。"
    ],
    [
        "One such innovation uses a bacterium called Wolbachia, either to stop deadly viruses from growing or to reduce mosquito populations.",
        "其中一种创新使用名为沃尔巴克氏体（Wolbachia）的细菌，以阻止致命病毒的增殖或减少蚊子种群。"
    ],
    [
        "More officials are expected to fall in the coming year.",
        "据估计，在接下来的一年中还会有更多的官员落马。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty-five countries have signed on to the Principles since 2008.",
        "自2008年以来，已有25个国家在圣地亚哥原则上签字。"
    ],
    [
        "Al Hanashi, the press office at Guantánamo noted, had formerly been a hunger striker.",
        "在关塔那摩新闻办公室的记录里显示，哈纳什就曾是一个绝食者。"
    ],
    [
        "Shale gas contributed almost nothing to US natural-gas supplies at the start of the century; by last year, its share had soared to 34%, with the US Energy Information Administration predicting a further rise to one-half by 2040.",
        "21世纪初，页岩气对于美国天然气供给几乎无关紧要； 到去年已占天然气供给量的34%，美国能源信息局（US Energy Information Administration）预计到2040年将升至一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Technological innovation and recyclable inputs can make a huge difference to the way the world produces and consumes.",
        "技术创新和回收投入可以从根本上改变世界的生产和消费方式。"
    ],
    [
        "As recently as 2007, when New York University economist Thomas Sargent, addressing the graduating class at the University of California, Berkeley, summarized the wisdom of economics in 12 short principles, the tradeoff was among them.",
        "2007年，纽约大学经济学家托马斯·萨金特（Thomas Sargent）在为加州大学伯克利分校学生发表毕业演说时总结了12条简短的经济学原理智慧，权衡也在其中。"
    ],
    [
        "There should be no expectation that prices would be allowed to deviate, except temporarily, from the target.",
        "应该不会有人预期价格能够偏离这一目标（除非是暂时性的）。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, recent trade negotiations have a surreal air about them, because, whatever their outcome, ultimately cotton subsidies will have to go.",
        "于是，不久前的贸易谈判就具有了超现实主义的色彩，无论结果如何，棉花补贴最终都要取消。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea’s Real Strategy",
        "朝鲜真正的战略"
    ],
    [
        "Most recently, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed ECB President Mario Draghi, leaving Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann isolated.",
        "最近，德国总理安格拉·默克尔（Angela Merkel）表态支持了欧洲央行行长马里奥·德拉吉，从而孤立了德意志联邦银行行长基恩斯·魏德曼。"
    ],
    [
        "This matters immensely, because the Kyoto Protocol is already among the most expensive global public policies ever enacted, and the follow-up in Copenhagen in late 2009 promises to break all records.",
        "这非常重要，因为京都议定书已经成为所制定出来的最为昂贵的全球公共政策，而2009年底在哥本哈根举行的跟进措施将会打破所有的记录。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, China must follow suit to keep capital from flowing out, despite the negative impact of higher interest rates on domestic growth.",
        "如果美联储提高利率，中国也必须跟进以防资本外流，即使提高利率会对国内增长产生消极影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The Democrats, in the minority in the Senate, will give Trump’s Cabinet nominees a tough grilling, potentially defeating one or two.",
        "在参议院处于少数地位的民主党将严厉盘问特朗普的内阁提名人选，并有可能驳回一到两人。"
    ],
    [
        "For years to come, the private banking sector will be preoccupied with the consequences of the financial crisis.",
        "未来数年内，私营银行业都会一直被金融危机的后续效应所困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "Documentation is not just a bureaucratic stamp on a piece of paper.",
        "注册档案不仅仅是一章盖有官僚印章的纸。"
    ],
    [
        "The protesters of Madrid were inspired by those of Cairo, and were themselves a source of inspiration from New York to Tel Aviv – and, subsequently, to Moscow.",
        "而巴黎示威者本身有又为纽约和拉特维夫的游行者提供了灵感，紧接着这种灵感又传到了莫斯科。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis is now affecting not just all of Syria’s immediate neighbors, straining their resources and exacerbating social and ethnic tensions; it now directly involves all of the current permanent members of the Security Council except China.",
        "当前的危机不仅影响了所有叙利亚邻国，导致资源紧缺，而且还加剧了社会和种族的紧张局势； 现在除中国外的所有现任安理会常任理事国都已经卷入。"
    ],
    [
        "Considering frequency and risk, this class of breast cancer susceptibility factors can be called “rare, intermediate-penetrance mutations”.",
        "如果考虑到发生频率和风险程度，此类乳腺癌易感因素可以称之为“罕见的中等外显率突变”。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the stage has been emptied.",
        "而如今，这一基础却被抽空了。"
    ],
    [
        "Its citizens, who live on top of the world’s largest oil reserves, are literally starving and dying for lack of food and medicine.",
        "委内瑞拉公民坐拥世界第一大石油储量，却生活在名副其实的饥饿中，因为缺乏食物和药品而垂死挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "In Russia, you get asked for your autograph if you are a proper hero: an ice-hockey player, a cosmonaut, a high-society prostitute, or, like Lugovoi, an executioner.",
        "在俄罗斯，如果你是一个真正的英雄，人们可能会要你签名：一位冰球运动员、一位宇航员、一位高级妓女、或者像Lugovoi这样的一位行刑者。"
    ],
    [
        "All societies require an effective government that can provide vital and irreplaceable public services and infrastructure.",
        "所有的社会都要求有效力的政府来向它为之服务的人民提供关键和不可替代的公共服务。"
    ],
    [
        "“I think it was a fundamental error for banks to get as sophisticated as they have, and I think that the bigger problem than just size is the question of complexity.",
        "“我认为，让银行变得如此复杂是一个根本性的错误，我还认为，比规模更大的问题是复杂性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Still another, more accurate definition encompasses all countries with international influence – that is, any country whose identity and sovereignty is recognized, and that chooses to participate in global discussions and decision-making.",
        "还有一些人使用更准确地定义，即包括所有具有国际影响的国家——任何身份和主权得到承认并选择参与国际讨论和决策的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "So the increased importance of the G-20 should be welcomed.",
        "因此我们也应该对G20日益增加的重要性表示欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Islam arrived in Iran by way of conquest in 637-651, the country did not officially adopt Shi’ism for nearly another millennium, with Shah Ismail I of the Safavid dynasty undertaking in 1501 the forcible conversion of the country’s Sunni population.",
        "尽管 637-651年伊斯兰教以征服的形式进入伊朗，但近一千年后随着1501年萨非王朝的伊斯玛仪一世强制该国逊尼派人口转变信仰，伊朗才正式成为什叶派国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the American financial sector’s untenable subprime and securitization activities, and it is not surprising that the next two years brought the global financial system to the brink of outright collapse.",
        "而美国金融部门大肆开展次贷和证券化活动，毫不奇怪，在加下去的两年中，全球金融系统濒临彻底崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US alone, individuals gave $240 billion to charity in 2013.",
        "光是在美国，2013年就有2,400亿美元的个人慈善捐赠。"
    ],
    [
        "These initiatives reflect not only China’s voracious drive for natural resources and new trade routes, but also Myanmar’s own plans to create a “mini-Singapore” within its borders.",
        "这些工程不但反映了中国对自然资源和新贸易路线的无尽胃口，也是缅甸自身建设国内“小新加坡”的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But the secret of the University of California’s success is its ability to obtain ever-higher amounts of funding from private sources and the federal government.",
        "但是，加州大学成功的秘诀是它能从私人和联邦政府那里拿到更高数额的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Brown understood that these priorities were essential, not just for the British economy, but also for the long-term prospects of Labour in power; and he entrenched this agenda by giving the Bank of England independent responsibility for keeping inflation low.",
        "布朗明白这些要务不仅对英国经济来说是必要的，对于工党长期执政的前景来说也是至关重要的； 于是他授予英格兰银行保持低通胀的独立责任，巩固了这些工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, unlike Pope John Paul II, who, as a Pole, always saw communist Russia as an oppressor, Benedict carries the German sense of guilt stemming from the country’s Nazi past and its brutal invasion of Russia.",
        "此外，教皇约翰﹒保罗二世身为波兰人，总视共产主义俄罗斯为压迫者。 而本尼迪克特则不同，作为德国人，他一直有负罪感，这种负罪感根源于德国的纳粹历史及当年对俄罗斯残暴的侵略。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Japan’s recovery remains fragile, despite strong efforts by the government. Even the major emerging economies, which were supposed to serve as global growth engines in the years ahead, are struggling: China and India have downshifted, and Brazil and Russia are contracting.",
        "即便是那些本应在未来几年承担全球增长引擎任务的主要新兴经济体都陷入挣扎之中，中国和印度的经济增长幅度下滑，巴西和俄罗斯都出现了收缩。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, the money generated by the tax could be used to reduce government debt; otherwise, it could be used to finance investments in technology and education – including supply-side measures to improve the productivity of Japan’s service sector.",
        "在这一情形中，税收所得资金可以用于降低政府债务； 或者也可用于技术和教育投资融资——包括改善日本服务业生产率的供给侧措施。"
    ],
    [
        "They were hit by round after round of Mao’s tyrannical campaigns against “Rightists,” beginning with the silencing of critics after the Hundred Flowers Movement in 1956.",
        "从1956年的“百花齐放”中使批评者噤声的浪潮开始，他们在毛泽东所领导的“打倒右派“的斗争中遭受着一轮又一轮的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Revolutionary Islamism is undoubtedly dangerous and bloody.",
        "革命伊斯兰主义毫无疑问是危险和充满暴力流血的。"
    ],
    [
        "At the Strasbourg summit, confidence in the future could have been strengthened if a couple of troubling issues had been discussed.",
        "战略上的条例仍然阻碍着北约的发展。 在此次斯特拉斯堡会议上，如果讨论有关北约未来的一些问题，北约的前途才有希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Within weeks, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government proposed legislation that put religious circumcision on a solid legal basis, with the support of most members of the Bundestag.",
        "几周内，总理默克尔政府就提出了立法草案，给了宗教割礼稳固的法律基础，并受到了德国联邦议院几乎一边倒的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Entitlements.",
        "福利。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been accompanied by a growing immorality of the system.",
        "这就伴随着日益增长的不道德现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Because leaders cannot be ousted through elections, other means must be found to resolve political conflicts.",
        "由于无法用选举来罢免领导人，于是必须用其他方式来解决政治争端。"
    ],
    [
        "Addressing those minorities, she continued: “We do hear your fears, and we do honor your aspirations.",
        "谈到这些少数群体时，她继续说：“我们听说了你们的恐惧和遭遇，更向你们的理想致以敬意。"
    ],
    [
        "His starting point is the huge rise in wealth among the world’s richest 0.1% and 0.01% and the consequent pressure for people, governments, and companies to take on increasingly unsustainable levels of debt.",
        "1%和0. 01%人群财富剧增，这给人民、政府和公司造成了日益不可持续的高负债的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "In a context of experimentation, such unintended consequences are understandable.",
        "既然是实验，产生这些意料外后果是可以理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s effort to unify the ex-Soviet states is hardly the only initiative that exemplifies his flawed vision.",
        "普京联合前苏联国家的举动并不是彰显其存在漏洞的愿景的唯一动作。"
    ],
    [
        "Like a novel with two possible endings, ours is a story yet to be written in this new century.",
        "我们的故事有待新世纪书写，就像一部结局不同的小说。"
    ],
    [
        "The Harvard endowment, under Jack Meyer, earned a 15.2% average annual return over the last ten years, compared to Swensen’s 17.2% average, while the Princeton endowment, under Andrew Golden, earned an average of 15.6% per year.",
        "2%的回报率相比，哈佛大学的捐款在梅尔的管理下获得了年均15. 2%的回报，而普林斯顿的捐款在戈登的管理下则年均获利15."
    ],
    [
        "This means that important and relatively persistent departures of prices from fundamental values are possible, and even likely, when information is dispersed – but that a correction to align them with reality will always follow.",
        "这意味着，价格和基本价值重大而相对持久的偏离是可能的，并且，当信息分散时——但是将价格和实际联系起来的修正总是会随之而来，更有可能。"
    ],
    [
        "The list of financial institutions that have engaged in such hiring practices reads like a who’s who of investment banking.",
        "进行过此类雇佣的金融机构名单与投资银行界名人录如出一辙。"
    ],
    [
        "The ability of those who wield great public and private power to flout the law and ethical norms for personal gain is one of the more glaring manifestations of inequality.",
        "有人能利用巨大的公私权力蔑视法律及伦理规范来谋取私利是不平等最明目张胆的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "But trade has not been China’s only motivation for investing so heavily in Burma. China also views Burma as vital to its quest for security, as well as to the regional expansion of Chinese power.",
        "但贸易可不是中国苦心经营缅甸的唯一动机，因为它同时也将缅甸视为维护自身国家安全以及国家势力扩张必不可少的一部份。"
    ],
    [
        "This was not the last stage of capitalism; Hitler used the capitalists for his nefarious ends.",
        "这不是资本主义的最后阶段； 希特勒利用资本家来达到他的邪恶的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer could be seen in opinion polls in the months leading up to the “Brexit” referendum.",
        "答案可以从“英国退出”全民公决前几个月所进行的民意调查中一窥端倪。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Palestinian politics has degenerated into a naked struggle for the spoils of power.",
        "其结果是使巴勒斯坦政治沦落为一种赤裸裸的权力斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "But in March, Ukraine’s anticorruption bureau arrested the country’s tax chief, Roman Nasirov.",
        "但今年3月乌克兰反腐败局逮捕了国家税务总监罗曼·纳西罗夫（Roman Nasirov）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Death of the Globalization Consensus",
        "全球化共识的死亡"
    ],
    [
        "It only backed down when the pro-government Liberal Party, which held a number of functional seats, broke ranks as a result of intense public pressure.",
        "直至拥有数个功能性席位的亲政府的自由党在强大的公众压力下乱了阵脚，港府方才作罢。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Czechs managed to elect a perfectly hung parliament.",
        "同时，捷克人也选出了一个悬而不决的议会。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumer or market-driven demand – the kind most of us think of when we hear the word – is far less predictable, and therefore much riskier, than state-sponsored demand of the sort that landed a man on the moon.",
        "听到“需求”这个词时多数人会想到由消费者或市场驱动的需求，这比将人类送上月球的由政府出资的需求更加难以预测，因此风险也大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Older adults with shingles may experience chronic discomfort and serious complications that make it difficult to sleep, leave the house, or carry out daily activities.",
        "罹患带状疱疹的老年人可能出现慢性不适和严重的并发症，甚至难以入睡、离家或者完成日常活动。"
    ],
    [
        "In his 19 years as Rome’s emperor, Marcus Aurelius faced nearly constant war, a horrific plague, and a coup attempt.",
        "在19年的罗马皇帝生涯中，马尔库斯·奥列里乌斯面临几乎不间断的战争、可怕的瘟疫以及一次政变企图。"
    ],
    [
        "Women, of course, are not alone in their opposition to Berlusconi, but they made the difference in Milan.",
        "当然反对贝卢斯科尼的并不仅仅是女性，但她们在米兰表现得特别抢眼。"
    ],
    [
        "In most US states, the criteria for obtaining one are to be at least 18 years of age (three years lower than the drinking age) and have no criminal record or obvious manifestation of mental illness.",
        "在大部分州，持枪标准是至少达到18岁（比饮酒年龄低三岁）并且没有犯罪记录或明显的精神病症状。"
    ],
    [
        "The fourth major external factor relates to exchange rates.",
        "第四个重要外部因素是汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "After Abu Ghraib, even US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld must take notice.",
        "在阿布格勒布丑闻之后，就连美国国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德也必须对此留意了。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the link between European companies and national communities is becoming more tenuous by the day.",
        "事实上，欧洲公司和国内团体之间的联系已经日渐薄弱。"
    ],
    [
        "In some countries, one woman in eight will die giving birth.",
        "在部分国家，孕妇难产死亡的比例高达1/8。"
    ],
    [
        "The use of the Welsh language in Britain and Gaelic in Ireland is greater today than fifty years ago.",
        "在英国威尔士语言的应用和在爱尔兰格尔语的应用比起五十年前要多。"
    ],
    [
        "There is thus no substitute for providing raters with incentives to provide as accurate a rating as they can.",
        "因此什么也无法替代确保评级机构尽可能提供准确评级结果的动机。"
    ],
    [
        "On the economic front, that spells the possibility of reciprocal tariffs on US exports to China, as well as potential ramifications for Chinese purchases of Treasuries.",
        "在经济方面，中国有可能对美国出口品征收报复性关税，其购买美国国债的政策也有可能改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Rajapaksa’s unexpected defeat by a coalition of Sri Lanka’s democrats and Tamil political parties in last January’s presidential election – a result that he then sought to annul – should have ended both his career and the politics of race-baiting.",
        "在去年1月的总统选举中，拉贾帕克萨出人意料地败给了斯里兰卡民主派和泰米尔政党所组成的联盟——后来他试图废除这一结果——这并应该结束他的政治生涯和种族迫害政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Though all cells in the body have the same DNA, only a subset of the genes encoded by the DNA is expressed in each cell type, thus accounting for the difference between, say, a skin cell, a liver cell, and a brain cell.",
        "尽管身体内的所有细胞的NDA都是相同的，但是不同的细胞类型只含有带有DNA密码的某个基因子集，这样就产生了皮肤细胞、肝细胞和脑细胞之间的区别。"
    ],
    [
        "With regard to Iraq, since George W. Bush’s presidency, the United States has strived to exert a moderating influence on Shia power, so that the country can create a more inclusive political system – specifically, by passing a new law on sharing oil-export revenues among the Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish communities.",
        "在伊拉克，自乔治·W·布什上台以来，美国就一直在努力对什叶派势力施加影响，从而让伊拉克能够建立更加包容的政治体系——特别是通过一项新的法律，在什叶派、逊尼派和库尔德人之间分享石油出口收入。"
    ],
    [
        "But to understand why this is so, we have to look at the larger picture of internal Iranian politics against which the crisis played out.",
        "要理解为什么会是这样，我们应该从危机发展的伊朗国内政局大背景说起。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump, should he come to think about it, might stumble to the same conclusion.",
        "”如果特朗普有时间思考，他也可能得出同样的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "But, regardless of this ignorance and of its economic interests, the EU should insist on the release of political prisoners and use all international institutions to bring pressure to bear on the Cuban government to respect the human and civil rights of Cuba’s people.",
        "虽然由于无知或是出于经济利益的考虑，但不管这么来说，欧盟都应该坚持要求古巴政府释放政治犯，利用一切国际场合向古巴政府施压，要求其尊重古巴人民的人权和民权。"
    ],
    [
        "Interventions like rural electrification, the provision of drought-resistant seeds and agricultural technology, and the expansion of micro-insurance are vital not only to rural populations’ welfare, but also to catalyze a new “Green Revolution,” without which city dwellers will face severe food shortages.",
        "实现农村电气化、提供抗旱种子、农业技术及扩大小额保险等举措不仅对农村人口福利至关重要，还可以促成新一轮“绿色革命”，让城市居民免受粮食短缺的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "But the stress tests and targeted TARP money, the path of least resistance taken, enabled the banks to earn their way back to solvency.",
        "但是压力测试和问题资产剥离计划（ TARP ）这两个异议最少的措施，的确使银行利润回升，从资不抵债的状态起死回生。"
    ],
    [
        "What will this landmark change mean for prices of such assets as stocks and homes?",
        "这一重大调整对诸如股票和住房一类的资产又意味着什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "For data purposes, at least, we are in a post-territorial age.",
        "”至少对数据目的来说，我们已经进入了后领土时代。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, all the voluminous reports – by the International Monetary Fund, the OECD, the World Bank, and the British government and the Bank of England – unanimously warning of significant losses from Brexit have been disregarded.",
        "换句话说，国际货币基金组织、 经合组织、 世界银行，英国政府以及英格兰银行等机构撰写了汗牛充栋的报告，异口同声地警告退盟将引发重大损失，最终却遭到了人们的漠视。"
    ],
    [
        "They seldom hire locals.",
        "他们很少雇佣当地人。"
    ],
    [
        "The international response to Syria’s crisis has been nothing short of disastrous.",
        "对于叙利亚危机，国际社会的反应可谓是一场灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "If Arab citizens could transform their culture of humiliation into a culture of hope, perhaps they would be able to reconcile themselves with Israel’s existence.",
        "试想如果阿拉伯人民能把自身从那种受侮辱受压迫者的心态中解脱出来，转变成一种充满希望的开放思维，那么就完全有可能接受以色列的存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are justifiably frustrated with the slow pace of economic reform across the EU.",
        "但他们对欧盟各国经济改革步伐缓慢的不满很容易理解。"
    ],
    [
        "This strategy – which worked well for decades – always carried the risk that at some point America’s resources might be tied up elsewhere, leaving Europe under-protected.",
        "这一战略几十年来一直奏效，但是却有风险，那就是美国的资源有可能被困于其他地方，让欧洲不能得到有效的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Mohammed knows that education is the key to building a better future.",
        "穆罕默德知道，教育是构建更美好未来的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "One way to understand current conditions – and what is needed to improve them – is to consider two events that recently attracted considerable worldwide attention: the launch of Boeing’s Dreamliner passenger jet and the tragic death of Apple’s Steve Jobs.",
        "一种理解当前形势——以及如何改进——的办法是思考两件引起世界范围大关注的事件：波音梦幻客机的发布以及苹果公司的乔布斯去世的噩耗。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of America’s allies, now professing outrage at disclosures of US spying, have been known to do the same thing to the US.",
        "美国的一些盟国——目前纷纷对被曝光的美国间谍活动表示愤慨——据信也对美国做过同样的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Individually, the far smaller cities in England’s north cannot really compete with that.",
        "如果各自为政的话，英格兰北部的小城市根本无法与世界竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "A potential growth rate of 2% won’t necessarily do much to help his blue-collar base, but at least it could push the stock market up to its highest point ever.",
        "2％的潜在增长率对于他的蓝领选民来说虽然未必有多大作用，但至少可以推动股市达到有史以来的最高点。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynes made a tremendous intellectual contribution in showing that supply in a market economy does not necessarily create its own demand, and that demand shortfalls can cause avoidable recessions.",
        "凯恩斯的巨大贡献在于证明市场经济供给并不一定能够创造需求，而这种需求的缺失可能导致的经济衰退本来是可以避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "What are the implications for macroeconomic policy?",
        "那么这对于宏观经济政策又有何启示呢？"
    ],
    [
        "As with the other challenges posed by population growth, the issue is not whether the future can be managed, but whether it will be.",
        "连同人口膨胀将带来的其它挑战，问题不是印度的将来能否被管理，而是印度是否会有将来。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization cannot be undone, and migration from the EU cannot be cut off.",
        "全球化无法逆转，同样无法切断来自欧盟的移民。"
    ],
    [
        "It supplied food and inputs to weavers and then took their output.",
        "国家向工人提供食品和原料，收取他们的产出。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have used disenchanting experiences with globalization as an excuse for a return to protectionism and the supposedly halcyon days of strong national borders.",
        "一些人用对全球化不再抱有幻想的体验作为回归保护主义和强力控制国家边境的好日子的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, another reason for the war was America’s internal divisions over what it represents as a nation – its purpose and meaning to the rest of the world.",
        "事实上，伊拉克战争的另一个原因是美国内部就什么代表了一个国家——它的目的和对世界其他部分的意义——产生了分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "As a recent HSBC report points out, the reasons for China’s rapid accumulation of debt, which is concentrated in the corporate and local-government sectors, suggest that the situation is not nearly as dangerous as many are making it out to be.",
        "最新的汇丰银行报告指出，近期中国债务的迅速积累主要集中在公司和地方政府层面，整体情况并不像许多人所认为的那样危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Attack on Greek Democracy",
        "对希腊民主的欧洲打击"
    ],
    [
        "One school of thought maintains that the Cold War was won as a result of decades of sustained US and Western pressure on the Soviet Union and its allies.",
        "有一种思想流派认为冷战的胜利来源于美国和西方国家对苏联及其盟友长达几十年的压制。 这种压制在各个时期分别不同的形式呈现——比如美英法三国的核计划；"
    ],
    [
        "If ITER could really solve the planet’s energy problem, €10 billion would be a negligible investment – less than the net profit of the oil company TOTAL (€13 billion in 2006) and equivalent to ten days of waging the war in Iraq.",
        "如果国际核聚变实验堆真的能够解决地球的能源问题，那么100亿欧元的投资完全可以忽略不计。 它比石油公司总的净利润（2006年是130亿欧元）要少得多，并且不过与伊拉克战争10天的开销相等。"
    ],
    [
        "But now, just six months later, the promise of education for all refugees is about to be broken, dashing the hopes of millions of Syrians.",
        "但如今，仅仅六个月后，所有难民接受教育的承诺眼看就要破产，击碎数百万叙利亚人的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "The first component of the bet – more inclusive global growth – anticipates continued economic recovery in the United States, with a 3% growth rate this year bolstered by robust wage growth.",
        "这一赌注的第一项——更包容的全球增长——认为美国经济将持续复苏，强健的工资增长将让今年的增长率达到3%。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – While virtually every country in the world is trying to boost growth, China’s government is trying to slow it down to a sustainable level.",
        "美国剑桥—全世界几乎所有国家都在试图提振增长，而中国却在试图让经济减速至可持续水平。"
    ],
    [
        "So at the heart of a great country’s power is its economic might, both aggregate and in terms of the prosperity of its individual citizens.",
        "因此一个伟大国家力量的核心是其经济实力，无论体现在经济总量还是民众的个人繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Relative to Germany, Italy became a whopping 42% more expensive.",
        "相对德国，意大利变贵幅度达到了惊人的42%。"
    ],
    [
        "When people are hungry, deprived of basic needs such as clean water, health care, and education, and without meaningful employment, they suffer.",
        "当人们饿着肚子、被剥夺净水、医疗和教育等基本需求，而且找不到有意义的工作时，他们一定不好过。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems to mark humanity’s retreat into infantilism.",
        "这似乎意味着人类向幼稚的退步。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s relative rise did not diminish the dollar’s role – and may even have enhanced it.",
        "中国的相对崛起不但未影响，甚至强化了美元的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, many Europeans’ views toward the EU actually improved in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum.",
        "幸运的是，许多欧洲人对欧盟的看法事实上在英国退欧公投后有改善的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Regional deals, such as the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the US, Mexico, and Canada, are a “total disaster” that have tied America’s hands.",
        "美国、墨西哥和加拿大等国签订的1994年北美自由贸易协定（NAFTA）等地区协定是一场“彻头彻尾的灾难”，彻底缚住了美国的手脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Now Muslim refugees and survivors of other wars, having found no refuge in Eastern Europe, also are fleeing to safety among the Germans.",
        "如今，穆斯林难民和其他战争的幸存者在东欧难觅避难所，也逃往德国人中间寻找安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the team that will oversee that process has yet to be selected; like other appointees, its members could well face long vetting processes and, in some cases, confirmation challenges in the Senate.",
        "此外，负责这一过程的团队还没有选定； 与其他任命一样，该团队成员很可能将面临漫长的审查过程，有的还会遭到参议院确认过程的刁难。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to his campaign promises during his run for a fifth term as President, Mubarak has requested (and his rubber-stamp parliament has granted) a two-year extension of the Emergency Law by which Egypt has been ruled throughout his presidency.",
        "穆巴拉克没有遵守竞选第5任总统时许下的诺言，要求把紧急状态法再延长两年。 在穆巴拉克执政期间，埃及一直受到紧急状态法的统治。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the social unrest that often accompanies economic strife could cause countries to fragment into smaller units that fight one another over values or resources.",
        "此外，往往伴随经济冲突出现的社会动荡，可能导致国家分裂为更小的区域，并且彼此之间就价值或资源展开博弈。"
    ],
    [
        "This observation is as true about an individual as it is about a place, whether the place is a neighborhood, a town, a state or province, or a country.",
        "这项原则既适用于人也适用于特定地域，无论该地域是社区、城镇、州、省、还是国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Europe does stand to reap significant benefits from fiscal consolidation and structural reform – but in the long run, not in the short run, when the problem is deflation.",
        "事实上，欧洲确实可以从财政整合和机构改革中获益良多——但是在长期，而不是在面临内通缩问题的短期。"
    ],
    [
        "Absent a foreign bailout, no other solution was on offer.",
        "如果没有外国援助，就不会有其他解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Firewalls to Freedom",
        "自由防火墙"
    ],
    [
        "Consider a developing country that has free and preferential market access to its largest neighbor, which also happens to be the world’s most powerful economy.",
        "假设一个发展中国家拥有对其最大邻国的自由和特惠市场准入，而这个邻国碰巧又是世界上最强大的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The view walking – in sweltering heat – through that long cage is apocalyptic.",
        "在酷暑中走过那条狭长的铁笼通道感觉如同经历了世界末日一般。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, as confident as they may be using technology, too many children have no idea how it all works.",
        "但尽管他们对自身使用技术的能力信心满满，但太多孩子根本不懂得技术原理。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, an important legacy of the earlier system has remained: each of the regional banks maintains its own research department, and brings a different approach to the monetary-policy debate.",
        "然而，早期体系的一个重要遗产被保留了下来：每个区域的银行均保留自己的研究部门，并为货币政策辩论带来不同的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "A high priority of the 5% Agenda is to assist in updating the national and regional regulatory frameworks that guide institutional investment in Africa.",
        "5%议程行动的重要目标是协助升级国家和地区监管框架，从而引导非洲的机构投资。"
    ],
    [
        "A combination of deep recession, global economic dislocations, and effective nationalization of large swathes of the financial sector in the world’s advanced economies has deeply unsettled the balance between markets and states.",
        "严重的衰退、全球经济脱节以及世界上发达经济体金融部门实质上大量国有化已经深深地破坏了市场和国家之间的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "In times of elevated risk, real or perceived, people begin to organize increasingly on the basis of homogenous identities.",
        "在真实或臆想的危险环境里，人们借助同质化身份进行组织的倾向性越来越强。"
    ],
    [
        "The negative income tax may be the best way possible to achieve simplicity, inclusiveness, and moderate taxpayer cost.",
        "负所得税也许是实现简化、包容并不给纳税人造成沉重负担的最佳办法。"
    ],
    [
        "And what next for the ECB, which has just nudged up interest rates by 0.25%, after 30 months on hold.",
        "欧洲中央银行在30个月纹丝不动后新近将利率提升0. 25％。"
    ],
    [
        "Though originally intended to expire after ten years, the reservations have been extended for 70, with further extensions certain when they come up for renewal in 2020.",
        "保留席位的做法最初计划十年后就取消，但现已延长到70年，在2020年截止期几乎肯定将再次延长。"
    ],
    [
        "The price of capital equipment, particularly ICT equipment and software, has declined sharply since the 1980s, even as quality has improved.",
        "资本设备价格，尤其是信息通信技术设备和软件价格从20世纪80年代后一直急速下降，虽然在同一时期质量其实有所提升。"
    ],
    [
        "And it has helped governments to supervise and regulate cooperative financial institutions.",
        "同时它也能协助政府监督管理合作金融组织。"
    ],
    [
        "While peak oil theorists have strong views about that, they do not allow for all the current and future technological possibilities that might increase resources.",
        "然而当“石油顶峰论”者们对自己的观点自信满满之时，他们却没有考虑到任何目前或者未来在技术上提高资源量的技术可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, these debts will become unsustainable.",
        "最终，这些债务将无法持续。"
    ],
    [
        "In any two-party system as polarized and closely balanced as the current US electoral system, a single crisis, such as a terrorist attack, could tip the balance.",
        "在像现行美国选举制度这样极化且弱平衡的两党体制下，像恐怖袭击这样的一次性危机就可以轻易将平衡打破。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe’s visit to the US comes at a time when friction between the two countries is at an all-time low.",
        "安倍的美国之旅恰逢两国历史上摩擦最小的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "(They even disagree on whether it was first directed at preachers or at newsmen).",
        "（他们甚至无法确定这句话最早是用来形容牧师还是新闻记者）。"
    ],
    [
        "(Full disclosure: I was a member of that government.)",
        "（充分披露：我是该政府成员。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, by emphasizing a regulatory fix, and thereby keeping its benchmark policy rate well above the dreaded zero bound, the PBOC is actually better positioned than other central banks to maintain control over monetary policy and not become ensnared in the open-ended provision of liquidity that is so addictive for frothy markets.",
        "最后，中国人民银行强调监管措施，其基准政策利率仍稳稳地保持在可怕的零区间上方，因此它实际上比其他央行都更能够保持货币政策控制力，不会沦为泡沫市场严重倚赖的无限期流动性提供者。"
    ],
    [
        "With such expectations, consumers have no reason to put off purchases.",
        "在这样的预期之下，消费者没理由会停止采购。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring adequate institutional capacity is essential to prevent private and political interests from shaping policy, as occurred in the 1950s and 1960s.",
        "为防止私人利益和政治利益像在上世纪50、60年代那样主导政策走向，就必须确保有足够的机构实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Once this is achieved, the marginal cost of the hardware is relatively low (and declines as scale rises), and the marginal cost of replicating the software is essentially zero.",
        "一旦完成了这一过程，硬件的边际成本便相对较小（并且随着规模的增加而降低），而复制软件的边际成本则接近于零。"
    ],
    [
        "They feel unsafe on poorly-lit streets, and have little access to parks or recreational facilities.",
        "他们居住的街道照明不足，缺乏安全感，也没有公园或锻炼设施。"
    ],
    [
        "MOSCOW – The challenges facing civil-society organizations are greater in Russia than in many parts of the world, but the challenges facing civil society itself are similar everywhere.",
        "莫斯科——俄罗斯的民间团体机构面对着比世界其他国家更多的挑战，而全世界民间团体所面临的挑战有很多相似之处。"
    ],
    [
        "We see two components to such a strategy.",
        "我们认为，这个战略由两个部分组成。"
    ],
    [
        "What if private debt represented a share so small that no haircut would restore sustainability, forcing multilateral lenders to pitch in with some debt relief?",
        "如果私人债务的比例是如此之低，以至于损失再大也无法重塑可持续性，逼迫多边贷款人接受某种程度的债务豁免会怎么样？"
    ],
    [
        "But in that effort, India must contend with its neighbor, China, which speaks with a louder voice and carries a larger stick.",
        "如果是这样的话，印度必须和他的邻居中国展开竞争。 后者目前在非洲更有实力和更有发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "But the MIP, even if it is in the spirit of Keynes’s proposal for an International Clearing Union, lacks two essential mechanisms.",
        "但虽然MIP的精神与凯恩斯的国际清算联盟方案一致，它缺少两个关键机制。"
    ],
    [
        "First, on the question of whether or not to pass this tax bill, Summers and Furman, like those of us they are criticizing, have enough experience in policymaking to know that the end product usually diverges from what economists would consider ideal.",
        "首先，关于是否通过这项税收法案的问题，萨默斯和弗尔曼就跟被他们批评的我们一样在政策制定方面有足够的经验，都知道最终产物通常会偏离经济学家的理想模型。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is a good thing that the official sector is paying more attention to joblessness – a very good thing.",
        "官员阶层更重视解决失业问题是一件好事。"
    ],
    [
        "Happy transitions, to paraphrase Tolstoy, are all alike; but every unhappy transition is unhappy in its own way.",
        "用托尔斯泰的话来说，愉快的转变都是大同小异的；"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – For some time now, a certain strategic vision has been gaining traction: the United States is becoming energy-independent, paving the way for its political retreat from the Middle East and justifying its strategic “pivot” toward Asia.",
        "巴黎—不久前，一种战略观点开始流行：美国这在变得能源独立，为其从中东的战略和撤退扫清道路，也为其战略“支点”移向亚洲造势。 乍一看，这一观点无比正确。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, that is what a model with a very restricted class of rational expectations would predict.",
        "毕竟，这是极其严格的理性预期模型所预言的。"
    ],
    [
        "People of good will throughout the world, including those affiliated with multilateral organizations like the UN, should descend on Zimbabwe to observe this month’s elections.",
        "全世界有良好意愿的人，包括那些在像联合国这样的多边组织工作的人，应该亲临津巴布韦观察这个月的大选。"
    ],
    [
        "In many rich OECD countries, the financial crisis and recession have made government intervention popular again.",
        "在大多数富裕的经合组织国家，经济危机和衰退使政府再次介入民间事务。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way to stop illicit markets is to create legal ones.",
        "阻止地下违法市场的唯一途径就是建立合法市场。"
    ],
    [
        "And in the first decade of this century, it fell still more, to around 55,000 a year – the lowest rate in any decade in the previous 100 years and equivalent to just over 1,000 a year for the “average armed conflict.”",
        "而在21世纪第一个十年，这一数字继续下降至每年大约55,000人——比此前100年中的任何一个十年都要低，相当于“平均武装冲突”每年只有略多于1,000。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar criteria could shape municipalities’ food policies, too.",
        "类似的标准也可以影响大都市的食品政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, however, we will have to answer the broader question that the eurozone’s various debt crises have raised: Is the social value of making finance cheap worth the days of reckoning for stricken debtors?",
        "但在长期看来，我们必须对欧元区一连串债务危机所引发的问题作出回应：如今借款人所遭受的末日审判般的苦痛，相对于用降低金融服务成本所创造的社会价值来说究竟是亏了，还是赚了？"
    ],
    [
        "Having initially been seduced by the idea that the IPL showcased the alluring face of a brave new entrepreneurial India, I am reluctant to embrace the opposite view instantly.",
        "我一开始也沉迷于IPL堪为勇敢的充满企业家精神的新印度的象征的观点，不愿立刻接受相反的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane risks opening a new front in the violence engulfing Syria, thereby dashing the hopes for a rapprochement between Russia and the West that had arisen in the wake of the Paris massacre.",
        "马德里——土耳其击落俄罗斯战机有可能在席卷叙利亚的暴力战争中开创新战线，并导致巴黎大屠杀后俄罗斯和西方国家间修好的希望破灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Other important outcomes are not included in these calculations.",
        "除此之外还有其他重要结果。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s world of global monetary interdependence, the rule of the game is that every currency union should pursue its own price stability.",
        "在全球货币互相依存的当今世界，游戏规则是每一个货币联盟都必须追求其自身的物价稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "On the consumer side, this is quite understandable.",
        "在消费者方面，这是不难理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "Prudence does not mean that nothing can be done in Syria.",
        "但谨慎并不意味着在叙利亚问题上无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, England is probably the most politically centralized economy in the OECD – a reality that probably contributes to its deep regional imbalances.",
        "毕竟，英格兰也许是经合组织中政治最集中化的经济体——其深刻的地区失衡可能就源于这一事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Science is increasingly used to support what are essentially public-policy decisions, particularly concerning new and complex technologies like genetically modified (GM) foods, novel chemicals, and contending energy infrastructures.",
        "科学正日益被用于佐证相关公共政策决策，尤其是在那些涉及到类似基因改造，新型化合物以及能源基础设施这类复杂新技术的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "The economist David Ricardo pointed out in 1817 that both Great Britain and Portugal would benefit if they exploited their comparative advantages.",
        "经济学家David Ricardo在1817年就指出如果英国和葡萄牙都能发挥各自的比较优势，那么这对双方都会是有利的。"
    ],
    [
        "But delaying the debt reckoning for too long would undermine confidence in the US government’s capacity for fiscal discipline.",
        "但将债务清算推迟过长时间会侵蚀人们对美国政府财政纪律执行力的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is a sufficiently open organization that it can and must be responsive to its critics.",
        "但IMF足够开放，它能够也必须对其批评做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, while malaria killed more than 400,000 people last year, insecticidal nets to guard against malaria-carrying mosquitoes are effective for two to three years, and cost less than $10 to manufacture and distribute.",
        "比如，去年有400,000多人死于疟疾，用于对付携带疟疾的蚊虫的驱虫蚊帐有效期高达两到三年，而其制造和销售成本还不到10美元。"
    ],
    [
        "These and other coastal ecosystems are the first line of defense for many cities around the world, from Miami to Manila.",
        "这些和其他海岸生态系统是保卫环球诸多城市的第一道屏障，从迈阿密到马尼拉莫不如是。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, that is the key to understanding not only the vote count, but also Israeli public opinion, the next government, and its policies.",
        "事实上，这不仅是解释票数多寡的钥匙，也是理解以色列公众舆论、下届政府及其政策的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since, the international financial system has endured almost constant instability.",
        "自那以后，国际金融体系就几乎一直承受着长期动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Our boys may not win in South Africa, but maybe The Grannies can show how it is done.",
        "我猜如果非洲的那帮壮汉不能在南非取得胜利的话，或许这帮奶奶们会乐意去给他们做一个示范的。"
    ],
    [
        "What remains to be seen is how China’s relationship with the US fares.",
        "而有待观察的是中美关系的走向。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, giving people monetary incentives may work in market-like situations.",
        "特别是，给人们货币激励在类似于市场的情景中有用。"
    ],
    [
        "The refugee population alone now numbers in the millions, and is straining health-care systems in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey nearly to the breaking point.",
        "光是难民人口目前就已经达到数百万，约旦、黎巴嫩和土耳其的医疗体系因此捉襟见肘，已经濒临崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Many people will have to shift from controlling design to offering better services to make money, or perhaps band together under a particular brand known for some other quality.",
        "许多人将不得不从控制设计以提供更好的服务转向，或者集中于某个以其他品质闻名的品牌之下。"
    ],
    [
        "But Liang did not commit to such a formal arrangement.",
        "但梁光烈并未就此事承诺任何正式安排。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the new Commissioners will include three former prime ministers, five former foreign ministers, and three former finance ministers - all heavyweight people with big political agendas at home.",
        "新任执委中有3位前任总理、5位前任外长和3位前任财长¾他们都是手握各自国内统筹大权的重量级人物。"
    ],
    [
        "But the time will come when the banks will want to use their excess reserves to support more profitable lending.",
        "但总有一天银行会希望将超额准备金用于支持利润更丰厚的借贷活动。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, the US sells mainly defensive weapons systems to India, while Russia, for example, offers India offensive weapons, including strategic bombers, an aircraft carrier, and a lease on a nuclear submarine.",
        "可以这样说，美国主要向印度出售防御性武器系统，而（比如）俄罗斯向印度提供进攻性武器，包括战略轰炸机、航空母舰和核潜艇租赁。"
    ],
    [
        "Asked about Moscow’s plans for a statue of Stalin, he pointed to Oliver Cromwell, the leader of the Parliamentarian side in the seventeenth-century English Civil War, and asked: “What’s the real difference between Cromwell and Stalin?”",
        "在被问及莫斯科修建斯大林像的问题时，他搬出十七世纪英国内战议会派领袖克伦威尔，反问：“克伦威尔和斯大林的真正区别在哪里？"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that providers of all long-term financial products, particularly life insurance and pensions, have no choice these days but to streamline their offerings, including a reduction of those that still provide longer-term guarantees to clients looking for greater financial security.",
        "事实上，所有长期金融产品，特别是寿险和退休金的提供者，如今都别无选择，只能简化产品，包括减少哪些仍然为寻求更大金融安全的客户提供长期保证的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Delivering the same result therefore takes more time, and requires keeping countries in intensive care for longer – and at higher cost.",
        "因此，达到相同效果要耗费更长时间，也要求各国做好准备接受更长时间和更高成本。"
    ],
    [
        "These stores solve a psychological problem for us, too, since one can shop at length – a pleasure that may well be hard-wired in the female brain, owing to our evolutionary development as gatherers – without feeling sick about one’s overspending by the end of the exercise.",
        "这些商店同时还缓解了我们的某种精神困扰，由于女性是作为采集者而进化的，因此这种大肆购物的行为可以在女性脑部形成持续的快感——而且无需为行为过后的超支而感到沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "If China delivers on each of these three fronts – as I suspect it will – private consumption’s share of Chinese GDP could rise by as much as five percentage points between now and 2015.",
        "中国因而急需重新调整其经济增长模式，如果西方消费水平依然不见增长，那么这个问题则更为突出。"
    ],
    [
        "America and the world are focused on whether the Bush administration will adopt the Iraq Study Group’s recommendations for an exit strategy from Iraq.",
        "美国和世界都在关注布什政府是否会按照伊拉克问题研究小组（Iraq Study Group）所建议的策略从伊拉克撤军。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, rejection of the EU Constitution is a sure way to kill European dynamism and weaken Europe’s ability to defend itself.",
        "事实上，反对欧盟宪法肯定会扼杀欧洲的繁荣，削弱欧洲保卫自身的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Eugene Garfield understood this.",
        "尤金·加菲尔德（Eugene Garfield）明白这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "This link is apparent in the fact that the majority of European jihadists come from underprivileged backgrounds.",
        "欧洲圣战者绝大多数来自底层证明了这种联系确实存在。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that policies aimed at ensuring an equitable outcome should rely on either owning or taxing the inputs that capture the “team surplus.”",
        "这意味着旨在确保平等结果的政策要么应该依赖于要么拥有获得“团队剩余”的投入，要么对这些投入征税。"
    ],
    [
        "In this disenchanted environment, dreams of utopia thrive.",
        "幻想破灭之中，乌托邦之梦日盛。"
    ],
    [
        "They are naturally treacherous, a fifth column, bent on world domination.",
        "他们天生狡诈，是第五纵队，觊觎统治世界。"
    ],
    [
        "In neglecting the necessary investments, the US has put itself on a precarious path, one that could lead to stagnation and decline, which would be difficult to reverse.",
        "美国由于忽视了必要的基础设施投资而走上了一条可能导致停滞和衰落的危险的道路，这条道路一旦走上就很难回头。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, during the refugee crisis, Orbán announced the end of the era of what he called “liberal blah blah” and predicted that Europe would come around to his “Christian and national” vision of politics.",
        "最近，在难民危机期间，欧班宣布了他所谓的“自由的种种”时代已经结束，并预言欧洲将向他的“基督和民主”政治愿景靠拢。"
    ],
    [
        "We should not underestimate the tremendous potential the sun and wind have for building global wealth and fighting poverty.",
        "我们不应低估太阳和风在打造全球财富和消除贫困方面的的巨大潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ecuador, President Rafael Correa has become increasingly authoritarian – recently amending the constitution to enable him to run for a fourth term – in response to the impact of the shrinking economy on popular support for his “dictatorship of the heart.”",
        "在厄瓜多尔，总统科雷拉变得日益极权——最近修改了宪法以使其能够第三次连任——以此来应对经济萎缩对其“人心专政”（dictatorship of the heart）的民众支持的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "After the September 11 attack in Benghazi, frustrated Libyans poured into the streets shouting anti-militia slogans.",
        "9月11日班加西袭击发生后，心灰意冷的利比亚民众涌上街头高呼反民兵口号。"
    ],
    [
        "To help limit yellow fever’s spread, international health regulations require that all travelers to the 34 countries where yellow fever is endemic present a vaccination certificate.",
        "为了帮助遏制黄热病传播，国际卫生监管当局要求前往34个出现黄热病传染疫情的国家的旅客提供接种证明。"
    ],
    [
        "Innovative high-tech companies would scramble to put their learning tools in front of the world’s children.",
        "创新高科技公司将争相推出学习工具供全世界儿童选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Why should it be considered witty to celebrate the uselessness of knowledge?",
        "为什么人们会把庆祝知识无用看作一种诙谐的态度？"
    ],
    [
        "In the original vision of central banking, price stability was not at all an obvious purpose, since the value of money was cast in terms of specific weights of precious metals.",
        "在过去30年里，达成了一项显著的共识，即央行的主要责任，如果不是唯一责任的话，是维持价格稳定。 自上个世纪90年代以来，根据通胀目标更加确切地定义价格稳定日益盛行。"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, markets’ role in shaping the economy must continue to grow.",
        "更宏观地说，市场在塑造经济中所扮演的作用必须继续增强。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe had no good options.",
        "安倍没有什么好选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1992 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, in particular, has helped to safeguard the rights of providers of genetic resources – such as (ideally) the farmers and indigenous people who have protected and nurtured valuable genes – by enshrining national sovereignty over biodiversity.",
        "特别是1992年联合国生物多样性公约将国家主权置于生物多样性之上，有助于保护基因资源提供者的权利——比如（在理想情况下）保护和培育了宝贵的遗传物质的农民和当地居民。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Arab Spring is aborted, the result will be not dictatorships that are loyal to the West, but rather, a tsunami of rage that will spare no one.",
        "如果阿拉伯之春夭折，那么结果产生的将不会是忠于西方的独裁体制，而是席卷所有人的愤怒风暴。"
    ],
    [
        "· Perhaps most importantly, repeated delays in removing the persistent impediments to growth and jobs means that some of them are becoming stubbornly embedded in the structure of the US economy – thus draining its dynamism and reducing its responsiveness.",
        "· 也许最重要的是，增长和就业的持久性障碍迟迟得不到消除意味着其中一些障碍已经深深嵌入了美国经济的结构之中，从而侵蚀了美国经济的活力和响应能力。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no factual basis for claiming that we have become unhappier roommates since the 1980s.",
        "认为20世纪80年代以来我们是越来越看不惯对方的室友是与事实不符的。"
    ],
    [
        "Factory farming spread because it seemed to be cheaper than more traditional methods.",
        "工厂式养殖迅速扩展是因为它似乎比传统方式更为廉价。"
    ],
    [
        "But, just as important, it will mark a crucial step forward in ensuring more inclusive refugee health.",
        "但同样重要的是，这也是通往确保更加包容性的难民健康的关键一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicization of the mosque has, sadly, also become the norm in Britain.",
        "不幸的是，在英国，清真寺的政治化已经是通常现象了。"
    ],
    [
        "Even its backers concede that achieving this target won’t be easy – and they are right.",
        "而即便是该方案的支持者也自知达到这个目标非常不易——他们是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "So, too, has President George W. Bush’s final visit to the Middle East.",
        "同样，乔治沃克·布什总统对中东最后一次访问也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "So there was a “deep conceptual issue” involved in New Keynesian analysis: its failure to explain how banks might come to “underprice risk worldwide,” as Alan Greenspan put it.",
        "所以在新凯恩斯主义分析中曾经出现了一个“深层次的概念问题”：它无力解释银行如何会像艾伦·格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan）所说的那样“全球一致地低估了风险”。"
    ],
    [
        "Commentators in the US and elsewhere have accused the Dutch of “unacceptable cowardice.”",
        "美国和其他地方的评论员们谴责荷兰是“无法接受的胆怯”。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s growth rate this year appears set to hit 6.7% – considerably higher than most forecasters have been expecting.",
        "今年中国经济增长率可能为6. 7%——比大部分预测家的预期显著更高。"
    ],
    [
        "It would reemerge continuously, despite heavy repression over short periods of times, raising the kinds of challenges that pose an existential threat to any non-democratic government.",
        "尽管可能在短期内遭到强力镇压，但民主运动将不断风起云涌，对任何不民主的政府构成事实上的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider regulation.",
        "以监管为例。"
    ],
    [
        "Rumsfeld’s mistrust of the European approach contains a grain of truth.",
        "拉氏对欧洲方式的不信任包含了真相本质。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Morales’s economic initiatives usually turn out to be empty, such as his deals with Venezuela for hydrocarbon supplies and with India for iron.",
        "事实上，莫拉莱斯的经济计划常常事后被证实空洞无物，这方面的例子有与委内瑞拉签订的碳氢化合物供应协议和与印度签订的铁矿石供应合同。"
    ],
    [
        "Why have these policies not worked thus far in bringing down unemployment, even though the growth recovery is well under way?",
        "这些政策为什么没能抑制失业，即使经济复苏已经开始？"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia’s Democratic Baby Step",
        "萨特阿拉伯的民主第一步"
    ],
    [
        "It is not only in central banking, of course, that we see the role of historical experience in shaping policymaking.",
        "当然，历史经验在塑造政策制定时起作用的例子并不局限于央行。"
    ],
    [
        "The inconsistencies between climate goals and energy policies are becoming increasingly stark.",
        "气候目标和能源政策之间的不一致正变得越来越尖锐。"
    ],
    [
        "The program was clearly meant to indoctrinate, not educate.",
        "这一计划的用意显然在于灌输思想而不是进行教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, as the credit crunch and housing price decline continue, an epic mortgage bailout appears increasingly likely, possibly costing US taxpayers a trillion dollars or more.",
        "相反，随着信贷危机和住宅价格滑落的不断持续，进行大规模抵押贷款援助似乎越来越不可避免，而这种选择或许会花掉美国纳税人上万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifty years ago, the rest of the world might have carried on with remedying the problem of conventional and greenhouse gas emissions and let China and the US stew in their own waste.",
        "五十年以前，世界上其他的国家也许会任由中美两国被它们排放的废物所吞没，而自行去解决传统和温室气体排放的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It is our task as citizens to demand that our national leaders uphold these principles, so that the agreements reached in Istanbul do not remain utopian wishes.",
        "作为公民，我们有义务要求国家领导人坚持上述原则，只有这样在伊斯坦布尔达成的协议才不会沦为一场乌托邦式的美梦。"
    ],
    [
        "Two goals by Mario Balotelli cinched the win for Italy – and propelled Balotelli to superstar status.",
        "马里奥·巴洛特利的两粒进球为意大利锁定了胜利——同时也造就了巴洛特利的超级巨星生涯。"
    ],
    [
        "The discovery of gold in California in the mid-nineteenth century, and in Alaska, South Africa, and Australia 50 years later, also produced mild inflation, while the absence of such new discoveries in the 1870’s and 1880’s led to mild deflation.",
        "19世纪中期加州黄金储藏的发现，以及50年后阿拉斯加、南非以及澳大利亚黄金储藏的发现，也导致了温和的通胀，而在19世纪70年代和19世纪80年代，这样的发现的缺乏却导致了温和的通缩。"
    ],
    [
        "China has spearheaded the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.",
        "中国身先士卒，建立了亚洲基础设施投资银行。"
    ],
    [
        "The late British Prime Minister Harold Wilson used to quip that “a week is a long time in politics.”",
        "前英国首相哈罗德·威尔逊曾经说过，“从政治角度讲一个星期称得上是漫长的时光”。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 1990’s, many adult psychotherapy patients began to recall having been sexually abused during childhood.",
        "在1990年代，许多接受精神疗法的成年病人开始回忆起在童年时遭受性虐待的经历。"
    ],
    [
        "It is possible that the new economic and political context will lead Iran’s rulers to accept what they have rebuffed until now.",
        "也许新的经济和政治环境会让伊朗统治者接受他们一直以来断然拒绝的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "TEL AVIV – A drone recently penetrated Israel’s airspace from the Mediterranean.",
        "特拉维夫—最近一架无人机从地中海进入以色列领空。"
    ],
    [
        "Middle East Integration",
        "中东整合"
    ],
    [
        "The world, including the United States, disapproves of the Israeli settlements.",
        "全世界，包括美国在内，都不赞成以色列修建定居点的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, any real changes affecting the status of Jerusalem, the Golan Heights or West Bank settlements are a long way off.",
        "所以，期待发生真正的改变来影响耶路撒冷、戈兰高地或西岸定居点的局势，可谓是长路漫漫。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – In today’s global financial crisis, the image of a black swan has become a symbol for the seemingly impossible that somehow occurs, turning the world upside down.",
        "柏林 ——在当今全球金融危机的背景下，黑天鹅的形象已经成为表面看似不可能的事情但不知何故而发生，最终导致世界起伏跌宕的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, President Barack Obama does not have enough time left in office to launch the time-consuming education and outreach campaign needed before bringing the CTBT to the Senate for another vote.",
        "不幸的是，总统奥巴马剩下的任期不足以启动让参议院重新对CTBT投票所需要进行的费时的教育和宣传运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, creating new software is costly.",
        "当然，编写新软件耗资巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "The US went to war in Iraq on the basis of Bush’s gut instincts and religious convictions, not rigorous evidence.",
        "美国向伊拉克宣战，是基于布什的主观直觉和宗教信仰，而不是严密的事实证据之上的。"
    ],
    [
        "So do circumstances in Germany.",
        "德国的情况也差不多。"
    ],
    [
        "“She” loves him, too – as well as 640 more of the 8,316 people with whom she works.",
        "而“她”也爱他——同时也爱着与其打交道的另外8316个人中的640个。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, finding ways to boost demand is key to facilitating structural reform in the relevant economies.",
        "基于此，找出提振需求之道对于促进重要经济体的结构改革来说是关键。"
    ],
    [
        "If Europe does not change its ways – if it does not reform the eurozone and repeal austerity – a popular backlash will become inevitable. Greece may stay the course this time.",
        "如果欧洲不改变它的道路——如果它不改革欧元区并撤销紧缩——就难免会遭遇群众抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "But individually, a number of European countries – Spain, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Romania, Slovakia, and Austria – are skeptical or negative toward Kosovo independence, which raises profound questions about the EU’s resolve.",
        "但是就个别国家而言，即西班牙、希腊、意大利、塞浦路斯、罗马尼亚、斯洛伐克以及奥地利等几个国家对于科索沃独立表示怀疑或者反对。 这一情况就对欧盟的决心提出了深刻疑问。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon nations will colonize the moon, giving rise to the same unsatisfactory and tentative situation we have in Antarctica, where nations essentially take without legally owning.",
        "不久以后，许多国家都会去占领月球，从而引发我们在南极洲所碰到的同样令人不快的暂时性的状况：即各个国家在未合法拥有的情况下悍然撷取其中的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "They intend to export oil embedded in other products, such as petrochemicals, plastic, aluminum, etc.",
        "他们试图通过转化为其它产品——石油化工产品，塑料，铝等等——的方式来出口石油。"
    ],
    [
        "His proprietorship provides Thais with a direct connection to an elite team in the world’s most popular sport.",
        "他信拥有球队让泰国人与世界上最为流行的运动的顶级球队直接联系起来。"
    ],
    [
        "What, then, does Buffett’s life tell us about the nature of happiness?",
        "那么，巴菲特的人生告诉了我们有关幸福本质的什么内容呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, one might just as well set the accident in the sixteenth century, when the Habsburg Emperor hung on to the Southern Netherlands (today’s Belgium) while the Protestant northern provinces broke away.",
        "实际上，这一事件也可以发生在十六世纪。 当时，哈布斯堡皇帝维持荷兰南部的统治(也就是今天的比利时)，而信奉新教的北部省份则独立出去。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the most mobile populations of the twenty-first century are helping their countries of origin obtain access to markets, technology, and a political voice in the world.",
        "同样，21世纪最具流动性的人口正在帮助其原籍国获得市场、技术和世界政治领域的发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "It was expected that full integration of product and financial markets would expose inefficiencies, steering investment flows away from laggards towards the more efficient countries.",
        "人们曾经希望产品和金融市场的彻底融合会暴露哪些低效行业，把资金流从发展迟缓的国家转移到更加高效的使用者。"
    ],
    [
        "The basic pillar of ocean governance, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, was established 30 years ago.",
        "海洋治理的主要支柱——联合国海洋法公约（United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea）——是30年前的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "But these arguments merely underscore a double standard.",
        "但这些论据只不过体现了他们的双重标准。"
    ],
    [
        "With that struggle, in which most of the region’s regimes have exhausted their already-limited stores of legitimacy, a century-old regional order is collapsing.",
        "随着这场耗尽多数政权本就有限的合法性的地区冲突，拥有百年历史的地区秩序顷刻间土崩瓦解。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) inherited an economy that was rebounding from a deep financial crisis and had substantial growth potential, owing to ongoing urbanization and gains in the population’s educational level.",
        "埃尔多安的正义与发展党（AKP）接手的经济从深度金融危机中反弹，拜持续的城市化和人口教育水平提高所赐，土耳其经济具有巨大的增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, according to a recent report by researchers at New York University School of Law and Stanford Law School, the people in the areas targeted by the drone campaign are being systematically terrorized.",
        "事实上，按照纽约大学法学院和斯坦福大学法学院研究员在近期报告中的说法，在无人机目标区域生活的民众出现全面的恐怖化。"
    ],
    [
        "Rural people, grateful for his largesse, voted for him twice.",
        "受到恩惠的农民们感激于他的慷慨，两次将他推向总理宝座。"
    ],
    [
        "But, rather than weakness, what America’s traditional allies in the Middle East fear most is far-reaching change in the status quo.",
        "但最让美国在中东的传统盟友害怕的却并非软弱，而是当前现状发生意义深远的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the most modern and advanced conventional coal-fired power plants emit over 15 times more CO2 per unit of electricity than renewable energy systems, and more than twice the amount of efficient gas-fired power stations.",
        "即使是最现代、最先进的传统煤电厂，每单位电量二氧化碳排放量也高达可再生能源系统的15倍、高效燃气电厂的两倍多。"
    ],
    [
        "In every case, it will require African policymakers to start recognizing women farmers as the essential economic partners that they are.",
        "无论如何，非洲决策者都需要开始认识到女性农民是至关重要的经济伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these changes will profoundly affect the future of consumer markets.",
        "所有这些变革将深刻影响消费市场的未来走向。"
    ],
    [
        "Many claimed that the treaty would depress wages, destroy jobs, and ravage the agricultural industry in the US.",
        "许多人称该条约会压低工资、破坏就业岗位、摧毁美国的农业。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the Russians may be willing to accept this framing, because it avoids finger-pointing against particular actors and affirms that a court of law – not a series of media statements – will determine what occurred and who is responsible.",
        "就连俄国人都有可能愿意接受这一框架，因为这样做避免了指责特定人员，并确保将由法院而不是媒体来决定事实真相和责任者。"
    ],
    [
        "English society was redefined as a “nation” – that is, a sovereign community of equal members.",
        "英国社会被重新定义为“国家”——也就是由平等成员构成的主权社会。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s growth – and, more generally, that of the major emerging economies – provides a substantial potential tailwind.",
        "中国的增长——从更大的角度讲，是主要新兴经济体的增长——可助美国一臂之力。"
    ],
    [
        "But will the 2010 World Cup bring African women more than just fodder for gossip?",
        "但2101年世界杯除了给女性们带来了谈资之外，是否能产生更深远的影响？"
    ],
    [
        "With the US project in ruins, a credible European policy to delegitimize war and support democratization in its neighborhood has become essential.",
        "在美国的计划彻底失败的情况下，一项以取消战争的合法性和支持邻近地区民主化为目的的可信的欧洲政策就变得至关重要了。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also represents a profound opportunity to create the underpinnings of a more sustainable future.",
        "但它也是打好更加可持续的未来的基础的重要机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Life expectancy has increased.",
        "平均寿命有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "This is of vital importance, especially in light of the fact that Asia’s populations are still booming: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh will see an increase in the next fifteen years from 1.4 billion to 1.73 billion inhabitants, while China’s population will grow from 1.3 billion to 1.42 billion.",
        "这点极为重要，尤其在持续增长的亚洲人口问题方面。 在下一个15年中，印度、巴基斯坦和孟加拉国的居住人口将从14亿增长到17."
    ],
    [
        "Of course, to some degree, Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents benefit from Israel’s advanced social-security and health-care systems, the likes of which their brethren in the Palestinian Authority can only imagine.",
        "当然，从某种程度上说，耶路撒冷的巴勒斯坦居民从以色列的先进社会安全和医疗系统中获益，这些东西对于巴勒斯坦权力机构来说是不可想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "Speculators could have “front run” the bank in the markets, selling short, driving equity prices down, and forcing the French financial institution to sell into a bottomless pit.",
        "投机者们就会在市场上先下手为强，进行卖空，把资产价格压低，并且迫使法国金融机构挥泪抛售。"
    ],
    [
        "Most lawyers and judges never enter a criminal court.",
        "多数律师和法官从未踏入刑事法庭半步。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, both factors may be at work.",
        "事实上，也许两个因素都在起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Most families owned a house, so they were automatically participating in the boom.",
        "大部分家庭都拥有房子，因此自动地参与了繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "The missionary ethos of American civilization helps to explain its conduct as a global power.",
        "美国文明中的传教士精神有助于解释它身为全球超级大国的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "These acts need to be called by their true names – war crimes and sex crimes – and people in America need to demand justice for the perpetrators and their victims.",
        "这些行为应被叫它们真正的名字－战争犯罪和性犯罪－在美国的人们应该使罪犯受到审判，为受害者主持正义。"
    ],
    [
        "As a starting point, we must recognize the fundamental imbalance in the global environmental equation.",
        "首先，我们必须承认全球环境状况根本性的不平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Rudyard Kipling’s old “Great Game” now has new contestants.",
        "由此可见，英国作家鲁德亚德·吉卜林所谓的“大博弈”如今有了新的参与者。"
    ],
    [
        "Although this is hardly an exclusively Japanese phenomenon, the narrowness of the political elite has made the problem more acute than elsewhere.",
        "虽然这种现象并不仅限于日本，但政治精英阶层的狭隘性确实令该国所面临的问题比其他地方更加尖锐。"
    ],
    [
        "Arrests were made and several people received prison sentences.",
        "数人被捉拿归案并锒铛入狱。"
    ],
    [
        "Other constraints loom as well.",
        "其他的制约也隐约可见。"
    ],
    [
        "To reduce reliance on borrowing for consumption and the vagaries of FDI inflows, the region’s domestic saving rates must be raised once demand picks up.",
        "为了减少对消费借贷和高波动的FDI流入的依赖性，中东欧地区必须在需求增加时提高国内储蓄率。"
    ],
    [
        "But what seems clear is that the ECB used the October press conference to warn politicians, trade unions, and the markets that its long period of monetary-policy inactivity is coming to an end.",
        "但可以确定的是欧洲央行利用10月的新闻发布会来警告政治家、工会还有市场，宣布长期以来的消极货币政策已经走到了尽头。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s leaders must make tough decisions in order to resolve the euro crisis and revive growth.",
        "欧洲领导人必须做出艰难决定，以解决欧元危机、重振增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Large African (excluding South African) firms’ average annual revenue of $2 billion is half that of large firms in Brazil, India, Mexico, and Russia.",
        "大型非洲企业（除南非外）20亿美元的平均年收入仅为巴西、印度、墨西哥和俄罗斯等国的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "It continued last fall with the wave of violence in the suburbs.",
        "去年秋天，法国郊区发生暴力浪潮。"
    ],
    [
        "This was a long, difficult process; but German society, mindful of its historical misdeeds, has become capable of confronting moral and political challenges of the type posed by the influx of refugees today.",
        "这是一个漫长的艰难过程，但德国社会铭记着它的历史错误，因此如今有能力面对大量难民涌入所带来的道德和政治挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The current-account surplus – the most telling symptom of an undervalued currency – has narrowed from a record 10.1% of GDP in 2007 to just 2.1% in 2013.",
        "经常项目盈余——货币低估最具说服力的现象——从2007年占GDP的10. 1%（最高纪录）下降至2013年的2."
    ],
    [
        "Obama may be the leader who envisaged a premier role for the G-20; but the United States has displayed a distinct aversion to allowing emerging powers to exert the influence over multilateral institutions that their increased economic weight warrants and demands.",
        "但美国显然极不情愿允许新兴力量影响力进入多边机构。 新兴大国不断增长的经济分量让它们提出了新的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "What was the meaning of this moment of grace?",
        "这一优美时刻有着什么意义？"
    ],
    [
        "This organization should also have authority to create conditions for greater transparency, and to implement better early-warning systems and instruments for crisis management.",
        "这个世界金融组织也应该拥有创设更大透明度的条件以及为了风险管理而实施更好的预警机制和工具的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "But why is this a bad thing?",
        "但是这为何不是好事呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Shevardnadze, too, was initially viewed as a symbol of post-Soviet Georgian democracy.",
        "谢瓦尔德纳泽一度也曾被看作后苏联时代格鲁吉亚民主的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the move toward open data serves a variety of socially desirable ends, ranging from the reuse of publicly funded research to support work on poverty, inclusion, or discrimination, to the disclosure by corporations such as Nike of their supply-chain data and environmental impact.",
        "最后，开放数据运动能促进很多有利于社会的事物，如公共融资研究的再利用以支持贫困、包容和歧视方面的工作以及耐克等公司披露供应链数据和环境影响等。"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming that a plan passes muster, the money to support it would quickly be disbursed.",
        "如果计划通过了检验，支持计划的资金将迅速拨付到位。"
    ],
    [
        "Key countries must find the political will to confront defensive interests and negotiate with flexibility to reach a market-opening deal.",
        "举足轻重的成员国必须有对抗保守利益的政治意愿，并在谈判中有足够的灵活性以达成一个开放市场的协议。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, it pioneered the use of mobile-phone technology in health care, and championed the provision of cash (or income-generating assets) to those in extreme poverty.",
        "例如，它率先在医疗保健中使用移动电话技术，并倡导将现金（或能带来收入的资产）提供给极端贫困的民众。"
    ],
    [
        "Even banks are beleaguered.",
        "就连银行也是压力重重。"
    ],
    [
        "The American Academy of Pediatrics recently warned that TV viewing by young children is dangerous for their brain development, and called on parents to keep children under two away from the TV and similar media.",
        "美国儿科学会最近发出警告说，电视节目有害于少年儿童大脑的发展，并呼吁父母们要让他们的孩子远离电视和类似媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be true, but the status of women is clearly one issue that puts non-Western Muslims into opposition to the West.",
        "这种说法不无道理，但是妇女的地位问题明显把非西方的穆斯林与西方世界对立起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a short while ago, she was celebrated as “Ms. Europe”; now, she increasingly gives the impression of being Frau Germania.",
        "前一阵儿她还被誉为“欧洲夫人”，现如今，她变得越来越像一个德国妇女。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Federal Reserve exemplifies this policy dilemma.",
        "美联储是这一政策两难的写照。"
    ],
    [
        "As Greenspan tells it, the “rougher edges” of creative destruction were legislated away by Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, but after the wave of de-regulation of the 1970’s, America recovered much of its entrepreneurial, risk-taking ethos.",
        "格林斯潘说，罗斯福总统的新政通过立法形式把创新性破坏的“残酷无情的一面”软化了，但是在二十世纪七十年代破除监管的浪潮之后，美国创业和勇于冒险的民族精神大体上得到了恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the studies cited by the USPSTF, one, conducted in Europe, showed a minor benefit in a subset of men, with no significant quality-of-life improvement.",
        "USPSTF所引用的研究中包括一项来自欧洲的研究，该研究表，有一个子类的人获得了微弱的生存优势，但生命质量并未显著改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Drone Wars",
        "无人机战争"
    ],
    [
        "The UN Secretary General led a steering group last year that determined that African agriculture needs around $8 billion per year in donor financing – roughly four times the current total – with a heavy emphasis on improved seeds, fertilizer, irrigation systems, and extension training.",
        "联合国秘书长领导的一个指导小组去年得出的结论是非洲农业每年需要约八十亿的捐助融资—大约是现有规模的四倍—而重中之重是改良的种子、化肥、灌溉系统和延伸培训。"
    ],
    [
        "If Chinese consumption growth were to continue on its modest upward trajectory until 2020, it would account for just over 41.5% of GDP, which is to say, almost another $2 trillion.",
        "如果中国的消费增长能在2020年之前继续保持温和上涨的态势，那么它将占到国内生产总值的41. 5％，也就是再增长近两万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is technically possible to sequence the 2.4 meters of DNA – present in the nucleus of every cell of our body – in only a few days.",
        "如今，我们已能在技术上测定2. 4米长的DNA序列——在我们体内的每一个细胞内都有这样一套DNA，而且只需要花费几天时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks in large part to the power of vaccines, the number of children dying before the age of five has fallen from 20 million in 1960 to 6.9 million in 2011, despite a large increase in global population.",
        "由于疫苗的作用，5岁前夭折的儿童数量从1960年的2000万降至2011年的690万，而且这是在地球人口大量增长的条件下实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "He will use his legal training to fight on technicalities.",
        "他将运用他的法律知识在技术细节上进行斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Morawiecki job is to impede the opposition and counteract President Andrzej Duda, who has acted independently, such as by vetoing part of the government’s judicial power grab.",
        "莫拉维茨基的工作就是阻止反对派和抵制独立行事的安杰伊·杜达总统，比如通过否决部分政府的司法权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Another example is to be found in Peru, where more than 30 financial institutions chose a similarly unconventional path to profitability, working together to establish Modelo Perú – a platform that provides digital financial services.",
        "另一个例子在秘鲁，30余家金融机构选择了类似的非传统方法盈利，它们合作建立了Modelo Perú，一家提供数字金融服务的平台。"
    ],
    [
        "Although many European politicians are loath to admit it, the status quo is probably not sustainable; eventually, there must be either significantly greater fiscal integration or a chaotic break-up.",
        "虽然许多欧洲政客都不愿意承认，但现状可能是不可持续的； 最终要么出现远大于当前规模的财政整合，要么在混乱中四分五裂。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2002-2009, more than 11,000 startups were established.",
        "2002-2009年，超过11,000家创业企业宣告成立。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Commission, too, has responded, with finance for food security coming via a number of instruments.",
        "欧盟委员会对食物安全问题也并非毫无回应。 我们通过若干措施提供了资金以保障食物安全。"
    ],
    [
        "The new revolution in economics may find a place for strategies based on affecting ideals and identities, not just taxes and subsidies.",
        "经济学新革命为以打动人的理想和激励，而不仅仅是税收和补贴为基础的策略留了一席之地。"
    ],
    [
        "This broadened their focus to Moroccan society as a whole and questions of how people could be empowered to improve their lives.",
        "这拓宽了他们对摩洛哥社会的整体关注范围，更多地关注如何向人民赋予权力以提高他们的生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "If a European pillar within NATO is needed to strengthen the Alliance, why not accept it?",
        "如果北约内部需要一个欧洲支柱来强化联盟，为什么不接受呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Although this is largely the case, no one can claim that Africans have a monopoly on governance failures.",
        "虽然这种说法大体准确，但没有人能说治理不善的情况只在非洲才有。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent decades, rising incomes have catalyzed a major shift in people’s eating habits, with meat, in particular, becoming an increasingly important feature of people’s diets.",
        "近几十年来，收入增加促成人类饮食习惯的重大变化，特别是肉类正在成为人类饮食越来越重要的特色。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s new leaders speak earnestly of deepening reforms and rebalancing the economy, but they remain cautious, gradualist, and conservative by inclination.",
        "中国新领导人真诚地表示要深化改革，实现经济再平衡，但他们的举措是谨慎、渐近、保守的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, he welcomed Hamas leader Khaled Mashal in an official meeting that included a royal lunch, meetings with Prime Minister Fayez Tarawneh, and, most important, talks with the head of Jordan’s intelligence service, which in 1999 had recommended the expulsion from Jordan of Mashal and four other senior Hamas officials.",
        "事实上，阿卜杜拉国王在正式会晤中欢迎了哈马斯领导人马沙尔（Khaled Mashal），这次会晤包括了皇家午宴以及与首相塔拉瓦奈（Fayez Tarawneh）的会面，最重要的是，还包括了曾在1999年建议将马沙尔和其他四名哈马斯高级官员逐出约旦的约旦情报局首脑。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in the 1970’s and 1980’s, many feared that players would become obsolete if and when computers could play chess better than humans.",
        "在20世纪七八十年代，很多人担心电脑迟早会压过人类棋手，到那时，象棋选手就要成为时代弃儿了。"
    ],
    [
        "The bad news is that those who benefit from the current system are resisting progress.",
        "令人担忧的是，当前体系的既得利益者仍在阻挠进展。"
    ],
    [
        "But then the housing market stalled, as fears of a property bubble spurred a government clampdown on credit, leaving the stock market the place for middle-class savers to put their money.",
        "但随后对房地产泡沫的担忧促使政府收紧了信用，住房市场随之停滞，而股市成为中产阶级储户的资金流向。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there is no substitute for restructuring.",
        "最后，除了结构重整之外无路可走。"
    ],
    [
        "The geopolitical landscape that emerges around the middle of this decade will thus reflect significant changes elsewhere in Asia as well.",
        "因此未来4~6年内逐渐凸显的地缘政治图景也将反映出亚洲其他地区所发生的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – The effort to eradicate global poverty has never been more intense.",
        "巴黎——消除全球贫困的努力从未如此热烈。"
    ],
    [
        "The reforms in Italy and Spain are rightly reviewed as crucial, and there appears to be a deep understanding (based on Germany’s own experience in the decade and a half following reunification) that restoring competitiveness, employment, and growth takes time.",
        "意大利和西班牙的改革被正确地认为具有关键意义，重塑竞争力、就业和增长需要时间这一观点也获得了深入的理解（这一理解的基础是德国自身重新统一15年来的经验）。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone familiar with China’s structural shifts on the supply and demand side will recognize some similarities with the German case.",
        "只要你熟悉中国从供给面向需求面的结构性变迁，就会对德国的情形感到似曾相识。"
    ],
    [
        "Scaled to today’s economy, assets worth $1.25 trillion were sold off, with 80% of the value recovered.",
        "如果换算成当今经济规模的话，就有总值1. 25万亿美元的资产被出售并追回了80%的总价值。"
    ],
    [
        "For Obama, Syria’s fate simply does not seem urgent; but when the decisive battle for Aleppo begins, it may be too late.",
        "对奥巴马而言，叙利亚的命运似乎并不紧迫； 可一旦阿勒颇决战开始，一切就可能无法挽回了。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Japan and the United Kingdom pretend to be open societies, and to be stakeholders in the globalization process.",
        "如今，日本和英国做出一副开放社会状，也是全球化进程的巨大受益者。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar arrangements could be found for the other eurozone countries.",
        "类似的安排也可以在其他欧元区国家实行。"
    ],
    [
        "This fall-off in private defined-benefit pensions all across the rich core of the world economy is a bad thing, because the configuration of asset prices suggests that young and middle-aged workers value defined-benefit pensions extremely highly.",
        "这种席卷全球富裕经济体的私人固定金额养老金的衰减是一件坏事，因为资产价格构成表明，年轻以及中年工人们极为重视固定金额的养老金。"
    ],
    [
        "In the years ahead, technological improvements in robotics and automation will boost productivity and efficiency, implying significant economic gains for companies.",
        "未来几年，机器人和自动化方面的技术进步将提高生产率和效率，为公司带来巨大的经济收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Some petroleum experts argue that world oil production will peak in a decade or so.",
        "某些石油专家认为，世界石油生产将会在未来十年左右达到顶峰。"
    ],
    [
        "Although corruption has been declining in most of the former Soviet Union, it has surged in Russia since 2004, becoming more rationalized and concentrated.",
        "尽管腐败现象在大多数前苏联国家已经在逐步减少，但是在俄罗斯自2004年以来却出现了上升现象，人们对腐败更加习以为常，同时它也更加集中化了。"
    ],
    [
        "A strategy that could work would be to stress how the outcome is beneficial to everyone involved.",
        "强调谈判结果对谈判各方如何如何有利是一种行之有效的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "A crucial bone of contention that might ignite a new war is the future of the country’s oil industry and the North-South border demarcation.",
        "可能导致战火重燃的关键争议焦点是北苏丹划界和苏丹石油工业的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "In effect, one buys the index of the market.",
        "本质上你买的是市场指数。"
    ],
    [
        "Practically everyone knows what is unacceptable, and what needs to be eliminated.",
        "几乎人人都知道什么不可接受、什么必须消灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Quantitative analysis of decisions across many domains, including environmental policy, business investments, and cyber security, has shown that people tend to overestimate the amount of data needed to make a good decision or misunderstand what type of data are needed.",
        "多个领域——包括环境政策、商业投资和网络安全——的量化决策分析表明，人们倾向于高估做出好决策所需要的数据量或误解需要的数据类型。"
    ],
    [
        "As President Barack Obama, referring to his signature 2009 stimulus bill, eventually admitted, “the shovels weren’t ready.”",
        "就连奥巴马总统在提到自己于2009年推出的标志性刺激法案时也得最终承认“有些（本应立刻动工的）项目还没有动静”。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the sector has grown rapidly and now accounts for about 50% of GDP, low-value-added businesses still dominate.",
        "虽然行业发展迅速且已占到国内生产总值的50％左右，但占主导地位的依然还是低附加值企业。"
    ],
    [
        "With Cardinal Schönborn’s intervention, the peace between science and religion that in Old Europe had held almost since the Enlightenment – and at least since the historically hard-won eviction of the Church from politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – seemed suddenly to have been broken.",
        "从启蒙运动、至少是自十九世纪末和二十世纪初的经过艰苦努力而赢得的政教分离以来，以来老欧洲一直维系的科学和宗教之间和平相处。 在红衣主教施波恩的干预下，这一局面突然之间被打破了。"
    ],
    [
        "Three complementary issues seem crucial.",
        "三个补充性问题十分关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Noyer’s diplomatic skill certainly will be put to the test if he has to navigate the treacherous waters between the Scylla of French protectionism and the Charybdis of the EU’s five criteria for bank mergers.",
        "努瓦耶如果要在法国保护主义和欧盟有关银行兼并的五项标准之间的凶险地带辗转腾挪，那么，他的外交技巧就将会受到考验。"
    ],
    [
        "These are just the latest sources of concern in a turbulent period that began two years ago when food shortages hit many countries in Africa and Asia due to a worldwide spike in prices.",
        "这只是动荡时期最新出现的忧虑因素，粮食动荡始于两年前，当时全球范围的价格猛涨导致非洲和亚洲的很多国家面临着粮食短缺的袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "What problem does the new package seek to resolve?",
        "那么新一揽子计划究竟试图要解决什么问题？"
    ],
    [
        "The reality, however, is that 80% of these people are refugees, attempting to escape despotism, terror, and religious extremism in countries like Syria, Eritrea, and Afghanistan.",
        "然而，现实是，这些人中有80%是难民，他们是为了逃脱叙利亚、厄立特里亚和阿富汗等国家的独裁、恐怖和宗教极端主义。"
    ],
    [
        "It ended the career of Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Chief of the General Staff and a hardliner of the hardest sort, whose inconsistent and unconvincing efforts to justify the downing of the plane proved deeply embarrassing to the Kremlin.",
        "它终结了总参谋长、最强硬的强硬派奥加尔科夫（Nikolai Ogarkov）的职业生涯——他前后不一、令人无法信服的坠机理由令克里姆林宫颜面扫地。"
    ],
    [
        "Its hope is to rule out any Japanese role in resolving regional security issues, and to diminish the potency of the US-Japan alliance.",
        "中国想阻止日本在解决地区安全问题中发挥任何作用，并同时削弱美日同盟。"
    ],
    [
        "It is especially important to restructure SOEs.",
        "对国有企业的重组尤其重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But some countries have succeeded, and their strategies could be useful models for Libya, Iraq, Ghana, Mongolia, and others to emulate.",
        "但也有一些国家成功了，它们的成功经验可以作为利比亚、伊拉克、加纳、蒙古和其他国家效仿的有用模式。 这些经验包括，像墨西哥那样利用石油期权市场对冲出口价格风险；"
    ],
    [
        "Consider how many nuclear weapons there are: an estimated 16,300 around the world, with 1,800 on high alert and ready for use on short notice.",
        "让我们想想这个世界有多少核武器：全世界共有约16,300件，其中1,800件处于高度戒备状态，一声令下就可以发射。"
    ],
    [
        "This third group turned out to be the most effective leaders, which brings us back to Acton.",
        "第三类人便是最有效的领导人，这又让我们回到阿克顿勋爵。"
    ],
    [
        "But the relative productivity deficiencies within the eurozone are more important for growth, and have nothing to do with the exchange rate.",
        "但欧元区内部的生产率相对低下对增长的消极作用更大，且这与汇率问题无关。"
    ],
    [
        "One recent, but not necessarily representative, poll found that 43% of those certain to vote favored bringing control back to the UK by leaving the EU – even if they were to become financially worse off as a result.",
        "近期的一次并不一定具有代表性的民意调查发现，43%的确定参与投票者青睐通过退出欧盟将控制权收回英国——即使这样做要承担财政状况恶化的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The agreement would also have provisions for intellectual-property protection and what are dubbed the social and environmental issues.",
        "该协定也将包含知识产权保护以及所谓的社会和环境问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Others estimate a lower, but still alarming, rate of 30%.",
        "其他报告虽然估值略低，但仍然达到了30%的惊人比率。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the recent growth has benefited only a few, leaving many behind – most notably young people and women.",
        "近期的大量增长只是肥了一小撮人，而将大部分人排斥在外——特别是年轻人和女性。"
    ],
    [
        "All of them, thanks to globalization and new communication technologies, will strive for the same standard of living, give or take, which will necessarily lead to an overstretched global ecosystem.",
        "由于全球化和新通信技术，所有这些人都会为标准化的生活（可能略有差异）而奋斗，这会导致全球生态系统的过渡扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "Social scientists should continue to ask whether inequality is good or bad for economic growth. More research is needed on the variables that affect growth, such as median income.",
        "社会科学家应该继续拷问不平等对经济增长究竟是好是坏，也需要对包括收入中位数在内的影响增长变量进行更多的研究。"
    ],
    [
        "But, although the economy currently is healthy, it is also fragile.",
        "但尽管当前经济相当健康，仍然比较脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "That won’t be easy.",
        "但这绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as recent events have illustrated, robust health agencies should not be taken for granted.",
        "但最近发生的事件表明，强有力的卫生部门并非理所当然。"
    ],
    [
        "But many European banks are over-leveraged zombies, kept alive by emergency public infusions of liquidity.",
        "但许多欧洲银行都是过度负债的僵尸银行，依靠紧急公共流动性注入维持生命。"
    ],
    [
        "The IDB and the US government must take responsibility for their actions and implement the necessary transparency mechanisms to ensure that such abuses do not recur. Congressional inquiries and annual reviews of the Treasury Department by the Government Accountability Office could provide the oversight necessary to prevent future political misuse of the IDB and its funds.",
        "泛美开发银行和美国政府必须为他们的行为承担责任，并实施必要的透明度机制来保证这样的权利滥用不再发生。 美国国会质询和政府责任办公室对财政部的年度审查可以为防止以后对泛美开发银行及其资金的政治滥用提供必要的监督。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the number of full-time journalists has dropped by 20% since 2001.",
        "在美国，全职记者人数自2001年减少了20%。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, and most significantly, the 1993 Israel-PLO agreement has until now failed to achieve its aim.",
        "第三点，也是最重要的一点，1993年以色列与巴解组织签订的协议到目前为止并未达到既定的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "A road map must be drawn up for the withdrawal of Turkish troops from Cyprus and a settlement of the political division of the island.",
        "为土耳其军队撤出塞浦路斯和解决该岛的政治分裂制定计划也势在必行。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, development itself generates a number of strains on societies that lie at the very roots of conflict.",
        "事实上，发展本身造成了社会上许多的紧张关系，它们都是潜在引发冲突的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s Economic Hotspots",
        "印度经济热点"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1991, no Indian governing party has enjoyed a secure parliamentary majority on its own, necessitating multi-party coalition governments.",
        "自1991年以来，没有一个印度执政党在议会中曾享有保险的多数席位，也因此必须组成多党联合政府。"
    ],
    [
        "If too many lifelong inhabitants are driven out by rising housing prices, the city itself suffers from a loss of identity and even culture.",
        "如果太多在城市里生活了一辈子的居民因为房价上涨而被迫离开，这座城市自身也将蒙受身份乃至文化损失。"
    ],
    [
        "During the last 20 years, the world has witnessed dramatic proliferation of regional and bilateral preferential trade agreements.",
        "在过去20年间，全世界都见证了各类区域性和双边特惠贸易协定的不断膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "There, unprecedented leverage, massive debt creation, and a seemingly infinite sense of credit entitlement prevailed.",
        "在西方，蜂拥出现的是全所未有的高杠杆、大规模债务创造以及似乎是无穷无尽的信用福利。"
    ],
    [
        "As Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch have shown, the world’s poorest countries are not characterized by naive trust in capitalism, but by utter distrust, which leads to heavy government intervention and regulation of business.",
        "拉斐尔·迪·特拉（Rafael Di Tella）和罗伯特·麦考洛克（Robert MacCulloch）指出，世界上最贫穷的国家的特征不是天真地相信资本主义，而是完全不相信资本主义，这导致了大规模政府干预和商业管制。"
    ],
    [
        "It might be more accurate, however, to view this Greek episode as proof of the eurozone’s resilience, underpinned by its still-powerful allure.",
        "但是，这出希腊闹剧更应该被视为欧元区恢复力的证明，其基础则是欧元区的诱惑力依然强大。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel opposes ISIS, but Israel’s greater concern is Assad’s Iranian backing.",
        "以色列反对ISIS，但以色列更大的担忧是阿萨德背后的伊朗。"
    ],
    [
        "Most food crops, by contrast, can be pollinated by different types of insects.",
        "相反，大部分粮食作物可以由不同昆虫授粉。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the so-called liberal establishment is convinced it was robbed by an insurgency of “deplorables” weaponized by Vladimir Putin’s hackers and Facebook’s sinister inner workings.",
        "在美国，所谓的自由建制派认定他们被“可怜之徒”的暴乱所劫。 这群可怜之徒从普京的黑客和Facebook的罪恶的内部操作那里获得力量。"
    ],
    [
        "A market for real estate derivatives that can help balance these risks is only just beginning to appear.",
        "能够平衡这些风险的不动产衍生品市场也仅仅是雏形初现。"
    ],
    [
        "The first winner is democracy.",
        "第一个胜利者是民主。"
    ],
    [
        "Today surveillance means, in effect, merely giving advice.",
        "当今的监督实际上就仅仅是提出建议的意思。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in China’s one-party state, they find it is easier to do business with officials who can make quick decisions and implement them almost instantly.",
        "与此相反，在中国这样的一党制国家中，他们发现与官员做生意更容易，因为官员们可以迅速做出决定并且在同一时间执行。"
    ],
    [
        "This bid for regional preeminence will sooner or later bring Turkey into serious conflict with neighboring Iran.",
        "这种争当区域老大的做法迟早将使土耳其和伊朗两国爆发严重冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "But the impact of large cities runs deeper than economic or even cultural power; cities can fundamentally change people’s lives – and even the people themselves.",
        "但大城市的影响比经济甚至文化力量深刻得多； 城市可以从根本上改变人们的生活——甚至人们自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, two speculative bubbles – in the real estate market and in mortgages – have become grafted upon each other and now dominate economic activity in the US.",
        "同时，两个投机泡沫——房地产市场和按揭——彼此相互影响作用并控制了如今美国国内的所有经济活动。"
    ],
    [
        "They will eventually have to make a U-turn and backtrack over the terrain of fictitious progress.",
        "这两个国家得益于其昂贵的出口产品价格，却错过了走向繁荣的高速轨道而拐进了死胡同，最终还必须掉头原路返回到貌似进步的领域中去。"
    ],
    [
        "While levels of private finance dwarf international public finance, directing these private funds to programs that reach the poorest and protect the environment requires the right policy incentives, such as a price on carbon, regulatory certainty, and the wise use of public money.",
        "尽管私人融资水平比国际公共融资更高，但将这些私人资金引导到面向最贫困人口和保护环境的项目需要正确的政策激励，如碳排定价、监管确定性以及对公共资金的明智使用。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed is higher employment and pay through higher demand for the least productive workers.",
        "当务之急是通过提高最低技能工人的需求而加大就业和增加工资。"
    ],
    [
        "This would buy time to build credibility and, more important, to help keep public debt under control.",
        "这能为建立信誉争取时间，更重要的是，也有助于将公债限制在可控水平。"
    ],
    [
        "We know that hikes in public investment, just like commodity booms, all too often end in tears.",
        "我们知道，公共投资的上调，正如大宗商品繁荣那样，常常以悲剧结尾。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, they have the right to work and be treated on an equal basis with others vis-à-vis recruitment, hiring, promotion, and salary.",
        "同样，他们有权工作，并在招聘、雇佣、升职和薪酬等方面与其他人享受同样的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Plastic pollution is a defining problem of the Anthropocene.",
        "塑料污染是人类纪的显著特征。"
    ],
    [
        "He can even invoke the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 on the grounds that the US has Special Forces active in the Middle East.",
        "他甚至可以以美国在中东部署特种部队为借口，援引1917年与敌贸易法。"
    ],
    [
        "Cocaine use by high-profile entertainers, executives, models, and socialites who flaunt their illicit drug habit certainly does not help.",
        "演艺大腕、公司主管、模特和刻意炫耀这一违法习惯的社交名流使用可卡因当然是在推波助澜。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that these countries recently managed to overcome their strong differences to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran, this might be the right forum to begin building consensus on a political solution in Syria.",
        "鉴于上述国家最近成功克服了强烈分歧达成伊朗核协议，或许应该借助这一论坛就政治解决叙利亚问题达成共识。"
    ],
    [
        "Even now, I hear axes being ground, and statistical models being recalculated.",
        "即使是现在，我还会听到清算被制止，统计模型被重新计算。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, they encourage more vigorous screening programs.",
        "事实上，他们鼓励进行更激进的筛查程序。"
    ],
    [
        "One tool of this ambition is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), under which the Sino-Russian exercises took place.",
        "这一野心的其中一个工具是上海合作组织。 中俄军演就是在这一组织的框架内举行。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent spat between US President Barack Obama and his former secretary of state (and possible successor), Hillary Clinton, seems to have revived that debate.",
        "美国总统奥巴马及其前国务卿（和可能的继任者）希拉里·克林顿近来的口水战让这个问题的辩论再度变得火爆。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – When policymakers turn to economists for guidance, they expect the advice they receive to be grounded in science, not academic factionalism or political presuppositions.",
        "伯克利—决策者向经济学家讨教时，他们期待获得基于科学的建议，而不是学术流派主义或政治预设。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, hundreds of millions of people around the world have access to global goods in their local supermarkets.",
        "今天，全球成百上千万人可以在当地超市里买到来自世界各地的商品。"
    ],
    [
        "Only when such a belief becomes general will despair stop fueling terrorism, and suicide bombing come to be viewed as an obscene calling.",
        "只有在这一信念成为共识的时候，绝望才会停止激化恐怖主义，而且自杀式爆炸才会被认为是一种可憎的感召。"
    ],
    [
        "Centralists view federalism as a fig leaf for secession.",
        "中间派将联邦主义视为分裂的幌子。"
    ],
    [
        "On the one hand, he promises to fix all the world’s problems, and to show China, Russia, the Islamic State, or anyone else who is boss.",
        "一方面，他承诺要解决世界上所有问题，让中国、俄罗斯、伊斯兰国和其他所有人知道谁才是“老板”。"
    ],
    [
        "It is perhaps fantasy to expect the current US administration to consider any kind of anti-obesity strategy while it is still busy dismantling Obama-era policies.",
        "期待正忙于废止奥巴马时代政策的现任政府考虑采取任何形式的反肥胖战略或许只是幻想。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary sovereignty was made a common cause; but the power needed to exercise it remained in national capitals.",
        "货币主权成为了欧洲的共同事业，但执行它所需要的权力依然掌握在各国手中。"
    ],
    [
        "The shareholders of the companies that buy will lose roughly $300 billion in market value, as markets interpret the acquisition as a signal that managers are exuberant and uncontrolled empire-builders rather than flinty-eyed trustees maximizing payouts to investors.",
        "收购方公司的股东则会损失约3000亿美元的市值，那是因为市场将收购理解为这样的信号，即：经理人们都是好大喜功、我行我素的野心家而不是为投资者创造最大化收益的、目光严峻的托管人。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, then first the biggest and the strongest countries, and then the Central Europeans, will turn away from the European dream.",
        "如果我们失去了信心，那么首先是那些最大和最强的国家，其次是中欧所有的国家，都将弃欧洲大同之梦于不顾。"
    ],
    [
        "I hear these worries and realize that they cannot be easily dismissed.",
        "我听说过这样的担忧，而且认为这种担忧无法被轻易解除。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time I left the Commission, I was sitting on a pile of 1,500 such infringement proceedings.",
        "离开欧盟委员会的时候，我面前还堆着多达1500份类似的侵害诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "If that proposal gains traction, the implications could be far-reaching; indeed, it could prohibit the use of the Internet, with its myriad services valued at hundreds of billions of euros, in its current form.",
        "如果这一提案获得支持，影响可能非常深远； 事实上，它可能导致禁止使用当前形式下的互联网，及其价值数千亿欧元的各种服务。"
    ],
    [
        "But we can take inspiration from Clinton’s effort.",
        "但我们可以从克林顿的努力中获得点启发。"
    ],
    [
        "The late Robert Heilbronner – one of Schumpeter’s most renowned students – viewed economics as “worldly philosophy.”",
        "熊彼特最著名的弟子之一——已故的罗伯特·海尔布伦纳（Robert Heilbronner）——将经济学看作为“世俗的哲学”。"
    ],
    [
        "So other policies are needed to restore growth.",
        "所以需要有其他政策来重振增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not all good news in China’s economy, because low consumption remains a big weakness.",
        "但是，并不是关于中国经济的情况都是好消息，因为低消费仍然是一个很大的弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this new Europe faces many problems.",
        "勿庸置疑，这个新欧洲面临着巨大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "At the nanometer scale (about 50,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair), matter behaves in unusual ways: weak materials become strong, inert materials become active, and benign materials become harmful.",
        "在纳米范围（大约比人的头发丝的宽度小5万倍）上，物体的表现并不像寻常那样：弱的物质变强了，惰性的物质变得活跃了，而良性的物质变得有害了。"
    ],
    [
        "A case in point is former Fed Chair Paul Volcker’s decision, in the early 1980s, to hike interest rates and accept a temporary increase in unemployment.",
        "一个例子就是美联储前主席保罗·沃尔克（Paul Volcker）在1980年代初决定加息以提升利率并接受暂时性的失业率增加。"
    ],
    [
        "First, New York will not be like Copenhagen.",
        "首先，纽约不是哥本哈根。"
    ],
    [
        "If you truly fear a global economic meltdown, you should stock up on guns, canned food, and other commodities that you can actually use in your log cabin.",
        "如果你对全球经济大崩溃的害怕挥之不去，你应该趁早准备一个求生小屋，储备枪支弹药、罐头食品和其他一些你能用得到的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, it seems to be another case of America’s insecurity about its global influence trumping its idealistic rhetoric – this time possibly undermining an important opportunity to strengthen Asia’s developing economies.",
        "令人遗憾的是，这似乎是美国对其自身全球影响力的不安全感压倒其理念阐述的又一例证——而这次很可能会阻碍了一个让亚洲发展中经济体得以做大做强的重要契机。"
    ],
    [
        "The first wave, of around two million people, arrived in Karachi when eight million Muslims fled India for Pakistan.",
        "首波约200万人在800万穆斯林从印度逃往巴基斯坦时抵达卡拉奇。"
    ],
    [
        "But fiscal stimulus merely aggravated the problem.",
        "但财政刺激只能加剧这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Two years later, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton published “America’s Pacific Century,” indicating a shift in America’s global strategy.",
        "两年后，时任国务卿希拉里·克林顿发表了《美国的太平洋世纪》，表明了美国全球战略的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Chávez is giving away oil to Caribbean island nations and Cuba, and buying off Argentine debt to help President Nestor Kirchner’s political fortunes.",
        "查韦斯将石油赠送给加勒比岛国和古巴，替阿根廷清偿债务以为该国总统基什内尔增加政治运程。"
    ],
    [
        "But interwar Corporatism is resurrected.",
        "但两次大战间的社团主义却借尸还魂。"
    ],
    [
        "Often in Africa, the few paved roads that do exist are littered with potholes and lead to unpaved ones that are nearly impossible to navigate without a proper vehicle.",
        "在非洲，仅有的一些铺好的路都坑坑洼洼，而这些路则连接着一些只能靠特种车辆才能通过的土路。"
    ],
    [
        "Privately, however, the US is backing the incumbent, Nouri al-Maliki.",
        "伊拉克大选已经过去整整7个月之久，而在确定伊拉克总理人选的争议中，美国一方面宣布保持中立，另一方面却又暗地支持现任总理努里·马利基。"
    ],
    [
        "Resistant pathogens cause about 700,000 deaths every year.",
        "耐药菌每年造成约700,000 人死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, monetary policies are becoming increasingly unconventional, reflected in the move by several central banks to negative real policy rates; and such unconventional policies risk doing more harm than good as they hurt the profitability of banks and other financial firms.",
        "事实上，货币政策正日益变得反常规，这体现在多家央行的负实际利率上； 而这些非常规政策可能弊大于利，因为它们影响了银行和其他金融企业的盈利能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Or the enterprise stays where it often seems to be: mostly smoke and mirrors, a grand illusion.",
        "否则，天主教将依然是老方一帖——它是一团迷雾，一面镜子，一场大幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Watering the Middle East",
        "滋润中东"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its defects, the EU has become a laboratory of democratic innovation, in which, for the first time in centuries, an attempt is being made to settle differences not by political war and blackmail but by listening, dialogue, and a synthesis of different points of view.",
        "尽管有各种缺陷，但欧盟仍是民主创新的实验室，在这个实验室中，几个世纪以来首次有人尝试不通过政治战和勒索，而是通过倾听、对话和综合各种不同观点来调和分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign firms are now barred from majority ownership of banks and insurance companies.",
        "目前，外国企业无法成为银行和保险公司的控股股东。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s an equation with very many known unknowns, but if we do not try at least to mitigate these issues, the known unknowns will continue challenging all partial solutions.",
        "我们早已意识到，这一进程充满未知变数，但如果我们连试都不试，这些已经意识到的未知数必将继续挑战一切局部性的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "An impasse is inevitable, so playing for time is not a solution.",
        "现在的路是走不通的，因此相互扯皮绝非正途。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that early cancerous cells should be sensitive to PARP inhibitors.",
        "这意味着早期的癌细胞应该对PARP抑制剂较为敏感。"
    ],
    [
        "The need to take a holistic view of the economy was self-evident.",
        "从全局角度看待经济的必要性不言自明。"
    ],
    [
        "The list of major national political leaders in the region who have faced, or are about to face, criminal charges has grown so extensive that it is plausible to wonder whether democracy itself can survive in a number of these countries.",
        "该地区大国政治领导人面临着——或即将面临——刑事指控，其罪名之大足以让人怀疑民主本身能否在这些国家中生存下去。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, only two and a half years ago, Russia invaded Georgia, a country that NATO had named as a potential future member, and has occupied part of it ever since.",
        "毕竟俄罗斯入侵格鲁吉亚还仅仅是两年半以前的事，甚至至今仍占据着这个北约所谓“潜在未来成员国”的一部分领土。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, real-estate developers and local government financing vehicles (LGFVs), which offer banks a false sense of security and guarantee of profitability, have acquired a major share of financial resources.",
        "与此同时，房地产开发商和地方政府融资平台给银行造成了错误的安全感和利润保证，获得了大部分金融资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Examples include Chile and South Korea in the late 1980’s and Mexico in the mid-1990’s.",
        "这样的例子包括1980年代末期的智利和南韩，以及1990年代中期的墨西哥。"
    ],
    [
        "Utah was an early pioneer, launching a novel pilot project in preschool education that is funded by $7 million from Goldman Sachs and the Pritzker Foundation.",
        "犹他州是早期先行者，启动了一项新颖的学前教育实验项目，高盛和普利兹克基金会出资700万美元。"
    ],
    [
        "What is extraordinary is that many of these countries (like China, Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, South Korea, and Vietnam) have been at one another’s throats over territorial and other disputes, while others (not least China and the US) are abidingly suspicious of each other’s geopolitical motives and intentions.",
        "不同凡响的是其中很多国家（比如中国、日本、菲律宾、马来西亚、韩国和越南）都因为领土和其他纠纷争端不断，还有些国家（比如中国和美国）一直怀疑对方的地缘政治动机和企图。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who chose not to participate in last January’s elections will most certainly do so now, both in the referendum and in the upcoming elections to a new Assembly in December.",
        "那些没有参与一月份选举的人们将几乎肯定会在宪法全民公决以及十二月的新的国民会议选举中投票。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is totally unworkable in practice, as Iran and most (or all) of the other signatories of the JCPOA would reject these demands.",
        "但实际上完全不具有可操作性，因为伊朗和其他大部分（或者说全部）JCPOA签署国都将拒绝这些要求。"
    ],
    [
        "But millions of the blue-collar, socially conservative whites who voted for Trump also rely on these and similar programs.",
        "但投票给特朗普的数百万蓝领和社会保守派的白人其实也要依靠上述以及类似的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "To no longer be “Number One” would offend America’s sense of dignity.",
        "不再是“世界第一”会损害美国人的自尊感。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the United States’ share, which peaked at 36% in 1985, has fallen to less than 18%.",
        "8%（估计值）。 相反，美国的比重在1985年见顶（36%），如今下降至不足18%。"
    ],
    [
        "The total cost of construction and maintenance is projected to be $919 million.",
        "风电项目的建设维护总成本约合9. 19亿美元，就算加上高额的碳排放税也仅能节约1."
    ],
    [
        "Findings like these lead many people to conclude that eradicating poverty requires us to rely on overall growth, and that direct government policy interventions have little merit.",
        "此类发现让许多人认为减贫要求我们依赖总体增长，直接政府政策干预没有什么效果。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear confrontation.",
        "1962年，古巴导弹危机让全世界险些陷入核冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, there has been a tectonic shift in the geopolitics of energy.",
        "总之，能源地缘政治结构性的转变已经发生。"
    ],
    [
        "I was pleased to see that a large Chinese energy company, Shanghai Electric, recently indicated public support for substantial reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "我很高兴见到中国的一个大型能源公司上海电器公司最近公开表明支持实质性减少温室气体排放。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this is not only Europe’s fight, or that of the United States.",
        "但这不仅仅是欧洲的战争或美国的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Others emphasize a buildup of combustible materials.",
        "有人强调可燃物的积累。"
    ],
    [
        "“Many women today earn significantly more than women in previous generations,” she writes.",
        "她写到“今天，很多女性赚到的钱比她们的上一代人多得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider one of the main purposes of the Lisbon Strategy: the organization of research and higher education.",
        "如何组织研究和高等教育也是里斯本战略的主要目标之一。"
    ],
    [
        "This crash in prices of risky financial assets would not overly concern the rest of us were it not for the havoc that it has wrought on the price system, which is sending a peculiar message to the real economy.",
        "不管原因如何，市场对风险的承受力一旦崩塌，金融资产的价格也会随之一落千丈。 每个人都会因此而损失巨大，但都不知道损失是如何产生的。"
    ],
    [
        "They must then institutionalize these new policies in national and regional development strategies.",
        "它们还必须将这些国家和地区发展战略制度化。"
    ],
    [
        "While US Vice President Dick Cheney denigrates the idea of energy conservation, China’s leaders have adopted a new five-year plan that commits the country to cut energy use by one-fifth, industrial pollution by one-tenth, and industrial water consumption by one-third.",
        "在美国副总统切尼诋毁能源节约理念的时候，中国的领导已经制定了一个新的五年计划，承诺该国将削减1/5的能源消耗量、1/10的工业污染、1/3的工业水消耗量。"
    ],
    [
        "The current Venezuelan episode continues a long tradition of gross currency mismanagement in Latin American and former Soviet-bloc countries, where past governments used demonetization to transfer wealth from the public to themselves.",
        "目前委内瑞拉的局势延续了拉丁美洲及前苏联集团国家货币管理总体不善的长期传统，这些国家过去的政府利用废止货币流通将财富从公众转移到自己手中。"
    ],
    [
        "The Great Global Bazaar",
        "全球大巴扎"
    ],
    [
        "A clear understanding of this process would enable potential investors to assess projects more effectively, which is critical to encouraging them to put up financing.",
        "清晰理解这一过程将使潜在投资者能够更有效地评估项目，而这是鼓励他们出钱的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "But any solution will be unacceptable unless it finds broad acceptance across Europe, in debtor and creditor countries alike.",
        "但除非能被欧洲（不管是债权国还是债务国）广泛接受，否则任何解决方案都不会被采纳。"
    ],
    [
        "They do not clarify why the Fed should focus on stabilizing the price of this particular metal, rather than on the price of a representative basket of goods and services.",
        "他们没有澄清美联储为何应该注重稳定这种金属的价格，而不是注重稳定一揽子代表性商品和服务的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian officials have publicly doubted that he was a Russian citizen.",
        "俄罗斯官员公开质疑他的俄罗斯公民身份。"
    ],
    [
        "This self-censorship is rather insulting to Jews, Hindus, and Muslims.",
        "这一自我审查对于犹太人、印度教徒和穆斯林来说是一种耻辱。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, China’s regional exceptionalism has landed it in a strategic trap.",
        "总之，中国的区域例外主义（exceptionalism）已经导致其落到了一个战略陷阱里。"
    ],
    [
        "The first, called “mitigation,” means reducing the amount of manmade climate change.",
        "第一个称为“减缓”，也就是降低人为气候变化的数量。"
    ],
    [
        "When imperial arrangements are dissolved, violence often results.",
        "帝国制度的解体往往会导致暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite the best efforts of governments, reaching those goals by the 2015 target date still remains a distant prospect for many countries, not the least of in Africa.",
        "但尽管各国政府全力以赴，在2015年的既定期限之前全部达成这些目标的可能性对于很多国家而言还是微乎其微，更别说非洲了。"
    ],
    [
        "By end-November spreads between Italian and German ten-year bunds reached 200 basis points, a level not seen since 2014.",
        "截至11月底，意大利和德国十年期国债利差达到了200个基点，为2014年以来的最高水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The real burden will have to be borne, as now, by effective international cooperation in intelligence and policing.",
        "从目前看，真正的负担必须由有效的国际情报和政策合作承担。"
    ],
    [
        "But this process has been politicized and ridden by an acute behind-the-scenes competition for influence among the major powers.",
        "但这一进程却遭到了政治化，并被各大势力之间的幕后恶斗所左右。"
    ],
    [
        "The most famous of these studies, anthropologist Helen Fisher’s The Anatomy of Love , explains the evolutionary impetus for human tendencies in courtship, marriage, adultery, divorce, and childrearing.",
        "人类学家海伦·费舍尔 《爱的解析》 是上述研究中最著名的一项，它解释了人类求爱、结婚、通奸、离婚和抚养子女倾向背后存在的进化动力。 她的某些发现引发了广泛争议：比如，我们可能会有多次一夫一妻的经历，必须非常努力才能很好地维护伴侣关系；"
    ],
    [
        "In most countries, people buy food, soap, and toilet paper without incurring a national policy nightmare, as has happened in Venezuela.",
        "在大部分国家，人们购买食物、肥皂和厕纸都不会像在委内瑞拉那样引起国家政策噩梦。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea that hereditary monarchs were somehow spiritually superior to the rest of us was decisively rejected.",
        "世袭君主在精神上主宰我们其他人的思想遭到了决定性的拒绝。"
    ],
    [
        "The first option is the American way, which also demands that the buyers bear the risks inherent in public or private securities.",
        "前一种选择是美国式的，它同时要求买房承担公共和私人证券所固有的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, few people go into journalism to deliberately mislead the public.",
        "归根结底，很少有人进入新闻界就是为了误导公众。"
    ],
    [
        "Uneducated, they could become an unprecedented burden as their societies age.",
        "如果得不到必须的教育，他们完全可能随着社会老龄化而成为前所未有的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Europe Worth the Effort?",
        "值得为欧洲努力吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, American women have recently begun to film and export their own versions of this fantasy – starting with the groundbreaking 1991 film Thelma and Louise and continuing in a growing trend of girl-group travel and escape packages.",
        "没错，美国女性最近也开始录制和出口这种幻想的女性版本——这以1991年拍成的电影《末路狂花》为奠基之作，随后以女性群体出逃为主题的电影就不断呈现增长之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if selective limitations on sovereignty may enhance democratic performance, there is no guarantee that all limitations implied by market integration would do so.",
        "即便是对主权施以有选择的限制也有可能加强民主表现，没人能够保证市场一体化所隐含的限制能够做到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "At the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, in July, I hope that the international community will rally around UNAIDS’ launch of Treatment 2.0 — the next generation of HIV treatment, which must be more affordable, more effective, and accessible to all.",
        "7月份在维也纳举行的国际艾滋病大会上，我希望国际社会能够支持联合国艾滋病规划署（UNAIDS）的新一代HIV治疗计划——Treatment 2. 0。"
    ],
    [
        "As Jeffrey D. Sachs, Sebastián Edwards, and Rüdiger Dornbusch argued years ago, unsustainable monetary and fiscal policies were the bane of the region until economic orthodoxy began to prevail in the 1990s.",
        "Sachs），塞巴斯蒂安·爱德华斯（Sebastián Edwards）和鲁迪格尔·多恩布什（Rüdiger Dornbusch）多年前所提出的那样，不可持续的货币和财政政策是该区域的灾难之源，而情况直到1990年代实现经济正规化后才开始改观。"
    ],
    [
        "As North Korea inches closer to developing a nuclear-tipped missile that can hit the continental US, Trump has threatened the country with “fire and fury like the world has never seen.”",
        "随着朝鲜离研制出能够打到美国大陆的核导弹越来越近，特朗普威胁将用“世界从未见过的战火和愤怒”来摧毁这个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Diplomacy of the Blind",
        "盲人外交"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to take stock not just of the outcome, though, but of the process.",
        "一个要点是是不但要盘点结果，也要盘点过程。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, international action – from knowledge sharing to the development of suitable standards and oversight – is vital to advance green finance.",
        "而事实上，国际行动——从知识共享到制定合理的标准和监督——对于推进绿色金融至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "How, then, will China’s new leaders respond?",
        "那么，中国的新任领导人该作何对策？"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the ICTY is worth celebrating, because the movement it has led has forced military commanders, guerrilla leaders, and heads of state around the world to take into account the possibility that they will face justice if crimes against humanity are committed on their watch.",
        "尽管如此，ICTY成立20周年的日子仍然值得庆贺，因为它所引发的运动迫使全世界军队司令、游击队领袖和国家首脑考虑面对公正清算的风险，如果他们犯下反人类罪的话。"
    ],
    [
        "To minimize the risk of an unruly collapse, it is necessary to approve an international resolution mechanism with authority over all major international financial institutions.",
        "因此，为了尽量降低连锁崩溃所产生的风险，有必要去制定一个有权管辖所有大型国际金融机构的国际性救助机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump is prone to taking out his frustrations on others – he is never to blame for his failures – and inevitably these landed on Bannon, who bragged more than was good for him about his power in the White House and asserted more than he should have.",
        "特朗普常常把自己的不满发泄到别人身上——他从来不将失败归咎于自己——班农当然也免不了受到波及，他对自己在白宫的能量吹嘘过头，索要也太多。"
    ],
    [
        "Is there not something deeply depressing about 18-year-olds demonstrating about the retirement age?",
        "我很难明白，在退休年龄这个问题上，究竟是什么深深挫伤了这帮18岁示威者幼小的心灵？"
    ],
    [
        "Recent data from China reflect the extent of the problem.",
        "来自中国的数据反应出这一问题的普遍性。"
    ],
    [
        "As life has gotten easier, with people’s material expectations largely met, voters have increasingly favored neo-autocrats who promise to “protect” the people from this or that threat.",
        "生活越来越容易，民众在物质方面的预期基本得到满足，选民却越来越青睐承诺“保护”民众远离这样或那样威胁的新独裁主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy probably needs to reduce its relative prices by 10-15%.",
        "意大利可能需要让相对价格降低10—15%。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it likely that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and others will sit passively while the Persian Shia gain the bomb.",
        "同样，沙特阿拉伯、埃及和其他国家也不会消极地等待波斯什叶派得到原子弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a system cannot be overhauled through small incremental steps.",
        "对这样的系统进行改造不能通过小规模的渐进步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic significance of new financial products is likely to grow more rapidly as foreign banks enter the market.",
        "随着外资银行进入市场，新的金融产品在经济中所占的重要性可能会得到飞速发展。"
    ],
    [
        "The theologian Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Fazel Meybodi points out that Islamic law regarding punishment – which includes brutal practices like stoning and amputation – originates from the Old Testament.",
        "神学家阿亚图拉（Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Fazel Meybodi）指出，关于惩罚的伊斯兰法律——包括石刑和截肢——源自《旧约》。"
    ],
    [
        "A major contributor to this divergence has been ultra-loose monetary policy, which, by flooding financial markets with liquidity, was supposed to boost growth.",
        "这一分化的一大原因是极端宽松的货币政策。 该政策向金融市场注入了大量流动性，初衷是提振增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Political and economic reality demands a more nuanced and cooperative approach.",
        "政治和经济现实要求一个更差异化、更协作化的解决途径。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a reason for this: Although the prior-notification rule in American policy applies only to aircraft headed for US national airspace, in practice the US demands advance notification of all flights through its ADIZ, regardless of their intended destination.",
        "这里面有个缘故：虽然美国政策中预先通知原则仅适用于飞往美国空域的飞行器，但实际操作中美方却要求途经其防空识别区的所有航班无论目的地是哪里都要预先通报。"
    ],
    [
        "In East Timor, for example, the UN proved vital in the transition to independence, and it is now working out plans for the governments of Burundi and Sierra Leone.",
        "例如在东帝汶独立的过渡进程中，联合国就发挥了至关重要的作用。 它现在正为布隆迪和塞拉利昂的政府制定相关计划。"
    ],
    [
        "And so it has proved – though perhaps not in the way he envisaged.",
        "此话可谓中的——虽然未必是萨科齐的本意。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, basic sanitation, such as improved hand washing and access to clean water, and better nutrition can also produce significant risk reduction, much of which can be achieved through simple education programs.",
        "类似地，基本卫生条件（比如改善洗手方式和获得清洁水源）和加强营养也可以极大地降低风险，很多时候只要简单的教育计划就能达到目标。"
    ],
    [
        "America has always prided itself on the strength of its “rule of law,\" a selling point that has made Wall Street host to the largest sovereign-debt market.",
        "美国向来标榜其“法治”之强大，这一卖点让华尔街成为最大的主权债务市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is becoming a development institution consistent with the Fund’s mission.",
        "成为发展机构也不符合该基金的使命。"
    ],
    [
        "While Merkel opposes Hollande’s proposal to create Eurobonds with a view to financing industrial projects, they cannot afford to waste time in reassuring jittery markets with a message of cohesion.",
        "默克尔反对奥朗德着眼于为实业项目提供融资的欧元债券计划，但他们已经没有时间可以浪费，必须尽快摆出团结的姿态安抚风声鹤唳的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "With its own human rights record in question, the US, which had been the democratic teacher of the post-war world, is in a much weaker position to give lessons and set standards.",
        "随着自身的人权记录受到世人的广泛质疑，二战结束后就一直自诩为世界民主教师的美国早已失去了发号施令和制定标准的资格。"
    ],
    [
        "The state plays a central role in modern society, and rightly so.",
        "国家在现代社会中扮演着核心角色，理应如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The first problem is political.",
        "最主要的问题是在政治上。"
    ],
    [
        "For the Kurds, the widening conflict meant that, in addition to fighting a brutal dictatorship, we were now confronted by Al Qaeda militants seeking to establish an Islamic emirate in the Middle East.",
        "对库尔德人而言，冲突的扩大化意味着在对抗残酷独裁统治的同时，我们还要面对试图在中东建立伊斯兰酋长国的基地武装分子。"
    ],
    [
        "It also means working with developing countries to help them develop modern, clean energy sources that provide cheap, locally produced power, and do not oblige them to buy fossil fuels.",
        "这也意味着与发展中国家合作帮助它们开发现代清洁能源资源以提供廉价的地方生产电力，更不能强迫它们购买化石燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe, but we surely don’t need as much as we have.)",
        "这也许是对的，但是可以肯定的是我们不需要我们现在拥有的那么多不幸。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Many believe that public-sector investment is a good way (perhaps the best way) to use the global economy’s productive resources and increase its efficiency and growth potential.",
        "许多人认为公共部门投资是很好（也许是最好）的使用全球经济生产性资源、提高效率和增长潜力的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is the strongest military power in the world, just as Britain was in Churchill’s youth.",
        "美国是全世界最强的军事大国，英国在丘吉尔年轻时也是。"
    ],
    [
        "The future of the US, and of the world, hangs on this choice.",
        "美国以及全世界的未来取决于这一选择。"
    ],
    [
        "We can see hints of that future now.",
        "我们已经可以看到这种未来的影子。"
    ],
    [
        "The second “mistake” came the following November, after Musharraf’s government failed to contain the legal community’s impressive civil-disobedience movement to pressure the government into reinstating Chaudhry. Musharraf, again acting impulsively, placed the country under emergency rule when Chaudhry was brought back by a decision of his own court.",
        "虽然穆沙拉夫并没有在演讲中详细述说他的“错误”，但却明显地提到了一些，比如他在2007年3月鲁莽地决定解雇最高法院的首席大法官乔杜里。"
    ],
    [
        "But, beyond the ongoing changes, major strategic questions persist.",
        "然而，在这些进行中的变化之外，重大的战略问题依然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Because his predecessor Hu Jintao lacked sufficient political capital to do likewise, China followed a largely passive path for a decade, pursuing conciliatory diplomacy (which enraged its citizens) and economically conservative strategies (which included suspending necessary reforms).",
        "由于其前任缺乏足够的政治资本，无法像他那样敢作敢为。 其结果，中国在过去的近10年间基本上采取了比较被动的方式，外交政策上较为妥协 (民众为此非常生气)，经济上的策略又很保守 (包括改革停滞不前)。"
    ],
    [
        "Two days of intensive discussions revealed important differences in perspective, but also many commonalities.",
        "两天的激烈讨论揭露了许多观点差异，但也不乏共同点。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, with risks to the survival of both the eurozone (starting with Greece) and the EU itself (starting with Brexit), it will take enlightened European leaders to sustain the trend toward deeper unification.",
        "如今，欧元区（从希腊开始）和欧盟本身（从英国退出开始）都面临着生存威胁，开明欧洲领导人必须站出来维持朝向加深统一的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "If an international intervention is to have any credible chance of success, clear criteria for what constitutes “success” are needed from the start.",
        "为使得国际干预有望成功，从一开始就需要有关“成功”的标准。"
    ],
    [
        "We should be excited – and filled with hope – by where it could take us.",
        "我们应该对这股潮流将把我们引向何处而感到兴奋并且满怀希望。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require that America recognize the validity of Europe's view of the Israel-Palestinian conflict as the major roadblock toward a peaceful Middle East. Europe, for its part, must not only show that it feels responsible for the world, but that it is ready and willing to act accordingly by contributing in a significant way to reconstructing Iraq.",
        "这意味着美国要接受欧洲的看法，即以色列－巴勒斯坦冲突是中东和平最大的绊脚石，而对欧洲来讲，则需要表明它不仅愿意负起责任，还愿意采取相应的行动，为伊拉克重建做出重要的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2011, anti-globalization rhetoric had largely faded, and globalization is thought of as not something to be neither fought nor cheered, but as a fundamental characteristic of the human story, in which disparate geographies and diverse themes are inextricably intertwined.",
        "到了2011年，反全球化的论调基本上都销声匿迹了，全球化不再被看作是非反抗不可或非拥抱不可的现象，而是被看作人类历史的一个基本特征——不论是地理上的分散还是议题上的多元，终将互相纠缠勾连，变得难分难解。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, such a stance would be highly destabilizing.",
        "在现实中，这样的立场可能造成强烈动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge is even greater because some regulatory agencies must be multilateral, or at least intergovernmental, given the global nature of much economic activity.",
        "考虑到大部分经济活动的全球化，一些监管机构必须是多边的、至少是政府间的，这就给我们带来了更大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments will need to take action to conserve existing ecosystems – and restore and expand degraded ecosystems – in people-friendly ways.",
        "各国政府需要采取行动保护现有生态系统，恢复和扩大遭到破坏的生态系统——并且以以人为本的方式实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Vietnam and the Philippines have been bullied in this way recently, with both pushing back rather than submit to Chinese imposed terms.",
        "而越南和菲律宾则拒绝中国的霸王条款，并因此就受到了中国的欺压。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s administration will not start a war with a third Muslim country while the two others continue to burn.",
        "奥巴马政府不会在其他两个穆斯林国家战火未息的情况下与第三个穆斯林国家开战。"
    ],
    [
        "The end result is underperformance of the saver’s retirement account.",
        "而最终的结果就是保险人的退休基金账户回报表现不佳。"
    ],
    [
        "Munk spent an average of around six days per year – around 36 days over six years – actually visiting the villages, and usually at a stretch of 2-3 days.",
        "”事实上，孟克平均每年花六天时间——六年来总共花了36天左右——访问这些村庄，访问期通常为2—3天。"
    ],
    [
        "For the past 20 years, it looked as if power was being shifted to a technocratic elite.",
        "在过去20年以来，权力似乎已被转移到了技术精英手中。"
    ],
    [
        "This, too, should be a high priority of a true development round.",
        "这也应该提上真正意义上\"发展回合\"谈判的议事日程。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, it plans to renegotiate Greece’s debt with lenders, in the hope of writing off the bulk of its liabilities.",
        "最后，它还计划与贷款国协商，希望减免希腊的大部分债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The China Bears’ Feeble Growl",
        "看空中国不可取"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, whether the SDGs succeed will depend to a significant degree on how they influence other international negotiations, particularly the most complex and contentious ones.",
        "事实上，SDG能否成功在很大程度上取决于它们如何影响其他国际谈判，特别是最复杂、争议性最强的谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Thaksin’s supposedly legal “tax planning,” which allowed him to pay zero capital gains tax on the billion dollar sale of his flagship telecom company, Shin Corporation, in 2006, offended the rising urban professional classes.",
        "他信据称合法的“税收计划”——该计划使他信在2006年出售其旗舰电信公司西瓦那集团（Shin Corporation）几十亿美元的交易中，一分钱的资本利得税都不用交，这触怒了崛起的城市职业阶层。"
    ],
    [
        "Hit by a second external demand shock in three years – first, America’s subprime crisis, and now Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis – any outbreak of internal political instability would pose a far greater threat than might otherwise be the case.",
        "过去三年中，中国经历了两次外部需求的打击——先是美国次贷危机，然后是现在的欧洲主权债务危机——此时爆发内部政治动荡将产生严重得多的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Gordon distinguishes three Industrial Revolutions that have driven economic growth and improved living standards since the eighteenth century: IR #1 (“steam, railroads”), whose defining inventions date from 1750 to 1830; IR #2 (“electricity, internal combustion engine, running water, indoor toilets, communications, entertainment, chemicals, petroleum”), whose defining inventions date from 1870 to 1900; and IR #3 (“computers, the web, mobile phones”), dating from 1960.",
        "戈登区分了自18世纪以来推动经济增长并提高生活水平的三次工业革命：第一次工业革命（“蒸汽、铁路”），其决定性的发明都在1750年到1830年之间产生； 第二次工业革命（“电力、内燃机、自来水、室内厕所、通讯、娱乐、化工、石油”），其决定性发明在1870年到1900年间出现；"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s problems have more to do with droughts, malaria, AIDS, and lack of infrastructure.",
        "非洲的问题更多地与干旱、霍乱、艾滋病以及基础设施缺乏有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, the shift from mixed-use or indigenous systems of raising livestock to large-scale operations jeopardizes rural livelihoods, particularly in developing countries.",
        "更糟糕的是，畜牧业从混养或地方饲养向大规模经营转变，这将危害到农村牲口，特别是在发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "While 33 countries and the European Union have signed the protocol, it needs the support of seven more governments before it can enter into force.",
        "尽管33国及欧盟已经签署了该议定书，但其最终生效依然需要得到七国政府的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the fiscal policy currently adopted by various advanced economies deviates sharply from this path of credible medium-term consolidation combined with short-term additional stimulus.",
        "不幸的是，目前各发达经济体所采取的财政政策远远偏离了这种将中期稳定和短期额外刺激相结合的合理指向。"
    ],
    [
        "(My father-in-law is among the more than 300 officers who were locked up, and my wife and I have been active in documenting the case’s fabrications.)",
        "（我岳父便是300多名被锁定的军官的其中之一，我妻子和我一直在积极地报告此案的莫须有性质。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, what emerged was a deeply flawed approach, not least because in declaring a “war on terror,” America positioned itself against a tactic, not an entity or an ideology.",
        "不幸的是，随后出现的是有严重缺陷的方针，因为宣布“反恐战争”的美国的对立面是一套策略，而不是一个实体或一种意识形态。"
    ],
    [
        "The report does recognize the legitimacy of the objective of protecting the family, however, and makes use of it to limit the scope of its recommendation to sexual relations between adult siblings.",
        "但报告承认保护家庭目标的合法性，也承认应合理利用该目标限制其成人兄弟姊妹间性关系建议适用的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "If the EU and NATO decide to launch a bold outreach strategy for the region, they will be able to draw on existing tools, conceptual talent, and practical experience.",
        "如果欧盟和北约决意采用大胆地扩张战略，他们将可以利用现有的工具、理念和实践经验。"
    ],
    [
        "If all write the same number, that figure will be understood as the price, and thus the amount of compensation each traveler receives.",
        "如果所有人写的数字一样，那么这个数字就被认定为陶器的价格，也就是每位旅行者获得的赔偿额。"
    ],
    [
        "It makes eminent sense.",
        "这看上去似乎很有道理。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the laudable effort to prevent such a thing from recurring has had unfortunate consequences.",
        "然而试图阻止这类事件重演的善行却带来了不幸的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In the second phase, at the war’s end, aid remains mainly humanitarian relief, but now directed towards displaced people returning home, and to decommissioned soldiers.",
        "到了第二阶段，也就是战争结束阶段，援助仍然以人道主义目的为主，但现在要侧重于流离失所的百姓和退伍军人重返家园。"
    ],
    [
        "That helped to lay the groundwork for the China “opening” of 1970-1971, engineered by US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, who until then had no knowledge of the country.",
        "这打下了中国1970—71年“开放”的基础，美国方面的领导者是国家安全顾问亨利·基辛格，当时他对中国还一无所知。"
    ],
    [
        "Northern Europe’s Drag on the World Economy",
        "北欧对世界经济的拖累"
    ],
    [
        "During our academic careers, we learn to provide correct attribution for the existing words, data, or images that we are using.",
        "在我们的学术生涯中，我们学习为我们所使用的词汇、数据或图像提供正确的属性。"
    ],
    [
        "But the effects of quantitative easing on economic activity are uncertain, and such an inflationary policy might well invite retaliation from Europe’s trading partners.",
        "以及让欧元相对于美国或者其他货币贬值。 但量化宽松对经济活动的影响无法确定，而且这种通胀政策可能引发贸易伙伴的反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s establishment of the AIIB is the latest sign of a broader move away from the view that aid to developing countries is best provided in the form of massive government-to-government transfers.",
        "更广泛的背景是人们日益不再采信一个观点，即对发展中国家的援助最好通过大规模政府间转移支付的形式提供，中国成立亚投行只是这一背景的最新信号。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany wants Greece to choose between economic collapse and leaving the eurozone.",
        "德国想让希腊在经济崩溃和退出欧元区之间做出选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The past decade has already yielded major advances in structure-assisted vaccine discovery, synthetic biology, systems biology, and immune monitoring.",
        "过去十年产生了结构辅助疫苗发现、合成生物学、系统生物学和免疫监测的巨大进步。"
    ],
    [
        "JERUSALEM – Europe’s vocation for peacemaking and for international norms of behavior is bound to become the base upon which Barack Obama will seek to reconstruct the transatlantic alliance that his predecessor so badly damaged.",
        "耶路撒冷－欧洲对缔造和平和国际行为规范的号召，必定会成为巴拉克·奥巴马寻求重建被其前任严重破坏的大西洋两岸国家联盟的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The much greater harm done by the terrorist attack cannot be ignored; but when a democratic government starts to revoke citizenship and make people stateless, it sets a precedent for authoritarian regimes that wish to rid themselves of dissidents by expelling them, as the former Soviet Union did to the poet and later Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky – among many others.",
        "恐怖袭击所造成的伤害要大得多，这是不容忽视的； 但当民主政府开始剥夺公民权、让人沦为无国籍状态，它就为极权主义开启了通过放逐处置持异见者的先例——苏联诗人、后来获得诺贝尔奖的约瑟夫·布罗茨基（Joseph Brodsky）等人就有此遭遇。"
    ],
    [
        "We all cherish our children’s future.",
        "我们都珍惜孩子们的未来，而且我们都是凡人。"
    ],
    [
        "So, just how worried about the world economy should we be?",
        "那么，世界经济应该要多担心？"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese hardly invented this game.",
        "中国人绝非这一游戏的发明者。"
    ],
    [
        "But so does Obama’s public discretion.",
        "但奥巴马的公众决定权也功不可没。"
    ],
    [
        "The political right calls for more rapid deficit reduction by cutting spending.",
        "）政治右翼则要求通过削减支出实现更快的预算削减。"
    ],
    [
        "Even then, we know from history that it takes but one Enabling Law to unhinge the rule of law and replace it by an ideological tyranny, as happened when Hitler came to power in Germany.",
        "即便如此，历史的教训也告诉我们：仅仅需要一部授权法就能够动摇法治，并代之以意识形态上的独裁，希特勒在德国掌权就是最好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "But a year and a half ago, the government moved aggressively to dampen multiple property purchases – raising down payments to 50% for second homes and to 100% for third homes.",
        "但一年半前政府着手重拳压打击购买多套住宅的行为——购买者必须为第二和第三套住房分别预先支付50%和100%的房款。"
    ],
    [
        "The same may happen in China.",
        "同样的事也有可能发生在中国。"
    ],
    [
        "The program, a collaboration between AT&T and Udacity, a for-profit provider of online courses, offers courses and mini-degrees in specialized fields such as front-end website development.",
        "该计划是AT&T公司和非盈利在线课程提供商Udacity的合作项目，提供前端网站开发等专业化领域的课程和迷你学位。"
    ],
    [
        "In response to this criticism, the Bank is revising its safeguards and enforcement mechanisms.",
        "面临这一批评，世界银行修订了其保护和执行机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks in the eurozone came under pressure, and interbank tensions increased.",
        "欧元区银行承压，银行间市场开始紧张起来。"
    ],
    [
        "With our knowledge, science, and technology, the horrendous living conditions of the world's poorest people could be dramatically improved. Millions of people could be spared malaria, HIV/AIDS, hunger, and life in slums.",
        "世界最贫困人口的生活条件可以在我们现有的知识和科学技术水平帮助下得到显著提高，使成千上百万人免遭疟疾、艾滋病、饥荒和贫民窟生活的折磨。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with signs of a reviving economy, Japan’s soft power may increase even more.",
        "如今，经济出现复苏的迹象，日本的柔性力量可能会更上一层楼。"
    ],
    [
        "Few are eager to self-disrupt, a process that takes us out of our comfort zone, forcing us to confront our long-standing blind spots and unconscious biases and adopt a new mindset.",
        "有些人渴望进行自我否定，让自己跳出固有的安全区，逼迫自己去面对长期存在的盲点和无意识偏见，进而接纳一个新的思维。"
    ],
    [
        "Under these circumstances, Britain would be likely to change its mind about Brexit.",
        "在这样的条件下，英国将很可能改变其退出欧盟的初衷。"
    ],
    [
        "The Pakistani security establishment believes that it faces a US-Indian-Afghan alliance aimed at undermining Pakistani influence in Afghanistan and even dismembering the Pakistani state. Civilian leaders evaluate Pakistan’s national interests differently, but they, too, cannot be indifferent to Pakistan’s chronic sense of insecurity.",
        "巴基斯坦的安全部门认为，该国面临着美印阿富汗联盟，其目的是要削弱巴基斯坦在阿富汗的影响，甚至要分裂巴基斯坦国家。 民选文职领袖虽然在评价巴基斯坦的国家利益的时候有所不同，但他们也不能漠视巴基斯坦长期的不安全感。"
    ],
    [
        "Aid for the environment averaged about $2 billion per year - far short of what the international community, first at the Rio Summit in 1992 and then at the Johannesburg Summit ten years later, said was needed.",
        "环境援助资金的年平均数额约为20亿美金-远低于国际社会首先在1992年的\"里约峰会\"及后在2002年的\"约翰内斯堡峰会\"上声明的数额。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, repeated financial crises are also the result of a failed system of corporate governance.",
        "所以说，金融危机一再爆发，也是企业治理系统失灵的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "China obviously has the strength to drive out the Vietnamese, the Filipinos, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, and almost anyone else it chooses to confront.",
        "中国显然有能力驱逐越南人、菲律宾人、马来西亚人和它选择与之对抗的其他几乎任何人。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, he enacted a Medicare drug benefit that promises to spend enormous amounts of money for surprisingly little in the way of better health care.",
        "相反，他颁布了医疗保险药物报销政策，这项政策花费巨额款项，但带来的医疗改善却微乎其微。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is more to the story: the BRICS are just as important to tackling AMR as tackling AMR is to the BRICS.",
        "但是金砖五国的故事可不仅限于此：金砖五国在应对抗菌素耐药性议题上的重要性跟应对耐药性对于这五国的重要性是等同的。"
    ],
    [
        "Multi-national advertisers who covet the huge Saudi market were informed in no uncertain terms that they would lose hefty contracts if they advertised on Al Jazeera.",
        "窥视巨大沙特市场的跨国广告商被明白无误地警告，如果它们在半岛电视台做广告，它们就会失去巨额的合同。"
    ],
    [
        "They still live out of her grandmother’s suitcases, waiting for a chance to move on.",
        "她们的生活用品全来自祖母的皮箱，静静等待着离开这里的时机。"
    ],
    [
        "Facing up to that reality will be the main challenge for Europe’s leaders in 2013.",
        "直面这一现实将是2013年欧洲领导人的主要挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Saudi government introduced Fords to the area in around 1930, it needed all of its military resources to prevent the Bedouin from destroying them.",
        "当沙特政府1930年前后启用福特时，需要动用所有军事资源防止贝都因人毁掉汽车。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other side are those who insist that additional public spending is still needed to support demand.",
        "另一边则认定额外的公共支出仍是必需的，这样才能支撑需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Identifying growth hot spots is only the start.",
        "而定义增长热点还只是开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Sharon now agreed that a security fence, which historically was favored by the Israeli left, would enhance Israel’s defenses.",
        "不仅如此，沙龙还赞成设立由左派率先提出的安全屏障，认为设立屏障会改善国家的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "But Saudi Arabia is betting that it can keep oil prices low enough for long enough to destabilize Iran and put the US shale-energy industry out of business.",
        "但沙特阿拉伯下注于它可以在足够长的时间里保持石油价格足够低，让伊朗先动摇并让美国页岩能行业破产。"
    ],
    [
        "However, these jobs – often in domestic services – usually generated lower value added than the manufacturing jobs that had disappeared.",
        "但是，这些就业岗位（通常是国内服务业岗位）所带来的增加值往往低于消失的制造业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, America’s supply of moralistic – and even churlish – advice to the rest of the world has greatly exceeded international demand for it.",
        "更广泛地说，美国向世界其他国家提供的说教式——甚至可以说是粗野的——建议远远超过了国际社会需要的限度。"
    ],
    [
        "But this approach is fast becoming passé.",
        "但这一方针很快就要过时了。"
    ],
    [
        "Populist movements tend to focus on blame.",
        "民粹主义运动往往侧重于指责。"
    ],
    [
        "Measures of productivity growth or technology’s added value include only market-based production and consumption.",
        "生产率增长或技术增加值的衡量指标只包括了基于市场的生产和消费。"
    ],
    [
        "So a new, long-term, economically sustainable solution is urgently needed – one that directly engages with the communities that are suffering most – in order to achieve the support of the deeply impoverished rural population.",
        "所以，现在急需一个新的、长期的、并且在经济层面上可持续的解决方案—一个与最困苦的当地社区直接相关的方案—从而赢得最贫困的农村人口的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a recent study found that the potential for groundwater contamination can be dramatically reduced if fertilizers are distributed through the irrigation system according to plant demand during the growing season; organic farming, however, depends on compost, the release of which is not matched to plant demand.",
        "比如，最新研究发现，如果根据作物在生长季的需要通过灌溉系统施用化肥，地下水的污染风险可以显著降低； 而有机农业依靠堆肥，堆肥释放的东西并不与作物需求相配。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the “no” campaign’s victory might have been even more resounding if the Westminster establishment’s desperate, last-minute offer to grant Scotland more powers on taxation, spending, and welfare had been included as an option in the ballot.",
        "事实上，如果英国当局最后时刻授予苏格兰更大的征税、支出和福利权力的争取姿态一开始就包括在投票选项中的话，“不”阵营的胜利还会更加辉煌。"
    ],
    [
        "The tightening cycle upon which the Fed now seems set to embark comes at a delicate time for the economy.",
        "如今，美联储似乎马上又要开启紧缩周期了。 这次紧缩正逢经济的微妙时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a book praising the brothers for their work, Tianzhu (“Heavenly Beads”), was published in China late last year, to wide acclaim.",
        "事实上，一本名为《天珠》的书在去年末出版，书中对这几兄弟的贡献予以盛赞，并得到了广泛好评。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, partition may be the only way to prevent Afghanistan from sliding into large-scale civil war and to thwart transnational terrorists from reestablishing a base of operations in the rubble.",
        "事实上，分裂或许是阻止阿富汗陷入大规模内战及跨国恐怖分子在废墟中重建行动基地的唯一方法。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that these favorable attitudes vary considerably in intensity and constitute a “soft bloc” of support for the EU; in the 2008 referendum, this soft bloc crumbled in the final week of the campaign.",
        "然而问题是这种支持的态度经常急剧变化并形成一个支持欧盟的“软性集团”，但就在2008年公投前最后一周的关键时刻，这个“软性集团”却走向了土崩瓦结。"
    ],
    [
        "But Kim’s recklessness, combined with his relentless effort to build deliverable nuclear weapons, may push the North Korean problem to the top of the new president’s agenda.",
        "但金正恩的鲁莽，再加上他建造可发射型核武器的不懈努力，可能将朝鲜问题推到新总统议程排名靠前的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "The BIS argues in favor of fiscal restraint, debt restructuring if needed, and swift normalization of monetary policies – quite explicitly criticizing the US Federal Reserve’s caution and the European Central Bank’s aggressive stance.",
        "BIS支持财政约束、必要的债务重组以及货币政策的迅速正常化——相当直白地批评了美联储的谨慎和欧洲央行的激进立场。"
    ],
    [
        "One positive effect of the anti-corruption campaign has been the suppression of such behavior.",
        "反腐运动的一个积极影响是打压了这类行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither, to be sure, is clearly involved in a manifest scandal, nor do they disagree with the policies set by their leaders.",
        "这两人均非丑闻缠身，也不是对领导政策持有疑义。"
    ],
    [
        "Which of these two outcomes will materialize also depends on what happens inside Berlusconi’s camp, and that is less easy to predict.",
        "这两种结果中哪种将会实现，取决于贝卢斯科尼阵营内部的情况，这是不容易预测的。"
    ],
    [
        "Disillusioned ANC members can be strong allies for Ramaphosa’s reform attempts; they were powerful enough to elect him over Zuma’s preferred candidate, his ex-wife and former African Union Commission chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.",
        "幻灭的非国大党党员可能成为拉马福萨改革计划的强力盟友； 他们足够强大，能让他击败祖玛所偏向的候选人、他的前妻、非盟委员会前主席德拉米尼-祖玛（Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma）成为党领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "Society will also have to share the cost of drug development.",
        "社会也必须共同承担药品开发的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The regime’s nuclear test in February – its third since 2006 – was likely a miniaturized device, which makes the situation even more worrying, given that successful miniaturization is critical for using nuclear weapons in ballistic missiles.",
        "朝鲜政权2月举行的2006年以来第三次核试验很可能涉及小型装置，鉴于小型化对弹道导弹运载核武器的重要意义，此次核试让整个局势变得更加扑朔迷离。"
    ],
    [
        "To answer these questions, it is important to understand the imbalances’ underlying dynamics.",
        "要回答这些问题，很重要的一点是理解失衡的基本动态。 一国的经常项目是其投资率和储蓄率之差。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, several countries are taking this path, with undocumented immigrants and Muslims being the first targets.",
        "不幸的是，许多国家都走上了这条道路，而非法移民和穆斯林则成为了首要受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "The low turnout and weakening of mainstream parties gives the European Council – national leaders of the EU’s member states – a pretext to continue cutting deals in smoke-free rooms.",
        "低投票率和主流政党的弱势给了欧洲理事会——欧盟成员国的国家领导人们——继续在没有硝烟的房间里讨价还价的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "He was surely right, at least in so far as we are considering matters within US jurisdiction.",
        "至少在美国司法辖区内考虑问题的前提下，他无疑是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Democratic plan (if it can be called one) ignores Iran’s ongoing subversion of Iraq’s state institutions, which will continue unless and until they become strong enough to resist such machinations.",
        "确实，民主党的计划(如果可以被称为计划的话)无视伊朗持续颠覆伊拉克国家机关，而伊拉克变得足够强大可以抵制这些阴谋前，这一颠覆还将继续。"
    ],
    [
        "Managing the transition from an economy based on fossil fuels to one based on low-carbon alternatives will not be easy.",
        "管理从基于化石燃料的经济向基于低碳能源的经济的转型绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "He argued “that they are immensely rash in their regardlessness, in their vague optimism and comfortable belief that nothing really serious ever happens.",
        "他指出，“他们普遍鲁莽，不顾一切，抱着模糊不清的乐观，心安理得地认为从未有真正严重的问题发生。"
    ],
    [
        "President Umaru Yar’Adua has taken concrete steps to tackle elite-level corruption in Nigeria, and appears to have made progress toward a comprehensive peace agreement with the Delta rebels.",
        "亚拉杜瓦总统已经采取确实的步骤来处理尼日利亚上层腐败问题，而且好像也在与三角洲地区反叛组织达成全面和平协议的道路上取得了进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, negative inflation means that real interest rates rise, because central banks cannot lower the nominal interest rate below zero.",
        "其次，负通胀意味着真实利率升高，因为央行无法将名义利率降至零以下。"
    ],
    [
        "The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose…” But governments will resort to inflation before they will allow another Great Depression – we just would very much rather not go there, if there is any alternative way to restore employment and production.",
        "”但是政府在允许另一场经济大萧条发生之前将求助于通货膨胀。 如果我们还有其他方式来恢复就业和生产，那么我们还是情愿不要走这一条路。"
    ],
    [
        "These policies did indeed reduce long- and medium-term interest rates on government securities and mortgage bonds.",
        "这些政策确实降低了政府债券和按揭债券的长期和中期利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe is now confronting the legacy of this strategy: domestic polarization between highly educated and unskilled labor, between competitive and declining sectors, and between urban and rural areas.",
        "安倍现在就面临着这种策略的遗害：国内受过高等教育者和低技能劳动力之间、有竞争力的部门和夕阳部门之间、以及城市和农村地区之间的两极分化。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In his classic comedy “Tartuffe, or The Impostor,” Molière shows that allowing pride, rather than reason, to dictate one’s actions invariably ends badly.",
        "发自伦敦——法国作家莫里哀的古典主义喜剧《伪君子》告诉我们，正是放任骄傲——而非诉诸理性——决定了一个人的行为无可避免地以糟糕收场。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is that rising consumer awareness makes ecosystem degradation bad for business.",
        "原因之一是消费者认知不断提高导致生态系统退化有损业务。"
    ],
    [
        "The US housing boom is due, first, to low interest rates, which mean that large amounts of money can be borrowed for mortgages with moderate monthly payments.",
        "美国房地产市场的繁荣首先是由于低利率。 这意味着人们能够以适中的月供款额，就向银行借到大笔的按揭贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Donald Trump’s lead in the race for the Republican Party’s nomination as its presidential candidate in November has caused consternation.",
        "坎布里奇——唐纳德·特朗普11月在共和党总统候选人提名竞争中保持领先已经造成了某种程度的恐荒。"
    ],
    [
        "But, again, if the will is there, these questions should not be intractable.",
        "不过同样，如果确有意愿，上述问题应该总能解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Designed with a wide range of objectives, including a focus on both the green economy and sustainable development, the conference seems destined to fail.",
        "因为原定要讨论各式各样的目标，包括对绿色经济和可持续发展的重点关注，此次会议似乎注定无法取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "But that was only after five years of intransigence by Europe’s even more powerful farm lobbies.",
        "但这也仅仅是在领教了欧洲长达五年更为强硬的农业游说后做出的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, American financial markets boast unparalleled depth, liquidity, and safety, making them magnets for global capital, especially in times of financial distress.",
        "事实上，美国金融市场拥有无与伦比的深度、流动性和安全性，这让它称为吸引全球资本的磁石，特别是在金融危机时期。"
    ],
    [
        "But Taiwan remains a highly sensitive – and emotive – issue for China.",
        "但台湾对中国而言仍然是高度敏感和感性的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Europe’s success is due in part to its promotion of a set of values that, while quintessentially European, are at the same time global.",
        "的确，欧洲的成功部分要归于其促进一整套价值观念。 这些价值观在精髓上是欧洲的，但是同时也是全球的。"
    ],
    [
        "He is an actor whose experience hosting a reality-television show enabled him to dominate the crowded Republican primary field and attract considerable media attention.",
        "主持真人秀电视节目的经验使他得以称霸拥挤的共和党初选现场，吸引相当多的媒体关注。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – In early October, shortly after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that his company could, given the opportunity, rebuild the island’s electrical grid using solar power.",
        "纽约——10月初，玛利亚飓风在波多黎各登陆后不久，特斯拉首席执行官艾伦·马斯克就在推特上表示他的企业可以利用这次机会用太阳能重建岛上的电网。"
    ],
    [
        "The fear, in both Tunisia and Ukraine, is that Europe will close its doors further.",
        "突尼斯和乌克兰的恐惧在于欧洲会进一步采取封闭政策。"
    ],
    [
        "So that is the situation that the Fed now faces as it considers “normalizing” monetary policy.",
        "这就是现在美联储在考虑货币政策“正常化”时所面临的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa is well placed to industrialize.",
        "非洲的处境十分有利于工业化。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the machinery of US military combat is portrayed non-heroically.",
        "甚至美国军队在该片的战争场面中所使用的武器也没有被描述为史诗般的壮观。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, governments are clawing to stretch out unsustainable booms, further pushing up commodity prices, and raising the risk of a once-in-a-lifetime economic and financial mess.",
        "与此相反，各国政府却奋力延长这些不可持续的繁荣，从而进一步推高商品价格，并且增加了那种“千载难逢”的经济和金融混乱的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "California, for example, which has been experiencing years of severe drought, is finally getting rain.",
        "比如，加利福尼亚州近多年来旱灾严重，现在终于喜逢甘霖。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, Sharon and then Binyamin Netanyahu both ended up sitting down at the negotiating table with Yassir Arafat and his representatives to try to reach an agreement.",
        "最终，沙龙和彼时的内塔尼亚胡还是和阿拉法特及其代表坐到了谈判桌前试图达成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "For reasons of history, morality, and security, Africa should be regarded as a particular European responsibility.",
        "出于历史，伦理和安全的原因，欧洲应该对非洲负起特殊的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s science policies should also frame a new deal for developing countries.",
        "欧洲的科研政策也应该为发展中国家的利益着想。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, evidence-based medicine uses the science of epidemiology to create a clear and structured set of decisions about tests and treatments for individual patients, with the evidence often – and increasingly – being summarized in the form of clinical guidelines.",
        "简言之，基于证据的医学利用流行病科学为个体患者的测试和治疗做出明确的结构性决定方案，其证据通常——并且越来越多地——从临床指引中总结而来。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the statistics measured by the HDI – life expectancy, education, and per capita income.",
        "以HDI所衡量的统计指标为例，即寿命预期、教育和人均收入。"
    ],
    [
        "A negotiated “land for peace” solution still remains official Western doctrine.",
        "通过谈判达成“以土地换和平”协议迄今仍是西方的主流理论。"
    ],
    [
        "But high levels of US investment in drones, cyber-tools, and other unconventional weaponry will most likely be maintained.",
        "但美国在无人机、网络工具和其他非传统武器上的投资水平极有可能不会降低。"
    ],
    [
        "The remedy I have in mind, of course, is faster economic growth – the one thing that can raise living standards, reduce excessive inequalities, improve job prospects, alleviate trade tensions, and even moderate geopolitical pressures.",
        "我脑海中的这项措施，很显然，就是更快速的经济增长——它可以提升生活水平，缩小过度贫富差距，改善工作前景，缓解贸易摩擦，甚至还能缓和地缘政治压力。"
    ],
    [
        "It took hard military power to sever that tie.",
        "只有动用了钢性的军事力量才切断了那一联系。"
    ],
    [
        "With its lush parks and shaded neighborhoods, it would appear to have little in common with Mumbai or Karachi.",
        "拥有遮天蔽日公园和树影婆娑社区的路易斯维尔表面看去与孟买和卡拉奇完全不同。"
    ],
    [
        "This answer, however, is somewhat facile.",
        "但是，这个回答在某种程度上并不严谨。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries, as well as other large surplus economies, such as Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, all experienced a simultaneous increase in the labor content of exports.",
        "上述国家及巴西、沙特、伊朗等其他大规模盈余经济体均出现了出口产品劳动力含量同步增长的势头。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the current system, it took 34 years to approve the establishment of a new medical school – the result of collusion between government officials and doctors.",
        "在当前制度下，成立新医学院需要花34年的批准流程——这是政府官员和医生对着干带来的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, once the crisis erupted, the fiscal consequences of bailing out too-big-to-fail financial institutions contributed to rapid public-debt unsustainability, which threatens to boomerang on the banking sector.",
        "最后，危机爆发之后，政府用公共资金保释了一批“大到倒不得”的金融机构，其财政后果致使公债不可持续性加剧，反过来又威胁到银行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, some distinguished voter invariably claims that his name is missing from the rolls, or that someone has already cast his vote (but usually not both).",
        "同样，也总会有些知名的选民声称其名字不在选民名单之中，或者声称有人已经冒用他的名字投了票（但是，通常这都不是事实）。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, Israel refused to intervene in the Syrian civil war against Bashar al-Assad’s Shia-affiliated Alawite regime.",
        "后来以色列又拒绝干预推翻巴沙尔·阿萨德的阿拉维派（属于什叶派）政权叙利亚内战。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1987, at the Louvre conference, there was not even any agreement about what had been concluded.",
        "1987年的七国集团财长卢浮宫会议甚至没能达成任何一致结论。"
    ],
    [
        "Access to finance, managerial resources, incubation, acceleration, oversight, and accumulated experience may be much easier to achieve.",
        "获取资金、管理资源、孵化、加速、监管和积累经验实现起来可能容易得多。"
    ],
    [
        "His answer was 4-6 degrees Celsius (a little more than the 2-4 degrees that modern studies consistently find).",
        "他所得出的结果是4－6摄氏度（他的结果比现代研究一致发现的2－4摄氏度略高）。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush’s gamble was a loser from the start, generating costly results – mainly for the US, but for the rest of the world, too – for years to come.",
        "布什的赌博从一开始就注定失败，今后还将付出巨大的代价——主要是对美国，但对世界上其他国家也会有影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Turkey proposed the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.",
        "苏联解体后，它马上就提议建立黑海经济合作组织。"
    ],
    [
        "And Bannon intruded on foreign policy by getting himself put on the National Security Council for a while, until two of the generals in Trump’s administration – National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster and John Kelly (now the chief of staff) – got him removed.",
        "班农通过将自己安插在国家安全委员会一段时间以插手外交政策，直到特朗普当局的两名将军——即国家安全顾问H·R·麦克马斯特（H. R."
    ],
    [
        "But the theoretical investigations of Borda, Condorcet, and others often yielded rather pessimistic results.",
        "但波尔达、孔多塞和其他人的理论研究常常指向悲观结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But no American president has ever brought to the White House an inner circle dominated by his family – until Donald Trump.",
        "但在唐纳德·特朗普就职以前，还没有一位美国总统将以亲属为主的内部圈子带进白宫。"
    ],
    [
        "But that should not prevent us from exploring all scenarios.",
        "但是这不应该阻止我们探索所有的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "But suppose that the reason that no Palestinians and Israelis willing to conclude such a deal have emerged is that the solution itself is domestically unsupportable on both sides.",
        "但是，考虑一下，巴勒斯坦人和以色列人之所以愿意达成这样一个方案，其原因是这一方案本身在双方内部都得不到支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy Begins At Home",
        "民主从本国开始"
    ],
    [
        "To understand the scale of the threat we face, look no further than the “WannaCry” virus that, among other things, almost shut down the British National Health Service this past May.",
        "只需看看今年5月几乎导致英国国家卫生署瘫痪的“WannaCry”病毒，就可以知道我们所面临的威胁规模有多大。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also no guarantee that the previous elites will not be able to re-constitute similar regimes.",
        "同样没有保证以前的精英将无法重新组建类似的政权。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would certainly mean a paradigm shift for a conflict in which everyone has been treading water for almost two decades.",
        "但此举必将意味着这场持续了近20年，令参与各方都身陷险境的冲突将向一种新的形式转化。"
    ],
    [
        "It needs to draw its strength – and legitimacy – from both broader participation and by achieving results.",
        "它的力量与合法性，需要从更广泛的参与和所取得成果中获得。"
    ],
    [
        "Booming trade in the region has failed to mute or moderate territorial and other disputes; on the contrary, it has only sharpened regional geopolitics and unleashed high-stakes brinkmanship.",
        "地区贸易繁荣没能让领土和其他纠纷消声甚至缓和； 相反，还激化了地区地缘政治，导致了一系列高风险冒险政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama originally had a wonder team of economic advisers, including Lawrence Summers, Christina Romer, Austan Goolsbee, and Cass Sunstein.",
        "奥巴马原来拥有一个由经济顾问组成的梦之队，包括了劳伦斯·萨默斯（Lawrence Summers）、克里斯蒂娜·罗默（Christina Romer）、奥斯坦·古斯比（Austan Goolsbee）以及凯斯·桑斯坦（ Cass Sunstein）。"
    ],
    [
        "Distortions will begin to unwind.",
        "扭曲将开始消退。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, Greece is still having problems fulfilling the goals of its adjustment program and is engaged in seemingly endless negotiations over yet another multilateral financing package.",
        "相反，希腊在实现调整计划目标方面仍然存在问题，并且似乎陷入了关于新一轮多边融资计划的没完没了的谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump and congressional Republicans will also try to roll back the Dodd-Frank financial regulations that were enacted after the 2008 financial crisis, thereby giving banks and other financial institutions freer rein.",
        "特朗普和国会共和党还将试图撤销2008年金融危机后实施的多德-弗兰克（Dodd-Frank）金融监管，从而让银行和其他金融机构获得更大的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "That is especially true when one considers the lack of women in corporate management positions.",
        "考虑到妇女在公司管理职位上的劣势，这一点更加明显了。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, another crisis or two might be necessary before European leaders consider it seriously.",
        "不幸的是，欧洲领导人是不会认真考虑这一点的，要让他们学乖，还得再来两三次危机。"
    ],
    [
        "America absorbs Chinese imports, pays China in dollars, and China holds dollars, amassing $2.5 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, much of it held in US Treasury securities.",
        "美国从中国进口商品，付给中国美元； 中国持有美元，积累了25亿美元的外汇储备，其中大部分是美国国债。"
    ],
    [
        "That is far below what Italy needs to make up for the economy’s 5% contraction between 2005 and 2015.",
        "8 ％，这远远无法弥补意大利在2005~2015年间5％的经济收缩幅度。"
    ],
    [
        "In a region full of paradoxes, the Hamas victory may have added another one: usually, when extremists on one side become stronger, it plays into the hands of extremists on the other side, producing a dangerous spiral effect.",
        "在中东这一充满自相矛盾的地区，哈马斯获胜将增添另一个矛盾。 通常，当一端的极端主义者变得更为强大之时，就会让另一端的极端主义者坐收渔利，产生危险的螺旋效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s consider them in turn.",
        "下面请让我们逐个分析："
    ],
    [
        "With any luck, the era of the mountain guerrilla, the irate demagogue in green fatigues, or the frightful general in dark glasses is over in the Americas.",
        "运气好的话，山地游击队、身着绿色迷彩的愤怒的煽动者、戴着黑墨镜的令人恐惧的将军随处可见的时代在美洲已经结束。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no formula, but, befitting the seriousness of the challenge and Bhutan’s deep tradition of Buddhist reflection, there is an active and important process of national deliberation.",
        "事实上，这个指数不需要公式去计算，而是在应对挑战的严肃性和深厚的佛教自省传统两者的联合作用下，谨慎从容地推动着这个积极而重要的国家进程。"
    ],
    [
        "But both organizations need to reach out to these countries, a process that should be seen as the next phase in completing the wider Europe.",
        "但欧盟和北约必须对黑海国家伸出双手，这是实现大欧洲计划下一阶段必不可少的一个过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the least bad solution would be to proceed by default: gradually allow the drug war to vanish from television screens and newspapers, and have its place taken by other wars: on poverty, on petty crime, and for economic growth.",
        "也许最不坏的解决方案就是任其发展：任由这场战争慢慢地从电视屏幕和报纸上消失，然后以其他战争取而代之：如反贫穷的战争，反轻微罪行的战争以及为经济发展而战。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, some analysts suggest that a Taiwan-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement of the likes of CAFTA may not yet be possible, so, in the interim, President Ma’s administration is striving to achieve separate free-trade agreements with various ASEAN members.",
        "不幸的是，有些人士认为，不像中国东盟自由贸易区那样，台湾和东盟自由贸易区建立关系还不具备条件。 马英九政府也正在和单个的东盟国家之间建立关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of external economic policy, European policymakers have done very little in response to the wholesale changes now underway in the world economy – beyond complaining about Chinese imports and Russia’s aggressive use of its commodities, and, most recently, becoming embarrassingly obsessed with so-called Sovereign Wealth Funds.",
        "在对外经济政策方面，欧洲的政策制定者们在应对世界经济中正在发生的全局性变化上几乎无所作为—除了抱怨中国的进口商品和俄罗斯进攻性的使用其商品以及最近令人难堪地沉迷于所谓主权财富基金。"
    ],
    [
        "Such rules tend to have an uncertain impact on innovation while generating substantial rents for US patent and copyright holders.",
        "但这些管制在为美国专利和版权持有人不断创造收入之外很可能对其他创新行为带来不确定的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, despite Sweden’s excellent record on non-discrimination in general, immigrants find it difficult to integrate into Swedish society and face disadvantages in the labor market relative to native Swedes.",
        "类似地，尽管瑞典总体无歧视记录十分出色，但移民仍难以融入瑞典社会，相对土生土长的瑞典人仍要面临劳动力市场劣势。"
    ],
    [
        "While the bilateral Status of Forces Agreement does not have to be amended per se, given that its key stipulations closely resemble those of its NATO counterpart, crucial details set under the auspices of the bilateral security pact curtail the scope of Japanese jurisdiction over US forces stationed in Japan.",
        "虽然美日双边驻军地位协定本身并不需要进行根本性修订，但考虑到其主要条款十分接近于北约的相关条款，在双边安全条约中规定的关键细节限制了日本对美国驻军的管辖范围。"
    ],
    [
        "While productivity in Japanese factories is the highest in the world, owing to robots and other types of automation, the productivity of Japan’s white-collar workers is the lowest among OECD countries.",
        "尽管归功于机器人和其他形式的自动化，日本工厂的生产率是世界之最，但日本白领员工的生产率在经合组织国家中垫底。"
    ],
    [
        "This raises an obvious question.",
        "一个显而易见的问题应运而生。"
    ],
    [
        "But these national narratives, as appealing as they may be to some, must not be confused with Realpolitik,as they remain bereft of the innovation, inspiration, and idealism needed for transformational change.",
        "但这些国家性述事虽然很能吸引一些人，却不能与现实政治混淆，因为它们仍然缺乏变革所需的创新，灵感和理想主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Kim regime’s collapse could come about quite suddenly.",
        "和柏林墙的倒塌一样，金氏政权的倒台可能会在一夜之间发生。"
    ],
    [
        "By early December, all 28 EU governments had submitted applications – and they are still coming.",
        "截止十二月初，全部28个欧盟成员国政府均已提交了申请——而且申请项目仍在不断增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Russia was exposing its own renewed foreign-policy ambitions in Ukraine.",
        "与此同时，俄罗斯正在乌克兰暴露其新的外交政策野心。"
    ],
    [
        "Deregulation has not worked.",
        "解除管制并没有产生效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Among Republicans this sentiment is, of course, no surprise, given their party’s steady rightward drift and consistent antipathy toward President Barack Obama.",
        "当然，共和党有这种情绪并不令人奇怪，因为该党日益右倾，并且一直反对总统奥巴马。"
    ],
    [
        "Khamenei himself recently admitted that the probability that his successor should be named in the near future was “not low.”",
        "哈梅内伊本人最近承认，应该尽快指定他的继承人的可能性“不低”。"
    ],
    [
        "Immediately before the Beijing-Shanghai railway was built, the Chinese Ministry for Railways initiated international patent claims concerning the technology used in the CRH380A.",
        "但不幸的是，中国铁道部却发起了关于CRH380A机车相关技术的国际专利申请。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – With the United States teetering into recession, the global economic boom has ended.",
        "慕尼黑amp#45;amp#45;随着美国经济进入衰退，全球经济繁荣已经结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The strangest thing about the Duma election was that Putin lost his nerve.",
        "有关杜马选举最为奇怪的事情就是普京惊惶失措。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the anti-establishment – even anti-political – mood now dominating the contest last?",
        "目前主导竞争的反现状——甚至反政治——情绪会不会继续下去？"
    ],
    [
        "But the French have not indicated that they will push for sanctions against chronic surplus countries that fail to adjust their currencies.",
        "但法国人也没有提出会对那些不愿调整本国货币的长期贸易盈余国家实施制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the eurozone’s muddle-through approach no longer works.",
        "显然，欧元区的得过且过政策已经走入了死胡同。"
    ],
    [
        "But many observers are skeptical about China’s official GDP data and dubious of its ability to sustain 6.5% growth.",
        "但许多观察者质疑中国的官方GDP数据，怀疑其是否有能力维持6. 5%的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "For, while Funes is no old guerrilla hack, his vice president, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, and almost the entire FMLN leadership are unreformed Castroist guerrilla leaders and cadres.",
        "因为，虽然富内斯根本不是个老游击队员，但他的副总统萨尔瓦多·桑切斯塞伦以及几乎整个马解阵线的领导层都是没有改革头脑的卡斯特罗式的游击队领导干部。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a CNN political analyst, it was “the most important political speech of 2017 – and one of the most powerful political speeches in the modern era of the Senate.”",
        "据CNN政治分析人士透露，弗莱克的演讲是“2017年最重要的政治演讲——也是现代参议院最强有力的政治演讲之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of accepting the international system roughly as it is, with all its imperfections, they think that they can use their weight to alter the rules – in their favor.",
        "这些国家并不大体上接受有待改善的国际体制，而是认为它们可以利用它们的实力来改变规则为我所用。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, in narratives of the financial crisis, regulatory capture is often an important part of the story.",
        "但在人们对金融危机的叙述当中，规制俘虏理论(Regulatory Capture，指为公共利益服务的政府机构沦为私人机构的保护伞)经常会成为其中一个重要内容。"
    ],
    [
        "But China can take steps to gain these countries’ trust.",
        "但中国能够采取行动获得这些国家的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "But bank deleveraging (brought about by stiffer regulatory requirements), together with negative interest rates, caused financial institutions’ equity prices to fall, leading to further pro-cyclical destruction of value through price deflation, increasing illiquidity, and crowded exits.",
        "但银行迫于更严格的监管标准而推行的去杠杆化与负利率货币政策导致了金融机构股价下跌。 而金融企业股价下也跌触发了其它价格通缩、流动性下降和竞相甩卖资产的浪潮，并引起进一步顺周期资产价值的崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "The introduction of the Near Zero Energy Buildings standard for new buildings in the EU is set to reduce drastically dependence on gas for heating.",
        "欧盟新建筑引入的近零能耗建筑标准注定会使大大降低天然气采暖需求。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, monetary policy has been shaped by an imprecise, small, and shrinking subset of prices that exhibits long and variable lags vis-à-vis changes in the money supply.",
        "简言之，货币政策由价格的子集决定，这个子集不准确，规模小并且不断缩小，其与货币供给变化之间存在漫长且易变的时滞。"
    ],
    [
        "The relatively generous dole and the prospect of high taxes once in work merely reduces the incentive to take low-paid jobs.",
        "相对优厚的失业救济和工作后高额的税收前景只能降低人们接受低薪工作的积极性。"
    ],
    [
        "The pediatric trial data released by the MHRA presented a unique opportunity to examine whether the unpublished data supported the findings from published studies of SSRI’s.",
        "MHRA所公布的儿科案例数据给人们提供了一个难得的机会，去调查那些未曾公开的数据是否对有关SSRI’s并已发表的研究结果有利。"
    ],
    [
        "Accountability is also being flouted.",
        "问责制同样遭到了蔑视。"
    ],
    [
        "No cyclone alert was issued by the India Meteorological Department until Ockhi had already struck, and the initial rescue efforts were grossly inadequate to the scale of the challenge.",
        "奥基袭击前印度气象部门均未能发出飓风警报，而最初的救援力量又严重不足，根本无法匹配这场灾难的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "In a paper published prior to the release of their much-debated book The Israel Lobby, they argued:",
        "他称，如果以色列在伊朗核野心上率先敲响警钟，这个问题又将被认为是“以色列问题”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Parliament at Westminster, to which Scots continue to elect MP’s, still controls defense and foreign affairs, macroeconomic policy, taxation, and social security.",
        "苏格兰依然选举议员进入英国议会，而该议会依旧控制着国防和外交、宏观经济政策、税收以及社会安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the agreement showed the value of a more inclusive approach – for example, by asking key questions that might be too politically sensitive for some of the larger countries to raise, or by pointing out concerns that resonate with the poorest, even if they are less important for the richest.",
        "事实上，通过提出某些对于大国而言太过具有政治敏感性而难以启齿的问题，或者通过列出一些对富国意义不大，却能在穷国中产生共鸣的关注点，这个共识展示了一个更具包容性的解决之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, further nuclear escalation on the Korean Peninsula would be very dangerous, not least because the Kim regime would feel even more threatened than it already does.",
        "朝鲜半岛核态势的进一步升级无疑非常危险的，尤其是金正恩政权会感觉自己受到的威胁比当前更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Existing global stockpiles have a destructive capacity equal to 150,000 Hiroshima bombs, and in handling them there is an omnipresent potential for human error, system error, or misjudgment under stress.",
        "现有的全球核库存破坏力相当于150，000颗广岛原子弹，处理过程中很可能出现人为差错、系统故障或者因压力过大造成的误判。"
    ],
    [
        "Inflation will soon be the last problem that central banks will fear, as renewed slack in goods, labor, real estate, and commodity markets feeds disinflationary pressures.",
        "要不了多久，通胀就将成为央行所面临的问题中最微不足道的哪一个，因为商品、劳务、房地产和大宗商品市场的新一轮不景气将形成通缩压力。"
    ],
    [
        "It may well be that there is more than one root cause – every party to the conflict has a favorite one.",
        "冲突的根本原因很可能不只一种¾各方对此都有着不同的说辞。"
    ],
    [
        "Bombs, Books, and Bucks",
        "炸弹、书本和美元"
    ],
    [
        "Far from boosting consumption, as intended, monetary stimulus may create an environment that dampens demand, weakening prospects for economic growth.",
        "货币刺激并不能如愿提振消费，反而有可能创造一个抑制需求的环境，削弱经济增长前景。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, his doctorate is from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine’s neuroscience department.",
        "毕竟，其博士学位是在宾夕法尼亚大学医学院神经科学系取得的。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the financial industry is no different from the used-car business.",
        "在这个意义上，金融行业与二手车业务没有什么不同。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Council taking command of that process, it is far from clear what Barnier will actually do.",
        "但因为主导这一进程的是理事会，也就很难判断巴尼耶究竟会怎么做。"
    ],
    [
        "The China leg of Clinton’s Asia tour was salvaged – so much so that, at the end of her stay in Beijing, she indulged in the type of diplomatic hyperbole that few would have expected three days earlier: “Our countries are thoroughly, inescapably interdependent,” she said, adding that “a thriving China is good for America…” That may or may not be true; but both countries seem to have reached the conclusion that no human-rights dispute is worth sabotaging the entire bilateral relationship.",
        "这挽救了克林顿亚洲之行的中国站行程，以至于在离开北京前，她发表了三天前还没有人能够想到的夸张的外交声明：“美中两国完完全全、无可避免的互相依存，”她还说“繁荣的中国符合美国的利益…”这或许对或许不对； 但两国似乎都已下定决心为人权争议破坏整个双边关系不太值得。"
    ],
    [
        "As the sociologist Claus Offe recently pointed out, it is one thing to say who is to blame for the damage, and quite another to determine who can or should take responsibility for solving the problem.",
        "社会学家克劳斯·奥菲（Claus Offe）最近指出，认清伤害责任是一回事，确定谁能够或应该为解决问题负责是完全不同的另一回事。"
    ],
    [
        "And incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked almost nothing about Mexico at her confirmation hearing, and she emphasized relations with Mexico neither in her own statement nor in those she has made since assuming her post.",
        "而且，新任命的国务卿希拉里·克林顿在其证实听证会上，几乎没有被问到有关墨西哥的问题，并且，在她自己的听证声明和她就职后所做的申明中，她都没有强调和墨西哥的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the financial crisis has weakened the United States and Europe.",
        "首先，金融危机已经削弱了美国和欧洲的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "The response I received was chilling.",
        "我所得到的回答令人寒心。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, how many public figures of McNamara’s importance have ever expressed any regret for their mistakes and follies and crimes?",
        "但有多少像麦克纳马拉那么重要的人物曾经表达过对自己错误、愚蠢和罪行的懊悔？"
    ],
    [
        "The powerful seize non-renewable resources at the expense of the powerless.",
        "强者蹂躏弱者，抢夺不可再生资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Hong Kong’s data have been released regularly, and in 2006, Guangdong’s data were made publicly available for the first time.",
        "香港的数据已经做到能经常公布了，而在2006年，广东省的数据也第一次对公众开放。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Latin American countries like Mexico and Colombia remain under threat from drug cartels that sometimes are better armed than the police or the military.",
        "此外，墨西哥和哥伦比亚等拉美国家依然受到贩毒集团的威胁，那些集团的武器装备有时甚至超过警察和军方。"
    ],
    [
        "And it should be obvious to everyone – even the richest among us – that providing comfort in old age, and prosperity for the next generation, requires that the wealthiest pay enough in taxes to ensure that growth is truly and equitably shared.",
        "要想让老年人能获得优渥的生活，下一代能实现繁荣，就必须要求最富有的人群支付足够多的税收以确保增长能够真正做到公平分享，这应该是人人都能理解的浅显道理——即使是我们当中最富有的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Without democratic controls, investors may privatize gains and socialize losses, while locking in carbon-intensive and other environmentally and socially damaging approaches.",
        "如果没有民主控制，投资者将把收益私人化而损失社会化，采取碳密集和其他对环境和社会有害的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "The real reason to worry is that India has lost international competitiveness and has been buying time by borrowing from fickle lenders.",
        "真正令人担心的原因是印度已经丧失了国际竞争力并一直通过四处借贷来拖延时间。"
    ],
    [
        "In Lebanon and Jordan, for example, where more than 1.6 million registered Syrian refugees currently live, efforts to allow Syrian doctors to care for refugee patients have been criminalized.",
        "比如，黎巴嫩和约旦现在有160万多名叙利亚难民，但叙利亚医生医治难民患者是非法的。"
    ],
    [
        "It was only the unique circumstance in Europe and the US over the last half-century – most notably rapid demographic and productivity growth – that made his ideas seem plausible.",
        "过去半个世纪中欧洲和美国的特殊环境——最引人注目的是快速的人口和生产率增长——让他的观点看似可行。"
    ],
    [
        "For several years, the company’s “Edison” blood-testing devices were lauded as groundbreaking.",
        "若干年来，该公司的“爱迪生”血检设备被定义为“突破性”的而备受赞誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan himself had been jailed for reciting religion-laced poetry, which prevented him from taking office immediately when his Justice and Development Party (AKP) assumed office in November 2002.",
        "埃尔多安本人也曾因当众背诵宗教诗歌而入狱，这令他无法在其领导的土耳其正义与发展党2002年11月赢得议会选举时立刻就职。"
    ],
    [
        "Denmark and Sweden are known for their well-developed social-welfare systems, free education, and high labor-market participation.",
        "众所周知，丹麦和瑞典具有发达的社会福利制度、免费教育和高劳动力市场参与度。"
    ],
    [
        "The case gained significance by adding fuel to the fiery public debates now underway not only in Italy but across Europe on the status of refugees and foreign residents.",
        "它进一步激发了关于难民和外国居民问题的热烈公众讨论，这场讨论不但席卷了意大利还波及到整个欧洲，并使该案的意义得到进一步提升。"
    ],
    [
        "And there is probably a clear link in Obama’s mind between the red line in Syria and the one he has drawn for Iran, perhaps equally unwisely, to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.",
        "他们希望对伊朗开战。 奥巴马心中或许为伊朗划定了与叙利亚相似的红线（这两条红线同样不明智），那就是阻止伊朗的核武器研发。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared to a century ago, more people spend less time laboring to ensure their physical existence.",
        "相比100年前，有更多的人花费更少的时间就能保证生存的物质条件。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because democracy is about institutions as much as about individual candidates, it is also good for citizens to exercise their right to vote.",
        "而且，由于民主事关机构也同样事关候选人，公民行使投票权也是一件好事。"
    ],
    [
        "The Catalan question has deep historical roots, as does nationalism more broadly.",
        "加泰罗尼亚问题有其深刻的历史根源，也有更广的民族主义根源。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, despite a strong national balance sheet and ample central-bank liquidity, China is confronting a localized subprime problem, owing partly to high reserve requirements.",
        "简言之，尽管拥有强大的国家资产负债表和充足的央行流动性，中国仍面临着局部次贷风险问题。 而为防止过度信贷而设立的高准备金却会导致健康项目面临局部流动性紧缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Ceci Rouse and Orley Ashenfelter of Princeton University report that they find no signs that those who receive little education do so because education does not pay off for them: if anything, the returns to an extra year of schooling appear greater for those who get little education than for those who get a lot.",
        "普林斯顿大学的罗斯和阿申费尔特二人提出的报告说，他们并没有发现证据表明那些接受很少教育的人之所以这样，是由于对于他们而言读书无用。 多读一年的书对于读书很少的人来说要比读书很多的人回报要大。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, today’s debates about how to achieve sustainable, inclusive growth are too narrowly focused on the role of governments and policymakers.",
        "尽管如此，眼下关于如何实现可持续包容性增长的争论仍狭隘地聚焦于政府和决策者的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because that would be far too dangerous in the current political climate, many farmers are being driven into debt caring for old cows, while the cow population in India becomes increasingly unsustainable.",
        "但在当前的政治气候下此举变得太过危险，许多农民只能举债喂养老牛，而在印度已经越来越难以承载如此庞大的牛只数量。"
    ],
    [
        "But how can these impulses be reconciled with the strategic partnerships that India, Brazil, and others are currently forming, or with those – like the US-Saudi relationship – that have lasted for decades?",
        "但怎样才能让这些冲动与延续数十年的美沙（沙特）关系以及印度巴西等国正在形成战略伙伴关系相互调和？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, to measure the difficulty of dealing with licenses, Doing Business’s indicators examine the burden of obtaining a permit to build a warehouse.",
        "比如，在衡量处理执照方面，《营商环境报告》的指标考察获得建造仓库的许可的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Their eagerness for war had several causes.",
        "他们对战争的渴望有几个原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Creating a global platform for collaboration in education research and innovation has been the PISA initiative’s aspiration from its conception in the late 1990s.",
        "自20世纪90年代末PISA计划提出以来，创造教育研究和创新合作的全球平台就一直是其初衷。"
    ],
    [
        "Hundreds of top officials have been replaced by young, Western-educated professionals, and the government is now working feverishly to implement deep and comprehensive reforms, including a new law on public procurement and a package of anti-corruption legislation.",
        "数百高级官员被受西方教育的年轻专业人士和取代，政府如今正干劲十足地实施全面的深度改革，包括一部关于公共部门采购的法律和一系列反腐败立法。"
    ],
    [
        "We are repeatedly told that Europe is in the midst of an identity crisis, in need of some new project.",
        "我们被反复告知欧洲正在上演一场身份危机，需要找到一项新的事业。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamilton did not have to worry about moral hazard, because the federal government did not guarantee any new debt incurred by the states.",
        "汉密尔顿并不需要担心道德风险，因为联邦政府并不对任何州级新债提供担保。"
    ],
    [
        "According to estimates by the United Nations, the global economy expanded by 3.8% last year, continuing the strong performance recorded since 2003.",
        "根据联合国的估计，去年全球经济增长了3. 8%，继续了自2003年以来的强劲表现。"
    ],
    [
        "As Russia struggles to bring Ukraine back into its orbit, another ancient date looms large: 1709, when Czar Peter the Great crushed the Swedish and Cossack armies at the Battle of Poltava.",
        "俄罗斯正竭力把乌克兰重新揽入它的轨道，另一个古代日期的重要性因此显现：1709年，彼得大帝在波尔塔瓦战役（Battle of Poltava）中大破瑞典和哥萨克军队。"
    ],
    [
        "The usual explanation of today’s scarcity and high prices focuses on explosive growth in emerging countries, China and India in particular, whose demand for scarce resources is “insatiable.”",
        "对当今的短缺和商品高价的解释专注于新兴国家的爆炸式增长，特别是中国和印度的增长，并认为这两个国家对稀缺资源的需求是“无底洞”。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone knows what financial debt means: money owed, often borrowed.",
        "众所周知，财务债务的意思是欠钱，通常是借来的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a regional agreement involving Iran, India, Pakistan, Russia, China, Turkey, the European Union, and the US would become much more likely, providing the framework for security and economic growth that diplomats from Henry Kissinger to the late Richard Holbrooke always claimed would be necessary for lasting peace in Afghanistan.",
        "此外，达成包括伊朗、印度、巴基斯坦、俄罗斯、中国、土耳其、欧盟和美国在内的地区安全协议的可能性大大增加，为安全和经济增长——从基辛格到已故的霍尔布鲁克（Richard Holbrooke）在内的外交官一直认为这是维持阿富汗和平之必须——提供了框架。"
    ],
    [
        "But for the top 1%, the effective tax rate rose 3.4 percentage points, to 34%.",
        "但对最顶层的1%，有效税率升高了3. 4个百分点，达到了34%。"
    ],
    [
        "Such insights are not new, but they are often neglected in policymaking.",
        "这些见解并不新颖，但却经常在政策制定过程中被忽略。"
    ],
    [
        "The cultures never mesh well, and big securities businesses are notoriously difficult to manage.",
        "这两种文化从未很好地融合，大型证券公司难以管理更是出了名的。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1947, they refused the UN partition plan, which called for the establishments of two states in British Palestine.",
        "1947年，巴勒斯坦人拒绝了联合国的分隔计划。 该计划呼吁在英属巴勒斯坦成立两个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Helping it build a new regional order will require all actors, great and small, to accept compromise, as the Lebanese have done.",
        "建立新地区秩序要求所有大小主体像黎巴嫩人那样接受妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "The current formula, maintaining the status quo, offers the highest common denominator.",
        "当前这种维持现状的方式，最大程度地保障了双方的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But it must rise further, to 8%, in order to reduce the high leverage of household sector.",
        "但该比率肯定还会继续上升，估计会上升至8%，以降低家庭部门的高杠杆率。"
    ],
    [
        "TIRANA – In an era characterized by political polarization and policy paralysis, we should celebrate broad agreement on economic strategy wherever we find it.",
        "地拉那——在这样一个政治极化、政策瘫痪的时代，人们应当为能就经济战略达成广泛的一致而感到庆幸。"
    ],
    [
        "They also had exaggerated fears about American weaknesses, just as von Moltke had exaggerated fears about German weaknesses vis-à-vis Russia.",
        "他们还夸大了对美国弱点的担心，就象毛奇当年夸大德国面对俄罗斯时的弱势一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, unlike Latin America, Africa, and elsewhere, Middle East democrats have not benefited from the Cold War's end.",
        "此外，与拉丁美洲、非洲和其它地方不同的是，中东民主并未从冷战结束中有所收获。"
    ],
    [
        "So, what’s not to like in the global economic picture for 2018?",
        "那么，我们有什么理由不对2018年全球经济局势感到乐观呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Evidently the national bosses like it that way.",
        "显然，各国领导人也喜欢这样的安排。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is high time that Europe, and the world, stopped lurching from one short-term fix to the next and addressed the real structural issues.",
        "但对欧洲乃至全世界来说，也是时候停止在短期方案之间纠缠不休，并应对真正的结构问题了。"
    ],
    [
        "With respect to the first problem, journals are gradually replacing institutions as the arbiters of quality within academic communities.",
        "在第一个问题上，期刊正逐步取代科研机构成为学术成果质量的评判者。"
    ],
    [
        "It was then that I realized that I could not be in love with my country right now.",
        "到这个时候，我才意识到我现在不能爱我的祖国了。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the US stock market today looks a lot like it did at the peaks before most of the country’s 13 previous bear markets.",
        "总而言之，美国股市现在的状况看起来就跟在过去十三个熊市中的大部分有点类似。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet many people will do all they can to game the system, a challenge that each company must confront.",
        "不过肯定有许多人会想尽一切办法去钻系统的空子，而这也是每间公司都要面对的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the US has overtaken China as Japan’s main export market, as America’s economy, too, recovers from half-a-decade of sluggishness.",
        "8万亿日元。 事实上，随着美国经济从五年停滞中走出，美国已经取代中国成为日本主要出口市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the geopolitical cards could turn out in Japan’s favor if China overplays its hand.",
        "简而言之，如果中国做得过火的话，地缘政治因素很快会倒向对日本有利的一方。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that he may not have to.",
        "好消息是他可能并不需要这么做。"
    ],
    [
        "They survived the catastrophic mass extinction that finished off Tyrannosaurus Rex and all the rest, as well as the Permian-Triassic extinction that wiped out around 96% of marine species.",
        "它们躲过了消灭霸王龙及其他所有物种的灾难性大灭绝，也躲过了消灭96%海洋物种的二叠纪-三叠纪大灭绝。"
    ],
    [
        "In many countries, Schroeder would now be charged with the crime of conflict of interest.",
        "如果在其他许多国家，施罗德将会被指责为犯有利益冲突的罪刑。"
    ],
    [
        "“We either get the rights of the martyrs, or die like them,” chanted hundreds of thousands in Tahrir and other Egyptian squares.",
        "“要么为烈士争取权利，要么和烈士一样死去，”解放广场和其他埃及广场上成千上万的示威者喊道。"
    ],
    [
        "Blindly pumping the current bail-out billions into old industries and exhausted economic models will be throwing good money after bad while mortgaging our children’s future.",
        "把目前的救市资金盲目地投入到旧产业以及穷途末路的经济模式中就是浪费钱财并且把子孙后代的未来用作抵押。"
    ],
    [
        "He will have to praise Health Security Accounts – and argue that people won’t stop going to the doctor for preventive care even if their HSA-tied insurance plan doesn’t pick up any of the bills.",
        "他必须赞扬医疗保障账户（HSA），并主张，即便其HAS维系的保险计划不索取任何账单，人们也不会停止去找医生进行预防保健。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, UNESCO calculated that governments must double education spending as a share of national income to achieve the 2030 goals.",
        "去年，联合国教科文组织估算政府必须将教育支出占国民收入的比重提高一倍才能完成2030年目标。"
    ],
    [
        "For this to be achieved, the EU must establish a common security policy and military force.",
        "为实现这一目标，欧盟必须建立共同的安全政策和军事力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Finding ways to use water, land, fertilizer, and labor more efficiently, and with minimal adverse impact, is essential to ecological sustainability.",
        "提高水、土地、化肥及劳动力资源的利用效率并尽可能控制不利影响是保持生态可持续发展的关键要素。"
    ],
    [
        "The US efforts, led by Special Envoy George Mitchell, have shown clearly that the current ruling coalition in Israel is incapable of doing the minimum required for peace.",
        "美国方面（以特使乔治·米歇尔为代表）所做出的努力明确表明：现有的以色列执政联盟根本无法满足和平的基本要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Mothers bring a direct, emotional, and personal component to this age-old struggle, insisting on their children’s existence as citizens and human beings whose rights must be upheld.",
        "母亲们为这场古老的斗争注入了直接、个人和情感的因素，坚持要求她们子女作为公民和人类的权利和存在必须得到保护。"
    ],
    [
        "The intervention has seemingly been driven by a geopolitical imperative to bottle up or eliminate Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi so that his regime cannot exploit the political vacuum in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia.",
        "这场干涉看上去似乎是被一种地缘政治动机所驱动，旨在牵制或者消灭卡扎菲，不让他的政权在邻国埃及和突尼斯的政治真空中得利。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, because a treaty of this kind would mean extensive transfer of sovereignty to European intergovernmental institutions, it would need direct popular legitimization through referendums in all member states, including (and especially) Germany.",
        "当然，由于此类条约意味着主权向欧洲共同政府机构的大规模转移，因此需要通过所有成员国（特别是德国）公投实现直接的、广受人民支持的合法化。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Renminbi Romance",
        "欧洲的人民币罗曼史"
    ],
    [
        "I need the further engagement of your troops in Afghanistan!”",
        "我需要你们的部队更多地介入阿富汗。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, Putin has not only moved to trap my country in a frozen conflict that will prevent both democracy and the economy from flourishing; he has shredded the rules and norms that have kept the peace in Europe for three generations.",
        "普京这样做不仅将我的祖国推入“冷冲突”陷阱，致使民主和经济繁荣不再； 他还亲手撕碎了欧洲三代人赖以维护和平的法律和规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with its new enrichment plant, North Korea’s access to fissile materials will greatly increase.",
        "如今在新浓缩设备的帮助下，朝鲜获取核裂变物质的能力将大大增强。"
    ],
    [
        "A second reason is that the UN has included the eradication of chronic poverty in its new Sustainable Development Goals.",
        "第二个原因是联合国将根除长期贫困列入了其可持续发展目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Legally, of course, this guarantee is only worth the solvency of the guarantor – in this case the near-bankrupt Cypriot state.",
        "当然，从法律上说，担保无非是担保者的偿付能力——在这个例子中是濒于破产的塞浦路斯国。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU and the ECB are worried about the moral hazard of any “bailout.”",
        "欧盟和欧洲央行对任何“救助”所可能带来的道德风险忧心忡忡。"
    ],
    [
        "They borrowed too much.",
        "他们借得太多。"
    ],
    [
        "By the middle of the nineteenth century, after more than 200 years of colonialism and slavery, Africa’s population had fallen to 95 million – just 9% of the world total – whereas other continents had experienced a large population increase over the same period.",
        "到十九世纪中叶，在经历了200多年的殖民和奴役后，非洲人口下降到9,500万，只占世界总数的9%，与此同时，其他大洲经历了人口的大规模增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Whole societies can also try to improve their happiness.",
        "全社会同样可以进行提升幸福感的尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "This can partly be attributed to the collapse of heavily polluting Soviet-style industry.",
        "这部分是因为苏联式的污染严重的工业的瓦解。"
    ],
    [
        "Underlying these paradoxes is yet another: the vast majority of health research is conducted in wealthy economies, but the vast majority of the global public-health burden falls on low- and middle-income countries.",
        "在上述悖论之后还隐藏着另外一个悖论：即绝大多数卫生研究主体是富裕国家，但中低收入国家才是绝大部分全球公共卫生负担的承受者。"
    ],
    [
        "In his latest book, Paul Blustein recounts how a former Indian trade minister once asked his American counterpart to bring him a picture of an American farmer: “I have never actually seen one,” the minister quipped. “I have only seen US conglomerates masquerading as farmers.”",
        "在近期的一本新书中，保罗·布卢斯坦写道，当一名印度前部长向一位美国同行要一张美国农工的照片时，“我一张都没有看到”,部长打趣地说，“我看到的都是美国公司巨头装扮成的农工。"
    ],
    [
        "The report did, however, contain two surprising facts.",
        "但是，该报告还是包含两个令人惊讶的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Enver Ziganshin, the chief engineer of BP Russia, was shot to death in Irkutsk on September 30.",
        "俄罗斯英国石油公司总工程师吉甘辛9月30日被人在伊尔库次克枪杀。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, sometimes these executives do miss the rule of law that prevails in the West.",
        "当然，有时这些高管们也会怀念西方通行的法治。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the Chinese who have endowed the term “financial center” with such weight and meaning by trying to dissect the functions of such cities and quantify every detail.",
        "但金融中心这个词变成今天如此的份量和含义，是中国人自己的产物。 我们试图把金融中心的功能拆开来，并且把每一个细节都量化。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the GCC needs to favor greater exchange-rate flexibility and monetary independence.",
        "最后，GCC需要支持加强汇率弹性和货币独立性。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, corporations in advanced countries can create subsidiaries in member countries through which to invest back home, and then sue, giving them a new channel to bloc regulations.",
        "更糟糕的是，发达国家公司可以在成员国设立分支，通过这些分支回国投资然后起诉，以此作为规避监管的新方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence the muted overall productivity gains.",
        "因此，总体生产率增长缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not easy to do.",
        "但要去实行却并非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "In the coming months and years, destination countries must lay the foundations for integrating refugees into their workforces.",
        "未来的数月乃至数年，目的地国必须为难民融入本国劳动力奠定基础。"
    ],
    [
        "If he were in an expansive mood, the professor might add that the effect of free trade on an economy’s growth rate is not clear, either, and depends on an altogether different set of requirements.",
        "”如果这位教授研究甚广，他可能还会加上几句：自由贸易对一国经济的增长率的影响是不确定的，取决于不同的前提条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Four of the country’s largest rivers, flowing north, west, east and south, begin there, providing water and power to seven major towns, including the capital, Nairobi.",
        "肯尼亚的四条最大河流分别从东南西北四个方向汇聚在此，为大城镇提供水和电力，包括首都内罗毕。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the US debt ratio really is on the fast track to triple-digit levels, investors in the US and abroad may rightly fear that the government has lost control of the budget process.",
        "但如果美国债务比率果真一路突飞猛进达到三位数水平，美国和海外投资者可能会正确地担心政府将失去对预算流程的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Drug lords rule by fear over entire communities.",
        "毒品大亨还是用恐惧和暴力手段统治着所有社区。"
    ],
    [
        "Zionism was supposed to enable the Jews to break with their history.",
        "犹太复国主义本应让犹太人与他们的历史决裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the drag will be much smaller, as tax increases and spending cuts will be much milder.",
        "当然，如果增税减支较为温和的话，拖累作用也会大大降低。 但是，即使财政悬崖最后只是增长的小趔趄——GDP只损失0."
    ],
    [
        "Electricity generated by strictly green sources – water, wind, and solar – increased by 20%, with the most dramatic growth occurring in solar power generation, which rose a staggering 175%.",
        "水能、风能和太阳能等严格意义上的绿色能源发电增长了20%，其中以太阳能发电的增幅最大，实现了175% 的惊人涨幅。"
    ],
    [
        "One is that some policymakers think that fiscal balance really is the main pillar in a growth strategy: Deleverage quickly and get on with it.",
        "首先是有些政策制定者认为财政平衡确实是经济增长策略的主要支柱：所以要快速去杠杆化并抓紧干。"
    ],
    [
        "Income inequality has been growing in the US over the last three decades, largely because the labor market has increasingly demanded skills that the education system has been unable to supply.",
        "过去三十年来，美国的收入不平等情况一直在恶化，这大部分是因为教育体系越来越难以满足劳动力市场所要求的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "But, notwithstanding their leadership pose vis-à-vis the Competitiveness Pact, the French have already distanced themselves from the commitment to raise the retirement age to 67.",
        "而尽管法国人在《竞争力协议》中扮演着领导角色，但却对提高退休年龄到67岁的政策承诺避而不谈。"
    ],
    [
        "The church supported the PP against a prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whose advocacy of gay marriage, more relaxed divorce laws, and the removal of compulsory religion classes from the national curriculum upset many religious conservatives.",
        "教堂在选举中支持人民党，反对总理何塞·路易斯·罗德里格斯·萨帕特罗，后者对同性恋婚姻、放松离婚法、和从国家必修课中取消宗教课程的支持让许多宗教保守份子感到愤愤不已。"
    ],
    [
        "In the aggregate, however, they affect huge numbers of people.",
        "但是，从总量看，它们影响着为数巨大的人们。"
    ],
    [
        "But one has only to look to Seattle, where gay couples marry in City Hall and marijuana is sold in licensed retail outlets, to see the human capacity to reexamine deeply held assumptions.",
        "但你只要看看西雅图，同性恋夫妻在市政厅结婚，大麻在持牌零售商店销售，这些都表明该人类有能力反思根深蒂固的假设。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the US election campaign, even the upcoming October debates, will leave most observers wondering whether any country is in charge.",
        "而美国大选——即使是即将到来的10月份电视辩论——将让大部分观察者感到困惑，找不出领袖国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission's “Green Paper\" consultation round on the subject produced more questions than answers.",
        "欧盟委员会关于该问题的“绿皮书”咨询轮所提出的问题多于找到的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "That stability may continue, but it is becoming less of a sure bet.",
        "这样的稳定可能继续下去，但其确定性正在逐步递减。"
    ],
    [
        "As Hun Sen, Duterte, and others have shown, the new US approach fosters impunity for autocratic leaders.",
        "正如洪森、杜特尔特和其他人所表明的那样，美国新策略导致专制领袖可以不受惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "But on the level of individual societies, I believe that inequality does loom as a serious political-economic problem.",
        "但是，就单个社会而言，我相信不平等的确构成一个严重的政治经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "These are weighty questions, about which debate will probably intensify in the coming years.",
        "这些都是很重要的问题，关于它们的争论在未来几年可能愈演愈烈。"
    ],
    [
        "One would expect that, with the rising Iranian threat fostering tacit security cooperation between Israel and its more stable Arab neighbors (particularly Saudi Arabia), Netanyahu would aspire to resolve the Palestinian issue, thus removing the last obstacle to an overt strategic partnership.",
        "人们可以期待，日益增加的伊朗威胁将促进以色列及其较稳定的阿拉伯邻国（特别是沙特阿拉伯）之间静悄悄的合作，在这样的情况下，内塔尼亚胡将会下定决心解决巴勒斯坦问题，从而打消明确战略伙伴关系的最后障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "This result has been found among people from Australia, Denmark, England and Wales, Scotland, Sweden, and the United States.",
        "澳大利亚、丹麦、英格兰、威尔士、苏格兰、瑞典以及美国等国家的人群中验证了这一结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU must continue to insist that Russia ratify it, stipulating that Russia is already bound by its terms.",
        "欧盟必须继续坚持要求俄罗斯签署该条约，规定俄罗斯已经受到其条款的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Europe’s recent soccer experience – specifically, in the EURO 2012 tournament and this year’s World Cup – provides insight into how to revive Europe’s economy and address its deeper identity problem.",
        "事实上，欧洲不久前的足球经验 ——特别是2012年欧锦赛和今年的世界杯——启迪人们如何重振欧洲经济并打造深层次的认同感。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies that closing the persistent digital divide between the world’s developed and developing regions could give a big boost to development.",
        "这意味着填补持续存在的发达和发展中地区数字差距可以带来巨大的发展提振作用。"
    ],
    [
        "A return to Keynesian demand management could be the main economic benefit of Donald Trump’s incoming US administration, as expansionary fiscal policies replace much less efficient efforts at monetary stimulus.",
        "回归凯恩斯主义需求管理也许是即将履新的美国唐纳德·特朗普政府的主要经济红利，扩张性财政政策将取代效率低下的货币刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "Intervention in such circumstances can take any number of forms, from public rhetoric and private diplomacy to economic and political sanctions to armed intervention.",
        "\"这种情况下的干预可以采取任何形式，包括公开声明、秘密外交、经济政治制裁直至武装干涉。"
    ],
    [
        "For news, you might go directly to your favorite news service.",
        "想看新闻可以直接登录喜欢的新闻网站。"
    ],
    [
        "Official corruption, for example, has become so entrenched that President Xi Jinping has made an anti-graft campaign a central objective.",
        "官员腐败现象是如此根深蒂固，以致习近平主席必须将反腐败运动当成核心目标来抓。"
    ],
    [
        "India is a vibrant democracy, and, as the economic system failed the poor and the weak, the political system tried to compensate.",
        "印度是一个充满活力的民主社会，当经济制度让穷苦和弱势群体破产时，政治制度要站出来补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "To survive, its citizens must act in unison or risk seeing every moderate tendency in the country purged by a clamor of illiberal, religious voices.",
        "若要生存，巴基斯坦人民只有团结起来，否则就会眼睁睁看着每一个即使是温和的变化也会在一片保守的宗教叫嚷声中被断送。"
    ],
    [
        "Proponents of the financial repression explanation essentially view low interest rates as a hidden tax on bondholders, who receive a lower interest rate than they would otherwise.",
        "金融抑制解释的支持者基本将低利率视为对债券持有者的隐形税收，压制了他们原本应得的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "What advanced societies need now are social compacts that are resilient to demographic shifts, technological disruptions, and economic shocks.",
        "发达社会现在需要能适应人口变化、技术破坏和经济冲击的社会契约。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – As we enter 2011, the Euro-Atlantic region is a study in strategic contrasts.",
        "华盛顿——随着2011年的到来，欧洲大西洋地区已经成为战略对比研究的课题。"
    ],
    [
        "And it has intensified the domestic debate over the death penalty.",
        "这加剧了印度国内对死刑的争论。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – What is the point of a presidential debate?",
        "纽约—总统竞选辩论的要点是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "BOSTON – Recently, the tobacco industry’s lack of respect for people’s lives, international law, and national sovereignty has been placed under a spotlight.",
        "波士顿——最近，烟草行业不尊重民众生命、国际法和国家主权的问题已经被放到了聚光灯下。"
    ],
    [
        "With some international celebrities already keen to start a campaign to boycott the Beijing Olympics because of China’s support for some of the world’s most repressive and incompetent regimes, a military crackdown in Burma is the last thing the Chinese authorities can afford.",
        "鉴于一些国际知名人士已经因为中国支持世界上某些最最残酷地镇压百姓以及不称职的政权而掀起抵制北京奥运会的运动，缅甸发生军事镇压是中国当局最不愿意看到的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "For China’s 270 million migrant workers, benefit portability could be decisive in shifting the balance from fear and precautionary saving to security and discretionary spending.",
        "7亿农民工来说，获得社会福利的可能性对于将平衡从担忧和预防性储蓄转向安全和自由支配支出具有决定性作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea would be laughable if it were not so tragic.",
        "如果这种做法没有那么可悲，它甚至会让人觉得可笑。"
    ],
    [
        "Coincidentally, Kahneman’s article appeared the same week that Buffett announced the largest philanthropic donation in US history – $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and another $7 billion to other charitable foundations.",
        "巧合的是，在卡尼曼的文章发表的同一周巴菲特宣布了美国历史上最大一笔的慈善捐赠，捐款300亿美元给比尔和美琳达·盖茨基金会，另外捐赠70亿美元给其他慈善基金。"
    ],
    [
        "A lot of public attention and worry nowadays surrounds the new risks that globalization and information technology create for our wages and livelihoods.",
        "目前，对全球化和信息技术给我们的工资和生计带来的种种新风险，公众倾注了大量的注意力，忧虑重重。"
    ],
    [
        "The trouble is that the more you start to think of your welfare in terms of money, the more likely you are to regard spending time with your friends or making love as an “opportunity cost” – the loss of money you would have made by working instead – rather than a benefit.",
        "这一理论的麻烦在于，你越是用金钱来衡量你的福利，你就越可能认为你花在朋友和做爱上的时间是一种“机会成本”——你损失了原本可以用在工作上赚到的钱——而不是一项福利。"
    ],
    [
        "One explanation is that employment in the years before the crisis was being propped up by credit-fueled demand.",
        "一个解释是，在危机前的几年中，就业因为信用刺激的需求而得到了支持。"
    ],
    [
        "So reaching some agreement with Pakistan, one that both India and Afghanistan can live with, is essential.",
        "因此与巴基斯坦这个与印度和阿富汗都能和平共存的国家达成一致是必须完成的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The odds that such a large difference is the result of mere chance are no more than one in 100.",
        "6个季度的衰退。 如此大的差距为随机造成的可能性不到百分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Campaigning at home, however, he talked only about the threat some Palestinians pose to Israeli security today, never of the opportunity that other Palestinians offer for peace tomorrow.",
        "但是，在国内选战中，他只谈及某些巴勒斯坦人现在给以色列安全所造成的威胁，完全不提其他巴勒斯坦人为明天的和平所提供的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, 2,036 American goats came to Japan in the years right after the war.",
        "是的，战争结束后的一年里有2,306头美国山羊来到日本。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the huge premium accorded to the winner by Italy’s new electoral law (Renzi was sure he would be the one to benefit), such a prospect is truly frightening.",
        "考虑到根据意大利新选举法，获胜者将获得巨大的优势（伦齐确定他将是受益者之一），这样的前景着实骇人。"
    ],
    [
        "Voters who supported Brexit may yet echo what Marx said of Louis Napoleon’s counter-revolution: “A whole people, that imagines it has imparted to itself accelerated powers of motion through a revolution, suddenly finds itself transferred back to a dead epoch.”",
        "支持英国脱欧的选民也许并不同意马克思论拿破仑三世的反革命的话：“整个民族，想象着它已经通过一场革命而为自己注入了加速的运动力量，突然发现自己被送回了一个死去的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "So it was a mercy that our country chose to go the way of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission – granting amnesty in exchange for the truth.",
        "因此，我们的国家选择追随“真理与和解委员会”的确是件幸事，这意味着只要承认真理，就可以赦免过去犯下的罪过。"
    ],
    [
        "The new government will have to make do and chart a slow path for its oil recovery, just as Saddam's regime did.",
        "新政府必须步萨达姆政权的后尘，找到一条石油复苏的缓慢通道。"
    ],
    [
        "There is certainly a degree of envy for what others have accomplished and a sense of desperation about how Al Qaeda can capitalize on this change.",
        "其中肯定折射出某种对他人成功的嫉妒以及基地组织拼命希望利用改革的心态。"
    ],
    [
        "Lebanon is a particularly important participant in this project.",
        "黎巴嫩是这个项目中尤为重要的参与者。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the many Irish households that lost jobs and part of their wealth, the banks were deemed to be “too big to fail,” so Ireland’s political elites intervened with state funding.",
        "与许多失去了工作和部分财富的爱尔兰家庭不同，银行被认为“太大而不能倒”，因此爱尔兰政治精英用国家资金出手干预。"
    ],
    [
        "And when they do consciously choose a country, they tend to look for places where their compatriots or relatives already live, or where they already know the language, owing to past colonial ties.",
        "而当他们有意选择一个国家时，他们往往会寻找同胞或亲属已经生活的国家，或者前往那些因为过去的殖民关系他们已经掌握了语言的国家生活。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, it is a key theme in the upcoming presidential election, and it is shaping politics in Europe and emerging markets as well.",
        "而这一点既是在美国总统大选临近的核心主题，还左右着欧洲和新兴市场的政治形势。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s where Asia fits into the equation. As an export-led region, Asia remains heavily dependent on end-market demand from consumers in the developed world.",
        "那么，随着美国面临可能的消费缩水，谁能来替代美国的位置呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Consumers are the main beneficiaries, especially in the household-goods market.",
        "消费者是主要受益者，特别是在家用产品市场。"
    ],
    [
        "This $300 billion is a tax that shareholders of growing companies think is worth paying (or perhaps cannot find a way to avoid paying) for energetic corporate executives.",
        "这3000亿美元是成长性公司的股东甘愿为精力充沛的公司管理者所支付的税（或者也可能是他们不得不支付的税）。"
    ],
    [
        "In West Africa, a simple money transfer operator now handles 70% of official payments and also imposes exclusivity on banks.",
        "在西非地区，一名汇款操作员现在处理了70%的官方付款，同时也造就了银行的垄断。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration gave $250 billion per year in tax cuts to the richest Americans, raised military spending by $150 billion per year, and then turned to the poorest people of the world and told them that there is no money available to meet America's promise.",
        "布什政府每年对那些最富有美国人降低的税收达2500亿美元，军事支出则提高到了每年1500亿美元，然后他转向世界最贫穷的人们，对他们说，美国已经没有钱来实现它曾做出的承诺了。"
    ],
    [
        "Members of this camp do not believe that dynamic civil societies can integrate people of different origins within open democratic settings, or that their countries can benefit from welcoming them.",
        "上述阵营成员不相信欢迎移民可以让国家受益，也不相信充满活力的民间社会可以让出身不同者融入到开放的民主环境中。"
    ],
    [
        "Catastrophic economic consequences followed.",
        "随之而来的是灾难性的经济后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the International Monetary Fund has correctly pointed out that part of the solution for a world with too much supply and too little demand needs to be public investment in infrastructure, which is lacking – or crumbling – in most advanced economies and emerging markets (with the exception of China).",
        "就连IMF也正确地指出，对供给过多、需求过少的世界来说，部分解决办法在于基础设施公共投资，而大部分发达经济体和新兴市场（中国除外）正缺乏基础设施投资或基础设施过于陈旧破损。"
    ],
    [
        "But all of the signs point to a coordinated political crusade by Gülen followers, including the chief prosecutors involved in the recent corruption cases and the pro-Gülen media that have steadfastly defended the prosecutors’ impartiality (despite the many irregularities – such as extensive unauthorized wiretaps – that have come to light).",
        "但所有信号都表明，包括最近卷入腐败案的总检察部门高官和坚决捍卫检察官公正形象（尽管他们的许多非法行为——如大量未授权的监听行为——已经遭到了曝光）的亲葛兰运动媒体在内的葛兰运动追随者在组织一场政变。"
    ],
    [
        "Research and investment in physical and social infrastructure must be a high priority as well.",
        "研究和投资物质和社会基础设施也必须成为一项首要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – China’s 12th Five-Year Plan calls for a shift in the country’s economic model from export-led growth toward greater reliance on domestic demand, particularly household consumption.",
        "发自北京——中国的“十二五”计划要求将本国的经济模式从出口带动型增长向内需型转变，尤其将重点放在居民消费方面。"
    ],
    [
        "As an economist, I’ll leave aside Trump’s positively frightening foreign-policy views and concentrate on the economic issues that many pundits claim put him in the White House.",
        "作为一名经济学家，我先撇开特朗普骇人的外交政策观，集中讨论许多专家认为让他成功问鼎白宫的经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "With the right incentives and funding from philanthropic sources, job-creating entrepreneurs could serve as engines of more inclusive growth in communities across the US.",
        "如果有正确的激励和来自慈善资源的资金，创造就业岗位的企业就可以成为全美国各社区更具包容性的增长的引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "What are the chances of adopting a scheme of this kind today?",
        "现在重新实行该方案有多大的成功概率呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The Kurds of Iraq have made their preference known; it is neither fair nor sustainable to refuse to take their goal seriously.",
        "伊拉克库尔德人已经让世界知道了自己想要什么； 拒绝认真对待他们的目标既不公平，也不可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, a consensus rapidly emerged: Saving and investment should be reduced and brought into better balance.",
        "结果，一个共识迅速迅速产生：储蓄和投资应该降低，并实现更好的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of sending help, they send study groups.",
        "他们送去的不是援助，而是派去调研小组。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, no one party or figure has dominated French politics for too long, with power alternating regularly between parties of the left and the right, at least since François Mitterrand’s first victory in 1981.",
        "此外，没有哪个政党或个人能主宰法国政治太长时间，权力定期在左翼和右翼政党之间交替，至少自1981年密特朗首次获选以来是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the West, it is fruitless to try to bring Putin and his team back to democracy, where Russia does not belong, or to punish Russia with sanctions, which won’t work.",
        "对于西方而言，努力引领普京及其内阁成员回到民主或利用制裁处罚俄罗斯均毫无成效，俄罗斯不属于民主，这些方法也都不起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "They represent a very different age, which one is tempted to call democratic, even if Russia today is more like a soft dictatorship.",
        "他们代表了一个截然不同的时代，人们更愿意用民主来形容这个时代，就连今天的俄国也实行软性独裁。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest German trade data confirm both rules, but especially the second one.",
        "最新的德国贸易数据证实了这两个规则，尤其是第二个。"
    ],
    [
        "ASEAN will also need to compete on productivity – an area in which countries like Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam are currently at a disadvantage.",
        "东盟还需要在生产率方面形成竞争力——在这方面，目前柬埔寨、印度尼西亚和越南处于劣势。"
    ],
    [
        "It is in Iraq, however, that Iran faces its most complicated mix of challenge and opportunity.",
        "但是，伊朗所面临的最复杂的挑战和机遇在于伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do not, the best qualified scientists and administrators might be frightened away.",
        "如果做不到这一点，那么那些最优秀的科学家和行政管理者都将噤若寒蝉。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then can intelligent machines function autonomously, making ethical choices as they fulfill their tasks, without human intervention.",
        "只有这两点得到了充分考虑，智能机器才能自主运行，在完成任务的同时做出伦理选择而不需要人类干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Mauritanian politics is polarized, with the government unable to restore confidence.",
        "毛里塔尼亚政坛陷入了两极分化，政府无法重塑信心。"
    ],
    [
        "More crises have been erupting in more places, more breaches of international humanitarian and human rights law have been occurring, and more people have been displaced by conflict than has been the case for decades.",
        "更多地方爆发了更多危机、更多违反国际人道主义和人权法的情况出现、越来越多的人因冲突流离失所的情况已经持续了几十年。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama added the 47th – for green-energy job training – in 2009.",
        "第47个项目——绿色能源职业培训——是奥巴马增加的。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Mexico is an oil exporter, its manufactured exports have led the way, as the economy has become ever more tightly integrated into North American supply chains.",
        "尽管墨西哥是石油出口国，但随着墨西哥经济日益紧密地融入了北美供给链，引领潮流的仍是制造业出口。"
    ],
    [
        "This structure harks back to the conditions of NATO’s birth, when it was forged to thwart the Soviet threat to Western civilization.",
        "这样的组成结构当然有其历史的背景，北约是作为抵抗前苏联对西方文明的入侵而建立的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Murdoch has continued to produce large enough profits to silence institutional shareholders such as the Vanguard Group, Fidelity Investments, and Franklin Templeton Investments.",
        "但默多克仍然能够产生足够大的利润，让先锋集团（Vanguard Group）、富达投资公司（Fidelity Investment）和富兰克林·邓普顿投资公司（Franklin Templeton Investments）等机构投资者保持缄默。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it was to secure that agreement that young Ukrainians braved former President Viktor Yanukovych’s snipers, and are now braving the might of the Russian army.",
        "毕竟，正是为了保证这份协议的签署年轻的乌克兰人挺身而出对抗乌克兰前总统亚努科维奇的狙击手，并且现在仍在对抗俄罗斯军队势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Studies show clearly that, with time-of-day pricing, electrification of vehicles creates little need for new electricity-generating plants, and also that even with today’s coal-heavy electric grids, electrified vehicles emit less CO2 than gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles.",
        "研究结果明确显示，在目前的价格体系下，汽车电气化并不需要新建发电厂，而且即便今天的电网仍以煤为主要能源，电气化车辆所排放的二氧化碳也低于以汽柴油为动力的车辆。"
    ],
    [
        "But before foreign observers get too smug, consider the other solution to America’s unfinished revolution.",
        "但在国外观察家沾沾自喜之前，想想美国未完成革命的其他方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the last thing the government in Mogadishu wants is another semi-autonomous region challenging its authority – or another country annexing southern Somalia for its own purposes.",
        "事实上，摩加迪休政府最不愿意看到的便是又一个挑战其权威的半自治地区——或又一个别有用心蚕食其南部领土的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Better THAAD than Dead",
        "与其赴死，不如“萨德”"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true in education, pensions, or housing for the poor.",
        "教育、退休金或穷人的住房也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet he also would have to recognize that the JCPOA goes further than what he and many others had thought possible, demonstrating the power of diplomacy, especially to those who had advocated military means.",
        "但他也必须承认，JCPOA要比他和许多其他人所认为的可能情况更进了一步，（尤其是向鼓吹军事行动的人）证明了外交的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The new administration’s stance will thus be critical: Turkey has much to gain by supporting a solution in Cyprus; but it could also revert to old habits and spoil today’s unique opportunity.",
        "因此，新政府的立场将是至关重要的：支持塞浦路斯解决方案对土耳其十分有利； 但土耳其也有可能老方一帖，放弃眼前千载难逢的良机。"
    ],
    [
        "As it takes 7 – 8 hours for a human body to burn, we had a braaivleis on the side, drinking beer and eating meat.”",
        "因为人体需要7-8个小时才能烧成灰烬，我们就在燃烧的尸体边上开野餐会，吃烤肉、喝啤酒。"
    ],
    [
        "In such cases, countries can act as welfare magnets, attracting many more migrants than would be economically advisable, because the newcomers receive, in addition to their wages, a migration grant in the form of public transfers.",
        "若是如此，国家就有可能成为福利磁铁，吸引远大于经济上合理数量的移民，因为新来者除了工资，还能获得以公共转移支付为形式的移民津贴。"
    ],
    [
        "For Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, that certainly beats seeking help from the International Monetary Fund, which would demand substantial reforms.",
        "对塔吉克斯坦总统拉赫蒙来说，这肯定比求助于国际货币基金组织（IMF）更好，后者会要求他进行重大改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial repression occurs when governments take measures to channel to themselves funds that, in a deregulated market, would go elsewhere.",
        "当政府采取措施将自由市场条件下会流向他处的资金引导到自己手中时，金融抑制就发生了。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, local government debts are a relatively new phenomenon.",
        "与此同时，地方政府债务倒是相对新鲜的事物。"
    ],
    [
        "And those who lose their jobs to the new technology will soon find other employment.",
        "而且那些因为新技术而失去工作的人会很快找到其他工作。"
    ],
    [
        "After Egypt pivoted to the West in the wake of the 1973 war against Israel, America became its main patron.",
        "1973年对以战争结束后，埃及倒向西方，美国成为其主要金主。"
    ],
    [
        "He demands that EU funds be provided with no strings attached, while signaling that he would gladly sell his loyalty to Russia.",
        "他一方面要求欧盟提供无任何附加条件的资金，另一方面又暗示自己很乐意向俄罗斯效忠。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Israel and the US are nostalgic for a twentieth-century world of nation-states, which is understandable, since that is the world to which the kind of conventional power they possess is best suited.",
        "以色列和美国都非常怀念21世纪的民族国家世界，它们有这样的想法顺理成章，因为在那个世界里，它们所拥有的传统力量最容易发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The “law on growth and activity” that will be voted on this year will unleash the business sector’s energy, including by stimulating competition.",
        "将在明年投票表决的“增长和活动法”将释放企业部门的能量，刺激竞争正是方针之一。"
    ],
    [
        "US jobless claims are always up to date, because they are produced weekly, and statistical evidence suggests that they are a leading indicator for US equity prices.",
        "美国失业报告总是最新值，因为它们每周都要更新，统计证据表明，它们是美国股价的领先指标。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – As recession spreads around the world, the global production networks that arose with the globalization of the world economy have become sources of cutbacks and job losses.",
        "日内瓦--在衰退波及全球之际，在世界经济全球化时代崛起的全球生产网络也遭受削减和失业。"
    ],
    [
        "To minimize that risk, the Troika reserves currently devoted to the Greek bailout should be used to limit exchange-rate overshooting; capital controls would help, too.",
        "为了将这一风险最小化，三驾马车当前为希腊援助计划所留存的储备应该用于防止汇率超调，资本管制也会有所助益。"
    ],
    [
        "With Greece’s banks guaranteed the needed funds, the government has been spared from having to introduce capital controls.",
        "希腊银行获得了所需资金的保障，希腊政府因此不再需要引入资本管制。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us hope that his brief visit to the Middle East helps to create favorable conditions for progress toward peace in the region.",
        "那么，让我们希望他对中东的短暂访问有助于为中东和平进程创造有利条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Who would argue that after 1945 streets and squares in German cities should continue to be named after Adolf Hitler?",
        "谁会提出1945年后的德国城市街头和广场仍应该以阿道夫·希特勒命名？"
    ],
    [
        "JPMorgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon reportedly told his daughter that a financial crisis “happens every five to seven years.”",
        "据报道摩根大通的总裁杰米·戴蒙（Jamie Dimon）告诉自己的女儿说金融危机“每5到7年就会发生一次”。"
    ],
    [
        "Somalia’s children need investment in health, nutrition, and schools now, not at some point in the indefinite future.",
        "索马里儿童需要卫生、营养和教育方面的投资，现在就需要，而不是等到无穷无尽的未来的某个时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic crisis has left many people far less prosperous, and perhaps less inclined to be ambitious in our efforts to address Europe’s security challenges.",
        "经济危机让许多人不再像从前那样富裕，或许也不再愿意关注解决欧洲安全问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In the next decade, it is very unlikely that the US will try another prolonged occupation and transformation of another country.",
        "未来十年美国不太可能再次试图长期占领并改造另一个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the public’s obsession has made India into the sport’s global financial powerhouse, with advertisers and sponsors pouring unheard-of sums into the game.",
        "现在，公众对它的沉迷使印度成为该项运动全球财富的源泉，广告商和赞助商在这项运动上的投入空前。"
    ],
    [
        "But they remained underinsured against domestic credit risks – the leading threat to emerging economies today.",
        "但他们针对国内信用风险方面的保障却有所不足——这也是当前对新兴经济体的主要威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Loss of export competitiveness as a result of excessively strong currencies is not the only problem.",
        "由强势货币所导致的出口竞争力下降并不是唯一的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Normalization should not be viewed as an inflation-dependent operation.",
        "正常化不应被视为一个依附于通胀状况的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "They could not simply resign and move on, much less receive a future role in the organization (and certainly not a senior post).",
        "他们无法简单地辞职走人了事，更不用说在组织中担任另一个职位（高级职位更加不可能）。"
    ],
    [
        "And the search for a US modus vivendi with Iran – where a new president suggests a change of course on foreign policy – could be revived.",
        "此外，美国还应该重新开始寻找针对伊朗的权宜之计——伊朗新总统的上任可能意味着外交政策的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus empowered, the general has been able to exert his influence over foreign policy, in particular in defining the country’s relations with the US, India, and Afghanistan.",
        "得到授权后，将军就有权干预外交政策，特别是影响巴基斯坦与美国、印度和阿富汗的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "What should be the main outlines of such an alternative?",
        "这样一种替代方案的主要特征是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Because they deal with animals, shortcuts cannot be taken, and there are limits to mechanization, particularly in creating the type of beef that Japanese consumers demand.",
        "他们面对的是动物，不能走捷径，机械化程度也十分有限，特别是在生产日本消费者需求的牛肉方面。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that the lifestyles of the rich and famous “seem almost the abstract idea of a perfect and happy state” leads us to “pity…that anything should spoil and corrupt so agreeable a situation!",
        "富人和知名人士的生活方式“几乎是完美和幸福状态的抽象观念”这一事实导致我们“对任何干扰和破坏如此令人愉快的状态……感到遗憾！"
    ],
    [
        "Supported by local police and 10,000 followers, the rebellion ended only after a government crackdown.",
        "由于受到当地警察和10,0000余名追随者的支持下，这场叛乱直到政府镇压后才宣告结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fund must also do more to enhance its presence on the Web and in school and university classrooms, especially as students are often the most receptive to ideas about global citizenship.",
        "组织必须采取更多的行动来增加自己在网络，学校和大学的曝光率，因为学生往往是最容易接受全球公民这一概念的人。"
    ],
    [
        "As any newspaper editor knows, audiences will eventually tune out if they are continually bombarded with inaccurate or misleading content.",
        "任何报纸编辑都知道，如果公众不断受到不准确或误导性消息的轰炸，他们会选择不再理睬这样的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "Brave leadership is rare. So, too, is an informed and engaged electorate, because the expert advice offered to voters is itself so confusing.",
        "有勇气的领导人堪称凤毛麟角，而那些信息充分而且富有参与精神的选民也为数不多，因为那些提供给选民的所谓专家意见本身都模棱两可。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has lasted for too long, and is now well out of date – a reality that is apparent from its opening line: “Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure, nor so free.”",
        "但它持续时间太久，现在早已过时——这一点在其开头便已显而易见：“欧洲从未如此繁荣，如此安全，如此自由。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "This partly depends on what parameters are set: the UBI’s level, which benefits (if any) it replaces, whether only citizens or all residents are eligible, and so on.",
        "但这一定程度上取决于参数如何设置：无条件基本收入应该设在何哪种水平，替代（如果执行的话）哪些收入，是只有公民还是全体居民都有资格获取，等等。"
    ],
    [
        "But, at larger distances, comparable to the proton radius, the force becomes really strong, and a very large number of gluons is involved, forming complicated structures that are not well known today.",
        "但在一个相当于质子半径的长距离上，这个力会变得相当强，并将相当数量的胶子整合成一个至今未能完全理解的复杂结构。"
    ],
    [
        "I grew up in a world in which peace and stability were assured by the threat of global nuclear annihilation.",
        "我在一个由全球核毁灭威胁保证和平稳定的世界中长大。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, only a fraction of the new borrowing enabled by the mutualization of liability will be factored into national budgets.",
        "雪上加霜的是，这种债务共同化带来的新增借款仅有一小部分将被纳入国家预算之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet such agreements pose great dangers if they are not subject to effective WTO oversight.",
        "但如果不能处于WTO的有效监监管之下的话，这类协议将引发极大的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Ketamine – a drug primarily used as an anesthetic in veterinary medicine and as a short-term anesthetic and analgesic in hospitals during surgery or other painful procedures – is currently the rising star of depression research.",
        "克他命（ketamine）是一种麻醉剂，主要用于兽医以及手术和其他痛苦疗程的短期麻醉和止痛。 最近，这种药物正在抑郁症研究中成为冉冉升起的明星。"
    ],
    [
        "Cartels, anti-competitive invoicing practices, senselessly closed professions, and a bureaucracy that has traditionally turned the state into a public menace would soon discover that our government is their worst foe.",
        "卡特尔、反竞争的开发票行为（invoicing practices）、无意义的职业壁垒和从前将国家成为公共威胁的官僚很快就会发现，我们的政府将是他们的噩梦。"
    ],
    [
        "Of equal importance were the rise of China and the decline of investment in Asia following the 1997-1998 financial crisis.",
        "同样重要的是，在1997－1998年金融危机之后中国的崛起和在亚洲投资的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "China and the United States are in the process of formulating bans on domestic ivory trade, so it is not clear which governments would be interested in purchasing African stockpiles.",
        "中美两国都在制定国内象牙贸易禁令，因此目前尚不清楚哪国政府会对购买非洲象牙库存感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a necessary – but insufficient – first step for overhauling Egypt’s stagnant political system.",
        "对于修整埃及多年停滞不前的政治体制来说，这只是必要的第一步，但还远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite Defense Minister Marise Payne’s recent declaration that “Australia is very interested in a quadrilateral engagement with India, Japan, and the United States,” the government seems to be hedging its bets.",
        "尽管其国防部长佩恩（Marise Payne）最近宣布“澳大利亚很有兴趣与印度、日本和美国组成四方联合”，但政府似乎想要寻求对冲。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the 2008 financial crisis, the world has become accustomed to such linkages and spillovers.",
        "自2008年金融危机以来，世界已经习惯于这样的联系和溢出效应。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these scenarios will be affected by outcomes in Egypt and Tunisia.",
        "所有可能情形都会受到埃及和突尼斯结果的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Communities living in mountainous areas, such as in the Andes, or Central Asia, or the highlands of East Africa, are especially isolated.",
        "山区如安弟斯山区，亚洲中部，或东非高地尤其孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "A decade after the global financial crisis erupted, recovery remains weak and tentative in much of the world. Bold, large-scale infrastructure investments can provide much-needed short-run stimulus to global aggregate demand.",
        "全球金融危机爆发至今已是十年，全球大部分地区的复苏仍然疲软而短暂，而大规模的基础设施投资可以为全球总需求提供急需的短期刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "For them, casting off allies might seem like an easy way to streamline decision-making (and boost share prices).",
        "对他们来说，脱离盟友时理顺决策（和提振股价）的速效药。"
    ],
    [
        "But after years of unusually sluggish and strikingly non-inclusive growth, the consensus is breaking down.",
        "但在经历了多年反常的停滞和令人震惊的不包容增长后，华盛顿共识正在解体。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor are these the only cases.",
        "而上述事件也不仅仅是孤立的个案。"
    ],
    [
        "Like him or not – and many did not – there is no denying the city-state’s remarkable and enduring prosperity and stability.",
        "很多人对他没有好感，但无论是否喜欢李光耀，人们都无法否认这个城市国家令人赞叹的长期繁荣和稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "The current government has plans to generate power using large-scale solar and wind power plants in the disaster-affected areas.",
        "现政府制定了在受灾地区建设大规模太阳及风能电厂的发电计划。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, the Dresdner Bank and the Landesbanken could not afford to take such a hit.",
        "在德国，德累斯顿银行和各州立银行就受不了这种冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Each used technology that engineers had been confidently employing for bridges, and for which the assumed loads and methods of analysis were well established.",
        "所有大桥都采用了令设计人员充满信心的造桥技术，其预计载荷及分析方法都经过了时间的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "Slobodan Milosevic cheated justice, and by doing so demonstrated the futility of attempting to deal with war crimes and crimes against humanity through international prosecutions.",
        "米洛塞维奇欺骗了司法审判，而且通过这样做表明，试图通过国际公审来对付战争罪以及反人类罪是徒劳无功的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was a Pyrrhic victory.",
        "但这是一场惨胜。"
    ],
    [
        "The obvious candidates will not or cannot take on the role: Britain has excluded itself; France is paralyzed until next year’s presidential election and possibly beyond; and Spain cannot even form a government.",
        "法国在明年总统选举前都将陷入瘫痪，总统选举后也未必能恢复； 而西班牙甚至连政府都组织不起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Bankers boast of having paid back in full the government bailout funds that they received when the crisis erupted.",
        "银行家们都自夸说已经全部还清了危机爆发时从政府处得到的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most tragic aspect of this story is the exploitation of low-income families involved in the so-called sub-prime mortgage crisis, whereby variable-rate mortgages were offered to customers with a low credit rating.",
        "或许这个事件最悲惨的方面是对卷入所谓的次级抵押贷款危机的低收入家庭的剥削。 在次级抵押贷款中，费率不等的抵押贷款被提供给信用评级很低的顾客。"
    ],
    [
        "The Russians and Iranians are willing to do whatever it takes to keep President Bashar al-Assad in power.",
        "俄国和伊朗愿意不惜一切代价让巴沙尔·阿萨德总统继续执政。"
    ],
    [
        "Middle East Peace by Any Means Available",
        "各出奇招，实现中东和平"
    ],
    [
        "Virtually every Chinese official referred to this slowdown as their country’s “new normal.”",
        "几乎每一位中国官员都把这一减速成为中国的“新常态”。"
    ],
    [
        "Russians, by contrast, seem to be animated by a dark form of narcissism.",
        "而恰恰相反，俄罗斯人却在被一种自我陶醉的阴暗模式所驱动。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, labor has been displaced from more productive tradable activities (in manufacturing) to less productive informal activities (services).",
        "更严重的问题则是劳动力从更有生产力的贸易活动（制造业）流向了生产力较低的非正式活动（服务业）。"
    ],
    [
        "While we may lament the loss of manufacturing jobs through “outsourcing,” we certainly do not lament exporting massive amounts of pollution to China.",
        "我们也许会悲叹通过“外包”而失去的制造业岗位，但是我们肯定不会为我们出口到中国的巨量污染物感到悲叹。"
    ],
    [
        "In Eastern Europe, with the withdrawal and eventual disappearance of the Soviet hegemon, the floodgates were opened, and a torrent of change washed over the region.",
        "在当年的东欧，随着苏联霸权主义的撤退和最终的销声匿迹，闸门就此打开，整个地区都被改革的洪流所淹没。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, such changes are best served not by imposing stifling sanctions, or through military “shock and awe” tactics, as in Iraq, but by socioeconomic improvement and diplomatic engagement by external powers.",
        "毕竟，如此变化的最佳促进办法不是严厉制裁或军事“震慑”（shock and awe）策略（如伊拉克），而是社会经济改善和外部力量的外交接触。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy would probably be better off today if Garibaldi had never launched unification.",
        "如果加里波第没能统一意大利，说不定意大利会比今天更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless we have a better understanding of the causes of the crisis, we can’t implement an effective recovery strategy.",
        "除非我们能够很好地理解这次危机的原因，否则就不可能拿出有效的复苏战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Rapprochements with Rogue States",
        "与流氓国家和解"
    ],
    [
        "But when it comes to tax and profit estimates, investors and politicians need to reorient themselves to the “new normal” – lower average growth.",
        "至于对未来税收和利润的预测时，投资者和政客们应该将眼光放在新的着眼点上——放缓经济增长速度。"
    ],
    [
        "Other factors are temporary.",
        "其他因素是暂时性的。"
    ],
    [
        "They have been corrupted by power, like the porcine elite in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.",
        "他们被权力所腐蚀，正如乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell）在其名著《动物农场》中所描写的猪族精英那样。"
    ],
    [
        "· Too many sectors of the US economy have not completed their balance-sheet rehabilitation process.",
        "· 美国经济中有太多部门还没有完成资产负债表的修复过程。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, such changes in language are no accident.",
        "在中国，这种用语变化绝非偶然。"
    ],
    [
        "Superficially, international law lacks the drama of a presidential race, and can undoubtedly seem stuffy at best, and irrelevant at worst.",
        "表面上，国际法没有总统竞选的戏剧性，看上去相当的沉闷，甚至可以说无关紧要。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republican Party is in the throes of a deep internal schism that could end with the victory of its populist wing, led by Trump’s nationalist, anti-EU Svengali, Stephen Bannon.",
        "共和党正在经历深刻的内部分裂阵痛，由特朗普的民族主义反欧盟催眠大师斯蒂芬·班农所领导的民粹主义派别的胜利可以结束这种痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Will they be able and willing to buy your new product at high enough prices and quantities?",
        "他们能不能、愿不愿意以足够高的价格和数量购买你的新产品？"
    ],
    [
        "As it pursues far-reaching financial-sector reform, now is the time to do so.",
        "中国正在追求深度金融部门改革，目前正逢其时。"
    ],
    [
        "As elsewhere in the world, growth in the region has slowed sharply since the global financial crisis erupted in 2008.",
        "和世界其他地区一样，该地区的增长在2008年全球金融危机爆发后大幅放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "The numbers and causes of neonatal deaths, the capacity of the health system, and the obstacles faced differ between and within countries, as does support from policymakers and the availability of resources.",
        "新生儿死亡的数量和原因、医疗体系的能力、决策者和资源配置以及国家之间和国家内部不同地区之间面临的阻碍都迥然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether Japan's Self-Defense Forces work alongside America and the world in defense of world peace now, or eventually do so alone in defense of Japan.",
        "问题的关键在于日本的自卫队是从现在起与美国并肩保卫世界和平还是最终出于自卫而独立为之。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an unfair distribution of wealth based on economic exploitation, social injustice and political exclusion has caused silent but persistent resistance by Chinese peasants.",
        "这种基于经济剥削、社会不公和政治排斥的财富分配不均，导致了中国农民沉默但却持久的抵抗。"
    ],
    [
        "But if individuals share information involuntarily, it is the company – not its customers – that will be empowered.",
        "”但如果个人分享信息是不自觉的，那么得到加强的将是该公司，而不是它的客户。"
    ],
    [
        "The Scientific Road to Copenhagen",
        "通往哥本哈根的科学之路"
    ],
    [
        "With respect to global warming, it’s time we came to our senses.",
        "在全球变暖这方面，也该是咱们恢复理智的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "These strings spell out, in code, a Web site address, the names of the researchers, and apt quotations, such as Richard Feynman’s “What I cannot build, I cannot understand.”",
        "把这些基因序列转译成字符编码之后就是几位研究者的名字，还有一些诸如理查德·费曼所说的“只有我理解不了的东西，没有我造不出来的东西”之类的名言。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcome of Sunday’s election will determine which way Greece goes – and, also, of course, how the unfolding Greek drama affects the eurozone’s future.",
        "周日大选的结果将决定希腊走哪条路，当然，也将决定希腊大戏的开展怎样影响欧元区的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring the wealth and wellbeing of the continent’s residents will not be easy; but there is much that policymakers can do to put Africa back on an upward trajectory.",
        "确保非洲居民的财富和福祉绝非易事； 但决策者可以想很多办法帮助非洲重回向上轨迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Clinton vs. Trump constitutes a genuine battle, for example, as does the European Union vs. the Brexiteers; but the combatants are accomplices, not foes, in perpetuating an endless loop of mutual reinforcement, with each side defined by – and mobilizing its supporters on the basis of – what it opposes.",
        "克林顿与特朗普之间存在一场真正的战争，就像欧盟迎战英国脱欧支持者； 但对战双方与其说是敌人，不如说是同谋，他们之间维持着一个相互强化的无限循环，双方都用其反对的东西来定义自身并以此动员其支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "Bringing experts in nuclear security together to share their experience is a no-brainer.",
        "集中核安全专家共享经验十分容易。"
    ],
    [
        "Changing course will take time.",
        "改变这一进程需要时间。"
    ],
    [
        "But China is aging fast – and could become old before it becomes rich.",
        "但中国正在快速老龄化——有可能未富先老。"
    ],
    [
        "The formation of a unity government is only the first of many hurdles Iraq’s new government must clear if it is to build a durable peace.",
        "联合政府的成立不过是伊拉克新政府希望取得持久和平而必须克服的众多障碍中的一个。"
    ],
    [
        "He proved his judgment and his leadership abilities early on, when, as a city senator in Hamburg, he confronted the great flood of 1962, which devastated the city.",
        "他很早就证明了自己的判断和领导能力，在他就任汉堡市参议员的时候，他成功应对了1962年的大规模洪水，那次洪水几乎摧毁了这座城市。"
    ],
    [
        "A clump of peeling buildings, rusting wire, and a filthy lavatory mark the start of Transdniestrian sovereignty.",
        "一片斑驳的建筑、锈蚀的铁丝网和一个肮脏的厕所标志着Transdniestria主权的起始。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2005, according to the WHO, 94% of men and 93% of women in Nauru were overweight, and more than 70% of the population was obese.",
        "据世卫组织数据，2005年瑙鲁94%的男性和93%的女性超重，70%的人口肥胖。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, individual countries and institutions such as the World Trade Organization should work together to eliminate barriers that increase trade costs.",
        "第三，个别国家和机构，如世界贸易组织，应该合作消除增加贸易成本的壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "Comparisons and contrasts with the Great Depression of the 1930’s have inevitably become a central part of that discourse – and rightly so.",
        "和1930年代经济大萧条时期的比较和对比，不可避免地成了讨论的中心话题-而且这是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Fukuyama attributed this – rightly, I believe – to a failure of ideas.",
        "福山把这归因于援助的失败，我赞同他的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Solidarity’s campaign was all chutzpah.",
        "团结工会在竞选中无所不用其极。"
    ],
    [
        "Yemen, for its part, has no perennial surface water; its citizens depend entirely on rainfall, groundwater, and flash flooding.",
        "而也门没有可供常年使用的地表水，其公民用水完全依靠降雨、地下水和急流。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, too, the Kingdom employed its policy of largesse through the GCC, promising Bahrain $10 billion over the next decade.",
        "于是沙特王室通过海湾合作委员会的名义大撒金钱，承诺在未来十年内支援巴林100亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In global terms, the contrast between what America says and what it does has become glaring.",
        "在全球范围内，美国“言”与“行”之间的鲜明反差已经显得极为刺目。"
    ],
    [
        "A lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the group that shared last year’s Nobel Peace Prize with Gore – told the experts that spending $800 billion over 100 years solely on mitigating emissions would reduce inevitable temperature increases by just 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century.",
        "政府间气候变化工作小组－和戈尔分享去年的诺贝尔和平奖的组织－的主要缔造者告诉这些专家，在100年间花费8000亿美元专门用于减少排放，到本世纪末，只会对必然的气温升高减少华氏0. 4度。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on the data gathered during the study, the Foundation piloted what is known as the CASALUD model to improve screening, treatment, and prevention using low-cost, user-friendly devices that can measure a range of relevant vital signs, including blood glucose levels.",
        "基于该研究所收集的数据，卡洛斯·斯利姆基金会试验了被称为CASALUD模式的方针改进监测、治疗和预防水平。 CASALUD使用低成本的用户友好型设备，它们能够测量血糖水平等各种相关重要信号。"
    ],
    [
        "For Whom Syria Tolls",
        "叙利亚警钟为谁而鸣？"
    ],
    [
        "Masters of War in Syria and Iraq",
        "叙利亚和伊拉克的战争狂人"
    ],
    [
        "The scientific evidence suggests that carbon emissions from anywhere in the world have about the same impact on global warming.",
        "科学证据表明，世界任何地方的碳排放对于全球变暖具有大致相同的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider gender inequality.",
        "以性别不平等为例。"
    ],
    [
        "Others believe that China will wish to impose its own mark and create its own international institutional system as its power increases.",
        "其他人却认为日渐强大的中国更愿意在在国际制度上打上自己的烙印，并创造一套独有的制度系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, changes in the construction industry, which is turning to more efficiently produced products like cross-laminated timber (CLT), can help reduce carbon pollution.",
        "类似地，建筑业正在向交叉层压材（CLT）等高效生产的产品转变，这也有助于减少碳污染。"
    ],
    [
        "In many of these countries, including the US, the European conquerors and their descendants nearly wiped out the indigenous populations, partly through disease, but also through war, starvation, death marches, and forced labor.",
        "在这些国家中，有很多国家（包括美国在内）的土著被欧洲征服者及其子孙后代赶尽杀绝，部分是通过疾病，但也有战争、饥饿、被迫迁徙和强制劳动的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, persuading the militias to transfer their loyalties to the state will not be easy, especially given the fighters’ strong, often ideological connections to their individual units.",
        "说服民兵转而效忠国家肯定并非易事，尤其考虑到民兵战士与所属部队间往往有着坚不可摧的意识形态联系。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea was that R2P should be “enriched” by the acceptance of a complementary principle, called “Responsible Protection.”",
        "北京会议提出的思想是R2P应该通过接受补充性的“责任保护”（Responsible Protection）原则得到“强化”。"
    ],
    [
        "But that incident apparently gave neither Fox News nor its owner pause.",
        "但该事件显然没有让福克斯新闻台及其所有者停下脚步。"
    ],
    [
        "Mao and Deng could do this because both provided China with strong leadership.",
        "毛泽东和邓小平可以这样做是因为他们都拥有极高的威信。"
    ],
    [
        "Muslims living in Paris, London, and Berlin are more religious than the general public, but they are just as likely as anyone else to identify with their nation and its democratic institutions, and just as likely to reject violence.",
        "居住在巴黎、伦敦和柏林的穆斯林比普通大众更信奉宗教，但是，他们和其他任何人一样，认同他们的国家及其民主制度，并抵制暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Its two super-power assets – nuclear weapons and energy – make it a potential leader of all those lesser powers dissatisfied with their position in the world.",
        "俄国的两大超级大国资产，也就是核武器和能源，使得其成为所有不满于在世界上的地位的较为弱小的国家的潜在的领头国家。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Some analysts believe that 2014 ushered in a new era of Cold War-style geopolitics.",
        "美国剑桥—一些分析家认为，2014年开启了新的冷战式地缘政治时代。"
    ],
    [
        "American per capita income is higher, but in terms of human capital, technology, and exports, Europe is very much an economic peer.",
        "美国人均收入更高，但在人力资本、技术和出口方面，欧洲都可以与美国一较高下。"
    ],
    [
        "The reasons for this relationship are not easy to establish definitively, and the authors’ conclusions are controversial.",
        "这一关系的原因不容易确定，两位作者的结论也存在争议。"
    ],
    [
        "I don’t think so.",
        "我不敢苟同。"
    ],
    [
        "The same question is dividing American politics in the lead-up to November’s presidential and congressional elections.",
        "随着11月总统和国会选举的到来，同样的问题也在让美国政坛一分为二。"
    ],
    [
        "But he – along with the many others who shared his view – was proved wrong.",
        "但他——以及众多与他持有相同观点的人——被证明是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "But this approach created some imbalances, with global health and education initiatives attracting far more financing than other efforts.",
        "但这一方针导致了某些失衡，全球卫生和教育计划吸引的资金远多于其他方面。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, any election in which the party won less than 45% of the vote was viewed as a disaster.",
        "几十年来，社会民主党只要在选举中无法获得45%以上的选票，就会被认为是一场灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "In Chile, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, and, to a lesser extent, Brazil and Colombia, voracious Chinese and Indian demand for raw materials and food boosted foreign reserves, enabled heavy government spending, and sustained high levels of imports.",
        "在智利、秘鲁、阿根廷、乌拉圭、玻利维亚以及相对受益较少的巴西和哥伦比亚，中国和印度对原材料和粮食的巨大需求增加了外汇储备，使政府能够大举投资并支持了高水平的进口。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this will be good for the eurozone, for which the US remains a leading export market.",
        "所有这一切都将对欧元区有利，因此美国仍然是最重要的出口市场之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Self-standing electrical motors allowed machines, the workers operating them, and their activities all to be reorganized in more efficient ways.",
        "而自立式电动机则允许机器，操作工人，以及生产活动以更有效的方式进行重组。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, whenever the Fed cuts interest rates, it puts pressure on the whole “dollar bloc” to follow suit, lest their currencies appreciate as investors seek higher yields.",
        "结果，无论何时美联储降息都让整个“美元区”国家紧随，要不然它们的货币由于投资者寻求高回报而升值。"
    ],
    [
        "If the IMF is to be evenhanded, should it criticize America’s farm policies or China’s exchange-rate policies?",
        "如果国际货币基金组织要做到公平，那么是该批评美国的农业政策还是中国的汇率政策？"
    ],
    [
        "MARRAKESH – Wetlands, forests, and oceans absorb and store carbon, which makes them a vital asset for countries pursuing the Paris climate agreement’s targets for reducing CO2 emissions.",
        "马拉喀什—湿地、森林和海洋吸收并储存碳，因此它们是追求巴黎协定中减少二氧化碳目标的国家的宝贵资产。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek debacle jeopardized the well-being of all of Europe, not only Greeks.",
        "正如希腊人的恶行不仅影响了自己，还危及到整个欧洲的福祉。"
    ],
    [
        "That composition changed dramatically with the partition of the new states of India and Pakistan in 1947, when 14 million people moved across the newly drawn border.",
        "随着印度和巴基斯坦分裂为新的国家，人口组成发生了极大的改变——1400万人穿越了新划定的边界。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither side seized the opportunity to build on this common ground, and today US-Iran relations are as antagonistic as they have been in years.",
        "但双方都没能抓住机会，扩大和对方的共同之处，于是今天的美伊关系就和几年前一样水火不容。"
    ],
    [
        "By targeting schools as hubs for health-care education and shaping students into health ambassadors for their families and friends, we can reach an even greater number of people in Xinjiang’s nomadic communities.",
        "我们把学校作为卫生教育的中转站，让学生担任他们家庭和朋友的健康大使，从而得以将卫生知识传播给更多的新疆游牧社区居民。"
    ],
    [
        "But they now have the opportunity to contribute to the European model’s renewal.",
        "但现在他们已经拥有了为改变欧洲模式做出贡献的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty years ago, in the weeks that preceded Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, many observers saw signs of a looming crisis.",
        "二十年前，在伊拉克入侵科威特之前几周，许多观察家看到了危机来临的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Qaddafi left behind a booby-trap.",
        "卡扎菲身后是一个烂摊子。"
    ],
    [
        "The Financial Times reports that, according to the Venezuelan National Assembly, “17 years of chavismo have seen more than $425 billion of public money stolen or wasted.”",
        "金融时报报道援引委内瑞拉国民大会的说法，“长达17年的查韦斯主义见证了超过4250亿公共资金被浪费或盗用。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "There have been many shocks to the US economy over the past couple of generations, and many factors have added to or subtracted from economic growth.",
        "过去几代人经历了多次对美国经济的冲击，诸多因素都领经济增长雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "But, over time, the longer central banks create liquidity to suppress short-run volatility, the more they will feed price bubbles in equity, bond, and other asset markets.",
        "但是，假以时日，央行制造流动性以抑制短期波动的时间越长，所催生的股票、债券和其他资产市场的泡沫就越大。"
    ],
    [
        "Though drones will have many important uses in the future, I do not believe moving people around cities will, or should, be one of them.",
        "虽然无人机在将来会有很多重要的用途，但我不相信民众的城市交通将会或者应当成为其中的一个。"
    ],
    [
        "The government (the visible hand) sets the benchmark price for risk-free financial assets through monetary policy and control over fiscal deficits, while the market (the invisible hand) sets the risk premia of risky assets above the benchmark rate.",
        "在金融理论里，资产价格一般由两个要素组成：无风险资产基准利率与风险溢价。 政府（有形之手）通过货币政策及财政赤字控制并制定无风险主权金融资产的基准利率，而市场（无形之手）则在基准利率的基础上发掘风险资产的风险溢价。"
    ],
    [
        "The misguided policies that resulted – pushed by, among others, some members of US President-elect Barack Obama’s economic team – had earlier inflicted enormous costs on developing countries.",
        "由此产生的被误导的政策其中曾经使发展中国家承受了巨大的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "While officials feign compliance with Xi’s economic-reform agenda, they will seek any opportunity to stymie it.",
        "尽管官员们表面上都配合习近平的经济改革日程，但会抓住一切机会从中作梗。"
    ],
    [
        "Constraints on majority rule are necessary to protect the rights of minorities, be they ethnic, religious, or intellectual.",
        "对多数人统治的约束是保护少数群体的必要条件，不管是种族少数群体、宗教少数群体还是知识少数群体。"
    ],
    [
        "MEXICO CITY – In El Salvador, for the first time ever in Latin America, a former political-military organization that tried to gain power through the barrel of a gun has achieved its aims through the ballot box.",
        "墨西哥城-在萨尔瓦多，一个曾试图通过枪杆子夺取政权的前政治军事组织，终于以民主投票的方式实现了其目的。 这在拉丁美洲有史以来绝无仅有。"
    ],
    [
        "Many in the West question whether Islam is compatible with human rights and Western concepts of liberty.",
        "许多西方人质疑伊斯兰是否能包容人权和西方的自由观念。"
    ],
    [
        "But politicians are good at repackaging, and, by some accounts, the new money is a small fraction of that amount, and even that will not get into the system immediately.",
        "但是政治家们善于进行重新包装，并且，根据有些数据，这些新资金只占所需总资金的一小部分，即使这一小部分的资金也不会立即投入到系统中来。"
    ],
    [
        "Fictional Sovereignties",
        "虚构主权国家"
    ],
    [
        "What has emerged in the eurozone and beyond is a potentially more stable financial system, at least where banking is concerned.",
        "出现在欧元区及其以外的可能是更加稳定的金融体系，至少在涉及银行业务方面这个命题成立。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who are deeply wedded to the idea of “secular stagnation” would say high growth under Trump is well-nigh impossible.",
        "对“长期停滞”思想深信不疑的人会说，特朗普任期内实现高增长希望渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if anything, the war against the Islamic State has bolstered the Kurdish cause.",
        "但是，与伊斯兰国的战争对让库尔德人变得更加强大。"
    ],
    [
        "Why do prisons the world over concentrate such suffering and misconduct?",
        "为什么全世界的监狱都集中着这样的苦难和劣行呢？"
    ],
    [
        "We don’t literally raise our hackles when angry, or sniff each other’s backsides when making new friends.",
        "我们生气时不会竖起颈部的毛，在交新朋友的时候也不会去嗅对方的后背。"
    ],
    [
        "These problems all require different methods for unlocking growth.",
        "这些问题都要求采用不同的方式来释放增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, to develop such strategies and participate effectively in industrial value chains, Africans need knowledge.",
        "当然，制定这些战略和有效参与工业价值链需要知识。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, Gul’s case, and others like it, should be studied in order to understand the roots of such crimes.",
        "此外也必须对这些案件进行研究以辨清这类犯罪的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, much of the sharp appreciation in Chinese equity values was very short-lived.",
        "此外，中国股市市值暴涨时间很短。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond endangering lives, more frequent and stronger storms could cost many billions of dollars, owing to infrastructure damage and lost revenues from farming, fisheries, and tourism.",
        "除了威胁生命，更频繁和更强劲的风暴还可能导致基础设施破坏和失去务农、捕捞和旅游业收入，引起成百上千亿美元的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Republicans want their tax cuts to be permanent.",
        "此外，共和党想让减税计划永久化。"
    ],
    [
        "On average, each Chinese worker generates only about 19% of the amount of GDP that an American worker does.",
        "平均而言，每名中国工人所生产的GDP，只有美国工人的19%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "The logic was clear.",
        "逻辑十分清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "Ripple, a platform championed by the banking sector to slash transaction costs for interbank and overseas transfers, is a distant third at $9 billion.",
        "由银行部门建立、可大幅降低同业和海外转账交易成本的平台Ripple名列第三，但遥遥落后，市值只有90亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, we need for food security what the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel has done for climate change: a science-based red-alert system for the planet.",
        "说真的，在食物安全问题领域，我们需要一个像联合国气候变化政府间专门委员会（Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change，IPCC）那样的机制：一个以科学为基础的地球预警系统。"
    ],
    [
        "For over 20 years I have argued that Western Europe’s high unemployment rates are unsustainable.",
        "在过去的20年里，我一直认为西欧的高失业率是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "What is required is a redesign of urban space, including subways and dedicated bus lanes, and a more integrated approach to housing, social services, and production areas.",
        "我们需要重新设计地铁和公交专用道等城市空间，并综合考虑住房、社会服务和生产区域等各项规划。"
    ],
    [
        "South Koreans genuinely fear that the plan may weaken deterrence by sending North Korea - which is demanding a US military withdrawal while refusing to abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions - the message that intransigence pays.",
        "韩国真心害怕撤军计划会使北朝鲜认为固执己见产生了作用，进而会削弱遏制的效果。 北朝鲜一直要求美国撤军，却不肯放弃自己的核武器目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The blogger joked, “If this recognition by a rating agency that France has problems is an example of the first failing, a recovery must have begun; if it is an example of the second failing, the country faces a dire reckoning.”",
        "这位博主开玩笑说：“如果说评级机构意认定法国存在问题是第一种情况的例子的话，那么复苏想必已经开始了； 如果是第二种情况，那么法国将面对可怕的清算。"
    ],
    [
        "Several years ago, following protests from animal welfare organizations, the European Union commissioned a report from its Scientific Veterinary Committee on these methods.",
        "几年前，由于动物福利组织的抗议，欧盟委托兽医科学委员会对上述饲养方法进行了调查。"
    ],
    [
        "The Panel (of which I am a member) must seize the opportunity presented by the Monrovia meeting to contribute to a global development agenda that addresses the vicious cycle of conflict and poverty that hampers economic activity and undermines human well-being.",
        "该小组（我也是成员之一）必须抓住蒙罗维亚会议的机会，拿出一份全球发展日程，纠正妨碍经济活动、破坏人类福祉的冲突和贫困的恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "The Limits of Twitter Diplomacy",
        "Twitter外交的限度"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil is in the midst of a political crisis, China is dealing with the aftereffects of prolonged fiscal expansion and explosive growth in its shadow banking system, and lower commodity prices are undermining economic performance in many other emerging markets.",
        "巴西陷入了政治危机，中国正在处置长期财政扩张和影子银行体系的爆发式增长带来的后遗症，而大宗商品价格低迷正在动摇许多其他新兴市场的经济表现。"
    ],
    [
        "And here, too, Gordon disappoints.",
        "在这方面，戈登的论述也不尽如人意。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a recent report by Swiss Re, had government bonds been trading closer to their “fair value,” insurers in America and Europe would have earned some $40-$80 billion from 2008 to 2013 (assuming a typical 50-60% allocation to fixed income).",
        "据瑞士再保险公司（Swiss Re）的最新报告，如果政府债券以接近于“公平价值”的价格交易，2008—2013年美国和欧洲保险公司可以赚得400—800亿美元（假设其50—60%的投资配置给固定收益证券，这也是典型的做法）。"
    ],
    [
        "Authoritarian party-states, such as China and Vietnam, survive, but not through commitment to communism. Their legitimacy depends on their ability to deliver economic growth through state-managed capitalism.",
        "虽然中国和越南这类独裁政党统治下的国家最终生存了下来，但这并不是通过笃行共产主义那一套，而是依靠由国家主导的资本主义来发展经济，最终保住了自己的统治合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Obama has promised that the TPP will be the most progressive trade agreement in history, which is achievable, the shroud of secrecy that surrounds almost all details of the negotiations has made it difficult to evaluate claims and counterclaims on this point.",
        "尽管奥巴马承诺TPP将是历史上最进步的贸易协定——这一目标可以实现——但关于谈判的细节被严格保密，这导致现阶段无法评估正反两方的意见。"
    ],
    [
        "With livelihood insurance, a private insurer would pay a stream of income to a policyholder if an index of average income in the insured person’s occupation and region declines substantially.",
        "根据生计保险计划，如果被保险人所在职业和地区的平均收入指数大幅度下降，那么私有保险人就将持续向保单持有人支付收入流。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it appears that China is beginning to lose patience.",
        "现在，中国似乎开始失去了耐心。"
    ],
    [
        "Germans deserve a leader who stands firm in the face of extremism, rather than encouraging it, whether at home or abroad.",
        "德国人理应获得一位坚定反对而非鼓励极端主义——不管在国内还是国外——的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "As University of Ottawa virologist Earl Brown put it after a Canadian outbreak of avian influenza, “high-intensity chicken rearing is a perfect environment for generating virulent avian flu viruses.”",
        "正如渥太华大学病毒学家厄尔·布朗在加拿大爆发禽流感之后所说的那样，“高密度养殖禽鸟是产生致命禽流感病毒的绝佳温床。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "You finance the pre-modern and the inefficient, and perhaps worse: every time you pay, you may be collaborating with political evil.",
        "你为前现代和没有效率的当局提供资金，甚至更为糟糕的是，你可能在与政治邪恶势力合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fate of most citizens currently younger than 30 will be fundamentally affected.",
        "但多数目前还在30岁以下的民众其命运将会遭到根本性的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Though careful not to challenge the constitution openly, from 1971 to 2001, they were successively banned as threats to secularism.",
        "虽然小心翼翼地并未对宪法提出公开挑战，从1971到2001年，他们还是相继被视为对世俗主义构成威胁从而遭到取缔。"
    ],
    [
        "But the necessity of monitoring border walls points to one of the fundamental truths about them: historically, most have proved to be pretty useless.",
        "但监控边境墙的必要性直指一个关于它们的基本事实：从历史上看，它们大多毫无用处。"
    ],
    [
        "ITHACA – Until a few years ago, economists of all persuasions confidently proclaimed that the Great Depression would never recur.",
        "伊萨卡—直到几年前，各种流派的经济学家还异口同声信心满满地宣布大萧条永远不会再次发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Racial and gender equality are now backed by clear majorities in the US, Britain, and most European countries, and even apparently popular policies such as trade protectionism and strict immigration controls rarely muster more than 30-40% support in opinion surveys.",
        "现在，美国、英国和大部分欧洲国家均已明确多数支持种族和性别平等，而即使是显然受到欢迎的政策，如贸易保护主义和严格的移民管制，也很少在民意调查中赢得30—40%以上的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, room for catch-up gains with the developed economies in terms of technology, production processes, and management practices is shrinking, undermining productivity growth further – and leaving it up to China to do some innovating of its own.",
        "此外，中国在技术，生产工艺和管理方法上追赶发达经济体的空间不断缩小，进一步削弱了生产力增长——导致中国只能寻求一些自身的创新。"
    ],
    [
        "The killing of Politkovskaya has incited an eerie sense of déjà vu : just as in the KGB’s heyday, people simply disappear in Putin’s Russia.",
        "对波利特科夫卡娅的谋杀让人产生了一种不安的似曾相识的感觉：这就像是那个克格勃猖獗的年代，在普京统治下的俄罗斯，人们不知不觉地消失了。"
    ],
    [
        "While the international community is focused on ISIS or Iran’s destructive role in the Middle East, most Arabs are focused on improving their lives.",
        "在国际社会关注伊斯兰国或伊朗在中东破坏性作用的同时，绝大多数阿拉伯人则在关注如何改善自己的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the lesson from the violence in the Caucasus that Europe must urgently take to heart.",
        "这是从目前高加索武力冲突中欧洲人必须切记在心的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Fox has said that he is willing to break with old Mexican taboos, but the Bush administration has never taken him up on it.",
        "福克斯总统已经说过，他愿意与旧的墨西哥禁忌决裂，但是布什行政当局从来没有认真对待过。"
    ],
    [
        "With the abolition of the estate tax, the Republicans would finally realize their long-held ambition of creating a dynastic plutocracy – a far cry from the “equality of opportunity” maxim the party once trumpeted.",
        "共和党将通过废除房产税最终实现他们由来已久的企图——建立一个富人统治的王朝，这与该党曾经广为宣传的“机会平等”口号完全是南辕北辙。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers thus feel justified in using all available macroeconomic levers to achieve a recovery that resembles those of the past.",
        "政策制定者们因此认定应该使用一切宏观经济杠杆去实现一个与从前类似的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Making Climate Promises Count",
        "兑现气候承诺"
    ],
    [
        "But their horizon of reform is similarly confined to the banking sector, and they rarely ask what caused the banks to behave so badly.",
        "但他们对改革的视野同样是局限于银行业，他们几乎不会去想是什么因素促使银行表现得如此恶劣。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, the UN Conference on Trade and Development convened a high-level meeting in Geneva, with the goal of developing options for comprehensive reform of the investment regime, including the renegotiation or termination of some 3,000 outdated treaties.",
        "上个月，联合国贸易和发展会议在日内瓦召开了一次高级别会议，旨在制定全面投资机制改革的选项，包括重新谈判和结束约3,000条过时的条约。"
    ],
    [
        "The bill might yield a net benefit for all or most Americans, or it might be a handout to the super-wealthy.",
        "该法案可能给全体或大部分美国人带来净收益，也可能为超级富豪锦上添花。"
    ],
    [
        "But Sechin has consistently failed to appear, with his office recently telling the court that he wouldn’t be available until next year.",
        "但谢钦一直没有出面，其办公室最近告知法庭他在明年之前都不会有空。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment has risen to a record 11.2%, with 35% of young people jobless.",
        "失业率已经上升到创纪录的11. 2%，这就意味着35%的年轻人都没有工作。"
    ],
    [
        "What does this do to the legitimacy of governments, and of political institutions in general?",
        "这样做会给政府和政治机构的合法性带来什么影响？"
    ],
    [
        "Whether the primary imperative is spotlighting data and analytics or forming new partnerships in other sectors to gain access to specialized expertise, aggressive innovation, and ambitious efficiency goals are critical.",
        "不管主要障碍在于改进数据和分析还是在其他部门建立新的合伙制以获得专业知识，积极创新和远大的能源目标是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "This comes as little surprise, as America’s Constitution and political system delegate most of the initiative on foreign policy and defense to the president.",
        "这毫不奇怪，因为美国的宪法和政治系统将大多数外交和国防事务交由总统承担。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also the largest trading partner of all ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).",
        "同时，它这也是东南亚国家联盟（东盟）所有十个成员国的最大贸易伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "When government policies keep India’s telecom rates among the lowest in the world, it ensures that the poor can have access to a technology that increases their autonomy.",
        "政府政策让印度的电信费率保持在世界最低水平，确保穷人可以获得这项能增加他们自主性的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because the monetary base is controlled directly by the central bank, and is not created by commercial banks, many believe that it is the best measure of the impact of monetary policy.",
        "此外，由于货币基础由央行直接控制而非由商业银行创造，因此许多人相信它是衡量货币政策影响的最佳指标。"
    ],
    [
        "In Myanmar, the bilateral goal was to nudge the government toward greater openness and democracy – something that has unquestionably happened.",
        "在缅甸，双边目标是推动缅甸政府更加开放、更加民主——这毫无疑问已经成为事实。 亲民主领导人、诺贝尔奖获得者昂山素季从软禁中获释；"
    ],
    [
        "Continuous talk of a “Sunni-Shia divide” might ultimately develop into a self-fulfilling prophecy.",
        "继续谈论“逊尼派和什叶派的分裂”或许最终会成为一个自我实现的危言。"
    ],
    [
        "Another one-third would come from increased investment throughout the economy, as personal and business savings were moved into the formal financial system, and then mobilized to provide more credit.",
        "另外1/3或将来自整体经济投资增加，因为个人和企业储蓄被转入正规金融体系，然后被利用起来增加贷款发放。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s Olympic Also-Rans",
        "印度的奥运失利"
    ],
    [
        "However, direct controls on credit growth, while necessary, are often leaky and not very binding in practice.",
        "尽管这种办法似乎可行，但是对信贷的直接管理往往是存在许多漏洞的，在实践上的效果不佳。"
    ],
    [
        "The expectation is that if financial opening works in Shenzhen, it will be implemented more widely.",
        "人们预期如果金融开放能在深圳奏效，那么也可以在国内其他地区广泛推广。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, nearly 20 years after its original invasion, Hezbollah had become a formidable military, political, and social force in Lebanon, and a continuing thorn in Israel’s side.",
        "2000年以色列从黎巴嫩撤军时，距离其第一次入侵已经过去了近20年，真主党也已经成长为黎巴嫩的一支强大的军事、政治和社会力量，也是对以色列一侧的持续性威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reality is that the US is scuttling from a conflict that it has lost, just as it did in Vietnam almost 40 years ago, leaving the beleaguered population to its own devices.",
        "但现实是美国从冲突中败北遁走，一如近40年前的越南，任其走后被包围的群众自生自灭。"
    ],
    [
        "In January, France, which no longer has strategic or economic interests in western Africa, responded to a request from Mali’s citizens and caretaker leaders to intervene to prevent Islamist rebels from Libya and Algeria from overrunning the country.",
        "1月，在西非地区已无战略和经济利益的法国响应了马里人民和看守领导人的要求，干预阻止了来自利比亚和阿尔及利亚的伊斯兰叛军入侵该国。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, under pressure from France, the Maastricht Treaty’s requirement that countries could introduce the euro only if their national debt was less than 60% of GDP was relaxed in order to admit countries that were seen to be “evolving” toward that goal.",
        "此外，在法国的压力下，马约放松了只有国民债务水平低于GDP的60%的国家才能使用欧元的要求，以接纳似乎正在朝这一目标“前进”的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland’s greatest weapon against the ensuing debt deflation was its ability to attract US-based tech giants, by offering them a combination of EU law, a well-trained English-speaking workforce, and a 12.5% corporate-tax rate.",
        "面对因而产生的债务通缩，爱尔兰最强大的武器在于可以招徕各大美国科技巨头，为它们提供一整套包括欧盟法律，训练有素会讲英语的劳动力，以及12. 5％的企业所得税的组合。"
    ],
    [
        "Two hundred and fifty of the largest private and public enterprises have created an organization aimed at working with the government to allow them, for the first time ever, to document, and then redress, their discriminatory employment practices.",
        "二百五十家最大的私营和公营企业建立了一个组织，旨在和政府合作让它们第一次记述歧视性的雇用做法并加以矫正。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the issue is that executive remuneration packages have become too complex.",
        "部分问题在于高管薪酬方案已经变得过于复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "The argument for raising interest rates focuses not on the wellbeing of workers, but that of the financiers.",
        "升息观点所关注的不是工人的福利，而是金融家的福利。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher import prices – a net loss for the country – would be offset by the higher employment and wages generated by the more competitive position of the country’s exports.",
        "较高的进口价格——相当于该国的净损失——将被该国出口竞争力更强的就业和工资所抵消。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike in France, however, the word “socialist” is an epithet for most Americans.",
        "但是，与法国不同，“社会主义”一词对大多数美国人来说是一个别有用意的修饰语。"
    ],
    [
        "This distrustful ignorance of the other can be found everywhere in Israel.",
        "这种互不信任的相互无视现象在以色列国内普遍存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether China’s economic interest in an impartial world order based on the rule of law will lead to greater protection of individual rights remains to be seen.",
        "中国在基于法治精神的公平世界秩序中的经济利益能否带来个人权利的更大保护还有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "Going through the same material as Alesina had, its authors pointed out that “while it is plausible to conjecture that confidence effects have been at play in our sample of consolidations, during downturns they do not seem to have ever been strong enough to make the consolidations expansionary.”",
        "仔细研究过阿尔塞纳拥有的同一批材料后，该报告作者指出“尽管我们有理由推测信心在财政巩固政策样本中起到了作用，在低迷时期却似乎没有强大到足以使巩固政策实现扩张”。"
    ],
    [
        "Or they can withhold the state-level resources needed to enforce federal laws, as states that have decriminalized marijuana have done, and as sanctuary states and cities are now doing.",
        "或者他们可以截留执行联邦法律所需的州级别资源，比如那些已经对大麻进行非刑罪化的州，以及非法移民庇护州和城市目前的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they are bound to be disappointed.",
        "因此他们将注定失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, we should concentrate less on improving health care and more on strengthening disease prevention, for example by driving down tobacco use, expanding opportunities for physical activity, and increasing the availability and affordability of a healthy diet.",
        "其次，我们不应当过多关注医疗的改善，而应当关注疾病预防，比如减少烟草的使用、增加体育锻炼、增加健康饮食的可获得性和成本。"
    ],
    [
        "As with unfair or illegal labor practices, businesses must refuse to sponsor, supply, or work with organizations that fail to protect their workers from sexual abuse.",
        "在不公平或非法劳工行为方面，企业必须拒绝资助、供应无法保证工人不受性侵犯的组织或与其合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But, on another level, the attempt to rate government alongside business and the media is fundamentally misguided: no sector operates at the scale of responsibility, accountability, and expectation that governments do.",
        "但另一方面将政府与媒体企业相提并论从本质上是一种误导：任何部门承担的责任义务和肩负的期待都比不上政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The validity of the finance ministry’s position on the tax increase was called into question by the decline in Japan’s Nikkei index of stock futures after Abe’s October 1 announcement.",
        "日经指数期货在10月1日安倍晋三宣布计划后下跌，这表明财务省在增税问题立场的正确性可疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Global trade has steadily weakened, with almost no increase in the last six months.",
        "全球贸易在稳步萎靡，过去六个月以来几无增长。"
    ],
    [
        "So, finally, the truth is emerging.",
        "因此，真相最终浮出水面。"
    ],
    [
        "The fund would serve as a concrete risk-sharing mechanism and would be a modest, yet meaningful step toward overcoming the deadlock over EU initiatives, if not toward mutualizing defense and security, as some scholars recommend.",
        "该基金将作为具体的风险共担机制存在，并且，如一些学者所言，这将是克服欧盟计划的障碍——乃至通往共同化防卫和安全——的有意义的一小步。"
    ],
    [
        "More to the point, perhaps, the European Parliament doesn’t really work on the same basis of left-right politics as national parliaments do; it deals in practicalities more than ideologies.",
        "也许，更重要的是，欧洲议会并不象各国议会一样真正在左派-右派政治的基础上运作;与其说它涉及意识形态方面还不如说它涉及的是实际的方面。"
    ],
    [
        "While he has so far refused to share his vision for the bilateral relationship, even with members of his Bharatiya Janata Party, there are some potential clues.",
        "尽管到目前为止他仍不愿分享其对双边关系的愿景，哪怕是其所在的印度人民党也无从得知，但仍能找到一些政治线索。"
    ],
    [
        "This is much more likely in Algeria than in Egypt.",
        "阿尔及利亚发生这种情况的可能性比埃及大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, unprecedented urbanization has disrupted traditional family structures, further undermining the role that women can play in economies and societies.",
        "与此同时，前所未有的城市化摧毁了传统家庭结构，进一步破坏了女性可以在经济和社会中所能扮演的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "This would need to be speedy, provide some assurance of objective assessment, and ideally generate strong concern across a wide cross-section of the international community.",
        "这需要迅速、提供一些客观评估保证，最好能引起国际社会各部门的广泛强烈的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the end of 2008, however, credit amounting to 35% of GDP has been issued annually, causing the credit-to-GDP ratio to soar from less than 150% before the crisis to 250% today.",
        "但是，自2008年底以来，每年发行的信用量相当于GDP的35%，导致信用-GDP之比从危机前的150%飙升到现在的250%。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments have already agreed to keep warming below 2º Celsius but have yet to take decisive action toward creating a low-carbon energy system.",
        "政府已经同意将升温幅度限制在2摄氏度以下，但至今仍未采取果断动作构建低碳能源体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Conspiracy theories abound, particularly among the ranks of financial traders, for whom volatility is like wind to a sailor.",
        "合谋理论大量存在，尤其是在金融投资者的阶层中，对他们来说波动就像是水手眼里的风。"
    ],
    [
        "These voters formed the basis of the AKP’s electoral victories and democratic legitimacy.",
        "这些选民构成了正义与发展党选举胜利和民主合法性的根基。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, income inequality and environmental externalities are two of the most prominent justifications for government intervention.",
        "比如，收入不平等和环境外部性便是政府干预最主要的两大理由。"
    ],
    [
        "But the signs of economic deterioration are surely there.",
        "但经济恶化的迹象其实已经有所显现了。"
    ],
    [
        "The reliance of modern banking regulation on risk weighting is nowhere more important than in the mortgage market.",
        "现代银行监管依赖于风险权重，最能表现这一点的莫过于按揭市场。"
    ],
    [
        "During the Cold War, open cultural exchanges – such as the Salzburg Seminar, which enabled young people to engage with one another – demonstrated that contact among populations is far more meaningful.",
        "冷战期间，开放的文化交流——如让年轻人互相交流的萨尔茨堡研讨会（Salzburg Seminar）——证明了人口之间的联系要有意义得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor was their problem that political leaders refused to listen to them.",
        "也不在于政治领导人拒绝听他们的。"
    ],
    [
        "UBI is a somewhat uneasy mix of two objectives: poverty relief and the rejection of work as the defining purpose of life.",
        "无条件基本收入这个理念在某种意义上是两项目标的艰难组合：扶贫，以及避免让工作成为生命的定义。"
    ],
    [
        "And how can Europe’s institutions function with enhanced legitimacy to accommodate countries that share the euro and others that retain their national currencies?",
        "如何增加欧洲机构的合法性以协调共用欧元和保有本国货币的国家？"
    ],
    [
        "Some have suggested a more active military role for the US, beginning with a no-fly zone.",
        "一些人建议美国应该扮演更积极的军事角色，设置禁飞区。"
    ],
    [
        "His friend Senator Joseph Lieberman, a former Democrat and a hawk on the Iraq war, appeared to be the most likely pick.",
        "他的朋友，参议员约瑟夫·利伯曼，一位前民主党人和在伊拉克战争问题上的鹰派人物，似乎是最有可能的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, efforts to Islamicize the state comes at a time when conflict in the Middle East has further politicized Muslim movements in Malaysia.",
        "而且，将国家伊斯兰化的企图发生在中东冲突进一步将马来西亚的穆斯林运动政治化大的当口。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, the general level of trust in the European Union is not high: only 41% of voters tend to trust the EU, whereas 42% tend not to trust it.",
        "总的来讲，对欧盟的信任程度并不算高：只有41%的选民选择信任欧盟，而有42%的人不愿信任它。"
    ],
    [
        "Could it happen elsewhere?",
        "其他地方也会如此吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Until the second half of 2008, Europe seemed to have reached fiscal Paradise: the market did not differentiate between eurozone governments’ bonds.",
        "在2008年下半年之前，欧洲似乎一直身处财政天堂：市场无差别地对待欧元区政府债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The onset of global warming, however, has changed everything.",
        "但全球变暖的出现，改变了这一切。"
    ],
    [
        "A simple structure would be to make all debt payable over 40 years, carrying an interest rate of 2%.",
        "将出现一个简单的框架，让所有债务都延长至40年后偿付，利率在2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Productivity growth is an important economic indicator, because it measures the year-on-year decline in resources or manpower needed to achieve the same level of economic output.",
        "生产率增长是一个重要的经济指标，因为它衡量实现相同水平经济产出的资源和人力同比下降率。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not in keeping with the forward-looking agenda that has always brought Erdoğan political success in the past.",
        "这与此前让埃尔多安取得巨大的政治成功的前瞻性日程截然相反。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unfortunately, law in many parts of the world has not kept up with changing times.",
        "不幸的是，世界许多地区的法律并没有跟上时代的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But what may be permissible and justifiable in a financial emergency may not be appropriate as standard practice during normal times.",
        "但在金融紧急状态中可许可行的措施未必适合成为正常时期的标准行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Slow growth of greenhouse-gas emissions in rapidly-growing economies must be accompanied by credible promises to deliver massive amounts of assistance in the mighty tasks of industrialization, education, and urbanization that China, India, Mexico, Brazil, and many other developing countries face.",
        "中国、印度、墨西哥、巴西以及其他许多发展中国家面临工业化、教育以及城市化的艰巨任务。 这些经济国家高速发展而体温室气体排放增长缓慢，这必须辅之以切实保证提供大量援助。"
    ],
    [
        "When they cease their large-scale dollar-purchase programs, the value of the dollar will fall – and it will fall hard.",
        "如果他们停止大规模的美元购买计划，美元的价值就会下跌¾而且是狂跌不止。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s allies, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, were interested in replacing Assad’s Alawite regime in Syria with a Sunni-led regime (Alawites are a branch of Shia Islam).",
        "美国的盟友，包括土耳其、沙特阿拉伯和卡塔尔，则意在用逊尼派领导的政权取代阿萨德的阿拉维派政权（阿拉维派是什叶派的分支）。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time since Mexico left behind 70 years of authoritarian rule, the country has a political and electoral framework that resembles those found in all modern democracies.",
        "在长达70年的专制统治后，民主国家所具备的政治和选举架构首次在墨西哥建立。"
    ],
    [
        "Summers emphasizes the inadequacy of aggregate demand, exacerbated by the inability of central banks to reduce nominal interest rates below zero.",
        "萨默斯强调总需求的不足，这一不足因为中央银行无法将名义利率降至零以下而加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "US involvement was especially heavy during the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Gerald Ford and lasted until the 1990s.",
        "美国的参与直到20世纪90年代才告一段落，而在约翰·肯尼迪和杰拉尔德·福特两位总统执政时则达到鼎盛时期。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is a positive development, because it reflects the non-linear progress of scientific knowledge, characterized by what Thomas Kuhn described in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as “paradigm shifts.”",
        "但这是积极的发展态势，因为这反映了科学知识的非线性进步，托马斯·库恩在其名著《科学革命的结构》（The Structure of Scientific Revolutions）中将其称为“范式变迁”。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, secular dictators have worked to suppress the Brothers at every turn – often violently, as when Assad ruthlessly crushed a Brotherhood-led uprising in Hama in 1982.",
        "事实上，世俗独裁者在每一个转折点上都对穆兄会实施了镇压——通常是暴力镇压，如1982年阿萨德残忍地粉碎了穆兄会领导的哈马（Hama）起义。"
    ],
    [
        "As 2015 closes, China’s leaders find themselves at a crossroads.",
        "随着2015年临近尾声，中国领导人发现自己正处在十字路口。"
    ],
    [
        "Quantitative easing was supposed to bring inflation “back to target.”",
        "量化宽松理应让通胀“回到目标”。"
    ],
    [
        "Or perhaps the low cost of international capital will entice the US to absorb some of the world’s excess savings, triggering a new period of global expansion.",
        "或者，低成本的国际资本或将诱使美国吸收一些过剩储蓄，带来新的全球扩张期。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences estimates that the central and local governments have accumulated net assets amounting to nearly 146% of GDP, mostly in real estate.",
        "此外，按中国社会科学院一项研究测算，中央和地方政府所积累的净资产达到了GDP的近146%，其中大部分为房地产和基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Western forces and their proxy, the PYD militia, whose real loyalty is to their leaders in Turkey, now control Raqqa.",
        "西方势力和他们的代理民主联盟党民兵真正效忠的是土耳其领袖，拉卡的权力现在控制在他们手中。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, Assad’s regime possesses an overwhelming military advantage, with an air force, tanks, missiles, and chemical and biological weapons.",
        "巴沙尔政权拥有压倒性的军事优势，有空军、坦克、导弹和生化武器。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s major powers may appear unresponsive, but that can change.",
        "世界主要力量也许响应并不积极，但这可以改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as with all human inventions, the Internet can be abused, as evidenced by the rise in cybercrime, online harassment, hate speech, incitement to violence, and online radicalization.",
        "但是，和一切人类发明一样，互联网可能被滥用，网络犯罪、在线骚扰、仇恨言论、煽动暴力以及在线激进化的崛起说明了一切。"
    ],
    [
        "Some say that it is achieved only once a country has passed the “two-turnover test,” that is, two changes of government without violence.",
        "有人说只有当一个国家能够通过“两次更迭测试”，也就是两次在不发生暴力的情况下更换政府，民主才算在这个国家真正生根。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they took the inflows in the form of direct investment, equity, or debt denominated in local currency.",
        "相反，他们关注那些采取直接投资、股权或以本币形式计价的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the ECB Doing Enough?",
        "欧洲央行尽职了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, what was supposed to be a huge asset for her candidacy – the prospect of making history as the first woman president – isn’t working out as she and her campaign had expected.",
        "最后，理应成为让她担任总统候选人的巨大优势——有望成为历史上首位女总统——也没有如她和她的阵营所愿那样发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1713, another Catholic Frenchman, Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre, published his Project for Perpetual Peace in Europe. There would be a European senate, a European army, and the larger member states would have equal voting rights.",
        "1713年，另一位法国天主教徒圣皮埃尔（Saint-Pierre）神父出版了《欧洲永久和平工程》（Project for Perpetual Peace in Europe），包括了一个欧洲参议院、一支欧洲军队，较大成员国将拥有平等的投票权。"
    ],
    [
        "To be credible and effective, decriminalization must be combined with robust prevention campaigns.",
        "为确保能取得可靠而有效的效果，大麻无罪化必须与健全的预防运动相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "Other new provisions will also hurt the US economy.",
        "此外还有其他一些新规定也将伤害美国经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, the Mumbai industrialists’ club used to be inherently protectionist.",
        "孟买的工业家于是实行着封闭的贸易保护主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The West does not support Kurdish independence for the same reason it would not support Catalan independence.",
        "西方不支持库尔德独立，出于同样原因，想要西方支持加泰罗尼亚独立也是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia After the Afghan War",
        "阿富汗战争后的亚洲"
    ],
    [
        "The absence of a world government deters abusive power – however imperfectly, it forces governments to compete (even though they often collude).",
        "缺少世界政府阻止了权力滥用——不管如何不完美，这迫使政府互相竞争（尽管它们往往勾搭成奸）。"
    ],
    [
        "Such unintended consequences pervade EU competition policy as well.",
        "这些意料之外的后果在欧盟竞争政策中也随处可见。"
    ],
    [
        "The potential was alluring, but also terrifying.",
        "潜力是诱人的，但也是令人害怕的。"
    ],
    [
        "For Syria’s Kurds, the struggle against more than four decades of the Assad family’s Ba’athist dictatorship became particularly harsh after 2004, when security forces killed dozens of unarmed protesters in the northeastern town of Qamishli.",
        "自从2004年安全部队在卡米什利东北小镇杀害数十名手无寸铁的示威者以来，叙利亚库尔德人反抗执政40余年的阿萨德家族复兴党独裁统治的斗争就变得尤为艰苦。"
    ],
    [
        "And they see one in India’s glorious Technicolor – the Bollywood version of Adam Smith.",
        "商人们已经目睹了其中壮丽的一幕——堪称亚当·斯密在宝莱坞灵魂附体。"
    ],
    [
        "Here is what emerges:",
        "研究结果如下："
    ],
    [
        "In response to this criticism, Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak, tried, as predicted, to attribute Piotr’s action to his depression.",
        "在回应上述批评时，内政部长布瓦什查克就像皮奥特所预测的那样试图将皮奥特的行为归结于他的抑郁症。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, even if referendums are often frivolous, their consequences are not.",
        "毕竟，即便公投往往无聊肤浅，但却可能带来严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "A neutral judge – not one of the creditors – usually sets the terms in insolvency proceedings.",
        "一个中立的裁决者——而非其中一位债权人——通常会设定破产程序中条款。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, a wide range of economists favor a uniform (“harmonized”) global tax that would tax carbon emissions equally everywhere in the world, and from whatever source – whether coal, oil, or gas, and whether consumers or businesses.",
        "出于这一原因，许多经济学家赞同一项统一（协调）的全球税收来对世界上所有地方、所有来源的碳排放平等征税，无论来源是煤炭、石油或者天然气，无论消费者还是商家所排放。"
    ],
    [
        "Cities can also streamline approval processes to accelerate completion.",
        "城市还可以精简审批程序以加速完工。"
    ],
    [
        "The troika’s forecasts have been wrong, and repeatedly so.",
        "三驾马车的预测是错误的，并且一错再错。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argued that authoritarian rule provided a much surer and safer path to welfare than democracy could offer, others extolled the virtues of “Asian values,” and still others argued that democracy in the Arab or Muslim world would only pave the way for Islamic fundamentalists to take power.",
        "有人声称专制统治比民主制度更能安全地实现民众福利，也有人为“亚洲价值观”大唱颂歌，更有人提出在阿拉伯或穆斯林世界推行民主只能让伊斯兰原教旨主义得逞。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission has a case, but it also has a problem.",
        "欧洲委员会有优势，但也有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – A billionaire with a Harvard degree runs for President of Chile promising reforms to enhance productivity and competitiveness, and wins.",
        "圣地亚哥—一位拥有哈佛学位的亿万富翁竞选智利总统，承诺加强提高生产率和竞争力的改革，并在大选中胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "These ideas are largely untested, so much work would need to be done before they could be made operational.",
        "这些想法在很大程度上是未经过检验的，在开始运作之前需要做很多工作。"
    ],
    [
        "A mortality survey conducted by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and released earlier this year demonstrates that this conflict is the world’s most deadly crisis since World War II: an estimated 5.4 million people have died as a consequence of the war and its lingering effects in the last decade.",
        "由国际救援委员会(IRC)进行并于今年早些时候发布的一份死亡率调查显示，这一冲突是第二次世界大战以来世界上最致命的危机：在过去十年中，大约有540万人因为战争及其延迟效应死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "The next step was the fiscal plan that was agreed in Brussels at the end of last year, which completely abandoned the idea of a transfer union in favor of an agreement that each eurozone country would balance its budget.",
        "接着出现的是去年年底在布鲁塞尔达成一致的财政计划，该计划完全抛弃了转移联盟的观点，转而支持所有欧元区国家都必须平衡预算。"
    ],
    [
        "Or is he simply biased because of the people he knows, the company he works for, or the attitudes he picked up at home?",
        "或者由于周围人、工作单位或家庭成员意见的影响他本来就带有偏见？"
    ],
    [
        "But there is something else wrong with Lévy’s critique.",
        "但莱维的批评还有其他错误。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, it could alleviate the social hardship that will arise when the price for heating alone exceeds household income.",
        "首先，欧盟可以帮助缓和取暖价格一项便超过家庭收入所造成的社会问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is the relative success of ethnic minorities and immigrants that is more upsetting to indigenous populations.",
        "但其实更令本土民众沮丧的是少数族裔和移民的相对成功。"
    ],
    [
        "A decade after the Great Recession began, economic recovery continued in 2017, and progress was made on issues like poverty, education, and global warming.",
        "大衰退爆发十年后，经济复苏在2017年得到了持续，贫困、教育和全球变暖等问题都取得了进展。"
    ],
    [
        "China was the least centralized, at 30%-70%. Argentina was the most balanced, at about 50%-50%.",
        "中国的集权度最低，分别为 30% 和 70% 。 阿根廷最为均衡，二者各占 50% 。"
    ],
    [
        "While the EU wrestles with problems of migration and integration, Russia is drifting away from a Eurocentric cultural and economic course toward a Eurasian alternative.",
        "欧盟正在与移民和一体化问题角力，而俄罗斯正在偏离欧洲中心文化和经济策略，倒向欧亚方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The exciting thing about Open Education is that free access is just the beginning.",
        "开放教育让人兴奋的事情就是免费开放还只是开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Ethiopia’s government had strenuously denied rumors of serious ill health caused by liver cancer.",
        "埃塞俄比亚政府一直在否认关于他身患严重肝癌的传闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Their debts and obligations are similarly fixed.",
        "他们的债务和义务也有类似的固定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with democratic majority rule, minorities believe that their interests and rights – economic, cultural, or religious – are not being protected.",
        "即使在民主多数执政的前提下，少数人也认为并没有保护他们的经济、文化或宗教权利和利益。"
    ],
    [
        "I found similar growth in the use of these three terms together when I searched in French, German, Italian, and Spanish: 90% of the stories were in 2003 and 2004.",
        "在我用法、德、意和西班牙文搜索时发现这三个关键词连用的频率也有相似的增长：90%的报道出现在2003和2004年。"
    ],
    [
        "This provoked a small firestorm of distortion in the West: “Wolf Wants to Institutionalize the Burka,” etc.",
        "但上述呼声却在西方掀起了一股歪曲我本意、所谓“沃尔夫想将布卡（穆斯林女性传统服装）合理化”的风暴。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Europe’s main commercial competitors have begun to recognize that pursuing short-term development policies, while ignoring long-term threats to the global economy, is both irresponsible and a strategic mistake for those who aspire to global leadership in the twenty-first century.",
        "此外，欧洲主要商业竞争者一开始认识到追求短期发展政策而忽视全球经济受到的长期威胁既不负责，也是战略错误，不利于寻求21世纪全球领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "One standard must apply to all countries: zero.",
        "核武器零标准必须适用于所有国家。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the only way fully to defeat a movement that thrives amid chaos is to build strong and competent states, a task for which Trump lacks both the inclination and the patience.",
        "毕竟。 彻底消灭一个从混乱中崛起的运动的唯一办法是构建强大称职的国家，特朗普既没有计划，也没有耐心这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "But unbalanced intellectual-property regimes result in inefficiencies – including monopoly profits and a failure to maximize the use of knowledge – that impede the pace of innovation.",
        "但不平衡的知识产权制度导致了它的无效——这包括垄断利润及不能使知识利用最大化——这就妨碍了创新的速度。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, these restraints are in the process of being abandoned.",
        "而现在，这些限制政策也正被摒弃。"
    ],
    [
        "· The commodity boom in some Muslim countries has generated surpluses that need to be allocated through financial intermediaries and sovereign wealth funds.",
        "· 商品繁荣使一些穆斯林国家得到了需要通过金融中介和主权财富基金汇集起来的盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1999, Finland boasted the smallest government debt, equal to 45.5% of GDP.",
        "1999 年，芬兰的政府债务创欧元区最低，占其 GDP 的 45. 5% 。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2007, government expenditure on health care, social security, and unemployment welfare programs totaled about $88 billion, or 15% of the fiscal budget and 2.4% of GDP (far below the typical percentage in both developed and developing democracies).",
        "在2007年，中国在医疗、社会保险和失业福利项目上的政府开支总计约880亿美元，即财政预算的15%，GDP的2. 4%（既远远低于发达民主国家，也远远低于发展中民主国家的一般百分比）。"
    ],
    [
        "This year’s Davos meeting will offer a glimpse of where the next life-, planet- and economy-saving discoveries and products will come from, and where we should invest our talents and treasure to fuel the next generation of transformative technologies.",
        "今年的达沃斯会议将让我们略微了解下一波拯救生命、地球和经济的发现和产品将会产生于何处，以及我们应该将天才和资金用于何处以刺激下一代变革性技术。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2008, the French rate can be expected to decline only to 8.2%, while German unemployment is anticipated to fall to 6.3%.",
        "到2008年，法国的失业率预计只会下降到8. 2％，而德国的失业率预计会下降到6."
    ],
    [
        "The Arab awakenings over the last few years revealed a centrist middle-class yearning for change.",
        "过去几年来，阿拉伯民众的觉醒体现了中立的中产阶级对变革的渴求。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a matter of no small public concern that international security still depends on “nuclear deterrence” – a doctrine based on mutual distrust that aims to keep the peace through the threat of mass killings.",
        "国际安全仍有赖于“核威慑”是引发公众关注的重大问题——这种学说基于缺乏互信，旨在借助大规模屠杀威胁达到维护和平的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1989, the Chinese Government sent troops to repress the country’s pro-democracy movement.",
        "1989年，中国政府动用军队镇压了该国的民主运动。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is likely to be an upper bound, because it assumes that US retailers will pass through to consumers the full amount of any increase in import prices.",
        "而这可能是其影响的上限，因为其中假设美国零售商将把所有进口价格上涨的因素转嫁给消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "A more ominous question is familiar from novels and movies: Will we have to defend our civilization against intelligent machines of our own creation?",
        "还有一个在小说和电影里反复出现的，更为不祥的问题：我们是否将不得不保卫自己的文明，使之免遭出自我们之手的智能机器屠戮？"
    ],
    [
        "Excruciatingly laborious “stakeholder” consultations – of the type that lasted nearly ten years to construct the World Bank-funded Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric power plant in Laos – are not required of Chinese aid.",
        "历尽艰辛的“利益相关者”咨询过程——比如世界银行老挝南屯2号（Nam Theun 2 ）水电站大坝援助工程就耗费了近十年时间来咨询——在中国援助中根本就不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "So what is not to like?",
        "有什么不好的地方吗？"
    ],
    [
        "As he moves closer to solidifying the Democratic Party’s position in US politics, Israel will continue to construct settlements and become increasingly isolated.",
        "随着他逐渐巩固共和党在美国政坛中的位置，以色列将继续建设定居点并变得越来越孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "Security guarantees for Israel.",
        "对以色列做出安全保证；"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, according to the Transition Report’s estimates, these regions’ infrastructure investment requirements amount to about €2.2 trillion ($2.6 trillion).",
        "而事实上，据《转型报告》的估算，这些地区的基础设施投资要求高达约2. 2万亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "No one was saying, “We want to take control of our own borders so that we can have the same number of migrants.”",
        "没有人会说，“我们只是想控制自己的边境，目的是让移民的数量和从前一样多。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither of them has set foot outside the five-square-mile (13 square kilometers) camp.",
        "她们从未跨出过方圆五平方英里（13平方公里）的难民营半步。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a risk that Japan, China, and the US will not sit on their hands while the euro loses value, with the world possibly even sliding into a currency war.",
        "有一个风险是日本、中国和美国不会坐视欧元贬值，世界甚至有可能滑向货币战争。"
    ],
    [
        "And it may be why economies with more diverse sets of migrants perform better.",
        "这也许也是移民群体多样化的经济体表现更加出色的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Without it, on whose behalf would the state – which is supposed to make decisions, define and protect rights, and impose obligations – be acting?",
        "没有这种感觉，国家——应该由它来做出决定、定义和保护权利并规定义务——代表谁行动？"
    ],
    [
        "Extreme poverty is almost synonymous with extreme isolation, especially rural isolation.",
        "极度的贫困几乎是极度的闭塞的代名词，对农村地区的闭塞来说，这尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But most of these measures do not cost money, and, as the MDGs have shown, setting targets can be used to mobilize action from rich-country governments.",
        "但这些措施大多并不需要金钱，MDG也表明，设定小目标可以用于动员发达国家政府的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Under this program, creditor countries would write off Greece’s debts, on the condition that the country left the eurozone voluntarily.",
        "根据这一计划，债权国将勾销希腊债务，条件是希腊自愿离开欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments must work together to mitigate these risks, and to respond forcefully to disasters when they happen.",
        "政府必须合作减轻这些风险，当灾难发生时要强力响应。"
    ],
    [
        "The prevailing perception in Israel is that of being surrounded by formidable non-nuclear threats, and dangerously weakened by the poor capacity of the state’s domestic front to sustain a long conventional war.",
        "以色列的主流感觉是它位于可怕的非核威胁包围之中，而该国国土狭小，无法维持长时间的常规战争，因此显得尤为孱弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese may proclaim that they tend to think over a “longer” term than Americans, who think more “broadly,” and Europeans, who think more “deeply,” as a well-known Chinese international relations expert has put it.",
        "正如一位著名的中国国际关系专家所说，中国人可能认为他们思考问题比美国更“长远”，而美国思考问题更“广泛”，欧洲则更“深入”。"
    ],
    [
        "All this, quite naturally, led to geopolitical hubris, in Washington and in Tel Aviv.",
        "这正是这一切令华盛顿和特拉维夫当局在地缘政治上不可一世。"
    ],
    [
        "Its internal governance processes are underdeveloped and lack transparency.",
        "其内部治理过程还有待改进，而且缺乏透明度。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important, therefore, that the disease is not forgotten even when it is not claiming victims.",
        "因此，很重要的一点是，即使没有报告病例，也不能将它遗忘。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea is that power plants and other large fossil fuel users should capture the CO2 and pump it into permanent underground storage sites, such as old oil fields.",
        "这一观点就是，电厂和其他大型碳燃料用户应该回收二氧化碳并且把它输送到像老油田等永久性地下储存地点。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, these hopes were quickly dashed.",
        "不幸的是，这一希望很快就落空了。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – The purpose of creating a common currency has been largely and surprisingly forgotten in crisis-torn Europe.",
        "发自普林斯顿——饱受危机摧残的欧洲已经令人吃惊地将当初创立共同货币的目的抛诸脑后。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Latin American governments were once world leaders in over-indebtedness.",
        "毕竟，拉美各国政府曾经是过度负债的世界领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "We want to tell the people who are violent towards their own countrymen to stop and think whether their actions are in accordance with the dharma, whether they are acting for the good of Burma’s people.",
        "我们希望告诉那些残酷对待他们自己的国民的人停下来想一想他们的做法是不是符合佛法的教义，不管他们这样做是不是为了缅甸人民的利益着想。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge is to prioritize that will in a way that keeps China on the course of reform and rebalancing.",
        "挑战在于在改革和再平衡的过程中重点发展这一意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, Turkey scored 76 points lower than the OECD average in science exams and 74 points lower in math.",
        "2006年，土耳其在科学方面的得分比经合组织平均分低76分，数学方面低74分。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, since Abe’s first arrow took flight, Japan’s stock market has soared with it, recording an unprecedented 40% annual gain, while the yen has depreciated against the dollar by 20%, boosting Japanese firms’ export competitiveness.",
        "事实上，自安倍射出第一支箭以来，日本股市应声大涨，录得前所未有的40%的年涨幅，同时日元对美元贬值20%，提振了日本企业的出口竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, that represents an encouraging first step in bridging Egypt’s divides.",
        "显然，这是弥合埃及社会分歧的令人鼓舞的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "The control systems that electric power companies use are thought vulnerable to attack, which could shut down cities and regions for days or weeks.",
        "电力公司使用的控制系统被认为是很脆弱的，一次这样的攻击就可能造成一些城市和地区数天或数周的瘫痪。"
    ],
    [
        "“Guilt” means that the state has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused committed the act.",
        "“有罪”意味着国家排除合理怀疑证明被告做了某件事。"
    ],
    [
        "ECB President Mario Draghi may fail to bring inflation back to 2%.",
        "欧洲央行行长马里奥·德拉吉（Mario Draghi）也许无法让通胀回升到2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the International Labor Organization and trade-union lobbies have managed to insert “Decent Jobs” into the seven priority areas at the Rio conference.",
        "因此，国际劳工组织和工会游说集团想方设法将“体面工作”加入到里约会议的七大主要议题中。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, China has implemented a series of reforms to increase the renminbi’s usage in foreign trade and direct investment, as well as in cross-border financial investment.",
        "此后，中国实施了一系列改革，增加人民币在外贸和直接投资以及跨境金融投资中的使用。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Fu Ying expressed her country’s anxiety about this state of affairs in a recent interview. “The most important thing is the question of whether China and the US are enemies.",
        "对此中国外交部副部长傅莹在最近接受采访时表达了中方的忧虑：“我认为重要的问题是：中美两国是不是敌人？"
    ],
    [
        "Celebrity Central Bankers",
        "中央银行家的明星效应"
    ],
    [
        "During the half-century of the Fifth Republic, a bipartisan system of left and right has traditionally prevailed.",
        "在第五共和国半个世纪的历史中，左派和右派的两党制已经成为了传统。"
    ],
    [
        "One can only hope so.",
        "”人们只剩下了希望。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be higher if the inflation rate is above the target level and lower if current GDP is less than the full-employment level.",
        "如果通胀率高于目标则联邦基金利率更高，如果当前GDP低于充分就业时期的水平，那么联邦基金利率就更低。"
    ],
    [
        "Journalists tend to focus too heavily on leaders’ personalities, because it makes good copy.",
        "记者往往过于关注领导人的个性，因为能够写出好故事。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, organized Muslim leaders so far have not aggravated the rioting.",
        "所幸的是，有组织的穆斯林领导人目前为止并没有加重骚乱。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was already too late, as the liquidity problem had become a matter of solidity.",
        "但随着流动性的问题变成经营能力的问题，央行的举措也为时已晚。"
    ],
    [
        "Like a YouTube video, the Greek story went viral.",
        "正如Youtube网站上的视频那样，这个希腊故事开始病毒式传播。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever weaknesses one finds in the Reinhart/Rogoff paper, it does not follow that countries in recession should always disregard deficits and debt levels and focus on stimulus.",
        "不管你在莱/罗论文中发现了什么漏洞，都不能说衰退中的国家一定应该无视赤字和债务水平而专注于刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "Danish author Bjørn Lomborg was puzzled.",
        "丹麦作家比约恩·隆伯格感到十分困惑。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments bear the primary responsibility for funding workforce training.",
        "在培训劳动力方面，政府承担主要责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Some even carry their fights to the provincial and central authorities, stoking a sharp rise in the incidents of “public order disturbances” nation-wide.",
        "有些人甚至向省级及中央政府发难，致使全国范围内“扰乱公共秩序”案件严重上升。"
    ],
    [
        "And, over time, uncertainty concerning the latter question has risen to an uncomfortable level.",
        "而随着时间的推移，后一个问题上的不确定性已上升到了令人不安的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "He will emphasize common strategic interests, highlight mutual economic benefits, generate positive public opinion, and promote further exchanges.",
        "他将强调双方共同的战略利益，强调双边经济互惠，促进积极的公众舆论，并推动两国进一步的交流。"
    ],
    [
        "It has slightly decreased .",
        "那就是，在过去两年的时间里，全球海平面没有上升，而是轻微下降了。"
    ],
    [
        "But China did enter into a five-year bilateral accord, which expires next year, requiring it to transfer to India hydrological and meteorological data daily from three Brahmaputra-monitoring stations in Tibet during the risky flood season, from May 15 to October 15.",
        "但中国加入了另一个五年期的双边协议，这个将于明年到期的协议要求中国在洪水高发季，即每年5月15日至10月15日每日向印度传输三个雅鲁藏布江监测站的水文和气象数据。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Getting out of our current financial mess requires understanding how we got into it in the first place.",
        "伯克利－从我们当前的金融混乱状态脱身首先需要了解我们是怎样陷入其中的。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change – which the scientific community overwhelmingly regards it as a major threat – is a case in point.",
        "被科学界普遍视为重大威胁的气候变化就是个很好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as a fast-moving cyclist cannot simply stop pedaling, governments cannot suddenly halt all borrowing.",
        "正如高速行进的自行车手不能猛然停止踏动踏板，政府也无法猛然停止一切借贷。"
    ],
    [
        "But China has all of the tools it needs to succeed.",
        "但中国具备了成功所需要的一切工具。"
    ],
    [
        "David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father and the architect of Israel’s reconciliation with Germany, was a pragmatist through and through.",
        "以色列国父、以色列与德国和解的缔造者大卫·本-古里安（David Ben-Gurion）是一个彻头彻尾的务实主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "The political horse-trading is over for the time being, and the outcome seems assured.",
        "政治领域的讨价还价暂告一段落，最终结果似乎并不出人意料。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Many people around the world are probably wondering why Hillary Clinton – who is obviously more prepared and better suited for the American presidency than her opponent, Donald Trump – isn’t waltzing to victory.",
        "华盛顿—全世界很多人可能正在奇怪为何希拉里·克林顿——她显然比她的对手唐纳德·特朗普准备更充分，也更适合当美国总统——没有势如破竹。"
    ],
    [
        "Not being a well-educated man Putin is, in full and deep sincerity, leading Russia toward the same disintegration that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet state.",
        "由于认识水平有限，普京正诚心诚意地带领俄国向着曾导致苏联解体的分裂状态一步步迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "MUMBAI – The global economy’s slowdown has not spared India.",
        "孟买——印度也未能从全球经济放缓的大趋势中幸免。"
    ],
    [
        "The “near-certainty” standard appears not to have been met.",
        "“几乎确定”标准似乎并没有达到。"
    ],
    [
        "Divorce is anathema. (Sarkozy is now twice divorced.)",
        "离婚是丢人现眼的事情(萨尔科奇现在已经两次离婚了)。"
    ],
    [
        "True, great thinkers like John Maynard Keynes and the late Nobel laureate James Tobin floated various ideas for taxing financial transactions as a way to reduce economic volatility.",
        "的确，像凯恩斯和诺奖得主托宾（James Tobin）那样的伟大思想家提出过若干理念，认为开征金融交易税是削弱经济波动的一种方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Rabin’s response is etched in my memory.",
        "”拉宾对此的回应使我永生铭记。"
    ],
    [
        "But the world’s pain has been these institutions’ gain.",
        "但是，世界上有些国家的痛苦却成了国际货币基金组织和世界银行的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "International poverty goals must include tobacco control.",
        "国际扶贫目标必须包含烟草控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Statism has been a characteristically twentieth-century response to new uncertainty. Its inadequacy may lead to the formulation of a much older answer: revulsion against the market economy, accompanied by indiscriminate condemnation of debt and debt instruments.",
        "中央集权是20世纪对新的不确定性的典型回应，其不足可能会导致一个早前出现过的反应的形成：伴随着对债务和债务工具不加区分的指责，人们产生了对市场经济强烈的反感。"
    ],
    [
        "As China Turns",
        "中国的转变"
    ],
    [
        "Political complications linked to a possible meeting with the Venezuelan opposition, which Bachelet had chosen not to attend (preferring to send her foreign minister), likely also played a part.",
        "与委内瑞拉反对派会晤（巴切莱特已决意不亲自出席而是派外长代表）相关的政治并发症也可能是部分理由。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short term, Canadian oil would liberate the US from this hypocrisy.",
        "短期看加拿大原油能帮助美国摆脱这样的伪善面目。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this implies that the emerging world as a whole is unlikely in 2014 to resume its role as a major engine of the global economy, and that the quality of what growth there is will be far from optimal.",
        "这一切都意味着新兴世界作为一个整体将难以在2014年重新扮演全球经济主要驱动引擎的角色，而其增长的质量将远远称不上理想。"
    ],
    [
        "After a multi-year bull market in equities and fixed-income securities, stimulated by the very monetary policies the Fed is trying to leave behind, there is no valuation support to dampen the reaction.",
        "受美联储货币政策影响，股票和固定收益证券市场经历了多年的牛市，如今美联储试图退出这些货币政策，而市场估值无力提供反弹支持。"
    ],
    [
        "But, throughout the eurozone, rates are close to zero – and negative for a substantial share of government debt – and are expected to remain low for quite some time.",
        "但是，纵观欧元区，利率无不接近于零——并且有相当大部分的政府债务为负——预计将在相当长时间里保持低水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor do import tariffs help those left unemployed by the bankruptcy of Blockbuster Video, Borders Books, CompUSA, Circuit City, Payless, or Virgin Megastores. In the meantime, employment at Amazon grew by 47% over the past year, to 341,000 people.",
        "进口关税对于那些因为百事达音像（Blockbuster Video）、鲍德斯书店（Borders Books）、美国电脑（CompUSA）、电路城（Circuit City）、Payless或维珍超级百货（Virgin Megastores）等公司倒闭而失业的人也无济于事。"
    ],
    [
        "Chile was the star reformer, but other countries – including Botswana, China, Costa Rica, Malaysia, the Philippines, and South Korea – also avoided pro-cyclical fiscal policies.",
        "除改革明星智利外，博茨瓦纳、中国、哥斯达黎加、马来西亚、菲律宾和韩国也都避免了采取顺周期的财政措施。"
    ],
    [
        "England was a pioneer in industrialization, and was deeply shocked by the presumption of newcomers who soon entered the same stage.",
        "英格兰是工业化的先驱，对于后来者会如此之快地登上同一个舞台的假设使其大为震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "The real failings in the Obama recovery program, however, lie not in the stimulus package but in its efforts to revive financial markets.",
        "抛开经济刺激方案不说，奥巴马救助计划的真正败笔是对金融市场的救助上，美国的失败案例没有给世界一个好的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "\"[T]hat has to subtract growth and could cause core inflation to pick up.\"",
        "\"油价上涨必须扣除增长因素，也可能会导致核心通货膨胀的抬升。"
    ],
    [
        "A wide range of effective treatments are available that don’t cause weight gain, sexual dysfunction, diabetes, memory loss, or addiction.",
        "我们已经有了很多有效的疗法。 它们不会导致增重、性功能障碍、糖尿病、记忆损失或上瘾。"
    ],
    [
        "The country's prominence on the world stage comes at an odd time, when it finds itself surrounded by a widening arc of instability.",
        "土耳其在世界舞台上出任主角的时机可谓怪异，因为它正在被日益扩大的动荡周边所包围。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s East Asian Dream",
        "印度的东亚梦"
    ],
    [
        "Establishing a contact group of Iraq’s neighbors to help set rules of the road for stabilization and containment will be an important step.",
        "建立伊拉克邻国组成的联络小组来帮助建立稳定和遏制的规则将是一个重要的步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "While the new paradigm would safeguard the legitimacy of existing regulatory and diplomatic instruments, such as emissions trading, the EU would have to reconsider the framework for applying them.",
        "新范式能捍卫现有监管和外交工具（比如碳排放交易）的合法性，但欧盟还必须重新考虑应用框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Some Japanese still want to write or believe fairy tales about their pre-war and wartime history, which has hugely complicated Japan’s efforts to find a confident and lasting reconciliation with China.",
        "一些日本人依然希望杜撰或相信关于他们在战前和战争期间的历史的谎言，这使日本试图与中国达成相互信任并且永久的和解的努力变得极其艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, central banks should focus on the rate of revenue increase, measured in nominal GDP growth; that is, after all, what matters for highly indebted governments and enterprises.",
        "相反，央行应该着重于以名义GDP增长衡量的收入增长率； 毕竟，对于重债政府和企业来说，这才是重要的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, they scale and elevate expertise, learning from experts in various fields and making that know-how available to broad populations.",
        "其次，它们扩大和提升专家知识，从不同领域的专家中学习，让这些知识能为广泛的群众所用。"
    ],
    [
        "Strong leadership and global cooperation must also be deployed to address other urgent nuclear dangers, particularly the threat of further testing and proliferation of weapons.",
        "强大的领导力和全球合作还必须用于解决其他紧迫的核威胁上，特别是进一步试验和扩散核武器的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The total volume of affected bank credit in the crisis was just above RMB3 billion – roughly 0.5% of bank loans in the Wenzhou region.",
        "这场危机所涉及的银行信用总量大约略高于30亿人民币，大约为温州地区银行贷款总量的0."
    ],
    [
        "This was enough to transform the Earth’s vegetation cover, melt two-thirds of the continental ice masses, and raise sea levels by more than a hundred meters.",
        "这一变化已足以改变地球的植被覆盖，融化三分之二的陆上冰盖，使海平面升高100多米。"
    ],
    [
        "If the couple sizzled for cameras with Luxor and Petra as the backdrop, just imagine how hot things could get at the most romantic spot on Earth, the Taj Mahal.",
        "如果二人以埃及祖玛和约旦佩特拉为背景在镜头前任人拍照，那么，想像一下在世界上最为浪漫的地点印度泰姬陵前将会有多么热闹。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, effective deterrence will require Asian countries to strengthen their defenses and unite to demand adherence to international law, so that China understands that any Putin-style land grabs will cost its economy dearly.",
        "因此，有效的威慑要求亚洲国家加强防务，并团结起来要求遵守国际法，从而让中国明白，普京使的领土掠夺将付出沉重的经济代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, economists are rarely humble, especially in public.",
        "不幸的是，经济学家在公众面前很少表现出谦虚的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Working with nonprofit agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and private companies, world leaders can have a profound impact on public health – even if foreign-aid budgets are strained.",
        "世界领导人应该与非营利机构、政府间组织和私营公司合作，深刻地影响公共卫生——即便外部援助预算受到约束。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1950s and 1960s, for example, Toyota introduced more efficient production processes that were eventually adopted by the entire automobile industry.",
        "比如，20世纪五六十年代，丰田引入了效率更高的生产流程，并最终被整个汽车行业所采用。"
    ],
    [
        "SEATTLE – In an age in which data are more plentiful and accessible than ever before, we are accustomed to basing our decisions on as much evidence as we can gather.",
        "西雅图—如今，数据比以往任何时候都充足、都更容易获得，我们已经习惯于根据尽量多的证据作出决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the US has placed all of its chips on monetary easing, unleashing what I have called a currency war, in which global investors, chasing higher yields, flood into emerging countries, driving up their exchange rates.",
        "相反，美国把全部力量用在了货币宽松上，发动了我所谓的货币战争，在这场战争中，全球投资者为了追寻高收益，纷纷涌向新兴市场，推高了它们的汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "With Europe mired in crisis, capital flows from Tunisia’s resource-rich Arab neighbors are its best hope.",
        "在欧洲饱受危机折磨的前提下，来自资源丰富的阿拉伯邻国的资本流入是突尼斯最大的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite populist speeches about the threat posed by “Polish plumbers,” net migration flows between regions are generally insensitive to differences in unemployment rates among regions.",
        "尽管有民粹主义者发表诸如“波兰的伐木工人”所带来的威胁之类的言论，地区间的净移民流动从总体上来看对于地区间的失业率的差异表现得并不敏感。"
    ],
    [
        "They are already prepared if shifts in the weather pattern bring more flooding to their region.",
        "气候模式的变化可能给带地区带来更多的洪水，而他们已经做好了准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers can then be more selective when it comes to restructuring in slower-growing regions and cities where a single company dominates the local economy.",
        "随后在那些单一企业主导当地经济的增长较慢地区和城市，政策制定者就会在推进转型时拥有更多选择余地。"
    ],
    [
        "At a meeting in London in February, international donors recognized the importance of education for refugees, promising to get all of Syria’s refugee children into school by the end of 2017.",
        "在2月份 伦敦的会议上，国际出资者认识到教育对难民的重要性，承诺到2017年底让所有叙利亚难民儿童上学。"
    ],
    [
        "But it only bought time; it did not solve the problem.",
        "但这只能赢得时间； 不能解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This leaves Tsipras with only his second line of defense: the “parallel” program.",
        "齐普拉斯因此只剩下第二道防线：即“平行”计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s trade balance fell into deficit in 2011, for the first time since 1980.",
        "日本的贸易平衡在2011年由盈余变为赤字，这是1980年来的第一遭。"
    ],
    [
        "But more is needed and should be expected of him.",
        "但是，人们对他的需要和期望可远远不止于此。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists and policymakers alike are guilty of glossing over these distributional consequences.",
        "经济学家和决策者掩饰这些分配后果是不合适的。"
    ],
    [
        "Technological innovation and demographics are now a headwind, not a tailwind, for growth, and financial engineering can’t save the day.",
        "目前，技术创新和人口都是增长逆风而不是顺风，金融工程也无法独挽狂澜。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the strongest evidence of this is the nuclear deal that he struck with six countries – China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States – and the European Union in 2015.",
        "也许这方面最有力的证据便是2015年他与六国——中国、法国、德国、俄罗斯、英国和美国——和欧盟达成的核协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Sure, there were sharp movements in oil prices corresponding to these events, but maybe there were other, even more important factors affecting general trends in oil prices.",
        "当然，石油价格进行了剧烈地波动，来对这些事件做出反应，但是，或许有其它的或者甚至更重要的因素在影响着石油价格的总体趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "We can and must do this by forging bold climate and protective ocean agreements together – regardless of belief, circumstance, or status.",
        "我们可以而且必须共同制定大胆的气候和海洋保护协议——无论我们拥有什么样的信仰、身处什么样的环境或地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The trend was driven by a boom in solar energy in China and Japan and increasing European investment in off-shore wind power.",
        "这一趋势背后的推动力是中国和日本太阳能产业的繁荣和欧洲离岸风能投资的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "But we cannot reach that goal alone, much less negotiate with those whose idea of a stable and peaceful Middle East is one that has no place for Israel.",
        "但是我们无法单靠我们自己去实现这一目标，更无法通过与那些在他们有关一个稳定与和平的中东的概念中并没有以色列的位置的人谈判去实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, with reduced public spending on the performing arts, not only will there be greater reliance on private money, but ticket prices will have to rise as well.",
        "当然，随着在表演艺术方面的公共支出减少，不但表演机构对私人资金的依赖程度会提高，票价也会提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Owing to political control and inadequate professional development, government-run research institutions can seldom provide the high-quality, unbiased analysis of global issues on which sound policymaking depends.",
        "由于政治控制和专业发展不足等影响，政府管理的研究机构很少能够提供合理决策所必须的公正、高质量的全球分析报告。"
    ],
    [
        "The way ahead leads through science, not ideology, dogma, or failed theories.",
        "指引我们前进的是科学，而不是意识形态、教条主义和失灵理论。"
    ],
    [
        "But today’s reality would be better described as “private-philanthropic-public partnerships” (expressed in that order to reflect each component’s relative importance), or “P-4.”",
        "但对于如今的现实，更合适的表述是“私人-慈善-公共合作”（又称P-4，用词先后反映各自的相对重要性）。"
    ],
    [
        "France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland all support this urgent agenda, and agree that impunity for this type of global crime can no longer be tolerated.",
        "法国、英国、澳大利亚、瑞典，挪威和瑞士都对这一紧急议程表示了支持，并一致认为不能再纵容这种国际犯罪行为逍遥法外。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called temporary effects in terms of displaced native workers and lower wages may last five or ten years, while the beneficial effects assume an absence of recession.",
        "所谓的暂时效应——本土工人被取代、工资下降——可能保持五年甚至十年，而收益只是不发生衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "The available data are quite limited, however, so one should not base any conclusions solely on the econometric evidence.",
        "但是，现有的数据十分有限，因此，不应当仅仅以计量经济学的证据来得出结论。"
    ],
    [
        "This reminded many observers of what the America’s Republican Party tried to do in order to demonstrate its “pro-life commitments” during George W. Bush’s presidency.",
        "很多观察员因此想起了在乔治·W·布什总统当政期间，美国共和党为表明自己“支持对生命承诺”时的所作所为。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Japan’s private sector – its households and companies – sits atop a mountain of savings, which is mostly used to purchase JGBs.",
        "此外，日本的家庭和企业等私有部门握有大量的储蓄，这些储蓄主要用于购买日债。"
    ],
    [
        "In the EU, only Poland seems to want Ukraine as a prosperous, stable, and accessible neighbor, not as a poor and rickety one with a dodgy democracy and even dodgier nuclear power stations.",
        "在欧盟，似乎只有波兰希望与一个繁荣、稳定和易进入的乌克兰为邻，而不愿其是一个贫穷、动荡，有着不稳定的民主和更不稳定的核电站的邻国。"
    ],
    [
        "Many factors contribute to America’s health lag, with lessons that are relevant for other countries as well.",
        "许多因素导致了美国在健康方面的落后，其中的教训可供其他国家借鉴。"
    ],
    [
        "Why is this happening?",
        "引发冲突的原因是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "It is often said of the various immigrant groups in the Netherlands that they lack the ability to \"cleanse themselves\" through honest self-appraisal and criticism.",
        "很多人都说荷兰各种移民团体缺乏通过诚实的自我批评和评价自我\"纯洁\"的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are not sufficient.",
        "但这还不够。"
    ],
    [
        "As far as Europe is concerned, she seems as “agnostic” as Sarkozy, who, like her, incarnates a new generation of “post-European” leaders.",
        "在欧洲问题上，她似乎和萨尔柯齐一样讳莫如深，而后者和她一样，是新一代“后欧洲”领袖人物的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "This will give them the tools they need to recognize the signs of a developing crisis, defuse the threat, and efficiently handle the recapitalization and reorganization of failed financial institutions.",
        "这将让他们获得识别危机发展信号、扼杀风险、有效处理倒闭金融机构资本重组所需要的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "That sounds more like a support group than a disciplinary committee.",
        "这更像是一个支持团队，而非纪律委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "It is clear what has happened.",
        "）到底发生了什么事一目了然。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of the program, almost all Basque municipalities have adopted such plans, consisting of more than 25,000 projects in areas such as mobility, waste management, and economic development.",
        "拜该项目所赐，几乎所有巴斯克城市都出台了可持续性计划，在移动、废物管理和经济发展等领域共出现了25,000多项工程。"
    ],
    [
        "Power corrupts everywhere, but individuals in China such as Liu have come to form a countervailing force.",
        "权力的腐败随处可见，但像Liu这样的个体的中国人已经形成了一股与之对抗的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s leaders should engage in frank discussions about where European and Russian interests converge or differ, and these discussions should include regional neighbors that are both producer and transit nations, like my own country, Ukraine.",
        "欧洲的领导人应该在欧洲与俄罗斯的利益重合或者不同的地方进行坦诚的讨论，并且这些讨论也应该把既是生产者又是中转国家的地区邻国包括进来，就像我的祖国乌克兰。"
    ],
    [
        "Our ability to prevent “water wars” will depend on our collective capacity to anticipate tensions, and to find the technical and institutional solutions to manage emerging conflicts.",
        "我们防止“水战争”的能力将取决于预见紧张局势、找到控制出现冲突的技术上及制度上的解决办法的集体能力。"
    ],
    [
        "In the latest interview given by Andrei Lugovoi, the man Great Britain wants Russia to extradite for poisoning the dissident Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium, there was a remarkable moment that has not been fully appreciated. Lugovoi, still rather diffident but with unmistakable pride, mentioned that when he is seen in public, he usually finds himself surrounded by people who want to shake his hand, congratulate him on his valor, and ask for his autograph.",
        "在Andrei Lugovoi（此君因为用放射性的钋毒死了持不同政见者Alexander Litvinenko而被英国要求俄罗斯将其引渡）最近接受的一次访问中，有一个没有得到足够重视的精彩时刻：仍有些许不自信的Lugovoi却毫不掩饰地提到了自己身处公众场合时，周遭的人都主动于其握手、赞许他的英勇并向他索要签名。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate in my native Denmark is instructive, as the relevant government ministries have outlined what this decision will end up costing here, which in turn suggests the total cost for the EU.",
        "我的原居地丹麦进行的辩论颇有启迪。 有关政府部门公布了这一决定所要付出的成本，反过来表明了整个欧盟的总体成本。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the elephant is already dancing with the dragon.",
        "换句话说，象已经在和龙跳舞。"
    ],
    [
        "But there was another critical factor underpinning the success of the Bretton Woods conference: the global political and security environment.",
        "但促成布雷顿森林会议成功的还有另一个关键因素：全球政治和安全环境。"
    ],
    [
        "That should surely provide more than enough time for Japanese beef ranchers to prepare themselves for foreign competition (of the 870,000 tons of beef imported annually, 520,000 tons come from Australia, the US, and New Zealand).",
        "显然，日本牛肉农场主有足够的时间做好准备迎接外国竞争（日本每年进口牛肉870,000吨，其中520,000吨来自澳大利亚、美国和新西兰）。"
    ],
    [
        "So presumably he has a constructive vision for the Bank’s future.",
        "所以他理应对银行的未来具有建设性的远见。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an approach should seek to protect economies from the destabilizing impacts of politically motivated policy changes, without impeding governments’ ability to correct dangerous imbalances.",
        "这一方针应该寻求保护经济体免受政治驱动的政策变化的破坏性冲击，同时又不妨碍政府纠正危险失衡的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "And next September, California Governor Jerry Brown will host his own summit to galvanize greater action by cities, companies, and other non-state actors.",
        "明年9月，加利福尼亚州州长杰瑞·布朗（Jerry Brown）将主持峰会推动城市、公司和其他非国家行动方的动作。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s long-festering crisis has been mishandled by all parties from the outset.",
        "希腊的长期烂摊子危机从一开始就被各方错误地引导。"
    ],
    [
        "But leading banks are also accused of illegal behavior – inducing people to borrow, for example, by deceiving them about the interest rate that would actually be paid, while misrepresenting the resulting mortgage-backed securities to investors.",
        "但主要银行被指还犯有违法行为，如有意欺骗借款人让他们误解自己实际应付的利率，同时向投资者虚假宣传据此产生的抵押贷款支持证券，从而诱导人们前来贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "A former Indian foreign minister, Yashwant Sinha, has publicly called for retaliation against gay American diplomats in India, whose sexual orientation and domestic arrangements are now illegal after a recent Supreme Court ruling.",
        "前印度外交部长辛哈（Yashwant Sinha）公开要求对驻印美国同性恋外交官予以相同待遇，根据最新的最高法院裁决，该美国外交官的性取向和国内安排是非法的。"
    ],
    [
        "Starting South Korea’s New Growth Engines",
        "开启韩国新的增长引擎"
    ],
    [
        "India’s membership in this group has international repercussions; for example, European Union countries will not extradite criminals to countries where they may face execution.",
        "印度在死刑问题上的立场能够引发国际反应； 比方说，欧盟国家拒绝向仍旧执行死刑的国家引渡犯罪分子。"
    ],
    [
        "The nineteenth-century Prussian military officer and theorist Carl von Clausewitz spoke presciently about the age of total war that would arrive less than a century after his death.",
        "十九世纪普鲁士军官兼军事理论家克劳塞维茨（Carl von Clausewitz）有预见性地看到了他死后不到一百年便成为现实的总体战（total war）时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Withdrawal is one of the riskiest military maneuvers, because it can easily degenerate into panicky retreat and chaos.",
        "撤退是最危险的军事动作之一，因为它很容易演变成溃逃和混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, mutual funds are at risk as well, because their supposedly safe investments may sour and the insurance that backs them now appears shaky.",
        "最后，共同基金同样有风险，它们本应安全的投资可能会失败，而它们身后的保险现在看起来也并不可靠。"
    ],
    [
        "But all agree that after too many years of inadequate growth in advanced economies, substantial longer-term risks have emerged, not only for the wellbeing of these countries’ citizens but also for the health and stability of the global economy.",
        "但他们都同意，在经历了太长时间发达经济体增长不足后，已经出线了巨大的长期风险，不但影响到这些国家的公民，也影响到全球经济的健康与稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s attractiveness to investors would rise with simpler and more investment-friendly taxation, improved incentives for business start-ups and R&D, less bureaucracy and red tape, and no further energy-cost increases.",
        "如能简化税收使之对投资者有利、改善创业和研发激励、减少官僚主义和官样文章并遏制能源成本的进一步增加，德国对投资者的吸引力就会提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Even right-wing fanatics who want to dismantle government institutions turn to them when facing a crisis like that caused by Ebola.",
        "即使是欲铲除政府机构而后快的狂热右翼，在面临埃博拉这样的危机时也会转向机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Where would the West be had anyone other than Winston Churchill become British prime minister that year?",
        "如果那一年不是丘吉尔成为英国首相，西方会怎么样？"
    ],
    [
        "The False Promise of Global Governance Standards",
        "全球治理标准的虚假承诺"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the highlights of my surfing have more to do with experiencing the splendor and power of the waves than with my ability to ride them.",
        "我冲浪时的乐趣在于体验海浪的力量和壮美，而不是展示自身的冲浪技巧。"
    ],
    [
        "The aging population is straining the public pension and healthcare systems beyond sustainability.",
        "人口老年化使公共养老金紧张，并且保健制度难以为继。"
    ],
    [
        "It would also need to be subject to highly intrusive inspections, so that the world could be confident that Iran was not secretly enriching uranium and developing nuclear weapons.",
        "它还需要接受突击性的核查，以便让世界相信伊朗没有秘密地浓缩铀以及开发核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever form the surrender takes, Greece will not be the only loser.",
        "不管以什么形式屈服，希腊都将是唯一的输家。"
    ],
    [
        "So the authorities responded quickly to the Bush administration's request for Turkish troops to join the coalition, although the idea was stillborn - rejected by both the Kurds and the American-appointed Governing Council in Iraq.",
        "因此，土耳其政府对布什政府发出的加入联军的邀请做出了快速的响应，尽管这次行动从一开始就注定不可能成功－库尔德人和美国任命的伊拉克管理委员会都明确表示反对。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans will have learned nothing from the damaging disunity, and thus weakness, that they displayed during the Iraq war if this conflict does not compel them to speak with one voice.",
        "如果这场冲突还不能让他们用同一个声音说话，那么欧洲人从他们在伊拉克战争中表现出的一盘散沙的致命弱点中就什么也没学到。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the project is buried under the weight of America’s inability to protect Lebanon’s fragile democracy and Palestine’s democratic experiment.",
        "而今这一计划更是被美国在保护黎巴嫩脆弱的民主和巴勒斯坦民主实验上的无能葬送了。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Bank of England is committed to achieve 2% inflation “in the medium term.”",
        "比如，英格兰银行承诺“在中期”实现2%的通胀目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Healing the Sick Man of South Asia",
        "救治南亚病夫"
    ],
    [
        "But its response – essentially just more quantitative easing – could backfire, exacerbating imbalances and generating serious financial instability.",
        "但它对此的应对手段——本质上只是更多的量化宽松——可能只会适得其反，不但加剧了失衡状况，还将导致严重的金融动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "So, Koh claims, drone attacks are part of a global war, fought both in declared war zones and non-war countries; therefore, they are legal.",
        "”因此高洪柱声称无人机攻击是战区及非战区国家全球战争的组成部分，因此其具有合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "The absence of financial contagion would not rule out serious political repercussions.",
        "不发生金融传染并不能排除严重的政治影响。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this is to condone the abuse of power by Islamist leaders.",
        "所有这些都不能为伊斯兰领导人滥用权力开拓。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important factor is the acceleration in India’s economic growth, which the International Monetary Fund projects will exceed 7.5% through 2020.",
        "最重要的因素是印度经济增长加速，国际货币基金组织（IMF）预计到2020年将超过7. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Malfunctioning Financial Regulation",
        "中国金融监管的问题"
    ],
    [
        "All of this suggests that, whether in the lame-duck congressional session following the elections or in the first few months of the new Congress, US politicians will likely dismantle the fiscal cliff.",
        "所有这些都表明，要么是大选后的跛脚鸭国会会议上，要么在新国会产生后的最初几个月，美国政客可能会消除财政悬崖。"
    ],
    [
        "If American, British, and other Western officials are serious about reform in the Arab world, they must support reform-minded Arab individuals and organizations, even if those organizations make them uncomfortable at times.",
        "如果美国、英国和其它西方官员能够认真对待阿拉伯世界的改革，那么他们必须支持具备改革思想的阿拉伯个人和组织，即便这些组织有时让他们感到不快。"
    ],
    [
        "Some experts even predict that it will soon move forward with a “small-scale military operation” to expel the Indian troops currently in its claimed territory.",
        "一些专家甚至预测中国很快会采取“小规模军事行动”驱逐目前位于其助长领土内的印军。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it took the United States 12 years to mount a weapon on a missile.",
        "毕竟，美国花了12年时间才在导弹上加载了核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, a glance at your smartphone reveals that guerrillas have kidnapped an army general, and that negotiations to end a decades-long civil war with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Latin America’s oldest guerrilla group, are at a standstill.",
        "接着扫一眼你的智能手机，你又能发现游击队绑架了某位将军，而为结束与哥伦比亚革命卫队（FARC，拉丁美洲历史最悠久的游击队组织）的数十年内战而进行的谈判陷入了僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, despite French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s welcome high-profile diplomacy, Europe has been irrelevant, if not quite invisible.",
        "第二，尽管法国总统萨尔科奇高调外交斡旋受人欢迎，但是欧洲在这一事件中即使不是没有踪影，也是无关紧要。"
    ],
    [
        "What is clear is that democracy cannot thrive if it is left empty.",
        "有一点非常明确，那就是空洞的民主无法获得繁荣发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the military intervention last July gave rise to yet another regime that seems unable to build durable institutions that could foster political reconciliation and deliver inclusive growth.",
        "不幸的是，去年7月的军队干涉也仅仅是扶持了另一个无力构建长期性机制的政权，自然也无法去孕育政治和解并实现包容性增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was that every sort of value – including financial values – came to be seen as arbitrary and fundamentally absurd.",
        "结果，一切价值——包括金融业的传统价值——都被看作是僵硬武断、顽固不化，因而也就是骨子里的谬论。"
    ],
    [
        "If Europe says no to Greek voters’ demand for a change of course, it is saying that democracy is of no importance, at least when it comes to economics.",
        "如果欧洲对希腊选民改变政策的要求说“不”，就无异于表示民主毫无重要性可言，至少在经济上毫无重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "It still leaves me puzzled about New York’s Soviet-themed restaurant and KGB Bar.",
        "纽约之所以有苏联主题餐厅和克格勃吧仍然是一个谜。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, ASEAN member states should foster more trust, cooperation, and dialogue among themselves, and with China.",
        "在这方面，东盟成员国应该建立更多彼此之间以及与中国的信任、合作和对话。"
    ],
    [
        "The reports will highlight trends and plausible futures, outlining the best policy options available to slow the degradation of ecosystems, from coral reefs to rainforests.",
        "这些报告强调趋势和可能的未来，列举在减缓生态系统（从大堡礁到热带雨林）退化方面可用的最佳政策选项。"
    ],
    [
        "As the debate on fiscal consolidation versus growth intensifies, it is clear that there is little agreement on how to kick-start the economy, beyond fielding broad stimulus packages.",
        "而随着巩固财政还是确保增长的辩论日趋激烈，显然除了实施大规模刺激政策之外，在如何启动经济方面并未形成多少共识。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, people worldwide must stop regarding one another as untrustworthy enemies.",
        "与此同时，各国民众将对方视作不值得信赖的敌人的做法必须停止。"
    ],
    [
        "A US that is willing to employ new tools, a more confident Japan and India, and an Australia vexed by China’s meddling in its domestic affairs must work together to constrain Chinese behavior.",
        "愿意采取新措施的美国、更有信心的日本和印度，以及对中国干涉内政忍无可忍的澳大利亚必须联合起来约束中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin has been vocal about his opposition to NATO policies – particularly its role in countries bordering Russia.",
        "普京一直对北约政策（特别是北约的俄罗斯邻国政策）直言不讳地表示反对。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1980’s, adjustment programs required countries to cut back on their expenditures, including outlays on education, health, water, agriculture, and other sectors that make a difference to poor households.",
        "20世纪80年代，调整计划也曾迫使国家削减教育、医疗、供水、农业及其他领域等改变贫困家庭生存状况的公共开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s era of globalization emerged with the spread of computers and the Internet.",
        "计算机和互联网的普及带来了今天的全球化时代。"
    ],
    [
        "First of all, if one is going to organize a conference on right-wing populism, it is surely useful to hear what a right-wing populist actually has to say.",
        "首先，如果要组织关于右翼民粹主义的会议，听听右翼民粹主义势力究竟要说什么肯定是有好处的。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Trump may not actually tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement or raise tariffs dramatically.",
        "类似地，特朗普不会真撕毁北美自由贸易协定或大幅提高关税。"
    ],
    [
        "The thinking minority needs a system of laws and institutions, real presidential elections, a working parliament, and justice that is independent, rather than merely following orders from above.",
        "这些有思想的少数派需要一个有效的法律和政府系统，真实的总统选举，有所作为的议会，还有独立的司法体系，而不是仅仅遵从上面的意思。"
    ],
    [
        "Although we still have traditional trade, we also have foreign direct investment, offshoring, and outsourcing.",
        "虽然我们仍然有传统贸易，但是也有外国直接投资，境外生产和业务外包。"
    ],
    [
        "Presidents do make a difference, but every president operates within constraints.",
        "总统与总统之间确有差别，但每一任总统都会受到约束。"
    ],
    [
        "The report concludes that criminal libel has become “redundant and unnecessary.”",
        "该报告认定刑事诽谤罪已经变得“多余和没有必要”。"
    ],
    [
        "But much of that support rode on the coattails of the fear caused by observing the classes just below theirs plunge into despair and loathing, while their own children’s prospects dimmed.",
        "但这些支持的产生原因是他们目睹略低于自己的阶级陷入绝望和憎恨，而他们自己的孩子们前景黯淡，这引起了他们的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "“We will extend a hand,” he said, “if you are willing to unclench your fist.”",
        "“我们将伸出我们的手，”他说，“如果你们愿意松开拳头。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU would need to make an annual commitment to frontline countries of at least €8-10 billion, with the balance coming from the United States and the rest of the world.",
        "欧盟需要承诺每年资助前沿国家至少80—100亿欧元，其他部分资金则由美国和世界其他国家负责。"
    ],
    [
        "An Islamist state in the Gaza Strip would encourage those who seek to create similar entities in Egypt, Jordan, and every other Arab country.",
        "一个位于加沙地带的伊斯兰主义国家，对那些寻求在埃及、约旦以及其他阿拉伯国家建立类似实体的人来说，是一种鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002, it not only lacked a democratic culture, but also had much to fear about how the secularist-military old guard might react.",
        "当总理埃尔多安的正义与发展党（AKP）于2002年上台时，它不但缺少民主文化，还颇可担心世俗-军队保守派如何反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is nothing wrong with regulating public space and the organizations that use it.",
        "当然，监管公共空间以及使用公共空间的组织没有什么错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, unlike America, Western Europe must live with the uneasy conscience stirred by immigrants whose very presence serves as a reminder of a history of colonialism.",
        "而且，与美国不同的是，西欧移民的存在本身就提醒人们殖民主义的历史。 西欧必须迁就由此引发的不安心态。"
    ],
    [
        "The American invasion of Iraq set the pattern, for it broke the central government’s power and empowered ethnic and religious enclaves.",
        "美国入侵伊拉克就是榜样——这打破了中央政府的权力，让种族和宗教飞地获得了权力。"
    ],
    [
        "This incited many attempts to rehabilitate Stalin, especially during the 20 years of Leonid Brezhnev’s rule, which we now call the period of “stagnation.”",
        "他们多次试图为斯大林恢复名誉，尤其是在勃列日涅夫执政的20年间，现在我们把这段时期称为“停滞”期。"
    ],
    [
        "Waiting until the downturn occurs to plan this coordinated response would be a mistake.",
        "等到衰退发生再去规划这一协调响应措施将是一个错误。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires cutting-edge biotechnology, immunology, and ultimately bioengineering to create large-scale industrial responses (such as millions of doses of vaccines or medicines in the case of large epidemics).",
        "这需要尖端生物技术、免疫学和生物工程以形成大规模工业响应能力（如在大瘟疫爆发时生产几百万分疫苗或药品）。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an abundance of explanations for the downward trend.",
        "对于这一衰落趋势，解释层出不穷。"
    ],
    [
        "The Germans, along with smaller creditor countries, are dead-set against any relaxation of austerity and are adamant that “structural reform\" must remain a condition of further financing.",
        "德国人以及其他较小规模的债权国誓死反对任何紧缩的放松，并坚决要求“结构改革”作为进一步融资的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that any Brexit plan that arouses serious opposition, either from hardline nationalists or from pro-European Tories, could be used to trigger a new referendum.",
        "这意味着任何引起严重反对的退欧计划——不管是来自强硬民族主义者还是来自亲欧保守党——都可以用来触发新的公投。"
    ],
    [
        "The rubble produced in the Great Hanshin Earthquake was equivalent to the amount that Japan normally processes in roughly eight years.",
        "阪神大地震所造成的废墟量相当于正常情况下日本8年的废墟处理量。"
    ],
    [
        "For all of its economic success during the past two decades, not least since the 2008 crisis, industry is hollowing out, and structural issues are beginning to be felt.",
        "过去二十年——包括2008年危机以来——瑞典经济相当成功，但其工业出现了空心化，结构性问题开始显现。"
    ],
    [
        "Should we be watching the French presidential campaign with admiration or alarm?",
        "我们应该以崇拜还是惊讶的态度来观察法国的总统大选？"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder there is a move afoot to reclaim national sovereignty, where some decision-making power still resides.",
        "毫不奇怪收回仍有一些决策权力的国家主权的运动正在酝酿中。"
    ],
    [
        "That is one reason that the performance of several of them has been so dismal.",
        "这也是他们一直经营不善的原因所在。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, dealing with it might require reconciling the pivot to Asia with an ongoing presence in the Middle East, if only because the two regions have much in common.",
        "事实上，处理好这一问题可能要求美国调和好亚洲支点与继续在中东发挥作用之间的关系，因为这两个地区有太多的共同点。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2001, George W. Bush started his first term with little interest in foreign policy, but adopted transformational objectives after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.",
        "2001年，小布什开始了他的首个任期，一开始，他对外交政策并不感兴趣，但在2001年9·11恐怖袭击之后倒向了变革型外交。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that coal use in China seems to have fallen slightly last year – a trend that is expected to continue.",
        "好消息是去年中国煤炭使用量略有下降——预计这一趋势将会持续。"
    ],
    [
        "For national actors to have space to find solutions, it is necessary to de-escalate tensions and find compromises – first globally, between the US and Russia, and then regionally, among Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.",
        "国家主体要想找到方案，就有必要缓解紧张局势并实现妥协——先是全球层面在美俄之间，后是地区层面，涉及伊朗、土耳其、沙特阿拉伯和以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists argue that should the current trickle of 350,000 visitors each year grow to a quite reasonable million, every Bolivian would be employed.",
        "经济学家认为，现在每年35万的游客数量应该可以增加到几百万，到那时，每一个玻利维亚人都会找到工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Opening up societies and economies to the world obviously entails significant uncertainty; but it also provides abundant opportunities.",
        "向世界开放社会和经济显然意味着巨大的不确定性，但也提供了数不尽的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the Rogers Commission, which investigated the causes of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, produced just one report.",
        "相反，调查挑战者号航天飞机事故的罗杰斯委员会（Rogers Commission）只给出了一份报告。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they are being manipulated into voting, yet again, for the impossible.",
        "相反，他们正被操纵再次投票制造不可能的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, however, effective methods for amplifying prions have been developed, which could enable detection of the pathogen before it can damage its host.",
        "不过，最近人们开发出了有效的放大朊病毒的办法，可以在其伤害宿主之前找到病原体。"
    ],
    [
        "The CSRC, as China’s capital-market regulator, together with other regulators, neglected to fulfill their proper mission: to create a robust institutional framework capable of sustaining strong investment.",
        "作为中国资本市场监管者的证监会与其他监管机构都忽视了它们应有的责任：建立能够维持强劲投资的强大的制度框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Annual US aid for education in Pakistan has amounted to just $64 million, or $1.16 per school-aged child.",
        "用于巴基斯坦教育方面的年度美国援助总额仅有6400万美元，平均到每个学龄儿童身上只有1. 16美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Forcing medical treatment on a competent adult patient who does not want it is tantamount to assault.",
        "强迫一个有完全行为能力的成年人接受他不愿接受的医疗手段，就等同于侵犯人身罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the West is witnessing anti-globalization opposition from members of professional groups, who fear the loss of their jobs to foreign counterparts.",
        "时至今日，专业团体成员反对全球化的潮流已经在西方形成，这些专业人员害怕由于来自国外的竞争而失去自己的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "And the new 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is aimed at boosting ocean-based trade in East Asia and the Indian Ocean.",
        "新的21世纪海上丝绸之路则旨在提振东亚和印度洋的海上贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Public funding should help leverage climate-friendly private investments. The multilateral development banks, in close collaboration with the UN system, can play a significant multiplier role in this regard.",
        "而公共资金的作用则是抛砖引玉，最终带动一大批环保私人投资。 而与联合国紧密合作的各跨国开发银行将在这方面发挥重大的乘数效应。"
    ],
    [
        "The less liquid a bank’s assets, the greater the need for such reserves.",
        "银行资产的流动性越不足，银行就越需要这种准备金。"
    ],
    [
        "This could be the story of the Romanian revolution, 20 years ago.",
        "这个故事与 20 年前的罗马尼亚革命非常相像。"
    ],
    [
        "So why doesn’t the public accept this need for flexibility, which, in the end, is what market-based economic liberalization is all about?",
        "那么，公众为什么不接受这种对灵活性的需要，毕竟它才是市场经济自由化的全部真谛。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, not all emerging markets, according to this logic, are equally exposed.",
        "当然，根据这一逻辑，并非所有新兴市场都存在相同的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the need to compensate bondholders for risks could provide market discipline: when financial firms operate in ways that can be expected to produce increased risks down the road, they should expect to “pay” with, say, higher interest rates or tighter conditions.",
        "实际上，金融机构需要对债券持有人提供风险补偿这一条件能够形成一定的市场约束：当预期到金融机构的运作会产生更高的风险的时候，他们就当支付更高的利率或者在合约中定下更加严格的条款。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, because the presence of many cultures creates avenues of connection with other countries, it helps to broaden Americans’ attitudes and views of the world in an era of globalization.",
        "类似地，多种文化并存形成了与其他国家沟通的桥梁，这有助于拓宽全球化时代美国人的视野和世界观。"
    ],
    [
        "We are undoubtedly motivated by self-interest.",
        "我们毫无疑问是受私利推动的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the last five years, 2.5 million people in the eurozone have actually joined the labor force, as five million jobs were created, reducing the overall decline in unemployment by half.",
        "但是，在过去五年中，实际上有250万欧元区人加入了劳动力大军，而创造就业岗位数量达到了五百万，从而总体失业情况下降了一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Only three hostages and one Israeli commando – Yonatan Netanyahu, the elder brother of current Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – were killed in the operation.",
        "只有三名人质和一名以色列指挥官——现任以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡之兄约坦纳·内塔尼亚胡（Yonatan Netanyahu）——在行动中被杀。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing the potential of neurological diversity to contribute to strengthening cybersecurity, we at BT have reframed how we interact with candidates during interviews.",
        "英国电信认识到神经多样性非常有利于加强安全网络，因此，我们改变了面试时与求职者的互动方法。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Syria’s denials that it is playing a spoiler role in Iraq are rarely taken seriously, and why Assad has not gained American support for renewed negotiations with Israel over the Golan Heights.",
        "这也是为什么人们很少把叙利亚否认在伊拉克扮演了破坏性的角色当真，也解释了为什么阿萨德在叙以格兰高地再度谈判中失去了美国的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Every dollar spent on research would generate a return of $34.",
        "每一美元研究支出能够产生34美元回报。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the underlying cause is the decline in demand for skilled workers, smaller differentials would suggest that the modern, skill-intensive industries on which future growth depends are not expanding sufficiently.",
        "但如果基础原因是高技能工人需求下降，那么薪酬差异缩小意味着作为未来增长基石的现代技能密集型产业扩张不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, you are what you do with what you eat.Combining fat and carbohydrate places high demands on the metabolic process.",
        "此外，你是啥并不光取决于你吃啥，还取决于你做啥。 脂肪加碳水化合物的组合给新陈代谢提出了太高的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "During the crisis, financiers rightly pointed out that JPM and several other major firms were islands of stability in the financial storm.",
        "在危机期间，金融家正确地指出，JPM和其他一些大银行是金融风暴中的稳定之岛。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, Trump is taking his dynasty to the White House.",
        "现在，特朗普正在把他的王朝带入白宫。"
    ],
    [
        "Just a year ago, former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda attempted, despite a deep recession, to raise the consumption tax without monetary easing – a strategy that could have brought only continued economic stagnation.",
        "仅仅在一年前，前首相野田佳彦试图在深度衰退的情况下提高消费税而不放松货币——这一做法的唯一效果是延长经济停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "The release of Milosevic?",
        "释放米洛舍维奇？"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Obama could, for example, have suspended the payroll tax for a year, getting money directly into people’s pockets quickly and decreasing the need for firms to lay off workers.",
        "相反，奥巴马本可以暂停征收一年的工资税，这样可以迅速把钱直接放进民众的口袋里，并降低企业的裁人需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Having been the mayor of Jerusalem for 10 years, you know the situation of Palestinians close up.",
        "您担任耶路撒冷市市长十年，您亲身了解巴勒斯坦人的处境。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran says that it seeks no more than its own ability to produce nuclear power.",
        "即便在五月进行正式谈判之前，伊朗的问题也亟待解决。"
    ],
    [
        "“Syria belongs to its 23 million citizens, not to one man or his family.”",
        "“叙利亚属于2300万叙利亚人民，而不是某个领导人及其家族。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "A Fair, Efficient, and Feasible Climate Agreement",
        "一个公平、高效、可行的气候协定"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Eurozone monetary officials are expected to make history when they gather for the European Central Bank’s next policy-setting meeting on January 22.",
        "发自巴黎——在外界的预期中，欧元区货币政策官员将在1月22日召开的欧洲中央银行下一轮政策制定会议上齐聚一堂，共同创造一段历史。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission will share its recommendations with governments.",
        "全球海洋委员会将与各国政府共享其建议。"
    ],
    [
        "The pricing environment compounds the impact of tighter regulation.",
        "定价环境加剧了收紧监管的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Ireland’s unemployment rate is falling dramatically, and its manufacturing sector is booming.",
        "如今，爱尔兰失业率正在大幅下降，其制造部门正在繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this difference, more than anything else, that sets the two economies apart.",
        "正是这一差距，而不是其他，才使得这两大经济体拉开了距离。"
    ],
    [
        "But the incident raises broader questions: was the attack deliberate?",
        "但这场意外却引出了一些更深层次的问题：这条鲸鱼的攻击行为是蓄意的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "There are several reasons why the G-20 world has become a G-Zero world.",
        "G20世界为什么成了一个G0世界呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In this case, economic integration can be married with democracy through political union among states.",
        "在这种情况下，经济一体化可以通过国家间的政治联盟实现与民主的结合。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the post-war era, until the early 1990’s, Italian governments survived less than a year on average.",
        "在整个战后时期，直到二十世纪九十年代初，意大利历届政府平均任期不到一年。"
    ],
    [
        "True, electricity from coal will cause extra air pollution.",
        "没错，煤炭发电将导致额外的空气污染。"
    ],
    [
        "This would provide countries with weak health-care systems – which are particularly susceptible to disease outbreaks – with the human resources they need to bring health crises quickly under control.",
        "医疗保健体系薄弱（因此特别容易受到疫情爆发影响）的国家会因此得到必要的人力资源支持，从而迅速将医疗危机控制住。"
    ],
    [
        "The birth of Kim Jong-il, also known as the Dear Leader (his father, Kim Il-sung, was the Great Leader), turned winter into spring and was illuminated by a bright star in heaven.",
        "被称为“亲爱的领袖”的金正日（也就是“伟大领袖”金日成的儿子）将冬天变成了春天，并被天堂里一颗明亮的星星所照耀。"
    ],
    [
        "Political declarations on the issues outlined would be registered as international treaties at the United Nations to provide binding legal force. The Lisbon Treaty would remain unchanged.",
        "就这些事宜作出的政治宣言将在联合国作为国际条约记录在册，以便提供法律上的约束力，但是《里斯本条约》不会发生变动。"
    ],
    [
        "I mention the importance of these military-to-military relationships because the US in this new century is undergoing a significant transformation of its military arrangements and partnerships around the globe – necessary adjustments based on the new realities, and new threats, that have emerged since the end of the Cold War.",
        "我提及这些军队间关系的重要性，这是因为在这一新世纪中，美国正在经历一场重大军事安排和全球伙伴的变革。 由于冷战结束后涌现的新现实以及新威胁，这些调整是必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it is Obama himself who seems to be constantly hesitating.",
        "相反，是奥巴马本人老是犹犹豫豫。"
    ],
    [
        "If we can cultivate a wider tolerance of human diversity, politicians, business leaders, and administrators would be less fearful of “exposure,” because they would realize that they have done nothing that they must hide.",
        "如果我们能够培育对人类多样性更大的宽容，那么，政治人物、商界领导人以及行政官员将会不再如此惧怕“曝光”，因为他们将会认识到他们并没有做什么必须隐瞒的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "But ROEs are only the symptom of a deeper problem.",
        "但这些“交战规则”只是更深层次问题的表象。"
    ],
    [
        "First, governments should re-evaluate the voluminous data on DDT that have been compiled since the 1970’s, and they should make DDT available immediately for mosquito control indoors.",
        "首先，各国政府应该重新评估自1970年代以来关于DDT的海量数据，并立刻批准DDT用于室内防蚊。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama, elected with a great deal of goodwill and hope in 2008, is now caught like a deer in the headlights.",
        "2008年肩负着美好愿望和期待上任的巴拉克·奥巴马总统现在就像被车灯照着的野鹿般不知所措。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than preventing monopolization and restraint of trade, as the theory goes, antitrust regulation in the “new economy” is a new face of the old “industrial policy,” allowing bureaucrats to manipulate economic outcomes and favor companies dearer to them than the consumers’ choice.",
        "“新经济”下的反垄断监管并不是像理论上要求的那样防止垄断和限制贸易情况的出现，而更多地是旧的“产业政策”的翻版而已，官僚机构操纵经济结果并且让那些它们而不是消费者更珍视的公司受益。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Health Organization’s post-2015 Global TB Strategy, which was endorsed by the World Health Assembly in May 2014, aims to eradicate TB by 2035.",
        "世界卫生组织的2015年后 全球结核病战略（2014年5月在世界卫生大会上通过）的目标是在2035年根除结核病。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – What brought on the collapse of home prices in 2008 that is the root of the financial crisis now enveloping much of the world?",
        "纽黑文－是什么在2008年引起住房价格崩溃的呢？ 这种崩溃是现在席卷世界许多地区的金融危机的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "The most successful of these economies, having based their growth on exports, continued to expand in the wake of the financial crisis, even as their export markets struggled.",
        "这些经济体中最成功者以出口为增长基础，在金融危机爆发后依然保持扩张，尽管出口市场遭遇重创。"
    ],
    [
        "Smart-grid hardware has been deployed widely in the past decade, and as companies figure out how to use big data and analytic tools, it will become much more important.",
        "智能电网硬件在过去十年得到了广泛使用，而随着公司开始学会使用大数据和分析工具，它将变得更加重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Breeders are convinced that with permitting systems and detection technologies, legal horns could be identified, law enforcement could prevent illegal horns from being trafficked, and domestic trading could reduce the stress on wild populations.",
        "繁育者坚信通过许可制度和检测技术可以辨识合法犀牛角，执法人员则可以防止非法的犀牛角贩运，而国内贸易可以减少对野生种群的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Populist policies that transfer scarce budget funds to hundreds of millions of rural men and women end up encouraging them to withdraw their labor services, driving up wages and undermining international competitiveness.",
        "将宝贵的预算资金转移支付给数以亿计的农村人口的民粹主义政策起到的最终效果是鼓励他们不再劳动、推高了工资，也破坏了国际竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Keeping Japan close is a starting point.",
        "因此和日本保持密切的关系将是一个好的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Every time that information is shared – whether it is entered into a new database or a new actor gains access to a single aggregated database – the risk of privacy breaches grows.",
        "每次信息共享——无论是录入新数据库还是新操作者获得调阅某个汇总数据库的权限——隐私泄露的风险都会随之增加。"
    ],
    [
        "To do so would mark the beginning of the end for Hong Kong.",
        "这种妥协将标志着香港灭亡的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Little did I imagine that today, there would be no freestanding investment bank left on Wall Street.",
        "当时没想到今天连一家独立的投资银行也没有留在华尔街上。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the European center currently too naive, or too idealistic?",
        "欧洲的核心现在太天真还是太理想主义？"
    ],
    [
        "But it was the state’s less visible investment in the country’s institutional infrastructure that had the biggest impact on China’s GDP growth.",
        "但对中国GDP增长影响最大的其实是并非能立竿见影的对国家产权基础设施的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Responsible use will require adequate economic incentives.",
        "负责任的使用需要适当的经济鼓励。"
    ],
    [
        "This doesn't mean that all local Muslims have become jihadis.",
        "但这并不意味着当地所有的穆斯林都成为了圣战分子。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time we took a side: the side of the people who want what we want; who see our societies, for all their faults, as something to admire; who know that they should not be faced with a choice between tyranny and theocracy.",
        "我们现在应该做出选择：支持与我们有同样愿望的群体； 他们看到我们的社会虽然有种种缺点，但仍有值得敬佩之处；"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – There is a real danger that corporate leaders, making decisions that seem correct behind closed doors, end up being tone-deaf in a soundproof room.",
        "伦敦—有一个现实危险：公司领袖闭门做出的貌似正确的决定，结果就像是音盲在隔音室作曲。"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s success has been underpinned by dynamic growth in China and India, which account for almost 60% of the continent’s total GDP in purchasing power parity terms.",
        "亚洲地区的成功以中国和印度的增长活力为基础，两国相加占据了亚洲60%的总GDP（用购买力平价衡量）。"
    ],
    [
        "But, by increasing tariffs, prices also rise, which often means a welfare loss for society as a whole.",
        "但是，关税提高了，商品价格就会上涨，这通常意味着社会总体福利的一个损失。"
    ],
    [
        "He’s right.",
        "他是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Those elections would have been unthinkable in Nazi Germany.",
        "在纳粹德国这些选举是不可思议的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it always the case that mainstream parties can cut off support for extremists by selectively coopting their complaints and demands.",
        "主流政党也不总是能够通过选择性地拉拢他们的指责和要求来切断对极端分子的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "To many in Britain, the EU looks like a sinking ship.",
        "对许多英国人来说，欧盟就像一艘下沉中的邮轮。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, any leader must work to extricate his country from a protracted war, so Obama is right to seek an end to this one.",
        "当然，任何领导人都必须努力让自己的国家从旷日持久的战争中脱身，因此奥巴马试图结束这场战争无可厚非。"
    ],
    [
        "And the plunge is accelerating.",
        "而且这种下跌趋势还在加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, succession planning can become complicated by the emergence of “substitute children” from the company’s management.",
        "此外，由公司管理层涌现的“代子女”令继承规划进一步复杂化。"
    ],
    [
        "These would include lower marginal tax rates, tighter criteria for determining benefits eligibility, stricter requirements for job searches, more resources for skills training, and less restrictive employment-protection regulation.",
        "这将包括降低边际税率，确定更严格的福利分配标准，为找工作设立更严格的要求，投入更多资源进行技能培训，同时减少限制性的就业保护法规。"
    ],
    [
        "The claims could be prioritized and processed in a regular manner, and the refugees could arrive in Europe healthy and ready to work or study.",
        "这些诉求可以按照规定方式予以优先处理，这样难民就可以健康地到达欧洲并随时开始工作或学习。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, relations with China are Japan's most profound problem.",
        "事实上，日中关系对日本的影响最为深远。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network is a powerful effort to mobilize global knowledge to save the planet.",
        "联合国可持续发展解决方案网（Sustainable Development Solutions Network）是潘基文的力作，意在动员全球知识拯救地球。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Japan-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement.",
        "以跨太平洋伙伴关系（Trans-Pacific Partnership，TPP）和日本-欧盟经济伙伴协定（Japan-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement）为例。"
    ],
    [
        "The Return of the King in Nepal",
        "尼泊尔君主的归来"
    ],
    [
        "Not so, replies strategic investment analyst H. Wood Brock in an interesting new book, The American Gridlock.",
        "并非如此，战略投资分析师胡德·布洛克（H. Wood Brock）在其颇有意思的新书《美国僵局》（The American Gridlock）中反驳道。"
    ],
    [
        "But much current criticism of the profession is based on misunderstanding and ignorance.",
        "但当前大量对经济学的批评却是建立在误解和无知的基础上。"
    ],
    [
        "But, rather than succumbing to feelings of distress, she will take the child in her arms to soothe and comfort it.",
        "但她不会只停留在感受这种痛苦，而是会把孩子揽入怀中安慰它。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether countries abide by agreements has far more to do with international processes of persuasion, socialization, and capacity-building – and those can be done by anyone with a good argument.",
        "各国是否遵守协议更为主要地是在于国际间劝说、交际以及能力建设的进程，而这些只要有好的论点任何人都可以做到。"
    ],
    [
        "The implications vary, with a much higher probability of adaptation, including through a relatively orderly process of creative destruction and re-creation, for private entities compared to public ones.",
        "影响是多变的，相对于公共实体，私人实体进行调整适应的概率要高得多，包括通过相对有序的创造性破坏和再造过程来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not our will that is being tested, but our understanding of reality.",
        "正在经受考验的不是我们的意志，而是我们对现实的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Opposition forces, fed up as much with Thaksin’s corrupt practices as with his longstanding popularity, have recently begun seizing government ministries and calling for a royally appointed government.",
        "反对势力的崛起既是因为他信的腐败行为，也是因为他长期获得群众支持。 最近，反对党派开始冲击政府部门，要求由国王任命政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The more complete our social science, the more irrelevant our policy analysis.",
        "我们的社会科学越完善，我们的政策分析越无用。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the prospects for an effective international agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in November and December could be at risk.",
        "否则，在11月和12月的巴黎联合国气候变化大会达成有效国际协定的前景就会岌岌可危。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia has been China’s major supplier of weapons since the late 1990’s.",
        "俄罗斯从20世纪90年代后期开始成为中国主要的武器供应国。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the best analysts know that forecasting the performance of any country's stock market substantially means forecasting how well the government wants stock market investors to fare in the current political environment.",
        "事实上，顶级的股市分析家都知道，预测任何国家的股市动态实质上是预测政府在目前政治环境中希望股票投资者有何表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Twitter is largely blocked by China’s “great firewall” (GFW), which prevents Chinese people from accessing certain sites.",
        "阻止中国民众进入某些网站的中国的“防火长城”基本上挡住了推特。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s emerging countries have considerable policy flexibility and much greater latitude to act than they had in the past.",
        "如今的新兴国家拥有极大的政策灵活性，行动空间也较过去扩大了很多。"
    ],
    [
        "A third option for limiting debt accumulation is to reconsider tax rules that favor debt.",
        "限制债务的第三种方法是重新审视债务有利的税收规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, people with Parkinson’s develop progressive disability and die prematurely.",
        "最终，帕金森病患者会出现进行性障碍（progressive disability）和早逝。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the intensive language program the government required for migrants didn’t account for women’s inability to attend class without childcare.",
        "同样，政府针对移民的强化语言课程也没有考虑到没有托儿服务女性就无法参加的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, forming a new government after an election used to be a straightforward affair.",
        "在德国，大选结束后组建新政府曾经是非常简单的。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey is now, finally, negotiating with the European Commission the terms of its possible membership in the European Union.",
        "土耳其现在终于同欧盟委员会谈判其可能加入欧盟的条件了。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, China has not yet completed its market-orientated reforms, which could unleash major growth potential in many areas.",
        "此外，中国尚未完成其市场改革，这意味着它可以在诸多领域释放巨大的增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union established a scientific committee to investigate animal-welfare issues on farms, and the committee recommended banning the battery cage, along with some other forms of close confinement of pigs and calves.",
        "欧盟设立了一个科学委员会来对农场中存在的动物福利状况进行调查，而该委员会则建议禁止密集笼箱养鸡以及其他某些形式的监禁式猪/牛饲养方式。"
    ],
    [
        "While no one doubts that they were properly convicted ten years ago, their behavior since – and questions about the integrity of the judicial process that condemned them to die but allowed others to live – has made a compelling case for the exercise of mercy, for them and for others.",
        "没人怀疑他们在十年前的合理定罪，但此后他们的行为，以及剥夺他们的生命而让其他人继续活下去的司法程序的诚信程度的怀疑已经构成了宽大处理——不管是对他们还是对其他人——的充分理由。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s about using “deadlines” to force Greece to knuckle under, and to accept the unacceptable – not only austerity measures, but other regressive and punitive policies.",
        "这事关用“截止期”迫使希腊屈服，接受不可接受的条件——不仅仅包括紧缩措施，也包括其他倒行逆施的惩罚性政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Accomplishing all three objectives – quality, quantity, and cost efficiency – simultaneously is difficult, and the likelihood of compromise is great.",
        "同时实现质量、数量和成本效益这三项目标难度很大，很有可能需要作出妥协的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Migration Fact vs. Migration Fiction",
        "移民事实与移民故事"
    ],
    [
        "That means not only recognizing the vital link between his policies and today’s problems, but also ensuring that what should be preserved is not sacrificed in the rush to efface his memory.",
        "这意味着不仅要承认卡扎菲政策及当前问题间有着重要的联系，而且还要确保不会在抹去卡扎菲记忆的仓促浪潮中牺牲本应被保留的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "New York – As spring comes to America, optimists are seeing “green sprouts” of recovery from the financial crisis and recession.",
        "纽约——随着美国春回大地，乐观的人看到了从金融危机和经济萧条中复苏的“绿芽”。"
    ],
    [
        "At that time, there were two schools of thought.",
        "那时候有两个思想流派。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, cooperatives cover a range of activities and come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from small-scale agricultural and consumer organizations in Africa to some of the leading agricultural brands and largest financial-service providers in North America and Europe.",
        "如今，合作社形式多样，规模不一，涵盖许多方面，从非洲的小型农业和消费者组织到北美洲和欧洲的一些主要农业品牌和最大金融服务提供商。"
    ],
    [
        "For public finance, too, the orthodox rule was that budgets should always be balanced; except in emergencies, governments should never spend more than they “earned” in taxation.",
        "对于公共财政也是如此，正统思想认为预算应该保持平衡； 除非发生紧急事件，否则政府不能支出超过其税收“收入”的数额。"
    ],
    [
        "They are not necessarily religious leaders; in the Balkans and elsewhere, they are nationalists who preach the superiority of one nationality over others.",
        "他们未必是宗教领袖； 他们是在巴尔干以及其他地区鼓吹一国比其他国家优越的民族主义分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Even today, the legacy of Chernobyl affects the economies of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.",
        "甚至在今天，切尔诺贝利的遗产影响到俄罗斯、乌克兰以及白俄罗斯的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "When Jacques Chirac’s government decided to expound its economic co-operation with China, arms became an important component in the strategy.",
        "当希拉克政府决定要解释与中国的经济合作时，武器成为该战略中的重要一环。"
    ],
    [
        "But the renminbi’s appreciation also attracted carry-trade speculators, who purchased renminbi assets in order to benefit from high interest rates (particularly after 2008) and exchange-rate gains.",
        "但人民币稳步单向升值也吸引了套息交易投机者，他们买入人民币资产同时享受高利率（特别是2008年后）和汇率升值带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "And ambitious political figures – from the leaders of the Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom to US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump – dismiss the facts altogether.",
        "而那些雄心勃勃的政治人物——从英国脱欧公投的领袖到美国共和党总统候选人唐纳·德特朗普（Donald Trump）——则不约而同地选择去忽视事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more important, his progress in 2010 will say a lot about the world’s ability to maintain the existing 60-year taboo against the use of nuclear weapons.",
        "而更重要的是，他在2010年所取得的成绩，将在很大程度上决定世界将如何把这些业已存在了60年的反核武器禁令，继续维护下去。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not easy for politicians to sell, especially in the core countries (particularly Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands), as it would involve large multi-year subsidies to the periphery – or the analytical equivalent of the difficult decision made over 20 years ago to reunify Germany at a currency parity.",
        "政客想兜售这个主意并不容易，特别是对核心国家（尤其是德国、芬兰和荷兰）而言，因为这意味着要在多年内向外围国提供补贴——从分析角度讲，这与20多年前德国重新统一后实行货币平价的决定一样困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Stories of the Great Depression of the 1930’s were recalled from our dimmest memories – or from our parents’ and grandparents’ memories – and retold.",
        "关于20世纪30年代大萧条的故事从我们——或我们父辈和祖父辈——记忆最深处被唤醒，并重新讲述。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus it is vitally important that Germany has made this a central issue for its EU presidency, which is just beginning.",
        "因此德国作为欧盟的下任主席国应该把这作为一个中心议题。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Asia now accounts for almost half of the world’s arms expenditure, which is more than twice the total expenditure of countries in the Middle East and four times greater than that of Europe.",
        "据斯托克霍姆国际和平研究所（Stockholm International Peace Research Institute）目前亚洲的军备开支占世界的近一半，比中东国家总开支多一倍多，更比欧洲多出四倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue of negotiating a rapprochement between Afghanistan’s government and the Taliban is undoubtedly controversial.",
        "推动阿富汗政府与塔利班展开和谈的举措无疑会引发诸多争论。"
    ],
    [
        "But trade is just the beginning.",
        "但贸易只是开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush chose as his Vice-President a man who once served as CEO of Halliburton.",
        "布什选择了从前哈里伯顿的首席执行官出任副总统。"
    ],
    [
        "But the two countries have conflicting interests in Central Asia, where China is pursuing major investments to expand its influence in countries that Russia views as its “near abroad.”",
        "但两国在中亚存在利益冲突，中国希望在中亚进行大量投资以扩大其在俄罗斯视为“近邻”的国家的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy is a precious but also a precarious set of values.",
        "民主不仅宝贵，更是一套不太稳定的价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "Though it is too soon to predict all the effects, some good consequences are already evident, as are some that are troublesome and others whose impact will play out over time.",
        "尽管现在就预计所有结果为时过早，部分良性结果已经显现出来，部分则显得有些棘手，另外一些的影响则会随时间自然消逝。"
    ],
    [
        "The attackers – members of the Somali Islamist extremist group al-Shabaab – spent weeks reconnoitering the site.",
        "袭击者——索马里伊斯兰极端组织青年军（al-Shabaab）花了数周时间踩点。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers should remember that the housing boom was fueled by easy monetary policy, which sought to expand job growth as the US recovered from the last recession.",
        "决策者们应该记住是宽松的货币政策推进了房地产市场繁荣，美国上次经济衰退恢复期间依靠同样政策成功推高了就业率。"
    ],
    [
        "The ruling elite are known to be torn by disputes and rivalries.",
        "而统治精英阶层也被争吵和敌意所分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "The Board thus does not perform oversight functions, but rather serves essentially as an extended Management Board, which delegates the execution of its decisions to the Managing Director and the staff.",
        "因而，理事会不履行监督职能，而是本质上作为一个长期的管理理事会提供服务，管理理事会把它的决策执行任务委托给董事总裁和全体职员办理。"
    ],
    [
        "The right-left divide remains deeply felt in France.",
        "如今，左右分歧在法国仍然十分深刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Current trends suggest that the human race will no longer be replacing itself by the early 2020’s.",
        "当前趋势表明，到21世纪20年代早期，人类将不再能够实现人口替换。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – It is an odd quirk in the history of logic that the blameless Cretans should have given their name to the famous “liar paradox.”",
        "伦敦——无可指责的克里特人应当将名声归功于著名的“说谎者悖论”无疑是逻辑史上一个古怪的巧合。"
    ],
    [
        "Only strong institutions, including regulations and laws, can accomplish this.",
        "只有好的制度——包括监管和法律——可以达到这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Military reprisals will swell their ranks still further, and, until political grievances are addressed, the spread of democracy will not change that equation, because the extremists will win at the ballot box.",
        "军事报复将会进一步扩大范围，而且，只有解决了政治上的冤屈，否则扩散民主并不会改变状况，因为极端分子会赢得选举的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1986 law was the well-thought-out result of an extended, deliberate, and bipartisan process, designed to be revenue-neutral, with low marginal income tax rates balanced by fewer deductions, particularly on the corporate side.",
        "1986年的法案是经过漫长的深思熟虑和跨党派流程后形成的成熟结果，它被设计成税收收入中性，低边际税率用减少抵扣（特别是企业端）来平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Japan's richest families typically lose their wealth within three generations.",
        "因此，日本最富裕家庭往往富不过三代。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, there may be times when a more powerful China is good for the US (and for the world).",
        "换句话讲，中国强大有时可能对美国（和世界）都有好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Notably, Sinn Féin, Ireland’s nationalist party and the former political arm of the Irish Republican Army, has not indulged in the kind of xenophobic rhetoric used by the UK Independence Party.",
        "令人关注的是，爱尔兰民族主义政党、前爱尔兰共和军的政治力量新芬党也没有沉溺于英国独立党所采用的仇外论调。"
    ],
    [
        "Continued international paralysis is indefensible.",
        "国际社会对此持续无动于衷是不行的。"
    ],
    [
        "But this high growth does not reduce the likelihood of a bear market.",
        "然而这一高增长并不会减少进入熊市的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that continued currency-market volatility spills over into other markets – and it will – the imperative for stronger economic fundamentals to validate asset prices will intensify.",
        "如果持续的或市场动荡溢出到其他市场——必然会如此——强化经济基本面以印证资产价格的需要就会增强。"
    ],
    [
        "All negotiations between debtors and creditors involve bluff and bluster to some extent.",
        "债务人和债权人之间的一切谈判都或多或少地包括一些虚张声势。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifty-four years after the announcement of the Schuman Plan that began to knit together the economies of France and Germany, the EU now has 25 countries and a population larger than that of the United States.",
        "联结法德两国经济的舒曼计划颁布54年后的今天，欧盟已有25个成员国，人口数甚至超过了美国。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s irrational energy policy, based on immensely wasteful subsidies to consumers, must be fundamentally altered.",
        "乌克兰不理性的能源政策（依靠巨大又浪费的消费者补贴）必须从根本上予以改变。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Back in February, I noted that the global economy at the end of 2016 was in a stronger cyclical position than most people had expected, given the political upheavals of the previous 12 months.",
        "伦敦—2月份时，我注意到，考虑到此前12个月的政治剧变， 2016年底全球经济处于比许多人所预料的更强的周期位置。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal prudence and stable inflation rates are cornerstones of today’s relatively healthy global economic environment.",
        "审慎的财政和稳定的通胀是当今相对健康的全球经济环境的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, nuclear brinkmanship is a particularly poor tactic, since Kim’s behavior is now becoming fused in American minds with arguably the most serious strategic threat on the US agenda: Iran’s push to secure nuclear weapons of its own.",
        "此外，核边缘政策是一个尤其拙劣的伎俩，因为金正日的所作所为已经触动了美国最重大的战略威胁：一个尝试拥有核武器的伊朗。"
    ],
    [
        "If you’re looking for reasons behind today’s obesity epidemic, don’t stop with the usual suspects, all of which are being trotted out by the press: fast food, trans fat, high sugar, low exercise, computer games, strange bacteria in your gut, weird molecules in your blood.",
        "如果你想寻找今天肥胖现象背后的罪魁祸首，不要在被媒体屡屡曝光的快餐、反式脂肪酸、高糖、缺乏锻炼、电脑游戏、肠道中的怪异细菌和血液里的奇怪分子等常见现象面前止步。"
    ],
    [
        "More inter-governmental cooperation simply won’t do.",
        "加强政府间合作根本没用。"
    ],
    [
        "Trouble in Nepali Paradise",
        "尼泊尔天堂的麻烦"
    ],
    [
        "But Syria has since moved from the center of attention, displaced by the coup and ongoing crisis in Egypt, the threat of an Al Qaeda terror offensive in Yemen and elsewhere, and the renewal of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.",
        "但从那以后叙利亚已不再是人们关注的核心，取而代之的是埃及政变和持续危机、也门和其他地方“基地”组织的恐怖进攻威胁以及以巴和谈的重启。"
    ],
    [
        "Is France Unreformable?",
        "法国是否无法改革？"
    ],
    [
        "If commercial banks had been allowed to base lending decisions solely on economic considerations, credit and money supply would have grown more slowly, limiting the risk of rising bad-loan ratios, stalled enterprise reform, inflationary pressure, and a resurgence of asset bubbles as excess liquidity enters equity and real-estate markets.",
        "如果商业银行只需要在经济原则下作出贷款决定的话，信贷和货币供应的增长将更为缓慢，也减少了坏账比率升高的风险，然而失控的企业改革进程，通胀压力，以及资产泡沫的复苏导致过剩的流动性都涌入了股票和房地产市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In his first, post-election public address, Barack Obama declared that his presidency “will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs.”",
        "在其选举后的第一次公开演讲中，巴拉克·奥巴马宣称，其任期“在美国在气候变化上的领导地位方面，标志着一个增强我们的安全并创造大量的新工作机会的新篇章”。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in 2012, for example, the head of the interim government, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, declared his intention to lift restrictions against polygamy.",
        "比方说早在2012年，临时政府领导人穆斯塔法·阿卜杜勒-贾利勒就宣布了取消限制反对一夫多妻制的意向。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, many Western companies recognize that introducing more diversity into the decision-making process at most levels will boost their resilience and agility.",
        "因此，许多西方公司认识到，在大部分层级的决策过程中引入更大的多样性能够提升企业的恢复力和灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, the strategy emphasizes the importance of the EU’s enduring soft power, in which prospective enlargement plays an important role, while acknowledging that soft power alone is not enough to ensure security.",
        "具体而言，该战略强调欧洲保持软实力的重要性，其中潜在的扩张在这方面起着重要作用； 同时也承认光有软实力不足以确保安全。"
    ],
    [
        "It is therefore refreshing to see a careful econometric study take on an assertion by Paul Krugman, perhaps the most influential left-leaning US economist, that “the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 was irrelevant to the subprime boom.”",
        "因此，一份仔细的计量经济学研究对也许是美国最有影响力的左倾经济学家的克鲁格曼的“1977年社区再投资法（Community Reinvestment Act，CRA）与次贷繁荣不相关”论点所做的批评令人眼前一亮。"
    ],
    [
        "He had the better arguments, but he lost the “debates” (and the election) nonetheless.",
        "他的论点强于布什，但还是输掉了“辩论”（以及大选）。"
    ],
    [
        "After the military coup in 1952, the Soviets provided much of the needed aid.",
        "1952年军事政变后，苏联提供了大量所需援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether Iraq can be held together despite the ethnic and religious confrontations that pit Kurds against Arabs and Sunnis against the Shi’a is one of the most pregnant questions for the new Middle East.",
        "尽管面临库尔德人和阿拉伯人之间以及逊尼派和什叶派之间的种族和宗教对峙，伊拉克是否还能保持统一将是新中东意义最重大的问题之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaving aside other global risks (including a slowdown in already-mediocre US growth, more fear of a Chinese hard landing, weakness in oil and commodity prices, and fragilities in key emerging markets), there is plenty of reason to worry about Europe and the eurozone.",
        "抛去其他全球风险不谈（包括已然相当平庸的美国增长的减速、中国硬着陆担忧增加、石油和大宗商品价格颓势以及重要新兴市场的脆弱性等），有充分地里有担心欧洲和欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the greatest threat to the bilateral relationship is the belief that conflict is inevitable.",
        "或许，对双边关系最大的威胁是相信冲突是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has also lost sight of the 1990’s – the first of its so-called lost decades – when the authorities did all they could to prolong the life of insolvent banks and many nonfinancial corporations.",
        "但它同时也也忘记了1990年代——也是第一个所谓“失落的10年”——再此期间当局尽其所能延长资不抵债的银行和许多非金融公司的寿命。"
    ],
    [
        "The national investment bank which the Labour Party is now advocating could be given a mandate to invest in industries with a high import substitution potential.",
        "工党现在倡导的国家投资银行可以被授权对具备高进口替代潜力的行业进行投资。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this speaks to the impotence of central banks to jump-start aggregate demand in balance-sheet-constrained economies that have fallen into 1930s-style “liquidity traps.”",
        "所有这些都表明央行根本无力推动受资产负债表约束、陷入20世纪30年式“流动性陷阱”的经济的总需求。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2014, the British current-affairs program Exposure found evidence of children as young as 13 working in factories (often under harsh conditions) producing clothes for retailers in the United Kingdom.",
        "2014年，英国时事新闻计划曝光发现证据，证明年仅十三岁的儿童在（非常恶劣的工作条件下）为给英国零售商生产服装而在工厂里工作。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States alone, chronic pain is estimated to cost more than $600 billion annually.",
        "光是在美国，慢性疼痛每年就要造成大约6,000亿美元的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "I seldom paused to think about how those numbers were computed.",
        "我很少停下来想一想这些数字是怎么计算出来的。"
    ],
    [
        "It was not until imports began to overwhelm a growing number of industries in the US, fueling the emergence of large and persistent external deficits, that the country’s trade policy became more defensive, creating friction with many of its partners.",
        "但直到进口开始压垮越来越多的美国工业部门并刺激产生了巨额且持续的对外贸易逆差之后，该国的贸易政策才开始变得更加富有防御性，进而与许多合作伙伴产生摩擦。"
    ],
    [
        "It is tempting to ascribe the rare African successes – Botswana and Mauritius – to foreign demand for their exports (diamonds and garments, respectively), but that story goes only so far.",
        "我们很容易把非洲大陆罕见的成功案例¾博茨瓦纳和毛里求斯¾归结为外国对其出口产品的需求（两者分别是钻石和成衣），但其神话恐怕也仅限于此。"
    ],
    [
        "These are not empty words.",
        "这些都不是空话。"
    ],
    [
        "The more these “objective” indicators are used in research assessment and personnel evaluation, the more scientists feel obliged to play the citation game.",
        "越多这些“客观”指标被用于研究评估和人事评估，就有越多科学家感到必须参与这个引用游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, the eurozone exists – and, at this point, it would be exceedingly difficult to dismantle it fully.",
        "无论如何，欧元区诞生了——而时至今日，要想完全拆散它也是极其困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "The democratic deliberative process worked, and it yielded the right answer.",
        "民主化的讨论进程是奏效的，而且也产生了正确的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Pakistanis hope so.",
        "绝大多数巴基斯坦人也希望如此。"
    ],
    [
        "It is easy to imagine each social group demanding a larger share of national income, which by definition is inflationary.",
        "不难想象如果每个社会群体都要求获得国民收入的更大份额，这就是通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Without more sophisticated arguments, they might well find themselves submerged under a pile of regulatory sandbags.",
        "由于没有更有力的论据，他们发现自身被埋在了一堆监管的沙袋之下。"
    ],
    [
        "More problematic, school-based surveys in low- and middle-income countries typically exclude those who are not in school, whether because they dropped out or never enrolled at all.",
        "问题更大的是，在中低收入国家，基于学校的调查通常不包括辍学人群，不管他们是中途辍学还是从未上学。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this will render the OSCE or NATO redundant, and that should be no one’s goal.",
        "这并不意味着欧安组织和北约已成为累赘，这绝不是任何人的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and the Arab states caused an oil embargo that tripled prices and led to the stagflation (high unemployment plus inflation) of 1974-1975.",
        "1973年以色列和阿拉伯国家之间的赎罪日战争导致了石油禁运，石油价格暴涨两倍，引发1974—1975年的滞涨（高失业和通货膨胀）。"
    ],
    [
        "If Mandela’s leadership can be argued, as I think it can, to have been of a once-in-a-century quality, the opportunity to experience it first-hand was a once-in-a-lifetime privilege.",
        "”如果说曼德拉是一位百年一遇的难得领袖，那么有机会亲身感受则是一种令人终身难忘的特权。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than accept their minority status, various Iranian governments have attempted to establish their country’s hegemony in the Arab world.",
        "各届伊朗政府拒不接受伊朗身为少数派的地位，而是试图称霸阿拉伯世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Their goal was to create a prioritized list showing how money could best be spent combating these problems.",
        "他们的目标是建立一个优先清单，以说明在抗击这些问题时花多少钱可以取得最好的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Increased Security Service (SBU) activity.",
        "安全部门（SBU）活动频繁。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the primary goals of synthetic biology has been to create a platform, or chassis, to use as a foundation for building organisms designed for specific tasks.",
        "合成生物学的主要目标是创造一个平台或底盘，并以此为构建完成特定任务的生物体的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But, alongside substantive changes, there is considerable uncertainty and hyperbole.",
        "但在出现实质性变化的同时也不乏不确定和夸张。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the scientific validity of their research is now the subject of several separate investigations, it is no less important to examine its ethical implications.",
        "尽管其研究的科学准确性正在同时接受不同的调查，但是，审查其伦理含义的重要性一点也不逊色。"
    ],
    [
        "We estimate that providing a refugee child with a place in our public schools will cost roughly $1,800 per year; donors are being asked to contribute $363 per student in the first shift and $600 per student in the second.",
        "我们估计，在我们的公立学校为难民儿童提供学位每人每年的成本大约为1,800美元； 我们需要出资人第一步提供每人363美元，第二步提供每人600美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the Bush administration is engaged in a disinformation campaign about an impending social security crisis.",
        "当前，布什政府卷入了一场有关社会保障危机的虚假信息风波。"
    ],
    [
        "Other groups may not advocate violence (though sometimes they do) but still preach a view of the world that is dangerous and hostile to those who disagree.",
        "其他组织或许不鼓吹暴力（尽管有时也会鼓吹），但也宣扬世界对不信教者不安全、充满敌意的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the US should continue its efforts to encourage action by Iran’s neighbors.",
        "第三，美国应当继续努力，鼓励伊朗的邻国采取措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Apple’s current stand could cause it to suffer in the massive Chinese market – or profit immensely if it complies.",
        "苹果当前立场可能导致其在大中国市场受损——如果接受政府的要求又将带来巨额利润。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan developed the economic-growth model that other Asian countries later emulated so successfully; actively contributed to global economic development; participated in the United Nations and other multilateral institutions (including paying a disproportionately high percentage of UN costs); and has helped to set a global standard for environmental protection and sustainable development.",
        "日本还积极参与全球经济发展并参与联合国和其他多边机构（包括拨付远超其所应承担比例的联合国经费）； 并参与环保及可持续发展全球标准的制定工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Hafiz Saeed, the founder of LET and currently the head of JuD, once proudly argued that: “We believe in the Clash of Civilizations, and our Jihad will continue until Islam becomes the dominant religion.”",
        "虔诚军创始人和现任达瓦慈善会领袖哈菲兹·萨伊德曾经骄傲地指出：“我们坚信文明的冲突，我们的圣战将一直持续到伊斯兰教占主导地位为止。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Trade policymakers are deeply familiar with this logic, which is why the antidumping regime exists in its current form, enabling relatively easy protection.",
        "贸易决策者对这一逻辑耳熟能详，这也是反倾销机制之所以以现在的形式出现、促成相对容易的保护的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, conflict within such a country would be bound to spill over its borders, possibly sparking a major regional conflagration.",
        "此外，这个国家内部的冲突也将必然溢出到国界线外，并有可能引起重大地区冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "They fear that more troops may only lead to more civilian casualties, antagonizing Afghans.",
        "它们担心派遣更多的兵力只会带来更多的平民伤亡，而进一步引发阿富汗人的敌对情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, it is hard to find anybody who does not consider the euro a great success, and the ECB has been so sure-footed that people now take that success for granted.",
        "欧洲央行一直走得很稳，以至于人们认为它的成功理所当然地来之毫不费力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Swiss rejected even EEA membership in a referendum; however, to do business with the EU on the level it wanted, the Swiss government later had to accept most of the EEA rules anyway, including the free movement of people and contributions to the EU budget.",
        "瑞士的全民公决甚至都否决了加入欧洲经济区； 但是为了能更好地与欧盟做生意，瑞士政府后来不得不接受大部分欧洲经济区规则，无论如何，包括人员的自由流动以及对欧盟预算的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "As of last week, jobless claims remained rather low, as they have for some time, which bodes well for US stock markets.",
        "上周，失业数字仍然非常低，这一状态已经保持了一段时间，对美国股市是利好。"
    ],
    [
        "BOSTON – The Middle East’s public-health challenges are enormous, especially when one accounts for the region’s transient population of refugees and guest workers.",
        "波士顿—中东面临巨大的公共卫生挑战，特别是考虑到该地区临时性难民和外来工作者人口的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe should go beyond defining its relationship with Ukraine as a neighbor: it should clearly state that Ukraine has a realistic chance of entry into NATO and the EU.",
        "欧洲与乌克兰不应仅限于邻里，我们应该明确表示：乌克兰有现实的机会加入北约和欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "First, governments, unlike private individuals, do not have to “repay” their debts.",
        "首先，政府不同于个人，其债务并不是必须“偿还”的。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, some influential Iranians – led by former president Hashemi Rafsanjani – recognize that relations with the US are inevitable, given Iran’s need to re-integrate into the international community and face its economic deficiencies.",
        "另一方面，以前总统哈什米·拉夫桑贾尼为代表的一些有影响的伊朗人承认：如果要重新融入国际社会、正面处理国内的经济危机，那么伊美关系是必不可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider wines: you can sort them by price, year, or region of origin, by red, white, or rosé, or by sparkling or still.",
        "以葡萄酒为例： 既可以按价格、年份、原产地分类，也可以分为红酒、白酒或玫瑰红酒，还可以分为有气或无气。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fact that Russia’s social and economic diseases are going unaddressed has consigned the country to the long-term decline that his presidency was supposed to reverse.",
        "但俄罗斯的社会和经济痼疾得不到医治的现实使该国陷入了长期的衰退。 而这种趋势本是普京在其总统任期内应该扭转的。"
    ],
    [
        "We also know that Erdoğan was preparing to make a major move against the Gülenists in the military.",
        "我们还知道，埃尔多安早已在准备对军中的居伦派采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia Enters the Storm",
        "风暴袭向亚洲"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, China views its military, civil, and commercial space programs as being at the forefront of its national defense, economic development, and geostrategic influence.",
        "最终，中国会将其军事，民用以及商业航天项目视为国防，经济发展和地缘战略影响力的前沿力量。"
    ],
    [
        "But, at least since Keynes, we know how to stimulate the economy more effectively, and in ways that increase long-term productivity and enhance living standards.",
        "但是，我们至少从凯恩斯时代以来知道如何更为有效地刺激经济，而且其方法也提高长期的生产效劳和提高生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed, above all, is a covenant among the leaders of the Asia/Pacific region that will make peaceful dispute resolution binding on all stakeholders, big or small.",
        "而当务之急则是由亚太地区各国领导人共同订立公约，无论大国小国，在充分尊重各方利益的情况下制定和平解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Too often, laws ensuring Internet freedom are ignored or bent.",
        "保障互联网自由的法律往往遭到忽视或扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "Kim’s intentions may become clearer next month, when the North is expected to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party by conducting a nuclear test and launching a new intercontinental missile.",
        "金正恩的意图可能在下个月表现得更加清楚，届时朝鲜将用核试验和发射洲际导弹庆祝执政的朝鲜劳动党成立70周年。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the most irritating aspect of Blatter’s FIFA.",
        "这是布拉特的国际足联最令人愤慨之处。"
    ],
    [
        "In their conflict with Israel, their natural and historical partner has always been Jordan.",
        "在与以色列的冲突中，约旦一直是他们的历史伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "But only two policies are particularly promising for such a “Pact for America”: federal infrastructure spending and corporate-tax reform.",
        "但在“美国契约”中，只有两项政策最有希望：联邦基础设施支出和公司税改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in his year since taking office, President Donald Trump has not only challenged ties with many of America’s traditional allies; he has also worked actively to undermine the systems of global and regional cooperation that the US itself spearheaded and underwrote.",
        "但特朗普总统上台一年来，不但挑战了与许多美国传统盟友之间的关系； 还积极地破坏了由美国本身带头主导和鼎力维持的全球和地区合作体系。"
    ],
    [
        "In impugning the authors’ motives and criticizing the uses to which others have put their research, critics of Reinhart and Rogoff have taken their eye off the ball.",
        "忙于抨击作者的动机并批评某些人对这个研究的利用，针对莱恩哈特和罗格夫的批评家已经无暇顾及其它了。"
    ],
    [
        "This is good news for both financial stability and public finances: once the single supervisor is in place, supervision will be more credible and impartial, which is important for dealing with ailing banks and managing their return to viability.",
        "这对于金融稳定性和公共财政来说都是好消息：一旦单一监督机构成立，监督就将更加可信和公正，这对于处理受困银行让它们重获活力非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "This would not be easy to change.",
        "如果想有改变这种情况，这并不是一件容易的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s social security fund is running out of money and has to be merged with the government’s infrastructure fund in order to be replenished.",
        "俄国社保基金的钱已经用光，被迫与政府基础设施基金合并才能得以补充。"
    ],
    [
        "But none of them was part of the nuclear deal.",
        "但这些都不属于伊核协议的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "They could buy bad loans from lenders and forgive part of the principal payable by borrowers, simultaneously reducing lenders’ collateral requirements and borrowers’ debt overhang.",
        "它们可以从贷款人手中购买不良贷款，并免除部分可偿还本金，同时降低贷款人的抵押品要求和借款人的债务积压。"
    ],
    [
        "The court was already casting an eye at Zadari by examining the deal between former President Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto.",
        "法院已经通过审查前总统佩尔韦兹•穆沙拉夫和贝娜齐尔•布托之间的交易查到了扎尔达里身上。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, as world leaders discuss the next generation of sustainability, development, and climate frameworks, they will need to put their security and mutual dependence at the heart of the responses.",
        "今年，世界领导人将讨论下一代可持续性、发展和气候框架，在此过程中，他们需要将安全和互相依赖置于应对措施的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "This liquidity acquires familiar properties: used as a means of exchange and as a store of value, it becomes a form of money.",
        "这一流动性具有常见的性质：它被用作交换手段和价值储藏手段，因此也成为一种货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Like many strategic analysts, they worry whether Germany, in pursuit of purely short-term economic interests, might forsake long-term strategic interests and concerns about human rights, environmental problems, press freedoms, and other political and geopolitical issues.",
        "与其他策略分析师一样，他们担心德国是否会为了追求纯粹的短期经济利益而放弃长期战略利益以及对人权、环境问题、言论自由和其他政治和地缘政治问题的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative – a Middle East in which several governments and, through them, militias and terrorist groups have access to nuclear weapons and materials – is too horrific to contemplate.",
        "否则的话局面可能一发不可收拾，中东不少国家以及通过它们的军事和恐怖组织将获得核武器和原料。"
    ],
    [
        "With all sides keeping their powder dry, failure to reach a constitutional settlement could plunge Nepal back into war.",
        "各方各派都是剑拔弩张，无法实现宪政解决方案将让尼泊尔再次陷入战争。"
    ],
    [
        "But, almost six months into the North African upheavals, the number of arrivals on the southern island of Lampedusa has reached roughly 30,000.",
        "结果在北非起义持续6个月后抵达意大利蓝佩杜萨岛的难民才只有约3万人。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – From Austria, France and the United States, to Poland, the Philippines, and Peru, illiberal populists are on the rise.",
        "圣地亚哥—从奥地利、法国和美国到波兰、菲律宾和秘鲁，反自由民民粹主义者正在崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "This is true even in the US: according to a poll released by the Arab American Institute, only 20% of Americans (including American Arabs and American Jews) favor moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.",
        "即使在美国国内也是如此：据阿拉伯美国研究所（Arab American Institute）的一项民调，只有20%的美国人（包括美国阿拉伯人和美国犹太人）支持将美国驻特拉维夫大使馆迁往耶路撒冷。"
    ],
    [
        "Never has the need for international organizations like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization been greater, and seldom has confidence in these institutions been lower.",
        "对于国际货币基金组织、世界银行以及世界贸易组织等国际组织的需求从来没有像现在这样更为强烈，而人们对这些组织的信心从来没有如此低过。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, everyone seems to want to know, did we establish a Ministry of Happiness, Tolerance, and the Future, and why did we appoint a 22-year-old Minister of Youth?",
        "似乎每个人都想知道我们为什么设立幸福宽容和未来部，以及我们为什么任命一位年仅22岁的青年部长？"
    ],
    [
        "Muslim immigrants, whether first-, second-, or third-generation, must be able to integrate fully into European society, gaining the same opportunities as Europe’s other residents and citizens.",
        "穆斯林移民，无论是第一，第二还是第三代，都必须能完全融入欧洲社会，享有欧洲其他居民和公民得到的同样机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Kenaikan upah terbesar terjadi pada kelompok berpendapatan terendah.",
        "工资增长最多的正是收入最低的群体。"
    ],
    [
        "The worst thing that governments can do is to stand in the way by propping up unviable firms or by sustaining demand in unviable industries through easy credit.",
        "政府所能做的最差的一件事则是，支持末路企业，用廉价信贷维持末路产业的需求，图一时之效，妨碍劳动力转移之路。"
    ],
    [
        "American states like California spend about as much on prisons as on higher education – and sometimes more.",
        "加利福尼亚等州的监狱支出与高等教育支出相当，有时还要更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s Sectarian Stalemate",
        "叙利亚的宗派僵局"
    ],
    [
        "The message is clear: the Trump administration is determined to dictate the Israeli version of peace with the Palestinians, rather than to mediate an equitable agreement between the two sides.",
        "个中含义显而易见：特朗普政府决定要强制巴勒斯坦人接受以色列的和平方案，而不是调停双方之间的平等协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of us (except for a lunatic fringe of flat-earthers) also believe this to be the case.",
        "绝大多数人（除认为地球是平的狂热份子外）也相信地球呈圆形。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution is to stop applauding politicians who warn of catastrophe and promote poor policies.",
        "我们应该停止为警告将会发生灾难并推动糟糕政策的政要们击节叫好。"
    ],
    [
        "Then reforms stalled, the fiscal and current-account deficits soared, and annual GDP growth fell to 4-5%.",
        "接着，印度的改革出现了停滞，财政和经常项目赤字飙升，年GDP增长回落到4—5%。"
    ],
    [
        "They have the added benefit of generating what the economist Amar Bhidé calls venturesome consumption: demand-led entrepreneurship and innovation.",
        "它们带来的好处是增加了经济学家艾马尔·拜德（Amar Bhidé）所谓的风险消费（venturesome consumption）：需求拉动的企业家精神和创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2001, unit labor costs have been growing faster than real GDP and employment, undermining the economy’s competitiveness vis-à-vis developing countries.",
        "而自2001年来，单位劳动成本一直以高于实际GDP和就业率增长的幅度上升，这相对于发展中国家等于损害了本国经济竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as in Ukraine and China, the affected firms’ output quickly collapsed.",
        "而且，就像乌克兰和中国一样，受影响企业的生产很快就陷入崩溃的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the short run there is a real danger that Russia will pursue its age-old aspiration of becoming part of Europe by seeking to become the dominant entity.",
        "但是在短期而言确实存在危险，也就是俄国将会通过力求成为统领国家实体而追寻其成为欧洲一部分的百年渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "As technology races ahead and value chains become globalized, workers must adapt, whether by changing jobs, relocating, or acquiring new skills – a challenge that is particularly burdensome for older workers, but demands a new approach to life planning for all.",
        "随着技术竞赛的推进和价值链的全球化，工人必须做出调整，或者换工作、换地方，或者获取新技能——这一挑战对于年迈的工人来说尤其困难，但它要求采取全新的生活规划方式。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – For three decades, China has been growing at an average annual rate of 9.8%.",
        "北京-三十年来，中国一直保持着平均每年9 . 8％的增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether there is a permanent reduction in global imbalances will depend mainly on decisions taken outside the US, specifically in countries like China.",
        "全球失衡是否会有永久性的减少主要取决于美国之外的国家的决策，具体来说，就是像中国这样的国家的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "But I am not so sure.",
        "但我也不能把话说死。"
    ],
    [
        "A Green Industry Conference held recently in Guangzhou, China – following similar events in Manila in 2009 and Tokyo in 2011 – provides a template for this kind of broad cooperation.",
        "继2009年马里拉和2011年东京举行的类似会议后，日前在广州举行的中国绿色产业大会为全面合作建立了新的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "The African Women’s Economic Summit, which I attended recently in Nairobi, was electrified by the story of a woman who had set up her own construction firm in Cameroon.",
        "在我不久前参与的内罗毕非洲妇女经济首脑会议上，一名在喀麦隆创办建筑公司的妇女的故事就引起了轩然大波。"
    ],
    [
        "Both regulators and clinicians who run trials have been criticized.",
        "为此，批评的矛头指向了进行临床试验的政府机构和医药机构。"
    ],
    [
        "There are four key issues that need to be tackled if we are to ensure that Europe emerges from this crisis strengthened.",
        "如果要确保欧洲能够摆脱危机并变得更加强大的话，有四个关键性事务是需要我们处理的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, to placate the British, Harry Dexter White, the US Treasury official now remembered as the architect of the Bretton Woods Agreement, inserted Article 7 to allow dollar-deprived member states to restrict their purchases of US goods.",
        "但是，为了安抚英国人，现在被视为布雷顿森林协议缔造者的美国财政部官员哈里·德克斯特·怀特（Harry Dexter White）在协议中加入了第七条，允许美元不足的成员国限制购买美国商品。"
    ],
    [
        "As we know from the work of Thomas Kuhn and other philosophers of science, dominant paradigms do not always turn out to be the most accurate.",
        "但正如我们从汤玛斯·库恩（Thomas Kuhn）以及其他科学哲学家那里所认识到的那样，最主流的理论范式往往不一定是最准确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically speaking, 15 years can seem long or short, depending on the intensity of change.",
        "从历史上看，15年既可以很长，也可以很短，取决于变化的剧烈程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Deep partisan divisions – whether over the role of government or social/cultural issues – are leading to near-paralysis in democratic societies like the US.",
        "严重的党派分歧——不管是关于政府的角色和是关于社会/文化问题——正在导致美国等民主社会几近瘫痪。"
    ],
    [
        "A broader, more transparent recruitment process would reduce groupthink, challenge the status quo, and, one hopes, leave central banks better equipped to handle a financial crisis.",
        "更广泛、更透明的选人流程能能减少集体迷思、挑战现状，并（但愿如此）让央行更好地处理金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "If there is a shortfall of private investment, the problem is not really a lack of good projects; it is the lack of policy clarity and complementary long-term public investment.",
        "如果私人投资存在短缺，问题不在于真的缺少好项目； 而在于缺少政策明确性和互补性长期公共投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as fiscal and monetary policy can be calibrated to minimize both unemployment and inflation, redistribution can be designed not merely to recycle taxes into welfare, but to help more directly when workers and communities suffer from globalization and technological change.",
        "正如财政和货币政策可以作出调整以同时实现失业和通胀的最小化，再分配也可以设计为不仅仅是将税收回收为福利，而是在工人和社区因为全球化和技术变化而受到冲击时给予更加直接的帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Its practitioners are no more innately virtuous than anyone else, and their work is no less vulnerable to error and misuse.",
        "科学实践者并不生而比任何人更高尚，他们的工作也不比其他工作更能免疫于错误和误用。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is well on its way to a zero-emission economy.",
        "欧洲正在快速走向零排放经济。"
    ],
    [
        "The meeting’s timing is fortunate, because a number of critical Asian issues are coming to a boil.",
        "这次会议的时间可谓天赐良辰，因为亚洲的一系列问题正逐渐浮出水面。"
    ],
    [
        "When firms hit by reduced demand contract operations, the space they give up becomes available for use by entrepreneurs with better ways of running the business – or with better businesses.",
        "当企业遭遇合同订单减少时，他们所放弃的市场空间就可以被那些可以用更佳方式来运行这些业务的企业家——或者更好的企业——所利用。"
    ],
    [
        "If train traffic on certain routes increased, it suggested that army food supplies were being delivered, thus hinting at impending military action.",
        "某条线路上列车流量增加表明正在运送军需供给，进而暗示着军事行动即将到来。"
    ],
    [
        "Ordinary Burmese well understand that their country’s democratic transition is the direct result of its recoil from China’s excessive demands on its natural resources.",
        "普通缅甸民众非常清楚中国对其自然资源过度需求所造成的反弹直接导致了该国的民主过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world digs out of the current financial and economic hole, we need to look further ahead.",
        "当世界正努力摆脱目前的金融和经济黑洞之时，我们要把眼光放远。 今天的危机反映了一个相互关联的世界中闪电般的速度。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, the chief motive for migration was economic.",
        "在过去，移民的主要动机是经济。"
    ],
    [
        "PiS politicians also frequented venues where recordings were made, and yet none of their conversations were leaked.",
        "法律与正义党的政客们也经常光顾被录音的场所，但他们的谈话内容却一次都没有遭到泄露。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries with few “letters” lack incentives to accumulate more letters, because they cannot do much with any additional one: you would not want a TV remote control if you didn’t have a TV, and you would not want a TV broadcasting company if your potential customers lacked electricity.",
        "“字母”较少的国家没有动力积累更多字幕，因为新增字母派不上多大用场：没有电视机，你就不会想要电视遥控器，而如果你的潜在客户用不上电，你也不会想要电视广播公司。"
    ],
    [
        "The comparison here is to the Cold War period.",
        "在这里，就是与冷战世代进行比较。"
    ],
    [
        "With every shift in medium, there is a period of mourning for the old one.",
        "虽然随着媒体业中的每一步转变，我们在很长一段时间内都会哀悼旧新闻模式的消亡。"
    ],
    [
        "For Europe, the implications of China’s rise are far-reaching, beginning with the United States’ strategic “pivot” toward Asia.",
        "对欧洲来说，中国崛起的影响是深远的，其起始点是美国战略性“转向”亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "MELBOURNE – Should your government be able to take away your citizenship?",
        "墨尔本—你的政府应该具有剥夺你公民权的能力吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, the economy deteriorated.",
        "经济状况恶化并不令人意外。"
    ],
    [
        "While G7 member states renewed their commitment to eliminating polio at a summit in Japan earlier this year, a subsequent G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, where two-thirds of the world’s population was represented, made no reference to it; nor did the G77 group of 134 developing countries at its last meeting.",
        "虽然G7成员国今年早些时候在日本举行的首脑会议上重申了消除脊髓灰质炎的承诺，但随后在中国杭州举行的20国集团首脑峰会上，世界三分之二人口的代表却并未提及消除脊髓灰质炎的目标； 由134个发展中国家组成的77国集团召开的上届会议也同样没有。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of the planet, and the people who depend on it, let us make 2015 Earth Year.",
        "为了地球以及依赖地球的人类的命运，我们必须让2015年成为地球年。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kyoto Treaty on controlling climate change was, as Harvard professor Rob Stavins puts it, “too little, too fast.”",
        "哈佛大学教授罗伯·斯塔文曾说，有关控制全球气候变化的京都议定书“太少又太快”。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that an unobservable and imprecise variable – whose estimates are too inexact and volatile to provide more than a rough roadmap for a country’s journey toward fiscal rectitude – has become part of an international treaty and the national rules (sometimes of constitutional status) through which it is implemented.",
        "问题在于，一个不可观察又不准确的变量——其估算既不严格，又容易波动，甚至无法提供粗略的迈向财政诚实之路——成了国际条约和国家规则（有时甚至拥有宪法地位）的一部分，并得到了实施。"
    ],
    [
        "As if that didn’t make the brain mappers’ job difficult enough, a wide variety of synaptic relationships has been observed.",
        "大脑似乎觉得这还不够让大脑地图绘制者感到困难，我们已经发现了大量不同的突触关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Unrecognized by the rest of the world, Transdniestrian “independence” is secured by a Russian garrison.",
        "由于未受到世界其他国家的承认，该国的“独立”由俄罗斯驻军来保全。"
    ],
    [
        "Our cameras were checked when we left the country to verify compliance.",
        "在离开朝鲜时，相机都要受到检查以确定没有违规。"
    ],
    [
        "Principles of evidence-based medicine have transformed the way we look at clinical interventions and may prevent repetitions of public-health disasters such as the inappropriate promotion of hormone replacement therapy and anti-arrhythmic drugs.",
        "循证医学的原理已经转变了我们对临床干预的看法，并且可能会阻止类似不恰当地推行荷尔蒙替代疗法和抗心律不齐药物这样的公共卫生灾难的重复发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The first option would be to progress de facto toward a two-speed EU without establishing further legal commitments.",
        "第一种选择是将现状改造为两速欧盟，而不进行进一步的法制建设。"
    ],
    [
        "It is as if Mexico and Canada sought an alliance with China to balance US power in North America.",
        "就像加拿大，墨西哥与中国结盟共同抗衡美国一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Northwestern Yunnan is one of the world’s most biologically diverse areas, home to half of China’s animal species and a quarter of its plant species.",
        "西南部的云南省是世界上生物物种最为多样的地区之一，拥有中国一半的动物种类和四分之一的植物种类。"
    ],
    [
        "This change in Shiite orientation also reflects a very modern influence on politics.",
        "什叶派定位的改变也反映出政治所受到的现代化影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The current global financial crisis, which is rooted in the advanced countries’ structural problems, requires investment and innovation policies, in addition to monetary or fiscal measures.",
        "当前全球金融危机的根源是发达国家的结构性问题，除了货币或财政措施外，还需要投资和创新政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a solid foundation of rationality on which to build in keeping the door open for negotiations.",
        "但我们也有足够坚实合理的理由来继续保持着谈判的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "If European politicians are serious about preventing a schism between population groups, affirmative action is essential – not only at the workplace, but also for small business loans, home loans, public procurement, and school admissions.",
        "如果欧洲的政治家们认真地想要防止人口族群的分裂，那幺平权政策就至关重要—这不仅要体现在职场，还要体现在小额商业贷款、房屋贷款、公共采购和学校招生等方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Historians know this sordid story, but most Westerners do not (in no small part because many of the interventions have been covert).",
        "历史学家都知道这段肮脏的历史，但大部分西方人不知道（相当大程度上是因为许多干预是秘密进行的）。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite these headwinds, the merchandise trade deficit fell by a quarter between 1931 and 1932.",
        "但即便面对这些困难，商品贸易逆差依然成功在1931~1932年间减少了1/4。"
    ],
    [
        "Practical people have long understood its importance in leadership.",
        "务实的人们早已理解了这一点对领导的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "The coordinated fiscal stimulus that saved the world from economic collapse in 2009 disappeared too quickly, with governments shifting their focus to domestic politics and priorities.",
        "各国协同下的财政刺激手段在2009年经济危机中拯救了世界，但它也随着政府的注意力转向国内政治以及优先事项而很快消失。"
    ],
    [
        "President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces now control all of Aleppo for the first time since 2012, is a brutal dictator who has waged war on his own people, including civilians, and has even used chemical weapons.",
        "目前，叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德的部队自2012年以来首次重新控制了阿勒颇全境。 而巴沙尔是一位野蛮的独裁者，他想自己的人民（包括平民）发动战争，甚至使用化学武器。"
    ],
    [
        "There is Qatar’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood (in Egypt and elsewhere); the speeches by the Islamic theologian Yusuf al-Qardawi and the broadcasting policy of Qatar-funded Al Jazeera since the Arab Spring; and the credence given to the view that Qatar is hosting Western institutions with the intent of orchestrating a coup in the Kingdom.",
        "伊斯兰教神学家卡达维（Yusuf al-Qardawi）的演讲和卡塔尔出资的半岛电视台在阿拉伯之春后的节目政策； 以及证据表明卡塔尔接纳了某些试图在沙特王国组织政变的西方机构的观点并非子虚乌有。"
    ],
    [
        "The new youth minister, Osama Yassin, another leading Muslim Brother, was the de facto “security chief” in Tahrir Square during the 18 days that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak.",
        "另一位主要穆斯林兄弟会成员新任青年部长乌萨马·亚辛在推翻前总统胡斯尼·穆巴拉克的为期18天的塔里尔广场革命中实际担任了“保安队长”的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, however, hyper-rationality does not always produce attractive outcomes when social , rather than individual , choices are concerned.",
        "然而不幸的是，当考虑社会选择而不是个人选择时，超理性并不总是能产生有吸引力的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But the American republic has one merit that monarchies lack.",
        "但美利坚共和国拥有一项君主制所没有的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier this month, I visited Burma, where I met President Thein Sein and the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as former political prisoners and many other activists.",
        "本月的早些时候，我访问了缅甸，在那里我遇到了主席添盛和反对派领袖昂山素季，还有之前的政治犯和许多激进分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the poster child for the post-millennial turn to pro-cyclical fiscal policy: Greece.",
        "接下来我们看看千禧年后转向亲周期财政政策的典范：希腊。"
    ],
    [
        "So, increasingly, it seems that it would be too bold not to consider creating a European finance ministry at some point in the future.",
        "日积月累之下，不去设想在未来某个时候创造一个欧盟财政部反而显得有点愚蠢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last four years, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly tried to undermine the ruling clerics’ control over political and policy decisions.",
        "过去四年来，内贾德曾多次试图破坏执政神职人员对政治决策的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the European Union need not fear the rise of a Greek Hitler, not only because it could easily crush such a regime, but also – and more important – because Greece’s democracy has proved impressively mature throughout the crisis.",
        "当然，欧盟不必害怕希腊希特勒的崛起，因为它可以轻而易举地粉碎他，也因为——这是更重要的原因——在整个危机过程中希腊民主表现得十分成熟。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why China fascinates American investors, among others, and why US customers buy Chinese products.",
        "这就是为什么中国令美国以及其它国家的投资者着迷而美国消费者乐于购买中国产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Have those who pushed deregulation ten years ago learned their lesson?",
        "那些在十年前鼓动放松监管的人真的吸取教训了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But, although their prediction turned out to be spectacularly wrong, that has not led Taylor or any of the other signatories to rethink their theories or to consider that perhaps Bernanke knows something about monetary economics.",
        "但是，尽管他们的预言大错特错，但这并没有让泰勒以及其他所有署名者反思他们的理论或考虑也许伯南克是懂一些货币经济学的。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s unipolar expectations have not been ratified by events.",
        "美国的单极愿望并没有得到现实环境的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "If, on the contrary, they try to diversify into other currencies, they will drive down the dollar faster and create greater losses.",
        "反之，如果他们力图使外汇储备多样化，则只会使美元贬值更快，从而造成更大的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The former, called the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the Diaoyu Islands in China, are claimed by China, Japan, and Taiwan; the latter, called Takeshima in Japan, and Dokdo in Korea, are claimed by South Korea and Japan.",
        "前者——日本称之为尖阁列岛，中国称之为钓鱼岛——同时被中国，日本和台湾宣称对其拥有主权； 而后者——日本称之为竹岛，韩国称之为独岛——的主权则被韩国和日本两家争持不下。"
    ],
    [
        "We would do better to find out more about them than to waste our time on superficial debates about how they – and many others who are just as accomplished – should dress.",
        "这样我们才能更好的了解她们，而不是把时间都浪费在聒噪地争论这些女性，以及千千万万个同她们一样卓有成就的穆斯林女性应该如何穿着上。"
    ],
    [
        "If I am wrong, I hope this commentary will help to afflict him into righteousness!",
        "如果我说错了，希望这篇评论能让他认识到真理的价值！ ”"
    ],
    [
        "Decisions about business investment are even starker.",
        "有关商业投资的决定更为艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "They will have to get used to the idea that the market already expects the decline, and that they can protect themselves only for that margin of possible future price declines that exceed this expectation.",
        "他们将不得不顺应这一观点，即市场已经预计到下跌，他们只有在可能的期货价格下跌超过预期的幅度内保护自己。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the 2016 Global Nutrition Report, donor funds for nutrition-focused interventions are stagnating at $1 billion.",
        "据《2016年全球营养报告》，着重于营养干预的捐助资金一直停留在10亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, if Barroso fears costs of 20% of GDP in the year 2100, the 0.5% payment every year of this century will do virtually nothing to change that cost.",
        "换一句话来说，如果巴罗索担心在2010年的时候损失20%的GDP，那么，本世纪每年0. 5%的花费根本无济于事。"
    ],
    [
        "But with long-term interest rates now close to zero, bond purchases would not be able to lower them any further.",
        "目前，长期利率已经接近于零，购买债券无法进一步降低它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the Stability Pact Be Reformed?",
        "能改革《稳定协议》吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Today, we are paying the price for not attending to Europe's shared values and common mission. Until Europeans know precisely what Europe stands for, what inspires and motivates us, the Union will not be able to take joint action in the world.",
        "今天，我们正在为忽略欧洲共有的价值观和共同的使命而付出代价。 直到欧洲人准确地了解了欧洲所代表的含义及启迪和激励我们的动力，欧盟才能在世界上采取协调一致的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet more than 22 million children lack access to the basic vaccines that people in high-income countries take for granted.",
        "但超过2200万的孩子缺少获得基本疫苗的手段，而基本疫苗在高收入国家已是理所当然的福利。"
    ],
    [
        "The vultures showed no scruples in profiting at the expense of Argentine taxpayers.",
        "兀鹫投资者对于牺牲阿根廷纳税人为自己谋取利润的做法毫无愧色。"
    ],
    [
        "Further investments in research and education are likely to pay high dividends.",
        "进一步提高研究和教育投资或能产生极高的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "The growing inter-bank money supply fuels demand for government debt, in a never-ending cycle that generates tides of liquidity over which central banks have little control.",
        "银行间货币供给的增加助长了政府债务需求，这个永无止境的循环产生了央行很难控制的流动性潮汐。"
    ],
    [
        "To be fair, the IMF’s leadership is making a determined effort to give dynamic emerging economies, particularly in Asia, a bigger say in Fund governance.",
        "公平而言，国际货币基金组织的领导层正在做出坚定的努力来给充满活力的新兴经济体，特别是亚洲在该组织管理中更大的发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "And, yes, tax incentives are not the only – and perhaps not even the most important – reason why financial institutions use a lot of debt and minimize equity.",
        "是的，税收激励并不是金融机构使用大量债务而最小化股本的唯一理由——甚至也不是最重要的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "On April 29, 1865, this radical proposal scraped through the Massachusetts General Court (the state’s bi-cameral legislature), owing to intense lobbying and the goodwill generated by Harvard alumni’s distinguished service for the Union during the Civil War.",
        "1865年4月29日，这一激进方案勉强获得了马萨诸塞州法院（Massachusetts General Court，该州两大立法机构之一）的批准，其中不懈的游说活动以及哈佛校友在内战中为南方邦联做出的杰出贡献所赢得的声望居功至伟。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason why automation is so frightening today is that the future was more unknowable in the past: we lacked the data for alarmist forecasts.",
        "今天的自动化之所以如此可怕，一个原因是未来在过去更为不可知：我们缺乏数据做出预警。"
    ],
    [
        "While the NPT is not entirely responsible for the absence of dozens of nuclear-armed states that many people once feared would emerge, it generated a standard of behavior that continues to guide most countries.",
        "虽然《不扩散核武器条约》对没有出现许多人担心的要出现许多拥有核武器的国家的情况起到全部的作用，但是，它产生了一个持续指导大多数国家的行为准则。"
    ],
    [
        "Start with the diplomats.",
        "从外交开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Emotions and expectations ran high when the new democracies from the former East Bloc joined the EU only five years ago.",
        "仅仅在五年前，当来自前社会主义阵营的新兴民主国家加入欧盟时，人们对此还怀有很强烈的感情，并抱有很大的期望。"
    ],
    [
        "They were not.",
        "埃及的农村人民很像俄罗斯的农村人民。"
    ],
    [
        "Freelancer.com and Upwork are examples of platforms that help companies find and hire contingent workers for a range of specialized tasks such as software or website development.",
        "Freelancer. com和Upwork是帮助企业寻找聘用一系列专项任务临时工的平台，比方说软件或网站开发。"
    ],
    [
        "What can countries do to ensure that natural resources are a blessing rather than a curse?",
        "有关国家怎么做才能确保自然资源发挥好的作用而不是把自己毁掉呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that a promising new technology is ready for field-testing.",
        "好消息是，一项极有希望的新技术已经进入了实地测试。"
    ],
    [
        "So did a clever electoral campaign, which focused on incentives and hope (while also exaggerating the repercussions of an Islamist takeover).",
        "聪明的选举宣传也起了作用——以激励和希望为核心（当然也对伊斯兰主义掌权的后果进行了夸张）。"
    ],
    [
        "Arab youth have rescued the Arab world from this fate.",
        "阿拉伯年轻人挽救了阿拉伯地区的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "Launching losing wars may make Islamists feel good, but being defeated is a costly proposition, for their arrogance and belligerence antagonizes many who might otherwise be won over to their cause.",
        "进行会输掉的战争可能会让伊斯兰主义者感觉良好，但是，被打败是一个代价沉重的命题，因为他们的傲慢和好斗，使原本可以争取过来支持其事业的人对他们产生了反感。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Greece’s public debt amounts to about 175% of GDP, low interest rates – which are fixed for a large proportion of it – and long maturities mean that it may be more manageable than it seems.",
        "尽管希腊公共债务高达GDP的175%左右，但低利率——大部分债务的利率都是固定的——和长期限意味着希腊债务比看上去更容易管理。"
    ],
    [
        "The Paris agreement established a revolutionary new framework for such commitments: the “Nationally Determined Contributions”.",
        "巴黎协定为这些承诺制定了革命性新框架：“国家自定贡献”（Nationally Determined Contributions，NDC）。"
    ],
    [
        "He was a practicing Catholic.",
        "他是一个身体力行的天主教徒。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the idea that any of these resolutions will actually be made is fanciful.",
        "或许这些决心中的所有内容在现实中都无异于童话。"
    ],
    [
        "Serious re-engagement will be politically hard for me to deliver.",
        "对我来说，真正的重新融合在政治上十分艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – We have entered the age of migration.",
        "伦敦——我们已经进入到移民时代。"
    ],
    [
        "The migration crisis could lead to the end of the Schengen Agreement, and (together with other domestic troubles) to the end of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government.",
        "移民危机可能导致申根协议解体，并（与其他国内麻烦一道）让德国总理默克尔政府下台。"
    ],
    [
        "A new ICU, or NICU, would be as Keynes had envisaged it.",
        "一个新的ICU，或NICU，将与凯恩斯所设想的相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally dramatic would be any attempt by the Kurds to forcibly change the demographic balance of the multiethnic city of Kirkuk.",
        "此外，库尔德人采取任何措施，强行改变多种族城市基尔库克的人口构成，其可能性也将同样微乎其微。"
    ],
    [
        "Particles get from A to B without passing through the intervening space, where they have insufficient energy to exist; they briefly “borrow” the energy, because we are “uncertain” about what their energy is.",
        "从A点向B点运动的粒子不需要穿过中间的空间，在这个空间中粒子并没有足够的能量来维持其存在； 它们只是暂时“借用”能量，因为我们“不确定”究竟它们的能量来自何处。"
    ],
    [
        "Either he can focus on regaining Latin America for the Catholic Church, or he can place longer-term bets on Sub-Saharan Africa, where both the population and Catholicism are now growing faster than anywhere else in the world.",
        "他要么专注于让天主教在拉丁美洲重振雄风，要么放长眼光，下注于撒哈拉以南非洲地区，该地区的人口增长率高于世界其他地区，也是天主教徒增长最快的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Even after Trump’s election – and despite debunking by the New York Times and the Washington Post – the story continued to spread.",
        "即使在特朗普胜选后——虽然谎言被《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》所拆穿——这则故事仍然继续传播。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever challenges China faces, its steady march to the forefront of the global economy is set to continue.",
        "不管中国面临什么挑战，其稳步迈向全球经济最前沿的征程必将继续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "And precision agriculture – using geographic information systems and data to guide planting, watering, and other activities – can help 90 million farmers increase their output and reduce post-harvest losses, with access to timely market data bolstering their incomes.",
        "而精细农业——使用地理信息系统和数据指导种植、灌溉和其他活动——能让9,000万农民增加产量、降低耕种-收获损失，并及时获得市场数据以增加收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, I believe, should clearly say – and the international community should clearly say to Russia – that it has defined borders that will not be questioned, because disputed borders lie at the core of most conflicts and wars.",
        "我相信，俄罗斯应该明白无误地声明、而且国际社会应该明白无误地对俄罗斯声明，俄罗斯的边界是确定的、不会受到怀疑，因为边界争议时大多数冲突和战争的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "Successful outcomes are obviously the ultimate objective.",
        "虽然成功的成果输出显然是最终的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Though much of that reinvestment has traditionally been channeled toward housing, a growing number of investors and banks – including the Bay Area Equity Fund, Village Capital, and the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund – are investing CRA funds in entrepreneurs.",
        "尽管传统上再投资中有很大一部分流入了住房领域，但越来越多的投资者和银行——包括Bay Area Equity Fund、Village Capital和Roberts Enterprise Development Fund——正在将CRA资金投向企业家。"
    ],
    [
        "When numerous committees meet in parallel, the countries with the largest teams of experts dominate proceedings, effectively locking most countries out of key decisions and impeding meaningful dialogue.",
        "在各种委员会互相交错时，拥有最庞大专家团的国家就主宰了决策过程，在事实上将大部分国家排除在重大决策之外，也阻挠了有意义的对话。"
    ],
    [
        "“War” would have meant acceptance of the terrorists as legitimate enemies, in a sense as equals in a bloody contest for which there are accepted rules of engagement.",
        "“战争”将会意味着把恐怖分子接受为合法的敌人，其含义与具有认同的交战规则的一场血腥战争的对等体相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, a proposal last year at the International Atomic Energy Agency aimed at launching an effective international control system on safety and security of nuclear power worldwide blatantly failed with the acquiescence of the European Union.",
        "不幸的是，去年国际原子能结构提出的旨在在世界范围内建立一个保证核能安全的国际监管系统的议案由于欧盟的态度而遭到重创。"
    ],
    [
        "Some Sri Lankans say the best place for the Tiger leaders is jail.",
        "有些斯里兰卡人说，猛虎解放组织领导人的最好去处是监狱。"
    ],
    [
        "Hope is fast evaporating.",
        "希望正在快速消失。"
    ],
    [
        "We Europeans need to respond favorably, quickly, and effectively. Defense missions must be more adaptable, prompt, multinational, and multi-instrumental.",
        "防卫任务必须具有更强的适应能力，更快的反应速度，更多的国家间合作，而使用的手段也必须更加丰富立体。"
    ],
    [
        "The bad news is that their anchor may remain both tentative and insufficient to restore the level of growth and financial stability to which billions of people aspire.",
        "坏的一面是它们的表现可能只是试探性的，并不足以恢复数十亿人们所向往的增长水平和金融稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "The first “Holy Alliance” was a creation of Austria’s Prince Metternich following the Napoleonic wars.",
        "史上第一个“神圣联盟”是奥地利王子梅特涅在拿破仑战争之后建立的。"
    ],
    [
        "After failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), congressional Republicans rammed through a complicated tax package that will please their wealthy donors, but disappoint many of their voters.",
        "在废除《平价医疗法案》的企图遭遇失败后，国会共和党人转而强行通过一个复杂的税收方案来取悦自己那些金主们，同时却让很多选民大失所望。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who have attained power through violence and fraud are not legitimate and should never more shame the UN by being members of this Commission.",
        "那些通过武力和欺骗获得权利的政权是非法的，并且不应当再在这个委员会中呆下去以羞辱联合国了。"
    ],
    [
        "The related emphasis on productivity, innovation, pruning excess capacity, and moving up the value chain in manufacturing and services are underscored as key building blocks of this effort.",
        "对提高生产率，创新，削减过剩产能以及向制造业和服务价值链上游迈进的相关强调也是这一努力的重要组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, the world’s leaders – and the voters who elect them – will come to recognize this.",
        "最后，世界领导人——以及选择他们的选民——终究会认识到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Local-currency bond markets could help to develop domestic investor bases and mobilize domestic savings to support long-term investments.",
        "本币债券市场有助于发展国内投资者基础病动员国内储蓄支持长期投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Other indispensable elements of any effective strategy include expanded help for or pressure on Turkey to do much more to stem the flow of recruits to the Islamic State.",
        "有效战略的其他不可或缺要素包括给予土耳其更大的帮助或压力，令其花更大的力气阻止应募者流入伊斯兰国。"
    ],
    [
        "Judging by Putin’s most recent address to parliament, his regime is fully aware of the danger posed by populist nationalists.",
        "从普京最近一次对国会发表的演讲判断，普京政府现在十分担忧平民主义民族分子引起的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Although no one has yet caught up to Al Jazeera’s news and current affairs popularity, the Saudi-owned Middle East Broadcasting Center has introduced a successful 24-hour station, Al Arrabiyeh, which is challenging Al Jazeera’s lead.",
        "尽管还没有人能够比得上半岛电视台的新闻和时事节目的欢迎程度，但是沙特拥有的中东广播中心已经成功引进了全天24小时电视台，挑战半岛电视台的领先地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Industrialization spread even further – to Japan after the Meiji Restoration and deep into Russia, which was booming at the outset of World War I. The Third Industrial Revolution arrived at the end of the last century with the manufacture and diffusion of information technology.",
        "工业化更进一步扩展 — — 在明治维新后传入日本并深入俄罗斯，在一次世界大战爆发时蓬勃发展。 上世纪末的第三次工业革命则是以通讯技术的制造和传播为特征。"
    ],
    [
        "From Iran’s perspective, accepting an American hand extended in a spirit of conciliation could turn it into a fist.",
        "从伊朗的角度看，美国以调停为目的伸出的手可能演变为重拳出击。"
    ],
    [
        "The prime example of disaggregation is the Nord Stream pipeline, which appeals to Germany while angering Poland and the Baltic countries.",
        "分化瓦解的最好例子就是Nord Stream天然气管道的问题，它使德国感到满意，而使波兰和波罗的海国家感到愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "In chess magazines, one often sees comments from top players such as “My silicon friend says I should have moved my King instead of my Queen, but I still think I played the best ‘human’ move.”",
        "与此同时，计算机程序开始挖掘象棋冠军（象棋界最高头衔）比赛中的数据库，使用人类比赛结果来推测哪些象棋步法取胜的可能性最大。 很快，比较明确的事实是：即便是人类最好的象棋手也鲜有机会比偶尔的和局做得好。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the International Monetary Fund can be expected to rise in prominence, as major emerging economies – most likely Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil – end up as its wards.",
        "只有国际货币基金组织（IMF）有望提升地位，因为主要新兴经济体——最有可能的是委内瑞拉、阿根廷和巴西——终将向其求助。"
    ],
    [
        "But the peculiar way in which SDRs were adopted limited their usefulness.",
        "但SDR的特殊实施方式限制了它的用途。"
    ],
    [
        "In the heat of the referendum campaign, Michael Gove, then the justice secretary and a leading member of the “Leave” camp, said, “I think the people of this country have had enough of experts from all kinds of organizations with acronyms, who have consistently got it wrong.”",
        "在公投运动热火朝天的时候，“脱欧”阵营领军人物，司法部长迈克尔·戈夫（Michael Gove）声称：“我认为这个国家的人民已经受够了那些来自于某些首字母缩写词组织的，从来不曾做出过正确判断的专家了。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the US Food and Drug Administration has ruled that such constructs do not need to be labeled as genetically modified organisms.",
        "因此，美国食品和药品监督局判定这类构造无需标注为转基因生物体。"
    ],
    [
        "Although it is far from clear how easily the IMF could hold the line against hard-bargaining creditors, the new policy, if adopted, would toughen the Fund’s approach to cases where it finds itself repeatedly throwing good money after bad.",
        "对于在谈判中态度强硬的债权人，国际货币基金组织是否可以自如地坚持原则还远未可知，但这一新政策如果被采用，将会收紧国际货币基金组织对一再事倍功半的国家的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "These people are not voiceless; we just pay no attention to what they say.",
        "但这些人可不是哑巴，只是我们不去关注而已。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially true of characteristics that are relevant to default risk, such as whether the borrower was an owner or an investor, or whether there was a second lien on the property.",
        "与违约风险相关的数据特征更是如此，比如借款人是业主还是投资者，或者该财产是否有二次质押。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, each day’s closing exchange rate will influence the following day’s rate, implying adjustment toward market levels.",
        "如今，每天的收盘汇率将影响第二天的汇率，即向市场水平的调整。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest signs are Chinese President Xi Jinping’s purge of General Xu Caihou, an ex-Politburo member and former vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, on charges of corruption, and Japan’s “reinterpretation” of Article 9 of its constitution to permit the country to provide military aid to its allies.",
        "最新信号包括中国国家主席习近平以腐败罪名清洗前政治局委员、中央军委副主席徐才厚上将，以及日本“重新解释”其宪法第九条，允许日本为盟国提供军事援助。"
    ],
    [
        "The federal government is not alone.",
        "联邦政府在这方面不是孤家寡人。"
    ],
    [
        "US Secretary of State John Kerry recently described climate change as “perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction,” warning of “a tipping-point of no return.”",
        "美国国务卿克里最近称气候变化“也许是世界上最可怕的大规模杀伤性武器”，并警告存在“无法回头的引爆点”。"
    ],
    [
        "The 50th anniversary of China’s Cultural Revolution is a reminder of what can happen when all orthodoxy is tossed out the window.",
        "中国文化大革命50周年提醒我们当正统被一股脑儿打到时会发生什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Kerry’s peace drive is taking place in a regional environment that is not amenable to a negotiated resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.",
        "此外，科里推动和平的努力所处的地区环境并非以巴冲突的谈判解决方案所能稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Russia’s economic growth is likely to fall sharply and suddenly.",
        "其结果是俄罗斯的经济增长率也会突然猛降。"
    ],
    [
        "Some places have been even more foolish than simply ignoring the risks.",
        "一些地方更加愚蠢，不仅仅只是忽视风险。"
    ],
    [
        "From Turkey’s perspective, the nuclear deal, if successfully implemented and made permanent after six months, is set to eliminate a major security concern.",
        "在土耳其看来，这一核协议如能成功实施并在六个月后永久化，将能打消一个巨大的安全顾虑。"
    ],
    [
        "A thriving global marketplace goes a long way toward leveling the playing field across all resource options.",
        "繁荣的全球市场十分有利于所有资源的平等竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "As experience in the telecommunications sector shows, the ability to adopt new technologies without first having to dismantle old systems can enable rapid progress.",
        "通讯业的经验表明，在不必破坏旧体系的情况下采取新技术的能力可以带来快速进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The gravest threat comes from the wave of austerity sweeping the world, as governments, particularly in Europe, confront the large deficits brought on by the Great Recession, and as anxieties about some countries’ ability to meet their debt payments contributes to financial-market instability.",
        "最严重的威胁来自于席卷全球的紧缩浪潮，这是因为以欧洲国家为首的各国政府都面对着大萧条所带来的巨额赤字，而对某些国家还债能力的忧虑则导致了金融市场的不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "To strip him of his post negates a basic pillar of democracy and sets a dangerous precedent.",
        "把他轰下台无异于毁掉了民主的一大支柱，也树立了危险的先例。"
    ],
    [
        "The same survey showed Hamas with more public support than the nationalist Fatah in the Gaza Strip.",
        "同样的调查显示，较之加沙地带的法塔赫民族运动，哈马斯得到了更多的公众支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Dealers and mechanics will install the batteries, comprising a new corps of workers devoted (indirectly) to cleaning up the environment and adding value to the installed base of cars.",
        "经销商和技师将会负责安装电动车的电池，包括了后期新的工人清洁环境和改装车的后期维护工作。"
    ],
    [
        "And the many kinds of small RNA molecules are increasingly recognized as forming a regulatory layer above the genome.",
        "许多种类的小RNA分子被逐渐认为能够充当高于基因组的决定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Adam Smith’s 1776 treatise The Wealth of Nations masterfully demolished many of these ideas.",
        "亚当·斯密（Adam Smith）1776年的著作《国富论》高明地推翻了许多这类思想。"
    ],
    [
        "In a stable world of confident markets, small countries can rest easy with their own monetary regimes.",
        "当世界太平无事，市场信心满满，小国完全可以保留自家货币体制。"
    ],
    [
        "The student demonstrators in the streets of Paris recently don’t want to become like Chinese and Indians; they reject the logic of globalization and refuse to surrender hard-won social guarantees.",
        "最近走上街头的示威学生们并不想成为中国和印度。 他们反对全球化的理念，拒绝放弃得来不易的社会保障。"
    ],
    [
        "The tax legislation that Republicans have rushed through Congress could prove especially dangerous, given that millions of middle-class and low-income households will not only get little out of it, but will actually pay more when income-tax cuts are phased out over time.",
        "共和党人拼命催促国会通过的税收立法可能会尤为凶险，因为数以百万计的中产阶级和低收入家庭不但没有得到什么好处，反而会因所得税减免政策的逐步取消而掏出更多的钱来。"
    ],
    [
        "Deng was rehabilitated the following year, and in the late 1970’s, after Mao’s death, Deng’s pragmatists seized control of the regime.",
        "邓也于次年平反。 70年代后期毛逝世之后，邓的实用主义者掌权。"
    ],
    [
        "When Inequality Kills",
        "吃人的不平等"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey should reflect on its position.",
        "土耳其应该深思其处境。"
    ],
    [
        "It is understandable that politicians should talk up their own vision of the future and talk down what others have to say.",
        "我们可以理解政治家渲染自己的未来目标，而对别人的目标进行淡化处理。"
    ],
    [
        "If they did not, they would be excluded from the product-aggregation sites that have come to determine so many buying decisions.",
        "若非如此，它们就无法进入能够决定大量购买决策的产品汇总网站。"
    ],
    [
        "McConnell's strategy is typically farsighted.",
        "麦康奈尔的战略属于典型的远见卓识。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, we simply shouldn’t read too much into the decline in real long-term interest rates over the last 20 years.",
        "简而言之，我们不应该过分纠缠于过去20年以来的实际长期利率的降低。"
    ],
    [
        "For all of these reasons, India and China are experiencing serious water crises that are likely to intensify in the future.",
        "因为上述原因，印度和中国正面临严重的水资源危机，而且今后还可能不断恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the fact that investment banks, which were propelled into riskier activities by these policy changes, were entirely outside the regulatory net was a recipe for disaster.",
        "但是各方面情况并不相同，特别是，被这些政策变化驱使从事风险更高的活动的投资银行，完全游离在监管网络之外的事实，是引 起灾难的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s time we used it.",
        "是时候使用第十修正案了。"
    ],
    [
        "From East to West, politics seems to be operating in a manner that is, to be diplomatic, sub-optimal.",
        "从东方到西方，政治似乎都在以某种妥协的次优方式在运作。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the Fed’s exit from zero policy rates will cause serious problems for those emerging market economies that have large internal and external borrowing needs, large stocks of dollar-denominated debt, and macroeconomic and policy fragilities.",
        "简言之，美联储退出零政策利率将给存在巨量内部和外部借贷需求、巨量美元计价债务存量以及宏观和政策脆弱性的新兴市场经济体造成严重问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, China is no ordinary autocracy.",
        "当然，中国不是普通的专制。"
    ],
    [
        "In September, when world leaders gather in New York, they need to focus on the smartest ways to boost global prosperity.",
        "9月，当世界领导人齐聚纽约，他们要对推动全球繁荣的明智方式进行重点探讨。"
    ],
    [
        "China on the Move",
        "中国在行动"
    ],
    [
        "This was the pattern of the long-term unemployed in the Great Depression.",
        "这就是大萧条时期长期失业的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Finance Minister Yair Lapid, a moderate, is removed from the peace process (and has himself sent mixed signals about a two-state solution).",
        "作为温和派的财政部长拉皮德（Yair Lapid）则被清除出了和平进程（他本人对两国方案的态度含混不清）。"
    ],
    [
        "So the entire fiscal system is a crucial item on China’s reform agenda, especially management of public capital.",
        "因此整体财政系统是中国改革日程的关键项，特别是公共资本管理。"
    ],
    [
        "Libertarian paternalists offer a novel answer to these questions.",
        "自由家长主义者为这些问题提供了一个新颖的回答。"
    ],
    [
        "Jacques Delors, one of its architects, once called the single currency “the jewel in Europe’s crown.”",
        "欧元的缔造者之一，欧盟委员会前主席雅克·德洛尔（Jacques Delors）曾把单一货币誉为“欧洲王冠上的宝石”。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand the need for such a narrative, one need look no further than the debate in the UK over its EU membership, which is focused almost exclusively on practical considerations and cost/benefit analyses.",
        "要理解这一叙事的必要性，只需要看看英国关于其欧盟成员资格的争论即可。 这场争论的焦点几乎完全集中在现实的考虑和成本/收益分析上。"
    ],
    [
        "Islamist parties are changing.",
        "那就是：伊斯兰党派正在改变中。"
    ],
    [
        "This outcome is all the more tragic, given that the economic analysis underlying Syriza’s demand for an easing of austerity was broadly right.",
        "考虑到齐普拉斯要求放松紧缩的经济分析大体是正确的，这一结果更加增添了几分悲剧色彩。"
    ],
    [
        "There are at least three reasons why the IMF should resist this pressure, and abstain from increasing its (already extremely high) exposure to Europe.",
        "IMF至少有三大理由抵制这一要求，并拒绝增加其（已然极高的）对欧洲的风险暴露。"
    ],
    [
        "Other pharmaceuticals are following in chloroquine’s wake.",
        "其他药品正在步氯喹的后尘。"
    ],
    [
        "Hwang and his colleagues are hardly alone.",
        "黄及其同事绝非仅有。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, I believe that it is here that the seminal reason for their plunging poll ratings lies.",
        "事实上，我认为这就是导致他们支持率下滑的重大原因。"
    ],
    [
        "But others were consistent with their lifetime commitments.",
        "但其他改革与他们一生的承诺一致。"
    ],
    [
        "China might be willing to make a unilateral, but enforceable, commitment not to augment its nuclear arsenal, if Russia and the US reduce theirs further.",
        "中国也许愿意在俄美两国进一步削减核武库的同时，单方面强制承诺不增加核武库。"
    ],
    [
        "New approaches such as that taken by the Fresno Bridge Academy come at a time when both the left and the right are questioning current anti-poverty programs.",
        "弗雷斯诺桥学院所采取的新方针出现得正是时候——左派和右派都在质疑当前扶贫计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The other common denominator of this group is wealth.",
        "这一群体的另一个“公分母”是财富。"
    ],
    [
        "30 new nuclear plants; 17,000 windmills; 400 biomass power plants;Two hydroelectric facilities the size of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam; and42 coal and gas power plants with yet-to-be-developed carbon-capture technology.Now consider this: this list does not describe what we would have to build between now and 2050, but what we would have to build each and every year until then!",
        "兴建30座核电站竖立17000台风力发电机新建400座生物能电站建造2座规模类似中国三峡大坝的水电站为42座火力发电站安装碳捕捉装置（这些装置目前尚未研究出来）现在再考虑一下：上面所列的可不是我们需要在未来40年间总共所需的装置，而是这40年间每年都需要建设的装置数量！"
    ],
    [
        "These countries are not only dependent on oil exports; they also rely heavily on imports.",
        "这些国家不但依赖石油出口； 它们也严重依赖进口。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because it would be cheaper and easier than carbon cuts, there would be a much greater chance of reaching a genuine, broad-based – and thus successful – international agreement.",
        "并且由于它价格更低，比削减碳排放更加简单可行，这对于达成一个真心诚意而且得到广泛支持——并因此成功实现——的国际条约来说也是一个更好的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Greek export prices have not come down nearly as much as wages.",
        "结果，希腊出口价格的降幅不如工资。"
    ],
    [
        "And China is its only real – albeit increasingly wary – ally.",
        "而中国是其唯一真正的盟友，尽管现在也越来越谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "If it does, its annual GDP could be an estimated $5 trillion larger by 2030 than it is likely to be if policymakers continue to pursue investment-led growth.",
        "如能实现这一点，到2030年中国的GDP总量估计要比政策制定者们单纯追求投资拉动型增长的方式多产出近5万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel was born in war and has lived by the sword ever since.",
        "以色列诞生于战火中，并且在后来的岁月中一直伴随着刀光剑影。"
    ],
    [
        "As the warm welcome given to Hillary Clinton on her recent swing through Asia – even in communist Vietnam – appears to show, Southeast Asians are more than happy to hang on to Pax Americana for a bit longer, out of fear of China.",
        "正如希拉里新近在亚洲（甚至在越南）巡回访问所受到的热烈欢迎所显示，出于对中国崛起的恐惧，东南亚乐于在美国治下的和平待久一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The regime’s contempt for the constitution and the rule of law is now undeniable, and that clarity is empowering.",
        "该政权对宪法和法治的蔑视如今已经无法掩盖，而且越发明显。"
    ],
    [
        "A growth-friendly approach to the burdens of aging populations is required, including steps to raise the retirement age and encourage life-long training.",
        "解决人口老龄化的负担需要一种“增长友好”的方式，包括在提高退休年龄和鼓励终身培训方面的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this demonization is nothing like what we saw during the days of the USSR.",
        "当然，这种妖魔化跟我们过去在苏联的时代所看到的完全不是一回事。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain’s busted banks threatened to drag down the Spanish state, as Ireland’s had done to the Irish state 18 months earlier, while panic tore through the eurozone.",
        "当时西班牙银行危机的爆发差点拖垮西班牙政府，眼看18个月前的爱尔兰危机即将再次上演，欧元区一片恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "When they were high, they drove increased trade – to the point that the share of trade to GDP rose – fueling hype about the inevitable progress of globalization.",
        "当大宗商品价格高企时，就会推动贸易增加——贸易占GDP之比上升——全球化呈现出不可阻挡的燎原之势。"
    ],
    [
        "This imperative is made all the more urgent by China’s decision to expand its defense budget by more than 12%, to $132 billion, in the next fiscal year, as well as its recently concluded 30-year energy deal with Russia, which has strategic implications for India.",
        "而中国决定在下一个财年将国防预算增加12%以上，达到1,320亿美元，最近又宣布与俄罗斯签订了30年能源贸易协议，这些都对印度具有战略影响，也让新政府的使命更加紧迫了。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Americans agree.",
        "许多美国人都同意这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "A second factor is the false comfort we derive from seeing the parts of a system.",
        "第二个因素是我们从观察到系统的某些部分而得意。"
    ],
    [
        "Boehner’s resignation, though viewed by some as clearing the way for a short-term deal to fund the government, merely underscores the limited ability of any “responsible” Republican leader to control the party’s increasingly fundamentalist caucus.",
        "博纳的辞职虽然被某些人视为为达成政府短期结算协议扫清了障碍，但实际只是凸显了任何“负责任”的共和党领导人只能有限度地控制党内越来越强的原教旨主义倾向。"
    ],
    [
        "Ideological aversion to public-sector investment, together with the endemic short-term thinking of those who write budgets, has kept spending on roads, airports, railways, telecommunication networks, and power generation at levels far below what is needed.",
        "在思想上厌恶公共部门投资，加上预算制定者长期以来的短视思维，导致公路、机场、铁路、通讯网络和发电方面的投资远低于需要的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the US, as the world’s largest economy, is best suited for this role, it has so far failed to play its part.",
        "然而，尽管美国作为世界最大的经济体，是这一角色的最佳人选，但它却未能肩负起这一责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran should likewise be informed that the US and its allies would undertake a preventive military strike if it appeared to be attempting to present the world with a fait accompli.",
        "类似地，还应该让伊朗知道，如果它表现出试图炮制既成事实，美国及其盟友将对其采取先发制人的军事打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the struggle for sustainability, especially in Africa, is becoming a new battleground, featuring deployments by the BRICS, the G-20, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Mercosur, and other international groupings and local vested interests.",
        "事实上，可持续性斗争（特别是在非洲）正在成为新的战场，决定着金砖国家、二十国集团、亚太经济合作组织（APEC）、南方共同市场和其他国际集团和地方既得利益的布局。"
    ],
    [
        "Relatively young small countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East can also benefit by examining the secrets of Singapore’s success, the causes and effects of Ireland’s property bubble, and Denmark’s decision to build strong counter-terrorism capabilities, despite its relative safety.",
        "相对年轻的非洲、加拉比和中东国家也可以从考察新加坡成功的秘密、爱尔兰房地产泡沫的成因和影响、以及相对安全的丹麦也决定构建强大的反恐力量等活动中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia’s recovery began with Japan, then moved to South Korea and on to Southeast Asia, beginning with Singapore and Malaysia.",
        "亚洲的复苏发端于日本，随后延伸到韩国再到以新加坡和马来西亚为首的东南亚地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Little of the extensive coverage of her death has focused on what Britain was like in those years.",
        "在她逝世后的铺天盖地的报道中，鲜有人将注意力放在那些年英国的状况上。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the next decade, for example, China will replace much of its labor-intensive assembly employment with higher-value-added employment in manufacturing and services, not only in the tradable sector, but also – even more noticeably – in the rapidly growing non-tradable part of its economy.",
        "比如，在未来十年，中国将以高增加值制造业和服务业岗位取代大量劳动密集型装配岗位，不但在可贸易部门是如此，在快速增长的不可贸易部门同样如此（甚至有过之而无不及）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Paris deal is also good news.",
        "巴黎协议也是一个好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "But not everyone is optimistic about China’s trajectory.",
        "但并非所有人都对中国的前景感到乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course not: the drop in business confidence had nothing to do with O’Neill and everything to do with fears about global security.",
        "当然不会：商业信心的下降与奥尼尔毫无关系，完全是因为对全球安全的恐慌造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "But even in many countries in those regions, Chinese practices like importing labor for infrastructure projects are unpopular.",
        "但即使在这些地区的许多国家，中国的行为——如进口劳动力从事基础设施工程——也不受欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "But, so far, the number of clinics that have set up shop in Cambodia is small.",
        "但迄今为止，在柬埔寨开展业务的诊所数量依然很少。"
    ],
    [
        "China alone accounts for 20% of the world’s population, nearly 11% of global GDP, but only 3% of global consumption.",
        "中国一国就拥有20%的世界人口和11%的世界GDP，但其消费额只占全球的3%。"
    ],
    [
        "Calling the Big Banks’ Bluff",
        "反击大银行的恐吓"
    ],
    [
        "The US will never place a large land army on the Asian mainland again.",
        "美国永远也不可能在亚洲大陆进行大规模登陆作战。"
    ],
    [
        "The Socialists can govern without limits, so it is up to them to govern well.",
        "社会党人可以无限制的进行统治，所以应该由他们来进行统治。"
    ],
    [
        "Arguably, it was the only strategy that could work.",
        "毕竟，埃尔多安政权对媒体的攻击已经疏远了自由主义者；"
    ],
    [
        "These deaths are not only human tragedies, but also calamities for economic development, systematically reducing economic growth and helping to keep the poorest countries trapped in poverty.",
        "这不仅仅是人类的悲剧，而且也是经济发展的灾难，因为这在体制上降低经济增长并且使得最贫苦国家无法摆脱贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "That conflict was forgotten for two decades after the end of the Cold War, because Russia’s internal travails and Germany’s desire to demonstrate its post-unification harmlessness kept both powers from flexing their muscles.",
        "冷战结束后，这一冲突被忘记了二十年，因为俄罗斯出现了内部问题，而德国渴望证明它重新统一后不会构成威胁，这让两大列强有所收敛。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, on average, banks have sold very little.",
        "因此，平均而言，银行售出很少、"
    ],
    [
        "This applies to the episodes of democratization in Latin America and the Philippines in the mid-1980’s, but also to Turkey in the early 1980’s and Nepal in 1990.",
        "这样的例子有拉丁美洲和菲律宾在1980年代中期的民主化，还有1980年代早期的土耳其和1990年代的尼泊尔。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1970’s, Britain was where the preeminent postwar model of how to manage the economy collapsed.",
        "20世纪70年代，英国模式成为管理战后经济崩溃的典范。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – In a few weeks, France will elect its next president.",
        "巴黎——接下来的几周，法国将会选出下一任总统。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, most new political challengers appear unprepared for the top job until they are in power.",
        "毕竟，大部分新政治挑战者在赢得权力之前都没有做好问鼎最高宝座的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the required medical responses, including diagnostic tools and effective medications and vaccines, inevitably lag behind the emerging diseases.",
        "最后，必要的卫生响应，包括诊断工具和特效医药和疫苗，难免会落后于新瘟疫的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Civil war along sectarian lines could well predominate, or fighting between the various anti-Assad opposition groups could erupt.",
        "教派内战可能成为主旋律，不同的反阿萨德团体之间也可能爆发战争。"
    ],
    [
        "As for private-sector actors, the key will be to reward employees with degrees and certifications received through online programs.",
        "而就私营主体而言，关键在于对通过在线计划取得学位和证书的员工进行奖励。"
    ],
    [
        "It is impossible to speak of overall progress when children have an even chance of being worse off than their parents.",
        "如果孩子有一半的几率过得还不如父母，谈论整体进步根本就不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Council meetings should be open when legislative matters are at stake, so that citizens can know who voted for what and according to which criteria.",
        "最后，当立法无法奏效的时候，就应该召开欧盟理事会会议，这样公民们就能知道谁该根据哪种标准为什么投票。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Climate Commitment",
        "中国的气候承诺"
    ],
    [
        "The diplomatic negotiation that preceded the meeting was exquisitely complex, even covering who should pay for dinner (they split the bill).",
        "会面前的外交谈判复杂又细致，甚至涵盖了应该由谁来为晚宴买单的内容（最后决定各付各的）。"
    ],
    [
        "Sensing the bitter frustration of Moscow’s middle class-in-waiting, Yeltsin quickly gained a reputation as a harsh, if not always coherent, critic of the party’s old guard.",
        "叶利钦感受到了莫斯科那些有望成为中产阶级的人的痛苦绝望，并迅速奠定了苏共老卫士强烈批判者的声誉，虽然立场并不总是那么一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Average annual output per capita is about $900, and incomes among the peasants who make up most of its rural population of 26 million are less than $250.",
        "人均年产值是大约900美元，构成其人口大多数的2千6百万农民的收入少于250美元。"
    ],
    [
        "That was, after all, the kind of deal many leaders of the “Leave” campaign promised before the June referendum.",
        "归根结底，这就那些“脱欧”运动领导人在6月公投前承诺要实现的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "What these fighters for justice and freedom take from this 3,500-word document is the brief statements of general principles in response to John’s arbitrary seizure of his subjects’ property and person.",
        "这些正义和自由斗士从这份3,500字的文件中获得的是应对约翰专断臣民物权和人权的关于普通原则的简短陈述。"
    ],
    [
        "Extremists on both sides end up putting at risk the vast majority of humans who are neither extremists nor anti-science fundamentalists.",
        "双方都会把既不属于极端主义者也不属于反科学的原教旨主义者的大众推向危险的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "We are programmed by our genes to feel concern for babies and empathy for people in pain.",
        "我们被我们的基因设定为能感知婴儿的问题和同情人们的痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "But followers of Corbynismo are wrong to infer that the ills of financial markets infect all other markets, all the time.",
        "但科尔宾主义者推论说金融市场的病症无时无刻不在传染给其他所有市场，这是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "But understanding Russia’s frustrations and sentiments does not excuse invasion and annexation.",
        "但了解俄罗斯的情绪和挫败感并不等于原谅侵略和吞并。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese government has acknowledged that the reforms were a flop, and has committed to spending several billion dollars on publicly financed health care.",
        "中国政府已经公开承认改革失败，并承诺将支出几十亿美元用于公共融资的医疗保健。"
    ],
    [
        "We could also use this moment of leadership to advocate for a more cooperative approach to international development and conflict resolution, including a modern European-led Marshall Plan for North Africa and the Middle East.",
        "我们还可以利用上述领导机会来倡导国际发展和冲突解决的深化合作机制，包括由现代欧洲领导北非和中东马歇尔计划的推行。"
    ],
    [
        "The digital revolution is likely to be followed by yet another wave of disruptive technology, including advances in materials science, artificial intelligence, and genetic engineering.",
        "数字革命之后可能是新一轮破坏性技术，包括材料科学、人工智能和基因工程的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time the false religions of totalitarian ideologies were defeated, real religions – so it seemed – had long passed from the political scene.",
        "当伪宗教的极权主义意识形态被击败时，真正的宗教，至少看上去是如此，已经早就退出了政治舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "We urgently need more resources to monitor resistance, stronger incentives for R&D, and innovative financing mechanisms to ensure widespread access to accurate diagnoses and quality medicines.",
        "我们急需更多的耐药性监控资源、更强的研发激励，以及确保普及精准诊断和品质医疗的创新性融资机制。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth, however unpleasant it may be for the fuddy-duddies, is that awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to an author who has written just one book is no more surprising than giving it to Dario Fo or Winston Churchill.",
        "但无论真相在守旧者看来多么残酷，事实是将诺贝尔文学奖授予某位只写过一部作品的作者并不比授予达里奥·佛或温斯顿·丘吉尔更令人震惊，他们两位也都没有写过多少作品。"
    ],
    [
        "When the United Kingdom, Germany, South Korea, Australia, and others unexpectedly decided in March to join the AIIB, it was widely reported (partly because of missteps by US policymakers) as a mass defection of US allies to a rival’s party.",
        "3月份，英国、德国、韩国、澳大利亚和其他国家出人意料地决定加入亚投行，这让很多媒体将此报道为（部分拜美国决策者的失策所赐）美国盟友集体投敌。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – The eurozone is facing a bleak economic outlook, with growth remaining stagnant and the threat of deflation looming large.",
        "东京—欧元区正面临暗淡的经济前景，增长依然停滞不前，通缩风险挥之不去。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, then, rescuing banks will remain in the hands of national governments, all of which are captured by “their” banks but whose capacity to bail them out varies: French and German banks will be rescued; Cypriot banks will not.",
        "而在实际操作中，拯救银行的行为依然由各国政府主导，所有的国家都是被“自己的”银行困扰但援助的能力就大不相同：法国和德国的银行将被拯救；"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, conservatives and Republicans could hope that their own favorite policy priorities would emerge as the administration’s preferred strategy.",
        "当然，保守派和共和党可以寄希望于各自的既定政策会被现任政府选中。"
    ],
    [
        "This phenomenon is most clear in Latin America, but it applies to North America, Asia, and Africa as well.",
        "这一现象在拉丁美洲最为明显，但也存在于北美、亚洲和非洲等地。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the international community’s capacity to unite in the face of major global challenges remains as deficient as ever.",
        "结果，国际社会联合起来应对全球挑战的可能性与以前一样小。"
    ],
    [
        "In the years leading up to the crash, they argued that the global financial system was simply doing its job, by finding increasingly clever ways to recycle the surpluses.",
        "在崩溃之前的几年里，他们提出全球金融系统仅仅是在通过越来越聪明的方式回收盈余来完成自己的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Well-nourished children stay in school longer, learn more, and end up being much more productive members of society.",
        "营养良好的儿童在校时间更长、学到知识更多，并最终成为更有效率的社会建设者。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while some well-established companies in traditional industries are already looking for ways to adapt, others still need to do a lot more.",
        "但是，尽管一些传统行业中的老牌公司一开始寻找适应方法，但另一些公司仍有很多东西要做。"
    ],
    [
        "Under his leadership, Italy lost many years when its government should have been pursuing critical reforms.",
        "在他的领导下，意大利失去了多年时间，当时的政府本来应该推进重要改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans also appear to be far more religious than Saudis, with 81% describing themselves that way.",
        "美国人好像也比沙特人虔诚得多，有81%的受试者都这么描述自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Another important initiative that deserves support is the World Health Organization’s “vector control” guidelines, which offer strategies for controlling the mosquitos, flies, and bugs that transmit disease.",
        "另一个应该得到支持重要方案是世界卫生组织的“病媒控制”指引，它提供了控制传播疾病的蚊子、苍蝇和臭虫的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is increasingly difficult for the outside world to overlook the impact of the Kingdom’s main export, alongside oil.",
        "但外部世界越来越难以忽视沙特的这一与石油等量齐观的主要输出品的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "His daughter, Ivanka, joined the president-elect’s tête-à-tête with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.",
        "他的女儿伊万卡参与了这位当选总统与日本首相安倍晋三的私下会面。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, while the Taliban lost power ten years ago, discrimination and violence against women has occurred in Afghan society for centuries.",
        "最后，当塔利班政权在十年前倒台之时，对妇女的歧视和暴力已经在阿富汗存在了几个世纪之久。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman, head of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, is now criticizing Netanyahu for alienating the US and has suggested that he would not rule out joining a centrist government.",
        "就连右翼政党以色列家园党领袖外长阿维格多·利伯曼也在批评内塔尼亚胡疏远美国，并表示自己不排除加入中间派政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Turning Good Economic Luck into Bad",
        "从前途无量到误入歧途"
    ],
    [
        "The cost of debt service adjusts automatically, without the severe disruption that results from loss of confidence, crisis, debt restructuring, and so forth.",
        "债务维持成本可以自动调整而不会因失去信心、爆发危机和债务重组之类的事情产生重大后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Case for the TPP",
        "TPP利弊辩"
    ],
    [
        "Although cuts in CO2 emissions and agreement on funding and finance are necessary goals, the geopolitical reality is that climate change cannot be decoupled from trade or discussions on exchange rates, the IMF, reform of the UN, and so on.",
        "虽然减少二氧化碳排放和如何筹集减排资金是必然目标，但地缘政治的现实告诉我们，气候变化问题不可能脱离了贸易或者货币汇率，国际货币基金组织，联合国改革等种种议题来进行讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, better yet, in a world confronted with a host of problems – from climate change to antimicrobial resistance – industry leaders should begin asking themselves how they can contribute to averting the crises of the future.",
        "或者，更好的办法是，在面临从气候变化到耐药性的诸多问题的情况下，行业领袖应该开始扪心自问，应该如何为避免未来危机做出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet a majority of the Chinese population seems to support its’ government’s policies, including its brutal suppression of minorities and denial of democratic freedoms.",
        "而大多数中国人似乎对政府的政策非常支持，人们对政府对少数民族的残酷镇压以及对民主自由的抵制行径都表示认同。"
    ],
    [
        "Businessmen rarely are.",
        "商人很少能成为合格的战时领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason for this is inadequate aggregate demand.",
        "一个原因就是总需求不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, with nearly two-fifths of the world’s population living within 100 kilometers of a coastline, finding suitable seaside sites for initiation or expansion of a nuclear-power program is no longer easy.",
        "此外，全世界有2/5的人口都居住在离海岸线100公里以内的区域，因此寻找合适的海岸来建设或者扩大核项目都变得越来越难。"
    ],
    [
        "Judging by their governments’ indifference, the remaining 99.982% of the HIV-infected people in Eastern Europe – and all those they place at risk of harm – can just rot.",
        "有鉴于各国政府的不作为，剩下的那99. 982%东欧感染者——以及所有那些可能被他们危害的人——都只好自生自灭了。"
    ],
    [
        "Only Royal may be said to represent softer lines against the hard-liner of the governing party, Nicolas Sarkozy.",
        "只有罗耶尔相对于执政党的代表萨尔科齐的强硬路线而言可能代表了软的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "The result would be a welcome place in the European energy market for a Russia that is both trusted and respected by its international partners.",
        "这样将使俄罗斯作为一个受到其国际合作伙伴信任和尊重的伙伴被欢迎进入欧洲的能源市场。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – Chinese President Xi Jinping’s massive anti-corruption campaign has advanced a number of key objectives: It has gone a long way toward restoring confidence in the Communist Party’s commitment to a merit-based system; countered a decades-old pattern of public-sector domination; reduced the power of vested interests to block reform; and bolstered Xi’s popularity among private-sector actors, if far less so with the bureaucracy.",
        "发自米兰——中国国家主席习近平的大规模反腐运动已经推进了一系列关键目标：极大恢复了外界对中共承诺按能力提拔干部制度的信心； 逆转了长达数十年之久的公共部门主导模式；"
    ],
    [
        "In the accepted classification of sciences, mathematics is thought to be the queen, and the most difficult to grasp, followed by physics, chemistry, and, finally, biology.",
        "根据目前公认的科学分类，数学被誉为科学皇后，也是最难领会的一门，物理、化学紧随其后，最后，才是生物。"
    ],
    [
        "Hun Sen had mischaracterized the discussions among ASEAN’s leaders.",
        "洪森对东盟领导人讨论结果的描述是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Lower-income countries, with their younger populations and large infrastructure needs, provide just such opportunities.",
        "而低收入国家则因为拥有年轻人口和大规模基础设施需求，恰恰能够提供这样的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, another research group was analyzing, also in E. coli, how the synthesis of a certain enzyme is induced in the presence of a specific sugar.",
        "与此同时，另一个研究小组也在分析大肠杆菌，研究某种酶的合成如何在一种具体的糖面前被诱导的。"
    ],
    [
        "Home prices in the United States, as measured by the Standard ampamp; Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, have plummeted more than 40% in real inflation-adjusted terms in some major cities since the peak around the beginning of 2006.",
        "以标准普尔/Case-Shiller房价指数计量的美国住房价格显示，一些美国主要城市的住房价格大约在2006年年初到达顶峰之后，在调整通货膨胀后实际上已经下跌 超过了40％。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the program’s main effect seems to have been to encourage the best students in public schools to switch to private schools.",
        "相反，这项计划的主要作用似乎是鼓励在公共学校上学的优秀学生转到私人学校去。"
    ],
    [
        "After the 2014 ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, the European dream suddenly seemed less remote for many Ukrainians, who had hoped for visa-free travel and employment opportunities in the EU sometime in the near future.",
        "在2014年推翻亲俄罗斯总统亚努科维奇后，欧洲梦突然之间对许多乌克兰人变得不那么遥远了，他们渴望在不远的将来不需要签证就能旅行和在欧盟国家找到工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Clipping the Euro’s Wings",
        "剪断欧元的羽翼"
    ],
    [
        "The first is that the United States and other advanced countries are unlikely to recover their previous economic dynamism even after financial stability is restored.",
        "首先是美国和其他发达国家即便恢复金融稳定，也很难再恢复它们从前的经济活力。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a truce is possible.",
        "这样的停火是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "They must develop a cadre of professionals with a sophisticated understanding of risk management, and must work to educate their members in the financial subtleties of their specific circumstances.",
        "他们必须发展一支经验丰富的了解风险管理运作的专业队伍，必须培训工会会员遇到具体的金融问题时懂得如何处置。"
    ],
    [
        "But, to be politically viable, significant tax cuts for the wealthy would have to be accompanied by at least token tax cuts for the middle class.",
        "但是，要具备政治可行性，为富人大幅减税的政策必须辅之以为中产阶级减税，至少要装装样子。"
    ],
    [
        "China is setting ambitious targets for reducing energy intensity and making massive investments in renewable energy.",
        "中国也正在建立一个宏大的计划，目的是减少能源的使用和大力开发可再生能源。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, however complicated the blame game, some lessons can be drawn to guide future policy.",
        "但是，不管指责游戏多么复杂，仍有一些教训可以汲取并作为未来政策的指引。"
    ],
    [
        "As Nieli describes it, Palestinians “would have the right to settle anywhere within Israel just as Jews would have the right to settle anywhere within the territory of the Palestinian state.",
        "正如尼利所描述的，巴勒斯坦人“有权在以色列内部任何地方定居，正如犹太人有权在巴勒斯坦国领土内任何地方定居。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), like heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and chronic lung disease, are responsible for 70% of all deaths.",
        "日内瓦—非传染性疾病（NCD），如心脏病、中风、癌症、糖尿病和慢性肺病等，造成了全部死亡案例的70%。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet it was Truman who ended WWII and oversaw creation of the postwar global security and economic architecture: the Marshall Plan, NATO, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.",
        "但结束二战、建立战后全球安全和经济结构的是杜鲁门：马歇尔计划、北约、关贸总协定、国际货币基金组织、世界银行皆在他的治理下出炉。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem was that Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s predecessors behaved as if they were bound by a fixed exchange-rate regime.",
        "问题在于日本银行行长黑田东彦的前任似乎陷入了固定汇率制度的桎梏。"
    ],
    [
        "If true, drug-induced death would qualify as the fourth or fifth leading cause of death (depending on which mortality estimates are used).",
        "如果真是这样的话，药物引发的死亡数量将在引发死亡原因中（根据使用不同的死亡率估算法）排名第四或第五。"
    ],
    [
        "Can they, and other Americans who are losing vital services, really be expected to rise above it all and support funding to build new schools in Afghanistan?",
        "他们（以及其他正在失去生活必须服务的美国人）真的会期待付出更多的税收来为阿富汗建设新学校提供资金？"
    ],
    [
        "NATO is the only permanent political forum in which North America sits together with Europe.",
        "北约是唯一一个能够使北美与欧洲坐在一起的永久性政治论坛。"
    ],
    [
        "In the mid-1950’s, communism was on the offensive in Europe, as well as in the emerging Third World.",
        "20世纪50年代中期，共产主义在欧洲以及新兴的第三世界范围内咄咄逼人。"
    ],
    [
        "We weren’t close friends, but he and I worked together in critical situations, and I never doubted his sincerity.",
        "我们虽然算不上密友，但曾在危急关头亲密合作，我也从未对他的真诚产生过任何怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "She is the daughter of Henryk Holland, an anti-Communist dissident who committed suicide in 1961.",
        "他是亨利克·霍兰德的女儿，后者是1961年自杀的反共持不同政见者。"
    ],
    [
        "The report also specifies that a genuine fiscal union would require “more joint decision-making on fiscal policy.”",
        "报告好具体说明了一个真正的财政联盟需要“更加联合的财政政策决策”。"
    ],
    [
        "Zipcar, for example, lets people share cars. (Let’s hope the Chinese discover this before everyone in China buys their own car!)",
        "比如美国最大的网上汽车租赁公司Zipcar可以让人们分享使用同一辆车（但愿在每个中国人都拥有自己的私家车之前，他们能发现这个行业！"
    ],
    [
        "Sorry States",
        "当国家道歉之时"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, South Korea’s elite appears to be splitting into pro-Chinese and pro-American factions that transcend party lines.",
        "结果，韩国精英在亲中和亲美之间分裂为两个跨越党派的阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "But a growing number of programs around the world are proving that the death and illness of the poor can be reduced sharply and rapidly with targeted investments in public health programs.",
        "但是，全球越来越多的项目正在证明，可以通过在公共医疗项目上有的放矢的投资来大幅度降低穷人的死亡和疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "Here is one idea.",
        "有一个办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Mengele in America",
        "美国的死亡天使"
    ],
    [
        "But, most importantly, America’s inequality is undermining its values and identity.",
        "但是，最重要的是，美国的不平等性正在侵蚀其价值和身份。"
    ],
    [
        "But then something happened that was as “curious” as in Arthur Conan Doyle’s story.",
        "但接着发生了福尔摩斯故事中的“有趣”的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "And those efforts were effective.",
        "这些努力也产生了效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Those forecasting the demise of the euro were wrong because they misunderstood the politics.",
        "那些预言欧元崩溃的人之所以会错，是因为不懂政治。"
    ],
    [
        "But no candidate has yet advanced a proposal for reform that would reduce the scope for political interference while ensuring greater accountability and promoting financial stability.",
        "但两名候选人都没有提出减少政治干预程度、同时又确保更大的可问责性和促进金融稳定的改革方案。"
    ],
    [
        "They address the whole Earth system, not individual actors or governments.",
        "它们解决的是整个地球系统的问题，而不是个别行动方或政府的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For apparel consumers, for example, quality is second only to price when choosing a store, and second only to fashion when choosing a specific item.",
        "例如对那些讲究的消费者来说，在选择一家商店时质量是紧随价格之后的考虑因素，而在选择特定的产品时质量也是紧随潮流之后的要点。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps that is why some in the international community are similarly hesitant about easing Myanmar’s isolation.",
        "这或许也是国际社会对放松孤立缅甸犹豫不决的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "What’s more, they will have also helped to improve their own lives and enhance the economic prospects of their wider community.",
        "此外，它们也有助于改善他们自己的生活，改善他们所在社区的经济前景。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa’s economic transformation since its transition to democracy two decades ago has been remarkable.",
        "20年前，南非成为一个民主国家，此后的经济转型令人瞩目。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, further isolation of Iran will make it very difficult for India to play a more active role in Afghanistan at a time when the US is hastening its military disengagement there and seeking to cut a deal with the Taliban.",
        "其二，在美国加速从阿富汗撤军并试图与塔利班媾和的情况下，进一步孤立伊朗将使印度更加难以在阿富汗事务中扮演积极角色。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this can be decided at the next European Council, even before the constitutional problem is resolved.",
        "所有这些将在欧盟理事会下届会议中决定，甚至还赶在宪法问题解决之前。"
    ],
    [
        "However frightening the global recession, a coordinated and coherent response to it by the world’s political leaders remains highly uncertain at best.",
        "然而，在如何应对目前的全球经济萧条问题上，看来世界各国的领袖们还没有达成一个协调统一的意见。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, in her relations with China, Tsai will have to walk a narrow path.",
        "但事涉对华关系，蔡将被迫走上一条极为狭窄的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Morocco’s government, in particular, has made substantial efforts to develop its water resources, including through dam-building.",
        "特别是摩洛哥政府采取了一些大规模措施开发水资源，包括建造大坝。"
    ],
    [
        "This would enable the EU to open chapters 23 and 24 of the accession talks – those that deal with rights, fundamental freedoms, and the judiciary – as the European Parliament and the European Commission advocate.",
        "这将让欧盟得以开启入盟谈判的第23章和24章——与权利、基本自由和司法有关的内容——就像 欧洲议会和欧盟委员会所宣扬的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "One strategy that has gained a lot of momentum focuses on the need to develop large-scale technological interventions to control the global thermostat.",
        "一个势头很猛的战略强调必须进行大规模技术干预控制全球恒温器。"
    ],
    [
        "An endless war waged on America’s terms against the enemies that it helped to create is unlikely to secure either steady international support or lasting results.",
        "美国与其所帮助培养的敌人的无尽的战争不可能获得稳定的国际支持或带来持久性结果。"
    ],
    [
        "International troops are excelling in an exceptionally hostile environment, but this is not a war that will be won by military means alone.",
        "国际部队在极端敌对的环境中保持着优势，但这场战争单靠武力是不能获胜的。"
    ],
    [
        "Cutting the deficit to 2% of GDP, for example, would cause the debt ratio eventually to reach 50%.",
        "比如，将预算赤字削减到GDP的2%能让2026年债务比率逐渐下降到只有50%。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider its modern infrastructure, the dynamism of its young entrepreneurs, and the internationally recognized quality of its cultural goods. The Spaniards are right.",
        "考虑到该国现代化的基础设施，年轻企业家的活力及其文化产业的在国际上的声誉，西班牙人显然是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "No one should expect that the costs of combating climate change will be low.",
        "没有人应该认为对抗气候变化的代价不高。"
    ],
    [
        "Re-profiling the country’s debt, which is implicitly part of the agreement, will do nothing to ameliorate this, given that interest payments already are minimal through the end of the decade.",
        "重组希腊债务是协议的隐含内容，但它无法减轻负担，因为到2020年，利息支付都将是最小限度。"
    ],
    [
        "Misery Loves Inflation Targeters’ Company",
        "伴随通胀目标设定者的痛苦"
    ],
    [
        "A second possibility is that banks worry about having enough resources to meet their own creditors’ demands if they lock up funds in long-term loans.",
        "第二种可能是，银行担心，如果冻结长期贷款，它们就有足够的财力来满足自己债权人的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s leaders have earned a reputation for being unreliable, quixotic, and unpredictable, but markets like trustworthiness, stability, and predictability.",
        "俄罗斯的领导人们素有不可靠、多变和难以捉摸的名声。 但市场青睐的却是可信度、稳定性和可预测性。"
    ],
    [
        "But the recent prosperity of many of these countries has come from access to global capital.",
        "但是大部分这些国家最近几年的繁荣得益于全球资本的流入。"
    ],
    [
        "But its consistent preference for lining up on the other side of the divide – even when doing so runs counter to its own national interests – calls into question whether it has the internal fortitude to be a leader.",
        "可是中国却一直站在对立的一侧，甚至这种做法已经与自身国家利益相违背的时候依然故我。 这实在让人怀疑中国是否在内部有足够的底气去成为一个国际领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in truth, the public is right: while there is a somewhat scientific basis for these models, they can go spectacularly wrong.",
        "但事实上，公众是对的：虽然这些模型都或多或少地有科学依据支撑，但它们却依然铸成大错。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar argument can be made for expenditures aimed at improving education, for example to improve Europe’s underfunded universities.",
        "类似的观点也适用于旨在改善教育（如资金短缺的欧洲的大学）的支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the banks assume that they will need to hold more capital than regulators ostensibly require in order to maintain a margin of safety.",
        "此外，银行认为它们需要握有比监管者字面要求更多的资本，这样才能维持安全边际。"
    ],
    [
        "SOEs may also use the unregulated shadow banking system to re-lend at higher interest rates the cheap money they receive to private businesses, which cannot borrow reliably from the formal banking system.",
        "国有企业也可能利用不受监管的影子银行系统，将它们获得的廉价资金再次贷款给民营企业，因为后者无法从正式银行系统中借到钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Chile is far from unique in this respect.",
        "智利在这方面远非独一无二。"
    ],
    [
        "India, Brazil, and South Africa are using such formats in a pragmatic way to pursue their interests, or simply to demonstrate their increased international weight.",
        "印度、巴西和南非采取了实用主义，利用这种方式追求自己的利益或用以表明自己日益增加的国际分量。"
    ],
    [
        "The key difference in the UK is that UKIP is gaining ground with voters despite rapid economic growth (more than 3% annually, the highest rate in the EU).",
        "英国的关键不同之处在于英国独立党的崛起是在经济迅速增长（每年超过3%，为欧盟最高水平）的背景下发生的。"
    ],
    [
        "Abenomics, with its potentially powerful combination of monetary and fiscal stimulus, coupled with a wide array of structural reforms, was supposed to end Japan’s “lost decades.”",
        "安倍结合了潜力巨大的货币和财政刺激，并辅之以范围广泛的结构性改革，理应结束日本“失去的几十年”。"
    ],
    [
        "Donald Trump’s Foreign-Policy Challenges",
        "唐纳德·特朗普的外交政策挑战"
    ],
    [
        "In brief, the decisive axis of the new order increasingly involves the United States and the People’s Republic of China.",
        "简单说，决定新秩序的轴心已经日益明确——美国和中华人民共和国。"
    ],
    [
        "Why would our judgments, and our emotions, vary in this way?",
        "为什么我们的判断和我们的情感会如此不同呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Though cargo drones will never replace ground transport, they can ensure that vital goods and services get to where they are needed.",
        "尽管货运无人机永远无法取代地面交通，但它们可以确保关键商品和服务抵达需要的人手中。"
    ],
    [
        "What is required, first and foremost, are market-based incentives to induce Americans to use less energy and to produce more energy in ways that emit less carbon.",
        "建立以市场为基础的激励机制，推动美国企业减少能源消耗、并以降低碳排放的方式生产更多能源，这个课题急待解决。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – With every passing week, the Syrian conflict increasingly resembles the Spanish Civil War.",
        "发自巴黎——随着时间一周周过去，叙利亚冲突越来越变得像西班牙内战。"
    ],
    [
        "BONN – Last December in Paris, world leaders came together to agree on a set of goals and pathways for decarbonizing the global economy and increasing our capacity to adapt to climate change.",
        "波恩—去年12月在巴黎，世界领导人齐聚一堂，就一系列全球经济去碳化和提升我们适应气候变化的能力的目标和路径形成了一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil prices may not start rising in the coming months, but, as 2014 comes to a close, forces that will eventually halt their decline are beginning to appear.",
        "油价不会在未来几个月内开始上升，但是，随着2014年接近尾声，那些最终让油价停止下跌的力量也开始出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, to finance the plan, the EU could use its AAA borrowing capacity to issue long-term bonds.",
        "最后，为了筹集计划资金，欧盟应该利用其AAA级借贷能力发行长期债券。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not what Europe needs as it struggles to achieve in a year the growth that the United States has already recorded in a single quarter.",
        "这可不是欧洲所需要的东西，因为美国花费一个季度所取得的增长，前者需要努力整整一年才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The price of solar energy has been dropping steadily for 30 years – by about 50% every decade – and we could likely accelerate that decline further with sufficiently large investments in research and development.",
        "太阳能的价格将在未来30年内稳步下降——大概每10年下降50%——而如果有足够大量的资金投入研究的话，我们可以进一步加快下降的速度。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, right-wing populists in Poland and left-wing populists in Slovakia are now allied in government with extreme nationalist parties.",
        "事实上，波兰右翼和斯洛伐克左翼民粹主义者如今都在政府中与极端民族主义者结为联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Contemporary commenters despaired of the Roman Empire for several hundred years before it finally collapsed.",
        "当今的评论家们都对罗马帝国在崩溃前依然维持了数百年而感到绝望。"
    ],
    [
        "The platform is already in place.",
        "平台已经搭好。"
    ],
    [
        "One big surprise of the current presidential campaign in France is how “national identity” has surged to the forefront of the political debate.",
        "目前正在法国进行的总统竞选中的一大意外是“民族身份”如何进入了政治辩论的最前沿。"
    ],
    [
        "For too long, backroom deals among governments have taken precedence over searching for a candidate with the relevant skills and experience.",
        "长期以来，政府间的幕后交易一直优先于寻找拥有相关技能和经验的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "The first litmus test on European leadership concerns the practical problem of access to harbors.",
        "欧洲领导作用的第一块试金石就是有关使用港口的现实问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But a September rate move also serves Sarkozy’s interests, as it will give him more ammunition to portray the ECB as out of control and in need of political disciplining.",
        "但是九月份加息也符合萨尔科奇的利益，因为这会给他以口实，将欧洲央行描绘成为失控以及需要加以政治约束。"
    ],
    [
        "Sanctions for eurozone countries that seriously infringe EMU rules should take effect more quickly and with less political discretion, and also should be tougher.",
        "对那些严重违反欧洲货币联盟规定的欧元区国家的制裁将更快展开，更少政治方面的犹豫，另外也要更严厉。"
    ],
    [
        "Do we end up focusing on price because we can measure it, to the exclusion of other things that matter?",
        "我们最终专注于价格是因为我们可以衡量它，排除其他作用因素吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Though elections may not be free and fair, massive electoral manipulation is rare and the days when only males, whites, or the rich could vote are long gone.",
        "尽管选举可能并不自由和公正，但大规模操纵选举很少见，只有男人、白人或富人参与的选举也早已成了历史。"
    ],
    [
        "The deal between Uganda and Trinidad and Tobago violates the World Health Organization’s global code on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel, which is aimed at discouraging the recruitment of personnel from countries that have a critical shortage of health-care workers.",
        "乌干达与特立尼达和多巴哥之间的协议违反了世界卫生组织国际卫生工作人员招聘（International Recruitment of Health Personnel）的全球规则，该规则旨在阻止从卫生工作者严重短缺的国家招聘人手。"
    ],
    [
        "Trouble seems more likely to come from growing concern in the West over climate change.",
        "麻烦更有可能来自于西方对气候变化的日益增长的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "The government likewise subjects officials to lifestyle checks and vets their statements of assets and liabilities to find out if what they have acquired is commensurate with their declared income.",
        "同时，政府鼓励各级官员检查自身生活方式并公开财产和债务，以确保其财产和收入相一致。"
    ],
    [
        "The current disagreements with our partners are not unbridgeable.",
        "目前，与我们的合作伙伴的分歧并非不可调和。"
    ],
    [
        "For a given size of government, the method of raising tax revenue matters.",
        "对于给定的政府规模，征税的方法会产生影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Different societies have different health-care needs, and fully comprehending what they are is no easy task.",
        "不同的社会医疗需求也不同，充分理解需求何在并不容易。"
    ],
    [
        "But the UN was unable to avert the Cold War, wars in Algeria, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia, or genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda.",
        "但联合国无法遏制冷战、阿尔及利亚战争、越南战争和南斯拉夫战争，也无法阻止柬埔寨和卢旺达的种族灭绝。"
    ],
    [
        "Simultaneously, the eastern part of the country descended into anarchy.",
        "与此同时，尼日利亚东部地区政局一片混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "But some calls for international coordination are less useful, particularly when the aim is to blame foreigners in order to distract attention from domestic constraints and disagreements.",
        "但一些关于国际协作的呼声并不那么有用，特别是当它们的目标是指责外国人、从而转移对国内约束条件和分歧的关注时。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to recognize that breast-cancer screening does not save lives – and to focus on the strategies that will.",
        "是时候承认乳腺癌筛查不能挽救生命——并把注意力转移到能挽救生命的策略上来。"
    ],
    [
        "The BEC heralds a new level of public-private partnership, with the investors working with the governments of some 20 countries – including the China, India, and the US – that already account for roughly 80% of global investment in clean energy and have now pledged to double their investments.",
        "BEC也标定了公私合作的新高度，其投资者与20个左右的国家政府合作——包括中国、印度和美国——它们占据了全球清洁能源投资的80%左右，现在已承诺要将投资翻番。"
    ],
    [
        "But this does not mean that activists should demand higher taxes and public spending under all circumstances.",
        "但这并不意味着活动家应该要求不论怎样都要提高税收和公共支出。"
    ],
    [
        "A clever new gadget was described in a newspaper a few weeks ago. It pulls water out of the atmosphere and delivers you a glass of clean, chilled H2O.",
        "几周前，报纸上介绍了一种精巧的新玩意儿，可以从空气中抽取水分，给你一杯洁净的凉水。"
    ],
    [
        "With the QPC, the entire process of assessing the constitutionality of legislation has gained greater acceptance in French legal practice.",
        "有了QPC制度，法国在法律实践上已基本承认了评估法律合宪性的完整程序。"
    ],
    [
        "The leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, blessed the Revolutionary Guards’ decision to steal the presidential election.",
        "而作为伊斯兰共和国的领袖，阿亚图拉赛义德·阿里·哈梅内伊公开对伊朗革命自卫队窃取总统选举结果的决定表示赞成。"
    ],
    [
        "And inequality has reached outrageous levels, preventing society from uniting behind essential reforms.",
        "不平等性也达到了非常激烈的成都，导致社会无法团结在必须的改革背后。"
    ],
    [
        "The big development success stories are places like Shanghai, port cities with ready access to world markets.",
        "那些大的成功发展的故事都发生在如上海、以及其他可以直通世界市场的港口城市。"
    ],
    [
        "The real engineers, excluding those whose judgment is clouded by personal financial interests, should counter this influence, while refusing to succumb to the temptation of quick fixes.",
        "全球实体工程师（各国决策层）——剔除那些有个人财务利益诉求的少数——应该抵制这些负面解读，虽然不能幻想找到速效药。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe deserves better, too.",
        "欧洲也理应变得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "But, beyond such a scorecard, the will to overcome the stagnation trap must be more than a sum of national wills.",
        "但是，除了记分牌之外，克服停滞陷阱的意愿应该比各国意愿的总和更强。"
    ],
    [
        "Paradoxically, too, the “greening” of America – an America that discovers late but with passion its responsibility for the planet’s survival – may lead to a competitive transatlantic race for first prize in ecological good behavior.",
        "自相矛盾之处还在于，一个“变绿”的美国—一个虽然晚了些才发现自己在地球幸存中的责任，却满怀热情的美国—可能会使得大西洋两岸竞相争取在生态保护中力拔头筹。"
    ],
    [
        "Joint US-Chinese effort on this issue could potentially provide the elusive key to an improved relationship.",
        "在该问题上，中美联合行动可以称为改善关系的神秘钥匙。"
    ],
    [
        "A Yukos Autopsy",
        "剖析尤科斯事件"
    ],
    [
        "But, following Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011, safety concerns surrounding nuclear power are large and mounting.",
        "但是，2011年3月日本福岛核灾难爆发后，围绕核电安全的担忧再次崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "Many post-Wall voters stand on the margins of established parties or are forming parties of their own, while a more pragmatic group is being pulled between the old order and new movements.",
        "许多柏林墙后一代选民或者是老牌政党的边缘人，或者在建立他们自己的新政党，与此同时，更务实的群体被旧秩序和新运动争相争取。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, with input from South Korea, it is developing plans for a Precautionary Credit Line (PCL).",
        "在韩国的大力支持下，它正准备推出一个紧急授信额度（PCL）计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But the 2011 surge appears to be rooted in broader commodity scarcity than before.",
        "但2011这场上涨根源于比以往更加广泛的商品供应不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Latin America’s Two Lefts",
        "拉丁美洲的两个左派"
    ],
    [
        "As Sims explained, contrary to popular belief, aggregate demand and the price level (inflation) are not dictated only – or even primarily – by monetary policy.",
        "西姆斯解释说，与流行的信念相反，总需求和物价水平（通货膨胀）不是完全由——甚至不是主要由——货币政策决定。"
    ],
    [
        "But deciding when to adopt the euro is a matter of heated debate.",
        "但何时开始采用欧元引起了热议。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Europe’s interest in mounting an effective response to the crisis extends beyond values.",
        "事实上，欧洲有效应对危机的利益超乎价值观之外。"
    ],
    [
        "For most of today’s inhabitants of bank trading floors, that is ancient history.",
        "对于今天的大部分银行交易员来说，升息已经是上古时代的事情了。"
    ],
    [
        "Information may transcend borders, but servers and cables still have physical locations.",
        "信息可以跨越国界，但服务器和光缆是有物理地址的。"
    ],
    [
        "Any forecast for the coming year depends, more than usual, on politics – on the outcome of the US gridlock, and on European leaders’ ability to respond to the euro crisis.",
        "任何对明年的预测均以不同寻常的程度取决于政治——取决于美国僵局以什么结果收场以及欧洲领导人应对欧元危机的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, a free press, an independent judiciary, and a pluralist legislature helped to hold for such practices up public debate.",
        "幸运的是，在自由的媒体、独立的司法和多元的立法体系帮助下，这些举措被置于公众辩论之中。"
    ],
    [
        "For some weak states, internal threats provide clear objectives.",
        "对一些弱国来说，内部威胁提供了明确的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, with Labour in power, Brown could expect in due time to receive the mantle.",
        "当工党执政后，布朗就可以指望在一定的时间接手领导人的职务。"
    ],
    [
        "In the shadow of this second Afghan war, Osama bin Laden established his terrorist organization in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan: Al Qaeda, which, on September 11, 2001, carried out its terrible terrorist attack on the US.",
        "在阿富汗内战的背景下，奥萨马·本·拉登在塔利班统治下的阿富汗创建了恐怖组织——“基地组织”。 该组织于2001年9月11日对美国发动了骇人听闻的恐怖袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "In a third case, Europe at the end of the 1930’s, we do not know what would have happened had Europe not become a battlefield following Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland.",
        "而要不是纳粹德国入侵波兰令欧洲沦为（二战）战场的话，我们也无法设想1930年末在欧洲爆发的那场萧条会引发何种后果。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, more than 600,000 people die each year from household air pollution.",
        "结果导致每年超过60万人死于室内空气污染。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Russia’s strength is in no way comparable to that of the former Soviet Union.",
        "还有，如今的俄罗斯的国力根本不能和前苏联相比。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is the management of the transition to Afghan control, which depends on an orderly withdrawal of American and NATO forces by 2014.",
        "首先是阿富汗控制权的交接，这取决于2014年前美国和北约军队的有序撤离。"
    ],
    [
        "To resolve it, the government has announced fiscal reforms to split revenues between central and local governments and enable local governments to issue long-term municipal bonds.",
        "为了解决这一问题，中国政府已宣布了财政体制改革，目的是进一步理清中央和地方财政收入的来源及支出责任，特别是允许地方政府能够发行长期市政债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Sanders appeals to the popular frustration with the compromises made by America’s leaders, including the centrist Bill Clinton.",
        "桑德斯切入点是公众对美国领导人——包括中间派的比尔·克林顿——所做出的妥协的沮丧情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "An estimated 6% of all employees are working fewer hours per week than they would like, and about 2% of potential employees are not counted as unemployed because they have not looked for work in the past few weeks, even though they would like to work.",
        "据估计，6%的雇员的每周工作时间少于期望时间，大约2%的潜在雇员被计为失业，因为他们在过去数周内想找但没能找到工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Hoping for the Best Against Trump",
        "在特朗普当选的情况下，抱以最大希望"
    ],
    [
        "Others believe the EU cannot continue being run along the same lines as in Beijing or even Pyongyang. It’s an issue that will confront any new team chosen by the old methods.",
        "还有人相信欧盟无法再继续像北京或者平壤那样运作。 这将会是任何通过老方法挑选出来的新团队所要面临的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "I am not arguing against healthcare capitalism, but warning that support will become fragile, far more so than for, say, globalization nowadays.",
        "我并不是在反对医疗资本主义，而是在警告说，对此的支持将会变得脆弱，要比当今对于全球化的支持还要脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Another reason that China’s strong growth is likely to continue is that its economic fundamentals are sound.",
        "中国的强劲增长很可能将继续的另一个原因是，其经济基本面是好的。"
    ],
    [
        "Inequality, exclusion, and duality became more marked in countries where skills were poorly distributed and many services approximated the textbook “ideal” of spot markets.",
        "在技能分布情况糟糕、许多服务类似于教科书上的“理想”现货市场的国家，不平等、排斥和二元性日益显著。"
    ],
    [
        "After more than a month of fighting, China declared a unilateral ceasefire from a position of strength, having seized Indian territory.",
        "在战斗进行一个多月后，占领了印度领土的中国以强者姿态宣布单方面停火。"
    ],
    [
        "On July 4, 2012, the international physics community witnessed a monumental discovery in the history of high-energy physics: a Higgs boson.",
        "2012年7月4日，国际物理学界目睹了高能物理学史上划时代的发现：希格斯波色子。"
    ],
    [
        "In South Korea, for example, real GDP growth quickly rebounded from -6.7% in 1998 to 9.5% in 1999.",
        "比如，在韩国，真实GDP增长迅速从1998年的-6. 7%增加到1999年的9."
    ],
    [
        "Therein lies the big problem with Earth Hour.",
        "“地球一小时”的致命伤恰恰就在这里。"
    ],
    [
        "Here Europe’s economic might and soft power have a lot to contribute.",
        "在这里，欧洲的经济实力和软实力可以做出很大贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "The extent to which identities are invented matters little, as long as their invocation helps to appropriate elements of history and harness them to current political goals.",
        "只要有利于利用历史元素，并让他们接近当前政治目标，身份如何产生不重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel should play an active role in the fall of Assad as a way to undermine the region’s “Shia crescent” and isolate its leader, Iran.",
        "以色列应该在推翻巴沙尔、打破中东地区的“什叶新月”并鼓励其领袖伊朗的过程中扮演积极角色。"
    ],
    [
        "In an age of rising health-care costs, most high-income countries – Canada, the European Union’s Western economies, and Japan – manage to keep their total health-care costs below 12% of GDP, with excellent health outcomes, while the US spends nearly 18% of GDP, yet with decidedly mediocre health outcomes.",
        "在这个医疗保健费用不断上升的年代，大部分高收入国家——加拿大，欧盟内部的西欧国家以及日本——都设法将其总医疗成本控制在GDP的12%以下并保持着良好的国民健康状况，然而美国在这方面的支出了几乎占GDP的18%，但国民健康状况依然处于中下水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But the financial implications of the crisis pale in comparison to the human and political costs.",
        "但这场危机的财政成本与人道和政治成本相比根本不值一提。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while his approach challenges the left’s political template, it comprises what are fundamentally center-left policies.",
        "因此，他的方针对左翼的政治模式构成了挑战，但从根本上说属于中左翼政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Human geneticists, like big-game hunters, specialize in finding disease genes – the “prize.”",
        "人类基因科学家就像是紧盯着大猎物的猎手，专长于寻找致病基因，即“奖品”。"
    ],
    [
        "History in the hands of manipulative politicians and incorrigible ideologues can be either a dangerously inebriating weapon to mobilize the masses, or, as James Joyce put it in Ulysses, “a nightmare” from which it is difficult to wake.",
        "历史在善于操纵的政治家和无可救药的理论家手中或者是麻痹和发动民众的危险工具，或者就像尤利西斯中的詹姆斯·乔伊斯所说，是一场很难醒过来的“噩梦”。"
    ],
    [
        "Led by strong Chinese growth, emerging markets stabilized.",
        "在中国强劲增长的带动下，新兴市场开始企稳。"
    ],
    [
        "Fighting has displaced two million of Sudan’s 40 million people since 2003, with large numbers forced to take refuge in neighboring countries. And refugee flows are only way Sudan’s instability has spilled across borders.",
        "2003 年来战争已经让 4000 万苏丹人中的 200 万流离失所，大批苏丹人迫不得已到邻国避祸。 而难民问题不过是苏丹动荡跨境影响的一则实例。"
    ],
    [
        "But such capital inflows threaten exchange-rate overvaluation, rising current-account deficits, and asset-price bubbles, all of which have in the past led to crises in these economies.",
        "但这类资本流入会造成汇率升值风险，使经常项目赤字升高，产生资产泡沫，而这正是过去新兴经济体发生危机的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The necessary transfers are not being made to make the common currency bearable to regions that lose out and are already in recession when the ECB tightens policy.",
        "也没有进行必要的转让，以便使统一的货币能够在ECB执行紧缩政策时遭受损失、并已经陷入衰退的那些地区获得支持。"
    ],
    [
        "As FIFA’s experience showed, once sponsors become concerned about their reputations, their interests shift.",
        "国际足联的经验表明，一旦赞助商开始关注这些机构的声誉，这些机构的利益诉求也会随之转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, they are comparable with American income disparities.",
        "今天，它们之间的差异已经与美国的收入差异相当了。"
    ],
    [
        "We must not shy away from our responsibilities.",
        "我们必须有所担当。"
    ],
    [
        "With very few exceptions, the Brexit vote has brought out the worst in Britain’s leaders.",
        "除了及少数例外，英国脱欧投票揭露了英国领导人最糟糕的一面。"
    ],
    [
        "The reappearance of the same four arguments developed a quarter-century ago by an industry that benefits from delaying climate policies – arguments used with great success precisely because their origin and true purpose were hidden from the public – looks a lot like the tortoise’s four wiggling feet.",
        "与25年前一模一样的四个论点重新出现，这些论点最早来源于因延缓气候政策而获益的行业——这些论点之所以能够大获成功，恰恰因为他们在公众面前隐藏了自己的来源和真正目的——这与乌龟扭动的四只脚何其相似。"
    ],
    [
        "But if they are provided with secondary education, they will be able to transform their future – and ours – for the better.",
        "但如果他们能接受中学教育，就能为我们和他们自己创造更美好的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "This, clearly, is no longer the problem; on the contrary, the financial sector today is one of the Fed’s last staunch defenders.",
        "如今，这显然已不再是问题； 相反，今天的金融业已经成为美联储最坚定的支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s backlash against trade and globalization should be viewed in the context of what, as we know from experience, could come next.",
        "今天的贸易和全球化阻力应该置于这样的环境下去审视：从历史经验看，接下去会发生什么？"
    ],
    [
        "But another step in metaphor-building is needed to encapsulate the idea of economic inclusion.",
        "但确定纳入经济融合理念的比喻还需要另外一个步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "Under China’s current system, it is up to the government to deal with these problems.",
        "在中国现行体制下，需要政府来解决这些社会问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The McKinsey Global Institute has recently studied internet-based approaches to the labor market and the challenge of matching demand for talent and skills with supply.",
        "麦肯锡全球研究所最近就研究了如何基于互联网来配置劳动力市场，以及如何将需求与人才和技能相匹配。"
    ],
    [
        "This means increasing representation not only for the major emerging economies, such as China, India, and Brazil, but also for countries like Nigeria and Indonesia, which together are home to more than 400 million people.",
        "这意味着不但中国、印度和巴西等主要新兴经济体代表力的增加，也意味着尼日利亚和印尼（两国人口之和超过四亿）等国家代表力的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s future will be determined by whether it is successful in comprehensively modernizing its economy, which today is largely based on exports of oil, gas, and other natural resources.",
        "俄国是否成功地将其经济全面实现现代化将会决定其未来。 其当今的经济很大程度上建立在出口石油、天然气以及其他自然资源的基础之上。"
    ],
    [
        "As Chernobyl and Fukushima demonstrated, nuclear safety vulnerabilities in one country can have profound consequences for the rest of the world.",
        "切尔诺贝利和福岛危机表明，一国的核安全脆弱性可能给世界其他地区带来深远影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Not likely, judging from the reception the series continues to receive in the other course in which I teach Rowling’s work, “Children’s Literature.”",
        "从哈利系列著作在我教授罗琳作品的另一门课“儿童文学”上所得到的评论来看这不太可能。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2015, there were just 74 new cases of the disease – 80% fewer than the previous year and the lowest annual total ever.",
        "2015年只有74例新病例——比前一年减少80%，也是历史上最低的年度数字。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany Must Defend the Euro",
        "德国必须捍卫欧元"
    ],
    [
        "The mass conversion to Islam among Persians was the first step toward the establishment of the first caliphate, a political-religious state comprising all Muslim lands.",
        "波斯人大规模改宗伊斯兰教是第一哈里发帝国建立的第一步。 第一哈里发帝国是一个包括所有穆斯林领土的政教合一国家。"
    ],
    [
        "At ten paces you can’t hear our words.",
        "十步之外，你听不到我们的声音"
    ],
    [
        "On the regional front, Obama hoped that an opening with Myanmar would ensure that the country did not become wholly dependent on China, while enabling the US to deepen its relationship with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.",
        "在地区层面，奥巴马希望缅甸的开放能确保该国不会完全依赖中国，同时让美国能够深化与东盟的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the soaring deficits may contribute somewhat to international financial instability.",
        "是的，美国的赤字激增会在某种意义上加剧国际金融的不稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "But to understand the effects of populist policies, one must first understand their logic.",
        "但人们必须先了解背后的逻辑，才能真正了解民粹主义政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would also be less easy to reject a call for greater burden sharing in the world.",
        "但是同样也不再容易拒绝分摊更多的世界责任的呼吁。"
    ],
    [
        "The price of bread has been kept so low that it is often fed to animals.",
        "面包价格一直保持在极低水平，以至于常常被拿来喂动物。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, Lukashenka must be laughing aloud.",
        "如果真是这样，卢卡申科肯定会喜不自胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of Africa’s under-immunized children live in Nigeria, Ethiopia, the DRC, South Sudan, and Guinea.",
        "大部分免疫不足的非洲儿童生活在尼日利亚、埃塞俄比亚、民主刚果、南非、埃塞俄比亚和几内亚。"
    ],
    [
        "China faces two separate challenges: the long-term issue of a declining potential growth rate and the immediate problem of below-potential actual growth.",
        "中国面临两个不同的挑战：潜在增长率下滑的长期问题和实际增长低于潜在水平的当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, many developed countries have built up dangerously large public debts and even larger non-debt liabilities, owing to unsustainable growth patterns.",
        "结果，许多发达国家囤积了非常危险的巨额债务和比债务还要巨大的非债务负债，而这些都是由不可持续的增长模式造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Venezuela used the 2004-2013 oil boom to quintuple its external public debt, instead of saving up for a rainy day.",
        "委内瑞拉在2004—2013年石油繁荣时期将外部债务扩大了四倍，而没有为萧条期做好储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Sub-Saharan Africans of today show traces of a distinct episode of interbreeding within the last 50,000 years.",
        "即使在今天的撒哈拉以南非洲，也有过去50 000年中杂交的明显痕迹。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin, devoted to its key fetish –Putin’s approval ratings – proved completely unprepared to curtail public spending in the wake of falling state revenues.",
        "而把普京的支持率奉若神明的克里姆林宫则完全没有在国家收入下降的情况下为削减支出做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s energy relationship with Iran grows ever stronger, and Russia continues to see its mission internationally as making trouble wherever it can.",
        "中国与伊朗的能源关系正愈发紧密，而俄国继续将尽力在一切可能的地区制造麻烦视为其国际使命。"
    ],
    [
        "Smaller-scale corruption is bad, but systemic corruption of political processes can have even greater costs.",
        "小规模的腐败是坏的，但是政治进程中体制性腐败则会造成更大代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The Strange Death of Multiculturalism",
        "多元文化主义的离奇死亡"
    ],
    [
        "And we must vow never to hold children in detention.",
        "我们必须发誓永远不会拘禁孩子。"
    ],
    [
        "Not talking to Pakistan is not much of a policy; it has been tried for years, yielding no significant benefit.",
        "中止印巴和谈算不上是一项策略； 这种状况已持续多年，却没有带来任何收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, populists have been defeated in Austria and the Netherlands; the French elected Emmanuel Macron, a centrist newcomer; and May, the champion of a “hard” Brexit, lost her parliamentary majority in last month’s snap general election.",
        "法国民众选出了伊曼纽尔·马克龙这位中间派新手； 而首推“硬”脱欧的梅在上个月举行的闪电大选中失去了议会多数。"
    ],
    [
        "In opting for a “pure” form of money, created by a central bank independent of national authority, Europeans self-consciously flew in the face of what had become the dominant monetary tradition.",
        "通过设立一个独立于各国当局的中央银行，并由该银行发行一种“纯粹”形式的货币，欧洲人有意识地脱离了过去那种占统治地位的货币传统。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words: is Iran to be treated as Hitler’s Germany in 1938, Prussia in 1756, or Stalin’s Soviet Union?",
        "换言之，是否像对待1938年的德国、1756年的普鲁士或者斯大林世代的苏联那样对付伊朗？"
    ],
    [
        "The Temptation of the Central Bankers",
        "央行行长的诱惑"
    ],
    [
        "In the first round of the parliamentary election, the UMP won a record-high 40% of the vote.",
        "在首轮国会选举中，人民运动联盟破纪录地赢得了40%的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Thaler once told me that Merton Miller, who won the economics Nobel in 1990 (he died in 2000), would not even make eye contact when passing him in the hallway at the University of Chicago.",
        "泰勒曾告诉我说1990年赢得诺贝尔经济学奖的米尔顿·米勒（Merton Miller，于2000年去世）跟他在芝加哥大学的走廊上碰面时甚至连看都不愿看他一眼。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, price controls, rather than lowering prices, often cause scarcity and the emergence of a black market in which controlled commodities cost significantly more.",
        "比如，价格管制而不是降低价格往往造成稀缺和黑市的产生，被管制商品在黑市上以高得多的价格出售。"
    ],
    [
        "PETA was, of course, not arguing that Holocaust victims’ fate was banal or trivial.",
        "当然，人道对待动物协会并没有认为大屠杀死难者的命运平庸或者琐碎。"
    ],
    [
        "The catalyst for their anger was the arrest and detention of the ailing opposition leader Ayman Nour at the end of January.",
        "民众愤怒的催化剂是一月底反对派领导人Ayman Nour在病中被逮捕并关押这一事件。"
    ],
    [
        "As the currency depreciated, the corporate sector’s foreign loans became more onerous – further exacerbating the panic.",
        "随着韩元的贬值，公司部门的外国贷款负担大大增加，这进一步加剧了恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "We don’t care how it goes, just put an end to it.”",
        "我们才不在乎它进行得如何呢，早日了结它吧！"
    ],
    [
        "In that way, it can also help shape a path back to the ballot box that is designed by and for Egyptians.",
        "这样还有助于重新按照埃及人设计的方式投票解决执政问题。"
    ],
    [
        "China is in the throes of an identity crisis as it faces an almost inevitable economic slowdown and the need to implement a new growth model.",
        "中国正面临着几乎不可避免的经济减速，经历着身份危机，需要实现新的增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "But that seems unlikely when banks and investors seem punch-drunk, barely reacting to regulators’ blows.",
        "但在银行和投资者都是一笔糊涂账、对监管机构的出击无动于衷时，这似乎是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "P.W. Singer and August Cole’s novel Ghost Fleet, set in a future war between the United States and China, is remarkable in that the authors describe all of the astonishing technologies that both sides use on the basis of publicly available information from actual US and Chinese military sources (micro-drones, robots, and holograms abound).",
        "辛格和科尔的小说《幽灵舰队》以美中两国的未来战争为背景，这部小说的非同寻常之处在于作者以收集自美中两国军队来源的实际公开信息为基础，推演出双方将会使用的令人震惊的技术（包括微型无人机、机器人和全息照相技术）。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s leaders might rightly fear that their country will be left holding the bill for European bailouts, but the result has been to sacrifice Greece on the altar of an abstract and unworkable idea: “no bailouts.”",
        "德国领导人担心最后德国必须为欧洲援助计划埋单，这也许是正确的，但结果是希腊沦为一个抽象的、不具备可行性的思想——“无援助”的祭品。"
    ],
    [
        "Westerners who think otherwise and have acquiesced in Russia’s actions in Ukraine do so for no other reason than their own greed, fear, or self-deception.",
        "有其他想法并默许俄罗斯在乌克兰行动的西方人这样做的理由无非是他们自身的贪婪、恐惧和自欺欺人。"
    ],
    [
        "Federal infrastructure spending and corporate-tax reform should top the list of policies capable of attracting bipartisan agreement, because they promise significant long-term productivity, income, and employment gains, while also supporting short-term growth.",
        "联邦基础设施支出和公司税改革应该成为吸引跨党派一致的最优先政策，因为它们有利于大幅提高长期生产率、收入和就业，同时也能支持短期增长。"
    ],
    [
        "So the great question today is where emerging-economy debts are hiding.",
        "因此，今天的大问题是新兴经济体债务藏在哪里。"
    ],
    [
        "The viability of the Republican bankruptcy proposal boils down to this: who will provide financing to a large complex financial institution – operating globally – while it is being restructured in bankruptcy?",
        "共和党破产方案的可行性可以归结如下：谁来给正在破产重组的复杂的大金融机构——全球经营的机构——提供融资？"
    ],
    [
        "In Jordan, a coalition led by the Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists has launched a new campaign, “Talk is Not a Crime,” to raise awareness about declining media freedom.",
        "在约旦，由捍卫记者自由中心（Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists）领导的联盟发起了一项新运动——“说话不是犯罪”以提高人们对媒体自由度下降的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "In Shanghai and Guangzhou, the equivalent is 29 and 27 years, respectively – much higher than in other major international cities.",
        "上海和广州则分别为29年和27年——远远高于其他国际大城市。"
    ],
    [
        "They deny climate change because they reject earth science entirely, believing the world to be newly created, contrary to the overwhelming evidence of physics, chemistry, and geology.",
        "他们否认气候变化是因为他们完全拒绝地球科学，他们相信世界会被重新创造，完全不顾物理学、化学和地质学的如山铁证。"
    ],
    [
        "And most of China’s fast-expanding loans and overseas investments are in dollars.",
        "中国迅速膨胀的贷款和海外投资大部分也是美元计价。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, I recently testified at a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on Republican-proposed legislation that would impose on the Fed greater limitations on both monetary policy and regulation.",
        "比如，最近我在众议院金融服务委员会的一次立法听证上做了陈词。 这项立法有共和党提出，旨在更大地限制美联储的货币政策和监管权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Zimbabwean authorities claim that the violent human rights abuses have stopped, but the ethical problem with Marange diamonds goes much deeper.",
        "尽管津巴布韦政府当局声称这一侵犯人权的惨案已经终结，但马朗钻石所蕴含的道德问题却引起了人们进一步的质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan and last year’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have taken their place alongside older problems, such as ozone depletion.",
        "但事实上，无论是今年的福岛核危机还是去年的英国石油公司墨西哥湾漏油事件都与臭氧层变薄这样的老问题差别不大。"
    ],
    [
        "If recent British newspaper headlines about the June 23 referendum on continued European Union membership are any guide, the answer appears to be a decisive “no.”",
        "如果近期有关6月23日是否保留欧盟成员资格全民公决的英国报纸头条能够带来任何启示，那么答案似乎肯定是“不认同”。"
    ],
    [
        "But the objectives of the use of force need to be linked to the recognition that in today’s asymmetric conflicts, victory is no longer achieved on the battlefield.",
        "但使用武力的目的需要与这样一个认识联系起来，即：在当今的非对称冲突中，胜利不再能够从战场上获得。"
    ],
    [
        "His doctrine that the US will use force to defend its “core interests,” but will mobilize others “to address broader challenges to international order,” is sound logic and good politics in a war-weary US.",
        "他所提出的美国将动用武力捍卫其“核心利益”，但同时要动员他国“解决国际秩序更大挑战”的理念在厌战的美国不失为合理有效的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-blasphemy laws not only violate that principle; they can easily be abused as a tool of political power and impoverish their societies by imposing a code of rigid conformity.",
        "反渎神法不但违反了这一原则，也很容易被滥用，沦为政治权力的工具，让社会变得僵化刻板而变得贫瘠。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, both are pro-American, with Nakasone declaring Japan to be America’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in East Asia and Koizumi sending troops to Iraq in support of the United States-led war effort.",
        "最后，两人都亲美，中曾根康弘宣布日本是美国在东亚“不沉的航空母舰”，小泉则向伊拉克派兵支持美国为首的战争行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, countries from Singapore to Russia are running large surpluses.",
        "事实上，从新加坡到俄罗斯的各个国家也存在巨额盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "But they cannot co-exist forever.",
        "但它们不会永远共存。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese consumer has been held back for too long, and now must be put front and center in China’s growth model.",
        "中国的消费市场被忽视得太久了，现在是时候把消费者放在增长模式中最前线的位置上。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no coincidence that the last emerging-markets crisis, in 1997-1998, was also associated with a dramatic fall in oil prices.",
        "这可不是巧合，因为上次1997~1998年间新兴市场危机也与石油价格的大幅下降有关联。"
    ],
    [
        "But the demand-siders’ conception of the economy is strange.",
        "但需求侧鼓吹者对经济的理解有点让人费解。"
    ],
    [
        "As a consequence, the new State Duma has not been elected so much as appointed.",
        "结果，新的国家杜马与其说是选举的，倒不如说是指定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither do I. But here are two simple ideas that could help to mitigate the crisis.",
        "我也没有。 但我有两个简单的建议能缓解这一危机。"
    ],
    [
        "In its effort to control rising housing prices, China’s government has pursued nine distinct policies, not all of which have served their purpose.",
        "为了控制房价上涨，中国政府采取了九项不同政策，但并非每一项政策都达到了效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraqis have elected their own representatives and are poised to write their constitution.",
        "伊拉克人已经选举出了他们自己的代表，正准备起草他们的宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "There has also been a sea change in transatlantic cooperation between the EU and the US.",
        "欧盟和美国之间的跨大西洋合作也发生了巨变。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama found the right words with which to pay tribute to the multitude of anonymous citizens going door to door to convince their fellow Americans to vote for their preferred candidates.",
        "奥巴马用这样的字眼歌颂大批挨家挨户敲门、说服其美国同胞将选票投给自己中意的候选人的不知名的美国公民可谓恰当。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not just a political commitment; we have enshrined France’s fiscal path in a law adopted in November.",
        "这不仅是一个政治承诺； 11月，我们已将法国的财政路径纳入了法律。"
    ],
    [
        "The Libertarian and the Lobbyists",
        "自由主义和游说"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, a poor African might have looked at his compatriots and resented their wealth; now, both he and his better-off compatriots look at the rich world and resent the huge income gaps they see.",
        "过去，一个贫穷的非洲人可能会以憎恶的眼光来看待其同胞的财富； 现在，他和比他富有的同胞都以憎恶的眼光来看待他们和富裕世界之间的收入差距。"
    ],
    [
        "European authorities rejected my plan in favor of the LTRO.",
        "欧洲当局拒绝了我的计划，采用了“长期再融资操作”。"
    ],
    [
        "If debt is owed largely to foreign lenders, interest-rate risk is compounded by exchange-rate risk.",
        "如果债务主要是欠外国借款人的话，利率风险就会因汇率风险而加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of the three major conglomerates will be closer to its goal of achieving domination of the seed and pesticide markets – at which point they will be able to dictate food products, prices, and quality worldwide.",
        "三大企业集团都将更加接近它们实现主宰种子和杀虫剂市场的目标——到时候它们就可以随心所欲地控制全球食品的生产、价格和质量了。"
    ],
    [
        "While the media reports are troubling, they do not provide the entire picture.",
        "尽管媒体报道令人不安，但它们并没有反应整体状况。"
    ],
    [
        "With no end in sight to the crisis in Syria, it is likely that we will need to provide these children with education for years to come.",
        "叙利亚危机没有任何结束迹象，有可能我们需要为这些儿童提供多年的教育。"
    ],
    [
        "And sometimes the killers reach for ideological justifications: building pure Islam, struggling for communism or fascism, or saving the West.",
        "有时这些杀手也会为自己的行为找一些意识形态上的理由：建立纯粹的伊斯兰国，为实现共产主义或者法西斯主义而奋斗，或者拯救西方。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranian intelligence has assassinated more than 400 Iranian dissidents outside of Iran, including the last prime minister under the Shah, Shapour Bakhtiar, and four Kurds in Berlin’s Mikonos restaurant in 1992 (a German judge later officially named Iran’s Supreme Leader as one of the senior officials involved in the terrorist attack).",
        "伊朗情报部门已经在海外刺杀了超过400名本国异见分子，包括在1992年刺杀了伊朗巴列维王朝的最后一任首相巴赫提亚尔以及住在柏林Mikonos 酒店的4名库尔德人（事后一位德国法官正式声明伊朗哈梅内伊是涉及这起恐怖事件的伊朗高级领导人之一）。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine suffers from the sharp drop in global demand and trade, severely undermining its steel industry.",
        "全球需求和贸易的急剧下降打击了乌克兰，严重破坏了该国的钢铁工业。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as London’s status shows, a longtime 1-IFC can retain its position in the international financial system even if its currency is no longer an IVC.",
        "但是，正如伦敦的地位所表明的，即使所在国货币已不再是IVC，老牌1-IFC仍可以保有其在国际金融体系中的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "BMW's and Chinese Justice",
        "BMW与中国的司法公正"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is clear: of course, the Russians would have rubbed their hands in jubilation and secretly celebrated the twin brothers at the head of the Polish state.",
        "答案是明显的：俄国人将会兴奋不已，暗地里为波兰的双胞胎兄弟领导人弹冠相庆。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with many Europeans blaming the EU for painful austerity measures, that complaint has grown more powerful – and Europe’s political leaders believe that they must act now to address it.",
        "如今，许多欧洲人都因痛苦的财政瘦身而对欧盟破口大骂，上述诟病声浪日高，让欧洲各国首脑们觉得必须马上着手应对。"
    ],
    [
        "But, relative to the macro situation, these are minor issues.",
        "但是，相对宏观局面来说，这些都是次要问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The City of London has jumped into the breach, increasing its purchases, which in 2008 and 2009 amounted to only about $1 billion monthly, to an average of $28 billion in the first seven months of this year.",
        "伦敦市插入了中国留下的投资缝隙，提高了对美政府债券的购买量。 在2008～2009年期间，伦敦的购买量是每月10亿美元左右，在今年头7个月增至平均每月280亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Each region, therefore, will have to secure its own future.",
        "因此每个区域都必须确保自身的未来发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, the truth came out: Theranos was all smoke and mirrors.",
        "去年，外界知道了真相，Theranos 充其量是镜花水月。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Israeli National Transplant and Organ Donation Center now openly encourages providers, insurance companies, and the Donor Card Institution, to pay families who consent to donate the organs of their deceased relative.",
        "此外，以色列国家移植和器官捐献中心现在公开鼓励供体、保险公司和捐赠卡机构向同意捐献死亡亲属器官的家庭支付费用。"
    ],
    [
        "With many battles ahead in the fight against AIDS, TB and malaria, it would be a disgrace if this opportunity is squandered.",
        "当我们面临抗击艾滋病、肺结核和疟疾的斗争时，白白浪费这个机会将是一种耻辱。"
    ],
    [
        "So when China showed up, promising benevolent investment and easy credit, they were all in.",
        "因此，当中国伸出“援手”，承诺慈善式投资和便利的信用时，它们纷纷接受。"
    ],
    [
        "In the emerging world, India and Brazil are just two examples of economies where inadequate investment has kept growth below potential (though that may be changing in India).",
        "在新兴世界，印度和巴西是投资不足导致增长达不到潜在水平的两个例子（尽管印度也许正在发生改变）。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer to these critics is, unfortunately, “just wait.”",
        "不幸的是，对于这些危机，答案是“等着瞧”。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies that, unless the US resumes its role as consumer of last resort, the latest bout of financial-market jitters will weaken the global economy again.",
        "这意味着，除非美国再次扮演最后消费者，最近的资本市场动荡将再次削弱全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Power is the ability to get the outcomes one wants, and the resources that produce such behavior depend upon the context.",
        "所谓实力，就是达到想要达到的结果的能力，而产生这样行为的资源取决于环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to engaging the FARC in secret talks in Cuba, Santos’s regional diplomacy shifted the region’s politics from saber rattling to the hard work of cooperation.",
        "在设法让FARC加入在古巴举行的秘密谈判之前，桑托斯的地区外交政策改变了该地区的政治形势——从武力恫吓转向了努力合作。"
    ],
    [
        "And regional movements elsewhere in Europe – and around the world – are making similar demands.",
        "而欧洲乃至全球其他部分的地区运动也提出了类似的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with few exceptions, the same ministers have returned to the same offices as part of an administration backed by the same odd pair of parties (the left-wing Syriza and the smaller right-wing Independent Greeks), which received only a slightly lower share of the vote than the previous administration.",
        "事实上，除去极少数例外，同样的部长又回到了由同样奇怪的党派组合（即左翼联盟和规模略小的右翼独立希腊人党）支持的同样的政府职位，而且得票率仅仅略低于前任政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Refugees like Shabbir faced a minimum of nine months before their first encounter with any official who would receive their asylum application.",
        "沙比尔这样的难民在遇到首个可能接受他们的避难申请的官员之前至少要熬过九个月。"
    ],
    [
        "Some financial activity has already been driven into the shadows, reflected in the use of Bitcoin and other currencies that are beyond the reach of US regulators.",
        "受此影响，已有一些金融活动转入影子银行系统，比特币和其它不受美国监管的货币的使用就体现了这一现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Tahoun analyzed the relationship between stock owned by congressmen and contributions their political campaigns by the relevant firms, and found a powerful positive association.",
        "塔霍分析了国会议员持有的股份以及相关公司对其政治活动所做贡献之间的联系，并得出了一个有说服力的正相关关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising educational attainment is helping to promote more technologically sophisticated exports as well.",
        "提高教育水平也有助于促进高科技出口的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "His tyranny rivaled the worst of the twentieth century.",
        "他的苛政堪称是20世纪暴虐之最。"
    ],
    [
        "· putting a stop to Moscow’s divide-and-conquer politics by adopting a common EU energy policy;",
        "· 欧盟采取共同能源政策以抑制莫斯科的“先分裂后征服”的策略；"
    ],
    [
        "In Kosovo, for example, the transformation of the Kosovo Liberation Army into a civilian peace force has caused great insecurity over the years, which the UN administration might ultimately regret if the resolution of the province’s final status does not lead to independence.",
        "例如，在科索沃，科索沃解放军在向一支和平武装转变的若干年里就造成了极大的不安全因素。 如果关于该省最后地位的决议没有使其独立，那么联合国可能最终会为这一项目感到后悔。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the slogans slung about in Valencia in October 2012 – with demonstrators urged to chant at the chancellor’s effigy, “You will love money above all else” and “You will honor the banks and the Bank” – had the unmistakably foul odor of the old mantras about “the golden calf” and the “cosmopolitan plutocracy.”",
        "同样，2012年10月瓦伦西亚示威者在总理肖像前高喊的口号“你对钱的爱超过一切”和“你要确保兑付欧洲和各国央行”——毫无疑问能闻到原来纳粹口号的臭气，比方说“金牛”和“都会富豪”。"
    ],
    [
        "And some of the very pressures that helped to contain inflation for the past two decades have been retreating.",
        "而某些在过去二十年中有助于遏制通货膨胀的压力已经消退。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria is the only Arab country allied with Iran, and, as Iraq’s direct neighbor, it is crucial for Iraq’s stabilization.",
        "叙利亚是唯一与伊朗结盟的阿拉伯国家，作为伊拉克的邻国，它对伊拉克的稳定举足轻重。"
    ],
    [
        "It is estimated that lower oil and commodity prices could add some $460 billion to China’s trade balance, largely offsetting the loss in foreign-exchange reserves in 2015.",
        "据估计，石油和大宗商品价格低企给中国带来了4,600亿美元左右的贸易盈余，基本抵消了2015年中国外汇储备的损失额。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no act of genocide that is not also another crime.",
        "没有哪种种族灭绝行为不同时是另外一种犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "But such breakthroughs require at least four ingredients: a correct shared understanding of the problem, agreement on an effective way forward, willingness to pool more sovereignty, and political leaders able to drive change forward.",
        "但这样的突破至少需要四个要素：对问题有正确的理解、对有效的前进道路形成一致、愿意将更多的主权集中起来，以及有能力推动变革的政治领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "The prostitutes who lined up throughout downtown Moscow in the Yeltsin era have disappeared, and “dressing to kill” for a casual walk has gone out of fashion.",
        "叶利钦时代莫斯科市中心站满的妓女现在已经消失，而且为了平常的散步而打扮得花枝招展已经过时。"
    ],
    [
        "Sweden has made migration and asylum policy a high priority, while Norway is concerned about the fate of migrants in Greece.",
        "瑞典优先重视移民和庇护政策，而挪威则非常关注希腊的移民状况。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem for the Kingdom is that simply “correcting” the Qatari position cannot change the political trajectory within the region – particularly in Syria and Egypt.",
        "沙特王国的问题在于，简单地“纠正”卡塔尔的立场无法改变地区内的政治轨迹——特别是叙利亚和埃及。"
    ],
    [
        "But efforts like these, by focusing on the need to provide appropriate and less expensive care for chronic diseases, constitute a small step in the right direction.",
        "但这类措施通过专注于提供合理平价的慢性病医疗的需要，朝着正确的方向迈出了一小步。"
    ],
    [
        "The data, which were meant to highlight efforts to eradicate extreme poverty and reduce premature deaths, was also intended to cajole.",
        "这些数据在凸显人们为消除极端贫困和减少过早死亡所付出努力的同时，也旨在转移人们的注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether it does depends on the decisiveness of the policy response.",
        "是否会如此取决于政策反应的果断性。"
    ],
    [
        "The entire Israeli political spectrum was thrown into confusion.",
        "以色列政局由此陷入了彻底的混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, developing machine ethics will require research that is interdisciplinary in nature, based on a dialogue between ethicists and AI specialists.",
        "相反，制定及其伦理需要基于伦理学家和AI专家对话的多学科交叉研究。"
    ],
    [
        "What’s more, the current stalemate will likely force certain member states to address the issue through other means, which will ultimately jeopardize ASEAN’s regional and international relevance.",
        "此外，最近的僵局可能迫使一些成员国通过其他途径解决问题，最终影响到东盟的地区和国际重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump clearly fears that Mueller will find grounds to indict him.",
        "特朗普显然害怕穆勒找到起诉他的“实锤”。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in some types of breast cancer, patients may be treated for more than a decade with anti-hormone therapies, and these long-term treatments are working – they are successful at preventing some of the cancer recurrences that occur with shorter treatment.",
        "比如对某些类型的乳腺癌来说，患者可能已经接受了超过十几年的抗荷尔蒙治疗，而且这些疗法也取得了成果——成功防止了在某些短期疗法中可能出现的复发状况。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a growing consensus on the need for broader industry standards for sustainable production and processing of agricultural commodities.",
        "另一个日益形成的共识是需要为可持续生产和处理农产品建立更广泛的行业标准。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that the obvious challenges facing Saudi Arabia require a level of cohesion in the upper echelons of government that remains elusive.",
        "问题在于沙特阿拉伯显而易见面临的挑战需要一直高深莫测的政府组织高层具有相当水平的凝聚力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, as taken with today’s revolutionary technologies as we are – I say this staring at my sleek new Apple Watch – I am sympathetic to Gordon’s argument.",
        "事实上，今天的革命性技术令我沉迷——写下这句话的时候，我一边看着我崭新的苹果手表——但我对戈登的观点深有共鸣。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, Britain was able quickly to put in place a set of favorable trade deals, negotiated with Commonwealth countries at the Ottawa Conference in 1932.",
        "其次，借助1932年的渥太华会议英国得以迅速与各英联邦国家签订有利的贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "They could nudge intermediaries to create a platform that summarizes commenters’ record and reputation.",
        "它们可以劝说中介机构总结评论者记录和名声的平台。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s trade adjustment in some respects followed that of Japan, the original focus of American trade anxieties in the 1980s.",
        "从某些角度，中国的贸易调整是在步日本后尘。 20世纪80年代，日本是美国贸易焦虑的最初焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "But South Korean democracy was not something the US gave to the Koreans, or even always encouraged.",
        "但南朝鲜民主却不是美国赋予朝鲜人的，甚至不是美国一直鼓励的。"
    ],
    [
        "That decision was one of the last taken by Romano Prodi’s Commission, of which I was a member.",
        "该评判是由罗马诺·普罗迪领导的欧盟委员会所做出的最后一项评判，当时我是其中一员。"
    ],
    [
        "That generation – highly educated, experienced, and, for the most part, successful on their own merits – is prepared to carry China’s economic and social progress forward with great skill and dedication.",
        "新一代人——受过高等教育，经验丰富，而且在很大程度上都是依靠自身的努力取得的成就——正准备以高超的施政技巧和奉献精神来推动中国的经济和社会进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the false reports originated from RT News and Sputnik, two state-funded Russian outlets.",
        "同时许多假新闻都始发于今日俄罗斯（RT News）和俄罗斯卫星网（Sputnik）这两家受政府资助的俄罗斯媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Europe’s economies have not become “look-alikes,” nor has GDP per capita been fully equalized.",
        "当然，欧洲的各种经济体制还没有变成“相似者”，他们的人均GDP也没有完全平等。"
    ],
    [
        "But anti-immigration parties are gaining ground across western Europe; they could make huge political capital out of potential Ukrainian membership.",
        "但反对移民的政党在整个西欧正日渐强势； 它们可能将乌克兰潜在的成员资格作为巨大的政治资本。"
    ],
    [
        "For many people, the next big development will be non-invasive blood analysis, so that everyone, not just super-motivated diabetics, can test their own blood and understand their own metabolic chemistry.",
        "对许多人来说，下一个大发展将是无创血液分析，依靠这种技术，每个人（而不仅仅是动机强烈的糖尿病患者）都可以检验自身血液，了解自身的代谢化学。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor should we be swayed by the argument that circuses provide employment.",
        "我们也不必因马戏团提供了就业这种观点而举棋不定。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, thanks to ongoing grants and future loans from national aid agencies and multilateral lenders like the World Bank, most of the poor “debtor” countries look set to receive considerably more money than they pay back, with no end in sight.",
        "事实上，幸亏有了像世界银行这样的国家援助和多边贷款机构不断提供赠款和远期借贷，使得大多数贫困的债务国收到的贷款肯定要比偿还能力多得多，这种状况循环往复，没有尽头。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, lawyers fell back on another series of techniques.",
        "在这里，律师们采取了另外一套技巧。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s growing trade linkages with the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula have suffered as well.",
        "土耳其与黎凡特和阿拉伯半岛蒸蒸日上的贸易联系也受到了影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is also a significant risk that a large and unnecessary dose of fiscal austerity will weaken demand, undermine confidence, and tip the economy back into recession.",
        "但也存在这样一个风险：大幅且无必要的财政紧缩可能会削弱需求，打击信心，并使经济重陷衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of viable strategies and clear direction, most Internet-aided uprisings have dissipated quickly.",
        "大部分互联网支持的骚乱没有可行的战略和明确的方向，很快就消散了。"
    ],
    [
        "After Alibaba launched its money market fund, Yu’e Bao, in June 2013, it began reinvesting its Alipay customers’ unproductive micro-deposits.",
        "阿里巴巴推出货币市场基金后，2013年6月，余额宝开始对支付宝客户的非生产性小额存款进行再投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Some NGO’s and Chernobyl charities have responded with disbelief, citing as evidence the general population’s admittedly poor health.",
        "某些非政府组织以及切尔诺贝利慈善组织对此表示难以相信，他们引用公开承认的普通民众的健康问题作为证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Making Sense of the Climate Impasse",
        "理解气候僵局"
    ],
    [
        "Forza Italia is polling at around 16%, which is slightly higher than the Northern League’s support, even if it is well below the party’s heyday, when it polled above 25%.",
        "意大利前进党的民调支持率在16%左右，略高于北方联盟，尽管比本党顶峰时期25%以上的支持率低很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Providing help is a moral responsibility of all, but especially of the ex-colonial powers.",
        "提供帮助是所有人的道德责任，但尤其是前殖民列强的道德责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Angola and Brazil have reversed the brain drain and are receiving large flows of immigrants from their former colonial ruler, Portugal.",
        "同样，安哥拉和巴西已经扭转了人才外流的状况，接收来自前殖民统治者葡萄牙的大量移民流入。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – In 2003, France, under President Jacques Chirac, took the lead in opposing America’s planned invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.",
        "巴黎——2003年，在雅克·希拉克总统执政期间，法国领导了反对美国入侵萨达姆·侯赛因治下伊拉克的运动。"
    ],
    [
        "The text of the Lisbon treaty is studiously vague in its job description of the president’s role – an approach that prevented trouble for treaty’s framers, but merely postponed disagreement.",
        "《里斯本条约》的具体规定有意在主席的职务描述上含糊其辞——这种方法能为条约的制定者减少麻烦，但所起的作用不过是将分歧的时间推后。"
    ],
    [
        "Greeks and others may fault him for pursuing his agenda with too little politesse while in office.",
        "希腊和其他国家也许会指责他在担任财政部长期间只知道追求自己的日程，不讲道理。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past two years, police and government-supported paramilitaries have routinely jailed, beaten, and even killed MDC officials and suspected MDC members.",
        "在过去两年的时间里，警察和政府支持的准军事部队时常拘押、殴打甚至杀害民主变革运动官员以及被怀疑是该运动的成员。"
    ],
    [
        "We can already see the first white-capped waves.",
        "我们已经可以看到第一波白浪了。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly not.",
        "当然不是。"
    ],
    [
        "So we decided last year to find out whether the same similarity between Moscow and New York persists today, or whether, given the revival of authoritarianism in Russia today, attitudes toward markets there had become more negative.",
        "因此，我们决定在去年再次研究莫斯科和纽约之间的相似之处在今天是否依然存在，因为随着权威主义在俄罗斯的复兴，外界对俄罗斯市场的态度已变得更加负面。"
    ],
    [
        "The contribution that the structural-change component can make is necessarily self-limiting if the modern sector does not experience rapid productivity growth on its own.",
        "如果现代部门自身没有经历过生产力的快速增长，那么目前这种结构变化部分可以做出的贡献就必然会出现自限性。"
    ],
    [
        "That may turn out to be true.",
        "这也许是真的。"
    ],
    [
        "Or is there an equilibrium point ahead, where the percentage holds steady without declining further?",
        "还是前方有一个平衡点，百分比能够保持稳定而不再下降？"
    ],
    [
        "Artur Mas, President of Catalonia’s regional government, has vowed to go ahead with a non-binding referendum anyway.",
        "但加泰罗尼亚自治区政府主席阿图尔·马斯公开承诺要举行非约束性公投。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain’s torment over EU membership is rooted in history: In 1946, Winston Churchill famously advocated a United States of Europe – but without Britain.",
        "英国因为欧盟成员资格而痛苦不堪，这尤其历史根源：1946年，丘吉尔提出了著名的欧罗巴合众国，但不包括英国在内。"
    ],
    [
        "Fischer certainly got attention back then, but information was filtered very differently than it is today.",
        "当时的费舍尔当然引起了人们的关注，但那时的信息过滤机制和今天截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "So, rather than repudiate them as dangerous cults, successive governments rushed to embrace them.",
        "因此，一届又一届政府并没有把他们当成危险的邪教进行打击，而是忙不迭接受它们。"
    ],
    [
        "This same argument would apply against EEA membership.",
        "然而同样的论点也适用欧洲经济区成员。"
    ],
    [
        "But to make the change irreversible, a truly independent and incorruptible judiciary is essential.",
        "但是，为了让这一改变不可逆转，一个真正独立和不受腐败侵袭的司法体系是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "The military was led – for the first time in its history – by an Air Force general, Dan Halutz, who believed that everything could be solved by air power, creating a combustible combination of civilian ignorance and military arrogance.",
        "他相信空中力量可以解决一切问题，从而造成文职领导人的无知以及军队的傲慢。 二者结合就导致局势极度危机。"
    ],
    [
        "It has become increasingly clear that establishing the euro was the wrong path to take.",
        "情况越来越清楚，引入欧元是一步错棋。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2001, the US accounted for one-fifth of the world’s economic output.",
        "2001年，美国占世界经济总量的五分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Some might counter that the holdout hedge funds that sued Argentina deserve no sympathy, either.",
        "也许会有人反驳说，起诉阿根廷的顽固坚持对冲基金也不值得同情。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the US had plenty of financial problems, financing its external deficit was not one of them.",
        "美国金融问题重重，但为外债融资已不再是其中之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Women’s longer life expectancy has long been linked to differences in “biological pre-disposition,” with theories ranging from the protection afforded by women’s lower iron levels to the absence of “extra” genes on men’s Y chromosome.",
        "长期以来，人们认为女性预期寿命更长与“生物倾向”（biological predisposition）有关，比如女性铁水平较低从而能够提供保护，或者不存在男性Y染色体的“额外”基因等。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dark Matter of Financial Globalization",
        "金融全球化中的暗物质"
    ],
    [
        "This provides the means for maintaining a competitive industrial sector while simultaneously combating global warming.",
        "它提供了在保持有竞争力的工业部门的同时遏制全球变暖的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "As happens almost everywhere, the transition became a moment to scrutinize the outgoing government’s policies, even if the new administration does not intend to modify those policies in the short term.",
        "和其他国家一样，权力的交接是考验政府政策延续性的时刻，即使新政府短期内并不打算修改政策。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, while US President Barack Obama has referred to the quartet’s decision as his guiding principle for diplomatic action on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the situation remains as dire as ever, because the devil remains in the details.",
        "但是，尽管美国总统奥巴马将四方决定作为其在以巴冲突问题上的外交指导原则，但以巴局势并没有因此得到进展，因为在诸多细节上根本无法达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Little wonder: perhaps more than ever, the US dollar lies at the heart of the global financial system.",
        "这并不奇怪：美元在全球金融体系中的核心地位也许比以往任何时候都更加稳固。"
    ],
    [
        "Conservatives, for their part, think of Liberals as combining sanctimoniousness with hard-ball electoral tactics.",
        "在保守党人看来，自由党人只不过是一帮喜欢耍下三滥手段却还要假装清高的人罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2004, Anastasiades and his party supported the Annan Plan, developed by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and supported by the European Union.",
        "2004年，阿纳斯塔夏季斯及其政党对由前联合国秘书长科菲·安南提议并获欧盟首肯的安南计划表示了支持。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – In the second American presidential debate, Donald Trump promised that, if elected, he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton.",
        "布鲁塞尔—在第二场美国总统竞选辩论中，唐纳德·特朗普承诺如果当选将任命一位特别检察官调查希拉里·克林顿。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, eurozone leaders must take three key steps.",
        "在这方面，欧元区领导人必须实施三个基本措施。 功能不全的欧洲财政治理制度应该取消；"
    ],
    [
        "Bush cannot be blamed for the intelligence failures that attributed such weapons to Saddam, given that many other countries shared such estimates.",
        "不能把萨达姆拥有大规模杀伤性武器的情报失误归咎于布什，因为很多其他国家也有此定论。"
    ],
    [
        "The Israeli government and Palestinian political leaders are locked in a ruinous struggle, which merely aids extremists on both sides.",
        "以色列政府和巴勒斯坦政治领导人正陷于一场毁灭性的战争中，这只会帮助两方的极端分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Following this intuition, Justin Yifu Lin, the former chief economist of the World Bank, has suggested that when countries choose what to do next, they should look at a successful country that was similar to them two decades ago.",
        "前世界银行首席经济学家林毅夫在这一思想的引导下指出，在国家选择未来该如何做时，应该把目光投向20年前情况与自己相似的成功国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Avoiding new tension with Taiwan appears to have been a calculated decision by China’s leaders as they begin their own – perhaps not yet fully settled – changing of the guard.",
        "防止对台出现紧张态势看上去似乎是中国领导人早已计算好的决定，特别是他们开始自己的——或者尚未完全尘埃落定的——权力交接之时。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, one cannot help feeling uncertain about the credibility of his womenomics initiatives.",
        "基于此，我们无法不对其妇女经济学计划的可信性产生疑问。"
    ],
    [
        "Another commentator even went so far as to claim that there is “little evidence to suggest that schoolchildren are actually getting any nutritional value from it at all.”",
        "另一位评论家更加夸张，他甚至声称“几无证据表明学生真能从学校餐中获得任何营养价值。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, all children are well covered by effective health-care systems.",
        "此外，所有孩子都能得到高效的医疗系统覆盖。"
    ],
    [
        "And such decisions may not be recognized as mistaken or unjust until later – consider Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese-American citizens early in World War II.",
        "而这样的决定只有在事后才会得到承认不是错误、不存在不公——富兰克林·罗斯福在二战初期对日裔美国公民的禁制令就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "The holding company would play an active role readying the assets for sale.",
        "该控股公司将就资产出售事宜进行积极准备。"
    ],
    [
        "All these programs refute three widely held myths.",
        "所有这些项目都驳斥了三个流传广泛的错误观点。"
    ],
    [
        "In war-torn Yemen and Iraq, millions more children are also missing out on school.",
        "在饱受战争蹂躏的也门和伊拉克，同样有高达数百万的失学儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "Then we watch with dismay as they migrate to the West, taking with them the promise of their talent.",
        "之后我们灰心丧气地看着他们移民西方，同时带走的还有国家的发展前途。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the experience of having lived abroad as refugees in Pakistan and Iran.",
        "曾经在巴基斯坦和伊朗的难民生活经历也起到同样的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The Modi Government Turns One",
        "莫迪政府化为一人政治"
    ],
    [
        "The government may have to shore up the financial system if the changes in asset prices that undermined the dollar sink risk-loving or imprudent lenders.",
        "如果对美元构成威胁的资产价格变化让热爱风险或鲁莽的贷款人陷入麻烦，政府也许不得不对金融体系给予某种程度的支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "This would entail reinstating pay-as-you-go rules and establishing an independent commission to submit to Congress amendment-proof (and filibuster-proof) recommendations for tax and expenditure reform.",
        "这个方案可以明确表态要恢复所得税预扣法，并建立一个独立的委员会，负责向国会就税收和支出改革提出建议，而不必受到修正和阻挠。"
    ],
    [
        "The first indication that we are experiencing SS1 relates to technology.",
        "我们正在经历SS1的第一个指标与技术有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Some economists argue that, unlike past recessions, in which workers were temporarily laid off from an industry only to be rehired as the recovery picked up, job losses starting in 1991 were more permanent.",
        "有些经济学家提出与以往经济衰退期临时解雇工人，恢复期又重新雇佣不同，1991年开始的岗位裁撤更加长期。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while structural reforms are necessary, some measures – for example, labor-market liberalization and pension overhauls – may boost the eurozone’s savings rate and thus weaken aggregate demand further (as occurred in Germany following its structural reforms a decade ago).",
        "而尽管结构改革必不可少，但一些措施——比如劳动力市场自由化和退休金改革——可能增加欧元区储蓄率，从而进一步降低需求（十年前德国采取结构改革后就是如此）。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1926, V. I. Vernadsky similarly acknowledged the increasing impact of mankind on “[t]he direction in which the processes of evolution must proceed, namely towards increasing consciousness and thought, and forms having greater and greater influence on their surroundings.”",
        "I. 韦尔兹基也把人类日益增长的影响力称为“进化发展的自然方向，对周围环境有意识影响的效果越来越明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Tackling the problem will require innovative approaches.",
        "解决这一问题需要采用创新方法。"
    ],
    [
        "While marketing has contributed to the rise, the luxury market’s robust growth is actually rooted in biology.",
        "尽管营销活动能够部分解释奢侈品消费的上涨，但奢侈品市场的强劲增长究其原因实际要归功于生物学。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary and fiscal stimulus in most countries has done little to slow down the rate of job losses.",
        "5%。 各国的货币和财政刺激，大多对缓解失业压力作用寥寥。"
    ],
    [
        "Many are imposing emergency measures like export taxes or bans, which help their own citizens, but at the expense of those elsewhere.",
        "许多国家正在实施出口税或者禁止出口等紧急措施。 这些措施帮助了本国的公民，但是其他国家的人要付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Securing a More Secure World",
        "保卫更安全的世界"
    ],
    [
        "The Economic View from the Alps",
        "阿尔卑斯山上的经济景观"
    ],
    [
        "While many factors contributed to this surge, most experts agree that the single most important cause was a fee-for-service system that rewarded health-care providers for billing as many services as possible, rather than for keeping people healthy and treating their illnesses efficiently.",
        "4%。 有许多因素促成了这一增幅，但大部分专家都同意，最重要的原因是按服务计费（fee-for-service）制度，该制度鼓励医疗服务提供者尽可能多地提供收费服务，而不是把维持人民健康和有效治疗疾病放在首位。"
    ],
    [
        "If it can renew the European model at home, it will be able to project that success much more widely, particularly in southern Europe, in turn reinforcing confidence and belief in the EU, particularly among the young generation.",
        "如果法国能够在国内改变欧洲模式，则将有能力将成功经验推而广之，特别是推广到南欧，从而反过来增强欧盟的信心和信念，特别是年轻一代的信心和信念。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, I would have considered this unlikely.",
        "我不认为该方案会在近期会成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that the US has not gotten there yet is not a problem of vision, but of less-than-ideal implementation.",
        "美国还没有到达这一步这一事实并非愿景问题，而是实施不理想的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "We have gone from one extreme to the other, whereas a middle road would be wiser.",
        "我们从一个极端走到了另一个极端，而中间道路可能会是更明智的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment in the development and deployment of this technology could lead to a substantial decline in unnecessary antibiotic treatments for sore throats, not to mention ease pressure on health systems and save doctors’ time.",
        "开发也推广这一技术的投资可以大大降低非必要的抗生素喉咙痛治疗，更不用说对卫生体系压力的缓解和节约医生时间了。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is also imperative to establish a wide national consensus on the rules of the game.",
        "此外，另一个重要方面是建立广泛的民族共识，形成游戏规则。"
    ],
    [
        "The second factor is that BNP’s case came to a head at a time when US prosecutors were being accused of treating banks as “too big to jail,” for fear that pressing charges against them would weaken them too much and thus undermine the real economy.",
        "第二项因素是巴黎银行这个案子恰好是在美国检察机关饱受指责之时出现的，人们批评检察机构不愿向银行施压，“太大而不能送进监狱”，担心过度削弱银行将导致实体经济被削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The monarchies remained in power for decades, but the Industrial Revolution and the advent of democracy had become unstoppable.",
        "君主制继续掌了几十年权力，但工业革命和民主的崛起已经势不可挡。"
    ],
    [
        "A pillar of Israel’s national security leadership, he subsequently became an ardent peacemaker, always maintaining a love-hate relationship with an Israeli public that consistently declined to elect him Prime Minister but admired him when he did not have or seek real power.",
        "他是以色列国家安全领导的支柱之一，后来成为坚定的和平派，与一直拒绝选他当总理、但在他不拥有或追求实际权力时又敬仰他的以色列共公众一直爱恨交织。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the next 35 years, the United Nations expects the region’s population to rise more than twofold, from 620 million today to 1.3 billion.",
        "联合国预计，在未来35年中，红海地区人口将增加一倍多，从今天的6. 2亿增加到13亿。"
    ],
    [
        "Why should the West insist on elections in a country that since 1984 was ruled by a Western-backed dictator, Lansana Conté, who himself came to power in a military coup?",
        "对于一个1984年以来就由西方支持的独裁者兰萨纳·孔戴统治的国家来说，西方为什么要坚持选举呢？ 毕竟孔戴自己就曾依靠军事政变起家。"
    ],
    [
        "This information is in many ways more sensitive, and services share it on a \"need to know\" basis, not for the sake of promoting cooperation.",
        "这些情报在许多方面都更加敏感，各部门应在\"了解\"的基础上共享，而不是为了促进合作。"
    ],
    [
        "And the damage to their credibility risks further undermining their effectiveness and perpetuating a vicious circle set in motion by their failure to generate high and inclusive growth.",
        "而信誉的受损有可能进一步影响它们的效果，让因它们没能实现包容性高增长而产生的恶性循环持久化。"
    ],
    [
        "The world economy is reasonably good at achieving economic growth, but it fails to ensure that prosperity is equitably shared and environmentally sustainable.",
        "世界经济在实现经济增长方面颇为擅长，但它无法保证繁荣得到平等共享和环境可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "The net result is that it seems highly probable that any attempted achievement of a “new settlement,” including repatriation of competences, will make it much more difficult for Britain to remain in the EU than would be the case if a straightforward “in/out” referendum were held now.",
        "结果很可能是任何试图达成“新方案”，包括还权协议的努力会比让英国现在直接举行是否退出欧盟的公投退出的可能性更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the anti-Thaksin coalition will settle for no less than his ouster from office, permanent banishment from Thai politics, and possibly exile.",
        "的确，反他信联盟要把他赶下总理宝座、令其永不得从政甚至可能流放，否则决不善罢甘休。"
    ],
    [
        "Why expose something to public scrutiny and possible restraints when you can usher it in through the back door by pretending it will do some good?",
        "当你能够把它包装为好东西，从而走后门引入时，为什么还要把它暴露在公共监督下，接受可能的约束？"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not enough; attractive and credible alternatives must be forged.",
        "但这还不够，必须打造有吸引力的可信的替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Democrats oppose most nondefense spending cuts, arguing that reductions would cause the economy to contract.",
        "民主党反对大多数非防务支出削减，他们指出，削减支出将导致经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, although Britain will formally cease to be an EU member by March 2019, very little will change in Britain’s economy or way of life by the time of the next general election in 2022.",
        "因此，尽管英国将在2019年3月正式结束欧盟成员的历史，但直到2022年举行下一次大选之前，英国经济和生活方式将不会产生什么变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Hu Jintao may have made a genuflection to his more liberal mentor, but in the two decades since the elder Hu’s fall from power, even as private space has expanded, China has become a politically far less open society.",
        "胡锦涛可能膜拜其更为开明的导师，但是，自胡耀邦倒台二十年以来，尽管私有空间得以扩大，中国业已变成为一个在政治上大为不开放的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "But equal access is probably an unlikely ideal.",
        "然而平等的受教育机会或许是一个不太可能实现的理想。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China’s actual commodity consumption is even lower than the figures suggest.",
        "此外，中国的实际大宗商品消费要比数据所显示的更小。"
    ],
    [
        "Surely, imitation will someday impinge on superior US growth performance as well.",
        "当然，有一天这种模仿也会威胁到美国经济的发展前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Although socialist economic policies in both countries inhibited initiative and enterprise, a positive legacy of that period cannot be denied.",
        "虽然这两个国家早期的社会主义经济政策抑制了它们的创新能力和企业发展，但我们也不应抹杀了那段时期的积极一面。"
    ],
    [
        "The US may be less vulnerable in the long run if it imports less energy, but oil is a fungible commodity, and the US economy will remain sensitive to shocks from sudden changes in world prices.",
        "如果美国能源进口量有所减少，那么从长期看它的脆弱性将会减小，但石油是一种可替代商品，而美国经济仍然对世界油价的突然变化所带来的冲击非常敏感。"
    ],
    [
        "New governments in several countries, from Nigeria to Sri Lanka, have ordered investigations into alleged Chinese bribery of the previous leadership.",
        "从尼日利亚到斯里兰卡，一些国家的新政府下令对中国贿赂前任领导层的指控进行调查。"
    ],
    [
        "This proposal was originally made by the Senlis Council, an independent organization based in Paris, during a workshop in Kabul last September.",
        "这一建议最初在去年九月份由一个设在巴黎的独立组织桑利斯委员会在喀布尔举行的一个研讨会上提出。"
    ],
    [
        "The average world citizen would have been 20% richer had world GDP per capita grown at the same rate between 1980 and 2007 as it did between 1950 and 1973 – and this despite China’s high growth rates in the past 20 years.",
        "如果1980年到2007年全球GDP的增长速度能保持1950年到1973年的增长水平，全球人均GDP将会比现在增加20%——这还不排除中国的因素,因为中国在过去20年一直保持着较高的增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, if we could stop global warming (which we can’t), the benefit for future generations would be one-tenth or less of the benefit of freer trade (which we certainly can achieve).",
        "另外，如果我们能够阻止全球变暖（其实做不到），其对未来世代的利益也只会是更自由的贸易（我们完全能够实现）所能带来的十分之一或更少。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009, Thomas Frieden and colleagues from the New York City Board of Health reviewed the registry’s first four years of operation and concluded that it was performing well.",
        "纽约市卫生委员会的汤玛斯·弗里登及其同僚们对该系统头四年的运作进行了检讨并得出了运作良好的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the government closed down the banking system, so that depositors could no longer convert their pesos into dollars!",
        "相反地，阿根廷政府却关闭了银行系统，使储户无法再将手中的比索换成美元。"
    ],
    [
        "When did Russians ever ask a victim for an autograph?",
        "俄国人几时向受害者索要过签名？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, just 1,536 of Denmark’s 2.7 million cars are electric.",
        "但丹麦270万辆机动车中电动车仍只有1，536辆。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Israel Defense Forces were the modern equivalent of the Nazis, it should be smashed with maximum force.",
        "如果以色列国防军是当代纳粹，那么就应该以万钧之力将其摧毁。"
    ],
    [
        "Faulty Political Narratives",
        "有问题的政治叙事"
    ],
    [
        "But why should this be any more successful in the future than it has been in the last few years?",
        "但凭什么认为这样做在未来的效果会比过去几年中更好呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike Hemingway’s character, they are often more than willing to abort a girl and try for a boy.",
        "与海明威小说中的主人公不同，她们往往会迫不及待地打掉女孩，以争取怀上男孩。"
    ],
    [
        "A good example is a solar-powered cooking stove from India, which has experimented with such stoves for decades.",
        "一个很好的例子就是印度生产的一种太阳能的灶具，印度对这种灶具已经试验了几十年时间。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades they have struggled to find common ground for Armenians and Turks to begin a dialogue.",
        "几十年来，他们一直在努力寻找亚美尼亚人和土耳其人的共同点，以便让他们能够开始对话。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the major constraints would be identified, analyzed, and addressed, perhaps sequentially.",
        "相反，主要约束也许将顺次得到识别、分析和解决。"
    ],
    [
        "The political system has become a peculiar hybrid of authoritarian remnants and newly established mechanisms for transparency.",
        "其特有的政治体制中既含有独裁主义的残余也包括新建立起来的透明机制。"
    ],
    [
        "They generally managed themselves and their risks well, so they did not fall.",
        "总体而言，它们很好地管理着它们自己和它们的风险，因此它们不会掉下去。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of democratic transitions, a success nearby often helps at home.",
        "在民主过渡的进程中，邻国的成功变革通常有助于国内民主化。"
    ],
    [
        "Overheating the economy – leading to higher inflation and higher interest rates – does not typically help lower-income people (remember the 1970s).",
        "过热的经济——导致更高的通货膨胀和更高的利率——通常对低收入人群不太有利（1970年代时就是如此）。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, we are witnessing globalization of the most perverted kind, with children becoming victims many times over.",
        "相反，我们目睹了最为扭曲的全球化进程，而在此期间儿童一次又一次地成为受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Some recent French polls now show a majority in favor of the Constitution.",
        "最近法国的一些民意测验表明大部分人支持宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "On the one hand, Article 3 states that Islam is the religion of the federation, and that only Islam can be preached to Muslims.",
        "一方面，第三条规定伊斯兰教是马来西亚邦联的国教，而且只能向穆斯林宣扬伊斯兰教。"
    ],
    [
        "Without implementation, all of the treaties in the world would lead us nowhere.",
        "缺少了有效的执行步骤，世界上所有的协定都将是一纸空文。"
    ],
    [
        "These are global issues.",
        "这些都是全球问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Without the benefits of trade, much of rural Africa struggles at subsistence levels.",
        "由于未能从贸易中受惠，非洲的广大农村还在温饱线上挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "While scientific evidence over the last three decades has undermined the shaken baby hypothesis, no new evidence has emerged to support it.",
        "过去三十年来的科学证据不支持抖动婴儿假说，也没有新证据出现支持它。"
    ],
    [
        "With so many qualified doctors emigrating to the United Kingdom and the US, the rest of the world, including developed countries, is also experiencing a tremendous medical brain drain.",
        "大量高资质医生移民到英国和美国，包括发达国家在内的世界其他地区都在经历医学人才外流。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, differential rewards do indeed create incentives for people to learn, work, and innovate, activities that promote overall growth and advance poverty reduction.",
        "同时差别性回报确实会激励人们学习，工作和创新，去实施推动总体发展和脱贫的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s regime is based on rule by force, manifested in repression at home and aggression abroad.",
        "普京政权基于武力统治，这一点可以从其国内镇压和国外侵略中看出。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, both sides cite America’s gaping trade deficit – believe it or not, the US is soaking up two-thirds of global excess saving – to support their arguments.",
        "有趣的是，正反两方都把美国的贸易赤字做为支持本方观点的依据，无论你是否相信，美国都吸纳了全球多余存款的三分之二以上。"
    ],
    [
        "When the manager approached the DC police, he was told the rumors were constitutionally protected speech.",
        "当餐厅经理向华盛顿警方求助时，他被告知谣言是受到宪法保护的言论。"
    ],
    [
        "Naturally, any country would prefer the latter, so the region’s governments are now trying to grow out of their problems by diversifying their economies.",
        "自然，任何国家都偏好于后者，因此中东各国政府正在试图通过经济多样化来解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the oceans’ massive heat-storage capacity, determining how much of the warming remains at the surface over the course of decades is a very difficult task.",
        "海洋有巨大的储热能力，这意味着测量在几十年的跨度内有多少变暖程度留在地表是一个非常困难的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese government is hastening its shopping spree in America these days, pushing up the renminbi’s exchange rate slowly but steadily.",
        "这些天来中国政府正加紧在美国大力采购，正缓慢但稳步推动人民币汇率上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, fierce attacks on Muslims started to come from people who, raised in deeply religious families, had turned into radical leftists in the 1960’s and 1970’s.",
        "另外，有些人开始对穆斯林发起了猛烈的攻击。 这些人成长于极度宗教的家庭之中，并在1960和1970年代转变成为极左分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though people may admire other things, they act as if they are mostly happy enough with whatever they already have, and lack the will to consider real change.",
        "即使人们可能崇尚其他东西，但是他们做起事来好像是安于现状，并且缺乏考虑真正改变的意志。"
    ],
    [
        "UNAIDS engages with civil society at all levels, by leveraging the international AIDS response to promote equality, dignity, and human rights around the world.",
        "通过利用国际艾滋病应对计划促进全世界的平等、尊严和人权，联合国艾滋病规划署与各个层面的公民社会进行合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Central bank policies have moved from supporting the markets to potentially destabilizing them.",
        "央行政策已经从支持市场变为可能破坏市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Through the 1990’s, US Vice President Dick Cheney and others made clear that Saddam’s reign threatened America’s oil security by forcing over-reliance on Saudi Arabia.",
        "在整个1990年代，美国副总统切尼和其他一些人都明确指出萨达姆政权迫使美国对沙特阿拉伯过于依赖而威胁到美国的石油安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries also benefit from greater access to more diversified sources of finance.",
        "各国也因为能够获得更加多元的融资源而获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet its deficits in this regard are its greatest strengths as a model for effective global governance in the twenty-first century.",
        "但它在这方面的弱点正是其作为二十一世纪有效全球治理模式的最大优势。"
    ],
    [
        "The West feels repugnance over the Iranian regime’s cynical human rights transgressions and hypocritical mixing of religion and politics.",
        "西方对伊朗政权玩世不恭的侵犯人权的行为以及虚伪的政教合一感到厌恶。"
    ],
    [
        "Rich people increasingly populate the most expensive cities.",
        "富人越来越多地居住于最昂贵的城市。"
    ],
    [
        "Rouhani, it should be remembered, won a surprising victory in an election with roughly 75% voter turnout, despite expectations of widespread apathy.",
        "我们也不应该忘记，鲁哈尼的胜利是以出人意料的约75%的优势获得的，虽然他在投票前被普遍看低。"
    ],
    [
        "And it can enable them to communicate more easily with organizations like the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), telling us what they need most, what we’re getting right, and where we need to make changes.",
        "连通性让他们能够更加容易地与联合国难民署等组织取得联系，告诉我们他们最需要什么，我们哪些地方做得对，哪些地方需要做出改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Successive European and American governments share an atavistic fear of the “Islamic alternative” to Arab secular nationalists like Fatah, and so have defended the status quo.",
        "欧洲国家以及美国的历届政府对取代类似法塔赫那样的阿拉伯世俗民族主义者的“伊斯兰替代品”怀有隔代遗传的恐惧，因此维护现状。"
    ],
    [
        "But political contributions are only one reason why business interests have so much power.",
        "但政治献金只是商业利益炙手可热的原因之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The case begins, as it did in January 2015, by observing that the oil market is no longer controlled by the monopoly power of OPEC (or the Saudi government and OPEC).",
        "和2015年1月一样，首先必须看到石油市场已不再被欧佩克（或沙特政府和欧佩克）垄断力量所控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the sea-level rise is expected to pick up again.",
        "因此，海平面上升就会再加速。"
    ],
    [
        "The BEC’s argument – that the “new model will be a public-private partnership between governments, research institutions, and investors” – shines a welcome spotlight on the relationship.",
        "BEC的观点——“新模式将是政府、研究机构和投资者之间的公私合作”——为这一关系带来了希望的曙光。"
    ],
    [
        "When a young Dutch writer, sympathetic to the new populist wave, expressed antipathy to his country’s “cultural elite,” for promoting “atonal music” and other arrogant forms of ugliness, instead of the wholesome beauty embraced by the common man, I wondered whether he knew about the Nazis’ attack on “degenerate art”?",
        "当同情新民粹主义浪潮的一位年轻的荷兰作家对国内的“文化精英们”表达反感，指责他们宣传“无调音乐”和其他狂妄的丑恶形式而排斥普通人认可的健康美时，我不禁奇怪他是否知道纳粹曾对“堕落的艺术”发起攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "In economies with excess productive capacity, targeted investment can yield a double benefit, generating short-run demand and boosting growth and productivity thereafter.",
        "对于那些产能过剩的经济体来说，有针对性的投资可以产生双重效益，在激发短期需求的同时又促进未来的经济增长和生产力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Protocols of Donald J. Trump",
        "唐纳德·特朗普规则"
    ],
    [
        "In economic-development circles, experience and common sense suggest that progress, accountability, and hard work start with and depend on women.",
        "经验和常识告诉我们，经济发展周期中的进步，责任和勤奋都发端于女性并依靠她们走向成功。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – July will enter Spanish history as having started on a tremendous high, spurred by Spain’s recent triumph in the 2012 Euro Soccer Championship.",
        "马德里—7月将被写入西班牙历史。 它以极高的高度开端——西班牙队在2012年欧洲足球锦标赛中问鼎。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, as hard as it may be for Western powers, some efforts to appease Russia are unavoidable.",
        "因此，尽管对西方力量来说十分艰难，但必须采取一些措施安抚俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Four months later, Majid was captured alive; the bombs had missed their intended target.",
        "四个月后，马基德被生擒。 炸弹没有击中他们的预定目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Lost incomes will also drive down tax revenues, resulting in public-sector employment cutbacks.",
        "收入的减少也导致将税收额下降，并影响公共部门的就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "This should be a happy picture: the world is now better able to feed itself.",
        "这本该是件好事儿：世界更有能力养活自己了。"
    ],
    [
        "And many issuers are extending the maturity structure of their obligations to lock in current rates, which cannot go much lower (but could potentially increase a lot).",
        "许多发行国正在延长债务的期限结构以锁定不可能再大幅降低（但可能大幅上升）的当前利率。"
    ],
    [
        "But, crucially, he was careful not to back down until the last possible moment.",
        "但是，关键在于他小心翼翼地坚持到最后时刻才做出让步。"
    ],
    [
        "If your brokers in China advise you to sell shares, they must be careful not to appear to be rumormongers, subject to official punishment.",
        "在中国，如果经纪人建议你卖出股票，他们必须小心翼翼地避免成为造谣者，这样会受到官方惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – Europe is currently experiencing a huge wave of migration between its east and west.",
        "慕尼黑--欧洲东西部之间正在进行一场巨大的人口迁徙。"
    ],
    [
        "However, over time these ultra-low interest rates have promoted a highly speculative financial “carry” trade: speculators borrow yen at low interest rates and then buy dollars and other currencies that are invested in higher-yield assets elsewhere.",
        "然而，随着时间的推移，这些超低的利率促进了高度投机的金融“套利”交易，也就是投机商以超低的利率贷来日元用来购买美元或其他货币，然后把这些货币投资到其他高收益的资产上。"
    ],
    [
        "Deepening democracy in turn means allowing full civic participation, including non-violent Islamic groups.",
        "而深化民主又意味着允许全体公民，包括非暴力伊斯兰团体的充分参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Few serious political leaders today argue the case for war.",
        "如今，很少会有高级政治领导人赞成发动战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The HERA machine operated from 1992 until 2007.",
        "这座加速器在1992年开始运作，至2007年关闭。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly 15 million people suffer from co-infection of HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the primary causative agent in most TB cases.",
        "大约1500万人同时感染艾滋病毒和结核分枝杆菌（肺结核的最常见病原体）。"
    ],
    [
        "But the potential is far from uniform.",
        "但潜力并不是均匀分布的。"
    ],
    [
        "For advocates, AMR’s appearance on the G20’s agenda last year, at the group’s summit in Hangzhou, China, represented a major triumph.",
        "对支持者来说，AMR被列入去年的G20杭州峰会议程是一次重大胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s crisis in Lebanon is a crisis of the Lebanese state.",
        "今天在黎巴嫩发生的危机是黎巴嫩国家的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But the good news for Britain is that the EU may already be moving slowly toward a two-track structure.",
        "但对英国来说，好消息是欧盟可能已经开始慢慢向双轨结构转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Only China was left, and North Korea’s dependence on its northern neighbor is now almost total.",
        "对朝鲜来说，所剩只有北方邻国中国，而如今朝鲜中国的依赖可谓无以复加。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, national identities often compete with – and are increasingly overwhelmed by – those stemming from religion, sect, and tribe.",
        "此外，国家身份通常与宗教、宗派和部落身份冲突，并且被后三者压制。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, France is paying the price for the lack of continuity, coherence, and appropriate funding given to social development policies over the past 30 years.",
        "在这一含义上，法国正在为它过去30年来的社会发展政策缺乏连续、协调一致以及适当的资助而付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is not to be found in drawing new maps, though once populations have shifted and political stability has been restored, recognition of new borders might prove both desirable and viable.",
        "答案不在于勾勒新地图，尽管一旦人口发生改变并且政治稳定得到重塑，承认新边界将是可望且可及的。"
    ],
    [
        "This may well be the most important result of the Indian election: five more years of political stability and economic reform will create an irreversible and virtuous cycle of economic growth and political moderation.",
        "本次选举最为重要的成就在于：有了另一个五年时间的政治稳定和经济改革，印度的政治经济将会进入一个不可逆转的良性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "The second scenario turns the refugee challenge into another success.",
        "第二个倾向是难民挑战转化为新的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "I remember my surprise when, as a young assistant professor, I realized that I was opposed to the Maastricht Treaty.",
        "我还记得，当时身为年轻助理教授的我意识到自己反对马斯特里赫特条约时是多么震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Rich-country policymakers, in particular, should bear in mind this imperative, given their economies’ history of high emissions and greater access to technology.",
        "特别是富国决策者应该认识到这一当务之急，因为富裕经济体在过去排放了巨量的二氧化碳，也拥有更好的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "We can make good use of both.",
        "我们可以鱼和熊掌兼得。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rise of extreme CEO compensation in the US, documented by Piketty and others, may reflect CEOs’ ability to disrupt the team if they do not get part of the surplus.",
        "但皮凯蒂和其他人指出，美国超级CEO高薪的出现也许反映了CEO有能力在他得不到部分剩余的情况下破坏团队。"
    ],
    [
        "The paradox is that a part of this evolution may be attributable to two positive factors: the slow work of democracy, which liberates individuals but at the same time leaves them more isolated; and the development of a welfare system that shares risks and makes individuals more autonomous.",
        "矛盾的是，这种情况的形成可以被归咎于两个积极的因素：民主的循序渐进使个人获得自由但同时也使人陷入孤立； 福利体系的发展分担风险，并使得个人更加自主。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whereas only half of Europeans now aged 55-64 finished secondary education, four in five 25-34-year-olds have done so, and they naturally aspire to better things.",
        "但是，现在年龄在55至64岁的欧洲人只有一半的人完成高中学业。 25至34岁的人有五分之四完成高中教育，他们也就自然地向往更好的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Two economic surprises prolonged the good times in 2005.",
        "2005 年两大出人意表的经济事件延长了这种好日子。"
    ],
    [
        "WARSAW – “Poland – ten years, Hungary – ten months, East Germany – ten weeks, Czechoslovakia – ten days.”",
        "华沙－“波兰——用了十年，匈牙利——用了十个月，东德——用了十个星期，捷克斯洛伐克——用了十天。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to proceed with plans to seek a vote this week on recognition of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly has come despite pressure, promises, and threats from Israel and some of its Western allies.",
        "巴勒斯坦总统阿巴斯决定寻求在本周让联合国大会就承认巴勒斯坦举行投票，尽管以色列及其西方盟国对此极尽威逼利诱之能事。"
    ],
    [
        "The design of optimal regulation has to take into account the intensity of competition in the different banking segments.",
        "最优监管的设计必须考虑到不同银行细分部门的竞争的激烈程度。"
    ],
    [
        "The average Beijing resident would have to save all of his or her income for 34 years before to be able to purchase an apartment outright.",
        "普通北京居民需要将收入不吃不喝存34年才能全款购买一套公寓。"
    ],
    [
        "But, according to Egypt’s prime minister, Kamal al-Ganzouri, the country’s Arab “brethren” have delivered only $1 billion of the $10.5 billion in aid and loans that they promised.",
        "但是，埃及总理詹祖里透露，该国的阿拉伯“同胞”承诺给予埃及105亿美元贷款和原著，但只兑现了10亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump is calling for it to be lowered to a below-average 15%, with first-year business investments to be deductible in full.",
        "特朗普希望将它降低到比15%的平均水平更低，商业投资第一年可以全部抵扣税收。"
    ],
    [
        "It isn’t called “factory farming” merely because those sheds look like factories.",
        "把这种方法命名为“工厂化养鸡”不仅是因为鸡棚很像工厂。"
    ],
    [
        "Crowdsourced funding and peer-to-peer lending schemes give borrowers the opportunity to circumvent many of the hurdles of traditional banking – including, in some cases, collateral requirements and credit ratings.",
        "众筹和点对点贷款机制让借款人有机会绕过传统银行贷款的诸多障碍——在某些例子中，甚至包括抵押品和信用评级。"
    ],
    [
        "He promised to punish me, and that he would act the next time Haykakan Zhamanak criticized any well-known person.",
        "他发誓如果下次《Haykakan Zhamanak》再发表攻击任何名人的言论就一定会惩罚我。"
    ],
    [
        "And lasting changes occur only after a prolonged period of regular training.",
        "而且只有经过长期规范训练才能产生持续的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "As for trade in services – an area where performance has been lackluster, at best – Brazil would benefit considerably from increased foreign-language proficiency, which would enable more Brazilians to conduct business abroad.",
        "至于服务贸易——在这方面巴西的表现更加无亮点可言——巴西从外语技能提高中获益良多。 外语技能的提高让更多的巴西人能够出国做生意。"
    ],
    [
        "It is ironic that increased literacy and adoption of modern technology have contributed not to intellectual growth, but to regional strife.",
        "讽刺的是，识字率的增加和现代技术的蚕蛹并没有带来智识增长，而是带来了地区冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "The cases in Spain and Ukraine are not isolated incidents.",
        "西班牙和乌克兰发生的案例绝非孤立事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the emphasis should be shifted from delivering disease-specific interventions to building up health-care systems.",
        "在这方面，重点应该从按病干预转向构建医疗体系。"
    ],
    [
        "The remaining barriers to cross-border mergers and acquisitions also need to be removed so that EU banks can grow big enough to compete globally.",
        "在跨界并购方面仍然存在的障碍也必须消除，以使欧盟的银行能够做大从而适应全球竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "A 2015 report by Médecins Sans Frontières showed that the vaccine is now almost 70 times more expensive than it was in 2001.",
        "一份2015年无国界医生组织的报告表明，目前黄热病疫苗几乎比2001年贵了70倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The predominance of the right in the future European Parliament calls for some explanation.",
        "那么右翼党派凭什么能在未来欧洲议会中占有如此优势？"
    ],
    [
        "As with the JGIP, the goal should be to model best practices that others will want to imitate.",
        "对于约旦工业园来说，运作的目标应当树立别人也想模仿的最佳实践榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Ronald Reagan was a master of the well selected anecdote.",
        "而罗纳德·里根则是位使用精心挑选的逸闻趣事的大师。"
    ],
    [
        "When coastal areas were not heavily inhabited, such storms, while violent, did not cause significant, lasting damage to people’s livelihoods and lifestyles.",
        "在沿岸地区人烟不多的时候，这类风暴尽管来势汹汹，却不曾对人民的生计和生活造成严重、持续的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "The third is less honorable, and likely to fail: it relies on the dangerously weak premise that the party in power’s political adversaries will be more public-spirited and less ruthless when they return to government.",
        "而第三种非但不那么值得尊敬，还很可能会以失败告终：因为它有赖于一个非常脆弱的前提：那就是执政党的政治对手在重新执政后会比现在的执政党更加热心公益，也更能体恤民生。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not the case in the developing world – at least among countries with the appetite and determination to deploy strong governance and continually raise their competitiveness.",
        "但发展中国家却并非如此——至少在有愿望和决心推行强力治理并继续提升竞争力的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But such an opening is essential if the country’s Tamils are to have real hopes for their future within the country.",
        "但是，如果要使斯里兰卡的泰米尔人对他们在本国的将来怀有真正的希望，这样的开放是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "“C” is for coalitions: the AIDS movement was quick to understand that progress would come only with diverse support.",
        "C则是联盟（coalition）：艾滋病运动很快就认识到，只有获得了多样化的支持，才能取得进步。"
    ],
    [
        "They can see that after three large asset-purchase programs, the Fed’s balance sheet has more than quadrupled since 2007, totaling about $4.5 trillion in February 2015.",
        "他们发现在三次大规模资产收购之后，美联储的资产负债表规模已经是2007年的四倍，在2015年达到了4. 5万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "But the real question now is whether America is still able and willing to uphold its global pretensions.",
        "但当今的真正问题是美国是否仍能够且愿意以行动证明其全球自我标榜。"
    ],
    [
        "But non-prime borrowers – about one-third of US households – do not have much access to mortgages and credit cards.",
        "可是涵盖三分之一美国家庭的非优质借款人没有太多机会获得按揭和信用卡贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, all of these countries (perhaps with the admittedly large exception of Pakistan) can agree on certain core objectives.",
        "然而，所有这些国家（也许公认的巴基斯坦除外）可以围绕一定的核心目标达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a plan, if attractive to US multinational corporations, could result in a shift in employment and production to the US and higher tax revenue.",
        "如果这一计划能够吸引到美国跨国公司，将能改变美国的就业和生产局面，同时增加税收收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic development that alleviates poverty is a vital step in boosting happiness.",
        "减轻贫困的经济发展是推动幸福的关键步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "Teachers’ unions, especially, are a catastrophe, blocking any rationalization or improvement of many countries’ education systems.",
        "教师工会特别是一个灾难，它们阻碍许多国家教育体系中任何合理化和改进。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, we account for nearly a third of humanity and two-thirds of the world economy.",
        "三国加起来占据着全球三分之一的人口和三分之二的经济总量。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, achieving the SDGs may require a radically different approach.",
        "换句话说，实现SDG也许需要截然不同的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians will respect, rather than manipulate, reality only if the public cares about the truth and punishes politicians when it catches them in deliberate deception.",
        "只有在公众关心真相并且在发现政坛人物故意欺骗的时候惩罚他们，政坛人物们才会尊重、而不是操纵真相。"
    ],
    [
        "We must remain committed to achieving the goal of quality primary education for all children – not some, and not even most – wherever they live.",
        "我们必须继续竭尽所能为所有孩子提供优质的小学教育——不是一部分，甚至不是绝大多数——无论他们生活在哪里。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, a EU citizen who moves to another EU country will be integrated into the social-welfare system very quickly.",
        "今天，一位迁徙到另一个欧盟国家的欧盟公民很快就能纳入社会福利体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, they have announced their intentions to move forward with conducting a national referendum scheduled for Saturday to approve a new constitution, which they hope will entrench their power for decades to come.",
        "他们甚至还公布了通过在星期六的全民公投来批准一部新宪法以继续巩固其权力的意图，他们希望这部宪法能在未来的几十年里继续确认和保护他们的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not going to happen.",
        "但这并不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a bold idea, but bold ideas are needed now more than ever.",
        "这是一个大胆的想法，但在今日，我们比过去任何时候都更需要大胆的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "But those online visitors read for free, leaving the Guardian hemorrhaging money.",
        "但这些网络访问者只看免费内容，意味着《卫报》还得为此贴钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Even then, success took seven years.",
        "尽管这样，取得成功还是用了七年时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The children were poisoned by their midday meals – a vital part of a government-run nutrition program in schools – which apparently were cooked in oil that had been carelessly stored in used pesticide containers.",
        "这些孩子因为有毒的午餐——政府学校营养计划的关键部分——而失去了生命，做午餐用的油显然存储不当，被放在了使用过的杀虫剂桶里。"
    ],
    [
        "So did inflation targeting: the excessive focus on inflation had diverted attention from the more fundamental question of financial stability.",
        "同样被丢弃的还有通货膨胀目标制：对通货膨胀的过度关注已经把注意力从更根本的问题（即金融稳定性）上转移开来。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging economies have also benefited from access to cheap capital.",
        "新兴经济体也从廉价资本中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting Public Health on the Map",
        "将公共健康编成地图"
    ],
    [
        "With EU support worth €18 million, this operation will improve food security for around 860,000 rural households, or more than six million people.",
        "在欧盟约合1800万欧元的支持下，该行动将提升近86万农村家庭（约600万人）的食品安全水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But effective programs require more than just money; they need employers and educators who can identify the necessary skills, create the structures to teach them, and match trained workers with available jobs.",
        "但有效的培训计划所需要的不仅仅是钱； 也需要能识别必要技能、创造教授这些技能的结构、让受过培训的工人与可获得的岗位匹配的雇主和教育者。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, assessments do not cover every important skill or attitude.",
        "当然，评估并未覆盖所有重要技能或态度。"
    ],
    [
        "America will face an increasing number of new transnational issues that require it to exercise power with others as much as over others.",
        "美国将注定面临越来越多的新增跨国事务，需要与其他国家一道来行使权力，就像需要对其他国家行使权力一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s efforts to develop a coherent approach to the crisis have bordered on farce.",
        "欧盟寻找明确危机解决办法的努力已几乎成为闹剧。"
    ],
    [
        "The opening of peace talks with Al Qaida?",
        "开始和基地组织的谈判？"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, over time the actual real exchange rate needs to converge – via real appreciation – with the stronger equilibrium rate.",
        "因此，随着时间的推移，实际真实汇率需要－通过真正的升值－和更强势的均衡汇率一致。"
    ],
    [
        "As a non-European, I was told (sometimes politely, sometimes less so) that I could not possible understand that.",
        "作为非欧洲人，有人告诉我（有时很礼貌，有时则不太礼貌）我无法理解这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "America provided China with both stability and growth anchors.",
        "美国为中国提供了稳定和增长之锚。"
    ],
    [
        "But, just as obviously, it is only a first step.",
        "但是，同样显然的是，这只是第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Deficit fetishism is, no doubt, part of Europe’s problems.",
        "赤字迷恋无疑是欧洲问题的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The river, which links five countries, has been long famous as a setting for trans-national crimes such as drug trafficking, gambling, and smuggling.",
        "湄公河流经五个国家，向来以贩毒、赌博、走私等跨国犯罪的温床著称。"
    ],
    [
        "At the recent climate conference meeting (COP 22) in Marrakesh, attention focused on the various ways a Trump administration might kill the climate agreement reached at COP 21 in Paris last year.",
        "在最近的马拉喀什气候会议（COP22）上，人们的注意力集中在特朗普政府的众多可能扼杀去年在巴黎COP21上所形成的气候协定的行动上。"
    ],
    [
        "In 23 years of leadership, he has avoided risky domestic and foreign policies.",
        "在23年的执政生涯中，他成功避免了高风险的国内和国际政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Enhancing our understanding of globalization’s problems will help us to formulate remedies – some small, some large – aimed at both providing symptomatic relief and addressing the underlying causes.",
        "提高我们对全球化的问题的理解将会帮助我们提出补救措施，这些措施有大有小，其目标都在于提供治表救济以及解决根本原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The ferociousness of the disease, and the speed at which it spread, took many South Africans by surprise.",
        "艾滋病来势汹汹及其传染速度让很多南非人意想不到。"
    ],
    [
        "This idea was instrumental in designing the post-2015 development agenda.",
        "制定后2015年发展计划的想法非常有启发。"
    ],
    [
        "But Soviet nostalgia has far more to do with Russia’s traditional Great Power ambitions than with communism.",
        "但是，怀恋苏联与俄罗斯传统的大国情怀联系要远远大于与共产主义的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "This system is fantastic.",
        "这个体系非常令人惊叹。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the last seven years, since central banks in developed countries pushed down their base rates almost to zero, we have seen a First-World version of financial repression.",
        "但在过去七年中，自发达国家央行将基准利率削减至近零水平以来，我们看到第一世界也开始了金融抑制。"
    ],
    [
        "In Turkey – and in a less radical form under the Shah in Iran and under military dictators in countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Iraq – the population never had a choice.",
        "但在土耳其——在伊朗国王和埃及、突尼斯、叙利亚和伊拉克等国军事独裁者相对不那么激进的统治下——民众从未有权选择。"
    ],
    [
        "It improves human health, increases life expectancy, and lowers fertility rates.",
        "它改善了人类健康，延长了人类寿命并降低生育率。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, if, as appears to be the case, Europe does not want its south to spend more than it earns and its north to spend less, wages, prices, and productivity must shift.",
        "如果像现在这样，欧洲不愿继续容许南方花钱比挣钱多而北方挣钱比花钱多，就必须相应地调整工资、价格和生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "National governments still make the most important decisions in the European Council, where leaders wheel and deal to advance their countries’ interests.",
        "各国领袖为争取本国利益而讨价还价，欧洲理事会最重要的决定依然由各国政府做出。"
    ],
    [
        "The bill, which emphasizes Israel’s Jewish identity above its democratic principles, has caused deep divisions not only among the electorate, but also within the government coalition.",
        "该法案强调以色列犹太身份高于民主原则，不仅在选民、也在政府联盟中引发了深刻的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "A third approach employs historical evidence.",
        "第三种方法利用历史证据。"
    ],
    [
        "In the weeks since the debt ceiling agreement, it has become increasingly clear that good government might be impossible in the US.",
        "债务上限协议达成数周后，人们越来越清楚地意识到合理治政在美国或许是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "The decline of the West is juxtaposed with the rise of the East, notably China.",
        "与西方的衰落一起出现的东方特别是中国的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "They will not appear on the roads of Russia, mind you: Unlike Germany or France, Putin will not hesitate, while terrorizing tomorrow’s refugees, to slam the door in their faces.",
        "他们不会出现在前往俄罗斯的道路上：和德国或法国不同，普京将毫不犹豫地向他们关闭大门，让未来难民也惊慌失措。"
    ],
    [
        "The prime minister, Michel Debré, was sent to Algiers, but the rebels treated him contemptuously, and he flew back empty handed.",
        "总理米歇尔·德勃雷被派往阿尔及尔，但叛乱分子对他不屑一顾，他毫无建树，空手而归。"
    ],
    [
        "Poroshenko even proposed adding an international partner to his government’s investigation, which could invigorate the probe.",
        "波罗申科甚至提出邀请国际合作方参与乌政府的调查中，这理应是一个振奋人心的消息。"
    ],
    [
        "British politicians have also begun to protest, even though criticizing the BoE was long considered tantamount to blaspheming in church.",
        "英国政客也开始反对，尽管长期以来批评英格兰银行被视同在教堂渎神。"
    ],
    [
        "Worryingly, “Copenhagen 2” will not only have to navigate this complicated terrain, but it must do so in less than five years.",
        "但令人担忧的是，“哥本哈根会议第二轮”不但要在这种复杂的情势下进行探索，而且还必须在5年之内展开运作。"
    ],
    [
        "South Sudan has been mired in conflict for nearly a decade.",
        "南苏丹陷入冲突已近十年。"
    ],
    [
        "Many conference participants agreed that the study of economics should be set in a broader political context, with greater emphasis on the role of institutions. Students should also be taught some humility.",
        "许多与会者都同意应该将经济学研究构建在更宏大的政治背景上，更着重于体制所扮演的角色，也应该教学生懂得谦卑。"
    ],
    [
        "We already have plenty of pictures of Francis kissing babies; what he faces now – in Brazil and around the world – are strategic matters of genuine substance.",
        "我们已经看腻了方济各亲吻婴孩的照片； 如今他在巴西和全世界所面对的是实实在在的战略问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The current mechanisms for managing migration have clearly failed to meet existing needs.",
        "当前的移民管理机制无法满足存在的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, more people than ever are benefiting from access to modern and responsible financial services.",
        "今天，从负责任的现代金融服务中获益的普通人正越来越多。"
    ],
    [
        "David Cameron’s European Spaghetti Bowl",
        "大卫·卡梅伦的欧洲意大利面碗"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, it was argued, needed to begin to think about war differently.",
        "人们相信，美国必须开始以不同的思维思考战争。"
    ],
    [
        "An order based on the dangerous doctrine of mutual deterrence, was not, however, replaced with a system founded on cooperation and interdependence.",
        "世界的秩序没有随着以上的变化而变得有序和相互关联。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, access to AIDS treatment was framed as a matter of economic justice.",
        "特别是，获得艾滋病治疗被界定为一个经济正义的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while per capita indicators are useful for assessing a country’s consumption potential, they do not provide an adequate picture of growth potential, because they include the elderly and the young, who do not contribute to production.",
        "但尽管各类人均指标有助于评估一个国家的消费潜力，却并不足以充分体现其增长潜力，因为它们把不会为生产作出贡献的老人小孩都涵盖在内。"
    ],
    [
        "But current projections of the spread of the Ebola virus predict a million cases by January.",
        "但目前对埃博拉病毒的传播预测显示1月感染病例就会达到百万。"
    ],
    [
        "Like individuals in a society, eurozone countries are both independent and interdependent.",
        "而就像社会中的人一样，欧元区成员既各自独立也互相依存。"
    ],
    [
        "If any abnormalities are found, a diagnostic test is conducted to confirm the presence of the disease.",
        "发现任何异常状况需要进行诊断性实验，确认是否患上了疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is impossible without a clear European identity – and thus a common interest to be asserted and defended.",
        "但是如果没有一个明确的欧洲身份，这点就难以做到——因而也不能断言或保卫共同利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Much can be done not just to sustain moderate growth, but also to secure a more prosperous and resilient future.",
        "还有很多措施可以实施，不仅为了维持温和的增长，还要确保一个更繁荣、 抗冲击能力更强的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – News events can often serve as important catalysts for introspection, not least for members of company boards.",
        "伦敦—新事件常常是自我反省的重要催化剂，至少对公司董事是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Dawkins found happiness in science; we are all the richer for his contribution.",
        "道金斯在科学中找到幸福； 我们无不因他的贡献而受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Rich country governments, led by central banks, should provide the large scale funding needed to stem the run on developing country finances.",
        "由中央银行领导的富裕国家的政府，应该提供阻止发展中国家金融业危机蔓延所需的大量资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Inequality is rising in many G-20 countries; in some cases, it has reached historic highs.",
        "多个G-20国家的不平等性正在增加； 一些国家的不平等性处于历史最高水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whatever the outcome, all the mourning and embalming will not alter a simple fact: Venezuela and its people are not clearly better off than they were 14 years ago.",
        "但是，不论结果如何，哀伤也好、让查韦斯遗体永受瞻仰也好，都改变不了一个简单的事实：委内瑞拉和委内瑞拉人民的境况并没有比14年前的好多少。"
    ],
    [
        "Castro’s revolution to topple Batista aimed to create a modern, diversified economy.",
        "卡斯特罗推翻巴蒂斯塔的革命旨在建立一个多样化的现代经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, even Brazil, traditionally a country of immigration, has become one of emigration.",
        "巴西传统上是一个吸纳移民的国家。 如今，它也成为了输出移民的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "This is partly because a sensible agenda must simultaneously address its macroeconomic, educational, distributional, and spatial dimensions.",
        "部分原因是合理的议程安排必须同时解决宏观经济、教育、分配和空间问题。"
    ],
    [
        "People might well ask why, if central bankers can change their long-term target from 2% to 4%, they could not later decide that it should be 5% or 6%?",
        "人们会问，既然央行行长把长期目标从2%提高到4%，那么难保他们又说应该提高到5%或6%。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, AIPAC has never overcome resolute opposition from an American president, particularly in a matter of US national security.",
        "事实上，尤其当事关国家安全时，美以委员会从未战胜过美国总统的坚决反对。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite legal prohibition, Saudi women have defiantly driven their cars in the streets of Riyadh, while prominent intellectuals have published open letters to King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah demanding social and political reform.",
        "尽管法律上明文禁止，沙特的妇女已经敢于冒天下之大不韪在首都利雅得的街道上开起了车。 同时，一些有名的有识之士在向法德国王和沙特王储阿卜杜拉的公开信中要求进行社会和政治改革。"
    ],
    [
        "If we care about development, we must care about the consequences our greenhouse-gas emissions are having around the world.",
        "如果我们关心发展，我们就必须关心温室气体排放给全世界造成的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s infrastructure problems are legendary, with airports and railroads that are comically inadequate.",
        "印度的基础设施问题几乎具有传奇色彩，其机场和铁路等设施严重不足。"
    ],
    [
        "If populists triumph, many important social achievements will be put at risk.",
        "如果民粹主义获胜，将会危及很多重要的社会成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a tough general like George Patton used to practice his scowl in front of a mirror.",
        "即使是像乔治·巴顿这样不苟言笑的老将也会在镜子前练习眉眼表情。"
    ],
    [
        "Nuclear power is another area requiring attention.",
        "而核能发电则是另一块值得注意的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea has avoided such a fate, and the third generation of the Kim family rules with an iron fist.",
        "朝鲜避免了这一命运，而金氏王朝的第三代以铁拳政策治国。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, borrowing costs on July 30 were lower than the average for the whole year.",
        "事实上，7月30日的借贷成本低于全年平均水平。"
    ],
    [
        "There would be gains in parallel fields, too, such as gene therapy.",
        "在某些相近的领域，例如基因治疗上也会取得进展。"
    ],
    [
        "In this manner, they can contain the spread of economic hardship among the population, protect the most vulnerable segments, and put future generations on a better footing.",
        "通过这样的安排，它们可以遏制经济困难在群众中蔓延，保护最脆弱人群，为子孙后代提供更好立足点。"
    ],
    [
        "Productivity growth increased substantially in these countries over time, which persuaded Continental Europe to adopt reforms of its own, often pushed by the European Commission.",
        "多年来，这些国家的生产率有了显著提高，受此影响，欧洲大陆国家也采取了改革（大多由欧洲委员会推动）。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – As world powers meet in Geneva to begin nuclear talks with Iran, the world awaits the follow-up to the phone call between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and US President Barack Obama after Rouhani’s visit to the United Nations General Assembly last month.",
        "纽约—在世界各个大国赴日内瓦与伊朗展开核谈判之际，世界翘首等待着伊朗总统鲁哈尼和美国总统奥巴马在鲁哈尼上个月访问联合国大会后的后续通话。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the likelihood of a long period of sub-par economic growth, increasing pressure on public finances in the eurozone, and the ongoing debate on the future of the euro, the European Central Bank has become, more than ever before, the last line of defense for Europe’s common currency.",
        "长期低速经济增长的可能性，欧元区的公共财政压力，以及对欧元未来的讨论三管齐下，以致欧洲中央银行成为捍卫欧洲共同货币的最后一道防线。"
    ],
    [
        "Remittances by expatriate workers are an essential lifeline for many developing countries – more so than any other financial inflows, including foreign direct investment and aid – and often help to balance a country’s books.",
        "侨民汇款是许多发展中国家重要的生命线——比包括外国直接投资和援助在内的其他任何金融流都要重要——常常起到平衡一国收支的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Sein’s government has also listened to Burmese public disquiet at China’s massive influence in the country, and has canceled a huge $3.6 billion dam that Chinese firms were building.",
        "此外，吴登盛当局还听取了缅甸民众对中国影响力日渐膨胀的担忧，叫停了中国公司在缅甸境内的一个耗资3. 6亿美元的大坝工程。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, new international norms had come to the fore: external powers that previously turned a blind eye to coups, military dictatorships, and repression now rallied around democracy and human rights.",
        "此外新的国际准则也日渐通行，那么原本对政变，军事独裁和镇压睁一只眼闭一只眼的外部势力也加入了民主和人权的行列。"
    ],
    [
        "The US views an opening to Turkey as a way to decrease Armenia’s real and imagined reliance on Russia.",
        "美国认为，向土耳其开放可以减少亚美尼亚对俄国实际和想象中的依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Activists established links between people living with HIV and those with other concerns, such as women’s rights, intellectual property, nutrition, and housing.",
        "活跃分子建立起艾滋病携带者和其他问题关注者（如女权、知识产权、营养和住房等）之间的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "They know that, for a country like China, whose growing economic and military power risks scaring its neighbors into forming counter-balancing coalitions, a smart strategy must include efforts to appear less frightening.",
        "他们知道，对于中国这样的国家，经济和军事实力的增长有可能让邻国陷入恐慌，促使它们结成制衡联盟，因此，明智的战略必须包括让中国看起来不那么可怕的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Mountains and oceans are hard to move, but portions of cyberspace can be turned on and off by throwing a switch.",
        "山脉和海洋很难移动，但网络空间却可以借助开关关上和打开。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Mao’s Cultural Revolution against “feudal society” did raze much of the cultural landscape, denuding it not only of traditional values and institutions, but also of failed socialist efforts, leaving China ready for the seeds of capitalist development.",
        "归根结底，毛针对“封建社会”的文化大革命的确将传统文化夷为平地，不仅毁灭了传统的价值观和制度，也抹去了失败的社会努力，为资本主义发展的种子播撒进中国这片沃土做好了准备。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2000, European senior bureaucrats began to dread the approach of each international meeting as the likely occasion for yet another lecture by the Americans on how Europe needed to become much more like America right now.",
        "以至于到了2000年，欧洲的许多高层官员都开始害怕国际会议，因为好为人师的美国人会不断利用这种场合宣讲欧洲现在应该怎样步美国的后尘。"
    ],
    [
        "These include, for example, an old legislative requirement that payments to physicians in the government’s Medicare program be reduced sharply in future years, a requirement that Congress has voted each year to “postpone.”",
        "这些内容包括（比如）一个旧的立法要求——政府医疗保险（Medicare）项目内支付给医生的数字将在未来数年大幅下降，对于这一要求，过会每年都投票“暂停”。"
    ],
    [
        "An international order that made complete sense when the world was emerging from the ruins of World War II, only to enter a long Cold War between two nuclear superpowers, may no longer be adequate, and may stand in the way of better arrangements.",
        "以美式和平为代表的国际秩序在世界从二战废墟中崛起时充分发挥了作用，但后来却导致了两个超级核大国之间的长期冷战，现在这一秩序可能已不足以维护世界和平，而且可能阻碍了人们做出更好的调整。"
    ],
    [
        "I chaired a panel on cyber peace and security that included a Microsoft vice president and two foreign ministers.",
        "我本人也主持过一次有微软副总裁和两名外长参加的网络和平安全座谈会。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, despite these positive indicators, Spain’s long-term economic recovery remains far from certain.",
        "但即便存在这些积极征兆，西班牙的长期经济复苏依然面对极大的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "To avoid this, three critical areas of health care must be addressed: technology, infrastructure, and education.",
        "为了避免这一幕，必须解决好医疗领域的三个关键问题：技术、基础设施和教育。"
    ],
    [
        "By giving the Nobel Peace Prize to the Indonesians instead of a European mediator for Aceh, the Nobel Prize Committee would have recognized that the world has changed.",
        "如果诺贝尔委员会把诺贝尔奖颁发给了印尼人而非亚齐省问题的欧洲调停人，那么，它就会承认世界已经不同了。"
    ],
    [
        "Poland worries that the more Ukraine is shut off from the Union, the more it will fall behind, economically and politically.",
        "波兰担心越是将乌克兰排除在欧盟之外，该国在政治和经济上就越会落后。"
    ],
    [
        "Violent polarization has developed not only between Eastern and Western tribes, but also between some of the Western tribes.",
        "不仅在东西方部族之间，就连在西方某些部族之间也产生了暴力分裂的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Machiavelli, “the first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him.”",
        "用马基雅维利的话说，“人们评估君主智慧与动向的首要方法是观察他周边的人。"
    ],
    [
        "But how should additional revenues be raised from top taxpayers to achieve these two goals?",
        "但如何向高等级纳税人增税才能实现这两个目的？"
    ],
    [
        "That process requires joint leadership by the emerging world as a true equal and partner of Western powers.",
        "这一过程要求联合领导——新兴世界应该获得与其西方和作者真正平等的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s intervention in Syria cannot succeed if success is defined as enabling the Assad government to regain control over the bulk of the country’s territory.",
        "如果成功意味着巴沙尔政府能够重新控制叙利亚大部分领土，那么俄罗斯对叙利亚的干预不可能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The pamphlet’s two authors, Richard Lambert, a former editor of the Financial Times and future Director General of the Confederation of British Industry, and Nick Butler, the Group Vice President for Strategy and Policy Development at British Petroleum do not represent vested academic interests.",
        "手册的两位作者一位是曾任《金融时报》编辑、并即将出任英国工商业联合会首席执行官的理查德·兰伯特（Richard Lambert），还有一位是在英国石油公司任职的英国工商业联合会负责战略和政策发展事务的副总裁尼克·巴特勒（Nick Butler）。"
    ],
    [
        "In both examples – congressional tickets and organ sales – Sandel suggests reducing money’s role.",
        "在上述两例中——国会入场券和贩卖器官——桑德尔都建议减弱钱的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is a peculiar combination of geography and history, but the boundaries of the EU – and thus the prospects for its further enlargement – are determined by its absorptive capacity and the adaptive abilities of candidate countries.",
        "欧洲是一个地理和历史的独特结合体，但是欧洲的边界——以及它未来扩大的前景——是由成员国的容纳能力和适应能力所决定的。"
    ],
    [
        "We also know that the Internet’s devastating impact on handfuls of young people is not confined to the Muslim community, as evidenced by the tragic events in Bridgend in the United Kingdom, where 17 young people, seemingly connected through the Internet, committed suicide.",
        "像在英国布里真德发生的悲剧事件所证实的那样——在该事件中，似乎是通过互联网联系的17个年青人，集体自杀了——我们也了解到互联网对少数年青人的毁灭性的冲击，不仅仅局限于伊斯兰团体。"
    ],
    [
        "The practical solutions on offer seem to be fairly consistent across the political spectrum.",
        "不同政治立场的党派所提出的实际的方案几乎完美一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Not falling for the trick, speculators repeatedly called his bluff.",
        "投资者并不买账，一再戳穿了他的虚张声势。"
    ],
    [
        "Most troubling is the absence of open debate about these matters.",
        "最令人不安的是没有人公开讨论上述问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2010, 29% of immigrants to the OECD had university degrees.",
        "2010年，前往经合组织的移民中有29%拥有大学学历。"
    ],
    [
        "We can only hope that similar wisdom prevails in the House of Representatives.",
        "我们只能希望众议院也能拥有相同的智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "Two main types of pneumococcal vaccine available for older adults – the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23) and the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) – could ameliorate the situation.",
        "适用于老年人的肺炎球菌疫苗主要有两种——23价肺炎球菌多糖疫苗（PPV23）和肺炎球菌结合疫苗（PCV13）——都可以控制肺炎球菌传染病。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this tolerance of cultural and religious diversity that could be endangered if the Sunni-inspired revolt sweeps the country.",
        "正是由于存在如此多样化的文化和宗教共存，才使得逊尼派激起的反抗席卷全国将可能导致危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, a cap on expenditure growth would not by itself eliminate the need to address existing budget rigidities.",
        "当然，支出增长上限本身无法消除解决现有的预算僵化问题的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "China follows the power game within the EU through its French friends, and therefore knows which governments need to be whipped into line.",
        "中国通过其法国朋友关注着欧盟内部的权力游戏，因而掌握了相关政府的软肋。"
    ],
    [
        "In a negotiation between government officials and a banker with a bonus at risk, who will have more clout in determining the price?",
        "在政府官员和红包岌岌可危的银行家谈判时，谁更有影响力来决定价格？"
    ],
    [
        "If the United States then met Europe halfway (at least), Ukraine’s financial crisis could finally be contained.",
        "如果美国可以提供（至少）相当于欧洲的一半的援助，那么乌克兰金融危机最终可以遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "After the banker receives his or her first bond payment, the incentives become more complex.",
        "在银行家获得第一笔债券薪酬支付后，激励就变得更加复杂了。"
    ],
    [
        "Cancer, too, is heterogeneous, even in patients with the same diagnosis.",
        "癌症也是多样化的，即使在症状相同的患者中间。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, no company can do that, but many US companies have been shedding workers and middle managers in great numbers – the figures for January 2008 were up 19% from a year earlier.",
        "当然，没有公司能这样做，但是许多美国公司已经在大量剥离工人和中层经理——2008年1月份的数字比去年同期增加了19%。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, even given eventual development of an affordable, safe, fly/drive, airport-independent personal transportation system, there would still be a need to re-invent long-haul transport, especially for transoceanic flights.",
        "amp#160;amp#160;amp#160; 但是，即使最终会发展负担得起的、安全、飞行及驾驶、独立于机场的个人交通系统，人们依旧需要翻新长途交通，特别是跨越大洋的飞行航线。"
    ],
    [
        "Or perhaps investors are gambling that the South has walked too far into the cement to get out.",
        "或者也许投资者正在赌南欧各国已经泥足深陷无力回天。"
    ],
    [
        "And politicians should focus their regulatory efforts on ensuring that sensible digital business models and private investment are not obstructed.",
        "政客应该关注监管政策，确保合理的数字商业模式和私人投资不被阻挠。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is national, with the hackers largely interested in two objectives. One is to steal secrets and gain an asymmetrical advantage over another country.",
        "其中第一层带有国家性质，黑客主要关注于两种目标：一种目标是窃取机密、获得对他国的不均衡优势。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, one hopes, will be different.",
        "我们希望这次会有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Some psychiatrists had reported that excessive use could lead to a psychotic state, including hallucinations, delusions, and thought disturbance.",
        "一些医生报告说，过量使用大麻会导致精神病症状，包括幻觉、妄想和思维错乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Adjustment mechanisms are needed, but external devaluation and inflation are not available, while labor mobility is partial at best.",
        "调整机制是必需的，但外部贬值和通胀又无法实施，而劳动力的流动性也算不上良好。"
    ],
    [
        "I served as one of the lawyers for the children.",
        "我成为这些孩子的律师之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the US Federal Reserve Board.",
        "接下来是美联储董事会。"
    ],
    [
        "It is worth considering whether Aldous Huxley, who taught Orwell at school and who wrote another great and portentous piece of political fiction, Brave New World, provides a more relevant perspective.",
        "这个问题值得考虑。 他是奥维尔的老师，写过另外一部伟大的预言性政治小说――《美丽新世界》。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the advanced countries became victims of financial globalization, in 2008, it became harder to sustain this line of argument.",
        "而到了2008年，发达国家也成了金融全球化的受害者，继续坚持这一论断就变得更加艰难了。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not what has happened so far.",
        "但这并不是目前的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Relaxing the one-child policy might have some positive impact in the very long run, but China is already past the tipping point, pushed there by the combined effect of gender imbalance and a very skewed age structure.",
        "放松独生子女政策或许可以在超长期产生积极影响，但中国已经度过了转折点，原因就是性别失衡和极度扭曲的年龄结构的共同影响。"
    ],
    [
        "They were designed not to impede Iran’s nuclear program directly, but rather to increase the price that Iran’s leaders must pay for pursuing their nuclear ambitions.",
        "这些制裁并不是为了直接阻碍伊朗核计划，而是为了提高伊朗领导层为追求核野心所必须付出的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "But he should not ignore the time lags between the American and the German economic cycles.",
        "但是，他不应该忽略美德两国经济周期的时间差。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, when the UN Security Council formally demanded a stop to the enrichment program and imposed mild sanctions last December, Iran’s defiant answer was to increase enrichment activity.",
        "确实，当联合国安理会在去年12月份正式要求停止浓缩项目并实施轻微的制裁之时，伊朗对抗性的回答就是增加其浓缩活动。"
    ],
    [
        "There, Betsey has a pair of, um, endowments that mean that she’s better at inputs.",
        "这样一来，贝西就有了新的禀赋，这一禀赋意味着她更适合投入。"
    ],
    [
        "When the contributions of the more than 160 countries that have submitted their voluntary mitigation commitments – the so-called “intended nationally determined contributions” – are added up, the scale of the failure becomes evident.",
        "如果把已提交自愿减排承诺的160多个国家的贡献——也就是所谓“预期国家确定贡献”——加在一起，失败的规模就显而易见了。"
    ],
    [
        "Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, lamented that he lacked charisma.",
        "而肯尼迪遇刺后的继任者林登·约翰逊则哀叹自己缺乏魅力。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan experienced sustained inflation for the first time since the early 1990s.",
        "日本从20世纪90年代初以来首次出现了持续通胀的态势。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, it is difficult to argue that the destruction of the Venezuelan oil industry, which lost almost half its global market share since President Hugo Chávez took power nearly 20 years ago, was carried out in the interest of the Venezuelan people.",
        "比如，很难说委内瑞拉石油工业的破坏符合委内瑞拉人民的利益。 自查韦斯总统在近二十年前开始掌权以来，委内瑞拉石油工业失去了其全球市场份额的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "The scale of the penalties is now large enough to have a substantial impact on banks’ balance sheets, delay the restoration of their health, and constrain their lending capacity.",
        "如今，罚金规模之大已足以对银行资产负债表造成重大影响，减缓它们的恢复速度，制约它们的贷款能力。"
    ],
    [
        "They simply predict the likelihood that specific findings will be categorized as abusive, and that, consequently, the child’s caregiver at the time will be accused or convicted of abuse, regardless of the accuracy of the diagnosis.",
        "它们只不过预测了具体发现可被归于虐待的概率，以及可以指控或确认当时在场的儿童看护者虐待的概率，确认的准确性并无保障。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, tools that may be used wisely and well by institutions with a global outlook, like the Fed and the Bank of England, could take on a different character in countries where a commitment to free and open markets cannot be taken for granted.",
        "此外，能被具有全球视野的机构——比如美联储和英格兰银行——明智并合理使用的工具在某些国家里可能会呈现不同的特点，因为无法保证这些国家一定会致力于建立自由开放的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "I may be one of the only China optimists left.",
        "我大概是仅有的中国乐观论者。"
    ],
    [
        "Education and Opportunity",
        "教育和机会"
    ],
    [
        "Now that the referendum is over, Johnson and others have backtracked, and the campaign has rebranded itself the “Change Britain” movement and promised to redirect EU funds to other areas instead.",
        "如今公投结束，约翰逊等人却改口了，其竞选组织也更名为“改变英国”运动，并承诺将欧盟基金重新定向到其他领域。"
    ],
    [
        "If unconventional unconventional monetary policies sound a little crazy, it’s worth remembering that the same was said about “conventional unconventional” policies just a few years ago.",
        "如果说非常规非常规货币政策听起来有些疯狂，那你应该回忆一下几年前人们对“常规非常规”政策的看法也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine’s election became a focal point for reconstruction.",
        "乌克兰选举成为复兴的关键点。"
    ],
    [
        "The L2D training drew on principles developed in the US, but built the methodology from the ground up.",
        "L2D培训系根据美国所制定的原则，但其方法论是全新的。"
    ],
    [
        "Typically, in the populist political imagination, elites disproportionately care for those who, like themselves, do not really belong.",
        "通常在民粹主义者的政治想象中，精英总是过分照顾那些像他们自己一样不属于社会大众的人群。"
    ],
    [
        "Natural gas and renewable energy sources, such as sun, water and wind, are an opportunity, not a risk, in Africa.",
        "天然气和可再生能源，如阳光、风力和水，在非洲不是风险而是机会。"
    ],
    [
        "If oil revenues fall further, they may be forced to sell those holdings, using the dollars to intervene in the foreign-exchange market and support their currencies or to bail out troubled banks, like Russia’s Trust Bank, the mid-size institution that the government rescued in December.",
        "如果石油收入继续下降，它们也许将被迫出售所持美国国债，用美元干预外汇市场支持本币或拯救陷入麻烦的银行——如12月被政府拯救的中型机构俄罗斯信托银行（Trust Bank）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the required reforms are so wide-ranging that they are beyond the means of most developing countries to implement.",
        "此外，需要的改革范围太广，超过了大部分发展中国家的实施能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Rowhani must seek a path that does not cost him the support of the majority of the regime’s power centers, yet that also allows him to fulfill the mandate he received from voters.",
        "鲁哈尼必须争取多数权力中心的支持，同时还要完成选民赋予的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "They proved that there is always a chance of outperforming.",
        "他们证明了总有超常发挥的可能存在。"
    ],
    [
        "She even announced a value-added tax increase (which her new government has, indeed, decided to implement in 2007).",
        "她甚至宣布了提高增值税—这项计划她的新政府已经决定在2007年实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Political discussions tend to revolve around three key issues: immigration controls, access to the single market, and passporting rights for financial services.",
        "在这方面的政治讨论往往围绕着三个关键问题：移民管控，进入单一市场的渠道以及金融服务的准入权。"
    ],
    [
        "Bankers will certainly regard the outcome as what in England we like to call a “curate’s egg” (served a rotten egg by his bishop, a young clergyman, when asked whether the egg was to his liking, replied that it was “good in parts”).",
        "银行家们必将对这个成果视为英格兰人所谓“牧师的鸡蛋”（一位年轻牧师与主教共进早餐但发现端上来的鸡蛋臭了，面对上级的亲切询问而又不敢得罪，牧师无奈回答说这个鸡蛋“肯定有一部分还是好的”）。"
    ],
    [
        "In Lebanon, the Syrians have repeatedly misread the Bush administration’s intentions.",
        "在黎巴嫩问题上，叙利亚多次误解了布什政府的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "It cannot instruct them to change their rules. Nor can it achieve consistency between different standard setters’ approaches, or, indeed, consistency of implementation by different national regulators.",
        "它无法命令这些机构去更改法则，也无法在各机构的不同标准之间达成一致，或者在不同国家的监管者之间获得同样的执行效果。"
    ],
    [
        "High oil consumption leaves a country vulnerable to oil-market disruptions arising, for example, from instability in the Middle East.",
        "高石油消费让一国很容易受到（比如因中东动荡引起的）石油市场波动的干扰。"
    ],
    [
        "He graduated from a military academy in Manchuria, where Kishi had once ruled over an industrial empire that was built on Chinese slave labor.",
        "他毕业于一所满洲军校，而岸信介曾在满洲统治由中国奴工组成的工业帝国。"
    ],
    [
        "Why not creditor rights?",
        "那强化债权人的权利又有何不可？"
    ],
    [
        "With few exceptions, government bonds have CACs, making it somewhat easier to address the holdout problem.",
        "政府债券几乎鲜有例外地全部带有集体行动条款，从而在某种程度上更加容易解决抵制问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It is as if they were combining the Arab/Islamic world’s culture of humiliation and Asia’s culture of hope.",
        "这两个国家似乎把阿拉伯/伊斯兰世界的屈辱文化与亚洲国家的希望文化紧紧结合在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Bard and rhapsodist both.",
        "既是吟游诗人又是狂想曲作者。"
    ],
    [
        "Apart from commodity exports, it has little to offer to the global economy.",
        "除了物资的出口，它对全球经济的贡献很小。"
    ],
    [
        "The term in silico has taken its place next to in vivo and in vitro in experimental work.",
        "在实验工作中，“硅片”的地位已经与“活体”和“试管”等量齐观。"
    ],
    [
        "These include Biden’s own extension of an olive branch to Russia at the recent Munich Security Conference, and Barack Obama’s appointment of Richard Holbrooke as special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan and of George Mitchell to a similar post for Israel-Palestine.",
        "这包括拜登自己在最近的慕尼黑安全政策会议上向俄罗斯抛出橄榄枝，以及巴拉克·奥巴马任命理查德·霍尔布鲁克（Richard Holbrooke）担任巴基斯坦和阿富汗特使，乔治·米切尔（George Mitchell）担任以色列－巴勒斯坦特使。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent report argues that more stringent environmental regulation would add 3.2 years to Indians’ life expectancy.",
        "最近一份报告认为严格环境管制将使印度的人均寿命延长3. 2年之多。"
    ],
    [
        "We have a critical need for long-term projects and initiatives to eliminate poverty, improve education and health, build infrastructure, and create economic opportunities.",
        "我们的一个至关重要的需求是实施战胜贫困、改善教育和卫生、建设基础设施、创造经济机会的长期工程。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the earnings yield on the stocks that make up the S&P composite is fluctuating around 6%: that is how much money the corporations that underpin the stocks are making for their shareholders.",
        "同时，标普成分股票所产生的收益率在6%左右波动：这就是支撑这些股票的公司为他们的股东所赚到的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "President Jacques Chirac of France, but also Brazil’s leftist president, Lula da Silva support a tax on airline tickets designed to finance poor countries’ development.",
        "法国总统雅克·希拉克以及巴西左派总统卢拉·达席尔瓦都支持对航空机票征税用来资助穷国发展。"
    ],
    [
        "But the price of the EU’s support cannot be changed: the major war criminals Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic must be delivered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.",
        "但换取欧盟支持的代价是不容改变的：卡拉季奇和姆拉迪奇等主要战犯必须送交位于海牙的联合国前南斯拉夫国际刑事法庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Many and ingenious have been the attempts to split the difference.",
        "为了分离分歧，人们已经做了很多机智的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not discriminate geographically, but it preys mostly on vulnerable communities in areas with poor sanitation.",
        "它本身不具有地理区别，但主要在卫生设施落后的脆弱社区传播。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the financial sector is undergoing a high-speed but permanent structural transformation, the effects of which could be severe for developing countries’ economic growth.",
        "在美国，金融业正经历着一场高速但永久性的结构性变化，其结果可能会严重影响发展中国家的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "And, to those who are concerned for the SNB's independence, one might ask a fundamental question: What is independence for if not to ignore those who complain that the central bank is insufficiently profit-oriented?",
        "此外，担心SNB独立性的人也许会问一个根本性问题：如果不忽视那些抱怨央行不够利润导向的人，独立性有什么意义？"
    ],
    [
        "And, lest we forget, Middle Israel is earning the money and paying the taxes that support a wide assortment of traditionalists, fundamentalists, chauvinists, and other extremists – Jewish and Muslim – from Gaza to Jerusalem to the West Bank.",
        "而且我们不要忘记，以色列中部的收入以及交纳的税收支撑了从加沙地带到耶路撒冷直到约旦河西岸的范围广泛的传统主义者、原教旨主义者、沙文主义者以及其他犹太或者穆斯林的极端主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "If the return on investment in education continues to decline, the servicing of student loans will tend to crowd out other consumption and investment outlays, especially given that student debt has considerable seniority in the capital structure.",
        "如果教育投资回报继续下降，那么维持学生贷款将挤出其他消费和投资项，特别是在学生贷款拥有很高的资本结构地位的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Both government and rebel forces have committed atrocity crimes.",
        "政府军和叛军都犯下了残暴罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, homegrown leaders from the Sahel through North Africa and the Middle East to Central Asia should recognize that the most important challenge facing the Islamic world today is the quality of education.",
        "第四，从萨赫勒到北非、从中东到中亚，土生土长的领导人应该认识到今天伊斯兰世界所面临的最大挑战是教育质量。"
    ],
    [
        "A different but equally troubling implication of AI is that it could become a substitute for one-on-one human contact.",
        "AI的另一个不同但同样令人担忧的影响是它可能成为一对一人际联系的替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "From investments in renewable energy and flex-fuel vehicles to reforestation, countries everywhere are realizing that green is not an option, but a necessity for recharging their economies and creating millions of jobs.",
        "从对可再生能源和弹性燃料（flex-fuel ）车辆的投资到植树造林增加绿化，世界各国都认识到环保不是一个选择，而是刺激其经济并且创造几百万工作岗位所必需的。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, necessity is the mother of invention.",
        "不过必要性是发明之母。"
    ],
    [
        "It has since emerged that the operation announced by Singh was not India’s first military strike across the LoC; several had occurred under the previous government as well, in response to military raids on Indian territory.",
        "其后传出的消息表明辛格所宣布的行动并非印度首次跨越控制线的军事打击行动； 前任政府治下也曾发生过几次，作为对袭击印度领土的报复行为。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was an outbreak of XDR-TB in HIV-infected people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, that turned the global spotlight on issues of extensively drug-resistant organisms.",
        "然而真正引起全球对严重耐药生物体高度关注的还是严重耐药型结核病在南非夸祖鲁纳塔尔省艾滋病感染人群中的爆发流行。"
    ],
    [
        "A housing minister who is told to build a certain number of houses will likely fail to build an equivalent number of well-connected habitat nodes.",
        "被建议建造一定数量住房的住房部长很可能无法建设同样多数量的连接良好的栖身节点。"
    ],
    [
        "It also can explain our moral attachments to those we see as members of our immediate tribe.",
        "也揭示了我们为什么同时会对那些自己族群成员的人表示善意。"
    ],
    [
        "Standards are set for the inspections needed to provide confidence that Iran is fulfilling its obligations. And provision is made for easing economic sanctions once Iran has verifiably met its commitments.",
        "该框架制定了怎样的调查标准才能让人们对伊朗履行义务有信心，还提出伊朗只要证明履行了承诺就可以放松经济制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund estimates that each 10-point increase in the debt ratio lowers economic growth by 0.2 percentage points.",
        "IMF估计，负债率每升高10个百分点将导致经济增长率下降0. 2个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, one should not entertain too many illusions.",
        "当然，一个人不应沉浸在过多的假象之中。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not take into account the damage from drug-resistant illnesses outside of hospitals or the impact of escalating healthcare costs.",
        "我们的研究没有考虑医院之外的抗药性疾病或医疗成本日渐增长的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Wrong – and by a substantial margin.",
        "但这个结论其实大错特错。"
    ],
    [
        "Already the scenes of looters exploiting the chaos in the early aftermath of the storm have been replaced with stories of charitable contributions from other parts of the country, of children being accepted into schools outside the city, and of families being helped by strangers.",
        "飓风刚刚过后抢劫者趁乱掠夺的镜头已经被美国其它州慈善捐助、受灾儿童被城外学校接收和受灾家庭得到陌生人救助的消息所取代。"
    ],
    [
        "The path to an international agreement strong enough to keep global warming under two degrees will be fraught with obstacles.",
        "形成足以把全球变暖幅度控制在2摄氏度以内的强大国际协定之路充满了险阻。"
    ],
    [
        "The election fraud in Iran has caused a mass movement in the country’s cities, which – this much is clear even now – will fundamentally change the country.",
        "伊朗发生的选举欺诈在城市里引发了群众抗议运动，这将从根本上改变伊朗的国内局势，即使在现阶段这也是不言自明的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a great pity that formal negotiations with Iran have been stalled since 2005 amid Western demands that Iran suspend all of its enrichment-related activities.",
        "很可惜的是，由于西方要求伊朗暂停所有与铀浓缩有关的活动，与伊朗的正式谈判自2005年以来一直处于停顿状态。"
    ],
    [
        "As soon as word got out that Greece was seriously considering such a move – well before it could even generate a new drachma currency – euro bank deposits would flee Greece.",
        "只要希腊认真考虑这一选择的消息一出——就算它还来不及铸造新的德拉克马货币——欧元银行存款就会争相逃离希腊。"
    ],
    [
        "But the world hears very little about the 1.3 million Indian troops who served in the conflict, which claimed the lives of 74,187, with another 67,000 wounded.",
        "但世界对于参战的130万印度军队却知之甚少，他们中有74,187人战死，67,000负伤。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia’s Dammed Water Hegemon",
        "亚洲的筑坝水霸权"
    ],
    [
        "As a commenter put it on Facebook, “a lost man doesn’t care if a rapist gives him direction.",
        "一位评论者在Facebook上指出，“一个迷失的男子不会介意为他指引方向的是一个强奸犯。"
    ],
    [
        "During the early transition years, the lack of an effective monetary-policy framework reflected the challenge of establishing new institutions and regulations, as well as the difficulty of overcoming the legacy of central planning, under which budget and credit financing were indistinguishable.",
        "过渡初期，有效货币政策框架的缺失反映了建立新制度和规则的难题，以及克服预算与信贷不分的中央计划经济遗留问题的困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that rapid social, technological, and environmental change is challenging both the Western and Chinese models of governance and development, with both requiring significant reform.",
        "问题是当前社会、科技和环境的急剧变革正在挑战中国与西方的治理和发展模式。 两种模式都亟待变革。"
    ],
    [
        "Like it or not, we are about to find out.",
        "不管喜欢与否，我们都要认识到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "On disease, malaria could be controlled by 2008 using proven, low-cost methods.",
        "在疾病方面，使用已被证明有效的低成本方法，疟疾有望在2008年得到控制。"
    ],
    [
        "But citizens are not helpless.",
        "但公民并非无望。"
    ],
    [
        "“A lot of the hope we had is now dead…it was killed.”",
        "“我们曾经拥有的很多希望现在都死了……被杀死了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But, lacking sensitivity to local dynamics, the outcome is severely compromised.",
        "但由于缺乏对当地动态环境的深入了解，其效果却是大打折扣。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps surprisingly, there is widespread consensus in the Arab Awakening countries that the private sector is central to sustained job creation and growth.",
        "也许令人惊讶的是，阿拉伯觉醒国家间有一个广泛的共识——私人部门是持续就业创造和增长的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "He was a brave airman, with a fine war record.",
        "他曾是个勇敢的飞行员，有着良好的军中服役纪录。"
    ],
    [
        "The more complicated a negotiation, though, the more difficult it is to disregard complex issues such as values and norms or the importance of being sincere.",
        "不过谈判越复杂就越难忽视复杂的问题，比如价值观和准则或者真诚的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that most plants that are currently threatened with extinction – 20% of known species, and probably 30% of all species – fall within this category, efforts to preserve plant biodiversity should emphasize such concentrations of small-range species.",
        "鉴于目前濒临灭绝的大部分植物——占已知物种的20%和所有物种的30%——属于上述类别，因此保护植物多样性的工作应当以小范围物种的聚集地为重点。"
    ],
    [
        "Investasi pada sistem pelayanan kesehatan di negara-negara berpendapatan rendah dan menengah akan membantu mereka beradaptasi dengan kenaikan beban penyakit-penyakit seumur hidup seperti diabetes.",
        "投资于中低收入国家的医疗系统有助于它们适应糖尿病等终身疾病的日益增长的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "The result of this conflict was a vague declaration by the G-20 that it would use “fiscal-policy flexibly to strengthen growth, job creation, and confidence, while enhancing resilience and ensuring debt as a share of GDP is on a sustainable path.”",
        "这一冲突的结果是G-20只是含糊地宣布将使用“财政政策灵活性提振增长、就业创造和信心，同时增加恢复力和确保债务占GDP之比保持可持续趋势。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Since Latin America’s democratization in the 1980s, only two incumbents have lost – Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua (who was not really elected the first time) and Hipólito Mejía in the Dominican Republic.",
        "自20世纪80年代拉丁美洲开始民主化以来，只有两位在任者输掉了选举——尼加拉瓜的奥尔特加（他第一次也不是真正靠选举上台的）和多米尼加共和国的梅西亚。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Senate Finance Committee’s draft proposals suggest, the US should jettison its worldwide approach to corporate taxation and adopt a territorial system for taxing US MNCs’ foreign earnings.",
        "正如参议院金融委员会的方案草案所指出的，美国应该抛弃其全球公司税原则，采用领地制度对美国跨国公司海外利润课税。"
    ],
    [
        "The regime may respond by trying to tighten the noose.",
        "独裁政权的反应可能是企图进一步加强对舆论的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Gates, deeply conscious, indeed a specialist of the terrible history of race relations in his country, instinctively assumed that he was a victim of prejudice.",
        "盖茨非常了解美国糟糕的种族关系史，甚至可以说是这方面的专家，因此他本能地认为自己成了种族歧视的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, just as BP was being hit with new criminal penalties, ExxonMobil announced yet another pipeline leak in the Niger Delta.",
        "确实，正当英国石油公司遭受新的刑事处罚时，埃克森美孚又通报了一起位于尼日尔三角洲的石油管道泄漏事件。"
    ],
    [
        "But June’s resounding victory could ultimately lead to an even more stunning reversal, like Napoleon’s hubristic march on Moscow after he had destroyed all opposition in Western Europe.",
        "但6月份的大获全胜可能最终导致更加波澜壮阔的逆转，就像拿破仑在横扫西欧后踌躇满志地向莫斯科进军的下场一样。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – In an influential 1997 essay, Fareed Zakaria coined the term “illiberal democracy” to describe those countries that hold elections (of varying fairness) to choose their leaders, yet restrict civil liberties and political freedom.",
        "圣地亚哥—在1997年的著名文章中，法利德·扎卡利亚（Fareed Zakaria）创造了“不自由民主”一词来形容用（公正度各异的）选举选择领导人、但限制公民自由和政治自由的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of their outcome, the new negotiations have put Khamenei in a perilous position.",
        "无论结果如何，哈梅内伊在新一轮谈判中的处境都是危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas Sarkozy has managed to impose himself on the right without the support of Jacques Chirac, the Socialist heavyweights cannot fully convince themselves to come out behind Royal.",
        "萨尔科奇成功地在没有希拉克的支持下统领了右翼，而社会党的重量级人物们却无法完全说服自己支持罗雅尔。"
    ],
    [
        "The economists all began from the assumption that the UK was doing fine, with GDP growth well above the European average, and unemployment well below. It seemed self-evident that EU membership was good for Britain, especially as we had avoided joining the euro and were thus not tied up in monetary and fiscal knots designed in Brussels and Frankfurt.",
        "经济学家都是从英国经济健康运行，GDP增长和失业率分别远高和远低于欧洲平均水平的假设上进行分析，这似乎必然意味着欧盟成员资格是有利于英国的，尤其是在英国免于加入欧元区，因此无需与布鲁塞尔和法兰克福制定的货币和财政政策捆绑在一起的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Another option is to combine carbon-based energy (coal, oil, and gas) with new technologies that prevent the emission of airborne carbon.",
        "另一项选择是将碳基能源（煤炭、石油和天然气）和新技术相结合，防止碳的空中排放。"
    ],
    [
        "On June 6, 1938, as preparations for the conference were underway, the US State Department received a letter concerning 51 Austrian Jewish refugees stranded on a small boat in the international waters of the Danube.",
        "1938年6月6日，埃维昂会议筹备期间，美国国务院收到了一封信，上面说，51名奥地利犹太难民被困在了多瑙河国际水域中的一条小船上。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is a stance that resonates deeply with the egalitarian tradition of the People Liberation Army (PLA), as well as with its institutional interests, particularly those in the Shenyang District.",
        "事实上，这一立场在有着深刻平均主义传统的解放军种反响强烈，也与解放军的集体利益（institutional interests），特别是沈阳军区的集体利益一致。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – This year, World Cancer Day will focus on dispelling damaging myths about the disease.",
        "日内瓦—今年，世界癌症日的焦点将是打消这一疾病的破坏性传说。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, liquidity risk should be properly assessed in risk management models, and both banks and other financial institutions should better price and manage such risk; most financial crises are triggered by maturity mismatches.",
        "最后，流动性风险应该用风险管理模型进行恰当的评估，银行和其他金融机构都应该更好地为这种风险定价和进行管理； 大多数金融危机是因期限错配引发的。"
    ],
    [
        "Timing is another problem.",
        "另一个问题是时机。"
    ],
    [
        "In foreign policy, Chile is expected to adopt a harsher stance towards the Cuban dictatorship and Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez, while retaining the policy of integration with Argentina and Brazil, and of negotiation with Bolivia (over an old territorial dispute).",
        "外交政策方面，预计智利会对古巴独裁政权和委内瑞拉总统 乌戈·查韦斯采取更严厉的态度，并同时继续奉行与阿根廷和巴西友好往来及与玻利维亚就原有地区争端继续谈判的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "As in Libya, the fighting would make the country ungovernable.",
        "就像利比亚一样，战争将摧毁该国的一切治理结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Greater restrictions would provide incentives for illegal operators to remain, while less restrictive regulation would discourage black marketeers, but at the price of increasing the number of users and problem users.",
        "更严厉的管制措施固然会给非法大麻经营者可乘之机，而更宽松的管制虽然能遏制黑市交易，代价却是大麻吸食者和滥用者数量的不断增加。"
    ],
    [
        "It merely “broke the buck,” meaning that it couldn’t pay one dollar for a dollar on the books; but it could still pay $0.97.",
        "它只是“跌破面值”，即对于其账上的一美元无法十足偿付一美元； 但仍能够偿付0."
    ],
    [
        "And Erdoğan should understand that his legacy might well be shaped by whether that process succeeds or fails.",
        "埃尔多安应该明白，他的遗产也将在很大程度上由这一和平进程的成败决定。"
    ],
    [
        "This is easy to demonstrate.",
        "这点很容易说明。"
    ],
    [
        "Lower oil prices help, and there are only so many banks to rob.",
        "油价下跌对此有帮助，可供抢劫的银行也只有那么几家。"
    ],
    [
        "While home prices are crashing from Madrid to Dublin and Miami to Los Angeles, African prices remain near or at record-high levels.",
        "从马德里到都柏林，从迈阿密到洛杉矶，房价一路狂跌，而非洲房价却接近或者正处于有史以来的最高水平。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – A recent survey of 100 Arab thought leaders conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace revealed a sweeping consensus about what underlies many of the region’s problems: a lack of good governance.",
        "由卡内基国际和平基金会不久前进行的对100名阿拉伯思想领袖的调查显示出人们对缺乏良好治理是造成地区问题的原因达成了全面的共识。"
    ],
    [
        "In theory, simultaneous fiscal consolidation and supply-side reform facilitates economic recovery, because it increases confidence among consumers and investors, thereby inducing higher spending and production.",
        "从理论上说，同时进行财政整固和供给面改革有利于经济复苏，因为这会增加消费者和投资者信心，从而带来更高的支出和产量。 但对于一个不完美运行的货币联盟，这并不一定必然发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Put in economic terms, that is an extra rise of 0.6% per year in standards of living since 1990, a far larger increase than the 0.2% per year that reliance on conventional measures would lead us to conclude.",
        "用经济学行话讲，这相当于1990年以来每年生活水平额外增加0. 6%，远远高于常规衡量手段的计算结果0."
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, in order to anchor inflation expectations effectively, inflation targets must be realistic.",
        "简而言之，为了有效控制通胀预期，必须设定一个较为现实的通胀目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of actually solving the education crisis, rich-country leaders go from speech to speech, meeting to meeting, proclaiming their ardent love of education for all.",
        "富裕国家的领导人四处演讲出席会议以宣示他们对普及教育的热爱，却并未真正着手解决教育危机。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Pew Research Center, the number of Muslims in the world will nearly equal the number of Christians by 2070, and Islam will become the world’s largest religion by 2100.",
        "7名和乍得的6名。 皮尤研究中心数据显示，全球穆斯林人数将在2070年接近基督徒的人数，而2100年伊斯兰教的规模将成为世界第一。"
    ],
    [
        "Hu Yaobang was a founder of the China Youth League, regarded as a relatively liberal institution in the People’s Republic, who in the 1980’s promoted political reforms and rehabilitated virtually all the victims of the Mao Zedong’s purges.",
        "胡耀邦是中国共青团的创始人之一，共青团被认为是中国相对较为开明的组织。 胡耀邦在上世纪八十年代促进政治改革，为毛泽东清洗运动的几乎所有受害者平反。"
    ],
    [
        "These strategies will help to slow rapid urbanization, which entails dense construction, sealed roads, and private cars – all of which contribute to the “urban heat island” effect.",
        "上述战略将有助于减缓快速城市化进程，减少密集建设、封闭道路和私家车辆——而这一切一直是加剧“城市热岛”效应的罪魁祸首。"
    ],
    [
        "Interconnection would also reduce the number of new onshore transmission lines the country needs.",
        "互联也将有助于减少该国所需的内陆输电网数量。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who feel directly threatened by the anti-graft campaign might be inclined to take their money out of China.",
        "感到反腐运动的直接威胁的人倾向于将钱转移出中国。"
    ],
    [
        "At the International Monetary Fund, the focus is on reforming its member countries’ fiscal systems in order to raise more revenue from taxes on carbon-intensive fuels and less revenue from other taxes that are detrimental to economic performance, such as taxes on labor and capital.",
        "在国际货币基金组织（IMF），注意力集中在改革成员国的财政制度，从碳密集型燃料的税收上获得更多收入，同时减少不利于经济表现的劳动和资本方面的税收。"
    ],
    [
        "With many of the global economy’s traditional growth engines – like the United States – stuck in low gear, China’s performance has become increasingly important.",
        "全球经济的诸多传统引擎（如美国）早已开启了低速模式，在这样的情况下，中国的表现正变得越来越重要。"
    ],
    [
        "There are indications that he shares the old central European prejudice of America as a materialist civilization that provides the wherewithal – but not the ideas – for what needs to be done.",
        "从种种迹象来看，他保有着欧洲中部的古老偏见，认为美国的唯物主义文化，只能为要做的事情提供必需的资金，而非想法和理念。"
    ],
    [
        "As is true of other global problems, much depends on the capacity and willingness of the most powerful national governments to find ways to act collectively.",
        "正如其他全球性的问题那样，要想解决能源问题，很大程度上要依赖于大国政府的联合行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem does not affect only children.",
        "这一问题不仅影响儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "The assembled reporters will look at him, and they will recall that when he was offered an unbelievably good financial deal, he was too “dopey” to take advantage of it.",
        "济济一堂的记者们将看着他，他们会回想起，当他得到难以置信的优惠库存融资时，他过于“愚笨”，没有乘机利用它。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the rapid expansion in the US of shale gas, which contains no economically recoverable helium, has squeezed marginal conventional-gas supplies.",
        "此外，美国页岩气行业的迅速扩张（页岩气不含能廉价回收的氦）挤出了传统天然气的边际供应。"
    ],
    [
        "There are four related problems.",
        "有四个相关问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Subsidies, domestic-content requirements, investment regulations, and, yes, often import barriers were critical to the creation of new, higher-value industries.",
        "补贴、国内制造比例，投资管制以及经常设置的进口壁垒对于新的更高附加值行业的建立是相当关键的。"
    ],
    [
        "At-risk regions would develop culturally appropriate ways to deal with the catastrophes most likely to affect them.",
        "有受灾危险的地区要找到符合当地文化的方法，来应对可能降临的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "As for trade with China, The Economist points out that “for every dollar’s worth of exports to China [principally raw materials], India imports three.”",
        "卢比也在贬值。 至于与中国的俄贸易，《经济学人》指出“印度每向中国出口1美元（主要是原材料），都要进口3美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In the post-colonial period following World War II, the prevailing development paradigm was a form of structuralism: the aim was to change poor countries’ industrial structure to resemble that of high-income countries.",
        "二战后的后殖民时期，结构主义模式是主流的发展模式，目标是为了改变贫困国家的产业结构，使其与高收入国家的产业结构相似。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, curricula that have defined education for the last half-century must be rethought, with a view toward ensuring that workers are equipped with higher-level “meta-skills” that can be adapted easily to a broad array of industries.",
        "在这样的条件下，过去半个世纪的课程表必须重新设计，一个指导事项是要确保工人具备更高水平的能轻松适应范围甚广的多种行业的“元技能”。"
    ],
    [
        "The first priority is to get the number of Ebola cases to zero and keep it there.",
        "第一个重点是将埃博拉病例减到零并永远保持。"
    ],
    [
        "The Climate-Policy Trap",
        "气候政策陷阱"
    ],
    [
        "As Britain’s taxi drivers liked to say, she was the best man in the government.",
        "英国出租车司机总是说，她是政府里最棒的男人（man）。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – In the next month, the US Treasury Department is expected to decide whether to seek to replace the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act’s regulator-led process for resolving failed mega-banks with a solely court-based mechanism.",
        "坎布里奇—下个月，美国财政部将决定是否寻求用完全基于法院的机制取代2010年多德-弗兰克法案（Dodd-Frank Act）规定的由监管者主导破产大型银行处置的流程。"
    ],
    [
        "The traits-centered approach has not vanished from studies of leadership, but it has been broadened and made more flexible.",
        "以特征为中心的研究方法在领导研究中还没有消失，但是它被进行了扩充并赋予更多的弹性。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade agreements with Central America, Colombia, Chile, and Peru could also be at risk.",
        "与中美洲、哥伦比亚、智利和秘鲁的贸易协定也是岌岌可危。"
    ],
    [
        "In many countries, drug-treatment protocols effectively ensure that women with children will be unable to receive services.",
        "在很多国家，毒品治疗程序实际确保了有孩子的女性不可能接受服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The US National Income and Product Accounts show that the effective rate of corporate profits tax (the percentage of profits actually paid to the government in taxes) crested at 33.7% in the first quarter of 2000 - the peak of the stock market and the economy in general - and fell to 20.2% in the fourth quarter of 2003, when the market was down.",
        "美国国民所得和产品帐显示：企业盈利税的有效税率（实际以税收形式上交政府的利润百分比）于2000年第一季度达到顶峰33. 7%，当时股市和总体经济状况均处于辉煌时期，而2003年第四季度降到了20."
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the deterioration of international relations before World Wars I and II was marked by governments’ increased propensity to use economics as a tool of power politics.",
        "无独有偶，在第一、二次世界大战前国际关系恶化的标志就是各国政府日渐将经济学作为权力政治的工具的倾向。"
    ],
    [
        "So, for once, logic and personal political motivation are pushing in the same direction.",
        "因此在这一时刻，理性和个人政治动机都促使萨科齐在同一方向上发力。"
    ],
    [
        "Because Germany, the eurozone’s largest economy, shares a currency with poorer member states, it enjoys an artificial boost to export competitiveness.",
        "作为欧元区最大经济体，德国和较穷的成员国共用一种货币，享受着人为提高的出口竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "This provides important insight into the approach that China’s leaders must take to addressing supply-side structural problems throughout the country.",
        "广东的经验对于中国决策层应该采取什么策略来解决全国各地的供给侧结构问题提供了重要启示。"
    ],
    [
        "New middle classes are emerging globally, and magazines like Cosmopolitan and Vogue are targeting newly middle-class women in India and China – many of them part of a generation with its own disposable income for the first time ever in their family histories – with the very same luxury goods.",
        "新的中产阶级正在全球范围内如雨后春笋般的涌现，而《 Cosmopolitan 》 和《 Vogue 》等杂志则瞄准了印度和中国新兴的中产阶级女性 —— 其中许多人属于在自己家族的历史上首次可以自由支配自己收入的一代。"
    ],
    [
        "Not in Britain, nor among Britain’s partners.",
        "大不列颠没有置疑，她的伙伴国们也没有置疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the Hezbollah rockets that rained on Israel bore the markings of Syria’s Defence Ministry.",
        "许多发射到以色列的真主党火箭上都印有叙利亚国防部的标记。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of illegal Jewish settlements and settlers has more than doubled in the areas Israel occupied in 1967.",
        "非法犹太定居点和定居者的数量已经比1967年的以色列占领范围翻了超过两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "While European leaders have repeatedly done what previously seemed unthinkable, their responses have been out of synch with markets.",
        "虽然欧洲领导人不断做出一些以前看来不可想象的举措，但他们的反应已经跟不上市场的步调。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Trump and his right-wing colleagues understand, when emerging markets get into trouble, only the Fed can provide the liquidity to ease the pressure.",
        "但是，特朗普及其右翼同事们明白，当新兴市场陷入麻烦时，只有美联储能够提供缓解压力的美元流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "Even for NGOs that stick around, determining their relief efforts’ impact in the middle of a crisis is difficult, if not impossible.",
        "即便对于坚守阵地的NGO们而言，要在危机的进程中判断自己赈灾努力的影响即便不是不可能的，也是困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, new mechanisms are needed for regional and global governance that include actors other than states.",
        "因此，地区和全球统治需要新的机制，允许除国家以外的演员登上舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics who argue that fiscal stimulus in Japan failed in the past – leading only to squandered investment in useless infrastructure – make two mistakes.",
        "认为日本过去财政刺激无效——唯一结果是将大量投资浪费在无用的基础设施上——的批评家犯了两个错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, requiring donations from member countries would be a step in the wrong direction; the WTO is not an aid agency.",
        "尽管如此，要求成员国出资是一个错误的步骤； 世贸组织不是援助机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Barring a disorderly breakup of the eurozone, which seems unlikely, the International Monetary Fund’s baseline forecast of 4% annual growth in world trade for 2012 seems reasonable.",
        "在排除了欧元区发生无序解体的情形后（可能性极低），IMF对2012年全球贸易的基线预测是全年增长4%，这一预测颇为合理。"
    ],
    [
        "Thatcherism emerged as the most plausible alternative to state socialism.",
        "显然，撒切尔主义的出现正是替代国家社会主义的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither Singapore nor China is a democracy; but leaders in both countries have used their political power to improve living standards.",
        "不管是新加坡还是中国，都不是民主国家； 但两国领导人运用他们的政治权力去改善生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "In an interview, she stated her only wish: to fly to Mars, even with a one-way ticket.",
        "在一次采访中，她说出了她唯一的愿望，那就是飞到火星，即使是有去无回也在所不惜。"
    ],
    [
        "Coming Together and Falling Apart",
        "团结起来或分崩离析"
    ],
    [
        "This comes after a first term in which public diplomacy was a neglected stepchild, and a Pentagon advisory panel summed up the situation as a “crisis.”",
        "”这一切都是在布什第一届任期内公共外交沦为被人忽视的“拖油瓶”，以至于五角大楼的顾问委员会将这种情况归结为一场“危机”之后发生的。"
    ],
    [
        "Where does India, which remains dependent on Middle Eastern energy, stand on that region’s many crises?",
        "仍需依赖中东能源的印度在中东诸多危机中立场如何？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet we know that such priorities are best served when we are not alone, and in an international system based on multilateralism and rules, not on global policemen and lone warriors.",
        "但我们知道，这些重点在我们不是单枪匹马的时候才能最好地得到落实，并且需要一个基于多边主义和规则，而不是世界警察和孤胆英雄的国际体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, people increasingly value non-material wealth just as highly as monetary wealth, if not more.",
        "因此，人们日益向看重货币财富那样看重非物质财富。"
    ],
    [
        "The explanation is straightforward.",
        "原因很简单。"
    ],
    [
        "COPENHAGEN – This December, global leaders will meet in Copenhagen to negotiate a new climate change pact to reduce carbon emissions.",
        "哥本哈根－今年十二月，全球领导人将齐聚哥本哈根，就降低碳排放的新气候变化公约进行谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "As with other innovations – such as mobile phones, e-books, digital photography and music, and flat-screen televisions – large-scale deployment will occur when the new technologies reach the market tipping point, when their value to consumers exceeds the costs to businesses of supplying them.",
        "在其他创新的影响下——比如智能手机、电子书、数字照相和音乐、平板电视——大规模部署将在技术到达市场引爆点时发生，即它们对消费者的价值超过了供应它们的企业的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason why progress in the reconciliation processes has been slower than anticipated is that Western governments have not pressed Karzai to engage in genuine peace negotiations with Taliban leaders until coalition forces have had the opportunity to reverse the deteriorating situation on the battlefield.",
        "而和谈进程比预想中缓慢的一个原因，则是在联军终于有机会将战局扭转之前，西方国家一直没有迫使卡尔扎伊认真地与塔利班领导人展开和谈。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in Greece, where conditions are the worst, Golden Dawn is still a minority party.",
        "即使在环境最恶劣的希腊，黄金黎明党也只是个少数党。"
    ],
    [
        "Now they are confronting elevated risks of a European recession and the real possibility that both the UK and the EU could break up if populist contagion takes hold.",
        "如今，它们面临着欧洲衰退风险升级和民粹主义蔓延导致英国和欧盟解体的实实在在的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the $1.5 trillion of government borrowing caused by the tax bill during the next decade could crowd out an equal amount of private borrowing, the capital stock will grow by an even larger amount.",
        "尽管未来十年税收法案所引起的1. 5万亿美元政府借款可能挤压掉等量的私人借款，但资本存量的增长会更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Public debt has soared, and the government says it cannot pay.",
        "公共债务激增，当地政府表示无力承担。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, America still wants to contain China and prevent it from becoming a major regional and world power.",
        "当然，美国仍然希望遏制中国，阻止其成长为地区和世界的主要力量。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, Israel has been taking other measures to secure its future.",
        "事实上，以色列已经为保证未来安全采取了很多其他举措。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, Asia’s pattern of dynastic leadership does not render it immune from the challenges that the rest of the world faces.",
        "总之，亚洲世袭继承的领导模式无法助其躲避世界其他地区所面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "One possible conclusion is banal.",
        "一个可能的结论就是什么也不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless they are supported by strong institutional structures at all levels, such measures will prove futile in managing capital flows.",
        "除非获得各个层面的强大的制度性结构的支持，这些措施是无力管理资本流的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the hard truth is that current funding for research and development to address the health needs of the world’s poorest people is insufficient.",
        "但残酷的现实是目前用于解决世界最贫困人口医疗需求的研发资金还远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider urbanization.",
        "比方说城市化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, that perceived deficit is something of a politically convenient canard.",
        "这一赤字观念只不过是某种容易被政治借用的有意误导。"
    ],
    [
        "But if he pursues his protectionist promise to put “America first,” which smacks of xenophobic nationalism, investors and central banks could gradually be impelled to find alternative reserves for their spare billions.",
        "但如果他追求“美国第一”的保护主义承诺——这带有一些仇外民族主义的味道——投资者和央行可能逐渐被迫寻找其他储备货币来存放它们的巨量闲置资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Major power shifts define eras in which key political leaders are likely to make serious foreign-policy mistakes.",
        "实力大变迁往往是关键政治领导人可能做出严重外交政策错误决定的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq has now become God’s playground, and America can hope to achieve a modicum of stability there only with the help of other regional powers.",
        "伊拉克现在已经成为上帝的游乐场，而美国只有依靠其他地区大国的帮助才能够指望在那里实现些许的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the 2007 financial law, those who claim the home improvement deduction must supply an invoice from the building contractor, which must specify the cost for labor.",
        "根据2007年的金融法律，那些要求扣除改善房屋的费用的人必须出示由建筑承包商提供的发票，发票上应标明劳务费用的数额。"
    ],
    [
        "The international investigation that led to the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers are brilliant examples of journalism that is relevant and interesting – two fundamental criteria that all reporting should meet.",
        "产生了巴拿马文件（Panama Papers）和天堂文件（Paradise Papers）的国际调查便是重要且有趣的新闻的闪光的例子——而重要和有趣乃是所有报道都应该达到的两个基本标准。"
    ],
    [
        "A “mercantilist” could be defined as someone who believes that gains go only to the country that enjoys a higher trade surplus, mirrored by losses for the trading partner that runs a correspondingly higher deficit.",
        "“重商主义者”可以定义为相信只有贸易盈余较高的国家才能受益的观点的人，反之，因此出现较高贸易赤字的贸易伙伴蒙受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial history is full of similar examples: Mexico in 1994, Russia in 1998, Ecuador in 1999, Argentina in 2001, Uruguay in 2002, the Dominican Republic in 2003, and even the UK in 1976.",
        "金融史充满了类似的例子：1984年的墨西哥、1998年的俄罗斯、1999年的厄瓜多尔、2001年的阿根廷、2002年的乌拉圭、2003年的多米尼加、甚至1976年的英国都输此列。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas the devoutly religious Zia was useful for boosting religious Islamic sentiments against the Soviets, Musharraf is needed nowadays to contain those very forces, which threaten not just global security but Pakistan itself.",
        "如果说虔诚的教徒齐亚（哈克）对激发反苏联的伊斯兰宗教情绪功不可没，那么穆沙拉夫现在却必须遏制这些势力。 这些势力不仅对全球安全，也对巴基斯坦本身构成威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The two are linked.",
        "两者之间互相关联。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a handful of them really will be.",
        "然而其中只有很少一些是真正重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "A 2005 report by the US State Department’s Advisory Committee on Cultural Diplomacy called for a new vision of cultural diplomacy that “can enhance US national security in subtle, wide-ranging and sustainable ways.”",
        "对此，美国国务院下属的文化外交事务咨询委员会在2005年发布的一份报告中就呼吁必须给文化外交找到一个能“以微妙，广泛和可持续方式促进美国国家安全”的新视角。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether China can develop and implement a viable new economic-growth model in post-crisis conditions depends on whether President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang can revive the legacy of their predecessors, Deng Xiaoping and Zhu Rongji.",
        "中国是否能在后危机时代背景下发展并实施可行的新经济增长模式取决于习近平主席和李克强总理能否接过邓小平和朱镕基的枪。"
    ],
    [
        "The marriage analogy was used initially to signal that the European relationship was an exclusive one.",
        "婚姻比方最初用来表明欧洲关系是一种排他关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade has been tariff-free for decades: the big impact has come from reducing non-tariff barriers arising from different national regulations.",
        "几十年来贸易一直是零关税：产生巨大影响的是降低不同国家法规带来的非关税贸易壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "This has given nationalist parties the perfect target for their anti-EU campaigns.",
        "这给了民族主义政党的反欧盟活动以完美的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Asked whether “social liberalism” is a “force for good” or a “force for ill,” 87% of “Remain” voters said it was a force for good, while 53% of Leave voters called liberalism a “force for ill.”",
        "在被问及“社会自由主义”是“好力量”还是“坏力量”时，87%的“留欧”选民说它是好力量，53%的脱欧选民说自由主义是坏力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The terrible consequences of burning fossil fuels are already upon us, and those suffering the most are the world's poor.",
        "燃烧化石燃料的可怕后果已开始缠上我们，而受影响最大的正是穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "But this perspective, while entirely correct, is also incomplete.",
        "但这一观点虽然完全正确，却是不完整的。"
    ],
    [
        "One still might think that it makes sense to hold cash directly, rather than holding an asset with a negative return.",
        "有些人可能任然认为直接持有现金而不是回报为负的资产才有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "(That is why Rogoff wants the US government to “lock in” currently low rates by issuing much longer-term debt to fund public infrastructure).",
        "（这就是为何罗格夫希望美国政府通过发行更长期限的公共基础设施建设债来“锁定”当前的低利率水平）。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa needs to reclaim the economic initiative, by – literally – building the Africa of the future.",
        "南非需要通过打造真正的未来非洲重振经济。"
    ],
    [
        "His research program has been both compassionate and grounded, and he has established a research trajectory for young scholars and social engineers that marks the beginning of a real and enduring scientific revolution.",
        "他的研究方案既富同情心又接地气，还为青年学者和社会工程师建立了研究轨迹，标志着一场科学革命的真正而持久的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "It remains to be seen if rich developed countries are willing to take the same route.",
        "因此富裕发展中国家是否能采取同一条路径还有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2011, the US chemical company DuPont has invested $879 million in research and development of products with quantifiable environmental benefits; it has recorded $2 billion in annual revenue from products that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, and an additional $11.8 billion in revenue from renewable resources like wind and solar power.",
        "79亿美元用于包括定量环境效益分析在内的产品研发； 据其报告，每年降低温室气体排放的产品给该公司带来20亿美元收入，而可再生资源（如风能和太阳能）更是能够带来118亿美元收入。"
    ],
    [
        "while their Crosses attack in the dark of night,",
        "污染神圣阿拉伯土地，"
    ],
    [
        "One example is “shared responsibility” mortgages, in which payments are reduced under certain circumstances, such as when home prices dip below the borrower’s purchase price.",
        "一个实例是“共同责任”抵押，即在特定情况下减少还款，比方说住宅价格跌到借款人购买价格以下。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone should also pursue a policy – partially via looser monetary policy – that weakens the value of the euro significantly and restores the periphery’s competitiveness.",
        "欧元区也应当执行政策——部分通过宽松的货币政策——令欧元显著贬值，恢复边缘国家的出口竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Legal primitives are not alone in embracing this stance.",
        "法律不健全并非持有上述立场的全部原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as sheet music tells musicians in an orchestra when and how to play, the genome tells the cell’s component parts (generally proteins) what they must do.",
        "正如活页乐谱让乐队的乐师们知道何时演奏，基因组让细胞各组成部分（主要是蛋白质）知道应该干什么。"
    ],
    [
        "But diaspora bonds will not be a feasible development instrument unless they are linked to development projects in places where there is sufficient trust in the government.",
        "但除非侨民债券与发展工程联系起来，并且发行国政府拥有充分的信誉，否则侨民债券就不是可行的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "And then they can advocate for policy changes and public funding to scale those approaches that work.",
        "然后，他们可以鼓动政策变革和公共资金扩大有效方法的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "Political association with the EU, and the process of integration under this Partnership, will promote reforms in these key areas.",
        "与欧盟的政治结合，以及在伙伴关系下的融合进程将推动上述关键领域的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "A full-scale trade war is unlikely. Both governments know the stakes are too high for both economies, and Obama and Hu will continue to work hard to try to keep things moving in a constructive direction.",
        "全面的贸易战看来不大可能爆发，因为两国政府都深知其中蕴含的风险对各自经济来说都太大了，所以，奥巴马和胡锦涛将继续努力使事态向建设性的方向上发展。"
    ],
    [
        "As is often true of great parties, it can be a bit of a mystery how substantial new markets get started, but we know that it does happen from time to time.",
        "如同大型聚会一样，大型新兴市场是的起家难免显示神秘，但是我们知道有时的确如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the European surplus is too large to ignore, and Germany in particular will be asked once more to rebalance its economy toward higher domestic demand, which for many people implies the need for a fiscal boost.",
        "尽管如此，欧洲的盈余仍然很大，不容忽视，特别是德国，它将再次被要求提高内需以实现经济再平衡，许多人认为这意味着财政刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "But, using some “out-of-court resolution” mechanisms devised by the RBI, and with capital support from the government, banks should have well-provisioned balance sheets by March 2017.",
        "但是，利用RBI所制定的“法院外办法”，在政府资本的支持下，银行将在2017年3月完成资产负债表的优化。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether he can work with China and other Asian actors to design an alternative framework for regional peace.",
        "问题在于他是否能与中国和其他亚洲行动方共同为地区和平设计另外一套框架。"
    ],
    [
        "How the fighting in Aleppo and Mosul ends will help clarify the tasks ahead.",
        "阿勒颇和摩苏尔战斗如何结束将有助于厘清未来任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Assessing China’s economic stability requires considering the conflicts and tensions affecting the country – none of which advances the cause of growth.",
        "评估中国经济的稳定性需要考虑到影响该国的冲突和矛盾状况——两者都不会对增长的动力有所推动。"
    ],
    [
        "That is exactly what happened.",
        "事实果然不出所料。"
    ],
    [
        "Chile is a case of successful pro-market reform, argues Sebastián Piñera, who stepped down from the presidency on March 11.",
        "塞巴斯蒂安·皮涅拉（Sebastián Piñera）指出，智利是成功市场改革的例子。 他将于3月11日卸任总统。"
    ],
    [
        "China has the potential to maintain robust growth by relying on domestic demand – and not only household consumption.",
        "中国有潜力通过内需——不仅是家庭消费——保持鲁棒增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The Constitutional Treaty includes guarantees to ensure that the EU adheres to this principle strictly.",
        "宪法条约包含了确保欧盟严格执行这一原则的条款。"
    ],
    [
        "And those that succeed, such as Syriza, quickly become frustrated by the largely immovable systems in which they must operate – a situation that their lack of governing experience makes all the more difficult.",
        "至于取得了成功的边缘政党，比如左翼联盟党，则需要面对几乎不可动摇的系统，令它们无所适从——而缺乏执政经验让它们更加举步维艰。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, “big data” promises to enhance our ability to understand and even predict such responses.",
        "如今，“大数据”可以强化我们理解甚至预测这些反应的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The top priorities include modernizing the country’s transport and energy infrastructure, reforming an underperforming education system, improving the labor market, bringing order to an overly-fragmented fiscal structure, enhancing the provision of public goods, and safeguarding America’s interests abroad.",
        "最当务之急包括美国交通和能源基础设施的现代化、改革落后的教育系统、改善劳动力市场、为过度分散的财政结构注入秩序、增强公共品的供给，以及捍卫美国的海外利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2010, the country has been dependent on unprecedentedly large official bailout funds.",
        "自2010以来，该国一直依赖空前巨大的官方援助资金来维持。"
    ],
    [
        "Writing on the auction’s website, he argued that “the demand for rhino horn is high, and open trading of the horn has the potential to satisfy this demand to prevent rhino poaching.”",
        "他在拍卖网站上认为“人们对犀牛角的需求量很大，而且公开犀牛角贸易有可能满足这种需求，从而防止犀牛被偷猎。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But what cannot yet be seen is how Palestinians will view Hamas.",
        "但是，巴勒斯坦人会怎样看待哈马斯，仍然有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "In exchange for a guarantee, the eurozone’s major banks would have to agree to abide by the ECB’s instructions.",
        "作为获得担保的交换条件，欧元区主要银行必须同意接受欧洲央行的指导。"
    ],
    [
        "As Kaplan points out, that is precisely what Amazon has done.",
        "卡普兰指出，亚马逊就是这么做的。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the estimated €1.73 billion ($2 billion) that is needed annually for research and development, only €589 million was invested in 2013.",
        "3亿欧元，而2013年的投资规模只有5. 89亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Privatization, deregulation, and liberalization typically produce growth in the longer term at best, with short-run effects that are often negative.",
        "私有化、去监管化和自由化通常最多只能带来长期增长，短期影响往往是消极的。"
    ],
    [
        "The policy of ultra-low interest rates was justified in the aftermath of the bursting of Japan’s asset price bubble, but Japan stabilized its economy long ago.",
        "超低利率政策在日本房地产泡沫破灭后的那段时间实行后确实不无道理，但是日本的经济很早就已经稳定了。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, it is hard to find strong empirical support for that argument.",
        "对于这一观点，也找不到强有力的实证证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Judge Mahmoud Mekki has been acquitted, and Judge Hisham al-Bastawisy, who suffered a heart attack the night before, has merely been reprimanded.",
        "马哈穆德·米基（Mahmoud Mekki）法官被判无罪，而头天晚上突发心脏病的希沙姆·阿尔巴什塔维基（Hisham al-Bastawisy）法官则只受到了象征性的申斥。"
    ],
    [
        "After the long and painful campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, I understand every impulse to stay clear of the turmoil, to watch but not to intervene, to ratchet up language but not to engage in the hard, even harsh business of changing reality on the ground.",
        "在漫长而痛苦的伊拉克阿富汗行动后，我理解一切躲避动荡、冷眼旁观但拒绝亲身参与、在旁指手划脚却不愿插手改变现状的冲动。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the situation in Venezuela must be sorted out by Venezuelans.",
        "是的，委内瑞拉的局面必须由委内瑞拉人决定。"
    ],
    [
        "But placing the topic on a summit agenda is not enough.",
        "但将这个议题列入峰会议程是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly a year and a half on, there are signs of progress toward fulfilling the commitments to Africa’s development made by world leaders and committed campaigners.",
        "在最近的大约一年半时间里，由世界领导人和坚定的活动家作出的要推动非洲发展的承诺取得了很大的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Government ministers and EU representatives repeatedly cite the example of Iceland in pointing out what might have happened to Ireland if it had been outside the EU.",
        "爱尔兰政府大臣和欧盟代表们都一再引用冰岛的例子来说明如果爱尔兰不在欧盟之内的话情况会多么的糟。"
    ],
    [
        "It will take time before Iraq will play a regional role again.",
        "伊拉克需要时间才能重新发挥地区作用。"
    ],
    [
        "It may also require some training.",
        "人们可能需要某些训练才能实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Three things are required: a comprehensive reform program that meets the adjustment challenges head-on, political backing for that program, and time to implement enough of it to establish the credibility needed to lower the high risk premium on Italian debt.",
        "这需要满足三大要求：应对当前调整挑战的全面改革计划、实施这一改革计划的政治支持力，以及实施充分改革以建立降低意大利债务风险溢价所必须的信誉的时机。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom line is unfortunate, but it must be acknowledged.",
        "形势是严峻的，但不得不承认这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "But when two of them, with nothing to lose, defended themselves in court, the result was the longest libel trial in British legal history – and a public-relations disaster for the corporate giant.",
        "但有两位输无可输的批评者现身法庭为自己辩护，结果造就了英国法律史上最长的诽谤庭讯，庞大的麦当劳公司因此遭遇公共关系灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "My pledge is being turned into action.",
        "我的承诺正在转化为行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Zionism aimed at renewing and deepening an old identity.",
        "复国主义的目的是更新和深化一种旧有的认同。"
    ],
    [
        "As in the post-WWI period, workers came to see themselves as left behind by globalization, with political leaders favoring financiers and big business at their expense.",
        "与一战后的时期一样，工人看到他们自己被全球化所抛下，政治领导人牺牲他们的利益满足养肥了金融家和大企业。"
    ],
    [
        "In the late 1980s, the World Bank began to implement the Washington Consensus, pushing for economic and political liberalization, without sufficient regard for local political or economic realities.",
        "20世纪80年代末，世界银行开始实施华盛顿共识，追求经济和政治自由化而不再充分考虑地方政治或经济现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet that idea is now under threat because of the successor we chose.",
        "但我们所选择的继任者正在对这种民主思想构成威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Better ways to cope with climate change also can come from space research.",
        "太空研究或许还可以找到应对气候变化的更好办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Rarely is a scientist an expert in more than one area, because the worlds and languages are so different.",
        "很少有科学家通晓多种领域，因为不同领域和表达方法都迥然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2010, parties to the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed to a de facto international moratorium on climate-related geoengineering.",
        "2010年，联合国生物多样性公约（CBD）各方一致同意事实上国际中止与气候相关的地球工程。"
    ],
    [
        "Truth, like trust, is a commodity.",
        "和信任一样，真相也是商品。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, our past technological triumphs did not actually conserve natural resources, but instead enabled humanity to mine and use these resources at a lower overall cost, thereby hastening their depletion.",
        "最后，我们过去的科技成果事实上并不保存自然资源，而且相反，它们使人类能够以低的总成本开采和使用这些资源，从而加速了它们的枯竭。"
    ],
    [
        "Tax data account for distributed GDP and cover a broader swath of economic activity than traditional measures of output.",
        "税收数据对GDP进行了分门别类的统计，因此也覆盖了比传统产出测量方式更广泛的经济活动。"
    ],
    [
        "So, far from being a harbinger of the break-up of Britain, devolution has brought fresh vitality to national life outside London.",
        "所以，苏格兰自治不仅不是英国解体的前兆，相反给伦敦以外的国家生活带来了活力。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi’s government has also revealed a fine talent for announcing grandiose schemes and failing to finance them.",
        "莫迪政府还擅长宣布宏大的计划而不为它们提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Some resorted to capital-account regulations on inflows, such as taxes on the foreign purchases of bonds, equities, and derivatives, reserve requirements on short-term inflows, and so forth.",
        "一些国家重启了资本账户流入管制，如对购买本国债券、股票和衍生品的外国投资者征税、对短期资本流实施储备金要求等。"
    ],
    [
        "Their second responsibility is to help close the output gap.",
        "它们的次要责任是帮助弥合产出缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "The high interest rates required to finance the perilous fiscal position aggravates it further: higher interest payments account for much of the difference in spending between Brazil and peer countries.",
        "财政状况告急导致融资利率高企，这反过来让财政状况更加危险：更高的利息支付是巴西和同类国家之间的利差的最大原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The drop in the spot price of oil has taken it significantly below the five-year forward price, which remains close to $80 per barrel.",
        "石油现货价格的下跌已经使其显著低于接近每桶80美元的五年远期价格。"
    ],
    [
        "This should have been done five years ago, but better late than never.",
        "原本五年前就应当这样做，但亡羊补牢、犹未为晚。"
    ],
    [
        "We believe that existing distribution, sales, and maintenance networks for other goods and services could be adapted to supply and provide customer support for solar-power systems as well.",
        "我们相信可以对其他产品和服务的现有分销、销售和维护网络进行调整，令其为太阳能发电系统提供客户支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The technology needed to advance such a scheme exists.",
        "技术必须先于机制而动。"
    ],
    [
        "In The Lonely Crowd, the American sociologist David Riesman identified three broad cultural types: tradition-directed cultures that look to inherited rituals, morals, and values for guidance; inner-directed cultures, in which people behave according to self-nourished values; and other-directed cultures that react predominantly to external norms and peer influences.",
        "美国社会学家大卫·李斯曼（David Riesman）在《孤独的大众》（The Lonely Crowd）中提出了三个广义的文化类型：传统指引型文化从传承的礼仪、道德和价值观中寻求指引； 内心指引型文化让人们根据自我培养的价值观行动；"
    ],
    [
        "A techno-polity also recognizes the critical role of cooperation, strategic thinking, and adaptation.",
        "技术政治也认识到合作、策略思维和适应的关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "More specifically, employers with more than 50 employees will be required after 2014 to purchase an approved insurance policy for their “full-time” employees.",
        "更具体地说，2014年后，雇员超过50人的雇主将被要求为其“全职”雇员购买经核准的保单。"
    ],
    [
        "For both moral and strategic reasons, the time for a no-fly zone is now.",
        "不管是出于道德还是战略原因，设置禁飞区正逢其时。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the financial sector manages the risks that it recognizes, not necessarily all the risks that it runs.",
        "事实上，金融业没法发现所有隐患，只能管理自身已经认识到的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The regime aims to boost North Korea’s international prestige and domestic morale simultaneously, with the population supposedly keen to support this show of the country’s technological and military might.",
        "当局意在同时提高朝鲜的国际地位和国内士气，朝鲜人民想必将热烈支持这一计划，并将之视为朝鲜技术和军事实力的展示。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it is up to political leaders to follow through on their commitments.",
        "现在，政治领导人也要拿出承诺来。"
    ],
    [
        "Kazakhstan is a suitable partner for the ENP in every respect.",
        "在所有方面，哈萨克斯坦都是这一政策合适的夥伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, prior to the European summit in Brussels in December, the stock of trust in the European Council had become so depleted that no one seemed to take its decisions seriously.",
        "其实在12月布鲁塞尔欧洲峰会之前，欧洲理事会的公信力已经沦落到了极为低下的地步，以至于根本没人会把他们的决策当回事。"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel’s now legendary obstinacy eventually might have to succumb to the imperatives of politics.",
        "默克尔的顽固也称得上传奇了，但最终怕是仍要不得不屈服于政治。"
    ],
    [
        "The plans are already on the table, or at least on the shelf, waiting for the G-8 funding to arrive.",
        "规划已经提出，或者已经制订，等待八国集团的资金到来。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact of all of this on the national debt and on Japan’s interest rates could be staggering.",
        "所有这些对国民债务和日本利率的影响都将是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearby Russia is increasingly a one-man-show under President Vladimir Putin, who seems intent on refighting the Cold War with the US, rather than constructing viable strategic relationships that reflect Russia’s diminished reality.",
        "临近的俄罗斯则越来越像总统弗拉迪米尔·普京的个人秀，此人似乎有意重燃与美国之间的冷战，而不是构建反映俄罗斯不断衰落现实的可行性战略关系。"
    ],
    [
        "They were mostly quashed by the clerics who held ultimate power.",
        "他们主要是被掌握终极权力的神职人员击溃的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the EU’s current disjointed structure will not hold.",
        "但欧盟目前貌合神离的结构无法坚持下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Aristotle took a different view, one that fits better with our everyday experience of failing to do what we know to be best.",
        "与前两位哲人不同的是，亚里士多德则持另一种与我们的日常生活经验更相吻合的，关于为什么我们不能完成自己明知是有利的事情的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "We have global supply lines in which goods are developed in one country, manufactured in another, and assembled in a third.",
        "我们拥有全球供应链，在这个链条中，商品在一个国家研发，在另一个国家生产，在第三个国家组装。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the IMF’s authority has suffered in the recent decade – especially in Asia – from the fund’s deep commitment to neo-liberal orthodoxy and the so-called “Washington Consensus.”",
        "比如说近十年间，国际货币基金组织的权威就因为该组织过度贯彻新自由主义理念以及所谓的“华盛顿共识”而遭到削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Cities are not just Africa’s future; they are its present.",
        "城市不仅是非洲的未来，也是非洲的现在。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, it’s time to recognize that governments are ill-equipped to understand the sophisticated technological challenges and opportunities facing the world, and that new ways are needed to ensure that science and technology are given the prominence needed to address a wide range of increasingly urgent global problems.",
        "但无论如何，我们应该认识到政府在理解世界所面临的复杂技术挑战和机遇时做得远远不够，我们必须采用新的方法来确保科学技术得到应有的重视，解决各式各样日益迫切的全球问题。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why much attention has focused on the impact of a growing global population on food demand.",
        "这解释了人们为什么极为关注世界人口不断增长对粮食需求的影响问题。"
    ],
    [
        "At the other end are the techno-pessimists, who see disappointing productivity statistics and argue that the new technologies’ economy-wide benefits will remain limited.",
        "另一端是技术悲观派，他们看到的是令人失望的生产率统计数字，并认为新技术的整体经济收益仍将保持有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberal Moroccan feminists understand this use of the veil by many Moroccan women, and they have encouraged a dialogue with veiled activists from the Islamist camp.",
        "摩洛哥的自由派女权主义者明白许多摩洛哥妇女使用面纱取得的这种效果，他们鼓励与伊斯兰教阵营中带着面纱的激进主义者进行对话。"
    ],
    [
        "On December 16, Orhan Pamuk, one of Turkey’s most famous writers, will enter an Istanbul court to face a charge of “insulting the national identity” after he advocated open discussion of the Turkish genocide of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 and 1916.",
        "12月16日，土耳其著名作家奥罕·帕慕克将在伊斯坦布尔一家法庭接受审判，答辩针对他提起的“侮辱国家形象”的诉讼，事情的起因是他提出要对1915年和1916年土耳其屠杀150万亚美尼亚人一事举行公开的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a strong economic impact, America’s opening to Cuba will not make even a small contribution to political liberalization on the island.",
        "没有巨大的经济影响，美国向古巴开放不会对古巴岛的政治自由化产生哪怕微小的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "They will lose influence.",
        "它们将会丧失影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all women wear a headscarf because of religious conservatism. And not all headscarved women are “ignorant” or “repressed.”",
        "并非所有的妇女都是出于宗教保守主义而佩戴头巾，而并非所有佩戴头巾的妇女都是“无知”或者“受到压迫”。"
    ],
    [
        "Gas emits less than half the CO2 per kWh produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like NOx, SO2, black carbon, CO, mercury, and particulates.",
        "每千瓦时电力二氧化碳排放量，天然气只有煤炭的二分之一弱，而氮氧化物、二氧化硫、炭黑、一氧化碳、汞和微粒粉尘的排放量，天然气更是少得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The US military is a global force that can walk and chew gum at the same time.",
        "美军是一支能从容应对多种突发情况的全球力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Park Geun-hye’s victory in South Korea, where she became the country’s first-ever female president, followed a campaign mainly focused on domestic economic issues, North Korea’s missile-guided brinkmanship probably shifted many undecided voters to the security-minded Park’s camp.",
        "尽管朴槿惠在以国内经济问题为主线的竞选获胜后成为韩国有史以来第一位女总统，但朝鲜以导弹发射为标志的外交冒险政策或许令众多犹豫不决的选民倒向了主张防御的朴槿惠阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, they asserted their national sovereignty – their right as a nation to determine their own economic, social, and political path.",
        "换句话说，他们主张他们的国家主权——他们作为一个国家决定自身经济、社会和政治道路的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Does this new emphasis on happiness represent a shift or just a passing fad?",
        "这一新观点代表了一种转变，还是只是一时兴起？"
    ],
    [
        "It would help if Pakistan’s government – facing home-grown terrorists even as it exports terror to its neighbors – showed a little more willingness to join the quest for peace.",
        "在向邻国出口恐怖主义的同时，如果巴基斯坦政府面对本土恐怖分子表现出多一点的和平追求同样会有益处。"
    ],
    [
        "Christians usually respond that God bestowed on us the gift of free will, and hence is not responsible for the evil we do.",
        "基督徒通常回应说上帝赠与我们自由意志的能力，因此他对我们的作恶不负责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Students tend to group themselves by nationalities more than they did in the past, as if they want familiar reassurances against the uncertainties of the present and the future.",
        "学生比过去更喜欢按国籍结成团体，似乎希望通过熟人间的慰藉来抵御当前和未来的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s priorities in foreign policy are definitely sound.",
        "奥巴马在外交政策上的安排无疑是有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, the region has never looked back.",
        "从那以后，各国就走上了一条康庄大道。"
    ],
    [
        "National MPs and MEPs should come together quickly and clarify their relationship.",
        "各国议员和欧洲议会议员应当迅速集合起来并理清互相之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The case against European fiscal governance is straightforward.",
        "欧洲财政治理的问题是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthering this erasure, the Uttar Pradesh tourism department issued a brochure of the state’s main attractions, but left out the Taj Mahal, the state’s (and the country’s) main tourism destination.",
        "除此之外，在北方邦旅游部门发行的本地主要旅游景点手册也将泰姬陵这个该州（以及该国）的主要旅游目的地排除在外。"
    ],
    [
        "But his passionate advocacy of old-fashioned socialism quickly caught on, breathing new life – and drawing tens of thousands of new members – into a party that had been losing adherents in droves.",
        "但他对老式社会主义的狂热宣传却迅速流行——令成千上万新党员对已失去众多追随者的政党趋之若鹜。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the IMF programs for Latvia and Ukraine suggest, the main difference may only be a smile.",
        "但是，正如国际货币基金组织在拉脱维亚和乌克兰的项目所表明的那样，“奥巴马国际货币基金组织”和“布什国际货币基金组织”间的主要区别，不值一提。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – With weak demand in advanced countries now impeding growth in emerging economies, including major players in Asia and Latin America, many are arguing that the era of income convergence has come to an end.",
        "巴黎—如今，发达经济体需求不振正在影响亚洲和拉美大国在内的新兴经济体的增长，据此，许多人指出收入趋同时代已经走向了结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan’s ruling AKP traces its roots to political Islam, and many of its leaders’ social networks are in Islamic countries – in stark contrast to the secular style of Turkey’s previous leaders, who proudly displayed their Western identity.",
        "埃尔多安的执政党-正义与发展党，其根源可追溯到政治伊斯兰，它的许多领导人的社会网络在伊斯兰国家-和土耳其前领导人的非宗教风格形成了鲜明的对比，而后者曾自豪地展示了他们的亲西方身份。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly the Iran-United States football game in 1998 offered a moment of fraternization between the two teams.",
        "1998年伊朗和美国之间的足球赛的确在两队之间形成了短暂的友善关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Although US federal debt is projected to rise at an unsustainable rate in the long term, the right solution is not fiscal belt-tightening now, but rather a credible plan to stabilize the debt/GDP ratio gradually as the economy recovers.",
        "尽管美国联邦债务预计将以一种不能长期持续的速度上升，正确的解决方案并不是现在采取财政紧缩政策，而是随着经济复苏制定一个可靠的计划来逐渐稳定债务对GDP的比率。"
    ],
    [
        "Gender-based sexual violence obstructs peace and development, particularly when it is a weapon used by military dictatorships against their own peoples.",
        "基于性别的性暴力阻碍和平和发展，特别是当军事独裁者把它作为镇压自己人民的武器时尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Time and again, nationalism and shortsighted politics have trumped reason.",
        "民族主义和政治短视曾经一次又一次地压倒了理性。"
    ],
    [
        "Some material goes missing and is never found.",
        "一些材料丢失后再也没能找回。"
    ],
    [
        "For central banks, measuring the equilibrium interest rate – an abstract concept that cannot be observed – is a formidable challenge.",
        "对央行来说，测量均衡利率——一个无法观察的抽象概念——是个极大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s corrupt elites had moved from controlling licenses to cornering newly valuable resources like land.",
        "腐败的印度精英阶层不再控制许可证，而转向了控制土地等新兴宝贵资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a nuclear Iran would also be perceived as a threat by its other neighbors, which would likely provoke a regional arms race and further fuel regional volatility.",
        "此外，拥有核能力的伊朗将被其邻国视为一种威胁，这将可能引发地区军备竞赛，加剧该地区的动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "That, too, will hold down the unemployment rate in the future.",
        "这也可以实现未来控制失业率的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The refusal of the rest of Europe, and especially Germany, to acknowledge Greece’s massive debt overhang has been the big lie of this crisis.",
        "欧洲其他纾困（特别是德国）拒绝承认规模巨大的希腊债务积压，这是本次危机中最大的谎言。"
    ],
    [
        "Low interest rates mean that the additional debt burdens that public borrowing will create can remain manageable.",
        "低利率意味着公共借贷产生的额外债务负担可以保持在可以管理的水平上。"
    ],
    [
        "Both President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair urgently need a plausible exit strategy from Iraq.",
        "乔治·W·布什总统和托尼·布莱尔首相都需要从伊拉克撤军的看似可行的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "If they abandon macroeconomic discipline, as Hungary and possibly the Czech Republic may be doing, they alone will face the consequences.",
        "如果它们放弃宏观经济原则，就像匈牙利和捷克可能做的那样，那么就必须独自面对后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if Twitter’s co-founders did not necessarily develop it to be a tool of democratization, that is precisely what it has become.",
        "即使推特的合伙创立者原本未必让它成为一种民主工具，但它已经负起了这样的职责。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are gone now.",
        "不过现在他们都离开了白宫。"
    ],
    [
        "So, during the course of 2009, the EU sent election observation missions to various countries, including Mozambique, Afghanistan, Guinea Bissau, Lebanon, Malawi, and Bolivia.",
        "据此在 2009 年的工作进程中，欧盟向好几个国家派遣了选举观察团，包括莫桑比克、阿富汗、几内亚比绍、黎巴嫩，马拉维和玻利维亚。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, public corporations must be managed for the long term, and should be rewarded by investors for being more inclusive.",
        "最后，上市公司必须着眼于长期治理，投资者应该因其包容性而给予其奖励。"
    ],
    [
        "Market access should be high on the agenda – especially for a sluggish US economy that needs new sources of growth, like exports.",
        "市场准入应该成为最优先项——特别是对疲软的、急需出口等新增长源的美国经济来说。"
    ],
    [
        "Kondisi ini diperparah dengan keterbatasan jumlah dan tingginya harga alat dan terapi untuk mendiagnosis dan mengobati diabetes sehingga tidak mampu dijangkau masyarakat miskin.",
        "更糟糕的是，在贫穷社会，诊断和治疗糖尿病的工具和药物十分稀缺，其价格常常令人无法承受。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the strategy chosen by the United States with its earned-income tax credit.",
        "美国以获取收入税收减免的形式选择这一战略。"
    ],
    [
        "But let us step back from the news cycle to look at the solid knowledge base of our pyramid.",
        "但现在让我们把目光从新闻周期中收回，回到金字塔的稳固地基——知识上。"
    ],
    [
        "But the emergence of an increasingly educated population has also intensified the need for more skilled jobs.",
        "但受教育人口的增加也强化了更高技能岗位的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI – On April 27, representatives of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’s 190 member countries will meet in New York for a four-week review of the 45-year-old pact.",
        "广岛/长崎——4月27日，核不扩散条约的190个成员国代表将在纽约召开为期四周的会议审查这项拥有45年历史的协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Such negotiations will be possible if and when both sides – Israel and the Palestinians – form governments of national unity.",
        "只有当以色列和巴勒斯坦双方成立民族团结政府，才有可能启动这样的谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Prodi's Commission decided to send Commissioners \"into the field\": their offices were no longer next to the President's office, but located in the department for which each was responsible.",
        "普罗迪执委会决定把委员们派往\"现场\"：他们不再紧挨着主席办公，而是迁往各自所辖的部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Siemens was the forerunner, going from 35 to 40 hours per week.",
        "西门子首当其冲，将每周工作时间从35小时提高至40小时。"
    ],
    [
        "With the trajectory of real (inflation-adjusted) growth having moved into negative territory, on average, for three consecutive quarters, Japan may once again be reverting to recessionary form.",
        "2%基本一致。 平均实际（经通胀调整的）增长趋势已经连续三季度落入负值区间，日本可能再一次陷入衰退深渊。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Yasuhiro Nakasone, Koizumi’s predecessor in the 1980’s.",
        "想一想小泉20世纪80年代的前辈中曾根康弘首相吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Such visible demonstrations of defiance in the face of violence strengthen ties between communities and can prevent the division that extremists try to generate.",
        "面对暴力活动的这类显而易见的反抗行动强化了团体之间的联系，同时能够挫败极端分子的分裂企图。"
    ],
    [
        "The general-prosecutor is murder-friendly,” a friend, referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, told me as we watched former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s trial in the Police Academy’s criminal court.",
        "埃及最高检察官对杀人犯可好了，”一位朋友在和我一起观看前埃及总统穆巴拉克在警察学院刑事法庭受审时这样向我评价叙利亚总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Others, such as Iran, with its moribund revolution, have never ceased rumbling.",
        "伊朗等其他国家还在做困兽之斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Where climate change threatens to lay waste to the environment, fanatics have banded together to lay waste to civilization.",
        "在那些气候变化有可能破坏环境的国度，狂热分子们联起手来威胁对文明进行破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, the CIA was given the green light to assassinate Castro.",
        "随后，中央情报局获准刺杀卡斯特罗。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt has always relied on munificent benefactors to sustain its patchy state and economy.",
        "埃及一直依靠慷慨的捐助维持其千疮百孔的国家和经济。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s energy infrastructure – finely tooled for the use of fossil fuels – is worth $55 trillion.",
        "世界能源基础设施——为化石燃料量身定做——价值55万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "This is too often overlooked, but it constitutes the key to the long-term success of cooperation that generates benefits for all.",
        "这一点常常被忽视，但它构成了能让所有人共赢的合作的长期成功的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "The logic of intervention goes through cycles.",
        "干预的逻辑是周期性循环的。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the clear failure of austerity to restart the economy in Greece or the rest of the eurozone has not caused policymakers to rethink their approach.",
        "而紧缩政策显然无法重新启动希腊和欧元区其他国家的经济，但这并没有促使决策者反思他们的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Few countries need to borrow from the IMF – a highly positive trend.",
        "没有几个国家需要向国际货币基金组织借款，而这正是一个极为积极的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in key respects depression is comparable to Cushing's disease, a disorder cause by excessive production of cortisol.",
        "的确，抑郁症在某些关键方面与库欣氏症（一种因血浆皮质醇的过量产生而导致的疾病）相类。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the unemployment rate, currently at 9.5%, is poised to rise above 10% by the fall. It should peak at 11% some time in 2010 and remain well above 10% for a long time.",
        "5%，预计到今年秋季超过10%，2010年见顶，达到11%，之后相当长一段时间维持在10%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "If we want the “peace on earth and mercy mild” promised in our Christmas carols, we will need to work much harder and more confidently to secure them.",
        "如果我们想要获得圣诞颂歌中的“地球和平、仁慈宽恕”，我们就需要以更大的努力、更大的信心确保它们。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is simple: Our societies and economies are based on the flawed assumption that perpetual growth is possible on a finite planet.",
        "原因很简单：我们的社会和经济基于错误的假设：这个有限的星球可以实现永久的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea of strong Asian economic growth as a permanent feature of the world economy returned with a vengeance only a few years after the Asia crisis.",
        "世界经济的未来依赖亚洲的强劲增长，这个观点在亚洲金融危机之后短短几年就重整旗鼓。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, what benefit does China gain by continuing to raise these issues 60 years later?",
        "但不管怎样，60年后，中国再旧事重提，又有什么好处呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Given the benefits, one might expect such developments to be universally lauded and encouraged.",
        "鉴于由此带来的经济效益，人们可能想当然地认为这样的进展可以得到普遍的鼓励和赞扬。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasingly, since the early 1990’s, it had become fashionable to define price stability more precisely through the use of inflation targets.",
        "比如，前美联储主席保罗•沃克尔抱怨说，美联储是在合法范围内运营。"
    ],
    [
        "Weaker unions and workers’ reduced bargaining power have flattened out the Phillips curve, with low structural unemployment producing little wage inflation.",
        "日益弱势的工会以及更低的工人议价能力削平了菲利普斯曲线，低结构性失业率导致工资水平一蹶不振。"
    ],
    [
        "Eight member states have managed to reduce the number of infringement cases taken against them by the Commission, but 17 have as many or more than they did this time last year.",
        "虽然有8个成员国成功地减少了欧盟委员会提起的违反欧盟法律的个案数量，但仍有17个成员国今年在这方面与去年持平以至更甚。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the US and China have managed to keep their ties on a relatively even keel, despite the disappearance of the original rationale for their relationship – shared antipathy toward the Soviet Union – when the Cold War ended a quarter-century ago.",
        "事实上，美国和中国成功地保持着关系的相对平稳，尽管保持这一关系的原始理由——对苏联的厌恶——已经随着四分之一个世纪前冷战的结束而不复存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Together with asset-backed securities, covered bonds, and corporate bonds, €1 trillion of assets – the threshold widely thought to make quantitative easing by the ECB credible – would be available for purchase.",
        "再加上资产支持证券、可转换债券和公司债券，将有1万亿欧元的资产可以购买——这也是广泛认为能使欧洲央行量化宽松可信的阈值。"
    ],
    [
        "If you reduce your child’s intake of fruits and vegetables by just 0.03 grams a day (that’s the equivalent of half a grain of rice) when you opt for more expensive organic produce, the total risk of cancer goes up, not down.",
        "当你选用更为昂贵的有机产品，而把你的孩子每天摄入的水果和蔬菜量减少了0. 03克（那是半粒米的重量），那么患癌症的总体危险是增加了，而不是下降了。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, some of them claimed that low interest rates should make it attractive for new banks to be created – so, in their view, the lack of banking start-ups is an indication that the FDIC is doing something profoundly wrong.",
        "比如，一些人宣称低利率应该意味着成立新银行更有吸引力——因此，在他们看来，少有银行成立表明FDIC犯了很大的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "In less than a decade, that board has led the creation of a “one-stop center” to facilitate investment, has overseen streamlined issuance of construction permits, and has pressed successfully for a fixed fee for property registration, the extension of customs hours, and risk-based customs inspections.",
        "在不到十年时间里，该委员会已经领导创立了促进投资的“一站式中心”、一直负责监管建筑许可证的快速发放，并成功促进在财产登记、海关延长营业时间和以经营风险为基础的海关检查领域收取固定费用。"
    ],
    [
        "Eight years later, it is time to pass the baton.",
        "八年过去了，是时候要找人接棒了。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet even Britain’s “competent” leaders sometimes made fatefully ill-advised decisions.",
        "但即便是英国的“胜任”领导人有时也会做出命中注定的拙劣决定。"
    ],
    [
        "BRISBANE – At an official dinner in Washington, DC, ahead of November’s G-20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch lectured ministers on the dangers of socialism and big government.",
        "布里斯班—在11月布里斯班二十国集团峰会前的一次华盛顿正式晚宴上，出生于澳大利亚的传媒大亨鲁珀特·默多克（Rupert Murdoch）向各位部长级人物宣讲了社会主义和大政府的危害。"
    ],
    [
        "Activists in Fatah, Hamas’s nationalist rival which runs the PA, make no secret of their hope that Hamas loses the war.",
        "哈马斯的民族主义竞争对手，掌管着巴勒斯坦当局的法塔赫的活动家，毫不掩饰他们希望哈马斯输掉战争。"
    ],
    [
        "First, modern finance is simply too politically powerful for legislatures or regulators to restrain its ability to create systemic macroeconomic risk.",
        "首先，现代金融在政治上太强大，以至于立法者和监管者无法约束其制造系统性宏观经济风险的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Calderon’s task will not be easy.",
        "卡尔德隆的任务是艰巨的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, more than a decade later, just about the only thing that these countries have in common is that they are the only economies ranked among the world’s 15 largest (adjusted for purchasing power) that are not members of the OECD.",
        "但是，十多年以后，这四个国家的唯一共同点是它们是仅有的位列世界前15大经济体（经购买力平价调整）但又不属于经合组织成员的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and the UK both need to show that they can move beyond their highly sensitive – and, frankly, narrow-minded – domestic political issues.",
        "美国和英国都需要证明它们能够超越高度敏感——并且实事求是地说，目光狭隘的国内政治问题。"
    ],
    [
        "International investors have come around to Renzi, believing that he strikes the right balance between dynamism and stability needed to bring Italy out of its torpor.",
        "国际投资者都是受伦齐的感召而来，信任他能够拿捏好带意大利走出困境所需的活力和稳定性之间的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Another global challenge is taxation, which requires international coordination to stanch rampant avoidance and evasion.",
        "另一个全球挑战是税收，它需要国际合作遏制无孔不入的避税和漏税。"
    ],
    [
        "For most of the past 12,000 years, Earth’s climate was relatively stable and the biosphere was resilient and healthy.",
        "过去12，000年中的绝大部分时候，地球的气候相对稳定，生物圈富于适应性而且健康。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the causes of global imbalance on the US side also seem unlikely to disappear any time soon. And now, with the Fed’s QE2 on the table, conditions may worsen before they improve.",
        "与此同时，由美国引发的全球不平等状况在短期之内也无法消失，甚至会在美联储第二轮“量化宽松”政策后继续恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "We mobilize private financing for public goods, such as infrastructure.",
        "我们动员私人资金投入到基础设施建设这类的公共事业当中。"
    ],
    [
        "The upcoming Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the US and China is an excellent opportunity to examine – and rethink – America’s priorities.",
        "即将到来的中美战略和经济对话将是一次检验（和反思）美国策略重点的良机。"
    ],
    [
        "Severe pension cuts are preventing the elderly from living out their lives with dignity.",
        "大量养老金削减让老年人无法有尊严地安享晚年。"
    ],
    [
        "This enables continued economic growth with high oil prices.",
        "但持续增长导致对石油的需求不断上升，使得油价更加高涨。"
    ],
    [
        "For the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who suffered two decades of incarceration and house arrest, the country must aspire to something beyond getting rich if it is truly to overcome the decades of military misrule: a transforming, revolutionary idea.",
        "对遭受了20多年监禁和软禁的诺贝尔奖得主昂山素季(Aung San Suu Kyi)来说，如果缅甸要真正摆脱这几十年的军事暴政，它就必须追求比致富更崇高的目标——即改革的、革命的思想。"
    ],
    [
        "Several other measures proposed at the Third Plenum seek to shift Chinese families’ behavioral norms.",
        "三中全会提出的另外一些措施意在改变中国家庭的行为范式。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar policies are now being implemented in many urban areas, in order to attract a critical mass of creative, technologically savvy people.",
        "如今，许多城市区域都在实施类似的政策，以吸引临界量的创新型高科技人才。"
    ],
    [
        "This is both a necessary and a promising role, for the region needs a local dynamic force pushing for reform, transformation, and peace.",
        "这是一个应运而生且前途光明的角色，因为该地区需要一支区域性的力量来推动改革、变化与和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Starting in the summer of 2015, he embraced extremist rhetoric appealing to nativism, Islamophobia, and anger at GOP elites.",
        "2015年夏天，他开始对能吸引本土主义、伊斯兰恐惧症和对共和党精英愤怒的极端主义言论加以利用。"
    ],
    [
        "Arabs, Turks, and Iranians have all lived with each other for millennia.",
        "阿拉伯人、土耳其人和伊朗人已经共同生活几千年。"
    ],
    [
        "The range between the poorest and the richest countries in the world is a factor of more than 100.",
        "世界上最穷和最富的国家之间相差一百多位。"
    ],
    [
        "As a United Nations expert body has declared, this is racial segregation, plain and simple.",
        "正如一个联合国专家机构宣称的，这就是明显的种族隔离。"
    ],
    [
        "But here things turn interesting.",
        "但这也是事情的有趣之处。"
    ],
    [
        "But America’s ongoing trade deficits with highly industrialized countries, particularly in Asia, are accelerating de-industrialization in the US, while providing fodder for American protectionists.",
        "但美国对高度工业化国家（特别是亚洲）的持续贸易赤字正在导致美国去工业化加速，同时为美国保护主义者制造着借口。"
    ],
    [
        "That kind of multi-stakeholder process is essential for tackling the complex challenges of sustainable development and the fight against poverty, hunger, and disease.",
        "这一多重相关利益方过程对于应对可持续发展以及消灭极端贫困、饥饿和疾病的复杂挑战至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s near-zero – even slightly negative – short-term policy interest rates do not mean that longer-term rates, which are more relevant to investment financing, have also hit zero.",
        "今天的近零——甚至略负的——短期政策率并不意味着与投资融资关系更大的长期利率也向零靠拢。"
    ],
    [
        "Given these large upfront costs, it is reasonable to ask how effective demonetization is in fighting tax evasion and corruption, and if there is a less costly approach to demonetization.",
        "考虑到这些巨大的前端成本，一个合理的问题是废钞对于打击逃税和腐败效果如何，以及是否存在成本更小的废钞方法。"
    ],
    [
        "The now-struggling pillars of China’s old economic-growth model bear considerable responsibility for the current growth slowdown.",
        "如今步履维艰的中国经济增长旧引擎要为目前增长放缓的局面承担重大责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese economy will continue to grow; the Chinese military will continue to modernize; and the Chinese people will remain united in their Great Power aspirations.",
        "中国军队也将继续迈向现代化； 而中国人民也将继续团结在大国崛起的理想之下。"
    ],
    [
        "Will something like that, too, happen in our own dystopian world (in which all remaining Republican US presidential candidates seem to favor firing Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke)?",
        "这一幕会在我们的反乌托邦世界（有希望成为美国总统候选人的共和党无不赞成炒掉美联储主席伯南克）重现吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But coming up with an approach that gains broad international support will prove extremely difficult.",
        "但是要通过一种获得广泛国际支持的途径来达成此目标极度困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Representatives from 191 countries convened in Montreal this week for the 39th Session of the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization; after decades of wrangling, they have agreed to an aviation-specific climate agreement.",
        "本周，来自191个国家的代表齐聚蒙特利尔出席第39届联合国国际民用航空组织（ICAO）会议； 在经历了几十年的争论后，他们就一项专门针对航空的气候协定达成了一致。"
    ],
    [
        "To do so would actually help ourselves.",
        "这样做肯定也能够帮助我们自己。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – Before China’s leadership transition earlier this year, experts said that the Chinese Communist Party was intent on preventing a larger-than-life personality from assuming power.",
        "香港—在今年早些时候中国领导层交接之前，专家们纷纷表示中共决意要避免英雄人物掌权。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the leaders are terribly uneasy about the situation and discuss it frequently. Some of the response has been coldly coercive.",
        "为什么这个重视稳定多于一切的政权允许这么多的不稳定因素存在呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Once we get there, we can go even further.",
        "如果我们实现了这一点，就可以更进一步。"
    ],
    [
        "In exchange for its cooperation, Iran will eventually be relieved of the punishing sanctions that the United Nations, the European Union, and the US have imposed upon it for years.",
        "作为合作的交换，伊朗最终将免于联合国、欧盟和美国所施加多年的惩罚性制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "(You can contribute separately if you want to support Watsi’s operations.)",
        "（如果你想支持Watsi的运营，可以专门捐款。"
    ],
    [
        "But what makes The Great Illusion the saddest book on my office bookshelf is that we have found other reasons to fight wars, and the years since Angell wrote his book have seen the most terrible and bloody wars ever.",
        "但我们又找到了发动战争的其它理由，安格尔著作问世后的这些年发生了有史以来最为血腥、恐怖的战争，使《最大的错觉》成了我办公室书架上最为可悲的著作。"
    ],
    [
        "Either taxes have to go up for some people, or spending must fall – or both.",
        "要么提高对某些人群的征税，要么减少支出——或者两者同时进行。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Iranian interests boil down to economics.",
        "中国在伊朗的利益归根结底是经济利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But Japan’s large public-debt burden is dangerous precisely because of its potential to spur inflation, through the monetization of the debt.",
        "但日本庞大的公共债务负担之所以危险，正是因为它有可能通过债务货币化刺激通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "In accordance with the Strategy, Brazil is enhancing its conventional deterrence capabilities, including by building a nuclear-propelled submarine as part of a naval program commensurate with its responsibilities in the South Atlantic.",
        "巴西正按照该战略要求加强自身的常规威慑能力，包括建造核潜艇，以使这部分海军计划与巴西在南大西洋的责任相称。"
    ],
    [
        "Pity Obama.",
        "可怜的奥巴马。"
    ],
    [
        "In early February, the United States National Academy of Engineering released a report on “Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century.”",
        "二月上旬，美国国家工程学院发布了一份题为“二十一世纪工程事业的巨大挑战”的报告。"
    ],
    [
        "So we pay homage to Cervantes at a time when we routinely co-habit with a very different outrageousness: religious fanaticism and terrorism, political manipulation, the cacophony of perverted simplification, the belligerent marriage between a new messianism and an aggrandizing quixotic blindness.",
        "当我们每次对某种不同的野蛮无理：宗教狂热和恐怖主义，政权斗争，误用简化的不合之声以及一种新弥赛亚主义和一种夸大的唐吉诃德式盲目之间的交战融和习以为常之时，我们向塞万提斯致敬。"
    ],
    [
        "But America’s ritual annual gift of roughly $1.5 billion could only dull the pain of Egypt’s problems, not resolve them.",
        "但美国礼仪性的每年15亿美元左右的资助只能暂时止住埃及经济的痛苦，而不无法根除顽疾。"
    ],
    [
        "I cannot vouch for Peña Nieto’s democratic convictions, but, generationally, he came of age in a democratic Mexico: he was barely two years old during the old system’s darkest moment, the student massacre of 1968; he was 28 in 1994, at the time of the country’s first semi-democratic election (which even the victor, Ernesto Zedillo, later acknowledged was free, but not fair); and he turned 34 in 2000.",
        "我无法担保佩纳·聂托的民主信仰，但总的来说他是和一个民主的墨西哥共同成长的：旧体制最黑暗的时刻，1968年学生大屠杀事件时他刚刚两岁； 1994年墨西哥实现首次准民主竞选——虽然当时的胜利者埃内斯托·塞迪略后来声明这场选举确实自由但不算公平——他24岁；"
    ],
    [
        "Although his presence dramatically fuelled the situation for a time, Brazilian diplomats, working with the US, were able to reach agreement with Honduran authorities to allow Manuel Zelaya to return to office.",
        "虽然他的现身一度给本已混乱的局势火上浇油，但巴西外交人员与美国合作，成功地与洪都拉斯当局达成协议，允许曼努埃尔·塞拉亚重新执政。"
    ],
    [
        "In remarkably prescient language, Johnson’s scientific advisory committee warned that releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere would lead to higher global temperatures, causing ice caps to melt and sea levels to rise rapidly.",
        "约翰逊的科学顾问委员会极有先见之明地警告说向大气中排放二氧化碳将引发全球气温升高，从而导致冰盖融化和海平面迅速升高。 “人类在不知不觉中进行了一次超大规模的地球物理实验，”科学家们警告道。"
    ],
    [
        "But bankers strongly reject this approach (because it would likely lower their pay), as do central bankers (because they are too much persuaded by the protestation of bankers).",
        "但银行家们则强烈反对这一建议（因为这很可能减少他们的收入），而中央银行管理者们也持有类似的立场（他们都被银行家的抗议所说服了）。"
    ],
    [
        "What might be more interesting, however, is the response that such progress often elicits: “This seems so obvious.",
        "但这种进展造成的反应往往更加有趣：“这么显而易见的问题以前怎么没有人认识到？"
    ],
    [
        "Its broader goal was to smash the India-Pakistan détente that has been taking shape since 2004.",
        "它更广义的目标是要粉碎2004年以后缓和的印巴关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The fate of LiveJournal – the most influential blogging platform in Russia, which is often used to express dissent and protest against the government – is one unfortunate example.",
        "实况报是俄国最有影响力的博客平台，人们经常用它来表达异议和对政府的抗议，而它的命运就是一个不幸的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Fast approaching is not only the March anniversary of last year’s disturbances in Tibet, but also the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan unrest in 1959 that led to the exile of the Dalai Lama and his supporters.",
        "很快到来的不仅是去年西藏三月动乱的纪念日，西藏1959年动乱的50周年纪念日也紧随其后，达赖喇嘛及其支持者在那次动乱以后开始了国外流亡生活。"
    ],
    [
        "(A political historian, Lichtman is famous for having devised a model that has enabled him to predict the election of every American president from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.)",
        "（里奇曼是一位政治历史学家，他因为设计了一个成功预测从罗纳德·里根到唐纳德·特朗普的所有当选总统的模型而闻名于世。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Sesungguhnya ini bukan gagasan baru.",
        "这不是什么新概念。"
    ],
    [
        "With the world’s safety and prosperity at stake, the question is not whether or when to begin the transition to a low-carbon economy, but how to manage the effort.",
        "这一问题事关世界安全与繁荣，它不是是否或何时开始向低碳经济转型的问题，而是如何实现转型的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of a backstop for emerging-country finances, the doomsday scenario of a protectionist vicious cycle reminiscent of the 1930’s could no longer be ruled out.",
        "在缺乏新兴市场财政支持的情况下，类似二十世纪三十年代的那种保护主义恶性循环的末日情景恐怕很有可能会重演。"
    ],
    [
        "If no deal is reached by June 30, America’s likely 2013 real GDP growth rate will be -0.5%, with the likely unemployment rate returning to 8.9%.",
        "如果到6月30日还未达成一致，美国2013年实际国内生产总值增长率将有可能降至负0. 5%，而失业率有可能重新升至8."
    ],
    [
        "Having just emerged from a deep recession, financial disruptions could easily cause Europe to slide back into recession, particularly given the eurozone economy’s close links to Russia via trade and energy.",
        "刚刚从深度衰退中走出的欧洲很容易因为金融干扰而重新陷入衰退，特别是考虑到欧元区经济与俄罗斯密切的贸易 和能源联系。"
    ],
    [
        "It started to shift the economy’s base from export-oriented industries to domestic growth, and from manufacturing to services.",
        "政府开始将经济的基础从出口导向型行业专项国内增长，从制造业专项服务业。"
    ],
    [
        "It is as if Moshe Dayan’s old existential political philosophy is being brought back to life.",
        "由此看来，似乎已故以色列政治家莫萨·达扬的存在主义政治哲学又一次得到了验证。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, skeptics also doubt the validity of the administration’s argument linking democracy and reduction of terrorism.",
        "更重要的是，怀疑者也对政府将民主与减少恐怖联系起来的说法疑虑重重。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is always easier to blame others than to look in the mirror.",
        "当然，指责别人永远比自我批评容易。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – Europe’s situation is serious – very serious.",
        "柏林—欧洲的情况很严重，非常严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of dropping to 110% as planned, the public debt-to-GDP ratio has increased to 170%.",
        "公债-GDP比例没有如计划那样下降到110%，反而增加到170%。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its obvious benefits, such a coordinated international approach remains elusive.",
        "尽管国际合作方针有着显而易见的好处，但仍鲜有实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the medical community is resisting the use of pharmacogenomic data in clinical practice, despite regulatory authorities’ recommendations for many drugs.",
        "令人遗憾的是，尽管监管部门竭力推荐多种药物，但医学界目前仍拒绝将药物基因数据应用于临床实践当中。"
    ],
    [
        "His is the face of Putin’s new Russia, of a smug Russia that is “getting off its knees” and reaching for its gun.",
        "他的面孔代表着普京的新俄罗斯的面貌—一个“正在崛起”并寻求话语权的沾沾自喜的俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Should we really be valuing the life of a person in an affluent country at more than 6,000 times the value of the life of an impoverished child in a developing country?",
        "我们真的应该给予丰裕国家的人相当于发展中国家贫困儿童6,000多倍的生命价值吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Harnessing the Genomics Revolution",
        "利用基因组学革命"
    ],
    [
        "Today, he has much more competition.",
        "如今，他有了很多对手。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Xi’s domestic policies seem to be taking the country ever further from Western norms.",
        "与此同时，习近平的国内政策也让中国与西方范式渐行渐远。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest such “solution” to emerge is “net-zero emissions,” which depends on so-called “carbon capture and storage.”",
        "最近出现的这类“结局方案”是“净零排放”，它依赖所谓的“碳捕捉和储存”（CCS）。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments preoccupied with reducing debt are unlikely to undertake the investments needed for long-term structural change.",
        "专注于减少负债的政府不太可能会分身去处理长期结构性改变所需的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "This sudden fear of emerging countries presents a major dilemma.",
        "这种对新兴国家的突然的恐惧代表着一种巨大的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "The greatest damage to the UN’s legitimacy has been self-inflicted.",
        "对联合国合法性最严重的损害都是自己造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "But even with proper statistical testing, many tens of thousands of these biological factors may seem to be important due to mere chance.",
        "但是即便凭借正确的统计试验，几万生物元素会只是出于偶然而似乎显得很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community must underscore that its members are acting in the service of their national interests, and not simply for Israel’s sake.",
        "国际社会必须强调，其成员国正在采取的行动符合各国的利益，而不仅仅只是符合以色列的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the more powerful of the emerging markets know how to live within the current system, and they may use it to their advantage.",
        "事实上，新兴市场中实力较强者知道如何在现有体系中生存，并能利用现有体系。"
    ],
    [
        "But now that this level has been exceeded, will it again become a floor?",
        "但现在这一水平已被突破，它会再次成为底部吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, both Russia and the United States recognize that this is in their interest.",
        "具有讽刺意味的是，美俄两国都承认这符合它们的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has proposed slapping a 45% tax on Chinese imports into the US, a plan that appeals to many Americans who believe that China is getting rich from unfair trade practices.",
        "共和党总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）提出要对中国出口到美国的商品施加45%的税率，并以此招徕了很多相信中国正在通过不公平贸易致富的美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "Gold rose above $1,000 again in February-March 2009, when it looked like most of the financial system in the United States and Europe might be near insolvency, and that many governments could not guarantee deposits and backstop the financial system, because banks that were too big to fail were also too big to be saved.",
        "2009年2、3月，金价再次破千，这一次是因为，市场认为美国和欧洲的金融体系大都处于近乎资不抵债的状态，许多国家的政府无力再为存款或金融体系进行担保——那些“大到不能倒”的银行，同时也是“大到救不了”。"
    ],
    [
        "Sexual abuse is not invariably traumatic in the sense of being overwhelmingly terrifying.",
        "从让人受到极度惊吓的意义上讲，性虐待并不总是创痛的。"
    ],
    [
        "Publicly financed universal health coverage is the proven antidote.",
        "公共融资的全民医疗覆盖是获得证明的有效之道。"
    ],
    [
        "But the problem with populism is that it is rarely benign. In the 1930’s, it resulted in violent movements led by dangerous men in uniform.",
        "但问题是民粹主义很少有良性结果，比方说在20世纪30年代导致由身着制服的危险份子领导的暴力运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Like murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh and the British novelist Salman Rushdie before him, Vilks was criticized by liberals and the left for causing unrest with his art.",
        "正如被谋杀的荷兰导演提奥·梵高和他的前辈英国小说家萨尔曼·拉什迪一样，威尔克斯被自由主义者和左翼指为以作品引发动荡局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Frankly, sticking to the public record, the two resignations seem like night and day.",
        "坦率地说，从公众记录的角度来讲，两位的辞职可谓大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "If they were, the West would need only to wait for its adversaries to collapse under the weight of their own contradictions: Russia’s overestimation of its means, and, in the case of the Islamic State, the consequences of its appallingly cruel behavior.",
        "如果他们是纸老虎，西方只需等待对手在矛盾的重压下自行崩溃：于俄罗斯而言或许是高估自己的手段，而于“伊斯兰国”而言则是其残暴行为的可怕后果。"
    ],
    [
        "We must trust in it to help make sense of an uncertain world, and to help us determine how best to nourish and protect our children and ourselves.",
        "我们必须相信科学方法，这样才能看清不确定的世界，才能帮助我们如何最好地抚育和保护我们的孩子和我们自身。"
    ],
    [
        "The Basque Country established a program called Local Agenda 21, designed to support the creation of local sustainability plans across the region.",
        "巴斯克地区建立了一个称为“21号地方议程”（Local Agenda 21）的项目，该项目旨在支持整个地区内的本地可持续性计划。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, they cannot be used to raise capital.",
        "目前，它们不能用于筹集资本。"
    ],
    [
        "And recent developments have once again jeopardized that bargain, with many states again asking why, if the US, Russia, and others need nuclear weapons, they do not.",
        "最近的发展趋势再次破坏了这一讨价还价，许多国家再次质疑，为何美国、俄罗斯和其他国家需要核武器，而它们不需要。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, NATO plans to establish a new command center to monitor such activities.",
        "为此，北约计划建立一个新指挥中心监控俄罗斯的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there are some key differences between the circumstances that drove the EU’s creation and those that Europe’s leaders face today.",
        "当然，当年推动欧盟建立的情景与这些欧洲领导人当前面临的状况之间存在着一些关键的差别。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Obama administration must go further than prohibiting proprietary trading by commercial banks and do two further things.",
        "不过，奥巴马政府不仅应该禁止商业银行的“自营账户交易”，而且还应该做好两件事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Befitting the continent’s strong macro trends, the survey found a high degree of optimism among urban African consumers: 84% of respondents expect their households to be better off in two years.",
        "与该大陆强劲的宏观趋势相一致的是，研究发现非洲城市消费者中存在着高度的乐观情绪：84%的受访者预计自己的家庭收入将在两年内变得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "But I am not a nostalgic type.",
        "但我并没有多少怀旧情结。"
    ],
    [
        "A strategic confrontation with Moscow, i.e., a new kind of “mini-Cold War,” would undermine this agenda, or at least complicate its implementation significantly.",
        "西方和莫斯科的战略对抗，例如，新型的“迷你冷战”，会破坏这一议程，或者，至少会严重使其施行变得复杂化。"
    ],
    [
        "But I would never want to shut down discussion about these issues – whether it is with Gore, Hansen, or Krugman.",
        "但我永远不会试图去压制对这些事务的讨论——不管对方是戈尔，汉森还是克鲁格曼。"
    ],
    [
        "Should laws governing stock options be reformed?",
        "规范期权的法律是否应当改革？"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is, after all, not a state, and it does not speak on international matters with one voice.",
        "欧盟毕竟不是一个国家，因此无法用一个声音在国际事务中表达自己的诉求。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s generation of central bankers is almost religious in its commitment to inflation targeting – even in today’s inflationless world.",
        "当前这一代中央银行家对通货膨胀目标有着近乎宗教式的狂热——即便在今天这个缺乏通货膨胀的世界上。"
    ],
    [
        "Recall that the Occupy Wall Street protesters in 2011 took over lower Manhattan for two full months.",
        "别忘了，2011年爆发于曼哈顿的的“占领华尔街”运动维持了整整两个月。"
    ],
    [
        "And then, his courage failing, he balked at taking the next leap: more than doubling the monetary base to $9 trillion.",
        "接着，他失去了信心，采取了又一次“大跃进”：将货币基础再扩大一倍多，达到9万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – In its September policy statement, the US Federal Reserve took into consideration – in a major way – the impact of global economic developments on the United States, and thus on US monetary policy.",
        "坎布里奇—在9月的政策陈述中，美联储考虑了——以非常重点的方式——全球经济发展对美国、进而对美国货币政策的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the end will come in a different way, but it is difficult to imagine the age of US exceptionalism lasting indefinitely.",
        "也许终结的到来会采取另外一种方式，但很难想象美国例外论时代将会无限期地延长。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearinghouse Over-Confidence",
        "过度自信的清算所"
    ],
    [
        "That is what happened in the second half of the 1990’s, as the IMF began to preach capital-account liberalization, applied over-stringent fiscal remedies during the Asian financial crisis, and single-handedly tried to reshape Asian economies.",
        "这是在1995年发生的事情，当时货币基金组织开始鼓吹资本性账户的自由化，在亚洲金融危机时候实行过度紧缩银根的财政拯救方案，并试图单枪匹马的扭转亚洲经济。"
    ],
    [
        "The Disenchantment of Europe",
        "欧洲的觉悟"
    ],
    [
        "The US embraced the Shah of Iran by sending massive armaments, which fell into the hands of Iran’s Revolutionary Government after 1979.",
        "它曾以提供大量武器装备的形式支持伊朗国王，但这些装备在1979年以后却落入了伊朗“革命政府”手中。"
    ],
    [
        "So, even as some northern countries begin to question the austerity prescription, their southern counterparts (including southern European countries) are increasingly adopting fiscal-adjustment measures.",
        "因此，尽管北方国家开始质疑紧缩药方，南方国家（包括南欧国家）正在日渐采取财政调整措施。"
    ],
    [
        "With unemployment still high, governments returned to pre-Keynesian orthodoxy, cutting spending to reduce their deficits – and undercutting economic recovery in the process.",
        "在失业率仍然高企的情况下，政府回归前凯恩斯时代的正统，削减支出以降低赤字——也在此过程中扼杀了经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of all, the Republican platform is devoid of compassion.",
        "最糟糕的是，共和党阵营根本就毫无同情心可言。"
    ],
    [
        "An older technology features vast strip mines, huge diggers, and trucks carting oily dirt to industrial-scale pressure cookers that drain off the bitumen.",
        "原有技术需要建设巨型露天矿，还要配备大型挖掘机、卡车将油砂运往工业压力容器中提取沥青。"
    ],
    [
        "The first step at Bali was to break the deadlock that has crippled the global response to climate change since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol a decade ago.",
        "巴厘会议采取的第一个步骤就是打破十年前京都议定书签署以来破坏各国对气候变化做出反应的僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes they even manage to fit these contradictory criticisms in the same sentence, as though they were accusing someone of firing blanks, but somehow leaving people dead and wounded.",
        "有时他们甚至将这些自相矛盾的批评放在一个句子中，好像他们在指责某人放空枪却造成了人员伤亡似的。"
    ],
    [
        "Current reliance on coal, natural gas, and petroleum, without regard for CO2 emissions, is now simply too dangerous, because it is leading to climate changes that will spread diseases, destroy crops, produce more droughts and floods, and perhaps dramatically raise sea levels, thereby inundating coastal regions.",
        "目前不顾及二氧化碳排放而依赖于煤炭、天然气以及汽油十分危险，因为这种情况导致气候变化，造成疾病传播，破坏农作物，产生更多干旱和洪水，或许会大幅度提高海平面从而淹没沿海地区。"
    ],
    [
        "If history is a guide, such conversations may be happening a lot in 2016.",
        "如果以历史作为指引，这样的讨论可能会在2016年大量发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Gusmão had forged a coalition with three other centre-left parties.",
        "Gusmão与其他三个中—左派政党结成了联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "That constitution – unlike Ataturk’s – was written by and for the military on the assumption that the Cold War would never end, and that the president would always be either a military person or someone close to the military.",
        "那一部宪法—与凯末尔的宪法不同—是由军方起草并为军方自身利益而出台的。 它的假设前提是“冷战”永不结束，且总统会一直是军人或与军方有密切联系的人。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, both are large, continental, and diverse economies.",
        "毕竟欧美双方都是大型洲际经济体，内部也参次不齐。"
    ],
    [
        "Skewed representation reflecting a bygone era, whether on the United Nations Security Council or the International Monetary Fund’s Board, undermines global institutions’ legitimacy and ability to respond to new challenges.",
        "反映旧时代的扭曲的代表——不管是联合国安理会还是国际货币基金组织（IMF）理事会——削弱了全球机构的合法性及其应对新挑战的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Now we are not so sure.",
        "如今我们就不能如此确定了。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, as David de Ferranti, a former World Bank vice-president, has pointed out, the Bank should expand its intellectual partnerships and engage with the highly trained professionals, consulting firms, and research institutions that emerging countries now boast.",
        "最后，正如世界银行前任副总裁德菲朗迪所言，世界银行应当扩大其知识界的合作伙伴关系，接触受过高等培训的专业人士、咨询公司以及新兴国家中拥有的研究机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Between L’Aquila and Copenhagen, there will undoubtedly be difficult discussions over interim targets for developed countries.",
        "在拉奎拉和哥本哈根会议之间，发达国家有关中期目标的讨论无疑会是十分的艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "One Dalit (the lowest level of India’s old caste system) leader expressed his fear that Anna’s success might inspire some majoritarian leader to rouse an even larger movement to rescind the protective rights and affirmative-action policies that have brought the lower castes some dignity.",
        "某位贱民（印度古老种姓制度的最底层）领袖担忧安纳的成功会推动某些多数派领导人发起更大规模的运动，废除赋予低种姓民众特定尊严的保护性权利和反歧视性雇佣政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But when it comes to overall employment and unemployment levels, “the jury is still out,” as a recent survey shows.",
        "但是就整体就业和失业水平而言，近期的一份调查结果显示，“陪审团仍未能达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "The North Koreans lied in writing not only to the United States, which it has done repeatedly in the past, but also to China, Russia, Japan, and South Korea.",
        "朝鲜一直以来都在各种文件上编造谎言，不但愚弄了美国，中国、俄罗斯，日本和韩国也深受其害。"
    ],
    [
        "But markets would happily gorge on bonds backed by the full faith and credit of the eurozone.",
        "但市场对于由整个欧元区的信誉作支撑的债券是不会失去兴趣的。"
    ],
    [
        "Sharia religious law – extreme versions of which hold that conduct decriminalized in the West, such as adultery and homosexuality, is punishable by death – influences their legal codes.",
        "伊斯兰教法——其中最极端者坚持认定在西方早已不是犯罪的行为——比如通奸和同性恋——应该处以死刑——影响着地方规范。"
    ],
    [
        "As with land, the current intellectual property-rights regime, by over-protecting old ideas, may provide market power that not only exacerbates income inequality but also hurts innovation.",
        "与土地一样，目前的知识产权制度过于保护旧思想，其所提供的市场实力也许不仅放大的收入不平等，还阻碍了创新。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East Must Lead on Refugees",
        "中东必须在难民问题上起领导作用"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, those who scoff at the value of this should remember that ever since Homer sang around the hearth fire about the wrath of Achilles, dreams have been our greatest source of pleasure and inspiration.",
        "事实上，任何对这一价值嗤之以鼻的人都应该想一想，从荷马在篝火旁吟唱阿克琉斯的传说开始，梦想就一直是我们的快乐和灵感之源。"
    ],
    [
        "D-Day Venezuela",
        "重大变故中的委内瑞拉"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of coddling an entire industry with subsidies or import restrictions, the provincial government and INTA provided a public good that bolstered production in a specific sector.",
        "相比于以补贴或进口限制来娇惯整个行业，阿根廷省政府和国家农业技术研究所在特定领域提供了一项可以提高生产力的公共产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the ancient Greeks’ Hydra, Georgia’s political elite never ceases to die and be reborn.",
        "格鲁吉亚的政治精英们就像是古希腊的九头怪蛇从来不停止死而复生。"
    ],
    [
        "The additional consumers participating in the formal financial system will strengthen national economies and, in turn, enrich the global economy.",
        "参与正式金融系统的新消费者将增强国民经济，并进一步提振全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "The talks now reaching their endgame in Lausanne are confined to the nuclear issue; but beyond the agreement loom larger possibilities and risks.",
        "现已进入最后阶段的洛桑会谈仅限于商讨伊朗核问题； 但协议之外还有更大的风险和机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s increasingly prosperous, educated, and confident consumers have the clout – and the numbers – to transform the way the world spends, possibly even more than Western baby boomers did in their prime.",
        "但中国日益兴旺、教育程度日益提高、信心日益高涨的消费者有实力——也具备足够大的数量——改变全世界花钱的方式，也许比西方婴儿潮一代年轻时还要强大。"
    ],
    [
        "But her mother had no money to pay for the screening tests and to compensate the blood donor.",
        "但她母亲没钱给她做筛查和补偿献血者。"
    ],
    [
        "US President Barack Obama correctly argues that this is an occasion to set the rules for trade and investment in the twenty-first century.",
        "美国总统奥巴马正确地指出，这是一个为二十一世纪制定贸易和投资规则的协定。"
    ],
    [
        "This revival of the past was a big worry for West Europeans and Americans, who feared the re-emergence of historical enmities and tensions, which did indeed come to the fore in the former Yugoslavia.",
        "历史的复活是西欧与美国人的心腹大患，他们担心历史仇恨与紧张关系再现，这些的确曾在前南斯拉夫涌现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Most were small traders buying goods for resale at home, boosting the economy of eastern Poland, the poorest part of that country.",
        "这些人多数是小商贩，从波兰买回商品到国内销售。 这就促进了波兰最贫穷的东部地区的经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientists agree that climate change poses a grave danger to the planet.",
        "科学家们都同意，气候变化是地球面临的一个重大威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "It is uncertain whether Tony Blair could have dissuaded George Bush from waging war in Iraq. Nevertheless, by enthusiastically backing Bush’s war, his legacy will forever remain deeply compromised.",
        "他是金融时报的前专栏作家，其最新著作是《流放中的伏尔泰》。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever role Berlusconi chooses to play, it is unlikely to be a marginal one.",
        "不管贝卢斯科尼选择扮演什么角色，肯定不会是边缘角色。"
    ],
    [
        "It also assumes China’s annual growth rate will stabilize at 6.5-7%, thereby enabling the risks posed by pockets of excessive leverage in the shadow-banking system to be gradually defused, even as the economy’s growth engines continue to shift from exports and public capital spending toward domestic consumption and private investment.",
        "该赌注还认为中国年增长率将稳定在6. 5—7%，因此影子银行体系杠杆过高的风险将可以逐步消化，即使经济增长引擎继续从出口和公共资本支出转变为国内消费和私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "We are working on a new Association Agreement, which would anchor Moldova in the European space.",
        "我们正在一份新的联合协议上进行合作，这可以确保把摩尔多瓦锁定在欧洲的势力范围之内。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the debt-to-GDP ratio declined only modestly until 2004 and rose again – to more than 106% – in 2005.",
        "5%，即使考虑到商业周期的因素也是如此。 后果就是国民生产总值的负债率直至2004年才有所下降，但在2005年再次上升到超过106%"
    ],
    [
        "Pragmatic steps to clarify the FSB’s mandate and enhance its operational effectiveness can and should be taken.",
        "我们可以、也应该动些真格，阐明对金融稳定性委员会的授权，并增强它的操作效率。"
    ],
    [
        "But one can envisage a system in which international reserves are held each in roughly equal shares of dollars, euros (assuming a further gradual increase in its share), and SDRs.",
        "不过，我们应该正确对待国际储备货币的市场份额，美元，欧元（如果市场份额有所增加的话）和SDR应该有着相同重要的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as China has cultivated Pakistan, is India’s growing embrace of Vietnam a counter-move on Asia’s strategic chessboard?",
        "”印度是在效仿中国栽培巴基斯坦，将与越南越走越近作为其在亚洲战略棋盘上与中国争锋相对的一招吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Modi’s stated goal was to make good on his campaign pledge to fight “black money”: the illicit proceeds – often held as cash – of tax evasion, crime, and corruption.",
        "据称莫迪的目标是兑现其打击“黑钱”——来自逃税、犯罪和腐败的非法所得，通常为现金形式——的竞选承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "This should be an occasion for him to rethink his long-standing macroeconomic mantra, rather than claiming vindication for ideas that recent trends seem to contradict.",
        "这应该成为一次让他反思其长期坚持的宏观经济咒语的机会，而不是为已被最新趋势证明存在矛盾的观点辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "I am not saying that the US is more depraved than other countries.",
        "我没有说美国比其它国家更邪恶。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission fears just the opposite.",
        "而委员会所担心的正好与之相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Many rightly worry that Trump might not respect the US Constitution.",
        "许多人真确地担心，特朗普不会尊重美国宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – We economists who are steeped in economic and financial history – and aware of the history of economic thought concerning financial crises and their effects – have reason to be proud of our analyses over the past five years.",
        "伯克利—我们这些熟谙金融史、明白金融危机及其影响相关经济思想史的经济学家有理由为我们过去五年中的分析感到自豪。"
    ],
    [
        "Drilling a release well finally did the job of stopping the flow of oil.",
        "导流井的钻探成功最终阻止了原油的泄漏。"
    ],
    [
        "But what will happen when they one day find themselves in the role of the sorcerer’s apprentice?",
        "如果有一天他们发觉自己扮演了魔法师学徒的角色将会怎样？"
    ],
    [
        "Heating buildings is another area where major changes are needed.",
        "建筑取暖是另一个需要发生重大变化的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, after the Assad regime falls, Jordan could prove to be the next crisis hotspot, which might revive the debate over Jordan as the “real” Palestinian state.",
        "事实上，在阿萨德政权倒台后，约旦可能成为下一个危机热点，关于约旦是“真正”巴勒斯坦国的争论将死灰复燃。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – In a recent speech that received much attention in the United States and abroad, US Senator Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, announced that he would not seek reelection.",
        "剑桥——在美国和海外近期引发高度关注的一次演讲中，来自亚利桑那州的共和党参议员杰夫·弗莱克（Jeff Flake）宣布将不会寻求连任。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda should respond accordingly if the tax increase has a deflationary impact.",
        "正因如此，如果增税导致通缩效应，日本银行行长黑田东彦应该采取相应的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer this persists, the harder it will be for politicians to maintain control of their countries’ destinies and that of Europe’s collective enterprise.",
        "这一状况持续得越久，政客就越难控制国家命运，欧洲这一集体的未来也就越悬。"
    ],
    [
        "For India, the Chinese incursion also threatens its access to the 6,300-meter-high Siachen Glacier, to the west of Depsang.",
        "对印度来说，中国的入侵还威胁了它对达普桑以西的海拔6300米锡亚琴冰川（Siachen Glacier）的接近。"
    ],
    [
        "Its aim was to crush a government that dared challenge it.",
        "其真正目的是摧毁一个敢于挑战它的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Complex long-term policymaking works only if ambitious goals are in place.",
        "复杂的长期决策只有在具备宏大目标时才能运转。"
    ],
    [
        "But, without a new leadership that is willing to implement them, it will be a long time before Libya turns a new page.",
        "然而，如果没有一个愿意实行改革的领导集团，利比亚若想翻开新的一页尚需经历一段很长的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "While reading the economic tea leaves is always risky, there are signs that we are at the cusp of a transition to a new regime in which the rules of the game will not be nearly as accommodating for export-led strategies.",
        "尽管对经济前景做出预测总是难以准确，但是现在有迹象表明我们现正处在一个向新体系转型的开始。 在这一体系之中，游戏规则并不总是对出口带动战略如此青睐。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists knew that the damage costs had been extensively massaged, and that the estimates were outliers compared to the academic literature.",
        "经济学家们知道损失成本其实经过大幅篡改，预测数据其实仅仅是学术文献中的剔除值。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the unemployment rate for those with degrees is one-third the unemployment rate for those without a high school diploma.",
        "尽管如此，拥有学位者的失业率要比没有高中毕业文凭者低三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "As IEA Chief Economist (and future Executive Director) Fatih Birol put it, this development “provides much-needed momentum to negotiators preparing to forge a global climate deal in Paris in December.”",
        "国际能源署首席经济学家（以及未来主任）法蒂赫·毕罗尔（Fatih Birol）指出，这一发展趋势“给了准备在12月的巴黎达成全球气候协定的谈判者急需的动力。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The discrepancy between his stature on the international stage and his position in Israeli politics became glaringly apparent during these years – disappearing, however, when he became President in 2007.",
        "在这几年中，他的国际地位与他在以色列政坛中的处境对比日益鲜明——但在2007年成为以色列总统后，这一反差便不复存在。"
    ],
    [
        "The Socialist will decide on November 17th who will be their candidate.",
        "社会党将会在11月7日初决定该党的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "The global economy is in a pickle.",
        "全球的经济正处于困境之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, wars are increasingly fought remotely, with drones – or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – doing the killing.",
        "相反，人类越来越多地依靠无人机——或无人驾驶飞行器（UAV）——进行远程杀戮。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s strategic vacuum can also be seen in Egypt in the wake of the military’s overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood government.",
        "埃及军队推翻总统穆罕默德·穆尔西的穆兄会政府后也可以看到美国的战略真空。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Lebanon must elect a new president.",
        "最后一步，黎巴嫩必须选举一位新的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, Congress must declare war, approve spending, agree to most senior appointments, and (in the case of the Senate) ratify treaties, but the president has enormous latitude when it comes to carrying out diplomacy and using military force in situations other than war, which tend to be most situations.",
        "国会可以宣战，批准预算，通过大多数高级官员任命，以及（就参议院来说）提准条约，但在绝大多数情况下，总统在执行外交或者除了战争之外的军事行动方面都拥有极大的自由度。"
    ],
    [
        "But Britain’s government has the identical aim of reducing its current deficit of 10% of GDP to near zero in five years.",
        "）但英国政府自身有一个相同的目标：在五年内将其占GDP10%的经常性赤字减少到零。"
    ],
    [
        "No, the IPL is the newest Indian innovation revolutionizing that most staid of Victorian sports – cricket.",
        "都不是，印度超级联赛（IPL）是印度最新的创新，它大力改革了维多利亚时代最沉静的运动－板球。"
    ],
    [
        "Along the way, Shabbir’s father died of exhaustion on some snow-covered Turkish mountain peak.",
        "逃亡途中，沙比尔的父亲因为衰竭而死于土耳其雪山山顶。"
    ],
    [
        "Investing in, say, solar power may have seemed worthwhile when oil cost $100 per barrel, but it looked a lot less appealing when the price dropped below $50.",
        "投资太阳能发电或许在油价超过每桶100美元时颇具吸引力，但当油价跌到每桶50美元以下吸引力就小了很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Here the Finns, who chair the EU right now, have taken an initiative to implement a pragmatic solution that takes into consideration both sides in the conflict.",
        "在这一问题上，欧盟轮值主席国芬兰提议落实一项现实的、考虑冲突双方的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "In Austria, voters will choose between a pro- and an anti-EU candidate in the nationalist mold of Le Pen, Norbert Hofer of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ).",
        "在奥地利，选民将在亲欧盟和反欧盟候选人之间选择，后者是与勒庞持有相同民族主义立场的奥地利自由党（FPÖ）的诺尔伯特·霍福尔（Norbert Hofer）。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if confidence really were all that mattered, the economy would have sunk.",
        "即使信心是最为重要的东西，经济本也会下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "So the traditional defense of US and, indeed, European capital markets is not as axiomatic as it once seemed.",
        "因此，美国以及欧洲资本市场的传统防御性已经不像以前那样不言自明了。"
    ],
    [
        "To meet this need, fiscally constrained countries will have to mobilize private resources, via private-public partnerships.",
        "要满足这一需求，财政吃紧的国家必须通过公私合作来动员私人资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of these differences casts doubt on the notion that the euro will go the way of the gold standard.",
        "所有这些不同点都让人质疑关于欧元将重蹈金本位覆辙的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, America’s bargaining position in world politics should be enhanced.",
        "与此同时，美国在国际政治上的讨价还价地位应能得到优化。"
    ],
    [
        "Their contempt for local products extends to health and education: rather than invest in these vital sectors, Africa’s rulers use private overseas healthcare and schools for themselves and their children.",
        "他们对本地产品的轻视蔓延到了卫生和教育方面，他们不在本国对这些部门追加投资，而是设法让自己和子女们在国外享受私人医疗和教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Ignoring the fact that bread in Babylon was probably healthier than today’s highly refined product, the price of gold today is not so different, equal to perhaps 600 loaves of bread.",
        "忽略巴比伦时期的面包可能比现在高度精制的产品更健康这个事实，现在黄金的价格并没有差很多，相当于600块面包。"
    ],
    [
        "Next month, Satyarthi and the girls’-rights leader Malala Yousafzai will receive this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, reminding the world that a children’s-rights struggle is underway – one that is increasingly being led by young people.",
        "下个月，萨蒂亚尔希和女孩权利领袖马拉拉·尤沙夫赛（Malala Yousafzai）将领取今年的诺贝尔和平奖，他们的获奖提醒世界，儿童权利斗争仍在进行中，并且日益由年轻人所领导。"
    ],
    [
        "The Who, Where, and When of Secession",
        "脱离的谁、哪里和何时问题"
    ],
    [
        "What do these two issues have in common?",
        "这两个问题有哪些共同之处？"
    ],
    [
        "And even non-strategic missile-defense systems, the deployment of which might be useful, will be questioned.",
        "即便是非战略导弹防御系统的部署也可能起到相关作用，因此也应当受到质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the data’s richness, only two indicators consistently attract widespread attention: net monthly job creation (which amounted to 169,000 in August) and the unemployment rate (7.3% in August, the lowest since December 2008).",
        "尽管数据十分丰富，但只有两个指标一直吸引着广泛的注意力：每月就业岗位净创造值（8月为169 000个）和失业率（8月为7. 3%，为2008年12月以来最低值）。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, we too often embrace the opposite approach: broad-brush national programs with no focus on outcomes.",
        "不幸的是，我们常常采取相反的方针：不关注结果的粗放型全国计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Internal debts are rising; the renminbi is facing continued depreciation pressure; and investors are still digesting the implications of the recent stock-market intervention.",
        "人民币也面临持续贬值的压力； 投资者仍在消化最近的股市波动的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, an offshore RMB market, known as the CNH market, was created in Hong Kong alongside the onshore market, now dubbed the CNY market.",
        "结果，离岸人民币市场，即CNH市场，在香港被建设起来，与在岸市场（现在称为CNY市场）并行。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, economists now understand inflation as a rise in consumer prices, not as a decline in the value of money resulting from an excessive increase in the money supply.",
        "此外，今天的经济学家将通胀理解为消费物价的上涨，而非货币价值因为货币供给增加过度而导致的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "On the middle board of economic relations, the world is already multi-polar.",
        "在经济关系的中层棋盘上，全球已经化为多极局面。"
    ],
    [
        "China has traded much investment in physical infrastructure in places otherwise shunned – Angola, Sudan, and Zimbabwe – for access to natural resources.",
        "中国在非洲——除去安哥拉，苏丹和津巴布韦之外的国家——的基础设施投入了大量的投资，以换取非洲的自然资源。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The party platform adopted at the Republican National Convention includes a number of remarkable planks.",
        "发自伯克利——本次共和党全国代表大会上通过的党纲中包含了若干引人注目的条款。"
    ],
    [
        "Any claim like that will inevitably attract attention.",
        "任何这样的言论都无疑会引起人们的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Zola, who defended Captain Alfred Dreyfus from charges of treason fueled by anti-Semitism, he was easily convicted for libel because he merely questioned the motives of witnesses without offering any new evidence.",
        "至于左拉，他为法国炮兵军官阿尔弗莱德·德弗莱斯的辩护成功洗刷了其由于当时反闪米特人情绪而被强加的叛国罪名，然而左拉本人被人指控犯有的诽谤罪很容易成立，因为他仅仅询问了目击证人的动机，而拿不出任何新的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "The unprecedented growth of per capita income during the last 20 years has lifted more than one billion people out of extreme poverty.",
        "超10亿人已在过去20年来人均收入前所未有的增长中脱贫。"
    ],
    [
        "But it’s time to get real.",
        "但现在是时候直面现实了。"
    ],
    [
        "But the eurozone’s rule against using the ECB to finance government spending bars this approach.",
        "但欧元区规则禁止欧洲央行为政府支出融资，这条路被堵死了。"
    ],
    [
        "Che Guevara’s intense gaze and red-starred beret, captured in Alberto Korda’s iconic photograph, mobilized a generation.",
        "切·格瓦拉炯炯的目光和缀着红星图案的贝雷帽被定格在阿尔贝托·科尔达的标志性照片中，催生了整整一代人的激情澎湃。"
    ],
    [
        "But the role of debt finance has been growing – and, with it, the need to refinance old debt when total expenditure, including debt service, exceeds total revenue.",
        "但债务融资所扮演的角色也在不断扩大——而随着该项目的发展，当政府总支出（包括征税行为）超出总收入时为旧债务重新融资的需求也不断扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "In response to this, Tariq Alhomayed, a Saudi who is editor-in-chief of the newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat , describes Hamas as Iran’s tool, and argues that “Iran is a real threat to Arab security.”",
        "作为对此的回应，《阿沙尔克奥萨报》（ Al-Sharq al-Awsat） 主编，沙特人塔利克·艾哈迈德（Tariq Alhomayed）将哈马斯称为伊朗的工具，并且认为“伊朗是对阿拉伯世界安全的真正威胁”。"
    ],
    [
        "The weather is Mediterranean, and all of a sudden, so are the people.",
        "天气是地中海式的，而且连人也奔放。"
    ],
    [
        "Article IV also gives the IMF a mandate to oversee the “effective operation” of the international monetary system.",
        "第四条款还责成IMF去监督国际货币体系的“有效运作”。"
    ],
    [
        "Brenner mapped “hot spots” around Camden, and sought to find out why people in some areas ran up such huge bills.",
        "布伦纳绘制了坎登周边的“热点”，并且试图找出为何某些地区的人医药费会如此巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Barack Obama promised from the campaign trail that “We have no quarrel with the Iranian people.",
        "”巴拉克·奥巴马在竞选时曾经承诺“我们与伊朗人民无怨无仇。"
    ],
    [
        "They are not charities.",
        "它们不是慈善机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider French President Emmanuel Macron, a relative unknown who was elected in May with the support of many who were voting against his second-round opponent, Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front.",
        "以法国总统伊曼纽尔·马克龙为例，这个名气不那么大的年轻人今年5月在许多反对其第二轮对手极右翼国民阵线马琳·勒庞的选民支持下当选法国总统。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s a possible strategy, but there are advantages to Fairtrade.",
        "这一战略是可能的，但是，公平贸易是有利可图的。"
    ],
    [
        "Designated an “apostate,” his business was burned down, his brother was brutally murdered, his wife and children fled to neighboring villages, and Shabbir, together with his elderly father, took the long, cruel road, via Iran and Turkey, to imagined safety in civilized Europe.",
        "他被打为“叛教者”，租车店被付之一炬，兄弟惨遭杀害，妻儿逃到邻村，而他本人则与年迈的父亲历尽艰辛，穿越伊朗和土耳其来到想象中的文明的欧洲寻求安全。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, that transformation, initiated following legislative elections in November 2010, has been breathtaking.",
        "到目前为止，2010年11月立法选举以来的转型已经称得上令人瞩目。"
    ],
    [
        "If taxation of profitable firms and rich households blunts those prospects, the result is reduced effort and lower economic growth.",
        "如果盈利企业和富裕家庭的税收影响到这一前景，结果就是偷懒和经济增长下降。"
    ],
    [
        "However, as Malaysia engages with the global economy, these privileges may eventually be removed in order to heighten the country’s competitiveness.",
        "但是，随着马来西亚参与到全球经济之中，这些特权有可能会最终被取消，以便提高国家的竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "They point to the savings available from energy efficiency, and to the market opportunities generated by clean-energy technologies as the processes of learning and discovery take hold.",
        "他们指出，随着学习和发现的进行，能源效率能带来节约，而清洁能源技术能带来市场机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, five research grand challenges for developing safe nanotechnology were published in the scientific journal Nature:",
        "2006年，科学杂志《自然》刊登了在开发纳米技术研究上五 大挑战 ："
    ],
    [
        "I said in my maiden speech in the Legislative Council in 1985 that the policy of “one country, two systems” cannot work without democracy.",
        "我于1985年在立法会的首次演讲中就指出，没有民主“一国两制”的政策就不会成功。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in recent years the internal bloc politics among its member states produced a Human Rights Council with little interest in fair procedures or the advance of human rights.",
        "比如，近几年成员国中间的内部集团政治炮制出的一个对正当的程序或推动人权发展很少有兴趣的人权委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever its final form, it would be built on seven pillars.",
        "无论采取何种形式，它都必须以七大支柱为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Had Clinton won, Trump most likely would have denied the new president’s legitimacy.",
        "如果克林顿获胜，特朗普很可能拒绝承认新总统的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "But is this right limited to individuals or does it extend also to associations of individuals?",
        "但其正确性只局限于个人，还是可以扩展到由个人组成的团体？"
    ],
    [
        "Although marginalized by African officials, this cash-based economy is a major contributor to the continent’s productive capacity.",
        "虽然被非洲官员边缘化，但上述以现金为基础的经济仍然是这块大陆生产率的主要贡献者。"
    ],
    [
        "It used to be thought that America’s greatest strength was not its military power, but an economic system that was the envy of the world.",
        "人们通常认为，美国最大的优势不在于其军事实力，而在于其令全世界艳羡的经济制度。"
    ],
    [
        "The simplest way to fulfill this vision would be to allocate SDRs as a full reserve asset, which countries could either use or deposit in their IMF accounts.",
        "实现这一目标的最简单的办法是将SDR作为完全储备资产进行配置，各国可以使用它，也可以将它存在自己的IMF账户中。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it should be viewed as an opportunity finally to answer the key question of Russia’s place within Europe.",
        "相反，这应该被看作是一个最终回答俄罗斯在欧洲的地位这一关键问题的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In his influential 1803 text Medical Ethics, the English physician Thomas Percival described the doctor’s role as “the minister of hope and comfort to the sick,” noting that at times they should conceal alarming information from their patients.",
        "在1803年的名著《医学伦理学》（Medical Ethics）中，英国医生托马斯·帕茨瓦尔（Thomas Percival）将医生的角色描述为“希望使者，患者福音”，指出有时他们应该隐瞒警示信息不让患者知道。"
    ],
    [
        "Faith in renewed growth is an ill-advised policy strategy.",
        "增长复兴的信心是有欠考虑的政策策略。"
    ],
    [
        "If public employment had grown during the last three years at about the same rate as the population, as it did during George W. Bush’s presidency, the unemployment rate would be around 7% rather than 8.2%, owing to about 800,000 additional jobs.",
        "如果公共就业过去三年的增长速度能像乔治·W·布什总统任期时那样与人口的增长速度相等，那么这800,000个新增就业岗位将使失业率维持在7%左右，而不是8. 2%。"
    ],
    [
        "The required cut is large: eliminating half of Greece’s public debt obligation would leave it at nearly 80% of GDP, a ratio higher than Spain’s.",
        "但要削减的面额也相当庞大：就算减免了希腊一半的公共债务，剩下的债务依然想当于GDP的80%，比西班牙的水平还要高。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of repeatedly making clear that Kosovo independence is an indispensable requirement for EU membership – so important to Serbia’s modernization and Balkan stability – EU leaders like Javier Solana laud Kostunica as a great democratic leader.",
        "欧盟成员国资格对与塞尔维亚的现代化和巴尔干稳定极为重要。 欧盟领导人例如索拉纳不仅没有反复表明科索沃的独立是其入盟不可缺少的条件，相反却称赞科什图尼察为杰出的民主领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fresno scheme, funded by an innovation grant from the SNAP (formerly food stamps) program, is rigorously outcome-based and quantitatively assessed.",
        "弗雷斯诺计划的资金来自SNAP（前食品券）计划的创新补助。 该计划严格基于结果，并采取两化评估。"
    ],
    [
        "We could recite by heart the last words of his 1964 Rivonia Trial speech, one of the most thrilling affirmations of the human spirit ever uttered: “a free society…is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.",
        "我们可以在心中默默记诵曼德拉1964年里沃尼亚审判讲话中的最后字句，这是有史以来对人类精神最惊心动魄的诠释：“自由社会…是我希望能为之奋斗并实现的理想。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, Syrians have no predilection for violence.",
        "幸运的是，叙利亚人并不崇尚暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "And what a heritage it is: the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, several industrial revolutions, fantastic science, art, and most sports.",
        "这是一个遗产：文艺复兴、启蒙运动、多次工业革命、梦幻般的科学、艺术和大部分体育。"
    ],
    [
        "Other tensions may erupt without the unifying incentives of power.",
        "没有权力将不同派别融合在一起，随时可能触发其他各种紧张局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor productivity in manufacturing industries rose much faster than in the rest of the economy: The same or higher quantity of steel, cars, and electronics could be produced with far fewer workers.",
        "制造业的劳动生产率增长远远快于经济的其他部分：质量相同或更高的钢材、汽车和电子产品，只需要少得多的工人就可以生产出来。"
    ],
    [
        "The money allowed Iraq to begin to address security, production, and technology issues throughout its oil system.",
        "这笔资金让伊拉克得以解决石油体系在安全、生产和技术方面面临的重重困难。"
    ],
    [
        "It is possible that, properly measured, the true deficits were smaller than has been reported, and even that, in some years, they were not there at all.",
        "若以恰当手段测算，美国真实赤字或许比报告的要小，甚至在有的年份中根本没有经常项目赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "But money has many virtues in facilitating transactions – hence its ubiquitous use.",
        "但钱在促进交易和使用范围方面有着大量好处。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, every French politician has known for the last 20 years that France has been living with a growing risk that isolated incidents might coalesce into a critical mass of violence.",
        "在这种情况下，20年来所有的法国政治家都清楚：这些孤立的事件累积成大规模暴力冲突的危险性越来越大。"
    ],
    [
        "Several countries – including Brazil, South Korea, and Turkey – have now imposed capital controls of various kinds.",
        "不少国家——包括巴西、韩国和土耳其——已经实施了多种资本管制。"
    ],
    [
        "For Europe, democratization immediately to its south is a vital interest.",
        "欧盟南部边境的民主化进程关系到欧洲各国的切身利益。"
    ],
    [
        "So Israel chose to mount punitive raids against Egyptian and Jordanian military outposts and villages that harbored marauders.",
        "因此以色列选择对埃及约旦军事哨所进行惩罚性袭击并扫荡窝藏掠夺者的村庄。"
    ],
    [
        "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is balancing his country’s books, too, for now.",
        "委内瑞拉总统雨果·查维斯（Hugo Chavez）也暂时让国家实现了收支平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamic world is riven by disputes between Arab and non-Arab, Sunni and Shia, and Salafi extremists and theological moderates.",
        "伊斯兰世界内部同样存在着阿拉伯人和非阿拉伯人，逊尼派和什叶派，原教旨主义分子和神学温和派人士之间的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "First, however, the Islamic world must rediscover and embrace its proud heritage.",
        "然而，伊斯兰世界必须首先重新发现并继承其引以为豪的传统。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, in such markets, renters can find housing with security of tenure at price levels that are predictable, even as they evolve gradually over time according to market conditions, thereby ensuring that landlords have incentives to maintain the properties.",
        "毕竟，在这些市场，租户可以以可预测的价格找到有租期保障的房子，尽管这些条件根据市场情况随时间逐渐改变，这确保了房东有维护物业的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Rwanda’s global ranking for the ease of doing business jumped from 143 in 2008 to 32 in 2014.",
        "结果导致卢旺达的全球营商环境排名从2008年的第143位跃升至2014年的第32位。"
    ],
    [
        "So, if you include the costs of holding cash safely – and include the benefits of check writing – it makes sense to accept a negative return.",
        "因此，如果把安全地囤积现金的成本考虑在内——并将写支票的便利考虑在内——接受负回报也是有意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "Others want to escape from the eurozone, block the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the United States, or restrict labor mobility.",
        "也有一些希望退出欧元区，阻挠与美国的跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系（TTIP），或限制劳动力流动。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, they would reap far-reaching benefits – including the protection of their family and neighbors – from doing so.",
        "事实上，成年人接种疫苗收获的好处影响深远——包括保护他们的家人和邻居。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time of his report, he concluded that the European budget would amount to some 3% of GDP – identical to the peacetime US federal budget’s share of GDP during the country’s first stage of monetary union, in the nineteenth century.",
        "在当年那份报告发表的时候，他推断欧盟的预算会达到其GDP的3%——这和19世纪处在货币联盟第一阶段的美国联邦和平时期预算占GDP的比重相同。"
    ],
    [
        "“Truth and utility,” wrote Francis Bacon, the early seventeenth-century English philosopher and statesman, “are the very same things.”",
        "十七世纪早期英国哲人兼政治家弗兰西斯·培根写道，“求真和致用其实是一回事。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain recently imposed a new wealth tax on high-net-worth taxpayers.",
        "西班牙最近对富裕纳税者征收一项新财产税。"
    ],
    [
        "While this does not do anything about the existing CO2 in the bathtub, CCS is technically capable of reducing emissions from coal and gas close to zero.",
        "尽管对浴缸中现有的二氧化碳没有影响，但碳捕获和封存从技术上几乎可以彻底消除煤和天然气排放。"
    ],
    [
        "When you travel to a foreign country for the first time, and you see neglected, ill-fed, and uneducated children, do you regard that country as likely to be one of the world’s great economic powers over the next half-century? Or do you worry for its future?",
        "当你首次踏足某个国家的时候，你看到被忽视的、营养不良、未受教育的孩子，你是认为这样的国家有可能在未来半个世纪屹立于世界经济强国之林，还是为其前途担忧？"
    ],
    [
        "Their interest rates would be structurally higher.",
        "它们的利率将结构性地升高。"
    ],
    [
        "Technological innovations have replaced mercury in batteries, dental fillings, and thermometers: mercury consumption is down 98% and, by 2000, the price was down 90%.",
        "技术创新取代了电池、假牙材料和温度计中的汞，到2000年，汞消费量下降了98%，价格下跌了90%。"
    ],
    [
        "Between September 1 and February 22, the FTSEurofirst index rose by almost 7%.",
        "9月1日至2月22日，FTSEruofirst指数上涨近7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, investors have to be protected against the risk that rogue governments will seize their property.",
        "当然，投资者必须得到保护免遭流氓政府窃取物权。"
    ],
    [
        "As a resource-intensive growth juggernaut, China has transformed these economies, which collectively account for nearly 9% of world GDP.",
        "作为资源密集型增长巨兽，中国改变了这些经济体，如今它们加起来占世界GDP的近9%。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the international community is waiting for Syria’s disorganized opposition to transform itself into a coherent, effective force as much as the opposition is waiting for the international community.",
        "事实上，国际社会在等待叙利亚一盘散沙的反对派自己形成一股团结、有效的力量，正如反对派在等待国际社会的行动一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Do we value what we get from Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, and the Internet’s online library of humanity far more than what we previously learned, listened to, watched, or gossiped about through traditional means?",
        "我们认为我们从Netflix、YouTube、Facebook和互联网上的在线人类图书馆中获得的价值远远高于我们此前通过传统方式所学到、听到、看到和“八卦”到的东西吗？"
    ],
    [
        "As it turns out, economies with similar and relatively high levels of gross debt relative to GDP exhibit sharp differences when it comes to the composition of the debt.",
        "事实证明，在债务构成的问题上那些总负债/GDP比率相近且相对较高的经济体会呈现出巨大差异。"
    ],
    [
        "A moral community should form in Asia, one that displaces its leaders’ usual cynical calculations of power in order to jump on the right bandwagon.",
        "必须在亚洲建立道德联盟，取代其领导人常见的愤世嫉俗的权力考量，才能搭上解决问题的快车。"
    ],
    [
        "Lulled into complacency and excess by ample supplies of artificially cheap financing, Irish banks went on a lending binge.",
        "爱尔兰银行因为供应充足的认为廉价金融而得意洋洋，不知节制地进入了信贷款黄。"
    ],
    [
        "But not the dollar. Not yet.",
        "但不是美元，至少现在还不到时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The deficit orgy of the Reagan era is looking less like a freak political accident and more like a structural feature of Republican Party governance - what the modern Republican governing coalition tends to do whenever it gains power;",
        "里根时代对财政赤字的放纵现在看起来越来越不像是一种古怪的政治事故而更像是共和党治理的结构性特点-现代共和党执政联盟只要大权在握就会这样做；"
    ],
    [
        "Free Trade Ad Nauseam",
        "苦口婆心话自由贸易"
    ],
    [
        "What did Cheney believe?",
        "切尼信仰什么？"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – Regardless of whether democratization in the “new Middle East” succeeds or authoritarian forms of government prevail once again, one fundamental change has already become clear: no one will be able to govern without taking into account domestic public opinion.",
        "发自柏林——不管“新中东”的民主化能否成功或是独裁政府卷入土重来，一个根本性的变化已经明白无误地发生了：再没有人能在无视本国民意的情况下推行自身统治。"
    ],
    [
        "How interventionist?",
        "多少干预主义？"
    ],
    [
        "This is indeed a milestone.",
        "这毫无疑问是一个里程碑。"
    ],
    [
        "The epidemic spread most dramatically in areas where basic infrastructure and surveillance systems had broken down.",
        "这场传染病在基本基础设施和监测系统破败的地区蔓延最甚。"
    ],
    [
        "In settling the Afghan war, the government and donors should seek to eschew the pattern of unkept promises that has bedeviled reconstruction of the country in the past.",
        "为使阿富汗战争能圆满收尾，政府和资助团体都应当避免做出曾困扰阿富汗重建多年的不实承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "In the UK, where older, alienated working- and middle-class voters (mainly in England) pushed through Brexit, the new prime minister, Theresa May, is fighting to hold her party together.",
        "在英国，让英国投票退出欧盟的主要是年龄较长、有疏离感的工作阶级和中产阶级选民。 新首相梅正在努力保持党内团结。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s response to terror requires, first and foremost, strengthening its intelligence services so that they can detect and dismantle terrorist cells while respecting basic rights and due process.",
        "欧洲对恐怖主义的回应所需的首要也是核心的因素是加强自身的情报力量，以便在尊重基本权利和既定程序的同时，能够发现和解除恐怖分子的武装。"
    ],
    [
        "Depending on the outcome, results could be available within three months, allowing production and distribution to go ahead with greater confidence.",
        "基于实验结果，结果可以在三个月内获得，让人们以更大的信心进入生产和分销阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries’ electorates initially backed austerity, but none has re-authorized it.",
        "一些国家的选民最初支持紧缩，但没有人会再次授权紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, over the next decade, as China attempts to move up the value chain into services and adjusts to a shrinking workforce, its investment requirements will shrink – and its investment rate will fall sharply.",
        "事实上，在未来十年中，随着中国试图沿着价值链向服务业推进并适应劳动人口的下降趋势，其投资要求会下降——而其投资率将急剧下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The government that was returned on September 20 has the opposite mandate: to implement an “extend-and-pretend” bailout program – indeed, the most toxic variant ever.",
        "而9月20日再次当选的政府任务完全相反：即推行有史以来毒性最大的“救助和遮掩”援助计划。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the agreement would have to define the relevant cases clearly – neither too widely nor too narrowly – and build on well-established R2P language.",
        "首先，该协议必须明确定义相关案例——既不能过于广义，也不能过于狭义——并构建在现成的保护责任基础上。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that the African Development Bank recently approved a loan of more than €88 million ($98.7 million) to fund a project aimed at improving the quality of water distribution.",
        "好消息是非洲开发银行最近批准了一笔8,800万多欧元的贷款用于支持旨在改进水分配质量的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "WARSAW – How can a government with the best economic record in Europe (indeed in the entire OECD) be humiliated at the polls by a Euroskeptic, nationalistic, and economically illiterate opposition – one deemed unelectable only a year ago?",
        "华沙——拥有欧洲（实际是整个经合组织）最佳经济记录的政府怎会遭到怀疑欧洲、奉行民族主义且不懂经济的反对党的羞辱——短短一年前人们还认为反对党不可能在选举中获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "As such, UNAIDS works to expand the political space for – and investment in – civil society.",
        "在这些合作中，联合国艾滋病规划署致力于为公民社会扩大政治空间和投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Tymoshenko, who has survived three assassination attempts, is not the type of woman to surrender her campaign on a technicality.",
        "经历了三次刺杀而不倒的季莫申科可不是会因为技术细节而放弃竞选的女性。"
    ],
    [
        "Polls show that concerns about terrorism and internal security outweigh fears over immigration.",
        "民调显示，对恐怖主义和内部安全的担忧要胜过对移民的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Clinton’s barely discussed economic plan was to expand Obama’s left-leaning agenda, so that it looked more like the socialism of her opponent in the Democratic primary, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.",
        "希拉里甚少提及的经济计划其实是奥巴马左倾议程的扩大化，因此看起来也更像她的民主党初选对手，佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯所提倡的社会主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The average Briton believes that 34% of UK residents are foreigners; the true number is just 11%.",
        "普通英国人认为34%的英国居民是外国人，而实际上只有11%。"
    ],
    [
        "They should be anxious to allow terrorist groups as little room for development as possible.",
        "压缩恐怖分子的生存空间应当是他们迫切的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, leadership is about more than smart economic decisions. It is also about moral responsibility, wisdom, judgment and courage – and about leveraging knowledge to promote positive social change.",
        "最后，领导力不只是有关经济成本的考量，这还关乎到道德，责任，智慧，判断力和勇气——运用我们的知识技能来推动有利于社会积极方面的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to compare Hamas to any of these political forces.",
        "这里并非要在哈马斯和任何政治力量之间进行对比。"
    ],
    [
        "But that has not stopped their views from informing the public debate.",
        "但这并没有阻止他们的观点进入公共争论。"
    ],
    [
        "It follows that pulling back from any territorial dispute with smaller and inferior states would be seen as a humiliating defeat, rather than a step toward ensuring long-term regional stability.",
        "人们因此感到在低人一等的小国面前就领土争端让步是一种耻辱的失败，而不是通往长期地区稳定的必由之路。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was also meant to convey that Germany had grown up into a proper international power.",
        "但这同时传达的另一个信息就是德国已经成长为一个真正意义上的国际强国。"
    ],
    [
        "He was describing democracy at its best, its most noble, as it should be, but not always is: freely mobilized men and women able and willing to change the course of their destiny.",
        "他用最好、做高尚的方式描述了民主，民主应该如此，但并不总是如此：自动发动起来的人们能够也愿意改变自己的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason for this is that the EU does not want to pick a fight with Russia, which still sees us as its close ally, natural business partner, and as members of an enlarging Russian-led economic zone.",
        "欧盟这样做的一个原因是不愿和俄罗斯发生争端。 俄罗斯仍将我们视为其紧密的盟友、自然的贸易伙伴和其领导下的不断扩大的经济区的成员。"
    ],
    [
        "One source of China’s future political leadership could well be its growing NGO sector.",
        "其中，中国未来政治领导人可能来自正在成长之中的非政府组织。"
    ],
    [
        "But the party system and the FA’s internal balance of power do not favor any turn abrupt toward radical left or populism. Indeed, because populist tactics are likely to prove self-defeating in the presidential campaign, Mujica started supporting Vázquez’s administration’s record and made Astori his candidate to be Vice President, entitled to take the lead on economic policy and participate in the executive. To stress their social democratic credentials both candidates, Mujica and Astori, have gone on pilgrimages to the United States, Brazil, and Chile.",
        "的确，因为民粹主义策略很可能在总统大选中被证明是自杀性的，所以Mujica也开始支持巴斯克斯政府的记录并使Astori成为他的副总统候选人，主持经济政策并参与最高决策。 为了强调他们的社会民主履历，作为候选人的Mujica 和 Astori 都进行了对美国、巴西和智利的朝圣之旅。"
    ],
    [
        "But Iran’s leaders remain skeptical of either scenario, despite America’s official position that “all options are on the table” to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons capability.",
        "但伊朗领导人对其他可能仍持怀疑态度，尽管美国的官方立场是将“动用台面上的一切选择”来防止伊朗发展核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "This followed deadly violence against unarmed demonstrators protesting last year’s deeply flawed national election, won, yet again, by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party, which has dominated political life for more than three decades.",
        "而在此前曾发生过针对反对去年存在严重问题的全国选举的手无寸铁的示威者的致死暴力时间。 在去年的选举中，首相洪森的执政党——柬埔寨人民当再度获胜，该党已主宰柬埔寨政坛超过三十年。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, there will still be wars, fought with ever more brutal and destructive weapons.",
        "与此相似，战争仍会存在，交战的武器甚至更为野蛮、更有破坏性。"
    ],
    [
        "The 15-year MDG experience made clear the indisputable potential of developing-country innovation to advance public health.",
        "千年发展目标积累的十五年经验明确显示发展中国家促进公共医疗的潜力无可辩驳。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2008-09, when the rest of the world was on the verge of deflation, the UK was enduring an inflationary recession, with GDP contracting at a top rate of 6.1% annually, while inflation reached some 5.1%.",
        "这可绝不仅仅是一个理论推算： 2008~09年，当世界其他地区都处于通缩边缘时，英国却在经历通胀型衰退，一方面是高达6. 1％的GDP年收缩率，一方面确是5."
    ],
    [
        "At the end of September, these claims amounted to €819.4 billion, with the Bundesbank accounting for €715.7 billion, which was 46% of Germany’s net external assets at midyear.",
        "截至9月底，这些债权已达8,194亿欧元，其中德国央行占了7,157亿欧元，或德国年中净对外资产的46%。"
    ],
    [
        "From China’s activities in the South China Sea to the Islamic State’s continued advance in the Middle East, competition and conflict are threatening long-standing regional orders.",
        "从中国在南海的活动，到伊斯兰国在中东的继续挺进，竞争与冲突正在威胁树立已久的地区秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Or does the state take charge when the market fails to perform socially necessary functions – such as fighting wars or maintaining full employment?",
        "还是国家利用市场无法产生社会所需的功能——比如抵抗战争和保持充分就业——而获得了优势？"
    ],
    [
        "Québec will invest more than $3.3 billion toward this goal by 2020, contributing to the growth of its economy.",
        "到2020年，魁北克将为此目标投入超过33亿美元，为其经济增长做出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the US has the smallest middle class, holding just 22% of total net financial assets, half the average of other industrialized countries, and the highest concentration of wealth than in any other country.",
        "如今，美国的中产阶级规模很小，他们只持有22%的总净金融财富，是其他工业化国家平均水平的一半，而其财富集中度比任何其他国家都要高。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – While hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Paris against the right of homosexual couples to marry and adopt children, French troops were arriving in Mali to stop a coalition of Islamist and rebel forces from taking control of its capital, Bamako, and creating in the Sahel a sanctuary for terrorists.",
        "巴黎—在数十万人在巴黎街头反对同性恋结婚和养育孩子的权利的同时，法军正在开赴马里，阻止伊斯兰武装和叛军组成的联军控制其首都巴马科，让萨赫勒草原成为恐怖分子的避难所。"
    ],
    [
        "Another public-relations problem concerns business interests.",
        "另外一个公关难题牵涉到商业利益。"
    ],
    [
        "How would it be decided whether these targets had been met?",
        "如何确定这些目标已经达到？"
    ],
    [
        "New York – Lack of food is rarely the reason people go hungry.",
        "纽约–人们挨饿的原因根本不在于食品的匮乏。"
    ],
    [
        "And if voter suppression helps Republicans to win control of more and more state legislatures, more such laws could be enacted.",
        "而如果抑制选民有助于共和党赢得更多的州立法机关，那么会有更多的类似法律推出。"
    ],
    [
        "In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who had long been moving toward autocracy, has concentrated power further in the wake of last month’s failed military coup.",
        "在土耳其，总统埃尔多安早已转向独裁，上个月的未遂政变让他进一步集中了权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, every state looked inward, squandering valuable opportunities to achieve common prosperity through international policy coordination.",
        "当时各国只顾自扫门前雪，错过了通过国际合作来实现共同繁荣的宝贵机会。"
    ],
    [
        "No, it is not.",
        "不，这可不是。"
    ],
    [
        "France had to a large extent initiated both treaties, had managed to get them accepted by its European partners, but in the end vetoed its own undertakings.",
        "在很大程度上，法国都是两个公约的发起国，并成功地使其欧洲伙伴接受了它们，但在最后又用否决票令自己功亏一篑。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with more than four million people forced to flee their homes because of the violence wracking the country, it has become one of the world’s many places suffering from what can only be described as a global education crisis.",
        "但现在，因为有400多万人被迫在国内冲突中背井离乡，叙利亚沦为世界上诸多只能用全面教育危机来形容的国家之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Escalating brutality and the actions of governments have put Arab citizens under immense pressure.",
        "日益升级的残酷性和政府行动让阿拉伯人民承受了巨大的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The most recent data show that the price index in January was up by only 0.9% year on year.",
        "最新的数据显示，1月的价格指数仅仅是比去年同期上升了0. 9%。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Greek crisis exposed three main flaws in the monetary union itself.",
        "其实，希腊危机暴露了货币联盟本身的三项重要缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "The technicality the commission cited would be absurdly funny if its potential results were not so incendiary: the CEC objected to the fact that the Tymoshenko bloc candidates listed only their home towns on the party list, not their precise street address.",
        "委员会援引的技术细节几近荒谬可笑，而其可能造成的后果则极具煽动性：委员会反对季莫申科集团的理由是其候选人在政党名单上只列出了各自的籍贯，没有写明具体的街道地址。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where the United States really is different from France and Germany, while Britain has a similar tradition of distrusting the state rather than relying on it.",
        "正是在这一点上，美国与法国和德国有着本质的不同，而英国与美国却非常相似，他们都不信任国家，更不会依靠国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Poverty and unemployment have left them frustrated and desperate, and the slowdown in implementing the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement gives them little hope of meaningful change.",
        "贫困和失业让他们感到沮丧和绝望，哈马斯-法塔赫和解协议迟迟得不到落实让他们对实质性变化感到希望渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "From Dhaka, Clinton made the short journey to India’s West Bengal, where her host was the diminutive Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose election ended 34 years of Communist rule in the state.",
        "经过短途旅行，克林顿从达卡抵达印度的西孟加拉邦，接待她的是身材矮小的首席部长马马塔·班纳吉，她的当选结束了该邦34年的共产党统治。"
    ],
    [
        "From the territorial disputes with Vietnam and the Philippines in the South China Sea to tensions with Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand, relationships that were sound, if not always friendly, have now soured.",
        "从与越南和菲律宾的南中国海领海之争，到与缅甸和泰国的紧张局势，曾经良好甚至可谓友善的邻邦关系急转直下。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to imagine India with a better prime minister.",
        "他是目前的最佳人选。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the restaurant interior had completely changed since then, its decorative themes remained the same.",
        "尽管餐馆的内部装饰此后有了彻底的变化，但装饰主题还是保留了下来。"
    ],
    [
        "You can tell Americans and Europeans that they should rejoice over the boundless cheap goods and cheap credit that trade with Asia has supplied. But all their politicians seem to worry about is how some farmer or textile worker may lose their job.",
        "你可以告诉美国人和欧洲人他们应该为亚洲贸易所带来的享用不尽的廉价商品和信贷感到欣喜，但政治家唯一担心的问题似乎是某些农场主或纺织工人会因此而丢掉工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The bias could be implicit: our worldview is shaped by what our friends in industry believe.",
        "同时这种偏向性可以是隐性的：我们的世界观就是由那些金融界友人的信仰塑造出来的；"
    ],
    [
        "Until then, I’ll happily keep inviting him into my classroom.",
        "直到那时，我很高兴一直邀请他进入到我的课堂。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – The world is changing rapidly – and it will not wait for anyone.",
        "巴黎—世界变化很快——它不会等待任何人。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, Iranian officials’ claims that their nuclear program is aimed solely at power generation or medical research lacks all plausibility.",
        "简而言之，伊朗的官员称，他们的核计划只是用于发电或医学研究，这一点说服力都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "If they succeed, the rewards for the world’s poor will be immense.",
        "如果合作成功，对世界贫困人口的回报将是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "That will remain true as long as they fear continued outside political pressure to appreciate.",
        "只要他们担心存在来自外部的升值政治压力就会如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the world’s four largest economies, only the US suffers persistently weak competitiveness.",
        "在全球四大经济体中，只有美国存在顽固性竞争力低迷。"
    ],
    [
        "But this time something snapped.",
        "但这次形势发生了改变。"
    ],
    [
        "It will also have to accept the wish of the huge majority of Palestinians for a peaceful settlement with Israel.",
        "它也将不得不承认绝大多数巴勒斯坦人希望与以色列和平解决争端。"
    ],
    [
        "The origins of drug resistance are a well-understood matter of evolution.",
        "抗药性的源头在早已是众所周知的进化论。"
    ],
    [
        "What cannot be accepted are financial rescue operations that benefit the unworthy and cause losses to other important groups – like taxpayers and wage earners.",
        "政治问题可以如此平衡：正如美联储副主席唐 • 科恩说的那样，要想给几千个金融冒险家一个教训，那就会导致美国数百万个工作岗位，甚至全球数千万个工作的丧失。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the inexorable rise in medical costs around the world someday pose a major challenge to contemporary capitalism?",
        "全世界医疗费用的猛升会不会在某一天对现代资本主义构成重大挑战呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring price stability is about to become more important than ever.",
        "确保价格稳定正变得前所未有地重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The willingness of Gates and other business leaders to commit themselves and their money to the promotion of clean energy is admirable.",
        "盖茨和其他商业领袖愿意投身和投钱于清洁能源的推广，这值得我们敬仰。"
    ],
    [
        "On the one hand, it is important to resist Putin’s game-changing challenge to the post-1945 liberal order’s prohibition on the use of force by states to seize territory from their neighbors.",
        "一方面，抵御普京对1945年后自有秩序禁止国家动用武力从邻国攫取领土的规定的践踏十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "He might not find that very difficult.",
        "他这样做也许并不太难。"
    ],
    [
        "And almost two decades of international sanctions prevented a generation of Libyans from gaining the necessary technical skills by studying at Western universities.",
        "而持续近20年的国际制裁也使整整一代利比亚人无法通过就读西方大学来获取所需的相关技能。"
    ],
    [
        "And they sought to deepen ties to the Iranian diaspora, in the hope that closer relationships could help solve some of Iran’s most daunting economic challenges.",
        "他们还寻求深化与伊朗侨民的关系，希望加强这一关系能够帮助解决伊朗最严峻的经济挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "It doesn’t condemn the EU, but as French President Nicolas Sarkozy likes to say, it doesn’t save it, either.",
        "它没有拖累欧盟，但正如法国总统萨科奇所说的那样，它也不会拯救欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1994, the EU committed itself to the GHG reductions set forth by the Kyoto Protocol and ratified it in 2002.",
        "在1994年，欧盟承诺按照京都议定书的要求减少温室气体排放量并于2002年批准了该协议。"
    ],
    [
        "It was for these same people that the Jubilee 2000 campaign for debt relief was carried out by many individuals and organizations all over the world.",
        "全世界的许多人和组织发起了为了给非洲人们解除债务的福音2000运动。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as technological progress was destroying unskilled jobs, the straightforward policy response was education.",
        "只要技术进步继续破坏非技术性工作，那么最直接的应对之策就是教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Some scholars believe it has reached its limits.",
        "一些学者认为极限已经达到。"
    ],
    [
        "They advocate slashing government spending, naively believing that the private sector will somehow magically fill the void.",
        "他们鼓吹削减政府支出，天真地认为私人部门能变戏法般地填补空白。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, successful INGOs are marked by the clarity of their mission.",
        "其次，成功的INGO的一个显著特征是使命明确。"
    ],
    [
        "Vampire jokes abound.",
        "吸血鬼玩笑比比皆是。"
    ],
    [
        "That may be the real miracle of what will occur in India over the next few weeks.",
        "印度接下来几个星期发生的事情，可能是真正的奇迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Mubarak had a rocky relationship with Israel, and held America’s closest Middle East ally at arm’s length throughout his presidency. For almost ten of his 30 years in office, Egypt had no ambassador in Tel Aviv. Mubarak never made an official state visit to Israel, and he frequently refused Israeli prime ministers’ requests to come to Cairo. When the US sought to extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1994, Mubarak mobilized the Arab world against the initiative, because Israel refused to sign the NPT.",
        "穆巴拉克从来没有对以色列进行过正式访问，还经常拒绝以色列总理访问埃及的意愿。 当美国试图在1994年扩大《不扩散核武器条约》覆盖范围时，穆巴拉克甚至动员整个阿拉伯世界反对该意向，原因是以色列拒绝签署该条约。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – It’s 1946. On one side of the Atlantic, American lawyers are prosecuting Nazi doctors at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity – so-called “research” carried out on concentration camp prisoners.",
        "发自伦敦——当时是1946年，在大西洋这一侧，美国律师团正在纽伦堡以反人类罪起诉纳粹医生——针对这些人对集中营里犯人进行的所谓“研究”。"
    ],
    [
        "Without some mechanism to realize that, the EU will limp from crisis to crisis – probably shedding members along the way.",
        "如果不通过某个机制来实现这一点，欧元区就将从一场危机滑向另一场危机——在此期间，还存在流失成员国的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Al Jazeera has not been dumb to complaints about it.",
        "此外，半岛并没有对反对的呼声置若罔闻。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is putting together an energy and environment strategy that aims to end the self-defeating competition within Europe for oil and gas, while also establishing Europe as global leader in the effort to halt climate change.",
        "欧盟正在进行一项能源和环境的战略规划，其目的是要结束欧洲内部为获得石油和天然气而进行的恶性竞争，同时也使欧洲成为遏制气候变化努力方面的全球领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "Here it can take lessons from its British and American counterparts: credibility does not require dogmatism, but rather clarity of purpose.",
        "这方面，他们可以吸取英国和美国央行的教训：信誉需要的不是固执己见，而是目标明确。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Xi has lately toned down his description of China’s aims, recently telling Communist Party leaders that, “We should increase China’s soft power, give a good Chinese narrative, and better communicate China’s message to the world.”",
        "事实上，习近平最近在中国的目标问题上的口风也有所缓和，最近他对中共领导人说，“要提升我国软实力,讲好中国故事,做好对外宣传。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Complacency can be deadly.",
        "自满将招来惨重的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "That generation expected to have job security, to marry young, to buy a house – perhaps a summer house, too – and finally retire with reasonable security.",
        "这一代人期望获得工作安全，早早结婚，买套房子——最好再买个度假别业——最后带着相当丰厚的退休保障退休。"
    ],
    [
        "That has not happened yet, so inflation has been postponed.",
        "但这并没有发生，因此通胀一直起不来。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – In February, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on the National Diet to amend Article 9 of the country’s constitution, which renounces war as a means of settling disputes.",
        "华盛顿——今年2月，日本首相安倍晋三呼吁国会修改该国放弃以战争为解决争端手段的宪法第九条。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcome matters – which is why governments are fighting over it. Recall how the fateful decision to situate the IMF in Washington, DC enhanced the influence of the US Treasury just down the street.",
        "究竟花落谁家，结果大不一样，所以各国政府正在为此较劲——大家都还记得，IMF设在华盛顿特区这一历史性抉择，是如何自然而然地扩大了美国财政部的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Civil liberties were boosted. And the semi-divine Japanese Emperor was brought down to earth.",
        "公民自由获得了长足的发展，半人半神的日本天皇也被剥下了神秘的外衣。"
    ],
    [
        "Different attitudes toward risk are a central factor in the perennial controversy over how much stimulus is optimal.",
        "不同的风险态度是关于多大刺激可算最优刺激的长期争论的核心因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Cap and trade was originally supposed to be a Republican idea in the US: its backers were those who considered themselves pro-market, not those who considered themselves pro-regulation.",
        "在美国，设限+交易原本应当被视为一个共和党方案：其背后的支持者都是那些自认为倾向市场而非偏好管制的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Full economic integration implies the equalization of unskilled wages everywhere in the world, and, though we are nowhere near attaining this “goal,” the downward pressure on those at the bottom is evident.",
        "完全的经济融合意味着全世界低技能工资平等化，而且，尽管我们根本尚未实现这一“目标”，底层人士的减薪压力却是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "But for precisely that reason, more conservative elements within Iran’s government are deeply suspicious of Rouhani’s reformist agenda, viewing the potential emergence of a more worldly, pluralistic society as a serious threat to the regime’s survival.",
        "但正是因此，伊朗政府中的保守元素对鲁哈尼的改革派日程抱有深刻的怀疑，认为更具世界性、更加多元的社会的出现是对政权生存的严重威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider India, until recently another much-celebrated success story.",
        "就拿印度来说，前不久，它还是又一个著名的成功故事。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s mostly private health-care system is the least efficient in the world.",
        "美国的医疗体系私有化程度最高，但效率堪称全世界最低。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly 70% of Apple’s revenues come from the iPhone and the iPad.",
        "苹果公司大约七成的收入来自iPhone和iPad。"
    ],
    [
        "Truth commissions therefore should never be established as “box-ticking” exercises to assuage local public opinion or the international community, as witnessed in Nepal.",
        "因此永远也不要像尼泊尔那样让真相委员会沦为缓和当地或国际社会公众舆论的象征性机构。"
    ],
    [
        "At the ASEAN summit, the 10 Southeast Asian leaders met counterparts from China, Japan, and South Korea. These 13 countries then met again with India, Australia, and New Zealand.",
        "在东盟峰会上来自10个东南亚国家的首脑将与中日韩三国领导人会面。 随后这13个国家的首脑将共同会见来自印度，澳大利亚和新西兰的到访者。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, both are machines, and the harvester has displaced far more human labor than Nexus has.",
        "毕竟，它们都是机器，收割机取代的人力远比Nexus多。"
    ],
    [
        "Establishing frameworks to provide scalable, sustainable funding to achieve these goals is a wise and affordable investment – one that is in everyone’s interest.",
        "制定提供实现上述目标所需长期灵活投资的框架是一项明智高效、并且符合所有人利益的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, a 10% higher price would reduce consumption by 5% and raise enough excise revenue to pay for a basic health package for 33 million poor rural Chinese.",
        "在中国，提高价格10%将会减少消费5%并且增加足够的国内税收来为三千三百万贫穷的农村人口提高基本医疗。"
    ],
    [
        "For most journalists and political pundits in Romania, this self-proclaimed Damascene conversion looks like just another political farce from someone with unrivaled histrionic gifts.",
        "在罗马尼亚的大多数新闻记者和政治批评家看来，这种自我标榜的大马士革式的转变无外乎是一个拥有超群的戏剧才能的人所上演的另一出闹剧罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "President George W. Bush may claim that he didn't know that the information he was provided by the CIA concerning weapons of mass destruction in pre-war Iraq was so faulty.",
        "乔治·W·布什总统可能辩白说他不知道中情局在伊拉克战前提供的大规模杀伤性武器情报有多少问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan issued a record ¥55.8 trillion ($693.5 billion), or 12% of nominal GDP, in government bonds during the last fiscal year.",
        "日本上一财年度发行的政府债券占名义GDP的12%，达到创纪录的55. 8万亿日元（合6935亿美元）。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the requirement is adhered to only loosely – President Barack Obama has released just two strategies in the last seven years – the intent is clear: to establish a set of concrete national security priorities informed by the administration in office and the country’s changing circumstances.",
        "尽管这一要求遵守并不严格——奥巴马总统在过去七年中只发布过两次——但其意图是明确的：确根据政府和国家所处的变化环境而确定的具体的国家安全重点。"
    ],
    [
        "They discover that what they overthrew was not the tyranny of the ancien régime, but “the concessions that were wrung from it by centuries of struggle.”",
        "”他们发现他们所颠覆的并不是旧制度的苛政，而是“通过数百年的斗争从它手中获得的让步。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "This heats the bitumen, making it runny enough to be pumped out.",
        "待沥青受热成为流质后再行抽取。"
    ],
    [
        "What you really want, of course, is a cure, not merely a minimal extension of life expectancy, but nothing is certain.",
        "当然，你真正需要的是治愈，而不是略微提高预期寿命，但这些都是不确定的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US imposes a tariff of more than 50 cents per gallon on sugar-based ethanol from Brazil, but subsidizes inefficient corn-based American ethanol heavily – indeed , it requires more than a gallon of gasoline to fertilize, harvest, transport, process, and distill corn to yield one gallon of ethanol.",
        "美国对从巴西进口的蔗糖乙醇每加仑征收50美分的关税，却为国内出产的相对低效的玉米乙醇提供补贴。 事实上，每生产一加仑玉米乙醇都将需要超过一加仑的汽油用于玉米的施肥、收获、运输、加工和提纯过程。"
    ],
    [
        "In New York, by contrast, public opinion had become somewhat more pro-market (55% said raising prices was unfair).",
        "而相比之下纽约的公众舆论已经变得较为亲市场（55％的人表示提价是不公平的）。"
    ],
    [
        "Because they avoid over-simplification, foxes make fewer mistakes.",
        "因为避免一刀切的论断，狐狸型学者很少犯错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Jeffrey D. Sachs of Columbia University detailed a major new system for managing refugees.",
        "最后，哥伦比亚大学的杰弗里·萨克斯（Jeffrey D. Sachs）为管理难民提出了一套详细的新制度。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, they must abolish agricultural subsidies, remove restrictions on trade in services, improve connectivity, facilitate cross-border trade and investment, and increase trade finance.",
        "特别是，它们必须取消农业补贴，取消服务贸易限制，改善连通性，便利跨境贸易和投资，以及增加贸易融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Hopefully, a more comprehensive understanding of human genetic variation (i.e. single base pair changes and structural genomic variation, such as CNVs) will ultimately help physicians to prescribe medication in a more individualized manner, that would result in maximum therapeutic effects to each patient, with minimal side effects.",
        "对人类基因改变（比如单碱基对改变和结构性基因改变，如CNVs）更全面的了解有望帮助医生在开药时考虑到个体差异性，这将带来对病人最好的治疗效果，而使副作用降到最小限度。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet we recognize that continuing to pour trillions of dollars into carbon-based infrastructure and fossil-fuel subsidies is like investing in sub-prime real estate.",
        "然而，我们已经承认：继续向碳基燃料基础设施和矿物燃料补贴里投入数万亿美金，就像投资次级房地产一样。"
    ],
    [
        "France may not have the military might of the US or the growth rate of China and India, but its team reached the World Cup championship, raising its standing in the eyes of billions of people – and perhaps giving a reprieve to its unpopular government.",
        "法国不一定具备美国的军事力量或者中印两国的经济增长率，但是它的足球队却进入世界杯决赛，从而在几十亿人的眼中提升了它的地位，也暂时解救了不受欢迎的法国政府。"
    ],
    [
        "But “Chávez benefited from massive use of state resources that enabled him to dominate media time by a margin of 25-to-1, distribute household goods to constituents, and convince many voters that the state could punish them for casting a ballot for the opposition.”",
        "”但“查韦斯从大规模使用国家资源中获益良多，这让他能够以25比1的优势主宰媒体时段，向选民分发家庭用品，并威胁众多选民投票给反对者将受到国家的惩罚。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "A price-and-rebate system would be both efficient and fair.",
        "定价和返现系统将是高效而公平的。"
    ],
    [
        "The waste is separated into recyclable materials (plastics, metals) and organic waste.",
        "废物被分为可回收材料（塑料、金属等）和有机废物两大类。"
    ],
    [
        "The third, and most pressing, crisis is the result of massive flows of migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere into Europe.",
        "第三次也是最急迫的一次危机是大量难民从中东和其他地区潮水般涌入欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "And the central bank’s decision to raise interest rates to buttress the ruble may lead to much tighter credit conditions for companies and households, pushing the Russian economy into recession this year and next.",
        "而央行决定生息以巩固卢布可能导致公司和家庭面临的信用条件进一步收紧，让俄罗斯经济在今年和明年陷入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "International trade has played a pivotal role in China’s economic development over the past 30 years.",
        "过去30年来，国际贸易在中国的经济发展中扮演着关键角色。"
    ],
    [
        "But over the last two decades, as active citizens have toppled regimes in dozens of countries, governments have moved too far in the opposite direction, imposing excessive regulations on those organizations and that space.",
        "但在过去二十年中，随着活跃公民成功颠覆了几十个国家，政府开始矫枉过正，对这些组织和空间实施了过度监管。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – India’s recent general election could be the most important positive economic event of 2014.",
        "美国剑桥—印度的最新选举可能是2014年最重要的积极经济事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the intrinsic uncertainty of foreign affairs, and it is unsurprising that politicians would rather spout empty lines than risk saying something that might blow up in their faces.",
        "除此之外还有外交事务的内在不确定性，并且，毫不奇怪，政客宁可大放空炮也不愿说一些可能被“打脸”的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Internationally, concern has been growing about Jokowi's stated determination to allow – after a long moratorium – the executions of scores of convicted drug traffickers to proceed.",
        "国际社会日益担心佐科维所声称的决心——在长期暂停后继续对多为定罪毒贩实施处决。"
    ],
    [
        "And offsetting spending cuts provides no safety valve.",
        "而抵消性的减支也无法提供安全阀。"
    ],
    [
        "Kim Jong-un’s childish tantrums have genuinely enraged China.",
        "金正恩孩子气的怒火真正惹恼了中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Kenya and Ethiopia refused, saying they were still in the process of building a nation.",
        "肯尼亚和埃塞俄比亚对此加以拒绝，声称索马里族人仍然处在建立国家的过程之中。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no authoritative answer about what the “right” decision is, and no consensus among experts about the proper level of exposure to these markets.",
        "世界对什么是这个问题的“正确”决定，没有权威的答案，而且在专家中，也没有对参与这些市场到什么程度是恰当的的共识。"
    ],
    [
        "The Summit of Muted Intentions",
        "各怀心事的峰会"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, many allies’ failure to respect the 2%-of-GDP target for their defense budgets exacerbates this dilemma, and also widens the capability gap with those allies that are investing in usable and deployable forces.",
        "而且，许多同盟国家没能完成将GDP的2%作为防卫预算的目标，这加剧了这个难题，并且扩大了与那些在可用和可部署军队上投入的同盟国家的军力差距。"
    ],
    [
        "The CNY was thus bound to fall, which it did last September.",
        "于是，CNY不可避免地要出现贬值，这就是去年9月的情形。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the crisis-related damage to banks’ balance sheets constrained demand by severely limiting household credit and lending to small and medium-size businesses.",
        "此外，与危机相关的银行资产负债表损失又遏制了需求，家庭信贷和中小企业贷款都严重受限。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the World Cup moves into its quarter and semi-final matches, my girlfriends have started to argue.",
        "谁知在世界杯开打之后，女伴们却发生了内部分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "But we must also face up to the fact that we will not defeat ISIS without a bigger, more effective, and better coordinated military effort.",
        "但我们还必须直面一个事实，即如果没有规模更大、效果更好、更加协作的军事措施，我们就无法打败伊斯兰国。"
    ],
    [
        "To answer that question, it helps to note, as Harvard University’s Ricardo Hausmann has done recently, that some of the emerging economies’ recent growth was illusory.",
        "要回答这一问题，注意哈佛大学的豪斯曼（Ricardo Housmann）的最新看法是大有裨益的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is extremely rare for any large cohort in a modern society to suffer such a decline in life expectancy.",
        "现代社会如此大规模的群体出现如此程度的寿命预期下降，这是非常罕见的。"
    ],
    [
        "But Erdoğan’s ability to take on the Gülen movement is limited.",
        "但埃尔多安对付葛兰运动的能力有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the UN formally accepted the 2°C limit as the starting point for the top-down approach in 2010, the well-practiced strategy of obscuring current failures by announcing more ambitious future efforts would become unsustainable.",
        "联合国已在2010年正式接受将2℃极限作为自上而下方法的出发点，通过宣布更有雄心壮志的未来计划掩盖当前失败这一屡试不爽的战略将不可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the EU’s renewables policy has also proved to be ruinously expensive.",
        "此外，欧盟的可再生能源政策已经被证明是极端昂贵。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, viewed from a wider perspective, economic and social turbulence on Europe’s southern periphery will constitute a geopolitical risk.",
        "此外，从更广泛的角度看，欧洲南部外围国家的经济和社会动荡将造成地缘政治风险。"
    ],
    [
        "State sponsors of terrorism are ineligible for US military support – which was hardly a possibility for North Korea.",
        "支持恐怖主义的国家无法得到美国的军事支持——但朝鲜原本就没有什么希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2011, some four million people have fled Syria, with millions more internally displaced.",
        "2011年以来，大约四百万人逃离叙利亚，更有数百万人在叙利亚国内流离失所。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, neither of these outcomes is likely.",
        "不幸的是，这两个结果都不太可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Rolling out preventive therapies in at-risk populations and developing better diagnostic tests to identify those with asymptomatic infections would help drain reservoirs of the bacteria.",
        "针对高危人群推出预防性治疗和研发更有效的诊断测试来确诊那些无症状感染将有助于彻底消灭细菌库。"
    ],
    [
        "But this view misses the real reason why capital flowed into emerging markets over the last few years, and why the external accounts of so many of them have swung into deficit.",
        "但这一观点并没有击中过去几年资本流入新兴市场、如此多的新兴市场国家对外账户转为赤字的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it will be years before any oil actually begins to flow from the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and how much shale oil and gas actually exists in northeastern Mexico is unknown.",
        "此外，墨西哥湾深海水域开始实际产油可能还需要等几年，而且墨西哥东北部页岩油气的蕴藏量也依然是未知数。"
    ],
    [
        "The consensus is that they do not.",
        "现在人们已经达成了否定的共识。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a real pity.",
        "这是一个真正的遗憾。"
    ],
    [
        "A virtuous circle may be set in motion, leading the country, eventually, to escape the crisis zone.",
        "希腊将出现良性循环，最终走出危机区。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar associations were observed between the use of paracetamol and the risk of severe asthma symptoms.",
        "同时还发现服用扑热息痛与严重的哮喘病症状之间也存在类似的关联性。"
    ],
    [
        "Properly targeted public investment can do much to boost economic performance, generating aggregate demand quickly, fueling productivity growth by improving human capital, encouraging technological innovation, and spurring private-sector investment by increasing returns.",
        "目标合理的公共投资非常有利于提高经济表现，迅速创造总需求，通过改善人力资本、鼓励技术创新和用增加回报刺激私人部门投资增进生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "Solidarity With Sharks",
        "声援鲨鱼"
    ],
    [
        "This led to massive current-account surpluses (more than 10% of GDP at one point), which sent capital flowing to the rest of the world.",
        "这导致了巨大的经常项目盈余（一度达到GDP的10%以上），让资本流向世界其他地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The three that count because of their size – Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico – are all frightened of the consequences: Brazil that its companies will lose contracts, Mexico that the Venezuelans will finance opposition to their energy reforms, and Argentina of losing an ally that knows too much.",
        "三个有影响力的大国——阿根廷、巴西和墨西哥——都有各自担心的结果：巴西担心其公司会失去合同； 墨西哥担心委内瑞拉会为其能源改革反对者提供融资；"
    ],
    [
        "The Dr. Pangloss school dismissed them as benign – a mere reflection of emerging economies’ demand for dollar reserves, which only the US could provide, and American consumers’ insatiable appetite for cheap merchandise imports.",
        "乐观派认为失衡无关紧要——无非反映了新兴经济体需要美国才能提供的美元储备，而美国消费者对廉价进口商品也有着无穷尽的胃口。"
    ],
    [
        "His point of view was quite different from that of artists and thinkers in the liberal tradition, like Octavio Paz and Isaiah Berlin.",
        "他的观点与奥克塔维奥·帕斯和以赛亚·柏林等遵循自由主义传统的艺术和思想家有很大不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet no attempted solution will get very far without the US and its decisive leadership.",
        "然而如果没有美国的参与和其关键性的领导，恐怕没有哪个解决方案能获得多大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The price of a smooth transition was also that many members of the Communist regime – including Jaruzelski – were not held accountable for their crimes while in power.",
        "平稳过渡的代价是包括雅鲁泽尔斯基在内的很多共产党政权成员掌权时所犯下的罪行没有得到追究。"
    ],
    [
        "The government should establish a National Infrastructure Bank to provide the finance by borrowing directly, attracting private-sector funds, or a mixture of the two.",
        "美国政府应该成立一个国家基础设施银行（National Infrastructure Bank），通过直接借款提供融资，吸引私人部门资金，或双管齐下。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, providing high-quality care that engages and instructs children in their first five years of life has a greater impact on their development than any other intervention over the course of their lifetime.",
        "事实上，在人们生命的第一个五年中提供高质量看护和指导比此后终其一身任何其他干预的影响都要大。"
    ],
    [
        "One way that China is attempting to find out is by pushing to have the renminbi added to the basket of currencies that determine the value of the International Monetary Fund’s reserve asset, the Special Drawing Right (SDR).",
        "中国寻找答案的一个办法是促使人民币加入决定国际货币基金组织（IMF）储备资产——特别提款权（SDR）价值的货币篮子中。"
    ],
    [
        "We both believed that the only sensible thing to do with the bomb was to get rid of it.",
        "我们都认为销毁核弹是唯一明智的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "One potential solution would be for regional representatives to be empowered to negotiate on behalf of groups of states.",
        "一个潜在解决办法是授权地区代表代表国家组织的利益进行谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Often, the default option is unsuitable for most individuals – for instance, it typically allocates all savings to low-return money-market funds.",
        "通常，默认现象对绝大多数人来说是可持续的——比如，它通常会将所有储蓄都配置给低回报货币市场基金。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a persistent challenge for government agencies: they get hammered whenever something goes wrong.",
        "对于政府部门来说，这种质疑是永远无法逃避的：每次出了什么问题的时候，他们都会遭到指责。"
    ],
    [
        "A constitutional approach limited the scope for wasteful spending on luxurious court life (and on military adventure), which had been the hallmark of early modern autocratic monarchy.",
        "这是一种限制早期专制王朝奢侈宫廷消费（或者军事行动）的宪政手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, today’s Japanese media are overlooking that historical context.",
        "不幸的是，当今的日本媒体却忽视了这一历史背景。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they were being forced to judge the sustainability of financial asset prices that, boosted by liquidity, had notably decoupled from underlying economic fundamentals.",
        "相反，它们都忙着去判断金融资产价格的可维持性，因为在流动性泛滥下这些价格已经与经济基本面严重脱钩。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the third edition of his Principles of Political Economy (1817), he inserted a chapter on machinery that changed tack.",
        "但在其《政治经济学》第三版（1817年）中，他加入了一章关于机器的内容，改变了看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Hal ini terjadi bukan hanya karena pada saat ini perjanjian perdagangan yang dilakukan juga mencakup banyak kebijakan lain seperti peraturan mengenai kesehatan dan keselamatan, paten dan hak cipta, peraturan neraca modal, dan hak-hak investor.",
        "今天的贸易协定不但扩张到其他许多政策领域，如卫生和安全监管、专利和版权、资本账户管制、投资者权利等；"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – On September 25, world leaders will meet in New York at a special session of the United Nations to chart a path to a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).",
        "伦敦—9月25日，全球领导人将在纽约联合国特别大会上会晤，为新的可持续发展目标（SDG）授权开路。"
    ],
    [
        "The equivocal nature of Iran’s alliances, however, can be a mixed blessing.",
        "伊朗联盟的暧昧态度其实好坏参半。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten percent of all deaths in that country, he recently claimed, are from euthanasia, half of which are forced upon helpless patients.",
        "他最近声称该国有10%的死亡是通过安乐死实现的，而其中半数都被强加于那些不能自理的患者身上。"
    ],
    [
        "The North Korean bomb, estimated at four kilotons, does not come anywhere near the magnitude of the atomic bombs of 15-21 kilotons that America dropped on Japan 64 years ago.",
        "朝鲜的核弹据估测有4千吨TNT当量，无论在哪方面都不能与美国在64年前投下的约15-21千吨TNT当量的核弹相提并论。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s “more for more” policy has made human rights a cornerstone of its foreign policy toward states in the Union’s neighborhood.",
        "欧盟“更多换更多”的政策使得人权成为欧盟与周边国家外交政策的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not lead to a very high number of deaths among the elderly; but, given that it is preventable, any number higher than zero is unacceptable.",
        "这种病并不会导致老年人大量死亡； 但鉴于这种病可以预防，大于零的任何致死率都是不可接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – I recently took two trips to China just as the government launched its 12th Five-Year Plan to rebalance the country’s long-term growth model.",
        "发自伦敦——最近我先后两次踏足中国，恰逢政府启动“十二五计划”以重新调整其长期增长模式的时间点。"
    ],
    [
        "One problem is that the consequences for neglecting drug safety are non-existing or minimal.",
        "问题之一就是忽视药品安全的后果是不存在的或已经最小化。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond lobbying, the current system is upheld by mythology: the belief that keeping older people in the workforce worsens unemployment.",
        "除了游说之外，当前的体系还得到某种神奇理论支持：认为让老年人继续参加工作会加剧整体失业状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite a significant contraction from 2007 to 2009, resulting from the deep global recession, the combined value of financial flows and trade in goods and services was 36% of global GDP in 2012 – 1.5 times higher than in 1980.",
        "尽管2007—2009年拜深度全球衰退所赐出现了重大回撤，但金融流和商品和服务贸易总价值在2012年仍占全球GDP的36%，比1980年高1. 5倍。"
    ],
    [
        "As for China’s backward educational system, the large number of university graduates is offset by their overall sub-standard quality.",
        "至于中国落后的教育体制，尽管每年的大学毕业生很多，但是因为他们总体上无法达到标准的素质，这一数字没有多大意义。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, it is only banks that have access to cheap borrowing, so they can reconstitute their balance sheets by borrowing cheaply and lending expensively.",
        "现实中，只有银行能够低价借钱，所以银行通过低借入高贷出的方法重新整理了他们的资产负债表。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while it is indeed true that crisis and opportunity often go hand in hand, it is difficult to see much opportunity in Europe’s current circumstances.",
        "尽管危险和机遇往往的确会结伴而行，但欧洲目前的情况却很难看到机遇的影子。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no surprise, then, that many people think of themselves as priceless.",
        "因此，有许多人认为自己是无价之宝也就不足为奇了。"
    ],
    [
        "If Trump were elected, Americans could expect the same sort of economic cycle seen repeatedly in places like Argentina over the past 100 years.",
        "如果特朗普当选，美国可以期待过去100年阿根廷反复发生的经济周期。"
    ],
    [
        "On the No side: a disparate coalition drawn from both the far right and the far left, including ultra-Catholics and unreconstructed Marxists, has sought to whip up hysteria about supposed threats ranging from military conscription to euthanasia and abortion.",
        "而反对派则是一个涵盖了从极右到极左势力的奇怪联盟，从极端天主教徒到老派马克思主义者都混杂其中，并试图在海外派兵，安乐死和堕胎这些假设性威胁上挑动民众情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it would force the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to choose between China and the US, a decision that all of them would prefer to avoid.",
        "首先，东盟成员国被迫在中国和美国之间做出抉择。 东盟国都希望避开在中美之间做出零和的抉择。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, the European Parliament is insisting that all unpaid bills should be settled before the next budgetary cycle begins.",
        "如今，欧洲议会坚持所有未偿付款项必须在下一个预算周期开始前支付。"
    ],
    [
        "So here we are with yet another twist in the never-ending saga of our love/hate relationship with capital controls.",
        "在这里，我们还面临另一场从未结束的与资本管制的爱恨纠结。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it would be a mistake for Japan to roll back its environmental regulations, or its health and safety regulations.",
        "事实上，如果日本放松其环境监管或卫生和安全监管，将是一个错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Many outsiders underestimate or purposefully minimize the “Arabness” of the Arab world.",
        "许多外部人士低估或故意贬低阿拉伯世界的“阿拉伯性”。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientists prefer exact thresholds for climate stabilization, and policymakers like powerful symbols.",
        "科学家喜欢给气候稳定制定精确的阈值，决策者则喜欢强有力的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many other fantastic examples of this type of work.",
        "这方面的工作还有很多非常棒的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "But a much lower share of equity often is sufficient to secure de facto control, thus encouraging groups to adapt their capital structure – moving firms in and out of the group’s boundaries – to minimize tax liabilities.",
        "但通常通过低得多的股份也能获得实际上的控制权，因此这就鼓励了各集团调整其资本结构—将公司在集团的边界内外挪移—从而使税收义务最小化。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course it must continuously balance the two, but both have equal weight.",
        "当然它必须时刻平衡这两个使命，但它们的重要性是一样的。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Giving up the spotlight is never easy.",
        "伦敦—放弃闪光灯向来不易。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s increased financial power may have increased its ability to resist American entreaties, but despite dire predictions, its creditor role has not been sufficient to compel the US to change its policies.",
        "尽管中国日益增长的金融实力可能会让其更有能力回拒美国的乞求，尽管有那些可怕的预测，但是中国作为债权人的角色不足以逼迫美国改变它的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "It is more disturbing when people choose to break up nation-states because they refuse to share their wealth, for linguistic or ethnic reasons.",
        "人们由于语言或者种族的原因拒绝分享财富而分裂民族国家则更为令人不安。"
    ],
    [
        "A four-page document was vaguely approved by acclamation but not submitted to a vote.",
        "一份 4 页纸的文件只是由口头表决通过而没有提交投票表决。"
    ],
    [
        "A shortlist of such faits accomplis would include NATO enlargement, the war in Yugoslavia (particularly Kosovo), missile-defense plans, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.",
        "这些前因至少包括北约东扩、南斯拉夫战争（特别是科索沃）、导弹防御计划、伊拉克、利比亚和叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, Hollande will continue to channel Tartuffe.",
        "与此同时，奥朗德将继续专注于做一个伪君子。"
    ],
    [
        "As I heard at countless conferences over the years, European will and determination would do the trick.",
        "多年来，我在各种会议上听说欧洲能实现这一目标，只要有决心就可以。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the current crisis, like others that preceded it, shows that monetary policy governs anticipations, not only of inflation but also of growth, whether central banks like it or not.",
        "其主要目标是“价格稳定”。 但是当前的危机就像先前的一样表明，无论中央银行是否愿意，货币政策既控制通胀的预期，也控制增长的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest of the world should hope this will prove to be a pause rather than an end to progress on international tax cooperation, which began 13 years ago, at the first International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico.",
        "其他国家应该希望这只是国际税收合作的暂时停止而非终结。 国际税收合作始于13年前墨西哥蒙特雷首届国际发展融资会议。"
    ],
    [
        "And even Italy, the first EU port of call for African migrants, is now experiencing a decline in asylum applications.",
        "而即便是意大利这个非洲移民首站停靠港如今收到的庇护申请也已下降。"
    ],
    [
        "This time France stood firm, with Prime Minister Manuel Valls saying that to retreat one inch would be to hand victory to the militants.",
        "这一回法国表现得十分坚定，总理瓦尔斯表示，退后一英寸就意味着将胜利拱手让给了伊斯兰国。"
    ],
    [
        "And if politicians choose less-efficient, less-coordinated cap-and-trade policies, the costs could escalate a further 10 to 100 times.",
        "此外如果政治家们选择效率更低而且欠缺协调性的“碳限额及交易”政策，我们所付出的代价可能会在此基础上再扩大10至100倍。"
    ],
    [
        "During a major meningitis epidemic in northern Nigeria in 1996, the drug company Pfizer supplied doctors with the oral antibiotic Trovan, which the firm wanted to test against the most effective known drug, Ceftriaxone, as a “control.”",
        "1996年，在尼日利亚北部爆发大规模脑膜炎时，辉瑞公司在向当地医生提供口服抗生素特洛芬的同时把服用头孢曲松的病人设为“控制组”，藉此将测试特洛芬与当前最有效药物进行对比。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier generations may have borne the burden of working and waiting more readily, but nowadays people want results here and now.",
        "早先一代人可能辛勤耕耘，耐心等候。 但是，如今的人们想一蹴而就。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most important, the majority are linked by family ties to other jihadists.",
        "也许最重要的是，大多数人通过家庭关系与其他圣战者联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world roiled by conflict, development efforts will always fall short.",
        "在保守冲突困扰的世界中，发展努力总是不足的。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, to develop new coal projects is unethical, and to invest in them is to be complicit in this unethical activity.",
        "在如此环境下，开发新的煤炭项目是不道德的，而投资于这些项目不啻于这一不道德行为的共谋。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, they knew that they would have to do most of the work themselves—albeit under EU guidance and with the help of EU know-how.",
        "相反，他们知道他们必须自己完成大部分的工作——尽管他们会有欧盟的指引和欧盟秘诀的帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is just the opposite: We now know that the damage cost will be perhaps 2% of world GDP, whereas climate policies can end up costing more than 11% of GDP.",
        "但现实情况却恰好相反：我们现在知道损失成本或许是全球GDP的2%，而气候政策最终却可能耗资超过GDP的11%。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a shame, because the economic situation elsewhere in Africa has been improving in recent years – mostly in Eastern and Southern Africa, where economic integration is proceeding within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC).",
        "这真的是一种耻辱，因为非洲其他地区的经济状况近年来一直持续改善——这种改善多数集中在东南非洲，那里的东南非共同市场（COMESA）和南部非洲发展共同体（SADC）大大提高了经济一体化程度。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not, and this is what economists call the “lump of labor fallacy” – the idea that handing out pensions frees up employment for younger people, as if there were a fixed number of jobs to go around.",
        "恰恰相反，这就是经济学家所说的“劳动合成谬误（lump of labor fallacy）”——认为社会中的工作职位数量是固定的，让老人退休领养老金就是为年轻人腾出位置。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only does that explain the inability of the British intellegentsia to reach consensus about the issue; it also leaves the Brexit question at the mercy of last-minute developments.",
        "这不但解释了英国知识届为何无法就该问题形成一致； 也导致英国退出的问题一直到最后一刻才能见分晓。"
    ],
    [
        "That debt is the largest in the eurozone – at roughly €2 trillion ($2.6 trillion), or 120% of the country’s GDP – which means that Italy can be helped, but not rescued.",
        "而这笔债务是欧元区中最大的一笔——大约2万亿欧元，或相当于其GDP的120%——这意味着意大利只能被帮助，不能被救助。"
    ],
    [
        "But such subsidies encourage profligate practices, accelerating water-resource depletion and environmental degradation.",
        "但这些补贴鼓励了挥霍，加速了水资源枯竭和环境恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of their decision, the price competitiveness of the eurozone’s weaker economies would improve considerably.",
        "无论做出什么选择，欧元区疲软经济体的价格竞争力都会得到极大改善。"
    ],
    [
        "But how reasonable is it if Greece does not have to fulfill its repayment obligations?",
        "但如果希腊不履行其还款责任，那又是合理的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "All of this illustrates what is wrong with the World Bank, even aside from Wolfowitz’s failed leadership.",
        "所有这些都表现了世界银行的错误之处，即便不去考虑沃尔福威茨的失职领导。"
    ],
    [
        "The Hidden Wealth of Cities",
        "隐性城市财富"
    ],
    [
        "America’s traditional sources of influence – its soft power, regional alliances, and financial leverage – appear to be running dry.",
        "美国影响力的传统源泉——软实力、地区联盟和金融杠杆——都在枯竭。"
    ],
    [
        "But sometimes sanctions do work.",
        "但有时制裁确实管用。"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, for many young people, emigration seems a better option than unemployment or underemployment at home, where they must rely on support from their families.",
        "毫不奇怪，对许多年轻人来说，移民似乎是比在国内失业或不充分就业、必须依靠家庭更好的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "To be clear, despite the massive scale of the protests, they are very unlikely to bring down the regime.",
        "必须明确一点，尽管示威规模巨大，但要想推翻体制根本不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Several estimates indicate that, given the additional demand for reserves, the world could absorb annual allocations of $200-300 billion or even more.",
        "一些测算表明，考虑到对储备的新增需求，世界每年可以吸收2,000—3,000亿美元甚至更多的配额。"
    ],
    [
        "Evolution, if attainable, is clearly preferable.",
        "如果可以以进化形式达到目的显然是更好的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies, not surprisingly, say that their responsibility extends only so far.",
        "毫不奇怪，公司声称它们的责任到此为止。"
    ],
    [
        "America should aim to return to the tax rates of the mid-1990’s, when the economy was booming and the federal budget was in much better shape.",
        "美国应该将目标定在让税率回到20世纪90年代中期的水平，当时经济处于繁荣期，联邦预算状况要好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "If I see a beautiful piece of jewelry or a bright new car in a shop, I am convinced that it should be mine, and that it can be more usefully employed in my possession than in someone else’s.",
        "如果我在商店里看见一件美丽的珠宝或是一辆锃亮的新车，我确信它应该是我的，而且在我拥有之下它会比在别人拥有之下更好地发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Greek banks – which, given their huge volume of non-performing loans, are now more likely to be insolvent than illiquid – will require massive recapitalization, funded by the European Stability Mechanism, not the Greek state, in order to break the bank-sovereign link.",
        "与此同时，希腊银行——拜巨额不良贷款所赐，它们更大的问题是资不抵债而不是缺乏流动性——需要大规模资本重组（recapitalization），重组资金应该来自欧洲稳定性机制（European Stability Mechanism，ESM）而非希腊国家，以打破银行-主权联系。"
    ],
    [
        "May has announced the creation of a £2 billion ($2.62 billion) fund for building more council housing.",
        "梅则宣布成立一个20亿英镑的激进来构建更多公屋。"
    ],
    [
        "Political pressure from finance ministers, expressed through the FSB, proved effective.",
        "财政部长们通过FSB所施加的政治压力证明是有效的。"
    ],
    [
        "Encouraged by the achievements of modern science, we came to perceive the future as being radically open.",
        "受现代科学成就的鼓舞，我们已经认为未来是非常开放的。"
    ],
    [
        "The new banking union, however imperfect, and the European Central Bank’s vow to save the euro by doing “whatever it takes,” are essential to sustaining the monetary union.",
        "新的银行联盟（不论多么不完美）和欧洲央行“不惜一切代价”拯救欧元的誓言对于维持货币联盟至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "For more than a half-century, Gulf countries absorbed millions of workers, primarily from their Arab neighbors’ lower middle classes.",
        "半个多世纪以来，海湾国家吸收了主要来自阿拉伯邻国中低阶层的成百上千万劳动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The central promise of the SDG agenda is to leave no one behind.",
        "可持续发展目标议程的核心承诺就是不放弃任何人。"
    ],
    [
        "To be effective, secondary and tertiary schools must produce graduates with both soft skills, such as communication and teamwork, and relevant technical skills.",
        "为了提升效率，中学和高等教育必须培养毕业生具备沟通和团队合作等软技能，以及相关的技术技能。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to facilitate the long-term investment that Europe desperately needs, it would be wise to reassess the broader regulatory environment that has emerged over the past six years.",
        "为了促进欧洲所急需的长期投资，明智的做法是重新评估过去六年中所浮现的监管大环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Apple cannot build an iPhone from scratch in the US, so it would have to search for alternative suppliers, raising its production costs considerably.",
        "苹果公司不可能在美国从零开始生产iPhone，因此不得不去寻找替代供应商，从而大大增加其生产成本。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reasons for anxiety and anger transcend economic realities and worries.",
        "但焦虑和愤怒的原因不仅限于经济现实和忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Maintaining accountability and preventing vested interests from capturing institutions – a process that involves entrenching morality within vulnerable bureaucracies – will be no easy feat.",
        "确保政府问责并同时防止既得利益俘虏权力机构并不容易，因为在这个过程中，不仅需要对公权力的制衡及相应的公务员激励机制，还需要建立恰当的道德观来抵消易受诱惑的官僚体系内的负能量，从而培育对腐败的持久抵抗力。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither explanation is entirely wrong.",
        "两个解释都有一定的道理。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Iran Won’t Budge",
        "伊朗为什么不会让步"
    ],
    [
        "Explanations abound for the fevered anti-Japanese protests that broke out across China last month.",
        "上月中国国内爆发了群情激愤的反日抗议，原因颇多。"
    ],
    [
        "The numbers are potentially large.",
        "这一数字可能极其巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems to work, but how?",
        "它看上去能起作用，但是是怎样起作用的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Governments are in a good position to create new risk-management policies, and they can then set an example for private insurers to follow.",
        "各国政府完全有能力建立新的风险管理保险，然后就可以确立示范让私营保险公司效仿。"
    ],
    [
        "But Japan has not shied away from the issue, with prominent political figures joining Takeshima Day celebrations each year.",
        "但日本从未回避过独岛问题，政治要人每年都会参加竹岛日庆典。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, financial resources would be channeled into the real economy, rather than inflating asset bubbles.",
        "这样，金融资源将被引导到实体经济中而不是吹起资产泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, despite Cargill’s heavy reliance on stevia in its promotional material, EverSweet does not contain a single leaf of the plant.",
        "但尽管嘉吉依赖甜叶菊进行促销宣传，EverSweet却不含一丁点植物成分。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, one cannot avoid the uneasy feeling that, when all is said and done, the contribution of recent technological innovations to long-term growth in living standards may be substantially less than the enthusiasts claim.",
        "但是，你无法摆脱一种不安感，即，当一切都说到做尽时，最新的科技创新对长期生活水平增长的贡献可能远远不如拥趸所宣称的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the picture is more complex.",
        "但是实际情况比这复杂得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Global brands relying on cheap labor have promised eradication.",
        "依赖廉价劳工的全球品牌已经承诺禁止这种现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The incoming president faces extraordinary constraints – constraints that will make it essential for other countries to do more if stability and prosperity are to be the norm rather than the exception.",
        "新总统面临着一些捆住他手脚的非常大的限制-若想让稳定与繁荣成为常态而不是例外，其它国家要更加和美国同舟共济显得如此至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "When Bill Gates donated $1 billion to bring vaccines to poor children, he made it possible to protect tens of millions of young people from preventable diseases.",
        "当比尔·盖茨向贫穷儿童捐出价值十亿美元的疫苗时，他保护了成千上万年轻人免受疾病传染。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Walmart, Asda, Tesco, and others now do the same?",
        "沃尔玛、艾斯达（Asda）和乐购会跟进吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Among other things, this would allow economists-in-training to take the evolution of economic institutions more seriously.",
        "这（和其他内容一起）有助于未来经济学学生更严肃地研究经济制度的演变。"
    ],
    [
        "It relies on threats and bullying.",
        "他的政策依靠威胁和恫吓。"
    ],
    [
        "Bringing together countries with competing interests and varying resources is hard work.",
        "让利益相互竞争、资源大相径庭的国家走到一起是一个艰难的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "If China’s animal spirits are allowed to operate through market mechanisms, distinguishing real value from aspirational prices, China, too, can stay the course toward the new economy, despite the failures and consolidation that will inevitably occur.",
        "如果中国的企业家精神可以通过市场机制起作用，在预期“梦幻”价格中找到真实价值，那么中国也可成功走向新经济，尽管在此过程中难免会有个别企业的失败和股市的调整。"
    ],
    [
        "But, although al-Ahmar announced that he was appalled by the use of force and vowed to defend the constitution, his decision was anything but altruistic.",
        "虽然阿赫玛尔将军声称对总统使用武力的决定深表震惊并呼吁保卫宪政，他的这一决定却肯定是别有用心的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the current uneasy status quo may be tenable, so long as the parties embrace serious confidence-building measures through multilateral forums while maintaining effective deterrence vis-à-vis China and a commitment not to use offensive force.",
        "不过只要借助多边论坛树立信心、保持对中国的有效遏制并承诺不使用武力，目前的现状或许可以维持。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Deng’s policy can work only if Beijing wants it to work.",
        "当然，北京的意志决定着邓小平政策的有效性。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the so-called end of the crisis looks more like a reconstruction of the mechanisms that caused it.",
        "而实际上，所谓经济危机的“结束”，其实倒更像是在重建那个导致危机产生的体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Inflation futures appear to be gaining hold in part because the new contract is traded on an efficient electronic market (the Globex system) that allows futures contracts to get going without the initial splash that is required by open-outcry pit-based futures markets.",
        "通胀期货交易的地位看起来得到了巩固，部分原因是新的合同是在高效率的电子市场（Globex系统）进行交易的。 这一电子市场允许合同进行交易，无需基于交易场地的、大声叫嚷的期货市场的最初轰动。"
    ],
    [
        "The PPPs will entail mixed financing, with private entities taking on a share of the risk and the return.",
        "公私合作将带来混合融资，由私营实体在承担部分风险的同时获得部分收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, by militarizing outcroppings and artificial islands in the South China Sea, China is unwittingly strengthening ultra-nationalist groups in the ASEAN states.",
        "其次，中国军事化南中国海的焦岩和人工岛，在不经意间也助长了东盟各国国内的极端民族主义势力。"
    ],
    [
        "The global economy, barely rising from its knees, could not withstand the contractionary shock if similar speculative forces were to drive oil rapidly towards $100 a barrel.",
        "对目前极其脆弱的经济来说，如果由于投机使得原油达到100美元一桶，那无疑是雪上加霜的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "This contributed not only to sovereign-debt and fiscal crises, but also to protracted stagnation outside East Asia, including Latin America’s “lost decade” and Africa’s “quarter-century retreat.”",
        "结果不但引发了主权债务和财政危机，还致使除东亚以外的地区经历了长期停滞，比如拉美的“失去的十年”和非洲的“倒退四分之一世纪”。"
    ],
    [
        "The vultures were neither long-term investors in Argentina nor the optimists who believed that Washington Consensus policies would work.",
        "这些“兀鹫”既非阿根廷长期投资者，亦非认为华盛顿共识能够奏效的乐观派。"
    ],
    [
        "But the largest impediment to Nokia’s ability to create the kind of intuitive, user-friendly smartphone experiences that iPhones and Android devices offered was its refusal to move beyond the solutions that had driven its past success.",
        "但真正阻碍诺基亚创造出iPhone和安卓机所带来的那种直观、友好的智能机用户体验的却是公司拒绝放弃曾造就其辉煌的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders would be acting irresponsibly if they failed to employ the EU’s borrowing capacity when its very existence is at stake.",
        "在欧盟生死存亡的关头，如果其领导人不能利用其借贷能力，将是不负责任的。"
    ],
    [
        "Taking away the prize of ministerial office from elected representatives might discourage wealth-maximizing politicians from entering politics.",
        "取消当选代表的部长任职回报可能阻止追求财富最大化的政客进入政治领域。"
    ],
    [
        "And then, in the past few weeks, a toxic and ludicrous outburst of criticism from those close to the government erupted, focusing on Rajan’s performance and his supposed lack of “Indian-ness.”",
        "之后，过去几周来，贴近政府的人士爆发了有毒并且荒唐的批评言论，主要是攻击拉詹的表现和他所谓“印度情结”的缺乏。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a small fraction of the EU budget would far exceed the available resources of any individual country.",
        "只要从欧盟预算中拿出很小一部分，就足以远超任何一个个体国家所能调动的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "In regions with industries hit hard by competition from Chinese imports, wages have remained depressed and unemployment levels elevated for more than a decade.",
        "在产业因为中国进口品的竞争而遭受重创的地区，十多年中工资一直保持低迷，失业水平很高。"
    ],
    [
        "Our metabolisms started to malfunction when humans began consuming fat and carbohydrates at the same meal.",
        "当人类开始在一顿饭里同时摄入脂肪和碳水化合物时，我们的新城代谢就开始紊乱了。"
    ],
    [
        "In a single instant of unfathomable fury, his moment of glory was transformed into one of madness and a curse.",
        "在一刻极端愤怒中，他的荣耀时刻便成了疯狂和诅咒的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies should devote more attention to developments in related industries as well.",
        "公司还应该将更多的注意力投向相关行业的发展上。"
    ],
    [
        "“I will also do everything I can to remove from the Yushukan Museum, on the grounds of the Yasukuni Shrine, all exhibits which deny, question, or are insensitive to Japan’s responsibility for waging aggressive war and committing atrocity crimes in the 1930s and 1940s.",
        "“我还将竭尽全力将靖国神社游就馆中所有否认、质疑或对日本在20世纪三四十年代发动侵略战争、犯下残暴罪行无动于衷的陈列移除。"
    ],
    [
        "The final problem with innovative companies like Uber is that the financial returns overwhelmingly accrue to the company’s leadership, rather than to the service providers.",
        "像Uber这样创新企业的最后一个问题是财务收益多数归公司领导所有，而非服务供应商。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be a different matter if we were to decide to buy bonds issued by euro-area sovereigns – the only market where size would generally not be an issue.",
        "如果买的是欧元区国家发行的主权债券——唯一一个规模不是问题的市场，那就是另一回事了。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s Class Struggle",
        "土耳其的阶级斗争"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, we can expect a long period of stagnation, punctuated by periodic financial crises.",
        "不然，迎接我们的将是一个漫长且危机不断的萧条期。"
    ],
    [
        "Less well-known pundits make similar points, suggesting that people with “incorrect” views on global warming should face Nuremburg-style trials or be tried for crimes against humanity.",
        "更多不那么有名的学者也持相似的观点，建议对那些对全球变暖问题持有“不正确”想法的人来一场二战后纽伦堡式的审判或者被控以反人类罪。"
    ],
    [
        "The argument that education matters for the economy is plausible because, at one level, it is obviously right.",
        "我们常说教育对经济的发展非常重要，这种说法有一定道理，因为在某种程度上，教育显然是经济发展不可缺少的命脉。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel now faces three options.",
        "以色列现在面临三种方案：退缩并佯装强硬；"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine the influence that would be generated by a Pakistani institute that was the world leader in cancer research.",
        "想象一个在癌症研究方面处于世界领先地位的巴基斯坦机构所能产生的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "It takes too long for the feeling of extreme insecurity to subside; and, meanwhile, the lure of a better life takes hold.",
        "极端不安全感需要极长的时间才能消除； 而与此同时，更好的生活的诱惑一直存在。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – In the discussion of whether America’s largest financial institutions have become too big, a sea change in opinion is underway.",
        "华盛顿—在论及美国最大金融机构是否太大时，各种观点莫衷一是。"
    ],
    [
        "As an African doctor, I know that the ravages of serious malnutrition and hunger are not always visible.",
        "作为一名非洲医生，我知道严重营养不良和饥饿的摧残并不总是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "A large part of the Syrian population – the middle class in Damascus and Aleppo, the Christians, and other minorities – are passive or sitting on the fence, worried that the alternative to the status quo is chaos, civil war, and possibly a radical Islamist takeover.",
        "大马士革和阿勒颇的中产阶级、基督教徒和其他少数族裔等叙利亚大部分民众态度消极或摇摆不定，担心改变现状将会付出混乱、内战，甚至可能是极端伊斯兰势力全面占领的惨重代价。"
    ],
    [
        "This can lead patients to consent to procedures that they do not understand – or want.",
        "这回导致患者同意他不理解——或不想要——的程序。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU decision comes at a time when NATO has also sought to renew its engagement with Russia after the Georgia conflict led both parties to suspend many joint programs.",
        "欧盟做出这个决定的时候，北约也在格鲁吉亚冲突导致双方中断了许多联合项目之后试图重新开始与俄罗斯的约定。 9月18日，北约秘书长谢佛尔在伦敦皇家联合军种研究所演讲。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, such failures made those policies less effective for the entire population, and could lead to long-term security consequences for Germany.",
        "最终，这些失误导致上述政策就整体而言不那么有效，并且可能为德国带来长期的安全后果。"
    ],
    [
        "And last April, a Jewish couple in a Parisian suburb were robbed, because, as the attackers put it, “Jews must have money” (though that did not explain why they then raped the woman).",
        "还有去年4月，一对犹太情侣在巴黎郊区被劫，原因是袭击者认为“犹太人一定非常有钱”（但这并不能解释他们为什么之后强奸了那名妇女）。"
    ],
    [
        "This vindicated criticism by Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps, among others, who had already begun to argue that the Phillips curve represented merely a short-term relationship.",
        "这证明了米尔顿·弗里德曼和埃德蒙·菲尔普斯（Edmund Phelps）及其他人的批评，他们开始指出，菲利普斯曲线只代表了短期关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The media marked the publication’s 60th anniversary with much fanfare, hailing the breakthrough that “ushered in the age of genetics,” and calling it “one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.”",
        "媒体大肆宣传克里克和沃森的论文发表60周年，称赞这一突破“引领了遗传学时代”，称之为“有史以来最重要科学发现之一。"
    ],
    [
        "In broad terms, Ukraine seeks security and stability, and it should be remembered that our record here is strong.",
        "广义地讲，乌克兰所追求的是安全和稳定，人们应该记得，我们在上述领域曾有过辉煌的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "The necessary investments include large-scale deployment of solar and wind power; broader adoption of electric transport, both public (buses and trains) and private (cars); energy-efficient buildings; and power grids to carry renewable energy across large distances (say, from the North Sea and North Africa to continental Europe, and from California’s Mojave Desert to US population centers).",
        "必要的投资包括大规模部署风能和太阳能、更大规模采取公共（公交车和火车）和私人（小轿车）电力交通、远距离传输可再生能源（如从北海和北非到欧洲大陆以及从加州莫哈韦沙漠（Mojave Desert到美国人口中心）的电网等。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the dollar will collapse and there will be a burst of inflation in the US as the Federal Reserve Board decides that temporarily abandoning its price-level peg is a lesser evil than the unemployment fallout that will result from a dollar collapse and interest rate spike.",
        "可能美元会崩溃，美国也会爆发通货膨胀。 因为美联储认为两害相权，暂时放弃美元与价格水平的联系机制比由于美元崩溃和利率提升所造成的失业率高居不下的结果要好。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, effective leadership requires contextual intelligence and an intuitive diagnostic ability that helps a leader understand change, set objectives, and align strategies and tactics accordingly.",
        "说到底，高效领导要求有肆应商（contextual intelligence）和本能判断力，这两种能力有助于领袖理解变化、设定目标并据此协调战略和战术。"
    ],
    [
        "And they should be given the tools and manpower to do the job.",
        "而且，应该给他们必要的装备和人员来完成使命。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China is already the world’s largest oil importer, and energy demand continues to increase rapidly.",
        "此外，中国已是世界最大石油进口国，并且能源需求还在快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In many respects, urbanization is rational.",
        "城市化在诸多方面自有其合理性。"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel argues that it is against the rules to use the European Central Bank to solve eurozone countries’ fiscal problems – and she is right.",
        "默克尔指出，动用欧洲央行来解决欧元区国家的财政问题是不符合规则的。 此话不假。"
    ],
    [
        "It is unlikely that either North Korea or the US actually wants war.",
        "朝鲜和美国都不可能真的想要打仗。 但是，已故的英国历史学家泰勒（A."
    ],
    [
        "The Ghani-O’Connell evidence includes data starting in the early 1990s, during which developing countries were experiencing economy-wide convergence, boosted by capital inflows and commodity windfalls.",
        "加尼-奥康奈尔的证据包括始于20世纪90年代初的数据，此间发展中国家正在经历全经济趋同，其背后的推动历史资本流入和商品繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "A Better Way from ‘R’ to ‘D’",
        "从‘研究’到‘开发’的更好方法"
    ],
    [
        "The current slates of candidates is wanting in this regard.",
        "对最近这批国际机构候选人来说这方面的能力尤为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the debt overhang remains massive.",
        "此外，债务积压状况依然十分严重。"
    ],
    [
        "How can relief operations and overall emergency management be improved?",
        "如何改善救援行动和整体的应急管理？"
    ],
    [
        "Third, there is the difference between those who adhere to the tradition of political Islam and those who uphold the strict secularism that came with the republic.",
        "第三，坚持政治伊斯兰传统者和支持与共和国一同诞生的严格世俗主义者之间存在分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "To convince the public, Feynman demonstrated that conclusion with a televised experiment.",
        "为了让公众明白整个过程，费曼通过电视直播实验对结论做了演示。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless the regulated financial system is systematically audited, with weak entities stabilized through capital injections, asset purchases, or mergers, or liquidated quickly, the overhang of distressed institutions will persist, constraining lending.",
        "除非受监管的金融体系被进行系统地审计，同时通过资本注入、资产购买、合并或者快速清算，稳定弱小的金融实体，否则，资金困难机构的威胁会继续存在，并会因此而造成对贷款的抑制。"
    ],
    [
        "This seems alarming.",
        "这值得警惕。"
    ],
    [
        "With average employment growth of 10.4% per year, the formal private sector partly compensated for the SOE layoffs from 1995 to 2004.",
        "随着每年10. 4％的平均就业增长，正规私营部门在1995年至2004年间一定程度上弥补了国有企业裁员。"
    ],
    [
        "And large pools of savings in sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and insurance companies have not yet been successfully deployed at scale on the public-sector side, presumably because of blockages in the intermediation channels related to risk and incentives.",
        "而且大概因为与风险激励相关的融通渠道堵塞等限制，主权财富基金、养老基金和保险公司的海量规模储备一直未能在公共领域成功实现大规模配置。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with Shia Arabs and Kurds making up 80% of the country, the insurgency is focused on only four of Iraq’s 18 provinces.",
        "而什叶派和库尔德人却占据了全国人口的80%，叛乱只是集中在伊拉克18个省份中的4个而已。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is easy to overestimate the crisis-preventing power of the new regulatory environment, which is analogous to a new highway: It is technically safer than a country road, but it also attracts more cars that are traveling at much higher speeds, so traffic accidents continue.",
        "同时人们往往会高估了新的监管环境下的危机预防能力，这类似于一条新的高速公：在技术上确实比一般道路安全，但也吸引了更多的汽车以更高的速度行驶，所以交通事故依旧无法避免。"
    ],
    [
        "When France first made its plans known in January, many dismissed the idea as little more than a diplomatic stunt.",
        "今年1月法国最初宣布计划时，很多人都把这一想法当作外交噱头加以驳斥。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, both explanations are correct – but neither is complete.",
        "事实上，两种解释都是正确的——但都有失偏颇。"
    ],
    [
        "In some ways, the great ideological struggles of the twentieth century now seem about as close and relevant as the scholastic debates of the Middle Ages – especially, but not only, for younger generations.",
        "从某种角度看，这场二十世纪伟大的思想斗争现在似乎像中世纪的学术辩论一样远离现实，这种观点在民众中普遍存在，但在青年一代中尤为明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Later that year, diethylene glycol was mislabeled as non-toxic glycerin, then mixed into cold medicine, killing at least 100 people in Panama, including many children.",
        "同年晚些时候，二甘醇被误标为无毒甘油加入感冒药，在巴拿马夺去了100多人的生命，其中还包括很多儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "Roosevelt believed that only a collective solution could meet the challenge.",
        "罗斯福认为唯有集体方案能够应对这一挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "They cannot continue to sit on the sidelines. Washington’s quixotic decision to call Israel’s unilateral move part of the road map has failed to convince many Palestinians.",
        "他们再也不能冷眼旁观了。 华盛顿将以色列单边行动纳入路线图计划的幻想对多数巴勒斯坦人来讲根本没有说服力。"
    ],
    [
        "For too long, Mexico’s economic policies have reflected the view that the real economy will take care of itself once the “fundamentals” (macroeconomic stability, openness, and basic regulations) are in place.",
        "在太长的时间里，墨西哥经济政策所体现的思想是，只要“基本面”（宏观经济稳定性、开放性和基本监管）无恙，实体经济就能自己照顾好自己。"
    ],
    [
        "The Duke University CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey found that nearly 60% of chief financial officers in the United States believe that a lack of public trust has harmed the business environment.",
        "杜克大学《首席财务官》杂志全球商业展望调查（Duke University CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey）发现，近60%的美国首席财务官认为公共信任缺失已经危害到商业环境。"
    ],
    [
        "So, in the financial arena, as elsewhere, there is light and shade in the Thatcher inheritance.",
        "因此，在金融竞技场和其他领域，撒切尔身后留下的既有明珠，也有泥沙。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider hunger.",
        "比如饥饿。"
    ],
    [
        "And they can expect tough measures by his administration if they have an enduringly large bilateral trade surplus with the US.",
        "如果与美国长期存在大规模贸易顺差，特朗普内阁将对其采取强硬举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Two weeks later, the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria pulled its funding for programs in Burma, citing government restrictions that had created “an impossibly difficult environment.”",
        "两周以后，“全球HIV/AIDS、肺结核和疟疾基金会”宣布从其缅甸项目中撤资，并指出政府的限制人为制造了“一种极度困难的环境”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Alliance’s CMF-A platform, created and manufactured in India, will pave the way for many more affordable vehicles throughout the developing world.",
        "在印度设计和制造的雷诺-日产的CMF-A平台将为在所有发展中国家推广廉价汽车扫清障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "What Lucas makes out to be a general truth – that the path to economic growth cannot lie in creating and acquiring the kind of knowledge that is “embodied” in books, blueprints, and machines – rests on a barely examined decision to restrict attention to only a few kinds of models.",
        "卢卡斯作为普遍真理所提出的东西——经济增长之路不可能通过创造和获取“包含在”书本、蓝图和机器中的知识找到——其基础是一个未受检验的决定，将注意力限制在少数几种模型上。"
    ],
    [
        "This enormous loss of wealth caused a large and persistent drop in consumption demand, which has led to an increase in unemployment.",
        "如此大幅度的财富缩水造成了消费需求剧烈且持久的疲软，从而导致了失业的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "As the American Museum of Natural History provocatively asked at the 2001 opening of its genetics exhibition: “The genomic revolution is here – are you ready?”",
        "美国自然历史博物馆在其举办的2001年遗传学展览会开幕式上提出了一个挑战性的问题：“基因组革命已经来了，你准备好了吗？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "But the bank known as the Institute for Works of Religion, founded in 1942, does not have deep roots in Catholicism.",
        "但梵蒂冈银行又称为宗教工作研究所（Institute for Works of Religion），它成立于1942年，并无多深的天主教根基。"
    ],
    [
        "Moving toward deeper integration or centralized control would be a dangerous path to take, for it would increase the risk of other members choosing to leave the EU.",
        "向更深层次的一体化和中央控制体制推进将是一个危险的路径，因为这会增加其他成员国选择脱离欧盟的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The broad range of issues to be discussed mirrors the essential place of the Alliance in addressing today’s security challenges.",
        "这些即将被讨论的议题范围之广反映了北约在面对当今安全挑战中的重要地位。"
    ],
    [
        "In the aftermath of the oil price shocks, energy security policy has had four components.",
        "石油价格冲击之后，能源安全政策包含了四个主要部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, Tocqueville would surely say of Americans today what he said of the French then.",
        "否则的话，托克维尔肯定会说，今天的美国正如当年的法国。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Middle East, only Iran and Hezbollah support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in a civil war that is nearing the point of no return and destabilizing Lebanon and Jordan.",
        "在中东，只有伊朗和黎巴嫩真主党支持叙利亚总统巴沙尔的政权，而叙利亚内战已处于不可挽回的边缘，黎巴嫩和约旦也极有可能因此受到动摇。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fund’s participation in the effort to rescue the eurozone may have raised its profile and gained it favor in Europe.",
        "IMF参与拯救欧元区也许提高了它在欧洲的形象和受欢迎程度。"
    ],
    [
        "There was a massive conversation going on, and BP was neither a part of it nor able to control it via traditional communication-management methods.",
        "Facebook上进行着庞大的对话，BP既没有参与也无法通过传统沟通管理方式来控制对话内容。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly true of the British referendum on whether to remain in the EU.",
        "这点在英国是否继续留在欧盟的全民公决上显得尤为突出。"
    ],
    [
        "What else needs to happen?",
        "还需要做些什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The scientific revolution was made possible by the printing press, the industrial revolution by the steam engine, and India’s escape from famine by increased farm yields – the so-called “Green Revolution.”",
        "印刷机的发明使科技革命成为可能，蒸气机的发明为工业革命创造了条件，而印度摆脱饥荒则主要依靠提高农业产出¾也就是所谓的“绿色革命”。"
    ],
    [
        "Mobile phone coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, has gone from nearly zero subscribers 20 years ago to around 700 million today.",
        "比方说，撒哈拉以南非洲地区移动电话的普及率已经从20年前几乎为零增长到今天的大约7亿。"
    ],
    [
        "Over centuries, policy can affect fertility decisions, and migration can transform a country, as the experience of the United States shows.",
        "几个世纪以来，政策经常会影响人们的生育决策，而移民也可以像美国那样改变一个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the Commission and ECOFIN (the committee of euro area finance ministers) are reviewing the proposals, as well as others put forward by member states.",
        "目前委员会和ECOFIN（欧元区财长委员会）正在对此项建议和成员国提出的其它议案进行审阅，并将于2005年上半年做出决定。"
    ],
    [
        "It should acknowledge the processes that keep certain individuals and groups in poverty and that deny them the basic rights of citizens.",
        "应该认识到，现在的程序让一些个体和群体陷入了贫困，剥夺了他们的基本公民权利。"
    ],
    [
        "According to former US President Jimmy Carter, the election was the most “transformational” of the many polls he has observed around the world.",
        "美国前总统卡特说，在他所观察的世界各地的许多选举中，这一选举最为具有“转型”性质。"
    ],
    [
        "The most notable example is the impact of Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) on outcomes for children with an uncommon subtype of leukemia – Philadelphia chromosome-positive ALL.",
        "最明显的例子是格列卫（甲磺酸伊马替尼）在罹患儿童白血病罕见亚型（费城染色体阳性急性淋巴细胞白血病）的儿童身上取得了令人振奋的疗效。"
    ],
    [
        "Honor killings of Iraqi women are justified by alleged promiscuity or adultery.",
        "对伊拉克妇女实行“荣誉杀生”的理由是被指控的男女乱伦或者私通。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama ultimately overturned his bureaucrats’ position, proposing a strong military intervention, without ground troops, for a very limited period.",
        "最终，奥巴马扭转了其手下官僚的立场，实施了为时极短的不派遣地面部队的强力军事干预。"
    ],
    [
        "War with Jews or Christians has necessarily taken a back seat (except where, as in Egypt and Syria, Christian minorities are perceived to be allied with the regime).",
        "（除普遍认为与政府结盟的埃及和叙利亚基督教少数派以外，）与犹太人或者基督徒的战争显然已经退居二线。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Silk Road Revival",
        "中国的丝绸之路复兴"
    ],
    [
        "Integration-minded officials at the European Commission clearly do not regard this as a satisfactory end-state.",
        "以一体化为目标的欧盟委员会官员显然不认为这是令人满意的最终状态。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, throughout history, the fate of refugees seeking asylum in another land has largely been unstudied.",
        "事实上，从历史上看，远赴另一地寻求庇护的难民的命运很少有人研究。"
    ],
    [
        "But unemployment has not climbed far above 10%, either.",
        "所幸当前的失业率依然只比10%高一点而已。"
    ],
    [
        "And what they are doing has left a deep stain on our honor and national reputation.",
        "他们的所作所为严重玷污了我们的荣耀和国家声誉。"
    ],
    [
        "A simple project like this can make an enormous difference to the life of a community.",
        "这样一个简单的工程可以极大地改变一个社区的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an argument, made by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, that a swift punishment might persuade Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to stop using chemical weapons and use “more banal ways to slaughter his people.”",
        "尼古拉斯·克里斯托夫在《纽约时报》上提出迅速实施惩戒可以说服叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德停止使用化学武器，转而用“更平庸的方式屠杀叙利亚民众”。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s fixed-asset investment comprises three main categories: manufacturing, infrastructure, and real estate.",
        "中国固定资产投资包括三个主要类别：制造业、基础设施和房地产。"
    ],
    [
        "Aid by outside agencies to help developing countries reduce premature deaths in women is surely not “ideological colonization.\"",
        "外部机构帮助发展中国家降低妇女早逝绝不是“意识形态殖民”。"
    ],
    [
        "Farmers who have an asset base of trees, livestock, or cash generated by selling crop surpluses are better able to withstand weather shocks.",
        "拥有树木、牲畜或通过出售余粮来兑换现金的农户能更好地抵御天气的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese fishing nets still dot the waters off Kochi.",
        "中国渔网至今仍在科钦（Kochi）水域中使用。"
    ],
    [
        "But with great power comes greater responsibility, and companies continue to find it difficult to grapple with this.",
        "但力量越大，责任也越大，而公司仍难以应付裕如。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fund is staffed by a large number of smart economists, who lack much connection to (and appreciation for) the institutional realities of the countries on which they work.",
        "货币基金组织的职员是由很大一批精明的经济学家们组成的，他们所缺乏的是未能过多地去了解并正确评价他们所研究的国家的制度的实际情况。"
    ],
    [
        "In part, this reflected the new regime’s cruelty.",
        "从某些角度，这反映了新政权的残酷性。"
    ],
    [
        "The harsh reality behind these figures is this: mothers, very often young, are dying for lack of what most of us take for granted in the twenty-first century – access to affordable health care.",
        "这个数字背后的残酷现实是：很多年轻母亲们正死于缺少多数人在二十一世纪已经习以为常的服务——那就是负担得起的医疗保健服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The second most common diagnosis was depression.",
        "第二常见的诊断是抑郁症。"
    ],
    [
        "In that sense, bin Laden hoped that the US would be lured into a bloody war in Afghanistan, similar to the Soviet intervention two decades earlier, which had created such a fertile recruiting ground for jihadists.",
        "在这种意义上，本·拉登期望美国会禁不住引诱，像20年前苏联一样，在阿富汗发动一场血腥的战争。 苏联那次入侵为圣战分子创造了甚为肥沃的人员招募土壤。"
    ],
    [
        "But policy-induced distortions also play an enormous role.",
        "但政策所导致的扭曲也扮演了一个重大角色。"
    ],
    [
        "European Union leaders now recognize this: kick-starting growth in 2012 was high on the agenda at the European Council’s meeting on January 30.",
        "欧盟领导人现在已经意识到了这一点，在2012年重振增长将是1月30日欧盟委员会会议的有限日程项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin and Xi will do everything to emphasize that.",
        "普京和习近平将竭尽全力强调这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, our monetary analysis suggested that the risk of protracted deflation was negligible.",
        "实际上，货币分析表明长期紧缩的危险几乎可以忽略。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the country is believed to have about 60 working astronomers, more than half of all the astronomers working in Africa.",
        "目前，据信约有60名天文学家居住在南非境内，占非洲所有天文学家的半数还多。"
    ],
    [
        "But the current technological revolution is not just reshaping what we produce and how we produce it; it is fundamentally reshaping who we are – our habits, interests, and worldviews.",
        "但当前的技术革命不但改变着我们生产什么、怎样生产； 它从根本上改变着我们是谁——我们的习惯、兴趣和世界观。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, emerging-market economies like Brazil, China, and India gained a larger role, primarily at the expense of European and Persian Gulf countries.",
        "具体而言，巴西、中国和印度等新兴市场经济体获得了更大的角色，而做出牺牲的主要是欧洲和波斯湾国家。"
    ],
    [
        "With Russia’s neighbors free to join the alliance, the natural result could only be a new dividing line, one pressing up against the Russian Federation’s western and southern borders.",
        "俄罗斯邻国可以自由加入北约，这一状况的唯一自然结果只能是带来一条压迫俄罗斯联邦西面和南面边境的新的分割线。"
    ],
    [
        "As John Maynard Keynes put it, “there is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.",
        "正如凯恩斯所言，“没有比破坏货币更为微妙和确切的手段来颠覆社会的现有基础的了。 这一过程把所有经济规律的隐藏力量都放在了破坏的一边，其破坏的方式无人可以分析。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, none of the Asian members disagreed when the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.",
        "事实上，当联合国大会在1948年通过《世界人权宣言》时没有哪个亚洲表示反对。"
    ],
    [
        "That changed decisively with America’s entry into World War I, when Woodrow Wilson broke with tradition and sent US troops to fight in Europe.",
        "美国参与第一次世界大战彻底改变了那种状况，当时的伍德罗·威尔逊打破传统，派遣美国军队赴欧洲作战。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon after, the Republican-controlled Senate voted for “a significant transition to full Iraq sovereignty in 2006.”",
        "不久，由共和党控制的参议院对“2006年向实现伊拉克全面主权过渡”的议题进行了投票。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this bodes well for the Herzog-Livni alliance.",
        "这一切全部利好赫尔佐格 - 利夫尼联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump led the multi-pronged attack on traditional news media, and newspapers in particular.",
        "特朗普对传统新闻媒体发动了多方位打击，报纸首当其冲。"
    ],
    [
        "If this means putting pressure on some actors within the EU’s own ranks, so be it.",
        "如果这意味着对某些欧盟成员国施加压力，那就应当如此。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to prove that membership in the EU – which opponents portray as meddlesome and disruptive – has made Britain materially worse off.",
        "难以证明欧盟成员资格——其反对者称之为碍事和破坏性——让英国实质境况变得更糟了。"
    ],
    [
        "This may not yet mean Asia for only the Asians; but it could mean a reduced regional role for the US – especially as America turns inward during the presidential election season that starts this year.",
        "这并不意味着亚洲只是亚洲人的亚洲； 但这可能意味着美国地区作用的减弱——特别是美国将随着2015年总统选举季的开始而转向国内时。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a small step toward compensating the millions of unfortunates who had suffered daily the injustices and humiliations of “untouchability.”",
        "这是一个小进步，略微补偿了在日程生活中蒙受不公和“低贱”羞辱的数百万不幸的印度人。"
    ],
    [
        "Western diplomats had their countries’ economic interests to consider, but, unlike the Soviet side, they took seriously the idea of “dissidents or trade.”",
        "西方外交官要考虑本国的经济利益，但他们和严格划分“持不同政见者或贸易”的苏联一方毕竟有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "I am confident that the American people would respond with a resounding “no” to the ongoing US-led war of regime change in Syria.",
        "我有信心美国人民对于正在进行中的、美国领导的推翻叙利亚政权的战争会响亮地说“不”。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true of religious conflicts throughout the Middle East.",
        "中东其他地区的宗教冲突也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe it works, maybe not.",
        "也许奏效，也许不奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is obviously bad policy advice.",
        "但这显然是糟糕的政策建议。"
    ],
    [
        "We should think of North Korea’s economic transition process as a prerequisite for full denuclearization, rather than simply holding out the promise of a big assistance package as a quid pro quo .",
        "我们应当将朝鲜的经济转型进程视为完全无核化的前提条件，而不是仅仅以关于大型一揽子援助的承诺，作为朝鲜弃核的交换条件。"
    ],
    [
        "With her diamonds and her statues, and a reputation for dealing imperiously with her subordinates, she’s clearly no Obama.",
        "以她的钻石和她建造的塑像，以及她威严地对待下属的名声，她显然不是奥巴马的料。"
    ],
    [
        "But India’s overall growth prospects conceal a patchwork of economic opportunities that exist within states, districts, cities, and even towns – opportunities that companies can uncover only with careful research.",
        "但印度总体增长前景掩盖了存在于邦、区、市甚至镇的经济机会图景——公司只有通过仔细研究才能发现这些机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that unless there is a viable opposition, the only check on the AKP will be its own conscience and a crackdown by the still secular-oriented armed forces.",
        "问题是，除非有一个能够存活的反对派，否则，对正义和发展党唯一的制约就是其自身的良知和目前依然是世俗主义导向的军队镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an approach would reduce the risk and impact of liquidity crises, while decoupling the international monetary system from the “economic conditions and sovereign interests of any single country.”",
        "这一方针将降低流动性危机风险和影响，同时让国际货币体系不再与“单一国家的经济状况和主权利益”挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "And that cleanup will expose more of the rot in banks’ current operations.",
        "而收拾残局将会把更多欧洲银行的经营问题暴露出来。"
    ],
    [
        "But the trend towards increasing sophistication and breadth of our financial markets suggests that we can expect to see much further growth in cat bonds.",
        "但以目前的趋势，我们金融市场正在加强其深度与广度，因此我们可以期待巨灾债券的进一步发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Because a regulatory institution can only be as effective as the people who work for it, another area of focus for developing countries should be training skilled staff.",
        "监管机构的有效性取决于其工作人员，因此发展中国家的另一个关注点应该是训练高技能人手。"
    ],
    [
        "In late 2008 and 2009, at the height of the global financial crisis, stimulus-fueled infrastructure investment sustained output growth.",
        "2008年底和2009年全球金融危机顶峰时，经济刺激带来的基础设施投资提升维持了产出增长。"
    ],
    [
        "At present, a web of legislation – including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Food and Agriculture Organization guidelines, and the Fish Stocks Agreement, as well as the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals – governs activities that may affect biodiversity on the high seas.",
        "目前，我们靠一张完整的立法网络——包括联合国海洋法公约、粮农组织指导方针、鱼类种群协定和野生动物迁徙物种公约来负责管理影响公海生物多样性的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Little was done.",
        "但是最终付诸行动的却很少。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine that per capita national income (or some broader measure of welfare) is set to rise by 1% per year over the next couple of centuries.",
        "想象一下，人均国民收入（或某个更广泛的福利衡量标准）在接下来的几百年时间里每年固定增长1%。"
    ],
    [
        "This challenge faces almost all African countries as they seek to construct stable and peaceful societies.",
        "这也是所有希望建立稳定和平社会的非洲国家所共同遇到的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "During the US-Belgium match, emails flew fast and thick across the family network, with lots of friendly rivalry.",
        "在美国对阵比利时期间，我们的家庭网络上电邮满天飞，充满了友好的对立。"
    ],
    [
        "So has trading in the futures market: oil for delivery in 2020 has fallen to $56, from $75 a year ago.",
        "期货市场交易亦然：2020年交割的石油价格已跌至56美元，而一年前为75美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Strategic studies of the cyber domain resemble nuclear strategy in the 1950s: analysts are still not clear about the meaning of offense, defense, deterrence, escalation, norms, and arms control.",
        "网络领域的战略研究与20世纪50年代的核战略极为相似：分析师并不十分清楚进攻、防守、威慑、升级、规则和军控的涵义。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the IMF explicitly recommended slower fiscal consolidation for Spain in its 2012 World Economic Outlook.",
        "事实上，国际货币基金组织在2012年的《世界经济展望》报告中明确建议西班牙进行缓慢的财政整顿。"
    ],
    [
        "They will work to achieve a world in which such weapons are no more – where the rule of law, not the rule of force, reigns supreme, and cooperation is seen as the best guarantor of international peace.",
        "他们会齐心协力创造一个没有核武器的世界，在上述世界中法治而非暴力才是至高无上的准则，合作才是实现国际和平最好的担保。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy is \"dead in the water.\"",
        "经济状况如一潭死水。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Russia all have strategic interests and factional connections to Syria.",
        "土耳其、沙特以及俄罗斯都在叙利亚有战略利益和派别关系。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – When Amazon was founded in 1994, and eBay the following year, they harnessed the connectivity of the Internet to create new, more efficient markets.",
        "发自米兰——当亚马逊和eBay分别于1994、1995年成立时，它们借助互联网的联通性创造出了一个崭新的、更有效率的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The leading economies – especially the US, European Union, and Japan – should establish new programs to finance infrastructure investments in low-income countries.",
        "主要的经济体，尤其是美国，欧盟和日本，应该建立新的计划，为低收入国家的基础设施投资注入资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the comparatively new Shanghai Cooperation Organization a flimsy grouping of China, Russia, and the Central Asian countries, or is it shaping up to be a new global defense and security player whose existence will have serious implications for the West?",
        "一个相对更新的上海合作组织究竟只是中国，俄罗斯和中亚国家之间软弱无力的联盟，还是一个新的全球防御和安全参与者，而且这个参与者的存在将对西方有严重的影响？"
    ],
    [
        "In the general election in March 2004 – the first since Mahathir stepped down after 22 years in power – moderate Muslims helped Abdullah Badawi to a landslide victory.",
        "2004年3月举行的大选之中¾也是执政22年的马哈蒂尔辞职后的首次选举¾温和派的穆斯林帮助阿卜杜拉. 巴达维赢得了压倒性的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Article II-52 states that the Fundamental Rights in the Constitution (including its 12 \"social rights\") apply only to the actions of the Union, and of member states when they are implementing Union decisions .",
        "该章程第二条第52款规定《欧盟宪法》的根本权力（包括其12项\"社会权利\"）适用于欧盟的 及其成员国在执行欧盟决定时的行动 。"
    ],
    [
        "They may reflect deeper weaknesses in economic structures, such as a lack of competitiveness or institutional shortcomings.",
        "它们反映了经济结构更深层次的弱点，如缺乏竞争力或制度缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Central bankers should take care not to suggest that there is nothing to discuss, that nanny knows best and the children should not ask awkward questions, like “Why?”",
        "央行应该保持谨慎，不要断言没有什么可讨论的，或者认为老奶奶什么都知道，而小孩子不应该问诸如“为什么？ ”这样的令人难堪的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that the BDS movement is nothing more than a sinister caricature of the anti-totalitarian and anti-apartheid struggles.",
        "其实，全球抵制、撤资和制裁运动无非是反极权主义和反种族隔离斗争的一幅阴险讽刺画而已。"
    ],
    [
        "And he has a very good case.",
        "他有一个极佳的案例。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this can be achieved only gradually, as Europe moves to a fully-fledged federal union.",
        "所有这些都不可能一蹴而就，而只能在欧洲逐步成为不折不扣的联邦的过程中逐步实现。"
    ],
    [
        "As a stable and strong world currency, the euro is also limiting exchange-rate instability globally.",
        "作为一个稳定和强大的世界性货币，欧元也在全球范围内限制了汇率的不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of legitimate and yet petty-minded thinking has serious international consequences.",
        "此类狭隘但合情合理的想法会造成严重的国际后果。"
    ],
    [
        "NGOs do the lion’s share of the world’s humanitarian work, and some mistakes are inevitable.",
        "NGO们承担了世界上相当一部分人道主义工作，或有失误也在所难免。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, reservations of public-sector jobs and college seats alone have failed to end the discrimination.",
        "显然，光靠保留公职工作岗位和大学学位无法终结歧视。"
    ],
    [
        "Arrow’s thesis contained his famous “impossibility theorem,” an analytical result of breathtaking elegance and reach.",
        "阿罗的论文包括了著名的“不可能定理”，这一分析结果优美无比，也深邃无比。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries stand to gain the most from improving trade facilitation.",
        "从贸易便利的改善中获益最大的是发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Either Trump’s madman act is working, or Kim is more right than he – or the rest of us – would like.",
        "要么是特朗普的狂人表演太过成功，要么是金正恩的观点比他和我们其他人愿意承认的有更多正确的成分。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama will likely raise issues such as the bilateral trade imbalance, the Chinese government’s manipulation of the renminbi’s exchange rate, prevention of nuclear proliferation, recent tension on the Korean peninsula, international cooperation on climate change, and China’s poor human rights record.",
        "奥巴马总统所提出的问题可能依然是双边贸易失衡、中国政府操纵人民币汇率、防止核扩散、朝鲜半岛紧张局势、气候变化国际合作以及中国人权状况有待改善等。"
    ],
    [
        "Its military lacks the capacity to intervene in Saudi Arabia’s defense while maintaining not only domestic security, but also readiness for war against India (an obsession of Pakistani generals).",
        "其军队没有能力在干预沙特阿拉伯防务的同时既维持国内安全，又时刻准备着对付印度（巴基斯坦将军们执着不放的敌人）。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as eurozone debts continue to rise and member economies diverge rather than converge, prospective members should also be stress-tested to see if they can withstand external shocks and sustain the membership criteria over the long term.",
        "只要欧元区债务继续上升，成员经济体继续两极分化而不是趋同，潜在成员国就应该先做一下压力测试看看是否能在长期经受住外部冲击、保持成员资格标准。"
    ],
    [
        "A great deal of attention has been paid to the stratagems of John Bolton, the fiercely anti-UN diplomat whom President Bush recently appointed US ambassador to the UN, and rightly so.",
        "布什总统不久前任命的美国驻联合国大使，激进的反联合国外交家约翰·博尔顿所提出的战略引起了人们的广泛关注，这种关注也确实恰如其分。"
    ],
    [
        "A tony à la carte sanctuary with great wines that generate most of the profit?",
        "以高档红酒为卖点的时尚豪华的点餐服务？"
    ],
    [
        "Globally, activists lobbied governments and pharmaceutical companies to make medicines more affordable.",
        "全球而言，活跃分子游说政府和制药公司降低药品价格。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as the economy contracts, a spending cap in fact does not impart much discipline; it does not force the government to shrink in step with the economy.",
        "只要经济处于收缩状态，支出上限实际上并不会带来多少纪律； 它不能迫使政府和经济同步收缩。"
    ],
    [
        "But there remains considerable uncertainty about their growth trajectory, with significant implications for asset prices, risk, and economic policy.",
        "但它们的增长轨迹仍存在相当大的不确定性，可能给资产价格、风险和经济政策造成重大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "It could not have attained its position as the world’s second-largest economy otherwise.",
        "否则中国也无法成为世界第二大经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "With risks to the current global expansion increasing, this is the wrong time to let an obvious and sustained source of growth slip away.",
        "随着全球经济扩张的风险越来越高，在此时让一个明显而又可持续的增长源白白溜走是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of young people, though disillusioned by decades of social paralysis, unemployment, and brutal dictatorships, had dared to expect better.",
        "数以百万计的年轻人，虽然对数十年社会瘫痪、失业和残酷独裁政权倍感失望，但却敢于怀揣更美好的梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "Many economists also believe that ownership of stolen goods must be recognized.",
        "很多经济学家也相信：必须认可盗窃物品的所有权。"
    ],
    [
        "As things stand today, the risks seem only to be escalating.",
        "今天的局面是，风险似乎正在升级当中。"
    ],
    [
        "The success of their defiance shows the power of the idea that bewilders outgoing President Leonid Kuchma and his acolytes: that democracy means taking responsibility for one’s fate into one’s own hands.",
        "他们认为，民主就是为掌握自己的命运而负起责任，而抗议活动的胜利证明了这一观点力量之强大，令即将下台的总统列昴尼德·库奇马和他的党羽为此大伤脑筋。"
    ],
    [
        "When German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck invented the world’s first statutory pension scheme in 1889, he set the eligibility age at 70; few people were expected to live long enough to collect benefits, and certainly not for many years.",
        "当德国总理奥托·冯·俾斯麦（Otto von Bismarck）在1889年发明了世界上第一个法定养老金计划时，他将合资格年龄定为70岁； 当时很少有人能够活到这个岁数，就算活到了也领不了几年。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to square these fears with the view that the Doha trade round could lift tens, if not hundreds, of millions out of poverty.",
        "很难将这些担忧和多哈贸易回合至少可以使几千万人——如果达不到几亿人的话——脱离贫困这样的观点统一起来。"
    ],
    [
        "It turns out that not all targets are equal.",
        "事实证明并非所有目标都是平等的。"
    ],
    [
        "With two academics having already revealed that several sensational legal cases against the old secular establishment rested on fabricated evidence, AKP officials began to blame Gülen for all judicial improprieties.",
        "随着两位学者发现针对旧有世俗体制的几起耸人听闻的法律案件证据纯属伪造，正义与发展党官员开始将所有司法领域的不当行为都推到居伦头上。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be counterproductive to focus on treating the symptoms, only to realize later that the unprecedented budgets for structural policies are neither economically efficient nor politically acceptable.",
        "将精力放在诊断问题上将得到事倍功半的效果，这样只能让我们今后意识到一个道理，即为进行体系方针改革而投入的空前预算既不能在经济上收益，在政治上也无法执行。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the current premier, Wen Jiabao, who was third in the chain of command for the past ten years, Li has been elevated to number two, which suggests a greater potential for power-sharing between the CCP and the government at the top of China’s new team.",
        "与现任总理温家宝不同——十年来他一直是权力序列的第三号人物——李克强被提升到二号人物的地位，这表明在中国新的最高领导层中，党和政府之间会有更大的权力分配。"
    ],
    [
        "For a US economy that is widely presumed to be nearing the hallowed ground of full employment, this comes as a rude awakening – particularly for the Federal Reserve, which has pulled out all the stops to get inflation back to its 2% target.",
        "7个百分点的水平。 对于各界广泛认为已经近乎实现充分就业神迹的美国经济来说，这简直是当头一盆冷水——而最尴尬的莫过于已尽一切努力要使通胀水平回归2％目标值的美联储了。"
    ],
    [
        "The HIV and the problems it is causing are greater than the [receding] ice.”",
        "我身上的艾滋病毒及其引起的并发症可比冰川萎缩问题严重多了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Venezuela is in a severe crisis of its own making.",
        "委内瑞拉如此严重的危机完全是自己造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Western diplomacy in recent years has focused on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad as the key to resolving the crisis.",
        "近几年西方外交的焦点是将伊朗总统内贾德作为解决危机的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "When one of Joseph Stalin's chief planners was asked why he was willing to defend a series of ludicrous proposals, he famously replied, “I'd rather stand for unrealistic plans than sit [in jail] for realistic ones.\"",
        "斯大林的一位主要计划官员层被问及为何要为一系列荒唐的方案辩护，他的回答堪称经典：“我宁可站着制定（stand for）不现实的计划，也不要坐着（牢，sit in jail）制定现实的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries have begun to look at financial protectionism as a way to increase their political leverage.",
        "很多国家已开始运用金融保护主义的方法扩大政治领域的杠杆作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In a country where, according to an Elcano/Demos study, only 10% of the population would want to leave the EU – compared with 22% in France and 45% in the UK – this is unlikely to change.",
        "根据一项Elcano/Demos研究，只有10%的西班牙人希望退出欧盟——而法国为22%，英国为45%——因此，这一点不太可能改变。"
    ],
    [
        "The government has decided to install bus stops every 500 meters in city centers, reduce tariffs to 5% or less for a list of 54 environmental goods, and decommission many outdated and inefficient coal plants.",
        "政府在市中心每隔500米设立一个公交站点，将54种环境产品的关税下降到5%或以下。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a clash that is best described not as being between Islam and the West, but between the secularized world and a growing religious one.",
        "还有一种冲突通常不是描述为伊斯兰与西方之间的冲突，而是世俗社会和日益宗教化社会之间的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "The Next Liberation of France",
        "法国的下一轮解放"
    ],
    [
        "Some societies, most notably in Scandinavia, maintain the expectation that their public officials and business leaders should and will act ethically and honestly.",
        "有些社会，尤其是在斯堪的纳维亚半岛，依然期望他们的政府官员和商界领袖实际践行道德及诚实的准则。"
    ],
    [
        "But so vast is the scale of the problem, and so deeply embedded the culture of impunity, that bolder initiatives may be needed.",
        "但问题的规模如此之大、不受惩罚的文化如此根深蒂固，人们可能需要采取更大胆的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The summit’s appeal for global unity to combat malnutrition must target heads of state, finance and health ministers, as well as business and civil-society leaders.",
        "峰会呼吁全球团结起来与营养不良作斗争，其目标必须定在国家首脑、财政和卫生部长以及商界和公民社会领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "Science alone will not save Europe.",
        "光靠科学本身并不能拯救欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, Article 136 of the existing Treaty on the Functioning of the EU would allow for some preliminary steps, such as the designation of votes at the European Council that are reserved for eurozone countries only.",
        "与此同时，现有欧盟运行条约第136条允许采取一些预备步骤，如安排只负责欧元区国家的欧洲理事会（European Council）选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Tony Blair, once an ardent pro-European (at least by Britain’s undemanding standards), might finally have to cede power to Gordon Brown, who is famously cold to European integration.",
        "至少根据英国松软的标准，英国首相布莱尔曾经是热烈的亲欧洲派。 他可能最终让位给布朗，而布朗对欧洲联合冷漠众所周知。"
    ],
    [
        "He didn’t suffer fools gladly.",
        "他绝不甘心遭受蒙骗。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, back then the US could afford to enact major tax cuts.",
        "1%。 换句话说，当时的美国负担得起大规模减税。"
    ],
    [
        "But policymakers continued to benchmark recovery prospects to pre-crisis growth performance.",
        "但决策者仍将危机前增长表现作为复苏前景基准。"
    ],
    [
        "And when the labor department proposed its overtime rule in May, respondents told pollsters that the overtime threshold should be set even higher.",
        "而5月劳工部提出其加班规则提案时，民调受访者表示加班门槛应该设置得更高一些。"
    ],
    [
        "To end child deaths from these diseases once and for all, governments must commit to scaling up simultaneously the full suite of interventions identified by the World Health Organization and UNICEF two years ago, in their integrated Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhea.",
        "要让儿童不再因这些疾病而死去，政府必须致力于同时扩大世界卫生组织和联合国儿童基金会两年前在其综合性的全球肺炎和腹泻行动计划（Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhea）中提出的全套干预手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentines today feel much like Dorothy did when she first landed in Oz – they are not in the safe and familiar “Kansas” anymore.",
        "今天的阿根廷人感觉很像刚刚踏上奥兹土地的多萝西——他们已经远离了安全熟悉的“堪萨斯”故土。"
    ],
    [
        "Wars, ethnic cleansing, embargoes, and sanctions created not only psychological traumas, but also black markets, smuggling, large-scale corruption, and de facto rule by mafias.",
        "战争、种族清洗、贸易禁运和制裁不仅造成了心理创伤，还导致了黑市、走私、腐败盛行和黑手党的实际统治。"
    ],
    [
        "Sound transactions would be taxed along with destabilizing, overnight financing of fragile financial institutions.",
        "良性的交易将与具有破坏性的金融机构隔夜融资交易一道被征税。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, in seeking to co-opt the Taliban, the US is not only bestowing legitimacy on a thuggish militia; it also risks unwittingly reigniting Afghanistan’s ethnic strife, which would most likely tear the country apart for good.",
        "因此美国收编塔利班不仅会使凶残的民兵组织合法化，还冒着危险重燃可能永久撕裂国家的种族冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Muslim Brotherhood denied a ballot, or refused to accept defeat, tougher measures could then have been contemplated.",
        "如果穆斯林兄弟会否认投票结果，或拒绝接受被击败的事实，此时再采取更严厉的措施不迟。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The United States Federal Reserve’s recent decision to launch a third round of “quantitative easing” has revived accusations by Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, that the US has unleashed a “currency war.”",
        "纽约—最近，美联储决定实施第三轮“量化宽松”，这让巴西财政部长曼蒂加关于美国在发动“货币战争”的控诉又获得了市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Buried beneath the headlines about Karadžić’s acquittal are those other charges: he will be tried for the same acts, but classified as crimes against humanity and war crimes.",
        "在宣判卡拉季奇无罪的头条下面隐藏着其他所有指控：他将因为同样的行为而接受审判，只是罪名被归结为危害人类罪和战争罪。"
    ],
    [
        "In general, however, opacity is a defining feature of most SWFs, exacerbating the risks that they pose.",
        "但是，总的来说，不透明是大多数主权财富基金的一大特征，这加剧了它们所带来的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The market plunge should provide added impetus.",
        "市场暴跌应该成为抓紧改革的动力。"
    ],
    [
        "This incremental approach has worked well in the past; indeed, today’s European Union resulted from it.",
        "这一增量办法在过去效果甚丰； 事实上，今天的欧盟就是这样产生的。"
    ],
    [
        "The pattern is not uncharacteristic of other industrialized countries relative to emerging markets over the last two decades (Figure 1).",
        "5%。 这个模式在过去20年间其他发达工业国与新兴市场的比较中是不具备典型性的（表一）。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not appropriate, either.",
        "但对于后者的关注实在太少。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamic State’s ruthlessly rigid creed relieves its followers of the disorienting burden of autonomous thought or choice.",
        "伊斯兰国冷酷严格的教义让其追随者不再需要承担自主思考和选择的迷失负担。"
    ],
    [
        "A seasoned and autocratically inclined politician, Papen thought that, once Hitler was in power, he could control the Nazi leader, whom Papen regarded as a provincial blowhard.",
        "作为一名理性的、有技术官僚倾向的政客，巴本认为，他能够在希特勒掌权后控制住这位自吹自擂的外省人纳粹领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "The further Xi carries OBOR, the more likely it is to bite him.",
        "习近平在一带一路上走得越远，就越有可能遭到一带一路的反噬。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth in shale energy will mean more investment, production, and jobs in the energy sector itself.",
        "页岩能源的增长意味着能源部门本身的更多的投资、产量和就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Diplomacy is not having its finest hour nowadays.",
        "马德里——如今，外交并没有经历辉煌时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "When I asked a prominent Republican senator why Congress had balked at keeping an American commitment, he attributed it to “sheer orneriness,” reflecting the mood of right-wing Tea Party Republicans and some left-wing Democrats.",
        "我问一位显赫的共和党参议员，为何国会不让美国作出承诺，他表示这 “纯属故意刁难”，反映的是右倾的茶党共和党和一些左倾民主党的思维。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinians are calling for a two-state solution, with East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state and West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.",
        "巴勒斯坦人要求两国方案，其中东耶路撒冷作为巴勒斯坦国的首都，而西耶路撒冷作为以色列的首都。"
    ],
    [
        "This balance-sheet configuration has helped China to respond to shocks and sustain high levels of public-sector investment.",
        "这种资产负债结构已经帮助中国顺利应对金融冲击并维持巨额公共投资。"
    ],
    [
        "This could be a grave mistake.",
        "这可能是个严重的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Younger members of the far right, especially in Europe, are often sharply dressed in tailor-made suits, recalling the fascist dandies of pre-war France and Italy.",
        "年轻的极右翼分子，特别是在欧洲，往往身着定制西装，令人不禁回想起法国和意大利的法西斯花花公子。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary: The canny leaders of ISIS also rely on an apocalyptic “us or them” view of the world.",
        "情况正好相反：伊斯兰国的精明领导人也依靠启示录式的“我们或他们”世界观。"
    ],
    [
        "Businesses investing in lower-income countries also need their workers to be healthy.",
        "投资于低收入国家的企业也需要员工保持良好的健康状况。"
    ],
    [
        "In agriculture, G20 countries have promised to restrict the use of antibiotics outside of veterinary medicine.",
        "在农业方面，G20国家已经承诺限制除兽医用药之外的抗生素使用。"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s financial needs are well beyond what the Deauville agreement can deliver.",
        "且多维尔协议远不能满足阿拉伯地区的金融需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they “educate” people about animals should not be taken seriously.",
        "我们无须太在意那些以“教导”人们认识动物为由来为游乐园和马戏团辩护的意图。"
    ],
    [
        "Essentially, the world witnessed a large positive productivity shock emanating from the emerging markets, which accelerated world growth while reinforcing disinflationary pressures that had already been set in motion by the so-called Great Moderation in business-cycle volatility.",
        "本质上，世界经历了来自新兴市场的大规模正向生产率冲击，这一冲击在加速全球增长的同时加强了通缩压力。 而通缩压力本已因为所谓的商业周期波动性“大稳健”（Great Moderation）而产生。"
    ],
    [
        "During major international incidents or crises, America has seldom voted against an incumbent president.",
        "在主要的国际事件和危机当中，美国人们很少向现任总统投反对票。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet few seem to recognize the role such schemes play in the public sector.",
        "但似乎极少有人认识到这类骗局在公共部门中的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the lack of consumer protection and regulatory and supervisory frameworks exposes informal activities to vulnerabilities that can harm borrowers and jeopardize financial stability.",
        "此外，缺少消费者保护和监督管理框架让非正式金融行为很容易出现状况，伤害借款人、危及金融稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "But over the last three decades, financial rentiers have taken their revenge.",
        "但在过去三十年间，金融食利者卷土重来。"
    ],
    [
        "We accept the Middle East “road map.”",
        "我们接受中东“路线图”。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there have been some important, albeit less noticeable, successes over the last ten years.",
        "平心而论，在过去十年中，我们取得了一些重要（尽管不太惹人注意）的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "This strategy is possible because the territory controlled by the Islamic State provides a sanctuary and training ground.",
        "伊斯兰国控制区提供了庇护所和训练场让这一战略成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "For the age group over 50, the structure of pension systems is clearly a major factor.",
        "很明显，对50岁以上的人群来说，养老金体系结构是非常重要的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "We are also soon likely to have a unified, harmonized, and enforced-from-above system for euro payments, be they intrastate or interstate.",
        "此外，我们估计很快会碰到另一个统一，一致并且由上至下推动执行的国内或国家间欧元支付系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s monetary authorities will have trouble stopping this decline, and much of the attendant problems, just as they would have had trouble stopping the ascent that preceded it.",
        "世界各国的货币主管部门将很难制止这种下跌以及解决参与房地产泡沫的人士的所面临的困难，正如它们很难在房价上涨前制止它一样。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa under President Nelson Mandela illustrated the upside of channeling popular sentiment away from retribution toward national renewal.",
        "总统纳尔逊·曼德拉(Nelson Mandela)领导下的南非显示了引导大众情绪远离复仇走向国家复兴的积极一面。"
    ],
    [
        "But sub-prime mortgages would probably not have been supplied on the same scale if central banks had not created an environment of ample liquidity and persistently low interest rates.",
        "但是，如果各国中央银行没有创造充足的流动资金以及长期低利率的环境，大概不会以如此的规模提供次级房屋贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "If President George W. Bush’s current troop “surge” fails to produce an outcome that can be called “victory,” what lessons will the United States draw for its future foreign policy?",
        "如果布什总统的部队“急流”不能交出一份可以称作“胜利”的答卷，那么美国可以从中为其未来的对外政策吸取什么样的教训呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Lula has called this a “magic moment” for the Brazilian economy.",
        "卢拉称之为巴西经济的“魔幻”时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Al Qaeda and the Taliban have limited their demands to the creation of statelets (emirates), which they hope will eventually coalesce into a caliphate.",
        "即使是基地组织和塔利班，在建立酋长国方面的要求也不多见，而他们的目标正是最终通过联合诸酋长国建立一个哈里发帝国。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, why should the central banks of China, Japan, South Korea, and other Asian countries accumulate vast holdings of US Treasury bills if the dollar is likely to lose value in the years ahead?",
        "毕竟，如果今后美元价值会下跌，中国、日本、韩国和其他亚洲国家的央行干吗还要收集大量的美国国库券呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Mind you, two years previously, at the outset of the financial crisis, I suggested raising inflation to 4% or more for a period of a few years to deflate the debt overhang and accelerate wage adjustment.",
        "请注意，两年前金融危机爆发时，我建议在几年的时间里将通胀提高到4%以实现债务积压的再通胀并加速工资调整。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, we deployed F-22s and MV-22 Ospreys to Japan and reached an important agreement to relocate our forces on Okinawa.",
        "今年我们向日本部署了F-22和MV-22直升机，并达成重新部署冲绳军队的重要协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, there are encouraging signs that the commitment will be honored.",
        "幸运的是，令人鼓舞的信号表明这一承诺会得到兑现。"
    ],
    [
        "This would increase already-high unemployment, expose excessive financial risk-taking, embolden Russia, and strengthen populist movements further, thereby impeding comprehensive policy responses.",
        "这将导致已然高企的失业进一步增加、暴露过度金融冒险、给俄罗斯壮胆，并进一步加强民粹主义运动，从而妨碍全面的政策应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Read more from \"Europe's Ever-Closer Disunion\"",
        "从这个角度讲，5月25日的两场选举对乌克兰和欧盟的教训是一样的：应该管好自己的三分三。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial inclusion is vital for inclusive economic growth and gender equality, and it has assumed a prominent role in global development efforts, with the World Bank aiming for universal financial inclusion by 2020.",
        "金融包容性对实现包容性经济增长和性别平等至关重要，而且随着世界银行旨在到2020年实现全面金融覆盖，其在全球发展工作中已经发挥了显著的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Microfinance can close this gap by providing the small loans that SMEs need to get off the ground and thrive.",
        "小额信贷可以提供中小企业启动和成长所需的小额贷款，从而弥补上述资金短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "The derivatives market is exempt from rules that stop creditors from grabbing collateral and terminating their contracts when the debtor files for bankruptcy.",
        "衍生品市场不适用禁止债权人在债务人申请破产时抢夺抵押品并中止合约的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require a more acute collective awareness of the violence and chaos threatening territories and people worldwide, including in Somalia, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and, most recently, Mali.",
        "这需要更敏锐的关于威胁领土和全世界人民的暴力和混乱（包括索马里、海地、利比里亚、塞拉利昂以及最近的马里）的集体意识。"
    ],
    [
        "That agenda, missing in her first term, has dominated her current period in office.",
        "这个议程虽然没有在她的第一个任期中出现，却占到了当前第二个任期的极大部分。"
    ],
    [
        "And Tunisia is still without a prime minister to head a caretaker government, further delaying the “national dialogue” that the Tunisian General Labor Union has agreed to mediate.",
        "突尼斯仍没有选出首相领导看守政府，突尼斯总工会（Tunisian General Labor Union）所许诺居中调停的“国民对话”又将被推迟。"
    ],
    [
        "Global reintegration has turned China into an economic powerhouse.",
        "重返国际社会已经让中国转而成为经济强国。"
    ],
    [
        "At their meeting in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, the EU's economic ministers (Ecofin) once again confronted the need to reform the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP).",
        "欧盟各国财长在荷兰斯赫维宁根出席会议期间又一次面临对《稳定和发展合约》作出改革的必要。"
    ],
    [
        "In December, Ismail Haniyeh, Prime Minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority in Gaza, embarked on a tour of the Mediterranean that included stops in Tunis, Cairo, and Istanbul.",
        "在去年十二月，哈马斯领导的加沙巴勒斯坦政权总理伊斯玛尔·哈尼耶（Ismail Haniyeh）对地中海地区展开了访问，途径突尼斯，开罗和伊斯坦堡。"
    ],
    [
        "Their condition for negotiating with Iran is a prior halt of its nuclear enrichment activities.",
        "它们与伊朗谈判的先决条件是其事先暂停核子浓缩项目。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe’s stability and commitment to economic growth across the continent require that these interests be satisfied without economic pressure or unilateral intervention.",
        "但是欧洲的稳定和使整个大洲经济增长的责任要求在实现这种利益时不能施加经济压力或者进行单边干涉。"
    ],
    [
        "Glass-Steagall also strengthened regulators’ ability to clamp down on lending for real-estate and stock-market speculation.",
        "法案也加强了监管者管控放贷的能力，抑制银行贷款进入房地产和股市投机。"
    ],
    [
        "One person’s spending is another person’s income.",
        "一个人的支出就是另一个人的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, however, no consensus about how to do this.",
        "不过，关于如何操作的问题，目前还没有达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "“In the late 1990’s, [Germany] was the undisputed ‘sick man’ of Europe,” Schäuble wrote recently.",
        "“20世纪90年代末，[德国]是毫无争议的欧洲‘病夫’，”朔伊布勒最近写道。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the subsequent spurt of globalization has proceeded with no one steering the wheel - and thus with no means to implement new thinking for a better world.",
        "其结果是，已经没有人能够控制接下来飞速发展的全球化进程－能使世界变得更加美好的新的思想也就无法付诸实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a review could lead it to repeal Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.",
        "这一审查可能导致废除印度刑法典第377条。"
    ],
    [
        "But in his refusal to give in to panic and act rashly, he has been far braver than all the big talkers who accuse him of being a wimp.",
        "但他拒绝屈服于恐慌、轻率行事，在这一点上，他比指责他是懦夫的“嘴炮”更加勇敢。"
    ],
    [
        "It is critical that we continue to engage men and boys actively in the fight against gender-based discrimination and violence.",
        "我们继续积极与男性和男孩合作遏制性别歧视和暴力至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "What can India do to close the gap?",
        "印度怎样做才能消除差距呢？"
    ],
    [
        "That is the equivalent of annual emissions in the Netherlands.",
        "这相当于荷兰的年排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "The online marketplaces built by Amazon and Alibaba, for example, have reshaped the retail landscape, partly by changing the local nature of retail markets.",
        "比如零售业原本只服务于一城一地，如今却被亚马逊和阿里巴巴构建的在线市场平台就在某种程度上重塑了。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro would, however, have to be accepted as legal tender in the UK, alongside the pound, and in the commonwealth countries, and this would demand close cooperation between the Bank of England and the ECB.",
        "但是，欧元应该和英镑一起被作为英国以及英联邦国家的法定货币，这需要英格兰银行和欧洲中央银行间的紧密合作。"
    ],
    [
        "That strategy must center on federalism.",
        "这一战略必须以联邦制为核心。"
    ],
    [
        "In the transition from war to peace with an undefeated insurgent group, it is unreasonable to expect to be able to treat justice as a strictly legal matter; the political context must be taken into account.",
        "叛军集团并没有被击败，因此在从战争到和平的转型期，期待严格按照法律对待正义问题是不合理的； 必须考虑到政治环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa, with its population of one billion, is also gaining economic momentum, contributing further to the rapid expansion of the global middle class, which is expected to surge from 1.8 billion in 2010 to 3.2 billion in 2020 and to 4.9 billion people – more than half of the world’s population – in 2030.",
        "拥有十亿人口的非洲也在赢得经济动力，为全球中产阶级的扩张贡献着力量。 据估计，全球中产阶级人数将从2010年的18亿增加到2020年的32亿和2030年的49亿（超过总人口的一半）。"
    ],
    [
        "Welcome to the twenty-first century.",
        "欢迎各位来到二十一世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, Myanmar’s new government does not want to aggravate sentiment in its already-unstable border areas, where rebel groups were using the dam project to rally new supporters.",
        "显然，缅甸新政府不愿意激化已然不安定的边境地区的情绪——叛军集团正在利用密松大坝项目召集新的支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "Arming the Elephant",
        "武装大象"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON - American officials usually spend enormous energy highlighting the “process” in the Middle East “peace process.”",
        "普林斯顿—美国的官员们通常不遗余力地强调中东“和平进程”中的“进程”。"
    ],
    [
        "The best-known tools for this are margin requirements and minimum capital requirements.",
        "最耳熟能详的就是保证金制度和最低资本额的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "In a much-publicized 2012 case, local officials in Shaanxi province forced a woman to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy.",
        "在2012年的一宗广为报道的案子中，陕西省地方官员迫使一位怀孕七个月的孕妇引产。"
    ],
    [
        "When researchers tested Prozac on depressed patients, they divided their subjects randomly into control and experimental groups, and conducted many trials.",
        "比如研究者们测试百忧解（一种抗抑郁药物）的时候，他们可以把被试者随机分为控制组和实验组并反复测试。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, Labour is more Euroskeptic.",
        "在杰里米·科尔宾（Jeremy Corbyn）的领导下，工党对欧洲的疑虑倾向大增。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Hezbollah is still grudgingly respected for its ability to stand up to Israel.",
        "的确，由于真主党在应对伊朗方面的能力而勉强受到人们的尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "These policies may hurt agricultural producers elsewhere, but they also benefit poor urban consumers.",
        "这样的政策可能损害了其它地方农业生产者的利益，但也使贫困的城市消费者从中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "But this can be done while making draft texts public.",
        "但这可以通过向公众公开草案的方式实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The American discount retailer Walmart, reportedly concerned that it is cannibalizing its own sales, has gone so far as to stop selling Amazon’s Kindle tablets.",
        "据报道，由于担心自己的销售受到侵蚀，美国折扣零售商沃尔玛已经停止出售亚马逊的Kindle平板电脑。"
    ],
    [
        "And spectators were no different: “Of course, I sing out ‘black bastard,’ but I don’t mean it.",
        "”观众的观感也差不多：“我当然会在看比赛时高呼‘死黑鬼’，但我不是故意的。"
    ],
    [
        "When confronted about this, Volodymyr Stelmakh, the bank’s governor, is said to have told Tymoshenko that his policies would destroy her government before they broke the back of the economy.",
        "在遭到质问时，央行行长Volodymyr Stelmakh据称告诉季莫申科他的政策在破坏经济的基础前会先毁掉她的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time, many emerging markets had a hard time managing the sudden surge of capital flows. Very little of it went to fixed investment.",
        "与此同时，许多新兴市场都难以应对资本流动的突然激增，这些资金中也只有很少的一部分转化为固定资产投资。"
    ],
    [
        "What little moral and political standing Russian President Vladimir Putin has retained in the rest of the world is also evaporating, as he will soon discover at the upcoming G-20 Summit in Saint Petersburg.",
        "俄罗斯总统普京在全世界面前所保有的些许道德和政治立场也将蒸发殆尽，他很快就会在即将于圣彼得堡召开的G20峰会上发现这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Worlds Apart",
        "分离的世界"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, economic performance has become sluggish as competitiveness declines and unemployment, especially among young people, remains stubbornly high.",
        "结果是竞争力的衰落和失业（特别是年轻人失业）顽固高企，经济表现也因此停滞不前。"
    ],
    [
        "Belgian-Dutch cooperation has in years past been essential in helping Europe to move forward.",
        "在过去几年中，比利时与荷兰的合作在欧洲发展中起到了至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, he would find a vast collection of loosely connected, quirky rules, reflecting the whims of the programmer.",
        "相反，我们会发现大量联系松散的古怪规则，它们反映出编程者的奇思妙想。"
    ],
    [
        "The global stakes are thus very high this spring as the Bank’s 187 member countries choose a new president to succeed Robert Zoellick, whose term ends in July.",
        "因此，世界银行的187各成员国今春如何选择将于7月卸任的罗伯特·佐利克的新行长，将事关全球重大利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, heterodox policies to deal with high debt burdens need to be taken more seriously, even in some advanced countries.",
        "显然，应对巨大债务负担的非正统政策应该获得更加严肃的对待，即使是在某些发达国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Somewhere along the line, Asef became a double agent.",
        "在某种程度上，阿瑟夫成了双重间谍。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s labor-market reforms, it is harder to lay off a permanent employee in Germany than anywhere else in the OECD. Germany languishes in 111th place globally for ease of starting a business, according to the World Bank’s Doing Business rankings.",
        "尽管前总理格哈德·施罗德（Gerhard Schröder）推行了劳动力市场改革，但是要解雇一名长期员工的难度依然比在其他的经合组织国家要高，根据世界银行的营商排名报告，在德国创建一个新企业的容易度处于全球第111位，该国的大型企业都非常古老而僵化，完全无法和谷歌或者是Facebook媲美，其服务部门尤其守旧。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The United States government’s National Intelligence Council projects that American dominance will be “much diminished” by 2025, and that the one key area of continued American superiority – military power – will be less significant in the increasingly competitive world of the future.",
        "坎布里奇——美国政府国家情报委员会预测到2025年美国的优势将“大幅度削弱”，而美国赖以保持其优势的关键领域——军事实力——其重要性也将在未来竞争日趋激烈的世界格局中有所降低。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, greed cannot be controlled by any appeal to morality and values.",
        "第四，靠道德和价值观是无法遏制贪婪的。"
    ],
    [
        "The “fallacies” that really challenge the modern reader, however, are those that characterize arguments that today are widely accepted even in the most educated and enlightened circles.",
        "但是，真正挑战现代读者的“谬误”是那些今天被广泛接受的观点，即使是教育程度最高、最文明的社会也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "DAVOS – Governments around the world are facing a huge challenge.",
        "达沃斯—全世界政府正面临一个巨大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s not delude ourselves: if the euro falls apart, so will the European Union (the world’s largest economy), triggering a global economic crisis on a scale that most people alive today have never experienced.",
        "我们不要被自己弄糊涂了：如果欧元崩溃，欧盟（世界第一大经济体）也将蹈其覆辙，引发一场当今世界绝大部分人不曾亲身体验过的全球经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "In effect, this commission would have been the precursor to the 2003-2004 Convention for the Future of Europe, which, presided over by former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing drafted the constitutional treaty.",
        "实际上这一委员会本来会是2003-2004年“欧洲未来大会”的前身。 该大会在法国前总统Valéry Giscard d’Estaing的主持下起草了宪法公约。"
    ],
    [
        "As part of the Harvard Business School’s US Competiveness Project, Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin recently published an eight-point plan, which could be implemented within the next two to three years.",
        "作为哈佛商学院美国竞争力项目的一部分，迈克尔·波特和詹·利夫金（Jan Rivkin）最近发表了一项可在未来两到三年内实施的八点计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Even at a conference, that is good advice.",
        "即使在会议上，这也是一个好建议。"
    ],
    [
        "The irrationality of such resistance is not likely to weaken it.",
        "如此抵制是不理性的，但并未因此减少抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet no country can rely on soft power alone to defend its interests.",
        "但没有哪个国家可以单靠软实力来捍卫自己的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade usually benefits both sides.",
        "贸易通常会使双方得利。"
    ],
    [
        "When a large number of sensitive cells are killed, say, by aggressive therapies, resistant types can proliferate unconstrained.",
        "但当敏感细胞被积极的治疗手段大量杀死的时候，那么抗药细胞就会不受限制地大量扩散。"
    ],
    [
        "Frankly, had the models at least allowed for the possibility of credit-market imperfections, the Fed might have paid more attention to credit-market indicators as a reflection of overall financial-market conditions, as central banks in emerging-market countries do.",
        "坦白说，如果这些模型能考虑到信贷市场不完美的可能性，作为对整体金融市场条件的反映，美联储就可能会更多地关注信贷市场指标，就像新兴国家央行所做的一样。"
    ],
    [
        "At best, Syria will emerge from the current conflict with a decentralized or federal state; at worst, the country will go the way of Somalia.",
        "最好的情形是叙利亚经过当前的冲突成为分散的联邦国家； 最坏的情形是重蹈索马里覆辙。"
    ],
    [
        "In less than a generation, Germany, once the sick man of Europe, has emerged as a global economic powerhouse.",
        "不出一代人，曾经的欧洲病夫德国就一跃成为全球经济强国。"
    ],
    [
        "To succeed, conglomerates need the support of government and the acceptance of society.",
        "要想成功，集团公司需要政府的支持和社会的接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Before an economically unified Maghreb can be realized, however, inter-state conflicts such as the Algerian-Moroccan dispute over the “Western” Sahara must be resolved.",
        "但在这个经济上统一的北非诞生之前，类似阿尔及利亚与摩洛哥对撒哈拉“西部地区”领土争议这样的国家间冲突必须得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "The Civil War revealed the centrality of a common foundation of morality to Hamilton’s approach to debt and public finance.",
        "美国内战表明，对于汉密尔顿的债务和公共财政方法，道德才是共同基础的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, such structural changes would weaken the elite’s grip on political and economic power.",
        "实际上，这样的结构性改革会削弱精英们对政治和经济力量的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, what these stumbling economies are guilty of is a failure to learn from Singapore, a system whose managed democracy is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and which has successfully avoided the sort of interest-group sclerosis and corruption that is holding back Brazil, for example.",
        "显然，这些步履蹒跚的经济体所犯的一个错误是没有向新加坡学习。 新加坡采取有管理的民主制度，今年迎来建国50周年，它成功地避免了掣肘（比如）巴西的利益集团硬化症和腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "Reform-minded politicians were partly to blame for this change.",
        "当然，改革派领导人必须为这一改变承担一定的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The recent departure of Robert Diamond from Barclays marks a watershed.",
        "华盛顿特区——巴克莱银行前CEO博达文（Robert Diamond）日前的辞职标志着一个分水岭。"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – “Be careful what you post on Facebook,” US President Barack Obama warned American high school students this past September.",
        "新加坡—“在Facebook上发帖要小心”，美国总统奥巴马去年九月提醒美国的高中生们。"
    ],
    [
        "It is home to three of the top twenty-five multinational brand names (Toyota, Honda, and Sony).",
        "在全球最知名的25个品牌中，日本占据三个（丰田，本田以及索尼）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, many banks had so much public debt on their balance sheets that they would have been bankrupted in the event of a full-blown default.",
        "此外，大量银行在资产负债表上持有了太多公债，如果发生全面违约，它们将会破产。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last five years, central banking has become one of the fastest-growing industries in the Western world.",
        "在过去五年中，央行成为西方世界增长最快的行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, starting a bilateral confrontation is unwise.",
        "）此外，进行双边对抗是不明智的。"
    ],
    [
        "But now the conflict has spread across the Middle East, destabilizing Lebanon and Jordan and threatening to fracture Iraq.",
        "但现在冲突已蔓延至整个中东地区，导致黎巴嫩约旦动荡并有可能分裂伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to see the US re-attaining full employment anytime soon.",
        "美国很难在不久的将来重新实现充分就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Greater austerity is being demanded from an economy that is on its knees, owing to the heftiest dose of austerity any country has ever had to endure in peacetime.",
        "希腊经受了和平时期任何国家都不曾经受过的大规模紧缩，而眼下正在被要求其不堪重负的经济采取更大规模的紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Had Greece defaulted on its debt in 2010, imposing the same “haircut” on private creditors as it has imposed now, it would have reduced the debt-to-GDP ratio to a more manageable 80%.",
        "要是希腊在2010年就违约，如同现在一样对私人债权人实行扣减，它可能已经把债务和GDP的比率降低到更易于管理的80%了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even German unemployment, which has been rising in cycles since 1970, will decline slightly in 2006, from 4.8 to 4.7 million.",
        "德国的失业人数自1970年以来一直循环上升，即使如此，失业人数也会在2006年略微下降，从480万下降到470万。"
    ],
    [
        "In the second stage, starting in the spring of 2009, the crisis spread to the sovereigns, as investors grew increasingly worried that propping up banks would strain government finances.",
        "第二阶段始于2009年春，危机蔓延到主权债务，因为投资者越来越担心支持银行会拖累政府财政。"
    ],
    [
        "Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future",
        "可持续未来的基础设施"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Lula’s 2002 election signified a sea of change in a highly class-conscious, socially stratified society, Silva’s election would shake up the racial order in a country – and indeed continent – where racism has not been eradicated.",
        "正如2002年卢拉的当选预示着一个具有高度阶级意识、阶层分化明显的社会的大转变，席尔瓦的当选将颠覆这个至今仍未消灭种族主义的国家——事实上是大陆——的种族秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "A Tobin tax does, however, allow elected politicians to look like they are doing something useful – which they are, but without addressing more serious economic problems.",
        "但是，托宾税确实能够让当选政客摆出干了实事的模样——他们确实干了实事，但这个实事并不能解决最严重的经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Building such a network would be far cheaper than constructing even a single new printing plant – and it would be far more effective.",
        "建设这样一个网络将远远便宜于建设甚至是一个单纯的新印刷厂并且要有效的多。"
    ],
    [
        "A brilliant book by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig, The Bankers’ New Clothes, demonstrates the pervasiveness of this problem and highlights its potentially devastating consequences for the economy.",
        "来自阿德马提（Anat Admati）和赫尔维格（Martin Hellwig）的出色著作《银行家的新衣》（The Bankers’ New Clothes）说明了这一问题的普遍性，并强调它对经济具有潜在的灾难性效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments’ emphasis should always be on reducing unemployment, instability, and inequality.",
        "政府应该始终坚持以减少失业、不稳定和不平等为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "It unilaterally ruled out the presence of regional observers on the Thai-Cambodian border, a deal mediated by Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa in February.",
        "它单方面拒绝在泰柬边境部署区域观察员的安排，而这一安排是由印尼外交部长马提·纳塔莱加瓦在2月斡旋设立的。"
    ],
    [
        "Previous techniques left traces in the modified genomes, contributing, for example, to antibiotic resistance.",
        "此前的技术会在被改写的基因组中留下痕迹，导致（比如）抗生素耐药性。"
    ],
    [
        "The election that year will therefore be an important one to watch.",
        "因此那一年的选举将有待重点观察。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the tax system will also need to be addressed.",
        "当然，税制问题也需要解决。"
    ],
    [
        "His contributions have been, and remain, so important as that they have altered traditional ways of thinking.",
        "他的贡献极为重要，足以改变传统的思维方式。 这一点过去如此，现在也是一样。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania, once asked his country’s creditors a blunt question: “Must we starve our children to pay our debts?”",
        "伦敦—坦桑尼亚第一任总统尼雷尔曾经问过坦桑尼亚债权人一个尖锐的问题：“难道我们必须让我们的儿童挨饿来偿还我们的债务吗？"
    ],
    [
        "This year, our industry reached an important milestone.",
        "今年，我们的行业已经达到了重要的里程碑。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1970, scientists have learned not only that human activity is the primary driver of environmental change on Earth, but also that it is pushing the planet beyond its natural limits.",
        "1970年以来，科学家不但认识到人类活动是地球环境变化的主因，还认识到人类正在让地球超越其自然极限。"
    ],
    [
        "By comparison, the US spent only $666 million on public diplomacy last year.",
        "相反，美国去年公共外交支出仅为6. 66亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Negara-negara dengan perekonomian yang besar berada dalam masa dimana mereka secara terus-menerus melakukan perundingan perdagangan, serta menandatangani dua perjanjian multilateral utama yang berskala global, yaitu: Persetujuan Umum Tentang Tarif dan Perdagangan (GATT) dan perjanjian untuk membentuk Organisasi Perdagangan Dunia (WTO).",
        "世界主要经济体始终处于贸易谈判中，包括两大全球性多边协议：关税与贸易总协定（GATT）和世界贸易组织成立条约。"
    ],
    [
        "He wants such a system to prevent encouraging a brain drain by enforcing a commitment to admitting low-skilled and desperate immigrants, not just those who are highly useful to the host country.",
        "他希望这一制度强制要求承诺不但要接受对东道国很有用的移民，也要接受低技能和绝望移民，以此防止刺激人才流失。"
    ],
    [
        "Diplomatic obstruction is not the only means Russian elites use to foster antagonism with the US.",
        "设置外交障碍并不是俄罗斯上层与美国实行对抗的唯一方式。"
    ],
    [
        "There are now 1,800 billionaires globally, 70 of whom live in wealthy and cosmopolitan London, where residents overwhelmingly opposed Brexit.",
        "如今，全世界有1,800名十亿美元级富翁，其中70人生活在富有的世界大都市伦敦，而伦敦居民一边倒地反对英国退欧。"
    ],
    [
        "“Brexit means Brexit,” she insists, with her ministers echoing her refrain.",
        "她一再表示“退欧就是退欧”，其手下部长也都赞同她的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Europeans, they are unhappy about pressure to participate in a US-led “global war on terror” that they regard as dangerous and misconceived, and to go along with policies seemingly designed to antagonize their more difficult neighbors like Russia and the Islamic world.",
        "它们对迫于压力参与不满。 同时，它们也对不得不附和美国的某些要激怒俄国和伊斯兰世界这些难以应付的邻居的政策不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing captures this moral vacuum more vividly than the recent television drama, “Wo Ju” (“Crowded Spaces”), which has been riveting Chinese audiences.",
        "对此，没有什么能比最近受中国观众热捧的电视连续剧《蜗居》更能生动地诠释这一点了。"
    ],
    [
        "First, in May 2007, the cartels killed Jose Nemesio Lugo Felix, the general coordinator of information at the National Center for Planning and Analysis to Combat Organized Crime.",
        "首先，在2007年5月份，毒品卡特尔杀害了国家打击有组织犯罪计划和分析中心（National Center for Planning and Analysis to Combat Organized Crime）信息总协调员何塞·费利克斯（Jose Nemesio Lugo Felix）。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, any effort to eradicate TB must acknowledge that the disease is rooted in poverty and social exclusion.",
        "最后，任何根除结核病的工作都必须承认结核病的根源是贫困和社会排斥。"
    ],
    [
        "The stagnant incomes of the majority of US workers are undermining economic growth on the demand side (by discouraging household consumption) and on the supply side (through adverse effects on educational opportunity, human-capital development, and innovation).",
        "大部分美国员工收入停滞阻正在从需求端（通过遏制家庭消费）和供给端（通过对教育机会、人力资本开发以及创新的消极影响）阻挠经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the same true for diplomacy?",
        "但道歉是否适用于外交领域？"
    ],
    [
        "But the weight of the evidence is that QE3 had a modest but significant downward impact on Treasury yields and a positive effect on demand for riskier assets.",
        "但大量证据表明，QE3对于美国国债收益率从存在温和但显著的抑制作用，对风险资产的需求存在积极影响。"
    ],
    [
        "We are now in a strange period in which governments, bankers, and journalists herald the end of the crisis just because large banks are no longer failing every week.",
        "但我们却正处在一个奇怪的时期，那些政府、银行和记者们都纷纷欢呼着经济危机已近尾声，而理由仅仅是因为每周都不再传出大型银行倒闭的消息。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Cuba will continue to import a lot of food, most of it at a price that the population cannot afford.",
        "于是古巴将继续以本国民众无法支付的价格来进口大量食品。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer was no: granting explicit power would undermine confidence in price stability, for already there was “difficulty restrain[ing] over-issue, depreciation, and fraud.”",
        "答案是否定的：给予其明确的权力有损于人们对价格稳定性的信心，因为当时已经“难以抑制滥发、贬值和欺诈”。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the EU and its institutions remain integral to efforts to respond to challenges that require a united front – challenges like those that Europe faces today.",
        "尽管如此，欧盟及其机构依然在需要一个统一战线去应对挑战时不可或缺的存在——正如那些欧洲目前所面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "It is up to the technology industry, civil-society organizations, and the general public to keep governments honest in pursuing much-needed reforms.",
        "技术行业、民间团体和广大民众必须联起手来，让政府切实推行迫切需要的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "If you are a dictator facing sustained political protests, be as brutal as possible and incite sectarian killing.",
        "如果你是面对持续政治抗议的独裁统治者，那么记住越残忍越好，一定要不宜一切余力挑起宗派杀戮。"
    ],
    [
        "It is astonishing how many regional observers seem to expect, hope, or fear that such developments will somehow lead, almost automatically, to a “new Sykes-Picot” – that is, to the establishment of a new regional order in the Middle East created by today’s great powers.",
        "奇怪的是，许多地区观察者似乎期待、希望或害怕这样的发展态势会在某种程度上（几乎自动地）导致“新赛克斯-皮科”——即今日大国一手早就的新的中东地区秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Also, return migration is often an important source of new skills for a country.",
        "此外，归国移民常常是一国重要的新技能来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Massive capital inflows caused real-estate and stock-market bubbles in the US and parts of Europe.",
        "大规模的资金流已经在欧美某些地区引发了房地产和股票市场泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "The meeting of G-20 finance ministers and central bankers in the South Korean city of Kyeongju on October 22 produced some noteworthy achievements, such as shifting 6% of the IMF’s voting quota from overrepresented Europe to underrepresented emerging countries, doubling members’ quotas, and reducing Europe’s representation on the Fund’s executive board by two seats.",
        "10月22日在韩国庆州市举行的G-20财长和央行行长峰会已经达成了部分重要共识，比如把代表名额过多的欧洲的6%投票名额转移给了代表名额不足的新兴国家，从而将后者的名额增加一倍，同时将欧洲在IMF执行委员会里的席位减少两个。"
    ],
    [
        "So what does ExxonMobil say about the new climate realities?",
        "那么，埃克森美孚对这些新的气候现实有何说法？"
    ],
    [
        "The gap between the rich north and the crisis-ridden south will widen, highlighting their contradictory interests and thus exacerbating Europe’s tendency toward separation, primarily between the north and the south, but also between the eurozone and the rest of the EU.",
        "富有的北欧和深受危机困扰的南欧之间的差距会拉大，凸显出它们相互冲突的利益，从而加剧欧洲的分裂趋势——南北欧的分裂之势特别明显，但欧元区和欧盟其他国家之间也存在分裂趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Were Bitcoin stripped of its near-anonymity, it would be hard to justify its current price.",
        "如果比特币失去了几乎匿名的特点，其当前价格便很难支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "If you exclude the cosseted army of public-sector workers, the rate approaches 15%.",
        "如果不算娇生惯养的公职人员大军，失业率将接近15%。"
    ],
    [
        "A Japanese Ponzi Scheme?",
        "日本庞氏骗局？"
    ],
    [
        "Closing down trade with China, as Donald Trump would effectively do with his proposed 45% tariff on Chinese products sold in the US, would backfire.",
        "如果像唐纳德·特朗普提出的那样对在美销售的中国制商品征收45％关税并试图以此消除中美逆差的话，结果只会适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "But the implementation mechanism is certainly indirect: once a decision is made, it is carried out by national central banks – an approach that can have important implications.",
        "但执行机制显然是间接的：决定做出后，由国家央行负责落实——这一方法可能带来重要影响。"
    ],
    [
        "And today, with France taking the lead in an international effort to protect the Libyan people from their leader, they can feel simultaneously proud of being French and of their Arab roots.",
        "今天，因为法国领导了保护利比亚民众免受其领袖侵害的国际斗争，他们可以同时为自己的法国和阿拉伯身份感到骄傲。"
    ],
    [
        "Real health foods do not need to be made functional to be good for you. They are functional just the way they are.",
        "真正的健康食品不用经过人为加工获得功能性，它们本来就具备功能性。"
    ],
    [
        "It is worth recalling that nearly four years passed from the onset of the Great Depression in Germany to the Nazis’ accession to power.",
        "好好回忆一下，从大萧条爆发到纳粹在德国掌权之间有四年的间隔。"
    ],
    [
        "Some governments have even taken unilateral measures contrary to EU decisions.",
        "一些政府甚至采取了与欧盟决定相悖的单边措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The burden of bailing out the country’s ailing financial institutions was too heavy for an already-indebted Cypriot state, and the International Monetary Fund was adamant that it would not pretend otherwise.",
        "援助国内麻烦重重的金融机构对已然债务深重的塞浦路斯来说负担太重，IMF坚持它不会假装没看见。"
    ],
    [
        "But can China be persuaded to wield its influence constructively, rather than maintaining its pretense of neutrality when its assistance is badly needed?",
        "但是，能否说服中国建设性地利用其影响力，而不是在急需其帮助的时候维持其中立的表象呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The increasing use of genetically modified mice since their advent 20 years ago amplifies this problem.",
        "自从20年前面世以来被用得越来越多的基因重组鼠使这一问题变得更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not the case today; most Chinese officials who have been charged so far have taken bribes from a single businessman, thereby allowing his business to acquire a monopoly position.",
        "如今的情况并非如此； 大部分被起诉中国官员都只从一位商人处收受贿赂，让他的企业获得垄断地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Questions concerning the state’s size and the sustainable role of government are central to the debate over the eurozone’s fate as well.",
        "关于国家规模以及政府会否继续存在的问题也是欧元区命运讨论的核心议题。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, politics and international law, like the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, have been adapted to enable discovery.",
        "恰恰相反，像联合国海洋法公约这样的政策和国际法已经得到修改，目的是发现更多的能源储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Transformative advances in steel, chemicals, electricity, and engineering soon followed.",
        "钢铁、化工、电力和工程的变革式进步接踵而来。"
    ],
    [
        "But one thing is certain: if the present impasse continues, the situation will only get worse.",
        "但有一点可以肯定：如果当前的僵局持续下去，局面只会进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "John J. Armstrong, now the assistant director of operations for US prisons in Iraq, resigned from his previous post when he was named in two wrongful death lawsuits at one of those prisons.",
        "现任美国在伊监狱助理主管的约翰•J•阿姆斯特朗从上一职位退休时与所在监狱发生的两桩非正常死亡诉讼有牵连。"
    ],
    [
        "Estrada literally defined plunder: as a senator in the early 1990’s, he was a member of the congress that crafted the law under which he was convicted.",
        "正是埃斯特拉达自己定义了“赃物”这个词的含义：20世纪90年代担任参议员时，他作为国会议员参与了宣判他有罪的法律的制定工作。"
    ],
    [
        "But lack of progress also reflects the EU’s failure to embrace Ukraine.",
        "但这种在进程上的滞后同时也反映了欧盟在接纳乌克兰方面所遭受的挫败。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite China’s aura of inevitability, it is far from certain that Asia, with its pressing internal challenges, will be able to spearhead global growth and shape a new world order.",
        "尽管亚洲打上中国烙印已成定局，但面临严峻内部挑战的亚洲能否充当全球增长领头羊并创造新的世界秩序还远未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s extensive regional and global trade networks mean that its internal problems are impeding world trade and, in turn, global economic growth.",
        "欧洲广阔的地区和全球贸易网意味着其内部问题正在阻碍世界贸易，而这反过来又阻碍了全球经济增长。 2012年，世界贸易扩张量只有2."
    ],
    [
        "For the US, in particular, the World Cup is a great equalizer.",
        "特别是，对美国人来说，世界杯是最好的平衡器。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not something at which a young college dropout is bound to excel, because he lacks the experience, the organization, and the access to capital that these ventures require.",
        "这绝非年轻的大学辍学者生来就能脱颖而出的，因为他缺少经验、组织和这些企业所要求的资本。"
    ],
    [
        "The cost of this power failure, though difficult to calculate, is surely huge.",
        "这场大断电的成本难以计算，但肯定小不了。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these countries will look to the US as a strategic counterweight should China seek to assert local dominance.",
        "许多国家都会用美国作为战略筹码来防止中国的地区称霸。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the much-vaunted market for collateralized debt obligations, which divides risks into tranches and places the different risk levels in different places according to the willingness to accept them, has plausibly played a role in boosting asset prices.",
        "事实上，被吹嘘得很厉害的债务抵押市场——把风险分割成一小份一小份，然后根据接收它们的意愿在不同的地方为它们赋予不同的风险水平，貌似有理地在抬高资产价格的过程中扮演了重要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why all efforts by the UN Security Council to forge a common position on Syria have so far foundered.",
        "正因如此，目前联合国安理会所有试图形成叙利亚问题共同立场的努力都以失败告终。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more importantly, policies can discourage foreign-borrowing-led consumption booms by taxing capital inflows (Chilean-style) or increasing financial intermediaries’ liquidity requirements.",
        "更为重要的是，政策工具可以通过对资本流入征税（智利式的）或提高金融中介的流动性要求来阻碍国外借贷引导型消费潮。"
    ],
    [
        "While the Unasur proposal may have been formulated in a more rigorous way than other initiatives, its failure to contemplate trade integration means that there is nothing to tie member states together beyond political will.",
        "尽管在起草南美国家联盟提案时可能比其他计划更加谨慎，但其未能将贸易一体化纳入考虑意味着除去单纯的政治意愿外，再没有其他因素可以联系各成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the medium to long term, exchange rates are indeed driven by what happens in the real economy.",
        "从中期到长期，汇率实际上是由实体经济情况驱动的。"
    ],
    [
        "Software engineers call backdoors “vulnerabilities,” deliberate efforts to weaken security.",
        "软件工程师将后门称为“弱点”，即刻意削减安全性的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "But not all of Europe’s universities regard themselves primarily as research institutions.",
        "但并非所有欧洲大学都认为自己首先是研究机构。"
    ],
    [
        "A year later, where are we?",
        "一年后，我们情况如何？"
    ],
    [
        "Those so-called reforms included sharply lower public spending, minimum-wage reductions, fire-sale privatizations, an end to collective bargaining, and deep pension cuts.",
        "这些所谓的改革包括大幅削减公共支出、降低最低工资、“大甩卖”式私有化、结束集体讨价还价，以及大幅减少退休金。"
    ],
    [
        "As greenhouse-gas emissions become decoupled from economic growth, the world’s chances of successfully mitigating climate change become much higher.",
        "随着温室气体排放与经济增长的脱钩，世界成功遏制气候变化的机会大大增加了。"
    ],
    [
        "Securing Afghanistan and its region will require an international presence for many years.",
        "确保阿富汗和该地区的安全将需要多年的国际力量的存在。"
    ],
    [
        "In Myanmar, 91% of the people surveyed had given money in the past month (the corresponding figure for the US is 68%), indicating the strong hold of the Theravada Buddhist tradition of donating to support monks and nuns.",
        "在缅甸，91%的受访者在过去一个月中捐过钱（美国的这一比例为68%），这体现了支持和尚和尼姑的深厚的小乘佛教捐献传统。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that both conflicts were triggered by the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers to be traded for Arab prisoners, Israel must now realize that holding Arabs indefinitely in prison can only beget violence.",
        "鉴于两场冲突都是由于绑架以色列士兵来换取阿拉伯囚犯引起的，所以以色列现在必须意识到无限期地关押阿拉伯人只会带来暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Fairness and Free Trade",
        "公平和自由贸易"
    ],
    [
        "Despite nationalist parties' success in France, the same is true of the setback for President Jacques Chirac's centre-right party.",
        "尽管国民党在法国取得了胜利，雅克·希拉克总统领导下的中右翼党派的失败也源于此因。"
    ],
    [
        "The precise sums are not reported.",
        "准确数字没有报道。"
    ],
    [
        "A member with a positive assessment of the US economy’s growth prospects will expect a rise in the federal funds rate; a pessimist will expect the rate to stay close to zero for a longer period.",
        "一位对美国经济增长存在正面预期的委员将会预计联邦基金利率上升； 而持悲观态度的则会让更长时期内的利率接近零。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, making lists of behaviors, applying medical-sounding labels to people who manifest them, and then using the presence of those behaviors to prove that a person has the illness in question is scientifically meaningless.",
        "的确，列举行为模式，将听似专业的医学标签贴在表现出这些行为的人身上，接着再用他们的这些行为来证明这个人患有所说的这种疾病—这在科学上是毫无意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been action calls and statements circulated on the Web calling on the people of the region to unite and not allow governments to build bigger walls between them.",
        "呼吁采取行动的呼声和声明出现在互联网上，呼吁该地区人民的团结起来，不要容忍他们的政府在人民之间竖起更高的壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "Chavismo will outlive Chávez.",
        "查韦斯主义将在查韦斯身后继续发扬光大。"
    ],
    [
        "As in the Nintoku story, it is the wealth of the people – not that of the government – that dictates consumption.",
        "和仁德天皇的故事中一样，决定消费的是人民——而不是政府——的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unfortunately, the difficulty of gathering such data means that many life-quality datasets are incomplete or infrequently compiled.",
        "而不幸的是，收集这些数据十分困难，这意味着许多生命质量数据库不够完整，或不能做到频繁更新。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, like previous ceasefires, any truce is likely to be temporary, inevitably undermined by the forces that perpetuate Israel’s armed conflict with Hamas.",
        "当然，与前几次停火一样，休战总是暂时的，免不了会受到让以色列和哈马斯武装冲突维持下去的势力的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Yeltsin intuitively understood that fear and top-down, centralized decision-making were no way to rule a modern country, and he therefore insisted on reforming relations between citizens and the state.",
        "叶利钦自然知道恐惧和自上而下、中央集权的决策绝不是统治现代社会的好方法，因此他坚持把改革公民和国家之间的关系作为重点。"
    ],
    [
        "It is, in any case, easier to appeal to compassion for refugees than to the acceptance of economic migrants. Even in Germany.",
        "无论如何，即使在德国，接受经济移民总比争取对难民的同情难度要大。"
    ],
    [
        "It should also contain provisions for lending into arrears: lenders willing to provide credit to a country going through a restructuring would receive priority treatment.",
        "新框架还应该包括欠款贷款条款：愿意在一国进行重组时提供信用的贷款人将获得优先对待。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, at no time since the Arab Spring began has one been able to discern a coherent Western strategy to address its many challenges and uncertainties.",
        "事实上，阿拉伯之春一开始，你就可以领会到西方在解决其中诸多挑战和不确定性方面实行的是一致战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Brexiteers did not invent this game; there is ample precedent, including Scotland in 2014 and Quebec in 1995.",
        "英国退出派不是这一游戏的发明者； 此前有过多次先例，包括2014年的苏格兰和1995年的魁北克。"
    ],
    [
        "Serbia has gained respect by arresting Mladić, which should speed up its membership in the European Union.",
        "塞尔维亚逮捕姆拉迪奇的行动令人刮目相看，估计也能对其欧盟成员国进程助推一把。"
    ],
    [
        "“My dear friend: give the people, especially the workers, all that is possible,” he wrote.",
        "“我亲爱的朋友：给予民众、尤其是劳动者，一切可能的好处，”他写道。"
    ],
    [
        "There is good reason for optimism about progress on reducing inequity.",
        "有充分理由对控制不平等问题的进展持乐观态度。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the only state of the planet of which we know that can sustain prosperous lives for ten billion people.",
        "据我们所知只有这种状态才能确保上百亿民众生活得富裕繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "The surprise in the first round of the French presidential election was that there was no surprise, except for the huge level of voter turnout.",
        "法国总统大选首轮投票的唯一惊奇之处就是，除了选民踊跃投票外没有惊奇之处。"
    ],
    [
        "It is in every country’s national interest to be – and to be seen as – a good international citizen.",
        "争当良好的国际公民符合所有国家利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps it will be possible to persuade the Germans if the alternative is eurozone collapse, which would put the Deutschemark, or a Northern Euro, in the uncomfortable position that the Swiss franc occupies today – too strong for its own good.",
        "也许人们可以用欧元区分崩离析的危险来说服德国人，因为德国人是不会坐视德国马克（或者北欧欧元）沦落到如今瑞士法郎所面临的境地的——太强势以至于危害到国家利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But the deep and pervasive inequality that exists today can only be condemned.",
        "但是，今天所存在的深度、普遍的不平等必须谴责。"
    ],
    [
        "Obligatory consultation with independent and informed people may be annoying, but it can avert misunderstandings and accelerate the painful process of correcting blunders.",
        "强制性要求与独立和消息灵通人士协商可能有点讨厌，但是这可以避免误解并且加速纠正错误的痛苦过程。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Global Capital Index constructed by Thomas Hoenig, the FDIC’s vice chairman, indicates that the largest US banks are still 95% debt-financed.",
        "但FDIC副主席托马斯·霍尼格（Thomas Hoenig）编制的全球资本指数（Global Capital Index）表明美国最大银行债务融资比例仍高达95%。"
    ],
    [
        "Both governments now understand each other better, and the two countries’ interests are more aligned than they have ever been.",
        "两国政府的相互理解更加深入，同时两国利益拥有有史以来最多的共同点。"
    ],
    [
        "If adopted, Britain and the EU could not only preserve their economic ties, but also provide a new model for the future relationship between the EU and neighbors that will not join it anytime soon: Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and eventually southern Mediterranean countries.",
        "如果上述目标得以实现，英国和欧盟不仅能够保持经济关系，而且还能为欧盟与不太可能在近期加入的邻国（包括挪威、瑞士、土耳其、乌克兰，最后还有地中海南部国家）建设未来关系提供新的模型。 。"
    ],
    [
        "One improvement would be to reform the bankruptcy rules that favor repos.",
        "一种可能的改善方式是改革偏袒回购协议的破产规则。"
    ],
    [
        "In his speech on February 1, King Gyanendra said the Nepali people would have to temporarily give up democracy in order to save democracy, and many Nepalese will go along with that, at least for a while.",
        "绝大部分尼泊尔人至今还生活在贫困线下。 贾南德拉国王在2月1日的演讲中说道，为了能将民主保留下来，尼泊尔人民现在不得不暂时放弃民主，并且这至少还将伴随大多数尼泊尔人持续一段时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Ramaphosa, for his part, has cautioned that Zuma should never be humiliated.",
        "至于拉马福萨，则发出告诫说祖玛不应该遭遇羞辱。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there does seem to be some promising news.",
        "但可以肯定的是，似乎也存在一些让人感觉有前景的好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "And some temporary adjustments of depreciation allowances could kick-start capital spending.",
        "一些折旧方面的临时调整也能够刺激资本支出。"
    ],
    [
        "While the circumstances in Fresno are particular to the agricultural economy there, Weber believes the program is scalable and is already extending it to two other California counties (San Joaquin and Napa).",
        "弗雷斯诺的环境比较特殊，那里是农业经济，但韦伯相信该计划可以扩展，并已经着手向其他两个加州郡——圣华金（San Joaquin）和纳帕（Napa）推广。"
    ],
    [
        "The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is Southeast Asia’s strongest separatist group.",
        "摩洛伊斯兰解放阵线是东南亚最强大的分裂主义集团。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, partnership with Europe could help Iran keep the best of its young generation at home rather than having them queue for visas at foreign embassies – or, more often, the US consulates in Istanbul or Dubai.",
        "最终，和欧洲的伙伴关系可以帮助伊朗将年青一代中最优秀的人才留在国内，而不是使他们在外国大使馆－或者，更多的时候，是在伊斯坦布尔或者是迪拜的美国领事馆，排队申请签证。"
    ],
    [
        "It does too little to cut global emissions, and it requires too few countries to cut their emissions growth.",
        "它在削减全球排放方面做得远远不够，对各国降低排放量增长的要求也远远不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more worrying, the annual deficit ratio will double in the next decade to 4.9% of GDP, putting the debt on track to exceed 100% of GDP.",
        "更令人担心的是，年赤字率将在未来十年翻一番，达到GDP的4. 9%，债务总量直奔GDP的100%以上而去。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Now that the aftershocks from the great Sichuan earthquake appear to have dissipated, it is time to ask what shocks, if any, the earthquake delivered to China’s political system.",
        "北京--四川大地震的余波看来已经消失，现在应该看一看这场大地震给中国的政治体制带来了哪些冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "But we must not confuse “necessary” with “sufficient”; there is a danger that an exclusive focus on institutions that are too big to fail could divert us from more fundamental issues.",
        "但我们也不能将“必要”和“足够”混为一谈； 因为只关注那些金融巨兽将导致我们忽略其他更为根本的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu, always eager to impress upon the Israeli public the impossibility of making peace with the Palestinians, failed to address the question of what kind of country Israel will become if it continues to rule millions of people against their will.",
        "内塔尼亚胡一直急于告诉以色列公众不可能与巴勒斯坦人和平共处，但却无法回答什么样的国家才会持续违背数百万人的意志实行统治。"
    ],
    [
        "US President Barack Obama, having suffered a severe midterm election defeat, must now deal with a Congress under full Republican control.",
        "美国总统奥巴马在中期选举中遭遇惨败，如今不得不面对共和党全面控制的国会。"
    ],
    [
        "Wind energy is now competitive with conventional power plants, while rising gas and coal prices and the steady decline in renewable-energy costs imply that, within a few years, fossil fuels will be even less attractive.",
        "风能现在已经可以和传统电厂发电一较高下，而燃气煤炭价格攀升及可再生能源成本不断下降意味着在若干年内，化石燃料的吸引力将会进一步减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the relevant information is widely available.",
        "许多重要的信息唾手可得。"
    ],
    [
        "The result has been called “illiberal democracy” or “competitive authoritarianism.”",
        "结果是所谓的“不自由民主”或“竞争性极权主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, many very small businesses cannot get credit, because the local banks on which they depend have inadequate capital, owing to accrued losses on commercial real-estate loans.",
        "与此同时，大量微小企业得不到信贷，因为它们所倚赖的本地银行因商业地产贷款损失的不断积累而导致资本不足。"
    ],
    [
        "But pollution from indoor air pollution, which would disappear with electrification, accounts for 16% of outdoor air pollution.",
        "但室内空气污染将因电气化而消失——这种污染占了室外空气污染的16%。"
    ],
    [
        "But most Burmese sense that if changes are managed well, the country will have embarked on an irreversible course.",
        "但大部分缅甸人认为，如果变革能够得到很好的管理，那么缅甸将进入不可逆转的转型过程。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whereas many parts of the world are extremely poor because of their isolation, Haiti is extremely poor despite its proximity to the world’s largest market.",
        "然而，和世界上许多因与外界隔绝而陷入赤贫的地区不一样的是，海地虽然就在世界上最大的市场旁边，却仍然极度贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "If wisely administered, such spending produces a revenue stream that services and eventually extinguishes the debt; more importantly, it raises productivity, and thus improves a country’s long-run growth potential.",
        "只要管理合理，这类支出可以产生收入流，从而维持并最终消灭债务； 更重要的是，这类支出提高了生产率，从而提升了一国的长期增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East’s geographic proximity means that Europe cannot ignore it, while it would be folly to ignore Southeast Asia’s economic weight.",
        "中东是欧洲的地缘政治近邻，因此欧洲不能忽视它，同样，忽视东南亚的经济重要性也是愚蠢的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Senate voted this month to incorporate such a mechanism into the financial reform bill that will now have to be reconciled by the bill passed by the US House of Representatives.",
        "美国参议院已于本月投票将此等机制纳入金融改革法案，该法案现在必需纳入美国众议院所通过的法案之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The team were shocked that Pfizer continued the so-called scientific work in the middle of hell.”",
        "医疗队得知辉瑞在这种犹如炼狱般的情况下还继续其所谓的科研工作，都很震惊。 。"
    ],
    [
        "And there was some revival; but then it stalled in 2010.",
        "也确实出现了一些复苏； 但2010年就陷入了停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan had almost the entire state apparatus – including provincial governors and much of the national and local bureaucracy – at his service during the campaign.",
        "在修宪运作期间，埃尔多安几乎垄断了整个国家机器——包括各省首脑和大部分国家和地方官僚机构——让它们为自己服务。"
    ],
    [
        "It is to be hoped that Ukraine’s Russian-speaking citizens, having witnessed the economic despair – and sometimes the bloodshed – caused by the Kremlin’s manufactured pro-autonomy movements, will realize that they are being turned into Putin’s pawns.",
        "乌克兰俄语公民都亲眼目睹了由克里姆林宫导演策划支持自治运动以及由此引发的经济萧条和流血冲突，希望他们能够意识到他们正在被普京所利用。"
    ],
    [
        "He has taken credit for Ford’s decision keep a Lincoln plant in Kentucky, rather than move it to Mexico.",
        "他将福特公司把林肯汽车工厂留在肯塔基州而不是迁往墨西哥的决定揽为己功。"
    ],
    [
        "Our government has started a massive educational campaign to broaden understanding of the importance of nutritious diets.",
        "我们的政府启动了一个大规模教育计划，推广对营养饮食重要性的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Saakashvili cannot pick up his tiny country and move it to Mexico.",
        "萨卡什维利无法把国家打包搬到墨西哥。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this carries worrisome implications for the state of Britain’s democracy, its political culture, and even its long-term stability.",
        "所有这一切都对英国民主、政治文化、甚至是这个国家的长期稳定造成令人担忧的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an outcome is still possible – but only if the relevant actors recognize the risks associated with a Greek exit from the eurozone.",
        "只有当相关参与者意识到希腊退出欧元区的风险时，这样的结果才是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Long wars can end in one of three ways: unconditional surrender and an imposed peace; a conditional settlement, such as in Korea or Vietnam; or a diplomatic solution that reconciles all of the concerned parties’ interests.",
        "长期战争可以通过三种方式结束：无条件投降和强迫和平； 有条件和解（如朝鲜战争和越南战争）；"
    ],
    [
        "Problems like these will require a very different type of economics from the one championed by Adam Smith.",
        "这些问题需要与亚当·斯密所发轫的截然不同的经济学。"
    ],
    [
        "Writing the Future",
        "书写未来"
    ],
    [
        "He needs to mobilize the general interest effectively.",
        "他必须充分动员公众的利益关切来推进此事。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Economy’s Groundhog Day",
        "全球经济的欧洲土拨鼠日"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, labor’s share of the enterprise surplus rose.",
        "于是，劳动力占企业盈余的份额开始上升。"
    ],
    [
        "The only factor suggesting that 2016 could be different lies in the North’s estrangement from China.",
        "2016年唯一不同的因素也许就是朝鲜与中国的疏远。"
    ],
    [
        "What students are taught today certainly does not deserve its imperial status in social thought.",
        "今天的学生所学习的理论不应该获得其在社会思想中的实际地位。"
    ],
    [
        "England implemented its “Speenhamland” system – a form of outdoor relief intended to offset rising bread prices – during the Napoleonic Wars.",
        "英国在拿破仑战争期间就实行了“斯宾汉兰”（Speenhamland）制度，这是一种户外救济（outdoor relief），旨在抵消面包涨价的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The Roman Catholic Church has not moved away from its opposition to IVF.",
        "罗马天主教会仍然没有改变反对体外受精的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Social media are both part of the problem and part of the solution.",
        "社交媒体既是问题的一部分，也是解决办法的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "In that possibility lies the well-being of us all.",
        "如果这样，我们所有人都将受益无穷。"
    ],
    [
        "The entry of United Nations humanitarian personnel, has been delayed due to the government’s refusal to allow aid workers into the country without first applying for visas.",
        "联合国人道主义人员进入缅甸的时间也被推迟了，因为缅甸政府拒绝他们在没有申请签证之前进入该国。"
    ],
    [
        "In last year’s college entrance examinations, 22 Institute students were nationally ranked – far more than the nine who studied at the second most successful institution, an expensive private Catholic school run by the Church’s conservative Opus Dei organization.",
        "去年高考中，有22名该校学生在全国名列前茅——排名第二的昂贵的私立天主教学校却仅有9名（该教会学校由教会保守的主业会机构负责经营）。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether billionaires or not, they share a prickly hostility to so-called elites, from whom they feel socially excluded.",
        "无论是不是亿万富翁，他们都对排斥自己的所谓精英阶层有着强烈的敌视。"
    ],
    [
        "If the problem of procedures and priorities is addressed, the fact that politicians are tempted to misuse scholarly analysis for their own ends will take care of itself.",
        "如果程序和优先权的问题解决了，那么政客试图滥用他们研究结果的事实也就不会成为问题了。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries have a clear interest in maintaining their stability.",
        "保持局势稳定显然符合上述国家的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But the next step in the argument – that the winner of an increasingly ugly contest will have the luxury of pursuing significantly different policies from his opponent – is much more uncertain.",
        "但下一个阶段——在日趋丑陋的竞赛中获胜的那一方是否拥有采取与其对手截然不同的政策的奢侈——的不确定性要大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "There was, it appeared, no other credible candidate to challenge him.",
        "好像没有其他可靠的候选人对他提出挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Humanity has accelerated, rather than controlled, human-induced climate change.",
        "人类正在加速而不是控制人为气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "There can, of course, be other incentives to support “good” behavior, such as fines and deposits (for bicycles borrowed for too long or not returned, for example).",
        "当然也有其他激励措施可以支持“好”的行为，如罚款和存款（例如自行车借用太久或者不归还的）。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Hong Kong is a Chinese city with a strong sense of identity as a free, plural, decent, and open society under the rule of law.",
        "相反，香港是一个有着强烈的身份感的城市——这是一个照耀在法治之下的自由、多元、体面和开放的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "And we recently opened a new R&D center in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park.",
        "而且我们不久前在上海的张江高科园区开设了一家新的研发中心。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble.",
        "我们不应该抛弃竞争，让银行回到受保护的垄断的老路，让关闭遇到麻烦的银行变得更容易更能保护公众利益。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, Thailand is trapped between authoritarianism and democracy, between the past and the future – and will likely remain there, until the long royal twilight has passed.",
        "目前，泰国正在专制与民主、过去与未来的夹缝中挣扎——直到漫长的皇室影响过去才有可能改变这种状况。"
    ],
    [
        "The Basel III agreement on capital adequacy and other recent reforms still have not ring-fenced trade financing from these potential shocks.",
        "巴塞尔III资本充足性协议和其他现有的改革方案并未能将交易融资与潜在冲击隔开。"
    ],
    [
        "Stock market volatility was also very low during the early 1990’s, before reaching new peaks later in the decade.",
        "在二十世纪九十年代早期股票市场在该年代后期达到新的顶点前其波动也非常小。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s links with Israel, for example, have been strained by Israeli investment in Kurdistan.",
        "例如，土耳其和以色列的关系因为以色列在库尔德斯坦的投资而很紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "And, again, when the price of energy stops declining, the inflation rate will rise close to the core rate of 1.8%.",
        "重申一次，当能源价格停止下跌时，通胀率会上升至接近核心通胀率的1. 8%。"
    ],
    [
        "This debate misses the point.",
        "这一争论根本没有触及核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Uber’s shareholders worry that misbehavior by senior executives may cause customers to switch service providers and valuable workers to quit.",
        "优步的股东担心高管的不当行为可能导致客户改换门庭和重要员工流失。"
    ],
    [
        "Although it could stabilize the debt/GDP ratio, the sequester would be a mistake: it fails to distinguish among spending priorities, would undermine essential programs, and would mean another significant dent in growth this year.",
        "尽管这可以稳定债务/GDP比率，但扣押将是一个错误：它无法区分支出优先级，会破坏重要项目，并会导致今年增长的严重削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "And, until the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007-2008 highlighted the connections between financial and fiscal health, no one considered that a problem.",
        "而且，在2007-2008年金融危机的爆发凸显了金融和财政健康两者之间的联系之前，没有人认为这是一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, a new treaty would allow both Russia and the West to secure their interests in a balanced and binding agreement.",
        "最重要的是，新条约能让俄罗斯和西方都确保在有约束力的平衡协议中的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Continued Russian attacks on Western political systems, or even an outright military attack in Europe, could go unanswered by the US.",
        "俄罗斯针对西方政治体制的持续攻击、甚至是彻头彻尾对欧洲发动军事袭击，都有可能不会招致美国的报复举措。"
    ],
    [
        "But enormous challenges remain.",
        "但仍有诸多挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "An incident in Moldova two years ago involving highly enriched uranium – which can be used in a nuclear weapon – illustrates both the scale of the threat and the possibility of effective counter-measures if countries take the problem seriously.",
        "两年前，摩尔多瓦发生了一起牵涉到高浓缩铀的事故（高浓缩铀可用于核武器），凸显出威胁之巨以及国家认真对待这一问题时采取有效遏制措施的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "To explain what is wrong with the new Bush doctrine, I have to invoke the concept of open society. That is the concept that guides me in my efforts to foster freedom around the world.",
        "为了说明新布什学说究竟错在哪里，我不得不借用开放社会的理念，正是这个理念引导我在世界各地争取自由。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, while the official campaign is supposed to last only two months (long enough in a democracy, in which candidates have to endure an unrelenting media barrage), the jockeying of potential candidates, together with the media’s appetite for a horse race, helped kick off the real campaign nearly a year and a half ago.",
        "而实际上，尽管官方竞选活动本应只持续两个月（两个月的时间在民主社会里已经足够，因为候选人无一例外地需要面对媒体毫不留情的诘难），但在潜在候选者的操纵和媒体观看赛马般的浓厚兴趣的驱动下，真正的竞选序幕早在一年半以前就已经拉开。"
    ],
    [
        "Indonesia immediately expressed its intention to purchase C-130 transport aircraft, as well as fast patrol boats to conduct “anti-terrorism and anti-piracy measures.”",
        "而印尼也立即表示了购买C-130运输机和用于“反恐怖和反海盗”的巡逻快艇的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither of these flaws, nor the exchange rate, is at the root of today’s global imbalances.",
        "但这一缺陷并非如今全球失衡的根源，汇率问题亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "It is possible, even likely, that many North Koreans behave like worshippers only because they must.",
        "许多朝鲜人表现得像金的崇拜者很可能仅仅是因为这是生存的必须条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Other such Chinese territories contain the headwaters of rivers like the Irtysh, Illy, and Amur, which flow to Russia and Central Asia.",
        "另外还有从中国起源流向俄罗斯和中亚地区的鄂尔齐斯河，伊犁河以及阿穆尔河（黑龙江）。"
    ],
    [
        "If she experienced any retrospective doubt, she gave no sign of it.",
        "她可能在回忆中自我怀疑过，但她从未表露过。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the tools and policies underlying this success are cheap, but not widely implemented in developing countries.",
        "这一成就背后的大部分工具和政策都成本低廉，但在发展中国家并未广泛采用。"
    ],
    [
        "Their mandate is to maintain price and financial stability, as well as maximum employment.",
        "美联储的职责是保持物价和金融稳定以及就业最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "Federal health-care spending will grow very rapidly over the next two generations because the things that health care money will be spent on will be increasingly wonderful, and increasingly valued.",
        "今后两代人花在联邦医疗保健领域的开支肯定会迅速膨胀，因为联邦保健资金所资助的项目会越来越精彩，越来越有价值。"
    ],
    [
        "For all these reasons, the institutional reforms that are contained in the constitutional treaty are still urgently needed.",
        "出于所有这些原因，宪法条约所要求的机构改革依然是我们所迫切需要的。"
    ],
    [
        "This turns out to be a mixed blessing, because it has allowed the US to become less careful about its fiscal accounts.",
        "这是一柄双刃剑，因为这导致美国不再关注财政账户。"
    ],
    [
        "The fall in China’s trade surplus since late 2008 is attributable mainly to the global slowdown and the stimulus package introduced by the Chinese government, rather than to changes in the RMB’s exchange rate.",
        "中国贸易顺差自2008年年末开始的下降主要来自于全球增长的放缓以及政府的经济刺激计划，而不是人民币汇率的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But if, thanks to the increased availability of so much information (including different viewpoints and opinions), we now know that the future is always uncertain, the behavior of Western businesses (and many in the emerging world) is eminently logical, especially given the current workings of the financial system.",
        "但是，拜信息（包括不同观点和立场）易得性的大大增加所赐，现在我们知道未来永远是不确定的，西方（以及新兴世界的许多）企业的行为完全符合逻辑，特别是考虑到金融系统的当前运行状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Such mixed signals have further inflamed nationalist sentiments in China, and anti-Japanese demonstrations have broken out in many Chinese cities, including an attack on the Japanese ambassador’s official vehicle.",
        "而这些混杂的信号则进一步激发了中国的民族主义情绪，许多城市爆发了反日游行，连日本大使的专车都遭到了袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "The regional economic spillovers are limited by the fact that other borrowers can continue to function normally: creditworthiness is determined by a borrower’s fundamentals and not its state of residence.",
        "地区经济溢出效应因为借款人能够继续保持正常运行这一事实而得到遏制：信誉由借款人的基本面决定，而不是由其在哪个州决定。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the ocean is a critical ally, and we must do everything in our power to safeguard them.",
        "总之，海洋是一个重要的盟友，我们必须尽全力去保护它。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that the currency re-alignment that is currently underway is necessarily a problematic development; on the contrary, it has the potential to boost the global economy by supporting the recovery of some of its most challenged components.",
        "这并不是说目前正在发生的货币重排（currency re-alignment）必然是一个问题趋势； 相反，它有可能通过支持最棘手要素的恢复而提振全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to politicians’ liaisons, continuity may prevail in France; but on the issue of reform, change may be around the corner.",
        "对政客的暧昧关系来说，典型的法国作风是保持； 而对于改革问题，改变或许即将到来了。"
    ],
    [
        "Those of us who live on the front lines of climate change – on archipelagos, small islands, coastal lowlands, and rapidly desertifying plains – can’t afford to wait and see what another degree of warming will bring.",
        "我们生活在气候变化前沿的人——包括群岛、小岛、沿海低地以及快速荒漠化的平原——绝不能坐视气候变暖升级会带来哪些后果。"
    ],
    [
        "As Dennis Kelleher of Better Markets has argued, the recent so-called “robo-signing” settlement – in which five large banks “settled” their legal liability for carrying out fraudulent foreclosures on mortgages – is a complete sell-out to the financial industry.",
        "正如Better Market的凯勒赫（Dennis Kelleher）所指出的，最近出现的“机械签名”和解——五家大银行就欺诈性剥夺按揭赎回权的法律责任“和解”一事——是对金融业彻头彻尾的背叛。"
    ],
    [
        "In part, this reflects political hedging by the MILF in the face of Manila’s incapacity to make meaningful concessions.",
        "这部分地反映了摩洛伊斯兰解放阵线面对马尼拉无力做出有真正意义让步所采取的一种迂回的政治手段。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – With the International Monetary Fund having just cut its forecasts for economic growth in Latin America for the fifth year in a row, the region’s countries are casting about for ways to reignite investment and boost productivity.",
        "圣地亚哥—国际货币基金组织（IMF）刚刚连续第五年降低了拉丁美洲经济增长预测，该地区各国正在竭力寻找重振投资和刺激生产率的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot afford to sacrifice a generation, or, rather, risk creating a lost generation that could destroy Europe’s social fabric and stability.",
        "我们不能牺牲一代人，或者说，我们不能冒制造可能摧毁欧洲社会结构和稳定的失落的一代的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Southern eurozone countries such as Italy and Spain have suffered from rising competition with China in textiles and light manufacturing industries.",
        "欧元区南部成员国（如意大利和西班牙）日益受到中国纺织和轻型制造业的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider what happened on December 17.",
        "以12月17日发生的事件为例。"
    ],
    [
        "The key has been its unique strategy of “crossing the river by feeling the stones,” whereby it has gradually tested, implemented, and adjusted reforms and growth-enhancing policies.",
        "其成功的关键再于其独特的“摸着石头过河”战略——逐步测试，实施和调整那些改革和增长促进政策。"
    ],
    [
        "However much the study group shunned recommendations for a precipitous withdrawal, and avoided strict timetables for disengagement, their report is not only an unequivocal repudiation of Bush’s “stay the course” obsession, but also a counsel to cut and run.",
        "不论研究小组是多么努力地回避突然撤军的建议和严格的撤离时间表，但他们的报告实际上不仅是对布什“坚持到底”执迷不悟的批判，也是让美国赶紧抽身的忠告。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as communication is conducted truthfully and with respect to values, norms, and objective facts, negotiations will be able to achieve consensus and agreement.",
        "只要真诚地交流，尊重价值观、准则和客观事实，谈判就能达成共识和协议。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, the true reason why academics missed the crisis could be far more mundane than inadequate models, ideological blindness, or corruption, and thus far more worrisome; many simply were not paying attention!",
        "如果是这样的话，引发这些经济学家们误判危机的真正原因就不是不恰当模型，理念误区或者腐败这类高深的理由，而是一个更平淡无奇但也更令人忧心不已的事实：许多经济学家根本就没有关注与危机有关的一切！"
    ],
    [
        "Each component is essential.",
        "每个部分都很关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Was it a massive economic misjudgment, or was he currying favor with the Bush administration?",
        "究竟是严重的经济误判，还是迎合讨好布什当局？"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiators must focus on minimizing new barriers to the free movement of labor; indeed, this should be an even higher priority than maintaining the free movement of goods.",
        "谈判者必须注重最大限度地减少对劳动力自由流动的新障碍； 事实上这应该是比维持货物自由流动更优先的事项。"
    ],
    [
        "But, more than 50 years ago, the Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson contradicted this idealization of markets in graphic terms: absolute freedom for the market will lead to Rockefeller’s dog getting the milk that a poor child needs for healthy development, not because of market failure, but because “goods are placed in the hands of those who pay the most for them.”",
        "但是，在50多年前，诺贝尔奖获得者保罗·萨缪尔森就用生动的语句证实了这种将市场理想化的观点的错误：市场绝对的自由会导致洛克菲勒的狗喝掉贫穷儿童健康成长所需的牛奶，这不是因为市场失灵，而是因为“货物会被那些出价最高的人取得”。"
    ],
    [
        "We were awakened, for example, by the military assault of December 2008 and January 2009, when more than 1,300 Palestinians (including over 300 children) and 13 Israelis died.",
        "比如，2008年12月和2009年1月发生的军事袭击将我们惊醒，1，300多名巴勒斯坦人（其中包括300多名儿童）和13名以色列人在这次袭击中丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat of a nuclear counterstrike is what keeps countries from using nuclear weapons in the first place.",
        "核反击威胁是一开始就阻止各国使用核武器的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "But what happens to them?",
        "但他们的未来又会如何呢？"
    ],
    [
        "What is missing is the will for peace.",
        "现在缺少的是和平意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "But the assumption that Trump’s policies will lead to higher prices and wages doesn’t square with the details of his proposals.",
        "但认为特朗普的政策将带来更高的物价和工资与其他的方案中的细节并不相符。"
    ],
    [
        "Saddled by a viral infection, drug-related insecurity, and rising crime, Mexico feels like a besieged place.",
        "病毒的蔓延、毒品的泛滥、社会的动荡、不断上升的犯罪率，墨西哥似乎已四面楚歌、走投无路。"
    ],
    [
        "Postwar macroeconomic policies were dedicated to “full” employment, without any evidence that money wages would not get in the way.",
        "在没有任何数据证明货币工资不会带来障碍的情况下，战后的宏观经济政策全盘奉献给了“充分”就业。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1978, Iran’s liberals were bent on removing the Shah by any means.",
        "1978年，伊朗的自由主义者决意采用一切手段把国王赶下台。"
    ],
    [
        "GUANTÁNAMO BAY, CUBA – Hearings are underway in the United States Senate to assess what to do with the 240 detainees still behind bars at Guantánamo Bay, and what will become of the military tribunals and detention without trial that the Bush administration and a compliant Congress put into place.",
        "发自古巴关塔那摩湾——美国参议院近日举行了一系列听证会，用以评估如何处理仍被关押在关塔那摩监狱的240名囚犯，而小布什政府及其控制的国会所设立的军事法庭和关押制度将何去何从，亦在讨论的范围。"
    ],
    [
        "French Socialists support the Constitutional Treaty as a way to strengthen political effectiveness and democratic accountability in the EU, and because it advances the cause of social progress by integrating the Charter of Fundamental Rights and defining goals such as full employment, sustainable development, anti-discrimination, and gender equality.",
        "通过整合欧洲联邦基本权利宪章，确定多个目标诸如充分就业、持续发展、反对歧视和性别平等，从而加快社会进程，这是法国社会党对宪法条约表示支持的原因，他们期望以此加强欧盟的政治效能性和民主责任性。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial system rapidly returned to health.",
        "金融系统也得以迅速恢复健康。"
    ],
    [
        "At the heart of the plan is a very large tax cut.",
        "该计划的核心是规模庞大的减税。"
    ],
    [
        "Laws prohibiting prostitution do no evident good at all, and may well do harm.",
        "禁止卖淫的法律更本就没有什么明显的好处，还有可能有坏处。"
    ],
    [
        "But the combined oil-import bill was more than double that – €315 billion –and the official figure for 2012 is expected to exceed €335 billion.",
        "但石油进口总金额是这个数字的两倍——3150亿欧元，且2012年的正式数字预计将超过3350亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Doctors and students can leave Gaza only rarely to attend conferences or universities abroad.",
        "医生和学生只允许偶尔离开加沙到国外开会或上大学。"
    ],
    [
        "Will he tolerate and endorse his prime minister’s personal aversions, or is he willing to put an end to the infamous spectacle of a judicial process that has been manipulated and abused from beginning to end?",
        "他会容忍和赞同他的总理的个人仇恨吗？ 还是他愿意结束这种整个司法程序从开始到结束被操纵和滥用的臭名昭著的局面？"
    ],
    [
        "The political economy of public-spending reform is tricky, and well-designed macroeconomic plans can be taken hostage by pork-barrel politics.",
        "公共支出改革的政治经济学很复杂，精心设计的宏观经济计划可能被分赃政治（pork-barrel politics）绑架。"
    ],
    [
        "Russians pay for this consumption from the profits of gas and oil.",
        "俄国人从天然气和石油的利润中付钱消费。"
    ],
    [
        "It also gives people far greater access to official information, extending their right of access to documents from all institutions, organs, and bodies.",
        "它还给公民提供了更多获取官方信息的渠道，扩大了他们了解所有机构、组织文件的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "When the emerging economies’ growth stories began, the gap between their actual per capita incomes and long-run potential enabled rapid capital accumulation and strong technology-enabled productivity gains.",
        "在新兴经济体增长故事的开头，它们的人均收入和长期潜力之间的差距使它们得以迅速完成资本积累，获得强劲的通过技术实现的生产率提升。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposal has the capacity to act as a catalyst for adapting policy approaches to current realities; but it is subject to the dulling forces of twentieth-century mindsets and institutions that are too slow to adapt to twenty-first-century challenges and opportunities.",
        "这提议有能力促进用政策方法来解决目前的现实问题； 但它受制于二十世纪迟钝的思维模式和那些不能适应21世纪挑战与机遇的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the early success of “China infrastructure” was built on cheap land, capital, and labor.",
        "其次，“中国基础设施”的早期成功之基础是廉价的土地、资本和劳动力。"
    ],
    [
        "In November 1970, tropical cyclone “Bhola” struck East Pakistan, killing between 300,000 and 500,000 people.",
        "1970年11月，热带气旋“波拉”袭击东巴基斯坦，造成300,000到500,000民众丧生的悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "But I say, “Hold the applause.”",
        "”但我要说：“且慢鼓掌。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Given the high degree of trade and financial globalization that now characterizes the world economy, there is no doubt that the slowdown in the advanced economies, which account for two-thirds of global GDP, will undermine emerging-country growth. Indeed, the threat to withdraw QE is already having an enormous impact on emerging economies’ asset markets.",
        "如今，贸易和金融的高度全球化已成为世界经济的一大特征，在这样的背景下，占全球GDP三分之二的发达经济体的减速毫无疑问将拖累新兴国家的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But it broke with tradition in September 2015.",
        "但在2015年9月，它打破了这一传统。"
    ],
    [
        "His economic good fortune, combined with his readiness to stand up to the West, has created a misguided impression in Russia that the country is, once again, a world power.",
        "他的经济好运加上时刻准备着与西方对抗的立场在俄罗斯行程了一个错误的印象，即该国再一次成为世界强国。"
    ],
    [
        "JERUSALEM – In my nearly nine decades of life, I cannot recall a time in which the past was so irrelevant to policymaking.",
        "耶路撒冷—以我将近90岁的年纪，想不起有哪个时候的决策与过去如此毫无关联。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution to breaking the nexus between sovereign-debt crises and banking crises is straightforward: limit banks to lending where evaluation of borrowers’ willingness and ability to repay isn’t a great leap in the dark.",
        "而打破主权债务危机和银行危机之间联系的解决方案其实相当直接：限制银行只能向那些确认真正有还款意愿和能力的政府贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "If Pius sinned with this hope, his was a noble sin.",
        "如果皮亚斯因怀有这一希望而被定为有罪孽，那么他的罪孽是一宗崇高的罪孽。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, in the aftermath of the global economic crisis, China insisted on maintaining extremely high growth rates of 9% for two years, by relying on fiscal stimulus, huge liquidity injections, and a temporary halt in the renminbi’s appreciation.",
        "但是，全球经济危机后，中国仍保持了两年9%的超高增长率，这主要是依靠财政刺激、巨量流动性注入和人民币暂停升值实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet China may be able to pre-empt such an outcome by making the option of a brutal crackdown prohibitively high to the Burmese regime.",
        "然而中国也许可以通过让选择血腥镇压将让缅甸政权付出高得令人望而生畏的代价来预先制止这样一种结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in rich countries, it usually isn’t the rich who die in natural disasters.",
        "即使在富国，通常也不是那些富人死于自然灾害。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more than current economic struggles, which are driven largely by global forces, peace in Colombia will reinforce for Latin American voters the benefits of pragmatism over ideology – something that even FARC has recognized.",
        "哥伦比亚的和平将让拉美选民进一步了解务实主义的好处比意识形态更大，其效果甚至要好于当前的经济困境，后者主要是全球因素造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "What they won’t see, of course, are the desperately low living standards of China’s teeming millions, especially the rural poor.",
        "当然，他们不会见到中国数以百万计人口生活水平极端地下，特别是农村的贫苦人民。"
    ],
    [
        "Locally, but sometimes still at a grand scale, the shock waves cause major sediment slides on steep underwater slopes such as those of the continental shelves.",
        "局部范围（有时候也出现大规模的）的冲击波，会引起海底斜坡上的海底沉淀物发生滑动倾泻，诸如大陆架斜坡上的海底沉淀物。"
    ],
    [
        "Philips, for example, has developed a technology that allows doctors to share medical data from a prostate cancer biopsy with colleagues around the world.",
        "比如，飞繽fb浦公司开发了一项技术，可以让全世界医生之间共享前列腺癌活体切片的医疗数据。"
    ],
    [
        "Marzouki voted liberal, despite believing that Islam should be the ultimate reference for Libyan laws.",
        "马尔佐基把票投给了自由派，尽管他认为伊斯兰教应该成为利比亚法律的最终参考基准。"
    ],
    [
        "These differences have persisted in the most recent decade, even though tepid economic growth and labor displacement by smarter machines have weakened demand for high-skill, high-cognition occupations.",
        "即便缓慢增长的经济以及更智能机器的劳动替代作用也削弱了对高技能高分析能力职业的需求，但这些差距在最近十年依然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly 12 years ago, Jim O’Neill, then the chief economist for Goldman Sachs, coined the term “BRIC” to describe the “emerging markets” of Brazil, Russia, India, and China.",
        "近12年前，高盛首席经济学家奥尼尔（Jim O’Neil）创造了“金砖”一词描述巴西、俄罗斯、印度和中国四个“新兴市场”。"
    ],
    [
        "A reinvigorated accession process would contribute to the EU’s consolidation, both territorially and politically, while strengthening its role in its wider neighborhood – the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and around the Black Sea.",
        "一个重新活跃的入盟进程将会有助于欧盟在地区和政治的稳固，同时提高它在周边地区包括地中海、中东和黑海地区的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "So long as that remains the case, millions of men, women, and children will face a dangerous present and a future of little prospect.",
        "只要这一点不改变，数百万男性、女性和儿童仍将面临危险和黯淡的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "He must grow, I must disappear.”",
        "他必须成长起来，我必须消失。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Already, Myanmar’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs has visited Dhaka for talks.",
        "目前，缅甸外交部副部长已经访问达卡讨论这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Earnings left inside a financial institution can easily be lost in turbulent times.",
        "留在金融机构内部的收益在动荡的时代可以很容易地挥发。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of people have benefited.",
        "数以百万计的人从这些投资中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "That government has undertaken various important democratic reforms and initiated accession negotiations with the EU.",
        "该政府业已进行了重要的民主改革并且同欧盟开展了入盟谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "In a classic paper, Sebastian Edwards of UCLA and the late Rudiger Dornbusch of MIT define economic populism as “an approach to economics that emphasizes growth and income redistribution and deemphasizes the risks of inflation and deficit finance, external constraints, and the reaction of economic agents to aggressive nonmarket policies.”",
        "在一篇经典的论文中，加州大学洛杉矶分校的塞巴斯蒂安·爱德华兹和麻省理工大学已故学者鲁德格·多恩布施将经济民粹主义定义为“强调增长和收入再分配的经济学法则，但这种方法轻视通胀和赤字融资风险、外部制约因素以及经济因素对激进非市场政策的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "That compromise (which also led to the US capital’s relocation to the District of Columbia, on the border of Virginia and Maryland) may serve as a precedent for limiting Germany’s liabilities if Eurobonds, or some other debt-mutualization scheme, are introduced.",
        "这一妥协（美国首都最终坐落于弗吉尼亚和马里兰州交界处的哥伦比亚特区也是这一妥协决定的）可以作为在引入欧元债券或其他多边机制时限制德国责任的先例。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Multilateral Financial Mobilization",
        "中国的多边金融动员"
    ],
    [
        "In 2001 the ‘Yes’ side lost because it failed to convince enough voters to turn out – almost two thirds of the electorate failed to vote.",
        "在2001年，赞成派失利是因为没有鼓动足够多的选民去投票。 那一次有三分之二的选民没有投票。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, consider how the world deals with refugee crises, such as Syria’s, and the way it deals with financial crises.",
        "首先，我们来看看世界如何应对叙利亚等国家的难民危机和金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "If China is to thrive in the long term, raising its aggregate productivity is key.",
        "如果中国想实现长期繁荣，那么提升总体生产率是关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Their financial sectors will have to operate very differently from the current model, which is driven by consumption.",
        "其金融部门将不得不采取与现有模式截然不同的消费驱动的经营模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Just days earlier, he asked the Supreme Court to appoint a three-judge special tribunal to investigate charges of treason against Pakistan’s former president, General Pervez Musharraf, for imposing emergency military rule and suspending the constitution in November 2007.",
        "几天前，他要求最高法院任命三名特别法官调查针对前总统穆沙拉夫的叛国指控。 穆沙拉夫的罪名是在2007年11月采取紧急军事统治并中止宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "Quicker, more accurate diagnoses will curb the current overreliance on antibiotics – a key requirement for combating resistance.",
        "更快、更准的诊断能遏制当前对抗生素的过度依赖——这也是打击抗药性的关键需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of requiring that any or all factions surrender or relinquish their weapons, it calls only for the cessation of heavy fighting, to allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid and prevent Aleppo's total collapse.",
        "它不要求任何或所有派系投降或解除武装，相反，它只是呼吁停止激烈战斗，让各种人道主义援助得以实行从而防止阿勒颇的全面崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "The Power of Monuments",
        "纪念碑的力量"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – The rise of “illiberal democracy” in Europe is one of the most baneful trends of our time.",
        "布鲁塞尔—“反自由的民主”在欧洲崛起，这是现时代最邪恶的趋势之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there is deepening concern about two types of energy-related security problems: the increasing risk of violence stemming from the nature of our energy use, and the high cost of that energy.",
        "此外，两类与能源相关的安全问题也越来越引起人们的担忧：即由能源应用特点所引发的暴力危险与日俱增，以及能源使用的成本居高不下。"
    ],
    [
        "But technological progress occasionally substitutes one for another, as with coffee and tea.",
        "但技术进步偶尔会形成替代关系，就像咖啡和茶一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The fiscal consequences of Trump’s proposals would be mixed.",
        "特朗普提案的财政后果将是混合型的。"
    ],
    [
        "Fully 78% agreed with the statement that it would be better if more people with a strong commitment to national interests rather than with strong religious views held public office.",
        "尽管如此，民族主义战胜了宗教。 整整78%的人认同如下看法：如果有更多坚定致力于国家利益而不是带有强烈宗教色彩看问题的人执政，该国家将更美好。"
    ],
    [
        "Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government withdrew from this agreement in 2010, but Fukushima forced the authorities to reconsider – and to permanently end the use of nuclear energy.",
        "安格拉·默克尔总理的政府曾于2010年退出这项协议，但福岛事故迫使当局重新思考——并永久叫停核能应用政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, as well as Georgia’s Rose Revolution, seems to confirm this.",
        "乌克兰的橙色革命以及格鲁吉亚的玫瑰革命看起来都验证了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Altogether, Congress left at least one million jobs on the negotiating table, holding unemployed workers hostage to the outcome of November’s election.",
        "归总计算国会留在谈判桌上的就业机会总量至少达100万份之多，导致失业工人的利益被11月总统大选的结果所绑架。"
    ],
    [
        "The increase in the Earth’s surface temperature represents a fundamental shift in the global operating environment, both economically and militarily.",
        "地球表面温度升高代表了全球经济和军事环境的根本转变。"
    ],
    [
        "The caveat consists in a plea that Israel made to the US.",
        "警告信息包含在以色列对美国提出的请求中。"
    ],
    [
        "In exile, I immediately identified with another capital of Dada, the “cosmic republic, that speaks all languages in a universal dialect,” as Johannes Baader put it.",
        "流亡生活中，我立刻发现了另一座达达的首都，也就是巴德口中的“以世界方言讲述所有语言的宇宙共和国。"
    ],
    [
        "A second approach asks people: “How satisfied are you with the way your life has gone so far?”",
        "另一种方法是询问人们：“你对目前的生活状况究竟有多满意？"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The global financial crisis has breathed new life into hoary arguments about the euro’s imminent demise.",
        "amp#160;amp#160;amp#160; 伯克利--全球金融危机给欧元即将崩溃这一老生常谈注入了新的生命力。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as zombie banks are weighed down with bad loans, that is unlikely to change much.",
        "只要那些僵尸银行依然背负着重重坏账，这种状况就难以有大的改善。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has to acknowledge the fact that the world is now much more complex.",
        "美国必须承认一个事实，即现在的世界比以前复杂得多。"
    ],
    [
        "A hundred years ago it was one of the world’s most peaceful regions; today it is the most violent.",
        "一百年前，这里是世界上最和平的地区之一； 如今这里是最暴力的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, for France’s political leaders, business amounts to a zero-sum competition to capture a higher share of total value added for owners and managers, at the expense of labor.",
        "事实上，对法国政治领导人来说，商业无非是零和竞争，所有者和管理者追求从总价值中攫取更大份额，而受伤的则是劳动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Another signatory, Harvard University’s Robert Barro, then published a deeper elaboration of the tax plan’s growth effects here at Project Syndicate, to which Summers and Furman offered a response.",
        "公开信的其中一个联署者，哈佛大学的罗伯特·巴罗（Robert Barro）教授随后在Project Syndicate平台上发表了对税收计划增长效应的更深入阐述，而萨默斯和弗尔曼也做出了回应。"
    ],
    [
        "As with US companies, it is important to differentiate among corporate, economic, and public interests at the national and global levels.",
        "与美国公司一样，一个要点是区分国家和全球层面上的公司、经济和公共利益。"
    ],
    [
        "And the primary emphasis of the entire R2P enterprise should continue to be prevention of mass-atrocity crimes – both their occurrence and their recurrence.",
        "整个R2P思想的根本点应该一直是防止大规模暴力犯罪——包括初发和复发。"
    ],
    [
        "But the downturn will be a more severe test for the euro than any that it faced during its first ten years.",
        "但是，经济下滑和欧元在其第一个十年中面临的其他考验相比，要严峻得多。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – In a way, the stir aroused by the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to indict Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur is a surprise.",
        "纽约—在某种程度上，国际法院(ICC)以在达尔富尔犯下的战争罪和反人类罪起诉苏丹总统巴希尔所造成的哗然令人意外。"
    ],
    [
        "On the one hand, there is growing concern that the United States and many European countries are failing to prepare enough university graduates in the fields driving the twenty-first century “knowledge economy,” such as engineering and information technology.",
        "一方面，越来越多的人担心，在推动二十一世纪“知识经济”的领域，如工程和信息技术，美国和许多欧洲国家无法拿出足够的大学毕业生。"
    ],
    [
        "The gospel of Muslim extremism has found a global market through the Internet.",
        "穆斯林极端主义教义通过互联网传播到世界各地。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us assume that the real-estate bubble has burst.",
        "不妨假设房地产泡沫已经破裂。"
    ],
    [
        "We must overshoot our targets by advancing clean energy, clean transport, and clean industry.",
        "我们必须通过推动清洁能源、清洁交通和清洁工业超额完成目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet some other high-income countries, such as the United States and Canada, are not keeping up.",
        "但其他高收入国家，比如美国和加拿大，并没有跟进。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet many of the economies with which it competes have similarly strong labor-market protections.",
        "但与法国竞争的诸多经济体也存在类似的强力劳动市场保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Popular reaction against the cosmopolitan, coastal, and market-oriented reforms of Zhu and Jiang brought to power leaders whose formative experiences were in the inland provinces of Gansu and Tibet.",
        "针对朱镕基和江泽民的城市、沿海和市场导向改革的群众反对情绪带来的是从政经历来自内陆省份甘肃和西藏的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "The real-estate boom appears to be cooling.",
        "房地产繁荣似乎正在回冷。"
    ],
    [
        "This would mean launching a Marshall Plan to upgrade Gaza’s infrastructure and improve social conditions.",
        "这意味着实施一个马歇尔计划升级加沙基础设施、改善其社会条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Military occupation saps dignity, and grinding poverty and economic disarray sap hope.",
        "军事占领一点一点地消磨人的尊严、折磨人的贫穷和经济混乱慢慢使希望丧失殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "Two factors seem significant: first, relatively porous economic, political and educational arenas that allow immigrants entry to these key areas of American life.",
        "看起来有两个因素非常重要。 第一，美国的经济、政治以及教育领域相对宽松，允许移民进入这些美国生活中的主要领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorism is on the rise in Europe, just as Colombia’s civil war, the region’s last, is ending.",
        "恐怖主义正在欧洲兴起，而拉丁美洲最后的内战——哥伦比亚内战正在走向结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent budget gridlock in the US will only reinforce this approach.",
        "美国最近的预算僵局只能让这样的局面进一步巩固。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultra-low interest rates have also created such a scramble for higher yields that even a poor, mismanaged country like Tajikistan can sell Eurobonds.",
        "极低利率还导致人们争夺高收益率，哪怕治理不善的穷国如塔吉克斯坦也可以发行欧元债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China’s government allowed Nanfang Zhoumo , the country’s most liberal newspaper, to conduct a 12-minute exclusive interview with Obama.",
        "此外，中国政府还允许《南方周末》这份中国自由化倾向最强的报纸对奥巴马进行了12分钟的专访。"
    ],
    [
        "A Tale of Two Terminals",
        "双楼记"
    ],
    [
        "And, before last year’s revolution, Egypt was considered one of the most Shia-friendly Sunni countries in the Arab world.",
        "而且在去年爆发革命前，埃及曾被认为是阿拉伯世界对待什叶派最友好的逊尼派国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But these programs tacitly assume that the US itself is immune to the problems people in other countries encounter when they create or consume information.",
        "但这些计划在策略上都有一个前提：美国本身不会沾染上其他国家人民在创造或消费信息时所遇到的问题。 我们美国人还假定，依靠广告维持的美国媒体将一直繁荣；"
    ],
    [
        "Countries tend to pick the low-hanging fruit as they benefit from imported technologies in the early stages of economic take-off, and growth rates generally slow as economies reach higher levels of development.",
        "许多受益于进口技术的国家在经济腾飞早期倾向于撷取可轻易实现的目标，而当经济达到一个更高的发展水平时增长率就会逐渐下降。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this can adversely affect supply, thereby increasing the need to store water in containers – such as drums, tanks, and concrete jars – that serve as mosquito larval habitats.",
        "所有这些都有可能对供给造成不良影响，从而增加用设备储水的需求——如水桶、水槽和混凝土水罐——而这些设备也是蚊子幼虫的栖身之所。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, it cannot be said that French and German banks did not suffer losses.",
        "因此，不能说法国和德国银行没有遭受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "To many in the West, it is clear that the Egyptian military has removed a democratically elected government and is now repressing a legitimate political party, killing its supporters and imprisoning its leaders.",
        "在很多西方人看来，很明显是埃及军方推翻了民选政府，而且仍在镇压合法政党，屠杀该党的支持者并监禁其领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "With US unemployment now at 5.1%, standard monetary theory dictates that interest rates must be raised urgently.",
        "由于美国目前5. 1％的失业率，标准的货币理论规定利率必须紧急提高。"
    ],
    [
        "The two-child policy may prove indispensable in propelling this transition – a process that will begin sooner than most observers anticipate.",
        "二孩政策在推动上述转型方面或许必不可少——上述进程的开始可能比多数观察家的预测更为迅速。"
    ],
    [
        "Depictions of animals, human beings, and other natural features do not occur in the three records - Africa, Europe, and the Near East - before 40,000-30,000 years ago, and they appear much later in some areas than others.",
        "对动物、人类和其它自然特征的描画并没有出现在4万至3万年前之前的非洲、欧洲和近东的考古记录中。 它们在各地出现的时间也早晚不一。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the global balance of power has changed.",
        "显然，全球实力平衡已经改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Shutting out citizens from formal democratic processes is forcing political discontent further into the shadows, where it risks becoming militarized.",
        "将公民排除在民主程序之外迫使政治不满者转入更深的地下，有可能军国化。"
    ],
    [
        "The final-assembly links of global-value added chains will leave China for countries at earlier stages of economic development, such as Bangladesh, where incomes are lower (though without producing much change in the balance with the US).",
        "中国处于全球价值增加链的总装端，将使中国让位给经济发展阶段更低的国家，比如孟加拉国，因为那里的收入水平更低（但与美国之间的贸易余额不会有太大改变）。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider also the depletion of ocean fisheries through over-fishing.",
        "再比如由于过度捕捞造成的海洋鱼类资源枯竭。"
    ],
    [
        "For a president bent on implementing reforms, “less can be more” – less aggressiveness and less ego.",
        "对一个决心要进行改革的总统来说，“少可以成多”——少是指少一些好斗和自负。"
    ],
    [
        "After that, China will be able to keep its exchange rate pegged only by slavishly following US interest-rate policy, which makes no sense for such a large and diverse region.",
        "毕竟，中国只有通过亦步亦趋地追随美国的利率政策才能保持汇率固定不变，而这对于如此庞大且多样化的地区来说毫无意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Given these developments, India may simply skip the hypermarket stage and go online, just as it skipped fixed-line telephony and went mobile.",
        "既然如此，印度大可以越过超市阶段，直接进入在现阶段，正如其越过固定电话直接进入了手机时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Nuclear talks between the two countries have often been characterized by poor communication and a lack of understanding.",
        "韩美两国核谈判的特点往往是沟通不畅和缺乏了解。"
    ],
    [
        "However, over this period the UK also experienced sustained exchange-rate misalignment, which the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee was unwilling or unable to address within its existing mandate.",
        "但是，在此期间，英国也经历了持续的汇率失调——英格兰货币政策委员会（MPC）不愿或无法在其现有全县范围内解决这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The aggressive rhetoric of Clinton’s successor, George W. Bush, who called Iran part of an “axis of evil” prior to the US-led invasion of Iraq, made Khamenei apprehensive, and he endorsed an initiative for a dialogue with the Americans in 2003.",
        "克林顿的继任者小布什言语咄咄逼人，在美国领导的入侵伊拉克作战前夕，小布什称伊朗是“邪恶轴心”的一部分，这让哈梅内伊十分不安，后者支持了2003年与美国的对话计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the halls of the US Congress, few people pay any attention.",
        "但美国国会却鲜有关注的声音出现。"
    ],
    [
        "As officials decide how that money is to be spent, they would be wise to glance in the rear-view mirror and fund the basic research that keeps science moving forward.",
        "在官员们决定如何花钱的时候，明智的做法是看一看后视镜，把钱投给不断推动科学进步的基础研究。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, consider an international observer’s view of developments in the South China Sea.",
        "比方以国际观察家对南中国海局势发展的见解为例。"
    ],
    [
        "The country has not had a president since May; the parliament is not functioning; and the cabinet is practically powerless.",
        "议会也无法正常工作； 内阁却几乎对此束手无策。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no coincidence, for example, that the law treats corporations as persons.",
        "比如，法律将企业像人一样看待绝非巧合。"
    ],
    [
        "A Healthy Path to Chinese Consumption Growth",
        "中国消费增长的健康路径"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Sequestered Recovery",
        "美国的自动减赤复苏"
    ],
    [
        "But, with the adjustment, Chinese consumers will spend more on imports and less on domestic goods.",
        "调整则会促使中国消费者增加进口商品消费，减少国产商品消费。"
    ],
    [
        "Because interdependence exposes everyone around the world in an unprecedented way, governing global risks is humanity’s great challenge.",
        "因为相互依赖以前所未有的方式影响每个人，所以控制全球风险是人类最严峻的挑战。 比方说气候变化；"
    ],
    [
        "Could this image be any more iconic of the discomfort the West has with the social mores of Islam, and vice versa?",
        "还有比这种景象更典型地反应出西方世界对伊斯兰世界的社会习俗的不自在吗？ 或是，从相反角度来看，是伊斯兰世界对西方世界习俗的不自在？"
    ],
    [
        "There may be a reluctance to contemplate this, but there is no choice if Europe is to have a hope of solving the problem.",
        "也许有些人不愿意考虑这一点，但如果欧洲想要解决问题，就别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Iraq war, the US has lost its unilateral-power position in the Middle East, and elsewhere.",
        "对伊战争后，美国失去了它在中东及世界各地独一无二的霸主地位。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the advanced industrial countries that control the Bank refuse to stand by their principles, at least they should give a nod to greater transparency.",
        "但是如果控制世行的先进工业化国家拒绝坚持它们的原则，那么它们至少应该同意更大的透明度。"
    ],
    [
        "But such spending on imported rice is a scandal, because, with the help of wise policies, African farmers could grow much more rice, perhaps enough to eliminate virtually all imports.",
        "但在进口大米上的如此花费是种耻辱，因为在英明政策的帮助下，非洲农民可以种植更多的稻米，很可能多到完全不需进口。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, people assumed that the problem of monetary stability had been solved, and that they could pile up assets and then use them as collateral to borrow ever-larger sums.",
        "结果，人们认为货币稳定问题已经得到了解决，他们可以积累资产，然后将这些资产作为抵押物来借越来越多的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "But peace was the principal driving force in the minds of people like Schumann and Jean Monnet at the beginning of the European integration process, as it was for Helmut Schmidt and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing when they laid the foundations of the single currency and today’s European Central Bank.",
        "但是正如赫尔穆特·施密特（Helmut Schmidt）和德斯坦（Valérie Giscard d’Estaing）为单一货币和今天的欧洲中央银行打下基础时候一样，在欧洲一体化进程刚开始的时候，和平是舒曼（Schumann）和让·莫奈（Jean Monnet）这些人心中的主要动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding some recent modest improvements in the US labor market, America’s job situation remains terrible.",
        "尽管美国的劳动力市行在最近稍有起色，美国的就业情况依然糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising levels of education have given people more control over their own health, household circumstances, governments, and culture.",
        "教育水平的提高使得人们能够更多地控制自身健康状况、家庭环境、政府以及文化。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been achieved partly through the innovative policies adopted by our respective governments.",
        "这部分是通过我们各自的政府采取创新政策做到的。"
    ],
    [
        "Romney’s mistake was to align himself for too long with ideas that were too radical for him – and for America.",
        "罗姆尼的错误是将自己与对他（以及对美国）来说太过激进的观点捆绑在一起太长时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Liquidity Enough?",
        "流动性足够了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Major regional projects are also needed to knit together Sub-Saharan Africa’s many tiny economies.",
        "撒哈拉以南非洲的许多微型经济体也需要通过大型地区项目联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries oppose the application of NPT safeguards to small quantities of nuclear materials.",
        "某些国家反对对小剂量的核子原料适用核不扩散条约的保障条款。"
    ],
    [
        "Law-enforcement efforts would also need to be increased to detect illegal supplies and break up laundering rings.",
        "此外还需要加强执法工作以查明非法供应及打击洗钱链条。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as with so many of Trump’s decisions, there is more bark than bite, more bluster than reality.",
        "但就像特朗普所做的太多决定一样，他的所作所为更多是言胜于实，耀武扬威。"
    ],
    [
        "He vowed to improve India’s ranking in the World Bank’s global “Doing Business” report, from a dismal 142nd place to at least 50th.",
        "他宣誓要改善印度在世界银行全球《营商环境》报告中的排位，从羞于见人的142名至少提高到前50名。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the government was compelled to grant subsidies to the system’s “losers” – such as urban residents and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) – until strong supply responses to rising market prices eliminated the need for quotas on manufactured products.",
        "政府实际上在补贴双轨制下的“失败者”，比如城市居民和国有企业。 但很快，市场价格的上涨导致了强劲的供给反应，并消除了人们对产品配额的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Inflation remains contained, but, more to the point, China’s government has an arsenal of other weapons (from taxes on capital inflows and capital-gains taxes to a variety of monetary instruments) at its disposal.",
        "中国的通胀继续受到抑制，但是更重要的是，中国政府还有其他的可用手段（从资本流入税到资本增值税，再到一系列的货币工具）"
    ],
    [
        "Society’s enduring dream of whizzing over a city in private flying cars has long captured the imagination of filmmakers – and now even some investors.",
        "人类社会乘坐私人飞车从城市上空掠过的梦想一直吸引着电影制作者的想象力——现在甚至吸引了某些投资者加入其中。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if not handled carefully, the pursuit of significant social goals can have unfortunate economic and financial consequences, sometimes even leading to systemic disruptions that undermine more than just the goals themselves.",
        "但是，如果处理不当，对重大社会目标的追求可能导致不幸的经济和金融后果，有时甚至带来系统性破坏，受影响的将不只是目标本身。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s historically low interest rates should encourage long-term investment, as they lower the current cost of capital.",
        "目前的历史低利率应能鼓励长期投资，因为这降低了当前的资本成本。"
    ],
    [
        "In the West, the excuse was “too big to fail.” How different is that from Japan’s mindset nearly 20 years ago?",
        "而这不但未能挽回其注定要遭受的失败，并且还使得日本企业在很长一段时间内效率降低，积极性大受挫伤，从而导致了经济泡沫后的日本生产力急剧下降。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIRUT – After spending just three days with refugees and aid workers in Lebanon and Turkey, the apocalyptic nature of the Syria crisis is all too apparent: more than 100,000 deaths, nine million people displaced, two million children out of school, diseases like polio resurfacing, and neighboring countries struggling to cope with waves of refugees.",
        "贝鲁特—在与身处黎巴嫩和土耳其的难民和援助工作者共处短短三天后，叙利亚危机的末日情景已经充分展现在我的眼前：10万多人死亡，九百万人流离失所，两百万儿童被赶出校园，脊髓灰质炎等疾病卷土重来，邻国则被难民潮搞得焦头烂额。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, unlike previous situations – ranging from the Burmese response to Cyclone Nargis to the Sri Lankan military’s civilian massacres masquerading as a legitimate response to terrorist insurgency – there is little conceptual disagreement now about what are, and are not, “RtoP cases.”",
        "尤其与之前的情况——从缅甸对纳吉斯气旋所做出的反应到斯里兰卡军队伪装成打击恐怖分子叛乱的合理对策所进行的针对平民的屠杀——不同的是，现在对哪些情况属于、哪些不属于“保护责任案例”并不存在概念上的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – Mainstream politics, by definition, is ill equipped to imagine fundamental change.",
        "柏林—顾名思义，主流政治在想象根本性变革方面存在先天缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "The effects of our kindness are not zero-sum.",
        "我们这些善行的效果并不是一场零和博弈。"
    ],
    [
        "First, policymakers are eager to attain more up-to-date data that can guide their efforts.",
        "首先，决策者急切地想获得最新数据以指导政策制定。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, even in the face of this misery, we should not lose hope in agreements reached by diplomatic means; but, realistically, the chances are dwindling every day.",
        "当然，即使如此悲观，我们也不能失去通过外交途径达成协议的希望； 但从现实角度看，希望在日渐渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "Public-opinion polls show that many Americans accepted the administration’s word on the connection, but the evidence has not sustained it.",
        "民意测验显示不少美国人认可政府的这种说法，但却拿不出任何证据。"
    ],
    [
        "To avoid infection, women have been advised to use mosquito repellent; remove standing water around their homes; wear long sleeves; and, if possible, use condoms or avoid sex.",
        "为了避免传染，妇女们常常被建议驱蚊剂、移除住处周边的死水、穿长袖衣裤，以及，如有可能，尽量使用避孕套或避免性生活。"
    ],
    [
        "No doubt, China must reject further investment in hulking steel mills and empty apartment buildings.",
        "毫无疑问，中国必须抵制继续在笨重的轧钢厂和空置的公寓楼上进行投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Hezbollah, drained by its costly effort to support Assad in Syria’s civil war, is not particularly eager to engage in a showdown with Israel now.",
        "真主党为了支持叙利亚内战中的阿萨德而付出了沉重代价，眼下他们并不特别急切地想和以色列摊牌。"
    ],
    [
        "“I am not giving my family’s votes to the MB.",
        "我有两位表兄弟就死在MB手上。"
    ],
    [
        "These cuts are coming at a time when European efforts to shoulder a fair share of the Western defense burden have been cast in doubt – not least in Afghanistan, where most European countries have limited their participation by insisting on a myriad of “caveats” that usually serve to keep their troops far from the most dangerous zones.",
        "而这类削减行为恰恰又发生在一个特殊的时期：人们对欧洲承担西方防务责任的行动提出了质疑——尤其是在阿富汗，许多欧洲国家都想方设法制定一大堆“附加条款”，好让本国部队得以远离那些最危险的区域，最终也减少了各国对整场战争的参与度。"
    ],
    [
        "Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are very weak domestically, and, given the compromises needed on both sides, they will be risking a lot.",
        "以色列总理奥尔穆特和巴勒斯坦总统阿巴斯在国内都处于劣势，而且鉴于双方都要做出的妥协，他们冒着很大的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the French, who are handicapped by the high cost of housing, Germans’ purchasing power is more harmoniously distributed, creating more room for household consumption to contribute to economic growth.",
        "与受困于高房价的法国人相比，德国人的购买力分配更加和谐，为家庭消费贡献于经济增长创造了条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party has no intention of ceding economic nationalism to an Internet-based proto-opposition.",
        "与此同时，中国共产党无意把经济民族主义割让给一个以互联网为基础的反对派雏形。"
    ],
    [
        "On the eve of the visit, his government agreed to lift the five-year-old ban on US beef imports as part of efforts to improve bilateral ties following years of up-and-down relations during former President Roh Moo-hyun’s administration.",
        "在李明博出访前夕，韩国政府同意解除对美国牛肉长达五年的进口禁令，以此作为在前任总统卢武铉政府期间两国关系起起落落之后增进双边关系努力的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Many governments and financial institutions recognize this.",
        "许多政府和金融机构也承认这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "By limiting foreign inflows and keeping domestic interest rates low, China was able to maintain a relatively weaker currency, which served to sustain its export-led growth model.",
        "限制外国流入和维持本国利率低位让中国得以维持相对较弱势的货币，而这有利于维持其出口拉动型增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Without sanctions to police global imbalances, the French step forward will take us halfway across a yawning chasm.",
        "如果缺乏相应的制裁手段去规范全球贸易失衡的话，法国人的进步之举将把我们带到一个沉闷的分歧点上。"
    ],
    [
        "This should happen automatically through the invisible hand of competition, because the more productive firms should be able to deliver a better product at a lower price, while luring workers with higher wages.",
        "无形的市场之手本该不费吹灰之力做到这一点，因为高效企业能低价制造出更好的产品，并以高薪吸引工人。"
    ],
    [
        "One particular worry is that euro-zone money supply is well above the ECB’s benchmark level, indicating an excess supply of liquidity.",
        "人们所担心的问题之一是欧元区的货币供应远远高于欧洲央行所拟定的基准，这显示了清偿能力已经供过于求。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the desire to save will not add to aggregate saving to start new businesses, construct and sell new buildings, and so forth.",
        "结果，储蓄渴望不会带来创办新企业、建造和出售新建筑等活动的总储蓄的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Exporters also travel twice as much as importers.",
        "出口国旅行量是进口国的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Establishing “two Europes in one,” rather than a “two-speed Europe,” would allow Europe to organize itself in a lasting way.",
        "建立“二合一的欧洲”而不是“两个速度的欧洲”将让欧洲能够持续地组织自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, nobody emits CO2 for fun.",
        "事实上，没人会闲着无聊去排放什么二氧化碳。"
    ],
    [
        "In the face of relentless demand-side pressure, driven mainly by high-growth countries like China and India, some predict stratospheric energy prices, supply shortages, economic and social hardship, and even resource wars.",
        "面对高速发展的中印等国持续不断的需求压力，有人因此预测说未来能源价格将保持高昂、能源供给短缺，经济和社会都将面临困境，甚至将因此引发能源战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetarists: Convinced that the money supply should be the government’s sole economic-policy tool, and that it should be used solely to maintain price stability through equilibration of the money supply vis-á-vis aggregate production, the central bank should gradually increase nominal interest rates once summer ends and reduce them sharply every January.",
        "货币主义者：相信货币供给应该是政府唯一的经济政策工具，并且只能用来维持物价稳定（通过让货币供给与总产出水平相适应实现），央行应该在夏天结束后逐步提高名义利率，而在每年1月大幅削减名义利率。"
    ],
    [
        "The ISRO’s chief scientist, K. Radhakrishnan, is not interested in comparisons with other countries: “We are in competition with ourselves,” he declared, “in the areas we have charted for ourselves.”",
        "ISRO首席科学家拉德哈克里什南（K. Radhakrishnan）并不想与他国作比较：“我们是在与自己竞争，”他说，“在我们为自己所划定的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "But the skeptics should think hard about the likely dynamics in the US Congress when the TPP comes up for a vote.",
        "但怀疑派应该仔细考虑当TPP来到国会表决时会引起什么动态。"
    ],
    [
        "When Argentina defaulted in 2001, one in five citizens fell under the poverty line.",
        "2001年阿根廷违约时，五分之一的公民落入了贫困线以下。"
    ],
    [
        "The kind of energy and commitment to defense spending that India represents needs to be injected into Europe, because European rhetoric about playing a strategic global role remains in high gear.",
        "印度这种增加国防支出的激情和决心必须被引入欧洲，因为欧洲正全力推动自身成为全球战略参与者。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – What a difference the crisis has made for the International Monetary Fund.",
        "剑桥报道－这次经济危机给国际货币基金组织带来了怎样的影响？"
    ],
    [
        "Much of its $73 billion debt has been issued by government corporations.",
        "其730亿美元的债务大多由政府公司发行。"
    ],
    [
        "Both recently installed new, reform-minded governments.",
        "两国最近都组建了新的改革派政府；"
    ],
    [
        "Chen once had political courage.",
        "陈也曾有过政治上的勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically, reduced reliance on foreign oil may allow the US to concentrate on its foreign-policy shift toward Asia.",
        "在政治上，减少对外国石油的依赖使得美国能够将外交政策焦点转向亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent draft resolution on air pollution and health for the World Health Assembly (the WHO’s governing body) suggests that countries should “underscore” a link between air pollution and climate change.",
        "世界卫生大会（世卫组织管理机构）关于空气污染与健康问题的最新决议草案建议各国应“注重”空气污染和气候变化之间的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "The EHCR was confronted with the third issue in the case D.H. and others vs. Czech Republic .",
        "欧洲人权法院要审理D. H."
    ],
    [
        "Though Palestine’s attorney-general is allowed, under existing defamation legislation, to hold a person for 48 hours of questioning, human-rights groups have condemned the move.",
        "根据现行诽谤法，巴勒斯坦检察长有权羁押个人48小时进行问询，但人权组织谴责这一做法。"
    ],
    [
        "If these schemes sound a little too convenient, that is because they are.",
        "如果上述计划听起来似乎过于便利，这其实是实际情况。"
    ],
    [
        "With the greater number of medications approved for the treatment of bipolar disorder, along with multiple reports cautioning clinicians against under-diagnosis, it appears that over-diagnosis has become a greater problem than under-diagnosis.",
        "随着更多的药物被允许用于治疗双相障碍以及众多警告医生们防范诊断不足的报告的出台，似乎过度诊断已经成为了一个比诊断不足更大的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Japanese policymakers and business leaders do not understand the concept of \"creative destruction.\" Too many industrial dinosaurs are kept on life support.",
        "对所谓\"建设性破坏\"的理念，日本的决策者和企业都不甚了了，有太多的工业恐龙靠救济存活。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the relationship between science and engineering.",
        "就拿科学和工程的关系来说吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, no one imagined that such a huge tsunami would ever hit Japan.",
        "此外，任何人都没有想到这样一场大规模海啸会发生在日本。"
    ],
    [
        "But even a relative handful of Muslim refugees is too dangerous to contemplate.",
        "但一小撮穆斯林难民对他们来说却过于危险，根本不予考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Ronald Reagan pioneered a wave of policy and propaganda in the United States in the 1980’s that demonized the National Endowment for the Arts.",
        "当年美国的罗纳德·里根政府就曾发起一连串的政策和宣传运动，试图将全国艺术基金会（National Endowment for the Arts）妖魔化。"
    ],
    [
        "Media capture works in much the same way, with political leaders either owning media outlets outright (think of Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi) or ensuring that media leaders are loyal to them, whether through cronyism or punishment.",
        "媒体捕获在很大程度上也是如此，政治领导人要么完全拥有媒体（如意大利的贝卢斯科尼），要么能够通过裙带关系或惩罚来保证媒体领导人忠于自己。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, at recent guideline meetings in the United Kingdom on the issue of ECT, there have been no representatives from psychiatry, but many from patient groups.",
        "事实上，最近在英国召开的有关ECT的方针会议上，没有来自精神病治疗方面的代表，但是有许多来自病人团体的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "This amalgamation and synthesis of digital services and hardware is designed to make our lives easier, and there is no doubt that it has.",
        "这种数字服务与硬件的融汇和综合目的是让生活变得更为便利，而且这样的目的无疑也已经达到。"
    ],
    [
        "Appropriately defined triggers thus address one of the main criticisms of international aid.",
        "因此，恰当定义的触发条件便解决了国际援助的一个主要的受人诟病之处。"
    ],
    [
        "Secular, military, and Mubarak-era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties’ democratic exercise of power.",
        "穆斯林兄弟会的世俗、军事和穆巴拉克时期反对者用尽一切方法——民主的和不民主的——阻挠其民主权力实践。"
    ],
    [
        "That limits how many children parents may feel they can afford to raise.",
        "这让很多孩子的家长不堪重负。"
    ],
    [
        "The future will not belong to Asia merely because it is the world’s largest, most populous, and fastest-developing continent.",
        "未来不会因为亚洲是世界最大、人口最多、发展最快的大洲而属于亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat of nuclear Armageddon was real, with three trillion dollars spent on the arms race that could have been used to help the world's poor.",
        "大规模核战争的威胁迫在眉睫，而花在军备竞赛上面的资金高达3万亿，而这些钱本来可以帮助很多的穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – Around the world, private schools are booming, especially in developing countries.",
        "圣地亚哥—放眼世界，私立学校正在兴盛，特别是在发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin’s military campaign has tilted the stalemate in favor of the government and derailed efforts to craft a political compromise to end the war.",
        "克里姆林宫的军事行动使得僵局想政府倾斜，也导致结束战争的政治妥协无法形成。"
    ],
    [
        "LIVERPOOL – The developed world is familiar with the global threats of viral infections that incite fear in both rich populations and poor.",
        "利物浦——发达国家非常熟悉那些不分贫富贵贱都有可能罹患的病毒感染造成的全球性威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "An odd coalition of Iranian radicals, AIPAC, the Saudi-led Sunni alliance, the Israeli government, and US politicians from both parties have already compelled Obama to promise additional sanctions on Iran for its sponsorship of terrorism.",
        "由伊朗激进分子、美以公共事务委员会、沙特领导的逊尼派联盟、以色列政府和美国两党政客所组成的奇怪联盟已经迫使奥巴马政府承诺进一步制裁伊朗资助恐怖主义的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Politics also explains Mr. Greenspan’s pre-G-7 comment that “the voice of fiscal restraint, barely audible a year ago, has at least partially regained volume.”",
        "格林斯潘先生在7国集团会议前发表评论，“一年前，财政紧缩的声音还微弱得几乎听不到，现在已多少有些声音了”，这也是出于政治原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The world does not need more commitments and pledges; it needs action.",
        "世界需要的不是更多的承诺和誓言，而是行动。"
    ],
    [
        "At the G-7 meeting of finance ministers in Louvre in February 1987, Balladur suggested a system of currency target zones; when its realization proved problematic, he pushed on with a more definitive and tighter European version of the scheme.",
        "1987 年 2 月，七国集团财政部长会议在法国卢浮宫召开，会上，巴拉迪尔倡议建立一个汇率目标区体系，虽然后来这个计划没被采纳，他还是努力推动欧洲各国接纳一个更明确和更严谨的蓝图。"
    ],
    [
        "Paris – The top-secret memoranda released by the Obama administration concerning torture practices in CIA prisons shed new light on a fundamental question: how is it that people acting in the name of the United States government could so easily accept the idea of torturing the detainees in their charge?",
        "巴黎——奥巴马政府公布的有关CIA监狱刑讯的绝密备忘录使人们对一个根本性的问题有了新的认识：那些顶着美国政府之名的人怎么会如此轻易地接受拷打囚犯的想法？"
    ],
    [
        "Man Bites Shark",
        "人吃鲨鱼"
    ],
    [
        "A disease that has inflicted profound social and economic pain, and dramatically reduced life expectancy, appears to be in retreat.",
        "这种造成深刻社会经济痛苦、显著缩短寿命的疾病似乎在节节败退。"
    ],
    [
        "Leading economists such as Philippe Aghion have published excellent analyses of how this model could balance growth, equality, and overall satisfaction of citizens elsewhere in the world.",
        "菲利普·阿格希翁（Philippe Aghion）等著名经济学家发表了出色的分析研究这一模式如何在世界其他地区平衡增长、平等性和公民的总体满意度。"
    ],
    [
        "The US would, of course, need to respond to the conclusion of any trilateral Northeast Asian FTA in order to preserve its own role in global trade – and in the supply chains that dominate the Asian economies.",
        "当然，美国也需要对任何三边东北亚自贸协议的实现做出回应，以维护自身在全球贸易——以及主宰亚洲经济的供应链中的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it is difficult to imagine what advantages could be offered to Turkey in the framework of a “Privileged Partnership” beyond its long-time status as an Associate Member of the EU.",
        "另外，很难想象在土耳其作为欧盟长期“准成员国”的地位的基础上，“优惠伙伴关系”的框架还能给它带来多大的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the contrast between the two sides of the Atlantic, between the continent of “Yes, we can” and the continent of “Yes, we should,” is so immense, it is for reasons that Europeans are refusing to face or even to discuss.",
        "但如果大西洋两岸信奉“我们可以”和“我们应该”的两块大陆间对比如此强烈，个中的原因却正是欧洲不愿面对甚至讨论的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, while it remains essential to attach policy conditions to IMF-supported programs, they should be focused squarely on solving a country’s critical problems, so that the conditions will be relevant rather than intrusive.",
        "而且，虽然针对IMF支持的项目仍然需要提出附加的政策条件，这些条件应该完全集中在解决一个国家的关键问题，因此这些条件才会是适宜的，而不是干涉性的。"
    ],
    [
        "The resurgence is of the measles – a disease that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared eradicated in 2000, thanks to a highly effective and safe vaccine.",
        "这是麻疹的死灰复燃——2000年，美国疾病控制和预防中心宣布，由于有了高效安全的疫苗，这种疾病已被根除。"
    ],
    [
        "There can be a fine line between experts’ prerogative to make technical judgments and non-experts’ prerogative to assess the consequences of those judgments.",
        "在专家做出技术判断的特权和非专家评估这些判断的后果的特权之间只有一线之隔。"
    ],
    [
        "No country can prosper indefinitely without saving.",
        "没有国家可以在没有储蓄的情况下无限地繁荣下去。"
    ],
    [
        "In previous years, the Paris climate agreement and the nuclear agreement with Iran were rays of light in a world closing itself off to multilateralism.",
        "过去几年，巴黎气候协议及伊朗核协议曾为这个远离多边主义的世界带来一线曙光。"
    ],
    [
        "But policies that might work in a perfect world of efficient and resilient financial markets could be dangerous if applied in highly imperfect real-world markets.",
        "但在完美世界和恢复力强的金融市场中有效的政策，如果应用到非常不完美的真实世界市场中，可能非常危险。"
    ],
    [
        "And, on this note, let us be positive.",
        "而在这一方面，我们需要积极一些。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the Moldovan authorities had been working hard to improve their detection capabilities.",
        "幸运的是，摩尔多瓦当局努力地改善检测能力。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, even during Japan’s so-called “lost decades,” per capita income grew by as much as it did in the United States and Europe, and the employment rate rose, suggesting that deflation may not be quite as nefarious as central bankers seem to believe.",
        "人均可支配收入稳步上升。 事实上，即使在日本所谓的“失去的几十年”期间，人均收入增长也与美国和欧洲相当，而就业率的增加表明通缩也许并不像央行行长们所认为的那样可恶。"
    ],
    [
        "How do the Confederation of British Industry or France’s MEDEF intend to respond?",
        "英国工业联合会和法国雇主联盟打算怎样回应？"
    ],
    [
        "Georgia should be neither pro-Russian nor pro-American.",
        "格鲁吉亚不应该亲俄、也不应该亲美。"
    ],
    [
        "India, proud of its long-standing democracy and fresh from its own elections, shares a border with Myanmar and can also assist efforts there.",
        "为民主传统自豪且刚刚结束了本国选举的印度与缅甸拥有共同的边界，也可以为上述努力提供帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, in his second year, Obama must, as he put it last summer in a speech to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), “aim higher.”",
        "最后，在其任期的第二年，奥巴马必须“设定更高的目标” —— 如同他去年夏天在全美有色人种协进会（ NAACP ）的一次演讲中所言。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that the international trade regime has passed its greatest test since the Great Depression with flying colors.",
        "现实的情况是，在大萧条出现之后，国际贸易经过了严重挑战之后，获得了巨大成功。"
    ],
    [
        "This Parliament enacted a new Family Law in 2004 that mandates full equality between men and women as “head of household,” full authority for state courts in matters of divorce, creation of special family courts, and the possibility of maternal custody in the event of divorce.",
        "2004年该届议会颁布新的家庭法规定男女完全平等，都是“一家之主”； 国家法院全权处理离婚案件；"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – The developed world seems to be moving toward a long-term zero-interest-rate environment.",
        "布鲁塞尔—发达世界似乎正在迎来长期零利率环境。"
    ],
    [
        "In its emphasis on the importance of the signal, economics enters postmodernist territory.",
        "强调信号重要性的经济学从此进入了后现代领域。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the US government’s agenda would have some benefits for Pakistan.",
        "可以肯定，美国政府议程将在一定程度上惠及巴基斯坦。"
    ],
    [
        "More specifically, 77% of the cross-country variation in the income growth of the poorest 40% of the population reflects differences in average income growth.",
        "更具体地说，最贫困的40%的人口的收入增长的77%的跨国差异反映了平均收入增长的差异。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet there is another way to view nomads: as survivors, entrepreneurs, providers, and agents of transformation.",
        "但我们也可以换个角度看待牧民，他们是幸存者、创业家、提供者和交通先锋。"
    ],
    [
        "The term “awash with liquidity” was last in vogue just before the US stock market crash of October 19, 1987, the biggest one-day price drop in world history.",
        "“流动性泛滥”一词上一次成为时尚出现在1987年10月19日发生的美国股市暴跌之前——当时创造了世界历史上单日的最大跌幅。"
    ],
    [
        "Such technical and legalistic proceedings are essential for shaping the global transition from the industrial to the digital era.",
        "这些技术和法律事宜对于全球从工业时代到数字时代的转变至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "As the sociologist Norbert Elias put it: “The spectators of a football match can enjoy the mythical excitement of battles taking place in the stadium, and they know that neither the players nor they will suffer any harm.”",
        "正如社会学家诺伯特·伊莱亚斯所说：“足球比赛的观众可以感受到运动场上的争夺带来的虚幻的激情，同时也知道不论是球员还是自己都不会受到任何伤害。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Though the Tea Party’s followers – a group that one early opinion poll identified as 89% white and just 1% black – claim to oppose government spending above all else, they accept government help for themselves.",
        "尽管茶党的追随者——早先的一份民调显示89%为白人，只有1%是黑人——以压倒一切的重要性反对的是政府支出，但他们也接受政府对他们自己的帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Its success depends on market demand, not political lobbying.",
        "它的成功取决于市场需求，而非政治游说。"
    ],
    [
        "What Pakistan’s military strategists failed to realize was that groups like LET and JuD had local agendas as well – converting Pakistan into a theocracy.",
        "巴基斯坦军事策略人士并未意识到像虔诚军和达瓦慈善会这样的机构同样抱有地区目的——这就是把巴基斯坦转化为一个神权国家。"
    ],
    [
        "These power shifts are the result less of Russia’s expansionist ambitions or China’s military and economic rise than of America’s declining international leadership.",
        "今年的实力变迁与其说是拜俄罗斯的修正主义野心或中国的军事和经济崛起所赐，不如说是因为美国国际领导力的衰落。"
    ],
    [
        "There were similar fears recently when it became known that US-based money-market funds had lent heavily to European banks.",
        "最近也出现了类似的恐慌——人们了解到美国货币市场基金大量给欧洲银行贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "This is understandable in light of the continent’s persistent poverty, seemingly endless conflicts, and the prevalence of HIV-AIDS and other infectious diseases.",
        "考虑到非洲长期贫困、表面看来永无止境的冲突以及艾滋病和其他传染疾病的盛行，这是可以理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "Banking on the Unbanked",
        "寄希望于无银行户头者"
    ],
    [
        "Critics charge that the agreement undermines the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by letting India have its cake (nuclear weapons) and eat it, too (by giving it access to nuclear fuel and technology).",
        "批评者们说这一协议通过允许印度一举双得，也就是既拥有核武器又向其提供核原料和技术而破坏了核不扩散条约。"
    ],
    [
        "Sustainable livelihoods.",
        "可持续生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s main concern continues to be security.",
        "安全问题仍是以色列主要的关注目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Nostalgia is not what it used to be.",
        "怀旧已经不再是以前的东西了。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, however, China has failed to persuade the country’s president to lease it one of the 700 uninhabited Maldivian islands for use as a small base for the Chinese navy.",
        "但到目前为止，中国还未能说服马尔代夫总统租借700个马尔代夫无人小岛中的一个，建设中国海军的小型基地。"
    ],
    [
        "Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, promised to “bomb the shit out of ISIS.”",
        "共和党竞选阵营领先者唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）承诺“把伊斯兰国炸出屎来”。"
    ],
    [
        "In June, NATO's leaders commemorated the 60th anniversary of D-Day, the allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France.",
        "今年六月，北约的首脑们一起纪念D日--也就是第二次世界大战中盟军在当时被纳粹占领的法国的登陆日--60周年。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of Europeans resist seeing Israel as a country fighting for its survival.",
        "成百上千万欧洲人拒绝把以色列视作为生存而战的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Darwin, the Greatest Psychologist",
        "达尔文，最伟大的心理学家"
    ],
    [
        "As much as we would like to believe otherwise, the fact is that carbon emissions won’t be lowered by a deal.",
        "尽管我们不愿承认，可事实是，任何国际协定都无法实现减排。"
    ],
    [
        "But, by renegotiating the Fund’s Articles of Agreement, the US, seeking greater flexibility, and France, which sought the kind of predictability that the gold standard had provided, were able to revive it.",
        "但是，通过重新谈判IMF协议章程（Articles of Agreement），寻求更大灵活度的美国和寻求金本位所提供的可预测性的法国成功地让IMF起死回生。"
    ],
    [
        "In the nineteenth century, the stable hegemon was the United Kingdom, with the British Empire imposing the global public goods of free trade, free capital mobility, the gold standard, and the British pound as the major global reserve currency.",
        "19世纪，英国牢牢掌握霸权，大英帝国供应全球公共品——自由贸易、资本自由流动、金本位和作为全球主要储备货币的英镑。"
    ],
    [
        "There is more ethnic diversity in, say, Malaysia than in the entire EU.",
        "比如仅仅是马来西亚一个国家的民族多样性就超过欧盟，而东南亚联盟作为一个整体，虽然在人口（ 5."
    ],
    [
        "One part of the answer is that rising monopoly power increased corporate profits and sharply boosted stock prices, which produced gains that were enjoyed by a small population of stockholders and corporate management.",
        "答案的一部分在于增加的垄断力提高了公司利润，也大大提振的股价，从而带来一小撮股东和公司管理层才能获得的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s “Peaceful” Rise?",
        "中国的“和平”崛起？"
    ],
    [
        "By developing and disclose to the public a compelling rationale for what will determine the exchange rate when the time comes, the financial markets would then be able to forecast the future reference exchange rate more precisely.",
        "通过制定一个在适当的时候确定汇率的强制性方法，并向公众公布，金融市场将能够更加准确地预测将来的参考汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "The Siege of the Taj Mahal",
        "对泰姬陵的围攻"
    ],
    [
        "If we care most about avoiding warmer temperatures, it seems that we should be elated that this simple, cost-effective approach shows so much promise.",
        "如果我们主要关注的就是如何避免地球气温升高的话，就应对拥有这个如此简单、高性价比且前景如此清晰的方法感到兴高采烈才对。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a huge challenge for political leadership and communication, but, if it is not met, democracy and globalization will be difficult to reconcile.",
        "这对政治领导力和沟通交流都是极大的挑战，但如果无法应对这一点挑战的话，民主和全球化就难以协调一致。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are to stem the rise of potentially dangerous political forces in Europe, we need to understand what is really driving it – even if the explanation is more complex than we would like.",
        "要想遏制具有潜在危险性的政治力量在欧洲崛起，我们需要了解其背后真正的驱动力量——即使真正的解释比我们所希望的要更加复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Why the Fed Should Postpone Rate Hikes",
        "为何美联储应该暂停升息"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone concerned about economic imbalances, and about excessive reliance on a volatile financial sector, will certainly hope that this aspect of the BoE’s “forward guidance” proves as unreliable as its forecasts of unemployment have been.",
        "只要你担心经济失衡、担心过度依赖高波动的金融部门，你就必然会希望英格兰银行的“前瞻性指引”的这一部分就像它的失业率预测一样不靠谱。"
    ],
    [
        "The most the US can hope at this point is a withdrawal that saves face.",
        "现在，既能安全撤军、又能保留些许颜面已经是美国所能期待的最佳选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Without opportunity, children are vulnerable to extremists and radicalization.",
        "缺乏机遇的儿童很容易感染极端和激进主义。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now purchasing additional US weapons systems – 22 Apache attack helicopters, six C-130J turbo military transport aircraft, 15 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters, and 145 M-777 ultra-light howitzers – worth $5 billion.",
        "眼下它还在购买更多的美国武器系统——22架阿帕奇攻击直升机、六架C-130J涡轮军事运输机、15架支奴干起重直升机、145台M-777超轻型榴弹炮——价值50亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "As if that were not enough, the US will also need to rethink its policy toward Egypt, which, until recently, often made important contributions to diplomatic efforts in the region.",
        "好像这还不够似的，美国还必须反思其埃及政策。 直到最近，该政策常常对地区内外交政策形成重要影响。"
    ],
    [
        "One-by-one, the choices they make today will create a legacy -- deadly or peaceful -- for the future.",
        "他们今天逐个的抉择会给未来留下一份致命或是和平的遗策。"
    ],
    [
        "Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has now also produced a six-point plan to address the crisis.",
        "匈牙利总理奥班目前也提出了解决危机的六点计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the OMT program, the ECB can replace foreign outflows from sovereign-bond markets through direct purchases, putting Spain on par with non-eurozone countries like the United Kingdom.",
        "在OMT计划下，欧洲央行可以通过直接购买将西班牙提升至与英国等非欧元区国家相同的水平，从而代替从主权债券市场逃离的外国资本。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike many other African states, Somalis had roughly the same linguistic and ethnic background.",
        "和许多其他的非洲国家不同，索马里族人几乎拥有同样的语言和种族背景。"
    ],
    [
        "The plight of millions of refugees constitutes not just a humanitarian tragedy, but also an economic and strategic burden to countries in the region and in Europe.",
        "成百上千万难民的困境不仅造成人道主义悲剧，而且也为地区和欧洲国家带来经济和战略负担。"
    ],
    [
        "But even if annual growth really is now at about 7%, achieving a 6.5% rate for the next five years will be a challenge, for at least four reasons.",
        "但即使目前年增长率真的在7%左右，实现未来五年每年6. 5%的增长率也是一项挑战，原因至少有四。"
    ],
    [
        "The upcoming High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development presents an important opportunity to forge the path ahead, setting near- and medium-term priorities.",
        "几件到来的可持续发展高级别政治论坛提供了一个重要的确定路线、指定短期和中期重点的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, China appears interested in turning Russia into the sort of vassal state that Putin is seeking to create in Ukraine.",
        "相反，中国似乎更愿意让俄罗斯成为附庸国，一如普京对乌克兰的算盘。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor-market rigidities – above all in France, Germany, and Italy – impede adjustment to the increased competition of integrating markets.",
        "劳动力市场的僵硬，首当其冲是法国、德国和意大利，妨碍了对于迈向一体化的市场更加激烈的竞争调节。"
    ],
    [
        "Inevitably, this will often involve compromise.",
        "如此一来，在很多时候，妥协便不可避免。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not the most likely scenario, but it is not unthinkable.",
        "这种情况的可能性虽然不大，但也不是完全不可想象。"
    ],
    [
        "By all indications, this trend is likely to continue, producing historically unprecedented levels of inequality and the threat of widespread social and political conflict.",
        "所有指标都表明这一趋势可能继续下去，形成历史上前所未有的不平等程度，可能引发普遍的社会和政治冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "And there are heartening reasons to believe that a self-governing Arab Middle East would wisely choose to become a peaceful global crossroads and a partner in science, culture, and development.",
        "我们有令人鼓舞的理由相信，自治的阿拉伯中东能够明智地选择成为和平的全球十字路口和科学、文化和发展伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "In Turkey, the transition to democracy led the Islamist Justice and Development Party to power.",
        "在土耳其，民主过渡导致伊斯兰正义和发展党上台。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Germany’s KfW, the China Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, and Brazil’s BNDES are four of the top ten investors in renewable energy, amounting to 15% of total asset finance.",
        "事实上，德国的KfW、中国国家开发银行、欧洲投资银行和巴西的BNDES都名列可再生能源十大投资者行列，贡献了总资产融资的15%。"
    ],
    [
        "What role should religion play in public affairs?",
        "宗教在公共事务中应该扮演什何种角色？"
    ],
    [
        "Conventional wisdom suggests that the EU’s inability to meet the challenges of integration is due to rigid economic structures and inadequate human capital – weaknesses that can only be tackled effectively by national policies, where the Union has little role to play.",
        "大家普遍的看法认为，欧盟无法面对一体化的挑战的原因在于僵硬的经济结构以及不够充分的人力资本，这些弱点只有通过各国采取的政策才能得到有效解决，而在这方面欧盟无能为力。"
    ],
    [
        "The US exported paddy rice, for example, at a price almost 20% lower than the cost of production in 2003, making it impossible for Central Americans to compete.",
        "如，2003年，美国出口的稻米价格比生产成本还低近20%，中美洲的小农场主根本不可能与之竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "McCain, on the other hand, wants to punish Russia by such actions as expelling it from the G-8.",
        "另一方面，麦凯恩却希望通过诸如将俄国赶出八国集团这样的方式来惩罚俄国对格鲁吉亚的入侵。"
    ],
    [
        "Public policy concerning the mentally ill should empower, not marginalize.",
        "有关心理疾病的公共政策应该赋予他们权力而不是使他们边缘化。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB would then instruct the banks to maintain their credit lines and loan portfolios while strictly monitoring the risks they take for their own account.",
        "然后，由欧洲央行要求银行维持信贷额度和贷款业务量，同时严格监控银行自有账户所承担的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, NATO did not conduct the Gulf War in 1991 or the initial Afghan campaign, but NATO planning and training meant that members could cooperate effectively when called upon to do so.",
        "举例说，北约并没有领导1991年的海湾战争或起初的阿富汗战役，但北约的计划和训练意味着其成员可以在得到号召时，可以展开高效的协同合作。"
    ],
    [
        "That looks a lot like the surge in collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) that helped to drive the 2008 financial crisis.",
        "这看起来和导致2008年金融危机的抵押债务证券（CDO）规模飙升如出一辙。"
    ],
    [
        "The specter of continuing economic stagnation and ever-rising unemployment (with the young and older workers being the worst hit) should remove the second, geopolitical obstacle to a French exit from the eurozone.",
        "持续的经济停滞和不断上升的失业率（对年轻和年老的工人影响最大）阴影应该移除了第二个地缘障碍，使得法国可以从欧元区中退出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, when Russia banned imports of Belarusian dairy products (in an attempt to punish Lukashenko for accepting a $2,000,000,000 credit but not fulfilling his promise to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia), Lukashenko refused to attend a CSTO summit or join its collective agreement for the establishment of an operational response force.",
        "比如俄罗斯这边禁止进口白俄罗斯的乳制品（为了惩罚卢卡申科政府接受价值20亿美元贷款，却不依承诺去承认南奥赛梯共和国和阿布哈兹的行为），那边卢卡申科就拒绝参加集体合作条约组织的首脑会议，或者拒不签署构建一支CSTO军事反应部队的集体协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalizing Sustainable Development",
        "可持续发展的全球化"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the opportunities afforded by digital technologies could be squandered in a regulatory and legal arms race, complete with new borders and new global tensions.",
        "否则，数字技术所产生的机会将会因为监管和法律部门的竞争而白白浪费，最终形成新的界限和新的全球紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "We are not taking this challenge seriously.",
        "但我们却并未严肃地对待这个挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically, the strains of globalization are twofold.",
        "全球化进程在政治上则面对着双重压力。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – There is a saying, too often used in interpreting international relations, that my enemy’s enemy is my friend.",
        "布鲁塞尔—在对国际关系的解读上有一句烂大街的话，叫做敌人的敌人就是我的朋友。"
    ],
    [
        "And its very shadowiness implies that nothing can be done about it – whatever is there must be beyond the reach of regulation or effective supervision.",
        "而正是“影子”这一特性决定了你无法对它做些什么——不管影子中有什么，一定超出了监管和有效监督的范围。"
    ],
    [
        "And while the Democratic Party is being represented by the establishment choice, Hillary Clinton, her competitor, Bernie Sanders, put up a much stronger fight than virtually anyone anticipated.",
        "而民主党尽管仍然由建制派的选择希拉里·克林顿代表，其竞争对手伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）斗争之激烈超过了几乎所有人的预料。"
    ],
    [
        "Technological breakthroughs have boosted these energy sources’ competitiveness relative to fossil fuels.",
        "技术突破增强了这些能源资源相对化石燃料的竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "This meant that as the ruble depreciated, Russia’s debts rose.",
        "这意味着当卢布贬值时，俄罗斯的债务会增加。"
    ],
    [
        "He is now holding up the news that the home heating and air conditioning manufacturer Carrier will keep some 800 jobs in my home state of Indiana as proof that his approach works.",
        "如今，他将开利公司（Carrier）将保留我的家乡印第安纳州的800个工作岗位哪来当作他的方针见效的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "A comprehensive approach must recognize the speed of internal change, especially in the minds of ordinary North Koreans.",
        "综合性方案必须意识到朝鲜的内部变化，尤其是普通朝鲜人思想的变化速度。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, his home and toy factory are at the North Pole, which, according to the minister’s interpretation, belongs to Canada.",
        "毕竟，他的家和玩具工厂都在北极，而按照这位部长的解释，它们都属于加拿大。"
    ],
    [
        "He is a savvy marketer who tapped into the political zeitgeist by pandering to working-class Republicans and “Reagan Democrats,” some of whom may have supported Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary.",
        "他是精明的推销高手，通过迎合工作阶级共和党和“里根民主党”——其中一些可能在民主党初选阶段支持了佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）——利用了政治时代精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless the European environment deteriorates sharply, Europe’s travails will not be the main story for the global economy in 2013.",
        "因此除非欧洲的境况急剧恶化，否则欧洲的阵痛将不会是2013年全球经济的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "Conjuring up some kind of EU-level nationalism to compete with state-level nationalism would be akin to taking medicine that is worse than the disease.",
        "为与国家级别的民族主义相抗衡而制造出某种欧盟级别的民族主义就好比服用的药物比疾病本身更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, few of the export processing zones proliferating around the world have delivered the results observed in Mauritius.",
        "与之相似，遍布世界各地的出口加工区也很少能够获得毛里求斯那样的繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, Jeb Bush and the Democrats’ presumed nominee, Hillary Clinton, embody traditional politics.",
        "相反，杰布·布什和民主党志在必得的提名人希拉里·克林顿采取的是传统政治。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Thiel, the key difference between this phenomenon and the rise of robots lies in consumption.",
        "提尔认为，这一现象和机器人崛起之间的关键区别在于消费。"
    ],
    [
        "But Hu’s administration invariably slams on the brakes whenever their “put-people-first” initiatives begin to threaten one-party rule.",
        "但是，一旦其“以民为本”的政策开始威胁到一党专政之时，胡锦涛就必定踩煞车。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the polls, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, not François Mitterrand, should have been elected in 1981.",
        "根据民调，应当是德斯坦而非密特朗在1981年当选。"
    ],
    [
        "Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries called for an embargo at the time of the 1967 war, but it had little effect because the US was then largely self sufficient.",
        "石油输出国组织中的阿拉伯成员国在1967年战争的时候呼吁实行禁运，但是由于美国当时在很大程度上是自给自足，因此效果不大。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Are Central Banks on Trial Again?",
        "为何央行又开始做实验了？"
    ],
    [
        "If China is to ensure the continued development of its digital economy, while containing the risks associated with disruption, its leaders will need to implement smart regulations.",
        "为了确保数字经济的持续健康发展，应对突破性技术进步所带来的产业与社会风险，中国需要实施明智的监管机制。"
    ],
    [
        "With these reservations in mind, JR East Japan proceeded with the export of Shinkansen technology to China. Unfortunately, Kasai’s fears have been vindicated.",
        "带着这些顾虑，JR东日本继续向中国出口新干线技术。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not just an economic issue; it is a moral one.",
        "它不仅仅是一个经济问题； 也是一个道德问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And now he had been consecrated as an official Jew, seeming to have forgotten the chilling maxim from Pirkei Avot (“Ethics of the Fathers”): “Seek not undue intimacy with the ruling power.”",
        "现在自己却成了官方犹太人的代表，他似乎没有记住Pirkei Avot（《父辈的伦理》）一书中那句令人毛骨悚然的格言：“切勿与统治者寻求不当的亲密关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But even with the currently depressed copper price, Chile’s budget deficit is only 2% of GDP.",
        "但即便当前铜价如此低迷，智利的预算赤字也仅为GDP的2％。"
    ],
    [
        "In case you’re wondering, the first two authors of the report Trump cited – just published in March – are Bernstein and Montgomery.",
        "如果你想知道刚刚在3月发表的特朗普所引述报告的前两位作者——他们是伯恩斯坦和蒙哥马利。"
    ],
    [
        "Thatcherism’s Bellicose Soul",
        "撒切尔主义的好斗灵魂"
    ],
    [
        "The “stain” of direct involvement in armed action, coupled with fear of Taliban-like laws or a civil war like Algeria’s in the 1990’s harmed Islamists of all brands.",
        "选区卷入武装行动的“污点”以及对塔利班式法律和阿尔及利亚20世纪90年代内战的恐惧伤害了所有伊斯兰主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "Creditors and banks often preferred to do business with known borrowers, and where local jurisdictions could settle any disputes.",
        "债权人和银行总是偏好于和认识的借款人打交道，也偏爱地方法院能够解决纠纷的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The vast majority of America’s rebalance comes in non-military areas like trade and development.",
        "美国的调整绝大部分是在贸易发展等非军事领域。"
    ],
    [
        "This policy cannot endure for long.",
        "这一政策无法长时间持续。"
    ],
    [
        "Outgoing US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan preaches flexibility as a way of dealing with globalization.",
        "即将卸任的美联储主席阿兰·格林斯潘反复宣传灵活才是应对全球化的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "The root cause of the problem is the new European constitution.",
        "所有问题都来自新颁布的《欧洲宪法》。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the Republican-controlled Congress might work with Trump to implement a mini variant of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s.",
        "诚然，共和党控制的国会或将与特朗普合作实施20世纪30年代罗斯福新政的迷你版。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be achieved by pumping sulphates into the stratosphere or through “marine cloud brightening,” which would cause clouds to reflect more sunlight back into space.",
        "这可以通过向平流层输入硫酸盐或“海洋云层亮化”（从而让云将更多阳光反射回太空）实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether justified or not, when people perceive a threat to their national identity, their tribal instincts kick in.",
        "不管有没有充分的理由，当人们感到民族身份受到威胁时，他们的部落本能就会蜂拥而出。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also dead wrong.",
        "但其实这样的理解完全错误。"
    ],
    [
        "And Romney’s drastic budget cutbacks, targeted at the poor and middle class, would further impede social mobility.",
        "而罗姆尼针对穷人和中产阶级的大幅预算削减政策会进一步阻碍社会流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "Several religious leaders joined the chorus of condemnation that followed the attack on Malala.",
        "不少宗教领袖也齐声指责对马拉拉的供给。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries like Germany that are running a current-account surplus would also help themselves by helping to stimulate the European economy as a whole.",
        "像德国一样拥有经常账户盈余的国家，也可以通过帮助刺激整个欧洲的经济增长来帮助它们自己。"
    ],
    [
        "One was that Germany should be flattened and reduced to a pre-industrial society from which no effective aggression could ever emerge again.",
        "一种观点是：应该把德国夷为平地，让它退回到工业社会以前的水平，这样它就再也无法发动大规模的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "But supporting that smallholder in launching a farming business that could generate a five-fold increase in income amounts to poverty eradication.",
        "但支持同样的一个人，令其农场能成为一盘为他带来5倍收益的生意，才是真正的根除贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico and Poland will be its first users and more countries will line up.",
        "墨西哥和波兰将是第一批的受益者，还有更多的国家正在等待批准。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s something a computer cannot do. It requires a person.",
        "有些事情电脑是插不上手的，只能靠人本身。"
    ],
    [
        "Last July, the UN General Assembly passed, without dissent, a Bhutanese-initiated resolution recognizing the pursuit of happiness as a fundamental human goal and noting that this goal is not reflected in GDP.",
        "去年7月，联合国大会一致通过了一项由不丹提出的决议，承认人类根本目标在于追求幸福，而国内生产总值不能体现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet a third test for diplomats also stems from the climate agreement reached in Paris in December.",
        "但对外交官的第三项考验来自12月在巴黎达成的气候变化协定。"
    ],
    [
        "The second reason is more fundamental: the waning sense of purpose and conviction that characterizes Western democracies today.",
        "第二个原因更加根本：成为当今西方民主一大特征的目的和信念感的消失。"
    ],
    [
        "An important indicator of the magnitude of the new global economy’s challenges is that so few countries satisfy all three requirements.",
        "反映新全球经济挑战的严峻程度的一种重要指标就是，极少国家能同时满足这三个要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Assume, for example, that an annual universal grant of $50 is given to all children below 10 years of age in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zambia − covering roughly 10 million children.",
        "例如设想一下，给莫桑比克、马拉维和赞比亚所有10岁以下儿童提供每年50美元的赠款，大约可以照顾到一千万儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "The final element separating today’s information ecosystem from that of the past, as Stanford law professor Nate Persily has observed, is sovereignty.",
        "正如斯坦福大学法学教授纳特·佩尔西利所观察到的那样，将今天的信息生态系统与过去区别开来的最终还是主权因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic openings to Central Asia and to ASEAN (specifically to Vietnam) are well underway, and reform will include further international opening.",
        "向中亚和东盟（特别是越南）开放经济也在积极展开，而改革将包括进一步的国际开放。"
    ],
    [
        "Art as a critique of luxury and excess!",
        "作为奢侈与过度的批评的艺术！"
    ],
    [
        "This confluence of political need has created an opportunity for all three countries to cooperate more closely in the management of civilian nuclear power, and this opportunity should not be missed.",
        "上述政治需要所形成的合力为三国创造了一个在管理民用核能方面实现更紧密合作的，不容错过的良机。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a system must place a high priority on protecting biodiversity and prevent the emergence of monocultures across the continent, which is home to some of the world’s richest ecosystems.",
        "这一体系必须着重强调保护生物多样性、阻止非洲大陆出现单作，因为非洲是全世界不少最丰富的生态系统的所在地。"
    ],
    [
        "The principal obstacle to peace has been Pakistan’s sponsorship of militancy and terrorism within India, culminating in the horrific attacks in Mumbai in November 2008, in which terrorist commandos killed almost 200 people.",
        "巴基斯坦支持印度境内的好战和恐怖势力一直是和平的主要障碍。 这种支持在2008年11月造成近200人死亡的孟买恐怖袭击中达到了顶点。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – This summer, at literary festivals and bookstores around the world, readers celebrated the 20-year anniversary of the debut of the first book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (re-titled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in the United States) – and with good reason.",
        "普林斯顿——今年夏天，在世界各地的文艺节和书店，读者们举办了J·K·罗琳《哈利波特》系列小说第一部——《哈利波特与魔法石》（在美国被更名为Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone）的首版20周年庆祝活动。 他们举办庆祝活动有着充分的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "He was later condemned again for theft, but was pardoned a year before arriving in Italy.",
        "后来他又一次因为偷窃而获罪，但在来意大利的前一年被赦免。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea, introduced by the Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman in 1969, entails the distribution of freshly printed money directly to the public, with a commitment from the central bank never to withdraw it.",
        "直升机撒钱的概念由诺贝尔经济学奖获得者米尔顿·弗里德曼（Milton Friedman）在1969年提出，意指直接向公众分派新印钞票，并且央行承诺永不收回。"
    ],
    [
        "Trying to rescue the financial sector without supporting a recovery in terms of businesses, jobs, and family purchasing power will not work.",
        "试图不通过支持企业、就业以及家庭购买力的复苏来拯救金融行业是行不通的。"
    ],
    [
        "First, unlike health care, where we can afford to proceed incrementally, the need for comprehensive financial reform is pressing.",
        "第一，医疗改革可以渐进，而金融大改革是火烧眉毛的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "What is certain is that expectations of high earnings growth would have a more durable positive effect on P/E levels than the suppression of the equity risk premium.",
        "可以确定的是，高盈利增长预期比抑制股票风险溢价对市盈率水平所造成了更持久的正效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us hope that the Americans act in time.",
        "我们只能寄希望于美国及时出手了。"
    ],
    [
        "By the late 1980’s, total public spending reached 60-65% of GDP, compared to about 30% in 1960.",
        "到二十世纪八十年代末，与1960年的大约30％相比，公共总开支达到了GDP的60％到65％。"
    ],
    [
        "By raising living standards, we would also be empowering both civil society and impoverished governments to defend the rule of law.",
        "通过提高生活水平，我们还将使得公民社会和贫穷的政府能够维护法治。"
    ],
    [
        "When women are paid, their jobs tend to reflect gender stereotypes and provide relatively low earnings, poor working conditions, and limited opportunities for career advancement.",
        "即使女性能得到薪酬，她们的岗位也往往带有性别刻板印象痕迹，工资相对较低，工作条件相对较差，职业发展机会相对有限。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, China’s leaders cannot predict their successors’ intentions. The US is betting that they will be peaceful, but no one knows.",
        "这是为了规避风险，毕竟就连中国领导人自己也不能准确预测其继任者是否会继续奉行和平外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Germany agreed to the wording only on the understanding that the ECB could not be a direct supervisor.",
        "事实上，德国就是在欧洲央行不能作为直接监管者的情况下才同意了这一条款的措辞。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Just when it seemed that things couldn’t get worse, it appears that they have.",
        "纽约——有时候事情看上去并不会变得很糟，但实际上却并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "“Meister” high schools, introduced in 2010 specifically to prepare young people for high-skilled jobs, are a positive step.",
        "2010年引进的“迈斯特（Meister）模式”高中专门培养年轻人接受高技能的工作，就是积极的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, African governments might wish to look selectively at other crops.",
        "的确，非洲各国政府可能想要有选择性地考量其它的农作物。"
    ],
    [
        "But those minor candidates underscore a deeper problem.",
        "但那些次要参选者突出了一个深层次问题。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason why democracy might matter for international currency status is that democratically elected governments are best able to make the credible commitments needed to develop deep and liquid financial markets.",
        "民主政治对国际货币地位很重要的原因之一在于民主选举出来的政府最能够许下开发大规模以及流动性的金融市场所需的信用承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But decades of research have shown that inclusion and equality should not mean ignoring differences between underrepresented groups.",
        "但几十年的研究表明包容和平等不应意味着忽视弱势群体与主流群体之间的差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Small wonder that forecasts for annual GDP growth are stuck at 1.5-2%.",
        "毫不奇怪，人们对俄罗斯GDP年增长率的预测值只有1. 5—2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, by virtue of more than 30 swap arrangements with other central banks (the first was with South Korea in December 2008), China is using its foreign-exchange reserves to help its neighbors and others defend themselves against volatile international capital flows.",
        "与此同时，中国与30多家外国央行签订了互换协议（其中第一家央行是2008年9月的韩国央行），利用其外汇储备帮助邻国和其他国家抵御国际资本流的波动。"
    ],
    [
        "Under those circumstances, Chinese domestic demand has the potential to become an increasingly important source of export-led growth for China’s major trading partners – provided, of course, that other countries are granted free and open access to rapidly expanding Chinese markets.",
        "在这样的环境下，中国内需有可能成为中国主要贸易伙伴出口拉动型增长的重要源泉——当然，一个前提是其他国家能自由开放地进入快速扩张的中国市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Jean Monnet’s dream of a United States of Europe was not what the British wanted when they joined the EU 40 years ago. Nor were they seeking a European counterweight to the United States, as Konrad Adenauer, Germany’s first post-war chancellor, had once advocated.",
        "欧盟缔造者让·莫内（Jean Monnet）建立欧洲合众国的梦想可不是英国人在40年前加入欧盟时想得到的东西，他们也不想如德国战后第一任总理康拉德·阿登纳（Konrad Adenauer）曾一度鼓吹的那样借欧洲抗衡美国。"
    ],
    [
        "A non-dedicated mobile phone could be used to capture and send image data from an RDT to a remote site, where a health-care provider would provide feedback on the results.",
        "非专用手机可以被用于捕获和传送来自快速诊断测试的影像数据至远程站点，由位于远程站点的医疗服务提供者提供结果反馈。"
    ],
    [
        "And then there is Europe, which is yet to overcome decisively its debt and growth problems.",
        "还有欧洲。 欧洲仍没有拿出果断的措施克服其债务和增长问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Originators or managers of these securitizations will be required to retain a meaningful stake in each tranche of the issue.",
        "这些资产证券化的发起人或管理人将会被要求和这个问题的每个部分都保持实质性的厉害关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But striking the proper balance is challenging.",
        "而在此之间寻找一个合适的平衡点也是相当有难度的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the insinuation that people who criticize the Israeli government are therefore guilty of condoning violence against homosexuals in other parts of the Middle East.",
        "真正令人不安的是影射以色列政府的批评者因此是在纵容中东其他地区针对同性恋的暴力活动。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while both of these positive trends are likely to continue, a third positive factor may not prove as durable. Every year, Africans living outside the continent send roughly $30 billion to family and friends back home.",
        "但是，尽管这两个积极的趋势有可能会继续，但是，第三个积极因素却未必持久。"
    ],
    [
        "It humbly tracks their accounting of cases of malnourishment, alcoholism, diseases of poverty, and the ravages of unemployment and inadequate medical care.",
        "电影忠实地记录了她们所遇到的营养不良，酒精中毒，各种贫困所导致的疾病以及失业和缺乏医疗保健所造成的危害等各种事件。"
    ],
    [
        "The vast array of details that defined a person was widely distributed.",
        "勾勒个人轮廓的零散信息分散在各种机构。"
    ],
    [
        "The estimated growth rate for 2016 is lower than the population growth rate of about 2%, implying a per capita contraction in GDP.",
        "2016年预计增长率更是低于2%左右的人口增长率，这意味着人均GDP将有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brothers’ political opponents have not been silent.",
        "穆斯林兄弟会的政治对手并非无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "There was also no discussion of Chinese cyber theft of Western technology.",
        "中国对西方技术的网络盗窃也没有讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fund that Cried Wolf?",
        "喊“狼来了”的IMF？"
    ],
    [
        "The article was a promotional piece for Chua’s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which has become an instant bestseller.",
        "这篇为她的新书《虎妈战歌》做宣传的文章一经发表就掀起了轩然大波，读者在华尔街日报网站上发表了4000多篇评论，Facebook上的回帖更是高达10万。 而该书也立刻跻身于畅销书之列。"
    ],
    [
        "Mario Draghi’s Guns of August",
        "马里奥·德拉基的八月炮火"
    ],
    [
        "At the center of this debate is the so-called doctrine of the “responsibility to protect.”",
        "这一辩论的核心是所谓的“保护责任”主义。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, American companies now hold abroad roughly $2 trillion in profits that have never been subject to US tax.",
        "结果，美国公司目前所持有的从未缴纳过美国公司税的利润高达约2万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, we’ll win and kill him and his henchmen.”",
        "否则，我们将会获胜并杀死他和他的亲信。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Insecurity about jobs is a defining characteristic of our age.",
        "对于工作的不安全感是我们这个时代的显著特征。"
    ],
    [
        "Tomorrow’s Middle East will not be the same as it was a mere two months ago, but the shape the region will ultimately take is unknown.",
        "明天的中东将与短短两个月前大不一样，但该地区未来的局势如何尚不得而知。"
    ],
    [
        "It should have been a careful and deliberate sounding out of the will of the people.",
        "它应该是人民经过深思熟虑后发出的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Collaboration between business and government leaders to strengthen key reforms and forestall credit rating downgrades floundered when finance minister Pravin Gordhan was sacked from President Jacob Zuma’s cabinet in March.",
        "自从财政部长普拉文·戈尔丹（Pravin Gordhan）在3月份被雅各布·祖马（Jacob Zuma）总统驱逐出内阁之后，商界和政府领导人之间合作强化关键改革并阻止信用评级下调的努力也就废弛了。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost everywhere, these surviving indigenous populations became subservient members of European-led societies.",
        "但无论身在何处，这些活下来的土著人口都成了以欧洲人为首社会的附属成员。"
    ],
    [
        "Sexual abuse in US-operated prisons got worse and worse over time, ultimately including, according to doctors who examined detainees, anal sodomy.",
        "随着时间的推移，在美国掌管的监狱里性虐待情况越来越严重，根据检查被押人员的医生的反映，最极端的情况还包括肛门鸡奸。"
    ],
    [
        "It arises partly from the fact that Russia is an \"imitation\" culture.",
        "其中部分原因在于俄罗斯是一个\"模仿式\"的文化。"
    ],
    [
        "The current one, created in 2003, is deeply outmoded, as epitomized by its opening line: “Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure, nor so free.”",
        "2003年出台的现行战略已经严重过时，这一点集中体现在其开篇的序言之中：“欧洲从来没有像现在这样繁荣、安全和自由。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Palestinians in Gaza demonstrate that they can rule themselves and be a good neighbor, a key justification for Israel’s continuing occupation elsewhere will weaken.",
        "但是如果加沙地带的巴勒斯坦人证明他们有能力实行自治并成为以色列的好邻居，那么这将无疑削弱以色列在任何地区持续占领的主要理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Using advanced information technologies – computers, satellite mapping, image processing, expert systems, and more – we now have the means to grow more food with less environmental damage; improve public health for rich and poor alike; distribute more electricity with lower greenhouse-gas emissions; and make our cities more livable and healthier, even as urbanization raises their populations by billions in the coming decades.",
        "运用计算机、卫星定位、图像处理、专家系统和更多的先进信息技术，我们已经掌握了在减少环境损害的同时生产更多粮食、改善贫富群体公共健康、在降低温室气体排放的同时输送更多电力、以及即使今后几十年城市人口因城镇化增加数十亿，也能使我们的城市更加健康宜居的全新方法。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Greece's official creditors have granted it long enough grace periods and low enough interest rates that the burden is bearable.",
        "事实上，希腊的官方债权人已经给了它足够长的宽限期和足够低的利率，因此希腊的债务负担是可承受的。"
    ],
    [
        "The same blame game of codependency is apparent in the cyber-security controversy.",
        "同样的共存指责游戏在网络安全争议中也表露无遗。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to popular belief, the true global trade dilemma of our time is not so much liberalization versus protectionism, but the rights of capital versus the rights of people.",
        "与流行的信念相反，现时代真正的全球贸易困境并非自由化与保护主义之争，而是资本的权利与人民的权利之争。"
    ],
    [
        "So they rushed to gas pumps, to jewelry shops, and to creditors to repay loans.",
        "因此他们蜂拥涌向加油站、珠宝店和贷款商归还贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Which leaders will teach the facts of life to the more extreme members of the Jewish diaspora in America?",
        "那个领导人会向美国犹太人中的极端分子讲述事实呢？"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The International Monetary Fund is, in many places, the organization that everybody loves to hate.",
        "美国剑桥—在许多地方，国际货币基金组织（IMF）是一个人见人恨的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "What was not anticipated was that globalization would erode these boundaries.",
        "但人们没有预料到的是全球化侵蚀了这些边界。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush’s refusal to set a deadline for withdrawing troops is not taken as a sign of resolve, but as a statement of America’s intent to remain in Iraq, establish a puppet regime, control the country’s oil and set up permanent military bases.",
        "布什拒绝为撤军设置最后期限并不被认为是决心的表现，而被看作是美国企图继续驻军伊拉克，建立傀儡政权，控制该国石油和建立永久性军事基地的声明。"
    ],
    [
        "But I remember the many children in my neighborhood who were not vaccinated.",
        "但我记得，许多邻居家小孩没有接种疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas the European Union is 28 sovereign countries with one common market, the Indian Union is one sovereign country with 29 separate markets.",
        "欧盟是28个主权国家组成的共同市场，而印度却是拥有29个独立市场的单一主权国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The losses also include failure to conserve the world’s dwindling wildlife and rapidly degrading ecosystems, which are worth trillions of dollars in terms of life-supporting services.",
        "损失还包括没有保护世界日益减少的野生物种以及快速衰退的生态系统。 在维持生命服务的意义上，这些都价值数以万亿计美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In parallel to their attempts to delay or prevent regulation through assertions of scientific uncertainty, polluters and manufacturers of hazardous products have promoted the “junk science” movement, which attempts to influence public opinion by ridiculing scientists whose research threatens powerful interests, irrespective of the quality of that scientist’s research.",
        "与其通过坚持科学的不确定性来拖延或防止监管的企图相提并论的，是污染者和有害产品制造者们推动“垃圾科学”运动的努力。 这项运动的意图是通过不分青红皂白对威胁到自身利益的科学家及其研究进行讥讽，从而影响公众舆论。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it should be considered an indispensable strategic partner for those in the international community who want to prevent the entirety of East Africa from slipping into chaos.",
        "事实上，它应该成为国际社会所有希望防止整个东非陷入混乱的国家不可或缺的战略伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is unlikely to swing the political pendulum back toward Europe, especially in countries like France and the UK.",
        "但这根本无助于让政治氛围朝有利于欧洲的方向发展，特别是在法国和英国等国家。"
    ],
    [
        "It is, after all, a European nation in cultural, if not political terms, whereas progress in China will not be measured by the introduction of Western-style democracy, but eventually, one hopes, by Singapore-style rule of law.",
        "毕竟，即便在政治上有所差异，俄罗斯在文化上仍然是一个欧洲国家。 而对于中国的发展，我们很难用西方的民主标准来加以衡量，但我们期望最终中国的法治能够与新加坡的相互媲美。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, with the rate of functional literacy at only 37.5%, they can easily manipulate the votes of uneducated people with alcohol, pop slogans, and intimidation.",
        "毕竟，具备实际读写能力的人口比例仅仅是37. 5%，他们可以通过酒精、通俗口号和恐吓来轻易操纵没有受过教育的人的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Day after day, the talented Palestinian team of animators, puppeteers, designers, cameramen, and producers could not get to work – even as the Israeli team was churning out their own material in a brightly lit, well-funded studio in Tel Aviv.",
        "日复一日，那些才华横溢的巴勒斯坦动画片画家，木偶艺人，设计师，摄影师和制作人都无法工作——而以色列制作方则在特拉维夫宽敞明亮且资金充足的制作室里推出了自己的作品。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTA BARBARA – Since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, capital inflows have pushed up the dollar’s value to levels not seen in more than a decade.",
        "圣芭芭拉—自特朗普当选美国总统以来，资本流入将美元推高到十多年来所未见的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the collapse of the common currency area owing to political squabbles seems unlikely at this point, it cannot be ruled out entirely.",
        "尽管从这点来看，由于政治争论而引发的共同货币地区的崩溃是不可能的，但是也不能完全排除在外。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, however, there are few signs that governments are moving decidedly away from an open economy.",
        "但到目前为止，几乎没有迹象表明政府正在远离开放经济。 globaltradealert."
    ],
    [
        "Maybe the word bubble is used too carelessly.",
        "也许“泡沫”一词有滥用之嫌。"
    ],
    [
        "She argues that focusing on asset prices ignores the role – helpful for all income groups – of the Fed’s monetary policy in maintaining growth and thus warding off the threat of a wholesale depression.",
        "她指出，聚焦于资产价格忽略了美联储货币政策在维持增长、从而遏制全面萧条风险方面的作用，而这有助于所有收入阶层。"
    ],
    [
        "If the major English-speaking economies remain open and do not close themselves off to trade and immigration, they will also see a return to growth.",
        "如果英语国家能坚持经济开放，不向贸易和移民关上大门的话，它们肯定也能看到复苏的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Generally, the successful economies in the past three decades have been those that adopted reforms and policies aimed at increasing structural adaptability: one thinks of the US after Ronald Reagan, the United Kingdom after Margaret Thatcher, Germany after Gerhard Schröder, and China after Deng Xiaoping.",
        "总体来说，在过去三十年间成功的经济体都是那些推行改革和政策，致力于提升结构适应能力的国家：请回想罗纳德·里根（Ronald Reagan）执政后的美国，撒切尔夫人（Margaret Thatcher）的英国，格哈特·施罗德（Gerhard Schröder）的德国以及邓小平的中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is for Turkey “a principle of moderation” and an enticement to remain democratic.",
        "欧洲是土耳其“自我约束的准绳”和坚持民主的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "With no salaries to pay teachers (or even the security services), his ability to influence even his own presidential guard was severely limited.",
        "由于无钱支付教师（甚至保安人员）的工资，使其对自己总统卫队的影响力也极为有限。"
    ],
    [
        "L2D trainers worked across peer networks, building knowledge and skills on the basis of trusted relationships.",
        "L2D培训师通过点对点网络工作，基于信任关系构建知识和技能。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, there are some alarming elements in Russian policy, mostly because Russia has never really known where it begins and where it ends.",
        "是的，俄国政策中有许多令人担忧的地方，大多数情况下是因为俄国从来就不知道何去何从。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, these diseases receive a disproportionate amount of funding for research and control, while other infections kill, blind, deform, and disable many more – the “bottom billion” – who have little access to health care.",
        "结果，这三种疾病的研究和控制得到了多得不成比例的资金，而与此同时，更多的人——“最底层的十亿人”——因为其他疾病而死亡、致盲、畸形、残废，几乎无法得到治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "Tropical diseases remain killers to this day.",
        "即使是今天仍有人死于热带疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "On an individual level, adults who were stunted in their childhood – a condition that has affected nearly 70% of the working population in some areas – often face a diminished capacity to work and earn a living, owing to the developmental challenges they faced.",
        "在个体层面，儿时身高不足的成年人——在一些地区，这一情况影响近70%的工作人口——常常因为发育缺陷而工作能力低下，难以谋生。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – One question has dominated the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting this year in Peru: Will China’s economic downturn trigger a new financial crisis just as the world is putting the last one to bed?",
        "伦敦—一个问题主导了今年国际货币基金组织（IMF）的秘鲁年会：世界刚刚把上一场金融危机平息下去，中国经济减速会引发一场新的金融危机吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It is up to China, the real director of the North Korean production, to drop the curtain on this abominable show and its rogue star.",
        "作为朝鲜一言一行的真正指导者，中国应该站出来让这场闹剧及其流氓主演消停消停。"
    ],
    [
        "An enlightened policy response to the refugee crisis could help Europe in other ways as well.",
        "对难民危机采取开明政策应对措施还可能在其他方面助欧洲一臂之力。"
    ],
    [
        "Asian leaders have often complained that at a time when Asia became increasingly interconnected and China began to enlarge its sphere of influence, America was largely absent in the region.",
        "亚洲领导人经常抱怨说，当亚洲越发相互依存、中国开始扩大其势力范围之际，美国基本上在该地区不见踪迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists have traditionally believed that each team member is paid her opportunity cost, that is, the highest income she could receive if she were kicked off the team.",
        "传统上，经济学家认为每个团队成员应该得到等于其机会成本的报酬，也就是说，得到他被踢出情况下仍能够获得的最高收入。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, its weak domestic demand has dampened growth elsewhere.",
        "实际上，该国疲软的国内需求也拖累了其他地区的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "This shift to “heroic” leadership can be seen in ballooning CEO compensation.",
        "这种向“英雄”领导的转变可以从不断膨胀的CEO报酬可以看出。"
    ],
    [
        "Only those who govern our democracies can do that, by shrinking our freedoms in freedom's name.",
        "只有治理我们的民主国家的人可以，那就是以自由的名义打击我们的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "A new social contract will not appear out of thin air.",
        "新社会契约不会凭空产生。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberal democracy assumes just the opposite: space for different perspectives – and for political alternatives.",
        "而自由民主的假设则正好相反：要容忍不同观点和不同的政治选择。"
    ],
    [
        "For where else would Christ be but with those who suffer and are persecuted?",
        "救世主会跟那些遭受痛苦和迫害的人同在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans have grown used to the idea that the transatlantic relationship is the foundation of the international order.",
        "欧洲人从小就习惯了将美欧跨大西洋关系作为整个世界秩序的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "But this simplistic approach quickly turns constructive discussion into a casualty of the ideological battle between advocates of state and market capitalism.",
        "这一过于简化的观点常导致建设性的讨论迅速成为国家资本主义和市场资本主义支持者之间的意识形态之争。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy is ranked 43rd in the World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness index, well below the main eurozone countries, owing to lack of investment – especially in human capital – and structural rigidities that have constrained growth for many years.",
        "意大利在经合组织全球竞争力排名中名列第43，与主要欧元区国家相去甚远，这主要是由于投资不足（特别是人力资本方面的投资）以及约束增长多年的结构性僵化造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the goal is explicitly to improve human health, it might be more cost-effective simply to invest in a water-treatment plant.",
        "但如果把目标直接定位改善人类健康，那么也许仅仅投资于水处理工厂性价比更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Regling also revealed that there is now increased and frequent coordination between monetary authorities in the United States, Germany, and China, drawing attention to the fact that the “old Triad” of the dollar, euro, and yen may now have been replaced by a “new Triad” of the dollar, euro, and Chinese renminbi.",
        "了格林还透露，美国、德国和中国的货币当局正在加紧合作，这使人们注意到，美元、欧元和日元的“老三角”可能已被美元、欧元和人民币的“新三角”取代。"
    ],
    [
        "But the hard part will be getting from here to there without an accident.",
        "但难点在于平安地从短期过渡到长期。"
    ],
    [
        "The installation of a new leadership may matter little if the end of CCP rule is both foreseeable and highly probable.",
        "在中共统治结束可以预见并且极有可能的情况下，新领导班子的上任也许没有什么意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Without America by its side, Europe would be more vulnerable in the face of a rising China than America would be without the EU.",
        "没有美国的欧洲比没有欧洲的美国更难面对崛起的中国。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early days of 2009, the “new normal” was on virtually no one’s radar.",
        "2009年初，“新常态”几乎还不为人知。"
    ],
    [
        "The server issue, first revealed in March 2015, now dogs her campaign, speaking not only to her tone-deafness, but, more deadly, to her judgment.",
        "服务器问题首次曝光于2015年3月，现在已经影响到她的选战，不仅说明她不食人间烟火，更致命的是还暴露出她的拙劣的判断。"
    ],
    [
        "Disclosure requirements help, but they are no match for the discipline of the market.",
        "披露要求有所助益，但不可与市场的力量相提并论。"
    ],
    [
        "By placing primary health care at the center of the system, the country has improved coverage rates and outcomes, while delivering more personalized treatment.",
        "通过将初级医疗列为体系的核心，哥斯达黎加改善了覆盖率和结果，同时也提供了更多的个性化治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2000, Bernanke had argued that a central bank with sufficient will could “always,” in the medium term at least, restore full prosperity via quantitative easing.",
        "2000年，伯南克指出，有足够意愿的央行“永远”可以至少在中期通过量化宽松重塑充分繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that confronting the interconnected challenges associated with conflict and climate change demands comprehensive solutions.",
        "现实是，面对与冲突和气候变化有关的联动性挑战，需要全面的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "So there is no master currency at all any more.",
        "结果，再也没有什么货币能当老大。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, our understanding of both likelihoods and the possibilities themselves is problematic.",
        "在这方面，我们对于发生率以及这些可能性本身的理解都是有问题的。"
    ],
    [
        "To judge China’s economic dynamism, the key indicator is its fiscal position.",
        "判断中国的经济活力，关键指标是其财政状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its professed strategic pivot toward Asia, US President Barack Obama’s administration has done little to address China’s increasingly assertive efforts to stake its territorial claims in the South and East China Seas or North Korea’s affronts to the status quo on the Korean Peninsula.",
        "尽管对外宣称战略支点向亚洲转移，奥巴马总统政府并未采取多少行动来阻止中国越来越高调地宣称对东南中国海的领土要求或朝鲜对朝鲜半岛现状的公开挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Even then, Britain will need to continue paying budget contributions for many years, if it wants an orderly and non-disruptive Brexit.",
        "即便如此，英国仍需要支付预算多年，如果它想实现有序的、不会引起破坏的退欧的话。"
    ],
    [
        "They were convicted for financial crimes in a 2004 trial, but in August faced a fresh round of charges, including tax evasion and embezzlement.",
        "在2004年的审判中，他们都被判犯有金融罪行，但在今年八月，他们又面临了包括逃税和挪用公款在内的新一轮的指控。"
    ],
    [
        "In his wide-ranging speech at the Sorbonne last month, French President Emmanuel Macron called for the creation of a European Monetary Fund, though he did not spell out the details of what he envisions.",
        "在上个月在索尔伯恩（Sorbonne）所做的涵盖面甚广的讲话中，法国总统马克龙便呼吁建立一个欧洲货币基金组织，尽管他并没有具体阐述他所构想的细节。"
    ],
    [
        "In the new economic world, many more occupations may follow the route of discarded local musicians, resulting in wealth concentrations on a vastly greater scale than before.",
        "在新的经济现实中，更多的职业会步乡土音乐人终遭淘汰的后尘，从而带来前所未有的，更大规模的财富集中。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom line is that the agreement will provide an estimated one-year warning from the moment that Iran might decide to build one or more nuclear weapons to the point at which it could achieve that goal.",
        "根本点是该协议确定了一个大约为期一年的警告期——从伊朗可能决定制造一项或多项核武器开始到它可以达到这一目标为止。"
    ],
    [
        "With approximately 600 refugee doctors living in Britain, the well of untapped talent in the UK is deep.",
        "英国大约有600位难民医生，对他们的才能不加以利用不啻暴殄天物。"
    ],
    [
        "They view their work for the regime merely as a form of investment.",
        "在他们看来为政府工作不过是某种形式的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "America is still on a downward trajectory for 2009 – with grave consequences for the world as a whole.",
        "美国目前还是处于在2009年走下坡路的局面，并给整个世界带来巨大的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Russia – which extends to East Asia, but, owing to its economic and political weakness, has been a background player there – would certainly seek to benefit from this development.",
        "此外，俄罗斯——它正在向东亚扩大影响，但囿于其经济和政治弱势，一直只是二流东亚势力——肯定也会寻求在如此发展态势中获利。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, old history is often called to aid new doctrine.",
        "”在中国，古老的历史常常被新新思维所用。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because ISPs answer to other ISPs, not governments, dissidents and whistleblowers could maintain their anonymity.",
        "由于这是ISP行业内部的处理，不是由政府来主导的，所以相互之间可以保持举报者的匿名性。"
    ],
    [
        "The often-overlooked link between vaccines and cancer highlights a second common misconception: fate alone (and perhaps smoking) determines who gets cancer.",
        "疫苗和癌症之间的联系常常被忽视，这是第二个普遍存在的误解：光是命运（或许还有吸烟）决定了谁得癌症。"
    ],
    [
        "The Noor-1 project, covering an area of more than 4.5 square kilometers (1.7 square miles) with 500,000 curved mirrors – some as high as 12 meters – cost around $700 million.",
        "Noor-1工程覆盖面积超过4. 5平方公里，拥有500,000块曲面镜——其中一些高达12米——耗资7亿美元左右。"
    ],
    [
        "The particular ideals might be unimportant – simply those that happen to be available, owing to fashion or other historical circumstances.",
        "这些理想本身可能并不那么重要——不过是些信手拈来的，出于某种潮流或者其他历史性因素的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Arguably, this should be among Obama’s top priorities.",
        "也许，这才是奥巴马的最优先的事项。"
    ],
    [
        "Because ketamine has been available for decades, there is no patent for it, so pharmaceutical companies have little financial incentive to carry out research on the drug and seek approval for its use as an antidepressant.",
        "因为克他命已经出现了几十年，没有专利保护，因此制药公司没什么财务方面的动力展开这种药物的研究并寻求批准它用于抗抑郁治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators must counter the risks implied by structures that are intrinsically destabilizing, as the money market funds were.",
        "监管者必须遏制具有内在破坏稳定性的结构所隐含的风险，货币市场基金便是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "If Obama blocks the pipeline, they will build others, and other export facilities – if not on Canada’s environmentally delicate Pacific coast, then at some already-industrialized Atlantic port.",
        "如果奥巴马阻止修建管道，他们就会选择在加拿大脆弱的太平洋沿岸或某些已经工业化的大西洋港口修建其他出口设施。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Vladimir Putin’s Russia is nationalistic, awkward, and disposed to dangerous trouble-making.",
        "无可否认，普京治下的俄罗斯满脑子民族主义，笨拙不堪而且经常惹一些大麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "The only realistic policy would be to cultivate an “acceptable dictator.”",
        "唯一现实的政策应该是扶植一位“可接受的独裁者”。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, over the past year, we in Ukraine often have watched in disbelief as Europe struggled to confront so clear an act of aggression.",
        "事实上，在过去一年中，我们乌克兰人常常带着不可思议的表情目睹欧洲如何应对如此明目张胆的请略行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more unsettling was the anecdotal evidence of public support for military intervention.",
        "更令人不安的是公众支持军事干预的传闻依据。"
    ],
    [
        "Globally, however, solar and wind are only a small part of total renewables – less than 7% in 2010.",
        "但在全球范围内，太阳能和风能仅占可再生能源总量的一小部分——2010年还不到7%。"
    ],
    [
        "The ASEAN Coordinating Center for Humanitarian Assistance in Jakarta is expected to play a central role in building a disaster-related information network across the region, and in developing concrete measures for disaster management.",
        "位于雅加达的东盟人道主义援助协调中心将在建立一个与该区域灾难相关的信息网络方面扮演核心角色，并为针对各类灾害研究出一些切实的应对方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Employers and workers should negotiate such flexibility, but they should do so with incentives and financial support from government – for example, variable social-security and income taxes.",
        "雇主和工人应该就这一灵活性进行谈判，但政府应该提供激励和财政支持——比如可变的社会保障和所得税。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Germany and other eurozone members must regard Grexit as a significant risk to themselves.",
        "首先，德国和其他欧元区成员国必须将希腊退出视为对自身的严重风险。"
    ],
    [
        "As Xi rose through the Communist Party ranks, he forged close military ties as a reservist, assuming leadership of a provincial garrison and serving as a key aide to a defense minister.",
        "习近平在党内升迁过程中曾在预备役中供职，做过省级军区领导人和国防部长重要助手。"
    ],
    [
        "The other Republican candidates barely discuss the topic.",
        "其他共和党候选人几乎没有讨论过这个话题。"
    ],
    [
        "That may sound extreme, but some scholars, such as the 2004 Nobel Prize winner Ed Prescott, have shown that, historically, holding a large diversified portfolio of stocks long enough is generally a far better investment than ultra-safe US Treasury bonds.",
        "这听起来有点极端，但是，某些学者，例如2004年度诺贝尔经济学奖得主普雷斯科特证明，从历史来看，持有大范围分散的股票组合足够长的时间，一般而言，其投资要远远胜于超级安全的美国国债。"
    ],
    [
        "They're the ones who are human debris, not the United States of America and not our soldiers and our prison guards.\"",
        "他们才是人渣，美国没有错，我们的士兵和看守也没有错。 \""
    ],
    [
        "Hence the need to look at the “real effective exchange rate,” or the nominal effective exchange rate adjusted for inflation.",
        "因此我们需要着眼于“实际有效汇率”，或经通胀调整的名义有效汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "Labour, for its part, will seek to focus voters’ attention on issues that are thought to be toxic for the government, like the National Health Service.",
        "至于工党，他们将把重点放在选民对不利于政府的问题上的注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "ISIS’s army of psychopaths and adventurers was launched as a “startup” by Sunni magnates in the Gulf who envied Iran’s success with its Lebanese Shia proxy, Hezbollah.",
        "羡慕伊朗成功及其黎巴嫩什叶派代理——真主党的海湾逊尼派巨头最初“组建”了由精神病患者和冒险家组成的伊斯兰国。"
    ],
    [
        "Using RMB appreciation as the primary tool to fight inflation implies accepting a temporarily higher unemployment rate now in exchange for a permanently lower unemployment rate in the future.",
        "使用人民币升值作为解决通胀的主要办法意味着接受现今暂时的高失业率，从而换取未来永久性的低失业率。"
    ],
    [
        "But capital spending must exceed that peak if US businesses are to be equipped with state-of-the-art capacity, technology, and private infrastructure that will enable them to recapture market share at home and abroad.",
        "可如果美国企业要配备先进的产能、技术和私有基础设施，夺回国内外市场份额，资本支出就必须超过2000年的峰值。"
    ],
    [
        "Cameron now talks about the need for “a healthier relationship between politicians and media owners.”",
        "卡梅伦如今口口声声说：“政治家和媒体大亨之间需要一种更健康的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU-CELAC summit can also benefit from diplomatic efforts within CELAC, which includes all of the region’s 33 countries.",
        "欧盟-CELAC峰会也从CELAC内部的外交活动（包括该地区的所有33个国家）中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "That is, of course, better than nothing.",
        "当然，聊胜于无。"
    ],
    [
        "Years roll by.",
        "几年时间过去了。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq’s salvation from the nightmare that it endured over the previous 35 years lies not in any one man; indeed, reliance on “one man” was the central ingredient in Saddamist rule.",
        "把伊拉克从过去35年所忍受的梦魇中解救出来并不取决于任何单个人； 实际上，萨达姆统治的基本要素就是依赖于“某个个人”。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no need for the US and China to go to war in this century.",
        "美中两国没有必要在本世纪作战。"
    ],
    [
        "And too many regional governance mechanisms, with the important exception of the European Central Bank, lack sufficient influence, credibility, and, therefore, effectiveness.",
        "而太多的地区治理机制（欧洲央行是一个显著的例外）缺乏足够的影响力和信誉，从而效率低下。"
    ],
    [
        "China's Silent Rural Revolution",
        "沉默的中国农村革命"
    ],
    [
        "Interest-rate spreads for Italy and Spain are widening again, while borrowing costs for Portugal and Greece remained high all along.",
        "意大利和西班牙的利差再次开始抬头，葡萄牙和希腊的借贷成本则一直居高不下。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Oxford University economist Tony Atkinson looked at the UK’s economic performance through the lens of inequality, the 1980s, generally considered a strong decade in terms of growth, appeared much worse; and the 1990s, regarded as a low-growth decade, appeared much better.",
        "牛津大学经济学家托尼 · 阿特金森（Tony Atkinson）就通过不平等状况来观察英国的经济表现，人们一般认为经济增长强劲的1980年代，不平等状况却不断恶化； 而这一点在增长低迷的1990年代却有所改善。"
    ],
    [
        "But the global trade regime has to address issues of fairness, in addition to economic efficiency.",
        "但除了经济效率，全球贸易机制还必须解决公平问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Aren’t small, open economies like Singapore thriving?",
        "新加坡这样的小型开放经济不是活得风生水起吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite the apocalyptic omens, an energy transformation big enough and fast enough to curb the spike in global temperature remains within reach.",
        "然而，尽管末日预兆频现，我们仍然能够实现规模足够大、速度足够快的能源转型，从而遏制全球气温的升高。"
    ],
    [
        "The managers of these new safe-haven currencies are now desperately seeking at least a temporary peg or some system of bands relative to the exchange rates of their big neighbors.",
        "在绝望之中，这些新避风港货币的管理者试图把本币同较大邻国的货币临时挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "Democrats in both houses of Congress are likely to vote against the entire proposed corporate-tax reform, including the BAT.",
        "两院的民主党可能会投票反对整套公司税改革方案，包括边境调节税。"
    ],
    [
        "In developed countries, too, many advocate a greater role for the state, in order to ensure that promised social benefits are delivered to rapidly aging populations.",
        "在发达国家也有很多人支持国家扮演更重要角色，从而确保迅速老化的人口能够获得承诺的社会福利。"
    ],
    [
        "The most fundamental problem is that, in examining stock market investments, we are selecting an economic activity because it was a consistent success in the past.",
        "最主要的问题是，在检验股票市场投资中，我们因为某种经济活动过去的一贯成功而选择它。"
    ],
    [
        "But that does not necessarily detract from his genius.",
        "但这不一定会有损于他的天才。"
    ],
    [
        "Chen’s jail sentence should also serve to remind the DPP that it must become a party for all Taiwanese, “local” or not if it is to have any chance at a revival.",
        "陈水扁的判刑同时亦提醒民进党，如果想要翻身的话它必须变成一个代表全台湾人的政党，无论这些民众是“本省人”还是“外省人”。"
    ],
    [
        "If a bank is too big to fail, regulators should go even further, and regulate proprietary traders’ compensation packages to ensure that risks and rewards are properly aligned.",
        "如果银行大到不能倒闭时，监管者就应该出手，监管职业式证券交易的赔偿方案，以确保风险和受益正确地配置。"
    ],
    [
        "That approach failed.",
        "这种方式失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "Women who have completed secondary or tertiary education are more likely to enter and remain in the labor market than their less educated counterparts.",
        "与其他女性相比，完成中学和大学教育的女性更有可能进入和呆在劳动市场内。"
    ],
    [
        "If this new, lower growth rate persists, by 2021 average incomes in the US will be 16% lower than they would have been had the US maintained the roughly 2% annual productivity gain experienced since 1945.",
        "如果这个新的较低增长率持续下去，到2021年美国人的平均收入将比自1945年以来保持的约2％的年度生产力增长率下的收入水平低16％。"
    ],
    [
        "Difficult economic times will make it hard to generate support for trade pacts, despite the current importance of export-oriented firms for the American economy.",
        "经济困难时期很难产生对贸易协议的支持，尽管当前出口导向型的企业对美国经济非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Discussion of rules and institutions comes across as bloodless.",
        "对规则和制度的讨论给人留下不会流血的引向。"
    ],
    [
        "And that, supposedly, made him a Zionist.",
        "而这应该意味着他是个犹太复国主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "But Kharas’s projections suggest that Asia will account for two-thirds of the world’s middle class by 2030.",
        "卡拉斯预计到2030年将全球有2/3的中产阶级住在亚洲。 换句话说。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, low interest rates held productivity down by allowing heavily indebted zombie companies to survive for longer than they otherwise would have done.",
        "换句话说，低利率让那些负债累累的僵尸企业得以苟延残喘，从而拉低了生产力水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, adaptation should be a high priority, particularly for the most vulnerable groups.",
        "此外，尤其对最弱势群体，适应应当成为工作的重点。"
    ],
    [
        "To find relief, we must look to the skies – but not in the way one might expect.",
        "要想摆脱这一困境，我们必须将目光投向天空——但也许不是你预想中的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Hamas’s leaders have expressed support for the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.",
        "事实上，哈马斯领导人已表明支持基于1967年界线建立巴勒斯坦国，将东耶路撒冷作为首都。"
    ],
    [
        "During James Wolfensohn’s presidency of the Bank, there was a change in philosophy.",
        "世界银行在沃尔福森担任行长期间发生了某些理念上的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Why not, I asked?",
        "我问，这是为什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, at least for the present, this rivalry is far less emotional than India-Pakistan relations, having not been born of historical grievances.",
        "幸运的是，至少在现在，这种对峙比印巴冲突更为理性，并未有太多的历史宿怨夹杂其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, the developed world has too few good fires, and the developing world has too many bad ones.",
        "总体而言，发达世界好火太少，而发展中世界坏火太多。"
    ],
    [
        "Food has become more plentiful and affordable, especially in the developing world, where calorie availability has increased by 40% per person over the past 40 years, while food prices have more than halved.",
        "食品更丰富，价格也更便宜了，尤其是在发展中国家，其人均卡路里的可提供量在过去40年间增加了40%，而食品的价格则下降了一半多。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, officials recently declared that judicial independence and the separation of powers are “colonial” legacies that should be discarded, with China’s government and Hong Kong’s chief executive, not the local courts, calling all the shots.",
        "比如官方最近宣布司法独立和分权是应该抛弃的“殖民地”产物，并由中国政府和香港首席执行官、而非地方法院来做出决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The opposition Maoist-Madhesi alliance wants the decision rule to be consensus, whereas the exasperated government proposes requiring a two-thirds majority.",
        "反对派毛泽东主义-玛德西联盟希望以共识为决策规则，而恼怒不已的政府提出采用三分之二多数制。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of a democratic transformation, were the US to withdraw now, the Middle East would face a war of all against all for regional hegemony.",
        "如果美国现在从伊拉克撤军，中东将面临各国争夺地区性霸权的全面战争，而不是民主转型。"
    ],
    [
        "But the new view also highlights an important obstacle: many advanced countries’ trade and investment treaties prohibit the regulation of cross-border finance.",
        "但新观点也凸显了一个重要壁垒：许多发达国家的贸易和投资条约禁止监管跨境金融。"
    ],
    [
        "That leaves Italy, a country that, having dominated Europe’s politics and culture for most of its history, is now treated as “peripheral.”",
        "于是就只剩下了意大利，这个在大部分历史中主导着欧洲政治和文化的国家，现在被视为“外围”。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the eurozone crisis remains unresolved, despite the ECB’s bold actions and talk of a banking, fiscal, economic, and political union.",
        "与此同时，尽管欧洲央行果断行动，成立银行、财政、经济和政治联盟的谈判也在进行中，但欧元区危机仍未解决。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s economies, rich and poor alike, have much to gain from accelerated innovation in the information age.",
        "世界各经济体，不管穷富，都将在信息时代的加速创新中大大获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Some governments have reacted to recent events with political repression, information blackouts, or a combination of authoritarian measures.",
        "有的国家对最近发生的事件的反应是政治压迫、信息封锁或多种威权措施的综合。"
    ],
    [
        "• the level of participation in the labor force;",
        "•就业参与程度的高低；"
    ],
    [
        "Larry Summers, the former US Treasury Secretary and now president of Harvard University, once called the single European currency a “distraction” from the serious supply-side reforms Europe needed to confront.",
        "担任过美国财政部长的哈佛大学校长萨莫斯曾把单一欧洲货币称为欧洲需要面对的真正供应改革的“干扰因素”。"
    ],
    [
        "In the aftermath of World War II, a group of idealistic Frenchmen bent on reconciliation with their former enemy declared that France would have “the Germany she deserved.”",
        "第二次世界大战后，一群理想主义法国人下决心与从前的敌人和解，他们说，“德国值得拥有”。"
    ],
    [
        "Left-leaning pundits claim that the dictator’s daughter has the same autocratic vision as her father, though Park invariably prefers incremental change to radical measures, and cut her political teeth in the tough-minded politics of the GNP.",
        "尽管较之极端措施朴始终更偏好渐进式的变化并成功改变了大国家党顽固不化的政治意志，左倾学者依然声称独裁总统的女儿与其父有着同样的专制目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In 13 years, the ICTY, with 1,200 employees, spent roughly $1.25 billion to convict only a few dozen war criminals.",
        "在13年里，拥有1200名工作人员的ICTY花费了约12. 5亿美金却只给几十个战犯定了罪。"
    ],
    [
        "They argue that the performance advantage is precisely why the doors of such schools should be open to all, without entrance exams.",
        "他们认为成绩优势恰恰说明此类学校的大门应该向所有人敞开，也就是说要取消入学考试。"
    ],
    [
        "The multilateral surveillance mechanisms launched last year by the IMF are a step in the right direction, but only if they become part of an institutionalized multilateral mechanism of surveillance and policy coordination.",
        "国际货币基金组织去年所建立的多边监管机制是朝正确方向所迈出的一个步骤，但是只有成立了一个实施多边监管机制和政策协调的组织，它们才能发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the most critical conflict – the one whose resolution has implications for all the rest – is in Ukraine, a country that has become central to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s expansionist ambitions.",
        "但也许最关键的冲突——如何解决这场冲突对全世界都有影响——是乌克兰，目前这个国家已成为俄罗斯总统普京的修正主义野心的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "International law tolerates some such building – as the Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia have been doing for years, though on a much smaller scale.",
        "国际法容忍某些这样的建设活动——比方说菲律宾、越南和马来西亚这样做已经有多年历史，虽然规模要小得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem has been that because we have lacked an independent judiciary, we have not had an independent election commission.",
        "问题是，因为我们缺乏司法独立，我们一直没有独立的选举委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "Denmark offers the most lavish subsidy of all, exempting electric cars from the country’s marginal 180% registration tax on all other vehicles.",
        "囊中羞涩的西班牙也能拿出6000欧元。 丹麦的补贴最为慷慨，电动汽车可以免缴其他所有类型汽车必须缴纳的高达180%的边际注册税。"
    ],
    [
        "But in my view, individual rights should not supersede sovereign ones.",
        "但在我看来，个体权利不应该超越主权权利。"
    ],
    [
        "In dark times, children and parents continue to view their schools as sanctuaries, as places of normality and safety.",
        "在黑暗时期，儿童和父母们继续将学校视为圣殿，视为道德和安全之所。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas the Bush administration is deploying an additional 21,000 American soldiers in Iraq, and is pushing for more allied troops in Afghanistan, America’s allies are rejecting its Middle East policy.",
        "而布什政府却正向伊拉克增派21000名美国士兵，并敦促盟国增兵阿富汗。 美国的盟友们正抵制其中东政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Asking shareholders and management to pay a relatively small amount is entirely fair and appropriate under these circumstances.",
        "在如今的环境下，让股东和管理层来承担相对较小的数目完全是公平合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, these groups have frequently initiated attacks on Israel from Gaza or through Sinai, generating cycles of violence that have embarrassed Hamas.",
        "此外，这些组织频繁地策动从加沙或经过西奈对以色列发动攻击，制造让哈马斯尴尬不已的暴力循环。"
    ],
    [
        "Some were pushed there by the high cost of containing the damage from banks’ irresponsible behavior.",
        "有些是被银行不负责任行为所造成的伤害所累——因为政府要用高成本来处理这些损失。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, for example, soldiers have been learning to fight in formation with robots in Hawaii, and we have engaged in bilateral training with unmanned aerial systems in Malaysia.",
        "这也解释了士兵们为什么在夏威夷学习如何与机器人协同作战，以及我们在马来西亚开展两国无人机系统培训的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The irony, of course, is that the Islamic State’s exploitation of images of “pornographic” violence is at odds with the Islamists’ own condemnations of visual stimulation in other areas of life.",
        "当人，讽刺之处在于伊斯兰国对“淫荡”暴力影像的利用与伊斯兰教本身在其他生活领域谴责视觉刺激的做法相悖。"
    ],
    [
        "Thirty-two years and four presidents later, Barack Obama’s recent inaugural address, with its ringing endorsement of a larger role for government in addressing America’s – and the world’s – most urgent challenges, looks like it may bring down the curtain on that era.",
        "”三十二年、四任总统过去了，如今奥巴马的最新就职演说响亮地喊出了支持政府在抵御美国——以及世界——所面临的最紧迫挑战中扩大作用的口号，似乎将再一次拉开这一时代的序幕。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is sympathy at work; China does not buy Treasuries because it wants to temper the pain of America’s fiscal brinkmanship.",
        "同时中国人这样做也不是出于同情； 它购买债券可不是为了缓解美国财政冒险行为所带来的痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Women’s lack of assets, together with out-dated social norms, is also a major barrier blocking their access to the capital they need to set up and expand small businesses.",
        "妇女财产的缺乏以及陈旧过时的社会规范，在很大程度上阻碍了她们获取创办和发展小企业所需的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "They have the youngest populations, and, all too often, are among the most likely to see a breakdown in governance.",
        "他们的人口最为年轻，而且很多时候，出现执政崩溃的可能性也最大。"
    ],
    [
        "If the tax code is not reformed, few banks will find the tradeoff attractive, because a higher tax bill will cancel out returns from taking Hensarling’s offer.",
        "如果税法不改革，很少有银行会觉得权衡政策有吸引力，因为较高的税收将抵消采取采纳亨萨林提案的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Sustained rapid growth is the result of poorer countries catching up to rich countries’ productivity levels – not of growth in the rich countries themselves.",
        "持续的快速增长源自于穷国生产力迅速向富国看齐的过程——而并非来自于这些发达国家自身的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "It became evident that he might win the first nominating contest, the Iowa caucuses, and that he was leading in the second, New Hampshire, and other states.",
        "很明显，他有可能赢得第一场提名竞争——艾奥瓦州党代会，并且他在第二场竞争——新罕布什尔州和其他州也处于领先。"
    ],
    [
        "Wherever youth unemployment remains high, MOOCs offer a new way to boost skills and employability.",
        "在年轻人失业高企的地区，MOOC提供了一条新的提振技能和工作能力的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Human suffering, even on a massive and destabilizing scale, will not move the world to action.",
        "即使是令人震惊的大规模人类苦难也不足以让世界采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite our growing interconnectedness, the UN Security Council has not yet been unable to achieve sufficient consensus to resolve pressing matters such as Syria.",
        "尽管世界各国的联系一日紧过一日，但联合国安理会并未能就叙利亚的紧急状况这样的问题达成充分一致。"
    ],
    [
        "In the wake of World War II, European countries’ national interests were aligned.",
        "第二次世界大战后，欧洲各国的国家利益趋于一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorism must lose its legitimacy among those who have historically supported or tolerated it before it will lose its potency.",
        "在那些传统上支持或纵容恐怖主义的地方，恐怖主义必须先丧失其合法性，才会进一步丧失能量。"
    ],
    [
        "Although all of these constitute potential or actual threats, the biggest challenges facing the US are its burgeoning debt, crumbling infrastructure, second-rate primary and secondary schools, outdated immigration system, and slow economic growth – in short, the domestic foundations of American power.",
        "所有这些都构成了潜在或实际的威胁，但美国最大的挑战是迅速膨胀的债务、破败的基础设施、落后的小学和初中、过时的移民制度以及缓慢的经济增长——简言之，是美国实力的国内基础。"
    ],
    [
        "And, compared to software development, these activities also require more infrastructure, logistics, regulation, certifications, supply chains, and a host of other business services – all of which demand coordination with public and private entities.",
        "此外，与软件开发相比，这些活动还要求更多的基础设施、物流、监管、资质、供应链和其他商业服务——所有这些都需要协调众多公共和私人实体。"
    ],
    [
        "If declining confidence in US fiscal policy leads to a weaker dollar, Europe and Asia may find it more difficult to export, and if the deficits prove a drag on the American economy, global growth may stall.",
        "如果对美国财政政策的信心指数继续下滑导致美元疲软，欧洲和亚洲的出口会遭遇困境； 如果赤字问题拖了美国经济的后腿，全球的经济增长有可能陷于停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is far from obvious.",
        "回答这个问题看来并不容易。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, a devaluation would probably do little for China’s trade surplus.",
        "如今，贬值对中国的贸易盈余也许根本起不了什么作用。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the doctrine that Krugman argues is no longer sufficient for our age.",
        "这些是克鲁格曼论证说在我们的时代不再有效的教条。"
    ],
    [
        "What about Trump’s financial ties with Russia, and those of his associates, including his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort?",
        "该如何处理特朗普及其同伴（包括特朗普的前国家安全顾问迈克尔·弗林及其前竞选经理保罗·马纳福特）与俄罗斯的金融联系？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even though the EU Treaty dictates that each member state is solely responsible for its own national security, the way national intelligence agencies use personal data can be expected to come under special scrutiny.",
        "事实上，尽管欧盟条约规定每个成员国都需要独力负责自身国家安全，但国家情报机构使用个人数据的方法可能会遭到特别检查。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the longer term, Brexit is likely to accelerate Europe’s exit from the top table of global decision-making.",
        "从长远看，英国脱欧很可能会加速欧洲从全球顶级决策网络的退出。"
    ],
    [
        "From computers and scanners to mobile devices, an increasing number of humans spend much of their conscious lives interacting with the world through electronics, the only barrier between brain and machine being the senses — sight, sound, and touch — through which humans and devices interface.",
        "从电脑到扫描仪再到移动设备，越来越多的人在清醒的大部分时间里通过电子产品和外界打交道，视觉、听觉和触觉等感官似乎成了人脑和机器之间唯一的障碍，而它们也构成了人机之间的分界。"
    ],
    [
        "This would produce structural unemployment to the extent that the ex-construction workers could not do things in manufacturing that would make it worthwhile for manufacturing firms to hire them.",
        "这就会导致结构性失业，因为这些前建筑工人做起家具来手脚可不利索，自然也没有制造业企业肯雇用他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, his streak of success will inevitably call forth an economic reckoning that will shock France’s apparently unsuspecting citizens and doom the French elite’s approach to the “construction of Europe.”",
        "不幸的是，他的春风得意将不可避免地引起人们的经济反思，而这将冲击显然是毫无戒心的法国公民，也将给法国精英“建设欧洲”的计划蒙上一层阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "Athenian policy mistakes made the Spartans think that war might be worth the risk.",
        "雅典政策失误导致斯巴达人误以为可能值得冒险发动战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Genes are one way for a person to live on: You can see shadows or glimpses of anyone in their children and other relatives.",
        "基因是人们延续其生命的一种方式：因为你可以从他们的子孙或亲戚身上看到先人的影子。"
    ],
    [
        "So must the US.",
        "因此美国就必须如此。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s trade position will be strengthened by the shale-gas revolution, which promises energy self-sufficiency, and by increases in productivity that auger further re-shoring of manufacturing production.",
        "美国的贸易地位将因为带来能源自给的页岩气革命和刺激制造业生产回流的生产率提高而增强。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, value added per worker in the services sector remains just 40% of that in the manufacturing sector, and annual productivity growth was only 2% from 1980 to 2010 – significantly lower than the manufacturing sector’s rate of 8.2%.",
        "事实上，服务业人员人均附加值仍然仅有制造业的40％，且1980年至2010年间的年均生产率增长仅为2% ——远远落后于制造业8. 2%的年均增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "But their writings and statements have been sufficiently hysterical and hateful to incite a person with an unbalanced mind.",
        "但他们的文章和言论都极为歇斯底里和充满仇恨，足以刺激一个心理不平衡的人误入歧途。"
    ],
    [
        "The water crisis in Gaza is a cause of disease and suffering among Palestinians, and is a major source of underlying tensions between Palestine and Israel.",
        "加沙的水资源危机是造成巴勒斯坦人疾病和灾难的原因之一，也是巴以紧张局势背后一个重要的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "Four other ministries went to pro-revolution and Islamist figures.",
        "其他四部委的部长职务被革命派人士及伊斯兰人士收入囊中。"
    ],
    [
        "Hindus, Christians, or Buddhists lack such a cause, which is why political terrorism is largely confined to Muslims.",
        "而印度教，基督教和佛教则缺乏这类动因，这也是政治恐怖主义大都与穆斯林有关的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The follow-up summits were lame.",
        "后续的峰会根本不见成效。"
    ],
    [
        "Exuberant Brazil",
        "活力四射的巴西"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the IMF’s permanent Executive Board, established in an era when travel was costly and communications difficult, and consisting of mid-level government functionaries, should be abolished.",
        "其次，取消IMF常任理事国，当时建立的背景是交通不便而且通讯不发达。 他们当时起着一部分政府的职能。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the reason is economic.",
        "部分原因是经济上的。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, it would increase the relative vulnerability of America’s main strategic rival, China, which is becoming increasingly dependent on Middle East energy supplies.",
        "最后，这还将增加美国主要战略竞争对手中国的相对弱势，后者正日益依赖中东的能源供给。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama clearly recognizes that the NPT needs to be strengthened in order to prevent countries from turning their civil nuclear-power capacity into weapons.",
        "奥巴马清楚地明白到必须加强这一条约，否则就难以阻止那些拥有民用核技术的国家将自己的科技转化为杀人武器。"
    ],
    [
        "With citizens of distressed countries bearing the fiscal burden of the crisis, the enduring presumption that they will not act responsibly is patronizing, at best.",
        "受困国人民承担了危机的财政负担，如此仍认为它们不负责任的说法不可不谓傲慢。"
    ],
    [
        "Referring to corporate income made sense when company taxation was seen as a “back stop” within a system of progressive taxation of personal incomes.",
        "当公司税被视为个人所得税递进税制中的“定位杆”时，参考公司收入才是有意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Israel’s military investments have generated a set of solutions that, with some extra effort, have had useful – and lucrative – civilian applications.",
        "类似地，以色列的军事投资产生了一系列解决办法，这些解决办法加上一些额外的努力，就转化为有用的民用设施，物美价廉。"
    ],
    [
        "Clarity about Austerity",
        "紧缩之辨"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s economies should also invest significantly more in infrastructure and address the effects of aging, which could clip 0.7% from annual growth rates in the coming decade.",
        "中东欧地区经济体还应该大量投资于基础设施、减轻人口老化的影响（在未来十年中，这两大因素可能会导致年增长率下降0. 7%）。"
    ],
    [
        "But the euro is no longer a strong common currency that reinforces a shared European identity.",
        "但欧元已不再是加强欧洲共同身份的强势共同货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the value that vaccination can provide in this area has yet to be properly recognized.",
        "不幸的是，疫苗在上述领域所能实现的价值尚未被人们正确认识到。"
    ],
    [
        "The 70% Solution",
        "70%解决方案"
    ],
    [
        "The surprise decision by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to propose a constitutional amendment that would allow direct and competitive presidential elections may be a giant step for democracy in Egypt and the Arab World.",
        "埃及总统胡斯尼·穆巴拉克关于修改宪法，从而使总统选举以直接、竞争方式进行的惊人决定，可以说是在埃及和阿拉伯世界的民主道路上迈出了一大步。"
    ],
    [
        "The US needs concrete proposals for supporting workers caught up in structural transitions – and a willingness to consider fresh approaches, such as wage insurance.",
        "美国需要具体的方案支持受结构转型冲击的工人——并愿意考虑全新的方法，比如工资保险。"
    ],
    [
        "Rwanda, for example, has skyrocketed in the rankings, from 143rd in 2009 to 52nd in 2013.",
        "比如，卢旺达在排名中进步巨大，从2009年的143名升至2013年的53名。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, they are so right that they are wrong.",
        "事实上，正是他们的正确导致了自身的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "It is unlikely that he will be able to challenge the basis of his detention in an independent court.",
        "他不大可能会在独立法庭质疑对其实行拘押的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "The increase in inflation that usually occurs when the economy reaches such employment levels has been temporarily postponed by the decline in the price of oil and by the 20% rise in the value of the dollar.",
        "5%。 经济达到如此就业水平时常常出现的通胀的增加因为石油价格下跌和美元升值20%而被暂时遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "It is said to be effective, evidence-based, and cheap to implement.",
        "据说，它很有效，有证据作为基础并且实施起来所付出的代价很小。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to move beyond futile discussions based on flawed logic to focus on the real challenges in education – challenges that must be addressed, if we are to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of delivering high-quality primary and secondary education to all by 2030.",
        "我们应该超越基于有缺陷的逻辑的清谈，将注意力集中到教育的真正挑战上——这些挑战必须得到解决，如果我们想实现2030年普及高质量小学和中学教育这一可持续发展目标的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt’s food subsidy program, which costs more than $5 billion a year, is in urgent need of reform as well.",
        "埃及的食品补贴计划每年耗费50亿美元以上，也迫切地需要改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The Two Innovation Economies",
        "两种创新经济"
    ],
    [
        "The risk is that AI will only continue to polarize our societies – between haves and never-will-haves – if we do not manage its effects.",
        "风险是AI将继续让我们的社会极化——在拥有者和永远一无所有者之间——如果我们不对其影响进行管理的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, it had been assumed that the cost of exit would be so high that no country would consider it.",
        "到目前为止，人们一直认为，退出的成本太大，没有国家会考虑这一选择。"
    ],
    [
        "In an effort to enhance popular support for the party, the LDP presidential campaign took advantage of a heightened sense of crisis centered on Japan’s territorial disputes with Russia, South Korea, and, most recently and alarmingly, China.",
        "为了增加民众支持度，自民党党首竞选活动充分利用了日本与俄罗斯、韩国以及（最近也是最紧张的）中国的领土纠纷。"
    ],
    [
        "Galbraith described that increase in wealth as “the bezzle.”",
        "”加尔布雷斯将财富的这一增值称为“占款”（bezzle）。"
    ],
    [
        "Approximately 1,000 Japanese forces serve in and around Iraq.",
        "将近1,000名日本军人驻扎在伊拉克及其周边地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Remembering the Importance of Forgetting",
        "牢记遗忘的重要性"
    ],
    [
        "That may eventually happen in the western Islamic world as well, but only after a struggle of the type occurring now in Pakistan.",
        "这可能也会最终发生于西方伊斯兰国家，但在此之前必须经过类似目前巴基斯坦发生的挣扎过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Airline pilots provide passengers with the latest scores; office-goers cluster around the nearest available television.",
        "航空飞行员向乘客提供最新的得分消息； 上班的人围住最近的电视机观看比赛。"
    ],
    [
        "French business activity sank to a seven-month low in December.",
        "12月，法国商业活动降至七个月低点。"
    ],
    [
        "Sweden and Chile are almost poles apart geographically, but both have used sophisticated fiscal rules successfully.",
        "从地缘政治上说，瑞典和智利称得上是两个极端，但两国均非常成功地运用了成熟的财政规则。"
    ],
    [
        "For what the EU in practice says to China is this: “Taiwan’s cause in not our own.”",
        "因为欧盟实际上向中国表明：“台湾与我们无关。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s discussion focuses less on the danger that banks pose to their customers than on the risks they create for taxpayers.",
        "今日讨论的焦点主要不是银行给客户造成的危险，而是给纳税人造成的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Before my arrest, Raqqa had three cinemas.",
        "我被捕前，拉卡有三家影院。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Solow noted, investment has its limits, owing to diminishing marginal returns.",
        "但是，正如索洛所指出的，投资有一个极限，这是边际回报递减规律决定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Late communism was a strange time indeed.",
        "共产主义晚期确实是一段奇怪的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the editor-in-chief of China Youth Daily, the newspaper affiliated with Hu Jintao’s own China Youth League power base, which had been aggressive in exposing official corruption, was recently detained.",
        "中国青年报隶属于胡锦涛团派根基，大力揭露官员腐败，其主编最近已被拘留。"
    ],
    [
        "And the collective funds that eventually will be at its disposal are meager: a mere €55 billion ($76 billion).",
        "而最终将出手救助的集体基金根本不够规模：仅为550亿欧元（合760亿美元）。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s the plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, agent of the notorious bubonic plague.",
        "这是一种由鼠疫杆菌引起的细菌性瘟疫，臭名昭著的黑死病就是由鼠疫杆菌造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "A depressed economy can be reflated, and an inflationary economy can be depressed.",
        "经济萧条卷土重来，而通胀型经济也将加剧事态。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece exports refined petroleum products, olive oil, raw cotton, and dried fruit.",
        "希腊出口石化产品、橄榄油、原棉和干果。"
    ],
    [
        "So, the good news of the last decade is just a glimmer of hope.",
        "因此，过去十年的好消息也仅仅是一丝希望的曙光。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast, real oil prices were flat leading up to 1929, and down nearly 50% in real terms from the 1925-6 “fuel folly” peaks.",
        "恰恰相反，实际油价在1929年之前几年波动不大，与1925到26年的“燃料危机”的高峰时期相比反而降低了近50%。"
    ],
    [
        "And it should open its markets, not only by abolishing its import tariffs on Ukrainian products, which has already been decided, but also by granting a temporary exemption from the need to meet all of the EU’s complicated technical standards and regulations.",
        "它也应该开放它的市场，不仅仅取消乌克兰产品的进口关税（已经决定），还要授予必要的临时性豁免，即不要求乌克兰产品必须满足所有欧盟的复杂技术标准和监管。"
    ],
    [
        "His rhetoric soared.",
        "他的演说慷慨激昂。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixth, we should hope that the EU and the UK can agree on a reasonable Brexit deal that will preserve fairly strong trade relations.",
        "第六，我们应寄望欧盟和英国能达成一个合理的脱欧协议以维护双方之间的密切贸易关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt, the economic challenges are so dire, and traditions of consensual governance so shallow, that it may be impossible for any party to rule democratically in the foreseeable future, let alone the Muslim Brotherhood, which would have to reinvent itself completely.",
        "在埃及，经济挑战让人绝望，一致赞成的治理传统岌岌可危，以至于在可预见的未来可能没有哪个政党能够民主执政，更不用说需要彻底自新的穆斯林兄弟会了。"
    ],
    [
        "(Teenage activity rates come close to 50% only in countries like the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, where having a part-time job while in school is very common.)",
        "（只有在荷兰和英国等在校学生普遍参与兼职打工的国家，十几岁人群活动率才接近50%。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "As humans, we are uniquely equipped to make decisions on the basis of ambiguous information – in fact, we do it all the time.",
        "作为人类，我们都拥有依据模糊信息做出决定的独特能力——事实上我们无时无刻都在这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "But we saw no reciprocal steps.”",
        "但我们没有看到西方采取相应的步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "Brain disorders like depression and schizophrenia greatly increase the risk of developing chronic ailments, such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.",
        "抑郁症和精神分裂症等脑部疾病大大增加了罹患心血管和呼吸系统等慢性病的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "We are committed to Ukraine’s “European vocation,” but not to its EU membership.",
        "我们只是承诺给予乌克兰“欧洲资格”而不是欧盟成员国资格。"
    ],
    [
        "Ibrahim has established a foundation whose main purpose is to raise standards of governance in Africa.",
        "他成立了一个基金会，致力于提高非洲大陆的政府治理水平。"
    ],
    [
        "This is true for the banking system, which has not de-leveraged to the satisfaction of either regulators or the markets, thus limiting the scope for credit growth.",
        "毫无疑问，银行系统的去杠杆化程度既不能满足监管者，也不能令市场满意，这限制了信用增长的势头。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the university’s Startup Sauna seed-accelerator program helps promising early-stage startups take their first steps toward success.",
        "不仅如此，阿尔托大学的创业企业桑拿种子加速器计划帮助前途光明的早期创业公司迈出走向成功的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "That is larger than the Chinese surplus has ever been – and scary because it subtracts net demand from the rest of Europe and the world economy.",
        "这一数字比中国任何一年的盈余都要大，也更可怕，因为这是牺牲欧洲其他国家和世界经济的净需求得来的。"
    ],
    [
        "Incendiary statements about Israel exacerbate the lack of trust among Iran’s would-be partners, and make it hard for those in Europe and the US who are interested in building more favorable relations.",
        "关于以色列的煽动性言论加剧了想要成为伊朗伙伴的国家对它的不信任，并且使欧洲国家和美国想要和伊朗建立更良好的关系变得困难。"
    ],
    [
        "After that, the PiS will appoint a friendlier president, who will no doubt dance to whatever tune it plays.",
        "随后，PiS将任命一位更加友好的主席，毫无疑问，他将顺应PiS的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "The common opinion among British colonial civil servants, businessmen, and diplomats was that the Chinese were not really interested in politics anyway; all they cared about was money.",
        "英国殖民地公务员、商人和外交官的共同观点是，中国人并不对政治真的感兴趣； 他们关心的是赚钱。"
    ],
    [
        "And it looks like Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has charmed Prime Minister Putin into concluding a new gas deal.",
        "而充满魅力的乌克兰女总理尤丽亚·季莫申科似乎已经成功说服普京签订一个新的供气协定。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reality is that such efforts will produce more real-world benefits than a single-minded focus on publication, which can inadvertently encourage plagiarism and junk science.",
        "但实际情况是上述举措能比一心一意专注于发表论文创造出更多现实的好处，过于关注论文发表可能会在不经意间为抄袭和垃圾科学创造土壤。"
    ],
    [
        "Bannon told Wolff that the meeting was “treasonous.”",
        "俄罗斯人说他们“脏了”希拉里·克林顿。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, the two appear to have thought both in and out of their time.",
        "最终，两人的思想似乎总是与他们的时代若即若离。"
    ],
    [
        "In exchange for support in the Senate for energy-sector reform, he gave Calderón and his aides a tacit blanket pardon for any conceivable misdeeds committed by Calderón’s presidential administration.",
        "为换取参议院对能源部门改革的支持，他赦免了卡尔德龙及其助手在卡尔德龙任职期间可能犯下的任何过错。"
    ],
    [
        "But other leaders were also insular, and no country responded adequately.",
        "但其他领导人也偏隘了，没有一个国家采取了有力的应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "These transfers leave thousands of fishing-dependent communities struggling to compete with subsidized rivals and threaten the food security of millions of people as industrial fleets from distant lands deplete their oceanic stocks.",
        "这些转移支付资金导致成千上万依赖捕鱼为生的社会难以与获得补贴的对手竞争，而工业化远洋捕捞耗尽了海洋资源，让数百万人的食品安全受到威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "On this bottom board, the degree of close civilian cooperation is also important, which is affected by a country’s attractiveness or soft power.",
        "在这个底层棋盘中，同样至关重要的还有民间合作的紧密程度，它受到国家吸引力或软力量的直接影响。"
    ],
    [
        "(The first author here believed the same about Poland 25 years ago: It should aim for Scandinavian-style social democracy, rather than the neo-liberalism of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.)",
        "（25年前，本文第一作者认为波兰也是如此：它应该将目标定在斯堪的纳维亚式的社会民主，而不是里根和撒切尔夫人的新自由主义。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Its authoritarian political system stifles private enterprise and innovation.",
        "其专制政治制度压抑了私有企业和创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the price of oil is likely to remain low, Asian financiers – even the Chinese – do not seem eager to refinance Russian companies, and sanctions are unlikely to be lifted, investors clearly wanted a bigger and bolder solution.",
        "考虑到油价可能保持低位，亚洲金主——哪怕是中国——对俄罗斯公司的再融资并不热衷，而制裁也不太可能取消，因此，投资者显然希望看到更大手笔的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese officials say that concern over the overexploitation and illicit export of rare earths prompted them to regulate the industry more closely.",
        "中国官员声称对稀土过度开采和非法出口的关注引发了对该行业监管力度的加强。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, of course, we have the spectacular advances in our knowledge of genomics, the science that lets us understand the basic mechanisms that operate inside all living systems, including humans.",
        "当然，最后我们还在基因组学的领域取得了重大进展。 这是一门让我们了解包括人类在内的所有生命系统内部运作的基本原理的科学。"
    ],
    [
        "Cutting-edge technological developments – in renewable energy and hybrid or electric vehicles, for example – will be indispensable in building these cities (and, more broadly, a clean and efficient economy).",
        "举例来讲，可再生能源、混合动力车或电动车等尖端技术的发展在城市（从广义上看，清洁和高效经济）建设中起到的作用将不可或缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, in the more elevated language of the twentieth century’s most influential liberal philosopher, John Rawls, this appears to be a “practical dilemma which philosophy alone cannot resolve.”",
        "或者，用二十世纪最有影响力的自由主义哲学家约翰·罗尔斯（John Rawls）的雅言说，这似乎是“光靠哲学无法解决的实践难题。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, America is the first name in anti-Western resentment.",
        "毫无疑问，美国是反西方仇恨的首要目标，但紧随其后的就是以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "In theory, as the economy picks up and interest rates begin to climb, central banks will simply pay higher interest rates on their reserves, so that they can finance their holdings of long-term securities and shrink them slowly.",
        "从理论上说，随着经济的复苏和利率的上升，央行所支付的储备金利息也会增加，因此它们可以为所持有的长期证券融资，并逐渐减少持有量。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin's Gold-Medal War",
        "普京的金牌战争"
    ],
    [
        "Yet all three have been much in the news of late – and not for happy reasons.",
        "但是最近这三个国家都有点新闻，但是不是什么好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "On a regional level, Rudd argues, the US and China could work on joint strategies to denuclearize and, ultimately, reunify the Korean Peninsula; tackle the lingering sore of Japan’s war history; harmonize regional trade agreements; and transform the East Asia Summit into a more complete Asia-Pacific Community.",
        "在地区层面，陆克文指出，美国和中国可以致力于制定联合战略，以促进朝鲜半岛的去核化以及最终重新统一、处理长期悬而未决的日本战争史问题、协调地区贸易协议、将东亚峰会办成更全面的亚太共同体等。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider efforts to promote investment in the real sector.",
        "以促进实体部门投资的措施为例。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to exaggerate the strange sentiment in the West which one might call Palestine romanticism.",
        "西方存在一种可以称为巴勒斯坦浪漫主义的奇异情绪，这种情绪很难被夸大。"
    ],
    [
        "The poor performance of Wall Street and America regulators has cost America a good deal in terms of the soft power of its economic model’s attractiveness, but the blow need not be fatal if, in contrast to Japan in the 1990’s, the US manages to absorb the losses and limit the damage.",
        "华尔街和美国监管者的糟糕表现，已经给美国经济模式的吸引力这样的软实力造成了重大损失，如果美国和20世界90年代的日本相比，能够成功消化损失并降低危害，当前的金融危机的打击不一定是致命的。"
    ],
    [
        "That leads to a more general point: The more people hear, see, and know about what is going on in an organization, the more quickly cultural change takes place.",
        "这引出了一个更一般的要点：有更多的人听到、看到和了解到一个组织内部的情况，文化变迁就发生的越快。"
    ],
    [
        "Even without widening the fiscal deficit, such “balanced budget” increases in taxes and spending would lower unemployment and increase output.",
        "甚至不需要进一步扩大财政赤字，这种在税收和开支方面的“平衡预算”也会降低失业率，增加出口量。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iranians were never going to accept what they perceived as second-class status under the NPT.",
        "伊朗人永远不会接受他们所认为的核不扩散条约下的二等地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Ask most Catalans what independence will bring, aside from freedom from Spain, and you won’t get much of an answer: resentment at past wrongs overshadows any serious calculations about the future.",
        "如果你问大部分加泰罗尼亚人，除了摆脱西班牙独立还能带来什么，你不会听到多少答案：对历史错误的仇恨压倒了任何对未来的认真算计。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an outcome that would irreparably weaken the center-left government coalition as well: Renzi’s Democratic Party (PD) is already roiled by infighting over the reforms.",
        "这样的结果也将不可挽回地伤害中左翼执政联盟：伦齐的民主党（PD）已经因为在改革问题上的内斗而出现了混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Further evidence supporting the use of body-composition analysis, rather than the BMI, comes from the metabolic heterogeneity observed within each BMI category.",
        "各体重指数类别观察到的代谢异质性成为支持使用身体成分分析、而非体重指数的进一步证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Have they shown, by their actions, that they think financial markets need tighter controls or that, on the contrary, the state should repudiate bailouts and leave financial firms to face the full consequences of their own mistakes?",
        "他们用行动证明了他们认为金融市场需要更严格的监管，还是相反，国家应该拒绝提供援助，让金融企业直面自身错误的全部后果？"
    ],
    [
        "Over the same period, there has been a dramatic adjustment of China’s international balance-of-payments position.",
        "在此期间，中国的国际收支状况发生了重大改变。"
    ],
    [
        "As usual, history is set on fast-forward in America.",
        "历史在美国总是以快进的方式显现。"
    ],
    [
        "Since regaining her freedom, Suu Kyi has liberated her fellow citizens from fear through the power of this idea and her own example.",
        "在重获自由后，昂山素季凭借这种思想以及个人榜样的号召力把她的同胞们从恐惧中解放了出来。"
    ],
    [
        "But it’s much cheaper, although forbidden, to use the old equipment and refill them with CFC’s when needed than to buy new machines and use the more environmentally benign but more costly alternatives.",
        "尽管在需要的时候使用旧设备并用CFC’s再充入设备遭到禁止，但是比起买新机器和使用更为环保温和却更加昂贵的替换品，这便宜多了。"
    ],
    [
        "When tax evasion is extremely common, taxpayers are likely to experience high transaction and psychological costs in resorting to tax auditors to enforce the issuing of receipts.",
        "尽管逃税现象现在非常普遍，但是纳税人在要求税收审计员强制开具发票时可能会承受很高的交易和心理成本。"
    ],
    [
        "No governmental “information agency” is needed.",
        "我们并不需要一个政府的“信息机构”。"
    ],
    [
        "One difficulty with the British government’s response is that it classifies all Muslims as just that: Muslim.",
        "英国政府的反应的困难之一就是把所有的穆斯林都划归到一种类别，即穆斯林。"
    ],
    [
        "Paradoxically, Malaysia’s experience is instructive.",
        "讽刺的是，马来西亚的经验很有裨益。"
    ],
    [
        "Abbas’s withdrawal comes at a time when Palestinian frustration with the political process has rendered suspect the entire rationale behind the PA, established in the mid-1990’s, following the Oslo Accords.",
        "阿巴斯的退让恰逢巴勒斯坦人对政治进程感到沮丧之时，而这种感觉使人们对巴勒斯坦当局于1990年代中期《奥斯陆协议》后确立的整个政治逻辑都怀疑不已。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s bureaucrats, politicians, and citizens united to fulfill the Copenhagen criteria for EU membership and tolerated the pain of the IMF-directed structural-adjustment programs.",
        "土耳其的官僚、政治家和公民团结一致，努力达到针对欧盟成员的哥本哈根标准，并一起承受着IMF指导下的结构调整计划所带来的阵痛。"
    ],
    [
        "Judging by my Twitter feed, most foreign observers simply cannot understand why a man serving his country in one of its highest and most sensitive positions should step down over something that happened in his private life – something that directly affects only those involved and their families.",
        "从我Twitter上的内容看，大部分外国观察者并不能理解一个身居其祖国最高级、最敏感职位之人应该因为其私生活而下台——这种事情的直接影响仅仅局限于他的家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet to be forewarned of a weakness is to be forearmed.",
        "但是，对弱点提前做出警告就是提前做好武装。"
    ],
    [
        "Aquino’s foreign policy has also been characterized by the same resoluteness.",
        "阿基诺三世的外交政策也带有同样的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "The possible or even likely obstruction charge would derive from Trump’s various efforts to block the investigation.",
        "可能甚至几率很大的妨碍司法指控主要来源于特朗普所开展的阻止调查的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that NTDs can be treated, as quality drugs – donated by the major pharmaceutical companies – are made available.",
        "好消息是，被忽视的热带病可以治愈，只要能获得大型制药公司捐赠的优质药品。"
    ],
    [
        "American Congressmen view the Chinese as archetypal currency manipulators, but the Swiss have introduced a firm cap on the franc’s appreciation.",
        "美国国会认定中国是货币操纵国的典型例子，但瑞士也对瑞郎的波动上限有着严格控制。"
    ],
    [
        "What is clear, however, is that placing too much trust in a commercial conservation approach is risky.",
        "但有一点可以明确，那就是太过信任商业保护方法具有太多的危险因素。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, that scheme was chosen in Kyoto with the hope that the US, which had proposed it, would then ratify it.",
        "与会各国最终选择了新方案，因为所有人都希望美国作为这一方案的发起国，也最终能够批准议定书。"
    ],
    [
        "The outlook for 2018 is far from certain. But with tectonic shifts looming in the global macroeconomic landscape, this is no time for complacency.",
        "”2018年的前景远未确定，而随着全球宏观经济形势面临巨变，现在也不是自满的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision to go to war in Iraq is the most dramatic example of this, but there have been many others in America under Bush.",
        "决定发动伊拉克战争是最具戏剧性的例证，但是在布什执政期间美国还有许多其他例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets work the way they should only when they operate within a framework of appropriate government regulations; and that framework can be erected only in a democracy that reflects the general interest – not the interests of the 1%.",
        "只有受恰到好处的政府管制框架的束缚，市场才能最好地运转； 而这样的框架只有在反映普世利益——而不是1%的人的利益——的民主中才能产生。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is comforting to believe that, if only the facts were better known and people could discuss them more dispassionately, voters would become more unified and politics more constructive.",
        "当然，认为唯有事实被更好地了解，并且人们可以更冷静地讨论事实，选民才能更加团结，政治才能更加具有建设性，这样的信念令人欣慰。"
    ],
    [
        "So, instead of becoming the principal reserve asset of the global system, the proportion of SDRs in global reserves shrank to a tiny fraction, rendering the SDR the monetary equivalent of Esperanto.",
        "慢慢变成了世界金融系统的主要外汇储备货币。 SDR的市场份额逐渐萎缩，两者之间的关系有点类似于国际语和英语之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Then we saw them systematically trashed by Israel’s response to the second intifada .",
        "随后以色列镇压巴勒斯坦第二次起义把这些东西毁灭殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "When it first announced the so-called “extended asset-purchase program” in January, the ECB emphasized that it was only expanding an existing program, under which it had been buying modest quantities of private-sector bonds, to cover government paper.",
        "1月份，当欧洲央行第一次宣布所谓的“扩大资产购买计划”时，它强调这只是扩大已有的计划——在此之前，它一直在小量购买私人部门债券——将政府债券也包括进来。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the landmark legislation now widely known as “Obamacare”) aims to widen coverage, while so-called accountable care organizations, such as Kaiser Permanente, try to contain costs by aligning the interests of providers and payers.",
        "美国患者保护和平价医疗法（Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act，现被广泛称为“奥巴马医保”的标志性立法）旨在扩大覆盖度，与此同时，凯撒医疗机构（Kaiser Permanente）等所谓的责任医疗组织试图通过协调医疗服务供应商和患者的利益控制成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past ten years, the AIHRC has received more than 19,000 complaints related to violence against women.",
        "在过去十年间，委员会收到了超过1. 9万件与虐待妇女有关的申诉。"
    ],
    [
        "If presidents and those around them do not pay their fair share of taxes, how can we expect that anyone else will?",
        "如果总统及其周边人士都没有付出税收的公平分量，我们如何要求其他人这样做？"
    ],
    [
        "Given this looming threat, it is becoming increasingly clear that staying out of the Syrian mess may not be an acceptable choice for countries that have an interest in a calmer and more democratic Middle East.",
        "考虑到这个不断增大的威胁，我们也应该逐渐明白袖手旁观对于那些对一个更平静也更民主的中东感兴趣的国家来说不是一个可接受的选项。"
    ],
    [
        "Biden did not point to a specific region of the world, but mentioned the Middle East, the Indian sub-continent, and Russia as the likeliest sources of trouble for the new president.",
        "拜登没有具体指出世界上的某个地区，但是提到中东、印度次大陆以及俄罗斯最有可能是给新总统制造麻烦的源头。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, these rulers now have much to ponder.",
        "的确，这些统治者有很多事情需要考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Military leaders talk about the “fog of war” – the condition of fundamental uncertainty that marks combat.",
        "军事指挥官谈论“战争之雾”，也就是标志战斗特征的扑朔迷离的情形。"
    ],
    [
        "It was as though the Iron Curtain and the tanks that crushed Nagy’s government – let alone Orbán’s younger self – had never existed.",
        "好像铁幕和碾碎纳吉政府——更不用说更年轻的奥班本人——的坦克 从未存在过。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time in my lifetime, as I went to vote on Sunday with my children - in a peaceful celebration of that secular religion that is democracy when it works well - I had to wait in line patiently for a relatively long time.",
        "选举是民主在运转良好时候的世俗宗教仪式。 当我和我的孩子们在星期天前往投票的时候，我有生以来第一次不得不耐心地排队等候较长的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The London G-20 meeting recognized that the world’s poorest countries and people should not be penalized by a crisis for which they were not responsible.",
        "参与伦敦G20峰会的领导人们达成共识，世界上最为贫困的国家与人民不应当为这场不由他们负责的危机埋单。"
    ],
    [
        "If anything, we should expect to see only more game changers, given the current pace of innovation.",
        "如果说有什么期待的话，也应该期待当前的创新速度将带来更多的改变大局的创新。"
    ],
    [
        "He argued that the United States’ political system “may be taking us in a direction that is very dangerous.”",
        "费舍尔说，美国的政治制度“可能正在将我们引向非常危险的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "If East Africa’s central bank raises interest rates to stave off inflation in Kenya, the rest of the union will experience increased unemployment.",
        "如果东非央行提高利率以抑制肯尼亚的通胀，那么货币联盟中的其他国家将经历失业升高。"
    ],
    [
        "This conclusion follows from the fact that France has suffered from much higher unemployment and a longer post-crisis recession than either the US or Britain, as well as experiencing more problems with terrorism and Islamic militancy.",
        "这一结论所依据的事实是，比起美国和英国，法国所承受的失业率要大得多，危机后衰退期要长得多，并且恐怖主义和伊斯兰斗争的问题也要严重得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The most logical and potentially fruitful area of collaboration is climate change.",
        "本次会谈达成的最具有成效的成果是在全球气候问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "In a speech marking the Great Helmsman’s 110th birthday in late 2003, he declared Mao to be a “great proletariat revolutionary strategist and theorist.”",
        "2003年底在纪念伟大领袖110周年诞辰的讲话上，他宣称毛泽东是一位“伟大的无产阶级革命战略家和理论家”。"
    ],
    [
        "But, under such circumstances, the result is also problematic: the increase in spending afforded by tax cuts goes entirely, rather than only partly, into the current-account deficit.",
        "但在这样的环境中，结果仍然有问题：减税所带来的支出增加全部，而非部分，转变为经常项目赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "It outlined some of the measures that should be considered and established a working group to explore the way forward, possibly under the guidance of a newly established expert group.",
        "同时会议还列出了一系列需要考虑的问题，并成立了专责小组，希望能在一个新成立的专家小组的指引下就这些问题探索相关解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The danger, of course, is that if and when confrontation comes – over Bolivia, the FTAA, human rights, or press freedoms – it will be too late to defuse it.",
        "当然这样做的危险是，一旦对抗到来，无论何时，也无论是由于波利维亚、美洲自由贸易区、人权或者新闻自由等问题，想要平息都为时已晚。"
    ],
    [
        "What, in short, is the “DNA\" of German foreign policy?",
        "简言之，德国外交政策的“DNA”为何？"
    ],
    [
        "And if the centrist alliance finishes first in the election, it will still need coalition partners to form a majority in the Knesset.",
        "而且就算中间联盟以第一的身份结束选举，还需要联盟伙伴才能在议会形成多数。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone has so far managed to prove the doomsayers wrong.",
        "迄今为止，欧元区依然能证明这些预言家是错的。"
    ],
    [
        "According to UNAIDS, just 54% of HIV-positive adults, and only 43% of HIV-positive children, are currently receiving the antiretroviral therapies that save lives and prevent new infections.",
        "据联合国艾滋病规划署的数据，目前只有54%的艾滋病毒阳性成年人，以及43%的艾滋病毒阳性儿童，正在接受能够拯救生命和阻止传染的抗逆转录疗法。"
    ],
    [
        "Many bars targeted to low-carbohydrate dieters have misleading “net carb” calculations.",
        "许多针对低碳水化合物食用者的能量条在“碳水化合物净含量”的计算上进行误导。"
    ],
    [
        "Strictly speaking, zero rates are observed only for nominal, medium-term debt that is perceived to be riskless.",
        "严格而言，零利率应该只存在于被认为无风险的中期债务的名义值。"
    ],
    [
        "As research by the economists Richard Caballero, Takeo Hoshi, and Anil Kashyap has shown, Japan’s corporate “zombies” – rendered essentially lifeless by their balance-sheet problems – ended up damaging the healthier parts of the economy.",
        "经济学家理查德·卡巴列罗（Richard Caballero）、星岳熊（Takeo Hoshi）和阿尼尔·卡什亚普（Anil Kashyap）指出，日本的“僵尸”公司——从资产负债表看他们实际上已经破产了——最终伤害了经济中健康的部分。"
    ],
    [
        "It is precisely because national politicians attend to national politics, rather than Europe’s broader interests, that the truth about Greece’s debt went unspoken for so long.",
        "正是因为国家政客主要关注的是国家政治而不是欧洲的整体利益，因此关于希腊债务的真相才迟迟得不到承认。"
    ],
    [
        "After one recent disaster, in which more than 100 civilians died, the Pentagon immediately insisted that such bombing operations would continue.",
        "在最近一次致使100多个平民丧生的灾难性事件之后，五角大楼立即表示这种轰炸行动会继续。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, renewed relations would serve both sides’ interests.",
        "在这样的背景下，更新欧土关系符合双方利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Kaczyński wants an overwhelming victory, and he knows that he, along with Antoni Macierewicz, the defense minister, is one of Poland’s least popular or trusted politicians.",
        "卡钦斯基渴望一场压倒性的胜利，而他知道他和国防部长安东尼·马切雷维奇是波兰政界最不受民众欢迎和信任的人物。"
    ],
    [
        "Large-scale multilateralism, in which most of the world’s 193 United Nations-recognized countries meet to negotiate accords, has become too unwieldy.",
        "全世界193个联合国承认国的绝大多数面对面谈判协议这种大规模多边主义已经很难实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Employment in manufacturing fell by more than two million from 2004 to 2014, and now accounts for just over 8% of total employment – continuing a long decline since the 1950s.",
        "从2004~2014年间美国制造业的就业人数减少了近200多万，目前仅占总就业人数的8％多一点 ——这也延续了自1950年代以来的持续下降趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the term that they were using last week to denounce the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists and the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontières, both of which have issued reports saying that Turkey has imprisoned even more journalists than Iran and China.",
        "他们在上周用这个词所指的是纽约的保护记者委员会（Committee to Protect Journalists，CPJ）和巴黎的无国界记者（Reporters Sans Frontières），这两家机构报道说，在土耳其遭羁押的记者甚至比伊朗和中国还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "Accepting that spying is realistically part of the US toolkit, we Europeans expect it to be conducted responsibly.",
        "接受谍报是美国现实主义工具之一，我们欧洲人可以指望这一工具被合理使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s nuclear history provides no clear answer, but the future may force the issue.",
        "从以色列的核历史中找不到明确的答案，但未来可能必须迅速采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "To use a traffic analogy, policies with few adverse spillovers should be rated “green”; those that should be used temporarily could be rated “orange”; and policies that should be avoided at all times would be “red.”",
        "用交通打比方，几乎没有负面溢出效应的政策可以给予“绿灯”； 应该临时使用的政策应该给予“黄灯”；"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, this is a dangerous product, and it did cause many families to fall into an unsustainable debt trap.",
        "这显然是一个危险的产品，也一定会令许多家庭陷入不可持续的债务陷阱当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Why would any wise shopper accept such a bad bargain?",
        "为什么聪明的购物者会接受如此愚蠢的交易？"
    ],
    [
        "Against this backdrop, UN member governments should acknowledge the gap between the ideals they espoused last year and the harsh realities many migrants and refugees continue to face today.",
        "在这样的背景下，联合国各成员国政府应当承认他们去年所信奉的理想和今天许多移民和难民持续面临的残酷现实之间有巨大的差距。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike some other critics, I do not expect the program to fail to bolster demand in the European economy.",
        "我不像其他某些批评者那样认为该计划无法支撑欧洲经济体的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Some will then try to sell their overpriced homes, and the resulting market imbalance will cause prices to fall.",
        "在此情况下，有些人可能就会出售其标价过高的住房，由此带来的市场不平衡就会导致房价下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "After France’s defeat by Bismarck’s Germany in the Franco-Prussian War, Baron Pierre de Coubertin (who re-launched the Olympic Games a few decades later) recommended a renewed national emphasis on sport, which by this point was seen as a form of military preparation.",
        "法国在普法战争中被俾斯麦时期的德国击败后，皮埃尔·德·顾拜旦男爵（他在数十年后复兴了奥运会）建议全国重新重视体育运动。 这时的体育运动被视为一种备战方式。"
    ],
    [
        "From large-scale CCS, it is only a small step to take existing CO2 from the air and sequester it.",
        "一旦实现大规模碳捕获和封存，从空气中过滤现有二氧化碳并将其封存只需再迈一小步。"
    ],
    [
        "When the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing the 2008 Summer Games in July 2001, the announcement ignited wild celebrations across the country.",
        "当国际奥委会在2001年7月将2008年夏季奥运会的主办权授予北京时，整个国家都陷入欢腾之中。"
    ],
    [
        "But healing Lebanon’s wounds requires finding the means to offer alienated Shia what they want and need most, and not what outsiders think they should want or need.",
        "但是，医治黎巴嫩的创伤要求找到途径，给那些被偏离的什叶派他们的最为想要和需要的东西，而不是外人认为他们应当想要或者需要的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "In about five years, all baby boomers will be over 65, but pressure on government expenditures for pensions and health care is expected to start sooner, around 2013.",
        "短短5年内，婴儿潮时期所有的日本国民年龄将超过65岁，但退休金和医疗等政府开支压力的释放将会提早到2013年左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, India’s last general election, in 2004, was won by a woman of Italian heritage and Roman Catholic faith (Sonia Gandhi) who made way for a Sikh (Manmohan Singh) to be sworn in as Prime Minister by a Muslim (President Abdul Kalam) in a country that is 81% Hindu.",
        "事实上，印度上一次2004年的大选，赢家是一个意大利后裔的信仰罗马天主教的女人（索尼娅·甘地），她为一个锡克教徒（曼莫汉·辛格）向一个穆斯林教徒（阿卜杜勒·卡拉姆总统）宣誓就职总理铺平了道路，而该国的人口81 ％是印度教徒。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Seven years, 12 volumes of evidence, findings, and conclusions, and one executive summary later, the Report of the Iraq Inquiry, more commonly referred to as the Chilcot Report (after its chairman, Sir John Chilcot), is available for one and all to read.",
        "纽约—在经历了七年时间，12卷证据、发现和推论，以及一份执行摘要后，《伊拉克调查报告》——更普通的名称是《奇尔科特报告》（Chilcot Report，以其主席约翰·奇尔科特的名字命名）——终于向所有人开放了。"
    ],
    [
        "If you gave him the choice of the life he led as the finance-prince of Europe or a life today low-down in the income distribution but with thirty extra years to see his great-grandchildren, which would he choose?",
        "如果你让他选择是在欧洲过着金融帝王的生活，还是在今天过着收入不高但有三十年额外寿命、可以看到自己曾孙的生活，他会如何抉择？"
    ],
    [
        "Under Rato, the IMF at least took some modest steps towards giving China and other rapidly emerging markets more say in running the place.",
        "而在拉托的领导下，国际货币基金组织至少向着给予中国和其他快速崛起的新兴市场国家更多的管理发言权迈出了最初的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "But higher interest rates also imply large capital losses for central banks’ asset holdings.",
        "但更高的利率也意味着央行持有资产的资本损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in 2000, before the Global Fund was established, infected people in developing countries died of AIDS without any chance to receive life-saving antiretroviral medicines.",
        "在全球基金会尚未创立的2000年时，发展中国家的艾滋病感染者根本无法获得任何维持生命以及抗病毒逆转录药物。"
    ],
    [
        "Politics complicates matters further, because the exclusively short-term focus on the fiscal impact of spending and revenues clashes with policies whose benefits accumulate over time.",
        "政治将问题进一步复杂化了，因为完全短视地专注于支出和收入的财政影响与收益需要长时间才能逐渐显现的政策互相矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "Lebanon’s Example to Iraq",
        "黎巴嫩：伊拉克的可借之鉴"
    ],
    [
        "His strategy seems to be to bribe them with $4 billion to accept a (temporary) “bantustan” solution (so named for the nominally autonomous states to which South Africa’s apartheid regime confined most of the country’s black majority).",
        "他的战略是用40亿美元换取他们（暂时）接受“班图斯坦”（bantustan）解决方案（这个名字来源于南非种族隔离政府用于限制占人口多数的黑人的名义自治州）。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite China’s overall military superiority, it is scarcely in a position to defeat India decisively in a Himalayan war, given India’s fortified defenses along the border.",
        "尽管中国总体军力占优，但在喜马拉雅山区作战其很难决定性地击败印度，因为印度已经加强了边境防线。"
    ],
    [
        "To assess whether excessive specialization has occurred in Germany, we must focus on the labor market, for it is here that the effect of specialization is most visible.",
        "评估过度专业细分是否已在德国发生，必须把注意力改换集中到劳动力市场，因为专业细分进程就是在这里组织的。"
    ],
    [
        "The GCC’s expat dividend could grow much bigger – but only if governments in the region establish the necessary mechanisms.",
        "GCC的侨民红利可以变得更大——但该地区的政府必须为此建设必要的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Short of that doomsday scenario, nuclear weapons are of limited use in deterring small-scale provocations.",
        "在上述末日情景之外，核武器在阻止小规模挑衅的作用也有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of its very relevance, historical heft, and cultural baggage, France mistrusts the changes taking place around it – as though the weight of its nationhood were keeping it from taking flight and narrowing its horizons.",
        "正因其相关性、历史重要性和厚重的文化，法国不信任周边所发生的变化——尽管其国家地位保证了它不会远离欧洲而去，也不会自缩阵线。"
    ],
    [
        "However, what is surprising is that the EU-15 have managed to market their failure as a success.",
        "但是，令人意外的是欧盟15国把它们的失败努力推销成一个成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet “assimilation” is not what succeeds.",
        "”但是成功的并非是“同化”。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama, who opposed the Iraq war, should not be blamed for current circumstances there.",
        "反对伊拉克战争的奥巴马不应该成为伊拉克如此现状的替罪羊。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s campaign has been marked by bellicose nationalism and anti-immigrant proposals – from the construction of a massive wall to keep out immigrants to a ban on all Muslims from entering the US – as well as reckless criticisms of America’s relations with friends and foes alike.",
        "特朗普的竞选以好战的民族主义和移民提案为特色——从大规模修墙阻挡移民到禁止所有穆斯林进入美国——以及不分青红皂白地批评美国与盟国和敌国之间的关系。 但他却仍有可能在选举中获胜；"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, Japan’s government changed, with the Liberal Democratic Party’s return to power.",
        "去年，日本政府改换门庭，自民党重新掌权。"
    ],
    [
        "For disease eradication, partnership is essential.",
        "对疾病防治工作而言，合作是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, African political leaders may have to manage expectations downward, while working to increase the rate of structural transformation and social inclusion.",
        "相反，非洲政治领导人或许应该抑制预期，同时致力于加快结构转型速度和增加社会包容度。"
    ],
    [
        "There are also concerns about frothy property markets and mounting inflation.",
        "此外还存在有关房地产市场泡沫化和通胀持续攀升的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "When the bloody conflict finally ends in Syria, there will be no victory parades, no moment of national catharsis.",
        "当叙利亚的流血冲突终于结束时，不会有胜利大游行，也不会有全民宣泄。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes it seems like we spend more time arguing about soccer than we do chatting about men.",
        "有时我们谈论足球的时间似乎要比谈论男友的时间还长。"
    ],
    [
        "From the 1960’s onwards, bombs and death were the order of the day in regions like Northern Ireland, Corsica (France), South Tyrol (Italy), and the Basque country (Spain).",
        "自1960年代起，在北爱尔兰，法国的科西嘉岛，意大利的南蒂罗尔以及西班牙的巴斯克等地区，炸弹与死亡已经成了当地的家常便饭。"
    ],
    [
        "Any attempt to do so would present a terrible and damaging picture of Hong Kong and China to the world, and would be an affront to all that China should aspire to be.",
        "这样做只能向全世界展示一幅可怕的、令人受伤的香港图景，与中国的利益完全背道而驰。"
    ],
    [
        "What we see on the roads today is just the beginning.",
        "而我们今天在路上看到的一切，只是一个开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Federal taxes now take 18.3% of GDP and are projected to remain at that level for the next decade, unless tax rules or rates are changed.",
        "目前，联邦税占GDP之比为18. 3%，预计未来几十年内将维持在这一水平，除非税收规则或税率发生改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But the outcome of the war is still determined by human will, courage, and determination, which are the same attributes needed to stop human suffering in any age.",
        "但战争的结果仍将取决于人类意志、勇气和决心，我们同样需要这些特质来结束任何年龄段的人类苦难。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, most populist voters are neither poor nor unemployed; they are not victims of globalization, immigration, and free trade.",
        "首先，大部分民粹主义选民不穷，也有工作； 他们不是全球化、移民和自由贸易的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Whenever in the future the US finds itself in a situation like 2003, should it try to keep the economy near full employment even at some risk of a developing bubble?",
        "在未来的任何时期， 当美国发现其又一次置身于2003年那样的境遇时，它是否应该试图保持经济的接近充分就业状态，即便这样做会冒一定的泡沫增长的风险？"
    ],
    [
        "Like recessive genes, they sometimes suddenly re-express themselves.",
        "这些元素就象隐性基因一样，有时会忽然重新表达出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the report includes the subject title “How Takeshima and Matsushima Came to Belong to Joseon” (later renamed Korea).",
        "事实上，该报告的主题之一是《竹岛和松岛是如何为朝鲜王朝所有的》。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fruits of that growth have gone to a relatively few at the top – people like Trump, owing partly to massive tax cuts that he would extend and deepen.",
        "只是在大规模减税政策之下这些增长成果落到了位于收入金字塔顶端的一批人手里——比如特朗普，而他还会将此继续延伸和深化下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s Hardest Choices Lie Ahead",
        "奥巴马：最艰难的抉择还未到来"
    ],
    [
        "As recently as September and October, the United States Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank both saw the risk of inflation as being roughly equal to the risk to growth.",
        "就在最近的九、十月份，美联储和欧洲中央银行都将通货膨胀的风险大致等同于增长的风险，两者都不愿大幅降低利率。"
    ],
    [
        "But looking at the question in this way raises another, and perhaps more significant, issue about virtual activities: video game violence.",
        "但是从这个角度看问题会引出另一个——也许更加重要——有关虚拟活动的问题：电子游戏暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "If Ahmadinejad is president of a nuclear Iran, he is more likely to use the weapons in an adventurous manner.",
        "如果艾哈迈迪内贾德是核伊朗的总统，他就极有可能会以一种更加冒险的方式来利用这些武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this media frenzy has little or no scientific backing.",
        "确实，媒体炒作基本上没有什么科学依据。"
    ],
    [
        "In the tea ceremony, this ability has been refined into a skill that combines materials, meaning, and mood.",
        "在茶道中，这种能力已经被浓缩到一种结合了物质、意义和情绪的技巧中去了。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments must fund mosquito-control and prevention programs, from the use of insecticides to the distribution of mosquito nets, as well as public-education campaigns and vaccination initiatives. (Although there is no widely available vaccine for malaria, three countries are set to take part in a pilot immunization program starting in 2018, and some mosquito-borne diseases – such as yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, and dengue – are vaccine-preventable.)",
        "各国政府都得拿出资金来资助包括灭蚊药具和分发蚊帐在内的灭蚊和预防方案，还要发起公共教育运动和推行疫苗接种（虽然至今还缺乏广泛可用的疟疾疫苗，但有三个国家将从2018年开始参加试点免疫方案，而一些蚊子传播的疾病，如黄热病，日本脑炎和登革热疫苗是可以预防的）。"
    ],
    [
        "But to allow the Kremlin and its proxies to succeed would not only undermine the Eastern Partnership countries; it might jeopardize peace in Europe itself.",
        "但任由克里姆林宫及其代理人取得成功不但将削弱东方合作伙伴诸国； 还有可能破坏欧洲本身的和平。"
    ],
    [
        "But those results come from Keynesian models that always predict that GDP expands when the government gets larger.",
        "但这些报告都来自凯恩斯主义模型，而凯恩斯主义模型的预测永远是，随着政府的变大，GDP也会扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, with high levels of unemployment likely to keep nominal wage growth relatively subdued, typical troubled households could be worse off – with higher food and fuel prices cutting into disposable income.",
        "但是，由于失业高企，名义工资增长将相对平缓，因此普通受困家庭境况会恶化——食品和燃料价格上涨将吞噬他们的可支配收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, China’s fiscal position will worsen rapidly because of massive local government debt.",
        "其次，中国财政状况将因大规模地方政府债务而急速恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Why does France seem to crave such prominence?",
        "为什么法国总渴望出名？"
    ],
    [
        "Though monetary policy provided a powerful antidote to frozen credit markets in the depth of the global financial crisis, it has failed to spark classic cyclical recoveries.",
        "尽管货币政策能有效地解决全球金融危机顶峰时期信用市场冻结的问题，但并没能启动经典的周期性复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of what today's corporate profit reports and stock indices may show, a country cannot achieve inclusive, sustainable success – in economic or human terms – if these fundamental social issues are not adequately addressed.",
        "不管今天公司利润报告和股市指数表现多好，如果这些基本社会问题得不到正确的解决，一国就无法实现包容性可持续成功——不管在经济上还是在人道角度上。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result Russia now confronts a situation in which the election of the president is the only political issue.",
        "结果造成了俄国目前总统选举是唯一政治事件的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Sensing potential gains at taxpayers’ expense, foreign hedge funds rushed in to take advantage.",
        "嗅到这种牺牲纳税人利益的潜在收益，国外的对冲基金立刻猛扑上来。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2005, foreign-born immigrants had participated in 25% of technology start-ups in the previous decade.",
        "据2005年的一项统计，此前10年创立的新企业中有25%都有外国移民参与。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a European Union flag, but it is rarely seen anywhere but outside of EU government buildings.",
        "欧盟就有自己的旗帜，但除了欧盟政府大楼门外，你很难在其他地方见到它。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, unless Greece boosts exports, spending cuts will amplify the output loss in the same way that Keynesian multipliers amplified the output gain from borrowing.",
        "换句话说，除非希腊出口有所提振，否则支出削减只能加剧产出损失，一如凯恩斯乘数放大借贷所带来的产出增加。"
    ],
    [
        "But the almost automatic identification in Washington of US interests with Israel's has made it difficult to criticize either country without criticizing the other.",
        "但华盛顿几乎自动地把美国利益与以色列利益等同，这意味着很难批评两国之一而不批评另一个。"
    ],
    [
        "For the general expectation is that if France rejects the Constitution, the Constitution would be dead, and no British referendum would be needed.",
        "因为人们普遍认为，如果法国反对宪法，那么宪法就不会生效，那么英国也就不需要举行什么公投了。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s Virtual Wall",
        "特朗普的虚拟围墙"
    ],
    [
        "On the day Iranians went to the polls, Trump was making his way to Saudi Arabia – a remarkable choice for his first official foreign trip.",
        "伊朗人民走向投票箱的那天，特朗普也启程前往沙特阿拉伯——这是他的首次正式外访，选择的目的地令人瞩目。"
    ],
    [
        "It is far too early to assess the ecological damage and economic losses to fisheries and tourism from the Deepwater Horizon spill.",
        "评估“深水地平线”漏油事故所造成的生态破坏给渔业和旅游业造成的经济损失仍然为时过早。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, letting people compare their energy use with that of their peers could prompt them to save hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs each year, to say nothing of reducing carbon emissions.",
        "类似地，让人们将自己的能源使用状况与周边人群比较每年能够让他们节约数千亿美元电费，对减少碳排放的功效不言自明。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, monetary policy is not the only determinant of exchange rates.",
        "此外，货币政策不是汇率的唯一决定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "If the project is eliminated, European policymakers will be denied important information that could help to guide discussions about enhancing competitiveness.",
        "如果该项目被取缔，欧洲决策者将无法获得能指导关于增强竞争力的讨论的重要信息。 比如，在希腊注册产权比在吉布提还要难；"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy has, of course, degenerated into what is sometimes called “managed democracy.”",
        "当然，民主已经退化为有时被人成为“受管理的民主”。"
    ],
    [
        "They relentlessly but unsuccessfully pressured Montenegro’s leaders to remain in a dysfunctional union with Serbia, condoned Kostunica’s dubious 2006 referendum on a new constitution enshrining Kosovo as a part of Serbia, and weakened demands for Serbia’s cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.",
        "他们不遗余力地迫使黑山领导人留在机能不良的与塞尔维亚的联盟内但却没有成功，宽恕了科什图尼察令人怀疑的2006年将科索沃确定为塞尔维亚一部分的新宪法全民公决，并削弱了要求塞尔维亚与海牙国际刑事法庭的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – In many countries, where you live tends to be an accurate predictor of what or whom you are voting for.",
        "巴黎—在许多国家，你住在哪里往往会成为你如何投票的准确预测指标。"
    ],
    [
        "These requirements are interdependent.",
        "这些要求是相辅相成的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "India just signed a $50 billion swap deal with Japan.",
        "印度刚刚与日本签订了500亿美元的互换协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, too, changing perceptions of climate change offer renewed hope for progress.",
        "在此问题上，对气候变化看法的改变带来了新的进步希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of those innovations will eventually trickle into the mainstream, so a glimpse at current experiments can reveal what the future of ordinary computer interaction could look like, and what would be gained.",
        "这些变化中的有些创新会最终成为主流的一部分，所以，看看当前进行的试验就可以揭示通常的电脑交互在未来是什么样的，以及会有哪些改进。"
    ],
    [
        "In most Middle Eastern countries, labor-market participation is now among the lowest in the world, and energy-to-output ratios are among the highest.",
        "在大部分中东国家，劳动力市场参与率目前为世界最低行列，而能源-产出比则为最高行列。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, one can imagine other reasons for US supplication to the oil states.",
        "当然，人们可以设想美国请求石油国家这样做的其他原因。"
    ],
    [
        "But even this provision will not be tested until 2018.",
        "但即使是这样的条款，也要等到2018年才能接受检验。"
    ],
    [
        "But expectations are already high that economic policy will take a new direction under his guidance.",
        "虽然拉马福萨还不是南非总统，但外界对此已寄予厚望，认为经济政策将在他的指导下走向新方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Beginning with the industrial revolution, humans sought energy from coal, and later from oil and natural gas, but this leads to the exhaustion of non-renewable resources.",
        "从工业革命开始，人类就从煤炭及其后的石油和天然气中寻找能源，但这导致了不可再生能源的枯竭。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure to meet that target will likely be even more spectacular, with emissions overshooting by about 25%.",
        "2%，这次的目标也没能达成且失败更为惊人：如今排放量已经超过目标水平25%之多。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, not only will Europe’s global political ambitions become untenable, but its allies on the other side of the Atlantic will lose patience with Europeans’ refusal to shoulder their share of the security burden.",
        "不然的话，不但欧洲的全球政治野心化为泡影，连大西洋那边的盟友也最终将对欧洲人拒绝承担安全责任的行为失去耐性。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the DPJ scrapped an LDP-sponsored civil-service reform bill, which would have allowed the DPJ to replace mandarins with an army of political appointees.",
        "令人遗憾的是，民主党否决了一项由自民党提出的公务员改革法案，这项法案本可以允许民主党用政治特派员取代官僚家族。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries are subject to varying degrees of fiscal constraint, assuming (especially in the case of Europe) a limited appetite for unlimited, unconditional cross-border transfers.",
        "各个国家都受到不同程度的财政制约，试想一下（尤其是欧洲）有限的容量面对无限且无条件的跨境转移。"
    ],
    [
        "In the period since, we have had our ups and downs, but most member states have made a considerable effort to get their house in order.",
        "自那段时期以来，我们经历了一些波折，但大多数成员国都在理顺相关内务方面付出了巨大的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Under current WTO rules, most decisions can be adopted by a majority vote.",
        "根据当前的世贸组织规则，大多数决策都可以通过多数赞成票来达成。"
    ],
    [
        "Is this lack of appetite for justice a part of Filipino culture, or learned behavior?",
        "对司法公正渴望的缺失是不是菲律宾文化、或者是后天行为的一个组成部分？"
    ],
    [
        "“This was premeditated,” he told The Associated Press.",
        "他在接受美联社采访时说“那是早有预谋的。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But to restore the vitality of science, we need to look at the entire educational system: teachers from pre-school through high school, state and national standards, productive and educationally reinforcing assessments, teaching materials and educational technology, and progress in the neurosciences, cognitive psychology, developmental biology, and nutrition.",
        "但是要恢复科学的活力，我们需要检查整个教育体系：从幼稚园到中学的教师、州及国家的标准、生产力以及教育强化评估、教材和教育技术以及神经系统科学、认知心理学、进化生物学和营养上的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "This, too, causes conceptual and practical measurement challenges for established GDP calculus.",
        "这也导致了现行GDP计算方法的概念和实践挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The NAFTA renegotiation provides an opportunity to internationalize Mexico’s anti-corruption fight.",
        "NAFTA的重新谈判提供了一个让墨西哥反腐斗争国际化的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "And remember: the effect of this approach on growth was negative.",
        "然后请记住：这一方针对增长造成的效应是消极的。"
    ],
    [
        "Experiments involving gene drive organisms are almost unique in terms of the potential harm that a mishap could cause beyond the lab.",
        "涉及基因驱动的生物试验在事故可能造成实验室以外的潜在损害方面几乎是独一无二的。"
    ],
    [
        "It remains there for others to retrieve.",
        "现在它仍然在哪儿等待有人去发现。"
    ],
    [
        "Has the United States transcended the laws of economics?",
        "美国能否超越经济规律？"
    ],
    [
        "All, that is, except for a few holdouts who bought up the remaining bonds on the cheap and went to court, specifically to the US District Court of the Southern District of New York, asking to be paid in full.",
        "所有债权人都接受了这一条件，除了一小撮顽固派——他们廉价收购剩余债券，然后诉诸法庭要求足额偿付，美国纽约南区地方法院受理了此案。"
    ],
    [
        "These “sons of the soil” are in bad shape.",
        "这些“大地之子”健康状况不佳。"
    ],
    [
        "If Trump avoids a major war, and if he is not re-elected, future scholars may look back at his presidency as a curious blip on the curve of American history.",
        "如果特朗普避免了一场大战，并且没有取得连任，未来学者回顾他的总统生涯时，可能会认为这只是美国历史曲线上的一次有意思的背离。"
    ],
    [
        "But that doesn’t mean that nothing will change.",
        "但这并不意味着什么都不会改变。"
    ],
    [
        "There are, of course, specific, identifiable dangers, but what worries us most about terrorism, for example, is its unpredictable nature.",
        "当然，当今世界存在具体可辨的危险，但举例来讲，恐怖主义最让我们担心的是其不可预知的性质。"
    ],
    [
        "We had a lively conversation.",
        "我们进行了一场热烈的交谈。"
    ],
    [
        "The typical pattern during our living memory is that the hardliners come after the moderates.",
        "在我们的鲜活记忆中，典型的革命模式是，强硬派紧跟温和派而来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while it takes time to build up a base of knowledge and experience strong enough to thrive in this area, some Chinese industries have learned fast, partly owing to the government’s efforts to facilitate technology transfer with global partners.",
        "事实上，打造足够强大的知识和经验基础实现这一领域的繁荣需要时间，而一些中国产业学习过程非常迅速，这部分是因为政府采取措施方便全球合作伙伴间的技术转移。"
    ],
    [
        "Having only $100 million (if these obligations are its only assets and liabilities), BofA would have to pay AIG and Citibank $50 million each.",
        "但它手上只有1亿美元（假如上面的权利义务包括了美国银行的全部资产和负债），将赔付AIG和花旗银行各5000万美元。"
    ],
    [
        "It takes time and significant investment to set up effective screening and treatment services.",
        "需要花很长时间和大笔投资才能提供有效的筛查治疗服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless the challenges should not mask or deflect attention from the opportunities.",
        "但我们不能因为挑战而无视机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But pessimism is misplaced.",
        "但是悲观不得其所。"
    ],
    [
        "But these solutions are not without their own problems, including parochialism and the risk that the frequency of elections will make politicians beholden not to voters, but to the special interests that finance their campaigns.",
        "但这些方法本身并非没有问题，包括狭隘主义以及竞选频率过大所导致的政客受制于资助其竞选活动的特殊利益集团而非选民。"
    ],
    [
        "ZURICH – Scotland’s vote on independence from the United Kingdom has spurred widespread debate about the secession of small states, such as Slovenia and Croatia in 1991, or the independence drive today in Spain’s autonomous region of Catalonia.",
        "苏黎世—苏格兰脱离英国独立的公投引起了关于小国分立（如1991年的斯洛文尼亚和克罗地亚）和如今西班牙加泰罗尼亚自治区背后的独立力量的广泛讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "The new understanding also deprives the region’s officials of a routine way to seek international sympathy, even if the repetition of such appeals after two decades yields little financial aid.",
        "这一全新的理解同时还剥夺了该地区官员们例常的寻求国际同情的手段，即使在二十年后重复这些呼吁并不能带来什么财政援助。"
    ],
    [
        "So will transatlantic relations remain as poisoned as they are now if Kerry wins?",
        "那么如果凯利获胜，大西洋关系是否还会像现在一样糟糕？"
    ],
    [
        "At their best, they prevent disease without a trace, leaving little visible evidence of their crucial function.",
        "即便工作做得再好，他们也只是无声无息地预防疾病爆发，很难拿出发挥重要作用的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "The long history of currency tells us that what the private sector innovates, the state eventually regulates and appropriates.",
        "漫长的货币史告诉我们，对于私人部门的创新发明，国家最终都会监管并收归己有。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, concerns about QE’s supposed ill effects are wildly overblown, and there is nothing especially challenging about eventually reversing course, either.",
        "因此对量化宽松政策潜在负面影响效应的担忧其实是被过度放大了，况且如果最终想逆向回收这一政策的话也没有太大的难度。"
    ],
    [
        "That process, now as before, must culminate in an independent and democratic Palestine alongside a safe and secure Israel.",
        "这一进程正如以往一样，必须最终实现一个独立和民主的巴勒斯坦以及一个安全的以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to a research collaboration on inclusive growth with MasterCard and an anonymized donation of data to the Center for International Development at Harvard University, we are starting to shed some light on this mystery.",
        "通过与万事达卡的联合包容增长研究，以及向哈佛大学国际发展中心的匿名数据捐赠，我们开始探索这一谜题并取得了一些洞见。"
    ],
    [
        "In mid-air, with neither firm ground below nor enough momentum to make it to the other side, is not where the global economy should be.",
        "孤悬半空，既缺乏坚实的基础，又缺乏向上的动力，这可不是全球经济想达到的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, China is not alone: India and other competitive developing countries pose a similar challenge to the US.",
        "毕竟，并非仅仅是中国，印度和其它有竞争力的发展中国家也给美国带来了类似的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Fikri’s death triggered a wave of protests across the northern Rif, a region with a long history of rebelliousness.",
        "费克里致死引发了摩洛哥北部里夫（Rif，该地区有着长期叛乱史）的示威潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has tacitly warned of economic sanctions if China, which is running an annual trade surplus of nearly $60 billion with India, continues to disturb border peace.",
        "目前，印度外交部长苏什马·斯瓦拉伊（Sushma Swaraj）默默地 警告，如果中国——目前其对印度贸易有每年600亿美元的盈余——继续干扰边境和平，将对其采取经济制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "There are three scenarios: good economics and effective politics provide the basis for a growing and more cooperative global economy; bad economics interact with dysfunctional politics to ruin the day; or the world muddles through, increasingly unstable, as a tug of war between economics and politics plays out, with no clear result or direction.",
        "不良的经济与功能失调的政治相互作用毁掉一切； 或者整个世界勉强应付过去，由于经济与政治之间展开的激烈竞争，变得越来越不稳定，最终也没有一个明确的结果或是方向。"
    ],
    [
        "No one knows if these stories are true, but they take on a life of their own.",
        "没人知道这些故事是否是真的，但这些故事却有着自身的生命力。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Putins, Erdoğans, and Orbáns of the world want to continue to benefit economically from the open international system, they cannot simply make up their own rules.",
        "如果普京、埃尔多安和欧尔班希望继续享有开放国际体系提供的经济利益，就不能简单地制定自己的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Sputnik Redux",
        "人造卫星的重生"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, he described sitting on the back of a motorcycle with a stick to command police forces to suppress the massive demonstrations.",
        "事实上，他自称坐在一辆摩托车上，挥舞指挥棒指挥警察部队镇压群众示威。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly all the creativity and problem solving occurs in small companies and is later “integrated” by mega-corporations, which have an expensive and vulnerable infrastructure, and keep most of the profit.",
        "几乎所有的创造力和问题解决能力都来源于后来被大公司“整合”的小型企业，整合这些小企业的大公司无一例外有着昂贵但却脆弱的基础设施，而且霸占了利润的绝大部分。"
    ],
    [
        "A severe and long-lasting episode of large-scale unemployment is devastating, because it erodes an economy’s skill base, undermines human potential, and affronts human dignity.",
        "严重而持久的大规模失业是灾难性的，因为这会腐蚀经济的技能基础，破坏人力潜能，有损人格尊严。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes the Brexiteers were at least half right, as difficult as that is to imagine.",
        "人们希望退欧支持者至少有对的一面，尽管这种情况看似很难想象。"
    ],
    [
        "In the wake of the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and the thwarting of another attack in Belgium, Europe needs to take a good look at itself.",
        "在挫败针对巴黎讽刺杂志查理周刊和比利时的另一次恐怖袭击后，欧洲需要认真地审视自身。"
    ],
    [
        "The US must also calculate what the Europeans will accept.",
        "美国还必须估计欧洲所能接受的侯选人。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is as if, owing to an excess of prudence, they cannot bring themselves to pursue their own arguments to their logical conclusions.",
        "但或许是由于过度谨慎，他们却无法依据自己的逻辑判断采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, these talks constitute the longest and most futile negotiating process between any two countries in modern history.",
        "事实上，这些会谈在现代历史上可谓是国家之间最长且最无效的谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "But does this really mean that the British Raj should have lasted longer?",
        "但这真的意味着英属印度应该继续存在吗？"
    ],
    [
        "These are indeed the right priorities.",
        "这些都是正确的优先目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The shale boom has propelled the US from being an energy importer to an energy exporter.",
        "页岩技术繁荣推动美国从能源进口国转型为能源出口国。"
    ],
    [
        "Because India does not produce much gold itself, these purchases have contributed to an abnormally wide current-account deficit.",
        "由于印度本身黄金产量不高，家庭对黄金的高需求就转变为异常高的经常项目赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan’s supporters dismiss Western campaigns against Islamist terrorism as a ploy to repress Sunnis.",
        "埃尔多安的支持者将西方针对伊斯兰教恐怖主义的运动称为压迫逊尼派的阴谋。"
    ],
    [
        "So there is a strong case for sharing more sovereignty in this area – for building a genuine economic union.",
        "因此，有很强大的理由在欧元区内共享更多的主权——这样才能构建真正的经济联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "African \"key punchers\" earn $4 to $5 a day - four times the legal minimum wage - and receive health insurance, meals, and subsidized transport.",
        "非洲的\"击键员\"们的日薪为4至5美金-是法定最低工资的4倍-还享有健康保险、工作餐和交通补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "But it should not distract us from the fundamentals of Iranian politics.",
        "但是这不应该把我们的注意力从伊朗政治的基本原则上转移开来。"
    ],
    [
        "But no serious analyst would expect otherwise in the short term.",
        "但是，坦率来说，没有人会认为这些问题能在短期内得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to avoid such an outcome, Li must adapt China’s growth model to current conditions, which include intensifying trade friction with the European Union and the United States, greater pressure to allow the renminbi to appreciate, an aging population, slowing urbanization, and rising labor costs.",
        "为了避免这一结果，李克强必须改变中国经济模式以适应当前环境，包括与欧盟和美国的贸易摩擦的日益激烈、允许人民币升值的压力的日渐增加、人口的日渐老化、城市化的日渐放缓以及劳动力成本的日渐上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Such spreads are only a small component of the funding advantage for big banks, and they are also highly cyclical – meaning that the advantage for the biggest banks manifests itself the most when markets are under pressure, as they were in the fall of 2008.",
        "这一利差只不过是大银行融资优势的一小部分，也具有高度周期性——这意味着最大银行的优势在市场承压时表现得最为明显，比如2008年秋天的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a representative must be given sufficient resources to do the job.",
        "必须赋予这位代表充足的资源来完成这项工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Truthiness is on the march, particularly across Europe and the US – in large part because so many of the authorities who should be calling out the lies are tainted by truthiness themselves.",
        "感实性正大行其道，特别是在整个欧洲和美国——在很大程度上是因为如此多本应揭露谎言的机构都受到感实性的玷污。"
    ],
    [
        "How, then, will Brown acquire legitimacy as Britain’s new leader?",
        "那么，布朗将会如何获得作为英国新领导人的合法性呢？"
    ],
    [
        "It is most often lauded for supplying new jobs.",
        "它经常被称赞能提供新的就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a solution, there will be no sustained economic growth and job creation.",
        "没有解决方案，就不可能有持续经济增长和就业创造。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s inflationless world, however, it is counterproductive.",
        "但是，在今天无通胀的环境下，它只能适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "Tracking the movement of individuals by the locator in their cell phones is possible, and it is surely under consideration.",
        "用手机定位装置跟踪个人活动不仅是可行的，而且已被正式纳入考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Haidt refers to this as “moral dumbfounding.”",
        "”海特将这称为“道德错愕”。"
    ],
    [
        "The perspectives of proponents and opponents are so polarized that it is hard not to be utterly confused about the likely consequences.",
        "支持者和反对者各自的观点是如此两极分化，以至于很难不被可能产生的后果所完全迷惑。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, worsening air pollution and growing concerns about energy security have led the government to consider a cap on coal use and an absolute reduction in emissions within the next 10-15 years.",
        "在中国，恶化的空气污染和日益增加的能源安全忧虑促使政府考虑在未来10—15年内限制煤炭使用并制定绝对减排目标。"
    ],
    [
        "A few geniuses aside, economists frame their assumptions to suit existing states of affairs, and then invest them with an aura of permanent truth.",
        "除少数天才之外，大多数经济学家都将他们的假设套入既存事实的框子里，然后授予它们永恒真理的光环。"
    ],
    [
        "Penn State fired the coach under whom Sandusky worked, Joe Paterno, for failing to pursue an allegation against Sandusky that a subordinate brought to his attention in 2002.",
        "宾夕法尼亚大学解雇了山杜斯基的上司教练乔·帕特尔诺（Joe Paterno），因为2002年曾有一位下属向他揭发山杜斯基，但他没有对后者进行指控。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, emerging-market countries’ per capita income has risen – as has their international role.",
        "与此同时，新兴市场国家的人均收入则不断攀升——同时提升的还有其国际地位。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Recently, newspaper headlines declared that Greece would have a balanced budget for 2013 as a whole.",
        "美国剑桥—最近，报纸标题纷纷写道希腊将在2013年实现总体预算平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "On a societal level, genetic engineering that only the wealthy can afford would threaten social cohesion by ruling out equality of opportunity.",
        "在社会层面，只有富豪才负担得起的基因工程会挤出机会质量，从而威胁社会团结。"
    ],
    [
        "But all of them make an economy less productive and redistribute wealth to small, coordinated groups with vested interests and a strong inclination to lobby the government.",
        "但不论如何，它们都会让经济生产率更低，让财富再分配偏向身为既得利益、惯于游说政府的少数合作集团。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits would be worth 250-500 times the cost.",
        "其收益是成本的250—500倍。"
    ],
    [
        "South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has ably served as head of the World Bank’s oversight committee and would make a brilliant World Bank president.",
        "南非财政部长曼努埃尔出色地担任了世界银行监督委员会的主席，可以成为该行杰出的总裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Some experts even estimate SWFs’ assets to be worth $6 trillion.",
        "一些专家甚至估计主权财富基金的资产总量价值6万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "This result should come as no surprise.",
        "8%。 这个结果也应该是意料之中了。"
    ],
    [
        "We have good abstractions in structural biology to describe this.",
        "我们有很好的结构生物学抽象来描述这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff tell it in their masterly book This Time is Different, there is no secure way of short-circuiting a deep banking crisis.",
        "正如莱因哈特（Carmen Reinhart）和罗格夫（Kenneth Rogoff）在他们的《这次不同了》（This Time is Different）中所言，对付深度银行危机，没有包管用的灵药。"
    ],
    [
        "Not inflation, but a Japanese-type period of deflationary pressure with ever increasing public debt is the real risk that the world will be facing for years to come.",
        "世界在以后数年里要面对的真正危险不是通货膨胀，而是承担日本式的通货紧缩压力和不断上涨的国债。"
    ],
    [
        "Solar power plants provide insurance against fossil fuels’ inherent price volatility.",
        "太阳能电厂提供了对化石燃料内在价格波动性的保险。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, its soaring popularity suggests that it will be a crucial component of twenty-first-century problem-solving.",
        "相反，其蓬勃发展表明它将是二十一世纪解决问题之道的关键组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the welfare state must make its services available to him.",
        "相反，福利国家必须向他提供必要的帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "It has brought down countless governments, from Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s administration last year to Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government of the Republic of China.",
        "它让许多政府失去了政权，包括去年的巴西总统罗塞夫的政府和蒋介石的国民党政府。"
    ],
    [
        "If they write different numbers, the lowest number will be taken as the correct price.",
        "如果他们写的数字不一样，那么就以最低数字为正确价格。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be like Amazon’s recommendation system, proposing books you may like based on your and everybody else’s experience.",
        "它将类似于亚马逊公司的推荐系统，根据你和所有其他人的经验向你推荐可能喜欢的书籍。"
    ],
    [
        "At its core, the global economic crisis is a growth crisis.",
        "其要害在于全球经济危机是一次增长危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, many Americans recognize the scale of the country’s debt burden.",
        "毫无疑问，许多美国人都意识到自己的国家已经债台高筑。"
    ],
    [
        "As these islands begin to form an archipelago, a legal class emerges, supported by the clients who need them.",
        "随着这样的岛屿逐渐形成群岛，会出现一个法律阶级，由需要他们的客户支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "It is impossible to reconcile these views.",
        "调和这些不同的观点是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "That fact alone cannot absolve governments of their regional and global responsibilities.",
        "这个事实本身就表明各国政府无法免除自身的区域和全球责任。"
    ],
    [
        "CEOs who were once paid around 30 times what their average workers earned now make around 230 times that amount.",
        "从前，CEO的薪水是普通员工的30倍，如今是230倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Frequently, if the sellers of Spanish government bonds are outside the eurozone, it will ask the ECB to credit the payment orders.",
        "很多时候，如果西班牙政府债券的卖家位于欧元区之外，它将要求欧洲央行对支付指令授信。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea that Germany would show financial solidarity with weakened eurozone members only if they accept draconian stabilization measures is similarly unrealistic.",
        "还有一个念头也是不切实际的：那些虚弱的欧元国家先得接受一整套苛刻的财政整改措施，德国才会向它们表现出财务团结的善意。"
    ],
    [
        "The second test of his ability to negotiate with other leaders will be within Europe.",
        "对其与其他领导人谈判能力的第二项考验在于欧洲内部。"
    ],
    [
        "But I doubt that this gap is evidence of different cognitive abilities.",
        "但我不能确信这一间隙就是不同认知能力的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that the share of people living outside their countries of origin has barely increased in recent decades, standing around 3% of the nearly 7.5 billion people alive today.",
        "真相是生活在祖国之外的人口的比例在近几年中几乎没有增加，占当今近75亿人口的3%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Lucas’s decision might be somewhat justifiable if the models he chose were the only ones that were correct.",
        "从某种程度上说，卢卡斯的决定是可以论证的，如果他所选择的模型是唯一的正确模型的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, China had spent the 1990s exporting low-value-added products to the rest of the world, not least to US consumers.",
        "此外，整个20世纪90年代中国忙于向世界其他国家出口低附加值产品，而不仅限于美国消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, one in three women in the United States military is sexually assaulted, usually by a colleague, yet very few attackers are convicted.",
        "比如，在美国军队中，三分之一的女兵被性侵犯，施暴者通常是战友，但只有极少数会被定罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Especially to many young people, Corbyn is the longed-for man of conviction, the “authentic” voice of the people.",
        "特别是对许多年轻人来说，科尔宾是他们企盼已久的深孚众望之人，“真正的”人民的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "Under regional and international pressure, the Saudi ruling family has constructed a Potemkin village of reform while retaining absolute control over all political developments.",
        "在当地和国际压力下，沙特的统治家族建造了一个改革版的波特金村庄（Potemkin village），与此同时，将对所有政治发展的绝对控制权牢牢掌握在手中。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, we have not even succeeded at providing enough food for today’s population of 7.3 billion: Nearly 800 million people currently are starving or hungry, and another couple billion do not get enough micronutrients.",
        "事实上，我们连为当今73亿人口提供足够的粮食都没有做到：近8亿人正在挨饿或吃不饱，另有好几亿人得不到充分的微量元素。"
    ],
    [
        "This situation supposedly changed a bit in 2014, the first year that the country made a small contribution to its interest bill, having run a primary surplus of barely 0.8% of GDP (or 0.5% of its debt of 170% of GDP).",
        "这一情况据说在2014年略有改变，希腊第一次自讨腰包偿还了一点点利息，出现了大约相当于0. 8%的GDP的初级盈余（或相当于其占GDP的170%的债务的0."
    ],
    [
        "Is Middle East War Inevitable?",
        "中东战争是不可避免吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy is not the exception, but the rule; military regimes have succumbed to the power of the ballot box; and guerrilla groups have largely become a relic of the past.",
        "军事政权也已屈服于投票箱的力量； 游击队组织基本已成昨日黄花。"
    ],
    [
        "Trapped in their contradictions and zero-sum national dreams, Israelis and Palestinians cannot expect a perfect solution.",
        "由此可见，受困于自身的矛盾心态以及零和博弈式的建国梦想，以色列人和巴勒斯坦人双方都不可能祈求能得到一个完美的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Banyak orang mengalami berbagai jenis diskriminasi di saat yang sama dan kadang pengucilan yang mereka derita adalah akibat dari interaksi.",
        "许多人同时面临着不同形式的歧视，而他们所遭遇的排斥程度是这些歧视互动情况的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "These elements are vital to enable countries to offer their citizens an adequate quality of life.",
        "这些元素在授权国家为民众提供高质量生活的过程中扮演着至关重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the No vote has given a new legitimacy to euro-skepticism in other member states.",
        "另外，这张否决票还给予了其它国家的欧洲怀疑主义新的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "These outflows, together with volatility in the stock and currency markets, have left investors and policymakers increasingly worried.",
        "这些资本外流，加上股市和外汇市场波动，让投资者和决策者日益担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Behind the wall of military containment, the West ate away Soviet self-confidence with broadcasts, student and cultural exchanges, and the success of capitalist economics.",
        "在军事遏制的高墙背后，西方还通过广播、学生和文化交流以及资本主义经济的成功来蚕食苏维埃的自信。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to establish an extended dialogue with Muslim countries, particularly those from which immigrants come, and convince them to accept that their own Islamic authorities have a special responsibility in fighting radicalization.",
        "我们需要扩大与穆斯林国家、特别是移民输出国的对话，说服他们承认国内的伊斯兰政府在战胜极端行为方面负有特殊的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The desire to help others without consideration for ourselves is not just a noble ideal.",
        "愿意无私向他人伸出援手不仅是一种崇高的理想。"
    ],
    [
        "A comprehensive public consultation and 32 thorough reports later, the audit has not resulted in any request for significant competence repatriation.",
        "在进行了全面的公共协商和32次详细报告后，评估结果表明完全没有重要理由应该收回成员资格。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a rather new phenomenon.",
        "这种局面并非由来已久。"
    ],
    [
        "Tweets of Freedom",
        "自由的推特"
    ],
    [
        "While encouraging the rule of law and the growth of civil society, the US still needs to work with other governments, democratic and otherwise. Pressing problems, such as the economic crisis, nuclear proliferation, and climate change, will not wait.",
        "美国需要和其他国家，不管是民主还是非民主的国家，一起合作，共同解决问题，这些问题包括经济危机，核扩散以及气候变化等。"
    ],
    [
        "A Path through Europe’s Minefield",
        "欧洲雷区的安全小道"
    ],
    [
        "In his great verse drama Faust, Goethe has God send humanity the Devil (Mephistopheles) in order to stir things up.",
        "在著名戏剧《浮士德》中，歌德让神将恶魔（墨菲斯托，意为诱惑者）派往人间，振奋精神。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while its western neighbor Iraq is a fellow Shia-majority state, Iraq’s Arab Shia make no secret of their distaste for the Persians and their claim to Shia prominence.",
        "而尽管西侧的伊拉克与伊朗一样由什叶派占主导地位，但伊拉克的阿拉伯什叶派却毫不掩饰对波斯人及其什叶派地位主张的厌恶和反感。"
    ],
    [
        "Remarkably, the research suggests that a total of about $9 billion spent implementing marine cloud-whitening technology might be able to offset this entire century’s global warming. Even if one approaches this technology with concerns – as many of us do – we should aim to identify its limitations and risks sooner rather than later.",
        "而引人注目的是，研究指出总共耗费大约90亿美元执行此项海上云层白效应有可能解决本世纪所有地球变暖效应，即便一个人谨慎地实施这个方法——就如我们中大多数所做的那样——我们都应当尽早地识别其局限性和风险，而不是延后。"
    ],
    [
        "The shift in thinking was triggered by the revised deficit forecasts recently published by the Congressional Budget Office, the independent technical agency responsible for advising Congress on budget issues.",
        "触发观点改变的是国会预算办公室（CBO，这是一个独立的技术机构，负责向过会提供预算问题的建议）最新公布的赤字预测。"
    ],
    [
        "If, however, it is to orchestrate a regime change – which it might attempt to do – it will not likely disregard these groups and their powerbases by imposing their former commander on the political system.",
        "然而，如果军方想要更换政权，那么它将不大可能会无视上述这些团体以及它们的权力基本盘，强行把其前任领袖插入政治体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Delors had a different vision.",
        "过去德洛尔对此有一个不同的愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "The hardline clerics then undermine whatever confidence Rouhani is building with Iran’s neighbors by declaring repeatedly that the agreement represents an implicit acknowledgement of Iran’s might by the world’s major powers.",
        "于是，强硬派将把鲁哈尼通过反复重申协该协议代表世界主要大国对伊朗实力的间接承认而让伊朗邻国产生的信心破坏殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "European pressure on President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is intensifying.",
        "而欧洲对阿萨德政权的压力也正不断加大。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that China’s government no longer has any good options.",
        "事实是，中国政府已经没有什么好选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, Maurice Obstfeld pointed out that, in addition to fiscal transfers, a currency union needs clearly defined rules for the lender of last resort.",
        "再后来，奥布斯菲尔德（Maurice Obstfeld）指出，除了财政转移，货币联盟还需要有明确定义的最后贷款人规则。"
    ],
    [
        "What are the implications for policymakers?",
        "政府决策者能从中得到什么启示？"
    ],
    [
        "Hungary is set to hold a referendum in October on EU refugee quotas.",
        "匈牙利即将在10月份举行关于欧盟难民配额的公投。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, tax hikes have predominated in many recent European consolidations, including last week’s proposed Cyprus bailout.",
        "不幸的是，在许多最近的欧洲整合中，增税才是主导，包括上周塞浦路斯的援助方案。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, Prime Minister Li Keqiang has proposed an economic corridor linking China to Pakistan, and has spoken of other corridors running through Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar.",
        "在这方面，李克强总理提出了连接中国和巴基斯坦的经济走廊，并谈到了穿越孟加拉国、印度和缅甸的走廊。"
    ],
    [
        "MOSCOW – Rapid changes in the global economy and international politics are raising, once more, an eternal issue in Russia: the country’s relations with Europe, and with the Euro-Atlantic region as a whole.",
        "莫斯科 —— 全球经济与国际政治的快速变革，使得一个永恒的话题又一次在俄罗斯被人提起，这便是俄国与欧洲以及整个“欧洲 - 大西洋地区”之间的关系问题。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason why they can engage in this dangerous brinkmanship is the continuing presence of the US as the regional policeman.",
        "美国起到的区域警察作用使他们可以沉溺于如此危险的边缘政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN provides the mechanism for a global response, but as Kofi Annan often repeats, it does not exist apart from its member states.",
        "联合国提供了一种全球反应机制。 但正如安南常常重申的那样，这一机制不能脱离其成员国而存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider a preventable disease that most people have never heard of: konzo, a permanent, irreversible, upper-motor neuron disorder, common in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa that rely on the bitter varieties of the cassava plant as a staple crop.",
        "以一种大部分人从未听说过的可预防疾病为例。 这种疾病叫做konzo，一种永久性、不可逆的上层运动神经元失调病，这种病在撒哈拉以南非洲农村很常见，该地区以一种较苦的木薯类植物为主食。"
    ],
    [
        "But delay in grasping it will be very costly, and Europe is running out of time.",
        "但迟迟不行动将带来高昂的代价，而欧洲正在浪费宝贵的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "What these other numbers have to tell us – about both the present and the future – is far from reassuring.",
        "其他数字——既有关于现在的数字，也有关于未来数字——所表现的出来的图景不容乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power in 2013, he recognized the need for monetary expansion, making it one of the three “arrows” of his strategy – dubbed Abenomics – for economic reform and recovery.",
        "幸运的是，2013年上台的首相安倍晋三认识到货币宽松的必要性，将其作为他的经济改革和复苏战略——即所谓的“安倍经济学”的三支“箭”之一。"
    ],
    [
        "For them, what is at stake is the principle that sovereign countries have the right to chart their own course, rather than be entangled in a larger power’s sphere of influence.",
        "对它们来说，此事关乎主权国家有权决定自己的事，不被迫卷入更大力量的势力范围的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "But switching suddenly to domestic-led growth is not easy.",
        "但猛然转向内需拉动的增长绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, such nature-based solutions were too often overlooked.",
        "直到最近，这些基于大自然的方案常常被忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "Its leaders can begin fighting the cancer of an unsustainable status quo, with all the pain and uncertainty that such a struggle entails; or they can wait for the cancer to become a terminal condition, and be devoured by it.",
        "其领导人可以开始对抗不可持续现状带来的癌症，并承受上述斗争所带来的全部不确定性和痛苦； 或者他们可以等待癌症进入终末期，之后被它吞噬掉。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone, in particular, seems to be in danger, as prices are now falling for the first time since 2009.",
        "欧元区则显得尤为危险，因为物价自2009年以来首度下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Mao was wrong: political blackmail seems to be a more effective tool than the barrel of a gun.",
        "因此毛泽东错了：政治勒索似乎比枪杆子更有效。"
    ],
    [
        "A free society should be open to discussing such a claim.",
        "一个自由的社会应当对探讨这样的观点抱有一种开放的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are also important opportunities to design and construct buildings and cities that are substantially more energy-efficient.",
        "但其他重要机会尊在于设计和建设能源效率大大提高的建筑和城市。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that the true rise in real incomes was actually faster than the official statistics imply – possibly much faster.",
        "这意味着真实收入的实际增长其实比官方数据所体现的更快——可能快很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Financing for the most expensive projects – implementing green-energy systems, building transport infrastructure, and developing modern cities – must come from foreign institutional investors.",
        "对最昂贵项目——实施绿色能源体系、建设交通基础设施以及开发现代城市——的融资必须来自外国机构投资者。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in July, the UK will host the annual G-8 Summit of the rich countries.",
        "随后，英国将在7月份主持一年一度的八国峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "Greater flexibility might not stimulate short-term growth, but it would improve resilience to future negative shocks, whether they originate at home or abroad.",
        "增加灵活性也许不能刺激短期增长，但可以改善对未来消极冲击（不管来自国内还是国外）的恢复力。"
    ],
    [
        "When his bizarre and unscheduled appearance in the square was broadcast on Central Chinese Television the next morning – during one of the last days of uncensored media coverage – people across China were stunned by this fleeting moment of all-too-human, official anguish.",
        "当他在天安门广场离奇的突然露面第二天一早在中央电视台播出的时候¾那也是中国无需媒体审查的最后时刻¾全中国人都对这位官员转瞬即逝的真情流露感到震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinian Authority, which runs the West Bank, is afraid that a popular, non-violent intifada might quickly turn violent.",
        "管理西岸地区的巴勒斯坦当局担心吸引很多民众参加的非暴力起义可能迅速演变成暴力起义。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the unique American tie to Israel.",
        "更不用说美国与以色列的独特关系了。"
    ],
    [
        "By the 1970’s, it had brought to the United Kingdom large and ultimately unsustainable current-account deficits, high levels of inflation, and then political gridlock over what to do.",
        "到了20世纪70年代，这一套办法终于给英国带来种种苦果：国际收支经常项目下不可持续的巨额赤字、高涨的通货膨胀水平以及在当务之急问题上的政治死结。"
    ],
    [
        "Yohei Sasakawa of the Nippon Foundation remembers eating rice shipped from the country in the lean years after the war in Japan.",
        "日本基金会的笹川阳平回忆起战后艰苦时期曾吃到过的缅甸大米。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether it will contribute to reversing the major gains already made by IS forces in northern Iraq, and to re-establishing the territorial integrity of the Iraqi state, is a different question.",
        "此次干预行动能否扭转“伊斯兰国”势力在伊拉克北部的重大胜利、恢复伊拉克国家的领土完整仍然有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the SEC’s new crowdsourcing rules don’t go as far as they should.",
        "不幸的是，SEC的新众筹规则做得还不够。"
    ],
    [
        "The world remains in a very delicate transitional phase, and it is not clear yet in which direction the G-20 will lean.",
        "世界依然处在一个非常关键的转折时期，而G20峰会的走向也尚未明确。"
    ],
    [
        "CCS technology captures carbon dioxide at the source of its emission, compresses it, and stores it permanently underground.",
        "CCS技术在你排放源头捕捉二氧化碳，进行压缩然后永久存储于地下。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s turbulent Middle East, economic cooperation is no longer a matter of choice; it has become a necessity.",
        "在当今动荡的中东，经济合作不再是一个选择问题； 而是一件必须做的事。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration did the opposite.",
        "而布什政府却反其道而行之。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the corridors of those two multilateral institutions, there was talk of double standards.",
        "但是，在这两个多边机构内部，人们在大谈双重标准。"
    ],
    [
        "With focused effort and further innovation, we can make even more progress in the next 25 years to help the world make the most of our collective health investments.",
        "我们关注于实干和进一步创新，能够在未来25年取得更大进步，帮助世界做出大部分集体健康投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Such arguments ignore our species’ lamentable xenophobic tendencies, evidenced all too clearly by the surge in popularity of far-right extremist political parties in Europe.",
        "）上述观点忽略了我们人类可悲的排外倾向，欧洲极右翼极端主义政党飙升的人气就是证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Samuelson, who called the theory of comparative advantage the most beautiful thing in economics, changed his tune a bit at the end of his life.",
        "萨缪尔森把比较优势理论称为经济学中最美丽的部分，但他晚年的思想也有了一点变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Bad policies are, more often than not, easier to sell than good ones.",
        "糟糕的政策往往比好的政策更容易有市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Opponents of the double standard draw on principles of fairness, equity, and distributive justice.",
        "双重标准的反对者认为这违反了公平、平等和公平分配的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the wake of the Greek crisis, Merkel spoke publicly of the need to be able to exclude eurozone members that do not play by the rules.",
        "在希腊危机爆发后，默克尔居然真的当众表示，对于那些不按规矩来的欧元区成员国，需要有退出机制。"
    ],
    [
        "At 11:30, as a victorious Sophia trades her karate uniform for something better suited for her sister’s graduation, Sam receives a text message confirming that a small temperature-controlled pod has delivered the appetizers for Sally’s party in the secure, refrigerated drop-box at the house.",
        "11点30分，在比赛中获胜的索菲亚用空手道服换来了更合适作为姐姐毕业礼物的小玩意，山姆受到了确认短信，一个小型温控荚已经把莎莉派对小食送进了家里的冷藏升降箱，万无一失。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an intriguing idea.",
        "这是一个颇有吸引力的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Asia?",
        "中国的亚洲？"
    ],
    [
        "I doubt that an inaugural address based on these ideas will awe and inspire many audiences at commencement ceremonies, especially where many of those in attendance are citizens of other countries.",
        "我怀疑基于这些思想的就职演说是否能够在毕业典礼上震撼和激发大量听众，特别是当许多听众是其他国家的公民的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The second was a large set of astrophysical observations, pointing to the necessity of a gravitational “scaffolding” in the universe: that is, the dark matter needed to prevent the stars and galaxies from flying apart.",
        "其次是一大类天文物理学发现，指向宇宙中引力“脚手架”的必要性：即防止星系和银河分崩离析的暗物质。"
    ],
    [
        "Walking past the Mitsubishi Zero, tanks, and machine guns on display in the museum, one finds a history of the Pacific War that restores “the Truth of Modern Japanese History.”",
        "走过陈列在博物馆里的三菱零式舰上战斗机、坦克和机枪，参观者会看到一段恢复了“现代日本历史真相”的太平洋战争的历史。 它使用的是民族主义的论调。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Padoan, who was formerly the OECD’s chief economist, is the only G-7 finance minister with professional economics training.",
        "此外，曾任经合组织首席经济学家的帕多安是G-7国家财政部长中唯一一个受过专业经济学训练的。"
    ],
    [
        "And that will not change without adequate – and innovative – financial regulation.",
        "如果没有充分——并且创新——的金融监管变革，这一状况无法改变。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20 must demonstrate in Los Cabos that reform of the International Monetary Fund is continuing.",
        "G20必须在洛斯卡沃斯证明，IMF改革将继续深化。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is a long way from a common defense structure, but the need is growing.",
        "欧洲离共同防御体系还有很长的路要走，但必要性正在与日俱增。"
    ],
    [
        "The most difficult of Gates’s three examples is that of pro-Nazi statements on a Web site aimed at Germany.",
        "盖茨的三个例子中最难判断的一个就是在互联网上对德国传播纳粹主义言论。"
    ],
    [
        "British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is in a hopeless situation.",
        "英国首相戈登·布朗陷入了无望的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if implemented, the commission’s proposed regime would certainly be tougher than what is now on offer in New York or other banking centers.",
        "而一旦实施，委员会建议的管理体制肯定要比现在纽约或其它金融中心推行的更加严厉。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, however, there is no global leadership and severe disarray and disagreement among G-20 members about monetary and fiscal policy, exchange rates and global imbalances, climate change, trade, financial stability, the international monetary system, and energy, food and global security.",
        "但实际上，全球领导力并不存在，G20内部纷扰不断，分歧严重，举凡货币与财政政策、汇率与全球经贸不平衡、气候变化、贸易、金融稳定、国际货币体系、能源、食品和全球安全问题莫不如此。"
    ],
    [
        "We have started to bring hope by educating young Afghans, but we have not yet succeeded in bringing them a secure life, free from the danger of bombs and aerial bombardment.",
        "我们已经以教育年轻的阿富汗人为开始，为人民带来希望，但我们还没有在给他们带来生活的安全感，让他们免受炸弹和空袭的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the genetically determined portion of an individual’s breast cancer risk is the result of several or even many genetic variants and mutations.",
        "因此，由基因决定的乳腺癌风险份额是由几种甚至多种基因变异和突变综合作用产生的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian television commentators describe the countries most engaged in supporting a European-oriented Ukraine – Sweden, along with Poland and Lithuania, which had been brought into the Swedish orbit – as seeking revenge for Poltava.",
        "俄罗斯电视评论员把支持欧洲导向的乌克兰的瑞典以及已经被纳入瑞典轨道的波兰和立陶宛称为想为波尔塔瓦战役复仇。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern democracies share at least seven preconditions:",
        "现代民主政体至少要满足七个前提："
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, poor farmers have been actively encouraged to invest in stevia, because its cultivation can help preserve fragile and unique ecosystems.",
        "此外，当局积极鼓励贫困农户投资甜叶菊，因为甜叶菊种植有助于维护脆弱而独特的生态系统。 在对全球主要风险的年度调查中，世界经济论坛强调“发明高价值农业出口产品廉价的合成替代品."
    ],
    [
        "Second, Latin America needs to overhaul its weak health and education systems.",
        "其次，拉美国家需要改造疲软的医疗和教育系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true, to varying degrees, of Europe’s relationship with South Asia; but here the India-Pakistan conflict, a looming “post-American” Afghanistan in 2014, and uncertainty concerning Iran and the Persian Gulf have a direct security impact on the EU.",
        "从各种角度看，欧洲于南亚的关系也是类似的； 但在南亚，印度-巴基斯坦冲突、从2014年开始的“后美国”时代阿富汗以及伊朗和波斯湾局势的不确定性将对欧盟安全形成直接威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the country is gripped by an important debate about how to reform the chaebol, the mammoth industrial conglomerates that did so much to lift the country out of poverty and into the front ranks of the world’s economies.",
        "如今，困扰韩国的一个问题是关于如何改革财阀的重要争论。 财阀是巨型产业集团，曾是韩国走出贫困、名列世界经济前茅的中坚力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Cities and Sustainable Development",
        "城市与可持续发展"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese activity in Pakistan and Myanmar, the expansion of China’s port agreements in the Indian Ocean (the so-called “string of pearls”), and heightened Chinese naval activity in the Indian Ocean have jangled India’s security antennas.",
        "中国在巴基斯坦和缅甸的行动、中国在印度洋的港口协议的扩张（所谓的“珍珠链”战略），以及中国在印度洋令人瞩目的海军行动极大地触动了印度的安全神经。"
    ],
    [
        "International support so far has been generous, but it is still well below per capita equivalents for other post-conflict situations – and the need is much greater.",
        "目前为止，国际支持是慷慨的，但是，还是远远低于其他战后形势的人均水平，而且，需求更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Supported by other northern European creditors, Germany enforced its fiscal principles relentlessly, despite the systemic consequences for those it was pressuring (Greece and Spain, for example, now have different governments).",
        "在其他北欧债权国的支持下，德国无情地强制实行其财政原则，尽管这样做的系统性后果是造成压力（比如，希腊和西班牙的政府都已经改变）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama Doctrine and Africa",
        "奥巴马学说和非洲"
    ],
    [
        "Turnout was relatively high, at 57% of registered, particularly given that the OSCE had intoned that \"public interest does not seem to be high\"; other experts wrote of \"voter fatigue.\"",
        "此外，本次投票人数只占到了登记选民总数的57%。 投票之前，欧洲安全与合作组织就说\"公众对这次选举的兴趣似乎并不高\"，还有其它专家提到了\"选民疲劳症。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be far preferable to exchange them for Eurobonds, backed by the full faith and credit of all eurozone countries.",
        "没有人想把这些债券换成以全体欧元区国家的信念和信用担保的欧元债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Other elements of Lee’s plan include construction of eco-friendly transportation networks, such as high-speed railways and hundreds of kilometers of bicycle tracks, and generating energy using waste methane from landfills.",
        "李总统计划的其他要素还包括建设生态友好的运输网络，例如高速铁路以及几百公里长的自行车车道，并且从垃圾堆中利用甲烷来制造能源。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic and social development rose to the top of its agenda.",
        "经济和社会发展成为其日程的最重要部分。"
    ],
    [
        "People like me who have been cheerleaders for international integration in trade and finance, as well as for reductions in tariffs and other barriers, have cited three benefits:",
        "和我一样为贸易和金融的国际一体化以及削减关税和其他壁垒摇旗呐喊的人提出了（这样做的）三大好处："
    ],
    [
        "As a result, instruments that make their adoption more affordable are becoming some of the most important weapons we have in the fight against climate change.",
        "结果，降低这些能源的采用成本的工具也正在成为我们遏制气候变化的最重要的武器之一。"
    ],
    [
        "That will have a very significant effect in terms of reducing the current-account surplus, which reflects net national savings.",
        "这将在减少经常账户顺差——这个数字则反映了国家的净储蓄——方面产生巨大作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan takes the prize for the most extreme rhetoric, claiming that not curbing global warming is “a terrible gamble with the future of the planet and with life itself.”",
        "联合国前秘书长科菲·安南夺得最耸人听闻奖，他声称不制止全球变暖是在“拿地球的未来和生命本身做一场可怕的赌博。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "As those sectors rose and fell in response to shifts in benchmark interest rates, repercussions throughout the system (so-called multiplier effects) were often reinforced by real and psychological gains in asset markets (wealth effects).",
        "当这些部门因为基准利率的变化而起落时，整个系统的反响（所谓的乘数效应）常常因为资产市场的真实和心理收益（财富效应）而加强。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1999, the amount of such material being used for peaceful purposes has increased by 70% – a trend that will continue as the use of nuclear power grows.",
        "自1999年以来，用于和平目的的此类材料的数量增加了70%——而随着核电使用量的增加，这一趋势还会继续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past two years, newly affluent Chinese citizens have been seeking ways to move their wealth abroad.",
        "近两年来，新近富裕起来的中国公民一直在寻求将财富转移到海外的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "Judging by recent moves by China and the US, we can expect modest success in a few contentious areas.",
        "从中国和美国最近的动作判断，我们可以期待双方在一些有争议的领域取得些许成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The ghost ships are not the only source of odd questions and speculation about North Korea.",
        "鬼船并非引发朝鲜奇特问题和猜测的唯一来源。"
    ],
    [
        "We can now be cautiously optimistic that AMR is finally getting the global attention it deserves.",
        "现在，我们可以谨慎乐观地认为抗生素耐药性问题终于获得了应有的国际关注。"
    ],
    [
        "No one likes scrutiny, of course.",
        "当然，没人喜欢检查。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe believes that the TPP would force needed reforms in domestic agriculture (though, interestingly, no one in the US thinks it would help the US move away from its highly distortionary agricultural policies).",
        "安倍认为，TPP将迫使国内农业采取必要的改革（尽管有趣的是，在美国没人认为TPP会有助于美国改变高度扭曲的农业政策）。"
    ],
    [
        "To make matters worse, national failures can no longer be addressed without aggravating the situation.",
        "更糟的是，这种形势不恶化（到一定程度），这种国家性的失败就不会得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Executives’ interests were tied to the value of their firms’ common shares – or even to the value of options on such shares.",
        "高管的利益与他们公司的股票价值紧密相连–或是和这些股份的期权价值相联。"
    ],
    [
        "With a decline in farm income in excess of 50% from 1929 to 1932, one might have anticipated massive migration.",
        "1929—1932年，农业收入下降了50%以上，你可能会认为这会导致大规模移民。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Joseph Stiglitz regards austerity in Greece as a matter of ideological choice or bad economics, just like in the US.",
        "比如，约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨（Joseph Stiglitz）认为希腊的紧缩是意识形态选择问题或坏经济学，与美国国内的情况一模一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Koizumi’s insistence on paying homage to the war dead interred at Yasukuni, where convicted war criminals from World War II are among the buried, has been damaging relations with Japan’s neighbors for years.",
        "小泉坚持拜祭埋葬有二战战犯的靖国神社，多年来一直损害着日本与邻国的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Citigroup, for example, had no more than 4.3% equity, according to Hoenig’s calculation, in November 2008.",
        "比如，根据霍尼格的计算，2008年11月花旗集团的股本率不高于4. 3%。"
    ],
    [
        "With peace, and the prospect of doing well in July’s parliamentary election, in which it has agreed to participate, Hamas would have powerful incentives to transform itself from an armed movement outside the system into a political party committed to competing for power at the ballot box.",
        "在和平背景以及哈马斯已经同意参加的七月国会选举的美好前景下，哈马斯有强大的动力将他们自己从一个选举体系外的武装运动组织转变为一个在选举中竞争权力的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Kurds and their candidates excluded from the parliament, the AKP would have to do only slightly better than polls are predicting to maintain its political dominance.",
        "如果库尔德人及其候选人被排除在议会之外，正义与发展党只需表现略好于民调就能继续主导国内的政治生活。"
    ],
    [
        "First, credit that can be, and is, created offshore and through off-balance-sheet SIVs is not captured by national balance-of-payments statistics. In other words, while a “savings” glut may contribute to low interest rates and fuel excess credit creation, it is not the main cause.",
        "首先，信用可以以离岸的形式创造，也可以通过表外SIV创造（事实也正是如此），这些信用不会出现在国民国际收支统计中。 换句话说，“储蓄”泛滥可能导致低利率、助长信用的过度创造，但绝非主因。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, for instance, structural flexibility contributed to economic recovery and helped the country adapt to long-term technological changes and global market forces.",
        "比如，在美国，结构弹性刺激了经济复苏，帮助美国适应长期技术变化和全球市场力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians and regulators have neither the political courage nor the intellectual conviction needed to return to a much clearer and more straightforward system.",
        "政客和监管者既没有政治勇气，也没有明智观点，而这些都是重返更清晰、更简单系统的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is only part of the problem.",
        "但这只是问题的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "I don’t know, though I have some hunches. It is impossible for anyone to predict bubbles accurately.",
        "虽然我对此总会有一些预感，但也无法给出答案，事实上根本没人能准确预测泡沫的来临。"
    ],
    [
        "Since September, this new market has traded the Eurozone’s Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices, or HICP – a contract that traders call the “hiccup.”",
        "自九月份以来，这一新的交易市场对欧元区消费者物价协调指数（简称HICP）进行交易。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, under the cover of indignation over the Peshawar attack, the leading suspect in the case – UN-designated terrorist Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who served as LeT’s operations chief – secured bail.",
        "事实上，就在对白沙瓦袭击表面的愤慨背后，本案最大的嫌疑人——联合国指定的恐怖分子、曾担任LeT最高行动首领的扎基 - 乌尔 - 拉赫曼·拉赫维被允许取保候审。"
    ],
    [
        "Maximizing economic, social, and cultural contact between rich and poor remains both the best way to aid the flow of knowledge and the last best hope for rapid world development.",
        "使富国和穷国之间的经济、社会和文化联系最大化不仅是促进知识流动的最佳方式，也是促使全世界快速发展的最后希望。"
    ],
    [
        "No leading country in world history has persistently maintained a negative saving rate.",
        "历史上没有一个领导国家会一直维持着负储蓄率的。"
    ],
    [
        "After China opened up its economy and Russia emerged from the Soviet Union, bilateral relations entered a new stage.",
        "中国经济开放以及苏联解体、俄罗斯诞生后，双边关系进入了新阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Beginning in 2010, an unexpected sovereign debt crisis contributed to and was compounded by serious weaknesses in major banks.",
        "从2010年开始，一场意想不到的主权债务危机触发并加剧了各大型银行的严重危机。"
    ],
    [
        "This will now end, likely quite soon.",
        "不过这一切很快都将成为历史了。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Global transformations are nothing new.",
        "马德里—全球转型并非新鲜事。"
    ],
    [
        "You see, they were using Microsoft-equipped computers and could not prove that the software had not been pirated.",
        "你看，他们使用装有微软系统的电脑，而且无法证明他们所用的软件不是来源于盗版。"
    ],
    [
        "Individual commitments are also being cut – for example, France’s five-year, €33 million pledge for reconstruction support is strikingly low compared to its total foreign-aid budget of €9 billion.",
        "单个国家的援助同样也大大削减了，比如，法国承诺在5年内提供3300万欧元的重建资金与它总共90亿欧元的对外援助预算相比起来低得可怜。"
    ],
    [
        "Ours is a guilt culture; theirs a shame culture.",
        "欧洲文化是罪感文化，而穆斯林文明却是耻感文化。"
    ],
    [
        "His role in establishing enduring democracy in India, despite the tensions of caste, ethnicity, religion, and regional loyalties, made him one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.",
        "他在把印度建成巩固持久的民主国家方面所起的作用，尽管有种姓、种族、宗教和区域忠诚方面的紧张关系，仍然使他成为20世纪的伟人之一。"
    ],
    [
        "It is little wonder, then, that monetary-policy instruments have become increasingly unreliable in generating economic growth, steady inflation, and financial stability.",
        "因此，毫不奇怪货币政策工具在制造经济增长、稳定通胀和金融稳定等方面越来越不可靠。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if the eurozone is to be a sensible long-term proposition, mere survival is not enough.",
        "但是，如果欧元区要成为明智的长期之选，仅仅活下去是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "In July, the US Congress approved sweeping sanctions against Russia, partly in response to its alleged sponsorship of disinformation campaigns aiming to influence US elections.",
        "7月，美国国会批准了针对俄国的一系列制裁措施，部分原因是据称俄罗斯赞助了旨在影响美国总统竞选的虚假消息散布活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Global Imbalances Return?",
        "全球失衡会重现吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Now, though, it looks like I may finally be right – or at least right to worry, if not to panic.",
        "但现在我的观点似乎最终得到了印证—或者说如果不至于惊慌的话，至少我有理由担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders may also try to control the narrative by denying access to potentially critical media organizations, as has occurred in the US and, more aggressively, in crisis-ridden Venezuela under President Nicolás Maduro.",
        "领导人还试图通过拒绝接触可能持批评态度的媒体组织来控制媒体叙事，美国就是如此，而在总统马杜罗治下危机重重的委内瑞拉做得更加激进。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the Japanese must open up their country themselves.",
        "而今天，日本人必须靠自己打开国门。"
    ],
    [
        "The government wanted to protect its sources.",
        "政府想保护人证。"
    ],
    [
        "Those talks seemed to go well, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the US is pursuing a two-track policy: talks, yes, but a build-up and repositioning of US military power in the Pacific just in case.",
        "那些谈话似乎进展顺利，但我们可以越来越清楚地看到美国正寻求一种双轨政策：谈话，确实有，但背后却是美国在太平洋地区军事力量的建立和阵地转移。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians, commentators, activists, and journalists in each country are talking endlessly about the past.",
        "政治家，时事评论员，社会运动分子和记者都在无休止地谈论过去。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, at this point, Clinton and Sanders are exasperated by each other.",
        "此外，到目前为止，克林顿和桑德斯已经被对方所激怒。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2002, a research group at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, created a functional, infectious poliovirus solely from basic, off-the-shelf chemical building blocks.amp#160;Their only blueprint for engineering the genome was the known sequence of RNA (which comprises the viral genome and is chemically very similar to DNA).",
        "2002年，另一个来自纽约州立大学石溪分校的研究团队也利用现有的基础化学模块合成了具有传染性的小儿麻痹病毒。 而他们合成这一病毒的蓝本仅仅是已知的RNA序列（病毒基因的组成部分，在化学上与DNA类似）而已。"
    ],
    [
        "But large data sets also make replication impossible without the author’s cooperation.",
        "但与此同时若没有作者的配合，庞大的数据组也使复制变得不大可能。"
    ],
    [
        "The next American president will also inherit a country with a markedly changed geopolitical perspective.",
        "新人美国总统还将接手一个面临地缘政治前景重大变化的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "None of the countries that Orbán cited in his speech has offered an alternative vision of world order.",
        "奥班所提到的国家中没有一个提出过世界秩序的替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "New leadership in many of the region’s countries, including China, Japan, and South Korea, make the future even more uncertain.",
        "中、日、韩等国众多新领导人上任让未来更加变幻莫测。"
    ],
    [
        "The danger here is twofold.",
        "这里的风险是双重的。"
    ],
    [
        "The five economies spelled out their policy plans in considerable detail to the semi-annual meeting of the IMF’s membership, which gave them a warm welcome.",
        "五大经济体在国际货币基金组织成员国的半年会上非常详细地阐述了它们的政策计划，从而受到了各国的一致好评。"
    ],
    [
        "ROME – Over the past several years, biofuels have become a bone of contention.",
        "罗马—过去几年来，生物燃料成了争论的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, we do not want to make it too easy for tyrants to drive unwanted minorities out of their country.",
        "比如，我们不希望让暴君能够轻而易举地将他不喜欢的少数群体赶出国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Arguably, this is easier to apply to economic policymaking than to the battlefield.",
        "可以说，这应用于经济决策比应用于战场更容易。"
    ],
    [
        "China, the transit route for most of what goes enters and leaves North Korea, understands that were North Korea to cross this red line, it would risk US military reprisal and possibly lead Japan and/or South Korea to rethink their nuclear weapons policy.",
        "作为绝大多数朝鲜物资的流经国，中国理解朝鲜一旦跨越红线就有可能招致美国的军事报复并且引发日本和韩国重新考量其核武器政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the opposite is true: the logic of national sovereignty has staged a comeback, with major economies consistently undermining cooperation on issues ranging from security to trade to climate change.",
        "现实恰恰相反：国家主权逻辑卷土重来，各主要经济体在从安全、贸易到气候变化等问题上一贯破坏合作机制。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem with this saying is the paranoid mindset behind it, for it implies that the nature of Russian-US relations has not changed fundamentally since the Cold War’s end; that the animosities that exist between the two countries are those of two permanently implacable geopolitical opponents.",
        "这一说法的背后隐藏的是偏执的思维定势，因为它表明冷战结束后俄美关系的实质并没有在根本上得到改变； 两国之间所存在的敌意是这两个永远无法缓和的地缘政治的对手之间的。"
    ],
    [
        "That would help to suppress oil prices – a boon for the eurozone’s energy-importing countries.",
        "这将有助于抑制石油价格——也是欧元区能源进口国的福音。"
    ],
    [
        "He campaigned against the political establishment, and, as he told a pre-election rally, a victory for him would be a “Brexit plus, plus, plus.”",
        "他在选战中挑战了政治建制派，并且在一次竞选前集会上说，他的获胜将是“英国退欧的加强版的加强版的加强版”。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China frets over the safety of the US Treasury bonds that it holds.",
        "事实上，中国烦恼的正是它持有的美国国债的安全性。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Indian government suggested last year that the Himalayan glaciers were in better shape than the IPCC claimed, the IPCC’s chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, dismissed India’s objections as being based on “voodoo science.”",
        "去年，当印度政府声明说喜马拉雅冰川的状况要比 IPCC 宣称的要好时， IPCC 主席拉津德·巴乔里竟反驳说印度政府的反对是基于“巫术科学”。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, scaling-up multilateral support will require a massive overhaul of international finance.",
        "即便如此，相应地增加多边支持需要在国际融资领域开展重大的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Forty years later, a counterrevolution took hold, reflecting sharp criticism of fiscal activism.",
        "四十年后，一场反向革命成为主流，尖锐地批评财政积极主义。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1971, fighting broke out when Bangladesh, then known as East Pakistan, declared independence from Pakistan.",
        "1971年，当时仍是东巴基斯坦的孟加拉国宣布脱离巴基斯坦独立，战事随之爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon, Hezbollah rockets supplied by Syria and Iran were striking northern Israel.",
        "马上，由叙利亚和伊朗提供的真主党火箭弹攻击以色列北部。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, sophisticated voters will themselves be emotionally intelligent enough to be prepared for surprises.",
        "但最重要的是，成熟的选民首先要拥有足够的情商去应付一切意外情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Eclectic foxes are better at curbing their ideological enthusiasms.",
        "折衷的狐狸型学者更善于控制自己对意识形态的热情。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, officials in Jiangsu are no longer content with sewing clothing.",
        "有见及此，当地官员已经不再满足于成衣加工。"
    ],
    [
        "So central banks embraced measures that didn’t even exist in their policy toolkit a decade ago.",
        "因此，央行采取了一些十年前尚不再其工具箱中的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "And what role should international financial institutions play to facilitate an efficient outcome?",
        "国际金融机构应当发挥什么样的作用才能促成有效的结局？"
    ],
    [
        "But controlling the disease may prove to be a better strategy than striving to cure it.",
        "但事实证明控制可能是比治愈更切合实际的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "What are those values?",
        "一个建立在庞大和革新性制造业基础上的出口型经济； 一个面向世界经济的，由中小型（通常是家族式）企业组成的庞大网络；"
    ],
    [
        "As one participant put it, “The debate has shifted from what to do to how and when to do it.”",
        "正如一位与会者所言，“争论已经从做什么转变为何时开始做。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But such a reversal is nowhere in sight.",
        "但这样的逆转似乎还遥遥无期。"
    ],
    [
        "At 15%, America’s tax rates on dividends and capital gains are at historic lows, while the profit share of national income is at an all-time high.",
        "美国的股票红利和资本利得税率为15%，处于历史最低值，而利润占国民收入的比重则处于历史最高值。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of taking a cautious approach, and letting the demonstrators in Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and other places do the shouting, they want him to talk tough, or, better yet, to send in the US Air Force and blast Qaddafi’s jet fighters and helicopter gunships out of the sky.",
        "不要谨言慎行而让伊朗、突尼斯、埃及、利比亚、巴林、也门和其他国家的示威者们大喊大叫，他们想让他摆出强硬姿态，最好是派遣美国空军把卡扎菲的喷气战斗机和武装直升机从天上打下来。"
    ],
    [
        "Upon the issue of such an ECB bond, the ECB would simultaneously open a debit account for the member state on whose behalf it issued the bond.",
        "在发行这一欧洲央行债券时，欧洲央行同时将为其代为发行债券的成员国开立借方账户。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, when I was at Goldman Sachs, I was often amused to see commodity analysts in my research group struggling to cope with the usual chaos of oil-price developments.",
        "后来去了高盛，每当看到自己研究小组的商品分析师疲于应付对油价来说稀松平常的混乱走势时，我都很想发笑。"
    ],
    [
        "By unleashing the economy’s productivity-growth potential, the Internet can help China attain its goal of developing a growth model that can lift the country to high-income status.",
        "互联网可以释放经济的生产率增长潜力，从而有助于中国实现转变增长模式、买入高收入国家行列的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "If the gains from globalization are not widely shared, political support for greater openness to global flows will decline – as will the economic benefits that such flows create.",
        "如果全球化的好处不能广泛共享，增加对全球流的开放度的政治支持就会削弱——这些流动所创造的的经济好处也会随之减少。"
    ],
    [
        "But nothing can be both leak-proof and porous, and ITER is not designed to study this contradiction.",
        "但是没有哪种物质既能防止泄漏又是多孔的。 国际核聚变实验堆并不是设计来研究这一矛盾的。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the closest Japan has come was the former mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, who first made his name as a television personality and then disgraced himself in recent years by commending the use of wartime sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese Army.",
        "也许日本最接近民粹主义的元素是前大阪市长桥本彻，他最早出名是作为一名电视人，最近几年因为赞扬日本帝国陆军在战时使用性奴而蒙羞。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, the members of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding, the high-level political forum that produced the New Deal, met in Washington, DC, to assess our progress in changing how we work and in implementing the New Deal commitments.",
        "最近，国际和平建设和国家建设对话（International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding，产生《新政》的高规格政治论坛）成员国在华盛顿举行了会晤，评估我们在改变工作方式、执行《新政》承诺方面的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "In developed and developing countries alike, the scope of the problem is too large to be left exclusively to mental-health professionals.",
        "不管是发展中国家还是发达国家，这个问题都无法光靠心理健康专业人士解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, economic pressures have fueled anti-European sentiment in Spain, Italy, and even France; if allowed to continue, such sentiment could culminate in secession, with devastating consequences for the eurozone and Europe as a whole.",
        "经济压力本来就已经在不断撩动着西班牙，意大利甚至法国的反欧洲情绪； 如果任由其发展，这种情绪将将最终导致独立行为，为欧元区以及欧洲整体带来灾难性的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is unlikely to cooperate on any issue at all with its fellow opposition party, the AfD.",
        "事实上，它在一切问题上都不太可能与同为反对党的AfD形成合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberty, in the US, was inextricably entwined with religious belief.",
        "在美国，自由与宗教信仰密不可分。"
    ],
    [
        "For the US, the evidence has been very mixed.",
        "对美国来说，证据模棱两可。"
    ],
    [
        "The last thing the Fed Maestro needed was a repeat performance on the eve of the G-7 – a meeting that is supposed to exemplify international co-operation.",
        "这位美联储当家人最不能做的就是在象征着国际合作的7国集团会议当晚重蹈覆辙。"
    ],
    [
        "Those fears are, for the most part, overblown.",
        "而这些担心大都是过分的。"
    ],
    [
        "He called his theory “general” to distinguish it from the pre-Keynesian theory, which assumed a unique level of output – full employment.",
        "他将他的理论称为“通论”，以区别于凯恩斯之前的理论。 此前的理论假设一个独特的产出水平——充分就业。"
    ],
    [
        "But it will give legitimate expression to the will of a people long oppressed and entitled to their place in the sun.",
        "但这会赋予长久受到压迫的人们合法的表达权利，他们有权利在阳光下拥有一席之地。"
    ],
    [
        "These polls, though vitally important, are not the only challenges that Sudan and its people face.",
        "虽然选举活动至关重要，但并非苏丹及苏丹人民所面临的唯一挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Less well known, however, is a particular pattern in the revisions of the US international investment position.",
        "但是，比较鲜为人知的是修订美国国际投资头寸数字的特殊方法。"
    ],
    [
        "That effort must start now.",
        "奥巴马应该马上行动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "What makes the Himalayan incursion a powerful symbol of China’s aggressive new stance in Asia is that its intruding troops have set up camp in an area that extends beyond the “line of actual control” (LAC) that China itself unilaterally drew when it defeated India in the 1962 Chinese-initiated border war.",
        "让喜马拉雅山入侵事件成为中国专横亚洲新立场的有力标志的是其闯入不对在“实际控制线”之外的地区扎营，这条实际控制线是中国在1962年由其发动的边境战争后单方面划定的。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the effect of currency appreciation on the trade balance should not be exaggerated.",
        "而与此同时，货币升值对贸易的影响作用不应被夸大。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, they have objected to the ECB’s unlimited commitment (“whatever it takes,” in ECB President Mario Draghi’s famous phrase) to the purchase of crisis-hit countries’ government securities.",
        "特别是，他们反对欧洲央行购买危机受袭国政府债券的无限之承诺（用欧洲央行行长德拉吉的名言讲，就是“不惜一切代价”）。"
    ],
    [
        "In a difficult environment, where academic achievement is far from the top of the rebellious teens’ list of priorities, Pfeiffer’s character comes up with an unorthodox – and effective – new approach: each student will start the year with an “A” grade, which is theirs to lose.",
        "在面对一帮无心向学的叛逆少年时，这位女教师想出了一个路子有点野但相当有效的新点子：每个学生都以“A”等成绩开始自己的学年，随课堂表现而扣减。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi Jinping: “I will make it clear that any territorial claims we have in the South China Sea are based only on reasonable assertions of sovereignty over particular land features and the rights that accompany them under the Convention on the Law of the Sea.",
        "习近平：“我将澄清，我们在南海的一切领土要求都只基于合理的特殊地貌主权主张及其根据《海洋法公约》所附带的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, vehicle-hailing apps like Uber and apartment-sharing platforms like Airbnb are demonstrating how cities have become some of the most fertile environments for technological development.",
        "与此同时，Uber等打车应用和Airbnb等民宿平台正在向人们表明城市如何成为科技发展最肥沃的土壤。"
    ],
    [
        "His decision is a blow to so many people – including a great many Americans – who have worked hard to be a successful part of the new economy.",
        "他的决定对许多努力地想成为新经济的成功组成部分的人来说是一次打击——包括大量美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "The Price of Peace",
        "和平的代价"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, in the past, the judges’ union tended to go along, with predictable results.",
        "因此，在过去法官工会倾向于随大流，接受毫无悬念的选举结果。"
    ],
    [
        "(The Stones have already played in Shanghai, even though the Chinese authorities insisted on vetting their songs.)",
        "（滚石乐队已经在上海演出过，尽管中国当局坚持要审查曲目。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "At one point, according to press reports, the row became so serious that French President Nicolas Sarkozy had to intervene.",
        "在某个时刻，按照媒体的报导，他们的争吵变得如此激烈，以致于法国总统尼古拉·萨尔科齐都不得不出面干涉。"
    ],
    [
        "Central bankers, more generally, are typically able to provide short- or medium-term narratives to financial markets.",
        "更一般地说，央行行长通常都有能力向市场提供短期和中期故事。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why there is also a need for some burden-sharing by European countries, as well as efforts to achieve a marked slowdown in the refugee flow, while upholding the human rights of those fleeing conflict and death.",
        "因此，还需要欧洲诸国共同承担一些责任，并采取措施大幅延缓难民流，同时保护这些逃离冲突和死亡的人的人权。"
    ],
    [
        "Asian economies’ deepening trade and financial integration has left them increasingly vulnerable to growth shocks from China, with exporters of commodities and capital goods especially vulnerable.",
        "不断深入的亚洲各经济体贸易金融一体化让它们越来越容易受到中国的增长冲击，其中大宗商品出口商和资本货物尤其脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "I began working as a traveling salesman, selling goat’s milk, hens, roosters, and sheep.",
        "我开始成为一个走街串巷的生意人，卖羊奶、鸡和羊。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – Over the last half-century, South Korea has made considerable economic progress, with per capita income increasing from a mere $80 dollars in 1960 to more than $22,000 last year.",
        "首尔—半个多世纪以来，韩国取得了卓越的经济进步，人均收入从1960年的80美元增加到去年的22,000多美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Not even an organized network would be required; just a fanatic with the mindset of those who now design computer viruses.",
        "甚至都不需要一个有组织的网络； 只要有一个思维方式类似电脑病毒设计者的疯子就行。"
    ],
    [
        "They can be provided “humanitarian protection” or be granted “discretionary leave to remain” for a short period; but then they can be deported as illegal immigrants.",
        "他们可以获得“人道主义保护”或授予短期“自由裁量去留权”； 但不能作为非法移民被驱逐。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time world leaders meet in September at the United Nations Summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants, the global community must acknowledge what went wrong – and agree on how to fix it.",
        "到各国领导人在9月召开的解决大量难民和移民流动问题的联合国峰会上会面时，国际社会必须意识到什么地方出了问题——并一致同意采用何种对策。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, 12 (24); 5.",
        "俄罗斯，12（21）； 5."
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is the wrong approach.",
        "事实上，这也是错误的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, recently said of the unfinished agenda for global financial-sector reform: “To start, we need concrete progress with the too-important-to-fail conundrum.",
        "牛津—IMF总裁拉加德最近在论及尚未完成的全球金融部门改革日程时说：“首先，我们需要在太重要而不能倒难题上取得真正的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, in order to increase private investment in building up clean infrastructure, investor-protection measures and dispute-resolution mechanisms must be considered.",
        "如今，为了增加清洁基础设施的私人投资，必须考虑投资者保护措施和纠纷解决机制。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcome indicates each thinker’s relevance across countries and subject areas, and the ranking selects those thinkers who are most talked about and who are triggering wider debate.",
        "结果表明了每一位思想家在不同国家和不同领域的关联度，排名所选择的思想家都是被讨论最多、引起最广泛争论的思想家。"
    ],
    [
        "No one believes that fiscal balance is the whole growth model anywhere.",
        "没有人相信财政平衡能在任何地方成为一个完整的增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Then Ken Rogoff entered the fray with a comment on Krugman’s paper.",
        "接着是肯·罗格夫（Ken Rogoff）对克鲁格曼论文的评论。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, even on the assumption that Putin has no plans to nationalize key natural resource companies, he clearly desires strong state control over these “commanding heights” of the economy.",
        "然而，即使我们假设普京没有将主要的自然能源公司国有化的计划，他也显然是想对这些高高在上的公司实施强硬的政府控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Three or four billion people are still offline, and the Internet’s economic value for many who are connected is compromised by trade barriers, censorship, laws requiring local storage of data, and other rules that limit the free flow of goods, services, and ideas.",
        "目前有三四十亿人仍处于脱机状态，而互联网对很多入网用户的经济价值主要受贸易壁垒、审查制度、当地数据存储规定和阻碍商品、服务及理念自由流动的其他规则的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2008, for the first time in human history, two navigation channels through the polar ice field – in the East along Siberia, and in the West along the Canadian islands – were open for a few months, allowing boats to go from Europe to Japan or California via the Bering Straits, rather than the Panama Canal or the Horn of Africa, thereby saving some 4,000 or 5,000 kilometers.",
        "2008年，两个穿越极地冰川的航道，在人类历史上首次开通了几个月-东沿西伯利亚，西沿加拿大群岛-让船只通过白令海峡从欧洲到达日本或加利福尼亚州，而不是通过巴拿马运河或非洲好望角，从而少走了大约四千或五千公里。"
    ],
    [
        "Though these claims are easily discredited, the “Yes” side has been unable to provide voters with sufficient reasons to vote for the Treaty.",
        "尽管很容易击破这些言论，但是赞成派还是没有能够给选民提供足够多的理由来投票赞成条约。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the EU-Ukraine summit on September 9 in Evian, France, provides the perfect opportunity.",
        "所幸的是，9月9日在法国埃维昂举行的欧盟和乌克兰峰会提供了绝佳机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Revising the constitution would provide stronger legal grounding for Abe’s controversial defense measures.",
        "修改宪法将为安倍备受争议的防御措施提供更加有力的法律基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, government agencies operate in many areas in which they face little competition – and thus little pressure to innovate.",
        "此外，许多领域的政府机构并未面临多大的竞争——从而也就没有创新的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why we are channeling more than $460 billion toward building and modernizing thousands of kilometers of roads and highways, as well as expanding and improving our mass transit and railway systems.",
        "因此，我们正在耗资4,600多亿美元用于建设和现代化数千公里公路和高速公路，以及扩张和改善我们的公共运输和铁路系统。"
    ],
    [
        "It certainly will not solve the plastic pollution problem on its own.",
        "它可能无法单枪匹马地解决塑料污染问题。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, cognitive science has helped to make the techniques of deception even more effective, giving rise to political professionals who concentrate only on “getting results.”",
        "近来，认知科学使得欺骗伎俩更为有效，产生了一些专门“取得成效”的政治专业人士。"
    ],
    [
        "But this arrangement quickly bred discontent, with France leaving the Gold Pool in 1967.",
        "但这一安排很快就引起了不满，法国于1967年退出伦敦黄金储备市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the answer also seems to be yes, suggesting that we are also facing another type of secular stagnation – call it “secular stagnation two” (SS2) – that is dictated by our unwillingness or inability to implement the right policy mix.",
        "答案似乎也是肯定的，这意味着我们还面临另一种长期停滞——称之为“长期停滞二”（SS2）——其标志是我们不愿或无力实施正确的政策组合。"
    ],
    [
        "So a more concrete undertaking, one that preserves South Korea’s bedrock security concerns, is needed.",
        "因此有必要做出更为具体的承诺，保持韩国最基本的安全关注。"
    ],
    [
        "But we might still fail to reach agreement on who should pay for funding these programs, or for reducing our consumption of resources.",
        "但我们没有就谁应该为这些项目掏钱，或谁应该为削减我们的资源消费负责达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "MAYNOOTH, IRELAND – On June 12, Irish voters will vote on the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty, the instrument designed to improve the efficiency and legitimacy of the now 27-member bloc.",
        "爱尔兰梅努斯--6月12日，爱尔兰的选民们将对欧盟里斯本条约进行投票。 这一条约的目的在于提高拥有27个成员国的欧盟的效率以及合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ingenious General",
        "天才将军"
    ],
    [
        "His message was stark: “If current trends in the decline of European defense capabilities are not halted and reversed, future US political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.”",
        "他的观点非常明确：“如果目前欧洲防御力量的下降趋势得不到遏制和逆转，那么未来那些成长中并未亲身体验过冷战的美国政治领袖可能不再将美国对北约的投资视为值得。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "This year, the UN peacekeeping budget will total $8 billion. Think of what we could save by avoiding conflicts – by deploying political mediation missions, for example, rather than troops.",
        "今年联合国维和预算总额为80亿美元。 想想看，我们能够通过避免冲突剩下多少钱——比如用政治调解代替维和部队。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping went a step further, pledging to establish by 2017 a national market to set prices for CO2 emissions.",
        "上个月，中国国家主席习近平又进了一步，承诺将在2017年建成为二氧化碳排放定价的全国性市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries like India and Indonesia are now facing possible financial crises, in part owing to large budget deficits, a major component of which has long been food and energy subsidies.",
        "印度和印尼这样的国家当前所面临的潜在财务危机，部分原因是由于庞大的预算赤字，另一个重要原因是长期的食品和能源补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Fed by a meager diet of media reporting and some coarse think-tank buzz, European and American friends often ask me why our universities are awash with self-hating, anti-Israel “post-Zionists.”",
        "媒体鲜有有关他们的报导，而智库对此的研究也是粗糙。 我的欧洲和美国朋友经常问我我们的大学为何充斥了自我仇恨、反以色列的“后犹太复国主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "Kenya and Ethiopia refused, resulting in a number of regional wars over the Somali national question.",
        "肯尼亚和埃塞俄比亚拒绝同意，这导致围绕索马里民族问题爆发了多场地区战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Biomass energy, however, is the victim of unfair competition from fossil fuels.",
        "然而，生物质能源是与化石能源不公平竞争的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "The country elected its first female president, Park Geun-hye, in 2012.",
        "2012年，韩国还选出了第一位女总统朴槿惠。"
    ],
    [
        "The creditor countries would have to shoulder big losses from write-downs, but they would still end up with more than they would have gotten had the crisis countries remained within the eurozone, because these countries’ new prosperity, gained by leaving, offers the only chance of recovering any assets at all.",
        "那些债权国可能要承担因债务减免而带来的巨大损失，但相对于把那些受灾国留在欧元区内的做法，前者最终获得的好处会更多，因为这些受灾国通过脱离而实现的繁荣才是重新追回所有资产的唯一机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But it does not follow that if a country wants to improve government effectiveness it should focus on returning wrongly addressed letters promptly.",
        "但这并不是说，如果一国向盖上政府效率，就应该专注于迅速地退回地址错误的信件。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders can be “sleepwalkers” who fail to manage risk by, say, establishing institutions that can channel the rival interests and claims that fuel international conflict.",
        "领导人可能成为“梦游者”，无法通过（比如）建立能够协调导致和助长国际冲突的对立利益的机构遏制风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Widely held and controlled companies differ considerably in the governance problems their investors face.",
        "股权分散的公司和股权受控的公司的投资者面临的公司治理问题，有很大的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Educational institutions can thus work to develop students’ capacity for caring in tandem with their cognitive abilities.",
        "因此，教育机构可以致力于让学生的关怀能力与认知能力同步发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a clear end that justifies it, sacrifice becomes meaningless.",
        "但如果不存在证明牺牲有价值的明确的目的，牺牲也会变得毫无意义。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, an administration in which many had placed high hopes is lapsing into demagoguery and ineffectiveness.",
        "而结果就是：一个很多人寄予厚望的政府正在滑入蛊惑煽动和行动无效的深渊。"
    ],
    [
        "If Barroso were alone, perhaps we could let his statement go, but the same argument is used again and again by influential politicians.",
        "如果巴罗索是孤家寡人的话，我们或许还可以放过他的论点。 但是，有影响力的政坛人物们一而再再而三地使用同一论点。"
    ],
    [
        "The recently enacted 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) has all the right ingredients to produce the ultimate buffer between the dynamism of the East and the perils of a crisis-battered West.",
        "最新的十二五规划所提出的目标非常正确，有助于在东方的活力和饱受危机冲击的西方的风险之间建立起终极缓冲。"
    ],
    [
        "What risks do you see emerging should Russia’s economy continue to decline, with Putin increasingly unable to reward his political base?",
        "你认为如果俄罗斯经济继续衰退，普京在奖赏他的政治基础方面日益力不从心，会产生什么后果？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Roubini observed, “core inflation has fallen” even though the “recent growth acceleration in the advanced economies would be expected to bring with it a pickup in inflation.”",
        "因此，鲁比尼观察道，“核心通胀有所下降”，尽管“发达经济体最近的增长加速会让人们认为通胀将有所抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans don’t do this particularly well, however Byzantine their country’s own politics and policy-making may seem.",
        "但不管美国国内的政治和政策制定是如何错综复杂，美国人其实并不善于这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "In the future, as in the past, technological change is likely to fuel productivity gains and income growth, boosting demand for labor.",
        "未来其实与过去一样，技术变革很可能会促进生产率提高和收入增长，同时拉动对劳动力的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "These, too, are unpopular – at least superficially.",
        "上述措施同样不受欢迎——至少从表面上看是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 1960 and 1990, only one person in five lived in an economically open society; today, nine in ten do.",
        "1960—1990年，只有五分之一的人生活在经济开放社会，如今，这一比例是十分之九。"
    ],
    [
        "One that stuck in my memory was a deserted kolkhoz (collective farm) on Lake Baikal, which once thrived on fishing and fur.",
        "其中一个令我念念不忘的地方是贝加尔湖边一个荒废的集体农场，当年这里曾因捕鱼和毛皮而繁荣一时。"
    ],
    [
        "But we need to act quickly.",
        "但我们需要迅速行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, information provided by drug makers largely predominates over independent information.",
        "当今，相对于独立信息，药物生产商提供的信息占据主导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with oil prices having plunged by 50% over the past year, the Fed stubbornly maintains that faster price growth – and the precious inflation rate of 2% – is just around the corner.",
        "事实上，去年油价暴跌50%，但美联储顽固地坚持认为物价上升加速——以及2%这一神奇通胀率——就在眼前。"
    ],
    [
        "First, a credible policy agenda needs firm targets with clear deadlines.",
        "首先，一个可靠的政策议程必须包含切实的目标和明确的实施期限。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless Modi can deliver inclusive growth, his triumph will prove short-lived and the Nehruvians will return.",
        "除非莫迪能够带来包容性增长，否则他的胜利将是短暂的，尼赫鲁主义将复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "That sense of urgency is not surprising.",
        "这种紧迫感并不令人奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "Children are also being increasingly affected by asthma.",
        "儿童还越来越受到哮喘的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "If Americans don’t start embracing their friends in Latin America, it may take a generation to undo the damage.",
        "如果美国不赶紧去拥抱它在拉丁美洲的朋友，也许我们需要整整一代人去消除它所造成的损害。"
    ],
    [
        "The system makes relocating very difficult, as those who do not manage to acquire local residency permits face major hurdles in gaining access to public services when they migrate to other provinces.",
        "由于该制度按照公民的出生地来划定其合法居住地，因此对人们的移居流动造成了极大障碍，那些移居其他省份却没能获取当地居留权的人在享受当地公共服务方面也面临重重阻碍。"
    ],
    [
        "This is precisely the point.",
        "这就是问题所在。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, cancer treatment often carries serious side effects – including urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction, and, in those who undergo radiation, inflammation of the lower rectum or bladder, as well as underreported effects like fecal incontinence – that can negatively affect patients’ quality of life.",
        "此外，癌症治疗通常会导致严重的副作用——包括尿失禁、勃起功能障碍、（接受化疗的病患的）低位直肠和膀胱炎症以及大便失禁等被低估的副作用——这些副作用会极大影响患者的生活质量。"
    ],
    [
        "But the stock market news just about everywhere has been very good since March.",
        "然而，今年三月份以来，有关世界各地股票市场的消息，都是好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "People seem to want to work more than three hours a day, even if it is assembly-line work.",
        "人们似乎渴望每天超过三小时的工作时间，即便它是流水线上的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, after four years (2007-2010) of either recession or sub-par recovery, the process of balance-sheet repair – while not completed yet – is underway, and may result in less saving and more spending to boost growth in advanced economies.",
        "事实上，在经历四年（2007-2010）的衰退或者低速复苏后，资产负债表的修复进程——虽未彻底完成——正在不断推进，也将会带来更少的储蓄以及更多的消费去刺激发达经济体的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The Case for Muddling Through Brexit",
        "蒙混过关的英国退欧"
    ],
    [
        "Formal complaints to the justice ministry and the national bar association weren’t even acknowledged, let alone answered.",
        "向司法部和国家律师协会的正式投诉甚至没有被确认收悉，更别提什么回复了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, unlike during Ahmadinejad’s first term, non-state media now publicly criticize his economic and political agenda.",
        "另外，与内贾德首个任期不同，非国有媒体开始公开批评他的经济和政治计划。"
    ],
    [
        "A summit that was supposed to be a display of unity revealed only further division.",
        "本应为团结正名的峰会反而揭露了更深层的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Their principal – and successful – experience is in local politics.",
        "他们的主要成功经历都来自地方政治领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Their main political preference then becomes resistance to those external threats.",
        "它们的主要政治偏好变成了抵抗那些外部威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "So the members of the new government, although not physically old, are politically geriatric.",
        "因此，尽管新政府的组成人员岁数并不大，但在政治上却早已失去了活力。"
    ],
    [
        "About one-fifth of eligible children, more than seven million, are not in school, and 60% of these are girls.",
        "大概有1/5的学龄儿童，大概700万人，没能进学校读书，而其中60%是女孩。"
    ],
    [
        "This effort will be coordinated by representatives in seven newly established vice-presidential positions, and spearheaded by the first vice president to have a portfolio focused on “better regulation.”",
        "这一办法将由新成立的七个副主席岗位的代表合作进行，牵头的是首席副主席，目标是建立一个专注于“更好的监管”的组合。"
    ],
    [
        "Two thousand European Union officials run the country, and 16,000 NATO troops guard its security.",
        "两千名欧盟官员管理这一国家，一万六千名北约士兵保护其安全。"
    ],
    [
        "The Balkans on Trial",
        "巴尔干的审判"
    ],
    [
        "In Japan, the CEO of a major bank would have apologized to his employees and his country, and would have refused his pension and bonus so that those who suffered as a result of corporate failures could share the money.",
        "在日本，一家主要银行的首席执行官会向他的员工和他的国家道歉，并且会拒绝领他的养老金和奖金以便让那些因为公司经营的失败而遭受损失的人能够分享这笔钱。"
    ],
    [
        "During this period, the EU would also have to address the ongoing challenges to its eastern neighbors, particularly Ukraine, posed by Putin’s revisionism, as well as the meltdown of much of its southern neighborhood in the Middle East and North Africa.",
        "在此期间，欧盟还必须解决其东部邻国所带来的挑战——特别是普京修正主义威胁下的乌克兰——以及其南部中东和北非邻国崩溃的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "This, together with frequent, powerful, and icy storms that appear on short notice, increases the likelihood of blowouts and other spills.",
        "再加上随时发生的频繁强暴风雪，导致井喷和其他泄漏的危险性大大增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, after a period of alignment, the monetary policies of these three large and systemically important economies are diverging, taking the world economy from a multi-speed trajectory to a multi-track one.",
        "其次，在经历了一段相同时期后，这三个具系统重要性的大经济体的货币政策开始趋异，将世界经济从多速轨道带向多轨轨道。"
    ],
    [
        "And its support for research is not unique.",
        "对研究的支持也不是只此一家。"
    ],
    [
        "His monomaniacal drive to centralize power is driving out the very expertise that the country needs to flourish.",
        "他刚愎自用的中央集权行为正将俄罗斯繁荣所需要的专才逐出该国。"
    ],
    [
        "While the threat may not affect them equally, none can afford a misstep.",
        "尽管威胁有大有小，但失策的后果任何人都承受不起。"
    ],
    [
        "Barack Obama is tough, too, but in a different way.",
        "巴拉克·奥巴马也非常坚定，但他的方式却有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt’s old-new military rulers, for example, have concluded that American criticism can be ignored, because America cannot cut off its aid to Egypt for geopolitical reasons.",
        "比如，埃及新旧军事统治者认定，美国的批评可以忽略，因为出于地缘政治原因，美国不可能取消对埃及的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Add the Israeli military’s frequent late-night house raids in search of “terror suspects” and the relentless expansion of Israeli settlements, and it becomes pretty clear that Palestinians don’t need to scour the Internet for reasons to be angry.",
        "再加上以色列军队经常深夜突袭民宅寻找“恐怖嫌犯”和以色列定居点的残酷扩张，巴勒斯坦人显然不需要上网寻找愤怒的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "At first glance, the numbers seem to support the doomsayers.",
        "乍一看，数据似乎倾向于那些悲观的预言者。"
    ],
    [
        "Such measures, designed to create jobs by freeing up work hours, are futile at best, and are often detrimental.",
        "这些措施的本意是释放劳动时间从而创造就业岗位，但其结果往好了说也只是毫无用处，事实上，它们通常有害无益。"
    ],
    [
        "If that is not enough to quash technological pessimism, consider the revolutionary instruments and tools that have emerged in recent years – devices that would never even have been dreamed of a few decades earlier.",
        "如果这还不足以击碎技术悲观论的话，我们再来看看近几年中涌现出来的革命性工具——几十年前的人类做梦都想不到还能出现这样的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The electorate also said no to the more virulent forms of nationalism, leaving the right-wing extremist parties marginalized.",
        "选民们也拒绝了更致命形式的民族主义，把右翼极端党派晾在了一边。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is that when the European Central Bank flooded eurozone countries with cheap liquidity, governments dispensed with serious reforms and splurged instead.",
        "答案是当欧洲央行用廉价流动性冲塞欧元区各国之时，这些政府都放弃了认真改革的决心，转而大肆挥霍。"
    ],
    [
        "This propped up economic growth, while also boosting outlays for critical investments and social programs needed to lessen the hardships faced by the poorest people.",
        "这刺激了经济增长，同时也提振了纾缓最贫困人口困境所必须的关键性投资和社会项目。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet that same tour raised another threat, which the world has every reason to take seriously.",
        "但这次亚洲之旅带来了另一个问题，世界有充足的理由需要认真以对。"
    ],
    [
        "The army action in Wana, aimed against Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives who are believed to be hiding there, has led to several civilian casualties, including women and children, and rendered over 30,000 people homeless.",
        "以窝藏在这一地区的\"基地\"和塔利班分子为目标的瓦纳军事行动已经造成了包括妇女和儿童在内的一些平民死亡并使3万人无家可归。"
    ],
    [
        "Is this a short-term phenomenon, and will we see an early return to rapid financial-sector growth as soon as the world economy recovers?",
        "这只是一个短期现象吗？ 一旦世界经济开始复苏，我们会看到金融部门很快重返高速发展的局面吗？"
    ],
    [
        "For jailing Liu on the absurd charge of trying to overthrow the Chinese state is typical of the type of thinking found in the closed societies of twentieth-century communism, where the state asserted its absolute right to judge every thought and every thinker.",
        "以妄图推翻中国政府的荒唐罪名监禁刘晓波代表了典型的二十世纪共产主义封闭社会的思维方式，即由国家行使绝对权利，评判所有的思想和思想家。"
    ],
    [
        "George W. Bush’s economic policies have been based on an extraordinarily reckless gamble that reflects a political coalition of two major forces: the super-rich and evangelical Christians.",
        "乔治·W·布什的经济政策一直扎根于一场极其不计后果的赌博。 这场赌博反映了两个主要势力的政治联合：超级富豪和福音基督教会。"
    ],
    [
        "In Berlin, there is much concern about the possible desecration of the Holocaust Memorial, although its author, the American architect Peter Eisenmann, takes a relaxed view of what is said and done about his creation.",
        "在柏林，尽管很多人担忧犹太人大屠杀纪念馆会遭到亵渎，但是，这一纪念馆的美国设计师彼得·爱森曼对他的设计会被如何评论以及动作并不以为然。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, I was not expecting a bubble story when I visited Colombia last month.",
        "尽管如此，当我上个月访问哥伦比亚时，并没有预期会看到泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20 has called for more forceful action against corruption.",
        "G20集团呼吁对腐败采取更为有力的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Qualitatively similar, though less pronounced, trends characterize other major countries such as France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.",
        "该状况在法国，德国和英国等其他主要国家虽然不太明显，但其性质也极为类似。"
    ],
    [
        "The traditional drivers of its economy – a vast pool of surplus labor and massive investments in infrastructure, housing, and industrial capacity – are becoming exhausted.",
        "其传统经济驱动引擎——大量剩余劳动力和对基础设施，住房和工业能力的大规模投资——正趋于枯竭。"
    ],
    [
        "Reforms to the examination system are being introduced to complement this effort.",
        "改革考试制度也是这一措施的补充。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the attitudes of France and Germany.",
        "让我们看看法德两国的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "It is as if France were now seized by a kind of nostalgic generosity toward a presidency that had been marked by suspicion and derision.",
        "人们对希拉克总统任期抱有怀疑和嘲讽，现在法国好像一下子对他抱有某种怀旧式的宽宏大量。"
    ],
    [
        "This urge stems from a desire to make up for the years of Russia’s humiliation after the USSR collapsed, years when the West contemptuously disregarded Russia’s views and interests.",
        "这种强烈的冲动源自于苏联解体后俄国所受到的屈辱，那时西方世界轻蔑地忽略俄国的见解和利益，而现在的俄国想为这段屈辱的经历寻求补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "These principles matter, because Australia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Vietnam, and even Mongolia all regard America’s military presence in the region as essential to counterbalancing China’s increasing might.",
        "各类冲突的和平解决。 这些原则十分重要，因为澳洲、日本、韩国、泰国、菲律宾、印度、印尼、新加坡、马来西亚、新西兰，越南甚至是蒙古都把美国在亚洲的驻军作为制衡中国崛起的必要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "So India is likely to ask the US to use its undoubted clout with Pakistan – the US is a huge donor of both military and economic assistance to its near-bankrupt ally – to demand tougher action against the militants on its territory.",
        "因此，印度可能会要求美国使用其对巴基斯坦毫无疑问的影响力——美国对面临破产的巴基斯坦提供了巨大的军事和经济援助——要求巴基斯坦对在其领土上的武装分子采取更加强硬的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "What China really needs is a truly independent monetary policy oriented to domestic objectives.",
        "中国需要的是切实独立的、面向国内目标的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Syria is strategically perched on the Mediterranean; shares borders with Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq; and, like Iraq, has its own restive Kurdish minority.",
        "与以色列、约旦、土耳其和伊拉克接壤； 并且与伊拉克一样，也存在桀骜难驯的库尔德少数民族。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the Vatican lobbied for acknowledgement of God in the preamble to the proposed European Constitutional Treaty.",
        "在欧洲，梵蒂冈展开游说要在拟议中的欧洲宪法的序言中承认上帝的存在。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the shape of things to come if steps are not taken now to recover rapidly from this lesser depression, and then to implement policies to boost private capital, infrastructure, and education investment back up to trend.",
        "这就是我们将要面对的未来，如果现在不采取措施以使经济从小萧条中快速复苏、然后继之以实施刺激私人资本、基础设施和教育投资重回趋势水平的政策的话。"
    ],
    [
        "So the question is not whether robots and computers will make human labor in the goods, high-tech services, and information-producing sectors infinitely more productive.",
        "因此，问题不在于机器人和计算机是否能在商品、高科技和信息制造行业无限制地提高人类劳动的生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "Yemen’s popular uprising has splintered the security establishment, with different military factions now in charge of different neighborhoods in the capital, Sana.",
        "也门的民众起义已经彻底撕裂了整个国家安全体系，首都萨那如今被不同的军事派别分割据守。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s trade in goods also suffers from the country’s inadequate transportation and communications networks.",
        "巴西的商品贸易也受巴西交通和通信网络不畅的制约。 铁路系统容量有限，公路也只有14%能够畅通。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Germany is performing better.",
        "德国经济的增长率为2."
    ],
    [
        "Nor should it seek to play into the regional agendas of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan – hardly paragons of democracy – which are anxious to confront what they portray as a menacing “arc” of Shi’a Muslim power extending from Iran to Lebanon via Syria, and in Iraq.",
        "它同样也不应该企图介入沙特阿拉伯、埃及和约旦的地区议程—这些国家无论如何也不是民主的典范—它们都急于应付被描画成一条邪恶“弧线”的，从伊朗经叙利亚以及从伊拉克延伸到黎巴嫩的什叶派穆斯林影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Such rates are similarly low today in many countries.",
        "如此低利率在当今许多国家都存在。"
    ],
    [
        "When the history of this crisis is written, it will be recorded that – in contrast to the Great Depression – protectionism first prevailed in finance rather than trade.",
        "当这次金融危机被编入史册时，它将被如此记录下来：与大萧条期形成鲜明对比，保护主义首先在金融领域盛行，而不是贸易领域。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, Western governments, with their light-touch approach to regulation, allowed markets to career out of control in the early years of this century.",
        "更广泛地说，西方政府的其象征性监管方针导致了市场在本世纪初失控。"
    ],
    [
        "As is typical of political revolutions, Egypt’s economic situation has gone from bad to worse in the course of these power struggles.",
        "与典型的政治革命一样，埃及经济状况在这些权力斗争中从恶化走向更加恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "As many experts warn, the first time a drone strike kills a woman or child, a video of the scene and the funeral will be posted for the Muslim world to see.",
        "正如许多专家所警告的那样，当无人机首次空袭炸死妇女或儿童，现场和葬礼的视频将被发到网上让整个穆斯林世界看到。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would have been wrong, and the Bank again stood up for the interests of the developing world.",
        "但那将会铸成大错，世界银行再一次为了发展中国家的利益拍案而起。"
    ],
    [
        "But more and more Japanese women are fighting back against unwelcome male attention, not by denying tradition or culture, but by going to a lawyer and suing.",
        "但越来越多的日本女性开始对不受欢迎的异性关注发起反击，她们的武器不是传统和文化，而是去找律师和诉诸法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the Taliban are blasting girls’ schools and flogging women.",
        "眼下，塔利班正在炸毁女校、鞭笞妇女。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue of relations with China crystallized in September, when the Japanese Coast Guard arrested the captain of a Chinese trawler after his ship hit two Japanese patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, which are part of Japan and within its territorial waters.",
        "而日本的对中关系问题也在9月被激化，当时一位中国船长驾驶渔船与两艘日本巡逻船在尖阁诸岛（即钓鱼岛）附近洋面发生碰撞，该岛属于日本领海范围以内的领土，因此日本海岸警卫队逮捕了该名船长。"
    ],
    [
        "From his words it appears that he was equally conscious of not getting the proper respect due to a distinguished Harvard professor and media celebrity.",
        "从他的话中还可以看出他因未能获得一位哈佛教授兼媒体名人应有的尊重而耿耿于怀。"
    ],
    [
        "There are independence movements in many other parts of the world; indeed, 39 new states have joined the United Nations since 1980.",
        "世界其他许多地方都在进行独立运动； 事实上，自1980年以来，有39个新国家加入了联合国。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, it maintains strenuous efforts to attract pilgrims – particularly wealthy ones – by building attractions, including vast shopping malls and a colossal copy of London’s Big Ben that now looms incongruously over the Ka‘ba.",
        "即便如此，沙特仍竭尽全力吸引穆斯林、尤其是富有穆斯林前来朝圣，他们兴建大型购物中心和伦敦大本钟等旅游景点，后者与克尔白圣寺近在咫尺显得十分不协调。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese market for expensive watches is in steep decline.",
        "”中国名表市场大幅萎靡。"
    ],
    [
        "The second purpose is data for public management.",
        "第二个目的是公共管理数据。"
    ],
    [
        "It is impossible not to hear in such nonsense the cocksure drumbeat of the Money Power, which has never failed to identify the public interest with its own.",
        "想要对大银行的这些自吹自擂之声充耳不闻是很困难的，因为银行家最擅长的事情就是将自身利益说成与公共利益完全一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Over a period of a few years, her muscles will weaken until she can no longer walk, use her hands, chew, swallow, speak, and ultimately, breathe. Then she will die.",
        "在数年内她的肌肉将逐渐失去功能，以致其无法走路，使用双手，咀嚼，吞咽，说话，最终连呼吸都无法进行，然后就只有死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Only when the industry comes together will AMR go the way of the gasoline- and diesel-powered car.",
        "只有当整个行业团结起来，才能让AMR也走上汽油和柴油燃料汽车的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "Surplus countries, too, must do their part, which is in their own interest.",
        "盈余国也应该完成自己的责任，这符合它们的自身利益。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, rising incomes are altering people’s diets, which now include more animal-based proteins, further compounding Asia’s food challenges.",
        "此外收入提高正在改变民众的饮食结构，动物蛋白消费量增加导致亚洲粮食问题进一步复杂化。"
    ],
    [
        "As Netanyahu put it last month in a closed meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Israel must continue “controlling all the territory,” adding that the country “will forever live by the sword.”",
        "正如内塔尼亚胡上个月在国会外交和国防委员会一次封闭会议上所说的那样， 以色列必须继续“控制所有领土”，他还补充说该国“将永远在刀尖下生活。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "China’s economy and politics, ideologically transformed in all but name, will soon need to be adapted to address rising social inequality.",
        "中国经济和政治——意识形态早已发生了变化，只是名义未改——很快就必须做出改变，以解决日渐加剧的社会不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the CAP is ensuring neither sustainable agriculture nor decent incomes for all farmers.",
        "事实上，基本农业政策既不能保证可持续农业，也不能给全体农民带来体面的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Abelard is credited with the introduction of theology as a critical discipline in Christianity.",
        "阿伯拉德在基督教中引进了批评学科的理论，他也因此著名。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations is torn apart by internal tensions.",
        "联合国深受内耗困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "The law is undeniably complex, and by no means without shortcomings.",
        "不可否认，这是一部十分复杂的法律，而且也绝不是毫无漏洞。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way to combat revolutionary Islamist violence is to gain the trust of law-abiding Muslims in the West.",
        "打击革命伊斯兰暴力的唯一办法是赢得西方守法穆斯林的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Even official data now put the inflation rate at more than 100,000%, and the plight of ordinary Zimbabweans grows more desperate by the day.",
        "即便根据官方的数据，那里的通货膨胀率也超过了100000%，而普通的津巴布韦人所面临的困境正在日益加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Blood loss, causing anemia, is the result of thousands of worms chewing at the wall of the gut.",
        "成千上万的寄生虫啃噬内脏的脏壁，造成失血，引发贫血症。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the eurozone may require not just an international bailout of banks (as recently in Spain), but also a full sovereign bailout at a time when eurozone and international firewalls are insufficient to the task of backstopping both Spain and Italy. As a result, disorderly breakup of the eurozone remains possible.",
        "事实上，欧元区所需要的可能不仅仅是针对银行（目前是西班牙银行）的国际援助，而是在欧元区和国际防火墙不足以抵御西班牙和意大利事件的情况下进行完全的主权援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, quantitative easing affects exchange rates and trade, even if central banks purchase only domestic assets, as demonstrated by recent movements in the exchange rates of the dollar, the euro, and the yen.",
        "此外，量化宽松影响着汇率和贸易，即使央行只购买国内资产时也是如此，最近的美元、欧元和日元汇率走势就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that the problem may not be the technology itself, but rather its slow diffusion.",
        "这表明问题可能不在技术本身，而在于技术扩散缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "The use of the term \"non-governmental organization\" or \"NGO\" has increased 17-fold since 1992.",
        "自1992年以来，\"非政府组织\"或\"NGO\"这一字眼的使用增加了17倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The Hoover Dam, for example, which created Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the US, was built in 1936 during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal.",
        "比如，胡佛大坝（Hoover Dam）创造了美国最大的水库米德湖（Lake Mead），它建于大萧条期间，是罗斯福新政的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The most damaging revelation so far concerns Zhou Bin’s friendship with a billionaire mafia boss, Liu Han, who is now standing trial for organized crime and murder.",
        "目前，最有杀伤力的曝光是周滨与亿万富豪刘汉之间的朋友关系。 刘汉目前正在以有组织犯罪和谋杀罪名待审，他的发迹与周滨的帮助不无关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the new currency was conceived as a unit of account for economic exchange that would not have any wealth implications at all.",
        "事实上，新货币被认为仅仅是经济交换账户的单位，不具有任何财富效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Those individuals who carry at least one copy of the gene variant that does not allow the body to metabolize Plavix have a 300% higher risk of clotting a stent.",
        "携带至少一种基因变异，致使机体无法代谢波立维的患者其支架堵塞的风险比常人高300%之多。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, only three countries – Mexico, Colombia, and Poland – have signed up for an FCL.",
        "不幸的是，迄今只有墨西哥、哥伦比亚和波兰三个国家成功申请过FCL。"
    ],
    [
        "The choice of tax rate would be part of the negotiation over how far to reduce the overall US corporate tax rate.",
        "如何选择税率可以作为关于将美国总体公司税率降低多少的谈判的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "To prevent such catastrophic outcomes, we need a comprehensive approach for strengthening health-care delivery in low- and middle-income countries.",
        "为防止发生这样灾难性的后果，我们需要全面加强中低收入国家的医疗服务。"
    ],
    [
        "We also face the risk of a bursting bond-market bubble.",
        "我们还面临着债券市场泡沫破灭的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The Jewish community in the United States, and to a lesser extent President Barack Obama’s administration, has attempted to convince Chile and Mexico, which have not yet made their stances explicit, that nothing would be gained by isolating Israel (or the US, for that matter) on this issue.",
        "美国的犹太社区，从某种程度讲还包括奥巴马政府，已采取行动试图说服尚未表明清晰立场的智利和墨西哥，让它们相信，在这件事上孤立以色列（也可以说是孤立美国）是没有好处的。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only can members of Congress legally trade on confidential information; they do, despite the potential cost to their reputations.",
        "而国会成员不仅可以合法地利用机密信息进行交易，他们也确实这样做了，连这些行为对自身名誉造成损害的在所不惜。"
    ],
    [
        "An extreme form of this may be coming in the form of 3D printing, a technology that makes it possible to produce an astonishingly wide and growing range of products by printing them one layer at a time.",
        "这一过程的极端形式可能将以3D打印的形式出现，3D打印技术能够让范围广得令人瞠目的产品通过一次打印一个部件的形式生产出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally harmful are the government’s sensitivity to its own policy failures and the stigma attached to a disease that is often sexually transmitted.",
        "同样有害的还有政府对政策失误的敏感和艾滋病通过性行为传播的恶名。"
    ],
    [
        "The moral and economic imperatives to act on climate change could not be stronger.",
        "在气候变化问题上有所作为具有无可争议的道德和经济收益。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is the rise of a Sino-centric Asia.",
        "首先就是出现一个以中国为中心的亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Leading the way were Japan ($20 billion), China (around $15 billion), South Korea ($7 billion), and Germany ($6.8 billion).",
        "其中名列前茅的有日本（200亿美元）、中国（约150亿美元）、韩国（70亿美元）和德国（68亿美元）。"
    ],
    [
        "Eight months after assuming office, the administration has been able to offer only an outline of what it has in mind.",
        "上台八个月后，本届政府只是提出了一份设想大纲。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the region’s universities have put a premium on innovation, which bodes well for improving health-care services.",
        "许多域内大学奖励创新，这对于改善医疗服务是一件好事。"
    ],
    [
        "The Asian financial crisis persuaded China’s leaders to shelve plans, launched in 1994, to liberalize the capital account.",
        "而这场危机也让中国领导人搁置了1994年启动的资本账户自由化进程。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, Netanyahu’s hardline stance has increasingly undermined Israel’s international credibility, while convincing the Palestinians living in the occupied territories that a genuine agreement with Israel is impossible.",
        "近几年来，内塔尼亚胡的强硬立场日益破坏着以色列的国际信誉，也让生活在占领区的巴勒斯坦人相信不可能与以色列达成真正的协议。"
    ],
    [
        "In Japan, the fiscal stimulus from post-earthquake reconstruction will be phased out, while a new consumption tax will be phased in by 2014.",
        "在日本，地震后重建财政刺激将退出，2014年将启动新的消费税。"
    ],
    [
        "Thousands of Roma have made similar journeys.",
        "成千上万的罗姆人都有过类似经历。"
    ],
    [
        "Some observers have dubbed the new facility “EZ loan,” though few countries meeting the qualifying criteria would consider their policy achievements – and their commitment to maintaining that record – anything but “easy.”",
        "一些观察家已经把新的工具称为“容易贷款’，尽管很少有达到合格标准的国家会认为他们在政策上的成功，以及他们坚持达到标准的努力是“容易”的。"
    ],
    [
        "But an increasing number of women and girls from Burma have begun to tell of their experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence in the country’s war-torn areas.",
        "但是，越来越多的缅甸妇女和女孩子们已经开始讲述她们在该国饱受战乱之苦的地区被强奸的经历和其他形式的性暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "The only circumstance in which democracies sign up to such a deal is when a clear security interest is at stake.",
        "民主国家接受协议的唯一可能性是明确关系到安全利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But helicopter drops are highly risky.",
        "但直升机撒钱风险很大。"
    ],
    [
        "Are we going to hold that against Dylan, charge him with the sin of having grafted the rhythms of the blues, soul, and country music onto those of the Bible, William Blake, and Walt Whitman?",
        "难道我们要因此而责怪迪伦，指控他完成了蓝调、灵歌、乡村音乐与圣经、威廉·布莱克、沃尔特·惠特曼的嫁接？"
    ],
    [
        "This could mean further reducing already-negative short-term interest rates and expanding and/or extending its bond-purchase program.",
        "这可能意味着进一步降低已经为负的短期利率，并扩大并/或延长其债券购买计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Another is Brazil, whose failure to take advantage of the renewed commodity boom of 2010-2011 to eliminate its budget deficit contributed substantially to the mess it is in today.",
        "另一个例子是巴西，它没有抓住2010—2011年大宗商品繁荣的回光返照消除预算赤字，这是其如今陷入一片混乱的重要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "We find such controversies pointless.",
        "我们发现，这样的争论完全没有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, this movement, which contributed to Musharraf’s electoral defeat the following February and the return of democracy to Pakistan, prefigured the 2010-2011 revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt that sparked the Arab Spring.",
        "从某种程度上说，这场运动导致了后一年2月穆沙拉夫的选举失败和巴基斯坦回归民主，也是2010—2011年突尼斯和埃及革命及其后的阿拉伯之春的预演。"
    ],
    [
        "If prices do not reflect quality improvements in the new products, price deflators are overestimated, and real output is underestimated.",
        "如果价格并未体现新产品的质量改进，那么价格平减指数就会被高估，真实产出就会被低估。"
    ],
    [
        "It was the old doom-and-gloom mathematics of Thomas Malthus at work: population shoots up geometrically while food production lags behind.",
        "这种假说依据的是托马斯·马尔萨斯以前提出的悲惨的计算公式：人口呈几何级数增长，而粮食生产速度则远远滞后。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, North Carolina State University’s Benjamin Franklin Scholars program – a collaboration between the College of Engineering and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences – aims “to produce well-rounded professionals who are analytical problem-solvers, ethical decision-makers, and effective communicators.”",
        "比如，北卡罗来纳州立大学的本杰明·富兰克林学者计划——由工学院和人文和社会科学学院合作举办——旨在“培养通才式专业人才，既能用分析方法解决问题，也能做出道德决策，同时又身为高效沟通者”。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, lofty rhetoric and ambitious intentions will mean little unless Europe’s leaders commit to the sustained implementation of concrete initiatives.",
        "当然，除非欧洲领导人致力于长期推行具体计划，否则高谈阔论和宏伟的目标并没有太多实际意义。"
    ],
    [
        "He was not calling for a Keynesian fiscal stimulus based on deficit spending.",
        "他没有要求采取基于赤字支出的凯恩斯主义财政刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese growth is widely regarded as furiously export-driven, but domestic investment has in fact been the major component.",
        "此外，中国的经济增长普遍被认为是出口拉动的，但殊不知国内投资也是主要动力之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The banks believe that some of the claimants whom they are being forced to pay are unworthy, but they have nonetheless coughed up the money.",
        "银行认为一些它们被迫偿付的索偿是没有价值的，但它们被迫出钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Warning of an “all-out trade war” if the sanctions go forward, US Trade Representative Susan Schwab argues that green trade sanctions would violate World Trade Organization rules.",
        "美国贸易代表施瓦布警告说，如果实行制裁将会引发“全面的贸易战”。 她认为，绿色贸易制裁将会违反世界贸易组织的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "This extraordinary feat was made possible by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and by pharmaceutical firms including Bayer, Novartis, Pfizer, and my company, Sanofi Pasteur.",
        "这一非凡的成就是在比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会和包括拜耳、诺华、辉瑞我的公司诺斯菲巴斯德在内的制药企业的共同帮助下实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Libya’s Islamists could not unite in a coalition as large as that of Mahmoud Jibril, the former prime minister under the National Transitional Council, who heads the NFC.",
        "因此，利比亚伊斯兰主义者无法形成一个联盟，如同NFC领导人、前总理吉布利勒（Mahmoud Jibril）的全国过渡委员会那样。"
    ],
    [
        "But surely we have learned since 1913 that fiscal expansion is appropriate under some conditions, even if it is inappropriate under others.",
        "但当然我们自1913年后就知道了财政扩张在某些情况下是比较恰当的，虽然它在另外一些情况下并不靠谱。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, “realist” assumptions often turn out to be remarkably implausible.",
        "此外，“现实主义”假设常常非常不靠谱。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, most governments – particularly in Europe, Japan, and the US – have the tools they need to defuse the rising tensions and, in the process, unleash their economies’ productive potential.",
        "事实上，大部分政府——特别是欧洲、日本和美国——拥有需要的工具平息日益升级的紧张，并在此过程中释放经济的生产潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Norway, like Switzerland, still has to abide by EU single-market rules, without having any say in formulating them.",
        "挪威像瑞士一样仍需遵守欧盟单一市场规则，但却对规则的制定没有发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "That idea, of course, is democracy, which is something very new to Myanmar/Burma, for the British practiced little of it when they ruled, as George Orwell’s Burmese Days makes clear.",
        "这种思想无疑就是对缅甸来说很陌生的民主——因为英国在统治缅甸的时候并没有推行多少民主政策。 这在乔治·奥威尔（George Orwell）的《缅甸岁月》中已经描述得很清楚了。"
    ],
    [
        "They would prefer a universal basic income (UBI), which would sever the link between employment and income.",
        "他们更喜欢切断就业和收入之间的联系的全民基本收入（UBI）计划。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Venezuelan and Colombian governments were confronted with the need to relocate tens of thousands of families displaced by floods in 2010.",
        "比如，2010年，委内瑞拉和哥伦比亚政府需要重新安置因为洪水而流离失所的数万家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to its approval by the IMF Board in December 2010, the reform, agreed at the G-20 Seoul Summit, had been hailed as a “historic” breakthrough.",
        "在2010年12月被IMF理事会批准之前，已在G-20首尔峰会上达成一致的这一改革方案被称为“历史性”突破。"
    ],
    [
        "One important factor underlying the illusion of explanatory depth arises from the richly hierarchical nature of most complex systems, which means that they can be understood at several levels of analysis.",
        "构成解释深度错觉的一个重要因素产生于大多数复杂系统丰富的等级性质。 这意味着可以在几个分析水平进行理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Premier Wen Jiabao confirmed that a major effort was being made to extend and implement the previously announced four-trillion-yuan plan, and that more funds were available if conditions worsened.",
        "中国总理温家宝证实，为了推广和实施以前宣布的四万亿人民币的经济刺激计划，中国政府作出了重大的努力，而且，如果中国的经济形势进一步恶化，中国政府会投入更多的资金来经济刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "That is good advice – and no different from what Europeans tell others in similar situations.",
        "这些都是很好的建议——也与欧洲人在其他人陷入类似局面时给出的建议没有区别。"
    ],
    [
        "The PLA’s growing political clout has been manifest in the sharpening power struggle within the Party.",
        "解放军的政治影响力在党内日趋激烈的权力斗争中越来越重要了。"
    ],
    [
        "The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and subsequent pressure from Washington, led to a U-turn by Pakistan away from pro-jihadi policies.",
        "2001年\"9 . 11\"恐怖袭击之后，来自华盛顿的压力导致巴基斯坦\"亲圣战\"政策发生重大转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Policy makers in developing countries are concerned that being forced to go down this path could put modern energy services beyond the reach of poor countries, families, and communities.",
        "发展中国家的决策者担心被迫走上这条道路可能导致贫困国家、家庭和人群享受不到现代能源服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, cost – both to users and to ISPs – is the second obstacle.",
        "实际上，对用户和ISP来说，费用的支出也是第二个障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Health Organization estimates that its immunization programs in developing countries cost about $300 per life saved – lives that are saved not for a year, but usually for a lifetime.",
        "没有人喜欢把人的生命用钱来衡量，但事实是，我们已经默默地这样做了，例如， 我们没有对在发展中国家工作的组织给予足够的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Once again Pope John Paul II has returned to hospital, gravely ill.",
        "保罗教皇再一次回到医院，命在旦夕。"
    ],
    [
        "Vulnerability will increase further over the next two decades, as cities triple their built-up land, to 600,000 square kilometers, often without basic infrastructure or policies to prevent construction and settlement on disaster-prone and vulnerable sites.",
        "如果城市今后二十年建设用地增加三倍（至60万平方公里）漏洞也必将进一步增加，因为往往缺乏基本的基础设施或政策防止在灾害频发的危险地带建设并定居。"
    ],
    [
        "News reports show that revulsion is spreading through the Arab world, where American and Israeli flags are burned side-by-side.",
        "新闻报道显示，仇恨正在阿拉伯世界蔓延，美国和以色列的国旗被并排烧毁。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise of the far right lies alongside a political landscape that is typically fragmented, with more parties, and a lower share of the vote going to the governing party, whether of the left or the right.",
        "极右翼的崛起带来了常常是支离破碎的政治局面，政党数量增加，执政党（不管是左翼还是右翼）所获选票比重降低。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it was using the Holocaust – which we would all agree was utterly horrific – to suggest, as Isaac Bashevis Singer did, that there are parallels between the way the Nazis treated Jews and the way we treat animals.",
        "恰恰相反，这个组织利用大屠杀——这个被人类公认的极端恐怖事件——像艾萨克·巴什维斯·辛格那样表明纳粹对待犹太人和人类对待动物的方式有相同之处。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifth, there is a danger that the Conservative government, faced with irrational populist forces on both the left and the right, will shrink from its duty to stand up for good values and good sense.",
        "第五，保守党政府面对荒谬的左右翼民粹主义势力从原来的行使职能退而坚持正确价值观的危险性始终存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence the thought of doing it does not elicit the same emotional response as pushing someone off a bridge.",
        "因此这样做的念头不会引发如将某人推下天桥那样的情感反应。"
    ],
    [
        "It began taking steps to reduce its indebtedness and increase its savings.",
        "它开始减少负债、增加储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The recent governance controversy at JPMorgan Chase has masked a much larger issue.",
        "华盛顿—最近关于JP摩根大通的公司治理之争掩盖了一个远为严重的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "China suffers from under-consumption and possible over-investment, and needs to strike a balance between the state-owned sector and private enterprise.",
        "而另一边中国则苦于消费不足投资过度，同时还必须在国有部门和私人企业之间取得平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term growth considerations, while recognized as crucial, seem distant from the here and now of financial repair and restoration of confidence.",
        "长期增长的考虑尽管十分关键，但为时尚早，当务之急是修复金融和重塑信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the British would leave just when Iceland, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine, despite Europe’s current crisis, are trying to get in.",
        "事实上，英国将在爱尔兰、塞尔维亚、土耳其和乌克兰不顾眼下欧洲危机试图加入欧盟的当口退出。"
    ],
    [
        "But, without reform of the “rigged” system, it is likely that Trump’s proposed fiscal expansion will again disproportionately benefit the wealthy, without “trickling down” to the rest of Americans.",
        "但是，不改革“被操纵的”制度，特朗普所提出的财政扩张很可能再次肥了富人而无法“滴灌”其他美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments will also have to facilitate the participation of institutional investors.",
        "政府还必须为机构投资者的参与提供便利。"
    ],
    [
        "Otaviano Canuto, a World Bank vice president, and his collaborators have just produced a long report that makes the case for this optimistic prognosis.",
        "而世界银行副行长奥塔维亚诺·卡努托及其同僚最近则撰写了一篇长篇大论的报告来佐证这一乐观的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "In less than four years, President Bush and his advisers have cast aside much of the longstanding bipartisan consensus under which the United States works through and with multilateral institutions like the United Nations.",
        "在不到四年的时间里，布什总统和其顾问们就在很大程度上将长期以来的两党共识抛在了一边。 这种共识是美国与联合国等多边主义机构沟通和合作的前提。"
    ],
    [
        "Obtaining that history requires consent from the individuals whose genomes are sequenced.",
        "需要征得基因排序对象的许可才能得到病历记录。"
    ],
    [
        "But Putinism cannot be reduced to sheer lust for power.",
        "但不能把普京贬低为只是无穷尽地追求权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Backers of the reform make two arguments – neither of which is convincing.",
        "改革的支持者给出了两种说法——但没有一种能令人信服。"
    ],
    [
        "Against Simplification",
        "反对简单化"
    ],
    [
        "This commentary reflects the authors’ personal views, not those of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank or the Eurosystem.",
        "本文仅代表作者本人观点，与奥地利国民银行或欧元系统无关。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, geography still plays a role, though it is Turkey’s contiguity with Syria, Iraq, and Iran that has left the US reluctant to make a fuss about press freedom.",
        "如今，地理因素仍起着作用，尽管让美国不愿就其言论自由状况大做文章的原因已不再是苏联，而是叙利亚、伊拉克和伊朗。"
    ],
    [
        "The referendum is the most immediate unknown.",
        "公决是最紧迫的未知之事。"
    ],
    [
        "A new G-7 needs to be created within the G-20, thereby providing China with a degree of influence that reflects its economic weight and requires it to assume a commensurate proportion of global responsibility.",
        "新的G-7需要在G-20内部构建，从而为中国提供一定程度的影响力以反映其经济实力，并要求它承担相称比例的全球责任。"
    ],
    [
        "He reshaped American politics, pulling the center firmly to the right.",
        "他改变了美国的政治，他坚定地把中间派拉向了右派。"
    ],
    [
        "They not only train the next generation of doctors, journalists, lawyers, and community leaders; they also furnish children with mentors, food, water, and knowledge about basic health and sanitation.",
        "它们不但训练下一代医生、记者、律师和社会领袖； 它们也为孩子们提供导师、食物、水和关于基本健康和卫生的知识。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1919, John Maynard Keynes told the statesmen of post-World War I Europe to abandon their vindictive patriotism for the sake of building a future of peace based on European integration.",
        "1919年，约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯建议一战后欧洲的政治家们摒弃复仇式的爱国主义，通过欧洲一体化来缔造将来的和平环境。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is the dichotomized nature of their economies and finances that represents Africa’s most intractable structural imbalance.",
        "但让非洲最棘手的结构性失衡却是其经济和金融结构的二元化属性。"
    ],
    [
        "And it retains veto power at the United Nations.",
        "它也依然在联合国拥有否决权。"
    ],
    [
        "If this trend continues, with the advancement of environmental or social objectives enhancing an investment’s value, it will strengthen the commitment to sustainability that is already gaining momentum among businesses around the world.",
        "如果这一趋势持续下去，随着环境和社会目标的推进强化一项投资的价值，将十分有利于已经在全球企业中间风生水起的可持续性承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The essential problem of the democratic mind is its lack of historical consciousness.",
        "民主头脑的根本性问题在于缺乏历史意识。"
    ],
    [
        "These movements were not created in the US or Europe after September 11, 2001, and they will not wait for or depend on the US or the EU to act.",
        "这些运动并不是2001年9月11日以后在美国或者欧洲产生的，而且他们不会等候、依赖美国或者欧盟来采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "They can’t restructure their economy instantaneously.",
        "他们不能瞬间改变中国的经济结构。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it will find an easy way to turn its resentment of American pressure into an issue of regional solidarity – exactly as the Germans did in the 1970’s.",
        "相反，它很容易就能把美国施压所激起的愤怒情绪凝聚成地区团结的动力——正如20世纪70年代的德国所做的一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the Internet was designed for ease of use rather than security, attackers currently have the advantage over defenders.",
        "因为互联网设计是为了方便使用、而不是安全，进攻方目前相对于防守方仍占据一定的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "But the main dealmakers are those nations with the highest emissions, since they are the ones with something to trade.",
        "但是协议的主要制定者正是那些排放量最大的国家，因为他们才有可用来交换的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Wadsworth’s survey found that respondents who believe that they have more sex than their reference group are happier, while those who believe that their cohorts are having more sex than them are less content.",
        "同样的，华斯沃夫的调查发现，那些认为自己比自身参考组拥有更频繁性生活的受访者会更快乐，而那些认为自己附近的人比自己的性生活更多的人则不那么满意。"
    ],
    [
        "Distrust and national egoism are spreading rapidly, devouring European solidarity and common purpose.",
        "不信任和国家利己主义迅速地传播开来，将欧洲的团结和共同目标吞噬，使之丧失殆尽"
    ],
    [
        "And if productivity is not growing in these modern sectors, economy-wide growth ultimately will stall.",
        "如果这些现代部门的生产力不增长，经济增长就最终将陷入停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "Have the pundits been smoking something?",
        "专家们是否在胡言乱语？"
    ],
    [
        "Should it fail, the price will be high.",
        "一旦失败，代价将非常高昂。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not too late to win back the hearts and minds of the Afghan people.",
        "现在要赢得阿富汗的民心还为时不晚。"
    ],
    [
        "To reverse these trends, we must first reverse the trend in emerging economies toward highly financialized corporate strategies.",
        "要扭转这种趋势首先就得扭转新兴经济体推进高度金融化企业战略的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "European social democrats, for example, worry that a basic income could undermine the worker solidarity that underpins current social-insurance programs.",
        "比如，欧洲社会民主派担心基本收入可能破坏作为当前社会保险计划基础的工人凝聚力。"
    ],
    [
        "It has 10% of global oil reserves.",
        "石油占全球总储量的十分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy is increasingly seen as a mere ritual.",
        "民主越来越被看作仅仅是一种仪式。"
    ],
    [
        "These rising powers raise problems regarding Russia’s geo-strategic choices.",
        "这些崛起中的大国，为俄罗斯的地缘战略抉择带来了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s farmers produce roughly one-third or less food per hectare of farmland than their counterparts around the world, resulting in massive hunger, which is exacerbated by a heavy disease burden.",
        "非洲农民每公顷土地的粮食产量小于等于世界其它地方农民的三分之一，这导致了饥荒泛滥，而沉重的疾病负担更让本来困难的境况雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, modern welfare states have far from abolished social inequality, with disparities in access to material and human resources continuing to generate highly unequal lives among their citizens. But the welfare state’s aim has never been radical redistribution of wealth.",
        "平心而论，现代福利国家距离消灭社会不平等性还相去甚远，获得物质和人力资源能力的差异仍然在这些国家的国民之间造就着极为不平等的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "But preserving pride in employment, at the cost of efficiency, is one of them.",
        "但牺牲效率而保持就业的自豪感就是其中之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Offshore renminbi bank deposits are falling.",
        "离岸人民币银行存款额正在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The elite can be remarkably resilient, retaining the power to strike back at the first sign of weakness.",
        "精英的“韧性”非常强，在最初的弱势之后酝酿反击。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Third Way could travel well to what was once called the Third World, claimed South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki, Brazil’s Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and Chile’s Ricardo Lagos (I was present as part of Lagos’s delegation.)",
        "而南非的姆贝基、巴西的卡多佐和智利的拉各斯（我也是拉各斯代表团的成员）宣称，第三条道路可以顺利地套用到所谓的第三世界头上。"
    ],
    [
        "It is premature, of course, to conclude that a services-led transformation to slower growth is now at hand.",
        "当然，由此就断言很快服务业就会导致增长更缓慢还为时过早。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the creditor countries, negative rates do not seem to advance this goal; indeed, some external surpluses are even increasing.",
        "但在债权国，负利率似乎并没有推进这一目标； 事实上，一些外部盈余甚至还在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "In choosing to allow One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich to be published, Khrushchev knew that he was undermining the entire Soviet era up to that point.",
        "赫鲁晓夫钦定出版amplt;amplt;伊凡杰尼索维奇的一天ampgt;ampgt;一书，因为他知道他在摧垮直到那一时代的整个苏联时代。"
    ],
    [
        "The sons’ interests allegedly also include forays into drug smuggling and illegal exports of archaeological treasures – Egypt’s cultural heritage – in partnership with Culture Minister Faruq Husni, who is supposed to safeguard them.",
        "总统公子的兴趣据称还包括与文化部长胡斯尼串通一气走私毒品和非法出口古埃及的文化遗产¾珍贵古董，而文化部长则在交易中充当他们的保护伞。"
    ],
    [
        "That crowd, as astute political observers from Plato to de Tocqueville amply demonstrated, becomes harder to evade the more you make it master.",
        "正如从柏拉图到托克维尔等精明的政治观察家所充分证明的那样，越受这样的群体掌控他们就愈加如影随形。"
    ],
    [
        "In pursuing this course, Netanyahu has not only missed the opportunity to claim a major diplomatic victory; he has also reinforced Israel’s international isolation.",
        "在此过程中，内塔尼亚胡不但错失了赢得重大外交胜利的机会； 还加剧了以色列的国际孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "India, for example, is saving and investing well over 30% of its GDP, devoting a significant share of these resources to infrastructure.",
        "比如，印度的储蓄和投资就大大高于GDP的30%，将这笔资源中的一大块投入到基础设施中。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kissinger Associates lobbying group, whose Russian section is headed by Graham, feeds in to the Kissinger-Primakov working group, a quasi-private-sector effort, blessed by Putin, to deepen ties between Russia and the United States.",
        "而基辛格顾问公司游说团的俄罗斯分部则由格雷厄姆领导，为基辛格－普里马科夫工作组提供服务，这是一股受到普京庇护的准私人力量，以深化俄美两国之间的关系为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Would you trust the Greek government to run a Greek bank in a non-corrupt way after a government takeover?",
        "你相信希腊政府在接管一间希腊银行后能杜绝腐败吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Massive liquidity injections carried out by the world’s major central banks – the Fed, the ECB, and the BOJ – are neither achieving traction in their respective real economies, nor facilitating balance-sheet repair and structural change.",
        "由世界主要的央行——即美联储、欧洲央行、日本央行——贯彻的大规模流动性注入既不能在各自的实体经济里促进交易，也不能促进资产负债表修复和结构性变革。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the current environment of persistently weak aggregate demand, below-target inflation, and slow or no output growth, economists worldwide have been desperately seeking deus ex machina – a search that, for some, has led to the heliport.",
        "但在当前总需求持续低迷、通胀低于目标和产出增长低迷或消失的情况下，全世界经济学家一直在苦苦寻找神力——其中一些人把目光投向了直升机。"
    ],
    [
        "But establishing a trade agreement, especially one that entails so many regulatory issues, is always difficult, as it must account for the complexity and changeability of modern economies.",
        "但签订贸易协议，特别是包含如此多监管问题的贸易协议，永远不是件容易事，因为它必须考虑到现代经济的复杂性和易变性。"
    ],
    [
        "Other Iranian diplomats also are reportedly resigning from their posts and seeking asylum abroad.",
        "据报说其他伊朗外交人员也正纷纷辞职并寻求外国政治庇护。"
    ],
    [
        "If Iran is serious, the result may be nothing less than the long awaited “Grand Bargain” – a regional reconciliation of interests between Iran, on one side, and America, Europe, and the region’s US allies on the other.",
        "如果伊朗有诚意，结果就有可能是人们期待已久的“总体协议”，也就是以伊朗为一方，美国、欧洲以及美国的地区盟友为另一方的地区性和解。"
    ],
    [
        "At a minimum, creditors would have to examine more carefully those to whom they are lending, and where the money is really going.",
        "至少债主们不得不认真审核自己的借款对象，了解这笔资金真正的去处。"
    ],
    [
        "For the US, North Korea illustrates how a poor but ambitious country developed the bomb by gaming talks and gaining time.",
        "对美国来说，朝鲜显示了一个野心勃勃的穷国是如何通过玩弄对话把戏、争取时间开发核弹的。"
    ],
    [
        "A society’s sense of solidarity can be sustained only if all of its different spiritual groups recreate their sense of dedication to it: if Christians see it as central to their Christianity, if Muslims see it as central to their Islam, and if the various kinds of lay philosophies see it as central to their philosophies.",
        "只有在各宗教团体都能重塑自身对虔诚的定义，并将其放在团结之上时，一个社会的团结意识才能够维持下去——基督教徒视之为基督教的核心，穆斯林视之为伊斯兰教的核心，其他各色宗教也都能将其视之为其教义的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "No Escape from Empire’s Graveyard",
        "无法从帝国的坟墓脱身"
    ],
    [
        "This proved possible not only in the US, but also in other advanced economies outside Europe – Australia, Canada, and New Zealand – and, unsurprisingly, in the new EU member states.",
        "这一点不仅在美国是可能的，而且在欧洲以外的其他发达经济体，例如澳大利亚、加拿大、新西兰以及令人惊讶的欧盟新成员国中都是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "This has serious implications not just for Jews, but for Europe as a whole.",
        "这个问题不仅对犹太人、而且对整个欧洲造成了严重的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The suspension of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks since July is deeply disappointing.",
        "世界贸易组织（WTO）多哈回合谈判自七月份以来的中断令人深感失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade is partly driven by differences in labor costs.",
        "贸易在一定程度上是由劳动力成本差异所驱动的。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU could advance this strategy by calling May’s bluff on “Brexit means Brexit.”",
        "欧盟可以在“脱欧就是脱欧”的问题上向梅摊牌。"
    ],
    [
        "HFCs, which are one of the six main greenhouse gases, are commonly used in air conditioners and refrigeration systems worldwide.",
        "氢氟碳化物现为六大主要温室气体之一，在世界各地的空调和制冷系统中得到普遍应用。"
    ],
    [
        "Other factors also could give negotiations a real chance.",
        "其他因素也可以给予谈判真正的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past several decades, as growth in disposable income slowed, middle- and lower-income households turned to debt to sustain consumption.",
        "随着可支配收入的增长不断放缓。 中产和低收入家庭只能靠借贷来维持消费。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the overwhelming majority of US imports are priced in dollars, not foreign currency.",
        "首先，美国绝大多数进口货物是以美元而非外币定价。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – December 7 marks the 67th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.",
        "纽约--今年12月7日是日本攻击珍珠港事件67周年纪念日。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, teachers will be confusing correlation with causation when adjusting their strategies; but these errors will be revealed soon enough as their wrong assumptions do not yield better results.",
        "显然，在调整教法时，教师会混淆相关性和因果关系； 但这些误差很快就会被发现，因为错误的假设不会带来更好的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, while the European Central Bank’s collateral policy imposes different “haircuts” on bondholders depending on a country’s credit rating, it discriminates little between countries.",
        "类似地，尽管欧洲央行的抵押品政策根据一国的信用评级规定了不同的债券持有者损失标准，但国家间的差别甚微。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, he trusted the company enough to grant it technical access to his business data, which the company’s terms of service assure will not be viewed or used.",
        "当然，他足够信任该企业，所以让后者能在技术上获取自己公司的营业数据，而企业的服务条款也声明这些数据不会被外人看到或使用。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is a broader failure of market competition to give rise to alternative providers and underbid the fortunes demanded for their work by our current generation of mercantile princes.",
        "真正的问题在于市场竞争没能带来替代的提供者以及降低对我们目前的富商一代为他们的工作所要求获得的财富的出价。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – Of the elites who manage modern society, only economists have a Nobel Prize, whose latest recipients, Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, have just been announced.",
        "牛津—在现代社会管理精英中，只有经济学家有诺贝尔奖可得，刚刚宣布的最新获奖者是奥利佛·哈特（Oliver Hart）和班特·霍尔斯特罗姆（Bengt Holmström）。"
    ],
    [
        "While interviewing me, Sedgwick raised an interesting point: Given that the volatility of many other asset prices has declined sharply in recent years, it might just be a matter of time before oil and other commodity prices do the same.",
        "塞齐维克在采访我时提出了一个有趣的观点：由于近年来许多资产价格的波动性急剧下降，石油和其他商品价格的走势趋稳可能只是时间问题。"
    ],
    [
        "These events hindered the global economy by thwarting confidence and momentum.",
        "这些事件影响了人们的信心和积极性，阻碍了全球经济向前发展。"
    ],
    [
        "They may also grow more confident that their skills will be properly deployed in a fast-growing economy, further spreading the prosperity that many fellow citizens have only recently started to enjoy.",
        "他们还能更有信心地相信他们的技能将合理地部署于快速增长的经济中，进一步传播许多通报才刚刚开始享受的繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Silent Pro-Treaty Majority",
        "欧洲赞成条约的沉默多数派"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the Hindu epics are dotted with characters like Shikhandi in the Mahabharata, who was born female and became male; many Hindus venerate the half-man, half-woman Ardhanarishvara; and temple sculptures across India depict homosexual acts.",
        "事实上，印度教史诗中充斥着《摩诃婆罗多》中的卡吉（Shikhandi）这样的角色，他生为女儿身，后来变成男性； 许多印度教崇拜对象为半男半女的Ardhanarishvara；"
    ],
    [
        "Digital technologies offer huge opportunities to improve the way health care is delivered.",
        "数字技术为我们提供了改善医疗实现方式的巨大的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "By overplaying its hand in Afghanistan and lying to the world about the downing of KAL 007, the Soviet regime exposed and accelerated the rot that made its collapse inevitable.",
        "在阿富汗的不自量力以及在大韩航空007航班坠毁事件上的撒谎让苏联体制的腐败暴露于众。 加速腐败导致苏联的崩溃难以避免。"
    ],
    [
        "The goals of the French government’s reform agenda are clear: A stronger France, able to thrive in a rapidly changing global environment; a fairer France, without which no effort, whether individual or collective, could be considered a success; and a more steadfast France that can serve as a stable and prosperous home for our children.",
        "法国政府改革日程目标明确：一个能在快速变化的全球环境中实现繁荣的更强大的法国； 一个没有它仍和个人和集体的行动都不能称之为成功的更公平的法国；"
    ],
    [
        "(Questions about how to execute this requirement should be directed to China, where phantom deals for gullible foreigners are a diplomatic specialty.)",
        "（至于如何执行这一要求的问题应该留给中国，与好骗的外国人签订阴阳协议是其外交特长。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "For trade in goods, the new free-trade zone is intended to compete directly with Singapore and Hong Kong.",
        "对于商品贸易，新自贸区将直接与新加坡与香港竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, housing-market reforms and the development of a mortgage-loan market in the late 1990s fueled rapid growth in real-estate investment, which reached an annual rate of over 20% in 2000.",
        "此外，20世纪90年代末房地产市场改革和按揭贷款市场的发展助长了房地产投资的快速增长，到2000年，房地产年增长率达到了20%。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for policymakers to recognize that innovative international policy cooperation is not a luxury; sometimes – like today – it is a necessity.",
        "是时候让决策者认识到创新国际政策合作并非奢侈品； 有时——比方说今天——就必须执行这样的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite efforts to cut expenditures and boost tax receipts, current and prospective obligations (including pension liabilities) far exceed any feasible increase in government revenues.",
        "尽管努力削减支出和提高税收收入，当前和未来的义务(包括养老金债务)远远超过任何可行的政府收入增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In many developed countries, for example, the public believes that there are three times as many immigrants residing in their country as there really are.",
        "比如，在许多发达国家，公众所认为的移民数量比实际定居移民数量多两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the agreement includes a process of future assessment and revision of targets.",
        "其次，巴黎协定包含了未来评估和修订目标的程序。"
    ],
    [
        "This candidate will not try to divide and polarize the country, but rather will unite it around common-sense approaches to fiscal policy, education, health care, and other long-term issues.",
        "这个候选人不会想去分化这个国家或者拉帮结派，而是用针对财政政策、教育，医疗以及其他长期性事务的常识性方案来团结民众。"
    ],
    [
        "So, today, the second school of thought is ascendant.",
        "因此，今天，第二个思想流派后来居上。"
    ],
    [
        "Scenarios like these may seem far-fetched.",
        "这样的情景好像有些牵强。"
    ],
    [
        "All of which brings us back to this summer’s events in Beijing.",
        "所有这些使我们想起今夏在北京举办的奥运盛事。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, as the Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence has shown, growth is now a necessary but insufficient condition for job creation.",
        "最后，正如诺贝尔奖经济学奖得主迈克尔·斯宾塞所展示的那样，增长如今已经成为创造就业的一个必要但不充分条件。"
    ],
    [
        "If Obama succeeds in enacting immigration reform in his second term, he will have gone a long way toward fulfilling his promise to maintain the strength of the US.",
        "如果奥巴马在第二个任期中成功地推行移民改革，那么他将在兑现维持美国优势的承诺之路上迈进一大步。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to cope with this challenge, African political leaders have committed to invest in the continent’s capacity to develop and produce its own vaccines.",
        "为了应对这一挑战，非洲政治领导人已承诺投资建设非洲开发和生产自己的疫苗的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "A few weeks ago, Burma’s monks began to march and pray and spread loving kindness in an effort to solve our nation’s problems peacefully.",
        "几个星期前，缅甸的僧侣开始上街游行、祈祷并且传播爱心，希望能够和平地解决我们国家所面临的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be a service to world peace if the US stopped making cheap moral accusations against China.",
        "如果美国停止频频对中国做卑鄙的道德指责，那么世界和平将会受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Judging by their leaders’ ambitious vision for cooperation, the answer may be yes.",
        "从领导人宏大的合作愿景看，答案也许是肯定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet today, faced with a virus that kills half of those it infects and the prospect that it could decimate an entire region of Africa, disrupt air travel, and put people around the world in quarantine, the world has delivered only a fraction of the needed financial and material assistance.",
        "而今天面对着感染致死率过半、消灭非洲整个区域人口、扰乱空中飞行、使世界各地民众陷入隔离的可怕病毒，世界各国只拿出了一小部分所需的财政和物资援助。"
    ],
    [
        "In France the decreasing popularity of President Nicolas Sarkozy and of his main “classical” opponent, the Socialist party (still deeply divided and in search of a leader), favors the rise of the extreme left behind the energy and charisma of its young leader, Olivier Besancenot.",
        "在法国，尼古拉·萨科奇总统及其主要“传统”反对党社会党（该党仍然存在严重的分歧并仍在寻找领袖）越来越低的支持率给了由充满活力和魅力的年轻领导人奥利维尔·比桑辛诺带领的极左翼党派崛起的大好时机。"
    ],
    [
        "Repressive dictatorships cannot win free and fair elections.",
        "压制民众的独裁政权无法赢得自由和公正的选举。"
    ],
    [
        "All of that will have to change.",
        "所有这些都应当改变。"
    ],
    [
        "That lesson has been lost on most economists today, but not on the king of Bhutan – or on the many people who have come to recognize the limits of quantifiable wealth.",
        "如今，这一教训早已被大多数经济学家所忘记，但不丹国王还记着，那些认识到数量财富的极限的人也记着。"
    ],
    [
        "But it might also be necessary to quell the North Korean nuclear threat.",
        "但这也许也是平息朝鲜核威胁的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "While returning in late July from a goodwill visit to Vietnam in waters recognized as international, an Indian naval ship was “hailed” on open radio and advised to “lay off” the South China Sea.",
        "7月末，一艘印度海军船只沿着被认为是国际水道的航线对越南进行了友好访问，但被公开电台“问候”，并被建议“离开”南中国海。"
    ],
    [
        "The overthrow of Saddam was the longstanding pet idea of the neoconservative Project for a New American Century, which was already arguing in the 1990’s that Saddam was likely to achieve a stranglehold over “a significant proportion of the world’s oil supplies.”",
        "推翻萨达姆是新保守主义的新美国世纪计划长久以来的执念，早在上世纪90年代他们就坚持认为萨达姆很可能会压制“全球很大一部分石油供应”。"
    ],
    [
        "Great Britain and Denmark, however, insisted that these new competences be exercised on intergovernmental grounds only, not by the European Commission, and thus only through consensus.",
        "但英国和丹麦坚持这些新管辖权只能通过政府间合作，而不是交给欧盟委员会这么一个机构来行使，换句话说欧盟委员会不能擅自决定，只有在各国形成共识后才能行事。"
    ],
    [
        "But, until recently, learning what one needed to know to come up with scientific and technological innovations took a lot more work, with countless hours spent scouring libraries and encyclopedia volumes.",
        "但是，直到最近，学习跟上科学和技术创新步伐所需要的知识需要耗费巨大的工作量，其中花在检索图书馆和百科全书中的时间就不可胜数。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in tackling the issue, Chinese officials would do well to heed the proverb: “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.”",
        "但要想解决这一问题，中国官员应该重视一句谚语：“只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "As in so many other ways, things have turned out differently: the oil companies are the big winners, while the American and global economies are losers.",
        "正如在其他许多方面一样，实际情况大为不同。 石油公司们是大赢家，而美国经济和全球经济则是大输家。"
    ],
    [
        "Much is made of Germany’s large current-account surpluses.",
        "德国巨大的经常项目盈余意义重大。"
    ],
    [
        "This intractability is, in some cases, understandable; the pain of survivors and their descendants remains acute.",
        "从某种程度上，这个棘手问题不难理解； 幸存者及其后代的痛苦依然剧烈。"
    ],
    [
        "It must not be allowed to prevent further progress.",
        "我们不能容许这种现状阻碍诞生进一步的研究成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Normally, when we interact with others we see them as both body and soul.",
        "通常，当我们和他人打交道时，我们将他们看作是灵与肉的结合体。"
    ],
    [
        "The earth is arid and dead, but there won’t be another one, nor another heaven.”",
        "地球成了荒芜的不毛之地，但你找不到第二个地球，也找不到第二个天堂。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Many Asians still remember Japanese efforts before and during World War II to create a “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” – a self-sufficient bloc of countries, under Japan’s leadership – through conquest.",
        "许多亚洲人仍记得日本在二战前和二战期间试图通过征服建立“大东亚共荣圈”，即日本统治下的自给自足的国家圈。"
    ],
    [
        "That expected inflation rate is consistent with the difference in interest rates between ordinary US government bonds and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities.",
        "这个预期通胀率是与普通美国政府债券与通货膨胀保值债券两者之间的利息差相吻合的。"
    ],
    [
        "As the review research shows, the stakes of inaction on antimicrobial resistance are high.",
        "我们的调查研究表明，对抗药性问题无动于衷将带来沉重代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, more resources will be needed to tackle these challenges.",
        "显然，我们需要更多的资源应对这些挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Both represent massive risks to human wellbeing.",
        "两者都给人类福祉造成巨大风险。"
    ],
    [
        "On a more blatant, if less exalted, level, the force of friction makes its appearance in the first days of any first-year course.",
        "换一个更加显浅，也不那么深奥的理论层面，所有大学一年级物理教材都会提到摩擦力。"
    ],
    [
        "A few billion dollars has been recommended to fund economic aid for Afghanistan and Pakistan.",
        "一项针对阿富汗和巴基斯坦的数十亿美元的经济援助计划已经提出。"
    ],
    [
        "And boosting net exports will require a weaker dollar to make US products more attractive to foreign buyers and foreign goods more expensive to US buyers, implying a loss in Americans’ standard of living.",
        "而提振净出口需要美元贬值从而让美国产品对外国买家更具吸引力，让外国商品对美国买而言家更加昂贵，这意味着美国人生活水平下降。"
    ],
    [
        "It must be emphasized that a system based on competing reserve currencies would not solve the instability and inequities of the current system. In fact, it would add another one: the instability of the exchange rates among major reserve currencies.",
        "必须强调的是，建立在相互竞争的储备货币基础上的国际储备体系，解决不了当前的国际储备体系的不稳定和不平等问题，事实上，它还会带来另一个问题：主要储备货币汇率的不稳定问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest successes of Obama’s first term concerned economic inclusion.",
        "经济融合是奥巴马首任期间最重要的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt, where such preparations are the most obvious, Gamal and other senior figures have stubbornly denied his presidential ambitions.",
        "在世袭继承意图最明显不过的埃及，贾迈勒和其他高层人士一直在顽固地否认他继任总统的抱负。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, for example, the manufacturing sector employs less than 10% of all workers.",
        "比如在美国，制造业就业在全部劳动力中不到10%。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments, even terrible ones, comprise the people who lead a country.",
        "哪怕再糟糕的政府也是由国家领导人组成。"
    ],
    [
        "Women with the “wrong” version of these genes have a heightened risk of developing breast cancer (up to 85%, against the normal 12%, although the genes account for only a minority of breast cancers).",
        "这两种基因“出问题”的女性更有可能罹患乳腺癌（发病风险高达 85% ，而正常人的发病风险只有 12% ，尽管这两种基因仅与少数乳腺癌相关）。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20 backs PPPs to boost global growth and create jobs.",
        "二十国集团支持公私合作提振全球增长和就业创造。"
    ],
    [
        "This new nationalism takes different economic forms: trade barriers, asset protection, reaction against foreign direct investment, policies favoring domestic workers and firms, anti-immigration measures, state capitalism, and resource nationalism.",
        "这一新民族主义具有不同的经济形式：贸易壁垒、资产保护、针对外国直接投资的行动、偏袒本国工人和企业的政策、反移民措施、国家资本主义以及资源民族主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Targets depicting serial killers and drug dealers have mottos like “Save a woman” or “Save a boy” on them. In the middle of the wall is a target representing New York’s World Trade Center being approached by an aircraft, with the inscription “Save America.”",
        "连环杀手和毒贩形象的标靶旁写有“救救妇女”或“救救儿童”的题词，墙壁正中一架飞机正在接近纽约的世贸中心，旁边的题词是“救救美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe was the prize.",
        "双方所要争夺的就是欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestine’s membership in UN agencies, not to mention the possibility of joining the International Criminal Court, has also boosted its leaders’ bargaining power.",
        "巴勒斯坦在国际刑事法庭（International Criminal Court）等联合国机构的成员资格也增加了其领导人的讨价还价实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, political entanglements are one of two sources of weakness in European-style family capitalism, as owners seek political advantages and preferred access as much as they strive for technical innovation.",
        "事实上，同政界牵扯不清是欧式家族资本主义的两大软肋之一——企业主寻求政治优势和人脉的热情不亚于搞技术革新。"
    ],
    [
        "A committee of the UN General Assembly identified 17 target areas, including the eradication of extreme poverty, ensuring education and health for all, and fighting human-induced climate change.",
        "联合国大会的一个委员会指定了17个目标领域，包括消除极端贫困、确保全民教育和医疗，抗争人为气候变化等。"
    ],
    [
        "Many previous revolutions have deposed one set of corrupt rulers only to bring in a new bunch who are equally corrupt, vicious, and repressive.",
        "以往的许多革命废黜了腐败的统治者，结果带来的是新的同样腐败、狠毒和镇压的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of these approaches has its strengths and weaknesses, and serious economists and policymakers do not rely on a single study; rather, they base their judgments on complementary bodies of evidence.",
        "每种方法都有优势和劣势，严肃的经济学家和决策者不会依赖单一的研究； 他们的会以全面证据为判断依据。"
    ],
    [
        "Aging populations are forcing many countries to address pressures on their budgets and social security systems.",
        "老龄化人口正在迫使许多国家解决预算和社会保障体系所面临的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The plan includes specific targets to increase the contributions of real estate, information technology, services, tourism, and the defense and pharmaceutical industries to GDP.",
        "计划包括增加房地产、信息技术、服务、旅游、国防和制药行业对GDP贡献的一系列具体目标。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – In today's global economy, there is no price as important as that of crude oil.",
        "发自布鲁塞尔——在当今的全球经济中，没有什么价格要比原油价格更重要。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time in history, we are starting to understand how the living things around us work, how all the pieces fit together.",
        "在历史上，我们第一次开始了解周围的生物的生存之道及大自然的不同部分是如相互联系的。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB acted despite a growing chorus of warnings that monetary stimulus is not sufficient to promote durable growth, and that it encourages excessive risk-taking in financial markets, which could ultimately threaten economic stability and prosperity (as it did in 2008).",
        "越来越多的人警告货币刺激不足以提振持续增长，并且鼓励最终影响经济稳定与繁荣的金融市场过度冒险行为（2008年就是明证），尽管如此，欧洲央行仍然采取了行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Canada, under threat of a similar suit, backed down from introducing a similarly effective warning label a few years back.",
        "面临同样诉讼威胁的加拿大几年前就不再要求类似的有效警告标识。"
    ],
    [
        "What kind of driver, owning a car that has just crashed into a tree, has a burned-out transmission, and needs a brake job, says, “The most important thing is to fix this slow leak in the right rear tire?”",
        "什么样的司机在自己的汽车撞到树上，变速器被烧毁却需要及时刹车时会说：“现在最重要的是把漏气的右后轮胎修一下”？"
    ],
    [
        "But that disastrous campaign weakened Mao’s influence; by the early 1960’s he seemed to be relegated to the sidelines while pragmatists like Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping grew stronger.",
        "但是这场灾难性的运动削弱了毛的影响力； 到60年代初期，他好像越来越边缘化，而像刘少奇和邓小平这样注重实效的人却越来越强。"
    ],
    [
        "But these are also local issues, experienced very differently in each city – and even in each neighborhood.",
        "但这些问题同时具有地方性——每座城市、甚至每个社区的感受都不尽相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there’s the controversy over her having chosen to use a private, unsecured server installed at her home in Chappaqua, New York to process her emails, business as well as personal, when she was Secretary of State during President Barack Obama’s first term in office.",
        "接下来的争议是她在身为奥巴马第一个总统任期的国务卿时，选择位于其纽约州查帕瓜（Chappaqua）家中的不安全的私人服务器处理公务和私人电子邮件。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, the dangers of popular antipathies will be contained.",
        "这样就可以遏制民众反感。"
    ],
    [
        "But in Europe, at least, neoliberalism has a very different meaning.",
        "但至少在欧洲，新自由主义的含义与此大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "And I am spearheading regulatory overhauls in such sectors as medicine and energy as well.",
        "而我正在领导医疗和能源部门也采取监管大改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Most importantly, all of the plan’s stakeholders then need to support Annan, publicly and privately.",
        "最重要的是，所有该计划的利益相关方都必须在计划出台后支持安南，不管是公开还是私下的。"
    ],
    [
        "No one can overstate the families’ unspeakable anguish from not knowing if their daughters have been raped, beaten, or trafficked out of Nigeria – or even if they are still alive.",
        "这些家庭不知道女儿是否遭到强奸、殴打或被卖到尼日利亚境外——甚至是否活着都成问题——他们的痛苦难以名状。"
    ],
    [
        "It must now use its power as the world’s parliament to overcome the obstructions of the few.",
        "它必须发挥自己作为“世界议会”的力量，才能克服那几个国家所设置的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposal turned out to be a step too far and subsequently went down in Dutch history as “black Monday,” named after the day on which the then foreign minister, Hans Van den Broek, faced near-unanimous opposition in the European Council of Ministers.",
        "瓦勒里·季斯卡·德斯坦（Valéry Giscard d’Estaing）总统和赫尔穆特·施密特总理向经济货币联盟（EMU）递交了联合法德提案后，比利时与荷兰就齐心合力地致力于实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "It has bought securities backed by cash flows from private-sector mortgages, so-called covered bonds, and it has floated the idea of buying corporate bonds and multilateral securities issued by the European Investment Bank.",
        "它购买以私人部门按揭贷款现金流为支持的证券——所谓的有担保债券，还提出了购买公司债券和欧洲投资银行发行的多边证券的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia stumbles over Stalin and his legacy of evil.",
        "俄罗斯对于斯大林以及他的罪恶遗产吞吞吐吐；"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan, he said, has the strength – and now the political will – to move decisively against terrorism.",
        "他说，巴基斯坦有实力——也有政治意愿——对恐怖主义采取果断行动。"
    ],
    [
        "While Glimcher and his colleagues have uncovered tantalizing evidence, they have yet to find most of the fundamental brain structures.",
        "格里姆切和他的同事已经发现了不少诱人的证据，但离大体上揭示基础大脑结构还有一段距离。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s Judicial Revolution",
        "法国的司法革命"
    ],
    [
        "The hope is that greater flexibility would also translate into a greater willingness to hire in an economic upturn.",
        "希望在于，提高劳动力市场灵活性可以形成经济景气时更大的招聘意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Even reputable fact-checkers disagree on the origin of the famous admonition to journalists: “Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable!”",
        "就连享有盛誉的事实审核员也无法就“给苦难者以慰藉、给舒适者以折磨！ ”这条知名记者箴言的起源达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, they are largely negotiated by states with great asymmetries of power.",
        "首先，那些实力更强的国家往往会在这类协议中占据上风。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the United States will no longer play the leading international role that has defined its foreign policy for three quarters of a century, under Democratic and Republican presidents alike.",
        "结果是美国不会再承担过去四分之三个世纪以来民主党和共和党总统一贯秉承的外交政策——国际领导角色。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – We live in a world where, in theory, global economic and political governance is in the hands of the G-20.",
        "纽约——当今世界，从理论上讲，全球经、政治理大权握于G20手中。"
    ],
    [
        "There are still a few countries with worrisomely large surpluses and deficits.",
        "仍有一些国家存在令人担忧的巨大盈余或赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "To eliminate the disease globally, a better vaccine would be crucial.",
        "为了在全球范围内消灭结核病，研发更有效的疫苗至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, Morocco and Jordan have had some success, with their monarchies proving capable of managing elites who offer both political acquiescence and economic sustenance.",
        "在这方面，摩洛哥和约旦都取得了一些成功，它们的君主表现出管住提供政治默许和经济支持的精英的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Its entrepreneurial class has pioneered business ventures, such as Inditex and Mercadona, whose models are case studies in the best business schools.",
        "西班牙企业家群体充当着创业先锋，Inditex和Mercadona的模式已被为顶级商学院用来作为案例研究。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s leaders surely want international recognition of their country’s global stature.",
        "中国领导人当然希望中国的全球地位获得国际承认。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Premier Wen Jiabao sees China’s growth as “unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and ultimately unsustainable.”",
        "事实上，温家宝总理认为中国的发展“不稳定、不平衡、不协调、并且最终不可持续。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "At a time of regional uncertainty about North Korea and China – including the looming prospect of China’s first aircraft carrier – Japan’s participation in the evolving Asian security framework is fundamental to stability.",
        "中国的第一艘航空母舰可能投入现役。 日本参与到演进中的亚洲安全框架中来，对于地区的稳定具有根本性的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea stands in stark contrast to Cuba’s successful policy of engagement.",
        "朝鲜与古巴的成功交往政策形成了鲜明的对比。"
    ],
    [
        "After five years of slow growth and rising unemployment, voters in other indebted countries, like Italians (and French voters before them), are likely to reject additional spending reductions, tax increases, and further painful deregulation.",
        "在经历了五年的增长放缓和失业上升后，其他债务国选民与意大利人（以及在其之前的法国人）可能会拒绝新的支出削减、税收增加和进一步的痛苦的贬值政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The assassination of Aung San (Suu Kyi’s father and the leader of Burma’s independence movement) destabilized the country, paving the way for the army to take over.",
        "昂山素季的父亲，缅甸独立运动领导人昂山将军的遇刺令这个国家陷入动荡，也为军队的接管铺平了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey, Egypt, and Iraq are also severely affected.",
        "土耳其、埃及和伊拉克也受到了很大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Hu’s Politburo has consistently refused to let peasants set up non-official farmers’ associations or trade unions.",
        "胡锦涛的政治局一贯拒绝让农民建立非官方的农民社团或工会。"
    ],
    [
        "When Ukrainians stood up against their corrupt elite, they became the first people to put their lives on the line for the goal of EU membership.",
        "当乌克兰人站起来反对他们的腐败精英时，他们已成为第一批把他们的生命和欧盟成员国目标系在一起的人。"
    ],
    [
        "The US “banking union” provides tangible insurance against local financial shocks.",
        "美国“银行联盟”为地方金融冲击提供有形保险。"
    ],
    [
        "The current financial crisis has made the need for reform of the international financial architecture patently clear.",
        "当前的金融危机已经使改革国际金融体系的必要性突显出来了。"
    ],
    [
        "This discrepancy is at the heart of the question with which European policymakers are now grappling: Should taxpayers in debtor countries expect “solidarity” – or, more bluntly, money – from taxpayers in creditor countries?",
        "这一差异是目前欧洲决策者正在试图抓住的问题的核心。 债务国纳税人应该期待债权国纳税人的“团结”——或者说得更直白一点，债权国纳税人的钱吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Unsustainable production systems, combined with wasteful and excessive consumption in some regions of the world, have had serious consequences in terms of climate change, disease transmission, and nutritional balance.",
        "不可持续的生产体系，加之世界某些地区的过度消耗和浪费，在气候变化、疾病传播和营养平衡等领域后果非常严重。"
    ],
    [
        "New START builds on a legacy of strategic nuclear arms limitation that goes back to the 1970’s.",
        "新条约是建立在1970年代限制战略核武器的政治遗产之上的。"
    ],
    [
        "In September, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada entered into force.",
        "9月，欧盟与加拿大签署的“全面经济贸易协定”（CETA）正式生效。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the absence of policies to strengthen stability and sustainability, the chances of an eventual collapse are much greater.",
        "但在缺乏政策以强化稳定和可持续性的情况下，最终崩溃的可能性却要大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "In his speech, Trump listed America’s many contributions to the world, and suggested that it keeps the UN around as a sort of favor to other countries in need of an international forum.",
        "特朗普在演讲中列举了美国对世界的诸多贡献，并认为是美国维持着联合国以便为其他有需要的国家提供一个国际论坛平台。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Donald Trump, the US Republican Party’s presidential nominee, has again shaken up his campaign organization.",
        "华盛顿——美国共和党总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普已经再次改组了他的竞选组织。"
    ],
    [
        "There are four such global hot spots: the borders between the US and Mexico, Spain and Morocco, Greece (and Italy) and the southern Balkans, and Indonesia and Singapore (or Malaysia).",
        "一共有四个全球性的热点：美国和墨西哥、西班牙和摩洛哥、希腊（和意大利）和南巴尔干以及印尼和新加坡（或者马来西亚）之间的边界。 收入差距从后者的超过七比一，西班牙和摩洛哥之间的4."
    ],
    [
        "But the rest of the world nonetheless needs the Kremlin’s cooperation and goodwill as it pursues efforts such as the containment of Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the fight against the Islamic State.",
        "但在追求遏制伊朗核野心、与伊斯兰国斗争等方面，世界其他部分仍需要克里姆林宫的合作与好意。"
    ],
    [
        "We are also working on doubling the job-creation rate of recent years, with the aim of adding one million jobs in the period 2010-2014.",
        "我们也正努力提高近几年的就业机会创造率，力争在2010－2014年间增加一百万个就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "This fear is manifesting itself in an incipient effort to expand education to include the cultivation of feeling and imagination.",
        "这一担忧正在扩大教育范围、纳入对感觉和想象的培养的初步努力中逐渐显现。"
    ],
    [
        "The best that economists can offer is David Ricardo’s early nineteenth-century framework: if a country simply produces in accordance with its comparative advantage (in terms of resource endowments and workers’ skills), presto, it will gain through increased cross-border trade.",
        "经济学家拿得出手的最好的理论是十九世纪初大卫·李嘉图所提出的框架：如果一国只生产符合其比较优势（从资源禀赋和工人技能角度讲）的产品，那么，它就能从扩大的跨境贸易中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Boom-and-bust destroy wellbeing, which is diminished far more by a fall in GDP than it is enhanced by an equal and opposite GDP increase.",
        "周而复始的繁荣萧条循环摧毁了幸福感，GDP下降对幸福感的打击比同等的反向GDP增长要高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Two-and-a-half minute “strategic timeouts” now interrupt the flow of the game, allowing advertisers to hawk their wares to hundreds of millions of enthralled viewers.",
        "现在，比赛流程会被两分半钟的“策略暂停”打断，让广告商向数以亿计的狂热电视观众推销商品。"
    ],
    [
        "Something seems wrong when a lung or a kidney is sold for money.",
        "卖肾或者卖肺听起来似乎总有那么一丝不对劲。"
    ],
    [
        "British Airways, for example, has asked workers to work for an entire month without pay.",
        "例如，英国航空（British Airways）居然号召员工无偿劳动整整一个月。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK would have to accept EU product standards and regulations lock, stock and barrel, with no say in their design – and would be in a far weaker position when negotiating market-access agreements with non-EU partners like China.",
        "英国将不得不全盘接受欧盟产品标准和监管，无法对这些标准和监管置喙——并且其与非欧盟伙伴（如中国）进行市场准入协议谈判时的处境也会大大恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "The limitations of the current financing regime mean that countries are letting opportunity pass them by.",
        "现有融资机制的局限性意味着国家正在白白浪费机会。"
    ],
    [
        "There is enormous good will to do so.",
        "现在，在全球气候问题上，各国都已经表现出积极配合的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "We no longer see many elevator operators.",
        "我们已经看不到太多电梯操作者。"
    ],
    [
        "Tax hikes for high-income earners and large property owners would help to finance these expenditures, while increases in the minimum wage would round out income redistribution efforts.",
        "5%。 增加高收入人群和大资本家的税收将有助于支撑这些支出，而增加最低工资则将完善收入再分配工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Next month, French President Emmanuel Macron will host a conference to mark the two-year anniversary of the Paris agreement.",
        "下个月，法国总统马克龙将主持巴黎协定两周年会议。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last year, however, Chinese Communist Party officials have mooted a proposal for a more experimental new multilateral financial institution geared toward “restoring the environment” – that is, supporting large projects aimed at land reclamation, water purification, and improvements in air quality.",
        "但是，去年中共官员讨论了成立一个更具实验性的新多边金融机构以促进“重建环境”的计划——即支持土地复垦、水质净化和改善空气质量的大型项目。"
    ],
    [
        "But what if China succeeds in its current transition to a consumption-based economic model?",
        "但如果成功实现当前向基于消费的经济模式的转型会如何？"
    ],
    [
        "Except for a fringe of die-hard Marxists – which can still collect up to 10% of the votes – there is a keen sense that deep reforms are needed to come to grip with the high unemployment and poor growth of the last decade.",
        "除了一小撮顽固的马克思主义分子¾他们目前还把持着10%左右的选票¾人们都清醒地意识到要改变过去10年高失业和低增长的状况，必须要实行较为深入的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "In Kenya, Tax Inspectors Without Borders, a project led by the OECD, found that every dollar spent working with authorities on cracking down on tax avoidance produced $1,290 in increased revenues.",
        "在肯尼亚，由经合组织领导的无国界税收督察项目发现与当局合作打击避税行为每投入1美元，就能带来1，290美元的增量收入。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20, which represents 80% of world output, came into its own in 2009 as the only multilateral body able to coordinate global economic policy.",
        "代表着全球80%生产额的G20集团在2009年成为了唯一能够协调全球经济政策的多国实体。"
    ],
    [
        "In some areas, modestly warmer temperatures could produce higher crop yields if associated changes in precipitation patterns are not adverse and/or irrigation remains viable.",
        "在某些地区，如果附带产生的降水模式的变化不是负面的以及灌溉依然是可实施的，稍微暖一些的气温能够带来更高的粮食产量。"
    ],
    [
        "TUNIS – On December 21, Tunisia completed a remarkable democratic transfer of power, with the election of Beji Caid Essebsi, the leader of the secular political party Nidaa Tounes (Call of Tunisia).",
        "发自突尼斯市—12月21日，随着世俗派政党呼声党（Nidaa Tounes）领袖贝吉·凯德·埃塞卜西（Beji Caid Essebsi）当选，突尼斯完成一场了不起的民主权力转移。"
    ],
    [
        "The average cyclically adjusted fiscal deficit has been roughly constant since 2014, at around 1% of GDP.",
        "自2014年以来，经周期调整的平均财政赤字基本一直保持在GDP的1%上下。"
    ],
    [
        "A major university department of journalism working with Arab media critics, for example, could provide a much more honest analysis of the station's work.",
        "举例来说，与阿拉伯媒体评论家合作过的主要学府的新闻专业，应该能够对该台的工作给予客观得多的评价。"
    ],
    [
        "To cope with this deficiency, some scientists have tried to reinvent the tools of one level in order to apply them to another.",
        "为了解决这个问题，有些科学家曾尝试将某个层面的理论进行重组，然后再应用到其它的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "HAIFA – Contrary to the hopes of many, the end of the Second World War and the shock of the Nazi atrocities did not mean the end of war and genocide.",
        "海法——事与愿违，第二次世界大战的结束和纳粹暴行引发的震惊并不意味着战争和种族灭绝就此结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond emulation, small countries can help one another through direct alliances.",
        "除了模仿，效果还可以通过直接结盟彼此帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1977, as Galbraith was writing, the world was still reeling from the effects of the first OPEC oil-price shock and wondering whether another one was in the pipeline (as it were).",
        "1977年，在加尔布雷斯写作这本书的同时，世界仍在第一次欧佩克石油冲击的影响中挣扎，也不知道会不会有第二次冲击（后来发生了）。"
    ],
    [
        "The crucial issue will be turnout.",
        "关键问题是投票率。"
    ],
    [
        "The countries of North Africa and the Middle East should learn from East Asia and Northern Europe, and take pains to avoid the failures of the US. If democracy is to take hold and flourish in Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere in the Arab world, the new reform-minded governments must make the youth unemployment crisis their highest priority.",
        "北非以及中东国家应该向东亚和北欧学习，努力避免美国式的失败，如果民主要在埃及，突尼斯，及其他阿拉伯国家生根发芽的话，改革派的新政府就必须将解决年轻人失业问题列为头等大事。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as is true of many political leaders, especially on the nationalistic right, they are chauvinistic provincials whose concerns are almost entirely domestic.",
        "但像很多政治领袖一样，尤其在民族权力问题上，他们不过是崇尚沙文主义的乡巴佬，几乎只关注国内事务。"
    ],
    [
        "While all manifestations of intolerance against Muslims must be firmly resisted, it is also vital to recognize the danger that some Muslim immigrants have brought with them from their home cultures: extreme forms of bigotry against Jews and Israel.",
        "当所有针对穆斯林的狭隘行为都必须得到坚决抵制之时，也很有必要意识到有些穆斯林移民也从自己家乡带来了一种文化，那就是反犹太和反以色列的极端偏执行为。"
    ],
    [
        "In the old days, when families typically had 5-10 children, this didn’t matter so much.",
        "从前，每个家庭都有5－10个孩子，因此这个问题显得并不突出。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, future generations will benefit more than the current one from government infrastructure investment, so it is reasonable that they should pay for most for it.",
        "事实上，子孙后代能够比当前一代从政府基础设施投资中获得更多好处，因此让他们来出基础设施的大头也是合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians with limited terms of office and thus foreshortened political horizons are likely to discount low-risk disaster possibilities, since the risk of damage to their careers from failing to take precautionary measures is truncated.",
        "政客们任期有限因而政治抱负受到局限，有可能不重视低风险灾害的可能性，这是因为不采取预防性措施而对其生涯造成的损害有限。"
    ],
    [
        "In his recent speech to the annual, elite central-banking conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Bank of England’s Andy Haldane made a forceful plea for a return to simplicity in banking regulation.",
        "在怀俄明州杰克森霍尔举行的精英央行年会演讲中，英格兰银行的安迪·霍尔丹（Andy Haldane）大声疾呼要求回归简单银行监管。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since these pipelines were effectively handed over to nominally private companies in murky deals, earnings from transit fees have gone missing, along with vast amounts of gas, while little maintenance has been carried out.",
        "仍在产生巨大特许费的俄罗斯至西欧输气管道的治理问题应该修正。 这些管道通过暗中交易转到了名义上的私人公司手中，至此以后，巨大的输气费收入就和大量天然气一起人间蒸发了，维护工作也陷入了停顿。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as with flying, which most people (George Clooney’s character excepted) don’t particularly like, users may eagerly sign up in order to collect points.",
        "正如坐飞机一样，尽管大部分人都不是特别喜欢（乔治·克鲁尼那个角色除外），但乘客为了收集积分也是乐于登记成为会员的。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets on their own won’t solve this problem.",
        "市场自身并不会解决这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorist attacks are doing enough damage, in lives and property.",
        "恐怖袭击已经造成了足够多的生命和财产伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty kilometers from Mojo, our researcher met Desi Koricho and her eight-month-old son, Michel.",
        "在距离莫角20公里的地方，我们的研究员遇见了德茜·克里科赫和 她8个月大的儿子米歇尔。"
    ],
    [
        "A strong federal regulatory framework could help to ensure this result, while minimizing the environmental and safety risks associated with extraction.",
        "强有力的联邦监管框架能够有助于确保这一结果，同时将开采带来的环境和安全风险最小化。"
    ],
    [
        "I try to put them in perspective and figure out which ones really should concern us, and when we should act on them.",
        "我试图对它们进行正确的观察，并且弄清楚哪一些是我们真正应该关心以及应该何时去着手解决它们。"
    ],
    [
        "It focuses, as policy-oriented think tanks do, on analyzing complex conflicts and potential conflicts around the world and identifying workable solutions.",
        "它又如政策导向的智库那样专注于分析环球复杂冲突和潜在冲突，指出可行解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "An even more startling fact emerges from a review of the last eight times an incumbent from one party was succeeded by a president from the other party.",
        "而更令人震惊的事实来自过去八次两党总统轮替。"
    ],
    [
        "Yasir Arafat may be dead, but his Machiavellian strategies linger.",
        "阿拉法特已溘然辞世，但他的马基雅弗利主义战略却遗留下来。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the IMF, the dollar’s share in foreign-exchange reserves stopped falling in 2010 and has been flat since then.",
        "根据IMF的数据，美元占外汇储备的比重在2010年停止下降，此后一直保持稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, his deep admiration for “American values,” while sincere, implies no embrace of President George W. Bush.",
        "因此，他对“美国价值观”的深层崇拜尽管是真心流露，但却不意味着乔治·W·布什总统的所作所为能得到赞同。"
    ],
    [
        "The Financial Times quoted Sun Hongnian, a Chinese border expert: “For India, every meter of road and every bunker in that area is a strategic win of territory” that brings them “closer to the main road on our side.”",
        "《金融时报》援引中国边境问题专家孙宏年：“对印度来说，在该地区的每一米公路和每一个堡垒都是领土的战略胜利”，能让他们“更靠近迈向中国的大路。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "To be credible as a mediator of this mechanism, the IMF itself would need reform, including a substantial change of voting power to bring the influence of developing countries in line with the weight they carry nowadays in the global economy.",
        "要成为这一机制可信赖的协调者，国际货币基金组织自身也需要改革，包括对表决权进行实质性改变以便使发展中国家拥有与其在当今世界经济中的份量相称的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, as one BP director replied when I asked why his company continued to risk deep-water drilling, instead of investing in alternative energy: “We are a drilling business, and that is our expertise.",
        "但是，当我问英国石油的一位董事为何英国石油宁可继续冒险进行深水钻井，而不去投资替代能源时，他回答说：“我们是钻井企业，这是我们的专长。"
    ],
    [
        "Both his political legitimacy and religious authority are highly questionable, and the street violence and prison brutality of recent months has undermined his authority and shaken his social base.",
        "他在政治和宗教上的统治合法性都饱受质疑，而近来发生的街头暴力和监狱野蛮行为更削弱了他的权威和社会基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The dynastic rulers of Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states (with the exception of Bahrain) remain more or less firmly in the saddle, even though Saudi Arabia’s regime, at least, is in many respects far more oppressive than were the former Egyptian and Tunisian regimes.",
        "摩洛哥、约旦、沙特阿拉伯和波斯湾诸国（除了巴林）的统治王朝仍然稳据宝座，尽管如沙特阿拉伯等政权对人民的压迫，在许多方面都比被推翻的埃及和突尼斯政权来得严酷。"
    ],
    [
        "He strengthened his Iranian adversary.",
        "他增强了他的伊朗对手。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1990’s, following its atrocities in Bosnia, Slobodan Milosevic’s Serb regime abolished Kosovo’s long-standing autonomy, suppressing the rights of the province’s overwhelming Albanian majority.",
        "20世纪90年代，继在波斯尼亚实行暴力之后，米洛舍维奇政府又废除了科索沃长期以来的自治，并压迫在科索沃占绝大多数的阿尔巴尼亚人。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while HPV infection rates may be falling in some of these countries, are they falling fast enough?",
        "可尽管某些G8国家HPV感染率在下降，他们是不是还可以做的更好？"
    ],
    [
        "Fifth, and perhaps most important, elementary human psychology teaches that individuals who shun contact with others have a weak grasp of reality.",
        "第五，而且是最为重要的是，人类基本心理告诉我们，回避与他人接触的人对现实掌握不力。"
    ],
    [
        "Free movement of people within Europe constitutes this visionary project’s most tangible feat.",
        "而人员的自由流动则是整个欧洲壮举中最具体的一项成绩。"
    ],
    [
        "But education simply does not deliver economic growth the way our politicians – and businessmen – believe: more education in does not mean more growth out.",
        "但教育却没有像政治家－和实业家－想象的那样，为我们带来经济增长：教育的更大投入，并没有带来经济的更多产出。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, the EU is the last point of reference as far as prosperity is concerned.",
        "但是，如今，随着繁荣前景日渐黯淡，欧盟也成了最后的参照点。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education will embark on a concerted effort to make innovative STEM degrees offered online by the world’s best universities available to Arab youth.",
        "与此同时，阿卜杜拉·古赖尔教育基金将着手开展协调一致地行动，以便为阿拉伯青年提供世界一流大学颁发的创新STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）学位。"
    ],
    [
        "Global companies recognize that, as the only English-speaking member of the eurozone, Ireland is ideally placed as a gateway to Europe.",
        "全球企业认识到作为欧元区中唯一一个讲英语的国家，我们是一个通往欧洲的理想关口。"
    ],
    [
        "But Abe’s government also recognizes that the world’s geopolitical tectonic plates are shifting, and that many in the US are tempted by the siren song of isolationism.",
        "但安倍政府还认识到，世界地缘政治格局正在改变，许多美国人正在受孤立主义的诱惑。"
    ],
    [
        "Some economists – citing indicators like investment ratios, industrial value-added, and employment – compare China to Japan in the early 1970’s.",
        "一些经济学家引用投资比率、工业增加值和就业等指标比较中国和20世纪70年代初的日本。"
    ],
    [
        "Business leaders, governments, and civil society organizations must play their part in realizing this vision.",
        "企业领袖、政府和民间社团组织必须为实现这一目标发挥自己的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed Under Fire",
        "饱受抨击的美联储"
    ],
    [
        "To reach agreement by 2009, we must move beyond current generalities by which rich and poor countries argue about who should be blamed for climate change and who should pay the costs.",
        "富国和穷国对谁应该为气候变化负责以及谁应该承担更大的代价而争论不休。 为了在2009年前达到目标，我们就必须超越目前这样的坐而论道。"
    ],
    [
        "Few took Trump, a reality-television star who has never held public office, seriously until he started winning primaries.",
        "在赢得初选之前很少有人重视从未担任过公职的电视真人秀明星特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that Ma won by 800,000 votes, this tactic may not have been decisive, but it most likely played a considerable part in determining the outcome.",
        "鉴于马英九本次以80万票的优势胜选，这一策略或许并非是决定性的，但却很可能在决定选举结果方面扮演了一个重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Soldiers are the first to recognize that military power is of limited value in achieving long-term peace.",
        "士兵们首先意识到军事实力在实现长期和平上价值有限。"
    ],
    [
        "What was sometimes called the liberal international economic order was the order of the day, and it was embraced by public opinion as well.",
        "当时所谓的自由国际经济秩序逐渐成为一般惯例，同时成为被公众舆论所接受的话题。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies that there were upwards of 200 million abortions over the policy’s 35 years.",
        "这意味着在一胎政策执行的35年中发生了2亿以上的流产。"
    ],
    [
        "But the majority of Americans, having supported the tax cuts in Bush’s first term because it gave them a little extra cash, do not support the attack on basic government services that has followed.",
        "但是大多数美国人，尽管在布什第一任期内曾支持过减税（因为减税能让他们得到一点点额外的现金），现在却不支持随后对基本政府服务的抨击。"
    ],
    [
        "As often happens with innovative models, others adopt them, and, as in the Spanish case, improve and refine them.",
        "就像某种创新模式时常发生的那样，它们也会被其他人采用，而且就像继承者就像西班牙人那样，针对这种模式加以改进和完善。"
    ],
    [
        "“Assimilation” means dissolving into the mainstream, but Muslim-Americans do not, remaining devoutly Muslim in a country overwhelmingly Christian.",
        "“同化”意味着溶解到主流之中，但是美国穆斯林并非如此，他们在一个基督教占据绝大多数的国家虔诚地保持穆斯林信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "Its people have become powerful, arrogant, and enormously rich.",
        "它们的人马变得权力庞大、自负以及巨富。"
    ],
    [
        "But Thaksin had by then won over Thailand’s rural population through popular policies including handouts.",
        "但是，他信在此之前，通过包括施舍在内的受欢迎的政策，赢得了泰国农村人口的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge is to find what works best inwhich setting.",
        "因此，需要回答的问题就是在什么情况下哪些方法是最好的。"
    ],
    [
        "If citizens had access to current air-quality data, they could choose to take protective measures, such as minimizing physical exertion, staying indoors (ideally in filtered air), and wearing a mask (an N95-rated mask, at a minimum, not a surgical mask).",
        "如果能得到现时的空气质量数据，民众就可以选择采取防护措施，如减少体力消耗、待在室内（最好对空气进行过滤）和佩戴口罩（至少佩戴N95级口罩，而不是手术口罩）。"
    ],
    [
        "Several reports in the print and electronic media suggested that the contracts awarded by Ashraf’s ministry were tainted.",
        "纸媒和电子媒体的一些报告表明，阿什拉夫所主管的部门所给出的合同有猫腻。"
    ],
    [
        "How many additional former inmates obtained jobs?",
        "有多少新增前囚犯找到了工作？"
    ],
    [
        "Far-flung military misadventures continue to stretch the country’s fiscal resources, with costs potentially running into many trillions of dollars, according a recent study by Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz.",
        "远隔重洋的军事灾难不断消耗着这个国家的财政资源，美国人为此付出的代价有可能达到数万亿美元之巨，这一触目惊心的数据来自于琳达·比尔梅斯和约瑟夫•斯蒂格利茨不久前所进行的研究。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – When the United Kingdom announced earlier this month that it had agreed to become a founding member of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), most of the headlines focused not on the news itself, but on the friction the decision had caused between the UK and the United States.",
        "伦敦—当英国在本月早些时候宣布同意成为中国主导的亚洲基础设施投资银行（亚投行）创始成员时，大部分新闻的焦点并不是这个消息本身，而是这一决定在英国和美国之间造成的摩擦。"
    ],
    [
        "American researchers in Bangladesh had shown that ORT could reverse fatal dehydration in cholera patients, but its effectiveness outside hospitals had not yet been proven.",
        "孟加拉国的美国研究者已经证明，ORT可以逆转霍乱病人致命的脱水症状，但其医院外效果仍未得到证实。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when asked the same question about the overall US economy, an average of 47% have said it is doing worse, compared to 38% who think it is doing better.",
        "但是，在被问及美国经济总体状况时，平均有47%的人说情况更糟了，只有38%的人说情况更好了。"
    ],
    [
        "He has also been very decisive in attacking the growing corruption that has become a major source of internal malaise, reaching even the highest levels of government.",
        "在打击业已成为国内顽症、甚至已蔓延到政府最高成的日益猖獗的腐败方面，他也比几位前任更加果断。"
    ],
    [
        "The real tragedy has still to unfold.",
        "真正的悲剧还将上演。"
    ],
    [
        "He can choose between hybrid war and hybrid peace, and Ukraine and its allies are struggling to respond.",
        "他可以选择混合战争或混合和平，而乌克兰及其盟国则不得不疲于应付。"
    ],
    [
        "Because wages are still rising, the inflation target for 2015 has been set at 3% – higher than the actual 2014 inflation of 2%, even though producer-price inflation has been negative for 36 months.",
        "由于工资仍在上升，2015年的通胀目标定在3%——高于2014年2%的实际水平，尽管生产者价格指数负增长已有36个月。"
    ],
    [
        "The border between the two Koreas is virtually impenetrable, with gates that open for a half-hour at a time a few times per day.",
        "韩朝之间的边境大概连鸟都飞不过去，每一天，边境上的大门只开合几次，每次开启半小时。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments are right to worry about the quality of growth, not just its speed.",
        "政府应该关注的是增长的质量，而不仅仅是速度。"
    ],
    [
        "Just look at some of the proposals of EU President Herman Van Rompuy’s task force on economic governance. For example, if a poorer member country undergoes a period of real convergence and has a temporary current-account deficit – as is usual in such cases – it may be punished for not being sufficiently “harmonized.”",
        "比如说，如果一个比较贫穷的成员国正经历一个人民收入差距缩小的实质趋同时期，同时却遭遇临时性的经常账户赤字——这种情况屡见不鲜——该国就将因为“不够一致”而受到惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eight years of General Pervez Musharraf's dictatorship, the US and Pakistan’s army fought against the Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal regions.",
        "在佩尔韦兹 ·穆沙拉夫将军的八年独裁时期，美国与巴基斯坦军队在该国部落地区与塔利班作战。"
    ],
    [
        "Although growing, China’s trade with Latin America and the Caribbean remains small, representing less than 2% of both exports and imports in 2002. The nature of that trading relationship differs substantially from country to country.",
        "尽管中国贸易增长迅速，但它与拉美和加勒比海地区的贸易量却一直增长缓慢，2002年进出口量分别只比前一年高出了2个百分点不到，且不同国家的贸易模式彼此差别很大。"
    ],
    [
        "If Greece does well, its creditors will receive more of their money; if it does not, they will get less.",
        "如果希腊表现出色，其债权人可以获得更多的钱； 否则只能获得更少的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Such dark protectionist thoughts are far from the minds of the benevolent organizers of the United Kingdom’s annual “Fairtrade Fortnight,” during which I just bought two bars of fair-trade chocolate and a jar of fair-trade chunky peanut butter.",
        "当然，那些好心的英国年度“公平贸易双周”组织者们可没有这些阴暗的保护主义思想。 笔者也在活动中购买了两条公平贸易巧克力以及一罐公平贸易花生酱。"
    ],
    [
        "While caution is certainly in order, the importance of Rouhani’s election must be recognized.",
        "尽管谨慎为上，但鲁哈尼当选的重要意义不容忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "The importance of vacation time should come as no surprise to anyone who has experienced Europe's deserted cities in August, the three-week vacation \"bridges\" in April and May in France and Italy, the \"rush hours\" that take place every Friday at 2 PM in German cities, and crowded ski slopes in February due to winter school vacations.",
        "这样的解释对亲身经历过8月欧洲倾城出动、4月欧洲和5月法意三周长假，德国城市周五午后2点\"堵车高峰\"和学校2月寒假期间滑雪圣地拥挤不堪的人们来说，一点也不会感到意外。"
    ],
    [
        "Efforts to reduce youth unemployment would also help.",
        "努力降低年轻人的失业率也会起到作用。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that, apart from doling out humanitarian aid to those in refugee camps, it has no policy.",
        "这意味着，除了给难民营发放人道主义援助之外再无其他政策。"
    ],
    [
        "It was also a slap in the face for Poland’s Jewish community, which has been part of the country’s social landscape for more than a thousand years, and which, despite the Holocaust, has witnessed a remarkable renaissance over the past two decades.",
        "这也是对波兰犹太社会的侮辱，一千多年来，犹太人一直是波兰社会的组成部分，尽管经受过大屠杀的苦难，但在过去二十年中迎来了令人瞩目的复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "The old system of social justice, the welfare state, was based on assumptions which no longer hold true. Some may never have been viable.",
        "福利国家旧的社会正义体制赖以生存的土壤现在已不复存在，有的甚至根本就没存在过。"
    ],
    [
        "These special interests feel especially empowered now by Donald Trump’s administration, which is filled with corporate lobbyists, not to mention several right-wing billionaires in the cabinet.",
        "这些特殊利益群体如今在唐纳德·特朗普政府的授权下更感到法力无边，特朗普政府充斥着行业游说势力，更不用说特朗普内阁本身就吸收了不止一位右翼百万富翁。"
    ],
    [
        "By erasing the huge differences among Muslims, such coverage reinforces a single, simplistic perception of Islam.",
        "这些报道抹杀穆斯林之间的巨大差异，强化了一种单一的、简化的对伊斯兰教的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the possibility that is shaking governments from Washington to Beijing.",
        "正是这样的机遇吸引了从华盛顿到北京等各国政府的注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "These efforts have not only increased the amount of residential housing; they have also funded vital infrastructure such as the Copenhagen Metro, schools, and universities.",
        "上述工作不仅增加了住宅的数量； 而且还资助了哥本哈根地铁、学校和大学等重要基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach – aimed more at withdrawing forces as soon as possible than at ensuring enduring peace and regional stability – is being dressed up as “reconciliation,” with Qatar, Germany, and the United Kingdom getting lead roles in facilitating a settlement.",
        "这种做法——与其说是为了确保长期和平和地区稳定还不如说是为了部队尽快撤离——披上了“和解”的外衣，卡塔尔、德国和英国在牵头促成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "For him, this is what power is about: taking hard decisions under unfavorable circumstances.",
        "对他而言，这就是权力的意义所在： 在不利的条件下做出艰难的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "For mainstream French politicians, renouncing the European project to buy the time required to restore competitiveness is as unthinkable as is the logical alternative: an all-out push for full European political union.",
        "对法国主流政客而言，放弃欧洲工程从而为重塑竞争力赢得必须的时间与其逻辑上的替代方案——孤注一掷推进完全的欧洲政治联盟——一样是不可想象。"
    ],
    [
        "And survey data show a rapid decline in people’s satisfaction and confidence about the future.",
        "调查数据显示民众满意度和对未来的信心急剧下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless it is addressed, the labor constraint implies that Japan will not reach its full potential economically – and thus in regional and global affairs as well.",
        "除非这个问题得到解决，否则劳动力限制意味着日本将无法发挥其全部的经济潜力——在地区和全球事务中也是一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative is a world at risk of tensions and misunderstandings – ones that could easily jump out of the realm of energy policy into international relations and security.",
        "还有一种可能是造成紧张和误解——上述分歧很可能超出能源政策的范畴对国际关系和安全造成影响。"
    ],
    [
        "First and foremost, losing Rajan controverts the Modi government’s commitment, unprecedented in recent history, to attracting foreign investment to India.",
        "首先，失去拉詹有悖于莫迪政府实现现代史上前所未有的为印度吸引外资的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "For Ukraine to push for more, such as by requesting membership in the EU, would be a tactical mistake.",
        "但是，不管乌克兰取得什么成就，都无法克服欧洲人对进一步一体化、进一步扩大的担忧。 这要取决于欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Felipe Calderón has finally gotten what he wanted: the resignation of United States Ambassador Carlos Pascual.",
        "墨西哥城——墨西哥总统费利佩·卡尔德隆终于达到了自己的目的：逼迫美国大使卡洛斯·帕斯夸尔辞职。"
    ],
    [
        "The Pakistani Nuclear Deal That Wasn’t",
        "凭空编造的巴基斯坦核协议"
    ],
    [
        "But, although banking and finance have taken center stage, the EU’s constitutional problem refuses to go away.",
        "但是，尽管银行和金融业成了关注的中心，欧盟的宪法问题也依然拒绝忽视，尚未解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite falling revenues, both governments spared little effort to spend their way to victory.",
        "尽管收入下降，但两国政府仍然不遗余力地收买胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, this hyper-connectivity has increased our insularity, as we increasingly live through our electronic devices.",
        "颇具讽刺意味的是，这种超链接状况随着越来越多地依赖电子设备，反而加剧了人类与外界的隔阂。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from thyroid cancer, which has been successfully treated in 98.5% of cases, scientists have not been able to document any connection between radiation and any physical condition.",
        "5％都得到了成功的治疗。 除此之外，科学家们尚未记录到放射和身体状况的任何联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Other labor-market statistics, such as unemployment rates, show a similar pattern, indicating that higher education is more valuable in America’s labor market.",
        "失业率等其他劳动力市场统计数据也显示出类似的趋向，表明教育程度高在美国劳动力市场的价值更大。"
    ],
    [
        "An obvious example is the undeniable influence over US government policy exercised by finance moguls during the last three decades.",
        "一个显著的例子是过去三十年中金融大佬对美国政府政策的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the real world – and Cyprus, Bosnia, and Kosovo may be examples – stabilization and the slow de-escalation of violence can sometimes achieve the same end, even without formal agreement.",
        "但在现实世界里—塞浦路斯、波斯尼亚和科索沃便是例证—稳定局势和缓慢地平息暴力有时可能会达成同样的目的，即便是在没有正式协议的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "There is nothing wrong with this ambition, as long as it is handled with great caution.",
        "有这样的雄心壮志并无不妥，只要能谨慎行事。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, 250 professionals from as far away as Mexico and Australia will compete for 25 spots on that campus.",
        "今年，250位职业人士将竞争该小区的25个教职，其中不乏远至墨西哥和澳大利亚的人士。"
    ],
    [
        "It is during this stage that businesses can make the biggest contribution.",
        "企业在该阶段起到最大的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, when it comes to allowing political considerations to affect enforcement of the rules, not much has changed.",
        "显然，在允许政治考虑影响规则的执行方面，情况并没有发生太大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, tying it to improvements in the labor market was a particularly important step – one that other central banks, especially the ECB, should follow.",
        "此外，把它用在改善劳动力市场是一个特别重要的步骤，其他央行，特别是欧洲央行，应该效仿美联储的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "The government also could start aggressively pushing a shift to electric vehicles.",
        "政府同时也可以大力推行向电动汽车的转换。"
    ],
    [
        "The Xinhua reports, I believe, are best read as damage control.",
        "我相信，新华社的报道至多可以理解为控制损害。"
    ],
    [
        "So how low can the dollar sink?",
        "那么，美元究竟会贬值到什么程度呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Iran urgently needs to produce 20,000 megawatts of nuclear power by 2020.",
        "因此，伊朗急需在2020年以前发展2万兆瓦的核电。"
    ],
    [
        "These regular checkups help to identify potential vulnerabilities and maintain economic stability.",
        "这些经济政策既包括汇率政策，也包括相关的国内政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This old debate is at the core of today’s profound divisions over how Europe should respond to its debt crisis.",
        "这一古老争论正是如今的深刻分歧——欧洲应该如何应对深刻的债务危机——的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Many journalists spent time behind bars, and there was a price to be paid when the morning newspapers contained even accidental typos, such as occurred when a headline concerning a royal birthday read “suspicious” instead of “auspicious.”",
        "许多记者遭受了牢狱之灾，有一家晨报甚至因为意外的排字错误，比如把一个关于皇室成员生日的标题中的“auspicious”拼成“suspicious” 而付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet recent deliberate attacks on refugee camps and hospitals, in Syria and elsewhere, demonstrate an absolute disdain for basic humanitarian norms.",
        "但最近在叙利亚和其他地方故意袭击难民营和医院的做法表现出袭击者绝对地蔑视基本的人道主义准则。"
    ],
    [
        "One solution would be to establish a continuing program of research into the measurement implications of emerging economic trends, conducting one-off studies at first to gauge their potential quantitative importance.",
        "一个方案是制定一个持续的计划研究新兴经济趋势的衡量影响，首先进行一次性研究以确定它们的潜在定量重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "They invested, and still invest, their budgetary surpluses worldwide in government bonds and state-owned enterprises.",
        "他们曾经并正在将预算赢余投资于全球的政府债券和国有企业。"
    ],
    [
        "His obsessive focus on Iran – not to mention the seemingly irrational calculus that is driving him toward a politically suicidal confrontation with the US, his country’s most important benefactor – stems from deep-rooted convictions, a system of political thought, and his own perspective on Jewish history.",
        "他之所以顽固地关注伊朗——更不用说让他政治自杀式地与以色列最重要保护人美国对立的看似不理性的算计了——是因为根深蒂固的观念（政治思想体系）和他自己对犹太史的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Increased confidence in their country’s political systems and institutional structures, enhanced by improved perceptions of upward mobility, will help to strengthen the rule of law.",
        "对国内政治制度和体制结构信心增强再加上更宽广的晋身空间将有助于加强法治。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not too late.",
        "现在行动为时未晚。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, though the Internet can facilitate competition, forcing companies of all sizes to raise their game, building such a trust-based system is no easy feat.",
        "当然，尽管互联网能增进竞争、迫使各种规模的公司勤修内功，但构建这样一个基于信任的体系决非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "To avoid being pushed around by Trump over trade or security, members of the EU and NATO must be prepared to stick together.",
        "为避免在贸易或安全问题上被特朗普牵着鼻子走，欧盟及北约成员国必须互相团结。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea – first advanced in a 2009 memorandum of understanding signed by nine EU member states and Norway – has enormous potential; by 2030, North Sea winds could provide Europe with 10% of its electricity – carbon-free.",
        "这一在2009年由欧盟九国及挪威签署的合作备忘录中首先提出的理念拥有巨大的潜力； 到2030年，北海的风力发电站提供的电力将占到全欧的10%——而且零碳排放。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, unemployment insurance is organized at the state level.",
        "在美国，失业保险是州层面组织的。"
    ],
    [
        "Both the US and Japan fostered prosperity – the seedbed for peace – in the region.",
        "美国和日本都促进了地区繁荣——和平的基础。 如今。"
    ],
    [
        "And he will have to praise the decline of unions and the shedding of benefits by firms – and argue that individuals will make better choices than union experts or firms’ benefit departments.",
        "他还必须赞扬工会的衰落和企业福利的散发，并主张，个人将比工会专家或企业福利部门做出更加合理的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, we have the worst of all possible worlds.",
        "在美国，我们不得不面对所有的不利因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of their credibility, however, depended on a fragile balance of power.",
        "但他们这种可信度必须以脆弱的权力平衡为前提。"
    ],
    [
        "This promising trend reveals itself in generational comparisons of global opinion polls.",
        "全球民调的代际比较揭示了这一充满希望的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "The last weeks have seen massive demonstrations, some of them verging on violence; many of the settlers have declared that they will not obey government orders to evacuate.",
        "过去的几周以色列发生了大规模的示威，有的几乎已经到了暴力冲突的边缘； 许多定居者已宣布他们不会遵从政府的命令撤离定居点。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, efforts now underway to establish a comprehensive multilateral framework for the region can learn from the recent history of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).",
        "而在这个大背景下，人们可以从欧洲安全与合作组织（Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe，简称欧安组织）最近的历史中有所借鉴，为该区域营造一个综合性多边框架。"
    ],
    [
        "US sanctions against Russia after the latter’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 were amplified by a coincidental oil-price drop, and by the deployment of similar measures by the European Union, Russia’s largest trading partner.",
        "美国在2014年俄国吞并克里米亚后对其进行的制裁因为在俄罗斯最大贸易伙伴欧盟采取类似措施的同时碰巧遇到油价下跌才放大了制裁效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Readers in other countries may be tempted to react to this judgment with a dose of schadenfreude, finding more than a little satisfaction in America’s difficulties.",
        "他国读者对于这一判断或许会感到幸灾乐祸，对美国所遇到的困难或多或少感到高兴。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence the Bush administration's tendency to weaken the ties of America's permanent alliances, including those that NATO represents.",
        "紧接着就有了布什政府削弱美国永久性联盟的错误倾向，甚至连北约联盟都未能幸免。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because Governing Council and Executive Board members enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution, misbehavior cannot be punished.",
        "此外，由于ESM理事会和执行董事会成员享用刑事诉讼豁免权，他们的不当行为无法追究。"
    ],
    [
        "Its first task will be to remove those provisions of Iraq’s constitution that pit Iraq’s Sunni, Shia, and Kurds against one another.",
        "联合政府的首要任务是取消导致逊尼派、什叶派和库尔德人相互敌对的宪法规定。"
    ],
    [
        "In the future, a “blanket” should be inserted between the plasma and the walls, with two objectives: to protect the outer walls and to produce tritium from nuclear reactions within a circulating fluid containing lithium.",
        "未来会把一种“隔热板材”插在等离子体和墙体之间，以达到两个目的：保护外墙不受核反应影响，以及在含有锂的循环液体中进行核反应以产生氚。"
    ],
    [
        "Even living in an area where others mix can help.",
        "即使生活在其他人和睦共处的地区也能够有所帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The global media should now go further, and begin to examine the many features of the rise of China and India that depart from the simplistic narrative of the triumph of market reform.",
        "如今，全球媒体也是时候对中国和印度崛起中的特征进行研究，而不仅仅是简单地将其归因于市场改革的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "They have, and there probably will be more of them, so long as the Middle East remains in turmoil and revolutionary Islam appeals to disaffected Western youth.",
        "这种袭击早已发生过，并且未来也许还会更多，如果中东继续动荡、伊斯兰革命继续吸引心怀不满的西方青年的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, in a constantly changing world, the costs of carrying a large debt burden can shift over time.",
        "当然，在一个持续变化的世界，承担庞大债务负担的成本可能随时间而变化。"
    ],
    [
        "And the prospect of rising short-term rates means that investors no longer need to hold long-term bonds to achieve a higher return over the next several years.",
        "5%的的阈值将在2014年达到。 而短期利率上升的前景意味着在未来数年中，投资者不再需要持有长期债券来实现更高的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "There are growing financial, trade, and migration links among southern African countries, as well as shared water, transport, electricity, and communication networks. And yet the region suffers from a dearth of infrastructure co-investment projects, weak collaboration in trade promotion, and slow-moving cooperation in financial and tax arrangements.",
        "当前非洲南部国家之间的金融，贸易和移民联系，以及水、交通，电力和通信网络共享都日益密切，但该地区基础设施投资项目依旧匮乏，贸易促进合作薄弱，财税合作进展缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "Twice it has led to world war in which the emergent power was defeated.",
        "上个世纪两次大国的崛起都导致了世界大战，最终崛起的大国战败。"
    ],
    [
        "The US also shows signs of understanding the importance of maintaining a multiethnic Kirkuk and is putting pressure on its Kurdish allies.",
        "有迹象表明美国也了解保持基尔库克多种族环境的重要性，而且正在对自己的库尔德盟友施加压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Repudiation of free and open trade would devastate confidence and depress investment.",
        "否定自由和开放贸易将严重影响信心、抑制投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The reasons are not difficult to fathom.",
        "个中原因不难看穿。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be no surprise that Kazakhstan and Belarus are as wary of Russian expansionism as Ukraine.",
        "哈萨克斯坦和白俄罗斯与乌克兰一样担心俄罗斯的扩张主义一点都不令人奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet I took away a different conclusion from Davos.",
        "但笔者却得出了一个与达沃斯不同的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "The major benefits that arise from the government’s requiring that workers also participate in a national Social Security system accrue to those workers who really ought to value a defined-benefit pension highly but have not been able to figure out what their true preferences are.",
        "政府要求工人们也参加全国性的社会保险体系的主要益处是累积于那些确实应该重视确定金额的养老金但是还没有搞清楚他们究竟偏好哪个的工人们。"
    ],
    [
        "A “cyber attack” can take any number of forms, including simple probes, defacement of Web sites, denial-of-service attacks, espionage, and destruction of data.",
        "“网络攻击”可以以数不清的形式出现，包括简单的侵入、涂鸦网站、拒绝服务攻击、间谍活动和毁坏数据。"
    ],
    [
        "The inability of backward domestic financial systems to allocate investment efficiently is a big factor pushing funds out of poor countries and into the US.",
        "落后迟钝的国内金融体系无法高效地分配投资是将穷国资金推动出国而流入美国的一个重要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "This gives us the problem’s size as a share of GDP.",
        "这让我们了解问题的规模——占GDP的比重。"
    ],
    [
        "Last spring, after the Philippines banned the sale of kidneys to foreigners, a headline in the Jerusalem Post read, “Kidney Transplant Candidates in Limbo after Philippines Closes Gates.”",
        "当菲律宾去年春季禁止向外国人出售肾脏之后，《耶路撒冷邮报》出现了这样的大字标题：“菲律宾关闭大门之后, Limbo的肾移植候选者”。"
    ],
    [
        "Still others interpreted “compassionate conservatism,” as the commentator Andrew Sullivan put it, as a “smokescreen...necessary for any vaguely successful retrenchment of government power in an insatiable entitlement state.”",
        "正像新闻评论家安德鲁·苏利文（Andrew Sullivan）所说的那样，还有些人把“富于同情心的保守主义者”理解成一层“烟幕…必须借助它才能在贪得无厌的福利国家里成功地控制政府的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 60% and 70% of the revenue would be raised in London, yet the EU would spend most of the money to shore up eurozone finances.",
        "该税收大约60%—70%的数额将在伦敦征收，但欧盟会把税额的绝大部分用于提振欧元区财政上。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, they differ about climate policies, seeing a threat to development.",
        "比如，它们实施着不同的气候政策，这给发展蒙上了一层阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite the focus on stability, inhospitable global growth conditions, and two successive droughts (any of which would have thrown the economy into a tailspin in the past), growth is above 7%.",
        "但是，在强调稳定、全球增长条件不利和连续遭遇两次旱灾（在过去，一次旱灾就足以让经济陷入困境）的情况下，印度经济增长仍高于7%。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republic’s first president, Félix Houphouet-Boigny, was elected at independence in 1960 and remained in office until he died in 1993 – always careful to construct governments with representatives from all the tribes, and with a balance between southern Catholics and northern Muslims.",
        "该国的第一任总统费利克斯·乌弗埃-博瓦尼（Félix Houphouet-Boigny）在1960年独立时上任并一直担任该职位直到1993年去世——他就任期间一直小心翼翼地构建一个代表所有部族的政府，同时也努力维护着南部天主教徒和北部穆斯林之间的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Or it could mark the beginning of a realistic and beneficial re-orientation of Europe's economic strategy.",
        "或者它也可以标志着务实而有益的欧洲经济战略再转向的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "In other countries that have become democracies, the institutions and practices of liberty have often emerged from the working of a free-market economy.",
        "在其他实现了民主的国家，相关机制和自由的实践通常都源自于自由市场经济的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "And only three trials—all conducted in Europe—used sham acupuncture as a control, whereas no acupuncture trials controlled with placebos or sham acupuncture have been reported in China, owing to high cultural barriers.",
        "只有三项试验——全都在欧洲进行——把伪针灸作为了一种控制手段，由于面临很大的文化障碍，没有报道称在中国进行过安慰性的或伪针灸的针灸试验。"
    ],
    [
        "But more can be done, which is why we are calling on governments around the world to strengthen implementation of the WHO FCTC by accelerating action on the “MPOWER” tobacco control policies – measures intended to strengthen country-level implementation of the WHO FCTC.",
        "但还有更多工作要做，我们因此呼吁世界各国政府通过加速推进“MPOWER”烟草控制政策——即旨在强化国家层面世卫组织烟草控制框架公约落实的措施——来强化落实世卫组织烟草控制框架公约。"
    ],
    [
        "In Iceland, for example, the average life expectancy for men and women is 81 and 84, respectively.",
        "比如，冰岛男性和女性的寿命预期分别为81岁和84岁。"
    ],
    [
        "It is of course vital in such situations that we identify the best, or at least the most feasible, way forward; predictability provides a foundation for cost-benefit analysis and strategic thinking.",
        "当然，重要的是在这种情况下找到最佳、或至少是最可行的前进线路； 可预见性奠定了成本效益分析和战略思维的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But this will take time and patience - and it will need to be accompanied by policy changes on Iraq, Palestine-Israel, and the regional economy.",
        "但实现这些需要时间和耐力－还得伴随着在伊拉克、巴勒斯坦－以色列、以及地区经济问题上的政策变化。"
    ],
    [
        "How can the European model of strong social solidarity and security be reformed, but endure?",
        "欧洲强大的社会团结和安全模式如何改革并维系？"
    ],
    [
        "This concern is all the more legitimate, given that bailouts have often hampered restructuring, resolution, and consolidation to preserve existing banking interests and practices, thereby delaying the necessary repair of balance sheets and zombifying the European banking system.",
        "再考虑到援助常常会为了保护现有银行利益和行为而妨碍重组、清算和整合，从而延迟必要的资产负债表修复、导致欧洲银行系统僵尸化，这一顾虑就更加合情合理了。"
    ],
    [
        "Although she returned with excellent grades, her position within the company worsened, because she did not have a boss who could use her skills.",
        "尽管她带着出色的成绩学成归来，她在公司的境遇反而不如从前，因为她缺少能使用她的技能的老板。"
    ],
    [
        "The pattern also holds true elsewhere.",
        "其他国家也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "A lack of redistribution through taxes in a country like the US (compared to major countries in Europe) does not help matters.",
        "而像美国这样缺乏税收再分配的国家（与欧洲主要国家相比）则无力控制事态的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "But the share of countries classified as “not free” or “partly free” by the democracy watchdog Freedom House has hardly changed over the same period.",
        "但被民主观察机构自由之家（Freedom House）归类为“不自由”或“部分自由”的国家比例在同一时期并未发生多大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Hedge funds and other “non-commercial” speculators have increased their long positions to an all-time high of 555,000 of the main oil contracts traded on the New York futures market, compared to the previous record of 548,000 contracts, set just before the oil price peaked at $120 in June 2014.",
        "对冲基金和其他“非商业”投机者将多头头寸提高到了历史最高水平，纽约期货市场主力原油合约达到了555,000张，而此前的记录为548,000张，发生在2014年6月石油价格见顶于120美元前夕。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Much has changed about official development assistance (ODA) over the last 50 years.",
        "伦敦—过去五十年来，官方发展援助（ODA）改变了很多。"
    ],
    [
        "What is really needed is better regulation of financial markets.",
        "真正需要的是更好地监管金融市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Individual ministers did their best.",
        "内阁各部的部长已经竭尽全力。"
    ],
    [
        "There are three further problems.",
        "有三个进一步的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the economic historian Robert Gordon argues that today’s innovations pale in contrast to past technological revolutions in terms of their likely economy-wide impact.",
        "比如，经济史家罗伯特·戈登（Robert Gordon）指出，从可能的整体经济影响而言，今天的创新相较于过去的技术革命显得黯淡无光。"
    ],
    [
        "The big question is whether it will function as intended and survive permanently.",
        "大问题在于它是否能如预料中那样运转并永久持续。"
    ],
    [
        "This has some theoretical validity, but ignores malaria’s dependence on poor infrastructure and health care.",
        "这一说法有一定的理论基础，但却忽略了落后的基础设施和医疗保健也是该病肆虐的重要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "While EU leaders believe that peace and stability is built through interdependence, Russia’s leaders are intent on creating a situation in which the EU needs Russia more than Russia needs the EU, particularly in the energy sector.",
        "欧盟领导人们相信，和平和稳定是通过相互依存而建立的，俄国领导人却愿意形成这样一种局面，也就是欧盟需要俄国要大于俄国需要欧盟，特别是在能源领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Take-up has been slow, but the April 2006 surprise hike in bank rates may help to sow greater public awareness of interest-rate risk.",
        "现金购进已经放缓，但是2006年四月份银行利率的突然上调也许能帮助公众认识到利率波动的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "As Argentina's crisis worsens, indeed with output possibly collapsing by 10 to 15% this year and with unemployment soaring, the IMF keeps asking for deeper cuts.",
        "哪怕阿根廷危机进一步恶化，今年的GDP值可能负增长10％～15％，失业人数骤增，国际货币基金组织仍再三要求阿根廷政府削减开支。"
    ],
    [
        "The irony of the Tea Party revolt, of course, is that it undermines the private sector more than it reins in “big government.”",
        "当然，茶党叛逆的讽刺之处在于，其给私人部门造成的危害比其控制“大政府”的好处更甚。"
    ],
    [
        "It is obviously good for the G-7 or a subset of G-7 members to show leadership, but no fundamental reform can occur without an inclusive process that gives both industrial and developing countries, and both large and small countries an adequate voice.",
        "显然，对G-7或G-7的一部分成员国来说，这对显示它们的领导地位是有好处的，但是，在没有给予工业国家以及发展中国家，大国以及小国足够的发言权的 包含过程 的情况下，根本性的改革是不可能出现的。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is mistaken tactics by the Chinese government.",
        "问题在于中国政府的错误策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Some critics of aid argue that funds for education will simply be wasted.",
        "一些援助批评者认为，为教育而投入的资金根本就是浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "Global leaders – whether policymakers or intellectuals – bear a responsibility to prepare their societies for impending global shifts.",
        "全球领袖——不管是决策者还是知识分子——承担着让其所在社会为全球变迁做好准备的重任。"
    ],
    [
        "Education-sector social entrepreneurs now have more financing tools at their disposal than ever before – from venture capital to targeted-investment funds and other new asset classes – and they can play an important role in bringing the Middle East’s classrooms into the twenty-first century.",
        "教育部门的社会企业家现在拥有比以往更多的融资工具——从风险资本到目标投资基金和其他新型的资产类别。 他们可以在引领中东教育走入21世纪的过程中发挥重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Smith-Ricardo theory has a key limitation: it does not distinguish among a country’s citizens, and therefore cannot address the question of income distribution within a country.",
        "但斯密-李嘉图理论存在一个关键的局限性：它不会对一个国家的公民进行分类，因此也无法解答一个国家内部的收入分配问题。"
    ],
    [
        "More meaningful is the respect that comes from incubating insights, rather than the products of past discoveries.",
        "由培育真正的洞察力而获得的尊敬比用过去的科学发现制造的产品更有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Social Benefits in the Age of Uber",
        "优步时代的社会效益"
    ],
    [
        "If companies do not take seriously the responsibility that comes with their great and growing power, people will be there to remind them.",
        "如果企业不重视随之而来的责任，人们一定会挺身而出去提醒它。"
    ],
    [
        "The need for urgent, concerted action cannot be emphasized enough.",
        "联合行动的紧迫性毋庸置疑。"
    ],
    [
        "It is uncertain how far these adverse effects can be mitigated by preventive measures such as implementing roadside drug-testing programs, persuading users to use vaporizers rather than smoke joints, discouraging young people from using marijuana, and encouraging early treatment for problem users.",
        "目前还不清楚类似公路毒品测试，说服使用者用蒸馏而不是吸烟方式吸食大麻，阻止青年人使用大麻并鼓励滥用者尽早求医等方式能在多大程度上消除这些负面效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Riham Osman, speaking on behalf of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which participated in the summit, said that using terms like “radical Islam\" harms the cause of stopping the violence.",
        "与会机构穆斯林公共事务委员会代表Riham Osman表示使用诸如“激进伊斯兰”这样的词汇有损于打击暴力的事业。"
    ],
    [
        "The oil and gas industry portrayed the reports it commissioned from Bernstein, who once worked at the Hawaiian Electric Company, and Montgomery, a former deputy assistant secretary for policy in the US Department of Energy, as factual, independent, and products of genuine economic debate.",
        "石油天然气行业称其委托曾在夏威夷电气公司供职的伯恩斯坦和曾任美国能源部政策副助理部长的蒙哥马利所写的报告为客观、独立，且是真正经济辩论的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "As in the Soviet era, the dictatorial mask disguises the system’s economic and political fragility.",
        "正如苏联时代一样，独裁面具所掩饰的是这个体系在经济与政治上的脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "But political changes alone will not push EVs into the fast lane.",
        "但仅仅在政治上的改变并不能推动电动车进入快车道。"
    ],
    [
        "Once everyone gets the message that secrecy carries unacceptably large risks, they will act in ways that minimize those risks.",
        "只要所有人都知道秘密会带来不可接受的巨大风险，它们就会以最小化这些风险的方式行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Vanishingly few contracts are issued in renminbi; the dollar remains king in invoicing, with the euro a distant second.",
        "用人民币签署的合同少之又少； 美元仍是第一结算货币，欧元名列第二，但差距巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "A ceasefire is critical, because the fighting serves the interests of the most brutal elements on both sides of the conflict.",
        "停火至关重要，因为战争只与冲突双方最残酷份子的利益相符。"
    ],
    [
        "To date, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been addressing the crisis through the use of his \"good offices,\" with Ibrahim Gambari serving as his representative to Burma’s rulers.",
        "到目前为止，联合国秘书长潘基文已经通过他的“调停”来关注危机，并任命易卜拉欣·甘巴里作为其对缅甸统治者的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "The communiqué became a lightning rod for Thaksin’s opponents at home, spearheaded by the People’s Alliance for Democracy.",
        "但这份公报也旋即成为了他信反对者手中的致命武器，而其中的领导势力则是泰国人民民主联盟（简称民盟）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, with continuing rapid growth in developing countries, the global economy’s structure is far from static, and it seems clear that the pace of market adjustment is lagging that of structural change.",
        "此外，在发展中国家经济持续快速增长的背景下，全球经济结构早已不再是静态的了，现在看来，市场调整显然大大落后于结构性变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan vs. the Currency Speculators",
        "日本 vs. 货币投机者"
    ],
    [
        "When speaking to senior law enforcement officials, I was told that the women were smuggling drugs from Afghanistan to pay for shoes and schoolbooks.",
        "在与高级执法官员交谈的过程中，我被告知这些女性都曾从阿富汗贩运毒品，以支付购买鞋子和课本的开销。"
    ],
    [
        "Severe economic distress and political pressure are buffeting relationships among citizens, sovereign states, and supranational institutions such as the European Central Bank.",
        "严重的经济困局和政治压力正考验着公民，主权国家和类似欧洲央行这类超国家机构之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "A “one-size-fits-all” solution ends up fitting no one.",
        "“一刀切”的解决方案不适合任何国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Various professional groups were involved with torture practices.",
        "多方面的专业小组参与了刑讯。"
    ],
    [
        "The Failure of Inflation Targeting",
        "设定通货膨胀目标的失效"
    ],
    [
        "From 2007 to 2012, North American shale-gas production grew at an average annual rate of more than 50%.",
        "从2007年到2012年，北美页岩气产量以平均每年50%以上的速度增长着。"
    ],
    [
        "But it might also provide an opportunity for a better plan: eliminate the current enormously expensive tax subsidy for employer-financed insurance and use the revenue savings to subsidize everyone to buy comprehensive private insurance policies with income-related copayments.",
        "但这也可能为更好的计划提供机会：取消当前十分沉重的补贴雇主出资保险的税收负担，将节省下来的收入用于补贴每一位与收入挂钩的共同支付全能私人险的购买者。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe endured centuries of violent religious and national struggle, culminating in the horrors of the two world wars, before achieving its current stable state system.",
        "欧洲经历过数百年的宗教和民族斗争，在两次世界大战达到顶峰，随后才实现了目前的稳定的国家体系。"
    ],
    [
        "The experimental practices that they invented spread beyond the laboratories.",
        "他们所发明的实验性做法拓展到实验室以外的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1969, Honduras and Salvador clashed after a qualification game for the World Cup.",
        "1969年，洪都拉斯和萨尔瓦多在世界杯资格赛之后就发生了冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge is to distinguish between the ESG factors that have a material influence on company performance and those that do not.",
        "挑战在于区分对公司表现有和没有实质（material）影响的ESG因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The debt overhang within India’s biggest companies and the large volume of bad assets held by its biggest banks have created an unholy nexus that is blocking sustainable growth – and that cannot be offset by interest-rate cuts.",
        "印度最大企业负担的债务及其最大银行持有的巨额不良资产构成了阻碍持续增长的邪恶关系——而且这一因素并不能被降息所抵消。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, strengthening competition throughout the economy requires broad support.",
        "最后，在整个经济中增强竞争需要广泛的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1980 to 2010, US health-care spending grew almost twice as fast as the economy, rising from 9.2% to 17.4% of GDP.",
        "1980—2010年，美国医疗支出速度几乎是经济增长的两倍，占GDP之比从9. 2%上升至17."
    ],
    [
        "Mexico has profound security problems in some regions, but it is also a country that just might be on the threshold of a huge political and economic transformation.",
        "墨西哥的某些地区存在严重的安全问题，但它也是一个可能正处在政治和经济剧变门槛上的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The consensus may have reflected the success of Lula’s predecessor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the relative success of privatization and liberal market economies around the world, and the growth of Brazil’s middle class.",
        "这种共识可能会反映出卢拉前任总统费尔南多 恩里克 卡多佐的胜利，也能够体现出全球私有化和自由市场经济所带来的相关成就，同时也解释了了巴西中产阶级的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and China have already signaled their interest in this approach.",
        "美中两国已经对此方式表达了兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "While the US remains the world’s most powerful single country, it cannot maintain, much less expand, international peace and prosperity on its own.",
        "尽管美国依然是世界上最强大的单一国家，但它已经无法单靠自身的力量来维持——更别说推动——国际的和平繁荣了。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, delivering education via Internet technologies resolves some core challenges facing Arab countries’ education systems today.",
        "毕竟，通过网络技术提供教育可以解决当前阿拉伯国家教育体系所面临的某些核心问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Has the presidency hardened Obama?",
        "是总统经历让奥巴马更硬朗了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "We will soon find out whether we have learned the lessons of this crisis any better than we should have learned the same lessons from previous crises.",
        "这次危机让我们记住这些教训了吗？ 会不会比从前历次危机之后记得牢一点呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Rapid economic growth in developing countries is helping to alleviate poverty.",
        "发展中国家经济的迅速增长缓解了贫困状况。"
    ],
    [
        "China is willing to join with the EU, the US, and the rest of the world to realize the potential of a truly harmonious world.",
        "中国愿意与欧盟、美国和世界其他国家一起，实现真正和谐的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "From 2009 to 2013, new investment commitments by the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank’s private-sector lending arm, have risen 73%.",
        "从2009年到2013年，世界银行私人部门贷款机构国际金融公司（International Finance Corporation）所作出的投资承诺增长了73%。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as Israel increasingly resembles a successful developed country, its Jewish citizens tend to ignore its Arab citizens, just as the rich elsewhere often do not see the poor in their midst.",
        "此外，随着以色列日益发展成为一个成功的发达国家，它的犹太裔公民似乎都倾向于忽视其他阿拉伯裔公民，正如其他地方的富人无视身边的穷人那样。"
    ],
    [
        "The Russian public’s natural reaction will be to rally to their leader.",
        "俄罗斯公众的自然反应是团结在领袖周围。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, under the new law, subnational governments will no longer be able to limit investments on environmental grounds – decisions that were guided by strict technical standards and highly trained experts.",
        "此外，根据新法律，次级政府不再能够以环境原因限制投资——在严格技术标准和高技能专家指导下做出决定。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in today’s energy market, consumers have more control.",
        "相反，在今天的能源市场中，消费者拥有更大的控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "While helicopter drops are a viable policy option if deflation is spiraling downward, as it was in the late 1920s and early 1930s, that is not the case today – neither in the eurozone nor in the global economy.",
        "当通缩日益恶化时，如20世纪20年代末到30年代初，直升机撒钱确实是可行的政策选项，但如今并非如此——不管是欧元区还是全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s Middle Eastern Road to Europe",
        "土耳其从中东到欧洲之路"
    ],
    [
        "They have tried everything, from nationalism to regionalism, from communism to capitalism.",
        "他们做出各种尝试，从民族主义到宗教狂热，从共产主义到资本主义。"
    ],
    [
        "In targeted therapies, in which drugs interfere with the molecular signaling needed for proliferation and survival, a cell might adapt by activating or following alternative pathways.",
        "在靶向治疗中，药物对癌细胞存活以及扩散所需要的分子信号产生干扰，而癌细胞则有可能通过激活或者采用替代路线来适应抗癌药物。"
    ],
    [
        "The modern tendency to regard economic differences in terms of religion was stimulated by Max Weber’s reflections on the Protestant work ethic.",
        "以宗教区分经济的现代趋势受马克斯·韦伯对新教工作伦理的深思的刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "This means developing food systems that are more responsive to people’s needs, particularly those of the socially excluded and economically marginalized.",
        "这意味着建立对民众需求更敏感的粮食体制，特别是针对那些受社会排斥且经济边缘化的民众。"
    ],
    [
        "Views from other generations and other parts of the world should be sought and solicited.",
        "来自其他辈分和世界其他地区的观点也应该主动出击去寻找和聆听。"
    ],
    [
        "But, since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, part of that system has been a central financial authority that preserves trust that contracts will be fulfilled and promises kept.",
        "但是，自工业革命发端以来，这一体系的一部分就一直是确保人们相信契约会被执行、承诺会得到兑现的中央金融当局。"
    ],
    [
        "Israelis grudgingly accept that the country and its geopolitical situation are relatively stable, especially in view of its immediate neighborhood – a burning Syria, a smoldering Egypt, and a volatile Lebanon.",
        "以色列人不情愿地接受了国内及地缘政治局势相对稳定的事实，特别是在与战火熊熊的叙利亚、四处冒烟的埃及和动荡不安的黎巴嫩等邻国相比较的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Other governments can continue to try to convince Russia that its interests are better served by getting rid of the current regime than by permitting the continued radicalization of his opponents.",
        "各国政府可以持续尝试说服俄罗斯，使其相信推翻当前政权要比让阿萨德的支持者逐渐陷入极端更有助于实现其利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But how long will national unity prevail?",
        "但国民大团结之势会维持多久？ 法国的殖民主义伤疤比欧洲其他任何国家都要更加新鲜；"
    ],
    [
        "Policy harmonization, rather than separation, seems to be the key to happy cyclical endings.",
        "事实上，政策的统一，而非分裂，似乎才是实现良好周期循环的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s unwillingness to reflate reflects Germany’s deep-seated fear of inflation (which underpins its enduring commitment to austerity).",
        "欧洲不愿实行再通胀政策是因为德国根深蒂固的对通胀的恐惧（这也是德国人始终致力于财政紧缩的原因）。"
    ],
    [
        "Without them, the incentives and policies that economists rightly argue are needed to increase energy efficiency, limit carbon emissions, economize on water usage, and much more will lack support and fail in the democratic decision-making process.",
        "经济学家所正确指出，要想增加能源效率、限制碳排放、节约水资源等目标，我们需要各种激励和政策，而没有教育和价值，这些激励和政策就得不到支持，在民主决策过程中流产。"
    ],
    [
        "The way to do that is to replace temptations with safe choices.",
        "我们的方式是用安全的选择取代诱惑。"
    ],
    [
        "NAIROBI – In the run-up to the recent United Nations meeting on climate change in Lima, Peru, much of the world’s attention focused on how strongly countries would commit to a framework for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "内罗毕—在最近的秘鲁利马联合国气候变化会议准备期间，全世界的注意力集中在了各国将就减少温室气体排放的问题作出多么强的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the expansion of home ownership – a key element of the American dream – to low- and middle-income households was the defensible linchpin for the broader aims of expanding credit and consumption.",
        "在美国，美国梦的核心因素—“拥有自己的住宅”便被政府加以利用，政府以向广大低收入及中等收入家庭提供房贷为说辞，来掩盖其扩大信贷及消费的意图。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike football, the Olympics were always closely associated with elites: amateur athletes recruited from universities, and so on.",
        "与足球不同，奥运会始终与精英阶层紧密相连：从大学生中遴选出来的业余选手，如此等等。"
    ],
    [
        "While about 70% of the population can understand a campaign speech by Donald Trump, and 60% can grasp the significance of the lyrics of an Elvis Presley song, only 2% have the reading ability necessary to understand the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee.",
        "大约70%的群众能够理解特朗普的竞选演说，60%能够抓住猫王歌曲的歌词大意，但只有2%的群众具备理解美联储公开市场委员会（FOMC）备忘录所必须的阅读能力。"
    ],
    [
        "I know of no case in the international version of shooting escaping looters where a court has affirmed that the use of force was necessary but not proportionate.",
        "我还从来没有听说过哪家法院确认枪击逃跑的抢劫者是必要但却是不适度的国际版本的案例。"
    ],
    [
        "Our scenario continues in China, where the leadership faces a crisis of its own.",
        "在中国这一情景也在发生，因为中国领导人也面临一场他们自己国家的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "That rapprochement was possible because Taiwan’s then newly elected vice president was given permission by China to attend the forum, where he was able to meet informally with President Hu.",
        "台湾新当选的副总统也破例作为嘉宾参见了论坛，和胡锦涛进行了非正式的会谈。"
    ],
    [
        "Other governments and intergovernmental bodies have not filled the gap left by the US.",
        "其他国家政府和国际组织也没有填补美国留下的空白。"
    ],
    [
        "My belief is that economics is somewhat more vulnerable than the physical sciences to models whose validity will never be clear, because the necessity for approximation is much stronger than in the physical sciences, especially given that the models describe people rather than magnetic resonances or fundamental particles.",
        "依我看来，在那些永远不可能弄清其正确性的模型之中，经济学在某种程度上比物理学更站不住脚，因为经济学对近似值指标的需求要比物理学更强烈，前者的模型研究的是人，而不是磁共振或者是基本粒子。"
    ],
    [
        "Federal law may prohibit Trump from appointing his children to government posts, but they will surely remain at the center of his decision-making.",
        "联邦法律可能禁止特朗普任命其子女担任政府职务，但他们无疑将成为决策的核心力量。"
    ],
    [
        "How extensively should it contribute to security, education, research, innovation, and protection of the poor?",
        "国家应在多大范围内促进安全、教育、研究、创新和保护穷人？"
    ],
    [
        "The extremes of inequality observed in some countries are not the inexorable result of economic forces and laws.",
        "一些国家所观察到的极端不平等不是经济力量和定律的无情结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But, although both conditions were met earlier in September, the FOMC decided to leave the rate unchanged, explaining that it was concerned about global economic conditions and about events in China in particular.",
        "但是，尽管这两个条件在9月初都已实现，FOMC仍决定保持利率不变，给出的解释是其担忧全球经济环境，特别是中国的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, caution is appropriate in order to avoid claiming too much for the benefits of short-run consolidation.",
        "当然，谨慎点不会错，以免夸大了短期整合的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic fundamentals are far from stable, while the reduced financial tension is the fortunate outcome of an expectation game.",
        "经济基本面远远称不上稳定，尽管预期游戏产生了财政压力纾解的幸运效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, depending on the institution’s mandate, a state-led investment program offers a way to rebalance the British economy away from private speculative activity to long-term investment in sustainable growth, and away from the south-east to the midlands and the north of England.",
        "其次，依托该机构取得的权限，国家领导的投资项目提供了一条英国经济再平衡之路，从私人投机性活动向可持续增长的长期投资转型； 从东南向中部和北英格兰转型。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone would also have to deepen integration.",
        "欧元区还必须深化一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 120 countries are believed to support the Palestinian bid for statehood.",
        "据信有超过120个国家将支持巴勒斯坦的建国动议。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, splits within the two major parties are just as deep, with large and highly motivated factions pulling each to their respective extremes – Democrats to the left and Republicans to the right.",
        "事实上，两大党内部的分裂同样深刻，规模庞大、斗志昂扬的派系将两党推向各自的极端——民主党左倾，共和党右倾。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, most recent free-trade agreements require signatories to open up government procurement to one another’s firms, and the World Bank publishes the names of firms barred for fraud or corruption from bidding on Bank-financed projects.",
        "事实上，目前大部分自由贸易协定要求签署国的政府采购向其他国家企业开放，世界银行会公布因欺诈或腐败被禁止参与世行融资项目竞标的企业名单。"
    ],
    [
        "But nothing could be further from the truth.",
        "但事实说明了一切。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, again, this does not mean that a bear market isn’t approaching.",
        "然而这也并不意味着熊市并未临近。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixth, establish well-planned and synchronized programs for demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration, which are sine qua non for making the transition from war to peace irreversible.",
        "第六，解散武装，上缴武器和重新整合计划必须在精心策划下同步进行，因为这才是彻底实现从战争向和平转化的先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "But will the new generation of Republicans continue this tradition?",
        "但新一代共和党人是否会坚持这一传统？"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the UK Parliament has approved stringent new measures to reduce carbon emissions by 2020, with the biggest CO2 cuts by far to come from an increase of more than 800% in offshore wind power over the next seven years.",
        "与此同时，英国国会批准了严格的新措施，以便在2020年前减少碳排放，目前，最大的二氧化碳削减项来自未来七年将离岸风能电力增加800%以上的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan and America can now agree only on what will not be implemented.",
        "目前，日美两国只能就放弃执行哪些项目达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – During the height of the Iraq war, then-US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld spoke of “known unknowns” – foreseeable risks whose realization is uncertain.",
        "纽约—在伊拉克战争最高峰，时任美国国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德提出了“已知的未知”——可预见的、如何成为现实还不确定的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Britain isn’t the only country holding a referendum this month.",
        "发自伦敦——英国不是唯一一个在本月举行全民公决的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But some day, the US may well have to pay the bill for its spendthrift ways.",
        "但总有一天，美国还是得要节俭度日。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, regardless of who wins the presidential runoff, fears about Ukraine’s independence will not, in contrast to 2004/2005, be an issue.",
        "此外，不论谁赢得总统大选，乌克兰都不会有丧失独立性之虞，这跟 2004~2005 年那时很不一样。"
    ],
    [
        "This holds promise of progress, but despite the brief fanfare and positive statements at the peace conference last November in Annapolis, Maryland, a retrogression has occurred in the process.",
        "这让我们看到了取得进展的希望，但是尽管去年11月份在马里兰州的安那波利斯和平会议上发表了令人鼓舞宣言，和平进程还是出现了倒退。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, total net exports from the eurozone rose less than €3 billion ($3.2 billion) between September 2014 and September 2015 – a negligible amount in an €11 trillion economy.",
        "因此，在2014年9月至2015年9月间，欧元区总净出口只增加了不到30亿欧元——相较于11万亿欧元的经济规模可以忽略不计。"
    ],
    [
        "To facilitate the design of effective targeted policies, India’s Central Statistical Organization is working to provide detailed data through a pilot project that captures Indian states’ SIGI indicators.",
        "为了促进设计有效的定向政策，印度中央统计组织（Central Statistical Organization）正在致力于通过试点项目提供详细数据，试点项目将采集印度各邦的SIGI指标。"
    ],
    [
        "The scheme is already being piloted in a small village called Akroum in the north of the country.",
        "该计划已在黎巴嫩北部一个名叫阿克罗姆（Akroum）的小村庄试点。"
    ],
    [
        "The big Wall Street banks have enormous influence in Washington, DC, in large part because of their campaign contributions.",
        "华尔街银行巨头对华盛顿拥有巨大的影响力，这在很大程度上是因为他们手握大笔政治献金。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, corruption is the bane of development everywhere, so new governments should move fast to establish institutions and procedures to fight it.",
        "此外，腐败无论在哪里都是发展的祸根，因此新政府必须建立起与之斗争的机构和程序。"
    ],
    [
        "At the recent ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting in Yangon, it called for the coordination of humanitarian aid and an investigation into alleged atrocities committed against Rohingya.",
        "在最近的仰光东盟外交部长会议上，马来西亚呼吁进行人道援助合作并调查针对罗兴亚人的暴行。"
    ],
    [
        "A free electoral process brought Hamas to power in Palestine, and the unfortunate episode of the Danish newspaper cartoons illustrated the almost combustible nature of relations between Islam and the West.",
        "自由选举进程将哈马斯推上巴勒斯坦的领导地位，而丹麦报纸漫画的不幸事件却阐明了伊斯兰和西方之间的关系到了一触即发的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "The second card was the sorry state of continental Europe’s economy.",
        "第二张牌是欧洲大陆经济的糟糕状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Who should deliver it?",
        "应该由谁来发表这一演讲？"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, we are retaining and upgrading US Army capabilities in Korea.",
        "此外，我们正在保持并提高美军在韩国的战斗力。"
    ],
    [
        "Young men, in particular, saw the prospect of a life more like that presented to them by Western television.",
        "特别是年轻人看到了更像通过西方电视所看到的生活前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Adequate private insurance can be boosted in the future through public education, improved insurance institutions, and lower insurance costs.",
        "充分的个人保险将来可以通过公众教育、保险制度的改善、以及降低保险费等措施来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Turks don’t want to see their country excluded from the West, but if the EU spurns them while speeding up entry for weaker candidates, Turkey may come to feel sufficiently strong and embittered to strike out on a new geo-political course.",
        "绝大多数土耳其人不想看到他们的国家被排除在西方之外，但是如果欧盟拒绝他们的同时加快了更弱小国家的加入，土耳其可能会强烈而充满怨恨地感到要开始一个新的地缘政治进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Senior executives of multinational companies tend to have pre-conceived notions of China as just another developing country, and thus evaluate Chinese officials by comparing them with those in other developing countries.",
        "跨国公司的高级管理人员往往有先入为主的观念，他们仅仅把中国看作其中一个发展中国家，因此评估中国官员时也与其他发展中国家的官员相比较。"
    ],
    [
        "So why did Blair support it?",
        "在1998年到1999年之间，塞尔维亚开始了对科索沃占人口多数的阿尔巴尼亚人的暴力镇压，将大约40万科索沃人赶出了家园。"
    ],
    [
        "Jobs could be eliminated by technology, but not by global competition; and, unsustainable, debt-fueled domestic-demand growth helped to delay the current employment deficits.",
        "就业岗位可能因技术而削减，但不会因全球竞争而削减； 而不可持续的债务推动内需增长使当前的贸易赤字延迟了。"
    ],
    [
        "This one number encapsulates much of what is wrong today in the US – and in the global economy.",
        "这个数字浓缩地表明了美国——以及全球经济——如今的问题所在。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a tradition that they wish to continue, presumably because some Japanese are emotionally attached to it.",
        "这只是一种他们希望延续下去的传统，可能只是出于某些日本人对它的情感依恋而已。"
    ],
    [
        "The piece came as a surprise to those who saw only bleak prospects for Western countries, not least the United States, where US President Donald Trump had just been inaugurated.",
        "这篇评论令那些只看到西方国家——包括特朗普刚刚发表了就职演说的美国——阴暗面的人感到震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "The oil workers’ union has been banished from the board of directors of Pemex, the national oil company, and new contracts for shale oil and gas, together with deep-water prospecting and drilling, will be signed with a government agency, not with Pemex.",
        "石油工人工会已被逐出墨西哥石油公司（Pemex）董事会，很快就将与政府机构、而非墨西哥石油公司签订新的页岩油气及深海勘察钻探合同。"
    ],
    [
        "The Oslo Accords – the result of secret talks that had been encouraged by the Norwegian government and conducted in the country’s capital – called for a five-year transitional period during which Israeli forces would withdraw from the Gaza Strip and unspecified areas of the West Bank, and a Palestinian Authority would be established.",
        "奥斯陆协定——由挪威政府推动、并在该国首都举行的秘密谈判的结果——呼吁制定一个五年的过渡期，在此期间，以色列逐渐从加沙地带和约旦河西岸未定区域撤军，而巴方则建立巴勒斯坦权力机构。"
    ],
    [
        "If the AIIB begins with nothing more than vague criteria for monitoring international investment and an implicit Chinese veto, these domestic risks may spread to China’s neighbors, raising the danger of another large-scale international crisis.",
        "如果亚投行一开始只是监测国际投资模糊标准以及隐含的中国否决权，那么这些国内风险将溢出至中国周边国家，有可能引起又一场大规模国际危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The markets have broken all-time records, come close to doing so, or at least done very well since 2003 ( the case in Japan) by making up for the big drops incrementally, in a succession of smaller increases.",
        "自从2003年（日本的例子）暴跌后的报复性反弹，通过积累一点一点小的涨幅，市场已经打破了所有时期的纪录、接近于做到这点或者至少做得很不错。"
    ],
    [
        "Some kind of agreement is usually delivered, but only at the last minute, and its language is often vague.",
        "会上通常能达成某些协议，但往往要等到最后一刻才形成共识，协议用词也大多模棱两可。"
    ],
    [
        "These positive identities constitute the best protection against the sirens of fundamentalist Islam.",
        "上述积极身份是抵御伊斯兰原教旨主义警报的最佳保护。"
    ],
    [
        "The sense of inevitability could be dispelled by recent shifts in the internal politics of both the Conservative government and the Labour opposition.",
        "不可避免感可能因为最近在保守党政府和工党反对派内部政治局面的改变而消失。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, doing so would inevitably create incentives for US war planners to emphasize preemptive options in contingency plans and deemphasize American forces’ day-to-day presence in forward areas near China, where they contribute significantly to maintaining deterrence.",
        "事实上，这样做不可避免地会刺激美国战争计划者强调紧急计划中的先发制人要素，而不重视美军在中国附近前沿区域的日常身影，而后者在维持威慑力方面具有重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "“Oh, you can have labor rights without democracy,” Weisel insisted.",
        "“哦，没有民主也可以拥有劳动权利，”维塞尔坚持说。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps more important, with the country still importing large volumes of commodities and the rest of developing Asia set to generate a new surge in commodity demand, the prospects for a commodity-price rebound look brighter.",
        "也许更重要的是，中国仍然在进口大量大宗商品，而其他亚洲发展中经济体也将产生新一轮大宗商品需求激增，大宗商品价格反弹的前景看上去更加光明了。"
    ],
    [
        "On its part, the United States is now “rebalancing” toward Asia.",
        "就美国而言，它正积极地将“再平衡”转向亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "This unsatisfactory equilibrium may or may not last, depending on political or financial risks – or, most likely, the interaction between them.",
        "这一无法令人满意的均衡可能会持续，也可能不会持续，取决于政治或金融风险——或者更有可能地，取决于两者的互动。"
    ],
    [
        "With these considerations in mind, it becomes easier to understand why people would prefer to do something useful near home rather than where modern production takes place.",
        "考虑到这些因素，我们就不难理解人们为什么更愿意在家附近而不是现代化工厂找份工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the widespread and official recognition of corruption introduces a new source of uncertainty into national and local politics.",
        "同样，腐败的广泛蔓延以及官方对这种行为的默许为国家政治和地方政治带来了一种新的不确定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "First, rich countries are deeply reluctant to embrace any collective plan that might impinge on their own domestic policy maneuvers.",
        "首先，富国很不情愿采取任何有可能影响其国内政策腾挪的集体性规划。"
    ],
    [
        "The dollar’s real trade-weighted value already is more than 25% lower than it was a decade ago, notwithstanding the problems in Europe and in other countries.",
        "美元的真实贸易加权价值已比10年前下降了25%以上，这还是在欧洲和其他国家问题频发的情况下发生的。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump seems determined to lower income taxes for high-income Americans, as well as to reduce capital-gains tax (mostly paid by the well-off) and nearly eliminate corporate taxes (again, disproportionately benefiting the richest).",
        "特朗普似乎决心要为高收入美国人降低所得税，同时削减资本利得税（主要由富人缴纳），几乎取消公司税（同样主要是最富有的人群受益）。"
    ],
    [
        "BUENOS AIRES – There are two ways to look at Greece’s majestically unsustainable sovereign-debt mountain. There is, first, a pragmatic and short-term perspective, which focuses on ensuring some form of orderly restructuring (possibly for other vulnerable European states as well) without bringing down the eurozone.",
        "发自布宜诺斯艾利斯——面对希腊手上堆积如山而又无以为继的主权债务，我们可以用两种方式来解读：首先是以一种实用主义并注重短期效应的视角，着眼于确保在不危害欧元区的情况下实现某种形式的有序重建（这也适用于其他受灾国家）。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa is barely growing.",
        "南非几乎没有增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet his position seems curiously lacking in big-picture awareness of how the Internet could transform the lives of the very poor.",
        "但令人难解的是，他的立场缺少大局观，没有认清互联网如何能够改变极贫困人群的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "They are basically what the International Capital Market Association of leading investors and issuers has now agreed to implement, subject to some additional details that need not be examined here.",
        "这也是由主要投资者和发行人组成的国际资本市场协会（International Capital Market Association）所同意采取的基本方针，还有一些细节在这里不必讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "But even here there is a paradox for the regime.",
        "但即便目前这套做法也会让当局陷入困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Hong Kong's residents used to be branded as \"apolitical.\"",
        "曾几何时香港的居民以\"不问政治\"而著称。"
    ],
    [
        "It could also have been the basis of a confederal state, whose Palestinian part would have benefited from the West Bank settlers’ productivity and taxes.",
        "这也可以成为建立联邦制国家的基础，西岸定居者的生产和纳税会帮助联邦制度下的巴勒斯坦方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Human rights, and not only the right to personal privacy, must be respected in cyberspace.",
        "人权——不仅仅是个人隐私权——在网络空间中叶必须得到尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "It has authorized more peacekeepers in the field, with more robust civilian-protection mandates, than ever before.",
        "它授权派遣有史以来最多的维和人员，并授权开展更有效的民众保护行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Progress depends on a high rate of global investment: building the skills, technology, and physical capital stock to propel standards of living higher.",
        "进步取决于高全球投资率：构建技能、技术和实体资本存量提高生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that both inequality and slow growth often result from a particular form of exclusion.",
        "我相信不平等和慢增长长产源于某种形式的排斥。"
    ],
    [
        "A new bottom-up approach, whose contours are only just emerging, is predicated on the basic principle that the less emissions, the better.",
        "可以预见新的自下而上的方法将在排放越少越好这一基本原则的基础上出现——但也才仅仅初露端倪。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, significant portions of the international system lack sufficient funding to deliver meaningful progress in critical areas – a problem that will only worsen as the needs and expectations of an ever-expanding global population grow.",
        "与此同时，国际体系中的大部分缺少足够资金在关键领域取得有意义的进展——随着不断增长的全球人口的需要和期望的增加，这一问题只会越来越严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, evidence and facts are no basis for policy.",
        "其次，证据和事实都不是政策的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "As people at last began to hope for more liberal and decent societies, the US continued to endorse the regimes that were repressing them. America simply could not adhere to its own democracy-promotion script.",
        "当人民最终开始希望自由和体面的社会时，美国继续支持压迫他们的政权。 美国根本无法遵守其自身促进民主的说辞。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that China has been at it for 2.5 months, this implies that the equivalent of a 25-basis-point increase in interest rates has already been injected into the market.",
        "中国的抛售已经维持了2. 5个月，因此其效果相当于市场利率已经提高了25个基点。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, Europe and the US continue to resist the full dismantling of a nationality-based appointment system that favors their citizens for the highest leadership positions at the IMF and the World Bank, despite offering the occasional promise of change.",
        "最重要的是，尽管间或做出改革承诺，但欧洲和美国仍然抵制完全以国籍为标准的人任命制度，这一制度有利于它们的公民把持IMF和世界银行最高领导位置。"
    ],
    [
        "Although refugees do bring with them extensive health-care issues, they also bring years of experience in the medical profession that, if put to proper use, could be a boon to the communities that receive them, not to mention for other refugees.",
        "难民确实带来了各种卫生问题，但他们也带来了多年的医疗专业经验，如果能够合理地加以利用，能够成为接受他们的社区——更不用说其他难民——的福音。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who see the need for such a growth strategy, but who also want to help their friends, like the idea of tax cuts – especially for the rich.",
        "那些看到了采取此类增长战略的需要，但又想帮助亲朋友好友的人会喜欢减税的主意——特别是对富人减税。"
    ],
    [
        "Decades of unholy alliance between Arab autocrats and the West have seen radical Islam emerge as a “salvation” force.",
        "数十年以来，本地独裁者和西方之间的邪恶联盟都将极端伊斯兰视为某种“救命稻草”。"
    ],
    [
        "And, at any rate, Trump has declared diplomacy a “waste of time,” and ominously warned that “only one thing will work,” though he hasn’t explained what that means.",
        "而且无论如何特朗普已经宣布外交行动是“浪费时间”，并不怀好意地警告说“只有一种方法能奏效”（但他并未解释这是什么意思）。"
    ],
    [
        "And imagine that Hillary Clinton was packing her cabinet with billionaires.",
        "再想象一下，希拉里·克林顿在她的内阁里塞满了亿万富翁。"
    ],
    [
        "The data are clear about what makes us sick and kills us prematurely.",
        "数据清楚地表明什么让我们得病和过早地丧命。"
    ],
    [
        "It shrank its budgets and began to downsize, and, while it was handed some new responsibilities in the meantime – surveillance over “currency manipulation,” in particular – its deliberations proved largely irrelevant.",
        "该组织将预算缩减，并减小规模，而当新的责任（特别是对“货币操控”执行监控职责）同时赋予给该组织时，其深思熟虑更证明其很大程度上无力胜任。"
    ],
    [
        "You can see this in housing rentals, hotels and hospitality, and rental and leasing in general.",
        "你可以在房屋租赁，酒店接待以及其他常规租赁业上印证上述观点。"
    ],
    [
        "But will a new set of goals help the world shift from a dangerous business-as-usual path to one of true sustainable development?",
        "但一组新目标能够帮助世界从危险的“老方一帖”模式转向真正的可持续发展模式吗？"
    ],
    [
        "These countries had various reasons for reducing their stockpiles.",
        "这些国家减少核库存的理由各不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "An immediate concern, if deep pessimism about Iran’s intentions prevails, is a preventive Israeli strike, leading to another major Middle East war – with catastrophic consequences for the global economy likely.",
        "各位试想如果对伊朗意图的悲观情绪最终爆发的话，那将是一场由以色列发动的预防性袭击，并随之引发另一场中东大战——最终为世界经济带来一场毁灭性打击。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – China’s economic policymakers want to shift the country’s production away from exports and heavy industry, and to increase the share of consumption in GDP.",
        "美国剑桥—中国决策者希望将中国的生产远离出口和重工业依赖，增加消费占GDP的比重。"
    ],
    [
        "It is with these ideas in mind that I, together with several European colleagues – all of us acting in an individual capacity – recently co-authored a paper proposing a concept for Europe in 10-20 years: a continental partnership that would create a new basis for continued economic, foreign policy, and security cooperation with the UK.",
        "正是在上述想法的基础上我与若干欧洲同仁携手——我们每个人都是以个人名义——最近联合撰写了一份为未来10到20年的欧洲提出理念的论文：那就是建设新型大陆伙伴关系，为继续与英国开展经济、外交及安全合作奠定新的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "These include the standoff between India and Pakistan over Kashmir; the confrontation between North and South Korea; the tumultuous relationship between China and Taiwan; and China’s claims on the sovereign territory of Japan and India, in addition to that of the Philippines and Vietnam.",
        "其中包括印巴克什米尔僵局，南北朝鲜对峙，中国复杂的两岸关系，中国对日本和印度以及对菲律宾和越南主权领土的主张。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments may start developing autonomous counterstrike systems that, even if they fall short of Dr. Strangelove’s Doomsday Machine, will usher in a world vulnerable to myriad unintended consequences.",
        "政府可能会开始研发自动反击系统，即使这些系统还没有奇爱博士的末日机器那样威力巨大，但仍会将人类带入一个需要承受无数意外后果的世界当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor, however, is the debate about the military option – the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program through US air strikes – conducive to resolving the issue.",
        "然而，军事行动，也就是美国通过空中打击摧毁伊朗的核项目与事无补。"
    ],
    [
        "And crude attempts by governments to enforce regulation are likely to prove ineffective in protecting against catastrophe, while all too effective in strangling growth.",
        "事实证明政府执行监管的粗暴尝试可能无法防止灾难的发生，但在扼杀经济增长方面却收效显著。"
    ],
    [
        "From this perspective, Trump could seriously damage the Fed’s credibility.",
        "从这个角度来看，特朗普可能严重损害美联储的信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "MUMBAI – It is a notable irony that India, which produces solutions to many of the knottiest information-technology problems faced by the world’s largest companies, has benefited little from technological progress.",
        "孟买—有一个值得注意的讽刺之处，印度为世界最大公司提供了大量最棘手的信息技术问题的解决方案，但它自己并没有从技术进步中获得多少好处。"
    ],
    [
        "These three sets of events, different as they are, together illustrate several deep-seated characteristics of social life in France.",
        "这三场事件尽管各不相同，但是都表明了法国社会生活中几个根深蒂固的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "But, significantly, the Soviets expressed serious doubts at the conference that their public could ever allow free markets to function.",
        "但令人印象深刻的是，苏方在会上强烈质疑本国公众是否会允许自由市场进行运作。"
    ],
    [
        "He has also spearheaded the creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and turned to China’s advantage the two institutions associated with the BRICS grouping of emerging economies (the Shanghai-based New Development Bank and the $100 billion Contingent Reserve Arrangement).",
        "他还牵头成立了亚洲基础设施投资银行，并利用中国在两大金砖国家集团机构（位于上海的新开发银行和应急储备安排）的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "International investors are not likely to want to invest in these cities unless expectations of a price decline are built into the futures markets, as people in Tokyo understand from their own bitter experience.",
        "国际投资者不太可能愿意在这些城市进行投资，除非期货市场上出现了价格下降的预期，对于这一点东京人深有体会，教训惨痛。"
    ],
    [
        "Discussion of a robot tax should consider what alternative we have to deal with rising inequality.",
        "针对机器人税的讨论应该考虑我们在面对不断拉大的不平等状况时究竟有何种替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Amid these plans and predictions, a growing banking scandal has reminded Italians that, in politics, luck can sometimes make the difference.",
        "虽然有众多的计划和预测，但一场不断发酵的银行丑闻提醒意大利人运气有时在政治领域会成为决定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The first lesson of European unity is that times of crisis must draw the continent closer together, not divide it through protectionism, competitive devaluations, and expulsions of immigrants.",
        "欧洲团结的首要一课是欧洲大陆必须在危机时期密切合作，而不是被保护主义、竞相贬值和驱逐移民搞得四分五裂。"
    ],
    [
        "It benefits no one, so why let it continue?",
        "这对哪方都没有好处，为什么还要让它持续下去？"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change has been portrayed as a huge catastrophe costing as much as 20% of world GDP, though brave politicians could counter it at a cost of just 1% of GDP.",
        "气候变化曾被描绘成一场损失高达全球GDP20%的巨型灾难，虽然勇气可嘉的政要们称能用1%的GDP解决这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the world may be happy to pretend that bilateral cooperation will revitalize multilateralism, nobody should be fooled.",
        "不过尽管世界各国可能愿意假装认为双边合作能够重振多边主义，我们不应该真的被愚弄。"
    ],
    [
        "The Cold War ended a generation ago; the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, are nearly a decade in the past.",
        "冷战结束已经是上一代人的话题； 9·11恐怖袭击也已经过去将近十年。"
    ],
    [
        "Polls in North America, Europe, India, and Japan show that opinions about China’s influence are predominantly negative.",
        "北美、欧洲、印度和日本的民调显示，对中国影响力的观点呈现出显著的负面态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets will have to be broadened, so that people and businesses can better hedge their risks.",
        "金融市场将不得不进行扩容，从而使个人和公司都能更好的规避风险。"
    ],
    [
        "One might suspect the influence of French political traditions which, on the right as much as on the left, always prefer purity of principle to messy compromise.",
        "人们可能怀疑法国政治传统的影响。 这一影响总是置原则纯洁性于杂乱妥协之上，左右两翼概莫能外。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the public needs to be inoculated against the various techniques of deception.",
        "此外，公众需要接受灌输，抵制形形色色的欺骗伎俩。"
    ],
    [
        "When the tech sector began its evolution toward systemic importance, it comprised a collection of hungry start-ups possessing breakthrough technologies.",
        "当科技部门开始向系统重要性方向发展时，它涵盖了一批拥有突破性技术且野心勃勃的初创企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Opinion polls indicate that the vast majority of people in the Middle East want to be governed by legitimate states that uphold the rule of law, protect civic rights, and promote coexistence among communities.",
        "民意调查显示中东大部分民众希望建立一个坚持法治、保障公民权利并推动各群体和平共处的合法政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The process of protracted strikes could thwart positive political changes among the younger generation, thus reducing the chances of a more democratic and benign Iran emerging in the future.",
        "而如果实施长期打击，那么年轻一代中正面的政治转变可能会受挫，从而降低未来伊朗民主化、温和化的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi’s political report praises the mixed ownership model and also aspires to an economy led by great firms with unmatched global competitive prowess. But it glosses over the thorny issue of state-owned enterprise reform that may be required to resolve this contradiction and avoid the Japanese “zombie” problem of a chronic debt overhang.",
        "习近平的政治报告赞扬了这一混合所有制模式，也渴望建立一个以具备压倒性全球竞争实力的伟大企业为主导的经济，但报告掩盖了解决这一矛盾以及避免日本式“僵尸企业”长期欠债问题所需的棘手国企改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Compounding the problem, it seems that the United States under President Donald Trump cannot be counted on to continue constraining Russia or underwriting the post-1945 liberal world order that it created.",
        "令问题更加棘手的是，特朗普治下的美国似乎无法继续遏制俄罗斯或支持其一手创造的1945年后的自由世界秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "The moment young people became tempted to join Obama’s quiet revolution was also the moment the doors of Wall Street began closing on them.",
        "年轻人希望在奥巴马静悄悄的革命中占据一席之地的同时，华尔街的大门也开始对他们关闭。"
    ],
    [
        "The agreement in Paris is set to include more than 180 countries, and cover at least 90% of global CO2 emissions.",
        "巴黎协议确定会涉及180多个国家，并至少涵盖全球二氧化碳排放量的90%。"
    ],
    [
        "But is it right?",
        "但果真如此吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The Kyoto Protocol treaty has now entered into force for the 126 nations who have joined it so far.",
        "《京都议定书》已对参加该协议的126国生效。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the Chinese economy has slowed significantly from the 10% average annual growth recorded during the 1980-2011 period.",
        "诚然，中国经济较1980—2011年间平均每年10%的增长已经大幅放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "The action plan and Merkel’s visit were viewed within Turkey as de facto endorsements of Erdoğan; the EU even delayed the release of a critical “progress report” on Turkey’s accession negotiations until after the vote.",
        "该行动计划和默克尔的访问在土耳其国内被视为事实上支持埃尔多安； 欧盟甚至将公布对土耳其入盟谈判的一篇批评性“进展报告”推迟到土耳其选举投票之后。"
    ],
    [
        "The sad fact is that by keeping oil prices high, OPEC is doing far more for environmental conservation than Western politicians who seek to prolong the era of ecologically unsustainable Western consumerism.",
        "让人难过的事实是，通过维持高油价，石油输出国组织在环境保护上要比那些想要延长在生态上难以维计的西方消费主义的西方政治人物做的要多得多。"
    ],
    [
        "This will put serious strain on public budgets.",
        "这将给公共预算造成极大的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of uncertainty, our achievements are not always what we intended them to be, and our lives are never simply routine.",
        "拜不确定性所赐，我们的成就未必是我们的初衷，我们的生活也永远不会简简单单。"
    ],
    [
        "But how realistic is it?",
        "但它又具有多大的现实性？"
    ],
    [
        "Short-term goals must have priority, because many Islamist parties are being pressed to produce positive results within a single electoral cycle.",
        "短期目标必须作为重中之重，因为许多伊斯兰党派需要在一个选举周期内拿出积极的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "But generational change need not be accompanied by economic reform and steps towards political liberalization – witness North Korea under Kim Il Sung’s son, Kim Jong Il.",
        "但是世代的更替不一定伴随着经济改革和政治解放——看看在金日成的儿子金正日的领导下的朝鲜。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin is very good at feigning such idealism.",
        "克里姆林宫非常善于伪装这样的理想主义。"
    ],
    [
        "China, it now seems, is happy to see Putin poke his finger in the West’s eye and challenge America’s global leadership.",
        "中国似乎乐于见到普京与西方顶牛、挑战美国的全球领导。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a delusion.",
        "这其实是种错觉。"
    ],
    [
        "By beginning to normalize relations, Cuba and the United States have snatched victory from the jaws of a double defeat: the failure of the embargo and the failure of the Cuban economy.",
        "通过启动关系正常化，古巴和美国从两败俱伤——禁运的失败和古巴经济的失败——的魔爪中夺走了胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "To answer that, of course, we need to decide what those rights are.",
        "当然要回答这个问题，首先要确定作者权利的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "The current economic crisis is leading public opinion in the western Balkans to lose confidence that peace and economic growth are still within reach, creating the risk of a possible slowdown in the integration process.",
        "经济危机致使该地区民众对未来的和平与增长失去了信心，使人担心整合进程会否因此步履维艰。"
    ],
    [
        "Evo counters that Tuto is too linked to Bolivia’s corrupt political establishment – one of the most dishonest in the world according to the watchdog group Transparency International – to do much for Bolivia’s two-thirds Indian majority.",
        "埃沃却反驳说，根据监督机构“国际透明组织”的调查，玻利维亚政府是世界上最缺乏诚信度的政府，而Tuto与这一腐败的政治机构牵连太深，根本不可能为占玻利维亚人口三分之二的印第安人做任何有益的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever one calls it, the new policy approach is all about China, with America bolstering alliances and friendships with countries around China’s periphery, including India, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and South Korea.",
        "不管你如何称呼它，新政策方针的唯一目标就是中国，美国在强化中国周边的盟友和友邦，包括印度、日本、菲律宾、越南、印尼和韩国。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a telltale sign of a bubble is that second-rate developers suddenly are able to earn billions.",
        "事实上，泡沫的一个显著信号便是二等开发生突然间也能够赚取数十亿元。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that are better equipped to deal with aid issues.",
        "但更适合处理援助问题的是世界银行和IMF。"
    ],
    [
        "What has happened?",
        "这究竟是怎么回事呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Trump could also do damage by inflaming Chinese government and military hardliners, if he confirms their belief that the US wants to undermine their country’s “core interests” – namely, sustaining the appearance, if not the reality, that there is only one China.",
        "特朗普的另一个破坏来自激怒中国政府和军界强硬派，如果他让他们认定美国想要破坏中国的“核心利益”——即保持表面上（尽管未必是实质上）的一个中国——的话。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, the flat world could become a desert.",
        "如果真是这样，平坦的世界会成为一片沙漠。"
    ],
    [
        "It is high time that the IMF approach its mission scientifically and recognize that it is on the wrong track in Argentina.",
        "现在是国际货币基金组织以科学的方法执行其使命的时候了，国际货币基金组织应该认识到在阿根廷的问题上它走入了误区。"
    ],
    [
        "A jihadist Mali admittedly does not directly threaten the US, or at least less so than it does Europe.",
        "诚然，圣战主义的马里不会直接威胁到美国，至少不会像威胁欧洲那样威胁美国。"
    ],
    [
        "The software works by analyzing not just the “shape” of a conversation – who writes to whom, who answers, and when – but also the content.",
        "软件不仅分析一场对话的“轮廓”——谁给谁写信，谁回应，什么时候回应——还分析其内容。"
    ],
    [
        "This view stands in stark contrast to the traditional view that there is a tradeoff between equality and growth, and that greater inequality is a price that must be paid for higher output.",
        "这一观点与传统观点形成了鲜明对比，即平等与增长之间存在权衡，而更大的不平等是更高产出所必须付出的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the survey, fifty-two percent of Americans believe that the US “should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own.”",
        "这项调查表明，52%的美国人认为美国“应该以国际视角考虑其自身的商业，让其他国家自己决定最好的应对方式”。"
    ],
    [
        "A wide-ranging global Gallup study that culminated in the book Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think , by John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed, includes detailed and sophisticated analysis of European Muslims’ attitudes.",
        "Esposito）和达利亚·莫加海德（Dalia Mogahed）的作品《谁为伊斯兰教说话：十亿穆斯林真正在想什么》一书中，进行了广泛的全球民意调查研究，这些研究包含了对欧洲穆斯林态度详细而复杂的分析。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the risk of bankruptcy presents itself, the ECB will be available to buy the endangered securities off investors’ portfolios.",
        "在破产风险显现之前，可以要求欧洲央行购买投资者投资组合中的危险证券。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, China has become an upper-middle-income country, and it is on track to become a high-income country by 2020.",
        "如今，中国已成为中高收入国家，并且极有可能在2020年步入高收入行列。"
    ],
    [
        "Virtually every government at least pays lip service to democracy and human rights.",
        "基本上每一个政府都是言必称民主和人权。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of a generalized appreciation of all Asian currencies and unchanged American policies, possibly only a deep recession could reduce the overall US current-account deficit.",
        "在亚洲国家货币并不整体升值以及美国政策不变的情况下，可能只有大幅度经济衰退才会减少美国的整体经常项目赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "The key choices about war and peace in our future will depend not on gender, but on how leaders combine hard- and soft-power skills to produce smart strategies.",
        "我们的未来是战争还是和平，关键的选择并不取决于性别，而取决于领袖如何软硬兼施来构造巧妙的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Is reducing violence a goal worthy of resources that would otherwise be spent on, say, reducing hunger?",
        "用本可以用于减少饥饿的资源来减少暴力是否值得？"
    ],
    [
        "But these new workers have also brought more employment competition and significant shifts in relative wages and prices, which is having profound distributional effects.",
        "但这些新工人也带来了更多的就业竞争以及相对工资和价格的剧变，产生了深远的分配效应。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require subsequent high-level meetings at regular intervals, in order to produce agreement regarding specific joint actions on urgent challenges.",
        "这需要定期高规格会议的跟进，从而在关于紧迫挑战的具体联合行动的问题上形成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of literary translations done nowadays in the United States is, according to a United Nations report, equal to that of Greece, a country one-tenth the size.",
        "根据联合国的报告，如今美国文学翻译数量和希腊相当，而希腊只是一个只有美国十分之一的小国。"
    ],
    [
        "So why continue to grow?",
        "既然如此，我们还要维持增长干什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Banks receive up to 0.4% interest on ECB credit that they take themselves, provided they lend it out to private businesses.",
        "此外，欧洲央行还推出了四个一连串的新定向长期再融资操作，同时也包含了负利率。 银行只有贷款给私人企业的时候才能从欧洲央行处拿到不到0."
    ],
    [
        "But while his call for more integrated and diversified capital markets in the EU is admirable, his proposal lacks both a roadmap for the integration of sustainable development into the financial system and a strategy for addressing the carbon bubble.",
        "但尽管他建立更为整合且多元化的资本市场的呼吁令人钦佩，却缺乏一个可以将可持续发展融入金融体系的路线图以及应对碳泡沫的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Low oil prices increase real incomes, stimulate spending on non-resource goods and services, and boost profits for energy-using businesses.",
        "低油价增加了实际收入，刺激了非资源商品和服务的支出，也提振了企业能源用户的利润。"
    ],
    [
        "The aggregate equations that underpin Keynes’s “general theory” still populate economics textbooks and shape macroeconomic policy.",
        "作为凯恩斯“通论”基础的总量方程仍然充斥着经济学教科书，影响着宏观经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "McGruder, who works closely with African astronomers, agrees that a space program for the region is critical to raising the profile of careers in science and engineering in a part of the world where the most educated people still go into finance or management.",
        "与非洲天文学家密切合作的麦格德认为在绝大多数受教育人士仍然进入金融或管理行业的今天，启动太空计划对于提升科技岗位在非洲地区的总体形象可以起到至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "President Felipe Calderón’s government in Mexico and the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention deserve credit for gains in a range of important areas, including forestry, a new Green Fund to assist developing nations, and the anchoring of the emission-reduction pledges made at the December 2009 climate-change conference in Copenhagen.",
        "上述关键领域的进展理应归功于墨西哥总统费利佩·卡尔德隆政府和联合国框架公约执行秘书，进展的具体领域包括林业、设立绿色基金帮助发展中国家、以及兑现2009年12月哥本哈根气候变化会议所做出的减排承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Does a country have a robust banking system?",
        "这个国家是否拥有稳健的银行体系？"
    ],
    [
        "But it cannot wait too long, lest inflation expectations drift to a dangerously high level, forcing the Fed to move aggressively – and at the cost of considerable economic pain – to wring inflation out of the system.",
        "8%。 但同时该机构也可能不能长期按兵不动，以免通胀预期上升到一个危险的程度，最终迫使其使出强硬手段，在付出极大经济代价的情况下去遏制通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Burma’s Turn",
        "缅甸转型"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Kazakhstan, where five million people cast ballots in September for their parliament's lower house.",
        "想想哈萨克斯坦，那里的500万民众今年9月刚刚举行了议会下院的选举。"
    ],
    [
        "China, Russia, and Iran have been the source of frequent cyber attacks on banks, companies, and government agencies; North Korea, the US alleges, was behind the recent breach of Sony Pictures’ computers.",
        "中国、俄罗斯和伊朗是频繁出现的针对银行、公司和政府机构的网络袭击的来源地； 美国还指责朝鲜是最近入侵索尼影业公司电脑的幕后黑手。"
    ],
    [
        "The line was greeted with prolonged applause – and understandably so.",
        "迎接这一表态的是经久不息的掌声——不难理解这是为什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The first change is economic.",
        "沙特阿拉伯和也门要进行的第一个变革是经济方面的。"
    ],
    [
        "The potential pitfall is that any British tariff increase above the EU level would expose the UK to claims for compensation from third countries in the WTO.",
        "潜在的缺陷是一旦英国将关税上调至高于欧盟的水平，就可能面临第三国在WTO组织提出索赔的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "A US-China Climate Surge",
        "美中气候关系激流涌动"
    ],
    [
        "As negotiations proceed in the years ahead, it is in the international community's interest to support Turkey’s European future, while making a constructive contribution to end the division of Cyprus, so that the progress we have achieved is not lost.",
        "随着谈判在未来的展开，国际社会从自身的利益出发也应该继续支持土耳其融入欧洲的进程，同时这也能为弥合塞浦路斯的分裂做出建设性的贡献，如此才不会使我们前功尽弃。"
    ],
    [
        "No political system capable of overcoming hardship and misery can be built without first realizing improvements in the economy's potential.",
        "如果不发挥经济潜力，就不可能奢谈建立能克服困难、消除痛苦的政治制度。"
    ],
    [
        "But this tendency can be mitigated, if civil society recognizes the importance of preserving lower-income housing.",
        "但如果公民社会认识到保护低收入住房的重要性，这种趋势就会得到遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "In all of these cases, QE essentially has been an aggressive effort to manipulate asset prices.",
        "在所有这些例子中，量化宽松本质上都是操纵资产价格的大动作。"
    ],
    [
        "When Japan emerged as a world power, imperial conquest followed, whereas a rising China’s expansionist impulses are, to some extent, checked by other Asian powers.",
        "日本崛起为世界一强后便开始了帝国主义征服，而中国的扩张冲动在某种程度上受着其他亚洲力量的制约。"
    ],
    [
        "And when it comes to preserving national “face,” Russia and India are perhaps touchier than most countries; Russia has always felt looked down upon by western European powers, and India is still reckoning with a legacy of colonial humiliation.",
        "而且在涉及维护国家“颜面”的问题上，俄罗斯和印度或许比许多国家都要坚决； 俄国一直感觉被西欧列强看不起，而印度则仍然无法放下殖民年代所受的屈辱。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, two platforms can even be complementary for one set of users and substitutes for another.",
        "事实上两个平台甚至可以成为一组用户的互补品或者彼此的替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "My guess is that on polling day, Prime Minister David Cameron will emerge holding this asset.",
        "我猜想在投票当天，戴维·卡梅伦首相在露面时会表现出这种特点。"
    ],
    [
        "He believes that he is doing the right thing and following the prudent course in waiting for the Syrian conflict to burn itself out in some way while minimizing the long-term risk to American lives.",
        "他相信，他在做正确的事，等待叙利亚冲突自己水落石出，同时将美国人民生民安全威胁最小化，这才是审慎的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, three years after thwarting Singh’s efforts, the BJP has taken over India’s government, following its resounding electoral victory in May.",
        "如今，距离辛格方案流产已经过去了三年，印度人民党也在5月大选大获全胜后成为印度执政党。"
    ],
    [
        "The anarchic world of Italian Renaissance city-states was more violent and dangerous than that of today’s democracies, but elements of Machiavelli’s advice remain relevant to modern leaders.",
        "意大利文艺复兴城邦的无政府世界比今天的民主国家更暴力、更危险，但马基雅维利的建议的要素对于现代领导人来说仍然十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, all three are examples that other countries, including developed ones, should watch closely as they search for viable growth strategies in an increasingly hostile global economic environment.",
        "然而如果其他国家（包括发达国家）想在日益严峻的全球经济形势下寻求可行发展战略的话，都应当对这三个案例加以密切关注。"
    ],
    [
        "The combination of economic recovery and lower interest rates would produce a virtuous dynamic in which falling interest rates and a rising budget surplus are mutually reinforcing.",
        "经济复苏加上利率下降将产生良性循环，下降的利率和增加的预算盈余将相互强化。"
    ],
    [
        "He beamed at Saudi Arabia’s decision to buy $110 billion of new US weapons, describing the deal as “jobs, jobs, jobs,” as if the only gainful employment for American workers requires them to stoke war.",
        "他为沙特阿拉伯购买1,100亿美元美国新武器的决定而笑逐颜开，将这笔交易称为“工作、工作、工作”，好像美国工人唯一的有酬就业（gainful employment）要求他们发动战争似的。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, there is a direct link between the trends in trade and commodity prices (see figure).",
        "显然，贸易趋势和大宗商品价格趋势之间存在直接联系（见图）。"
    ],
    [
        "The money may be paid by employers, private insurers, or government health-care funds (the trickiest source).",
        "资金可以由雇主、私人保险商或政府卫生资金（最雄厚的资源）支付。"
    ],
    [
        "So, will Taiwan become more like the mainland, or vice versa?",
        "因此，台湾是否会变得更像大陆，还是反其道而行之？"
    ],
    [
        "However, the deeper reasons for some of these conflicts may well be more traditional.",
        "然而，这些冲突的深层原因却很有可能更为传统。"
    ],
    [
        "The Escalating Arab Wars",
        "愈演愈烈的阿拉伯战争"
    ],
    [
        "My hope is that, when historians look back at Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia of last summer, the Ossetians, Russians, and Georgians killed in that war will be seen as having not died in vain.",
        "我衷心期望，当历史学家回顾去年夏天格鲁吉亚对南奥塞梯袭击的时候，被那场战争夺去生命的奥塞梯人、俄罗斯人和格鲁吉亚人不会白白牺牲。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, there are encouraging signs.",
        "幸运的是，有一些令人鼓舞的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "European solidarity cannot and will not survive their neglect.",
        "”欧洲的团结根本经受不起他们的忽略。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Middle East, we must break the stalemate.",
        "在中东，我们必须打破僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "Accordingly, advocates of this worldview regard fences and walls as insults to humanity, proof that those who build and maintain them have no trust in their countries’ vibrancy and strength.",
        "因此，这种世界观的倡导者将篱笆和围墙视为对人性的侮辱及其建造者对本国活力和实力没有信心的证明。"
    ],
    [
        "So the teams will continue smashing protons together, gathering more data, and sifting for signs of a Higgs.",
        "这两个小组将继续一同进行质子碰撞，搜集更多数据，并将希格斯粒子筛选出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither GDP nor HDI reflects changes over time or differences across countries in vulnerability.",
        "GDP和HDI都没有反应脆弱性随时间和国别的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The economists Jeffrey Frankel and David Romer estimate that, in general, trade has a sizeable positive effect on growth.",
        "经济学家杰弗里·弗兰克尔（Jeffrey Frankel）和大卫·罗默（David Romer）估算，总体而言，贸易对对增长起到了相当大的积极作用。"
    ],
    [
        "It may well be true that the engine of innovation itself will run more slowly.",
        "虽然创新引擎本身可能真的会运行得更慢。"
    ],
    [
        "Consistent with what the social-network theorist Clay Shirky has dubbed a society’s penchant for unlocking the “cognitive surplus” embedded in net-based activities, survey data from the China Internet Network Information Center suggest that Chinese netizens log an average of 2.6 hours per day online – a full hour longer than the average 15-49-year-old Chinese citizen spends watching television.",
        "正如网络理论家克莱·舍奇（Clay Shirky）所说，社会具有开启基于网络行为“认知过剩”现象的强烈嗜好，而中国互联网信息中心的调查数据也与该理论不谋而合：中国网民平均每天上网近2. 6个小时，比15~49岁中国人平均每天看电视的时间还多出整整一个小时。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – The euro has brought a balance-of-payments crisis to Europe, just as the gold standard did in the 1920s.",
        "慕尼黑—欧元给欧洲带来了一场收支平衡危机，一如20世纪20年代的金本位。"
    ],
    [
        "Among current United Nations members, countries with large natural resource endowments are also more likely to have a non-democratic regime.",
        "在目前的联合国成员国中，拥有大量自然资源的国家也更为可能是非民主政体。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Obama put his weight behind the complicated ACA.",
        "事实上，奥巴马在背后大力推进了复杂的ACA。"
    ],
    [
        "The late American sociologist Janet Abu-Lughod identified eight overlapping “circuits of trade” between northwest Europe and China that, under the aegis of a Pax Mongolica, flourished between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.",
        "已故的美国社会学家珍妮特·阿布-路高德（Janet Abu-Lughod）认为在西北欧和中国之间存在八个互相重叠的“贸易回路”，这八个贸易回路受蒙古和平（Pax Mongolica）的保护，繁荣于十三和十四世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, in the stark North Korean countryside, the regime has invested almost nothing.",
        "与此同时，朝鲜政权却不舍得在一片荒芜的农村地区投入一分钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the eurozone is on its way toward implementing a banking union, probably followed by a fiscal union, which in turn will lead to a genuine political union that centralizes sovereignty over essential economic policymaking.",
        "如今，欧元区正在走向银行联盟，或许喉头还会有财政联盟，而这反过来会产生真正的政治联盟，将重要经济决策的主权集中化。"
    ],
    [
        "Knowledge, as encapsulated in the textbook and interpreted by the professor, is delivered from above.",
        "蕴藏在教科书中、由编写教授组织的知识是自上而下传递的。"
    ],
    [
        "Re-equilibration: The Party protects its legitimacy, keeps the military subordinate, and manages to put a lid on popular dissent.",
        "再平衡：中共捍卫自身合法性，保持军队的党属性，并设法压制民众的异议。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, Japanese firms must become more globally integrated.",
        "首先，日本企业必须更加融入全球。"
    ],
    [
        "Just about everyone spent above their means in the recent bubble, but middle-class women have a special relationship to debt.",
        "虽然在近年的泡沫经济中，几乎每个人都在以超过其承受能力的水平四处花费，但中产阶级的女性与债务则有着一种更为特殊的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Every year, vitamin A deficiency causes blindness in about a half-million children; some 70% of them die within a year.",
        "每年维生素A缺乏症都要导致大约五十万儿童失明，其中70%会在一年内死去。"
    ],
    [
        "Requiring the government to test the factual basis of its decision to use force is not a shackle to be thrown off, but an incentive for forethought and a psychologically stabilizing support.",
        "要求政府测试动用武力决定的事实依据并不是一个应当抛弃的枷锁，而是鼓励深谋远虑以及在心理上让人安心的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this has been the standard assertion of politicians since the so-called Stern Review commissioned by the British government in 2006.",
        "事实上，从2006年由英国政府委托撰写的所谓斯特恩报告出炉后，这已经成为政要们的标准说法。"
    ],
    [
        "As their number grows, traditional political parties are fading into irrelevance, supplanted by the emergence of two new political blocs.",
        "随着他们的数量不断增加，传统的政党不断衰落，由两个新的政治集团 取而代之。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a decline of two-thirds when expressed as a share of global output.",
        "4%。 以占全球产出比衡量，降幅为三分之二。"
    ],
    [
        "While growth in digital advertising expenditure is surging, at an annual rate of nearly 30%, it still comprises just 8% of India’s total ad spending.",
        "尽管数字广告支出增长迅猛，每年接近30%，但仍然只占印度广告总支出的8%。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the EU should be reaffirmed as an attractive political project.",
        "相反，欧盟应该作为有吸引力的政治工程得到重申。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond being the indispensable power, the US is the interconnected power.",
        "美国不仅是不可或缺的力量，同时也是联系广泛的大国。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, given that the politics and economics of eurozone reform are inseparably linked, fiscal expansion could prove to be as ineffective as efforts by monetary policymakers to foster growth.",
        "否则，由于欧元区改革的政治和经济之间存在不可分割的联系，财政扩张将与货币决策者的努力一样对提振增长毫无效果。"
    ],
    [
        "That outcome should moderate Europe’s inflation concerns.",
        "这种结果可以缓和欧洲对通货膨胀的担心。"
    ],
    [
        "Because construction has occurred with scant regard for the provision of adequate waste disposal and sewage systems, the city’s rivers and canals have become garbage dumps, so choked that they can no longer serve as effective conduits to channel rainwater to the sea.",
        "因为建设施工几乎不考虑设置充分的废物处理和污水处理系统，以至于城市的河道及运河逐渐变成垃圾场，堵塞到根本无法有效充当将雨水排入海洋的管道。"
    ],
    [
        "But to achieve these results, and thereby convince our citizens of the EU’s value, Europe’s decision-making capacity must be strengthened and democratized.",
        "但是要实现这些结果，并因而让我们的公民确信欧盟价值，欧洲的决策能力必须得到加强和民主化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it strikes at the very core of the European project.",
        "事实上，它沉重打击了欧洲计划的核心精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, it ties the fate of these efforts to the existence and effectiveness of a broad Middle East coalition, making clear that though the United States is prepared to lead, it cannot and will not assume the role of global policeman.",
        "第三，它把行动的命运和大中东联盟的建立及其有效性联系在一起，向世人表明美国虽然愿意发挥领导作用，但既不能也不会扮演全球警察。"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently, the proportion of hungry in the Third World has dropped from 50% in 1950 to less than 17% today, while worldwide incomes have increased more than three-fold.",
        "其结果是，第三世界中面临饥荒的人口比例从1950年的50%下降到了今天的17%，而全世界的收入则增加了三倍多。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure for more than a year to make any progress in negotiations with Israel has convinced Abbas and his colleagues to pursue the UN option.",
        "与以色列的谈判在一年多的时间里没有任何进展，这使阿巴斯及其同事相信，只有追求联合国会员国资格才能解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 70% of fiscal expenditure is linked to entitlements, and there is little or no room to increase taxes (total revenue as a share of GDP is already the highest in Latin America).",
        "超70%的财政支出与福利有关，并且增税已无空间（总税收收入占GDP之比已是拉丁美洲最高）。"
    ],
    [
        "The governments of Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and other countries have done the same, and now welcome Japan’s commitment to act with its allies to protect regional security.",
        "印度尼西亚、菲律宾、越南和其他国家也是如此，现在它们都欢迎日本与盟国携手保护地区安全的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the limited number of skilled personnel available to humanitarian agencies, human resources could follow the money.",
        "单单计算人道主义机构中有经验的成员数量，投入人力的数目就快接近这一资金的数目了。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that adjuvant cancer therapy, designed to kill presumed micrometastatic disease, may be missing an important fraction of disseminated cancer cells, some of which may eventually wake up.",
        "这意味着那些专门用于杀灭潜在微转移病症的癌症辅助疗法可能会忽略了一部分重要的弥散性癌症细胞，而这些细胞最终会醒来做恶。"
    ],
    [
        "China sees all of this.",
        "中国看到了这一切。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, gripped by a tremendous banking and debt crisis, is not an attractive destination, and loose monetary policy in the US has produced ultra-low bond yields there.",
        "如今这几大市场死气沉沉，资金就必须另找出路——欧洲不是个好去处，因为银行和债务危机尚未消散；"
    ],
    [
        "If two countries agree to mutual defense, they need to ensure that their cooperation is practiced and perfected.",
        "如果两国一致同意共同防务，就需要确保实际演练并完善他们的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But a closer look reveals that China is not a part of this agenda.",
        "但仔细观察之下就会发现中国并不在这个议程之内。"
    ],
    [
        "But the wave of political repression merely reflects President Mikhail Saakashvili’s desperate effort to cling to power.",
        "但新一轮政治镇压不过反映了米哈伊尔·萨卡什维利(Mikhail Saakashvili)总统想要继续掌权的疯狂努力。"
    ],
    [
        "But now that China’s investment-led boom has run its course, continued economic growth – in China and globally – will depend on urban Chinese consumers.",
        "但随着中国的投资拉动繁荣动力告罄，后续经济增长——不管是中国还是全世界——将取决于中国消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "One can envision three possible scenarios for the global economy in the next three years or so.",
        "可以为未来三年左右的全球经济构想出三种可能的情景。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the technology has led to the development of highly specific diagnostic tests; blockbuster anti-cancer drugs such as Rituxan (rituximab), Erbitux (cetuximab), and Herceptin (trastuzumab); and Avastin (bevacizumab), which is widely used to treat both cancer and diseases of the retina that commonly cause blindness.",
        "美罗华（利妥昔单抗）、爱必妥（西妥昔单抗）和赫赛汀（曲妥单抗）等轰动性抗癌药物； 以及被广泛用于治疗癌症和常常导致失明的视网膜疾病的阿瓦斯丁（贝伐单抗）。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the Fund is working on a new liquidity line to provide resources immediately to strongly performing emerging markets with sound policies and fundamentals.",
        "此外，基金组织正在制定新的流动资金供应，以便向拥有完善的政策和良好基本面、经济增长强劲的新兴市场迅速提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat posed by Europe’s current policy impasse can hardly be overestimated.",
        "欧洲当前政策裹足不前，其所带来的威胁怎么估量都不过分。"
    ],
    [
        "Many observers believe that these exemptions hit the world’s financial system especially hard when Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008.",
        "许多观察者认为，2008年雷曼兄弟倒闭时，这一特权给世界金融系统造成了特别严重的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the emphasis should shift from annual deficits to debt sustainability.",
        "恰恰相反，重点应该从年度赤字转向债务的可持续发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu did, and went on to win the 2013 election.",
        "内塔尼亚胡做到了，并且继续赢得了2013年选举。"
    ],
    [
        "But the difference between global principles and key national interests is often in the eye of the beholder: what the US considers an outrage may be viewed by other countries as a parochial American interest.",
        "但全球原则和关键国家利益之间的差异往往是从旁观者的角度决定的：可能在其他国家看来仅仅因为狭隘的美国利益才激怒了美国。"
    ],
    [
        "The Case for Fiscal Stimulus",
        "财政刺激方案"
    ],
    [
        "But that is the excitement: there are many companies at early stages, all looking for money and partners.",
        "然而这也是令人惊喜的地方：有很多公司都处于起步阶段，他们全都在努力寻找投资或者合作伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "And they clearly find it impossible to comprehend the consequences of what they are saying.",
        "他们显然无法理解他们的厥词的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Little Big Men",
        "平民领袖"
    ],
    [
        "The use and abuse of religious fervor, whether “jihadi” or “Hindu fundamentalist,” are striking at the roots of communal harmony across South Asia.",
        "对宗教热情的利用和滥用，包括“圣战运动”或“印度原教旨主义”，都威胁到了南亚地区社会和谐的根基。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits of euro membership are also clear to many other small economies.",
        "对另一些小经济体而言，欧元区成员资格的好处也很明显。"
    ],
    [
        "What candidates promise on the stump is not always what they do in office.",
        "候选人在巡回演说中的承诺在他们当选后并不一定会兑现。"
    ],
    [
        "Analysts might be looking first at their local circumstances, and then extrapolating from that to their assessments of global institutions.",
        "分析师也许首先要看局部环境，然后将其外推形成他们对全球机构的评估。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the interest rate on government bonds now rises from 1.80% at five years to 2.86% for 10-year bonds and 3.70% for 30-year bonds.",
        "在美国，政府债券利率从五年期的1. 80%上升到十年期的2."
    ],
    [
        "This year, the emerging economies are worried about a tightening of global monetary policy, not the policy loosening that three years ago fueled talk of “currency wars.”",
        "今年，新兴经济体担心的是全球货币政策的紧缩，而不是三年前助长“货币战争”论的政策宽松。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Egypt is the heart, brain, and nerve center of the Arab world.",
        "毕竟，埃及是阿拉伯世界的心脏、大脑和神经中枢。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaria control now faces a period of increasing urgency, as well as renewed hope.",
        "疟疾控制现在面临日益紧迫的形势，同时也有了新的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "This would improve our ability to address global challenges and better our prospects for building a more equitable world.",
        "这可以提高我们应对全球挑战的能力，并且能使我们更好地创建一个更加平等的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an issue of values, inspired by fear.",
        "这是一个由恐惧引发的价值观问题。"
    ],
    [
        "(The Conservatives did as badly as Labour.)",
        "（保守党和工党做的一样糟糕。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, uneven protection of property rights – crony capitalism – means that a small number of businessmen are politically favored.",
        "此外，在财产所有权保护上的不平等——比如说权贵资本主义——意味着有一小部分的企业会得到特殊照顾。"
    ],
    [
        "Even some mainstream political parties have resorted to using anti-Roma rhetoric that would have been inconceivable a decade ago.",
        "就连主流政党中也不乏重拾十年前便已破产的反罗姆言论者。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than relying on sanctions and threats of force, the idea is to underpin long-term prosperity in today’s unstable regions.",
        "他们认为目前的当务之急是巩固动荡地区的长期繁荣，而不能依靠单纯的经济制裁和武力威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, it offers capital another opportunity to harness humanity’s finest instincts to profit maximization, through the commodification of all that is pure and good about the festive season.",
        "另一方面，这给了资本新的利用人性本善实现利润最大化的机会（通过将这些纯粹而良好的节日性质彻底商品化实现）。"
    ],
    [
        "But popular diplomacy alone never forces political leaders to end wars and make peace.",
        "但是仅靠公众外交从未成功迫使政治领导人结束战争，谋求和平。"
    ],
    [
        "To help propel them toward that goal, UNESCO-IHE, with support from the Asian Development Bank, has been working with their governments – as well as the authorities in India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Uzbekistan – to create a pilot program to answer key questions about land and water use.",
        "为了帮助它们实现这一目标，联合国教科文组织水教育学院在亚洲开放银行的支持下，与这些国家的政府——以及印度、印尼、巴基斯坦、斯里兰卡和乌兹别克斯坦当局——合作成立了一个实验性项目解决关于土地和水使用的关键问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Such collaboration has already shown that working across traditional boundaries, making creative use of technology, and developing pragmatic solutions can yield impressive results.",
        "这类合作已经证明，跨越传统工作界限、创造性地使用技术以及开发务实解决方案能够带来令人印象深刻的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "In an era of transplants on demand, there is no way around this dilemma.",
        "在按需移植的时代，根本无法避开这样的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "While there may be security reasons for any future US administration to oppose even a civilian nuclear program, American policymakers also recognize the strategic impact that nuclear energy will have in stabilizing the Iranian regime.",
        "尽管任何一届未来的美国政府都可能出于安全原因反对伊朗的民用核计划，但美国的政策制定者们也应该承认核能对稳定伊朗政权会产生的战略影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Jewish persecution, and the way that Zionism has employed it, has become a model for Palestinian nationalism.",
        "犹太人遭遇的迫害以及锡安主义对这一遭遇的利用已成为巴勒斯坦民族主义的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "But this positive credit cycle is less visible than the doom loop, because it takes a lot less time to cut the number of borrowers and push the economy into a recession than to foster a recovery when credit becomes available again.",
        "但这一正面信贷周期并不像厄运循环那样明确可见，因为减少借贷者数量并推动经济陷入衰退的时间可比在信贷恢复供应时孕育经济复苏要短促得多。"
    ],
    [
        "So where do things stand?",
        "那么事实又是怎样？"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the government-controlled press boasts about new bridges and increased industrial production, while highlighting Egypt’s role in regional affairs, such as the dormant Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the cobbling together of governments in Lebanon.",
        "相反，政府控制的媒体吹嘘新桥梁落成和工业生产增加，同时强调埃及在地区事务中的作用，比方说陷入休眠状态的以巴和平进程以及拼凑在一起的黎巴嫩政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The government, which bore the burden of a large part of its development, sees little or no return.",
        "而承担大部分研发费用的政府却基本得不到回报。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk from defined-benefit pensions used to be offset by two benefits for companies that offered them.",
        "以往提供固定金额养老金的公司具有两项好处可以抵消这种养老金的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "When the sea rose as usual and soaked Canute, he told his courtiers: “Now let all men know how empty is the power of kings.”",
        "海水和往常一样上涨并浸透了克努特，这时他对朝臣们说：“现在，让所有人知道国王的权力是多么空虚。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the precedent that the US set in a 1984 International Court of Justice (ICJ) case filed by Nicaragua still resonates in China, underscoring that might remains right in international relations.",
        "比方说，由美国开创的尼加拉瓜国际法庭案先例在中国仍能引发共鸣，凸显强权依然是国际关系的正确规则。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The horrific Ebola epidemic in at least four West African countries (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria) demands not only an emergency response to halt the outbreak; it also calls for re-thinking some basic assumptions of global public health.",
        "纽约—可怕的埃博拉瘟疫在至少四个西非国家肆虐（几内亚、利比里亚、塞拉利昂和尼日利亚），我们不仅需要紧急响应以阻止瘟疫爆发，还必须反思全球公共健康的一些基本假设。"
    ],
    [
        "The PBOC, he argued, does not pursue a single target.",
        "他指出，人行不追求单一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Mohammed is the most popular name for baby boys in Britain.",
        "穆罕默德成为英国男孩最常见的名字。"
    ],
    [
        "Afterward, more leaflets were dropped, informing villagers, “Your village was bombed because you harbored Vietcong….Your village will be bombed again if you harbor the Vietcong in any way.”",
        "轰炸后空投了更多传单，告诉村民们，“你村遭到轰炸的是因为你们隐藏了越共…如果你们胆敢以任何方式包庇越共，你村将再次遭到轰炸。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "At a meeting in Oslo in August, Incentives for Global Health, a nonprofit organization directed by Aidan Hollis, professor of economics at the University of Calgary, and Thomas Pogge, professor of philosophy and international affairs at Yale, launched a radical new proposal to change the incentives under which corporations are rewarded for developing new medicines. They suggest that governments contribute to a Health Impact Fund that would pay pharmaceutical companies in proportion to the extent to which their products reduce the global burden of disease.",
        "八月在在奥斯陆召开的会议上，全球健康促进，一个由卡尔加利大学经济学教授Aidan Hollis和耶鲁大学哲学和国际事务教授Thomas Pogge领导的非盈利组织，推出了一项激进的新提议以改变药厂开发新药获得回报的体系。 他们建议政府出钱建立一个健康影响基金，这个基金可以按药厂的产品对于减低全球疾病负担所做的贡献，来付钱给药厂。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the United States has never experienced a fourfold increase in stock prices in less than five years, even during the late 1990’s bubble.",
        "事实上，美国股价还从未在不到五年的时间内经历过四倍的增长，即便在20世纪90年代后期的股市泡沫中也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission now has until the end of this month to determine whether France has pursued reform diligently enough to avoid penalties for breaking its pledge to cut its budget deficit to less than 3% of GDP by next year.",
        "现在，欧盟委员会要等到本月底才能确定法国是否足够认真地对待改革，因而可以避免因为没有履行其明年将预算赤字削减至GDP的3%以下的承诺而遭受惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, their inability to reform, combined with rapid population growth and a rising cohort of young people, is placing them under pressure, creating a possibility of explosive change.",
        "结果是专制政权在改革中的无能，加之人口迅速增长和年轻人数量激增，为独裁统治带来了巨大的压力，并使爆发式的变革成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most important is that technological progress in the US requires the labor force to have ever greater skills.",
        "也许最重要的原因是因为美国的技术进步对劳动力技能的要求有了很大提高。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as a comparison with Spain reveals, faster wage growth elsewhere cannot be the entire story.",
        "但是，与西班牙的比较表明，其他地区工资的较快增长并不是故事的全部。"
    ],
    [
        "Today's financiers can choose to be remembered either for the 2008 crisis, over which they presided, or for their creative and resourceful efforts to encourage long-term sustainability.",
        "今天的出资者可以做出选择，要么因为导致2008年危机被人记住； 要么因为创造性地大力助推长期可持续性而被人记住。"
    ],
    [
        "A modern single market should reflect modern needs, and we should concentrate our efforts where they can have most effect.",
        "一个现代的单一市场应该反映现代的需求，我们应该将努力投入到最有成效的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, TFP growth soared to 5-6%, partly owing to the “catching up” process facilitated by China’s adoption of foreign technology and know-how.",
        "这一次，部分因为中国引进国外先进技术及成功实现专业知识的“追赶”，全要素生产率一举飙升至5-6%。"
    ],
    [
        "Their biggest demands – secure jobs, faster growth, low food prices – are not necessarily compatible, and they may require policies that inflict pain.",
        "他们最大的诉求——稳定的工作，更迅速的增长，低食品价格——并不是协调一致的，甚至有些人还要求实施一些错误的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is the largest energy importer in the world, and it would be well served to join the discussion of its energy strategy to a conversation with the world’s main exporters.",
        "欧盟是全世界最大的能源进口国，如果能与主要出口国就能源战略进行探讨无疑是有好处的。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community must take a more holistic view and reinforce a global-response architecture that features a clear division of labor and seamless cooperation among various stakeholders.",
        "国际社会必须采取更加全面的视角，加强全球响应安排，这一安排必须对各利益相关方做出明确的分工和紧密的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The $240 billion fund is small, amounting to only about 1.5% of the region’s GDP.",
        "2400亿美元也相对较少，仅相当于东亚地区GDP总规模的1. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Every country must selfishly use a surge strategy to gain advantage.",
        "各国都必须不顾他人，采取一种突飞猛进的技术来赢得优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Tunisia, the fêted success story of the Arab uprisings, has contributed the largest number of foreign fighters to the Islamic State – an estimated 3,000 (mainly young) people.",
        "阿拉伯暴动的成功典范突尼斯是伊斯兰国海外战士的最大来源——大约贡献了3,000人（大部分是青年）。"
    ],
    [
        "On July 14, France’s national holiday, which this year marked the 225th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, Algerian soldiers paraded down the Champs-Élysées for the first time since Algeria’s war for independence a half-century ago, a moving symbol of historic transcendence.",
        "7月14日是法国国庆节，也是攻占巴士底狱225周年纪念日。 这一点，阿尔及利亚士兵在半个世纪前的阿尔及利亚独立战争后第一次参加了香榭丽舍大街游行，这是历史性超越的活的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "“President Ben Ali is in control of the situation,” some said.",
        "有人说“本阿里总统可以掌控局势”。"
    ],
    [
        "That first war among socialist states shattered the myth of inviolable “fraternal” bonds between the Soviet Union and the captive nations of Eastern Europe.",
        "这场首次发生在社会主义国家之间的战争打破了苏联同其东欧附属国之间所谓牢不可破的“兄弟般的”联盟的神话。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, whereas only a smattering of political leaders and intellectuals advocated legalization in the past, nowadays officials are coming “out of the closet” on drugs in droves.",
        "但是，尽管历史上只有少数政治领导人和知识分子支持合法化，时至今日，在毒品问题上，大量官员正在“出柜”——以前反对合法化者现在认为这一问题值得讨论；"
    ],
    [
        "The Vatican has announced its intention to sign a treaty that includes recognition of a Palestinian state.",
        "梵蒂冈宣布希望签署一份承认巴勒斯坦国的条约。"
    ],
    [
        "But one would be wrong: studies have consistently shown that the rate of return to capital has been more than 10% since the late 1990s.",
        "但这个看法也是错误的，因为有研究显示中国的资产回报率自1990年代以来一直都高于10%。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, there will be no new legislation under the current Congress – and probably not for a long while to come.",
        "在美国，本届国会是不可能产生新立法了——可能在很长时间内都不可能会有。"
    ],
    [
        "Existing proposals include a “Robin Hood” tax on financial transactions, a share of the profits from the EU’s carbon emissions-trading scheme, or a larger take from value-added tax receipts.",
        "现有方案包括对金融交易征收“罗宾汉”税、抽取欧盟碳排放交易机制的一部分利润或更多地从增值税中抽成。"
    ],
    [
        "If a rising tide is lifting all boats, the thinking goes, it doesn’t matter that some may be rising more slowly than others.",
        "这一观点认为，如果潮水让所有船只都倾覆，那么涨潮速度快慢是无关紧要的。"
    ],
    [
        "A policy could also be green if it jump-starts the home economy with only temporary negative spillovers for the foreign economy (the policy will still be good for the foreign economy by eventually boosting the home economy’s demand for imports).",
        "如果一项政策能大大提振国内经济，给外国带来的负面溢出效应只是暂时的，那么也应该获得绿灯（这项政策对外国经济也是有益的，因为最终本国经济的进口需求将得到提振）。"
    ],
    [
        "But it didn’t get there by itself.",
        "但这不是它自身造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "It would also set the right example for the rest of Europe.",
        "而它也将成为值得欧洲其他国家仿效的正确楷模。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, there is no excuse for the outrage, the exaggerated claims for one paper’s influence, and the attempt to use the error to discredit legitimate concerns over high levels of debt (let alone to vilify the authors).",
        "因此，没有理由大做文章，过度渲染一篇论文的影响力，并试图利用其错误质疑对高水平债务的合理担忧（更不用说中伤作者了）。"
    ],
    [
        "Al Qaeda in Yemen has been targeted since the USS Cole was bombed while in the port of Aden in 2000.",
        "科尔号战舰 2000 年在亚丁港遭袭之后，也门的基地组织就已经成为打击目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Asian Development Bank estimates that European banks fund about 9% of total domestic credit in developing Asia – three times the share of financing provided by banks based in the United States.",
        "事实上，亚洲开发银行估计欧洲银行提供了亚洲发展中国家9%的国内信用总量，是美资银行的三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, happiness is achieved through a balanced approach to life by both individuals and societies.",
        "第三，个人和社会对待生活的和谐态度是通往幸福之门的钥匙。"
    ],
    [
        "Georgia’s democracy exists in its head, but not yet in its body: citizens still spurn politics as a dirty pursuit, abandoning the ground to those who should have been retired long ago.",
        "格鲁吉亚的民主存在于它的脑袋里，而不是它的身躯中。 国民把政治视为肮脏的追求而予以唾弃，向那些早就该退休的人退让。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2010, attention was focused on responses to the crisis on the eurozone periphery – Greece, Portugal, and Ireland.",
        "在2010年，焦点集中在希腊，葡萄牙和爱尔兰等欧元区外围国家的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Although his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party commands a 75% majority in the assembly, Thaksin is embattled.",
        "尽管他的泰爱泰党在议会中拥有75％的多数席位，他信仍然四面楚歌。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the government budgeting process must be opened up through both public hearings in the national legislature and public participation via the media.",
        "其次，政府的预算过程必须通过国家立法机构的公开听证和经过媒体的公众参与进行公开。"
    ],
    [
        "More than four decades later, in 2006, Yamanaka discovered a way to trick complex adult cells in mice into regressing to their immature state, forming stem cells.",
        "40多年后，2006年，山中伸弥发现了欺骗复杂的老鼠体细胞使之退化到不成熟状态形成干细胞的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Then one of them, Menachem Begin, was elected Prime Minister of Israel and became a partner in peace with Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat.",
        "而接着，他们中的一员，梅纳赫姆·贝京当选为以色列总理，并成为埃及总统萨达特的和平伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "The key question at this stage is whether Germany will give the ECB the freedom of maneuver needed to carry out this monetary expansion with sufficient boldness.",
        "现阶段的关键问题是德国是否会给予欧洲央行所需要的方便，使其以足够的力度实施货币扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of February, for example, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a spectacle insisting that no bigger financial firewall was needed to protect other eurozone countries from a disorderly Greek default.",
        "比如，2月底，德国总理默克尔做出了令人惊讶的坚持：欧洲不需要加固其金融防火墙来保护其他欧元区国家免受希腊的无序违约。"
    ],
    [
        "The message from both the soccer field and the negotiating room was that there was a quick and easy route to victory, complex issues could be solved by a brilliant argument, and individual superstars were the key to success.",
        "足球场和谈判桌显示可以通过快捷简便的方法取得胜利，精彩的论点能够解决复杂的问题，而巨星个人是能否取得成功的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "The election of the militant and hitherto extra-parliamentary group Hamas in the Palestinian territories reminds us of what democracy cannot achieve.",
        "一直游离在议会之外的好战组织哈马斯在巴勒斯坦地区的当选提醒我们：民主并非无所不能。"
    ],
    [
        "Those doubts have now been laid to rest.",
        "这样的质疑可以休矣。"
    ],
    [
        "At one extreme stands Argentina, with the largest increase in public spending relative to GDP in Latin America (almost ten points).",
        "一个极端的例子是阿根廷，其公共开支相对于GDP占比的大幅增加在拉美国家中首屈一指（几乎达到百分之十）。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of Hensarling’s proposals – even backed, as they now are, by a partisan-sounding document from the House Banking committee and a favorable Wall Street Journal review – are political nonstarters. (They would have to get 60 Senate votes and a presidential signature to pass.)",
        "大多数亨萨林的提议——即便如今得到了一份党派意味浓厚的众议院银行委员会文件和一篇有偏向性的华尔街日报评论文章支持——在政治上都是毫无意义的（这些提案都必须得到参议院60票赞成以及总统签字方能通过），同时也已经被民主党尖锐批评为过于冒险和偏袒银行——大多数提议确实如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a few senior officers with an Islamic bent resisted this straightforward betrayal.",
        "只有少数亲伊斯兰的高层军官抗拒这种赤裸裸的背叛。"
    ],
    [
        "Grillo holds no official position in M5S, which bills itself as a “non-association,” and yet he owns the blog that has been key to the movement’s success, as well as the copyright to its official symbol.",
        "格里洛在M5S中没有正式职位，M5S也自我标榜“不结社”，但他有一个对M5S的成功至关重要的博客，以及M5S官方符号的版权。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that what emerges from the parties’ nominating processes is insight into how the successful candidates answer three big questions.",
        "人们希望从两党提名程序中脱颖而出的是能深刻理解成功候选人如何回答这三大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Farewell to the Neo-Classical Revolution",
        "别了，新古典主义革命"
    ],
    [
        "There are now 20,000 Syrian refugees camped out in the desert awaiting admission to Jordan.",
        "目前在沙漠中露营等候进入约旦的叙利亚难民有20,000人之多。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia and America at the Oscars",
        "奥斯卡上的俄罗斯和美国"
    ],
    [
        "To rationalize the efficacy of this approach, the Fed has rewritten the script on the transmission mechanism of discretionary monetary policy.",
        "为了论证这一办法的功效，美联储还写了自由裁量货币政策转换机制的脚本。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, France’s economic growth is waning not because France has failed to undertake necessary structural reforms, but because European interest rates are too high.",
        "同样地，法国的经济增长衰退并不是因为法国没有能够采取必要的结构性改革，而是因为欧洲的利率太高了。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet practical solutions are at hand, because simple and low-cost technologies can address specific problems.",
        "但我们有着实际的解决办法，因为简单、廉价的技术可以解决很多具体问题。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – “It’s not the euro that’s in danger, but the public finances of individual European countries.”",
        "慕尼黑——“告急的不是欧元，而是某些欧洲国家的公共财政。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the market mechanism is often revolting to behold in emergencies.",
        "实际上，市场机制在危急关头根本无法适用。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the biggest obstacle to the socio-ecological transformation that the world needs is not, in the end, technological; much of what is required, from organic farming to networked mobility systems that don’t rely on private vehicles, is already within reach.",
        "毕竟，社会-生态转型的最大障碍在于世界的需要说到底不是技术上的； 许多需要的条件，从有机农业到不依赖私家车的网络化移动系统，都已经可以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The irony of Trump’s victory is that it was the Republican Party he now leads that pushed for extreme globalization and against the policy frameworks that would have mitigated the trauma associated it.",
        "特朗普获胜的讽刺之处是他现在所领导的共和党正是极端全球化的推手、也是能减轻极端全球化所带来的影响的政策框架的反对者。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – When the democratic revolt in Tunisia successfully ousted the old regime, the world reacted with amazement. Democracy from below in the Arab world?",
        "发自柏林——当突尼斯民主革命成功推翻了旧政权之时，整个世界都为之震惊不已：莫非由下至上的阿拉伯民主时代已经降临了？"
    ],
    [
        "All of this suggests that the economics textbook of 2033 will look very different from the economics textbook of today.",
        "所有这些都表明，2033年的经济学教科书会与今天大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "One big lesson I learned during the struggle to create the International Criminal Court (ICC), and now during the battle for a moratorium on the death penalty, is that it is often better to aim for a realistic result rather than a perfect one.",
        "我在建立国际刑事法庭以及现在暂停死刑的奋斗中所学到的一大的教训就是，很多时候退而求其次往往要好一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Spending a few months in northern Europe while an asylum application is processed is far more attractive than going home to a job that pays a barely livable wage, or to no job at all.",
        "在北欧呆上几个月等待避难申请处理远比回家做一份难以糊口的工作（甚至失业）更有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic sanctions that are hurting Iran’s troubled economy could be eased.",
        "损害了伊朗已经陷入困境的经济的制裁可以被放松。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is a small price to pay. As the saying goes, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”",
        "正如一句谚语所言：“所谓疯子，就是那些不断重复干同一件事，却期望有不同结果的人”。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, although populist policies reduce overall economic welfare, rational voters choose them because they are the price of distinguishing between different types of politicians.",
        "因此，尽管民粹主义政策牺牲整体经济福利，但理性的选民仍会选择它，因为它们是区分不同类型政治家所付出的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that India’s Supreme Court has an exemplary record of interpreting statutes in a way that expands human rights in the country.",
        "好消息是，印度最高法院在通过司法解释扩大人权方面堪称典范。"
    ],
    [
        "Researchers (including at my laboratory) have investigated how the body naturally handles the occasional release of hemoglobin from aging red blood cells and from cells affected by blood diseases, such as hemolytic anemia.",
        "研究者（包括我的实验室）已经研究了肢体如何自然处理偶然从老化红细胞和受血液疾病（如溶血性贫血）影响的细胞中释放出来的血红蛋白。"
    ],
    [
        "While Latin America will not be a priority for either an Obama or McCain administration, continuing the United States’ neglect of the last seven years is no longer viable.",
        "虽然拉丁美洲对不管是奥巴马政府还是麦凯恩政府来说，都不是首要任务，但是，美国政府继续过去七年来对拉丁美洲的忽略态度不再可行了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, to implement this shift, governments must ensure that all people have guaranteed access to land and potable water, and they need to create political frameworks to promote ecologically and socially just agricultural models – which, by definition, excludes industrial agriculture.",
        "但是，要实施这一变革，政府必须确保所有人都确定能够获得土地和饮用水，并且需要建立政治框架促进生态和社会平等的农业模式——顾名思义，就是要排除工业农业。"
    ],
    [
        "High-level meetings in Addis Ababa and Paris later this year offer the opportunity to create synergies between the fight against climate change and financing for development and infrastructure.",
        "今年晚些时候在亚的斯亚贝巴和巴黎的高规格会议提供了让对抗气候变化和为发展和基础设施提供融资两个方面形成协同效应的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "A 5% cap on the tax-expenditure benefits would raise only $75 billion in 2013, about 0.5% of GDP; but the cap could be reduced from 5% to 2% over the next few years, raising substantially more revenue when the economy is stronger.",
        "5%的收入支出收益限制将在2013年形成750亿美元的额外收入，约相当于GDP的1%； 但该限制可以在未来几年里降至2%，在经济更加坚挺时形成多得多的收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, even in those states where there is full recourse, so that the homeowner remains liable for the full amount of the mortgage loan (that is, the difference between the balance due and the value recovered by selling the home), America’s procedures for personal bankruptcy offer a relatively quick solution.",
        "此外，即使在有完全追索权的州——因此屋主仍有义务偿还所有按揭贷款，即剩余贷款减去由卖方所得所覆盖的债务——美国个人破产程序也提供了相对快速的解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Why didn’t it happen sooner?",
        "为什么这来的这么晚？"
    ],
    [
        "The report’s recommendation for an international conference in the style of the Madrid peace conference is not only a timely indication of the linkage between the Israeli-Arab conflict and the region’s other troubles; it is also a long overdue reminder that bilateral negotiations between the parties can not produce an agreement.",
        "该报告建议仿效马德里和平会议的形式召开一次国际会议，这不仅适时地指出了阿以冲突和该地区其它问题之间的联系； 它同时也在提醒我们注意一个早已不争的事实：双边谈判不能达成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Puerto Rico is covered by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and must pay accordingly, even though the island’s doctors are compensated at a lower rate than those on the mainland (and the Puerto Rican government must bear much of the cost). The same is true of some other welfare payments.",
        "此外，即使岛上的医生相比美国大陆需要补贴的费率更低（波多黎各政府必须承担大部分的成本)，波多黎各处于可承受医疗法案的覆盖之下并必须支付相应的费用，其他福利也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The “felonies” of which Greenspan stands accused are the other two charges: that he should have done more to stop the stock market bubble of the late 1990’s, and that he should have done more to stop the housing bubble of the early 2000’s.",
        "对于格林斯潘的两项“重罪”指控是：他本应该更努力地制止1990年代的股市泡沫和本世纪初的房地产泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly two-thirds of the expected growth would come from increased productivity, because businesses, financial-service providers, and government organizations would be able to operate much more efficiently if they did not have to rely on cash and paper recordkeeping.",
        "预期增长的近2/3或将来自生产率的提高，因为如果企业、金融服务提供商和政府机构不必依赖现金和书面记录来进行日常运作，它们的运营效率将大大提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Byrnes’ address was short on detail but long on symbolism, a “Speech of Hope” for Greece does not have to be technical.",
        "正如拜恩斯的演讲不纠结于细节而是强调象征意义，希腊的《希望的演讲》也不必具有很强的技术性。"
    ],
    [
        "But, to be honest, my focus is on the other 364 days of the year.",
        "但说实话，我更关注一年中其他364天。"
    ],
    [
        "Starting on 25 October 1933, Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau, his acting Secretary of the Treasury, and Jesse Jones, head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, met every morning in Roosevelt’s bedroom to set the price of gold.",
        "从1933年10月25日开始，亨利·摩根索（美国财政部代理部长），杰西·琼斯（复兴银行公司主席）都会一早来到罗斯福的卧室，和总统共商黄金价格。 而他们的某些决策方式则近乎荒谬：比如说某天决定将买价提高0."
    ],
    [
        "In the grip of two lost decades and counting, this could be Japan’s last chance.",
        "站在失去的二十年的基础上推算，这也许是日本最后的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The problems created by this approach will be compounded by the unavoidable conflicts of interest with monetary policy implied by the ECB’s assumption of its new financial-stability and banking-supervision roles.",
        "欧洲央行认为它应该扮演新的金融稳定和银行监督者角色，据此采取的货币政策所带来的不可避免的利益冲突将让这一方针所造成的问题更加复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Brexit was a negative surprise, the spontaneous response to it is a positive one.",
        "正如英国退出是一次负面意外，对英国退出的自发反应则是一次正面意外。"
    ],
    [
        "The absolutist line – let complete freedom of expression prevail – crumbles in the face of uncomfortable examples.",
        "绝对论路线¾推行彻底的言论自由¾在令人不快的例证面前失去了根基。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s successes have deep roots in governmental capacity and its people’s skills, reflecting decades of investment and centuries of history dating back to Ottoman times.",
        "土耳其的成功反映出数十年投资和可以追溯到奥斯曼帝国时代的数百年历史，并深深扎根于政府及普通民众所拥有的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk of balance-sheet losses for the SNB, with its euro-heavy portfolio, may be greater now that the ECB has embarked on quantitative easing.",
        "持有大量欧元的SNB可能出现资产负债表损失，这一风险在欧洲央行采取量化宽松的情况下也许更大。"
    ],
    [
        "After winning the presidency, Chen could have risen above theatrics by focusing on two Taiwanese strengths: its economy and its unbroken humanist Chinese cultural tradition.",
        "在赢得总统选举后，陈本可以依靠集中力量关注台湾的两个强项，也就是它的经济和它未遭到破坏的人文主义的中国文化传统来提升他的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "At any given moment, some countries may have voted for radical parties, while others have not (or simply have not held elections).",
        "在任一给定时刻，一些国家可能投票给激进政党，而其他国家则否（或根本没有举行选举）。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason was that “economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking math, for truth.” They purveyed an “idealized vision of an economy in which rational individuals interact in perfect markets.”",
        "打得最为激烈的两派代表人物如下：一方是新凯恩斯主义的领军人，普林斯顿大学的保罗·克鲁格曼，一方是新古典主义的首领，芝加哥大学的约翰·科克伦。"
    ],
    [
        "Food or Fuel?",
        "食品还是石油？"
    ],
    [
        "Ms. Europe or Frau Germania?",
        "欧洲夫人还是德国妇女？"
    ],
    [
        "The gap is reflected in the World Value Survey (WVS), a global opinion poll that allows for the comparison of a broad range of values in different countries.",
        "差距反映在世界价值调查（WVS）中。 WVS是一项全球观点调查，可用来比较不同国家的各种价值。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a slight misnomer: the most credible bipartisan proposal on the table takes a much-modernized approach to distinguishing and making more transparent different kinds of finance activities.",
        "不过这有点用词不当：当前摆在谈判桌上的最靠谱两党提案需要一个更现代化的方式来区分和厘清不同类型的金融活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The study showed which tests were able to predict the outcome most accurately decades ahead of onset.",
        "研究表明了那些测试可以在症状出现前几十年最准确地预测结果。"
    ],
    [
        "It is inconceivable that a country in such deep distress could meet the conditions for euro adoption – inflation within 2% of the eurozone average and a stable exchange rate for two years – between now and the end of the decade.",
        "要让一个陷入如此深度危机的国家在从现在到2020年间满足采用欧元的条件——两年内通货膨胀限制在欧元区平均水平2%之内并且汇率保持稳定——是无法想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate, in other words, was as confused and confusing as it is today.",
        "换句话说，类似的争论不但糊弄了前人，也令今人迷惑不已。"
    ],
    [
        "Many women said something like this: “When I wear Western clothes, men stare at me, objectify me, or I am always measuring myself against the standards of models in magazines, which are hard to live up to – and even harder as you get older, not to mention how tiring it can be to be on display all the time.",
        "许多妇女说了诸如以下的话：“当我穿西式服装时，男人们瞪眼看我，把我当成一件物品，或我自己总是以杂志上模特的标准要求自己，但那些标准是难以达到的，而且年纪越大就越不可能达到，更不用说一直处以一种被展示的状态中是多么令人疲惫。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Hope and danger collided at the recently concluded National People’s Congress in Beijing.",
        "北京－最近在北京结束的全国人民代表大会，充满了希望和危险的碰撞。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the main short-term cost – financial-system disruption – has already materialized in Greece: banks and the stock market have been shut down, and capital controls have been imposed.",
        "毕竟，主要短期成本——金融体系动荡——在希腊已是既成事实：银行和股市关门大吉，资本管制也开始实施。"
    ],
    [
        "United, American, and British Airways all know my travel patterns on their airlines, and help me manage both my past trips (and related rewards) and my future reservations.",
        "联合航空、美航和英航都了解我乘坐其航班的旅行模式，协助我管理过去的出行（及相关奖励）和今后的订票操作。"
    ],
    [
        "But you knew that already.",
        "但这一点你早就已经知道了。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1996, the Clinton-Hashimoto Declaration stated that the US-Japan security alliance was the foundation for stability that would allow growing prosperity in post-Cold War East Asia.",
        "1996年，克林顿－桥本声明提出美日安全同盟为保障后冷战时期东亚日渐繁荣起到了稳定基石的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The division of powers between the EU bureaucracy and member states is governed by the ambiguous principle – borrowed from Catholic social teaching – of “subsidiarity”: decisions should be made at the “lowest” or least centralized level of “competent authority.”",
        "欧盟官僚机构和成员国之间权力的划分原则也是极为模糊——这是从天主教社会教学经验中借鉴而来——的“权力下放”：决策本应在的“最低”或集权程度最小层面上的 “主管当局”中作出。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, we can support informal activities, such as waste recycling, that give low-skill young people a chance to earn money.",
        "比方说，我们可以支持废品回收等非正式活动，让低技术年轻人也可以得到赚钱的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "I felt a prodigious, restless energy that I suspected he could not turn off if he wanted to. Soon after I began to recount my observations, he took me to a map of Vietnam and asked me to locate the areas of destruction.",
        "我感觉到一种奇妙、躁动的活力，我怀疑即使他着意掩盖也掩盖不住。 不久后我就开始重新审视自己的观察，他把我带到一份越南地图前，要我标出遭到破坏的区域。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Prime Minister Michel Rocard did not mince words about Sarkozy’s recent proposals to strip foreign-born French nationals of their citizenship if convicted of threatening the life of a police officer, practicing polygamy, or female “circumcision.” “One has not seen such measures since the Vichy regime or since the Nazis,” Rocard declared.",
        "对于萨科齐最近的提议——如果一个外国出生的法国公民威胁警察的生命，实行一夫多妻制，或者施行妇女“割礼”，那么就将被剥夺公民身份——前总理米歇尔·罗卡尔毫不掩饰自己的厌恶：“自从维希政府或纳粹统治以来都没见过这样的手段”。"
    ],
    [
        "Wouldn’t he enjoy the same state of grace enjoyed by recent vice presidents who entered the Oval Office under exceptional circumstances (Lyndon Johnson after Kennedy; Gerald Ford after Nixon)?",
        "他难道不会享受在特殊情况下入主椭圆形办公室的近期副总统（林登·约翰逊接替肯尼迪； 杰拉尔德·福特接替尼克松）所享有的同样恩惠？"
    ],
    [
        "On trade, Romney promises to launch a trade war with China, and to declare it a currency manipulator on Day One – a promise that gives him little wiggle room.",
        "在贸易方面，罗姆尼许诺要跟中国打一场贸易战，并在上任第一天就宣布其为汇率操纵国——这把他逼到了墙角。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the second half of 2011, the eurozone-based parent banks that dominate emerging Europe’s banking sector came under renewed pressure to deleverage.",
        "但是，在2011年下半年，主宰新兴欧洲银行部门的欧元区母银行感到了去杠杆化的新压力。"
    ],
    [
        "That decision was, it seems, entirely political.",
        "看起来，这一决定完全是政治性的。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1918, Wilson’s popularity soared – and not just in China – following an address to Congress calling for national “self-determination.”",
        "1918年，威尔逊的受欢迎程度大增——不仅是在中国——因为他在国会的演讲中呼吁民族“自决”。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, predictions for the United States – where household deleveraging continues to constrain economic growth – have fallen short only modestly.",
        "结果，对美国——家庭去杠杆过程仍在约束经济增长——的预测与实际只是略有不同。 2010年4月的报告预测2011—2013年间的年增长率约为2."
    ],
    [
        "Many have public pension funds of substantial magnitude, consisting of diversified portfolios of assets.",
        "很多国家都有规模庞大的公共养老基金，并由多元化投资组合构成。"
    ],
    [
        "The second insight from the 2013 China Development Forum is the new government’s focus on strengthening the social safety net as a pillar of a modern consumer society.",
        "2013年中国发展论坛的第二项观点是新政府重点强化社会安全网作为现代消费社会的支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of having an econometrician do the learning in a centralized manner and inform everybody about the results of the experiment, it is the teachers who are doing the learning in a decentralized manner and informing the center of what they found.",
        "该方法不需要计量经济学家用集中化方法做研究然后向所有人公布实验结果，而是让教师以分散地方方式做研究，向中心报告他们的发现。"
    ],
    [
        "Residual traces of totalitarian thinking can also be found in the hostility to former dissidents like Adam Michnik or Václav Havel, both of whom argued that the new democracies should not exploit resentments or seek revenge, as the totalitarian state did, but instead build a new national consensus to structure and empower a genuine civil society.",
        "极权主义思维的残留痕迹依然可以在对亚当·米利尼克或瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔等前持不同政见者的敌意上看到，他们两人都主张新的民主政府不应该像极权主义国家那样制造怨恨或寻求报复，而是应该努力使整个国家一致投入到建设真正的文明社会中来。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Two Futures",
        "欧洲的两个未来"
    ],
    [
        "A stronger European identity is the soundest basis for creating the more multi-cultural society that demographers regard as inevitable.",
        "一种更强烈的欧洲认同感是创造多文化社会的最坚实基础。 这样的社会在人口统计学家们看来是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "By the same token, our mental image of the multigenerational extended family needs to include those in the West.",
        "出于同样原因，我们对大家庭的形象认识也必须包含来自西方的大家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "The first task is already being tackled.",
        "第一项任务已在解决之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Can China Beat Deflation?",
        "中国能战胜通缩吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The participating companies decided that it was in their collective interest to create a single national platform for mobile payments, and they worked with the government and four telecommunications companies to construct one.",
        "参与公司认定，建立一个单一的全国移动支付平台有利于它们的集体利益，并与政府和四家通讯公司合作构建了一个这样的平台。"
    ],
    [
        "Building a more stable, sustainable future requires getting policies, prices, and incentives right.",
        "建立更稳定、更可持续的未来，需要理顺政策、价格和激励机制的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as “the 1930s and 1940s witnessed little political bloodletting in Latin America,” in Díaz-Alejandro’s words, the same is largely true today.",
        "正如“20世纪30和40年代在拉丁美洲鲜有政治流血，”（迪亚兹-亚历杭德罗语），今天大体也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the health-care industry could work with governments to offer health-enhancing services – such as remote patient monitoring, health apps, and patient-engagement tools – in addition to medications.",
        "举例来讲，医疗保健行业可以与政府合作提供健康促进服务——如远程病人监控、健康程序和患者求诊工具——当然还有药物治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "Enhanced regional control would contribute to better information-sharing and decision-making as well, implying that the IMF-linked portion of CMIM crisis lending could be reduced in step with the strengthening of AMRO’s capacity and performance.",
        "强化的区域控制还将有利于更好地信息分享和决策，暗示着清迈协议的危机借款中与国际货币基金组织相关的部分能在增强经济研究室能力和表现的同时得到削减。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there is an acute risk that the power vacuum created in Iraq will fuse the Israeli-Arab conflict, Iraq, and Afghanistan into one regional mega-crisis.",
        "不仅如此，伊拉克的权力真空使得以巴冲突、伊拉克和阿富汗冲突演变成为大规模地区冲突的危险已经迫在眉睫。"
    ],
    [
        "In the run-up to that meeting, governments worldwide should note one critical, but often overlooked, fact: the single biggest driver of environmental degradation and resource stress today is our changing diet – a diet that is not particularly conducive to a healthy life, either.",
        "在此次会议的预备阶段，世界各国政府应该注意一个关键、但却往往被忽视的事实：今天环境恶化和资源紧张的唯一最大推动力就是人类正在变化的饮食习惯——而且这种饮食习惯对健康生活也不太有利。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, it is important to note that whereas formal rules can be altered quickly, informal cultural norms are difficult to change in the short run.",
        "其中的一个关键是需要清楚地认识到：正式规则容易迅速改变，但文化与潜规则往往难以在短期改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar to the 1967 experiments, the infectious RNA was synthesized enzymatically.",
        "与1967年的那个研究相类似的是，这个具有传染性的RNA也是在酶的作用下合成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Someone will need to ensure that the AI service’s translations are accurate and reliable.",
        "需要人来确保AI服务的解读准确且可靠。"
    ],
    [
        "But instead of implementing policies aimed at realizing that objective, governments continue not only to subsidize the fossil-fuel industry, but also to use scarce public resources to find new reserves.",
        "但各国不但没有落实旨在实现上述目标的政策，反而继续在补贴化石燃料工业的同时，利用稀缺的公共资源探寻新的储量。"
    ],
    [
        "Other catastrophic risks include natural epidemics (the 1918-1919 Spanish influenza killed between 20 million and 40 million people), nuclear or biological attacks by terrorists, certain types of lab accidents, and abrupt global warming.",
        "其他灾难性风险包括天然流行病（1918年到1919年的西班牙流感夺去大约2000万到4000万人的生命），恐怖分子发动核子或者生物攻击，某些种类的实验室事故以及突发的全球温室效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Over and over again, the same story plays out: a local power-broker is willing, even eager, to support the new US-backed government, only to be denounced as a Taliban member by a fellow Afghan – typically for local political or personal reasons – to unwitting American troops.",
        "同样的故事一次又一次上演：当地的权力掮客愿意、甚至迫不及待地支持以美国人为后台的新政府，目的仅仅是被阿富汗同胞在毫不知情的美军面前指责为加入塔利班——他们往往出于地方政治或个人原因才会这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "The crack in the global consensus around the prohibitionist approach is widening.",
        "全球各国对于封堵策略的共识也在逐步分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidence from El Salvador would appear to bear this point out: the Salvadoran police are widely regarded as stronger and more efficient, but crime rates remain roughly on a par with Guatemala.",
        "从萨尔瓦多搜集的证据似乎能够证实这种说法：人们普遍认为萨尔瓦多警方更强大也更高效，但这个国家的犯罪率大致和危地马拉持平。"
    ],
    [
        "Bo behaved more like an American politician.",
        "而在这一点上薄熙来则表现得像一个美国政治家。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, it would not be difficult to win support for improving education in the ethical aspects of scientific research.",
        "比如，赢得对改善科学研究道德的教育的支持绝非难事。"
    ],
    [
        "Where adaptation to ruthless international competition and rapid technological change calls for flexibility and individual responsibility, the dominant culture in France continues to be one of assistance and entitlement.",
        "尽管为了适应无情的国际竞争和飞快的技术发展需要变通和个人责任感，但法国的主流文化仍然讲究援助与权利。"
    ],
    [
        "For the coming 2-3 years, however, particularly in Europe, the need for deleveraging, the costs of widespread joblessness, and the risk of social collapse make the kind of temporary unemployment target announced by the Fed highly desirable.",
        "此外，货币政策不可能长期代替结构性改革和可持续预算。 长期零真实利率会带来资产泡沫、资源配置不当和意料之外的收入不平等等风险，最近的历史（不仅仅是美国和日本）证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, it was only through the use of the Freedom of Information Act that the dramatic photographs of the coffins of US soldiers coming home were finally made public.",
        "与此相似，只有适用了《信息自由法》，装有美国士兵遗体的棺木运抵国内的戏剧性照片才被公之于众。"
    ],
    [
        "It has become fashionable to claim that the nation state has lost its place.",
        "民族国家已经风光不再成了一种时髦的论调。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the starting point of our interactions with one another within our communities and on a global basis.",
        "我们在社区和全球范围内相互交流的出发点盖源于此。"
    ],
    [
        "Big data and advanced analytics are another technology-driven game changer for US growth.",
        "大数据和先进分析法是美国增长的有一个技术推动型局面改变因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, somebody will replace Flake in the Senate.",
        "无论是哪一种，都会有人取代弗莱克的参议院席位。"
    ],
    [
        "While this first meeting resulted in nothing more than declarations of intent, it still marks a historic turning point.",
        "虽然这第一次会议的结果只是发表了意向声明，但它仍然是一个历史性的转折点。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet even that is uncertain: before Beslan, the response to terrorist attacks in Ingushetia and Chechnya consisted of efforts to form additional traditional military divisions.",
        "但这仅有的一点好处也仍然飘忽不定：别斯兰惨案发生前，车臣和印古什恐怖袭击的应对措施中就包含了增加传统军事单位的数量。"
    ],
    [
        "But mayors are also the most knowledgeable about communication links within their communities, and are thus the most capable of organizing effective partnerships to address and resolve local issues.",
        "但是，市长们也对其社区内的沟通管道最为了解，因此也就最为有力地组织有效的合作伙伴来处理和解决当地的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, by historical standards, the private-investment recovery is running late.",
        "类似地，从历史标准看，私人投资的复苏也可谓姗姗来迟。"
    ],
    [
        "It is little wonder that corporations and investors have been happy.",
        "公司和投资者如此高兴，这有些奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "The result will be further deterioration of America’s net investment position, which the IMF has projected will reach -63% of GDP by 2021.",
        "结果是美国净跨境投资头寸将进一步恶化，IMF预计到2021年将达到GDP的-63%。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany has been willing to provide emergency finance to debt-strapped eurozone members like Greece on the condition that they “put their houses in order” – cut social spending, sell off state assets, and take other steps to make themselves more competitive.",
        "德国一直愿意为希腊等陷入债务危机的欧元区成员国提供紧急融资，条件是它们要“打扫好房子”——即削减社会支出、出售国家资产、采取其他措施加强竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Because this sequence is for all students, what will be retained in the future are the stories and, most importantly, a scientific way of thinking.",
        "因为这种学习顺序是适用于所有学生的，将来他们能记住的是那些故事，更重要的是，科学的思考方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the strength and depth of America’s alliances within the Asia-Pacific region, tension between US and Chinese military forces has risen.",
        "而美国与亚太地区有着深厚的盟友关系，因此美中之间的军事关系日渐紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, as the IMF has pointed out in its World Economic Outlook, these flows threaten to inflate asset bubbles, make it harder for countries to pursue an independent monetary policy, and trigger currency appreciation and associated losses in export competitiveness.",
        "事实上，IMF在其《世界经济展望》中指出，这类资本流动容易吹起资产泡沫，破坏货币政策的独立性，触发货币升值过程并导致出口竞争力的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF is charging a much higher interest rate (up to 3.9%) than the Europeans (slightly above 1%, on average), largely because it has surcharges of up to 300 basis points on its own funding costs, compared to less than 50 basis points for the European lenders.",
        "国际货币基金组织所收取的利率（达3. 9％）比其他欧洲债权人（平均略高于1％），主要是因为它还要在其自身融资成本的基础上收取多达300个基点的附加费，而欧洲债权人的标准则不足50个基点。"
    ],
    [
        "Islam Hadhari tries to project the idea that UMNO’s materialism and nationalism do not contradict Islam.",
        "“伊斯兰文明社会”力图传播这样一个理念，那就是马来民族统一机构推行的唯物主义和民族主义与伊斯兰教没有矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, Abe – whose efforts to rescue Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea fueled his political rise – seems to recognize the need for change.",
        "幸运的是，安倍——他因为解救被朝鲜诱拐的日本公民的努力而获得了政治提升——认为这一点需要改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether Russians live under monarchy, communism, Yeltsin's cowboy market economy or Putin's supposed dictatorship of law, the result is always the same - the system despises its citizens, eliciting an equal and opposite reaction of derision and distrust.",
        "无论俄罗斯是君主专制、共产主义，叶利钦的牛仔市场经济，还是普京所谓的法律专政，结果都是一样的――制度鄙视公民，从而在国民中引发了与之对等的嘲笑和缺乏信任。"
    ],
    [
        "The Changing Mood on Migration",
        "改变中的移民观"
    ],
    [
        "Given Francis’s long record of friendship with Jews, and his understanding of their religion and culture, no Israeli politician can possibly condemn him as an anti-Semite.",
        "方济各与犹太人关系向来友好，并且十分理解 犹太人的宗教和文化，因此没有以色列政客可以指责他反犹。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, through his flip-flops, and Kim Jong Il, with his renewed nuclear blackmail, both seem determined to see relations deteriorate.",
        "韩国总统李明博接连的逆转行为，加上金正日重拾核讹诈，两国关系由此恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "But if there were, what would it say about the FSB’s performance so far, under the leadership of Mario Draghi and then of Mark Carney, each of whom did the job in his spare time, while running important central banks?",
        "但如果有的话，对于金融稳定委员会到目前为止在马里奥·德拉吉（Mario Draghi）和马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）的先后领导下（两人都是在业余时间担任这一职务的，他们的主业是管理重要央行）的表现，它会做出什么评价呢？"
    ],
    [
        "All that must change.",
        "所有这一切都必须改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets seem to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel for the economy and for the battered profits of corporations and financial firms.",
        "市场似乎相信受到巨大影响的企业和金融公司利润在历尽艰辛之后终会得到恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the consumption of fast food can make an implicit statement.",
        "甚至连消费快餐也可以有隐含的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Monopolists and dominant firms, like Microsoft, can actually suppress innovation.",
        "垄断者和主导且——如微软等——实际上可能抑制创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the oil market’s size, speculation can move prices because of the inelasticity of demand and supply.",
        "尽管石油市场的规模很大，但是由于需求和供应的刚性，投机就可以改变价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Judging from the available data, the “wage premium” for workers in occupations that require high levels of education has been roughly constant in Europe over the last decade.",
        "从现有数据来看，高学历岗位工人的“工资溢价”过去10年来在欧洲其实从未改变过。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the example of Mongolia, where pastoralists can purchase private insurance to protect against the loss of herds from drought, microcredit programs could be established to insure pastoralists against similar risks and thus provide funds for restocking after a disaster.",
        "该国的游牧民可以购买私人保险保护因干旱受到的家畜损失。 类似地，可以通过建设微金融确保游牧民抵抗这类风险，从而提供资金实施灾后重建。"
    ],
    [
        "Mauritius shows the path ahead.",
        "毛里求斯就是很好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the most recent debates failed to achieve that goal.",
        "不幸的是，最近的电视辩论并没有达到这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "It has brought great benefits to our economies.",
        "这种独立性给我们的经济带来了巨大的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The State Council, seeking to boost the country’s already-large hydropower capacity by 120 gigawatts, has identified 54 new dams — in addition to the ones currently under construction — as “key construction projects” in the revised energy-sector plan up to 2015.",
        "中国国务院意在将中国已经很大的水电发电能力再增加120G瓦，并挑选了54做新坝——不含目前已经开工的大坝——纳入新版2015年能源规划的“重点建设工程”。"
    ],
    [
        "When the European Union last year considered lifting its symbolic arms embargo against China, none of the governments driving the proposal bothered to consider that this, too, would be symbolic, sending a message all over Asia that Europe was putting its political weight behind Chinese regional policies.",
        "欧盟去年审议撤销已经只有象征意义的对华武器禁运时，推动这项提案的那些政府根本就没有考虑到这一举措本身的象征意义，撤销武器禁运等于向亚洲各国宣布欧洲支持中国推行的地区政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But Rohingya Islamist militancy continued to thrive, with mujahedeen attacks occurring intermittently.",
        "但罗兴亚伊斯兰军人势力不减，圣战袭击时常发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Arab states don’t want to help their worst enemy. Why should anyone else?",
        "阿拉伯国家都不愿意帮助他们最坏的敌人，其他人为什么要这样做呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the adult illiteracy rate in Somalia is 63%, and 39% in Nigeria; in South Sudan, more girls die during childbirth than complete primary school.",
        "事实上，索马里成人文盲率为63%，尼日利亚为39%，而在南苏丹，完成小学教育的女孩数量还不及死于分娩的女孩数量。"
    ],
    [
        "In setting a country’s GDP target, the first thing to understand is the economy’s potential growth rate: the maximum pace of expansion that can be attained, assuming favorable conditions, internally and externally, without endangering the stability and sustainability of future growth.",
        "在制定一国GDP目标时，首先要明白经济的潜在增长率，即假设内部和外部条件有利、未来增长稳定性与可持续性不会受到威胁的情况下的最快扩张速度。"
    ],
    [
        "And I recall when the Four Seasons, Ritz Carltons, and St. Regises of this world competed with one another – not with Airbnb.",
        "我也记得四季、丽兹卡尔顿、圣瑞吉斯等酒店彼此竞争——而不是和Airbnb竞争——的日子。"
    ],
    [
        "Unreliable or unavailable energy is a problem in much of Africa and the Indian sub-continent, as well as some other parts of Asia.",
        "非洲及印度次大陆大部分地区、以及亚洲部分地区的问题是无法确保能源供应。"
    ],
    [
        "In its simplest form, the securities could be shares in GDP.",
        "简而言之，这些证券可以是GDP的股份。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In addition to its many other troubles, Ukraine now finds itself in a showdown with its creditors.",
        "发自伦敦——除了自身众多问题之外，乌克兰如今也到了跟其债权人摊牌的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a full decade after World War II, when the famous economist John Kenneth Galbraith opined that the world might experience another depression, markets went into a tizzy.",
        "即使在二战结束整整十年后，著名经济学家加尔布雷斯（John Kenneth Galbraith）预测世界可能经历又一场萧条，市场应声慌乱。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, recent research suggests four key policy areas in which governments should consider intervening.",
        "特别是最近的研究表明，政府应该考虑在以下四个关键政策领域进行干预。"
    ],
    [
        "In India, vigils making common cause with the Chibok girls were led by Bachpan Bachao Andolan, which every day rescues children from trafficking and slave labor.",
        "在印度，奇布克（Chibok）女孩在Bachpan Bachao Andolan组织的领导下日夜祈福。 Bachpan Bachao Andolan组织每天都在挽救被贩卖和沦为奴工的儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "He was, of course, right in his judgment that the only way to prevent any modern industrial war from becoming a destructive tragedy for all was to quickly conclude a ceasefire.",
        "安格尔认为阻止现代工业战争变成毁灭性人类悲剧的唯一方法是尽早实现停火，这种观点的正确性勿庸置疑。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is all the more important to comprehend the significance of these changes for the future of Israel, the region, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.",
        "因此，理解这些变化对于以色列、中东地区和巴以冲突未来的意义也就更为重要了。"
    ],
    [
        "The grand coalition that he forged, against all odds, upon his return to power in 1979 was essential to bringing about the economic transformation that followed.",
        "他排除万难在1979年重掌权力后所构建的广泛联盟是随后发生的经济转型的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, negative policy rates may hurt bank profitability and thus banks’ willingness to extend credit.",
        "事实上，负面的政策利率可能会损害银行盈利并挫伤其发放贷款的积极性。"
    ],
    [
        "The electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing and the Salafi parties, which together won more than 70% of the parliamentary seats, will give them strong influence over the transitional period and in drafting the constitution.",
        "穆斯林兄弟会的政治派和萨拉菲各派在选举中获胜，总共获得了议会中70%的席位，这将在过渡阶段给予他们强大的影响力并制定宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "But Trump regards such questions as essentially moot.",
        "但特朗普认为这些问题根本没有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – Those who oppose Western rapprochement with Kazakhstan cite the country’s lack of political and human rights.",
        "布鲁塞尔--那些反对与哈萨克斯坦和好的人指出该国缺乏政治权利和人权。"
    ],
    [
        "And these troops remained in the Kingdom until the mid-1980’s.",
        "这批军队在沙特王国一直呆到20世纪80年代中期。"
    ],
    [
        "Effective disclosure will hence be a key part of any new framework.",
        "因此，有效的披露是新框架的关键部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists around the world have condemned that target as punitive, because aiming for it will inevitably result in a deeper downturn.",
        "全世界经济学家都认为这一目标严苛得离谱，因为这必然会导致更深度得衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas has put pressure on all resistance groups in Gaza to refrain from provoking Israel.",
        "哈马斯已对加沙地带的所有抵抗组织施压，要求它们避免刺激以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Kuroda later clarified, Japan’s monetary policymakers do not seek to predict, much less control, exchange-rate movements.",
        "但是，黑田随后澄清，日本货币决策者不会预测，更不会控制汇率波动。"
    ],
    [
        "For progressive theologians like Hans Küng, he was and is therefore a force of anti-modernism, even counter-enlightenment.",
        "对一些激进的理论家诸如Hans Küng来说，约翰·保罗教皇无论是过去还是现在都代表了一股反现代、甚至反对启蒙教化的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Efficiency doesn’t reduce consumption; it increases it.",
        "效率无法降低消费，相反却起到提高消费的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Skeptics point out that we have a hard time delivering new tools to the people who need them.",
        "悲观派指出，我们将面临难以把新工具交给需要它们的人的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is likely that one day we will know much more about how economies work – or fail to work – by understanding better the physical structures that underlie brain functioning.",
        "但是，终有一天，我们将通过更好地理解大脑功能的生理结构基础来更好地了解经济如何起作用（或如何未起作用）。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Modi will not have to compromise with the other national or regional parties to pursue his legislative agenda.",
        "因此，莫迪不需要与其他全国或地区政党妥协便可以追求其立法日程。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, public hearings are an important element of participatory democracy.",
        "显然，公共听证是参与性民主的重要元素。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009, for example, Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer, was accused of embezzlement after uncovering a fraudulent tax-refund scheme run by Russian officials.",
        "比如，2009年，一名叫谢尔盖·马格尼茨基（Sergei Magnitsky）的律师在揭露俄罗斯官员的退税欺诈后被控盗用公款。"
    ],
    [
        "With interethnic tensions already on the rise, Yugoslavia was the first country to dissolve into conflict.",
        "内部对峙不断升级的南斯拉夫成为第一个因冲突而消亡的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "We might be driven to it if the other two fail, but it would be utterly wrong to contemplate it now.",
        "如果另两个选择失败，或许我们会被迫使用第三优选择，但是现在考虑它绝对是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is high time to address the problem.",
        "应该立刻解决这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, when Israel began to build settlements all over the occupied territories, admiration even turned into active hostility from Europe’s left.",
        "随后当以色列开始在占领区兴建犹太人定居点之时，欧洲左派对该国的敬意甚至变成了极大的敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "This, not the unsustainable imposition of quotas, is the real monetary-policy challenge facing China today.",
        "当今中国面对的真正货币政策挑战是如何提高利率至市场均衡水平，适当控制资本账户以便资本有序流动，从而创造条件来结束不可持续的配额制度。"
    ],
    [
        "As his administration proceeds to dismantle environmental rules, he’s likely to find that there’s a much stronger constituency for clean air and clean water than he apparently thinks.",
        "他的政府正在着力于废除环保规则，而他可能会发现，清洁空气和干净水源的拥趸可能要比他显然认为的要多得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Previously, trade deficits were viewed as a serious problem, being a leakage of demand that undermined employment and output.",
        "以前，贸易赤字被视为是一个严重问题，认为它会削弱需求从而破坏就业和产量。"
    ],
    [
        "One fascinating aspect of the UNICEF study is its use of what is now called “subjective well-being.”",
        "联合国儿童基金会研究的一个有趣角度是它用了现在所谓的“主观福祉”。"
    ],
    [
        "A series of World Bank and Russian studies have estimated that Russia can gain 0.5-1.0 percentage points in economic growth for half a decade if it joins the WTO.",
        "对此一系列来自世界银行和俄罗斯的研究都预计，如果俄罗斯成功加入WTO，其国家经济发展水平将在此后5年内每年额外增加0. 5~1个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "Plato thought that three conditions must be met in order for us to “know” something: the notion in question must actually be true; we must believe it (because if we do not believe something that is true, we can hardly claim that we know it); and, most subtly, it must be justifiable – there must be reasons why we believe the notion to be true.",
        "我们必须相信（因为如果我们不相信这是真实的事物，就很难说得上了解）； 还有最微妙的一点就是必须合理——我们必须有理由相信概念的真实性。"
    ],
    [
        "The shine may have come off the EU, but the gripping scenes from Kyiv’s Maidan Square are a powerful reminder of the enduring appeal of Europe’s core values.",
        "欧盟或许已经在走下坡路，但基辅独立广场（Maidan Square）的壮观景象有力地提醒我们，欧洲的核心价值仍具有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, China’s online retail sales have surged in recent years, from 6.3% of total retail sales in 2012 to 12.9% by 2015.",
        "结果，中国在线零售销售额近几年来大幅增长，从2012年占总零售额的 6. 3% 增长到2015年的12."
    ],
    [
        "But this entire episode is properly known as the “second pandemic.”",
        "但这整个过程往往被称为“二次流行”。"
    ],
    [
        "Old alliances – such as the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, the Central Eastern Treaty Organization, and the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty – have died or are dying.",
        "旧同盟——如东南亚条约组织、中欧条约组织以及澳大利亚、新西兰、美国安全条约——不是已经寿终正寝，就是行将就木。"
    ],
    [
        "For Russia, a new treaty would allow it to live with the hitherto nightmare scenario of Ukrainian accession to NATO; as long as the pact remained in force, Ukraine’s membership would have no military consequences.",
        "对俄罗斯来说，新条约让它可以从容接受迄今为止的噩梦情景——乌克兰加入北约； 只要条约保持效力，乌克兰加入北约就不会导致任何军事后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Humanitarian efforts continue to be strengthened, including through a new rapid funding mechanism, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund.",
        "人道主义努力不断得到加强，包括通过一个新的快速募资机制即联合国中央应急基金来实施的人道主义努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Viewpoints that deviate in the slightest from Party doctrine are still absent from Chinese TV.",
        "与党的原则稍有背离的观点也仍然不会出现在电视上。"
    ],
    [
        "But Bush rejected this, and persists in speaking of victory in Iraq – though it is unclear what that now means.",
        "但是布什予以拒绝，尽管语焉不详，他还坚持宣称要在伊拉克取得胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "These orders of magnitude require metaphors and repetition, but they serve as crucial concepts in our world, especially in cosmology and in evolutionary biology.",
        "这种数量级要求比喻和重复，但是它们却是我们的世界中重要的概念，尤其是在宇宙学和进化生物学领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past decade, the number of Moroccan women taking an active role in Islamist associations or political parties increased dramatically.",
        "在过去的十年中，积极参加伊斯兰教协会或政党的摩洛哥妇女人数大幅增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the 18 elected members (Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas will appoint four more later), no more than two (Nabil Shaath and Muhammad Shtayyeh) are really moderate.",
        "当选的18名成员中（巴勒斯坦自治机构领导人穆罕默德·阿巴斯随后将增加任命4名成员），不超过两位，即只有纳比尔·沙阿斯和穆罕默德·施塔耶是真正的温和派。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, they can bolster recovery in participating economies.",
        "相反，竞争性贬值可以给实施这一战略的国家带来更强劲的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe in the power of diplomacy and engagement.",
        "我相信外交和接触的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy is the next analogy: a network of people who communicate with each other via electronic and other connections.",
        "经济将成为新的类比——通过电子和其他通信手段相互联系的人际网络。"
    ],
    [
        "French leaders have demonstrated an inability to communicate effectively or apply past experiences in analyzing current threats.",
        "法国领导人在有效沟通和利用过去经验分析当前威胁方面显得颇为无能。"
    ],
    [
        "If those pressing issues are addressed at the European level, as Merkel suggested in her victory statement, support for Europe could end up winning back the discontented voters who cast their ballots for the AfD.",
        "如果这些紧迫问题能够在欧盟层面得到解决——就像默克尔在她的胜选词中所说的那样——对欧盟的支持就有可能最终战胜将票投给的AfD的不满的选民。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with that historic task now complete, European institutions need a new rationale.",
        "但这项历史任务已经完成，现在的欧洲机构需要新的基本原理。"
    ],
    [
        "Focusing on green R&D might not feel as good as participating in a global gabfest with flashlights and good intentions, but it is a much brighter idea.",
        "关注绿色能源的研发工作或许不像参与由手电和善意组成的全球聚会那样感觉惬意，但这个办法相比之下却要明智得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The best we have done to date has been to examine whether people’s reaction speeds are related to intelligence and to mortality.",
        "我们目前为止做得最好的情况就是检查人的反应速度是否与智力水平和死亡率有关。"
    ],
    [
        "The country is at a stalemate: the opposition is unable to topple President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and Assad’s forces are unable to quash the resistance.",
        "叙利亚国内已经陷入僵局：反对派无力推翻巴沙尔·阿萨德的政权，而阿萨德的部队也无法消灭反对派的势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Now couples are using this technique to avoid passing on genes that imply a significantly elevated risk of developing certain forms of cancer.",
        "现在，有些夫妇已开始使用这种技术避免将某些癌症的高风险基因遗传给子女。"
    ],
    [
        "“Because we make a lot of money,” was the unanimous answer.",
        "而我得到的一致回答是“因为能赚大钱”。"
    ],
    [
        "The preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO declares, “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.”",
        "《联合国教科文组织宪章》序言部分指出：“由于战争发端于人们的心灵，所以应当在人们心中建立起对和平的捍卫。"
    ],
    [
        "Not So Splendid Isolation",
        "不那么光荣的孤立"
    ],
    [
        "Changing people’s behavior begins with an understanding of our cultural nature, not our rationality.",
        "我们要从理解文化属性、而非理性开始改变人们的行为习惯。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, some contend that income inequality drives economic growth and that redistributive transfers weaken the incentive to work, in turn depressing productivity, reducing investment, and ultimately harming the wider community.",
        "事实上，有人认为收入不平等性推动经济增长，而再分配转移支付削弱工作激励，反过来抑制生产率、降低投资，最终伤及整个社会。"
    ],
    [
        "We are accustomed to thinking of government transferring money from the well off to the poor.",
        "我们习惯性地认为，政府主导下的再分配是把富人的钱转给穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "Radio and TV enjoyed the same built-in audience.",
        "电台和电视台也享受同样的固定受众。"
    ],
    [
        "The only media pension I have is through AFTRA.”",
        "我所拥有的惟一的媒体退休金是通过美国电视广播艺人联盟（AFTRA）获得的。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – In October 2015, a court case launched by Max Schrems, a 28-year-old Austrian privacy activist and graduate student at the University of Vienna, led to the annulment of the so-called Safe Harbor agreement that governs how United States firms comply with the European Union’s privacy laws.",
        "巴黎—2015年10月，28岁的奥地利隐私维权活动家、维也纳大学研究生马克斯·施雷姆斯（Max Schrems）提起的诉讼给所谓的安全港（Safe Harbor）协议画上了句号。 安全港协议约束美国企业遵守欧盟隐私法。"
    ],
    [
        "I wrote the book on Europe and the gold standard.",
        "我曾写过关于欧洲和金本位的书。"
    ],
    [
        "“[T]here is beyond question a body of very important but unorganized knowledge which cannot possibly be called scientific in the sense of knowledge of general rules: the knowledge of particular circumstances and place.",
        "“毫无疑问，存在一种非常重要但无组织的知识，从知识的一般规则来看，它们绝对称不上科学。 这就是关于特定环境和场合的知识。"
    ],
    [
        "MELBOURNE – There is nothing like exposure to smart and idealistic young people to make jaded and world-weary policymakers and commentators feel better about the future.",
        "墨尔本—没有什么比接触理想主义睿智青年更能激发疲倦厌世的决策者和评论家对未来的希望了。 我刚刚有过这一体验。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless, each investor must work with existing institutions – if only to access revenue streams initially and benefit from the lowered costs later on.",
        "无论如何，每位投资者必须与现有机构合作——只要能在一开始活得收入流并在随后享受低成本的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the outcome this time be different?",
        "那么此次危机的后果又会与往年不同吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Given that President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has expressed his distaste for calling a new election, such a scenario could become likely if Merkel does not resign on her own.",
        "德国总统施坦因迈尔已经表示反对重新进行大选，因此，如果默克尔本人不辞职，这一情景可能性就很大。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB, however, will have a harder time making the case for wealth effects, largely because equity ownership by individuals (either direct or through their pension accounts) is far lower in Europe than in the US or Japan.",
        "但是，欧洲央行要形成财富效应更加困难，这主要是因为欧洲个人持有股票（不管是直接持有还是通过养老金账户持有）规模远小于美国和日本。"
    ],
    [
        "But, just as certainly, curiosity is a powerful driving force in scientific discovery.",
        "但不可否认，好奇心是科学发现中的一种强大的驱动力。"
    ],
    [
        "So Trump could literally have half a brain, and it still wouldn’t prove that he was mentally ill.",
        "因此特朗普完全可以只有半个大脑，而且仍然无法证明他在精神方面有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to build support for public investment in higher-risk innovation, perhaps taxpayers should receive a more direct return, by channeling profits into a public innovation fund to finance the next wave of technologies.",
        "为了营造对高风险创新的公共投资的支持，也许纳税人应该获得更加直接的回报——可通过将利润注入公共创新基金为下一波技术融资实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Compact, well-connected cities that feature efficient public transportation systems – cities like Barcelona – are healthier and more sustainable.",
        "像巴塞罗那这样紧凑、四通八达且拥有高效公交系统的城市更可持续、也更加健康。"
    ],
    [
        "The bad news is that the vast majority of market analysts, still clinging to the old monetarist framework, will accuse the Fed of “falling behind the curve” by letting US unemployment decline too far and failing to anticipate the threat of rising inflation.",
        "坏消息是，绝大多数仍沿袭着旧有货币主义框架的分析师将指责美联储通过坐视美国失业率过度下降而“下跌到曲线之下”并未能预见到通货膨胀上升的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the World Bank’s Disease Control Priorities Report tells us that a program to treat tuberculosis in the developing world, promoted by the Stop TB Partnership, gives people an extra year of life at a cost ranging from $5 to $50.",
        "GiveWell. net，评估了一些拯救贫穷国家生命的组织后，已经确认， 救活一个生命不到1000美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The two civilian leaders may soon begin vying with each other to see who can claim to be more anti-Musharraf.",
        "这两位文官领导人或许马上就会相互竞争，看谁更为反穆沙拉夫。"
    ],
    [
        "Taste is not the answer.",
        "口味不是原因。"
    ],
    [
        "As more of them recognize this, and move their operations to China, all sorts of markets could be disrupted.",
        "随着越来越多的创新公司认识到这一点并将业务迁往中国，所有市场都可能被破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the greening of America is becoming a general proposition.",
        "实际上，美国变绿正在成为一个一般性的命题。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has not.",
        "美国还没有。"
    ],
    [
        "Some leaders in these countries are aware of the need to reduce these subsidies.",
        "这些国家的一些领导人也意识到需要减少这些补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan was playing golf with President Ronald Reagan, while vacationing European central bankers were hard to reach in an era before mobile telephones.",
        "当时是，时任美国财政部长唐纳德·里根正在与总统罗纳德·里根打高尔夫球，休假中的欧洲央行行长们也难觅踪迹，因为当时还没有移动电话。"
    ],
    [
        "Even field testing biopharmed plants has proved problematic.",
        "就连生物制药作物的田间试验也大有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "President Bachelet would like to solve the century-old problem of landlocked Bolivia’s access to the Pacific, but she is finding this task to be trickier than expected, as Morales increases gas prices and reduces gas exports to Argentina, Chile’s largest foreign supplier of energy.",
        "巴切莱特总统想要解决内陆国家玻利维亚进入太平洋这个世纪难题。 但是，当莫拉莱斯提高天然气价格并减少向智利最大的外国能源供给国阿根廷的天然气出口时，他发现这一任务要比预想的要更为复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "For it was Bernard-Henry Lévy who convinced French President Nicolas Sarkozy to meet with Libya’s rebel leaders, an encounter that led directly to France taking a leading role in persuading the United Nations Security Council and US President Barack Obama to back military intervention.",
        "因为正是伯纳德·亨利列维说服法国总统尼古拉·萨科奇与利比亚叛军领袖会面，这次会面直接导致法国在说服联合国安理会和美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马支持军事干涉事务中发挥了领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The pro-surrogacy camp emphasizes the benefits of the practice, which include increased reproductive choice and the accommodation of sexual pluralism.",
        "赞成代孕的阵营强调这种做法的诸多好处，包括增加生育选择和包容性多元化。"
    ],
    [
        "Race-Based Medicine?",
        "以种族为基础的医学？"
    ],
    [
        "The president is then suspended from carrying out his duties, and the vice-president fills in until the accusation is resolved.",
        "\"满足上述条件则暂停行使总统权力，由副总统暂时接任直至审判完成。"
    ],
    [
        "So, do we Europeans intend to remain relevant in the twenty-first century, which means strengthening our position?",
        "那么，我们欧洲人还想不想强化地位，在21世纪占据一席之地？"
    ],
    [
        "On its current trajectory, the world has only 3-4 decades (or less) before atmospheric CO2 reaches levels that disrupt climate patterns, with catastrophic consequences for the environment and, in turn, economic and social systems.",
        "按照当前轨迹，在经历三四十年（或更少），大气中的二氧化碳水平就将达到破坏气候模式的程度，给环境造成灾难性后果，进而威胁经济和社会系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposal involves the world’s two largest economic areas, with national, regional, and global implications.",
        "这个提议涉及到世界两个最大的经济区域，且在国家、地区和全球层面都有影响。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in the US, which lacks many of the social protections provided by its northern European counterparts, inequality is very troubling indeed.",
        "与这些北欧国家相反，美国缺少多种社会保护，不平等性问题也确实十分令人头痛。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when rebranded as a “rebalancing,” America’s eastward shift is inevitably met with suspicion by some Asian countries, particularly China.",
        "即使美国的东移战略冠上了“再平衡”的名义，也难免会引起一些亚洲国家的狐疑，特别是中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Only in the 1940’s, after Cárdenas left power, did Mexico turn to a more conservative political path.",
        "墨西哥直到1940年卡德纳斯离职之后才转到更为保守的政治路线。"
    ],
    [
        "For the reality is that China will build its “nth” plant before the US builds its first.",
        "因为现实就是，在美国建造第一家发电厂之前，中国将建造第N家。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of sufficient demand, improving supply-side efficiency simply leads to more underutilization of resources.",
        "在缺乏足够需求的情况下，提高供应侧效率只会导致更严重的资源利用不足。"
    ],
    [
        "The other steps involve economic restructuring at the national level and political integration of the eurozone.",
        "其它的步骤包括在国家层面进行经济调整以及欧元区的政治一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the Dominican Republic suffers from its own social and economic maladies – it is itself an exporter of emigrants to the US, Puerto Rico, and Spain – it certainly has a role to play in Haiti’s reconstruction.",
        "尽管多米尼加共和国自身也存在社会和经济问题——这个国家自己也向美国、波多黎各和西班牙输出移民——但是它肯定可以在海地重建中发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, China has had its setbacks, too.",
        "可以肯定，中国也经历了不少挫折。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference in attitude extends beyond the borders of the countries over which these men ruled.",
        "对这两人的态度的不同并不局限于他们曾经统治过的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "“No more!”",
        "“这种情况绝不能再继续下去！"
    ],
    [
        "Still, over the last half-century, the bilateral relationship has become a formidable one.",
        "但是，在过去半个世纪中，德以双边关系变得十分强大。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy is still struggling to provide a sufficient number of jobs for those who were previously employed in leverage-driven activities that are no longer sustainable (let alone desirable).",
        "在向此前因为不可持续（更不用说值得追求）的杠杆推动的行为才找到工作的人提供工作岗位方面，经济仍陷于停滞状态。"
    ],
    [
        "And many die simply because there are no cures or vaccines, because so little of the world’s valuable research talent and limited resources is devoted to addressing the diseases of the poor.",
        "更有许多人的死仅仅是因为缺少治疗或疫苗，而造成这种情况的原因是用于为穷人治病的世界宝贵研究人才和有限资源太少。"
    ],
    [
        "Health-care costs will rise, increasing the strain on budgets.",
        "医疗成本将上升，导致预算吃紧。"
    ],
    [
        "Its recent growth record is stupendous; no country in history can match it.",
        "它的最新增长记录是惊人的，历史上没有哪个国家可以与之媲美。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries also possess a fairly educated middle class and intelligentsia alongside more traditional elites.",
        "两个国家也都拥有一个受过高等教育的中层阶级和知识界以及更为传统的精英群。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2014, after China stationed an oil rig in waters claimed by Vietnam, ships from the two countries engaged in ramming and water-cannon battles at sea; anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam followed.",
        "2014年，中国在越南主张主权的水域建立油井，双方船只在海上用水炮互相攻击； 越南更是爆发了反华骚乱。"
    ],
    [
        "There is the obvious distinction between investment spending and current expenditure, which Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has emphasized.",
        "投资支出和经常支出有着很明显的区别，意大利总理马里奥·蒙蒂如是强调。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, on the one hand, we don’t wish to disrupt the perfect felicity of the lifestyles of the rich and famous; on the other hand, we don’t wish to add to the burdens of those who have spent their most precious possession – their time and energy – pursuing baubles.",
        "简言之，一方面，我们不想干扰富人和名人生活方式的完美幸福； 另一方面，我们又不想增加将自己最宝贵的财产——时间和能量——用于追求无用小玩意的人的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "And even if growth does last, they argue, the Chinese authorities will not allow Western businesses – or even Chinese businesses, according to ultra-pessimists – to benefit from it.",
        "而即使增长得到保持，他们指出，中国当局也不会让西方企业——根据极端悲观者的说法，甚至中国企业也不行——从中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news for Abe, however, is that opposition to his efforts, though broad, does not seem to run deep.",
        "但对安倍来讲好消息是尽管对他努力的反对非常广泛，但却似乎并不深入。"
    ],
    [
        "For their part, state governments, forced by new limits on the deductibility of state and local taxes to pare their budgets, are likely to move further in the direction of limiting the duration of unemployment benefits and the extent of their own food and nutrition assistance.",
        "至于州政府，迫于州和地方税抵扣的新限制吞噬了它们的预算，有可能进一步降低失业救济的领取时间，限制自身食品和营养补助的范围。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States seem to understand this, as they call for a new, more comprehensive policy target to replace national output.",
        "德国、法国、英国和美国的领导人似乎明白这一点，因为他们呼吁用新的更全面的政策目标来取代国内产值。"
    ],
    [
        "If it cannot recall abusive diffusions from member countries’ databases, it must review them before they are circulated in the first place.",
        "如果它无权从成员国数据库中将滥发的协查通报撤回，那么就必须在通报下发前对其进行审核。"
    ],
    [
        "This week, a meeting of the EU’s General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) will discuss once more relations between the EU and Cuba.",
        "本周，欧盟总务与对外关系委员会（GAERC）将召开会议，就欧盟与古巴的关系再次进行讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Eliminating rogue fishing will help replenish marine life and secure food and livelihoods for billions of people.",
        "消灭流氓捕捞有助于恢复海洋生命，保证数十亿人的食物和生活安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing can be valued above human life, and there is no excuse for repressions.”",
        "什么也没有人的生命更宝贵，镇压没有任何借口。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But the GBD could do more to inform policy debates and spur action to improve health if it were able to provide more detailed breakdowns of data.",
        "但如果GBD能够提供跟详细的分类数据，它能够为澄清政策争论、刺激改善健康状况的行动作出更大贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, any sudden rise in the tax burden results in deadweight losses.",
        "此外，任何突然的税收负担都会导致沉重的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Two other factors that made Morales’s rise possible were the revival of Bolivia’s oil industry and the creation of mechanisms for distributing the income that oil produces.",
        "让莫拉莱斯崛起成为可能的另外两个因素是玻利维亚石油工业的复兴和建立起石油收入的分配机制。"
    ],
    [
        "The agreement provides merely a framework for reporting and reviewing on the implementation of disparate national agendas, as well as provisions aimed at nudging countries to achieve deeper cuts.",
        "该协定只是提供了一个框架报告和评估各国议程的实施情况，以及旨在推动各国实现深入减排的条款。"
    ],
    [
        "Social investments are large, financed by high taxes, which rich people actually pay, rather than evade.",
        "社会投资是巨大的，钱来自高税收——富人得缴税，而不是逃税。"
    ],
    [
        "This systematic miscalculation can be explained as follows.",
        "下面这些事例可以解释那种系统性的政治失算。"
    ],
    [
        "The trouble is that this is no ordinary recession, and a lot people have not had any punch yet, let alone too much.",
        "麻烦在于这并不是普通的经济衰退，而且很多人都还没有享受到通货膨胀的任何好处，更别提过度受益了。"
    ],
    [
        "As Putin declared last year, the Soviet Union’s collapse dealt a “devastating blow” to Russia’s “cultural and spiritual codes,” and subsequent “attempts to civilize Russia from abroad” amounted to “primitive borrowing.”",
        "去年，普京声称苏联的解体是对俄罗斯的“文化和精神”的“灾难性打击”，随后“从海外让俄罗斯文明化的尝试”导致了“原始借贷”。"
    ],
    [
        "The conversion of all eurozone national bonds into obligations jointly recognized by all eurozone governments is a replica of the solution to the ERM’s breakdown, which consisted in abandoning national currencies in favor of the euro.",
        "将所有欧元区国家发行的债券转化成一种所有欧元区政府都认可的债券，这如同当年防止汇率机制崩溃方案的翻版。"
    ],
    [
        "UNESCO estimates that at least 250 million of the world’s children of primary-school age are unable to read, write, or do basic arithmetic.",
        "联合国教科文组织估计全世界至少有2. 5亿小学适龄儿童无法读、写或完成最基本的算术题。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution for Europe is not IMF money, but its own.",
        "欧洲的问题不应该由IMF的资金解决，它们必须自力更生。"
    ],
    [
        "Effective POC tests are being developed; the proliferation of mobile phones will further augment the capabilities of these tests.",
        "有效的床旁测试正在开发中； 手机的普及将进一步扩大这类测试的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, even President Bush seems to have woken up.",
        "最近，就连布什总统好像也意识到了问题的严重性。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, at least in terms of economic, if not military, capability, the United States and Japan seem to have begun a process of decline relative to China.",
        "类似地，至少在经济实力上（军事姑且不论），美国和日本似乎已经开始了相对中国的衰落过程。"
    ],
    [
        "In manufacturing, where China can use its vast resources to lead the world in an era of digitized manufacturing, innovation can add $450-$780 billion in value each year.",
        "在制造业，中国可以利用其巨大的资源在数字化制造时代独领风骚，该行业的创新每年可以增加4,500—7,800亿美元经济价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Both appeal to moral obligations that stretch far beyond nations’ cultural and physical boundaries.",
        "这两类人都要求远远超越国家的文化和物理边界的道德义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Herein lies our great challenge – the one that will determine whether we follow the path of prosperity or ruin.",
        "我们面临着严峻的挑战——能否妥善应对将决定我们走向毁灭还是走向繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure of China to move more quickly to encourage higher domestic spending commensurate with its higher incomes added fuel to the fire.",
        "中国没能快速采取措施鼓励和其更高的收入相称的更多的 国内开支，为这一繁荣火上浇油。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the terms of engagement in NATO are likely to be renegotiated.",
        "比如说加入北约的条件可能会被重新制定。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when a policy change in one country reverberates throughout the global economy, stronger cooperation could be vital to enhancing overall stability.",
        "当某几个国家的政策足以撼动整个全球经济之时，更强大的合作对于整体的稳定性来说就变得至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The American academic John Garver depicted it best using a Chinese fable: “A frog in a pot of lukewarm water feels quite comfortable and safe.",
        "美国学者约翰·贾沃尔（John Garver）用中国寓言很好地描述了这一局面：“青蛙在温吞水中感觉舒适又安全。"
    ],
    [
        "NAIROBI – Before I knew that Nelson Mandela existed, I thought our then-leader, Kenyan President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, was the world’s only statesman.",
        "发自内罗毕——在我知道有尼尔森·曼德拉这个人存在之前，我觉得自己国家的领袖，时任肯尼亚总统的丹尼尔·阿拉普·莫伊（Daniel Toroitich arap Moi）是世界上唯一的政治家。"
    ],
    [
        "But to oppose extremism and support the FSA is a blatant contradiction.",
        "但反对极端主义和支持FSA是极其矛盾的。"
    ],
    [
        "We have seen it in Great Britain and the US.",
        "我们在英国和美国都看到了这种迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this bleak background, it is easy to celebrate the success of emerging markets.",
        "针对如此险恶的环境，你很容易为新兴市场的成功喝彩。"
    ],
    [
        "Older people, who were prudent and held their money in government bonds, will see lower returns – further curtailing their consumption.",
        "勤俭节约、将钱都投给国债的老一辈人将承受更低的回报，从而进一步抑制他们的消费。"
    ],
    [
        "The moderate agenda has gained important ground this month – but the struggle to establish Indonesia’s political and religious identity is far from over.",
        "这个月温和派占据了优势，但是建立印尼政治和宗教个性的斗争还远远没有结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The British were burned there twice (1840-1, 1878-80).",
        "英国在那里失败了两次（1840-1841年以及1878-1880年）。"
    ],
    [
        "How, then, can North Korea manage to defy its neighbor?",
        "那朝鲜又凭什么能得罪它的众多邻邦？"
    ],
    [
        "This leaves only one real option: a disorderly market adjustment.",
        "这就只剩下一个现实选择：无序的市场调整。"
    ],
    [
        "But this has become an extremely tough challenge, as growth in greenhouse-gas emissions and atmospheric stocks accelerated in the years since Rio.",
        "但这已经成为一个极端艰苦的挑战，因为温室气体排放和大气碳存量自里约会议以后呈加速增长态势。"
    ],
    [
        "The temptation to embark on wars that cause more harm than good is not the only danger of using the language of human rights to justify military intervention in political conflicts (which usually involve many other interests that have nothing to do with human rights).",
        "发动弊大于利的战争的诱惑并不是在政治冲突（往往涉及许多与人权完全无关的其他利益）中将人权语言作为军事干预借口所带来的唯一的危险因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the process, creative solutions will be paramount, and Internet companies’ contributions will be invaluable.",
        "在整个过程中，创造性解决方案将成为主宰，而互联网公司的贡献将是不可估量的。"
    ],
    [
        "The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas speaks of a “transformational reality” – a complex word for a simple reality: divided we fall, whereas united, in our own complex manner, we may strive for “greatness” in the best sense.",
        "德国哲学家哈贝马斯曾提出过“转型现实”（transformational reality），这一复杂的称谓是对简单现实的概括：分则亡，合则能以我们自身的复杂方式尽力追求“伟大”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Detroit Syndrome",
        "底特律综合症"
    ],
    [
        "Only when a company has gained the public’s confidence – its “license to operate” – can its management create long-term value for all stakeholders, including shareholders.",
        "只有当一个公司获得了公众的信心——它的“经营许可”——那它的管理者才可以为所有利益相关者创造长期价值，包括股东。"
    ],
    [
        "This may not be an ideal solution for any of the parties to the Israel-Palestine conflict, but it is far better than the alternative: an apartheid state that is likely to further destabilize the Middle East and lead to a never-ending cycle of conflict in the region.",
        "这或许对以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突双方来说都不是理想方案，但远远好于替代方案：一个可能进一步动摇中东地区病导致无尽的地区冲突循环的种族隔离国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Much more important is the potential impact of such a decision on the UK’s global standing.",
        "比这些因素重要得多的是这一决定对英国全球地位的潜在影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Resentment in the South is political.",
        "南方的仇恨是一个政治问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The protests are much more about political and economic freedom than about material needs, reflecting a keen awareness that such needs are merely a symptom and consequence of the absence of political and economic freedom.",
        "相对于物质需求，示威者们更加关注政治和经济方面的自由，反映出民众已经敏锐地意识到这些物质需要只不过是缺乏政治和经济自由所导致的症状和后果而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries should, instead, focus on the ultimate goal: generating a rapid increase in the number of productive jobs.",
        "各国应该专注于终极目标：创造生产性就业岗位的快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries seek to create a viable structure of peace for Asia, one that allows China to continue to grow and prosper, but that prevents any one country from claiming hegemony.",
        "两国都在寻求为亚洲建立可行的和平结构，这个结构将允许中国继续成长和繁荣，也将阻止任何国家的霸权行为。"
    ],
    [
        "But implementing policies that restrict potentially productivity-enhancing technologies would be a grave mistake.",
        "但实施一些限制潜在生产力提升技术的政策则是极端愚蠢之举。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, just as a collective effort is needed to strengthen the skills of national workforces, so, too, an industry commitment is required to support small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) as part of the wider business environment.",
        "其次，正如需要集体努力增强国民劳动大军的技能一样，产业界也需要作出承诺支持作为广义商业环境一部分的中小企业。"
    ],
    [
        "But in a mere three years, total JGBs will exceed this total. This suggests that taxpayer assets will no longer back government debt, at which point confidence in the JGB market is likely to shatter.",
        "这意味着纳税人的资产已经不足以支撑政府债务，并可能导致对政府债务市场的信任度下滑。"
    ],
    [
        "This contradicts American economists’ conventional wisdom that fast-growing countries should borrow today against their larger future shares in the world economy.",
        "这与美国经济学家的传统智慧——快速增长国应该在当下负债以换取将来在世界经济中的更大比重——相反。"
    ],
    [
        "The Wrong Growth Strategy for Japan",
        "日本的错误增长战略"
    ],
    [
        "One salutes, another meows, a third snivels.",
        "一人向他敬礼，另一个作势卖萌，还有一个痛哭流涕，"
    ],
    [
        "Still, for understandable reasons, few investors are keen to lend Ukraine more money.",
        "但是，出于不难理解的原因，恐怕很少会有投资者热切地希望借给乌克兰更多钱。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, there is no regulatory system that I trust more than the current messy world of conflicting interests.",
        "总之，没有任何监控体系能比目前充满利益冲突的混乱世界更让我信任。"
    ],
    [
        "As a neighboring country, India would face disturbing consequences if they returned to power in Afghanistan, as would Iran, which would not sit idly by if sectarian strife intensified and the Shia became targets of a resurgent Taliban.",
        "作为一个邻国，如果它们在阿富汗重新掌权，印度将面临灾难性的后果。 伊朗亦然，如果宗派之争恶化，什叶派成为死灰复燃的塔利班的目标，伊朗也决不能事不关己高高高挂起了。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the rules governing these transactions, the fact that no emissions were actually cut does not matter; what is important is that the tradable permission to pollute has been obtained.",
        "根据约束这些交易的规则，实际排放量为零这一事实并不重要，重要的是获得了可交易的污染许可。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty years after reunification was completed, Germany has become one of the world’s great democracies.",
        "两德统一已经过去了20年，德国也已经晋身为全世界最伟大的民主国家之一。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet there is one area in which the dangers are already apparent: the economic damage that will be caused as lab-grown compounds replace field-grown stevia.",
        "但有一个领域的危险已经显露无遗：那就是实验室化合物取代种植甜叶菊所造成的经济损害。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Walmart has teamed up with the Environmental Defense Fund to devise a strategy to eliminate 20 million tons of embedded carbon in the products on its shelves.",
        "比如，沃尔玛和环境保护基金会（Environmental Defense Fund）合作开发了一套旨在让沃尔玛货架上的产品碳排量减少2000万吨的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since the Fukushima accident, opposition to nuclear power has been growing in China and South Korea, both of which had been planning a massive expansion of their nuclear generating capacity – and both of which face a change of political leadership next year.",
        "在福岛危机爆发之后，中韩两国内部的反核电呼声也随之不断高涨，而两国原本都计划大举扩张其核发电能力，并将在明年面临政府领导人换届选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to electrification and mass production, the Second Industrial Revolution introduced entirely new social models and forms of work.",
        "由于电气化和大规模生产，第二次工业革命催生了全新的社会模式和工作形式。"
    ],
    [
        "One way or the other, the Bank and the IMF leadership selection process urgently needs to be revamped.",
        "不管怎样，世界银行和国际货币基金组织的领导层遴选进程急需改革。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, China’s productivity-enhancing agricultural reforms in the 1980s were spurred partly by growth in the non-agricultural sector, a result of policies aimed at stimulating township and village enterprises.",
        "比如，中国在20世纪80年代所实施的提高生产率的农业改革从某种程度上说是受到非农业部门增长的刺激，是旨在鼓励乡镇企业的政策的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Now both are gone, and Bush is turning to troop increases.",
        "现在两个人都以不在任了，而布什则开始转向增兵。"
    ],
    [
        "The most one can say is that it halted the rise for a time.",
        "最多只能说当时的政策阻止了政府支出的进一步增加的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil prices are now running well above $50 a barrel, partly owing to short-run supply shocks, such as the Iraq conflict, Nigerian labor disputes, the conflict between Yukos Oil and the Russian government, and Florida's recent hurricanes.",
        "石油价格正快速攀升，远超过每桶50美元。 其部分原因是由于伊拉克冲突、尼日利亚劳资纠纷、俄罗斯政府和尤科斯石油公司之间的冲突以及最近飓风袭击佛罗里达所带来的短期石油供应震荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The second objection is that the West would be best served by simply standing back and watching while sanctions and plunging oil prices bring down Russia’s economy – and ultimately Putin himself.",
        "第二个阻力是，对西方来说，最有利的做法是袖手旁观，同时利用制裁和节节下跌的油价拖垮俄罗斯经济，最终打败普京本人。"
    ],
    [
        "But their ultimate goal should be to sell their existing oil reserves as quickly as possible and distribute the resulting tsunami of cash to their shareholders until all of their low-cost oilfields run dry.",
        "但它们的最终目标应该是尽快卖掉现有石油储量，将获得的大量现金分配给股东，直到低成本油田开采殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is not surprising that while national governments often are paralyzed by partisan politics, city governments foster action and innovation.",
        "因此，毫不奇怪，尽管国家政府常常因为党派政治陷入瘫痪，城市政府却在促进行动和创新。"
    ],
    [
        "The dam projects have also become a focal point for a broader political debate within the Chinese media.",
        "水库项目也成了中国媒体大规模政治辩论中一个非常重要的焦点话题。"
    ],
    [
        "This is understandable: private investment firms spend an enormous amount on marketing and salaries.",
        "这是可以理解的：私人投资公司要花大笔资金在市场营销和工资开销上面。"
    ],
    [
        "The greatest hope is to be found in the ongoing information, Bio-, Nano-, Energetics, and Quantum technology revolutions.",
        "amp#160;amp#160;amp#160; 最大的希望在于现行的信息技术、生物技术、纳米技术、热力学以及量子技术革命。"
    ],
    [
        "The ability afforded by online marketplaces to new players to attain national – and international – prominence without massive upfront investment will profoundly affect how both retailers and manufacturers approach new consumer markets.",
        "在线市场让新来者有可能在不需进行大规模前端投资的情况下获得全国——和国际——主导地位，这将深远地影响零售商和制造商对新消费市场的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, many Democrats view their new minority status as a source of relief, as it has removed the pressure to deliver results or obey their party's leaders.",
        "与此同时，许多民主党因为重新沦为少数派而舒了一口气，因为这使他们不再有压力必须取得成果获听命于党领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "In the enterprise sector, the focus will need to be on increasing competition in all sectors, reducing barriers to entry and exit for private companies, and strengthening state-owned enterprises’ competitiveness.",
        "在企事业部门，关键在于增加所有部门的竞争、降低私人公司进出壁垒并增强国有企业的竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Radical Islamism offered him a ready-made cause to die for.",
        "激进伊斯兰主义为他提供了为事业献身的现成的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The message sent, and understood, is that some institutions – of all kinds – are immune from scrutiny and can play by their own rules.",
        "这样做所传递的信息是某些机构可以不接受审查，完全遵守自己的一套游戏规则。"
    ],
    [
        "The consensual society that was at the center of the Federal Republic’s Wirtschaftswunder now looks inflexible, throwing up obstacles to change.",
        "那个曾经一度是联邦共和国的经济奇迹（Wirtschaftswunder）中心的协议社会现在看来顽固僵硬，抛出种种有阻改革的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Georgia has failed to create the jobs, dynamism, and inclusion that are necessary for a peaceful society.",
        "格鲁吉亚未能创造和平社会所必需的就业机会、活力和包容性。"
    ],
    [
        "Per capita GDP, which reflects a country’s average labor productivity and its overall technological and industrial achievement, is a useful proxy to estimate latecomer’s advantage.",
        "以人均国内生产总值为例，其反映了一个国家的平均劳动生产率和整体工业技术成就，也是估算后发优势的一个有效标示物。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan’s theory of government seems to be that, because he was elected by a majority of Turks who still support him, anyone who opposes him is a terrorist or a pawn of sinister foreign forces.",
        "埃尔多安的政府理论是这样的：因为他是仍然支持他的大多数土耳其人选出来的，所以任何反对他的人不是恐怖分子，就是邪恶外国势力的走狗。"
    ],
    [
        "His predecessors had made serious efforts to improve relations with the US.",
        "他的前任做出了巨大的努力改善与美国的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund forecasts 4% growth for the world economy in 2015, while stock-market indices are up in many parts of the world; indeed, the Dow Jones reached an all-time high in July.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）预测2015年世界经济可以增长4%，世界各地的股市也纷纷上涨，道琼斯指数更是创出历史新高。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, the government’s collapse would become inevitable.",
        "到那时，希腊政府的倒闭将是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, recent economic research finds that higher taxes are justified on welfare grounds, because the costs to smokers are huge (even though the external costs to others might be small), and that higher cigarette taxes do not hurt the poor (since the self-control value of higher taxes helps the poor more).",
        "而且最近的经济研究发现，出于福利的理由提高税收也是有道理的，因为烟民的代价太高(即使对其他人的外部代价可能较小)，而且增加香烟税收并不伤害穷人(因为更高税收的自我控制价值可以更多地帮助穷人)。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of whether Europe’s problems are temporary or fundamental – the eurozone, for example, is far from an “optimal” currency area, and tax competition in a free-trade and free-migration area can erode a viable state – austerity will make matters worse.",
        "不论欧洲的问题是暂时性的还是基础性的——比如，欧元区远非“最优”货币区，且自由贸易和人口自由流动地区的税收竞赛会拖垮原本健康的国家——紧缩肯定只能让情况更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "The terrorists dented the worldwide image of India as an emerging economic giant, a success story of the era of globalization, and a magnet for investors and tourists.",
        "当时正值危机中期，印度的国际形象——正在崛起的经济巨人，全球化时期的成功故事，全球投资者和旅游者的圣地——都因恐怖分子的暴行而蒙上了阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "In Rwanda and Kosovo, the Security Council failed to act in time to save thousands of lives.",
        "在卢旺达和科索沃，安理会没能及时采取行动去拯救成千上万人的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Once a candidate has been chosen, it is important to set clear performance expectations that can be evaluated annually.",
        "当一位候选人被选定时，制定可以按年评估的明确的绩效预期很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Note that this estimate is of the TPP’s effect on the level of aggregate income after 15 years, not of its impact on the annual growth rate.",
        "注意，这一估算衡量得失TPP对15年后总收入的影响，而不是对年增长率的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "While the United Nations General Assembly has tasked its agency for human settlements, UN-HABITAT, with promoting sustainable urbanization, the agency lacks the influence to ensure that this vital issue makes it onto the global agenda.",
        "尽管联合国大会责成其人居机构联合国人居署推进可持续城市化，但该机构影响力无法确保这一关键问题进入全球议程。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the worrying features of the 9/11 attacks is that it is hard to see their purpose beyond the perpetrators’ resentment of the West and its ways.",
        "9/11攻击的令人担忧的特性之一就是除了罪犯们仇恨西方及其生活方式之外，很难看到他们的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, in the context of the dream of all Arabs being united and independent of foreign control, Al Jazeera is undeniably partial to Arab aspirations.",
        "可以肯定的是，在所有阿拉伯人携起手来、摆脱外来势力控制的梦想里，半岛电视台无可否认地站在了阿拉伯人的一边。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Financial markets have greeted the election of Greece’s new far-left government in predictable fashion.",
        "东京—金融市场以可以预见的方式迎接了希腊新左翼政府的当选。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, many Americans, especially the young, feel far more respect for the countries that recognized the lack of evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction than for those whose leaders repeated the American distortions.",
        "今天，许美多国人，尤其是年轻人，往往对于那些敢于承认在\"伊拥有大规模杀伤武器\"问题上证据不足、而不是重复美国这一谎言的国家，表现出更多的尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, Latin America remains the slowest growing of any of the world’s developing regions.",
        "然而，拉丁美洲依然是世界上处于增长的地区中增长速度最慢的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, every set of treaty amendments was the product of the type of untidy political haggling typical of intergovernmental decision-making.",
        "结果是，每一个条约的修订都是混乱的政治争论的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "The emerging markets developed the institutions and the skills base needed to import and adapt technology, which is easier than generating new technology from scratch.",
        "新兴市场发展了进口和适应技术所需要的制度和技能基础，这比自主开发新技术容易得多。"
    ],
    [
        "ASEAN and the Rohingya Crisis",
        "东盟和罗兴亚危机"
    ],
    [
        "Now, as China rises and Japan declines, the old, deep-seated suspicions, tensions, and distrust are resurfacing.",
        "如今，随着中国的崛起和日本的衰落，这些旧有的、根深蒂固的怀疑、紧张和不信任重新浮出了水面。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether they like it or not, it is time for our leaders to behave in ways that are good for them – and us.",
        "不管他们是否喜欢，我们的领导人应该以有利于他们——以及我们——方式行动。"
    ],
    [
        "We should expect volatility in commodity prices – as well as in the price of oil.",
        "我们应该预料到大宗商品价格的波动——石油亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "But household default rates have been negligible in Denmark, unlike in the US, where, in the depths of the recession, almost a quarter of mortgages were “under water” and some homeowners chose strategic default – fueling further downward pressure on housing prices and harming other indebted households.",
        "但家庭违约率在丹麦可以忽略不计，而美国在衰退最严重 时几乎有四分之一的按揭贷款“资不抵债”，一些屋主选择战略性违约——进一步加剧了房价的下行压力，危及其他负债家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, divisive politics is now overwhelming constructive economic policymaking.",
        "因此，如今，政治分裂已经压倒了建设性经济决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Fundamental problems remain, and new ones are likely to emerge.",
        "根本性的问题依然还在，新的问题也可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, for example, the conventional war in Kosovo lasted for two months, only to usher in a six-year asymmetric conflict.",
        "因此，例如，科索沃的常规战争持续了两个月，就开启了长达六年的非对称冲突的序幕。"
    ],
    [
        "A clear description of the potential impact of an experiment – as my colleagues and I have provided for the technology as a whole – must be followed by transparency throughout the development process.",
        "像我和同事们那样对技术总体状况做出试验可能后果的清晰描述必须与整个研发进程的高度透明相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost everyone is faced at some point with decisions about treatments and side-effects, for themselves and for loved ones.",
        "几乎每个患者都面对着治疗和副作用之间的抉择，而且无论对自己还是家人都影响重大。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited gene doping in 2003, but some scientists predict that its misuse in sport is likely to appear at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.",
        "世界反兴奋剂机构（WADA）早在2003年就禁止使用基因兴奋剂，但有些科学家仍然认为，滥用基因兴奋剂的情况很可能会在2008年北京奥运会中出现。"
    ],
    [
        "In Iraq alone, the administration misestimated the threat of WMD, failed to plan adequately for the occupation, and then proved unable to adjust quickly when things went wrong.",
        "仅就伊拉克来讲，布什政府错误地估计了大规模杀伤性武器的力量，也未能制定充分的占领计划，而后又在情况发生时未能迅速地适应调节。"
    ],
    [
        "And whereas previous generations of scientists quickly found new substitutes, today, in many cases, doctors are down to their last line of defense.",
        "虽然老一代科学家曾迅速发现新的替代品种，但今天，在许多情况下，医生们都被迫退守最后一道防线。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar mistake is made in assessing China’s debts, about which the world is most concerned.",
        "在评估全球最为关心的中国债务方面也存在着类似错误。"
    ],
    [
        "These companies are formed for the sole purpose of pushing good ideas through the development pipeline.",
        "这些企业成立的全部目的就是要推动好的理念进入开发渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, this strategy is compatible with EU accession only if the EU strengthens its own capacity for concerted action on foreign policy.",
        "换言之，只有当欧盟在外交政策上加强自身采取协调一致的行动能力，这种策略才是与土耳其加入欧盟是相符的。"
    ],
    [
        "That should, in turn, boost real wages over time (although the link between productivity growth and wage growth has weakened during the last two decades).",
        "假以时日，这反过来能够提振真实工资（尽管生产率增长和工资增长的关系在过去二十年中有所减弱）。"
    ],
    [
        "But such thinking reflects an extrapolation from one largely aberrant period in history.",
        "但这样的思维是对历史的反常时期的外推。"
    ],
    [
        "“Do no harm” is as good a principle here as it is in medicine.",
        "“不产生伤害”这一医学格言在这里同样是一条很好的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an outgrowth of the Chinese economy’s nascent structural transformation from capital-intensive manufacturing to labor-intensive services.",
        "它是中国经济从资本密集型制造业向劳动密集型服务业的方兴未艾的结构转型的副产品。"
    ],
    [
        "The credibility of its pledge depends as much on what it will do (buy unlimited quantities of government bonds) as on what it will not do (buy them from countries that do not fulfill conditionality).",
        "其承诺的信誉在很大程度上取决于它会做什么（买入无限量政府债券），但也以同样的程度取决于它不会做什么（购买不满足条件的国家的债券）。"
    ],
    [
        "It is possible, but far from certain, that what Obama describes as a “glimmer” of hope in the US could be sufficient to keep popular anger at bay and bring about a recovery in trust in politics and politicians.",
        "奥巴马所形容的希望的“一线曙光”在美国有可能足以抵挡民众的愤怒情绪，带来对政治和政治家的信任的回归，但这样的结果只是可能而远非确定。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, rather than sustain trade sanctions against China after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the US decided instead to integrate the country into global institutions.",
        "比如，在1989年天安门事件后，美国并没有对中国采取贸易制裁，反而决定帮助中国融入全球机构中去。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, an additional 45 GW of wind and 32 GW of solar were installed worldwide, compared to a net addition of 1.2 GW of nuclear.",
        "去年，全世界新增45GW风能和32GW太阳能，而核电仅仅增加了1. 2GW。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, ordinary Lusakans want to cook similar meals in their own homes, driving demand for farmers who produce such delicacies as dried pumpkin, “black jack” leaves, and fresh Okra.",
        "而现在，普通卢萨卡市民也想要在家中自己烹饪相似的菜肴，这就需要越来越多的农民们去生产更多的精细食品，比如南瓜干、“黑杰克”菜叶和新鲜秋葵。"
    ],
    [
        "But, having said all that, the stimulus package gave the economy a necessary shot in the arm.",
        "尽管如此，这一揽子刺激方案的确给美国经济打了一针救命的强心针。"
    ],
    [
        "In almost no other country are local labor laws applied in such a manner to a foreign diplomat’s personal staff.",
        "其他国家的地方劳动法基本上都不适用于外国外交官员的个人随从。"
    ],
    [
        "Although some economic textbooks claim that dumping by foreigners can force domestic producers to go out of business so that the foreign producer can then raise its price, there is no evidence of such behavior actually occurring in practice.",
        "虽然一些经济学教科书声称外国倾销行为会迫使国内生产者倒闭以便随后提价，但实际上并无证据表明这种行为确实有发生。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first quarter of last year, Greece actually experienced a slight uptick in growth and a small decline in unemployment.",
        "去年一季度，希腊经济实际上略有回升，失业略有下降。"
    ],
    [
        "After many years of outperformance, GDP growth has slowed sharply.",
        "在多年的卓著表现后，GDP增长率开始大幅放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Leung himself was caught with several illegal structures in his house, a violation that he exploited successfully against his rival, Henry Tang, in the election campaign.",
        "梁振英自己也陷入了家中几处违法建筑物的事件当中——他正是利用类似丑闻击败了选举对手唐英年的。"
    ],
    [
        "These are the attributes it must leverage.",
        "这些都是它必须利用起来的特点。"
    ],
    [
        "Some warned that the rejection of the European Constitution in the French and the Dutch referendums, combined with the summit’s decision effectively to suspend the ratification process and its failure to agree on EU finances, could trigger a serious political crisis in the EU.",
        "一些人警告，欧洲宪法在法国和荷兰公投中所遭遇的反对，结合峰会决定延缓批准过程以及峰会难以在欧盟财政上达成一致两件事情，有可能在欧盟引发严重的政治危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The SDG Index is built on internationally comparable data relevant to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 157 countries.",
        "可持续发展目标指数以与157个国家17项可持续发展目标相关的 国际可比数据为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But those who believe that the CCP can defy both the internal degenerative dynamics of autocracy and the historical record of failed one-party regimes might benefit from reading Leon Trotsky, who knew something about revolutions.",
        "但那些相信中共可以无视专制政权内部退化动力和一党专政必将失败的历史记录的人可能受益于阅读托洛茨基的著作，托洛茨基在某种程度上理解革命的规律。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, among the World Bank’s six “Governance Indicators,” China’s scores on the “Control of Corruption” index have actually slipped in recent years, from -0.20 in 1998 to -0.40 in 2002 and -0.69 in 2005.",
        "在世界银行的六大管理指标中，中国“控制腐败”的指数在近年呈下滑趋势，从1998年的-0. 20跌到2002年-0."
    ],
    [
        "And Congress is not about to pass an Enabling Act conferring dictatorial powers on the president, as the Reichstag did for Hitler in March 1933.",
        "而且国会也没有打算通过一项授予总统独裁权力的法案，就像德意志帝国议会1933年3月授权希特勒时那样。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that the Reserve Bank of India – which has hiked its benchmark policy rate 13 times since the start of 2010 to deal with a still-serious inflation problem – can ill afford to ease monetary policy.",
        "这意味着从2010年伊始就开始上调基准政策利率13倍以应对依然严重的通胀局面的印度储备银行很难切实放松货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The WTO cannot sweep its problems under the carpet forever.",
        "世贸组织不可能永远掩盖自己的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to survive international tax competition – and thus be able to rely on corporate taxes as a source of revenue – Japan’s corporate-tax rate should be lowered in the long run.",
        "为了重振国际税收竞争力——从而能够依赖公司税作为收入源——从长期看日本的公司税率应该降低。"
    ],
    [
        "Al-Ahmar has also not benefited from the military aid that the US lavished on Yemen in the wake of al-Qaeda’s failed Christmas Day plot in 2009 to down an American airliner.",
        "同时阿赫玛尔也没有从美国向也门提供的大规模军事援助（起因是基地组织于2009年圣诞针对一架美国客机的未遂袭击）中捞到任何好处。"
    ],
    [
        "It raises questions about the stringencies of the World Bank’s eligibility criteria and allocation models which can prevent support of the most needy.",
        "因此有人开始质疑世界银行的资格审查标准和分配模式的公信力，因为这些标准把那些最需要帮助的国家都拒之门外了。"
    ],
    [
        "In theory, government stockpiles might be able to smooth price fluctuations. But this depends on how stockpiles are administered.",
        "生产国也在试图降低价格波动，它们的办法是建立国际卡特尔。"
    ],
    [
        "But war and occupation create innocent victims.",
        "可是战争和占领会让无辜群众成为牺牲品。"
    ],
    [
        "More competition for investment-banking oligarchs from commercial bankers and insurance companies with deep pockets seemed likely to reduce the investment banking industry’s unconscionable profits.",
        "坐拥巨资的商业银行和保险企业也加入了与投资银行寡头的竞争，估计也会迫使投资银行业降低其不合理利润。"
    ],
    [
        "It is to be hoped that we will learn the details before the G-20 meets in Seoul in November.",
        "真希望在11月的首尔G20会议前，看见一个详细的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Hopes for continued recovery have now given way to two consecutive quarters of negative growth.",
        "如今，对持续复苏的希望已经因为连续两季度的负增长而烟消云散。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, it seems inconceivable that the EU should refuse to support an EMU member in a situation similar to that of Hungary and Latvia, especially as all the countries that are currently on market watch lists are long-time EU members.",
        "在这样的背景下，难以想象欧盟应该拒绝支持和匈牙利，拉脱维亚处在同样景况下的欧洲货币联盟成员国，尤其因为现在被列在市场观察名单上的国家还都是欧盟的长期成员。"
    ],
    [
        "Several factors, including post-war reconstruction, the resurgence of trade after the protectionist 1930’s, the introduction of new technologies in power, transport, and communications across countries, and expansion of educational attainment, underpinned the long boom.",
        "几大因素——包括战后重建、20世纪30年代保护主义风潮过去之后的贸易复兴、电力、运输和跨国通信方面的新技术，以及教育程度的改善——推动了长期繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "These refusals to accept matters of plain fact reflect a still wider pattern.",
        "这些拒绝接受铁板一块的事实反映的是更深层次的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "This, in turn, creates the need for more internal devaluation, further heightening the debt burden, and so on, in a vicious spiral downward into depression.",
        "这反过来要求更多的内部贬值，进一步推高债务负担，如此恶性循环，把经济拖入萧条的泥潭。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the OECD, these include a very low average number of years of schooling, with young workers having almost no more formal education than their older counterparts; little on-the-job training; heavy bureaucratic burdens on firms; corrupt judges and police; high crime rates; and a large, low-productivity informal sector that narrows the tax base and raises tax rates on the rest of the economy.",
        "经合组织（OECD）调查显示，主要的问题是在于墨西哥的人口平均受教育年限较低，很多青年工作者甚至比现有的较为年长的工作者学历水平更低； 在职培训相对较少；"
    ],
    [
        "Merah is too anomalous to serve as a typical example of anything, including racial or religious discrimination.",
        "你根本不可能用某个典型概念来解释默拉这个人，无论是种族或者还是宗教歧视。"
    ],
    [
        "The rules of quantum theory, on which the Standard Model is built, are at root probabilistic.",
        "“标准模型”论基于量子理论规则，从根本上看是一种概率学说。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing in the history of finance, the evolution of cities, or modern economics provides a clear answer.",
        "金融的发展史、城市的演变以及现代经济学都不能提供明确的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "And any global recovery promises to be unbalanced – that is, if it materializes at all.",
        "而全球复苏——如果能够实现的话——必然是失衡的。"
    ],
    [
        "African banks, meanwhile, are rock-solid compared to their debt-heavy counterparts in the US and Europe.",
        "与此同时，比起身负重债的美国和欧洲银行，非洲银行坚如磐石。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, Greece should continue to withhold service on its external debts to official creditors in advance of a consensual debt restructuring later this year.",
        "其次，希腊应在今年晚些时候双方达成债务重组方案之前继续停止偿还正式债权人的外债。"
    ],
    [
        "At a summit meeting in 2013 at the Sunnylands retreat in California, President Barack Obama showed China’s President Xi Jinping the evidence that members of the Chinese military had been stealing industrial technology.",
        "奥巴马总统就曾在2013年加州桑尼兰德举行的首脑会议上向中国国家主席习近平出示过中国军方成员盗窃工业技术的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Gülenists’ assets are being seized, in the biggest wealth grab since the 1940s.",
        "居伦份子的资产正在二十世纪四十年代后规模最大的一场财富争夺中遭到查封。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, these distorted results have become conventional wisdom – even for respected economists like the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, who recently invoked the flawed “50% youth unemployment” figure.",
        "不幸的是，这些扭曲的结果已经成为传统智慧——即使是诺贝尔奖获得者保罗·克鲁格曼这样的著名经济学家也是如此，他最近还在大谈有缺陷的“50%年轻人失业率”数字。"
    ],
    [
        "Under such circumstances, calling Mitchell’s work up to now a failure is the only polite – and realistic – thing to do.",
        "由此看来，将此人至今的工作称之为失败已经算是很礼貌（而且是现实）的了。"
    ],
    [
        "Access to education for girls has improved, and some gender gaps have been reduced.",
        "女童接受教育的状况得到改善，有些性别鸿沟缩小了。"
    ],
    [
        "MGI estimates that the additional annual investment required to deliver essential services to those who need them is between $1.5-2 trillion in 2025.",
        "MGI估算，到2025年，向需要基本服务的人提供这些服务所需要的新增年投资量为1. 5—2万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "High and rising inflation creates great costs and is difficult to reverse.",
        "）快速膨胀的高通胀造成了巨大的成本，并且很难扭转。"
    ],
    [
        "Faced with the large amounts of non-performing loans inherited from the crisis, countries shifted their attention to deleveraging, leaving investment and TFP growth to stall.",
        "面临大量危机所产生的不良贷款的这些国家的注意力转到了去杠杆化上，投资和全要素生产率增长陷入停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "Does Flynn have compromising information about the president?",
        "弗林所掌握的信息是否有损于这位总统？"
    ],
    [
        "Other big dollar borrowers include Brazil (over $300 billion) and India ($125 billion).",
        "其他主要美元借款人包括巴西（3,000亿美元以上）和印度（1,250亿美元）。"
    ],
    [
        "It also fulfilled a fundamental need in Northern Indian society: to give millions an identity, a standing in society, and a sense of security that they and their families had not previously known.",
        "它也满足了北印度社会的一项基本需要：它给了数百万人和他们的家庭此前一无所知的身份、社会的立足点以及安全感。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternatives – for my country, for Russia, and for Europe – are clear.",
        "对于我的祖国、俄罗斯以及欧洲而言，选择是明显的。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it could have been much worse.",
        "但情况原本可能更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Aren’t fund managers violating both fiduciary responsibilities and moral rules?",
        "基金经理难道没有违背信托责任和道德准则吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Even “innocent” companies and organizations must evaluate and upgrade their policies for protecting vulnerable people, along with their means for enforcing those policies.",
        "即便是“无辜”的公司和组织，也必须评估和升级其弱势群体保护政策，并加强政策执行力度。"
    ],
    [
        "One of these gases was CO2.",
        "二氧化碳就可以起到这种作用。"
    ],
    [
        "A Fair Deal for Turkey",
        "土耳其的公平待遇"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is that revenue growth usually goes hand-in-hand with macroeconomic growth, which increasingly is found in emerging-market countries, rather than in many banks’ mature Western home markets.",
        "原因之一是宏观经济增长通常总会带来收入增长，而当前新兴市场国家经济涨势正盛，与许多银行的西方母国形成了鲜明对比。"
    ],
    [
        "With such a poor track record, there is a need for soul-searching and openness to other approaches.",
        "考虑到那些令人失望的过往记录，我们需要好好反思自身并以开放的态度迎接其他解决问题的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Migrants used to pay a fee of almost 15% on average to send money back home; this has fallen to less than 9%, and in some cases nearly to zero, which should be the universal goal.",
        "过去，移民汇款回家平均要缴纳近15%的费用； 该费用如今已经下降至9%，有的甚至已经接近于零，这样的改进能惠及所有人。"
    ],
    [
        "The currency union may survive, but, for millions of people, the euro has already failed in its mission of sustaining growth and ensuring stability.",
        "货币联盟可能最终能够得救，但对千百万人民来说，欧元维持增长、保证稳定的使命肯定是没有完成。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, the focus on investment would improve prospects for long-term sustainable growth, which would enable governments and households to pursue responsible deleveraging.",
        "更重要的是，着重投资将改善长期可持续增长前景，让政府和家庭能够追求负责任的去杠杆化。"
    ],
    [
        "Like their Algerian counterparts – who in 1992 approved of the Algerian army’s suppression of an Islamist electoral victory, leading to years of brutal fighting that left perhaps a half-million dead – many Egyptians didn’t mind repressing Islamists.",
        "与阿尔及利亚人一样，许多埃及人并不介意镇压伊斯兰教徒。 1992年，阿尔及利亚世俗派批准了阿军队镇压伊斯兰选举胜利，导致了多年的激烈战斗，可能有50万人因此丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "But how do we measure the gaps in educational quality?",
        "但我们如何衡量教育质量差距？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, such research is integral to improving upon the factors that contribute most to a society’s wealth: health, education, and ethics.",
        "事实上，这类研究对于改进社会财富的最重要贡献因素是至关重要的，包括健康、教育和伦理。"
    ],
    [
        "Very few had probably ever read the Constitution; it is in fact an unreadable document. The “no” vote stemmed from general discontent with political elites associated with “Brussels.”",
        "他们投“否决票”主要因为对“布鲁塞尔”政治精英普遍怀有不满情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "The police reportedly told the crowd that they didn’t want to arrest anybody who didn’t want to be arrested, and nobody was.",
        "警方反复告诉人群他们不想逮捕任何不打算被捕的人，结果没人被捕。"
    ],
    [
        "Thousands of Chinese demonstrated on campus and through the city, shouting “Boycott Japanese goods!” and “Japanese dogs, get out!”",
        "成千上万名中国人在校园和全城进行游行，高喊着“抵抗日货！ 日本狗，滚出去！"
    ],
    [
        "As emerging powers’ reactions to the Ukraine crisis demonstrate, world politics is no longer defined by what happens in Europe, even when a major conflict is brewing there.",
        "正如新兴大国对乌克兰危机的反应所显示的，世界政治已不再决定于欧洲发生了什么，即便欧洲正在酝酿一场大冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Billions of dollars are flowing into auto, steel, chemical, and high-tech electronics plants, setting the stage for China to be a major exporter of high-end products.",
        "几十亿美元正在流入汽车、钢铁、化工以及高技术电子工厂，从而为中国变成高端产品的主要出口国做准备。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with enlightened leadership and constructive cooperation, Egypt can overcome its current troubles.",
        "然而，只要有开明的领导和建设性的合作，埃及就可以克服当前的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Countries need skilled and talented people to generate the innovations that underpin long-term economic growth.",
        "华盛顿—国家需要高技能人才产生推动长期经济增长的创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, despite South Korea’s dependence on exports, domestic consumption is robust.",
        "此外，尽管韩国对出口的依赖度很高，但国内消费水平也很强健。"
    ],
    [
        "In such an information age, Nye wrote, three types of countries are likely to gain soft power: “those whose dominant cultures and ideals are closer to prevailing global norms (which now emphasize liberalism, pluralism, autonomy); those with the most access to multiple channels of communication and thus more influence over how issues are framed; and those whose credibility is enhanced by their domestic and international performance.”",
        "在这样一个信息时代，奈写道，三类国家可能获得软实力：“主流文化和理想家更接近于赢得全球规范（现在的全球规范强调自由、多元和自治）的国家； 最能获得多重沟通渠道因而对问题框架最有影响力的国家；"
    ],
    [
        "The Wrong Tax for Europe",
        "金融交易税——欧盟吃错药？"
    ],
    [
        "And, as has happened repeatedly over the last decade, a few months into the year, others’ more optimistic forecasts are being revised downward.",
        "此外，如过去十年中反复发生的，今年过去几个月后，其他人较为乐观的预测纷纷向下修正。"
    ],
    [
        "How, then, do we know when force is disproportionate?",
        "那么，我们如何知道何时武力过度呢？"
    ],
    [
        "I even joined farmers’ representatives in a rally in front of Japan’s Diet.",
        "我甚至加入农民代表在日本议会前示威抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, as one mordant and widespread slogan puts it, Austria is “the better Germany.”",
        "而现在，正如一句广泛流传的讽刺性标语所说的那样，奥地利是“更佳的德国”。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a new class of device, about the size of a postage stamp, that splits a sample into multiple zones with different detection chemistries has been used to test multiple conditions associated with liver failure in HIV and tuberculosis patients.",
        "比如，一种邮票大小、可将样本分成多个区域进行不同检测化学反应的新装置已经被用于检测与艾滋病毒导致的肝衰竭和肺结核有关的多种状况。"
    ],
    [
        "A few weeks back, I met the tourism minister, who I thought was excellent and had a sensible plan to revive the sector.",
        "几周前我还见过旅游部长，在我看来他很出色，制定了重振旅游行业的合理计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in an era of global media and international war crimes courts, the criteria for states’ use of military force have become more complex than ever.",
        "此外，在一个全球性媒体和国际战争罪行法庭的时代，国家使用武力的条件变得越来越复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "The Mirage of Structural Reform",
        "结构改革幻象"
    ],
    [
        "In India, for example, poverty has declined more slowly in areas where farmers face increased foreign competition.",
        "比方说印度，在农民面临更多外来竞争的领域脱贫的进展更有难度。"
    ],
    [
        "By now, many have heard about plans by big carmakers – including Honda, Toyota, and Hyundai – to launch hydrogen fuel-cell cars commercially around 2015.",
        "如今，包括本田、丰田和现代在内的大型汽车商纷纷抛出了计划，将在2015年左右实现氢燃料电池汽车的商业使用。"
    ],
    [
        "With the help of a police force that he himself describes as a “million-man mafia,” Sisi has made repression the paramount organizing principle of his regime.",
        "在被他本人称为 “百万黑帮”的警察部队的协助下，西西将镇压变成了体制最突出的组织原则。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk is that fully satisfying all the myriad demands for public services would require a public sector so big that it might well crowd out innovative activities in the private sector.",
        "风险在于充分满足所有各种各样的公共服务需求需要一个异常庞大的公共部门，以致于极大地挤出私人部门创新活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The end-2013 deadline for implementation of the banking union is a long way off.",
        "2013年年底实施银行联盟的期限也还遥不可及。"
    ],
    [
        "The beacon of hope shining from Geneva should guide us all.",
        "日内瓦的希望灯塔应该成为我们所有人的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Balotelli, Italy’s EURO 2012 superstar, is the son of Ghanaian immigrants.",
        "就连意大利2012年欧锦赛超级巨星巴洛特利也来自加纳移民家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Papandreou had to reverse course quickly in response to both internal and external pressure, but the option that he put on the table will not go away whatever the fate of the present Greek government.",
        "出于国内外的压力，帕潘德里欧被迫收回了成命，但不论希腊现任政府的命运如何，他所抛出的方案始终有实施的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet I do not believe that economic considerations or concerns about sovereignty offer compelling arguments for Brexit.",
        "但我并不认为经济考虑或对主权的担忧是英国退出问题最主要的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The combination of financial contagion from Europe, which has already led to a severe credit crunch, and a sudden flood of low-priced imports from China leaves the Romney administration in a bind.",
        "与欧洲经济的蔓延相结合已经导致了严重的信贷危机，而突然间从中国大量涌入的廉价商品都让罗姆尼的团队陷入困境中。"
    ],
    [
        "It sets him apart from the establishment they despise.",
        "怪异让他在人们鄙视的体制面前显得特立独行。"
    ],
    [
        "They can help to expose the truth about life in Daesh – that it is brutal, corrupt, and prone to internal purges – in several ways, including by drawing attention to defections.",
        "它们有助于以多种方式、包括将注意力吸引到背叛方面来揭露达伊莎的真正生活，揭露其残酷、腐败、动辄内部清洗的本质。"
    ],
    [
        "Barack Obama’s words echo those of Clinton.",
        "而在巴拉克·奥巴马的言论中，人们也能察觉到克林顿的余音。"
    ],
    [
        "And, sure enough, what we are seeing now, 16 years after the eurozone institutionalized those relationships, is the antithesis of democracy: Many European leaders want to see the end of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s leftist government.",
        "此外，毫无疑问，如今，在欧元区将这些关系制度化16年后，我们看到的情景与民主完全背道而驰：许多欧洲领导人希望看到总理齐普拉斯的左翼政府的下台。"
    ],
    [
        "China has already made it clear it will not contribute to the $4.1 billion multilateral fund to sustain Afghan national security forces.",
        "中国已经明确表态不会在维持阿富汗国防军的41亿美元多国资金中出力。"
    ],
    [
        "This would not be an easy process, and could well meet considerable Iranian resistance.",
        "上述过程可能非常困难，也可能遭遇伊朗方面的强烈抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "When asked, “What does the EU mean to you personally,” 50% of citizens in the 15 countries that were EU members before enlargement in May 2004 say “the euro” – the second most common response (just behind “the ability to travel, study, and work anywhere in the EU”).",
        "当被问及“欧盟对你个人意味着什么”时，2004年5月欧盟扩张之前15个原成员国50%的公民都回答“欧元”¾这种回答的普遍性居第二位（仅次于“在欧盟各地旅游、学习和工作的能力”）。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, the paradox that success leads to failure, and failure leads to success.",
        "因此，成功导致失败，而失败又带来成功的悖论始终存在。"
    ],
    [
        "He conducted exploratory conversations with other eurozone governments in the autumn of 2011, and had sought an agreement with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, who proposed a referendum that effectively would have meant choosing between strict austerity and exiting the eurozone.",
        "2011年秋，他与其他欧元区国家政府开展了试探性交流，并与希腊总理帕潘德里欧达成了一致，后者建议举行实质上是在严格的紧缩和退出欧元区两个选项中做选择的公投。"
    ],
    [
        "Snowden was worried that any attempt by the British government to borrow would fail, which would constitute an “admission of national bankruptcy.”",
        "斯诺登担心英国政府的任何举债尝试都将无功而返，可能导致“承认国家破产”。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is also a result of heavy-handed manipulation of the foreign-exchange market by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), which makes changes in the price and availability of the renminbi opaque and uncertain.",
        "但这同时也体现出中国人民银行对外汇市场的大力操纵，导致人民币的价格和供应都不透明且充满不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Such cells resemble human embryos, which, under European Union patent law, cannot be patented.",
        "上述细胞类似于人类胚胎，而按照欧盟专利法的规定，人类胚胎不允许申请专利。"
    ],
    [
        "But Pakistani politicians are bound to be influenced by domestic public opinion, which is generally critical of US policies.",
        "但是巴基斯坦政治家一定会受到国内公众意见的影响，而这些意见基本上都对美国政策不满。"
    ],
    [
        "With only paltry yields on offer at home, investors have looked to riskier, “frontier” markets for higher returns.",
        "在国内只能获得可怜的收益率，这促使投资者着眼于风险较高的“前沿”市场追求更高回报。"
    ],
    [
        "This seems like a sound argument.",
        "这种观点似乎能站得住脚。"
    ],
    [
        "The ensuing losses will aggravate the financial turmoil and economic contraction.",
        "随之引发的损失将加剧金融危机和经济紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "The Visegrad initiative worked to some extent, though it was temporarily paralyzed by the disintegration of Czechoslovakia just over a decade ago.",
        "维谢格拉德行动虽然由于捷克斯洛伐克十年前的分治一度陷于瘫痪，但也产生了一定的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "And how will voters react?",
        "选民又将如何反应？"
    ],
    [
        "At first blush, falling prices for goods and services may sound like a good thing.",
        "起初商品和服务的价格下跌可能听起来像是件好事。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Trump, he gave us his tower, one of the ugliest in Manhattan, with its clunky, derivative architecture, its gigantic atrium, its 25-meter waterfall to impress the tourists – a Tower of Babel in glass and steel built by a Don Corleone from the dregs in which all of the world’s languages will indeed be fused into one.",
        "至于特朗普，他留给我们的是他的大厦，这座大厦是曼哈顿最丑陋的建筑之一，有着模仿得来的笨重的构架、巨大的中庭以及讨好旅游者的25米高的瀑布——这座大厦是一个叫唐·柯里昂的人用钢铁和玻璃建造的巴比伦塔，这样的渣滓通过将世界所有语言汇集在一起而最终形成。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – From July 2005 until this past December, China’s renminbi (RMB) appreciated steadily.",
        "北京—从2005年7月到去年12月，人民币一直在逐渐升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it means preserving financial stability.",
        "此外，这意味着保护金融稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "If globalization, which has so enriched the world’s wealthiest countries, is to continue, governments must find ways to increase incomes more evenly.",
        "全球化令世界最富有国家致富。 如果想要让它继续，各国政府就必须找到更为均衡地增加收入的途径。"
    ],
    [
        "A Drug War on Auto-Pilot",
        "不由分说的禁毒战争"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the Gulag Museum is under different management.",
        "今天，古拉格博物馆更换了管理层。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, deforestation has continued unabated, and the latest international effort to stop it – an initiative known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) – looks no more likely to be effective.",
        "三十年来，森林采伐之势从未减小，而最新的阻止滥伐措施——被称为“减少滥伐和毁林所致排放”（Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation，REDD+）——看上去也不太可能收到成效。"
    ],
    [
        "Reagan’s Tax Reforms Revisited",
        "重温里根的税收改革"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1920s, journalists like H.L. Mencken made Christian fundamentalists in the US look so foolish that they dropped out of politics for several generations.",
        "20世纪20年代，像H·L·门肯这样的记者让美国基督教原教旨主义者看上去如此愚蠢，以至于在长达几代人的时期内基督教势力都在政界消失得无影无踪。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the far northern reaches of the Reef, long at a sufficient distance from human pressures like coastal development to preserve, to a large extent, coral health, a staggering 50% of the coral has died.",
        "即使在大堡礁的最北沿——那里与海岸开发等人类压力距离足够远，因而能够保证珊瑚的健康——珊瑚死亡比例更是高达惊人的50%。"
    ],
    [
        "Arabs have long harbored deep suspicion that the Turks want more than just to protect the Turkmen minority and Sunni Arabs in the conflict.",
        "长期以来，阿拉伯人一直深深地怀疑土耳其人想要的绝不只是保护在冲突中占少数的土耳其人和逊尼派阿拉伯人。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a much smaller, slower, and more fragmented version of the Wikipedia community came into existence with the rise of universities in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Europe.",
        "实际上，随着十二世纪和十三世纪欧洲大学崛起，规模更小、速度更慢、而且更为不完整的维基百科社区出现了。"
    ],
    [
        "These include the Freed Kamlari Development Forum (which combats girls’ slavery in Nepal); the Upper Manya Krobo Rights of the Child Club; and the Yellow movement, which campaigns for youth rights in Ethiopia.",
        "这些组织包括自由卡姆拉里发展论坛（Freed Kamlari Development Forum，反女童奴的尼泊尔组织）、上曼雅克罗伯儿童权利俱乐部（Upper Manya Krobo Rights of Child Club）、黄色运动（Yellow Movement，埃塞俄比亚年轻人权利运动）等。"
    ],
    [
        "Napoleon is reputed to have said that he wanted lucky generals.",
        "拿破仑有个著名的论断——他中意幸运的将军。"
    ],
    [
        "Major changes are unlikely in the foreseeable future.",
        "在可以预期的未来，重大变化不大可能出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if the positive emotions remain only fleeting (as seems most likely), they were real and palpable.",
        "即使积极情绪最终只会消失殆尽（这是最有可能的情形），它们也是真实而容易捕捉的。"
    ],
    [
        "Mayors for Peace and its civil-society partners will do everything we can do to support them.",
        "和平市长会议及其民间社团伙伴将竭尽全力为他们提供支持。"
    ],
    [
        "ECB President Mario Draghi has said much the same.",
        "欧洲央行行长德拉吉的说法也大致相同。"
    ],
    [
        "“Ceding the terrain of emotion-shaping to anti-liberal forces,” writes Nussbaum, “gives them a huge advantage in the people’s hearts and risks making people think of liberal values as tepid and boring.”",
        "“将影响情绪的领域拱手让给了反自由力量，” 努斯鲍姆写道，“导致了他们在人心方面占尽优势，也有可能让人们认为自由主义价值观温吞又无聊。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Given this backdrop of repression and punctuated democracy, the failure of Islamists in Egypt and Turkey tells us less about Islam’s compatibility with democracy than we might think.",
        "在这一镇压和干预民主的背景下，伊斯兰教在埃及和土耳其的失败所揭示的伊斯兰教与民主的兼容性问题并不像我们想象的那样严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Secure rights to land are simply a prerequisite of development.",
        "确保土地权利是发展的前提。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, nuclear Iran would call Europe’s fundamental security into question.",
        "总之，拥有核武器的伊朗将使得欧洲的基本安全面临挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The reasons are simple.",
        "原因很简单。"
    ],
    [
        "Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland and leader of the SNP, attacked the “cozy consensus” around fiscal consolidation in Westminster.",
        "苏格兰第一大臣、苏格兰民族党领袖尼古拉·斯特金（Nicola Sturgeon）抨击威斯敏斯特围绕财政整合计划的“愉快共识”。"
    ],
    [
        "Transparency and confidence-building measures can help.",
        "透明度和信心建设措施有所助益。"
    ],
    [
        "Digital platforms make markets more transparent and efficient, which is exactly the kind of disruption that today’s labor markets need.",
        "数码平台令市场变得更透明高效，而这正是当前劳动力市场急需的冲击性创新。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, this is most apparent in changing attitudes toward medical-malpractice lawsuits, with libertarians no longer viewing the court system as the preferred arena to deal with medical risk and error.",
        "在美国，人们对医疗事故诉讼的态度变化显而易见，自由主义者不再将法庭视为处理医疗风险和失误的最佳场所。"
    ],
    [
        "Surely, education has other virtues, over and above its economic role.",
        "当然，教育有很多其它好处，远远超过它的经济作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberals should be happy to have their consumption subsidized by mercantilists.",
        "自由主义派应该为其消费有来自重商主义者的补贴而高兴。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Russia a trustworthy partner in these areas?",
        "在这些领域，俄罗斯是一个值得信任的合作伙伴吗？"
    ],
    [
        "If a twenty-first-century post-sovereign system remains an unreachable dream in our Hobbesian world, and reverting to nineteenth-century norms by acquiescing to aggressive behavior by Russia and China is unpalatable, defending the postwar international system may be the best option we have.",
        "如果二十一世纪后主权制度在我们霍布斯式的世界里仍然是遥不可及的梦想，并且我们无法接受默许俄中恢复19世纪的侵略行为，那么剩下的最好选择或许是捍卫战后国际体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, while the ECB’s actions have reduced tail risks in the eurozone – a Greek exit and/or loss of market access for Italy and Spain – the monetary union’s fundamental problems have not been resolved.",
        "其次，虽然欧洲央行的行动减少了欧元区尾部风险——希腊的退出以及意大利和西班牙丢失市场准入权的丧失——货币联盟的根本问题并未解决。"
    ],
    [
        "For the past month, women in Georgia who were displaced from Abkhazia during the 1993 conflict have witnessed history moving backwards; everything they lived through 15 years ago is repeating itself.",
        "过去的一个月中，在1993年的冲突中从阿布哈兹被迫迁移来格鲁吉亚的妇女们目睹了历史的倒退； 她们15年前所经历的一切，都正在重演。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer: not much at all.",
        "回答：不大。"
    ],
    [
        "Many began to wonder whether Hollande was aware of the scope of the crisis that the recent downturn might trigger.",
        "许多人开始怀疑奥朗德是否对不久前经济衰退可能引发的危机规模有着清醒的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if we set aside its masses of pork-barrel spending, and analyses that show it may allow more emissions in the US for the first decades, there are more fundamental problems with this legislation.",
        "即使我们把法案中大量公饱私囊的“政治分肥”忽略不计，并将法案可能允许美国在其生效的头十年内排放更多温室气体的分析放在一边，这一立法依然存在着许多根本性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "One such challenge, the Vatican Bank, is equivalent to cleaning up the Augean stables.",
        "一项此类挑战——梵蒂冈银行——不下于奥吉厄斯的牛棚（Augean stables）。"
    ],
    [
        "Both talk grandiosely and profusely about impartiality.",
        "它们都对公正报导夸夸其谈。"
    ],
    [
        "Why is this kind of thing not normal in scientific advising?",
        "试问这些做法为什么不能在科学建议中成为常态呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But, perhaps more importantly in the long run, it would create the framework of collaboration and trust that is required if the world is to achieve a larger global climate agreement.",
        "不过从长远来看，或许更为重要的是，若世界要达成一项更大的全球气候协议，这种伙伴关系将创建必需的合作与信任框架。"
    ],
    [
        "They must recognize the need to create a sounder financial system for alliance operations.",
        "各北约成员国还必须认识到为联盟行动建立更坚实的财务制度的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "One is to deal with the hundreds of billions of dollars of debt written under the old terms, which cannot be restructured under Griesa’s ruling.",
        "一是处置根据旧条款发行的数千亿美元债务，它们无法根据葛里萨的裁决重组。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, rather than relying on household surveys every few years to calculate the mortality rate, systems of civil registration and vital statistics can collect mortality data in real time, with the added benefit of information on cause of death.",
        "比如，户籍和人口动态统计可以实时收集死亡率数据，还可以附带死亡原因信息，因此不必每隔几年进行一次家庭调查以计算死亡率。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, private profits were generated out of socially wasteful activities.",
        "换句话说，私人利润来自从社会角度看纯属浪费的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1970’s in the United States, they taught us about an interracial couple on Sesame Street.",
        "在1970年代的美国，它们为我们展示了一对肤色不同的夫妇。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump, Le Pen, Britain’s right-wing Brexiteers, Poland’s and Hungary’s illiberal governments, and Russian President Vladimir Putin are forming the second bloc.",
        "而特朗普、勒庞、英国右翼脱欧论者，波兰和匈牙利两国的反自由化政府和俄罗斯总统普京（Vladimir Putin）正在形成另一个集团。"
    ],
    [
        "My extrapolation of the IMF model shows that Western countries can boost their long-term GDP growth significantly by increasing their levels of capital investment over a three-year period.",
        "依据世界货币基金组织的经济模型，我推断西方国家可以通过在3年内提高投资水平来推动长期的GDP增长。 一个仅等同于GDP0."
    ],
    [
        "Second, as consumers reacted to lower energy costs, demand adjusted only gradually.",
        "其次，随着消费者对下跌的能源成本做出了反应，需求只是逐渐调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, Bolivia became the first country to ban all animals, wild or domestic, from circuses.",
        "去年，玻利维亚成为首个禁止马戏团驯养动物 —— 无论是野生和驯养 —— 的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The general direction is clear.",
        "大方向是明确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries across the continent are racing to construct the roads, ports, power stations, schools, and hospitals they will need to sustain their growth and meet the needs of their fast-growing and urbanizing populations.",
        "非洲各国正在竞相建设道路、港口、电站、学校和医院，它们需要这些基础设施保持增长、满足快速膨胀的城市化人口的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "That scenario seems optimistic at best.",
        "这种情况似乎有些过于乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "The profound disruption of the economy will continue at least until that time.",
        "灾难对经济的巨大破坏至少会持续到那时为止。"
    ],
    [
        "Privatizing Development Aid",
        "发展援助私人化"
    ],
    [
        "The first is the politics of world theatre, where a political figure of global stature could do much to raise the EU’s profile and ensure that it has a major say in re-ordering the post-crisis global economic rulebook.",
        "其一是世界舞台上的政治，一个拥有全球成就的政治人物可以大大提升欧盟的政治形象，并确保其在后危机时代的全球经济规则重塑中取得重要的发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – I confess: I do it, too.",
        "发自牛津——我坦白：我也做过那种事。"
    ],
    [
        "Collective decisions are taken by patriarchs in councils called jirgas , where all have to be in agreement.",
        "集体决策由 jirgas 委员会中的长老做出，所有人都必须服从他们的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir was banned in Germany in 2003, partly because of its contacts with the far right.",
        "伊斯兰极端组织伊扎布特2003年在德国被禁，部分原因是它与极右翼势力有着千丝万缕的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Shortly after Israel signed its 1994 peace treaty with Jordan, then-Foreign Minister Shimon Peres proposed a cross-border joint economic zone to solidify the agreement. This became the Jordan Gateway Industrial Park (JGIP), a 346-acre special economic zone (SEZ) occupying the Israeli and Jordanian banks of the Jordan River near Haifa.",
        "以色列与约旦于1994年签署了和约后不久，时任以色列外长的希蒙·佩雷斯（Shimon Peres）提出建设跨境经济合作区以巩固该协议，并以此建成了占地346英亩，横跨海法附近约旦河段以色列和约旦两岸的经济特区——约旦通商工业园。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, all personal contact occurs through official channels.",
        "因此，所有的人际联系都要通过官方渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment will not shift decisively toward greener sources of energy unless and until portfolio managers begin to account for the risks of dangerous climate change.",
        "除非投资组合经理开始算计危险的气候变化的风险，否则投资就无法决定性地向更加绿色的能源资源倾斜。"
    ],
    [
        "These rescue packages have relieved the eurozone’s financial distress, but at a high cost.",
        "这些援助计划减轻了欧元区的金融压力，但代价是高昂的。"
    ],
    [
        "Such regimes would limit poor countries’ access to the knowledge that they need for their development – and would deny life-saving generic drugs to the hundreds of millions of people who cannot afford the drug companies’ monopoly prices.",
        "这种制度会限制贫穷国家得到那些发展所需的知识——并且会让数以亿计支付不起药物公司垄断价格的人们无法得到用来救命的非专利药物。"
    ],
    [
        "The Israelis will claim to have conceded nothing essential; Abbas’s Fatah will claim to have secured a road paved with gold.",
        "以色列将宣布它实际上一点让步也没有做出； 阿巴斯的法塔赫将宣布找到了一条笃定的黄金之路。"
    ],
    [
        "Alarmingly high youth unemployment, shrinking social safety nets, and under-investment in infrastructure and human capital are burdening current generations and, in a growing number of cases, will adversely affect future generations as well.",
        "高得惊人的青年失业率、不断缩水的社会安全网和基础设施/人力资本投资不足正加重着当前一代人的负担，且在越来越多的情况下，也将会有害于未来一代人。"
    ],
    [
        "With Japanese prices rising and the yen falling relative to other currencies, investors will be willing to hold Japanese government bonds (JGBs) only if their nominal yield is significantly higher than it has been in the past.",
        "随着日本物价上涨以及日元相对其他货币贬值，欲让投资者继续愿意持有日本国债，唯有名义收益率较过去大幅提高。"
    ],
    [
        "A subsidiarity principle even grants senior cadres discretion in delegating powers to underlings.",
        "辅助原则甚至规定高级干部有权向下属放权。"
    ],
    [
        "But the current constellation of Czech political forces is finely balanced between pro-Treaty and anti-Treaty forces.",
        "但在捷克当前的政治力量对比中，支持条约派和反对条约派势均力敌。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, regardless of the electoral result, Ethiopia needs international backing.",
        "这也说明为什么埃塞俄比亚需要国际支持，而不管选举结果怎样。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade in organs follows a clear, geographically linked pattern: people from rich countries buy the organs, and people in poor countries sell them.",
        "器官交易表现出明显的地域模式：富国民众购买器官，穷国民众出售。"
    ],
    [
        "In hindsight, it was a mistake to believe in the euro’s spontaneous community-creating power.",
        "事后看来，认为欧元可以自动带来统一的力量是一个错误。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative, as China has suggested, would be to develop a new reserve currency.",
        "中国已经提出的替代方案是推出新的储备货币。"
    ],
    [
        "The main idea of the Kissinger initiative is large reductions in US and Russian nuclear stockpiles, backed by improved security arrangements for fissile materials, a more intrusive inspection regime for the nuclear powers, and assistance for civilian nuclear programs.",
        "基辛格倡议的主要观点是在改进后的易裂变材料安全安排、对核国家更深入的检查以及对民用核项目的帮助的支持下，大规模减少美国和俄罗斯的核武器储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite the data supporting better land-use decision-making, something isn’t adding up.",
        "然而，尽管数据支持更好的土地使用决策，但情况并不“给力”。"
    ],
    [
        "All of Asia’s democratic powers must be on board.",
        "所有亚洲民主力量都必须团结起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Saddam was venal and cruel, but his regime was predominantly secular.",
        "萨达姆是腐败而残忍的，但他的政权具有显著的世俗特征。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way out of the trap is a hefty dose of creative destruction, which in Europe would have to be accompanied by debt relief and exits from the eurozone, with subsequent currency devaluations.",
        "走出陷阱的唯一办法是大规模的创新性破坏，在欧洲，创新性破坏还必须辅之以债务纾困和退出欧元区然后进行大规模货币贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "To be fair, this is quite a twist on anything Perón could have imagined pulling off.",
        "平心而论，这与庇隆可能的构想完全不符。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the United States is now deeply divided in electoral terms.",
        "很明显，如今的美国已经随着选举形势被严重分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "If the transition is assisted now, the crucial economic reforms that will occupy elected governments for years to come stand a much greater chance of succeeding.",
        "如果国际社会现在着手协助转型，那么当选政府今后若干年进行的重要经济改革成功率将会陡然增大。"
    ],
    [
        "What a real revolution it would be if the Western democracies did indeed begin to frame their foreign policies with human rights and democratic processes as their benchmark.",
        "但这只是个开始，而真正的革命，则是西方民主国家真正开始用人权和民主进程作为基准来构建其外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Their parents, still influenced by life under the repressive autocracies from which they fled, tend to be submissive to the powers that be.",
        "他们的父辈，由于当初逃离独裁镇压，倾向于顺从现有政权，这种心理影响依然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "The democratic genie is out of the bottle.",
        "民主的妖怪已经从瓶子里钻出来了。"
    ],
    [
        "They have positioned themselves as a great power on the left, with a central position in the European Socialist Party, offering an alternative to the prescriptions of New Labour and the SPD.",
        "他们将自己定位于一个强势左翼政党，在欧洲社会党中占据中心地位，给新工党和德国社会民主党提供了一条新的出路。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is the third component of the announcement that inspires fear in some observers: By helping to build a strong security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan could undermine the ability of some actors to advance their own interests.",
        "事实上，第三部分引起了一些观察者的担忧：通过帮助亚太地区构建强大的安全结构，日本可能破坏某些行动方主张自身利益的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "One strategy, termed “benign neglect,” was to let the surplus countries pile up reserves until they realized that they had a very big problem.",
        "一种策略叫“善意忽视”，就是放任盈余国家积累储备，直到它们自己意识到问题的严重性。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the Fed’s talk in mid-2013 about a gradual exit from unconventional monetary policy led to a so-called “taper tantrum” among investors, triggering a surge in global volatility and a shift in market sentiment against emerging markets.",
        "这也是为何美联储在2013年中关于逐渐退出非常规货币政策的讲话在投资者中引发了一个所谓“减债恐慌”，导致全球流动性大减以及对新兴市场的负面情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Chase described his new deal in general terms as “the drastic and progressive revision of the economic structure, avoiding an utter break with the past.”",
        "蔡斯将新政笼统地描述为“在避免和过去彻底决裂的前提下大刀阔斧地改良经济结构”。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the Greeks remain in the eurozone?",
        "希腊人会不会留在欧元区？"
    ],
    [
        "Our responsibility is to ensure that we are doing better in each of these areas by 2017, when the current electoral term expires.",
        "我们的责任是确保我们在2017年本届政府到期时在所有这些领域做得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "CNN reported it \"neither equitable nor free.\"",
        "CNN说它\"既不平等也不自由。"
    ],
    [
        "We had a child, and my mother came from Uzbekistan to join us.",
        "不久之后，我们有了一个孩子，我的母亲也从乌兹别克斯坦来到了塔吉克斯坦，和我们一起生活。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, only the UK is visibly opting for a more coordinated and direct way to counter the persistent shortfalls stemming from the private part of the credit crisis.",
        "事实上，只有英国明确选择了更协调也更直接的方式来抵消由私人信贷危机引起的长期短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "And, when peace was restored, they would find themselves back at square one, still needing to build a regional order in which the others would play a big part.",
        "而且重建和平后，他们将发现自己再度回到原点，无法避开建设另两方起重要作用的地区秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "How can governments rise to the challenge?",
        "政府如何应对这一挑战？"
    ],
    [
        "This widely condemned governmental neglect of the Kobe earthquake victims was among the major sources of public indignation that helped popularize the reform movement from which Kan emerged.",
        "而民众对政府忽视神户灾民的普遍愤怒则进一步助长了改革运动的声势，最终造就了菅直人的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that there have been important advances during the last decade in managing migration.",
        "好消息是在过去的十年里在移民管理上已经取得了很重要的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing reveals the decline of the United States in the region better than the contrast between America’s sober use of power in the first Gulf War in 1991 and the hubris and deceit of today’s Iraq war.",
        "美国在1991年第一次海湾战争期间冷静地使用武力，而在如今的伊拉克战争中却充满傲慢和欺骗。 没有任何事情比这两者的对比更可以解释美国在该地区的衰落了。"
    ],
    [
        "His efforts to revise Japan’s pacifist constitution, restore pride in its wartime record, and discredit “elitist” mainstream media, such as the left-of-center newspaper Asahi Shimbun, have earned him the praise of Donald Trump’s former strategist, Stephen Bannon, who called Abe a “Trump before Trump.”",
        "他试图修改日本和平宪法、重新让人们为战时历史感到自豪并诋毁中左派新闻媒体《朝日新闻》等主流精英媒体的努力为他赢得了唐纳德·特朗普前战略顾问斯蒂芬·班农的赞扬，班农曾称安倍是“特朗普之前的特朗普”。"
    ],
    [
        "By providing greater access to international trade for small and medium-size enterprises, the core drivers of growth and job creation, such an initiative would diversify exports and significantly enhance the local share of the global value chain.",
        "3万亿美元。 这样的方案能够让中小企业——增长和就业创造的核心推动力——更多地参与国际贸易，从而实现出口多元化和大幅增强本地占全球价值链的比重。"
    ],
    [
        "Bliss Lawyers has “a bench” of more than 15,000 lawyers across the US who are paid over $200 an hour for “work on an engagement basis for in-house legal department and law firm clients.”",
        "幸福律师公司（Bliss Lawyers）有一套遍布全美国的15,000多名律师的“班子”，他们每小时收费超过200美元，“为组织内部法务部门和律师事务所当事人提供基于契约的工作”。"
    ],
    [
        "More, too, could be done to support the market for green bonds, including by issuing green government bonds.",
        "此外，还应该更多地支持绿色债券市场，包括通过发行绿色政府债券。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is simple: we like things the way they are.",
        "原因很简单：我们喜欢这种模式。"
    ],
    [
        "China is clearly signaling its agitation.",
        "中国在明确表达它的不安。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that history is not always neutral.",
        "问题在于历史并不总是中性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Income inequality will likely start widening again, despite striking improvements in median family income and the poverty rate last year.",
        "收入不平等可能再次开始扩大，尽管去年的中位家庭收入和贫困率指标有了重大改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Those problems are real, but their solutions lie in the new vistas of the enlarged EU: more trade in goods and services, integration of markets and better allocation of capital, and the potentially disciplining effect of economic unification on economic policies.",
        "这些问题是实实在在的，但其解决之道还在于扩大后的欧盟的新局面之中：更多的商品和服务贸易，市场一体化和更好的资本配置，以及经济一体化对经济政策潜在的规范作用。"
    ],
    [
        "They were suspicious of the rabble – the public – having its way on the basis of misinformation or a lack of understanding of the issues.",
        "他们不信任乌合之众——民众——在存在误解或缺乏充分理解的基础上决定国家事务。"
    ],
    [
        "But this tax legislation reduces taxes by tens of thousands of dollars, on average, for those most able to pay (the top quintile).",
        "但这项税收立法为那些最具支付能力的人（收入最顶层那20%）平均减少了数万美元税款。"
    ],
    [
        "The unemployment rate is also declining – more slowly than in the US, to be sure, but that partly reflects a divergence in labor-force participation trends.",
        "失业率也在下降——诚然比美国更慢，但这部分是因为劳动力参与率的不同导致的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given his unwillingness to seek support for his regime and his policies from the ballot box, Musharraf succeeded in undermining both.",
        "但是，由于他不愿意通过选举来寻求对其政权和政策的支持，穆沙拉夫结果把两者都破坏了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is true that US attention to Latin America has waned in recent years.",
        "诚然，美国对拉丁美洲的注意力近几年来有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "This outcome was foreseen by the veteran American diplomat George F. Kennan.",
        "这一结果被老道的美国外交家凯南（George F."
    ],
    [
        "Although food security is a complex problem to solve, preventing future famines doesn’t have to be.",
        "尽管解决粮食安全问题的过程十分复杂，但防止未来饥荒却不一定是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "There are essentially two competing explanations.",
        "从本质上说，有两个互相竞争的解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the rules of the World Trade Organization, the same import duties must be applied to all WTO participants – which means that if Britain’s imports from the EU are duty-free, its imports from the rest of the world must be, too.",
        "因为根据WTO规则，同样的进口关税必须适用于所有WTO参与者——这意味着，如果英国向欧盟的出口商品提供免税待遇，也就必须对来自世界其他地区的出口商品一视同仁。"
    ],
    [
        "The SRF and the AIIB will serve as the key financial instruments of China’s “One Belt, One Road” strategy, centered on the creation of two modern-day Silk Roads – the (overland) “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road” – stretching across Asia toward Europe.",
        "丝路基金和亚投行将作为中国 “一带一路”战略主要的金融工具，以创建两个现代丝绸之路——（陆上）经济带“丝绸之路”和“21世纪海上丝绸之路”——横跨亚洲至欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not true of Israel. Protected by a “security wall” on one side and the sea on the other, Israeli citizens may enjoy the feeling of living on an artificial island from which they can connect directly to the areas of modernity and prosperity in Asia and the West.",
        "但以色列却没有这样的福分，在西面的大海和东面的“安全围墙”保护下，以色列人可以享受居住在一个人造岛屿上，却直接与亚欧大陆那些和平繁荣的区域联系在一起的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be a triumph for the European project.",
        "这将是欧洲计划的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "But local residents may protest such structures, given that they could make the area less attractive.",
        "但地方居民可能反对这样的工程，因为这会使该地区失去吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "India contributed divisions and brigades to the European, Mediterranean, West Asian, North African, and East African theatres.",
        "欧洲、地中海、西亚、北非和东非战区都可以看到印度军队的身影。"
    ],
    [
        "Farmers and food retailers can connect directly through mobile phones and distribution hubs, enabling farmers to sell their crops at higher “farm-gate” prices and without delay, while buyers can move those crops to markets with minimum spoilage and lower prices for final consumers.",
        "农民和粮食零售商之间通过手机和发货中心就能直接联系，这使得农民能够以较高的“出场”价格销售他们的粮食，而且购买商家也能以最低的损耗把粮食运往市场并以较低的价格出售给终端客户。"
    ],
    [
        "While the Wahhabis could yet be bribed again with oil money, the sect’s power-hungry judges eagerly await the next beheading, stoning, or lashing in Riyadh’s public square.",
        "瓦哈比还是可以通过石油美元加以贿赂，这一教派追逐权力的法官们急迫地在利雅德的公共广场上等待下一个的斩首、乱石击死或者鞭击。"
    ],
    [
        "The makers of modern Europe saw that unstable and politically abused money would be a European nightmare, and lead to destructive national animosities and antagonisms.",
        "现代欧洲的缔造者们认识到不稳定且被政治滥用的货币将是欧洲的梦魇，并将导致各国之间破坏性的仇恨和敌对情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Chinese leadership can think beyond its usual default response to North Korean misbehavior – abstract condemnation followed by a call for dialogue – it can apply real pressure on the North Korean regime in full view of the international community.",
        "如果中国领导人的想法能超越其对朝鲜违约行为的一贯回应——抽象的谴责及要求举行对话——就能在国际社会面前对朝鲜政权施加真正的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "China should certainly grant Tibet more autonomy; but is pumping up the Dalai Lama into a world leader or threatening to boycott the Beijing Olympics the best way to secure a better deal for Tibetans, or to obtain Chinese cooperation on matters that are far more important than Tibet’s status?",
        "但是中国攻击达赖喇嘛，反倒把他变成了一位国际领导人，或者把威胁抵制北京奥运会作为获得西藏解决办法的最佳手段，或者在比西藏地位问题上更为重要的问题上取得中国的合作呢？"
    ],
    [
        "First, the world economy does look more chaotic than it did a decade ago.",
        "首先，世界经济看起来的确要比十年前更加混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Sri Lanka’s Rebirth",
        "斯里兰卡的重生"
    ],
    [
        "The Dirt on Plastic Waste",
        "塑料废物的污点"
    ],
    [
        "Bennett’s developing dementia deprived her of all of the reasons for wanting to continue to live.",
        "贝内特逐渐恶化的痴呆症剥夺了她想继续活下去的一切理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Why aren’t people blithely expecting more years of expansion?",
        "为何人们不再乐观地预期还有多年的扩张？"
    ],
    [
        "(The Watercourse Convention would have required that no charges be levied, unless the data or information was “not readily available” – a rule that may also have contributed to China’s “no” vote.)",
        "（河道公约要求，除非数据或信息“不是现成的”，否则不应该收费——这一规则可能也是中国投否决票的原因之一。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Between 2001 and 2003, I was part of a team that undertook an extensive survey of values in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, and Jordan.",
        "2001到2003年间，我曾作为调研小组的一员，广泛调查了沙特阿拉伯、埃及、伊朗和约旦等国的价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Public-opinion polls show that citizens in many democracies are unhappy with their leaders. This is particularly true in Great Britain, where a number of members of Parliament have used their housing allowances to enhance their income, sometimes legally and sometimes not.",
        "剑桥——民意调查显示，许多民主国家的公民对其领导人并不满意，这一现象在英国尤甚，该国许多议员曾利用住房补贴增加收入，这一行为时而合法，时而非法。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is part of a much broader reform effort aimed at strengthening the IMF and will have implications extending well beyond the Fund’s boardroom.",
        "的确，这也是更为大范围的改革努力的一部分，目的在于加强国际货币基金组织，并且将会产生深远的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the United States does indeed face problems that urgently need to be addressed, if China is to rise further, to say nothing of supplanting the US internationally, it must first put its own house in order.",
        "虽然美国无疑面临着亟待解决的问题，但对于中国来说，如果不能解决好自家的事情，就无法实现进一步崛起，更别提在国际上取代美国了。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Capital Market Association (ICMA), supported by the IMF and the US Treasury, suggests changing the language of debt contracts.",
        "国际货币基金组织和美国财政部支持的国际资本市场协会就建议改变债务合同的条款语言。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Americans pursued their self-interest, but in a way that was “rightly understood.”",
        "因此，美国人虽然追求自我利益，但是以一种“正确理解”的方式在进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Individuals could realize themselves, as in the old nineteenth-century model, but only to the extent that they interacted with as many other people as possible.",
        "个人可以以老的、十九世纪的模式实现自我，但是限度在于他们与尽可能多的人互联。"
    ],
    [
        "So, beyond clarity and unity, we need firmness, both in confronting the threat of ISIS and in defending our values, especially adherence to the rule of law.",
        "因此，除了清醒和团结，我们还必须坚定，尤其必须坚持法治，无论是捍卫我们的价值观还是面对伊斯兰国的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey, Europe and Middle-East Security",
        "土耳其、欧洲与中东安全"
    ],
    [
        "While their activities and clientele are steadily increasing, many of the results currently are of only limited value for determining physical and behavioral characteristics or risks of common diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and depression.",
        "尽管它们的活动和客户在稳步增长，但许多结果目前对于确定生理和行为特征或患高血压、心血管疾病、糖尿病和抑郁症等疾病风险价值有限。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s creditors should now negotiate a consensual debt reduction through some combination of lower (and fixed) interest rates, reduced face value of debt, and very long maturities.",
        "该国债权人现在应通过谈判达成双方都能接受的债务减免，包括降低（固定）利率、减少债务面值和延长偿还期限。"
    ],
    [
        "The question of whether to meet with nasty but powerful people has dogged diplomacy since its inception, and both ends of the question have been argued endlessly – and inconclusively.",
        "是否要与卑鄙下流但却权势显赫的人会晤，这个问题从一开始便困扰着外交关系。 对这个问题的两个答案，人们争执不休，而且一直没有得出结论。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Iraq have already established a quasi-independent state along the border with Turkey.",
        "伊拉克的库尔德自由斗士（Pshmerga）已经沿土耳其边境建立了准独立国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Debt relief is a good beginning.",
        "债务免除是一个良好的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "Also less than diplomatic was the language Swaraj used in her warning to the company.",
        "同样不够“外交”的还有撒瓦拉伊警告亚马逊公司的用词。"
    ],
    [
        "These will have to be financed, at least in part, by the imposition of environmental taxes, including carbon taxes, and taxes on the monopoly and other rents that have become pervasive in the market economy – and contribute enormously to inequality and slow growth.",
        "而这些投资的资金，至少部分地，都可以通过包括碳税在内的环境税，以及对已经在市场经济中产生负面效应的——并极大催生不平等状况和低增长——的垄断以及其他租金征税来筹集。"
    ],
    [
        "If the US mainland becomes a potential target for a North Korean nuclear strike, then the credibility of deterrence could depend on whether the US is willing to sacrifice San Francisco to save Seoul or Tokyo.",
        "如果美国大陆本土成为朝鲜核打击的潜在目标，那么这一威慑的可靠度就得取决于美国是否愿意牺牲旧金山来拯救首尔或东京。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, Maduro’s regime already is a military dictatorship, with officers in charge of many government agencies.",
        "更重要的是，马杜罗政府已经是军事专制政府，并由军官来担任许多政府机构的负责人。"
    ],
    [
        "While the US should lift its trade embargo as soon as Cuba’s transition begins, everything else should be conditional on Cuba initiating a process of resolving all outstanding issues.",
        "在古巴的转变一旦开始美国就应该解除其贸易禁运的同时，其他所有事情也应该以古巴开始解决一切突出问题的进程为条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Wise policy is not always popular (a cliché that happens to be true).",
        "明智的政策并不一定受到公众欢迎（这是真理，但同时也是老生常谈）。"
    ],
    [
        "The golden moment that changed us all.”",
        "改变我们所有人的黄金一刻》。"
    ],
    [
        "To elicit the investments that are necessary to mitigate climate change and green the economy, the elimination of fossil-fuel subsidies and a credible, fast-rising path for the price of carbon are vital.",
        "为了引出减轻气候变化、绿化经济所必须的投资，至关重要的一点是取消化石燃料补贴并找到可靠、迅速的碳定价方法。"
    ],
    [
        "China, for its part, has become a major workhorse of globalization – an assembly hub for inputs produced by multi-country supply chains and an offshore efficiency solution for hard-pressed Western multinational corporations.",
        "而中国自身则成为了全球化的主要出力者——它既是一个多国供应链生产产品的组装中心，又是囊中羞涩的西方跨国企业的高效离岸解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "That public sentiment is affecting business worldwide.",
        "这一公众情绪正在影响全球商业。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU was at its apogee at the time, lifted by the new euro and the ambitious “Big Bang” eastward enlargement of 2004; so the chances of securing change today, when the EU is at its nadir of popularity, would at first sight seem even more unlikely.",
        "在新欧元和2004年雄心勃勃的“大爆炸式”东扩运动的提振下，欧盟当时正处在全盛时期。 因此今天在欧盟的历史低点落实改革乍看上去似乎很不乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Somewhat surprisingly, France also seems to be having a hard time keeping up, with a below-average growth rate of 2.1%.",
        "7％。 令人吃惊的是，法国很费力地才能赶上欧洲的其他国家，其增长率为低于平均值的2."
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s policy has led the Kingdom to break with its long tradition of quiet diplomacy and behind-the-scenes maneuvers.",
        "奥巴马的政策导致沙特王国打破其长期以来的静默外交及幕后操纵惯例。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, sometimes the political wisdom can be wrong and a state bounces out of its category.",
        "当然，有时政治智慧也可能出错，其中某个州可能超越界限去支持另一个政党。"
    ],
    [
        "A World of Trouble",
        "一个充满烦恼的世界"
    ],
    [
        "There is no doubt that the fate of Syria’s Christian and Jewish communities is now extremely precarious.",
        "叙利亚基督教和犹太教群体的命运现在无疑极不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, it also embodies the depth of the central government’s support for Hong Kong.",
        "同时，基本法还体现了中央政府对香港的大力支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The AIIB would bring similar benefits to other parts of Asia, which deepens the irony of US opposition.",
        "亚投行也可以为其他亚洲国家带来类似的好处，同时也更深刻地体现了美方反对的荒谬性。"
    ],
    [
        "One would think that such a track record would have prompted officials to revise their model of the economy.",
        "你也许会想，如此表现记录理应促使官员修正他们的经济模型。"
    ],
    [
        "But such reporting will apply only to entities with revenues above €750 million ($845 million) and will not be made public.",
        "但这一报告要求将只适用于营收超过7. 5亿欧元的实体，并且不会公开披露。"
    ],
    [
        "DURHAM – In setting himself ablaze following a humiliating encounter with the police, the university-educated Tunisian vegetable seller Mohamed Bouazizi triggered a wave of protests across the Arab world.",
        "发自达拉漠——在遭受了警方的殴打和羞辱之后，念过大学的突尼斯菜贩默罕默德·博阿茲茲点火自焚，并随之掀起了席卷整个阿拉伯世界的示威浪潮。"
    ],
    [
        "This concept is not new: it has been known for decades, for example, that people who have a genetic deficiency of an enzyme called G6PD can experience severe and precipitous anemia if they are exposed to certain drugs.",
        "这一概念并不新颖：比如，几十年前人们就已经知道，有的人体内一种叫G6PD的酶存在基因缺陷，某些药物可以导致他们产生严重的急性贫血。"
    ],
    [
        "Every nation should ideally commit to spending 0.05% of GDP exploring non-carbon-emitting energy technologies.",
        "理想情况下，每个国家都应该把GDP的0. 05%用于探索无碳排放能源技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Their creativity and passion enabled them to subdue – and in some cases even destroy – less adaptable giants remarkably quickly.",
        "它们的创造力和激情使他们以不可思议的高速征服——有时甚至毁灭——改变不及的巨头。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the stage seems to be set for continued increases in asset valuations and demand-driven growth.",
        "相反，这一阶段似乎是为持续提升资产估值以及需求驱动型增长而度身订造的。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the upside of extra spending could be significant.",
        "与此同时，增加支出的好处是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is by no means unique, except in its size (though Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has tried to rival it in scale with his new palace in Ankara).",
        "但这绝不意味着它独一无二，当然唯一例外的是它的规模（尽管土耳其总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安曾试图在安卡拉修建规模能与之相媲美的新建筑）。"
    ],
    [
        "Russians habitually respond with black humor to events both good and bad, and the events of 2008 were no exception.",
        "无论是好事还是坏事，俄罗斯人通常报以黑色幽默的反应，而2008年发生的事件同样不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "A government initiative is something that they seem to regard as an oxymoron.",
        "一项政府法案对于他们来说只不过是一堆自相矛盾的文字罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is too soon to discount genetics, however, because the science of “epigenetics” – the study of mechanisms for turning genes on and off, thus changing the way a cell develops without altering the genetic code – is gaining traction.",
        "小看遗传学还为时尚早，因为“发育遗传学”——研究基因开关的机制，从而在不改变遗传编码的情况下改变细胞发育状况——正在成为显学。"
    ],
    [
        "Even countries with abundant natural resources do not have to fear the shift to a greener world.",
        "即使拥有丰富自然资源的国家也用不着担心朝着绿色世界的转型。"
    ],
    [
        "As the year progresses, these divergences will become increasingly difficult to reconcile, leaving policymakers with a choice: overcome the obstacles that have so far impeded effective action, or risk allowing their economies to be destabilized.",
        "随着明年的临近，这些分化之势将越来越难以调和，让决策者面临一个选择：克服目前阻碍有效行动的障碍，或放任经济陷入动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "And for Russia, which is never keen to cede territory anyway, the islands are strategically valuable; the Kremlin recently decided to install missile-defense systems on two of them.",
        "而对俄罗斯来说——割让领土也从来不是它的习惯——这些岛屿具有战略意义； 克里姆林宫最近决定在其中两个岛部署导弹防御系统。"
    ],
    [
        "In Indonesia, which has one of the world’s highest infant mortality rates, midwives in the rural area of Medan collect medical data from pregnant women using a mobile app.",
        "印度尼西亚是全世界婴儿死亡率最高的国家之一，该国棉兰（Medan）农村地区的助产士使用移动应用收集孕妇的医学数据。"
    ],
    [
        "Once again, Abbas looked feeble in comparison.",
        "在这里，阿巴斯再一次相形见绌。"
    ],
    [
        "India is simultaneously tackling the “hardware” of development (ports, roads, airports) and its “software” (health care, education).",
        "印度同时强调发展其“硬件”（港口，公路和机场）以及“软件”（医疗卫生和教育）。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a treaty should rely on reciprocal rules, including the dismantling of barriers to China’s market.",
        "这样的条约应当以互惠原则为基础，包括拆除中国市场存在的投资壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "The Nepali Congress Party, for example, has chosen to remain in opposition, dubious of the Maoists’ commitment to democratic politics.",
        "例如，尼泊尔国会党（Nepali Congress Party）已经选择做反对派，它对毛主义者对民主政治的承诺表示怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "G-8 Summit and Climate Change",
        "八国集团峰会和气候变化"
    ],
    [
        "Apparently, normal isn’t good enough in today’s Republican Party.",
        "显然，正常对于今天的共和党来说不够好。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s government seems to have little appetite for breaking up Deutsche Bank, and the French have taken a leaf from the British book and implemented their own reform.",
        "事实上，可能永无结论之日。 德国政府似乎十分不愿拆分德意志银行，而法国人效仿英国人实施了自己的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "His endorsement, along with strong support from nongovernmental organizations and the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation, gave greater force to the demand by developing countries, organized around the Group of 77 and China, for an equal voice in setting global tax norms.",
        "秘书长的支持，以及来自非政府组织和国际公司税改独立革委员会（Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation）的强烈支持让发展中国家的要求更加有力。 在77国集团和中国的组织下，发展中国家要求在制定全球税收规范中获得平等的发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "On May 6, the date of the second ballot, French citizens will choose between two risks.",
        "5月6日是第二轮投票的日子。 法国公民将选择两种风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Barack Obama, fresh from his major domestic victory on health care, really afford to turn himself into Richard Nixon?",
        "刚刚在国内打赢医疗改革战役的贝拉克·奥巴马想变成尼克松附体吗？ 他能担得起这个后果吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Trade openness provided access to inexpensive imported intermediate goods, larger markets, and advanced technologies, thereby contributing to rapid productivity growth in the country’s manufacturing industries.",
        "贸易开放提供了廉价的进口中间产品，更广阔的市场和先进的技术，并因此促成了该国制造业生产率的快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The US lost its ability to play a more constructive role in the region following its ill-fated intervention in Iraq, while the Bush administration’s neo-conservative “freedom agenda” for the Arab world also backfired.",
        "在命运多舛的对伊拉克的干预之后，美国失去了它在该地区发挥更有建设性作用的能力，而布什政府的新保守主义对阿拉伯世界的“自由议程”，效果也适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "This is important because in countries like Kenya and Tanzania, the majority of wildlife exists outside formally protected areas.",
        "这一点之所以重要，是因为在肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚这样的国家，绝大多数野生动物都生活在正式划定的保护区以外。"
    ],
    [
        "What’s Troubling India?",
        "什么在困扰印度？"
    ],
    [
        "Outside Africa, the people who will suffer the most are those in countries like Brazil, India, China, and Mexico, whose leaders rightly took on rich-country farm subsidies, but wrongly failed to recognize the profound costs of the developing world’s own import restrictions.",
        "在非洲之外，最受影响的国家将会是巴西、印度、中国和墨西哥等。 其领导人在农业补贴方面和富国谈判是对的，但他们的错误在于未能认识到发展中国家的进口限制造成的高昂成本。"
    ],
    [
        "That made him the main target of criticism by Rowhani and another candidate, Ali Akbar Velayati, Khamenei’s adviser on international affairs.",
        "这让他成为鲁哈尼和另一位候选人维拉雅迪（Ali Akbar Velayati，哈梅内伊国际事务顾问）的批评目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if voting was influenced by the financial sector, the supposed party of the plutocrats, the Republicans, should have voted in unison for the bill.",
        "但是，如果投票被金融部门所影响，那么一贯被视为财阀代言人的共和党应该一边倒地支持立法。"
    ],
    [
        "The focus on the Temple Mount has given the current confrontation an apocalyptic quality.",
        "对圣殿山的关注赋予了当前局势世界末日般的分量。"
    ],
    [
        "They also must consult more closely with educators and policymakers – discussions that should be informed by labor-market information, performance reviews, and the availability of employment services.",
        "它们还必须更紧密地与教育者和决策者协商——他们的讨论应该有充分的劳动力市场信息、表现评估和就业服务普及为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi now must lay the foundations for India’s emergence as a global economic power.",
        "如今，莫迪必须为印度崛起成为全球经济强国奠定基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last seven years, the ECB’s actions have helped Germany’s economy and taxpayers as much as those of its neighbors.",
        "回顾以往，欧洲央行过所作所为不但有利于其他国家，同时也令德国经济和纳税人从中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "When describing his conquest of Chanderi in 1528, Babar offers gruesome details of the gory slaughter of many “infidels” but just a few sentences later he talks at length about Chanderi’s lakes, flowing streams, and sweet water.",
        "当巴布尔在描述对1528年征服昌德瑞的时候，他展现了骇人听闻的对“异教徒”的血腥大屠杀的细节，而几句话之后，他又滔滔地赞美昌德瑞的湖泊、流淌的溪流和甘美的水源。 那么巴布尔到底是个什么样的人呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Defend NATO allies.",
        "捍卫北约盟国。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to address the international liquidity problem could jeopardize all that has been accomplished.",
        "如果不能解决的国际流动性问题，就可能危及所有已完成的事业。"
    ],
    [
        "The officials stressed how the government has taken pains to ensure that the power grid and transportation network reaches every village in China.",
        "中国官员们强调政府如何努力确保电力和交通网络可以到达中国的每个乡村。"
    ],
    [
        "So property rights rely on courts and legal enforcement, and markets depend on regulators to rein in abuse and fix market failures.",
        "所以，产权依赖于法院和执法，市场依赖于监管者来限制滥用并且解决市场崩溃问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, imagine what would happen when we encounter a genuinely dangerous new pathogen, such as a strain of H5N1 avian flu (which in its current form has a mortality rate more than 100 times higher than H1N1) that is easily transmissible between humans.",
        "”如果我们碰到了像H5N1禽流感病毒那样真正危险又很容易在人间传播的新病原体（其目前形式的致死率比H1N1病毒高100倍），那情况就会更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps, if the risks were borne solely by its own people, but they are not.",
        "如果这种风险只由这个国家的国民承担，也许那只是他们自己的选择，但是事实并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first scenario, Macron quickly gains a parliamentary majority, as French voters seek to reinforce his mandate in June’s National Assembly election.",
        "第一种情况是马克龙迅速赢得议会多数，因为法国选民会在6月举行的国民议会选举中试图巩固对他的委任。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever responsibility poor adults may bear for their lot in life – they may not have worked hard enough, saved enough, or made good decisions – children’s circumstances are thrust upon them without any sort of choice.",
        "成年人受穷，他自己得负责——也许是工作不够努力，储蓄不够充足、没有做出好决策等——但儿童的环境是上天强加给他们的，他们无从选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the economy created more than a half-million jobs each year, new entrants to the labor force pushed up the unemployment rate, from 10.1% to 12.1% – and from 24% to 29% for workers aged 15-24.",
        "尽管伊朗经济每年可以创造五十万以上的工作敢为，但新晋劳动力大军仍然将失业率从10. 1%推高到12."
    ],
    [
        "But, 60 years later, has their discovery really had the transformative impact that the world expected?",
        "但是，60年后，他们的发现真的如人们所预料那样产生了革命性的影响吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Changing the world’s energy and agricultural systems is no small matter.",
        "改变世界的能源和农业系统绝非小事。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, Israeli officials, denying the Palestinians’ assertion that a secret US-Israel agreement exists, clearly intend to continue building Jewish homes in occupied East Jerusalem.",
        "恰恰相反，以色列官员不但否认有巴勒斯坦所声称的所谓美国-以色列秘密协议存在，还明显试图继续推进东耶路撒冷地区犹太人定居点的兴建。"
    ],
    [
        "The combination of high corporate saving and low business investment has sustained the current-account surplus, allowing Japan to fund its budget deficit domestically.",
        "高公司储蓄和低商业投资共存的局面维系着日本的经常项目盈余，让日本能够在国内找到预算赤字融资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Educational expenditures are allocated on the basis of the number of schoolchildren in the family.",
        "教育支出的分配是基于中小学生在家庭中的人数；"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the US “had in the past supported Saddam Hussein when he used chemical weapons against Iran.”",
        "此外，美国“过去曾支持萨达姆·侯赛因对伊朗使用化学武器。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "One plotter in the attack of September 11, 2001, appeared before ordinary courts in Germany.",
        "还有一个策划“9·11”事件的嫌疑人则被送上德国普通法庭的被告席。"
    ],
    [
        "Some clubs were financed by industrial corporations in order to promote loyalty among their workers: Philips sponsored the Dutch club PSV Eindhoven, for example, while Fiat played the same role for Italy’s Juventus.",
        "一些俱乐部受产业公司的财政支持，以赢得员工支持：比如，飞利浦公司赞助着荷兰俱乐部埃因霍温，菲亚特在意大利的尤文图斯也扮演着同样角色。"
    ],
    [
        "(Disclosure: I serve on the board of one such company, ExxonMobil, which is awaiting the results of arbitration in international court.)",
        "（披露：我在这些公司之一的埃克森美孚董事会任职，该公司正在等待国际法庭的仲裁结果。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "He might find himself pushing on a string.",
        "他可能发现自己对经济的绳索无能为力。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is obviously a shortsighted approach, for a Japan that is tied exclusively to America will lose, not gain, against China in the region, thus making the balancing act even harder.",
        "但这显而易见是一种短视的政策，因为一个只知听命于美国的日本在地区的影响会日益缩小，而不是日益扩大，而这会导致平衡的努力难上加难。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the only way to get the big economies of the West moving again.",
        "这是让西方大经济体重新启动的唯一办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, these pillars of creativity and progress have been erected even in countries whose economies, politics, and cultures diverge sharply from those of the United States.",
        "其实，这类创造力和进步的支柱甚至已经在经济、政治和文化氛围与美国完全不同的国家被建立起来。"
    ],
    [
        "For years, the argument remained an abstraction, a debate over what might happen in the future, until the Oslo agreement with the PLO in 1993 put the competing perspectives to the test.",
        "多年来，直到1993年与巴解组织的奥斯陆将针锋相对的意见付诸考验，这是一个有关未来会发生什么的抽象的争论。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2005 review, by contrast, will represent several years of thinking by the Bush administration, and thus will serve as a key indicator of the future course of American defense policy.",
        "相较之下，2005年的评估将会代表布什政府几年以来的思考成果，因而会成为美国未来国防政策的一项重要指标。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten years ago, the gap between the number of single-market laws adopted in Brussels and those in force in the member states – known as the “transposition deficit” – stood at 6%.",
        "十年前，布鲁塞尔通过的单一市场法律数量与在各成员国生效的法律数量之间的差距—被称为“转换赤字”—是6%。"
    ],
    [
        "Long the global economy’s most powerful engine, China, many now fear, is running out of fuel.",
        "许多人担心，长期以来一直是全球经济最有力引擎的中国正在失去燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "Coal is not faring any better.",
        "煤炭的情况同样不容乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "And, of course, they should sustain pro-growth policies that boost overall job creation and reduce unemployment, while rejecting barriers to trade or innovation.",
        "当然，它们还应该保持促增长政策，提高总体就业岗位创造、降低失业率，同时杜绝贸易或创新壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "According to an analysis used by some American economists and politicians, the low rate of currency appreciation, combined with Chinese export growth of 31% in 2010 over 2009, should have increased China’s trade surplus by a wide margin.",
        "照某些美国经济学家和政客的分析方法，低升值率再加上中国2010年出口31%的增长（对比2009年），中国的贸易顺差显然是进一步扩大了。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the 1990s, emerging countries’ combined GDP (at market exchange rates) amounted to barely one-third of the G7 countries’ combined GDP.",
        "20世纪90年代，新兴国家GDP之和（按市场汇率衡量）大约只有G7国家GDP之和的三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But a lack of accurate information has equally, if not more, severe consequences for political processes.",
        "但是，正确信息的匮乏对政治进程产生了一样严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "For the moment, the temptation is for the European right to find its “new look” through a selective appeal to religion – and wait and see whether it works as an electoral strategy. They should remember, though, that starting a Kulturkampf is to play with fire: it might be possible to instrumentalize religious passions for a time; but such passions cannot permanently be controlled from above.",
        "目前来看，欧洲右翼党派忍不住要借选择性的回归宗教塑造自己的“新面貌”，而后等着看这招作为选举策略是否有效。 但他们应该记住：挑起一场文化斗争实际是在玩火。"
    ],
    [
        "The low yields of organic agriculture – typically 20-50% below conventional agriculture – impose various stresses on farmland, especially on water consumption.",
        "有机农业的产量通常比常规农业低20—50%，这导致农地压力大增，特别是水消费。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor was Morsi an Egyptian version of Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.",
        "穆尔西本人也不是埃及版的霍梅尼最高领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Energy Agency’s 2010 World Energy Outlook foresees a rise in global energy demand of 40% by 2030 – an unforgiving reality that is most tangibly felt in developing countries, particularly in Asia.",
        "国际能源机构2010发表的世界能源展望预测到2030年时，全球能源的需要会上涨40%。 这是发展中国家，尤其是亚洲国家不可避免感受到的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, pushing the electric engine past the gas-powered relic will remain an uphill battle.",
        "可以肯定的是，推动电动引擎越过汽油/柴油动力的阻隔仍然会是场艰巨的战役。"
    ],
    [
        "Cronyism was rife and the murder rate tripled, partly owing to corruption in the police and the justice system.",
        "任人唯亲的现象稀松平常，谋杀率上升了三倍，部分是因为警察和司法体系的腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be sufficient to produce measurable and perhaps marked changes in climate.”",
        "这或许足以对气候造成可测量的明显变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing comes easy in this world: if the Union cannot manage a multicultural society in Europe, then it ought to prepare itself for permanent stagnation.",
        "这世界上的任何事都得来不易：如果欧盟不能管理一个多文化的欧洲社会，那么它就应该准备好应对永久的停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "With corporations cautious about investing and governments prudent about expenditure – especially given the grandiose investments of the past – exports have led growth.",
        "随着各个公司对投资抱谨慎态度，政府在开支方面精打细算——尤其是对比过去庞大的投资规模——出口已成为增长的领先因素。"
    ],
    [
        "At a typical 5% annual real interest rate for risky cash flows, diverting that large a share of resources away from goods and services directly useful this year is a good bargain only if it boosts overall annual economic growth by 0.3% – or 6% per 25-year generation.",
        "按风险现金流实际利率的通常水平5%计算，在今年将如此大比重的资源从直接可用的商品和服务中抽出，如果要让其不至于得不偿失，就意味着这笔资源能够提振0. 3%的年经济增长——或在25年的一代人的时间里提振6%。"
    ],
    [
        "Such platforms play a growing role in the market for “contingent” or “on-demand” workers, broadly defined as workers whose jobs are temporary and who do not have standard part-time or full-time contracts with employers.",
        "上述平台在“临时”或“按需”劳动力市场发挥的作用越来越大，上述市场被广泛定义为临时工市场或未与雇主签订标准兼职或全职合同的工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "For the French, as for all Europeans, the EU is not a foreign entity, and its decisions are an integral part of domestic policies.",
        "对法国人（以及对全体欧洲人）而言，欧盟并不是外交实体，其决定只是各国政策的考虑项之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But, from an early stage, the transparency that resulted from the early publication of who voted for and against rate increases led to a public identification of members of the Committee as hawks or doves.",
        "长期以来，委员会成员谁对加息投了赞成票，谁投了反对票都会被及早披露，可谓高度透明。 然而，恰恰是这种透明度，使得公众能够把委员会成员某些归入鹰派，某些归入鸽派。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot escape – and therefore must confront – the dilemma that gains from trade sometimes come at the expense of strains on domestic social arrangements.",
        "我们可以摆脱——因而必须面对——得自贸易的收益有时需要以国内社会安排的牺牲为代价的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Throwing out the rulebook made sense in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. It doesn’t anymore.",
        "在检讨2008年金融危机的教训时按照规则操作是有道理的，但如今已经不一样了。"
    ],
    [
        "And Recently, some civil groups in both countries started to demand the return of the remains of their countries’ soldiers interred at Yasukuni.",
        "最近，两国国内的一些民间团体开始要求日本归还他们埋葬在靖国神社的士兵遗体。"
    ],
    [
        "The alarm bell was first rung in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro; but over the last generation, little was done to contain emissions.",
        "1992年召开的里约热内卢地球峰会首次敲响了警钟； 但过去这代人却鲜有减排的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "By creating a more equal environment among shareholders, ensuring more disclosure and transparency, specifying the responsibilities of company boards, and requiring outside independent directors on company boards, the codes enshrine changes that make Japan more attractive for foreign investors.",
        "这些办法为股东创造了更加平等的环境，确保了更多的披露和透明度，具体定义了公司董事会的责任，并且要求公司董事会设置独立董事，这些变革将增加日本对外国投资者的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, while the Obama administration remained determined to preserve US leadership in responding – with force, where necessary – to mass atrocity crimes (the global “responsibility to protect” agenda), a decade of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan has left Americans desperately war-weary.",
        "此外，虽然奥巴马政府依然决心维护美国在应对大规模暴行（全球“保护责任”议程）（必要的话不排除武力应对）中的领导地位，十年的伊拉克和阿富汗战争已经让美国人感到极度疲惫。"
    ],
    [
        "Reigniting South African Growth",
        "重振南非增长"
    ],
    [
        "Much depends on the success of China’s energy reforms, and in particular on its efforts to build the world’s largest renewable power system – an ambition far larger than anything imagined, much less attempted, in the West.",
        "中国的能源改革成功与否事关重大，尤其是该国打造世界最大可再生能源发电系统的努力——中国的雄心超出所有人的想象，西方做出的努力根本无法与之相比。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Phillips’s work on wages gave them no choice.",
        "威尔·菲利普斯（Will Phillips）对工资的研究著作让他们无从选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Gaucher’s disease, for example, is a rare crippling genetic condition that, in its more severe forms, usually killed its victims in childhood. Now those with the disease can lead an almost normal life, thanks to a drug called Cerezyme – but it costs $175,000 a year.",
        "花8亿美元开发一种药物是很平常的，我们可以期待看到耗资更大的一种新型药物——生物制药, 用活体细胞制药。"
    ],
    [
        "As Brezhnev put it, the BAM was “the construction project of the century,” pushing, cutting, and tunneling its way through thousands of miles of rivers, forests, and cliffs usually covered in permafrost.",
        "正如勃列日涅夫所说，贝阿铁路是“世纪建设项目”，推进，切割和贯穿了数千英里的河流，森林和通常在永冻土之覆盖下的悬崖峭壁。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth in the New Climate Economy",
        "新气候经济中的增长"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Earlier this year, Robert Simons of Harvard Business School fired off a blistering indictment of American businesses and business schools.",
        "伯克利—今年早些时候，哈佛商学院的西蒙斯（Robert Simons）发表了一篇攻讦美国企业和商学院的战斗檄文。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a chilling sentiment.",
        "这是一种令人心寒的情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "He rejects the Colombian model, which would put American advisers, instructors, mechanics, agents, and maintenance personnel on the ground in Mexico.",
        "他拒绝了哥伦比亚模式——该模式会将美国的顾问、指导、组织、特工以及维护人员置于墨西哥的土地上。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Greek bondholders are foreign banks.",
        "大部分希腊债券持有人是外国银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the lack of anything close to a reliable, much less clean, energy supply and the severity of the situation is obvious.",
        "再加上可靠（更不用说清洁）能源供应短缺，局势的严重性是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "National opinion polls may well continue to fluctuate until the election on November 8.",
        "在11月8日的大选开始前，全国民调很可能将继续摇摆。"
    ],
    [
        "If they are, it is essential that they stop financing Russia’s armies – in or out of uniform.",
        "如果确实想要的话，他们就必须停止资助俄罗斯的军事力量——无论是穿制服的还是不穿的。"
    ],
    [
        "As Soros has noted, Ukraine probably has the most active civil society in Europe.",
        "正如索罗斯指出的那样，乌克兰可能有着全欧最活跃的公民社会。"
    ],
    [
        "The continuing relevance of Erhard's ideas can be seen in the growing number of protest movements – strengthened by social networks – challenging the market economy and neoliberalism.",
        "社交网络推动下不断增长的抗议运动可以证明艾哈德思想对今天的意义——那就是挑战市场经济和新自由主义的核心价值。"
    ],
    [
        "But the globe’s real problem is not a series of inconvenient facts.",
        "但是当今世界现实问题并不是一系列不让人高兴的真相。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate Change and the Catholic Church",
        "气候变化和天主教会"
    ],
    [
        "And proper fishing methods that catch only target species should be used, with others caught accidentally as so-called by-catch returned to the sea alive.",
        "还应当采用恰当的捕鱼方式，只捕捞目标鱼类，而将其他偶然捕获的副产品活着放回海中。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Struggle to Slow",
        "中国：减速的纠结"
    ],
    [
        "But the communiqués never get more specific.",
        "但公报却从来不曾提到更具体的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, however, new loans worth 63% of GDP were added to Greece’s national debt.",
        "但是，与此同时，价值GDP的63%的贷款又加到了希腊的国民债务中。"
    ],
    [
        "Everything about the man was, indeed, protracted.",
        "实际上，有关阿拉法特的一切都是一场持久战。"
    ],
    [
        "The emerging consensus in India in support of greater rights and freedoms for women, while certainly causing some upheaval and adjustment (especially within the growing middle classes) has not yet – and might never – poison the basic trust and warmth between men and women.",
        "刚刚在印度兴起的支持扩大妇女自由和权利的共识尽管注定会带来某些动荡和调整（特别是在日益壮大的中产阶级内部这种变化无法避免），但还没有——或许永远也不会——损害男女之间最基本的信任和温暖。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors, analysts, and other commentators, for their part, must take a more nuanced view of governments’ true debt liabilities.",
        "投资者、分析师和其他评论家必须要更加细致入微地观察政府的真实债务。"
    ],
    [
        "But the biggest uncertainty of all is whether this is simply the end of another year, or the end of a geopolitical epoch.",
        "但最大的不确定性却是2016年仅仅是又一年的结束，还是整个地缘政治时代的终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Papandreou would have campaigned for the adjustment program and the euro, a referendum was a risk that his European partners were unwilling to take.",
        "尽管帕潘德里欧支持调整计划和欧元，但公投是其欧洲伙伴国不愿承担的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Given these trends, the continent’s consumer industries are expected to grow a further $410 billion by 2020 – more than half the total revenue increase that all businesses are expected to generate in Africa by the end of the decade.",
        "考虑到上述这些趋势，这片大陆上的消费者行业规模预计将在2020年前再增长4100亿美元——占了整个10年内非洲所有行业所创造的总收入增长的一半以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, such projects would promote cooperation between the states in the EU’s southern neighborhood, potentially boosting investments in education, infrastructure, and industrial development.",
        "此外，上述项目还将促进欧盟南部邻国之间的合作，有可能推动教育、基础设施和工业发展等领域的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Torn between its two objectives, China placed a higher priority on preserving the Kim family dynasty.",
        "在这两个目标间疲于奔命的中国极为重视说服金氏王朝。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, because it is obvious to everyone that most violent extremism is being carried out in the name of Islam, avoiding the word is unlikely to prevent attacks on Muslims in response to this violence.",
        "此外，因为人人有目共睹大部分暴力极端主义都打着伊斯兰的旗号，单纯避免使用这个词不太可能防止针对穆斯林的报复行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Sunni Islam, for its part, was first spread through South Asia by the Sufi saints, most of whom came from Central Asia and preached a more tolerant and inclusive form of Islam than that of the Arabian Peninsula.",
        "逊尼派伊斯兰教起初通过苏菲派圣徒传播到南亚，圣徒们多来自中亚，宣传一种形式比阿拉伯半岛更宽容、更包容的伊斯兰教。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality has been far different.",
        "现实情况已经完全不同。"
    ],
    [
        "In Myanmar, for example, the government has launched a pilot program to target the country’s “missing million” students who drop out of school each year.",
        "例如在缅甸，政府已经启动了一项针对该国每年失学的“百万失踪”学生的试点项目。"
    ],
    [
        "By intensifying doubts about European integration, Brexit would further reduce the willingness of EU members to cooperate, resulting in the deterioration of both their security and their remaining international influence.",
        "英国退出将加剧对欧洲一体化的疑虑。 进一步降低欧盟成员国的合作意愿，导致安全和剩余国际影响力下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The key will be to encourage the reduction of bad debts and increases in the stock of safe assets, while taxing excess capacity and encouraging innovation, thereby improving total factor productivity.",
        "关键是政府要鼓励减少不良债务和增加安全资产的存量，同时对过剩产能课税并鼓励创新，从而提高全要素生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear of competition from abroad is now fundamental, and will change the political process in advanced and relatively advanced emerging countries throughout the world.",
        "对来自国外的竞争的恐惧现在具有根本性的影响，它还将会改变全世界发达国家和相对发达的新兴国家的政治进程。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the phrase “illiberal democracy” is not necessarily a contradiction in terms.",
        "平心而论，“不自由的民主”一词未必是矛盾的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Fund plays an important role in this funding environment, providing approximately 66% of all current external funds in the fight against TB, 45% in the fight against malaria, and 20% of all external support to combat HIV/AIDS.",
        "全球基金在这一基金环境中作用重大，约占所有抵抗肺结核的外来基金的66%，抵抗疟疾的外来基金的45%，以及抗艾滋病基金的20%。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB has been following a similar strategy of large-scale asset purchases and extremely low (indeed negative) short-term interest rates.",
        "欧洲央行效仿了类似的大规模买入资产和极低（实际为负）的短期利率策略。"
    ],
    [
        "The causes of rising income and wealth inequality are multiple and nuanced; but the unintended consequences of the recent unprecedented period of ultra-loose monetary policy deserves a chunk of the blame.",
        "收入和财富不平等性加剧的原因是多样而微妙的； 但最近一段时期的极端宽松货币政策所造成的意外后果必须受到指责。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these profound transformations oblige us to reflect seriously on who we are, could be, and would like to become.",
        "所有这些影响深远的变革要求我们严肃反思我们是谁，可以是谁，想变成谁。"
    ],
    [
        "Romantics might say that Buddhism is unlike other religions – indeed, more a philosophy than a faith.",
        "浪漫的人会说佛教不像其他宗教，确实，佛教更像是一种哲学而非信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, most US MNCs take advantage of the deferral option for at least some of their foreign earnings.",
        "好比奇怪，大部分美国跨国公司都至少在一部分海外利润上利用了递延选择权。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with 0.6°C warming, however, Africa and South Asia will experience almost immediate reductions in the viability of many crops and, eventually, increased vulnerability to infectious disease.",
        "即便温度只上升0. 6°C，非洲和南亚的许多作物还是几乎会立即出现减产，并且最终会更容易受到传染病的侵袭。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the United States justified the Israeli assault and blamed everything on Hamas, just as it used to pin all responsibility for whatever went wrong on Yasir Arafat and Fatah.",
        "首先，美国给以色列的进攻予以合法化并且把责任全部推到哈马斯身上，正如以前它把所有的责任都算在阿拉法特和法塔赫头上一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Latent global demand for enlightened US leadership, which first appeared at the end of World War I, can survive budgetary constraints and even misguided military interventions. What it cannot survive is an abdication of interest by the US Congress.",
        "对美国开明领导的潜在全球需求最早始于第一次世界大战结束之时，并能在预算收缩甚至误入歧途的军事干预中保存下来，但却逃不过美国国会对这一利益的主动放弃。"
    ],
    [
        "The Wrong Way to Prevent Nuclear War",
        "阻止核战争的错误方式"
    ],
    [
        "Any proposal regarding the future of the EU-UK relationship must start from an interpretation of the Brexit referendum’s meaning.",
        "有关欧盟英国关系未来的一切提案都必须以解释英国脱欧公投的含义为先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and others will need to push back to ensure that China does not act on such a temptation.",
        "美国和其他国家需要确保中国抵挡住这一诱惑。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent monthly figures suggest a pick-up in retail sales.",
        "最近的月度数据显示，零售业的销售额有所回升。"
    ],
    [
        "A global partnership could spur investment in research and development and ease the flow of information among scientists, business people, and policymakers.",
        "全球合作可以刺激研发投资，方便科学家、商人和决策者之间的信息流动。"
    ],
    [
        "So populism is a kind of identity politics.",
        "因此民粹主义是一种身份政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the same Buddhist monks who braved Myanmar’s military junta in the “Saffron Revolution” of 2007 today incite violence against members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority.",
        "在2007年“藏红花革命”（Saffron Revolution）中勇敢面对缅甸军方的和尚，如今正在对该国穆斯林罗兴亚人行使暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Out of this crisis came the demonstrations all over China, collectively known as “Tiananmen.”",
        "这场危机催生了遍及中国全境的示威活动，它们被笼而统之地冠以“天安门事件”之名。"
    ],
    [
        "When Sweden’s Riksbank was founded in 1668, followed by the Bank of England in 1694, the motivation was that a single economy should have a single central bank.",
        "在1668年瑞典创立中央银行之后，英格兰央行也在1694年成立，其动机是单一经济体应该拥有一个中央银行。"
    ],
    [
        "President Obama has defined America's goals in Afghanistan as denying Al Qaeda a safe haven, reversing the Taliban's momentum, and helping the country's security forces and government \"take lead responsibility for Afghanistan’s future.\"",
        "美国总统奥巴马将美国在阿富汗的目标设定为：击垮基地组织老巢，阻击塔利班和帮助阿国建立安全部队及有效政府，以 “担负起阿富汗未来的领导责任。"
    ],
    [
        "So the EU’s promise of membership simply has to be credible if accession-driven reforms are to succeed and EU norms internalized in applicant states.",
        "因此欧盟成员资格承诺必须是可信的，如果入盟推动的改革想要成功、欧盟规范想要在申请国内部化的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, in Congress, forward-looking policymakers like Senator Mark Warner of Virginia are seeking ways to get ahead of the issues and create momentum for bipartisan solutions.",
        "此外在美国国会，弗吉尼亚州参议员马克·沃纳等具有前瞻性眼光的决策者正在寻找问题的解决办法，为两党合作创造良好的势头。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2006, may serve as an example of what the Brotherhood wants: undivided power, including over the military.",
        "2006年以来统治着加沙地带的哈马斯可以作为穆兄会意图的一个例子：完全的权力，包括军队。"
    ],
    [
        "She has carefully studied not only Jackie Kennedy – a comparison obvious from her sheath dresses, boat collars, and page-boy haircut – but also the triumphs and failures of that other glamorous but underestimated stealth radical, Princess Diana.",
        "她不仅仔细研究了杰奎琳·肯尼迪——将她的紧身裙装、船形衣领以及发尾内卷的发型和杰奎琳·肯尼迪进行对比，就可以明显地看出这一点——而且还研究了另一个富有魅力但是被低估了的隐形激进分子黛安娜王妃成功和失败的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "They are still mostly being welcomed, but the capacity of the reception centers is fast reaching its limits.",
        "他们大部分仍受到了欢迎，但接待中心的能力正在迅速到达极限。"
    ],
    [
        "Those that do relatively better will share three characteristics.",
        "而表现相对较好的国家一般具有三个共同的特点。"
    ],
    [
        "“External forces,” Singh declared in Parliament, are trying to prevent India from taking “its true place” in the comity of nations.",
        "辛格在国会上断言，“外部势力”在阻止印度在睦邻友好中“找到自己的真实位置”。"
    ],
    [
        "Parties and Populists",
        "党派与民粹主义者"
    ],
    [
        "Supporters of the war saw their views confirmed in the ink-stained fingers of Iraqi voters who queued up to vote in the various elections held between January and December 2005, in the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, and in the Afghan presidential and parliamentary elections.",
        "2005年1月和12月期间，伊拉克选民手指上沾有墨水在不同的选举中排队投票，黎巴嫩发生雪松革命以及阿富汗举行总统和议会选举。 战争的支持者们看到这些，认为他们的观点得到了确认。"
    ],
    [
        "But the independence project mainly reflects Catalan elites’ extravagant dreams of grandeur and condescension toward the supposedly inferior Spaniards.",
        "但独立事业主要体现了加泰罗尼亚精英对被视为低人一等的西班牙人的崇高而傲慢的奢侈梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a policy was adopted in the aftermath of the 1973 war, when America offered $200 million annually for wheat procurement.",
        "这一政策市1973年战争后采用的，当时美国提供每年2亿美元的小麦采购量。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this performance, getting to 3% annual growth would hardly be a miracle.",
        "从这样的表现看，实现3%的年增长并非奇迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Ending it was a remarkable feat of diplomacy, and Santos deserves the world’s applause.",
        "结束这场战争是一项了不起的外交成就，桑托斯理应赢得全世界的掌声。"
    ],
    [
        "This refusal to compromise has put the Republican Party in a pickle.",
        "如此拒绝妥协让共和党进退两难。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcome, then, is “QE wars” as proxies for “currency wars.”",
        "结果就是作为“汇率战争”代名词的“QE战争”。"
    ],
    [
        "Acquiescing to such censorship might have been necessary when printing presses, delivery trucks, news kiosks, or transmission towers were the only way to get printed publications or broadcast programs to news consumers.",
        "在印刷机、送货卡车、报刊亭或转播塔是将印刷出版物或广播节目送到新闻消费者手中的唯一方式的时候，默认这种审查制度可能是必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – Despite recent economic uncertainty, Asia’s middle class is growing fast.",
        "首尔——尽管近期经济仍有不确定性，亚洲的中产阶级却在快速成长。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, with higher female participation and lower wage differentials, the loss is 7% – and projected to fall to 4% by 2050.",
        "如今，女性参与率有所提高，工资差距有所降低，损失降到了7%，到2050年预计将进一步降低到4%。"
    ],
    [
        "We know how to recognize immigrants’ skills better, and how to provide the right kind of vocational training. We know how to ward off discrimination in hiring.",
        "我们也明白融合过程中找到工作的重要性，知道怎样更好地识别移民的技能，知道怎样为他们提供正确的语言培训，知道怎样克服招聘中的歧视。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Over the past decade, income inequality has come to be ranked alongside terrorism, climate change, pandemics, and economic stagnation as one of the most urgent issues on the international policy agenda.",
        "纽约—过去十年，收入不平等性与恐怖主义、气候变化、传染病和经济停滞一道，成为国际政策议程上最紧迫的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, however we describe it, the idea that the masses should be owners is growing everywhere.",
        "但是，无论我们怎么描绘它，大众成为主人的想法正在各地崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy is humming, unemployment is low, and most Germans are better off than ever before.",
        "经济在繁荣，失业率很低，大部分德国人境况比以前更好。"
    ],
    [
        "The growing power of China and other major emerging-market countries is a reality.",
        "中国以及其他主要新兴市场国家权力日益膨胀是一个现实。"
    ],
    [
        "In poor developing countries, a UBI can disintermediate expensive aid programs that fail to address the targeted population’s needs, and that are often undermined by corrupt regimes.",
        "在贫穷的发展中国家，全民基本收入项目可以胜过那些既不能满足目标人群需求又往往遭到腐败政权阻挠的昂贵援助计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Where these conditions exist, a transition to democracy can succeed; where they are missing, the chances – as in Russia – for a successful transition to a consolidated democracy are slim.",
        "影响力有限的宗教势力，以及可以一个运行多党系统的有效体制框架。 一旦具备这些条件，向民主制度的转型就很可能成功，反之则机会渺茫——俄罗斯就是一例。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet there is every reason for us to try to mitigate at least the anthropogenic portion of the climate change caused by CO 2 emissions and other dangerous practices, such as deforestation.",
        "但我们完全有理由努力缓解因二氧化碳排放和森林砍伐等其他危险行为所导致的与人为活动因素有关的气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Many constitutions contain such a rule, and even President Vladimir Putin of Russia has stated that he will abide by it.",
        "很多宪法都有类似的规定，就连俄国总统普京都明确表示他一定会严格遵守。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the renminbi is used internationally much less than Subramanian’s model predicted.",
        "但人民币的国际使用情况仍远远低于萨布拉曼尼安的模型的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, France’s critical role reflects more than its size.",
        "与此同时，法国的关键作用要比其规模所体现的更大。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – As a candidate, Donald Trump insisted on one signature issue above all: the United States will build a wall along its border with Mexico, and Mexico will pay for it.",
        "华盛顿—作为总统候选人时，特朗普坚持的最标志性问题是：美国将沿着美墨边境建造一道墙，建墙的钱由墨西哥出。"
    ],
    [
        "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wants the conference to happen and has done much to push it ahead.",
        "莱斯国务卿想要召开这一会议而且费尽周折来加以推动。"
    ],
    [
        "Before our eyes, the post-Soviet international system in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia is being overthrown.",
        "在我们眼里，东欧、高加索和中亚的后苏联时代国际体系正在被推翻。"
    ],
    [
        "Widening the talent pipeline sufficiently will require a generational commitment to teaching math and science, providing technical training, and mentoring young people of all backgrounds so they understand the full range of possibilities that a career in technology affords.",
        "充分扩展人才渠道需要一整代人致力于教授数学和科学、提供技术训练、指导背景各异的年轻人以使他们充分理解技术岗位所能提供的无限可能。"
    ],
    [
        "This view entails a Union whose main function is to allow – and to maintain – diversity and difference.",
        "这一观点要求欧盟的主要功用是允许并维护多样性和差别。"
    ],
    [
        "The uncertainty and disorder that have plagued Egypt for the last 18 months are fueling increasing lawlessness in Sinai.",
        "在过去18个月中折磨着埃及的不确定性和无序性正在加速西奈半岛的逍遥法外之势。"
    ],
    [
        "But here, too, there is a gap between rhetoric and reality, and no radical change should be expected.",
        "但这里也存在纲领和现实的差异，我们不应该期待会出现巨大的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "For them, the Israel-Palestine conflict has become a human-rights issue – and a highly contentious one at that.",
        "对他们来讲，以巴冲突已经成为某种人权问题——而且这种人权问题还备受争议。"
    ],
    [
        "The US will not make that mistake with Iran.",
        "美国不会在伊朗问题再次犯错。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of the Iraq War, the intervention killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and shattered the country, as well as costing the lives of thousands of US and British soldiers.",
        "说回到伊拉克战争，干涉行动杀害了数十万伊拉克人并摧毁了这个国家，同时也导致数千名英美士兵因此而丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "New Yorkers appear less supportive of a free press than Muscovites today!",
        "现今的纽约人似乎比莫斯科人更不支持媒体自由！"
    ],
    [
        "Nor was it simply a very expensive hobby. Their galleries showed in a visible and very public way the discernment and judgment that their financial business depended on.",
        "他们的画廊以一种非常明显和公开的方式向人们展示着他们的鉴赏力和判断力，这些能力是他们金融业务赖以的生存之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Jason Furman, raised several technical questions about our conclusions.",
        "前财政部长拉里·萨默斯（Larry Summers）和经济顾问委员会前任主席贾森·弗尔曼（Jason Furman）曾就我们的结论提出了一些技术性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "With these natural allies seeking to add strategic bulk to their rapidly multiplying ties, Akihito’s tour is the most significant visit to India by any foreign leader in recent years.",
        "两大天然盟友寻求在快速发展的关系中添加战略成分，明仁天皇的访问是近几年来最重磅的外国领导人来访。"
    ],
    [
        "In view of this experience, Nigeria now plans to abolish the naira in favor of joining a monetary union with four or five other West African countries (The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and perhaps Liberia).",
        "如果尼日利亚政府通过使用缩小了本国普通人民和英国人民生活水平的差距，那么这种货币贬值也许可以说的过去，但情况并不是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "But the challenge may not be as daunting as it seems.",
        "然而，这一挑战可能没有想象的那样令人生畏。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, I face my own dilemmas, and I do my own experiments.",
        "比如，我就面临过我自己的两难，有切身体验。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, despite the Iranian regime’s lack of transparency, Khamenei’s health problems are public knowledge.",
        "事实上，尽管伊朗体制缺少透明度，但哈梅内伊的健康问题早已众人皆知。"
    ],
    [
        "An appropriate reserve currency and adequate international liquidity represent another central concern.",
        "合适的储备货币和充足的国际流动性则是另一大关键问题。"
    ],
    [
        "With such help from the Palestinians – for example, Hamas bitterly castigated Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently after he inadvertently implied giving up the right of return – Netanyahu may well rule Israel and Palestine for the foreseeable future.",
        "在巴勒斯坦人的全力帮助下（比如巴勒斯坦权力机构主席马哈茂德·阿巴斯在无意中暗示放弃回归权后遭到了哈马斯不遗余力的抨击），以色列和巴勒斯坦很可能在可以预见的将来继续接受内塔尼亚胡的统治。"
    ],
    [
        "The report begins by joking that Egypt’s name should be changed to “Fasadistan,” the land of corruption.",
        "报告一开始就戏谑地提出埃及的名字应当改作腐败的国度（“Fasadistan”）。"
    ],
    [
        "A truly competitive European banking system would provide incentives for the larger and stronger banks to take more risks in the hope of growing even larger and stronger.",
        "如果欧洲银行体系内部存在真正的竞争，就能激励大而有力的银行冒着风险进一步做大做强。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Before the global financial crisis hit, critics of China’s economic imbalances – its twin fiscal and trade surpluses – mainly concentrated on the misallocation of resources that occurs when poor countries borrow from rich countries at high interest rates and lend the money to them at low interest rates.",
        "发自北京 —— 在金融危机爆发之前，外界对中国经济不平衡 —— 表现为其财政与贸易的双盈余 —— 的批判主要集中在资源的错误配置上，这种错配表现为穷国以高利率向富国借款之余又以低利率向富国贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU authorities must acknowledge that many member countries will never join the euro, which means abandoning their rhetoric about a “two-speed Europe,” with all heading – whether at high or low speed – toward the “ever closer union” that a single currency implies.",
        "欧盟当局必须承认，许多成员国永远不会加入欧元区。 加入欧元区这意味着放弃它们的“两个速度的欧洲”论，让所有国家——不管是高速还是低速——一同走向单一货币所隐含的“日益紧密的联盟”。"
    ],
    [
        "Attempting to use game theory to interpret the various calls for coordination is revealing, though not in the way that game theorists assume.",
        "用博弈论来解释各种协作呼声很有启发，尽管并非是以博弈论专家预想的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "But this would feel like “one damn thing after another.”",
        "但这让人感觉就像“一件鸟事接着又一件鸟事”。"
    ],
    [
        "It should not be difficult to generate the political will to provide the needed support, at least in theory.",
        "产生提供所需帮助的政治意愿应该不难，至少理论上是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "And, sure enough, even in his announcement speech, he demonstrated his ability to appeal to Americas’ dark side.",
        "可以肯定，即便在参选讲话中，他也展现了吸引美国黑暗面的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The new treaty is supposed to become effective in 2009.",
        "新的条约预计于2009年生效。"
    ],
    [
        "The Czech players pointed their hockey sticks at the Russians like guns, and their victory provoked anti-Soviet riots back home.",
        "捷克球员用冰球棒像枪一样指着苏联人，他们的胜利在捷克国内也引发了一场反苏暴动。"
    ],
    [
        "BIRMINGHAM – The dramatic events that unfolded at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant after last year’s tsunami are commonly referred to as “the Fukushima disaster.”",
        "伯明翰—去年海啸所引起的日本福岛第一核电站核泄漏事件被人们称为“福岛灾难”。"
    ],
    [
        "That will not be easy for either side.",
        "这对双方而言都不是易事。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether the future holds benign or malign scenarios depends in part on the policies that we adopt today.",
        "未来是美好还是黯淡将部分取决于我们今天所实行的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In less than a decade, China built the world’s largest bullet train system, surpassing 22,000 kilometers (13,670 miles) in July 2017.",
        "在不到十年的时间里，中国就建成了全世界最大的高速铁路系统，2017年7月里程突破22,000公里。"
    ],
    [
        "And, when measured in terms of purchasing power parity, China’s GDP will reach that of the US around 2015, thus changing the world’s balance of economic power.",
        "如果用购买力平价计算的话，中国GDP将在2015年达到美国的水平，并因此改写世界的经济实力格局。"
    ],
    [
        "These two mistakes compounded each other: If the negative impact of austerity on economic growth is greater than was originally assumed, and the positive impact of quantitative easing is weaker, then the policy mix favored by practically all European governments has been hugely wrong.",
        "这两种错误相互作用：如果紧缩对经济增长的负面影响比原先估计的要大，而量化宽松政策的积极影响比估计的要弱，那么几乎所有欧洲政府偏爱的政策组合就是一个巨大的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s recent shift away from muscle-flexing, and its confluence of interests with a US-led order, offers hope that it will not fuel large-scale regional instability this year.",
        "但中国最近不在耀武扬威并且与美国领导的秩序协调利益让人感到它不会在明年继续掀起大规模地区动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The group is now looking for an initial manufacturer/assembler for the retrofit kits (as opposed to the engines inside them). In the meantime, eCorolla and the eSmart will go through testing.",
        "他的团队正在寻找合适的汽车厂家或是组装厂来安装他们研制的改装工具包（安装在汽车发动机的对面）,与此同时, eCorolla 和the eSmart也将通过了测试."
    ],
    [
        "Limited capacity for debt socialization reflects the EU Treaty’s no-bailout clause, which bars outright mutualization at the eurozone level of (national) public debt.",
        "债务社会化能力有限反映了欧盟条约的不援助条款，该条款禁止对（国家）公债施以欧元区层面的直接共同化。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither citizens nor policymakers appear willing to bear its social and political costs.",
        "但人民和决策者都不希望承担改革的社会和政治成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU has driven a revolution in how countries live together – advancing individual rights, international law, and the pooling of sovereignty.",
        "欧盟推动了一场各国如何共存的革命——推进个体权利、国际法和主权集合。"
    ],
    [
        "These include lung, liver, and gastric cancers, as well as other liver diseases, such as chronic hepatitis B, liver fibrosis, and cirrhosis.",
        "其中包括肺、肝及胃癌，以及其他肝脏疾病，如慢性乙型肝炎、肝纤维化和肝硬化等。"
    ],
    [
        "This is boosting the prices of other risky assets such as equities and credit.",
        "这提振了股票和信用等其他风险资产的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "As a basketball fan, I would not describe the sport as a zero-sum game, even though one team wins and one team loses. The best players have huge creative flair.",
        "作为一个篮球迷，我不会将这项运动视为一种零和博弈，即便某一支队的赢球必然是构筑在另一支队的输球之上的。"
    ],
    [
        "With DPJ lawmakers almost equally split, Kan’s victory is being attributed to the support of general and associate party members.",
        "双方在民主党内部的势力难分高下，菅的胜选归功于军方和兄弟党的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "This explains why Syria’s Christian and Druze minorities now support Assad, and why the Copts in Egypt support military rule: democratic majoritarian rule means Muslim hegemony.",
        "这就解释了为何叙利亚基督徒和德鲁兹派少数群体现在会支持巴沙尔·阿萨德，也解释了埃及科普特人支持军事统治：民主多数规则意味着穆斯林霸权。"
    ],
    [
        "Think back to June 2012.",
        "回想2012年6月。"
    ],
    [
        "Another is that some elements of Iraq’s Sunni minority have refused to accept their status as the only Sunnis in the Arab Middle East to live under a Shia majority.",
        "另一个原因是伊拉克逊尼派少数群体的某些派系拒绝接受他们是中东阿拉伯地区唯一一群生活在什叶派多数群体中的逊尼派。"
    ],
    [
        "In a country that regards itself as a civilized counterweight to belligerent American hegemony, nearly half of all prisoners have never been convicted of a crime.",
        "在这样一个将自己视为美国暴力霸权的文明对照的国家，近一半的在押人员居然从未被定罪。"
    ],
    [
        "As shown by Mexico's laments about job losses to China, people in emerging countries worry as much as those in advanced countries.",
        "墨西哥对被中国抢了饭碗的事实耿耿于怀，这说明新兴国家人们的日子并不比发达国家的人好过。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of the sheer volume of nominations, most have traditionally sailed through the Senate with so-called unanimous consent, a process by which nominations are placed on the day’s calendar and the calendar is approved in a single voice vote.",
        "由于提名数量庞大，传统上，大部分都会在参议院获得一致通过，即这些提名会卸载日程表上，而日程表被全体无异议地通过。"
    ],
    [
        "After that, it traces the old McMahon Line drawn in 1914 – and rejected by China as an imperial dictate – to demarcate British India from what was then Tibet.",
        "麦克马洪线是英属印度与当时的西藏的分界线，中国不承认这条线，认为它是帝国主义强加的。"
    ],
    [
        "Rural hydraulic projects, which ensure access to water for these populations over large stretches of land, can prove to be efficient conflict prevention tools.",
        "农村的水力工程确保了大片土地上人口的用水，可以是防止冲突的有效工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the obvious benefits of having access to more territory in which to gather and hunt, outsiders – particularly those who bear characteristics that mark them as genetically distant – were treated as foes.",
        "进入更多狩猎采集领地的好处显而易见，因此外来者——特别是那些具备表现出基因不同的特征的外来者——被视为危害。"
    ],
    [
        "My own country, for example, invented much of what it means to be British in order to accommodate Scotland in the eighteenth century to the idea of rule from England, and to persuade the whole of the United Kingdom that it should not object to being ruled by German kings.",
        "比如我自己的国家在英国意味着什么的问题上编造了很多事情，以便将十八世纪的苏格兰说成是在英格兰的统治下以及劝说整个联合王国不应反对受到日尔曼国王的统治。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is there any reason to believe that the benefits at the top will trickle down.",
        "此外也没有任何理由相信在顶部阶层的好处会向下传导。"
    ],
    [
        "For where should they park their money?",
        "他们该把钱投在什么地方？"
    ],
    [
        "For sympathetic audiences, an online push can sometimes be enough to spark violent action.",
        "面对持同情态度的观众，有时一次在线鼓动足以引发暴力行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Republicans’ Responsibility for Gun Violence",
        "共和党的控枪责任"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – One year ago, I was in Brazil to launch the Brazilian chapter of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), an initiative of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.",
        "纽约—一年前，我在巴西启动联合国可持续发展方案网络（ustainable Development Solutions Network，SDSN）巴西章。 这是联合国秘书长潘基文发起的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar exceptions will probably be made for other countries that cannot reconcile aspects of the new pact with their national circumstances.",
        "而类似的例外也将出现在那些无法使《协议》要求与本国情况相一致的国家身上。"
    ],
    [
        "But how likely is that to happen?",
        "那么这种情况发生的可能性又有多大呢？"
    ],
    [
        "It was thus not surprising that Russia could grow strongly during the ensuing commodity super-cycle, which ended only recently.",
        "因此，俄罗斯能够在随后的大宗商品超级周期中保持强劲增长不足为奇。 而最近，商品超级周期已经结束。"
    ],
    [
        "If, as expected, Le Pen and Macron face off in the election’s second round on May 7, it will be a political watershed for France: the first time in 60 years that the main parties of the left and the right are not represented in the second round.",
        "如果勒庞和马克龙如人们所料在5月7日举行的第二轮选举中脱颖而出，这将成为法国历史上的一道政治分水岭：六十年来首次没有左翼和右翼主流党派的代表进入到总统选举的第二轮。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the more impartial polling firms, such as Luis Christiansen’s Consultores 21, Varianzas, and Keller, all show a surprisingly large proportion of undecided voters – those who do not answer or do not know for whom they will vote.",
        "Luis Christiansen的Consultores 21公司、Varianzas公司和Keller公司等多家较中立的调查公司的民调显示，摇摆选民比例惊人地高，他们或者没有表达自己的投票倾向，或者根本不知道该投谁。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies a Europe-based approach that takes precedence over national considerations once national and European-level foreign policies are unified.",
        "这就需要在国家和欧洲级别的外交政策实现统一后，统一的欧洲模式能够先于国家利益而发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, Kahneman and his colleagues found that people with higher incomes spent more time in activities that are associated with negative feelings, such as tension and stress.",
        "恰恰相反，卡尼曼和他的同事发现，高收入者更多的时间花费在与负面情绪，比如紧张和压力相关的活动上。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ukraine, it should be noted, revolutions have been required – first under Leonid Kuchma, and then under Viktor Yanukovych, to prevent such a system from being established (whether a third attempt is currently underway today remains to be seen).",
        "应该指出的是，在乌克兰，人们被迫发动一次又一次的革命——先是推翻总统列昂尼德·库奇马（Leonid Kuchma），接着把维克托·亚努科维奇（Viktor Yanukovych）赶下台——以防止这种体制的确立 (第三次革命是否正在酝酿之中尚待观察)。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar processes are playing out in other large countries in the western part of the Islamic world.",
        "类似的过程正在伊斯兰西部其他诸大国上演。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of us get our boarding passes at airports from automated check-in machines.",
        "多数人在机场利用自动登机设备打印登机牌。"
    ],
    [
        "This conclusion would most likely be valid, because the use of antibiotics before 1930 – just two years after Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin and years before it was fully workable as a cure – was rare and mostly inadvertent.",
        "这一结论很有可能是成立的，因为在1930年以前——此时弗莱明刚刚发现盘尼西林两年，距离盘尼西林的全面使用还有多年时间——很少使用抗生素，即使用了也往往不是有意为之。"
    ],
    [
        "If, however, the crisis results from a coordination failure among investors – when each investor refuses to roll over the government’s debt for fear that others will do the same, leading to a default – monetary policy can play an important role.",
        "但如果这场危机来源于投资者之间的协调失误——每一个投资者都因为害怕其他人会作出同样的举动而拒绝延迟兑现政府债券，最终导致违约——货币政策就能在其中扮演一个重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps if Truman had not been president and Stalin had made major gains in Europe and the Middle East, the Soviet empire would have been stronger, and bipolarity might have persisted longer.",
        "也许，如果杜鲁门没有当总统，而斯大林在欧洲和中东大获全胜，苏联帝国可能会更加强大，两极格局也会维持得更为长久。"
    ],
    [
        "A rapprochement with Israel and, more important, a lasting peace with its Kurdish population, would boost Turkey’s regional influence.",
        "于以色列重归于好以及（更重要的）于库尔德人保持和平相处将提振土耳其的地区影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Others see it as a sham marriage.",
        "在其他人看来，这场婚姻已经名存实亡。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires that a more rational strategy be mapped out in the planning of major industrial projects and energy-hungry enterprises.",
        "这就要求在重要产业项目和耗能大户企业的规划中制定出一个更为理性的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the more letters a country has, the greater the number of uses it could find for any additional letter it acquired.",
        "此外，一国所拥有的字母越多，一旦它获得新字母，这个新字母的用途也就越多。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the complexity and distortion in the US tax code arises from different types of income being taxed at different rates.",
        "美国税法中的大部分复杂性和扭曲性来自于对不同类型的收入以不同税率征税。"
    ],
    [
        "Isn’t that extremely disproportionate for an otherwise highly responsible bank?",
        "这对一间在其他方面都高度负责的银行来说是否太过严苛了？"
    ],
    [
        "That much the bear knows well.",
        "这一点黑熊很清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true for Interpol’s information.",
        "国际刑警组织的信息也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "The “Turing test” is the holy grail of artificial intelligence research.",
        "“图灵测试”被视作人工智能研究领域的圣杯。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, unlike Poland when communism collapsed, Burma already has powerful business tycoons flourishing under the existing system – and they mean to maintain and develop their privileges.",
        "此外，和波兰共产主义奔溃时期不同的是，在现行的体系之下，缅甸有大量强有力的商业巨头-他们想要保持和发展自己的特权。"
    ],
    [
        "Some also fear that this demonstration of Russian assertiveness presages a new wave of such interventions, even a new Cold War.",
        "也有一些人担心俄罗斯如此彰显魄力预示着新一波类似的干预，甚至新的冷战。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile we were still able to take measures in helping people within the disaster zone; they were evacuated, and more than 200 medical organizations were involved in testing the population for radiation poisoning.",
        "与此同时，我们还有能力采取行动帮助灾区人民。 他们得到疏散，而且超过200个的医疗组织参与对居民进行放射性污染测试。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the eurozone's periphery is now subject to the paradox of thrift: increasing savings too much, too fast leads to renewed recession and makes debts even more unsustainable.",
        "简言之，欧元区外围国已难逃节约悖论（paradox of thrift）：太快太大地增加储蓄导致新一轮衰退，让债务愈加不可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "The country failed to anticipate the rise of China and India, whose exponential demand growth would have obvious implications for global energy prices.",
        "另外，这个国家也没有预料到中国和印度的崛起会引发对燃料的爆炸性需求，进而对全球能源价格产生极大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "After Hugo Chávez was re-elected in 2006, he decided to accelerate the “revolution” and nationalized banks, telecoms, cement, steel, supermarkets, hundreds of other firms, and millions of hectares of land.",
        "2006年查韦斯再次当选后，他决定加快推进“革命”，实现银行、电信、水泥、钢铁、超市、数以百计的企业和数以百万计公顷土地的国有化进程。"
    ],
    [
        "US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, recognizing that the world’s “center of gravity is shifting to the heart of the Indo-Pacific,” called on the region’s democratic powers to pursue “greater engagement and cooperation.”",
        "美国国务卿蒂勒森认识到世界“重心正在转向印度-太平洋心脏地带”，呼吁域内民主力量寻求“更大的参与和合作”。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unlike most central banks, the Fed has global responsibilities.",
        "但是，和大部分央行不同，美联储还有全球责任。"
    ],
    [
        "“We will have extra limbs, if we want them,” he asserted, “maybe even wings to fly.”",
        "“我们会有不止四肢，如果我们想要变成这样，”他说，“兴许还会有翅膀可以飞。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The centrist Liberal Democrats appeared to hold the balance of power, and stories circulated of how Heath was prepared to concede a reformed voting system. He held out the promise of proportional representation, which would ensure a greater number of parliamentary seats for the Liberal Democrats in future elections, in exchange for the party’s support for a new Conservative government.",
        "中间派自由民主党最初采取均势策略，坊间则传言希思准备推动选举制度改革，说他许诺建立比例代表制，方便自由民主党在未来大选中获取更多议席，以换取后者支持保守党重新组阁。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran tried to conceal these transactions for years, until its cover was blown when Libya began to cooperate with the West and exposed the Khan network.",
        "数年来伊朗一直试图掩盖这一交易，但随着利比亚与西方展开合作并揭发了巴基斯坦人的交易网络，一切都大白于天下。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, a quarter of all bananas in UK supermarkets are sold under a FAIRTRADE mark.",
        "时至今日，全英超市中1/4的香蕉都拥有公平贸易标签。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an identity we share by living together and by what we have in common, whatever the differences between our multiples identities.",
        "这是一种因为我们共同生活在一起而拥有的身份，并且应该是我们共同拥有的身份，不管我们不同的身份之间有多大的差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the unemployed and underemployed, especially younger people, expect their leaders and institutions to try.",
        "尽管如此，失业和半失业者，特别是年轻人，仍期望领导人和机构尽力尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Kyoto agreement had been fully implemented throughout this century, it would have cut temperatures only by an insignificant 0.2°C (0.3°F), at a cost of $180 billion every year.",
        "如果本世纪《京都议定书》彻底得到落实，它只能使温度降低微乎其微的0. 2oC（合0."
    ],
    [
        "Rio’s Unsustainable Nonsense",
        "里约不可持续的胡说"
    ],
    [
        "But the reality is that those media reports were the beginning, not the end, of the process.",
        "但实际情况是上述媒体报道并非协议过程的结束而仅是开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, as David Autor of MIT has pointed out, the automatic teller machine (ATM) displaced human bank tellers, but so reduced the cost of branches that their number rose, fueling an increase in employees focused on customer relationship management (for which ATMs are less than ideal).",
        "同样，就像麻省理工学院的大卫·奥特尔所指出的那样，自动提款机（ATM）取代了人类银行柜员，但同时，大幅降低了银行分支机构的成本，导致分支机构数量大幅增加，从而增加了专注客户关系管理（自动柜员机在客户关系管理方面的效果不太理想）的员工人数。"
    ],
    [
        "First, gold prices tend to spike when there are serious economic, financial, and geopolitical risks in the global economy.",
        "首先，金价一般都会在全球经济面临严重经济，金融和地缘政治危机时攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone’s current design makes ECB independence impossible.",
        "欧元区目前的设计使得欧洲央行不可能维持其独立性。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting to \\",
        "学会和伊朗和解"
    ],
    [
        "These options should not be seen as mutually exclusive.",
        "这些选项不应该被视为互相排斥。"
    ],
    [
        "With better returns than passive beta funds at a lower cost than actively managed funds, smart beta vehicles are increasingly available and becoming more popular.",
        "聪明贝塔基金回报高于贝塔基金，成本低于积极管理基金，因此日益兴盛和流行。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a pilot program would benefit poor patients and would test scientists’ ability to measure health impact fairly and accurately.",
        "这一试点计划将有助于贫穷患者，也将考验科学家公正准确地测量健康影响的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "CAIRO – August 3, 2011, will be remembered as a historic day in Egypt.",
        "开罗——2011年8月3日将是埃及历史上永远被人铭记的一天。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, Japan’s negative-interest-rate policy worked rather well to push down market interest rates.",
        "随后，日本的负利率政策相当出色地压低了市场利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there are no practical reasons for Russia’s current system of governance to fall into crisis (although such reasons may emerge in the event of an economic downturn).",
        "事实上，俄罗斯现行的政治体系没有什么理由会陷入危机（尽管这种原因可能会在经济萎靡不振时候出现）。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa’s state capture is deeply embedded.",
        "南非的国家俘获根深蒂固。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the March 11, 2004, terrorist attack on Spain, which left 200 dead, triggered an “anti-crusade” that seeks to disarm extremism by building bridges of understanding and reconciliation with Islam.",
        "与之相比，2004年3月11日发生在西班牙造成200人死亡的恐怖袭击引发了尝试通过与伊斯兰建立理解和和解来消除极端主义思想的“反十字军运动”。"
    ],
    [
        "The traditional capitalist model may have made Bill Gates rich, but his foundation now finances valuable technological breakthroughs in unprofitable ways.",
        "传统的资本主义模式让比尔·盖茨成为了一个富人，但他创立的基金会正在资助那些非营利的重大技术突破。"
    ],
    [
        "But, thus far, there is little to suggest that the depreciations have had much of a salutary effect on economic growth, which for the most part has remained sluggish.",
        "但是，到目前为止，没有迹象表明贬值对经济增长起到了有益作用，大部分地区的经济增长依然处于停滞状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The third issue – the most challenging for some American politicians, especially the most conservative among them – is Francis’s recent encyclical on environmental stewardship, climate change, and sustainable and fair economic development.",
        "第三个问题——对于一些美国政客来说，这是挑战最大的问题，特别是最保守的保守派——是方济各关于环境保护、气候变化以及可持续的公平经济发展的最新通谕。"
    ],
    [
        "One of those terms concerned the disposition of Greece’s remaining public assets.",
        "其中一个条件是处置希腊现有公共资产。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea and Japan need to have their views taken into serious account if this now inevitable withdrawal is to succeed.",
        "如果这次现在看来无可避免的撤军想获得成功，就要认真考虑韩国和日本的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem for whoever is elected president in 2008 will be to find appropriate realistic means to advance democratic values and adjust official rhetoric accordingly.",
        "在2008年获选总统的任何人所面临的问题都将是寻求推进民主价值观的适当的现实主义途径并对官方论调做出相应调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Foxconn, which build iPads for Apple, hopes to have their first fully automated plant in operation sometime in the next 5-10 years.",
        "为苹果生产iPad的富士康公司也计划未来5－10年开办第一家完全自动化的生产企业。"
    ],
    [
        "No matter how hard a tiger mom pushes, not every student can finish first (unless, of course, we make everyone “top of the class”).",
        "除此之外就算虎妈如何严格管教，也不是每一个孩子都能成为班上头名的（除非把每个学生都选为“全班第一”）。"
    ],
    [
        "Dictatorships proliferated, from Brazil and Argentina to Uruguay and Chile, all the way to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in Central America.",
        "独裁专制迅速扩散，从巴西、阿根廷到乌拉圭、智利，并一路波及到中美洲的萨尔瓦多、危地马拉和洪都拉斯。"
    ],
    [
        "I do not envy future generations for having to address the possible ramifications of global warming and fresh-water depletion.",
        "子孙后代或许不得不面对全球变暖和清洁水耗竭的难题。"
    ],
    [
        "But as the numbers expand, the difficulty of reaching agreement increases.",
        "但随着数字的日渐庞大，形成协议的困难也随之增加了。"
    ],
    [
        "In Latin America, however, rigid class divisions and deep income inequalities created fertile ground for populism.",
        "但是，在拉丁美洲，顽固的阶级分裂和深刻的收入不平等造就了民粹主义的温床。"
    ],
    [
        "And he hasn’t independently reached your new ideas – the ideas that matter.",
        "而他也没有独立提出你的新观点，而这些观点十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, by now the Fed, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the ECB, and a variety of smaller advanced economies’ central banks, such as the Swiss National Bank, have all relied on such unconventional policies.",
        "事实上，如今，美联储、英格兰银行、日本银行、欧洲央行和众多小发达经济体的央行（如瑞士国民银行）都实施了非常规政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The tax rate required to fund social-welfare benefits depends on three factors: the dependency ratio (the ratio of recipients to taxpayers); the replacement rate (the ratio of benefits to average wages); and the economic-growth rate (roughly, productivity plus population growth).",
        "用以支付社会福利补贴的税率取决于三个因素：依赖比率（补贴享受者与纳税人之比）； 替代率（补贴与平均工资之比）；"
    ],
    [
        "The next year promises to be critical.",
        "而明年则显得相当关键。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time the Annenberg Center for Public Policy asked the same question in 2015, the percentage of such respondents had grown to two thirds, and a staggering 32% could not name a single branch.",
        "2015年，安嫩伯格公共政策中心（Annenberg Center for Public Policy）同样的调查，无法正确回答的回复比例增加到三分之二，更有高达32%的人连其中一类都说不出。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama will surely raise the issue again at the upcoming summit.",
        "奥巴马总统必定会在胡主席到访时重提此事。"
    ],
    [
        "While a distraught world is still trying to fathom the consequences of this global crash and to mitigate its impact, the call of the next black swan can already be heard: the global climate disaster.",
        "当惊慌失措的世界正在努力估测这次全球金融危机的后果并减轻其影响的时候，下一个黑天鹅的叫声已经清晰可见：全球气候灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Republicans secured a broad victory.",
        "共和党人在事实上夺取了大面积的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the collapse of the tech bubble in 2000 entailed a $4 trillion loss in market capitalization. But the US managed to avoid a systemic crisis.",
        "在美国，2000年高科技泡沫的破裂导致市值缩水4万亿美元，但当时美国股市的破灭并没有导致系统性经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "About 15 years ago, I spent a summer in France’s Loire Valley.",
        "大约在15年前，我在法国的卢瓦尔河谷地区呆了一个夏天。"
    ],
    [
        "Major countries also have undergone currency appreciations – 30% for Japan and 15% for China.",
        "主要的一些国家同样经历了货币升值：日本的货币升值约30%，中国的货币升值约15%。"
    ],
    [
        "As corporate finance experts have been saying for 30 years, having too much debt and too little equity is costly, so reducing the face value of debt can sometimes benefit not only equity-holders, but also debt-holders.",
        "作为企业融资的专家30年来一直在说，太多的债务和太少的股本使成本过高，因此降低的债务的票面价值，不仅有利于股权持有人，有时还有利于债务持有人。"
    ],
    [
        "In theory, the Lima agreement on INDCs does not determine the shape of the long-term Paris agreement.",
        "理论上，利马的关于INDC的协议并没有决定巴黎的长期协定。"
    ],
    [
        "But if it has now been discredited in the minds of the British people, the result may be a new element of independence into British strategic thinking.",
        "但是，由于布莱尔积极踊跃地支持布什的战争，其政绩将会永远大打折扣。"
    ],
    [
        "He showed how this insight could predict trends in female labor-force participation and birth rates, and led to the policy conclusion that the best way to lower high birth rates in poor countries was to educate women.",
        "他展示了如何用这一洞见预测女性劳动力参与率和生育率，并因此得出了降低穷国高生育率的最佳方式是教育女性的政策结论。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Muslim thinkers – such as Iran’s Abdolkarim Soroush, Tunisia’s Tahar Haddad, Pakistan’s Fazlur Rahman, Morocco’s Fatema Mernissi, Egypt’s Qasim Amin, and Sudan’s Mahmud Muhammad Taha – continue to explore the connections between Islamic thought and modern values.",
        "如今，穆斯林思想家——如伊朗的阿卜杜尔卡里姆·索罗什（Abdolkarim Soroush）、突尼斯的塔哈尔·哈达德（Tahar Haddad）、巴基斯坦的法兹鲁尔·拉曼（Fazlur Rahman）、摩洛哥的费特马·梅尔尼西（Fatema Mernisssi）、埃及的卡西姆·阿明（Qasim Amin）、苏丹的马哈茂德·穆罕默德·塔哈（Mahmud Muhammad Taha）等——仍在探索伊斯兰思想与现代价值观之间的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "The very existence of other people breeds suspicion in Russian guards, and who is to say that they are completely wrong?",
        "其他人的存在本身就能引起俄罗斯警卫们的警觉，而谁又能说他们绝对错了？"
    ],
    [
        "The list of unconventional measures has been extensive.",
        "非常规手段清单很长。"
    ],
    [
        "And do not fall for the tired cliché that reason is for democrats and emotion is for populists.",
        "不要相信令人厌倦的陈词滥调，认为民粹主义者才诉诸情感，而民主派必须是理智的。"
    ],
    [
        "In most cases, the forbidden CFC’s have been labeled as permitted HFC’s (hydrogenfluorocarbons), but labels like “spray paint” and “lubricants” also have been used.",
        "在大多数情况下，被禁的CFC被贴上了合法的HFC’s(氢氟烃)的标签，有时候还用“喷漆”和“润滑剂”的标签。"
    ],
    [
        "The second revolution highlighted the unwillingness of a large part of Egypt’s diverse population to accept this non-inclusive process.",
        "第二次革命凸显出，在埃及多元化的人口中，有很大一部分不愿意接受这一非包容性过程。"
    ],
    [
        "They are bound to choose older homes in established neighborhoods that have already been connected to the many networks that make them a habitat.",
        "他们一定会选择老牌社区里的旧房子，这些房子已经建立了与许多网络的连通性，因此可以成为栖身之所。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that threat, Trump’s economic populism will most likely manifest itself through abstinence – avoiding pro-market measures that clearly hurt the white working class.",
        "在这样的威胁下，特朗普的经济民粹主义极有可能表现得相当节制——避免显然会伤及白人工作阶级的亲市场政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization is increasingly viewed as an alternative to domestic structural complexity.",
        "“走出去”战略正越来越被视为解决国内结构性复杂问题的替代手段。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve this, SWFs must alter their investment pattern.",
        "为了达到这一点，主权财富基金必须改变其投资模式。"
    ],
    [
        "After the Guns of August",
        "八月冲突之后"
    ],
    [
        "Each G20 country has promised to start implementing national plans to fight AMR in earnest, and to do more to promote new treatments against resistant microbes.",
        "G20各国都承诺开始坚决实施减轻AMR的国家计划，并要增加投入推动解决耐药微生物问题的新疗法。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters most right now is massive economic and military assistance.",
        "目前最为重要的是大规模经济和军事援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment stands at 26%, and hovers around 50% among young people.",
        "失业率高达26%，年轻人失业率更是高达50%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "First, France is an indispensable link between southern and northern Europe at a time of growing economic and financial division between creditors and debtors (a fissure that has begun to assume a cultural dimension).",
        "首先，在债权国和债务国经济和金融差异越拉越大之时（目前已有人开始论及文化差异），法国是联系南欧和北欧不可或缺的节点。"
    ],
    [
        "True, Maliki’s nascent dictatorship is lighter than that of Saddam at his worst, and perhaps that is some progress.",
        "的确，马利基的新生专政再差也与萨达姆不可同日而语，也许这就代表着某种进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the leading federal government officials remain in denial.",
        "不幸的是，联邦政府高官拒绝承认问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A YouGov poll commissioned by The Economist found strong racial resentment among supporters of Trump, whose use of the “birther” issue (questioning the validity of the birth certificate of Barack Obama, America’s first black president) helped put him on the path to his current campaign.",
        "《经济学人》组织的YouGov民调发现，特朗普的支持者带有强烈的种族仇恨，特朗普的“出身论”（质疑美国首任黑人总统奥巴马出生证明的真实性）对于他走到今天这一步很有帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Dogs are able to follow human pointing gestures to find hidden food, and they can indicate successfully to their owners by their own pointing actions where a hidden toy is located.",
        "犬类可以按照人类手势的指向找到隐藏的食物，它们还能成功地利用指向性动作来暗示主人玩具藏在何处。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the only way out of the current unworkable predicament.",
        "这是解决当前无从下手的困境的唯一办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, confidence in its stability and availability must be maintained, which highlights the practicality of a national currency, or perhaps a variety of national currencies.",
        "最重要的是，对储备货币稳定性和可获得性的信心不能削弱，这凸显了国家货币（也可能是一揽子多个国家的货币）的可操作性。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a sufficiently large stimulus (in excess of 2% of GDP), we will have a vicious negative spiral: a weak economy will mean more bankruptcies, which will push stock prices down and interest rates up, undermine consumer confidence, and weaken banks.",
        "没有规模足够巨大的刺激计划(超过2%的GDP)，我们将会有一个恶性循环，也就是经济脆弱导致更多的破产，进而压低股价抬高利率，削弱消费者信心并且削弱银行资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s ability to negotiate its current predicament hinges on its powerful president, Vladimir Putin.",
        "俄罗斯是否能与当前困境周旋，取决于其强权总统普京。 但普京还没有做好行动的准备；"
    ],
    [
        "Despite these problems, Brown has committed California to a San Francisco-to-Los Angeles high-speed rail boondoggle.",
        "即使存在如此众多的困难，布朗还在旧金山至洛杉矶的高铁项目上给加州造成了极大的浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s agreement in early October with his South Korean counterpart on a Tailored Deterrence strategy became untenable a few days later, when the US promised Japan a massive upgrading of its military capabilities.",
        "10月初，美国国防部长哈格与韩国国防部长达成了“定制威慑”（Tailored Deterrence）协议，但不出几日，这一协议便无法维持下去，因为美国承诺日本助其大规模升级军力。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, as then, people have been disappointed for a long time, and many are despairing.",
        "与当时一样，现在的人们也已失望了相当长一段时间，许多人甚至感到了绝望。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel will complete its defensive security fence and strike back against terrorists and those who fire missiles at Israeli civilian targets.",
        "以色列将完成它的防御性安全防护墙，反击恐怖分子以及向以色列平民目标发射导弹的人。"
    ],
    [
        "After the outbreak of turbulence in financial markets last year, the European Central Bank immediately provided ample liquidity to calm the situation, and has continued to do so ever since.",
        "在去年金融市场的动荡开始后，欧洲中央银行立刻提供了充裕的资金来平息事态，至今仍在这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Private investors are acknowledging the reality that repayments will likely be drawn out, because insisting on existing terms could cause an untenable bunching of debt-service payments, with possibly unpleasant consequences.",
        "私人投资者也承认了偿还其可能会被拉长的现实，因为坚持按现有条款偿付将导致不可持续的债务偿付压力，造成不利的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Western leaders failed to anticipate the long-term consequences of supporting autocracies, revealed in the Arab Spring revolts, or to foresee the impact of successive military interventions in Iraq, Syria, and Libya.",
        "事实上，西方领导人没有预见到支持极权的长期后果（阿拉伯之春革命让这些后果尽显无疑），也没有预见到连续军事干预伊拉克、叙利亚和利比亚的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "NATO membership carries obligations, because situations may arise – and we have already experienced them – when NATO follows a United Nations appeal and conducts an out-of-area military intervention where, for example, genocide is being committed.",
        "北约成员资格规定了义务，因为可能会出现这样一种情况，而且我们已经经历了，那就是北约响应联合国的呼吁，在北约以外、例如种族屠杀正在进行的地方实行军事干预。"
    ],
    [
        "They have hammered out a common platform that has involved give-and-take on both sides.",
        "自由党人取得了五个内阁大臣席位以及更多的部长级职位。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic forecasters continue to promise that growth will revive.",
        "经济预测家仍然认为增长会重振。"
    ],
    [
        "Sooner or later, the Brothers will suffer the fate of all bad devils.",
        "而这些“兄弟们”迟早会面对和所有恶魔同样的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, in the US, Europe, and Japan, roughly 70% of the market is composed of e-tailers running their own Web sites, whether online-only merchants like Amazon or traditional brick-and-mortar retailers such as Carrefour, Dixons, and Walmart.",
        "与此相对的是，在美国、欧洲和日本，大约70%的市场来自拥有自身网站的电子零售商（既包括只从事在线业务的亚马逊，也包括家乐福、Dixons和沃尔玛等传统零售商）。"
    ],
    [
        "Catholics and Protestants in Ireland were killing each other for a century, but now that they are in the EU, they have recognized the idiocy of their conflict and the inevitability of reconciliation.",
        "爱尔兰的天主教徒和新教徒一个世纪以来相互残杀，但是他们现在同在欧盟，并已经意识到彼此间争端冲突的愚蠢性以及和解的必然性。"
    ],
    [
        "But will London fall into line this time?",
        "但这一回伦敦会点头同意吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The rapid growth of China, India, and other emerging countries should come with increased influence, to be implemented through the planned quota increase in 2011.",
        "随着中国，印度和其他新兴国家的快速崛起，他们在IMF的作用也应该得到加强，应该在2011年的计划中应该得以体现。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, since the industry launched its public-relations campaign in the early 2000’s, cost estimates have increased roughly sevenfold, and profits have declined.",
        "事实上，自从核电产业从2000年代初开始其公关活动以来，测算成本增加了大约七倍，而利润节节下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments have a vital role to play, but so, too, do incumbent fossil-fuel-based energy companies and new-entrant companies deploying or developing new technologies.",
        "政府需要扮演关键角色，但许多现有化石燃料能源公司和部署或开发新技术的新晋公司也能起到重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "As the SDG Index admits, “countries appear to struggle with implementing the full range” of indicators.",
        "可持续发展目标指数承认：“各国似乎都在竭尽全力执行全部指标。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, work is already underway to address how waqf (charitable endowments), zakat (the obligatory alms tax), and a variety of Islamic financial instruments can be channeled effectively and efficiently to meet humanitarian needs.",
        "而且事实上我们已经在努力引导教产（慈善捐赠）、天课（强制性的施舍税）和其他种类的伊斯兰金融工具以使其有效满足人道主义需求。"
    ],
    [
        "When handled properly, gender equality promotes business output and productivity, whereas sexual discrimination, if ignored, can destroy an office culture – and so much more.",
        "如果能够得到妥善处理，性别平等可以促进商业领域的产量和生产效率，而性别歧视如果遭到忽视，则可能彻底摧毁办公室文化——以及更多。"
    ],
    [
        "In the late 1990’s, both economies were growing (rapidly in the Spanish case), whereas now they face hard times and a mounting risk of deflation.",
        "彼时和此时的意大利和西班牙处于截然不同的经济周期阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "The news soon leaks to the public.",
        "这一消息很快泄露并公之于众。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The massive downturn in American’s economy will last longer and be more damaging than previous recessions, because it is driven by an unprecedented loss of household wealth.",
        "剑桥——当前美国所面临的经济衰退将比以往任何时期的破坏力都大，持续的时间也更长。 原因是本次经济衰退的起因是由于房产资产大幅度意外缩水所造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, the record on evaluating responses to humanitarian emergencies has been patchy at best.",
        "直到最近，在对人道主义紧急情况的响应进行评估方面的记录至多也只是凌乱的。"
    ],
    [
        "TheNew York Times, for example, is free to publish its report on the strike, even though it operates a Web site that anyone with unfettered Internet access can read.",
        "比如《纽约时报》有权自由地刊登对罢工的报导，尽管它所经营的网站只要上网不受管制都可以阅读。"
    ],
    [
        "But there may be a deeper reason for the Fed’s forbearance.",
        "但美联储的克制也有可能出于一个更深层次的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Selama masa jabatannya, tahun 2004 hingga 2014, Karzai mengganti posisi paling senior di pemerintahan pusat, serta provinsi, demi memperoleh dukungan politik, dan seringkali memberi kekebalan hukum pada pejabat yang korup.",
        "2004年到2014年，在他担任总统期间，卡尔扎伊用国民政府和省政府中最重要的职位换取政治支持，并且常常授予腐败官员豁免权。"
    ],
    [
        "But, by leaving the bulk of his fortune, approximately $31 billion, to the Gates Foundation, he will have done the next best thing.",
        "但是，他通过将大约310亿美元，也就是其财富的绝大部分捐赠给盖茨基金会，也就做了退而求其次的善举。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, we should be wary of the kinds of radical policies that some politicians are promoting today.",
        "有鉴于此，我们应该警惕的是一些政界人士当前推动的各类激进政策。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the only time he has been prepared to strike any kind of deal over the last four years was when he believed that the US was prepared to intervene militarily in response to his use of chemical weapons.",
        "毕竟，在过去四年中，他唯一一次准备妥协便是在当他相信美国准备以军事干预作为对其使用化学武器的反应时。"
    ],
    [
        "Even before the current diplomatic controversies, China’s leaders were gleefully drawing attention to how much more effective their stimulus package had been than Obama’s in countering the negative effects of the financial crisis.",
        "即便在最近的外交争端中，中国领导人也很喜欢将自己的经济刺激计划与奥巴马的相比较，显示自己在对抗金融危机方面效率如何之高。"
    ],
    [
        "This would allow the European Banking Authority to treat these various T-bills as the equivalent of cash, because they could be sold to the ECB at any time.",
        "这将允许欧洲银行管理局把各类国库券当做现金，因为这些国库券可以随时卖给欧洲央行。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries, like Thailand, that felt that they could handle the finances on their own asked that assistance be directed to others.",
        "像泰国这样觉得能解决经济问题的国家要求把援助分配给其它国家。"
    ],
    [
        "As I ponder what to do next, and as the BRICS leaders meet, I can’t help but wonder about the term’s meaning today.",
        "而在思考下一步该投身哪些事业的时候，我不禁回想到了这个迄今15周年的主题。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy has a few large corporations, mainly in services, utilities, or sectors shielded from competition.",
        "意大利有几家大公司，主要处于服务、公用事业或存在竞争保护的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, we have had UN resolutions 194, 242, and 338, the Rogers Plan, the Mitchell Plan, the Tenet Plan, Camp David, Taba, the Saudi plan, the “road map,” the Geneva Initiative, the People’s Choice, and the Arab Peace Initiative.",
        "从那以后，我们又有了联合国第194、第242和第338号决议，罗杰斯计划，米切尔计划，腾里特计划，戴维营，塔巴，沙特阿拉伯计划，“路线图”，日内瓦倡议，人民的选择和阿拉伯和平倡议。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, China is applying the imperial 99-year lease concept in distant lands.",
        "如今，中国也在遥远的海外用上了99年租期的帝国主义概念。"
    ],
    [
        "The writer, caught up in the shelter of solitude, does not have much time to wander about.",
        "作家深深地陷入孤独的包围，没有多少空闲时间可以用来闲荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Censorship is unlikely to solve the problem.",
        "审查制度也不太可能解决这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Many would regard Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founder and longtime prime minister, as great, though he probably would have welcomed the opportunity to test his mettle in a larger arena.",
        "很多人都认为新加坡创始人和长久以来的首相李光耀非常伟大，虽然他可能希望在更大的舞台上一展身手。"
    ],
    [
        "The 64th opening of the General Assembly asks us to rise to an exceptional moment.",
        "第64届联大开幕要求我们迎接一个特别的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Last September, Osama bin Laden’s deputy, Al-Zawahiri, released videotapes calling for jihad in Pakistan and around the world.",
        "去年九月，本拉登的副手扎瓦希里发布录像带呼吁在巴基斯坦和全世界进行圣战。"
    ],
    [
        "At least he has recognized the limits of America’s power to impose a global order by force.",
        "至少他认识到美国靠武力推行全球秩序的实力界线。"
    ],
    [
        "The decisions taken at the last Fatah Convention were explicit in calling for the refugees to “return to their homes and cities.”",
        "法塔赫大会做出的决议明确呼吁难民们“回归到自己的城市和家园”。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 20 years ago, Alan Greenspan, then-Chair of the US Federal Reserve, started pointing out that GDP growth in the US was becoming less driven by consumers trying to acquire more stuff.",
        "20多年前，时任美联储主席格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan）开始指出，美国GDP增长不再主要由试图获得更多东西的消费者驱动。"
    ],
    [
        "But, lest we forget: in the summer 1914, most actors regarded the impending disaster as an impossibility.",
        "但是，我们不能忘记，在1914年夏天，大部分行动方也认为即将到来的灾难是不可能事件。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with funding costs for businesses trending up, this is finally starting to change.",
        "但是，随着企业融资成本的升高，这一局面终于开始改变了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, other runners are out of sight, perhaps miles ahead.",
        "实际可能根本看不到其他选手，因为选手之间可能有着几英里的差距。"
    ],
    [
        "Privatization has stalled.",
        "私有化改革也停步不前。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, when asked about American support for the notorious Nicaraguan despot Anastasio Somoza, purportedly replied, “He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.”",
        "马德里——据称美国总统富兰克林·罗斯福在被问及美国是否支持臭名昭著的尼加拉瓜暴君索莫查时回答说，“他或许是个恶棍，但却是我们的恶棍。"
    ],
    [
        "And she has an astonishing talent for simplifying complicated issues accurately, which she likely learned – along with how to interpret and manipulate the political connotations of every issue – from her father, former President Park Chung-hee.",
        "而且她在准确简化复杂问题方面拥有惊人的天赋，她的这种天赋和解读控制所有问题政治内涵的能力极有可能来自前总统朴正熙，也就是她的父亲。"
    ],
    [
        "With selective intensification, cure rates began to increase steadily.",
        "治愈率随着选择性强化开始稳步上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there is always good reason to worry about the Chinese property market.",
        "此外，对于中国的房地产市场，始终存在令人担忧的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "The demonstrations have been spontaneous, disorganized, and chaotic, but also impassioned and remarkably peaceful.",
        "示威是自发、无组织而混乱的，但示威者激情满满又相当平和。"
    ],
    [
        "The outstanding IMF loans held by Ireland and Portugal, which amount to another €23 billion, should also be re-financed.",
        "爱尔兰和葡萄牙所欠的230亿欧元国际货币基金组织贷款也应进行重新融资。"
    ],
    [
        "While these discussions – hosted by Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and British Prime Minister David Cameron – take place, the nearby Sahel and the Great Lakes region continue to be plagued by violence and conflict.",
        "这场讨论由利比里亚总统、诺贝尔和平奖获得者瑟利夫、印度尼西亚总统苏西洛和英国首相卡梅伦主持，会议期间，附近的塞舌尔和大湖地区却仍受着暴力和冲突的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this outcome would contribute to peace and stability for the entire region.",
        "事实上，这种结果将有助于整个地区的和平与稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Congressional representatives and government officials met Jaber and expressed their condolences, but provided no explanations.",
        "国会众议员和政府官员接见了阿里贾比尔并表示了哀悼，但没有给出解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, then, is a plausible and positive scenario for an independent Scotland.",
        "于是，这也成了苏格兰独立的一个貌似可信的积极前景。"
    ],
    [
        "At over $4,200 (as of October 5), a single unit of the virtual currency is now worth more than three times an ounce of gold.",
        "如今，这种虚拟货币每个单位价格超过4,200美元（10月5日价格），是一盎司黄金价格的三倍多。"
    ],
    [
        "Helicopter money could take many forms.",
        "直升机撒钱可以有多种形式。"
    ],
    [
        "So, far from seeking a fair peace deal between the two parties, Trump has effectively declared victory for Israel – and instructed the Palestinians to accept defeat quietly.",
        "因此，特朗普并没有追求双方之间形成公平的和平协议，而是实际上宣布以色列胜出——并通知巴勒斯坦人静静地接受失败。"
    ],
    [
        "After the video of Warren’s statement went viral, more than 13,000 people signed a petition demanding real accountability.",
        "”沃伦发言的视频发布后，13 000多人联署请愿，要求真正的问责。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether the consequences of this development will be good or bad depends on whether the region can muster the foresight and strength actively to shape this process.",
        "这种发展的后果是好是坏，取决于该地区是否能拿出远见和力量积极创造这一进程。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is still a nucleus of scientists who oppose that concept, arguing that there must be no restrictions on the search for new knowledge, and that ethical principles only become relevant in the application of that knowledge.",
        "他们争辩说绝对不应该限制对新知识的研究，只有在对该知识进行应用时，伦理原则才相关。"
    ],
    [
        "What they fail to grasp is that the 1980 Jerusalem Law, which declared the city – “united in its entirety” – to be Israel’s capital did not actually result in unity.",
        "他们没有领会1980年耶路撒冷法（Jerusalem Law）的精神。 耶路撒冷法宣布了该市——“保持统一完整状态”——成为以色列首都实际上没有带来统一。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, its first action, in 1999, was to fix the main policy rate at 2%.",
        "相反，1999年它的第一个动作是将主要政策利率固定在2%。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcome depends, of course, on how Europeans respond to their current travails.",
        "当然，结果取决于欧洲人对当前的艰难如何反应。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is no impatience for a bigger government role.",
        "但他们并不寄望有个大政府来包办一切。"
    ],
    [
        "We are concerned that the Beijing Olympics might simply become a giant spectacle to distract the attention of the international public from the violations of human and civil rights in China and in other countries with the Chinese government’s significant influence.",
        "我们担心，北京奥运会或许会成为盛装表演，利用中国政府的巨大影响力把国际公众的注意力从中国和其他国家违反人权和民权中转移开来。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of each term, I let the students select the final book as an exercise in popular taste.",
        "每学期期末，我都会让学生选择一本代表流行口味的最后著作。"
    ],
    [
        "The West has a unique window of opportunity.",
        "西方拥有独一无二的机会窗口。"
    ],
    [
        "It has called on Palestinians there to launch a new intifada against Israel, even while insisting on calm in the Gaza Strip.",
        "哈马斯呼吁那里的巴勒斯坦人发动反抗以色列的新的起义，同时却坚持要求加沙地带的局势保持稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "One key reason for this is the fact that China is pouring vast resources into research and development.",
        "导致这个的一个主要原因是中国正在把大量的资源投入到研发领域。"
    ],
    [
        "· To strike back at Hamas – and potentially Hezbollah – based on any attacks against Israel, with the precise response to depend on timing, opportunity, and these groups’ behavior;",
        "· 还击哈马斯—可能还有真主党—针对以色列的任何袭击，依靠时间、机会和这些团体的行为做出准确反映；"
    ],
    [
        "Countries would begin to focus almost entirely on enhancing their own ability to adapt to climate change, with ambitious emissions-reduction agreements giving way to exclusively national initiatives in areas ranging from regulatory policy to geo-engineering.",
        "各国将开始几乎完全专注于自身适应气候变化的能力，雄心勃勃的减排协定将让位于从监管政策到地质工程诸领域的排他性国家政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether or not fake news cost Clinton the presidency, it plainly could cause a candidate to lose an election and upset international relations.",
        "无论假新闻是否导致克林顿在总统大选中落败，它显然可以导致候选人选举失利，并破坏国际关系。"
    ],
    [
        "If countries began to define energy security as energy independence and try to supply all their own needs, the result could be expensive overcapacity, massive price distortions, slower technological progress, and weaker economic growth.",
        "如果各国开始将能源安全定义为能源独立并试图满足自身的所有需求，其结果可能导致昂贵的产能过剩、大规模价格扭曲、技术进步放缓和经济增长变弱。"
    ],
    [
        "But this trend has given way to piecemeal crisis responses, whether austerity or localized damage control, that are based on the unreasonable assumption that problems like those in Greece, Syria, and Ukraine will eventually correct themselves.",
        "但上述趋势已经被零散的危机应对所取代，无论紧缩政策还是局部损害控制，都是基于希腊、叙利亚和乌克兰问题最终能够自我修正的不合情理的假设。"
    ],
    [
        "(Indeed, the only part of Mexican development that has been a great success has been the rise in incomes and living standards that comes from increased migration to the US, and increased remittances sent back to Mexico.)",
        "（事实上，在墨西哥的发展过程中，唯一的幸运儿就是那些移民美国的墨西哥人，这些人的收入和生活水平确实有了相当的提高，而随着移民数量的增加，汇往墨西哥国内的汇款当然也就更多了！ ）"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Latin America, once the playground of myriad juntas and golpes, is now largely anchored in political liberalism.",
        "与此相似，曾几何时毒品和军政府遍地的拉美已经基本建立了政治自由主义制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the value of toxic assets remains as murky as ever.",
        "而且，美国对有毒资产的价值和以前一样讳莫如深。"
    ],
    [
        "They regarded returning as their patriotic duty.",
        "他们认为回到祖国怀抱是一种爱国的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Global climate change threatens Bhutan’s ecology and economy.",
        "全球气候变化正威胁着该国的生态和经济。"
    ],
    [
        "While the IFE undoubtedly committed several serious public-relations mistakes during last year’s election, it remains one of Mexico’s most respected institutions, with credibility ratings that are regularly double or triple those of Congress and the three political parties.",
        "尽管IFE的确在去年的选举过程中犯了几个严重的公共关系错误，但它仍然是墨西哥最受尊敬的机构。 其公信度评级常常是国会或三个政治党派的两倍或三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "But the final and most vital lesson of perestroika concerns the pace of reforms and society’s expectations.",
        "但重组改革最后、也最重要的教训涉及改革的速度和社会的期望。"
    ],
    [
        "This takes us back to the Energy Efficiency Directive, where this work should begin.",
        "这让我们回到了能源效率指引，这应该成为这项工作的起点。"
    ],
    [
        "The Drag on E-Cigarettes",
        "电子烟草的拖累"
    ],
    [
        "Yet some issues remained unresolved.",
        "然而有一些问题仍然没有得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "The word “diamond” hardly conjures images of peace and prosperity in Sierra Leone.",
        "“钻石”一词在塞拉里昂很少令人联想到和平与繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions allow foreign investors to pursue binding private arbitration against governments if new regulations reduce their expected future profits.",
        "投资者-国家纠纷解决（ISDS）条款允许外国投资者在新监管规则降低了他们的预期未来利润时追求有法律约束力的针对政府的仲裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Its impressive resilience is rooted in the culture of musyawarah and mufakat (consultation and consensus) championed by Indonesia.",
        "其令人印象深刻的恢复力植根于印尼所引领的协商（musyawarah）和共识（mufakat）文化。"
    ],
    [
        "With credit and asset bubbles slowly but surely reappearing, the authorities’ goal should be to keep growth on a balanced and sustainable path – and thus to discouraging excessive risk taking.",
        "信用和资产泡沫正在重现，虽然缓慢但无可置疑，因此当局的目标应该是保持增长走向平衡和可持续之路——从而阻止过度冒险行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Under these circumstances, budgetary recklessness is a virtue, at least in the short term.",
        "这种观点认为，粗犷的预算是一种美德，至少在短期看是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But no significant improvement on these fronts can occur without thoroughly refashioning the country’s decision-making process.",
        "但是，不全面改造该国的决策进程，上述这些重要的改进就没有一个可以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "And it can turn some of its short-term problems, such as the pressures arising from ethnic and linguistic diversity (the state is now 37% Hispanic and 13% Asian) into long-term strengths in the global economy.",
        "同时也能将其中一些短期问题，比如由种族以及语言多样化（该州目前分别有37%和13%的西班牙裔和亚裔人口）转化成全球经济的长期力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, US President Barack Obama, facing an election in November, does not wish to be accused of being soft on Iran, making it difficult for the West to reciprocate potential Iranian overtures.",
        "此外，美国总统奥巴马面临着11月的选举，不希望被指责对伊朗采取姑息态度，因此西方国家很难对伊朗伸出援手。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since Winston Churchill led the conversion of Britain’s navy from coal to oil at the start of the last century, the Western powers have meddled incessantly in the affairs of Middle Eastern countries to keep the oil flowing, toppling governments and taking sides in wars in the supposed “great game” of energy resources.",
        "自从上世纪初温斯顿·丘吉尔领导了英国海军从煤到油的能源转换，西方大国就不断地插手中东国家的事务，为了保持石油流通，颠覆政府，在战争中推波助澜，展开了一场所谓的能源“大竞赛”。"
    ],
    [
        "India – as well as Pakistan – has a great deal to gain from strengthening Southwest Asian trade, energy, and investment ties.",
        "加强西南亚贸易、能源和投资关系能让印度和巴基斯坦获益巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "And such firms have the experience to scout the globe for the right investment locations.",
        "此外，这类公司拥有在全球寻找正确投资地的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Prevention is best accomplished by modern anti-malaria bed nets, which are treated with insecticide.",
        "预防的最佳方式是现代的防疟疾蚊帐。 这种蚊帐经过了杀虫剂处理。"
    ],
    [
        "First, we need a clear message from Europe – the immediate source of global economic concern – that it is taking decisive steps to stabilize and strengthen its banks, and that it is focused on restoring growth while credibly committing itself to fiscal consolidation.",
        "首先，欧洲必须给出明确的信息——这是全球经济最为紧迫的忧虑原因，让我们知道它正在采取果断行动稳定和巩固其银行，并在做出可信财政整合承诺的同时专注于重塑增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Western leaders have repeatedly shown that they lack the patience and dedication needed to engage consistently and humbly with communities in crisis-stricken countries or to provide the reliable, incremental, and prolonged governance assistance needed to prevent state collapse.",
        "不幸的是，西方领导人一再证明他们缺乏怀着谦逊之心与危机国家社会持续接触的耐心和奉献精神，也无力提供防止国家崩溃所需的可靠、渐进和长期的治理援助。"
    ],
    [
        "We have the opportunity to inspire them with hope and to direct their energies toward improving their lives and the lives of those around them.",
        "我们有机会激发他们的希望，引导他们将精力用于改善自身和周边人群的生活上。"
    ],
    [
        "The S&P 500 has surpassed pre-2008 levels, with companies’ shares trading at 18 times their earnings.",
        "标准普尔500指数已经超过了2008年前的高点，市盈率高达18倍。"
    ],
    [
        "An increase in deadly attacks on army convoys in the Pakistan-Afghanistan tribal areas has also pushed the army away from Musharraf.",
        "对在巴基斯坦阿富汗部族地区的军队卫队致命袭击的不断增多，也促使军队远离穆沙拉夫。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, we recently launched “Education Infrastructure Notes,” private investment vehicles that will allow us to channel roughly $3 billion to improve elementary-school facilities within the next three years.",
        "比如，我们最近启动了“教育基础设施记录”，这是一套私人投资载体，将在未来三年引导大约30亿美元用于改善小学设施。"
    ],
    [
        "In places as far afield as Afghanistan and Congo, Georgia and the Sahel, Moldova, Somalia, and the Mediterranean, thousands of men and women serve under the European flag.",
        "在遥远如阿富汗和刚果、格鲁吉亚和萨赫勒、摩尔多瓦。 索马里和地中海等地区，成千上万男女在欧洲的旗帜下贡献力量。"
    ],
    [
        "If they made a different choice, why can’t we do the same?",
        "如果他们作出了不同的选择，我们为什么不能作同样的事情呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while closing an economy may insulate it from shocks, it can also result in stagnation and even severe homegrown crises. Current examples include Myanmar and North Korea; before their economic liberalization China, Vietnam, and India were in the same boat.",
        "乌干达总统约韦里·穆塞韦尼曾因将本国融入世界市场而广受赞誉，现声称：全球化是那些试图进入发展中国家市场的富国所采取的一种策略， “与此前一样的旧秩序相比，只不过采取了一种新的控制，压迫和边缘化手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, anti-establishment parties across Europe oppose policies that reflect this German-inspired approach.",
        "在此背景下，全欧洲的反现状政党都反对体现这一德国喜欢的方针的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "To assuage its traditional ally’s sense of abandonment, the US, may – mistakenly – withhold support for the initiatives recognizing the State of Palestine in the coming months.",
        "为了安抚传统盟友的被抛弃感，在未来几个月中，美国可能会（错误地）收回对承认巴勒斯坦国的方案的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "There’s another important reason for the Clinton campaign and its high-profile surrogates to help down-ballot Democrats. Both parties want to strengthen their hold on as many state-level offices as possible, because the party that controls a state’s governorship and at least one of its legislative chamber gets to oversee how congressional districts are drawn (which happens every ten years).",
        "克林顿阵营及其高调代理人阵容要帮助下级民主党的另一个重要原因是，两党都希望加强对尽可能多的州级位置的掌控，因为控制一州执政地位和至少一个立法机关的党能够左右国会选区如何划定（每十年重划一次）。"
    ],
    [
        "One example of a new institution is the Cabinet Committee on Investment, which has been created to facilitate the completion of large projects.",
        "新制度的一个例子是内阁投资委员会，该委员会成立的初衷是促进大型工程的完成情况。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be ironic, though, if developed countries – which led the FDI liberalization wave of the past two decades – now led a backlash against FDI.",
        "尽管如此，如果由过去20年来一直领导着直接外资自由化运动的发达国家再来带头发起抵制运动，这未免太过具有讽刺意味。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia also benefited during these years from strong global tailwinds, including favorable external financing conditions and the rapid expansion of the Chinese economy.",
        "这些年中，亚洲也受益于全球强劲的利好因素，包括有利的外部融资条件以及中国经济的快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, part of the problem with the G-8 is not simply lack of good faith or political will, but basic competence.",
        "当然，八国集团问题的一部分并非缺乏诚意或者政治意愿，而是基本的称职问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The deal builds on this summer’s “oil-for-goods” agreement, whereby Russia will exchange its own goods for as many as 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil daily.",
        "该协议建立在今年夏天“石油换商品”协议的基础上，俄罗斯每天用本国商品换取伊朗的500,000桶石油。"
    ],
    [
        "It is here that Dawkins goes furthest astray.",
        "道金斯的谬误也因此走向了极致。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, imbalances in implementing the NPT obligations by the nuclear haves and have-nots are sharpening.",
        "有核国家与无核国家在履行条约规定义务上的不均衡的矛盾尤为激化。"
    ],
    [
        "This will be a difficult trick to pull off.",
        "这绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "Advocates of free software mixed it up with law enforcers and lobbyists from the likes of Google and Yahoo, in a pioneering example of “wiki-democracy.”",
        "自由软件支持者将它与执法者和； 来自谷歌和雅虎等的游说者联合起来，树立了一个“维基民主”（wiki-democracy）的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "I have created op-eds in partnership with a citizens’ video news collective, The Glass Bead collective.",
        "比如我就和一个叫做“玻璃珠”的市民新闻视频团体合作开设了一个评论专栏。"
    ],
    [
        "We can expect further European turmoil – from banks, sovereign debt, and social unrest in response to even modest welfare-state rollbacks – and clashing visions, within and among countries, concerning the desirability of deeper European integration.",
        "我们可以预期，欧洲（各国内部和国与国之间）将出现更多的动荡——银行、主权债务、即使是略有削减的福利国家政策也会引起社会动荡——面临更糟糕的前景，这使得欧洲一体化的客观需要进一步加大了。"
    ],
    [
        "There is much talk today about the risks of a new era of American isolationism and a lack of US leadership in the world.",
        "如今人们大谈美国孤立主义和世界缺少美国领导的时期的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But American spending habits have undermined the dollar’s reputation, with the excess supply of dollars on world markets depressing its price.",
        "但是，美国人的消费习惯破坏了美元的声誉，而美元在世界市场上的过度供应又压抑了它的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "By maintaining their rainforests, tropical countries provide an invaluable global service, one for which they have so far failed to be compensated.",
        "通过保全他们的雨林，热带国家提供了一项难以计价的全球服务，而这种服务却远没有得到应有的补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Gordon asserts that “the era of computers replacing human labor was largely over” during the past decade.",
        "戈登断言过去十年“计算机替代人类劳动的时代在很大程度上已经结束了”。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – As Europe struggles to save the euro, the chorus of complaints about weak leadership in the world’s major economies grows louder.",
        "发自剑桥——在欧洲挣扎着拯救欧元之际，对世界各大经济体缺乏强势领导的抱怨也甚嚣尘上。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because space exploration requires communications and control over vast distances, some of the applications could also enhance South Africa’s lucrative mining sector; after all, controlling machines under the ground is similar to doing so in deep space.",
        "还因为太空探索需要远距离通讯及控制技术，相关技术的某些应用可能进一步实现南非利润丰厚的采矿业的升级换代； 归根结底，在地下和在外太空控制机器设备有许多相似之处。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes monetary and fiscal authorities have an obligation to ignore the wilder historical parallels and look at a broader picture.",
        "有时候货币和财政部门有义务忽略毫无根据的历史类比，而着眼于宏观的局势。"
    ],
    [
        "The commission’s members offer two, somewhat contradictory, answers to that question.",
        "委员会成员对这个问题给出了两个有点相互矛盾的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "The economists and trade specialists who cried wolf at the time were wrong.",
        "当时大喊狼来了的经济学家和贸易专家犯了错误。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU's members have structures to provide this, and with their support and input we are building structures at a Europe-wide level, to bring this information to EU policymakers.",
        "欧盟的成员国国内都有这方面的机制，通过他们的支持和投入，我们正在建设一个全欧洲范围的机制，把这些情报呈现给欧盟的政策制定者们。"
    ],
    [
        "Equities, too, are valued at a higher multiple of earnings when interest rates fall.",
        "股市也一样，在利率下降时期的市盈率更高。"
    ],
    [
        "So what should the world learn from the country’s descent into misery?",
        "那么，世界应该从委内瑞拉的堕落中学到什么？"
    ],
    [
        "If we cannot do what it takes to make them more effective, we will increasingly find that nations will bypass them altogether.",
        "如果我们不能让这些机构和组织更有效率，那么我们会越来越多地发现各国都会置它们于不顾了。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Mark Twain never actually said “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”",
        "华盛顿—马克吐温其实从没有说过“关于我的死讯，被大大地夸张了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an investment that the world’s richest countries can well afford.",
        "这样的投资全球富裕国家完全能够承担得起。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, German policymakers sought to atone for the country’s Nazi past by seeking a more European Germany and bankrolling the EU, thus helping to smooth over many disputes.",
        "直到最近，德国决策者都在试图通过寻求更加欧洲的德国和在资金上支持欧盟来为纳粹历史赎罪，这帮助平息了诸多纠纷。"
    ],
    [
        "For roughly the past decade, heads of state have been calling on regulators to tackle big issues, such as capital standards, along with other matters like over-the-counter derivatives and credit-ratings reforms.",
        "在过去的十年中，各国首脑一直在不但要求监管者处理资本要求这样的大问题，也要求他们处理场外市场衍生品和信用评级改革等其他问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the global elite, exemplified by the Davos crowd, feel deep contempt for Trump, and their disdain has likely been deepened by Trump’s recent racist rants about “shithole countries.”",
        "以达沃斯人群为代表的大多数全球精英都极为鄙视特朗普，而特朗普最近针对“粪坑国家”的种族主义咆哮可能令这种蔑视又加深了一点。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, tougher economic competition, slower growth, and low inflation may be here to stay.",
        "简言之，更激烈的经济竞争、更慢的增长和低通胀可能继续存在下去。"
    ],
    [
        "And, on this front, policymakers and regulators have far less control.",
        "在这方面，决策者和监管者还远远不能掌控局面。"
    ],
    [
        "It immediately regained its strength, its sense of humor, and its industriousness.",
        "它立刻重新找回了力量、幽默和勤勉。"
    ],
    [
        "Effective institutions of restraint do not emerge overnight; and it might seem like those in power would never want to create them.",
        "有效的约束制度不是一夜建成的； 当权者或许永远不想建立这一制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Twins are 40% more likely to go to a vocational high school than only children.",
        "双胞胎上职高的几率比独子高出40%。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, countries often fail to act in their own self-interest, or events simply spin out of control.",
        "毕竟，国家常常会做出不符合自身利益的事，或者自己无法控制的事。"
    ],
    [
        "On September 11, 2001, a non-state network killed more Americans in a surprise attack than the government of Japan did at Pearl Harbor in 1941.",
        "2001年9月11日，一个非国家网络在一次毫无征兆的袭击中所杀害的美国人数量比1941年日本政府的珍珠港袭击还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "The government, well aware of the overcapacity problem, focused the country’s stimulus package on investment in infrastructure, rather than new factories.",
        "政府对产能过剩问题有清醒认识，但是依然将经济刺激计划集中在基础设施而不是新的工厂之上。"
    ],
    [
        "A 2012 Action Aid survey found that violence against women has never been more prevalent, with 87% of women suffering domestic abuse.",
        "2012年行动援助（Action Aid）调查发现，针对妇女的暴力变得更加普遍了，87%的妇女遭受着家庭暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the election did not usher in a leadership eager for peace with Israel and a Palestinian state achieved by compromise, nor was it a prelude to a renewal of violence.",
        "但尽管此次选举没能产生出一个有意寻求以巴和平并通过妥协方案建立巴勒斯坦国的领导集体， 法塔赫第六次代表大会也不会导致新一轮暴力冲突的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "All together, 31 countries – including Turkey, Brazil, and Greece – add 5% or more to the cost of ICT, on top of standard value-added taxes.",
        "总共有31个国家——包括土耳其、巴西和希腊——除了标准的增值税之外又给ICT带来5%的额外成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, existing political systems promise good jobs, sound governance, a sustainable environment, and social harmony without sacrifice – a paradise of self-interested free riders that can be sustained only by sacrificing the natural environment and the welfare of future generations.",
        "与此同时，现有的政治系统既不愿意做出牺牲，却又承诺会提供好工作，优秀管治，可持续环境和社会和谐——这是一个自私自利的搭便车者梦想的天堂，但代价则是牺牲了自然环境以及子孙后代的福祉。"
    ],
    [
        "Another obstacle, argues Mark Suzman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is that “without a more deliberate, data-driven focus on the needs of women and girls in particular, progress toward a wide range of [SDG] objectives will suffer.”",
        "比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会的马克·苏兹曼（Mark Suzman）提出了另一个障碍，即“如果不更成熟地、数据推动地关注（特别是）妇女和女孩的需要，朝向广泛的SDG目标的进步就会遇到阻挠”。"
    ],
    [
        "This raises a basic credibility issue: how can Europe urge Colombia and Peru to reduce supply when its own drug habit is driving cultivation?",
        "这就提出了一个基本可信度的问题：欧洲怎么能在自身的毒瘾驱动（古柯）种植的情况下敦促哥伦比亚和秘鲁减少供应量呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The danger that Venezuela highlights – and that Britain may soon highlight as well – is the damage that dysfunctional belief systems can have on national wellbeing.",
        "委内瑞拉所突显的危险——英国可能很快也将突显这一点——是不健全的新年体系可能对国家福利造成怎样的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "When forces beyond our control make us unhappy, at least we do not feel angry with ourselves for putting ourselves in that position.",
        "当无法控制的力量导致我们不快乐时，我们至少不会为让自己陷入那样的境地而对自己感到气愤。"
    ],
    [
        "From German cars to French luxury goods, European industrial competitiveness should not be underestimated.",
        "从德国车到法国奢侈品，欧洲工业竞争力不容低估。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, we support infrastructure-development projects, enabling countries to build the roads, bridges, and ports that link traders to markets.",
        "此外，我们出资基础设施开发项目，让各国修建连接商人与市场的桥梁、港口和公路。"
    ],
    [
        "But he is in a position to define an ethical framework for the rebuilding global economy.",
        "但是，他处在为重建全球经济确定道德架构的重要地位之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Knowing this, Chinese leaders may hesitate to move ahead with needed reforms, causing imbalances to continue to rise.",
        "了解了这一点，中国领导人可能会踯躅于推行必要的改革，导致失衡继续发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Pessimists have been saying this for a long time.",
        "悲观主义者已经唠叨这些很长一段时间了。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that Australia should walk away from its alliance with the US.",
        "这并不意味着澳大利亚应该与美国渐行渐远。"
    ],
    [
        "China came first, followed by the US, Russia, Japan, and South Korea, whereas Europe was absent.",
        "中国第一，接下来是美国、俄罗斯、日本以及韩国，而欧洲则榜上无名。"
    ],
    [
        "Good examples of these benchmarking exercises are the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index or the United Nations’ Human Development Index.",
        "这些基准比较的上佳例子包括世界经济论坛的全球性别差距指数和联合国的人类发展指数。"
    ],
    [
        "Embracing such policies will give institutions and the democratic process the time and space they need to plant firm roots.",
        "采取这类政策将给埃及机构和民主进程时间和空间打下扎实基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The absence of such political nostalgia in Spain may be explained partly by the fact that a brutal three-year civil war preceded the establishment of Franco’s dictatorship in 1939.",
        "西班牙之所以没有出现这些政治反覆，可能部分是因为一个事实：在1939年弗朗哥建立独裁之前，这里经历了一场为期三年的残酷内战。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the symbols and “memories” from the longue durée that Baghdadi uses – such as the black flag of the Abbasids and the glorious stories of a time when the caliphate constituted a great power and a lodestar for all Sunnis – have an enduring impact.",
        "尽管如此，巴格达迪利用源自长时程的符号和“记忆”——如阿巴斯王朝的黑旗和关于哈里发帝国曾经无比强盛、是所有逊尼派的明灯的光荣故事——这些符号和“记忆”能产生持久影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it asks whether there is an adequate basis for the criminal law to prohibit such relationships.",
        "相反，它质疑刑法禁止上述关系是否有充分的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Vatican officials catch their share of criticism, not least from Francis himself.",
        "梵蒂冈官员受到了广泛批评，不仅仅来自方济各本身。"
    ],
    [
        "All can work – but only with good management.",
        "任何一种形式都可以赚钱，问题是管理必须跟得上。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, when the US first employed its so-called “leading from behind” strategy during the 2011 intervention in Libya, European countries were forced to assume greater responsibility.",
        "事实上，在2011年干预利比亚期间美国首次采用了所谓的“幕后领导”时，欧洲国家就被迫承担起更大的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey already supplies most of the KRG economy’s imports, which accounted for 70% of Turkey’s almost $11 billion in exports to Iraq last year.",
        "土耳其提供着KRG经济的大部分进口品，这项出口占据去年土耳其向伊拉克总出口额（近110亿美元）的七成。"
    ],
    [
        "A decision of enormous consequence – far greater even than amending a country’s constitution (of course, the United Kingdom lacks a written one) – has been made without any appropriate checks and balances.",
        "一个有着巨大后果的决定——远比修订一国宪法（当然，英国没有成文宪法）后果更大——在没有合适制衡的情况下做出了。"
    ],
    [
        "A mutation obtained by CRISPR-Cas, by contrast, is not distinguishable from a mutation that emerged spontaneously.",
        "反之，通过CRISPR-Cas获得的变异，无法与自然发生的变异相区分。"
    ],
    [
        "The dollar’s asymmetric role will be superseded.",
        "美元拥有超然的不对称地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Rules that are beneficial in some circumstances may become counterproductive in others.",
        "规则在某些环境下会有效而在另一些环境下会失去作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Osborne is not alone.",
        "奥斯本不是一个人。"
    ],
    [
        "In this respect, Ebola is – or, rather, was – an example of what is sometimes referred to as the 90/10 rule: 90% of medical research is directed toward illnesses that comprise only 10% of the global burden of disease.",
        "从这个角度看，埃博拉是——或者说曾经是——有时被称为90/10法则的一个例子：90%的医学研究被用于只占全球疾病负担10%的疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "While US consumers have so far saved a large proportion of the windfall they have received through cheaper gasoline prices, the gains for households are starting to translate into higher levels of spending.",
        "尽管目前为止美国消费者把大部分从便宜汽油上省下来的钱存进了银行，但家庭的收益也开始转化为更高水平的开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Resources such as diamonds, gold, tungsten, tantalum, and tin are mined, smuggled, and illegally taxed by violent armed groups, and provide off-budget funding to abusive militaries and security services.",
        "钻石、黄金、钨、钽和锡由武装集团采掘、走私和非法课税，为暴虐的军队和安全部门提供预算外资金。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – If you get most of your ideas about government from speeches by America’s Republican presidential candidates, it’s easy to believe that the US federal government is incapable of doing anything right.",
        "伯克利—如果你对政府的观念主要来自美国共和党总头候选人的演讲，那么你很容易就会相信，美国联邦政府做什么都是错的。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF followed through by publishing a preliminary set of guidelines this past April.",
        "今年4月，IMF出台了初步方案草案。"
    ],
    [
        "Many studies demonstrate that these cells’ degeneration is preceded by cell loss in other brain regions, and even nerve cells in the gastrointestinal system.",
        "许多研究表明这些细胞退化之前会出现其他大脑区域细胞甚至消化系统神经细胞的减少。"
    ],
    [
        "UN member states must also pledge to secure the extension of legal protections to high-seas biodiversity by closing the gaping governance loophole that exposes the ocean to plunder.",
        "联合国成员国还必须承诺通过弥补致使海洋遭受掠夺的巨大治理漏洞，从而确保将法律保护拓展至公海生物多样性领域。"
    ],
    [
        "A Nation of Vidiots",
        "沉迷电视的国度"
    ],
    [
        "After all, most of its citizens live in a narrow band along the more than 3,000-mile-long border.",
        "”毕竟，大部分加拿大公民都生活在3,000多英里长的加美边境周边狭长带中。"
    ],
    [
        "In March, the United Kingdom will likely invoke Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, triggering the formal procedure for withdrawal from the EU.",
        "英国或将于3月启动《里斯本条约》第五十条，从而触发退出欧盟的正式程序。"
    ],
    [
        "What separates developing countries from developed countries is not only the gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge.",
        "发达国家和发展中国家之间的差距并不仅仅是资源的差距，而是知识的差距。"
    ],
    [
        "The successful cheaters would most likely be authoritarian states with little transparency.",
        "最成功的欺骗者最有可能是那些透明度极低的独裁国家。"
    ],
    [
        "What the French under General Charles de Gaulle actually did say was that fiat monies should be jettisoned in favor of the gold standard. The US would then be subject to tighter policy discipline.",
        "当年戴高乐治下的法国建议废除以政府信用担保的法定货币，以金本位制度取而代之，最终迫使美国收紧财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis is not new.",
        "这样的危机已经不是第一次发生了。"
    ],
    [
        "Playing divisive games with an electorate that is not deeply divided never succeeds for long.",
        "在并未四分五裂的选民中大耍分离主义的把戏不可能取得永久的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The most successful societies of the future will leave room for experimentation and allow for further evolution of institutions.",
        "未来的成功社会需要留下实验的空间，为机构开辟进一步发展的余地。"
    ],
    [
        "But developments in recent years have enabled Turkey to become a more active player in the region, and to score several diplomatic successes.",
        "但是近几年的局势进展已使土耳其能在该地区扮演一个更积极的角色了，并且它取得了一系列的外交成就。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Demonstrations around the world were held this week to mark the 100th day of captivity for more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.",
        "伦敦—今天，世界各地举行游行铭记200名尼日利亚女学生被伊斯兰极端组织博科圣地（Boko Haram）绑架第100天。"
    ],
    [
        "But, since 2003, Turkey’s virtually unquestioned alliance with the United States has undergone a profound re-evaluation, due to the Iraq War, and the Turkish consensus on its decades-long EU candidacy has begun to wobble, owing to EU dithering. Given Turkey’s central role not only in maintaining peace in the volatile Caucasus region but also in promoting peace in the Middle East – the talks now underway between Syria and Israel are, after all, being conducted with Turkish mediation – neglecting Turkey is not only foolish, it is dangerous.",
        ". 鉴于土耳其不仅对维护不稳定的高加索地区的和平起着的主要作用，而且在推进中东和平上起主要作用－毕竟，现在正在进行中的叙利亚以色列会谈就是由土耳其调停的－忽略土耳其不仅是愚蠢的，而且是危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, the US and Russia – and, indeed, the UN Security Council – should hold Syria’s government strictly responsible to desist from punitive actions against regime opponents.",
        "第四，美国和俄罗斯——事实上，还有联合国安理会——应该要求叙利亚政府严格停止针对政权反对者的惩罚行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer-term effects of early learning are less apparent but more profound.",
        "早期学习的长期效应不太明显，但更加深远。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank must set monetary policy for the eurozone as a whole, even if that policy is highly inappropriate for some member countries.",
        "当美国东北部的纺织和制鞋工业衰落时，工人便迁移到新产业蓬勃发展西部。"
    ],
    [
        "Top French civil servants of the kind that he has assembled traditionally share two characteristics: they are overly cautious and they have a poor understanding of macroeconomic strategy.",
        "他所组建的法国公务员体系最高层有两个传统特征：谨小慎微，以及对宏观经济战略的理解十分糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "For today's social engineers and economists, this is no longer the case.",
        "但这已经不再是今天社会工程师和经济学家的座右铭。"
    ],
    [
        "To reclaim its promise, India must foster a new generation of productivity growth. The time for action is now.",
        "为了兑现其承诺，印度必须促进新的生产率增长，如今是采取行动的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat of depleting the world’s scarce energy resources has maintained a powerful hold on popular thinking ever since the oil shocks of the 1970’s.",
        "自从1970年代的石油危机以来，世界稀缺能源耗尽的威胁就是大众心中挥之不去的梦魇。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Har Homa, built on Jabal Abu Ghnaim with the aim of cutting off Bethlehem from Jerusalem, is home to 19,000 settlers.",
        "当今建造于阿布古奈姆山上，用来切断伯利恒至耶路撒冷之间路径的霍马山犹太人定居点，就生活着1. 9万犹太定居者。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where faith becomes a badge of identity in opposition to those who do not share it, a kind of spiritual nationalism that regards those who do not agree – even those within a faith who live a different view of it – as unbelievers, infidels, and thus enemies.",
        "此时信仰摇身一变成为了某种身份定义的符号，借以反对那些没有这身符号的人，最终演变成一种精神上的民族主义，将那些拥有不同意见的人——即便他们笃信同一宗教——视为不信教者，视为异教徒，并因此与之为敌。"
    ],
    [
        "This past July, during the highly publicized 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Premier Wen Jiabao declared all-out war against the burgeoning epidemic.",
        "今年7月，受到高度关注的曼谷第15届国际艾滋病大会召开期间，温家宝总理宣布中国将全力制止艾滋病的蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "I held the US in high regard and figured that it would be only a matter of time before they realized that I was innocent and let me go.",
        "我非常尊敬美国这个国家，认为美国人认识到我是无辜的并将我释放，是迟早的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "But central banks were made independent precisely because it was understood that they would be held accountable for achieving their own objective of maintaining price stability, regardless of the economy’s underlying growth rate.",
        "但央行之所以要独立，正是因为人们认识到，它们要为实现自身目标——不论经济增长率如何，都要维持货币稳定——接受问责。"
    ],
    [
        "Park Geun-hye, daughter of Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea from 1961 to 1979, is now one of the two likely candidates to succeed President Lee Myung-bak.",
        "韩国前总统朴正熙之女朴槿惠目前是李明博卸任后的两大总统热门人选之一。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in the longer term, we would have a viable international model of how to tackle severe sovereign-debt problems.",
        "从长期来讲，也能为处理棘手的主权债务问题树立一个可靠的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "One hears this everywhere nowadays, but it’s not true.",
        "”最近，这些话听得人耳朵都起老茧了。"
    ],
    [
        "But Ballou appears to have persuaded many of the participants at the meeting that his proposal will save more lives in the long run.",
        "但巴罗似乎说服了很多参会者，使他们认为他的方案在长期能够挽救更多生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Creating a level playing field on energy taxation in the EU would harmonize economic incentives, eliminate gas-tank tourism by drivers crossing borders for lower prices, and improve the business climate in all of Europe’s economies.",
        "在欧盟内部营造能源税收公平竞争的环境，这将有助于协调经济激励措施，消除司机为降低成本而跨越国界的高风险旅游方式，改善所有欧洲经济体的商业环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting Bank Culture Right",
        "整顿银行文化"
    ],
    [
        "Mental Health for All",
        "为了全人类的心理健康"
    ],
    [
        "This is not plausible.",
        "这是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "These voters are less likely to support scrapping the bills; indeed, some of them may be mollified if Abe is successful in amending the constitution.",
        "上述选民不太可能支持放弃提案，其中某些人的态度可能因为安倍成功修宪而有所缓和。"
    ],
    [
        "The shareholder activism around Apple highlights the importance and controversy of the short-term problem.",
        "围绕苹果公司的股东积极主义凸显出短视问题的重要性和争议性。"
    ],
    [
        "But if they don’t, the consequences could be dire.",
        "但如果他们不这样做的话，后果可能是非常可怕的。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, no such tragedy is likely to help the Congress.",
        "如今，没有类似的悲剧可以再一次助国大党一臂之力了。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is the second worst for women, more than five years below life expectancy in Japan.",
        "美国女性排名倒数第二，日本女性出生预期寿命低五年多。"
    ],
    [
        "At the CDF, he stressed how different the situation is now, compared to 1972, when he and then-President Richard Nixon first met with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.",
        "在中国发展高层论坛上，他强调了当前局面与1972年他与时任总统尼克松首次与毛泽东和周恩来会面时的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The potential returns from targeted investments in forests are immense.",
        "定向森林投资的潜在回报是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "This calls for more modesty and restraint in determining the highest salaries, not for moral reasons but for the sustainability of the system.",
        "这就要求我们在决定最高薪酬时表现出更多的谦卑和克制，不是出于道德原因，而是为了这个体系的可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, technological advances, like hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the shale-gas industry, could increase supply and therefore lower prices.",
        "当然，技术进步，比如页岩气产业的液压致裂，能够增加供给，从而降低价格。"
    ],
    [
        "The report is critical of the organization’s performance on genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur, as well as the late response to HIV/AIDS.",
        "报告还批评了联合国对发生在波斯尼亚、卢旺达和达尔弗尔的种族屠杀行为的处理方法以及对于艾滋病情况处理的迟缓行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Accused of being elitist and out of sync with readers, newspapers’ reactions ranged from self-flagellation to repentance for the election result.",
        "报纸被批精英做派，脱离读者，而它们的反应则是自我鞭挞和为选举结果而忏悔兼有之。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there are many different kinds of democratic transitions, and lumping them all together might be misleading.",
        "当然，民主转型的方式繁多，将其简单叠加就难免会有误导之嫌。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps this has always been so.",
        "或许事实一直就是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s move is also bad for US foreign policy.",
        "特朗普的举动对于美国外交政策也十分不利。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is about as imperfect as any negotiated agreement between disputing parties can be.",
        "它和任何争议各方通过谈判达成的协议一样不完美。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach has already been applied with great success by the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, and SAP in the areas of coding and software development, and by the UK’s GCHQ intelligence and security organization, one of the country’s biggest employers of autistic people.",
        "这一方法已经被微软、亚马逊和SAP等公司应用于编程和软件开发等领域，也被英国GCHQ情报和安全组织（英国最大的自闭症人群雇主）所用，并取得了巨大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The automobile industry is a good example.",
        "汽车产业就是一个好例子。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, the eight Latin American countries that take the OECD’s standardized PISA exam are among the 15 worst-performing countries of the 65 that participate in the program.",
        "目前，参与经合组织标准化PISA考试的八个拉美国家名列65个参与国的倒数前十五名。"
    ],
    [
        "A chemical-weapons attack on the scale just seen in Syria must be deemed a game changer.",
        "刚刚在叙利亚出现的大规模使用化学武器现象必然是局面改变器。"
    ],
    [
        "In the keynote speech at this year’s CDF, Vice Premier and Politburo Standing Committee Member Zhang Gaoli drove this point home, emphasizing the need to direct supply-side initiatives at China’s “main threat.”",
        "在今年中国发展论坛的主旨演讲上，中共中央政治局常委、副总理张高丽强调了这一点，重点指出了引导供给侧方案对准中国“主要威胁”的必要。"
    ],
    [
        "Conditioning the Arab Transition",
        "协调阿拉伯过渡"
    ],
    [
        "Politics is still dominated by a large center-left party and a large center-right party, but smaller groups – some claiming the center and others the right and left extremes – challenge them to various degrees.",
        "政坛主导者仍是中左翼大党和中右翼大党各一，但小党派——走中间道路者有之，走极右和极左道路者亦有之——能够形成不同程度的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet his frugal lifestyle shows that he does not particularly enjoy spending large amounts of money.",
        "然而他节俭的生活方式揭示他并不特别喜欢大手大脚。"
    ],
    [
        "They also believed that the first debt restructuring would lead to debt sustainability.",
        "它们还相信首次债务重组就可以带来债务可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans are starting to enjoy – probably too much for their allies – what President Barack Obama, describing the US role in Libya, called “leading from behind.”",
        "美国人开始乐于接受总统奥巴马用来描述美国在利比亚扮演所边沿角色的话，即“从幕后领导”，或许对于其盟国而言，美国退得太多了。"
    ],
    [
        "Government budget deficits have long accounted for the largest share of America’s seemingly chronic saving shortfall.",
        "政府预算赤字长期以来都占据着美国长期储蓄缺口的最大份额。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, the best way for peace to prevail in the region is for the US and China to share responsibility for a regional order with Asia’s other powers, particularly India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea.",
        "归根结底，为促进区域和平，最佳的办法是美国、中国与亚洲其他国家，尤其是印度，印尼，日本和韩国，共同承担维护区域秩序的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi seems to grasp much of this, and so is undertaking discussions on security and defense that aim to help revise the \"National Defense Program Outline.\"",
        "小泉首相似乎已充分意识到这一点，所以正就安全与防卫的问题进行磋商。 磋商的目的是为了修改\"国家防卫计划纲要\"。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, India has developed a tendency for chronic inflation, owing to an unhappy combination of supply bottlenecks (caused by poor infrastructure) and excessive demand (thanks to persistent public deficits).",
        "此外,由于供应瓶颈(由基础设施落后引起的)和过度需求(源自于持续的公共赤字)的不幸结合，印度已然显现出长期通货膨胀的迹向。"
    ],
    [
        "Such clarity is critical to curtail a surge in disputes over rights, which block productivity-enhancing market-oriented adjustments.",
        "这种产权明确化过程对于遏制产权纠纷激增至关重要，而产权纠纷的激增又会阻挠能提高生产率的市场导向的产权调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Its greatest political failure is its resistance to the democratic reforms needed to constrain that power.",
        "其最大的政治失败在于它拒绝约束权力所需要的民主改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia is already at work developing the technology.",
        "俄罗斯已经开始致力于该技术的开发。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the intermittent over-valuation of entire economic sectors – recall the dot-com bubble from a decade ago – indicates that financial markets are often excessively focused on the long term.",
        "确实，对整个经济领域的间歇性高估——回想一下十年前的互联网泡沫——表明金融市场经常会过分关注长期利益。"
    ],
    [
        "And Palestinians would view any solution to the refugee problem that Israel might accept as a betrayal of the ethos of Palestinian nationalism, namely the Right of Return.",
        "而巴勒斯坦人也会将任何可能得到以色列同意的难民问题方案视为对其民族主义精神（即所谓家园回归权）的背叛。"
    ],
    [
        "The US extradited a low-level Chinese official to face corruption charges.",
        "美国遣返了一名面临腐败指控的低级中国官员。"
    ],
    [
        "The sample survey documented an extra 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths compared to the death rate in the preceding year, when Saddam Hussein was still in power – and this estimate did not even count excess deaths in Falluja, which was deemed too dangerous to include.",
        "而这个估计数字还没有把费卢杰之战中的死亡人数包括进去。 算进去的话，这个数字肯定会更加可怕。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the government could well end up with no plan B in case plan A – massively front-loaded austerity – leads to a double-dip recession.",
        "相反，政府完全可能在A计划——大幅提前的紧缩计划导致第二次衰退时根本没有B计划可用。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, corruption payments should be added to official taxation.",
        "此外，与贪污腐败有关的款项也应当被计入税收之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, no major reform has been successfully implemented in Germany since the 2000s, when Chancellor Gerhard Schröder pushed through labor-market reforms.",
        "此外，自21世纪初时任总理施罗德推出劳动力市场改革以来，德国从未成功实施过成功的重大改革。"
    ],
    [
        "With retail investors borrowing large amounts to finance share purchases, participation in the stock market surged, effectively turning a sound bull market into a “mad cow.”",
        "散户借入了大量资金用于购买股票，股市参与度大幅提高，这让稳健的牛市演变为“疯牛”。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors are demanding a hefty premium to insure against the chance that Italy and Spain are ultimately forced out of the eurozone – thus bringing that day closer by weakening countries’ fiscal positions and raising their private-sector borrowing costs (which are set by government bond yields).",
        "投资者要求的是巨额风险溢价，以确保抵消意大利和西班牙最终被迫脱离欧元区的风险，而这削弱了两国财政状况、提高了私人部门借贷成本（由国债收益率决定），从而将两国向脱离欧元区又推了一把。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Yglesias adds, Europe’s center-left politicians similarly “don’t have a strategy for changing the rules, and they don’t have the guts to tear up the rulebook.”",
        "如今，伊格莱西亚斯又说，欧洲中左翼政党同样“没有改变规则的战略，也没有勇气抛弃规则。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences are already visible: to avoid a complete meltdown, Cyprus has been forced to introduce capital controls – which everyone had thought were illegal and unthinkable within the eurozone.",
        "后果已经显现：为了避免完全崩溃，塞浦路斯被迫采取了资本管制——在欧元区，这是人人视为非法且不可想象的动作。"
    ],
    [
        "They view the double standard as a possible source of public distrust in the biomedical research enterprise.",
        "在他们看来，双重标准可能导致公众对生物医药研究事业失去信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan’s “mission accomplished” speech in early 2004 is an important case in point.",
        "美联储前主席格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan）2004年初发表的“任务完成”讲话是一个显例。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, some Arab countries are not electorally competitive now but once did use free and fair elections to fill the state's most politically powerful offices (Lebanon).",
        "最后，某些阿拉伯国家目前并不具备选举竞争力，但以前却曾采用自由公正的选举来决定国家的政治要职（黎巴嫩）。"
    ],
    [
        "Volumes have been written, countless symposiums have been held, and famous promises have been made by the likes of former US Fed chairman Ben Bernanke never to repeat Japan’s mistakes.",
        "研究论文写了无数篇，研讨会举办了无数次，还有诸如美国前美联储主席本·伯南克（Ben Bernanke）等高人都承诺永不会重蹈日本覆辙。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s all very nice, but since the days of Stern’s grandfather, we have made progress in time-keeping.",
        "这当然好，但自斯特恩祖父的时代以来，我们在计时方面已经取得了重大进步。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, star-struck female film fans may be especially prone to believe any utterance from Hollywood’s most famous silver fox. Or, in the case of the Nazis, fear may predispose the audience to be persuaded.",
        "比方说，迷恋明星的女性影迷可能特别容易相信好莱坞著名银狐的观点，或者在涉及纳粹的情况下，恐惧会使听众很容易被说服。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the more promising recent initiatives is the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC), which brings together 30 governments and more than 180 businesses and strategic partners to put a value on carbon dioxide emissions.",
        "近期更令人憧憬的计划之一是碳定价领导联盟（CPLC），该计划集合了30个国家的政府和180多家企业和战略合作伙伴，为二氧化碳排放制定价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Denmark, which houses some of the most efficient coal-fired power plants in the world, equally relies on coal for half of its electricity production.",
        "丹麦拥有一些全世界最为高效的煤电厂，其煤炭发电占据半壁河山。"
    ],
    [
        "At the heart of the crisis is a strong element of indifference.",
        "坚不可摧的冷漠是危机的核心问题。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is Cameron’s decision to release his ministers from party discipline during the referendum campaign.",
        "一个原因是卡梅伦决定在公决选战期间让其部长不受党纪约束。"
    ],
    [
        "Or will the revolt against globalization and immigration simply take another form?",
        "还是反对全球化和移民的叛逆潮将以另外一种形式出现？"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe backwardation won’t appear on the first day that housing futures are traded, but there is a good chance it will come within a matter of months.",
        "或许现货升水不会在房产期货交易的第一天就出现，但几个月之内出现的可能性非常大。"
    ],
    [
        "This would bolster bank credit and stimulate demand, employment, GDP, and tax revenues.",
        "这将提振银行信用并刺激需求、就业、GDP和税收收入。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – European policymakers have decided that they must be seen to be “doing something” about youth unemployment.",
        "布鲁塞尔—欧洲决策者决定他们必须让世人看到在为年轻人失业问题“做些什么”。"
    ],
    [
        "If no viable solution is found, no agency or individual will be willing to serve as the receiver in ordinary bankruptcy cases.",
        "如果找不到可行的解决办法，没有机构或个人会愿意在一般的破产案中担任破产案产业管理人的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "A dangerous situation may well emerge, as this report threatens to derail the whole process.",
        "一种危险的情况可能出现，因为这份报告可能导致整个进程脱轨。"
    ],
    [
        "Several analysts have concluded that Brazil’s bubble has burst, and that the so-called “country of the future” will remain stuck in the present.",
        "一些分析师认为巴西的泡沫已经破裂，所谓的“未来之国”将依然困顿于当下。"
    ],
    [
        "No doubt, Turkey’s ability to continue on a rapid growth trajectory remains uncertain.",
        "土耳其能否继续其快速增长前景无疑尚不明确。"
    ],
    [
        "Sharon was considered a certain victor in the planned March elections, for which he had organized his own Kadima (Forward) party, attracting leading figures from the Labor party on the left and the Likud party on the right.",
        "沙龙被认为是在预定三月份举行的大选的确定的得胜者。 他为此次大选组建了自己的前进党。"
    ],
    [
        "One simply does not see the profusion of mansions, yachts, and private jets typical of, say, Beverly Hills and Palm Beach.",
        "在比弗利山和棕榈湾司空见惯的豪宅、游艇和私人飞机在日本很难见到。"
    ],
    [
        "Far more dangerous are gradual shifts in international global institutions that upend expectations about how key players will behave.",
        "更加危险的是国际性全球机构的逐渐变化，这些变化可以让关于重要行动方如何行动的预期彻底颠倒。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, during a dive in the waters at Krasnodar, in southern Russia, Putin miraculously salvaged two ancient Greek urns.",
        "最近，在俄罗斯南部克拉斯诺达尔水域潜水期间，普京奇迹般地挽救了两个古希腊的骨灰盒。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, can “politically correct” behavior be a form of recklessness, to the extent that it evades difficult issues and focuses on what is easier to justify rather than what is right?",
        "或者，“政治正确”的行为可以以鲁莽的形式出现，只要它能规避难题、聚焦于更容易论证而不是正确的内容吗？ 真性情是否包括直面焦虑和痛苦？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, apart from defense and foreign affairs, Hong Kong was to be master of its own house.",
        "的确，除了国防和外交，香港在其他方面均可当家作主。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2009, the IMF’s Article IV Staff Report was already ringing the alarm bells.",
        "2009年，IMF章程第四条核评报告便已经敲响了警钟。 公债水平虽然较低，但增长很快；"
    ],
    [
        "The headline growth number in Spain is somewhat encouraging, continuing to show some rebound.",
        "西班牙标题增长数字令人略感鼓舞，继续反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "So can greater market competition, which has already lowered fees in major remittance corridors such as those linking the UAE to India and the Philippines, and the United States to Mexico.",
        "加强市场竞争亦然。 加强市场竞争已经降低了从阿联酋到印度和菲律宾、从美国到墨西哥等主要侨汇通道的费用。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Hitler, the German economy in the 1930’s shifted to a lower-productivity mechanism in order to churn out armaments and shoddy manufactured goods, neither of which would have any use in a market economy.",
        "在希特勒治下，20世纪30年代的德国经济走了一条低生产率的道路，大量生产军火和劣等制造品，这两类东西在市场经济中都是无用的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment is rising – and with it populist posturing.",
        "amp#160;amp#160;amp#160; 失业率在上升，而且民粹主义姿态也在抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "Human happiness and economic well-being are also being affected by climate change, which may be contributing to what could turn out to be a third consecutive year of drought in sub-Saharan Africa – and this amid growing food-security concerns in a world with one billion underfed people.",
        "这种气候变化可能是撒哈拉以南连续三年遭旱灾侵袭的罪魁祸首。 这场旱灾使10亿没有粮食挨饿人口的食品安全问题变得更加紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "The data-collection effort should also include a focus on mental health.",
        "数据收集措施还应该以心理健康为重点。"
    ],
    [
        "With America bogged down in Iraq and oil prices hitting record highs, regime hardliners see little reason to compromise these days.",
        "随着美国在伊拉克陷入困境、石油价格又创下了历史新高，强硬的统治者根本没有妥协的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "The danger is that the potential for a real change in values will be co-opted, as has happened so often before, by those who see it as just another opportunity to make money.",
        "危险的是，正如之前经常所发生得那样，真正的价值变化的可能性将被那些把它看作又一个赚钱的机会的人霸占。"
    ],
    [
        "The injection of liquidity that occurred over the last year was the right policy.",
        "去年的流动性注入是正确的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But there could be even greater scope for growth, given two trends in Asia: rising wage costs and increasing concern among Western outsourcing customers about persistent cultural and language issues.",
        "但从亚洲的两大趋势看，我们还可以找到更大的增长空间：工资成本上升和西方外包客户日益担忧的根深蒂固的文化和语言问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But as we continue into 2017, the cyclical evidence actually suggests otherwise.",
        "但随着2017年的深入，周期性证据表明正好相反。"
    ],
    [
        "For our movement is a triumph, not of mobs but of joyous crowds; of protests, not of looting; of clear purpose, not confusion.",
        "因为我们所取得的进展是欢欣人群的胜利而非暴民的成功，是抗议运动而非抢劫掠夺，我们的目标明确而不含糊。"
    ],
    [
        "The religious demon is a far less appealing devil than Uncle Sam.",
        "宗教这个魔鬼比山姆大叔的吸引力要小得多。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the emphasis on randomized controlled trials as the “gold standard” of evidence has meant that any drug that has outperformed a competitor in a trial may now be classified as “evidence-based.”",
        "首先，强调随机控制实验作为证据的“黄金标准”意味着任何在实验中胜过竞争对手的哇哦唔都被归为“基于证据的”。"
    ],
    [
        "In one well-documented case, a non-commissioned officer at a military base, acting on behalf of the Gülen movement, was caught planting documents in order to embarrass military officials.",
        "在一宗证据确凿的案件中，某军事基地的一位为葛兰运动卖命的无关军官因为印制意在抹黑其他军官的材料而被抓获。"
    ],
    [
        "The chances that anyone will be suspended from the industry are minimal, and the impact on management is likely to be nil.",
        "有人会因此被驱逐出该行业的可能性极小，对管理层的影响也将接近于零。"
    ],
    [
        "When the apartheid government negotiated with the African National Congress prior to the 1994 democratic transition, it demanded (and received) property and civil rights for the white minority in exchange for political rights for the black majority.",
        "在1994年民主过渡前种族隔离政府与非国大谈判时，它要求（并且得到了）白人少数民族的财产和公民权，以换取黑人多数民族的政治权。"
    ],
    [
        "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a recruiting tool for the Islamic State and must go.",
        "叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德是伊斯兰国招募人手的工具，他必须下台。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States government is pumping $789 billion into its economy, Europe $255 billion, and China $587 billion.",
        "美国政府为本国经济注资7890亿美元，欧洲是2550亿美元，中国则是5870亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Cyber learning is also important.",
        "网络学习能力也同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But the tide may be turning.",
        "但趋势可能正在回归。"
    ],
    [
        "But with each passing day, that initial cheer diminishes.",
        "但每过一天，一开始的欢呼就会减去几分。"
    ],
    [
        "This week, Putin told the United Russia party that he will place his name at the top of its ballot for the parliamentary election scheduled for December 2, which could enable him to become Russia’s new prime minister after the presidential election due in March 2008.",
        "本周，普京告诉统一俄罗斯党在定于12月2日进行的议会选举中他将在该党竞选名单中占据首位，这可以使他在2008年3月的总统选举后成为俄罗斯的新总理。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is a self-fulfilling prophecy, in which widespread unemployment does indeed drive the returns of those investments below zero.",
        "所产生的结果就是一个自我实现的预言，大规模的失业事实上导致那些投资的回报率低于零。"
    ],
    [
        "Popular movements have brought a range of avowedly Islamist political parties to power, replacing the largely secular former regimes.",
        "这场人民运动一方面将世俗政权打倒在地，一方面则把一系列公开鼓吹伊斯兰主义的政党送上了权力宝座。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Yeltsin was fearless, and sought not his personal survival, but the survival of the democratic idea that he introduced to Russia.",
        "实际上，叶利钦是无所畏惧的，他追求的不是个人安全与否，而是自己引入俄国的民主思想能否最终实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Resuscitating ideas advanced in the wake of Argentina’s earlier default, some experts proposed creating an international bankruptcy court in the IMF.",
        "一些专家重新提出了上一次阿根廷为月时所出现的观点，建议在IMF成立国际破产法庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Deaton observes that, in general, Western countries developed without receiving any aid. (Perhaps America’s post-World War II Marshall Plan in Europe is an exception, but that aid was intended more for reconstruction than for development.)",
        "迪顿观察到，总体才说西方国家都是在毫无援助的情况下发展起来的（或许二战后美国支援欧洲的马歇尔计划是个例外，但该计划更加集中于重建而非发展）。"
    ],
    [
        "The argument that QE will destroy fiscal discipline cannot be rejected out of hand, because both its proponents and its adversaries seem to agree that its days are over.",
        "认为量化宽松将破坏财政纪律的观点无法彻底排除，因为其支持者和反对者都同意财政纪律的时代已经过去了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the US had demanded that the Soviet Union respect the Monroe Doctrine, which assigned Latin America to America’s sphere of interest, but was unwilling to accept Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe.",
        "不仅如此，美国曾经要求苏联尊重门罗主义，而门罗主义在规定拉美是美国势力范围的同时，却不愿接受苏联在东欧地区的霸权。"
    ],
    [
        "First, we must use the political momentum around the refugee issue to generate commitments to specific improvements in the international protection system and to reduce the vulnerability of all migrants.",
        "首先，我们需要利用围绕难民问题的政治势头致力于具体改进国际保护体系并降低所有移民的脆弱度。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no hiding these facts from American voters anymore.",
        "候选人不再向选民们隐瞒这些事实。"
    ],
    [
        "The idealism of Bangladesh’s young demonstrators, however, points to a new development.",
        "但是，孟加拉年轻示威者的理想主义指向了新的发展方向。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither candidate acknowledges the much bigger elephant in the room.",
        "但两个候选人都没有意识到更大的症结所在。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Merkel, her taut and anguished meetings with Trump are almost as legendary as her frosty encounters with Trump’s apparent hero, Russian President Vladimir Putin.",
        "在默克尔方面，她与特朗普紧张和痛苦的会面几乎就跟她与特朗普心目中的英雄榜样——俄罗斯总统普京——的冷淡交锋一样传奇。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, the eurozone seems stuck with near-zero rates at increasingly long maturities.",
        "无论如何，欧元区的零利率期限正在不断延长。"
    ],
    [
        "To some, making such priorities seems obscene.",
        "对于某些人来说，作出这样的优先顺序看起来是可憎的。"
    ],
    [
        "Crowdsourcing and crowd-funding have created new kinds of crowds, of the sort that Le Bon never could have imagined.",
        "众包（crowdsourcing）和众筹（crowd-funding）产生了勒庞所无法想象的新的群体类型。"
    ],
    [
        "Social mobility declined.",
        "社会流动性下降。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is no certainty that monetized fiscal spending will spark an economic recovery.",
        "但货币化财政支出并不一定能够刺激经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Many people in South Korea and Japan now worry about the strength of America’s commitment to defend them from external attack.",
        "虽然美国承诺会为韩日两国防御外部袭击，但当前两国民众都忧虑这份承诺能否兑现。"
    ],
    [
        "To overcome the many hurdles to success in low- and middle-income countries, these new types of business ventures will likely need to explore innovative forms of collaboration with governments, non-governmental organizations, and other companies.",
        "要克服在中低收入国家成功所面临的诸多障碍，这些新型创业企业可能需要探索与政府、非政府组织和其他公司的创新合作形式。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2001, only 8% of Egyptians defined themselves as Egyptians above all, while 81% defined themselves as Muslims.",
        "2001年，最重要的是，只有8%的人自认为是埃及人，81%的人自认为是穆斯林人。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that these issues are being debated is a good sign in itself – keeping Google and its watchers on guard.",
        "这些问题目前正被讨论，本身就是个好现象-这让谷歌和关注它的人们保持不松懈。"
    ],
    [
        "But addressing these issues would require the assembled leaders to rise above them and consider the soundness of global economic arrangements overall.",
        "但解决这些问题需要与会领导人超越自身利益，从全球经济规则是否健全的角度对问题进行思考。"
    ],
    [
        "So, repeating a mantra of connectivity, China dangles low-interest loans in front of countries in urgent need of infrastructure, thereby pulling those countries into its economic and security sphere.",
        "因此，中国高举互联互通的大旗，用低息贷款引诱急需基础设施的国家，让这些国家走近中国的经济和安全势力范围。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer lies in recognizing that state capitalism is not about efficient allocation of economic resources, but about maximizing political control over society and the economy.",
        "要知道答案，你必须理解国家资本主义并不是关于有效配置经济资源的问题，而是关于实现对社会和经济的政治控制最大化的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the implementation of those regulations depends on each country’s capacity, and is thus far from perfect.",
        "但这一监管措施的实施取决于各国的能力，因此不可能十全十美。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, BAM land is overwhelmingly Putin land.",
        "而今，贝阿铁路沿线的土地是实实在在的普京领地。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists, in particular, have touted free trade and global markets as an unalloyed good.",
        "特别是，经济学家将自由贸易和全球市场吹得天花乱坠，简直有害利而无一害。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a large Shura Council would provide a broad Iraqi face and body to the interim administration. It would also serve to create the beginnings of Iraqi parliamentary and local politics in advance of the elections, which should be held as soon as possible.",
        "如此庞大的一个舒拉议会将在过渡政权中代表各个阶层的伊拉克人，也将作为伊拉克应当尽早举行的选举前的议会及本国政治的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "But only after the votes are counted will we know whether opinions expressed to pollsters predicted actual voting behavior.",
        "但只有在计票完成后我们才会知道人们对民意测验专家说的话是否能和实际的投票行为对得上。"
    ],
    [
        "We now know that the best credit must stand behind the rest, or else bear runs, such as those that have derailed Greece, Ireland, and Portugal – and that now threaten to do the same to Italy and Spain – are inevitable.",
        "我们现在知道的是，剩下的国家的信誉不能再受损了，否则的话，恐慌性挤兑——也就是已将希腊、爱尔兰和葡萄牙拖入万劫不复，如今又在将意大利和西班牙逼上绝路的挤兑——将是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody could imagine that the invention of the atomic bomb would give the US such an extraordinary military advantage that defending Europe would become feasible and acceptable to the American public.",
        "没人能想象，原子弹的发明会给美国于如此非凡的军事优势，以致捍卫欧洲成为可行之事，而美国公众也会接受这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, much of our economy remains in separatist hands, and they, no surprise, are running the stolen assets into the ground.",
        "此外，绝大部分经济仍掌握在分离主义份子手里，而他们正不出所料地毁掉这些偷来的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "MOSCOW – When a tsar is treated with mockery, rather than regarded with awe, it is time for him to consider retirement, or to prepare for a palace coup.",
        "莫斯科——当沙皇受到的不是敬畏而是嘲笑时，他就是时候考虑退位或为宫廷政变做好准备了。"
    ],
    [
        "World Polio Day is thus an occasion to urge politicians to renew their commitments to polio eradication, and to apply lessons from the GPEI to improve health everywhere.",
        "因此，世界脊髓灰质炎日是一次敦促政治家重申消灭脊髓灰质炎承诺的机会，并借此吸取全球根除脊髓灰质炎行动的经验，以改善世界各地的健康状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries with weak government capacity have rarely managed to achieve high-income status.",
        "相反，政府能力不够强的国家很少能够成功步入中等收入行列。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it retains a powerful hold on Indian society, limiting the opportunities available at all stages of life.",
        "但种姓在印度社会中根深蒂固，它限制了一个人在生命所有各阶段所能获得的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The night finished with many wounded and one more killed.",
        "持续一天的事件造成多人受伤一人死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Narrative Power in Turkey",
        "土耳其的叙述能力"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that the recent agreement concerning Iran’s nuclear program portends a return to a more flexible Iranian policy toward Afghanistan – essential if there is to be a regional solution to Afghanistan’s problems.",
        "人们希望，有关伊朗核计划的最新协议预示着伊朗对阿富汗政策回归到一个更灵活的局面——如果要以区域性方案去解决阿富汗问题，这是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "The most common adjustment measure, which governments in 78 developing countries are considering, is subsidy reduction.",
        "最普遍的调整措施是削减补贴，有78个发展中国家政府在考虑该措施。"
    ],
    [
        "A shining example is Jo Cox, the young British MP who was murdered during the Brexit campaign, whose leadership in advocating for the rights of refugees was recognized across party lines.",
        "一个显著的例子是在英国脱欧运动期间遭到杀害的年轻英国议员乔·考克斯（Jo Cox），他在推进难民权利方面的领导力得到了超越党派界线的承认。"
    ],
    [
        "As the economy struggled, optimism gave way to a more defensive and insular view that values self-reliance.",
        "在经济挣扎中，偏重于自力更生的狭隘防御观念取代了乐观情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "If my characterization of events is correct, then the right set of policies is straightforward:",
        "如果我对各种事件特点的把握是准确的，那么相应政策也应该是直截了当的："
    ],
    [
        "Representative democracy is based not only on universal suffrage, but also on reason.",
        "普选加理智构成代议制民主的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Newly enriched countries need to take several more steps in order to increase the likelihood of a “resource blessing.”",
        "新致富国需要采取多个步骤才能增加“资源祝福”的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent MGI research found that in a rapid-automation scenario, some 82-102 million Chinese workers would need to switch jobs.",
        "82~1. 02亿的中国劳动者需要重新找一份工作。"
    ],
    [
        "When the US housing market started to turn south, the biggest underwriters (such as Countrywide) did not go bankrupt right away, because they had sold the vast majority of their loans to the CDO market.",
        "当美国房地产市场开始转向的时候，规模最大的承销商美国国家金融服务公司（Countrywide）并没有立即破产，因为其绝大部分贷款已经向债务抵押债券市场进行了出售。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the world economy suffers not from too much saving, but from too little investment.",
        "然而事实上，对全球经济造成损害的不是储蓄太多，而是投资太少。"
    ],
    [
        "But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because changes in the force of the illusion are difficult to predict.",
        "但看清市场中的愚蠢并不能为预见结果提供明显的优势，因为幻觉力量的变化难以预测。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s main priority now is to ensure that the peace treaty with Israel is maintained.",
        "目前看来，美国最先考虑的事情就是要确保与穆斯林之间的和平条约的稳固性。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is that they are not – thinking, that is.",
        "答案他们根本没有在想。"
    ],
    [
        "This is what a strong system of patent protection does.",
        "这就是强大的专利保护制度的特点。"
    ],
    [
        "Deficit reduction requires cutting government spending, increasing revenue, or both.",
        "减少赤字需要削减政府支出、增加收入，或两者兼备。"
    ],
    [
        "Public administration is in urgent need of modernization, and public resources must be used more efficiently.",
        "公共管理急需现代化，公共资源必须得到更有效率的使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Many in Sarkozy’s governing UMP have become increasingly public in expressing their unhappiness with his decision-making method.",
        "在萨科奇统领的“人民运动联盟”（UMP）里，许多人针对萨氏的决策方式越来越公开地表示不满。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is good reason to expect that he will govern very differently.",
        "但有很好的理由认为他不会这样治国。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, according to the political economist Moeletsi Mbeki, at his core, “Zuma is a conservative.”",
        "然而，根据政治经济学家莫莱茨·姆贝基(Moeletsi Mbeki)的观点，在本质上，“祖马是一个保守主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "Dwight D. Eisenhower invited Nikita Khrushchev to the United States in 1959 to open the eyes of the first Soviet leader ever to visit America.",
        "1959年，艾森豪威尔邀请赫鲁晓夫访美，开了苏联领导人访美之先河。"
    ],
    [
        "All economies of any reasonable size will have some unemployment.",
        "任何上规模的经济体都会存在一些失业情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, for example, when C. Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis sought to reproduce 53 “landmark” preclinical cancer studies, they discovered that nearly 90% of the findings could not be reproduced.",
        "比如，去年贝格利（C. Glenn Begley）和埃利斯（Lee Ellis）试图复制53种“划时代”临床癌症研究，他们发现，近九成的发现无法被复制。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is only part of the privacy discussion.",
        "上述事实仅仅是私隐讨论的其中一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Not bad for a summit that some feared would not happen at all: an earlier meeting planned for April in Bangkok had been disrupted by protesters – “red shirts” who support ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra.",
        "而这样的结果对于一场曾经连是否能举办都成问题的峰会来说已经不错了：须知早先计划4月在曼谷举行的会议就被支持前首相他信·西那瓦的“红衫军”给搅黄了。"
    ],
    [
        "But promoting these aims without discussion, let alone criticism, resulted in a backlash.",
        "但是在没有讨论、何况是批评的情况下推崇这些目标造成副作用。"
    ],
    [
        "By that standard, he would not have wanted Sarkozy.",
        "”根据这个标准，他不会要萨科齐。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of Africa’s poverty is fueled by conflicts.",
        "很大程度上非洲的贫穷是因为冲突而引起的。"
    ],
    [
        "Central Asia’s hydrocarbon reserves, and its pivotal location, make it strategically important for many countries.",
        "中亚地处关键地带，且拥有巨大的碳氢化合物储量，这使得该地区对许多国家具有战略重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Occasionally, this sudden, complete memory loss occurs after severe stress, but not invariably.",
        "这种突然的，完全的记忆丧失间或在严重的应激之后发生，但却并不总是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "To modernize Russia, one must break the stranglehold of corruption, establish accountability, and free the media.",
        "为了使俄罗斯现代化，一位领袖必须冲破腐败的桎梏，建立政府责任体系并开放新闻自由。"
    ],
    [
        "But a common race or religion is not essential.",
        "但共同的种族或宗教信仰并非必不可少。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, eurozone countries have been looking to long-time aid recipient China, which holds $2.5 trillion of US government debt, to help them overcome their own debt crisis.",
        "类似地，欧元区国家眼巴巴地望着中国帮助它们克服债务危机，而中国是老牌受助国，如今持有2. 5万亿美元美国国债。"
    ],
    [
        "But the good news is that the EU and NATO are much better positioned to develop an ambitious strategy than they were vis-à-vis Central and Eastern Europe a decade ago.",
        "但有利的一面是，与10年前吸纳中东欧国家入盟时相比，欧盟和北约能够更好地执行扩张的宏图大略。"
    ],
    [
        "For Gandhi, the spinning wheel symbolized the need to assume personal responsibility for consumption as a first step toward achieving justice and freedom for all.",
        "对甘地来说，转轮象征着个体对消费的负责任行为，这也是实现全民公平自由的前提条件。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason for this is the contractionary monetary policy pursued by former Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, which prevented the economy from reaching its growth potential for more than 15 years, until Haruhiko Kuroda took over the position.",
        "一个原因是前任日本银行行长白川方明（Masaaki Shirakawa）所实施的紧缩货币政策导致日本经济在15年的时间里都没能实现其增长潜力，直到黑田东彦（Haruhiko Kuroda）上任才有所改观。"
    ],
    [
        "These grants are awarded on a competitive basis, and funding is contingent on achieving measurable outcomes.",
        "这些补助基于竞争标准发放，资金量取决于是否实现可测量的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "One thing is certain: Of my three encounters with Hillary Clinton, this third was the one where I found her the strongest and most passionate, thoroughly imbued with the meaning and pitch of the great American pastoral.",
        "可以肯定：在三次与希拉里的会面中，我发现第三次的她最坚强、最有激情，浑身上下洋溢着光辉和美式田园诗般的激情。"
    ],
    [
        "Frighteningly, the new Japanese government is still trying to deal with the aftermath of the country’s two-decade-old property bust.",
        "可怕的是，日本新一届政府仍在应对该国持续20年之久的泡沫破灭后遗症。"
    ],
    [
        "What diplomacy may be able to do is reduce, if not end, the fighting between the Syrian government and its own people, as the UN is attempting to do in Aleppo.",
        "外交也许能够完成的是减少乃至结束叙利亚政府与本国人民之间的斗争，比如联合国正在阿勒颇所做的尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "With so much at stake, Majid Jafar of UAE-based Crescent Petroleum was right to worry at the recent World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the Dead Sea.",
        "兹事体大，阿联酋新月石油公司（Crescent Petroleum）的贾法尔（Majid Jafar）在最近的死海中东和北非世界经济论坛（World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa）上提出的担忧是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, tacit knowledge is vast and growing, so that only a miniscule fraction of it fits in anybody’s head.",
        "此外，隐性知识为数巨大且不断增长，因此任何个体都只能掌握其中九牛一毛的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Three ex-Soviet republics joined the European Union and NATO, asserting their desire not only for democracy and prosperity, but also to avoid being part of Russia ever again.",
        "三个前苏联共和国加盟欧盟和北约，公开宣布他们不仅要实现民主和繁荣，还要避免以后再落入苏联的魔爪。"
    ],
    [
        "In order for Britain to continue to thrive outside the EU, it would have to open its economy even further, not only to worldwide trade and investment, but also to increased immigration flows.",
        "为让英国在欧盟以外继续壮大发展，有必要对全球贸易投资和不断增长的移民进一步开放经济。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Germany’s position is a ploy to hide its anticompetitive behavior, whereby the government subsidizes German banks and industry at the expense of everyone else – including German taxpayers.",
        "事实上，德国的立场是其反竞争行为的画皮，德国政府因此可以补贴德国银行和产业界，而出钱的则是其他所有人，包括德国纳税人。"
    ],
    [
        "“I went to look for my son where I heard shots fired.",
        "“我去找我的儿子时听到了枪声。"
    ],
    [
        "The need to cope with trade pressures after the Trans-Pacific Partnership encompasses most of China’s neighbors will have a similar disciplining effect.",
        "另外，由美国主导的涵盖了中国大部分邻国，但还没有包括中国的，跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）的建立也将对中国走向更市场化的制度产生类似的约束效应。"
    ],
    [
        "Portia acknowledges that Shylock is under no obligation to show mercy to Antonio, who is in breach of his agreement to him.",
        "在剧中，波蒂亚承认犹太商人夏洛克根本没义务去饶恕安东尼奥，因为后者违反了和夏洛克订下了协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, physics begins with everyday phenomena requiring few new words (as opposed to conventional ninth-grade biology): motion, velocity, acceleration, falling objects, a sense of gravity as a force, and some new concepts, e.g. mass, momentum, and energy, but with crisp definitions.",
        "此外，物理学习的一开始是用很少几个新的词汇来解释我们每天看到的现象（这与传统上九年级的生物学形成了鲜明的对比）：运动、速度、加速度、下落的物体、重力的感觉以及一些新的概念，比如质量、动量和能量，这些词汇都具有清晰的定义。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short term, countries may be able to duck their global responsibilities, but the threat posed by events beyond their borders cannot be kept at bay forever.",
        "国家或许可以在短期内逃避全球责任，但境外事件造成的威胁不可能永远得到控制。"
    ],
    [
        "These provisions establish a separate judicial track, outside a country’s own legal system, that allows firms to sue governments for apparent violations under trade treaties.",
        "这些条款在一个国家自由的司法体系之外确立了一条单独的司法路径，让企业可以基于明确违反贸易条约的行为而起诉国家。"
    ],
    [
        "And the leader of Germany’s Social Democrats, Martin Schulz, has also thrown his weight behind a “United States of Europe” in recent days.",
        "而德国社会民主党党首马丁·舒尔茨（Martin Schulz）也在最近加入了支持“欧罗巴合众国”的行列。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the Global Fund was founded three years ago, it has built an impressive track record: approving 310 grants totaling $3.1 billion in 127 countries and disbursing $920 million since 2002.",
        "自从全球基金三年前成立以来，它已经创造了令人印象深刻的业绩：在127个国家通过了310项拨款，总值高达31亿美元，并自2002年起已经支付出了9."
    ],
    [
        "Nor has the Agency’s budget kept pace with its increasing workload.",
        "而该机构的预算也无法适应其不断增加的工作负担。"
    ],
    [
        "And she has no doubt that the West, in responding to the Arab League’s entreaty to intervene, avoided a replay of Srebrenica in North Africa.",
        "她毫不犹豫地坚信西方因为回应阿拉伯联盟的介入恳求，避免了北非斯雷布雷尼察事件的重演。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, China has refused to accept the UNCLOS dispute-settlement mechanism, thereby remaining unfettered in altering facts on the ground.",
        "更糟的是，中国一直拒绝承认联合国海洋法公约的争端解决机制，从而可以继续无拘无束地改变现状。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasing the responsible use of this energy source would contribute to the fight against climate change by reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere and diminishing the amount of fossil fuel required to produce energy.",
        "增加对这一能源的负责任的使用可以为我们应对气候变化做出贡献。 它能减少大气中的碳含量，并遏制化石燃料的使用量。"
    ],
    [
        "In many cases, they are even advocating the kind of free-market policies that their secular predecessors favored.",
        "在许多情况下他们甚至鼓吹某些自由市场政策——即便这是那些被推翻的世俗政权所喜爱的。"
    ],
    [
        "All of Asia’s powers, including China and Japan, will have to play a part in stopping Bangladesh’s drift into fanaticism and chaos.",
        "亚洲所有的力量，包括中国和日本，将会为阻止孟加拉国滑向狂热和混乱出一份力。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the divestment movement is snowballing, with faith-based communities, municipalities, celebrities, trade unions, universities, and institutional investors all pledging to unload their fossil-fuel assets.",
        "这种撤资运动是滚雪球式的：宗教社区、城市政府、社会名人、工会，大学和机构投资者都表示要撤出化石燃料资产。"
    ],
    [
        "While this would entail some risk, there are no credible alternatives.",
        "这样做会带来一些风险，但目前没有可信的替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1997, he established a movement called the Social Committee For the Moral Revival of the Fatherland.",
        "1997年，他创办了\"祖国道德重生社会委员会\"。"
    ],
    [
        "The same lesson is applicable to the Sino-Vietnamese context: In 1979, China replicated the 1962 model by launching a surprise blitzkrieg against Vietnam that Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping admitted was designed to “teach a lesson.”",
        "这种教训也适用于中越两国：1979年，中国重施故技，突袭越南。 中国领导人邓小平承认这一袭击就是要给越南“一个教训”。"
    ],
    [
        "The first challenge that Copenhagen faces in reaching its zero-emissions goal is the lack of cost-effective alternatives for some sources of CO2, particularly automobiles.",
        "哥本哈根实现零排放面临的首要挑战是找不到经济有效的能源替代某些碳排放燃料，特别是汽车燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "Global monetary stability is, after all, a public good.",
        "毕竟全球货币稳定是一种公益性的全球公共基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "These regimes are typically centered on a leader who concentrates power by overriding – and in some cases eliminating – institutional checks and balances.",
        "这些政权常常以一位领导人为核心，他通过支配——有时甚至取消——制衡制度集中权力。"
    ],
    [
        "When the SDGs were first proposed in 2012, the UN’s member said that they “should be action-oriented,” “easy to communicate,” and “limited in number,” with many governments favoring a total of perhaps 10-12 goals encompassing the 17 priority areas.",
        "2012年，当可持续发展目标首次提出时，联合国成员称它们“应该是行动导向的”、“容易沟通的”、“数量有限的”，许多政府希望围绕17个当务之急领域指定总共10—12个目标。"
    ],
    [
        "After an eight-month revolution that devastated the country, Libyans are demanding real reforms.",
        "历时8个月之久的革命摧毁了整个国家。 革命之后，利比亚人要求进行真正的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "For others, Obama is merely pursuing Bush’s foreign policy through other means – drones instead of soldiers.",
        "也有人认为，奥巴马只是在通过其他途径——用无人机代替士兵——追求布什的对外政策。"
    ],
    [
        "They restrict governments even from placing temporary controls on the kind of destabilizing short-term capital flows that have so often wrought havoc in financial markets and fueled crises in developing countries.",
        "这些协定甚至还限制政府，使其难以采取针对破坏性短期资本流的临时性管制，这类资本流经常造成发展中国家金融市场浩劫、助长危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Campaign chairs are usually too busy for such a task.",
        "竞选主席们通常忙得顾不上这样的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Others, opposing this claim, insist that the country must live up to the legacy of its 1971 secession from Pakistan, in a revolution that proclaimed Islam insufficient grounds for nationhood and asserted the primacy of Bangladesh’s secular culture and Bengali language over its allegiance to Islamabad.",
        "其他反对这一观点的人坚持认为孟加拉国应该按照1971年从巴基斯坦脱离的逻辑存在。 脱离巴基斯坦的革命宣告伊斯兰教不足以作为立国之际，孟加拉世俗文化和孟加拉语比对伊斯兰堡的忠心更加重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, pharmaceutical companies have already begun to investigate other NMDA-receptor antagonists, together with drugs that act on a different part of the glutamate system, as possible treatments for depression.",
        "事实上，制药公司已开始研究其他NMDA受体拮抗剂试图与作用于谷氨酸系统的不同部分的药物相结合作为可能的抑郁症疗法。"
    ],
    [
        "But giving women the right training now can kick-start the process, enabling half the population finally to reach their potential – to the benefit of all.",
        "但现在给予妇女适当的培训可以启动这一进程，从而实现让半数人口最终发挥自己的潜力 ——这样做最终能够惠及所有人。"
    ],
    [
        "The world cannot afford a second Afghanistan in Bangladesh, where Huji members are believed to have given sanctuary to many Taliban fighters after the fall of their regime.",
        "这个世界无法承受在孟加拉国出现第二个阿富汗，据信孟加拉伊斯兰圣战运动（Huji）成员在那里为政权垮台后的许多塔利班分子提供了避难所。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the regime is finding it increasingly difficult to claim, as it has for the last 15 years, that Bouteflika’s leadership represents civilian control over the military.",
        "结果，他的政权越来越难以如过去15年那样宣布波特弗利卡的领导是文治而不是武治。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet there are compelling reasons why they would be reticent to pursue such cooperation.",
        "但也有着令人信服的理由来解释为何各方都不愿意推进这类合作，。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Breivik’s interpretation of their words is, in an odd way, more rational than the idea that a war for our very survival can be fought with words alone.",
        "事实上，布雷维克对上述这些人言论的理解——以一种怪异的方式——比认为一个事关我们存亡的战争可以用嘴皮子解决的想法更加理性。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has had more than 250 wars since the beginning of the Renaissance in the mid-fifteenth century.",
        "自15世纪中期文艺复兴时代开始以来，欧洲经历了250多起战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The danger of their approach is now obvious.",
        "他们这种思维方式的危险性在当下就显而易见了。"
    ],
    [
        "If it does, the unemployment rate may stop falling, and upward pressure on wages would be limited.",
        "果真如此的话，失业率可能会停止下降，工资增长压力也会得到限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the spectacular failure of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, with their neoconservative go-it-alone illusions, the US is no longer willing or able to shoulder the burden of being the last force for order in the Middle East.",
        "在小布什总统和切尼副总统及其新保守主义单独行动幻想破灭后，美国不再愿意或能够承担起充当维持中东秩序的最后力量的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, most companies still think of all the new technologies that I write about primarily as message-sending devices – ways to promote their brand, create an image, and sell their product.",
        "但尽管话是这么说，大部分公司依然只把我所提到的新技术主要看成是一种信息传递工具 —— 某条用来推广品牌，建立企业形象以及销售产品的路子。"
    ],
    [
        "During this “liberal” period, the government basically provided stable market-supporting legislation, education, health care, and infrastructure.",
        "在这一“自由化”期间，政府基本上提供了稳定的支持市场的法规、教育、医疗以及基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Social exclusion and personalized power through wealth are always unacceptable.",
        "社会排斥以及通过财富个人化的权力总是无法令人接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, beyond direct help for Tunisia at this critical moment, the EU must breathe new life into the Mediterranean partnership.",
        "具体地讲，除去在这样的关键时刻为突尼斯提供直接帮助外，欧盟必须为地中海伙伴关系注入新的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, how can the party of a man who has less than 5% support win the election now without rigging it?",
        "毕竟，一个只有5%支持率的政党在不舞弊的情况下现在如何赢得选举呢？"
    ],
    [
        "There is ample precedent for a Congressional response.",
        "国会的反应有大量先例可循。"
    ],
    [
        "The Stockholm suicide bombing was not the first act of violence linked to Vilks.",
        "斯德哥尔摩的自杀式袭击并非因威尔克斯引发的首次暴力袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "Intermediate options, from the Swiss to the Canadian model, are scarcely more appealing.",
        "连类似瑞士到加拿大模式这类中转选项都比英国更具吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "This gives the country the opportunity to create model cities, based on the adequate provision of public services and sound public transport and attuned to the cost of carbon and climate change.",
        "这使该国有机会在充分提供公共服务，良好公共交通以及考虑碳和气候变化成本的情况下建设现代城市。"
    ],
    [
        "Savers are bitterly complaining that they are being penalized for their prudence; refusing to debate this and other implications of current monetary policies is not an acceptable response.",
        "储蓄者痛苦地抱怨他们因为审慎而受到惩罚； 拒绝谈论这一点和当前货币政策的其他影响绝不是可以接受的应对方式。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk, and the European Parliament should work to ensure that the public debate about refugees and migrants is anchored in fact.",
        "首先，欧盟委员会主席让-克洛德·容克、欧洲理事会主席图斯克及欧洲议会应努力确保有关难民和移民的公开辩论以事实为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But the regime proved resistant, and the Bush administration finally agreed to enter into six-party talks with China, Russia, Japan, and the two Koreas.",
        "但这个政权却坚持了下来，最终小布什政府也只能无奈答应与中国、俄罗斯，日本和朝韩一道举行六方会谈。"
    ],
    [
        "Dodd-Frank’s key features – such as higher capital requirements for banks, the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the designation of Systemically Important Financial Institutions, tough stress tests on banks, and enhanced transparency for derivatives – have strengthened the financial system considerably.",
        "多德 - 弗兰克法案的主要内容——比如提高银行资本要求，建立消费者金融保护局，定义重要系统性金融机构，对银行进行严格的压力测试，以及提高衍生品的透明度——都极大巩固了金融系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The former engage in predatory and unpredictable regulation, which produces a bad business environment.",
        "前者一味巧取豪夺，规则反复无常，最终造成了一个恶劣的营商环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Works councils and strong collective bargaining rights, both features of high-productivity workplaces, are common in developed economies.",
        "工作委员会和强大的集体讨价还价权利都是高生产率工作的特征，在发达经济体中很常见。"
    ],
    [
        "Demagogues survive because of public support, which they try to maintain through appeals to greed, nationalism, patriotism, racism, and fear.",
        "公众支持是煽动家的生存之道，他们试图通过借助人性的贪婪、民族主义、爱国主义、种族主义和恐惧情绪来来维持自己的支持力度。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom line is that existing models for technological development are inadequate for technologies with broadly shared effects.",
        "最低限度是现有的技术研发模式对能产生广泛效果的技术而言还远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "We should all hope that China’s new economic model succeeds.",
        "我们都应当期盼中国新的经济模式取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "But Japan’s leaders are being squeezed from both directions.",
        "但日本领导人也受到了来自两个方面的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Redistribution schemes benefit the population if, and only if, they are controlled by democratic feedback.",
        "财富重新分配的规划只有在民主反馈的控制下才能够让民众受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the recent return to Russia of the icon of Our Lady of Kazan that once hung in John Paul’s bedroom, relations between the Vatican and the Patriarchate remain strained.",
        "尽管一直挂在约翰﹒保罗卧室中的喀山圣母像已于最近归还了俄罗斯，但梵蒂冈与东正教教会之间关系紧张依旧。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s Royal Visage",
        "法国的罗雅尔面庞"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, any political union that the Eurogroup would endorse today would be disciplinarian and ineffective.",
        "事实上，欧元集团今天可能支持的任何政治联盟必然是雷厉风行而效果甚微的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Venezuela, importers must wait six months after goods have cleared customs to buy previously authorized dollars.",
        "在委内瑞拉，进口商必须在商品清关后等待六个月才能买到此前已获批的美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi’s first significant international initiatives – making Russia his first official visit abroad, followed immediately by his attendance at the BRICS summit in South Africa – suggest that China may be seeking to place its relations with the world’s most powerful emerging countries on a par with its US diplomacy.",
        "习上任后将俄罗斯选为首次正式出访的目的地，之后又即刻赶赴南非出席金砖四国峰会，这些重大的国际举措均表明中国有可能将与世界最大新兴国家的关系提升至与中美关系同等的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "And Flint is not a solitary case; it is emblematic of a global problem.",
        "弗林特绝非孤例； 而是全球性饮用水问题的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "World financial stabilization, for example, is not something China can do much to help directly.",
        "例如，世界金融的稳定不是中国可以直接帮忙的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there were nearly 60 suicide attacks in Pakistan in 2009, compared to only two in 2002.",
        "事实上，与2002年仅两起自杀性袭击事件相比，2009年发生在巴基斯坦的自杀性袭击事件已经接近60起之多。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it is only by respecting our diversity – ensuring that each social group enjoys a shared sense of belonging, rather than feeling marginalized and excluded – that the state’s unity and peace can be guaranteed.",
        "恰恰相反，国家的团结与祥和只能源自于对我们多元文化的尊重——确保每个社会团体都能拥有同样的归属感，而不是感觉被边缘化或被排斥。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, Trump’s pardon of Arpaio looks like sheer political opportunism.",
        "在这样的背景下，特朗普赦免阿帕约似乎纯粹是政治机会主义的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Wait a second, you say.",
        "那么等一等。"
    ],
    [
        "A new constitution, proposed by the king and adopted in a referendum in July 2011, has already generated robust political competition.",
        "由国王提出并由2011年7月全民公投通过的新宪法建立了鲁棒的政治竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "As an emerging new establishment consensus grudgingly concedes, globalization accentuates class divisions between those who have the skills and resources to take advantage of global markets and those who don’t.",
        "正在崛起的新兴当权派极不情愿的达成共识：全球化加剧了阶级分裂，拉大了有资源和有能力利用世界市场者和不具备上述能力者之间的鸿沟。"
    ],
    [
        "Counterfeit products must be identified and removed from the marketplace, and a regulatory partnership between governments, the pharmaceutical sector, and citizens’ groups must be developed to control for quality.",
        "必须从市场上消除假冒产品，并在政府、药企和公民团体间建立合作监管机制来控制质量。 必须通过批量采购等方式以确保药品低价；"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the world’s financial system is still feeling the aftershocks of the Lehman collapse.",
        "事实上，世界金融体系仍在感受到雷曼兄弟倒闭的余波。"
    ],
    [
        "We already saw this movie, and it ended badly.",
        "我们见过这样的情节，最后的结局是悲哀的。"
    ],
    [
        "In July 2012, when a pro-European, austerity-minded government was running the country, with the well-respected economist Mario Monti in charge, the spread reached 536 basis points.",
        "2012年6月，执政意大利的是紧缩派政府，政府首脑是德高望重的经济学家蒙蒂，此时的利差为536个基点。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the victims of predatory lenders who need government help.",
        "掠夺性贷方的受害者们才是需要政府帮助的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Canceling Holocaust Memorial Day?",
        "取消大屠杀纪念日？"
    ],
    [
        "Technological breakthroughs in these areas – which the US is particularly qualified to realize – would be great for business.",
        "在上述领域实现技术突破——美国最有能力实现这种突破——或将对商业发展产生重大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iranian establishment has supported his attempts to open the country up to its regional neighbors, court foreign investment, call for moderation in religious and cultural matters, and even pursue the nuclear deal with the West.",
        "伊朗体制支持他对地区邻国开放国家、吸引外国投资、呼吁宗教和文化调和甚至追求与西方达成核协议的尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "But the central government remains reluctant to make significant changes to the revenue-sharing model, wary not only of the effects on its coffers, but also of conferring more authority on local officials.",
        "但中央政府仍不愿对收入分成模式作出重大调整，原因不但在于其担心国库，也在于地方官员权威的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "This is fiscal dominance in its purest form.",
        "这是纯粹的财政支配。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Jobs Challenge",
        "全球就业挑战"
    ],
    [
        "In 1970, the radical left-wing Italian underground periodical Sinistra Proletaria carried an article entitled “The Process of Globalization of Capitalist Society,” which was a description of IBM, an “organization which presents itself as a totality and controls all its activities towards the goal of profit and ‘globalizes’ all activity in the productive process.”",
        "1970年，意大利激进左翼地下刊物《Sinistra Proletaria》发表过一篇文章，题目叫《资本主义社会的全球化进程》，把IBM公司描述为一个“自成一统的组织，其一切活动以盈利为目的，且谋求把生产过程中的一切活动‘全球化’”。"
    ],
    [
        "The language, which appears in a section on energy, was apparently inserted to protect oil and gas interests from findings about their activities’ impact on climate change.",
        "相关段落出现在某能源版块，目的显然是保护油气开发商的利益，禁止油气活动对气候变化造成威胁的研究成果付诸应用。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, small farmers would receive a steady flow of income, which they could use for micro-investments to improve their household’s wealth, education, and health.",
        "与此同时，小农场主将会得到稳定的收入，他们可以用这笔钱作小额投资用以改善家庭的财富、教育和健康。"
    ],
    [
        "Natan Sharansky said that this tactic – the West tracking and demanding accountability for the treatment of individual internal dissenters – helped break up the Soviet Union.",
        "Natan Sharansky说这种战略——西方追踪并要求政权对其国内异见分子的待遇有所保证——帮助了苏联的解体。"
    ],
    [
        "So the objective is not automatically “more Europe,” but rather a “better Europe” capable of acting effectively and more transparently in areas where collective action is clearly necessary.",
        "所以其目的并不是要自动地“更欧洲化”，而是要追求一个在明显需要集体行动的领域能够更有效和更透明地行动的“更好的欧洲”。"
    ],
    [
        "But while the responsibility for upholding humanitarian norms does not concern only governments, they are essential in enforcing them.",
        "但虽然捍卫人道主义准则的责任不能仅仅由政府承担，但政府却在执行过程中扮演了至关重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to analyzing what ails Africa, it is customary to dwell at length on the continent’s traumatic past.",
        "每每谈到对非洲存在问题的分析，人们总是习惯于不厌其烦地历数这块大陆满是创伤的过去。"
    ],
    [
        "A leader who can represent this purely moral – as opposed to political – image helps to provide a focus for voters.",
        "能够代表这种纯粹道德，而非政治形象的领导人有助于赢得选民的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Even countries that rallied to Bush's call for help, like my homeland, Poland, are now wary of their involvement.",
        "即使是那些响应布什号召的国家，像我的家乡波兰，现在也对自己的决定产生了怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "He accused the British of being “defeatist” and argued that Afghanistan’s deteriorating security situation could be addressed with an Iraq-style “surge,” which has undoubtedly brought down violence levels in that country.",
        "他指责英国是“失败主义者”，指出阿富汗恶化的安全形势是可以通过伊拉克式的“大量增兵”来解决的，在伊拉克的增兵行动无疑大大降低了该国的暴力活动水平。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, though China agreed to the sanctions, it remains reluctant to aggravate its already tense relationship with its North Korean client.",
        "事实上，尽管中国同意了制裁，但它并不愿意进一步恶化与其被保护人朝鲜已经十分紧张的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank should be able to work with them in the absence of sovereign guarantees, and increase its loan offerings in local currencies, since these partners cannot afford currency risk.",
        "世界银行应当能够在没有中央政权担保的情况下与它们合作，并增加用当地货币提供的贷款，这是因为这些合作伙伴无法承受货币风险。"
    ],
    [
        "An experiment at the University of Pennsylvania resulted in the death of the patient, Jesse Gelsinger, in late 1999.",
        "宾夕法尼亚大学的试验疗法导致了病人的死亡，病人名叫Jesse Gelsinger，死亡时间：1999年下半年。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, growth next year will be so weak (0.5 to 1%, as opposed to the consensus of 2% or more) and unemployment so high (above 10%) that it will still feel like a recession.",
        "此外，明年的经济增长仍将微弱（较之2%或者更高的普遍观点）、而失业率仍将高企（约为10%），以致于让我们感到仍然处在衰退之中。"
    ],
    [
        "But they have since recognized the value of reduced rates.",
        "但此后它们认识到了降低税率的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "But they don’t know when to slam the mental brakes by making concessions to other points of view.",
        "但他们却不了解何时应该踩住思想的刹车，对其他的观点做出退让。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as Israeli bombs fell on Beirut and Tyre, Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most conservative Arab Muslim state of all, openly condemned the actions of the Shia Hezbollah in instigating conflict with Israel.",
        "即使当以色列的炸弹投在贝鲁特和提尔，可能是最为保守的阿拉伯穆斯林国家的沙特阿拉伯公开谴责什叶派真主党挑起与以色列的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "But only slightly more than 20% can understand what the mainstream press writes about monetary policy.",
        "但能理解主流媒体所撰写的货币政策报道的群众比例也只有略高于20%。"
    ],
    [
        "For the same money, Denmark could have reduced CO2 emissions more than a thousand-fold.",
        "用同样多的钱，丹麦可以减少的二氧化碳排放量千倍于电动汽车。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, lower commodity prices and lower inflation will act like a huge tax cut for households, allowing interest rates to fall further and thus stabilize economic activity.",
        "最后，对家庭来说，较低的商品价格和较低的通货膨胀率会产生与大幅减税一样的效果，并使利率进一步下降，从而稳定经济行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the best of times, US policymakers often do not think enough about the impact of their actions on the rest of the world.",
        "即使在最好的时代，美国决策者也常常不能充分考虑他们的动作对世界其他国家造成的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "These economic adjustments could occur much more smoothly if the eurozone as a whole were to pursue a more expansionary policy.",
        "这些经济调整可以以平稳得多的方式发生，如果欧元区整体追求更加扩张性的政策的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Something immoral, apparently, but what?",
        "它显然是不道德的，但究竟是什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile the Chinese economy is also drawing support from strong sources of cyclical resilience in early 2017.",
        "与此同时，2017年上半年中国经济还获得了周期性恢复力的强大支撑。 6月份，中国出口同比增长11."
    ],
    [
        "This has produced a curious situation.",
        "这造成了一个有趣的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, uncertainty about global climate change should lead us to do more to guard against it than if we knew it would proceed exactly according to the central-case projections.",
        "实际上，关于全球气候变化的不确定性应该促使我们对它比对主流的预测更加保持警惕。"
    ],
    [
        "Its promise to act was enough to calm markets.",
        "其行动承诺已足以安抚市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Never mind that America's bilateral trade deficit with China, even including Hong Kong, accounts for less than one-fifth of the total US deficit: growing imports from China and more direct investment by US companies supposedly fueled US unemployment.",
        "更不用说美国与中国的双边贸易赤字，甚至连香港的份额也被算了进来，据说这占到了美国赤字总额的近五分之一：日益增长的中国商品进口和美国公司的直接投资被看作是失业率居高不下的元凶。"
    ],
    [
        "Sheltered physically and metaphorically by the Kremlin’s high walls, and having progressively lost contact with the living conditions of ordinary people (if they ever had any), Russia’s leaders seem to consider their lifestyle to be both normal and eternal.",
        "在克林姆林宫高墙的屁护下，俄罗斯的领导人已经逐渐失去了对其普通百姓生活条件的了解（可能他们曾经有所了解），他们似乎已经认为自己的生活方式既正常又长久。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s real problem is not competition from China; it’s the complexity of shifting a $17.5 trillion economy from fossil fuels to low-carbon alternatives.",
        "而是实现规模达到17. 5万亿美元的经济从化石燃料转向低碳替代燃料的复杂性。"
    ],
    [
        "But the two sides cannot truly “place each other at the same level as their closest partners” unless national policies and procedures – especially in the US – evolve sufficiently.",
        "但双方不可能真正“彼此将对方置于与最紧密伙伴相同的地位”，除非国家政策和程序——特别是美国——充分发展。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this guarantees success.",
        "所有这些都不能保证成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, QE in advanced economies leads to excessive capital flows to emerging markets, which face a difficult policy challenge.",
        "第四，发达经济体的QE会导致资本过度流入新兴市场，引发严峻的政策挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "And the rest of the world does not seem to know how to stop its unrelenting advance.",
        "世界其他地区似乎对如何阻止其野蛮推进束手无策。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Obama, he will first visit Japan, and, while at APEC, will also attend the first US-ASEAN Summit.",
        "而对奥巴马来说，这位新任美国总统将首度访问日本，然后在亚太经合组织会议上出席首届美国-东盟峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "It took some time for the silent revolution to show concrete results.",
        "一段时间以后，默默无闻的改革取得了具体成果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Associated Press organized a sobering session on technology and unemployment: Can countries (particularly in the developed world) create new jobs – especially good jobs – in the face of modern technology that has replaced workers with robots and other machines in any task that can be routinized?",
        "美联社组织了一次有关技术和失业问题的会议环节，非常发人深省：现代科技在可以流程化工作中使用机器人和其他机器来取代工人，面对这样的现实，全球各国（尤其是发达国家）还能够创造新的——尤其是好的——工作吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The secretariat should actively cooperate with the IMF to benefit from its analysis, notably regarding exchange rates.",
        "这一秘书处应该积极地与IMF合作，利用后者的分析结果，特别是汇率问题上的分析结果。"
    ],
    [
        "While the Fed did resemble an absolute monarchy under former Chairman Alan Greenspan, it became more of a constitutional monarchy under Greenspan’s successor, Ben Bernanke.",
        "尽管在前主席格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan）治下的美联储确实像是实君制，但在其继任者伯南克（Ben Bernanke）治下，美联储变得更加像是君主立宪制。"
    ],
    [
        "The inflationary credit bubble spurred in southern European countries by the persistence of lower interest rates undermined their competitiveness and drove asset and property prices to unsustainably high levels.",
        "由持续低利率所引发的南欧国家通胀信贷泡沫削弱了这些国家的竞争力，并将资产和房产价格推高到了不可持续的高水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But the plan backfired; protests intensified, with other workers demonstrating for similar benefits and railing against the inflation that the move engendered.",
        "但这一计划适得其反，示威更加严重了，其他部门的工人也要求获得同样的好处，并抗议政府的这一行为所导致的通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "In Britain, the constituencies that elect members of Parliament are relatively small, and in the United States, members of the House of Representatives must seek reelection every two years.",
        "在英国，选举议会议员的选区相对较小，而在美国，众议院议员必须每两年寻求连任。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1930’s, both France and Germany used this kind of technique as a way to bolster their own security.",
        "在1930年代，法、德两国都采用了这种手段来巩固其自身的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "The GCC should be accustomed to conflicting perspectives on regional design and differing degrees of cooperation across regional actors, and it should draw on these differences as a source of strength.",
        "GCC应该习惯于面对地区安排的相互冲突的前景和地区行动方之间不同程度的合作，并且应该将这些差异视为优势之源。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations Development Program recently reopened its office in Pyongyang, another positive sign of the regime’s readiness to work toward common development goals.",
        "联合国开发计划署驻平壤办事处也于近期重新开张，这同样是一个积极的信号，表明了朝鲜政权为实现共同发展目标而努力的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Bringing the judicial system and other key state institutions to their knees is the main aim of the drug cartels.",
        "迫使司法体系和其他关键国家机构屈服是毒品卡特尔的主要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "At the national level, some of the most at-risk island countries are taking important steps.",
        "在国家层面，一些最危险的岛国正在采取重要措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets have applauded the ECB’s recent decisions.",
        "金融市场非常欢迎欧洲央行的最新举措。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – So far, the war between US President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un over the latter’s nuclear program has been fought only in words.",
        "首尔—目前，美国总统特朗普和朝鲜独裁者金正恩之间关于后者的核计划的战争仍然停留在嘴仗阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "The international clothing company H&M is working to reduce water-quality risk in its supply chain.",
        "国际服装公司H&M正在致力于供应链的水质风险。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, for such a country, local experts are not just redundant, but dangerous.",
        "实际上，对于这样一个国家而言，地方专家不仅多余，而且危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Loose definitions will encourage more military interventions, thus more wars.",
        "宽松的定义将激发更多的军事干涉，并因此引发更多战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, psychological studies have shown that when people are subjected to uncomfortably hot temperatures, they show increased levels of aggression.",
        "此外，心理学研究表明，当人们遭遇热得难受的高温时，会表现出更高的侵略性。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Asia became more reliant on exports and external demand for economic growth.",
        "事实上，亚洲的经济增长变得更加依赖出口和外部需求了。"
    ],
    [
        "Much depends on whether a nuclear deal with the international community is achieved, and the likelihood of that outcome has unexpectedly increased, owing to the common interest of Iran and the US in coping with the collapse of Iraq.",
        "鲁哈尼能否成功在很大程度上取决于是否能与国际社会达成核协议，而出现这一结果的可能性出人意料地大幅增加了，因为伊朗和美国在阻止伊拉克崩溃的问题上存在共同利益。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, “bad deflation\" means an increase in the real burden of debt.",
        "相反，“恶性通缩”意味着债务实际成本上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, policymakers must find ways to strengthen the incentives for parents to send their daughters to school.",
        "政策制定者们必须想办法强化让父母们将女儿送去读书的激励机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Even those fortunate not to fall into the trap of America’s vast prison system often end up unemployed and even unemployable, without the skills needed to obtain and keep a decent job.",
        "即使有幸逃脱了美国庞大见于系统，往往也难逃失业甚至就业无能的状况，因为他缺乏获得并保住体面工作所需的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "With the unrest yet to come to an end, the impact will be even higher in 2016.",
        "随着动荡的持续进行，2016年将会产生更加剧烈的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the shale-gas revolution, facilitated by the development of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), has brought prices to their lowest levels since natural gas gained prominence after the oil crises of the 1970s.",
        "美国的页岩气革命在水力压裂法的推动下已经使天然气价格降到20世纪70年代石油危机天然气取得主导地位后的最低水平。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to achieve an agreement of similar scale and influence, world leaders – especially in the US and China – would need to be under similarly high pressure.",
        "为了达成规模和影响力相当的协定，世界领导人——特别是美国和中国领导人——需要类似的高压。"
    ],
    [
        "This reflects a wider shift in thinking about the climate, with growing acceptance that we are now locked in to some degree of global temperature change and need to adapt locally – for example, by strengthening our critical infrastructure systems in order to boost their resilience to extreme weather events.",
        "这反映出关于气候问题的思维发生了较大变化，越来越多的人承认我们已经陷入一定程度的全球温度变迁过程，必须根据当地情况适应这一变化——比如通过改善关键性基础设施系统以增强抵抗极端天气事件的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, European voters are in no mood to transfer more powers to Brussels.",
        "毕竟，欧洲选民无意给予布鲁塞尔更多的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Too often, however, governments ignore or distort public aspirations, stripping the discussion of all but officially approved platitudes.",
        "但是，政府经常会忽视或扭曲公众愿望，让讨论演变为官方批准的陈词滥调。"
    ],
    [
        "The Economic Governance the EU Needs",
        "欧盟需要什么样的经济治理"
    ],
    [
        "These monopolistic producers act like a distorting tax on the rest of the economy.",
        "这些垄断企业成为其余经济部门变相的经济负担。"
    ],
    [
        "The same applies to hundreds of thousands of small businesses.",
        "数十万家小企业也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "With the right incentives, governments and companies can be encouraged to pursue policies aimed at ensuring that more funds reach poor families, while working to protect migrants’ rights and prevent discrimination.",
        "有了正确的激励，政府和公司就会受到鼓励采取措施确保更多资金送到贫困家庭手中，同时致力于保护移民权益、防止歧视。"
    ],
    [
        "The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of achieving universal primary education was expected to reach its target this year; it has not.",
        "曾经我们预期实现全民小学教育的千年发展目标（MDG）将在今年实现；"
    ],
    [
        "Five other plaintiffs – along with major medical bodies – tell similar stories.",
        "此案的其他五名原告 —— 及各大医疗机构 —— 也提出了类似的申诉。"
    ],
    [
        "But the question remains: Should capital punishment be on the books at all?",
        "但问题依然是：法律规定中是否应该包含死刑？"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union will devote 20% of its budget this year to climate-related action.",
        "欧盟今年将把预算的20%用于气候相关行动。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, North Korea is seen mostly through the prism of nuclear non-proliferation, and the new administration is wary of being tricked into giving its rulers anything without getting fissile material in return.",
        "在美国，大部分人是透过核不扩散这一棱镜来看待朝鲜，而其新一届政府也在谨防受骗：担心朝鲜统治者获得了来自美方的好处，却未在核裂变材料方面作出相应的让步；"
    ],
    [
        "Portugal has had to ask for assistance from the EFSF and the International Monetary Fund.",
        "葡萄牙不得不向EFSF和国际货币基金组织（IMF）求援；"
    ],
    [
        "But the evidence that Anderson, Gentile, and Buckley provide has weakened that defense.",
        "不过安德逊、金泰尔和巴克雷提供的证据削弱了这样的辩词。"
    ],
    [
        "So what are a leader’s duties beyond borders?",
        "因此，领导人超越国界的责任在哪里？"
    ],
    [
        "And, while Mexicans are told that the violence is only between rival gangs, executions transcend the realm of drug trafficking.",
        "尽管墨西哥人得到的说法是暴力活动只发生在帮派内部，但可以判处死刑的罪名却不仅仅限于贩毒。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – As the deepest economic crisis of our lifetimes stretches into its seventh year, most OECD countries are continuing to underperform.",
        "巴黎—我们这一代最深刻的经济危机已经进入了第七个年头，大部分经合组织国家表现仍然低迷。 今年，世界发达经济体GDP增长率预计为2%，而全球为3."
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, Clinton calls for increases to the estate tax and the personal tax rate for the highest earners – which also affects small businesses – and caps on itemized deductions.",
        "具体而言，克林顿希望增加房地产税和最高收入群体的个人税率——这也将影响到小企业——并设置分项扣税上限。"
    ],
    [
        "Italians shared the same belief after the disillusion of 1848.",
        "意大利在1848年幻想破灭后也拥抱了同样的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, May has a point.",
        "从某种程度上说，梅不无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "And of course Janet Yellen is still at the helm at the Federal Reserve, at least until February next year.",
        "当然，珍妮特·耶伦也仍然是美联储主席，至少要当到明年2月。"
    ],
    [
        "With about 80% of Chinese household savings deposited in banks, this implicit tax on savings has had a major economic impact, reinforcing Chinese households’ tendency to save and thus undermining consumption growth and exacerbating global imbalances.",
        "中国家庭储蓄中有大约80%是银行存款，这一隐性存款税带来了巨大的经济影响，强化了中国家庭的储蓄倾向，从而削弱了消费增长、恶化了全球失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The government asserted that the court did not have jurisdiction over constitutional amendments.",
        "政府声称宪法法院没有超越宪法修正案的司法管辖权。"
    ],
    [
        "Brexit, like Trump, was a contingent outcome of small perturbations in voter behavior.",
        "和特朗普一样，英国退欧是选民行为出现小波动的偶然结果。 只要1."
    ],
    [
        "But that growth model has reached its end.",
        "但这一增长模式已经达到了极限。"
    ],
    [
        "Gordon argues that all of the epochal advances, from running water and electricity to the internal combustion and jet engines, have been made.",
        "戈登认为，所有划时代的进步——从自来水和电力到内燃机和喷气发动机——都已经完成。"
    ],
    [
        "PALO ALTO – Since World War II’s end, the US dollar has been used to invoice most global trade, serving as the intermediary currency for clearing international payments among banks and dominating official foreign-exchange reserves.",
        "帕罗奥图—二战结束以来，美元一直是全球贸易的记账货币、银行间国际收支的清算媒介，也是最主要的正式外汇储备货币。"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, most of the structural tools needed to strengthen market allocation – including planning, zoning, environmental standards, property rights, and bankruptcy procedures – are implemented at the local level.",
        "更普遍、更重要的一个问题 是，大部分强化市场配置所需要的结构性工具——包括长期规划、区域规划、环境标准、产权和破产程序——都是在地方层面实施的。"
    ],
    [
        "With what resources?",
        "凭借什么面对？"
    ],
    [
        "Few people decide to commit terrorist outrages. Of those who do, a minute fraction actually tries to carry them out, and only a tiny number of those succeed.",
        "有一些人决定要实施恐怖活动，其中只有极少数人能真正实施，而最后只有一小撮人能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign military intervention can effect regime change, but it evidently cannot reestablish order based on centralized government.",
        "外国军事干预可以改朝换代，但显然不能重建中央政府控制的国内秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "The analogy is misleading.",
        "这个比喻是不恰当的。"
    ],
    [
        "But this shift in emphasis – in the 13th Five-Year Plan as well as in the debate and messaging at this year’s China Development Forum – appears to be an important signal.",
        "但强调点的转变——包括十三五规划以及今年中国发展论坛的争论和吹风——似乎是一个重要的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, the last three executions in the country stemmed from terrorist offenses that threatened or took a large number of lives.",
        "事实上，印度最近三起实际执行的死刑均源于威胁或夺走大量民众生命的恐怖袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "Cuban doctors have played an important role in disease control in Africa in recent years.",
        "近几年来，古巴医生在非洲疾病控制方面功不可没。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the potential for disruption of energy production and shipping.",
        "能源生产和运输受到了干扰。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, two senior North Korean officials subsequently visited Beijing and were scolded for the North’s behavior.",
        "相反，此后两名朝鲜官员访问北京，并因为朝鲜的行为而受到了批评。"
    ],
    [
        "When the first lasers appeared, they were almost an invention in search of an application.",
        "当第一束激光出现时，人们几乎不知道能用它来干什么。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast, US home prices were uneventful before the Great Depression, and actually fell slightly in real terms between 1925 and 1929.",
        "与此形成鲜明的对照，美国的住宅价格在大萧条之前非常平静，事实上在1925到1929年间还稍有下降。"
    ],
    [
        "That strong growth raised employment and brought the economy to full employment.",
        "这一强劲增长提高了就业，让经济回归充分就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Scholars of the region, like myself, are also recognizing that our understanding of Arab politics did not anticipate this wave of successful protest.",
        "像我一样的地区学者同样意识到我们对阿拉伯世界的政治理解并未预见到会出现如此成功的抗议浪潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Democrats in government – most notably President Barack Obama – have largely echoed Clinton’s gracious concession-speech injunction that Trump should be given an opportunity to lead.",
        "与此同时，当政的民主党人——其中最明显的莫过于总统奥巴马——却在一致响应希拉里貌似宽宏大量的败选号召，认为无论如何都该给特朗普一个领导国家的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Cell phones and the Internet link the minds of many people in different countries effortlessly and efficiently, encouraging trade in intellectual creations.",
        "移动电话和因特网将不同国家的人们的思想便利而有效地连接起来，从而促进了知识产品的贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The announcement, following the use of chemical weapons in Syria, of an emergency summit in Jordan this week of military leaders from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar is a welcome development.",
        "伦敦——在叙利亚使用化学武器后，本周美国、英国、法国、德国、意大利、加拿大、土耳其、沙特阿拉伯和卡塔尔等国军事领导人在约旦召开紧急峰会后发表声明是一项值得欢迎的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Two safeguards can avoid this problem in the international context.",
        "在国际语境下，有两重保护来避免这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It has since averaged 8%.",
        "此后的平均值为8%。"
    ],
    [
        "This type of single accounting would reduce the central bank’s equity capital, unless it realized (sold) valuation reserves on its balance sheet.",
        "这种单式记账（single accounting）将降低央行股本，除非它实现（卖出）其资产负债表上的价值准备金（valuation reserves）。"
    ],
    [
        "The World’s Central Banker",
        "全世界的中央银行家"
    ],
    [
        "At best, China’s government acted prematurely when it insisted that the renminbi be included in the SDR.",
        "从最乐观的角度看，中国政府坚持将人民币纳入特别提款权也是个不成熟的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Nobel committee were to give the award only to Korolev, my father thought, the members would fly into a rage.",
        "我父亲认为，如果诺贝尔委员会把奖励只给了科罗廖夫，那么，那些成员就会大怒。"
    ],
    [
        "They would then be positioned to secure a “Novorossiya\" statelet extending along the entire Black Sea coast, up to and including Odessa.",
        "接着，他们将试图确保一个覆盖整个黑海沿岸直至包含敖德萨的“新俄罗斯”小国。"
    ],
    [
        "The short list covers a lot of ground; what connects the targets is the amount of good they will do for people, the planet, and prosperity.",
        "这份重点清单涉及到众多领域； 其中的联系是能为民众、地球和繁荣带来多少好处。"
    ],
    [
        "It provides half of the air we breathe, governs our weather, and helps to support peace and prosperity.",
        "它提供了半数我们呼吸的空气，控制我们的天气，并协助支撑和平与繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "But that seems politically untenable.",
        "但这一做法似乎不具有政治可行性。"
    ],
    [
        "To renege on formal decisions and commitments, or to add last-minute obstacles, would make a mockery of the Union’s credibility.",
        "在正式的决议和承诺上食言，或增加临时障碍的做法，都是在拿欧盟的公信力开玩笑。"
    ],
    [
        "The legislation, widely described as an Internet constitution, seeks to safeguard online freedom of expression and limit government collection and usage of Internet users’ metadata.",
        "许多人将这一立法称为互联网宪法，它旨在保护在线言论自由、限制政府搜集和使用互联网用户元数据。"
    ],
    [
        "Let the holdouts undermine his personal credibility and that of the bank?",
        "让这些拒不让步的成员逐渐破坏他个人的信誉和银行的信誉？"
    ],
    [
        "The effect was to impose further hardship on the Palestinians.",
        "结果就是给巴勒斯坦人造成进一步的苦难。"
    ],
    [
        "When the alternatives are few and provide only low returns, the equity market looks more attractive, especially if – as was the case – the country’s major newspapers are running bullish editorials about stock prices.",
        "当其他储蓄手段少之又少，并且只能提供低回报时，股市看起来很有吸引力，特别是当中国各大报纸纷纷发表牛市评论时——事实正是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "And when the usual sources of these resources are disrupted, women are forced to travel farther and spend more time working for less return.",
        "而当这些资源的常规来源被破坏时，妇女就不得不走得更远、花更长时间工作以换取更少的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "ARPA-E, she declared, had attained “some holy grails in batteries,” which will enable us to “create a totally new approach to battery technology, make it work, make it commercially viable.”",
        "她说，ARPA-E已经找到了“电池的圣杯”，能让我们“创造全新的电池技术方法，让它起作用，并且在商业上可行。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The events of this summer show how vulnerable our societies are to weather-related extremes. But what we see now is happening after only 0.8º Celsius of global warming.",
        "这个夏天所发生的诸多事件显示出我们的社会在面对极端气候状况时是何等的脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris from Conakry, Guinea, is a case in point: Conakry’s airport, located in one of the world’s poorest countries, outperforms France’s prestigious global hub in terms of cleanliness, service, and pride.",
        "从圭亚那科纳克里来到巴黎戴高乐机场就是这样一种经验：坐落于世界最贫穷国家之一的科纳克里的机场比法国闻名世界的全球交通枢纽更干净、服务更好，也更加充满了自豪。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the DPJ came to power on a promise to balance Japan’s dependence on the US with closer ties with the People’s Republic.",
        "毕竟，民主党上台的承诺之一是加强日本同中华人民共和国的关系，平衡日本对美国的依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the UN’s ability to continue to fulfill its vast potential in a new and challenging century requires its member states to commit to support the organization with the resources, political backing, and reforms that this new era demands.",
        "但联合国在充满挑战的新世纪发挥潜能需要其成员国提供新世界所需要的更多资源、政治和改革支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The wages of part-time workers are, for the first time in Japan’s history, rising faster than those of full-time employees.",
        "兼职工人工资增长速度在日本历史上首次超过了全职员工。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial sector is ready to spearhead the shift to sustainability.",
        "金融业已经准备好引领向可持续性的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "An old saying in politics in Moscow is that relations between the United States and Russia are always better when a Republican rules in the White House.",
        "在莫斯科政坛有一个老的说法，那就是美国和俄罗斯的关系在共和党掌管白宫时总是会更好一些。"
    ],
    [
        "And, when it is met, the process will most likely be partial and uneven, accentuating differences and posing tricky coordination issues at the national, regional, and global levels.",
        "当面临这个挑战时，其过程很有可能是局部且不平衡的，它会突显出一些差异性，并在国家、地区及全球层面上产生棘手的协调问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an outcome would not only advance the renminbi’s internationalization; it would also provide insight into just how much room there is for China within the existing global economic order.",
        "这一结果不但将推进人民币的国际化，也将让人们了解中国在现行全球经济秩序中还拥有多少空间。"
    ],
    [
        "The anti-pornography saohuang campaigns carried out in the 1980's and early 1990's are a thing of the past.",
        "在上世纪80年代和90年代初所实施的反色情的\"扫黄\"运动已成为历史。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that we should view the economy and society not as rigid hierarchies or mechanical markets, but as networks or webs of life, in which contracts, formal and informal, fulfilled or violated, are the essence of human activity.",
        "这意味着我们不应将经济与社会视为僵化的层级或机械式运作的市场，而应将其视作一个网络体系或生命网络，而存在于其中的合约，不管是正式还是非正式，履行了还是违反了，都是人类活动的根本。"
    ],
    [
        "And, third, Europe should ditch the idea of common deposit insurance, replacing it with a commitment to let banks fail when they no longer fulfill the ECB’s collateral rules.",
        "第三，欧洲应抛弃共同存款保险的理念，用一个承诺在银行无法满足欧洲央行的抵押规定时允许其破产的规则取而代之。"
    ],
    [
        "Across Japan, there is a growing view that some of these policies cannot wait for constitutional amendment.",
        "在全日本，越来越多的人认为，某些安全和防卫政策不能光等着宪法修正。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless leading actors have ownership of local solutions, peace will never be sustainable.",
        "除非主要各方能拿出局部的解决方案，否则和平将永远得不到持续。"
    ],
    [
        "The regime’s sharp crackdown ahead of the anniversary did not stop thousands from marching in the streets, despite the threat of swift retribution.",
        "政府在建国 31 周年纪念前进行的严厉打击以及迅速严惩的威胁都未能阻止数千民众走上街头。"
    ],
    [
        "The capital account is for buying or building durable assets that give a prospective future return.",
        "资本账户包括买入或建造能带来预期回报的耐久资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the real storm is yet to come.",
        "但真正的风暴还没有到来。"
    ],
    [
        "What has happened?",
        "究竟发生了什么？"
    ],
    [
        "At the just-concluded sixth ministerial conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum, held in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping called upon his Arab counterparts to upgrade their strategic relationships with China, by deepening bilateral cooperation in areas ranging from finance and energy to space technology.",
        "而刚刚结束的北京中阿合作论坛第六届部长级会议上，中国国家主席习近平建议阿拉伯国家升级其与中国的战略关系，深化从金融和能源到空间技术等领域的双边合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The lending reforms adopted this week will enable us to be even more flexible and responsive in assisting even more countries.",
        "这周开始进行的借款改革将使我们能够作出更加灵活快速的反应，帮助更多的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The public-health successes can now be seen on many fronts.",
        "如今，公共卫生领域的诸多方面都可以看到进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The governments of Poland, Hungary, and Turkey have become increasingly authoritarian and – like leaders in the Balkans, China, and Russia – increasingly eager to control public discourse.",
        "波兰、匈牙利和土耳其政府越来越极权，和巴尔干国家、中国和俄罗斯的领导人一样，它们越来越热衷于控制公共话题。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the roller-coaster pattern continues: the 8.5% plunge came when the market re-opened on a Monday that followed the largest two-day rise since 2008.",
        "但过山车模式还在继续：周一8. 5%的暴跌之前，中国股市刚刚经历了2008年以来最大的两日涨幅。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China, which holds nearly $2 trillion in foreign reserves, must be part of this rescue mission.",
        "此外，中国作为一个拥有将近2万亿美元外汇储备的国家也应该参与到这项拯救任务中来。"
    ],
    [
        "If growth were even middling, skeptics might say, the political environment would be far more amenable.",
        "怀疑派会说，哪怕增长能达到中等表现，政治环境也将大大改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Now is the time for Europe to ensure that this hope is not extinguished.",
        "现在，欧洲应当确保这一希望不会破灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Eliminating the anomalies will merely regularize the reality; the loss of territory will occur purely on paper.",
        "消除反常状态只能让现实合法化； 领土损失只不过是纸面算盘。"
    ],
    [
        "With American home values and retirement savings falling and Chinese unemployment numbers rising, observers worry that neither America nor China will have much appetite to cut emissions.",
        "在美国的房屋价格和退休储蓄下降而中国的失业人数上升之时，观察家们担心无论美国还是中国都不太愿意削减它们的排放。"
    ],
    [
        "For millennia, their ancestors took their watery environment for granted; to them, it was “emptiness” as empty as they could conceive.",
        "几千年来，它们的祖先已经习惯了它们所生活于其中的物质 —— 水，因此认为水是“真空”。"
    ],
    [
        "The conventional answer is a clear no.",
        "传统答案是言简意赅的“不”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republicans, in effect, face the voters with a sign that says, “We won’t raise your taxes, but the Democrats will.”",
        "事实上，共和党向选民打出的口号将是“我们不会对你们增税，但民主党会。"
    ],
    [
        "Like a rubber ball, they will only come bouncing back.",
        "他们就像是橡皮球，必然会弹回来。"
    ],
    [
        "But strange to say, Colombia is in better shape today than it has been for years, thanks largely to President Alvaro Uribe’s leadership.",
        "但奇怪的是，哥伦比亚今天的局势比以往若干年都好，而这应该感谢阿尔瓦罗·乌里韦·贝莱斯（Alvaro Uribe）总统领导有方。"
    ],
    [
        "Encouraged by sharp reductions in households’ debt-service costs and a surprisingly steep fall in unemployment, they argue that the long nightmare has finally ended.",
        "受家庭债务维持成本大降和失业意外大减的刺激，他们认为长期噩梦终于要结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "So what should countries, provinces, and cities do?",
        "那么各国及各省市该怎么办？"
    ],
    [
        "To be fair, there is a growing recognition in some countries of the need for change.",
        "实事求是地说，一些国家越来越认识到需要改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But if growth were higher and unemployment were falling, such scandals would not be treated as such a drama.",
        "法国急需进行结构性的改革，这就更需要一个强有力的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, today the European economy is not doing badly.",
        "是的，目前欧洲经济还不错。"
    ],
    [
        "But the point of helicopter drops – or what former US Fed Chair Ben Bernanke recently called a “money-financed fiscal program” (MFFP) – is simply to distribute newly printed cash directly to consumers, such as through tax rebates.",
        "但直升机撒钱——或者美联储前主席本·伯南克（Ben Bernanke）最近所谓的“货币融资的财政计划”（MFFP）——的含义无非是直接把新创货币分给消费者，比如通过退税手段。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush lawyers were the torturers’ necessary partners, whose work was intended to ensure legal impunity.",
        "布什的律师是刑讯人员不可缺少的搭档。 他们的工作是为了确保法律上的免责。"
    ],
    [
        "With security outsourced to America, European governments shifted their focus and expenditures to social welfare and set about building a twenty-first-century post-sovereign utopia that has blurred national divisions and replaced aggression and hostility with negotiation and compromise.",
        "因为将安全事务外包给美国，欧洲政府得以把重点转移到社会福利开销上，并着手建立起模糊了国家界限和以谈判妥协替代侵略敌视的二十一世纪后主权时代乌托邦。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, additional targeted spending cuts will be necessary as part of a balanced package to stabilize the debt/GDP ratio.",
        "从长期看，增加定向支出削减是稳定债务/GDP比率的平衡方案不缺少的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "We should be careful about punishing countries simply because they happen to be led by irresponsible leaders at any given moment.",
        "无论何时何地，我们应当在因为碰巧被不负责任的领袖所领导而惩罚一个国家时更加小心谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the parameters of the debate are becoming hazy.",
        "此外，争论的角度正变得日益模糊。 一方面，大学遵守着长期存在的与政府的协议；"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone, indeed, knows that food can have a positive or negative impact on health.",
        "实际上，每个人都知道食物对健康可能有益也可能有害。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere, some of our biggest problems have a sort of Hegelian quality. They are the result of solving past problems or of past success.",
        "但在世界其他角落，一些当前最重大的问题则带有某种黑格尔哲学的意味——它们都是从前为解决某些问题或者某些成功事件所导致的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, while never renouncing its imperial dreams and instruments of domination, was nonetheless coming to terms with the inevitability of democracy, at least on its margins.",
        "俄罗斯尽管从未放弃其帝国梦想以及操控手段，但还是接受民主的不可避免，至少是在它的边际上。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so is not anti-investment; it is pro-development.",
        "这样做并不是反投资； 而是支持发展。"
    ],
    [
        "In June 2015, they only paid lip service to a report on the euro’s future by the presidents of the various European institutions.",
        "2015年6月，他们只是由各大欧洲机构首脑动动嘴皮子就欧元的未来作了一番报告。"
    ],
    [
        "The more practical problem is that even a nuclear explosion might not prove sufficiently powerful.",
        "但现实问题是，也许核弹的威力不足以摧毁那颗小行星。"
    ],
    [
        "We are setting the bar high, by establishing our first collaboration with MIT, a leader in open online learning.",
        "我们通过与麻省理工学院合作制定了很高的标准，后者是开放式在线教育领域的领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the classic 1972 bestseller Limits to Growth predicted that the world would run out of gold in 1981, silver and mercury in 1985, and zinc in 1990.",
        "例如，1972年出版的经典畅销书《增长的极限》就预言世界会在1981年耗尽金，在1985年耗尽银和汞，在1990年耗尽锌资源。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, we must act to save the planet from a human-induced environmental catastrophe.",
        "这一回，我们必须从人类导致的环境灾难中拯救地球。"
    ],
    [
        "And, during its first decade, the euro ostensibly delivered.",
        "在第一个十年里，欧元表面上达到了这一目的。"
    ],
    [
        "Contractors in municipal services, for example, prefer to use children in order to cut costs.",
        "例如，市政工程的承包商就愿意使用童工以降低成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Third parties are justified in rejecting the risks that would be imposed upon them.",
        "第三方有理由拒绝那些强加于他们身上的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Another was found to have been a slumlord who owned illegal cage-like flats that he blamed entirely on his wife, denying any involvement whatsoever.",
        "另外一名内阁官员则被发现曾是一所非法笼屋的无良房东——他把一切责任都推给自己的妻子并矢口否认参与该事。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, regional discrepancies remain massive: cows in the Netherlands can produce roughly 9,000 liters of milk annually, while Zebu cattle in the tropics produce only about 300 liters.",
        "尽管如此，地区差异仍然巨大：新西兰的奶牛一年可产奶9000升，而热带地区的瘤牛只能产300升。"
    ],
    [
        "But American presidential elections are brutal marathons, and it’s understandable that she did not want to cancel planned events.",
        "但美国总统选战是一场残酷的马拉松，她不想取消计划行程完全可以理解。"
    ],
    [
        "The ability to understand and execute matters of personal finance is the weakest link in transforming women’s opportunities through financial inclusion.",
        "理解和执行个人金融事务的能力是通过金融包容改变女性机会的链条上的最弱一环。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, bank depositors regularly lose more when unexpected inflation erodes their savings’ real purchasing power (only the nominal value of those deposits is insured).",
        "那么，为什么这是一场危机？ 毕竟，银行储户在意料外通货膨胀侵蚀他们的储蓄的真实购买力（只有存款的名义价值可以获得保险）时常常损失更多。"
    ],
    [
        "But many are “zombie banks,” with too many branches, too few deposits, and funding costs that far exceed those of their more successful peers.",
        "但许多银行属于所谓的“僵尸银行”，分行众多，存款稀少，融资成本远超成功的同行。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a rapidly growing army of administrators is overrunning our universities.",
        "事实上，快速膨胀的管理队伍正在占领我们的大学。"
    ],
    [
        "They tend to focus on whatever seems to be the biggest and most urgent story, and British politics has not been it.",
        "他们倾向于关注最大最紧迫的问题，而英国政治不在此列。"
    ],
    [
        "Deflation is dangerous as it leads to a liquidity trap: nominal policy rates cannot fall below zero, so monetary policy becomes ineffective.",
        "通货紧缩是非常危险的，因为它会导致流动性陷阱：名义政策利率不可能降到零以下，因此货币政策将失去效力。"
    ],
    [
        "The other members, including Sweden, are expected to join when they meet the criteria.",
        "其他成员国，包括瑞典在内，预计都将在符合标准时加入欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "For Cyprus, it is time for a “solution now.”",
        "对于塞浦路斯而言，目前正是一个“立刻解决”的时机。"
    ],
    [
        "If you’re looking for someone to blame for today’s era of plenty, look to a couple of German scientists who lived a century ago.",
        "如果你想要为今天物质丰裕的时代寻找责任人，那么你应当怪罪生活在一百年前的几位德国科学家。"
    ],
    [
        "During the Meiji era, in the second half of the nineteenth century, it became the first Asian country to modernize.",
        "在明治时代，十九世纪下半叶，日本成为亚洲第一个现代化国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s government should thus give a clear indication of a true will to defend the country’s security.",
        "因此，日本政府应该明确表明保卫国家安全的真实意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "And, for developing countries that lack supply-side capacity, greater access to the global market is a moot point, as they remain far from even considering what size their share of it should be.",
        "而对缺乏供给面能力的发展中国家来说，更容易接触全球市场仍是个有争议的问题，因为它们远远不知道它们应该在其中占据多少份额。"
    ],
    [
        "UKIP’s rapid rise has been built on the promise of a return to a British past that never was: mostly white, God-fearing, law-abiding, culturally insular, and narrowly focused on its own national interests.",
        "英国独立党的快速崛起基于英国回到从未有过的过去的诺言：以白人为主、敬畏上帝、遵纪守法、在文化上孤芳自赏并一味追求狭隘的国家利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe as a whole is not in bad fiscal shape; its debt-to-GDP ratio compares favorably with that of the United States.",
        "整体而言，欧洲的财政状况并不差：其债务-GDP比率比美国还要好。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, a former captive nation is now being invited to celebrate its captivity.",
        "就这样，一个曾被侵略国家现在被邀请去庆贺它的被侵历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Her father lifted South Korea out of poverty and turned it into an economic tiger.",
        "她的父亲帮助韩国脱贫并将其造就为经济小虎。"
    ],
    [
        "The fourth alternative for policymakers is to focus on child health initiatives.",
        "第四个选择是让决策者关注于儿童医疗倡议。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, so far, none of them has more than 2% popular support.",
        "事实上，至今他们中间还没有哪个人能获得2%的公众支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The paper value of the fossil-fuel reserves – most of them owned by the supermajors – is some $28 trillion.",
        "化石燃料储备的纸面价值——大部分由石油巨头所有——高达28万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "LIMA – As central bankers and finance ministers from around the globe gather for the International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings here in Peru, the emerging world is rife with symptoms of increasing economic vulnerability.",
        "利马—在全球央行行长和财政部长齐聚秘鲁参加国际货币基金组织（IMF）年会之际，新兴世界呈现出各种经济脆弱性增加的症候。"
    ],
    [
        "The plan was to launch it with the R-7, an intercontinental ballistic missile in development since 1954.",
        "计划是用从1964年开始设计开发的R-7洲际弹道导弹发射卫星。"
    ],
    [
        "The added risks pushed the financial system past the tipping point, but the baseline problem was that it always contained too much risky debt.",
        "增加的风险将金融系统推过了触发点，但根本问题在于它始终囤积着太多的高风险债务。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – For those of us who have long claimed that the world’s international financial architecture needed deep reform, the call for a “Bretton Woods II” is welcome.",
        "纽约－对我们当中长期以来声称国际金融体系需要进行深刻改革的人来说，布雷顿森林体系II的倡议是很受欢迎的。"
    ],
    [
        "During much of Indonesia’s early history, its egalitarian distribution of wealth and assets set it apart from its neighbors.",
        "在印度尼西亚早期历史的大部分时间里，其平等主义的财富和资产分配让它与邻国显得卓然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the periphery is destined to a destructive deflationary and recessionary adjustment that will exacerbate the risks of recession, insolvency, eventual defaults and, possibly, exit from the euro.",
        "这样，周边地区注定难逃破坏性通货紧缩和衰退性调整的厄运，导致经济衰退、破产、拖欠和欧元退出的风险进一步加大。"
    ],
    [
        "And Chinese artists will command prices at international art auctions that others can only dream of.",
        "而中国的艺术家会在国际艺术品拍卖会上叫出其他人只敢想象的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, President Barack Obama and the Democrats, controlling the House of Representatives and (a filibuster-proof) Senate, had the power to do virtually anything they wanted in 2009 – and so they did.",
        "2009年，奥巴马总统和民主党控制着众议院和（压到多数优势）参议院，可以随心所欲地做想做的事，而他们也确实做了。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the mission was accomplished and the Soviets vanquished, the Wahhabi virus was left to fester in Pakistan’s border areas.",
        "当这一目标实现、苏维埃被击败后，瓦哈比病毒便被放任，继续在巴基斯坦边境地区滋生。"
    ],
    [
        "The second critical factor in stabilizing Iraq was its regional neighbors’ recognition of, and in some cases support for, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government.",
        "让伊拉克稳定下来的第二个重要因素是该地区的邻国对马利基总理领导的政府的承认甚至是在某些情况下的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Affluent countries have a responsibility to take refugees, and many of them can and should accept more than they do.",
        "富裕国家有责任收容难民，其中不少可以而且应该接受更多。"
    ],
    [
        "As Patrick Graichen, Agora’s executive director, points out, most forecasts of the world’s future energy supply fail to take into account solar power’s looming victory over its fossil-fuel competitors.",
        "Aogra执行董事帕特里克·格雷琴（Patrick Graichen）指出，世界能源未来供应的预测大多没有考虑到太阳能战胜化石燃料竞争者的情景。 这一情景已经出现在我们面前。"
    ],
    [
        "In the years leading up to the crisis, inequality rose in many countries, with worrisome consequences for social cohesion.",
        "在逐渐滑向危机的前几年，收入不平等状况在许多国家进一步加剧，并对社会凝聚力带来了一些令人忧心的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The voluntary emission-reduction commitments contained in the so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), submitted by 187 countries by the end of the talks, will not be enough to prevent dangerous climate change.",
        "在会谈结束时由187个国家提交的，包含在国家自主贡献预案（Intended Nationally Determined Contributions）内的自愿减排承诺，将不足以阻止危险的气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "They also identify good officers and those who are corrupt or participating in death squads or sectarian militias.",
        "他们还要识别优秀警官以及那些腐败或者参与死亡行刑队以及教派民兵的份子。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a quiet transformation is taking place in American foreign policy, one that is as significant as it is overdue.",
        "事实上，美国外交政策正在悄然转向，这是一个姗姗来迟的重大转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Try to imagine Putin as Russia’s leader in 1920, when Poland gained its independence from Russia, or in 1991, when Georgia did.",
        "试想象普京总统是1920年波兰从俄罗斯独立时，或者1991年格鲁吉亚独立时的俄罗斯领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "The overthrown Tunisian dictator must now regret that his security forces did not arrest Bouazizi and lock him up, rather than allow his public self-immolation.",
        "被罢黜的突尼斯独裁者如今肯定很后悔当初自己的安全部门为何没把博阿兹兹关起来，而是任其公开自焚。"
    ],
    [
        "From Ukraine to Greece, events have led the continent from the frying pan to the fire and back again, with all of the attendant summitry, declarations, and brinkmanship.",
        "从乌克兰到希腊的一系列事件让欧洲大陆从受尽煎熬到面对熊熊战火，期间伴随着连绵不断的首脑会议、正式宣言和边缘政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Neves had a plan to address these shortcomings.",
        "尼维斯提出了纠正这些缺陷的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But it comes at a price: wall-to-wall coverage of the presidential primaries.",
        "但这是有代价的：全天候的总统初选报道。"
    ],
    [
        "In a rapidly evolving world, guaranteeing energy security will require the careful management of multiple, interlocking relationships.",
        "在迅速变化的世界确保能源安全需要精心管理环环相扣的多重关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In the capital, Baghdad, the center of so much sectarian violence, the numbers were even more impressive, with the share of the population who saw themselves as “Iraqis, above all” doubling, from 30% to 60%.",
        "在宗派暴力活动的中心，首都巴格达，情况更是非同寻常：认为自己“首先是伊拉克人”的人数翻了一番，从30%上升到60%。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina had deposited $539 million in the Bank of New York Mellon a few days before.",
        "几天前，阿根廷在纽约梅隆银行（Bank of New York Mellon）存入了5."
    ],
    [
        "Realistically, however, the potential for achieving such an outcome is limited.",
        "然而实际上实现这一成果的潜力是有限的。"
    ],
    [
        "That implication is intolerable, and it will progressively weaken and divide the EU through a type of semi-official hostility to religious faith.",
        "这种暗示不仅令人难以忍受，而且它还会通过一种半官方的、对宗教信仰的对抗，日益削弱并分离欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "While markets are imperfect, regulators are not only human but bureaucratic and subject to political influence.",
        "诚然，市场并不完美的，然而监管者本身也是人，监管的过程往往程序复杂，效率低下，而且很容易受到政治势力的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But after 1984, growth slowed, because resources that should have been allocated for investment were instead spent on consumption, particularly among higher-income earners.",
        "但1984年之后，增长开始放缓，因为原本应该用于投资的资源，被用在了消费上，特别是高收入群体。"
    ],
    [
        "Although this looks impressive on paper, reserves of this magnitude are essentially useless.",
        "尽管从纸面上看，这令人印象深刻，但如此规模的储备实际上毫无用处。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, a democratic crisis has emerged in Poland as well, starting last October, when the Law and Justice (PiS), a Euroskeptic party that also opposes immigration, secured an outright parliamentary majority by promising to implement populist economic policies and “put Poland first.”",
        "同时，去年10月以来波兰也爆发了一场民主危机，一个反对移民的，名为法律与正义（Law and Justice）的欧洲怀疑主义政党通过承诺推行民粹主义经济政策和“波兰优先”的口号锁定了议会多数席位。"
    ],
    [
        "The active agent would then need to survive milling and other processing, and then cooking, and it would need to be orally active, which protein drugs most often are not, because they are digested in the stomach.",
        "活跃成分还将经历研磨和其他处理过程，然后被烹饪，还需要在口腔中就见效（orally active，大部分蛋白质药物不具备这一性质），因为在胃中它们会被消化。"
    ],
    [
        "This disinterest in Europe is not recent, but it has deepened over recent years.",
        "对欧洲失去兴趣并不是新鲜事物，但最近几年有所加深。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as the North’s latest missile launch shows, Japan’s hosting of US military assets puts it on the front lines of the crisis.",
        "而正如朝鲜最近导弹试射所体现的那样，日本容留美国军事资产的行为也致其置身于危机的第一线。"
    ],
    [
        "Among other things, Berlusconi altered Italy’s political system in such a way as to prevent the left from ever gaining full power again, and to block any criminal charges that could be leveled against him.",
        "为了阻止左翼重新赢得充分的权力，以及阻挠一切可能针对他个人的犯罪指控，贝卢斯科尼大大改变了意大利政治制度。"
    ],
    [
        "On a hillside in Nagasaki, there is a stark reminder of this radical closed-mindedness.",
        "在长崎的一座小山坡上，有一样东西醒目地提醒我们这一极端封闭的思想。"
    ],
    [
        "According to United States Census data, household income fell in 2011 for the fourth consecutive year.",
        "根据美国人口普查数据，2011年，家庭收入连续第四年下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Now is the time to implement the measures that will accelerate the transition to a more consumer-led economy.",
        "现在是时候要实施这些措施了，以加速向更为消费者导向的经济过渡的进程。"
    ],
    [
        "The passage giving his controversial speech its name alluded to inner city riots in the United States and invoked Virgil: “Like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood.’”",
        "点明这篇颇受争议的演讲的主旨的段落暗指美国城市中心骚乱，并引用维吉尔的诗句：“如同罗马人，我仿佛看见‘台伯河河水尽赤’。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "No one at the time tried to argue that peace was not given a chance, which is why advocating a quick end to diplomacy when it is judged unlikely to achieve anything is often a mistake.",
        "当时，所有人都认为已经给了和平足够的机会。 （没有给和平足够的机会，这正是为什么号召在外交努力已被认为无法取得任何成果时时马上结束通常是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "The concept of private cryptocurrencies was born of mistrust of official money.",
        "私密货币的概念产生于对官方货币的不信任。"
    ],
    [
        "In recognition of Germany’s growing significance, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao welcomed a delegation of German business leaders to Beijing this May with the words: “Stronger Chinese-German cooperation is good for the two countries, good for China-EU relations, and good for world prosperity and stability.",
        "中国总理温家宝深知德国日益提高的重要性，5月份，在欢迎德国商业领袖访问北京时，温家宝说：“进一步深化中德互利合作，不仅对两国发展有利，对中欧关系有利，对世界繁荣与稳定也有利。"
    ],
    [
        "If we meet again, I will not be surprised if I am addressing her as Madam President.",
        "下次再见面时，如果称她为总统女士我一点也不会吃惊。"
    ],
    [
        "It has dedicated the UN International Day of Happiness to emphasize the importance of this shift.",
        "联合国已经设立了国际幸福日来凸显这一转变的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "We are all aware that the road toward the realization of this dream is full of obstacles and difficulties, both on the Israeli and the Palestinian side.",
        "然而，我们还须认识到，在实现梦想的道路上，充满了来自以色列和巴勒斯坦两方面的障碍和困难。"
    ],
    [
        "As the historian Robert Kagan argued in 2002, Americans and Europeans do not only have different worldviews; they occupy entirely different worlds.",
        "历史学家罗伯特·卡甘（Robert Kagan）在2002年指出，美国人和欧洲人不但世界观不同； 所处的世界也完全不一样。"
    ],
    [
        "My own research, along with that of physicists around the world, has focused on what effects Higgs particles might have had just fractions of a second after the big bang – effects that could explain the shape and fate of the universe.",
        "世界各地物理学家和我自己都在研究大爆炸后一微秒希格斯粒子可能产生的作用——这或许可以解释宇宙的形状和命运。"
    ],
    [
        "The best solutions include sufficient increases in rich countries’ foreign aid allocations and more ambitious trade liberalization.",
        "最佳解决方案包括富国对外援助资金的足够增加和更大手笔的贸易自由化。"
    ],
    [
        "Had the Axis’s negative watershed succeeded, the US would have become a far different country.",
        "如果轴心国消极分水岭最后胜出，那么美国将成为与现在远不相同的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "MedRewards is not alone. A variety of other companies are taking different approaches, but all of them have the same goal – to motivate people to engage in healthy behavior.",
        "MedRewards公司并不是独此一家，还有其他公司正尝试使用别的方式，不过，他们都有相同的目标——就是要鼓励人们开展健康行为。"
    ],
    [
        "They need to know that we are on their side, that we are their allies – and that we are prepared to pay the price to be there with them.",
        "他们必须知道我们将和他们结成同仇敌忾的盟友，为了帮助他们我们随时愿意付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2006, which authorized the Federal Reserve to pay interest on required and excess reserves, thus undermined the key objective of QE.",
        "2006年的《金融服务管制放松法案》授权美国联邦储备委员会为法定和超额准备金支付利息，从而削弱了量化宽松的主要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "At the second debate, the loss of the old Obama was apparently accepted and a new one –existing, real, available, and now working in the Oval Office – made its first appearance.",
        "在第二次辩论中，人们显然接受了旧奥巴马的消失和新奥巴马的初次登场——存在的、真实的、触手可及的、在椭圆办公室工作的奥巴马。"
    ],
    [
        "Effective oversight can root out complacency.",
        "有效的监督可以根除自满。"
    ],
    [
        "This is such a dismal prospect that it must not be allowed to happen.",
        "绝不能允许这样的暗淡前景变成现实。"
    ],
    [
        "If his administration has any organizing principle, it seems to be that of the revolving door: in one moment, out the next.",
        "如果他的政府有任何组织原则，那么似乎就像是一会儿进一会儿出的旋转门一样。"
    ],
    [
        "And the New York Fed has long been the Fed System’s eyes and ears on Wall Street.",
        "纽约联储也一直是美联储体系在华尔街的耳目。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have thus called upon major emerging countries to step up and use their huge foreign-exchange reserves to purchase the debt of crisis-ravaged countries, such as Greece, Italy, and Spain.",
        "于是就有人开始呼吁新兴国家拿出它们的巨量外汇储备来购买希腊、意大利和西班牙等危机国的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that the public largely understands and supports the government’s reform efforts.",
        "好消息是公众大多理解并支持政府的改革措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Market economies are relatively new to the Middle East and North Africa, having arisen only after the 1980s, when the model of state-directed economic growth collapsed under the weight of its inefficiencies (and resulting debt).",
        "市场经济对中东和北非来说是一件相对较新的事物，直到20实际80年代国家主导的经济增长因为效率低下（以及由此产生的债务）而垮台后才出现。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of pandemics, the key is to support countries where outbreaks occur and help those most at risk of infection.",
        "在流行病问题上，关键是要支持爆发疫情的国家，为受感染风险最大的民众提供帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The government should take advantage of near-zero interest rates to invest, and encourage businesses – especially start-ups – to do likewise.",
        "政府应该借助近乎于零的利率水平去进行投资，并鼓励企业——尤其是新企业——实施投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal should be to make the eurozone work, which may imply giving more powers to the center in some fields, but also less in others.",
        "目标应该是让欧元区运转正常，这意味着在某些领域增加权力的集中，在另一些领域则减少集中。"
    ],
    [
        "Meningococcal A meningitis is a bacterial infection of the thin lining surrounding the brain and spinal cord, and it can be deadly.",
        "流行性甲型脑膜炎是一种致命疾病，具体来讲就是细菌感染了大脑和脊髓周边薄膜组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, after all, is a narrative that neatly aligns the promise of prosperity with the struggle against injustice.",
        "毕竟，有一种叙事将繁荣承诺与反不公斗争漂亮地联系在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "But instead of lashing out at those he presumed were against him, Aurelius calmly asked himself, “Does what’s happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all other qualities that allow a person’s nature to fulfill itself?”",
        "但奥列里乌斯并未抨击那些被认为反对他的人，而是冷静地问自己，“发生的一切是否能阻止你按照正义、慷慨、自控、理智、审慎、诚实、谦卑、直率，以及允许个人发挥天性的所有其他品质的方式做出决策？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike most Western observers, who are fixated on the slightest deviation from the official growth target, Chinese officials are actually far more open-minded.",
        "与大部分西方观察者不同——他们斤斤计较于最微小的偏离官方增长目标值幅度——中国官员的思维要开放得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, whether significant changes are warranted should depend on whether the central bank's interventions in fact aggravated the recent crisis, as they aggravated the crisis of the 1930s.",
        "说到底，重大变革能否成为现实应该取决于央行干预是否实际加剧了当前危机，就像它在20世纪30年代所做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "And this backing should help to win strong support from its creditors.",
        "这样的后盾应当对赢得债权人的强力支持大有帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "If this forces America back towards what the international-relations scholar Joseph Nye calls “soft power and multilateral diplomacy,” it may well be a good thing.",
        "如果美国能因此被迫退回到国际关系学者约瑟夫·奈所谓的“软实力和多边外交”时代，这很可能不失为一件好事。"
    ],
    [
        "Testing the Limits of Fossil Fuels",
        "测试化石燃料的限度"
    ],
    [
        "This would protect the weakest economies from destructive, panic-fueled movements in financial markets, which, in theory, can hit any member country – even those that are strongest today.",
        "这样能够保护最疲软经济体免于遭遇恐慌驱动的毁灭性运动，理论上讲，这样的运动可能袭击任何国家，即使是今天看来最坚挺的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Curiously, heightened risk and fears of further disruptions – not just another financial crisis, but also geopolitical instability and pandemics – do not seem to carry much weight in current policy discussions, though the idea has been around.",
        "奇怪的是， 虽然提出过这种想法，但高风险和进一步衰退引发的担忧——不止针对再次发生金融危机，而且也包括地缘政治动荡和流行病肆虐——似乎并未在目前的政策讨论中占据多大比例。"
    ],
    [
        "The two countries simply agreed to disagree over Taiwan’s legal status.",
        "两国不过是在台湾法律地位问题上愿意求同存异。"
    ],
    [
        "But modern technology also has implications for well-established democracies.",
        "但现代技术对老牌民主国家同样具有影响。"
    ],
    [
        "It arises not from the alleged manipulation of the renminbi, but from the simple fact that America does not save.",
        "这一问题并非来自遭遇口诛笔伐的人民币操纵，而是来自美国人不储蓄这一简单的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "To prevent forgery, businesses must purchase special, patented machines for printing these receipts.",
        "为了防止造假，企业必须购买专门用于印制这些收据的专利机器。"
    ],
    [
        "Hong Kong’s citizens are not irresponsible or unreasonable.",
        "香港公民负责又理性。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Competitiveness Shell Game",
        "欧洲的竞争力骗局"
    ],
    [
        "He was convinced that his achievements were in no way due to superior heredity: anyone of “normal intelligence and health,” subjected to his father’s educational system – which included learning Greek at the age of three – could have become John Stuart Mill.",
        "他相信他的成就跟基因优良毫无关系：任何“智力和健康状况正常者”在其父的教育制度下——包括从三岁开始学习希腊文——都可以变成约翰·穆勒。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a profoundly disappointing outcome.",
        "这是一个令人失望透顶的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, one day we face surging capital inflows, as investors go into “risk-on” mode, and outflows the next as they switch risk off.",
        "事实上，昨天我们还因为投资者进入“冒险”模式而面临资本大量流入，今天，投资者切换成避险模式，资本也大量流出。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In 2009, the world’s rich countries pledged to mobilize $100 billion a year by 2020 to help poor countries tackle climate change.",
        "伦敦—2009年，世界发达国家承诺到2020年，每年要动员1,000亿美元帮助穷国应对气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The internal political strain that this reflects and reinforces highlights just how vulnerable the world order is today.",
        "其中反映并且强化的国内政治紧张凸显了今天的世界秩序是多么脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "China might itself wish to be a major force in a multi-polar world, but has been plagued by its lack of overall strength.",
        "中国自身也许想要在多极化的世界中成为一个大国，但是其整体实力不足令其难以长袖善舞。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also allows Britain to accept a long transition period after the 2019 departure deadline, so that businesses and administrative systems can adjust to whatever terms are agreed by then.",
        "但这也让英国能够接受2019年脱欧最后期限之后的漫长的过渡时期，以便企业和政府系统能够调整适应届时的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Current conditions are keeping economic performance well below potential.",
        "目前的环境让经济表现显著低于其潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "This trend began in the late 1980s, with PhDs and researchers who could not find a place at local universities, which are hierarchically controlled, prone to corruption, and starved of funding.",
        "这一趋势始于20世纪80年代末，当时，博士和研究人员无法在论资排辈、腐败横行、又囊中羞涩的本地大学找到职位。"
    ],
    [
        "Some act irresponsibly and with little accountability.",
        "有些组织的行为不负责任且没有公信力。"
    ],
    [
        "Most established member states - fearing potential dislocations - have chosen to protect, albeit temporarily, their labor markets.",
        "大多数老牌的成员国—由于担心可能出现的混乱—决定对其劳动力市场进行保护，虽然只是暂时的。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the Middle East is also a region that, throughout its innumerable conflicts, has hardly changed, languishing in a strange kind of standstill.",
        "然而，也正是中东这样一个地区，经过了无数的冲突后，几乎没有发生任何变化，至今仍在一种怪异的停滞不前的状态中煎熬。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the message that Egypt needs to grasp and embrace.",
        "这一点是埃及需要抓住并牢牢把握的。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments could introduce incentives for antibiotics R&D, paid for with their existing funding streams or new funding streams that are innovative and self-sustaining.",
        "政府可以用创新并能自我维系的现有资金或新增资金设立抗生素研发奖励基金。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is the peripheral countries that are likely to benefit the most.",
        "而外围国家可能受益最大。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom proved that in June, with its Brexit vote – a decision that directly defied the broad economic consensus that remaining within the European Union was in Britain’s best interest.",
        "6月份，英国以退欧投票证明了这一点——这一决定直接否认了留在欧盟符合英国的最佳利益这一经济共识。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, for example, the sound of billions of dollars flowing into election-campaign coffers is drowning out the voices of individual voters.",
        "比如，在美国，选战金库动辄数十亿美元，这让个人选民的声音根本无从听说。"
    ],
    [
        "The introduction of the “Real plan,” launched in 1994, managed to suppress annual price growth to an “acceptable” 22% by the following year.",
        "1994年实施的“里亚尔计划”成功地在第二年将年度价格涨幅抑制在“可接受”的22%。"
    ],
    [
        "While this pattern of official behavior is reprehensible, the real disaster is that it destroyed Arabs’ economic productivity and initiative.",
        "这种官员行为本身应当受到谴责，但其真正的危害则在于破坏了整个阿拉伯地区的经济生产力和主动性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese leadership views these moves, as well as the proposed 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, as an effort to “contain” China.",
        "中国领导层认为这些举措，还有拟议中十二国泛太平洋贸易伙伴协定，共同组成了“遏制”中国战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Finance ministers and central bankers in large economies should underscore, in a common protocol, their commitment to market-determined exchange rates.",
        "大经济体的财政部和央行应该做出共同承诺，让汇率由市场来决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fusion Myth",
        "核聚变神话"
    ],
    [
        "Is it better to have one innocent person unjustly made stateless, or to have 52 innocent people killed and many others injured?",
        "一个无辜的人被不公平地打为无国籍人士，与52名无辜群众被杀、另有众多群众受伤，哪种结果更好？"
    ],
    [
        "The most straightforward way to do that would be to restore some of the worthwhile features of the original plan that have been weakened or negated over the last seven years.",
        "最直接的做法是恢复原计划中那些在过去七年中被削弱或否定的一些有价值的条款。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, most wholesale prices around the world remain in outright deflation.",
        "1%高不了多少。 此外，全球大部分批发物价指数仍陷在严重的通缩中。"
    ],
    [
        "These successes, combined with the 1990’s boom and the seeming durability of price stability, reinforced Greenspan’s exalted status.",
        "这些成功，连同二十世纪九十年代的经济繁荣和看似持续的价格稳定，都强化了格林斯潘擢升的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Suddenly, the world will have acquired, without the need for subscribed capital, a global sovereign wealth fund.",
        "一夜之间，世界将在不需要实收资本的情况下获得一个全球主权财富基金。"
    ],
    [
        "The other path traced an alternative course, with China remaining under the grip of its ruling party, but delivering prosperity to its impoverished masses through astounding and sustained growth.",
        "而另一条则通往一个完全不同的方向，中国仍处在原执政党的统治之下，但却通过惊人的持续发展为贫困民众送去繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Bureaucrats drag their feet on requirements to make information accessible online, and the courts are over-eager to initiate cases that should be settled with notice-and-takedown procedures specifically devised for online content.",
        "官僚对在线信息访问的要求不置可否，而法院则对本该适用在线内容专项通知解决程序的案件表现出过强的立案冲动。"
    ],
    [
        "At eight on Tuesday mornings, we turn on a computer at Columbia University and join in a “global classroom” with 20 other campuses around the world.",
        "在星期二早上八点钟，我们在哥伦比亚大学打开一台电脑并加入一个包含了全球20个校区的“全球课堂”。"
    ],
    [
        "A safe, deliberate process of vetting refugees would quell security concerns in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.",
        "安全成熟的难民检查程序能够平息巴黎恐怖袭击所带来的安全担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "But has Earth Hour actually done anything to halt – or even slow – global warming?",
        "可是，“地球一小时”真的能起什么作用，阻止——哪怕减缓全球变暖吗？"
    ],
    [
        "And should central banks be given a specific financial-stability objective, separate from an inflation target?",
        "是否应在原有通胀目标之外赋予央行一个特定的金融稳定目标？"
    ],
    [
        "But, while turbulent times may set the stage for transformational leaders, it does not follow that bold and risk-loving leaders are always best suited to address the crises that define such periods.",
        "但是，尽管动荡时期能为变革型领袖创造舞台，并不能因此得出果断而乐于冒险的领袖总是适合解决决定“动荡”性质的危机的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "It may seem as if markets are on autopilot, with governments an inconvenience that is best avoided.",
        "市场会表现出自动巡航模式，政府成为最好敬而远之的不受欢迎者。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, international soccer is witnessing the advent of a new generation.",
        "第二，国际足球正在见证新的一代的来临。"
    ],
    [
        "Had there been more irrigation, the Taliban’s gains might have been far less impressive.",
        "如果有更多的灌溉的话，塔利班所占有的也许就远没有那么令人印象深刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Really?",
        "此话当真？"
    ],
    [
        "It is frequently argued that the size of the assistance packages is a testament to Europe’s clout within the IMF.",
        "常常有人认为，援助计划的规模彰显出欧洲对IMF的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Children of Frenchmen",
        "法国的孩子们"
    ],
    [
        "Our support was, in the words of Samuel Johnson, a triumph of hope over experience.",
        "支持我们观点的论据用Samuel Johnson的话来讲就是“一次希望对于经验的胜利。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "This Christmas, the open society is endangered not only from without, by the likes of ISIS, but also by (admittedly far smaller) threats at home – a gloomy reflection, I admit, as we prepare in churches and in high streets to enjoy another year’s winter party.",
        "这个圣诞节，开放社会不但收到外来威胁（比如伊斯兰国），也受到内部威胁（诚然，要比外部威胁小得多）——我承认，当我们在教堂和大街上准备享受又一次冬季派对时，这是令人悲观的沉思。"
    ],
    [
        "Analysts often point to Europe’s costly social-welfare systems, high labor costs, and increasing tax rates as a drag on competitiveness.",
        "分析师通常会将矛头指向欧洲昂贵的社会福利制度、高劳动成本和拖累竞争力的税率抬升。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the real wages of workers without a college education have fallen even further behind.",
        "因此如果一个劳动者没有大学文凭，他的工资收入只会进一步下降得更低。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel withdrew from Lebanon and then from Gaza unilaterally, rather than negotiating political settlements with the Lebanese government and the Palestinian authority.",
        "以色列先后单方面从黎巴嫩和加沙地带撤军，而非与黎巴嫩政府和巴勒斯坦权力机构谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Because these tax hikes will likely be approved by the end of the year, they should be the last – if, that is, Hollande follows through on his pledge.",
        "由于这些税项可能会在年底获得批准，如果奥朗德能遵守他的承诺的话，那这将是最后的新增税项。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the US is not alone.",
        "当然，美国在这方面不是“孤家寡人”。"
    ],
    [
        "It is vitally important to address the impact of energy-price reforms on vulnerable groups in every society.",
        "遏制能源价格改革对各国弱势群体的冲击至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Mueller is also known to be putting the squeeze on Manafort, a lobbyist and political consultant with a history of helping dictators.",
        "外界同样已知米勒施压马纳福特，马纳福特在之前的职业生涯中曾多次担任说客和政治顾问的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Such extreme policies are still only theoretical, and implementing them would most likely spur heightened congressional scrutiny.",
        "这些极端政策仍只有理论可能，实施它们很有可能引发国会调查。"
    ],
    [
        "They conduct spot-checks on labs to ensure that the various constituencies for scientific research are getting their money’s worth.",
        "他们对实验室进行抽样调查，以确保各种科研赞助者得到其应得报偿。"
    ],
    [
        "In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, the “exoticism” of the Ottoman Empire was used as a mirror to project Europeans’ own shortcomings and insecurities.",
        "欧洲的17和18世纪，奥斯曼帝国的“异国情调”被当作反映欧洲自身缺点和不安全感的一面镜子。"
    ],
    [
        "Preserving a competitive environment in which markets remain open and contestable is the best tonic, because firms must constantly innovate and perform better under such conditions.",
        "保护市场开放可争的竞争性环境是最好的药方，因为在这样的环境下，企业必须不断地创新、表现更好。"
    ],
    [
        "But the challenges are daunting.",
        "但挑战也重重。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is, what should they do now?",
        "现在的问题是，他们如今应该怎么办？"
    ],
    [
        "They share anti-Israel sentiment, and support Hamas against the secular-nationalist Fatah in the Palestinians’ internecine struggle.",
        "他们同样表现出强烈的反以情绪，在巴勒斯坦内讧中支持哈马斯、反对奉行世俗民族主义的法塔赫。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, France, Canada, and other major donor countries must not miss this historic opportunity to give vital help to Preval’s democratically elected new government.",
        "美国、法国、加拿大和其他主要捐助国决不能错过这个历史性的机遇，向普雷瓦尔的民选新政府伸出重要的援助之手。"
    ],
    [
        "Do the math.",
        "自己算算吧。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt, government authorities recently raided and shut down prominent cultural institutions – an art gallery, a theater, and a publishing house – where artists and activists once gathered.",
        "在埃及，政府当局最近突袭并关闭了一些艺术家和活动家以往常常聚会的重要的文化机构——一间画廊、一所剧院和一家出版社。"
    ],
    [
        "Capitalism has perhaps eroded rents that workers in advanced countries enjoy by virtue of where they were born.",
        "资本主义也许减少了发达国家工人因为出生而享受到的租（rent）。"
    ],
    [
        "China is already a top carbon dioxide emitter.",
        "中国已经成为最大的二氧化碳排放国。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the most significant potential limitations – land, water, and nutrients – seem unlikely to constrain global output excessively in the foreseeable future.",
        "幸运的是，在可预见的未来，最大的潜在限制——土地、水和营养素——不太可能严重约束全球产出。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, however, the right question may be whether the Crimea crisis will eventually bolster European solidarity – and thus the euro.",
        "但是，说到底，正确的问题或许是克里米亚危机是否能最终提高欧洲——从而也提高欧元——的团结。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2008 and 2009, the Chinese purchased US government bonds at a rate of $17 billion a month.",
        "在2008～2009年间，中国以每月170亿美元的速度购买美国政府债券。"
    ],
    [
        "New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.",
        "新科技不管看上去多么引人注目，其本质都只是人做出来为人服务的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "So, for SOEs to make changes, there must be consensus among internal and external officials in charge of business, industrial policy, and politics.",
        "因此，对需要不断适应市场变化的国企来说，其决策必须获得管理企业、执行产业政策和维护政治纪律的企业内部和外部官员的一致同意。"
    ],
    [
        "Raising marginal tax rates is both politically unpopular and economically damaging.",
        "提高边际税率在政治上不讨好，在经济上也有害处。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Council, rather than the European Commission, is increasingly setting the benchmarks for delineating progress in accession talks, thus largely determining the pace at which negotiations proceed.",
        "欧盟理事会（而不是欧盟委员会）开始越来越多地决定入盟谈判程序，从而在很大程度上决定谈判的节奏。"
    ],
    [
        "It may well be time for another technocratic push: a Fiscal Stabilization Board that would take its place beside the Federal Reserve Board.",
        "现在是推行另一个技术统治论行动的时候了：建立一个与联邦储备委员会并列的财政稳定委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "Mere weeks after the planes hit, Pentagon planners negotiated a return of American troops to Mindanao for the first time since the colonial era. Indeed, Mindanao was the second front in the war on terror until Iraq came to dominate US threat perceptions.",
        "在911事件发生几周后，五角大楼在殖民时代后第一次讨论了向棉兰佬岛再次派驻美国部队的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The environmental destruction that our activities are wreaking – greenhouse-gas emissions add energy to the Earth system at a rate equivalent to the detonation of four nuclear bombs every second – has concrete consequences, which are already being borne by millions of people.",
        "我们的活动所造成的环境破坏——温室气体排放个地球系统增加的能量相当于每秒钟引爆四颗核弹——带来的后果是实实在在的，数百万人已经感受到了这一后果。"
    ],
    [
        "These circumstances tend to give rise to winner-take-all – and loser-lose-all – struggles.",
        "这些情况往往导致赢家通吃（而败者输精光）的斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "But times have changed.",
        "但今时不同往日。"
    ],
    [
        "With selective reporting, we would end up with a long list of all the false discoveries made across all research teams, with only a few true findings buried among this pile of non-replicated waste.",
        "如果只是加以选择地报告的话，那么我们最后只能得到由所有研究小组所发表的一长串完全错误的发现，而很少一些真正的成果却被淹没在这堆无法被重复的废物中。"
    ],
    [
        "The increased use of upstream patenting has weakened spillovers.",
        "上游专利使用的日益增加——据称是出于“战略”原因——削弱了溢出效应。"
    ],
    [
        "The Americans and Europeans committed a major error in conspiring to destroy the Fatah-Hamas national unity government, which was created largely thanks to the diplomacy of Saudi Arabia and other Arab League countries.",
        "主要是由于沙特和其他阿拉伯联盟国家的斡旋而建立了法塔赫和哈马斯民族团结政府。 美国和欧洲联合摧毁这一政府从而犯下了一个重大错误。"
    ],
    [
        "The online car service Uber adapted existing technologies to transform a long-sheltered industry that too often provided lousy and expensive service.",
        "在线汽车服务商Uber利用现有科技撼动了一个长期存在壁垒、常常提供价不廉物不美服务的行业。"
    ],
    [
        "Another common reason for the collective misperception is misplaced nostalgia.",
        "另一个集体误判的共同原因是用错地方的怀旧情感。"
    ],
    [
        "Nasser, who railed against imperialism and economic subservience, had delivered his country into vassalage.",
        "热衷于抨击帝国主义和经济从属性的纳赛尔亲手让自己的国家成为了附庸。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2012, no one in Sarkozy’s camp is betraying the president (those who are trying, such as former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, have received no support). It is Sarkozy himself who has betrayed the hopes of his supporters and consolidated the hostility of his opponents.",
        "但今年萨科齐阵营并未出现叛徒（虽然也有前总理德维尔潘这样的人试图倒戈，但都未能得到民众支持），而真正背叛其支持者并使其反对者团结一致的，正是萨科齐自己。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that China’s economic slowdown should not have surprised anyone.",
        "事实是，中国经济增速放缓本该不是什么意外。"
    ],
    [
        "Agreement between Iran and the “E3+3” (Britain, France, and Germany from the European Union, plus China, Russia, and the United States) remains elusive, with domestic politics in all of the negotiating partners introducing additional complexities into an already complicated process.",
        "伊朗和“E3+3”（来自欧盟的英国、法国和德国加上中国、俄罗斯和美国）之间的协议依然可望不可及，所有谈判方的国内政治无不为已然十分复杂的过程再添复杂因素。"
    ],
    [
        "And the United States has displayed no willingness to renounce its anachronistic privilege of nominating the World Bank’s president.",
        "同时美国也不愿放弃任命世行总裁的过时权限。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, this is because the expansion of knowledge is not a zero-sum game.",
        "尤其要强调的是，知识的扩展并不是一场零和博弈。"
    ],
    [
        "Before China began opening its economy in 1978, all newspapers and magazines were “Party newspapers” and “Party magazines.”",
        "1978年中国开放经济之前，所有的报纸和杂志是“党报”和“党的杂志”。"
    ],
    [
        "In deciding that her People’s Party would participate in the January parliamentary election, Bhutto threw a lifeline to Musharraf, who has been beset by multiple insurgencies, a nationwide terrorist threat, and rock-bottom legitimacy.",
        "人民党将参加一月份的议会选举的决定，不啻为贝•布托抛给穆沙拉夫的一个救生索，要知道总统先生已经被国内的多起叛乱、全国性的恐怖主义威胁和他本人的合法性问题困扰很久了。"
    ],
    [
        "If they cannot, more dramatic alternatives to boost early innovation by university labs and small companies could be sought, perhaps through a targeted fund.",
        "如果不能，可以寻求通过大学实验室和小公司提振早期创新作为更有效的替代方案，也许可以采用定向资金支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Leading proponents of the SBS hypothesis now acknowledge that the triad is a “myth,” that SBS diagnoses consist of “informed speculation,” and that the hypothesis is supported solely by confessions.",
        "SBS假说的主要支持者现在也承认，三重症候是一个“传说”，SBS确认是“有根据的猜测”，SBS假说的支持证据完全来自坦白。"
    ],
    [
        "The key is to base decisions not on sustaining the City of London’s role as Europe’s financial hub, but on ensuring that the services provided strengthen Europe’s capital markets.",
        "关键在于未来的决策不能只是为了维持伦敦金融城作为欧洲金融中心的角色，而是确保英国提供的服务能有助于加强欧洲的资本市场。"
    ],
    [
        "This is essentially the bargain Macron has offered Merkel.",
        "这基本上就是马克龙提供给默克尔的交换条件。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the traditional engine of economic development – industrialization – is likely to operate at much lower capacity.",
        "与此同时，传统社会发展引擎——工业化——可能动力较低。"
    ],
    [
        "The unintended consequences of this policy are increasingly visible – and will become increasingly tangible with the US Federal Reserve’s exit from post-2008 ultra-loose monetary policy.",
        "这一政策的意外后果正变得日益清晰，随着美联储退出其2008年以来的极度宽松政策，其后果还会变的更加明确。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as peripheral Europe can now attest, this is a cumbersome, painful, and politically unpopular form of economic adjustment.",
        "但是，欧洲外围国家证明，这种形式的经济调控是讨厌的，痛苦的，也是政治上不受欢迎的。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans simply trust each other less than they did a generation ago.",
        "现在的美国人比他们的上一代人更少互相信赖。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many who think so.",
        "许多人这样认为。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Greek domino falls, countries like Portugal, Spain, or Italy start tumbling, and a small economy’s crisis turns into a major European calamity.",
        "在希腊这块骨牌轰然倒塌之后，葡萄牙，西班牙或者意大利等也开始摇摇欲坠，一个小国的危机至此将演变成一场席卷全欧的巨大灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "As the IMF cautions, “core inflation – excluding commodities – has risen from 2% to 3.75%, suggesting that inflation is broadening.”",
        "正如国际货币基金组织警告的那样：“排除商品之外的核心通胀率已经从2%增加到3. 75%，意味着通胀的影响正不断扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they are urging businesses to engage in a “strategic, collaborative” push to improve education and training to raise the skill levels of their workers.",
        "相反，他们敦促企业采取“战略性、合作式”的动作改善教育和培训以提高工人的技能水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Behind this shortcoming lay various institutional and market distortions associated with industrial and other modern-sector activities in low-income environments.",
        "这一缺点之后隐藏的是与低收入环境中产业和其他现代部门活动相关的各种体制和市场扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "Look in our markets.",
        "看看我们的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Google, which is quietly testing the car-insurance waters, holds a banking license.",
        "悄然进行汽车保险试验的谷歌公司已经持有银行牌照。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking at the best-studied polar bear population of 1,000 bears, in the West Hudson Bay, how many polar bears would we save in a year?",
        "我们再来看一下被研究得最细致的位于西哈得逊湾的1000只北极熊，我们能够在一年时间里拯救多少只北极熊呢？"
    ],
    [
        "No doubt some of the claims made for robots replacing human labor will prove as far-fetched now as they have in the past.",
        "关于机器人取代真人劳动力的某些说法无疑会像过去那样被证明是牵强附会。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever short-term benefits they receive will be more than offset by their strategic vulnerabilities vis-à-vis Russia and China.",
        "不论它们收获什么短期利益，都无法弥补它们在俄罗斯和中国面前的战略弱势。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Does it make sense for United States Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to be touring the Middle East supporting the region’s hard dollar exchange-rate pegs, while the Bush administration simultaneously blasts Asian countries for not letting their currencies appreciate faster against the dollar?",
        "剑桥－在布什政府抨击亚洲国家不让其货币对美元更快升值的同时，美国财政部长汉克·鲍尔森访问中东支持该地区牢固的盯住美元汇率制度有意义吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Its courts have been a travesty: As one observer pointed out,it was clear that Griesa never really fathomed the issue’s complexity.",
        "美国法院已经成了嘲弄对象。 一位观察家指出，显然葛里萨根本不明白此事的复杂性。"
    ],
    [
        "But history has not been kind to major trade blunders.",
        "但历史对于重大贸易错误向来绝不宽容。"
    ],
    [
        "In the short to medium run, increasing Greek competitiveness requires remedies targeted at specific binding constraints faced by exporters.",
        "在短期和中期，希腊竞争力的提升需要对出口商所面临的具体制约因素进行定向纠正。"
    ],
    [
        "If China wanted to continue to invest in foreign businesses and natural resources, it would have to become a net seller of bonds from its portfolio.",
        "如果中国想要继续投资外国企业及自然资源，它就要不断净卖出其投资组合中的债券。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be good for the overall economy, but also for women in general, as it would open up new avenues for social empowerment.",
        "这对于总体经济来说是一个好消息，对一般妇女来说也是好消息，因为这会打开新的社会赋权之门。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to this the impact of the current West European bank rescue packages on the banking systems of Eastern Europe.",
        "当前西欧银行对东欧银行系统的援救计划的冲击，进一步削弱了中欧和东欧国家货币政策工具的有效性。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are not serious about upgrading our industrial structure, we will fail when it comes time to fulfill our commitments to cut emissions.",
        "如果我们对提升我们的产业结构不予以重视，我们就会无法实现我们的减少排放的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Four states – Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Mizoram, and Tamil Nadu – have repealed prohibition policies.",
        "有四个邦——安德拉、哈里亚纳、米佐拉姆和泰米尔纳德——都已经废除了禁令政策。"
    ],
    [
        "If these private-public partnerships are like those elsewhere, the government will assume the risks, and the hedge funds will assume the profits.",
        "如果这些公私合作项目和其他地区别无二致，那么政府将承担风险，而对冲基金将获得利润。"
    ],
    [
        "Defenders of the French system quibble over labor-cost statistics in their efforts to prove that France is not so different from its main European trading partners.",
        "法国制度的捍卫者用劳动力成本统计数字为依据为这一行为开脱，以证明法国于其主要欧洲贸易伙伴并没有什么区别。"
    ],
    [
        "Indicators of US balance-sheet repair hardly signal the onset of the more vigorous cyclical revival that many believe is at hand.",
        "美国资产负债表修复指标并未显示出许多人相信已经发生了的更强劲的周期性复苏的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "The ozone layer is showing signs of recovery.",
        "臭氧层正在恢复之中。"
    ],
    [
        "More than three decades have been added to the lives of hundreds of millions of people over the last hundred years.",
        "一百年来亿万人的寿命已经延长了超过三十年之多。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the financial prudence that underpins policy credibility and confidence in central banks is ultimately what makes seigniorage possible.",
        "事实上，作为央行政策信誉和信心的基础的金融审慎才是让铸币税成为可能的终极因素。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is doubly dangerous when it poses a risk of region-wide destabilization and a scramble for influence among the world’s greatest military powers – the United States, Russia, and China.",
        "但威胁到整个地区的稳定并引发美、俄、中等世界军事大国争夺影响力之战的独裁者之死将会带来双倍的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "China, too, is shifting its nuclear forces to mobile missiles and submarines.",
        "中国的和力量也在向机动导弹和潜艇转型。"
    ],
    [
        "But New York and Los Angeles, the two most ethnically diverse cities in the US, are also America's leaders in business and in the arts.",
        "但纽约和洛杉矶，种族最为多样化的两个美国城市，同时也是美国商业和艺术的领军者。"
    ],
    [
        "Costly oil is a tax on the poor in developing countries and a source of inflation for the developed countries.",
        "高价的石油对于发展中国家的穷人来说不堪重负，而且也是发达国家通货膨胀的诱因。"
    ],
    [
        "A good part of the explanation for this turnaround was the fact that the government managed to convince enough voters to move from abstention to the ‘Yes’ camp (though the turnout still failed to reach 50%). All of this suggests that the higher the turnout the greater the likelihood of a ‘Yes’ win.",
        "这一结果翻盘的原因是政府成功地鼓动足够多的选民把弃权票改为赞成票(尽管投票率还是低于50%) 。 所有这些都表明投票率越高，赞成派就越可能赢。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to maximize the impact of such initiatives, world leaders should cooperate to build and maintain an open trading system.",
        "为最大限度发挥这些举措的影响，各国领导人应合作建立维护开放的贸易体系。 世贸组织巴厘岛会议提供了制定加速边境站货物流动、放行、清关；"
    ],
    [
        "Hirschman believed that the possibilities for economic development are not nearly as constrained as comprehensive theories would lead us to believe.",
        "赫希曼相信，经济发展的可能性并非全面理论想要人们相信的那样有局限。"
    ],
    [
        "The widows and the mothers of the dead weep and cry out for bloody justice.",
        "寡妇们和死者的母亲们痛哭流涕要求偿命。"
    ],
    [
        "But several of the MPs had also been taken aback on discovering that when Obama spoke to them, he read from an “invisible” teleprompter.",
        "但许多议员们突然发现：原来奥巴马向他们发表演讲的时候其实使用了一台“隐形”提字机。"
    ],
    [
        "In the aftermath of the Madrid bombings, the EU focused on internal aspects of the fight against terrorism.",
        "马德里爆炸事件之后，欧盟集中精力抗击国内的恐怖主义。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, they committed themselves to launching a lasting process to reform the world’s financial system.",
        "但更为重要的是，他们都承诺将启动一次对世界金融体系的长期改革。"
    ],
    [
        "It is reasonable to presume that the commodity boom’s positive effect on Latin America’s terms of trade will last for an extended period – perhaps 10-15 years – but that it will not be permanent.",
        "我们有理由相信商品繁荣对拉美贸易条件的积极影响将长期持续——也许10－15年——但却不会永远持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "While there is a kernel of truth to each of these China-specific concerns, they do not by themselves imply a hard landing.",
        "这些中国特有的问题都有其事实依据，但它们本身却并不意味着硬着陆的出现。"
    ],
    [
        "The Information Revolution Gets Political",
        "信息革命的政治化"
    ],
    [
        "That solution will be incomplete, however, because not all derivatives traders are regulated financial institutions, and because many creditors would find ways to circumvent the contract and the requirement.",
        "但这一解决方案是不完全的，因为并非所有衍生品交易方都是被监管金融机构，并且许多债权人可以找到绕过合约和要求的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "If individuals had not responded to the changed incentives, the Reagan tax cut would have been revenue-neutral.",
        "如果个人没有对激励的变化做出反应，里根减税就将是收入中性的。"
    ],
    [
        "When they do not, global public goods are under-produced.",
        "如果大国不承担领导责任，会导致全球公共产品供应短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, Norway and Luxemburg were the only European countries with higher per capita national income than the US in purchasing power parity terms.",
        "2011年，挪威和卢森堡是仅有的人均国民收入超过美国的欧洲国家（以购买力平价衡量）。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of diabetes cases, for example, is expected nearly to double over the next two decades.",
        "比如，糖尿病人数量预计会在未来二十年里翻一番。"
    ],
    [
        "Can civilian control of the military be established?",
        "是否会建立由人民掌控的军队？"
    ],
    [
        "With such leaky capital controls, China’s war chest of $3 trillion won’t be enough to hold down the fort indefinitely.",
        "在这种漏洞百出的资本管制之下，3兆美元的中国货币战争资源不能无限期地守住城池。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas must reconsider its refusal to recognize Israel.",
        "哈马斯必须重新考虑其拒绝承认以色列的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "As the economics commentator Martin Wolf has noted, “The fiscal challenge is long term, not immediate.”",
        "经济评论家马丁·沃尔夫（Martin Wolf）指出：“财政挑战是长期性的，不是一夜之间就能解决的。"
    ],
    [
        "A sound financial and banking system with limited exposure to global markets, together with the importance of domestic consumption in sustaining demand, has also helped.",
        "一个并未向全球市场完全开放的健全金融和银行系统，再加上国内消费在维持需求方面的重要作用也起到了相应的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "That brings us to the uncomfortable truth about America’s politically inspired China bashing: It will backfire.",
        "这让我们必须面对一个令人不安的事实：美国出于政治动机抨击中国迟早砸了自己的脚。"
    ],
    [
        "It is with respect to this that practically every individual has some advantage over all others in that he possesses unique information of which beneficial use might be made, but of which use can be made only if the decisions depending on it are left to him or are made with his active cooperation.”",
        "对于这种知识，几乎每个个人都拥有一些相较于其他所有人的优势，即他知道关于可以如何派上有益用场的独一无二的信息，但这种用场只有在取决于它的决定由他来做出，或需要他的积极合作才能做出时才能派上。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, opponents of EU membership have yet to make the case for a credible alternative.",
        "与此同时，反对保留欧盟成员国的一方还未拿出一个可靠的替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK is simply being smart when it promotes its own interests by cooperating with China.",
        "与中国合作实现自身利益显然是英国的聪明做法。"
    ],
    [
        "The last thing impoverished Moldovans need is an autocratic, unaccountable government that lacks sufficient imagination to find a way to revive the country. And just about the last thing the EU needs is an influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing poverty, political repression, and despair in Moldova and other countries of the former Soviet Union.",
        "缺乏足够想象力找到复兴国家方法的独裁、不负责任的政府最不符合贫困的摩尔多瓦人的需要，而欧盟最不愿看到的则是摩尔多瓦和前苏联其他加盟共和国为逃避贫困、政治压迫和绝望而涌入边境的数十万移民潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, there is widespread hostility, submerged in a tsunami of populist bile, to anyone deemed a member of the “establishment.”",
        "显而易见，人们对被民粹主义愤怒海啸裹挟而来的针对“体制成员”的敌意是十分普遍的。"
    ],
    [
        "What remains are either hard-to-automate tasks that require little or no skill, or hard-to-automate tasks that require very high skills.",
        "剩下的要么是难以自动化但对技能的要求很低甚至根本没有的任务，要么是难以自动化的对技能的要求很高的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "While Bush’s invasion of Panama to capture (and later put on trial) Manuel Noriega may have violated Panamanian sovereignty, it had a degree of de facto legitimacy, given Noriega’s notorious behavior.",
        "老布什的入侵巴拿马并俘获（随后审判）曼努尔·诺列加（Manuel Noriega）也许破坏了巴拿马的主权，但这具有一定程度的实际合法性，因为诺列加是臭名昭著的暴君。"
    ],
    [
        "By postponing a Greek default for two years, Europe’s politicians hope to give Spain and Italy time to prove that they are financially viable.",
        "反过来欧洲政治家们认为如能将希腊违约推后两年时间的话，或许西意两国能证明自己在金融上还是有偿还能力的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an alternative to spending so much to achieve so little.",
        "对花费如此之大而收获如此之小的减排状况，有一个可以代替的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "It is above 25% in Greece and Spain – and even higher among the young.",
        "希腊和西班牙失业率更是高达25%以上——年轻人失业率甚至更高。"
    ],
    [
        "If we didn’t know whether we would be working on a factory floor in Bangladesh or in a shiny head office in the United States, no one would disavow responsibility for the health and safety of Bangladeshi workers.",
        "如果我们不知道我们会在孟加拉国工厂流水线上工作还是在美国朝阳高管办公室上班，就不会有人否认保证孟加拉国工人健康和安全的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "In a region plagued by conflict and disorder, addressing these problems will not be easy.",
        "在一个受困于冲突和混乱的地区，解决上述问题绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "We believe this analogy is misconstrued.",
        "我认为这不可行。"
    ],
    [
        "A study conducted by Zanmi Lasante, Partners In Health, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, and New York University’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice found no functioning public water sources in the city.",
        "由健康伙伴（Zanmi Lasante）、罗伯特·弗·肯尼迪人权纪念中心以及纽约大学人权和全球正义中心进行的研究发现，在和平港市没有可供饮用的公共水源。"
    ],
    [
        "As Chief Economist of Goldman Sachs at the time, I had written three different papers over a number of years showing that the US current-account deficit was unsustainable.",
        "作为高盛时任首席经济学家，我曾在几年时间里撰写了三份不同的报告，表明美国经常账户赤字是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while he delivered on his promise to negotiate a New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia a year later, progress has since stalled.",
        "一年后尽管他兑现了与俄国谈判新战略武器削减条约的承诺，但这方面的进展仍然陷于停顿。"
    ],
    [
        "The ideal of multiculturalism at home was echoed with an ideology of cultural relativism abroad, especially in the 1970’s and 1980’s.",
        "国内的多元文化主义理想和国外的文化相对主义遥相呼应，尤其在1970和1980年代更是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is simple: the industry is reeling under severe censorship.",
        "原因很简单：电影业在严格的审查制度下苟延残喘。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, keeping the two areas of reform separate rules out the approach adopted by several other developed countries, which have offset some of the revenue losses from cutting corporate tax rates by increasing taxes on corporate equity income at the personal shareholder level.",
        "此外，将这两大改革领域分离排除了不少其他发达国家所用的办法，即用增加个人股东层面的公司股本收入税来抵消降低公司税率导致的收入损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The prospect of Tunisia’s government attempting to manage the situation alone is not an attractive one.",
        "突尼斯政府试图单枪匹马控制局面的前景并不乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "This has been a by-product of the increase in real demand, achieved by reducing unemployment to a level at which rising wages contribute to faster price growth.",
        "这是实际需求升高的副产品，而后者是通过将失业下降到一定水平，从而工资上涨能够推动更快的价格增长实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Global trade in goods rose from 13.8% of world GDP in 1985 ($2 trillion) to 26.6% of GDP ($16 trillion) in 2007.",
        "8%（2万亿美元）上升到2007年的26. 6%（16万亿美元）。"
    ],
    [
        "But today’s world is more multi-polar. It is no longer dominated by the Atlantic economies, so those economies should no longer dictate who holds the top jobs at the two Bretton Woods institutions.",
        "但当今世界已是个多极化的世界，它再也不是大西洋两岸的经济体所主导的那个世界了，因此，这些经济体也不应该继续垄断布雷顿森林体系里最重要的两个机构的领导职位。"
    ],
    [
        "It would thus appear that there is nothing wrong with China continuing to buy new equipment, build new factories, and construct new roads and bridges as fast as its can.",
        "这样看来，中国以最快的速度不停地购买新设备、建设新工厂、修建新道路和桥梁似乎并没有错。"
    ],
    [
        "They are now fully aware that their slightly nostalgic post-colonial view of these countries as large export markets and deep reservoirs of cheap labor has become outdated.",
        "他们现在已经充分认识到他们那略带怀旧意味的后殖民主义观点，那种将这些国家视为巨大出口市场以及廉价劳动力储备库的观点已经过时。"
    ],
    [
        "The key to meeting the Millennium Development Goals in poor countries is an increase in investment in people (health, education, nutrition, and family planning), the environment (water and sanitation, soils, forests, and biodiversity), and infrastructure (roads, power, and ports).",
        "贫困国家实现千年发展目标的关键在于加大对人的投资（医疗、教育、营养和家庭计划）、对环境的投资（水和卫生设施、土壤、森林和生物多样性）和对基础设施的投资（道路、能源和港口）。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the president’s illegitimacy is formally acknowledged by a majority of parliamentarians, all his acts will be considered beyond his constitutional powers, and the process of electing a new president will be firmly on track.",
        "一旦议会中的多数派正式确认其总统职位的非法性，他所有的行动都将被认定超出了其宪法权力范围，选举一位新总统的进程将正式开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Molecular typing of the isolates indicated that 85% were clonally related, implying epidemic transmission of XDR strains, most likely in HIV clinics and hospital wards.",
        "被隔离患者的分子类型表明85%的病毒经过DNA复制，这表明严重耐药型结核病最有可能在艾滋病诊所和病房内爆发了传染性流行。"
    ],
    [
        "University leaders like me spent much of our time persuading them to recycle a portion of their gains to their old schools.",
        "像我这样的大学领导便会花费大量时间，劝说这些人将收益的一部分回馈母校。"
    ],
    [
        "This includes damage to critical systems like the electricity grid and the information, communication, and transport networks that constitute the platform on which modern economies run.",
        "这其中包括对组成现代经济运行平台的电网、信息、通信和交通网络等关键系统的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "The investing community has made a serious proposal.",
        "投资界提出了严肃的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Japanese companies are generating strong profits (Japanese stocks may even be undervalued).",
        "日本公司盈利强劲（日本股票甚至因此低估）。"
    ],
    [
        "China does have some common interests in fighting Islamic extremist terrorism, and it did not try to block America's path to the Iraqi war in the UN Security Council.",
        "中国和美国的确在反对伊斯兰极端恐怖主义的斗争中拥有共同的利益，中国也并未在联合国安理会阻止美国发动伊拉克战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The first lies in the public sector.",
        "第一个选择存在于公共部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether the other projects, all of which have been initiated in the past five years, are on schedule remains to be seen.",
        "其他项目——全部在过去五年中开工——是否能按期进展还未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "The future belonged to the US and the Soviet Union, neither of which had sentimental feelings about the British Empire, let alone the “Anglo-Saxons.”",
        "未来属于美国和苏联，这两个国家对大英帝国、更不要说“盎格鲁－萨克逊人”都没有多少感伤情怀。"
    ],
    [
        "The Internet is helping people to understand that they are not alone, and that they can learn from others’ experience.",
        "互联网帮助人们知道他们并不孤独，他们可以从他人身上学习经验。"
    ],
    [
        "But when groups are based on an ideology or a particular tribe, they can become discriminatory and oppressive toward non-members, especially if a domineering, charismatic leader is in charge.",
        "但如果团体是基于某种身份或某个特定的部落，那么他们可能歧视并镇压非成员，特别是在一位魅力超凡的霸道领导人掌权的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaria can be brought under decisive control through bed nets, indoor spraying of insecticides, and making medicines freely available to poor people in malaria-prone villages.",
        "人们可以通过蚊帐、室内喷洒杀虫剂以及向容易遭受霍乱侵袭的村庄的穷人免费提供药物来决定性控制霍乱。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Those campaigning for Britain to exit the European Union claim that doing so would make their country both freer and richer.",
        "发自伦敦——那些力争英国退出欧盟的人声称，此举会令他们的国家都更自由也更富裕。"
    ],
    [
        "VIENNA – Solidarity is essential to democratic societies; otherwise, they fall apart.",
        "发自维也纳——团结是民主社会所必须具备的元素；"
    ],
    [
        "Cyberspace must be treated, along with outer space, international waters, and international airspace, as property held in common for the good of all.",
        "网络空间必须与外层空间、国际水域以及国际空域一道，被视作为全人类所共有并造福于所有人的财产；"
    ],
    [
        "National security is treated as a low-grade issue.",
        "而国防问题则被晾在了一边。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a Chinese animation called “Train Hero” received much criticism in Chinese Internet circles when it was found to be nearly identical to the popular Japanese animation called “Japan Hikarian Railroad.”",
        "比如一部名为《高铁侠》的中国动画遭到了本国网民的极力声讨，因为这部动画其实是照抄著名日本动画《铁胆火车侠》。"
    ],
    [
        "The BIS, however, is one of the few organizations that not only has the necessary research and analytical capabilities, but also a track record of making good calls.",
        "但是，国际清算银行就是极少数这样的组织之一，它既拥有必需的研究和分析能力，也具备给出合理建议的良好历史记录。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there are strong grounds for the US, Japan, and China to engage in areas of trilateral and other regional cooperation.",
        "实际上，美国、日本和中国有充分的理由在三边及其他地区合作中互相配合。"
    ],
    [
        "The Science of Acupuncture",
        "针灸疗法"
    ],
    [
        "Does such nitpicking fail to recognize the urgency of fixing the financial system?",
        "这种吹毛求疵是否没有看到调整金融体系的紧迫性呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But a lack of implementation and enforcement of anti-money-laundering, tax transparency, and anti-corruption rules is shielding the perpetrators from prosecution.",
        "但反洗钱、税收透明和反腐败规则实施和执法不力让掠夺者逍遥法外。"
    ],
    [
        "But meritocracy has been eroded by a political culture of sycophancy and cynicism.",
        "但阿谀奉承和玩世不恭的政治文化已经对精英管理造成了严重的侵蚀。"
    ],
    [
        "We have within our reach the makings of a new global financial system that directs savings where they are urgently needed: sustainable development and climate safety, for ourselves and for future generations.",
        "我们完全可以建立一个新的全球融资体系，将储蓄引向需要最紧迫的领域：可持续发展和气候安全——为了我们自己和我们的子孙后代。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, people who really want to be unkind will point out the absurdity of Russia’s membership in a club that includes the giant economies of US, Germany, Japan, England, France, Italy, and (less so) Canada.",
        "当然，真正不怀好意的人会直截了当地指出：俄国加入一个由美、德、日、英、法、意、加等世界经济巨头组成的俱乐部，这一事实本身就非常可笑。"
    ],
    [
        "International linkages – or, rather, sanctions that blocked the benefits of such linkages – were vital to Libya’s decision to denuclearize and Iran’s willingness to reach an agreement with world powers regarding its nuclear program.",
        "国际联系——或者不如说阻止获得国际联系所带来的好处的制裁——在利比亚决定放弃核武器以及伊朗愿意与西方列强达成核计划协议方面起到了关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is the decline in global demand in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which has forced China to adjust its growth model sooner than anticipated.",
        "其一是2008年金融危机以来全球需求下降，迫使中国提前开始调整自身增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Any real-world economy is riddled with market failures, so a benevolent and omnipotent government could sensibly intervene quite often.",
        "任何现实世界的经济体都会经历市场失灵，因此仁慈的、权力无限的政府很可能会经常出售干预。"
    ],
    [
        "In the cease-fire talks that followed, the two sides made so much progress that US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, fearing that he would have nothing to negotiate when he arrived in the region weeks later, asked the Israelis to halt them.",
        "埃以两国之后的停火谈判进展得如此迅速，以致于当时的美国国务卿亨利·基辛格害怕自己过几周赶到后所有问题都已达成协议，因此要求以色列暂时停止谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, rapid population growth and bungled economic policy have made Iran excessively dependent on food imports.",
        "此外，人口的迅速增长和拙劣的经济政策已使伊朗过分依赖粮食进口。"
    ],
    [
        "Securing Post-Brexit Europe",
        "捍卫英国退出后的欧洲"
    ],
    [
        "First, we could give digital files “expiration dates,” so that our digital systems would delete the file when the appropriate time comes.",
        "首先，我们可以给数码文件设定“失效日期”，以便我们的数码系统在适当的时候可以删除这些文件。"
    ],
    [
        "When governments and private donors pledge monetary aid, the funds typically pass through a chain of large groups that determine how it will be allocated.",
        "当政府和私人捐助机构承诺提供资金援助时，这些资金如何分配通常会通过一系列大型团体来做出决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Progress requires identifying errors, which in turn calls for heterodox thinking.",
        "进步需要认识错误，而认识错误需要异类思维。"
    ],
    [
        "All scenarios are open.",
        "一切可能性全都存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Narendra Modi’s election as Prime Minister in May 2014 was initially hailed worldwide as marking the advent of a more business-friendly government in the world’s largest democracy.",
        "2014年5月，莫迪当选为印度总理，当时，全世界为之欢呼，认为世界最大的民主国家终于迎来了对商界比较友好的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil has been making international headlines of late, but not for traditional stories about urban violence, natural catastrophes, political corruption, or deforestation in the Amazon.",
        "巴西最近登上了国际新闻的头版头条，但却不是因为城市暴力、自然灾害、政治腐败或亚马逊地区森林砍伐等传统的报导。"
    ],
    [
        "But not all Middle Eastern countries have done enough.",
        "但并非所有中东国家都尽了力。"
    ],
    [
        "On many transnational issues, empowering others can help to accomplish one’s own goals.",
        "在许多跨境问题上，为他国授权能有助于实现本国的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But this year, with rising impatience and anger in South Korea toward the North Korean regime, the food and fertilizer is in doubt.",
        "但今年随着韩国国内对朝鲜政权的烦躁和愤怒不断加深，这些食品和化肥的供应都成了未知之数。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is essential to strike the right balance between producing enough nutrient-dense food and preserving the environment.",
        "当然，有必要在生产营养充足的食品和保护环境间取得合适的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "This autumn, the European Commission is scheduled to issue a progress report on accession negotiations with Turkey.",
        "今秋，欧盟委员会将按计划颁布土耳其入盟谈判进程报告。"
    ],
    [
        "With acid rain and other public-health hazards linked to coal combustion, more technologies are emerging for reducing harmful emissions from power plants.",
        "酸雨和其他公共健康危害与煤炭燃烧有关，越来越多的技术正在涌现以减少发电厂的有害排放。"
    ],
    [
        "The positive effect of instant messaging and video gaming on productivity and living standards pales in comparison.",
        "相比之下，即时通讯和视频游戏对生产力和生活水平的促进作用简直是小巫见大巫。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, following the companies’ discovery of massive reserves, technocrats appointed by Yar’Adua to take charge of oil policy want Nigeria to get a larger slice of the pie.",
        "现在，随着石油公司发现了大型油田，由Yar’Adua任命负责制定石油政策的技术官僚们想要分更大的一杯羹。"
    ],
    [
        "Market turbulence demonstrates a need for some institutional mechanism that can ensure greater currency stability.",
        "市场动荡表明，需要某种制度性工具来确保汇率稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel is a special and vibrant country, filled with talented, hard-working, and committed people who have much to contribute to the world.",
        "以色列是一个特殊的充满活力的国家，它的人民有才华、工作努力、坚忍不拔，能够为世界作出卓越贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, Japan and South Korea would have to be prepared to support any US military response before it could be undertaken.",
        "不消说，日本和韩国必须在军事行动开始之前做好支持美国一切军事反应的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the Academy of Sciences, a group of center-right economists captured the process of selecting prizewinners.",
        "在皇家学院内部，一群中右翼经济学家把持着遴选获奖者的流程。"
    ],
    [
        "But market incentives surrounding various business models will remain distorted so long as taxpayers are liable for bank losses.",
        "但只要纳税人需要为银行损失买单，围绕多种业务模式的市场激励就将继续被扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe’s effort to “normalize” Japan’s strategic posture began with a reinterpretation of Article 9 of the constitution, according to which the country would henceforth be allowed to engage in “collective self-defense.”",
        "安倍试图“正常化”日本的战略姿态始于对宪法第9条的重新解释。 根据重新解释，日本此后将被允许参与“集体自卫”。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of continuing to hope that bureaucratic intervention can repair flawed projects, officials should take a market-based approach, allowing losses to be allocated through the bankruptcy process, thereby enabling all stakeholders to move on to more productive activities.",
        "政府应该采取市场化的方法，让这些失败的项目的财务损失通过破产程序来处理，从而让所有相关的生产要素解放出来，并转向更具创造性的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the most recent rise in oil prices is partly due to the increase in this fear premium.",
        "事实上，最近的油价上涨部分是由于这个恐惧溢价的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "That transformation was far-reaching.",
        "这一变化的意义非常深远。"
    ],
    [
        "Immunization on the Front Line",
        "免疫最前沿"
    ],
    [
        "But, if tax increases are not politically expedient, policymakers should proceed with old-fashioned deficit spending.",
        "但是，如果增税并非政治权宜之计，决策者就应该求助老式预算支出法。"
    ],
    [
        "Once again, Obama found himself stymied abroad because of political paralysis at home.",
        "07%，但这无法赢得美国国会的支持。 奥巴马再一次发现，国内政治瘫痪让他在国外举步维艰。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are, as the economist Robert Gordon argues, experiencing a slowdown in productivity-enhancing technological innovation, long-term potential growth would be constrained.",
        "如果我们如经济学家罗伯特·戈登（Robert Gordon）所指出的那样，正在经历生产率增强型技术创新的减速过程，那么长期潜在增长将受到抑制。"
    ],
    [
        "Another interpretation of the August 11 move is that it paved the way for the renminbi’s inclusion in the basket of currencies that comprise the International Monetary Fund’s unit of account, Special Drawing Rights.",
        "另外一种对八月十一日调整的解读则是它为人民币进入国际货币基金组织特别提款权账户的一揽子货币名录铺平了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "This phenomenon preceded the crisis, and high levels of household debt have exacerbated its impact in the aftermath.",
        "这一现象在危机前就已存在，家庭债务水平高企又放大了它在危机爆发后的冲击力。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes it hard for Europe to enjoy an extended period of high growth without inflation.",
        "这将会使欧洲很难享受到一段很长的没有通货膨胀的高增长时期。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Arab world in the midst of upheaval, what message does the West want to send?",
        "面对陷入动乱的阿拉伯世界，西方想要传达什么信息呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But no-one should be gulled by jargon: New ways of producing things often kill off old industries and jobs before the full benefits of the successor mode of production are realized.",
        "但没人应该被这种时髦的行话说蒙蔽：新的生产技术通常会在该模式的好处彻底实现之前杀死老的产业和就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the most enduring lesson of Luther’s call for a scholarly debate – and his use of technology to deliver his views – is that it failed.",
        "但也许路德开展学术辩论的呼吁——以及他利用技术来表达自身观点——所带来的最持久教益就是这一举动失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the Philippines used its chairmanship of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) – an alliance of the 48 countries that stand to bear the brunt of climate change – to fight to ensure that the 2015 Paris climate agreement aimed explicitly to cap global warming at 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.",
        "正因如此，菲律宾人利用担任气候变迁脆弱国家论坛（CVF）轮值主席国的机会——该论坛的48个成员国在承受气候变化冲击时首当其冲——竭力确保实现2015年巴黎气候协定明确限制全球温度比前工业化时期高1. 5°C的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2,000 Chiquitanos living around the park contend that a tree holds up the Amazon’s seven skies, and they are living that belief in a modern way: by using their forests to help reduce the stratospheric greenhouse gasses that cause global warming.",
        "2000位居住在公园附近的Chiquitanos族居民坚持认为，是一棵树撑起了亚马逊河的七个天空，并且他们以现代的方式坚守着这一信念：用他们的森林帮助减少导致全球变暖的同温层温室气体排放。"
    ],
    [
        "The decisions to improve the election law and receive Mashal are not aimed solely at persuading Jordan’s own Islamists to join the political process.",
        "改善选举法、接纳马沙尔的目的并不止于说服约旦国内的伊斯兰主义者加入到政治进程中来。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the dollar and the pound, the yen and the Deutschemark did not depend on attracting foreign inflows.",
        "不像美元和英镑，日元和德国马克靠的不是吸引外资流入。"
    ],
    [
        "In some ways, Germany has already moved beyond the point of no return on its path toward openness, owing to Merkel’s 2015 refugee policy.",
        "从某些角度讲，由于默克尔在2015年所做出的难民政策决定，德国在通往开放的道路上已经没有回头路。"
    ],
    [
        "Infrastructure must be redefined as a new asset class, based on several considerations.",
        "基础设施必须重新定义为新的资产类别，有几个方面需要考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "But while women are essential to the continent’s progress, they are still too often regarded as being secondary.",
        "但是，尽管妇女对于非洲的进步至关重要，她们仍然常被视为二等公民。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the new resources could also be used to allow for budget consolidation in France without pro-cyclical cuts.",
        "法国也可以利用一些新资源进行预算整合而不采取顺周期削减。"
    ],
    [
        "But connections between countries do not occur solely through the direct impact of market prices.",
        "但国家之间的联系并不仅仅通过市场价格的直接影响来发生。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is now more important than ever that European parliamentarians unite and make their position clear.",
        "因此欧洲议会团结起来，表达自己观点的重要性前所未有。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the bare minimum that must be expected of negotiators.",
        "这是谈判代表必须达到的最低预期。"
    ],
    [
        "The Montreal Protocol for protecting the ozone layer primarily addresses harmful substances, trying to accelerate their phase-out, rather than defining a stabilization target for the ozone layer.",
        "保护臭氧层的蒙特利尔议定书主要内容是框定有害物质，试图加快除去这些物质，而不是制定一个稳定臭氧层的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In debt crises, blame tends to fall on the debtors.",
        "在债务危机中，人们的指责通常会落到债务人身上。"
    ],
    [
        "This would be a lot easier with the Constitution in place, but there are measures that can and should be adopted now to make that possible.",
        "如果我们手里有一部宪法，这就容易多了，但是我们还需要采取能够采取同时也是必要的措施，以使之成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "These should have included stricter building codes, smarter evacuation policies, and better preservation of wetlands (which could have reduced the ferociousness of the hurricane).",
        "这些政策理应包括更加严格的建筑法规、更聪明的疏散政策以及对湿地（可减少飓风的威力）更好的保护 。"
    ],
    [
        "The unstated assumption seems to be that, in contrast, some pristine force of economic nature drives stock markets in advanced countries, and that forecasting their performance is thus like forecasting the growth of trees.",
        "言外之意似乎是：发达国家股市只受纯粹经济因素的驱动，预测股市发展就像预测树木成材一样顺理成章。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Erdoğan emphasized to his Iranian counterparts the international community’s resolve to bring transparency to Iran’s nuclear program, and insisted on the importance of concrete progress in the next round of the nuclear talks.",
        "相反，埃尔多安向伊朗领导人强调国际社会使伊朗的核计划透明的决心及下一轮核问题会谈具体进展的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "So they altered the words of the oath; displayed a banner stating that “Hong Kong is not China”; and referred to China using what many consider a slur.",
        "打出“香港不是中国”的横幅； 并用许多人视为耻辱的用词称谓中国。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, those who do their fair share (or more) should be singled out for praise – and those who do not for criticism.",
        "在这方面，承担（或超额承担）了公平份额的国家应该点名表扬——没有做到的点名批评。"
    ],
    [
        "But that would only further weaken the banks’ credit portfolios at a time when European regulators are desperate to strengthen them.",
        "但这只能进一步恶化银行的信用组合，而与此同时，监管者正在现金办法改善它们。"
    ],
    [
        "No democracy in the Middle East that fails to take account of Islam will work.",
        "不承认伊斯兰教的民主制度在中东根本行不通。"
    ],
    [
        "The bubble is filled by people with money who are buying extra houses because they think home prices will continue to rise, and by people without money who are buying $400,000 houses in less-fashionable neighborhoods with zero percent down and floating interest rates.",
        "这层泡沫的制造者是那些认为房价会继续上涨因而购置富余住房的有钱人，和那些以零首付和浮动利率贷款的方式在不那么高级的地段购买40万美金左右的房产的没钱的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the conventional wisdom – supported by many painful experiences – was that when the industrial countries sneezed, the emerging world caught a cold.",
        "事实上，在传统智慧看来（有大量痛苦的经验支持传统智慧），工业国打个喷嚏，新兴市场就得感冒。"
    ],
    [
        "But an altruistic approach requires few trade-offs.",
        "但利他主义原则需要进行取舍。"
    ],
    [
        "China moved to current-account convertibility in 1996, but retained a substantial number of controls on capital movements, which have served as a shield against financial contagion.",
        "中国在1996年放开了经常项下可兑换，但仍然对资本流动实施相当多的管制，以预防金融传染的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "What followed was a decade of scattershot foreign policy marked by notable cases of inaction, together with individual initiatives taken largely without reference to a broader doctrine.",
        "随后的十年是外交政策漫无目的的十年，不作为和不参考更广泛的看法一意孤行的例子比比皆是。"
    ],
    [
        "To answer that question, we should consider not just the 1815 Treaty of Vienna, but also the 1648 Peace of Westphalia and the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, each of which in its own way brought to an end a bloody chapter in European history.",
        "为了回答这个问题，我们不仅应该考虑1815年的《维也纳条约》（Treaty of Vienna），还应该考虑1648年的《威斯特伐利亚和约》（Peace of Westphalia）和1919年的《凡尔赛和约》（Treaty of Versailles）这三次和约以各自的方式结束了欧洲历史上的血腥篇章。"
    ],
    [
        "The arguments on both sides have been of high quality, especially in the House of Lords.",
        "双方的论点质量都很高，特别是在上议院的争论中。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when Russia and Ukraine are still very much at war, policymakers, local citizens, members of the Ukrainian diaspora, and even some Russians pack the streets of Lviv to celebrate world-class jazz.",
        "在这样一个和乌克兰仍然处于交战状态的时刻，决策者、当地居民、流散在外的乌克兰人甚至有些俄国人都会涌上利沃夫街头欣赏世界级的爵士乐。"
    ],
    [
        "And, to become prime minister, Anwar needs UMNO.",
        "而为了成为总理，Anwar也需要UMNO。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iraqi state, established in the 1920’s by British imperialist planners (with Winston Churchill in the lead), is a strange pastiche of three disparate provinces of the old Ottoman Empire: Mosul in the north with a Kurdish majority, Baghdad in the center with a Sunni Arab majority, and Basra in the south with a Shia Arab majority.",
        "由英帝国主义规划者（以丘吉尔为首）在1920年建立的伊拉克国家是由曾隶属于老的土耳其帝国的三个截然不同的省份组成的奇特仿制品：北部以库尔德人为主的摩苏尔，中部以逊尼派阿拉伯人为主的巴格达和南部以什叶派阿拉伯人为主的巴士拉。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the International Organization for Migration will join the UN system today.",
        "幸运的是，国际移民组织今天将加入联合国体系。"
    ],
    [
        "If laissez-faire has run its course, what will possibly replace it as the foundation of an open, global society?",
        "如果自由主义已经走到了尽头，那么，什么可能取代它成为开放的世界的基础呢？"
    ],
    [
        "However much we may worry about the distributional consequences of outsourcing, we should never overlook the fact that it increases the total size of the economic pie.",
        "无论我们对外购对分配的影响有多少顾虑，我们永远也不应该忽视这样一点：那就是外购能够将经济蛋糕做得更大。"
    ],
    [
        "And once Syria’s air-defense system is sufficiently degraded, it would be best if Arab countries – Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other Gulf states – and Turkey used their air forces to police the zone.",
        "而只要叙利亚空中防御系统退化程度足够，阿拉伯国家——沙特、卡塔尔和其他海湾国家——以及土耳其以其空中力量维持禁飞区就成为最佳选择。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The Global Partnership for Education, a worthy and capable initiative to promote education in 65 low-income countries, is having what the jargon of development assistance calls a “replenishment round,” meaning that it is asking donor governments to refill its coffers.",
        "发自纽约——全球教育伙伴关系计划这项旨在促进65个低收入国家教育状况的高价值高实现能力倡议正在进行发展援助界行话中所谓的“补给回合”，意味着它要求捐助国政府重新注资。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy is not a Western product; nor is it for Western citizens alone.",
        "民主不是西方的产物； 也不是西方人民的专属品。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan, for its part, has managed to boost its ultra-low fertility rate – which bottomed out in 2005 at 1.26 – to 1.46 in 2015, through consistent efforts to reduce childrearing costs and change the corporate culture.",
        "比如，日本成功地将其极低的生育率——2005年达到1. 26的最低值提高到了2015年的1."
    ],
    [
        "The PAD’s yellow-clad supporters returned to the streets, this time under the banner of ultra-nationalism over Preah Vihear and a domestic anti-corruption campaign. The PAD has openly called for a military coup to clean up Thai politics.",
        "于是民盟的黄衫军又打着与柏威夏寺有关的极端民族主义和国内反腐败口号再次回到街头，甚至公开要求发动一场军事政变来肃清泰国政治。"
    ],
    [
        "However, separatist pressures, while diminished, continue to exist in Crimea.",
        "但是，克里米亚的分裂活动尽管势头减弱了，其一直还存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Security concerns increasingly implicate foreign and domestic policies simultaneously.",
        "安全问题越来越多地同时牵扯到外交和国内政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This is also the lesson of the other five world regions – Latin America, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and Africa – that have adopted treaties establishing zones free of nuclear weapons.",
        "这也是其他已经签署了建立无核武器条约的五个地区——拉美、南太平洋、东南亚、中亚和非洲——所要汲取的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Tax increases and cuts in public spending are still needed; there is no avoiding this reality.",
        "加税削减了仍属必须的公共支出； 这是不可避免的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "How long will we have to wait for the Panama Papers of Salafism?",
        "我们还要等多久才能等到沙拉菲派的巴拿马文件（Panama Papers）？"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB cannot do it alone.",
        "欧洲央行无法独力实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "A side benefit for the EU’s standing in the world could be that the World Trade Organization’s stalled Doha negotiations could be restarted once farmers in developing countries are assured of getting a fair deal from Europe.",
        "对于欧盟在世界上的地位而言，此举还有一个额外益处，那就是一旦发展中国家的农民得到保证，将获得来自欧洲的公平待遇后，世界贸易组织陷于中止的多哈谈判就能重新启动。"
    ],
    [
        "Right now, solar panels are so expensive – about 10 times more than fossil fuels in terms of cost per unit of energy output – that only well-heeled, well-meaning (and, usually, well-subsidized) Westerners can afford to install them.",
        "目前，太阳能电池板非常昂贵——其能源输出成本相当于化石燃料的10倍之多——只有那些富有而热心（而且往往手握大把补贴）的西方人才能用得起。"
    ],
    [
        "After they had succeeded, he told them to tie three arrows together, and break the whole bundle at once; none was able to do it.",
        "成功后，毛利元就又让儿子们将三支箭绑在一起折，没人能够折断。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, they amassed far more than they needed – $6.5 trillion, at last count – effectively becoming over-insured against external balance-of-payments shocks.",
        "事实上，在最近一次统计中，它们取得了远远超过自身所需要的6. 5万亿美元——在对抗外部平衡收支冲击方面来说，这显然是保障过度了。"
    ],
    [
        "And, despite all the happy talk, multilateral policy coordination is essentially non-existent.",
        "而尽管表面一团和气，但多边政策合作基本上等于零。"
    ],
    [
        "His main opponent, the hardline conservative Hojatoleslam Ebrahim Raisi, campaigned hard – and had Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, implicitly in his corner.",
        "他的反对者、强硬保守派莱西（Hojatoleslam Ebrahim Raisi）竞选声势浩大，并有伊朗最高领袖哈梅内伊的间接“加持”。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia does not need to upend the existing global order; it simply needs to find its place.",
        "俄罗斯不需要颠覆已有的全球秩序； 它只需要找到自己的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "So, the greenback will remain the world’s ultimate safe haven for now, and it likely will not suffer a sudden, fatal blow, even if Trump’s policies turn out to be disastrous.",
        "因此，美元现在仍将是世界终极安全港，不可能遭遇突发致命打击，即使特朗普的政策是一场灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia has little choice but to defer to the US and Europe’s shenanigans because it is grossly under-represented in both organizations.",
        "亚洲除了听从美国和欧洲的把戏之外选择不多，因为在这两个组织内它的代表权不够。"
    ],
    [
        "May has now called an early election, which she is tipped to win easily.",
        "梅现在要求提前选举，而她可能在此次选举中轻松获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Each state is awarded a certain number of votes in the Electoral College, depending on the size of its population.",
        "总统选举人团赋予各州特定的选举人票，具体数量取决于该州的人口规模。"
    ],
    [
        "Such issues have arisen in recent years in other sectors as well.",
        "这些问题近几年来也出现在其他部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider cement production, where, according to the China Cement Association, 38% of capacity consists of “shaft” kilns. These have been obsolete in most of the rest of the world for over a century, and accounted for less than 3% of production even in 1957, when most of China’s cement plants were imports from Eastern Europe.",
        "以水泥生产为例，根据中国水泥行业协会的数据， 38% 的水泥产量都是来自于立窑，而这种技术在世界各地都已经淘汰将近一个世纪了，甚至在 1957 年的中国也只有 3% 的水泥产量来自立窑，因为当时国内的水泥生产设备都是从东欧进口的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, standing at Michni Post, the highest point of the Khyber Pass, staring down at the thousands of trucks and buses buzzing through Afghanistan into Pakistan under the shadows of the Hindu Kush, the answer is obvious: controlling the Afghan-Pakistan border requires a counterinsurgency policy that looks at Afghanistan and Pakistan together. Pakistan’s new government has a great opportunity to make this change.",
        "但是，当你站在开伯尔山口的至高点米奇尼哨所，注视着下面在兴都库什山脉的阴影中轰轰作响的成千的从阿富汗驶入巴基斯坦的卡车和公共汽车的时候，问题的答案是显而易见的：控制阿富汗－巴基斯坦边境需要一个同时关注阿富汗和巴基斯坦的反游击战和破坏的政策。 巴基斯坦的新政府非常有机会来做出这样的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Viewed through the lens of history, the main job of US presidents is to be mature and wise enough to stand up to the permanent war machine.",
        "从历史角度看，美国总统的主要职责是足够成熟和睿智，与永久性战争机器对抗。 肯尼迪坚持了；"
    ],
    [
        "The Reality of Virtual Power",
        "虚拟实力的现实"
    ],
    [
        "Such strategies include widespread implementation of TB preventive therapy with isoniazid – which is vastly underused, despite its low cost and known efficacy – and improved detection in HIV-infected people, many of whom die of TB without a diagnosis. Attention must also be paid to infection control in hospitals and clinics: many of the XDR-TB cases in South Africa were acquired in HIV clinics or wards. Access to HIV care, including ART, is also urgently needed, and reducing HIV incidence would substantially reduce the TB burden over the longer term.",
        "上述策略包括采用雷米封广泛开展结核病的预防性医治——这种药物尽管价格低廉、疗效显著，但却并没有得到普及推广——以及改善对艾滋病人的结核病诊断，很多艾滋病人都是在未经诊断的情况下死于肺结核。 医院和诊所之中的传染病控制也必须得到重视：南非的许多严重耐药型结核病都是在艾滋病诊所或者病房中受到传染的。"
    ],
    [
        "To countries on the receiving end, these conditions can seem like a subtle form of power politics, with Europe trying to impose its values on the world.",
        "对于处在接受方的国家而言，这些条件可以被看作一种微妙的权力政治，是欧洲把自己的价值观强加给世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the Balkan countries that are outside the EU will remain there for many years, they are in the European security space already, and Europeans should be prepared to intervene militarily if outbreaks of violence recur.",
        "尽管位于欧盟之外的巴尔干国家在多年内都不会加入欧盟，但它们已经身处欧洲安全空间之内，而欧洲人也应该在暴力死灰复燃时准备进行军事干预。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, Article 11 guarantees freedom of religion for all.",
        "另一方面，第十一条又保证所有人的宗教自由。"
    ],
    [
        "US corporations have had a remarkable three-decade run, but profits have already slipped from 11.5% of national income in 2012 to 9.5% last year.",
        "美国企业经历了30年的快速增长，但利润已经从2012年占国民收入的11. 5%下滑到去年的9."
    ],
    [
        "The US is, perhaps, equally frustrated.",
        "美国或许同样灰心丧气。"
    ],
    [
        "The other view is that China contributed to global imbalances not through its merchandise exports, but through its capital exports.",
        "另一种观点认为，中国不是通过其商品出口造成了全球失衡，而是通过其资本输出造成了全球失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "All great universities are nonprofit organizations, created to administer higher education, which benefits society as a whole.",
        "所有伟大的大学都是非营利组织，以提供高等教育为创建目的，能使全社会都受益。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ghost of Biafra",
        "比夫拉的幽灵"
    ],
    [
        "Many there, such as my colleague Bruce Katz at the Brookings Institution, believe that the only solution is to bring a larger share of governance and policy initiation to the state and municipal level, in close partnership with the private sector and civil society.",
        "许多美国人，例如我在布鲁金斯学会的同事布鲁斯·凯特兹（Bruce Katz），都相信唯一的解决方案就是给予州和市级层面更多的治理和政策动议，并与私人部门和公民社会建立紧密的伙伴关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the Bush administration worries that if oil countries abandoned the dollar standard, today’s dollar weakness would turn into a rout.",
        "或许布什政府担心如果石油国家抛弃美元标准，美元现在的弱势可能会转变成崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of these politically tinged trials has different origins, of course.",
        "当然，这些政治上存在污点的审判原因各不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, those past newspaper reports often didn’t mention any time period at all in their definitions of a bear market. Journalists writing on the subject apparently did not think it necessary to be precise.",
        "事实上在过去的报章报道中关于熊市的定义中根本没有提到任何时间段，那些撰写这一话题的作者显然并不认为有必要去确切说明。"
    ],
    [
        "The movement united ten million people: workers and professors, peasants and students, priests and freethinkers among them – all of civil society.",
        "团结工会运动使一千万波兰人团结起来了，这些人中既有工人也有教授，既有农民也有学生，既有牧师也有自由思想家——波兰社会各个阶层的人都有。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, during the past three decades the rich world seems to have enjoyed “sustainable development,” while development in the poor world (barring China) has been unsustainable.",
        "换言之，在过去的30年里，富国似乎已经实现了“可持续发展”，而穷国（除中国外）的经济发展却是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "As markets underpriced risk in order to lend to increasingly indebted countries, pressure on interest rates diminished.",
        "由于市场低估风险价格以便为债务日重的国家提供贷款，利率压力不再存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, military action against ISIS can succeed only with the legitimacy and backing of the UN Security Council.",
        "此外，针对伊斯兰国的军事行动只有在联合国安理会的合法支持下才能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "But in Latin America, much of public and especially private debt remains dollar-denominated, which limits how much central banks can allow currencies to depreciate in response to higher US interest rates.",
        "但在拉丁美洲，大量公共债务（私人债务更加如此）仍为美元计价，这限制了央行允许本币为应对美国利息升高而贬值的幅度。"
    ],
    [
        "These are the same kind of voters who turned out for the UK’s Brexit referendum – poorer people who have not felt the gains from globalization.",
        "英国脱欧公投中也有类似的群体——感受不到来自全球化的好处的穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "A Yellow Star for the Jewish State?",
        "标着黄星的犹太国家？"
    ],
    [
        "In his evaluation of the outcome, Cowen concluded that, “I feel I’m the one who won the bet.”",
        "在对结果的评述中，科文总结道：“我觉得我才是赢得赌局的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Now is the moment for China to anchor its rise within a stable and mutually acceptable Asian regional order.",
        "如今，中国应该将其崛起的基础定在稳定的、可互相接受的亚洲地区秩序上。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of these values are rooted in a kind of secular Christianity, and others in the Enlightenment’s revolutionary beliefs about human rights, equality, the French language, secular schooling, and the idea that the state is responsible for the common interest and application of republican principles.",
        "有些价值观是植根于一种世俗的基督教，而其它的则源自启蒙运动中关于人权、平等、法语、世俗教育以及国家要对共同利益及共和原则的实施负责的理念的革命信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "How do we cope with this growth of economic and political clout?",
        "面对这些不断成长的经济和政治势力我们又有何对策？"
    ],
    [
        "To uphold those values, France and Germany must join forces to rediscover and reinvent Europe’s social model, starting with concrete initiatives in the fields of minimum-wage standards, labor-market policies, retirement, and education.",
        "要捍卫这些价值，法国和德国必须合力重新发现和重新发明欧洲社会模式，起点就是最低工资标准、劳动力市场政策、退休和教育等领域的具体措施。"
    ],
    [
        "But Germany’s defeat, however widely celebrated, holds much cause for concern.",
        "但不管德国的惨败是多么大快人心，人们仍不能对它掉以轻心。"
    ],
    [
        "All major regions of the world will need to be involved.",
        "世界上所有主要的地区都应参与进来。"
    ],
    [
        "It is little wonder that Germany finds it difficult to achieve a sustainable pattern of balanced growth in the eurozone as it is currently configured.",
        "毫不奇怪，德国发现它难以在当前的欧元区结构中实现可持续的平衡增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "The single market has been crucial to making Europe one of the most prosperous places on the planet. And the EU has been a global leader on environmental sustainability.",
        "内部的单一市场对欧盟得以成为全球最繁荣区域至关重要，而在环境可持续发展方面欧盟在世界上也扮演着领导角色。"
    ],
    [
        "That leaves the fourth explanation: the euro is more to blame than the policies and structures of individual countries.",
        "这就剩下了第四个解释：欧元的问题要比个别国家的政策和架构更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Such activity continued in the first two months of 2014.",
        "这一趋势在2014年前两个月依然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But the main aim of the AIIB and the NDB seems not to be to transform the multilateral financial landscape, but to add capacity, while showing that China can build state-of-the-art institutions.",
        "但亚投行和新开发银行的主要目的不是改变多边金融形势，而是增加多边金融实力，同时表明中国能够建立最先进的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "But actions speak louder than words, and challenges to the NPT regime have continued to undermine its basic principles, causing considerable backsliding.",
        "但事实胜于雄辩，那些NPT体制面临的挑战正继续破坏条约的基本原则，并造成了令人担忧的倒退。"
    ],
    [
        "This lack of contextual clarity has led to excessively conservative interpretations of the regulations – and thus to the creation of unintended barriers to financial inclusion.",
        "所处环境的不清晰导致了对监管的过度保守的解读——从而产生了意料之外的金融包容壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "The second risk is that, even based on current growth expectations, investors may have gotten ahead of themselves in anticipating monetary-policy tightening.",
        "第二个风险是，即使基于当前增长预期，投资者预测货币政策收紧也可能操之过急了。"
    ],
    [
        "But these promises are not sustainable.",
        "但这些承诺是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "Though much of the violence in Iraq over the past six years has been random, aimed at soft targets such as markets and restaurants, its nature changed last summer.",
        "虽然在这一时期内发生的绝大多数暴力行为都是随机的，只针对一些类似市场和餐馆这样的“软目标”，但这些暴力行为的性质早在去年夏天时就已经发生了根本性的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "The frustration of unemployed and under-employed youth is now spilling over into the streets.",
        "而这些沮丧的失业和半失业青年如今都涌上了街头。"
    ],
    [
        "And a strong case has been made for raising the minimum wage.",
        "提高最低工资也是强有力的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than continue fighting (as in the US) after a heated presidential election, Mexico’s major political parties appear poised to cooperate on a number of critical structural reforms that could energize economic growth for decades to come.",
        "墨西哥的主要党派并没有（像美国那样）在激烈的总统大选后仍然争个不休，而是摆出了一副在诸多关键结构性改革领域精诚合作的样子，这些改革可以为墨西哥带来几十年的经济增长动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Ideally, an international group would coordinate and develop all of the ideas and products, and take them from the laboratory to the field.",
        "理想的情况是由国际组织来协调和开发所有办法和产品，并把它们从实验室带到日常生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Cynics say that India’s e-Network is currying favor with Africa in exchange for natural resources. Perhaps.",
        "务实主义者会认为印度在非洲的e-Network计划的目的——换取非洲的自然资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Berlusconi on the Boil",
        "热锅上的贝卢斯科尼"
    ],
    [
        "As the Great Depression took root, however, the Bank of England was forced to choose between providing liquidity to banks and honoring the gold peg.",
        "不过，随着大萧条的爆发，英格兰银行被迫在向银行提供流动性和维系黄金钉住制度之间做出选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Contraception can also be expensive or difficult to access across the region, despite high rates of teenage rape and pregnancy.",
        "避孕在该地区也很昂贵并且很难获得，尽管青少年强奸和怀孕现象十分普遍。"
    ],
    [
        "When Japanese firms operate at the frontier of industry, bureaucrats cannot choose the winners.",
        "日本企业在行业前沿经营时，官僚不再能够挑选赢家。"
    ],
    [
        "What the authors do not find is also interesting.",
        "而该论文的作者们并未发现的东西也很有趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Having put yourself in their position for a moment, can you blame them?",
        "设身处地地设想一下，你又能指责他们什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But now, with Facebook and other such tools, a person’s page is a place for those memories to gather.",
        "但今天，利用 Facebook 和其他工具，一个人的网上主页将成为这些回忆的汇聚之处。"
    ],
    [
        "The public rewards them for dealing with the problem at hand – whether building levees to protect houses built on a flood plain or rescuing banks that have dodgy securities on their balance sheets.",
        "公众总会对他们应对当前问题的作为大加赞赏——无论是兴建堤坝保护洪泛区民居还是拯救那些拥有有毒资产的银行。"
    ],
    [
        "The likelihood of more arrests, trials, and bloodshed is a concern for many in the international community.",
        "而国际社会则对可能出现更多的拘捕，审判和流血事件感到忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1989, Hurricane Hugo struck near Charleston, South Carolina, with a surge height of nearly four meters.",
        "1989年，飓风雨果在南加州查尔斯顿（Charleston）附近登陆，掀起了近4米高的风暴潮。"
    ],
    [
        "It also provides some assurance for the dreaded future when robots may replace workers in many sectors.",
        "而在机器人可能取代诸多行业的工人时，它又为惨淡的未来提供了一些保证。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting build-up of private and public debt in over-spending countries became unmanageable when housing bubbles burst (Ireland and Spain) and current-account deficits, fiscal gaps, or both became unsustainable throughout the eurozone's periphery.",
        "由此产生的过度消费国的私人公共部门债务积累随着房地产泡沫破裂（爱尔兰和西班牙）以及经常项目赤字或财政缺口（或两者兼而有之）在整个欧元区外围变得不可持续而变得难以收场。"
    ],
    [
        "But not everyone was disappointed by that outcome: China maintained a diplomatic silence, while the United States seemed to celebrate the meeting’s failure.",
        "但并非各方都对这一结果感到失望：中国在外交方面保持沉默，而美国似乎庆幸这次会议的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "The response was quick and vicious.",
        "这篇文章所引发的反应是迅速而凶狠的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, we need to call greater attention to the dangers of cyber-weapon proliferation, and urge governments to develop defensive rather than offensive capabilities. An arms race in cyberspace has no winners.",
        "与此同时，我们需要更加重视网络武器扩散的危险，并敦促政府发展防御而不是进攻技能，没有人能在网络空间的军备竞赛中获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "We use less water and yield more crops per acre than any other country in the world.",
        "我们用更少的水种出比世界上其他国家更多的粮食亩产。"
    ],
    [
        "Self-destructive addiction to processed foods, which economists would describe as an “internality,” can lower quality of life for those afflicted, and can eventually lead to externalities for society, such as higher health-care costs.",
        "自我毁灭的加工食品瘾——经济学家称之为“内部性”——会降低成瘾者的生活质量，并最终带来对社会的外部性，如更高的医疗成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom, whose new majority Conservative government has pledged to hold a referendum on European Union membership by the end of 2017, perhaps even next year, is not the outlier that it is often portrayed as being.",
        "英国新任的保守党多数政府承诺到2017年底、甚至就在明年就欧盟成员国资格举行公投其实并不像外界所描绘的那样孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the Middle East, which remains an arc of instability from the Maghreb to Pakistan.",
        "还有中东，从马格里布（Maghreb）到巴基斯坦一线仍是动荡地带。"
    ],
    [
        "It was possible because economists are not obliged to make their data and programs publicly available when publishing scientific research.",
        "而之所以可能出现这种情况，是因为经济学家发表其科研成果时并不需要公开其数据和研究手法。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, even if China suffers no major domestic political setback, many current projections are based simply on GDP growth.",
        "此外，即便中国没有遭遇到任何重大内部政治危机，当前的许多预测都仅仅是简单基于GDP的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "If the audience has progressive tastes, private money and innovative programming are entirely compatible.",
        "如果观众的欣赏口味不断提高，那么私人资金和创新的曲目编排是完全可以契合的。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, in his second term, with Condoleezza Rice and Karen Hughes at the State Department and Rumsfeld’s reputation dented by failures that in the private sector would have led to his firing or resignation, Bush has shown an increased concern about America’s soft power.",
        "幸运的是，在布什的第二个任期内，莱斯和休斯坐镇国务院，拉氏的声望则由于众多足以令在私营部门解雇或者辞职的失策而受到削弱，布什已经表现出对美国柔性力量更多的关心。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamist party, Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS), took power in the states of Kelantan and Trengganu and strongly threatened UMNO in other northern states.",
        "伊斯兰党派泛伊斯兰教党（PAS）掌握了吉兰丹和丁加奴州的权力，对马来民族统一机构在北部其它各州的力量也形成了有力的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Italian taxi drivers would be prepared to allow more competition if they were sure that Italian pharmacy owners were willing to do likewise.",
        "意大利出租车司机原因增加竞争，只要他们能确信意大利药店也这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, Hezbollah fought Israel to a standstill in Lebanon.",
        "2006年，真主党与以色列的战斗陷入了僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, supervisory bodies favor mergers to save banks in trouble.",
        "尽管如此，监管机构仍然支持通过兼并拯救陷入麻烦的银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is the type of heedlessness that led US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to let Lehman Brothers fail in September 2008, ostensibly to teach the market a “lesson.”",
        "事实上，正是如此掉以轻心导致美国财政部长保尔森（Hank Paulson）放任雷曼兄弟公司在2008年9月倒闭——表面上是为了给市场一个“教训”。"
    ],
    [
        "Some assume that Trump’s poor management and obvious incompetence should be enough to dent enthusiasm for populist nostrums elsewhere.",
        "有人认为特朗普糟糕的管理和显然不够格的胜任能力理应足够阻止其他国家的民粹主义热情。"
    ],
    [
        "It is up to India's policymakers to realize this ambition.",
        "要实现这一宏大目标，就要看印度决策者的了。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the status quo can gravely threaten Pakistan’s – and South Asia’s – future.",
        "若非如此，目前的局势可能会严重威胁到巴基斯坦——以及南亚未来的局势。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of the 1980s, with the Soviet retreat from Afghanistan, some elements of the Mujahideen morphed into Al Qaeda, Arabic for “the base,” which referred to the military facilities and training grounds in Afghanistan built for the Mujahideen by bin Laden and the CIA.",
        "20世纪80年代末，随着苏联从阿富汗撤军，圣战部队的某些单位演变成为基地组织（阿拉伯语意为“基地”），指的是由本·拉登和中情局在阿富汗建造的训练场地和军事设施。"
    ],
    [
        "And North Korea still has those nuclear bombs.",
        "而朝鲜还掌握着核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Automobile manufacturers still bend steel into vehicles that generally must be powered by petroleum-based fuels.",
        "汽车生产企业仍然用钢铁制造车辆，他们生产的汽车仍然必须依靠以石油为基础的燃料驱动。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, I believe that China’s future leaders, are more likely to come from China’s burgeoning, but still limited, civil society than from the bureaucracy.",
        "实际上，我相信中国的未来领导人更有可能来自中国蓬勃兴起、但是仍旧受到限制的民间社会，而不是官僚体制内部。"
    ],
    [
        "Donald Trump has shaken up the way a campaign is run, how a nominee communicates with voters, and the Republican Party’s platform, with many of his positions deviating from GOP tradition.",
        "唐纳德·特朗普动摇了选战的方式，改变了提名人与选民的沟通渠道，也颠覆了共和党平台，他的许多立场与大老党的传统格格不入。"
    ],
    [
        "Would I have had a younger and larger audience if my talk had been called “Merkel’s Germany on the Eve of the Upcoming Election”?",
        "如果我参与的对话叫做“选举前夕的默克尔德国”，观众就会更多一些、更年轻一些吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But it can cooperate with the US to narrow the North’s choices and reduce the potential for a conflagration on the Korean Peninsula, such as through covert cooperation and official contingency planning for the future of North Korea.",
        "但它可能与美国合作缩窄朝鲜的选择面，降低朝鲜半岛灾难的可能性，比如通过暗中合作和制定正式的朝鲜问题应急计划实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly two decades later, Netanyahu remains committed to old, vacuous slogans about a “united Jerusalem” – a conviction that could, yet again, unravel the Israel-Palestine peace process.",
        "近二十年后，内塔尼亚胡仍然坚持着陈旧而毫无意义的“统一的耶路撒冷”的口号——这一决心可能再次让以色列-巴勒斯坦和平进程流产。"
    ],
    [
        "While this increased the broad money supply by $9 trillion, private-sector credit increased by only $1.8 trillion, revealing a serious flaw in the transmission of unconventional monetary policy to the real economy.",
        "这让其广义货币供给增加了9万亿美元，但其私人信用只增加了1. 8万亿美元，表明非常规货币政策向实体经济的传导渠道有严重问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Some will object that there is little point in creating GDP-linked bonds in advanced countries, because there is little uncertainty about GDP growth there.",
        "有人提出反对意见，认为在发达国家建立GDP连动式债券毫无疑义，因为那里的GDP增长十分稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Everybody involved in this discussion should spend more time building and acknowledging good arguments, and less time telling others what they cannot say.",
        "每一位参与这场讨论的人都需要花更多时间去建构和获取好的论据，而不是去告诉别人什么能说什么不能说。"
    ],
    [
        "Health systems do not exist in a vacuum, and if we are serious about sustainable development, it is time to understand that investments in complementary systems are “trade-ons” not trade-offs.",
        "卫生体系并不存在于真空中，如果我们认真对待可持续发展问题，那么现在就应该明白补充性系统的投资是一种“加成”（trade-on），而不是“权衡”（trade-off）。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, almost half of the benefits from Trump’s proposed tax cuts would go to the top 1% of income earners.",
        "据无党派立场的税收政策中心（Tax Policy Center），特朗普提出的减税计划的近一半收益将流向最顶层的1%收入者。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the proposition that rent controls reduce the supply of housing is violated under conditions of imperfect competition.",
        "类似地，租金控制降低住房供给的意见在不完美竞争条件下也不成立。"
    ],
    [
        "DAVOS – In the wake of the terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, declarations of “Je suis Charlie” have echoed worldwide.",
        "达沃斯—在法国讽刺杂志、巴黎《查理周刊》遭遇恐怖袭击的背景下，“我是查理”的宣言响彻全世界。"
    ],
    [
        "In neighboring Israel, which is still in a struggle with the Palestinians, only 18 were killed and 25 wounded in similar attacks during the same period. Yet Israelis do not live under an emergency law.",
        "而在相邻的以色列，尽管与巴勒斯坦的斗争仍未结束，相同期间内在类似袭击事件中死亡的却仅有18人，受伤仅25人，更重要的是，以色列根本没有实行紧急状态法。"
    ],
    [
        "The difficulty of working through the full economic implications is precisely what discourages consumers from making purchases and causes firms to postpone investment.",
        "难以确定全面经济影响恰恰阻碍了消费者进行购物并导致企业推迟投资。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with such a target, it is not very difficult to poke holes and pile on the ridicule.",
        "而且，面对这样一个目标，故意找茬加以嘲笑似乎并非难事。"
    ],
    [
        "Seeking the truth can be unsettling and painful for anyone, but it comes with serious consequences for those with reason to fear justice.",
        "了解真相对任何人来讲都伴随着不安和痛苦，但却会为那些有理由害怕制裁的人带来严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The same was true in country after country.",
        "其他国家也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important aspect of this will be to secure real judicial independence.",
        "最为重要的方面是确保实际的司法独立。"
    ],
    [
        "In the longer term, however, the development challenges that China faces at home – particularly rapid environmental deterioration – could drive it to take a more transformative role, pushing for institutional innovation globally.",
        "但是，从长期看，中国所面临的国内发展挑战——特别是环境迅速恶化——可能促使它成为更具转变力的角色，推进全球机构创新。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, there is reason for optimism.",
        "但也有乐观的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to the view that feelings interfere with thinking, emotional intelligence – which includes two major components, mastery of the self and outreach to others – suggests that the ability to understand and regulate emotions can make overall thinking more effective.",
        "与那种认定情绪会干扰思考的观点相反，情商——由自我控制和与他人的沟通联结两大部分组成——表明，理解和调节情绪的能力可使总体思路更加清晰有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it is our turn.”",
        "现在轮到我们了。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, road injuries and alcohol-related death and disability are responsible for the loss of three times as many potential years of healthy life in men than in women.",
        "类似地，交通事故和酒精相关致死和致残对男性潜在健康生活年限的影响比女性大两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Bolivia’s Indians have also used their eco-clout to convince the energy companies to bankroll their fight for a 750,000-acre homeland bordering Kempff.",
        "玻利维亚的印第安人还利用生态优势说服能源公司资助他们赢得肯普夫边上75万英亩的土地。"
    ],
    [
        "Revolutionary communism may well have cleared the path for the boom in other ways as well, suggesting that the shift from socialist utopianism to capitalist pragmatism was less a U-turn than a sequential process of “creative destruction.”",
        "革命共产主义很可能也以其他的方式为繁荣铺平了道路，表明从社会乌托邦主义到资本实用主义的转变与其说是反向逆转还不如说是“扼杀创造力”的后续进程。"
    ],
    [
        "If the cultural component is important, why share the profits with Western-minded people like Khodorkovsky?",
        "如果文化要素是重要的话，那么，又何必同像科多尔科夫斯基那样具有西方头脑的人分享利润呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Natural gas emits only half as much CO2 as coal, and occupies a rapidly increasing share of electricity generation – up 37% since 2007, while coal’s share has plummeted by 25%.",
        "天然气的二氧化碳排放量仅为煤炭的一半，在发电领域所占的份额迅速攀升——2007年来增长37%，而煤炭份额则骤降达25%之多。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the terminology of World War II is being deliberately revived.",
        "事实上，整套二战词汇都被人刻意复活。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, with 15,000 artillery tubes in the Demilitarized Zone, just 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Seoul, the South Korean capital, they also know that they could wreak havoc on South Korea’s economy, whereas the North has relatively less to lose.",
        "但是，在韩国首尔以北区区48公里的非军事地带，朝鲜部署了15000多门火箭炮，朝鲜知道，它可以给韩国带来严重的经济麻烦，而在这方面，朝鲜相对来说没什么可输的。"
    ],
    [
        "All of that has changed, thanks to developments in information technology.",
        "信息技术的发展改变了所有这一切。"
    ],
    [
        "Every day, mayors are called on to get the job done for residents.",
        "每一天，各位市长都必须满足市民的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "In any event, that election suggested a need to spread the benefits of growth to rural areas and the poor.",
        "无论如何，那次大选表明，需要把增长得好处带给农村地区和穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, China significantly ratcheted up its commitment to the AfDB last year through the $2 billion Africa Growing Together Fund.",
        "比如，去年中国成立了20亿美元规模的非洲共同成长基金，大幅度提高了其对AfDB的注资。"
    ],
    [
        "It thereby abandoned the most essential pillar of the rule of law, namely the individualization of culpability.",
        "因此，它也就放弃了法制最为根本的支柱，也就是刑责自负。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s examine the “illness” that leads certain EU leaders with questionable scruples to forget even the recent past.",
        "让我们来看一下使某些怀有可疑的顾虑的欧盟领导人忘记甚至是最近发生的事情的那种“病症”吧。"
    ],
    [
        "We also supported the Kirby Institute’s ENCORE1 trial, to develop a reduced-dose version of the most commonly used HIV treatment regimen.",
        "我们还支持科尔比研究所（Kirby Institute）的ENCORE1测试，该测试要开发最常用艾滋病疗法的减剂量版。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Sweden had been a rare beacon of success in Europe in the years since the 2008 global financial crisis.",
        "毕竟，自2008年全球金融危机以来，瑞典一直是欧洲罕见的成功明灯。"
    ],
    [
        "That view has been vindicated.",
        "这一观点最后被证明是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s embassies in Havana will now craft their guest lists in accordance with the Cuban government’s wishes.",
        "欧盟驻哈瓦那大使馆现在将按古巴政府的希望来制定客人名单。"
    ],
    [
        "This economic siege, zealously enforced even by Arab and Islamic banks, followed the new Hamas-led government’s refusal to accept the demand by the “quartet” – the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia – that it recognize Israel, accept all previous agreements with Israel, and renounce terrorism.",
        "新的哈马斯领导的政府拒绝接受中东四方，即美国、欧盟、联合国以及俄国提出的有关承认以色列、接受与以色列先前达成的所有协议以及放弃恐怖主义的要求导致了经济封锁。 这一经济封锁甚至得到了阿拉伯和伊斯兰银行的热情执行。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps this should come as no surprise.",
        "也许这本不足为奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure at the Financial Stability Board",
        "金融稳定委员会的失败"
    ],
    [
        "That needs to change: these clean, renewable energy sources promise not only zero-emission baseload power, but also a zero-emission fuel for cars and trucks, the biggest polluters of them all.",
        "这需要改变：这些清洁的可再生能源不但能生产零排放基载电力，也能为汽车和卡车提供零排放燃料，而后两者乃是最大的污染源。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the best way to help bring about a more liberal Russia – one that promises to be more stable at home and more responsible abroad – is by working with it.",
        "与此同时，促成俄罗斯更为自由开明的最佳手段是同其合作。 这样，俄罗斯国内局势更为稳定，对外更为负责。"
    ],
    [
        "To deal with disasters more effectively, countries must find the will to create an environment in which a much more developed private insurance industry can flourish.",
        "为了更有效率地处理灾难事故，各国必须达成一个共同意向，为私人保险业的进一步发展和欣欣向荣营造环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the collapse of Lehman Brothers.",
        "以雷曼兄弟的倒闭为例。"
    ],
    [
        "If this were true of all countries, the global population would start to decline after 2050 – a development that would surely be benign.",
        "如果所有国家都这样，全球人口将在2050年之后开始减少——这样的情况绝对是有益的。"
    ],
    [
        "I propose a third, more speculative reason why it may be time to stop worrying about the US current-account deficit.",
        "我提出了第三个更具猜测性的原因解释为何或许应该停止担心对美国经常项目赤字的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "And that, in turn, depends on whether it facilitates or complicates their search for goods and services that they can sell internationally.",
        "而这反过来又取决于这项技术是促进它们搜索能在国际上销售的商品和服务还是令这一过程更加复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge will be to achieve stricter controls without beggaring the world economy or inflaming national rivalries and racist sentiment.",
        "挑战在于实现更严格的控制而不是让世界经济“下跪”或煽动国家对立和种族主义情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "This would raise productivity and GDP, leading to increases in tax revenue that would partly offset the direct effect of the corporate rate reduction.",
        "这将提高生产率和国内生产总值，令税收收入增加，从而部分抵消了企业所得税下调的直接影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Center-left parties face a particularly difficult challenge, as their lower-income electoral base is lured away by anti-immigration, chauvinist competitors.",
        "中左翼政党面临特别困难的挑战，因为他们的低收入选票被反移民的沙文主义竞争者吸引走了。"
    ],
    [
        "With a slight mental stretch, one can imagine that what a country produces and trades may affect its savings and investment decisions.",
        "稍微发挥一下想象力就不难想见，一个国家的产品和贸易可能会影响其储蓄和投资决策。"
    ],
    [
        "In truth, his visit to Africa is a reward to his stalwart African-American supporters, who voted overwhelmingly for him in the November election and who remain one pillar of his base.",
        "实际上，奥巴马出访非洲是为答谢死心塌地的非洲裔美国支持者，这些人在11月大选中踊跃为他投票，现在也仍然是支撑其政治基础的支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "In the next few months, Europe’s debt crisis will most likely worsen.",
        "在未来几个月中，欧洲债务危机极有可能会继续恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "But realizing these economy-wide gains while providing a secure and portable safety net for all workers will require new ways of thinking by companies and policymakers.",
        "7%。 但在实现经济收益的同时为所有劳动者提供安全便捷的安全网需要企业和决策者适应新的思维方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, some aspects of Chinese behavior remain unsettling and complicate our relationship.",
        "但是，中国行为的某些方面还是令人不安，令我们的关系复杂化。"
    ],
    [
        "The social and economic benefits of a successful strategy cannot be overstated.",
        "成功的战略的社会和经济受益是无穷的。"
    ],
    [
        "After more than a third of a century at the UN, even Annan has come close to admitting that the Commission on Human Rights is a source of shame.",
        "经过三分之一个世纪，在联合国，即使是安南也不得不承认人权委员会是个耻辱之源。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, this would punish other countries that are innocent bystanders in the Venezuelan mess.",
        "这显然将牵连这场委内瑞拉乱局之外的其他无辜国家。"
    ],
    [
        "It has become much more capital- and skill-intensive, with greatly diminished potential to absorb large amounts of labor from the countryside.",
        "今天的制造业资本密集和技能密集程度远远更高，因此吸收大量农村劳动力的潜力大大缩小了。"
    ],
    [
        "If this proved successful, it could then move toward publishing more forceful, umpire-like decisions.",
        "如果这一步行得通，它就可以进一步出台更为有力的裁决。"
    ],
    [
        "The main impediment in China is local governments, which compete with SMEs for bank loans and inevitably crowd them out from the formal banking sector.",
        "而中小企业融资的主要障碍则是中国的地方政府，它们和中小企业争夺贷款并不出意外地将后者挤压出正式金融部门。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no final denouement that brings all the strands of a narrative into an impressive final conclusion.",
        "不存在将所有线索同时推向令人难忘的结局的剧终场景。"
    ],
    [
        "One model is the European Investment Bank, which, with €50 billion of capital, has been able to invest €400 billion.",
        "其中一个榜样就是拥有500亿欧元资本并有能力进行4000亿欧元投资的欧洲开发银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors are buying long-term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short-term investments is now close to zero.",
        "投资者正在以当前低利率买入长期债券，因为目前短期投资利率接近于零。"
    ],
    [
        "He is not alone: John Maynard Keynes predicted this possibility 85 years ago.",
        "无独有偶，约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯早在85年前就做出了同样的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Olmert reportedly did not see the need.",
        "据说奥尔默特并不认为有必要。"
    ],
    [
        "If Paris was worth a mass to the French kings of old, Bucharest is worth a yarmulke to Tudor.",
        "如果说巴黎对于法国历代帝王的价值仅止于一场弥撒，那么布加勒斯特对于都铎来说也仅等价于一顶犹太小圆帽而已。"
    ],
    [
        "They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.",
        "他们也能享有卫生设施和安全的饮用水。"
    ],
    [
        "And attempting to force a decision in the absence of consensus would vitiate one of the strongest assets the Court has had – the solidarity of its members in the face of efforts to undermine the project of an effective and independent international mechanism for justice and accountability.",
        "而试图在没有共识的情况下强制形成决议无疑将削弱法院其中一个最有力的特性——那就是每当在建立一个独立，有效，可以审判和追究犯罪责任的国际机制方面遇到困难时，各成员国所表现出来的团结。"
    ],
    [
        "Major progress in fixing these problems has already been achieved.",
        "纠正这些问题的主要进展已经实现了。"
    ],
    [
        "But in a context where the EU remains too remote from citizens and where apathy and confusion define the referendum campaign, the ‘No’ side has cleverly packaged its message of Europe as an existential threat to Irish jobs, investment and sovereignty.",
        "但是，对于民众来说欧盟还是遥远不可及，而且竞选活动充满莫不关心以及混淆。 在这一形势下，反对派聪明地把欧盟说成是对爱尔兰人工作岗位、投资以及主权的事关存亡的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "For today’s saving-short US economy, déjà vu is a painful understatement of what lies ahead.",
        "对今天的储蓄不足的美国经济来说，“往事重现”将是对未来的令人痛苦的轻描淡写。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of them has strengths and weaknesses, but none seems able to challenge Sarkozy.",
        "他们每个人均各有千秋，但是没有人可以和萨尔科奇势均力敌。"
    ],
    [
        "But this represents only a small part of the genetic program.",
        "但这只是遗传工程的冰山一角。"
    ],
    [
        "Warming from any climate pollutant is dangerous and sets in motion a series of potentially irreversible effects, including the continued rise of sea levels, destruction of forests, depletion of Arctic sea ice and glaciers in Greenland and the Tibetan Plateau, and melting of permafrost.",
        "因为任何气候污染物而变暖都是危险的，会带来一系列可能无法逆转的影响，包括海平面上升、森林破坏、北极海冰和格陵兰岛和青藏高原冰川消融、永冻土层融化等。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s world leaders appear to lack the statesmanship, the breadth of vision, and the generosity of spirit of those who created the post-1945 world order.",
        "与创立1945年后世界秩序的老一辈相比，今天的世界领导人似乎缺少政治家风度、宽广的襟怀和慷慨精神。"
    ],
    [
        "“There is no way we would have completed the NAFTA negotiation without fast track,” according to Hills.",
        "“没有便宜行事，我们就完成不了NAFTA谈判，”希尔斯说。"
    ],
    [
        "But every day must be a day when we work together to manage one of the planet’s most important resources.",
        "但我们必须日复一日通力合作，才能完成好对我们这个星球最重要的资源之一进行管理的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that the statistical models that comprise economists’ toolkit are best applied in normal times, so economists naturally like to describe the situation as normal.",
        "问题是经济学家工具箱里的统计模型最适用于正常时期，因此经济学家们自然也喜欢找正常那样描述情况。"
    ],
    [
        "As Cameron surveys the broken political crockery at the end of June, taking responsibility for such an effort – at the helm of a country that is an integral part of the EU – would be very much in his interest as well.",
        "在卡梅伦以欧盟成员国的掌舵人身份调查6月底四分五裂的政治制度时，承担起这项工作的责任同样能为他带来好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Closer relations between Europe and Turkey, Russia, and Ukraine can deliver for them many of the same benefits that we in Spain always associated with Europe.",
        "密切欧洲与土耳其、俄罗斯和乌克兰之间的关系可以为他们带来我们在西班牙总是与欧洲联系在一起的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "But Kouchner himself has often said that the murder of his Russian-Jewish grandparents in Auschwitz inspired his humanitarian interventionism.",
        "但是，库施奈尔本人经常说他的俄罗斯犹太裔祖父母在奥斯威辛集中营被害激发了他的人道干预主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Lennon trumped Lenin.",
        "此时，列农战胜了列宁。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps Harry’s 40th anniversary will provide the answers.",
        "也许哈利的40周年纪念日将告诉我们答案。"
    ],
    [
        "A massive data-mining exercise in Germany from 2001 to 2003 trawled through personal information on 8.3 million people and failed to find a single terrorist.",
        "2001年至2003年间，德国曾在对830万人的个人信息开展了一次大规模的检索式调查，结果是没有发现一名恐怖分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump may have convinced Rust Belt voters that “their” jobs are in Mexico.",
        "特朗普可以让锈带选民相信“他们的”岗位在墨西哥。"
    ],
    [
        "The plaintiffs have raised several objections to the ESM.",
        "原告提出了诸多反对ESM的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The conclusion that America has become vastly more unequal over the past 35 years is beyond doubt.",
        "伯克利—美国在过去35年中不平等性程度剧增，这一结论已是不容置疑。"
    ],
    [
        "But, after interest rates are liberalized, the public sector’s debt/GDP ratio is expected to increase substantially.",
        "但在利率放开后，公共部门债务占GDP的比率预计将会大幅增加。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, debt itself is not bad.",
        "债务本身肯定并非坏事。"
    ],
    [
        "A bankruptcy judge would approve the petition, provided the court was satisfied that the homeowner could make the reduced payments.",
        "只要破产法庭认为屋主能够偿还削减后的债务，就会批准申请。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides burying the draft constitution, it has largely sidestepped the budget issue.",
        "除了终止欧盟宪法外，它还大体上绕过了预算问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The volatility in equity prices in recent months has more to do with the peculiarities of China’s stock markets than with the country’s underlying economic fundamentals.",
        "最近几个月中的股价波动与其说与中国经济基本面有关，不如说与中国股市的特殊性有关。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been several years since private investors and states began buying and leasing millions of hectares of farmland worldwide in order to secure their domestic supply of food, raw commodities, and biofuels, or to get subsidies for carbon storage through plantations.",
        "许多年以来，私人投资者以及各个国家一直在全世界范围内购买和租赁数百万公顷的农地，以确保自身粮食，初级产品以及生物燃料的供应，又或者是用大规模种植来换取“碳储存”补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "The US cannot ignore such events, but its policy should be one of containment, influencing outcomes by nudging and reinforcing our allies, rather than trying to assert direct military control, which would be both costly and counterproductive.",
        "美国无法忽视这些情况，但其政策应该是遏制，是通过推进和强化我们的盟友影响结果，而不是直接军事控制，后者成本既高，还可能适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "These notifications have far-reaching consequences, and as we have learned, can easily be abused.",
        "上述通报能产生深远的影响，而且正如我们所看到的那样，它们有可能很容易地遭到滥用。"
    ],
    [
        "Even on marriage, many Saudis expressed surprisingly liberal views.",
        "即便在婚姻问题上，很多沙特人的观点之开放也令人震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is to be expected in such a diverse monetary union.",
        "但在如此多样化的货币联盟中，这本是应有之义。"
    ],
    [
        "The Debt Dilemma",
        "债务困境"
    ],
    [
        "When world leaders gathered at the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants on September 19, they reaffirmed migrants’ human rights and committed to strengthening global governance on this issue.",
        "9月19日，全世界领导人齐聚联合国难民和移民峰会，重申了移民的人权，并承诺加强该问题的国际治理。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly true in the Middle East, where governments are struggling to diversify their economies, in order to make them more resilient.",
        "中东地区的情况尤其如此，各国政府正努力实现经济多样化，从而使国民经济适应性得到提高。"
    ],
    [
        "On top of that, let us make a major leap of imagination and suppose that even though this scenario of the EU at “Year Zero” means we would not have a half-century of intra-European cooperation to draw on, the nations that today make up the EU would nevertheless be keen to adopt far-reaching joint policies.",
        "在此之前，让我们再发挥一下跳跃式的想象，假设尽管欧盟“零年”的情形意味着我们没有长达半个世纪的欧洲内部合作的基础，但当今组成欧盟的各国仍然渴望实施长期的共同政策。"
    ],
    [
        "One can only hope that the state can get out of the economy half as fast as it is getting in.",
        "人们只能希望国家摆脱这种经济形势的速度能比卷进来的时候慢一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "If there is no independent press able to caution against mistakes and a parliament that can do the same, then the mistakes will eventually manifest themselves on the streets.",
        "如果没有独立的新闻舆论和议会对政府的种种错误进行监督，那么最终将导致街头抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "These same words closed the meeting in March of the Climate Parliament, a forum in Brussels that brought together legislators from around the world who are committed to the fight against climate change.",
        "这句话成了三月在布鲁塞尔举行的气候议会——它把世界各地致力于应对气候变化的立法者都集中在一起——的结束语。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the discussion, Greenspan exhorted the FOMC members to keep the discussion of the inflation target secret.",
        "讨论结束后，格林斯潘要求FOMC成员们对关于通胀目标的讨论保密。"
    ],
    [
        "The danger lies in debt-fueled investment that shifts future demand to the present, without stimulating productivity growth.",
        "危险在于债务支持的投资，这种投资将未来需求提前到现在，而不会刺激生产率增长。"
    ],
    [
        "What is the real (inflation-adjusted) interest rate that the US or Western European core economies will have to pay on that extra $50 billion of debt?",
        "美国或西欧核心经济体需要为这笔500亿美元的新增债务付出怎样的真实（经通胀调整的）利率？"
    ],
    [
        "At that rate, a 20-year-old who in 1960 invested $4,000 a year in a tax-free account in the US stock market would have one million dollars by age 65 today.",
        "如果按照这个速度的话，一个于1960年在美国股票市场的免费账户中投资了4,000美元的20岁年轻人到今天65岁的时候就可以拥有一百万美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Optimists emphasize its capacity for learning and rapid accumulation of human capital.",
        "乐观者强调中国的学习能力和快速积累人力资本的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the balance of representation in parliament and government, a balance might need to be struck between the highest offices of state.",
        "除了平衡议会和政府内的代表分配，还需要在国家最高权力办公室之间找到折衷点。"
    ],
    [
        "Renzi is not alone in this.",
        "在这方面，伦齐不是孤家寡人。"
    ],
    [
        "The conclusion is clear: the development agenda should not be overloaded with governance reform.",
        "结论显而易见：发展日程不应该因为治理改革而增加负担。"
    ],
    [
        "German Banks on Top",
        "德国银行最应指责"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s Ephemeral Middle East Alliances",
        "俄罗斯的短暂中东联盟"
    ],
    [
        "While this additional cost can be borne by health-care systems in the rich world, it is excessive for poor countries, implying no, or insufficient, treatment.",
        "尽管这一成本在发达国家可以纳入医保，但穷国就无力承担了，这意味着这类肺结核得不到（有效）治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "Women with HIV, for example, are particularly prone to the disease.",
        "比方说感染艾滋病毒的女性特别容易感染宫颈癌。"
    ],
    [
        "And technology companies shrug and claim that they are “just a platform,” while they reap profits from the traffic that fake news brings in.",
        "技术公司对此不屑一顾地表示它们“只是平台”，而转身就从假新闻带来的流量中攫取利润。"
    ],
    [
        "As for natural capital, the World Bank has so far limited itself to the atmosphere as a sink for carbon dioxide, oil, and natural gas, and forests as sources of timber.",
        "就自然资本而言，世界银行直到目前为止还将其限定为吸纳二氧化碳的大气、石油、天然气和提供木材的森林。"
    ],
    [
        "But, viewed in a broader context, and using the logic of physics, important parts of the plot can be understood.",
        "但通过观察一连串事件并运用物理学的逻辑，某些情节的重要组成部分是可以为我们所理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when more radical political parties attempted to push a different agenda, powerful forces – whether moral suasion from G7 governments, private capital markets, or the conditionality attached to International Monetary Fund and World Bank lending – would almost always ensure that the consensus approach eventually won the day.",
        "即使有更多激进政党试图推行不同的日程，但强大的力量——不管是来自G7政府的到的劝告、私人资本市场，还是国际货币基金组织（IMF）和世界银行贷款的附加条件——几乎总能确保共识方针最终能够胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries now must determine how to avoid the “resource curse” – an all-too-common affliction whereby rising resource revenues lead to volatility, rent seeking, and corruption, while spurring real exchange-rate appreciation and wage increases, thereby undermining other economic sectors’ competitiveness.",
        "现在，这些国家必须决定如何避免“资源的诅咒”——这个一再发生现象说，资源收入的增加会导致动荡、寻租和腐败，同时刺激实际利率升值和工资增长，从而破坏其他经济部门的竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why we are launching the “Women Advancing Africa” initiative, which is part of our ongoing effort to amplify the voices of Africa’s underrepresented and to establish a pan-African women’s movement, in which women can come together to transform the continent.",
        "因此，我们启动了“妇女推动非洲”（Women Advancing Africa）计划，这是我们强化没有赢得足够代表的群体的声音，以及建立一个让妇女联合起来改变非洲的泛非洲妇女运动的努力的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "China has repeatedly proved its durability and adaptability.",
        "中国改革的历史一再证明其越来越市场化的经济体的耐久力和适应力。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, globalization – the immense flow across borders of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, services, currencies, commodities, television and radio signals, drugs, weapons, emails, viruses (computer and biological), and a good deal else – is a defining reality of our time.",
        "相反，全球化——人口、思想、温室气体、商品、服务、货币、商品、电视和广播信号、毒品、武器、电子邮件、电脑和生物病毒和其他种种的大面积跨境流动——是当今世界的显著特征。"
    ],
    [
        "It has no economic justification.",
        "它没有任何经济依据。"
    ],
    [
        "Given its close proximity to a deadly conflict in Syria and countries marked by extreme poverty, human-rights abuses, and weak or collapsed states and economies, the EU is inevitably a magnet for migrants and asylum-seekers.",
        "因为靠近发生致命冲突的叙利亚，靠近以极端贫困、人权践踏和政府及经济衰落崩溃闻名的战乱国家，欧盟必然像磁铁一样吸引着寻求庇护者和移民。"
    ],
    [
        "Different things work differently in different places.",
        "不同的东西在不同的地方起不同的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Radically rethinking evolutionary theory invariably attracts the attention of creationists, who gleefully announce that if professional advocates of Darwinism cannot agree, the concept must be in retreat.",
        "彻底反思进化论免不了要引起神创论者的注意，他们欢欣鼓舞地宣称，如果达尔文主义的专业支持者都不能形成一致，那么这个概念肯定在式微。"
    ],
    [
        "Should we still share his worries?",
        "我们如今是否依然应当像他那样担心呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The Europeans, China, and Russia are highly unlikely to join, not only because of financial self-interest, but also because Iran is in compliance with the JCPOA.",
        "欧洲、中国和俄罗斯都不太可能加入美国的行列，不仅是出于金融自我利益的考虑，还是因为伊朗遵守JCPOA。"
    ],
    [
        "Even China’s supersonic growth is beginning to slow; some economists, including Larry Summers, are predicting that it could grind suddenly to a halt.",
        "甚至中国的超常增长也开始回落； 拉里·萨默斯（Larry Summers）等一些经济学家预测中国可能突然陷入停顿。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, however, excessive IP protections can deter the proliferation of existing knowledge and the development of high-tech products.",
        "但是，与此同时，过度知识产权保护可能延缓现有知识的扩散和高科技产品的开发。"
    ],
    [
        "(Where the French system seems especially restrictive is with respect to temporary contracts.)",
        "（法国体系看似尤其麻烦的地方是限制临时合同。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, easing regulatory burdens is a longstanding leitmotif of the EU.",
        "平心而论，解放监管负担是欧盟的长期主旋律。"
    ],
    [
        "The same perverse outcome could be expected from the reckless fiscal policies proposed by other politicians.",
        "从其它政客嘴里喊出的鲁莽财政政策也会产生同样的负面后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s proposed guidelines recommend that countries deploy capital-account regulations only as a last resort – that is, after such measures as building up reserves, letting currencies appreciate, and cutting budget deficits.",
        "IMF的指导方案草案建议各国将资本账户管制作为最后手段，也就是说，在建立储备、允许货币升值、削减预算赤字等手段无用之后，才实施资本账户管制。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that capital markets are no longer willing to finance these deficits, prices should be going into reverse, but this, obviously, is not happening.",
        "如今资本市场已不愿再去填补这些赤字缺口，因此价格应该逆向走低，但很显然，预料中的这一切都没有发生。"
    ],
    [
        "But if nominal interest rates stay positive, while inflation is negative, then real interest rates may become too high for an economy in recession, causing recession to become more severe and prolonged.",
        "但是，如果名义利率为正数，而通货膨胀率为负数，那么对出于衰退中的经济体来说，真实的利率就太高了，而且这会导致衰退更为严重而持久。"
    ],
    [
        "And it was right on the mark to award the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for her brave advocacy of girls’ education.",
        "而授予马拉拉·尤沙夫赛（Malala Yousafzai）2014年诺贝尔和平奖也堪称实至名归。 尤沙夫赛是一位巴基斯坦花季少女，因为勇敢地宣扬女孩受教育权而遭到塔利班的枪击。"
    ],
    [
        "It marks a stark contrast with the seven decades following Japan’s defeat in 1945 in the Pacific War, when successive governments mostly outsourced foreign policy to the United States.",
        "这与1945年日本太平洋战争战败七十年来，历届政府大多将外交政策外包给美国形成了鲜明的对比。"
    ],
    [
        "Future US consumption will be greener, and the cost of climate policy reduced, if the US recovery package includes money to weatherize homes, upgrade the electricity grid, and help the auto industry improve fuel efficiency.",
        "如果美国的复苏计划包括提供资金来增加房屋的御寒性能，升级电网和帮助汽车行业提高燃料效能，未来的美国消费将更加绿色，气候政策付出的代价也会变小。"
    ],
    [
        "It encourages overconsumption, underinvestment, and rising unemployment in a rapidly aging society, and in a world that can make tremendous use of China’s high saving and industrial capacity.",
        "这一建议鼓励人口迅速老龄化的中国社会和能让中国的高储蓄和工业产能大显身手的世界过度消费、投资不足、提高失业率。"
    ],
    [
        "The dollar’s slide after 1985 made the real burden of Latin America’s dollar debt much lighter.",
        "自1985年起，美元贬值，舒缓了拉美的美元债务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Under his government, two million homes received electric power for the first time, 11 million very poor families gained the support of a minimum income (the Bolsa Família), the minimum salary grew 45% in real terms, thus benefiting 42 million people.",
        "在以他为首的政府领导下，有两百万家庭首次用上了电，一千一百万极端贫困家庭获得了最低工资补助（家庭补助金计划），最低薪酬按实值计算增长了45%，并因此惠及了四千二百万民众。"
    ],
    [
        "The “Schäuble plan,” as I have dubbed it, calls for a limited political union to support the euro.",
        "“朔伊布勒计划”（正如我之前提到的那样）要求建立一个有限的政治联盟来支撑欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-Assad rebels are now fighting each other, as jihadists make gains.",
        "反巴沙尔叛军正在相互搏斗，圣战组织正在壮大。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, when I was in the capital, Thimphu, to speak at a conference on “Economic Development and Happiness,” organized by Prime Minister Jigme Y. Thinley and co-hosted by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, I learned that it is much more than a slogan.",
        "上个月，我在不丹首都廷布举办的“经济发展和幸福会议”上讲话，才明白这不是口号而是实实在在的行动。 不丹首相吉格梅·廷莱和哥伦比亚大学地球研究所主任兼联合国秘书长潘基文的特别顾问杰弗里·萨克斯是此次会议的共同主办者。"
    ],
    [
        "However, while the US government and American companies question whether the Chinese are willing and able to enforce such rights, one must put this issue into historical perspective.",
        "然而，虽然美国政府和公司都质疑中国是否愿意并能够保护知识产权，我们必须从历史的角度来看待这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The subtitle should have been: Of Robots and Refugees.",
        "副标题应该是：机器人和难民。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the world created a baroque, bureaucratic, politicized system that systematically inhibits scientific research, plant breeding, and the creation of intellectual property.",
        "相反，世界却创造了一套复杂、官僚和政治化的制度系统，对科学研究、植物育种和知识产权创造进行全方位限制。"
    ],
    [
        "True, if one has a hammer, all problems look like nails.",
        "的确，如果你有一把锤子，所有问题看起来都像是钉子。"
    ],
    [
        "The merging of human surgical experience with machines and computerized technologies is driving neurosurgical advancement, with robotic surgery serving as an important model of the benefits of the human-machine interface.",
        "人类外科手术经验与机器和计算机化技术的结合正在推动神经外科进步，机器人手术是人机互动大有裨益的重要模式。"
    ],
    [
        "To put that task in perspective, in the last 25 years, Greece ran an average primary deficit of 2% per year.",
        "正确看待这一任务：过去25年间，希腊每年平均遭受2%的基本赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "Falling for Germany",
        "爱上德国"
    ],
    [
        "“Condemn Taiwan, of course,” he said.",
        "“当然批评台湾，”他说。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Four times in the past century, a large chunk of the industrial world has fallen into deep and long depressions characterized by persistent high unemployment: the United States in the 1930’s, industrialized Western Europe in the 1930’s, Western Europe again in the 1980’s, and Japan in the 1990’s.",
        "发自伯克利——上个世纪，世界上大多数发达国家都曾先后4次陷入以长期失业率为特征的经济萧条之中：这些萧条分别爆发在1930年代的美国，1930年代实现工业化后的西欧，1980年代再次在西欧爆发，最后则是1990年代的日本。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, for its part, also went backwards, to tsarism.",
        "在这股浪潮中，俄罗斯也回到了沙皇专制状况。"
    ],
    [
        "The relationship between sovereignty and democracy is also misunderstood.",
        "主权和民主的关系也被误解了。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTA MONICA – With India experiencing its worst drought in 140 years, Indian farmers have taken to the streets.",
        "圣莫妮卡—印度正在经历140年以来的最严重干旱，印度农民纷纷上街游行。"
    ],
    [
        "Building on this tradition, Xi can create strong institutions that will stand the test of time.",
        "根据这一传统，习近平可以建立强大的经得起时间考验的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are far more important issues – above all, freedom of speech, including the freedom to say and write things that annoy, even upset, many.",
        "但是还有一些重要得多的问题存在。 首要的就是言论自由，包括说和写会激怒甚至搅乱许多人的事情的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "That is an intricate operation and success is far from assured.",
        "这种运作非常复杂，很难保证会取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Lack of grassroots support might lead to rejection of the constitution in countries like Britain, where referenda have been promised before the new arrangements come into force.",
        "缺少来自底层的支持可能导致英国等国否决这一宪法，因为上述当局许诺在新局势成形前举行全民公决。"
    ],
    [
        "For many critics, the failure of the Iraq War proves that interventionist Western foreign policies are both futile and immoral.",
        "许多批评者认为，伊拉克战争的失败证明西方干涉主义外交政策既徒劳又不道德。"
    ],
    [
        "This also implies that if Greece could escape from its current recession, its national debt would decline, both absolutely and as a share of GDP.",
        "这也意味着，如果希腊可以走出当前的衰退，那么不管按绝对水平还是按占GDP比重计算，其国民债务都将减少。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the price boom is boosting windfall profits for the owners of oil deposits rather than improving countries' public finances.",
        "其结果是，油价的飞涨让油田主们一夜暴富，而国家的公共财政却没有因此有任何改善。"
    ],
    [
        "That, in turn, would bolster the impact of Abenomics even further.",
        "反过来，这将进一步加强安倍经济学的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "This is more than disappointing.",
        "这着实令人失望。"
    ],
    [
        "They care less about GDP growth per se and more about the labor content of the gains in output.",
        "他们较少关注GDP增长本身，而较多关注产出增量中的劳动力成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Too often, children growing up in poverty end up as poor adults.",
        "穷孩子通常最后会变成穷大人。"
    ],
    [
        "The most definitive examination of the scientific evidence is to be found in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its last major report published in 2007.",
        "对科学证据的最权威的审核可以在政府间气候变化专门委员会（ IPCC ）所做的工作中找到，此委员会最近的一项重要报告出版于2007年。"
    ],
    [
        "The article goes on to describe the streams of refugees:",
        "” 这篇文章接着描写难民潮的状况："
    ],
    [
        "We believe that it is still possible for the international community to get a good deal done.",
        "我们相信国际社会仍有可能达成良好的协议。"
    ],
    [
        "The exodus of capital will continue, and enormous compensation claims of the European core’s central banks, particularly the German Bundesbank and the Dutch central bank, will pile up.",
        "资本外逃将持续，欧洲核心国央行（特别是德国央行和荷兰央行）将发出大量的补偿要求。"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder Fischer’s quixotic pursuit of the championship led American policy mastermind Henry Kissinger to call Fischer and urge him not to back out, as he had threatened to do.",
        "毫不奇怪，费舍尔追求国际象棋世界冠军的堂吉诃德式举动惊动了美国政策智囊亨利·基辛格，基辛格打电话给费舍尔，敦促他不要退出（他曾经威胁要退出）。"
    ],
    [
        "Six thousand Americans die annually from texting or talking on the phone while driving.",
        "每年有6，000名美国人死于边开车边发短信或打电话。"
    ],
    [
        "And, of course, North Korea’s nuclear ambitions have created another nuclear crisis in East Asia.",
        "当然，朝鲜的核野心更是在东亚制造了又一次核危机。"
    ],
    [
        "This option could vastly shorten the list of products that will need to be banned outright.",
        "而这个选项则能令需要彻底禁止的金融产品数量大大减少。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Catalonia, a supposedly pro-independence and pro-sovereignty movement could end up creating a polity that is less sovereign and more at the mercy of international events.",
        "而对加泰罗尼亚而言，原本人们眼中的独立和主权运动却可能最终创造出一个不那么自主的政体，受国际事务的影响也会更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Mubarak’s government now seems to be backtracking as fast as it can.",
        "穆巴拉克政府现在正忙不迭地做出让步。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s invasion of Georgia has reshaped the strategic landscape.",
        "& & & 俄国入侵格鲁吉亚重新描划了战略大局。"
    ],
    [
        "American objectives could not be achieved in Vietnam.",
        "美国的目标无法在越南实现。"
    ],
    [
        "According to UNICEF, children who suffer from severe under-nutrition are 9.5 times more likely to die from diarrhea and 6.4 times more likely to die from pneumonia.",
        "据联合国儿童基金会统计，严重营养不良的儿童因痢疾致死的可能性高9. 5倍，因肺炎致死的可能性高6."
    ],
    [
        "But gains in measured productivity growth from this source are not permanent changes, so a large part of the reported reductions in unit labor costs are temporary.",
        "但由此产生的测得生产率增长并非永久性变化，因此当前录得的单位劳动力成本下降中有很大一部分是暂时性的。"
    ],
    [
        "The point was clear.",
        "”意思是非常清楚的。"
    ],
    [
        "The “trial” itself lasted less than an hour.",
        "“审判”本身持续时间不到 1 个小时。"
    ],
    [
        "But many commentators’ hyperbolic depiction of a “shareholders’ spring,” with its resonance of ousted Arab dictators, is inappropriate for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that the Arab Spring actually toppled regimes.",
        "但很多评论者将这夸张地称为“股东之春”，与阿拉伯世界独裁者的倒闭相提并论。 从多个角度看，这样的比喻都是不正确的，比如，阿拉伯之春是连同制度一并推翻的。"
    ],
    [
        "Breakthroughs in computing are enhancing our ability to make sense of large bodies of data, providing guidance in some of the world’s most important decisions, and potentially revolutionizing entire industries.",
        "计算的突破正在增强我们利用大量数据的能力，为某些全世界最重要的决定提供指导，并有望革命整个产业。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first, the US reverts to its bad old ways, demanding draconian policy measures by Cuba in exchange for “normal” bilateral economic relations.",
        "第一个情景是美国回到糟糕的老路，要求古巴采取严苛的政策措施换取“正常”的双边经济关系。"
    ],
    [
        "It has pursued a campaign to recover its former position not just in crude, but also in petroleum products, natural gas liquids, and petrochemicals.",
        "它采取了一项计划，不但要恢复先前在原油市场上的地位，还要捍卫石油产品、液化天然气和石油化工方面的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not surprising – an increase in body fat and a decrease in physical activity are the direct causes of type 2 (as opposed to type 1) diabetes.",
        "这毫不奇怪，因为体内脂肪的增长与体力活动的下降正是二型糖尿病（一型则相反）的直接成因。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the EU should redouble its efforts, strengthening both its criticism of Turkey's democratic backsliding and the credibility of its accession process.",
        "相反，欧盟应该加倍努力，加强对土耳其民主倒退的批评，同时也加强入盟程序的可信度。"
    ],
    [
        "But most of the wealthy know that temporary measures result only in a fleeting blip in stock prices – hardly enough to support a consumption splurge.",
        "但大部分富豪明白，暂时性手段只能造成股价的暂时波动，远远不足以支持炫耀性消费。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Not long ago, India was a poster child for political stability and economic growth among emerging economies.",
        "发自纽约——不久之前，印度还是新兴经济体中政治稳定和经济增长的楷模。"
    ],
    [
        "This could be achieved by unfunded pension obligations, which do not require that banks set aside the money in advance.",
        "这可以通过无拨付退休金机制实现，该机制不要求银行事先准备好资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Even harder to gauge was what it would take for the disaffected to say “enough is enough” and begin challenging their regime openly, defiantly, and in concert.",
        "更难以判定的是，究竟是什么令这些受压迫者“忍无可忍”并开始大胆公开地一齐挑战执政者。"
    ],
    [
        "The second school of thought takes as its starting point “power,” including the ability to exercise monopoly control or, in labor markets, to assert authority over workers.",
        "第二个思想流派以“权力”为起点——包括实施垄断控制或在劳动力市场上对工人的威权。"
    ],
    [
        "Menzies was right.",
        "”孟席斯是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2007, the Northwest Passage was ice-free for the first time in living memory.",
        "2007年，人类自有记忆以来西北航道第一次摆脱了海冰的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "So investing in the EMBI+ means that you rejoice when Wall Street analysts inform you that the country is literally starving its people in order to avoid restructuring your bonds.",
        "因此投资EMBI+意味着当华尔街分析师告诉您该国确实在让人民忍饥挨饿以避免重组您的债券时，您对此深感欣慰。"
    ],
    [
        "The Hungarian government has called for a referendum on accepting its quota of refugees set by the EU.",
        "匈牙利政府也已呼吁就是否接受欧盟设定的难民配额举行全民公决。"
    ],
    [
        "This focus on quality could explain why German exports rebounded quickly after 2009, despite the rise in nominal wages.",
        "关注质量可以解释为何德国出口商可以在2009年后迅速反弹，尽管名义工资有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "They found that this indicator correlated very well with many other governance indicators.",
        "他们发现，该指标与其他治理指标之间的相关性相当好。"
    ],
    [
        "On average, alumni make up 63% of the boards of the top 100 US universities, both public and private.",
        "平均而言，美国前100名大学（包括公立和私立）校董事会的校友代表比例为63%。"
    ],
    [
        "For today’s ordinary middle-class family, a medical mishap can become a financial catastrophe.",
        "对当今普通中产阶级家庭来说，胜一场大病就可以导致财务崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Led by China and India, developing countries were prominent among the best performing economies, expanding by 6.5% on average in 2006.",
        "以中国和印度为首的发展中国家在表现最佳的国家中尤其突出，它们在2006年平均增长了6. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa is home to several well-established, innovative banks that are well placed to offer low-cost, digital services to millions of currently unbanked African households and businesses.",
        "南非是多家老牌创新银行的总部所在地，十分有利于为数百万目前难以获得银行服务的非洲家庭和企业提供低成本数字服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1990, TB’s annual death toll has been cut nearly in half.",
        "20世纪90年代开始，肺结核的年死亡人数已减少近半数。"
    ],
    [
        "And then there is Iran.",
        "此外还有伊朗。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a few days later, we learned that what happened was not a simple accident, but a genuine nuclear catastrophe – an explosion of a Chernobyl’s fourth reactor.",
        "我们在几天以后才得知这不是一场简单的事故，而是一场真切的核子灾难，也就是切尔诺贝利核电站的四号反应堆发生了爆炸。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, deficits are almost always the product of fierce political infighting over fiscal priorities.",
        "相反，赤字几乎总是关于财政重点的激烈政治内斗的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "The courts cannot fulfill these tasks alone, especially in the time the proposal under consideration has allotted – a 48-hour weekend.",
        "法院无法单独胜任这些任务，特别是在所考虑的方案时间有限——周末的48小时——的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin in Denial",
        "否认问题的普京"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Dominos of Doom",
        "欧洲的噩运多米诺骨牌"
    ],
    [
        "Can Rubio rally a broad coalition, or will Trump win the Republican nomination?",
        "卢比奥是否能团结起一个多派系联盟，特朗普能否赢得共和党提名？"
    ],
    [
        "Still, the Japanese believe they can do better.",
        "但日本人认为他们可以做得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "For France, lifting the embargo is also an important symbol, one that recognizes China’s role in fighting Islamist terrorism.",
        "法国的对华港口解禁也代表着法国承认中国在反伊斯兰恐怖主义活动中的重要地位。"
    ],
    [
        "If that is what they conclude, they need not look far, for many such fighters have already have been trained – by Al Qaeda.",
        "如果这就是他们的结论，那么他们就不必四处寻找，因为基地组织已经训练好这样的战士了。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are ways to waste less.",
        "但我们可以有减少浪费的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "This acceptance was manifested in a constitutional structure that gave the Bosnian Serb region quasi-independence and the power to obstruct the emergence of an effective central government in Sarajevo.",
        "而这种容忍则通过一个给予波斯尼亚塞族区域准自治权以及遏制出现一个强有力的萨拉热窝中央政府的权力的宪法架构体现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "What globalization requires, therefore, are smart government policies.",
        "因此全球化所需要的就是明智的政府政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The slow growth of the eastern part of the country has pulled down the Germany-wide average, while the enormous demand for public funds in the east has increased public debt.",
        "德国东部的缓慢发展拖了整个国家的后腿，而东部对公共资金的巨额需求又大大加重了整个国家的债务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that both parties increasingly defend the interests of the rich, though Republicans do so slightly more than Democrats.",
        "这意味着两大党都不断为富人的利益辩护，只不过共和党的作为比民主党稍稍多一点而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Such calls face two limitations: the EIB itself is careful not to jeopardize its financial rating by taking on too much risk, and its loans easily substitute for private financing.",
        "这一要求面临两大局限：欧洲投行本身很谨慎，不会轻易拿自己的金融评级冒险，而其贷款也很容易取代私人融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, in Kosovo, unemployment stood at 45% six years after its war ended.",
        "但在科索沃，战争结束6年后失业率仍高达45%。"
    ],
    [
        "How do we explain this resurgent radicalism, which seems to ignore European and international political realities?",
        "激进主义的复苏看似不顾欧洲和国际的现实，对此我们如何解释呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinians will have to decide whether to make the position of PNA president a powerful one or merely symbolic, as it now is. The latter option would make Qurei an empowered prime minister, which is what many Palestinians and others want.",
        "巴勒斯坦人要决定民族权力机构的主席是只起象征作用还是像现在一样实权在握，后一种选择会使库赖像很多巴勒斯坦人和其它人所希望的那样手握重权。"
    ],
    [
        "In Turkey, polarization does not have the same political costs as it does elsewhere: Given a weak system of checks and balances, the Turkish executive still has ample room to manage the state’s affairs.",
        "在土耳其，极化带来的政治成本与其他国家不尽相同：由于缺少制衡机制，土耳其执政者由充分的余地管理国家事务。"
    ],
    [
        "At the opposite end of the spectrum, the dramatic semi-final between France and Germany in Seville in 1982 produced no political ripples, either for diplomatic relations between the two countries or for relations between the two peoples.",
        "而另一边，在1982年的塞维利亚，法德之间充满戏剧性的半决赛在两国的外交关系和两国人民的关系上都没有引起政治涟漪。"
    ],
    [
        "Not since the days of gunboat diplomacy a century ago has a yanqui leader treated the countries south of the US border and their citizens so badly.",
        "自一个世纪前的舰炮外交时代以来，还没有一位扬基领导人如此恶劣地对待美国边境以南的国家和这些国家的公民。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten years later, we may be witnessing yet another ironic outcome in the region: At least for the time being, Israel seems to be the only clear winner of the “Arab Spring” revolutions.",
        "事隔十年，我们似乎见证了该地区另一个颇具讽刺意味的结果：至少到现在为止，以色列似乎成了“阿拉伯之春”革命运动中唯一确实的赢家。"
    ],
    [
        "Under this framework, multilateral cooperation in combating terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction was offered to the region’s main actors.",
        "在这个框架之下，本地区的所有主要政治力量都获得了在对抗恐怖主义和大规模杀伤性武器扩散方面进行国际多边合作的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s job market demands skills based on problem-solving, critical thinking, modern languages, and technology, but Arab educational systems generally remain traditional, rote-based, and authoritarian.",
        "当今的就业市场需要那些以问题解决为导向，具备批判性思维，掌握现代语言和技术的高技能人才，但阿拉伯世界的教育体系却依然大体停留在传统化，机械式死记硬背以及一言堂的层面上。"
    ],
    [
        "After relying on resource rents for decades, these governments must switch not only to new growth models, but also to more representative governance.",
        "在长达数十年依赖资源租金后，这些政府必须不仅转向新的增长模式，而且转向更具代表性的治理制度。"
    ],
    [
        "As such, marriage is inescapably to a member of the opposite sex.",
        "因此，婚姻永远应该由不同性别的成员组成。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite all of this, regulators should thank Hensarling for pushing forward the concept of a flexible tradeoff framework.",
        "尽管存在上述问题，但监管机构应该感谢亨萨林提出了一个灵活框架权衡的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "It is one of the oldest states in the broader Middle East, with a deep culture.",
        "伊朗是中东地区历史最悠久的国家之一，具有深厚的文化底蕴。"
    ],
    [
        "Donors as well as recipients must ensure consistency between financing and absorptive capacity.",
        "捐助者和受援者必须保证财政支持和吸纳能力之间的一致性。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Lebanon’s security and independence hinges on Syria, and Syria is one of the main actors in the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors.",
        "另外，黎巴嫩的安全和独立也与叙利亚息息相关，叙利亚也在以色列和其阿拉伯邻国之间的冲突中扮演着重要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet kicking the can down the road is hardly the negotiators’ only option.",
        "但拖延并非谈判者的唯一选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Both features increased global savings.",
        "这两大特征都增加了全球储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "The economist Friedrich Hayek put it well in 1945:",
        "经济学家哈耶克在1945年很好地说明了这一点："
    ],
    [
        "PITTSBURGH – The Wall Street Journal recently ran a front-page article reporting that the monetary-policy “doves,” who had forecast low inflation in the United States, have gotten the better of the “hawks,” who argued that the Fed’s monthly purchases of long-term securities, or so-called quantitative easing (QE), would unleash faster price growth.",
        "匹兹堡—《华尔街日报》最近刊登了一篇头版文章报道，说预测美国通胀将保持低位的货币政策“鸽派”已经压倒了认为美联储每月购买长期证券的计划，即所谓的量化宽松（QE）将加速物价上涨的“鹰派”。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than establishing an enforcement mechanism to keep countries on track to meeting their targets, the agreement relies on a “facilitative dialogue” on collective progress to sustain momentum.",
        "该协定并未制定执行机制促使各国实现目标，而是依靠关于集体进步的“促进对话”保持势头。"
    ],
    [
        "Some collapse and, unable to reach food or water, soon die, their fate irrelevant to the economics of the enterprise as a whole.",
        "一些病倒了，无法够到食物和水，很快就会死去。 而它们的命运并不影响饲养企业的整体经济情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, the military was widely regarded as Turkish society’s most powerful and cohesive institution.",
        "直到不久前，军方还被公认为土耳其社会最强大、最有凝聚力的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "They don’t shout at large mobs, but are slick performers in radio and TV studios, and are savvy users of social media.",
        "他们不会面对大群民众拼命叫喊，但却是电台和电视台演播室熟练的表演者，同时他们精通社交媒体的运用。"
    ],
    [
        "In Tanzania, where I worked for three years in rural communities, we helped villages in the Southern Highlands adapt our poverty indicators to the local context in order to tackle water, sanitation, and electrification needs.",
        "我在坦桑尼亚农村社区工作了三年，帮助南方高地（Southern Highlands）的村庄根据本地环境采取我们的贫困指标解决水、卫生和电气化需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi carries a huge burden on his shoulders.",
        "习近平的肩上担子很重。"
    ],
    [
        "The West needs to get out before the bloodletting starts again in earnest.",
        "西方需要在流血再次全面重启之前离开。"
    ],
    [
        "If an insect was introduced into the box, rules governed that, too.",
        "对于箱子里放入昆虫的情况也有相关规定。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is also developing ways to respond to new global challenges through changes to its Common Agricultural Policy.",
        "欧盟还在制定措施，通过改变其共同农业政策来应对新的全球挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "(Neo-Ricardians would argue that public debt in the hands of people is worthless, because consumers internalize their children’s future tax payments by holding debt certificates.",
        "（新李嘉图学派会说，人民手里的公共债务毫无价值可言，因为消费者通过持有债务凭证将子女的未来税收支出内部化了。"
    ],
    [
        "But since 1984, the share of monopoly profits has risen steadily; it reached 23% of total income produced by American corporations in 2015.",
        "但从1984年开始，垄断利润的比例稳步增长； 到2015年，垄断利润已占美国公司所创造的总收益的23%。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s health service justly receives much better reviews than the United Kingdom’s.",
        "法国的医疗服务收到的评论比英国要好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1977, it was 75 grams/day, and in 1994, up to 110 grams/day.",
        "1977年，糖摄入量达到了75克/天，1994年更是上升为110克/天。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposal is to work with some half-dozen pilot schools, including a secondary school in the United Arab Emirates, high schools in the US and Europe, and a secondary school in Lebanon that is taking in Syrian refugee students.",
        "具体方案是与六所试点学校合作，包括阿拉伯联合酋长国的一所中学、美国和欧洲的几所高中以及接收叙利亚难民学生的一所黎巴嫩初中。"
    ],
    [
        "There some 1,500 Africans process American health-insurance claims - working around the clock, in three shifts.",
        "有大约1500名非洲人在这里24小时三班倒地工作，处理来自美国的健康保险索赔。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries benefited the most from QE-induced capital inflows, and they were the first to come under pressure when it looked like the spigot was about to be turned off.",
        "这些国家从量化宽松政策催生的资本流入中受益最大，一旦水闸看似即将关闭，它们也会首当其冲受到压力。"
    ],
    [
        "That led to a catastrophic global trade war, which many believe turned a serious recession into the Great Depression.",
        "这导致了灾难性的全球贸易战，许多人认为这导致了严重衰退演变为大萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "Does the birth of the G-20 strengthen the Atlantic security relationship, or does it contain the seeds of NATO’s eventual demise?",
        "而 G20 集团的催生是否强化了大西洋安全关系，还是将导致北约的最终消亡？"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s enlargement policy is not merely some expensive, expendable annoyance; it is a vital component of the EU’s security and outward projection of power.",
        "欧盟的扩张政策并不只是一些昂贵、消耗性质的聒噪； 而是欧盟安全和外向实力工程的关键要素。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is difficult to see how this hodge-podge will “strengthen economic governance” or clarify the Pact’s implementation.",
        "但很难指望这些五花八门的新规定真能“加强经济管理”或明确《协议》的执行规则。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be able to perform and report worldwide surveillance – i.e., count numbers of cases and fatalities – but its policy role should be drastically reduced.",
        "它或许可以组织实施全球范围内的监督和报告——即统计发病和死亡人数——但它的政策作用应该受到严格的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, Physicians for Human Rights has issued its report documenting American-held detainees’ traumas, and even lie detector tests confirm they have been tortured.",
        "现在，医生促进人权协会已经发表报告，证明被美国控制的被押人员有外伤，而且，甚至测谎测试都确认了这些被押人员被拷打过。"
    ],
    [
        "Doctors have made many errors that they could have avoided had these principles been applied.",
        "如果医生们能运用这些原则的话那他们本可以避免许多错误。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that only structural transformation can lift a middle-income developing country to high-income developed status.",
        "事实上，只有结构转型能让发展中国家步入高收入发达水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But the ground under the euro may well begin to shift if things don’t change.",
        "但是，如果不改变目前的做法，欧元的根基可能就不会那么稳固了。"
    ],
    [
        "But Americans are in no mood to celebrate.",
        "但美国人没兴趣庆祝。"
    ],
    [
        "The smoking gun is supposedly the €400 billion annual shortfall relative to 2007.",
        "铁证就是相对于2007年，每年据信出现了4,000亿欧元投资。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, as machines become increasingly capable, robots are replacing a growing number of workers.",
        "举例来讲，随着机械能力的提高，机器人正在取代越来越多工人的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, he argued that it was an oversupply of money that caused inflation.",
        "同时，他认为，是货币供应过量造成了通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, most of the evidence suggests that the latest immigrants are assimilating at least as quickly as their predecessors.",
        "事实上，大多数证据表明，最新的移民的同化速度一点都不亚于他们的先辈。"
    ],
    [
        "The Year of Betting Conservatively",
        "谨慎之年"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the economically illiterate, seeing misery all around from lost jobs, foreclosed homes, and the ever more apparent decline in America’s international status, are distilling their frenzy from obsolete advocates of fiscal rectitude, while clutching their Bibles and espousing a juvenile understanding of the US constitution.",
        "对经济问题一无所知的美国人在目睹身边失业、房屋止赎的悲惨景象和美国国际地位江河日下的同时，一边从财政清廉的过时主张中汲取狂热，一边紧紧抓住手里的圣经，拥护对美国宪法做出的幼稚解读。"
    ],
    [
        "One solution is just to go ahead and reform anyway, regardless of the resistance.",
        "一种办法是不管人们可能的反对，径直推行改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Savulescu proposes that instead of trying to detect whether an athlete has taken drugs, we should focus on measurable indications of whether an athlete is risking his or her health.",
        "Savulescu提议我们应该关注那些显示运动员是否在冒损害健康的风险的可测量指标，而不是检测他们服用了什么药物。"
    ],
    [
        "Force cannot accomplish everything.",
        "武力不是万能的。"
    ],
    [
        "They have a point: with the Shia in power in Iraq, Iran will seek suitable opportunities to use local Shia populations as proxies to assert its hegemonic claims.",
        "他们其实有一定道理：由于什叶派在伊拉克掌权，伊朗会寻找适当时机利用当地什叶派人口代理维护其霸权要求。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a desperate need to re-establish consensus on how to address atrocity crimes so extreme that they may require a military response.",
        "目前迫切需要就如何应对需要军事介入的极端暴力犯罪重建共识。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why anyone, even a relatively unknown intellectual like Liu Xiaobo, who challenges the legitimacy of Communist Party rule by demanding multi-party elections, must be crushed.",
        "这就是为什么任何挑战共产党统治的合法性，提倡多党制的人，即便如刘晓波这样鲜为人知的学者，都必须被打倒。"
    ],
    [
        "The potentially fatal flaw in Obamacare is the very same feature that appeals most to its supporters: the ability of even those with a serious preexisting health condition to buy insurance at the standard premium.",
        "奥巴马医改的潜在致命漏洞正是其吸引大部分支持者的特色：已经存在严重健康状况的人也可以以标准费用购买保险。"
    ],
    [
        "To this must be added another feature that Young described: meritocracy means only that another ruling group closes the gates behind it once it has achieved its status.",
        "这里必须要加上一条杨所描述的特色：精英统治意味着统治集团又一次在达到目的后关上了身后的大门。"
    ],
    [
        "That distinction could make a huge difference to millions of people.",
        "而这一差别将对数百万人的生活造成巨大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Open Education promises to turn the current textbook production pipeline into a vast dynamic knowledge ecosystem that is in a constant state of creation, use, reuse, and improvement.",
        "开放教育将会把当前的课本生产转换为庞大的、充满活力的知识生态体系。 这一体系处于不断创新、使用、重新使用以及提高的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "At present, export subsidies and support payments represent less than 1% of the European agricultural budget, and the EU has undertaken to eliminate them once it receives reciprocal undertakings from major food-exporting countries.",
        "目前，出口补贴以及援助款项只占欧洲农业预算的1%不到，而且欧盟已经开始在得到其他主要食品出口国家对等许诺的时候消除它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin is a gifted tactician, but not a strategic thinker.",
        "普京是个天才的战术家，但却不具备战略天赋。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, fiscal and monetary policies to sustain full-employment levels of aggregate demand are critical.",
        "首先，保持充分就业和总需求的财政和货币政策至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the new NSC will be responsible for sharing intelligence with other countries, including the US, Japan’s most important ally.",
        "比如，新的NSC将负责与其他国家（包括日本最重要盟友美国）共享情报。"
    ],
    [
        "He garnered the same vast, worldwide, enduring admiration as Yehudi Menuhin.",
        "他像耶胡迪·梅纽因一样收获了全球民众同样博大而经久不衰的敬佩之情。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when Russia was taking a more pacific course, NATO – unlike the Warsaw Pact – was not dismantled.",
        "随着俄罗斯和平的对外战略，北约并没有象华约那样解散。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether the end of “dollar diplomacy,” which the economist Barry Eichengreen predicts, will necessarily mean the rise of renminbi diplomacy.",
        "问题在于，经济学家巴里·艾肯格林（Barry Eichengreen）预测的 “美元外交”的结束是否必然意味着人民币外交的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s largest bank holding companies receive an implicit government subsidy, because they are perceived to be “too big to fail.”",
        "美国最大的银行控股公司接受着政府的隐性补贴，因为它们被认为是“太大而不能倒”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fund, financed by developed countries, is designed to help developing countries meet the costs of mitigating and adapting to climate change.",
        "该基金由发达国家出资，目的是帮助发展中国家承担减轻和适应气候变化的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Broad educational policies equip an increasing share of Sweden’s population with basic education, thereby enhancing their employability.",
        "广泛的教育政策使越来越多的瑞典人具有基础教育水平，从而增强了他们的就业能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But so would a scenario in which a sudden bond-market crash drags down prices of stocks and housing.",
        "但债券市场突然崩盘拉低股票和房产价格也不符合历史经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Pension funds and other equity investors would incur further losses.",
        "5万亿美元的损失。 退休基金和其他股票投资者将带来进一步损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Organization for Migration estimates that from 2005 to 2014, some 40,000 people died attempting to cross a border.",
        "国际移民组织估算，从2005年到2014年，大约40,000人在试图穿越边境时丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Flawed Banking Union",
        "有缺陷的欧洲银行联盟"
    ],
    [
        "Observers might then read his recent efforts to improve relations with Japan, not to mention Vietnam, as a genuine strategic shift, rather than a temporary tactical adjustment.",
        "观察者将把他最近缓和对日本（还有越南）关系的措施视为真正的战略变化，而不仅是临时性战术调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody wants war on the Korean Peninsula.",
        "没有人希望朝鲜半岛爆发战争。"
    ],
    [
        "There were some ups and downs along the way, but the overall trend has been downward, and the magnitude of the decline – nearly five percentage points – is striking.",
        "在此期间利率有所起伏，但总体上呈下降趋势，且下降的幅度—近5个百分点—是惊人的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in key markets around the US, four years into the housing slump, home prices continue to fall.",
        "此外，在房地产陷入萧条四年后，美国主要市场房价仍然在下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics charge that these accomplishments, as well as efforts to unblock the stalemates in Sudan and Burma, have been achieved at the price of giving up moral clarity on human rights.",
        "批评者不仅对这些成绩视而不见，同时对在苏丹和缅甸问题上的僵局的突破也嗤之以鼻，说这是放弃人权的道德标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s success in mediating between Israel and Hamas demonstrated that Islamists can be flexible – even when it comes to Israel.",
        "埃及总统穆尔西在以色列和哈马斯之间的成功调停表明伊斯兰组织是有弹性的，即便面对的是以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "When investment moves back into dollars, the currency fluctuations in these less liquid markets can become excessive.",
        "当投资流回美元时，这些流动性较差的市场的货币就会过度波动。"
    ],
    [
        "Ambitious goals provide a firm foundation for a brighter future.",
        "宏大目标位更光明的未来打下坚实基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Several years ago, it still made sense for the Fed to do cartwheels to bring down long-term borrowing costs.",
        "几年前，美联储花样百出拉低长期借贷成本仍有其意义。"
    ],
    [
        "She is beautiful, energetic, resolute, and in many ways surprising.",
        "她端庄秀丽，充满活力，敢做敢为，而且在许多方面还令人惊讶。"
    ],
    [
        "According to this view, no particles exist where they have insufficient energy to be; it is simply that in some universes they have more energy than average, and in others, less.",
        "根据这一诠释，在没有足够能量的情况下粒子是不存在的； 在某些宇宙中它们拥有比平均水平更多的能量，而在其他宇宙中则较少。"
    ],
    [
        "But inflation targeting was never an obvious concept, and the financial crisis has discredited it.",
        "然而，通货膨胀目标法却从未成为一种明确的理念，而且这次金融危机也使它丧失了信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Two recent bipartisan bills – which seem to have the support of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, among others – link such reforms directly to federal infrastructure funding.",
        "两项最近的两党法案——众议长保罗·瑞恩（Paul Ryan）和其他人似乎对这两个法案持支持态度——将这些改革和联邦基础设施资金直接挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "The West has already isolated Gaza’s Hamas-controlled government.",
        "西方已经孤立了哈马斯控制之下的加沙政府。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot afford to drive blind into the nanotechnology future.",
        "我们不能够一头雾水地冲进纳米技术的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps they believe they can no longer bear the agony of life; once they have “settled the score” for the perceived slights that have produced it, there is no reason left to live.",
        "也许他们认为他们已经不堪忍受生活的痛苦； 一旦他们“清算了”他们认为造成这一痛苦的侮辱，他们也没有继续存活在世上的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "A strong, durable economic recovery would make such an approach workable.",
        "一个强劲且持续的经济复苏将使这一方式变得可行。"
    ],
    [
        "A two-year €400 billion ($510 billion) public-investment program, financed with European Investment Bank bonds, would be the best way to overcome Europe’s current impasse.",
        "由欧洲投资银行（European Investment Bank）债券提供资金的两年期4,000亿欧元公共投资计划将是欧洲克服当前困局的最好办法。"
    ],
    [
        "And it explains his astonishing pronouncement earlier this year when he accepted his Justice and Development Party’s nomination to be its presidential candidate: “We are the people.",
        "这也解释了他在今年早些时候接受其所在的正义和发展党（Justice and Development Party）总统候选人提名时令人震惊的话：“我们是人民。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the prominent feminist lawyer Asma Jahangir has 24-hour armed guards.",
        "确实，知名女权主义律师阿斯玛·嘉翰戈尔就处在24小时的武装保护之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Bankers, consultants, and engineers earned much higher wages than their industrial-age forebears.",
        "银行家、咨询师和工程师的收入远远高于他们工业时代的前辈。"
    ],
    [
        "This is no time for Europe to rest on its laurels – particularly with the United States moving to extract itself from two wars and confronting isolationist urges.",
        "欧洲还远没有到可以在功劳簿上睡大觉的程度——特别是在美国抽身两场战争、面临孤立主义思潮时。"
    ],
    [
        "The net result is that money is being parked temporarily in low-yield investments in the US, although this cannot be the long-run trend.",
        "其直接的结果就是资金被暂时停泊在低投资回报率的美国，虽然这不会是一个长期趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that Foshan’s ratio of bank credit to GDP in 2011 was only 85% – much lower than Shanghai’s 184% and Beijing’s 221% – the city could use land as collateral to borrow money to expand investment.",
        "可是，2011年，佛山的银行信用占GDP之比只有85%——远低于上海的184%和北京的221%——因此佛山在客观条件上应该比其它高负债地区更有条件使用土地作为抵押贷款来扩大投资。"
    ],
    [
        "If Trump opts for a purely military approach, he will find that every “victory” merely creates space for more violence and terror.",
        "如果特朗普选择纯军事干预，他将发现每一场“胜利”都会给更多的暴力和恐怖制造空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, progress should be measured, not only so that policymakers, companies, and health systems can be held accountable, but also so that others can emulate their successes.",
        "此外，应定期衡量目标的进展状况，这不仅是要让决策者、企业和医疗系统各负其责，也是要让他们的成功可以被其他国家所仿效。"
    ],
    [
        "The talks will be direct, will follow a brief and precise thematic agenda, and will be conducted within a defined time horizon.",
        "双方将在规定的时间范围内，依据简短精确的主题议程直接展开对话。"
    ],
    [
        "It is geographical: a division of territory and a separation of homelands that involves painful but conceivable compromises on both sides.",
        "这一办法是地理上的，也就是分割领土，这需要双方都做出痛苦但是可行的妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "On my recent visit to Australia, we signed an agreement to relocate a space surveillance radar to Western Australia.",
        "我最近访问澳大利亚时签署了一项将空间防御雷达迁移至西澳大利亚州的协议。"
    ],
    [
        "This, too, is wrong-headed.",
        "这也是固执错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Eggs contaminated that year with melamine caused kidney stones and renal failure in children.",
        "同年遭三聚氰胺污染的鸡蛋导致儿童发生肾结石和肾功能衰竭。"
    ],
    [
        "An external assessment that attempts to account for the whole of the economy – and calculates the budget contribution on this basis – should increase tax efficiency.",
        "试图计算整个经济——并以此为基础计算预算贡献——的外部评估应该可以增加税收效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, civil rights guarantee equal treatment before the law and equal access to public services such as education.",
        "最后，公民权保障在法律面前人人平等，比方说平等地接受公共服务和教育。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of African households that sleep under insecticide-treated bed nets has risen from 3% to 53%, and malaria deaths have fallen by one-third.",
        "可以睡在杀虫蚊帐里的非洲家庭比例从3%增加到53%，疟疾致死人数也下降了三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "And he has ruled out additional temporary fiscal measures aimed at job creation, like President Barack Obama’s proposals for additional grants to states and additional infrastructure spending.",
        "他还承诺不会出台更多的旨在创造就业机会的暂时性财政措施，比如奥巴马总统增加州补助金和基础设施支出的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "For those whose skills have lost value and whose jobs are threatened by automation, this hardly counts as “progress.”",
        "对那些技能已经失去价值并且工作受到自动化威胁的人而言，这很难被视为“进步”的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "But the tools needed to hedge such risks should be made available to everyone.",
        "但用于规避这些风险的工具应该能被所有人利用。"
    ],
    [
        "But wealthier countries can benefit as well, because digital financial inclusion, when rolled out well, increases consumer activity and trade.",
        "但发达国家也能从中获益，因为数字普惠金融如果运转良好的话，可以增加消费活动和贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Context has been lost.",
        "事情的前因后果都被省略掉了。"
    ],
    [
        "Allowing free elections and true political competition is also critically important, but this should follow economic reforms, not precede them.",
        "允许自由选举和真正的政治竞争同样至关重要，但这应该在经济改革之后，而不是在其之前进行。"
    ],
    [
        "If these reforms are not trumped by efforts to maintain high growth at all costs, the region could not only clean itself up while continuing to prosper, but could also establish a model for all of China.",
        "如果这些改革的努力不被不惜任何代价保持高发展的观念所埋没的话，这个地区不但可以在保持繁荣的同时维持自身的清洁，而且可以为整个中国树立样板。"
    ],
    [
        "In the modern US economy, the scheduled changes constitute more of a fiscal “slope” – meaning that the full effect of the tax increases would not be felt immediately (income withholding takes time to adjust), while the spending cuts would also be phased in (the government has some discretion regarding implementation).",
        "在现代美国经济史上，安排好的变化所组成的更多地是财政“斜坡”——增税的全部效应并不会马上感觉得到（收入扣减需要时间来调整），而支出削减也是逐步显现威力（政府在实施方面拥有一定的自由裁量权）。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – In blatant violation of the Maastricht Treaty, the European Commission has come forward with one bailout plan after another for Europe’s distressed economies.",
        "慕尼黑— 欧洲委员会公然践踏马斯特里赫特条约，一次又一次地制定援助计划挽救欧洲受困经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "Workers who lose their jobs receive only 39 weeks of limited unemployment benefits, and are then left on their own.",
        "失业的工人仅仅得到39个星期的有限失业救助，之后只能自谋出路。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the first things that our new PYD liberators/occupiers did after declaring victory was to display their own foreign identity by installing a huge portrait of the PKK’s jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan.",
        "我们新的民主联盟党解放者/占领者在宣布胜利后所做的第一件事就是修建一座库尔德工人党被监禁领袖阿卜杜拉·奥贾兰的巨型雕像。"
    ],
    [
        "A New Century’s New Technologies",
        "新世纪的新技术"
    ],
    [
        "The other leg of the argument for reducing the national debt has to do with the “burden on future generations.”",
        "国债削减论的另一个注腿则与“子孙后代的负担”有关。"
    ],
    [
        "We also have evidence that says that these dormant cells may resist most current treatments.",
        "同时也有证据证明这些休眠细胞可以抵抗目前大多数治疗方案。"
    ],
    [
        "This type of insurance is very different from existing high-deductible policies.",
        "此类保险与现存可抵税保单大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s tax bill will leave millions of potential consumers far worse off.",
        "特朗普的税收法案将让数百万潜在消费者变得更穷。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Baltic Sea Region we have a particularly difficult history to deal with, if we look at the last 90 years.",
        "如果我们回顾过去的90年，波罗的海地区有着一段让我们特别难以应对的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "COLOGNE – A little-discussed but crucial factor in the debate over wealth transfers from Europe’s more economically sound north to its troubled south is the relationship between public debt, GDP, and private wealth (households’ financial and non-financial assets, minus their financial liabilities) – in particular, the ratio of private wealth to GDP in the eurozone countries.",
        "科隆—在关于从北欧经济坚挺国到南欧经济疲软国的财富转移的争论中，有一个关键因素很少得到讨论，这就是公债、GP和私人财富（家庭金融和非金融资产减去金融债务）之间的关系，特别是欧元区国家私人财富相对GDP只比。"
    ],
    [
        "Summoning Massu’s successor, General Jean Crépin, de Gaulle told him, “The Europeans do not want the Arabs to make a choice, [but] the Muslims do not want to be Bretons.",
        "戴高乐召见马苏的后继者让克雷将军，告诉他“欧洲人不想让阿拉伯人作出选择，[但]穆斯林人不想步布列塔尼亚人的后尘。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration claims that more research is needed before any action is taken.",
        "布什政府声称在采取任何行动之前还需要进行更多的研究。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama is unlikely to find much refuge from domestic struggles in the last redoubt of previous lame-duck presidents: foreign policy.",
        "奥巴马 不可能从此前的“跛脚鸭总统”（lame-duck presidents）的最后避风港——外交政策中找到国内斗争避难所。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Russia’s arms exports have decreased considerably since the Soviet period, its revenue per transaction is now greater because Russian firms have yielded much of the lower-end market to less expensive suppliers like China, India, and other former Soviet bloc allies.",
        "尽管俄国的武器出口自苏联时代以来大为减少，但是，由于俄国公司将其大部分低端市场转向较为便宜的供货者，例如中国、印度和其他前苏联集团盟国，其每笔交易的收入反而更大了。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Saving Perils",
        "美国的储蓄危机"
    ],
    [
        "“Science needs us” is how Armanda Kouassi, an industrial engineer and former Mastercard Foundation scholar, puts it.",
        "“科学需要我们”是前万事达基金会学者兼工业工程师阿曼达·库瓦希的言辞。"
    ],
    [
        "Without support from the middle classes of rich nations, it will be difficult to maintain a global trade regime as open as the one we have had in recent years.",
        "没有来自富裕国家中产阶级的支持，很难维持像我们在最近几年拥有的那样开放的全球贸易体制。"
    ],
    [
        "With North Korea’s announcement of plans to use an Unha-3 rocket to launch its Bright Star-3 satellite into earth orbit in mid-April, the newest threat is a continuation of an old one.",
        "朝鲜宣布计划在4月中旬用银河三号（Unha-3）火箭将光明行三号卫星送入地球轨道，这一新威胁是旧威胁的继续。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the few good ideas contained in the Lisbon Strategy was to remove barriers to trade in services.",
        "里斯本战略包含的少数明智之策是消除服务贸易壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "Sky-high commodity prices, rock-bottom dollar interest rates, and ample international liquidity are what Chile hopes for in the rest of the world; they are also precisely what Chile got since 2010.",
        "智利希望从外部得到高企的商品价格、极低的美元利率和充足的国际流动性； 而自2010年以来，这些都得到了满足。"
    ],
    [
        "But this need not be a foregone conclusion.",
        "然而悲剧也不是完全不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "(Until the 2010 G-20 summit where that pledge was made, China had the same voting rights as Belgium.)",
        "（在2010年该做出该承诺的二十国集团峰会前，中国的投票权与比利时相当。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Who saw that sudden and rapid transformation coming?",
        "谁能预见到那场突然而快速的变革？"
    ],
    [
        "That means signing digital free-trade agreements and creating a true European digital single market out of today’s fragmented 28 national jurisdictions.",
        "这意味着签署数字自由贸易协定，创造真正的、统一现今28个各自为政的国家法律管辖区的单一欧洲数字市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Two major factors limit China’s soft power, as measured by recent international polls.",
        "从最近的国际民调看，两个主要因素制约了中国的软实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider that in 2003, the test scores of 28% of Turkish students could be explained by their socioeconomic standing – in other words, the poorer the pupil, the lower his or her PISA scores.",
        "2003年，土耳其学生考试分数的28%可以归因于他们的社会经济地位——换句话说，越穷的学生，其PISA分数越低。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers before they failed, MF Global had huge short-term, repo-based debt.",
        "正如贝尔斯登和雷曼兄弟在倒闭前情况一样，曼氏金融有着巨额基于回购协议的短期债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Optimists point to the shale-energy revolution in the US.",
        "乐观者指向了美国的页岩能源革命。"
    ],
    [
        "At the Paris climate talks last year, we witnessed the power of global collective action to address climate change.",
        "在去年的巴黎气候谈判上，我们看到了全球合作解决气候变化问题的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "If Le Pen somehow comes out on top, French politics – not to mention the European Union – will be turned upside.",
        "如果勒庞以某种形式最终胜出，法国的政治——更不要说欧盟——将会被彻底颠覆。"
    ],
    [
        "Jihad or Murder?",
        "圣战还是谋杀？"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Brazil’s banking regulations now require accounting for environmental risk.",
        "同样，巴西的银行法规现在要求对环境风险进行评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this must be set large-scale deterioration in the economic situation of all Kosovars, Albanian and Serbian (44% unemployment), widespread criminalization, and the fact that under NATO rule, Kosovo was ethnically cleansed of half its Serb minority.",
        "在这一情况下，所有科索沃人、无论是阿族还是塞族的经济形势都大幅度恶化(失业率高达44%)，犯罪丛生。 同时，在北约管理下，科索沃一半的塞族少数人口被清理掉了。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be the result of, among other things, the increasing and now relentless onslaught of advertising and public relations.",
        "除了其他原因之外，这可能来自于不断增长且极大地冲击着人们心灵的广告和公共关系。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, “Africa rising” need not mean “all” of Africa.",
        "毕竟，“非洲崛起”不必是“全部”非洲的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "This left monetary policy the only available stimulus tool.",
        "这让货币政策变成了唯一可用的刺激手段。"
    ],
    [
        "In order for this part of the law to go ahead, the Supreme People’s Court issued judicial interpretations that set out who can be designated a company receiver and the amount and type of compensation they can be paid.",
        "为了促进这一部分法律的实施，最高人民法院对谁能成为一间公司的 破产案产业管理人 ，接管的程度以及他们可以获得的补偿发布了司法解释。"
    ],
    [
        "With the exception of Central America, rising commodity prices have improved the external accounts and fiscal positions of Latin American countries.",
        "除中美地区外，商品价格暴涨已经改善了拉美国家的境外账户和财政状况。"
    ],
    [
        "(Nine years after Israel’s bombing raid on Iraq’s nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981, Saddam Hussein was nevertheless within a year of having an atomic bomb.)",
        "（1981年以色列轰炸了伊拉克Osirak的核反应堆，然而九年后，萨达姆·侯赛因还是具备了在一年内制造出原子弹的能力。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Advanced technologies, particularly advanced computing and robotics, have enabled productivity gains to occur without a corresponding increase in wages.",
        "先进技术，特别是先进计算和机器人技术，让生产率的提高不引起工资相应增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Forecasters assumed that monetary expansion would provide an effective antidote to fiscal contraction.",
        "预测者假定货币扩张会有效地消除财政紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with China on the verge of economic and social collapse, following the decade-long chaos of the Cultural Revolution, he had to take action – and there were few, if any, alternatives available.",
        "但是，在经历了文革十年动乱后，当时的中国已经站在了经济和社会崩溃的边缘，他必须采取行动，因为除此之外别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, intolerance has now become a generalized condition.",
        "令人悲伤的是，偏隘已成为一般现象。"
    ],
    [
        "That means more debt restructuring and more bank closures now, rather than watering down proposals to rein in freewheeling markets.",
        "这意味着在今天进行更多的债务重组，让更多的银行关门，而不是不把约束自由市场的方案当回事。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, amid plodding deliberations of incremental steps that are clearly inadequate, Syrians are being displaced, wounded, tortured, and killed in droves.",
        "此外，因为对渐进步骤审议进展缓慢且明显无法满足需要，叙利亚人正陷入流离失所、惨遭伤害、折磨和大批被杀的困境当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Constant change and the appearance of excitement absorb viewers’ attention.",
        "片刻不停的变幻和刺激吸引了观众的注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "It also built bus lanes that run between Olympic venues, which will ease travel for IOC executives but only further congest the city’s now-narrower roadways for everyone else.",
        "里约还建造了多条在奥运会场馆间运行的公交线路，国际奥委会官员的出行是因此方便了不少，但也将进一步挤占对其他所有人来说越来越窄的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "At least one Italian politician has called for his arrest on a charge of homicide.",
        "至少有一位意大利政治家呼吁以杀人罪逮捕他。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, every Iranian president since 1981 has served two terms in office.",
        "毕竟，1981年以来，每一位上台的伊朗总统都能执政两个任期。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are significant obstacles to the widespread use of solar energy and other sources of renewable electricity, including a desperate need for cheaper, more efficient means of energy storage and transmission.",
        "但大规模使用太阳能和其他可再生电力资源还有巨大的障碍，包括对更廉价、更高效的能源储存和转换方法的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "After the Varna City Court refused to allow the extradition, ruling that the charges were politically motivated, the Bulgarian authorities threatened to deport him.",
        "在瓦纳城法院以指控出于政治目的拒绝引渡请求后，保加利亚当局就威胁将他驱逐出境。"
    ],
    [
        "Kicking the Oil Habit",
        "打击耗油习惯"
    ],
    [
        "If we are ever to combat inequality effectively, truly progressive taxation will have to be a part of the policy mix.",
        "如果我们想要有效制止不平等性，那么累进税制是政策组合中必不可少的成分。"
    ],
    [
        "If Italy, Spain, and France were not part of the eurozone, they could allow their currencies to devalue; weaker exchange rates would increase exports and reduce imports, eliminating their current-account deficits.",
        "如果意大利、西班牙和法国不在欧元区内，它们可以让本国货币贬值； 贬值的汇率将增加出口、减少进口，消除经常项目赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – For the first time in years, a healthy dose of optimism seems to be in order.",
        "北京—多年来第一次，健康的乐观情绪占据了上风。"
    ],
    [
        "Watching the incendiary, invective-filled campaigns of his opponents – Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz – makes one mourn for the Grand Old Party.",
        "看看他的对手的那些煽动成性、充满咒骂的选战——比如唐纳德·特朗普和泰德·科鲁兹（Ted Cruz）参议员——不禁让你为这个大老党哀叹。"
    ],
    [
        "For their part, payers – both governments and private insurers – should create a mechanism for rewarding health-care companies based on the real-world benefits of their products and services.",
        "政府和私营保险公司作为付款人应当建立起依据产品服务的实际效果奖励医疗保健企业的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "The sectarianism plaguing the Sunni belt is affecting even the relatively stable oil sheikdoms of the Gulf, where a schism within the Gulf Cooperation Council is spurring new tensions and proxy competition among its members.",
        "肆虐于逊尼派地区的宗派主义甚至还开始影响相对稳定的波斯湾石油酋长国——波斯湾合作委员会（Gulf Cooperation Council）内部的分裂正在刺激成员国之间新的紧张和代理竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Indifferent to the poor, Russia’s government is actively supporting its fallen oligarchs, especially those who are close to the Kremlin.",
        "俄罗斯政府对本国的穷人非常冷漠，但是却积极支持本国陷入困境的寡头们，特别是那些和克里姆林宫关系密切的寡头。"
    ],
    [
        "There has been a rethinking of the structure and role of our traditional military alliances, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is setting up a new NATO Response Force and has moved outside Europe for the first time with the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.",
        "我们对包括北约组织在内的传统军事联盟的结构和作用进行了反思。 北约目前正在建立一支新的北约反应部队，而且随着在阿富汗部署国际安全援助部队，北约第一次跨越了欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "In August 2003, the Erdoğan-led government introduced legal changes to resolve property-rights issues related to religious minority associations.",
        "在2003年八月，厄尔多安所领导的政府就启动了一系列司法改革来解决与宗教少数派群体相关的财产问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the viral spread of fake news stories initiated by Russian agents made one thing clear: an electorate lacking a basic civics education is more likely to fall for provocations designed to inflame partisan tensions.",
        "但俄罗斯特工炮制的假新闻像病毒那样传播，清楚地表明了一件事：缺乏基本公民教育的选民更有可能落入为了煽动党派对立而进行的挑拨。"
    ],
    [
        "However, in the Asian countries, including China, the optimism is unbroken.",
        "但是，包括中国在内的亚洲国家却都很乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Monti’s leadership, reforms were finally initiated and markets were calmed.",
        "在蒙蒂的领导下，改革进程终于开始并成功平复了市场情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the NPT’s objective is to “prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.”",
        "《核不扩散条约》旨在“防止核武器和武器技术扩散，推进和平利用核能合作，并进一步实现核裁军和全面彻底裁军的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "First, we must figure out how to improve connectivity for refugees today.",
        "首先，我们必须找出如何改善今天的难民的连通性。"
    ],
    [
        "That will be a difficult balancing act.",
        "这将是艰难的平衡游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "A concomitant feature of South Korea’s labor market is that women’s labor-force participation rate – a paltry 33% for women aged 30-39 – is among the lowest in the OECD.",
        "韩国劳动力市场的一个伴随特征是女性劳动力参与率是经合组织国家中最低的之一，30—39年龄段女性只有33%参加工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Malnutrition kills an innocent child every five seconds, and is responsible for 11% of the global burden of disease.",
        "营养不良每五秒钟就要夺走一名无辜儿童的生命，全球死亡人数中有11%是因为营养不良引起的。"
    ],
    [
        "Once teaching reduces, if not eliminates, the original competitive advantage associated with a piece of research, academics and their funders are forced to seek new sources of advantage by producing new knowledge.",
        "一旦教学消灭或减少了与某项研究成果相关的竞争优势，学者及其资助者就被迫通过创造新知识的方法来寻求新的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour condemned the regime’s use of torture and its mistreatment of pro-democracy forces.",
        "去年，联合国秘书长潘基文和联合国人权事务高级代表阿尔布尔严厉指责该国政府使用酷刑以及虐待民主力量。"
    ],
    [
        "But a pure “law and order” response to these problems will not magically repair the damage inflicted by years of bad policy and neglect.",
        "但单纯一个“法律和秩序”的解决方案是无法奇迹般地消灭这些由数年错误政策和忽视所结下的恶果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Coming St. Putinsburg Summit",
        "即将到来的圣彼得堡首脑会议"
    ],
    [
        "The US has negotiated free-trade agreements with 20 countries.",
        "美国已经与20国谈判完成了自由贸易协议。"
    ],
    [
        "As Europe’s greatest military power (despite the UK’s larger defense budget), France would play a key role in any wide-ranging European military operation.",
        "法国是欧洲军事实力最强的国家（虽然英国国防预算的规模更大），需要在一系列欧洲军事行动中扮演关键的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The union itself is a shell of its own former self, a partisan and mostly right-wing movement of workers buffeted by the new economic reality.",
        "“团结”工会只剩下了以前的空壳，成了遭受新经济现实打击的工人们自发组成的右翼组织。"
    ],
    [
        "His tendency to view Africa through an American lens is thus both understandable and inevitable.",
        "因此他透过美国有色眼镜看待非洲可以理解，也顺理成章。"
    ],
    [
        "The new president received military training in China, and paid an official visit as speaker of the parliament in 2001.",
        "这位新总统曾在中国接受过军事培训，并在2001年以议会议长的身份进行过正式访问。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Russian participants at the Davos dinner seemed to ignore these criticisms, but it was interesting to hear one important official admit that reform might progress faster if oil prices dropped somewhat, and another accept the point that criticism should be welcomed as long as it is offered in a friendly spirit.",
        "在达沃斯晚宴上的绝大多数俄罗斯代表似乎都没把这种批评当回事，但是听到一位重要官员承认，如果油价有所下跌那么改革的进程可能会加快，以及另一个重要官员认同应该欢迎以友好的态度提出的批评意见倒是非常有趣。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Anti-Environmentalists",
        "美国的反环境保护主义者"
    ],
    [
        "Sanctions and Solidarity",
        "制裁与团结"
    ],
    [
        "These inferior substitutes often imply exorbitant costs for borrowers – and financing that is usually too short term for productive investment activity.",
        "这些劣等替代品通常意味着借款人需要面临极高的成本，而且融资期限极短，不足以支持生产性投资活动。"
    ],
    [
        "For some, this “shortcoming” was seen as an advantage, enabling some of them to project an image of innocence and purity, even martyrdom, as they stood in the place of their deceased husbands or fathers.",
        "对于其中一些女性来说，这个“短板”可以被视为优点，使她们可以在自己丈夫或父亲曾经的位置上塑造一个清白而纯洁，甚至是殉道者的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, penguins and albatrosses already experience difficulty rearing their offspring in areas such as South Georgia.",
        "其结果是，在像南乔治亚岛这样的一些地区企鹅和信天翁在哺育它们的后代方面已经开始面临很大的困难。"
    ],
    [
        "But energy-intensive industries usually benefit from exemptions on carbon charges.",
        "但能源密集型行业通常受益于碳排放费用豁免。"
    ],
    [
        "Within eight days of the rape, a special commission, led by former Supreme Court Chief Justice J.S. Verma, was established.",
        "强奸案发生八天内就组成了由前最高法院首席大法官维尔马（J. S."
    ],
    [
        "The immigrant society of the US was seen as rootless by definition.",
        "美国的移民社会顾名思义也是无根的。"
    ],
    [
        "This difficulty makes random studies of the effects of acupuncture treatment on stroke patients particularly difficult in a traditional Chinese medicine hospital.",
        "这种困难使得要在一家中医院开展一项对于针灸治疗对中风病人的效果的随机研究变得尤其困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria, Iraq, and Yemen are now riven by war.",
        "叙利亚、伊拉克和也门现在也因为战争四分五裂。"
    ],
    [
        "A path between the extremes of jihad and blind obedience to the Middle East’s authoritarian rulers must be found before Al Qaeda’s message begins to lose some of its luster.",
        "在基地组织的言论失去部分蛊惑力之前，人们必须在圣战极端主义和对中东专制统治者盲从之间找到一条道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Frankly, although I do not see the five-year-old global expansion coming to an end yet, there is no question that risks are on the rise, with output in the United States having slowed sharply in the third quarter, and central banks’ hands tied by inflation risks. Further ahead, it is not hard to imagine geopolitical instability – possibly emanating from Iran, Iraq, or North Korea – unsettling markets.",
        "坦率地说，尽管我并不认为长达五年的全球增长已经走到了尽头，但是毫无疑问风险正在加大，美国第三季度的产量就大大放缓了，而中央银行正在极力消除通货膨胀的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, steady progress has been made using chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation to treat and cure an increasing number of cancer patients.",
        "自此以后，在使用化疗、手术和放疗治疗和治愈越来越多癌症患者方面取得了稳步进展。"
    ],
    [
        "China, of course, is the region's most recent traveler along this well-trodden path.",
        "当然，中国是这条老路上的最新旅客。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, audiences no longer trust the information presented to them.",
        "更糟糕的是，新闻受众不再信任呈现给他们的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The questions posed and statements made can sometimes be longwinded.",
        "提出的质疑和做出的陈述有时可能会啰嗦跑题。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, in at least two major Western democracies, serious candidates for the highest office are acting like PEKOs: US Presidential candidate Donald Trump and the French National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who will seek her country’s presidency in 2017.",
        "类似地，至少在两个主要西方民主国家，最高领导地位的领衔候选人也有像皮克一样的表现：美国总统候选人特朗普（Donald Trump）和法国国民阵线领导人勒庞（Marine Le Pen，将于2017年角逐法国总统竞选）。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising interest rates, high inflation, and severe policy gridlock amid a spate of government corruption scandals have impeded both foreign and domestic investment in India, thus slowing economic growth to a level that is below its potential.",
        "印度不断提升的利率，高通胀以及严重的政策瓶颈，再加上大量的政府腐败丑闻都让国内外投资者望而却步，以致经济增长未能充分发挥其潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Taming Leviathan",
        "驯服利维坦"
    ],
    [
        "So do most of the new generation of Russian women (and men): in their modern, calculating minds, there is little place for sacrifice, whether for family, art, culture, or science.",
        "大多数新的一代俄罗斯妇女和男子也是如此。 在她们现代和算计的头脑中已经没有了牺牲的位置，无论牺牲是为了家庭、艺术、文化或者科学。"
    ],
    [
        "Changing it is, therefore, not only vital for regaining competitiveness; it is also a critical test of the maturity of Spain’s democracy.",
        "因此，改变这一制度不仅事关重获竞争力，也堪称考验西班牙民主成熟度的试金石。"
    ],
    [
        "Ideally, the subsidies will go for employing workers of all ages.",
        "在理想的情况下，补贴将用于雇用所有年龄组的工人。"
    ],
    [
        "Its popularity is based on the fact that it addresses key problems in statistical inference.",
        "其之所以如此普及，是基于一个事实：它解决了统计推断中的关键问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, in the midst of so much uncertainty, it is remarkable that the over-indebted countries’ consolidation efforts remain broadly on track; but the European Central Bank’s continued bond-buying and liquidity support is only a temporary palliative.",
        "当然，身处如此不确定的环境，过度负债国的财政整合仍在有序进行，这件事本身就令人瞩目； 但是欧洲央行继续实施债券购买和流动性支持计划只是权宜之计。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding the opinion polls, it does seem as though the public not only accepts his conviction, but that they respect it as the outcome of a fair system that has been allowed to work.",
        "尽管民意调查主张宽恕这位曾经的总统，但目前公众似乎不仅接受判决结果，而且把它当作公平系统的裁决结果而予以尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "One could also argue that the consequences of reform would not be as organizationally disastrous as feared – in the same way that cleaning up backwaters like the Vatican Bank would restore credibility to the Church’s spiritual message.",
        "你也可以说，改革的后果将不会像担心的那样是一场有组织的灾难——如同清理梵蒂冈银行这样的坏水能重建基督教精神的信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine how we would react if someone tried to excuse racial discrimination by arguing that it is wrong to impose one’s culture on others.",
        "试想一下，如果某人试图以不能用一种文化凌驾于其他文化之上之名行种族歧视之实，我们应该如何应对。"
    ],
    [
        "He argues that, to deter other countries from leaving, the EU must be uncompromising, offering the UK little more than what it is guaranteed under World Trade Organization agreements.",
        "他指出，为了威慑其他想要脱欧的国家，欧盟决不能让步，不能向英国提供多于世贸组织协定所规定的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "From an economic perspective, these changes are small; but today’s eurozone leadership may lack the political will to carry them out.",
        "从经济角度来看，这些变化都算不上大； 但当前的欧元区领导人可能缺乏政治意愿去推行。"
    ],
    [
        "Diseases like cholera and tuberculosis were rife, and there was no way to treat them.",
        "霍乱和结核病横行，也没有治疗之方。"
    ],
    [
        "The key question is whether the political gridlock exposed by the debt-ceiling debate will worsen in the run-up to the 2012 presidential and congressional elections – if not beyond.",
        "关键的问题是，由债务上限争论导致的政治僵局是否会对2012年（甚至此后各届）总统和国会选举造成不良影响。"
    ],
    [
        "When the ATM machine says, “insufficient funds,” the government doesn’t want this to mean that the bank, rather than your account, is out of money, so it intervenes before the till is empty.",
        "在1980年代时发生的储贷危机中，当时的ATM机没有“足够现金”，政府被迫出手救助，以避免资金枯竭导致存款人血本无归。"
    ],
    [
        "These arguments will continue.",
        "类似的争论仍将继续。"
    ],
    [
        "Digital maps can be as dynamic as the communities that they depict.",
        "数字地图可以和它们所描绘的社区一样鲜明生动。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike prices for coal, which is abundant and dispersed geographically, gas prices are subject to significant volatility, and the long-term trend in the face of fossil fuel depletion is uncertain.",
        "煤炭储量丰富，分布广泛。 与煤炭价格相比，天然气价格波动巨大，而且，在矿物燃料殆尽的情况下，其长期趋势也不明朗。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty years ago, the same liberal commentators were cultivating the impossible dream that globalizing financialized capitalism would deliver prosperity for most.",
        "二十年前，同一批自由派评论者催生了一个不可能的梦想：让金融化资本主义（financialized capitalism）全球化能为绝大多数人带来繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Achieving a “Europe of Results”",
        "建设“以成果为导向的欧洲”"
    ],
    [
        "PRAGUE – The recent events in Tibet and adjoining provinces are causes for deep concern.",
        "布拉格amp#45;amp#45;西藏及其临近省份最近的事态令人极为担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "But this helped Europe’s small countries more than the big ones, and it implied more competition for Germany, Europe’s biggest economy.",
        "但这对小国的帮助比大国更大，对欧洲最大的国家¾德国来讲意味着更为激烈的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "And while Fillon wants to reduce the French civil service by 500,000, Le Pen favors a strong state.",
        "而且菲永想要将法国公务员队伍减少500,000人，而勒庞则倾向于保留强大的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The Price of Inaction",
        "不作为的代价"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the world should negotiate a new framework no later than 2010 to slow human-induced climate change.",
        "最后，各国应该在不迟于2010年谈判一项新的框架来减缓人为引起的气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "We do know how to tackle one problem – and we have ample data on costs and benefits.",
        "我们确实知道如何解决一个问题——我们也拥有足够的成本-收益数据。"
    ],
    [
        "The denial of a well-documented truth may lead to new crimes.",
        "否认有史料记载的事实真相可能会导致新的犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq is producing oil at levels below what it produced under Saddam Hussein, and has the potential to double or even triple output.",
        "伊拉克现在的石油产量低于萨达姆统治时期的产量，而且有潜力翻两番或者翻三番。"
    ],
    [
        "These Sunni leaders live in abject fear of the geopolitical earthquake that any disintegration of political authority in Baghdad would bring, believing that all-out civil war would invariably follow – a war that would not respect international borders.",
        "这些逊尼派领导人生活在悲惨的恐惧之中，担心巴格达政权的解体所会带来的地缘政治地震。 他们相信，那将会不可避免地引发全面内战，而这一内战将不会尊重国际边界线。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a common resolution mechanism that levels the playing field, the common market will remain unfinished.",
        "没有创造公平竞争环境的共同清算机制，共同市场就无法彻底完成。"
    ],
    [
        "So, where does that leave the world economy?",
        "那么世界经济究竟该往何处去？"
    ],
    [
        "Last spring’s campaign against anyone who dared to worry about the long-run effects of high debt largely ignored the substantial academic literature, just as a remarkably similar recent challenge to Thomas Piketty’s research on inequality took no account of a larger body of evidence.",
        "去年春天针对所有敢于担忧高债务的长期影响者的批评大多对大量学术研究成果视而不见，与此形成惊人相似的是，眼下对托马斯·皮克提（Thomas Piketty）关于不平等性的研究的诘难也根本不顾大量证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, given populism’s importance as a political phenomenon, that view, along with two others – that populism is somehow a call for direct democracy, and that populists can only protest, but never govern – needs to be challenged.",
        "事实上，因为民粹主义是一种重要的政治现象，上述观点和其他两种观点——即民粹主义在某种程度上是一种对直接民主的呼唤，以及民粹主义者只能抗议，但永远无法执政——都需要有所改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless countries have signed trade and investment treaties that restrict the use of such regulations (and many have), the IMF’s Articles of Agreement give them full policy scope to manage capital flows as they see fit.",
        "除非一国已签署了限制此类管制使用的贸易和投资条约（许多国家确实如此），否则根据IMF协定，该国有充分的政策自由以自认为合适的办法管理资本流。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the West’s unwillingness to abandon that effort is coupled with a repeated refusal to recognize Russia’s right to have its own zone of interest.",
        "而且西方在不愿放弃扩张努力的同时，还三番五次地拒绝承认俄罗斯也有获得其自身利益范围的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, given its member states’ current resources, the EU, acting alone, would be unable to ensure a Western commitment in Afghanistan.",
        "比如，考虑到成员国现有的资源状况，欧盟在单独行动的条件下，根本无法把西方在阿富汗的目标变为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "At the extreme, more than 400 African women and girls die every day during pregnancy or childbirth, scarring families and plunging surviving children into hardship.",
        "一个极端情况是每天都有400多非洲妇女和女孩在怀孕或生产中死亡，给她们的家庭造成创伤，也让遗孤陷入苦难。"
    ],
    [
        "Because interest rates must remain very low in developed countries at least for the next several years, there are now strong incentives to export capital to higher-yielding emerging economies.",
        "由于发达国家至少在未来数年内都不得不将利率维持在极低水平，市场上存在很大的向高收益新兴经济体出口资本的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "There is nothing cyclical about the lasting aftershocks of a balance-sheet recession that have now been evident for nearly five years.",
        "没有哪个周期性问题可以造成五年的资产负债表衰退余震，就像美国所经历的那样。 事实上，修复资产负债表对于美国家庭来说才刚刚开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has used the occasion to demand a formal apology for the war from the Japanese emperor, and financial compensation for Korean women who were forced to serve Japanese soldiers in military brothels during the war.",
        "韩国总统李明博甚至借这一事件要求日本天皇为侵略战争正式道歉，并对在战争期间被迫做慰安妇的韩国妇女作出经济补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are also several upside risks.",
        "但还有许多上升机遇存在。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, the California legislature has cleaned up redistricting, introduced “top two primaries” and an aggressive disclosure system, reformed term limits, eliminated a supermajority rule for state budgetary measures, and improved the ballot-initiative process.",
        "在最近几年中，加州立法机关清理了重划选区问题，引入了“初选前两名”和一套咄咄逼人的披露制度，改革了任期限制，取消了州预算政策的绝对多数制，并改善了投票运动程序。"
    ],
    [
        "But what constitutes genocide?",
        "但种族灭绝究竟如何定义？"
    ],
    [
        "But Russia also must decide to view missile defense as an opportunity, rather than a threat.",
        "因此，是时候推进导弹防御体系了。"
    ],
    [
        "Because a firm’s labor costs are someone else’s labor income and demand, what is individually rational for one firm is destructive in the aggregate.",
        "由于企业的劳动成本就是员工的劳动收入，也就消费者的需求，所以个别公司的行为，分开来看是理性的，合起来就具有破坏性。"
    ],
    [
        "To believe that Europe could keep out of this conflict is a dangerous illusion.",
        "认为欧洲将在这场冲突中置身事外是一个危险的幻想。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, the Talmud, the ancient repository of Jewish legal commentary – and one of the oldest sources of human thought on morality and economic activity – might hold the key.",
        "在这类情况下，犹太法典（Talmud）这部古代犹太法律评论的宝库（也是记载人类在道德和经济活动方面思想成果的最古老著作之一）可能会带给我们答案。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, through the Sustainable Banking Network – an association of central banks, regulators, and financial trade associations – we are helping countries develop national policies to boost green finance.",
        "此外，通过可持续银行网络（Sustainable Banking Network，一个由中央银行、监管机构和金融交易协会组成的协会）我们帮助各国制定国家政策刺激绿色金融。"
    ],
    [
        "But Ireland should also allow the EU’s other member states to proceed with the Lisbon Treaty if that is what they wish.",
        "但如果那是真实的意愿，爱尔兰也应该允许欧盟的其他成员国执行《里斯本条约》。"
    ],
    [
        "Cameron and Osborne would then be able to boast that they have procured for the British public the best of both worlds: much faster economic growth than the stagnant eurozone members, together with all of the advantages of EU membership, including access to the single market and enhanced global influence.",
        "卡梅伦和奥斯本接着将可以夸耀他们为英国公众争取到两方面的最佳结果：比陷入停滞的欧元区成员国高得多的经济增长，以及所有欧盟成员地位带来的好处，包括进入单一市场和增强全球影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Even for those under enhanced scrutiny, such as France and Spain, escape clauses exist: in case of a “protracted period of very low annual GDP growth,” the EU can grant an exemption from the required annual adjustment.",
        "即使是那些受到严格审视的国家，如法国和西班牙，也有例外条款：在“年GDP增长长时间处于极低水平”的情况下，欧盟可以授予年度调整要求的豁免权。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the low risk assigned to senior tranches of mortgage-backed securities made them attractive instruments for banks to hold, given the relatively high return they offered.",
        "在美国，高等级按揭支持证券份额的低风险让它们颇具吸引力，因其高回报率而成为银行的最爱。"
    ],
    [
        "But there were unintended consequences. The failure of US regulators to tighten capital and lending standards when abundant capital inflows combined with loose Fed policies ignited a furious credit boom.",
        "但是，这产生了计划之外的后果。 当大量的资本流入和宽松的美联储政策结合在一起的时候，美国监管者没能收紧资本和贷款标准，这引燃了一个极度的信贷繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "The more hotly debated program is one in which the NSA maps the origin and destination of US citizens’ telephone traffic and stores it for possible later inspection (presumably with a court order).",
        "在争论较激烈的项目中，国安局勾画出美国公民电话通信的来源地和目的地地图，予以存档以供未来的可能调查之用（也许需要法院调令）。"
    ],
    [
        "The purpose of the rebalance is to fulfill that commitment to the dream of a better and more secure twenty-first century.",
        "战略调整的目的是要实现建设更安全美好的二十一世纪的梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the world’s most stable democracies have been infected by strongmania.",
        "就连世界上最稳定的民主国家，也受到强人狂热的渗透。"
    ],
    [
        "And this will continue to be a problem unless, and until, we are able to store power from renewable sources efficiently.",
        "除非我们能有效储存可再生能量，否则这将继续成为一道难题。"
    ],
    [
        "According to then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, the problem was that countries running large surpluses were buying so many US Treasuries that they were negating the Fed’s monetary-policy efforts.",
        "时任美联储主席伯南克（Ben Bernanke）将问题归结于有巨大贸易盈余的国家购买了太多的美国国债，从而抵消了美联储从紧的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "A new Peace-building Commission was also created to coordinate actions that could help prevent a recurrence of genocidal acts.",
        "联合国还为此设立了一个新的“和平建设委员会”以协调防止种族清洗行为再度发生的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the Polish Constitution prevented an outright ban.",
        "最后靠着波兰宪法才避免了完全禁止。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, China’s leaders view democracy as an existential ideological threat that must be neutralized at any cost.",
        "相反，中国领导人将民主视为生存性意识形态威胁，必须不惜任何代价将其屏蔽。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund expects growth to reach a respectable 4.8% this year and 4.5% in 2015.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）预期，哥伦比亚今明两年增长分别将达到4. 8%和4."
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the imperative to reach a prosperity-enhancing agreement with the international community is greater than ever for Iran’s leadership.",
        "从这个角度讲，与国际社会达成巩固繁荣的协议对伊朗领导人来说从未如此紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "This change has become particularly obvious in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.",
        "上述变化在中东和亚太地区体现得尤其显著。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, he has announced plans to reverse most, if not all, of Obama’s achievements.",
        "但他声称要将大多数（甚至可能是全部）奧巴马所取得的成果推翻。"
    ],
    [
        "GSMA – a trade group that represents hundreds of telecoms operators, and whose director general, Mats Granryd, is a member of the Business Commission – and its members are facilitating microfinance in rural areas.",
        "一个代表数以百计电信运营商的贸易团体GSMA其总干事马茨·葛瑞德同样就职于商业委员会——该委员会委员正全力以赴推进农村地区的小额信贷工作。"
    ],
    [
        "It believes that operational military capability is a condition of power – a view that is not shared by the overwhelming majority of European states, which continue to display a collective aversion to war.",
        "法国相信，展现胜任的军力是实力的表现——对于这一看法，绝大部分欧洲国家都是不认同的，它们对战争持有集体厌恶。"
    ],
    [
        "The same tools must be used to end the conflict with the Arab world, in particular with the Palestinians.",
        "同样的工具也必须被运用到结束与阿拉伯世界，尤其是与耶路撒冷的冲突中去。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly true in the Middle East.",
        "尤其是在中东。"
    ],
    [
        "There was a serious danger that the contents of the nuclear reactor would seep into the soil, and then leak into the Dnepr river, thus endangering the population of Kiev and other cities along the riverbanks.",
        "当时存在很大的危险，那就是核反应堆成份会渗入土壤，然后泄漏到第聂伯河，从而威胁到基辅和沿河两岸其他城市的人口。"
    ],
    [
        "Finance. If companies like Yahoo! are to benefit from occasions like this, individual and institutional investors alike need to up their game and ask real questions about the business in the open forum of the annual general meeting instead of airing their concerns behind closed doors.",
        "如果雅虎这样的公司想从这样的场合中获益，个人和机构投资者需要动真格，在股东年会这样的开放论坛中问问真正触及业务的问题，而不是只在闭门会议中提出疑虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Most governments are hoping that early detection will make containment possible.",
        "许多政府都希望及早确诊使他们有可能遏制流行病蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "To eliminate this uncertainty, Italy and Spain should ask for the OMT intervention before it is desperately needed – a request that the Bundestag would most likely approve, viewing it as an insurance scheme rather than a pure transfer.",
        "为了消除这一不确定性，意大利和西班牙应该要求OMT在不得不出手之前就进行干预——这一要求德国议会很可能会批准，将其视为一种保险机制，而不仅仅是转移支付。"
    ],
    [
        "Say what you will about the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, but it is weak soup by the standards of the 1930’s.",
        "人们尽可以提到《2010年多德—弗兰克法案》来辩解，但以20世纪30年代的标准来看，那个法案简直是清汤寡水。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a third of millennial men believe in traditional gender roles.",
        "仅有三分之一的千禧世纪男性相信传统的性别角色。"
    ],
    [
        "It enabled him to learn English, take his first photographs, and call for help when he needed it.",
        "它使他能够学英语、拍出他的第一批照片、在需要的时候呼救。"
    ],
    [
        "In the space of a single year, the number of polio cases fell from 306 to 54.",
        "在一年的时间里，脊髓灰质炎病例从306下降到54。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – Structural change and rebalancing are formidable undertakings for any economy.",
        "纽黑文—结构变化和再平衡对于任何经济体来说都是一项令人望而生畏的事业。"
    ],
    [
        "And the new cities have a way of looking brighter and fresher than the old urban areas, which are often seen as jumbled and decaying.",
        "而且，新的城市比起老城区看起来更阳光更新鲜，而老城区则显得混乱而衰败。"
    ],
    [
        "With a Ph.D. in economics, Li, who, as Executive Vice Premier, headed the all-important “Central Committee Finance and Economy Leading Small Group,” is especially well equipped to deal with the long-awaited structural transformation of China’s economy.",
        "李克强拥有经济学博士学位，在担任常务副总理期间，他主持着最重要的“中央财政和经济领导小组”，是处理期待已久的中国经济结构转型的最佳领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "The long-time oil minister was replaced last week, soon after the Kingdom issued its Vision 2030 plan for ensuring sustainable long-term growth.",
        "本周，沙特发布了《愿景2030》（Vision 2030）计划以确保长期增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries like Mexico can no longer revert to import protection.",
        "像墨西哥这样的国家已无法回归进口保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Though they may not be perfect – and, unfortunately, the countries that ratify them do not always achieve the targets – they have led to the creation of institutional processes that encourage countries to meet their promises and embolden citizens to hold governments accountable.",
        "尽管它们也许并不完美——并且，不幸的是，批准它们的国家并不总能实现目标——但它们已经建立了鼓励各国兑现承诺、使公民有勇气问责政府的制度程序。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone and the EU are unlikely to disintegrate suddenly.",
        "欧元区和欧盟不会突然间分崩离析。"
    ],
    [
        "Once a company identifies which users have the most influence – well-known bloggers, for example – it may offer them better treatment, in the hope that they will recommend the service.",
        "一旦一个企业定义出哪个用户最具影响力——比如知名博主——他们就会相应提高其待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Although non-tax revenue may contribute significantly to some countries’ total GDP, the average tax/GDP ratios in low-income and lower-middle-income countries are roughly 15% and 19%, respectively – significantly lower than the OECD average of more than 35%.",
        "尽管非税收入可能占一国GDP总量相当大的比重，但低收入和中低收入国家的平均税收/GDP比率分别在15%和19%左右，显著低于经合组织的平均水平35%。"
    ],
    [
        "The most convincing explanation, though, is still that markets are afraid that when external risks do emerge, politicians and policymakers will be ineffective in confronting them.",
        "尽管如此，最令人信服的解释仍然是市场害怕当外部风险真的发生时，政客和决策者不能有效应对它们。"
    ],
    [
        "The standard way of describing political forces ranging from Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party in Hungary to Marine Le Pen’s National Front in France to Donald Trump’s supporters in the United States is “populist.”",
        "从欧尔班的匈牙利青年民主党（Fidesz）到玛丽娜·勒庞（Marine Le Pen）的法国国民阵线（National Front），再到美国的特朗普支持者，称呼这些政治力量的标准形容词是“民粹主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "The most appropriate analogy is with a country like South Korea.",
        "最恰当的比方是韩国。"
    ],
    [
        "Given these achievements, it may be no coincidence that Turkey’s youth unemployment rate has also declined, from 25.3% in 2009 to 17.3% in January 2014, below the EU average of 22.8%.",
        "考虑到这些成就，土耳其年轻人失业率也有所下降（从2009年的25. 3%降至2014年1月的17."
    ],
    [
        "Reassured by this groundswell of support, the Eurocrats should be fostering a much more pluralistic approach to EU policymaking and debate.",
        "有了这种公众的支持，欧盟的官员应该以更多元化的态度应对欧盟的政策制定和争论。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2014, the bloc pledged €12.8 billion ($15 billion) to Ukraine to bolster several key sectors, including law and civil society.",
        "2014年，欧盟承诺为乌克兰提供128亿欧元改善多个关键部门，包括法律和公民社会。"
    ],
    [
        "There is some evidence that this is now occurring in advanced economies, with the proliferation of labor-saving digital technologies and the globalization of supply chains suppressing income growth.",
        "一些证据表明，发达经济体目前就出现了这种情况，劳动力节约型数字技术的繁荣和供应链的全球化抑制了收入增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In Western Europe, growth in labor productivity (output per hour worked) has been decelerating for decades.",
        "在西欧，劳动生产率（每工作小时的产出）的增长已经停滞了几十年。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, an extra $50 billion or so per year could help ensure that children everywhere have access to basic health care and schooling.",
        "因此，每年额外追加500亿美元左右就可以协助确保世界各地的儿童享受到基本的医疗和教育。"
    ],
    [
        "It now must learn to cope with the growing influence of India and China, as well.",
        "如今美国也必须学习处理印度和中国影响力的日益增强。"
    ],
    [
        "This is odd, given that Japan is still the world’s second largest economy, with a GDP of $5 trillion – more than China and India combined.",
        "考虑到日本依然是世界第二大经济强国，GDP达到50,000亿美元，比中国和印度加起来还要多，忽视或低估日本就令人奇怪了。"
    ],
    [
        "And the figure keeps growing; by 2050, it could be four times higher.",
        "这个数字一直在增长，到2050年，塑料产量可能增加三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "In such circumstances, governments considering a proposal to build, say, a new highway, should regard this as an ideal time.",
        "在这样的环境下，政府如要考虑建设（比如）一条新高速公路可谓正逢其时。"
    ],
    [
        "China patiently bore this pattern of intermittent brinkmanship and timid reform, largely owing to its belief that the risks posed by the Kim dynasty could be controlled as long as China did not cut off the regime’s lifeline of oil, food, and other necessities.",
        "中国耐心忍受着朝鲜间歇性的边缘政策和抑制改革，很大程度上是因为它相信金氏王朝所带来的风险是可控的，只要中国不切断金氏政权的石油、食品和其他必需品生命线。"
    ],
    [
        "You built your reputation by collecting plants, animals, fossils, and geological samples from around the world, and sending back letters that tracked your development into a first-rate scientist.",
        "你从全世界收集动植物、化石以及地理标本从而建立起名声。 你又回复来信，逐步成为一流的科学家。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan also faces serious demographic challenges.",
        "日本还面临严重的人口挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Illegal flows as a proportion of the population are about 25% larger in Europe than in the US; at the same time, legal flows are roughly 25% larger in the US than in Europe.",
        "欧洲非法流动占人口流动总数的比例比美国高大约25%，而与此同时，美国合法的人口流动比欧洲大约也高出25%。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, when the next recession strikes, central banks in advanced economies will have no choice but to plumb the zero lower bound once again while they choose among four unappealing options.",
        "说到底，当新的衰退来临时，发达经济体的央行将别无选择，只能再次将利率削减到零下限，同时在四个聊胜于无的选项中进行选择。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, calling in the IMF carries a considerable stigma.",
        "诚然，要求IMF帮助是一个很大的羞辱。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, a common fiscal backstop (along with a single banking supervisor) would eliminate the bias.",
        "当然，共同财政基础（以及单一银行监督机构）能够消除这一偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic integration is a hot topic in the region.",
        "经济一体化是亚洲地区的一个热门话题。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas it can leave the EU, it cannot relocate away from Europe.",
        "虽然英国可以退出欧盟，但却显然无法搬离欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "The second reason for waning attention to the proposed partnership speaks to a broader issue: A seemingly endless stream of short-term political dramas has made it extremely difficult for both Europe and the US to focus for long on any secular and structural initiative.",
        "而人们不再关注与欧洲建立伙伴关系的第二个原因则涉及到一个更宏观的问题：看似无穷无尽的一系列短期戏剧化政治变动使得欧洲和美国都很难长时间关注任何长期结构性改革方案。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The recent European Union summit was a disaster.",
        "发自伦敦——最近那场欧盟峰会简直是一场灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, these frameworks represent the strongest defense countries have against the tobacco industry.",
        "上述框架共同代表了各国面对烟草业的最强防护措施。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that rapidly reducing emissions may sometimes even help to maintain a firm’s competitiveness.",
        "这表明，迅速减少排放，有时甚至可以帮助公司保持竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey, not the European Union, is currently making its presence felt in the world.",
        "世界影响力日趋扩大的并非欧盟，而是土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – When hostilities flared in Gaza last month, it seemed like the same old story was repeating itself.",
        "柏林—上个月，加沙的敌对爆发，老故事似乎又开始复制自己了。"
    ],
    [
        "The automatic train-stop system, perfected for the Shinkansen, functioned flawlessly even during the earthquake.",
        "而专门为新干线设计的自动停车系统甚至在地震期间都能完美运行。"
    ],
    [
        "But the monetary union retains a fundamental flaw: the absence of mechanisms capable of forestalling cost divergences across countries that have lost the ability to engage in exchange-rate adjustment.",
        "但货币联盟仍然有一个根本性缺陷：其成员国失去了用汇率进行调整的能力，同时又没有一个能够阻止国家间成本分化的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "But fiscal policy has been roughly neutral in recent years, and thus cannot be blamed for the German economy’s lack of dynamism.",
        "但财政政策在近几年中基本上保持中性，因此不能把德国经济缺少活力归咎于财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This history helps to explain why China’s rapidly growing military power raises important concerns in Asia today.",
        "这段历史有助于解释中国快速膨胀的军力为何会引起当今亚洲的严重忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a dictatorship would damage Islam by associating Islam with unjust rule and creating enemies for Islam.",
        "这种独裁体制将伊斯兰与非公正法则紧密联系并不断制造伊斯兰敌人，由此损害伊斯兰。"
    ],
    [
        "The complexity of American governance threatens the benefits of Obama’s decision to stimulate the economy through deficit spending.",
        "治理美国的复杂性，威胁到奥巴马通过赤字开支以刺激经济的决定所带来的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "If holders of Portuguese bonds are alarmed by a future Greek default, the ECB will simply increase its bond buying; with no limit to its buying power, it will easily overwhelm any selling pressure.",
        "如果葡萄牙债券持有人收到警告，希腊有可能违约，那么欧洲央行只需要加码债券购买力度； 欧洲央行拥有无穷购买力，可以轻易地战胜任何抛压。"
    ],
    [
        "Intra-governmental collaboration, dedicated financing for digital health solutions, and effective governance mechanisms will also be vital to successful strategies.",
        "致力于为数字卫生解决方案提供融资的政府间合作以及有效的治理机制也是成功战略的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Without it, China may not be the world’s number one economy for long.",
        "若非如此，中国就不可能成为世界第一的经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "Are a few hours of radio broadcasting really all Europe and the democratic west can muster?",
        "这几个小时的电台广播是否就是所有欧洲国家和民主西方政府所能做的一切？"
    ],
    [
        "But if Japan’s deepening nationalist mood leads to symbolic and populist positions that win votes at home but antagonize its neighbors, both Japan and the world will be worse off.",
        "但如果日本民族主义不断发展所带来的是在国内赢得选票却在邻国丧尽人心的象征主义及民粹主义立场，那么日本和全世界的局势都将因此而恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s G-20 Moment",
        "中国的G-20时刻"
    ],
    [
        "While China’s economy is hampered by structural difficulties, the US is not free of similar challenges.",
        "中国经济受着结构性问题的妨碍，而美国也面临着类似的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "To get past these challenges this decade, the world – and especially the US – must create a strong and sustaining partnership with China concerning emissions reduction.",
        "为了通过这个十年的种种挑战，世界，尤其是美国，必须同中国在温室气体排量削减上创建一个牢固而持续的伙伴关系。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Why do people vote, if doing so is costly and highly unlikely to affect the outcome?",
        "坎布里奇—如果投票代价高昂，又很难改变结果，人们为什么还要投票呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Apparently, the time has come to give businesses a break.",
        "很显然现在是让企业喘口气的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "This pillaging of our marine ecosystem is taking place even as Somalia has made great strides over the last 18 months toward better management of our waters.",
        "我国海域横遭如此掠夺，而这甚至是在索马里在过去18个月中大大改善了海域管理的情况下发生的。"
    ],
    [
        "In India, for example, there is fear that small mom-and-pop retailers will be crushed when Wal-Mart enters the market in the next few months.",
        "比方说在印度，有人担心几个月后沃尔玛进入市场时家庭零售业将会被彻底击垮。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, he will not ban Muslim immigrants, because doing so would violate bedrock American principles, and would be struck down even by a right-wing Supreme Court.",
        "类似地，他不会禁止穆斯林移民，因为这样做将违反作为国基的美国原则，即使是右倾的最高法院也不会允许。"
    ],
    [
        "The rule, which was supposed to take effect in April, is intended to ensure that professional financial advisers and brokers act in the best interests of their clients when collecting fees to advise them on assets invested through retirement plans.",
        "该规则本应在4月生效，目的是确保专业财务顾问和经纪人在为客户提供退休计划资产投资提供咨询而收取费用时，能基于客户的最佳利益行事。"
    ],
    [
        "The second question concerns the EU’s scope.",
        "第二个问题有关欧盟的范围。"
    ],
    [
        "But the increase in quality of life has not been as dramatic.",
        "但生命的质量的上升就没有那么巨大了。"
    ],
    [
        "Our future may depend on it.",
        "这将决定我们的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Global integration of China’s financial sector will require opening the capital account, which will have to be carried out steadily and with considerable care; but it will be a key step toward internationalizing the renminbi as a global reserve currency.",
        "中国的金融部门要想融入全球，就必须开放资本账户，这将通过渐近、可控的步骤实现； 但其中人民币国际化并成为全球储备货币是最关键的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained its comfortable parliamentary majority.",
        "最后，埃尔多安的正义与发展党（AKP）重新以较大优势夺回了议会多数席位。"
    ],
    [
        "US President Barack Obama: “I will say publicly what Bill Clinton was saying privately a decade ago.",
        "美国总统奥巴马：“我将公开说出克林顿十年前私下里说的话。"
    ],
    [
        "This program, like so many educational or cultural Israeli-Palestinian partnerships, began in starry-eyed idealism.",
        "而片中所纪录的这个制作项目，正如许多以巴双边教育和文化合作那样，始于一种过分乐观的理想主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Cosmetics, like all luxury products, gain influence not from their production, or even their purchase, but from their visibility.",
        "像所有奢侈品一样，化妆品的影响不是源于生产，甚至也不是源于购买，而是源于品牌知名度。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in 1976, in an article entitled “How to Make the Mob Miserable,” the American economist James S. Henry addressed the question of effectiveness, prescribing demonetization as a measure to undermine mafia operations.",
        "1976年，在一篇题为《如何让暴徒痛苦》（How to Make the Mob Miserable）的文章中，美国经济学家詹姆斯·亨利（James S. Henry）解决了有效性的问题，他将废钞描述为打击黑手党经营之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change is what we in the military call a “threat multiplier.”",
        "我们军中称气候变化有“放大威胁”的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The conundrum of global reform is that the proposals that go far enough, such as establishing a global financial regulator, are wildly unrealistic, while those that are realistic, such as reform of the IMF, fall far short of what is needed.",
        "全球改革的难题是力度足够的提案，比如设立全球金融监管机构，却极端不切实际，而那些符合实际的提案，如改革国际货币基金组织，却远远解决不了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The near-term policy remedies are clear: raise the minimum wage to a level that will keep a fully employed worker and his or her family out of poverty, and extend the earned-income tax credit to childless workers.",
        "近期的政策对策很明确：把最低工资提升到足以一个全职工人及其家庭免于贫困的水平，扩大对无子女劳动者的工资所得税减免。"
    ],
    [
        "That had not happened, so I asked why so much financial skill and enterprise had not yielded “obvious economic dividends.”",
        "这一幕并没有发生，因此我要问，为何如此多的金融技能和进取心没有产生“显而易见的经济红利”。"
    ],
    [
        "Declining house prices are key to the financial crisis and the outlook for the economy, because mortgage-backed securities, and the derivatives based on them, are the primary assets that are weakening financial institutions.",
        "不断下跌的房价对金融危机和经济前景至关重要，因为以房贷为依托的证券和其它以其为基础的衍生产品是正在弱化各金融机构的首要资产。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a major boom in real stock prices in the US after “Black Tuesday” brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930.",
        "事实上，“黑色星期二”后，美国股市实际价格出现过一次大涨，1930年，股市收复了1929年跌幅的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent “High Level Panel” report on the future of the UN was right when it said: “We are concerned that in recent years States have sought membership of the Commission not to strengthen human rights but to protect themselves from criticism or to criticize others.”",
        "最近“高级别小组”在就联合国未来发展的报道中说道，“我们注意到最近几年来，联合国人权委员会寻求成员国并不是为了加强人权，而是保护自己不受批评也不批评别人。 ”它说得没错。"
    ],
    [
        "As the commentator Andrew Sullivan put it, “I saw the person I first saw...I saw the president I thought I knew.”",
        "评论员苏利文（Andrew Sullivan）说：“我看到了我第一眼看到的那个人……我看到了我自以为了解的总统。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Net job creation followed early in 2010.",
        "随后在2010年年初也出现了就业净增长的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these qualities have transformed Turkey into an attractive place for business, media, artists, diplomats, students, and non-governmental organizations from around the world.",
        "所有这些特质都使土耳对全世界商业、媒体、艺术家、外交官，学生和非政府组织都充满了吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "And, precisely because nationalism shapes the way we think, its role in phenomena that do not trumpet their nationalist motivation – like Al Qaeda’s attacks in 2001 – can easily be overlooked.",
        "而正是因为民族主义决定了我们的思维，因此它在民族主义动机不太明显的现象中——比如2001年的基地组织袭击——很容易被忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "• Substituting costly, toxic, or scarce materials with cheaper, more efficient, higher-performance, and more abundant alternatives.",
        "• 用价格更低、效率更高、表现更好、数量更足的替代品取代高成本、有毒性或稀缺的原料。"
    ],
    [
        "The Egyptian Struggle and Beyond",
        "埃及的斗争与超越"
    ],
    [
        "As the Great Recession drives up the number of such “discouraged workers,” adult unemployment rates appear to fall – presenting a distorted picture of reality.",
        "随着大衰退导致这类“沮丧工人”数量的增加，成年人失业率会有所下降，这可不是现实图景的真实反映。"
    ],
    [
        "New energy and environmental technologies will undoubtedly drive growth in the future.",
        "新的能源和环境技术未来无疑会推动经济的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy may have defeated France to win the World Cup, but the real winner was the “Old Europe” that Donald Rumsfeld once derided.",
        "意大利可能击败了法国获得了世界杯，但是真正的赢家是曾经被拉姆斯菲尔德所诟病的“老欧洲”。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has much work to do to strengthen the multiple identities needed to avoid conflict.",
        "欧洲在强化多重身份，避免冲突方面还有许多工作要做。"
    ],
    [
        "Does the new government still consider this a priority?",
        "但谁知道新政府是否还认为这是一个优先事项呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody in Israel will accept this.",
        "没有哪个以色列人会接受这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "(Eritrea and Sudan have also not qualified, for similar reasons).",
        "（厄立特里亚和苏丹没有获得减免资格的原因类似。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Wealth-based disparities in health outcomes extend far beyond pregnancy and birth.",
        "基于财富的健康状况差异绝不仅限于妊娠期和出生。"
    ],
    [
        "Our views will change as we learn more, but at the moment the size of the tax hinges on a question of moral philosophy: how much do we believe we owe our distant descendents?",
        "5美金一加仑呢？ 我们的观点会随着我们认知的加深而变化，但现在该税收的额度是基于一个道德问题：我们自认为究竟亏欠我们的子孙后代多少钱呢？"
    ],
    [
        "From the Conservatives’ point of view, there is much to be said for sharing responsibility for what has to be done.",
        "在保守党人看来，在分担解决问题的责任方面还有许多要谈的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "A bankruptcy system that allows entrepreneurs to survive the inevitable failures that accompany innovation, as well as stronger protection of intellectual property and improved access to equity finance, are also needed.",
        "同时还需要一个允许企业家在创新中遭受不可避免的失败后存活下来的破产系统、加强知识产权保护并改善获得股权融资的渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the British left has embraced a similar folly.",
        "现在英国左翼也已经出现了类似的愚蠢行为。"
    ],
    [
        "But governance on the Internet is far more complex.",
        "但在网治理要复杂得多。"
    ],
    [
        "At the front end, country directors manage the relationship with the “client,” meaning the country government.",
        "在前端，国家主管管理与“客户”即该国政府的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal should be to take advantage of these trends’ potential benefits, while ensuring that they do not undermine other critical aspects of governance.",
        "目标应该是利用这些趋势的潜在好处，同时确保它们不会破坏治理的其他关键方面。"
    ],
    [
        "In his seminal work on evolution, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, Charles Darwin used the much-cited expression “survival of the fittest.”",
        "在其有关进化的著作中，即《根据物竞天择—亦即在生存竞争中适种留存—的物种起源》，查尔斯·达尔文使用了广为引用的“适者生存”一词。"
    ],
    [
        "They need access to the grids that distribute electricity, urban transportation, goods, education, health care, security, and finance.",
        "他们需要接入带来电力、城市交通、商品、教育、医疗、安全和金融的网络。"
    ],
    [
        "Put simply, the numbers show a growing gap of interests between these so-called “champions” and their national home bases.",
        "简言之，上述统计数据显示了这些所谓的“顶级公司”和他们的总部所在地之间有着越来越明显的利益差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, investment rates in the newly industrialized economies of Asia have never recovered to their pre-1997-8 crisis levels, and investment rates in the rest of Asia outside China have fallen off as well.",
        "另外，亚洲新兴工业国家的投资率也从来没有恢复到1997-1998年金融危机以前的水平。 而除中国以外的其他亚洲地区的投资率也下降了。"
    ],
    [
        "If young children do not receive high-quality care from educated professionals who understand how to stimulate and shape brain development, the next generation of Americans will suffer from an ever-widening achievement gap relative to their counterparts in other advanced countries and emerging competitors.",
        "如果幼儿不能从受过教育、明白如何刺激和促进大脑发育的专业人士那里获得高质量教育，下一代美国人与其他发达国家和新兴竞争对手的成就差距将不断扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "The law was never Cheney’s strong point.",
        "法律从来就不是切尼的强项。"
    ],
    [
        "Transatlantic Free Trade?",
        "跨大西洋自由贸易？"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, civil servants must forego promised pay increases, and the government is looking for annual savings in the federal armed forces of up to €3 billion through structural reforms.",
        "同样的，公务员将放弃提高工资，而政府则希望通过某些结构性改革在联邦武装力量中每年省下30亿欧元军费。"
    ],
    [
        "That is an important question to consider, in view of the relative lack of attention devoted to a closely related and equally important threat to human survival: the startling pace of global biodiversity loss.",
        "这是一个需要考虑的重要问题，因为人们相对来说较少关注一个紧密相关、同样重要的人类生存威胁：令人吃惊的全球生物多样性丧失速度。"
    ],
    [
        "Even G-20 members, were they so moved, could make a statement.",
        "就连G-20成员国如果有所感触，同样可以发表声明参与其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, recent research indicates that expanded krill fishing might put the Antarctic ecosystem at risk.",
        "不幸的是，最近的研究显示被扩大的磷虾捕捉会威胁到南极的生态系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany is the migrants’ most favored destination.",
        "德国是移民最爱的目的地。"
    ],
    [
        "On January 22, the ECB took decisive action to protect the eurozone from a possible Greek default.",
        "1月22日，欧洲央行采取了果断行动保护欧元区不受可能的希腊违约的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no universally accepted set of standards, but let me suggest some that should be applied:",
        "没有放之四海而皆准的标准，但我可以提出一些应该被采用的标准："
    ],
    [
        "Yes, there has been some progress on the road to recovery.",
        "是的，我们在复苏之路上取得了一些进展。"
    ],
    [
        "The key action came in June 2012, when the Supreme Court, staffed entirely with Mubarak-era holdovers, nullified the results of the parliamentary elections on specious grounds.",
        "关键动作发生在2012年6月。 当是时，完全由穆巴拉克时代遗老组成的最高法院以似是而非的托辞宣布议会选举结果无效。"
    ],
    [
        "If you do not see humanity in your counterpart, you will not talk to him.",
        "如果你不把对手看作是人，你就不和他谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that Asia takes a similar tack – before simmering anger over historical humiliations boils over.",
        "我们希望亚洲也走上类似的道路——而且要在历史耻辱的愤怒沸腾之前。"
    ],
    [
        "So vital was this decision to Deng that he assigned overall command of the invasion to his fellow Long March veteran, General Hsu Shih Yun (who had given Deng shelter when, in 1976, he was purged for the second time by the dying Mao Zedong).",
        "邓小平对此次作战极为重视，并专门委任他的长征老战友许世友担任总指挥（在1976年邓小平被垂死的毛泽东再次打倒时，许世友曾庇护过他）。"
    ],
    [
        "My Body, My Capital?",
        "我的身体，我的资产？"
    ],
    [
        "The gullible Sancho Panza was meant to adopt the revolution’s deceptive dogma as entitlement to wage a brutal war against all.",
        "容易上当受骗的桑丘·潘沙定会接受革命欺骗性的信条主张，把它作为发动一场反对所有人的战争依据。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries, such as Jordan, Morocco, Kuwait, Yemen, and Bahrain, have created more limited space for democracy. There, too, Islamists have immediately filled it.",
        "而在其他国家，比如约旦、摩洛哥、科威特，也门和巴林，执政者在许多领域都将民主排除在外，而极端主义则迅速乘虚而入。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than determining events in the coming two or three decades, this generation is likely to be sidelined by the next cohort, born between 1955 and 1975.",
        "然而，这代人不会在接下来的二三十年中决定事务，却极有可能被1955到1975年之间出生的下一代人赶下政治舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "Since its inception, the ECT has served as the basis for more than 100 claims by energy firms against host countries, with some challenging national environmental policies, such as the nuclear phase-out in Germany.",
        "自实施以来，ECT被针对东道国的能源企业援引过100多次，其中一些是对国家能源政策，如德国逐步退出核电的战略的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But what really attracts disaffected young people is the invitation to be part of something that seems larger than themselves and the societies in which they live.",
        "但真正吸引不满青年的是他们获邀加入比他们自身和他们所生活的社会更宏大的事业中。"
    ],
    [
        "My think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus Center, therefore asked 60 teams of top economists to assess which proposed targets will do the most good – and which will not.",
        "我所在智库哥本哈根共识中心因此邀请由60位顶尖经济学家组成的团队来评估拟议中的哪些目标能发挥最大作用——以及哪些发挥的作用较小。"
    ],
    [
        "The Supreme Military Council is overwhelmingly Islamist, with rebel-controlled areas of Syria already practicing sharia (Islamic law).",
        "伊斯兰教徒占据了最高军事委员会的巨大多数，而叙利亚叛军控制地区已经开始推行伊斯兰法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Across the globe, the Southern Africa Development Community has set a goal of eliminating malaria from its four southernmost members – Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland – by 2015.",
        "在全球范围内，南部非洲发展共同体已经制定了到2015消灭其四个最南的成员国——博茨瓦纳、纳米比亚、南非和斯威士兰——国内的疟疾的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "While the magnitudes involved are huge, they must be attained if an extended period of low growth, high unemployment, and declining living standards among the world’s poorest is to be avoided.",
        "尽管所涉规模巨大，但必须完成，否则就会导致低增长、高失业、全球最贫困人口生活之质量下降。"
    ],
    [
        "At that time, Istanbul was a cosmopolitan city; around 35% of its local residents were Christian, and 6% were Jewish.",
        "当时的伊斯坦布尔是国际大都会； 那里约35%的当地居民是基督徒、6%是犹太人。"
    ],
    [
        "The larger strategic rivalry between the world’s largest autocracy and its biggest democracy has also sharpened, despite their fast-rising trade.",
        "虽然两国贸易额迅速上升，世界上最大独裁国家和最大民主国家之间更大规模的军事战略较量也变得更为尖锐了。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin, quite genuinely, holds contradictory views.",
        "普京非常聪明地持有自相矛盾的观念。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The eurozone’s institutional weaknesses have been laid bare.",
        "伦敦——欧元区的制度缺陷已经暴露无遗。"
    ],
    [
        "They stress that European integration banished the specter of war from the old continent.",
        "他们强调一体化可以将战争的幽灵驱逐出这个古老的大洲。"
    ],
    [
        "· Innovative education: Mainstream school systems in neighboring countries cannot cope with the refugee influx; and, with more than 80% of refugees living in urban areas rather than in camps, there is little point to focusing on camp-based models of teaching.",
        "· 教育创新：邻国的主流教育体系无法处理难民涌入的情况； 且考虑到80%的难民生活在城市地区而不是难民营，因此着重于基于难民营的教育模式是无济于事的。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps Asian real currency values will rise sharply as a result of a burst of inflation in Asia.",
        "可能亚洲货币的真实价值会由于通胀的爆发而大幅提升。"
    ],
    [
        "For a country positioning itself as a leader in the global knowledge economy, neglecting investment in education was a grave error, with other countries now staking a claim to the role to which India aspired.",
        "对于一个把自己定位为全球知识经济领导者的国家来说，在教育投资上的忽略堪称一个重大失误，而其它国家则纷纷占据了印度所向往的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Seize the Sustainable Future",
        "抓住可持续未来"
    ],
    [
        "But, though the summit may be called a success, its long-term implications are unclear, particularly given the uncertainty about what will follow.",
        "但是，尽管此次峰会可谓成功，其长期影响仍不清楚，特别是在考虑到未来不确定性的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "But Modi will need to offer more than words to meet India’s national security interests.",
        "但莫迪不但要说，还要做，这才能符合印度的国家安全利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But the company’s Web site continues to attract new prospects, with 1,000 people now registered as likely or certain to buy such a vehicle.",
        "当然，他们只是表示了意向，并没有真正的付钱。 目前，每天都有新的用户注册登记，现在有1000人注册。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s public reaction has been as remarkable as the Lancet study, for the reaction has been no reaction.",
        "而美国社会淡然置之的冷漠反应与《Lancet》的调查结果一样令人震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – China has achieved much since 1978, when Deng Xiaoping initiated the transition to a market economy.",
        "华盛顿—自1978年以来，中国成就斐然。 邓小平开启了市场经济改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, banks and the government provide about 35% of investment in SOEs, but only 10% of investment in private companies.",
        "总之，银行和政府把手中资金的35％投资给国有企业，但只有10％投资于私人公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, rising demand for healthier foods, including antibiotic-free meat, has already compelled major food-industry players like McDonald’s, Costco, and KFC to declare their intention to phase out antibiotic-laden meat.",
        "事实上，对健康食品（包括无抗生素肉类）的需求的增加已迫使麦当劳、好事多（Costco）和肯德基等食品业巨头宣布逐步淘汰含抗生素肉类的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because it forms the basis for responsible policies, it would attract support from centrists.",
        "此外，由于这构成了负责政策的基础，因此也将吸引中间派。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the Bush administration, for reasons that are increasingly perplexing, went at it alone.",
        "相反，布什政府出于日益令人困惑的原因单独采取了行动。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is as unlikely as it is that Europe will figure out that austerity alone will not solve its problems. On the contrary, austerity will only exacerbate the economic slowdown.",
        "但是，就像欧洲明白仅仅依靠紧缩政策是无法解决问题一样，美国采取这种手段的可能性是比较小的。 相反，紧缩政策仅仅会加剧经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Commission has acknowledged the danger, declaring that the only way to mitigate it is to separate the real economy from speculative markets by preventing banks from being involved in both.",
        "欧盟委员会已经认识到这一危险，宣布唯一的降低风险之法是阻止银行同时涉足实体经济和投机市场，从而实现后两者的分离。"
    ],
    [
        "To respect and promote human rights is critical to winning the battle for hearts and minds, including in Europe.",
        "尊重和促进人权对于赢得人心和思想的战斗至关重要，包括在欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1972, two economists, William Nordhaus and James Tobin, introduced a measure that they called “Net Economic Welfare,” obtained by deducting from GNP “bad” outputs, like pollution, and adding non-market activities, like leisure.",
        "1972年，两位经济学家——威廉·诺德豪斯（William Nordhaus）和詹姆斯·托宾（James Tobin）引入了他们称为“净经济福利”的指标，该指标通过从GNP中扣除“坏”产出（如污染）并加上非市场活动（如休闲）获得。"
    ],
    [
        "There, he might fall into a discussion with a software engineer about, say, whether ethical questions can be answered through crowdsourcing.",
        "在那里，他可能会与软件工程师讨论诸如道德问题是否能通过众包解决之类的话题。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the first countries to invest their considerable state-owned funds were Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Norway, and Singapore.",
        "最早将庞大的国有基金进行投资的国家包括科威特、阿拉伯联合酋长国、挪威和新加坡。"
    ],
    [
        "Military control over the civilian government had been ended.",
        "军方对文职政府的控制早已寿终正寝。"
    ],
    [
        "It is understandable that the collapse of the country, and of the spirit that nurtured Russian intellectuals – regardless of their political beliefs – for generations, is unbearable for Tereshkova and people like her.",
        "对于捷列什科娃及其志同道合的人而言，国家以及哺育了俄罗斯知识分子(无论政治信仰如何)的精神的瓦解是难以承受的。 这是可以理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union has been a positive force in promoting rights in those countries aspiring to membership, but it has not demonstrated a capacity to exercise influence worldwide.",
        "但是他们还是大失所望。 欧盟积极推动申请入盟国家的人权，但是并没有表现出它有能力在全世界施加影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are to protect the latter, we must defend the former at all costs.",
        "如果我们想要保护后者，就必须不惜一切代价捍卫前者。"
    ],
    [
        "An assessment of sovereign risk that is systematic and data-driven could help to spot the risks that changing global headwinds imply.",
        "系统性、以数据为基础的主权风险评估有助于发现全球不利因素改变所隐含的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Days later, the ECK’s head publicly acknowledged that Kibaki supporters had pressured him to announce the “results” immediately, despite the clear evidence of vote rigging.",
        "几天以后，ECK的负责人公开承认在Kibaki的支持者施压下立刻宣布了“结果”，尽管选票舞弊证据确凿。"
    ],
    [
        "Although 187 countries have signed the 1979 United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women, statistics show little progress.",
        "尽管187个国家签署了1970年联合国消除一切形式针对妇女暴力公约（United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women），但数据表明进步极其有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Government officials and their cronies did not necessarily engage in straightforward theft or pillaging. Through innocuous-sounding government “supervision” and “regulation” – and under the guidance of the major international financial institutions – ruling elites managed to run entire sectors of the economy as personal fiefdoms.",
        "事实上，政府官员及其亲信们并不是直接参与了盗窃抢劫，而是通过冠冕堂皇的政府“监督”和“规管”——而且是在各大重要国际金融机构的指导下——将整个国家金融部门变成了自己的私人领地。"
    ],
    [
        "Bubble Trouble",
        "泡沫的麻烦"
    ],
    [
        "Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is good for business.",
        "以持续性更强的方式管理森林、河流、草原和珊瑚礁能增强企业活力和温室气体吸收能力，而这更有利于企业开展业务。"
    ],
    [
        "Why would anyone, let alone a country’s ruling party, want to undermine a universally admired – and revenue-generating – architectural marvel?",
        "试问怎么会有人（更别提一个国家的执政党）会想要抹煞一个全球知名——且不断创造旅游收入——的建筑奇迹？"
    ],
    [
        "As the Olympic torch relay – itself a creation of the Nazis, first employed in the Berlin Games – makes its way down Speer Jr.’s avenue of power, the world will once again be made to witness a triumph of the totalitarian will.",
        "奥运火炬传递本身就是由纳粹创造出来的，并且首先是从柏林奥运会开始进行的。 当火炬在小斯佩尔建造的强力大道上行进时，世界将再一次目睹极权主义意志的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "This enhances the merits of having recourse to the EU’s largely unused AAA credit.",
        "这就增强了欧盟动用在很大程度上未使用的AAA借贷信用等级的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "In Italy, expenditures for home improvements have been partly deductible for the past ten years, mainly to improve tax compliance by firms in the housing sector.",
        "在意大利，过去十年改善房屋的费用部分是可以扣除的，这主要是为了提高房产业的企业在税收上的合规。"
    ],
    [
        "They are dogmatic.",
        "他们十分教条。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Ted Cruz, one of the Republican candidates for the US presidency, recently said that his solution to the turmoil in the Middle East would be to “carpet bomb” the Islamic State (ISIS) and see if “sand can glow in the dark.”",
        "纽约—美国共和党总统候选人之一泰德·克鲁兹（Ted Cruz）最近说，他有办法解决中东乱局，那就是“地毯式轰炸”伊斯兰国，看看“沙子是否能在黑暗中发光”。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Danish cartoon case and the recent controversy over the Pope’s statements, the station was clearly seen as making the news rather than just covering it.",
        "在丹麦卡通画以及最近的教皇言论风波之中，半岛电视台明显地是在制造新闻，而不是报道新闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas the Stern Review follows a tradition among British economists and many philosophers against discounting for pure futurity, most economists take pure time preference as obvious.",
        "尽管《斯特恩报告》遵循了英国经济学家和许多哲学家反对对纯粹的未来进行打折的传统，但是很显然大多数经济学家更偏爱纯粹的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "If the World Bank did not send 12 cents out of every dollar of IDA funding to India, it would have ample resources to invest in Africa – even if donations remained flat.",
        "如果世界银行不将IDA资金的12%用于印度，就有足够的资源投资于非洲——即使捐赠规模保持不变。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, these groups have emerged as the most effective force in the war against the Islamic State.",
        "总体而言，这些组织已崛起为与伊斯兰对抗的最有效的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Innovators around the world are able to muster support from traditional venture capitalists or from crowd-funding platforms such as Kickstarter.",
        "全世界的创新者能够集合来自传统风险资本家的支持，也可以依靠Kickstarter等众筹平台。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly all unemployment in a cyclical downturn was the result of the failure of investment demand.",
        "其假设的前提是如果消灭利润，需求一直维持充足。"
    ],
    [
        "ITHACA – Scarcely a week passes without news about the ascendance of China’s currency, the renminbi.",
        "发自伊萨卡——每周都有关于中国货币（人民币）占据优势地位的消息接踵而来。"
    ],
    [
        "One country after another has begun exploring options for bolstering their offensive capabilities in cyberspace, and many other countries have already done so.",
        "一个又一个国家已经开始探索加强网络攻击能力的方案，在这方面，其他许多国家已经成为先行者。"
    ],
    [
        "Those percentages are even higher in other parts of the world.",
        "这一百分比在世界其他地区甚至还要高。"
    ],
    [
        "But efforts to reform the system have been met with strong resistance, especially from local governments and residents, who fear the strain that unregulated migration to their cities will have on resources, employment, and services.",
        "但改革却遭遇了极大阻力，尤其是各地政府和居民的反对，因为担心不加限制的移民会对本地的资源，就业和公共服务带来压力。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the virtuous circle of high savings and rapid growth operates more strongly in China than in other developing countries where incomes are rising and birth rates are falling.",
        "归根结底，尽管收入增长、生育率下降是中国和很多发展中国家的共同特色，但高储蓄快增长的良性循环在中国的发展势头远比其他发展中国家更为强劲。"
    ],
    [
        "Thailand’s Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, met Putin late last year and tentatively agreed to purchase 12 Su-30MKM’s.",
        "泰国总理他信在去年会晤普京时，也意向性地同意购买12架苏‑30MKM。"
    ],
    [
        "But this phenomenon has been overestimated.",
        "但这一现象被高估了。"
    ],
    [
        "The US seems to be stuck in the Bretton Woods system, the rules-based order – underpinned by the IMF and the World Bank, with the US dollar at its heart – that emerged after World War II.",
        "美国似乎沉迷于布雷顿森林体系无法自拔。 布雷顿森林体系是一套基于规则的秩序，其基础是以美元为核心的IMF和世界银行，出现于二战后。"
    ],
    [
        "This is undoubtedly a worthwhile aim that can contribute to national prosperity and help young people realize the American Dream.",
        "这一目标无疑很有价值，可以在推动国家繁荣的同时帮助年轻人实现美国梦。"
    ],
    [
        "If he were truly concerned about global warming, how could he have endorsed the construction of coal-fired electricity plants, even if those plants use more efficient technologies than have been employed in the past?",
        "如果他确实对全球变暖深感忧虑，那么即便燃煤电厂使用的技术比过去更为有效，他又怎么能够继续批准建设这种类型的发电设施？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this is what makes Blatter a typical man of our times.",
        "事实上，正是这一点让布拉特成为现时代的典型人物。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign-exchange markets will factor this in, adjusting exchange rates faster in response to current-account imbalances and canceling out much of the capital flows which today support chronically unbalanced trade.",
        "外汇市场将考虑这些因素，更快地调整汇率以响应经常项目失衡，消除大部分在今天支撑长期失衡贸易的资本流。"
    ],
    [
        "That body, which emerged from the old Financial Stability Forum in 2009 with few powers and no formal status, has only recently become a separate legal entity.",
        "该机构2009年脱胎自昔日的金融稳定性论坛，基本上没有任何权力，也没有正式地位，直到最近才成为独立法律实体。"
    ],
    [
        "Nigeria’s economy has grown 11-fold since 2000, and Indonesia’s has more than quintupled.",
        "尼日利亚经济自2000年以来增长了11倍，印度尼西亚也翻了五倍多。"
    ],
    [
        "For those of us who believe that a forest credit market could provide critical means of protecting our planet our Musk moment is here.",
        "对我们这些相信森林积分市场可以成为保护地球最重要手段的人来说，现在就是我们的马斯克时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "With middle-class incomes in the United States stagnating, Americans could not afford ever more expensive homes.",
        "随着美国中产阶级的收入滞胀，美国人买不起越来越贵的房产了。"
    ],
    [
        "Beginning with Deng in the late 1970’s, scientists and engineers – technocrats with the determination to convert a dysfunctional centrally planned economy into an investment- and export-led colossus – framed and implemented a producer-oriented development model.",
        "自20世纪70年代末的邓小平改革以来，科学家和工程师——决心将功能失调的中央计划经济改变为投资和出口拉动的巨兽的技术官僚——设计并实施了生产者导向的发展模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, if many of the world’s economies attempt to consolidate simultaneously, with interest rates already low and some of the largest in a monetary union, such a favorable result is less likely.",
        "当然，如果世界上多个国家同时开始财政整合，与此同时，利率已经十分低，且一些最大经济体同处一个货币联盟，那么就不太可能产生有利的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "It is one thing for Russia and China to exploit America’s growing difficulties from Gaza to Kabul; but it is quite another if the situation deteriorates to the point of general destabilization in the region.",
        "中俄两国利用美国在从加沙到喀布尔的范围内不断日益增加的困境是一回事； 但是，如果局势恶化到整个地区总体上失去稳定，那就是另外一回事了。"
    ],
    [
        "Football can also be the occasion of positive gestures.",
        "足球也可以成为做出积极姿态的舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "Offering them and their children skills development and vocational training courses in other fields would transform their lives for the better.",
        "为渔民及其子女提供其他领域的技能发展和职业培训很有可能能够改善他们的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the PBOC’s tactical decision is not without potential pitfalls – not least because interest-rate cuts encourage the extension of more credit at a time when China is trying to wean itself from debt-intensive growth.",
        "尽管如此，中国人民银行的战术性决定也存在潜在漏洞，因为这鼓励了信用规模扩张，而中国正在竭力摆脱债务密集型增长。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – As the economic slump that began in 2007 persists, the question on everyone’s minds is obvious: Why?",
        "纽约——2007年开始的经济衰退还在继续，每个人的脑海中都有这样一个问题：为什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Gandhi and the Non-Aligned Movement remain important symbols.",
        "甘地和不结盟运动也是一个重要的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "This challenge was reflected in the EU foreign ministers’ recent declaration on migration, which was so vague that it defied practical interpretation.",
        "欧盟外长前不久发表的移民宣言就很好体现出问题所在，其中用词含混到很难做出实际的解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Does that mean that the world should not expect meaningful change in Iran’s official behavior following Rowhani’s victory?",
        "这意味着世界不必指望鲁哈尼当选后伊朗官方行为会有实质性改变吗？"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the European Central Bank will pursue its own version of quantitative easing, introducing in the first quarter of the year a set of new measures to expand its balance sheet.",
        "相反，欧洲央行将追求其自身的量化宽松，在明年一季度引入新措施扩大资产负债表。"
    ],
    [
        "That job will not be easy, because much of the relevant infrastructure is not under direct government control.",
        "这并不是个美差，因为许多相关的基础设施不是由政府直接控制的。 就在最近，美国中情局副局长唐纳德·科尔警告说， “我们政府的计划的信息和价值的重大损失通常不是因为间谍的活动."
    ],
    [
        "Bush showed emotional intelligence in midlife by mastering his problems with alcohol, and in displaying the courage to persevere with unpopular policies.",
        "而在这方面，小布什在中年时通过对抗酗酒问题显示了自身的情商，在坚持某些不受欢迎的政策时也展示出了勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "Both are surely aware that China’s surging exports last year helped it surpass the US as Europe’s largest foreign supplier.",
        "两位领导人当然都知道中国去年大幅上升的出口使得其超越美国而成为欧盟最大的外国供应国。"
    ],
    [
        "Or is a latter-day Yalta Conference, aimed at redrawing the political boundaries of Europe, necessary?",
        "或者，一个目的是为了重新划定欧洲政治边界的现代雅尔塔会议，必要吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Only time will tell how many wish to do so.",
        "到时候我们可以看看究竟有多少国家愿意这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, US President Barack Obama is gradually shifting toward the left.",
        "此外，美国总统奥巴马的立场也逐渐左倾。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries are fully justified in opposing an IP regime that is neither equitable nor efficient.",
        "这些国家完全有理由去反对这个既不公平也不高效的知识产权制度。"
    ],
    [
        "The remarkable speed with which anti-immigration positions buckled indicates that what most Americans want, above all, is a rational approach; they want their political leaders to take responsibility for the issue, rather than running away from it.",
        "反移民立场转变的惊人速度体现出大多数美国人其实最想要的就是一个合理的手段； 他们希望自己的政治领袖能在这一事务上有所担当，而非躲躲藏藏。"
    ],
    [
        "For economies to prosper, good ideas need a nudge getting to market.",
        "要想实现经济繁荣，需要推动好的理念走向市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In this environment, sober, informed voices, like that of the Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of central banks, should also be given a fair hearing.",
        "在这样的环境中，洞晓一切的冷静声音，比如央行的央行——国际清算银行（Bank for International Settlements）的声音也应该被大众所听到。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure of Operation Market Garden in September 1944, immortalized in the book and film A Bridge Too Far, led to famine in the Netherlands in the winter of 1944-1945.",
        "1944年9月市场花园计划的失败在小说和电影遥远的桥中都进行过不朽的描述，这次计划的失败导致1944到1945年冬天饥荒在荷兰爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge facing US politicians after the election will be to find a politically acceptable way to raise that revenue without undermining incentives and economic growth.",
        "美国政客在大选后所面临的挑战是找到政治上可行的办法在不破坏激励和经济增长的条件下增加收入。"
    ],
    [
        "As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics, more practical than spiritual.",
        "因此经济学更像工程学而非物理学，更实用而非形而上。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the founding of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences traces its origins back more than 400 years, to the Academy of Lynxes (Accademia dei Lincei), which inducted Galileo in 1611.",
        "事实上，教宗科学院的前身可以追溯到400等多年前的猞猁学院（Accademia dei Lincei），伽利略1661年开始在该学院任职。"
    ],
    [
        "Apart from China, central banks don’t intervene to protect their currencies anymore.",
        "除了中国，各国央行已不再出于保护本国货币的目的实施干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Although it is far from an exact precedent, the historic 1972 Shanghai Communiqué signed by China and the US, which allowed both governments to “agree to disagree” on many issues while committing themselves to dialogue at the highest levels, offers a promising model. This far-sighted framework’s effectiveness has been well proven over time.",
        "中美两国1972年签署的具有历史意义的上海公报让两国政府可以在许多问题上都“同意见解不同”，同时双方都承诺在最高级别对话。 尽管这远非具体的先例，但是，它却提供了一个具有前途的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "We are fully capable of change; indeed, we relish it, as the world will see in the months and years to come.",
        "我们完全有能力做出变化； 我们盼望着变化，世界在几个月到几年内就可以看到。"
    ],
    [
        "Eugene Fama certainly thinks so.",
        "尤金·法马（Eugene Fama）显然这样认为。"
    ],
    [
        "In principle, efficient taxation of extractive industries should enable societies to maximize the benefits of nature’s bounty.",
        "理论上，炼化行业的有效征税应该能让社会实现自然禀赋收益的最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "“We need to return to a smaller scale, one that touches people.",
        "“我们必须回归小规模，这样就能接触到人们。"
    ],
    [
        "An opening for a European approach may follow, but only if the current torpor does not lead to institutional atrophy.",
        "一个欧洲策略的新篇章可能会随之开启，但前提是当前的僵持状态不会导致机构的萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "And why shouldn’t it be digitized?",
        "为什么教育不进行数字化？"
    ],
    [
        "It is also worrying that some of the women Abe has selected for his cabinet and for key party posts are arch-conservatives who advocate that women stay at home and take care of children.",
        "另一个令人担心之处是一些被安倍选为内阁成员和党内重要职务人选的妇女是极端保守派，认为妇女应该呆在家里带孩子。"
    ],
    [
        "Ben Ali’s successor could raise his profile by clamping down on cronyism.",
        "本阿里可以通过打击任人唯亲来提升自己的公众形象。"
    ],
    [
        "And they did so with the moral authority of their Buddhist faith.",
        "而且，他们这样做具有佛教信仰的道义权威。"
    ],
    [
        "The same should go for patenting it.",
        "同样的标准也应当适用于专利申请领域。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s just not!” one is tempted to side with Francis Ponge who, citing Lautréamont, defined the poet (he would say “proet”) as a bard or troubadour who, by expressing the “voice of things,” becomes “the most useful citizen of his tribe.”",
        "”的老古董，任何人都不禁想加入弗朗西斯·松格的阵营，引述洛特雷蒙特的话用吟游诗人或民谣歌手来定义诗人（洛特雷蒙特将其称之为“proet”），这样一个特殊的群体通过表达“万物之声”而成为“部落中最有成就的公民。"
    ],
    [
        "China is a benchmark.",
        "中国就是一个例子。"
    ],
    [
        "This would come on top of the currently projected fiscal deficits in both the near term and over the coming decade – and before America’s demographic shift substantially raises the cost of Social Security and Medicare.",
        "这将会建立在目前预测的近期和未来几十年财政赤字的基础之上——而且在美国的人口变化大幅度提高社保和Medicare的成本之前。"
    ],
    [
        "SANA'A – Yemen is no stranger to crisis.",
        "萨那—也门对冲突绝不陌生。"
    ],
    [
        "These steps require a bottom-up program of change.",
        "上述步骤需要自下而上的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "Every five years the United Nations produces a summary report called the Global Forest Resource Assessment; The team in charge of assembling the assessment relies on internet reporting and satellite surveillance to come up with the figures.",
        "每隔五年，联合国都会公布一份称作《地球森林资源评估》的总结性报告； 该小组专门负责根据互联网上的报道和卫星监测的结果进行综合评定以得出数据。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the vulnerability implied by Wen’s “Four Uns” has increased significantly.",
        "换句话说，温家宝的“四不”所指的经济弱点已经显著加剧了。"
    ],
    [
        "Political lobbies that oversee these sectors and overlap with certain factions in the Party are simply too powerful for nascent interests in society and the bureaucracy to parry.",
        "对中国社会中的新生利益群体和官僚来说，控制这些部门以及和中国共产党中的某些派别重合的政治游说力量，已经强大到了他们无力抵挡的地步。"
    ],
    [
        "People of the older generation do, of course, remember the hardships of the 1930’s and 1940’s.",
        "当然，对二十世纪30年代、40年代的种种艰苦，老一辈的人都还记忆犹新。"
    ],
    [
        "This, they believe, is better than the current typical default option of putting individuals’ money into money-market funds.",
        "他们认为，这要比当前的典型默认选项——把钱投向货币基金要好。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, China does not have the capability to rout any rival militarily, let alone enforce its will on Asia.",
        "换句话说，中国没有能力去驱逐任何武力侵犯，更别说将武力施加于全亚洲了。"
    ],
    [
        "Inspired by the events taking place in Charlottesville, advocates have emerged in Britain seeking to pull Admiral Nelson off his famous column on Trafalgar Square in London, because the British naval hero supported the slave trade.",
        "受夏洛特维尔事件的刺激，英国也出现了一批人想要将著名的伦敦特拉法加广场的纳尔逊将军雕像移除，因为这位英国海军英雄支持奴隶贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, successive EU enlargements over the decades have brought in other powerful contenders, chiefly Spain and the UK, as well as smaller countries who are unwilling to bow before French-German leadership.",
        "与此同时，欧盟几十年来的不断扩张也吸引进了其他有力的竞争者，主要是西班牙和英国，以及那些不愿意在法-德领导下俯首称臣的小国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Spending cuts and tax increases that in the long run restore fiscal sanity and balance are good.",
        "长远看能削减开支、增加税收，恢复财政平衡稳健的措施都有好处。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea, which never had a transition and maintains heavy-handed central planning, is an economic basket case.",
        "韩国从未发生转型，至今仍保持强力中央计划，经济一团糟。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last decade, conditions for new entrants have worsened markedly in many countries.",
        "过去十年，很多国家新进劳动力面临的条件显著恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies with a large portfolio of fossil fuels, like coal, will soon face severe uncertainty related to stranded assets, and investors may change their risk assessments accordingly.",
        "大量依靠化石燃料（如煤炭）的公司很快就将面临搁浅资产所带来的不确定性，投资者也会据此改变风险评估。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – On a recent visit to a camp for Syrian refugees in Turkey, I witnessed some of the most powerful displays of human endurance that anyone can imagine.",
        "首尔——在不久前访问土耳其一座叙利亚难民阵营时，我亲眼目睹了难民身上所表现出的超乎想象的人类忍耐力。"
    ],
    [
        "But even if the Democrats do regain a majority in the 100-member Senate, Republicans will still be able to hold the threat of a filibuster – which requires 60 votes to break – over Clinton’s legislative proposals and nominations to the executive branch and Supreme Court.",
        "）但即使民主党果真重新赢得有100个席位的参议院的多数，共和党仍能够保持对克林顿的立法提案和最高法院执行庭提名的冗长演讲（filibuster）威胁——这需要60票才能打破。"
    ],
    [
        "These principles, agreed upon by the most important foreign players in Syria’s war, include a commitment to secular governance, the eventual defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS) and other terrorist groups, the maintenance of Syria’s prewar borders, the preservation of its state institutions, and the protection of minority groups.",
        "这些由叙利亚战争最重要的外部行动方所一致确定的原则包括承诺世俗治理、最终击败伊斯兰国和其他恐怖组织、维持叙利亚战前疆界、保留其国家机构，以及保护少数群体。"
    ],
    [
        "This clearly raises the stakes.",
        "这就明显地提高了忧关的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Protestants replied that if a vote were held within the geographical area of the entire island, the Catholic majority would rule.",
        "新教徒回应说，如果投票在全岛地理地区举行，那么占多数的天主教徒将赢得统治地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet at every turn, their contribution is downplayed and their ambitions are obstructed. Women find themselves cut off from training and support.",
        "但她们的贡献却每每遭到轻视，她们的梦想每每遭到阻挠。 女性发现自己无法得到培训和支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Initiatives such as Feed the Future, the US Global Development Lab, and Power Africa combine “local ownership, private investment, innovation, multi-stakeholder partnerships, and mutual accountability.”",
        "”未来粮食保障（Feed the Future）、美国全球发展实验室（US Global Development Lab）、非洲力量（Power Africa）等项目结合了“地方所有权、私人投资、创新、多边股东合作和互相问责。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The global health citizen is one who becomes a part of the solution.",
        "全球健康公民本身就是某种解决方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Two Australian drug traffickers have been scheduled for execution this month.",
        "按日程，两名澳大利亚毒贩已于本月被处决。"
    ],
    [
        "God would side once more with Muslims against their enemies, whom Qutb called “Crusaders and Jews.”",
        "神将再一次站在穆斯林一边帮助他们对抗这些库塔布称之为“十字军和犹太人”的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "If doctors, computer specialists, or engineers (let alone the proverbial Polish plumbers!) were allowed to move freely, the concentration of talent in the richest countries would most likely increase.",
        "如果允许医生、计算机专家或者工程师（更不用提众所周知的波兰管道工！ ）自由流动，人才汇集于最富有国家几乎肯定将增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, there is a lack of trust among European Union member states.",
        "其次，欧盟成员国之间也缺少互信。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization is one piece in a larger puzzle: while it is important that we determine the best way to manage the global trade system, doing so cannot substitute for the much larger challenge of managing market capitalism itself.",
        "全球化是更大的拼图中的一块：我们找到全球贸易体系的最佳管理之道固然重要，但这不能取代管理市场资本主义本身这一大得多的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe needs action.",
        "欧洲需要的是行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF emerged at a time when countries were routinely victimized by New York bankers’ casual assumptions, such as J.P. Morgan’s assessment in the 1920’s that Germans were “fundamentally a second-rate people.”",
        "IMF产生于各国总是被纽约银行家的不当行为拖累的年代，如20世纪20年代JP摩根认为德国“从根本上说只是二等公民”。"
    ],
    [
        "While globalization occasionally raises difficult questions about the legitimacy of its redistributive effects, we should not respond automatically by restricting trade.",
        "当全球化偶尔引发一个与再分配效应的合法化相关的棘手问题时，我们不应不假思索地用限制贸易来作为回应。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who said that there would be no downturn, or that recovery would be rapid, or that the economy’s real problems were structural, or that supporting the economy would produce inflation (or high short-term interest rates), or that immediate fiscal austerity would be expansionary were wrong.",
        "说经济不会下行者、说会有很快复苏者、说经济的真正问题乃结构性问题者、说支持经济会导致通货膨胀（或短期利率高企）者、说立刻采取财政紧缩将收到扩张性效果者都错了。"
    ],
    [
        "And the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), which sets standards for exchanges and securities regulators, has name recognition in some quarters.",
        "为交易所和证券监管机构设立标准的国际证券委员会组织（International Organization of Securities Commissions，IOSCO）也有人认得。"
    ],
    [
        "It persuades intimidated (often elderly) voters that, in the parlance of the Brexiteers, they can “take back control” of their lives and their countries, primarily by rejecting foreigners.",
        "它能够说服受到恫吓的（往往是老年）选民。 按照英国脱欧派的说法，他们可以“控制”自己的生活和国家，而实现这一目标的主要方式是拒绝外国人。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – Artificial intelligence, once confined to the realm of science fiction, is changing our lives.",
        "慕尼黑—人工智能曾经仅限于科幻小说，但如今正在改变我们的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Oxford’s Kevin O’Rourke recently argued, this is hardly a sufficient argument.",
        "但是，牛津大学的凯文·奥洛克（Kevin O’Rourke）最近指出，这一观点并不充分。"
    ],
    [
        "These protests have run, on and off, for nearly 200 days, with crowd sizes ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands. It is widely known that the anti-Thaksin business elites provided the money to keep people in the street.",
        "这些抗议，断断续续持续了将近200天，抗议人口也从几百人增加到几万人。 反他信的商业精英出钱使人们待在街上抗议，广为人知。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent developments in wind, solar, tidal, bio-energy, geothermal, and fuel-cell technology are transforming the scope for low-carbon energy production.",
        "风能、太阳能、潮汐能、生物能、地热能和燃料电池技术的最新发展正在改变低碳能源产品领域。"
    ],
    [
        "And, given European countries’ long and proud history, I have no doubt that “subsidiarity” will play a major role in the future Europe – significantly greater than in current models of federation.",
        "此外考虑到欧盟各国的悠久历史，我毫不怀疑“次要规定”将在未来的欧洲承担一个重要角色——而且比当前的联邦模式更为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach must not be turned into a marketing exercise by companies, government officials, or media companies.",
        "这一方针不可让公司、政府官员或传媒公司变为营销手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s imagine that every country in the world – including the United States and Australia – were to sign the Kyoto Protocol and cut its CO2 emissions for the rest of this century.",
        "让我们想象一下世界上的每一个国家——包括美国和澳大利亚——都签订了京都协议书，并且将在这个世纪余下的时间减少二氧化碳的排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "The first explanation for earned-income inequality is technological change, which raises the demand for skilled workers faster than the supply.",
        "针对劳动收入不平等的第一个解释是技术变革，这令对高技术工人的需求增长比供给要快。"
    ],
    [
        "ZURICH – Repeatedly in recent years there have been calls for a revival of civilian nuclear power.",
        "发自苏黎世——这几年来不断有人呼吁要重振民用核能的雄风。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the presence and pressure of English has a striking impact on the vocabulary of the home language, it leaves the syntax, grammar, and pronunciation almost entirely unaffected.",
        "虽然英语的强势和压力对其他国家语言的词汇有着明显的影响，但对它们的语义、语法和语音却几乎没有产生影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, for example, private investment in Europe totaled more than €2 trillion, compared to government investment of less than €300 billion.",
        "比如，在2011年，欧洲私人投资总量为2万亿欧元，而政府投资还不到3000亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "That is how the European Coal and Steel Community was gradually transformed into the EU.",
        "欧洲煤钢共同体正是通过这种方式逐步转化为欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "The fall in bond yields has extended to a far broader range of debt than just government paper.",
        "除政府债券外更大范围的债券资产收益都明显下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "In the findings to date, however, two conclusions have emerged that seem especially useful for policymakers to ponder. First, most of the things that do bring enduring satisfaction for individuals are also good for other people – strong marriages and close relationships of all kinds, helping others, engaging in civic affairs, and effective, honest, democratic government.",
        "但在迄今为止的研究成果中，有两条结论非常值得政治家们深思：首先，大多数能为个人带来持久满足感的行为也会使其他人受益——比如美满的婚姻或是与其他人的亲密关系，助人为乐，热心公益的行为，以及高效廉洁民主的政府，因此促进个人幸福感的政策对整个社会都是有益的。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Russia cannot seriously consider balancing the US with China, let alone with France.",
        "当然，俄罗斯不可能认真地考虑将美国与中国，更别说是与法国等量齐观。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the coalition of forces backing the bill – civil-society groups supported by a 350,000-strong petition organized by legendary Brazilian musician and former Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil – overcame traditional political interests.",
        "尽管如此，支持法案的联合力量——巴西传奇音乐家、前文化部长基尔（Gilberto Gil）组织了350,000人的请愿，受到各大公民团体的支持——克服了传统政治利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The S&P 500 has rallied 150% since its 2009 lows, and valuations look rich given weakening growth dynamics (the Shiller price/earnings ratio stands at 26, compared to 15 in 2009).",
        "标准普尔500指数自2009年低点反弹了150%，基于萎靡不振的增长动态，估值看上去已经相当高（希勒市盈率高达26倍，2009年只有15倍）。"
    ],
    [
        "Fernández’s melodramatic speeches are a transparent attempt to elevate her late husband to saintly status, just as Perón elevated his wife, Evita, to sainthood.",
        "费尔南德兹夸张的演说显然意在将其已故丈夫提升到圣人的地位，一如庇隆神化其妻艾薇塔。"
    ],
    [
        "In a few days, there will be ceremonies to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the revision of Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s conviction on charges of espionage in a trial that tore the country apart.",
        "再过几天，就到了阿尔福雷德·德雷福斯上尉因间谍罪被定罪又获平反的100周年纪念，当时这件事造成了法国的分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "That means reducing the unprecedentedly high savings rate, a large share of which accrues to state-owned enterprises.",
        "这意味着降低前所未有的高储蓄率——很大一部分储蓄流向了国有企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Although global warming will create costs stemming from more heat-related deaths and water stress, they will be outweighed by the benefits from many fewer cold-related deaths and higher agricultural productivity from higher levels of CO2.",
        "尽管全球变暖导致因酷热和水患造成的死亡人数增加，但寒冷造成的死亡人数减少和二氧化碳含量升高造成的农业高产将抵消前者所带来的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from shaky funding, the harm-reduction efforts in Russia, and to a large degree in Ukraine, lack a fundamental tool: opiate-substitution treatment.",
        "除了不可靠的政府资助之外，俄罗斯以及乌克兰大部分地区的减轻危害项目都缺乏一个基本工具：鸦片类物质替代物。"
    ],
    [
        "After the subprime crisis erupted, mortgage and consumer debt was paid down by households either with their savings or by default.",
        "在次贷危机爆发之后，美国家庭只能用储蓄来支付抵押贷款和消费者债务，或者被迫放弃偿还。"
    ],
    [
        "Vietnam has also become a major exporter of clothes, shoes, and furniture.",
        "如今越南已经成为了服装，鞋类和皮具的主要出口国。"
    ],
    [
        "But these diehard Euroskeptics would never have won a majority without some 20% of voters who cared little about Europe, but treated the referendum as a protest vote.",
        "但只要这些死硬疑欧派无法赢得对欧洲不太在乎，当将公投视为抗议投票的20%选民，他们就无法赢得多数。"
    ],
    [
        "· a functioning state;",
        "· 一个正常运作的国家"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of a change of heart by our political leaders, the power of prayer may be our only recourse.",
        "如果我们的政治领袖不改变思维，也许我们就只能祈求上帝了。"
    ],
    [
        "This means a strategy based on political leverage not a threat of military intervention or regime change.",
        "这意味着必须以政治力量对比为基础来制定策略，而不是单纯依靠武力侵略或政权颠覆的军事威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "But appearances can deceive.",
        "但这却是容易让人误入歧途的表象。"
    ],
    [
        "The violence began following an ordinary conflict between two small groups of young people over a taxi.",
        "这场暴力冲突的导火索其实是两伙年轻人争夺一辆出租车。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution is not to ignore the threat of terrorism, but to address the threat more intelligently.",
        "如此这般倒不是忽略恐怖主义的威胁，而是采取更明智的方法来处理恐怖问题。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Kazakhstan sought the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe, which it obtained in 2010, and pursued a difficult but ultimately successful campaign to become a non-permanent UN Security Council member in 2017-2018.",
        "因此，哈萨克斯坦寻求成为欧安组织主席国（在2010年如愿），并克服万难，最终成功被选为2017—2018年联合国安理会非常人理事国。"
    ],
    [
        "And Euroskeptic parties are on the rise across Europe, and have even joined government coalitions in some places.",
        "而且欧洲怀疑主义政党在整个欧洲大陆纷纷崛起，甚至在某些地方已经加入了执政联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Once such stability is achieved, regional and local efforts should be accelerated to improve disease prevention and health-care infrastructure, and to put the region back on a path toward providing better, healthier lives for its people.",
        "一旦稳定成为现实，就应当加速推进地区及国内改善疾病预防和医疗保健基础设施的工作，我们的目的是让这些国家回到正轨，为国内民众提供更好、更健康的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Brexit would therefore have significant consequences for trade flows not just between the UK and the EU, but also in the rest of the world.",
        "因此，英国退出将给贸易流带来巨大影响，不仅是英国与欧盟之间的贸易流，也包括世界其他地区的贸易流。"
    ],
    [
        "Whoever plays a three-dimensional game by focusing on only one board is bound to lose in the long run.",
        "任何人在玩三维国际象棋游戏时，只注重某一个盘，那么从长期来看他是注定要失败的。"
    ],
    [
        "If a self-aware Super Mario began to analyze the laws of his world, he would find very little symmetry or productivity.",
        "如果有自我意识的超级马里奥开始分析他的世界的定律，他不会发现多少对称性和生产力。"
    ],
    [
        "A better way to help banks and prevent them from simply deleveraging their business would be to establish full transparency and provide fresh money from taxpayers.",
        "帮助银行一个更好的办法是建立完全的透明制度，从纳税人那里融资。"
    ],
    [
        "The government in Jakarta, meanwhile, has taken a strong stand against corruption and moved to address structural problems.",
        "雅加达的政府在反对腐败问题上立场鲜明，现在更加强调制度建设的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Indians cannot afford to forget that the last time Sharif hosted a celebrated feel-good visit by an Indian prime minister in Lahore, in 1999, his army subsequently started a war with India on the Kargil heights and unseated Sharif himself within months.",
        "印度决不能忘记，沙里夫上一次招待怀着良好意愿访问拉合尔的印度总理是在1999年，当时，他的军队随后就在卡尔基尔（Kargil）高地对印度宣战，沙里夫自己也在几个月后被赶下台。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference now is that this is no longer a fringe group; its members are now in power in Uttar Pradesh, with enablers leading the government in Delhi.",
        "但问题是如今这帮人不再属于边缘群体； 其成员现在在北方邦执政，其背后推手更在德里领导着全国政府。"
    ],
    [
        "While governments and central banks race frantically to find a solution, there is a profound psychological dynamic at work that stands in the way of an orderly debt workout: our aversion to recognizing obligations to strangers.",
        "尽管有关政府和央行急着想对策，但有一种深刻的心理机制阻碍着债务问题的有序解决：我们不太把欠陌生人的债当回事儿。"
    ],
    [
        "That could happen.",
        "这有可能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "But the SCAF side is applying a similar strategy: strengthening its hold over the key power ministries.",
        "但武装部队最高委员会也运用了类似的策略：即加强对关键实权部委的控制力度。"
    ],
    [
        "Gusmão’s main rival, Mari Alkatiri, Fretilin’s leader and a former prime minister, denounced Ramos-Horta’s decision.",
        "Gusmão的主要竞争对手，Fretilin的党魁、一位前部长Mari Alkatiri谴责了Ramos-Horta的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "These transformations are the result of both scale and innovation.",
        "规模和创新共同带来变革。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, though, the incidence of chronic disease almost certainly did rise in developed countries.",
        "但是，随着时间的推移，发达国家慢性病发病率几乎确定地增长着。"
    ],
    [
        "But other parts of Trump’s UN speech, especially its passages about national interests and sovereignty, require further reflection.",
        "但特朗普联合国演讲的其他部分，特别是关于国家利益和主权的段落，则需要人们去进一步思考。"
    ],
    [
        "As impressive as this figure sounds, it is just the first step for the data economy.",
        "这一数字相当令人瞩目，而这只是数据经济的第一步。 到2020年，全球互联网人口将达到五十亿；"
    ],
    [
        "Young people’s consumption habits are quite different from their elders’.",
        "年轻人的消费习惯与他们的长辈差异较大。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Until recently, the usual thinking among macroeconomists has been that short-term weather fluctuations don’t matter much for economic activity.",
        "坎布里奇—直到最近，宏观经济学家的惯常思维一直是短期天气波动对经济活动影响不大。"
    ],
    [
        "And for one’s superiors, tangible projects are the easiest to recognize.",
        "对官员的上级来说，有形的项目是最容易识别的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "A Jewish state has existed for only short periods in Judaism’s history, and it twice committed political suicide.",
        "在犹太教历史上，犹太国家的存在时期很短，而且两次走上过政治自杀。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Ghani has been persuaded that he needs Pakistan’s help on both fronts.",
        "此外，贾尼被说服相信他需要在这两条战线上获得巴基斯坦的帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The big questions left unanswered are how far Obama wants to push the US toward a European-style social-welfare state, how he intends to pay for it, and how much long-term economic damage will result?",
        "隐而未答的问题是奥巴马在多大程度上愿意推动美国经济向欧洲式社会福利国家的方向发展，他要怎样支付这笔开支，以及会导致多少长期的经济损失？"
    ],
    [
        "The loss of resilience would be too great.",
        "而失去经济复原能力的代价可能会极为巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Mao Zedong used to say that his country and North Korea were “as close as lips and teeth” – a fitting description, given Chinese troops’ role in averting an American victory in the Korean War.",
        "毛泽东曾说，中国和朝鲜“唇齿相依”——此话最为精辟，中国军队在朝鲜战争中阻止了美国的胜利就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "It distracts the ECB, adds to the impression that Europe is bad, and, more importantly, will be used by ineffective governments as a scapegoat for their failings.",
        "它干扰欧洲央行，增加了欧洲有害的印象，而且，更为重要的是，无能为力的政府可以此为其失策寻找替罪羊。"
    ],
    [
        "In attempting to execute its strategic pivot, the US is haunted at virtually every turn by its status as a historical hegemon, a military power, and the guarantor of its Asian allies’ security.",
        "为了落实其战略支点，美国几乎在每个转折点都受到其地位的困扰——历史超级大国、军事霸权、亚洲盟友的安全守护者。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding the courage of the many Iraqis who join either the army or the police, no one should be surprised if some have motives that are less than pure.",
        "尽管加入军警部队的很多伊拉克人勇气可嘉，但如果有人动机不纯，我也不会感到奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "At the top of the list of scapegoats are the “elites” – established political parties and corporate leaders.",
        "替罪羊名单上名列前茅的是“精英阶层”——也就是现有的政党和企业领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this provides grounds for hope that 2016 may be the year when real change gets underway.",
        "所有这些都给人们带来了希望，2016年可能会启动真正的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Greece’s rate is 49.3%, but its ratio is only 13%.",
        "类似地，希腊年轻人失业率高达49. 3%，但失业比率只有13%。"
    ],
    [
        "And they “are pretty well convinced” that some of their technologies “have the potential to be significantly better.”",
        "他们“相当自信地认为”他们的一些技术“有可能远远胜出”。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in forming an opinion, a few facts should be kept in mind.",
        "但必须要了解若干事实才能确定自己的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "At worst, the Bush administration could have acted alone, but with sufficient force, skill, and diligence - and with the appropriate and imperative respect for human rights and international law - to get the job done quickly.",
        "最坏情况下，布什政府可能单独行动，但也可以动用更多的力量和技巧，按照对人权和国际法适度尊重的原则，迅速地完成这项任务。"
    ],
    [
        "When that bubble collapses, it will hit not just the weaker countries – the equivalent of sub-prime mortgages – but also stronger creditors.",
        "这个泡沫一旦破灭，将不仅仅冲击脆弱的债务国——引发另一场相当于次贷危机的危机，而且也将冲击强大的债权国。"
    ],
    [
        "The Anti-Hunger Imperative",
        "反饥饿的使命"
    ],
    [
        "During President George W. Bush’s first term, Secretary of State Colin Powell understood and referred to soft power, whereas Rumsfeld, when asked about soft power in 2003, replied “I don’t know what it means.”",
        "在布什总统的第一个任期内，国务卿鲍威尔理解并提出柔性力量，而拉氏在2003年被问及柔性力量的时候回答说：“我根本就不知道它是什么东西”。"
    ],
    [
        "The “Impact” Illusion in Science",
        "科学中的“影响”幻觉"
    ],
    [
        "The folly of this approach should be obvious.",
        "这种做法的愚蠢应当是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider first the supply side.",
        "先看供给问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, I will never forget the eerie feeling of riding my bike through the Brandenburg Gate from West Berlin into the East, and seeing the contrast between people who were free and those who were trapped behind the Iron Curtain.",
        "类似地，我也永远不会忘记骑着自行车从西柏林通过布兰登堡门前往东柏林时的怪异感觉，目睹自由的人和被困在铁幕之后的人的反差。"
    ],
    [
        "India is certainly suspicious of China's behavior.",
        "印度当然怀疑中国的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the attacks represent more than a failure of police work.",
        "事实上，恐怖袭击不仅仅代表了警察工作的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not possible without allowing some form of religious expression in public life.",
        "不在公共生活中留出某种形式的宗教表达空间是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders met again in Kyoto in 1997 and promised even stricter carbon cuts by 2010, yet emissions keep increasing, and Kyoto has done virtually nothing to change that.",
        "1997年领导人在京都再次会面，承诺到2010年执行更严格的碳减排政策，但碳排放量却持续攀升，而《京都议定书》在改变现状方面几乎不起任何作用。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a new law regulating the judiciary has been a demand of the revolution since its early weeks.",
        "比如，革命从最初几周提出了建立新的监督司法部门的法律的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Many will condemn this as a resurgence of “eugenics,” the view, especially popular in the early twentieth century, that hereditary traits should be improved through active intervention.",
        "许多人会将此斥为“优生主义”复辟——这种在20世纪初特别流行的观点认为应该通过积极的干预改善遗传特征。"
    ],
    [
        "In turn, this can spur sustainable non-farm employment growth in services, agro-processing, and small-scale manufacturing.",
        "这反过来又会刺激可持续的非农就业增长，这些增长来自服务业、农产品加工和小规模制造。"
    ],
    [
        "Running the Kremlin is, after all, a testing job.",
        "毕竟，掌管克里姆林宫是项艰巨的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "This stands in contrast to its earlier assessments of “substantial” undervaluation.",
        "这与其早先“严重低估”的论断形成了鲜明对比。"
    ],
    [
        "The North Korean Cult",
        "朝鲜崇拜"
    ],
    [
        "The second step in May’s strategy was to avoid any discussion of what kind of Brexit the UK should choose.",
        "梅策略的第二步是避免讨论英国应当选择什么样的方式脱欧。"
    ],
    [
        "Chicago School economics has never been more vulnerable than it is today – and deservedly so.",
        "芝加哥学派的经济学理论从来就没有这么不堪一击——他们确实也应该这样。"
    ],
    [
        "Conspiracy, by contrast, is suited to a legal system that emphasizes early police intervention, before criminal plans are carried out.",
        "与之相反，同谋罪适用于强调在犯罪计划实施之前进行早期警方干预的法律制度。"
    ],
    [
        "When that happens, we can all live happily ever after.",
        "到那时，好日子就要来了。"
    ],
    [
        "Employment of prime-age males should be rising, not falling.",
        "因此中青年男性就业应当不降反升。"
    ],
    [
        "An enormous \"youth bulge\" in the Arab world's demographic tables looms, with 45% of the population now under the age of 14, and the population as a whole set to double over the next quarter-century.",
        "青年人在阿拉伯世界的人口统计表上数量激增，目前总人口的45%都在14岁以下，而后四分之一世纪的总人口数肯定会翻番。"
    ],
    [
        "Life expectancy statistics suggest that the world is getting healthier, and data show that people are living longer than ever before; since 1990, average life expectancy has increased by around six years.",
        "寿命预期数字表明，世界正在变得更加健康，人类比以往任何时候都活得更加长久； 1990年以来，平均寿命预期增加了大约六年。"
    ],
    [
        "Germans have always been enthusiastic proponents of the EU, not least because they hoped that a European identity would help compensate for their damaged national identity.",
        "德国人一直热切支持欧盟，这并不仅仅是因为他们希望欧洲身份可以帮助补偿受损的民族身份。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2012, knowledge-intensive flows accounted for nearly half of the combined total value of flows of goods, services, and finance.",
        "2012年，知识密集型流占商品、服务和金融流总值的近一半。"
    ],
    [
        "It tends to be perceived globally as supercilious, petulant, and prim. Its know-it-all attitude grates almost everywhere.",
        "如今在全世界人眼中，欧盟显得傲慢，脾气古怪又一本正经，而它那种自以为无所不知的态度在哪里都不受欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "The Digital Road From Poverty",
        "数字脱贫之路"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – To read The Samuelson Sampler in the shadow of the Great Recession is to gain a glimpse into the mindset of a bygone era.",
        "伦敦—在大萧条的阴影下阅读《萨缪尔逊采样器》（The Samuelson Sampler）是为了一撇过去的时代的思维。"
    ],
    [
        "With no apparent successor, his departure from the scene will bring a massive and unpredictable shake-up in Palestinian politics.",
        "在没有指明继任者的情况下，他的离开会给巴勒斯坦政局带来巨大的，不可预知的动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "But the rhetoric of the inequality debate in rich countries betrays a moral certitude that conveniently ignores the billions of people elsewhere who are far worse off.",
        "但富国不平等争论的论调有悖于一个道德标准，它心安理得地忽视境况差得多的数十亿其他地区的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Once again, we would see what might appear, from looking at the government deficit, to be an austerity-to-prosperity scenario.",
        "这一次我们可能也会从政府赤字的角度，认为是紧缩实现了繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, the Muslim Brotherhood, thought to be the single strongest opposition group in Egypt, are urging their followers to caste ballots and vote their conscience but not to give support to any ‘despotic, corrupt rulers.’",
        "但另一方面，被认为是埃及最强的独立反对派集团的“穆斯林兄弟会”，却敦促其追随者凭良心投票，并不要支持任何“专制、腐败的统治者”。"
    ],
    [
        "With the US having largely followed Russia’s lead in the Syrian conflict since the crisis over Assad’s chemical weapons, Middle Eastern leaders now head to Moscow, not Washington, to advance their interests.",
        "由于美国在阿萨德化武危机后的叙利亚冲突局势中往往唯俄罗斯马首是瞻，中东领导人如今纷纷奔赴莫斯科——而非华盛顿特区——来推进自身的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, since the Korean War peak of 7%, global costs have declined steadily, reaching 3.5% in 1980 and about 1.7% today.",
        "7%左右。 即便是悲观的情景也表明，到2050年这一成本只会上升到1."
    ],
    [
        "The process the IARC uses in coming to conclusions is not only scientifically wrong; it is harmful.",
        "国际癌症研究机构得出结论所用的方法不仅在科学上有误； 而且会产生有害的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – Markets and capitalist incentives have great strengths in promoting economic efficiency, growth, and innovation.",
        "米兰—市场和资本主义激励在促进市场效率、增长和创新方面具有很大的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists at the think tank I lead estimate that every dollar diverted from energy subsidies could generate at least $15 in benefits to society.",
        "我主持的智库的经济学家估算，从能源补贴中每抽出一美元可以给社会造成至少15美元的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "But that excuse has worn thin.",
        "然而这样的借口已经难以服众。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the critiques are at best mediocre; they strike me less as serious acts of engaged intellect than reflections of the political and economic power of a rising plutocracy.",
        "大部分批评都很平庸； 它们给我的印象不像是有鉴赏力的才智之士所为，倒像是崛起的财阀的政治和经济权力的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "So we live in a world of evolutionary state disorder.",
        "因此，我们生活在一个渐进的国家失序中。"
    ],
    [
        "Many who weren’t killed died of starvation or disease, spread by vast numbers of armed men.",
        "许多没有被杀的也死于大量武装部队散播的饥饿和疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "Latin American and the Caribbean countries can also use the upcoming summit in Brussels to reassure the EU that it is a valued partner.",
        "拉美和加勒比地区国家还可以利用即将到来的布鲁塞尔峰会打消欧盟的疑虑，证明它是可贵的合作伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, howls seemed inevitable after two large EU countries, Italy and France, submitted budget plans for 2015 that clearly violated their governments’ vows of continued austerity.",
        "上个月，在两个欧盟大国意大利和法国上交其2015年预算计划，其政府违背继续紧缩的承诺已成定局后，谴责之声不可避免。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments are created and fall apart, and politicians come and go; but democratic institutions should be spared from political interference.",
        "政府连年更替，政客你方唱罢我登场； 而民主机构应被排除于政治干预之外。"
    ],
    [
        "Eliminating the purchase of air time on radio and television during campaigns, with the consequent reduction in their cost, would complement these changes.",
        "与此配套的是取消在选举期间购买电台和电视台的广播时间，从而减少选举的开支。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2030, demand for animal products will double, with overall food demand rising by 40%.",
        "到2030年，动物产品需求将翻番，而食品总需求将上升40%。"
    ],
    [
        "In hindsight, Greenspan was wrong.",
        "从事后看，格林斯潘错了。"
    ],
    [
        "It suggests complementarity rather than substitutability between private and public funds.",
        "这表明，私人投资和公共投资之间是互通有无而非相互取代的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the explanation for market calm probably lies elsewhere.",
        "事实上，市场平静的原因也许出在其他方面。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission now needs to take action to ensure that member states redouble their efforts with regard to the Lisbon Agenda for overhauling Europe’s global competitiveness.",
        "欧洲委员会现在需要采取行动确保各成员国在推进旨在重塑欧洲全球竞争力的《里斯本议程》方面加倍努力。"
    ],
    [
        "In a new book, Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy, my co-author Steve Cohen and I show that the problem is even more fundamental.",
        "在新书《实在经济学：经济增长和政策的汉密尔顿方法》（Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy）中，我和我的合著者史蒂夫·科恩（Steve Cohen）证明了这一问题甚至更加基本。"
    ],
    [
        "African Leaders’ Eyes on the Prize",
        "非洲领袖眼中的巨奖"
    ],
    [
        "What will happen with Syria’s Kurds and Palestinians, or its Christians, Druze, and smaller Muslim minorities?",
        "叙利亚库尔德人和巴勒斯坦人，或基督徒、德鲁兹派以及人数更少的穆斯林少数派命运会如何？"
    ],
    [
        "The impact of the ECB’s €1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) long-term refinancing operation (LTRO), which loaned money to commercial banks to buy sovereign bonds (a bootstrap operation that seemed as peculiar as the ECB’s financing of sovereigns to shore up the banks), was impressively short-lived.",
        "价值1万亿欧元（约合1. 3万亿美元）的欧洲央行长期再融资计划(LTRO)——把钱借给商业银行去购买主权债务（这个类似一个人拽着自己头发尝试把自己提起来的行动就跟欧洲央行通过对主权国家融资来支持银行一样怪异），其影响效果极为短暂。"
    ],
    [
        "But Raúl Castro is an old man himself, so we can hope for the prospect that some Deng or, better yet, a Suarez will ultimately emerge from the wreckage of Fidelism.",
        "但劳尔▪卡斯特罗本人也已年迈。 所以我们可以憧憬着某一个邓小平，或更好的舒瓦雷茨似的人物最终会从古巴革命主义的废墟里出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the eurozone, rising income inequality has created an underclass that is increasingly suspicious of the monetary union.",
        "在整个欧元区，上升的收入不平等已经造成了一个下等阶级，他们越来越质疑货币联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "So when he speaks of “trains with no drivers that seem to be on a collision course,” as he recently did at a private meeting in Berlin, interested parties should probably prepare for unwanted developments.",
        "因此当他不久前在柏林举行的一次私人会议上说出“行驶在相撞轨迹上的没有驾驶员的列车”时，所有利益相关方或许应当为出乎意料的事态发展做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "This did not produce a joint benefit; it was a bad decision, and one that Obama should renounce.",
        "这是一个糟糕的决定，奥巴马应该有所解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, many in Scotland would argue for independence in order to remain an EU member – a popular refrain that could well result in a vote to secede from the UK.",
        "事实上，许多苏格兰人将号召为了保留欧盟成员资格而支持独立——这一流行的口号可能导致苏格兰人投票脱离英国。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, when a new strain of influenza appears in Asia, scientists collect a throat swab, isolate the virus, and run the strain’s genetic sequence.",
        "如今，当新的流感菌株在亚洲出现时，科学家收集咽喉棉签，分离病毒，测定毒株的基因序列。"
    ],
    [
        "The continent’s fusion of culture makes its people richer rather than poorer.",
        "欧洲大陆对文化的融合让欧洲人民变得更富有，而不是更贫穷。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that we need to be more careful in using the language of democracy when talking about Russia.",
        "这意味着我们在谈论俄罗斯时使用民主语言需要更加小心。"
    ],
    [
        "This has exposed the fragility of the banking system, including quasi-banking institutions, as revealed by Bears Sterns, Lehman Brothers, and other US investment banks, and in Europe by Northern Rock, UBS, WestLB, and many more.",
        "这暴露了银行系统包括准银行机构的脆弱性，正像贝尔斯登、雷曼兄弟以及其他美国投资银行和欧洲的罗森若克银行（Northern Rock）、瑞银集团、西德意志银行以及其他许多机构暴露的情形那样。"
    ],
    [
        "The right, for its part, must rethink its obsession with temporary tax cuts for households or businesses.",
        "右翼必须反思其沉迷于临时性家庭和企业减税的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, the corporate sector will only gradually take on more of the heavy lifting.",
        "与此同时，公私部门只能逐渐承担更多的重担。"
    ],
    [
        "What is now beyond question is that Yersinia pestis was indeed the pathogen responsible for two of the most destructive pandemics ever.",
        "现在已经毋庸置疑的是鼠疫杆菌确实是造成有史以来两次破坏性最强的流行病病原体。"
    ],
    [
        "Will foreign intervention reunite the French?",
        "对外干预会让法国重新团结起来吗？"
    ],
    [
        "So there are plans afoot to develop and distribute tools to analyze information, discover correlations (data-mining), and display the results as graphs and charts.",
        "因此目前正在落实计划，研究并分发相关的信息分析工具，发现其中的关联之处（资料勘察），并以图形和表格的形式显示结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, another trend may be more significant as far as political leadership is concerned.",
        "毫无疑问，世界上许多地方政治领导的模式正在发生转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers now must figure out how to achieve this goal – no easy feat, especially given that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, steadily rising costs for conventional energy cannot be counted on to propel the necessary shift toward a low-carbon future.",
        "决策者现在必须找到实现目标的方法——完成这项任务绝非易事，因为让传统智慧始料未及的是，传统能源成本节节攀升无法再对朝向低碳未来的过渡起推动作用。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korean nationalism, with its cult of self-reliance known as Juche, is as religious as it is political.",
        "朝鲜民族主义崇尚在朝鲜语中被称为Juche的自治，这既是一种宗教也是一种政治信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, too, the Friedmans’ hopes have been disappointed.",
        "在这方面，弗氏夫妇的愿望再一次落空了。"
    ],
    [
        "But that turns out to be spectacularly wrong.",
        "但这原来大错特错。"
    ],
    [
        "Italian voters are perplexed.",
        "意大利的选民也茫然不知所措。"
    ],
    [
        "Animals, he maintained, are merely ingenious mechanisms, and we should not take their cries and struggles as a sign of pain, any more than we take the sound of an alarm clock as a sign that it has consciousness.",
        "他认为动物只是机灵的机械装置，我们不应该把它们的嚎叫和挣扎视为痛苦的表现，就像我们不应该把闹钟的响声作为闹钟有意识的表现一样。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – July will mark two milestones in America’s sometimes-tortured relations with Asia.",
        "发自东京——美国与亚洲之间偶尔纠结的关系将在今年7月迎来两个里程碑。"
    ],
    [
        "An Unhinged Democracy in America",
        "精神错乱的美国民主"
    ],
    [
        "When the Oslo process began, he refused to accept any official position within the Palestinian Authority, choosing instead to remain close to the local Fatah cadres.",
        "奥斯陆进程开始后，他拒绝接受巴权力机构内部的任何官方职务，而是选择继续与当地的法塔赫干部保持密切联系。"
    ],
    [
        "But the danger of cryptocurrencies extends beyond facilitation of illegal activities. Like conventional currencies, cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value.",
        "但私密货币的威胁不仅在于它为非法活动提供了便利，而且，和传统纸币一样，私密电子货币不具有内在价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Canada and Mexico have become the United States’ top two export markets, accounting for a combined $625 billion in 2013, more than the next ten largest export markets combined.",
        "与此同时，加拿大和墨西哥也成为美国最重要的两个出口市场，2013年总规模达到了6,250亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1998, the UN issued Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, which sets out these legal rights.",
        "1998年，联合国发布了《关于境内流离失所问题的指导原则》，明确规定了这些人的合法权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the mechanisms by which the US Federal Reserve’s purchases of asset-backed securities stimulate consumer spending – low mortgage rates, widely available home refinancing, high housing prices, and home-equity withdrawal – function differently in the eurozone.",
        "此外，美联储购买资产自持证券的能够刺激消费支出的机制——低按揭利率、方便的住房再融资、高房价和房屋权益收回——在欧洲都有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, entrepreneurs may develop even more clever ways to replace jobs with computers and robots, and protectionism may generate retaliation by trading partners, political instability and, ultimately, possibly even hot wars.",
        "相反，企业家将发现更加智能的方式用计算机和机器人取代工作岗位，而保护主义可能引起贸易伙伴的报复、政治动荡等，最终甚至爆发战争。"
    ],
    [
        "By including human elements, such as popular cafés or local walking trails, they create comprehensive, useful tools for others, and enhance their understanding of their own community.",
        "他们将热门咖啡馆或当地的步行小径等人文元素也混合进去，在为他人创造全面实用工具的同时，对自己社区的理解也有所加深。"
    ],
    [
        "For South Koreans, whether to care for hungry North Koreans, who are kith and kin, will be a much tougher decision than for others who see only a distant security problem.",
        "与那些仅仅将此视为一个遥远安全问题的人不同，是否应该援助这些朝鲜同胞对于韩国人来说是一个艰难的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Before you leave, you delete the contact information for a roadside service provider from your cell phone, based on the unfounded belief that such providers are deceitful and self-interested.",
        "出发前因为毫无根据地相信沿途维修商自私欺骗，你又从手机里删除了的上述维修商的联系信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The current approach of building US-led “coalitions of the willing” has not only failed; it has also meant that even valid US objectives such as stopping the Islamic State are blocked by geopolitical rivalries.",
        "目前建立以美国为首的“自愿联盟”的做法不仅陷入失败； 而且意味着就连阻止伊斯兰国等合理的美国目标也同样遭到地缘政治对手的封锁。"
    ],
    [
        "This gives China and its policymakers considerable room for maneuver in coping with the current growth slowdown.",
        "这给了中国及其决策者宽裕的腾挪空间应对当前的增长减速。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of abortions, sterilizations, and infanticides later, its chickens are coming home to roost.",
        "随后便是数百万起流产、绝育和杀婴，中国的孩子也自食恶果。"
    ],
    [
        "The traditional view of the firm – shared by both Karl Marx and Milton Friedman – is that it is an organization owned by capitalists (shareholders), on whose behalf it is run.",
        "传统企业观——不论是马克思还是米尔顿·弗里德曼（Milton Friedman）——认为，企业是一个由资本家（股东）所有、代表其经营者的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "A fourth test stems from the agreement signed over the summer by the Security Council’s five permanent members, Germany, and Iran limiting Iran’s nuclear program.",
        "第四项考验来自今年夏天联合国五大常任理事国、德国和伊朗之间签署的限制伊朗核计划的协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Many look to anti-establishment movements and figures, such as Trump, for salvation.",
        "很多人把特朗普这样的反体制运动和人物当成拯救者。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, situations may arise in which the interest rate is the only instrument available for limiting financial excesses.",
        "与此同时，可能出现某些状况，此时利率是唯一可用的限制金融过度的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Main Street entrepreneurs do, however, have two major – and underused – financing options.",
        "但是，“主街”企业家有两个（利用不足的）融资选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Because those deficits are the primary cause of America’s current-account deficit – and thus of global imbalances – the health-care debate’s outcome will affect governments and investors around the world.",
        "上述赤字是造成美国经常账户赤字（进而造成全球不平衡）的主要因素，因此医疗改革辩论的结果将会影响到世界各国政府和投资者。"
    ],
    [
        "The Workd Bank's Anti-Corruption Fight Continues",
        "世界银行的反腐战役继续推进"
    ],
    [
        "In February 2011, almost 200 people died when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand.",
        "在2011年2月，新西兰克莱斯特彻奇市的里氏6. 3级地震就造成了近200人死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the first steps toward a new approach may already have been taken.",
        "但我们可能已经开辟了一条崭新的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the euro’s share in reserve holdings and foreign-exchange transactions have both declined by several percentage points in the most recent statistics.",
        "事实上，在最新的统计数字中，欧元在储备和外汇交易中的比重均下降了几个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if a Geneva II meeting on Syria is convened in January, Russia will ensure that Assad remains on the throne.",
        "即使1月将就叙利亚问题召开第二次日内瓦会议，俄国也将确保阿萨德仍留在宝座上。"
    ],
    [
        "Experience in Eastern Europe, where energy prices had to be increased substantially in the 1990’s, demonstrated that simple measures – such as better insulation, together with maintenance and repair of the region’s many long-neglected central heating systems – yield a quick and substantial payoff in reducing energy intensity.",
        "20世纪90年代，东欧也不得不大幅提高能源价格。 其经验表明，简单的措施——如更好的分隔加上维护和修补该地区的大量长期被忽视的中央供暖系统——就可以迅速地大幅度降低能源密集度。"
    ],
    [
        "In exchange, Abe has offered economic aid, investments in Russia’s neglected Far East, and major energy deals.",
        "作为交换，安倍提出向俄罗斯提供经济援助、投资被忽视的远东地区以及能源大单。"
    ],
    [
        "Conservatives insist that growth requires low taxes and incentives such as flexible labor markets to encourage entrepreneurship.",
        "保守派说增长需要低税收和激励（如灵活的劳动力市场）以鼓励企业家精神。"
    ],
    [
        "They had not published the results, they explained, because the drug’s development had been abandoned for commercial reasons.",
        "他们解释之所以没有公布这项结果，是因为出于商业方面的原因已经放弃了药品的开发。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet state and local governments are still trusted by most voters, and they have the power under the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution to strengthen democratic institutions.",
        "但州和地方政府仍然受到了大部分选民的信任，并且根据美国宪法第十修正案，它们拥有强化民主制度的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Without external constraints, public and private expenditure grew precipitously in many countries on the eurozone periphery, while wages rose faster than productivity.",
        "没了外部约束，欧元区许多外围国家公私支出大幅上升，而工资增长也快于生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "Plastic is a key material in the world economy, found in cars, mobile phones, toys, clothes, packaging, medical devices, and much more.",
        "塑料是世界经济的关键材料之一，汽车、手机、玩具、服装、包装、医疗器械等众多东西上都有它。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that there can be no security in East Asia – especially for South Korea and Japan – without a nuclear deal, strong international action is crucial.",
        "没有核协议，东亚就不可能有安全——特别是对韩国和日本，因此，强大的国际行动至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the country’s consumers, especially the urban poor, benefited from lower food prices.",
        "与此同时，墨西哥消费者，特别是城市穷人，从食品价格的下降中得到了裨益。"
    ],
    [
        "This is partly because China, fearing large refugee inflows and a unified Korea in America’s strategic orbit should North Korea collapse, will most likely continue to ensure that it gets the fuel and food it needs.",
        "这部分是因为中国担心朝鲜一旦崩溃将导致大量难民涌入并形成一个投靠美国的统一的韩国，因此它将继续保证朝鲜获得其所需要的燃料和粮食。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF did not object to these countries’ flouting of the public debt rules.",
        "而国际货币基金组织对这些国家肆意践踏公共债务规则的行为却视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "While British Prime Minister David Cameron has managed, in tricky negotiations, to secure concessions from his fellow European leaders regarding what would happen if the UK stayed in the EU, nobody really knows what would happen if British citizens vote to leave.",
        "尽管英国首相卡梅伦在艰难的谈判中成功确保了他的欧洲领导同侪就英国留在欧盟后的情况问题作出了妥协，但没人真正知道如果英国公民选择脱离欧盟会发生什么。"
    ],
    [
        "If countries take action now to implement effective water-management policies and practices, backed by well-designed incentives, they can not only reverse the slide toward water scarcity, but also raise their rates of economic growth by as much as six percentage points per year.",
        "如果各国现在采取措施实行有效的水资源管理政策及方法，再辅之以精心设计的激励机制，他们不仅可以扭转堕入水资源短缺的窘境，而且可以让经济增长每年加快6个百分点之多。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom, bank regulation, which had been removed from the BoE in 1997, returned there in 2013, and the BoE also became for the first time the prudential supervisor of insurance companies – a big extension of its role.",
        "在英国，银行监管于1997年从英格兰银行的职能中剥离，2013年又重新加入，此外，英格兰银行还首次成为保险公司的审慎监督者——其作用被大大扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "· create serious protections for minority groups, with consideration of joint citizenship for certain populations, backed by significant international consequences for attacks on southerners in the North or northerners in the South.",
        "· 为少数民族提供认真有效的保护，并对特定人群的双重公民身份予以承认，一旦发生南方人在北方遭受袭击或相反的事件，国际社会都要对肇事方进行严厉惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese companies, in particular, will increasingly want to establish their brands internationally.",
        "特别是中国公司将日益渴望建立国际品牌。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there are actions that Trump can take for other ends – from boosting the US economy to enhancing America’s global influence – that would also advance the climate agenda.",
        "事实上，特朗普可以为实现其他目标而采取行动——从推动美国经济到强化美国全球影响力——但同样也可以推进气候议程。"
    ],
    [
        "And then, in 1945, after the public’s focus had turned from winning the war to constructing a welfare state, Churchill was voted out of office.",
        "一直到1945年，随着公众的注意力从赢得战争转向建立一个福利国家，丘吉尔也只得离任。"
    ],
    [
        "The disintegration of an already fragmented country, the return of civil war, and the shadow of Iran’s power being cast over the Iraqi state are all plausible scenarios.",
        "已经四分五裂的伊拉克继续分裂下去、内战战端重启、以及伊拉克被伊朗势力的阴影所笼罩都是可能出现的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Millennium Development Goals’ 2015 end date approaches, promotion of peace, security, and non-violent conflict resolution continues to be vitally important, and must be fully integrated into any future development agenda.",
        "随着千年发展目标2015年截止期的临近，推进和平、安全和非暴力冲突解决方案继续有着关键重要性，并且必须充分地融合到未来发展日程中。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, according to the OECD’s indicators of employment protection, German and Dutch workers under permanent contracts enjoy even greater security than French workers do.",
        "事实上，经合组织就业保障指标显示，签订永久性合约的德国和荷兰工人享有比法国工人更高的安全度。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, African-Americans and Latinos consider his comments insensitive and patronizing; white women – his real target audience – haven’t yet been persuaded, either.",
        "毫不奇怪，非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔认为他的评论愚蠢又傲慢； 白人女性——他的真正目标听众——也没有被说服。"
    ],
    [
        "The Cacophony of the World",
        "世界的不和谐之声"
    ],
    [
        "IBM’s president, Thomas J. Watson, declared in 1943 that there was “a world market for perhaps five computers.”",
        "IBM总裁托马斯·J·沃森曾在1943年宣称“世界市场可能需要五台电脑。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone’s dilemmas, and the pros and cons of proposed solutions, can be debated endlessly.",
        "欧元区的困境，以及对解决方案提议的反对和支持，可以无止境地争论下去。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the attack in Paris 2015 looks more like a combination of two other attacks: the London Underground bombing in 2005 (the terrorists were all national citizens) and the plot executed in Mumbai in 2008 (the terrorists used small arms and targeted people individually).",
        "因此，2015年巴黎袭击事件看上去更像是其他两起袭击事件的合体：2005年伦敦地铁爆炸事件（恐怖分子全部是英国公民）和2008年孟买事件（恐怖分子使用轻型武器针对个别定向目标）。"
    ],
    [
        "If you want the benefits of the former, you cannot allow the latter.",
        "如果你想从前者获益，就绝不能允许后者发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, cooperation in the realm of cyberspace is just getting started – with difficulty.",
        "与此同时，网络空间领域的合作才刚刚开始——艰难起步。"
    ],
    [
        "Some suggest focusing on rapid increases in the volume of bank and nonbank lending to the non-financial private sector as an indicator that lending is growing riskier.",
        "有人建议专注于流向非金融私人部门的银行和非银行的贷款量，将此作为贷款风险增加的指标。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet not even this will suffice if we are to build on rock and not on sand.",
        "但要想使发展基础更为坚实仅有这三大支柱依然不够。"
    ],
    [
        "So is it a legal issue?",
        "那么这是否属于法律问题？"
    ],
    [
        "When a war of salvation and survival turned into a war of conquest, occupation, and annexation, the international community recoiled and Israel went on the defensive. It has remained there ever since.",
        "当一场拯救和生存之战转变为征服、占领和吞并之战时，国际社会强烈反弹，以色列也转主动为被动，并在此后一直处于被动。"
    ],
    [
        "This is understandable, given an unemployment rate of around 10% in France, Germany, and Italy; with so few new jobs, becoming unemployed is a major disaster.",
        "考虑到法、德、意三国的失业率高达10%以上，他们的恐惧心理也很容易理解。 由于新的工作机会少之又少，一旦失业就会带来一场严重的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, at this point the only action more harmful than the Yukos affair would be another Yukos affair.",
        "确实，在这个节骨眼上，唯一比尤科斯事件更加糟糕的事情莫过于再次发生类似的事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Now “China bashing” has taken over, and the result could be just as bad, if not worse.",
        "现在又轮到“排华风潮”了，而其结果的严重程度可能比日本所遭遇的有过之而无不及。"
    ],
    [
        "In a House committee meeting, you learn before anyone else that a proposed public-insurance option – a program that would compete with private insurance – will not be included.",
        "先前提交审议的某个公共保险选项将对私人保险公司构成竞争，而在众议院委员会会议上，你比其他人早一步得知该选项将被排除在议程之外。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, those in favor of reviving EU-China arms trade see such sales as a stabilizer in bouts of political turbulence and are loath to let bad politics interfere with good business.",
        "支持复苏欧中军火贸易的人们将这些事件看作动荡政治的稳定器，并希望恶化的政治不会殃及火热的生意。"
    ],
    [
        "Such sentiment has always been a current in US politics, but it has remained out of the mainstream since the end of World War II for good reason: It hinders, rather than advances, peace and prosperity at home and abroad.",
        "这种情绪一直是美国政界的一种潮流，但因为非常充分的理由导致第二次世界大战结束以来一直未能占据主导地位：上述思潮阻碍、而不是促进国内外和平与繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "But this need not happen.",
        "但这并非不可避免。"
    ],
    [
        "Wolfowitz’s nomination seemed to be part of that effort.",
        "任命沃尔福威茨看起来就是其中一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Abuses in one place, no matter how grotesque, should not be used to stifle criticism in another.",
        "某个领域对人权的践踏无论多么怪诞，都不应以此为借口扼杀对另一个问题的批评。"
    ],
    [
        "Believers in low interest rates also emphasize shifts in income distribution in the United States away from labor and toward capital, which have greatly boosted firms' resources to finance investment internally and reduced their dependence on capital markets.",
        "相信低利率的人们还强调美国的收益分配从劳力向资本的转移。 这种转移已经极大地增强了企业内部融资的能力，从而减低了它们对资本市场的依赖程度。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, global rules and institutions can make it easier and more likely that all involved will hew to their own citizens’ broader interests – and thus to the global commonweal as well.",
        "换句话说，全球规则和机构令所有各方都可以更容易也更乐意去维护本国公民的更广泛利益——以及因此产生的全球福利。"
    ],
    [
        "In March 2015, another survey examined the attitudes of US Christians, who constitute 71% of Americans.",
        "2015年的另一份调查考察了美国基督徒（占人口比例71%）的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "But the resulting validity comes at the cost of generality: randomized controlled trials in the form of local experiments cannot replace an overarching vision of the social good.",
        "但由此带来的合理性是有代价的，即丧失一般性：以地方实验为形式的随机化控制实验无法取代放之四海而皆准的社会公益观。"
    ],
    [
        "The wording of the new MBA oath draws on one adopted in 2006 by the Thunderbird School of Global Management, based in Arizona. Nevertheless, the fact that it has been taken up by the world’s most famous business school is significant.",
        "虽然这些MBA新誓言的措辞大都取材于美国亚利桑那州雷鸟国际管理学院2006年就采用的誓言文本，但整个事件依然意义重大，因为采用者是哈佛商学院，世界上最著名的商学院。"
    ],
    [
        "The world is fascinated by China's economic miracle, but it is much less interested in the costs associated with the country's 8-9% annual growth rate in the past 25 years.",
        "当世界惊异于中国的经济奇迹时，却对其在过去25年来为实现8-9%的经济年增长率所付出的代价漠不关心。"
    ],
    [
        "At the very least, markets like ETS should credit emissions reductions that result from limiting deforestation.",
        "）至少像ETS这样的市场应该为限制采伐森林所带来的良性结果授予相应的信用。"
    ],
    [
        "But such a guarantee is a mirage anyway, whereas respect for basic freedoms and due process when repressing terrorism is a powerful instrument to isolate extremists and diminish their legitimacy in the eyes of those that might identify with their cause.",
        "但无论如何，这样的保障也只能在海市蜃楼中才能找到，而在对抗恐怖主义时尊重基本自由和既定程序却是孤立极端分子和削弱他们在同道心目中合法性的有力的武器。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true for much of Central America.",
        "对许多中美洲国家来说也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Intel is charged with “abusing” its dominant market position by so called “predatory pricing” (selling below cost) and offering substantial rebates to retain market share and undermine its arch-rival Advanced Micro Devices.",
        "英特尔被指控通过所谓的“掠夺性定价”（以低于成本的价格销售产品）以及提供高额的回扣以维护市场份额并且削弱其主要竞争对手先进微器件公司而在“滥用”其占主导的市场地位。"
    ],
    [
        "This has prompted a modest uptick in expected inflation – the ECB’s favorite measure of price stability – not for the immediate future, but in five years, and then for five years.",
        "这略微提高了预期通胀——欧洲央行最喜欢的物价稳定指标——但不是即期通胀，而是五年后的五年期通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Morsi camp, the politicized Court intended to dissolve the Consultative Council (the upper house) and the Constitutional Assembly, as some of its judges publicly hinted.",
        "据穆尔西阵营的说法，政治化的宪法法院倾向于解散咨询委员会（议会上院）和制宪大会，这是一些法官公开暗示的。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems that the government has established a floor for growth; as long as it is not hit, there will be no more fiscal or monetary stimulus.",
        "政府似乎设定了经济增长下限，只要下限未曾触及，就不会推出财政或货币刺激政策。"
    ],
    [
        "With the common enemy – the secularist old guard – defeated, there was little to hold the alliance together.",
        "随着共同的敌人——世俗主义者——被消灭殆尽，自然也没什么理由继续结盟了。"
    ],
    [
        "It continued last year when the Bush administration, recognizing that it had no policies to boost employment, explored whether China's undervalued exchange rate might be blamed for closed factories in Ohio.",
        "去年，当布什政府发现没有推动就业的有效政策时，又故伎重演地调查俄亥俄州的一些工厂倒闭是否应归罪于中国过低的汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, it would change Europe’s political dynamics from negative to positive.",
        "同样重要的是，它还能改变欧洲的政治动态，从负向转变为正向。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration cut taxes. The Fed cut interest rates in response to the 2001 recession.",
        "布什政府减税，美联储降低利率以回应2001年的衰退都是这样的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The next 20 years will see a different globalization, in which the winners are large, powerful countries that mobilize government resources in the interest of creating winners in the race for financial supremacy.",
        "未来二十年将会是另一种逻辑的全球化，将来的赢家会是那些大国强国，只有它们才能动员庞大的政府资源，扶植自己的嫡系部队，在金融争霸赛中胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "This was not the first time that containment – a strategy devised by George Kennan, the director of the US State Department’s Policy Planning Staff under President Harry Truman, in response to the Soviet threat after World War II – has been rejected as appeasement.",
        "在哈利·杜鲁门（Harry Truman）任总统时担任美国国务院政策计划室（US State Department’s Policy Planning Staff）主任的乔治·凯南（George Kennan）最先提出了遏制策略，当时提出这项策略是为了应对二战结束后苏联所构成的威胁。 乔治·凯南所提出的遏制策略已经不是第一次被人斥责为姑息纵容了。"
    ],
    [
        "Effective profit-sharing schemes must be structured to prevent this outcome, and strong collective bargaining rights can help provide the necessary safeguards.",
        "有效的利润分享机制结构必须能够防止这一结果，而强大的集体讨价还价能力有助于提供必要的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran has always been keenly aware of the multiple risks involved in crossing that red line.",
        "伊朗一直对跨越红线所暗含的风险十分警觉。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is straightforward: whereas equity can absorb a business downturn – profits fall, but the firm does not immediately fail – debt is less forgiving, because creditors do not wait around to be paid.",
        "这里的道理很直观：股本能吸收业务衰退——利润下降，但企业并不会立刻倒闭——但债务很难赦免，因为债权人在偿付时不愿等待。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s deputy finance minister recently praised Yellen for her communication and cautious approach, which “takes us into consideration.”",
        "中国财政部副部长最近赞扬了耶伦的沟通和谨慎方针“考虑了我们的情况。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The energy challenge that confronts Europe calls for an ambitious and courageous approach.",
        "欧洲面临的能源挑战呼唤我们采取雄心勃勃和勇敢的方式进行行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The notable exception is China, which has maintained high (and occasionally perhaps excessive) levels of public investment throughout the post-crisis period.",
        "中国是显著的例外，它在整个后危机时期都维持了高（有时甚至过高）水平的公共投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Reintroducing the national currency in order to depreciate it, but leaving the euro value of other financial instruments untouched, would destroy balance sheets and wreak financial havoc.",
        "重新引入本国货币从以实现贬值而改变其他金融工具的欧元价值，这将摧毁资产负债表，引发金融浩劫。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach would also allow for climate investments to be financed through private capital flows.",
        "这一方针也将让气候投资通过私人资本流获得融资。"
    ],
    [
        "For students, this information can prove to be invaluable.",
        "对学生而言，上述信息可能非常宝贵。"
    ],
    [
        "We must build on our history of working with allies by forming new coalitions – with governments, with civil society, and, yes, with everyday people.",
        "我们必须与政府、与公民社会——是的，还要与普罗大众——结成新的联盟，与盟友们一起构建历史。"
    ],
    [
        "But one is tempted to believe them when they add that they are now focused on diplomacy.",
        "不过他们又补充说现在主要在考虑外交手段，这倒比较容易让人相信。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s statements suggesting a lack of loyalty to America’s allies – he took months to affirm his support for Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, NATO’s bedrock collective-defense clause – have left even close US partners hesitant to make deals with his administration.",
        "特朗普的声明表明他对美国的盟友缺乏忠诚——他花了好几个月的时间来才愿意确认自身对《北大西洋公约》第5条的支持，而这条正是为北约奠基的集体防御条款——让那些最亲密的合作伙伴都不敢贸然与他的政府达成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Squeezing China would merely shift the trade imbalance to other countries – most likely to higher-cost producers, which would effectively raise the prices of foreign goods sold to hard-pressed American families.",
        "挤兑中国只能让贸易失衡转移到其他国家——最有可能是成本更高的生产国，而这将大大提高压力重重的美国家庭所购买的外国商品的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "In a way, we are in a similar situation today.",
        "从某种程度上说，如今我们面临相同的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the disease spread into urban areas and, like a wildfire, engulfed the three countries and spilled into others.",
        "尽管如此，埃博拉仍然蔓延到城市地区，并且如野火般吞噬了三国并进入其他国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom line is that Uribe thought Santos would do his bidding as president, and Santos is convinced that his (high but declining) popularity is of his own making, not borrowed from Uribe.",
        "根本原因可能是乌里韦觉得桑托斯当了总统应该对他投桃报李，而桑托斯觉得他的支持率（很高，但在下跌）是靠自己赢得的，不是乌里韦给的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would leave those countries’ central banks stuck with euro-denominated TARGET claims vis-à-vis Greece’s central bank, which would have assets denominated only in a restored drachma.",
        "但这会让这些国家的央行不得不接受希腊公民对希腊央行的欧元计价的TARGET债权，而希腊央行的资产将全部由重新启用的德拉克马计价。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, network coverage and the adjacent infrastructure remain inadequate, particularly in rural areas.",
        "此外，网络覆盖和相关基础设施仍然不足，特别是在农村地区。"
    ],
    [
        "A new generation was also needed.",
        "而新一代匈牙利人的产生也是必要条件之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Once there, traditional monetary policy becomes impotent, as the interest-rate tool is no longer usable.",
        "一旦出现这种情况，惯常实行的货币政策就无法抵抗危机，因为利率工具不再发挥其作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The US experienced debt crises periodically during the nineteenth century, and again during the Great Depression.",
        "美国在19世纪经常经历债务危机，在大萧条期间又经历了一次。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as cheering crowds in Sirte and Tripoli were rejoicing at the despot’s death, others voiced doubts over the manner of his humiliating end.",
        "苏尔特和的黎波里的群众为暴君之死欢呼雀跃，但还是有不少声音质疑卡扎菲之死是否太不体面了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Internet changed the balance of power between individuals and institutions.",
        "互联网改变了个人和机构之间的实力平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments like those in Germany and Sweden that manage migration well and invest in integration have the strongest public support.",
        "德国和瑞典等移民管理工作出色、投资于融合的国家的政府获得的公众支持最高。"
    ],
    [
        "But Nepal's political landscape is showing no sign of a thaw.",
        "但尼泊尔的政治局势表明融雪遥遥无期。"
    ],
    [
        "The choice is clear: Merkel should stand and fight, while also advancing an alternative vision for modernizing the EU.",
        "选择是显而易见的：默克尔应该坚持战斗，同时拿出欧盟现代化的替代愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the first telephone company started operations in 1878, while mobile phones are barely 25 years old.",
        "比如，第一家电话公司于1878年开始运营，而移动电话出现不过25年。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets are generally efficient if companies’ revenues correctly reflect all the benefits that their output bestows on third parties, while their costs reflect all the harms.",
        "市场是总体有效的，如果公司收入正确地反应了它们的产出给予第三方的一切好处、并且它们的成本反映了一切坏处的话。"
    ],
    [
        "But appearances can deceive.",
        "但表象是有欺骗性的。"
    ],
    [
        "A different and healthy conservative response is possible if the tattered remnants of old threads, torn apart in the course of postcommunist modernization, can reconnect and grow together in a new way.",
        "如果在后共产主义现代化事业中被扯得粉碎的破桐之叶能够以一种新的方式合而为一并一起生长，那么就有可能出现另外一种不同但却有利的保守的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "In geopolitical terms, ASEAN is well-placed to be an acceptable and equal partner to many larger, more powerful economies, such as China, India, Japan, Australia, and South Korea – a part of the world that, for the first time, is leading a global recovery.",
        "从地缘政治学的角度来看，东盟具备有足够的地理优势，有资格得到诸如中国、印度、日本，澳大利亚和韩国等更强大经济体的认可，并与之平起平坐——而这些经济体如今也史无前例地成为了带领全球经济复苏的领头羊。"
    ],
    [
        "The motion becomes chaotic, making an exact mathematical solution impossible.",
        "整个运动变得一片混沌，根本无法得出一个精确的数学解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, and more importantly, the substantive issues of conflict on the US-Latin American agenda are heating up.",
        "第二，也是更重要的，美国-拉丁美洲冲突议程上的大量问题正在热化。"
    ],
    [
        "From a UK perspective, the FTT is highly unattractive.",
        "从英国的角度看，金融交易税一无是处。"
    ],
    [
        "Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other major oil companies should step forward and help to fund the necessary cleanup, ushering in a new era of responsibility.",
        "壳牌、雪弗龙、埃克森美孚以及其他石油大公司应该站出来资助必要的石油污染清理，开创一个负责任的新时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Those structures – networks of neurons that communicate with each other via axons and dendrites – underlie the familiar analogy of the brain to a computer – networks of transistors that communicate with each other via electric wires.",
        "这些大脑结构是将大脑比作计算机的基础——前者是通过轴突和树突相互交流的神经元网络，后者是通过电路相互联系的晶体管网络。"
    ],
    [
        "As Ayrault was trying to reassure his skeptical colleagues, including many members of his own party, European Commissioner for Competition Joaquin Almunia was delivering a similar message to his fellow social democrats in Brussels.",
        "在埃罗试图让其怀疑派同事——包括许多社会党同志——放心的同时，负责竞争事务的欧洲委员阿尔穆尼亚（Joaquin Almunia）也在布鲁塞尔向其社会民主党同志传递相同的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is child pornography the expression of ideas.",
        "儿童色情文学也不是思想的表达。"
    ],
    [
        "The agency’s new leader, Dmitry Kiselyov, announced in November the creation of “Sputnik,” a government-funded network of news hubs in 34 countries, with 1,000 staff members producing radio, social media, and news-wire content in local languages.",
        "俄新社新领导人德米特里·基谢廖夫（Dmitry Kiselyov）在11月宣布成立“史普尼克”（Sputnik），一个由政府出资的新闻枢纽网络，遍布34个国家，拥有1,000工作人员用当地语言制作广播、社交媒体和新闻节目。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria, bolstered by the 14,000 troops it stationed in Lebanon, has imposed its choice as Lebanon’s president and otherwise interfered with Lebanese politics.",
        "叙利亚依仗其驻扎于黎巴嫩境内的14,000兵力，在当黎巴嫩总统及其他方面力量干涉黎巴嫩政治时，将其选择强加于黎巴嫩。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider, for example, the situation in Darfur, Sudan.",
        "比如苏丹的达尔富尔局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Completion of both trade and investment deals are among the most urgent tasks we face, because Japan’s economy needs powerful external catalysts to spur change in how we compete at home and for export markets.",
        "完成这两个贸易和投资协议是我们最紧要的任务之一，因为日本经济需要强大的外部催化剂刺激我们改变在国内和出口市场上的竞争方式。"
    ],
    [
        "My assessment is that Trump would run up much more than $2.6 trillion in new debt.",
        "我的估计是特朗普将带来远多于2. 6万亿美元的新债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Virtually all the difference between the US on one side and France and Germany on the other are due to the first two factors, each with roughly equal weight.",
        "实际上美国和法德两国的差别主要源自前两个因素，这两者几乎同等重要。"
    ],
    [
        "What Americans need are political leaders with the courage to pursue a balanced approach to free trade, championing its long-term benefits, while delivering short-term relief to those at risk of displacement.",
        "美国需要有勇气推行平衡自由贸易方式的政治领袖，他们应当在倡导自由贸易长期利益的同时短期救济受损群体。"
    ],
    [
        "Considering the huge risks that are not managed well, finance, even in the twenty-first century, is actually still rather primitive.",
        "考虑到那些未能得到妥善管理的巨大风险，即便是在二十一世纪，金融业依然堪称相当原始稚嫩的行业。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, psychological studies invariably show that people care not only about their absolute income, but also about where they stand in the social pyramid and whether their position is fair.",
        "相反，心理学研究无一例外地表明人们并不只是看重他们的绝对收入，也看重他们在社会金字塔上的位置以及这一位置是否公平。"
    ],
    [
        "The Road to Food Security",
        "通往粮食安全之路"
    ],
    [
        "Although these booms were initially financed by domestic capital, they soon became dependent on foreign capital, which flowed into their economies as advanced-country central banks pumped huge amounts of liquidity into financial markets.",
        "虽然这些信贷繁荣最初是由国内资本催生的，但这些国家很快就开始依赖外因发达国家央行向金融市场大量注入流动性而产生的国外资本。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Kremlin understands that something is needed to replace them as Russia adapts to its new oil-fueled autocracy.",
        "但是克里姆林宫知道，当俄国转向其新的、靠石油出口驱动的独裁政治的时候需要有些东西来取代他们。"
    ],
    [
        "But the world’s attention can be all too fleeting, as those of us who have lived through previous and current debates about infectious disease know all too well.",
        "但国际关注很有可能是一阵风，我们经历过多次从前和当下关于传染病的争论，对此早已见怪不怪。"
    ],
    [
        "When a positive technological “shock” raises real wages, people will work more, causing output to surge.",
        "如果积极的技术“冲击”提高了实际工资，人们就会更加卖力工作，导致产量激增。"
    ],
    [
        "His famous “base” is well under 40% of the public.",
        "他的著名的“票仓”远远不到群众的40%。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is what politics is all about.",
        "但是，这就是政治。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The best advice I received when taking up policymaking responsibilities in Turkey more than a decade ago was to take “a lot of time and care to develop and communicate the ‘narrative’ to support the policy program that you want to succeed.”",
        "华盛顿—十多年前我负责土耳其的政策制定，我所听到的最佳建议是“把大量时间和精力花在发展和传达一种‘故事’来支持你所想让其成功的政策计划上。"
    ],
    [
        "In an extraordinary move, China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee stepped in to “clarify” Article 104 of the Basic Law, declaring that all oaths taken by office-holders must be “solemn, accurate, complete, and sincere.”",
        "中国人大常委会罕见地介入“说明”基本法第104条，宣布所有官员就职宣誓必须“准确、完整、庄重、真诚”。"
    ],
    [
        "While official sources report that NPLs account for 1.67% of loans held by commercial banks, the Chinese investment bank CICC estimates the figure to be closer to 8%.",
        "官方数据显示不良贷款占商业银行贷款总量的1. 678%，但中金公司估算这一数字接近8%。"
    ],
    [
        "Strong demand growth in Japan and Europe that produces a higher level of American exports would be the most powerful pro-trade liberalization force imaginable.",
        "日本和欧洲强劲的需求增长会推动美国的出口达到一个更高的水平，从而成为可以想见的，促进贸易自由化的最强大力量。"
    ],
    [
        "What, then, is China’s least bad option?",
        "那么，中国最不坏的选择是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Simón Bolívar gained the title of Liberator of Venezuela thanks to an 1814 invasion organized and financed by neighboring Nueva Granada (today’s Colombia).",
        "毕竟，西蒙·波利瓦尔因为一次邻国新格拉纳达（也就是今天的哥伦比亚）组织和出资的一场1814年侵略战争而获得了委内瑞拉解放者的称号。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, an emerging power such as Brazil wants more respect on the world stage.",
        "比如，巴西等崛起强国希望在世界舞台上获得更大的尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "The border dispute remains unresolved, with periodic incursions by Chinese troops onto Indian soil and new irritants such as the anti-Chinese protests by Tibetan exiles who have been given asylum in India.",
        "边境争端仍然没有得到解决，定期的有中国的军队侵入印度的领土，此外还有新的导致两国关系紧张的因素，例如在印度被给予庇护的西藏流亡者反对中国的抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "But the conservative attitudes underlying opposition to change are anything but “social,” for they would deny the poorest of Europe’s poor a chance to improve their lot.",
        "但是主导反对变革的保守观点绝对不是“社会”的观点，因为它们阻止了给欧洲最贫困的人们改善生活的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Various critics are seizing on such statements as evidence that the Fed is incompetent, and that its independence should be curtailed, or worse.",
        "各路批评家都抓住这类声明来证明美联储很无能，并主张其独立性应该被减少甚至剥夺。"
    ],
    [
        "For that, understanding the historical context of the current crisis is crucial.",
        "对这个问题，理解当前危机的历史背景十分关键。"
    ],
    [
        "The US destruction of the Iraqi state brought about a precarious new order that sought to redress years of Sunni dominance by favoring the Shia.",
        "美国对伊拉克国家的摧毁带来了不稳定的新秩序，该秩序试图通过向什叶派倾斜纠正多年来的逊尼派主导。"
    ],
    [
        "The US under President Jimmy Carter made an important contribution in passing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which made bribery by American companies anywhere in the world illegal.",
        "美国卡特政府通过反海外腐败法规定美国公司在全球任何地方行贿均为违法，从而做出了重要的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "At the root of this turnaround is enormous credit growth, as the authorities, concerned that the earlier slowdown was excessive, encourage China’s banks to lend.",
        "而这一转变的根源则是庞大的信贷增长，因为当局认定先前的经济放缓超出限度，所以鼓励银行四处放贷。"
    ],
    [
        "The Syrian passport found near the body of one attacker appears to have been stolen.",
        "在一位袭击者尸体附近找到的叙利亚护照似乎是被盗的。"
    ],
    [
        "There are clear parallels between that situation and the way in which the common law has offered little redress to patients who have tried to claim property rights in tissue taken from them, or to activists seeking to limit the powers of Big Biotech over human genetic patents.",
        "这种情形和习惯法为那些对从其身体上取下的组织主张所有权的病人或者寻求限制生物技术巨头的人类基因专利的行动主义者提供的可怜的法律救济之间，存在着明显的相似性。"
    ],
    [
        "So much more is possible.",
        "我们仍然任重而道远。"
    ],
    [
        "As in the case of Libya, this would be an excellent opportunity to “lead from behind.”",
        "就像利比亚的先例一样，这是一次“幕后领导”的良机。"
    ],
    [
        "American foreign policy is structured by institutions and a constitution, but external crises can create a context much more susceptible to leaders’ choices, for better or worse.",
        "美国外交政策的结构因制度和宪法而定，但外部危机可能造成极易受到领袖选择影响（不论好坏）的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "However, this could end up severely limiting poor people’s access to antibiotics, leading to higher death rates from infections, making it politically unacceptable and thus difficult to enforce.",
        "但这样可能严重限制穷人获取抗生素的渠道，提高感染死亡率，因此既难以执行又在政治上无法接受。"
    ],
    [
        "The Round Table Talks and the political transition overseen by Mazowiecki marked a period of compromise that had advantages and disadvantages.",
        "马佐维耶茨基监督下的圆桌会议及政治过渡标志着优劣势并存的妥协时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, the challenges are complicated by politics, market forces, and national interests.",
        "现在，政治、市场力量以及国家利益把挑战复杂化了。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, efforts to conserve and expand carbon “sinks” – that is, the forests, wetlands, grasslands, mangroves, and sea grasses that absorb much of the CO2 being emitted – are crucial.",
        "与此同时，保护和扩大碳“沉淀”——即吸收大量排放出来的二氧化碳的森林、湿地、草地、红树林和海藻——也很关键。"
    ],
    [
        "The current slowdown to a new normal makes such windows even more important.",
        "当下的向新常态减速让这样的窗口变得更加重要了。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s decision last week to withhold credit to the country’s banking system, and thereby to shutter the banks, was both inept and catastrophic.",
        "上周，欧洲央行决定暂停向希腊银行系统供应流动性，导致希腊银行关门，这一做法十分不智，并且具有灾难性结果。"
    ],
    [
        "No one, however, should mistake Xi’s enhanced powers for a personal dictatorship.",
        "然而，任何人都不应该将习近平主席对权力的强化误认为个人独裁。"
    ],
    [
        "But we should be far more worried that fear about the collapse or manipulation of markets creates a demand for action that makes such a collapse more rather than less likely.",
        "然而我们更应该担心的是对市场崩溃和市场操纵的恐惧所引发的对（国家）行为的需求。 恰恰是这种行为更容易引起市场崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Here the risk involves currency wars and other beggar-thy-neighbor disruptions.",
        "这里所说的风险包括发生货币战争以及其它以邻为壑的破坏行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that real people are not just \"average,\" so the real question concerns how the benefits derived from computers are distributed.",
        "问题是真实的人们并不仅仅是\"一般性\"的概念，因此问题的关键在于由计算机带来的利益究竟如何分配。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world's leading-edge economy, America faces the hardest work in ensuring growth, for it must create - not only copy and adapt - new technologies, better forms of capital, and more productive business organizations.",
        "作为领军世界的经济体，美国在确保经济增长方面任务艰巨。 因为它必须创造-并不仅仅是摹仿和改良-新技术、更佳的资本形式和更有生产效率的商业组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, China must be careful when implementing RMB appreciation.",
        "但是，中国必须小心实行人民币升值。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Hong Kong has one of the world’s most educated populations: the city has, in per capita terms, perhaps more graduates of the world’s top 20 universities than anywhere outside of Manhattan.",
        "毕竟香港是世界上民众教育程度最高的地方之一：就人均水平而言，这里大概是除曼哈顿以外拥有最多世界前20名大学的毕业生的城市。"
    ],
    [
        "He has created security forces – some of which have reportedly acted as death squads – that are answerable directly to him, thus bypassing the constitutional chain of command.",
        "他先是绕开了宪法规定的军事指挥系统，创建直接听命于自己的安全部队——据报其中一部分成员还有政治暴力的前科。"
    ],
    [
        "But what if there was a way to “tune” bodies to reject all infections?",
        "但用办法“设定”身体拒绝所有感染会怎么样？"
    ],
    [
        "Today, China and the US share more interests than ever, and there are encouraging prospects for still broader cooperation.",
        "如今，中美的共同利益之大前所未见，双方的合作前景令人鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "But the terrors of death offer considerable resistance…”",
        "但是死亡的恐惧却会顽强抵抗”。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting turmoil may last for decades, and it will continue to feed radical jihadist terrorism.",
        "由此导致的动荡可能会持续数十年，并将继续培养激进圣战恐怖主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, while the German right threatens to become more nationalistic, history will not repeat itself, because today’s Germany has changed, and so has its political environment.",
        "当然，尽管德国右派可能变得更加民族主义，但历史不会简单重复，因为当今德国已不同以往，其政治环境也有了变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Hamas takeover of Gaza was but the latest step in this development.",
        "哈马斯对加沙的占领只不过是这一发展势头的最新进展而已。"
    ],
    [
        "In Peru, some of our banks have worked with international freight forwarders to connect remote villages and small businesses to export markets through national postal services, turning more than 300 small firms into exporters, most for the first time.",
        "在秘鲁，我们的几家银行与国际货运代理一起通过国内邮递服务将边远村庄和小企业与出口市场联系了起来，让300多家小企业成为出口商，其中大部分是首次涉足出口业务。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, as the effects of stimulus programs wear off, new weaknesses are emerging, such as persistent inflation in India and credit misallocation in China.",
        "事实上，随着刺激计划效力的减弱，新弱点正在浮现，比如印度持续的通货膨胀和中国的信用错配。"
    ],
    [
        "It provided for a popularly elected Chief Executive and Legislative Council.",
        "该政策还规定了民选的行政长官和立法委员会的设立。"
    ],
    [
        "While such ambivalence will not change, French-American relations are likely to improve no matter which of the three leading candidates prevails in the final round of voting on May 6, in part owing to Chirac’s exit.",
        "尽管这种矛盾心理不会有什么改变，法美关系却很有可能会得到改善，而不管现在处于领先的三位候选人最终是谁在5月6日的最后一轮投票中胜出，这部分得归因于希拉克的离开。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, he is not going to win.",
        "不幸的是，他没法获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran has been heavily invested in the Assad regime, its lone Arab ally and the main conduit for delivering material support to Hezbollah in Lebanon.",
        "伊朗对阿萨德政权投资甚巨，因为后者是该国唯一的阿拉伯盟友，也是向黎巴嫩真主党输送物资的主要通道。"
    ],
    [
        "Chirac practices the politics of “scapegoatism” and excuses.",
        "希拉克善于在政治上寻找“替罪羊”和运用借口托词。"
    ],
    [
        "Better yet, they then trained hundreds more people to detect disinformation, thus multiplying the initiative’s overall impact.",
        "更好的是，他们随后又训练了更多的人发现不良信息，从而将该计划的总效果成倍放大。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has repeatedly said in public settings that he will not declare his preference among the candidates.",
        "伊朗最高领袖阿亚图拉赛义德·阿里·哈梅内伊多次公开表示，他对目前总统候选人没有倾向性。"
    ],
    [
        "They are delivering less patient care as they spend more time hunched over their laptops, inputting data that add nothing, currently, to their productivity.",
        "他们为病人提供的医疗服务减少了，因为要花更多的时间埋头于笔记本电脑输入数据，但这一切，至少目前来说，却并未提升他们的工作效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the data on mental health for individuals under the age of 18 are poor, particularly in low-income countries, and what is available is not comparable across countries.",
        "但18岁以下个体心理健康数据十分缺乏，特别是在中低收入国家，而可得数据也无法在国家间进行比较。"
    ],
    [
        "The global nature of the current crisis makes it plain that Europe must be able to decide quickly and coherently, or suffer adverse consequences.",
        "目前危机的全球性明确指出欧洲必须做出迅速而一致的决策，否则就要承担不良后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Neighboring Bangladesh, which is not on that list, is now growing at over 7% per annum (and Bangladesh’s per capita income now exceeds Pakistan’s).",
        "而不在这个名单上的邻国孟加拉国目前年增长率超过7％（其人均收入也已经超过了巴基斯坦）。"
    ],
    [
        "As a Korean, I know only too well the pain of a land divided.",
        "上周，我访问了莱德拉街过境点。"
    ],
    [
        "The counterargument hinges on the difference between the current-account deficit and the trade deficit.",
        "反驳错误观点的论据取决于经常账户赤字和贸易赤字之间的差异。"
    ],
    [
        "As Harvard University’s Mahzarin Banaji, for example, has demonstrated, companies fall victim to blind spots and unconscious biases for a variety of reasons.",
        "比如，哈佛大学的马扎林·班纳吉（Mahzarin Banaji）证明，公司会因为各种原因陷入盲点和无意偏见。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems to have evaded him that unchecked power might be more spiritually demeaning than competition.",
        "但他似乎并未意识到不受制约的权力丝毫不亚于竞争对精神的贬损程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, if Greece’s voters had rejected the deal that has just been proposed to them, the outcome might have foreclosed any further coordination on the country’s debt problems with the European Union.",
        "此外，如果希腊选民否决了将施加在它们头上的方案，将对希腊与欧盟就债务问题的未来协商构成阻碍。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, ensuring the protection of information will be a key issue, particularly given the old habit of leaking security information to the press.",
        "因此，确保情报得到保护将是关键问题，特别是在考虑到有将安全情报泄漏给媒体的陋习的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "With no media fanfare and limited arrest and investigative powers, and despite the foreign-policy and military “realists” who dismiss international justice as a pipedream, these judicial institutions have brought justice to Srebrenica’s dead and their survivors, and have demonstrated that justice can be delivered to victims in other conflict areas.",
        "尽管没有媒体的推波助澜，尽管只有有限的拒捕和调查权，尽管那些将国际正义视为白日做梦的外交和军事“现实主义者”们不断冷嘲热讽，这些司法机关依然给斯雷布雷尼察事件的殉难者和生还者带来了正义，并昭示出正义是可以被带给其它地区的受害者的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no unanimity requirement or veto in the General Assembly, which might well be why it has not been called upon in the effort to fight climate change.",
        "该大会的决议方式并不遵照全体同意原则，也没有设立任何否决权，而这也恰恰是它为什么没被用来对抗气候变化的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The debt/income ratio for American households is now down to 109% – well below the peak of 135% reached in late 2007, but still 35 percentage points above the average over the final three decades of the twentieth century.",
        "美国家庭的债务/收入比率目前已下降至109%，比2007年末的135%的峰值低了很多，但仍比20世纪后三十年的平均水平高了35个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "The Euro-American Debt Dilemma",
        "欧美债务困境"
    ],
    [
        "Iran has tried two political approaches in the last ten years: a reformist model, under President Mohamed Khatami, and hardline radicalism, under Ahmadinejad.",
        "过去十年伊朗尝试了两条政治道路：穆罕默德·哈塔米总统的改革模式，以及内贾德统治下的强硬激进主义。"
    ],
    [
        "With only 1% of the world’s population, France is the sixth largest economy, ranking fourth in international trade and third in exports of goods and services.",
        "法国人口只占全世界的1%，经济规模却排名第六，国际贸易排名第四，商品和服务的出口则排第三。"
    ],
    [
        "But developing countries face the biggest challenge.",
        "但发展中国家面临的挑战最严峻。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is equally important to take stock of the epidemic’s lessons and to ensure that we are prepared for the emergence of other diseases.",
        "但同样重要的是评估这场传染病的教训并确保我们做好准备抗击其他疾病的出现。"
    ],
    [
        "But the level of outrage over the Osprey deployment is not proportionate to the threat – especially given the aircraft’s benefits.",
        "然而对“鱼鹰”部署的愤怒程度与其威胁是不成比例的——特别是考虑到飞机所带来的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is little evidence that democratic tumult translates into autocratic legitimacy.",
        "但没有证据表明民主陷入混乱意味着专制合法。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank for International Settlements has long argued that pure inflation targeting is not compatible with financial stability.",
        "国际清算银行早就指出，纯粹的通胀目标与金融稳定不相容。"
    ],
    [
        "Click on its interactive map of protectionist measures, and you will see an explosion of fireworks – red circles all over the globe.",
        "点击网站上的保护主义措施互动地图，你会看到红色的圆圈像烟花绽放般遍及全球。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent events in Washington have been less than reassuring.",
        "华盛顿最近发生的事件一直不太令人满意。"
    ],
    [
        "But the exercise of that power usually comes at a high price.",
        "但行使这项权力往往需要付出高昂的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The best democratic punishment for politicians is not to re-elect them.",
        "对于政客来说，最好的民主惩罚是不再选举他们。"
    ],
    [
        "For millions of Muslims, it has been a guide to the universal predicament faced by all believers: how to be pious in an impious world.",
        "对数以百万计的穆斯林而言，它是对所有虔诚教徒所面临的普遍困境的指引：如何在不虔诚的世界里保持虔诚。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – It is almost impossible to assess the progress of the United States economy over the past four decades without feeling disappointed.",
        "伯克利—评估美国经济在过去四十年的进步，结果几乎不可能令你满意。"
    ],
    [
        "Asked if university education was more important for boys than girls, 78% of Kurds disagreed.",
        "当被问到大学教育是否对男孩比对女孩更重要时，78%的库尔德人持反对意见。"
    ],
    [
        "In this scenario, the lack of reform in major economies will leave the cyclical upswing constrained by low trend growth.",
        "在这一情景中，主要经济体改革缺位将让周期性上扬受制于低趋势增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "The Alliance has promised to see the job through. So if it abandons the job now, leaving the country to poverty, prejudice, and poppies, what then will happen?",
        "北约曾经发誓要彻底完成这个任务。 因此如果现在西方三十六计走为上，而让贫穷，苦难和鸦片来统治这个国家，接着又会有什么后果呢？"
    ],
    [
        "If the current trend holds, China’s trade with ASEAN could reach $1 trillion by 2020.",
        "如果照目前的趋势发展下去，中国与东盟贸易额到2020年将达到1万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe’s leaders must reconceive these concepts in light of today’s challenges.",
        "但欧洲领导人必须在当今挑战的背景下重新认识这些概念。"
    ],
    [
        "PRAGUE – In late June, the British Geological Survey announced the world’s largest shale-gas field.",
        "布拉格—去年6月，英国地质调查局公布了世界最大的页岩气田。"
    ],
    [
        "What the Schengen Area needs is a true European coast guard, with its own budget, ships, and personnel.",
        "申根区需要的是真正的欧洲海岸警卫队，拥有自己的预算、舰船和人手。"
    ],
    [
        "But, of course, Italy, Spain, and France are part of the eurozone and therefore cannot devalue.",
        "但是，意大利、西班牙和法国都是欧元区成员国，因此不可能贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it should finalize further enlargement: the economic crisis has clearly demonstrated that the EU cannot afford black holes on the map of Europe.",
        "相反，欧盟应该定下更进一步的扩大方案：因为经济危机已经清楚的表明，欧盟无法承受欧洲版图上的那些经济黑洞国家所带来的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, one will not be found in more United Nations resolutions, which is why US President Barack Obama is now believed to favor a “managed transition” in Syria that would not fatally erode the existing instruments of the Syrian state.",
        "显然，联合国解决方案再多也不行，这也是美国总统奥巴马如今认为应支持叙利亚“有管理的转型”从而不至于毁掉叙利亚现存国家机器的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "From this point of view, everyone stands to benefit from curriculum reform.",
        "从这一观点看，每个人都可以从课程改革中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is how to distinguish between the two groups.",
        "而问题在于如何区分这两种人。"
    ],
    [
        "I suggest, however, that it is not mediation that is needed: what the Palestinians need now are partners.",
        "尽管那并非必需的调解之道，我还是建议：巴勒斯坦目前需要的是合作伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not robust.",
        "但它不够强大。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, measures that could help to achieve that include Trade Adjustment Assistance, a program aimed specifically at helping those who have lost their jobs due to trade.",
        "在美国，有助于实现这一目标的措施包括贸易调整补助（Trade Adjustment Assistance），这是一个旨在专门帮助因为贸易而失去工作的人的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries’ lack of male escape fantasies in their popular culture may be no less historically rooted: less transient, more traditional societies will not warmly welcome homegrown films and pop songs about local young men taking off and fleeing their responsibilities.",
        "至于在其他国家的流行文化中不存在这种男性逃避现实幻想的原因当然也有其历史根源：那些流动性较少而更为传统的社会都不会喜欢这些以本地年轻人离家出走，抛弃自身责任为主题的电影和流行歌曲。"
    ],
    [
        "And the economics of competitive markets versus monopoly pricing suggests why $50 will be a ceiling, not a floor.",
        "而竞争市场和垄断定价的经济学说明了为何50美元是顶而不是底。"
    ],
    [
        "In the midst of the epidemic, 66% of Mexicans believe that the country is regressing.",
        "疫情暴发后，多达66%的墨西哥人认为墨西哥正在退步。"
    ],
    [
        "But imagine a world where textbooks are continually updated and corrected by a legion of contributors.",
        "但是想像一下这样一个世界，那就是，众多贡献人士不断更新和纠正课本。"
    ],
    [
        "Mobile phones are now ubiquitous in villages as well as cities.",
        "移动电话无论在乡村还是在城市都无处不在。"
    ],
    [
        "At a minimum, Bush will need to pursue policies – in a more consultative manner – that seek a political solution in Iraq and progress in the Israel-Palestine peace process.",
        "布什至少需要以一种更具协商性的方式来寻求政治解决伊拉克问题和巴以和平进程的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "There seems to be a pattern.",
        "这里看起来有一种模式。"
    ],
    [
        "This is causing everyone to suffer – even Germany.",
        "这造成了所有国家的损失，包括德国。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there are ambiguities in the trend lines for stock-holding periods.",
        "此外，股票持有期的趋势线也存在许多不明确之处。"
    ],
    [
        "As Kelleher points out, the United States has “more than 10 million homes under water” (the outstanding mortgage exceeds the house’s value).",
        "正如凯勒赫所指出的，美国“至少有1 000万房子处于资不抵债状态”（即待缴按揭超过房屋价值）。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the fate of Bush’s friend, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, shows that lame-duck status can occur even without a constitutional term limit – indeed, without a written constitution at all.",
        "但是，布什的朋友、英国首相布莱尔却表明，蹩脚鸭状态即使没有宪法上的任期限制，甚至根本没有成文宪法也会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Morsi’s subsequent victory in the presidential election therefore set up an epic battle over the future of the parliament and the constitution, as Morsi attempted to protect the democratically elected parliament while the military fought to dissolve it.",
        "于是，随后穆尔西在总统选举中的胜出掀起了一场关于议会和宪法未来的大战，穆尔西试图保护民主选出的议会，而军队想要解散它。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifth, some three quarters of a century since they were first and last used, and a quarter-century after the Cold War’s end, nuclear weapons are judged to have value.",
        "第五，自核武器第一次也是最后一次被使用以来的四分之三个世纪以来，以及冷战结束四分之一个世纪以来，核武器被认为是有价值的。"
    ],
    [
        "So, too, are some of Qaddafi’s dirtiest diplomatic secrets being exposed.",
        "与此同时，卡扎菲的某些最肮脏的外交秘密也被揭发出来。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the World Health Organization should commit to an emergency contingency fund that it could deploy for surge capacity as soon as it declares a “public health emergency of international concern.”",
        "首先，世卫组织应当设立突发事件应急基金，一旦宣布为“国际关注的突发公共卫生事件”就可以启用。"
    ],
    [
        "We do not know whether Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and/or President Jacques Chirac called Berlusconi to suggest that he find a new Italian Commissioner.",
        "我们还不太清楚施罗德总理和/或希拉克总统是否要求过贝卢斯科尼撤换这位意大利委员。"
    ],
    [
        "So our confidence is not shaken, yet.",
        "所以我们的信心目前还没有晃动。"
    ],
    [
        "At the recent Astana Economic Forum, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev wisely called for some way to tax offshore deposits to fund global health and education.",
        "在日前举行的阿斯塔纳经济论坛上，哈萨克斯坦总统纳扎尔巴耶夫明智地呼吁通过某种方式对海外存款征税，从而为全球医疗和教育筹资。"
    ],
    [
        "Examining economic development trends in South Korea, the authors find that the average value added per worker in transportation, real estate, and ICT is now higher than the average in manufacturing, and they point to similar dynamics in the United States, Japan, and China.",
        "” 以韩国的经济发展情况为鉴，他们发现运输、地产和信息和通信技术行业的人均附加值要高于制造业的平均值，同时指出在美国、日本和中国也如此。"
    ],
    [
        "With member governments collectively guaranteeing its obligations, its bonds would be as good as gold.",
        "既然各成员国政府集体保证会承担相关义务，其债券价值也将保持坚挺。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, workers in companies with inclusive profit-sharing and employee-ownership programs typically receive significantly higher wages than workers in comparable companies without such arrangements.",
        "事实上，有包容性利润共享和雇员持股计划的公司，其员工所获得的工资常常显著高于没有这类安排的可比公司。"
    ],
    [
        "That same vision and foresight is needed today, and the European Union, with its unmatched ability to facilitate regional cooperation, will remain essential.",
        "如今我们也需要同样的理想和远见，而在促进区域合作方面能力无人能及的欧盟，则仍会是必要的存在。"
    ],
    [
        "My grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, chose the path of democracy and alliance with the US when he was Prime Minister in the 1950s.",
        "20世纪50年代，我的外祖父岸信介出任日本首相时选择了民主和与美国结盟的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the Israeli Prime Minister has made it clear that he favors continued conflict management in terms of “economic peace” over far-reaching political processes based on mutual respect and cooperation.",
        "归根结底，这位以色列总理已经明确表示他倾向于与“经济和平”有关的持续性冲突管理，而不是以相互尊重与合作为基础的影响深远的政治进程。"
    ],
    [
        "The coming months will reveal whether we are, indeed, witnessing the dawn of the post-Oslo era in Palestinian politics, and whether a new leader, with new supporters, will be required to revive the Palestinian cause.",
        "接着的几个月将揭晓我们是否真的正在见证巴勒斯坦政治中后《奥斯陆协议》时代的到来，而一个拥有新支持者的新领导人将能否为巴勒斯坦建国大业重新带来生机。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Defense Department’s microelectronics initiative required not only new materials and circuits, but also new methods of fabrication.",
        "美国国防部的微电子计划不仅需要新材料和新电路，还需要新的制造方法。"
    ],
    [
        "The effects of lower income are exacerbated by the fact that the US is the only advanced country not to recognize access to health care as a basic right.",
        "这种收入较低的影响还进一步恶化，因为美国是唯一一个不承认获得医疗保健是一项基本权利的发达国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Once within the Roman Empire, it found an environment transformed by human civilization, along with massive colonies of rodents fattened on the ancient world’s ubiquitous granaries.",
        "一旦进入罗马帝国，细菌就发现了经人类文明改造的环境，以及被古代世界里无处不在的谷仓所养肥的大量啮齿类动物。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – After several months of disappointing economic indicators, China’s State Council has unveiled a “mini-stimulus” package, focused on social-housing construction and railway expansion.",
        "北京—近几个月来，中国的经济指标令人失望，中国国务院抛出了集中于社会保障房和铁路建设的“迷你刺激”计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But if there are different models, what should the priorities for reform be?",
        "但既然存在不同的模式，那么改革应该以何为先？"
    ],
    [
        "At this stage, one can only speculate about the geopolitical effects.",
        "现阶段，我们只能预测地缘政治影响。"
    ],
    [
        "It was Marx who wrote, “Money is the jealous God of Israel,” and that Hebrew was “the muse of stock exchange quotations.”",
        "马克思写道：“钱就是贪婪的以色列上帝，”希伯来人是“证券交易所报价的缪斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Multilateral financial institutions must maintain their central function in the international development architecture, and in particular in financing infrastructure investment.",
        "多边金融机构应该在国际发展的构建上，尤其是在对基础设施投资的融资方面，保持它们的中心功能。"
    ],
    [
        "But does this litany of problems justify a basic income for every working American, including Silicon Valley “superstars,” whose skills and incomes have been complemented and enhanced by skill-biased, labor-saving technological change?",
        "但是这一系列问题是否就表明每个美国人，包括那些技能和收入已经被高度依赖技巧且节省劳动力的技术变革所补足和提升的硅谷“超级巨星”们，都该得到一份基本收入？"
    ],
    [
        "But the US should not succumb to this temptation.",
        "但是，美国不应该在这种诱惑面前让步。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, the euro should appreciate, because the eurozone as a whole is now running a large current-account surplus.",
        "事实上，欧元应该升值，因为欧元区作为一个整体存在巨大的经常项目盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, a climate of national unity is prevailing in France, just as it did in America immediately after 9/11.",
        "目前，法国呈现出一种国民大团结之势，一如9/11爆发后的美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the international community’s methods of fighting the insurgency and eradicating poppy crops have actually helped the insurgents gain power.",
        "的确，国际社会对抗叛乱和铲除罂粟作物的方式其实助长了叛乱分子的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Some people would scream that this is tantamount to nationalization, but it is no more a nationalization that the US Chapter 11 bankruptcy process is.",
        "有些人会惊呼这等同于国有化，但要说国有化的话，没有任何行为能比美国破产法第十一章更加彻底。"
    ],
    [
        "But no branch of human inquiry has cut itself off from the whole – and from the other social sciences – more than economics.",
        "但没有哪个人类研究分支像经济学那样将自己与人类整体条件——和其他社会科学——割裂开来。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, there is an intense debate about the problems caused when such institutions are said to be “too big to fail.”",
        "对此，人们对这类政府不得不出手救助的所谓“不死巨兽”所导致的问题进行了激烈辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the few areas where the virus continues to hold out share worrying similarities.",
        "事实上，病毒继续肆虐的地区状况令人担忧的相似。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, many of these countries remain vulnerable to volatile commodity prices, financial-system weaknesses, depressed demand from world markets, and shortfalls in external finance, overseas development assistance, and investment.",
        "事实上，很多中低收入国家很容易受到商品价格波动、金融系统缺陷、世界市场需求低迷、外部融资、海外发展援助和投资短缺的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But the euro weakness triggered by quantitative easing has further boosted Germany’s current-account surplus, which was already a whopping 8% of GDP last year.",
        "但由量化宽松导致的欧元弱势进一步刺激了去年已经高达GDP的8%的德国经常项目盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is another way of looking at these events.",
        "但是，还可以用另一种方式来看待这些事件。"
    ],
    [
        "The question before me was whether to extradite Cavallo to Spain, a third country, to face trial for human rights abuses committed in Argentina.",
        "摆在我面前的问题是，是否该把卡瓦略引渡到第三国西班牙，为他在阿根廷所犯下的侵犯人权的行为接受审判。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even if we make the transition to a cleaner world by 2050, we will need to determine how to meet a booming global population’s insatiable appetite for energy in the longer term – an imperative that renewables alone cannot meet.",
        "事实上，即使到2050年我们完成向清洁世界的过渡，长远看我们还需要确定如何满足不断膨胀的全球人口对能源永不知足的需求——上述需求仅靠可再生能源势必无法满足。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is wrong.",
        "但这是错的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to envision Brexit resulting in anything other than a more parochial and less influential UK.",
        "除了让英国变得更加狭隘、影响力更小，难以想象英国退出还能有什么效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the Bangladeshi military is watching events unfold with some apprehension, it lacks the will to install a caretaker government, as it did in 2007, when it brought peace and stability to the country by establishing a nonpartisan technocratic administration.",
        "尽管孟加拉国军方不无担忧地关注着事态的发展，但它并不愿如2007年那样成立看守政府。 2007年，军方通过成立无党派的技术官僚政府实现了孟加拉国的和平和稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s pretend that the United States had such a government. What would it do?",
        "我们假设美国有这样一个政府，它要做什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”",
        "但假使有必要，我也准备为理想而献身。"
    ],
    [
        "These are better social indicators than the United Kingdom had in 1960.",
        "4%； 生育率为每名妇女2."
    ],
    [
        "The net effect for Denmark was found to be a small cost , not benefit.",
        "评估发现丹麦所获得的净效应是反而付出了低额的 成本 ，而不是获得了收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas’ electoral victory in January 2006 was to a large extent due to Fatah’s fragmentation under Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas.",
        "哈马斯在2006年一月选举中胜出在很大程度上是因为法塔赫在阿拉法特的继任者阿巴斯领导下的四分五裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin is not just a fireman who sets fires; he is an old-school imperialist.",
        "普京不仅仅是自己放火的消防员，他是老派帝国主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "But the junta seems to be trying to cause less offense.",
        "但军政府似乎有意缓和外界的愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was a vast amount of cheap liquidity that helped to stabilize the financial sector, restore stock and real-estate prices, and increase domestic demand.",
        "结果是巨量廉价流动性帮助稳定了金融部门，恢复了股票和房地产价格，也提高了内需。"
    ],
    [
        "The lesson is that politics and economics are inseparable.",
        "得到的教训就是政治与经济密不可分。"
    ],
    [
        "So a war against the Taliban and their guest, Osama bin Laden, could be construed as a war for female liberation.",
        "因此，一场针对塔利班及其客人本·拉登的战争就被包装成了一场妇女解放战争。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires further development and deepening of strategic relations with emerging powers, such as China, India, and Brazil, as well as with regional organizations.",
        "这需要进一步发展和深化与新兴强国，如中国、印度和巴西及其他地区性组织之间的战略关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bundesbank has lowered its forecast for German annual GDP growth in 2013 to 0.4%.",
        "德国央行将其2013年德国年GDP增长预期降低到了0. 4%。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet one year later, and despite the actions of those provocateurs, a new democratic government is in charge.",
        "一年之后的今天，尽管破坏分子依然大肆行动，但一个新生民主政府已经掌握了政权。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, deterring states from using force may be easier than deterring them from actions that do not rise to that level.",
        "讽刺的是，阻止各国发动网络行动甚至比阻止它们使用更高级别的武力更困难。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fact is that China’s navy is becoming increasingly active in the South China Sea, at the Senkaku Islands and Scarborough Shoal in particular, but also around the Spratly Islands claimed by Vietnam.",
        "但事实表明，中国海军在南海的活动越来越活跃，特别是在钓鱼岛和黄岩岛海域，在越南宣称拥有主权的南沙群岛也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In one, the value of the dollar will be low; in the other, the US will be in a depression.",
        "一种情景是，美元价值降低； 另一种是，美国出现萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "Applied tariff rates in developing countries, while higher than in advanced countries, are already at an all-time low.",
        "发展中国家适用的税率虽然比发达国家要高，但是也已经处在历史最低点了。"
    ],
    [
        "The next, much bigger step is for the autocrats to get off the floor.",
        "接下来，更大的步子是独裁者要到舞台上来。"
    ],
    [
        "What was famously said of Thatcher – “the lady’s not for turning” – can be said of him as well.",
        "以前有一句针对撒切尔的名言¾ “本夫人是不会转弯的” ¾现在也可以用到他身上。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed is an updated approach that supports the evolution of law in a constantly evolving environment, thereby ensuring that law is more responsive to the needs of citizens.",
        "我们需要的是更新方法以支持法律在不断演化的环境中演化，从而确保法律能够更积极地响应公民的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Council and the Commission have watched helplessly, as if the matter was not in their hands.",
        "欧洲理事会和欧盟委员会对此无能为力，似乎这件事与它们无关。"
    ],
    [
        "Though seemingly fragile, it has held up remarkably well.",
        "虽然看似脆弱，但团结却相当紧密。"
    ],
    [
        "The central issue is this: how can we make books and articles – not just snippets, but entire works – available to everyone, while preserving the rights of the works’ creators?",
        "核心问题在于：我们怎样在保护作者权利的同时，让所有人不止看到片段，而是看到完整的书籍和文章？"
    ],
    [
        "Real growth has averaged 7% for eight years, and real incomes have grown by roughly 10% per year.",
        "平均经济增长连续8年来保持在7%左右，而实际收入每年的平均涨幅更是达到了10%。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the profound uncertainty of a world in flux, as well as the dangers of miscalculation as the Soviet empire collapsed, prudent management trumped grand visions.",
        "但是，在流动世界的高度不确定性中，在错误估计苏联帝国解体的风险阴影笼罩下，审慎管理要胜于宏伟空想。"
    ],
    [
        "Because households might choose to save some of the money, contemporary suggestions center on helicopter money being transferred to governments, to invest in infrastructure projects or other demand-enhancing initiatives.",
        "由于家庭可能选择将部分资金储蓄起来，因此当代直升机撒钱建议的核心转移到政府身上，即政府进行基础设施项目或其他加强需求的项目的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Zimbabwe’s leaders made the most of their visits to press for trade and military cooperation, and likely engaged directly with private Chinese companies.",
        "津巴布韦领导人充分利用访问机会寻求贸易和军事合作，而且很可能直接接触私营中资企业。"
    ],
    [
        "Great inequality makes us hungrier for goods than we would otherwise be, by constantly reminding us that we have less than the next person.",
        "严重的不平等性让我们产生比平常更渴求的物质欲望，因为我们时时刻刻都会认为我们比相邻的家伙拥有得更少。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, global cacophony seems more probable.",
        "不幸的是，全球不和谐的可能性增加了。"
    ],
    [
        "Will other actors, such as Merkel’s Germany or the EU as a whole, step in to ensure that great-power cooperation does not deteriorate beyond a point of no return?",
        "其他行动方，比如默克尔的德国或作为一个整体的欧盟，会不会介入确保大国合作不会超越界限导致得不偿失？"
    ],
    [
        "Overcoming Europe’s Twin Growth Challenges",
        "克服欧洲的双重增长挑战"
    ],
    [
        "But this can only be a first step. It should be followed by an agreement that all new enrichment and reprocessing activities will be placed exclusively under multinational control, and that all existing such facilities will be converted from national to multinational control.",
        "但这仅仅还只是第一步，接下来应当签署一份协议，使得所有新的浓缩与再处理活动将被完全置于多国管制之下，而所有现存类似设施的管制权也将由一国转移到多国手中。"
    ],
    [
        "Such ambitions must now be sacrificed for the sake of the French public’s well-being.",
        "而为了法国的公众利益必须牺牲这种野心。"
    ],
    [
        "After 13 years of negotiations, delays, and hesitation, the UN General Assembly will vote this month on the proposal for a universal moratorium on the death penalty.",
        "经过13年的谈判、推迟以及犹豫，联合国大会将在本月对一项全面暂停死刑提议进行投票。"
    ],
    [
        "The turn to the right derives from both structural and circumstantial factors.",
        "向右转既有结构性因素，也有环境因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Gender parity is also a moral imperative, recognized in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted by 193 countries in 2015.",
        "性别平等也是一项道德要求，获得了2015年193个国家共同实施的联合国可持续发展目标（SDG）的承认。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynes was not to blame for Labour’s defeat; in large part, Scotland was.",
        "凯恩斯不是工党失败的原因； 从很大程度上说，苏格兰才是。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the annual payment per patient, the health-care company could receive a bonus or penalty, depending on the outcomes achieved.",
        "除以单位患者为基础的年度付款外，应当按照医疗保健企业实现的实际效果分配奖励或惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "Until last month, May avoided defining this phrase, for fear of antagonizing her party’s hardline Europhobes.",
        "直到上个月，梅一直避免提出这一方案，担心这样会引起党内强硬疑欧派的抵触。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK population is projected to surpass 70 million before the end of the next decade, an increase of 3.6 million, or 5.5%, owing to net immigration and a surplus of births over deaths among the newcomers.",
        "在下一个十年结束时，英国人口预计将超七千万，即增加360万或5. 5%，原因就在于移民净流入并且新来者的出生人口比死亡人口更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Improper use of these medicines fosters HIV resistance and provides little therapeutic value for patients.",
        "不恰当的用药会导致艾滋病毒产生耐药性，对病人的临床治疗也没有任何好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet in one crucial respect – determining who Singapore’s new generation of leaders will be – the tight control that Lee exercised in the past may now make that future more difficult.",
        "但在决定新加坡新一代领导人的关键问题上，李光耀过去的严格控制可能会加大未来的难度。"
    ],
    [
        "From a macroeconomic perspective, investing in infrastructure is a “twofer”: It strengthens productivity and competitiveness in the long run and boosts demand and creates jobs in the short run.",
        "从宏观经济学角度讲，基础设施投资“事半功倍”：它能在长期强化生产率和竞争力，在短期创造就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, these cuts perform poorly on the CBO’s measure of budgetary effectiveness.",
        "事实上，这些减税措施在国会预算办公室的预算措施效益排名表上表现不佳。"
    ],
    [
        "The conservatives were often staunch Roman Catholics, who felt deeply uncomfortable with the secular French Republic, which they associated with liberals and Jews.",
        "保守派通常忠于罗马天主教会，对世俗的法兰西共和国深感不安，认为它是自由派和犹太人的代名词。"
    ],
    [
        "With fixed supply, rents on these properties should increase at a rate equal to or above the rate of GDP growth.",
        "由于供给有限，这些房产的租金应该以等同或者超过国内生产总值的速度增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even Erdoğan, evidently trying to stop the MHP’s advance, used campaign rhetoric that alienated many Kurdish voters.",
        "事实上，甚至是明显想要阻止MHP发展的埃尔多安，也采用了让许多库尔德选民离心离德的竞选口号。"
    ],
    [
        "But confidence, like blood pressure, must be balanced: the problem starts when you have too much or too little of it.",
        "但是，信心正像是血压一样必须得到平衡。 信心太多或者太少，问题就开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "The US and the entire international community are utterly unequipped to deal with this Middle Eastern version of Yugoslavia and its regional consequences.",
        "美国和整个 国际社会都完全无力应付这一中东版本的南斯拉夫及其地区性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Many grew from the simple proposition that ordinary people could overcome adversity in the marketplace by banding together to buy and sell goods at reasonable prices, and quickly realized the added benefits of sharing knowledge among members, promoting inclusion, and building social capital.",
        "其中很多运动都是基于这一简单的设想，即，如果普通人联合起来，以一个合理的价格买卖商品，快速实现成员间知识共享带来的附加收益，促进开放包容，建立社会资本，这样就可以应对市场中的逆境。"
    ],
    [
        "Ominously, Trump’s most detailed speech on foreign policy suggests that he takes his inspiration from precisely this period of isolation and “America First” sentiment.",
        "糟糕的是，特朗普有关外交政策最详尽的讲话表明其灵感恰恰来源于这个孤立且崇尚“美国第一”情绪的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Haven’t We Ended Polio?",
        "我们为什么不能消灭脊髓灰质炎？"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, Chinese officials understand that further progress toward a services-led economic rebalancing will stall without the talent, systems, experience, and scale of global multinational services providers.",
        "与此同时，中国官员明白，没有人才、制度、经验和全球跨国服务供应商规模的保证，朝向服务推动型经济再平衡的后续进步就很难实现。"
    ],
    [
        "While this need not matter to her too much as long as she retains the chancellorship, in Sigmar Gabriel, the SPD’s leader, she faces – for the first time – an opponent whom she would underestimate at her peril.",
        "然而，只要她能够连任总理，这对她来说就算不了什么大事。 在这次总理竞选中，她面对的是社会民主党的领导，而这一次这个对手即使是她自担风险也不可轻视。"
    ],
    [
        "When observed carefully, social media can be interpreted like clouds portending storms.",
        "仔细观察可以发现，社交媒体就像是预兆暴风雨的乌云。"
    ],
    [
        "Ocampo, like Kim, brings the advantages and disadvantages of being an outsider; but Ocampo, a distinguished professor at Columbia University, is thoroughly acquainted with the World Bank.",
        "奥坎波和金辰勇都是外部人士，这有利也有弊； 但奥坎波作为哥伦比亚大学的杰出教授对世界银行是相当熟悉的。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s contribution to global growth is, in fact, 50% larger than the combined 0.8-percentage-point contribution likely to be made by all of the so-called advanced economies.",
        "1个百分点都达不到。 事实上，中国对全球增长的贡献要比所有所谓的发达经济体的贡献之和（0."
    ],
    [
        "And once a Muslim state was established in newly conquered lands, the military became integral to its governance.",
        "只要新征服的土地上建立起穆斯林国家，那么军队就是其治国的全部。"
    ],
    [
        "The model, formalizing a central insight of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, embodies the beauty, simplicity, and lack of realism of the two fundamental theorems of competitive equilibrium, in contrast to the messiness and complexity of modifications made by economists in an effort to capture better the way the world actually functions.",
        "相对于经济学家们为更好地掌握世界真实运作方式而进行的纷繁复杂修正，该模型作为亚当·斯密《国富论》核心观点的形式化体现，表现了竞争性均衡两大基本原理的美感，简约，以及缺乏真实感。"
    ],
    [
        "Yunnan is home to three great Asian rivers: the Mekong, the Salween (or Nu), and the Jinsha.",
        "云南省是亚洲三条大河的发源地。 它们是湄公河、怒江和金沙江。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the US Congress has blocked changes to countries’ quota allocations at the International Monetary Fund.",
        "比如，美国国会拒不批准国际货币基金组织各国配额分配的改革方案。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, economic growth below the sum of growth in the working population and the labor-saving part of technological change fuels unemployment.",
        "另一方面，经济增长低于工作人口增加总量以及技术变迁中的劳动力节约因素会增加失业。"
    ],
    [
        "The combined effect of these developments has been to erode Lee’s reputation precipitously.",
        "这些事态发展的结果结合起来，极大地损害了李明博的声誉。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s territorial ambitions are also fueling tensions in the South China Sea, where sea-lanes that are vital to Japanese trade are located.",
        "中国的领土野心也助长了南海的紧张局势，而南海航线对日本贸易来说至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The British response should prompt other industrial economies, above all the US, to tackle their long-term fiscal weaknesses.",
        "英国的应对措施理应带动其他工业化经济体——尤其是美国，去治理它们长期性的脆弱财政。"
    ],
    [
        "Are there really no limits?",
        "是否真的不再有任何限度？"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Russia is not Egypt.",
        "巴黎——俄罗斯不是埃及。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, many of these strategies have turned out to have built-in limitations or decelerators – what one might call elements of unsustainability.",
        "不幸的是，这些战略多具有内生性极限或减速效应——也可以称之为不可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to coordinate our foreign, security, and development policies in order to prevent uncontrollable, unmanageable mass migration – a phenomenon that will lead to many migrant deaths and stoke xenophobia in the countries they try to reach.",
        "我们需要协调外交、安全和发展政策，以实现防止无法控制的大规模移民的目标。 这种现象会导致众多移民死于非命，并在他们的目的地国掀起仇外的浪潮。"
    ],
    [
        "I hope you will likewise be successful in taming The New York Times.”",
        "希望你也能成功地控制《纽约时报》。"
    ],
    [
        "The CMS meetings on migratory sharks, set to take place this month in San Jose, Costa Rica, represent an important opportunity for advancing regulations to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of these species, so that they can continue to fulfill their critical ecological role as apex predators.",
        "《保护野生动物迁徙物种公约》将于本月在哥斯达黎加圣何塞召开的洄游鲨鱼会议为推进法规建设提供了重要机会，其目的是保护及可持续利用上述物种，以使其继续发挥顶级捕食者至关重要的生态作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Circulated by the Czarist secret police in the early 1900s to justify the regime’s anti-Jewish pogroms, it became the foundation of the anti-Semitic literature of the first half of the twentieth century, with horrendous consequences.",
        "”最早传播该议定书的是20世纪早期的沙皇秘密警察，目的是为沙俄政权的反犹太大屠杀提供依据，该议定书后来成为20世纪上半叶反犹文学的基础，并由此酿成了可怕的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But, upon closer inspection, it became clear that most of this innovation involved devising better ways of scamming others, manipulating markets without getting caught (at least for a long time), and exploiting market power.",
        "但是，近距离的检视表明，金融创新大部分无非是更好地蒙骗他人、操纵市场而不被抓住（或者在相当长的时间里不被抓住）以及利用市场权力。"
    ],
    [
        "CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – The abolition of China’s 35-year-old one-child policy closes one of the darkest chapters in the country’s history.",
        "克莱蒙特，加利福尼亚—中国放弃了维持了35年之久的一胎政策，结束了该国历史上最黑暗的一页之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The Migration Opportunity",
        "欧洲的移民机会"
    ],
    [
        "Potentially catastrophic consequences await, not just for polar bears, but for millions of people.",
        "潜在的灾难性后果正在隐隐逼近，这不只是北极熊的灾难，也是百万人群的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet China is causing high anxiety, especially in emerging countries, largely because financial markets have convinced themselves that its economy is not only slowing, but falling off a cliff.",
        "但中国正在制造很大的焦虑，特别是在新型国家，这在很大程度上是因为金融市场让自己相信，其经济不仅仅是放缓，简直是掉落悬崖。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for those escaping Syria’s civil war, ignorance of their plight is overshadowed only by the reality of their needs – and the diversity of their expertise.",
        "但是，对那些逃离叙利亚内战的人来说，对他们的困境的无知尚比不上对他们的现实需要——以及他们的专业背景的多样性的无知。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, in the immediate wake of the Russia-Georgia crisis, Turkey’s leaders have stepped forward once again to take a leadership role in the Caucasus.",
        "现在俄国和格鲁吉亚危机刚刚结束，土耳其领导人再次站出来在高加索地区发挥领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "She had worked at Apple in marketing in the early days and had probably told Steve Jobs off a few times.",
        "她早年曾在苹果公司干过市场，估计也私下骂过史蒂夫·乔布斯几次。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, some groups have long recognized the need for sterner measures.",
        "显然，一些团体早就认识到采取严厉措施的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "But he was also threatened, imprisoned, attacked, and stripped of his citizenship in Belarus.",
        "但他也曾经在白俄罗斯受到过威胁，身陷囹圄，遭到袭击，还被剥夺了公民权。"
    ],
    [
        "The purchasing power of national income per person in Nigeria is now 50% lower relative to Britain than in 1980.",
        "今天，220个纳拉才能兑换一个英镑，这意味着，1973年依赖，纳拉的年均贬值率为15％。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi and his colleagues are resolute in attempting to solve this problem by staying the course to rebalance the Chinese economy, while remaining acutely aware of cyclical risks.",
        "习近平和他的同志们决心坚持中国经济再平衡的事业，与此同时也要保持对短期周期性风险的清醒认识。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this moral aspect that makes care-givers, and at times even care-receivers, feel more “present” – and thus more fully human.",
        "正是病人照护的这些道德方面，让照护人，有时候甚至是接受照护的人，感受到了更多的“存在”——并因而成为更完整的人。"
    ],
    [
        "While calling for a strong digital agenda in one breath, the same politicians, supported by protectionist interests at home, often argue for putting a brake on the Internet’s “disruption” by imposing strict new regulation.",
        "在国内保护主义利益的支持下，同一批政客往往既呼吁强大数字日程，又提出要采取严格的新监管刹住互联网的“干扰”。"
    ],
    [
        "The use of a public awareness campaign to intensify pressure on governments to pursue necessary but difficult measures has worked before – for example, in advancing forest and fishery sustainability.",
        "利用公众宣传加强政府落实必要但困难政策的压力曾经获得过成功——这方面的例子包括推进林业和渔业的可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "This has not gone unnoticed by Asia’s governments, which are heavily dependent on economic growth to meet their young and growing populations’ demand for jobs and prosperity.",
        "亚洲国家政府对此也有所注意，亚洲国家严重依赖经济增长解决年轻且不断增长的人口的就业和繁荣需求。"
    ],
    [
        "That collapse has impacted non-bankers in many negative ways, including through the loss of more than eight million jobs.",
        "此次崩溃以许多负面方式对银行界以外的人们造成了影响，其中就包括了超过800万职位的流失。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan had passed another milestone.",
        "巴基斯坦又一次取得了里程碑式的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the US has pretty much had the world’s highest CAPE ratio ever since President Barack Obama’s second term began in 2013.",
        "毕竟，自2013年奥巴马总统第二个任期伊始开始，美国CAPE市盈率便基本一直是世界最高。"
    ],
    [
        "The Danish peg – now to the euro – still holds.",
        "克朗的盯住政策现在依然有效——对象换成了欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "The Paris agreement is a sprawling, rolling, overlapping set of national commitments brought about by a broad conglomeration of parties and stakeholders. It is not law.",
        "巴黎协定是由为数众多的方面和相关利益方形成的一组混杂、滚动、重叠的国家承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, some observers fear instability caused by a weak , rather than a rising, China.",
        "其实，让观察家担心的，与其说是崛起的中国还不如说是疲软的中国所带来的不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the most advanced country in this respect, e-commerce has just reached 10% of total retail spending, and is continuing to grow at double-digit rates through the slow recovery from the Great Recession.",
        "在美国——这方面最先进的国家，电子商务达到了零售支出总额的10%，并在从大萧条的缓慢恢复过程中继续以2位数的速度增长。"
    ],
    [
        "If we make provisions for long lives that are cut short, we will have wasted huge amounts of precious economic resources.",
        "如果我们为更长的寿命做好准备，而它却中断了，我们就会浪费大量珍贵的经济资源。"
    ],
    [
        "The OECD is thus a weak surrogate for a globally representative intergovernmental forum.",
        "因此，经合组织只是有全球代表性的跨政府论坛的劣等替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "Dealing with episodes of alleged non-compliance can prove to be every bit as demanding as the original negotiation.",
        "处理这些有不遵守协议嫌疑的情况一点也不比一开始的谈判容易。"
    ],
    [
        "But one issue – one might say the most significant of them all – is being ignored or pushed aside: the environment.",
        "但有一个问题——有人可能会说这个问题是最重要的——正在遭到忽视或者搁置：那就是环境问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, both have already helped to bring the Syrian regime to Geneva.",
        "事实上，上述两国都在促成叙利亚政权来到日内瓦。"
    ],
    [
        "But, judging by the evidence that we have, austerity programs in Europe and elsewhere appear likely to yield disappointing results.",
        "但根据我们目前的证据来判断的话，欧洲以及其他地区的紧缩政策似乎将带来令人失望的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixty years later, the Arab-Israeli conflict reminds us that the Jews’ journey back to history continues.",
        "六十年之后，阿拉伯—以色列冲突提醒着我们犹太人重返历史的征程仍在继续。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Obama has been confronted with significant constraints, including the global economic crisis, domestic political polarization, a hostile Congress, and the rise of emerging powers that need the US but are unwilling to accept its dominance.",
        "此外，奥巴马还面临了重大约束，包括全球经济危机、国内政治两极分化、敌意国会，以及需要美国又不愿接受美国主导的新兴大国的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that nature is already being bought and sold, mined and marketed at knock-down prices that fail to capture its real worth, especially to the livelihoods of the poor.",
        "事实是，自然已经在买卖了，人们以远不能代表其真实价值极低的价格开采和销售着自然，穷人受害尤甚。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the World Bank, since 1990 trade has helped to halve the number of people living in extreme poverty.",
        "据世界银行，1990年以来，贸易帮助生活在极端贫困中的人口数量下降了一半。"
    ],
    [
        "However, thousands of former political prisoners in central and eastern Europe can attest to the fact that a kick from a secret policeman on the street hurts just as much as a kick from a warden behind prison gates.",
        "然而，在中欧和东欧数以千记的政治犯可以证明下列事实：秘密警察在街头上的暴行造成的伤害与监狱里看守人的虐待造成的伤害一样严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Economics is not as precise a science as physics, but this cannot justify the failure of the Angelides Commission.",
        "经济学并不像物理学那样精确，但这并不能作为安吉莱德斯委员会无所作为的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "Service-sector workers commute daily, only to be present in an environment that has no economic need for them, for they are facilitating information exchange far more than exchange of physical goods.",
        "服务业的从业人员每天通勤，但却是出现在一个对他们没有经济需求的环境之中，因为他们更多地是在为信息交流而不是为实物商品的交流提供便利。"
    ],
    [
        "Would the price of Bitcoin drop to zero if governments could perfectly observe transactions?",
        "如果政府能够完美地观察到交易情况，比特币价格是否会归零？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Netanyahu has fundamentally misunderstood the Iran challenge: It is not an existential threat, but part of a broader struggle for regional mastery.",
        "事实上，内塔尼亚胡从根本上误解了伊朗的挑战：这不是一个生存威胁，而是事关地区主宰力的更广泛的斗争的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Advocates of such agreements claim that they are needed to protect property rights.",
        "这些协定的支持者宣称需要靠它们来保护产权。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, this has become particularly pronounced, because banks are unable to pass negative interest rates on to depositors.",
        "在欧洲，这一现象尤其显著，因为银行无法将负利率转嫁给存款人。"
    ],
    [
        "It is projected that the TTIP would raise annual per capita income in Germany by 1-3%, or €300-1,000 per year by 2035.",
        "据预测，到2035年，TTIP可以让德国年人均收入提高1—3%或每年300—1,000欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Fed continues to neglect asymmetry, considering it only a second- or third-order phenomenon.",
        "但美联储仍然无视不对称性，将它视为第二阶甚至第三阶现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is a public-sector vacuum and a dearth of public investments, which in turn holds back necessary private-sector investment.",
        "结果是公共部门真空和公共投资不足，这反过来又拖累了必要的私人部门投资。"
    ],
    [
        "In a liberalized capital market, the undiminished risk that the yuan might appreciate means that investors must be compensated by a higher interest rate on dollar assets.",
        "在一个自由化的资本市场，时时存在的人民币升值风险意味着投资者必须通过美元资产的更高利率来获得补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite all of this, we continue to degrade our oceans through the relentless destruction of habitats and biodiversity, including through overfishing and pollution.",
        "尽管发生了这一切，我们却继续用包括过度捕捞和污染在内的各种作为来无情破坏着海洋栖息地和生物多样性，导致海洋退化。"
    ],
    [
        "The former victims of Mladić’s Bosnian Serb forces will feel that some justice is being done at last.",
        "而那些曾遭姆拉迪奇手下波斯尼亚塞族武装蹂躏的受害者们也会觉得正义终于得到了伸张。"
    ],
    [
        "Belgium, for example, insists on its system of automatic wage indexing.",
        "例如比利时就一心要实行自动工资指数化制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Solar radiation equals roughly 10,000 times our current energy use.",
        "太阳辐射约等于人类当前能源利用的1万倍。"
    ],
    [
        "But even if supply-side growth were maintained, say, by China, thereby holding down prices of tradable goods, helicopter money would carry major costs, because debt would still be growing faster than nominal GDP.",
        "但即使（比如）中国保持供给侧增长，从而拉低可贸易商品的价格，直升机撒钱仍将带来巨大的成本，因为债务仍然比名义GDP增长更快。"
    ],
    [
        "A culture of cynicism and complacency seems to be the default position, especially among politicians and the media.",
        "特别是在政治家和媒体圈子里，愤世嫉俗和沾沾自喜的文化似乎成了一种自然而然的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Obama has pragmatically – perhaps even somewhat cynically – decided to abandon trying to compel Cuba’s leaders to change their political system.",
        "因此，奥巴马务实地——也许还带着一些犬儒主义——决定放弃强迫古巴领导人改变政治制度的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is far more complex, of course.",
        "当然实际情况远比这个要复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "The downgrade could, moreover, force the US Treasury to raise the interest rate on new bonds, in which case China would stand to gain.",
        "此外，降级将迫使美国财政部提高新债利率，这也能使中国获利。"
    ],
    [
        "But the future for global standards looks more uncertain than it has for some time.",
        "但全球标准的未来比此前一段时间看上去不确定性更大了。"
    ],
    [
        "One day, they increased it by $0.21, since 21 seemed like a lucky number.",
        "21美元，理由是“21”似乎是个幸运号码。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite such differences, either would carry out policies closer to those of Bush’s second term than his first.",
        "尽管有这样的区别，但是，无论谁当选都会执行比起布什在第一任期的政策，更接近其第二任期政策的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "First, despite the heroic leadership of the Buddhist clergy and the pro-democracy community, almost 50 years of military misrule and terror tactics have worn down Burma’s people, who will likely find it hard to maintain their defiance without obvious splits among the ruling generals or widespread desertions among ordinary soldiers.",
        "首先，尽管有僧人和亲民主社团身先士卒的英勇行为，但近50年来的军政府暴政和恐怖政策已使缅甸人民深受其害。 他们很可能会发现要继续对现政权的挑战而又不引起将军统治阶层内部的明显裂隙或普通士兵的广泛逃弃现象是很困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "This conservative trend did not follow-up on the reformists' engagement with the modern ideas of the European Enlightenment, arguing instead that these represented a further estrangement from authentic Islamic values.",
        "这种保守倾向不是遵循改革主义者们对欧洲启蒙的现代理念的接纳，而是认为这些理念代表着对真正的伊斯兰教价值观的进一步背离。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Mylan provides study medications to research trials, like the MaxART trial in Swaziland, which demonstrated that providing treatment to all HIV-positive people is the best way to slow the disease’s spread.",
        "比如，迈兰公司为研究实验提供研究药品，比如斯威士兰的MaxART试验，该试验发现，向所有艾滋病毒阳性人员提供治疗是遏制艾滋病蔓延的最佳办法。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Organization for Migration Council issued a similar resolution in November, and the campaign has attracted additional support from civil-society groups and international organizations.",
        "国际移民组织委员会（International Organization for Migration Council）也在11月通过了类似的决议，该动议还获得了公民社会团体和国际组织的更多支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The numbers are striking.",
        "数字触目惊心。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the group adds, we must recognize that we won’t make any real progress in cutting CO2 emissions until we can provide developing economies with affordable alternatives to the fossil fuels on which they currently depend.",
        "与此同时，报告也补充说，我们必须意识到除非能给发展中国家提供负担得起的替代方案，从而解除他们当前对化石燃料的依赖，否则就不可能在削减二氧化碳排放方面取得任何实质性进展。"
    ],
    [
        "The programs were supported by the Nepalese government and external donors, and focused on poorer regions and villages (and, within them, on the poorest castes).",
        "上述计划得到尼泊尔政府和国外捐助者的支持，重点保障贫困地区和村庄（以及其中最贫困阶层）的实施工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, neither the costs nor the risks are possible to calculate with precision.",
        "此外，代价和风险都不可能准确计算。"
    ],
    [
        "According to this logic, central banks should normalize policy sooner, and at a faster pace, to prevent another financial crisis.",
        "根据这一逻辑，各国央行应更早启动政策正常化并以更快的步骤加以执行，以防另一场金融危机爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while the diagnostic process – which typically involves sending a sample of blood, urine, or tissue to a laboratory for analysis – may be cumbersome and expensive, health-care providers and sophisticated laboratories remain widely available.",
        "事实上，尽管诊断过程——通常情况下包括递交血液、尿液或组织样本进行实验室分析——可能繁琐而昂贵，医疗提供者和高精尖实验室往往门可罗雀。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, China needs to continue debt write-offs and swaps, and it must remain on the path of gradual structural reform.",
        "当然，中国需要继续进行债务减记和互换，并且必须保持渐进的结构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, periphery governments are largely shielded from the increase in the risk premium on long-term bonds, because their central banks continue to purchase their outstanding debts.",
        "此外，外围国家政府在很大程度上不会受长期债券风险溢价增加的影响，因为它们的央行继续购买其未偿债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Herein lies a dilemma for the next US president: how to address the clear rift between the two lefts in a way that improves US-Latin American relations, fortifies the modern left, and weakens the retrograde left without resorting to the failed interventionist policies of the past.",
        "对美国的下任总统来说，在这里有一个两难的问题：怎样以一种改善美国和拉丁美洲国家之间关系 ，加强现代左派，又不借助于过去失败的干涉主义政策来削弱倒退的左派的方式，来应对两种左派之间明显的区分。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the attacks of September 2001, the United States has managed to avoid further attacks on its land.",
        "自2001年9月的恐怖袭击之后，美国已经成功地避免了在其本土发生进一步的袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers struggle to get their assessment right.",
        "决策者忙于寻找正确的评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Heavy reliance on trading in a global market was one of the main reasons that South Korea has developed so rapidly and essentially eradicated its poverty in the last 65 years.",
        "严重依赖全球市场贸易是韩国发展如此之快的主要原因之一，过去65年来该国基本实现了根除贫困的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Inevitable Haircut",
        "欧洲债务减记不可避免"
    ],
    [
        "But such patents mar DNA’s “birthday” celebrations for the patients who stand to benefit from the fruits of genetic research – if only they could afford them.",
        "但这些专利堪称DNA“生日”的污点，因为它们阻止了患者获得遗传研究的好处——除非他们花得起钱。"
    ],
    [
        "In the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco, a group of fishing families had lived since 1914 on islands in the Sirinhaém River estuary.",
        "在巴西北部的伯南布哥州（Pernambuco），一群渔民家庭自1914年以来便生活在西里尼亚恩河（Sirinhaém River）河口的小岛上。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Cameron argues that the EU is not an end in itself.",
        "最后，卡梅伦指出，欧盟不会自我消亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost invariably, the greatest diplomatic successes have followed, rather than preceded, bloodshed.",
        "而最伟大的外交成功总是在流血事件之后发生的，而不是在此之前。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the creation of the IMF in 1944, many of the same decisions became routine, a lot less interesting, and much easier to implement.",
        "1944年国际货币基金组织成立后，其中很多决定失去了曾经的趣味性成了家常便饭，但却大大降低了执行的难度。"
    ],
    [
        "Sooner or later, another ugly fight will take place on the debt ceiling, the delayed sequester of spending, and a congressional “continuing spending resolution” (an agreement to allow the government to continue functioning in the absence of an appropriations law).",
        "早晚有一天，在债务上限、对支出的延迟暂缓和国会的“持续支出方案”（一项允许政府在缺乏拨款法案的情况下继续运作的协议）上会出现另一场不光彩的争斗。"
    ],
    [
        "This cannot be what China wants.",
        "这些当然都不是中国所愿看到的。"
    ],
    [
        "But right now, only Digital Mirror is one of the few to give you the ability to do the same for yourself.",
        "但今时今日，只有少数几个软件能让你获得同样的能力，Digital Mirror就是其中之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Stronger superconducting magnets are leading to the development of MRIs with more sophisticated diagnostic capabilities.",
        "强超导磁体推动下的MRI技术发展使得医学诊断更加精确。"
    ],
    [
        "Such costs are precisely why impecunious countries such as Greece face massive social and economic displacement when financial markets lose confidence and capital flows suddenly dry up.",
        "这类调整成本正是希腊等缺钱国在金融市场失去信心、资本流突然告竭时出现重大社会和经济混乱的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Three months later, the BRICS released their “Leaders’ Summit Declaration” condemning the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia by the European Union and the US.",
        "三个月后，金砖国家发布 “领导人峰会宣言”，谴责欧盟和美国对俄实施经济制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Non-believers are identified with the “MIT School” associated with Paul Samuelson. Rodrik is of the MIT School, as are such household names as Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, and Larry Summers.",
        "罗德里克属于麻省理工学派，其他像保罗•克鲁格曼（Paul Krugman）、约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨（Joseph Stiglitz）和拉里•萨默斯（Larry Summers）等耳熟能详的名字也同样属于这一派系。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Central and Eastern European countries, however, object.",
        "但是，大部分中欧和东欧国家反对这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Western policy towards Belarus must be carefully modulated, and it should emphasize Europe’s soft power – the attractiveness of its social model to an increasing number of Belarusians.",
        "但西方对白俄罗斯的政策也必须进行小心调整，并应当将重点放在欧洲的软实力上——也就是其社会模式对白俄罗斯人的吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "If the euro is to be preserved, and if stagnation is to be avoided, five policy measures could be attempted:",
        "可以试行五项政策措施来保护欧元、避免经济停滞："
    ],
    [
        "It is a civil war within Islam between a majority of normal people and a small minority who want to coerce others into a accepting a highly ideological and politicized version of their religion.",
        "这是一场伊斯兰世界大多数普通人以及一小部分企图压制他人接收其高度意识形态化和政治化的宗教版本的人之间的内战。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, given that much of the debt overhang remains and much of the rescue ammunition has been spent, another shock could be devastating.",
        "尽管如此，由于仍然累积着大量债务并且大量救援资金已经消耗掉，新的冲击可能带来灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Will America Win or Lose From Brexit?",
        "英国退出对美国的利弊"
    ],
    [
        "Their courage, and their newfound political activism, has stiffened the government’s backbone in implementing needed reforms and made it impossible for any political actor in Ukraine to buck the pro-EU consensus.",
        "他们的勇气和新生的政治积极性已经让政府挺直腰杆推行改革并让国内政治势力不可能反对亲欧共识。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in looking toward the future of Asia – and, indeed, the future of world diplomacy – it is the relationship between the world’s two most populous countries and largest emerging economies, India and China, which will increasingly set the global agenda.",
        "但在展望亚洲的未来（以及世界外交的未来）之时，真正能决定全球议程的其实是印度和中国——两个世界上人口最多，同时也是最大的新兴经济体——之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "This was nasty, Trump-like stuff.",
        "这种特朗普式的观点非常龌龊。"
    ],
    [
        "Its society adheres to tribal traditions that afford its ruling elite, headed by the royal family, a paternal and omnipotent role in determining the direction and form of economic development.",
        "迪拜社会坚持部落传统，支持由王室家族领导的精英统治者在决定经济发展方向及形式方面发挥无所不能的家长式作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, the optimists who spoke last year of a soft landing or a mild “V-shaped” eight-month recession were proven wrong, while those who argued that this would be a longer and more severe “U-shaped” 24-month recession – the US downturn is already in its 18th month – were correct.",
        "然而，即使是这样，那些在去年提到经济会软着陆或者经济经过八个月的温和衰退就会“V型”反转的乐观主义者，也被证实是错误的，而那些认为经济危机会持续更长时间，而且是更严重的二十四个月的“U型”衰退的人——美国的衰退已经持续了18个月了——是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "For Uribe and his opposition allies, the main objection to the deal concerns how it addresses the question of transitional justice.",
        "对乌里维及其反对阵营而言，主要的反对理由是如何解决转型期正义问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order for that to happen, a new agenda for Russia must be developed this year.",
        "但要想实现这一目标，必须在今年制定出新的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "In September 1994, an explosion at Indonesia’s Serpong research reactor was triggered by the ignition of methane gas that had seeped from a storage room and exploded when a worker lit a cigarette.",
        "2万人被迫搬迁。 在1994年9月，印尼塞尔蓬(Serpong)研究核反应堆附近一间储藏室发生甲烷气体泄漏，随后一名工人点燃香烟引发爆炸并波及到反应堆。"
    ],
    [
        "These young activists may not yet be trending on Twitter or Facebook, or even be household names in their own countries, but support for their cause is growing fast.",
        "这些年轻活动家也许尚未在Twitter或Facebook上热门起来，甚至在自己的国家中也没有什么名气，但对他们的事业的支持正在快速扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "To succeed, Saudi Arabia will have to transform its incentive structure, so that Saudis, not migrants, fill newly created private-sector jobs.",
        "要想成功，沙特阿拉伯必须改变其激励结构，从而让沙特人而不是移民填补新创造出来的私人部门岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, like all good studies, this one explains why the authors more careful analysis produces results that differ from those in previous studies.",
        "最后，与所有优秀研究一样，该研究解释了为何作者更仔细的研究产生了与此前研究不同的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact on financial markets will be disruptive, regardless of whether the Fed aggressively tightens monetary policy to pre-empt rising prices or lets the economy “run hot” for a year or two, allowing inflation to accelerate.",
        "对金融市场的影响将是破坏性的，无论美联储是大幅收紧货币政策以防止物价上涨还是坐视经济“火热”一两年，允许通胀加速。"
    ],
    [
        "It didn’t work in Vietnam, and it is unlikely to work in Syria or Iraq.",
        "这在越南不起作用，在叙利亚或伊拉克也不可能起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The comprehensive defeat of the Islamist parties that sought to take Bangladesh away from its democratic and secular roots, and which had sought in 1971 to impose Urdu as a national language and suppress Bengali language and culture, is the real story of the election.",
        "伊斯兰政党在竞选中全面失利是这次选举的大戏。 这些伊斯兰政党力求使孟加拉国脱离民主和非宗教的根基，它们曾在1971年力求将乌尔都语作为全民语言并压制孟加拉的语言和文化。"
    ],
    [
        "The political sentiments of many of the hundreds of thousands of people who gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square over the last three weeks leave little doubt that they do want democracy, and are willing to work and even to sacrifice for it. Whether they are numerous enough, resourceful enough, patient enough, wise enough, and brave enough – and whether they will be lucky enough – to achieve it is a question that only the people of Egypt can answer.",
        "数十万名在过去三个星期内聚集在开罗解放广场的人民已经表明了对民主的渴求，并愿意为此付出努力甚至是牺牲。 而他们是否有足够人数，足够资源，足够耐心，足够聪明和足够勇敢——也足够幸运——去实现民主，则是只有埃及人民才能回答的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Stock markets around the world soared.",
        "世界各地股市因此出现飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "And he won’t have very good options, either.",
        "而且他也不太可能有完美的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Eurasia is an idea whose time, it is said, has come around again.",
        "据说欧亚（Eurasia）思想的时代即将再次到来。"
    ],
    [
        "Viewed from this perspective, how worried should we be about the effects of hesitation today?",
        "从这个角度看，我们应该对今天的 犹豫的影响保持多大的担忧？"
    ],
    [
        "This outcome does not reflect a deliberate plan, but rather a series of policy mistakes.",
        "导致如此结果的并不是深思熟虑的计划，而是一系列的政策失误。"
    ],
    [
        "But centralization of economic decision-making, as an end in itself, cannot underpin a prosperous and powerful Europe.",
        "但经济决策的集中化不可能带来繁荣而有力的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Under these circumstances, and with inflation subdued and interest rates on US Treasury securities far below their historical average in both nominal and real terms, the economic case for temporary fiscal measures to boost demand is compelling.",
        "在这些情况下，通胀温和，美国国债利率在名义上及实际价值上远远低于其历史平均水平，经济上极需临时财政措施来刺激需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Too many US presidents fancy themselves Churchill’s true heirs.",
        "太多美国总统幻想自己是丘吉尔的真正传人。"
    ],
    [
        "That is what eventually did him in.",
        "正是这个原因最终搞垮了布什。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the Ottoman Empire forbade the printing of the Koran for nearly 400 years.",
        "但奥斯曼帝国禁止印刷古兰经长达近400年。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, Alibaba (which owns marketplaces such as Taobao) and 360buy.com (which focuses on electronics) rank among China’s top ten retailers, and already provide national coverage through the reach of express delivery companies.",
        "相反，阿里巴巴（拥有淘宝网等市场）和京东（专注于电子产品）均赫然名列中国前十大零售商，并已经通过快递公司建立了全国覆盖网。"
    ],
    [
        "Space for brilliant blunders is vital to achieving the kind of creative breakthroughs that drive scientific progress.",
        "杰出的错误能获得多大空间是实现创造性突破、推动科学进步的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "A living example of this is Afzal Lala, a Pashtun politician associated with the Awami National Party who, despite all the threats from the bloodthirsty Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, remained in Swat through the recent fighting.",
        "其中一个活生生的例子，就是阿夫扎尔·拉拉——一个在杀人如麻的巴基斯坦塔利班运动组织（Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan）的死亡威胁之下依然坚守在斯瓦特的人民民族党普什图族政治家"
    ],
    [
        "If we are lucky, Feng may be right. But if we are not, we could witness the emergence of a new and dangerous political fault line in East Asia.",
        "如若不幸，再遇上一件激发中国民族主义的大事件，那么当大多数人希望这些旧仇恨可以被搁置一旁的时候，一个错误危险的新政治路线将在东亚产生。"
    ],
    [
        "Other European countries, including Spain, are experiencing a similar phenomenon.",
        "其他欧洲国家，包括西班牙，同样出现了类似的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The Great Deflation now gripping both sides of the Atlantic is reviving political forces that had lain dormant since the end of World War II.",
        "侵袭大西洋两岸的严重通货紧缩正在唤醒那些在二战后沉睡的政治力量。"
    ],
    [
        "But many analysts have challenged estimates that rely on the World Bank’s current poverty line, raised in 2008 from $1 to $1.25 per day, in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.",
        "2008年，世行贫困线从每天1美元提高到了每天1. 25美元（按购买力评价即PPP计算）。"
    ],
    [
        "Written off as the “sick man of Europe” when the euro was launched in 1999, Germany responded not by boosting dynamism, but by cutting costs.",
        "在1999年启动欧元时摆脱了“欧洲病夫”外号的德国并没有尝试去激发自身的活力，而是通过削减成本来应对。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that nothing can be done.",
        "这并不是说我们束手无策。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost 100% of US exports to Japan are priced in dollars, meaning that they, as in Friedman’s version, are sticky in dollars.",
        "美国对日本的出口几乎100％都是以美元计价的，意味着这些出口就像弗里德曼的版本一样是对美元有粘性的。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the oil price remains at or near $60 a barrel, expect everyone's forecasts of GDP growth to be reduced by 1% per year.",
        "可如果油价在60美元或附近居高不下，那么预计人均国内生产总值的增长每年将下降1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, no such precedent exists: there has never been a peaceful transfer of power in any of the Arab League’s 22 member states.",
        "实际上，并没有这样的先例。 在阿拉伯联盟的22个成员国中从来就没有过权力的和平转移先例。"
    ],
    [
        "In Libya, life expectancy declined by six years for women and nine years for men.",
        "在利比亚，女性的预期寿命缩短6年而男性则缩短9年。"
    ],
    [
        "One such area is creativity.",
        "其中之一就是创意产业。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, FOCUS turns the vendors into allies – and sponsors.",
        "事实上，校园餐聚焦将食品商转变成了盟友和出资者。"
    ],
    [
        "Each member state would remain free to decide the tax rate applicable to its portion of group income.",
        "每个成员国都有权决定适用于该国那一部分公司收入的税率。"
    ],
    [
        "G-20 governments, especially those with strong balance sheets, should be calling for large-scale public and private infrastructure investment to expand the productive capacity of member economies.",
        "G-20成员国政府，特别是那些资产负债表相对强劲国家的政府，应当呼吁进行大规模公共及私人基础设施投资，以期在成员国经济内部实现产能扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidently, US authorities believe that in some situations geopolitics trump economics (reflected, for example, in the IMF’s recent re-entry into Ukraine after a string of failed programs).",
        "显然，美国当局认为，在某些情形中，地缘政治比经济考虑更重要（比如，国际货币基金组织在一系列失败计划后最近再次进入乌克兰就是明证）。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, this bizarre new operating environment partly reflects Trump’s own business background.",
        "颇具讽刺意味的是，这种奇怪的全新经营环境部分反映了特朗普自身的商业背景。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this view of national identity – one that transcends race, color, origin and religion – that is now disputed.",
        "现今引发争议的正是这个超越了种族、肤色、原籍和宗教的民族身份观点。"
    ],
    [
        "The environmental impact of 1.5 billion inhabitants forms the other major challenge.",
        "15亿人口对环境所产生的影响是另一个巨大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Sanctions have been less effective in North Korea, largely because the population did not know what it was missing.",
        "制裁对朝鲜一直收效甚微，很大程度上是因为朝鲜人不知道朝鲜正在失去什么。"
    ],
    [
        "That element of the story, incidentally, remains valid.",
        "顺便说一句,该故事的一小部分仍然是有效的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US government doesn’t really know what it is doing in Africa, because over the years America’s aid agency has been largely emptied of its leading thinkers and strategists.",
        "美国政府并不知道非洲所发生的事情，因为多年来，美国的主要援助机构中的主要思想者和战略家都大体上走光了。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called “neocolonialist school,” popular among China skeptics, considers China’s economic relationship with Africa as essentially imperial.",
        "中国怀疑论者中流行的所谓“新殖民主义流派”认为中国与非洲经济关系的本质是帝国统治。"
    ],
    [
        "That brings us back to secular stagnation.",
        "这把我们拉回了长期停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "How to Help Burma",
        "如何帮助缅甸"
    ],
    [
        "Kibera is just one example of the consequences of the rapid urbanization that is gaining momentum worldwide.",
        "Kibera只是全世界如火如荼的快速城市化进程的一个后果。"
    ],
    [
        "As Barclay’s Alejandro Grisanti documented in 2008, beneficiaries pocketed an instant profit equal to 20-30% of the face value of the debt.",
        "巴克莱银行的亚历杭德罗·格里桑迪（Alejandro Grisanti）测算，2008年受益人将相当于这些债务面值20—30%的转手立得利润收入囊中。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, America has an opportunity to launch a new beginning, not only with Cuba but also with the Caribbean and Latin American countries that have pressed us hard and often to change our stance.",
        "最后，美国现在可以走向新的开始，不仅与古巴，也与频繁对我们施以高压迫使我们改变立场的加勒比和拉美国家重新开始。"
    ],
    [
        "His proposals would lead, it is said, to the state murdering the elderly.",
        "有人说他的提案意味着国家在谋杀那些年老的公民。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, a guarantee that the West, especially the US, is not seeking the overthrow of Iran’s leaders would have to be a key component of a nuclear compromise.",
        "有鉴于此，西方，尤其是美国，保证不寻求推翻伊朗领导人必须是核妥协的关键要素。"
    ],
    [
        "For some British citizens south of the Scottish border, it will be difficult to act with the goodwill now required to recover from the referendum episode.",
        "对苏格兰边界以南的一些英国公民来说，要他们带着从公投事件中恢复所必须的良好意愿行动将十分困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The key political change was the appointment of a new finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, whose selection by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi sent a strong positive signal to the Indian business community and to financial markets.",
        "关键的政治改变是任命了新财政部长奇丹巴拉姆（Palaniappan Chidambaram），总理辛格和国大党党首索尼娅·甘地选择他相当于向投资界和金融市场释放了一个积极的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "· The costs incurred by the imprudent companies will be partly socialized.",
        "· 由某些公司错误行为所导致的成本在某种程度上将由全社会来承担。"
    ],
    [
        "And all major urban areas, including some second-tier cities, are building their public transportation systems to include more subways and light-rail networks.",
        "所有主要城市区域，包括一些二线城市正在建设包括地铁和轻轨在内的公共运输系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Repressive regimes would find it harder to borrow, which would, in turn, make it harder for them to repress their people, and make it easier and cheaper for responsible and legitimate governments to secure important funding when they need it.",
        "高压政权将发现很难借到钱，这反过来能让他们难以镇压其人民，也会让负责、合法的政府在需要时能够更轻松、更便宜地确保获得重要资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Some presidents, like Richard Nixon, had similar personal insecurities and social biases, but Nixon had a strategic view of foreign policy.",
        "一些总统，比如尼克松，也存在和特朗普类似的不可靠个性和社会偏见，但尼克松在外交政府方面有一套战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the Lisbon Strategy could merely empower an inefficient bureaucracy, rather than boosting the EU’s democratic legitimacy.",
        "否则，里斯本战略可能只会造成低效官僚的膨胀，而不是促进欧盟民主的合理化。"
    ],
    [
        "In another words, the government’s negative saving is financed by the private sector’s positive savings.",
        "换言之，私有部门的储蓄盈余弥补了政府的储蓄赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "But this advantage does not extend to other policy areas.",
        "但这一优势并不能扩展到其他政策领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, despite these long trends, the political and policy status quo remained largely unchallenged until 2008.",
        "但尽管存在这些长期趋势，政治和政策现状自2008年以来并未受到多大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is our belief that the recent death sentences could mark the onset of an avalanche of highly doubtful Court rulings in Tibet, which could lead to a worrying number of executions in that tense and troubled region.",
        "有了此次死刑判决的先例，我们对法庭的公正性不得不提出质疑，我们担心，在这个充满着紧张局势的地区，后续的审判会有更多的死刑判决。"
    ],
    [
        "Investments in new technologies are justifiable only if they contribute to a safer, more integrated world.",
        "只有能建设更安全、更一体化的世界，新技术投资才具有合理性。"
    ],
    [
        "Many still remember the notorious “Macierewicz List” from that period, which tarred innocent people as communist-era secret-police collaborators.",
        "许多人仍然对那个时期臭名昭著的“麦克瑞维奇名单”记忆犹新，该名单将无辜民众污蔑为共产主义时代秘密警察的合作者。"
    ],
    [
        "So it was in bombed German cities during World War II; so it was in Vietnam; and so it is turning out to be in Gaza.",
        "越南是如此； 这一回，加沙也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The Preparatory Committee will meet in New York this May, and this is where the necessary decisions should be made.",
        "目前主要是在核武器削减方面作出努力，特别是一些准备发射的核弹头的削减上。"
    ],
    [
        "But another reason is pharmaceutical companies’ declining interest in manufacturing vaccines.",
        "但另一个原因是制药企业对生产疫苗越来越失去兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the GCC benefits from a double expat dividend: not just a diverse consumer base on the demand side, but also a flexible, youthful workforce on the supply side.",
        "事实上，GCC受益于双重侨民红利：不仅在需求端获得了多元化的消费者基础，还在供给端获得了灵活的年轻劳动力。"
    ],
    [
        "But building institutions takes time, which is in dangerously short supply, given the risk of bank runs, sovereign-debt crises, and the collapse of the single currency.",
        "但建立机制需要时间，而考虑到银行挤兑，主权债务和单一货币崩溃的风险，时间又紧迫到了火烧眉毛的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1995 to 2003, Chinese companies invested a mere $631 million in ASEAN countries; in 2013, they invested $30 billion.",
        "31亿美元； 而2013年，投资总额已经达到300亿。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost every country in Latin America has reduced poverty significantly since the beginning of this century, with the extent of progress depending on baselines and cut-off dates, good years and bad years, the reliability of official data, and other factors.",
        "进入21世纪以来，几乎每个拉美国家都大大降低了贫困率，程度各有不同，但那是由于起讫期的不同、好光景和坏光景交替、官方数据可靠性和其他因素造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in China, the dollar peg has led to large and growing foreign-exchange reserves, which are fueling domestic inflationary pressures and causing public-sector debt to balloon.",
        "在中国国内，盯住美元的做法带来了大量的且仍在增长的外汇储备，从而刺激国内通货膨胀的压力，造成公共部门负债激增。"
    ],
    [
        "When Al Jazeera reporters interviewed Osama bin Laden and the station broadcast his videos, America’s gloves came off.",
        "当半岛电视台记者采访本拉登、而且播放了录像的时候，美国图穷匕见。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, it has been a magnificent demonstration of how response to human tragedy can unite rather than divide, reinforcing the impulse to cooperate rather than confront.",
        "简言之，它告诉我们人类悲剧怎样才能带来团结而不是分裂，从而让人们不愿意对立，而愿意合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with so much fixed capital and infrastructure destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami, the economy’s productive capacity has fallen by an estimated 2% of GDP.",
        "如今又有如此海量的固定资产和基础设施遭到地震和海啸蹂躏，使日本企业的产能萎缩，其损失相当于2%的GDP。"
    ],
    [
        "The Challenge of Russia’s Decline",
        "俄罗斯衰落的挑战"
    ],
    [
        "Although Ukraine is in big economic and social trouble, it should not be forgotten that it has, until today, been saved from the fate of becoming a “guided” democracy in the Russian mold.",
        "虽然乌克兰的经济社会问题重重，人们仍然不应忘记，那场革命拯救了乌克兰，使它摆脱了俄罗斯式的“听指挥”的民主，直到今天。"
    ],
    [
        "A year ago, the US, the UK, and France appeared to side with Saudi Arabia when they rejected former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s request that Iran be invited to the first attempt in Geneva to negotiate a settlement of Syria’s civil war.",
        "一年前，美、英、法似乎支持沙特的立场，拒绝了前联合国秘书长科菲·安南邀请伊朗参加日内瓦首次结束叙利亚内战谈判的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Arafat is Chairman of the PLO executive Committee, President of the Palestinian National Authority, Commander-in-chief of the Palestinian forces, and head of the Fatah movement.",
        "阿拉法特现任巴解执行委员会主席、巴勒斯坦民族权力机构主席、巴勒斯坦军队总司令和法塔赫运动领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "But things are even better than those numbers imply.",
        "但情况其实比这些数字所显示的要好。"
    ],
    [
        "And, to do that, an energetic civil society must demand an end to crony capitalism.",
        "为了实现这一点，一个充满活力的公民社会必须迫使权贵资本主义走向终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the focus is not where it should be: geopolitical change.",
        "不幸的是，注意力没有放在应该的地方：地缘政治变化。"
    ],
    [
        "You can think of the paradox in another way: we live in an era when knowledge – in the sense of information – is constantly available in real time through computers, smart phones, electronic tablets, and book readers.",
        "你可以从另外的角度思考这一悖论：我们生活的时代可以通过电脑、智能手机、电子书写板和图书阅览器不断实时获得以信息为载体的知识。"
    ],
    [
        "Current calculations indicate that if the submitted INDCs, covering nearly 90% of global emissions, are implemented, global warming will probably still exceed 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) – the threshold beyond which climate change’s most disastrous consequences would be triggered.",
        "目前的计算数据表明如果涉及近90%全球排放的已提交INDC全部得到落实，全球变暖可能仍将超过2摄氏度（3. 6华氏度）——一旦超过这一阈值可能会引发气候变化最灾难性的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "A calamity is inevitable unless we change. And here is where Gandhi comes in.",
        "如果我们不能立刻做出改变的话，一场大灾就将无法避免，而这也正是甘地的睿智之处。"
    ],
    [
        "The big questions are how and when.",
        "怎样转、何时能转成，这是个大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Conservative skeptics argue that higher education is a matter for the states, not the federal government.",
        "保守派怀疑论者认为高等教育是各州的问题，而非联邦政府。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, Greece’s regulatory authorities would be keeping a watchful eye over commercial lending practices, while a debt brake would prevent our government from indulging in old, bad habits, ensuring that our state never again slips into primary deficits.",
        "与此同时，希腊监管当局将小心监督商业借贷行为，而债务刹车（debt brake）将防止我国政府重新陷入昔日的坏习惯，确保我国永不再次出现初级赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "While the American economy gets dragged down further in a swamp of bad property debts, China will continue to boom.",
        "当美国经济被进一步拖进房地产坏账的泥潭时，中国将会继续保持繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "A number of independents will complete the legislative roster.",
        "几名独立候选人也获得议会席位。"
    ],
    [
        "As the central government consolidates its power through fiscal reform and an anti-corruption campaign, orchestrating the next phase of structural reforms at the local level will require deft coordination.",
        "中央政府通过财政改革和反腐运动已经巩固了对整体宏观经济的掌控，但在地方层面组织实施下一阶段的结构改革，则需要巧妙的协调各种改革及宏观政策的匹配。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is now in power, Thaksin is still trying to evade trial in Thai courts on a wide array of financial charges.",
        "即使当权的英拉·西那瓦是自己的妹妹，他信仍试图逃避泰法院对一系列财务指控的审判。"
    ],
    [
        "The scandal at Enron, in its final days, was that management prevented employees from selling their Enron shares while executives unloaded their own shares.",
        "安然的丑闻就是在它垮台的最后几天，公司管理层阻止雇员们出售他们手中的安然股票，与此同时经理主管们却将自己的股票抛得一干二净。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, despite the seemingly unending stream of new energy initiatives and projects, Europe has made little progress; its energy situation may even be worse.",
        "事实上，尽管新的能源计划和工程似乎层出不穷，但欧洲其实并没有多少进步；"
    ],
    [
        "Unless political leaders know that tearing up the rule book on the scale seen in Egypt will expose them to more than rhetorical consequences, the tacit message – that regimes that pick the “right” targets can repress at will – will resonate in Bahrain, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia, not to mention Syria.",
        "除非政治领导人知道，像埃及如此规模的破坏规则，给他们带来的后果不仅仅是暴露于辞令上的抨击之下，还有大家心照不宣的信息——军方可以随意选择“正确”的目标进行镇压——这会在巴林、也门和沙特引起共振，更不用说叙利亚了。"
    ],
    [
        "No, the problems run deeper.",
        "不，问题绝没有那么简单。"
    ],
    [
        "The main issues were legalization of the opposition, partially free elections, and creating the office of president to replace the Communist Party chief.",
        "争论的焦点是波兰反对派合法化、部分自由选举以及设立总统办公室取代波兰共产党总书记的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "There is little cash support for families.",
        "家庭几乎得不到现金支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, probably more horrifying to them than the collapse of the Soviet regime was the rampant prostitution of daily life, for it negated the meaning of Russia and of Russian womanhood.",
        "确实，对于她们来说可能比苏联解体还要惊人的东西是日常生活中卖淫猖獗，因为这否定了俄罗斯和俄罗斯妇女的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Typical examples of this are the stalled Lisbon Strategy, the incomplete Economic and Monetary Union, and now, following the Irish public’s blocking maneuver, the uncertain fate of the new EU Constitutional Treaty (the “Lisbon Treaty”).",
        "这一现状的典型事例就是延迟批准《里斯本战略》，建立不完整的欧洲经济和货币联盟，以及在爱尔兰共和国目前实行阻碍政策之后，新《欧盟宪法条约》（也就是《里斯本条约》）前途未卜的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "A few years ago, it seemed that every tenth person wore a white ribbon, a symbol of protest against Putin.",
        "几年前，似乎有十分之一的人佩戴象征反对普京的白丝带。"
    ],
    [
        "The new company’s work would be aided by prior agreements among regulatory agencies on the requirements for registration of new products, among intellectual-property holders on waiving royalty rights, and among governments on liability-protection for the company and compensation for the victims of unexpected adverse reactions to new products. The international community would have to increase available manufacturing capacity, create new distribution channels, and reserve storage capacity for stockpiling products that have no immediate application.",
        "新公司的工作应该获得监管机构间关于新产品注册要求的前置协议（prior agreements）、知识产权持有人之间放弃版权的前置协议，以及政府之间关于公司责任保护和新产品意料外副作用受害者赔偿的前置协议的帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany urgently needs this kind of optimism, because, unfortunately, two universal principles will continue to apply in the future: first, the winter will return, and, second, the ball is round and the next game is always the most difficult.",
        "德国急需这种乐观精神，因为，不幸的是，两项原则在未来依然有效：第一，冬天将会回来； 第二，足球是圆的，下一场比赛总是最艰巨的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the matter is far from settled: Obama has not ruled out a military strike.",
        "但问题还远远没有解决：奥巴马并没有彻底放弃军事打击。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, the offense was abolished when Napoleon introduced his new penal code in 1810.",
        "乱伦罪早在1810年拿破仑引入新刑事法典时在法国即宣告废止。"
    ],
    [
        "Their chairs should have wider discretion to act on their own initiative.",
        "各ESA主席应该拥有执行本机构计划的更广泛的权限。"
    ],
    [
        "Mandela had long been my personal hero, from my student days in the 1960’s, when – like so many others of my generation – I was an anti-apartheid activist.",
        "和许多同龄人一样，从20世纪60年代我的学生时代起，曼德拉就一直是积极反对种族隔离制度的我心目中的英雄。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, ordinary citizens do not notice unless the issue receives significant media attention.",
        "与此同时，普通市民直到情况受到媒体极大关注时才注意到这些事情。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also consistent with the critique of former Premier Wen Jiabao, who in March 2007 famously warned of a Chinese economy that was becoming increasingly “unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and [ultimately] unsustainable.”",
        "这也跟前总理温家宝的评论是一致的，他在2007年3月曾经警告说，中国经济越来越“不稳定，不平衡，不协调，并（最终）不可持续”。"
    ],
    [
        "Among Iraqis, the percentage of those who agreed that Iraq would be a better place if religion and politics were separated increased from 50% in 2004 to almost 70% in 2011.",
        "在伊拉克人中，认为如果政教分离，伊拉克将更好的人的比例从2004年的50%上升到了2011年的近70%。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not possible to convert territorial forces into expeditionary forces overnight, and the costs of transformation often must compete with the costs of deploying forces for operations.",
        "但是要将适应一个国家的军队在一夜之间改变成为远征部队是不可能的，而且改革的开支还经常与为军事行动部署军队所需的开支竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "As prime minister, Yushchenko saved his country from financial default in early 2000.",
        "尤先科作为总理在2000年早期让乌克兰免于一场金融无力偿还危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Since Obama’s Cairo speech, there have been elections in Lebanon where, surprisingly, the alliance of pro-Western parties scored a clear victory against Hezbollah and its allies.",
        "奥巴马开罗讲话后，黎巴嫩进行选举，出人意料的是，亲西方政党联盟以明显优势战胜了黎真主党及其盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the Saudi context they are a real breakthrough.",
        "但是对沙特人而言，这意味着一个真正的突破。"
    ],
    [
        "And the country must gradually reduce its total debt load, which now exceeds 250% of GDP.",
        "经济必须逐渐降低债务负担（目前已经超过GDP的250%）。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no longer just one side against the other.",
        "这将不再是双方的对抗。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it makes the current status quo seem comfortable.",
        "事实上它也使得当今的现状似乎更能令人接受。"
    ],
    [
        "The politics and economics of the question virtually guarantee that British voters will back EU membership, even though this may not become apparent in public opinion polls until a few weeks, or even days, before the vote.",
        "这个问题的政治面和经济面几乎可以保证英国选民将支持保留欧盟成员资格，尽管民调要等到公决前几周甚至几天才会表现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "A third failing of traditional GDP measurements for Japan lies in the fact that they account only for what is actually produced within the country’s borders.",
        "日本传统GDP测量方式的第三个缺点在于只计算了日本国内的产值。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the clock is ticking.",
        "与此同时，时间紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers initially resorted to government spending and low interest rates to boost demand.",
        "最初，政策制定者依靠政府支出和低利率来保需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The campaign is enthusiastically endorsed by a leading US economist and trade specialist, the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.",
        "大力鼓动这场“战役”的是美国顶尖经济学家和贸易专家、诺贝尔经济学奖得主保罗·克鲁格曼。"
    ],
    [
        "There are far more overlapping interests between the established and the emerging powers than the “West versus the rest” narrative suggests; indeed, the rising powers often share as many interests with their Western counterparts as they do with each other.",
        "现有大国和新兴大国之间存在着纵横交错的利益联系，紧密程度远胜过“西方对抗其他国家”说； 事实上，崛起大国与西方国家之间的共同利益往往不亚于它们彼此之间。"
    ],
    [
        "But she may well be up to it.",
        "但她或许有能力完成这项任务。"
    ],
    [
        "And judges cannot strike down legislation.",
        "而法官是无法与这些条文抗衡的。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, policymakers have ample room to maneuver if anything should go wrong.",
        "因此，如果发生意外，决策者会有足够的回旋余地。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – In February, 14 distinguished climate scientists, economists, and policy experts came together to discuss how to tackle global warming.",
        "发自伦敦——在今年二月，一群包括气候学家，经济学家以及政策专家在内的14位著名学者汇聚一堂，商讨如何应对全球变暖。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be absurd to condemn, as some do, globalization as the main and only culprit in the erosion of traditional sources of support for the poor.",
        "光去谴责全球化，说它是侵蚀传统弱者保护网的主要嫌疑犯，甚至是唯一的嫌疑犯，无疑是荒谬的。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach appears to work until domestic aggregate demand can no longer sustain growth and employment, at which point it ends in either gradual stagnation or a violent financial and economic crisis.",
        "这一模式会一直有效，直到国内总需求不再能够维持增长和就业，要么逐渐陷入停滞，要么发生严重金融和经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "We have researched how evolving state capacities affect economic development in 17 Central and Eastern European countries, and we found that autonomous judiciaries are of central importance.",
        "我们研究了17个中欧和东欧国家的国家能力的演化如何影响经济发展，结果发现，独立司法具有核心重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "But the push has been a source of unexpected controversy, with many predicting little more than business as usual with a coat of green paint.",
        "但这一推动力也造成了意料之外的争议，许多人预测绿色经济无非是披着绿色外衣的常规经济。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Puerto Rico’s economy is in deep trouble.",
        "纽约——波多黎各的经济深陷困局。"
    ],
    [
        "Associations – committees of Catholic business owners, labor leaders, and officials – must set quotas, prices, and wages within vertically connected swaths of the economy called corporations.",
        "天主教企业主、劳工领袖和官员委员会社团必须以纵向联系的经济实体（称之为企业）为单位制定配额、价格和工资。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, an imperfect answer produced heightened vulnerability.",
        "退而求其次的办法则会加剧波动性。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the German government estimates that the country will face a shortfall of two million skilled workers by 2020.",
        "但德国政府仍然估计，到2020年，德国高技能工人的缺口将达到200万。"
    ],
    [
        "People who disagree with them are said to favor “austerity” at a time when hyper-low interest rates mean that governments can borrow for almost nothing.",
        "任何意见相左者都被他们视为是在利率极低因而政府几乎可以无成本借贷的情况下鼓吹“紧缩”。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a fundamental sense in which Bush, like Ken Lay, is culpable, and must be held accountable.",
        "但布什和肯·雷一样，从根本上有着重大过错，而且理应承担责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Having failed to forewarn Greece, Portugal, Ireland, and Spain about the perils of joining a currency bloc, the IMF should have considered whether it was proper or necessary for it to intervene at all in the eurozone crisis.",
        "IMF没有事先警告希腊、葡萄牙、爱尔兰和西班牙加入共同货币区的风险，既然如此，IMF应该考虑干预欧元区危机的合理性和必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting it there is really tough.",
        "掌握上述知识并非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "By identifying and investing in those parts of agricultural value chains where young people can contribute, African leaders can create decent formal job opportunities in, say, light manufacturing for relatively low-skill workers.",
        "非洲领导人可以通过找到年轻人能做出贡献的农业价值链领域并对其进行投资，从而在轻工制造等领域为相对低技术的工人创造体面的正式工作。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – America is on a collision course with itself.",
        "发自纽约——美国当前正在陷入一场自身与自身的斗争之中。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a fundamental human right, encompassing both freedoms and entitlements.",
        "它是一项基本人权，其中包含自由和权利。"
    ],
    [
        "During my visit, my interest was to understand better what had led to what some have called the Mauritius Miracle, and what others might learn from it.",
        "在访问过程中，我感兴趣的就是深入探讨究竟是什么造就了所谓毛里求斯奇迹，而其他人又如何能从中有所借鉴。"
    ],
    [
        "An attack would certainly make Iraq’s Kurdish provinces less appealing for foreign investors.",
        "一次打击很可能会使伊拉克的库尔德省份对外国投资者不再那么有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "These convulsions are further impoverishing Arab countries and limiting future opportunities for their citizens.",
        "这些动乱正在让阿拉伯国家进一步贫困化，也制约了这些国家公民的未来机会。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a general reluctance to report unfavorable drug effects.",
        "同时还存在着对汇报药品副作用的普遍抵触情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "And the resulting lag is making capitalism less legitimate in many countries.",
        "而由此造成的滞后正在导致资本主义在许多国家失去合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "As a special honor, his Russian hosts organized an excursion to Strelna, the “Russian Versailles,” which was recently restored from ruin to become the Petersburg residence of President Vladimir Putin.",
        "作为一种特别的礼遇，俄国主人精心安排他到Strelnia旅行，不久以前，这里刚刚从废墟上整修一新，成了弗拉基米尔·普京总统在彼得堡的行宫。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, it provides bilingual education, as requested by indigenous parents.",
        "比如，应土著父母要求，该工程提供双语教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump and Arpaio are longtime allies.",
        "特朗普和阿帕约是长期的盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, leaving the EU would not strip the UK of its historical prominence in international organizations – most notably its permanent membership of the United Nations’ Security Council.",
        "诚然，脱离欧盟不会影响欧盟在国际组织中的历史主导地位——最显著的便是联合国安理会常任理事国地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The good will be good, and the bad will be bad, regardless of the prize.",
        "不管这个奖存不存在，开明者行仁政，暴君则祸国殃民，不会有任何改变。"
    ],
    [
        "That is what happened in the case of India.",
        "印度就是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, near Berlin, five companies launched a €10 million ($13 million) pilot project at Berlin’s main airport in Schoenefeld in December, expanding and converting an existing hydrogen fueling station to CO2 neutrality by linking it to a nearby wind farm.",
        "与此同时，在柏林附近，去年12月五家公司在柏林主机场舍纳菲尔德（Schoenefeld）推出了1000万欧元的试点项目，通过将一家已建成氢燃料补给站和附近的风电场联系起来，实现其二氧化碳中性并扩大其规模。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, with the right investments, tropical countries could significantly reduce emissions from the forestry sector while also creating green jobs.",
        "例如，如果投资得当，热带国家就能在创造更多绿色岗位的同时，大幅度地减少林业部门的炭排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "However, while Pakistan's progressives oppose militarism and violence in principle, religious fundamentalists have no compunction in resorting to violence to reinforce their point of view - thus posing a threat not just to General Musharraf, who has survived at least two assassination attempts, but also to human rights workers.",
        "然而，在巴基斯坦的进步人士原则上反对军国主义和暴力的同时，原教旨主义者们却毫不在乎地诉诸暴力以强化他们的观点-因而不仅对至少已逃过两次刺杀之劫的穆沙拉夫将军构成威胁，也对人权工作者们构成威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "One sector that could lead the way on this commitment is the continent’s pension funds, which, together, possess a balance sheet of about $3 trillion.",
        "能够领导这一目标的部门之一是非洲大陆的养老基金，该部门合计拥有约3万亿美元的资产负债表。"
    ],
    [
        "We must revise compensation schemes and delay bonus payments until the long-term profitability of a firm’s investments is known.",
        "我们必须重新修正补偿方案，并推迟奖金的发放，知道公司投资的长远利益已得到回报。"
    ],
    [
        "There appears to be no single answer.",
        "这似乎没有单一的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "A crucial difference between the right and the left is that the right thrives on deepening divisions in society – “us” versus “them” – while the left, when successful, overcomes these cleavages through reforms that bridge them.",
        "左右翼势力最关键的差别在于社会越分裂右翼越壮大——右翼奉行“我们”和“他们”的逻辑——而左翼如果取得成功却能通过弥合鸿沟的改革来消除社会分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany, by contrast, is a mainstay of the democratic world. That is not going to change.",
        "相反，德国是民主世界的中流砥柱之一，而且这一点并不会发生改变。"
    ],
    [
        "For Japan nowadays, security policy must satisfy a trinity of criteria: \"national interests,\" \"alliance,\" and \"international cooperation.\"",
        "对于今天的日本来说，安全政策必须符合三大标准：\"国家利益\"、\"结盟\"和\"国际合作\"。"
    ],
    [
        "By making exit conditions non-negotiable, while offering room for maneuver on the terms of continuing membership, Europe could shift attention to the second, constructive question: Can voters be persuaded to feel positive again about the EU?",
        "表明脱欧条件不可谈判，同时为保留成员资格条件提供操作空间，这样一来欧洲可以把注意力引向第二个建设性问题：能否说服选民，让他们对欧盟持积极态度？"
    ],
    [
        "· Fiscal reform: We desperately need you to eliminate the looming fiscal cliff in the context of medium-term reforms of both the tax system and entitlements.",
        "· 财政改革：我们迫切需要你们来消除税收制度和福利制度中期改革环境中的财政悬崖。"
    ],
    [
        "But most Arab countries also don’t recognize Israel, and yet the banking world deals with them normally.",
        "但大多数阿拉伯国家也不承认以色列，而这却并不妨碍银行界与它们的正常往来。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, credit will not flow and growth will not resume.",
        "否则，信贷将不会流通，经济增长将不会恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither materialized.",
        "华西里·列昂惕夫也（Wassily Leontief）提出过另一个。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s theocratic mullahs allowed the election of Hassan Rowhani, a man who announced in his first speech as President-elect that his victory is “the victory of wisdom, moderation, and awareness over fanaticism and bad behavior.”",
        "伊朗的理论毛拉批准了鲁哈尼的当选，后者在作为当选总统的第一次演讲中声称自己的胜利是“智慧、克制和了解狂热和坏行为的胜利”。"
    ],
    [
        "The predictability bubble is perhaps the trickiest to navigate, though my instinct is that less would be more.",
        "可预见性泡沫或许是最难探索的，虽然我的本能告诉我不必过度解读。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for the five million people living in affected regions who are designated as Chernobyl “victims,” radiation has had no discernable impact on physical health.",
        "但是，对于5百万居住在受到影响的地区、并被指定为切尔诺贝利事故“受害者”的人来说，核放射对于身体健康并没有可以察觉到的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But the partygoers of the private sector cannot be counted on to stop themselves.",
        "但你无法指望私人部门的派对参与者自己停下来。"
    ],
    [
        "The main protagonist’s step-by-step descent into the drug underworld unfolds with such subtlety that each individual decision he makes along the way seems almost reasonable.",
        "主角一步步向地下贩毒网堕落的过程被描写得极为详尽，在此过程中，他所作出的每一个决定几乎都是十分理性的。"
    ],
    [
        "In this respect, it is important for us to be aware of the universal set of moral intuitions so that we can reflect on them and, if we choose, act contrary to them.",
        "在这一方面，知晓普世的道德直觉以便我们可以对它们进行思考是十分重要的。 而且，如果我们作出选择，也可以反其道而行之。"
    ],
    [
        "Amerca should be more energetic in demanding that the Moldovan authorities respect the rule of law, issue a roster of all detained persons, provide them access to lawyers and family members, and guarantee that they are not harassed.",
        "美国应更积极地要求摩尔多瓦当局尊重法治，公布所有拘留人员花名册，让他们能接触律师和家人，并确保他们不会受到骚扰。"
    ],
    [
        "Krugman comes close to acknowledging this: New Keynesians, he writes, “start with rational behavior and market equilibrium as a baseline, and try to get economic dysfunction by tweaking that baseline at the edges.”",
        "克鲁格曼几乎承认了这一点：他写道，新凯恩斯主义者“以理性行为和市场均衡为基准线，试图通过对基准线的边缘微调来应对经济功能失调”。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece and the Limits of Anti-Austerity",
        "希腊以及反紧缩政策的限制"
    ],
    [
        "In the run-up to the G8 meeting in Scotland on July 6-8, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called on the international community to set the right global priorities, which he has unequivocally stated should be Africa and global warming.",
        "在7月6日-8日苏格兰八国峰会即将召开的前期，英国首相托尼·布莱尔（Tony Blair）呼吁国际社会确立正确的全球优先解决的问题，他毫不含糊地声称这应当是非洲问题和全球变暖问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Things have been looking up since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in 2012 and launched his three-pronged recovery strategy, dubbed “Abenomics,” which entailed bold monetary easing, fiscal expansion, and structural reforms.",
        "2012年安倍晋三出任首相并启动其被称为“安倍经济学”的三管齐下复苏战略以来，情况似乎有所好转。 安倍经济学包括积极的货币宽松、财政扩张和结构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Taking the Offensive Against Tuberculosis",
        "向结核病开火"
    ],
    [
        "The earthquake killed up to 200,000 people. Terrible as that is, it is fewer than the number of children who, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, die every 10 days from avoidable, poverty-related causes.",
        "有 20 万人在这场地震中丧生，而即便伤亡如此重大，这个数字依然比联合国儿童基金会（ UNICEF ）统计的每 10 天中死于可以避免的，与贫困有关的儿童数量要少。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, India needs Iran as an alternative trade and energy conduit to Central Asia, bypassing rival Pakistan, and also as a hedge against an uncertain future in Afghanistan after America’s withdrawal in 2014.",
        "此外，印度需要伊朗这条绕过巴基斯坦的中亚能源贸易替代通道，还需要伊朗在2014年美国撤出阿富汗之后对未来的不确定性进行对冲。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is no more a crime than the fact that America's media reflects American aspirations, and in times of war behaves like a cheerleader for US forces.",
        "就像美国媒体反映美国人民的愿望，并在战争时期充当美国军队的啦啦队长一样，半岛电视台的阿拉伯情结也谈不上什么罪过。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a vision presupposes an assurance that a winner-take-all system will not be established, as well as broad agreement that regulatory institutions should be reasonably non-partisan and staffed with competent professionals.",
        "这一理念的存在意味着确保不会出现一个赢家通吃的政治体制，同时也广泛认同监管机构应当保持合理中立而其成员高度专业的理念。"
    ],
    [
        "But work-sharing raises technical problems if increased suddenly to deal with an economic crisis like the one we are now experiencing.",
        "但工作分担产生了技术问题，如果其力度被突然加大以应对我们目前所经历的这种级别的经济危机的话。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, they should be working to remove the language barriers facing Syrian children.",
        "首先，它们应该致力于打消叙利亚儿童所面临的语言障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, almost 27 million Americans survive on part-time and project-based incomes.",
        "如今，近2,700万美国人靠兼职和临时项目收入过活。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it is meant to protect the Chinese Communist Party’s brand of capitalism.",
        "相反，这是为了维护中国共产党的资本主义招牌。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though that nationalism may yet be directed against Ukraine’s Russians, Poles, and Jews, as it was in the past, the rest of the movement would resist such a turn (which may well explain why it has not happened).",
        "此外，尽管民族主义可能如过去一样被引导为反对乌克兰的俄罗斯人、波兰人和犹太人，但迈丹运动的其他部分将能抵制这一转变（这也很好地解释了为什么没有变成这样）。"
    ],
    [
        "Two kinds of mischief may then follow.",
        "这可能造成两大弊端。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, software may itself reduce the cost of expanding educational access – witness the massive open online courses (MOOCs) offered by companies like Coursera.",
        "有趣的是，软件本身就有可能降低受教育机会增加的成本——像Coursera这类公司提供的大量网上公开课就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps one French mistake was to neglect its small and medium-size firms and specialize too much on state-controlled mega-companies.",
        "也许，法国的错误之一就是忽视了其中小型企业，并且过于专注于国家控制的巨型公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, one of the bravest, most lucid Chinese intellectuals, Liu Xiaobo, was arrested in December for signing Charter 08, and has yet to be released.",
        "同样，刘晓波是最为勇敢、头脑最为清晰的知识分子之一。 他由于签署零八宪章而被捕，现在还没有被释放。"
    ],
    [
        "Israelis embraced the idea of two states for so long partly to keep Palestinian enfranchisement off the table.",
        "因为以色列人之所以能在两国方案上坚持那么久，在一定程度上就是因为这可以避开巴勒斯坦人的选举权问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though referendums are sometimes used in representative democracies, as when British voters elected to stay in the European Economic Community in 1975, dictators are much keener on them.",
        "尽管代议制民主有时也进行公投，比如英国选民1975年曾投票决定留在欧共体，但独裁者显然更热衷于使用全民公投的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s not to say that America’s trading partners should be let off the hook for unfair practices.",
        "这并不是说美国的贸易伙伴可以摆脱不公平行为的干系。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now generally accepted that, as the left has always insisted, Israel should be ready to withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza Strip and accept a Palestinian state in exchange for real peace.",
        "现在，正如左翼所一直坚持的那样，以色列国民大体上接受了以色列应当从西岸和加沙地带撤军并承认巴勒斯坦国用来换取真正的和平；"
    ],
    [
        "Decisions should be taken sooner rather than later, so that the eurozone itself shapes events, rather than being commanded by them.",
        "下决心越早越好，先发制人，后发制于人，此话对欧元区来说乃至理名言。"
    ],
    [
        "Members of the federal government are driven by regional loyalties at some times, and by ideological commitments at other times; they all need to be negotiated when making decisions.",
        "联邦政府成员有时忠于地区利益，有时看中意识形态价值，在决策时却无一例外需要谈判妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "If a microphone is placed in front of a loudspeaker, eventually some disturbance will cause the system to produce a painful wail as sound loops from the loudspeaker to the microphone and back, over and over.",
        "把一个扩音器放在喇叭前面，最终某种干扰会导致系统产生刺耳的声音回路，从喇叭传到扩音器，在传回喇叭，以此循环。"
    ],
    [
        "There is nothing more to it than that.",
        "就是这么简单。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as the US keeps the rest of the world in the dark, illegal acts – including possible war crimes – may be committed with impunity.",
        "只要美国仍然不让世界其他国家了解真相，那么违法行为——包括可能发生的战争罪行——就有可能继续逍遥法外。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that the pressure on Europe’s frontiers will continue, especially if more poor states to the south and east break down.",
        "事实是欧洲边境的压力仍将继续，尤其是如果东南方更多贫困国家局面进一步失控。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the European crises that produced good outcomes.",
        "也有些欧洲危机最后产生了好结果。"
    ],
    [
        "What would the United States and Israel do if Iran carried its threat to the point of evacuating its cities, or placing missiles in its own cities to ensure that any attack on them would cause massive collateral damage?",
        "如果伊朗的威胁达到了疏散城市，或将导弹对准自己的城市以确保任何对它们的打击都能形成大规模附带伤害，美国和以色列会怎么做？"
    ],
    [
        "Then, with Palestinians gaining the upper hand, they can advance to a second stage in which all of Israel is conquered, implying armed struggle - which often takes the form of anti-civilian terrorism - for many more years.",
        "而后，随着巴勒斯坦人占据上风，他们就可以进入第二阶段，也就是用武力征服以色列全境－开展针对平民的恐怖活动－这个过程还会持续很多年。"
    ],
    [
        "But no serious disarmament negotiations have been pursued since.",
        "但此后再无重要的裁军谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries should press ahead with a bilateral investment treaty, which would enhance rules-based market access and eventually foster greater trade liberalization.",
        "两国都应该用双边投资条约推进关系，这能够强化基于规则的市场进入，最终铸就更大的贸易自由。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dutch always took pride in being the most tolerant people on earth.",
        "荷兰人总是以作为地球上最为宽容的人而自豪。"
    ],
    [
        "With respect to inclusiveness, much useful recent analysis focuses on technology-driven shifts in economic structure and labor markets on the demand side, and globalization, which has left education and skills mismatches on the slower-moving supply side.",
        "在包容性问题上，近期诸多有益分析重点探讨技术驱动的供给侧经济结构和劳动力市场变化，以及全球化导致变化较慢的供给侧教育和技能不匹配等问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The next development agenda, it asserts, must “end discrimination” and “tackle the causes of poverty, exclusion, and inequality.”",
        "”报告认为，下阶段发展日程必须“结束歧视”并“着手治理贫困、排斥和不平等的根源。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently, there are no normal diplomatic relations between the two countries – no Syrian embassy in Beirut and no Lebanese embassy in Damascus.",
        "因此，两国之间就没有正常的外交关系，贝鲁特没有叙利亚大使馆，而大马士革也没有黎巴嫩大使馆。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is possible – indeed, I suspect likely – that such credit-supply problems would exist even if the too-big-to-fail problem were effectively addressed.",
        "而这类信用供给问题有可能——事实上，我认为很大机会——在那些“不死巨兽”的问题得到解决之后还继续存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt is at its most volatile since former President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in early 2011.",
        "埃及正处在2011年初前总统穆巴拉克下台以来最动荡的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "The motivation for these aspirations is unclear, but a number of ideas are worth pondering.",
        "这种理想的动机尚不明确，但有几种可能性值得考量。"
    ],
    [
        "There was always uncertainty over the extent to which central banks should attempt to correct or limit asset-price bubbles when there was no corresponding rise in the general level of inflation.",
        "在未发生相应总体通胀却形成了资产价格泡沫的情况下，中央银行应该作出多大程度的努力加以纠正和限制？ 关于这一点一直没有定论。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the US is quietly uncomfortable, and China, too, has remained silent.",
        "此外，美国同样在暗中作梗，而中国也一直沉默不言。"
    ],
    [
        "So, does cannabis use harm mental health?",
        "那么，大麻使用到底会不会危害精神健康？"
    ],
    [
        "In California, one of the world’s most unstable geological regions, only one in six homeowners buys earthquake insurance.",
        "在加利福尼亚——全世界地质条件最不稳定的地区之一，只有六分之一的家庭购买了地震保险。"
    ],
    [
        "It is these women’s voices that deserve support – not that of a scary stalking-horse for eight more years (or more) of rule by the thugs who looted America’s treasury, wrecked its economy, and sent 4,000 brave young men and women to die in a war based on lies.",
        "这些女性的声音应该受到重视，而不是那些掠夺了美国的财富、糟蹋了它的经济并且把4000名勇敢的男性和女性送到一场用谎言堆积起来的战争去送死的强盗们为了再统治这个国家八年（甚至更长时间）而编造出来的漏洞百出的托词。"
    ],
    [
        "While it might be true that America’s current finance-insurance system better distributes risk in some sense, it is hard to see how that could be the case, given the experience of investors in equities and housing over the past two decades.",
        "诚然，美国当前的金融-保险系统在某种程度上说也许更好地分散了风险，但从过去二十年的股票和房地产投资者的经历看，很难判定这一点是否真的成立。"
    ],
    [
        "Nine thousand new Israeli settlement housing units have been announced in Palestine, the number of roadblocks within the West bank has increased, and the stranglehold on Gaza has been tightened.",
        "以色列宣布将在巴勒斯坦建设9000套新的居住单元，设在西岸地区的路障数量还在增加，而对加沙的压制则更紧了。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu knows how risky this course will be at home and abroad, which is why he is likely to invite Herzog to join the government as a junior partner.",
        "内塔尼亚胡知道这样做的国内和国外风险，因此，他有可能邀请赫尔佐格作为次要伙伴加入政府。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s Little Big Man",
        "法国的小巨人"
    ],
    [
        "These types of employees will be penalized for no good purpose under the proposed pay regimes.",
        "如果在这样的限制体制下，此类业者的利益就会无端受损。"
    ],
    [
        "Studies show that women are much more likely than men to spend additional income on food and health.",
        "但增加农业投资并非总是万能良方。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, in Asia, the Japanese economy’s sputtering indicators have spurred the Bank of Japan to increase its securities purchases, which likewise point to the prospect of a weaker yen.",
        "与此同时，在亚洲，日本经济的萎靡信号刺激日本银行加码证券购买操作，有可能导致日元贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Khamenei, concerned with repairing the damage caused by his acceptance of the fraudulent reelection in 2009 of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was willing to accept the victory in June of Rouhani, a conservative reformist whom he trusted.",
        "哈梅内伊意图修复他接受2009年前总统内贾德不干净的连任所造成的污点，愿意接受6月份鲁哈尼的胜利。 鲁哈尼是他所信任的保守改革派。"
    ],
    [
        "The West was not always the world’s most politically advanced region.",
        "西方并非一直是世界上政治最发达的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Local governments are particularly desperate.",
        "地方政府尤其着急。"
    ],
    [
        "While in other countries, most emphatically in Romania, but also in what was then Czechoslovakia and in Hungary, the alternative to communism was a vacuum or at best a few isolated organizations in civil society, Poland had an alternative source of legitimacy.",
        "在其他国家，尤其是在罗马尼亚，以及当时的捷克斯洛伐克和匈牙利，真空状态或者最多可被称之为民间的独立组织取代了共产主义，而波兰却有另外一种合法性的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this has important implications for how to tackle inequality.",
        "所有这些对于如何应对不平等性具有重要影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is in the midst of a crisis whose root cause is a structurally flawed monetary and economic union.",
        "欧洲正在危机中挣扎，这场危机的根源在于具有结构性缺陷的货币和经济联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "They owe their legitimacy to the political process that created them, rooted in the will of the citizenry they were established to serve (and from which they derive their authority).",
        "它们的合法性来自成立它们的政治程序，植根于它应该服务（以及让它们获得权威）的全体公民的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, traditional forms of energy production have had the advantage of being based on established and mature industries.",
        "直到最近，传统方式的能源生产一直更加有利于以成熟的老牌产业为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "This was calculated resolve, not appeasement.",
        "这绝不是什么姑息纵容，而是经过冷静思考之后真正的坚决果敢。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines are also trying to upgrade their navies and coast guards.",
        "马来西亚、新加坡和菲律宾都在试图升级海军和海岸防卫力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Are the proper help measures in place?",
        "适当的援助举措到位了么？"
    ],
    [
        "But the word – a combination of the Greek nostos (homecoming) and algos (pain) – was coined to describe the disease of “acute homesickness.”",
        "但怀旧一词——希腊语nostos（回家）和algos （痛苦）的组合被放在一起形容“极度想家”的顽疾。"
    ],
    [
        "When three members of parliament sought to question the Prime Minister – their right, under the Kuwaiti constitution – the parliament was dissolved and elections called.",
        "当三名议会议员按照科威特宪法赋予他们的权利就此向总理质询时，议会被解散并宣布举行大选。"
    ],
    [
        "Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, loves elections.",
        "津巴布韦总统穆加贝喜爱选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, China also has abundant cheap labor to process ore.",
        "当然，中国还拥有大量的廉价劳动力去处理矿石。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s Sunnis are increasingly invoking theology to justify hatred of the Shia minority, and forms of Sunni exclusivism, similar to Al Qaeda’s ideology and worldview, are becoming the norm.",
        "叙利亚逊尼派越来越多地用神学来论证对什叶派少数派的怎哼，逊尼派沙文主义——类似于基地组织的意识形态和世界观——正在成为常态。"
    ],
    [
        "German, the EU’s most widely spoken native language, hardly makes a dent.",
        "德语，这一在欧盟使用最广泛的母语，却几乎不在这种场合使用。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this is happening in the midst of extremely expansionary monetary policies and near-zero interest rates, except in the countries facing immediate crisis.",
        "所有这些都发生在极度扩张性的货币政策和近零利率环境中，除了那些直接面临危机的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Until the change of political leadership in 2012-2013, China’s policymakers may be able to maintain high growth rates, but at a very high foreseeable cost.",
        "但直到领导层在2012-2013年换届之前，中国的政策制定者们都将继续在罔顾巨额未来成本的情况下维持一个高增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "Think of the story of the real-estate boom in the United States and other countries in the first half of the 2000’s.",
        "以21世纪最初五年美国和其他国家的房地产繁荣故事为例。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, a modest carbon tax or value-added tax, with credits or subsidies to offset the regressive effects on low-income households, could generate enough revenue both to pay for a significant reduction in the corporate tax rate and to make a meaningful contribution to deficit reduction.",
        "类似地，温和的碳税或增值税——同时辅以免税和补贴以抵消低收入家庭所承受的累退影响——能产生足够的收入，抵消公司税率大幅降低的影响并为赤字削减做出重大贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "A relatively new development, the HPV vaccine is most effective on nine- to 13-year-old girls who have not yet been exposed to the virus, meaning that they have never been sexually active.",
        "HPV疫苗是一项相对较新的技术，对9—13岁尚未接触过该病毒的女孩效果最好。 这意味着她们从来没有过性活动。"
    ],
    [
        "One comprises the US security establishment, including the military, the intelligence agencies, and their staunch supporters in Congress.",
        "一个来源是美国现有安全体系，包括军队、情报机关以及他们在国会中的坚定支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "Less well known, but following the same pattern, are efforts being mounted to question studies documenting the adverse health effects of exposure to lead, mercury, vinyl chloride, chromium, beryllium, benzene, and a long list of pesticides and other toxic chemicals.",
        "比较不为人知，但却如出一辙的是相关行业质疑铅、汞、氯化烯、铬、铍、苯和多种杀虫剂及其它有毒化学物质对健康的不利影响的研究的劣行。"
    ],
    [
        "Even while discussion in Washington is fixated on Iraq, a number of thoughtful foreign observers are asking these longer-term questions.",
        "即便在华盛顿的讨论仍聚焦伊拉克的情况下，一些有思想的外交观察家已经开始提出这些长期性的问题了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Algerian authorities face a major challenge, because rejection of pluralist institutions makes it more difficult to find negotiating partners.",
        "阿尔及利亚当局面临着巨大的挑战，因为拒绝接受多元制度让它难以找到谈判伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, citizens wonder why they share this currency, whether it makes sense, and if agreement can be reached on its future.",
        "这样有意义吗？ 关于希腊的未来是否能形成一致？"
    ],
    [
        "The modern states of Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon thus arose as separate, independent entities.",
        "因此，现代伊拉克、叙利亚和黎巴嫩都成了不同的独立实体。"
    ],
    [
        "Its imbalances have gotten worse as well, with the investment share of GDP approaching 50% and private consumption falling below 35% of GDP.",
        "其发展不平衡也变得更严重——投资占GDP的比重接近50%，而私人消费占GDP的比重还不到35%。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, acting on the EU’s founding values, member states should co-finance a search and rescue operation along the lines of Mare Nostrum; strengthen their efforts to protect the rights of refugees; and share the burden of granting asylum.",
        "相反，各成员国秉承欧盟最基本的价值观，理应共同承担地中海行动的搜索和救援开支； 加强对难民权利的保护；"
    ],
    [
        "But, after all their quibbles, their paper weakens but does not refute the Reinhart/Rogoff paper’s main result.",
        "但是，尽管三人文字犀利，但他们的论文只是削弱而不能推翻莱/罗论文的主要结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But few observers believe that the BJP would have conducted itself differently.",
        "但是，观察家们相信，人民党自己会有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "With countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin American fearing that, having reached the international middle class, they could be stuck there, Greece and Argentina shed light on how that might happen.",
        "亚洲、东欧和拉美国家如果担心一旦进入国际中产阶级行列将被固化在这一阶段，那么希腊和阿根廷很好地说明了可能发生什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe urgently needs an economic doctrine that, despite today’s deficits, preserves funding for the investments and research that promote growth. Here, Germany’s leaders, in particular, need convincing.",
        "欧洲急需一个经济行为准则，可以在如今出现违约的情况下依然能为推动增长的投资和研究保存所需的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly 80% of Sudan’s oil production of 490,000 barrels per day is concentrated in South Sudan.",
        "苏丹每日49万桶的石油产量中有80%来自南部。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond inadequately financed health systems, which remain weak and inefficient, especially in rural areas, African countries face challenges in affording new, more expensive vaccines.",
        "除了资金不足、依然薄弱和低效的卫生体系（特别是在农村地区），非洲国家还面临无力承担更加昂贵的新疫苗的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Another question likely to loom large in coming months is whether assistance is politicized and free of corruption.",
        "未来几个月有可能出现的另外一个问题就是援助是否被政治化，并且没有腐败掺杂。"
    ],
    [
        "He never made it.",
        "他没能实现这个愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, the Socialist Party lost support almost everywhere, especially in countries – Spain, Portugal, Hungary, and the Netherlands – where it is in power.",
        "另一方面，左翼的社会党几乎在任何一个国家，尤其是在其执政的西班牙、葡萄牙、匈牙利和荷兰都丧失了支持，以致曾在上届议会中拥有215席的欧洲社会党团（ESP）在本次选举中也只保住了160个席位。"
    ],
    [
        "And more affluent women do have a history of effective sweated labor boycotts in the past: in the Victorian era, impoverished women were going blind in the `needle trades', turning out elaborate embroideries for wealthy women, until revulsion on the part of these consumers forced conditions to better.",
        "而更加富裕的女性也有着声讨血汗工厂的光荣历史：在维多利亚时代，贫苦妇女为了一种给富裕妇女绣花的“针头贸易”而逐渐致盲，直到一部分消费者对此表示了反感才迫使贫困妇女的工作状况得到了改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Everything is reversible in a democracy.",
        "在民主制度中，没有什么是不可撤销的。"
    ],
    [
        "Right-wing populist movements like his will eventually tear themselves apart, not least because their leaders are not committed to policies that will actually help their constituents.",
        "像他这样的右翼民粹主义运动最终会反噬自身，因为领导人的心不在真正能够帮助支持他的选民的政策上。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the most important step yet taken by the fragmented forces that have been trying since May to lead a peaceful uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.",
        "这是这些各自为政的势力自5月份开始试图领导一场针对总统阿萨德政权的和平起义以来所迈出的最重要的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "This popular misconception springs, at least in part, from the fact that women are more likely to know their HIV status because they are routinely tested for HIV at maternity clinics when they seek pregnancy tests or examinations.",
        "这种广泛流行的误解，至少部分源自一个事实，即妇女相对来说更可能知道他们是否感染了艾滋病毒，因为他们在产科诊所作怀孕测试或身体检查时，检查艾滋病毒是常规的检测项目。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest ZEW survey of euro-zone business confidence buttresses these fears.",
        "ZEW对于欧元区企业信心的最新调查支持了这些忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Europe’s twentieth-century history, such parochial sloganeering has been all but banished from the continent’s politics.",
        "”鉴于20世纪欧洲的历史，这块大陆上的政界人士已经几乎抛弃了如此狭隘的口号。"
    ],
    [
        "Suspiciously targeted “criminal” assaults have, indeed, occurred in places other than Linyi.",
        "在临沂以外的地方也发生了目标可疑的“罪犯“攻击事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet America’s macroeconomic situation seems worse than Europe’s in terms of consumption, banking, or employment and housing markets.",
        "然而，在提到消费、银行，或就业与房地产市场方面，美国的宏观经济调控的状态比欧洲的要糟糕得多。"
    ],
    [
        "State visits in the other direction have been more uneven.",
        "反过来的国家访问更加不平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed will then need to raise the interest rate that it pays on excess reserves to limit the extent to which the commercial banks can draw down those reserves to create additional lending and deposits.",
        "到那时，美联储将需要提高其向超额准备金提供的利率以遏制商业银行削减准备金、创造更多贷款和存款的冲动。"
    ],
    [
        "Quality education at all levels, including job-relevant training and lifelong learning opportunities, are critical to provide the skills that labor markets demand, but require significant investment.",
        "包括与就业相关的培训和终身学习机会在内的各层次优质教育体系对于培养那些劳动力市场急需但需要大量投资的技能至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In diplomatic negotiations, you take what you can get.",
        "”在外交谈判中，你拿走你可以拿到的。"
    ],
    [
        "“No one believes anymore that the North will ever give up its nuclear weapons.”",
        "“有一个新范式，”他说，“再也不会有人相信朝鲜会放弃核武器了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In preparation for the renegotiation, UK leaders are conducting a comprehensive audit of EU laws in order to identify powers that could be reclaimed.",
        "准备谈判的英国领导人正在对欧盟法律进行详细审查，寻找可以利用的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "The same could be said of Syria, though the spiral there has been an unremittingly downward one, and any reversal remains blocked, particularly since the failure of the second round of peace negotiations in Geneva.",
        "叙利亚也是如此，尽管叙利亚局势的螺旋毫无疑问是一个下降螺旋，任何反抗都遭到了镇压，特别是在日内瓦第二轮和平谈判失败后。"
    ],
    [
        "At the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York, China pledged $2 billion to help implement the SDG agenda, and China’s flagship “Belt and Road Initiative” includes health cooperation as part of its proposed strategy.",
        "在2015年纽约举行的联合国可持续发展高峰会议上，中国承诺出资20亿美元协助实施可持续发展议程，而作为中国发展援助旗舰的一带一路计划在拟议战略中纳入了卫生领域的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Poverty was cut in half – from 50% to around 25% of the population, while extreme poverty fell by two-thirds.",
        "贫困被消灭了一半——人口比重从50%降至约25%，极端贫困更是减少了三分之二。"
    ],
    [
        "There is real fear in the communities plagued by such extremism, fear that paralyzes normal life and pushes people away from each other.",
        "深陷这类极端主义困扰的社区有着真正的恐慌，恐慌这会让正常生活陷入瘫痪，让人与人之间越来越疏远。"
    ],
    [
        "Suppose, though, that it becomes clear that Iran is playing the West along, simply buying time to build a bomb and develop a delivery system to hit Israel. Would that justify a pre-emptive military strike, as certain circles in Israel and the US advocate?",
        "即使，假设伊朗在糊弄西方以获取建造核武器和发展打击以色列的发射系统的时间，这也可以成为一些以色列和美国人士支持的先发制人的军事打击的正当理由吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the Bush-era tax cuts, the 2001-2007 expansion was the worst of the post-war period in terms of investment, employment, wage, and GDP growth.",
        "尽管布什时期实行了减税计划，但从投资、就业、工资和GDP增长看，2001—2007年的经济扩张仍是战后以来最低的。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, too, faces real demographic difficulties, though in the other direction as Russia’s population is projected to shrink by as much as 10% over the next 15 or 20 years.",
        "而对于俄罗斯来说，人口也是个令人头痛的问题，只不过恰巧与中东相反罢了，因为预计在未来 15 到 20 年内，俄罗斯人口总量将下降整整 10% 。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the Democrats’ victory will most likely depend on these states, the Democratic candidate who can square this circle, or the Republican who can break it, may well win the presidency.",
        "由于民主党的胜利最需要依靠这些州，那些能够在移民问题上获得成功的民主党人或者打破这一问题包围的共和党人就有可能赢得总统大选胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the very premise of the current deal and the expectations it sets out are wrong.",
        "因为当前方案的前提及其所形成的预期是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s greatest asset is Ukraine, whose citizens are willing to die in defense of their country.",
        "欧盟最大的资产是乌克兰，乌克兰人民请愿为保卫国家献出生命。"
    ],
    [
        "The costs are likely to be far higher than they were in 1814.",
        "这次的代价可能比1814年高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "In effect, the political system would again be kicking the can down the road, with real progress on necessary fiscal reforms expected only after the November 2012 presidential election.",
        "事实上，美国的政治系统很快又会故伎重演，对协议敷衍塞责，而人们所期望的财政改革只有在2012年总统大选之后才能取得实质性进展。"
    ],
    [
        "But with the euro in the balance, the perfect should not be allowed to become the enemy of the good.",
        "但鉴于欧元的命运悬而未决，“完美”不应该被允许成为“好”的对立面。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the war against the arts and humanities in the US coincided with the emergence of an increasingly ignorant and passive population and a government that serves at the pleasure of corporate interests.",
        "事实上，伴随着美国那些对艺术和人文学科宣战的行为而产生的就是一大批日渐愚昧无知，消极被动的民众，以及一个为大企业利益服务的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "And, without resumption of growth – not years down the line, but in 2012 – the stock and flow imbalances will become even more unsustainable.",
        "而不能重回增长——不是说几年后，而是说2012年——存量和流量失衡就将变得更加不可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "This increase has no separate climate effect, since we’ve already promised to cut emissions by 20%.",
        "这一提高对气候没有效果，因为我们已经保证减排20%。"
    ],
    [
        "The Campaign for Plain English, a lobbying group, has described the Bank’s statements as “worthless, impenetrable waffle.”",
        "游说集团通俗英语运动（Campaign for Plain English）说英格兰银行的陈述是“毫无价值，让人不知所云的胡扯”。"
    ],
    [
        "The socialist way follows necessarily from the free access to the printing press that has so far characterized the eurozone.",
        "社会主义式选择是当前欧元区各国自由印钞现状的必然结果。"
    ],
    [
        "If a United Nations-backed settlement is not reached by early December, the province’s majority Albanian population is likely to declare independence unilaterally – a move that the United States has announced it may support.",
        "如果一项由联合国支持的解决方案在十二月初不能出台，那么在这个省占多数的阿尔巴尼亚族很可能会单方面宣布独立。 美国曾表示会支持这一举动。"
    ],
    [
        "His actions suggest that he considers economic data to be far less important than security information – perhaps the natural attitude of a kleptocrat.",
        "他的行为表明，他认为经济数据远不如安全情报重要——这也许是贪官污吏的自然反应吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Our legs and other large muscles move things to where we need them to be, so our fingers can rearrange them into useful patterns.",
        "我们的腿和其他大肌群将东西移到我们想让它们存在的地方，以便我们的手指将它们重新整理成有用的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Cypriots must seize this chance to build a healthy, reunited country that can make the most of its economic potential in the region, and play its part in world affairs with confidence and security.",
        "塞浦路斯人必须抓住这个机会建设一个健康、统一的国家，最大限度地发掘地区经济潜力，并且安全自信地在世界事务中发挥自身的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, even moderate Cypriots were outraged by the bullying of their small island by Germany and by Europe.",
        "毕竟，看到德国和欧盟盛气凌人地对他们这个小小岛国指手画脚，就连最温和的塞浦路斯人也会气不打一处来。"
    ],
    [
        "Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly ten million, according to UNICEF, are children under five.",
        "根据联合国儿童基金会的统计，死于这些可避免的由贫困造成的原因的人当中，有近一千万是五岁以下的儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, after the “ugly American” has packed his bags, Ciudad Juárez will still be the most dangerous city in the world.",
        "实际上，在这个“丑陋的美国人”打包滚蛋之后，华雷斯仍将是世界上最危险的城市。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the existence of real political opposition creates a different atmosphere, which spreads beyond elections.",
        "但是，真正的政治反对派存在创造了一种不同的氛围，这一氛围扩散到选举之外。"
    ],
    [
        "VIENNA – Apologists for neo-liberalism assume not only that states should be run like companies, but also that, as far as possible, they should not intervene in the economy.",
        "维也纳－新自由主义的拥护者认为，国家不仅要像公司那样经营，而且应该尽可能地不干预经济；"
    ],
    [
        "A selective approach that targets the “binding constraints” – those areas where the growth returns are the greatest – would maximize early benefits.",
        "针对“绑定约束”（binding constraints，你早些增长回报最大的领域）的选择性方针能够实现早期收益最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "An obvious starting point for a Hamiltonian Europe would be to set some standard limit for federalized national debt – perhaps the tarnished threshold of 60% of GDP that was mandated (without adequate enforcement) by the Maastricht convergence criteria, or perhaps a lower limit.",
        "要实现汉密尔顿式的欧洲，显而易见的出发点是设立联邦化国民债务的标准上限，可以是早已被置若罔闻的、缺少强制性的马斯特里赫特大同标准（即不超过GDP的60%），也可以是更低的上限。"
    ],
    [
        "If poor countries want to get rich, they should stop exporting their resources in raw form and concentrate on adding value to them.",
        "如果穷国想要变富，它们就应该停止出口原始形式的资源，集中精力提高它们的附加值。"
    ],
    [
        "The same thing may be happening with the tax reform.",
        "税收法案可能也会是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "What the founders do not address is what happens when that one person has something other than justice on his mind.",
        "”但开国元勋们并没有规定有哪些办法能够阻止行使豁免权的人罔顾正义。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s New Normal and America’s Old Habits",
        "中国的新常态和美国的旧习惯"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, our bilateral relationship is among the most important in the international community.",
        "事实上，我们的双边关系是国际社会中最重要的关系之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, China has long been committed to market-driven structural reforms, at the national and municipal levels.",
        "当然，在国家和地方层面，中国长期致力于推动市场发展的结构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, language barriers prevent many immigrant parents from helping their children with their homework because the texts are only in English.",
        "如今，语言障碍让许多移民父母无法辅导自己孩子的家庭作业，因为课本都是英语。"
    ],
    [
        "Food producers and retailers should follow in the footsteps of the Devon-based bacon producer that recently committed to using only antibiotic-free pigs.",
        "粮食生产商和零售商应该效仿最近承诺只是用不含抗生素的猪的德文郡火腿生产商。"
    ],
    [
        "German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, and other European Union leaders have said that they will boycott matches held in Ukraine, owing to the imprisonment of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and other opposition figures.",
        "德国总理默克尔，欧盟委员会主席巴罗佐还有另外一些欧盟领袖都声称会抵制在乌克兰境内举办的部分赛事，因为该国囚禁了其前总理尤利娅·季莫申科以及其他一些反对派。"
    ],
    [
        "This is more often the case when a state breaks up as a result of armed conflict, in which case stability depends on whether the best military leaders are allowed to remain in place.",
        "在国家因为武装冲突而分裂时，这种可能性更大，在这种情况中，稳定取决于最优秀的军事领导人能否就位。"
    ],
    [
        "As capitalist markets give way to vast commercial networks, and as market economies become market societies, governments and unions are increasingly restricted in scope.",
        "当资本主义市场让位于庞大的商业网络，而市场经济成为市场社会之时，政府以及工会日益受到局限。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to know who is right, because no other country has adopted this policy.",
        "我们很难去分辨孰是孰非，因为至今还未有任何国家通过类似的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, despite endless words about increasing aid to poor countries, the rich G-8 countries are reneging on their part of the bargain.",
        "目前，尽管为穷国增加援助的言论层出不穷，但是富有的八国集团却没有履行这一诺言。"
    ],
    [
        "For China and India, that just reinforces their desire to lock up oil supplies from countries outside the Persian Gulf.",
        "对于中印两国而言，这就更为强化了它们从波斯湾以外的国家锁定石油供应的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, after welcoming foreign investment, which contributed greatly to Chinese manufacturing growth and export competitiveness, some in China would now tighten restrictions on foreign investment to protect China’s domestic industries.",
        "最后，外国投资为中国制造业增长和出口竞争力做出了巨大的贡献。 中国有人在欢迎外国投资之后现在要加紧限制外国投资以保护中国的国内产业。"
    ],
    [
        "The other interesting new face, though he has no chance of becoming a major leader, is Shtayyeh.",
        "法塔赫六大上另一个引起关注的新面孔则是施塔耶。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the US has been unable to involve Pakistan in resolving the Afghanistan conflict, that failure simply reflects America’s refusal to give the Pakistanis what they wanted: a shift in the regional balance of power at the expense of India.",
        "但美国无法将巴基斯坦纳入解决阿富汗冲突的方案中，其失败是美国拒绝满足巴基斯坦要求的明证：牺牲印度，改变地区实力平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The most recent purchasing power statistics show the currency to be in a range that is normal for a country with per capita real income of around $10,000.",
        "最近的购买力统计表明人民币币值已处于人均实际收入10,000美元左右国家的正常范围。"
    ],
    [
        "Local Innovation for Local Problems",
        "解决地方问题的地方创新举措"
    ],
    [
        "Libya should take note of how Iraq’s post-Saddam transition has featured ceaseless power struggles and infighting.",
        "利比亚应该引起警惕：伊拉克在萨达姆倒台后的过渡期出现了没完没了的权力斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Why should that change now?",
        "现在为何要予以改变？"
    ],
    [
        "But this is to adopt a narrowly traditional view of the national interest – focusing only on direct security and economic advantage – and to ignore a third dimension, reputational advantage, which increasingly determines the extent to which countries respect and relate to one another.",
        "但沃尔特宣扬的是对国家利益的狭隘传统观点——即只关注直接的安全和经济优势——而忽略了信誉优势这第三维度，而恰恰是信誉优势越来越多地决定国家间的关系和相互尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of this negotiation apparently would entail a repatriation of powers, requiring the consent of all EU members – and making the conditions under which Cameron’s renegotiation is supposed to take place both legally and politically uncertain.",
        "需要全部欧盟成员国同意的权力归还显然是此次谈判的部分内容——而这导致卡梅伦重新谈判的条件在法律和政治上缺乏确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "With a carefully constructed system, this money could be put to even greater productive use.",
        "通过精心构建的系统，这笔钱可以被用于更有效率的生产用途。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true of services.",
        "服务亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "On the second anniversary of Peña Nieto’s inauguration, his approval rating had dwindled to 39%, with 58% of the public disapproving of his performance.",
        "当培尼亚·涅托就职两周年之际其支持率已经滑落至39%，反对其执政表现的公众则高达58%。"
    ],
    [
        "The Paris climate agreement, reached last December and signed last month, not only established a consensus on the importance of addressing climate change, but also explicitly affirmed that ecosystems play a role in capturing greenhouse gases and helping communities adapt to the effects of climate change.",
        "去年12月达成并在上个月签署的巴黎气候协定不但形成了关于解决气候变化的重要性的共识，还明确确认了生态系统在捕捉温室气体、帮助社会适应气候变化影响方面所起的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The complexity and depth of these anti-Japanese sentiments helps sustain them and sets them apart from other, more fleeting and contradictory anti-foreign sentiments, such as those Chinese sometimes harbor towards Americans.",
        "这种反日情绪的复杂性和根深蒂固性使得它延续至今，与中国人对其他一些国家更为短暂矛盾的敌对情绪有所不同，比如有时中国人还庇护美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "It also provided invaluable support to member countries’ public education systems to strengthen Roma inclusion.",
        "它还为成员国的公共教育系统提供了宝贵的支持，以使其更好地支持罗姆人的融入。"
    ],
    [
        "And, beyond calling out miscreant member states by name, Trump also offered a fervent defense of his “America First” agenda.",
        "同时除了指名道姓地挑战几个不守规矩的成员国之外，特朗普还为他的“美国优先”议程大肆辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the aid be monitored and measured?",
        "能否实现对援助的管理和衡量？"
    ],
    [
        "Today it ranks in the middle of the OECD countries.",
        "如今，美国只位列经合组织国家中游水平。"
    ],
    [
        "In this regard, however, the stock-market bubble that developed in the first half of the year should be viewed as an exception.",
        "然而，从这个角度看，今年上半年爆发的股票市场泡沫应被视为一个例外。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is inadequate.",
        "但这是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, the EU would be wise to follow suit, by unraveling the currency union and providing debt reduction for its most distressed economies.",
        "到那时，欧盟的明智做法是跟进，解散货币联盟，为最困难的经济体提供债务减记。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, support for rural infrastructure – including last-mile roads, electrification, post-harvest facilities, support for agricultural associations and cooperatives, and access to land and irrigation facilities – is a crucial element in the value chain.",
        "事实上，支持农村地区基础设施建设——包括连接村落的公路、供电、收割后的处理设备、支持建立农业联盟以及合作社，以及获取土地以及灌溉设施——就是整个产业价值链的关键部分。"
    ],
    [
        "But cutting jobs weakens final demand further, because it reduces labor income and increases inequality.",
        "但裁员令劳动收入下滑，不平等上升，从而进一步削弱最终需求。"
    ],
    [
        "If Chinese regulators allow the market to correct, sophisticated institutional investors with a long-term value orientation will ultimately step in, enhancing the market’s stability.",
        "如果中国监管机构允许市场正确运行，具有长期价值取向的成熟机构投资者将最终介入，提高市场的稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The US economy was in free-fall: financial markets had seized up, GDP was shrinking, and employment was plummeting, with some 800,000 jobs being lost each month. And two ill-conceived and badly executed foreign wars were underway.",
        "当时美国经济陷入了自由落体状态：金融市场失灵，GDP萎缩，就业率也急剧下跌，每个月都流失近80万个工作岗位，外加两场策划不周且执行得一塌糊涂的对外战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that the Fed’s liquidity injections are not creating credit for the real economy, but rather boosting leverage and risk-taking in financial markets.",
        "问题在于美联储的流动性注入并没有为实体经济创造信贷，反而促进了金融市场的杠杆和冒险情绪。 利率过低且契约松散的高风险垃圾债券发行增加；"
    ],
    [
        "However, the opposition’s shortcomings pose a further obstacle to democratic development.",
        "不过，反对派的缺点妨碍了民主的进一步发展。"
    ],
    [
        "In most high-priced places, a real decline may not come for some time.",
        "在大多数高房价地区，真正的房价下跌可能要在相当一段时间之后才会出现。"
    ],
    [
        "In managing the 2008 crisis, foreign banks’ dependence on US-dollar funding constituted a major weakness, and required the provision of large swap lines by the Federal Reserve.",
        "在2008年的危机管理中，外国银行对美元资本的依赖构成一种主要弱点，需要美联储保证较大的换汇额度。"
    ],
    [
        "This emerging four-tier world presents three key challenges.",
        "这个新出现的分成四个层面的世界带来了三个主要挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the agreement is unlikely to survive 89-year-old Peres and 77-year-old Abbas, who are now presidents of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, respectively.",
        "事实上，89岁的佩雷斯和77岁的阿巴斯（他们分别为现以色列总统和巴勒斯坦权力机构主席）尚未离世，而奥斯率协定已经随风而逝了。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the American revolutionaries two centuries ago, Indian nationalists fought for “the rights of Englishmen,” which they thought the replication of the Houses of Parliament would epitomize and guarantee.",
        "就像两百年前的美国革命者一样，印度民族主义者主要为“英国人的权利”而战，他们相信复制议会两院制可以体现并确保这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "He wants the government to subsidize “personally-delivered service” jobs, which cannot be delivered over the Internet, to encourage the expansion of such jobs instead of “impersonally-delivered services.”",
        "他想让政府为不能通过互联网实现的“人性化服务（personally-delivered service）”性质的工作提供补贴，从而鼓励这种职业，而不是“非人性化服务（impersonally-delivered service）”的扩展。"
    ],
    [
        "Very soon, Abe must decide whether to raise the consumption tax again, to 10%.",
        "很快，安倍就必须决定是否再次将消费税提高到10%。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The belief that inequality hurts economic growth is gaining currency among policymakers.",
        "发自剑桥——认为不平等损害了经济增长的理念已经赢得了越来越多政策制定者的青睐。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, however, the US, the IMF, and the European Commission have all watched from the sidelines as Germany and other national governments have run Greece into the ground.",
        "而如今，美国、IMF和欧盟委员会都站在一边看着德国和其他国家政府把希腊打入地狱。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, there is the question of whether monetary policy is the right instrument to use in response to the risks arising from financial instability and, if so, how aggressively to use it.",
        "最后一个问题是是货币政策是否是应对源自金融动荡的风险的正确工具，若是，又应该在什么程度上使用。"
    ],
    [
        "But not everyone is bearish about the BRICS’ prospects and global influence, whether taken individually or as a grouping.",
        "但并非所有人都对金砖国家的全球影响力前景感到悲观，不管是个人还是集体观点。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the two governments have communicated either through the EU or on strictly limited issues through their ambassadors in Baghdad.",
        "到目前为止，两国政府之间的沟通要么通过欧盟，要么仅就非常有限的问题通过两国驻巴格达的大使达成。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic growth can indeed continue to be severely depressed by a debt overhang even when credit supply is unrestricted and cheap.",
        "即使在信用供给不再受限并且十分低廉的情况下，经济增长也确实有可能继续陷于深度萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "The current dam-building plans threaten the Salween River’s Grand Canyon – a UNESCO World Heritage site – and the pristine, environmentally sensitive areas through which the Brahmaputra and the Mekong flow.",
        "目前的建坝计划将威胁到联合国世界遗产怒江大峡谷以及雅鲁藏布江和澜沧江流域环境脆弱的原生态区域。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, amid widespread speculation that Venezuela may indeed default on up to $80 billion of foreign debt, it is not surprising that yields on its sovereign debt have hit 15%.",
        "最后，关于委内瑞拉将对最多800亿美元的对外债务违约的猜测甚嚣尘上，其主权债务收益率飙升至15%也就不足为奇了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while that did not occur, European principles certainly have not lost their allure, as recent protests in Ukraine, triggered by President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to shun closer ties with Europe, have shown.",
        "但是，尽管这并没有实现，但欧洲原则也显然没有失去吸引力，最近乌克兰总统亚努科维奇决定与欧洲决裂的消息引起乌克兰人民示威游行就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, the road ahead is likely to be bumpy, with increasing friction where politics rubs against economics.",
        "无论如何，前路都充满了坎坷，政治和经济的对立日益加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas a company is traditionally valued based exclusively on how it deploys financial capital to generate returns, the new framework incorporates how it deploys natural, human, and social capital, as well as the transparency of its governance practices.",
        "传统的估值方法完全根据公司怎样配置金融资本获取回报来进行，而新框架考虑如何配置自然、人力和社会资本以及治理行为的透明度。"
    ],
    [
        "The trick is not just to find the right target (that is, a person), as social networks such as LinkedIn and search tools can do, but to enlist allies and manage a campaign to achieve a specific goal with the ultimate help of, yes, the target.",
        "技巧在于不仅要找到正确的目标（即一个人），这一点LikedIn等社交网络和搜索工具就可以做到，还要列出盟军，并设法动员全面帮助以实现具体目的。"
    ],
    [
        "It was an extraordinary achievement – one that Japan has not witnessed in decades.",
        "这是一个了不起的成就——几十年来的第一次。"
    ],
    [
        "In the longer term, radical reforms in capital, product, and labor markets will also be needed, complemented by a stronger and more cohesive investment strategy at the European level, aimed at boosting competitiveness and restoring growth prospects.",
        "从长期看，在资本、生产和劳动力市场上的彻底改革也是必须的，并需要辅之以欧洲层面的更积极、更一致的以提振竞争力、弥补增长缺口为目标的投资战略。"
    ],
    [
        "We know that development aid will not be sufficient to end poverty.",
        "我们知道发展援助不足以结束贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "The structuralist perspective on macroeconomic behavior led to the concept that came to be called the “natural” rate of unemployment, borrowing from the notion, which arose in Europe during the interwar years, of a “natural” interest rate.",
        "宏观经济行为的结构主义视角引出了一个被称为“自然”失业率的概念。 这个概念借用两次世界大战期间在欧洲出现的“自然”利率的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s Hijacked Struggle",
        "叙利亚被挟持的斗争"
    ],
    [
        "They do not displace rational-choice models, which remain the go-to tool in other settings.",
        "它们并没有取代理性选择模型，理性选择模型也仍然是其他条件下的首选工具。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach also lost credibility as a result of the rise of Hamas and its determination to wage permanent war on Israel; Iran’s expanding influence and nuclear weapons’ program; and the high – even rising – levels of hatred against Israel among Arabs and Muslims.",
        "由于哈马斯兴起并决心向以色列发动持久战争，伊朗影响力扩大又发展了核武器项目，阿拉伯人和穆斯林则对以色列怀有强烈的憎恨，而且仇恨还在加剧，这条道路也无法走通。"
    ],
    [
        "If we succeed, Africa’s dreamers of today will be the catalysts of positive change tomorrow.",
        "如果我们能够取得成功，非洲今天的梦想家将成为明天积极变革的催化力量。"
    ],
    [
        "As consumers, firms, and investors become more cautious and risk-averse, the equity-market rally of the second half of 2012 has crested.",
        "随着消费者、企业和投资者变得更加谨慎和风险厌恶，2012年下半年的股市反弹已经见顶。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, for example, emergency ambulance services are now within reach of tens of millions of people, supported by cell phones, sophisticated computer systems, and increased public investments in rural health.",
        "举例来说，在印度的Andhra Pradesh 和Gujarat邦，由于有了手机、精密的电脑系统以及对农村健康设施不断增长的公共投资这些支持系统，数千万的人民现在因而能获得急救救护车的服务。"
    ],
    [
        "And it predicts – albeit with low confidence – that there could be more floods in some places.",
        "它预测——但对此没有什么信心——一些地区可能会遭受更多洪水。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the ECB has launched a new series of four targeted longer-term refinancing operations, which also carry negative interest rates.",
        "把银行在欧洲央行的存款利率进一步推入负值区域（-0. 40％）。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Hamas now poses a strategic threat to Israel’s urban centers and military facilities.",
        "事实上，哈马斯现在对以色列的城市中心区域和军事设施构成了战略性的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The sweeping changes underway in Asia are not just economic, but have also created new political realities that cannot be ignored.",
        "亚洲正在面临的巨大变化不仅仅是经济上的，它们同时还制造出了我们无法忽视的政治现实。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting boost to aggregate demand would then buttress the case for the Federal Reserve to raise short-term interest rates faster than it had been planning to do.",
        "结果是总需求得到提振，支持美联储以比计划速度更快地提高短期利率。"
    ],
    [
        "In settings that are continually changing, in response to the needs and capabilities of a range of actors, an iterative approach with qualitative elements is imperative.",
        "在不断变化的环境里，面对一系列主体的需求和能力，采用以定性要素为主的迭代方式势在必行。"
    ],
    [
        "En route, Sophia studies videos of her opponent’s past matches, while Sue catches up on emails and Sam orders appetizers and flowers for the party.",
        "途中索菲亚研究了对手上一场比赛的录像，而苏处理了电子邮件，山姆订好了派对小食和鲜花。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is improved energy efficiency, meaning that we should use much less energy to achieve the same level of well-being.",
        "首先是改善能源效率，这意味着我们可以使用少得多的能源实现相同水平的福利。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposals for what is now called the “Volcker rule,” which would ban proprietary trading and prevent banks from “owning, investing in, or sponsoring” hedge funds or private equity funds, is an updated version of the Glass-Steagall Act, the law enacted in the United States in 1933 to separate investment banking from commercial banking.",
        "该草案主张的是所谓“沃尔克法则”：禁止自营交易、不让银行“拥有、投资或资助”对冲基金或私募股权基金，可谓是格拉斯 — 斯蒂格尔法案的一个升级版。 该法案于 1933 年在美国通过，旨在令投资银行和商业银行分业经营。"
    ],
    [
        "However, Merkel’s focus may well remain on trade, investment, and currency flows.",
        "但是，默克尔的关注点可能仍集中在贸易、投资和货币流。"
    ],
    [
        "If anything, the share is up slightly thus far in 2013.",
        "2013年（到目前为止）还略有上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the US and the EU already are engaged in trade talks, an EPA between Japan and the EU, coupled with the TPP, will give rise to a truly immense market – a single enormous growth engine that will benefit the entire global economy.",
        "美国和欧洲已经在进行贸易谈判，因此日欧贸易合作协议与TPP一起，将带来一个真正的巨型市场，一个能让全球经济受益的巨型增长引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that an increasingly polarized and quasi-tribal news media, which can amplify divisions in society, and the scope for collaborative transformation is extremely limited.",
        "此外，媒体日益极化和准种族化（quasi-tribal）它有可能加剧社会分裂，而合作式转型的空间极为有限。"
    ],
    [
        "The first problem is China’s enduring dependence on exports.",
        "第一个问题是中国对出口战略的可能的长期依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the most challenging places, the results are clear and powerful.",
        "即使在挑战最艰巨的地区，我们的成果也是清楚而有力的。"
    ],
    [
        "For a centrally planned economy attempting to allocate more authority to the market, such contracts are invaluable – at least at first.",
        "对于一个尝试逐渐增加市场力量的中央计划经济而言，这样的具体但不完全的契约是无比宝贵的——至少在一开始是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, the drive to eliminate nuclear weapons must be revived with all of the vigor of Obama’s first years in office.",
        "基于这一点，奥巴马执政后的前几年必须全力复振销毁核武器的动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate-change deniers – those who refuse to believe the science of human-induced global warming – continue to dismiss any such effort to stem the rise in the planet’s temperature as futile and unnecessary.",
        "气候变化否定者——那些拒绝相信人为造成全球变暖这一科学事实的人——继续否定防止地球温度升高的作用，认为这样做既徒劳无功又毫无必要。"
    ],
    [
        "To ensure unimpeded access to these critical resources, China needs stability in the countries from which it can extract them, in the markets in which it can invest, and in the routes linking China to its suppliers.",
        "为了保证不受阻碍地获得这些关键资源，中国需要资源来源国、投资市场目标国以及供给国与其本土之间航路的稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Those with very high investment rates, mostly in East Asia, grew faster than those with lower investment rates; but, overall, catch-up growth probably has been adding 2-4 percentage points to many emerging and developing countries’ annual growth rates.",
        "投资率极高的国家（大多在亚洲）获得了比投资率较低的国家更快的增长； 但是，总体而言，赶超增长使得许多新兴和发展中国家年增长率提高了2—4个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "Slaughtered at only 45 days old, their immature bones can hardly bear the weight of their bodies.",
        "这些鸡出生45天后就将被宰杀，骨胳还来不及充分发育，几乎无法承担自身的重量。"
    ],
    [
        "The PPP’s political rival, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) won a majority of seats in the Punjab provincial assembly, giving it control of the country’s largest province.",
        "巴基斯坦人民党的政治对手巴基斯坦穆斯林联盟（Nawaz）则在旁遮普省议会赢得了多数席位，进而控制了该国最大的省份。"
    ],
    [
        "In effect, the House Republicans can be forced to sign onto a deal that both supports the economy and restores revenue to the level that prevailed before the disastrous experiment of Bushonomics.",
        "事实上，众议院共和党可能被迫签署一项既能支持经济、又能将收入回到灾难性的布什经济学实验之前水平的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "It is remarkable how, having proven their incompetence, they are still revered in some quarters.",
        "这些人已经显得无能，却还在某些角落受到吹捧，真是奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "That last line reveals that Obama is also aware of the other challenge liberal democracies must overcome: to shape a credible us.",
        "最后一句话表明奥巴马也明白自由民主所必须克服的另一个挑战：形成一个可信的我们。"
    ],
    [
        "These may not be sufficient conditions for success, but they are certainly necessary ones.",
        "也许它们不是成功的充分条件，但要想获得成功这些条件却无论如何必不可少。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if the UK faced some additional barriers – such as new customs requirements and certificates of origin – their impact would most likely be relatively small.",
        "即使英国会面对一些额外的障碍——例如新的海关要求和原产地证明——其影响很可能相对较小。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, these women felt – and acted upon – the moral necessity of actually governing.",
        "同样重要的是，这些女性感受到了实际治理的道德必要性，并据此行动。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a truism that government bureaucracies cut corners, hide gaps in service delivery, exaggerate performance, or, in the worst cases, simply steal when they can get away with it.",
        "政府官僚喜欢走后门，隐瞒服务提供差距，夸大表现，（或者更糟糕地）在有机会的时候假公济私，这些都已是老生常谈。"
    ],
    [
        "A distinction is often made between “hard” tools for combating terrorism – i.e. executive, including military measures – and “soft” tools such as programs promoting the integration of Muslim immigrants, efforts to stabilize and develop problem countries, and strategies for intercultural dialogue.",
        "往往有打击恐怖主义之“硬”手段和“软”手段之区别 -“硬”手段即行政上包括军事的措施； “软”手段则包括促进穆斯林移民融入主流社会的项目、努力稳定和发展问题国家以及跨文化的战略对话。"
    ],
    [
        "So I cannot sit back in silence as Europe stumbles blindly into a new appeasement.",
        "所以，对于欧洲盲目地陷入新的绥靖主义，我无法袖手旁观。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of its own national interests, Israel must come to terms with its neighbors.",
        "为了确保其国家利益，以色列必须与其邻国达成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Other climate scientists are more optimistic: they argue that if we allow atmospheric CO2 to rise to 450 ppm, a level associated with a two-degree Celsius temperature rise, we have a 66.6% chance of avoiding catastrophe.",
        "其他气候学家则更加乐观：他们指出，如果我们让大气二氧化碳上升至450 ppm，并由此带来2摄氏度的气温升高，我们仍有66. 6%的机会避免灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "If the debt-ceiling absolutists are naïve, so, too, are simplistic Keynesians.",
        "如果说债务上限绝对论者有些幼稚，那么凯恩斯主义者同样头脑简单。"
    ],
    [
        "Saul’s other maps evoke his past: Milan, the city of his youth, Zurich, where Dada got its explosive start, and the Romanian city Buzau, where he was born.",
        "苏黎世，达达爆炸性的起源之地； 以及罗马尼亚城市布泽乌，他的生身之所。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the failure to address common risks and challenges may well result in citizens placing exclusive faith in the nation-state, rejecting solidarity, and calling for the permanent restoration of national borders.",
        "否则，无法解决共同风险和挑战极有可能导致公民转向排斥性的民族国家信念，拒绝团结，要求永久性恢复国家边界。"
    ],
    [
        "It has established a taboo against testing (violated since 1998 only by North Korea) and slowed the global arms race.",
        "它建立了核试验禁区（只有朝鲜在1998年违反了CTBT），并延缓了全球军备竞赛。"
    ],
    [
        "EU leaders lament Ukraine’s political divisions and slow pace of reform, and the country’s leaders need to address these criticisms.",
        "那些欧盟领导人往往哀叹与乌克兰的政治分歧和缓慢的改革步伐，而乌克兰领导人也需要对这些批评给予回应。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s fate was sealed by its reluctance to abandon a dysfunctional growth model.",
        "日本的命运源自于它不愿放弃一个已经无法正常运行的增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "With services in China employing 30% more workers per unit of output than manufacturing and construction, the sector’s expansion will help to preserve social stability, even as economic growth slows to 7%.",
        "在中国，服务业单位产出就业量比制造业和建筑业多30%，扩张服务业有助于保持社会稳定，即使经济增长放缓至7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Closing Guantánamo is not a gesture to win applause from Europeans. It is a necessary revision of policy that will make the US, Europe, and the world safer.",
        "由此可见，关闭关塔那摩监狱并不是为赢得欧洲人赞誉而故意做出的一种姿态，而是为了维护美国、欧洲和全世界安全所必需的政策修正。"
    ],
    [
        "Its policy of “opting out” keeps Britain on the sidelines of the EU.",
        "它的“置身度外”的政策让英国处于欧盟的边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, where is the US?",
        "更重要的是，美国呢？"
    ],
    [
        "These trends will fuel higher demand for workers in the service sector, which now accounts for 81% of employment in the US.",
        "上述趋势将会推动服务业人员需求，该行业现已占到美国就业总量的81%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "As depression worsens, feelings of extreme sadness and hopelessness combine with low self-esteem, guilt, memory loss, and concentration difficulties to bring about a severely painful state of mind.",
        "随着抑郁状态的加重，病人除了感到极度的悲伤和无助，还会伴有丧失自信、内疚、失忆和精力难以集中等症状，导致他们陷入极度的痛苦之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Article 7 seems to be in accord with European norms.",
        "这条规定似乎和欧洲的规范没什么冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Around 75% of this investment will have to take place in the developing world, particularly middle-income countries, owing to their growth needs, rapid urbanization, and already-large infrastructure backlogs.",
        "大约75%的投资将在发展中世界进行，特别是中等收入国家，因为那里的增长需求旺盛，城市化速度快，并且存在巨大的基础设施瓶颈。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides, where does one begin apologizing – or, rather, end?",
        "再说，这种道歉应该从何而起——又到何时为止呢？"
    ],
    [
        "At the time of this writing, he still defends the validity of his work, while admitting “human errors” in the preservation of the stem-cell lines, including contamination by a fungus.",
        "在本文写作之时，他仍然为其工作的准确性辩护，同时承认在保持干细胞株时出现了“人为错误”，包括受到真菌感染。"
    ],
    [
        "Calling the offense by its legal name acknowledges this, thereby preempting a rhetorical battle to frame the attack as terror, tragedy, or conspiracy.",
        "用合法名称来形容此次事件承认了这一基本事实，并对恐怖、悲剧和阴谋论进行了有力的反驳。"
    ],
    [
        "Gazprom cannot be a partner to Europe if it does not invest in its own infrastructure, yet plays a leading role in stripping Russian private businesses, invests $14 billion in non-core assets, such as news media, and is run from the Office of the Presidential Administration.",
        "如果俄罗斯天然气工业公司不在它自己的基础设施上进行投资，而是在剥夺俄罗斯私人企业的资产扮演主要角色、将140亿美元投资在像新闻媒体这样的非核心资产上以及对总统宝座的争夺上，那么它就无法成为欧洲的合作伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the development of democratic institutions in some parts of Africa, coups appear to be once again an option when democracy seems to be failing, political gridlock has taken hold, or impoverished populations are alienated from constitutional authority.",
        "尽管非洲某些国家已经建立民主制度，可是当民主失败、政治僵局形成、贫困民众与宪法权威距离越来越远的时候，政变似乎再次成为解决问题的捷径。"
    ],
    [
        "For developing countries there is no other way forward.",
        "对发展中国家来说，没有第二条路可以走。"
    ],
    [
        "As bosses and entrepreneurial workers took a chance, supply would create its own demand.",
        "老板具有企业家精神，员工愿意抓住机会，于是供给就创造了其自身的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – It is difficult to know exactly what US President-elect Donald Trump will do when he takes office in January.",
        "香港 - 美国当选总统特朗普明年一月开始执政，届时他到底会怎么做，我们无法知晓 。"
    ],
    [
        "But here, regional politics must be taken into account, especially the continuing rivalry between India and Pakistan.",
        "但在这个地方，区域政治的因素也必须要考虑在内，尤其是印度和巴基斯坦之间长期持续的敌对态势。"
    ],
    [
        "As the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah puts it, “Thou shalt not kill is a test you take pass-fail.",
        "正如哲学家克瓦米·安东尼·阿皮亚所言，“只有通过或失败的考验你将无法抹杀。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent developments have put the country on a path that would have been unimaginable until very recently.",
        "最近局势的发展已经将乌克兰推向了一条原本无法想象的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The relationship between the unemployment rate and the job vacancy rate is consistent with patterns in previous recoveries.",
        "失业率和岗位空置率之间的关系与前几次衰退并无区别。"
    ],
    [
        "But they were perceived as then ruthlessly pursuing full-scale regime change, without securing any further agreement from the Council.",
        "但人们认为当时P3在没有征得任何安理会后续同意的情况下不恰当地寻求彻底颠覆政权。"
    ],
    [
        "By throwing its weight around in Russia’s near abroad, the Kremlin thinks that it can convince Russians back home of its omnipotence.",
        "通过在周边地区四处插手，克里姆林宫认为自己能够向俄国人民展示政府有多么强大。"
    ],
    [
        "There, we met a group of Afghan Uzbeks who helped us to settle in Mazar-i-Sharif.",
        "在阿富汗，我们遇到了一群阿富汗乌兹别克人，他们帮助我们在马扎里沙里夫安顿下来。"
    ],
    [
        "Reducing the risk of terrorists obtaining weapons of mass destruction equally requires stronger international cooperation.",
        "减少恐怖份子获得大规模杀伤性武器的风险同样要求更为强有力的国际合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The senior officers of the Armed Forces are corrupt to the core, having been involved for years in smuggling, currency and procurement crimes, narco-trafficking and extra-judicial killings that, in per capita terms are three times more prevalent than in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines.",
        "武装部队的高级军官处于腐败的核心，多年来一直涉嫌卷入走私、货币及采购犯罪、贩毒及法外处决等非法活动，这些非法活动从人均标准衡量其普遍性比杜特尔特的菲律宾高出三倍 。"
    ],
    [
        "The “option” value associated with potential future uses should always be contrasted with the minimal cost of maintenance.",
        "与未来潜在未来使用相关的“选项”价值应该与维护的最低成本相权衡。"
    ],
    [
        "But the new way of conducting “asymmetrical warfare” does raise uncomfortable ethical and legal issues.",
        "但进行“不对称战争”的新方法却引起了令人不安的伦理和法律问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Mashal has more than one option. He may reemerge as the head of a newly established Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, or as a leader of a new Islamist political party under the umbrella of the Palestine Liberation Organization.",
        "玛沙尔可以选择的道路很多：他可以凭新成立的穆斯林兄弟会巴勒斯坦分支首脑的身份重新崛起，又或者在打着巴勒斯坦解放运动名号的新伊斯兰政党担任领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the appreciation in the real exchange rate is offset by increased productivity.",
        "实际汇率的大部分升值被生产率的提高所抵消。"
    ],
    [
        "When English Protestants challenged the power of the Roman Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, mobs laid waste to stone-carved saints and other holy representations with pick-hammers and axes.",
        "十六世纪英国新教徒挑战罗马天主教会的权力时，暴徒举起锤子和斧头，破坏圣徒石像和其他圣迹。"
    ],
    [
        "For a global economy limping along at stall speed – and most likely unable to withstand a significant shock without toppling into renewed recession – that contribution is all the more important.",
        "对于以失速速度蹒跚前行的全球经济而言——如果再来一次大冲击，恐怕就无法避免再次陷入衰退了——这一贡献无比重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, men occupy all 23 seats on the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Governing Council.",
        "此外，男性占据着全部23个欧洲央行理事会职位。"
    ],
    [
        "Herein lies the biggest danger in today’s exuberant headlines about growth.",
        "这就引出了今天增长繁荣中的最大危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost all of these deaths occur in countries with restrictive abortion laws, which African leaders should consider reforming as a matter of common sense and social justice.",
        "这些死亡几乎全部发生在存在严格堕胎法的国家，非洲领导人应该考虑将改革视为共识和社会公正问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to the changes being wrought by automation, the job market is being transformed by digital platforms like Uber that facilitate exchanges between consumers and individual suppliers of services.",
        "除了自动化带来的变化，Uber这样的数字平台正在通过促进消费者和个人服务供应商之间的交流改变就业市场。"
    ],
    [
        "But where, exactly, are the greatest concentrations of poor people?",
        "但究竟穷人最集中的地方在哪里？"
    ],
    [
        "In many of these countries, the trade in natural resources motivates, funds, and prolongs conflict and egregious human-rights abuses.",
        "在许多这些国家，自然资源贸易刺激、出资和延长了冲突和骇人听闻的人权侵害。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Spain and Italy, the two countries most affected by developments in the Mediterranean and the Sahel, have reduced their military expenditures significantly.",
        "就连受地中海和萨赫勒形势最大的两个国家——西班牙和意大利里都大幅削减了军事支出。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest election results also assure him the legislative numbers he needs to get his own candidates elected as India’s President in July and Vice-President in August.",
        "最新选举结果也确保了让他自己的候选人于7月当选印度总统和8月当选副总统所需的立法票数。"
    ],
    [
        "This problem could be solved by boosting the Fund’s capacity to borrow, while reducing the amount of resources that the Fund needs to set aside for FCL-like facilities.",
        "这个问题可以通过提高基金借款能力，同时减少其需要为类FCL机制预留的资源量来解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Other states, which have their own civil nuclear capacity, have the potential to develop a weapon. The number of countries in this category is bound to increase as the number of nuclear power reactors doubles over the next 20 years.",
        "其它拥有民用核技术的国家也有制造原子弹的潜力，而这些国家正计划在未来 20 年内将核反应堆的数量增加一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Many types of natural capital, however, have not been included: fresh water, soil, forests as providers of ecosystem services, and the atmosphere as a sink for such pollution as particulates and nitrogen and sulphur oxides.",
        "然而，还有许多其它的自然资本未被包含在其中：淡水、土壤、提供生态服务的森林和吸纳微粒、氮氧化物和硫氧化物等污染物的大气。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the approach that Japanese governments have taken up to now, the JSDF would be unable to rescue the civilians.",
        "在日本政府此前所持的方针下，日本自卫队是不能解救文职人员的。"
    ],
    [
        "But good leaders today are often caught between their personal cosmopolitan inclinations and their more traditional obligations to the citizens who elected them.",
        "但今天的优秀领导人往往会在个人的世界主义倾向和对选举他们的人民的更加传统的义务之间难以抉择。"
    ],
    [
        "China should rethink its insistence that negotiations over its territorial claims could be conducted only with individual ASEAN states, and not with ASEAN as a bloc – a stance that creates the impression that China is committed to bringing about the group’s breakup.",
        "中国也应该反思坚持与个别东盟国进行国与国谈判而非与东盟整体谈判的立场。 这样会让东盟国认为中国有心“逐个击破”东盟国。"
    ],
    [
        "That rate of price growth recalls the US experience, with the S&P/Case-Shiller Ten-City Home Price Index for the US rising 131% in real terms from its bottom in 1997 to its peak in 2006.",
        "房价上升之快令人想起了美国，标普/凯斯-希勒（S&P/Case-Shiller）十城市住房价格指数从1997年的底部到2006年的顶部总共上涨了131%。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost every Arab ruler at one time or another attempted to silence the station by closing its local bureau and pressing the Qatari rulers to muzzle its freewheeling journalists. Neither worked.",
        "几乎每个阿拉伯统治者都在某些时候试图通过关闭其当地分社并且迫使卡塔尔统治者钳制其直言无悔的记者来让这一电视台默不作声，但是都没有成功。"
    ],
    [
        "And all of this is true of global markets as well.",
        "上述规则在全球市场同样适用。"
    ],
    [
        "Attacking French Hopelessness",
        "如何医治法国的无可救药"
    ],
    [
        "A vibrant Palestinian civil society could become more flexible and open toward possible partnerships – including more natural, holistic Israeli-Palestinian joint ventures – thus benefiting the region as a whole.",
        "而一个富有生气的巴勒斯坦市民社会将对潜在的合作——包括更自然也更全面的以巴合作——表现得更为灵活和开放，最终受益的则是整个区域。"
    ],
    [
        "In a study of loan data from five Chinese banks, a team of researchers and I identified five factors that influence the emergence of non-performing SME and consumer loans.",
        "我和一个研究团队对五家中国银行贷款数据的研究表明，有五个因素影响了不良中小企业和消费者贷款的出现。"
    ],
    [
        "The more broadly diversified our financial portfolios, the more people there are who share in the inevitable risks – and the less an individual is affected by any given risk.",
        "你的投资组合越是多样化，就越多人跟你分担那些无法避免的风险——于是个人所要承担的风险也就越少。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, what will America’s relationship with its traditional allies be?",
        "其次，美国和其传统的盟友要保持怎样的关系？"
    ],
    [
        "I should add, however, that if the US government does not cause problems, two private-sector developments seem likely to be helpful.",
        "然而我也要补充的是，如果美国政府不制造麻烦的话，两个私营部门的发展似乎很可能有所帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – The European Union’s economic crises of the last half-decade have fueled the emergence of a deep divide between the northern creditor countries and the southern debtors.",
        "布鲁塞尔—过去五年的欧盟经济危机导致北部债权国和南部债务国裂痕日深。"
    ],
    [
        "A Water War in Asia?",
        "亚洲的水资源战争？"
    ],
    [
        "They might, for example, resist the Internet algorithm that suggests which book to buy or film to rent, based on what they read or watched previously.",
        "举例来讲，他们可以抵制根据他们以前看过的书籍或影片而向他们推荐购买书目或租赁影片的互联网算法。"
    ],
    [
        "Advances in risk reduction that safeguard development gains and business investments must match this progress in disaster preparedness, and we must make wise choices that create greater opportunities in the future.",
        "风险降低方面的进步捍卫了发展果实和商业投资，它们必须匹配灾难准备方面的进展，并且我们还必须做出明智的选择，从而为未来创造更大的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "CANBERRA – October marked 50 years since the Indonesian military launched one of the twentieth century’s worst mass murders.",
        "堪培拉—10月份是印尼军方发动二十世纪最严重大屠杀50周年纪念。"
    ],
    [
        "As the University of Laval’s Louis Fortier puts it, “we are three-quarters of the way to ice-free summers in the Arctic Ocean.”",
        "正如拉瓦尔大学的路易斯·福蒂斯所说，“只需再融掉四分之一我们就能亲眼见证北冰洋无冰的夏天。"
    ],
    [
        "This tendency has been detrimental both for the business world, which is deprived of the cultural wealth provided by higher education, and for universities, because it removes them from their proper setting in the real world.",
        "这种倾向对商业社会和大学都非常不利，前者失去了高等教育所带来的文化财富，而后者也在这种潮流的冲击下，迷失了真实世界中本该属于自己的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference is that the politicians will not admit their ideological impulses.",
        "不同之处在于政客不会承认自己基于意识形态动机。"
    ],
    [
        "The story of the US is, indeed, one of two economies. There is a smaller one that is slowly recovering and a larger one that is still in a deep and persistent downturn.",
        "说真的，美国经济说起来是一个经济，其实是两个经济。 其中一个比较小的经济是在慢慢复苏，而另一个较大的经济则仍在低谷中徘徊。"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities have even taken steps to appease the Islamists by arresting four bloggers for their posts.",
        "当局甚至已采取行动通过逮捕四位博主（因为他们博客上的帖子）来安抚伊斯兰教徒。"
    ],
    [
        "This led to what the scholar Moncef Djaziri described as a division of formal and informal authority.",
        "”学者Moncef Djaziri所指的正式及非正式政府的分裂由此产生。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, with the help of the military-industrial KGB complex – the “ siloviki ” – he has systematically weakened or destroyed every check on his personal power, while strengthening the state’s ability to violate citizens’ constitutional rights.",
        "而在另一方面，在军工克格勃联合体“西罗维基”权力集团的帮助下，他有计划地削弱或破坏了对于他的个人权力的每个制衡，同时强化了国家侵犯宪法所规定的公民权利的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2005, average income disparities were twice as high within the then-EU-25 as within the American states.",
        "在2005年，当时欧盟25国的平均收入差异是美国各州的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a time for heroes, not cheerleaders.",
        "这是个需要英雄而不是拉拉队的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "While our budget for modernization is below that of the other US armed services, we must continue to develop capabilities rapidly and equip our people with the latest technology.",
        "虽然我们的现代化预算低于其他美军军种，但我们仍必须快速发展创新能力运用最新科技武装我们的士兵。"
    ],
    [
        "Its occupants must then move to another home.",
        "此时，住户就必须搬到别的房子里。"
    ],
    [
        "Expecting China and India to make massive emission cuts for little benefit puts the Copenhagen meeting on a sure path to being another lost opportunity.",
        "期望中国和印度在受益很小的情况下进行大规模的碳排放减排，会将哥本哈根会议置于一条肯定是另一个失去的机会的道路之上。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The United States may be headed for a recession in 2013.",
        "美国剑桥—美国可能在2013年步入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Institutional investors have found it difficult to achieve positive real yields in any of the traditional safe-haven investments.",
        "机构投资者难以在任何传统安全投资中获得正实际收益率。"
    ],
    [
        "Lighthizer has gone on record to describe the WTO’s dispute-settlement system as harmful to America.",
        "莱西泽尔公然称世贸组织的纠纷解决体系有害于美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, by redrawing the region’s economic boundaries, the latest wave of violence has brought about a veritable trade shock, the true scale and significance of which has largely gone unnoticed.",
        "事实上，最近的暴力潮改写了中东地区的经济边界，造成了名副其实的贸易冲击，其真正的规模和影响却尚未被大部分人所认识。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has provided monetary support, gradually lowering interest rates and reserve requirements.",
        "中国人民银行也提供了一些货币政策支持，逐渐降低利率和准备金率。"
    ],
    [
        "Democrats are pushing for provisions to prohibit or limit currency-market intervention by central banks that is intended to give a country’s exporters a competitive edge.",
        "民主党正在推动禁止或限制货币市场被意在让本国出口商获得竞争优势的央行的操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "To some extent, Xtify is an echo of Weinreich’s other venture, MeetMoi, a real-time dating site that uses mobile-phone location technology and interest profiles to help users find like-minded strangers.",
        "在某种程度上，Xtify与韦瑞奇的另一间公司MeetMoi堪称遥相呼应。 而MeetMoi则是一家借助移动电话定位技术和兴趣分析来帮用户找到志趣相投者的实时约会网站。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palestinian government is united administratively, but divided politically.",
        "巴勒斯坦政府只是在行政上是联合的，但是在政治上却是分裂的。"
    ],
    [
        "The laughter should have gone in the opposite direction.",
        "嘲笑者和被嘲笑者应该换一下才对。"
    ],
    [
        "However, he is also a simple man who connected without effort to others.",
        "但是，他也是一个可以毫不费力地与他人沟通的简单人。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – On July 1, 17 years ago, I was sailing on Britain’s Royal Yacht away from Hong Kong where, at midnight the previous day, China assumed sovereignty under the terms of an international agreement with the United Kingdom (tabled at the United Nations) known as the Joint Declaration.",
        "伦敦—17年前的7月1日，我登上了英国皇家游艇离开香港。 前一天午夜，中国根据被称为中英联合声明（Joint Declaration）的国际协定（在联合国制定）收回香港主权。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the fate of Europe depends on Germany, and because the issuance of eurobonds will put Germany’s own credit standing at risk, the compromise will clearly have to put Germany in the driver’s seat.",
        "欧洲的命运唯德国马首是瞻，且欧元债券的发行将给德国自身信用带来危险，因此，要达成妥协，显然必须让德国来当主导者。"
    ],
    [
        "One of Japan’s persistent problems in recent years has been growing disenchantment with the political class and its inability to articulate a vision for the country’s future.",
        "近年困扰日本的其中一个顽疾就是人们对本国政治阶层的认识越来越清醒，也逐渐明白后者无法为国家的未来构筑一幅图景。"
    ],
    [
        "Although exact statistics are hard to come by, in 2003 approximately 35% of Baghdad’s population was Sunni.",
        "尽管准确的数据很难取得，但2003年巴格达的居民中逊尼派人占了大约35%。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while reducing mortality is already reason enough to want to immunize every child on the planet, now we have the added motivation that we are not just saving lives, but also helping to improve many more lives in the process.",
        "因此，尽管降低死亡率以足以作为给地球上每一位儿童实施免疫的理由，但如今我们又有了新的动机——我们不仅能拯救生命，也能帮助改善无数人的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no shortage of problems to worry about: the destructive power of our nuclear weapons, the pig-headed nature of our politics, the potentially enormous social disruptions that will be caused by climate change.",
        "值得担忧的问题多得是：核武器的破坏力、愚蠢固执的政治、气候变化所带来的巨大的潜在社会破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "The task is urgent, as the social and political implications of a prolonged period of no productivity or real wage growth may be very serious.",
        "这个任务极为紧迫，因为生产力或实际工资增长的长期缺乏会产生非常严重的社会和政治影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The program’s “hero,” Guo Haizao, is a fair-skinned and innocent 25-year-old woman living near Shanghai.",
        "剧中的主人翁郭海藻是一个貌美而单纯的少女， 25 岁，住在上海近郊。"
    ],
    [
        "If it is closing, it is doing so very slowly; the damage wrought by the crisis appears to be long term.",
        "如果这一差距正在缩小，那么速度也十分缓慢； 危机所造成的伤害似乎是长期的。"
    ],
    [
        "Austerity’s leading champion is, no surprise, Germany.",
        "毫不奇怪，鼓吹紧缩的旗手是德国。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, whereas the 2013 taper tantrum caught markets by surprise, the Fed’s intention to hike rates this year, clearly stated over many months, will not.",
        "首先，2013年的削减恐慌让市场措手不及，但美联储在今年升息的意图已经明确表态了好几个月，不会再让市场措手不及。"
    ],
    [
        "Their consequent reluctance to lend constrains investment.",
        "惜贷之风继续制约着投资。"
    ],
    [
        "It would, of course, be wiser to address the real problems facing GCC governments, which range from embittered minorities to economies that are unable to create enough jobs for young people.",
        "当然，更明智的办法是解决GCC政府面临的真正问题，包括怨声载道的少数族裔、无法为年轻人创造足够就业机会的经济等。"
    ],
    [
        "But Valls remains the only European politician to have highlighted the danger with the sense of urgency that it merits.",
        "但瓦尔斯仍然是唯一一位强调上述危险已经迫在眉睫的欧洲政治家。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor have his bluster and ill temper improved matters.",
        "他的咆哮和坏脾气也于事无补。"
    ],
    [
        "People close to Annan say that he hoped to build on these successes during the UN’s recently concluded summit.",
        "据安南身边的人透露，秘书长希望在联合国最近结束的会议上进一步扩大胜利的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "For China, by contrast, the share is just 4%.",
        "相反，中国的这一比例只有4%。"
    ],
    [
        "By affecting everything from the nature of work to what it means to be human, technological changes could prove overwhelming if we do not collaborate to understand and manage them.",
        "技术变革影响工作性质及生而为人的意义，如果我们无法合作来对其进行理解和管理，就有可能淹没在技术变革的大潮中。"
    ],
    [
        "As with all behaviors shaped by evolution, when the environment changes, there is a risk that existing adaptations become dysfunctional.",
        "而跟所有的进化行为一样，一旦环境发生变化，现有的适应特性有可能会功能失调。"
    ],
    [
        "According to public opinion polls, Royal is the clear favorite of the left and the only candidate able to defeat Sarkozy.",
        "民意测验的结果显示，罗亚尔显然受到左翼党派的青睐，是唯一有可能击败萨尔柯齐的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "The “main stream” of China’s economy is the vast flow of inward investment.",
        "中国经济的“主流”是国内投资的巨大洪流。"
    ],
    [
        "After the Great Depression of the 1930’s, the vast wave of investment in industrial capacity during World War II made up the shortfall of the lost decade.",
        "20世纪30年代大萧条结束后，二战期间工业产能投资潮弥补了失去的十年留下的空缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s own game of prime ministerial “musical chairs” does not reflect a desire to secure for himself a quiet position behind the scenes while someone else rules, for he knows all too well that the path from the Kremlin leads only to inner exile and the grave.",
        "普京自己所玩的这个总理宝座的“换椅子游戏”并不是想要在别人当政的时候自己能够悄悄地躲在幕后，因为他非常清楚从克里姆林宫出来后的路只会通向在国内流放以及墓地。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, that promises to save many lives.",
        "最终，这可以拯救大量生命。"
    ],
    [
        "The French have a long tradition of respecting the privacy of their politicians’ personal lives, and French public opinion is more broad-minded than in the United States, where an unwed mother of four would have no chance of being nominated for the presidency by a major party.",
        "法国人具有尊重政治人物个人生活隐私的悠久传统，而法国的舆论也要比美国的更为宽宏大量。 在美国，一个没有结婚的四个孩子的母亲是没有机会被提名成为一个主要政党总统候选人的。"
    ],
    [
        "This would make these legislatures more credible, and their laws more just.",
        "这将令这些立法机构变得更加可信，也使它们制订的法律更加公正。"
    ],
    [
        "But the central government enjoyed a 28% increase in revenues over the last year, and has more than $3 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves.",
        "但中央政府去年财政收入增长高达28%，而且握有超过3万亿美元的外汇储备。"
    ],
    [
        "The first might be called the Crime Fallacy.",
        "首先是所谓犯罪谬误。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s ambivalent stance on human rights and democracy under Lula goes hand in hand with its attitude toward nuclear proliferation.",
        "卢拉还对查韦斯在委内瑞拉日益严厉的统治手段不闻不问，从未就委国拘禁反对派、阻挠新闻出版、反对工人或学生结社、操纵选举等事发出质询或抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "If they act at all, they mobilize peacekeepers, international sanctions, and humanitarian aid.",
        "一旦行动，他们就会动用和平维护者、国际制裁和人道主义援助。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, the West is vague enough to include a vast array of areas without describing their unifying characteristics.",
        "在现实中，西方是含糊不清的，包括大量领域而并不确定其统一的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is not at all clear that anyone else is willing and able to say yes.",
        "而且根本就不明确哪个国家愿意并且能够说“是”。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that growth opportunities in emerging markets have disappeared, but expectations do need to be recalibrated.",
        "这并不意味着新兴市场的增长机会已经消失，而是预期水平必须被重新调整。 尽管在过去10年内实现了蓬勃增长，但中国国内依然有1."
    ],
    [
        "The Iranian leadership formed after the revolution consisted of a narrow ruling stratum and a much broader supporting group that was given charge of administration and political mobilization.",
        "革命后上台的伊朗领导层是由数量较小的统治阶层和大量的支持者组成，而这些支持者则被任命去掌控政府的官僚机构以及执行政治动员工作。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has yet to build a strong defense system that can respond effectively either to regional contingencies or to global needs.",
        "但是欧盟尚未建立强大的防卫系统以有效地应付地区性紧急局势或者全球性需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixth, some extreme political conservatives, especially in the United States, hyped gold in ways that ended up being counterproductive.",
        "第六，有些极端政治保守派（尤其是在美国）用一种最终起到反作用的方式来鼓吹黄金。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, corporate profits have soared, and tax revenues have increased by more than ¥20 trillion ($188 billion).",
        "此外，公司利润大幅增长，税收收入增加了20万亿多日元。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorist attacks have occurred subsequently in Indonesia, Madrid, London, Egypt, and most recently Mumbai.",
        "恐怖主义袭击随后又在印尼、马德里、伦敦、埃及以及最近的孟买发生。"
    ],
    [
        "But since Lebanon was torn apart thirty years ago by civil war and violence, exacerbated by PLO, Israeli, Syrian, French, and US military incursions, not a single Muslim has lived in an electorally competitive Arab state.",
        "但是，自从黎巴嫩三十年前由于内战和暴力活动而分裂、其形势因巴勒斯坦解放组织（PLO）、以色列、叙利亚、法国和美国的武力入侵而雪上加霜以来，没有一个穆斯林人居住在一个具备竞争选举制度的阿拉伯国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, social Darwinism provided a pseudo-scientific justification for the American belief in laissez-faire (with the successful businessman epitomizing the survival of the fittest); for eugenics (the deliberate attempt to breed superior individuals, on the model of horse-breeding, and prevent the “over-breeding” of the unfit); and for the eugenic-cum-racial theories of Nazism.",
        "事实上，社会达尔文主义为美国人的自由放任信仰（成功商人即生存下来的适者）、优生学（按照育马模式有意识地选育超级个人，防止不适者的“过度繁育”）以及纳粹的优等人种理论提供了伪科学的论据。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that in most countries, the era of sleep therapy will come to an early end.",
        "我相信在大多数国家，休眠疗法的时代会很快结束。"
    ],
    [
        "But accomplishing that is easier said than done.",
        "但说起来容易做起来难。"
    ],
    [
        "Plenty of people – including many of the world’s wealthy – recognize how unacceptable severe inequality is, both morally and economically.",
        "包括许多富人在内的全球各界人士都认识到严重的不平等在道德和经济上是多么令人无法接受。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin’s actions directly challenged key principles that have guided Europe for more than six decades, particularly the renunciation of the use of force to alter national borders.",
        "克里姆林宫的行为直接挑战了六十多年来欧洲的关键指导原则，特别是不再使用武力改变国家边界的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "This bubble, like all bubbles, will burst, triggering a much more severe crisis than that of 2008.",
        "这个泡沫会像所有泡沫那样破裂，由此引发的危机将比2008年严重得多。"
    ],
    [
        "In earlier decades, countries held dollars because they needed to have a highly liquid and widely accepted currency to bridge the financing gap if their imports exceeded their exports.",
        "几十年前，各国持有美元的原因是它们需要高流动性、被广泛接受的货币弥补进口超过出口的差额。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 80% of HIV/AIDS patients reside in the countryside, greater access to health care in these areas has become a priority.",
        "由于80%的HIV/艾滋病患者处在乡下，对这些地区的卫生保健工作就成了当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "Most economies are more open today than they were a generation ago.",
        "如今，大部分经济体比一代人之前开放了很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, external support helped the region’s heavily indebted countries face the twin tasks of implementing structural reforms and coping with financial instability.",
        "最后，外部支持帮助该地区重债国直面实施结构性改革和处理金融动荡的双重挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of the NSA scandal, an unequivocal apology by Obama is the only viable solution to leave the past behind and move forward.",
        "在美国国安局丑闻中，由奥巴马做出明确道歉是告别过去、重新前进的唯一可行办法。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is more likely to be found in the Treaty’s simplification, taking out those elements that are not absolutely necessary, and also enriching it in such areas as climate change.",
        "答案也许存在于简化条约，把那些并非完全必要的条款拿掉，同时丰富在诸如气候变化领域的条款。"
    ],
    [
        "With peace plans and envoys coming and going, Israelis and Palestinians alike have finally become blasé about the chances of a final settlement. The two-state solution is rapidly losing its appeal.",
        "随着和平方案和特使们像走马灯似的换了又换，以色列和巴勒斯坦人都开始对达成最终解决方案的可能性感到厌倦了，就连两国分治方案也迅速失去了吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Gülen followers have disagreed with several of the government’s policies, they largely backed the AKP in the last three elections.",
        "尽管葛兰运动追随者不同意政府的某些政策，但他们在过去三次选举中仍大多支持AKP。"
    ],
    [
        "We propose a carbon “price-and-rebate” mechanism, which simultaneously sets a price on emissions above a certain threshold and defines how the revenues raised should be used.",
        "我们建议采取“定价和返现”机制，制定一个高于某个阈值的排放价格，同时明确所得收入如何使用。"
    ],
    [
        "One central finding is that development focused specifically on rural communities has a major positive impact on incomes, security, and food and nutrition.",
        "一个核心发现是专门针对农村社区的发展能带来巨大的收入、安全以及粮食和营养方面的积极效应。"
    ],
    [
        "What perverse reason could Abe have for pursuing such an outcome?",
        "究竟是什么变态理由导致安倍试图做出这样的结论？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Al Qaeda uses poetry to address the challenges that it faces.",
        "而且，基地组织使用诗词来处理它所面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government just announced one.",
        "事实上，法国总统尼古拉·萨尔科齐政府就刚刚宣布了一项财政货币贬值计划。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the global financial crisis triggered a shift in the relative price of assets worldwide.",
        "与此同时，世界金融危机引发了全球资产相对价格的转换。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, Europe’s leaders must recognize that, by increasing its engagement in Asia, the US is not turning away from its European partners.",
        "与此同时，欧洲领导人必须认识到，通过更多地参与亚洲，美国并没有与其欧洲伙伴国渐行渐远。"
    ],
    [
        "At the national level, reform of social protection systems in developed countries, and the expansion of such systems in developing countries, should seek to ensure greater economic security as well as labor flexibility.",
        "在国家层面上，在发达国家进行的社会保障体制改革以及在发展中国家进行的扩大社会保障范围的努力，应该在寻求保证更多的劳动力弹性的同时，保证更大的经济安全。"
    ],
    [
        "It is particularly vociferous in “hard times.”",
        "这种主张在“艰难时世”时尤其叫嚣得厉害。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2050, there will most likely be more than nine billion people.",
        "到2050年，地球人口极有可能将突破90亿。"
    ],
    [
        "Is a forced bankruptcy in extremely fragile global financial markets what the French government wanted for Société Générale?",
        "对于兴业银行而言，法国政府果真想要在极为动荡不安的全球金融市场上被迫破产吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Electricity usage is typically one of the most reliable measures of growth; but, with the economy shifting toward services, and with many energy-intensive industries such as cement and steel production slowing down, it is perfectly possible that slow electricity growth is simply a symptom of rebalancing.",
        "用电量通常是最可靠的增长指标之一； 但是，随着经济向服务业的转型，以及许多能源密集型行业（如水泥和钢铁）生产放缓，电力增长缓慢完全有可能只是再平衡的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and others have blamed the financial crisis of 2008 on a global savings glut, which fuelled flows of money from high-savings emerging-market economies – especially in Asia – that run chronic balance-of-payments surpluses.",
        "美联储主席伯南克和其他人指责2008年金融危机的罪魁是全球储蓄泛滥，储蓄泛滥导致资金从长期以来存在国际收支盈余的高储蓄新兴市场经济体，特别是亚洲，源源不断地流出。"
    ],
    [
        "Reactions differ across countries, of course.",
        "当然，不同国家的反应各不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Both breakthroughs constitute a stunning advance in stem cell research.",
        "这两项突破成为了干细胞研究中令人瞩目的一个进步。"
    ],
    [
        "But the bottom line is simple: Leaving the EU would make Britain much worse off.",
        "但底线很简单：离开欧盟只会让英国的境况变得更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments, however, need to understand the barriers to investment: regulatory failures; weak enablers, including financial and human capital; poor infrastructure; and substandard technology.",
        "但是，政府需要明白投资的壁垒：监管失灵； 疲软的推动因子（包括金融和人力资本）；"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – America, once again, will have a divided government, with the Democrats holding the White House, and the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress.",
        "纽约—美国将再次迎来分裂的政府，民主党保有白宫，共和党控制国会两院。"
    ],
    [
        "A newer insight would be: multilingualism broadens the mind.",
        "一种更新的洞察告诉我们：使用多种语言的能力能够开阔我们的心胸。"
    ],
    [
        "China joined Russia, Brazil, India, and South Africa in establishing the New Development Bank, to be based in Shanghai.",
        "中国联合俄罗斯、巴西和南非成立了新开发银行（New Development Bank），并将总部设在了上海。"
    ],
    [
        "Skeptics might say that they should just focus on fixing the things that locals care about, such as education or infrastructure, or improve everybody’s “business environment.”",
        "怀疑论者可能会说他们应该只关注教育或基础设施等当地人关心的领域，或者改善所有人的“商业环境”。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign interference has become routine in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen.",
        "叙利亚、黎巴嫩、伊拉克和也门遭受外国干预也已成为家常便饭。"
    ],
    [
        "As growing instability exacerbates social tensions, ethnic conflict, radicalization, and violent extremism become increasingly likely.",
        "随着日益增长的不稳定加剧社会动荡，种族冲突、激进化和暴力极端主义的可能性也会日益增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Egypt gravitate toward Islamic theocracy or adopt a secular government that respects minority rights?",
        "埃及将滑向伊斯兰神权政体，还是会产生一个尊重少数派权利的世俗政府？"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, the September 11 attacks were by a human enemy, and despite inadequate domestic preparations for such an event, Americans’ anger was directed outward.",
        "原因之一是，9月11日袭击的制造者是人类中的敌人，尽管国内对这样的紧急状况准备不足，但美国人把愤怒都指向了国外的强敌。"
    ],
    [
        "What strikes me now, all these years later, is that a generation of leaders won not only a war, but also the peace.",
        "多年以后，如今让我震惊的是一代领导人不但赢得了战争，还赢得了和平。"
    ],
    [
        "As with peace processes in the Middle East and Central America following the Cold War’s end, regional changes created the conditions for the start of the Colombian process.",
        "正如中东和中美洲随着冷战的结束迎来和平进程一样，地区变化创造了开启哥伦比亚和平进程的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Which group should be the first to make a sacrifice?",
        "哪个社会群体该为全民利益第一个作出牺牲？"
    ],
    [
        "By mapping the major social, political, and economic obstacles to Internet adoption, the index can help make efforts by governments and network and service providers as targeted and efficient as possible.",
        "通过确定互联网应用的主要社会、政治和经济障碍，该指数有助于提高政府、网络和服务提供商工作的针对性和效率。"
    ],
    [
        "But globalization makes the weakest among us more visible, and therefore makes the absence of social justice more unacceptable.",
        "但全球化也凸显了弱者的处境，从而令社会公正的缺位显得尤其不可容忍。"
    ],
    [
        "That will be the test of his leadership.",
        "这将是对奥巴马领导能力的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "With less invested in the system, advocates for such a system will have less incentive to push for it.",
        "随着对这一体系的投资的减少，其支持者推动它的激励也将减少。"
    ],
    [
        "But the monetary union itself turned out to be a gigantic banana skin, inducing capital flows that pushed up costs around the European periphery.",
        "但货币联盟本身就是一块巨大的香蕉皮，它所带来的资本流动推高了欧洲外围的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran could also interfere with oil traffic, leading to a spike in prices and delivering a further blow to American and global economic recovery.",
        "伊朗还可以切断石油运输线路，迫使油价飙升，进而沉重打击美国以及全球的经济复苏进程。"
    ],
    [
        "What has taken the form of an anti-EU vote constitutes in reality a protest against socio-economic problems at home.",
        "以反欧盟选票面目出现的现象代表的是反对国内社会经济问题的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "And even eliminating accelerated depreciation would not broaden the tax base enough to finance a rate cut to 28%.",
        "即使取消加速折旧也不可能让税基扩大到足够的程度补偿税率削减至28%的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Public security is a pre-requisite for freedom, and protecting freedom is at the core of a democratic state’s responsibility for public security.",
        "公共安全是自由的前提条件，而保障自由则是民众国家公共安全的核心问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowhere is that more evident than in China.",
        "这并不是说亚洲消费者的需求没有增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But this means that newspapers, in order to survive, will have to abandon their top-down tone, their “we decide what's important” sense of hierarchy, and create more collaborative kinds of documentation and feedback with citizens.",
        "这就意味着报纸为了自身生存，将不得不放弃他们那种居高临下的口吻，他们那种类似“什么重要由我们说了算”的统治阶级观念，并同普通公民一道创造更多具有协作性的文献资料和信息反馈。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the US spends just $18 billion, roughly 0.16% of GNP, on development aid.",
        "而美国所提供的发展援助仅180亿美元，约占其GNP的0. 16%。"
    ],
    [
        "All Iraqis or just the Shia among them?",
        "是所有伊拉克人还是只是其中的什叶派？"
    ],
    [
        "Congress thus has adequate time to develop a sensible long-term plan to stabilize the debt without endangering the recovery.",
        "因此国会有足够的时间来制定一个明智的计划用以稳定债务水平同时不用危及到经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there already is a proliferation of regional development banks, from the Inter-American Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank to the more modestly capitalized African Development Bank.",
        "此外，从美洲开发银行到亚洲开发银行再到资本更小的非洲开发银行，区域性开发银行已经遍地都是。"
    ],
    [
        "LAGUNA BEACH – This has been an unusual year for the global economy, characterized by a series of unanticipated economic, geopolitical, and market shifts – and the final quarter is likely to be no different.",
        "发自加州拉古纳海滩——对全球经济来说这都是不寻常的一年，充斥着一系列意料之外的经济，地缘政治和市场动荡——而最后一个季度也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Such deficits, together with high inflation rates, earned Brazil, Turkey, and South Africa their membership on the Fragile Five list of countries that were hit particularly hard by Bernanke’s announcement in 2013.",
        "上述赤字加之通胀率高企，使巴西、土耳其、南非等脆弱五国在2013年伯南克宣布加息预期时受到最沉重的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Then all employees would begin to feel as if they did not have a real job.",
        "随后所有雇员都会觉得他们没有真正的工作岗位似的。"
    ],
    [
        "While not flawless, the Victims and Land Restitution Law clearly helped pave the way for peace and national reconciliation in Colombia.",
        "尽管并非无懈可击，但被害人及土地赔偿法显然为哥伦比亚和平及民族和解铺平了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel has reacted positively to the will of the young generation, but it cannot and should not intervene in events in the Arab world.",
        "以色列积极响应年青一代的志愿，但不能也不应该干预阿拉伯世界的事务。"
    ],
    [
        "Or they may be struggling to introduce democratic accountability while maintaining stability, as in Egypt.",
        "或许他们一方面采用民主问责制，一方面却保持着稳定性，例如埃及。"
    ],
    [
        "His memory will be cherished for as long as history continues to be written.",
        "只要历史延续下去，对他的记忆就会珍藏在人们心间。"
    ],
    [
        "Here is the crux of the issue.",
        "问题的要害就在这里。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, 92% of the labor force is employed in the informal sector.",
        "事实上，92%的劳动力都在非正式部门就业。"
    ],
    [
        "This Confucian tradition aims to influence contemporary politics, but it also remains separate from state power and orthodoxy, always ready to point to the gap between ideals and reality.",
        "这一儒家传统志在影响当今政治，但是又分立于国家权力和正统，时刻准备指出理想与现实之间的差距。"
    ],
    [
        "It is arguable, for example, that Chinese socialism provided a strong launching pad for growth, particularly in terms of a solid base of education and health, rural electrification, a safety net enabled by equitable distribution of land rights, regional economic decentralization, and high female participation in the labor force.",
        "比如说，中国的社会主义经济政策给教育和医疗卫生打下了坚实的基础，实现了农村电气化，构建了由平均地权支撑的社会安全网络，下放给地方发展经济的权力，以及鼓励妇女积极参加工作，因此也为后来的高速增长提供了强大的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "But Shia leaders will lose their constituents’ support if they formally surrender any of the powers denied them for decades under Saddam.",
        "但如果什叶派领导人正式交出萨达姆治下几十年一直被剥夺的权力，将会失去自己选民的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Authorities resisted, blamed speculators, and then, usually over a frantic few days, gave in.",
        "而政府一般不肯就范，还指责投机者，但在匆忙抵挡了几天之后必定败下阵来。"
    ],
    [
        "For China’s, the income effect of global demand is significantly larger than the price effect of the exchange rate.",
        "对中国来说，全球需求所带来的收入效应比汇率所带来的价格效应要大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "A central pillar of this effort is the “Compact with Africa,” which provides a framework for supporting private investment, including in infrastructure.",
        "这方面的一个核心支柱是“非洲契约”，它提供了一个支持私人投资（包括基础设施投资）的框架。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to understand the conflict, it is useful to compare the Fed’s independence with that of the Bank of England and the European Central Bank.",
        "为了理解这一冲突，有必要在此将美联储的独立性与英格兰银行及欧洲央行进行一些比较。"
    ],
    [
        "And the bankers and financiers who are widely blamed for the crisis will remain in the sin bin for a while yet, until voters’ expectations of economic and financial stability are more consistently satisfied.",
        "被广泛指责为危机原因的银行家和金融家将继续背负罪名，直到选民对经济和金融稳定的预期得到更加一致的满足。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in Turkey’s view, they should not have to cross the border to be safe.",
        "但是，在土耳其看来，他们不需要逃到国外寻找安全。"
    ],
    [
        "But it’s more complicated in Eastern Europe.",
        "但东欧的情况其实更为复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, far from being a disadvantage, her peripheral position is one of her main assets.",
        "这就是为什么她的边缘立场不仅不是弱点，反而是其主要优势之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Total US saving – the sum total of the saving of families, businesses, and the government sector – amounted to just 2.6% of national income in the fourth quarter of 2015.",
        "美国的总储蓄额——家庭，企业和政府部门储蓄额的总和——在2015年第四季度仅占国民收入的2. 6％，相对去年同期下降了0."
    ],
    [
        "Following this revelation, a British research team reported a clinical trial that they had carried out more than a decade earlier.",
        "这项研究公布后，一个英国研究小组报告了他们在十多年前进行的一项临床试验。"
    ],
    [
        "The quarrel between Europe and America is blocking concerted action by the two main Western economies, thereby weakening the West as a whole.",
        "欧美之间的争论阻止了两大西方经济体采取统一行动，进而从整体上削弱了西方的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Progress is being made in some agencies.",
        "一些机构正在出现进步。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was never intended to do that.",
        "但是，欧元本来就没有想要那么做。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s Unrealpolitik",
        "特朗普的不现实政治"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, too, is feeling the pressure of lower oil prices, both on its current budget and in terms of its ability to pursue further energy-sector development.",
        "俄罗斯也正在感受低油价的压力，其经常预算和进一步发展能源业的能力都在受到冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "But should investors still be nervous?",
        "但投资者应该继续保持紧张吗？"
    ],
    [
        "If Trump does choose a more hawkish monetary-policy approach, it will have an ambiguous impact on the dollar, owing to his other proposals’ downstream effects.",
        "如果特朗普真的选择更加鹰派的货币政策方针，其对美元的影响是模糊的，因为他的其他方案会产生贬值效应。"
    ],
    [
        "China rejected the ruling, and an icy chill overcame the once-friendly bilateral relationship.",
        "中国拒绝了这一裁决，曾经友好的两国关系也急转直下。"
    ],
    [
        "But letting questionable banks gradually recapitalize themselves and resolving the bad debt later – perhaps with European Brady Bonds (zero-coupon bonds which in the 1990’s enabled US banks and Latin American countries to agree to partial write-downs) – won’t work if the losses are too large or the recovery is too fragile.",
        "因为如果损失规模过大或者复苏太过脆弱的话，任由有问题的银行逐渐自我资产重组并随后解决问题债券——或许是通过欧洲版的布雷迪债券（于1990年代创设，使美国各大银行能部分减免拉美各国债务的零息债券，以时任美国财政部长布雷迪得名）——的方式将无法生效。"
    ],
    [
        "Following NATO’s intervention, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1244, placing Kosovo under UN administration.",
        "在北约干涉后，联合国安理会全票通过了第1244决议，将科索沃置于联合国的管理之下。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s relatively high rate encourages US companies to locate their investment, production, and employment in foreign countries, and discourages foreign companies from locating in the US, which means slower growth, fewer jobs, smaller productivity gains, and lower real wages.",
        "美国相对较高的税率无异于鼓励美国公司将投资、生产和招聘放到国外去进行，也阻止了外国公司前来美国，而这又意味着更慢的增长、更少的就业岗位、更小的生产率改进以及更低的真实工资。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, experts in the United States, Canada, Germany, Israel, and elsewhere have responded critically to the prospect of Britain unilaterally undermining the consensus that prohibits such techniques.",
        "美国、加拿大、德国、以色列和其他地方的专家因此对英国单方面违反共识可能导致的结果持批评态度。"
    ],
    [
        "The change in Bangladesh is stark.",
        "孟加拉国的变化是惊人的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the Republicans now control 33 governorships, compared to 16 for the Democrats, and have expanded their already-large majorities in state legislatures.",
        "此外共和党目前控制了33个州，而民主党只有16个，并扩大了各州议会中本已占大多数的席位。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies often lay off a whole department of scientists to shift to a new product, destroying not only human capital, but also human lives.",
        "公司为了转向新产品而砍掉整个部门的科学家稀松平常，这不仅伤害了人力资本，也有损于人民生活。"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities that arrested Hadjiev last month made no pretense of due process: they offered no arrest warrant, and have repeatedly refused him access to relatives and legal counsel.",
        "上个月逮捕Hadjiev的部门连走形式的正当程序都没有执行：他们没有出示逮捕令，并一次次拒绝他见亲友和律师。"
    ],
    [
        "Some worried that recapitalizing the banks would reward the very institutions that had caused the problem.",
        "有人担心注资银行恰恰会奖励那些应该为此次危机负责的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "And it motivates the new China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which aims to fill the region’s supposed $8 trillion infrastructure gap.",
        "它催生了以中国为首的新亚洲基础设施投资银行（AIIB），其目的是填补该地区据称达8万亿美元的基础设施投资差距。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear generates a demand for more security that is in the end paralyzing.",
        "恐惧所激发的对更强安全感的需求最终会让市场瘫痪。"
    ],
    [
        "Robotization Without Taxation?",
        "无需征税的机器人化?"
    ],
    [
        "This does not mean that either fiscal policy or monetary policy has graduated to the status of a science like chemistry, underpinned by natural laws that generate precisely foreseeable outcomes.",
        "这并不意味着财政政策或货币政策就成熟到像化学一样能成为一门学科。 化学以产生精确可见结果的自然法则为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Development has been slow. The build-up of the Afghan army and police has lagged. The poppy crop has grown.",
        "在这种情况下，阿富汗的发展异常缓慢，政府军和警察部队的建设也断断续续。"
    ],
    [
        "While others took risks or sat in jails, they functioned in official and legal structures.",
        "当其他人冒险或者蹲监狱的时候，他们在官场和法律界活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the judiciary, a slew of institutions, including the federal police and the finance ministry, have taken part and worked in synch.",
        "除司法机关外，一系列机构，包括联邦警察和财政部，也都同步参与了调查。"
    ],
    [
        "Strategies for Responsible Gene Editing",
        "负责任的基因治疗策略"
    ],
    [
        "This time, manufacturing employment has actually fallen during the expansion, something unprecedented in American history.",
        "这一次，制造业就业在扩张时期实际上下降了，这在美国历史上是前所未有的。"
    ],
    [
        "The final, overarching message of the British court's decision is one that all countries should heed.",
        "英国法院判决的最后一个影响深远的意义所有国家都应该注意。"
    ],
    [
        "Greater help for these countries to escape from extreme poverty has been promised for decades but has not been delivered.",
        "数十年来，向这些国家提供更多使其脱离极度贫困的承诺一再出现，却从未兑现。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to put aside crowd-pleasing calls for President Bashar al-Assad’s removal (though obviously he must go) and work harder with international partners, including Russia and China – both of which should, quite frankly, rank higher than Syria in terms of their importance to US foreign policy.",
        "我们需要放弃要求叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德下台的呼吁，这只能徒增笑柄（尽管他显然应该下台），转而致力于斡旋包括俄罗斯和中国在内的国际伙伴——毫无疑问，对于美国的外交政策，这两个国家的重要性远远高过叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, there were enough industrial jobs for less-educated voters to make a decent living.",
        "在过去，有足够的产业工作岗位留给教育程度较低的选民，让他们过上体面的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Some might object that Chinese data cannot be trusted.",
        "有人或许会反对，认为中国的数据不可信。"
    ],
    [
        "The FA and clubs across the UK are scrambling to conduct investigations and reviews.",
        "英国足总和英国各俱乐部也在纷纷进行调查和评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike markets, which reward the wealthy and successful, social democracy is premised on the principle of civic equality.",
        "市场奖励有钱人和成功者，与此不同，社会民主建立在公民平等（civic equality）的前提上。"
    ],
    [
        "The time has come to test Iran’s intentions by reaching something like the two-phased agreements outlined here – a longer-term, step-by-step process with reciprocal actions, in which each side must give something to get what it needs.",
        "现在是对伊朗的考验时刻，他们到底有没有形成本文所列举的两阶段协定——一个长期的、逐步实现的过程，需要协定各方精诚合作，给予对方所欲之物——的意愿？"
    ],
    [
        "President Vladimir Putin’s pretense that Russian troops were not participating in the fighting was all but shattered recently, when a Russian fighter in Donetsk confirmed to the BBC Russian service that they are playing a decisive role in rebel advances.",
        "普京总统有关俄军并未参战的假象最近几乎被彻底打破，一名顿涅茨克的俄罗斯战士向BBC俄语广播证实俄军在叛军推进中所起作用是决定性的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had brought a lawsuit against the four, actions that included taking huge financial risks while “knowing that the real estate market was in a ‘bubble.’”",
        "联邦存款保险公司（FDIC）早前向这四人发起诉讼，指控他们在“明知房地产市场正处于‘泡沫’的情况下”依然承担巨额财政风险等行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, that is not an option.",
        "显然，这已无从发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Some banks and businesses now offer zero-cost remittance services to attract customers.",
        "一些银行和企业现在提供零成本侨汇服务以吸引客户。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the full implications of this uniquely high ratio for macroeconomic stability need further investigation, it certainly implies financial fragility and a weakening of the PBOC’s ability to control overall liquidity in the economy.",
        "尽管这种特有的高比率对宏观经济稳定的全面影响需要进一步的证实，它肯定意味着金融脆弱性和中国人民银行对经济中总体流动性控制力的削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "It left out other emerging powers like Brazil and India.",
        "它一方面把巴西和印度等正在崛起的大国排除在外；"
    ],
    [
        "And the European Central Bank is now pondering just how fast to taper its own QE policy in 2018, and when to start phasing out negative interest rates, too.",
        "欧洲央行现在也在考虑2018年推出其自身的QE政策的节奏，以及何时也开始退出负利率。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve this, Afghanistan needs more development assistance.",
        "为了实现这一目标，阿富汗需要更多的国际援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, a total of nine laboratory-confirmed cases of yellow fever imported from Angola have been reported by the National IHR Focal Point of China.",
        "目前，中国《国际卫生条例》国家归口单位报告了总共九例经实验室确认的来自安哥拉的输入性病例。"
    ],
    [
        "New markets and spheres for applying one’s intellect, education, and talents are appearing constantly.",
        "能够发挥个人智慧、教育和才能的新兴市场及领域正在不断涌现。"
    ],
    [
        "Saying No to the Warmongers",
        "对战争贩子说不"
    ],
    [
        "This explains growing concern about the role of trade in development, despite the obvious fact that increased global trade has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in recent decades.",
        "这解释了在关于贸易在发展中的角色上争论日渐增加的原因，尽管显而易见的事实是几十年来全球贸易的增加让数亿人走出了贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Gross merchandise volume in online retail sales is approaching CN¥2 trillion ($316 billion), and growing at a rate of 40-60% annually.",
        "在线零售总额接近2万亿人民币（折合3160亿美元），且年增长率达到40%~60%。"
    ],
    [
        "Many believe that once you have built up this ecosystem, à la Silicon Valley, you can become the next Route 128 in Massachusetts, the next Research Triangle in North Carolina, or the next Start-Up Israel.",
        "许多人相信一旦建立起这样的硅谷生态系统，你就可以打造出下一条马萨诸塞州128号公路、坐拥下一个北卡罗来纳州三角研究园或者初创阶段的以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "New rules to require end-users (such as oil companies using derivatives to guard against unexpected oil-price changes) and others to put up good collateral are being developed.",
        "一系列新条例要求最终使用者（比如利用衍生品来对抗油价意外波动的石油企业）和其他参与者提供优质附属担保品。"
    ],
    [
        "But the crises they cause may be different in degree and substance.",
        "但它们可能会造成程度和内容不同的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kaczynskis want to destroy the “corrupt system composed of careerist politicians, post-communists, former secret service functionaries, and criminal organizations,” who, according to the twins, have ruled Poland since 1989.",
        "古钦斯基兄弟想要彻底击毁由政治野心家、后共产主义者、前秘密警察部门官员和犯罪组织组成的腐败体系。 在古钦斯基兄弟看来，这一体系在1989年后一直霸占着波兰政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the same market-concentration problem applies to other links in the value chain, such as agricultural traders and supermarkets.",
        "事实上，相同的市场集中问题在价值链的其他环节也存在，比如农业贸易商和超级市场。"
    ],
    [
        "This compares favorably with last year’s 4.7% rate, and is close to the 7.7% average recorded in the decade up to 2012.",
        "这比去年4. 7%的注资漂亮不少，已接近于截至2012年的十年的平均增长记录。"
    ],
    [
        "From my perspective, however, Petraeus did the right thing: resigning was the only course open to him if he is to have any chance of repairing his reputation.",
        "但是，从我的角度看，彼得雷乌斯做出了正确的选择：辞职是他唯一可走的路，如果他想弥补自己的名声的话。"
    ],
    [
        "What Is the International Community?",
        "什么是国际社会？"
    ],
    [
        "But this claim will be devalued if the so far successful international interventions in Bosnia or Kosovo end in tragedy.",
        "但是如果迄今为止在波斯尼亚或科索沃成功的国际干涉最终以悲剧告终的话，这样的说法就不会有那么大的说服力。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the one-child policy, data released by China’s health ministry in 2013 indicate that from 1971 to 2012, 336 million abortions – more than the entire US population – were carried out in registered facilities alone.",
        "至于一胎政策，据中国卫生部门2013年公布的数据看，从1971—2012年，光是注册家庭就发生了3. 36亿起堕胎——比美国人口总数还要大。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a safe bet that shrimp and squid populations will suffer, as they did in the Ixtoc case, but so is a close-to-complete recovery within a limited number of years.",
        "但几乎可以肯定虾类和乌贼种群将像“伊克斯托克”油井事故中那样受到打击，但只需几年时间这种影响即可恢复如初。"
    ],
    [
        "But the expansionary monetary policies that advanced-country central banks pursued after the crisis made a bad situation worse.",
        "但危机后发达国家央行所采取扩张性货币政策让情况雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "ECB intervention helped, but it did not cure the problem.",
        "欧洲央行介入了，收到了一定成效，但并未解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The global configuration of America’s military is also changing.",
        "美军的全球部署也发生着变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The cult of Churchill has not been an altogether beneficial one for the United States.",
        "丘吉尔崇拜对于美国来说有百害而无一利。"
    ],
    [
        "Eurozone financial markets have stabilized, and the euro has appreciated against the dollar and the yen.",
        "欧元区金融市场已经稳定了，且欧元对美元和日元实现了升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Other possible priorities hardly ever entered political discussions.",
        "其他潜在首要政策几乎都无法被纳入政治辩论中。"
    ],
    [
        "But making explicit what lies implicit can sharpen US decision-making.",
        "”但这还不足以成为实践指南。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that politics everywhere is Aristotelian: concerned with virtue.",
        "问题在于所有的政治都是亚里士多德政治：关注美德。"
    ],
    [
        "Disease prevention movements must also develop persuasive narratives, and “F” – framing the issue – was essential to the AIDS community’s effort to gain support from political leaders.",
        "疾病预防运动还必须发展出有说服力的叙事，而F——界定（frame）问题——是艾滋病界赢得政治领导人支持的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, despite progressive reforms like these, students across Africa still face other steep barriers to a truly comprehensive education.",
        "不幸的是，尽管实施了这些渐进式改革，非洲的学生们在实现真正全面教育方面依然面临这其他严重阻碍。"
    ],
    [
        "There is still time to avert these frightening effects.",
        "我们仍有时间来避免这些令人恐惧的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But one should not talk about this openly.”",
        "’但你不应该公开这样说。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "And the gas deals do not make up for Russia’s lost access to the Western technology that it needs to develop frontier Arctic fields and become an energy superpower, not just China’s gas station.",
        "天然气协议也不能弥补俄罗斯失去西方技术的损失。 俄罗斯需要西方技术开发北冰洋边缘油田并成为能源超级大国而不只是中国的天然气站。"
    ],
    [
        "Afflicted by a profound sense of amnesia, central banks have repeated the same mistake they made in the pre-crisis froth of 2003-2007 – over staying excessively accommodative monetary policies.",
        "罹患严重失忆症的央行重蹈了它们在2003~07年危机前的覆辙——在过长时期内维持过度宽松的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost all of the world’s developed countries consider themselves, and are, social democracies: mixed economies with very large governments performing a wide array of welfare and social insurance functions, and removing large chunks of wealth and commodity distribution from the market.",
        "几乎所有的世界发达国家都自认为是社会民主政体，奉行混合经济体制，由庞大的政府实行多种社会福利和保障体制，以政府行为代替市场调节进行大部分社会财富和生活物资的分配调节工作。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to understand why the US does so little to advance the goal of regional stabilization, especially since it still retains considerable leverage in this respect.",
        "难以理解的是美国为何在实现地区稳定方面几乎无所作为，特别是在它还游刃有余的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the crisis has underscored the need for a single supervisor that is not captured by local interests.",
        "首先，这场危机体现出我们需要一个不会被本地利益绑架的单一监督机构。"
    ],
    [
        "In a way, the killings at Srebrenica also were affected by the memories of World War II.",
        "在某种程度上，斯雷布雷尼察屠杀也受到了二战记忆的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The more the negotiators secure in one area, the more they will have to compromise elsewhere.",
        "谈判者在一个领域得到的越多，在其他领域就需要作出更大的让步。"
    ],
    [
        "It manages to combine technology-driven cycles of booms and recessions with markets that always clear (i.e., there is no unemployment).",
        "它将由技术驱动的繁荣和衰退周期与总是明晰的市场结合起来(也就是说没有人失业) 。"
    ],
    [
        "People tend to forget that Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem about “the white man’s burden” was not an ode to the British Empire, but to the US colonial enterprise in the Philippines.",
        "人们往往忘记吉卜林“白人负担”的著名诗句并不是大英帝国的颂歌，而是为了歌颂美国在菲律宾的殖民事业。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, individual donors give about $200 billion to charities each year.",
        "在美国，个人捐款者每年向各个慈善组织捐款大约两千亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, the party asserts, Turkey should work to defend its regional neighbors’ territorial integrity.",
        "该党主张，现在土耳其应该致力于捍卫地区邻国的领土完整。"
    ],
    [
        "If the negotiations so far had recognized this and been conducted with more tenacity, the conflict in Syria could have been resolved long ago, averting much death and destruction.",
        "如果现在的谈判中早就认识到这一点，并且进行得更加坚定，叙利亚冲突可能早已解决，死伤和毁坏情况也不会那么严重。"
    ],
    [
        "As Bernanke himself warns, such a policy could undermine central banks’ long-term independence.",
        "伯南克本人就警告说，这一政策可能破坏央行的长期独立性。"
    ],
    [
        "No single company possesses the scale or finances to deploy all the advances in science and technology since the genomics revolution, but a megafund-backed effort could.",
        "没有哪家公司拥有独自部署自基因组革命以来所有科学和技术进步的财力，但巨型基金支持的项目可以。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, Bill Clinton and his advisers had plenty of reasons for skepticism.",
        "平心而论，克林顿及其顾问有充分的理由持怀疑态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only does the EU often deal with globalization-related issues like trade; Europe’s citizens feel that the distant and disconnected “Brussels,” over which they have little influence, is infringing on the sovereignty of nation-states.",
        "欧盟不仅经常处理与贸易有关的全球化问题； 欧盟民众感觉遥远而难以企及的“布鲁塞尔”尽管几乎不受他们的影响，却正在侵入民族国家的主权事务。"
    ],
    [
        "The third component is the exercise of suasion on bondholders to achieve maximum participation, obtain binding pre-commitments, and eliminate free riders.",
        "第三个组成部分则是说服债券持有人去实现最大限度的参与，获取有约束力的事前承诺，并消灭那些占便宜的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Many leaders – Nicolas Sarkozy, Gordon Brown, and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero come to mind – have been swept away by economic discontent in recent years.",
        "近年来，许多领导人——眼前马上浮现出萨科齐、布朗、萨巴莱塔等人的身影——都因经济令人不满而被赶下了台。"
    ],
    [
        "This has dispelled hopes that Asia economic activity could develop separately from that of the US, thereby offsetting European exporters’ losses in America.",
        "这驱散了亚洲经济活动可以独立于美国经济从而抵消欧洲出口商在美国的损失的幻想。"
    ],
    [
        "The same fault lines are appearing in other advanced economies, including the United States and continental Europe.",
        "而在其他发达经济体，包括美国和欧洲大陆，都出现了类似的断层。"
    ],
    [
        "The fall in aggregate demand while potential aggregate supply has been rising because of overinvestment by China and other emerging markets will sharply reduce inflation.",
        "当潜在的总供给因为中国和其他新兴市场的过度投资而保持增加的时候，总需求的滑落将极大地削减通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "But the prevailing understanding of the relationship between conflict and employment does not fully recognize the complexity of this relationship – a shortcoming that undermines effective employment policies in fragile states.",
        "但对冲突和就业关系的普遍理解却并未充分体现其中的复杂性——这样的缺陷阻碍了脆弱国家制定有效的就业政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Europe – a splendid and time-honored civilization, and now a major player on the world stage.",
        "比如欧洲，这里有着历史悠久的灿烂文明，也是今日世界舞台的主角。"
    ],
    [
        "It is rather obvious that if you invest massively in inefficient solar panels, most of your money will go to buy the physical panels, whereas only a very small part will go to R&D. If you want more R&D, you should spend your money directly on R&D. This could tackle global warming in the longer run.",
        "如果你希望加大研发的力度，你就应该把钱直接投到研发上。 从更长远的角度来看，这能够解决全球变暖的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "However, in cases where buyers and sellers are not equally dependent upon the relationship, the greater vulnerability of the more dependent party can be used as a source of coercive power by the less dependent party.",
        "但是，当买卖双方并非同等地依赖于这一关系时，较少依赖的一方就可以利用更为依赖的一方的脆弱性作为强制力量的一个来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Since Trump’s TPP announcement, many Asian countries have now pledged to join a regional trade bloc spearheaded by China.",
        "自特朗普宣布他的TPP政策以来，许多亚洲国家已决定加入中国牵头的地区贸易区。"
    ],
    [
        "Initiatives aimed at enhancing the public’s knowledge of nutrition are also crucial – not least because they can motivate citizens to pressure their governments to take action.",
        "旨在增强公众营养知识的项目也十分关键——不仅是因为它们可以动员公民向政府施压，敦促后者采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Pakistani media revisited a famous comment by Mohammad Iqbal, the poet-philosopher who devised the idea of an independent Muslim state in Pakistan. “The religion of the mullah,” he said, “is anarchy in the name of Allah.”",
        "在各宗教政党的领导人齐声谴责穆罕默德之余，巴基斯坦媒体则再次引用当年曾经提出在巴基斯坦建立独立穆斯林国家构想的诗人哲学家——穆罕默德·伊克巴尔的名言：“这些伊斯兰学者的所谓宗教信仰，只不过是借真主之名施行乱政罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Saakashvili sees a “Moscow hand” in every challenge to his authority, which could be explained by his government’s close alliance with the United States.",
        "萨卡什维利认定对他权威的每次挑战背后都有“莫斯科的操纵”，原因是他所领导的政府与美国建立了亲密的伙伴联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "The question for China, after 36 years of catching up, is how much longer it can continue to benefit from this process.",
        "在经历了36年的赶超之后，中国的问题是还能从这一过程获益多久。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s active leadership of the SCO has resulted in policies that it favors.",
        "中国在上合组织中积极扮演领导者角色，产生了其所希望的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Reliance on jihadist terror has become part of the generals’ DNA.",
        "对圣战恐怖主义的依赖已经融入了将军们的DNA。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, advanced countries have been losing manufacturing jobs to less developed countries for more than fifty years.",
        "毕竟，制造性的工作从发达国家转移到欠发达国家已经持续了50多年了。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, productivity increases and local innovation must pick up the slack.",
        "如今，必须由生产率提高和地方创新来提供增长动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The advanced countries are facing an immediate “aging” problem, but most of the emerging economies are also in the midst of a demographic transition that will result in an age structure similar to that of the advanced economies – that is, an inverted pyramid – in just two or three decades.",
        "发达国家面临着迫在眉睫的“老龄化”问题，但大部分新兴国家也处于人口结构转型中，不出二三十年便将步入与发达经济体想死的年龄结构（即倒金字塔结构）。"
    ],
    [
        "We think of it as a normal political party.",
        "它不是我们眼中正常的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "The cyclical challenges, in particular, are proving to be more vexing than anticipated.",
        "特别是，周期性挑战要比预想的更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because a federalist approach encourages transparency and accountability in how policies are implemented, it also bolsters the public’s trust in government institutions and elected officials.",
        "同时，由于联邦主义的做法推动了政策执行方面的透明度和问责制，它也加强了公众对政府机构和民选官员的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s actual economic growth has been quite good and – thanks to low gas prices, low real interest rates, solid profits, and strong growth momentum – promises to get better before the ceiling is hit and inflationary pressures set in.",
        "欧洲实际的经济增长是非常出色的，这归功于低廉的油价、很低的实际利率、坚实的收益和强劲的增长势头，并且在增长顶点到来以及通货膨胀压力显现之前还会一直很好地保持下去。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the EU’s historic emphasis on achieving its social goals, to the exclusion of industry’s long-term needs, is undermining the entire European project.",
        "但是，欧盟长期强调实现其社会目标以至于不顾行业的长期需要，这破坏了整个欧洲工程。"
    ],
    [
        "And, from the onset of the global financial crisis, the price of gold has often been portrayed as a barometer of global economic insecurity.",
        "而且自全球金融危机爆发以来，黄金价格一直被形容为反映全球经济不稳定态势的晴雨表。"
    ],
    [
        "They might know that many of their projects will not pay off, but they are betting that a few will turn out to be pioneering breakthroughs, and that their success will spark policy changes or attract larger flows of public and for-profit private funding.",
        "它们也许知道，许多项目不会形成回报，但它们下注于某些项目能够成为开创性突破，它们的成功能促使政策转变或吸引更大的公共和营利私人资金流。"
    ],
    [
        "Conservative northerners also view Buhari, an ascetic politician popular with the region’s poor, with unease.",
        "保守的北方派对布哈里这位奉行禁欲主义，且深受国内穷人支持的政治家也感到心里没底。"
    ],
    [
        "The final bill passed only when its sponsors agreed to combine deposit insurance with new banking regulation, creating a package with something for everyone.",
        "议案最终得以通过，恰恰是因为联署人达成一致，把存款保险同银行监管新规绑定在一起，搞出一个谁都有所需要的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is easy to understand why Phelps still leads the way.",
        "所以我们很容易理解为什么至今菲尔普斯还站在这一领域的前沿。"
    ],
    [
        "One country, two systems brilliantly balanced the aspirations, anxieties, and difficulties posed by the change in sovereignty from Britain to China.",
        "一国两制巧妙地在香港主权由英国转移到中国所造成的渴望、焦虑和困难中实现平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "These estimates are highly uncertain, strongly model-dependent, and subject to large revisions.",
        "这些估算具有高度不确定性，极为依赖模型，而且时常需要大幅修正。"
    ],
    [
        "We French must face this terrorist attack the same way the Americans did after 9/11: firmly and clearly, but also with responsibility.",
        "法国必须效仿美国在9/11后的面对恐怖袭击的方式：坚定、明确、负责。"
    ],
    [
        "She told me that the established health guidelines at the time indicated that she could not receive treatment until her count of CD4 T-helper cells, a type of white blood cell used by the immune system, had dropped below a certain threshold.",
        "她告诉我，当时的卫生指南说，在她的CD4 辅助性T细胞（一种免疫系统中的白血球）下降到一定阈值以下之间，她不会得到治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "The best that could be done was to enact Europe-wide and global rules, instead of allowing powerful countries like Germany or the US to impose their own.",
        "能够遵循的最佳路线图是制定欧洲及全球规则，而不是坐视德美等强国强制推行他们自己的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there are stress tests, and so-called reverse stress tests, whereby insurers are required to describe what would need to occur to make them fail.",
        "事实上，不但有压力测试，还有所谓的逆向压力测试，即要求保险公司描述发生什么事情会让它们倒闭。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, by creating space for individual creativity and entrepreneurship, they unleashed a historically unprecedented period of rapid growth that lifted millions of Chinese out of poverty.",
        "事实上，经济改革为个人创造力和企业家精神营造了空间，带来了前所未有的快速增长时期，将数亿中国人民带出贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "And the rally in markets that came after the Fed backpedaled on the pace of rate increases has only served to strengthen the feedback loop between the probability of US interest-rate hikes and global market volatility.",
        "而美联储延缓升息节奏后所出现的市场反弹更是强化了美国升息概率和全球市场波动之间的反馈环。"
    ],
    [
        "National identities remain stronger than a common European identity.",
        "民族身份仍然压制着统一的欧洲身份。"
    ],
    [
        "Their response is to call for tough military action in the South China Sea, and to stage symbolic landings on the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, such as those staged by Hong Kong activists on August 15.",
        "他们对此的回应就是要求在南海实施强硬军事行动，并筹划要象征性地登上钓鱼/尖阁列岛，正如今年8月15日香港保钓人士所做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Absent a breakthrough, the inevitable new round of sanctions and counter-sanctions would likely push Russia and Europe into recession, dampening global economic activity.",
        "如果继续僵持下去，无可避免的新一轮制裁和反制裁将让俄罗斯和欧洲陷入衰退，削弱全球经济活跃度。"
    ],
    [
        "This siren song drew the US into Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq.",
        "这种难以抗拒的诱惑致使美国卷入到越南，阿富汗和伊拉克的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "The government is unstable, ineffective, and plagued by debt.",
        "政府缺乏稳定，效率低下，债务累累。"
    ],
    [
        "One year after the Indian Ocean tsunami, what are the lessons?",
        "印度洋大海啸发生一年来，我们得到了哪些教训呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Others, such as Libya’s former ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, were found dead, apparently tortured by a militia that spearheaded the campaign to overthrow Qaddafi.",
        "其他人选还有利比亚前驻法大使奥马尔·布里贝什（Omar Brebesh），不过此君后来被证实死亡，而且显然是被一位带头推翻卡扎菲的民兵头目折磨致死的。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 90% of House Republicans have signed a “no-tax pledge.”",
        "90%的众议院共和党人都签了一份“不增税承诺”。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, financialization continues to disrupt macroeconomic stability worldwide.",
        "与此同时，金融化依然在全球范围内持续破坏宏观经济稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "They must seize economic opportunity – and avert strategic disaster.",
        "他们必须抓住经济机会——并避免战略灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "There may not be enough time before the next deep recession to lay the groundwork for effective negative-interest-rate policy or to phase in a higher inflation target.",
        "也许已经没有时间在下一次深度衰退降临之前打好有效负利率政策的基础或引入更高的通胀目标了。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – In his masterpiece Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger describes, probably too idyllically, the international balance-of-power system that, following the Congress of Vienna in 1814-1815, produced what came to be called the “Concert of Europe.”",
        "巴黎—在雄篇巨著《大外交》一书中，亨利·基辛格有点天真烂漫地写道，1814—1815年维也纳会议之后的国际实力平衡体系产生了后来所谓的“欧洲协调”（Concert of Europe）。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, rather than being an “anchor of stability” for the eurozone, as Schäuble claims, Germany spreads instability.",
        "更糟糕的是，相对于成为欧元区的“稳定之锚”（朔伊布勒所言），德国实际上是在散布不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "NATO has, of course, shown remarkable tenacity.",
        "当然，北约表现得极有韧性。"
    ],
    [
        "However, while this has blurred the old division, new ones have emerged, splintering today’s world into four inter-connected tiers.",
        "然而，在旧的那种差距被冲淡时，也出现了新的发展差距，把今天的世界分成了四个相互联系的层面。"
    ],
    [
        "But some recent proposals promise to raise far more resources for sustainable development.",
        "但一些最新计划有助于为可持续发展筹集更多资源。"
    ],
    [
        "The four islands sit at the southern tip of the Kuril Islands chain that separates the Sea of Okhotsk from the Pacific Ocean.",
        "这四个岛坐落于千岛群岛最南端，是鄂霍次克海和太平洋的分界线。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the insistence of Trump and his acolytes that borders do matter, businesses will think twice as they construct global supply chains.",
        "特朗普及其党羽坚持边境很重要，因此，企业将在构建全球供应链时三思而后行。"
    ],
    [
        "They also differ subtly over their conception of humans.",
        "两者同样在对人类的概念上大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given regional differences in political, social, and economic arrangements – often reflecting the particularities of local history and culture – significant divergences in citizens’ attitudes remain.",
        "但是，由于政治、社会和经济体制的地区差异——这些差异通常体现在本土历史和文化的特殊性中——市民行为及态度仍存在很大区别。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the revelations of the falsehoods that propelled the Leave campaign to victory have hardly driven people back into the arms of experts.",
        "然而，推动脱欧运动获得了胜利的谎言却并未驱动民众重投专家的怀抱。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, there is no compelling reason not to extend the principled policy approach on which Europe prides itself to those who would risk their lives to reach its shores.",
        "简言之，没有任何令人信服的理由不让甘冒生命危险抵达欧洲海岸的移民享受到欧洲引以为豪的原则性政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But consumption will be hit by the expiration of the payroll tax cut, which will reduce household income by about $125 billion this year.",
        "但消费将因工资税减免计划到期而受到影响，今年的家庭收入将因此减少1 250亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "They noted the cyclical regularity of such occurrences and speculated that it represented a gap in communications between generations of engineers.",
        "Walker也提出了同样的观点。 两位学者强调了事故出现的周期性，并提出这是由身处不同年代的工程人员缺乏交流造成的恶果。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian officials also contend that US and other foreign objections often reflect a desire to eliminate unwelcome Russian competition or curtail the Kremlin’s influence in important regions, such as Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.",
        "俄国官员还说，美国和其他国家的反对反映出它们想要消除不受欢迎的俄国竞争或者限制克里姆林宫在重要地区的影响力，例如东欧、亚洲以及中东。"
    ],
    [
        "But under the international rules that America is supposed to follow, wars should not be undertaken based on the judgment of one individual and his cabal.",
        "但按照美国理应遵守的国际准则，不应仅凭个人和集团的好恶就跳起战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Manipulation is not like the existence of a tariff or quota that can be verified by independent observers.",
        "操纵不像关税或配额那样可以由独立观察者查实。"
    ],
    [
        "Navarro is one of America’s most extreme China hawks.",
        "纳瓦罗是美国最极端的对华鹰派之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, local governments appear less afraid of Beijing’s bite than before.",
        "实际上，地方政府对于北京的权威不像以往那样惧怕。"
    ],
    [
        "To them, the argument for leaving the EU is no less about freedom than World War II was.",
        "对他们来说，脱离欧盟的理由和第二次世界大战一样，都事关自由。"
    ],
    [
        "If inflation rises, nominal house prices don’t need to fall as much.",
        "如果通货膨胀上升，名义房价就不需要跌那么多了。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither Yellen nor Flug was held back by a lack of academic credentials – both are accomplished scholars – or by the catch-all charge of having “limited experience.”",
        "耶伦和弗鲁格都不缺少学术水平——她们都是卓有成就学者，也不适用万能的“经验有限”借口。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be ironic if China’s Communist leaders turned out to have a better understanding of capitalism’s reflexive interactions among finance, the real economy, and government than Western devotees of free markets.",
        "如果中国的共产党领导人对金融、实体经济和政府之间的资本主义反身性互动的理解比西方自由市场信徒还要优秀，这将颇为讽刺。"
    ],
    [
        "The underlying answer is this: There’s a lot of cheap food around .",
        "不为人知的答案只有一个： 我们身边到处充斥着廉价食品 。"
    ],
    [
        "There will not be any quick solutions (if, indeed, there are any solutions at all), given the parties’ diametrically opposed interests, their respective domestic and alliance-related obstacles, and a profound lack of trust on all sides.",
        "鉴于当事各方利益截然相反、各有各的国内及联盟阻力及各方信任严重缺失，对话不可能很快达成协议（甚至根本达不成协议）。"
    ],
    [
        "No vote in the United Nations will make any difference on that.”",
        "”在这次会议上，联合国成员国一边倒地反对美国单方面承认耶路撒冷为以色列首都。"
    ],
    [
        "Once back in rural Afghanistan, forced into brutal marriages, many desperate women – especially returnees from Iran – resort to self-immolation.",
        "一旦返回到阿富汗农村，被迫接受野蛮的婚姻，许多绝望的女性 —— 特别是从伊朗回国的女性 —— 宁愿选择自我毁灭的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt is not a creation of nineteenth- or twentieth-century global power games.",
        "埃及不是十九、二十世纪全球权力游戏的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "And better relations with Egypt presuppose closer ties with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.",
        "而改善与埃及的关系需以与穆尔西和穆斯林兄弟会建立更加密切的关系为前提。"
    ],
    [
        "If his administration succeeds, the chances that Africa will remain relatively unscathed will grow.",
        "如果他的政策成功了，就会相应增加非洲得以幸免的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it largely reflects low oil prices, which have fallen by more than 70% since June 2014.",
        "相反，它很大程度上反映了自2014 年6月以来下跌了 70%以上的低油价影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are just the beginning.",
        "但这些只是开始。"
    ],
    [
        "LAGUNA BEACH – One of the most difficult challenges facing Western governments today is to enable and channel the transformative – and, for individuals and companies, self-empowering – forces of technological innovation.",
        "发自加州拉古娜海滩——当今西方政府面临的其中一个最艰巨的挑战，就是如何去启动和引导那些转型性的——以及对个人及企业来说，自我赋权（self-empowering）的——科技革新力量。"
    ],
    [
        "In Spain, the counterpart to the current-account deficit was private-sector borrowing.",
        "在西班牙，与经常项目赤字相伴而生的是私人部门借贷。"
    ],
    [
        "But as important as this goal is for international order and security, of equal importance is respect for human rights and the rights of minorities, as well as the establishment, on a global scale, of democracy and the rule of law.",
        "这就象全球对民主和法律的普世价值的尊重，和维护人权和少数族权益一样的重要，因为这是关乎国际秩序的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "The AIDS crisis, for example, called forth tens of billions of dollars for research and development – and similarly substantial commitments by the pharmaceutical industry – to produce lifesaving antiretroviral drugs at global scale.",
        "比如，艾滋病危机促使人们投入数十亿美元用于研发——制药业也投入了相当规模的资金——以生产救命的抗逆转录药物供全球使用。"
    ],
    [
        "That warning has already proved to be correct.",
        "这已警告被证明是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "If he forgets, Rezz.it will remind him so that you don’t have to.",
        "如果他忘记了，Rezz. it会提醒他，而无须你亲自动口。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, the discussion has shifted back toward emerging economies, which face the risk of financial crises of their own.",
        "如今，讨论的焦点又回到了新兴经济体，它们面临着自身的金融危机风险。"
    ],
    [
        "They are frustrated with allies seen as not carrying their fair share of common burdens, and they are increasingly convinced that the government needs to focus less on the world and more on fixing what is wrong with the US.",
        "他们对盟友没有承担公平比例的共同负担感到沮丧，越来越相信美国政府应该减少注重世界，更多解决美国的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Players of these sports cannot exhibit the full range of their skills without being pushed by a competitive opponent.",
        "这些运动的参与者如果没有有力的竞争对手就不可能完全发挥水平。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Over the past decade, the ranks of the unemployed have swollen to close to 190 million worldwide.",
        "纽约—在过去的十年里，世界失业人口已经逼近一亿九千万。"
    ],
    [
        "That Ukrainians will vote for their freedom this Christmas season is a coincidence of true perfection.",
        "在圣诞之际，乌克兰将再次为自由进行投票，这真是一个完美的巧合。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, three quarters of Canada’s exports go to the US, while foreign demand accounts for a quarter of its GDP.",
        "事实上，加拿大四分之三的出口是出口到美国，同时，外国需求占其GDP的四分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation in the US under Donald Trump looks rather different.",
        "特朗普上台后的美国的情况看上去则大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Civil and political rights were extended to the working class.",
        "公民和政治权利扩大到工人阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – Stopping Europe’s economic decline and overcoming its competitiveness crisis will require radical solutions.",
        "布鲁塞尔—停止欧洲经济下滑、克服竞争力危机需要激进解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump was not elected in a vacuum, and, as his agenda takes shape, we can start to gauge its impact on the political economy whence his candidacy emerged.",
        "特朗普不是凭空获胜，随着其执政日程的成型，我们可以开始看看它对于自特朗普成为候选人以来的政治经济学的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Fragmentation would be unlikely to stop there.",
        "分裂绝不会仅限于此。"
    ],
    [
        "Some are simply too poor to provide decent schools.",
        "一些国家太穷，无法提供优质教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas and the Bedouins in Sinai have most likely been emboldened by the latest developments in Cairo.",
        "西奈半岛的贝多因人很可能因开罗局势的最新动态而蠢蠢欲动。"
    ],
    [
        "In many cases, the controls were neither market-based nor temporary.",
        "在许多案例中，资本管制既不是基于市场的，也不是临时性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who emphasize the risk of inflation often point to America’s enormous budget deficit.",
        "那些强调通胀风险的人经常会用美国庞大的预算赤字作口实。"
    ],
    [
        "For ordinary people, large-scale corruption is less visible, because, while the sums involved are mind-boggling, the costs are not as directly felt as they are in the case of lower-level graft.",
        "对普通民众来说，大规模腐败不一定看得见，因为，尽管涉案数量大到令人咋舌，但其成本并不像低层次腐败那样能让他们直接感受到。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, much of the US productivity increase in the 1980’s and 1990’s can likely be attributed to large-scale investment in information and communications technology.",
        "而且，事实上，美国在20世纪80年代和90年代生产率的提高很大一部分可能要归功于在信息通信技术上的大规模投资。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – South Korea’s recent economic performance has been disappointing.",
        "首尔- 最近，韩国的经济表现令人失望。 在经历了40年年均高达7."
    ],
    [
        "Volatility itself is costly, leaving economies unable to respond effectively to price signals.",
        "波动性本身也是有成本的，它会导致经济无法有效地对价格信号做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Goodbye, Johnny",
        "再见，约翰尼"
    ],
    [
        "China has demonstrated no interest in emulating either the nineteenth-century European imperial powers, or Japan’s imperial efforts in the first half of the twentieth century.",
        "中国看似没有兴趣仿效十九世纪的欧洲列强，也无意仿效二十世纪上半世纪的日本帝国主义。"
    ],
    [
        "And it exceeded that of the Cultural Revolution, in which large-scale political violence likely caused as many as another ten million deaths from 1966 to 1976.",
        "而在文化大革命中，大规模政治暴力可能导致1966—1976年间一千万人死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "In this vein, Brazil’s experience at promoting renewable fuels, beginning in the 1970’s, is directly relevant to today’s polarized views of industrial policy.",
        "在这样的背景下，巴西20世纪70年代开始的推动可再生燃料发展的经验直接关系到今天对行业政策截然相反的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "The chance of being arrested for such malfeasance is, alas, probably very low.",
        "”从事类似犯罪活动被抓的几率很可能非常之低。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing reflects this better than how “protection” and “protectionists” have become terms of derision.",
        "最为明显的例子就是，“保护”和“保护主义”已经变成了一个贬义词。"
    ],
    [
        "A preliminary version of the plan, announced to Japan’s Diet last year, was met with disappointment in international financial markets, which had expected a bolder approach.",
        "去年，日本议会已经提出了这一计划的预览版，但国际金融市场对此表示失望，没有满足它们更大的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "A less intrusive approach to influencing food choices might be to institute a retail tax on all processed foods – not just sugary drinks – and an offsetting subsidy on non-processed foods.",
        "影响食物选择不那么具有侵略性的方法或许是对包括含糖饮料在内的所有加工食品收取零售税——和对非加工食品给予补偿性补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the only serious candidates to emerge for a Société Générale takeover are two French banks, Credit Agricole and BNP Paribas.",
        "目前为止，只有两家法国银行成为收购兴业银行的认真的候选银行，它们是法国农业信贷银行和国民巴黎巴银行。"
    ],
    [
        "CAIRO – In the months since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, his successors have signaled a shift in foreign policy by reaching out to former adversaries. Egypt’s government has welcomed Iranian diplomats and embraced the Palestinian group Hamas. Many interpret such moves as clear evidence of Egypt’s desire for a diplomacy that is not subordinate to American interests.",
        "发自开罗——自从埃及前总统穆巴拉克辞职这几个月来，他的继任者不断通过与过往敌对势力接触的方式来释放外交政策转向的信号。 政府一方面欢迎伊朗外交官员，另一方面又与巴勒斯坦哈马斯组织交好。"
    ],
    [
        "We have achieved important results on the way to a banking union, notably on supervision.",
        "在银行联盟方面，我们已经取得了重大进展，最显著的便是监督问题。"
    ],
    [
        "To those on the right, France’s oversized and intrusive government offers only a blueprint for secular decline.",
        "而在右派看来，法国过于臃肿且处处伸手的政府只描绘了一张江河日下的蓝图。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East is unraveling.",
        "中东正在崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Ms. Watanabe’s story helps to illustrate a remarkable disparity.",
        "渡边小姐的故事有助于说明令人注目的不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union’s “20-20-20” mantra aims to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20% relative to their level in 1990 and to increase the share of renewable resources to 20% by the year 2020.",
        "欧盟有一个“20-20-20”计划，其目标是：到2020年，与1990年的温室气体(GHG)排放量水平相比，减少20%，同时，增加可再生资源的使用量使其达到20%。"
    ],
    [
        "All who are now part of the national elite have ancestors who came, often bedraggled and harassed, from somewhere else.",
        "美国现今精英人士的祖先都是从世界其他地方而来，很多都是受到排挤和压迫。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, about 40% of China’s bank savings are not lent out.",
        "与此同时，中国各大银行有40%的储蓄无法转化成贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, they are largely excluded from textbooks.",
        "有鉴于此，它们大部分都被排除在教科书以外。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dear Sister Disappears",
        "敬爱的大姐的消失"
    ],
    [
        "Khamenei recently stated that “we should threaten [the West and Israel] in response to their threats,” which prompted Armed Forces Deputy Chief of Staff Brigadier General Mohammad Baqeri to conclude that Khamenei’s remark meant “revising [Iran’s] defense strategy.”",
        "哈梅内伊最近宣称“我们应该威胁（西方和以色列），作为它们对我问的威胁的回应，”这使得伊朗武装力量副总参谋长巴盖里（Mohammad Baqeri）准将认为哈梅内伊的意思是“修正（伊朗的）防御战略”。"
    ],
    [
        "The opposition Left Party is barely credible as an electoral force; but the far-right Alternative for Germany has been exploiting anti-immigrant sentiments and chipping away at the support of the government parties (Merkel’s Christian Democrats and the center-left Social Democrats) in subnational elections, including in Merkel’s home state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.",
        "反对党左翼党（Left Party）难以成为可信的选举力量； 但极右翼的德国另类党（Alternative for Germany）一直在利用反移民情绪并在州选举中蚕食执政党（默克尔的基督教民主党以及中左翼的社会民主党）地盘，包括默克尔的家乡梅克伦堡-西波美拉尼亚州。"
    ],
    [
        "With a comprehensive approach, 11 emerging economies (Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Turkey) could, on average, boost their annual productivity growth to as much as 6% by 2025.",
        "借助综合性的手段，11个新兴经济体（阿根廷、巴西、中国、印度、印尼、墨西哥、尼日利亚、俄罗斯、沙特，南非和土耳其）可以在2025年平均将各自的年均生产力增长率推高到6%。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether or not the next government can do what is needed will depend on its ability to unify the electorate and a disparate group of regionally focused political parties.",
        "新政府是否做得到需要做的事将取决于其团结选民和以地区为核心各自为政的政治党派的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Bo’s rise to power owed much to his pedigree (his father was a vice premier), his political patrons, and his manipulation of the rules of the game.",
        "薄熙来的得势在很大程度上来自其家世（其父薄一波曾任副总理），其政治赞助者还有他对游戏规则的操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting such a moral spin on the allocation of Ebola treatments, it could be argued that Africans should be selected over Westerners, because Africa’s health-care systems are less able to combat the disease.",
        "如果把类似的道德因素加入到埃博拉病毒的治疗，我们可以说非洲人比西方人更有备选资格，因为非洲的医疗系统抵御埃博拉病毒的能力较弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Homo sapiens, the most cosmopolitan of species, one that thrives by virtue of being a generalist, eats only about 200 plant species.",
        "因技能广泛而成为数量最大的物种——智人只吃大约200种植物。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Musharraf might be compelled to impose emergency rule again, as he did in November, should Pakistan’s stability further deteriorate.",
        "不错，如果巴基斯坦的局势进一步恶化，穆沙拉夫完全可以像他在十一月份所做的那样，再次被迫宣布国家进入紧急状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Ignoring the poorest nations means postponing a much larger crisis which will lead to famine, unrest, and massive migration.",
        "对最穷的国家视而不见意味着让一场引发饥荒、动荡和大范围移民的大规模危机推迟爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Our politicians shun it in favor of “challenges,” while our economists talk of “secular stagnation.”",
        "我们的出版商用“挑战”来代替它，而经济学家的说法则是“长期停滞”。"
    ],
    [
        "So is the open approach taken by India and Brazil on issues such as governance of the Internet, at a time when Russia and China are seeking more authoritarian control.",
        "印度和巴西对互联网治理持开放态度也是如此，而俄罗斯和中国寻求更加极权的互联网控制。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that Spain’s recovery is based on increasing supply, rather than rising domestic demand, as was the case during the pre-crisis construction boom.",
        "这意味着西班牙复苏是建立在供给增加的基础上，而不像危机前的建筑业繁荣那样，是建立在需求增加的基础上。"
    ],
    [
        "With Xi’s anti-corruption campaign in full swing, and the example of Bo Xilai’s imprisonment serving as a warning to the new president’s adversaries (no matter how senior they are), Chinese officials at all levels, it is widely believed, are likely to toe the line.",
        "习近平的反腐败运动正在如火如荼地展开，薄熙来的入狱则是对新主席对手（不管地位多高）的一次警告。 人们广泛认为，中国各个级别的官员都会顺从习近平。"
    ],
    [
        "For the US, that requires overcoming a political culture characterized by polarization and crisis in order to develop effective policies aimed at boosting economic competitiveness.",
        "对美国而言，这意味着克服以分化和危机为代表的政治文化特征，并制定有效政策增强经济竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "This was coupled with a critical demand: no deal without America’s commitment to eschew regime change.",
        "除此之外还有一个关键性要求：美国必须承诺不寻求推翻卡扎菲政权。"
    ],
    [
        "Supported by these structures and linkages, one-third of Chinese cities have attained per capita GDP of more than $10,000.",
        "在这些结构和连接的支持下，三分之一的中国城市人均GDP已经突破10,000美元。"
    ],
    [
        "We should not forget that Morsi’s opponent in the presidential election in 2012 was Ahmed Shafik, a former general and the last Mubarak-era prime minister – certainly no liberal.",
        "我们不应该忘记，穆尔西在2012年总统选举中的对手是沙菲克，而沙菲克是前将军、穆巴拉克时代末代总理，且显然不是自由派。"
    ],
    [
        "But everyone in the financial markets knows that the EFSF has insufficient firepower to undertake that task – and that it has an unworkable governance structure to boot.",
        "但金融市场深知，EFSF没有足够的弹药来完成任务，且其治理结构也不足以让其胜任。"
    ],
    [
        "But the main concern centers around the Treasury’s apparent intention to pay more than double the current market price (20-30 cents on the dollar) on the premise that its success in untangling the mortgage market would make any discount seem like a bargain.",
        "但主要关注的问题的中心是，财政部显然打算支付两倍以上的当前市场价格（ 20-30美分），其理由是，如果财政部成功解开按揭市场的一团乱麻，就会使得任何降价都看上去像是便宜货。"
    ],
    [
        "Post-war global diplomacy might have to promote, perhaps more robustly than ever, the creation a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East, and thus address Israel’s nuclear capabilities, as well as the Palestinian problem – issues that Netanyahu has worked hard to ignore.",
        "战后全球外交可能比以往更加强劲地促进中东核武器自由区的建立，因而考虑解处理以色列核能力，解决巴勒斯坦问题，这些正是内塔尼亚胡一直以来努力逃避的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Erhard's guiding principle was simple: there must be guiding principles.",
        "艾哈德的指导原则其实非常简单：那就是必须制定指导原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Indonesia’s new democracy may be imperfect, but has thrived despite its initial poor prospects.",
        "印尼的新兴民主可能并不完美，但尽管最初不被看好却依然经历了蓬勃的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Even legendary investors like Warren Buffett, it is argued, are not really outperforming the market.",
        "甚至认为即便是像沃伦·巴菲特这样的传奇投资者其实也并没有表现得比市场更好。"
    ],
    [
        "· “Starve the Beast.”",
        "· “饿死怪兽”。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies tend not to invest in talent or develop new skills, and the quality of existing skills can suffer.",
        "公司不再愿意投资于人才和开发新技能，现有技能质量也会受到冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as health-care systems in the developing world need to be strengthened, we also need to build up our capacity to develop new solutions for similar challenges when they arise.",
        "正如发展中世界的医疗体系需要强化，我们也需要建设我们在类似挑战出现时开发新解决办法的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the gravest cyber crimes originate from precisely those countries, including China and Russia, that are leading the balkanization movement.",
        "事实上，最恶劣的网络犯罪正是来自这些在分割运动中一马当先的国家，包括中国和俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "The G20 summit marked the return of the United States to multilateralism.",
        "20国的峰会标志着美国重新回到多边主义的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, violations would automatically trigger fines of up to 0.1% of GDP.",
        "除此之外，违反这一规定者将自动触发罚款，金额不超过GDP的0. 1%。"
    ],
    [
        "As before the advent of Gorbachev – indeed, restoring a centuries-old tendency – Russians yet again believe that the people should be willing to forfeit their freedoms for the sake of the greatness of the state, which wins wars and launches Sputniks.",
        "戈尔巴乔夫实际上只是恢复一种历史悠久的趋向。 在此之前我们俄罗斯人再次相信人民为了成就国家的伟大应该愿意放弃他们的自由，这个国家赢得了战争并发射了人造地球卫星。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the downgrading of growth prospects is remarkably widespread.",
        "6%。 此外，增长前景的恶化之势在极快地蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "Mugabe would prefer to limit the presence of international observers to those sent by neighboring states – the same allies that somehow managed to deem the violent and fraudulent elections of the past seven years “legitimate.”",
        "穆加贝肯定希望把国际观察员的存在限制在由他的那些邻国派遣的范围，那些邻国在过去七年那些充斥着暴力和欺骗性的选举说成是“合法的”。"
    ],
    [
        "They also came to realize that if expulsion was not possible, extermination eventually would be.",
        "它们还开始意识到，如果驱逐无从实现，最终就必须进行种族灭绝。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, while it is clear that Obama would like to move forward on the issue, so far he has pursued a failed strategy of negotiating with senators and key industries to try to forge an agreement.",
        "但尽管奥巴马显然希望在这个问题上取得进展，但到目前为止他一直采取一种与参议员和重要行业谈判以求签订协议的无效的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Our current situation requires not a lender of last resort, but a spender of last resort, and that can only be governments.",
        "我们的现状要求的不是最后贷款人，而是最后支出人，而能够扮演这一角色的唯有政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than bash the BIS, monetary authorities should be grateful for the informed perspectives that it provides.",
        "货币当局不应该抨击国际清算银行，而英爱感谢国际清算银行所提供的有洞见的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Sunni world’s most influential country, Saudi Arabia knows that it must do what it takes to limit Iran.",
        "作为逊尼派影响力最大的国家，沙特阿拉伯知道，它必须竭尽全力阻止伊朗。"
    ],
    [
        "Kishi’s aim was to regain Japanese pride and sovereignty by revising the constitution and reviving old-fashioned patriotism, thus undoing some of the American educational reforms.",
        "岸信介的目的是修改宪法、恢复旧式的爱国主义，从而在某种程度上化解美国的教育改革，并恢复日本的主权和民族自豪感。"
    ],
    [
        "The common good is not their cup of tea.",
        "它们对共同利益并不热衷。"
    ],
    [
        "This would lead to greater discipline among the eurozone’s indebted countries and save Europe from a debt avalanche that could ultimately drive currently solvent states into bankruptcy and destroy the European integration project.",
        "这将给欧元区负债国带来更大的纪律约束，让欧洲免于债务雪崩——债务雪崩可能最终导致目前仍有偿债能力的国家陷入破产并摧毁欧洲一体化工程。"
    ],
    [
        "But a more proactive Bundestag would inevitably become a showcase for the AfD’s arguments and rhetoric.",
        "但如果联邦议院变得更加主动的话，AfD的观点和言辞肯定能够得到更好的展现。"
    ],
    [
        "Their strategic watchwords are national rivalry, balance, and hegemony – concepts that offer no solution for the future of the region’s nations and states.",
        "他们的战略口号是国家竞争、平衡和霸权——这些概念无法造就地区民族和国家未来的前途。"
    ],
    [
        "They seek to demonstrate the benefits that a more sustainable pattern of development can bring to the world’s cities, to people’s health (from the reduction in air pollution), to energy security, and to the ability of the world’s poor to access energy.",
        "他们试图证明，更加可持续的发展模式给世界各大城市、（通过减少空气污染）给人民健康、给能源安全带来诸多好处，也能让穷人获得更多的能源。"
    ],
    [
        "But the challenge of integrating Russia remains.",
        "但是，将俄罗斯融入国际社会的挑战依旧存在。"
    ],
    [
        "To insist that all contracts be fulfilled would “cause a collapse of very large portions of the web,” with “serious economic and incalculable social and political consequences.”",
        "坚持履行所有合约，将会“引发绝大部分合约网络的崩溃”以及“严重的经济灾难以及无法估量的社会与政治后果。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The actual policy implications, however, remain to be determined.",
        "但实际上的政策影响依然是未知之数。"
    ],
    [
        "Wolfowitz and the World Bank at Bay",
        "陷入困境的沃尔福威茨和世界银行"
    ],
    [
        "Even more surprising is the fact that the helping hand for Iceland comes at a time when the domestic stock market is in a free fall and trading on the Moscow stock exchange is routinely halted.",
        "更令人惊奇的事实是，对冰岛的援助之手出现在俄罗斯国内的股票市场处于自由下落，莫斯科证券交易被经常性地停止的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Drugs called artemisinins are safe and exhibit potent, rapid anti-malarial activity.",
        "一种名为青蒿素的药物药性安全并显现出强力而快速的抗疟效果。"
    ],
    [
        "I have to admire the third Baltic president – Vaira Vike-Freiberga from Latvia – who decided to go to Moscow, honouring what should be honoured, and speaking aloud about what should not be hidden.",
        "而我对第三位波罗的海国家总统—拉脱维亚的瓦伊拉·维凯-弗赖贝加(Vaira Vike-Freiberga)—表示由衷的敬佩。 她决定前往莫斯科，向值得致敬的人致敬，同时也大声指出不应被隐藏的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rape of Freedom in Burma",
        "缅甸的自由遭到奸污"
    ],
    [
        "Today, European institutions could face the same fate.",
        "今天，欧洲机构可能面临同样的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the impact of rules and regulations can be direct or indirect.",
        "首先，规则和监管的影响可以是直接的，也可以是间接的。"
    ],
    [
        "Because much of the loss to diseases and pests occurs after the plants are fully grown – that is, after most of the water required for their growth has already been supplied – resistance to them means more agricultural output per unit of water invested.",
        "因为病虫害造成的损失多发于作物充分生长之后——也就是在多数生长所需的水资源已经消耗完毕之后——抗御病虫害意味着提高单位水资源投入的农业产量。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK scientific and charitable organizations advocating mitochondrial research are proud of the permissive legislative framework that has enabled them to establish an “international lead.”",
        "主张进行线粒体研究的英国科学和慈善组织对使得他们“处于世界领先地位”的宽容的法律规则引以为傲。"
    ],
    [
        "Trends in corporate taxes, which stood at just 3.5% of national income in the third quarter of 2016, support a similar verdict.",
        "2016年第三季度公司税的走势（只占国民收入的3. 5％）也支持类似的判断。"
    ],
    [
        "With all of the problems confronting the global economy, we will be lucky if these strains do not begin to manifest themselves within the next twelve months.",
        "伴随着全球经济所面临的种种问题，倘若在未来的十二个月里，这些紧张的压力没有开始显现出来，那么我们无疑是幸运儿。"
    ],
    [
        "Even now, Russia, though undemocratic, is largely free.",
        "即使在当前，尽管俄罗斯并不民主，它在很大程度上却是自由的。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, unlike the rest of the currencies in the SDR basket, the renminbi is an international currency in the making, just as China is an economic and financial power in the making.",
        "简言之，和其他几种SDR篮子中的货币不同，人民币还在成为国际货币的路上，正如中国还在成为经济和金融大国的路上。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kazakhs are keen to sell their oil and gas to the West at the very moment that the European Union is anxious to shed its dependence on Russian supplies.",
        "正当欧盟急于想要摆脱其对俄国石油供应依赖的时候，哈萨克斯坦乐意向西方出售其石油和天然气。"
    ],
    [
        "Life would be a lot easier today if China had moved to a much greater degree of exchange-rate flexibility back when the going was good, as some of us had advised for more than a decade.",
        "如果中国能在年景好的时候更大幅度地提升汇率灵活性的话，当前的情况可能会更加游刃有余，而我们有些人已经为此呼吁了超过十年。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the region has inadequate opportunities for young people to find meaningful work. Unemployment hovers at 20%.",
        "但阿拉伯地区的青年却缺乏有意义的就业机会，失业率长期在20%左右徘徊。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, through poetry, Al Qaeda defines what it means to be a member of the movement and commemorates the big episodes in the group’s history by glorifying the exploits of “martyrs.”",
        "实际上，基地组织通过诗词来规定恐怖运动成员的内涵并且通过赞美所谓烈士的功绩来渲染这一恐怖组织历史上的重大事件。"
    ],
    [
        "But the EU has so far failed to prepare the Western Balkans for accession, in line with its leaders’ promise at their Thessaloniki summit in 2003 to admit the Western Balkan states when they meet the Union’s standards.",
        "但是欧盟迄今为止并没有为西巴尔干地区国家加入联盟做好准备，尽管它的领导人在2003年的特沙洛尼奇峰会上承诺当这些西巴尔干地区国家达到入盟的标准将把它们吸收进来。"
    ],
    [
        "Another opportunity was missed later in the decade.",
        "那十年中还错过了另外一次机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, they understood that the solution to the problems created by machines would not be found in laissez-faire nostrums.",
        "最重要的是，他们理解机器带来的问题解决方案不可能在自由放任的秘方中出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Cities do not become financial centers because they are more “excellent” than other cities, or because they have done something that other cities failed to do.",
        "某些城市成为金融中心并不是因为它们比其他城市更为优越，也不是一些地方做了一些别的地方忘记做的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "I am pleased when I swim fast, but I would get no sense of achievement from improving my time if the improvement came out of a bottle.",
        "当我游得快时我很高兴，但如果我的成绩提升的来源是药瓶，那么即使时间缩短也不会给我带来成就感。"
    ],
    [
        "Life in camps is demoralizing and ultimately dehumanizing.",
        "难民营的生活会使人堕落，最终使人丧失人性。"
    ],
    [
        "When statisticians compare countries, they require commensurate data.",
        "统计学家在比较不同的国家时，会要求相称数据（commensurate data）。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in all likelihood, some would even dream of an eventual march into Kyiv.",
        "此外，一些人甚至梦想最终进军基辅。"
    ],
    [
        "But it puts the EU on a slippery slope.",
        "但可能给欧盟带来危险。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the popular narrative is shifting to the danger of “government failure.”",
        "因此，流行话题开始转向“政府失灵”的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "One only has to Google “Russia” and “Trump” to see the impact of so-called fake news on democracy.",
        "只消谷歌搜索一下“俄罗斯”和“特朗普”，就能看到所谓的假新闻对民主的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "While the individual companies that provide the higher-priced “green” energy may do well, the net economic effect will be negative.",
        "尽管提供高价“绿色”能源的公司能够过得不错，但净经济效果必然是负数。"
    ],
    [
        "Investigations carried out by the likes of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Guardian newspaper have provided damning evidence of what we in the public health community have known for decades: Big Tobacco, in its relentless pursuit of profit, is subverting, blocking, and weakening public health protections in any way it can.",
        "世界卫生组织（WHO）和卫报等机构所开展的调查已经找到了我们公共卫生界几十年来一直知晓的大量证据：那就是大型烟草公司为不断追求利润，正在想尽一切办法颠覆、阻挠和削弱公共卫生保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite these scary results, the interest-rate spread for Italian government bonds relative to German bunds has increased by only 40 basis points since the election.",
        "尽管结果令人担忧，但选举以来意大利政府债券相对德国国债的利差只上升了40个基点。"
    ],
    [
        "The child’s parents have guaranteed maternity/paternity leave to help them nurture the infant.",
        "孩子的双亲可以获得母亲/父亲产假以便于照顾婴儿。"
    ],
    [
        "And the delegations aren’t bound to vote for the candidate who won the most votes in their state.",
        "而且此时代表们不必再为在本州获得多数选票的候选人投票。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that the findings and methodologies applied in the E-RISC project bring added value to traditional sovereign-risk analysis, by providing insights into relevant but currently unaccounted-for parameters.",
        "这表明，E-RISC报告的发现和所使用的方法对传统主权风险分析带来了附加值，因为它们提供了对相关但目前未加解释的参数的洞察。"
    ],
    [
        "This political strategy is undoubtedly effective.",
        "这一政治战略毫无疑问是卓有成效的。"
    ],
    [
        "If Europeans are serious about their common space for human rights and freedoms, they must recognize that those values are not shared by the calculating placemen of Putin’s Kremlin.",
        "如果欧洲人对他们的人权和自由的共同领域郑重其事，那么他们就必须承认，普京的克里姆林宫里狡猾的禄虫们并不认同这些价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "Cuts in aid funding for women’s health – another Trump administration policy – will not help matters.",
        "妇女健康援助资金的削减——这也是特朗普政府的政策——亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany will soon be in the same situation.",
        "德国很快也将进入类似的阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "With a king or queen unable to say or do anything that may cause a whiff of controversy, the monarchy has been stripped of its power of action or reflection.",
        "国王或女王不能说或做任何可能引起一丁点争议的事情，因此君主制没有行动力和反思力。"
    ],
    [
        "But the SGP's current rules discourage this kind of reform by prohibiting temporary increases in the budget deficit - even if they promise long-term fiscal consolidation.",
        "《合约》目前的规则由于禁止预算赤字的暂时增加--甚至这种暂时的增加可以促成长期的财政巩固，而因此妨碍了此类改革。"
    ],
    [
        "By defending the coca leaf, consumed for centuries in the Andean world and the raw material for cocaine, Morales was able to link his opposition to America’s anti-drug policy with the defense of native cultural tradition and the economic rights of the poor.",
        "通过为安第斯地区沿用长达几个世纪之久的可卡因原料古柯叶辩护，莫拉莱斯成功地将反对美国禁毒政策与捍卫本国文化传统和穷人的经济权利挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent paper by economists from Bard College and the Asian Development Bank categorizes the world economy according to four groups – with the top two categories occupied by upper-middle-income and high-income countries – and tracks countries’ movements in and out of these groups.",
        "巴德学院（Bard College）和亚洲开发银行经济学家的 最新文章将世界经济分为四个类别——顶层的两类属于中上收入和高收入国家——追踪各国在这四个类别的进出变化情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Serious economists whom I respect enormously find themselves taking strong positions on opposite sides of this debate.",
        "我非常尊敬的严肃的经济学家在这场辩论中的观点尖锐对立、南辕北辙。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is North Korea that embodies that threat most acutely.",
        "今天带来这一威胁的最主要是朝鲜。"
    ],
    [
        "Those resources would no longer contribute directly to investigations into terrorist activities.",
        "这些资源不再能够直接用于针对恐怖活动的调查。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while anybody with a little know-how can figure out how to circumvent, say, the “Great Firewall of China,” Internet filtering is only one layer of Chinese Internet censorship.",
        "尽管只要有一点窍门的人都可以想办法绕过中国金关工程，但是互联网过滤只不过是中国互联网检查制度中的一层而已。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent dispute between Italy (the main port of arrival) and France (the principal final destination) ended with the French reintroducing border controls.",
        "最近意大利（难民主要登陆区）和法国（难民主要目的地）之间的冲突则导致法国重新执行边境管制。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s one significant foreign-policy breakthrough has been to release the US from the grip of the “global war on terror.”",
        "奥巴马的重大外交政策突破之一是把美国从“全球恐怖战争”的束缚中解放了出来。"
    ],
    [
        "One of Chilcot’s main conclusions is surely correct: “aspects of any intervention need to be calculated, debated, and challenged with the utmost rigour.”",
        "齐尔考特的主要结论之一无疑是正确的：“人们需要对干预行动的任何层面严格进行计算、辩论和质证。"
    ],
    [
        "Access to good education, and even more so to the labor market, is increasingly restricted for many young people, especially those who come from poor or single-parent families or from minority ethnic backgrounds, languages, or religions.",
        "很多年轻人越来越难以获得良好的教育，他们在劳务市场中所处的地位也日益低下，尤其是那些来自贫困或者单亲家庭、或者有少数民族背景、操少数民族语言或信仰少数民族宗教的年轻人，他们受到的影响尤其显著。"
    ],
    [
        "Put differently, authentic German rectitude cannot be achieved without a form of redistribution that is bound to clash with the interests of, say, a French or a Greek oligarchy too lazy to come to terms with its own unsustainability.",
        "换言之，如果没有势必导致（比如）与懒得解决自身的不可持续问题的法国或希腊寡头的利益冲突的再分配的话，真正的德国式公正也无从实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Capital flight does not mean that capital is moving abroad in net terms, but rather that private capital is being turned into public capital.",
        "资本外逃并不意味着从净值角度资本移向海外，而是意味着私人资本正在变为公共资本。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet in Évian the following month, although many European delegations voiced eloquent dismay over the torment experienced by the Jews of Germany and Austria, they were unprepared to take concrete action.",
        "但接下来，在埃维昂的那个月中，尽管许多欧洲代表团对于德国和奥地利犹太人所经受的折磨表示诚挚的哀悼，但并不准备采取实质行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Taxation power is hardly checked by the National People’s Congress or the media.",
        "在中国，征税权力几乎不受全国人民代表大会和媒体的制约。"
    ],
    [
        "Pan-Turkish illusions?",
        "泛土耳其梦想？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, politicization is a matter of scale, not a substantive transformation of monetary policymaking.",
        "事实上，政治化是一个规模问题，而不是货币决策的重大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dominicans are right to seek at least a more solid regional commitment.",
        "多米尼加有权寻求至少更加可靠的地区承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last few decades, China has begun to practice modern contract law and joined the World Trade Organization, committing itself to international rules governing trade and investment.",
        "在过去几十年里，中国开始执行现代合同法，加入了世界贸易组织，并承诺遵守国际贸易与投资规则。"
    ],
    [
        "France, for example, will remain dependent on its nuclear-generating capacity, which will continue to account for the largest share of its electricity.",
        "例如法国将继续在核发电能力方面保持独立，因为法国绝大部分的电力都是由核电提供的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Niagara Falls, New York, we met with a larger group, including Mayor Paul Dyster, who last year officiated at the state’s first gay wedding, and a pastor who had also attended that wedding, carrying a protest sign.",
        "在纽约州尼亚加拉福尔斯（Niagara Falls），我们和一个更大的团体见了面，其中包括去年主持了纽约州第一场同性恋婚礼的保罗·迪斯特（Paul Dyster）市长和一名带着抗议标语参加这场婚礼的牧师。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gospel of Francis",
        "方济各的福音书"
    ],
    [
        "“Zombie” banks – dead but still walking among the living – are, in Ed Kane’s immortal words, “gambling on resurrection.”",
        "“僵尸”银行——已经死亡但仍混迹于生者之间——用Ed Kane不朽的话语来说，企图“置之死地而后生”。"
    ],
    [
        "Though roughly two-thirds of mass public shooters experience a traumatic event immediately before carrying out the attack – usually the loss of a job or relationship – most spend weeks or even years deliberating and preparing to get their revenge.",
        "尽管大约三分之二的公共场合枪击犯在作案前夕遭到过创伤事件——通常是被炒或被甩——但大部分会花几周乃至几年时间思考和准备复仇。"
    ],
    [
        "Then watch for the dollar and yen to boomerang.",
        "然后你就等着看美元和日元自食其果吧。"
    ],
    [
        "But, during the 1990’s, and for reasons that are still not fully understood, the virus exploded into the general population.",
        "但20世纪90年代某种未知原因导致公众病毒感染率暴增。"
    ],
    [
        "Singlehandedly, Snowden has changed how people regard their phones, tablets, and laptops, and sparked a public debate about the protection of personal data.",
        "斯诺登靠一己之力改变了人们对手机、平板和笔记本电脑的认识，引发公众辩论个人信息保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Without compensatory measures – including pre-school education, ideally beginning at a very young age – unequal opportunities translate into unequal lifelong outcomes by the time children reach the age of five.",
        "不采取补偿措施——包括最好从幼儿时期就开始的学前教育——机会不平等就会在儿童达到五岁时转化为一生结果的不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "But government spending has continued to grow, because voters still want the services that government provides.",
        "但政府支出仍在上升，因为选民们依然需要政府提供的服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Come January 20, all countries that deal with the US will have to make minimizing the burden of his administration one of their highest priorities.",
        "1月20日，所有与美国打交道的国家都必须将尽量减少与新政府的瓜葛作为最高优先事项之一。"
    ],
    [
        "And India, China, and South Korea are rapidly shifting their investments away from coal, and toward renewable-energy sources.",
        "印度、中国和韩国也在讯速地将投资从煤炭转向可再生能源资源。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in recent years, it has suffered economic pain and skyrocketing unemployment, which reached 27% in 2013.",
        "但在最近几年中，它经历了经济痛苦和畸高的失业率，2013年曾经达到27%。"
    ],
    [
        "Major social unrest cannot be ruled out.",
        "不排除爆发大规模社会动乱的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "This reflected deeper problems of domestic inequality created by nineteenth-century economic progress.",
        "这反应了19世纪经济发展造成国内不平等等更深层次问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This entails forming a common platform that represents all relevant groups, including the Local Coordination Committees, the Syrian Revolution Coordinators Union, and the Free Syrian Army’s military councils.",
        "这要求建立一个代表所有相关势力的共同平台，包括地方协调委员会（Local Coordination Committees）、叙利亚革命协调联盟（Syrian Revolution Coordinators Union）以及自由叙利亚军（Free Syrian Army）军事委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "With the election of Obama, America has turned toward the future within a globalized, multipolar world; Europe, on the other hand, is rediscovering national action in this time of crisis, and thus banking on the past!",
        "随着奥巴马的当选，美国已经在全球化和多极化的世界框架中面对未来； 而另一方面，欧洲却在当今的危机中重新挖掘其采取国家行动的效果，因此还在吃老本。"
    ],
    [
        "Those outside the US want to know the answer, because the outcome affects them, too, though they have no influence over it.",
        "美国以外的人都想知道答案，因为虽然他们无从左右大选，但这一结果却会影响他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, in contrast to Arab states like Saudi Arabia, Turkey is generally comfortable with the deal’s geopolitical ramifications.",
        "最后，与沙特阿拉伯等阿拉伯国家不同，土耳其总体上对该协议的地缘政治影响感到满意。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – Since the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers and international institutions have regularly expressed concerns about widening income inequality and its unwelcome political consequences.",
        "发自日内瓦——自2008年金融危机以来，政策制定者和国际机构经常会对收入不均状况的扩大及其不利的政治后果感到忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now no problem to get reservations at restaurants with three Michelin stars.",
        "现在预定米其林三星评级的餐馆没有任何问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary policy would have been more effective in the US had more attention been devoted to credit blockages – for example, many homeowners’ refinancing problems, even at lower interest rates, or small and medium-size enterprises’ lack of access to financing.",
        "如果美国把更多的注意力放在信用渠道堵塞上——如大量屋主所面临的再融资问题（尽管利率已有所下降）和中小企业难以获得融资的问题，那么货币政策应该远比现在有效。"
    ],
    [
        "The anticipated increase in the fiscal deficit is striking: the central plan discussed by Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers would – according to the Council’s own estimates – increase America’s fiscal deficit by $2 trillion over the next decade.",
        "财政赤字的预期增长是惊人的：根据布什的经济顾问委员会估计，他们所讨论的中心计划将在今后十年中增加2万亿美元财政赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "The Next Migrant Wave",
        "下一次难民潮"
    ],
    [
        "This would allow Italy, Spain, and even Greece to finance their national debts at a more reasonable, sustainable cost.",
        "这将使意大利、西班牙甚至希腊以合理而可持续的水平为其国民债务融资。"
    ],
    [
        "The word “decisive” holds important implications for key resources – including fuels, financial capital, and, of course, the currency – that historically have been subject to state-administered pricing.",
        "“决定性”一词对关键资源有重要影响——包括燃料、金融资本，当然还有货币——过去这些资源都由国家指导定价。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge ahead should not be underestimated.",
        "未来面对的挑战不容小觑。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, for example, where 20% of the population is older than 65, the number of working-age adults will shrink from about 50 million today to as few as 34 million by 2060.",
        "比如，在德国，20%的人口年龄超过65岁，工作年龄成年人将从今天的5,000万左右下降到2060年的3,400万。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Stephen Harmston’s oft-cited 1998 study points to anecdotal evidence that an ounce of gold bought 350 loaves of bread in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who died in 562 BC.",
        "比如，斯蒂芬·哈姆斯顿（Stephen Harmston）再三被引用的1998年研究指出轶事证据表明巴比伦国王尼布甲尼撒二世（死于公元前562年）时期，一盎司黄金可以买350块面包。"
    ],
    [
        "An Open Letter to Ehud Olmert",
        "致奥尔默特的公开信"
    ],
    [
        "A revived Russian empire, whether it is constructed by force or through economic coercion, is not in anyone’s interests.",
        "一个重新崛起的俄罗斯帝国，不管它是通过武力还是通过经济的压制建立起来的，都是违背大家的利益的。"
    ],
    [
        "At some point, it will presumably stop raining.",
        "我的孙儿们就像一缕阳光般温暖；"
    ],
    [
        "None of this would be taken away from them.",
        "它们不会失去历史和个体身份。"
    ],
    [
        "Lowering the birth rate lowers the overall dependency ratio – though at the risk of future labor shortages, weaker consumer spending, and reduced productivity.",
        "降低生育率一般会降低总抚养率——进而有可能造成未来劳动力短缺、消费力和生产力下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the experience of the eurozone suggests that while concerted fiscal stimulus can make a difference during an acute recession, withdrawing that stimulus when it is no longer vital is preferable to maintaining it indefinitely.",
        "事实上，欧元区的经验表明，尽管一致的财政刺激能在剧烈衰退时制造不同，当刺激不再不可或缺时退出刺激要比无限期地保持刺激更好。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Russia is failing to diversify its economy rapidly enough.",
        "第一，俄罗斯未能足够快地推动其经济的多元化。"
    ],
    [
        "The human and intellectual qualities of the three remaining candidates are even viewed with some envy on this side of the Atlantic, where you can hear statements such as: “Could we borrow just one of your candidates?”",
        "大西洋这边对三位剩下的侯选人的人格和智力素质难免有点嫉妒。 人们可以听到这样的话：“我们能不能只借一个侯选人呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle is next to impossible.",
        "非常不幸的是，将核武器这个恐怖的魔鬼再装回瓶子已经几乎不可能了。"
    ],
    [
        "In this view, America’s ingenuity represents its true comparative advantage, which others strive to imitate.",
        "在这些人看来，美国的聪慧代表着它的真正比较优势，其他国家都在尽力模仿。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether the subject is economics, finance, climate change, or politics, the guiding principle must be equality and justice for all.",
        "不管主题是经济、金融、气候变化还是政治，指导原则都必须是全人类的平等和正义。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of asking whether the EU is making people richer or poorer, populists are focused on a more fundamental and powerful question: “Who are we?”",
        "民粹主义者不去质问欧盟究竟是让人们变得更富有还是更贫穷，却关注一个更根本和强有力的问题：“我们是谁？"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, is Macron being driven by faith or hubris?",
        "换句话说，驱使马克龙做出决定的是信念还是自大？"
    ],
    [
        "Should Mubarak and his government fail to recommend constitutional amendments that satisfy these demands, ever more Egyptians will desert the regime and risk their lives in search of salvation in other lands.",
        "如果穆巴拉克及其政府未能提出满足要求的宪法修正案，就会有更多的埃及人脱离现政权，为在其它国家寻求解脱而心甘情愿冒着生命的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, we in Middle Israel must curb our own extremists and hold out for the Palestinian moderates to prevail.",
        "目前，我们这些以色列中部的人必须限制我们自己的极端主义者并且坚持让巴勒斯坦温和人士获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, a new framework recently proposed by Morgan Stanley for valuations of companies in 29 industries includes ESG factors that pose material risks or opportunities.",
        "类似地，摩根士丹利最近采取了新框架评估29个行业的公司，该框架包括了带来实质风险或机会的ESG因素。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, efforts to identify specific opportunities for collaborative weapons-related projects are to be pursued in accordance with “national policies and procedures.”",
        "比如，认识武器相关合作工程的具体机会的努力将根据“国家政策和程序”进行。"
    ],
    [
        "The record of the last 20 years shows that the Chinese monetary and banking authorities have a habit of taking an ostrich approach to the informal financial sector, pretending that they are regulating the sector until serious problems emerge.",
        "过去20年的历史显示中国的货币和银行监管部门都喜欢对民间金融部门采取鸵鸟政策，自欺欺人地假装在监管这个领域，直到严重问题爆发为止。"
    ],
    [
        "Luxembourg’s voters, for example, approved it by a 56.5% majority immediately after the Dutch and French no votes.",
        "比如说，卢森堡的投票人在荷兰和法国的选民投票反对后立即以56. 5%的多数批准了该条约。"
    ],
    [
        "Today it is Europe’s turn.",
        "如今，轮到欧洲来上这一课了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for the millions who face the crushing burden of poverty, mere proclamations that help is on the way are not enough to create jobs or foster development.",
        "但是，对于数以百万计面临贫困重压的人而言，援助正在路上的宣称并不能足以创造就业机会或者促进发展。"
    ],
    [
        "As I argue in my new book The Future of Power, one of the major power shifts of the twenty-first century is Asia revival.",
        "正如笔者在拙作《权力的未来》中所提到的那样，二十一世纪所发生的其中一个权力转移就是亚洲的复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, Carnegie thought that great personal wealth leads to great civilizations.",
        "简而言之，卡内基认为，巨大的个人财富导致伟大的文明。"
    ],
    [
        "Republicans therefore have a good chance of creating a conservative majority on the nine-member Supreme Court that may last for decades, especially if they win the presidency again in 2020.",
        "因此，共和党很有机会在九人组成的最高法院形成保守派多数，并且保持这一多数数十年，特别是如果他们在2020年再次赢得总统选举的话。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the use of the BMI is likely to obscure our understanding of genetic effects on body weight.",
        "事实上，体重指数的应用很可能影响我们对体重遗传效应的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s urban population is set to double, to 3.2 billion people, by 2050, by which time nearly three-quarters of its total population could face water stress.",
        "预计到2050年亚洲地区城市人口将翻一番，达到32亿，届时近四分之三的总人口都将面临水压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Giacomo Corneo of the Free University of Berlin has proposed that, in addition to taxing underused real estate, China should create a sovereign wealth fund to improve the management of public assets.",
        "柏林自由大学的吉奥科莫·科尔尼奥（Giacomo Corneo）建议，除了对闲置房地产课税，中国还应该成立一个主权财富基金以改善公共资产的价值管理。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the ambitious agendas of the government ministers and the presidential administration are closely monitored by an energized civil society.",
        "同时，政府部长和总统办公厅的宏伟议程由一个充满活力的民间社会来密切监察着。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, they pretend to become global hubs but do not welcome foreigners, which is what prevented Japan’s emergence as a world financial center in the 1990’s; or they hope to develop as knowledge-based economies but dislike academic freedom; or they aim to nurture innovation but do not want innovators to become rich.",
        "比如，它们装作要成为全球枢纽，但却不欢迎外国人，这正是20世纪90年代阻止日本成为全球金融中心的因素。 它们希望发展成为知识经济，但又厌恶学术自由；"
    ],
    [
        "What could have caused the glacier snouts to have stopped retreating?",
        "是什么导致冰舌中止后退的呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The Fertility Conundrum",
        "生育难题"
    ],
    [
        "Until then, China will continue to press its claims by whatever means – fair or foul – it deems advantageous.",
        "在此之前，中国将继续无所不用其极地利用形势声张自己的主张。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the need, it ought to grow ten-fold.",
        "考虑到罗姆人的实际需求，资助规模应该达到现在的十倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Folta also has something to say about Ayyadurai’s publisher.",
        "富尔塔对阿亚杜拉伊的发行商也有话要说。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic rot sets in as the ranks of dependent citizens grow, productive citizens dwindle in number, and society eventually runs out of other people’s money.",
        "从事生产者日益减少，坐等分配者却与日俱增，以至于整个经济肌体逐渐腐烂，最终社会将其他人创造的财富全都消耗殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "Amphetamine drugs produced in eastern Burma seem to be transported with such ease that significant quantities have been found in northeast India, on Burma’s western border.",
        "产自缅甸东部的安非他明类毒品的运输是如此便利，以至于它们在印度东北部及缅甸的西部边境上大量出现。"
    ],
    [
        "With China and the US out of the picture, the problem will likely get far worse before it gets better.",
        "因为中国和美国置身事外，这个问题很可能在有所改善之前就恶化得一塌糊涂。"
    ],
    [
        "For the US, the EU, and Japan, it means ending massive subsidies to farmers and curtailing other forms of protection provided to uncompetitive sectors.",
        "对美国、欧盟和日本而言，这意味着结束对农民实行的巨额补贴并削减其他任何对无竞争力产业所提供的保护形式。"
    ],
    [
        "As industries mature, the case for policy support weakens.",
        "随着行业的成熟，政策支持的必要性也随之下降。"
    ],
    [
        "On September 21, we achieved a major victory: a high-level agreement by the United Nations on the topic.",
        "同年9月21日我们就取得了一项重大进展：联合国针对该议题签署了一份高级别协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Early enthusiasm for the BJP government was based on the perceived contrast with its predecessor.",
        "一开始人们之所以对印度人民党政府报以如此大的热情，是因为人们觉得它与前任大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "This amnesty program – together with a broader shift toward equality between SOEs and private firms – could remove a thick cloud of uncertainty for Chinese businesspeople, encouraging them to keep their wealth and talent in the country.",
        "这项大赦——以及范围更广的国有企业和民营企业的平等化——有望打消中国商人心中的一大块不确定性，鼓励他们将财富和才华留在国内。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, voters and politicians must beware of seductively simple approaches to today’s debt problems.",
        "总而言之，选民和政客必须当心，不要落入当今债务问题存在简单解决之道这一观点的陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "If EU countries are to overcome the demographic challenges of the next half-century, they should not delay in preparing for them.",
        "如果欧盟国家要想克服下一个五十年的人口挑战，它们就不应该延误做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "But the truth in these matters counts for less than the emotions.",
        "但是比起这些事情的真相来，情绪占据了更重要的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "This danger explains why a Russian analyst has called Apophis a “space terrorist.”",
        "难怪俄罗斯研究人员给阿波菲斯起了个绰号，叫“来自太空的恐怖分子”。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, regional free-trade agreements are gaining momentum worldwide.",
        "事实上，地区自由贸易协定正在全世界高歌猛进。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Iraq Safe Yet?",
        "伊拉克安全了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "And it is not limited to governments. It also extends to private-sector elites, particularly banks and multinational companies.",
        "并且对象不仅仅局限于政府，也扩大到私人部门精英，特别是银行和跨国公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Establishing the EU as a pole of global power was the goal of the much-maligned 2003 EU security strategy, to cite one example.",
        "举例来讲，确立欧盟全球权力的核心地位曾经是备受争议的2003欧盟安全战略目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Implementation depends on regulators – some of whom are very good, while others remain in thrall to the big Wall Street banks.",
        "实施要取决于监管者——他们中有些非常优秀，但有的仍受华尔街银行摆布。"
    ],
    [
        "The world has been horrified at America’s response to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans.",
        "美国对卡特里娜飓风的反应和这场飓风给新奥尔良造成的损失令世界震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "In return, Turkey is to help the KRG build pipeline infrastructure that will allow oil and gas to be exported to Turkey without relying on Iraq’s national pipeline, which is controlled by the central government in Baghdad.",
        "作为回报，土耳其将帮助KRG建设输油管道基础工程，出口土耳其的油气将不必依赖伊拉克国有管道，后者控制在巴格达中央政府手中。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers know that despite the definitive wording of the Brexit referendum, the choice was never a simple “in” or “out.”",
        "决策者知道尽管英国脱欧公投措辞十分明确，但选择永远不是简单的“留下”或“退出”。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, ASEAN showed its continued influence on Myanmar’s progress towards democratic reforms.",
        "藉此，东盟展示了它对缅甸民主改革进程的持续影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "The same can be said for transparency, accountability, and regulation of the bank tax.",
        "同样的情况也出现在银行税率的透明度，可信度和监管问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "Ending Rogue Fishing",
        "终止流氓捕捞"
    ],
    [
        "Much of Israel’s security is based on an Egypt that supports the peace process with Palestine.",
        "以色列的安全主要依赖于支持以巴和平进程的埃及。"
    ],
    [
        "For science, unlike for dogmatic belief systems, disagreement is to be encouraged.",
        "科学不是教条主义信仰体系，分歧在科学中是值得鼓励的。"
    ],
    [
        "If peace becomes a matter of electoral politics, so will pretty much everything else – throwing Colombian democracy into a long period of political instability.",
        "如果和平成为选举政治问题，其他许多东西也将如此——从而让哥伦比亚民主进入长期政治动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "It should go without saying that this is nonsense.",
        "毫无疑问，这纯属无稽之谈。"
    ],
    [
        "Will China be wise enough to seek reconciliation and partnerships with its neighbors, large and small, rather than aiming for regional domination?",
        "中国是否会明智到与大大小小的邻国寻求和解及伙伴关系，而不是以区域统治为目标？"
    ],
    [
        "And that leverage – much of it the result of monetary expansion in most of the world’s advanced economies – is not even serving the goal of boosting long-term aggregate demand.",
        "这一杠杆——大多是大部分发达经济体货币扩张的结果——甚至连提振长期总需求这一目标都没有达到。"
    ],
    [
        "To address this problem, Copenhagen has had to devise an electricity-generation strategy that enables it sometimes to run on coal-fired power when necessary, without creating net emissions.",
        "丹麦为此制定了发电战略，在必要时启动燃煤发电，而不计入净排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, governments will have to implement policies aimed at guiding investment toward specific diseases.",
        "与此同时，政府必须实施旨在引导针对具体疾病的投资的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Somehow, the memory of hyperinflation in the early 1920’s seems scarier than that of massive unemployment in the early 1930’s, although it was the latter that fueled the rise of Nazism.",
        "然而，20世纪20年代恶性通胀的记忆似乎比20世纪30年代初大规模失业的记忆更为惨痛，尽管后者才是导致纳粹上台的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "And achieving Trump’s target would be even more likely if his administration suddenly became more coherent (which could indeed require a miracle).",
        "而如果特朗普政府突然变得更加团结的话（这倒确实需要出现奇迹才行），实现特朗普的目标的可能性还会更大。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, continued inaction on the EU’s part could threaten the project of economic integration altogether.",
        "目前，欧盟方面继续不作为可能会威胁到经济一体化大计。"
    ],
    [
        "However symbolic the agreement may have been, symbolism wasn’t the point.",
        "不管这一协议具有多大的象征意义，这绝非它的重点。"
    ],
    [
        "The coming changes will fundamentally redefine the nature of our economic interactions – and the social dynamics that underlie them.",
        "即将到来的改变将从根本上重新定义经济互动的性质——以及作为经济互动基础的社会动态。"
    ],
    [
        "These traits, however, are affected partly by a leader’s genetic makeup and partly by the environments in which the traits were learned and developed.",
        "但是，这些特征一部分受到领导人的基因组成的影响，一部分受到习得和发展这些特征的环境的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "However, in recent years, sustained research into countermeasures against such third-party interference in Internet communications has begun to add a new factor.",
        "然而，近年来，持续的反第三方干预互联网通讯的对策研究已经开始增加新的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers will need to focus on increasing the technical and cognitive skills of university graduates, and on building a few world-class research universities with strong links to industry.",
        "决策者应该关注改善大学毕业生的技术和认知能力、建设与产业紧密相连的广延全球人才的研究性大学。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, non-performing loans are on the rise, owing largely to the weaknesses in heavy industry and real estate.",
        "目前，不良贷款正在增加，主要是因为重工业和房地产疲软。"
    ],
    [
        "And in 2013, she made an HBO miniseries about Palach’s self-immolation in Wenceslas Square.",
        "2013年，她制作了一部HBO系列短片，讲述捷克学生扬·帕拉赫1969年在瓦茨拉夫广场的自焚活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Good fortune and bad fortune alternate randomly, and the poorest people are particularly vulnerable when misfortune – like a hurricane in a fishing village – strikes.",
        "好运和霉运变化无常，而最贫困的人口在灾难降临，比如飓风席卷渔村的时候显得更加脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, job losses will lead to a more protracted and severe housing recession, as joblessness and falling income are key factors in determining delinquencies on mortgages and foreclosure.",
        "第二，失业会延长房产市场的严重衰退，因为失业和收入下降是导致按揭断供和止赎的主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Although China is closing the gap by increasing its spending on robots, poorer countries face significant barriers to adopting new technologies.",
        "虽然中国正在通过加大机器人开支来缩小差距，贫困国家在采用新技术方面的确困难重重。"
    ],
    [
        "That view, a residue of Marxist thinking, is wrong.",
        "这种观点，作为马克思主义思维方式的残余，是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Additionally, “proof of concept” studies are typically inexpensive for software innovations (except in pharmaceuticals); with modest capital, IT innovators can test ideas without surrendering a major share of their stock. As a result, successful IT innovations have concentrated wealth in fewer – and often younger – hands.",
        "只要有少许资本，IT创新者就能测试新概念，而不必丧失主要股东地位。 因此，成功的IT创新将财富集中在更少数——常常也更年轻——的人手里。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, in Egypt, women protesters face greater scrutiny than men.",
        "类似地，在埃及，女性示威者面临着比男性更严格的审查。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 20% of households affected by hunger are landless, and 50% of food-stressed households are smallholder families.",
        "大约20%的受饥饿影响的家庭没有土地，50%的存在食品压力的家庭是佃农家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Over-tightening of domestic macroeconomic policies, especially those aimed at the real-estate market, could heighten the risk of a slowdown, with house prices currently falling across China, owing to stringent government measures.",
        "过紧的宏观经济政策，特别是房地产调控政策，将增加减速风险，目前，在政府严厉措施的作用下，全国房价都呈现出下降态势。"
    ],
    [
        "That left Greenspan’s successor on a very slippery slope.",
        "这让格林斯潘的继任者陷入滑坡困境。"
    ],
    [
        "What is needed is an approach that hastens the demise of the Assad regime and increases the odds that what comes after will not be an orgy of vengeance, violence, and chaos.",
        "我们真正需要的是一个可以加速阿萨德政权灭亡并减少前者倒台后发生一场复仇，暴力以及混乱狂欢的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Three key factors have defined Thai politics over the past year.",
        "三项关键因素决定了过去一年泰国政治的主基调。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, there is systemic market risk, and unregulated securitization of banking assets, which was the main cause of the recent collapse, adds to it.",
        "所以说，缺乏对银行资产证券化的监管是本次市场崩盘的主因，这是一个系统性的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Russia is ruled by “yes men” who are only able to agree and echo: “As you say, Mr. Prime Minister…”; “As you wish, Mr. President…” One reason is that the country’s leadership now appears to be digesting the same garbage information it feeds to the public.",
        "“像你希望的那样，总统先生…”。 造成这一局面的一个原因是，俄罗斯的领导层现在似乎正在消化与它提供给公众相同的垃圾信息。"
    ],
    [
        "This tranquil land of timeless faith, over which Buddha’s benign statues preside – a land of rivers, deep forests, and blood-red rubies – is now in play for international investors.",
        "这片有着永恒信念的平静土地——佛陀的雕像矗立于此，它拥有河流，深林和血红色的红宝石——现在已经为国际投资者敞开了大门。"
    ],
    [
        "The treaty’s effect on temperature would be immeasurable by mid-century and only postpone warming by five years in 2100.",
        "该条约的执行对温度的影响到本世纪中叶都无法预估，到2100年也只能将变暖推迟五年。"
    ],
    [
        "But, eventually, when other countries retaliate, and trade wars become the order of the day, the benefits are overwhelmed by the costs, and everybody is worse off.",
        "但是，最终，当其他国家采取报复措施时，就会爆发贸易战，收益将被成本超过，所有人都蒙受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "But they were facilitated by the state, which pursued a policy of flexible non-enforcement of functional rules and regulations that enabled not only the expansion of private markets in China, but also the integration of those markets into the global economy.",
        "但各级政府也为市场创新提供了便利，明智地选择了在市场发展的初期对新生事物采取网开一面的灵活政策，监管措施不但允许民企及市场不断扩张，还让这些市场成功融入全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "And his challenge implied a new dimension to policymaking: Governments may need to run deficits to maintain full employment.",
        "他的挑战产生了全新的决策维度：政府可能需要用赤字来维持充分就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Within both India and Pakistan, economic disparities and a sense of social injustice have created fertile ground for conflict.",
        "无论在印度还是巴基斯坦，经济地位的不平等和社会的不公平现象都为冲突提供了肥沃的土壤。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this hasn’t stopped journalists across Latin America from leaving the profession in droves.",
        "但这并没有阻止大批拉美记者离开记者队伍。"
    ],
    [
        "Who Needs a Flat Tax?",
        "谁需要统一税率？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the trade imbalance is more complicated than the currency issue per se.",
        "事实上，贸易不平衡是一个复杂的问题，本质上决不仅仅是通货问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But do contractions cause uncertainty, they ask, or does uncertainty cause contractions?",
        "但到底是收缩引起了不确定性，还是不确定性引起了收缩？"
    ],
    [
        "And Russian President Vladimir Putin’s incursion into Ukraine, in the EU’s backyard, has turned the common European foreign and security policy into a punch line.",
        "俄罗斯总统普京入侵欧盟后院乌克兰则让欧洲共同外交和安全政策成了一个笑话。"
    ],
    [
        "That entity is referred to only by the initials “ISIL.\"",
        "而只是以“ISIL”的缩写首字母来称呼该组织。"
    ],
    [
        "It should instead focus on financial assistance that blunts Egyptians’ frustrations and that contributes to building the institutions that will facilitate the transition toward democracy.",
        "国际社会应该将注意力放在能减轻埃及人沮丧感、有助于建立促进民主转型的机构的金融援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless Ukraine’s democratic opposition is allowed to take part in the election, a new crisis is certain.",
        "除非乌克兰的民主势力获准参与竞选，否则一场新的危机迫在眉睫。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, if the tables were turned, there would be ample cause to worry for the future of the US – a country that I love and have long admired.",
        "事实上，如果局面出现逆转，为美国这个我所热爱并一直仰慕的国家未来担心将具备充分的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Views about how to respond to the SWF’s vary.",
        "有关如何应对国家财富基金的方式各不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "The new kind of global governance that the Paris agreement exemplifies, which substitutes rolling processes for fixed rules, is far better suited to the kinds of global problems we face today.",
        "巴黎协定彰显出一种新的全球治理，它用滚动程序代替固定规则，远比固定规则更加适合我们现在面临的各种全球问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that the eurozone lacked the labor-market flexibility needed to make it an optimal currency area meant that adjustment via regional reallocation of economic activity would be glacial, while its members’ loss of control over monetary policy ruled out adjustment via nominal depreciation.",
        "欧元区缺乏一个令其成为理想货币区所需的劳动力市场灵活性的事实意味着通过区域性经济活动再分配进行的调整将是极其缓慢的，而同时其成员各国又失去了对货币政策的控制，因此也无法通过名义汇率贬值来进行调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging countries tend to benefit from imported technologies in the early stages of economic takeoff, but their growth rates generally slow as they reach higher levels of development.",
        "新兴经济体在经济起飞早期都倾向于从进口的技术中获益，而当他们达到更高发展程度的时候经济增长率就会变慢。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The American Psychiatric Association’s recent proposed changes to its official diagnostic manual – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (“DSM”), often called the “bible of psychiatry” – may discredit psychiatric diagnosis more than improve it.",
        "发自纽约——美国精神病学协会最近针对其官方诊断手册《精神障碍诊断与统计手册》（人称“精神病学圣经”）提出了修改意见，而这对精神病的诊断来说可能弊大于利。"
    ],
    [
        "The new-found dynamism of African economies is a consequence of the Chinese drive to build up and secure sources of raw materials.",
        "最近非洲经济的蓬勃发展也是源自于中国建立并确保原材料供应的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "Words have consequences, and Trump’s constitute a dire and immediate threat to global peace, just as Bush’s words did in 2002.",
        "言辞会带来后果，而特朗普的言辞是对全球和平的严重紧迫的威胁，一如2002年的小布什。"
    ],
    [
        "While reforms must be owned domestically, outsiders – in particular, the European Union – can help to reinforce the local vision by providing a viable path of institutional change.",
        "尽管改革必须得到国内支持，外部势力——尤其是欧盟——可以通过指明可行的体制改革道路来强化当地人的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whatever the merits of a banking union – and there are many – proposals to establish one raise more questions than can currently be answered.",
        "但是，不管银行联盟能带来多少好处——的确能带来不少好处——成立这样一个联盟会引起目前无法回答的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news from Heiligendamm is that the UN will now have to organize a common solution.",
        "海利根达姆会议的好消息是联合国现在将会组织共同方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The result of extreme financialization was enormous inequality and profound vulnerability.",
        "极端金融化的结果是巨大的不平等和深层次的脆弱性。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an economic corollary to this: an economic house divided cannot prosper.",
        "这句话在经济领域的推论是： 繁荣只能来自于高效顺畅的经济关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Is today’s globalizing era also coming to an end?",
        "今天的全球化时代是否也在终结呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, when we started cash-for-work programs as part of our pro-poor agenda, we asked communities to run these initiatives.",
        "同样，当我们启动穷人支持计划付现工作方案的时候，我们请求社会团体来推行这项计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But such investment in Africa’s development, together with a regular, structured dialogue, could help to ease many Africans’ plight.",
        "但用于非洲开发的上述投资，辅之以常规的结构性对话，可能有助于缓解很多非洲人的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks can and should do the same by focusing on the interests of the customers, clients, and communities that they serve.",
        "银行业可以也应当通过关注顾客，客户以及所在社区的利益来做到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The “rogue traders” escorted from their desks by security guards are typically unsuccessful exponents of the martingale.",
        "被保安从交易桌旁架走的“流氓交易员”是典型的不成功的鞅策略的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "These recent decisions have encouraged China, Russia, and other NPT signatories to respond with similar actions.",
        "最近的这些决策更是引得中国、俄罗斯等其他NPT的缔约国也纷纷效仿。"
    ],
    [
        "FEZ – The global oil-price bust has devastated economies across the Middle East and North Africa.",
        "菲兹（FEZ）—全球石油价格崩溃给中东和北非经济体带来了灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments are in the business of procuring solutions to their particular society’s most pressing challenges.",
        "政府从事的行当是为本国社会最紧迫的挑战购买解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "At last, the big players are taking the issues seriously.",
        "那些大国终于都已经开始认真对待这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This will require seven changes:",
        "为此需要实施以下七种变革："
    ],
    [
        "That, in turn, cleared the way for manipulation of currencies in the interests of exporters, businesses, and labor unions.",
        "再进一步说，那种发展形势也为操纵汇率以谋求出口、商业与工会利益的做法扫除了障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if an increase in oil prices turns out to be permanent, pitfalls abound.",
        "就算油价上涨真能持久，还是有不少陷阱等着它们。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve a world where everyone’s health needs are met and nobody is trapped in poverty, our leaders must heed this message and act on it.",
        "要想实现所有人的卫生需要都能获得满足、没有人受困于贫困的世界，我们的领导人必须认识到这一点，并据此行动。"
    ],
    [
        "But everyone would have to live in the SPZ, in which they would receive ownership shares and governance roles that would grow in proportion to the length of their tenure.",
        "但是这些人都得是特区的居民，而他们所享有的所有权和管治权都将随着居住时间的延长而按比例增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Should Britain Leave the EU?",
        "英国应该退出欧盟吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Many said, “Never again.”",
        "很多人说“绝不一错再错”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Real Risk to the Global Economy",
        "全球经济的真正风险"
    ],
    [
        "But he undoubtedly would have conceded that other factors – like good health and close friends – did much to improve his state of mind.",
        "但他无疑愿意承认健康的体魄和亲密的朋友等其他因素让他的心境改善了很多。"
    ],
    [
        "This benefited Chile – a major copper producer – and much of Latin America.",
        "这让智利（主要铜生产国）和许多拉美国家获益。"
    ],
    [
        "But so will targets for prosperity, allowing hundreds of millions to lift themselves out of poverty.",
        "但实现繁荣目标同样能让成百上千万人脱贫致富。"
    ],
    [
        "The story of the Al Saud’s succession struggle is no longer whispered behind closed doors.",
        "沙特家族的接班之争已经从幕后走向了台前。"
    ],
    [
        "And the most likely outcome, my article will conclude, is that she will succeed.",
        "我的文章得出结论，她极有可能最终达到目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the UK may well end up losing the predicted 2-3% of GDP from Brexit.",
        "事实上，英国最终很可能如预测那样因为脱欧而损失2—3%的GDP。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s latest central budget emphasizes fiscal prudence, adheres to past commitments, and aims at structural reforms, especially in agriculture.",
        "印度最新中央预算强调财政审慎，恪守过去的承诺，并致力于结构改革（特别是农业）。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an alternative is provided by the politics of nationalism, sectarianism, and identity – a politics based on cultural values and symbolism rather than bread-and-butter interests.",
        "这条途径可以通过民族主义、宗派主义和身份政治找到——即基于文化价值和符号而不是面包和黄油利益的政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us also not forget that Russia, too, has deployed cyber attacks in the service of foreign-policy goals.",
        "我们也不要忘了，俄罗斯也使用网络袭击为其外交政策服务。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is Europe’s only option.",
        "但它是欧洲唯一的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The real fear is that the Chinese authorities will either act aggressively to devalue the renminbi or, more likely, lose control of it through accidental mismanagement, resulting in devastating capital flight.",
        "真正的担忧之处是中国当局可能过于积极地让人民币贬值或者（更有可能）因为偶然的管理不善引起灾难性资本外逃，进而失去对人民币的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, both the short-term and long-term unemployment rates underestimate the slack in the labor market caused by the significant and sustained decline in the labor-force participation rate (LFPR) since the recession began.",
        "此外，短期和长期失业率都低估了衰退开始以来劳动力参与率（LFPR）的剧烈而持久的下降对劳动力市场的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Along with more stringent restrictions on coal consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions, the upcoming 13th Five-Year Plan, for 2016-2020, will include additional investment in research and development.",
        "除了更加严格地限制煤炭消费和温室气体排放，即将到来的十三五计划（2016—2020年）将包括增加研发投资的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news for US energy security is that in 2011, the country became a new net exporter of petroleum products.",
        "对美国的能源安全来说，好消息是在2011年，美国转变为成品油净出口国。"
    ],
    [
        "The third step is to compute the value of obtaining additional information – something that is possible only if the uncertainties in all of the variables have been quantified.",
        "第三步是计算获取更多信息的价值——只有在所有变量的不确定性都得到量化之后，这一步才有可能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "But this suspicion of political parties as such meant that there was no organized body across the country committed to carrying out a consistent, well-thought-out reform program.",
        "但对政党持怀疑态度就意味着全国上下都没有组织严密的团体，致力于执行前后连贯、思考成熟的改革方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe and other parts of the world are equally divided.",
        "欧洲和世界其他地方也同样存在这种分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that a robust, simple, and effective framework for measuring sustainability already exists.",
        "好消息是一个鲁棒、简单、有效的可持续性衡量框架已经存在了。"
    ],
    [
        "A central reason is that the nature of US economic recoveries has changed.",
        "这主要是因为美国经济的本质已经发生了转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the middle of last year, the International Monetary Fund has been reducing its projections for growth across Latin America.",
        "自从去年中期开始，国际货币基金组织就已经开始调低对整个拉美经济增长的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "As tariff barriers have come down, the unfair \"fair trade\" laws are increasingly being used as America's favored protectionist tool.",
        "随着关税壁垒的取缔，不公平的\"公平贸易\"法日益成为美国青睐的保护主义工具。"
    ],
    [
        "When Florida’s state government goes bankrupt, Florida’s banks continue to operate normally, because they are under federal rather than state jurisdiction.",
        "当佛罗里达州政府陷入破产时，佛罗里达银行仍能正常经营，因为监管它们的是联邦政府，而不是州政府。"
    ],
    [
        "This IMF approach was abandoned in rich countries about seventy years ago during the Great Depression.",
        "富裕国家们自己早在大约70年前的大萧条后便已摒弃了目前国际货币基金组织对阿根廷采取的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, most people didn’t invest this way in 1960.",
        "显然，很多人并没有在上世纪六十年代用这种方法投资。"
    ],
    [
        "But Yushchenko’s chronic dithering and poor political judgement consistently undermine his fundamental democratic credentials.",
        "但是尤先科常常表现出的优柔寡断以及糟糕的政治判断能力不断损害了他基本的民主资质。"
    ],
    [
        "Had a free and fair referendum been offered to the Sudeten Germans, a majority might have backed union with Germany.",
        "如果给与苏台德地区德意志族自由公平的公决权，多数人可能会支持并入德国。"
    ],
    [
        "All the developed economies have undergone profound changes over the last 30 years.",
        "过去30年来，所有的发达国家都发生了影响深远的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But her words did little soothing.",
        "美国的该项计划是为了支持哥政府对抗毒品卡特尔。 但她的解释没有令人放心。"
    ],
    [
        "The basic physics has been known for more than a century.",
        "其中的物理学原理我们一个世纪前就已经知晓了。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe’s economy will not grow, and a sufficient number of jobs will not be created, if such vital industries as aluminum, steel, fuels, plastics, and cement are not allowed to thrive.",
        "但欧洲经济不会增长，也无法创造足够数量的就业岗位，如果铝业、钢铁业、燃料业、塑料业和水泥业等关键行业无法繁荣的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Now Bush will increase the number of American troops in Baghdad and Anbar Province and try to stabilize both the rising sectarian civil war and the Sunni insurgency.",
        "现在，布什将向巴格达和安巴尔省增兵，并且试图平息不断上升的部落间内战和逊尼派起义。"
    ],
    [
        "Either one or the other view is correct, but both cannot be true simultaneously.",
        "尽管两者都有可能正确，但是它们不可能同时正确。"
    ],
    [
        "Although few antidepressant drugs have been licensed for pediatric use, rates of prescribing in the under-18 age group have risen by around 60% over the past decade, with over a million children and adolescents receiving what are called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s).",
        "尽管目前为止几乎没有一种抗抑郁药获准用于治疗儿童抑郁患者，但十年以来，18岁以下人群使用抗抑郁类药的人数增加了60%，与此同时，还有超过一百万的儿童和未成年人正在使用一种叫做复合胺再摄取抑制剂(SSRI’s)的药物。"
    ],
    [
        "Union leaders must study finance rather than condemn it as evil.",
        "工会领袖必须学习金融财政而不是声讨它，认为这是邪恶的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "The principles and plans that we put in place to protect migrants in life-threatening situations eventually could – and should – be expanded in order to protect a much broader array of vulnerable migrants.",
        "我们在保护移民面临受威胁生命状况的原则和计划最终可以——也应该——予以扩大，以保护范围更广的脆弱移民。"
    ],
    [
        "Romney offers few specifics, but simple arithmetic shows that his plan would require even deeper cuts in these programs than Ryan’s plan would.",
        "罗姆尼并没有给出多少细节，但通过简单的算术就能算出，他的计划的削减要求比莱恩更甚。"
    ],
    [
        "What is striking about food and fossil-fuel subsidies is that they are often promoted in the name of the environment or equity, but usually do little to achieve these goals, and often have the opposite effect.",
        "让食品和化石燃料补贴引起尖锐争议的是它们常常打着环境或平等的旗号推行，但实际上对于这些目标于事无补，反而常常适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the US military has recognized climate change as a major security risk for more than a decade, making it a world leader on this front.",
        "事实上，美国军方已经认识到气候变化是十多年来最主要的安全风险，也因此在这一领域发挥世界领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Xi announced that China will issue $55 billion in loans to the Middle East, including a $15 billion special loan for industrialization, $10 billion in commercial loans to boost production capacity, and $10 billion in concessional loans.",
        "此外，习近平还宣布中国将向中东提供550亿美元贷款，包括150亿美元工业化特别贷款、100亿美元用于增进产能的商业贷款和100亿美元优惠贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "In its November 2011 “Global Islamic Banking Report,” Deutsche Bank projects a 24% compounded annual growth rate in Islamic assets over the coming three years.",
        "德意志银行2011年11月发布的《全球伊斯兰银行业务报告》预测，未来三年，伊斯兰资产的年复合增长率将达到24%。"
    ],
    [
        "Economically, the United States, the eurozone, the United Kingdom, and Japan are all idling. Even fast-growing emerging markets (China, emerging Asia, and Latin America), and export-oriented economies that rely on these markets (Germany and resource-rich Australia), are experiencing sharp slowdowns.",
        "美国、欧元区、英国和日本的经济都停滞不前，甚至连快速增长的新兴市场（中国、亚洲新兴经济体、拉美）和依赖这些市场的出口型经济体（德国和盛产资源的澳大利亚），也开始急剧减速。"
    ],
    [
        "While men continue to drink more – and more often – than women, the frequency with which girls and boys report being drunk is now about the same.",
        "尽管男性饮酒仍比女性多（而且更加普遍了），但女孩和男孩饮酒报告数量已经不相上下。"
    ],
    [
        "Article II of the Constitution stipulates presidential powers that require the “advice and consent of the Senate,” including the nomination of senior officials.",
        "宪法第二条规定了总统权力，该权力——包括任命政府高官——须有“参议院的意见和同意”。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the mere announcement in May that the Federal Reserve would “taper” its purchases of long-term assets drove down the value of emerging-market currencies.",
        "比如，5月份，美联储仅仅宣布将“逐渐减少”长期资产购买量就导致了新兴市场货币贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet there are things the Saudis can do to vaccinate themselves, and Yemen, from fanaticism.",
        "然而，沙特阿拉伯还是可以做一些事情来使自己和也门获得对宗教狂热的免疫力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the midst of those meetings, it was revealed that Iran has been secretly building a second enrichment facility with the potential to produce weapons-grade uranium.",
        "但就在这两次会议期间，却爆出消息说伊朗已经秘密兴建了第二座铀浓缩设施，并拥有足够的潜力去生产核武器级别的铀。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider, for example, that there will be less human-generated trash – and thus less demand for janitors – as the workplace is digitized.",
        "比如，随着工作场所的数字化，人造垃圾就会减少，因此门卫的需求也会降低。"
    ],
    [
        "It retains a highly innovative economy, which registers more new patents each year than all European countries combined – second only to the US and eons ahead of China and India.",
        "它仍然拥有高度创新的经济，每年注册的新专利数超过所有欧洲国家的总和——日本在这方面仅次于美国，比中国和印度领先好几个世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "Party leaders select family members and other loyal followers as candidates for elections, with absolutely no consideration of their abilities to fulfill ministerial responsibilities, resulting in cabinets that are simply not capable of managing the problems confronting the country’s national and state governments.",
        "政党领袖选择家庭成员和其他忠心耿耿的追随者参与选举，根本不考虑他们履行部长职责的能力，从而导致内阁根本无法管理国家和地方政府所面对的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, even if mosquitoes become resistant to the killing effects of DDT, they are still repelled by it.",
        "另外，即便蚊子对DDT的杀灭作用产生了耐药性，也仍然会被药力驱赶。"
    ],
    [
        "By the decade’s end, China’s economy will be larger than Germany’s.",
        "到2010年，中国的经济总量将超过德国。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as it turned out, Putin miscalculed.",
        "但是，普京却失算了。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the scope of its mission, it has a minimal bureaucracy, which allows for a flexible response to changing needs.",
        "2亿美元。 无论业务范围多大，全球基金却鲜有官僚作风，这使得它能够根据变化的需要灵活反应。"
    ],
    [
        "But few international leaders face such a wide range of sworn domestic enemies.",
        "但是世界上很少有其他领导人像他这样面对如此广泛、立场坚定的国内敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "It must ensure that national interests do not undermine the integrity of the cross-border bank groups.",
        "它必须确保国家利益不会妨碍跨国银行集团的一体性。"
    ],
    [
        "And this diplomatic de-escalation, following months of recriminations and veiled threats, suits Southeast Asian leaders just fine.",
        "继长达数月的指责和隐晦的威胁之后，东南亚领导人也非常愿意看到这种外交领域的事态降级。"
    ],
    [
        "North America’s shale-energy revolution has weakened oil and gas prices, while China’s slowdown has undermined demand for a broad range of commodities, including iron ore, copper, and other industrial metals, all of which are in greater supply after years of high prices stimulated investments in new capacity.",
        "北美的页岩能革命削弱了石油和天然气价格，而中国的减速遏制了多种大宗商品的需求，包括铁矿石、铜和其他工业金属，这些商品此前经历了多年的高价，而高价刺激了新产能投资，因此供给有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "This may explain why inequality has shot to the top of the political agenda in the US and Europe in recent years.",
        "这也许可以解释，最近几年以来不平等性成为美国和欧洲政治日程最热烈的话题。"
    ],
    [
        "He concluded that the ECB would have to stimulate growth by reducing interest rates, which would increase net exports by creating a more competitive euro.",
        "他下结论说，欧洲央行必须通过降息刺激增长。 降息能够让欧元更有竞争力，从而增加净出口。"
    ],
    [
        "We should insist that Egypt or Pakistan improve their market system, apply the rule of law, and open their economies to international trade and capital movements.",
        "我们必须坚持让埃及和巴基斯坦改善它们的市场体系，实行法制，将经济向国际贸易和资本流动开放。"
    ],
    [
        "That commitment was apparent in the rioting and destruction that followed Singh’s conviction, in which 30 people were killed, dozens of vehicles burned, several buildings (including two new hotels) set ablaze, train carriages wrecked, and roads blocked, paralyzing life across an important swath of northern India for several days.",
        "这一承诺在辛格被定罪后所爆发的骚乱和破坏中尽显无疑。 30人被杀，数百辆汽车被焚，多栋建筑（包括两家新饭店）被付之一炬，火车车厢被毁，道路被阻塞，北印度多处重镇日常生活好几天陷入瘫痪。"
    ],
    [
        "He was a specialist in what was, at least for me at the time, the wrong Orient.",
        "至少在当时的我看来，他所专长的是彼东方学，非此东方学。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany also led the move to establish a European “banking union” with a single regulatory framework and a binding resolution mechanism for troubled financial institutions.",
        "德国还带头着手建立一个欧洲“银行业联盟”，设立一个单一监管框架以及对陷入困境的金融机构具有约束力的解决方案机制。"
    ],
    [
        "In this “fundamental” narrative, the advanced countries’ pre-crisis GDP was unsustainable, bolstered by borrowing and unproductive make-work jobs.",
        "在这一“基本面”观点看来，发达国家的危机前GDP增长是不可持续的，是用借贷和非生产性冗余工作岗位堆出来的。"
    ],
    [
        "The only other time it has happened in recent decades was in Russia after the collapse of communism, and in Africa after the outbreak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.",
        "近几十年来，仅有的几次类似的情况发生在共产主义崩溃后的俄罗斯，以及艾滋病爆发后的非洲。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time the last child whispers the information to the first, it is totally different from what was originally said.",
        "当最后的孩子把听到的话转述给第一个孩子的时候，其内容已经和最初大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, President George W. Bush has said that “if another September 11-style attack is being planned, it probably is being plotted in Pakistan and not Afghanistan.”",
        "同时，乔治·沃克·布什总统说过“如果有人正在密谋另一个911式的袭击，它可能是在巴基斯坦而不是在阿富汗策划的。"
    ],
    [
        "BofA owes $100 million to each.",
        "美国银行欠这两者每人1亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "To make matters worse, commodity prices are expected to remain low for some time.",
        "更糟糕的是，商品价格预计还会保持低位一段时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Remarkably, Greece’s creditors seem unable to appreciate this sound financial principle.",
        "邻人注目的是，希腊债权人似乎无法理解这一可靠的金融原则。"
    ],
    [
        "The lessons of 1914 are about more than simply the dangers of national animosities.",
        "1914年大战的教训不仅是民族仇恨的危险性。"
    ],
    [
        "This netherworld, patrolled and nourished by criminals who operate a vast black-market economy, has bred, in Mumbai, a community that has utter contempt for the state, because it knows that its survival depends on corrupting the police. Like underground magma, that underworld has now burst into the streets of Mumbai.",
        "这个由操纵着巨大的黑市经济的犯罪分子掌控和支持着的黑社会，已经在孟买孳生了一个对国家极其轻蔑的团体，因为它知道其生存依赖于对警察的贿赂。 像地下的岩浆一样，现在这个黑社会已经喷涌上了孟买的街头。"
    ],
    [
        "There should be an open competition, in which the best candidate wins on the basis of his or her ideas.",
        "应当允许公开竞争，让提出最好理念的最佳候选人胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe’s negotiating experience raises doubts about that prospect, as Iran remains unequivocal about never abandoning its nuclear fuel cycle program.",
        "但是欧洲的谈判经历对这一前景提出了疑问，而伊朗也对绝不放弃核燃料循环项目毫不含糊。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – Turkey has recently been at the forefront of international economic and political debates.",
        "芝加哥——近来，土耳其一直是国际经济和政治辩论的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "This tangible welfare gain would also include economic benefits.",
        "上述实实在在的效益当中也包括经济效益。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, Donald, Jr. and his brother, Eric, will remain in New York to run the Trump Organization, which oversees their father’s diverse businesses; but Trump’s claim that his sons will remain at arm’s length strains credulity.",
        "没错，小唐纳德及其兄弟埃里克将留在纽约管理特朗普的组织，该组织负责监管其父名下各式各样的企业； 但特朗普声称他将与儿子们保持距离本身就会削弱民众对他的信任度。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as the first two gambits failed to gain meaningful economic traction in chronically weak recoveries, the shift to negative rates will only compound the risks of financial instability and set the stage for the next crisis.",
        "正如前两次豪赌没能给陷入长期萎靡复苏的经济带来有意义的动力，采取负利率也只能加剧金融动荡的风险，给下一次危机创造条件。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the European countries that are greatly over-represented.",
        "代表权大大过高的是欧洲国家。"
    ],
    [
        "A critic of this German idea for reforming Europe might credibly ask why anyone should do their rational duty, rather than remain on the time-honored path of narrow self-interest?",
        "这一德国式欧洲改革思维的批评者可能会不无道理地问，为何人们应该履行他们的理性职责，而不在经受时间考验的狭隘自利的老路上一直走下去？"
    ],
    [
        "They buy more fuel-efficient cars and appliances, insulate their homes, and sometimes even use public transportation.",
        "他们会购买更多的节能汽车和电器，加强房屋隔热，有时甚至改乘公交出行。"
    ],
    [
        "This process is already underway, particularly in Italy and France, through cuts in social security contributions for lower-paid workers, tighter conditions for drawing unemployment benefits, and tax credits for “the working poor.”",
        "这一进程已经开始，特别是在意大利和法国。 这一进程通过为低工资工人降低社会保险金、更为严格的提取失业福利条件以及为“工薪穷人”提供税收抵免实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, coal continues to offer millions of people a reliable source of electricity – and the transition to low-carbon technologies will not happen overnight.",
        "当然，煤炭为数百万人提供了可靠的电力——向低碳技术的转型也不会一夜之间实现。"
    ],
    [
        "British officials found the peer-reviewed estimate “completely meaningless,” and, along with Belgium, Norway, Japan, and the US, wanted it rewritten or stricken.",
        "英国官员认为这项经过同行审议的估算实际“毫无意义”，并且纠集比利时、挪威、日本和美国想要将这部分内容删除重写。"
    ],
    [
        "Another fallacy popular both in Bentham’s day and in ours is what he characterized as “What?",
        "另一个在边沁时代和现时代都相当普遍的谬误被边沁称为“什么？"
    ],
    [
        "If the regime prevails, Syria’s citizens will continue to flee in droves to Turkey, Lebanon, and Europe.",
        "如果阿萨德政权最终胜出，叙利亚民众将继续成群结队逃往土耳其、黎巴嫩和欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "The diverse paths followed by Russia and China may be explained in part by how the two peoples perceive themselves.",
        "俄罗斯和中国选择的不同道路从某种意义上讲可以从两国人民对自己的看法中得到解释。"
    ],
    [
        "As Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski put it, the “Europe of cyclists and vegetarians,” with its naive culture of political correctness and liberalism, represents a threat, not a model.",
        "波兰外交部长路托斯特·瓦斯基科夫斯基（Witold Waszczykowski）指出，“骑自行车和吃素的欧洲”，及其天真的政治正确和自由主义文化，是一个威胁而非榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "A better approach would be to ensure that digital information, like its offline variants of yesteryear, can disappear over time.",
        "比较好的一种方式是确保数码信息如同其线下的过时同类一样，随着时间推移而消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Betting on climate engineering – either as a planetary insurance policy or as a last-ditch measure to combat rising temperatures – is not only risky; it also directs attention away from the only solution we know will work: reducing carbon emissions.",
        "把宝押在气候工程上——不论是作为地球保险政策，还是作为遏制气温升高的孤注一掷——不但风险很大，还有可能让人们的注意力从我们所知的唯一能够起作用的方案——减少碳排放上转移。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2008 Obama campaign used the slogan “Change we can believe in.”",
        "2008年奥巴马的竞选口号是“我们可以相信的变革”。"
    ],
    [
        "Supported by a dollar-denominated line of credit, the EPU’s 15 Western European member states established exact dollar exchange-rate parities as a prelude to anchoring their domestic price levels and removing all currency restrictions on intra-European trade.",
        "EPU受美元计价信用支持，其15个西欧成员国建立了精确的美元汇率平价，以此作为锚定国内价格水平和消除一切欧洲内部贸易货币障碍的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet we still lack the basic skills of reflecting on such information, of sifting through the dirt to find the worthy nuggets.",
        "可我们仍然缺乏反思这些信息的基本能力，无法拨去表面的浮土找到真正的黄金。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now at about 58% of GDP.",
        "如今这一比例为GDP的58%。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, this move appeared to be all that was needed for Islam-minded voters to return to the fold of the ruling front.",
        "尽管如此，此举已足以把伊斯兰教选民拉回到执政党派的怀抱之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, politics belongs to the elites.",
        "同时，政治属于精英分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Though judicial independence and protection of human rights remain conspicuously weak, Saakashvili’s government has increased the civil service’s efficiency, improved public infrastructure, fought corruption, reduced crime, and created an attractive investment environment.",
        "尽管在司法独立和人权保护方面显然还做得很不够，但是萨卡什维利政府在提高政府部门的效率、加强公共设施的建设、打击腐败、减少犯罪和创建一个有吸引力的投资环境等方面还是表现得很出色。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing domestic institutions and appropriate incentives in a broad range of other areas that are relevant for social inclusion will be vital to improving living standards, while reinforcing the growth process itself.",
        "制定国内制度和在对社会包容而言十分重要的广大其他领域的适当的激励将是改善生活水平、同时增强增长过程本身的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "But I believe what we are confronting is partly the legacy of the flawed Washington Consensus that shaped Russia’s transition.",
        "但我相信我们正在面对的在某种程度上是塑造俄罗斯过渡进程的有缺陷“华盛顿共识”的遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "Many migrants are searching for jobs because they have missed out on globalization’s unequally distributed gains, and they see no future for themselves if they remain where they are; countless others have been displaced by conflicts or natural disasters.",
        "许多移民因为全球化收益的不平等分配而被迫出国寻找工作，如果仍然呆在原来的地方，他们将看不到未来； 也有数不清的移民是因为冲突或自然灾害而流离失所。"
    ],
    [
        "Credit to state firms and to households continues to grow rapidly.",
        "对国有企业和家庭的信贷则持续快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan has published its proposals for major carbon reductions.",
        "日本也提出了减少碳排放量的提案。"
    ],
    [
        "Some enthusiastic Europeans encouraged Asians to diversify their reserve holdings.",
        "一些欧洲人热诚地鼓励亚洲人将他们的外汇储备多样化。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Venezuela’s non-oil sector has been growing, oil still provides the vast majority of its dollar earnings.",
        "尽管委内瑞拉的非石油部门也在成长，但石油仍然提供着大部分美元收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Along the way, Americans will gain a better sense of whom to vote for, and people everywhere will develop a better sense of what to expect in January 2017, when the 45th US president takes the oath of office.",
        "在此期间，美国人将更清楚地了解总统候选人，世界各地的人们也将逐渐明确2017年1月美国第45任总统宣誓就职时应当期望什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Both the far left and the far right find their core constituency among the vast number of French who feel economically insecure and politically disenfranchised – in essence, all those who perceive themselves as having no opportunity in an open society.",
        "极左极右都能在大批经济上缺乏安全感，政治上感觉被夺权的法国人身上找到自己的核心支持者——本质上，也就是那批自觉在一个公开社会中无法找到机会的人。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent months, Chinese aircraft have repeatedly violated Japanese airspace over the East China Sea, and a Chinese naval vessel locked its weapons-targeting radar on a Japanese destroyer and helicopter.",
        "中国飞机近几个月多次侵犯东海的日本领空，而且中国海军舰艇曾对日本驱逐舰和直升机锁定武器定位雷达。"
    ],
    [
        "But countries can get around this by using Interpol to circulate “diffusions” – requests for police cooperation that are less formal than notices, but often produce a similar result.",
        "但各国可以要求国际刑警组织发布“协查通报”来绕过相关审查——协查通报不像通缉令那么正式，但往往能产生类似的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The West is not about to declare war on Russia for the sake of a Georgia whose credibility has been greatly eroded by its president’s irresponsible behavior.",
        "西方也不打算为了格鲁吉亚向俄罗斯宣战，而格鲁吉亚的信誉因其总统不负责任的行为受到极大的侵蚀。"
    ],
    [
        "There is little long-term danger that Europe could become a threat to the US, and not only because of its low military expenditure.",
        "欧洲成为美国长期威胁的几率很低，而且军费开支低并非唯一的决定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, in Europe, that market demand is growing rapidly.",
        "幸运的是，这一市场需求正在欧洲快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Adjusting the investment structure, however, will inevitably cause investment growth to decelerate, at least in the transitional period, thus leading to a slowdown in overall GDP growth.",
        "但是，调整投资结构将不可避免地引起投资增长放缓，至少在过渡期内是如此，因而会拉低总体GDP的增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "I do not pretend to be an expert on religious faith and spiritual values.",
        "我不想把自己伪装成一个宗教信仰和精神价值观方面的专家。"
    ],
    [
        "It took nearly a century for the “natives” to learn the sport, but when they did, they took to it like snakes to their charmers.",
        "“当地人”花了将近一个世纪来学习这项运动，但是当他们学会后，他们就像弄蛇人喜欢蛇一样喜欢上了它。"
    ],
    [
        "The implicit pact between banks and savers was broken in late 2015, when four troubled local banks were bailed in and the shareholders took the hit.",
        "银行和储户之间的隐性契约在2015年年底被打破，当时，四家陷入麻烦的地方银行获得了自救，由股东承担损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Memories of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and Japanese aggression in the 1930’s are politically useful and fit within a larger theme of Chinese victimization by imperialist forces.",
        "1894－1895年中日战争和二十世纪三十年代日本侵华在政治上非常有用，因为它与帝国主义迫害中国的宏观主题相切合。"
    ],
    [
        "Poland’s initiative to create a European Endowment for Democracy could play a leading role here, and with Europe’s own unfinished business of democratization in Belarus and elsewhere, like backsliding Ukraine.",
        "波兰关于创设一个欧洲民主基金的倡议将能在该国扮演核心角色，同时也有助于完成欧洲自身内部的民主化进程，比如在白俄罗斯或是正处于民主倒退过程中的乌克兰。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is also a test of the region’s capacity to forge a different and better future.",
        "但它同时能够检验该地区是否有能力创造美好的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditionally, the banking business centered around attracting deposits and issuing loans.",
        "传统上，银行业务的核心是吸引存款，发放贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The Danger in Today’s Good Economic News",
        "今天的经济好消息中蕴藏着危险"
    ],
    [
        "How will China react to any move to introduce tougher sanctions on Iran if no progress is made in efforts to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons?",
        "那就是如果在制止伊朗发展核武器方面还是难以取得进展的话，中国将对更严厉的国际制裁作何反应。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, estimates by the International Energy Agency suggest that the most significant recoverable reserves of shale gas are in the US and China, not Europe. Moreover, even these estimates are really not much more than educated guesses, because only in the US have shale formations been subject to intense exploration over a period of decades.",
        "事实上，国际能源署的估计表明，大部分可开采页岩气储量在美国和中国，而不是欧洲，此外，这一估计无非就是有点根据的猜测，因为几十年内只有美国的页岩气进行了密集开采。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, not all is well financially. But there is no agreement on what happens next.",
        "其次，在经济上并非万事大吉，但对今后的走向却未有共识。"
    ],
    [
        "Other efforts include appeals by celebrities like the chef Jamie Oliver and attempts to use peer-based learning, such as the Sesame Street-inspired platform Kickin’ Nutrition (full disclosure: the creator is my wife).",
        "其他努力包括以厨师杰米·奥利弗为首的名人呼吁，以及像芝麻街风格平台Kickin’ Nutrition那样的同龄人学习尝试（全面披露：这个节目的创始人是我的妻子）。"
    ],
    [
        "Central to any quantum mechanics course is the concept of electron “spin,” but what, exactly, is spinning is never made clear.",
        "任何量子力学课程的核心都是电子“自旋”，但究竟是什么东西在自旋却没人说得清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamists, however, want the government to pass a blasphemy law like that in Pakistan, which decrees death for religious dissent.",
        "但是，伊斯兰教徒希望政府通过与巴基斯坦一样的可判宗教异见分子死罪的渎神法。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States’ presidential election campaign, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, seldom referred to his closest competitor in the primaries without calling him “Lying Ted Cruz.”",
        "在美国总统选战中，推定共和党提名人唐纳德·特朗普在提到他在初选中最接近的竞争对手时总是称其为“撒谎的泰德·科鲁兹”。"
    ],
    [
        "If they mistrust the policy, they will hoard the cash.",
        "如果它们不相信这套政策，它们就会把现金囤积起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that have signed such investment agreements have paid a high price.",
        "签署了这类投资协定的国家为此付出了沉重代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The Nazis were gone, and the occupation powers had not yet set up any kind of administration.",
        "纳粹离开了，占领军队还没有建立起任何行政政府。"
    ],
    [
        "It is thanks to him that Poles can be proud that theirs was the first Soviet Bloc country to free itself of Communist tyranny.",
        "多亏他的努力，波兰人才能自豪地宣称在前苏联集团中第一个摆脱了共产党暴政。"
    ],
    [
        "But reaching a compromise along these lines could well be impossible.",
        "但在这些方面形成妥协也许非常困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in France and Germany, large and internationally active banks potentially exceed the government’s capacity to mount a rescue.",
        "就连法国和德国这样的欧洲大国，政府救助金融业的能力也是有限的，未必招架得住那些跨国大银行惹的麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "In the new Obama world order, transatlantic relations are not the foundation, but just one of the Venn diagram’s ellipses – as significant or insignificant as Europeans choose to make it.",
        "因为在奥巴马的世界新秩序中，大西洋两岸关系不再是基石，只是众多椭圆形关系的其中一个，至于这层关系到底重不重要，那就要看欧洲人自己的表现了。"
    ],
    [
        "In so doing, it has cast the US military as the villain – a move that could eventually hollow out American support for the alliance.",
        "在这么做的同时，日本政府已经把美军塑造成了恶棍的形象——这样的举动最终会彻底掏空美国对该联盟的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "In some areas, such as boosting competitiveness and streamlining regulation, consensus will be relatively easy to achieve.",
        "在一些领域，比如提高竞争力和改善监管，共识相对比较容易达成。"
    ],
    [
        "A well-designed tax on oil would also reduce demand, thereby lowering the potential for windfall profits for those who rule or own the ground over the oil deposits.",
        "设计合理的燃油税还可以降低需求，从而减少油田土地的所有者敛取不义之财。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever US courts say about it, abducting people all over the world, locking them up for years without establishing that they are guilty of anything, and subjecting them to harsh and abusive treatment is a flagrant violation of international law.",
        "不论美国法庭如何解释，从全世界各地绑架人口，将他们在未被治罪的情况下关押数年，并以残酷和侮辱的方式对待他们就是对国际法的公然践踏。"
    ],
    [
        "But as Iraq spirals into chaos, diplomats and leaders everywhere are again asking themselves if it is ever appropriate for alliances of nations or the international community as a whole to intervene when a sovereign country appears unable or unwilling to defend its citizens from genocide, war crimes, or ethnic cleansing.",
        "但是，随着伊拉克陷入混乱，世界各国的外交官和领导人开始再一次诘问自己：当一个主权国家看似无力或不愿保护其公民免受种族灭绝、战争罪或是种族清洗之时，各国联盟或国际社会作为整体予以干预是否恰当。"
    ],
    [
        "The Trouble with Hope",
        "希望的麻烦"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s disunity over the war in Iraq should not overshadow its member states’ agreement on almost all other great questions of international affairs. In economic matters, disagreements on, say, a single EU regulation should not be allowed to mask the fact that no member state, new or old, has ever contested the internal market.",
        "我们不该因为欧盟在对伊战争问题上的分歧而忽略各成员国在所有其它重要国际问题上的一致看法，而在经济领域，对单一欧盟规则的不同看法也不该掩盖这样一个事实：那就是无论新老成员，我们对欧盟内部市场的看法是完全一致的。"
    ],
    [
        "The first two arrows of Abenomics were aimed at stimulating demand – and they were extremely effective.",
        "安倍经济学的头两支箭都旨在刺激需求——而且也极为有效。"
    ],
    [
        "When the monsoon rains arrived each year, the rivers would swell, threatening to flood their farms and ruin their crops.",
        "每年，当季风雨来临时，河水就会上涨，可能淹没他们的农田，毁掉他们的庄稼。"
    ],
    [
        "Most observers believe that the Court is unlikely to oppose the ESM treaty, though many expect the judges to demand certain amendments, or to ask Germany’s president to make his signature subject to certain qualifications.",
        "大部分观察者认为德国宪法法院不可能反对ESM条约，但许多人预期最后判决将要求ESM条约进行一定的修改，或者要求德国总统必须在满足一定条件才能签字。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, two important steps have been taken: one by the people of Iran, who have shown that they understand the challenges they face, and the other by their new president, who has assembled the best team available to undertake an enormously difficult program.",
        "因此，两个重要步骤已经完成：其中一步由伊朗人民跨出，他们证明了他们清楚他们所面临的的挑战； 另一步由他们的新总统跨出，他组成了可获得的最佳团队来承担非常困难的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasing corruption within governments run by the Congress party, which led India to independence and monopolized political power for decades, showed what a lucrative career politics had become.",
        "在领导印度独立并独掌大权数十年的国大党执政政府中愈演愈烈的腐败现象表明政治已经成为一个怎样有利可图的职业。"
    ],
    [
        "Draghi’s Italian passport and his past service at Goldman Sachs do not help him much.",
        "德拉齐的意大利国籍以及高盛公司的工作经历对他并无太多帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "But almost 90% of the women who die from cervical cancer are in developing countries, where, for too many of them, screening services are unavailable, and treatment even less so.",
        "但死于宫颈癌的女性近90％生活在发展中国家，那里有太多人无法享受到筛查，更不要说治疗服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Talks on how to avoid a crisis involving Pakistan – and how to manage one should prevention fail – are no less urgent.",
        "而关于如何避免爆发一场涉及巴基斯坦的危机——以及一旦预防措施失败该如何应对这一危机——的讨论也同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, there is the reluctance of Democratic Party bosses to see ultraconservative Vice President Mike Pence assume the place vacated by a fallen Trump.",
        "其次，民主党大佬们不愿看到超级保守的副总统迈克·彭斯接替特朗普倒下后所空出的职位。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to economic policy, a fast, faulty decision is often better than inaction.",
        "当谈到经济政策时，一个快速的、错误的决定通常是比无所作为要好。"
    ],
    [
        "Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump (said to be the president’s favorite child), have offices in the White House, and Kushner is involved in an absurdly broad array of issues, from resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict to reorganizing the federal government.",
        "库什纳及其妻子伊万卡特朗普（据说是这位总统最钟爱的子女）都在白宫拥有办公室，而库什纳曾经参与了诸多问题，从解决以巴冲突到重组联邦政府。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, the stakes are too high.",
        "这次，涉及的代价太过昂贵。"
    ],
    [
        "Some suggest that the SNP’s accession to power in Scotland does herald the rebirth of a nation, many others regard that claim as rhetoric which ignores the tremendous advances made in the quality of life, opportunity and living standards.",
        "某些人说，苏格兰国民党在苏格兰的掌权预示着一个国家的复生，还有其他许多人认为这一说法无视在生活质量、机遇以及生活水平上取得的巨大进步，因而不过是花言巧语。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa needs a judicious and dynamic energy mix.",
        "非洲需要探索明智并充满活力的能源结构。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the US desires a unipolar world but a multipolar Asia.",
        "与此相反的是，美国试图称霸世界，但却希望构建一个多极化的亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "It is possible, of course, that the United States will solve its political problems and finally adopt the stimulus measures that it needs to bring down unemployment to 6% or 7% (the pre-crisis level of 4% or 5% is too much to hope for).",
        "当然，美国很有可能解决其政治难题，最终采取所必需的刺激手段，使失业率下降到6%到7%（经济危机前的失业率是4%到5%，但在这一时期，这是不敢奢望的数字）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iranian Nuclear Threat Goes Global",
        "伊朗的核计划威胁全球"
    ],
    [
        "This is certainly the case with the analogy that Israeli leaders insist on drawing between the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust and the threat posed to the Jewish state by a nuclear-armed Iran.",
        "以色列领导人坚持将大屠杀时毁灭欧洲犹太人与拥有核武器的伊朗给犹太国家造成的威胁相提并论无疑就是一个实例。"
    ],
    [
        "Data from the US – rising unemployment, falling household consumption, still declining industrial production, and a weak housing market – suggest that America’s recession is not over yet.",
        "如今在经济界似乎有这么一种共识，大家都认为衰退已经过去。"
    ],
    [
        "Experts’ attempts to impress upon Americans how difficult Ebola is to transmit, and how unlikely an Ebola epidemic in the US was, fell largely on deaf ears.",
        "专家试图让美国人了解埃博拉传播有多么困难，以及埃博拉为何不可能在美国形成流行之势，但人们往往充耳不闻。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – What is the big story of our age?",
        "发自北京——我们这个时代最大的事件是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "If this trend is allowed to continue, the Middle East will gradually lose its Christian congregations.",
        "如果放任这一趋势发展，中东将逐渐失去基督徒。"
    ],
    [
        "They take their direction from corporate bureaucrats in waging war against the indigenous people, whose sacred land is sited on vast reserves of “unobtainium,” which the corporation wishes to secure at all costs.",
        "他们遵从公司官僚对当地居民发动攻击的指示，而动机则是因为要不惜一切代价夺取蕴藏在当地居民的神圣土地下面 的珍稀矿物元素“ unobtainium ”。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the kind of precarious balance on which, for example, Lebanon’s “consociational” democracy rested – until differential population growth and external intervention undid it.",
        "举例来讲，这就是黎巴嫩“联合”民主赖以存在的脆弱平衡——直至上述平衡被人口增长差异和外来干预所破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Productivity growth has also become polarized.",
        "生产率增长也变得极化。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – This year marks the centennial of the outbreak of World War I, which is reason enough to reflect on what this seminal European catastrophe teaches us today.",
        "柏林—今年是第一次世界大战爆发一百周年，光是这一理由便已足以让我们反思这场欧洲的灾难对今天的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "The only point in common with the interwar results seems to be that economic crisis then as now strengthened the radical left.",
        "但本次选举和两次大战期间结果的唯一共同点似乎是经济危机都增强了极端左翼的力量。 然而情况早已发生了剧变！"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, fossil fuels brought their own environmental problems.",
        "当然，化石燃料也有其自身的环境问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Powell doctrine stipulates that the US should use military force only when a vital national-security interest is at stake; the strategic objective is clear and attainable; the benefits are likely to outweigh the costs; adverse consequences can be limited; broad international and domestic support has been obtained; and a plausible exit strategy is in place.",
        "鲍威尔思想认为，只有在关键性国家利益受到威胁、战略目标明确且可以达到、收益可能大于成本、消极影响可以得到限制、获得广泛的国内和国际支持、并存在可靠的退出战略时，美国才应该动用武力。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynes’s proposal never made it into the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944, and, while buffer-stock schemes re-surfaced in the 1970’s, they, too, went nowhere.",
        "凯恩斯的提议最终没能被1944年的布雷顿森林体系采纳，而当缓冲库存方案在1970年代重新抬头之后也最终不了了之."
    ],
    [
        "China’s slowdown has helped precipitate a broad-based fall in commodity prices that is having a devastating effect on countries like Argentina and Brazil, with which the US authorities presumably have little quarrel.",
        "中国的放缓可以解释大宗商品价格的普遍下跌，阿根廷和巴西等与美国当局没什么矛盾的国家也遭受了打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Business groups attempted to capture specific markets.",
        "商业集团试图独吞市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Chile’s Instituto Nacional, a fiercely competitive secondary school for boys, is as old as the Republic itself.",
        "智利国家学院是一所竞争激烈的男性中学，它的历史和共和国本身一样古老。"
    ],
    [
        "There are bold ideas in circulation in Asia that could sustain and promote growth.",
        "亚洲不乏维持和刺激增长的大胆相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Civil society, industry, and government must work together to increase the share of recycled plastics, thereby ensuring that plastics’ costs do not outweigh their benefits.",
        "公民社会、产业界和政府必须精诚合作，提高可循环利用塑料的比重，从而确保塑料成本不会超过它的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The attraction of the SDR donation scheme is that it does not impose any direct costs on donor countries.",
        "特别提款权捐助计划的吸引力在于它并不会给捐助国带来任何直接的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet national currency, which we display every time we make a cash purchase, arouses no such suspicions.",
        "但国家货币——我们每次支付现金时都会展示一下——则没有引起这样的怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, unless they strengthen the health-care system as a whole, other countries that have performed well in some areas – say, the fight against Ebola – could still face large death tolls and long-term economic turmoil.",
        "类似地，除非提高整体医疗体系水平，否则在某些领域——比如对抗埃博拉——表现出色的其他国家也仍可能面临巨大的伤亡数字和长期经济动乱。"
    ],
    [
        "On the cusp of this potentially unprecedented explosion in such projects, world leaders and lenders appear relatively oblivious to the costly lessons of the past.",
        "在前所未有的工程扩张潮中，世界领导人和贷款人似乎忘记了过去的代价沉重的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "In an ideal world, domestic consumption would serve as the main engine of growth; under current circumstances, infrastructure investment is the most reliable option.",
        "在理想状况中，国内消费将成为增长的主要引擎； 在当前环境下，基础设施投资是更可靠的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe they are right.",
        "也许他们是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "To avoid the Soviet Union’s fate, Xi and his colleagues have re-imposed ideological control and curtailed civil liberties.",
        "为了避免苏联的命运，习近平和他的同事重新开始了对意识形态和公民自由的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "Are developing countries really targeting this area in the next few years?",
        "今后若干年内，发展中国家能否真正瞄准这一市场？"
    ],
    [
        "Madeleine Albright once called the US the “indispensable nation.”",
        "奥尔布莱特曾把美国称为“不可或缺的国家”。"
    ],
    [
        "A family of three with one wage earner at the minimum wage can take home about $1,100 per month, while it could get about $1,700 on welfare.",
        "一个有一位最低收入雇佣劳动者的三口之家，每月可以收入约1100美元工资，同时却可得到大约1700美元的福利。"
    ],
    [
        "Slow GDP growth has meant slow employment growth.",
        "GDP增长缓慢意味着就业增长也缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "Many cities in California and the state itself already act as “sanctuary jurisdictions,” which protect undocumented immigrants from deportation by limiting cooperation with federal authorities.",
        "许多加州城市和该州本身已经开始按照“庇护所司法辖区”采取行动，限制与联邦当局的合作以保护无证移民免遭遣返。"
    ],
    [
        "It has paid off its foreign debt and built up foreign currency reserves of $450 billion.",
        "它已经偿还了外债并且建立起了4500亿美元的外汇储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Only about 10% is produced near Mosul, now under the control of the Islamic State.",
        "只有大约10%的石油产于目前被伊斯兰国控制的摩苏尔附近。"
    ],
    [
        "On my recent visit, I met Mr. Du, a thin-framed, HIV-positive farmer who lost his wife to AIDS last year and was desperate to prevent his infected 7-year-old son from meeting the same fate.",
        "不久前到那里时，我碰到了杜先生，一位HIV检测呈阳性的瘦瘦的中国农民。 他的妻子去年刚死于艾滋病，他拼命想保住感染的7岁儿子，不让他也遭受同样的厄运。"
    ],
    [
        "Their hope is that it will work once again to keep them free to do as they please, regardless of the risks for taxpayers and the economy.",
        "正如他们所述求的那样，不顾纳税人和全球经济的死活，还想再一次地全身而退。"
    ],
    [
        "In our globalized age, we have lost the privilege – and, paradoxically, the virtue – of ignorance.",
        "在我们全球化时代，我们已丧失无知的特权—及反论上的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Under this competitive logic, the marginal cost of US shale oil would become a ceiling for global oil prices, whereas the costs of relatively remote and marginal conventional oilfields in OPEC and Russia would set a floor.",
        "根据这一竞争逻辑，美国页岩油的边际成本将成为全球油价的顶部，而欧佩克和俄罗斯相对偏远和边缘的常规油田的成本将决定底部。"
    ],
    [
        "Such hopes are now unlikely to be realized.",
        "这些希望现在是无从实现了。"
    ],
    [
        "This ignorance matters when political commentators try to write about the global economy.",
        "当政治评论家评述全球经济时，这一无知就会带来问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, it accounts for the economy’s productive base, rather than just its monetary wealth.",
        "换句话说，它计算经济的生产基础，而不仅仅是它的货币财富。"
    ],
    [
        "He should be thinking about how to express – vividly and compellingly – the principles that have guided his choices so far, and that set a path for America’s future.",
        "他应当思考怎样生动而令人信服地表达迄今为止指引他的原则，并确定美国未来的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, we are seeing how strong immunization systems protect our gains against polio and provide a platform for reaching the world’s most vulnerable mothers and children with new vaccines and primary health care.",
        "事实上，我们正在目睹强大的免疫系统保护我们在消灭小儿麻痹症的战争上的胜利，提供一个接触世界最脆弱母亲和儿童、为他们带去新疫苗和基本医疗服务的平台。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukrainians note that Russia justified its invasion of Georgia, as the Nazis justified their dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, as being necessary to “protect” a minority to whom they had just given citizenship.",
        "乌克兰注意到，俄国入侵格鲁吉亚以及纳粹分解捷克斯洛伐克都是打者所谓“保护”刚刚赋予国籍的少数居民旗号的。"
    ],
    [
        "A zone of de facto control by Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Syrian regime forces has emerged between Baalbek and Homs, straddling the Lebanese-Syrian border.",
        "黎巴嫩真主党和叙利亚政府势力实际控制的地区已经在横跨黎叙边境的巴勒贝克（Baalbek）和霍姆斯（Homs）之间的地带产生。"
    ],
    [
        "If it does, we have all the reason we need to retain it; but if it does not, don’t we have as much power and as much right to change the arrangements under which we are governed as the framers had to prescribe them in the first place?",
        "如果答案是肯定的，我们就有充分的理由认为需要维持它； 但如果答案是否定的，难道我们不应该拥有改变这一让我们根据宪法缔造者一开始所规定的内容被统治的安排的权力和权利？"
    ],
    [
        "Interest rates are more than a mere economic input that determines levels of saving and investment.",
        "利率并不只是决定储蓄和投资水平的经济输入变量。"
    ],
    [
        "Who can say the same for the products of Damien Hirst?",
        "那谁敢说达米安·赫斯特的作品也具有同样的性质呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The first step would be a deal with Putin on Syria – a move that, like Bush’s defeat of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, would amount to handing a victory to Iran.",
        "第一步将是与普京就叙利亚问题达成协议——就像是布什在伊拉克打败萨达姆，这个动作将把胜利拱手让给伊朗。"
    ],
    [
        "This has created a worrying precedent.",
        "这开启了令人担心的先例。"
    ],
    [
        "If the world is to have any chance of capping the increase in global surface temperature at 2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels, without being forced to employ dangerous and risky technologies like Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage or geo-engineering, its energy system must be transformed.",
        "如果世界想有机会在不采用二氧化碳捕获及存储或地球工程等危险技术的情况下将全球表面温度控制在比前工业化时期升高2摄氏度以内，就必须改造全球能源体系。"
    ],
    [
        "According to some, the IMF is bad for the poor, women, economic stability, and the environment.",
        "按照这些人的说法，IMF 对穷人、妇女、经济稳定和环境不利。"
    ],
    [
        "That is precisely the message Xi sent to the military in a recent speech to the 16th army group, for which Xu served as political commissar in the early 1990s.",
        "这正是习近平在第16集团军发表的最新讲话所传递的信息。 20世纪90年代初，徐才厚在该集团军担任政委。"
    ],
    [
        "Badawi is right to be worried.",
        "巴达维担心是有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial and energy sanctions are necessary for deterrence; but we also have genuine interests that are best advanced by dealing with Russia.",
        "金融和能源制裁是威慑的必要条件； 但美国必须与俄罗斯做交易，这样才有利于我们的一些真正的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Advertisers are not interested in reaching such markets.",
        "广告商也对这样的市场不感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "We also know, however, that this led Europe to a future that was anything but serene.",
        "但是，我们也知道，这给欧洲带来的未来一点都不平静。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the percent of women on corporate boards remains in single digits, as is true of the top ranks of government and academia.",
        "在欧洲，妇女在企业董事会中的比例在百分之十以下，在政府和学术界最高职务上也是一样。"
    ],
    [
        "“And I will make 2015 the year that the historical grievances between us and our neighbors are buried for good.",
        "“2015年，我还将以积极方式结束我们与邻国的历史恩怨。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is only part of the story that we celebrate on the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer (September 16).",
        "但这只是我们庆祝世界臭氧层保护日（9月16日）其中一部分原因。"
    ],
    [
        "A tax on robots, its advocates hope, might slow down the process, at least temporarily, and provide revenues to finance adjustment, like retraining programs for displaced workers.",
        "对机器人征税的倡导者希望此举能会减缓这个过程，至少暂时性的，并提供收入来资助人们的职业转型，例如对下岗工人进行再培训。"
    ],
    [
        "But its basic approach remained critically flawed.",
        "但救市的基本方法仍然存在着致命的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently, they have increasingly abandoned altruistic participation and are demanding compensation for their tissue.",
        "因此，这种纯粹利他性质的贡献越来越让患者感到反感，他们要求为自己所捐献的组织得到补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, opposition to reform was implacable.",
        "毫不奇怪，改革的反对之声不绝于耳。"
    ],
    [
        "One part, the “rich inheritance of memories,” is rooted in the past, while the other, related to the present and opening the way to the future, consists in the common will of citizens to build their public life together.",
        "一部分，“记忆的丰富遗产”是植根于过去。 而另一部分，与现在相关并通往未来，是以公民共同建造公共生活的普遍意愿为构成要素的。"
    ],
    [
        "What we are seeing now – open campaigning, as opposed to selection behind closed doors – seems to be a move in the right direction.",
        "我们现在所看见的——公开竞选，而不是闭门商议——似乎是向正确的方向迈出了一步。"
    ],
    [
        "If Europe now grows without making the hard decisions needed to address them, those decisions become correspondingly less likely to be made.",
        "如果欧洲在没下狠心解决这些问题之前实现了增长，那么就因此更难以作出这些艰难的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Mao’s China at 60",
        "花甲之年的毛泽东中国"
    ],
    [
        "The US Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of several medical devices supported by dedicated phone-based readers is a promising step.",
        "美国食品和药品管理局最近批准了几个受专用手机阅读器支持的医疗设备，这是令人欣喜的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be international, with the UN’s blessing, but it should not be a UN force.",
        "它应当是国际性的，具有联合国的授权，但是它不应当是一支联合国部队。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republicans figured out the importance of state-level politics long before the Democrats, and they have built a much stronger foundation in the states than the Democrats have.",
        "共和党认识到州级政治的重要性远早于民主党，并且建立起比民主党更强的州级基础。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet a fundamental lesson of the surge in financial volatility that began last summer is that state-controlled information is often bad information.",
        "但去年夏天开始的剧烈的金融波动的一个基本教训是国家控制的信息常常是不良信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Since assuming office in 2013, Premier Li Keqiang’s government has chosen not to loosen the previous government’s rigorous macro policies, instead hoping that the resulting pressure on existing industries might help to stimulate the authorities’ sought-after structural shift toward household consumption and services.",
        "自2013年上任以来，李克强总理的政府没有选择放松前任政府的严厉宏观政策，而是希望由此产生的对现有行业的压力能有助于刺激当局所追求的向家庭消费和服务业的转型。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to call a spade a spade: the Republican Party is overwhelmingly responsible.",
        "是时候直言不讳了：共和党要负全部责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Progress in France brought a fairly recent migration from country to town.",
        "近几十年法国国家的进步引发了人们从乡村迁往城市的潮流。"
    ],
    [
        "This question of gaining political approval is closely tied to a fourth area of concern: how any final agreement is implemented.",
        "这个赢得政治支持的问题与第四个原因有密切关系：最终协议（不管是什么协议）如何实施。"
    ],
    [
        "And leadership for this huge revolutionary effort will probably have to come from visionary business executives whose profits depend on education and rationality.",
        "这个巨大的变革行动也许必须要由那些有远见的企业主管来领导，因为他们的利润依赖于教育和理性。"
    ],
    [
        "Political opponents and disaffected people, many of them young and with few prospects of finding jobs, took to the streets.",
        "政治反对派和不满的群众，其中有很多就业希望渺茫的年轻人，举行了街头游行。"
    ],
    [
        "To start, governments should design targeted, evidence-based policies and support the development of sound institutions.",
        "首先，政府应该设计基于证据的定向政策并支持可靠机构的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "And gold is following the fall in actual and expected inflation.",
        "而金价也会随着实际和预期通胀的下跌而走低。"
    ],
    [
        "People who were willing to lend their wives and daughters to their guru, for the sake of the security he offered, could not understand why the same “blessing,” extended to the two girls, should land him in jail.",
        "为了心灵导师所提供的安全，而心甘情愿将妻子和女儿奉献给他的人们，无法明白为何同样的赐予两位女性的“保佑”会让他锒铛入狱。"
    ],
    [
        "Advocates of dialogue with the Iranians and their Syrian allies, like former United States Secretary of State James Baker, labor under the delusion that they can actually reach an understanding that can enable a graceful US exit from Iraq and help stabilize that wounded country.",
        "像美国前国务卿詹姆斯·贝克（James Baker）那样倡导与伊朗及其叙利亚盟友展开对话的政客梦想能够与伊朗达成谅解，使美国能够从伊拉克体面地撤军，从而在这个已经满目疮痍的国家实现稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "There is therefore the risk that new drugs may in fact be worse than products already on the market.",
        "因此，新药比目前市场上同类药品的实际效果更差的风险也是存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Solar-electric power has gone from essentially zero to 0.04%.",
        "太阳能电力从几乎为零增长至0. 04%。"
    ],
    [
        "To do anything that requires legislative action, the Obama administration needs Voinovich and the 59 other senators who are more inclined to support it.",
        "要做任何需要立法行为的事情，奥巴马政府都沃诺维奇与其他更加支持他的59为议员。"
    ],
    [
        "For those Asian countries that recall Japan’s moderate and sensible advancement of regional policies since the 1960’s, there is a growing expectation that Japan should re-think its stance.",
        "那些还能回忆起日本自1960年代以来适度而明智的地区政策推进的亚洲国家都越来越希望日本能重新考虑其立场。"
    ],
    [
        "The US motive in mobilizing air power to protect them is unquestionably humanitarian.",
        "美国动用空中力量实施保护的动机无疑是出于人道主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact of this lost European perspective became clear in the autumn of 2008 when, in the aftermath of the sub-prime crisis and the failure of Lehman Brothers, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s first impulse was nationalistic and wholly anti-European.",
        "欧洲远景的失落所造成的影响在2008年秋次贷危机和雷曼倒闭的过程中展露无遗，德国总理默克尔一开始的反应极为民族主义，而且是彻底反欧洲的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, since 9/11, the tone has changed.",
        "但是，9·11袭击的发生让事情起了变化。"
    ],
    [
        "During a meeting, which I attended, with a delegation from the International Press Institute to obtain the release of the BBC journalist Alan Johnston, abducted in Gaza in March, Abbas explained the PA’s inability and weakness.",
        "我参加了一次国际新闻研究院代表团与阿巴斯的会晤。 会晤的目的是为了争取今年三月在加沙被绑架的BBC记者Alan Johnston的获释。"
    ],
    [
        "No and no.",
        "不会、不会。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, after decades of turf wars and self-marginalization, international organizations must rally around an increasingly pressing global priority: sustainable urbanization.",
        "如今经过几十年的地盘之争和自我边缘化，这些国际组织必须团结起来完成可持续城市化这项日益紧迫的全球任务。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2004, the surplus will shrink to about 1.5% - before the tax cuts that Berlusconi promised for next year.",
        "到贝卢斯科尼承诺减税的前一年，也就是2004年，上述盈余将进一步缩减至约1."
    ],
    [
        "And he is certainly not a defeatist.",
        "而且，他也绝对不是一个失败主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "Both paths led away from globalization to economic closure (and far worse).",
        "这两种方式都导致远离全球化、实行经济封闭（甚至更为糟糕的政策）。"
    ],
    [
        "His cohort’s ascent to the summit of power marks the retirement of the last generation of leaders designated by Deng Xiaoping (though they retain influence).",
        "他和团队登上权力巅峰标志着由邓小平指定的上一代领导正式退休（尽管他们在退休后仍有影响力）。"
    ],
    [
        "The association between occupational exposure to manganese and Parkinson’s-like symptoms was first described in the early 1800s in four manganese-ore crushers.",
        "因职业因素接触锰与帕金森病症状之间的联系最早出现在19世纪初的四名锰矿石碎石工身上。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer it takes for these companies to recognize their systemic importance, the greater the likelihood of a more powerful backlash by governments and the public, hurting the companies and undermining their ability to continue producing innovations that genuinely boost consumers’ wellbeing.",
        "这些公司承认其系统重要性所花的时间越长，政府和公众就越有可能产生更强烈的反弹，最终伤害到企业，使它们无力继续去生产那些真正能提高消费者福利的创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Charlie Hebdo, of course, used humor precisely to challenge sacred cows.",
        "当然，《查理周刊》运用的幽默恰恰挑战了神明。"
    ],
    [
        "Nutrition for Growth",
        "为了增长的营养"
    ],
    [
        "Rebalancing the State’s Balance Sheet",
        "重新平衡国家资产负债表"
    ],
    [
        "And 1870-1913, another period of rapid growth and globalization, was not characterized by balance; it was funded by the United Kingdom, acting as the world’s “bank.”",
        "而1870—1913年——又一个快速增长和全球化的时代——也没有出现平衡； 资金提供者是英国，它就好比是世界的“银行”。"
    ],
    [
        "Defined-contribution, fully-funded systems are often lauded as the feasible alternative.",
        "固定缴款、完全出资系统往往被赞赏为可行的替代选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments, too, are shedding labor – particularly governments burdened by high deficits and debts.",
        "政府也在摆脱劳动力——特别是饱受高赤字和债务负担重压的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "And when that happens, whatever isolated military footholds and ephemeral alliances Russia has maintained will quickly be lost.",
        "而当那一天到来时，俄罗斯在中东所维持的孤立军事据点和短暂联盟都将快速失去。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, China’s per capita income is only about 20% of the US level.",
        "相比之下，中国的人均收入仍只相当于美国的20%。"
    ],
    [
        "Would it really have been preferable to tighten policy far earlier, to kill off weaker companies in the interests of improving productivity?",
        "为了提高生产力，是否就该提前收紧政策，让那些弱势企业一命呜呼？"
    ],
    [
        "The more corrupt the system of capitalism, the more vulnerable it is to attack.",
        "资本主义体制越腐败，在攻击面前就越是脆弱不堪。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, big differences exist among the new EU members.",
        "实际上，在欧洲的新成员国之间也存在着巨大的差别。"
    ],
    [
        "But this technology, called carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), is not yet proven on a large scale.",
        "但这种被称为碳捕获封存（CCS）的技术目前尚未经过大规模验证。"
    ],
    [
        "The object was plain: to gain a Russian, and consequently, a Chinese abstention.",
        "目的很明确：争取俄罗斯的弃权，从而让中国也弃权。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders of Abbas’s Fatah faction, which controls the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, and of Gaza-based Hamas have been meeting regularly to implement the Egyptian-Qatari reconciliation plan.",
        "阿巴斯的法塔赫系的领导人控制着约旦河西岸的巴勒斯坦权力机构，而哈马斯控制着加沙，这两派已开始定期会面，讨论实施埃及-卡塔尔和解计划。"
    ],
    [
        "This figure has important consequences, as it represents money that should be in the tax base.",
        "这个数字具有重要后果，因为这些钱应该出现在税基中。"
    ],
    [
        "A full-page ad for Patek Philippe has Thierry Stern, the president of the company, saying that he listens to the chime of every watch with a minute repeater that his company makes, as his father and grandfather did before him.",
        "在百达翡丽一则整版广告上，公司总裁斯特恩（Thierry Stern）说他会听公司生产的每一只手表走动一分钟，他的父亲和祖父也是这么做的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why today my foundation – among many others including the European Union – supports groups such as the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, which protect and promote the values and principles on which the EU was founded.",
        "这解释了为什么今天我的基金会——还有包括欧盟在内的许多其他组织——支持像匈牙利公民自由联盟和匈牙利赫尔辛基委员会这样的机构，他们所保护和推动的是欧盟赖以建立的价值观和原则。"
    ],
    [
        "“So where are the spyware speakers?”",
        "我问自己的问题是，“到哪里去找间谍软件的发言人？"
    ],
    [
        "While the focus on holding vaccination sessions in schools has proved successful, it is inadequate for reaching girls in countries with low school-attendance rates, especially in urban areas.",
        "将重点放在疫苗的校园推广的做法被证明是成功的，但不足以在入学率较低的国家接触足够多的女孩，特别是农村地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bankers’ Capital War",
        "银行的资本之战"
    ],
    [
        "In both countries, early-nineteenth-century romantic nationalism gave way to a sober obsession with economic forces after the failed revolutions of 1848.",
        "1848年革命失败后，这两个国家19世纪初的浪漫民族主义让位给了对经济实力的清醒的沉迷。"
    ],
    [
        "But the truth is that both parties are hiding from the reality: without more taxes, a modern, competitive US economy is not possible.",
        "可事实是两党都没有勇气承认现实： 如果不增加税收，就不可能缔造出现代化、有竞争力的美国经济。"
    ],
    [
        "It wasn’t long before several states violated the Stability and Growth Pact.",
        "没过多久，不少国家就违反了稳定和增长公约。"
    ],
    [
        "Advertising has exploited this weakness in our wiring, making us think that if George Clooney is cool and wears something, maybe we can be cool by wearing it, too.",
        "广告就利用了我们天性中的这一弱点，让我们认为既然乔治·克鲁尼（George Clooney）穿某件衣服很酷，那么我们穿上它肯定也很酷。"
    ],
    [
        "Women and girls need protection from sexual violence, which flares up when families are forcibly displaced.",
        "他们中的妇女和女孩也需要保护，以免于性暴力的侵害——当家人 被迫转移时，它会突然发生。"
    ],
    [
        "But its defense spending has grown almost twice as fast as its GDP.",
        "但其国防开支增长速度要比其GDP几乎快出一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, the biggest winners were “vested interests” (Korea’s business establishment and the Chinese Communist Party).",
        "在中韩两国，最大的赢家都是“既得利益”（韩国财阀和中国共产党）。"
    ],
    [
        "Democratic regimes, Tocqueville argued, determine our thoughts, desires, and passions.",
        "托克维克主张，民主制度决定我们的思想、欲望和激情。"
    ],
    [
        "The vast majority comes from biomass, or wood and plant material – humanity’s oldest energy source.",
        "绝大部分可再生能源来自生物，即木头和植物材料——人类最古老的能量源。"
    ],
    [
        "The healthy borrowers worried that creditors would demand higher rates if the penalties for default softened.",
        "健康的债务人担心，如果违约惩罚放松，债权人就会要求更高的利率。"
    ],
    [
        "High-tech surveillance and boots on the ground may be more effective at preventing people from crossing a border, but a wall can be used as a political prop.",
        "高科技监控和荷枪实弹也许能更有效地阻止人们穿越边境，但高墙可以作为政治支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "For the battle for Ukraine’s liberty and independence was not decided last winter.",
        "但是这次选举就是，因为去年冬天，争取乌克兰自由和独立的战斗并没有决出胜负。"
    ],
    [
        "But other issues requiring cooperation between Congress and the president are unlikely to be addressed any time soon.",
        "但其他要求国会与总统合作的问题绝无可能在短期得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Hafiz Saeed, the founder of the ISI’s largest surrogate terror organization, LeT, remains the generals’ darling, leading a public life that mocks America’s $10 million bounty on his head and the UN’s inclusion of him on a terrorist list.",
        "同时，ISI最大的代理恐怖组织（LeT）创始人哈菲兹·赛义德依然是将军们的宠儿，其公众生活让美国1，000万美元的悬赏和联合国将其列入恐怖分子名单变成了笑柄。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a difficult challenge, because civil society organizations with the greatest interest in learning how to cope with the new pressures tend to specialize in specific development areas, such as the Millennium Development Goals, or sectoral issues, rather than having a broader view of how development finance institutions and their big shareholders operate.",
        "这是一项艰难的挑战，因为最有动力学习如何应对新压力的公民社会组织总是专注于具体的发展领域（如千年发展计划（the Millennium Development Goals））或部门性问题，而不会把眼界放宽到发展金融机构及其大股东会如何经营上。"
    ],
    [
        "In the downturn, revenues and subsidies from the central government collapsed and the bills came due.",
        "经济陷入低迷后，来自中央财政的补贴收入锐减，票据到期。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are right to worry about the ECB’s policies: Providing unconditional credit to eurozone governments is unlikely to make these governments more careful.",
        "但他们对欧洲央行政策的担心是正确的：为欧元区政府提供无条件信用不可能让这些政府变得更加谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "Robotization and artificial intelligence are destroying medium-skilled jobs, leading to a polarized labor market, with jobs created at the two ends of the wage distribution.",
        "机器人化和人工智能正在摧毁中等技术岗位，导致劳动力市场两极分化，在工资分布的两端创造就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But this approach isn’t perfect, either, because the risky borrowers to whom lending is restricted tend to be first-time or low-income buyers.",
        "但这一方针也不完美，因为贷款受限的高风险借款人多是首次或低收入买家。"
    ],
    [
        "Annan’s reunification proposal provided the blueprint for a “United Republic of Cyprus” comprising a federation of two states.",
        "安南的统一计划描绘了一幅由两个国家组成的“塞浦路斯共和国”的蓝图。"
    ],
    [
        "It is widely assumed that a deep recession induces many of the unemployed to leave the labor market, because looking for a job seems useless.",
        "人们广泛认为，深度衰退让许多失业者离开了劳动力市场，因为找工作完全徒劳无功。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a real danger that so-called “fiscal dominance” will undermine monetary policy and make it much harder to control inflation.",
        "所谓的“财政主宰”（fiscal dominance）是真正的威胁，它会破坏货币政策，并让通胀变得更加难以控制。"
    ],
    [
        "But the practical implications of this warning remain vague.",
        "但这一警告到底有什么作用还不清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "Bernie Sanders the socialist and Donald Trump the plutocrat are addressing much the same impulse.",
        "社会主义者伯尔尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）和富豪唐纳德·特朗普正在寻找相同的动力。"
    ],
    [
        "No embryos are capable of suffering, or have hopes or desires for the future that are abruptly cut off by their death.",
        "胚胎没有能力痛苦、怀有希望或者对由于死亡而突然中断的未来抱有欲望。"
    ],
    [
        "The process plays out until the domestic currency has lost a good deal of its value.",
        "这一过程会一直持续下去，直到本币失去相当大一部分价值。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to mobilize to defeat extremism.",
        "我们需要动员全人类打败极端主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Migration from abroad and from the countryside to the city gave rise to a new urban middle class employed mostly in government-related jobs.",
        "外国流入和农村流向城市的移民产生了新的城市中产阶级，他们大多从事公职。"
    ],
    [
        "This is one of the reasons why theorists such as Milton Friedman considered a bimetallic standard inherently more stable than a monometallic (gold-based) regime.",
        "这也就是为什么某些理论家如米尔顿·弗里德曼认为，双金属本位制比单金属本位（金本位）制具有更大的内在稳固性。"
    ],
    [
        "JERUSALEM – During the turmoil of the French Revolution, a popular saying arose: “How beautiful was the republic – under the monarchy.”",
        "发自耶路撒冷——在法国大革命的动乱时期曾经流传着这么一句话：“共和国是多么美妙啊——我指的是君主制下的那个。"
    ],
    [
        "An EU that is coming apart at the seams will not be able to maintain the sanctions it imposed on Russia following its incursion into Ukraine.",
        "一个四分五裂的欧盟将无法维持俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后对其进行的制裁行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer the ECB maintains its inflationary bias, the steeper the consequent economic decline as the economy crumbles under the weight of the skyrocketing euro and interest rates that are too high for current economic realities (though lower than where the ECB hawks had planned to go before the current financial crisis hit).",
        "当前，欧元猛升，利率相对于当前经济现实过高(尽管利率低于欧洲央行鹰派在目前金融危机打击之前计划调高的水平)，经济正在衰弱。 欧洲央行越是长久地维持其通胀偏见，经济衰弱的后果就越发严重。"
    ],
    [
        "The first Gulf War (1990-91), brought nearly one million foreign fighters from 35 countries to the Arabian Peninsula, along with their modern weapons systems, communications gear, and different lifestyles.",
        "第一次海湾战争（1990-1991）把来自35个国家的近100万外国士兵带到了阿拉伯半岛，随之而来的还有他们先进的武器系统、通讯传动装置和不同的生活方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Their features morph from one crisis to the next, as do the players involved in their creation.",
        "其特征在一场危机和下一场危机中有所不同，来自不同的制造者。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies can also head off looming labor shortages with intelligent software systems and robotics.",
        "公司还可以用智能软件系统和机器人解决劳动力短缺的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Northern European opposition to Eurobonds reflects moral-hazard concerns that monetary activism will discourage structural reforms.",
        "北欧对欧元债券的反对体现了对货币积极主义可能阻挠结构改革的道德风险担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Irreducible contradictions will remain, and therein lie the ambivalence that characterizes modern societies’ stance toward science.",
        "巨大的矛盾会依然存在，而这其中反映出的正是现代社会对于科学的矛盾态度。"
    ],
    [
        "“We shall never be able to move again, unless we can free our limbs from these paper shackles,” he wrote.",
        "“我们根本无法前进，除非我们的四肢可以从纸镣铐中解放出来，”凯恩斯写道。"
    ],
    [
        "But tensions will inevitably arise if China has no say in the creation of these rules.",
        "但如果中国在制定规则时没有发言权，就不可避免会出现紧张局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the current turmoil in the Middle East, the loss of Libyan and Yemeni oil, and increasing energy demand in the oil-producing countries, any increase in Saudi oil exports, if any, would have a limited impact on the market.",
        "考虑到最近在中东地区发生的一连串事件，利比亚和也门石油的停产，以及产油国内部不断增加的能源需求，沙特阿拉伯石油产量的增加都只能对市场产生极为有限的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s motivations are tied to the legacy of the Cold War.",
        "俄罗斯的动机与冷战残留思想有关。"
    ],
    [
        "When the downside risks associated with such limits and thresholds are brought into estimates of sustainable development, the growth in wealth among the world’s wealthy nations will probably turn out to have been less than we now think.",
        "当我们在估算可持续发展水平时计入与这些极限相关的消极风险，则世界富国财富增长的结果可能并不如我们想象中那样好。"
    ],
    [
        "But now to the 64 billion renminbi question: Could it work?",
        "现在，有一个640亿元人民币的问题：这能成功吗？"
    ],
    [
        "None of this is to deny that interests do, after all, play a role in negotiations, or that interests can affect morality.",
        "这并不是否定利益终究会在谈判中发挥作用或者利益会影响道德。"
    ],
    [
        "A lot is at stake – all the more so because French intervention is likely to be extensive.",
        "兹事体大——甚至会进一步加大，因为法国的干预程度可能会加深。"
    ],
    [
        "Each typically supports many family members back home, which also helps to lift entire communities.",
        "每个移民一般都供养着众多家庭成员，这有助于实现整个地区脱贫的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, Islamist rhetoric, adopted by Ahmedinejad among others, is deliberately designed to stir up memories of the Shoah.",
        "内贾德和其他人所采纳的伊斯兰言论依旧是有意用来挑起犹太人大浩劫的回忆。"
    ],
    [
        "· Borrow from foreign and domestic lenders.",
        "· 向国内外贷款人借钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, the risks and types of life-threatening infections that come with myelosuppression were increasingly recognized, leading to the development and better use of more effective antibiotics.",
        "对有生命危险的骨髓抑制感染类型及风险的认识越来越普遍，进而导致抗生素的研发及应用效率提高。"
    ],
    [
        "At its heart lies the belief that all government spending above a necessary minimum is wasteful.",
        "其核心观点是任何高于必要最小水平的政府支出都是浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth, large-scale liquidity provision for solvent governments is necessary to avoid a spike in spreads and loss of market access that would turn illiquidity into insolvency.",
        "第四，向偿债能力无忧的政府提供大规模流动性是避免利差急剧扩大、无法从市场上融资以至于流动性缺失问题恶化为偿付能力问题的必要手段。"
    ],
    [
        "This immigration is not an invasioni barbariche, as Italians refer to the Völkerwanderung, although the orders of magnitude are comparable.",
        "尽管规模相当，但是意大利人把过去的大迁徙称为野蛮人入侵。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi must also be aware that the children of the People’s Republic’s second generation of leaders face considerable public resentment, owing to their rapid accumulation of wealth.",
        "习肯定已意识到中华人民共和国第二代领导人的子女已经因快速敛财而引起相当大的公愤。"
    ],
    [
        "Zuma’s turbulent personal life – many wives and his embarrassing contention during a rape trial that he avoided HIV infection by taking a shower – has invited ridicule.",
        "祖马混乱的私生活——他有多位妻子，以及他在一起强奸审判中说他通过淋浴避免艾滋病病毒的令人尴尬的辩解——已经引起了一些人的嘲笑。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is a single security service that is more powerful than at any time since Stalin – and viewed as independent from the Kremlin.",
        "结果是一家安全局拥有了比斯大林以来任何其他时期都更大的权力——并且被视为脱离克里姆林宫的独立存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Lindbeck’s concerns were similar to those of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the US Treasury.",
        "林德贝克的关注点与国际货币基金组织（IMF）、世界银行以及美国财政部类似。"
    ],
    [
        "Was the position of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras so weak that he had no better choice than to pass the buck to his people by resorting to the extraordinary form of democracy that is democracy by referendum?",
        "总理齐普拉斯的地位如此弱势，以至于他没有其他更好的选择，只能求诸民主的反常方式——公投民主间该责任推给希腊人民了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "To address this shortcoming, donors and governments should fund the development of survey methods to measure adolescent death rates.",
        "要解决这一短缺，出资者和政府应该资助开发衡量青少年死亡率的调查方法。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with the decline of secular nationalism and Islamism’s rise, the hidden electoral power of the Muslim Brotherhood poses a mortal threat to the regime and its strategic alliance with the West.",
        "但是，随着世俗民族主义的式微和伊斯兰主义的崛起，穆斯林兄弟会隐藏的选举力量对这个政权以及它与西方的战略联盟都构成了致命的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The concept of seigniorage is poorly understood outside a relatively small community; it should not be used as the first line of defense.",
        "铸币税的概念除了一个相对较小的圈子并不为人们所很好的理解； 不应该用它作为首要辩护理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet they seem to share a fundamental indecisiveness in their approach to world affairs.",
        "但他们在对待全球事务方面表现出相似的根本性的犹豫。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is also deeply encouraging to see the corporate world take this issue seriously, by attempting to create a “shared future” for their female employees.",
        "但亲眼目睹企业界认真对待这一事件，并试图为女性员工创造某种“共同的未来”又非常令人鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, however, the EU has not come up with a coherent policy on migration.",
        "但迄今为止，欧盟还没有制定出统一的移民政策。"
    ],
    [
        "A century and a half ago, the Red Cross established the norm that health care could – and should – be provided even in conflict zones.",
        "一个半世纪前，红十字会建立了一条规范，冲突区也可以并且应该获得医疗服务。"
    ],
    [
        "But North Korea’s decision nonetheless demonstrated the virtues and efficacy of diplomacy, which brings us once again to the case of Iran.",
        "但是北韩的决定还是表明了外交的优点和功用。 这就再一次把我们带到了伊朗问题上来。"
    ],
    [
        "If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.",
        "如果公众拒绝给钱去看那些表演，那么以圈养动物来盈利的生意就无以为继了。"
    ],
    [
        "A country that is “unstable at the grass roots, dejected in the middle strata and out of control at the top,” as a group of Chinese scholars recently put it, may see adventurism abroad as the best means of maintaining unity at home.",
        "某些中国学者最近所描述的一个“底层动荡、中产阶级心灰意冷、权力阶层失控”的国家可能将对外冒险看作维持国内团结的最佳手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, following the principle, “everyone is covered, but not everything is covered,” governments must investigate which services are most cost-effective, and which should not be publicly financed, because they are both expensive and ineffective.",
        "最后，政府要遵循医疗保险“覆盖所有人而不覆盖一切”的原则，调查研究哪些服务最划算，哪些服务不应接受公开资助，因为这些服务不仅成本高而且效益低。"
    ],
    [
        "But this support could weaken or even cease if the dollar falls too low, if the price of oil rises too high, or if the American economy backfires.",
        "但是如若美元跌得太低，如若油价涨得太高，或者美国经济发展事与愿违，这种支持就有可能削弱或甚至暂停。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Lebanon’s two competing political coalitions, the March 8 alliance and the March 14 alliance, take their names from major crowd gatherings that occurred on those dates in 2005.",
        "事实上，黎巴嫩两大相互竞争的政治联盟——3·8联盟（March 8 alliance）和3·14联盟（March 14 alliance）便是以2005年群众集会日期命名的。"
    ],
    [
        "Under this scenario, Germany would play a role in global peace and security through the European seat, as well as serving as a periodic rotating member.",
        "根据这一情形，德国将通过欧洲席位扮演全球和平和安全方面的角色，同时也可以担任非常任理事国。"
    ],
    [
        "But if it can no longer rely on the US, where can the Kingdom turn for sufficient military muscle?",
        "但如果美国不再可靠，沙特王国可以从哪里寻找足够的军事实力支持？"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the Paper proposes that the self-employed should be admitted after an evaluation of their business plans.",
        "与此相似，绿皮书提出只有在对商务计划进行评估后自营人员才能被目标国接收。"
    ],
    [
        "For the emergence of this vast and growing pool of state-controlled funds may have implications more far-reaching, and certainly more politically sensitive, than the hopefully temporary distress caused by the subprime crisis.",
        "这是因为，与人们所希望的由次级房贷危机所产生的短暂不安相比，国家控制基金大量涌现所产生的影响可能更为深远，而且在政治上更为敏感。"
    ],
    [
        "So, too, in the US, the civil-rights protesters of the 1960’s called attention to pervasive institutionalized racism in American society.",
        "与此类似，20世纪60年代的美国民权运动引起了人们对美国社会普遍存在的制度性种族主义的注意。"
    ],
    [
        "Broadly speaking, the Pakistani Taliban is a Pashtun movement, concentrated in the semi-autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas in the northwest of the country.",
        "广义来讲，巴基斯坦塔利班是一项普什图运动，主要集中在该国西北部半自治的联邦直辖部落地区。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there is always the possibility that Greece’s increasingly dire situation will finally catalyze the creation of a democratically legitimate pan-European bailout fund that provides automatic and unconditional relief to struggling countries.",
        "可以肯定的是，希腊日益严峻的形势，为最终催生一个民主合法的泛欧洲救助基金向陷入困境的国家提供自动和无条件援助创造了可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the new government restore order and address the many immense challenges that Iraq faces?",
        "新政府能够重建秩序、解决伊拉克所面临的诸多紧迫挑战吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The EU works with either non-EU states, such as NATO members like Canada, Norway, and Turkey, or applicants for EU membership.",
        "欧盟既与非欧盟国家，例如加拿大、挪威和土耳其等北约成员国合作，也与申请加入欧盟的国家合作。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The world economy is experiencing a turbulent start to 2016.",
        "纽约—2016年伊始，世界经济正在经历动荡。 股市崩盘；"
    ],
    [
        "All are simply expected to execute orders scrupulously.",
        "所有人都只能小心翼翼地执行命令。"
    ],
    [
        "In good times, when firms want to expand, it is the hiring costs that bind, and making it easier to fire workers will remove a key impediment to investment and capacity expansion.",
        "在经济上行期，当企业想要扩张时，往往受到雇用成本的约束，而降低解雇员工的难度将消除投资和产能扩张过程中一个重要的阻碍因素。"
    ],
    [
        "And accountability is no longer absent in Mexico.",
        "没有了这个制度一切都无从谈起，而墨西哥目前也已经具备了这一制度。"
    ],
    [
        "So, rather than spending money on medical bills, they are boosting their income and spending capacity, both of which help the economy to grow.",
        "因此，他们不但不必把钱花在医疗账单上，还可以增加收入和支出能力，而这两点都有助于经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The French have lamented the miniscule support offered by the rest of Europe for its operations in Mali and the Central African Republic – exemplified by Germany’s refusal to create a fund for EU member-state operations.",
        "法国人感叹欧洲其他国家对其马里和中非共和国行动给予的支持微乎其微——德国拒绝设立欧盟成员国行动基金就是最好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the rapid advance of artificial intelligence and robotics means that even if manufacturing output in the US stabilizes or ticks upwards, it will not involve anywhere near the number of middle-skill jobs that it did in the past.",
        "此外，人工智能和机器人技术的快速发展意味着即使美国的制造业产出稳定或上升，也不意味着中等技能工作的数量能恢复到以往的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But Israel is “one of us.”",
        "但以色列是“我们当中的一员”。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the rise of demagogic populists on both ends of the political spectrum exemplifies this phenomenon.",
        "在欧洲，蛊惑人心的民粹主义在左翼和右翼同时崛起充分说明了这一现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Like existing castes, the new caste specializes in one occupation: political office.",
        "像已有的种姓一样，新种姓只专注于一种职业：政治任职。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, that is why governments across the Muslim world are increasing their R&D budgets sharply.",
        "事实上，这揭示了穆斯林各国政府大幅增加其研发预算的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – As European leaders struggle after another failed summit, they should think hard about what their continent – and the world – might look like if they continue to produce unsatisfactory solutions to Europe’s financial and economic problems.",
        "普林斯顿—在又一次失败的峰会后，欧洲领导人又要挣扎一番了。 他们应该仔细想想，如果他们仍不能为欧洲金融和经济问题找出令人满意的解决办法，欧洲大陆——以及全世界——会变成什么样子。"
    ],
    [
        "To do so, Varoufakis has been resorting to increasingly desperate measures, such as seizing the cash in municipal and hospital bank accounts.",
        "于是，瓦鲁法基斯开始采取越来越绝望的措施，如冻结市政和医院的银行账户。"
    ],
    [
        "So we built a map that was clickable, draggable, and easy to explore.",
        "于是我们做出了可以点击、拖动和轻松浏览的地图。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet we Clintonites received absolutely no cooperation from either Republican officeholders or Republican policy intellectuals.",
        "但不论是共和党公务员还是共和党政策知识分子，都完全不与克林顿政府合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of it is raised from outside investors.",
        "大部分资金从外部投资者那里募集来的。"
    ],
    [
        "Analyses by the Tax Policy Center, the Tax Foundation, and Moody’s Analytics all indicate that federal budget deficits under Trump’s economic plan are headed back toward at least 7% of GDP over the next ten years.",
        "税收政策中心（Tax Policy Center）、税收基金会（Tax Foundation）和穆迪分析公司（Moody’s Analytics）的分析都表明，按照特朗普经济计划计算，联邦预算赤字在未来十年将至少回升至GDP的7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Dan Levy, lead writer for the US sports website The Bleacher Report, points out that most commentators define “American soccer” as the number of Americans who watch American players in US league play.",
        "美国体育网站布里克报告（The Bleacher Report）主写手丹·莱维（Dan Levy）指出，大部分评论员将“美国足球”定义为观看美国足球联赛中美国球员表演的美国人数量。"
    ],
    [
        "But the consequences of a military adventure in Iran would far surpass those of the war in Iraq.",
        "但在伊朗进行军事冒险的后果会远比伊拉克战争来的严重。"
    ],
    [
        "I showed that, when the now-standard view about inflation was developed in the 1970s, increases in aggregate demand above levels consistent with full employment were actually few, short-lived, and small, and that past inflation jumps had been incorporated into future expectations not rapidly, but slowly over time.",
        "我指出，今天对通胀的标准看法是在20世纪70年代发展起来的，当时，在总需求水平高于充分就业对应水平的情况下发生总需求增加的现象其实是非常罕见、短暂、小幅的，而过去的通胀急升进入未来预期的过程也比较缓慢而不是非常迅速。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all democracies were as strict as France in their formal secularism but all were secular: the law is made by the sovereign people and not by some superhuman being or agency.",
        "并不是所有的民主国家都像法国那样有如此严格的正式的世俗主义，但是它们都是世俗论的。 法律是由拥有主权的人民而不是由某个超人或其代理来制定的。"
    ],
    [
        "If the exit cannot be navigated successfully, a dovish Fed is more likely to blow bubbles.",
        "如果不能成功实施退出，那么一个鸽派的美联储更有可能制造泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "Taxes on ICT are the modern-day equivalent of eating the grain you were saving to plant next year.",
        "对ICT征税就好比是吃掉你保存下来用于第二年耕种的种子。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – Most people used to think of the Internet as a force for good.",
        "慕尼黑—大部分人都把互联网看成是好力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Whichever reaction prevails, the moral imperative to explore a technology that can protect the poorest and most vulnerable this century would seem to trump amorphous concerns that doing so could weaken the incentive to pursue solutions that would largely benefit future generations.",
        "不管出现那种反应，探索能在本世纪保护最贫穷、最脆弱群体的技术的道德使命似乎要胜过关于这样做可能削弱探索能给子孙后代带来巨大好处的解决办法的激励的零散担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Then a decade of nominal-wage growth that out-paced productivity gains led to a rise in unit labor costs, real exchange-rate appreciation, and large current-account deficits.",
        "如果名义工资增长快于生产力增长的势头持续个十年，就会导致这些国家的单位劳动成本上升、实际汇率升值，进而导致经常项目大额赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "When holdouts are rewarded by court decisions, and the rights of recalcitrant creditors are recognized in other jurisdictions, efforts at “voluntary” restructuring become unsustainable.",
        "因为一旦法庭裁决支持了不妥协的债权人，而债权人的抗辩权利又得到其他司法行动的承认，那么“自愿”重组的一切努力就会付诸东流。"
    ],
    [
        "It was ruled unconstitutional, but it began a process of budget consolidation.",
        "该法案最终被宣布违宪，但它开启了一轮巩固预算的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The contrast suggests that a good share of Brazil trouble is homemade.",
        "这一对比表明巴西的麻烦很大一部分来自国内。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, he has produced a rupture between the two pillars of the revolutionary regime: the clerical elite and military-security structure.",
        "透过这一系列的行动，他在革命政权的两级 —— 宗教学者精英和军事安全集团之间 —— 制造了裂痕。"
    ],
    [
        "But only the first 5% of their wealth can be justified as an economic incentive to encourage entrepreneurship and enterprise.",
        "但是，他们的财富只有5%可以被正当地视为是鼓励创业精神的经济激励。"
    ],
    [
        "But since the victory of the Hindu-chauvinist BJP in the 2014 general election, a wave of religious triumphalism has swept India, bringing with it not just new cow-protection laws, but also vociferous demands for their strict enforcement.",
        "但随着持有印度教沙文主义立场的印度人民党在2014年获得大选胜利，宗教必胜的浪潮席卷印度，不仅催生了新的神牛保护法，还爆发了强大的呼声要求严格执行。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an outcome would be ironic, to say the least.",
        "这样一种结果最起码颇具讽刺意味。"
    ],
    [
        "The CPPC, too, is operating on a shoestring budget, and it is fighting an uphill battle.",
        "保护患者选择联盟（CPPC）同样经费捉襟见肘，但却要完成非常艰巨的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "It is relatively cheap, and it is easy for family practitioners, who treat the majority of depressed people, to prescribe.",
        "这类药物价格相对便宜，很多家庭执业者采用它来治疗多数抑郁症病人。"
    ],
    [
        "Opposition was fierce.",
        "反对声非常强烈。"
    ],
    [
        "In past elections, when there sometimes really was not much political difference between Democrats and Republicans, this made a certain sense.",
        "在过去的大选中——那时民主党和共和党的政治分歧还没有那么大——这有点用。"
    ],
    [
        "We tend to think of diplomacy as something carried out in secret; sometimes, however, it is better to hide in plain sight.",
        "我们总是人为，外交手段必须秘密进行； 但是，有的时候，将外交手段曝于光天化日之下是更好的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent Greek debt restructuring had to confront this issue.",
        "最近的希腊债务重组就不得不面临这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Bolder urban plans, more inclusive development strategies, and more streamlined business processes would catalyze investment and strengthen self-sustaining growth dynamics.",
        "而更大胆的城市规划，更具包容性的发展战略，更简化的业务流程将促进投资和增强自我维系型的增长动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Our modernity is probably a part of their legacy as well.",
        "我们的现代性极可能也是他们遗产的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Social policies in Europe – like everything else – vary widely, and popular attitudes cover a spectrum, from tired protectionism and longing for subsidies in some of “old Europe” to the free-market enthusiasm of more recent EU members in the West (Ireland and Portugal) and the East (Poland and Slovakia).",
        "和其它政策领域一样，欧洲各国的社会政策也千差万别，而在流行的观点中社会政策涵盖很广，从疲惫保护主义到某些“老牌”欧洲国家的补贴要求，再到欧盟西部新成员（爱尔兰和葡萄牙）和东部新成员（波兰和斯洛伐克）们高涨的自由市场热情。"
    ],
    [
        "The differences for instance between the Scandinavian countries, the Mediterranean countries, and the “liberal Atlantic countries” like Ireland and the UK are sometimes more pronounced than those between Europe as a whole and the US.",
        "举例来说，斯堪的那维亚国家、地中海国家以及像爱尔兰和英国那样的“自由的大西洋国家”之间的差别在某些时候要比欧洲整体和美国之间的差别还要大。"
    ],
    [
        "The increased participation of young people was also an important contributing factor in May’s defeat.",
        "年轻人参与率的提高也是梅惨遭失败的重要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands, 2-3 million people died in the forced labor camps of the Gulag and perhaps a million were shot during the Great Terror of the late 1930’s.",
        "据蒂莫西·斯奈德（Timothy Snyder）的《鲜血之地》（Bloodlands）一书的数据，200—300万人死于古拉格劳动营，另外20世纪30年代后期的大清洗中可能也有一百万人被枪决。"
    ],
    [
        "Before long, the digital world and the physical world will be indistinguishable.",
        "要不了多久，数字世界和真实世界就将无法区分。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Singapore’s fertility rate stands at just 1.3 – one of the lowest in the world – this policy enables the country to attract foreign talents to fill the population gap and sustain the economy.",
        "尽管新加坡生育率只有1. 3——为全世界最低之一——但这一政策让新加坡得以吸引外国人才填补人口空白和维持经济。"
    ],
    [
        "That sounds fine, but what, realistically, are the choices?",
        "”这个主意听起来不错，但现实的选择又在哪里呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Given that a more stable Middle East would send fewer refugees and terrorists across its borders, Europe has a strong incentive to provide such support.",
        "更稳定的中东意味着向周边输出的难民和恐怖分子数量下降，因此欧洲有很大的动力提供这一支持。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Unilever has rejected the short-term pressures of capital markets by ending quarterly earnings reporting and broadening its focus to advance greater social interests, rather than just the interests of its shareholders.",
        "比如，联合利华拒绝了资本市场的短期压力——不再公布盈利季报，扩大其注意力以推进更大的社会利益，而不仅仅着眼于股东利益。"
    ],
    [
        "An immediate step that the authorities should take, as many economists have argued for years, is to allow the saving rate to reflect the cost of investment.",
        "而正如许多经济体多年来所提出的那样，相关部门应当迅速改变利率机制，使储蓄利率能反映投资的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "America the Good makes demands on the evildoers.",
        "好人美国要求邪人付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "While some wealthy donors are redirecting their money to congressional and state-level candidates, many others have jumped on board – and others will, too, to the degree that Trump seems able to beat Clinton.",
        "尽管有些财大气粗的捐助方转而支持国会和州一级的人选，但也有很多人选择支持特朗普——只要特朗普看似能够打败克林顿，未来还有更多人将会做出这样的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last three decades, the government has created a transitory but effective PRI to remove barriers to market entry, define new property rights, and mimic international rules, thereby facilitating external trade and enabling foreign multinationals to operate effectively in China.",
        "在过去三十年中，中国政府建立了临时过渡但有效的产权基础设施，以消除市场进入壁垒、界定新产权、模仿国际规则，从而促进了对外贸易，也使外国跨国公司得以在中国高效运营。"
    ],
    [
        "We expect 6-7 billion pesos in savings by the end of this year, which can be used for other high-priority development projects.",
        "到今年底，我们期望可以节省60-70亿比索的资金，并把这些资金投入到其他更为紧急的发展项目上。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of all of this, the balance of winners and losers has become increasingly extreme and more difficult to manage, not just economically, but also politically and socially.",
        "拜所有这些因素所赐，赢家和输家的平衡变得更加极端和难以管理，不仅经济上是如此，政治和社会上也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "So, in times of surprise that move bond prices and yields, the banks are not present to act as stabilizers.",
        "因此，在影响债券价格和收益率的冲击发生时，银行不再起到稳定器的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Lowering the level of black particles in the atmosphere would benefit both human health and the climate.",
        "降低大气中黑色颗粒物的水平将会对气候和人类健康产生积极的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Nobel laureate Amartya Sen famously suggested that famines do not occur in democracies, because accountable governments will do everything they can to avoid mass starvation.",
        "纽约——民主国家不会爆发饥荒是诺贝尔奖得主阿马蒂亚·森的名言，因为负责任的政府会尽一切可能避免发生大规模饥荒。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2020, according to the McKinsey Global Institute, we will face the twin problems of a shortfall of up to 40 million high-skill workers and a surplus of up to 95 million low-skill workers.",
        "据麦肯锡全球研究所（McKinney Global Institute）的研究，到2020年，我们将同时面临最高4000万高技能工人的短缺和最多9500万低技能工人的过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "(The promise is to some extent literal: By building walls along the country’s northern and southern borders, the candidates would defend the American dream from outside contamination.)",
        "（某种程度上这是个实际承诺：通过在美国南北边境线上修建隔离墙，候选人将捍卫美国梦想不受外来污染。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The borrower is cut off from international markets, and essential imports can no longer be purchased, while large-scale defaults threaten to plunge creditors into insolvency.",
        "债务人将被逐出国际市场，无从购买基本的进口商品，而大规模违约的拖累则可能导致债权人破产。"
    ],
    [
        "ISIS has so far taken a back seat to Turkey’s concerns about Assad and the Kurds.",
        "到目前为止，ISIS对土耳其来说不如阿萨德和库尔德人重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, in the digital age, many services are being provided free of charge, which means they are not being counted as consumption at all.",
        "此外在数字时代许多服务都是免费提供的，这意味着它们并未被计算机在消费内。"
    ],
    [
        "That choice matters as an example across Asia, because Pakistan has long been the traditional sanctuary of Al Qaeda and its Taliban cohorts, who hide in the inhospitable Pakistani-Afghani border region.",
        "这一选择将会作为整个亚洲的范例而具有重大作用，因为巴基斯坦长久以来一直是基地组织及其塔利班同夥的藏身之地。 他们躲藏在巴基斯坦和阿富汗交界地带荒无人烟的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "I propose an initiative that rates pharmaceutical companies according to their contribution to solving the antibiotic-resistance problem; those that do not contribute should be punished with fewer sales.",
        "我建议实行一项计划，根据药企在解决抗生素耐药性问题方面的贡献对其进行评级； 应当惩罚那些不做贡献的企业减少其销售额。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks pin down the short end of the yield curve, while financial-market participants price longer-dated yields based on how they expect monetary policy to respond to future inflation and growth, taking into account associated risks.",
        "各国央行固定了收益曲线较短的一段，而金融市场参与者们则基于他们就货币政策将如何对未来通胀或增长作出反应的预期来为更长期的收益定价，并计算相关风险。"
    ],
    [
        "We must demand that our Supreme Court – if not our lawmakers – affirm a pluralist India that accommodates all identities within our country.",
        "我们必须要求最高法院——甚至立法者——确保一个协调这个国家所有身份的多元主义的印度。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the speech, lower-level officials and the Chinese media have reiterated similar lines.",
        "自此次演讲以来，底层官员和中国媒体一直以此为基调进行转述。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider, too, that one symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder is an “inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma.”",
        "我们还应该考虑到，创伤后应激障碍(posttraumatic stress disorder)的症状是“不能回忆起创伤的重要方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Cameron’s Conservative Party includes members who have been spoiling for a fight with the EU for a long time.",
        "卡梅伦的保守党中不乏长期以来都想和欧盟作对之士。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, rich countries in Europe have increasingly found that they cannot pay for university education, and are asking young people and their families to bear the costs.",
        "别忘了，就连许多欧洲富裕国家如今都无法承担大学教育的费用，只得转嫁到年轻人及其家长身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, partly owing to Yasir Arafat’s own actions or inactions, at his death Palestine still had none of them.",
        "事实上，由于阿拉法特的行动或懈怠，在他去世之时，巴勒斯坦仍然不符合上述任一条件。"
    ],
    [
        "He should.",
        "应该是。"
    ],
    [
        "As Obama has just discovered, having a legislature that clearly does not want to go to war weakens the executive’s hand in international negotiations.",
        "正如奥巴马刚刚发现的，立法机关明确不愿走向战争会削弱执政者在国际谈判上的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Venezuela, with some of the world’s largest hydrocarbon reserves, should be enjoying an era of prosperity amid high oil prices.",
        "委内瑞拉拥有全球最大碳氢化合物储量之一，在高油价时代本应进入繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiation and diplomacy are the only sure way to resolve the standoff with Iran over its nuclear program.",
        "谈判和外交是打破与伊朗在其核计划问题上的僵局的唯一确定的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Analysts expect the stevia market to reach $275 million by 2017.",
        "分析师预计甜叶菊市场 2017年将达到2. 75亿美元的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the press as a whole, and journalists in particular, are so frequently targeted by the authorities.",
        "这也说明为什么整体舆论，特别是记者，会如此频繁地成为政府的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, as we saw in the financial crisis, if many financial institutions have many such contracts, a rumor of insolvency can induce all of one institution’s derivative counterparties to demand collateral or payment simultaneously, triggering a run that resembles a classic bank run, which could then spread to other firms.",
        "更糟糕的是，我们看到，当发生金融危机时，如果许多金融机构持有了太多的合约，一条破产传闻就能让某家机构的衍生品交易对手一窝蜂地要求增加抵押品或立刻赔付，从而触发类似于经典银行挤兑的挤兑，接着，挤兑会蔓延到其他公司。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank, established in 1998, has a mandate to manage the new currency to maintain price stability.",
        "欧洲中央银行建立于1998年，其使命是管理这一新货币来维持价格稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "But hardly anyone focuses on these inflation-corrected numbers.",
        "但很少有人关注这些经通胀修正的数字。"
    ],
    [
        "The non-Westerner, however, would rather place tradition above innovation.",
        "但是非西方人更加愿意把传统置于创新之上。"
    ],
    [
        "(As in any market, you need to consider not just your targets, but also who is competing with you for their attention.)",
        "（和在市场中一样，你需要考虑的不仅仅是你的目标，也要考虑谁在和你争夺目标的注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there are genuine fears that rogue elements in a divided Iranian government might leak weapons technology to terrorist groups.",
        "更严重的是，伊朗分治政府中的无赖分子可能会把武器技术泄露给恐怖主义集团，这样的担心并非杞人忧天。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps frustrated by his failure to find factual errors in my reporting, the author of the report offered some editorial comments that epitomized the flawed thinking on which the war rested.",
        "也许是懊恼于未能在我的报告中找到事实错误，那份报告的作者加注了一些编者按，概括了战争赖以生存的错误想法。"
    ],
    [
        "When international investors came knocking again in 2003, many emerging markets declined to borrow in dollars or other foreign currencies.",
        "当国际投资者2003年再次上门推销贷款时，很多新兴经济体都谢绝借款采取美元或其他外汇形式。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news for the UK is that it probably wouldn’t face substantially higher trade barriers even if it did leave the single market.",
        "但对英国的好处在于即便脱离单一市场，它也很可能不会遭遇持续提升的贸易壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "Either a beleaguered Assad or an increasingly desperate opposition might destroy the deal on the ground.",
        "身处困境的阿萨德或者越来越绝望的反对派都有可能破坏已经达成的协议。"
    ],
    [
        "In the late nineteenth century, a rising US was able to cooperate with a declining Britain, owing to their shared culture and values.",
        "19世纪末，崛起的美国能够与衰落的英国合作，这是因为它们有共同的文化和价值。"
    ],
    [
        "If Russia is allowed to continue imposing Moscow rules on Europe’s energy supplies, the result will be costly – not only for Europe, but for Russia as well.",
        "而如果我们依然允许莫斯科在欧洲能源供应上颐指气使的话，那么付出的代价就将非常沉重——不但是欧洲，还有俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "They are contemptuous of the establishment.",
        "他们蔑视当权人士。"
    ],
    [
        "There would then scarcely be any need for engineering schools.",
        "这样一来，就完全没必要开办工学院了。"
    ],
    [
        "The second track is a political process in which the US and other governments remain open to Russian (and even Iranian) participation.",
        "第二条轨是一个政治进程，在这个进程中，美国和其他国家对俄罗斯（甚至伊朗）的参与持开放态度。"
    ],
    [
        "If this is what the king had to do to restore peace, they say, so be it.",
        "如果这就是国王为了维持和平而所要做的，那么他们说，就做吧！"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed waited too long to start the normalization process, and, because it was more aggressive in lowering rates in the downward phase of the interest-rate cycle, it has had to be more aggressive in raising them in the upward phase.",
        "美联储等得实在太久，才启动了利率正常化的进程。 不仅如此，因为它在利率周期的下降阶段拼命地降低利率，所以在目前的上升阶段就必须花费更大的力气，才能把利率提高到恰当的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "In the British Medical Journal , a leading British transplant surgeon called for a controlled donor compensation program for unrelated live donors.",
        "英国一位著名的移植外科大夫在《英国医学杂志》上号召为非亲活体捐赠者通过一个加以控制的捐献者补偿计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that this process of careful assessment is now underway.",
        "好消息是这一仔细评估的过程现在正在进行。"
    ],
    [
        "This will lack credibility under Mubarak, whose refusal to stand down is a recipe for chaos.",
        "这种改革在穆巴拉克领导下缺乏可信度，而穆巴拉克拒绝下台很可能埋下混乱的种子。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet none of Latin America’s political narratives teaches voters anything new or useful.",
        "但迄今为止，没有一种拉美政治叙事教会选民新的或者有效的技能。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, corruption cripples prospects for development.",
        "首先，腐败令发展前景蒙尘。"
    ],
    [
        "There’s wisdom, which Iran’s leaders should heed, in the old adage that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.",
        "十赊不如一现。 伊朗领导人应当理会这一古语的智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the patent system is itself a prize system, albeit a peculiar one: the prize is temporary monopoly power, implying high prices and restricted access to the benefits that can be derived from the new knowledge.",
        "当然，专利体系本身就是一种奖励体系，不过是很特殊的一个。 那就是其奖励是一段时间的垄断权，从而给新知识所带来的利益赋予高价并且限制进入。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet through all of this, the dollar’s international role has endured.",
        "但经历了所有这些看空的美元，其国际地位岿然不动。"
    ],
    [
        "Shinzo Abe: “I will invite to Hiroshima or Nagasaki on the August A-bomb anniversary all six-party talks leaders to kick-start serious negotiations on a Northeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, which will embrace Japan and both Koreas and be guaranteed by the US, China, and Russia.",
        "安倍晋三：“我将邀请六方会谈全体领导任参加8月份的广岛或长崎原子弹爆炸周年祭，以促进东北亚无核武器区谈判，东北亚无核武器区将包括日本和朝鲜半岛两国，并由美国、中国和俄罗斯提供保障。"
    ],
    [
        "This led to a corresponding rise in registered cases – 386 since 1996.",
        "这也导致了注册案件的相应增加——自1996年以来已有386件。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors, especially, need to recognize that even if broader positive trends in globalization and technological progress continue, a rise in macroeconomic volatility could still produce a massive fall in asset prices.",
        "投资者特别需要认识到，即使更大范围内的全球化和技术进步的积极趋势继续下去，宏观经济波动提高仍然能够导致资本价格的大跌。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1970, steel box-girder bridges in Milford Haven, Wales, and in Melbourne, Australia, failed spontaneously while under construction.",
        "1970年，威尔士米尔福德港和澳大利亚墨尔本的箱形钢梁大桥在建筑过程中自然坍塌。"
    ],
    [
        "But at some point, a real market correction will arrive.",
        "但总有一天真正的市场回调会到来。"
    ],
    [
        "Containment was unfeasible, because, unlike the Soviet Union during the Cold War, China’s neighbors did not see it as a clear and present danger.",
        "遏制是行不通的，因为不像冷战时期的苏联，中国的邻国并没有把它看作一个清晰并且现实的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The other candidates were also constrained by party orthodoxy, which has long kept Democrats and Republicans alike from willingly addressing the structural inequities in the American economy head-on.",
        "其他候选人还受制于党派正统，长期以来，党派正统让民主党和共和党都无法心甘情愿地解决美国经济所面临的结构性不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "While not always evident from the headlines, an underlying cause of the eurozone crisis – and now an obstacle for growth in the south – has been the divergence in production costs that developed between the peripheral countries, notably the “south” (specifically, Greece, Spain, Italy, and Portugal) and the “north” (for simplicity, Germany) during the first decade after the introduction of the euro.",
        "尽管新闻标题上很少提及，但欧元区危机的一大基本原因——以及如今南欧增长的一大障碍——是外围国家（主要是“南欧”国，以希腊、西班牙和葡萄牙为首）和“北欧”国（简单起见，可以德国代之）在使用欧元的第一个十年中生产成本的日渐分化。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this is the same state-dominated development model that came under heavy criticism at this year’s CDF – and that stands in sharp contrast to the more market-driven alternative that has gained broad consensus among senior Chinese leaders.",
        "但该计划正属于在今年的CDF上受到口诛笔伐的国家主导发展模式，亦与中国高层领导人普遍认同的市场导向替代模式相悖。"
    ],
    [
        "In a crisis, Israel or Iran could be tempted to use nuclear weapons out of fear that the other would if they did not.",
        "在危机中，以色列或者伊朗可以会因为担心如果它不使用另一方可能会使用核武器而动用核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "From an early date, the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba became the symbol of something unheard of: the arrest without trial of “illegal combatants” who are deprived of all human rights.",
        "很久以来，古巴关塔那摩湾的战俘营成为了闻所未闻的象征，也就是不经审判逮捕被剥夺所有人权的“非法战斗人员”。"
    ],
    [
        "How worried should businesses, investors, and policymakers around the world be about the end of near-zero interest rates and the start of the first monetary-tightening cycle since 2004-2008?",
        "企业、投资者和决策者对于近零利率时代的结束、2004—2008年货币紧缩周期结束以来的首次升息应该抱以多大的担忧？"
    ],
    [
        "Extensive lobbying, directly and by proxy, is underway to persuade European regulators to allow long-term supply contracts in the EU – despite their deadening effect on competition.",
        "通过直接以及通过代理人进行的广泛游说，它们正在劝说欧洲的监管者允许在欧盟签署长期的供应合同，尽管这样做会严重地阻碍竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Financial repression – government policies that create an environment of low or negative real interest rates, with the goal of generating cheap financing for public spending – has long been a key feature of Chinese economic policy.",
        "北京—金融抑制——即通过政府政策创造一种低甚至负实际利率环境，以此为公共支出营造廉价融资——是中国经济政策的长期重要特征。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to the obvious benefits that education can deliver, increased enrollment in secondary schools offers advantages to all levels of society.",
        "除去显而易见的好处，提高中学入学率能使社会各个层面得到提升。"
    ],
    [
        "The first fault line that Russia has exposed can be found among Europe's former Soviet bloc countries.",
        "俄罗斯所暴露的第一条断层线在欧洲的前苏联阵营国家。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, God, it is said, protects children, fools, dogs, and the United States of America.",
        "毕竟，据说，上帝保护儿童、傻瓜、狗及美利坚合众国。"
    ],
    [
        "Major European banks – in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France – have, like their 1980’s predecessors, built up a gigantic exposure to what they erroneously thought was safe debt.",
        "欧洲各大银行，不论是英国的、德国的还是法国的，就像20世纪80年代它们的前辈一样，错把国债当成安全债权，累积了巨大的头寸。"
    ],
    [
        "The formula is straightforward: national development based on core values, led by youth, and focused on a future in which everyone achieves happiness.",
        "我们的方法非常简单：争取以青年为领导、核心价值观为基础的国家发展，以便在未来让每个人都能得到幸福。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from the final adoption of the 2010 reforms and the forthcoming 2014 quota debates, the changes should include those recommended by the Stiglitz Commission, the Palais Royal Initiative, and the 2009 Committee on IMF Governance Reform headed by Trevor Manuel, among others.",
        "除了最后采纳2010年的改革和即将到来的2014年配额争论外，还应该包括斯蒂格利茨委员会、王宫倡议和以曼努埃尔（Trevor Manuel）等人为首的2009年IMF治理改革委员会提出的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed has long qualified its post-QE normalization strategy with a host of data-dependent conditions pertaining to the state of the economy and/or inflation risks.",
        "美联储一直用一套描述经济和/或通胀风险状态的基于数据的条件论证其后量化宽松时期的正常化战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Solzhenitsyn, one of the most famous and heroic dissidents of the Soviet era, now seems certain to become a towering figure in the iconography of Putinism.",
        "作为苏联时代最为着名和勇敢的异议人士之一，索尔仁尼琴现在好像肯定成为普京主义举足轻重的人物。"
    ],
    [
        "They also belong to several large tribes, guaranteeing wide tribal representation if a military council were to take power, as in Egypt.",
        "此外他们还分属于几个大的部落，这样就能确保如果像埃及那样由军事委员会进行接管，那么部族利益将会得到广泛的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "After just one year, Rwanda reported vaccinating more than 93% of its adolescent girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV) – by far the largest cause of cervical cancer.",
        "只用了短短一年时间，卢旺达就报告93%以上的少女接种了人乳头瘤病毒（HPV）疫苗——HPV病毒是宫颈癌最主要的致病元凶。"
    ],
    [
        "While a quartz watch keeps time more accurately than the most finely crafted handmade mechanical Swiss watch, the value of a quartz watch has plummeted, while Swiss watches’ value has climbed into the stratosphere.",
        "尽管石英表比最精巧的手工机械瑞士表都走得更准，前者的价值却垂直下降，而后者则成了奢侈品。"
    ],
    [
        "Mixed signals from competing power centers don’t help; nor does the recurring contrast between Iranian officials’ usually-strident public pronouncements and often-moderate private discourse.",
        "而伊朗官员往往说一套做一套，公开讲话咄咄逼人，私底下却温和无比，也不可信。"
    ],
    [
        "By equating the murderer and the victim, we wash our hands.",
        "通过将屠杀者和受害者划上等号，我们选择了袖手旁观。"
    ],
    [
        "For “soft Brexiteers,” who want to preserve Britain’s access to the European single market, the problem is that the Brexit vote mainly reflected concerns about immigration, not about the minutiae of the single market’s rules.",
        "对希望保留对欧盟单一市场准入权的英国“软脱欧派”来说，问题在于脱欧投票主要反应了对移民问题、而非单一市场规则细节的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the idea that severely damaged economies, with limited prospects for independent recoveries, would pass up the opportunity that international cooperation presented was implausible.",
        "受损严重的经济体能看见独立复苏的有限前景，它们会拒绝接受国际合作带来的机会，这一观点可能无法令人信服。"
    ],
    [
        "As for NATO, the question of consultations among allies is addressed in Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states that, “the Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence, or security of any of the Parties is threatened.”",
        "对北约来说，盟国之间的磋商问题已经在《北大西洋公约》的第4条中进行了界定：“无论何时任何一缔约国认为缔约国中任何一国领土之完整，政治独立或安全遭受威胁，各缔约国应共同协商。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "One of the more important medium-term initiatives urged by the UN Commission is the creation of a global economic coordinating council, which would not only coordinate economic policy, but would also assess impending problems and institutional gaps.",
        "由联合国委员会提出的，更为重要的中期倡议里还有这样一条：创立全球性的经济协作理事会，该理事会不仅要协调经济政策，还会对面临的问题和机构之间的分歧进行评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Voters of the center or even the center-right are disappointed, too, by their president’s lack of charisma, if not sheer incompetence.",
        "中间派选民甚至中右翼也感到失望，因为总统缺乏魅力（如果不是彻底无能的话）。"
    ],
    [
        "Global movements such as Break Free have been exemplary in this regard.",
        "冲破藩篱这样的全球运动在这方面起到了示范作用。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to promote a much more inclusive and informed dialogue about both if nuclear power is to be assessed on its genuine merits, rather than dismissed on the grounds of little more than ignorance and intransigence.",
        "第二大问题是辐射。 如果对核电的评价不是基于其真正的优点，而是基于愚昧和固执，那么我们需要就这两个问题开展更深、更广、信息量更大的对话。"
    ],
    [
        "By 1998, Russia already had achieved a critical mass of markets and private enterprise, while the financial crash of that year worked like a catharsis, forcing the government to abolish enterprise subsidies that underpinned a devastating budget deficit of some 9% of GDP.",
        "截止1998年，俄国已经建立起市场和私有企业的基本主体，而此时发生的金融崩溃就像一剂强力泻药，迫使政府取消了对占国内生产总值9%的破坏性预算赤字起支撑作用的企业补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "This is, to be sure, a special case.",
        "这肯定是个特殊的案例。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike in Pakistan, moreover, the Afghan insurgents could resume fighting with the expectation that their main adversary, the international forces, would be considerably hobbled in their response, because Western publics would prevent their governments from sending their troops back to battle.",
        "而与巴基斯坦不同的是，阿富汗武装分子会有另一种想法，认为一旦战火重燃，他们的主要对手多国部队将举步维艰，因为西方国家的民众会阻止政府将本国军队重新投入战场。"
    ],
    [
        "But Yingluck’s subsequent attempt to backtrack on the amnesty measure failed to mollify the opposition.",
        "）但英拉随后收回特赦的努力并未平息反对浪潮。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamic Declaration on Climate Change, like Pope Francis’s recent encyclical Laudato Si', is a call to humanity, regardless of faith, to work together to protect the planet upon which we depend.",
        "像教皇弗朗西斯不久前的通谕Laudato Si'一样，伊斯兰气候变化宣言是向无分信仰的全人类发出呼吁，要共同保护我们赖以生存的星球。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, these measures stopped the fall in asset prices halfway and thus saved much wealth.",
        "诚然，这些措施半途阻止了资产价格下跌，因此拯救了大量财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Though showdowns in the US Congress over the debt ceiling did not result in a government shutdown this month, US leaders have only kicked the can down the road to the end of the year, when the stakes could well be higher and the stalemate more intractable.",
        "尽管美国国会就债务上限问题的“决战”没有导致政府在这个月惨遭关门，但美国领导人只是把大限延后到今年年底，到那时，这个问题的后果可能会更加严重，僵局可能更加难以克服。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also bad news, although not all of it is specific to the eurozone.",
        "此外还有一些坏消息——但其中一些也不是欧元区特有的。"
    ],
    [
        "We need a global vision of sustainable recovery that includes leadership from China, India, Europe, Latin America, and, yes, even Africa, long marginalized from the world economy, but very much part of it now.",
        "我们需要一个可持续经济复苏的全球视角，这一视角包括来自中国、印度、欧洲、拉丁美洲以及非洲——对，长期从世界经济中边缘化，但是现在已经是其一部分的非洲——的领导。"
    ],
    [
        "Or almost everywhere, for there is a place that escapes this reality: the hospital.",
        "或者说除了医院之外其他地方都无法摆脱这一现实。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, it is time for change at the Fed.",
        "无论如何，美联储应该发生改变。"
    ],
    [
        "This is true of the recent boom-bust sequence in Spain, Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, and the Baltics, among others.",
        "西班牙、爱尔兰、美国、英国，保加利亚和波罗的海各国最近出现的泡沫膨胀-爆发连锁反应都说明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, whereas Hungary pays Gazprom $260 per thousand cubic meters of gas, Poland pays $526 – the highest price in the EU.",
        "结果，匈牙利向俄天然气购买天然气每千立方米需要花260美元，而波兰需要花526美元——欧洲最高价格。"
    ],
    [
        "But, by delivering exports directly to Germany, Russia will be able to cut off gas to Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic states without directly affecting West European supplies – and Russia’s recent behavior indicates that this is a real threat.",
        "但是，通过将天然气直接输入到德国，俄罗斯将可以切断对乌克兰、波兰和波罗的海国家的天然气供应而不会直接影响对西欧国家的供应。 俄罗斯最近的行为表明这是一个真正的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "It worked. China, with much less exposure than the West to toxic banking assets, is off to the races again as America struggles to its feet.",
        "这套计划很奏效，由于跟西方相比中国国内银行的有毒资产较少，当美国刚刚才从危机中直起腰来来的时候，中国已经再次上路了。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the best way to change the way livestock are raised is by putting pressure on major food companies – a feat that consumers could achieve most effectively.",
        "但也许改变畜牧养殖方式的最佳办法是向大型食品公司施压——在这方面，消费者的作用最为显著。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is Turkey, straddling Europe and the Middle East.",
        "还有横跨欧亚的土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "But the ebb and flow can unsettle established politics – for example, when centrist parties move to the right to lure voters away from more extreme parties.",
        "然则如此兴衰更替可能动摇现行政治——比如当中间派政党转为右倾以吸引更为极端的政党的选民时。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Hamas’s belligerent ideology, any change in the West’s approach towards Hamas in the aftermath of successful Palestinian dialogue in Cairo would be difficult.",
        "考虑到哈马斯的好战思想，开罗会议巴勒斯坦对话成功后西方很难改变对待哈马斯的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "The populist nationalists, because they reject these fundamentals, are the unremitting political antagonists of all liberals.",
        "由于平民民族主义分子反对这些基本原则，因此他们是所有自由主义者永久的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet he may now be tempted to appoint new members to the Fed Board who are even more dovish, and less independent, than Yellen, in order to boost credit to the private sector.",
        "但如今，他可能指派比耶伦更加鸽派、更不独立的人进入美联储理事会，以便增加对私人部门的信用。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, though attempts to reform the code of civil procedure, aimed at improving the judicial system’s efficiency, began in 2011, little progress has been made, owing largely to the government’s failure to face down opposition from lawyers’ associations, which stand to lose their excessive fees from useless procedures.",
        "类似地，2011年希腊大刀阔斧地改革民事诉讼法以改善司法体系的效率，结果收效甚微，很大程度上是因为政府无法抵挡来自律师协会的反对——他们将失去来自无效诉讼的大量费用。"
    ],
    [
        "With the US, and now Europe, facing long roads to recovery, Asia’s emerging economies can no longer afford to count on solid growth in external demand from the advanced countries to sustain economic development.",
        "美国，这次又加上了欧洲，均面临着漫漫复苏路，亚洲新兴经济体无法再将稳健增长建立在依靠发达国家的外部需求的基础上，以维系可持续经济发展了。"
    ],
    [
        "The effects are not easy to miss.",
        "其影响是显而易见的。 世界卫生组织把konzo定义为走路或跑步时的可见的痉挛性异常；"
    ],
    [
        "It is reasonable to suspect that gold medals now go not to those who are drug-free, but to those who most successfully refine their drug use for maximum enhancement without detection.",
        "我们因而有理由怀疑获得金牌的并非那些不使用药物的运动员，而是那些以最成功的方式管理药物的使用从而最大限度提升运动成绩而又不会被发现的运动员。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Tobin tax aims to strengthen institutions (instead of altering markets), it could bite hard, even without the buy-in of every major country.",
        "如果托宾税的目标是增强金融机构（而不是改变市场），其效果将更加明显，就算并非所有大国就采用它也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulation needs to provide the discipline that markets cannot.",
        "监管需要提供市场所不能提供的纪律。"
    ],
    [
        "For Palestinians, the first step in real peace talks must include some accord on the basic issues of borders and security.",
        "对巴勒斯坦人来说，实质性和平谈判的第一步必须包含一系列有关边界以及安全等基本问题的协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Though likely an accident, it was an accident that happened only because of Russia’s duplicitous and lethal meddling.",
        "尽管很可能是一次意外，但恰恰是俄国的背信弃义和致命干涉导致了此次意外的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the US showed little patience with Japan on the question of Okinawa, and has barely concealed its contempt for the DPJ government, feeding popular disappointment with its performance so far.",
        "结果在冲绳问题上美国也没给日本人面子，甚至毫不掩饰其对民主党政府的蔑视。 以至于民众对民主党大失所望。"
    ],
    [
        "The bean for which Proctor was granted a patent is a farmers’ variety, originally from Mexico and in the public domain for centuries.",
        "Protor被授予专利的黄豆是一种源于墨西哥的作物种类，几百年来一直是人类的共有财产。"
    ],
    [
        "So would expansion of financing instruments for infrastructure investment – for example, by substantially increasing the supply of project bonds supported by the European Investment Bank.",
        "扩大基础设施投资融资工具亦然——比如大幅提高有欧洲投资银行支持的项目债券供给。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, India should expand labor-intensive manufacturing, thereby creating employment opportunities for its growing pool of workers.",
        "与此同时，印度应该扩张劳动密集型制造业，从而为日益增加的劳动力大军创造就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "And labor-market policies should continue to emphasize training, affordable childcare, and workplace flexibility.",
        "劳动力市场政策应该继续强调培训、平价儿童看护和灵活办公。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, following the North’s third nuclear test, we seem to have entered the most precarious stage yet, with the regime declaring that it will never surrender its nuclear option.",
        "如今，第三次核试验后，朝鲜政权对外宣布永远不会放弃核手段，我们似乎也由此进入有史以来最危险的阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Such reforms are considered unthinkable in Brussels, because they would require treaty changes and could be rejected by voters.",
        "这些改革在布鲁塞尔是不可想象的，因为它们需要更该条约，并且可能被选民拒绝。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Trump leads by an enormous margin in national polls, the strength of his Iowa organization is unknown, and what matters are the state-level results as the nominating process moves ahead.",
        "尽管特朗普在全国民调中支持率遥遥领先，但他在爱荷华的组织力量如何尚不明确，而且随着提名活动的进行要靠州一级别的结果来决定胜负。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, many command-and-control efforts have become too complex to implement well.",
        "更糟糕的是，许多要求-控制措施太复杂，无法很好地实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Air pollution is a growing concern across Europe.",
        "空气污染正在日益成为全欧洲关注的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "More controversially, Gauck proclaimed the need for Security Council authorization of any use of force, but also hinted at a Kosovo precedent for possible military intervention in Syria.",
        "更具争议的是，高克提出任何武力行动都需要安理会的授权，但他也暗示科索沃可以作为军事干预叙利亚的先例。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – Once again, the Korean peninsula is experiencing one of its periodic bouts of extremism, this time marked by the suicide on May 22 of former president, Roh Moo-hyun, and North Korea’s second test of a nuclear device.",
        "首尔－朝鲜半岛又一次遭受周期性极端主义浪潮的冲击，本次的标志性事件是5月22日韩国前总统卢武铉的自杀和朝鲜的第二次核试验。"
    ],
    [
        "The BOJ would be right to worry, of course, if interest rates were rising because of a growing risk premium, rather than because of higher inflation expectations.",
        "当然，如果利率上升源自于风险溢价的上浮而非更高的通胀期望，那么日本央行的担忧就是有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the National Security Council has indicated the need to introduce a new plan for multi-functional flexible defense forces.",
        "此外，国家安全委员会还指出有必要制定新的计划，建立多功能的灵活防卫部队。"
    ],
    [
        "In Indonesia, the government created a dedicated agency to protect and restore peatlands, bogs, and swamp-like ecosystems that have immense CO2 storage capabilities.",
        "在印度尼西亚，政府成立了一个专门的机构来保护和重建有着无比巨大的二氧化碳储存能力的湿地、泥地和沼泽类生态系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The trick for the Union is to develop shared solutions and to take joint foreign-policy actions, even when various EU governments see things differently.",
        "对欧盟来说，关键是即使欧盟内部各政府对事物的看法各有不同，也要形成共同的解决方法，并执行联合的外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But the depression – now a half-decade old – also has external causes.",
        "但萧条——目前已经维持了五年多——也有外部因素。"
    ],
    [
        "But major international crises, such as the current global financial crisis, remain with us – which might not be an entirely bad thing.",
        "但大型的国际危机，比如当前的全球金融危机却依然伴随着我们——而这或许不完全是件坏事。"
    ],
    [
        "The third tool is credit policy.",
        "第三个工具是信贷政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists call that precautionary saving.",
        "经济学家称之为预防性储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "If the new leadership bases its decision-making on a national consensus – and under a governance framework that ensures transparency, disclosure, and accountability – the curse will be cast off.",
        "如果新领导层基于全国共识进行决策——并遵从确保透明、公开和问责的管理框架——阻碍发展的魔咒将会被破除。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging-market large companies’ growing global clout is reflected in flows of foreign direct investment.",
        "外商直接投资的数量反映了新兴市场大公司不断增长的全球影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "The old model of private partnerships – in which partners had an incentive to monitor each other to avoid reckless investments – gave way to one of public companies aggressively competing with each other and with commercial banks to achieve ever-rising profitability, which was achievable only with reckless levels of leverage.",
        "废除该法的结果是，老派的私人合伙制世代沿袭的一种传统——合伙人有动力互相监督，避免冒失的投资——让位于上市投行之间，乃至与商行之间的残酷竞争，只有靠大胆采取高杠杆才能在这种利润争夺战中胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "Some central bankers tell us not to worry, because they will be much more disciplined than central banks were in the 1970’s, when the world faced a similar commodity price spike.",
        "一些中央银行官员告诉我们不必担心，因为他们将比20世纪70年代时的中央银行要有经验得多，在那个时候，全球也面临着一场类似的商品价格上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "Street protests to paralyze the government remain their sole weapon. But until and unless the anti-Thaksin civilian elite can convince the rest of the country that they are serious about winning the hearts and minds of the poor, Thailand will remain on a knife edge between banana republic and failed state.",
        "进行街头抗议，使政府瘫痪，成了他们唯一的武器。 但是，直到并且除非反他信的平民精英能够说服泰国的其他国民，他们对赢得穷人的民心是认真的，否则，泰国仍将处在香蕉共和国与失败国家之间的危机时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "In the nineteenth century, the joint interests of the authoritarian Russian, German, and Austrian Empires prevented the establishment of a free Poland: such unholy alliances have no place in the twenty-first century.",
        "19世纪，专制的俄国、德国和奥地利帝国的共同利益阻止了自由波兰的最终诞生：如此邪恶的联盟在21世纪将没有容身之地。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the two sides have become stuck in a passive-aggressive standoff that has made serious negotiation impossible.",
        "结果，双方陷入了负和僵局，让严肃的谈判无从进行。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2008, China ranked first in steel (about half of world production), cement (also about half), aluminum (about 40%), and glass (31%), to take just a few examples.",
        "到了 2008 年，中国在钢铁，水泥（两者都占全球总产量近半），铝（占全球 40% ）和玻璃（占 31% ）产量方面都位居世界第一。"
    ],
    [
        "For economists, the debate focuses on the moral hazard created by ex ante expectations of a bailout, which reduce market discipline on excessive risk-taking – as well as on the unfair advantage that such implicit guarantees give to large players over their small-enough-to-fail competitors.",
        "在经济上，辩论则关注由于金融机构对紧急援助的预期所导致的肆意妄为的风险，这种过度冒险的行为将破坏市场的纪律——尤其是在这种担保优势都被大企业所独揽，而那些中小竞争者则只能自求多福的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Technology-fueled development is causing historical eras to become cumulative, rather than linear.",
        "由技术推动的发展使得历史时代脱离了线性轨道而产生累积效应。"
    ],
    [
        "About three-quarters of breakfast cereals make health claims for the whole grain or fiber that has been added to make them “functional.”",
        "四分之三的早餐麦片都因为添加了全麦或纤维成份而具有“功能性”从而自我标榜为健康食品。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps surprisingly, not everything of concern should be dealt with immediately.",
        "说出来也许会很令人惊讶，并不是每一件我们所担心的事情应该马上进行解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan has paid a high price for this attitude.",
        "日本为这一心理付出过沉重代价。"
    ],
    [
        "To back up its territorial claim, China relies on a map inherited from the Nationalist period – the so-called “nine-dashed line,” which extends nearly a thousand miles south of mainland China and sometimes as close as 40 or 50 miles from the coastline of states like Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.",
        "为了支持其领土主张，中国的依据是继承自国民党时代的地图——所谓的“九段线”。 九段线将中国领海扩到距离中国大陆以南近一千英里的地方，有时距离越南、马来西亚、文莱和菲律宾等国家的海岸线只有40到50英里。"
    ],
    [
        "The catch is that neither property rights nor markets can function on their own.",
        "然而前提条件是，财产权利和市场都无法依赖自身运行。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Greece’s post-2010 adjustment led to economic disaster – and the IMF’s worst predictive failure ever.",
        "事实上，2010年后的希腊调整导致了经济灾难——以及IMF史上最离谱预测。"
    ],
    [
        "This in turn threatens the functioning of the financial system and the effectiveness of the reform programs.",
        "这反过来又威胁到金融系统的运转和改革措施的效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, some central bankers are beginning to worry that their role has expanded too far, putting them at risk of a backlash.",
        "事实上，一些央行开始担心其作用扩张过度，有可能适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "This set the stage for Xi’s arrival.",
        "这些都是在为习近平的上台铺路。"
    ],
    [
        "But others, like India, are bound to see something more sinister afoot, an effort at encirclement.",
        "但印度等国难免会认为中国怀有其他不可告人的目的，真正意图是包围印度。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there are many other things that are crucial to the good life in peaceful, open societies: freedom of speech, religion, and association, and the power to choose – and remove – your own government.",
        "诚然，对于和平的开放社会而言，有许多其他东西对于好生活也至关重要：言论、宗教和结社自由以及选择（和推翻）你自己的政府权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Research by Cheng Li of the Brookings Institution reveals that only about 15% of the current 25 Politburo members are engineers and scientists, down from 40% in 2007 and 72% in 2002.",
        "布鲁金斯研究所的李成的研究披露，在当前的25名政治局委员中，只有15%是工程师和科学家，较2007年的40%和2002年的72%大幅下降。"
    ],
    [
        "But a predictable monetary policy aimed at delivering medium-term price stability – with a flexible exchange rate where appropriate – benefits both the private sector and, most importantly, the poor.",
        "但是可以预见的、目标在于实现中期价格稳定的货币政策以及适当的、灵活的汇率对于私营部门以及最为重要的穷人都是有益的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as David Ricardo himself recognized, people are rarely that smart.)",
        "但是，如李嘉图本人所认识到的，人民很少这么聪明。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "And it will enable other markets – for everything from lawnmowers to clothing, handbags, and cooking equipment – to become more efficient.",
        "同时，它还能使其他市场——从剪草机到衣服，手袋和厨具——变得更为有效率。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to efforts to contain artemisinin resistance in the Greater Mekong sub-region, action is needed farther afield.",
        "除了在大湄公河次区域开展遏制青蒿素抗药性的努力，还需要采取进一步行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments that try to protect the status quo will not only fail on climate change; they will ultimately impose higher social costs, even as they fail to capitalize on the economic opportunities created by reform.",
        "试图保护现状的政府不仅会在气候变化问题上出师不利； 而且会因为未能抓住改革所创造的经济机会，他们最终付出的社会成本只会更高。"
    ],
    [
        "The third option is diplomacy.",
        "第三种选择是外交。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama also sought to use America’s influence to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as part of his strategy for the broader Middle East.",
        "奥巴马还寻求利用美国的影响力解决以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突，作为其大中东战略的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Mexico is seeking long-term foreign investors to support ambitious and comprehensive reform efforts, with foreign participation particularly important for infrastructure investments in telecom networks, toll roads, gas pipelines, and, down the road, the oil sector.",
        "如今，墨西哥正在寻找长期外国投资者支持其雄心勃勃的全面改革计划，而通信网络、收费公路、输气管道以及一段时间之后的石油部门的基础设施投资的外资参与尤其重要。"
    ],
    [
        "As revenues dry up and exchange rates plunge, the cost of living will skyrocket, exacerbating social and political tensions.",
        "随着收入的干涸和汇率崩溃，生活成本将节节攀升，加剧社会和政治紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, America’s proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership and offers of economic engagement to Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries are the latest initiatives underscoring its determination to strengthen its economic ties in the region.",
        "类似地，美国提出的跨太平洋合作伙伴关系以及向东盟国家提供经济合作机会都是它强化与该地区经济合作决心的最新动作。"
    ],
    [
        "While movements in macroeconomic fundamentals may lead bulls to bid the value of a currency further above parity, they simultaneously become more concerned about a counter-movement back to parity – and thus capital losses – which moderates their desire to increase their long positions.",
        "宏观经济基本面的变动可能会将某一种货币价值争购到进一步高于同位水准，他们同时更为关切返回同位的反方向变动、进而是资本损失，这就温和了他们的欲望，增加长期持有。"
    ],
    [
        "A huge number of elderly people would mean a lot of people wanting to live in certain locations, seeking certain kinds of living quarters, and consuming certain kinds of services.",
        "大量的老年人将意味着许多人要生活在某些特定地点，寻求某类住所，消费某种服务。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, the key question will be whether the Social Democrats can ditch their allies further to the left.",
        "果真如此的话，关键问题将是瑞典民主党是否会与其左倾的盟友断绝关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the opposition parties have already organized a transitional council to take Saleh’s place.",
        "事实上，各反对党已经组织了一个过渡委员会以接替萨利赫的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor can he invent his own performance standards – especially if they prize personal loyalty over knowledge and experience.",
        "他也不能凭空制定自己的绩效标准——尤其当这种标准将个人忠诚凌驾于知识和经验之上。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the rate of credit growth increased from 14% in September 2008 to 35% a year later, and property prices more than doubled in many cities.",
        "3万亿美元）的新增贷款。 信贷增长的速度因此从2008年9月的14%一举上升到一年后的35%，很多城市的房价也随之翻番。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, along with talent and interest, as well as mathematical or other quantitative abilities, curiosity is a necessary characteristic of any successful scientist.",
        "的确，和才能、兴趣，以及数学或其它量化能力一样，好奇心是每一个成功科学家的必要特征。"
    ],
    [
        "Much recent regulatory activity has focused on enabling, enhancing, and requiring clearinghouses for these kinds of financing arrangements.",
        "近期，大量监管活动致力于激活和强化清算所，并要此类金融安排必须经过清算所进行。"
    ],
    [
        "We French may not be what we used to be, the celebrants seemed to be saying, but we are still much more than people think we are.",
        "”庆祝者似乎在说，法国人或许已不再是昔日的法国人，但我们仍比人们所认为的更好。"
    ],
    [
        "The CBO counts all of that growth as an increase in poor US households’ after-tax real income.",
        "0. 9个百分点来自医疗保险（Medicare）、医疗补助（Medicaid）和州学生医保计划（State Children’s Health Insurance Program）的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the gap was filled by public services – free education, health care, etc. – that were not fully financed by taxes, fueling public deficits and debt.",
        "欧洲则试图靠扩大公共服务，提供免费教育、免费医疗等等，来填补鸿沟，这些开支却超出了财政收入，从而推高了公共赤字和债务。"
    ],
    [
        "From immigration to trade liberalization, economic pressures on a beleaguered middle class contradict the core promises of globalization.",
        "从移民到贸易自由化，困境重重的中产阶级所受到的经济压力与全球化的核心许诺形成了矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "BONN – Sharks have long been portrayed as man-eaters, a menace to any swimmer brave (or foolish) enough to share the water with them.",
        "波恩——鲨鱼一直被描写成食人鱼，对敢于（或愚蠢到）与它们共处一片水域的游泳者构成威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Russia has tightened its control of the separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.",
        "& & & 毫无疑问，俄国加紧了其对南奥赛梯和阿布哈兹两块飞地的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "While Sanders’s proposals are popular, particularly among young people, much of his agenda – such as transforming Obamacare into a single-payer health system – isn’t politically feasible.",
        "虽然桑德斯的提案尤其在年轻人中颇受欢迎，但他的很多议程——如将奥巴马医改转化为某种单一付款人的健康体制——在政治领域的可行度不高。"
    ],
    [
        "Who would have believed that one administration could do so much damage so quickly?",
        "谁会相信一个政府会这么快做了这么多破坏？"
    ],
    [
        "Now, it is using its growing clout to reshape global economic governance.",
        "如今该国正利用其不断膨胀的政治影响力来重塑全球经济治理。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, in most countries that would benefit from fiscal stimulus, nothing is being done.",
        "但是，大部分能从财政刺激中获益的国家却无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody knows enough about the causes of climate change to prove that an imagined disaster is impossible.",
        "因为没有人对引起气候变化的原因有足够了解，并进一步证明假想中的灾难根本不可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "A significant sovereign-debt restructuring there would bring down European banks and potentially damage US banks – as well as financial institutions around the world.",
        "欧洲的大规模主权债务重组将导致欧洲银行的倒闭，并可能危害美国银行以及全世界的金融机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, only five EU countries have defense expenditures at that level.",
        "今天，只有5个欧盟国家的国防开支达到了承诺的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Proponents of austerity currently use nominal debt figures to scare voters, even in countries with record-low interest rates and large private-sector profits that are not being channeled toward investment.",
        "如今，紧缩支持者用名义债务数字恐吓选民，即使在利率创出历史新低、大量私人部门利润没有被引导进入投资领域的国家也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true for deflation.",
        "通货紧缩也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor did they push strongly for structural reforms.",
        "欧元区当局也没有强力推进结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true of politics, where more female participation and leadership would improve governance and public services, as promising experiences in some parts of Africa and elsewhere have shown.",
        "政治亦然，更多的女性参与和领导能改善治理和公共服务，非洲和其他地区都有令人振奋的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, China’s mercantilist misunderstanding of markets means that it often overpays for what it mistakenly thinks is energy security.",
        "目前，中国对市场唯利是图的误解表明，它经常为它所错误地认为是能源安全的东西支付高价。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa will need much more than improved economic governance if it is to overcome its challenges and unleash its full potential in an increasingly uncertain global economy.",
        "如果南非要克服它的挑战，在一个日益不确定的全球经济中充分释放潜能，改善经济治理是远远不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "The same may not be true for emerging economies.",
        "而对新兴经济体来说就未必如此了。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides class, at least three other narrative structures are politically salient in Latin America.",
        "除阶级说外，至少有3种其他的叙事架构在拉丁美洲的政界流行。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, to this day, most regional groupings remain too weak to solve their members’ pressing problems.",
        "但时至今日，大多数区域性组织依然太过弱势，无法解决其成员国所面对的紧迫问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, inequalities between countries are one thing, and inequalities within countries are quite another.",
        "当然，国家之间的不平等是一个问题，但国内的不平等却完全不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Workers in a shrinking industry may need entirely new skills to find jobs in other sectors, and they may have to pack up their families and pull up deep roots to pursue these opportunities.",
        "夕阳产业的工人可能需要全新的技能才能在其他部门找到工作，并且他们可能需要举家离开扎根已深的居住地追求这些新机会。"
    ],
    [
        "If you find a correlation between deficit reduction and growth, the reduction could be causing the growth or vice versa.",
        "如果你发现赤字削减和经济增长之间有关联，削减可能会引起经济增长或衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "As Warren put it, “Such an opportunity…is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.”",
        "”正如沃伦所说，“这一机会……是一项所有人都必须能够平等地获得的权利。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Economists long ago settled the debate over what drives business capital spending: factors affecting the cost of capital (interest rates, taxes, and regulations) or those that influence future demand.",
        "经济学家很久以前解决了关于商业资本支出背后驱动因素的争论：影响资金成本（利率，税收和法规）或未来需求的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The proposal presented by Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, is bold, but Europe does indeed need a strong, efficient resolution mechanism that ensures timely action to address banking crises.",
        "负责内部市场和服务的欧盟委员巴尼耶（Michel Barnier）提出的方案十分大胆，但欧洲确实需要强大、有效的解决机制确保及时采取行动，解决银行危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, many consequences of a hotter planet – such as more extreme weather events, sea-level rise, environmental migration, and mounting social tensions – intersect in urban areas.",
        "事实上，地球变热的诸多后果——包括极端气候事件、海平面上升、环境移民和社会紧张局势加剧——都将在城市地区出现相交。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to vowing elections, which have not yet been scheduled, Djibo has pledged that members of the junta will not run for office.",
        "除承诺举行选举（选举日程尚未确定）外，吉博已经承诺军政府成员不参与选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Or a voice, any voice, of a visible minority?",
        "或者是明确的少数族裔所发出的声音、任何声音？"
    ],
    [
        "While modern central banks had difficulty in dealing with inflationary shocks, it had been generations since they had seen a deflationary shock that they could not handle.",
        "虽然现代中央银行在应对通胀冲击方面办法不多，但几十年来在抵抗通缩方面却相当得心应手。"
    ],
    [
        "An American friend of mine speculated that, “We might be one terrorist act away from a Trump presidency.”",
        "我的一位美国朋友猜测，“我们距离特朗普当总统大概也就相差一次恐怖行动。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, accumulating reserves beyond a certain threshold carries a high opportunity cost and suggests the need to let the currency appreciate.",
        "相反，积累超过一定数量的资金储备会付出很高的机会成本，并且暗示该国需要让货币升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, one development in 2015 offers reason to hope that EU leaders will move beyond “muddling through” to implement bolder solutions in 2016: The threat of expulsion gained credibility.",
        "尽管如此，2015年的一大发展趋势让我们有理由希望欧洲领导人能够超越“得过且过”，在2016年实施更加果断的方案。 这一趋势就是驱逐威胁日益可信。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many ways that international institutions can use economic-policy levers to reduce significantly the probability of infectious-disease outbreaks, and to increase vulnerable countries’ resilience to such risks.",
        "国际机构有很多方式可以撬动经济政策杠杆，大大降低传染病暴发的概率，提高脆弱国家对这一风险的抵抗力。"
    ],
    [
        "In this newly precarious environment of work and welfare, UBI is seen as guaranteeing the basic income previously promised by work and welfare, but no longer reliably secured by either. (A leading advocate, Guy Standing of the University of London, has written a book called The Precariat.)",
        "在工作和福利两者都不稳定的新环境下，无条件基本收入被看作是对从前工作和福利承诺给予但却再也无法有效维系的基本收入的保障（一位主要倡议者，英国伦敦大学的盖伊·史丹亭（Guy Standing）为此写了一本书叫《朝不保夕的人（Precariat）》）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, those women who do reach higher-ranking positions are susceptible to a visibility-vulnerability spiral, owing to their minority status.",
        "而且，那些提升到更高职位的妇女由于居于少数地位，其知名度容易受到损害而螺旋状下降。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s economy today risks stall speed.",
        "美国经济如今就面临着失速风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with millions of lives at stake, backing down is not an option.",
        "但是，此事关乎数百万人的性命，因此决不能束手不管。"
    ],
    [
        "And when a tsunami of capital looked set to flood the economy, policymakers did not shy away from trying to contain the inflows.",
        "而当一场资本海啸似乎要淹没整个经济体之时。 政策制定者们也毫不犹豫地尝试遏制这些现金流入。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the existence of Guantánamo likely created more terrorists around the world than it ever detained.”",
        "而事实上，关塔那摩监狱的存在似乎制造了比关押在内的囚犯数目更多的恐怖分子。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has been blown out of proportion, both by the presidential candidates and by a news media that adheres to the old adage, “If it bleeds, it leads.”",
        "但这个问题却被总统候选人和信奉古老格言“越血腥越吸引眼球”的新闻媒体所夸大。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Sunni Arabs and Kurds already resent al Maliki’s mild reaction to Iran’s recent shelling of Iraqi territory – an attempt to strike at Iranian Kurdish militants fleeing across its border with Iraq.",
        "逊尼派阿拉伯人和库尔德人都对马利基对于伊朗最近轰炸伊拉克领土的行动——以便打击通过越境逃到伊拉克境内的一支伊朗库尔德人武装力量——所作出的温和反应深表不满。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed cannot even provide credit to specific regions, let alone states on the verge of bankruptcy (for example, California).",
        "美联储甚至不能为具体的地区提供信用，更不用说向处于破产边缘的州（如加州）注资了。"
    ],
    [
        "All foresee indefinite retention of their nuclear weapons, and a continuing role for them in their security policies.",
        "所有人都预见它们将永久保留核武库，核武器将在它们的安全政策中继续扮演关键角色。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a new bipolar, Cold War-style ideological divide has emerged.",
        "相比之下，另一个冷战意识形态分割下的新两极世界正日渐凸现。"
    ],
    [
        "I have resisted strong public criticism until now, because I thought there was hope for both him and his government.",
        "直到最近，我忍不同意激烈的公共批判，因为我认为他和他的政府仍是游戏王的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order to tackle the gulf between the richest and the poorest countries, we need to go beyond the G20.",
        "但是，为了填补最富裕和最贫困国家之间的鸿沟，我们需要超越G20。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither the European Union nor Japan can be counted upon to do anything more than allow themselves to be dragged kicking and screaming into trade liberalization agreements.",
        "决不能指望欧盟和日本能够心甘情愿、毫不抗拒地签署任何贸易自由化协议。"
    ],
    [
        "The driving force is external demand, as Germany, the world’s second-largest exporter, profits from the global boom.",
        "外在需求是经济复苏的驱动力量。 德国作为全球第二大出口国从全球繁荣中受益巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "In many ways, our future depends on the health of our adolescents.",
        "从诸多角度看，我们的未来取决于青少年的健康。"
    ],
    [
        "This is their second mistake.",
        "这是他们的第二个错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization has two driving forces: technology and policy.",
        "技术和政策是全球化的两大驱动力。"
    ],
    [
        "To that end, in Iraq, terrorist groups will continue to exploit sectarianism, which had divided the country long before the United States invaded it in 2003.",
        "在这方面，伊拉克恐怖组织将继续利用宗派主义。 在2003年美国入侵伊拉克时，伊拉克早已被宗派主义所分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "The employment and development potential of combating climate change is only now being understood as a part of this effort.",
        "对抗气候变化可以带来的就业和发展潜力现在被理解为是这一努力的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The Enigma of European Defense",
        "欧洲防务之谜"
    ],
    [
        "Countries have become unavoidably interdependent, and climate change, water stress, and the loss of ecological resilience all increase the volatility of this mutual dependence.",
        "各国都不可避免地变得互相依赖，气候变化、水压力和生态恢复力的下降都增加了这一互相依赖的波动性。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s mixture of inaction with a mercantilist approach to its Third World trading partners attests to the hypocrisy of its foreign policy.",
        "中国的无所作为与其对待第三世界贸易夥伴的唯利是图的策略表明了其外交政策的伪善。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from being isolated in cyberspace, attacks can now have devastating consequences in the physical world.",
        "如今，黑客攻击的影响绝不完全局限于网络空间，它们可以在物理世界中制造灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, not all cases are so unambiguous, but a comparison of the qualities of individual lives must be part of any reasonable social policy.",
        "明显的是，并非所有的案件都是毫不含糊的，但对个体生命的质量进行比较应当是构成任何合理的社会政策的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The market for Shinkansen technology is growing not only in China, but also in the US (where the state of California wants to build such a system) and in emerging-market countries such as Brazil.",
        "新干线技术的市场不仅在中国有所增长，在美国（加利福尼亚州有意兴建一条类似系统）和巴西这样的新兴市场国家也有前景。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the absence of a specific ideology was essential to the Arab Spring’s initial success in Egypt and Tunisia, for it allowed a large number of young activists to forge loose alliances.",
        "事实上，具体意识形态的缺失乃是起初阿拉伯之春在埃及和突尼斯取得成功的根本原因，因为它使大量年轻活跃分子能够结成松散的同盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Think of the soon-to-retire office worker.",
        "以快要退休的员工为例。"
    ],
    [
        "There is an important debate taking place in our country about how best to organize the health-care system so that it is accountable for serving the poorest and most marginalized communities.",
        "在巴基斯坦，一个重要的争论话题是如何最好地组织卫生体系，让人为服务最贫困人群和最边缘社区负责。"
    ],
    [
        "Probably no other political figure alive today met and endured as many world leaders as Arafat.",
        "今天仍旧在世的政治领袖中，恐怕没有人像阿拉法特这样会见并经历过这么多的世界领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "Kelleher sent a forceful letter to Holder, urging full disclosure of all relevant details in the case – and there are many.",
        "凯勒赫给霍德尔寄了一封措辞严厉的信，敦促她披露本案的全部细节——大量细节。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, buying a home is a distant dream.",
        "类似地，买房子是一个遥远的梦。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico’s economic problems might be similarly more intractable than many commentators seem to believe.",
        "同样，墨西哥的经济问题也许比很多评论家想象中的更难处理。"
    ],
    [
        "French President François Hollande’s government claims to have awoken to the threat.",
        "法国总统奥朗德政府宣称已经认识到威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "But here the suspect is not so obvious.",
        "但在这里，嫌疑人并不那么显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, they invented fascinating ways to control their subjects, combining education, bribery, and force.",
        "他们渐渐发明了巧妙的办法控制臣民，结合教育、贿赂和物力。"
    ],
    [
        "This abuse of scientific authority is especially widespread in the “organic” and “natural” food industries, which capitalize on people’s fear of synthetic or “unnatural” products.",
        "这一对科学权威性的滥用在“有机”和“自然”食品行业尤其普遍，这些行业利用人们对合成或“非自然”产品的恐慌心理。"
    ],
    [
        "For both theoretical and practical reasons, this is a challenge that will not be met easily or quickly.",
        "从理论与实践上来说，这都是一个无法轻而易举解决的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, greater reliance on fiscal policy – increased government spending – would be necessary.",
        "因此，对财政政策的更多依赖——增加政府支出——就成为了必需之策。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no doubt that Egyptian society is deeply divided along sectarian, ideological, class, and regional lines.",
        "毫无疑问，埃及社会存在深刻的宗派、思想、阶级和种族分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "After the 2008 financial crisis, many Chinese expressed the mistaken belief that the US was in terminal decline, and that China should be more assertive – particularly in pursuing its maritime claims in the South China Sea – at the expense of America’s allies and friends.",
        "08年金融危机之后，许多中国人认为美国将一蹶不振，中国理应力抗美国的盟友和伙伴——特别是在南海问题上——以大国形象示人。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – The British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm once called the epoch stretching from the French Revolution of 1789 to World War I’s outbreak in 1914 as the “long nineteenth century.”",
        "东京—英国马克思主义历史学家埃里克·霍布斯鲍姆（Eric Hobsbawm）曾经将1789年法国大革命至1914年第一次世界大战爆发期间的这一段时间称为“延长的十九世纪”。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not because the challenges are easier, but because the international community of practice, led by the IMF, provides a level of support that simply does not exist in other areas.",
        "这不是因为他们面临的挑战更容易，而是因为以IMF为首的国际实践界提供了其他领域所没有的支持水平。"
    ],
    [
        "At times, including over the last six years, the belief that the US is better off going it alone has led to withdrawal from the world.",
        "一次又一次（包括在过去六年中），美国最好还是只顾自己的观念导致其从世界舞台中退出。"
    ],
    [
        "The broad outlines of this transformation are well known – a shift from export- and investment-led growth to an economic structure that draws greater support from domestic private consumption.",
        "这个改革的大轮廓是众所周知的——即从出口及投资导向型经济增长向由更多国内个人消费支撑的经济结构过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU has wasted the opportunities afforded by the 2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent euro crisis.",
        "欧盟已经浪费了2008年全球金融危机和随后的欧元危机所带来的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "After five years in office, and with another three years to go, some answers are already apparent.",
        "布什当政已经五年，还有三年时间执政，某些答案已经明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Once we saw our exaggerated hopes for our investments failing, we began to consider our other sources of income and wealth, only to confront the worldwide economic slowdown that began in 2001.",
        "一旦我们发现对投资回报过高的期望不能实现时，就开始考虑其它收入和财富的来源。 但此时所要面对的却是始于2001年的世界性经济增速放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "The markets are fully aware that Greece, being insolvent, will eventually default.",
        "市场已经清楚地意识到失去偿还能力的希腊将最终违约。"
    ],
    [
        "In February, Egypt’s Coptic patriarch, Pope Tawadros II, sharply criticized the country’s leadership in a televised interview, calling the new constitution discriminatory and dismissing Morsi’s “national dialogues” as an empty gesture.",
        "2月，埃及科普特族长塔瓦德洛斯二世主教（Pope Tawadros II）现身电视尖锐地批评埃及领导人，声称新宪法是歧视性的，指责穆尔西的“民族对话”只是空把式。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless multipolarity is met with an efficient multilateral approach, problems like Syria’s civil war will become much more frequent – and more difficult to resolve.",
        "除非多极性能够得到有效的多极方针的配合，否则像叙利亚内战这样的问题将更加频繁——也更加难以解决。"
    ],
    [
        "The American political world – not only Republicans, but also Democrats (albeit to a lesser extent) – had fenced out huge, ominous realities.",
        "美国政治界——不仅是共和党，也包括民主党（尽管程度稍浅）——总是对不吉利的现实视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging-market economies have not yet shown the kind of global leadership that suggests an affirmative answer to this question.",
        "而事实上，这些新兴经济体在这方面还未能表现出足以令人信服的领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "The need for renewed attention to Afghanistan could hardly be greater.",
        "现在急需重新把注意力集中到阿富汗上。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that China needs to adjust its exchange rate to prevent inflation or bubbles.",
        "一些人声称中国需要调整汇率，以防止通货膨胀或泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "The French Disconnection",
        "法国的单飞"
    ],
    [
        "The Republican Party and the American Petroleum Institute sank that proposal.",
        "共和党和美国石油协会否决了这项提案。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Germany’s insistence on imposing losses on bank creditors in Cyprus is the latest symptom of bailout fatigue in the core.",
        "与此同时，德国坚持要塞浦路斯银行债权人接受损失，这是核心国援助疲劳的最新证明。"
    ],
    [
        "When Obama, two days into his presidency, appointed former Senator George Mitchell as his special envoy to the Middle East, many hoped that within two years his efforts would lead to an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians – and to a comprehensive peace between Israel and all its Arab neighbors.",
        "奥巴马在就职第二天就任命前参议员乔治·米歇尔为他的中东特使，许多人也因此希望他能在上任两年内促使以巴之间达成协议——并实现以色列与周边阿拉伯国家的整体和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the expected upswing of Turkey's economy and its declining birthrate, experts predict a figure of around 2.7 million immigrants by that point.",
        "考虑到土耳其的经济发展和出生率下降，专家预计届时的移民数量可能在270万人。"
    ],
    [
        "At current market exchange rates, the European Union is now larger economically than the US.",
        "按照目前的市场汇率计算，欧盟已经超过美国成为全球最大的经济实体。"
    ],
    [
        "But the political atmosphere today is less welcoming.",
        "但今天的政治环境不太有利。"
    ],
    [
        "While a consolidated approach might not work for every country, many could benefit from a more integrated bureaucratic approach.",
        "整合式方针未必适合所有国家，但许多国家都能从更加综合性的官僚方针中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "However isolated within the Arab family the Syrians may be, and however embattled their Iranian allies are, the two countries hold the keys to Middle East stability.",
        "不管叙利亚可能在阿拉伯世界中是多么地孤立，不管其同盟伊朗遭受着多么严重地围困，这两个国家都在维护中东稳定中起重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 1970’s, Germans went overboard, confusing capitalism with self-service shops.",
        "上世纪七十年代，德国鲁莽行事，将资本主义和自助式商店混为一谈。"
    ],
    [
        "Murder Unincorporated",
        "无法定义的杀手"
    ],
    [
        "That way, people who fill out tax forms would have to learn the units of account.",
        "这样，人们填写税收报表时就要学习帐户单位了。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s rising power is, of course, based heavily on its remarkable economic success.",
        "中国的日益强大当然是建筑在令人惊叹的经济成功之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the work of global governance will rely on formal and informal networks.",
        "全球治理的大部分工作都依赖于正式和非正式网络。"
    ],
    [
        "This enduring division is exemplified in the contrast between municipal services and infrastructure in the city’s Jewish and Arab neighborhoods.",
        "这一顽固的分歧可以从犹太社区和阿拉伯社区之间市政服务和基础设施的巨大反差中一窥端倪。"
    ],
    [
        "Last autumn, when it held another, not much seemed to have changed.",
        "去年秋天，当欧盟再次举行增长和就业峰会时，情况没有太大变化。 欧元区失业率为11."
    ],
    [
        "Cash-strapped Ukraine, which remains eligible for Global Fund help to combat HIV/AIDS, also relies entirely on NGOs – most created by affected communities – to run its harm-reduction programs.",
        "但政府却在去年秋天违背了自己的诺言，于是全球基金只能再度向这些组织发放了两年期紧急援助金。"
    ],
    [
        "A new approach is desperately needed.",
        "我们急需新的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of Europe is already aware of this, of course.",
        "欧洲大部分国家都已经意识到了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Indonesia recently witnessed a pair of dramatic releases: one a radical Muslim cleric from prison, the other a saucy men’s magazine from its editors.",
        "印度尼西亚最近发生了两件戏剧性的释放事件：一是一位激进的穆斯林教士被从监狱里释放了出来，另一件是一份漂亮的男性杂志被投入了市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The liquidity that they apparently offer proved unreliable under stress – that is, when it is most needed.",
        "但是市场动荡在加剧，问题也在不同市场不断蔓延。 一个市场的不稳定会导致另一个市场不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "“Asia for Asians” would be “Asia for the Chinese.”",
        "“亚洲人民的亚洲”将变成“中国人民的亚洲”。"
    ],
    [
        "It is over-extended, dependent upon massive daily imports of dollars and oil, and its armed forces are engaged in demanding conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.",
        "这个国家已经过度扩张，又过度依赖于每天对美元和石油的大量进口，还深陷于阿富汗和伊拉克的军事冲突之中。"
    ],
    [
        "That provides the rationale for the Fed’s zero-interest-rate policy – but at the obvious cost of discriminating against savers, who lose any semblance of interest income.",
        "这为美联储的零利率政策提供了理论基础——但显然也付出了歧视储户的成本，令这些人失去了任何形式的利息收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Inclusiveness cannot stop at the borders of the G-20.",
        "包容性不能止步于G-20边界。"
    ],
    [
        "Unresolved, the crisis will spare no one.",
        "如果这场危机得不到解决，谁也别想独善其身。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Modi spoke emotionally at the Dalit-majority Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow (named for an iconic Dalit leader who had chaired the Constitution Drafting Committee), pleading that the issue not be politicized: “Politics has its place, but a mother lost her son.”",
        "最终，莫迪在达利特人占多数的勒克瑙安贝卡大学（Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University，用担任宪法起草委员会主席的传奇达利特领袖安贝卡的名字命名）发表动情讲话，恳求不要将该事件政治化：“政治很重要，但一位母亲已经失去了她的儿子。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "By any measure, the level of suffering in Syria is shocking.",
        "无论采用何种标准，叙利亚的苦难指数都令人触目惊心。"
    ],
    [
        "Some results are remarkable.",
        "有些效果的确是十分显著。"
    ],
    [
        "Juncker might like to think that immigration has since slowed, owing to the agreement that the EU reached with Turkey in early 2016.",
        "容克也许在想，因为欧盟与土耳其在2016年年初达成了协议，此后移民流入速度有所放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, unemployed investment bankers, of course!",
        "喔，当然是失业的投资银行家！"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-Zionism takes a nasty turn to anti-Semitism when it conflates Jews with Israelis – for example, when the British Liberal Democratic politician David Ward criticized “the Jews” for inflicting horrors on the Palestinians.",
        "将犹太人与以色列人相混淆导致了反锡安运动演变为反犹主义。 比如，英国自由民主党政治家大卫·沃德（David Ward）批评“犹太人”给巴勒斯坦人带去恐怖。"
    ],
    [
        "However, even if we can agree on keeping the US open to sovereign wealth fund investments, that is no reason for promoting exchange-rate policies that exacerbate the very trade imbalances that are driving the whole sovereign wealth fund phenomenon in the first place.",
        "但是，即使我们在美国对主权财富基金投资开放上取得一致，这也并不能成为推进加剧贸易失衡的汇率政策的理由，而贸易失衡又首先驱动了整个主权财富基金现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab League and the Conference of Islamic States should be consulted and involved.",
        "阿盟和伊斯兰国家委员会也应该被咨询和参与进来。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing Economies’ Long-Term Financing Shortfall",
        "发展中经济体的长期融资难"
    ],
    [
        "A better way to understand economic differences is to view them as a reflection of alternative institutional and constitutional arrangements.",
        "一个更好地理解经济差异的方法是把它们看做不同制度和宪政安排的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi, by contrast, is doing worse than expected – even torpedoing a long-anticipated Word Trade Organization agreement.",
        "相反，莫迪面临着比预想更糟糕的局面，甚至有可能破坏期待已久的世贸组织协定。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there is a real tradeoff between equality and economic growth, and egalitarianism is not a popular policy even for many low-income people.",
        "此外，在平等性和经济增长之间存在现实权衡问题，平均主义即使对许多低收入的人来说也不是值得支持的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Restructuring a mega-bank requires pre-planning, familiarity with the bank’s strengths and weaknesses, knowledge of how to time the bankruptcy properly in a volatile economy, and the capacity to coordinate with foreign regulators.",
        "重组一家大型银行需要事先规划、熟悉银行的优势和劣势、了解如何在高波动的经济中确定合理的破产时机，以及能够与外国监管者协调。"
    ],
    [
        "And, when it comes to putting their ideas into practice, the European Union’s leaders have fallen short repeatedly.",
        "而当到了该把理想变成现实的时候，欧盟的领导人就会一而再再而三地栽跟头。"
    ],
    [
        "In BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh, two Dalit women were assaulted for supposedly carrying illegal cow meat (it was legal buffalo meat).",
        "在人民党统治的中央邦，两名达利特妇女被指控携带非法牛肉（其实是合法的水牛肉）而遭到袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are to avoid an even stronger backlash against globalization, the West must respond quickly and strongly.",
        "如果我们想要避免反对全球化的更大浪潮，西方国家就必须立即采取强有力的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative – already gaining traction – is the resurgence of naked power politics and dangerous xenophobia.",
        "否则——可能性越来越大——迎接我们的将是赤裸裸的权力政治和危险的排外主义的复兴。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, these countries lack a crucial piece of the puzzle: America’s innovative governance model for higher education.",
        "事实上，这些国家缺乏拼图的关键一块：美国对高等教育的创新治理机制。"
    ],
    [
        "There are other families throughout the world that could buy that wheat farm with one day’s wages.",
        "全世界还有着其他的家庭，用一天的工资就可以买下那片麦田。"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, he has been the “conscience of a liberal,” rightly focusing on how government can combat poverty, poor health, environmental degradation, rising inequality, and other social ills.",
        "一方面，他是“自由派的良心”，正确地将注意力集中在政府如何减少贫困、解决穷人的医疗问题、阻止环境破坏、遏制不平等性加剧和治理其他社会问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of the 1990s, they had restored macroeconomic balance, but implemented merely superficial structural reforms.",
        "到20世纪90年代末，它们终于重新实现了宏观经济平衡，但只实施了相当浅层的结构改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The Age of Violence",
        "暴力时代"
    ],
    [
        "Given that these investors have some $120 trillion in assets under management, the bottleneck is not a shortage of capital, but rather a dearth of well-prepared, bankable projects.",
        "鉴于这些投资人管理着120万亿美元左右的资产，因此产生制约作用的瓶颈绝不是缺乏资金，而是缺少准备充分且值得投资的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "So, who could complain?",
        "因此，还有谁会抱怨？"
    ],
    [
        "And to shape the views of those politicians, they can better explain why cooperation with fiscal authorities and foreign central banks is in the public interest.",
        "而为了左右这些政治家的观点，央行可以更好地解释为什么与财政当局和外国央行的合作符合公共利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The weakening of the euro and the ECB’s aggressive measures may even stop the deflationary pressure later this year.",
        "欧元贬值和欧洲央行的激进措施甚至有可能在今年玩那些时候结束通缩压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The first reflex of too many leaders at such times is to stigmatize the victims a second time, by suggesting that they were asking for it.",
        "每逢此时，太多领导人的第一反应是第二次羞辱受害者——表示这是他们自找的。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s deeply embedded commitment to Europe and insistence on constitutionalism reflect its profound effort to understand what went wrong during the interwar period, the consequences of racism and extreme nationalism, and the legacy of Nazi crimes.",
        "德国对欧洲一体化和宪政坚定不移的追求反映了这个国家对战时问题、种族主义和极端民族主义、以及纳粹罪行后果的深刻反思。"
    ],
    [
        "DUBLIN – “The construction of Europe is an art,” former French President Jacques Chirac once said.",
        "发自都柏林——“欧洲的建构是一门艺术，”法国前总统雅克·希拉克曾说，“而且是一门可能性的艺术。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, many identities are overlapping circles – affinities sustained by the Internet and cheap travel.",
        "徐进，众多身份属于互相重叠的圈子——以互联网和廉价旅行维系的亲密关系。"
    ],
    [
        "When anyone wants an example of how effective a Keynesian counter-cyclical strategy can be, internationally as well as domestically, they need look no further than China’s four-trillion-renminbi stimulus of 2008-2009.",
        "每个想探究凯恩斯的反经济周期策略究竟有多有效的人，无论是在国际还是国内层面展开讨论的，都应该好好研究一下中国2008~2009财年总值4万亿人民币的经济刺激计划。"
    ],
    [
        "As he pointed out, wearing the nijab is not commanded by the Koran and represents a cultural choice, not a religious duty.",
        "正如他所指出的，佩戴阿拉伯头巾并不是古兰经的要求，它代表的是一种文化选择，而不是宗教义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it because they are cold-blooded and covered in scales?",
        "是因为它们是冷血动物而且全身布满鳞片吗？"
    ],
    [
        "One good example of such a project is the North Sea Countries' Offshore Grid Initiative, a proposal that would link offshore wind farms to a new regional grid, and allow countries to balance variable power supplies across borders.",
        "这一项目的其中一个模范样板就是北海沿岸诸国所提出的离岸电网动议，旨在将所有的风力发电站连接成一个新的区域电网，让各国可以跨境对各自的电力供应进行平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Denying a visa to Russian human rights activist Sergey Kovalyov?",
        "拒绝为俄罗斯人权活动家Sergey Kovalyov发放签证？"
    ],
    [
        "Calderón took office in December 2006 under adverse circumstances.",
        "卡尔德龙于2006年12月在不利的情况下就职。"
    ],
    [
        "The independent board members would constitute only a small minority, but their presence and professional expertise would give them disproportionate weight.",
        "理事会独立成员将只有少数派组成，但他们的出席和专家意见会给予他们不成比例的话语分量。"
    ],
    [
        "While any definition of terrorism has problems at the margins, the core of terrorism is clear enough to permit efforts to de-legitimize it.",
        "尽管任何恐怖主义的界定都在边缘领域渐趋模糊，但其核心界定都非常清晰明了，足以为清除措施提供依据。"
    ],
    [
        "The global economic crisis threatens the progress in my country and elsewhere on our continent.",
        "全球经济危机正威胁着我们国家及其他非洲国家的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Outsider candidates often bash China during their election campaigns, but quickly realize once in office that cooperation is in their own interest.",
        "外部候选人常常会在选战中抨击中国，但一旦开始执政，就会迅速认识到合作才符合自身利益。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Ukraine’s core institutions are undergoing fundamental change.",
        "在此基础之上，乌克兰的核心体制正在经历根本性的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Last May, Obama declared that the US had “turned the tide of war” in Afghanistan, an eerie echo of Richard Nixon’s rhetoric as he withdrew US forces from Vietnam.",
        "去年5月，奥巴马宣布美国在阿富汗“扭转了战局”，这让人们想起了尼克松在将美军撤出越南前所说的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s behavior in Ukraine since then has made the Eastern Partnership more important than ever.",
        "此后，俄罗斯在乌克兰的所作所为让东方合作伙伴变得比以往任何时候都更加重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But I do think that this discussion is the most important debate in the field of macroeconomics since John Maynard Keynes wrestled with similar questions in the 1930s.",
        "但我确实认为，自凯恩斯在20世纪30年代与类似的问题角力以来，这场讨论是宏观经济学领域最重要的争论。"
    ],
    [
        "While lying often pays, if we all lied all the time, language would become obsolete.",
        "尽管说谎常常会带来好处，但如果我们总是说谎，语言就会成为障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "In retrospect, the Committee probably should have refused the case, given that Lomborg’s book was subject to intense public scrutiny, often by experts writing (favorably) in The Economist and (unfavorably) in Scientific American.",
        "回想起来，因为隆姆博格的作品受到了集中的公开审查，往往由专家在《经济学家》和《科学美国人》分别表示支持或反对，委员会可能本应拒绝这一案例。"
    ],
    [
        "In Chile today, 53% of all children attend voucher-financed private schools (many of them until recently run for profit), despite the top-up fees they often charge.",
        "在智利，如今53%的学生在受教育券资助的学校上学（其中许多直到最近才开始转为非盈利性学校），尽管常常还需要缴纳额外的学费。"
    ],
    [
        "Macron is anxiously awaiting a new government in Berlin.",
        "马克龙正在焦急等待着柏林的新政府。"
    ],
    [
        "And it would provide a powerful example to other Asian countries – including my own – in which women have struggled to gain an electoral foothold.",
        "女总统的诞生还能给其他亚洲国家——包括我的祖国——树立一个榜样，在这些国家，女性仍在为能在选战中站稳脚跟而斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump, at least in the short term, seems to be good news for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.",
        "至少在短期，特朗普当选对于俄罗斯总统普京和中国国家主席习近平来说是个好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the ACD framework, Thaksin launched the $1 billion “Asia Bond” last year in an effort to match Asia’s financial capital with its financing requirements.",
        "去年，在亚洲合作对话框架内，他信发行了10亿美元的“亚洲债券”，以努力使亚洲金融资本适应亚洲的融资要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Still Too Big to Fail",
        "仍然太大而不能倒"
    ],
    [
        "So the state should have only a few firms in strategic sectors or in activities that are rife with market failures.",
        "因此，国家应该只保留战略性部门或市场失灵部门的少数企业。"
    ],
    [
        "This private-sector recovery is helping government finances.",
        "私人部门的复苏有助于政府财政。"
    ],
    [
        "These two political constraints should be taken as a given.",
        "上述两方面的政治限制应当被视为先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "One surprise was the decision to retain Zhou Xiaochuan as Governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC).",
        "其中出人意表的一个决定是让周小川继续留任中国人民银行行长。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the context of his age, Friedman was a true intellectual revolutionary, combining rigorous academic research and gracefully written popular books and journalism to argue for free-market policies – and to affirm the link, defended by writers from Adam Smith to Friedrich von Hayek, between economic freedom and political liberty.",
        "他结合了严谨的学术研究、文笔优雅的畅销书籍和新闻学笔调来呼吁自由市场政策，并且肯定经济自由以及政治自由之间的联系。 从亚当∙斯密到哈耶克的大师也都为这一联系辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, the unity government’s success depends on the ability of the Fatah-led Palestinian government and Hamas – and, to whatever extent possible, Islamic Jihad – to cement their cooperation by agreeing on a path toward liberation and freedom.",
        "更广泛地说，联合政府的成功取决于法塔赫领导的巴勒斯坦政府和哈马斯——以及不论何种程度上的伊斯兰圣战组织——有多大能力在通往自由和解放的道路的问题上形成一致，从而巩固它们的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries are now setting ambitious carbon-cutting goals ahead of global negotiations in Copenhagen this December to replace the Kyoto Protocol.",
        "许多国家正在大张旗鼓地制定碳减排目标，以期在今年12月于哥本哈根举行的全球谈判会议之前取代原先的《京都议定书》。"
    ],
    [
        "A fairly enigmatic figure, he has a higher degree in Islamic studies, and is a gifted strategist and orator.",
        "他是个神秘莫测的人物，拥有伊斯兰教研究的高等学位，也是天赋异禀的战略家和演讲家。"
    ],
    [
        "The OECD reports that in 2010, France’s “tax wedge” (income taxes plus employee and employer social-security contributions minus cash transfers as a percentage of total labor costs) was at least 13 percentage points above the OECD average at every level of household income.",
        "经合组织的报告显示，2010年，法国的“税楔”（即所得税加上雇员和雇主的社会保障支出再减去现金转移支付占总劳动成本的百分比）在所有水平的家庭收入上都要高出经合组织平均水平至少13个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, as the financial sector soared, the manufacturing base contracted sharply.",
        "在美国，随着金融行业的腾飞，制造基础收缩非常严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of this increase was probably used to purchase Italian government bonds.",
        "增量中的巨大部分都来自意大利国债。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union, however, has built up a large external surplus, owing mainly to positive trade balances in the eurozone.",
        "但是，欧盟出现了巨大的外部盈余，这主要是因为欧元区的正贸易余额。"
    ],
    [
        "His long-boycotted government was thrown a lifeline by regime change in Egypt and the opening of the border with Gaza.",
        "他的政府虽然饱受指责，但却趁埃及政权更替以及加沙边界的开放捡到了一条救命稻草。"
    ],
    [
        "By increasing economic and cultural ties, diplomacy might unleash the soft power that could contribute to more gradual regime transformation over the longer term.",
        "外交手段能增进经济和文化联系，有利于发挥软实力，在较长的时期内逐步实现政体的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Would such intervention revive Lebanon’s own long civil war of the 1970’s and 1980’s?",
        "这种干预是否会让黎巴嫩上世纪70~80年代的长期内战死灰复燃？"
    ],
    [
        "In order to distribute the burden more equitably, Germany tried to have a European quota system instituted to allocate applicants among the EU’s member countries.",
        "为了更平等地分担负担，德国尝试建立一个欧洲配额制度，在欧盟成员国之间分配避难申请。"
    ],
    [
        "In the real world, China accounts for almost 60% of the global increase in coal consumption from 2012 to 2014, according to the International Energy Agency.",
        "国际能源机构统计显示现实生活中中国占2012至2014年全球煤炭消费增量的近60%。"
    ],
    [
        "If the basket also included oil, GCC currencies could depreciate in line with a falling price – and rise if and when it recovers.",
        "如果将石油也纳入这个篮子，那么GCC货币可以随着石油价格下跌而贬值——而在石油价格复苏时升值。"
    ],
    [
        "But natural capital is not just an abstract concept; it supports lives, livelihoods, and societal wellbeing.",
        "但自然资本不仅仅是一个抽象的概念； 它支持生命、生计和社会福利。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s media landscape, information is abundant.",
        "当今媒体业可谓信息泛滥。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, this revolution will undoubtedly lead to the engineering of life through synthetic biology, a prospect that remains controversial.",
        "比如，这场革命必将带来通过合成生物学实现的生命工程，其前景目前还众说纷纭。"
    ],
    [
        "Witness the surge in capital flows to emerging markets as investors chase higher financial returns.",
        "由于投资者追求更高的经济回报，我们会见证了激增的资本不断流向新兴市场。"
    ],
    [
        "David Cameron’s Euro-Nemesis",
        "戴维·卡梅伦的欧元复仇"
    ],
    [
        "It is as if German political elites think that they are back in the era of the gold standard.",
        "德国政治精英似乎认为他们回到了金本位时代。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1996, the approval of the first drug of a class called protease inhibitors led to the adoption of a multi-drug, anti-HIV regimen known as highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART.",
        "1996年，对于一类名为蛋白酶抑制剂的首批药物的批准带来一种多药、抗HIV疗程，即高效抗逆转录病毒治疗（HAART）的被采用。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a critical step toward stabilization, but more must be done.",
        "这是迈向稳定的关键一步，但还有很多事要做。"
    ],
    [
        "Venezuela’s national catastrophe should serve as a warning to everyone.",
        "委内瑞拉的国家灾难应该让所有人警醒。"
    ],
    [
        "Nuclear deterrence – a threat to kill hundreds of thousands or millions of people – is a concept that does not fit into traditional morals.",
        "核威慑——某种足以夺去无数条人命的威胁——是一个与传统道德格格不入的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "But such limited intervention can hardly explain the billions of public-sector dollars that have flowed toward downstream applied research, even providing early-stage financing for companies.",
        "但这一有限的干预很难解释数十亿美元流向下游应用研究、甚至为公司提供早期融资的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Because economics appears to be compelling, and because social democracy is indispensable, the two doctrines have mutated to accommodate each other – which is not to say that their marriage is a happy one.",
        "由于经济学有着引人入胜的外表，而社会民主不可或缺，因此两种思想发生了演变以互相适应——这并不是说他们的结合是和谐的。"
    ],
    [
        "And that may require either ensuring that one’s exchange rate is competitive or that certain industries have privileged access to credit – as a number of East Asian countries did as part of their remarkably successful development strategies.",
        "而这需要有高竞争力的汇率或者某些产业拥有获得信用的特权——这正是许多东亚国家取得巨大成功的发展战略的要点。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is a vicious cycle of too much debt, too little growth, and too-low interest rates that, to quote the BIS’s Claudio Borio, “beget lower rates.”",
        "结果是过多债务、过少增长和过低利率的恶性循环，用BIS的克劳迪奥·波里奥（Claudio Borio）的话说，这“导致更低的利率”。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump, however, may pursue populist, anti-globalization, and protectionist policies that hinder trade and restrict the movement of labor and capital.",
        "然而特朗普却可能追求阻碍贸易并限制劳动力和资本流动的民粹主义，反全球化和保护主义政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ebola crisis has shown that we need to think about developing our ability to innovate at the most basic level.",
        "埃博拉危机表明，我们需要思考如何发展我们在最基础层面的创新能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Is South Korea Turning Japanese?",
        "韩国正在成为日本吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In Kissinger’s view, contending conceptions of world order are emerging not only in the Middle East, but also in Asia.",
        "在基辛格看来，相互矛盾的世界秩序理念在中东和亚洲不断涌现。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab Young and Restless",
        "阿拉伯的青年与动乱"
    ],
    [
        "Malaria afflicts 300 million people and is the world’s biggest killer of children.",
        "疟疾折磨着3亿人，也是全世界最大的儿童杀手。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland’s Moment of Fiscal Decision",
        "爱尔兰做出财政决定的时刻"
    ],
    [
        "Old people are so frightened of being killed by homicidal doctors that they wear bracelets that read: “Do not euthanize me.”",
        "老人们非常担心会丧命于杀人医生之手，只好戴上写着“别把我安乐死”的腕带来表达自己的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "They inhibit democratization and incite instability.",
        "它们制约了民主，引发了动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kenyatta government could go a long way toward addressing the problem with one very practical measure: establishing and supporting an independent watchdog to audit hiring and promotion decisions in official agencies.",
        "肯尼亚政府可以用一个相当实际的措施纠正这一问题：建立并支持独立监管机构，审计官方机构的招聘和升值决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Surkov is the man most responsible for nurturing pro-Putin sentiment, which increasingly resembles a Stalin-like cult of personality.",
        "苏尔科夫是亲普京情绪的主要缔造者，这种情绪越来越接近斯大林式的个人崇拜。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, economists have been reluctant to share their intellectual doubts with the public, lest they “empower the barbarians.” No economist can be entirely sure that his preferred model is correct.",
        "更有甚之，经济学家不愿意将自己的质疑和大众分享，更不用说对社会大众的“教诲”，没有一个经济学家会认为自己的模式是完全正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "But Romney has criticized this effort, and has offered nothing in its place.",
        "罗姆尼对此大加批判，但却未能提出任何可以替代这一法案的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In some European countries, where income inequality has remained in check, this has been a component of a deliberate strategy to maintain employment growth and competitiveness in the tradable part of the economy, with wage restraint partly shared across the income distribution.",
        "在一些收入不平等程度仍然较小的欧洲国家，维持就业增长和可贸易部分的竞争力已成为有意为之的战略，工资限制在一定程度上是由所有收入水平阶层共同承担的。"
    ],
    [
        "In this view, the human genome is a common heritage of humankind and a global public good whose benefits should be shared with all.",
        "在持这种观点的人看来，人类基因库是全人类的共同财产和全球性的公益事业，收益理应由全人类共同分享。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s lending resources have shrunk dramatically relative to world trade and income compared over the past 50 years.",
        "和过去50年相比，相对世界贸易和收入，国际货币基金组织的贷款收缩巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Exchange-rate flexibility has not helped them much, or at least they have chosen not to exploit it.",
        "而灵活的汇率并没有起到多大的作用，或者至少它们都没有启动灵活的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Middle East, the refugee debate is not nearly as loud, but it is no less passionate.",
        "中东的难民争论也不遑多让，并且“中气”十足。"
    ],
    [
        "Abenomics’ Women Problem",
        "安倍经济学的妇女问题"
    ],
    [
        "With established pools of aid being stretched to address immediate needs – medical assistance, shelter, and food – education is being neglected.",
        "随着现有稀缺资源被用于解决医疗、住房和食物等燃眉之急，教育正处于被忽视状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that the Geithner Plan is likely to be profitable for the US government is, however, a sideshow.",
        "然而，盖特纳计划可能会让美国政府获取利润的事实却是一个滑稽闹剧。"
    ],
    [
        "For three decades, “reform” was a word reserved for the Chinese side of the Sino-American relationship.",
        "30年来，“改革”一直是中美关系中国端所发出的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "SAN JOSE – Around the world, people are demanding change.",
        "圣何塞—放眼全球，人们都在要求变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Poor households can better cope with adverse shocks like crop failure, illness, or natural disaster.",
        "贫困家庭能够更好地面对农作物歉收、疾病或自然灾害等不利影响。"
    ],
    [
        "By selecting particular villages and providing basic health care, bed nets to stop malaria, primary education, better seeds, and other agricultural assistance, the organization aims to show that well-designed, comprehensive aid plans can, at relatively modest cost, raise people out of poverty.",
        "该计划为选定的村庄提供基本的医疗服务和蚊帐来防治疟疾，普及小学教育、提供优质种子和其他农业支持。 该机构目的是证明设计良好的综合援助计划可以在开支相对较小的情况下，帮助人们脱离贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Church administration has become increasingly subject to uniform civil codes.",
        "教会管理变得越来越受统一的民法的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "In a country that is deeply divided economically, “What on earth is the benefit to the poor and the downtrodden of deep space research?” asks physicist Harold Annegarn, a professor at the University of Johannesburg.",
        "在南非这样经济分化严重的国家，“外太空研究究竟能为穷人和受压迫者带来哪些好处？ ”约翰内斯堡大学教授兼物理学家哈罗德·安纳卡恩提出疑问。"
    ],
    [
        "China is already closer to ASEAN and a key player with respect to Myanmar, North Korea, and other sticky issues.",
        "中国已经靠近东盟，成为缅甸、北朝鲜和其他微妙问题上的关键角色。"
    ],
    [
        "It will also depend on institutions’ ability to design rational health care, monitor delivery, and properly assess new treatments.",
        "这也将取决于医疗体系规整合理医疗保健方案、监控医疗服务状况、正确地评估新的治疗方法的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "No one is interested in creating wealth.",
        "没人对创造财富感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "But one troubling factor remains: the emergence of a dual labor market, in which low-wage and temporary workers find it hard to transfer out of inadequate working conditions into the mainstream labor market.",
        "但一个麻烦的因素仍然存在：双面劳动力市场的出现，低薪临时工人难以跳出不充分的工作条件，进入主流劳动力市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The study found that only the top 1% of day traders made a profit – after deducting trading costs – in two consecutive six-month periods, and the median profit was hardly worth the effort: only about US$4000.",
        "这一研究发现，在连续两个半年期间中，只有前1%的股民在扣减了交易成本后依然获利，而中等利润只有大概4000美元，还不及辛苦钱。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese economy’s current slowdown is the result of external and cyclical factors, not some natural limit.",
        "中国经济目前的放缓是外部和周期性因素的结果，而不是自然极限。 中国一直在承受2008年金融危机和出口需求暴跌的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the choice is not between left and right, independent views have gained greater weigtht.",
        "这不是左与右的选择，独立观点影响更大。"
    ],
    [
        "In some countries, worries about educational competition and brain drains have led to outright academic protectionism.",
        "在某些国家，对教育竞争和人才枯竭的忧虑已经导致了赤裸裸的学术保护主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The industrialists who gathered around Hitler and Göring in 1933 were bought off by a murderous gangster regime.",
        "1933年团结在希特勒和戈林周围的产业家门被一个凶残的流氓政权收买了。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an inconvenient fact for the progressive economist.",
        "对进步经济学家来说，这是个不太美妙的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "King Abdullah’s reform efforts – especially those aimed at curbing the power of the ultra-conservative Wahhabi-Salafi religious establishment – have lost steam, and the deaths of two crown princes have complicated the inter-generational transfer of power.",
        "阿卜杜拉国王的改革措施——特别是那些旨在遏制极端保守的瓦哈比-沙拉菲派宗教势力的措施——已经失去了前进动力，而两位王储的去世让权力的代际传递蒙上了一层阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "That is how the TPP will manage trade for the pharmaceutical industry if the US gets its way.",
        "如果美国得逞，TPP就将这样管理制药行业的贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Communism was obviously an instrument of Soviet domination over conquered societies, but it was also a modus vivendi for large parts of these nations under the conditions in which they were obliged to live.",
        "共产主义明显是苏联统治其所征服的社会的工具，但是它也是这些国家中那些不得不在这一情形下谋杀的大多数人的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "In such a scenario, self-empowered minorities come to speak in the name of imaginary majorities – a populism of sorts, and, like all populism, driven by emotions more than by norms, let alone reasons.",
        "在这种情况下，自我授权的少数群体以假象中多数群体的名义高谈阔论——这算得上是一种民粹主义，而且和所有的民粹主义一样，它的驱动因素是情感而非规则，当然更谈不上理性。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fair distribution of health-care services across native and migrant populations is often a thorny policy issue.",
        "但医疗服务在本地和移民人口中间的公平分配常常成为棘手的政策问题。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, banks distrust one another and have mostly stopped lending to each other, which jeopardizes economic activity by severely reducing the availability of credit to businesses.",
        "结果，银行互不信任，大多数都停止了相互拆借。 这样就由于大幅降低给企业的信贷而危及到了经济活动。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this served Erdoğan well in the run-up to Turkey’s November 1 general election.",
        "所有这些非常有利于埃尔多安参加11月1日的土耳其大选。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the problem is blinkered decision-making.",
        "问题的一部分在于决策过程缺乏远见。"
    ],
    [
        "With poliovirus now endemic in just three remaining countries, we are already beginning to use the momentum that has carried eradication efforts so far to broaden the scope of routine immunization to reach more of the poorest children.",
        "目前，只有三个国家仍然还有脊髓灰质炎病毒传播，我们已经开始借助目前扩大常规免疫规模手段的东风让最贫困的孩子接触疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "So, in the presidential election of this past January, Sirisena stunned the world by creating a winning coalition of Sri Lankans of all faiths and ethnicities who want to rebuild their democracy, not continue down the path of authoritarian rule.",
        "因此，在今年一月的总统大选中，西里塞纳创建想重建民主、而非继续专制统治的所有信仰及民族的斯里兰卡人获胜联盟的想法震惊了世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Rethinking Robin Hood",
        "罗宾汉再思考"
    ],
    [
        "Some firms have set their own operating standards.",
        "一些企业已经设定了自己的业务标准。"
    ],
    [
        "The value of India’s arms contracts with US firms exceeds that of American military aid to any country except Israel.",
        "印度与美国企业签订的武器合同的价值超过了除以色列以外的任何一个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "If these missing items were included, the poor world’s economic performance over the past three decades, including China’s, would look far worse.",
        "如果这些缺失的项目被纳入评估，则包括中国在内的穷国在过去30年里的经济表现会显得糟糕许多。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s why some commentators, inflaming the tensions, speak of barbarians at the gates and compare Europe’s situation to the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire.",
        "因此，一些评论家煽动紧张，大谈“门口的野蛮人”，并将欧洲的现状与罗马帝国衰亡开始时相比较。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the language used by some Chinese government representatives and the official Chinese media is a reminder of the worst of times during the Stalinist and Maoist eras.",
        "实际上，中国政府某些代表和中国官方媒体使用的语言让人回忆起斯大林和毛泽东时代最为黑暗的时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, right now, tens of billions of chickens are being forced to live this way; indeed, mankind’s realm is full of unnecessarily suffering animals.",
        "”不幸的是，如今，上百亿小鸡被迫以这种方式生活； 事实上，人类的领域充满了毫无必要地受苦的动物。"
    ],
    [
        "As the American economist Harold Hotelling explained in 1929, those competing for the middle have an “undue tendency … to imitate each other.”",
        "美国经济学家哈罗德·霍特林（Harold Hotelling）在1929年解释道，争取中间派的人有一种“彼此效仿的……过犹不及的趋势”。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial crisis reduced private financiers’ risk appetite, making long-term exposures unappealing.",
        "金融危机抑制了私人金融家的风险胃口，长期风险敞口不再具有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Plugging the Leaks",
        "堵塞漏洞"
    ],
    [
        "The Democrats have an agreed and implementable strategy that would represent a definite improvement over the status quo.",
        "民主党有一个一致的可执行战略，肯定可以在现状的基础上有所改善。"
    ],
    [
        "By 1980, that spread had widened to at least 33% and as much as 300%; and today it is 28% and 360%, respectively.",
        "到1980年该一差距已经扩大到至少33％，幅度达300％； 如今则是28％和360％。"
    ],
    [
        "Arafat's death may well mark the beginning of that process, but the transition to a new Palestinian leadership could take years, and there is no assurance that it will be a moderate one.",
        "阿拉法特之死也可能预示着这一过程的开始，但向巴勒斯坦新领袖的过渡不仅需要很多年，而且也没什么能够保证这位新领袖一定会是温和派。"
    ],
    [
        "When Paris is attacked as it was last Friday, one must speak of war.",
        "当巴黎遭受上周五那样的攻击，我们除了谈论战争以外别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "In net terms, though, there may be more growth worldwide as well as in Germany. Whatever the case, for many Germans the capitalist allocation processes they are seeing make no sense.",
        "尽管全世界和德国一样资本净额都在增长，但不管怎样，对许多德国人来说，他们此刻目睹着的资本重组其实毫无意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Its success will be highly consequential – not least for the political debate that will inform the outcome of Germany’s elections in 2013.",
        "法国的成功将具有重大意义——不仅对于可能暗示德国2013年大选结果的政治争论是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Israel remain an oasis of stability, security, modernity, and economic growth in such a volatile environment?",
        "以色列能否在如此动荡的环境中继续成为一块稳定、安全、现代化的经济发展绿洲？"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Slow-Growth Opportunity",
        "中国的慢增长机会"
    ],
    [
        "The result was the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932 and 1933, which gave the Fed more leeway in lending, and the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, which allowed it to disregard earlier gold-standard rules.",
        "其结果是给予美联储更大贷款自由的1932和1933年格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法案以及让美联储可以无视此前金本位规则的1934年黄金储备法案。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers in Europe (and elsewhere) need to adjust their thinking – especially their fiscal thinking – to put people first.",
        "欧洲 （和其他地方） 的政策制定者需要调整自身思维——尤其是在财政方面——并转向以人为本。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that Germany and even France can borrow at record-low interest rates, any reasonably well-designed investment program will strengthen the public sector’s balance sheet.",
        "德国甚至法国能够以创纪录的低利率借到钱，因此任何设计合理的投资计划都能够增强公共部门的资产负债表。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless all Europeans remain devoted to integration and the creation of an open Europe, the Continent's dark past may once again become its future.",
        "除非所有的欧洲人都致力于一体化和塑造一个开放的欧洲的进程，否则这片大陆黑暗的过去就会在未来重演。"
    ],
    [
        "For these sectors, rapid investment-driven growth in the past decade has produced a mountain of excess capacity, reflected in stagnant prices and the banking sector’s soaring volume of bad loans, as price wars squeeze profitability and stimulate real-estate speculation.",
        "对于这些部门而言，过去十年中由投资带动的快速增长造成了生产能力大量过剩，由于价格战挤压了利润并刺激了房地产投机，反映出的是通货紧缩压力，银行体系的坏帐急剧上升。"
    ],
    [
        "The most recent example is France.",
        "最新的例子是法国。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bombardier episode also highlights the importance of engagement in – and reform of – the WTO, under whose rules the US-initiated proceedings against Bombardier are taking place.",
        "庞巴迪的例子还突显出世贸组织的参与——以及改革——的重要性。 美国的针对庞巴迪的诉讼就是根据世贸组织发起的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rising Sons of North Africa",
        "北非政坛的领袖之子"
    ],
    [
        "A central piece of the puzzle is the role of emerging technology.",
        "这一谜题的核心部分是新兴技术的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Many a government minister, Bank officer and NGO representative has experienced his blunt criticism, as well as his effusive praise. The IMF has not been immune to this treatment.",
        "许多政府部长、银行官员和非政府组织代表既遭遇过他生硬的批评，也受到过他慷慨的赞誉，国际货币基金组织自然也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Both elements of the American dream have now lost something of their appeal.",
        "美国梦的这两大要素如今都失去了吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the Chinese and the Russians have been brought along principally by the US to a more robust policy, yet they remain reluctant.",
        "最后，中国和俄国是迫于美国压力才采取强硬政策，但这并不是他们的本意。"
    ],
    [
        "But the world as a whole – and every fair-minded German fan too – would have had to admit that he had done the right thing.",
        "当球员舞弊的时候，有数以百万计的球迷在观看，而且还有无数次录像重播，电视体育节目还会仔细分析，因而球员行为端正尤为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The growth pact can be properly financed by new sources of revenue, such as a financial-transaction tax and joint project bonds for infrastructure investment, or by curbing tax evasion and tax fraud and eliminating tax havens, as well as by more efficient and intelligent use of structural funds.",
        "新增长公约可以通过新的收入源得到合适的融资，比如金融交易税和基础设施投资合作项目债权，或者减少偷税漏税和税收欺诈并取消避税港，还可以考虑更高效、更巧妙地使用结构性资金。"
    ],
    [
        "In this way, malaria will literally be rolled back from its current borders.",
        "通过这种方法，发生疟疾的范围确实能比当前的范围缩小很多。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy will come back to life.",
        "经济也将起死回生。"
    ],
    [
        "This means adopting a “diaspora” model, which implies four policy proposals.",
        "这意味着采取一种“流散犹太人”的模式，其中包括四大政策方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, whichever direction the euro crisis takes, its ultimate resolution will end the extreme existential uncertainty that clouds the outlook today.",
        "尽管如此，不管欧元危机朝哪个方向发展，其最终解决结果将结束当前极短不确定的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "If global savers and investors expect the dollar’s depreciation to continue, they will flee the currency unless they are compensated appropriately for keeping their money in the US and its assets, implying that the gap between US and foreign interest rates will widen.",
        "如果全球储户和投资者预期美元将会继续贬值，那么除非把钱存在美国及美元资产中能得到适当的补偿，这就意味着美国和外国的利息差距将会拉大，否则他们将会抛售手中持有的美元资产。"
    ],
    [
        "There is not much that public outrage can do about the behavior of Iranian mullahs or Syrian thugs.",
        "对于伊朗毛拉和叙利亚暴徒的行径，公共的愤怒没有什么效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiations will be needed, with both sides sacrificing something.",
        "谈判仍然是必要的，双方都要做出一些牺牲。"
    ],
    [
        "It might be fairer to describe physics as being at a turning point or a crossroads.",
        "说物理学正站在转折点或十字路口更加合适。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese miracle was engineered by institutional and process innovation at all levels of the government services supply chain.",
        "中国奇迹的推动力是政府服务供应链各层次的制度和过程创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Because commercial banks are an essential source of funding for member governments, the ECB is forced to refuse liquidity to banks domiciled in insolvent members.",
        "由于商业银行是各成员国政府筹集资金的一个重要来源，而欧洲央行被迫拒绝为那些位于破产国的银行提供流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s a radical idea.",
        "这是个激进的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet local talent is critical for solutions that are both original and sustainable.",
        "但创新、可持续方案不能缺少当地人才。"
    ],
    [
        "Who is re-writing the rules on financial-market supervision and regulation to prevent another occurrence?",
        "是谁重新制定了金融市场的监管规则以避免重蹈覆辙？"
    ],
    [
        "In retrospect, it is clear that some of the countries were allowed to join prematurely, when they still had massive budget deficits and high debt-to-GDP ratios.",
        "回顾过去可以发现，很显然，某些国家在财政赤字很重、债务占GDP比重很高时便被草率地纳入了欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the IOC’s priorities are badly skewed.",
        "很明显，国际奥委会的工作重点被严重扭曲了。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, human-right activists in Russia cannot and should not count on Microsoft as an ally in their efforts to build a more open society.",
        "显而易见，俄罗斯的人权活动者不能也不该将微软视为建设开放社会的伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Intact tropical and northern forests, as well as savannas and coastal ecosystems, store huge amounts of carbon accumulated over centuries.",
        "完整的热带和北方森林，以及稀树草原和海岸生态系统，几百年来累积储存了为数巨大的碳。"
    ],
    [
        "During the Asian financial crisis, net outflows from the East Asian economies were only $12 billion in 1997.",
        "在亚洲金融危机期间的1997年，从东亚经济体的资本净流出也不过120亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s silent tsunami of malaria, however, is actually largely avoidable and controllable.",
        "但非洲这场沉默的疟疾海啸在很大程度上是可以避免、也能够控制的。"
    ],
    [
        "The third important actor was Japan’s labor unions.",
        "第三个重要角色是日本的工会。"
    ],
    [
        "Effective Altruism",
        "有效利他主义"
    ],
    [
        "That figure can grow only to 1.4% over the next 15 years.",
        "这一比例在未来15年中只会增加到1. 4%。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time, it was agreed that a Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict, whose work is backed by the threat of sanctions, would also be established.",
        "当时人们达成共识，还应该设置儿童和武装冲突特别代表并且以制裁威胁作为其工作的后盾。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when the drugs do work, they are relatively toxic: azoles and polyenes are nephrotoxic (damaging to the kidneys), and echinocandins are hepatotoxic (damaging to the liver).",
        "即使这些药物能起作用，它们也相对存在一定毒性：唑类和多烯类具有肾毒性（损害肾脏），棘白菌素则存在肝毒性（损害肝脏）。"
    ],
    [
        "So perhaps decision makers, faced with the victims of previous policies and the future victims of current ones, would simply be happy that at last they could allocate resources in an optimally efficient way.",
        "因此也许当决策者们面对着以往政策的受害者和目前政策将来可能的受害者时，能最终把资源利用得相对高效就已经算是不错的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The more moderate Haifa Arabs tried, not very successfully, to stay out of the fray.",
        "相对温和的海法阿拉伯人则试图——但并不很成功——脱离于冲突之外。"
    ],
    [
        "Across-the-board upgrading of human capital will improve income distribution both directly and indirectly (by reducing the supply of lower-skill workers relative to demand).",
        "人力资本的全面升级将直接和间接地改善收入分配（通过降低相对于需求的低技能工人供给）。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it is becoming apparent that many health problems are self-induced: too much unhealthy food and drink, too much smoking, too little sleep or exercise.",
        "首先，大家都明白许多健康问题都是自身造成的：吃太多不健康的食物，抽太多烟，睡眠过少或者缺乏运动。"
    ],
    [
        "After three decades of breakneck growth, the Chinese economic juggernaut needs to slow down somewhat so that the machine can be fixed; only then can it return to the fast lane and accelerate anew.",
        "经过三十年的惊人增长，中国的经济增长需要在一定程度上放缓以便修复存在的问题，只有这样中国经济才能重回快车道，重新获得加速的动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Discussions of how far the state may go in promoting the health of its population often start with John Stuart Mill’s principle of limiting the state’s coercive power to acts that prevent harm to others.",
        "通常认为，关于国家在促进人口健康方面可以走得多远的讨论发轫于约翰·穆勒的原则——国家强制权力应以防止他人受到伤害为界。"
    ],
    [
        "New mills, meanwhile, lowered the cost of bringing domestic rice to market, so that consumers now still pay about the same for rice as they always have.",
        "而新的碾米厂降低了国内大米上市的成本，因此消费者所承受的米价与原来基本相当。"
    ],
    [
        "Measuring more than just income is essential to understanding the needs of poor people and delivering optimal assistance.",
        "用收入以外的指标进行衡量对于理解穷人的需要和给予最优援助至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "She feels that, in acting as she did, she was faithful to her most cherished values and beliefs.",
        "她感到自己的所作所为忠实于她最珍视的价值观和信念。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2040, Asia will be well on its way back to its historical share.",
        "到2040年，亚洲的经济产量将会再次占到世界的五分之三。"
    ],
    [
        "But these mechanisms must be distinguished from a regime of more or less automatic, permanent transfers.",
        "但这些机制必须与或多或少是自动、持久的转移支付机制区分开来。"
    ],
    [
        "Few companies, however, have demonstrated that they are prepared to commit the time, effort, and resources to embrace a radically different way of operating.",
        "但现在还没有几家公司表示，他们准备投入时间、精力和资源实行一种完全不同的运营方式。"
    ],
    [
        "But a lump-sum tax on robots would merely lead robot producers to bundle artificial intelligence within other machinery.",
        "但一次性机器人税只能导致机器人生产商将人工智能绑定在其他机械上。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten years after the Guiding Principles were signed, the time for excuses and inaction has run out.",
        "在指导原则签署十年后，再做任何辩解或者无动于衷是不会再让人接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "We must no longer ignore half the world’s migrants.",
        "我们再也不能忽视世界移民人口中的这一半了。"
    ],
    [
        "Zombie assets would be destroyed.",
        "僵尸资产将被摧毁。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither Russia nor the Islamic world is, thus far, adapting well to globalization.",
        "时至今日，无论是俄罗斯还是伊斯兰世界，都依然还是那副与全球化格格不入的样子。"
    ],
    [
        "Lacking well-developed capital markets as an alternative source of credit, bank-funding channels are especially vital in Asia.",
        "亚洲缺乏发达的资本市场作为信用的替代来源，因此银行融资渠道对亚洲来说尤为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change is already expanding the scope of military operations, with the US Navy and Coast Guard assessing new missions in the Arctic.",
        "气候变化已经扩大了军事行动的范围，美国海军和海岸警卫队评估了北极的新行动。"
    ],
    [
        "This raises another concern.",
        "这就引起了另一个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Each development, and certainly their occurrence in tandem, points to the historic paradigm changes shaping today’s global economy – and to the anxiety that comes with the loss of once-dependable anchors, be they economic and financial or social and political.",
        "事态的每一步发展（以及其环环相扣的发生次序）都指向那个彻底塑造了当今全球经济的历史范式变革，同时也指向某种焦虑——以往不论是在经济/金融还是社会/政治方面都能找到一个可以依赖的“锚”，如今它们却荡然无存了"
    ],
    [
        "No longer. Vietnam’s strategic position – as a neighbor of China, situated parallel to the great sea trade routes of Asia – always made the country tremendously important, which may be one reason why its anti-colonial wars lasted so long.",
        "毗邻中国，扼守亚洲海上贸易咽喉，越南凭借着优越的地理位置一直是全球战略的重要据点，而这或许也是该国反殖民斗争何以持续如此长时间的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Either gradual attrition, with weaker countries defaulting, will lead to a more restricted German-led club of “virtuous” countries, or Germany itself will choose to pursue a policy of narrow fiscal advantage by seceding from the eurozone.",
        "要么逐渐深化的摩擦以及疲软国的违约导致形成德国领导的“优等”国家俱乐部； 要么德国本身选择通过脱离欧元区缩小财政优势的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This is essentially the worldview – gradations of extremism notwithstanding – of Austria’s Freedom Party, Greece’s Golden Dawn, the UK Independence Party, Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, and similar forces throughout Europe and the West, not to mention the world’s autocracies and outright dictatorships.",
        "这其实就是奥地利自由党、希腊金色黎明、英国独立党、匈牙利执政的青年民主党以及遍布欧洲和西方世界的类似势力、更不要说全世界专制和赤裸裸的独裁者所秉承的世界观（虽然极端主义的层次各不相同）。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the challenge facing much of the democratic world today, not only in France and Europe at large, but also in the US.",
        "这是对现在很多民主国家的挑战，不只法国和欧洲，也存在于美国。"
    ],
    [
        "A multicultural coalition is probably a requirement of legitimate military action in the Middle East; the dilemma is that unless Obama’s regional coalition broadens considerably, his current allies’ enthusiasm for US military intervention is likely to diminish quickly.",
        "跨文化联盟也许是中东合法军事行动的先决条件； 困难在于，除非奥巴马的地区联盟得到显著扩大，否则当前盟友对美国军事干预的热情也许很快就会消退。"
    ],
    [
        "Advanced economies’ aging populations are drawing more and more on social safety nets.",
        "发达经济体人口老龄化让越来越多的人需要仰仗社会安全网。"
    ],
    [
        "But Greece, Portugal, Italy, and Ireland are not Argentina.",
        "但是希腊，葡萄牙，意大利和爱尔兰不是阿根廷。"
    ],
    [
        "One is that, if the current process fails, Obama might issue his own plan, which many expect would be a near-carbon copy of the proposal made by Bill Clinton’s administration in its last days ten years ago. At the time, Palestinian and Israeli negotiators were quoted as saying that the two sides had never been closer to an agreement.",
        "其中一项就是如果当前的谈判破裂，奥巴马将可能发布自己制定的计划，许多人都预计这项计划可能会跟10年前克林顿执政末期所推出的计划如出一辙，须知当年巴勒斯坦和以色列谈判者都已经异口同声说双方已经非常接近于达成协议了。"
    ],
    [
        "Time and again, this military approach comes back to haunt the US.",
        "这种军事手段使得美国屡屡自酿苦酒。"
    ],
    [
        "Worldwide, total annual investment in biomedical research is about $110 billion.",
        "放眼全球，每年用于生物化学研究的投资总额约为1100亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a Chinese government report, in the first half of 2014, Japanese direct investment in China was almost 50% lower than during the same period last year – a clear sign that Japanese business leaders fear for the future in Japan’s second largest market.",
        "中国政府报告称，2014年上半年日本对华直接投资比去年同期降低了近50%——这清楚地表明日本商界领袖十分担心日本第二大市场的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "The next step in this logic is to think about how financial power can be directed to national advantage in the case of a diplomatic conflict.",
        "这种逻辑的下一步是思考如何让金融实力在外交冲突中转化为国家优势。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iranian Opportunity",
        "伊朗机会"
    ],
    [
        "As David Autor and David Dorn have shown, many middle-skill, middle-income, middle-class jobs have disappeared.",
        "正如戴维·奥托（David Autor）和戴维·多恩（David Dorn）两位学者的研究指出，许多中等技能中等收入的中产阶级职位已经消失。"
    ],
    [
        "As recently as 2001, only 5% of outward FDI came from non-OECD countries; by 2011, that share had soared to 21%.",
        "就在2001年，还仅有5%的对外直接投资来自非经合组织国家； 而到了2011年，上述比例一举飙升至21%。"
    ],
    [
        "The court ruled that Parliament had failed to hold the president accountable in a scandal concerning diverted state funds.",
        "法院裁定议会没有能够在一宗挪用国家公款的丑闻中问责总统。"
    ],
    [
        "A large majority of Turkey’s citizens share such generosity of spirit.",
        "大部分土耳其人民都有这种慷慨大量的品质。"
    ],
    [
        "However, in many places, energy cropping would certainly compete with food crops.",
        "然而，在许多地方能源作物的种植必然会与粮食作物发生竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Large gender gaps in unpaid work and care are a major driver of diminished economic opportunities for women.",
        "无薪工作和看护中的巨大的性别差距是妇女经济机会受到抑制的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, exposure to the discipline of financial markets would make it harder for profligate governments to misbehave.",
        "最后，承受金融市场戒律将会让某些无所顾忌的政府有所收敛。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a large literature on knowledge spillovers points to their remarkably narrow geographic range.",
        "事实上，知识传播的众多文献显示出极其狭窄的地理范围。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans should step back for a moment and ask: who got them into this mess?",
        "美国人应该退一步思考并扪心自问：是谁把他们带到了目前的境地？"
    ],
    [
        "Two-thirds of proven reserves are in the Persian Gulf, one of the world’s most volatile regions.",
        "已经证明储量的三分之二在波斯湾地区，而该地区是世界上最为动荡的地区之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet we currently are on a path toward an increase of 4º or more this century.",
        "但照现在的势头，到本世纪末气温将上升4℃。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s deflationary environment, the reverse has happened.",
        "在当今通货紧缩的大环境下，这一逆转正在发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the $60 price decline since last August will redistribute more than $2 trillion annually to oil consumers, providing a bigger income boost than the combined US and Chinese fiscal stimulus in 2009.",
        "因此，自去年8月以来油价下跌60美元意味着一年超过2万亿美元被再分配给石油消费者，所形成的收入刺激效应比2009年美国和中国财政刺激之和还要大。"
    ],
    [
        "In January, ECB President Mario Draghi effectively sidestepped both obstacles by launching a program of quantitative easing so enormous that it will finance the entire deficits of all eurozone governments (now including Greece) and mutualize a significant proportion of their outstanding bonds.",
        "1月，欧洲央行行长德拉吉事实上绕过了这两个障碍，实施了量化宽松方案，其规模之大足以为所有欧元区政府（现在也包括希腊）的全部赤字提供融资，并将它们未偿还债务的大部分共同化。"
    ],
    [
        "To make matters worse, they will also realize that they have become over-indebted and will have to deleverage, thus further reducing the household consumption that has sustained the economy.",
        "更糟糕的是，他们还将认识到自己举债过多，必须降低杠杆，这将进一步降低支撑经济的家庭消费。"
    ],
    [
        "My inclination is to believe that the head will prevail – but not completely.",
        "我认为最终首脑会胜出，但会有所妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "The next moment to watch is Obama’s trip to China in November.",
        "接下来就要看今年11月奥巴马总统的北京之行了。"
    ],
    [
        "No forward-looking reforms of the caliber of Schröder’s Agenda 2010 were even attempted under Merkel in over a decade.",
        "在默克尔执政的十多年里，和施罗德的《2010日程》一样高瞻远瞩的改革甚至不曾尝试过。"
    ],
    [
        "For Europe, the deal would be even more beneficial, as it would amplify the EU’s voice in global standard setting at a time when it is increasingly being talked over.",
        "对欧洲来说，该协议的好处还要更大，因为它能提高欧盟在全球标准制定方面的话语权，而目前欧盟日益被边缘化。"
    ],
    [
        "But labor costs increased much faster in the south, resulting in differential cost increases that cannot be addressed by devaluation as long as the monetary union endures.",
        "但南欧劳动成本增速要快得多，这导致了成本增长速度差异，且这一差异不能被贬值修正，因为它们同处一个货币联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "It can also be seen in the continuing Greek objections to Macedonia’s name and the Bundestag’s insistence on approving the progress of individual applicant states – a demand that has complicated relations with Turkey enormously.",
        "可一窥端倪的例子还包括希腊拒绝马其顿的名字以及德国联邦议会坚持要批准个别申请国家的进展——这一要求极大地复杂化了与土耳其的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "JERUSALEM – “Europe is boring: thank God, for you and for us,” my interlocutor told me.",
        "耶路撒冷—“欧洲好无聊：感谢上帝，为了你，也为了我，”我的对话者对我说。"
    ],
    [
        "The Swedenization of Europe",
        "欧洲的瑞典化"
    ],
    [
        "The final result was never discernible in the polls more than six weeks in advance.",
        "大选六个星期以前进行的民意测验永远不能代表最终的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, developing countries dreamed of a nirvana of sky-high commodity prices and rock-bottom international interest rates.",
        "数十年以来，发展中国家都梦想能置身于一个极高商品价格和极低国际利率并存的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this is the only acceptable identity.",
        "实际上，这是唯一可以接受的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "The net contributors to the EU budget were the ones who stood to lose the most.",
        "欧盟预算的捐助人是那些承受了最多损失的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Central and Eastern European countries had low per capita income, but were rich in skills. Austria, far wealthier, was not.",
        "中欧和东欧国家的人均收入虽低，却蕴藏着丰富的高素质人力资源，而富裕程度远高于此地的奥地利则并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "They want more policy influence the next time the Fund decides to bail out a fellow emerging-market country like Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey.",
        "他们需要在下一次该组织对如阿根廷、巴西、印度尼西亚和土耳其等某一新兴市场国家实施援助时对政策有更大的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "For many observers, populism is unthinkable without a strong, direct bond between an anti-establishment leader and citizens who feel neglected by mainstream political parties.",
        "在许多观察家看来，如果没有反建制领袖和自觉被主流政党所忽视的民众间直接有力的联系，民粹主义根本是无法想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "Investing in these companies, it turns out, is extraordinarily risky.",
        "投资于这些公司风险极大。"
    ],
    [
        "The sectarian differences in legal enforcement did not last.",
        "执法领域的宗派差异并未一直持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Though most emerging economies no longer rely on aid, it remains crucially important for low-income countries.",
        "尽管大部分新兴经济体不再依赖于援助，但对低收入国家来说，援助仍具有关键重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Their peoples had to face half a century of occupation because of a deal struck before the war’s onset by Hitler and Stalin, the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 that divided Eastern Europe between Nazi-Germany and the Soviet Union.",
        "这个交易就是将东欧在纳粹德国和苏联之间瓜分的所谓1939年《莫洛托夫与里宾特洛甫协议》（Molotov-Rippentrop Pact）。"
    ],
    [
        "But as Europe integrates, these decisions will become pervasive.",
        "但随着欧洲的一体化，这些决定会具有普遍效力。"
    ],
    [
        "Especially in the case of Chinese, fears of divided national loyalties and “fifth columns” have been strong.",
        "特别是对华裔而言，一直有着“忠于哪个国家”和“第五纵队”的疑虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump had spent his business life surrounded by family and flunkies: no stockholders or vice chairmen with their own ambitions.",
        "特朗普过往的商界生涯都被家庭成员和朋友所环绕，没怎么和那些野心勃勃的股东或副主席打过交道。"
    ],
    [
        "He is right to do so, because many of today’s crucial challenges – saving the planet from our own excesses; ensuring that technological advances benefit all members of society; and building the new infrastructure that we need nationally and globally for a sustainable future – demand collective solutions.",
        "确保技术进步让所有社会成员受益； 以及建设国家和全球可持续未来所需要的新基础设施——要求集体坚决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "For, make no mistake: Putin has been discredited.",
        "的确没错：普京名誉受损。"
    ],
    [
        "Its economic clout remains formidable, and its commercial and cultural ties to the West are broad and varied.",
        "日本仍然掌握着强大的经济权力，它与西方的商业和文化联系也涵盖广泛，而且复杂多样。"
    ],
    [
        "There could be no clearer indication that China is willing to upgrade its belief systems and mental models in order to achieve high-income status.",
        "这清楚地表明，为提高收入及实现小康社会目标，中国决策层有意识改变及升级其经济、社会、政治发展理念和思维方式 。"
    ],
    [
        "And, looking ahead, we can see that the two biggest players in the FSB and Basel have other preoccupations.",
        "而放眼未来，我们可以看到，FSB和巴塞尔委员会的两个最重要的行动方有其他问题需要分心。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the financial crisis that began in 2008 demonstrated the need for adequate regulation.",
        "比如，2008年开始的金融危机就说明了充分监管的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "You might suspect that such a country is either phenomenally rich or on the fast track to fiscal crisis.",
        "你大概会怀疑这个国家要么富得流油，要么就在急速滑向财政危机的深渊。"
    ],
    [
        "In a nutshell, they tell us that, while increasing energy efficiency is undoubtedly a good thing, it is most assuredly not a remedy for global warming.",
        "简言之，研究成果告诉我们虽然提高能效毫无疑问是件好事，但可以肯定它不是解决全球变暖问题的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "India supplies Africa with computer-education courses, the most reliable water pumps, low-cost rice-milling equipment, and dozens of other technologies.",
        "印度为非洲提供了计算机教育课程、最可靠的水泵、低价的碾米设备还有许多其他的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as Venter and his colleagues acknowledge, if the team began with a different microbe, or grew it in a different environment, the set of necessary genes would be different.",
        "此外，文特尔及其同事承认如果研究团队一开始研究的是另一种微生物，或者换一种培养环境，必须的基因组将会有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The current trend toward rose-colored retrospection is a case in point.",
        "现在流行带着玫瑰色的回忆就是一个很好的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The irony is that the regulators have allowed the creation of this dysfunctional system.",
        "其中的讽刺之处在于，监管者坐视这一怪胎体系的产生。"
    ],
    [
        "I guess they provide more choice, and they are probably cheaper.",
        "我想是因为超市提供了更多选择，而且价格也更便宜。"
    ],
    [
        "SS1 will make addressing SS2 much more difficult.",
        "SS1导致SS2更加难以解决。"
    ],
    [
        "This bellicosity has had the effect of pushing Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, into distancing herself from Obama.",
        "如此好斗的结果是让在民主党候选人提名竞争中领先的希拉里·克林顿与奥巴马撇清界线。"
    ],
    [
        "For many, France has long been the epitome of meritocracy.",
        "在很多人的眼中，法国是精英政治的缩影。"
    ],
    [
        "The wars in Lebanon and Gaza constitute a grave threat to democratic reform in the southern Mediterranean.",
        "在黎巴嫩和加沙进行的战争给南地中海地区的民主改革构成了严重的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2010, former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King famously used the game of Sudoku to depict global savings imbalances, highlighting that the numbers in the table cannot be chosen independently.",
        "2010年，英格兰银行前行长金（Mervyn King）用数独填表游戏来描述全球储蓄失衡，他强调指出，表格中的数字无法独立选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, he seemed genuinely committed to reconciliation between Ukraine’s Russian-speaking east and Ukrainian-speaking west.",
        "此外，他看上去很聪明地致力于乌克兰讲俄罗斯语的东部地区和讲乌克兰语的西部地区之间的和解。"
    ],
    [
        "But what Europe forgets is how those ideologies were overcome.",
        "但欧洲没有记住：我们是怎么战胜这两种意识形态的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no escape from balancing costs and benefits. There is no way we can avoid making difficult choices.",
        "现实情况不允许我们逃避对成本和收益的衡量，除了做出艰难抉择之外别无出路。"
    ],
    [
        "European banks are in a more precarious situation.",
        "欧洲银行的处境就可怜一些。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the chance that other countries such as Egypt or Saudi Arabia would develop or acquire nuclear weapons of their own.ampnbsp; The United States could take steps to reduce these risks, including providing missile defense and security guarantees to selective countries, but it is far from clear that such efforts would succeed.ampnbsp;",
        "其他一些国家，比如埃及或者沙特，也可能因此开发或者获得它们自己的核武器。 美国可以采取措施降低这些风险，包括向有选择的国家提供导弹防御和安全保证，但是这些努力是否能成功目前还不清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of manipulation may not merit a visit to North Korea by Abe or the lifting of sanctions.",
        "这样的操纵可能并不值得安倍访问朝鲜或者取消制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "And in 2012, Mexico enacted a climate-change law that aims to reduce emissions by 30% below their business-as-usual level by 2020, and by 50% by 2050.",
        "而在2012年，墨西哥实施了气候变化法，旨在到2020年降低其基准排放水平30%，到2050年降低50%。"
    ],
    [
        "That question is usually not singled out for attention, but it appears spot-on for what we really want to know: what deep anxieties and fears do people have that might inhibit their willingness to spend for a long time.",
        "这一问题通常乍看上去很不起眼，但却恰到好处地触及了我们实际上想知道的东西：抑制人们长期支出意愿的深层次焦虑和担心是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "That sounds simple, but it is a much higher hurdle than politicians in Europe and the US have set for themselves in recent years.",
        "这听起来很简单，但这比欧洲和美国政客近年来为自己设定的障碍高多了。"
    ],
    [
        "Compared to the number of active military personnel in Syria (125,000), Iraq (271,500), Saudi Arabia (233,500), Turkey (510,600), or Iran (523,000), ISIS is minuscule.",
        "与叙利亚（125,000）、伊拉克（271,500）、沙特阿拉伯（233,500）、土耳其（510,600）和伊朗（523,000）现役军队人数相比，ISIS根本不值一提。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term development may give countries more capacity to soften the impact of climate change on the environment and citizens’ health, but in the meantime the planet’s poorest people will need help from the rich.",
        "长期的发展会增强各国减轻气候变化对环境和公民健康所带来的影响的能力，但是与此同时这个星球上最贫困的人口急切需要富裕人口的帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The US should not be surprised by any of these developments because American involvement in Yemen is not new.",
        "美国应该对事态发展并不感到意外，因为美国也并不是刚刚参与也门事务。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest of us can enjoy life while Obama does the heavy lifting.",
        "当奥巴马担起重负之时，其他人尽可享受生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Protecting Europe in the Age of Trump",
        "在特朗普的时代保护欧洲"
    ],
    [
        "But while they may do little in the short run, they are sure to prove critical over the long term.",
        "但尽管在短期它们也许没什么作用，但在长期，它们必然会成为至关重要的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "PEER will connect college-ready Syrian refugees with refugee-ready colleges, and it will eventually be a web-based higher-education conduit for displaced students at all grade levels worldwide.",
        "紧急状况响应教育平台可以把想上大学的叙利亚难民和愿意接收难民的大学联系在一起，而且终将成为全世界各年龄段流离失所学生接受高等教育的网络渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifth, Trump is questioning US alliances, cozying up to American rivals such as Russia, and antagonizing important global powers such as China.",
        "第五，特朗普质疑盟国，与俄罗斯等对手打得火热，并挑衅中国的重要全球力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the resiliency of markets to geopolitical tensions in Ukraine or the South China Sea has begun to worry some Fed officials.",
        "事实上，市场对乌克兰或南中国海地缘政治紧张局势冲击所表现出来的恢复力已开始令一些美联储官员表示担心。"
    ],
    [
        "For these reasons, I take a more moderate view, predicting that China’s average potential GDP growth will fall to 5-6% by 2030.",
        "出于这些原因，我提出一个较为中庸的观点。 我预测，到2030年，中国平均潜在GDP增长率将下降至5—6%。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, no commitments to new money were made, and the inclusion of adaptation plans will be optional, not compulsory.",
        "但是，并没有新资金承诺达成，适应计划也只是个选项而不是强制性要求。"
    ],
    [
        "But Turkey cannot be indifferent to the tragedy engulfing its southern neighbors.",
        "但土耳其不能眼睁睁看着悲剧吞噬其南方邻国。"
    ],
    [
        "Three Ways Ahead for the Eurozone",
        "欧元区的三个前途"
    ],
    [
        "In April, the IMF projected that Ukraine’s public debt would stand at 91% of GDP at the end of 2017; but the government has already brought its debt down to 81% of GDP.",
        "4月份，国际货币基金组织预计，到2017年底乌克兰的公共债务将相当于GDP的91％。 但政府已将债务降至81％的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Research in these areas sometimes meets with vehement rejection, for example, on religious grounds with respect to stem-cell research, or owing to fear with respect to the possibility of altering human identity.",
        "在这些领域的研究有时会遭遇激烈的反对。 例如在干细胞研究领域遇到的宗教阻力，或由于对改变人类身份的可能性的恐惧而引发的阻力。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Health-Care Divide",
        "美国的医疗分歧"
    ],
    [
        "The founding fathers of Latin America’s republics talked about it two centuries ago. But it never came to pass.",
        "拉丁美洲各国的各位开国元勋两个世纪前就提出过这个想法，但从未兑现。"
    ],
    [
        "The search for happiness should not be confined to the beautiful mountain kingdom of Bhutan.",
        "对幸福的追求不该是美丽的山地王国不丹的专利。"
    ],
    [
        "That is an outcome that the rest of us should welcome, because it would give China a greater stake in a multilateral institution that oversees the operation of the global monetary system.",
        "对于这一结果，其他国家应该欢迎，因为这将增加中国在这一监督全球货币体系运营的多边机构中的分量。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, our current climate policies are poor – and our politicians consistently find ways to make them even poorer.",
        "目前来看，现行气候政策非常差劲——而政客们一直想方设法让政策更糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "KIEL – Now is the time of year when many people most dread stepping onto the bathroom scale.",
        "基尔——现在到了一年里许多人最怕踏上浴室称的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "We also need Africans who love Africa so much that they want to protect their countries – their land – from environmentally destructive processes.",
        "我们还需要如此热爱非洲的非洲人民能够保护他们的国家和他们的耕地不要再继续遭受环境的破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "And, perhaps most important, the country’s labor market remains healthy, creating some 7.2 million new urban jobs – many of them in services – in the first half of 2015.",
        "此外，也许最重要的是，中国劳动力市场仍十分健康，2015年上半年创造了720万城镇新工作岗位——其中许多是服务业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "But that raises another difficulty.",
        "但这又引发了另一个难题。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason that politicians and corporate managers alike hate CDSs is precisely because CDS rates are so useful and so prompt in exposing their mistakes.",
        "政客和公司管理层之所以讨厌CDS的原因主要是因为CDS比率非常敏感有效，而且有助于暴露他们的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Once, during a string of consecutive night shifts, I was so tired that I accidentally pricked myself with a needle while drawing blood from an HIV-positive patient.",
        "有一次，在连续倒班后，我实在筋疲力尽，不慎在为一名艾滋病毒阳性患者抽血时用针头划伤了自己。"
    ],
    [
        "As with the politics pursued in the Obama administration’s 16 months of office – dialogue, international commitment, nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament – the document’s strength lies in the position that it takes.",
        "而这份报告的重点正是奥巴马政府执政16个月以来所追求的政治目标——对话、国际承诺、核不扩散以及裁军。"
    ],
    [
        "Only 23% did not.",
        "只有23%的人持相反态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Morsi urged Iran to join Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia – all Sunni-majority countries – in pressing for political transition in Syria (a role that the Syrian opposition rejected before Iran could even say no).",
        "穆尔西敦促伊朗加入到埃及、土耳其和沙特——均是逊尼派占多数的国家——的行列中，敦促叙利亚实现政治转型（对于这一角色，叙利亚反对派在伊朗说不之前便予以了否定）。"
    ],
    [
        "They may not have been very good democrats, or even particularly tolerant of different views.",
        "他们或许不是合格的民主人士，甚至对不同见解都不懂得宽容。"
    ],
    [
        "Lumping all three together as globalization only causes confusion.",
        "将三者混为一谈的全球化唯一能造成的局面是杂乱无章。"
    ],
    [
        "In the interwar Great Depression, the economist Irving Fisher accurately described the process of debt deflation, in which lenders, worried by the deterioration of their asset quality, called in their loans, pushing borrowers to liquidate assets.",
        "在两次世界大战间的大萧条中，经济学家欧文·费雪（Irving Fisher）准确地描述了债务通缩的过程，在这一过程中，对其资产质量恶化感到担忧的借款人，催收他们的贷款，这迫使借款人清算资产。"
    ],
    [
        "The left-wing party wants to redistribute wealth and incomes more, and the right-wing party less; but both need to restrain themselves, and in appealing to the median voter, they become near-identical alternatives.",
        "左翼党想要多搞点财富和收入再分配，右翼党则想少一点，但双方都必须自我节制，为了吸引中间选民，两党最终变得似异实同。"
    ],
    [
        "The danger is particularly pronounced in cities, where the “urban heat island” effect results in temperatures as much as 12°C higher than in less-developed areas nearby.",
        "这种危险在城市里尤为显著，“城市热岛”效应导致温度比附近欠发达地区高12°C 之多。"
    ],
    [
        "Culture is a necessary pause from the daily rat race, from our chaotic and often vulgar political surroundings, and it is a chance to recover our spiritual energy.",
        "文化是快节奏生活中必须的调节剂，让我们从混乱可鄙的政治环境中暂时得到解脱； 同时也让我们的精神力量得到恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, for 65 years, rapid trade growth has played a vital role in economic development, with average advanced-economy industrial tariffs plummeting from more than 30% to below 5%.",
        "可以肯定的是，过去65年以来，贸易的快速增长在经济发展中扮演了至关重要的作用，使得发达经济体的各行业平均关税从超过30%暴跌到5%以下。"
    ],
    [
        "While the remedy may be to write down debt to revive demand, it is uncertain whether write-downs are politically feasible or the resulting demand sustainable.",
        "解决方法可以是减记债务以重振需求，但减记在政治上是否可行、是否能让需求可持续并不确定。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with a public debt ten times larger than Greece’s, it is also too big to be saved.",
        "但是，其公债水平十倍于希腊，因此也太大而不能救。"
    ],
    [
        "America's system of government, however, recognizes all of this, and attempts to guard against it.",
        "美国的政府系统看到了这一切，并试图采取补救措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat is global in scale.",
        "这是一个全球性威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, any windfall to borrowers has to come from someone else’s wealth.",
        "当然，债务人获益就必有人受损。"
    ],
    [
        "But we are at an inflection point.",
        "但我们正处在拐点上。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast, over the same period, the cumulative increase was 1.6 times for urban residents’ per capita disposable income and 1.2 times for rural peasants’ per capita income.",
        "与此形成对比的是，在同期，城市人均可支配收入的累积增长是1. 6倍，农村人均可支配收入的累积增长是1."
    ],
    [
        "Well, such a mechanism would indeed reduce raters’ negative incentives to compete with one another to please issuers of securities, and to pursue innovations and improvements that enable raters to serve issuers better.",
        "没错，这样一种机制肯定会损害评级机构相互竞争取悦债券发行方的消极意愿、致令其无法通过追求创新和改革更好地为发行方服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Some commentators claim that Clinton has been “pulled to the left” on financial regulation during the campaign.",
        "一些评论者称，选战期间的克林顿已经在金融改革“站在了左派一边”。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters in resolving today’s conflicts, be they active or supposedly “frozen,” is to build a broader framework of cooperation and dialogue between the EU and what I term Greater Eurasia.",
        "解决当今的冲突，不管是活跃的冲突还是貌似“冻结”的冲突，重要的是构建一个欧盟与我所谓的大欧亚之间的更加广泛的合作和对话框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the IMF’s exceptional access facility, Venezuela would potentially be eligible for more than $70 billion of new finance to support its reform program.",
        "国际货币基金组织的特别融资便利规定，委内瑞拉最高有可能获得超过700亿美元的新增融资来支持其改革计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Undermined by a lack of policy flexibility, it will take a long time for countries like Cyprus to overcome the immediate shock of crisis and revamp their growth models.",
        "由于缺乏政策灵活性，像塞浦路斯这样的国家需要很长的时间来克服危机的直接冲击并调整其增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Through public-private partnerships, we can leverage unique strengths and be better equipped to expand access to health care.",
        "通过公私合作，我们可以利用独特优势、更好地扩大医疗卫生服务面。"
    ],
    [
        "These three new leaders will need all of their diplomatic skills to navigate treacherous political waters.",
        "这三位新领导人需要祭出所有外交技能履政治薄冰。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Silk Road is integral to President Xi Jinping's “China dream\" ambitions, which entail restoring China's past glory and status.",
        "事实上，丝绸之路是中国国家主席习近平的“中国之路”野心的一部分。 中国梦就是要重塑中国过去的光荣和地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by turning the challenges into opportunities can social, political, and economic risks be mitigated.",
        "只有转危为机才能化解社会、政治和经济风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The proliferation of “bots” – computer programs that automatically spread disinformation – has blurred these lines further.",
        "“机器人”——自动散播虚假信息的电脑程序——大行其道，让边界变得更加模糊。"
    ],
    [
        "By closing Guantánamo and addressing the underlying policy issues, the US is creating a much stronger foundation for close EU-US cooperation in counter-terrorism and the fight against international crime, one based on the rule of law and human rights.",
        "通过关闭关塔那摩监狱和处理某些基本政策事务，美国正在为美欧双方在反恐以及打击跨国犯罪方面的更紧密合作建立一个建立在人权和法治之上的，更加强大的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Such politically expedient language has a strategic downside.",
        "像这样适应政治需要的语言自有其战略问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to improve the CBD’s chances of success, countries with higher concentrations of unique species need more robust protections.",
        "为提高生物多样性公约成功的可能性，独特物种相对富集的国家需要采取更有力的保护举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Since there is no precedent for a party referendum, he can argue that the vote does not bind him.",
        "由于从未有过党内公决的先例，他可以争辩说自己不受表决结果束缚。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth and FDI inflows are still depressed, but, overall, the region has weathered the crisis in relatively good shape.",
        "增长和FDI流入仍然萎靡，但总体而言中东欧以较好的状态抵御了危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Outside of Europe, the most travel-intensive countries are Canada, Israel, Singapore, and the United States, a reflection of the fact that they need to deploy many brains to make use of their diverse know-how.",
        "在欧洲之外，旅行最密集的国家为加拿大、以色列、新加坡和美国，这反映了一个事实：它们需要部署许多大脑来让它们多样化的知识派上用场。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The Scots have spoken.",
        "剑桥—苏格兰人说话了。"
    ],
    [
        "To Trump and millions of his supporters, “America First” means the end of America’s enlightened global mission.",
        "对特朗普及其成百上千万支持者而言，“美国第一”意味着美国开明全球使命的结束。"
    ],
    [
        "There are some larger regional consequences in all of this.",
        "所有这些事件还会造成更大的地区后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Why is France Burning?",
        "法国为何在燃烧？"
    ],
    [
        "That restructuring of insurance would simultaneously protect individuals, increase labor mobility, and help to control health-care costs.",
        "如此重新构造保险结构将同时实现保护个人、增加劳动力流动性和有助于控制医疗成本的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the two major parties’ national conventions in July, each candidate has alternately made gains and suffered losses.",
        "自7月份两党召开全国大会以来，两位候选人彼此有得有失。"
    ],
    [
        "Remember: we already had another 40% decline in 2000-2003, and are in another one right now.",
        "请记住：在2000-2003年间我们已经有过一次40%的暴跌，而现在股市正处在另一次暴跌的过程中。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor, and his supporters demanded a vote-by-vote recount, which is not mandated – though it is not proscribed – by the country’s electoral laws.",
        "相反，曾经是墨西哥市前市长的洛佩斯及其支持者们要求逐一重新计票。 该国的选举法律并不禁止重新计票，但是并未如此授权。"
    ],
    [
        "With so many lives at stake – and such clear evidence of the threat – Big Oil, like Big Tobacco before it, should be treated for what it is: Big Trouble.",
        "因为威胁到如此多的生命——以及威胁的证据如此明确——石油巨头就像之前的烟草巨头一样，应该被视为巨大的麻烦制造者。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iraqis sense all of this.",
        "伊拉克人明白所有的一切。"
    ],
    [
        "Within a few years, this kind of transparency will probably be commonplace, both from Facebook and from ad networks and behavioral targeters trying to derive information about your likely purchases.",
        "在未来几年内，这种透明度可能会变得稀松平常，无论是来自Facebook或是那些试图找出你购物偏好的广告网络或者行为分析公司。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the proactionary principle is associated with self-styled futurists, for whom being “human” is defined by our capacity to keep ahead of the game when taking calculated risks, whether by benefiting from success or learning from failure.",
        "相比之下主动性原则则与那些以未来主义者自封的人相关，他们认为“人”之所以为人，就是因为拥有在承担适当风险的情况下抢先一步行动的能力，不管最终是从成功中获益还是从失败中吸取教训。"
    ],
    [
        "The manner in which we use military power also affects Rumsfeld’s ratio.",
        "我们使用军事力量的方式也影响到“拉姆斯菲尔德比”。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider a woman’s perspective on conflict.",
        "考虑一个女性对冲突的视角。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Russian state functioned well, Putin could continue to withstand pressure from opposition leaders.",
        "如果俄罗斯国家运转良好，普京能够继续抵抗来自反对派领导人的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The current US system is based on a worldwide principle: the foreign earnings of US companies are subject to US corporate tax, with the amount owed offset by a tax credit for taxes paid in foreign jurisdictions.",
        "当前的美国公司税制度基于全球原则：美国公司的海外利润也必须遵守美国公司税法，所欠税额可以用外国司法官辖区税收减免来冲抵。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing protected areas and corridors for shark migration is also important.",
        "划定鲨鱼迁徙的保护区和走廊也有着非常重要的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Thailand’s crisis might well mark a good early test of their ability to work together, because both countries have strong interests in Thailand’s rapid return to democracy and the credibility needed to act as an honest broker in ending the country’s crisis.",
        "泰国危机或许是很好的共事能力早期测试，因为泰国迅速回归民主十分符合两国的利益，并且两国也拥有作为终结泰国危机的真诚牵线人所必须具备的信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "The surprise here is the continued growth in the EU’s surplus.",
        "令人惊奇之处在于欧盟盈余的持续增长。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the hypocrisy that rankles.",
        "让人愤慨的是伪善。"
    ],
    [
        "And, at a just-concluded ECB conference that I attended, there was even some discussion of when the ECB could scale back its interventions and perhaps begin to raise interest rates. (All the sessions were on the record and live webcast.)",
        "而在刚刚闭幕的欧洲央行会议上，甚至出现了一些针对欧洲央行何时可以开始收回干预措施或提高利率的讨论（会议的所有环节都进行了录音和网络直播）。"
    ],
    [
        "The fathers knew that the temptation of such consecration is a delusion and a trap.",
        "”父辈们知道这种神圣化背后的诱惑是欺骗和陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "Advocates of this so-called “freeze for freeze” approach say that such a tradeoff is only fair: the North cannot be expected to suspend its efforts to strengthen its defensive capabilities if the US and South Korea are pursuing supposedly hostile military cooperation in its near-abroad.",
        "这一所谓的“冻结换冻结”方针的支持者说，如此权衡非常公平：只要美国和韩国在朝鲜周边进行敌对的军事合作，就无法指望朝鲜停止加强其防御能力的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, the best conferences help a community to define and understand itself.",
        "简言之，好的会议能帮助团体了解并找准自己的定位。"
    ],
    [
        "But with the emissions tap still on high, we are rapidly running out of room in the tub.",
        "但因为排放的龙头仍然大开着，浴缸里的空间正在迅速耗光。"
    ],
    [
        "When considering today’s concern about Japan’s high public debt-to-GDP ratio, now at 202% on a gross basis, one needs to reflect that the ratio would most likely be profoundly lower if Japan had in the past financed more of its deficit spending with trills instead of conventional debt, and issued them to investors around the world.",
        "考虑到日本目前高达202%的负债对GDP比率，人们就会回想如果当年选择用万亿票而不是常规借债来支持其赤字政府支出，并向全世界发行这种证券的话，这个比值将大幅降低。"
    ],
    [
        "Interest-rate liberalization is exacerbating the situation.",
        "利率自由化加剧了这一状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Francis has now come down decisively against the mainstream view, saying that Christians “have at times incorrectly interpreted the Scriptures,” and insisting that “we must forcefully reject the notion that our being created in God’s image and given dominion over the earth justifies absolute domination over other creatures.”",
        "如今，方济各平地一声雷，反对主流观点，指出基督徒“有时会误读圣经”，并坚持认为“我们必须强力拒绝这样的概念：我们被创造为上帝的形象并被授予地球主宰权就意味着我们拥有了对其他生物的绝对主宰权。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the US should abolish deductions, such as those designed to encourage corporate debt and oil drilling.",
        "特别是，美国应该取消税收抵扣，比如为了鼓励公司债和石油钻井而实施的抵扣项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Both questions reveal how much we still live in the shadow of the Nuremberg Tribunal, where the Nazi leaders were tried by an international judicial panel.",
        "这两个问题都显示出我们依然活在当年纽伦堡审判的阴影之下。"
    ],
    [
        "Corruption undermines the quality of life for people around the world, not only in poor countries.",
        "腐败危害全世界人民的生活质量，而不仅仅是穷国。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this was perhaps the Greek government’s main achievement during its agonizing five-month standoff with its creditors.",
        "事实上，这也许是希腊政府在与其债权人为期五个月的痛苦的僵局中所取得的主要成就。"
    ],
    [
        "The discussions took place in the Nazarbayev Centre, housed in an imposing and futuristic building designed by the renowned British architect Norman Foster.",
        "讨论在纳扎尔巴耶夫中心举行，这是一座美轮美奂的未来主义建筑，由英国著名建筑师福斯特（Norman Foster）设计。"
    ],
    [
        "No wonder that once the recent market drop hit 20%, many people wondered how much worse it could get – and whether fears of a new recession could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.",
        "毫不奇怪，当最近市场跌幅达到20%时，很多人不知道情况可能有多糟糕——也不知道新衰退恐慌是否会成为自我实现的预言。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1990s and 2000s, for example, the so-called Washington Consensus dominated policymaking in much of the world, with everyone from the United States to a multitude of emerging economies pursuing trade liberalization, privatization, greater use of price mechanisms, financial-sector deregulation, and fiscal and monetary reforms with a heavy supply-side emphasis.",
        "比如，从20世纪90年代到21世纪初，所谓的华盛顿共识主导着世界大部的政策决定，从美国到诸多新兴经济体，所有人都在追求贸易自由化、私有化、扩大价格机制用途、金融业去监管，以及着重强调供给侧的财政和货币改革。"
    ],
    [
        "While the idea of placing the highest priority on the interests of one’s own country is not in itself unreasonable, Trump’s particular discourse echoes the calls issued by isolationist, anti-Semitic groups prior to World War II for the US to appease Hitler.",
        "尽管将本国利益放在首位本身并无不合理之处，但特郎普所持的观点令人回想起二战前孤立主义者和反犹团体呼吁美国安抚希特勒。"
    ],
    [
        "· Make basic medical services and early care and education available to all young children;",
        "· 对所有的孩子提供基本的医疗服务和早期的教育；"
    ],
    [
        "And annual growth during Rousseff’s presidency has probably averaged less than 2% – the slowest for any Brazilian president since the 1980s, when the country began its transition from hyperinflationary basket case and serial defaulter to stable and increasingly prosperous middle-income economy.",
        "罗塞夫总统任期期间的平均年增长率可能还不到2%——是20世纪80年代巴西开始从超级通胀和连续违约的国家向稳定而日益繁荣的中产阶级经济转变以来诸位总统的最差成绩。"
    ],
    [
        "It is extremely doubtful that such a step would bring more security.",
        "即便走向西收缩战线这一步棋，是否会使安全形势得到很大改善，也是极其值得怀疑的一件事。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia under Putin is the poster child for this approach, with the government usually running budget surpluses and accumulating vast foreign-exchange reserves.",
        "普京治下的俄罗斯是这一方针的模范，政府常常能够实现预算盈余，并积累了巨量外汇储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi leaders have also become increasingly suspicious of their American allies, on whom the country’s security depends.",
        "沙特领导人也日益怀疑他们的美国盟友、国家安全的倚靠对象。"
    ],
    [
        "Precisely for this reason, many of the changes in Europe have occurred despite German opposition.",
        "正因为这个原因，欧洲的许多改变都在不顾德国反对的情况下发生了。"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, he fears that the expansion of anonymous monetary exchange erodes social cohesion, and argues for reducing money’s role in society.",
        "更一般地讲，阿担心匿名货币交换的扩张会侵蚀社会凝聚力，并呼吁减弱金钱在社会中的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The third moment came after the Berlin Wall fell, and it was feared that an enlarged Germany might destabilize Europe.",
        "第三个历史时刻出现在柏林墙倒塌之后，人们恐惧扩张的德国可能威胁到欧洲的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "A disintegrating Iraq would draw all its neighbors and other powers in the region into an undeclared war of succession.",
        "一个正在分崩离析的伊拉克会把所有的邻国和中东的其它国家都卷入争夺区域霸权的不宣之战中。"
    ],
    [
        "That can create far-reaching ambiguity, leading to tensions and confusion among officials, scholars, businesspeople, and the public.",
        "这可能导致影响深远的政策模糊，导致官员、学者、企业家和公众的紧张和误解。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting to Yes on Transatlantic Financial Regulation",
        "对跨大西洋金融监管说“是”"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the potential of educated, empowered women to drive sustained economic growth is not limited to South Korea.",
        "当然，受过良好教育、拥有强大实力的女性具有推动持续经济增长的潜力的状况并不是韩国所独有的。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to improve city planning and health-care services, we need a simple and accurate way to assess current and future heat-tolerance levels among urban populations.",
        "为了改善城市规划和医疗卫生服务，我们需要一种简单而准确的方式来对城市人口当前和未来的耐热能力进行评估。"
    ],
    [
        "The voucher system means that all students, irrespective of family income, can attend the school of their choice.",
        "凭证制度意味着所有的学生，不论家庭收入，都能自主择校。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese Mirror",
        "中国魔镜"
    ],
    [
        "This strategy did arrest the free-fall in markets.",
        "这个策略确实阻止了市场的自由下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "The best minds of the time, including the Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, were part of the investigation, and no stone was left unturned in finding the cause.",
        "当时，美国最优秀的人才，包括诺贝尔物理学奖获得者费曼（Richard Feynman），都参加了罗杰斯委员会的调查，在寻找原因的过程中，所有的蛛丝马迹都没有漏过。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is absolutely certain that the Kremlin’s unconstitutional activities – its division of citizens into “ours” and aliens, and its flirtation with hard-core xenophobes – has led to serious social and political destabilization.",
        "但很明显克里姆林宫的这种违反宪法的行为——将本国公民割裂为“我们”和外人，以及政府与极端仇外主义者之间的那种暧昧关系——将严重影响到社会和政治稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was by no means the only obstacle.",
        "但这并不是唯一的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Hamas bides its time.",
        "与此同时，哈马斯却正等待着时机的到来。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally paralyzing is the way that the tragic episodes in the Mediterranean are portrayed: as sudden crises, rather than as part of a long-term trend.",
        "同样棘手的是地中海悲剧的描述方式：它们被说成突发性危机，而不是一种长期趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran is a land of contrasts.",
        "伊朗是矛盾之地。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks in part to lower fertility rates in industrialized countries, this projection has been adjusted downward, to about 8.9 billion.",
        "幸亏工业化国家生育率较低，该预测数据已向下调整至约89亿。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, there are many reasons to worry about investing in such places.",
        "相反对于在这些地方投资的担心却有很多理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, a campaign to ban Israeli products has been gaining strength in the United States and Europe.",
        "与此同时，一项抵制以色列产品的运动已经在美国和欧洲蓬勃兴起。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, an estimated 218-990 million hectares would have to be converted to switchgrass to sequester one billion tons of carbon using BECCS.",
        "事实上，据估计，使用BECCS隔绝十亿吨二氧化碳需要用2. 18-9."
    ],
    [
        "In Great Britain, too, leading Conservatives have recently proved willing to raise taxes and attempted to limit future spending.",
        "在英国，执政的保守党最近也显示出征税和限制未来支出的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, as long as China’s rulers continue to strengthen social safety nets, the decline in saving could match the envisaged decline in investment, keeping the current-account surplus low.",
        "果真如此的话，只要中国执政者继续强化社会安全网，储蓄的下降就能匹配设想中的投资下降，保持较低水平的经常项目盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "Global economic conditions remain precarious, with no signs of healthy GDP growth in the eurozone, a weak recovery in the United States, commodity-exporting countries like Australia suffering from diminishing Chinese demand, and an emerging-market slowdown that is now well into its third year.",
        "全球经济仍然充满着不确定，欧元区GDP增长没有显露出健康信号，美国复苏疲软，大宗商品出口国（如澳大利亚）因为中国需求的放缓而遭受阻力，而新兴市场减速已经快要迎来三周年。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is also true that the northern Turkish part of Cyprus is denied access to free trade and other benefits from EU-membership.",
        "但是，拒绝给予塞浦路斯北部的土耳其部分欧盟成员的自由贸易待遇以及其他利益也是事实。"
    ],
    [
        "By now, the global repercussions are clear, falling most acutely on developing economies with large current-account deficits – namely, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, and South Africa.",
        "如今该政策对全球造成的影响变得显而易见，其中对拥有巨额经常账户赤字的发展中经济体影响尤为剧烈——也就是印度，印尼，巴西，土耳其以及南非。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the EU must strengthen its defenses to protect itself from its external enemies, who are liable to take advantage of its current weakness.",
        "第三，欧盟必须 加强防务抵御外敌——这些敌人可能利用欧盟当前的弱势。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the major shortcomings of the global trading system in recent decades has been the absence of an effective constraint on countries that intervene heavily in order to keep their currencies undervalued.",
        "近几十年来，全球贸易体系的一个重要缺陷是缺少有效手段约束各国大幅干预以维持货币低估。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Hardly a day goes by without another article, conference, or research initiative devoted to the future of work.",
        "华盛顿—几乎每一天，我们都会遇到以工作的未来为主题的文章、会议和研究项目。"
    ],
    [
        "No topic requires this more than climate change.",
        "这方面要求最迫切的莫过于气候变化政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the worldviews that de Gaulle and Churchill established for their countries turned out to be a little too influential.",
        "事实上，戴高乐和丘吉尔确立本国世界观的最终影响都有些过大。"
    ],
    [
        "If a central bank has two policy targets, then it needs two instruments: monetary policy to influence aggregate demand, and regulatory policy to limit financial risks.",
        "如果中央银行有两个政策目标，那么就需要两种工具：货币政策影响总需求； 监管政策限制金融风险。"
    ],
    [
        "In this scenario, once again China continues to attempt to maintain full employment by keeping the renminbi undervalued.",
        "在这种情况下，中国继续试图通过维持人民币估值偏低的状态来保持全民就业。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk of secession is very real.",
        "分裂的风险是实实在在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, they should give Turkey a fair deal in the negotiations.",
        "第二，他们必须在谈判中公平对待土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The British artist Damien Hirst once referred to the 2001 attack on New York’s World Trade Center as “kind of an artwork in its own right.",
        "纽约—英国艺术家达米恩·赫斯特（Damien Hirst）曾把2001年对纽约世贸中心的袭击称为“一种独立艺术。"
    ],
    [
        "Written in a cramped, dank, and putrid cell, where hope was meant to die before the body, Bonhoeffer crafted a book rich in faith, openness, possibility, and, yes, hope – even in humanity’s darkest hour.",
        "在一个希望很可能比肉体更早死亡的，狭窄，阴冷而腐臭的囚室中，朋霍费尔写出了一本充满了信念，开放性思维，可能性，当然还有希望的著作——即便是在那个人类历史上最黑暗的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Francis will visit Brazil in July to attend World Youth Day.",
        "方济各将于7月访问巴西，出席世界青年日。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama inherited a terrible legacy – recession, financial meltdown, Iraq, Afghanistan. He has not solved all of these problems.",
        "奥巴马继承的是一笔非常糟糕的遗产 —— 经济衰退，财政崩溃，伊拉克，还有阿富汗。"
    ],
    [
        "The result will probably be the same: at the end of the campaign, Hamas will have increased its popularity in Palestine and in the Arab world.",
        "其结果可能会与过去相同：战争结束时，哈马斯在巴勒斯坦和阿拉伯世界的威望将大增。"
    ],
    [
        "While such progress should be applauded, there is a long way to go.",
        "虽然这样的进步值得赞赏，但还有很长的路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "“Frankly,” he said, “we need a lot less of the passive tolerance of recent years and a much more active, muscular liberalism.”",
        "“坦率地讲”，他说，“我们需要减少近年来的被动忍耐，构建更为积极有力的自由主义。"
    ],
    [
        "No new agreements or other diplomatic breakthroughs are likely to be announced during Park’s visit.",
        "朴访华期间不太可能有新协议或其他外交突破。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires enhanced social safety nets and redistributive tax-and-transfer programs, as well as access to quality education for all.",
        "这需要加强社会安全网和再分配税收和转移支付计划，以及普及全民品质教育。"
    ],
    [
        "The more profound reason is that current automation prospects herald a future in which machines can plausibly replace humans in many spheres of work where it was thought that only we could do the job.",
        "更深层次的原因是当前的自动化前景预示着，对许多此前被认为专属于人类的工作岗位，未来也极有可能被机器取代。"
    ],
    [
        "Avoiding coercion, premature elections, and hypocritical rhetoric should not preclude a patient policy that relies on economic assistance, behind-the-scenes diplomacy, and multilateral approaches to aid the development of civil society, the rule of law, and well-managed elections.",
        "避免高压政治、不成熟的选举和虚伪的高调也并不是要排除一种富有耐心的政策—它所依赖的是经济援助、幕后外交、协助公民社会发展的多边策略、法制和管理良好的选举。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is high levels of public and private investment.",
        "首先是高水平的公共和私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fact remains that it is mostly impossible to tell whether a currency is overvalued or undervalued.",
        "但一个事实仍然存在：决定一种货币高估还是低估是很困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, there have been a handful of indirect interventions, failed coups, and whispered threats elsewhere.",
        "另外在其他国家还发生过几次间接干涉、政变失败和暗中威胁事件。"
    ],
    [
        "China can solve its domestic problems, such as separatism, by itself.",
        "中国可以自己解决其国内问题，例如分裂主义。"
    ],
    [
        "And China’s external financing activities do not end there.",
        "但中国的对外金融举措并不会止步于此。"
    ],
    [
        "The restructuring process started on May 3, when the Board filed a petition in federal court.",
        "监管委员会5月3日向联邦法院提交申请标志着重组过程的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, nanodegrees and stackable credentials are likely to gain in importance.",
        "相反，纳米学位和可拓展证书可能越来越重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure will be a constant danger and the military risk will be high.",
        "一旦失败就会危险四伏，充满军事风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Another caveat is that technological change may worsen the income distribution if the jobs that are destroyed are those filled by unskilled workers.",
        "还有一点需要注意，那就是如果被消灭的是非技术性工作，技术变革可能恶化收入分配状况。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, world leaders repeated a soothing mantra.",
        "普林斯顿——全球金融危机发生后，各国领导人不断重复着宽慰民众的口头禅。"
    ],
    [
        "Ignoring it is a recipe for continued violence and fragmentation.",
        "忽略这一点只能带来持续暴力和分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "It is on this question that the entire development-aid complex is based.",
        "整个发展援助复杂体系的基础都是集中在这个问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps it is a matter of simple political self-preservation: in the US, maybe more than elsewhere, changing one’s mind is derided as flip-flopping, and considered a worse option than sticking to a failed policy.",
        "这也许单纯是为了政治自保：在美国——在其他国家可能没那么严重——改变主意会被讥讽为墙头草，甚至被视为比坚持一项失败政策更糟糕的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The high rents paid to noble landlords increase their wealth and power by giving them the resources to keep the peasants down and widen the surplus – for, after all, they cannot make more land.",
        "支付给贵族地主的高昂租金提升了他们的财富和权力，从而使他们有了压迫农民和扩大盈利的资源，因为，不管怎样，他们无法使土地的面积获得增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, America’s acceptance of Islamist parties in the region, from Ennahda in Tunisia to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, suggests that skepticism of Islamist groups may be losing ground.",
        "事实上，美国接受该地区的伊斯兰政党——从突尼斯复兴运动到埃及穆斯林兄弟会——这一事实表明对伊斯兰组织的怀疑正在消退。"
    ],
    [
        "To take one prominent example, there is a 25% margin of error on purchasing-power-parity comparisons between GDP in the United States and China.",
        "举一个著名的例子，美国和中国的GDP购买力平价对比之间存在着25%的误差幅度。"
    ],
    [
        "More dramatically, people in Austria, France, Japan, and Germany appear to be no happier than people in much poorer countries, like Brazil, Colombia, and the Philippines.",
        "更加戏剧性的是，奥地利、法国、日本和德国的人民似乎并不比那些要贫穷得多的国家，比如巴西、哥伦比亚和菲律宾的人更幸福。"
    ],
    [
        "And it may be that Europe – because of its relative prosperity – is less in a mood for the biblical seven lean years than was a much poorer Latin America in the 1980’s.",
        "更何况，欧洲相对富裕，未必会如20世纪80年代的拉美那样，陷入像《圣经》说的“七个荒年”。"
    ],
    [
        "Obsession with doom-and-gloom scenarios distracts us from the real global threats.",
        "沉迷于阴暗情景让我们无法关注真正的全球威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "This model seems fair enough: if people can exploit such natural endowments as their beauty or scientific genius, then why not their tissue?",
        "这种模式似乎 足够公平： 如果人们可以利用美貌或科学才华这样的自然禀赋获得收益，为什么人体组织就不可以？"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas’s crushing defeat of Fatah in this week’s elections brings the Palestinian people to a crossroads.",
        "在本周举行的选举中，哈马斯一举挫败法塔赫，从而将巴勒斯坦人民带到了一个十字路口。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Israel is not alone in responding irrationally to terrorist provocations.",
        "可以肯定，不止是以色列在面对恐怖分子的挑衅时失去了理智。"
    ],
    [
        "It was damned close. In a united effort, a major crisis that would have openly divided the Union for years to come and which would have made Europe a global laughingstock was averted.",
        "在欧盟各国共同努力下，欧盟避免了一场有可能在未来几年中公开分裂欧盟并让其成为全球笑柄的重大危机。"
    ],
    [
        "After a bank’s shareholders are wiped out and its creditors take an 8% “haircut,” the European Fund transforms itself into a bailout fund, justifying some of Germany’s fears.",
        "在银行股东血本无归、债权人遭遇8%的“剃头”后，欧洲基金本身将转变为援助基金，这在某种程度上证实了德国人的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem in the advanced countries is not a jobless recovery, but an anemic recovery – or worse, the possibility of a double-dip recession.",
        "发达国家当前的问题并不是一场缺乏就业的复苏，而是一场贫血的复苏——或者再更悲观地说：一种二次衰退的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Lower house prices throughout Europe are thus likely to be accompanied by weaker consumption demand, as in the US.",
        "整个欧洲房地产价格下降因此就有可能伴随着消费需求软弱，就像美国一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Out of 263 shared river basins, only a quarter benefit from properly functioning collaborative organizations.",
        "在共享河流流域的263个国家中，仅有1/4受益于正常的机构协作。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the US recovery remains weak.",
        "首先，美国复苏仍然疲软。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the wholesale price index – the best measure of tradable-goods prices in China – has been falling by about 1.5% annually, which suggests that the renminbi may even be slightly overvalued.",
        "事实上，批批发价格指数——衡量中国可贸易商品价格的最佳指标——一直在以么年约1. 5%的幅度下降，这表明人民币甚至有可能略微高估了。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the contrasting experiences of Coke and Pepsi.",
        "试回想一下可口可乐与百事可乐这个两个截然相反的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, significant differences of domestic opinion in the imposing country often undermine sanctions as well.",
        "事实上，实施国国内观点的巨大差异也常常破坏制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the fear is that plunging equity prices mean that China’s economy is going down the tubes.",
        "相反，他们担心的是股价暴跌意味着中国的经济已经进入下行通道。"
    ],
    [
        "Mercantilist policies of protection and subsidy have been effective instruments of an economically active state.",
        "保护和补贴的重商主义政策一直是经济活跃国家的有效工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Most funds have targeted existing infrastructure – investments that are considered relatively safe, because they entail little or no construction risk and have demonstrated their potential to generate stable cash revenues.",
        "大部分资金的目标是已有基础设施——这类投资被认为相对安全，因为无需或只需承担极小的建设风险并且已经证明了产生稳定现金收入的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, by 2007, global corn and soybean prices were nearly 6% and 10% lower, respectively, than they would have been had farmers not embraced these crops.",
        "3亿吨和8300万吨。 结果，到2007年时，全球玉米和大豆价格分别较农民使用转基因作物之前降低了近6%和10%。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the market shares of Chinese exports seem to have held up quite well, this is attributable to price-cutting in foreign markets, which is not sustainable.",
        "尽管中国出口商品的市场份额似乎保持得不错，但其原因——在外国市场的降价行动——并没有可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Though our political institutions need a thorough overhaul, I am proud to say that, despite Rajapaksa’s best efforts to corrupt and hollow them out, our victory was made possible because the election commission and court workers adhered to the law.",
        "虽然政治体制需要改革，但我依然可以自豪地说尽管拉贾帕克萨尽一切努力腐蚀及掏空政治制度，但选举委员会和法院人员依法办事仍使我们的获胜成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "The evidence is plain: The country is putting more money toward green sources of electric power than toward those reliant on fossil fuels.",
        "证据非常简单：相比化石能源发电中国正将更多资金投入到绿色发电领域。"
    ],
    [
        "But America’s ability to address them has changed.",
        "但美国安内的能力已经发生了变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Five or six years hence, the world economy faces the danger that it faced two years ago, although the fear this time is not of a sudden crash in the dollar’s value, but of a sudden crash in the value of the dollar and the euro against Asian currencies.",
        "未来的五六年，世界经济将面临两年前的那种危险，虽然这一次不是担心美元价值的突然崩溃，而是担心美元和欧元相对于亚洲货币的突然大幅贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "But typically the government acquires no stake in the commercialization of such successful technologies, leaving the profits entirely to private investors.",
        "但通常政府不会在这些成功技术的商业化过程中分一杯羹，利润全部流入了私人发明家的腰包。"
    ],
    [
        "To consolidate (the budget), or not to consolidate, that is the question.",
        "整合（预算）还是不整合，这是个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Shaking Up “Shaken Baby Syndrome”",
        "撼动“抖动婴儿综合征”"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s government has delivered more than $8 billion in aid; by contrast, the EU has delivered only a small share of the €3.2 billion ($3.6 billion) it pledged last November.",
        "土耳其政府提供了80亿多美元援助； 相反，欧盟在去年11月承诺给出的32亿欧元援助只兑现了一小半。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on available evidence, it seems fair to conclude the following about the TPP: It would result in a very small increase in total GDP; it would increase at least some measures of inequality; and it would increase the number of jobs at risk, without providing a commensurate safeguard against currency manipulation.",
        "根据可获得的证据，关于TPP的一个相当合理的推论是：它将带来极小的总GDP增加； 它将至少带来一些不平等性指标的增加；"
    ],
    [
        "A measure of South Korea’s success is that it was the first country to make the transition from being a recipient of OECD aid to becoming a donor, with per capita GDP today exceeding $30,000 (in purchasing power parity terms).",
        "韩国的成功体现在它是第一个从经济合作与发展组织（OECD，简称经合组织）受援国转变为捐赠国的国家，而且目前其人均GDP已经超过3万美元（按购买力平价计算）。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest data hint at such a possibility, with the tertiary sector (services) expanding at an 8.3% annual rate in the first quarter of this year – the third consecutive quarter of acceleration and a half-percentage point faster than the 7.8% first-quarter gain recorded by the secondary sector (manufacturing and construction).",
        "最新的数据暗示了这种可能性，第三产业（即服务业）在今年第一季度以8. 3%的速度扩张——这是其连续第三个季度的加速并比第二产业第一季度（制造业和建筑业）7."
    ],
    [
        "Yet they have not simplified the debate on the costs and benefits of Brexit.",
        "但它们并没有简化英国退出的成本-收益争论。"
    ],
    [
        "We concede that there is no magic wand to overcome our country’s problems.",
        "我们认为，没有什么魔法能够克服我们国家的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider, for example, the European Commission’s so-called “services directive.”",
        "举个例子，我们可以研究一下欧盟委员会所谓的“服务指令”。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to talk more about the quality of growth.",
        "我们必须更多地就增长的内在质量问题进行探讨。"
    ],
    [
        "One major challenge to the boot-strap approach is developing cheap and durable batteries.",
        "自给自足方案的难点在于研发出经济耐用的电池。"
    ],
    [
        "Texas prison guards regularly rely on excessive force, the judge concluded, officials ignore sexual enslavement, and the state's isolation units function as \"virtual incubators of psychoses.\"",
        "该法官总结说德克萨斯的狱警经常依赖于过渡的暴力，官员对性奴役置若罔闻，且该州的隔离单位功能（isolation units function）成为\"心理变态的有效孵化器\"。"
    ],
    [
        "The CRA instructs federal financial supervisory agencies to encourage the institutions that they regulate to help the communities in which they are chartered to meet their credit needs, while also conforming to “safe and sound” standards.",
        "作为CRA要求联邦金融监督机构鼓励其所监管的机构帮助所在社区满足信用需求，同时需满足“安全稳固”标准。"
    ],
    [
        "In the similar circumstances of a financial meltdown in 1931, there were also only a limited number of governments that could be effective. The old economic superpower, Britain, was too exhausted and strained to help anyone else. World’s reserves were massively accumulated in the US.",
        "在1931年类似的金融崩盘中，当时也只有几个国家政府可以采取有效行动。 老的经济超级大国英国已经精疲力竭，无瑕顾及他人。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Abdullah, who believes himself to be the paramount leader of the Muslim world, is the first Saudi king to initiate a meeting with a leader of the Christian faith.",
        "实际上，阿卜杜拉国王相信他自己是穆斯林世界的最高领导人，是第一位提议会见基督教领导人的沙特国王。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while some observers are calling for Germany to “end wage restraint” and thereby encourage higher household spending, this has actually happened already.",
        "此外，尽管一些观察者呼吁德国“结束工资管制”从而鼓励家庭增加支出，但事实上这已经开始发生了。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that he has won the election, there is little reason for him to choose populism over safety.",
        "既然他已经赢得选举，没有理由会选择民粹主义比安全更重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it wise to blame the Shia – who are, in many ways, the victims – for the onslaught of Sunni radicalism.",
        "指责什叶派对逊尼派激进化负责也不明智——从很多方面看，什叶派是受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Preparations for the referendum are lagging and inadequate.",
        "独立公投工作准备不足而且严重滞后。"
    ],
    [
        "Another six months have been lost.",
        "于是，又一个半年浪费了。"
    ],
    [
        "Science is far from perfect.",
        "科学绝非完美。"
    ],
    [
        "Opposition to Morsi hardened following the annulled November 2012 constitutional declaration, by which he had sought sweeping powers – allegedly to protect the country’s infant elected institutions against a politicized judiciary.",
        "3%则包括穆巴拉克政权及其支持者在内的强大力量。 2012年11月为夺取绝对权力废除宪法宣言激化了政府与反对派的矛盾，穆尔西这么做据说是为了保护埃及新生的脆弱机构不受政治化司法体制的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But we must not give up.",
        "但我们决不能放弃。"
    ],
    [
        "In many poor countries, except those like India and South Korea, which have now developed superb educational institutions, the brightest citizens receive their education abroad.",
        "在许多贫穷国家（印度和韩国除外，它们已经发展起了优秀的教育制度），最聪明的公民往往都是在国外接受的教育。"
    ],
    [
        "The narrow aim should be to nip terrorism in the bud, and the broader aim should be to open a dialogue with the Muslim community.",
        "近的目标应该是消灭恐怖主义于萌芽状态，而更远大的目标应该是与穆斯林社区进行对话。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamic tradition of protecting the welfare of the poor can provide the language and legitimacy needed to inspire citizens to do their part.",
        "保护穷人福利的伊斯兰教传统能够提供启发公民做出自己贡献所需要的叙事和合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Tackling AMR With the IMF",
        "和国际货币基金组织一起解决抗生素耐药性"
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries, by contrast, possess a “latecomer advantage,” because they can achieve technological advances through imitation, importation, integration, and licensing.",
        "相反，发展中国家拥有“后发优势”，因为它们可以通过模仿、进口、综合和许可实现技术进步。"
    ],
    [
        "As helium is a by-product of its much larger energy counterpart, it is fair to say that helium that is not used will not be preserved.",
        "氦是其高能配对物质的副产品，可以说，未被使用的氦是不可保留的。"
    ],
    [
        "It occupies a pivotal position on our continent, bordering Egypt to the north and Kenya to the south, as well as seven other countries.",
        "它占据着我们这块大陆的关键位置，北部紧邻埃及，南部紧邻肯尼亚，与之接壤的还有其他 7 个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is that she is the only fresh face among those Socialists vying for the party nomination.",
        "一个原因是她是那些竞争党内提名的社会党人中唯一的新面孔。"
    ],
    [
        "India has never seemed likely to succumb to a similar tendency, but the irresponsible custodians of Indian democracy should not tempt fate.",
        "印度从未有蹈这一覆辙的趋势，但不负责任的印度看护人也不能拿国运冒险。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be a shame if the Report were not widely read and, more important, studied, because it contains some useful insights into how diplomacy operates, how policy is made, and how decisions are taken.",
        "但如果该报告不被广泛阅读——以及更重要的，不被广泛研究——将是一件巨大的憾事，因为它包含了一些关于外交如何操作、政策如何制定、决策如何做出的有用洞见。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s protectionist instincts and hostility to globalization do not bode well for the world as a whole.",
        "特朗普的保护主义本能和对全球化的敌视对世界各国而言都不是好兆头。"
    ],
    [
        "What is important is that both Trump and Berlusconi are ruthless and willing to resort to any means to achieve their (self-serving) ends.",
        "重要的是特朗普和贝卢斯科尼同样冷酷无情，愿意采取任何手段来实现自己（自私自利）的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "This is one of the main reasons why so many people are unable to take advantage of the many opportunities available in Africa.",
        "这是为什么有如此多的人无法抓住非洲所存在的许多机会的主要原因之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, online consultations would be possible, sparing women the need to travel to clinics.",
        "此外，在线咨询也将成为可能，从而让这些妇女不必长途奔波前往诊所。"
    ],
    [
        "So we need to reduce by roughly ten-fold the cost of cutting emissions.",
        "所以我们需要将减少排放的成本降低到原成本的十分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s simply too difficult to master.",
        "它太难掌握。"
    ],
    [
        "For the 189 countries for which data are available, median inflation for 2015 is running just below 2%, slightly lower than in 2014 and, in most cases, below the International Monetary Fund’s projections in its April World Economic Outlook.",
        "从有数据的189个国家看，2015年中位通胀水平正好不到2%，略低于2014年，也低于国际货币基金组织（IMF）在其4月的《世界经济展望》（World Economic Outlook）中的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1962, Gurdon’s finding that almost any cell in the body contains the complete DNA code enabled him to create a tadpole by cloning an adult frog.",
        "1962年，戈登发现几乎所有肌体细胞都包含全套DNA编码，这一发现让他能够通过克隆成年青蛙制造出一条蝌蚪。"
    ],
    [
        "We stand ready to support governments that act.",
        "我们已经做好准备支持政府行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the government’s days of putting out protests like brush fires may be ending.",
        "但政府像扑灭山林火险那样压制民众抗议的日子已经一去不复返了。"
    ],
    [
        "But now, as the realization sinks in that Chinese stock prices will not keep rising indefinitely, the CCP is taking desperate, if clumsy, measures to control the correction.",
        "但如今，人们开始认识到中国股价不会永远上涨，而中共也开始了病急乱投医式的控制回调的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – The United States has moved from the high of a presidential election to the low of a political sex scandal in one short week.",
        "普林斯顿—短短一周，美国便从美国大选的高峰来到了政治性丑闻的低估。"
    ],
    [
        "To contact friends or colleagues overseas, you had to write them a letter and wait at least two weeks for a reply.",
        "为了联系海外的朋友和同事，你必须给他们写信，然后至少等待两周时间才能收到回信。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, that choice must be made anew.",
        "今天，历史的选择必须被重新修正。"
    ],
    [
        "The multi-speed global economy will be dominated by four groups of countries.",
        "多速的全球经济将由四组国家主导。"
    ],
    [
        "The theory, in Europe and elsewhere, was that states could not be impartial owners of industrial assets.",
        "欧洲和其他地区的理念是国家不可能成为工业资产的无私持有者。"
    ],
    [
        "The Democratic Party insurgency, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, opposed Hillary Clinton for much the same reason their right-wing counterparts did: with her well-paid speeches at Goldman Sachs, she was viewed as a representative of the Wall Street-linked globalized elite.",
        "以参议员伯尔尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）为首的民主党叛逆者以和右翼分子同样的理由反对希拉里·克林顿（Hillary Clinton）：她在高盛的演讲让她赚得盆满钵满，因此她是与华尔街勾结在一起的全球化精英的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "No more!”",
        "这事情不能再继续下去了！ ”"
    ],
    [
        "Vemula was a Dalit – a member of what was once known as the “untouchables,” at the bottom of the Hindu caste system.",
        "维穆拉是一位“达利特”（Dalit），即曾经的“贱民”，属于印度教种姓制度的最底层。"
    ],
    [
        "While Saudi Arabia remains the largest Arab economy, the world’s leading producer and exporter of oil, and the guardian of Sunni Islam, its political influence has diminished significantly in recent years.",
        "沙特阿拉伯仍是最大的阿拉伯经济体、世界领先的石油生产国和出口国、逊尼派伊斯兰教的捍卫者，但其政治影响力在近年来大幅衰落了。"
    ],
    [
        "To succeed, Western leaders must reframe their approach to the Syrian endgame, rejecting the assumptions that have shaped their policies since the beginning of the crisis.",
        "要想取得成功，西方领导人必须放弃自危机伊始就一直左右其政策的假设重新思考收拾叙利亚残局的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "At another remarkable conference a quarter-century ago, the leaders of revenue management in the airline industry explained their field to people involved with hotels, sports clubs, and other time-based businesses.",
        "四分之一世纪前举办的另一次成功会议上，航空业收入管理负责人向酒店、体育俱乐部、以及其他季节性企业解释自己的业务。"
    ],
    [
        "There is compelling recent research to support this view.",
        "令人信服的最新研究支持这一立场。"
    ],
    [
        "MOSCOW – “If the mountain will not come to Muhammad,” so the saying goes, “then Muhammad must go to the mountain.”",
        "发自莫斯科——有句俗话说“如果山不到默罕默德这边来，默罕默德就到山那边去。"
    ],
    [
        "Paradoxically, however, Erdoğan’s task, while more modest than in 2010, is also more difficult, owing to the prospect of new sanctions on Iran, including a ban on oil exports, that are to enter into force in July.",
        "然而，奇怪的是，埃尔多安的任务虽然比2010年更温和了，但同时也更困难了，因为伊朗可能会面临新的制裁措施，包括七月份生效的石油出口禁令。"
    ],
    [
        "A forthcoming book by University of San Francisco Professor Shalendra Sharma corroborates this view.",
        "旧金山大学教授莎兰德拉·沙玛（Shalendra Sharma）即将出版的著作也证实了这一观点。"
    ],
    [
        "But if devolution is good for Scotland, then why not for Wales and Northern Ireland?",
        "但如果分权对苏格兰是有利的，那么对威尔士和北爱尔兰又何尝不是如此呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In 1999, the difference between the euro-zone countries with the lowest and highest inflation rate was two percentage points.",
        "欧元区国家通货膨胀率高低两级的差值已从 1999 年的 2 个百分点达到老 2009 年底的 5."
    ],
    [
        "Instead of employing the weapons of war, it is using the tools of globalization – in particular, trade and investment linkages – to help shape the region’s development.",
        "它不再动用战争武器，而是动用全球化工具——特别是贸易和投资联系——帮助影响该地区的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "But Americans invested generously in the survival of democratic ideas and leaders.",
        "但是，美国人慷慨地投资于民主思想及其领导人的生存。"
    ],
    [
        "Privately, US diplomats express frustration at their helplessness in the face of theatrical grandstanding by the ambitious federal prosecutor, Preet Bharara, an Indian-American who has launched a series of high-profile cases against Indians in America.",
        "私下里，美国外交官员纷纷对面对雄心勃勃的联邦检察官巴拉拉（Preet Bharara）的这一哗众取宠之举无能为力而表示遗憾。 巴拉拉是印裔美国人，他曾经发动过多起针对在美印度人的大案。"
    ],
    [
        "It was widely reported that Asian countries concluded from Obama’s absence that they should cultivate ties with China instead.",
        "大量报道称，亚洲国家从奥巴马的缺席中得出结论：它们应该转而培养与中国的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting challenges – a host of new and unexpected competitors, volatility stemming from faraway places, and the disappearance of local jobs – are already overwhelming workers and companies.",
        "由此带来的挑战——一系列意想不到的新增对手、来自远方的波动性及本地就业机会的消失——已经让工人和企业措手不及。"
    ],
    [
        "But nothing in his policies or the broader Republican program will address the underlying issue of technological change.",
        "但其政策或更广泛的共和党计划中并没有任何内容去应对技术变革的根本问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is remarkable in the case of socialist Marina Silva, who is calling for new trade pacts beyond Mercosur and for making the Central Bank of Brazil independent.",
        "但社会主义者席尔瓦（Marina Silva）这么做相当令人瞩目。 她提出了签署超越南方共同市场（Mercosur）的新贸易契约、让巴西中央银行独立等口号。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporations are attempting to achieve by stealth – through secretly negotiated trade agreements – what they could not attain in an open political process.",
        "公司试图通过公开政治流程无法提供的地下途径实现这一点——如秘密贸易协定谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Unending Berlusconi Problem",
        "欧洲未完的贝卢斯科尼问题"
    ],
    [
        "“Special and differential treatment” is the technical term used in trade negotiations to indicate that the balance must be tilted toward developing countries, with the extent of this treatment to be decided by the parties to the talks.",
        "“特殊和差别待遇”是贸易谈判中的术语，用于表示平衡必须偏向发展中国家，至于偏向到什么程度，由谈判各方决定。"
    ],
    [
        "When Abe failed to bow to its demands, ISIL released a second video claiming that Yukawa, who was seized last August in Syria while reportedly preparing to establish a Japan-based private security company, had been beheaded.",
        "安倍没有向伊斯兰国的要求屈服，而伊斯兰国的随后又放出了第二份视频，称汤川已被斩首。 汤川于去年8月被伊斯兰国抓住，据报道，当时他在叙利亚准备成立一个设在日本的私人保安公司。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to migration, we are all in the same boat – and that boat is leaking.",
        "关于移民，我们都坐在同一条船上，而这条船是漏水的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, such policies have kept California’s per capita energy demand constant for the last three decades – even as such demand grew by 50% in the rest of the United States – without compromising growth.",
        "事实上，在过去30年美国其他地区人均能源需求增加50%的情况下，诸如此类的政策在不影响经济增长的前提下并未增加加利福尼亚的人均能源需求。"
    ],
    [
        "And only central banks, with their ability to create freely their own liabilities, can play this role.",
        "而只有央行，以及它们自由创造自身负债的能力，能够但起这个责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Why not?",
        "为什么不呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The Brexit campaign is tapping into the same primordial sentiments as Donald Trump is in the US.",
        "英国退出阵营的初始情绪和美国的唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）一样。"
    ],
    [
        "But in any event, it was too late to protest: the ten Eastern states had already been granted membership of the Union.",
        "但无论如何，抗议已经为时太晚：10个东欧国家已经取得了欧盟成员的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "This, then, is the nub of the problem.",
        "那么，这就是问题的根结。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, our rhetoric about our role as America’s international partners for peace should not stray too far from reality.",
        "其二，关于我们担当美国国际和平盟友角色的言论不能过度偏离现实。"
    ],
    [
        "If a taste for classical music is to be subsidized, some more targeted subsidies should be preferred to cheap prices.",
        "如果欣赏古典音乐需要补贴，那么更多具有针对性的补贴就比低票价更有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, before announcing its decision, the Court felt it necessary to state that while it did not conclude that the Convention had been violated, statistics still revealed “worrying figures, and the situation in general in the Czech Republic regarding Roma children’s education needs to be improved.”",
        "确实，在决定宣布以前，法院认为有必要指出，虽然未断定人权公约被违反，但数据仍然显示出“令人担忧的数字，并且捷克共和国罗姆孩子教育问题的总体情况堪待改进”。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s New Reforms in Theory and Practice",
        "中国新改革：理论与实践"
    ],
    [
        "While Xi’s efforts to cleanse the rot inside the Chinese party-state should be applauded, it is no less important to recognize their limits.",
        "尽管习近平在党国内部着手净化腐败的努力值得赞赏，但认识到其局限性同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet China’s economy would barely register the effect of new sanctions: North Korea’s annual GDP, at a meager $28 billion, constitutes little more than a rounding error for its giant neighbor.",
        "反过来中国经济几乎不会受到新制裁的影响：朝鲜的年度GDP仅为280亿美元，不过相当于其庞大邻国经济总量的一个零头。"
    ],
    [
        "But our dramatic progress in detecting and treating cancer has also led to growing awareness of the problem of tumor dormancy: a patient appears to be cured, only to have the same cancer return years or even decades later.",
        "但我们在检测和治疗癌症方面所取得的重大进展也引起了对肿瘤休眠问题的更多重视：病人往往似乎被治愈了，但却在数年甚至数十年之后复发。"
    ],
    [
        "Other tourism, too, can expand to take fuller advantage of cultural and sports attractions.",
        "其他的旅游业也能通过更好地利用文化和体育运动的魅力来发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Committing Germany to that objective is precisely what Merkel has defined as her political goal for the rest of her term in office.",
        "让德国担起这一重任正是默克尔所定义的她在剩余任期的政治目标。"
    ],
    [
        "An intriguing question is how far the financial sector will embrace the sharing economy.",
        "还有一个有趣的问题则是金融业将在何种程度上拥抱共享经济。"
    ],
    [
        "We can all agree that these sums are staggering.",
        "我们都同意，数字令人咋舌。"
    ],
    [
        "But nationalism is, of course, not inevitably violent: it flares into conflict only in places with a flammable legacy.",
        "但是，民族主义当然不是不可避免地充满暴力的。 它只有在有暴力传统的地方才会形成暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Persuaded?",
        "被我说服了？"
    ],
    [
        "After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, stock prices fell less than 3%, and recovered the next day.",
        "肯尼迪总统遇刺后，股票下跌了不到3%，第二天就全部收回了跌幅。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Economy’s Surprising Resilience",
        "全球经济恢复力令人惊喜"
    ],
    [
        "Spearheaded by this minority, the scientific revolution swept through Europe and, later, spread to the rest of the world.",
        "在这一小撮人的带领下，科学革命横扫欧洲，并在随后传向全世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, tension looms in the Israeli-American relationship, and calls for one state with equal rights for all will begin to drown out older ideological visions, as settlement activity forecloses the prospect of two states.",
        "否则，以美关系将变得紧张，而随着定居点活动破坏两国方案的前景，建立一个平权国家的呼声会逐渐湮没从前的思想愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "She did this because, in Mrs. Watanabe’s day, marriage was the final workplace.",
        "她之所以如此，是因为在渡边夫人的年代，婚姻就是最终工作场所。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, governments should be ready to let banks fail.",
        "简言之，政府应该做好银行倒闭的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "This requires strong regulation, with a sensible rulebook for financial markets and institutions.",
        "而实现这一点需要强有力的管制，并制定一个针对金融市场和机构运作的合理规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, there is reason to believe that Putin may have overplayed his hand.",
        "事实上，有理由认为普京的做法已经过犹不及。"
    ],
    [
        "Only an omnipotent Leviathan can ensure order and security.",
        "只有无所不能的庞然大物才能保障安全和秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "In no country does it feel generally right to respond to rising economic inequality by imposing heavy taxes on the rich and transferring the money to others.",
        "没有一个国家认为用对富人课以重税并将税金转移支付给其他人来作为不平等性加剧的应对之道是大体正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US cannot reach a trade agreement or settle anti-trust cases without the approval of the EU.",
        "没有欧盟的同意，美国无法达成贸易协议或者和解托拉斯案件。"
    ],
    [
        "First and foremost for Turkey, there is the ongoing peace process with its own Kurdish population.",
        "对土耳其最重要的是进行中的其与本国库尔德人的和平进程。"
    ],
    [
        "The overall level of household indebtedness stood at 113% of disposable personal income in mid-2012 – down 21 percentage points from its pre-crisis peak of 134% in 2007, but still well above the 1970-1999 norm of around 75%.",
        "2012年年中，家庭负债总水平是可支配收入的113%，较2007年危机前的峰值水平134%下降了21个百分点，但仍远高于1970—1999年间的正常水平75%。"
    ],
    [
        "But studies suggest that much of this money goes into speculative activity, risking asset bubbles, rather than being channeled into productive investment.",
        "但研究表明这笔资金大量流入了投机活动，有可能引起资产泡沫，而没有被引入生产性投资。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is one thing they will never do.",
        "而这是他们绝不会做的事。"
    ],
    [
        "It aims to achieve its supposedly restrained goal of limiting revenue losses to $1.5 trillion over ten years by allowing households’ tax cuts to expire before the decade is over, while corporations enjoy their cuts indefinitely.",
        "其旨在实现所谓的有限目标：通过在这个十年结束前取消家庭减税项，同时让公司永远享有它们的减税项，来将未来十年的税收收入损失限制在1. 5万亿美元以内。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries like China became enmeshed in a web of multilateral organizations and subjugated to conditional engagement strategies.",
        "中国这样的国家陷入了多边机构编织的大网，屈服于有条件的参与战略。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s press was abuzz over Chu and Locke, the first ethnic Chinese men to become US Cabinet Secretaries.",
        "由于他们是首次担任美国内阁部长的华裔人士，中国媒体都在热炒此二人。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also a war of conflicting images, in which both parties claim a monopoly on justice and martyrdom.",
        "这也是一场形象之战，双方都宣称独占正义和苦难。"
    ],
    [
        "They consistently guessed low, increasing their forecasts only slightly every year, without ever catching up to reality.",
        "他们的猜测总是低估，并且每年只是略微向上调整预测，从来没能跟上现实进度。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a real danger that a two-tier Europe will become permanent.",
        "二元化欧洲永久化的危险是切实存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – The curtains are up on another act of the Greek debt drama.",
        "发自布鲁塞尔——新的一出希腊债务闹剧已经正式拉开帷幕。"
    ],
    [
        "We should expect this and adapt accordingly by providing training for the jobs of tomorrow, as well as safety nets for those who fall behind.",
        "对此我们应当保持清醒的认识，并通过为明天的岗位提供培训和为落伍民众建立安全网来适应明天的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "It took him two days to condemn the racist groups that wreaked havoc in Charlottesville.",
        "两天后，他才谴责了引起夏洛特斯维尔浩劫的种族主义组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than obsessing about elections, the US now seeks to build pragmatic alliances to buttress its economic needs.",
        "美国现在不是总想着选举，而是开始寻求建立实用的联盟来支持自身的经济需求。"
    ],
    [
        "It has also given symbols of totalitarianism, like Ivan the Terrible and Stalin, new legions of support.",
        "它还为恐怖的伊凡和斯大林等极权主义象征人物吸引了新的支持群体。"
    ],
    [
        "At Byron Bay, Australia’s easternmost point, I was paddling out to where the waves were breaking.",
        "当时我在澳大利亚最东端的拜伦湾，正划向海涛汹涌的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Here one encounters less collective hope and less individual fear.",
        "为什么会有如此对立的结果呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But don’t just sit back and hope that others will do enough to make an impact.",
        "但不要选择袖手旁观，期待他人去完成一切。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is and will be part of the solution, if we can agree that more solidarity is the next step in our shared journey.",
        "欧洲是、也将继续是方案的一部分，如果我们能够就我们的共同方向的下一步是更加团结这一观点形成一致的话。"
    ],
    [
        "But the memoirs of these rebellious vanguards of yesteryear highlight only their youthful passion and pure idealism, or their sufferings and those of their parents.",
        "但是这些过去的造反先锋只记得他们年轻时的激情和纯真的理想，或者他们和他们父辈遭受的苦难。"
    ],
    [
        "The election of Donald Trump as US President, however, threatens this entire system.",
        "但唐纳德·特朗普当选美国总统威胁到了整套制度。"
    ],
    [
        "That danger remains with us.",
        "这种危险性现在依然存在着。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK has pledged 0.7% of its gross national income, but is debating who will receive it.",
        "英国承诺拿出国民生总收入（GNI）的0. 7%，但在援助谁的问题上争论不休。"
    ],
    [
        "And that, in turn, has important consequences: as Jack Fisher, a professor of surgery at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, observed, “Keep crying ‘wolf,’ and WHO can expect lower than customary compliance with flu vaccine advisories next fall.”",
        "而这反过来造成的后果又非常严重：正如圣迭戈加州大学医学院的外科教授杰克·费舍尔所说的那样，“不停地喊‘狼来了’，人们对世卫组织明年秋天流感疫苗公告的重视程度就会降低。"
    ],
    [
        "In foreign policy, as in medicine, it is important to remember the Hippocratic Oath: first, do no harm.",
        "外交政策应该像医学那样记住希波克拉底誓言：莫伤人。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, this uncomfortable uncertainty will not last much longer – in Europe or elsewhere.",
        "幸运的是，这一令人不快的不确定性不会维持太久——不管在欧洲还是在别的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, if you are sad for two weeks and have one other related symptom, such as fatigue, insomnia, or lessened appetite, and you are distressed or impaired at work or in other roles, then you have “subsyndromal depression.”",
        "比如你这两个星期都很伤心并伴有其他相关症状，比如疲惫，失眠或是食欲不振，在工作中提不起精神或者不合群，那你就是“亚抑郁症”患者。"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of thinking helped the Nazis destroy German democracy in the 1930’s.",
        "这种思维帮助纳粹在1930年代摧毁了德国的民主制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Anecdotal evidence of publication bias has existed for a long time.",
        "传说中发表偏倚的证据已经不只存在一天两天了。"
    ],
    [
        "Another initiative worth watching is the Hong Kong stock exchange’s exploratory project to offer a trading platform for emissions derivatives, which will most likely include conventional pollutants as well as carbon.",
        "另一个值得关注的倡议是香港证券交易所为排放衍生物提供交易平台的探索性项目，该项目很可能将传统排放物以及碳都包括在内。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq was not just a war of choice; it was an ill-advised and poorly executed policy.",
        "伊拉克不仅仅是一个战争选择； 它是一项谋划失败、执行不力的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The value-added contained in British goods exports to the EU accounts for only about 5% of GDP – several times less than for, say, Germany.",
        "英国对欧盟出口品所包含的增加值仅占GDP的5%左右——比德国低好几倍。"
    ],
    [
        "It is weakening the West’s leading power and strengthening the West’s enemies.",
        "它正削弱着西方的领导力、强化着西方的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "But various studies have shown that the price elasticity of demand for UK exports is low.",
        "但多项研究表明，英国出口需求的价格弹性较低。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, it is profoundly difficult to develop policies that enjoy support at every excruciating phase of their implementation.",
        "因此，制定在所有痛苦的实施阶段都能受到支持的政策是非常困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "Sisi is confronting the need to cut subsidies better than might have been expected.",
        "西西所面临的的削减补贴需要比预想中好一些。"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s defense spending has increased by more than 50% in the last decade, and some $60 billion has been earmarked for new weapons, especially naval hardware, over the next five years.",
        "该地区国防开支在过去十年中增长了50%以上，未来五年已预留约600亿美元采购新式武器，特别是海军武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain, the erstwhile champion of labor mobility, has now become wary of foreign workers and wants to limit their access to social benefits.",
        "曾经的劳动力可移动性先锋英国如今对待外国工人的态度十分谨慎，希望限制外来工人获得社会福利。"
    ],
    [
        "Most people do not pay for what they consume; they rely on others to judge what they should consume, and prices do not influence these judgments as they do with conventional commodities.",
        "大多数人并不支付他们所消费的东西； 他们以来别人来判断消费什么，而其价格并不像是影响常规商品那样影响他们的判断。"
    ],
    [
        "This is worth remembering in view of the movement’s efforts to dress up its current opposition to Erdoğan in the garb of democracy and pluralism.",
        "别忘了，葛兰运动试图用民主和多元主义的外衣掩盖其最近对埃尔多安的反对。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, a market economy could not work if every contract had to be enforced through legal action.",
        "从更广的角度讲，市场经济只有在所有契约都必须通过合法手段来执行的情况下才能运转。"
    ],
    [
        "His lifelong quest was to revise the pacifist Japanese constitution, written by the Americans just after the war, and turn Japan into a proud military power once more.",
        "他毕生追求修改美国人在战后起草的日本和平宪法，再次把日本建成骄傲的军事强国。"
    ],
    [
        "First, China needs capital controls to retain monetary-policy independence until it is ready to adopt a floating exchange-rate regime.",
        "首先，中国需要在开始采用浮动汇率制度前实施资本控制,从而保持货币政策的独立性。"
    ],
    [
        "The savings produced by these programs should be viewed in the context of the $90 billion per year that cities spend to build treatment plants, pipes, and other components of water infrastructure.",
        "应当以城市兴建污水处理厂、铺设管道及其他供水设施的年投资额900亿美元为背景来看待项目带来的节约。"
    ],
    [
        "State and municipal governments can implement policies more efficiently when they are free to source local ideas and enter into local partnerships with non-governmental actors.",
        "而在自由征求本地民众意见并与非政府行为方构建地方伙伴关系的情况下，各州和市政府将能更有效地实施政策。"
    ],
    [
        "FDI in the country will continue to garner substantial returns, partly owing to local-government hospitality.",
        "某种程度上在当地政府的优待下，外国直接投资将继续获得丰厚的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank, reflecting a strong inflation concern, has responded more slowly.",
        "而正在强烈关注通货膨胀的欧洲中央银行则回应得更加慢一些。"
    ],
    [
        "So they are insisting on subsidiarization.",
        "因此它们坚持要求子公司化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, though the last EU leadership summit of 2014 brought the courageous decision to “stay the course” on Russian sanctions, it produced little movement on aid to Ukraine.",
        "事实上，尽管上一次2014年欧盟领导人峰会做出了“坚持”对俄罗斯实施制裁的勇敢决定，但并没有采取行动援助乌克兰。"
    ],
    [
        "There has been real suffering, particularly among the 330,000 people who were relocated after the accident.",
        "的确有一些痛苦不堪的事情，特别是那些事故发生后3百30万被迁移的人们。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe cannot give an openly negative answer to Kerry's request for help, because that would be a slap in the face to the most pro-European American likely to be elected president anytime soon.",
        "欧洲无法公开拒绝凯利的援助请求，因为这无异于在可能很快当选美国总统的凯利脸上重重地抽上一记耳光，更何况凯利在总统候选人里与欧洲的关系最为亲密。"
    ],
    [
        "A few objectives can be excluded from the start.",
        "某些目标可以在一开始就可以排除。"
    ],
    [
        "In Rwanda, when the GBD study revealed that indoor air pollution from cooking with solid fuel was a leading cause of death, the government launched a program to distribute one million clean stoves to the most vulnerable households.",
        "在卢旺达，GBD研究揭示，用固体燃料烹饪造成室内空气污染是主要致死原因，政府据此制定了一个计划，为最脆弱家庭提供了一百万只清洁炉灶。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2014, the builders of the Betzig-Hell microscope were awarded a Nobel Prize for overcoming an obstacle that had previously been considered insurmountable, bringing optical microscopy into the nanodimension.",
        "2014年，贝齐格-赫尔（Betzig-Hell）显微镜被授予诺贝尔奖，因为它克服了曾经被认为不可逾越的障碍，让光学显微范围挺进到纳米级。"
    ],
    [
        "But the level that computers have reached already is scary enough.",
        "但电脑现有的水准已经足以令人毛骨悚然。"
    ],
    [
        "Global Action for Global Recovery",
        "为了全球复苏，需要全球行动"
    ],
    [
        "British voters chose to leave the EU, but they did not specify how; so May has no electoral mandate for her swing toward illiberalism.",
        "英国选民选择离开欧盟，但他们没有具体说明要如何脱离； 因此梅并没有获得选举授权去倒向反自由主义。"
    ],
    [
        "What drove this progress?",
        "是什么推动了这一进步？"
    ],
    [
        "For that, the entire system needs an overhaul.",
        "为此，整个系统需要“彻底检修”。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, environmental protection projects often fail to be included in calculating production costs.",
        "结果，在计算生产成本的时候，环保项目经常不能被列入。"
    ],
    [
        "In the years 1917 to 1919, US participation in World War I and anarchist bombings after the war led to almost two thousand federal prosecutions, mass roundups of aliens, and summary deportations.",
        "1917年到1919年之间，美国参加第一次世界大战以及战后无政府主义者炸弹攻击后，导致将近两千起联邦起诉、大规模搜捕外国人以及迅速遣返。"
    ],
    [
        "The impact simply varies according to the economy’s debt position.",
        "只不过影响因为经济体的债务状况的不同而不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last 15 years, in particular, increasingly powerful digital technologies enabled the automation and disintermediation of “routine” white- and blue-collar jobs.",
        "特别是过去15年来，日益强大的数字技术带来了“常规”白领和蓝领岗位的自动化和脱媒。"
    ],
    [
        "It took PayPal two NASDAQ listings and almost two decades operating in the world’s largest economy to reach 188 million active customers and $282 billion in annual payments.",
        "PayPal两次在纳斯达克上市、几乎在世界最大经济体经营了二十年，才积累了1. 88亿活跃客户和2820亿美元的年支付额。"
    ],
    [
        "It also provided impetus to the establishment of the International Criminal Court, while encouraging prosecutors in many countries to charge senior officials and guerrilla leaders for war crimes and bring them to trial in national courts.",
        "它还为国际刑事法庭的成立造了势，同时鼓励了许多国家以战争罪起诉高级官员和游击队领袖，把他们带到国民法庭的审判席上。"
    ],
    [
        "How can it be minimized?",
        "如何将它最小化？"
    ],
    [
        "No doubt, this case will attract the Russian and international press.",
        "勿庸置疑，案件的审理将吸引俄国和国外记者的目光。"
    ],
    [
        "This resulted in deep hatreds among Koreans themselves.",
        "这导致朝鲜民众之间刻骨的仇恨和分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "The common man, rooted in the real world, supposedly knows better: uncompromising toughness, the hard line, is the only way to get results.",
        "扎根于现实世界的普通人理应更为清楚，那就是，毫不妥协的强硬路线是取得结果的唯一途径。"
    ],
    [
        "Without cooperation from allies such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines, the US could not retain its forward military positions in the West Pacific.",
        "没有日本、韩国、新加坡、菲律宾等盟国的合作，美国就无法在西太平洋保持其先进的军事地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while the socialist left survived by uniting around the CHP, the conservative parties that largely dominated Turkish politics for a quarter-century fell apart.",
        "确实，社会党通过联合在共和人民党周围而得以保全，在过去二十五年中统领土耳其政治的保守派政党土崩瓦解。"
    ],
    [
        "According to international standards (such as ASTM D6954), the use of OBP would demand proof of degradation and biodegradation, and confirmation that there are no heavy metals or eco-toxicity.",
        "根据国际标准（如ASTM D6954），使用OBP需要降解和生物降解证明，并确认不含重金属或生态毒物。"
    ],
    [
        "The newly established Israeli government refuses even to pay lip service to the internationally accepted requirements for peace.",
        "新建立的以色列政府甚至懒得对国际承认的和平条件阳奉阴违。"
    ],
    [
        "Not everyone on the foreign-policy frontline cares, but those who do often face deeply uncomfortable choices.",
        "并非所有外交界人士都在乎这一点，但在乎这一点的，通常要面临令人极度不安的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they were protecting their idea of Russia’s imperial mission, a notion that had given the Kremlin commissars greater control of the vast Russian empire, and of Russia’s neighbors, than any of the Tsars had ever enjoyed.",
        "相反，他们保护的是自己头脑中的俄罗斯帝国主义思想，这种思想给予了克里姆林宫当权者对广袤俄罗斯帝国和俄罗斯邻国极大的控制权，权力之大让任何一位沙皇都自愧不如。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the costs of building and maintaining highway and transit systems have increased significantly, and rising fuel efficiency has reduced gasoline tax revenues per mile driven.",
        "与此同时，建设和维护高速公路和运输体系的成本有了极大的增长，而能源效率的提高也降低了每英里汽油税收入。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Turkey’s leaders are now willing to pursue active diplomacy in the Middle East in an effort to minimize problems with neighboring countries.",
        "其结果是土耳其的领袖们现在愿意追求积极的中东政策从而将该国与邻国之间的问题最小化。"
    ],
    [
        "The malignant effects of today’s identity politics should not be allowed to tear Spanish society apart in the way that ideological politics did 80 years ago.",
        "我们不能允许今天身份政治的恶性影响像80年前的意识形态政治那样撕裂西班牙社会。"
    ],
    [
        "This indicates that there is global momentum for concrete action to address the causes of climate change, as well as its effects, such as the disastrous floods, water shortages, and droughts already afflicting many countries.",
        "这表明世界有采取务实行动解决气候变化根源及其影响——如已经影响到许多国家的洪灾、水短缺、干旱——的动力。"
    ],
    [
        "We must seize the opportunity to ensure that our worst nightmare never becomes our waking reality.",
        "我们必须抓住机会，保证最可怕的梦魇永远不会成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "We will also seek to finalize the unification of the PIS/Cofins taxes, Brazil’s overly complicated – and much-criticized – federal taxes levied on businesses’ invoicing.",
        "我们还将寻求完成PIS/Cofins税（巴西过度复杂、为人所诟病的联邦企业发票税）的合并。"
    ],
    [
        "In North Korea, of course, arbitrary rule – no matter how bizarre and inept – is always the norm.",
        "当然，在朝鲜，独裁统治——不管多么奇怪和拙劣——永远是常规。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps GDP does not really capture the improvements in living standards that computer-age innovation is engendering.",
        "也许GDP并不真正能够体现电脑时代的创新所带来的生活水平的提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Given massive global demand for infrastructure finance – which, according to ADB estimates, will amount to $8 trillion in Asia alone over the next decade – the AIIB should not be considered a threat to the World Bank, the ADB, or other multilateral lenders.",
        "根据亚开行的估算，全球基础设施融资需求旺盛，光是未来十年的亚洲就需要8万亿美元。 因此亚投行不应该被视为世界银行、亚开行和其他多边贷款机构的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "To help things along, someone should file a lawsuit – not too many! – against ISPs who tolerate misbehavior. The targets should be ISPs that willfully serve criminal customers, refusing to deal with complaints to the point that ignorance is no longer a legitimate excuse.",
        "进一步来说，当ISP容忍一些非法网络行为的时候，应该有人对他们提出法律诉讼。 现在这样的诉讼不是太多，而是还不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting the Populist Revolt in Its Place",
        "正确对待民粹主义反动"
    ],
    [
        "Libyans say the Council’s chairman, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, favors dissidents who spent time in Qaddafi’s prisons over those with the training and skills needed to rebuild the country. If the NTC does not address these concerns, it is difficult to see how it will manage the complex challenges ahead.",
        "利比亚人认为委员会主席穆斯塔法•阿卜杜勒-贾利勒不喜欢任用对国家重建有用的专业人才，却偏爱那些蹲过卡扎菲大牢的前政治犯。 而如果过渡委员会连这些质疑都无法平息的话，可能也难以应对将来所遇到的种种复杂问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynes did say – and it was a very important insight – that a capitalist economy resembles a beauty contest, with judges voting not for the most beautiful contestant, but for the contestant whom they believe their colleagues will find most beautiful.",
        "凯恩斯的确说过资本主义经济就像一场选美比赛，评委们选出的不是最漂亮的选手，而是他们心目中同事认为最漂亮的。 这一观点非常重要。"
    ],
    [
        "So the schizophrenic American economy is a sign that the world is entering an economic era of truly wonderful things - if only we properly, and patiently, grasp them.",
        "因此美国经济的矛盾式发展昭示着世界已进入了一个有着非凡机遇的经济时代-前提是我们要彻底而耐心地抓住它们。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in large parts of Asia, a similar shift has occurred in just one generation.",
        "不过，在亚洲大多数地区，仅仅用了一代人时间就出现了类似的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "So connected are these Africans that their forms can be reviewed - as they fill them in - by an American supervisor 8,000 miles away.",
        "电子通信技术使远在8000英里外的美国监督员能够实时地督导他们的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) offer free or low-cost, high-quality higher-education classes to hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet, making it easier to learn whatever – and wherever – they want.",
        "比如，MOOC（Massive Open Online Course，大众在线公开课）面向互联网上的几十万人提供免费或低成本的高质量高等教育课程，只要你愿意，你可以很轻松地学到任何东西。"
    ],
    [
        "We have too little information about many of these attacks to know one way or the other.",
        "有关这些攻击我们所知甚少。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, Trump has defied expectations; few expected him even to win the Republican primary.",
        "特朗普已经一再出人意料； 认为他能赢得共和党初选的人都少之又少。"
    ],
    [
        "Some foundations said that information on their work’s effectiveness was confidential.",
        "某些基金会说有关它们有效性的信息属于机密。"
    ],
    [
        "But most British politicians have come to accept the outcome of the “Brexit” referendum, and that the will of the voters must now be carried out in a manner that best upholds Britain’s national interests.",
        "不过英国政界大部分人都已经坦然接受了脱欧公投的结果，当务之急就是以最能维护英国国家利益的方式来实现选民这这一意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "But countries like South Korea that are feeling the pressure of China’s rise – as demonstrated by the current furor over China’s unilateral expansion of its air defense zone – may well reciprocate such an effort.",
        "但韩国等国家正在感受中国崛起的压力——中国单方面扩大其放空区所引起的愤怒即是明证——它们将会有热烈的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "There may be many reasons for this, but Gordon describes one possibility: The underlying pace of innovation has slowed, leading to lower expected returns on investment and thus forcing down interest rates.",
        "对于这一点，可能的原因有很多，但戈登描述了其中一种可能：作为基础的创新速度放慢了，这导致投资预期回报降低，从而拉低了利率。"
    ],
    [
        "All attended Kota’s “coaching institutes,” whose sole purpose is to prepare high-school students for the IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).",
        "她们都参加了科塔“补习班”，这些补习班的唯一目的是帮助高中生准备IIT入学联考。"
    ],
    [
        "But the popular resentment of Islam goes deeper and wider.",
        "但是大众对于伊斯兰的憎恨更为深远。"
    ],
    [
        "For the Palestinians, the bottom line in the Sharon plan and the Bush letter is that diplomacy and negotiations no longer have a role: Israeli unilateralism, combined with American prejudgment, makes that clear.",
        "对巴勒斯坦人来说，沙龙计划和布什信件的底线是剥夺外交努力和谈判的一席之地。 以色列的单边政策和美国的主观臆断使这一点变得分外清晰。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1848 uprisings around Europe were substantially a protest against voting laws that limited voting to only a minority of men: property holders or aristocrats.",
        "此后的1848年欧洲大暴动是对只有少数男性（地主和贵族）才能参与的选举法的示威。"
    ],
    [
        "By then, not even Germany’s economy will be significant in global terms, to say nothing of the other European economies.",
        "届时，即使德国在全球经济中的地位都已经无足轻重，更不用说其他欧洲经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "To endanger this passage is to endanger the world economy’s energy lifeline.",
        "对也门这个通道造成危害就是危害世界经济的能源生命线。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union may be the sole exception to this axiom, though its current crisis tends to prove the point.",
        "欧盟或许是之前唯一的例外，但它目前经历的危机似乎证明了这条法则。"
    ],
    [
        "Federalists in the European Parliament, and in Brussels generally, should not feel threatened.",
        "欧洲议会以及布鲁塞尔的联邦主义者不应感到被威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, has promise, but has yet to catch on.",
        "马里兰州前州长马丁·奥马利前途远大，但还亟需提高人气。"
    ],
    [
        "But today’s Europeans have no domestic currency – just the euro.",
        "但是今天的欧洲没有本国货币，只有欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Don’t expect Obama to confront the most controversial aspect of US relations with Africa: the American military’s new African command.",
        "不要期望奥巴马能直面美非关系争议最大的领域：美国军队在非洲新权威的建立。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, conditions in Iraq, while significantly better than five years ago, are more likely to deteriorate than improve.",
        "简而言之，伊拉克国内的情况虽然比5年前有显著改善，而如今却更可能走向恶化而非变好。"
    ],
    [
        "US government funding of research into hydraulic fracturing – the technology now driving the surge in America’s oil and gas production – dates back to the 1970s.",
        "美国政府对液压致裂法研究的资金支持可以追溯到20世纪70年代。 如今，液压致裂技术正在推动美国油气产量大幅增长。"
    ],
    [
        "http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/, +1 202-456-1111",
        "白宫对外联络网址：http://www. whitehouse."
    ],
    [
        "In such cases, war, as the Egyptians showed in 1973, might still serve as an avenue to resolving a conflict.",
        "在这种情况下，战争，正如埃及人在1973年所展示的那样，仍可能成为解决冲突的一种途径。"
    ],
    [
        "Suspending a player from the sport – as happens in soccer in the case of dangerous fouls – is a real punishment, not only for the individual but also for the team.",
        "把选手罚出场——比如足球比赛中的危险犯规情形——是实实在在的惩罚，不仅惩罚个体，也惩罚了团队。"
    ],
    [
        "Spearheaded by worries about AIDS, activists around the world demanded that something be done.",
        "由于对艾滋病的忧虑已成为当务之急，全世界的活动家们都要求对这一问题采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "It can abandon the commanding heights model and develop its version of “state capitalism” to support the best of both worlds.",
        "它可以摒弃“制高点”模式并发展自身的“国家资本主义”来发挥两个世界经济模式的优点。"
    ],
    [
        "We must also think ahead – especially in regard to low-income countries in Africa.",
        "同时我们还必须做到未雨绸缪，尤其是对于非洲的低收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Does that make them responsible for the wrongs done to the people whose land Trapiche is using to produce that sugar?",
        "它们应该为土地被Trapiche用来生产这些糖的人的悲惨遭遇负责吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The Salafis are defined in part by their strict theological orthodoxy.",
        "沙拉菲部分可以用其严格的正统意识形态来定义。"
    ],
    [
        "In years of low rainfall, Morocco’s river-basin authorities give the lowest priority to crop irrigation, the largest consumer of the country’s water.",
        "在降雨量不足的年份，摩洛哥的河流流域管理部门并未将重点放在其国内居首的耗水大户农作物灌溉上。"
    ],
    [
        "The positive public opinion in Sweden is not a symptom of brainwashing, but a rational response to people’s experience during the last decade.",
        "瑞典公众对全球积极的观点，不是被洗脑的结果，而是对他们过去十年经历的一种理性回应。"
    ],
    [
        "The Saint Malo Declaration signaled that the EU’s leading military powers were prepared to develop their own defense policy, though one not fully autonomous of NATO.",
        "《圣马洛宣言》显示出欧盟各大军事强国正准备独立发展其防卫政策，即便该政策还未能完全脱离北约而存在。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, soon after Yanukovych decided to flee to Russia, Putin’s “little green men” began to appear openly in Crimea, while Russian Buk anti-aircraft missiles and Russian battalion battle groups appeared in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region not long after.",
        "因此，亚努科维奇决定逃往俄罗斯后，普京的“小绿人”马上开始在克里米亚公开露面，而俄罗斯Buk防空导弹和俄罗斯营级战斗编队不久后也出现在乌克兰东部的顿巴斯地区。"
    ],
    [
        "What, in his view, are the boundaries for US engagement?",
        "在他看来，美国介入的边界在哪里？"
    ],
    [
        "In his first budget in June 2010, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne warned that “you can see in Greece an example of a country that didn’t face up to its problems, and that’s a fate I am determined to avoid.”",
        "2010年6月，在其第一份预算中，财政大臣乔治·奥斯本（George Osborne）警告说，“希腊是一国不直面其问题的例子，我决心避免这一覆辙。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "They do not admit that they or their predecessors are the ones who burned the ships.",
        "他们不承认他们或他们的前任烧掉了船。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Syria is currently the world’s greatest humanitarian catastrophe and most dangerous geopolitical hotspot.",
        "纽约—叙利亚目前是全世界最大的人道主义灾难和最危险的地缘政治热点。"
    ],
    [
        "But only a few have reached scale, and achieved long-term sustainability; the majority of projects have not made it past the pilot phase.",
        "但只有少数创新形成了规模并实现了长期可持续性； 大部分项目尚未渡过实验阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, women must be allowed to decide, free of coercion or violence, about their sexuality and health; if, when, and whom to marry; and whether and when to become a parent.",
        "简言之，必须让妇女在不受压迫和暴力威胁的情况下决定她们的性和健康； 决定是否、何时和与谁结婚；"
    ],
    [
        "Hong Kong’s first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, was widely viewed as a wise choice.",
        "香港首任行政长官董建华被广泛视为明智之选。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet Hirohito still managed to sidestep the question of his own responsibility in a war that was so obviously fought in his name.",
        "但裕仁仍成功地回避了他在战中的责任问题——而很显然，这场战争是以他的名义发动的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, top North Korean leaders tended to calculate carefully the costs and benefits when they acted to put pressure on the outside world.",
        "过去，北朝鲜最高领导人在对外界施加压力时，更倾向于小心计算这样做的代价和收获。"
    ],
    [
        "But while mortality rates from infectious diseases are declining, developed countries’ sedentary lifestyles, tobacco use, and poor diets are catching on in the developing world, and noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer are increasing at an alarming rate.",
        "但是，尽管传染病致死率在下降，发达国家的久坐习惯、吸烟和不健康饮食正在发展中国家蔓延，而糖尿病、心血管疾病和癌症等非传染性疾病（NCD）的增长速度令人警觉。"
    ],
    [
        "In economics, RCTs have been all the rage, especially in the field of international development, despite critiques by the Nobel laureate Angus Deaton, Lant Pritchett, and Dani Rodrik, who have attacked the inflated claims of RCT’s proponents.",
        "在经济学中，RCT可谓无处不在，特别是在国际发展领域，尽管诺贝尔奖获得者安格斯·迪顿（Angus Deaton）、兰特·普莱切特（Lant Pritchett）和丹尼·罗德里克（Dani Rodrik）等人批评RCT支持者夸大其词。"
    ],
    [
        "As in sports, so in economic life: government commitment can start a virtuous circle of success, while government neglect can trigger a vicious circle of decline.",
        "体育如此，经济亦然：政府承诺可以开启良性循环，而政府的忽视可能触发衰落的恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "There will be 400 delegates, but the bulk of them nominated by the president and his party, and the government-controlled National Assembly will vet their proposals.",
        "与会代表将达到400人，但绝大部分由总统及其政党提名，再由政府控制的国民议会最终审查通过。"
    ],
    [
        "To date, more than 8,500 infections and 3,500 deaths have been reported just in Sierra Leone.",
        "到目前为止，光是塞拉利昂便报告了8,500多例感染和3,500例死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "They can take on more risk – running a more highly leveraged business with less shareholder capital.",
        "它们可以承担更多风险——以更少的股东资本撬动更高负债率的业务。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the Great Depression did not end simply because of the massive stimulus of war-related expenditures.",
        "毕竟，大萧条时代的结束并不是仅仅因为战争导致的大量支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it would be not only possible, but in some cases compulsory, for the European authorities to take direct decisions.",
        "事实上，欧盟当局不仅有可能，甚至可以在某些情况下强制做出直接决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Barroso Overboard?",
        "抛弃巴罗索吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing that continued economic insecurity will exacerbate this perilous situation, the government has announced a new package of economic incentives aimed at attracting foreign direct investment.",
        "阿富汗政府认识到，持续的经济不安全将恶化这一危险局面，因此宣布了新的旨在吸引外国直接投资（FDI）的经济激励计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The critics reject the argument that small, open economies are necessarily better off in a monetary union, pointing to how well Switzerland is coping.",
        "批评者还反驳了小型开放经济留在货币联盟中会更好的观点，并以瑞士为例。"
    ],
    [
        "When protests erupted across Syria in 2011, Kurds were at the forefront.",
        "2011年叙利亚抗议活动爆发后，库尔德人率先挺身而出。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet such information exchange remains a problem – and not only in Italy – more than 20 years later.",
        "但这种信息交换方式在超过20年后——也不仅限于意大利——依然未能完善。"
    ],
    [
        "One must hope that the quest for GNH will help steer the country away from such temptations.",
        "我们只能寄望于GNH能继续引导这个国家，令其不至于走上歪路。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to become cheaper, a country’s inflation rate must stay below that of its competitors, but that can be accomplished only through an economic slump.",
        "为了有序地贬值，一国的通货膨胀率必须低于其竞争者，但这只有通过经济衰退才能达到。"
    ],
    [
        "This is as it should be.",
        "这一切都是顺理成章的。"
    ],
    [
        "Or did the coup prevent a total takeover of power by the Muslim Brotherhood, and thus avert Egypt’s economic collapse and chaotic descent into religious dictatorship?",
        "还是政变防止了穆斯林兄弟会的全面掌权，从而避免了埃及经济的崩溃和混乱地走向宗教独裁？"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland, Belgium, Italy, and the United Kingdom are still under threat, owing to large public debts or current-account deficits.",
        "虽然法国在全球金融危机中严重受挫，经济下滑。"
    ],
    [
        "Last, but not least, the importance of effective advocacy for a more vigorous response to the global TB epidemic cannot be overstated.",
        "还有最后一点同样重要，那就是应对全球传染性结核病的宣传力度怎么强调都不过分。"
    ],
    [
        "According to official data, private consumption in China accounts for just 39.2% of GDP.",
        "据官方数据显示，中国的私人消费占到了GDP的39. 2％。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, China’s economic situation was much worse than it is today, but the government still resisted the temptation to devalue the renminbi – and the country managed to emerge from the crisis virtually unscathed.",
        "1997年亚洲金融危机期间，中国经济状况比现在糟糕得多，但中国政府仍然抵制住了贬值的诱惑——而中国也成功地在危机中毫发无伤。"
    ],
    [
        "No injustice can last forever.",
        "不公绝不可能永远存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Her party boycotted the last election, and has provoked political violence that has claimed more than 100 lives this year and left hundreds more injured.",
        "她的政党抵制了上一次选举，并煽动政治暴力，在今年已造成100多人死亡、数百人受伤。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as we have found out in the meantime, this is as true for countries as it is for companies.",
        "而且，近来我们发现，这话不仅适用于公司，而且也适用于国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Just one or two countries should not be able to block the organization’s work indefinitely.",
        "同时也不能允许其中一两个国家无限期地阻挠组织的工作进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian troops crushed Georgia’s army on the ground, but they also delivered a strong blow against the logic of further NATO expansion, which, if not stopped, would have inevitably incited a major war in the heart of Europe.",
        "俄罗斯军队在战场上击败了格鲁吉亚部队，同时也沉重打击了北约进一步东扩的逻辑理由，这种理由如果继续盛行下去，必然在欧洲心脏地带引发一场大规模战争。"
    ],
    [
        "We know this from a 1986 article by my Berkeley colleague James Powell and his co-author, none other than – wait for it – Ben Bernanke.",
        "而我们正在1986年发表的一篇文章上看到这些的，该文的合著者之一是笔者在伯克利的同事詹姆斯·鲍威尔（James Powell），而另一位作者不是别人——答案揭晓——正是伯南克本人。"
    ],
    [
        "There are not that many modern varieties of this sort of practice, but the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods comes close.",
        "这种办法在现代难以看到踪迹，但1944年联合国布雷顿森林货币和金融会议庶几接近于此。"
    ],
    [
        "The compact builds on the 2001 Bonn Agreement, which laid the framework for a democratic Afghanistan but left much to be done to overcome that war-torn country’s tragic legacy.",
        "这项协议将建立在2001年波恩协议基础之上。 波恩协议为民主阿富汗制定了框架，但是，在克服这一饱受战乱之苦的国家悲剧性的遗产上仍然有所欠缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, India can leverage its relationship with Russia – it remains a major importer of Russian arms – to help drive progress.",
        "印度同样能充分利用其对俄关系——它仍然是俄罗斯武器主要的进口国——以协助推动进步。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially true in developing counties, where many markets are missing and the business environment is often extremely challenging.",
        "发展中国家尤其如此，那里许多市场存在空白，商业环境也极不友好。"
    ],
    [
        "Mitt Romney’s Fair Share",
        "米特·罗姆尼的公平税负"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – During most of the roughly three decades since climate change became a global concern, governments optimistically assumed that a green transition would happen naturally over time, as rising fossil-fuel prices nudged consumers toward low-carbon alternatives.",
        "巴黎——在气候变化成为全球关注的30年来的多数时间里，政府乐观地认为因为化石燃料价格上涨将逼迫消费者改用低碳能源，绿色转型会随着时间推移自然而然地发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting erosion of trust is jeopardizing already-complex nation-building and economic-recovery projects.",
        "由此造成的信任受损已经危及到了本已复杂艰巨的国家建设和经济复苏项目。"
    ],
    [
        "But twin peaks itself was further subdivided.",
        "但双峰本身又有进一步细分。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, they point toward a continuing slow phase-out of civilian nuclear energy in most of the large OECD countries.",
        "事实上，这些数据意味着在大多数经合组织大国，民用核能都将被逐步淘汰。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, implementation of fiscal, financial, and structural reforms can mitigate the spillover effects from China’s slowdown.",
        "总之，财政、金融和结构改革的实施，可以缓解中国经济放缓的溢出效应。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that Bush has only a relatively short time to achieve his goals in Iraq.",
        "这意味着布什只有很短的时间在伊拉克实现自己的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Additional emissions would occur when the goods are transported back to the EU.",
        "等他们的产品运回欧盟，还是会造成额外的排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Germany has experienced a much larger influx of foreigners than Britain or the US.",
        "毕竟，德国所接受的外国人数量远远多于英国或美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Melanoma is now the most common cancer in women aged 24 to 35.",
        "恶性皮肤癌已经成了24到35岁的当代女性中发病率最高的癌症。"
    ],
    [
        "Some Europeans worry that the constitution will enable courts to carry the integration process further and faster than public opinion in member states will tolerate.",
        "欧洲某些人担心宪法将赋予法院权力，以超出成员国公众所能容忍的最快速度推进欧洲的统一进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s laws, however, allow only universities and industry, which supply basic knowledge and technology, to profit from their contributions; patients, who supply tissue, may not be compensated.",
        "而今天的法律却只允许掌握基本知识和技术的大学和企业从中受益，而提供人体组织的患者也许根本得不到补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "That they want to get out, now that their reasons for the war have so dramatically collapsed and domestic support is fading, is beyond doubt.",
        "毫无疑问，他们都想撤离，因为他们发动战争的理由已经戏剧性地化为乌有，国内的支持也早已不复存在。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, modern techniques of genetic engineering – also known as biotechnology, recombinant DNA technology, or genetic modification (GM) – provide the tools to make old plants do spectacular new things.",
        "比如，现代基因工程技术——亦被称为生物技术、DNA重组技术或转基因——提供了用旧作物实现重大新用途的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless it changes, it will be overtaken.",
        "除非做出改变，否则硅谷将会被取代。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the US government’s heavy intervention in the American housing market is probably the most pertinent example of the state’s shortcomings, one that no doubt contributed significantly to the crisis.",
        "数十年来，存在着一种国家应当订立规则、而后放任私营部门自行发展的共识； 而在此之后，国家正被普遍视为一种应当在经济中发挥积极作用的有益力量。"
    ],
    [
        "This lack of empathy is frightening, and it is not limited to politics.",
        "这种缺乏同情心非常可怕，它不仅局限于政治领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, it is not all about consumer atomization.",
        "但情况不仅仅是消费者的分散原子化。"
    ],
    [
        "With enough investment in infrastructure – and with the help of negative real interest rates – Trump may well manage to revive productivity and GDP growth enough to reduce America’s debt overhang in real terms.",
        "如果基础设施投资充分，那么在负实际利率的助力下，特朗普很有可能在短期内成功提振生产率和GDP增长，让美国债务积压的实际值有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In a number of small countries in Africa, agriculture plays an even greater role, representing 80% or more of export earnings.",
        "在几个非洲小国，农业发挥的作用甚至更大，占到出口收入的80%甚至更多。"
    ],
    [
        "This is perhaps the most enduring feature of American power.",
        "这或许是美国实力最长盛不衰的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "The existence of compelling alternatives is the most important check on populist politicians with authoritarian tendencies who win power through the vote.",
        "对于通过选票赢得权力的有极权倾向的民粹主义政客来说，存在有说服力的替代方案是最重要的制衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that East Asia, unlike Europe after 1945, never experienced full reconciliation among rivals, or established strong regional institutions, it has been forced to depend on the US-Japan Security Treaty to underpin regional stability.",
        "与1945年后的欧洲不同，东亚的诸对立国家从未有过完全的妥协，也没有建立地区机构，而一直依靠美日安保条约（US-Japan Security Treaty）维持地区稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC/ISTANBUL – Almost a year has passed since revolution in Tunisia and protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square toppled ossified authoritarian regimes and ignited a much wider – and still raging – storm in the Arab world.",
        "华盛顿/伊斯坦布尔——突尼斯革命已经过去了一年，开罗解放广场的游行推翻了腐朽的独裁体制，同时也点燃了如今已成燎原之势的阿拉伯世界之火。"
    ],
    [
        "World leaders appear partly ignorant and partly deceptive in responding to the allegations.",
        "各国领导人在回应相关指控时显得既虚伪又无知。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations is preparing its 21st climate conference, to be held in Paris in 2015, with world leaders knowing full well that it, too, will end in failure to conclude a comprehensive global agreement.",
        "联合国正在筹备巴黎举办的第21届气候会议，世界领导人完全清楚此次会议将在达不成全球全面协议的情况下宣告结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Its achievement deserves international recognition – and emulation.",
        "纳米比亚的成就理应获得国际承认——以及效仿。"
    ],
    [
        "Freedom of Religion or Freedom of Speech?",
        "信仰自由还是言论自由？"
    ],
    [
        "Doing what is right is, surely, superior to doing what is wrong, but expedient.",
        "做正确的事当然要比作错误但权宜的事更重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Arab States of Uncertainty",
        "不确定的阿拉伯国家"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Koran, a Muslim is anyone who bears witness that “there is no God (Allah) but Allah, and that Muhammad is his Rasul (Messenger).”",
        "古兰经说，穆斯林是所有信奉“安拉是唯一真神，穆罕默德是他的使者”的人。"
    ],
    [
        "In Valencia at around the same time, on the occasion of the annual Fallas celebration, there was Merkel as an evil headmistress delivering to the head of the Spanish government and his ministers “The Ten Commandments of Angela the Exterminator.”",
        "几乎同时在瓦伦西亚一年一度的火节庆典上，出现了装扮成邪恶女校长的默克尔将“灭绝女王安吉拉十诫”亲手交给西班牙政府首脑及各部部长。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent paper following up on their book This Time is Different, the economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff concluded that debt/GDP ratios above 90% tend to be associated with an annual growth slowdown of a full percentage point for 23 years.",
        "经济学家莱因哈特（Carmen Reinhart）和肯尼斯·罗格夫（Kenneth Rogoff）在他们的书《这次不同了》（This Time is Different）出版后发表的一篇最新论文中指出，债务/GDP比率超过90%将伴随着经济增长在23年里减速整整一个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the key to building a stronger, more prosperous France.",
        "这是建立更强大、更繁荣的法国的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these conditions pervade prisons worldwide.",
        "许多上述的情况在世界各地的监狱中都广泛存在。"
    ],
    [
        "We are statesmen, and the Republicans are statesmen.",
        "我们是政治家，而共和党人也是政治家。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, newspapers’ post-election rebound was not entirely their own doing; it was also facilitated by social media’s failure to consolidate its gains.",
        "当然，报纸在美国总统大选后出现反弹并不完全是它们自己的功劳； 社交媒体没能巩固优势也提供了助力。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s circumstances, however, are not normal.",
        "但是，今天的环境不属于正常环境。"
    ],
    [
        "If A is legally bound to return B’s cow when she strays onto his land, and then C’s cow strays onto B’s land in relevantly similar circumstances, B must also be bound to return C’s cow.",
        "如果A依法必须在B的奶牛进入他的土地时将它归还给B，而C的奶牛在基本类似的情况下进入了B的土地，B也由法律义务归还C的奶牛。"
    ],
    [
        "In his provocative American Economic Review paper “A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas,” Mundell argued that as long as workers could move within a currency region to where the jobs were, the region could afford to forgo the equilibrating mechanism of exchange-rate adjustment.",
        "在他发表于《美国经济评论》（American Economic Review）的雄文《最优货币区理论》（A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas）中，蒙代尔指出，只要工人能在货币区内自由流动追逐工作，该货币区就可以形成一个汇率调整的均衡机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, we have the fewest cases of polio, in fewer countries, than ever before.",
        "如今，小儿麻痹症已经非常罕见，发病国也比以前少了很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Newly arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq are joining Palestinian refugees who have long been here.",
        "从叙利亚和伊拉克最新抵达的难民正与已经在那里的巴勒斯坦难民会合。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, there must be major differences in the macroeconomic models used to produce such a wide range of estimates.",
        "他们的预测如此不同显然是因为他们所使用的宏观经济模型存在巨大差异。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there are two lefts in the region: a modern, democratic, globalized and market-friendly left, found in Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, parts of Central America, and, up to a point, in Peru; and a retrograde, populist, authoritarian, statist, and anti-American left, found in Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, and, to a lesser extent, in Argentina, Colombia, and Paraguay.",
        "事实上，在该地区有两种左派：一种是智利、巴西、乌拉圭、中美洲的一部分国家以及某种程度上的秘鲁的现代的、民主的、全球化的以及对市场友好的左派； 另一种是墨西哥、萨尔瓦多、尼加拉瓜、古巴、厄瓜多尔、玻利维亚、委内瑞拉以及阿根廷、哥伦比亚以及巴拉圭的不那么强烈的倒退的、民粹主义的、独裁的、中央经济统治的以及反美的左派。"
    ],
    [
        "He is rewriting the rules of business, based on the belief that Tesla’s success depends on that of the entire market for electric cars, and that his company’s commercial interests are inseparable from the interests of society.",
        "他正在以一个信念重写商业规则：特斯拉的成功取决于整个电动汽车市场，他的公司的商业利益与社会利益密不可分。"
    ],
    [
        "And time is not on Europe’s side, as external pressures from the likes of Turkey and Russia – both of which are exploiting the discord to their advantage – compound Europe’s internal political strife.",
        "时间也不利于欧洲，因为来自土耳其和俄罗斯（两国都在利用欧洲的不和）等国的外部压力将让欧洲内部政治冲突更加复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, new coal-fired power plants may no longer be allowed on either side of the border, necessitating greater use of natural gas and renewable energy sources.",
        "此外，新的火力发电厂可能不再允许在边界两面建设，这样就必须使用天然气和可再生能源。"
    ],
    [
        "Many life-insurance companies and banks are taking a considerable hit, because of low interest rates.",
        "许多人寿保险企业和银行都将在高利率下遭受相当的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "The cost to the UK for its contribution to the NATO operation in Afghanistan, for example, totals £3.1 billion – a heavy burden on British taxpayers.",
        "例如，英国为北约在阿富汗的行动派出人员和提供装备的支出达到31亿英镑——这对英国纳税人来说是一个沉重的负担。"
    ],
    [
        "In rebuilding the shattered post-Thatcherite economy, we should be careful not to revive the failed policies of the past. I still find fruitful Keynes’s distinction between the agenda and the non-agenda of politics.",
        "在重新构建后撒切尔主义经济形态时，我们应该小心谨慎，不能重复过去被验证已经失败的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Animals commonly use mimicry to capitalize on knowledge – or fear – of another’s strength.",
        "动物往往通过模仿来利用对其他同类力量的了解或恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even the two regimes most eager to maintain the Kim dynasty – China’s and Russia’s – are feeling pressure from their disaffected but, it now seems, not-so-powerless populations.",
        "事实上，就连最愿意维持金家王朝的两大体制——中国体制和俄罗斯体制——也在日益感受到其心存不满且表现得并不那么无权的民众的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in 2010 and 2011, Vanessa Williamson and I studied the popular and elite forces that gave rise to the Tea Party and helped pull the Republican Party further rightward.",
        "回到2010和2011年，凡妮莎·威廉姆森和我研究了导致茶党崛起和共和党进一步右倾的大众和精英力量。"
    ],
    [
        "From now on, sustainable development must not be a mere slogan, but rather an operational approach to global governance and well-being on a strained and crowded planet.",
        "从现在开始，可持续发展不能纯粹只是一个口号，而应该是针对全球治理及在这个浮躁拥挤的星球上谋求幸福的运作方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, while reducing employment is one way to boost productivity, it implies high macroeconomic costs in terms of lost revenues and higher social spending.",
        "类似地，尽管压低就业是提振生产率的一种办法，但这隐含着高昂的宏观经济成本，如岁入损失和更高的社会支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the rural south is poorer and less educated than other parts of the US.",
        "许多南方农村地区都要比美国其他地区更贫穷、教育程度更低。"
    ],
    [
        "The European experience offers valuable lessons in this regard.",
        "这方面，欧洲提供了宝贵的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "But one common pattern that does emerge is that the jihadi message, because it promises meaning and identity, seems to appeal particularly to people who are unsure about who they are and where they are heading.",
        "但浮出的一个共同的模式是，因为圣战的信息所承诺的意义和身份，它们似乎对那些搞不清楚他们是谁和他们要去哪里的人特别具有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "The distinction between the organizer’s purpose and business model is critical.",
        "必须分清主办者的目的及其商业模式。"
    ],
    [
        "But that book’s potency originally derived from its fierce independence from contemporary orthodoxies.",
        "但是该书的有力之处最初来自于其坚决独立于当代教条。 当时的统领观点是某种自满的半社会主义。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, financial services account for about one-third of Britain’s total services exports and two-thirds of the overall services surplus that the UK needs to pay for its deficit on goods.",
        "目前，金融服务占英国总服务出口的三分之一左右，也占英国填补其商品出口赤字所需要的总服务出口盈余的三分之二。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while inflation-targeting central banks worked hard to nail down inflation expectations in goods and services, they made no effort to influence asset-price expectations.",
        "因此，尽管通胀目标型央行努力地打消商品和服务的通胀预期，但它们并没有尝试影响资产价格预期。"
    ],
    [
        "It is one thing for candidates to decide that they must be gracious in defeat. Their followers can be harder to reconcile.",
        "候选人自己决定坦然接受失败是一回事，但其追随者的矛盾可能很难调和。"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries in East Africa are now trying to do something about that for themselves.",
        "而东非的一些国家已经开始从自身考虑开展相关的尝试了。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, policies designed to preserve the financial system and the euro are transforming the EU into the opposite of an open society.",
        "因此原本旨在保护金融体系和欧元的政策正致使欧盟转向开放社会的对立面。"
    ],
    [
        "The Economics of Strategic Containment",
        "战略牵制利弊谈"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel in China",
        "默克尔在中国"
    ],
    [
        "In general, today’s defenses take the form of autonomous, constantly vigilant digital “supervisors” – computers and code that control other computers and code.",
        "总体而言，今天的防卫手段采取了不断自动警惕的数字“监督者”的形式——控制其他计算机和代码的计算机和代码。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic orthodoxy pursued after the collapse of 1998 laid the groundwork for today’s sustained Russian boom.",
        "1998年俄罗斯经济危机之后推行的正统的经济做法，为俄罗斯现在的持续经济增长奠定了基础。"
    ],
    [
        "I may have image problems, but I am not crazy.",
        "中国对我们已经无爱；"
    ],
    [
        "Doctors use the word “crisis” to describe the point at which a patient either starts to recover or dies.",
        "医生经常用“危象”一词来描述某一时段，在这一时段中，病人要么开始康复，要么死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the testimony by female soldiers such as Lynndie England about compelling male prisoners to masturbate, as well as an FBI memo objecting to a policy of “highly aggressive interrogation techniques.”",
        "也有诸如林迪·英格兰这样的女兵的关于强迫男性囚犯手淫的证词，以及反对“高度激烈的审讯方法”的FBI备忘录。"
    ],
    [
        "We are not even close to getting this revolution started.",
        "我们甚至都未能使这次科技革命得以启动。"
    ],
    [
        "The US must carry out fundamental reforms of its financial system to plug the equity leaks and recover investors’ confidence.",
        "美国必须对其金融体系进行根本性的改革以堵塞资本漏洞并恢复投资者信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Warsh started making such hawkish – and clearly incorrect – warnings in 2010, when unemployment was 9.5% and runaway inflation was the last thing most economists were worried about.",
        "瓦尔什从2010年开始做出这类鹰派——也显然错误——的警告，当时的失业率高达9. 5%，而通胀则是大部分经济学家最不担心的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "But Mauritius has no exploitable natural resources.",
        "但这个国家却没有任何可供开发的自然资源。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite its unique history and current advantages, China harbors a weakness that is quite similar to what has caused so much trouble in the US and Europe: big banks that have an incentive not to be careful.",
        "但是，尽管中国拥有独一无二的历史和现实优势，但中国也有劣势，而正是这一劣势导致美国和欧洲深陷泥淖：大银行有不谨慎行事的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than inciting an escalation in fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Egypt worked with the US and other regional allies to broker a cease-fire.",
        "埃及并没有煽动以色列和哈马斯在加沙地带的交火升级，相反却与美国和其他区域盟国合作敦促双方签订停火协议。"
    ],
    [
        "In May, the United States Department of Energy convened a private meeting to discuss this technology, which will be the fig leaf used by the supermajors to protect their assets.",
        "5月，美国能源部召开了一次非公开会议讨论这一将成为石油巨头保护它们的资产的遮羞布的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Young workers who leave the farm for the cities are increasingly absorbed into urban services jobs instead of manufacturing.",
        "离开田间地头来到城市的年轻工人日益被城市服务业而非制造业岗位吸收。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s presence is felt around the world, from mines in Africa to Apple stores in the United States.",
        "从非洲的矿井到美国的苹果专卖店，世界每个角落都能感受到中国的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Pakistan’s judiciary, media, and many civil-society organizations are now engaged in attempts not only to keep the soldiers in their barracks, but also to constrain the political establishment’s rapacious behavior.",
        "结果巴基斯坦的司法界，媒体和许多公民社会组织如今不仅致力于限制军队，还要制止新政治体制中的掠夺行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Continental Europe did not deregulate as much, and preferred to seek growth in greater economic integration.",
        "欧洲大陆的去监管化并没有那么强烈，那里更偏好于在增加经济一体化的过程中实现增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Zuckerberg’s vision may sound like a self-interested push to gain more Facebook users.",
        "扎克伯格的愿景听起来像是让Facebook拥有更多用户的自利举动。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, having opted-out of the single currency and the Schengen area (which allows Europeans to cross borders without passports), the UK has distanced itself from important EU initiatives.",
        "近几年来，英国选择退出单一货币和申根协议（允许欧洲人在不用护照的情况下自由地穿越国境），一直与重要的欧盟计划保持着距离。"
    ],
    [
        "This treaty dedicated Antarctica to exclusively peaceful aims. It recognized the existing territorial claims, declared them “frozen,” and forbade all physical assertions of sovereignty on the land of Antarctica.",
        "该条约规定南极洲只可作和平目的之用，它承认现有的对领土的声称，并宣布“冻结”领土声称，并禁止一切在南极洲土地上对主权的具体坚持的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Noise about these risks has occasionally (but only briefly) shaken investors’ confidence, and modest market corrections have tended to reverse themselves.",
        "关于这些风险的噪声偶尔（但只是极微小地）会破坏投资者信心，而市场在略作修正后也能够再创新高。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, it could lead to more environmentally friendly and resource-efficient uses of natural resources, or to investment in services that are more responsive to human needs and better attuned to human interaction.",
        "例如，它可能实现对自然资源更环保及更高效的利用，或者投资于更适应人类需要也能更好地与人类互动的各项服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The wording may sound vague, but, given the positions the countries held at the outset, the outcome was an important achievement.",
        "这一措辞听起来可能有点模糊，但是，鉴于各国在会议开始所持立场，这一结果是一项重要成就。"
    ],
    [
        "A useful simplification in addressing the potential work of research ethics panels is to consider two models of review: “inquisitorial” and “accusatorial.”",
        "对研究伦理小组潜在工作的处理进行有效简化需要考虑两种审查模式：“调查”模式和“问责”模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Like it or not, the ECB is effectively financing the sovereigns.",
        "不管你喜不喜欢，欧洲央行实际上是在做主权融资。"
    ],
    [
        "More than seven months on from this brutal suppression, political activists continue to be imprisoned and tortured.",
        "在这次残酷镇压后超过七个月的时间里，政治激进分子不断的被关押和拷打。"
    ],
    [
        "We are reminded of this time and again.",
        "我们一再面对这一局面。"
    ],
    [
        "In December, South Koreans will go to the polls to choose President Lee Myung-bak’s successor in what is currently a three-way contest.",
        "12月，韩国将举行大选，选出李明博的继任者，目前有三人竞争这一宝座。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin once famously observed that the Soviet Union’s collapse was the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century.",
        "他曾经有一个著名的论断，苏联解体是二十世纪最大的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa reports that, though the continent boasts 60% of the world’s uncultivated land, it spends $60 billion per year on food imports.",
        "据非洲绿色革命联盟报告，尽管非洲大陆占全球未开垦土地的60%，但每年却耗资600亿美元用于粮食进口。"
    ],
    [
        "But simply lending more would not improve the situation.",
        "但单纯提高信贷额度恐怕无济于事。"
    ],
    [
        "My mother claimed divided loyalty, because Belgium, after all, was “the David against the mighty Goliath.”",
        "我母亲在选择主队时有些分裂，因为毕竟比利时是“对阵强大的歌利亚的大卫”。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent reports from France and Sweden find that those who have used mobile phones for ten or more years have double the risk of brain cancer.",
        "最近来自法国和瑞典的研究报告表明那些使用手机达十年或更长时间的人患脑癌的风险增加了一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "But what if these people get their wishes, and NATO collapses and Islamists triumph?",
        "但是如果这些人真的实现了他们的愿望，而北约垮台了并且伊斯兰主义者成功了怎么办？"
    ],
    [
        "It’s not surprising that those who helped create the problems and didn’t see the disaster coming have not done a masterly job in dealing with it.",
        "那些过去推动问题的出现且未能遇见灾难的人，现在也并未能娴熟地处理已经出现的灾难，可这也并不奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Imperial Overreach",
        "中国的帝国主义透支"
    ],
    [
        "Our reaction to soulless bodies is well illustrated in a story told about Descartes after he died.",
        "我们对没有灵魂的躯体的反应可以通过在笛卡尔死后传出的，关于他的故事中得到很好的刻画。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Macroeconomic data from the world’s advanced economies can be mystifying when viewed in isolation.",
        "马德里—世界发达经济体的宏观经济数据孤立起来看会让人难以费解。"
    ],
    [
        "Their frequency is rather rare and certain mutations can be found only in distinct populations, but this class of susceptibility factors is associated with a moderately increased breast cancer risk.",
        "这种状况相当罕见，而且只有特殊人群才会发生某些类型的突变，但此类易感因素只会小幅提升罹患乳腺癌的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the background against which the candidates will head into face-to-face debates, which tend to play a large (even excessive) role in shaping US elections.",
        "在这样的背景下，两位候选人将进行面对面辩论，而辩论将给美国选情造成巨大（甚至过度）的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2007, by contrast, 109 House Democrats voted in favor of the US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, precisely because its terms had been adjusted as requested and in line with the May agreement.",
        "相反，2007年，109位民主党众议员投票赞成美国-秘鲁贸易促进协定（US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement），原因正是其条款根据5月协定的要求做出了相应调整。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis of the Jewish conscience in the traumatic transition from Holocaust to statehood has not yet been fully overcome.",
        "犹太人从大屠杀到建国这个令人痛苦的转变中所产生的危机意识还没有完全从他们的头脑中抹去。"
    ],
    [
        "Research by primatologists Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal at Emory University has shown that monkeys also have what look like moral values.",
        "Emory大学的灵长类动物学家Sarah Brosnan和Frans de Waal的研究表明猴类也有某种类似于道德观的体系。"
    ],
    [
        "The repeated rejection by the US Congress of a much more limited set of reforms – which was approved by most other countries in 2010-12, imposes no incremental financial obligations on the US, and implies no reduction in America’s voting power or influence – is a case in point.",
        "美国国会一再拒绝程度极为有限的改革方案就是明证。 该改革方案在2010—2012年间已获得大部分其他国家的批准，并不会实质性增加美国的金融义务，也不会减少美国的投票权和影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "The result of all these efforts has been to slow, but not halt, Iran’s nuclear progress.",
        "上述努力的结果是延缓，而非阻止伊朗的核进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, no electoral system creates a greater vote-seat distortion than France’s two-round majoritarian system.",
        "事实上，没有哪种选举制度能比法国的两轮多数制度更能制造选票-席位扭曲的了。"
    ],
    [
        "The political environment is very different from that of six years ago.",
        "政治环境和六年前相比已经产生了很大的差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, relating the riskiness of holding an open position in a currency market to the exchange rate’s divergence from parity levels suggests a novel way to think about how central banks can influence the market to limit departures from parity.",
        "而且，将在某一货币市场持有多头的风险与汇率偏离同位水平联系在一起表明了思考中央银行如何影响市场来限制偏离同位。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment among those aged 20-24 should be more troubling.",
        "20—24岁年龄段的失业更加麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s drive to retain a significant say in the pricing of iron and bauxite, of which Guinea is the world’s major producer, means that it can always receive a warm welcome from officials tired of being lectured to by Westerners.",
        "中国保留对铁矿和铝土矿定价权的做法注定会受到非洲官员的热烈欢迎，几内亚是上述资源的主要产地，而几内亚国内官员早已厌倦了西方人没完没了的说教。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the EU should be able to legislate on a wider array of policies, including, for example, taxation.",
        "此外，欧盟应该获得更广泛的政策立法权，比如税收。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer likely lies within us.",
        "答案可能在我们中间。"
    ],
    [
        "For investors and businesses – perhaps including India’s small shopkeepers – this is where the really interesting opportunities will emerge.",
        "对投资者和企业来说——或许还包括印度的小店主——这就是真正有趣的机会所在。"
    ],
    [
        "But, save for a few whalers and explorers, not many people ever went to have a closer look.",
        "但除少数捕鲸者和探险者之外，没有太多人曾有近距离接触它们的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Many fear nuclear risks, which are vivid, slowing the industry’s development amid safety concerns.",
        "许多人恐惧于肉眼可见的核风险，出于安全考虑不断延缓核工业的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Since his subordinate, Radislav Krstić, was already sentenced for his complicity in the genocide at Srebrenica, Mladić will presumably be convicted.",
        "鉴于姆拉迪奇的下属拉迪斯拉夫·克里斯蒂奇（Radislav Krstić）已经因“合谋在斯雷布雷尼察进行种族灭绝”而被判有罪，他本人估计也逃不过类似罪名。"
    ],
    [
        "Even assuming stability in real estate prices, the global crisis surely will cause a fall in remittances by Africans working good jobs in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and the Middle East.",
        "即使假设地产价格稳定，全球危机也必然会导致在外工作的非洲人士减少汇款。 这些人工作优渥，呆在欧洲，美国，加拿大，澳大利亚和中东。"
    ],
    [
        "Only more politics and diplomacy can salvage US policy.",
        "只有用更多的政治和外交手段才能够拯救美国的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin and his circle are mainly concerned with survival and enrichment.",
        "普京和他的圈子以生存和致富为主要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, working daily with Chinese TV creators, I noticed a subtle, almost instinctive tendency to avoid any content or format that is unusual, novel, or unorthodox, never mind subversive.",
        "的确，在与中国电视人共事的过程中，我发现了一种微妙的，近乎本能的避免任何特别、新颖、非正统，更别说是颠覆性的内容的倾向。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulatory innovations elsewhere are solving another key challenge: the lack of personal identification for new account holders.",
        "其他国家的监管创新正在解决一个重要挑战：缺少对新账户持有者的身份识别。"
    ],
    [
        "Building a Caring Economy",
        "打造关爱经济"
    ],
    [
        "Already, services contribute the bulk of GDP in developing countries, even in low-income countries where agriculture has traditionally played a big part.",
        "服务业贡献了发展中国家GDP的大部分，即使是在传统上主要依靠农业贡献GDP的低收入国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Overly complex climate regulations, political resistance to shale-gas development, and energy policies that favor expensive, ineffective technologies are largely to blame.",
        "过度复杂的气候监管、页岩气开发的政治阻力以及偏袒昂贵、低效技术的能源政策是罪魁祸首。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that the eurozone’s recovery is now catching up with that of the US, despite its lack of any continuing stimulus, suggests that the answer is no.",
        "欧元区复苏目前正在赶上美国，尽管没有进行任何持续的刺激，这一事实表明答案是否定的。"
    ],
    [
        "One widespread practice involves two such firms, say, Micro (a small family firm facing a large advance tax payment) and Macro (a publicly traded limited liability company that needs to demonstrate higher turnover than it has).",
        "一个普遍的做法涉及到两家公司，比方说，微型企业（面临大额提前纳税的小型家族企业）和大型企业（需要夸大营业额的上市有限责任公司）。"
    ],
    [
        "Significant progress has been made.",
        "我们已经取得了长足进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Prospective students can use this information to gain a far more accurate picture of their future prospects.",
        "未来学生可以利用这一信息更加准确地获知自己的未来前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe, and maybe not, but they would almost certainly appear more legitimate, even in the eye of their adversaries.",
        "可能会，也可能不会，但这注定将为他们带来赢得更多的政治合法性，即便是他们的对手，也不得不对此表示赞同。"
    ],
    [
        "But the ban was contested by the American Civil Liberties Union as an infringement of the First Amendment.",
        "但这一禁令受到美国民权同盟（American Civil Liberties Union，ACLU）的挑战，认为这违反了宪法第一修正案。"
    ],
    [
        "The logic seems impeccable, and it is true that the vast majority of the planet’s 400,000 plant species do contain chemical defenses (poisons) to defend themselves from grazing herbivores.",
        "其中的逻辑看上去无懈可击，诚然，世界上400,000种植物中的绝大部分含有保护自己免遭放牧牲畜吞噬的化学防御（有毒）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Japanese still live comfortably, better by one-third than the South Koreans, thanks to their past investments.",
        "日本人仰仗他们过去的投资仍然过着舒适的生活，生活水平比韩国人高三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing to be grumpy about there.",
        "这很好，没什么好抱怨的。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcome may seem a disaster, but it is also the most rational choice – the “Nash equilibrium” of the traveler’s dilemma game.",
        "结果看上去是一场灾难，但也是最理性的选择——即旅行者悖论博弈的“纳什均衡”。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Keynes invented macroeconomics – the theory of output as a whole.",
        "首先，凯恩斯发明了宏观经济学——关于作为整体的产出的理论。"
    ],
    [
        "Like technological innovation, financial innovation is concerned with the perpetual search for greater efficiency – in this case, reducing the cost of transferring funds from savers to investors.",
        "像技术创新那样，金融创新关注的也是对更高效率的永远的探求—在金融创新的情况中，就是降低资金从持有人手中转移到投资者手中的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s the big banks that continue to prefer being highly leveraged.",
        "而大银行仍然偏好高杠杆。"
    ],
    [
        "To appreciate China’s rise, one need only look at all the Chinese tourists in the Bernese Highlands and many other places.",
        "要检验中国的崛起，只需看看所有在伯尔尼高地和许多其他地方的中国游客就行了。"
    ],
    [
        "So why should now be different?",
        "那为什么现在可以实现呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This marked a victory for Polish women, and it suggests that Poland is more progressive than Kaczyński would like to believe.",
        "这标志着波兰女性的胜利，并且表明波兰比卡钦斯基所认为的更加进步。"
    ],
    [
        "When he was re-elected by an even larger majority, his government was overthrown, his political party was banned by the Supreme Court, and he was forced to flee the country after corruption charges against him led to a criminal conviction.",
        "在他信以更大的优势获得连任后，他的政府遭到了颠覆，他的政党被最高法院取缔，他也被迫在因为腐败指控被判有罪后逃亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether China’s economy can continue to grow rapidly will depend far more on its ability to reform than on how its stock markets perform.",
        "中国经济是否能够继续高速增长更多地取决于其改革能力，而非股市表现如何。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, quantitative easing did not boost consumption and investment partly because most of the additional liquidity returned to central banks’ coffers in the form of excess reserves.",
        "在美国，量化宽松政策未能刺激消费和投资的部分原因是大部分额外流动性都以超额准备金的形式回到了中央银行的金库。"
    ],
    [
        "A Yes vote, on the other hand, would encourage a reassured Chirac to continue his policy of no reform and scapegoating the ECB.",
        "从另外一方面来说，一张赞成票，将会鼓励一个重整旗鼓的希拉克继续他的无改革政策，继续把责任推卸给欧洲中央银行。"
    ],
    [
        "But the world has moved since the 1970’s in the direction of greater exchange rate flexibility.",
        "但自上世纪70年代以来，世界已经向着更灵活汇率的方向迈进了。"
    ],
    [
        "The growth model on which both advanced and developing countries relied in the past will not work at two or three times the scale.",
        "过去发达和发展中国家均依赖的发展模式不可能在规模增加一两倍后仍然有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies such as Ikea and Unilever are leading the way with genuine efforts to assume responsibility for the planet’s climate, resources, and ecosystems.",
        "像宜家和联合利华这样的领导企业正在为对全球气候、资源和生态系统负责做着扎实的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the most prominent advocates of MFFP is Adair Turner, whose latest book, Between Debt and the Devil, provides an insightful thought experiment on the use of helicopter money.",
        "MFFP最著名的支持者之一是阿代尔·特纳（Adair Turner），其最新著作《债务和魔鬼》（Between Debt and the Devil）提供了一个颇有见地的使用直升机撒钱的思想实验。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the World Economic Forum, which released its annual report on economic competitiveness last month, the US is the fifth most competitive economy in the world (behind the small economies of Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, and Singapore). China ranks only 26th.",
        "根据上月发布的世界经济论坛年度经济竞争力报告，美国的经济竞争力在全球排名第五，位居瑞士、瑞典，芬兰和新加坡这些小经济体之后，而中国只排第26位。"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, the government may now review requests for weaponry from friendly governments on a case-by-case basis, according to whether the sale risks instigating or fueling international conflicts.",
        "更普遍而言，政府现在也许能根据销售风险是否会引发或加剧国际争端，一个一个回顾友好国家政府所提出的武器需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Fisheries remove more than 25% of the primary production in upwelling ocean regions and 35% in the temperate continental shelf.",
        "渔业已经扑杀了超过25%的浅海生物，35%的温带大陆架。"
    ],
    [
        "Some people cite the spat over arms sales to Taiwan and the Dalai Lama’s visit to Washington as a fourth dampener on all the G-2 talk.",
        "此外有些人还指出对台军售和达赖喇嘛访美是 G-2 会谈的第四个阻碍因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed was hardly alone.",
        "并不只是美联储未能注意到即将来临的经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.",
        "许多国家对国际象棋产生兴趣的年轻人数量出现了迷你井喷，这部分要归功于电脑程序和在线比赛的普及。"
    ],
    [
        "Public scorn might not end corruption immediately, but it can make life far less pleasant for those who are stealing the commons from the rest of us.",
        "公众蔑视可能无法立即结束腐败，但却可以破坏盗窃公共资源者的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan might find it extremely difficult to reconcile the security of its Chinese ally with its de facto proxy war with India.",
        "巴基斯坦或许会发现，协调其中国盟友的安全与其与印度的事实上的代理战争是十分困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "Bankers accept that, in the long run, the theorem might hold, but argue that it will take time, especially given recent events, to persuade investors that banks are genuinely safer, and that their shares should be thought of as closer to utility stocks, yielding a lower return.",
        "银行家认为，从长期看，莫迪里阿尼-米勒定理也许是对的，但也指出，要说服投资者银行实际上很安全，银行股应该被视为类似于公用事业股，应该具有较低的回报，这需要很长一段时间，特别是在现今事故频发的当口。"
    ],
    [
        "Barring a true negative supply-side shock, global stagflation is thus unlikely.",
        "除非有真正的负向供应冲击，全球滞胀不大可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The western Balkan applicants have thus had to contend with a process that is now managed on a more intergovernmental basis than was the big bang of 2004, and which has, at times, been held hostage to member states’ selfish bilateral demands.",
        "于是，西巴尔干申请入盟的国家不得不与新的程序纠缠。 与2004年的大爆炸相比，如今的入盟程序更多地建立在政府间的基础上，常常沦为成员国自私的双边要挟物。"
    ],
    [
        "Across developed and developing countries, violation of the public trust and failure to protect democratic institutions are straining systems of checks and balances that, in some cases, have been in place for centuries.",
        "放眼发达和发展中国家，破坏公共信任、无法保护民主机构正在制约制衡制度——其中不乏已经存在了几百年的制衡制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Diphtheria, caused by the aerobic gram-positive bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheria, is an acute, toxin-mediated disease that can manifest as an upper respiratory tract infection or a skin infection.",
        "因感染好氧革兰氏阳性菌白喉棒状杆菌所造成的白喉是一种毒素介质的急性病，可以表现为上呼吸道感染或皮肤感染。"
    ],
    [
        "As a human-rights lawyer monitoring the case notes, this is just one of several such cases – none of which is being seriously investigated.",
        "一位关注此案的人权律师指出，这只是多起类似案件中的一起——所有这些案件都没有进行严肃调查。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, China’s cutoff of water data, despite the likely impact on vulnerable civilian communities, sets a dangerous precedent of indifference to humanitarian considerations.",
        "事实上，中国切断水数据尽管有可能会影响到脆弱的社区，也树立了对人道主义考虑无动于衷的危险先例。"
    ],
    [
        "A mining town becomes a ghost town when the mine closes, because the grocery store, the pharmacy, and the movie theater no longer have the capacity to buy the “imported” food, medicine, and films they need.",
        "矿山关闭会导致一座采矿小镇变为鬼城，因为杂货铺、药店和电影院不再具有购买“进口”食品、药品和电影的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing nations will have to step up to fill the gap.",
        "发展中国家将不得不进来填补空缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than searching for overarching rules or a grand theory, look instead for what is likely to work – and make policy accordingly.",
        "不要寻找压倒一切的规则或宏大的理论，而是要寻找可能起作用的东西——并据此制定政策。"
    ],
    [
        "To make matters worse, the demand for wood for reconstruction following last year’s tsunami is intensifying the already untenable demands being placed on Sumatra’s forests.",
        "雪上加霜的是，去年海啸之后，国家重建对木材的需求加剧了苏门答腊本已超负荷的木材需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it was the EU that pushed the US, which initially doubted Europe’s commitment, to launch the negotiation process in June 2013.",
        "事实上，是欧洲推动一开始对欧洲的承诺有所怀疑的美国在2013年6月启动了谈判程序。"
    ],
    [
        "This became apparent in May 2010, when the ECB assumed the responsibility of purchasing the government bonds of countries that otherwise would have experienced substantial increases in long-term interest rates.",
        "该问题从2010年5月开始凸显，当时欧洲央行出手承担了购买某些国家政府债券的责任，不然这些国家的长期利率就将大幅增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The object is to change the soul.”",
        "改变灵魂才是目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Studies show that giving women more decision-making power over productive assets has the potential to increase farm yields by more than 20%, which is essential to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030 (SDG 1).",
        "研究表明在经营性资产领域授予妇女更多的决策权有可能提高农业产量超过20%，这对到2030年“消除一切形式的贫困”（可持续发展目标第1条）将起到至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "There are modern parallels.",
        "当代不乏与此相似的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "None of these issues, with the possible exception of the first, has been resolved.",
        "上述五个问题，也许除了第一个，至今都没能得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "And six months after the merciless pounding of southern Lebanon, Hezbollah is as strong as it was before.",
        "在经历了对黎巴嫩南部六个月的无情打击之后，真主党的实力并未被削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Property markets in Austria, Germany, and Luxembourg have practically exploded throughout the crisis, as a result of banks chasing borrowers with offers of loans at near-zero interest rates, regardless of their creditworthiness.",
        "奥地利，德国和卢森堡的房地产市场实际上已经在危机期间大涨，因为银行在以近零利率四处贷款，却无视贷款者的信用状态。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that, as the digital revolution and artificial intelligence restructure larger segments of economic activity, overall productivity growth may accelerate again, leading to higher expected returns and, therefore, more investment and faster growth.",
        "我认为，随着数字革命和人工智能对更大的经济活动细分领域进行重组，总生产率增长可能再次加速，形成更高的预期回报，从而带来更多的投资和更快的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the accelerating expansion of deserts will likely lead to a decrease of agricultural yields from the surrounding areas, acute deterioration of the availability of water, and possibly to further conflicts and displacement of people.",
        "确实，沙漠的加速扩大将导致附近的农业减产、水资源严重恶化，造成了更多争端以及人们的迁移。"
    ],
    [
        "How has Zimbabwe achieved what looks like, at least from a numerical perspective, a more productive relationship with China than Kenya has?",
        "津巴布韦究竟如何实现了（至少从数字角度看）比肯尼亚与中国更好的关系？"
    ],
    [
        "And Cameron also argues that deeper political integration is the only way to stop the breakup of the euro.",
        "卡梅伦还指出，深化政治一体化是组织欧元崩溃的唯一办法。"
    ],
    [
        "In Italy, they may well command a majority.",
        "在意大利，它们很有可能能够赢得多数。"
    ],
    [
        "We need leaders with sufficient mastery of detail, like China’s last premier Zhu Rongji, who can not only tell us how they will get us from A to Z, but can actually lead us from A to B.",
        "我们还需要如中国前总理朱镕基这样对全局了如指掌的领袖，不但能告诉我们起点和终点在哪里，还能具体带领我们一步一步向目标迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "Emotions are at the core of the Kremlin’s message; indeed, they are the tie that binds Putin to his subjects.",
        "克里姆林宫信息的核心内容是情绪； 事实上，情绪才是联系普京及其臣民的纽带。"
    ],
    [
        "The voting rules unanimously approved by the Governing Council and adopted by the European Council in early 2003 have prepared the ECB well.",
        "2003年上半年管理委员会全票通过并被欧盟委员会采纳的投票规则已经让欧洲央行做好了充分的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "No brand name, either.",
        "连商标都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "This penalty on repatriating funds causes US firms to leave those after-tax profits abroad.",
        "这一对汇回资金的惩罚导致美国企业将这些税收利润留在海外。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why next year’s WEF annual meeting will seek to rededicate leaders to the development of a shared narrative, one that strengthens cooperation for this generation and every generation to come.",
        "这也是为何明年的世界经济论坛年会将力求让各国领导人一起重新发展一个共同的叙事，以加强这一代人和往后每一代人的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, economic sanctions, to which Iran is very sensitive, could be tightened, with a commitment not to resort to military force facilitating Russian and Chinese approval.",
        "例如，可以加强对于伊朗非常敏感的经济制裁，同时又承诺不诉诸武力，从而便于俄国和中国的批准。"
    ],
    [
        "Improved printing efficiency, combined with steep declines in cost, led to a dramatic increase in access to the written word between 1450 and 1500, even though only an estimated 6% of the population was literate.",
        "尽管在1450~1500年间估计只有6％的人口具备识字能力，但印刷效率的提高加上成本的急剧下降，使得人们获取书面文本的渠道大幅增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Solzhenitsyn’s suggestion is crude, but right in a fundamental sense.",
        "索尔仁尼琴的建议是直接的，但是从本质来说却是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the official sector cannot write down its debt, because that would violate a number of taboos, particularly for the ECB.",
        "但正式部门无法减记其债务，因为这会违反许多禁忌，特别是欧洲央行。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, an end to current hostilities in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen requires national, regional, and international consensus.",
        "现阶段，结束叙利亚、伊拉克和也门的战争状态需要国家、地区和国际共识。"
    ],
    [
        "The simplistic diagnosis of Europe’s woes – that the crisis countries were living beyond their means – is clearly at least partly wrong.",
        "对欧洲灾难病因的简单诊断——即危机国家过去一直入不敷出——显然至少有部分是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "With 4.3 million new HIV infections each year throughout the world, we face an untenable situation, as new HIV infections far outstrip our ability to treat all those infected.",
        "面对全世界每年430万的新增HIV病毒感染者，我们没有抵抗，因为新的HIV感染远远超过了我们治疗所有那些感染者的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "And such requirements would reduce the likelihood that strong banks would be called upon to finance the resolution of failed institutions.",
        "而且这种要求还会降低强势银行被要求承担破产机构解决方案经费的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "On a micro level, the masks commonly worn in heavily polluted cities, such as in China, are a visible sign of the need for change.",
        "微观上，在中国等国家污染最严重的城市，戴口罩表明显然有做出改变的必要。"
    ],
    [
        "The meaning was clear to all: Weimar Russia, like Weimar Germany, signified a weak republic attacked from within by nationalists yearning to restore authoritarian ways.",
        "所有人都明白这个词的意义：魏玛俄国，和魏玛德国一样，表示一个软弱无力的共和国遭到那些渴望恢复独裁主义的民族主义分子的内部进攻。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration, struggling to fulfill its own promises of change, should be more understanding of its Japanese counterpart.",
        "而正苦于兑现自身承诺的奥巴马政府应该对他们的日本同行给予更多的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Attacks mounted by jihadi terrorists, however terrifying, do not compare with the threat emanating from Russia.",
        "无论由圣战恐怖分子发动的袭击多么可怕，也不能与俄国造成的威胁进行比较。"
    ],
    [
        "The opponents of aid are not merely wrong.",
        "援助的反对者不仅仅是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "The rapid resumption of presidential politics will undermine compromise further.",
        "总统政治的迅速卷土重来将进一步破坏妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world of color revolutions, Pakistan’s was clothed in the sober hues of the law.",
        "”在全世界各种颜色的革命中，巴基斯坦的革命笼罩着法律肃穆的色调中。"
    ],
    [
        "But Americans do not view democratic India as a threat.",
        "但美国并不把民主的印度视为威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "They will become familiar with the technology and learn how to maintain consistent quality in the production line.",
        "他们将熟悉技术，学习如何维持生产线的质量。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor in a World of Financial Capitalism",
        "金融资本主义世界的劳工问题"
    ],
    [
        "In an increasingly water-stressed world, shared water resources are becoming an instrument of power, fostering competition within and between countries.",
        "在这个水资源日益紧缺的世界，共享的水资源日益成为权力工具，在国家内部和国家之间造成竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s connectedness agenda should also include efforts to attract more foreign talent.",
        "巴西的连通性日程还应该包括吸引更多外国人才。"
    ],
    [
        "I don’t know.",
        "我不知道。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of that initiative, the government insurer Medicaid spent less money on hospital stays, and inpatient expenditures fell by 62%.",
        "拜该计划所赐，政府保险商医疗补助（Medicaid）所支付的住院费用减少了，医院内支出降低了62%。"
    ],
    [
        "Declining dependence on external sources, properly pursued, is an important development.",
        "合理地追求减少对外部资源的依赖是发展的重要表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, we must step up now, while the Trump administration is still in its gestation period, to form connections with the US that keep it engaged and active.",
        "相反，我们必须在特朗普政府仍处于酝酿期的时候挺身而出，与美国建立联系，确保其继续积极参与国际事务。"
    ],
    [
        "But both parties won after running on a moderate platform of constitutionalism, separation of powers, civil liberties, and women’s rights.",
        "但两党都是在一个包含立宪主义，权力分立，公民自由以及维护妇女权益的温和主义平台之上获得成功的。"
    ],
    [
        "After participating in the Friends of Syria conference in Tunis, Clinton convened a town hall meeting with Tunisian youth.",
        "在参加了于突尼斯召开的“叙利亚之友”会议后，希拉里在一个市政厅里与突尼斯青年们进行了谈话。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, this pattern recurs in the accounts of anyone who has lived in Afghanistan, spoken the language, and understood the workings of patronage and power there.",
        "事实上，这种模式在阿富汗居民、阿富汗语使用者和了解当地依附和权力运作规则的人那里屡见不鲜。"
    ],
    [
        "And, where it is clear that immigrants will be needed, we must be able to identify, welcome, integrate, and protect them.",
        "此外，在明确需要移民的地方，我们必须能够认可、欢迎并保护他们，让他们融入到我们当中来。"
    ],
    [
        "They did not realize that the money they had made would melt away like snow in a warm spring.",
        "他们没有意识到，他们所赚到的钱会如同阳光下的冰雪一样融化殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "A system in which poppy is cultivated under license for the production of pain-killing medicines such as morphine and codeine would allow farmers to pursue their traditional livelihood and way of life, and, more importantly, to feed themselves and their families.",
        "它是一种为生产吗啡和可待因等止痛药而特许种植罂粟的制度。 这种制度能让农民继续他们传统的谋生方式，更重要的是可以让他们养家糊口。"
    ],
    [
        "This was a major change from the 2003-2005 period, when Iraq’s Sunni neighbors, fearing the country’s new Shiite elite, actively opposed the US occupation.",
        "这和2003至2005间那段时期大不相同。 在那段时期内，伊拉克的那些逊尼派邻国因为害怕伊拉克的新的精英们，积极地反对美国军队的占领。"
    ],
    [
        "Change for the better will be founded on the basic conviction that one should get what one deserves and deserve what one gets.",
        "只有当所有人都坚信种瓜得瓜、种豆得豆的基本法则，我们的生活才能越变越好。"
    ],
    [
        "But this becomes apparent only when the debt has to be refinanced or interest rates increase.",
        "但只有当债务必须再融资或利率上升时，这些状况才会暴露。"
    ],
    [
        "But stagnating or falling incomes for the many add a different dimension to the debate – and demand different types of solutions that emphasize wage growth for the majority of the income distribution.",
        "但大多数人收入停滞或下降为这一争论平添一个不同角度——也要求强调让收入分布中的大多数工资增长的不同类型的解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "We communicated by e-mail, but mostly face-to-face a few times a year, ever since we met.",
        "我们用电子邮件联系，但主要是最相识以来每年都会见几次面。"
    ],
    [
        "With monetary policy and some of the administrative controls on investment and local spending being relaxed, the slowdown should be brief.",
        "随着货币政策和一些对投资的行政控制以及对本地开支的放宽，经济放缓应该是短暂的。"
    ],
    [
        "Those are the pillars that our administration is emphasizing.",
        "这些是本届政府重点建设的发展支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "One-third of irrigated land worldwide is not suitable for growing crops because of the presence of salt – the result of repeated fertilization.",
        "全世界三分之一灌溉土地因含盐（反复施肥的结果）而不适于种植作物。"
    ],
    [
        "The Taliban may no longer be a unified force, but they clearly remain a dangerous one.",
        "”塔利班可能不再是团结的军事力量，但显然仍是极其危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "Challenges remain, of course.",
        "当然，挑战仍然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, with the US as the only superpower, it is even more important for countries to stand up and express their views - and to stick by them even when pressured.",
        "美国以独一无二的超级强权形象出现在今天的国际舞台，其他国家能够在这种情况下站起来、说出自己的观点，并且在面对压力的情况下仍然坚持下去就显得尤为重要了。"
    ],
    [
        "This proposal must now be amended and approved as soon as possible by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers if we are to have a chance of activating the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and proceeding with the other essential pillars of a banking union.",
        "欧洲议会和部长会议必须尽快修订和批准这一方案，如果我们想抓住机会激活欧洲稳定性机制（ESM）并打下其他银行联盟必要基础的话。"
    ],
    [
        "The only opposition party that made significant gains in the recent vote was the Japanese Communist Party, which nearly tripled its seat total, from eight to 21.",
        "在最近的选举中获得重大胜利的唯一一个反对党是日本共产党，其议席总数增加了近两倍，从八席增至21席。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran would be unlikely to pursue nuclear breakout immediately, because the deal still affords it substantial benefits.",
        "伊朗不太可能立即开始进行核突围，因为伊核协议仍然能带给它巨大的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The Lesson of Nepal",
        "尼泊尔的教训"
    ],
    [
        "These measures are achievable by 2010.",
        "在2010年以前实现这些目标是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the basic point is that the market has a way of transforming jobs and opportunities in ways that no one can predict.",
        "但基本要点是，市场自有一套没人可以预测的转变就业和机会的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the major multilateral institutions, the WTO maintains jurisdiction over trade.",
        "世贸组织（以及其他多边机构）仍是贸易仲裁机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s conventional strategic wisdom was based on an equation of “Bushehr versus Yitzhar” – that is, a readiness to dismantle West Bank settlements if the Iranian centrifuges in Bushehr were dismantled. As far as Netanyahu is concerned, this is not taking place.",
        "以色列的传统战略智慧的基础是“布什尔对伊扎尔”（Bushehr versus Yitzhar），即，只要布什尔的伊朗离心机拆掉，以色列就准备拆掉约旦河西岸的定居点。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, many key institutions have achieved wide autonomy from the government since 2000: the Central Bank, the Transparency Institute, the National Statistics Office, as well as the securities, communications, elections, anti-trust, and drug authorities.",
        "事实上，自2000年新政府上台以来许多关键机构都获得了更大的自主权：中央银行、行政透明化机构（the Transparency Institute），国家统计办公室以及与证券、通信、选举，反垄断和药品管理有关的部门。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, instead of taking time to consider fully the relevant ethical, ecological, and social issues, many are aggressively promoting gene-drive technology for use in conservation.",
        "然而，在没有充分考虑相关伦理、生态和社会问题的情况下，许多人积极地推动在物种保护中使用基因驱动技术。"
    ],
    [
        "But the only certainty is that there will be many a slip twixt the cup and the lip on the long road to Saudi Arabia’s economic transformation.",
        "但可以肯定在沙特阿拉伯经济转型的漫漫长路上很多困难仍会阻碍转型任务的完成。"
    ],
    [
        "But such considerations were off the table well before the deliberations began.",
        "但在谈判开始前，这一方案就被否决了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, being a CHW offers a good way for young people to start their careers.",
        "此外，成为CHW为年轻人提供了很好的职业生涯起点。"
    ],
    [
        "The DPJ threatened to change comfortable old arrangements, whereby the US could more or less tell the Japanese what to do.",
        "于是民主党威胁要修改那些对美国有利的旧协议，不让其再对日本人指手画脚。"
    ],
    [
        "How Much Development Data Is Enough?",
        "多少发展数据算够？"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, politicians have continued to add trains to please various constituencies – but without adding track.",
        "更有甚者，政客们继续加开客运车辆以讨好选民——但却没有增铺铁路。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, nostalgia for Churchill is hardly a sign of American vitality, but more like a romantic rearguard battle, typical of a country in decline.",
        "如果真的如此，对丘吉尔的怀旧恐怕很难与美国的活力扯上关系，而更像是一个衰落国家一场浪漫而又徒劳无益的战斗。"
    ],
    [
        "The husband of another young woman, Aisha, cut off her nose and ears when she ran away.",
        "而另一位叫阿莎的妇女试图从家里逃走，却被其夫捉回来残忍地割掉了鼻子和双耳。"
    ],
    [
        "The largest gains from globalization have not only accrued to the middle and upper classes in Asia, but also to the top 1% of earners worldwide.",
        "不仅亚洲的中产及上层阶级从全球化中得到了最大红利，同样获益匪浅的还有全世界1%的最高收入阶层。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – On the face of it, China’s recent declaration of an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) extending to territories that it does not control has nothing in common with America’s arrest and strip-search of a New York-based Indian diplomat for allegedly underpaying a housekeeper she had brought with her from India.",
        "新德里——表面上，中国不久前宣布在其实际控制区外设立防空识别区（ADIZ）与美国因涉嫌克扣印度管家而逮捕一名驻纽约印度外交官并对其进行搜身似乎毫无关联之处。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent World Bank loans are similarly conditioned, in part, on “fiscal discipline.”",
        "最近，世界银行贷款的“财政纪律”在某种程度上也设置了类似的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Africa has the world’s fastest-growing population – and the youngest, with more than half under 20 years old, compared to 28% in China.",
        "此外，非洲拥有世界上增长最快——也最年轻——的人口，非洲20岁以下人口占总人口的比例超过一半，而中国在这方面的比例为28%。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians virtually everywhere would do well to re-read the fiscal policy chapter in their introductory macroeconomics textbooks.",
        "几乎所有国家的政客都通过重温入门宏观经学教科书中的财政政策章节大获裨益。"
    ],
    [
        "And Hong Kong’s economic blueprint also focuses on accelerating large infrastructure projects whose environmental impact has not been rigorously examined.",
        "而香港的经济蓝图同样强调加快大的基础设施项目建设，而并没有对于它们对环境的影响进行有力的调查。"
    ],
    [
        "But de-emphasizing that strategic commitment could call into question a crucial shift now required of China’s core economic identity.",
        "但不再强调这一战略承诺可能让中国核心经济身份所要求的关键转变出现问题。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 3,200 Hungarians have received academic scholarships from the foundation.",
        "超过3，200名匈牙利人曾经获得过基金会的学术奖学金资助。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report stated, in uncharacteristically strong terms, that the sea level is “virtually certain” to continue to rise in the coming centuries or millennia.",
        "事实上，最新发布的政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）报告以一反常态的强硬语气表示，海平面“几乎毫无疑问”将在今后几百甚至上千年继续升高。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the Turkish military, with the judiciary’s support, explicitly intervened in the civilian government’s functioning in 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997, each time in the name of protecting secularism.",
        "事实上，1960年、1971年、1980年和1997年，土耳其军方在司法部门的支持下赤裸裸地干预了文职政府的运作，每一次都打着捍卫世俗主义的名号。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Wang Yi, a law lecturer at Chengdu University who called for freedom of speech and association, was barred from teaching.",
        "类似的事件是，成都大学法律系讲师王怡呼吁言论和结社自由而被停课。"
    ],
    [
        "But doesn’t the banks’ ability to raise new equity capital indicate that, regardless of whether the stress tests are reliable, investors believe that their assets’ value does significantly exceed their liabilities?",
        "抛开压力测试是否有效不谈，是不是只要 银行有能力进行新的融资，就意味着它的净资产就是正数了么？"
    ],
    [
        "California, Wyoming, and other states allowed women to vote – an example that encouraged passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (enfranchising all adult women).",
        "加利福尼亚、怀俄明和其他州允许女性投票——这一先例促使第十九修正案（授予全体成年女性选举权）获得通过。"
    ],
    [
        "Your Genes or Mine, How Different Are We?",
        "你我的基因，我们有何不同？"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, turning to Europe, Obama’s flippant attitude concerning alleged US surveillance of the European Union and its member states shows that American exceptionalism is alive and well.",
        "最后，回到欧洲，奥巴马关于美国被控监视欧盟及其成员国问题的轻率态度表明美国的例外主义（exceptionalism）风头正劲。"
    ],
    [
        "Tiger mothering might seem to be a useful counterbalance to such permissiveness, but both extremes leave something out.",
        "或许虎妈式管教是对上述放任纵容的有效平衡，但这两种极端做法都会产生副作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The project emerged from a research question that goes to the heart of the debate on the proper role and actual motivations of the state in regulating markets: Does regulation exist to achieve some laudable social goal or mainly to extract rents?",
        "该项目来自一个直指国家在监管市场方面所应该扮演的合适角色及其实际动机的争论的焦点的研究问题：监管的存在有助于实现值得追求的社会目标还是纯属攫取租金？"
    ],
    [
        "(North Korea’s leader, of course, has no fixed term in office.)",
        "（当然，朝鲜领导人没有固定的任期。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "After all, banks, firms, and even individuals already can buy renminbi for their pounds and euros.",
        "毕竟，银行、企业甚至个人早已能够用人民币兑换他们的英镑和欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "With the current inflation rate of more than 2% and markets anticipating a similar inflation rate over the longer term (as measured by five-year five-year-forward inflation expectations), the yield on ten-year Treasury bonds should be above 4%.",
        "5%。 在当前通胀率超过2%、市场预期在较长期（从五年远期通胀预期看）也将保持这一通胀率的情况下，十年期国债收益率应该高于4%。"
    ],
    [
        "After the US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, sparking a global financial crisis whose repercussions are still being felt, G-20 countries offered firm commitments to increase the IMF’s lending resources, thereby enabling the Fund to mitigate the effects of the crisis.",
        "2008年美国投资银行雷曼兄弟倒闭并引发全球金融危机（其后果至今仍随处可见）后，G20纷纷做出了切实的承诺增加IMF的贷款资源从而使其能够减轻危机的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "For quite some time, growing income inequality did not slow consumption growth; indeed, “trickle-down consumption” pressures fostered more consumer spending, more debt, more bankruptcy, and more financial stress among middle- and lower-income households.",
        "在相当一段时间中，不断扩大的收入失衡现象并未拉低消费的增长； 事实上，“跟风消费”的压力孕育了更多的消费者支出，更多的借贷，更多的破产，以及中等和低收入家庭越来越大的财务压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the question is not so much whether the global system will endure the imbalances spawned by China, but how severe those imbalances will prove to be.",
        "实际上，真正的问题并不在于全球体系是否会忍受中国带来的不平衡，而在于评估这种不平衡有多么严重。"
    ],
    [
        "One way to reconcile the changes in the job market with our lived experience and statistics like these is to note that much of what we are producing is very different from what we have made in the past.",
        "一个协调就业市场变化与我们的生活经验和这些统计数字的办法是注意到我们生产的许多东西与我们过去所制造的东西区别很大。"
    ],
    [
        "While the promised labor-market reform is well underway, and could be adopted as early as September, the administration’s macroeconomic program, articulated by Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, is a serious disappointment.",
        "承诺的劳动力市场改革推进情况良好，可能从9月就开始实施，但由总理菲利普负责的政府的宏观经济计划，则非常令人失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Bad economics easily turns into bad politics.",
        "糟糕的经济算盘很容易变为糟糕的政治决定。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this was necessarily wrong.",
        "这些都没错。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration provided three major rationales for going to war in Iraq. Only one remains at all credible: the need to transform the Middle East through democratization and thereby undercut support for terrorists.",
        "布什政府发动伊拉克战争有三个重要的理论依据，其中只有一条似乎还站得住脚：那就是对中东进行民主化改造，并以此来削弱恐怖分子的根基。"
    ],
    [
        "Its introduction was viewed as a technocratic affair, to be handled by central bankers and finance ministers, not as the cornerstone of a common European identity.",
        "欧元的引入被认为是技术事务，由央行行长和财政部长负责，而不是同一个欧洲的身份的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, it reflects the enormous successes in economic development during the last four decades (the BRICS’ aggregate GDP is now greater than that of the advanced countries when the Bretton Woods institutions were founded) and the rebalancing of global economic power that this implies.",
        "首先，它反映了过去四十年来经济发展的巨大成功（金砖国家GDP之和已经比布雷顿森林体系建立时的发达国家更大）及其所隐含的全球经济实力的再平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the specific portfolio of policies varies depending on the stage of a country’s development; early-stage growth dynamics are distinctly different from those in middle-income and advanced countries.",
        "当然，政策组合的具体内容要根据一国发展阶段而定； 早期阶段增长动态与中等收入和发达国家截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Progress on roads, railways, and power projects – all of which could prevent food from perishing prematurely, and energy and commodities from being unnecessarily wasted – is essential to stabilizing prices.",
        "公路，铁路和发电项目都是稳定物价的要素，因为这些设施都有助于防止食品过早腐烂变质以及能源和商品不至于白白浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "The Leave campaign also claimed that free movement of labor heightens the supposed dangers of terrorism and higher unemployment for British workers.",
        "脱欧运动还声称，劳动力的自由流动还加剧了传闻中的恐怖主义威胁，令英国本土工人的失业率走高。"
    ],
    [
        "The entire world is in the grip of deflationary forces.",
        "如今全世界都被通缩所困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "The “soft” issues of environment and climate will become the hard and strategic issues of the twenty-first century.",
        "原本“温和”的环境和气候问题将会成为21世纪人类所面对的最为艰巨的战略挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But does the Chinese government really have the tools needed to keep its economy so resilient?",
        "但中国政府真的有能力使其经济具有如此的韧性么？"
    ],
    [
        "At the American University of Beirut, summer school students recently introduced engineering strategies for helping displaced people.",
        "在贝鲁特美国大学，夏季课程的学生最近引入了帮助流离失所者的工程策略。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the savings-bank movement in the United Kingdom and Europe in the nineteenth century, and the microfinance movement pioneered by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in the twentieth century, comes to mind.",
        "在这方面，19世纪英国和欧洲的储蓄银行运动以及20世纪以孟加拉国格莱珉银行为先驱的微金融运动树立了榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Generally, but not always, El Niño events tend to be inflationary, in part because low crop yields lead to higher prices.",
        "总体而言（但非总是如此），厄尔尼诺事件倾向于带来通胀效应，这部分是因为庄稼收成下降导致价格升高。"
    ],
    [
        "So a better balance is needed to mitigate the concerns of diverse social and political actors whose participation is needed to renew constitutional frameworks, strengthen the rule of law, and revive national identity and state institutions in a context of democratic transition.",
        "因此就需要更好的平衡来调和不同社会和政治行为者的关注点，因为在民主转型的大背景下修订宪政框架、 加强法治，重振民族认同和国家机构等都需要各方的参与。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when it comes to the era of supposed US hegemony, there has always been a lot of fiction mixed in with the facts.",
        "但是，在所谓的美国霸权时期，一直有许多混杂在一起的事实和矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "The first of Turkey’s two parliamentary elections this year, in June, was widely viewed as a referendum on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s efforts to strengthen the powers of his office.",
        "今年，土耳其进行了两次议会选举，第一次是在6月，被广泛认为是总统埃尔多安加强其班子权力的全民公决。"
    ],
    [
        "Followed through to its end, he argued, it would mean that all were blind.",
        "他认为，如果听从这一教唆就会意味着所有人都失明。"
    ],
    [
        "For Schumpeter, there was something both noble and tragic about the spirit of capitalism.",
        "对于熊彼得而言，资本主义精神中包含有高尚和悲剧性的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "It is true that Greece has had to undergo painful adjustments to address its deep structural weaknesses, unsustainable public finances, and lack of price competitiveness – adjustments that led to a drop in Greek output.",
        "诚然，希腊不得不进行痛苦的调整以解决深层次结构弱点、不可持续的公共财政以及缺少价格竞争力的问题——这些调整措施导致希腊产出下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The committees formed their own courts, assumed sweeping arrest powers, took over the media, and purged officials who resisted Qaddafi’s will.",
        "委员会成立了自己的法庭，取得了至高无上的拘捕权，全面接管媒体，并清洗抵制卡扎菲意志的官员。"
    ],
    [
        "But nuclear arms also have a significant moral distinction: unlike other weapons, they are an effective means of preventing the large-scale wars and mass destruction of people, property, and cultures that have plagued humanity throughout recorded history.",
        "但核武器同时也具有一个特别道德的特性：不像其他武器，核武器可以有效防止大规模战争以及因此造成的对人民生命、财产和文化的极大破坏（这种破坏已经在历史上无数次地劫掠了人类社会）。"
    ],
    [
        "Crucially, international organizations must build up the capacity to resist governments’ efforts to protect their underperforming nationals.",
        "关键是，国际组织必须有能力抵制国家政府庇护其表现不佳的国民。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is also the philanthropic soup kitchen – in the Post’s case, a high-end one, delivering nutritious food in a world in which restaurants now give away less-healthy food, because they use it to sell other goods.",
        "但还有一种情况是爱心厨房——具体到《华盛顿邮报》，这家高端爱心厨房在餐馆普遍提供垃圾食品（因为他们把其他产品与垃圾食品捆绑销售）的今天为人们提供营养丰富的菜肴。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s recovery from recession is anemic and largely jobless.",
        "美国衰退后的复苏进程十分疲软，并伴随着大量的失业。"
    ],
    [
        "As a recent Morgan Stanley report pointed out, the pharmaceutical industry’s current success rates are not sufficient to sustain large internal R&D organizations, making the industry’s current operating model financially non-viable. Thus, companies must either improve success rates or decrease the cost of failure.",
        "摩根斯坦利近期发布的一份报告称，制药业现有的药品市场成功率不足以维持大型内部研发机构的发展，这使得该行业现有的运营模式在财政上是不可行的，企业不得不或者提高药品的市场成功率，或者减少药品失败的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The growing isolationism associated with the populist backlash around the world is having severe consequences for foreign assistance.",
        "因世界各国民粹主义回潮而愈演愈烈的孤立主义正在对国外援助造成严重的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "It wants to help set the rules and build the institutions for enforcing them.",
        "很明显，中国想要参与制定国际规则并组建落实这些规则的国际组织。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, as the world’s leader in stringent, real-time censorship of electronic communications, China is strongly placed to block any Arab contagion from reaching its shores.",
        "更重要的是，作为全球严格实时电子通信审查技术的领头羊，中国努力将一切阿拉伯“毒草”拒之门外。"
    ],
    [
        "But Medicare spending, which is not affected by recessions, has slowed along with private health-care spending.",
        "但联邦医疗保险支出——该指支出不受衰退影响——也随着私人健康支出一起放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "But, this year, with signs of economic recovery emerging, advanced countries have quickly shifted from fiscal stimulus to fiscal consolidation.",
        "但今年随着经济复苏的迹象开始出现，发达国家又迅速从财政刺激转向了财政整顿。"
    ],
    [
        "But real political freedom in Cuba may be slow to come.",
        "但古巴的真正的政治自由可能姗姗来迟。"
    ],
    [
        "Many people seem to think that the Bush administration is the problem.",
        "许多人认为布什是问题所在。"
    ],
    [
        "Badly designed rules, no matter how well intentioned, can have the opposite effect.",
        "而设计有缺陷的规则，无论出发点是多么用心良苦，都可以产生反效果。"
    ],
    [
        "But Igan and Mishra approach the problem in a clever way – they look for instances when elected officials switched their position on legislative proposals that surfaced more than once. And they devote a lot of effort to figuring out what caused this switch.",
        "但伊甘和米什拉用一个十分巧妙的办法处理了这个问题——他们寻找党员官员对立法建议的立场改变超过一次的例子，并花了大量精力寻找立场改变背后的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In attempting to cope with imperfect knowledge, they are not irrational when they pay attention to other macroeconomic fundamentals and thereby bid an exchange rate away from its parity level.",
        "为了试图应付不完善的知识，他们在关注其他宏观经济基本面的时候并不丢失理性，因而争购某一种货币脱离其同位水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the weak state of Europe’s banking system, accumulating too much capital is not a luxury that the EU can afford.",
        "考虑到欧洲银行体系的脆弱性，积累过多资本可不是欧盟经受得起的奢侈品。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider lung cancer.",
        "就拿肺癌来说吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Opium is choking Afghan society.",
        "鸦片正在令阿富汗社会窒息。"
    ],
    [
        "Katrina came with at least two days’ warning, but authorities waited to issue an evacuation order.",
        "卡特里娜来袭的前两天就已经发出了警报，但政府却延误了签发撤离指令的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Western countries have been residual victims of the vicious struggles between Saudi and Iranian proxies.",
        "西方国家一直是沙特和伊朗代理人之间的恶性斗争的剩余受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "That suggests that the problem may not be with US citizens’ attitudes, but rather that, at the federal level, the US political system allows industries with large campaign chests too much power to thwart the wishes of popular majorities.",
        "这意味着并不是美国民众的态度有问题，而是在联邦层级上，美国的政治系统给予了那些拥有巨额选举资金的行业过分巨大的力量，足以将大多数民众的意愿置诸脑后。"
    ],
    [
        "This failure can be explained only by the money illusion, which ultimately is connected with what psychologists call “framing.”",
        "只有货币错觉才能解释这一失败，而货币错觉最终又与心理学家所称的“构筑框架”相关。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) had fixed the renminbi’s exchange rate on a daily basis, without regard to underlying market sentiment; and it had allowed for the renminbi to trade only within very narrow limits.",
        "历史上，中国人民银行每天都会在毫不顾及市场情绪的情况下制定一个人民币汇率； 只允许人民币在极窄的限定范围内进行交易。"
    ],
    [
        "In his six years in office, he has repeatedly tried to bypass a polarized state legislature – even the annual budget requires a two-thirds majority – by appealing directly to voters.",
        "在他六年的州长生涯中，他曾多次试图绕过两极分化的州政府-甚至年度预算也需要三分之二多数的通过-而直接向选民呼吁。"
    ],
    [
        "A nurse, Wangari counts on income from farming to raise money to buy more land – for more farming.",
        "作为一名护士，尤妮斯希望用种地所赚来的钱来购买更多土地——然后再种更多的地。"
    ],
    [
        "The political and security situation in Iraq seems to be stabilizing, and Syria seems to be more amenable to negotiation.",
        "伊拉克的政治和安全局势看起来正在稳定，而叙利亚好像更加愿意谈判了。"
    ],
    [
        "History offers two clear lessons: reducing public debt is incredibly difficult without growth, and increasing growth is incredibly difficult with a huge burden of public debt.",
        "历史告诉我们两条明确的教训：没有增长很难降低公共债务，但在巨额债务拖累下很难实现加速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "That means investing more in education at all levels – in early-childhood education programs, elementary and secondary schools, community colleges, trade-school programs for specific jobs in specific sectors, and financial aid for higher education.",
        "这意味着增加对各水平教育的投资——早教、小学、中学、社区学院、针对特定行业特定职位的职业教育，以及对高等教育的财务支持。"
    ],
    [
        "At a minimum, the Fed might develop a “portfolio” of analogies, test them for fitness, and distill their lessons, as President John F. Kennedy famously did when weighing his options during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.",
        "至少美联储可以举出一个类比例子“列表”，测试它们的适用性并汲取经验，正如1962年约翰·F·肯尼迪（John F. Kennedy）在古巴导弹危机期间权衡选择时所做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, given its purely ideological basis, Arpaio’s pardon was not reviewed in advance by the US Department of Justice, as has become customary over the years.",
        "毫不奇怪的是，鉴于如此纯粹的意识形态基础，阿帕约的赦免事前并未像多年以来已经形成的惯例那样得到美国司法部的核准。"
    ],
    [
        "It is up to those members – to all of our governments - to provide both the necessary will and the required resources.",
        "关键是各成员国—我们所有的国家政府—能提供必要的意愿和必须的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason is that rebalancing is needed when a defective growth pattern distorts the economy’s structure, particularly the balance between the tradable and non-tradable sectors.",
        "一个原因是当经济结构被有缺陷的增长模式破坏后必须进行重新平衡，尤其是贸易部门和非贸易部门之间的再平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Lack of skilled civil servants is also making it difficult for the NTC to push through the changes that Libyans are demanding.",
        "得力行政官员的缺乏也使国务委员会无法推进民众所需要的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "The silence was lamentable, but not surprising; tracking donor funds is extremely difficult.",
        "沉默虽然可悲，但并不值得大惊小怪：跟踪捐助资金是极其困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy’s Minister for Trade and Europe, Emma Bonino, commenting upon the Microsoft ruling, observed that the very name Microsoft evokes “what the US is capable of doing.”",
        "意大利贸易和欧洲事务部长博尼诺在评价对微软的裁决时认为单单是微软这个名字就代表了“美国能够做到的事情”。"
    ],
    [
        "A television comic named Victor Trujillo, but better known as Brozo the Creepy Clown, became the most influential political commentator in Mexico.",
        "一位名叫维克多·特鲁希略的电视喜剧演员现在已经是墨西哥最家喻户晓的政治评论人物，但多数人都称之为“恐怖小丑Brozo”。"
    ],
    [
        "A stem cell is special because it is able to reproduce a form that is different from itself.",
        "干细胞之所以特殊是因为它能够产生有别于自身的形式。"
    ],
    [
        "When the so-called third wave of democratization began in the mid-1970s, Western democracies were mired in stagflation and the political trauma of the Vietnam War.",
        "20世纪70年代所谓的第三波民主化浪潮开始时，西方民主国家陷入了停滞和越南战争的政治创伤中。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a revaluation would also discourage exports and encourage imports, thereby reducing China’s chronic trade surplus.",
        "如此规模的升值还将抑制出口、鼓励进口，从而减少中国长期存在的贸易盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the IPCC’s target for annual per capita CO2 emissions, we still do not know how much warming various levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will cause.",
        "尽管联合国政府间气候变化工作小组已经确定了二氧化碳排放的年人均目标，我们仍然不清楚大气中不同含量的温室气体将在多大程度上导致变暖的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "This was always true in the so-called developing (and often relatively poor) world.",
        "这一点在所谓的发展中（通常也是相对贫困）国家中是永恒的真理。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the ICBC’s non-performing loan (NPL) ratio for LFP loans is as low as 0.3%, while the corresponding coverage ratio – the bank’s ability to absorb losses from NPLs – is 1,066%.",
        "事实上，中国工商银行的地方财政平台单款不良率只有0. 3%，而相应的保付率——即银行吸收不良贷款损失的能力——为1066%。"
    ],
    [
        "Her motto, “My program is yours,” could prove popular with citizens who, as in many other democracies, do not trust their political elite.",
        "她的口号“你的纲领就是我的纲领”对于不信任政治精英的公民而言(正如其他民主国家一样)很有感召力。"
    ],
    [
        "Hillary Clinton’s Asian Adventure",
        "希拉里·克林顿的亚洲冒险之旅"
    ],
    [
        "So, unfortunately, even if Europe came to its senses and emerging markets showed greater enthusiasm for liberal trade, we may not see a big global deal until the next decade.",
        "所以，不幸的是，即便欧洲即时醒悟，且新兴市场国家也对自由贸易抱有更大的热情，我们或许还是不能指望在未来十年里会达成大宗的全球性贸易协议。"
    ],
    [
        "To Italian lawmakers, mired in stalemate and indecision, the French executive’s considerable influence over the parliament is appealing.",
        "对陷于僵局和犹豫的意大利立法者来说，法国行政影响力远高于议会的状态吸引力极大。"
    ],
    [
        "This will likely be followed by more sophisticated means of communications based on access to the air.",
        "这很可能会引发通过太空进行传播的更加复杂的通讯手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe could not have united in peace and democracy without that sea change.",
        "没有这一天翻地覆的变化，欧洲就不可能和平、民主地实现统一。"
    ],
    [
        "The seminar culminates with student research papers aimed at assessing which candidates might be the next Japan.",
        "在课程结束时学生都要提交研究论文去评估哪些候选国可能成为下一个日本。"
    ],
    [
        "In an hour-long speech, he made two key points.",
        "长达一小时的讲话关键点主要有两个。"
    ],
    [
        "Complete eradication is in reach, but is still proving elusive, as small outbreaks have plagued one country or another in recent years.",
        "完全消除小儿麻痹症为期不远，但依然难以捉摸，因为近年来小儿麻痹症的爆发困扰了一个又一个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, the Bank declared a new goal – to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.",
        "2013年，世界银行宣布了一个新目标——到2030年消除极端贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "RANGOON – Across the Middle East, and now in Burma (Myanmar), one of the great questions of contemporary global politics has resurfaced: How can countries move from a failing authoritarianism to some form of self-sustaining pluralism?",
        "仰光--和中东地区一样，当今时代一个全球性的政治问题开始在缅甸浮出水面：应该如何从一个失败的独裁主义国家转向一个自立的多元主义国家？"
    ],
    [
        "We can only guess at the company’s real reason for taking down the Web site, but fear of repercussions against its commercial interests in China seems likely to have been an important factor.",
        "我们只能对它封杀站点的真正原因进行猜测，但害怕其在中国的商业利益受到损害很可能是一个重要的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The sense of revulsion is acute: Many of the Five Star Movement’s supportershope to transfer control of Italy’s government to citizen-representatives, whose every move would be digitally monitored to preclude corruption.",
        "厌憎感相当尖锐：许多五星运动支持者希望由人民代表掌握意大利政府的控制权，他们的一举一动都将受到数字监控，以防腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "Such temperatures can be achieved only through liquid-helium cooling.",
        "而这种温度只能通过液氦冷却来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this deeply entrenched culture of academic ambition, the planned administrative inquiry into conditions at the Kota coaching institutes is unlikely to result in remedial action.",
        "在这一根深蒂固的成绩文化影响下，计划对科塔补习班环境进行行政调查不可能形成纠正措施。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that the Chinese leadership is able to maintain such a multi-dimensional policy and reform focus, a weak and still vulnerable global economy can only benefit.",
        "只要中国领导层能够保持这一多维度政策和改革重点，疲软且依旧脆弱的全球经济就可能受益。"
    ],
    [
        "There is nothing modest about that achievement, given Brazil’s traditional institutional instability and the series of major corruption scandals that engulfed Lula’s government in 2005 and 2006.",
        "考虑到一直困扰着巴西的制度动荡和2005、2006年几乎吞噬卢拉政府的系列重大腐败丑闻，这一成绩的取得绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "Successive Afghan governments have refused to recognize the frontier with Pakistan known as the Durand line, a British-colonial invention that split the large ethnic Pashtun population.",
        "阿富汗继任政府拒绝承认被称为杜兰线（Durand line，由英国殖民者划定的分割庞大的普什图族的边界）的阿巴边界。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s decision to execute the head of its drug regulatory agency has rekindled international debate about capital punishment.",
        "中国判处原药监局局长死刑再度引发了有关死刑的国际争论。"
    ],
    [
        "Serbian politics will be chaotic and unstable for the foreseeable future, and Serbian politicians will attempt to present this as an excuse to avoid facing the loss of Kosovo.",
        "塞尔维亚政治在可以预见的将来将会是混乱不堪以及不稳定的。 塞尔维亚的政客们将力图以此作为避免面临失去科索沃的借口。"
    ],
    [
        "If satellite technology is fully exploited, farmers could receive real-time information on their mobile phones about how much water to use and when.",
        "如果卫星技术得到充分利用，农民可以通过手机收到关于何时可用多少水的实时信息。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Brazil failed to take advantage of the good times to reap productivity growth.",
        "不幸的是，巴西没有利用高景气时期实现生产率增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and even Cyprus are showing clear signs of recovery, with unemployment finally falling (albeit slowly and from high levels) and access to capital markets restored.",
        "事实上，爱尔兰，西班牙甚至塞浦路斯都呈现出明确的复苏迹象，失业率终于开始下降（虽然缓慢并从高位下行），从资本市场融资的渠道也得到了恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "Younger US voters, generations removed from the Holocaust, do not share most of their elders’ reflexive habit of support for Israel.",
        "年轻的美国选民没有经历过大屠杀，并不具有老一辈人条件反射式的支持以色列的习惯。"
    ],
    [
        "The West seemed to have entered a new era.",
        "西方似乎进入了一个新时代。"
    ],
    [
        "High tolerance for failure keeps everybody striving to succeed.",
        "对失败的高度包容使得所有人都为成功而拼命努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Since price declines would bring with them wage declines, the ratio of monthly mortgage payments to wage income would rise.",
        "由于价格下降也会导致他们的工资下降，每月贷款所占工资总额的比例就会上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Zimbabwe, on the other hand, despite its slow growth rate, exported $766 million worth of goods to China in 2015, and imported $546 million.",
        "另一方面，津巴布韦尽管增长缓慢，2015年却向中国出口了7. 6亿美元的商品，而进口额为5."
    ],
    [
        "So, why is this time different?",
        "那么，这一次为什么会不一样呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Missile defense has suddenly emerged as a divisive issue in Europe.",
        "导弹防御系统突然间成为了一个使欧洲面临分裂的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "I hope to see governments in Western Europe and the US face up to their responsibilities and conduct sensible, sustainable fiscal policies.",
        "我希望看到西欧和美国的政府勇敢面对它们的责任并贯彻明智、可持续的财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "If anything, dependence on complex cyber systems for support of military and economic activities creates new vulnerabilities in large states that can be exploited by non-state actors.",
        "如果一定要说有什么影响，那么大国依赖复杂网络系统支持军事和经济活动造成了可以被非国家参与者利用的全新漏洞。"
    ],
    [
        "Pro-cyclical fiscal adjustment is still the order of the day.",
        "亲周期财政调整至今仍主宰者政策界。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is running an $800 billion annual trade deficit in traditional goods and services.",
        "美国在传统商品和服务上每年的贸易赤字为8000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "That could take all of us to the edge of a slippery slope.",
        "这可能把我们所有人都推向一个下滑的深渊。"
    ],
    [
        "Somewhat more weightily, a Britain that is just another middle power would be less able to project military and diplomatic influence globally than it currently is, working in concert with the EU.",
        "稍稍更重要的是，仅仅作为又一股中间力量的英国将不再像现在那样，与欧盟一起在全球施加军事和外交影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "In July, I described the unprecedented nature of Venezuela’s economic calamity, documenting the collapse in output, incomes, and living and health standards.",
        "7月，我曾描述过委内瑞拉经济灾难史无前例的性质，记录了产量、收入、生活与健康水平的崩溃性下滑。"
    ],
    [
        "This stance – suggested by America’s opposition to granting Palestine observer-state status at the United Nations – would amount to an admission by the US that it has given up on the creation of two states in the Middle East.",
        "这一立场——可从美国在联合国大会上反对授予巴勒斯坦观察员国地位中一窥端倪——无异于承认放弃在中东建立两个国家的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "By the early 1970s, just about every country fell in line with the People’s Republic’s demand that it alone be recognized as the legitimate sovereign government of China.",
        "到20世纪70年代初，几乎所有国家都接受了中华人民共和国的要求，只承认它是合法的中国主权政府。"
    ],
    [
        "And the meta-risk of policy mistakes and accidents remains very high.",
        "而政策失误和事故的元风险（meta-risk）依然很高。"
    ],
    [
        "To get there requires, above all, replacing war (including the CIA’s secret wars) with commerce and other forms of peaceful exchange.",
        "而要实现这些目标，最重要的是用生意和其他和平交换形式代替战争（包括CIA秘密战争）"
    ],
    [
        "It is now up to the Japanese people to give him that mandate, effectively choosing to end two decades of economic malaise and geopolitical irrelevance.",
        "现在需要日本民众赋予他这种权力，有效结束长达二十年经济停滞和地缘政治地位低下的现状。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, it would deny Iran the ability to link popular Islamic and Arab causes with its own hegemonic ambitions.",
        "更为重要的是，这将不让伊朗具有把令世人瞩目的伊斯兰和阿拉伯事业与其自身的霸权主义野心连接起来的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "It was just a bubble, we learned.",
        "我们领会到这只是一个泡沫而已。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are other problems in the region that Israel – and the world – must face.",
        "但是在这个地区还有其他的一些问题是以色列以及全世界必须要面对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece can overcome its economic troubles only if it modifies its approach.",
        "希腊唯有改变方针才能克服经济困境。"
    ],
    [
        "We know what our principles, interests, and priorities are.",
        "我们知道我们的原则、利益和重点在哪里。"
    ],
    [
        "Since it originated during the Cold War, when members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee spent roughly $60 billion annually (an amount that the Soviet Union undoubtedly matched), recipient countries have been called “backward,” “developing,” “southern,” and, lately, “emerging.”",
        "ODA起源于冷战，其时经合组织发展援助委员会每年拿出约600亿美元资金（苏联毫无疑问可以与之匹敌），接受国被称为“后进国家”、“发展中国家”、“南方国家”，最近则被称为“新兴国家”。"
    ],
    [
        "That leads to the challenge of effective management of public assets – management that promotes rather than impedes market efficiency and innovation.",
        "这就提出了对公共资产进行有效管理的挑战——这种管理应该促进而不是妨碍市场效率和创新。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not the first time markets have felt blindsided by well-meaning reforms.",
        "这不是市场第一次被初衷良好的改革打得措手不及。"
    ],
    [
        "Another finding in the SAGhE study arouses skepticism about a cause-and-effect relationship between the drug and the increased death rate: the mortality came from causes that are mechanistically and physiologically quite different – mainly bone cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and cerebrovascular events.",
        "SAGhE研究的另一个发现也引发了人们对该药物和死亡率上升之间因果关系的怀疑。 调查显示服用者的各类致死原因无论是在作用机理和生理上都存在巨大差异——主要是骨癌，心血管疾病和脑血管疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so requires recognizing that realistic alternatives to industrial agriculture do exist.",
        "这样做需要认识到工业农业的现实替代方案是存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Christianity is not at war with Islam.",
        "基督教不是在和伊斯兰交战。"
    ],
    [
        "With executive authority increasingly in the hands of elected representatives, rather than dispersed among various competing institutions, the political establishment has been revitalized – and it has taken three important steps toward strengthening democracy and the rule of law.",
        "行政当局日益由当选代表控制，而不是由各相互竞争的机构夺来夺去； 政治体制已经重获生机——并且已采取三个重要步骤朝强化民主和法治精神迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it has become a permanent scourge blighting Europe’s soul and brewing future trouble.",
        "事实上，这场危机已经成为长久影响欧洲的灵魂、酝酿未来麻烦的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Both alternatives are unacceptable.",
        "而这两个结果都是不可接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that this will lend comfort to him, and give a moral boost to Chinese who share his views.",
        "人们只是希望此举能聊表慰藉，并给予那些与刘晓波志同道合的中国人以道义上的鼓舞；"
    ],
    [
        "Work within the ARF and EAS frameworks is already aligned with this concept, and Japan is pursuing its own trilateral dialogues with China and the Republic of Korea, as well as with the US and Australia.",
        "在东盟区域论坛或者东亚峰会框架内的工作已经与这一理念相契合，而日本正在寻求分别与中国和韩国，美国和澳大利亚展开三方对话。"
    ],
    [
        "Khatami’s successor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, repeatedly condemned the presence of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and even worked to obstruct their efforts.",
        "哈塔米的继任者，艾哈迈迪内贾德（Mahmoud Ahmadinejad）多次谴责美国和北约驻阿富汗部队的存在，甚至想方设法阻挠后者的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Soaring food and fuel prices and major natural disasters played an important role in undermining financial markets, household purchasing power, and even political stability.",
        "食品与燃料价格的飚升与主要自然灾难在很多方面都起到了重要的影响，如破坏金融市场与居民的购买能力，甚至是破坏了政治的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries have been altering their growth strategies to reflect this insight.",
        "许多国家改变增长战略以反映这一洞见。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to sustain any democratic system, whether on a national or European scale, without a sense of solidarity.",
        "没有了团结之感，就难以维系民主体制，这对各国和欧洲整体而言都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, if one takes a longer view of real interest rates in the US, calculated by subtracting the previous year’s inflation from the nominal government bond yield, one finds that, while they are much lower than 20 years ago, they are not low by historical standards.",
        "实际上，如果我们从更长期的观点来考量美国的实际利率，将前一年的通胀从政府债券的实际收益中扣除，我们会发现虽然它们比20年前低了很多，但就历史标准而言却并不低。"
    ],
    [
        "Roughly half as many learn French, a quarter German and an eighth Spanish, and these numbers are falling, despite the Commission’s efforts, because people tend to choose the foreign language that they believe is spoken and studied the most by others.",
        "大体上讲，学法语的人数只有学英语的一半，学德语的是它的四分之一，学西班牙语的是它的八分之一。 而且尽管有了欧盟委员会的努力，这些数字还是在不断下降，因为人们总是会选择那些他们认为被使用和学习得最多的语言。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly true with respect to French companies, which have remarkably adapted to the demands of international competition.",
        "这一点对于法国公司而言尤其如此，它们都很好地适应了国际竞争的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "If this meant that the Tribunal was intended to deter further violence, then it failed, at least in the short run.",
        "如果这意味着法庭想阻止进一步的暴力行动，那么它失败了，至少在短期内一败涂地。"
    ],
    [
        "The tide turned during the 1960’s, with Rolf Hochhuth’s play The Deputy the starting point for feverish questioning of Pius’s reputation.",
        "但此潮流于20世纪60年代转向，以罗尔夫﹒霍赫胡特的剧本“副手”为起点，皮亚斯十二世的声誉开始遭到激烈的质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "With trade, both among the BRICS countries and between the BRICS and the rest of Africa, expected to increase from roughly $340 billion in 2012 to more than $500 billion in 2015, there is also much to discuss on the commercial front.",
        "金砖国家之间及它们与非洲其他国家之间的贸易额预计将从2012年的约3400亿美元增至2015年的5000亿美元，因此在商业领域也有很多内容有待讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Nigel Lawson was Thatcher’s second Chancellor of the Exchequer, or finance minister.",
        "尼格尔·劳森是撒切尔时代的第二任财政大臣，或者说是财政部长。"
    ],
    [
        "German leaders have frowned on this, and the ECB has felt uncomfortable, limiting its purchases and saying that political leaders, not central bankers, should save the euro.",
        "德国领导人已对此表示了不满，欧洲央行已经感到了不适，其买入举措已有所限制，并称政治领导人，而不是央行行长，才应该站出来拯救欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar divisions appear when voters are classified according to dependence on government handouts (high in the Northeast) or years of schooling (high in the South).",
        "如果把选民根据倚赖政府救济（在东北部比例很高）还是倚赖教育（在南部比例较高）分类，也会出现类似的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Walaupun Amerika Serikat memberlakukan bea impor pada baja dari Cina (dan ke banyak produk Cina lainnya), namun motifnya bukan untuk menurunkan harga baja global.",
        "尽管美国确实对中国钢材（和其他许多产品）征收进口关税，但其动机很少是为了拉低世界钢材价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Fidel Castro knows this, and will take advantage of the democracies’ diluted commitment to human rights and democracy.",
        "而古巴领导人菲德尔·卡斯特罗早就看透了这一点，并利用民主国家在人权和民主事务上说一套做一套的事实大做文章。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, these moves might create new barriers to entry, entrenching market leaders and undermining innovation.",
        "事实上，这些措施可能造成新的进入壁垒，巩固市场领导者地位，破坏创新。"
    ],
    [
        "But breakthrough technology companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Twitter also depend on people who had access to well-funded education systems.",
        "但如苹果，脸书和推特这些突破性技术公司也取决于企业与高水平教育体系的交流，而这类体系是需要充足资金去构建的。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the capital stock can maintain a reasonable growth rate.",
        "同时资本存量也会维持较高的增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "Technological progress has trumped obstacles to economic growth.",
        "技术进步战胜了经济增长的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, research by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) found that epidermolysis bullosa, a debilitating inherited skin disorder, has a different genetic signature in patients from the Middle East than in those from other parts of the world.",
        "比如，美国国际开发局（US Agency for International Development，USAID）的研究发现，大疱性表皮松解症（一种遗传性皮肤病）在来自中东的患者体内的基因签名不同于世界其他地区的患者。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are ways to avoid such an outcome – or at least minimize the damage.",
        "但有办法避免这样的结果——或至少实现伤害最小化。"
    ],
    [
        "Secondly, these goals are attainable because the world has changed.",
        "其次，上述目标能够实现是因为世界格局已经发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But Dodd-Frank was far from complete.",
        "但多德-弗兰克法案距离完善还差之甚远。"
    ],
    [
        "This – together with other critical interventions, such as the provision of clean water and effective sanitation facilities – will require a strong and sustained political commitment, one that civil society and the media, by keeping their governments accountable, can help to secure.",
        "这——以及其他关键干预措施，如提供清洁水和高效卫生设施——需要强大的持续政治承诺，公民社会和媒体可以通过问责政府助一臂之力。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the prototypes have proved effective and practical, they should scale quickly without public incentives.",
        "一旦原型系统被证明有效实用，它们应该就能在没有公共激励的情况下迅速扩大规模。"
    ],
    [
        "The only alternatives to an IMF program are an inflationary spiral to dilute the real value of debt and other nominal liabilities, or a downward economic spiral that may cause a need for debt restructuring.",
        "除了IMF计划，唯一的其他办法是进入通胀螺旋以降低债务和其他名义负债的实际价值； 或者进入会导致债务重组的经济衰退螺旋。"
    ],
    [
        "To those who view China’s rise in a negative light, the country is simply becoming ever more arrogant.",
        "对于那些以负面眼光看待中国崛起的人来说，这个国家简直是日益骄横：首先在对日东海主权争议上转趋强硬； 随后又在南海诸岛主权问题上与诸多邻国对峙；"
    ],
    [
        "Banking failure caused a credit crunch.",
        "银行破产导致信贷危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, France must abandon its current policies, for its own – and the rest of Europe’s – sake.",
        "事实上，法国必须放弃现有政策，这对它自己和对欧洲其他国家都好。"
    ],
    [
        "How the Fourth Industrial Revolution progresses will come down to people, culture, and values.",
        "第四次工业革命如何进步将取决于人、文化和价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, with the moderate Rouhani now installed as President, a US military strike could undermine a golden opportunity for America and Iran to reach a face-saving solution (for both sides) on Iran’s nuclear program.",
        "最后，因为温和派的鲁哈尼目前担任总统，美国的军事打击可能破坏美伊双方就伊朗核计划达成能为双方保存颜面的方案的黄金机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Even adults classify things based on concepts that we cannot really define.",
        "即使是成年人，也根据我们无法真正定义的概念分类事物。"
    ],
    [
        "So why did a gentle former literature professor named Liu Xiaobo have to be sentenced to 11 years in prison, just because he publicly advocated freedom of expression and an end to one-party rule?",
        "这样，为何一位儒雅的原文学教授（刘晓波）却仅仅因为公开倡导言论自由及一党统治的终结，而要被判处十一年徒刑呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Those denouncing the attempt to put Bashir on trial include the large blocs of countries that are members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the African Union, together with such powerful states as China and Russia.",
        "那些谴责让巴希尔受审的企图的国家包括伊斯兰会议组织和非洲联盟阵营的大部分成员国以及中国和俄罗斯这样的强国。"
    ],
    [
        "A new approach to alliance management is essential to revive public support for the partnership on both sides of the Pacific.",
        "因此必须制定一个管理联盟的新方案来重振太平洋两岸公众对这一伙伴关系的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing that it will take years until banks are properly stabilized, America needs to build new conduits for credit.",
        "意识到银行稳下来需要几年才能实现，美国需要打造新的信用渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "They are tired of the status quo, and the presidential candidates are right to address their concerns.",
        "他们对现状感到厌倦，而总统候选人应当合理关注他们的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Following prominent left-leaning economists, Sanders rails against the proposed new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), even though it would do much to help the developing world – for example, by opening up Japan’s market to Latin American imports.",
        "在一些知名左倾经济学家的指点下，桑德斯大力反对新近提出的跨太平洋伙伴关系协议（Trans-Pacific Partnership，TPP），即便该协议将为发展中国家带来极大裨益——例如让日本向拉美国家商品开放市场。"
    ],
    [
        "When the dollar is weak, multinationals borrow in dollars to finance their business in emerging markets, which yield higher returns in local currency.",
        "当美元处于弱势时，跨国公司借入美元为新兴市场业务融资，从而提高以当地货币计价的回报率。"
    ],
    [
        "The second point of convergence between Indian and Western interests is one that will probably get no public mention during Chirac’s visit: India can perhaps serve as a counterweight to China.",
        "印度与西方之间的第二个重合点大概不会在希拉克访问期间公诸于众。 那就是，印度说不定可以成为中国的制衡。"
    ],
    [
        "And indeed, one suspects that France’s GDP and productivity measures are flattered by the fact that, for lack of market prices, statisticians blindly assume that citizens get one dollar of value for each dollar spent on government, which might be an overstatement.",
        "事实上，那些质疑法国GDP和生产力测量方法的人都受到了蒙蔽，这是因为市场定价的缺失导致统计学家们盲目假设公民每花一美元在政府身上就能得到一美元价值的回报，但这个数字可能是夸大了。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s economy is overheating now, but, over time, its current overinvestment will prove deflationary both domestically and globally.",
        "中国经济目前已经过热，但再过一段时间，当前的过度投资将引发其国内乃至全球的通货紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "They are unlikely to make any difference.",
        "在这一点上双方都不会有什么分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters now is whether Russia’s economy will share Yukos’s fate.",
        "要紧的是俄罗斯经济是否会遭遇与尤科斯集团相同的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "Such double-talk is misguided.",
        "如此两面派颇具误导性。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting refusal to work together on the major issues of the day has had a dramatic impact on economic policies.",
        "由此所造成的在当今重要问题上的拒绝合作形成了巨大的经济政策影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Princess Rym Ali, sister-in-law of Queen Rania – the Chanel-wearing media star who is rebranding a more contemporary Jordan – is one vivid example; Princess Rym is making immense progress in a more behind-the-scenes way.",
        "约旦王后拉尼娅是一位身着香奈尔时装的媒体宠儿，并且正致力将约旦重塑成为一个更加现代化的崭新国家。 而其妯娌丽姆·阿里王妃则更是一位生动的典范；"
    ],
    [
        "That changed in 2012, when Leung Chun-ying was appointed as Hong Kong’s chief executive.",
        "2012年梁振英被任命为香港行政长官时这一切都发生了改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Our research noted that feelings of guilt and helplessness can be overwhelming when events “transgress personal moral and ethical values or codes of conduct.”",
        "我们的研究指出，当事件“超越个人道德和价值观或行为准则”时，会令报道者产生压倒性的内疚和无助感。"
    ],
    [
        "Worldwide, the number is about 10 million.",
        "而全球高达1 000万人。"
    ],
    [
        "A special summit of Europe’s heads of state has been called, and a “Youth Employment Initiative,” proposed at the EU Council of Ministers’ meeting in February, aims to “reinforce and accelerate” measures that were recommended in a “Youth Employment Package” in December 2012.",
        "今年2月，欧洲各国首脑举行了一次名为“年轻人就业计划”（“Youth Employment Initiative”）的特别峰会，这次峰会由欧洲部长理事会发起，旨在“增强和加快”2012年12月“年轻人就业方案”（“Youth Employment Package”）中所建议的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from Antarctica, Africa is the only continent that has not industrialized.",
        "除南极洲以外，非洲恐怕是唯一一块尚未实现工业化的大陆。"
    ],
    [
        "And in 2012, Turkey raised the minimum period of compulsory education to 12 years.",
        "2012年，土耳其将义务教育最低年限提高到12年。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, South Korea must continue its efforts to resume a dialogue with the North on humanitarian, health, and environmental issues.",
        "与此同时，韩国韩国必须继续努力重启与朝鲜进行人道、卫生和环境问题的对话。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite their strength in numbers however, Mousavi and Karroubi’s excessive reliance on street protests is misguided.",
        "但是人多势众的穆萨维和卡鲁比却犯了一个错误，他们过度依赖的街头抗议模式受到了错误的引导。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the manufacturing process that produces electric cars – especially their batteries – requires an enormous amount of energy, most of it generated with fossil fuels.",
        "首先，制造电动汽车的生产过程——特别是电池的生产过程——需要大量能量，其中大部分来自化石燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the words of Vitaly Tretyakov, the editor of the weekly Moscow News , on the recent US elections. According to Tretyakov, “the coming to power of a Democrat as president in America is incomparably worse for us than the savage imperialism of today’s Republican administration.”",
        "《莫斯科新闻周刊》的编辑Vitaly Tretyakov针对最近的美国大选有过这样的论调，“当美国是由一位民主党的总统掌权时对我们来说会比今天的共和党政府野蛮的帝国主义更糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was a Pyrrhic victory, given that it drove many disillusioned and angry Chechens toward religious fundamentalism.",
        "但这是一次得不偿失的胜利，因为它使许多幻想破灭的愤怒的车臣人转变为宗教原教旨主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "My own experience of being “different” is multifaceted.",
        "我自己关于“与众不同”的体验是多样的。"
    ],
    [
        "President Muhammadu Buhari, elected in March 2015, has promised to stamp out corruption, rein in the free-spending elite, and expand public services to the very poor, a massive proportion of the country’s population.",
        "2015年3月当选的尼日利亚总统布哈里承诺要铲除腐败，治理挥霍无度的精英，扩大对穷人（占该国人口大多数）的公共服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The McKinsey Global Institute, in a study of post-crisis debt trends, notes that gross debt has increased about $60 trillion – or 75% of global GDP – since 2008.",
        "麦肯锡全球研究院一项针对危机后债务发展趋势的研究指出，自2008年以来全球债务总额增加了约60万亿美元——相当于全球GDP的75％。"
    ],
    [
        "Harnessing the existing broad consensus against fossil-fuel subsidies is possible even in the absence of a legal agreement, and could quickly have a significant positive impact.",
        "即使缺乏法定协议，利用现有的广泛共识来反对化石燃料补贴也是有可能实现的，并且很快就能产生显著的正面影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Proceeding with capital injections before the single supervisor is in place would only encourage more risk taking.",
        "在单一监管机构到位之前注入资本只能激发更多冒险行动。"
    ],
    [
        "This left only less market-friendly alternatives – especially after court cases upheld the validity of the 1970 Clean Air Act.",
        "结果就只剩下不那么市场化的备选方案——尤其是在相关诉讼维持了1970年洁净空气法案的法律效力之后。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, people seemed to react to the categorical nature of her decision (why everyone?) and to the irony that Yahoo! is a tech company (don’t they know about Skype?).",
        "毕竟，激起人们反弹的是她的决定的绝对性（为何所有人都得如此？ ）以及雅虎是个技术公司所带来的讽刺意味（他们不知道Skype是怎么做的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The euro crisis is a serious shock, and is now producing ripple effects around the world.",
        "欧洲是出口导向的中国最大的外部需求源；"
    ],
    [
        "Boom-bust cycles and currency crises became common.",
        "枯荣循环和货币危机成为常事。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, military power is about its potential use, not the rationalizations for its existence.",
        "毕竟部署军力是为了潜在的使用，而不是为了证明其存在的合理性。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the pressure to articulate a vision can get a leader into difficulty.",
        "此外，领导人也会因阐明远景的压力而陷入困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is high time for progress on a two-state solution, because the Palestinians are increasingly losing hope of ever having a state of their own.",
        "确实，现在应该在两国方案上取得进展了，因为巴勒斯坦人越发失去早晚拥有自己的国家的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Like a computer program, DNA does not preserve the final state of what it codes for; rather, it embeds in a symbolic but concrete way (it is a real “text”) the relationships between all the objects and agents that it specifies and controls.",
        "如同计算机程序，DNA中并不存有遗传编码的最后目标状态，而是包含了能确定并控制所有遗传目标和遗传媒介之间的关系的方法。 这种方法（其实是一种真正的讯息）由具体的符号组成。"
    ],
    [
        "The previous destruction of productive capacity has come home to roost.",
        "此前对生产力的破坏行为终于带来了报应。"
    ],
    [
        "The de facto default by Greece early this year ended investors’ complacency.",
        "今年初希腊的事实违约打破了投资者的这一幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – In mid-November, all eyes will shift to Seoul, when G-20 leaders convene for the first time in the South Korean capital.",
        "首尔——11月中旬，所有的目光将会汇聚首尔，这座韩国首都将要召开20国集团领导人的首次峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, newspapers report in bleak terms almost exclusively about banks and financial markets, with little attention to the real economy, as if today’s crisis were purely financial and bound to remain so.",
        "与此同时，各家报纸几乎全是用悲惨的语言报导有关银行和金融市场的消息，而对世界经济状况几乎不关心，好像现今的危机仅仅是金融方面的，而且还必将持续如此。"
    ],
    [
        "While high-level meetings and speeches about AMR send the right message, they will mean nothing if we do not manage to translate the current momentum into concrete action, beginning at the G20 and UN meetings this September.",
        "虽然高层就细菌耐药性上升问题举行的会议和讲话传达了正确的精神，但如果从今年9月召开的二十国及联合国峰会开始，我们不能成功将现有势头转化为具体行动，那么会议和讲话就没有任何意义。"
    ],
    [
        "This must include three key elements: a negotiated solution for Syria; a resumption of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians; and a common strategic understanding with the US of the political strategy of the West for the region (which addresses the region’s most dangerous conflict, Iran).",
        "这必须包括三大关键因素。 它们是：谈判解决叙利亚问题，巴以之间重开谈判以及同美国就西方在该地区的政治战略达成共同的战略谅解(它也解决伊朗问题，也是该地区最危险的冲突)。"
    ],
    [
        "In other areas, sharia law is being introduced by force.",
        "在其它地区，伊斯兰教法正在强制推行。"
    ],
    [
        "Why are young Italians so eager to leave?",
        "为什么意大利年轻人如此热衷于离开？"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for the Afghan government to name, shame, and sack corrupt officials, arrest major drug traffickers and opium landlords, and seize their assets.",
        "现在，阿富汗政府应该点名、羞辱并且解雇那些贪官，逮捕主要的毒贩和鸦片地主，并且没收他们的资产。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, when the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in 2009 presented its guidelines for breast cancer screening, which recommended against routine screenings for asymptomatic women in their 40’s and biennial, rather than annual, mammograms for women over 50, the public responded with confused fury.",
        "而这也是美国预防医学工作组（USPSTF）在2009年所遇到的问题，当时该机构发布了其乳腺癌医学筛查指引，建议将原有的40岁以上无症状妇女每两年做一次筛查改为所有50岁以上的女性每年拍一张乳房X光片，结果却引发了公众的极大愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "But trilateral dialogues, catalyzed by skillful US diplomacy, could also serve as an opportunity to manage the countries’ strategic relations, which currently are characterized by contradictions and mistrust.",
        "尽管存在困难，但在美国外交的巧妙推动下，三边对话也可以成为管理目前充满矛盾和不信任的国家战略关系的一次难得的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "But the domestic economy is no longer the Fed’s sole consideration in policymaking.",
        "但国内经济已不再是美联储决策的唯一考虑因素。"
    ],
    [
        "We often hear talk about the shortcomings of the UN, which stands at the heart of the international system.",
        "我们常常听说，作为国际体系核心的联合国有这样那样的缺点。"
    ],
    [
        "Another option, however unappealing at first glance, is to accept the Trump administration.",
        "另一个选项——咋看上去，这个选项毫无吸引力可言——是接受特朗普政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Alain Peyrefitte, the scholar, politician, and confidant of Charles de Gaulle, said that “without Europe, France will be nothing”; but, without France, Europe, too, would be nothing.",
        "学者、政治家、戴高乐的密友阿兰·佩雷菲特（Alain Peyrefitte）说，“没有欧洲，法国将一无是处，”但是，没有法国，欧洲也将一无是处。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated before Congress in January, “If we set ourselves the objective of creating some sort of Central Asian Valhalla over there, we will lose.”",
        "相反的，正如美国国防部长罗伯特·盖茨在国会作证时表示：“如果我们的目的是建立所谓的“瓦尔哈拉式ampquot;的中亚国家的话，那我们必将失败。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations Security Council, supported by the Arab League, has authorized the use of all necessary means to protect Libyans from the cruelty of their own leaders.",
        "联合国安理会在阿拉伯联盟的支持下批准使用一切手段保护利比亚民众免遭本国领导人的残酷镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "She should call on China and others to join this multilateral effort.",
        "她应该呼吁中国和其他国家加入这一多边行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the referendum is held, the UK public must understand that such matters simply cannot be returned to national authorities.",
        "在举行公投之前，英国公众必须明白这些事物决不能回归国家当局。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically, that timing would pose even greater risks for May’s government than it faces today, since the next general election must be held by June 2022.",
        "从政治上讲，这样的择时将给梅政府带来比现在更大的风险，因为下一次选举必须在2022年6月前举行。"
    ],
    [
        "Xi’s visit to Seoul was another bold step in China’s systematic efforts to wean South Korea from its commitment to the US-led international economic order.",
        "习近平对首尔的访问是中国系统性诱导韩国抛弃美国领导的国际经济秩序的新的重大举措。"
    ],
    [
        "We have all been entrusted to care for the planet.",
        "关爱这个星球是我们共同的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, we must help them become active, contributing members of our communities.",
        "相反，我们必须帮助他们成为社会积极的贡献者。"
    ],
    [
        "Progress has lost its shine for several reasons.",
        "有几个原因导致进步失去了原有的光环。"
    ],
    [
        "Until this month’s deal, Britain’s leaders were not seriously making the case against Brexit.",
        "在本月的协议达成前，英国领导人并没有认真对待英国退出问题。"
    ],
    [
        "They inform corporations’ decisions regarding whom to do business with, and on what terms.",
        "它们决定着公司和谁做生意，开出什么条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Voters might not like that some migrants enter their country illegally.",
        "选民们或许不会喜欢移民非法进入他们的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Agony and the Exodus",
        "痛苦与逃离"
    ],
    [
        "The British economist Walter Bagehot replied at the time that there would probably be two competing world currencies, which he termed Latin and Teutonic.",
        "英国经济学家白芝浩（Walter Bagehot）在当时回应说，大概会存在两大相互竞争的世界货币，他称之为拉丁和条顿。"
    ],
    [
        "All that liquidity, they will argue, had to go somewhere. Its logical destination was the country with the deepest financial markets, the US, where it raised asset prices to unsustainable heights.",
        "他们认为，所有这些流动性都去了某个地方，其合理的目的地就是拥有最复杂的金融市场的美国，并且在进入美国之后将美国的资产价格抬升到了无法持续的高度。"
    ],
    [
        "But politicians in other countries also felt uncomfortable about the continuing centrality of the US in the postwar order.",
        "但令其他国家的政客感到不安的还有另一个问题：美国在战后秩序中的日益极权。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as Elie Hassenfeld has argued on GiveWell.net, there are good grounds for thinking that disaster relief is less cost-effective than aid aimed at saving the lives of those who are risk from extreme poverty.",
        "此外，正如埃丽尔·哈森菲尔德在网站 GiveWell. com 所指出的那样，有理由相信灾害救助要比旨在从极端贫困中拯救生命的援助行为的费效比更低。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether such companies are so important to the country’s economy and reputation that the government cannot regulate them properly.",
        "问题在于这些公司是否对于国家经济和名誉如此重要，以致于政府无法恰当地监管它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the explicit, up-front approval of a reformed UN Security Council can provide the legitimacy and international support that military action - with the exception of clear self-defense - requires.",
        "除去明显的自卫行动外，只有事先得到改革后联合国安理会的明确授权才能确保拥有合法性和国际支持。"
    ],
    [
        "For the more economically minded, here is another number: food wastage and loss, expressed in producer prices, costs roughly $750 billion per year.",
        "从经济上看，还有另外一个数字：用生产者价格计算，粮食浪费和损失每年造成约7500亿美元损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, China’s current problems may amount to a brief detour on the long road to greater openness. But they may not.",
        "当然，中国目前的问题可能只是迈向更大规模开放的漫长道路上的一段弯路，但也可能并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, it seems that theocratic theory in Iran has led to anti-theocracy.",
        "具有讽刺意味的是，似乎正是伊朗的神权理论导致了神权政治的衰微。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s health-care reform was an important step in this regard. But social-welfare reforms should go much further.",
        "奥巴马的医疗保健改革已经在这方面迈出了重要一步，但社会福利改革不应止步于此。"
    ],
    [
        "But what if forbearance in a civil war like Syria’s allows a terrorist group like the Islamic State to establish a safe haven?",
        "”但如果像叙利亚内战这样的情况，克制导致伊斯兰国这样的恐怖集团能够建立安全港，又应该怎么样？"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – The relationship between peace and justice has long been the subject of polarizing debates.",
        "马德里—和平和正义之间的关系长期以来一直是两极分化的争论的主题。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is still a long way to go.",
        "但距离实现目标还有很长的路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "Asian countries have tended to be reluctant to shoulder the cost of developing new medicines, with reimbursements falling far short of US levels, and their R&D productivity will not match that of the US and Europe for several more years.",
        "亚洲国家一向不愿意承担开发新药的成本，新药研发回报远低于美国水平，研发生产率也比美国和欧洲落后多年。"
    ],
    [
        "A few possibilities stand out.",
        "脱颖而出的有几种可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Indispensable UN",
        "联合国不可或缺"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond these institutional reforms, South Africa needs more rapid investment in cities, urban infrastructure and housing.",
        "除了这些体制改革之外，南非需要在城市，城市基础设施和住房方面加快投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Reforms, after all, are not hothouse plants that can be transplanted at will in any soil.",
        "毕竟，改革并非温室作物，可以随意在任何土壤中移植。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, based upon the results of the recently held regional election, Baghdad is only 10% to 15% Sunni.",
        "而如今，根据最近举行的地区选举统计结果，巴格达只有10%至15%的居民是逊尼派人。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if the EU handles the current crisis, what about the next one?",
        "就算欧盟解决了此次危机，那么下一次呢？"
    ],
    [
        "A New Deal for the Lisbon Strategy",
        "里斯本战略的新协议"
    ],
    [
        "The endeavor was bound to be ambitious.",
        "这方面的努力注定是大手笔。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reality is that only 2.3 billion people have the documents to protect and leverage their rights – including approximately one billion people living in Japan, Singapore, and the democratic West, and another billion in certain developing countries and former Soviet states.",
        "但在现实中，只有23亿人拥有保护和放大他们的权利的注册档案——其中大约十亿人生活在日本、新加坡和民主西方，另十亿人生活在一些发展中国家和前苏联国家。"
    ],
    [
        "As South Koreans contemplate their new strategic situation, they must be made to know that they will have international support.",
        "韩国人正在思考新的战略立场，他们必须让朝鲜知道他们拥有国际支持。"
    ],
    [
        "While that sounds impressive, it depends on a massive 68% increase in the price of fossil-fuel-produced electricity by 2030.",
        "尽管听起来非常诱人，但这取决于到2030年化石燃料发电电价是否会大涨68%。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, PM2.5 reduces life expectancy across the European Union by eight months and, together with ozone, was responsible for 430,000 premature deaths in the EU’s 28 member states in 2011.",
        "比方说，PM2. 5缩短全欧盟平均寿命八个月，并且和臭氧一起，在2011年造成欧盟28个成员国430,000人过早死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "These economies need measures that help to keep the poor out of poverty traps, and that give them realistic opportunities to improve their economic well-being.",
        "这些国家需要采取措施助贫民摆脱贫困陷阱，给他们现实的机会改善其经济福利。 这些措施包括扩大金融市场，让更多的人能够获得信用和投资；"
    ],
    [
        "Even with very low interest rates, according to this view, investment demand will remain low, and therefore aggregate demand will remain insufficient.",
        "根据这一观点，即使利率极低，投资需求也将保持低水平，因此总需求也会依然不足。"
    ],
    [
        "To decide whether selling prison-cell upgrades corrupts the meaning of criminal justice, we have to decide what purpose criminal punishment should serve.",
        "为了认定升级监狱仓室是否侮辱了刑事司法制度，我们必须定义刑罚本身应当服务于什么样的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, “H” – human rights – was the bedrock of the AIDS response.",
        "最后，H——人权（human right）——是艾滋病响应机制的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "I am frustrated by the impotence of my government in Mumbai and Delhi, tone-deaf to the anguish of my fellow citizens.",
        "我对孟买和德里的政府的无能感到失望，它们对我的同胞的痛苦充耳不闻视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "To succeed, more than €30 billion, or 1% of GDP, will have to be invested annually in network infrastructure, renewable-energy generation, combined heat and power systems, and storage technologies in the coming decades.",
        "要想获得成功，未来几十年每年必须投资300亿欧元或GDP的1%以上用于基础设施网络、可再生能源生产、热电联动系统和储存技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, Iran has a major investment bottleneck, owing to collapsing real-estate values and a frozen banking system.",
        "更糟糕的是，拜房地产价值崩盘和银行系统冻结所赐，伊朗存在巨大的投资瓶颈。"
    ],
    [
        "The boom was unusually long and persistent, with four years of roughly 5% growth – a period of sustained economic dynamism not seen since around 1970.",
        "这一繁荣不同寻常地长久和具有韧性，四年来每年增长5%，这一持续经济活力时期为1970年左右以来所罕见。"
    ],
    [
        "Many European countries are now in a vicious cycle instead, with austerity policies worsening the problem of youth unemployment.",
        "许多欧洲国家如今却反而陷入了一种恶性循环，由于财政紧缩政策而导致青年失业问题进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "We must take this opportunity to restore the full capacity of the OSCE and make a fresh commitment to an indivisible European security system.",
        "我们必须抓住这次机遇恢复欧安组织的全部功能，重新为建立不可分割的欧洲安全体系而努力。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, countries that break the Pact’s deficit ceiling because they overestimated their growth – and hence government revenue – want to be treated more leniently than those who deliberately violate the rules.",
        "特别是由于高估了增长状况和政府收入而突破《协议》赤字上限的国家希望能与明知故犯者区别对待。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, they may be harmful, leading to an increased risk of mortality in people consuming them.",
        "恰恰相反，它们也许是有害的，服用这些药片的人死亡的风险加大了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ifo climate indicator for Germany, based on monthly surveys of 7,000 firms, jumped upwards in the second half of 2005, reaching its highest value since the boom year 2000, with businesses’ assessment of the current situation and expectations improving.",
        "根据对7000家公司所做的月度调查，Ifo的德国经济景气指标在2005年下半年跃升，达到2000年繁荣之年以来最高值，工商界对当前形势和预期的评估也在改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Another way to better use diaspora savings would be to create new “diaspora” financial instruments.",
        "另一个更好地使用侨民储蓄的办法是建立新的“侨民”金融工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, there was no longer any place to put it: four-lane highways narrowed to two lanes, and two-lane roads to one.",
        "最后你会感到无从下脚：四车道高速公路变成两车道，两车道道路变成一车道。"
    ],
    [
        "The market did not respond to the need for evacuation by sending in huge convoys of buses to get people out; in some places, it did respond by tripling hotel prices in neighboring areas, which, while reflecting the marked change in supply and demand, is reviled as price gouging.",
        "市场没有派出大批车队帮助灾民撤离，在有些地方，市场确实做出了反应，使临近地区旅馆的价格提高了三倍，虽然这种做法的确反应了供给和需求的明显变化，但却被视为价格欺诈而遭人所不齿。"
    ],
    [
        "On the Israeli side, this means a less paranoid view of the Palestinians, coupled with a recognition that Israel’s behavior runs contrary to modern ethics.",
        "在以色列方，这意味着不要对巴勒斯坦人采取偏执态度，并且要意识到以色列的行为与现代道德不符。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors looking to do business in Argentina have long been issued similar warnings.",
        "那些想在阿根廷做生意的投资者们也会经常听到类似的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders should encourage such entrepreneurship among their followers as a means of increasing their effectiveness.",
        "领导者应当激励其下属中的这种创业精神，以此作为提升效能的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was a hastily patched together deal in which Russia and Ukraine each gave ground on price, and a shadowy Swiss-based company half-owned by Gazprom rolled supplies of cheap gas from Turkmenistan into the equation.",
        "这一危机的结果是匆忙达成协议，俄罗斯和乌克兰各自在价格上让步，一个神秘莫测的总部设在瑞士、俄罗斯天然气工业公司拥有一半股份的RosUkrEnergo公司从土库曼斯坦输送廉价天然气。"
    ],
    [
        "As Teddy Roosevelt said, “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”",
        "正如泰迪·罗斯福所说，“生活所能提供的最好奖励就是有机会在一份有意义的工作中努力奋斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Doubters should remember that the euro was itself born out of crisis.",
        "怀疑者应该记住，欧元本身就是因危机而产生的。"
    ],
    [
        "Augmenting the supply of such securities will take time, which is not something European policymakers possess.",
        "扩大这类证券的供给需要时间，而时间正是欧洲决策者所缺少的。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, US Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew continues to express the rather puzzling view that the United States “can’t be the only engine in the world economy.”",
        "比如，美国财政部长雅各布·卢仍然持有相当令人难以理解的观点：美国“无法成为世界经济唯一的引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Ukraine’s economy is no longer in free-fall, as it was last winter, GDP has declined by a quarter since Russian troops first invaded in February 2014.",
        "尽管乌克兰经济不再像去年冬天那样自由落体。 国内生产总值自2014年2月俄罗斯军队最初入侵以来已经下降了四分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Such market-based reforms, combined with robust public investment, could speed economic growth and diversification, while protecting Cuba’s achievements in health, education, and social services.",
        "这些基于市场的改革，再加上强劲的公共投资，能够加速经济增长和多样化，同时保护古巴在卫生、教育和社会服务方面取得的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, a harsh sanctions regime might still gain additional supporters, but an Iran with its back against the wall would probably be even more obstinate in its nuclear drive.",
        "多一些国家支持严厉制裁当然是好事，但被逼入绝境的伊朗可能会更顽强地研制核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "They are unable to turn around, lie down with their legs fully extended, or move more than a step forward or backward.",
        "2米）的铁笼中渡过的。 它们不能转身、伸开四肢躺卧、也无法前进或后退哪怕一步的距离。"
    ],
    [
        "If the countries listed above were to join with China, Mexico, India, and other major labor exporters, they would be holding most of the chips in a collective negotiation about wages, visa terms, and other conditions – some of which would also benefit non-members as global norms changed.",
        "如果上述国家想加入中国、墨西哥、印度和其他主要劳动力输出国的行列，就必须通过在工资、签证和其他条件上进行集体讨价还价抓住最多筹码——随着全球范式的改变，其中一些也将惠及非成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "Venter and his team created their organism through a process of trial and error.",
        "文特尔的团队通过一系列试错过程创造了这一生物体。"
    ],
    [
        "And this in a country that had an estimated per capita income of $40 in the 1940’s but has now become the world’s 12th or 13th largest economy.",
        "这是一个在1940年人均收入只有40美元，而现在已是世界第12或13大经济体的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "His solace, however, is that the TPP will prove to be a key foundation stone of the “Asian Century.”",
        "但是，令他欣慰的是，TPP将成为“亚洲世纪”的关键基石之一。"
    ],
    [
        "This has led to a schism between the hopes young Muslims have for successful lives in the West and their aspirations for their Muslim brothers and sisters, who have suffered so many terrible disappointments.",
        "这就导致了年轻穆斯林对在西方的成功生活所抱有的希望和他们对那些饱经深深失望的穆斯林兄弟姐妹持有的抱负之间的落差。"
    ],
    [
        "It is comparable to approaches in sectors such as energy, water, or fisheries, where regulatory tools are used to ensure that shared resources and infrastructure are managed and replenished in the interests of both consumers and the producers whose businesses rely on them.",
        "抗生素与能源、水资源或渔业等行业状况具有可比性，这些行业都在利用监管工具来确保商业利益有赖于此的消费者和生产者能够管理和补充共同的资源和基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "In southwestern Africa, Angola is facing a serious yellow fever epidemic – its first in 30 years.",
        "在非洲西南部，安哥拉正面临严峻的黄热病传染疫情——这是30年来首次在这里爆发黄热病疫情。"
    ],
    [
        "Hollande’s apologists praise his gradualist and consensual approach to addressing the economy’s structural distortions.",
        "奥朗德的拥护者大肆赞扬他使用渐进和共识而后动的办法纠正法国经济的结构性扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "But China has attained much higher GDP growth than the OECD economies, driven largely by the rapid productivity gains that characterize the initial “catch up” phase of emerging-market development.",
        "然而，中国的GDP增长远高于经合组织成员国。 这很大程度上是由快速的生产率增长所驱动，也正是新兴市场初始“追赶”阶段的特征。"
    ],
    [
        "But for now, younger communist officials, like Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque, remain ideological hardliners whom many Cubans refer to as “los Taliban.”",
        "但就现在来看，较年轻的共产党官员，如古巴的外交部长菲利普▪佩雷兹▪罗格仍然是意识形态上的强硬派。 许多古巴人都称其为“塔利班”。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is astonishing that Europe is doing exactly the opposite: firmly closing its eyes to the strategic challenge posed by Turkey.",
        "然而让人莫名其妙的是欧洲的做法刚好与此背道而驰：对土耳其引起的战略挑战视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most dangerous approach – the one that would bring the most strife and insecurity – would be to continue pretending to be united, while acting independently.",
        "但最危险的方针——将带来最严重的冲突和不安全的方针——是继续假装统一，同时各自为政。"
    ],
    [
        "How many times do terms like “Islam,\" “Islamic,\" or “Muslim\" appear?",
        "“伊斯兰”、“伊斯兰教”或“穆斯林”呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In his 2005 book The Future for Investors , Jeremy Siegel argues that differences across countries in longevity will interact with differences in wealth levels to form a fundamental determinant of economic relations among countries.",
        "杰里米·席格尔（Jeremy Siegel）在他的2005年新书 《投资者的未来》 中说道，各国不同的寿命长度将与参差不齐的财富水平相互作用，形成决定各国 内部 经济关系中的主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "In Liberia, 60% of markets are now closed; in Sierra Leone, only one-fifth of the 10,000 HIV patients who are on anti-retroviral treatments are still receiving them; and Guinea’s government is reporting a $220 million financing gap because of the crisis.",
        "在塞拉利昂，10，000名艾滋病毒感染者中仅有五分之一仍在接受抗逆转录病毒治疗； 几内亚政府报告危机造成高达2."
    ],
    [
        "In short, each side in the current education debate is half right.",
        "简而言之，当前教育争论的双方都是对错参半。"
    ],
    [
        "Both societies have a mixed history that included periods of peaceful, cooperative politics and periods of violence and bloodletting.",
        "两国社会也都有过一段复杂的历史，经历过和平的协作政治年代，也有过充满暴力和血腥的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Even worse, given that Obama’s effort to enforce a permanent moratorium on new settlement construction in the West Bank has failed, is that direct negotiations between the conflicting parties have run aground.",
        "不仅奥巴马永久冻结西岸定居点兴建的努力已经失败，冲突各方的直接谈判也已经走进了死胡同。"
    ],
    [
        "When I was in college, the feminist solution to “patriarchy” was an imagined world without hierarchy, where people verbalized all day long and created emotional bonds.",
        "我上大学时，“家长制”的女权主义解决方案是想象中没有等级制度的世界，人们在这里整天靠语言交流，建立起情感方面的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason this narrative is wrong is simple.",
        "这一叙事是错误的，原因很简单。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo two years ago created great expectations, but few or none have been fulfilled.",
        "奥巴马总统两年前发表的开罗讲话构思了一个宏大的远景，但事实上却毫无建树（或仅仅实现了极少部分）。"
    ],
    [
        "All three alternatives are possible, though it is impossible to predict which one will come to pass.",
        "所有这三条道路都有可能发生，但具体是哪一条还不可能预测。"
    ],
    [
        "But the agreement between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to form a coalition government does look revolutionary to many British voters.",
        "这显然有点离谱了，但英国保守党和自由民主党组建联合政府的协议对于许多英国选民来说不亚于一场革命。"
    ],
    [
        "As statements of shared values and principles, the UN Charter, the Declaration of Human Rights, and the Geneva conventions are great achievements.",
        "《联合国宪章》、《人权宣言》和《日内瓦公约》作为国际社会共同的价值观和准则，本身确实是了不起的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s power elite will start fracturing – indeed, that process may have begun already.",
        "普京的权力精英集团将开始出现裂缝——事实上，这一过程已经开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "Such growth differences suggest that overall global inequality may not have increased unequivocally.",
        "这种增长差异表明全球的总体不平等可能并没有明确地加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "A president’s modernizing vision degenerated into a dictator’s power-driven myopia.",
        "结果，一位总统的现代化远景规划堕落成为独裁者只追求权力的短视。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Wen has won popular support through his tireless efforts for earthquake victims, he remains isolated in official circles.",
        "尽管温家宝为地震灾民不知疲倦地奔走，赢得了大众支持，但是在官场中他还是处于孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "Libya’s leaders – and their Western benefactors – have no choice but to consider and address the effects of Qaddafi’s legacy on public attitudes and official behavior.",
        "利比亚领导人及其西方赞助者别无选择，只能思考卡扎菲传统对公众态度和官方行为有何种影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, McKinsey estimates that growth in shale energy could add 2-4% to annual GDP and create up to 1.7 million jobs by 2020.",
        "总体而言，麦肯锡估算页岩能源增长将在2020年将美国年GDP提高2—4%，并创造最多170万个工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "The welcome return to civility is not, therefore, a return to mutual trust.",
        "友好氛围的回归，却不是互相信任感的回归。"
    ],
    [
        "US President Donald Trump has not only largely spared the Federal Reserve the not-so-tender mercies of his wee-hour tweets; he has also nominated highly qualified individuals to fill Fed vacancies.",
        "美国总统特朗普不仅在自己时常出言不逊的推特中放过了美联储，还提名了高素质人才来填补其职位空缺。"
    ],
    [
        "An internationally coordinated carbon tax could raise $250 billion annually, while a small financial-transaction tax could raise another $40 billion.",
        "全球协调的碳排税每年能筹集2500亿美元，而低额金融交易税也能筹集400亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In the digital age, neuro-diversity should be viewed as a competitive advantage, not a hindrance.",
        "在数字时代，神经多样性应该被视为竞争优势，而不是阻碍。"
    ],
    [
        "At a minimum, there could be an adverse impact on the terms by which America borrows from abroad; that could mean higher interest rates – hints of which are already evident – and ultimately downward pressure on the dollar.",
        "至少美国海外借贷条件将受到消极影响； 这可能意味着利率升高——其迹象已经十分明显——最终则会令美元承受贬值压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, in recent years, discretionary funding has largely taken over, and now accounts for more than 90% of resources in several agencies.",
        "不幸的是，近几年来全权委托资金已经在很大程度上接管了整个系统，已经占到了几大机构资金来源的90％以上。"
    ],
    [
        "This argument has some explanatory power, though it says little about the value added by highly paid asset managers and whether they really are prepared to put their money to work simply on the basis of a monetary-policy effect on relative prices, paying no attention to individual companies’ strategies and performance.",
        "这个论点有一定的解释力，虽然其没有解释高薪资产管理人员的附加值，以及这些人的投资是否只是基于货币政策对相对价格的影响，而毫不关心个别公司的策略和绩效。"
    ],
    [
        "But the worst effects of the ECB policy may be yet to come, if the eurozone’s still-sound economies also become credit junkies.",
        "但欧洲央行政策的最坏影响可能还尚未到来，除非那些仍然健全的欧元区经济体也成为信贷瘾君子。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the public has an important role to play.",
        "在这方面，公众可以起到重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Those figures hold a mix of historical legitimacy, for participating in the 1969 coup, and current legitimacy, for helping the 17th February revolution.",
        "上述几人既因为参与1969年政变而具有历史合法性，又因为帮助2月17日革命而具有现实合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "The new constitution is the most modern in the Arab world, the fruit of a non-violent transition.",
        "新宪法是阿拉伯世界中最现代的宪法，也是非暴力转型的结晶。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the proverbial bus driver fixated on what is happening in his rear view mirror rather than watching what is in front of him, too many bond analysts focus on historical economic data as the key determinant of future performance.",
        "就像寓言中看后视镜而不是眼前的巴士司机一样，太多债券分析员关注历史经济数据，以此作为未来表现的关键决定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "False triumphalism breeds poor discipline.",
        "虚假的必胜信念带来纪律上的松弛。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the upcoming elections, he is likely to be left out in the cold.",
        "但是在即将到来的选举中，选民可能对他置之不理。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it continues to build its “ string of pearls” of military bases at every key point on maritime transportation routes along the “arc of instability” from the Middle East to China’s coast.",
        "此外，它继续在沿着从中东到中国海岸的“不稳定之弧”的海运通道上的每个关键点建立军事基地的“珍珠链”。"
    ],
    [
        "Initially, “globalization” was a dirty word to some.",
        "当初，“全球化”是个贬义词。"
    ],
    [
        "This alone makes a strong geographical case for Kazakhstan’s ENP status.",
        "仅仅是这一点就足以在地理上应该让哈萨克斯坦成为欧洲邻国政策成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "Impaling live bait on hooks is a common commercial practice: long-line fishing, for example, uses hundreds or even thousands of hooks on a single line that may be 50-100 kilometers long.",
        "将活饵挂在钩子上是司空见惯的商业捕鱼行为：比如说，长线捕鱼法就是将数百个甚至数千个钩子挂在一条长达50公里甚至100公里的鱼线上。"
    ],
    [
        "University classes become larger, which means that students are taught less effectively.",
        "学校的课堂越来越大，也就是说教育的效果越来越低。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, defense and foreign policy will continue to be conducted primarily at the second level – the nation-state.",
        "当然，国防和外交政策将依然由第二个层面（民族国家）来决定。"
    ],
    [
        "The Forgotten Virtues of Free Trade",
        "自由贸易被遗忘的优点"
    ],
    [
        "But it is highly unlikely that the Arabs will agree to such a system so long as Israel refuses to address her own nuclear capabilities.",
        "但是，只要以色列拒绝讨论其自身的核能力问题，阿拉伯人不大可能同意这样的体制。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of making a large swath of the population dependent on transfers earned by others, Germany’s leaders should ensure that all workers receive the training needed to pursue opportunities in the labor market of the future.",
        "德国领导人绝不应该让大部分人口依赖于其他人赚得的转移支付，而应该确保所有工人都能获得需要的培训，能够在未来劳动力市场中获得机会。"
    ],
    [
        "It has helped to curb the rise of political Islam across North Africa, including by backing the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.",
        "沙特阿拉伯还通过支持推翻埃及总统穆尔西等方式帮助遏制政治伊斯兰教在北非的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "Researchers employed by the fund could share knowledge, facilities, and state-of-the-art equipment, data, and computing resources, spread over a wide array of projects.",
        "基金所聘用的研究者可以共享知识、设施和最先进的设备、数据和计算资源，并且跨越各种项目。"
    ],
    [
        "This would create the most important thing that these states and their rapidly growing young populations need to produce stability within the framework of democratic development: grounds for hope of economic and social progress.",
        "这样可以创造这些国家及其快速增长的青年人口在民主发展框架内创造稳定所需的最重要因素： 即对经济和社会进步寄予希望的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Every country – with the support of cities, the private sector, and citizens – must now move swiftly to fulfill its promises and bring climate change under control.",
        "每个国家——在城市、私人部门和公民的支持下——现在应该迅速行动起来兑现承诺，让气候变化处于控制之下。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, asset markets were initially ecstatic over the Fed’s decision this month not to scale back QE.",
        "是的，资产市场最初因为美联储本月不缩减量化宽松政策而欣喜若狂。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, much-touted reforms to rebalance growth from fixed investment to consumption are being postponed until President Xi Jinping consolidates his power.",
        "与此同时，被大肆宣传的增长再平衡改革——从固定资产投资转向消费——在国家主席习近平巩固权力之前也不可能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this is good news.",
        "这些都是新现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Arresting the spread of HIV/AIDS is the sixth option.",
        "控制艾滋病的传播是第六个选择。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been interesting to watch growth accelerate in the face of shocks such as the UK’s Brexit referendum and Trump’s election.",
        "在英国退欧公投和特朗普当选的背景下，还能看到增长加速，这着实有趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Hostility against Germany has reached a level unseen in Europe since the end of World War II.",
        "欧洲国家对德国的敌意达到了自二战结束以来的最高水平。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – As the world struggles to rein in emissions of climate-changing gases and limit planetary warming, a new technological silver bullet is gaining supporters.",
        "柏林—在全世界为控制引发气候变化的气体排放、限制地球变暖而焦头烂额之际，一项新的技术憧憬正在赢得越来越多的支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "MGI (where one of us is a partner) foresees continued growth in the number and income of urban consumers, and predicts that 700 Chinese cities will generate $7 trillion, or 30%, of global urban consumption growth between now and 2030.",
        "MGI（我们其中之一是其合伙人）预测城市消费者数量和收入将继续增长，从现在到2030年，700座中国城市将产生7万亿美元或30%的全球城市消费增长。"
    ],
    [
        "So relying on exchange rates to influence trade balances is a zero-sum game.",
        "所以靠汇率来平衡贸易是一个零和游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, it was simpler than introducing a “new drachma” would be for, say, Greece.",
        "即便如此，这也会比引入一个新希腊“德拉克马”要好的多。"
    ],
    [
        "The larger the gap in per capita income, the larger the latecomer advantage and the greater the potential for growth.",
        "人均收入差距越大，后发优势和增长潜力也就越大。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20 seems more representative than the Security Council – and more imbued with common purpose.",
        "G-20的代表性似乎好于安理会——也更强调共同目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, Europe is reasonably equipped to defend itself against external threats. It is less able, however, to withstand looming budget cuts.",
        "此外欧洲虽然理应武装自己去防御外部威胁，但却难以承受不断加大的预算削减。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the election, Trump was already known to level wild accusations at China, typically related to economic issues like trade.",
        "大选前，特朗普就已经以“中国黑”著称，他的指责通常集中在贸易等经济问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, there is no global treaty to protect sharks.",
        "目前并不存在保护鲨鱼的全球公约。"
    ],
    [
        "And by strengthening pension systems, including through minimum guaranteed benefits, governments can provide a safety net for the vulnerable elderly and reduce incentives for precautionary savings.",
        "而通过强化退休金制度，包括通过最低保障福利，政府可以为脆弱的老人群体提供安全网，降低预防性储蓄的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "This, combined with a lack of landfill space and the country’s expanding population, has enhanced plastics recycling efforts.",
        "这与填埋场所的短缺和人口的增加一道，正在加强塑料循环利用措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorists might buy malware from criminals, and governments might find it useful to hide behind both.",
        "恐怖主义可以从犯罪分子那里买来恶意软件，政府可能会在背后指使。"
    ],
    [
        "In a particularly tragic incident last December, terrorists attacked young students and teachers at a school in Peshawar.",
        "在去年12月的一起惨绝人寰的事件中，恐怖分子袭击了白沙瓦（Peshawar）一座学校的年轻学生和教师。"
    ],
    [
        "The pioneers were often parents’ or teachers’ cooperatives, usually with a special pedagogical philosophy.",
        "其先行者往往是持有某种独特教学观的父母或教师的合作体。"
    ],
    [
        "One might object to comparing America’s desire to export democracy at the barrel of a gun to Russia’s imperial death spasms under Yeltsin and Putin.",
        "有人可能会反对将美国用枪炮输出民主和俄国在叶利钦和普京治下的帝国死亡痉挛进行比较。"
    ],
    [
        "A vote against EU membership, especially in such a dangerous international environment, truly would be irrational.",
        "投票反对欧盟成员资格，特别是在如此危险的国际环境下，真的会是失去理性。"
    ],
    [
        "Can America finally face up to the perils of its strategy vacuum?",
        "美国最终能否正视自己的战略真空？"
    ],
    [
        "Even after the detention of thousands of anti-corruption protesters in more than 100 cities across Russia in March, the Trump administration issued only a tepid statement.",
        "即使3月在超过一百座城市拘留成千上万名反腐示威民众后，特朗普政府也仅仅发表了一份温和的声明。"
    ],
    [
        "All hoped that Scotland would pave the way for the peaceful breakup of their own states.",
        "他们无不希望苏格兰能为他们自身的建国开辟一条和平分裂之路。"
    ],
    [
        "While the anti-coup forces support a return to electoral democracy, the pro-coup coalition, led by the Democrat Party, is increasingly realigning itself against the military, in the hope of securing power in whatever post-coup system emerges.",
        "虽然反政变部队支持重新回归民主选举，但由民主党领导的亲政变联盟正以在后政变体制中掌权为目标，不断调整对军方的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "From an American perspective, Indonesia is an attractive alternative to Russia, which recently has vied with Venezuela for leadership of the “America in decline” cheering section.",
        "在全球经济衰退的大背景下，印尼的经济在亚洲一枝独秀地成长。 对于美国来说，印尼比俄罗斯来说更具吸引力，而俄罗斯正在和委内瑞拉一起唱衰美国。"
    ],
    [
        "But did they fully live up to their commitments?",
        "但是，它们是否完全遵守了承诺呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Seventy years later, even after America’s massive foreign-policy mistakes in Iraq and elsewhere, and even after Chinese GDP has supposedly caught up with America’s (at least in terms of purchasing power parity), the world remains ready to be led by the US, including on the crucial subjects of trade and IMF reform.",
        "七十年后，即使美国在伊拉克和其他地区犯下了严重的外交政策错误，即使中国GDP据称已经赶上美国（至少从购买力平价角度是如此），世界仍准备接受美国的领导，包括在贸易和IMF改革等关键问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of simply providing handouts, governments should strive to guarantee good jobs at good wages.",
        "政府不能只是做点宣传，而应该致力于保证好工作和好收入。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, China is finding itself under intense international scrutiny for everything from its policy toward Tibet, human rights, and product safety to the level of its currency, its policy in Sudan, and global climate change. What was meant to be a moment of celebration has turned into one of criticism.",
        "相反，中国发现从其西藏政策、人权、产品安全到货币水平、对苏丹以及全球气候变化的政策的所有事情都遭到严格的国际审视。 本应该是一个庆祝的时刻却变成了一个受批评的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, Qatar’s tack has produced a rare schism within the Gulf Cooperation Council, whose members collectively possess nearly half of the world’s oil reserves.",
        "从这个角度讲，卡塔尔方针在成员国坐拥世界石油储量近一半的海湾合作委员会（Gulf Cooperation Council）内部造成了罕见的分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, four years after the crisis erupted, methods for measuring and assessing economic health remain alarmingly inadequate.",
        "因此，在危机爆发已过去四周年之际，度量和评估经济健康度的方法仍显得极不完善。"
    ],
    [
        "But that was not what Pope Benedict XVI had in mind when he spoke recently about the dangers of sexual behavior.",
        "但这并不是本笃十六世最近关于性行为危险演讲的主旨。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20 should provide the political support to develop a framework that relies on monitoring, consultation, mutual oversight, reporting, and publication.",
        "G20应该为形成一个依赖于监管、意见征询、相互监督、报告和发布的框架提供政治支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan cannot reflate because of its aging population and irresolute implementation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic plan, so-called Abenomics.",
        "日本因为人口老龄化和首相安倍晋三的经济计划（所谓的“安倍经济学”）实施不力而无法实现再通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "The Philippines is not a country used to seeing powerful people punished.",
        "菲律宾并不是一个对权势人物遭受惩罚习以为常的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is unlikely to pick up again, unless China achieves some technological or institutional breakthrough.",
        "而其再度起势的可能很小，除非中国能够实现技术和制度突破。"
    ],
    [
        "The same has started to happen with the notion of “potential output growth.”",
        "“潜在产出增长”的概念也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Other inequality indicators – like wealth, health, and life expectancy – are as bad or even worse.",
        "其他不平等性指标——比如财富、健康和寿命预期——有过之而无不足。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate scientists now warn that the two-degree window is closing very rapidly, if it is not already shut.",
        "气候学家已经发出警告，两度窗口正在迅速关闭，时日无多。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon, potential chess sponsors began to balk at paying millions of dollars to host championship matches between humans.",
        "很快，潜在象棋比赛赞助者就不再花费数百万美元组织人类象棋锦标赛了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Rouhani has pursued a tight fiscal policy that deepened the recession and delayed the recovery.",
        "此外，鲁哈尼采取的紧缩财政政策加深了衰退，也推迟了复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, how free are credit rating agencies to express their opinion on the very institutions that will regulate them?",
        "在这种情况下，信用评级机构有多大自由对自己的监管机构说三道四？"
    ],
    [
        "More than 80% of the rebate dollars were saved or used to pay down debt.",
        "80%的退税款都被存入银行或用于还债。"
    ],
    [
        "Not the least damaging consequence of the Bush doctrine is that it dispenses with the need for public proof of aggressive intent.",
        "布什原则破坏效果还有，它不必向公众证明侵略性意图。"
    ],
    [
        "Most are also fungistatic, meaning that they stop fungi from replicating, but do not kill them.",
        "这些药大多数也是真菌抑制药，意味着他们阻止真菌复制，但无法杀死他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Because strategic competitors like China and India have already identified the human-capital potential of Africa’s youth, Europe must move quickly to attract and retain – rather than repel – African professionals.",
        "中国和印度等战略性竞争者已经认识到非洲年轻人的人力资本潜力，欧洲必须迅速行动起来，吸引和挽留——而不是抵制——非洲专业人士。"
    ],
    [
        "Then came the news that Brazil will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games – this coming on top of hosting the 2014 World Cup.",
        "随后传来消息说2016年夏季奥运会将在巴西举办——巴西也同样是2014年世界杯的主办国。"
    ],
    [
        "Everywhere, the signs are pointing backwards.",
        "所有地方的信号都指向相反的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "So the US economy faces a $750 billion shortfall of demand. Moreover, the usual automatic stabilizers of unemployment benefits and reduced income tax collections will do nothing to offset this fall in demand, because it is not caused by lower earnings or increased unemployment.",
        "综上所述，美国GDP将面临7500亿美元的缺口，由于经济下滑不是由于低收入和失业率的增加而引起的，失业金的发放和收入所得税减少等政策不会起到作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, an updated approach to interviewing candidates will not work for everyone.",
        "当然，升级面试方法不可能对所有人都起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that, “China’s determination to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity is as firm as a rock.”",
        "中国外交部长王毅说：“中国捍卫国家主权和领土完整的决心坚如磐石。"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, international liquidity comprises the liabilities of OECD countries’ central banks (their “high-powered money”), those countries’ AAA-rated and AA-rated central-government bonds, the debt securities of supranational organizations like the World Bank and regional development banks, and gold in official and private hands.",
        "如果把范围再扩大一点，国际流动性还包含了经合组织国家中央银行的债券（它们的“强力货币”），这些国家的AAA 级、 AA 级中央政府债券，还超国家组织如世界银行和区域性开发银行发行的债券以及官方和私人手中的黄金。"
    ],
    [
        "Most officials now concede the existence of systemic risk as a form of “pollution,” meaning that banks and other financial firms do not necessarily internalize the full costs of their structures and activities.",
        "如今，大部分官员承认系统风险的存在是一种“污染”，意味着银行和其他金融企业不一定将结构和活动的成本完全内部化。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the street-level emotions that contributed to Leave’s victory were not rooted in income inequality or “the 1%”: alienated poor voters directed their anger at other alienated poor people – particularly immigrants – not at the rich. The Mayor of London’s office reported a 64% increase in hate crimes in the six weeks after the referendum, compared to the six weeks before it.",
        "此外，导致脱欧派胜利的街头情绪并非植根于收入不平等或“1%”：异化的穷人选民将愤怒导向了其他异化人群——特别是移民——而不是富人。"
    ],
    [
        "The implicit argument is that this move from price to quantity adjustments is the functional equivalent of additional monetary-policy easing.",
        "隐含观点是这一从价格到数量调整的变化在作用上等同于增加货币政策宽松。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – In the wake of a global stock-market sell-off triggered by economic turmoil in China, the US Federal Reserve has just decided to postpone raising interest rates.",
        "香港—中国经济近期的下滑及波动触发了全球股市抛售潮，在此形势下，美联储刚刚宣布了暂缓升息。"
    ],
    [
        "What is at stake are both the lives of thousands of civilians and the enduring effectiveness of the multilateral system, by which these norms have been agreed and mechanisms to enforce them established.",
        "这关系到成千上万平民的生命安全和多边体系的长期有效性，人们据此达成了上述准则并制定了执行机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Being in a military alliance with a reserve-currency-issuing country boosts the share of the partner’s foreign-exchange reserves held in that currency by roughly 30 percentage points.",
        "如果一国与一个发行储备货币的国家成为军事盟国，那么其外汇储备中该国货币的比例就会提高大约30个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "Every year, the UNDP publishes a ranking of countries by their Human Development Index (HDI), which incorporates other dimensions of wellbeing besides income, including health and education.",
        "联合国发展计划署每年都要发布各国人类发展指数（HDI）排名，该排名考察包括健康和教育在内的各项除收入以外的福利。"
    ],
    [
        "In Dalian, hundreds of thousands of people protested against the construction of petrochemical plant.Unlike what has happened so far in Wukan, the Dalian protest was crushed, but it – like the tens of thousands of other protests across China last year – signaled to the ruling party that ordinary Chinese are no longer interested only in the politically passive pursuit of material gain.",
        "在大连，成千上万人民游行反对化工厂项目的建设。 与如今在乌坎发生的事情不同，大连游行被镇压了，但它与中国去年所发生的成千上万起游行一样，是在对执政党说，普通中国人民已经不满足于单纯的物质好处，开始有政治要求了。"
    ],
    [
        "It appears that these monarchies enjoy a form of traditional authority that the region’s secular nationalist rulers never had.",
        "事态表明，这些王权政府拥有一种传统权威，是该地区的世俗民族主义统治者所没有的。"
    ],
    [
        "I have nothing but praise for Gates’s efforts to reduce the death toll from these diseases, which primarily affect the world’s poorest people.",
        "对于盖茨在降低这些疾病死亡人数方面所做的努力（受益者主要是最穷人群），我由衷地赞美。"
    ],
    [
        "China does need more infrastructure investment – particularly in power and water utilities, transport, and communications.",
        "中国确实需要更多的基础设施投资——特别是在电力和水电、交通和通信方面。"
    ],
    [
        "The Power to End Poverty",
        "终结贫困的力量"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s loss of integrity became painfully evident in the latest turn in the refugee crisis.",
        "难民危机的最新转折显示出欧洲统一性的丧失。"
    ],
    [
        "But one might also contend that Western medical workers deserve higher priority because they volunteered to expose themselves to the disease, in order to help those who had no choice.",
        "但你也可以说西方医务工作者有资格得到优先救治，因为他们主动去往疫区，救治那些别无选择的民众。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the many humanitarian disasters produced by the civil war now raging in Iraq is one that is almost invisible.",
        "在伊拉克激烈的内战所造成的人道主义灾难中，有一种灾难几乎是无形的。"
    ],
    [
        "The political, security, and economic circumstances of the Palestinians require a government focused on solving problems, not ideological purity.",
        "巴勒斯坦人的政治、安全以及经济状况要求政府把精力集中到解决问题上来，而不是意识形态的纯洁。"
    ],
    [
        "That is because inflation is not a benign cure for economic ills, in which beneficent and stimulatory effects are spread equally over the entire region under the inflationary monetary authority.",
        "这是因为通胀并不是一个应对经济问题的良药，其良性和经济刺激效应也不会在通胀货币当局治下的整个区域均衡散播。"
    ],
    [
        "We should recall that the first era of globalization, which reached its peak in the decades before World War I, eventually produced an even more severe political backlash.",
        "我们应当回顾人类首个全球化时代，它曾在一次大战前数十年达到高峰，但最终却造成了甚至更为严重的政治冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "This stance, however, has not prevented the spread of something for which a German word is used in other languages, too: Angst .",
        "但是，这一立场并没有防止德语中所说的忧虑的扩散。"
    ],
    [
        "Exit Afghanistan?",
        "撤离阿富汗？"
    ],
    [
        "The United States and Britain have supported the withdrawal plan, while most other European countries have been critical.",
        "美英两国对撤退计划表示支持，而大多数欧洲国家则持批评态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Money from Heaven?",
        "天上掉钱？"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December could mark a turning point in world history: unanimous recognition of the need to act to prevent the most harmful consequences of global warming.",
        "12月将在巴黎举行的联合国气候变化大会可能标志着世界史的转折点：人们一致认同有必要采取行动，防止全球变暖最有害的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, small shops’ advantages are so compelling that Tesco is investing heavily in expanding its network of convenience stores, Tesco Express, thereby effectively mimicking the traditional model of local grocery stores.",
        "事实上，小商店的优势是如此明显，以至于乐购对其便利店网络Tesco Express进行了大规模投资扩张，大举模仿传统的本地杂货店模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Most historians place leadership in the foreground of human history, with structural variables having conditional, not causal, value.",
        "大多数历史学家将领导力放在人类历史中最显著的位置，与特定而非随机的结构性变量相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – This December, world leaders will gather in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where they will attempt – yet again – to hammer out a global agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.",
        "伦敦——今年12月，各国领导人将汇聚巴黎召开联合国气候变化会议，届时他们将再次尝试制定一项温室气体减排的全球性协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, local governments, which own a majority of the SOEs, may struggle to adjudicate fairly disputes that arise between their own firms and private companies.",
        "类似地，国有企业的主要所有者地方政府未必能够公正地裁决自己的企业与民营公司之间的纠纷。"
    ],
    [
        "Director Edward Zwick does not shirk from showing the demons that plagued Fischer.",
        "导演爱德华·齐维克（Edward Zwick）并没有回避折磨费舍尔的恶魔。"
    ],
    [
        "In Greece, the private sector has been forced to adjust, but the government failed to keep its promise to reduce public employment.",
        "在希腊，私人部门被迫作出调整，但政府并未兑现削减公职的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "For Sapolsky, “contact theory,” which was developed in the 1950s by psychologist Gordon Allport, can foster reconciliation among rivals, and help bridge the “us-them” divide.",
        "萨波洛斯基指出由心理学家戈登·阿尔波特（Gordon Allport）发展出来的“接触理论”可以促进对手之间的和解，并帮助弥合“敌/我”之间的对立。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet there is little substance to British Europhobia: nothing fundamental separates the United Kingdom from the rest of the continent.",
        "但英国的仇欧心理没有什么实质内容：并无根本性的原因将英国和欧洲其余部分割离开来。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, China’s leaders believed that by shielding the North from US pressure, it was acting in the interest of its own national security.",
        "更重要的是，中国领导人认为用朝鲜来抵挡美国的压力符合其自身国家安全利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But the entitlement stops at the border: though they regard greater redistribution within individual countries as an absolute imperative, people who live in emerging markets or developing countries are left out.",
        "但应得权利止于国界：他们认为在个体国家内进行更大规模再分配是绝对必要的，但新兴市场或发展中国家的人不在此列。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Indian government played a large part in fueling rupee appreciation by easing companies’ ability to borrow abroad.",
        "而印度政府通过放纵国内企业向国外借款而在加速卢比升值中起着很大作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Pharmaceutical companies argue that they should be entitled to a full patent, paying nothing to the developing country from which the traditional knowledge was taken, even though the country preserves the biodiversity without which the drug would never have come to market.",
        "制药公司指出他们应该有权独享专利，而拒绝付给提供传统知识的发展中国家一分钱，即便这种草药为该国所独有，没有他们的支持这种药品永远也不可能上市。"
    ],
    [
        "A natural progression of the status quo will not be enough to reach them.",
        "在现状基础上自然进步无法覆盖他们。"
    ],
    [
        "But trade will probably not be the main worry for China’s international relations.",
        "但是贸易可能并不是中国的国际关系中德主要忧虑点。"
    ],
    [
        "Reconciling with Sykes-Picot",
        "平心而论赛克斯-皮科"
    ],
    [
        "Worryingly, it is not clear how well France’s culture of inclusiveness can ever extend to immigrants.",
        "令人担忧的是，目前尚不清楚法国的包容性文化如何能延伸到移民身上。"
    ],
    [
        "If GDP falls, achieving a certain deficit and debt target (as a share of GDP) becomes impossible.",
        "如果GDP下滑，则会使控制赤字和负债GDP占比的任务变得无法完成。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order to prioritize development targets – within and outside of the realm of education – estimates must be made.",
        "但是，为了给发展目标（不管是否属于教育领域）排出优先级别，我们必须做一个评估。"
    ],
    [
        "These findings need to be made available within the country where data were collected, and the lessons learned must be shared with neighboring countries and regions.",
        "上述研究成果需要在数据来源国公布，而从中所吸取的教训则必须与邻近国家和地区共享。"
    ],
    [
        "As someone who contributed to the PRI’s defeat, I would prefer a different victor this year: an independent candidate, a center-left social democrat, or a center-right leader running on the best parts of Fox’s and outgoing President Felipe Calderón’s record (while repudiating Calderón’s bloody and futile war of choice against Mexico’s drug lords).",
        "作为当年参与击败革命制度党的当事人之一，我更希望今年能有一场不一样的胜利：一位独立候选人，一位中左翼社会民主派，或是一位具备了福克斯以及即将下台的总统费利佩·卡尔德隆（Felipe Calderón）的优点，同时有能否定后者伤亡惨重且收效甚微的打击毒枭“选择之战”的中右翼领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting “race to the bottom” reflects intensifying global competition for capital and technological knowhow to support local jobs and wages.",
        "由此造成的“减税竞赛”反映了日益激烈的全球竞争，争夺资本和技术秘辛以支持本国就业和工资。"
    ],
    [
        "The costs of potential losses on corporate loans – estimated at 7% of GDP in the IMF’s latest Global Financial Stability Report – are manageable.",
        "潜在的企业贷款损失成本 — —国际货币基金组织的最新《全球金融稳定报告》估算约相当于GDP的 7% — —是可控的。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a search for yield will depreciate the exchange rate further – and increase the risk of competitive devaluations that leave no country better off.",
        "这一寻找收益率的行为将进一步抑制汇率——并提高让所有国家一损俱损的竞争性贬值的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, markets have again started to measure GDP to include some probability of currency re-denomination, causing debt ratios to look much worse than those based on the certainty of continued euro membership.",
        "结果，市场开始重新评估GDP，考虑货币重新计价的可能性，导致债务比率看上去比确定将留在欧元区内的国家糟糕得多。"
    ],
    [
        "This danger is not hypothetical.",
        "这种危险并不是凭空想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, when Americans went to the polls, a substantial share thought that economic conditions were deteriorating; many held President Barack Obama responsible and voted against his Democratic Party.",
        "事实上，当美国人走向投票箱时， 相当大一部分认为经济状况正在恶化，许多人认为总统奥巴马应该对此负责，并投出了反对民主党的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Bo made the prosecution look sloppy and incompetent.",
        "薄让公诉方看上去既无能又马虎。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcome is expected to be messy and inconclusive, but one thing already seems clear: the pacesetter may not be the 31- or 42-year-old sprinters heading the two leading parties, but rather an 81-year-old marathon runner.",
        "预计选情将是一场乱战，结果难以预料，但有一点已经很清楚：决定大局的人或许不是领导两大领先政党的31岁和42岁的短跑选手，而是81岁的马拉松选手。"
    ],
    [
        "They have acted as gateways connecting South Asia to the developed world, and have benefited from globalization, education, capital accumulation, and technological advancement.",
        "这些区域得益于全球化，教育发展，资本积累和技术革新，并已成为南亚与发达国家之间的联系门户。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Egypt’s financing must continue to grow: the country now needs to borrow about $14-15 billion to plug its estimated financing gap of $24 billion.",
        "因此，埃及的融资必须持续增加：该国目前需要借入140—150亿美元以填补其240亿美元的融资空白。"
    ],
    [
        "While that is down from the 11% peak hit in 2012 – owing to tepid economic growth, which typically puts pressure on profit margins – it hardly attests to a chronic earnings problem.",
        "虽然这相对于2012年11％的高点有所下滑——因为经济增长趋缓通常会给利润率带来压力 ，但不能据此将其称之为一个长期性收入问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Muslims find it hard to understand how we can believe our society is civilized when pornography and drunkenness are openly displayed.",
        "反过来穆斯林也不明白一个满大街充斥着色情和酗酒的西方社会究竟有何文明可言。"
    ],
    [
        "The record speaks for itself.",
        "桃李不言，下自成蹊。"
    ],
    [
        "The terrorism generated by many of these groups is an increasingly large domestic threat that only further disrupts society.",
        "这些组织大多使用恐怖主义，这正成为伊拉克国内日益凸现的一个威胁。 从长远来看恐怖主义只会使社会陷于混乱不堪的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "This perspective plays directly into the hands of authoritarian rulers like Erdoğan, who can leverage the perceived Islamophobia of foreign powers to mobilize their political base.",
        "这一观点直接帮助了埃尔多安等集权统治者，他们利用外国势力的伊斯兰恐惧症动员自己的政治基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The strength of an open society lies in its ability to recognize and correct its mistakes.",
        "一个开放社会的力量在于它有能力承认并改正自己的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the last thing the region needs, as it works toward economic growth and diversification.",
        "这是努力迈向经济增长和多元化之路的中东地区最糟糕的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "In Afghanistan, US force levels have peaked and are declining; the only questions concern the pace of withdrawal and the size and role of any residual US military presence after 2014.",
        "在阿富汗，美军数量也已经从高峰期有所下降； 唯一的问题是撤军的节奏以及2014年之后驻阿富汗美军的规模和作用。"
    ],
    [
        "I estimated the impact on GDP of America’s recent and projected debt increase (in which the explosive growth of public spending on pensions and health care looms largest), using four alternative estimates of the effect of debt on growth: a smaller Reinhart/Rogoff estimate from a more recent paper; a widely used International Monetary Fund study, which finds a larger impact (and which deals with the potential reverse-causality problem); a related CBO study; and a simple production function with government debt crowding out tangible capital.",
        "我估计了美国当前和计划中的债务增加（其中在退休金和医疗卫生方面的支出的爆炸性增加占了大头）对GDP的影响。 我采用了四种不同的方法估计债务对增长的效应：一项取自更新论文的更小的莱因哈特/罗格夫估计；"
    ],
    [
        "True, there is room to run the government more efficiently, especially in the areas of education and health care.",
        "当然，政府应该运行地更有效率一些，特别是在教育和医疗保健领域。"
    ],
    [
        "That is only the military aspect of the peacekeeping effort.",
        "而这只是维和行动的军事方面。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last five years alone, tens of thousands have died, and nearly a quarter of the population has been displaced, with many having little choice but to flee to neighboring Kenya, Uganda, or Sudan.",
        "光是在过去五年，就有数万人丧生，近四分之一人口流离失所，其中许多人只能逃往邻近的肯尼亚、乌干达和苏丹。"
    ],
    [
        "“Home” regulators and lenders of last resort are increasingly worried about their potential exposure to losses in banks’ overseas operations.",
        "“母国”监管者和最后贷款人越来越担心它们海外业务的潜在风险损失敞口。"
    ],
    [
        "Necessary licenses are often not routinely obtained. The simple start-up paperwork is still more burdensome than it is in the US.",
        "获取所需的执照往往需要走后门，简单的新企业文书申请工作比美国要繁杂许多。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, signified the Cold War’s end, al-Qaeda’s attack on the United States opened a new epoch.",
        "正如1989年11月9日柏林墙倒塌标志着冷战的结束，基地组织对美国的袭击开创了一个新的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe Blair has hit on how this can be achieved.",
        "或许布莱尔已经找到灵丹妙药。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Japan, with its gross government debt at 239% of GDP, has been able to sidestep a sovereign debt crisis, China, with its far larger saving cushion and much smaller sovereign debt burden (49% of GDP), is in much better shape to avoid such an implosion.",
        "日本的总政府债务高达GDP的239%，仍然能够避免主权债务危机。 类似地，中国拥有更大的储蓄缓冲和更小的主权债务负担（GDP的49%），其避免内部崩溃的形势远远优于日本。"
    ],
    [
        "The French government’s recent hints about its reform agenda for 2011 suggest that, contrary to earlier speculation, an enhanced role for the SDR will not be at the center of its efforts.",
        "法国政府最近对2011年改革方案的相关暗示显示出：相对于早前的猜测，它并未集中精力在增加特别提款权的角色方面。"
    ],
    [
        "It has since been embraced by every football competition in Australia, and has proved an influential model for other sports in Australia and worldwide.",
        "准则随后推广到澳大利亚所有的橄榄球赛事，并成为一个影响了澳大利亚和世界其他运动项目的范例。"
    ],
    [
        "Living the Saudi Dream",
        "沙特之石油霸主梦"
    ],
    [
        "The confrontations have come at a time when Abbas has been trying to persuade Hamas to moderate its anti-Israel stance and ally with Fatah in a national unity government.",
        "这些对峙发生在阿巴斯试图劝说哈马斯温和其反以立场并且与法塔赫在民族团结政府中联合的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, Brazil had been differentiating itself from the rest of the continent through its stable economy and vibrant democratic political system, both of which were helping the country’s poor.",
        "最近，巴西因为稳定的经济和富有活力的政治体系而在南美独树一帜，而这两项都有利于该国的穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "What unites Muslims and non-Muslims is a commitment to basic human rights.",
        "团结穆斯林和非穆斯林的力量是对基本人权的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the history of stock-market prediction is littered with too much failure to try to decide whether the bounceback will continue much longer, it doesn’t look like a bubble, but more like the end of a depression scare.",
        "但当屡战屡败的股票市场预测者们尝试判断这场反弹还能持续多久的时候，它其实不像是一场泡沫，而更像是某种萧条恐慌的终结。"
    ],
    [
        "But, at the same time, multilateral frameworks are in decline, undermining the ability to bring sense and coherence to this world.",
        "但与此同时，多边架构正日趋走向没落，破坏了这个世界的理智和连贯性。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, the epicenter is in Europe, rather than the United States.",
        "这回的震中是在欧洲，而不是美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Educating all people so that they can make the best use of modern technologies and the other resources at their disposal should be rather straightforward.",
        "全实现民教育，让人们能够最好地随心所欲使用现代技术和其他资源，这应该是应有之义。"
    ],
    [
        "But that kind of bold institutional innovation could fill an important gap in the global financial architecture, and cement China’s leadership in financing environmental remediation.",
        "但此类大胆机构创新将填补全球金融体系的重要缺口，并巩固中国在环境治理融资方面的领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Businesses can commit to gender parity by taking several concrete steps.",
        "企业应采取具体措施实现性别平等的目标。 他们可以设定招聘和聘用女员工的人数；"
    ],
    [
        "Somewhat guardedly, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced: “(Pakistani) Foreign Minister (Hina Rabbani) Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in the loss of Pakistani military lives.",
        "而美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿也不无保留地宣称：“（巴基斯坦）外长希娜·拉巴尼·哈尔（Hina Rabbani Khar）和我都认识到了由巴基斯坦军人伤亡所引发的错误事件。"
    ],
    [
        "And they get away with it because the eurozone’s decision-makers are not obliged to answer to any sovereign body.",
        "”而他们犯了错而不受惩罚，是因为欧元区决策者没有应答仍和主权机构的义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, although it is difficult to say how large an impact the launch had on the result in Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party (of which I am a member, serving as Deputy Chair of the election campaign) won a landslide victory.",
        "其实，尽管很难界定发射在多大程度上影响了日本的选举，自民党（我本人是自民党党员，并担任竞选活动副主席）获得压倒性胜利却是不争的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "We have not yet seen any renewed attempt to re-establish the “Quadrilateral Security Dialogue,” comprising Japan, Australia, the US, and India, which conducted joint military exercises in 2007 and was seen by China as a hostile containment enterprise.",
        "我们尚未看到任何试图重新建立由日本、澳大利亚、美国和印度参与的“四方安全对话”。 2007年，四国进行了联合军事演习，并把中国作为假象敌对遏制对象。"
    ],
    [
        "In trying them, the ICTY has been a model of fairness at all times.",
        "前南国际刑事法庭的审判堪称公平的典范，名垂青史。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the CIA has long armed and trained Sunni jihadists through covert operations funded by Saudi Arabia.",
        "其次，中央情报局长期以来通过沙特阿拉伯出资的秘密行动武装和培训逊尼派圣战者。"
    ],
    [
        "“In advanced economies, all scenarios,” McKinsey writes, “result in full employment by 2030, but transition may include periods of higher unemployment and [downward] wage adjustments,” depending on the speed of adaptation.",
        "“在发达经济体，所有情景，”麦肯锡写道，“都表明到2030年将实现充分就业，但转型可能包括失业率高企和[趋于下降的]工资调整时期，”这取决于适应的速度。"
    ],
    [
        "Without new climate initiatives, the region’s cities could contribute more than half of the increase in global greenhouse-gas emissions over the next 20 years.",
        "如果不出台新的气候措施，该地区的城市有可能贡献今后20年全球温室气体排放增长的一半以上。"
    ],
    [
        "That trend, as we have seen, creates fertile ground for populist politicians to offer simplistic solutions, rooted in extreme ideologies that sow division and undermine progress.",
        "正如我们所看到的那样，这样的趋势为民粹主义政治家鼓吹简单化方案创造了肥沃的土壤，这些方案植根于极端意识形态，它们播下分化的种子并破坏进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Venezuela’s late president, Hugo Chávez, was the chief exponent of this trend.",
        "委内瑞拉已故总统查韦斯便是这一趋势的最佳写照。"
    ],
    [
        "Engage Russians.",
        "将俄罗斯纳入进来。"
    ],
    [
        "(The case of Palestine was even more complicated, owing to Britain’s conflicting promises to Arabs and Jews.)",
        "（拜英国向阿拉伯人和犹太人所做的互相矛盾的承诺所赐，巴勒斯坦的情况更加复杂。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "The British Royal Society advocated creating the German Max Planck Society on the ground that solidarity between international scientific communities could contribute to reconciling former enemies.",
        "基于国际科学界之间的团结能够有助于改善前敌国之间的关系的认识，英国皇家科学院大力倡导创立德国马普学会（German Max Planck Society）。"
    ],
    [
        "If the government had not bailed out large banks, the insurance giant AIG, and the auto industry, and if the Federal Reserve had not flooded the economy with liquidity, the wealth of the super-rich would have taken a severe blow.",
        "如果政府不出手援助大银行、保险巨头AIG和汽车业，如果美联储不向经济注入巨量流动性，超级富豪的财富可能遭受重创。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, many Sunni Arab states have provided varying degrees of support to the largely Sunni opposition, a hodgepodge of groups that include the Muslim Brotherhood and other sectarian forces similar to Egypt’s ultra-conservative Salafis.",
        "相反，许多逊尼派阿拉伯国家则对主要由逊尼派组成的反对派提供不同程度的支持，而这股反对力量其实是一个包含了穆斯林兄弟会和其他宗派主义力量——类似极端保守的埃及萨拉非党（Salafi）——的大杂烩。"
    ],
    [
        "There is clearly a trend. The climate threat is so great – and democracies are doing so little about it – that people conclude that maybe democracy is part of the problem, and that perhaps people ought not to be allowed to express heterodox opinions on such an important topic.",
        "这个趋势显而易见，因为气候变化的威胁如此之大——而民主制度对此却鲜有建树——因此人们得出结论说民主制度也是问题的一部分，并以此认为不该有人在这么一个重要的议题上表达离经叛道的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community’s old approach was to prioritize stability over democracy and pursue Israeli-Arab peace on a completely separate diplomatic track.",
        "国际社会的传统做法是将稳定视为高于民主，并从完全独立的外交轨道试图实现以巴和平。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Congress refuses to ratify the agreement reached in 2010 to correct this skewed state of affairs.",
        "美国会拒绝批准2010年达成的协议，纠正这种失衡的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Once we know that, we will be able to share and apply that knowledge with the aim of achieving optimal health for all.",
        "我们一旦知道，就可以分享和应用这一知识，目的在于为大众实现最佳健康。"
    ],
    [
        "For the Security Council to be effective in providing global governance in the domain of security, it must be reformed to reflect the realities of the twenty-first century.",
        "为使安理会能在安全领域进行有效的全球管理，就必须对其进行改革，以适应21世纪的现实需求。 世界各国广泛参与的加权投票系统应当取代现行制度，即在二战后实力格局基础上衍生出来的大国否决权。"
    ],
    [
        "Several governments – including that of the United Kingdom – have developed so-called “nudge units,” which seek to encourage people to make better choices for themselves and society by providing subtle hints, cues, and other suggestions.",
        "包括英国在内的某些国家政府已经成立了所谓“助力单位”，意在通过提供巧妙的暗示、线索和建议鼓励人们为自己也为社会做出更好的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "For seven decades after independence, Indian identity rested on cultural pluralism.",
        "独立后的七十年间，印度人的身份认同一直构建于文化多元化之上。"
    ],
    [
        "As it turns out, another extremely useful view into a society is the type of pornography it consumes, together with how that pornography is manufactured and delivered.",
        "研究社会的色情消费、调查色情产品的生产和运输可以为了解这个社会提供非常有价值的参考线索，这是一条客观规律。"
    ],
    [
        "Determining why Germany has been so economically successful appears to be elusive.",
        "理解德国为何在经济上如此成功很难。"
    ],
    [
        "That maxim is more than a catchphrase from the manifesto of the Democracy in Europe Movement – DiEM25, the group I just helped to launch in Berlin.",
        "”这句格言不仅是我刚在柏林创立的欧洲民主运动——DiEM25宣言中多次出现的流行语。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, patent-supported research encourages secrecy, as companies disclose only the information needed to acquire patents.",
        "此外，以专利为目的的研究鼓励保密行为，企业除与专利获取有关的信息外概不透露。"
    ],
    [
        "All member countries were supposed to fight the coming recession by stimulating their economies through simultaneous fiscal expansion.",
        "所有成员国都提出通过立刻采取财政扩张刺激经济、克服衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Brexit will open the floodgates for other anti-European forces within the Union.",
        "英国退出将打开欧盟内部其他反欧力量的防洪门。"
    ],
    [
        "But, at least so far, Abe seems to lack the will to do so (though he may choose to work with local party bosses behind the scenes to bring in more women).",
        "但是，至少到目前为止，安倍似乎没有这样做的意愿（尽管他可能与地方党组织领导人达成幕后交易，提拔更多女性）。"
    ],
    [
        "To overcome this hurdle, Tanzania and Mexico implemented systems that require nothing more than a phone number to sign up for the most basic accounts.",
        "为了克服这一障碍，坦桑尼亚和墨西哥实施了只需要一个手机号码就能开立最基本的金融账户的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as we prepare to face new political trials, we must not lose sight of the challenges we already face, especially global health challenges like the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which has no regard for economic performance or political stability.",
        "但当我们准备迎接新的政治考验时，绝不能忽视我们已经面临的挑战，尤其是与经济效益和政治稳定不相称的细菌耐药性上升（AMR）所带来的全球健康挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Running against the political elite is, of course, the essence of populism everywhere.",
        "当然，全球各地民粹主义精髓就是反对政治精英。"
    ],
    [
        "Opening the door to migrants would have to be a gradual and controlled process, with determined efforts made to convince Europeans of its benefits.",
        "向移民敞开大门将应该是一个循序渐进而又控制得当的过程，并且要做出坚定的努力来让欧洲人确信移民的益处。"
    ],
    [
        "Its tools and assumptions define its topics.",
        "它的工具和假设定义了它的主题。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – China’s real-estate sector has been a source of serious concern for several years, with soaring property prices raising fears of overheating in the housing market.",
        "北京—几年来，中国的房地产业已成为一个严重忧虑，一飞冲天的房地产价格让人们担心住房市场存在过热。"
    ],
    [
        "In the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, neither EU nor European national policymakers have devised a coherent strategy setting out the relationship that Europe wants with the Russian Federation.",
        "苏联解体以来的几年来，欧盟和欧洲各国决策者都没有制定一个规划欧洲谋求的与俄罗斯联邦关系的一贯战略。"
    ],
    [
        "One case is an attempt to force Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s administration to reopen proceedings in a Swiss court that were examining charges of money-laundering and misuse of public funds by President Asif Ali Zardari.",
        "第一个案件就是要求总理吉拉尼的政府重开一个瑞士法庭指控总统扎尔达里洗钱以及挪用公共基金的审判进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Craving one seems to be a desire, like fine wine, that one discovers only when one has substantial wealth.",
        "对度假宅邸的渴望就像对美酒的向往，只有在具备了相当的经济实力后才会渐渐萌生。"
    ],
    [
        "Too many Italians shrugged their shoulders at Berlusconi’s lies and failings, figuring that he would soon go away, having done little harm.",
        "太多意大利人面对贝卢斯科尼的谎言和失败只是耸耸肩膀，心想他很快就会消失，不会带来多大害处。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that you are cc’ed, you can also see patterns among your friends or colleagues: Which topics provoke huge amounts of stress or argument?",
        "在你被抄送的电子邮件中，你也可以观察到朋友和同事的沟通模式：什么话题引发了极大的紧张和愤怒？"
    ],
    [
        "A year ago, such “hardline” integrationism would have lacked credibility; after all, the UK would never stand for it.",
        "一年前，如此“强硬”的一体化根本毫无可信度可言； 毕竟，英国绝不会支持它。"
    ],
    [
        "But what may be desirable under extreme conditions for a single country can be highly detrimental to the world economy.",
        "但是，这种在特殊情况下做出的限制对单个国家可能有好处，对于世界经济来说是有害的。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the formal handover was conducted by the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, Duleep Singh, who was only ten years old – and most certainly was not given a choice.",
        "首先，进行正式转交的是锡克帝国末代大君杜力普·辛格（Duleep Singh），当时只有十岁——很有可能根本没得选择。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s leaders know what is wrong with the country’s economy.",
        "中国领导人知道本国的经济出了什么问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Could the US, a wounded power mired in Iraq, implement the part of the Baker report that suggests “Peace in Baghdad goes through Jerusalem”?",
        "美国身陷伊拉克的泥潭不能自拔，遍体鳞伤，它能否落实贝克报告中有关“巴格达的和平之路必须经过耶路撒冷”的建议呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In recent decades, as it became the world’s leading trading economy, China transformed the global trading system.",
        "近几十年中，随着中国成为世界领先的贸易经济，它也在改变着全球贸易体系。"
    ],
    [
        "But exactly what would replace the dollar under such circumstances remains an open question.",
        "但是在这种情况下什么会取代美元还是一个没有答案的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "We will all need to pay a “market price” when we contribute to global climate change, so that we give true economic incentives to sustainable energy systems and new public investments – for example, mass transit – that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thereby head off future climatic disasters.",
        "当我们对全球气候变化负有责任时，我们都应该为一定的“市场价格”埋单。 这样我们才能真正地从经济上激励可持续的能源体系和新的公共投资—例如大运量公交系统—从而减少温室气体的排放，进而防止未来的气候灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as empirical economics has progressed, the difficulty of doing so has grown.",
        "而且，随着经济学经验研究的发展，这种复制研究发现的难度不断加大了。"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming that risk is the job of venture capitalists and others in finance, not public officials.",
        "我们假定风险是风险资本家和其他金融界人士、而不是公职人员的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The big problem is time.",
        "时间是最大的拦路虎。"
    ],
    [
        "India has lifted controls on the price of diesel.",
        "印度已经解除对柴油价格的管制。"
    ],
    [
        "Jang Song-thaek had been seen as a kind of regent to Kim Jong-un, the young successor to the Kim family dynasty, and was thought to be number two in the regime.",
        "张成泽被视为金氏王朝年轻继承人金正恩的摄政王，朝鲜政权的二号人物。"
    ],
    [
        "It lacks a stable economy, relying heavily on tourism and imports to feed the country’s more than 80 million people.",
        "它缺乏稳定的经济来源，严重依赖旅游业和进口来哺育这个国家的8000多万人。"
    ],
    [
        "Although no one likes the dollar standard, governments and private market participants still consider it the best option.",
        "尽管没人喜欢美元本位，但政府和私人市场参与者仍认为这是最佳选择。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea blasted this South Korean decision as a “declaration of war.”",
        "朝鲜痛斥韩国这是“宣战”。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with approval ratings in the single digits, there’s nowhere to go but up.",
        "并且，随着对其的支持率降低到个位数，李明博除了奋起之外，没有其他的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "One answer that can be easily dismissed is that politicians simply don’t understand the gravity of the situation.",
        "其中一个很容易被排除的答案就是政治家们根本没意识到事态的严重性。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring that Islamic groups are included in the political process is a prerequisite for progress.",
        "确保伊斯兰团体也被纳入政治进程是进步的前提。"
    ],
    [
        "An alternative set of well-discussed policies could work.",
        "另一种经过仔细讨论的政策可能会起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In the nineteenth century, this situation would not have been surprising, given low average income, widespread poverty, and lack of social security.",
        "在十九世纪，这一结果并不令人惊奇，因为那时平均收入较低、贫困普遍存在，也缺乏社会保障。"
    ],
    [
        "What plays well with one group may not sit well with another.",
        "在一个群体受欢迎不代表在另一群体里就行得通。"
    ],
    [
        "The vast majority recognize the issue as imperative to their companies’ success and have implemented measures to promote gender parity in their organizations.",
        "绝大部分人认识到这对企业的成功必不可少，并已着手采取措施提高所在机构的性别平等程度。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, most towns and cities do not produce food, cars, gasoline, medicines, TVs, or films.",
        "举例来讲，大多数城镇和城市不生产粮食、汽车、汽油、药品、电视机或影片。"
    ],
    [
        "LAHORE – On December 16, the Taliban attacked an army school in Peshawar and killed 132 children and nine adults.",
        "拉合尔—12月16日，塔利班袭击了白沙瓦的一所军事学校，杀害了132名少年儿童和九名成年人。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is pretty close to what we still accept for most Internet searches.",
        "但在现阶段绝大多数网络搜索中我们也只好如此。"
    ],
    [
        "American companies operating in Europe are part of that system for their European-based emissions, so that US companies are being pulled into climate control even if their own government avoids the issue.",
        "在欧洲营运的美国公司由于其在欧洲的排放也成为该体系的一部分。 因此即便在本国政府回避这一问题的情况下，美国公司还是被纳入了气候控制的体系当中。"
    ],
    [
        "With only a handful of exceptions, the current generation of political leaders shows little interest in disarmament, and not much more in non-proliferation.",
        "恐怖分子掌握的核装备并未威胁世界主要城市； 在有核国家看来，拥有核武器似乎更多地带来安慰和骄傲，而不是尴尬和忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "After going to the cinema, she and her boyfriend were beaten, before she was brutally assaulted and attacked with an iron rod for more than an hour.",
        "她和男朋友在看电影回家途中遭到袭击，她被严重侵犯，并遭遇了超过一小时的铁棍殴打。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the president’s illness, the enormous problems facing Venezuela, and fatigue after 13 years of chavismo, it is still Chávez’s election to lose.",
        "尽管查韦斯身体有恙，委内瑞拉问题丛生，查韦斯派13年后疲态尽露，但要把查韦斯选下台绝不容易。"
    ],
    [
        "Will we stop talking about our allegedly shared values with Russia?",
        "我们是否该不再理会我们和俄国共享的价值观呢？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in his 2004 book Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb said of economic sciences: “You can disguise charlatanism under the weight of equations, and nobody can catch you since there is no such thing as a controlled experiment.”",
        "例如，纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布（Nassim Nicholas Taleb）在他2004年出版的书《被随机性愚弄的傻瓜》中提到经济科学：“你可以用方程式来掩盖自己的把戏，没有人能够揭穿你，因为没有东西可以进行对照实验。"
    ],
    [
        "Even those who have jobs fear that they could lose them and be cast adrift.",
        "即便是那些在职的人也会担心因为失去工作而生活无着。"
    ],
    [
        "He also wants to deport 11 million people and keep out all Muslims.",
        "他还想驱逐1,100万人并拒绝一切穆斯林入境。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1989, liberal democracy triumphed over the socialist ideology incarnated and promoted by the Soviet Bloc.",
        "1989年，自由民主战胜了由苏联集团具体化并推崇的社会主义意识形态。"
    ],
    [
        "He will also oppose free trade, globalization, immigration, and foreign direct investment, while favoring domestic workers and firms, particularly state-owned enterprises and private business and financial groups with ties to those in power.",
        "他还会反对自由贸易、全球化、移民和外国直接投资，同时偏袒国内工人和企业，特别是国有企业和与掌权派关系密切的私营企业和金融集团。"
    ],
    [
        "Measurement and reporting were neglected.",
        "对这些数据的测算和报告都被忽略了。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, lycopene from cooked tomato sauces may help prevent prostate cancer.",
        "比如，从煮熟的番茄沙司中提取的茄红素（lycopene）对防止前列腺癌大有帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dutch group Urgenda and nearly 900 co-plaintiffs successfully sued the Dutch government, forcing it to adopt more stringent climate policies.",
        "荷兰Urgenda集团和近900位联合原告成功地起诉荷兰政府，迫使它采取更加严格的气候政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Another outstanding use of resources is to reduce childhood malnutrition.",
        "另一种最有效率的资源利用方式是降低儿童营养不良。"
    ],
    [
        "A female US presidential candidate has now won a majority of women’s votes, and more total votes than her male opponent, and yet her strategy failed to deliver enough votes to secure a victory.",
        "一位女美国总统候选人赢得了多数女性选票，总票数也多于她的男性对手，但她的策略没有吸引足够选票以保证胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Libyan revolution is to succeed, the country’s new leaders must make a clean break with the spirit of the past.",
        "利比亚革命若想取得成功，新一代国家领导人就必须要彻底打破过去的思想。"
    ],
    [
        "The focus of attention today is on Iraq and Afghanistan.",
        "当今，我们把精力主要集中在伊拉克和阿富汗上。"
    ],
    [
        "The global financial crisis had made an updated and strengthened policy for the EU’s eastern neighborhood an urgent need.",
        "在全球金融危机的背景下，迫切需要制定与欧盟东部邻国更新、也更有力的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "We will do so, country by country, reform by reform.",
        "我们会承担这一责任，一个国家一个国家、一项改革一项改革地进行监督。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifth, to promote happiness, we must identify the many factors other than GNP that can raise or lower society’s well-being.",
        "第五，为增进幸福感，我们必须找到国民生产总值以外能提升或降低社会福祉的其他多种因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Secure and decent employment is surely at the top of most personal agendas, as it should be with respect to national agendas.",
        "稳定和体面的工作无疑是个人最关心的事情，这当然也应该成为国家最关注的事务。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s political system usually works well in crises. But, thanks to its residual advantages in a leaderless world, the US need not rely on a crisis to precipitate action.",
        "美国的政治制度通常能在危机中运转良好。 但是，由于美国在缺少领袖的世界中还拥有一些残存优势，因此它并不需要一场危机来刺激行动。"
    ],
    [
        "If Palestine’s leaders truly want to end the cycle of violence in Gaza, they must begin by resolving their own internal disagreements and present themselves as a cohesive, reliable, and committed negotiating party.",
        "如果巴勒斯坦领导人真的希望结束加沙的暴力循环，就必须从解决自身内部争端，形成一个团结、可靠、有担当的谈判方开始。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Are the world’s governments capable of keeping the world economy out of a deep and long depression?",
        "伯克利——世界各国的政府有能力将世界经济带出影响如此深远的萧条么？"
    ],
    [
        "CHENGDU – Since Russia invaded Crimea last summer, the West has relied on a strategy of economic sanctions and international isolation to compel the Kremlin to withdraw its support for the rebels in eastern Ukraine.",
        "成都—自去年夏天俄罗斯入侵克里米亚以来，西方一直依靠经济制裁和国际孤立战略迫使克里姆林宫不再支持对东乌克兰叛乱的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "While these trends benefit Chinese workers, they also support America and other countries by holding down inflation and making it possible for their companies to cope with tough competitive pressures. They allow beleaguered American families to stretch their paychecks (think Wal-Mart).",
        "这些趋势在令中国工人受益的同时还造福了美国以及其他国家，因为这既帮助控制了通胀，同时也使各国企业得以应对严酷的竞争压力。"
    ],
    [
        "· The new state is viable (the last thing the world needs are more failed states).",
        "· 新国家具有自生能力（世界最不需要的就是更多失败之国）。"
    ],
    [
        "For companies facing skills shortages, this should be particularly tempting.",
        "对面临技能短缺的公司来说，这应该是非常具有有诱惑力的。"
    ],
    [
        "One area that will require special attention is education.",
        "一个需要社会予以关注的领域是教育。"
    ],
    [
        "The central unknown is the composition of the ruling coalition.",
        "最大的未知数是执政联盟的组成。"
    ],
    [
        "Numerous laws prohibiting child marriage and dowries have had scant effect, with 18% of girls – the world’s highest rate – married before they turn 15.",
        "大量法律禁止童婚和陪嫁，但收效甚微，18%的女孩——比例为世界最高——在15岁前就已经结婚。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The global agreement reached in Paris last week is actually the third climate agreement reached in the past month.",
        "伦敦—上周在巴黎达成的全球协定其实是上个月所达成的第三项气候协定。"
    ],
    [
        "If the target inflation rate for the eurozone were to be set temporarily at, say 3.5%, and if the countries with current-account surpluses encouraged domestic inflation rates somewhat above the eurozone’s target, there could be real price adjustment within the eurozone without price deflation in the troubled countries.",
        "如果欧元区目标通胀率被临时定在（比如）3. 5%，且经常项目盈余国鼓励国内通胀高于欧元区目标一定程度，那么欧元区内部就可以在受困国不发生价格通缩的情况下实现真实价格调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Strategic statements play an important role in signaling a country’s direction and intentions to its adversaries, allies, citizens, and government agencies.",
        "战略言论是一国向对手、盟友、公民和政府机构挑明其方向和意图的重要手段。"
    ],
    [
        "One idea making the rounds is for the European Parliament to define the ECB’s objectives, on the basis that it is democratically elected – as if the Maastricht Treaty did not result from a democratic process.",
        "其中一种提法是由欧洲议会来决定欧洲央行的目标，理由是欧洲议会由民主选举¾就像签订《马斯特里赫特条约》不是一项民主进程。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are wrong to believe that they have resolved the Iranian nuclear threat.",
        "但认为伊朗核威胁已经解除却过于天真。"
    ],
    [
        "The generals have always placed the institution of the military above all else, including rulers from their own ranks.",
        "军队将军一向把军队机制放在其他之上，包括自己的上级。"
    ],
    [
        "The fundamental cause, according to the likes of John McCain, was greed and corruption on Wall Street.",
        "根据像约翰·麦凯恩这样的人的观点，最根本的原因是华尔街的贪婪和腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "Vladimir de Gaulle?",
        "弗拉基米尔·戴高乐"
    ],
    [
        "Malaria is spreading, and new scientific evidence indicates that people infected with HIV are more likely to transmit it to others when they are also infected with malaria.",
        "疟疾正在扩散，而新的科学证据显示当HIV感染者同时感染疟疾时就更可能将HIV病毒传染给他人。"
    ],
    [
        "It is for this reason that securing the independence of Ukraine is so important, as is assuring Turkey’s European orientation.",
        "正是这一原因，确保乌克兰的独立是非常重要的，正如确保土耳其的欧洲导向一样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "A compliant bond market, which may well be the next bubble, is mistakenly viewed as the ultimate validation of this myopic approach.",
        "被误当成这种短视做法终极检验的顺从的债券市场很可能酝酿着下一轮泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "Like blacks in the US, Dalits account for about 15% of the population; they are found disproportionately in low-status, low-income jobs; their levels of educational attainment are lower than the upper castes; and they still face daily incidents of discrimination for no reason other than their identity at birth.",
        "和美国黑人一样，贱民约占人口的15 ％，他们在低地位、低收入的工作岗位上所占的比例与他们在总人口中的比例不相符合； 他们的教育水平低于上等种姓；"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, our own research team is currently exploring ways to rejuvenate old solar or car batteries – without requiring any chemical treatment or disassembly – for re-use in a residential solar-power system.",
        "此外，我们自己的研究团队目前正在探索如何不进行任何化学处理或拆解即可恢复老旧太阳能或汽车电池——用于住宅太阳能发电系统。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the dispersion of power, the degree of interdependence, and the sheer dimension of the challenges confronting the world require effective, accountable, and legitimate global governance.",
        "同时，力量分布、相互依赖的程度以及世界所面临的巨大挑战都需要有效、负责任以及合法的全球治理。"
    ],
    [
        "All this would not be so problematic if the increased market power of the merged institutions were a temporary reward for past prudent behavior.",
        "这些都不是大问题，只要合并后的机构的市场实力只不过是对过去审慎行为的暂时性奖赏。"
    ],
    [
        "Marc Hauser, at Harvard University, has put similar dilemmas on the web in what he calls a “Moral Sense Test,” available in English, Spanish, and Chinese ( http://moral.wjh.harvard.edu ).",
        "哈佛大学的马克·豪塞尔将类似的困境以“道德感测试”的形式放到网上，并提供了英语、西班牙语和中文版本（ http://moral. wjh."
    ],
    [
        "For decades, political debate in Europe focused largely on economic institutions and policies.",
        "几十年来，欧洲政治争论大多集中在经济制度和政策上。"
    ],
    [
        "Messed-Up Macro",
        "乱套的宏观"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, industrial countries’ overall debt/GDP ratios are continuing to grow.",
        "与此同时，工业国的总体债务/GDP比率也在持续升高。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany, in particular, argues that the high unemployment resulting from reunification in 1990 requires it to close its labor market to the new member states to its east.",
        "尤其是德国提出1990年重新统一所导致的高失业率要求它对东面的欧盟新成员封锁劳动力市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Local farmers welcomed the initiative, which influenced the decision to expand the fence to surround the perimeter of the entire Aberdare range.",
        "本地农民很欢迎这项措施，这促使肯尼亚决定将电网范围扩大，将整个亚伯达山区包括进来。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Now that Barack Obama has made history by being elected President of the United States, people throughout the Asia-Pacific region fervently hope he will focus on Asia in a way that he did not during the election season.",
        "纽约--如今，奥巴马当选美国总统创造了历史。 整个亚太地区的人民都热切希望他将会与竞选时不同地关注亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet trivial issues – for example, the use of chlorinated chicken and settlements of investor disputes – continue to dominate the debate.",
        "但一些微妙的问题——比如“氯化鸡”（欧洲怀疑美国鸡肉进入市场前都用氯消毒）和投资者纠纷和解等问题——仍主导着争论。"
    ],
    [
        "My view is not popular in India, and my own party disclaimed my statement.",
        "我的观点在印度并不受欢迎，我所在政党都拒绝承认我的声明。"
    ],
    [
        "A New Science",
        "崭新的科学"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it is dangerous to believe that the world has found in this new-model Coalition of the Willing the solution that it was seeking in today’s increasingly chaotic post-American order.",
        "但就此认为世界已经在后美国秩序愈加混乱的局势下新形成的“自愿联盟”模式中找到了苦苦寻找的解决办法是危险的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not always benign.",
        "这并非总是良性的。"
    ],
    [
        "So what changed?",
        "那么，局面发生了什么变化？"
    ],
    [
        "The infectious prion then hijacks the body’s machinery, reprogramming it into a willing executioner of prion replication.",
        "传染性朊病毒会劫持宿主的机能，对其进行重新编排，使之成为朊病毒复制器刽子手。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even Nemtsov's brazen murder is unlikely to hurt Putin politically.",
        "事实上，哪怕是令人发指的谋杀涅姆佐夫的行为也无法在政治上伤害到普京。"
    ],
    [
        "They will not allow Merkel much latitude here, even if she seeks it.",
        "他们不会允许默克尔在这方面有很大的余地，即使她积极争取。"
    ],
    [
        "This combination of macro liquidity and market illiquidity is a time bomb.",
        "这一宏观流动性和市场无流动性的组合是一颗定时炸弹。"
    ],
    [
        "But there might be a problem even deeper than statistical narrowness: the failure of modern growth theory to emphasize adequately that people are fundamentally social creatures.",
        "但除了统计口径过于偏隘之外，还有另一大问题：现代增长理论无视了人从本质上是社会动物。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, more than transitional justice is required in Sri Lanka (or, to take another example, in Colombia, where peace with the FARC guerillas seems increasingly likely).",
        "因此斯里兰卡（或是可能与哥伦比亚革命武装力量游击队达成和平协议的哥伦比亚）需要的可不仅仅是转型正义（transitional justice）。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will have to manage relations with firebrand Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his followers, who can provoke unrest in southern Iraq if they feel under-served.",
        "总理努里·马利基必须要与煽动叛乱的教士萨德尔及其追随者搞好关系，如果后者感觉受到冷落，就会挑起伊拉克南部的动荡局势。"
    ],
    [
        "If this opportunity to rebuild trust is squandered, it will be difficult, if not impossible, for Europe to address its fiscal, economic, and institutional deficits.",
        "如果这一重塑信任的良机被浪费了，那么欧洲修正其财政、经济和制度赤字的可能性即使存在，也将非常渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Britain and Germany are natural allies in balancing the statist tendencies of France.",
        "此外，英国和德国一直是平衡法国中央集权倾向的天然盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "This policy ignited a latent conflict, with a military coup in 1999 putting General Robert Gueï in power. But Gueï lasted only three years, with his assassination in 2002 setting the country’s conflicting sides on a path to civil war.",
        "这一政策随即引发了潜在的冲突，导致罗伯特·古埃尔将军（Robert Gueï）在 1999年的一场军事政变后上台，但古埃尔仅仅在位三年即遭暗杀，使整个国家的冲突几乎发展到了内战边缘。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly important because of the tendency of financial markets to induce short-sighted politicians to loosen today’s budget constraints, or to lend to flagrantly corrupt governments such as the fallen Yanukovych regime in Ukraine, at the expense of future generations.",
        "这一点尤其重要，因为金融市场总是会引诱短视的政客放松今天的预算约束，或借钱给极度腐败的政府（如乌克兰的亚努科维奇政府），从而贻害后代。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the revolution was never a smooth affair.",
        "事实上，革命从来都不是一帆风顺的。"
    ],
    [
        "Or should the recovery be used to clean up wobbly banks’ balance sheets, by bundling their NPLs and selling them at a discount?",
        "或者，应该利用复苏来清理不稳银行的资产负债表，将它们的不良贷款打包然后折价出售吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Even China, North Korea’s main patron, is losing patience with its client state.",
        "就连朝鲜的主要庇护国中国也逐渐对这个附庸国失去了信心。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Evolving Web",
        "演化中的中国合约网络"
    ],
    [
        "These collaborators improve the models on which the project is built, vet the study results, contribute new data sets, and communicate the results to media outlets, educational institutions, and decision-makers.",
        "这些合作者改进了作为该项目基础的模型，核验研究结果，建立新数据集，并与媒体、教育机构和决策者沟通研究结果。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of 2015, real-estate investment growth dropped almost to zero.",
        "截至2015年底，房地产投资增速下跌到几乎为零。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidence of this can be seen in the Millennium Villages Project, where mobile communications have had a particularly significant impact on health care: improved response times to emergencies, reduced isolation, and better training and equipment for health-care workers.",
        "千禧村项目证明移动通信对医疗保健的影响尤为重要：它可以缩短突发事件响应时间、减少孤立，并为医疗工作者提供更好的设备和培训。"
    ],
    [
        "The expansion of the financial-services industry – which creates few, but very highly paid, jobs – has contributed to rising income inequality, which has been more pronounced in the UK than elsewhere in the EU.",
        "金融服务业的扩张——它能带来为数甚少但收入极高的工作岗位——导致了收入不平等的加剧，收入不平等在英国比在欧盟其他地区更加明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Other speculations for what might be seen abound; they include extra dimensions of space, strings instead of particles, and mini-black holes.",
        "关于我们能通过 LHC 看到什么的猜想还有很多，包括多维空间、超弦、微型黑洞等等。"
    ],
    [
        "SHANGHAI – China’s slowing growth has dominated global economic news this year – and for good reason.",
        "上海—今年，中国增长放缓主宰了全球经济新闻头条——不无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "And to whom does that definition apply better than to the author of “Chimes of Freedom” or “Long and Wasted Years,” which bring to life and to music what the critic Greil Marcus has called the “invisible republic” of American culture?",
        "”还有谁能比“自由钟声”或“蹉跎岁月”的作者更能得起当这样的赞誉，是他为生命和音乐注入了批评家格雷尔·马库斯口中美国文化所谓的“隐性共和精神”？"
    ],
    [
        "To be smart today, Europe should invest more in its hard-power resources, and America should pay more attention to its soft power.",
        "为了实现灵巧目的，欧洲应当更多地投资于其钢性力量资源，而美国则应对其柔性力量予以更大的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Like any market, however, the marketplace of ideas needs regulation: in particular, its participants should be bound by norms of honesty, humility, and civility.",
        "但是，与所有市场一样，思想市场需要监管：特别是，思想市场参与者必须受诚信、谦卑和礼貌规范的约束。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, all ESDP missions have respected international law and governmental arrangements among disputing parties.",
        "目前为止，该政策所有的使命都尊重国际法和争议各方的政府安排。"
    ],
    [
        "But, far from a deterrent, this should serve as a powerful incentive to get started.",
        "但是，这不应该成为阻力，而应该成为刺激我们开始行动的强大动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The most telling example is the creation of a joint air defense system.",
        "而其中最有说服力的例子莫过于一个跨国联合防空体系的创建过程。"
    ],
    [
        "True, the country’s periodic debt crises are often the result of self-destructive macroeconomic policies.",
        "诚然，该国时常发生的债务危机大多是自我破坏性宏观经济政策的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans have been blinded to these calamitous mistakes partly by a long history of racism, as well as by a misplaced faith in “rugged individualism.”",
        "美国之所以对这些具有灾难性后果的错误视而不见，部分是因为其长期的种族主义历史，以及对“粗放个人主义”的不当信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "He imposed economic sanctions, spread rumors of corruption in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s inner circle, invited the leader of a Kurdish party to Moscow, and allegedly sent arms to the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).",
        "他采取了经济制裁，散布流言宣传总统埃尔多安亲信圈的腐败，邀请库尔德政党领袖访问莫斯科，据说还为库尔德工人党（PKK）提供军备。"
    ],
    [
        "But expropriating drug makers’ intellectual property will do nothing to improve outcomes where crucial safety nets are missing.",
        "但如果没有最重要的医疗安全网，剥夺药品制造企业的知识产权将无助于改善最终结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The MGI CompanyScope, a new database of all companies with revenues of $1 billion or more, reveals that there are about 8,000 large companies worldwide.",
        "据收录营收超10亿美元企业的最新数据库MGI CompanyScope显示，全世界约有8，000多家大型公司。"
    ],
    [
        "And European Union officials must abandon their obsession with driving all member countries toward an “ever-closer union” that many of their citizens do not want.",
        "而欧盟官员则必须放弃他们对促使所有成员国实现许多民众并不接受的“越来越紧密联盟”的痴迷。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the US does well on the traditional measures of power, those measures increasingly fail to capture much of what defines world politics, which, owing to the information revolution and globalization, is changing in a way that prevents Americans from achieving all their international goals by acting alone.",
        "虽然美国在传统的权力手段上表现不错，但是，由于信息革命和全球化，世界政治正在以一种阻止美国人通过单独行动达成他们的国际目标的方式，发生着变化，所以这些手段越来越无法掌握确定世界政治的许多因素。"
    ],
    [
        "From a broader geopolitical perspective, the situation becomes alarming.",
        "从更广泛的地缘政治角度看，这种情况应该引起人们的警惕。"
    ],
    [
        "This is dangerous, because such sentiments can end in disgust with liberal democracy itself.",
        "这很危险，因为这种情绪可能导致对民主政治本身的排斥。"
    ],
    [
        "If people get bitten despite the nets, they require treatment within a few hours of the onset of symptoms.",
        "如果人们在使用蚊帐之后还是被蚊子叮咬，他们就需要在疟疾症状出现的头几个小时里得到治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is the Aegean.",
        "如今则是爱琴海。"
    ],
    [
        "The higher the technical capabilities, and the costs, of modern medicine become, the more contested this particular value judgment will be.",
        "现代医疗的技术能力越强、成本越昂贵，这一价值判断引发的争议也就越多。"
    ],
    [
        "So, what can be done?",
        "那么人们可以做些什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Without cuts in spending on agriculture, this would increase the national contributions of net payers to unsustainable levels, with scant value added to common policies.",
        "但若不削减农业上的开销，这项提议将把成员国的财政支出提到一个难以为继的水平，对共同政策却鲜有价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, he reminds his followers that the El Hakims, who head the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), and their “Badr” militia were subsidized exiles in Iran – many fighting for Iran in the long and bitter Iran-Iraq war – until the Americans “brought them back.”",
        "同样，他还提醒他的追随者们说伊拉克伊斯兰革命最高委员会(SCIRI)的领导人El Hakims和他们的“Badr”民兵曾是在伊朗受人资助的流放分子—许多人在漫长的两伊战争中为伊朗作战—直到美国人“将他们带回”。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, inequality can reflect differences in preferences: some people might consider the pursuit of material wealth more worthwhile than others.",
        "毕竟不平等也会反映出偏好的差异：有些人可能认为追求物质财富比其他事务更有价值。"
    ],
    [
        "We achieve this - or not - through a combination of virtues such as fortitude in the face of relentless training, physical courage as we persevere through pain, and cleverness when we outsmart our opponents, along with other factors such as helpful coaching, optimized equipment, and sound nutrition.",
        "我们获得成功--也可能不会--是通过人类的美德，如我们在面对严格训练时的意志力，在伤痛中仍然坚持不懈的决心，和我们在与对手抗争时的聪明才智，以及其它一些因素如富有经验的教练、优良的设备和营养调理等。"
    ],
    [
        "In general, this is paid for by the states through their “free care” programs.",
        "总体而言，这些费用将由州通过“免费看护”计划支付。"
    ],
    [
        "He was now “convinced that the substitution of machines for human labor is often very injurious to the class of laborers,” that the “same cause which may increase the net revenue of the country, may at the same time render the population redundant.”",
        "他“认为机器取代人力劳动往往会给劳动阶级造成伤害”，“在国家净收入获得提高的同时，可能造成人口过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "Republicans who care about ending up on the right side of history cannot stay on Trump’s side any longer.",
        "关注能以站对了历史的边盖棺定论的共和党人，不能继续站边特朗普了。"
    ],
    [
        "To put pressure on Manafort, Mueller even staged a pre-dawn raid on his home in northern Virginia and let him know that he’ll be indicted – presumably to persuade him to give up information about Trump.",
        "为了对马纳福特施压，米勒甚至在黎明前对他在北弗吉尼亚州的住宅展开袭击行动，明确告诉他他会被起诉——这样做的目的很可能是说服马纳福特出卖特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "But the two dynamics have something in common: intransigence, even if coming from different quarters, reflects a denial of reality.",
        "但这两股动态存在一些共同点：即使来自不同阵营，却都反映了对现实的否定。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, there is the changing pattern of consumption in the advanced economies.",
        "首先，发达经济体的消费模式发生了变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But the past can never be truly erased.",
        "但是过去的一切永远无法被真正抹去。"
    ],
    [
        "Laws governing sex among consenting adults can be similarly harsh.",
        "约束同意的成年人之间性行为的法律也可以相当严苛。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, the government might be unable to refinance its debt at all, and then would have to cut spending and raise taxes sharply.",
        "更加不利的是，政府可能完全无法对债务进行再融资，届时便只剩下大幅削减支出并增加税收一途。"
    ],
    [
        "State handouts can be reliably financed only by controlling the economy’s productive sectors. But in the Arab world, as everywhere else, this leads to theft, corruption, uncompetitive monopolies, a stifling of enterprise, and, eventually and inevitably, to decline and decay.",
        "只有控制了经济的生产部门，才能有资金支持这种由国家出面发放救济的手段。 但跟世界各地一样，阿拉伯世界的这一举动导致了盗窃、腐败，毫无竞争力的垄断和企业僵化，最终使国家无法避免地滑向经济衰退和没落的深渊。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fact is that we have not created the intellectual infrastructure to address the fundamental challenges that gene drives – not to mention other powerful technologies – raise.",
        "但事实是我们尚未构建出解决基因驱动技术——更不用说其他强大的技术了——所引起的基本挑战所需要的知识框架。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Europe may not need the two-to-one ratio of federal to state spending found in the United States; but it clearly needs far more European-level expenditure, unlike the current miniscule EU budget (whittled down further by austerity advocates).",
        "诚然，欧洲也许不需要美国那样联邦与州之间2对1的支出比率； 但显然它需要更多全欧层面上的支出，而不是目前这样微乎其微的欧盟预算（而且还被紧缩主张进一步削弱了）。"
    ],
    [
        "If a clean start is impossible, the best that can be done is to try to bury the old information with such an inflationary flood of new data that it simply dwindles into insignificance.",
        "如果干干净净重新开始是做不到的，那么最好的办法就是用新信息的洪水淹没旧信息，将后者稀释到无足轻重。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps those in the West should listen more to their new partners.",
        "或许那些西方国家应该更多地听听他们的新伙伴的意见。"
    ],
    [
        "The key is to be able to announce and even sign deals that sound big – the more billions in the boasts, the better.",
        "关键是要能够宣布甚至签署听上去很重磅的协议——可吹嘘的数字越大越好。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi’s victory and Abe’s increased ability to stand by Japan’s allies can help to forge deeper bilateral ties and, if properly understood by China, foster a greater strategic equilibrium in the region.",
        "莫迪的胜利以及安倍与日本盟友携手能力的日增有助于深化双边关系，如果中国能够恰当地理解这一点，更有助于形成更大的地区战略均衡。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, an underlying European governance problem – at both the national level and that of supranational European Union institutions – has been intensifying since the early 1990’s.",
        "另一方面，基础性欧洲治理问题——既包括国家层面，也包括超越国家的欧盟制度层面——自20世纪90年代初开始便一直在恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "It is to the great credit of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that he had the courage to launch an open peace process with the PKK in 2013.",
        "总统埃尔多安敢于在2013年与PKK展开和平进程，这让他受到广泛赞誉。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The question of how the world can end extreme poverty and improve human wellbeing will take on new urgency in 2015, as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire and a new set of goals – the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – are finalized.",
        "华盛顿—世界如何结束极端贫困、改善人类福祉的问题将在2015年呈现新的紧迫性——今年，千年发展目标（Millennium Development Goals）将到期，新一组目标——计划中的可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals）将制定完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Without severe crisis, no significant reform was likely.",
        "没有严重的危机，就不会有重大改革。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – The way we eat in the industrialized world is unhealthy, unjust, and unsustainable.",
        "柏林—工业化国家的饮食是不健康、不公平、不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Swedish labor market’s sometimes rather strict systems and stable structures have impeded integration relative to many other countries.",
        "瑞典劳动力市场有时候制度相当严格，结构相当稳定，相对于其他许多国家来说，这阻碍了融合过程。"
    ],
    [
        "In an effort to regain access to capital markets, her economic team patched up things with the Paris Club of sovereign creditors and Spain’s Repsol (the former owner of nationalized oil giant YPF); but the fight with the vultures has set the country back.",
        "为求重新进入资本市场，她的经济团队修复了与主权债权人巴黎俱乐部和西班牙雷普索尔公司（国有化石油巨头YPF的前任所有者）的关系； 但与秃鹫基金这场战役的失利让她的国家遭受重挫。"
    ],
    [
        "From this perspective, cochlear implants seem ethically unproblematic.",
        "从这个角度讲，人工耳蜗植入似乎在道德上并不存在问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The government has also indicated that it intends to clamp down more heavily on illegal capital flows; but it will not be easy to put that genie back in the bottle.",
        "中国政府还表示计划更严厉打击非法资本流动； 但把蛇赶回洞里又谈何容易呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Surely, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq must be invited.",
        "显然，土耳其、埃及、沙特和伊拉克都应该邀请。"
    ],
    [
        "The response from both has been muted (as it has from Thailand, which also has strong economic ties with Myanmar).",
        "但是两国对此都保持沉默（与缅甸保持很强的经济联系的泰国也是如此）。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, Japan’s best bet is to make no bet at all.",
        "如今，日本最好的选择是不作任何选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in terms of growth of output per employed worker, Japan has done quite well since the turn of the century.",
        "在劳动力人数下降的情况下，2012年（即安倍经济学之前）的日本标准估计是工作人口人均产出年增长率3. 03%。"
    ],
    [
        "Public infrastructure is particularly important.",
        "它们包括高速公路、桥梁和铁路，将内陆国的农业生产者与非洲城市消费者和外部市场连接起来；"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to the long-term challenges of poverty, the environment, nuclear proliferation, and UN reform, the new Secretary-General will inherit a long list of hotspots: Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon, Somalia, Myanmar, Sudan, North Korea, and others.",
        "新任秘书长不仅要面对贫穷、环境、核不扩散及联合国改革等一系列挑战，而且要解决伊拉克、伊朗、阿富汗、巴勒斯坦、黎巴嫩、索马里、缅甸、苏丹、北朝鲜等一系列热点问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Any Chinese military move is portrayed as an expansionary and aggressive act that must be contained.",
        "任何中国军事行动都被描述成必须被遏制的侵略扩张行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Employers foot the bill, with the expectation that LearnUp will help them recruit higher-quality applicants.",
        "雇主支付学费，并期望LearnUp帮助它们找到高质量求职者。"
    ],
    [
        "The new treaty will verifiably prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon for at least a decade – and keep it bound to nuclear non-proliferation thereafter.",
        "新条约将至少在十年内阻止伊朗发展核武器——并在此后让伊朗受到核不扩散约束。"
    ],
    [
        "Peña Nieto has four more years in office, and he is constrained by the political elite that brought him to power from implementing the drastic measures – a cabinet reshuffle, criminal accountability for corruption and human-rights violations, and radical judicial reforms – that Mexico needs.",
        "培尼亚·涅托的任期还有四年，他受制于让他登上权力巅峰的政治精英而无法实施墨西哥真正需要的严厉政策——内阁改组、追究腐败和侵犯人权行为的刑事责任，以及积极推进司法改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe needs, first and foremost, to break the vicious circle of recession, unemployment, and austerity that now has it in its grip.",
        "欧洲首先需要打破目前所处的衰退、失业和紧缩的恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "Australia wanted a readily defensible basis for contesting China’s claims that could not be portrayed as just another reflexive embrace of the American position.",
        "澳大利亚想为挑战中国的主张寻找一个充分的理由，又不想被外界视为仅仅是本能地拥护美国的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "“There is no evidence that use of methadone and buprenorphinefacilitates treatment of drug addicts,” declared Olga Krivonos, head of the Department of Medical Aid and Healthcare Development at Russia’s Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development, in March 2009.",
        "该国卫生保健与社会发展部下属的医疗援助和卫生保健发展局局长奥尔加·科里沃诺斯于2009年3月声称：“没有证据表明美沙酮和丁丙诺啡有利于对吸毒成瘾治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "There are genuine prospects for changing the incentive structure in small states like Moldova, particularly if the EU can help build up long-term institutional capacities.",
        "在如摩尔多瓦一类的小国，确实有希望改变刺激结构，特别是在欧盟可以帮助建立长期制度能力的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody would deny that Germany has an interest in preserving the euro.",
        "没人会否认拯救欧元符合德国的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, consumption of the oceans’ resources continues to surge.",
        "此外，海洋资源消耗仍持续攀高。"
    ],
    [
        "So he couldn’t defend himself.",
        "所以，他无法保护自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Stories like these can be heard across the continent.",
        "这些故事在非洲大陆稀松平常。"
    ],
    [
        "Managing unrest through repression is more difficult than in the past, as rapid urbanization, economic reform, and social change roils a country of 1.3 billion people.",
        "随着城市化快速发展、经济改革和社会变化在这个13亿人口的国家掀起轩然大波，依靠镇压手段管理骚乱比之前难度更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to the highly publicized killing of a woman and her four little children last week, this pattern was illustrated by a previous report from B’Tselem, the leading Israeli human rights organization: 106 Palestinians were killed between February 27 and March 3. Fifty-four of them were civilians who didn't take part in the fighting, and 25 were under 18 years of age.",
        "在上周发生的一名妇女和她的四个孩子被炸死的事件被广为曝光前，这样的事情实际上之前已经被B’Tselem（被占领土人权状况以色列信息中心）的一份报告描述过了：在2月27日至3月3日期间，有106位巴勒斯坦人被杀害，其中54人是从未参加过任何武装斗争的平民，25人未满18岁。"
    ],
    [
        "Great Britain had been the hegemonic power of the nineteenth century, but its creditor status had been severely eroded by the cost of fighting World War I.",
        "英国虽然贵为19世界的全球霸主，但他的债权人地位已经被第一次世界大战的巨大消耗所削弱了。"
    ],
    [
        "The disparities among the BRICS are well known.",
        "金砖国家间的差距众所周知。"
    ],
    [
        "This was combined with a counter-cyclical fiscal policy has that kept deficits and public debt under control.",
        "这些政策与反周期财政政策一道，使巴西赤字和公债水平处于可控状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who vote for populist upheavals will have no one but themselves to blame when their revolutions go wrong.",
        "当革命最终走入歧途时，那些投票支持民粹主义剧变的人就只能怪罪自己了。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the IMF’s inability to provide impartial analysis of Greece’s debt sustainability, and it is hard to see how anyone can argue that the Fund can make a contribution to the Greek negotiations today.",
        "加之该组织无法提供对希腊债务可持续性的公正分析，也没有什么人会认为基金可以对当今的希腊谈判做出贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.",
        "普林斯顿 – 理想世界中，我们为治疗某种疾病而花在医学研究上的经费应该是和此病的严重性和受此疾病困扰的人数成比例的。"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, the choices made, whether implicit or explicit, will be profoundly important to the success of Vision 2030 and similar reform agendas.",
        "无论如何，最后的选择，不论直接还是间接，将深远地影响《愿景2030》和类似改革日程的成功与否。"
    ],
    [
        "It started with characteristically moderate calls for greater democracy.",
        "一开始，这场运动的特征是温和要求更多的民主。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, I have learned that meticulous record-keeping and measuring results is critical to reaching more children.",
        "最后，我明白一丝不苟的记录和测量结果对于让更多儿童获得疫苗来说是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "The public reaction began with a demonstration in Seoul on May 2 in which hundreds of teenagers held a candlelight vigil.",
        "韩国公众对此的反应以五月二日在首尔的游行示威开始，在此次游行示威中，许多青少年手持蜡烛守夜。"
    ],
    [
        "Neo-Liberalism Meets Neo-Confucianism",
        "新自由主义遭遇新儒教"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, his new interior minister, Ghazi Kanaan, an old-school hardliner, spearheaded a crackdown on reformers and Kurds in the past year or so.",
        "实际上，他的新任内务部长，强硬保守派加西·卡南（Ghazi Kanaan）去年亲自领导了对改革派和库尔德人的镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "The stark truth is that India has no choice in the matter.",
        "严酷的事实是，印度在这一问题上别无选择。"
    ],
    [
        "John F. Kennedy misled the public about the withdrawal of US nuclear warheads from Turkey in the deal that peacefully ended the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.",
        "在和平解决1962年古巴导弹危机的协议中，美国从土耳其撤出了核弹头，而约翰·肯尼迪对公众隐瞒了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, journalism is one business in which the customer is not always right.",
        "但无论如何，新闻行业的客户并不总是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Who will prevent a global drift into currency wars and trade protectionism?",
        "谁能阻止全球陷入货币战争和贸易保护主义的漩涡？"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s personality makes matters more complicated.",
        "奥巴马的个性让事情进一步复杂了。"
    ],
    [
        "This is reportedly the first indication in the new account about Hirohito’s desire to end the war.",
        "”据说这是新实录中第一个裕仁渴望结束战争的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Activists have been pursuing this approach to tackling global warming without success for nearly 20 years, most recently at last December’s failed climate summit in Copenhagen.",
        "在过去将近 20 年的时间里，环保分子一直致力于用这种方法来解决全球变暖的问题，最近的尝试则是去年 12 月哥本哈根那场失败的气候峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "When politics is waged on these grounds, elections are won by those who are most successful at “priming” our latent cultural and psychological markers, not those who best represent our interests.",
        "当政治建立在这些基础上时，赢得选举的将是最能“激发”我们的潜在文化和心理标签的政客，而不是最能代表我们的利益的政客。"
    ],
    [
        "The project will generate up to 2,000 megawatts daily by 2020, helping to reduce the development gap between urban and rural areas.",
        "到2020年，这项工程每天最多能够发电2,000百万瓦，有助于缩小城市和农村地区的发展差距。"
    ],
    [
        "Interest payments on the debt eventually become so burdensome that bondholders demand higher interest payments (Greek debt recently yielded over 30%).",
        "债务利息支出将越滚越大直到债权人要求更高的利息（两年期希腊债券当前收益率超过30%）。"
    ],
    [
        "Its objectives also include boosting agriculture in the short to medium term in selected countries.",
        "而这类政策工具的目的也包括了在特定国家推动中短期的农业发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Interest rates thus incentivize and convey to entrepreneurs how to allocate capital through time.",
        "于是，利率激励并指导企业家如何在不同的时间间配置资本。"
    ],
    [
        "And in Venezuela, a country tragically flirting with “failed state” status, President Nicolás Maduro’s government confronts mounting economic and financial challenges stemming from fiscally unanchored policies begun under his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.",
        "而在悲剧地沦为“失败之国”的委内瑞拉，总统马杜罗政府面临着泰山压顶般的经济和金融挑战，这些挑战的源头可以追溯到其前任查韦斯的不知节制的财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "(Replacement rates in other developed countries are in the 70% range, compared to a benchmark of 80% recommended by retirement experts.)",
        "（其他发达国家的取代率在70%区间，而退休专家的建议基准替代率为80%）。"
    ],
    [
        "Greater Manchester is at the geographic heart of the northern powerhouse, and its leaders have been spearheading the push for greater devolution of authority.",
        "大曼彻斯特是北方经济引擎的地理中心，其领导人一直引领着加大授权运动。"
    ],
    [
        "If the US is eclipsed any time soon, this will more likely be due to its loss of social cohesion and its dysfunctional politics.",
        "因此如果美国将在近期任何时候被超越的话，这更可能是因为其社会凝聚力的丢失以及无效运作的政治系统。"
    ],
    [
        "While demanding an Israeli withdrawal for years, the Palestinian leadership opposes Sharon's plan, arguing it is intended to create permanent borders.",
        "虽然巴勒斯坦领导层长久以来一直要求以色列撤离，但他们此次却反对沙龙的计划，认为这是想要制造永久的边界。"
    ],
    [
        "Allowing managers to buy shares at prices fixed in advance was intended to align their interests with those of other shareholders by giving them a personal stake in building the value of the company.",
        "允许经理们按照事先确定的价格购买股票意在通过让公司价值与他们的个人利益息息相关而让他们的利益符合股东的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, many parents in Sub-Saharan Africa currently do not immunize their children for a variety of reasons, including distrust of health officials and ignorance.",
        "最后，许多撒哈拉以南非洲地区的家长出于对医疗人员缺乏信任和无知等种种原因目前并未替孩子进行疫苗接种。"
    ],
    [
        "Engagement – “E” – was what helped the AIDS movement become so influential.",
        "参与（engagement）——E——给了艾滋病运动巨大的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "This conclusion will strike many people – especially those of us who live on the fringes of Silicon Valley – as implausible.",
        "这一结论将令许多人——特别是那些居住在硅谷外围地区的人们——感到震惊并难以信服。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the two countries’ recently signed bilateral cooperation agreement is about “safeguarding Afghanistan’s national stability” through social and economic development.",
        "两国最新签署的双边合作协议将通过社会和经济发展“捍卫阿富汗国家稳定”。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, new models to square the circle of economic growth, social cohesion, and political liberty may be emerging in some of the countries that have grasped the mantle of globalization.",
        "实际上，完成经济增长、社会凝聚和政治自由等高难度任务的新模型可能会在抓住了全球化外衣的某些国家中最先显现。"
    ],
    [
        "Michel Bauwens, founder of the Peer-to-Peer Foundation, describes 2015 as the year in which millions of refugees “were organized by social media (specifically through secret Facebook groups) and in which scores of citizens organized themselves through peer-to-peer networks to assist them.”",
        "对等网络基金会创始人米歇尔·博旺形容2015年是数百万难民“通过（秘密的Facebook团体）等社交媒体进行自发组织，同时也有许多民众自发通过点对点网络来协助他们。"
    ],
    [
        "There simply is little interest in tapping into the enormous pool of intellect, passion, and energy at home.",
        "决策者鲜有兴趣挖掘国内巨大的智慧、激情和能量。"
    ],
    [
        "For German voters, this objective matters much more than the details of Greek structural reforms.",
        "对德国选民来说，这一目标比希腊结构改革的细节重要得多。"
    ],
    [
        "One in every four California residents was born in a foreign country.",
        "每4个加州居民中就一个是在国外出生。"
    ],
    [
        "Although a tax increase will undoubtedly be needed, it is the wrong priority at the moment – and could prove counter-productive if it causes the economy to decline dramatically.",
        "虽然肯定要增加税收，但目前这么做却不是时机——这项政策的副作用甚至可能导致经济大幅滑坡。"
    ],
    [
        "Two intifadas later, the Israeli left finally lost its grip, and the right took over.",
        "两次暴动（intifadas）后，以色列左翼终于失去了控制权，右翼开始得势。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is, economic policies in the real world are nuanced and site-specific, making the search for a single answer to the question of how – and how much – inequality affects growth a Sisyphean task.",
        "事实上，现实世界中的经济政策是细微且具体到某一点的，而针对如何——以及多少——不平等会影响经济增长的问题去寻求一个唯一的答案显然就像推石上山的西西弗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, defense attorneys may try to lessen their client’s culpability by claiming insanity, as Breivik’s lawyers attempted to do after he killed 77 people to protest the multiculturalism that he claims threatens Norway.",
        "与此同时，辩护律师会试图通过精神错乱来为当事人争取轻判，比如布雷维克的律师就试图这样做。 布雷维克杀了77人，以此抗议他认为对挪威形成威胁的多元文化论。"
    ],
    [
        "This endeavor was bound to have wide implications.",
        "如此卖力自然会引起广泛影响。"
    ],
    [
        "And even when other factors constrain growth more, they cannot be changed without changing the shape and form of the economy’s capital stock.",
        "并且即使在其他因素更制约增长的时候，在没有改变该经济体的资本形态的情况下，这些其他因素也不能得到改变。"
    ],
    [
        "If the bank faltered, the guaranteeing bondholders would stabilize the most troubled elements of the firm.",
        "如果银行遭遇不测，担保债权人将保持银行最麻烦的要素的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, after the sun set on their empire, they tried to maintain a “special relationship” with the United States.",
        "随后，随着日不落帝国的太阳终于落下，英国又开始试图维持与美国的“特殊关系”。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, naval capacities are essential to the projection of European power – and crucial to maintaining geopolitical stability around the world.",
        "毕竟海军实力是欧洲力量投射的必要组成部分——对维护全球地缘政治稳定也非常关键。"
    ],
    [
        "It is imperative that they do not succeed.",
        "我们不能让他们得逞。"
    ],
    [
        "On the monetary side, the Reserve Bank of India should focus on keeping inflation low and stable, ensuring optimal conditions for growth.",
        "在货币政策方面，印度储备银行应注重保持低通胀和稳定，确保为经济增长创造最佳条件。"
    ],
    [
        "In many ways, Russia has been moving backward in recent decades.",
        "从很多角度讲，俄罗斯近几年中一直在退步。"
    ],
    [
        "The week the Senate report came out, I was reading Anand Gopal’s new book No Good Men Among the Living, which tells contemporary Afghanistan’s story through the eyes of a supporter of former President Hamid Karzai, a Taliban commander, and a Kabul-born housewife who spent years in purdah in Taliban country.",
        "参议院报告发布的那周我正在看阿南德·戈帕尔的新书活下来的没有好人，这部书描述了一位前总统哈米德·卡尔扎伊的支持者、一名塔利班指挥官和一位多年蒙着面纱生活在塔利班控制区的生于喀布尔的家庭主妇眼中的当代阿富汗。"
    ],
    [
        "Some critics argue that lending public money to middle-income countries is no longer necessary, due to their access to financial markets.",
        "某些评论家说，中等收入国家由于可以在金融市场筹款，因此把钱借给它们已经不再必要。"
    ],
    [
        "The ascendency of the mandarins is a legacy of Japan’s unique historical development dating back to its early modern period.",
        "官僚家族的优越地位可以追溯到日本现代化早期独特的历史发展道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The plans are illustrative of Myanmar’s pragmatic new outlook.",
        "而缅甸的计划则凸显出其现实主义新观念。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, for its part, has a good opportunity to vindicate itself by committing to a united, coherent, and effective foreign policy.",
        "至于欧洲，获得了一次证明自己的良机——通过致力于统一、一致且有效的对外政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But none of this can be relied upon.",
        "但所有这些都不一定靠得住。"
    ],
    [
        "All three were powerful prime ministers of their countries, though perhaps not the epitome of what might be regarded as feminine values.",
        "这三个人都成了她们国家强有力的总理，尽管这也许不能被看作是女权主义价值的一个缩影。"
    ],
    [
        "But external pressure is unlikely to bring it about.",
        "但外部压力不太可能带来这种变革。"
    ],
    [
        "An economic and political system is to be judged by the extent to which individuals are able to flourish and realize their potential.",
        "应当用个人可以在多大程度上实现自我和个人潜力来评判经济和政治制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Policies to expand social security and improve the provision of public goods could support these efforts, boosting domestic consumption by allowing households to reduce their precautionary savings.",
        "扩大社会安全、改善公共品供给的政策能支持这方面的动作，通过让家庭减少预防性储蓄提振国内消费。"
    ],
    [
        "This served to justify the premium placed on female chastity.",
        "这就为人们看重女性贞操找到了正当的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unfortunately, that is not all they did.",
        "并且，不幸的是，这并不是它们所做的全部。"
    ],
    [
        "Without privatization, the farmers could not sell their land at market value for urban development, creating space for abuse and corruption, as well as social instability, particularly because urban and rural land values widened substantially during China’s high-growth period.",
        "如果不进行土地的私有化，农民就无法以市场价格出售土地用于城市开发，这给滥权和腐败创造了空间，也为社会动荡埋下了祸根，特别是因为在中国高速增长时期，城市和农村土地价值差距迅速拉大。"
    ],
    [
        "An Alliance of Civilizations?",
        "文明联盟"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe we are attacking the wrong target – people – in our quest for safety.",
        "也许在对安全的追求中，我们树错了靶子——人民。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the four scenarios, the first has caused the greatest unease.",
        "在这四个情况中，第一个已经引发了极大的不安定情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "The last thing many Europeans want is yet another set of supra-national rules, formulated behind closed doors, governing their economies.",
        "许多欧洲人绝不愿意看到闭门讨论产生的新的超国家规则来管理他们的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "After China’s government became aware that independent grassroots movements could convince ordinary Chinese where government propaganda had failed, it lifted its initial ban on reporting on Tibet.",
        "中国政府意识到独立的民间运动可能让中国百姓相信政府的宣传所不能达到的事情，于是就放开了最初对西藏报导的禁令。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is an ocean of difference between promising and doing.",
        "但前途和努力之间差着十万八千里。"
    ],
    [
        "But, regardless of the election’s outcome, the recent crisis exposes a lack of commitment by the EU to security and democracy in Georgia.",
        "但是，不管这次选举的结果如何，最近的危机显示了欧盟在保护格鲁吉亚的安全和民主上还做得很不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Precipitate austerity is hardly likely to help the economy find its way back to higher employment levels.",
        "仓促出台的紧缩政策似乎也无法帮助经济重回高就业率的轨道。"
    ],
    [
        "But the opportunity was wasted.",
        "但这一机遇却被白白浪费了。"
    ],
    [
        "The dueling analyses clarified the nature of the data, their limitations, and the difference that alternative methods of processing them made to the results.",
        "竞争性分析澄清了数据性质、相关局限性和其他处理方式给结果造成的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "So prevalent is this “little England” mood that Prime Minister David Cameron’s government is now tempted to hold a referendum to ask the British whether they want to remain within the European Union, a vote that even that arch euro-skeptic, Margaret Thatcher, never risked.",
        "这种“小英格兰”（little England）观念是如此普遍，以致于首相卡梅伦政府意欲举行公投，让英国人选择是否愿意留在欧盟。 这种现象就连在欧元的主要质疑者撒切尔夫人时代都是绝不会发生的。"
    ],
    [
        "With the pace of innovation continuing to accelerate, this prediction will likely be fulfilled even sooner than anticipated.",
        "创新的速度在继续加快，这一预言很可能比预期更快就能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps genetic engineers will one day be able to produce leaders equally endowed with both vision and management skills; comparing the two Bushes (who shared half their genes), it is clear that nature has not yet solved the problem.",
        "或许有朝一日基因工程师能够打造出兼具愿景和管理技能的领导人，比较布什父子（他们身上一半的血液是一样的），显然，天性并不是解决问题的全部。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether it is done through targeted advertisements based on a search history or billboards on a public highway, the (intended) result is the same.",
        "无论通过基于搜索历史的定向广告还是高速路边的广告牌，企业（想要达到的）效果都没有什么不同。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 60% of the non-immunized infants live in just ten countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda, and South Africa.",
        "超过60%的未免疫婴儿生活在十个国家：民主刚果（DRC）、埃塞俄比亚、印度、印度尼西亚、伊拉克、尼日利亚、巴基斯坦、菲律宾、乌干达和南非。"
    ],
    [
        "The agreement was a sort of follow-up to the visit to Beijing of Dmitry Medvedev, who made China one of his first official trips abroad after being elected Russia’s president.",
        "该协议可以算是某种德米特里·梅德韦杰夫访问北京后的后续工作，梅德韦杰夫在当选俄罗斯总统后将中国作为其首次外国正式访问的目的地之一。"
    ],
    [
        "During the East Asian crisis of 1997-1998, poverty rose sharply.",
        "在1997—1998年东亚危机期间，贫困率急剧上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks still don’t trust each other, since each wonders how many skeletons the other has in its closet.",
        "现在，各个银行互不信任，因为每家银行都在想对方还有多少问题没有暴露出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Varoufakis thought political union would relax creditors’ stranglehold on his economy and create room for progressive politics across Europe.",
        "瓦鲁法基斯认为政治联盟能放松债权人对希腊经济的压力，并为整个欧洲的进步政治创造空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil and commodity prices are low or declining.",
        "石油和大宗商品价格维持低位或一路走低。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why everything possible must be done to enable France to create more and better wealth.",
        "正因如此，我们必须竭尽全力让法国建立更多更好的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Thugs thrashed civil rights activist Lu Banglie in the Guangdong town of Taishi in early October.",
        "十月上旬，歹徒在广东省的太石村用棍棒殴打民权活动人士吕帮列。"
    ],
    [
        "Within Turkey, opinion polls suggest that frustration with Europe is intensifying, while Iran is viewed with increasing favor.",
        "民意调查显示土耳其国内对欧洲的挫败感不断加剧，同时对伊朗的看法正在日趋改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the political pressure to mitigate the impact of climate change, smart investors will be watching closely for indications of policies that will lead to a drop in demand and the possibility that their assets will become financially stranded.",
        "考虑到遏制气候变化影响的政治压力，聪明的投资者将密切关注可能导致需求下降的政策信号以及他们的资产财务搁浅的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "One way to increase this ratio is to improve quality and productivity. Another is to lower wages.",
        "出口活动的质量和效率越高，就能在保持竞争力的情况下支付更高工资。"
    ],
    [
        "Their economic relationship, too, seems to be progressing.",
        "它们的经济关系也在前进。"
    ],
    [
        "The OECD’s Convention on Bribery was another step in the right direction.",
        "经合组织反贿赂公约是在正确方向上的另一个步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel may be “of Europe,” and its main ally may well remain the United States for many years to come, but Israeli leaders must start thinking of how their country can thrive in a post-Western world.",
        "以色列可能会成为“欧洲”的一部份，而在未来一段时间内其主要盟友依然会是美国，但以色列领导人必须着手思考究竟如何在一个后西方时代挣扎求存。"
    ],
    [
        "One shift that may ease the way toward a compromise on this highly fraught topic would be to enforce a clear division between this discussion and debates on the ongoing refugee crisis.",
        "对于这一让人高度焦虑的问题，一个可能能够促进妥协的方法是在这场讨论和关于发酵中的难民危机的争论中间画一条明确的界限。"
    ],
    [
        "A New Democratic Agenda for Russia",
        "崭新的俄国民主日程"
    ],
    [
        "And reproductive decisions that reflect a cultural preference for boys are beginning to produce social problems in countries like China and India.",
        "重男轻女的生殖文化正在中国和印度等国家形成社会问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the IMF ought to develop a voluntary code of conduct for SWF’s, but it should not be used as a weapon to enforce financial protectionism.",
        "是的，国际货币基金组织应该给主权财富基金制定一个自愿遵守的行为准则，但是这并不应当用来实行金融保护主义的武器。"
    ],
    [
        "As the political scientist Andrew Hacker recently put it, “the Bush candidacy was framed to make a majority by giving some 60 million people a chance to feel good about themselves.”",
        "正如一位政治科学家安德鲁·海克最近所说的，“布什正是给了超过六千万的人们一个对他们自己感觉良好的机会，才得以多票当选。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But, even with that decline, many countries’ long-term interest rates will most likely remain higher than their growth rates for the next several years.",
        "但是，即使市场利率有所降低，许多国家的长期利率仍将高于未来几年的经济增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they often result in different policy prescriptions.",
        "不仅如此，理念的不同也经常会导致出台不同的政策指令。"
    ],
    [
        "In mid-2013, when the Fed announced that it would gradually reduce its unconventional monetary-policy measures (for example, large-scale purchases of mortgage-backed securities), emerging markets suffered large capital outflows.",
        "在2013年中，当美联储宣布将逐渐减少其非常规货币政策手段（例如大规模购买有抵押证券）之时，新兴市场立刻爆发了大规模资金外流。"
    ],
    [
        "And, so long as Iran remains compliant, the nuclear deal, however bad it is, remains our best chance to do just that.",
        "而且，只要伊朗仍然遵守协定，这份核协议无论内容多么糟糕，仍然是我们阻止伊朗成为拥核国家的最好办法。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that a single economic policy should be imposed on everyone; but Europe does need a higher degree of coordination and convergence to ensure that everyone is at least heading in the same direction.",
        "当然，笔者并非要求各成员国都执行同一经济政策。 但欧洲确实需要更高度的协调与聚合以确保各国至少都向着同一方向努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The sheer size of China’s market – comprising more than 100 million mainstream consumer households – also helps, as it enables companies to commercialize new ideas rapidly and on a large scale.",
        "中国市场的巨大规模——由超过1亿的主流消费家庭组成——也有所助益，如此大的市场让公司能够迅速且大规模地将新概念商业化。"
    ],
    [
        "Effective financial markets enable them to pursue such opportunities despite these constraints by enlisting investors to provide the capital.",
        "有效的金融市场能够通过募集投资者来提供资金，使得企业在存在诸多限制条件的情况下抓住这些机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Hours later, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon did as well, while Obama said that “I fervently hope that this can be resolved in a non-military way.”",
        "几小时后，联合国秘书长潘基文也表示赞同，奥巴马则表示“我热切希望能够以非军事方式解决这一问题。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "It has a responsibility to its citizens.",
        "它需要为其公民负责。"
    ],
    [
        "First, central banks take the conventional policy rate down to the dreaded “zero bound.”",
        "首先，央行将常规政策利率下降到可怕的“零下限”。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the best way to kick-start this process is to identify areas where the region can gain the most from integration, and take steps that will bring quick returns.",
        "也许启动这一进程的最好方法是确定该地区可以在那些领域中率先通过整合获益，并采取一些能带来快速回报的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "With a seemingly out-of-control John McCain taking over as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the situation is likely to become even more complicated.",
        "他让眼看失控的约翰·麦凯恩（John McCain）担任参议院军事委员会主席，这让情况有可能变得更加复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the sale or supply of used or new surface combat vessels by the Japan Coast Guard or even Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) to ASEAN countries, say, Malaysia, Indonesia or Singapore, to help them fight maritime terrorism and piracy more effectively will now likely be permitted.",
        "结果，日本海上保安厅乃至于日本海上自卫队（JMSDF），现在很有可能得到允许，能够向ASEAN国家，例如马来西亚、印度尼西亚或新加坡等国销售或者提供或旧或新的海面战舰，以帮助他们更有效地抵御海上恐怖主义活动或海盗。"
    ],
    [
        "With relatively small populations – and a declining one in the case of Japan – these countries have no choice but to rely on exports and external demand to drive economic growth.",
        "工资（随着城市化进程加速日渐突出）； 以及减少国民为“防患于未然”的存款额（从逐渐扩大的社保体系方面）。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, rising incomes – a goal of any development effort – nearly always means increased consumption of natural resources and energy, resulting in more emissions and further warming.",
        "与此同时，收入的增加——发展项目的目标——几乎总是意味着增加自然资源和能源的消费，导致更多排放和进一步变暖。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to look forward with confidence, you also have to look back – and understand what went wrong.",
        "为了充满信心面对未来，你必须回顾历史—去了解问题的症结所在。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese exporters are caught between the pincers of weak foreign demand and rapidly rising domestic wages.",
        "中国的出口商如今正困在弱势国外需求和迅速攀升的国内工资水平的夹缝中。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Zidane, arguably the world’s best football player, left with a gesture that has no place in any game.",
        "毕竟，无疑是世界最佳足球运动员的齐达内以一种在任何体育运动中都没有任何位置的举动离开了足坛。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – If stock market and interest-rate spreads are to be believed, America’s economy has seen the worst and may be on its way to a slow recovery.",
        "坎布里奇——如果股市和利差可信的话，美国经济已经见底，下面可能会缓慢复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have concluded that the rebalance is directed at China. It is not.",
        "有人认为调整以中国为假想敌，但实际情况并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In Argentina, the authorities’ battles with a small number of “investors” (so-called vulture funds) jeopardized an entire debt restructuring agreed to – voluntarily – by an overwhelming majority of the country’s creditors.",
        "在阿根廷，当局与一小撮“投资者”（所谓的兀鹫基金）之间的缠斗阻碍了绝大多数阿根廷债权人自愿同意的完全债务重组方案。"
    ],
    [
        "“We French” would give way to “We Gauls,” “We Latins,” “We Bretons,” “We Franks,” or “We Europeans” depending on the topic.",
        "“我们法国人”会根据话题而让位于“我们高卢人”，“我们拉丁人”，“我们布里多离人”，“我们弗兰克斯家族”或者是“我们欧洲人”。"
    ],
    [
        "These acts of civic heroism form a strong basis on which to refound Sri Lanka’s state and society.",
        "这样的民间英雄主义行为为重建斯里兰卡国家和社会奠定了坚实的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Once in office, Trump will throw symbolic red meat to his supporters while reverting to the traditional supply-side, trickle-down economic policies that Republicans have favored for decades.",
        "开始执政后，特朗普将给他的支持者象征性地分一些肉，同时恢复几十年来共和党一直偏爱的传统供给侧涓滴式（trckle-down）经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This UN conference, like an earlier one on financing for developing countries, demonstrated the key role that the UN must play in any global discussion about reforming the global financial and economic system.",
        "而这场联合国会议，正如上一场为发展中国家融资的会议一样，展示了联合国必须在所有有关全球经济和金融改革的讨论中，尽力发挥自己的关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, claims that the North was showing restraint were clearly premature: North Korea has since fired three short-range ballistic missiles from its east coast into the sea, and, more ominously, launched a ballistic missile over northern Japan.",
        "不过这份朝鲜表现克制的声明显然站不住脚：自那以后朝鲜从东海岸向海面发射了三枚短程弹道导弹； 更令人忧心是，还发射了一枚飞越日本北部的弹道导弹。"
    ],
    [
        "The language changes, but the belief that Western civilization is living on borrowed time (and money) is the same.",
        "语言在变，但西方文明时间（和金钱）欠债不变。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, his counterpart at the International Monetary Fund, the former Spanish Finance Minister Rodrigo Rato, has shocked major stakeholders by announcing that he, too, will leave in October.",
        "如今，他在国际货币基金组织的同事，前西班牙财长罗德里戈·拉托（Rodrigo Rato）也宣布将于10月离任，这接踵而来的变故令主要利益相关人士惊诧不已。"
    ],
    [
        "The causes and parties responsible for these failures are diverse, but there is one constant: in recent years, nationalistic, even xenophobic, rhetoric has intensified dramatically.",
        "造成失败的原因和责任人多种多样，但有一个因素却从未改变过：那就是近年来民族主义，甚至是排外主义论调的愈演愈烈。"
    ],
    [
        "The US may have a lot on its plate, but unless it leads effectively, the challenges it faces will only grow.",
        "美国可能依然拥有很多优势，但除非其领导力能有效回归，否则只会面临越来越多的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Letter from Palestine",
        "巴勒斯坦来信"
    ],
    [
        "Economic areas are continually forming, combining, and dissolving as a result of competing centrifugal and centripetal forces.",
        "由于离心和向心力量的竞争，经济地区会不断形成，结合和分化。"
    ],
    [
        "They must become serious about backing legitimate democratic representation in Muslim countries, for only then will Western policy seem less hypocritical.",
        "他们必须认真对待支持穆斯林国家中和法的民主代表，因为只有那时，西方的政策才看起来不那么伪善。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, most diseases are not caused by single genes.",
        "事实上，大部分疾病都不是由单一基因引起的。"
    ],
    [
        "I am not accusing Putin’s government of the contract killing of Politkovskaya.",
        "我并不是指责普京政府协约谋杀了波利特科夫卡娅。"
    ],
    [
        "But what should alarm them is that in 2011, some 14.5% of the world’s population – one in every seven people – lived below it.",
        "但他们应该警觉地认识到，2011年全世界有14. 5%的人口——也就是七分之一——生活在这条线以下。"
    ],
    [
        "In even the best-performing economies, such as Germany, growth since the 2008 crisis has been so slow that, in any other circumstance, it would be rated as dismal.",
        "即使在德国等表现最好的经济体，2008年以来的增长也变得非常缓慢，若是换作其他时期，只能用凄凉来形容。"
    ],
    [
        "By the 1970’s and 1980’s, the Arab world’s post-independence states had made great improvements in their education sector.",
        "到了上世纪70~80年代，一批独立后的阿拉伯国家极大地改善其教育部门的运作。"
    ],
    [
        "Populists can no longer complain that the European Central Bank is taxing German savers.",
        "因此民粹主义者无法再抱怨欧洲央行正在对德国储蓄者征税。"
    ],
    [
        "Faster growth in the developing world providing better export markets and investment opportunities. But even with the best policies, domestic growth is liable to lag behind the global economy.",
        "但是即便有最好的政策，美国国内的增长也很有可能会落后于全球经济的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The enthusiasm is obvious, and the campaign is already under way and highly spirited.",
        "人们的热情显而易见，投票活动也进行得如火如荼。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it clear what Obama really means by saying that he recognizes Iran’s “rightful place in the community of nations.”",
        "奥巴马承认伊朗“在国际社会中的合理地位”的表示也含混不清。"
    ],
    [
        "With a few key measures – none of which is technically complicated – the Bretton Woods institutions can move beyond the mindset of 1944 to reflect today’s realities and enhance tomorrow’s opportunities.",
        "只要采取几项关键措施——从技术上说，没有一项算得上复杂——布雷顿森林机构就可以超越1944年思维，反映当今现实并增加未来机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s management shares many strategic considerations repeatedly raised by the Bundesbank, which has argued that the Fund should limit its activities to its core mandate: promoting monetary and financial stability.",
        "德国联邦银行多次提出的战略考虑主张，该基金应当将其活动限制于核心本职工作，即促进货币和金融稳定。 国际货币基金组织的管理层认同其许多考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "James Wolfensohn presided over the World Bank at a time of enormous change, tumult, and opportunity, an era marked by the end of the Cold War, the postcommunist transition to market economies, and the East Asian – and then global – financial crises.",
        "James Wolfensohn在一个改革巨变的时代坐上了世界银行总裁的座位，这是一个嘈杂骚动、充满机遇的时代，是一个以冷战结束为标志、后共产主义向市场经济转型、全球紧随东亚发生金融危机的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "The message is clear: the conflict in Spain is among natives, not against non-natives.",
        "个中信息是明确的：西班牙冲突是本土人民之间的冲突，而不是针对外来人口的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "So Lebanon cannot be considered electorally competitive.",
        "因此，黎巴嫩不能算举行过竞争式选举。"
    ],
    [
        "In Plato’s Apology, Socrates advocates for the examined life – the habit of rigorous self-reflection and posing hard, heterodox, and possibly upsetting questions.",
        "在柏拉图的《申辩篇》（Apology）中，苏格拉底号召检讨生活——严格自省，提出困难、异端乃至令人难以接受的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "European leaders, even when they are unhappy over US positions, therefore need to combine forceful support for the transatlantic community of interests with discrete, if firm lobbying in Washington not to strain it to the breaking point.",
        "因此，欧洲的领导人即便对美国不满，也应该联合起来，给予这个跨大西洋利益团体审慎的支持，如通过在华盛顿进行强大的游说攻势，告诉美国物极必反的道理。"
    ],
    [
        "They may be watching monetary policy most closely.",
        "他们最关注的也许是货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "These institutions proved far more powerful than the political personalities involved.",
        "这些机制要比所涉及的政治人物远远更为强大。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States is the world’s largest economy, with a GDP of roughly $16.7 trillion.",
        "美国式世界最大的经济体，GDP约为16. 7万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no longer best to be subject to the most favorable regulatory regime, but to be where the state has the deepest pockets.",
        "它们现在想的，不再是到哪个岛国上去享用最宽松的监管，而是如何去傍一个荷包鼓鼓的大款政府。"
    ],
    [
        "But Saudi Arabia continues to be deeply wary of any sort of change, and thus remains a huge and seemingly immovable obstacle to region-wide reform.",
        "但是沙特阿拉伯却依然对任何一种改变谨慎提防，也因此成为了阿拉伯地区改革进程中一块巨大无比、看起来岿然不动的绊脚石。"
    ],
    [
        "But history has shown time and again that a high-profile peace process alone is no recipe for success.",
        "但历史一次又一次的告诉我们，单纯操办一场声势浩大的和平进程，是无法带来和平的。"
    ],
    [
        "He is wrong.",
        "他说错了。"
    ],
    [
        "It even guides our personal relationships.",
        "它甚至指导我们的个人关系。"
    ],
    [
        "When Lithuania left the litas and adopted the euro in 2015, its currency transition went smoothly, as did Germany and France’s adoption of the euro in cash form in 2002, and so on with all 19 countries that have joined the eurozone.",
        "当立陶宛2015年废除立特并代之以欧元时，其货币转换进展得十分顺利，2002年德法两国和加入欧元区的所有十九国采用欧元现钞时也是一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Hundreds of thousands of industrial and commercial control systems, including the rapidly growing Internet of Things, are leaving ever-wider swaths of everyday life vulnerable to disruption.",
        "成千上万的工业和商业控制系统，包括快速成长的物联网在内，正让越来越多的日常生活领域更容易遭受攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "Poverty also threatens economic stability.",
        "贫困问题也威胁着经济的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, since early September, the potential benefits of cooperation now include avoiding an embarrassing credit-rating downgrade next year if medium-term fiscal reform does not materialize.",
        "此外，从9月上旬开始，合作的潜在好处有增加了一项：避免在无法实现中期财政改革的情况下被调降信用评级搞得灰头土脸。"
    ],
    [
        "It doesn’t matter whether the murderer, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, had any links to radical Islamism.",
        "凶手Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel是否与极端伊斯兰教有关联并不重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, economic outcomes are becoming increasingly aligned with the authorities’ goals.",
        "最重要的是，经济结果日益与当局的目标相一致。"
    ],
    [
        "But economics does not have the field entirely to itself.",
        "但经济学并非一家独大。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 60 years ago, when the current rules-based global trading system was conceived, the United States was the world’s sole economic “hyperpower,” possessing unquestioned dominance in the day’s most advanced manufacturing industries.",
        "大约60年前，也就是当前这个以规则为基础的全球贸易体系被构思出来的时候，美国是世界上唯一的经济“超级大国”，在当时最先进的制造产业中占据着无可置疑的主导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "But this success is no reason for complacency.",
        "但是这个成功不能成为我们自满的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be easy and virtually costless.",
        "做起来很容易，而且几乎没有什么成本。"
    ],
    [
        "It is imperative to act now to ensure that every girl has access to HPV vaccines and a healthy future free from cervical cancer, no matter where she lives.",
        "当务之急是立即采取行动确保每位女孩都能接种HPV疫苗，从而在花样年华不受宫颈癌的困扰，而不管她生活在哪里。"
    ],
    [
        "One of his most infamous clients was the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych, who, upon winning the presidency of Ukraine, imprisoned his main rival, the previous prime minister, on trumped-up charges.",
        "他最臭名昭著的客户之一是亲俄罗斯的维克托·亚努科维奇，亚努科维奇在赢得乌克兰总统选举后曾以莫须有的罪名监禁前总理及自己的主要对手。"
    ],
    [
        "Stress is generally defined as the state that results when the brain instructs the body to make changes in order to adapt to a new or excessive demand and the individual perceives that the demand will exceed the personal resources which he or she has available.",
        "压力通常为定义为导致大脑指令身体作出改变以适应一种新的或过高的要求并且该个体认为这种要求将超出其能提供的个人资源的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2015 report was finalized in May 2015.",
        "2015年报告于2015年5月编制完成。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to prevent pathological inflationary dynamics from becoming embedded even more deeply in the structure of the economy (including through wage indexation), Volcker dramatically changed the policy stance and made inflation public enemy number one.",
        "为防止病态通胀趋势更深地嵌入经济结构（包括藉由工资指数化），沃尔克明显改变了政策立场，将通胀树为头号全民公敌。"
    ],
    [
        "When the bank wins on a derivatives trade, the clearinghouse pays the bank; when the bank loses, it pays the clearinghouse.",
        "当银行在一笔衍生品交易中获利时，清算所就会向银行赔付； 当银行发生损失时，它将赔付交易所。"
    ],
    [
        "The scarce-currency clause has remained a dead letter ever since.",
        "此后，稀缺货币条款一直是一纸空文。"
    ],
    [
        "Every generation or so, emerging technologies converge, and something revolutionary occurs.",
        "每过一代人左右，新兴技术就会出现融合，某种革命性的技术因此而诞生。"
    ],
    [
        "The solemn Communist Manifesto announced the specter of the Great Utopia haunting Europe, but failed to warn us of the bloody tyranny.",
        "庄严的《共产党宣言》宣称大乌托邦的幽灵笼罩欧洲，却没有警示我们血腥的专政。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing, though, can replace support and help within these young peoples’ immediate environment.",
        "但什么也无法取代这些年轻人身边的帮助和支持。"
    ],
    [
        "It happened in Vietnam, and it is happening now in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
        "越南就是明证，如今伊拉克和阿富汗也在走这条路。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, we must build on existing institutions.",
        "相反，我们必须对现有机制加以改造。"
    ],
    [
        "One way or the other, the war on Western values is a war that China can only lose.",
        "无论如何，向西方价值观开战的中国必将输掉这场战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Powell was fervently pro-business.",
        "鲍威尔非常支持商界。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico was then a producer of heroin and marijuana, and a transit country for cocaine from South America.",
        "在2006年年底，卡尔德龙认为，对毒贩的妥协再也不能容忍了：暴力行为已经失控了；"
    ],
    [
        "Still, Trump’s decision not to certify was unwarranted and ill-advised.",
        "尽管如此，特朗普决定不认可它仍然是毫无必要、毫无道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the founders of the Homebrew Computer Club, a seminal group of Berkeley computer geeks who got together in the 1980’s, many started by rigging up gadgets and later realized that they had come across a commercial opportunity.",
        "正如那个由加州大学伯克莱分校一帮电脑迷在1980年代组建的“家庭电脑组装俱乐部”一样，当时很多人都是从组装小元件起家，最后意识到一个巨大的商业机会已经降临到自己头上。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments need a new approach to an issue that is highly complex, long term, and global in scale.",
        "因为这个问题高度复杂、长期而全球化，政府在处置时需要拿出新的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, though Musharraf displayed an urbane image, enjoyed his Scotch, and admired Turkey, he was not one of the Pakistani secularists so admired by Indian liberals.",
        "确实，尽管穆沙拉夫表现出某种大城市的形象，喜欢喝苏格兰威士忌酒而且崇拜土耳其，但是他并非印度的自由派人士所崇敬的巴基斯坦世俗派人士。"
    ],
    [
        "The Troika’s claims on Greece need not be reduced in face value, but their maturity would have to be lengthened by another decade, and the interest on it reduced.",
        "三驾马车的希腊债权不必在面值上有所让步，但期限必须延长十年，利息也必须减少。"
    ],
    [
        "Peronist governments in Argentina used it to hype integration while doing little or nothing to remove actual barriers to trade.",
        "阿根廷庇隆政府利用该组织在不取消实际贸易壁垒的前提下大肆宣传地区整合。"
    ],
    [
        "This example highlights how household investment decisions shape wealth outcomes.",
        "这个例子突出了家庭投资决定是如何塑造财富成果的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, although the Middle East and North Africa is home to just 5% of the world’s population, it has produced more than one-third of its refugees.",
        "事实上，尽管中东和北非只占世界人口的5%，但却产生了三分之一强的难民。"
    ],
    [
        "To meet these and the other challenges confronting the developing world, infrastructure spending will have to rise from around $800 billion to at least $2 trillion annually in the coming decades.",
        "面对发展中国家的这些和其他挑战，在未来十年中，年基础设施支出必须从约8000亿美元至少提高到2万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "More surprisingly, the capitalist reorganization of production petered out in the developing world, leaving the vast majority of the labor force outside its control.",
        "更令人意外的是，资本主义生产再组织在发展中世界逐渐消失，让绝大多数劳动力脱离它的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "It remains far from clear, however, whether the shift in rhetoric and policy will move the planet any closer to embracing the best response.",
        "但是，在措辞和政策上的变化是否会使这个星球更近一步的迎来最佳的反响，这还远远不清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "As Berkeley economics professor Aaron Edlin has pointed out, consumer abstention is the ultimate competitor.",
        "伯克利经济学教授艾伦·艾林指出，消费者放弃权利才是最终的对手。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia and China are clearly not ready to curtail their ASAT capabilities; and the US is ramping up its own.",
        "俄罗斯和中国显然不准备削减它们的ASAT能力； 而美国也在建设自己的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "It also applies to outbreaks like the Ebola epidemic.",
        "埃博拉疫情等疫情的爆发也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But, after two decades of leaders who – with the exception of Junichiro Koizumi – promised little and achieved less, Japanese voters had little reason to expect that Abe would follow through on his pledges.",
        "但在近二十年来政治领袖——小泉纯一郎除外——鲜有承诺更鲜有成就的情况下，日本选民没有什么理由期待安倍能兑现承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But the alternative is global chaos, if not, as Pope Francis has warned, the beginning of World War III.",
        "但另一边是全球混乱，乃至教皇方济各所警告的第三次世界大战的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "The nuclear deal is not the “grand bargain” that Iran proposed to the US in 2003 and that was supposed to address, in addition to the nuclear dispute, a wide array of regional issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.",
        "核协议不是2003年伊朗向美国提出的“大交易”，除了核争端之外，这一协议是为了解决一系列地区问题，包括以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "A mammogram (x-ray of the breast) is administered to ostensibly healthy people to detect unsuspected disease.",
        "乳腺癌筛查需要对表面健康的人进行乳房X光照射，以检查是否存在未被怀疑的疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to giving it a new name, he has reorganized its internal structures and changed its official color from black to turquoise.",
        "除了赋予政党新的名字，他还重组了其内部结构，将象征颜色从黑色变成松绿色。"
    ],
    [
        "One academic speculated that governments possibly felt “a little embarrassed” that their previous exaggerated claims would be undercut by the UN.",
        "一位学者推测联合国驳斥此前政要们的夸大其辞可能让他们感到“有些下不来台”。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, helicopter money can look a lot like quantitative easing – purchases by central banks of government securities on secondary markets to inject liquidity into the banking system.",
        "在实践中，直升机撒钱可以与量化宽松非常相似——央行在二级市场上购买政府债券，以此为银行系统注入流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank’s loans targeting governance and related areas now amount to roughly $4.5 billion, or almost 20% of total lending.",
        "该行以改善治理和相关领域为目标的贷款现在约45亿美元，几乎占贷款总量的20%。"
    ],
    [
        "This can be dealt with by setting aside part of the IMF’s large gold stock.",
        "这应该可以通过IMF建立大量的黄金储备来解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Discrimination against women is part of a broader pattern of official bias in Iran, especially against those who are neither Muslim nor members of one of the three minority religions – Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Christianity – recognized in the Iranian Constitution.",
        "歧视女性只是伊朗社会正式偏见的一部分，特别是针对伊朗宪法认定的既非穆斯林、又非三大少数教派（拜火教、犹太教和基督教）信徒的女性的歧视。"
    ],
    [
        "What does it mean – for individuals, businesses, and governments – that structural adjustment is falling further and further behind the global forces that are causing pressure for structural change?",
        "结构性调整正在日益落后于造成结构性变革压力的全球推动力，这对于个人、企业和政府来说意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, he allowed Li Xiaolin, the daughter of a former Chinese president, to meet with Abe, with whom she watched a performance by a visiting Chinese dance troupe in Tokyo.",
        "比如，他允许中国前国家主席之女李小林会晤安倍。 李小林和安倍晋三一起在东京观看了中国舞蹈团表演。"
    ],
    [
        "No, the real risk is that, if the Fed starts hiking, it will be blamed for absolutely every bad thing that happens in the economy for the next six months to a year, which will happen to coincide with the heart of a US presidential election campaign.",
        "但其实真正的风险在于，如果美联储开始加息，就要为经济在未来半年到一年内出现的所有坏情况承担罪责，并与即将举行的美国总统大选产生联动。"
    ],
    [
        "The crucial missing pieces are a shift in the structure of accessible aggregate demand and restoration of those parts of the economy’s asset base that have been run down, implying the need for structural change and investment.",
        "我们忽略了几个关键点——可实现总需求结构的变化和经济资产基础中已耗尽部分的恢复，它们意味着需要实施结构性变革和投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets and School Quality",
        "市场与学校质量"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the gains from trade took the form of bidding up real wages, rather than further increasing the number of jobs.",
        "因此，从贸易中所得到的好处以哄抬真实工资的形式而非进一步增加就业数量的形式出现。"
    ],
    [
        "He is correct, up to a point.",
        "从某种意义上讲，他是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "This nationwide trend is being catalyzed in part by the federal government.",
        "这一全国性趋势部分是联邦政府促成的。"
    ],
    [
        "But their performance, too, began to diminish significantly in 2014.",
        "但它们的表现在2014年也出现了剧烈恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, rising interest rates and a downturn in the real estate market could so weaken consumer demand that the economy slips into recession, squeezing exporters in other countries that depend on the US market.",
        "另一种情况是：利率上涨、房地产市场衰落可能会严重减弱消费需求，使经济滑坡，直至萧条，给依赖于美国市场的其它国家的出口商造成巨大压力。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, such an outcome is not only likely, but also desirable.",
        "事实上，这种结果不光是有可能的，也是令人满意的。"
    ],
    [
        "Largely unanticipated protest movements in Turkey and Brazil have raised questions about the economic and social sustainability of emerging-market growth.",
        "土耳其和巴西出人意料的示威运动引起了对新兴市场增长和经济社会稳定的疑虑。"
    ],
    [
        "As countries become less reliant on traditional sources of financing, they are less likely to follow foreign diktats blindly.",
        "随着各国越来越少地以来传统融资源，它们也不再需要盲从外国人的意见。"
    ],
    [
        "CCS identifies 12 “epicenters” where climate change might ignite or exacerbate conflicts that could engulf large populations, and spill across national borders.",
        "CCS列出了12个“震中”，在这些地方，气候变化可能引起或加剧可能波及大量人口甚至蔓延到国境之外的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Sigmund Freud never met Darwin, but most of his mentors were enthusiastic Darwinists.",
        "弗洛伊德从未见过达尔文，但他的导师大多是狂热的达尔文主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "Suddenly and virtually without warning, nearly a million desperate people – mostly Syrians fleeing the carnage in their homeland – flocked to Germany.",
        "突然间，在几乎没有任何预警的情况下，近一百万绝望的人群——大部分是逃离祖国大屠杀的叙利亚人——涌入了德国。"
    ],
    [
        "China Grows Down",
        "减速增长再创改革红利"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is “no” if our objective remains forcing Iran to renounce all activity on centrifugation.",
        "如果我们的目标仍然是迫使伊朗放弃一切离心技术活动，那么答案是否定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Those far-sighted Europeans who set Europe on its road to peace through unification deserve our heartfelt appreciation.",
        "那些通过统一将欧洲引领到和平之路上来的具有远见卓识的欧洲人值得我们由衷的敬仰。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, China’s capital controls, though porous, increase the transaction costs of moving short-term capital to and from China, thereby reducing upward pressure on the renminbi’s exchange rate; in extreme circumstances, this could play a decisive role in China’s financial security.",
        "当然，虽然中国的资本管制漏洞百出，但也增加了短期资本进出中国的交易成本，因此也减少了人民币汇率的上行压力； 在极端情况下，这甚至可以在中国的金融安全方面扮演重要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Cypriots are so angry at Europe that a deliberate exit from the eurozone has become a distinct possibility.",
        "塞浦路斯人对欧洲充满了忿恨，极有可能主动退出欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet WTO rules have their flaws.",
        "但世贸组织规则也有缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "On September 1, dozens of opposition lawmakers created a primetime spectacle inside Mexico’s parliament by occupying the speaker’s podium, thereby denying outgoing President Vicente Fox the chance to deliver his final state of the nation address in person.",
        "9月1日，几十名反对派议员在电视黄金时间制造了一起轰动事件。 他们占领了墨西哥议会大厦讲台，从而阻止了即将卸任的福克斯总统亲自发表他最后一次的国情咨文演说。"
    ],
    [
        "The committee, which I head, deliberated over three weeks of hearings, summoning senior representatives from the foreign and home ministries, as well as the government of the most affected state, West Bengal.",
        "由我担任主席的该委员会进行了三周的听证，召集了诸多外交和内政事务的高级代表以及受影响最大西孟加拉邦政府。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Obama will have no choice but to devote the lion’s share of his time and attention to reviving the economy.",
        "其结果是，奥巴马将别无选择，他只能把他最大部分的时间和精力放在振兴经济上。"
    ],
    [
        "Somewhere between “romanticized” government solutions to problems and Buchanan’s self-interested government officials, we must find leaders willing to eliminate poorly performing programs; modernize, streamline, and consolidate others; improve services; and limit pressure for ever-higher growth-destroying taxes.",
        "在“天真烂漫”的政府解决问题方案和布坎南的自利政府官员之间，我们必须找到愿意取消表现低下的项目的领导人； 对其他人进行整合以实现现代化和合理化；"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, we know that antioxidants can cause unwanted health consequences.",
        "与此同时，我们知道抗氧化剂可能会给我们的健康带来我们不想要的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Fearing the costs of an invasion of Gaza’s urban alleys, Israel handed a strategic victory to Hamas.",
        "因为担心侵入加沙进行街头巷战的代价，以色列由此使哈马斯取得了一个策略性的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt’s economy is tanking.",
        "埃及的经济正在遭受重挫。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets had factored into share prices the belief that the US government would not allow any more banks to collapse.",
        "市场已经将人们对美国政府不会让更多的银行破产的看法，反应到股票的价格中去了。"
    ],
    [
        "No one can say how Europe would have evolved without the euro.",
        "没人知道没有欧元欧洲会变成什么样。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been some encouraging signals.",
        "已经有了一些令人鼓舞的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, they have destroyed the doctrine of “stability” that allowed the regimes and the West to exploit the region and provide security for Israel.",
        "更重要的是其摧毁了独裁政府和西方赖以压榨中东地区并为以色列提供安全的“稳定教条”。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative for a fully sovereign Scotland would be to continue using the pound without retaining any influence over interest rates or the exchange rate.",
        "对于实现充分主权的苏格兰来说，另一种方法是继续使用英镑而放弃对利率或汇率的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "A second surprise is the document’s emphasis on the market.",
        "第二个惊喜是文件对市场的强调。"
    ],
    [
        "With the stock market rising while home prices are still falling, the wealthy are becoming richer, while the middle class and the poor – whose main wealth is a home rather than equities – are becoming poorer and being saddled with an unsustainable debt burden.",
        "股价涨了，楼价还在跌； 富人变得更富，中产阶级和贫困者则变得更穷，而且还被债务压得喘不过气来，因为他们的主要财富是房子而不是股票。"
    ],
    [
        "GM crops also have significant economic benefits.",
        "转基因作物也有无穷的经济益处。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the Fed is making a fatal mistake, as it relies heavily on a timeworn inflation-forecasting methodology that filters out the “special factors” driving the often volatile prices of goods like food and energy.",
        "在这方面，美联储正在犯致命的错误，它严重依赖过时的通胀预测方法，该方法忽略推动食品和能源等商品价格时常剧烈波动的“特殊因素”。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the latest evidence shows, delaying action will mean higher costs later.",
        "但是，最新证据表明，拖延行动的会在随后造成更大的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Malaysia has developed both a general civil code, which is applied universally, and Islamic law, which is applied only to Muslims in personal and family matters.",
        "结果，马来西亚制定了一部全民适用的民法总则以及只在人身和家庭问题上适用于穆斯林的伊斯兰法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Angela Merkel’s New Germany",
        "默克尔的新德国"
    ],
    [
        "With so few presidential candidates recognizing the link between reforming Social Security and Medicare and ensuring broadly shared prosperity, the US faces serious risks.",
        "认识到改革社会安全与医疗保险和确保繁荣得到广泛分享之间的联系的总统候选人如此之少，美国正面临严重风险。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, many of them are ostensibly America’s close allies.",
        "相反，其中不少表面上还是美国的紧密盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Iranian revolution holds another lesson for Pakistani liberals: obsessed with evicting the Shah, Iran’s intelligentsia was delusional about their own society and their potential to emerge victorious via an abrupt political upheaval.",
        "但是伊朗革命还给巴基斯坦的自由主义者提供了另一个教训：因为一心想要驱逐国王，伊朗的知识分子妄想他们这个阶层和他们的潜力能够通过一次突如其来的政治骚乱最终走向胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Most pundits agree that the least bad way to deal with North Korea’s nuclear saber rattling is a continued combination of tight containment and aggressive diplomacy.",
        "伦敦—大部分专家都认为，应对朝鲜核武器的最不坏的方法，是坚持严厉遏制和积极外交相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "The billboards with their private messages were able to occupy public space so easily because in Russia public space is virtually empty: there's very little, if any, communication between state and society, and barely any public debate.",
        "传递私人讯息的公告牌能够如此容易的占领公共空间是因为俄罗斯的公共空间几乎是闲置的：国家和社会之间的交流即便是有也少得可怜，而公共辩论则几乎没有。"
    ],
    [
        "The language of these resolutions could hardly be clearer in prescribing the scope and limits of what should be done.",
        "上述决议规定干涉行动范围和限度所使用的语言已经极其明确。"
    ],
    [
        "Output is expected to shrink by almost 4% this year, and the country’s credit ratings have been reduced to “junk” or “near junk” status.",
        "今年产出预计将减少近4%，而俄罗斯信用评级也被降至“垃圾”或“准垃圾”级别。"
    ],
    [
        "But something strange happened on the way to the End of History: we seem desperate to learn from the recent past, but are very unsure about what the lessons are.",
        "但在历史终结的过程中似乎出了些问题：我们迫不及待地想从近代史中吸取经验，但却根本不清楚到底应该吸取什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin continues to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, maintaining a strict aversion to military intervention and seeking to defend its strategic interests, including its naval base in the Syrian city of Tartus.",
        "克里姆林宫继续支持着叙利亚巴沙尔·阿萨德政权，充当着军事干预的顽固障碍，寻求捍卫其自身的战略利益（包括在叙利亚城市塔尔图斯的海军基地）。"
    ],
    [
        "The average real per capita GDP of the top 25% of countries is 15 times that of the bottom 25%.",
        "排名前25位国家的人均实际国内生产总值是排名后25位国家的15倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republican Party, now in control of the legislative and executive branches, views a BAT – which would effectively subsidize US exporters, by giving them tax breaks, while penalizing US companies that import goods – as an important element of corporate-tax reform.",
        "目前控制立法和行政机关的共和党将边境调节税视为公司税改革的重要要素。 边境调节税将以税收减免的形式有效地补贴美国出口商，惩罚进口商品的美国公司。"
    ],
    [
        "One of my goals is to persuade policymakers at the United Nations to agree to a set of rules and policies to stop the growth of antimicrobial resistance.",
        "我的目标之一是说服联合国决策者同意实施一套规则和政策阻止抗药性的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Czech Republic, a minority right-wing government has not gained a confidence vote in Parliament after six months of bickering.",
        "在捷克共和国，右翼少数派政府在长达6个月的争论后也未能在议会的信任投票中获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Defining a Chinese hard landing as a halving of the current 6.7% growth rate, the combined direct and indirect effects of such an outcome would consequently knock about one percentage point off overall global growth.",
        "将中国硬着陆定义为当前6. 7%的增长率下降一半，则其直接和间接总影响将是全球总增长下降一个百分点左右。"
    ],
    [
        "For a decade, Britain stood almost alone against expanding the Social Chapter.",
        "十年以来，英国几乎是在孤军奋战般地反对社会章程的扩展。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer, however, remains unclear.",
        "但答案仍不明朗。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Next month, signatories to the 1989 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer will convene in Kigali, Rwanda, to consider an amendment to the treaty that would gradually reduce, and eventually eliminate, the use of hydrofluorocarbons.",
        "纽约——下个月，1989年臭氧层消耗物质蒙特利尔议定书的签署国将齐聚卢旺达首都基加利审议一份协议修正案，以逐渐减少、乃至最终消除氢氟碳化物（HFC）的使用。"
    ],
    [
        "So would citizens whose livelihoods are being destroyed by governments’ desperate attempts to de-leverage.",
        "生活因政府急不可耐地实行去杠杆化而大受困扰的公民的境况也可以得到改善。"
    ],
    [
        "In the contest between open and closed societies, the latter are clearly winning, and liberal democracy is quickly becoming a resistance movement.",
        "在开放和封闭社会的竞争中获胜的显然是后者，而自由民主正在迅速成为一场抵抗运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Interest in Closing Guantánamo",
        "关闭关塔那摩监狱背后的欧洲利益"
    ],
    [
        "How China eventually handles this will profoundly affect its standing in the US and Europe.",
        "而中国最终如何处理这个问题将深远地影响其在美国和欧洲心目中的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "It was not always like this.",
        "并非总是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – We know how to eradicate polio.",
        "伦敦——我们清楚如何根除小儿麻痹症。"
    ],
    [
        "The politician-turned-movie maker loses sleep over a predicted rise in heat-related deaths.",
        "这个由政治家摇身一变为电影制作人的人因为有预计说因为天气炎热而死亡的人数将会增加而辗转反侧。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now in everyone’s interest to help Afghanistan rebuild.",
        "现在，帮助重建阿富汗符合每个人的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Trapped in a debt crisis, Djibouti had no choice but to lease land to China for $20 million per year.",
        "陷入债务危机的吉布提别无选择，只能以每年2,000万美元的价格将土地租给中国。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama’s administration expects that number, almost a century later, to increase slightly, to 10.8% by 2040.",
        "总统奥巴马的政府预计，到近一个世纪后的2040年，这一比例将略有上升，达到10. 8%。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea is troubled for two key reasons. First, although some parts of the economy reached advanced industrialization in record time, other parts (and institutions) are struggling to catch up.",
        "有两大关键因素困扰着韩国：首先，尽管该国经济中的某些部门以创纪录的速度实现了先进工业化，其他部门（以及机构）却仍在苦苦追赶。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Europe is one shock away from outright deflation and another bout of recession.",
        "事实上，欧洲距离通货紧缩和新一轮衰退只有一步之遥。"
    ],
    [
        "Starting almost from an economic “point zero,” Latvian entrepreneurs have built a new and modern economy, based on new and efficient technologies.",
        "拉脱维亚的企业家们几乎从经济“零点”起步，以高效的新技术为基础，建立起新的现代化经济。"
    ],
    [
        "But southern Italy, which has not used the fiscal transfers from the north on which it has long depended to transform its economy or boost productivity, demonstrates how little impact this approach can have.",
        "但意大利南部一直都依赖北部进行财政转移支付，却从未因此实现经济转型或提高生产率，显示了这种方法产生的影响之小。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Obama can threaten that “all options are on the table” only so many times without losing credibility with the Iranians and other countries in the Middle East.",
        "此外，奥巴马威胁“所有选择都已摆在桌面上”的次数不能多到在伊朗和其他中东国家民众面前丧失信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, any investment growth is vital for Germany, which, according to the latest OECD statistics, currently suffers from the world’s lowest share of net investment in national income.",
        "而且，对于德国而言，任何投资增长都是至关重要的。 根据经合组织最新统计数据，德国的净投资在全国收入中所占的份额目前是全球最低的，因此深受其害。"
    ],
    [
        "More precisely, Russia’s aim is to rescue (after a long period of arm’s-length support) a dictatorship that American and French authorities describe as being responsible for causing more than 250,000 deaths since 2011.",
        "更准确地说，俄罗斯的目标是拯救（在经历了长时间的平等支持后）一个被美国和法国当局称为必须对2011年以来250,000多人死亡负责的独裁政权。"
    ],
    [
        "Moving and buying a new apartment in a different place is almost impossible, which makes Russian workers highly immobile.",
        "搬到其他地方并且购买一套新公寓对大多数俄罗斯工人来说几乎是不可能的，这使他们非常缺乏流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Import of Exports",
        "出口商品的进口"
    ],
    [
        "The key is to place people at the center of development efforts, by increasing investments in health care, education, and other public services.",
        "关键是要通过增加医疗、教育和其他公共服务投资将民众置于发展工作的核心位置。"
    ],
    [
        "Freedom of expression and unfettered media bolster this confidence, not by highlighting the system’s strengths, but by exposing its weaknesses, which can subsequently be corrected through responsive, rule-based mechanisms.",
        "言论自由和不受管制的媒体支撑这一信心的方式不是通过为体制歌功颂德，而是曝光其不足，然后用反应灵敏并以规则为基础的机制来纠正这些错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, as a new order seemed to emerge in the aftermath of the US-made Great Recession, the G-20 agreed (or so it was thought) that the next IMF head would be chosen in an open and transparent manner.",
        "最终在对美国引发的大萧条的反思中，一个新秩序似乎正逐渐浮现，20国集团（G20）同意（或者设想）下一任IMF领导人将通过公开透明的方式选出。"
    ],
    [
        "Loans for education and car purchases are now also possible, and 2% of households have credit cards, which is obviously still low compared to 75% in the United States, but there were no such households just five years ago.",
        "教育贷款和购车贷款现在也可以实现了，已经有2%的家庭拥有了信用卡，这与美国的75%相比虽然显得很低，但是考虑到五年前甚至没有家庭拥有信用卡，这已经很不错了。"
    ],
    [
        "Its anti-India identity is no longer sufficient to stem its mounting contradictions, which are most apparent in the two incarnations of the Taliban: the Afghan Taliban, which is the Pakistani military’s surrogate, and the Pakistani Taliban – formally known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – which is the military’s nemesis.",
        "该国的反印诉求已经不足以遏制其愈演愈烈的矛盾，上述矛盾在对塔利班两大化身的不同态度上表现得最为显著：作为巴基斯坦军方代理的阿富汗塔利班，以及巴基斯坦塔利班——正式名称是巴基斯坦塔利班运动（TTP）——他们是军方的死敌。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies can also decide not to serve certain customers, focusing on the most profitable segments.",
        "企业同样可以决定专注最有利可图的领域，拒绝为某些客户提供服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s veto on US-style quantitative easing was also the main reason for the near-collapse of the single currency in 2012.",
        "德国否决美国式量化宽松也是2012年欧洲单一货币濒临崩溃的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "And the emergence of new threats has made some governments, most notably Saudi Arabia’s, staunchly opposed to change.",
        "新威胁的产生让一些政府（主要是沙特阿拉伯）非常抵制变化。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – There are plenty of summits to choose from this year, but the World Summit on Food Security deserves not to be lost in the crowd.",
        "布鲁塞尔 ——到年底之前，国际上将召开多场峰会，其中有一场不应淹没无闻，那就是世界食物安全峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "The Japanese government has also been searching for effective measures to respond to North Korea’s consistently insincere attitude on regional and bilateral issues, including the abduction cases.",
        "日本政府也正在寻求有效措施以应对北朝鲜在地区和双边事务上（包括人质劫持事件）一贯不诚恳的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, it is difficult to predict what the presidential election will bring.",
        "在这样的环境下，很难预测总统选举会带来什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Although it established the requirement of common consent to taxation, that consent was to be obtained from an assembly of earls, barons, bishops, and abbots – in the age of chivalry, not even knights were invited to participate.",
        "尽管它规定税收必须以一致同意（common consent）为前提，但这一同意是通过高等和低等贵族、主教和修道院长的集会形成——在骑士制度时代，就连骑士也无资格与会。"
    ],
    [
        "But in Chen’s Taiwan, domestic squabbles took precedence over economic development.",
        "但在陈水扁治下的台湾岛内，内部争端却压过了经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "My own view is that the “three arrows” of Abenomics 1.0 basically had it right: “whatever it takes” monetary policy to restore inflation, supportive fiscal policy, and structural reforms to boost long-run growth.",
        "我本人的观点是安倍经济学1. 0中的“三支箭”基本上都是有的放矢：重塑通胀的“竭尽全力”、支持性财政政策和提振长期增长的结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "For Europe’s leaders, the withdrawal by France and Italy from the fiscal compact should serve as a clear sign that the mutualization model is not working for the eurozone, either.",
        "对欧洲领导人来说，法国和意大利从财政契约中退出应该是一个明确的信号，共同化模式已不再适用于欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "One is the need for banks and other financial institutions to hold liquid reserves.",
        "一个因素是银行和其他金融机构需要保留流动准备金。"
    ],
    [
        "The Return of Fiscal Policy",
        "财政政策的回归"
    ],
    [
        "VIENNA – Barack Obama was right to say that democracy itself was on the ballot in the just-concluded US presidential election.",
        "维也纳—奥巴马说得对，在刚刚结束的美国总统选举中，选择的对象是民主本身。"
    ],
    [
        "He accused Reinhart and Rogoff of deliberately keeping their data out of the public domain.",
        "他指责莱因哈特和罗格夫故意让他们的数据不进入公众视野。"
    ],
    [
        "While the government is determined to keep news of all disturbances out of the media--or at least downplay their size and disruptiveness--it has been possible to collect information on nearly 200 separate events occurring between 1994 and 2004, some from news sources in Hong Kong, some from the Western media, and a few from Chinese publications.",
        "这些报道反映了同一种普遍增强之中的模式：各级政府，不论是北京还是地方，一般而言都容忍由手持请愿书和标语的农民和工人参与的，声势和规模较小且非破坏性的游行和静坐。 如果示威者们只是自发、无组织、地方性和无领袖的，政府对其态度则更为宽容。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the G30 has estimated that an additional $7.1 trillion in annual investment by the nine top economies – which account for 60% of world output – will be needed to sustain moderate global growth.",
        "此外，G30 估计全球最大的九个经济体（它们占世界产出的60%）每年需要拿出7万亿美元投资才能维持温和的全球增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the recent holidays left many with a mountain of plastic products and packaging.",
        "事实上，最几年，假期过后无不留下如山积的塑料制品和包装。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States’ ill-considered bio-fuels subsidy program demonstrates how not to react.",
        "美国生物燃料补贴项目不得其法，正好表明了错误的应对办法。"
    ],
    [
        "If you want to buy something, you might go directly to Zalando or Amazon, where you can research models and prices, get reviews, and pay for your purchase all at once.",
        "如果想买东西，可以直接登录Zalando和亚马逊搜索款型及价格、浏览评论并且付款购买。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking forward, the IAEA confronts both internal and external challenges.",
        "展望未来，国际原子能机构面临内部和外部的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "As machines become ever more productive, so wages tend to fall even more, toward zero, and the population becomes redundant.",
        "随着机器生产率的不断提高，工资将不断下降，趋近于零，人口就会变得过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "But such a move would be even more suicidal than in Italy’s case, and the FPÖ has actually moderated its anti-European stance since the Brexit vote.",
        "但奥地利这样做比意大利更像是自杀，而在英国退欧投票后，FPÖ的反欧盟立场其实也不像以前那样坚决了。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, these countries lend not only the money they earned through current-account surpluses, but also the money they borrowed through capital-account surpluses – mainly to the United States.",
        "换句话说，这些国家不仅借出了自己从经常项目盈余中赚得的钱，还把它们从资本项目盈余中借来的钱也借出去了——主要是借给美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland has a banking problem.",
        "爱尔兰的银行业有问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Such “rent-creating” corruption is quite expensive and corrosive of growth.",
        "这种“寻租”型腐败带来了极高的成本，并对经济增长造成了损害。"
    ],
    [
        "It took only a few words from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke last May – announcing the eventual end of quantitative easing – for markets to lose confidence in emerging economies with current-account deficits near or above 4% of GDP.",
        "去年5月，美联储主席伯南克只是轻描淡写地说了几句话——宣布量化宽松终于要告一段落了——便摧毁了这批经常项目赤字占GDP的4%上下的新兴经济体的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Donald Trump Meets Davos Man",
        "特朗普与达沃斯众人"
    ],
    [
        "The growing NCD and CVD burden is a time bomb for world health.",
        "非传染性疾病和心血管疾病愈演愈烈，成为了全球健康的定时炸弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Thinking about the consequences that such a Europe would have on EU institutions, one must ask how the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of Ministers would function.",
        "当你思考了这样的欧洲会给欧盟制度带来的后果之后，你一定会问欧盟委员会、欧洲议会和部长理事会将如何运转。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though they have been handling their own business for decades, France still has a duty of friendship that forbids it to forget and requires it to adopt a certain mode of conduct.",
        "虽然这些地方的人民已经独立自主长达数十年，法国依然应尽一个友邦的责任，以防这些国家被法国国际政策所忽略，并要求其采取某种特定的行为模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Carbon pricing could be used to finance research and development, and to send a price signal to promote the deployment of effective, affordable technology alternatives.",
        "实施碳排放定价可以用来资助研究和技术提高，并且作为价格信号推动有效、经济的可替代性技术的应用。"
    ],
    [
        "Two characteristics of the Arab world could explain this: its predominantly Muslim population and the autocratic governments that have ruled much of the region for the past 50 years.",
        "阿拉伯世界的两个特征能够解释这一差距：穆斯林人口占主要地位，以及过去50年来该地区大部为极权政府所统治。"
    ],
    [
        "Such pressure will likely grow, given concerns over Chinese behavior both at home and abroad.",
        "这些压力将越来越大，因为大家对中国在其国内和国外的所做所为都有意见。"
    ],
    [
        "While Putin’s policies could have been much worse – it is legitimate to give him credit where it is due – Russia should not be allowed to take the West for granted.",
        "普京本来可以采取比现在还糟糕得多的政策——给他一些应得的荣誉也合情合理——但是，不应该允许俄罗斯把西方不当回事。"
    ],
    [
        "The standard bearers of the Cold War were not just the United States and the Soviet Union, but, in ideological terms, the individual and the collectivity.",
        "冷战的对峙并不只是美国和苏联的对峙，从意识形态的角度看，还是个人主义和集体主义的对峙。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, some of the debt was incurred as part of the 1997-1998 crisis, which was aggravated and deepened by IMF-imposed policies.",
        "另外，有些债务是在1997－1998年危机中欠下的，而国际货币基金组织的政策又加重了这样的债务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "In a globalized world, national governments’ ability to tax potentially mobile factors of production is sharply circumscribed.",
        "在一个全球化的世界，国家政府对潜在的流动性生产要素征税的能力已大打折扣。"
    ],
    [
        "But, over the years, solutions have emerged to ease these internal imbalances and clashes.",
        "但这些年也找到了许多缓解内部失衡及冲突的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Many people in Europe seem to believe that Varoufakis, an experienced game theorist but a political neophyte, does not know how to play the cards that Greece has been dealt.",
        "许多欧洲人似乎认为，瓦鲁法基斯是经验丰富的博弈论专家，但在政治上还是菜鸟，他不知道如何去玩希腊已经开始的牌局。"
    ],
    [
        "It did some good, but mostly the sellers sat on the cash instead of spending or investing it.",
        "这起了一些作用，但在大部分情况下，出售债券者都把现金囤积起来而没有支出或投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Globally, we are on track to reach an international climate deal.",
        "在全球范围内，我们有望达成国际气候协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s government has a huge debt burden, and its consumption-tax rate is far lower than the value-added-tax rates that prevail in Europe.",
        "日本政府背着巨大的债务负担，其消费税率显著低于欧洲增值税率的普遍水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The ivory also must be air-conditioned to prevent the tusks from cracking or becoming brittle (important factors for attracting higher prices).",
        "而且象牙必须在空调环境下保存，以防止破裂或者变脆（这是卖出高价的重要因素）。"
    ],
    [
        "Such abasement will only lead people to begin to doubt whether democracy is a living social system.",
        "如此的低三下四只能让人们开始怀疑民主这种社会制度在现实中究竟存在与否。"
    ],
    [
        "These new-model rightists are almost what Germans call salonfähig, respectable enough to move in high circles.",
        "这些新型右翼分子几乎完全符合德国人所谓名流的特征，能够得到足够的尊敬，完全可以在高层活动。"
    ],
    [
        "State finances are generally in good shape, with public debt at just 11% of GDP.",
        "国家财政基本上良好，公共债务仅仅是GDP的11%。"
    ],
    [
        "These are fertile fields for future study, but what of the core disciplines of economics and finance themselves?",
        "这些建议都为未来的研究提供了肥沃的土壤，但什么才是经济学和金融学自身的核心准则？"
    ],
    [
        "(Members of Congress may read the technical text, under restricted conditions, but are not allowed to describe its contents in detail.)",
        "（国会议员可以在严格的条件下阅读技术文档，但禁止详细描述其内容。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Looking ahead, as Robert Shiller of Yale University has repeatedly emphasized, public policy must help to forge futures markets that hedge risks better and more reliably align incentives.",
        "放眼未来，正如耶鲁大学的罗伯特·希勒（Robert Shiller）所一再强调的，公共政策必须有助于在未来形成更好地规避风险、更可靠地协调激励的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The necessary changes will not happen overnight.",
        "必要的改变不可能一夜之间出现。"
    ],
    [
        "A short line said simply \"I love you.\"",
        "只有简单的一行字\"我爱你。"
    ],
    [
        "A monetary policy at war with itself cannot long endure.",
        "一项相互对立的货币政策是无法被长久维持的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant – ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does.",
        "一旦政策达成了共识，往往能够持久。 印度的民主往往被比喻成庄严的大象——行动缓慢，不愿意作出改变，但一旦决定新的方法，不会轻易产生动摇。"
    ],
    [
        "While some adjustment has occurred, much of the change is not permanent.",
        "尽管已经做出了一些调整，但变化大多不持久。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the investment rate, which in China approaches 50% of GDP and is rising, can be regarded as a measure of the stress that fixed investment places on the economy.",
        "出于这样的考虑，投资率——在中国，投资占GDP的比重超过50%，而且还在不断上升——可以作为固定投资对经济的压力的指标。"
    ],
    [
        "Media often reported stories of unspeakable brutality by local officials against pregnant women and families who violated the policy – a unique savagery captured in Ma Jian’s novel The Dark Road.",
        "媒体常常报道地方官员以令人难以置信的残忍态度对待违反一胎政策的孕妇和家庭——马建的小说《黑暗之路》（The Dark Road）曾经描写过这种独一无二的野蛮。"
    ],
    [
        "For 25 years, the leaders of Solidarity personified the qualities needed to win Poland’s struggle for democracy: unbending courage in the face of the communist Leviathan and magnanimity and clear-sighted determination during the transfer of power.",
        "25年来，赢得波兰民主斗争的所有素质都在团结工会领导人的身上得以体现：包括在共产主义怪兽面前毫不畏惧，在权力过渡时期目标清楚、意志坚定、慷慨宽容。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The ongoing bloodletting in Syria is not only the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster by far, but also one of its gravest geopolitical risks.",
        "纽约—持续不断的叙利亚流血局势不但造成了迄今为止全世界最大的人道主义灾难，也是一场最严重的地缘政治危机。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that Mauritius is without problems.",
        "但这也不是说毛里求斯就是十全十美。"
    ],
    [
        "Less demand for their services will cause their relative (and perhaps absolute) wages to drop, causing income inequality to rise.",
        "服务需求下降将导致其相对（或许是绝对）工资下降，并因此造成收入不平等抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "These innovations exemplify the massive potential for businesses to improve resource productivity.",
        "这些创新无不彰显出企业改进资源生产率的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "If that sounds farfetched, consider this: Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger is a Brazilian who left home to find his fortune in San Francisco.",
        "如果你觉得这有些牵强，可以关注一下这一点：Instagram联合创始人麦克·克雷格（Mike Krieger）就是背井离乡来到旧金山追求财富的巴西人。"
    ],
    [
        "In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi precipitated a constitutional crisis by trying to rush through emergency legislation to prevent a comatose patient from being taken off life support.",
        "意大利总理西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼试图快速通过一项紧急法案，阻止撤掉对一名昏迷症患者的生命支持，并由此引发了一场宪法危机。"
    ],
    [
        "More than ever, the city is a work in progress – confused, not very beautiful, and overcharged with history.",
        "此外，虽然在历史的重压下迷茫而并不美轮美奂，但柏林仍处在发展之中。"
    ],
    [
        "In about 25 years, those young people will be part of the biggest workforce in the world, with more than 1.1 billion people of working age.",
        "在未来25年间，这些年轻人将成为世界劳动大军的主力，其中有超过11亿工作年龄人口。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine how you would feel about investing if every article you read were only about stocks that did poorly, with no reporting on the big successes.",
        "想象一下，如果你所读到的每篇文章都是关于股票如何表现不佳，没有任何获得大成功的报道，你会对投资做何感想？"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Hollande’s recent declarations indicate, currency appreciation is the last thing that an uncompetitive country like France needs.",
        "但是正如奥朗德最近的声明所指出的一样，货币升值是法国这样缺乏竞争力的国家最不想看到的。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, climate funding provided by rich countries should help improve resilience to climate change in the most vulnerable countries. It should also be used to avoid deforestation and to protect fragile resources, including oceans and biodiversity.",
        "此外，发达国家所提供的气候融资应该帮助改善大部分脆弱国家的气候变化恢复力，还应该被用于避免森林采伐和保护脆弱资源（包括海洋和生物多样性）。"
    ],
    [
        "For almost 60 years, well-meaning foreign governments, many of them European, have poured huge sums of money into Africa, with little to show for it.",
        "近60年来，初衷良好的外国政府——其中许多来自欧洲——向非洲投入了巨额资金，但收效甚微。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, they promote gimmicks (zero interest rates and stimulus packages), rather than pressing for the detailed national policies that a robust investment recovery will require.",
        "因此，他们总是弄出各种噱头（零利率和刺激计划），而不敦促制定实施稳健投资复苏所需要的具体的国家政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of fixing the problem, Maduro’s government has decided to complement ineffective exchange and price controls with measures like closing borders to stop smuggling and fingerprinting shoppers to prevent “hoarding.”",
        "马杜罗政府没有试图纠正问题，而是决定以关闭边境以阻止走私和对购物者实行指纹识别以防止“囤积居奇”等手段补充收效甚微的汇率和价格管制。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Global Financial Reform Possible?",
        "全球金融改革是否可能？"
    ],
    [
        "And maybe there will be a realization on the Continent that European unification must move forward more quickly, because the world – and Europe’s neighborhood in particular – has turned out to be not as peaceful as many, above all the Germans, perceived it to be.",
        "也许欧洲大陆将意识到欧洲统一必须更快地向前迈进，因为世界——特别是欧洲周边——并不像许多人（特别是德国人）认为的那样安全。"
    ],
    [
        "State-controlled banks allocate capital.",
        "国有银行负责资本的分配工作。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to assert what philosophers and religious teachers have at all times asserted: that there is something called the good life, apart from survival, and our understanding of it has to be taught, just as Mill’s father taught him the elements of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics.",
        "我们需要维护哲学家和宗教导师时刻教导的——有一种东西叫美好生活（good life），它独立于生存之外，对它的理解需要有人教导，正如穆勒的父亲教他亚里士多德《后分析篇》的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "They benefit from the US-led world order, but are often irritated by American slights and unilateralism.",
        "他们受惠于美国领导的世界秩序，但同时对美国的傲慢无礼和单边主义颇有微词。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as these temporary influences fall away in the coming year, overall price inflation will begin to increase more rapidly.",
        "但是，随着这些暂时性影响在未来一年中逐渐消失，总体物价通胀将开始更快地增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the trend in the United States, the paragon of free-market democracy, has gone in the opposite direction, with maternal deaths per 100,000 live births actually rising, from 16.9 in 1990 to 26.4 in 2015.",
        "与此同时，自由市场民主的灯塔美国的这一比例呈现出相反的趋势，每100,000例分娩死亡率实际有所上升，从1990年的16. 9变为2015年的26."
    ],
    [
        "A key source of this unrest is Tahirul Qadri, a Toronto-based Muslim cleric who arrived in Lahore in early December.",
        "一个主要乱源是一名来自多伦多的名叫塔德里（Tahirul Qadri）的穆斯林。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to Hong Kong bankers (including my personal friend Wai Sun Ng of Jibsen Capital), my first point of contact was Fu Ying, who has served as China’s ambassador to the Philippines and as Deputy Foreign Minister.",
        "感谢香港银行界人士（包括我在Jibsen Capital的朋友Wai Sun Ng），我首先联络了中国驻菲律宾大使、外交部副部长傅莹。"
    ],
    [
        "As protests began last year, the grass-roots nature of the Green Movement was initially thought to be advantageous, given that it could not be easily decapitated.",
        "在去年的抗议中，绿色运动表现出来的草根本质最初被认为是一个优势，因为人们认为这类运动是很难被轻易扼杀的。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be wrong, however, to think that Pakistan is immune from the Muslim world’s Islamist undercurrents.",
        "不过，如果我们认为巴基斯坦与穆斯林世界的伊斯兰主义潜流完全绝缘那就错了。"
    ],
    [
        "Only with such integrated strategies can policymakers offer the level of policy coherence needed not just to maximize the effectiveness of each policy, but also to instill confidence in the private sector to do its part.",
        "唯有通过这些一体化战略，决策者才能拿出足够的政策凝聚力，实现每一项政策的效率最大化并为私人部门的参与树立信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries whose governments grow old face the same fate as outdated companies.",
        "政府变老的国家和过时的公司面临同样的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "President George W. Bush sided with his vice president, Dick Cheney, in denying that a global-warming problem even exists (his treasury secretary, Paul O’Neill, and his administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Whitman, disagreed).",
        "布什总统同副总统切尼一同否认甚至存在全球气候变暖的问题（而其财政部长奥尼尔和环境保护署署长惠特曼则意见相左）。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge is to channel this income effectively.",
        "挑战在于如何高效地让这笔收入流动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "The deviation is usually attributed to a cultural preference for boys, which will take an additional toll on both populations, as the future scarcity of women implies that both countries’ effective reproductive capacity is below what is suggested by the unadjusted TFR.",
        "其中的差别通常被归因于重男轻女文化。 这种文化将进一步压低两国的人口，因为未来女性数量短缺意味着两国的有效再生能力将低于未经调整的总体生育率。"
    ],
    [
        "Will convergence remain rapid, or will it be a passing phase in world economic history?",
        "趋同会保持现在的快进趋势，还是会成为世界经济史上被翻过去的一页？"
    ],
    [
        "Such differences are questionable not only in terms of fairness; they are also economically inefficient, because they tend to limit labor mobility across firms and sectors.",
        "而这种差异状况需要被质疑的地方不仅是公平；"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea’s nuclear ambitions seem to have died down, at least for now.",
        "北韩的核野心似乎已经偃旗息鼓，至少暂时如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Villagers who hid to avoid the campaign reportedly saw their family members jailed.",
        "据说，躲避这一运动的村民的家人被囚禁。"
    ],
    [
        "First, for some individuals, working fewer hours reduces incomes enough to entitle them to a larger government subsidy for health insurance.",
        "首先，对一些个人来说，减少工作时长所导致的收入降低足以是他们有资格获得更大的政府医疗保险补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "But if the influence of these so-called",
        "但是倘若这些所谓“有权力的人”（指上文“普京从前在克格勃的同事以及他在圣彼得堡的旧交”）肆意利用自身的影响力，另外几家公司也会受到类似的攻击。 实际上，即使罗曼·阿布拉莫维奇（俄罗斯石油大亨）（在西伯利亚的）的Sibneft石油公司¾这个因为寡头垄断以及实施与毁掉尤科斯集团相同的偷税阴谋而最易受到攻击的公司，需要对付的麻烦也仅仅是初步的清偿税款。"
    ],
    [
        "Every year on December 1, World Aids Day highlights the issue and raises global awareness.",
        "每年的12月1日是世界艾滋病日，它提醒我们这一问题，并激发全球关注。"
    ],
    [
        "This points to a second, closely related misrepresentation: for many voters, the “expert” consensus about globalization does not ring true.",
        "这引出了第二项密切相关的误解（misrepresentation）：对许多选民来说，关于全球化的“专家”共识听上去很假。"
    ],
    [
        "I no longer needed to hide as I had done after my release from a Gestapo camp at the beginning of February.",
        "我也不再需要像自二月初从盖世太保集中营被释放后那样躲躲藏藏了。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, more votes are needed to elect a Conservative than a Labour MP.",
        "因此如果一名保守党议员要获胜的话就得比工党议员赢得更多的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eyes of the French, France’s international status remains a key ingredient in forming their own national identity.",
        "在法国人眼中，法国的国际地位一直是其民族特性构成的关键要素。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Come to Asia and you will hear a growing chorus of concern that China is building a sphere of influence in the region.",
        "东京—来到亚洲，你可以发现，越来越多的人担心中国正在该地区营造势力范围。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, Anglo Saxon common-law systems empower judges to interpret open-ended fiduciary rules on a case-by-case basis, thereby establishing legal precedents that are binding on managers.",
        "与此相反，安格鲁萨克逊的普通法体系赋予法官按不同情况解释开放性信用规则的权力，并由此建立了约束公司经理的司法先例。"
    ],
    [
        "What about young and healthy citizens?",
        "年轻健康的人们又会怎样？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the distortion to global markets caused by trading in illegally, cheaply produced products results in disadvantages for responsible corporate citizens.",
        "此外，非法的低成本贸易造成全球市场的扭曲，使负责任的公司法人处在不利的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "And Iraqi politicians would not agree to postpone that deadline on terms that could be justified to the American people.",
        "而伊拉克政客也不会同意按照美国人民可以接受的条件中止这一期限。"
    ],
    [
        "“The last thing Europe needs now is an interest rate cut,” says one influential member of the ECB Governing Council in a candid assessment of the current situation. Capitulating to outside political pressure is no one’s definition of an “anchor of stability.”",
        "“欧洲现在最不需要的就是降低利率，”一位颇具影响力的ECB监管理事会成员在一次对现行状况的公正评估中说道。 屈服于外界的政治压力并不是“稳定后盾”的含义。"
    ],
    [
        "The Cold War’s end, twenty years ago this autumn, was supposed to provide a peace dividend. Instead, we find ourselves still facing serious nuclear threats. Some stem from the persistence of more than 20,000 nuclear weapons and the contagious doctrine of nuclear deterrence. Others relate to nuclear tests—more than a dozen in the post-Cold War era, aggravated by the constant testing of long-range missiles.",
        "上述威胁有些来源于20，000多件现存的核武器，还有些来源于核威慑这个颇具传染性的理论。 也有的威胁来源于核试验——后冷战时期进行的核试验超过了12次，而不断试验远程导弹进一步恶化了原有局势。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, central banks in advanced economies (the United States, the eurozone, the United Kingdom, and Japan) are holding policy rates near zero, and long-term interest rates have been kept low.",
        "首先，发达经济体的央行（美国、欧元区、英国和日本）将政策利率保持在近零水平，长期利率也保持低位。"
    ],
    [
        "He went on to express “feelings of deep remorse” and offer a “heartfelt apology” to the victims.",
        "他接着表示“感到深深的忏悔”，向受害者致以“衷心的歉意”。"
    ],
    [
        "By holding these celebrations in Red Square, and thus highlighting the Soviet victory, today’s Russia is also celebrating its gains in that war.",
        "今日的俄罗斯通过在红场举行庆典，强调突出苏联的胜利，来庆祝他们在那场战争中的战利品。"
    ],
    [
        "Darwin’s theory is further used to support the belief that ancient humans – Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, and Denisova – did not mix.",
        "达尔文理论被进一步用于支持一种理念，认为远古人类——尼安德特人（Neanderthal），克鲁马努人（Cro-Magnon）和丹尼索瓦人（Denisova）——并不是混合在一起的。"
    ],
    [
        "GDI recently released a ranked list of the top 100 Global Thought Leaders for 2013.",
        "GDI最近发布了2013年全球思想领袖100人排名。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico’s Growth Problem",
        "墨西哥的增长问题"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is not another financial meltdown in an emerging market, with the predictable contagion that engulfs neighboring countries.",
        "问题并不是某个新兴市场再次发生金融危机，并且其可以预料得到的传播危及到邻国。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, China’s leaders must account for three levels of competition: inter-enterprise competition, inter-sectoral competition, and competition among the interests of citizens, businesses, and the state.",
        "在一过程中，中国领导人必须考虑三个层面的竞争：企业间竞争、部门间竞争，以及公民、企业和国家利益间的竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "With rising populations, economic growth, and climate change, we will face intensifying droughts, hurricanes and typhoons, powerful El Niño’s, water stress, heat waves, species extinctions, and more.",
        "随着人口增长，经济发展和气候变化，干旱、飓风、台风、威力巨大的厄尔尼诺现象、水资源短缺、热浪侵袭、物种灭绝和其他灾难都会愈演愈烈。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, China’s major trading partners, international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and senior Chinese officials themselves have long recognized the structural vulnerabilities caused by excessive investment and low household consumption.",
        "毕竟，中国的主要贸易伙伴、国际金融机构（如世界银行和IMF）以及中国高级官员本身早就知道投资过度和家庭消费不足导致了结构性脆弱性。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Brazil, whose currency, the real, has been hammered since mid-2014 – much worse than most other emerging-market currencies – largely because of a major corruption scandal unfolding there.",
        "比方说巴西，其货币雷亚尔从2014年年中开始就一直遭受重创——雷亚尔所受的打击比其他多数 新兴市场货币更为严重——究其原因主要是那里发生的一次重大腐败丑闻。"
    ],
    [
        "It will also be interesting to see if and how Merkel tackles Germany’s muddled Energiewende (energy turnaround) – the move to a low-carbon economy that is the most important domestic project of her tenure.",
        "另一个颇有意思的地方是看默克尔如何处理德国陷入乱象的能源转型，即向低碳经济的转变，这是她任上最重要的国内工程。"
    ],
    [
        "China on the Launch Pad",
        "发射架上的中国"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has been only too happy to make life easy for itself.",
        "一直以来，欧洲乐得生活的轻轻松松。"
    ],
    [
        "The Economist’s Stone",
        "经济学家的点金石"
    ],
    [
        "Call it Putinomics in Russia, Órbanomics in Hungary, Erdoğanomics in Turkey, or a decade of Berlusconomics from which Italy is still recovering.",
        "在俄罗斯，这是普京经济学，匈牙利是奥班经济学，土耳其是厄尔多安经济学，还有意大利迄今还未爬出大坑的为期十年的贝卢斯科尼经济学。"
    ],
    [
        "Even after a quarter-century of stagnation, Japan remains the world’s third-largest single economy.",
        "即使经历了四分之一世纪的停滞，日本仍然是世界第三大经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers must encourage greater specialization; differentiated goods and services will add value and volume to trade.",
        "决策者必须鼓励提高专业化； 多样化的商品和服务能够自增加贸易的价值和量。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a response is hardly likely to alter the mindset of potential recruits.",
        "这种反应是不大可能改变潜在的加入圣战分子的心态的。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the insurgency as a whole remains nihilistic, focused on destroying the new Iraqi government and the emerging economic and political system rather than articulating a coherent alternative.",
        "最后，这场叛乱总体上还是处于无政府的恐怖状态，着力于破坏伊拉克新政府和新兴的经济和政治体系而不是明确提出一种具有一致性的另外选择。"
    ],
    [
        "But Brazilians may feel that they have already broken enough political barriers and taboos in recent years, and that Silva would represent one too many.",
        "但巴西人也许觉得近几年中他们已经打破了足够多的政治禁忌，少一个席尔瓦无关紧要。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with only three observations, it is hard to understand these events.",
        "但是，仅凭三次观察很难真正理解这类事件。"
    ],
    [
        "The message is impossible to miss: Increasingly, voters are deeply dissatisfied with mainstream parties and are willing to give a chance to those proposing radical alternatives.",
        "个中意义显而易见：选民日益对主流政党深感失望，并愿意给主张激进替代方案的政党一个机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro might seem like a strong contender, given the volume of trade among eurozone countries; but, outside Europe, the currency is not used nearly as widely as the dollar.",
        "从欧元区国家之间的贸易量看，欧元也许是一个强大的竞争对手； 但是，在欧洲之外，欧元的使用范围远远不及美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Even China, which arguably seeks to curtail US leadership in some domains, has no choice but to cooperate with the US and its allies on many foreign-policy issues.",
        "即使是有可能在某些领域削弱美国领导力的中国在许多外交政策问题上也别无选择，只能与美国及其盟友合作。"
    ],
    [
        "And he has a reputation for sexually exploiting his female followers.",
        "他以喜欢“临幸”女信徒著称。"
    ],
    [
        "But regulators can undo miracles, and they regularly do.",
        "但监管者扼杀了这一奇迹，他们经常这样。"
    ],
    [
        "So the US Treasury is surely right to open a debate.",
        "因此，美联储开启争论绝对是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "The advent of a new electoral cycle, which begins with local elections in April, may provide another opportunity to put Iraq on the right path.",
        "随四月地方选举开始的新的选举周期可能让伊拉克走上正确的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The Catalyst Foundation’s curriculum is likely to include universal themes to prompt youths from very different national, religious, and cultural backgrounds to interact with one another, online or in person, by sharing their own insights and experiences.",
        "催化剂基金会的课程很可能包含普世主题，促使来自不同国家宗教和文化背景的青年通过网络或面对面相互接触分享他们的经历和看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Please hold on tight to this rope.",
        "请紧紧地hold这根绳子。"
    ],
    [
        "For many developing countries, the figure is well under 20 kwh; China is still well below the global average, and even most emerging markets consume less than one-third of the average in many advanced economies.",
        "对许多发展中国家来讲，这一数字远低于20千瓦小时，而中国仍然远低于全球平均水平，甚至就连多数新兴市场的能源消耗也低于许多先进经济体的三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "As the US increasingly became an energy importer, its leaders never found any reason to abandon this policy.",
        "随着美国能源进口日益增加，其领导人找不到任何理由放弃这一政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The second change is both less obvious and more important: the political stability that came with the election in 2002 of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.",
        "第二个改变更加不明显，但却更为重要：从2002年巴西总统路易斯 伊纳西奥 卢拉 达席尔瓦胜选后所带来的政治稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "ASEAN members conduct almost 50% of their trade within Asia.",
        "东盟成员国与亚洲国家的贸易额占了它们贸易总额几乎50%。"
    ],
    [
        "This momentum should be maintained in the coming year, culminating in December’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris.",
        "这一趋势应该在明年继续保持，在12月的巴黎联合国气候变化会议（COP21）上达到高潮。"
    ],
    [
        "As the science has become increasingly clear, climate change is now a major political issue at the global and national levels.",
        "正当科学日益清楚之际，气候变化现在已经是全球和各国的一个主要政治问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The world applauded when Brazil stepped on the fiscal accelerator to offset the domestic effects of the 2008 financial crisis.",
        "当巴西踩下财政油门应对2008年金融危机对国内的影响时，世界是赞赏的。"
    ],
    [
        "So the question must be asked: Will the West be prepared to make peace with Putin?",
        "因此，有一个问题必须问问：西方准备好与普京和解了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, they should advance equality for all marginalized groups.",
        "事实上，他们应该推动所有边缘群体获得平等权利。"
    ],
    [
        "By this narrow logic, when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry, we should be unconcerned if drug firms’ share prices are boosted not by new discoveries, but by financial maneuvers, such as share buybacks or tax inversion.",
        "按照这种狭隘的逻辑，在涉及医药行业时，我们不必担心推动制药企业股价的不是新发现，而是股票回购或税收倒置等金融策略。"
    ],
    [
        "In one famous symbolic gesture, he appeared at a rugby game wearing the jersey of the South African Springboks, a team that had previously signified South African white supremacy.",
        "作为某种著名的颇具象征意义的姿态，他身着南非羚羊队的球衣出席一场橄榄球比赛，这支球队此前曾是南非白人至上主义的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, America’s short-term advantages pose the biggest obstacle to its long-term outlook.",
        "事实上，美国的短期优势正是其长期前景的障碍所在。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, the US lost the distinction of having the “most affluent” middle class to Canada, with several European countries not far behind.",
        "今年，美国把拥有最富裕中产阶级国家的宝座让给了加拿大，而几个欧洲国家也逐渐赶超了上来。"
    ],
    [
        "Any attempts at engagement by Western politicians, such as Biden’s recent trip, are automatically met with doubt and criticism for cozying up to dictators.",
        "而西方政治家采取的任何举动（比如拜登访华）都会当即遭到质疑并被扣上巴结独裁者的帽子。"
    ],
    [
        "Taxation is broad-based and relatively non-distorting, while open international trade, market forces, and private ownership of industry are relied on to maintain incentives.",
        "北欧国家税收基础广阔，相对无偷税漏税现象。 开办国际贸易、市场力量和产业私有化均有赖于保持激励机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic development has always been a daunting challenge.",
        "经济发展永远是一个艰巨的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond 2013, growth must depend on either the elixir of structural reforms, or a strong revival of the global economy.",
        "2013年之后，增长要么依赖结构性改革的万灵丹，要么依赖全球经济的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF can also play a useful role in helping surplus countries manage their foreign exchange reserves, much as the Bank for International Settlements already does. World leaders can allow the IMF to sell some of its gold stock to endow the agency with enough cash to fund its monitoring and surveillance functions. Then in the future, it will not need to make crisis loans just to keep the lights on in the building.",
        "国际货币基金组织也可以在帮助顺差国家管理它们的外汇储备方面，起到有益的作用，就像国际清算银行已经在做的那样。 世界各国领导人可以让国际货币基金组织出售一些自己的黄金储备，使其有资助其监管和监督功能的足够资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, Assad is a despot, but the UN Charter does not give license to any country to choose which despots to depose.",
        "诚然，阿萨德是一位暴君，但联合国宪章并没有授予任何国家选择推翻哪位暴君的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "The MDBs also have significant operational leverage, stemming from their capacity to establish – through innovation, intermediation, and market creation – conditions that are attractive to the private sector, thereby producing sustainable solutions and investment opportunities.",
        "MDB还拥有巨大的经营杠杆，这一杠杆来自它们通过创新、中介和造市（market creation）营造吸引私人部门条件、从而产生可持续方案和投资机会的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is up to Germany's people to answer the difficult questions: Where do our interests lie?",
        "因此，德国人民需要回答艰难的问题：我们的利益何在？"
    ],
    [
        "Recollections of military rule in the 1970s haven’t curbed the rise of the far-right Golden Dawn in Greece; nor has the memory of Admiral Miklos Horthy’s quasi-fascist regime in interwar and World War II-era Hungary impeded support for Viktor Orbán’s illiberal, xenophobic regime.",
        "20世纪70年代军管的记忆没能遏制希腊极右翼政党金色黎明（Golden Dawn）的崛起； 对米克洛斯·霍尔第（Miklos Horthy）将军在一战后至二战时期的准法西斯制度也没有阻挡欧尔班的反自由仇外政权在匈牙利得势。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators have been wrestling with this problem for years, without conspicuous success.",
        "监管机构过去几年一直与这一问题搏斗，却未能取得明显成效。"
    ],
    [
        "Amid all of this strife, the international community has paid little attention to countries like Algeria, where the revolutionary spirit was stifled while still incipient.",
        "在所有这些冲突中，国际社会几乎没人关注阿尔及利亚等国家。 阿尔及利亚的革命精神尚未完全萌发便被扼杀。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors are being warned that, from the standpoint of financial stability, “brown” securities bear specific risk.",
        "投资者被警告说，从金融稳定角度，“褐色”证券（”brown” securities） 包含着特殊风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But pharmaceutical companies continue to hold assumptions about the boundaries of pre-competitive collaboration that need to be challenged.",
        "但医药公司仍然对竞争前合作形式的界限存有疑问。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier this year, Airbus launched Pop.Up, a vertical takeoff and landing concept vehicle for personal mobility.",
        "今年初，空客推出了Pop. Up ，这是一种用于个人交通的垂直起降概念车。"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – North Korea has produced a number of nuclear warheads and is developing ballistic missiles capable of delivering them around the world.",
        "首尔—朝鲜制造了大量核弹头，并且在研发能将它们发射到全世界的弹道导弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Business as usual is comfortable.",
        "一切照旧造成的不适也许最少。"
    ],
    [
        "Fossil-fuel and water subsidies have contributed to both problems.",
        "化石燃料及用水补贴致使这两个问题进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Feeling the hot breath of the AfD on its neck, the CSU has already sharpened its criticism of Merkel’s immigration policy, and is likely to try to push the chancellor further to the right in the coming year.",
        "在AfD的围追堵截情况下，CSU已经对默克尔的移民政策提出了比较尖锐的批评，在未来几个月中，CSU可能会试图让总理更加偏右。"
    ],
    [
        "We will be saying, ‘Come to my house.",
        "我们等于在说,‘来我家吧，看看衣服，感觉一下衣服。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s firing of Comey saddled him with Mueller, a former FBI director in Democratic and Republican administrations, praised by politicians in both parties for his integrity.",
        "特朗普解雇科米后却必须面对米勒，后者曾在民主和共和两党执政期间担任联邦调查局局长，其正直诚实得到了两党政治家的共同称颂。"
    ],
    [
        "Older information technology has already created \"winner-take-all\" effects in some occupations.",
        "较老的信息技术已经在某些职业领域创造了\"胜者全赢\"的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But US taxpayers do give nearly a quarter of all the money spent on direct development aid by rich countries.",
        "但美国纳税人确实贡献了富国直接发展援助近1/4的份额。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, donor governments have failed to promote simple ways to ensure the availability of medicines in villages across the continent.",
        "其次，捐助国政府没有能够推广确保在整个非洲大陆上的每一个村庄都能得到特效药的简单方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, I believe that the most important way to reawaken voters’ interest in European elections will be to open up the election of the Commission’s President to them, and create a genuinely Europe-wide political debate during the next election campaign.",
        "因此我相信，要唤起选民热情，最重要手段就是让他们直接选举欧盟委员会主席，还必须在下次欧洲议会竞选活动中，真正掀起一场覆盖全欧洲的政治大辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "But could it have grown more if it had not restricted CO2 emissions?",
        "但是如果它没有限制二氧化碳的排放是否能取得更高的经济增长呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic economic and political grievances can now buttress discontent across regions and continents.",
        "对国内经济和政治局势的不满现在可以传遍整个地区和大陆。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Economics Minister, Michael Glos, has said that Russia’s questionable dependability means that the time has come to explore other energy sources .",
        "德国经济部长克罗斯说过，俄罗斯的可靠性令人怀疑，意味着到了探索其他能源来源的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a proper diagnosis of the 2008 crisis, an effective cure cannot be prescribed.",
        "要不是准确地诊断了2008年危机，是无法开出有效的药方的。"
    ],
    [
        "Medical centers and clinics would be expected to investigate the cause of ailments in a large number of their patients, even in cases where the symptoms seem common.",
        "医疗中心和诊所被冀望能够在数量众多的病人当中调查病因，即便是在症状似乎寻常的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "But Tsang brought his own weaknesses to Hong Kong’s government – most notably, greed.",
        "但曾荫权给香港政府带来了他自己的弱点——其中最令人瞩目的便是贪婪。"
    ],
    [
        "Such factors are symptomatic of larger problems with humanitarian interventions.",
        "这些因素正是人道主义干涉某些更大问题的征兆。"
    ],
    [
        "And this, in turn, will allow us to take full advantage of cognitive computing – providing our real brains with new sources of support, stimulus, and inspiration.",
        "而这反过来能让我们充分利用认知计算——为我们的真正的大脑提供新的支持、仿真和启发资源。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a huge endeavor, considering that only 238,000 Lebanese students are attending public school.",
        "这是个艰巨的任务，因为目前只有238,000黎巴嫩学生在公立学校上学。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, a military attack on Iran would also mark the beginning of a regional, and possibly global, military and terrorist escalation – a nightmare for all concerned.",
        "最后，对伊朗进行军事打击也将标志着一场地区性并且可能是全球性军事和恐怖活动升级与扩大的开始，这对有关各方来说都不啻是一场可怕的梦魇。"
    ],
    [
        "Those ratios were only 35% and 43%, respectively, in China.",
        "中国的这两个比例分别为35%和43%。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 2004 election campaign, Bush claimed that the new department had made Americans safer.",
        "2004年的竞选活动中，布什宣称新的机构捍卫了美国的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, although China’s total money supply seems excessive, with the M2-to-GDP ratio now at about 190%, the real monetary base is actually much smaller than it appears.",
        "即便中国的货币总供应量看似超额（M2-GDP比率目前达到了190%），真正的货币基数却比看上去要小。"
    ],
    [
        "Whenever the top leadership in Beijing uttered such slogans, they became the rallying cry of the bureaucracy.",
        "不管北京的最高层领导何时提出这样的口号，它们都会成为官僚机构的战斗口号。"
    ],
    [
        "Conflicts like these reflect a number of factors, the most prominent of which are the conflicts between Islam’s two sects, Sunni and Shia, and between fundamentalists and reformists.",
        "这些冲突反映出若干因素，其中最明显的莫过于伊斯兰逊尼和什叶两大教派、以及原教旨主义者和改革派之间的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Organic items are 10% or 20% more expensive than regular produce, so most of us naturally buy less when we “go organic.”",
        "有机产品比用通常方式生产的产品要昂贵10%到20%，因此我们大多数人在“选用有机产品”时自然数量就会购买得少一些。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s economy is dead in the water, and the dreaded specter of deflation is looming ever larger.",
        "欧洲经济仍是一潭死水，可怕的通缩幽灵越来越大。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that none of these problems will materialize during the coming decade.",
        "但我相信在未来十年间这些问题都不会出现。"
    ],
    [
        "MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA – Concern about the proliferation of disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda has reached the point where many governments are proposing new legislation.",
        "加利福尼亚州门洛帕克——许多政府对有关虚假信息、错误信息和宣传运动的担忧已经到了促使他们推动全新立法的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "The violent repression in Tiananmen Square set back China’s move toward democracy by at least 20 years.",
        "暴力镇压天安门广场让中国的民主运动至少倒退了20年。"
    ],
    [
        "A prominent neo-conservative, he seemed to me something of a Bolshevik of democracy, owing to his unshakeable confidence in the validity of his vision.",
        "他是一位知名的新保守派人物，对于其远景设计合理性具有坚定不移的信心，在我看来就像是一个民主的布尔什维克。"
    ],
    [
        "They view the US move as a new sort of financial protectionism and are threatening retaliation.",
        "他们将美国此举视为一种新的金融保护主义，并威胁要予以报复。"
    ],
    [
        "The ability to connect to all of these networks makes a habitat valuable.",
        "能够与所有这些网络连通就是栖身之所的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran may not offer much in the way of solutions; but, if the US abandoned the nuclear deal, the country could easily exacerbate the region’s turmoil.",
        "伊朗可能无法在解决方案中做出让步； 但是，如果美国放弃该协议，伊朗可以轻易加剧地区动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Five years ago, Sheremet moved to Ukraine because he thought he would find a freer, safer environment in which to work.",
        "五年前，谢里梅特来到乌克兰，因为他认为在这里能遇到更加自由、更加安全的工作环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, no restructuring of Cypriot banks appears imminent; on the contrary, the intent seems to be to keep large depositors from fleeing and preserve the highly risky system.",
        "最重要的是，塞浦路斯银行并没有马上重组的计划； 相反，当前的形势似乎表明大储户将逃脱升天，而高风险系统将继续维持。"
    ],
    [
        "But their enthusiasm has limits.",
        "但是德国的热情也有限度。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, increased clarity and transparency about banks’ balance sheets, together with a better-capitalized banking sector, will create a more supportive lending environment.",
        "尤其是银行资产负债表的不断明晰和透明，加上资本更充足的银行部门，将创造一个更有益处的贷款环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowhere is this reordering of priorities more needed than in the eurozone.",
        "最需要对任务重要性重新排序非欧元区莫属。"
    ],
    [
        "Franco’s son-in-law, who was also the family doctor, kept the dying despot on life-support machines for more than a month.",
        "弗朗哥的女婿兼家庭医生靠着生命支持设备将行将就木的独裁者的阳寿生生拉长了一个多月。"
    ],
    [
        "Business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic are convinced that a successful TTIP agreement would bring substantial economic benefits – a perception that many studies reinforce.",
        "大西洋两岸的商业领袖相信，成功的TTIP协议将带来巨大的经济收益——许多研究都强化了这一感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no coincidence that wherever stock markets thrive, governments take care that these taxes stop well short of destroying after-tax corporate profits.",
        "凡是股市繁荣的国家，政府都十分注重不让企业的税后盈利因税收而化为乌有。"
    ],
    [
        "While no comparison is perfect, the most apt comparison is with Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian media mogul who has served three terms as his country’s prime minister.",
        "虽然没有那种比较是完美的，但最贴切的莫过于将特朗普比作贝卢斯科尼，这位意大利媒体大亨在国内连续三届担任总理。"
    ],
    [
        "Fundamental ideological divisions over the 2003 Iraq war have strained global politics for more than a decade.",
        "对2003年伊拉克战争的根本性意识形态分歧影响了十多年来的全球政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Households have cut their debt and rebuilt their balance sheets, but the large loss in household wealth, weak growth in wages and income, the concentration of most income gains at the top, and a decline in labor’s share of national income to record lows continue to constrain consumption.",
        "家庭减少了其债务并重建资产负债表，但是家庭财富的巨大损失，工资收入增长疲软，大部分收入集中在高层，国民收入中劳动的比例降到历史低点，这一切都抑制了消费。"
    ],
    [
        "World leaders must continue to speak out – and to be adamant in their support of press freedom in their own countries.",
        "世界领导人必须继续发出声音——并且坚决支持本国的新闻自由。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed revealed that it was entirely unconcerned about the risks of higher inflation and was eager to push unemployment below what most economists regard as its “natural” rate of around 5%.",
        "美联储透露这一决策完全没有考虑高通胀的风险，并急于将失业率推低至大多数经济学家认为的“自然”失业率（约5%）以下。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris must produce an agreement to introduce a price on carbon worldwide.",
        "2015年巴黎联合国气候变化会议必须产生一个协定为全世界范围引入碳定价。"
    ],
    [
        "POZNAN – The current economic crisis cast a pall over climate change talks held this month in Poland. While negotiators hoped for concrete progress towards an international climate agreement, the world’s two largest polluters were distracted – the US with preventing a collapse of the financial system in the midst of a presidential transition, China with a slowdown in domestic investment and weakening foreign demand for its manufactured goods.",
        "波兹南—现今的经济危机给本月在波兰举行的气候变化谈判蒙上了一层阴影。 当谈判者希望能够就达成国际气候协议取得具体进展时，世界上两个最大的污染排放国则不够专心—美国在操心防止总统换届期间发生金融体系的崩溃，中国在关注国内投资的下滑和国外对其制造产品的需求减少。"
    ],
    [
        "This integrated approach could prove effective in countries where the real economy and the financial sector are closely linked, ensuring the timely, orderly implementation of policies, while preventing adverse spillovers.",
        "这一一体化方法在实体经济与金融部门紧密相连的国家或许会见效，它能确保政策及时、有序地实施，同时防止消极溢出效应。"
    ],
    [
        "World order is more than just economics, and the United States remains central to it.",
        "世界秩序不仅只限于经济，而美国仍然是它的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Absent these missteps, expect a tougher ride on the global economy, but not a calamity.",
        "如果没有这些错误发生，全球经济将会趋于更为艰难，而非出现灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence the continuing need for demand-side measures, which puts the ball back in the ECB’s court.",
        "因此，需求端措施仍然需要，而这也需要欧洲央行出手。"
    ],
    [
        "But his efforts increasingly look like the work of an immature gambler.",
        "但他的行动越来越像是鲁莽的赌徒。"
    ],
    [
        "Gas provides nearly a quarter of Europe’s energy, compared to 14% for nuclear power.",
        "原子能为欧洲提供14％的能源，与此相比，天然气则将近四分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Abbas will find it equally challenging to apply rule-of-law principles to a traumatized community that is reeling after nearly five years of violence, oppression, and draconian travel restrictions imposed by the Israelis.",
        "近五年的暴力、压迫和以色列政府实施的严格通行限制使巴勒斯坦满目疮痍。 面对这样一个国家，阿巴斯感到要贯彻依法治国同样很具有挑战性。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the “16+1 cooperation” between China and Central and Eastern European countries should become more transparent and integrated with wider Sino-European cooperation.",
        "此外，中国与中东欧国家的“16+1合作”应该更加透明，并融入广义中欧合作。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s share of world investment has soared from 4.3% in 1995 to an estimated 25.8% this year.",
        "中国占世界投资比从1995年的4. 3%飙升至今年的25."
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – For years, it was assumed, certainly in the West, that, as society developed, religion would wither away. But it hasn’t, and, at the start of a new decade, it is time for policymakers to take religion seriously.",
        "发自伦敦——数十年以来，西方人都认定宗教这东西必将随着社会的不断发展而最终消亡，但事实却并非如此，因此在这个未来十年的起始之年，政策制定者们也应该认真考虑一下宗教问题了。"
    ],
    [
        "And in the US, the debt ratio rose from 102.5% to 105.8% over the same period.",
        "而在美国，同期债务比从102. 5%上升到105."
    ],
    [
        "WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA – Food prices have in many cases surpassed the peak levels reached in July 2008.",
        "发自印地安纳州西拉法叶——当今的食品价格已经在许多方面超越了2008年8月的最高点。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, many more of us are supporters of NGOs than are members of political parties.",
        "如今，支持非政府组织的人比政党党员多得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Only three maverick Republican Senators went along with Obama’s proposals to get the plan accepted.",
        "只有三位特立独行的共和党参议员同意奥巴马的方案被通过。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries such as France and Germany that opposed action in Iraq were willing to use force in Kosovo despite the absence of Security Council authorization.",
        "法德等国虽然反对美在伊战中的行为，但都在未经安理会批准的情况下出兵科索沃。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides, the commission’s members have impeccable loyalist credentials, which is also true of the cardinals appointed by Francis to look into broader issues of reform.",
        "除此之外，委员会成员都是绝无污点的忠诚亲信，方济各所任命的调研更宽范围改革事宜的红衣主教亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, large parts of Africa, Latin America, and Asia have still not recovered from mistakes made during previous economic downturns.",
        "今天，非洲、拉美和亚洲大部分地区仍然未能从以前经济低迷期所犯的错误中恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "The official ban blocks reflection, but human weakness and careerist self-interest among those who participated buttresses the official ban.",
        "官方的禁令阻止进行反思，人类的弱点以及参与其中的自私的野心家则支持这个官方禁令。"
    ],
    [
        "First, if drugs are banned, then choosing not to use them is a test of one's character. A person of integrity does not behave dishonestly.",
        "第一，如果药品被禁止，那么选择不使用它们就是对人格的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "And it announced its intention to slow local governments’ seizures of farmland and excessive borrowing through captive enterprises.",
        "政府还宣布将抑制地方政府征用农地和通过政府控制企业过度借贷。"
    ],
    [
        "The LRZ would enable local people to improve their livelihoods though the production of agricultural goods, the efficient delivery of services, and light manufacturing.",
        "本地生产区应该通过农产品生产、提供高效服务和轻型制造业让本地人民改善生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the critics object, the evidence in support of expansionary fiscal consolidations is flawed.",
        "此外，有人反驳巩固财政能起到扩张效果的论点，认为其论据存在瑕疵。"
    ],
    [
        "Uncertainties about the economy are likely to insert an element of caution into companies’ investment decisions.",
        "经济的不确定性可能让公司的投资决策更为谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – This fall, thousands of college students will be taught a myth presented as fact.",
        "纽约－今年秋天，大学会将一个神话作为事实教给几万名大学生。"
    ],
    [
        "They should reduce their holdings as quickly as possible, before they do something really stupid with the accumulated treasure.",
        "在用这笔积累起来财富做出蠢事之前，他们应该尽快减少外汇储备。"
    ],
    [
        "He identified a source of revenue – the tariff – that could be devoted to this end, and he rendered the bargain politically palatable by making clear that if state governments accumulated additional debts, and again got into trouble, they would not be bailed out a second time.",
        "他还找到了收入源——关税——来作为偿债资金源，并明确表示如果州政府积累了更多的债务，从而再一次陷入麻烦，将不会获得第二次援助，从而将讨价还价过程包装得十分具有政治诱惑力"
    ],
    [
        "The People’s Bank of China has been providing spurts of liquidity to the market, in the hope of relieving financial constraints on productive private businesses and industries.",
        "中国人民银行一直在向市场提供流动性，希望缓解生产性民营企业和行业的财务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "The public rewards democratic governments for dealing with the downside risk caused by competitive markets – whether by spending to create jobs or by rescuing banks that have dodgy securities on their balance sheets.",
        "民主政府着手应对由竞争性市场所引发的经济下跌风险，而公众也对此表示赞赏——不管它是通过支出来创造就业，还是拯救那些在资产负债表中拥有有毒债券的银行。"
    ],
    [
        "The new leadership must also introduce effective processes and the organizational machinery to implement current major initiatives, including the Sustainable Development Goals.",
        "新领导还必须引入有效的流程和组织机制来落实现有的主要措施，其中包括可持续发展目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Georgia's army is small, ill-equipped and no match for Russia's, as was amply demonstrated this month.",
        "格鲁吉亚的军队规模小，且装备差，和俄罗斯根本不可一比。 这一点，已经在本月显露无遗。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush is right to claim that people in the Middle East would like to be as prosperous and free as the South Koreans, but his notion that the war in Iraq is simply a continuation of US policies in Asia could not be more mistaken.",
        "布什说中东人民希望像韩国一样繁荣和自由是正确的，但他认为伊拉克战争不过是美国在亚洲政策延续的观点却再错误不过。"
    ],
    [
        "Juncker came out ahead in the MEP count for only one reason: he obtained his votes in small countries, and votes are de facto weighted by country size.",
        "容克能够在欧洲议会算术中脱颖而出的原因只有一个：他在小国赢得了选票，而选票实际上是按国家规模加权的。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 2008, banking-sector credit growth in China has been among the fastest in the world, far outpacing GDP growth, and China’s total debt has risen from 130% of GDP to 220% of GDP.",
        "自2008年以来，中国的银行部门信贷增长在全世界范围内位居前列，远远超过GDP增速，该国债务总额与GDP的比值也从130%上升到220%。"
    ],
    [
        "This meant never allowing a popular (or even parliamentary) vote on what kind of Brexit May’s government should pursue, let alone a second vote on whether Brexit should happen at all.",
        "这意味着永远不允许民众（甚至议会）投票决定梅的政府应当采取何种脱欧方式，就英国是否应当脱欧进行二次投票更是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Price stability has not put profit margins under pressure.",
        "物价稳定没有让利润边际承压。"
    ],
    [
        "Debt levels and remaining deficits underscore the need for extreme caution, but, assuming a common will to undertake action, there would be room for maneuver within the European rules.",
        "债务水平和剩余赤字意味着需要非常小心，但是，只要存在采取行动的共同意愿，就有在欧洲规则框架内调整的空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic development is in significant part defined by the process of overcoming energy poverty, yet 1.6 billion people still lack access to even the most basic energy services.",
        "经济的发展很大程度上依赖于如何解决能源匮乏难题。 世界上还有 16 亿人口甚至缺乏基本的能源使用。"
    ],
    [
        "They also overlook the ability of the US and China to finesse their disagreement over Taiwan.",
        "它们还忽视了美国和中国巧妙解决在台湾问题上的分歧的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "At the moment, there is no global threat and the Alliance only intervenes in regional conflicts, so why not have NATO admit this?",
        "目前世界性的威胁不复存在，地区的冲突才是问题的核心，北约为什么不能正视这个现实呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The US has pulled out of recession faster than the eurozone, not only – or even primarily – because it fixed its banking system faster, but because it pursued more stimulative fiscal policies.",
        "美国之所以比欧元区更快地摆脱衰退，不仅是因为——甚至并非主要因为——它更快地修补了银行系统，也是因为它采取了更具刺激性的财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But Turkey’s EU aspirations mean that it is now being forced to demilitarize its democracy and to find negotiated and peaceful agreements with all its neighbors and future partners – Armenians, Kurds, and Cypriots.",
        "但是土耳其的入盟企望意味着它正在被迫将其民主非军事化，并且同其所有邻国和未来的伙伴寻求谈判协商的和平协议。 他们包括亚美尼亚人、库尔德人以及塞浦路斯人。"
    ],
    [
        "Such discussions would, over time, have to address a wide range of issues.",
        "假以时日，这些讨论必须解决范围甚广的一系列问题。"
    ],
    [
        "As of this year, ¥1 of GDP growth is consistent with more than ¥3.5 of credit growth.",
        "以今年为例，在1元钱的GDP增长的同时却出现了3. 5元钱的信贷增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But homo economicus was never intended to be used for forecasting; its real purpose is to make it easier to distinguish between market failures and mental failures.",
        "但经济人的概念从来不是为了预测才发明的； 它的真正目的是更容易地区分市场失灵和思想失灵。"
    ],
    [
        "A democratic, pro-Western Middle East is not in the cards.",
        "一个民主、亲西方中东不是美国想出的牌。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The Ebola outbreak that began last year in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, three of the four countries of the Mano River Union, is the most severe on record since the disease was first diagnosed in Central Africa in 1976.",
        "华盛顿—去年始于马诺河联盟（Mano River Union）四国之三的几内亚、塞拉利昂和利比里亚的埃博拉是该疾病自1976年在中非首次确诊以来最严重的一次。"
    ],
    [
        "Further guns are being moved into position, such as successively more negative nominal interest rates or so-called helicopter money.",
        "后续政策也准备就绪，如继续扩大负利率或所谓的直升机撒钱。"
    ],
    [
        "These are the “power” agencies that serve as the political base for the conservatives inside Iran.",
        "这些“强力”机构是伊朗国内保守派的政治基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue has little to do with the insignificant accord that Prime Minister David Cameron recently reached with his EU colleagues.",
        "这一问题与英国首相卡梅伦最近与其欧盟同侪所达成的无关紧要的协议没有什么关系。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – Ever since the integration of emerging markets into the global economy began in the early 1990’s, three striking trends have emerged: a divergence in private savings rates between the industrialized core and the emerging periphery (the former experiencing a sharp rise, and the latter a steady decline); large global imbalances between the two regions; and a drop in interest rates worldwide.",
        "发自北京——自从新兴市场在1990年代初整合进全球经济以来出现了三大引人注目的趋势：核心发达工业国与外围新兴国家在个人储蓄率上的分化（前者大幅上升而后者稳步下降）； 两个区域之间的巨额全球不平衡；"
    ],
    [
        "They question whether people can enjoy the benefits of globalization while being sheltered from its costs – and what alternatives there are to the “market fundamentalism” that has defined capitalism since the late twentieth century.",
        "他们质疑承担了全球化成本的穷人是否能从中获益——以及有什么“市场原教旨主义”（二十世纪末以来资本主义的写照）的替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, his triumph exposed a rift among Iran’s democratic forces, which were divided over whether to participate in the election, and rendered irrelevant the Green Movement born in 2009.",
        "事实上，他的胜利暴露了伊朗民主力量的裂缝——按是否参与此次大选以及是否表现得与2009年出现的绿色运动（Green Movement）有关分为两个阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "How is it that these scrupulous humanists have had nothing whatsoever to say about the 200,000 victims of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, the crimes of the Islamic State, or the massive deportation of Christians from the Plain of Nineveh, to name just a few contemporaneous issues?",
        "这些一丝不苟的人文主义者为什么面对叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德、伊斯兰国犯下的累累罪行或尼尼微平原大规模驱逐基督徒的200，000名受害者不置一词？ 这还只是同时期发生的少数几个例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The massive migration processes that have only just begun will be the major issue of the coming decades.",
        "开始不久的移民迁徙之潮将成为未来几十年中的主要问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The key is to provide more flexible work arrangements, to build a more accepting corporate culture, and to ensure accessible childcare, both public and private.",
        "关键是采取灵活的工作安排、构建更加包容的公司文化，以及确保育儿服务（包括公共和私营服务）的普及。"
    ],
    [
        "Her organization is intent on using international law to hold accountable members of the Israeli military who put civilians in harm’s way during the invasion of Gaza – events that the recent Goldstone Report confirms.",
        "该组织的宗旨就是用国际法制裁那些在入侵加沙行动中对平民伤害事件负有责任的以色列军方成员，而这些暴行都是得到联合国调查小组发布的《戈德斯通报道》确认的。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it is not working: CO2 emissions are rising, not falling.",
        "首先，它并没有奏效：CO2 排放在增加而不是在减少。"
    ],
    [
        "DUBAI – As governments across the Middle East try to wean themselves off natural resources and build diversified, resilient economies, they should take some lessons from Dubai.",
        "迪拜——随着中东各国政府试图摆脱对自然资源的依赖并建立多样化、适应性强的经济，他们应当学习迪拜的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "With 3% of the world’s population, the US can no longer dominate the rest of the world, because Asians, with 60% of the world’s population, are no longer underperforming.",
        "只占世界人口3%的美国无法继续主宰世界其他地区，因为占世界人口60%的亚洲不再落后。"
    ],
    [
        "On a more practical level, Germany will not be a strong enough international champion for Europe.",
        "从更实际的角度，德国也无法成为符合欧洲需要的足够强大的世界领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "Rescaling China’s Debt Mountain",
        "重估中国的债务负担"
    ],
    [
        "Managers hesitate to expand their workforce, buy a new office building, or build a new factory, waiting for news that will make them stop worrying about committing to new ideas.",
        "管理者犹豫扩大招聘、购买新办公楼或建造新工厂，等待能让他们不再担忧落实新概念的消息。"
    ],
    [
        "But explaining that to block thinkers will never have the impact of a real connection to the multi-faceted discourse that is actually taking place on the other side.",
        "但是对思维一律者解释这一点永远不会起到让他们真正接触在另一面真实发生着的多层面的讨论那样的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1966, a year before Israeli paratroopers ostensibly united Jerusalem, the composer Naomi Shemer sang of, “the city that sits solitary, and in its heart a wall.”",
        "1966年，即以色列伞兵从表面上统一耶路撒冷的前一年，作曲家舍莫尔（Naomi Shemer）唱道：“这座城市是单独的，在它中心有一堵墙。"
    ],
    [
        "But the results are of interest nonetheless. They suggest a less-than-healthy relationship between lawmakers’ political and pecuniary interests.",
        "但研究出来的结果依然精彩：它揭示了立法者的政治利益和金钱利益之间的某种不健康关系。"
    ],
    [
        "So the map was left to rot in the desert, along with the science of geography that it represented.",
        "于是这张地图就这样烂在了沙漠中，和它所代表的地理学一起随风而逝。"
    ],
    [
        "In Mexico, the Institute for Genomic Medicine is genotyping the country’s entire population.",
        "在墨西哥，基因组医学研究所（Institute for Genomic Medicine）正在对全国人口进行基因测定。"
    ],
    [
        "Inevitably, the new rightists bring back memories of storm troopers and race laws.",
        "新的右翼人物将会不可避免地带回纳粹突击队和种族法律的记忆。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where discomfort meets danger.",
        "在南亚，不安与危险交织在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "The spate of armed clashes along the border this year stems from PAD provocations.",
        "而今年爆发的边界武装冲突正是来源于民盟的挑衅行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Revisiting my 2009 book, The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are reshaping the World, it seems clear that fear has gained the upper hand.",
        "在我2009年的著作《情感的地缘政治：恐惧、羞辱和希望文化如何改变世界》（The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are reshaping the World）中，我明确地指出，恐惧已经占了上风。"
    ],
    [
        "History and economic theory, however, suggest that anxieties about technological unemployment, a term coined by John Maynard Keynes nearly a century ago, are misplaced.",
        "但历史和经济理论表明人们对技术失业问题（这个词由约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯在近一个世纪前发明）的焦虑是没有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "DAKKA – As fears about the Islamization of politics in the Muslim world grow, Bangladesh, with the world’s fourth-largest Muslim population (126 million), has moved dramatically in the opposite direction.",
        "达卡 -正如人们对穆斯林世界的伊斯兰政治的担心日益加剧之时，有着世界第四大穆斯林人口（ 一亿二千六百万人口）的孟加拉国，却已朝着相反的方向戏剧性地前进了。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the program would cause a large drop in the eurozone’s aggregate interest payments.",
        "其次，该计划将大大降低欧元区总利息偿付。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea’s economic performance over the last 50 years was attributed largely to good fundamentals, including a high savings rate, strong human capital, sound institutions, and prudent fiscal and monetary management.",
        "过去50年韩国的经济表现主要归功于良好的基本面，包括高储蓄率、雄厚的人力资本、健全的制度和审慎的财政和货币管理政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But other threats – for example, the fake news that has proliferated in the West (and, in particular, in the US during the presidential campaign) – may also call for a more hands-on approach.",
        "但其他威胁——例如，在西方（特别是在美国总统竞选期间）滋生的假新闻——也可能需要更切实际的应对手段。"
    ],
    [
        "The dollar is weakening, as financial markets understand that the US will need to borrow huge sums from abroad for years to come.",
        "美元日趋疲软，因为金融市场知道美国今后需要从国外借贷大笔的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "“Unfortunately,” said the ranger, “that bear may be back here even before our truck returns.",
        "护林员说：\"不幸的是，往往是我们的卡车还没回来，熊就已经回来了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no wonder that Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin would welcome Brexit and meddles in European countries’ domestic politics to try to weaken the EU.",
        "”毫不奇怪，普京的克里姆林宫将欢迎英国退出，并参与欧洲各国国内政策以试图削弱欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "No other action holds as much potential to make Chinese leadership within Asia seem both credible, and desirable, especially if the alternative is a reckless, poorly planned US-led war.",
        "除此之外，再无其他行动有望让中国领导亚洲显得既可信又可求，特别是在除此之外的唯一选项只剩下鲁莽仓促的美国领导的战争的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the international system is increasingly coalescing around national powers that consider military force to be an essential prerequisite of influence.",
        "此外，国际体系正在让认为军事实力是影响力的先决条件的国家联合起来。"
    ],
    [
        "And the fiscal cliff is only part of the problem that must be solved.",
        "而财政悬崖只是必须解决的问题的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The administration had pushed European countries to accept less representation on the IMF Board and increase China’s voting share from 3.65% to 6.07%, only to prove unable to win the support of the US Congress.",
        "奥巴马政府提出欧洲国家减少在IMF董事会的代表权，并将中国的投票比例从3. 65%增加到6."
    ],
    [
        "It was not only the endemic corruption of the official Palestinian leadership that turned so many Palestinians from it.",
        "这不仅仅是由于巴勒斯坦领导层腐败横行而使得众多巴勒斯坦人对其敬而远之。"
    ],
    [
        "Chávez will be able to modify the Constitution largely as he pleases, and pack both the justice system and the electoral authority with his placemen.",
        "查韦斯基本上可以随心所欲地修改宪法，并用其人马充斥司法系统和选举机关。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, economic engagement will not solve the nuclear conundrum in the short term.",
        "当然，经济接触无法在短期内为核谜题找出答案；"
    ],
    [
        "But, thanks partly to persistent corruption – Iran ranks in the lowest quartile globally in this area – annual inflation exceeds 10%, and youth unemployment stands at 25%.",
        "但是，部分由于持续腐败——伊朗在腐败方面位列全球最严重的四分之一国家行列，伊朗年通货膨胀率超过10%，年轻人失业率高达25%。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is unclear how much influence China’s government holds over Kim Jong-un’s regime.",
        "但中国政府对金正恩政权能产生多大影响目前尚不明确。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reason the Kremlin balked at offering Zakaev an amnesty is unlikely to be related him personally, but rather to Kadyrov.",
        "而克里姆林宫不愿给予扎卡耶夫特赦的决定似乎不是针对他本人，而是把矛头指向了卡德罗夫。"
    ],
    [
        "Alas, the organizers of Earth Hour prefer to ignore this inconvenient reality.",
        "可惜，“地球一小时”的组织者选择无视这个无法回避的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Taxpayers end up paying for these exposures, as do retirees and others who rely on returns from their savings.",
        "最终为这些风险暴露掏腰包的是纳税人、退休者以及其他靠储蓄回报生活的人。"
    ],
    [
        "But because reform in Europe is usually only discussed, the benefits fail to materialize: people work harder only when they are sure that tax rates are actually cut, and in financial markets the positive effects of lower government spending do not come before any reform is approved.",
        "但在欧洲，由于改革通常只是被讨论的对象，其带来的利益得不到实现：只有确定税率下调的时候人们才努力工作； 而在金融市场，只有等改革得以批准后，政府降低支出的政策才能产生积极效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, while Doing Business focuses on helping the poorest countries to improve their economic performance, it also influences advanced-country policymaking and business practices.",
        "最后，尽管《营商环境报告》注意力集中在帮助最贫困国家改善经济表现，但它也影响着发达国家决策者和商业行为。"
    ],
    [
        "These are, of course, the same mechanisms that the Fed has targeted for almost three years in its own efforts to stimulate higher growth in the US.",
        "当然，这些与美联储近三年来刺激美国经济更高增长的机制是一样的。"
    ],
    [
        "Though developed countries’ authorities intervened strongly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in 2008, launching significant fiscal- and monetary-stimulus measures, many of their structural shortcomings remain unresolved.",
        "尽管发达国家当局在2008年全球金融危机后进行了强力干预，启动了大规模财政和货币刺激手段，但很多发达国家的结构缺陷仍没有解决。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most urgent problem stems from the breakdown of major countries’ one-time nuclear monopoly and the empowerment of smaller countries like North Korea, Pakistan, Israel, and, quite possibly, Iran.",
        "但最紧迫的问题是大国对和力量的垄断被打破，朝鲜、巴基斯坦、以色列（极有可能还有伊朗）等小国也拥有了核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks must also fund themselves in a more stable fashion.",
        "银行还必须以更稳妥的方式为自己融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Official corruption escalated.",
        "官员腐败升级。"
    ],
    [
        "The results are simply staggering – although surely not a surprise to professional lobbyists.",
        "研究结果让人难以相信——不过职业游说者大概不会感到惊奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Upheaval or stagnation in one part of a complex system can have outsize consequences elsewhere, in the form of, say, a refugee crisis or an uptick in inequality.",
        "复杂系统中某部分的动荡或停滞可以在其他地方以难民危机或不平等加剧等形式产生巨大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In some cases, children are front-line targets.",
        "某些情况下，儿童成为一线目标。"
    ],
    [
        "If only 40% of the men are still alive after twenty years, the bonds will pay out £20 million.",
        "如果只有40%的男人二十年后依然活着，债券将付出二千万英镑。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no secret that the US and Europe, combined, spend more than $250 billion of public funds annually on R&D to maintain their leading positions.",
        "美国和欧洲加起来每年要花2,500多亿美元公共资金用于保持它们的领先地位，这已不是什么秘密。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in doing so, it created a reality that is difficult to reverse.",
        "但以色列的这种做法造成了难以改变的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Peace Process or Real Peace?",
        "要和平进程，还是要和平?"
    ],
    [
        "Generally speaking, globalization implies a narrower scope for national policy.",
        "总体而言，全球化缩小了国家政策的空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Ba’asyir’s release is undeniably unfortunate and possibly dangerous – but it is the consequence of legal proceedings, not any sudden radicalization of Indonesia.",
        "巴希尔被释放毫无疑问是不幸并且也许是危险的，但这是法律程序的结果，不是出于印尼突然变得激进的缘故。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, stricter building codes are crucial for structures built in coastal areas.",
        "无论如何，更严格的建筑法规是沿岸地区工程的关键点。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent US Defense Department paper, “China’s Military and Security Developments – 2011,” argued that “China’s ‘near sea’ politics has seriously disturbed not only India, but Japan, Australia, the US, and the ASEAN countries.”",
        "最新的美国国防部文件《中国的军事和安全发展：2011年》指出，“受中国的‘近海’政策严重干扰的不仅有印度，还包括日本、澳大利亚、美国和东盟国家。"
    ],
    [
        "What The EU Must Do Now",
        "欧盟必须采取举措"
    ],
    [
        "Recent revelations that many corporate executives have backdated their stock options, ensuring excessive compensation even when their companies perform poorly, are merely the latest in a stream of examples of bad business behavior.",
        "最近，许多公司行政人员被披露将其股票期权的起算日期提早，以确保即使在公司业绩不佳的情况下也能获得超常丰厚的回报。 而这仅仅是新近层出不穷的不良商业行为之冰山一角。"
    ],
    [
        "The unit would be nothing more than a consumer price index, given a simple name, and published daily, so that people could use this unit and its name to quote prices in real terms.",
        "这一单位只不过是一个消费者物价指数，名称简单，每天公布，这样人们就可以使用这一单位及名称来以实际价格报价。"
    ],
    [
        "When mainstream politicians, newspapers, and churches rail against Israel, many Swedish Muslims inevitably see this is a green light for them to unleash their own hostility toward ordinary Jews.",
        "当主流政治家，报纸和教会都对以色列大加斥责之时，许多瑞典穆斯林也无可避免地认为这是给他们开了绿灯，让他们可以像普通犹太人宣泄自己的敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "To be comprehensive, the plan has to extend beyond the borders of Europe.",
        "一个全面的计划决不能局限在欧洲边界之内。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The framework nuclear agreement that Iran and the P-5 (China, Britain, France, Russia, and the United States) plus Germany recently reached represents progress on one major security challenge in the Middle East.",
        "伦敦——不久前达成的伊朗和P-5（中、英、法、俄、美）集团加德国的核框架协议代表我们在中东主要安全问题上取得了进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The success of the rescue is far from assured, in view of the magnitude of belt-tightening that it calls for and the hostility that it has aroused on the part of Greek workers.",
        "考虑到避免出现债务危机需要很多人勒紧裤带以及由此在希腊工人中引发的敌意，我们无法保证这次援助计划取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, he had to go.",
        "事情到了这个份儿上，他非走不可了。"
    ],
    [
        "In a techno-polity, two inextricably linked factors are crucial: talent and innovation.",
        "在技术政治中，两大牢不可破的联系因素至关重要：人才和创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect was launched to stimulate cross-border investment and capital-market development.",
        "去年，股市“沪港通”启动，刺激了跨境投资和资本市场发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the long lead time between project preparation and the first benefits of emissions reductions, project developers have only a few years to act before carbon payments cease to make a meaningful contribution to project finance in the current context.",
        "如果项目准备期与减排第一次利润出现之间还有一段很长的前置期，那么，在碳交易结算停止之前，项目发展者只有短短几年的时间在当前情况下为该项目资金创造一个有价值的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "At the community level, a lack of energy at medical clinics impedes the ability of medical personnel to provide adequate treatment and care.",
        "从社会层面看，医疗诊所缺乏能源束缚了医务人员提供充分医护服务的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "You consider jumping off the bridge, in front of the trolley, thus sacrificing yourself to save the five people in danger, but you realize that you are far too light to stop the trolley.",
        "你考虑从天桥上跳到电车前面，从而舍己救人，但你同时也意识到你的重量远不足以使电车停止。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addressed the United Nations General Assembly last week, he emphasized his determination to build a society in which women shine.",
        "东京—在上周的联合国大会演讲中，日本首相安倍晋三强调了建设让妇女放出光芒的社会的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade disputes with China and other countries are an opportunity for airing – rather than repressing – these issues, and thus taking an important step toward democratizing the world’s trade regime.",
        "与中国和其他国家的贸易纠纷是晾出——而不是镇压——这些问题、进而向世界贸易机制民主化卖出重要一步的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "One is that industrial and developing countries march at different speeds when it comes to phasing out CFC’s.",
        "其中之一就是，工业国家和发展中国家在逐步停止使用CFC’s问题上的脚步进度不一。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, farmers are drilling deeper than ever for water – some wells are 500 meters deep – without any regulation.",
        "与此同时，农民不断地向更深的地下钻井取水——有的水井深达500米——而不受任何管制。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Central Bank of Iran has failed to get credit flowing again, even though it has been pumping money into the economy and increasing liquidity by 26% per year.",
        "伊朗中央银行没能使信用再次流动起来，尽管它一直在向经济中注入资金，每年都要增加26%的流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "AIPAC in Decline",
        "美以公共事务委员会的衰落"
    ],
    [
        "A survey of OECD countries shows that half the total population lives in cities of more than 500,000 inhabitants, and that cities have accounted for 60% of total growth of employment and GDP since 2001.",
        "经合组织国家调查表明，一半人口生活在500,000人以上的城市中，而自2001年以来，城市贡献了60%的总就业和GDP增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The second reason to avoid IMF intervention in Europe is that lending to a potentially insolvent country has serious implications for the Fund.",
        "避免IMF干预欧洲的第二个理由是，向本质上已经破产的国家提供贷款会对IMF造成严重影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Her role in championing an inclusive agenda for women provides a new lens through which to assess the power of Asia’s new leaders.",
        "她在推动一个大型妇女事务议程方面的作为使人们对亚洲新领袖权力的评估又增添了一个新视角。"
    ],
    [
        "How can a bond guaranteed in large part by countries such as Italy and Spain (likely candidates for a fiscal crisis) provide AAA status to Irish bonds?",
        "由意大利和西班牙等国（财政危机的潜在对象）提供担保的债券怎能使爱尔兰债券获得AAA评级？"
    ],
    [
        "Trump and his team must now think carefully about what has happened in the Middle East, and what to do about it.",
        "如今，特朗普及其团队必须仔细思考中东所发生的事情，以及如何应对这些事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey at one end of the Middle East and Morocco at the other are already well on their way.",
        "在中东一端的土耳其和在另一端的摩洛哥已经顺利上路了。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Podemos, a leftist party in the Syriza mold, could come to power in Spain.",
        "此外，西班牙的左翼联盟——社会民主党（Podemos）可能赢得西班牙选举。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1980, a gigabyte of data storage occupied a room; now, 200 gigabytes of storage fits in your shirt pocket.",
        "1980年，1GB数据要一间屋子才放得下，如今，200GB的存储空间不过衬衫口袋大小。"
    ],
    [
        "We just need to use them.",
        "我们只需要很好地加以利用。"
    ],
    [
        "So Western diplomats who negotiate with China should call lower-level officials’ bluff, and focus on the signal-to-noise ratio, bearing in mind that, ultimately, decisions are taken quietly at a higher level by pragmatic leaders who are indeed susceptible to pressure.",
        "因此那些和中国谈判的西方外交人员自当无视中方低级官员的虚张声势，并将注意力放在信噪比之上，时刻牢记最终的决定将会由那些事实上对压力非常敏感的务实高层官员做出。"
    ],
    [
        "As with Mexico, Haiti’s proximity to the US has cut both ways in its history.",
        "”和墨西哥一样，海地与美国的毗邻关系在其历史上的作用也有利有弊。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – The phrase “Silk Road” evokes a romantic image – half history, half myth – of tented camel caravans winding their way across the trackless deserts and mountains of Central Asia.",
        "新德里—“丝绸之路”给人们以浪漫印象——一半是历史，一半是传说——商人带着驼队和帐篷走在中亚无路可循的沙漠和丘陵中。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – The world is facing the prospect of an extended period of weak economic growth.",
        "米兰—世界有可能面临经济增长的长期低迷。"
    ],
    [
        "Some such mechanism will be essential in the coming decades as more and more countries introduce nuclear energy.",
        "随着更多的国家引入核能，这一类机制将在未来的几十年中发挥关键的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The FBI, it was also disclosed, would be looking into the Clinton Foundation.",
        "消息还披露，联邦调查局也将盯上克林顿基金会。"
    ],
    [
        "A Green Alliance With Europe",
        "与欧洲的绿色联盟"
    ],
    [
        "What Wolff has achieved is to get attributed quotes from high officials about how the president functions, or doesn’t.",
        "沃尔夫做到的是获得高官关于总统干的怎样或不怎么样的评论。"
    ],
    [
        "And though thoughtful Russians may be hostages to Putin’s arrogance and blunders, the rest of the world is not.",
        "而尽管思想深邃的俄罗斯人可能沦为普京的傲慢与错误的人质，但世界其他地区不会。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the last 25 years, the share of direct and indirect wages as a percentage of GDP has fallen by 8% to 11% in all the countries involved.",
        "实际上，在过去25年中，在所有有关国家中，直接和间接工资在GDP中占据的百分比从11%下降到8%。"
    ],
    [
        "This amounts to an explicit rejection of the long-standing understanding that genetic resources in plants and animals are the “common heritage of humanity.”",
        "这相当于明确否认动植物资源是“人类共同遗产”的长期解释。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, World Bank survey data suggest that India’s per capita household expenditure has grown by only 1.5% annually since the early 1990’s, implying that the average Indian spent $720 in 2010.",
        "比如，世行调查数据表明印度人均家庭支出自20世纪90年代初以来的年增长率仅仅为1. 5%，这意味着2010年印度人均支出为720美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, governments can no longer maintain the barriers to information flows that historically protected officials from outside scrutiny.",
        "在这样的情况下，政府再也不能为资讯流动设置障碍。 这种障碍曾保护官员不受来自外界的审查。"
    ],
    [
        "At that time, these officials argued that the elections would give Afghanistan’s leaders a clear mandate for reform.",
        "当时，他们原指望通过大选来帮助阿富汗领导人实施改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a diplomatic opening may be hard for Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, to accept, let alone to sell to Israelis.",
        "这样的外交机会可能使以色列总理奥尔默特难以接受，更别说让让他向以色列民众解释了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is in this context that the debate about gene doping erupted during the 2004 Olympics in Athens.",
        "在这样的背景下，有关基因兴奋剂的辩论在2004年的雅典奥运会上爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Curtailing purchases of US Treasuries is a perfectly logical outgrowth of this process.",
        "减少对美国国债的购买也是这一进程的完美逻辑结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Achieving these goals requires fulfilling several conditions.",
        "实现这些目标需要满足几个条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Their complaint was that the newfangled machines were robbing them of their wages and jobs.",
        "他们的怨气在于新出现的机器抢走了他们的工资和饭碗。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps that will change, too.",
        "这种状况或许也将发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, by the time Germany agrees to a eurobond regime, its own AAA standing may be at risk.",
        "事实上，当德国最终同意欧元债券机制时，它自己的AAA评级是否还能安如泰山也是个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The world therefore needs to stimulate other kinds of spending.",
        "因此，世界需要刺激其他类型的消费。"
    ],
    [
        "The Cold War had lasted so long that change seemed unimaginable until freedom burst forth.",
        "冷战持续的时间如此之长，以致于在自由真正破茧而出前变革似乎超出人们的想象。"
    ],
    [
        "For all these reasons, the heady days of double-digit growth in Indian trade in goods and services will not return soon.",
        "出于所有这些原因，印度商品和服务贸易增长动辄两位数的好日子近期难以重现了。"
    ],
    [
        "This may become routine practice – a kind of cyber fire drill – for governments and businesses, even as academic and industry research focuses in the coming years on the development of further technical safeguards.",
        "这也许可以成为常规行为——一种网络消防演习——政府和企业都可以操作，即使未来几年中学术和产业研究的焦点集中在进一步的技术防卫的开放上。"
    ],
    [
        "Whenever this policy balance is lost, misperceptions arise, and little remains to counteract the risk of escalation.",
        "只要这一政策平衡被打破，就会出现误解，而能够遏制升级风险的方法少之又少。"
    ],
    [
        "In January, the pharmaceutical industry took a big step toward solving this problem when more than 100 companies and trade associations from more than 20 countries signed a declaration calling on governments to adopt a new model of antibiotic development.",
        "今年1月，制药行业为解决这一问题迈出了重要的一步，来自20多个国家的100多家企业和行业协会联合签署了一项呼吁政府采用抗生素研发新模式的声明。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Contribution to Peace in Sudan",
        "欧洲在苏丹和平中的角色"
    ],
    [
        "This year made us fully aware of the scale of the challenge Putin is posing to Western democracy.",
        "今年让我们充分领教了普京对西方民主所造成的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, that could very well happen.",
        "当然这个情况很可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "This danger would be attenuated if pre-qualification was not a yes-or-no decision: if there were a range of facilities for which countries could be pre-qualified, they could be moved between them as circumstances changed.",
        "可以通过设计一种与授权机制来减少这种危险，不要简单地同意或拒绝，而是提供多种工具供有关国家选择，让它们可以在情况有所变化时在不同品种之间做出调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Next week’s G-8 summit will probably be the last such meeting for Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin.",
        "下周的八国集团（G8）峰会很可能是布什总统和普京总统的告别演出了。"
    ],
    [
        "Contagion Health, in which I am an investor, uses multi-person game mechanics to turn healthy behavior into status and rewards.",
        "Contagion Health——我是这间公司的投资者之一——利用多人互动机制来把健康行为转化为身份和奖励。"
    ],
    [
        "In Syria, 85,000 individuals are said to have disappeared since the beginning of the conflict.",
        "在叙利亚，据说自冲突爆发以来有85,000人失踪。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Sunni Arabs and Shia Persians alike view Iraq as still up for grabs, a question rather than a country, a “great game” of the kind with which the world is very familiar.",
        "于是，逊尼派阿拉伯人和什叶派波斯人仍把伊拉克视为争地，视为问题而不是国家，视为世界所熟知的“大博弈”。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the dollar’s appreciation relative to other currencies has reduced import costs, putting competitive pressure on domestic firms to reduce prices.",
        "此外，美元相对其他货币升值降低了进口成本，给国内企业造成了降价的竞争压力。 这清楚地反映在-0."
    ],
    [
        "Those committed to addressing climate change – from international organizations to local communities to individual citizens – must urgently build on the momentum acquired over the last year, by maintaining strong pressure on governments and companies to pursue the policies and investments needed to complete the break from fossil fuels.",
        "那些致力于解决气候变化问题的力量——从国际机构到地方社团再到公民个人——必须立即巩固去年一年所取得的势头，向政府和企业施加强大的压力以落实完全摆脱化石燃料所必须的政策和投入。"
    ],
    [
        "“People first” has been my longstanding political philosophy as well, and it is a vision in line with the spirit of Korea’s “candlelight revolution” that lit and heated up the winter in Korea a year ago.",
        "“人民优先”也一直是我长期以来的政治哲学，它是一个和一年前照亮和温暖韩国的“烛光革命”精神异曲同工的愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the International Monetary Fund, the world economy should have grown by 4.4% in 2011, and should grow by 4.5% in 2012.",
        "5%。 而事实上，世界银行的最新数据表明，2011年的增长率只有2."
    ],
    [
        "Why Low Inflation Is No Surprise",
        "为何低通胀本不足为奇"
    ],
    [
        "These shocks were naturally beyond the ECB’s control.",
        "这些冲击显然不是欧洲央行所能控制的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a person who might compel Yanukovych to retreat to democratic norms and thus hold off such protests -- Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.",
        "有一个人或许可以迫使亚努科维奇退回民主准则，从而阻止这样的抗议——俄罗斯总统普京。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, many countries are choosing much more expensive commercial loans or bond issues.",
        "尽管如此，许多国家选择了昂贵得多的商业贷款或发行债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so has reduced the universal appeal of Xi’s “Chinese Dream,” while encouraging policies in the South China Sea and elsewhere that antagonize its neighbors.",
        "这样做降低了习近平“中国梦”的国际吸引力，也助长了引起邻国反抗的南海等地区的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, therefore, we need to devise a system of membership for key international organizations that ensures that their structures are relevant but that is also flexible enough to allow members to come and go.",
        "诚然，我们需要为重要的国际组织建立一种成员制度从而确保它们的架构是合适的，并确保有足够的灵活性允许成员更替。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, at the height of the fighting for control of the northern town of Rutshuru last October, the IRC teams that were stationed there decided to evacuate temporarily because the risk was simply too great.",
        "事实上，在去年十月份争夺北部城镇鲁丘鲁（Rutshuru）控制权的战争最激烈的时候，驻扎在那里的国际救援委员会团队决定暂时撤出，因为风险实在是太大了。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, they can help to contain China’s economic power and strategic influence in Asia.",
        "与此同时，这些协定也有助于遏制中国在亚洲的经济实力和战略影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "How many existing human jobs are actually “at risk” to robots?",
        "有多少现有人类工作岗位真的因为机器人而“面临风险”？"
    ],
    [
        "Under modern representative democracy, people enjoy more personal freedom and more material prosperity than at any other time in human history.",
        "在现代代议制民主体制下，民众比人类历史上任何时候都享有更多的个人自由和物质繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, Juncker’s plan to accelerate eurozone accession threatens to recreate in spades the chaos of the past decade, which started with a bubble in Southern Europe, and culminated in the Greek sovereign-debt crisis.",
        "简言之，容克的计划——加快欧元区加入流程——有可能让过去十年的混乱重演，上一次混乱始于南欧的泡沫，在希腊主权债务危机中达到高潮。"
    ],
    [
        "When the weak euro reduces the heavily indebted countries’ production costs by 20-25%, they can rejoin the “hard” euro if they accept fiscal reforms that are subject to approval by the European Commission (and thus by the hard-euro creditor countries).",
        "当弱欧元将重债国的生产成本降低20—25%时，它们可以重新加入“硬”欧元（“hard”euro），如果它们接受须经欧盟委员会批准（从而也获得了硬欧元债权国的首肯）的财政改革的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Criminal trials fill a large space in the public imagination, but – to borrow a metaphor from biology – they are but one cell of law’s complex corpus.",
        "刑事审判占据了公众想象力的很大部分，但借用生物学的一个比喻——这只是法律这个复杂殿堂中的一个隔间而已。"
    ],
    [
        "One is that, because assumptions fundamentally affect what analysts tend to see when they look at intelligence, flawed assumptions can lead to dangerously flawed policies.",
        "其中之一是，当分析师分析情报时，他们的假设从根本上影响了他们所看到的东西，因此，有缺陷的假设可能导致缺陷巨大的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Restarting Ukraine’s Economy",
        "重启乌克兰经济"
    ],
    [
        "A Dramatic Comeback for Europe",
        "欧洲的戏剧性回归"
    ],
    [
        "And it promoted the baseless story that former FBI Director James Comey, who Trump fired amid an intensifying investigation into his campaign’s potential collusion with Russia, had leaked classified memos.",
        "他们还宣传无稽之谈，说联邦调查局前局长詹姆斯·科米（James Comey）泄露保密备忘录。 特朗普因为对其竞选活动可能与俄罗斯勾结的调查加紧进行而解除了科米的职位。"
    ],
    [
        "Bad terms mean a large national debt in the future. One reason we may be getting bad terms is that if we got fair value for our money, we would by now be the dominant shareholder in at least one of the major banks.",
        "为什么目前的政策如此差劲？ 原因之一就是：如果国家能以合理的价格购买资产的话，我们早就是至少一家大型银行的股东了。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who prefer to remain in the UK cite a loss of markets, possible loss of the pound sterling, and reduced significance on the European and world stage.",
        "愿意留在英国的民众称独立将失去英国市场，此外还可能殃及英镑，并有损苏格兰在欧洲和世界舞台上的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "HONG KONG – With world leaders meeting at the end of this week at the G-20 summit in Cannes, France, the next economic minefield that they will face is already coming into view.",
        "香港——世界领导人将于本周末的法国戛纳G20峰会上聚首，而他们将面临的下一个经济雷区已经浮现在了眼前。"
    ],
    [
        "The productivity of Nuevo León, Mexico, is higher than in South Korea, but that of Guerrero, another Mexican state, resembles levels in Honduras.",
        "墨西哥新莱昂州的生产率超过了韩国，但另一个墨西哥州格雷罗州的生产率却只相当于洪都拉斯的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the market is working, slowly, and consumers are educating themselves, slowly.",
        "简而言之，市场正在缓慢成长，而消费者们同样也正逐步地进行自我教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Rapidly growing and collectively accounting for nearly half of the world’s population, the rise of the BRICS seemed set to tip the balance of power away from the United States and Western Europe.",
        "金砖国家高速增长，人口总和占世界的近一半，它们的崛起似乎必定会将实力平衡从美国和西欧手中夺走。"
    ],
    [
        "In January 2000, the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group, then known as RAFI) published the first denunciation of the Enola patent as technically invalid and morally unacceptable.",
        "2000年1月，侵蚀、技术和集聚行动小组（简称ETC小组，当时称为RAFI）首次发布公告，谴责Enola专利不仅在技术上无效而且在道德上不能接受。"
    ],
    [
        "The boundary between implicit and explicit incitement is not easily drawn, but, again, it should be wider rather than narrower.",
        "隐含和明显的煽动之间的界限是不容易划定的，但是，这一界限应当更宽而不是更窄。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the Republicans would need to gain control over at least three or four more legislatures to make a credible attempt, the possibility that they could pursue such a strategy should worry people more than it does.",
        "但是，尽管共和党至少需要在赢得三到四个立法机关才能做出可信的尝试，他们可能追求这一战略本身就足以引起人们的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "The negotiations are mainly about which groups of countries should cut their emissions, by how much, how fast, and relative to which baseline year.",
        "谈判主要集中于哪些国家应该减排，减排多少，减排速度以及从哪一年开始。"
    ],
    [
        "If open and pluralistic societies do not stand up for an open Internet and market-based trade, who will?",
        "如果开放多元社会不站出来捍卫开放互联网和基于市场的贸易，还有谁会站出来？"
    ],
    [
        "Any return of the Golan Heights to Syria would result in an “Iranian foothold” on Israel’s border and would thus not only be politically naïve but irrational.",
        "把戈兰高地交还给叙利亚将会形成以色列边境上的“伊朗据点”，这不仅在政治上是天真的，而且也是没有理性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Ideally, state and family were mirror images.",
        "理想地说，国与家是镜像。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, slowing economic growth, tighter prudential regulation, and increased liability have made banks much more risk-averse, driving them to demand a significantly higher risk premium from borrowers, who must now not only provide collateral, but also find third parties to guarantee the loans.",
        "此外，经济增长减速、审慎监管趋紧和负债升高大大增加了银行的风险厌恶度，促使它们大幅提高借款人风险溢价。 如今借款人不但要提供抵押品，还必须找到第三方为贷款提供担保。"
    ],
    [
        "Because Arabic makes no distinction between chairman and president, the Israelis accepted use of the Arabic word rayyes in the official English text.",
        "但由于阿拉伯语里“主席”和“总统”不分，最后以色列人同意在正式英文文本中使用“rayyes”这个阿拉伯词汇来表示这个领导人的身份。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by restoring our partnership can we hope to keep our Orange Revolution’s promises.",
        "我们只有恢复合作伙伴关系才能够希望遵守橙色革命的诺言。"
    ],
    [
        "Most developing countries nowadays are burdened by high rates of unemployment and underemployment.",
        "如今，大部分发展中国家深受失业和办失业率高企的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "The charge sheet against Obama over Syria is long.",
        "奥巴马在叙利亚有很多可以指责的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Would the many people who would ban nuclear power also prohibit air travel?",
        "为数众多的意欲禁止核电之人会禁止乘飞机吗？"
    ],
    [
        "So the banks and international institutions that lent money to Mubarak should bear the responsibility of their choice to bankroll his repressive regime.",
        "因此，借钱给穆巴拉克的银行和国际机构应该为向高压政权贷款这一行为负起责任来。"
    ],
    [
        "The main impulse driving the OBOR initiative is physical connectivity: efficient infrastructure enhances productivity, fosters investment, and lowers the costs of trade.",
        "“一带一路”动议的主要推动力是物理上的连接：高效的基础设施可提高生产力，促进投资，并降低贸易成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent economic recovery, as muted as it has been (both in absolute terms and relative to most expectations), has been driven by the experimental policies that central banks have pursued to sustain consumption.",
        "当前的经济复苏相当无力（不管从绝对水平衡量还是从相对大多数预期角度衡量），并且主要推动力来自央行出于维持消费目的推出的实验性政策。"
    ],
    [
        "They argue that recent events have shown that JPMorgan is too big to be managed well, even by CEO Jamie Dimon, whose fiercest critics do not accuse him of incompetence.",
        "他们指出，最近的事件表明JP摩根规模太大，即使是CEO杰米·戴蒙也无法良好管理。 即使是最激烈的戴蒙批评者也从未指责过他的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But the military prevented its victory by canceling the second round, triggering a brutal eight-year civil war in which an estimated 200,000 people died.",
        "但军队取消了第二轮大选，从而阻止了它获得胜利，并引发了一场为时八年的内战，约20万人因此丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "Who would have predicted thirty years ago that British soccer fans would have cheered for a London team full of Africans, Latin Americans, and Spaniards, coached by a Frenchman? Or that the national English team would be managed by an Italian?",
        "30年前，谁能够想到英国的球迷会为一支充满了非洲、拉丁美洲和西班牙球员、由一位法国人担任教练的伦敦球队，或者一支由意大利人担任教练的英格兰队加油呢？"
    ],
    [
        "My conception of my role as Soviet president compelled me not to intervene.",
        "我对自己身为苏联总统的职责理解使我没有干预。"
    ],
    [
        "By illuminating experts’ top-rated risks, the report highlights important opportunities for action.",
        "《全球风险报告》列出了专家最关注的风险，突出了重要的行动机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, markets seemed to discount these shocks; apart from a few days when panic about Japan or the Middle East caused a correction, they continued their upward march.",
        "直至最近之前，市场似乎对这一轮轮冲击波视而不见。 除了有几天因为日本和中东恐慌而略有调整之外，各大金融市场持续上行。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic theory suggests that, in principle, a BAT could push up the value of the dollar by as much as the tax, thereby nullifying its effects on the relative competitiveness of imports and exports.",
        "经济学理论认为，理论上边境调节税可以让美元价值升高等于税收的幅度，从而完全抵消其对进口和出口的相对竞争力的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "David Davis, the pro-Brexit Tory who is now leading the UK’s Brexit negotiations, once said that, “If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy.”",
        "大卫·戴维斯（David Davis）是一位支持退欧的保守党，他目前主持着英国的退欧谈判。 他曾经说，“如果民主不能改变思维，那么它就不再是民主。"
    ],
    [
        "But now the hero has fallen.",
        "但是现在，这位英雄陨落了。"
    ],
    [
        "Catholics have approved ways of regulating births, he continued, and should practice “responsible parenthood\" rather than breeding “like rabbits.\"",
        "他继续说，天主教徒拥有可采用的手段控制生育，也应该构建“负责任的亲子关系”而不是“像兔子一样”猛生。"
    ],
    [
        "Pastoralism is thus an essential livelihood system, with the potential to help overcome food insecurity – particularly in Somalia, where more than 50% of the population are nomadic herders.",
        "因此，游牧是一种基本生活方式，能够有助于人们克服粮食不安全——特别是在50%以上人口是游牧民的索马里。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the banking union, established by the EU in the wake of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, should be strengthened by enlarging the capital base of the Single Resolution Fund and establishing a common deposit guarantee scheme.",
        "与此同时，银行联盟——已由欧盟在2007—2008年全球金融危机爆发后建立——应该得到强化，扩大单一清算基金（Single Resolution Fund）的资本基础并建立一个共同存款担保机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Yushchenko seems unable to save himself politically, Europe can help both him and Ukraine’s democracy.",
        "尽管尤先科似乎已经无力在政治上拯救他自己了，但是欧洲还是能够拯救他和乌克兰的民主。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian consumers are already scared and will cut their consumption, causing aggregate demand to contract.",
        "俄罗斯的消费者们已经感到恐惧，他们会减少消费，从而使总体需求压缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Taken together, these factors ensure that the war on terror cannot be won.",
        "综合这些因素，可以断定反恐战争不可能获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Those high fees have also meant hefty profits for fund managers.",
        "这样的高收费意味着基金经理利润丰厚。"
    ],
    [
        "Pakistan after Bhutto",
        "贝•布托之后的巴基斯坦"
    ],
    [
        "A new G20 report published this spring probes those strategies further, and shows how to turn principles into action.",
        "今年春天发布的新G20报告进一步阐述了这些策略，并给出了如何将原则转化为行动的指引。"
    ],
    [
        "With US workers remaining under intense pressure in terms of both job security and real wages, politicians have understandably been put on the spot.",
        "美国工人面临着工作保障和实际工资的双重压力，在这样的背景下，不难理解美国政客处境相当尴尬。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has turned the “strategic truce” favored by many Arab leaders into the only conceivable alternative.",
        "但当前的混乱局势已经把很多阿拉伯领导人赞同的“战略性休战”变成了唯一可行的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "It is clear that he has not brought down the unemployment rate and has no intention of ending corruption.",
        "虽然他没有降低失业率，也没有意图去消灭腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "They began by cutting interest rates to zero, and later introduced forward guidance, committing to keep policy rates at zero for a protracted period.",
        "它们首先将利率削减至零，后来又推出了前进指导，承诺在一段相当长的时期将政策利率政策利率维持在零。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is a crisis-generating arrangement that has so far been impossible to correct, even with social transfers and other instruments to rebalance economic development across the eurozone.",
        "结果是形成了一个容易导致危机的安排，并且始终无法得到纠正，即使采用了社会转移支付和其他欧元区经济发展再平衡措施也无济于事。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s government is extremely sensitive to such attacks.",
        "中国政府对于这种批评极度敏感。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, right-wing leaders like Representative Chung Mong-joon of the governing Saenuri Party have been vocal in expressing their doubts about South Korea’s current denuclearization policy, suggesting that a nuclear weapons program could prevent a second war on the peninsula.",
        "其实，以执政新国家党郑梦准议员为代表的右翼领导人已经明确表达了对韩国现行无核化政策的疑虑，提出核武计划或许能够防止朝鲜半岛再次爆发战争。"
    ],
    [
        "That sour sense of rejection, felt by many confused youths, turns for some into a fierce desire for vengeance.",
        "很多困惑的年轻人那种酸楚的被抛弃感，在某些人身上化成了强烈的复仇欲。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps scholars who argue that Islamic financial systems’ prohibition on interest generates massive inefficiencies ought to be looking at these systems for positive ideas that Western policymakers might adopt.",
        "或许那些认为禁止收取利息的伊斯兰金融系统极大导致了低效率的学者们应该找出该系统的积极一面，以供西方政策制定者采纳。"
    ],
    [
        "To a large extent, Sarkozy can be seen as Chirac with more, whereas Royal is clearly Mitterrand with less.",
        "在很大程度上萨尔柯齐比希拉克更有能力，而罗亚尔则显然比密特朗逊色许多。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever nasty surprises may lurk in the future, the global inflation environment is the tamest since the early 1960s.",
        "不管未来隐藏着什么令人不快的意外，当前的全球通胀环境为20世纪60年代初以来最温和的。"
    ],
    [
        "Our efforts to stimulate the economy should be focused on improving the script for those stories, making these stories believable again.",
        "因而，我们现在刺激经济的努力应该集中在改进这样的故事的创造、以使它们再次变得可信上。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, advertisements for convenience food and insurance – which used to feature only intact nuclear families – have begun to showcase single mothers lovingly spooning out meatballs, or protectively buying a life-insurance policy.",
        "同样，过去只以完整核心家庭形象示人的方便食品和保险广告也开始改变，开始展现单身母亲慈爱地用汤匙舀起鲜美的肉丸，或者为保护子女而购买一份人寿保单的场景。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s three-time prime minister and the country’s dominant politician for two decades, has now been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison – a sentence since reduced to one year. But few people in Italy – or in Europe – believe that Berlusconi will fade from Italian, or European, politics anytime soon.",
        "伦敦—二十年来意大利最主要政客、三度出任总理的贝卢斯科尼如今被判四年监禁，此后又被减刑为一年。 但在意大利（或者说在欧洲）几乎没人相信贝卢斯科尼会马上从意大利或欧洲政坛上消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Lacking in saving, outsize US budget deficits point to sharp deterioration on the balance-of-payment and trade fronts.",
        "在缺少储蓄的情况下，庞大的美国预算赤字意味着国际收支和贸易阵线的急剧恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, however, needs to decide if it is ready to sign on with the US, as Japan has now clearly done, to contain China’s strategic and military ambitions.",
        "然而，欧洲需要做出决定：是否也像日本已经明确行动了的那样加入美国阵营，抑制中国的战略和军事野心。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestine’s Moment of Decision",
        "巴勒斯坦的抉择时刻"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences of growing water competition in Asia will reverberate beyond the region.",
        "亚洲不断增长的水资源竞争后果将远远超越地区的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "Some would argue that gender equality is a consequence of the modernization process, not of Westernization.",
        "有人会说性别平等是现代化进程的结果，而非西方化的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "If such diplomacy loses its credibility, Kim will inevitably continue to expand his nuclear-weapons program, and global risks will rise exponentially – not least because neighbors like South Korea and Japan will be increasingly eager to develop their own nuclear weapons.",
        "如果这样的外交手段失去可信度，金正恩将不可避免地继续扩大其核武计划，而全球风险将因此呈指数级上升——这不仅是因为像韩日这样的邻国将越来越迫切地希望研发本国核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "The public reaction to Delvaux’s proposal has been overwhelmingly negative, with the notable exception of Bill Gates, who endorsed it.",
        "除了对此表示赞成的比尔·盖茨之外，公众对德尔沃的提议是一面倒的反对。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk is that robotics and automation will displace workers in blue-collar manufacturing jobs before the dust of the Third Industrial Revolution settles.",
        "风险在于机器人和自动化在第三次工业革命尘埃落定前就取代了蓝领制造业就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "As more people work for multinational firms and meet and get to know more people from other countries, our sense of justice is being affected.",
        "随着越来越多的人在跨国公司工作，能够遇见来自其他国家的人，我对于公平的感觉也在受到影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, things will become even more unsettling in the months ahead.",
        "但不幸的是，未来几个月的情况将更加动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Now the Holocaust's victims - and their children and grandchildren - are supposedly doing to others what was done to them.",
        "如今大屠杀的牺牲者和他们的子子孙孙，正在把自己受过的伤害转施于人。"
    ],
    [
        "It is therefore doubly surprising that, aside from the Fed, America’s policymaking agencies are essentially missing in action.",
        "因此，除美联储外，美国的决策机构基本不见踪影令人倍感惊讶。"
    ],
    [
        "On the face of it, a tiny change in the US rate should not trigger dramatic shifts in global capital flows.",
        "在如此形势下，美国利率的微小变动应该不会导致全球资本流的剧烈变动。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the recent agreement includes unrealistic proposals for fiscal adjustment.",
        "不幸的是，当前协议就包含了不切实际的财政调整方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The surge in the stock market benefits domestic investors, making them likelier to spend more (what economists call the “wealth effect”).",
        "股票市场的激增令日本国内投资者受益，这使得他们更有可能提高消费（这就是经济学家所说的“财富效应”）。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last 15 years, only one country – North Korea – has tested a nuclear weapon.",
        "在过去15年中，只有一个国家——朝鲜试验了核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "This conference has grown to be a major international event for government monetary policymakers, with governors or deputy governors of 34 central banks attending this year.",
        "该会议已经发展成为各国政府货币政策制定者的重要国际聚会，今年的会议有来自34个国家的中央银行的行长或副行长参加。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution is “to persuade the public that green cheese [i.e., the notes printed by the central bank] is practically the same thing and to have a green cheese factory [i.e. a central bank] under public control...”",
        "”解决问题的方法就是：“让公众知道经济来源不是问题，而且制造金钱的工厂（例如中央银行）在运行良好的状态之中。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Many African countries have yet to undergo the kind of transformation that is necessary for socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable development over the long term: namely, industrialization.",
        "许多非洲国家仍未经历实现长期社会包容及环境可持续发展所需要的那种转型：那就是工业化。"
    ],
    [
        "It was the beginning of America’s global “war on terror” in 2001, however, that brought the political march of the Islamist parties to a screeching halt, as it provided an excuse for the government to crack down on the Malay right and the PAS.",
        "2001年美国全球“反恐战争”的开始使伊斯兰政党的政治长征骤然陷入了停顿，因为它为政府镇压马来右翼和泛伊斯兰教党提供了借口。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, during a public prayer in Ramallah, the Palestinian Minister of Religion, Mahmoud Habash, delivered a speech that gives hope to proponents of this solution.",
        "上个月，在拉马拉举行的一次公共祈祷活动中，巴勒斯坦宗教事务部长马哈茂德·哈巴什发表了一番讲话，为这种方案的倡议者带来了希望。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Two schools of thought tend to dominate today’s economic debates.",
        "巴黎—今天的经济学争论通常由两大学派主宰。"
    ],
    [
        "Huge mourning crowds, crying, nearly hysterical, could be seen all over the vast empire Stalin had ruled.",
        "斯大林所统治的辽阔帝国上到处可见悲恸的人群近乎歇斯底里地哀嚎。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, Gandhi held her nerve and began to prepare for war.",
        "幸运的是，甘地下定决心，开始战前准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary authorities in many other advanced and emerging-market economies have cut their policy rates as well.",
        "许多其他发达国家和新兴国家的货币当局也削减了政策利率。"
    ],
    [
        "But many Europeans’ sunny view of the region has yielded to lowering clouds of pessimism.",
        "但不少欧洲人对地中海撒满阳光的记忆已经逐渐被日益迫近的悲观主义阴霾所取代。"
    ],
    [
        "It is possible that Kim, and perhaps even some subjects of his despotic rule, would rather be obliterated than give in.",
        "金正恩，也许甚至还有其专制统治下的某些被统治者，做出了宁为玉碎而不为瓦全的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "If he delivers, his policies will be game changers for Japan.",
        "若得偿所愿，那么他的政策将让日本焕然一新。"
    ],
    [
        "Among other things, the government has mismanaged public finances, and it has stumbled in its pursuit of a new economic-growth model.",
        "政府的错误之一是公共财政管理失当，追寻新经济增长模式的努力也不尽人意。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – China’s economy is, at long last, undergoing a rebalancing, with growth rates having declined from more than 10% before 2008 to roughly 7.5% today.",
        "发自北京——在经过了漫长的等待之后，中国经济终于启动了结构再平衡进程，增长率也从2008年以前的超过10%下降到如今的约7. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in changing the base year for absolute emission levels from 1990 to 2005, the Commission also seems to be trying to cover up the EU-15’s failure while pushing excessively large reduction targets onto the EU member states that are already the most environmentally efficient.",
        "但是，在将绝对排放水平基准年从1990年变为2005年的时候，欧洲委员会似乎在急切的向已经是环境效率最高的欧盟成员国推行非常大的消减目标的同时，也在努力掩盖欧盟15国的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "They may have the heft needed for global operations, but they lack the motivation to compete with world-class Western firms and are greeted with suspicion and fear around the world.",
        "它们也许具备全球运营所必须的体量，但却缺乏与世界一流西方公司竞争的积极性，并引来世界各地怀疑和恐惧的目光。"
    ],
    [
        "But Japanese men, who spend less time caring for children than fathers in most other industrialized countries, could share more of the responsibilities of parenting.",
        "但是，与世界上大多数工业国家相比，日本男性照看孩子的时间相对较少，她们可以承担更多的母亲照料工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, refugee doctors must be trained to address the diversity of medical needs they will face in their adoptive homes.",
        "此外，必须训练难民医生使其能够面对接收国的医疗需求多样性。"
    ],
    [
        "Such incendiary rhetoric directly hurts immigrants, even those who have long lived in their new country.",
        "这类煽动言辞直接伤害了移民，即使是那些在新国家定居已久的人也不能幸免。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the clerical elite is concerned about the future of its leadership after Khamenei.",
        "显然，宗教精英已开始关注哈梅内伊身后的领导事宜。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade’s relationship with poverty is variable and complex.",
        "贸易与贫困的关系复杂而又多变。"
    ],
    [
        "The new policy should focus on contributing to the creation of economic opportunities in countries with large unemployed youth populations, so that young people no longer feel that risking their lives to reach Europe is their only chance at a future.",
        "新政策应着眼于扩大青年大规模失业国家的经济机会，这样年轻人就不会觉得冒着生命危险前往欧洲是他们未来的唯一机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Anything less works only for the demagogues who would follow the UK into the wilderness.",
        "不这样做恐怕正中追随英国走入未知险境的煽动者们的下怀。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s the opposite of momentum.",
        "这是逆势而动。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal deficits, like unwanted pregnancies, are the unintended consequence of actions taken by more than one person who had other objectives in mind.",
        "财政赤字就像是计划外怀孕，是一种因为不止一个心怀其他目标的人的行为所造成的意料外后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, we need to recognize that the state’s role goes beyond maintaining external security and domestic law and order.",
        "最重要的是，我们必须认识到，国家的作用并不只是维持外部安全以及内部法律和秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "These remote-controlled flying machines are programmed to decimate, brutally and indiscriminately.",
        "这些远程控制的飞行器以毁灭为目的，这样的成批杀害既残忍而且不分青红皂白。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, a center-right coalition between the Christian Democrats and the Free Democrats could spark the ECB into action.",
        "另一方面，基督教民主党和自由民主党的中右翼联盟也可能会刺激欧洲央行采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent report, the People’s Bank of China urged Chinese companies to acquire foreign firms as the first stage of a ten-year plan to ease China’s capital-market restrictions – long a goal of US policymakers.",
        "在其最新报告中，中国人民银行敦促中国公司把收购外国企业作为中国资本市场管制放松十年计划的第一步，而这一目标也是美国决策者早就制定了的。"
    ],
    [
        "Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gained the first absolute majority in the lower house of parliament in a quarter-century, thereby freeing it from the pressures and constraints of coalition governance.",
        "莫迪所在的印度人民党（Bharatiya Janata Party）赢得了四分之一个世纪以来的首次下议院绝对多数，从而不必面临联合政府的压力和约束。"
    ],
    [
        "And his silence in the face of it all confirms what many in India had feared: his economic sloganeering was merely a ploy to secure power.",
        "而他对这样的局面默不作声，这证实了许多印度人所担心的：他的经济口号只是用来保证权力的幌子。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Obama called for an increase in US public investment in three areas: education, science and technology, and infrastructure (including broadband Internet, fast rail, and clean energy).",
        "奥巴马也因此呼吁美国加大对以下三大领域的公共投资： 教育、科学技术和基础设施（包括宽带网络、快速轨道交通和清洁能源）。"
    ],
    [
        "The contract thus had to reflect the risks inherent in finding out how to design and produce the most advanced aircraft of its time.",
        "因此，这份合同必须体现寻找如何设计和制造当时最先进飞机的内在风险。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Europe is now struggling with the inevitable adverse consequences of imposing a single currency on a very heterogeneous collection of countries.",
        "发自剑桥——在一个国情千差万别的国家集团中推行单一货币必将引发某些负面后果，而欧洲目前正为此焦头烂额。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the nearly one billion motor vehicles worldwide – enough to circle the planet 100 times if parked end to end – some 95% depend on oil for energy, making car travel subject to resource geopolitics and price volatility.",
        "全世界有近5亿辆车——收尾相连停在一起足以绕地球100圈——其中95%依赖石油供能，这使得驾车旅行受资源地缘政治和价格波动的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "After the North renounced the subsequent Agreed Framework, negotiated by President Bill Clinton’s administration, in 2003, it expelled IAEA inspectors, withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and has since detonated three nuclear devices and conducted a variety of missile tests.",
        "在2003年宣布退出随后由克林顿政府谈定的协议框架后，朝鲜驱逐了IAEA调查员，退出了和不扩散条约，并进行了三次核爆和多次导弹试验。"
    ],
    [
        "Anwar’s bizarre trial and sentencing on charges of sodomy and abuse of power invigorated the reformasi movement, as growing anti-UMNO and anti-Mahathir sentiments took hold among Islamic-minded Malays.",
        "安瓦尔被控鸡奸及滥用权力的奇特审讯和宣判引发了改革运动（reformasi movement），而反马来民族统一机构及反马哈蒂尔的情绪在抱有伊斯兰思想的马来人当中也愈演愈烈。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Ministers Najib Abdul Razak and Lee Hsien Loong of Malaysia and Singapore, respectively, are also sons of former prime ministers.",
        "马来西亚和新加坡总理纳吉布·阿卜杜勒·拉扎克和李显龙的父亲都曾担任过总理一职。"
    ],
    [
        "But if today’s trends continue, it might lose direction.",
        "但如果现在的趋势持续下去，它可能失去方向。"
    ],
    [
        "So, even in death, Alexander Solzhenitsyn will, it seems, remain a force to be reckoned with.",
        "因此，即使在身后，索尔仁尼琴好像也是一个需要人们加以思虑的人物。"
    ],
    [
        "The Court’s decision thus attempts to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.",
        "法院的判决试图做到两面讨好。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, persistently low interest rates can cause people to worry about their retirement funds, spurring them to save more.",
        "最后，持续低利率可能导致人们担心自己的退休金，促使他们增加储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "History moves in cycles.",
        "历史呈现出周期性波动。"
    ],
    [
        "He grew stronger and more aggressive and began biting his teachers.",
        "结果它逐渐变得强壮和富有侵略性，甚至开始攻击自己的导师。"
    ],
    [
        "The inflation pessimists worry that the government will actually choose a policy of faster price growth to reduce the real value of the government debt.",
        "通胀悲观者还忧虑政府将实施一个引导价格更快增长的政策，借以减少政府负债的实际价值。"
    ],
    [
        "The more complex growth issues have to do with the tradable part of the global economy, where global aggregate demand – and the derived demand that lands in various places in global supply or value-added chains – is the target of competition.",
        "增长问题的复杂化与全球经济可贸易部分有关，其中的全球总需求——以及由此产生的全球供应链和价值增加链中的派生需求——成为了竞争目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the Palestinians’ refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is motivated by, among other things, the presence of a Palestinian minority in Israel.",
        "其次，巴勒斯坦人拒绝的理由可能有其他方面的考虑，比如在以色列居住地巴勒斯坦少数族裔人。"
    ],
    [
        "Can German politicians abandon Weimar-style economics before they are hit by Weimar-style political disintegration?",
        "德国政客能够在被魏玛式政治崩溃反噬之前抛弃魏玛式经济学吗？"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for politicians to own up to the uncomfortable truth: The saving deficit is the single greatest threat to the American Dream.",
        "美国政客应该坦率承认令人不快的事实：储蓄赤字才是美国梦最大的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be self-evident that technologies like gene drives, which don’t require widespread adoption to have a widespread effect, should never be released without informed community consent.",
        "毋庸讳言，像基因驱动这样不需要广泛采用就能带来广泛影响的技术只有在全社会知情同意的情况下才能够公布。"
    ],
    [
        "The America of 2013, unlike the America of 2001, is willing to recognize its own pathologies before looking for enemies abroad.",
        "2013年的美国已不是2001年的美国，如今美国人愿意在寻找外部敌人之前先做内省。"
    ],
    [
        "And we can hope that these capital flows will carry with them the institutions and managerial expertise that have made the core so wealthy.",
        "我们希望这些资本流动可以带着使核心地区如此富裕的制度和管理经验进入外围地区。"
    ],
    [
        "It used to be difficult to find anything to do on a Saturday night in Shanghai.",
        "以前在上海，星期六晚上无事可做。"
    ],
    [
        "So Brazil’s mix of diversified economic growth and redistribution is a far more appealing example.",
        "因此巴西多元化经济增长及再分配的模式显得更有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "Only one major proposal related to such bonds, from Argentina, is on the table.",
        "仅有一项与这种债券相关的主要提案还在讨论之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Should governments recapitalize or nationalize banks?",
        "政府 应该收购或是国有化银行么？"
    ],
    [
        "Or, it may be emotionally frustrating, because you are barred from expressing your feelings to a fellow human being, who would understand, and might even share your sentiments.",
        "或者，这令你心情沮丧，因为你不再能够向人类同胞表达你的感觉，而人类能够理解你的情绪甚至与你感同身受。"
    ],
    [
        "This produces paradoxical results here in France, where – despite all the anti-globalization rhetoric – McDonald’s is more popular than anywhere else in Europe.",
        "而这些举措在法国造成了自相矛盾的结果，不管那些反全球化的言论说得多么动听，这里的麦当劳是全欧洲最受欢迎的。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that pre-announced hikes in tax rates or administered prices can have the undesirable effect of building annual price increases into public perceptions, undermining the central bank’s inflation-fighting efforts.",
        "但问题是预先公布的税率或行政费用上涨会使公众产生全年价格上涨的预期，也削弱了中央银行的抑制通货膨胀的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Buried among the 169 targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – adopted by the United Nations last September amid a blaze of glitzy events, celebrity endorsements, and back-slapping by world leaders, aid donors, and non-governmental organizations – was the vital pledge to eliminate “preventable child deaths” by 2030.",
        "伦敦—2030年根除“可预防的儿童死亡”的承诺被淹没在可持续发展目标（SDG）的169个小目标（target）中。 可持续发展目标于去年9月由联合国实施，当时可谓人人关注，获得诸多名流支持和世界领导人、援助机构和非政府组织背书。"
    ],
    [
        "While the big players remain preoccupied with their internal changes, the region continues to smolder.",
        "大国仍被国内变局束缚着手脚，中东的闷火仍在郁积。"
    ],
    [
        "Each side, believing it will end up at war with the other, makes reasonable military preparations that are read by the other side as confirmation of its worst fears.",
        "由于任何一方都相信争端最终要以战争方式结束，就会采取合理的军事准备，而这在另一方看来证实了他们的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "In addressing the post-2008 economic malaise, which stems from over-indebtedness, policymakers are correct to focus on the threat of debt deflation, which can lead to depression.",
        "2008年以降的经济困境来源于过度负债，在解决这一问题的过程中，决策者正确地将精力集中在可能导致萧条的债务通缩危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge facing the EU today is to figure out how to reengage with its backsliding member states without punishing voters for their leaders’ misdeeds.",
        "我们今天所面临的挑战是如何重新吸引倒退的成员国，同时又避免让选民因为领导人的胡作非为而受到惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Clinton has plenty of weaknesses – voters, especially young people, do not trust her, and she may face legal repercussions for dealing with highly classified information using a private email server when she was Secretary of State – the nasty infighting among Republicans may give her a big advantage in November.",
        "虽然克林顿有很多弱点——选民（尤其是年轻人）不信任她，同时她还可能面对因在国务卿任上使用私人电邮服务器处理高度机密信息而导致的法律后果——但恼人的共和党内讧可能会为她在 11 月时带来极大优势。"
    ],
    [
        "SHANGHAI – China’s economic slowdown, from a nearly 10% annual output gain in 2007 to below 8% today, has fueled widespread speculation about the economy’s growth potential.",
        "上海—中国年产出增长率从2007年的近10%下降到如今的8%，经济的减速让关于中国经济增长潜力的猜测四起。"
    ],
    [
        "If the young European elites being trained there to occupy positions within the European Union’s institutions no longer believe in the EU’s future, something is really wrong.",
        "如果在这里受训、准备接任欧盟各机构内部职位的年轻精英们都不再相信欧洲的未来，那么问题就严重了。"
    ],
    [
        "Berlusconi invented this cartoon world.",
        "贝卢斯科尼发明了这个卡通世界。"
    ],
    [
        "This stance led many to accuse the ECB of exceeding its mandate and violating European treaties.",
        "这一立场导致许多人指责欧洲央行超越其授权并违反欧洲条约。"
    ],
    [
        "The IP standards advanced countries favor typically are designed not to maximize innovation and scientific progress, but to maximize the profits of big pharmaceutical companies and others able to sway trade negotiations.",
        "先进国家通常所青睐的知识产权标准不是为了最大限度地实现创新和科学进步，而是致力于最大限度地扩大大型制药企业以及其他能够左右贸易谈判者的得利。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the government’s reduction of community policing in favor of paramilitary forces stationed in quasi-military barracks, and the Minister of Interior’s description of the young rioters as “scum” who should be washed away with an industrial power hose, has not helped.",
        "当然，政府减少社区警力而将半军事化部队驻扎在半军事化营房内、内政部长将年轻的骚乱份子称为应当用强力工业水笼冲刷掉的“人渣”则于事无补。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe may be weak and divided, America may no longer be what it was, but with your falling population and the sad state of your economy beyond oil and gas, you simply are not equipped to be in the league of great global powers.",
        "欧洲可能很虚弱并且很分裂，美国可能不再是从前的美国，但是随着人口的下降以及除了石油和天然气之外的可悲的经济状况，你就是不具备成为全球强国联盟的成员的资格。"
    ],
    [
        "As for productivity, the government is focused on reducing waste caused by insufficient infrastructure construction in recent decades.",
        "至于生产率问题，政府的重点是减少近几十年来基础设施建设不足所造成的浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "Croatian military offensives, first in early May 1995, and a second in early August, had taken back three of four United Nations-protected sectors from separatist Serb control.",
        "1995年5月和8月初相继爆发的克罗地亚攻势从塞族分裂势力的控制下收复了四块中的三块联合国保护领土。"
    ],
    [
        "The ambitious bilateral trade agreement now under construction is expected to boost exports in both directions by up to one-third.",
        "目前正在进行中的雄心勃勃的双边贸易谈判预计可以双向提振出口三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Indignation is different from outrage – a sentiment that is ultimately blind and not necessarily connected to any presumption that one shares commitments with the people against whom it is directed.",
        "义愤不同于震怒——后者具有终极的盲目性，而且不一定建立在自己与对方遵守共同承诺的基础之上。"
    ],
    [
        "But now, nearly three years after the end of the commodity super-cycle, the outlook for Russia is bleak.",
        "但如今，大宗商品周期超级周期已经结束了近三年，俄罗斯的前景看上去黯淡无光。 生活水平陷入了停滞；"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in order to develop a more comprehensive solution that keeps countries stable and ensures that refugees receive adequate protection, deeper collaboration among governments, as well as with the private sector and civil-society organizations across the region, is needed.",
        "接着，为了制定能够保持各国稳定和确保难民获得足够保护的解决方案，需要整个地区的政府以及私人部门和公民组织之间进行更深度的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "This is because, conceptually, an increase in SDRs is equivalent to an increase in the global central bank balance sheet (quantitative easing).",
        "这是因为，从概念上讲，增加SDR等于扩张全球央行资产负债表（即目前已经在发达经济体广泛应用的量化宽松）。"
    ],
    [
        "I am convinced, for example, that over the years there has been too much “regulatory capture” by the supply side of the financial services market, with its well-organized and powerful lobbies.",
        "例如，我深信，多年来在金融服务市场的供给方面，金融机构通过其组织良好且强有力的游说工作，对政府部门有许多“监管俘虏”（regulatory capture）。"
    ],
    [
        "During the Bretton Woods era, the Unites States provided this “service.”",
        "而在布雷顿森林体系时代，由美国负责提供这种“服务”。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now the Israeli left that, however reluctantly, realizes that Sharon’s new pragmatism may be the first step in the right direction.",
        "直到现在，以色列的左翼，不论有多勉强，才认识到沙龙的新实用主义可能是通往正确方向的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Underlying these differences, however, is the larger issue: who decides the proper balance between public health and freedom of expression?",
        "但是，这些差异的背后是一个更大的问题：谁来决定公共健康和言论自由之间恰当的平衡？"
    ],
    [
        "No one wants to repeat the policy missteps of 2010-2014. French President Emmanuel Macron is proposing a stronger central authority, including a potential finance ministry.",
        "法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙（Emmanuel Macron）提议建立一个更强大的中央权力机构，并可能在其中设立一个财政部。"
    ],
    [
        "Quantitative easing represents one such attempt.",
        "“定额放松”就代表这样一种尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless he adopts a more mainstream approach, he will not be able to attract white suburbanites – a key constituency still up for grabs.",
        "除非他接受更为主流的做法，否则将无法吸引尚未决定归属的一个关键选区——白人郊区居民。"
    ],
    [
        "Holding the trial in Belgrade might have served better to catalyze a sober examination of the past.",
        "在贝尔格莱德进行审判本可能更好的促进人们清醒地审视过去。"
    ],
    [
        "But no one would be comfortable with machines acting independently, with no ethical framework to guide them.",
        "但没人能完全放心让机器在没有伦理框架指导的情况下独立行动。"
    ],
    [
        "We also know the current gaps that exist in development.",
        "我们还知道目前在发展方面存在哪些缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is a delusion promoted by his finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis.",
        "但这是他的财政部长瓦鲁法基斯（Yanis Varoufakis）制造的幻觉。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is a false dichotomy.",
        "但这是错误的两分法。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the difficulty of developing and implementing a global strategy, that is good news.",
        "发展和实施全球战略是一件难事，因此这是一个好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sources of Chinese Conduct",
        "中国行为的根源"
    ],
    [
        "This can delay for years the expenditures required to protect people’s health and the environment.",
        "这样做可以将保护人们健康和环境方面的必要支出延迟多年。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of these funds were aimed to improve countries’ fiscal balance.",
        "一部分资金被用于改善国家的财政平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is plenty of reason for optimism.",
        "但仍有很多保持乐观的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly true on the left, where a clear division has emerged between a reformist current, led by former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, and traditionalists, represented by the Socialist Party candidate, Benoît Hamon.",
        "对于左翼势力而言尤其如此，因为前总理曼努埃尔·瓦尔斯率领的潮流改革派和社会党候选人贝诺瓦·阿蒙所代表的传统主义者之间出现了显著的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "By the middle of the century – unless there is a dramatic turnaround – about half the population will be economically inactive for reasons of age.",
        "除非发生戏剧性的改变，否则到本世纪中叶，约有半数的人口将由于年龄原因而丧失经济活力。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, America’s global engagement, in all its forms, can be expected to suffer substantially, posing a serious challenge to the liberal international order.",
        "总而言之，可以预见美国一切形式的全球承诺都将遭受重大影响，从而严重挑战自由国际秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "If the EU were to snub Turkey openly over membership, or if America were to seem too lax on the Kurdish problem in Northern Iraq, a huge swathe of the two camps could well unite.",
        "如果欧盟在成员资格上公然的冷落土耳其，或者如果美国在对待伊拉克北部库尔德人问题上好像非常漫不经心，两个阵营的巨大合力可以使之很好的团结起来。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the plant’s three active reactors suffered near-meltdowns, leading to a buildup of hydrogen gas, a series of explosions and fires, and leakage of radioactive material into the atmosphere.",
        "结果，核电站的三个活跃反应堆几乎被毁，导致氢气积聚，引发一连串爆炸和火灾，放射性物质因此泄露到大气中。"
    ],
    [
        "India has an emerging middle class of several hundred million, and English is an official language spoken by some 50 to 100 million.",
        "印度拥有数亿人规模的新兴中产阶级，有5,000万到1亿印度人说作为官方语言的英语。"
    ],
    [
        "No matter how much a politician advocates short-term pain for long-term benefits, voters will stomach only a certain amount of suffering.",
        "不管政治家如何宣扬为长期利益忍受一些短期痛苦，但选民承受苦难的胃口十分有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Measures aimed at accomplishing this could be particularly effective in countries where emission standards for diesel-fueled vehicles have not yet been introduced, and in countries, especially in Asia and Africa, where rural dwellings are heated by primitive stoves and food is prepared over open fires, causing large emissions of soot particles.",
        "在尚未出台柴油车废气排放标准以及在亚洲和非洲等农户依靠原始炉具取暖和明火烹制食品导致烟尘颗粒物大量排放的国家，降低大气中黑色颗粒的相关措施可能取得特别的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "A sick man whose rule at home is being challenged by Islamist opponents, he decided that international ostracism and domestic troubles is too explosive a combination for his son, a spoiled playboy, to handle.",
        "作为一个在国内的统治受到伊斯兰主义反对派挑战的病人，他认识到被国际社会所放逐加上国内的问题交给他那位被娇纵惯养的花花公子儿子来处理实在是太危险了。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has become increasingly clear that excessively strong or badly formulated intellectual property rights may actually impede innovation – and not just by increasing the price of research.",
        "但有一点越来越明晰：那就是过于强大或先天存在缺陷的知识产权可能实际上会阻碍创新¾而且阻碍的方式绝不仅仅限于增加研究成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, one might ask why the people involved should matter at all; surely the facts of the case should speak for themselves.",
        "当然，有人可能会问这与当时的参与者有什么关系； 本案的事实理应是不言自明的。"
    ],
    [
        "I wonder.",
        "很难说。"
    ],
    [
        "Others focus on the expansion of America’s oil and gas production.",
        "也有人关注美国石油和天然气生产的扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "The day after Christmas was a public holiday with cold turkey and ham to sustain us.",
        "圣诞节后的一天是公共假期，我们吃冷火鸡和火腿。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is not yet near to hitting the rocks.",
        "中国还远未出现触礁危险。"
    ],
    [
        "In cases where groups cohabit a state uneasily, it may be possible to allow a degree of autonomy in the determination of internal affairs.",
        "在不同群体局促地组成一个国家的情况下，在国内事务的决定中允许一定程度的自主是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "I speak as someone who has been on the receiving end of Russian imperialist designs.",
        "我是站在俄罗斯帝国主义规划的实施对象国的立场来说这些话的。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, a majority of European voters have recently shown, once again, that they favor the right and its tendency to support the fortune seekers.",
        "但在当今形势之下，大部分欧洲选民却再一次显示出他们对右翼及其所支持的财富投机者的偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "Not much more was required to dampen foreign investors’ enthusiasm for the India story, with the rupee falling significantly in recent weeks.",
        "光是这条便已足以打消外国投资者对印度的热情，因此，最近几周卢比出现了狂跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, this region was globally respected.",
        "如是，这一地区也毫不意外地得到全球来自全球的尊敬。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear of shuttered factories and lost wages pushed China’s government last year to launch a massive stimulus program to protect jobs and restore growth.",
        "出于对工厂倒闭和降薪的忧虑，去年，中国政府启动了大规模的刺激计划以保证就业和经济增长的恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "Having violated the ceiling in 2002, Germany looked set to do so again in 2003 despite tightening its budget along Commission lines.",
        "2002年突破限额后，尽管按照委员会规定采取了措施，德国还是会在2003年再次突破限额。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who long deplored the omission of development from evolutionary models – a decades-old critique made under the scientific banner of evolutionary developmental biology (“evo-devo”) – together with the insistence that organisms’ development draws on a wide variety of resources, have been vindicated.",
        "那些长期以来强烈抗议进化模型忽略发育过程的人——几十年来，这一批评被冠以进化发育生物学的名号——以及坚持生命体的发育需要利用各种资源的人被证明是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "On other issues, such as trade, there are distinctions between the candidates.",
        "在其他问题上，例如贸易，两位总统候选人的观点有明显的区别。"
    ],
    [
        "The attackers also made a great show of telling the world that they had taken special care to safeguard the lives of fellow Muslims during the assault.",
        "袭击者还做足了戏告诉全世界，他们采取了特别措施，在整个事件中保证穆斯林安然无恙。"
    ],
    [
        "So we may tell ourselves that the geologists could be wrong, and perhaps no tsunami will hit Padang in the next 30 years, and by then perhaps we will have new and better technologies for predicting them, giving people more time to get to higher ground.",
        "于是我们可能告诉自己地质学家也会预测错误，未来三十年中巴东也许不会发生海啸，而真到那时我们可能已经掌握了更新更好的预测技术，让人们有更多时间到高地躲开海啸。"
    ],
    [
        "That intervention was a lose-lose proposition for the ECB.",
        "对欧洲央行来说这种干预是双输的。"
    ],
    [
        "There was never a time in the crisis, until the chemical-weapons issue erupted, when US military intervention in any form seemed likely to save more lives than it would endanger.",
        "直到化武问题爆发之前，美国军事干预在危机中害人的机率从来都大于救人的机率。"
    ],
    [
        "The finance minister, Francois Baroin, recently declared that, “You’d rather be French than British in economic terms.”",
        "财政部长巴鲁音（Francois Baroin）最近宣称，“就经济而言，宁可当法国人，不愿当英国人。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the ready availability of vaccines in developed countries, the focus of prevention efforts has shifted to changing cancer-causing lifestyles.",
        "但是，由于发达国家疫苗已经获得了普及，对预防措施的关注已经移到了改变致癌生活方式上。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s institutional memory runs deep when it comes to crises and their consequences.",
        "中国的制度对于危机及其后果有着深刻的记忆。"
    ],
    [
        "Or will the rich programmers all migrate to Monaco or Switzerland, taking the brains and rents with them, as society falls apart into barricaded and mutually resentful enclaves and ghettoes?",
        "而富有的程序员会不会带着他们的聪明才智和财富移民到摩纳哥或瑞士，而社会则分崩离析，沦为各自隔离并相互怨恨的富人区和贫民窟？"
    ],
    [
        "Islam’s European Hope",
        "伊斯兰的欧洲梦想"
    ],
    [
        "On this view, the privatizations of the 1990’s were a scam serving only the powers that be.",
        "在这些民众看来，上个世纪九十年代的私有化仅仅是一场服务于当权者的骗局。"
    ],
    [
        "It was, after all, in the health-care industry; it wasn’t selling socks or soap.",
        "毕竟，医疗保健行业卖的不是袜子或肥皂。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamic world has undergone no comparable process.",
        "伊斯兰世界则尚未经历类似的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately for India, this is likely to continue until the cows come home.",
        "对印度来说，不幸的是，圣牛不消停，这一局面就将一直继续。"
    ],
    [
        "The digital platforms that act as the basis of all this e-commerce need to meet two related challenges.",
        "作为所有电子商务的基础，数字化平台需要满足两个相关的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the oceans become increasingly saturated and able to absorb less, the amount that is redistributed is declining.",
        "但随着海洋饱和度不断升高和吸收力不断下降，所吸收的二氧化碳量也越来越少。"
    ],
    [
        "How can the US Treasury, on the one hand, periodically flirt with labeling China a “currency manipulator” and, on the other hand, condone a similar strategy in oil-exporting countries?",
        "一方面，美国财政部不时轻率地给中国贴上“操纵货币”的标签，另一方面，默许石油出口国家同样的策略，美国财政部怎么能这样做呢？"
    ],
    [
        "We took the children from their mothers.",
        "我们将孩子从母亲身边夺走。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial institutions should also not do business with non-cooperative jurisdictions – areas that don’t comply with the rules.",
        "各金融机构也应该停止与不合作的地区（也就是不遵守规则的地区）做生意。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers must recognize, moreover, that food insecurity is linked to the lasting effects of the economic crisis and ongoing climate change, and that it represents no less a threat to our global community.",
        "此外，政策制定者必须承认一点，食物安全问题同经济危机和气候变化的长期效应紧密相关，并且它对国际社会所构成的挑战一点也不比后两个问题来得少。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, as a new “Washington Consensus” of best-practice economic policies inevitably emerges, developing countries want to feel that they helped design it, for better or worse.",
        "）同时，随着集最佳经济政策之大成的新“华盛顿共识”浮出水面，发展中国家需要觉得在其设计中有自己的一份努力，不论是功劳还是苦劳。"
    ],
    [
        "It needs to reduce the cost of doing business – cut the red tape, encourage investment, and attract people to work (and pay tax in) a beautiful place.",
        "它需要降低营商成本——砍掉红头文件、鼓励投资、吸引人们前来这个美丽的地方工作（和纳税）。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s current-account deficit has risen to more than 2% of GDP, even as its economic growth has ground to a halt.",
        "6欧元则要高出近20%。 噶过经常项目赤字已升至GDP的2%以上，尽管其经济增长几近停止。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to confront the next – and potentially much bigger – biomass boondoggle.",
        "我们必须阻止下一场规模大得多的生物燃料无效投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Times have changed, but one thing remains the same: true democracy needs no qualifiers.",
        "时代在变化，但有一点没有改变：真正的民主不需要定语。"
    ],
    [
        "Allowing the renminbi to help meet global demand for international reserves and risk diversification would also strengthen global financial stability.",
        "让人民币帮助满足世界对国际储备和风险多元化的需求能加强全球金融稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, no one suggests that India’s judicial system did not function properly in Memon’s case.",
        "可以肯定，所有人都认可印度司法体系在梅蒙案中正常发挥了作用。"
    ],
    [
        "A restructuring is ultimately in everybody’s interest; starving the economy of imports merely weakens Venezuela’s capacity to produce and repay.",
        "归根结底，重组符合所有人的利益； 彻底切断进口只能削弱委内瑞拉的生产和偿债能力。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a long-standing presumption of “sovereign immunity”: states can be sued only under limited circumstances.",
        "关于“主权豁免”的推定由来已久：国家只有在极为有限情形中可以被提起诉讼。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits of such inter-community spirit are evident in one of the world’s most diverse cities, London.",
        "在伦敦这个全世界最多元化的城市，这种跨团体精神带来了显而易见的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "This was always bad history.",
        "历史也会和我们开玩笑。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan and South Korea need to take responsibility for the future, not obsess about the past.",
        "日本和韩国需要为未来负责，而不能被过去羁绊。"
    ],
    [
        "The threats include denial-of-service attacks on banks and other institutions; unauthorized access to personal records from banks, insurance companies, and government agencies; and industrial espionage.",
        "网络空间威胁包括对银行和其他机构的拒绝服务攻击； 入侵银行、保险公司和政府机构获取个人信息；"
    ],
    [
        "Now, however, this wisdom is being questioned, and not just in the United Kingdom.",
        "但如今这一常识正遭到质疑，而且不仅是在英国。"
    ],
    [
        "Small countries will be singled out to make the exercise look tough, while bigger problems will be swept under the carpet: German banks have already succeeded in excluding many of their assets from the assessment.",
        "他们会专门挑出几个小国来杀鸡儆猴，而更严重的问题则被掩盖起来：德国各大银行早已成功把自己名下的大批资产排除在了评估之外。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, animal studies have played a vital role in almost every major medical advance.",
        "事实上，动物研究在几乎每一项重大的医学进步中都扮演了一个重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "There are reasons to worry.",
        "现在的情况的确存在担心的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, real long-term rates remained quite high in the mid-1980’s.",
        "因此，实际长期利率在1980年代中期仍然保持在高位。"
    ],
    [
        "I know that we have come a long way, and I do not want to go back.",
        "我知道我们已经走了很远，而且我不愿意回头。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it is attracting attention as an example of United Nations-led nation-building.",
        "现今它正作为联合国主导下的国家建设样本而令世人瞩目。"
    ],
    [
        "The focus of policy discussions should not be the latest potential GDP revision, but whether a country is on track to ensure public finance sustainability.",
        "政策讨论的重点不应该放在最新的潜在GDP修订上，而应该放在一国是否走在保证公共财政可持续的道路上。"
    ],
    [
        "In Australia, where freedom of expression is not given explicit constitutional protection, courts are much more likely to respect the right of democratically elected governments to strike the proper balance.",
        "也得执行。 在澳大利亚，言论自由并没有宪法明文予以保护，法庭有更大的可能尊重民主选出的政府决定恰当平衡的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The predicted acceleration in US growth this year is more notable, because it reflects the positive impact of a multi-year process of economic and financial healing.",
        "对本年度美国增长加速的预测则更加值得留意，因为它反映出了持续多年的经济和财政修复进程所产生的积极影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In their case, a resolution authority, in London or Washington, would take control of the parent company, remove senior management, and apportion losses to shareholders and unsecured creditors.",
        "对它们来说，一个在华盛顿或伦敦的解决方案机构将会接管母公司，炒掉高级管理层，把损失摊派给股东和未受保护的债权人。"
    ],
    [
        "What sort of claim do those people have?",
        "那里的人有什么权利？"
    ],
    [
        "This principle of regional solidarity extends to Morocco’s deployment of military hospitals not only in Mali but also in other conflict zones, such as one in Jordan that serves Syrian refugees.",
        "这一宗教团结原则也扩展到摩洛哥的军事医院部署，不仅出现在马里，也出现在其他冲突地区，比如约旦就有服务叙利亚难民的摩洛哥军事医院。"
    ],
    [
        "That left 95% of the variation to be explained by the effects of culture and individual decisions.",
        "这意味着95%的变异都来自于文化的影响和个人选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The simplest – and most radical – solution would be to stop all official aid payments.",
        "最简单也最彻底的办法是停止所有官方援助支付。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, businesses must create savings vehicles and make investments, to which the Fed can then respond by allowing interest rates to rise, in order to head off excess demand and high inflation.",
        "相反，企业必须创造储蓄工具和做投资，接着美联储才能做出反应让利率提高，从而遏制过度需求和高通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Evolving market access, competition, and integration may present Europe with challenges and some costs.",
        "演进中的市场准入，竞争和一体化可能会给欧洲带来挑战并增加一些成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Bureaucrats must not be allowed to spend the huge donations collected and state relief funds allotted in an arbitrary manner.",
        "官僚不得肆意花销募捐款项以及分配的国家赈灾资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither side can afford to fail.",
        "两方面都不容有失。"
    ],
    [
        "But Einstein realized that it is possible to add one particular term – the cosmological term – and adjust its magnitude to predict a static universe, without spoiling any other explanation.",
        "但爱因斯坦意识到有可能在不破坏其他解释的情况下添加一个特殊项——即宇宙项——并调整其数量来推测一个静态的宇宙。"
    ],
    [
        "The SPD learned about these preferences the hard way, when Schröder’s liberal reforms, as cautious as they were, prompted an internal revolt and induced his predecessor as party chairman and temporary former Minister of Finance, Oskar Lafontaine, to desert the SPD and found a new party.",
        "在拉方丹的“左翼”政党与东部德国的前共产主义者合并后，它获得了牢固的选民基础，并改变着德国的政治平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The policy plans announced by China, the euro area, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the US in the spring of 2007 – in the context of the IMF’s Multilateral Consultation on global imbalances – represent the international community’s response to the rising risks.",
        "在国际货币基金组织对全球贸易不平衡进行的多边磋商的背景下，中国、欧元区、日本、沙特阿拉伯和美国在2007年春季宣布的政策计划表明了国际社会对越来越严重的危机的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "These innovative companies’ approaches combine three ideas.",
        "这些创新型企业的服务结合了三大理念。"
    ],
    [
        "So totalitarian or authoritarian states – more interested in hiding their own oppression than fairly judging other nations – can easily trigger a sort of political pogrom against any democracy that annoys enough tyrants.",
        "因此，比起公正地评价其他国家，极权主义或者独裁主义国家更愿意花力气掩饰他们自己的镇压，更容易为了反对那些让诸多独裁者头痛不已的民主体制而发动某种政治屠杀。"
    ],
    [
        "Board approval was sought, but only after the key decisions were already made.",
        "虽然所有决策都会呈交董事会签字批准，但那时候关键决策早就制定完毕了。"
    ],
    [
        "From the promotion of organic food to declarations of the polar bear’s imminent demise, the media pelt us with a constant barrage of one-sided warnings.",
        "从推广有机食品到宣称北极熊即将面临灭绝，媒体连续向我们发出了片面的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "The descent into barbarism generally occurs in the midst of economic crisis or when localized violence has already flared.",
        "一般在经济危机期间，或局部暴力失控时，人们会堕入野蛮。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the end, there are only three ways to secure additional financing for development aid or debt relief: higher taxes, increased indebtedness (that is, higher taxes for future generations), and/or monetary expansion.",
        "但最终，确保对发展援助或债务减免的额外财政支持只有三条途径：更高的税收，更多的债务（即对未来世代的更高税收），和/或货币扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "The dangers of zealous anti-Semitic attacks on Israel are obvious.",
        "针对伊斯兰的狂热的反犹主义攻击是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "Genes code for proteins, the body’s workers, which are not made directly from DNA, because they do not speak the same language.",
        "由于DNA与生命大厦的“工人”——蛋白质性质不同，蛋白质并非直接由DNA产生而来。"
    ],
    [
        "The same thing has happened twice since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009 – a 3.4% average annualized gain in the second and third quarters of 2010 and a 4.3% average increase in the fourth quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012.",
        "自2009年中期大衰退结束以来，相同的情况发生过两次——2010年第二季度和第三季度的年化增长率平均为3. 4%；"
    ],
    [
        "There is often a lag of years before moving from humanitarian relief to real economic development.",
        "通常从人道主义援助到真正的经济建设需要花去几年的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, unless she can turn around the eurozone, her rising profile at home and in Europe could easily wither.",
        "毕竟，除非她能够让欧元区情况有所好转，否则她在国内和欧洲的美好形象很容易被破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "It would also help if creditors understood that their contributions, like their decades of support to cohesion funds, will not impoverish them (by, say, depleting their public pensions).",
        "此外债权国还应当明白就像他们数十年来对团结基金的出资，类似的援助资金不会把他们的口袋掏光（比如将国内的公共养老金花光）。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal stimulus, near-zero interest rates, two rounds of “quantitative easing,” ring-fencing of bad debt, and trillions of dollars in bailouts and liquidity provision for banks and financial institutions: officials tried them all.",
        "财政刺激、零利率、两轮“量化宽松”、给坏账“扎篱笆”（ring-fencing）、用数万亿美元给银行和金融机构赎身并提供周转资金：官员们使尽了浑身解数。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial meltdown of 2008, which soon metamorphosed into the deepest Western economic recession since the 1930’s, added fuel to the fire, as policymakers hunkered down in a non-transparent crisis-management mode, condoning massive state intervention in the economy and socialization of private-sector losses on a previously unprecedented scale.",
        "2008年的金融危机很快蜕变为20世纪30年代以来西方最严重的经济衰退，进一步加剧了对西方民主制度的怀疑，因为决策者采用完全不透明的危机管理模式，以前所未有的规模将私有部门应该承担的损失推向社会，纵容对经济实行大规模的国家干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, productive investments are needed in the poorest countries to resume or sustain economic development.",
        "不仅如此，需要在最为贫困的国家进行建设性的投资，以便恢复或保持经济的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the old and the new are accomplices in celebrating life “in all its incomprehensibility” – exactly the subversiveness that the Dadaists loved.",
        "”在这里，新旧事物共同赞美着“不可思议”的生活¾特别是为达达派艺术家们所深爱的破坏性。"
    ],
    [
        "When Japan crossed the $11,000 threshold in 1972, its per capita GDP was 72% of the US level.",
        "1972年，当日本迈过11,000美元阈值时，其人均GDP相当于美国水平的72%。"
    ],
    [
        "Freedom of opinion, association, and assembly are the essence of democracy.",
        "观点、结社和集会自由是民主的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "In a country characterized by massive regional wealth disparities and deep-rooted poverty, the road to eradicating hunger is sure to be long and difficult.",
        "在印度，地区间财富差距巨大，贫困根深蒂固，消除饥饿的道路必然十分漫长而艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Putin’s incompetence extends far beyond the economy.",
        "此外，普京的无能远远不局限于经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the lack of a restructuring plan heightens uncertainty and thus impedes the investment needed to restore economic growth.",
        "事实上，缺乏重组计划加剧了不确定性，并进而阻碍了投资恢复经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "What made Fink’s elevation of art to investment-grade status so surprising is that no one of his stature had been brave enough to say it before.",
        "芬克将艺术品提高到投资级别，这令人震惊，因为此前从未有他这个地位的人敢这样说。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this presupposes that the labor market will become much tighter.",
        "所有这些都要求劳动力市场变得更紧。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, lacking a more comprehensive policy response, the harmonization of their central banks’ divergent policies will be left to the markets – in particular, those for fixed-income assets and currencies.",
        "结果，由于缺乏更全面的政策响应，两家央行的分歧政策的协调需要由市场来完成——特别是固定收益资产和货币市场。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 80% of French citizens voted in the presidential election.",
        "80%的法国公民参与了总统大选投票。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries opposed to a free press are increasingly using Interpol’s “wanted person” alerts to target and silence journalists who have fled.",
        "反对新闻自由的国家正越来越多地利用国际刑警组织的通缉令来压制逃亡记者。"
    ],
    [
        "What Zhou, his family, and their cronies have done can be described only as insatiable looting and blatant gangsterism.",
        "周永康及其家人和爪牙的所作所为可以说是贪得无厌的洗劫和赤裸裸强盗行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has invested much in shuttle diplomacy to bring Netanyahu and Abbas to the negotiating table and is not ready to see these talks collapse.",
        "而美国已经在撮合内塔尼亚胡和阿巴斯的会谈方面付出了太多的外交努力，也不愿意眼睁睁地看着谈判破裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Little wonder, then, that we are now witnessing a significant correction in equity, credit, and commodities markets.",
        "这也就难怪股票、信贷和商品市场正在经理一次重大调整了。"
    ],
    [
        "That will be our next great challenge.",
        "这将是下一个大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Most climate migrants will relocate within their own borders, but others will have no choice but to seek refuge abroad.",
        "大部分气候移民都在国内迁徙，但也有一些别无选择，只能寻求成为海外难民。"
    ],
    [
        "The Right Price for Preserving Our Climate",
        "正确定价，保护气候"
    ],
    [
        "Summers could have used the same metaphor to criticize the United States, where the continued focus on the long-run funding dilemmas of social insurance is sucking all of the oxygen out of efforts to deal with America’s macroeconomic and unemployment crisis.",
        "萨默斯的比方同样可以用来形容美国——美国人一直把焦点放在社保的长期筹资困境上，而对美国宏观经济和失业危机视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "After having focused too much on demand management, Europe should be trying to reduce the fiscal and regulatory burden of the state, so that its economies can start growing again.",
        "欧洲过于关注需求管理，应该试图降低国家的财政和监管负担，以使经济能够再次启动增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists even analyzed the political economy of regulation and deregulation, so we could have understood why some US politicians pushed the private sector into financing affordable housing, while others deregulated private finance.",
        "经济学家们甚至分析了监管和去监管两者之间的政治经济效应，因此也深知为何某些美国政客极力推动私人部门发放住房贷款，另一些却着手去除对私人金融活动的监管。"
    ],
    [
        "What should have been a mere extension of the millennia-old art of building pedestrian bridges, proved to be a modern engineering embarrassment.",
        "千禧大桥本该是千年造桥工艺的自然延续，却变成了现代技术难以面对的尴尬。"
    ],
    [
        "But the government’s economic policies (so-called Abenomics) have not fixed Japan’s problems and are unlikely to do so in the future.",
        "但政府的经济政策（所谓安倍经济学）目前并未解决日本的问题，也不太可能在未来凑效。"
    ],
    [
        "Who will win, and who will lose?",
        "谁会赢，谁会输？"
    ],
    [
        "This is the fifth piece of the comprehensive plan.",
        "这是全面计划的第五个要素。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, output has continued to rise much faster than population.",
        "确实，产出的增长持续比人口的增长快得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea seems to be that there are a lot of liquid assets lying around, and that they are being used to get money to bid up the prices of stocks, housing, land, art, etc.",
        "大家似乎认为存在大量的流动资产，并且它们正被用来换成钱来哄抬股票、住房、土地、艺术品等的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "But anxieties about being swamped by foreigners and dominated by outside powers are more acute in smaller countries, whose political elites seem particularly impotent.",
        "但是对于被外国人吞没以及被外部势力控制的担忧在小国中尤为突出，这些国家中德政治精英们显得尤为束手无策。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, investment will decline – a vicious downward spiral on which Greece and Spain have already embarked.",
        "事实上，投资会下滑，这便是希腊和西班牙已经开始的恶性循环了。"
    ],
    [
        "Kita harus mengatasi kelemahan dalam sistem distribusi yang membatasi akses pada obat-obatan dan alat diagnosis, yang berdampak pada kenaikan biaya.",
        "我们必须解决分销系统效率低下的问题，该问题阻碍了药物和诊断手段的普及，提高了成本。"
    ],
    [
        "As the philosopher Peter Singer has put it, the communications revolution has spawned a “global audience” that creates the basis for a “global ethics.”",
        "正如哲学家彼得·辛格（Peter Singer）所说，通讯革命已经产生了一个“全球受众”并因此为一种“全球伦理”打下了基础。"
    ],
    [
        "This evolved stealthily into a form of moral racism which held that white Europeans deserved liberal democracy but that people of different cultures had to wait for it.",
        "这在悄然不觉中还演进成为一种形式的道德种族主义，其观点是白种的欧洲人配得上自由民主但其他不同文化的民族则必须等待自由民主。"
    ],
    [
        "This should be no surprise.",
        "这其实没什么好奇怪的。"
    ],
    [
        "Working long days might be only a marker for being at higher risk of heart disease.",
        "长时间工作或许只是容易患心脏病的一个标志而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas more than 80% of the value of the Standard & Poor’s 500 consisted of tangible assets 40 years ago, today that ratio is reversed: more than 80% of the largest companies’ value is intangible – the knowledge and skills of their employees and the intellectual property embedded in their products.",
        "40年前，标准普尔500指数的80%以上市值由有形资产构成，如今这一比例已经颠倒过来，最大公司80%以上的资产是无形资产——雇员的知识和技能以及凝聚在产品中的知识产权。"
    ],
    [
        "The Swedish government responded with indifference, and worse: when the country’s ambassador to Israel put up a note on the embassy’s Web site distancing Sweden from such appalling calumnies, her enraged superiors in Stockholm ordered her to take it down.",
        "而瑞典政府对此报道的反映却异常冷漠，甚至有推波助澜之势：当瑞典驻以色列大使在大使馆网站上刊登告示，试图将瑞典与这种耸人听闻的诽谤划清界限之时，她在斯德哥尔摩的上司却为此暴跳如雷，并命令她撤销告示。"
    ],
    [
        "These are some of the many measures that form the goals – and foundation – of my administration.",
        "以上就是构成本届内阁目标和基础的某些举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Peaceful change in Syria can nonetheless be achieved, and the international community can influence that process by recognizing that its continued focus on the country's “complexity” does nothing for its people.",
        "但叙利亚依然可以实现和平改革，只要国际社会承认一味强调叙利亚的“复杂国情”对其民众不利，就能够影响到和平改革进程的走势。"
    ],
    [
        "The last few years demonstrate that neither approach will work.",
        "最近几年的历史表明这两个策略都不成功。"
    ],
    [
        "But those tentative green shoots that we hear so much about these days may well be overrun by yellow weeds even in the medium term, heralding a weak global recovery over the next two years.",
        "但是，我们在最近经常听到的短暂的经济复苏的嫩芽，即使从中期看来，也有可能会被经济中存在的下列枯草所吞没，从而预示着接下来的两年里全球经济复苏的疲弱。"
    ],
    [
        "That nuclear fusion is a source of energy has been known since the invention of the hydrogen bomb.",
        "核聚变作为一种能源的来源早在发明氢弹的时候就为大家所知了。"
    ],
    [
        "China is like the shareholders of a company that has increased the supply of its shares in a stealthy way: the share price may not have fallen yet, but it will.",
        "现在，中国就像一家公司的股东，而这家公司却暗中增加了自身股票的供应：因此虽然现在这家公司还维持着自身的股价，但总有一天会跌的。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news (fingers crossed) is that a full-fledged emerging-market financial crisis is unlikely.",
        "好消息（让我们祈祷吧）是，席卷新兴市场的金融危机不太可能发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Researchers estimate that these additional benefits are worth even more than the added lifetime income from a college degree.",
        "研究人员测算这些额外的好处甚至要超过大学毕业生终生的收入增加额。"
    ],
    [
        "So finally let the World Summit on Food Security provide tangible evidence of a commitment from all governments to a common objective: a world free of hunger.",
        "所以，最后，希望在世界食物安全峰会上，各国政府都能够拿出令人信服的诚意，为一个共同目标而努力：让世界免于饥饿。"
    ],
    [
        "Although these countries represent a small share of the global population, they comprise a significant majority of the total number of countries.",
        "尽管这些国家只占据了世界人口的极小部分，但它们组成了国家数量的极大部分。"
    ],
    [
        "It has also shifted aid policy in directions that assign priority to areas where the returns to US efforts are relatively minuscule.",
        "这一口号还改变了援助政策，将给美国带来的回报相对较少的地区列为援助首选地区。"
    ],
    [
        "There were times when German capitalism was shown greater respect.",
        "曾经，德国的资本主义备受尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "Because most people’s incomes are stagnant and being eroded as their mortgage payments rise, consumption is bound to fall, yielding lower growth and employment.",
        "由于大多数人的收入停滞不前，而且由于其房贷压力增加收入遭到侵蚀，消费必定下降，造成增长和就业更加缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "BOSTON – Yemen and South Sudan are, in many ways, worlds apart.",
        "波士顿—从很多方面看，也门和南苏丹是两个世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, in 2003, Marc Melitz showed how trade could shift resources from low-productivity to high-productivity firms.",
        "后来在2003年，马克·梅里茨（Marc Melitz）展示了贸易如何将资源从低生产率转移到高生产率企业。"
    ],
    [
        "As a recent Quilliam Foundation report concludes, Daesh plays on the youthful desire to be part of something worthwhile; it is the organization’s utopian appeal that is most alluring to new recruits.",
        "最新的奎利安姆基金会（Quilliam Foundation）报告认为，达伊莎利用青年的渴望作为价值的一部分； 该组织的乌托邦诉求是对新圣战斗士吸引力最大的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "For Turkey’s friends abroad, it is time for some tough love.",
        "因此土耳其的友邦们也是时候表达一些“严厉的爱”了。"
    ],
    [
        "Public- and private-sector developers determine the design of the Internet’s changing infrastructure.",
        "公共和私人部门开发者决定着不断变化的互联网基础设施的设计。"
    ],
    [
        "As a recent study by Bruegel has shown, the EU as a whole could, with some effort, dispense with gas imports from Russia.",
        "根据Bruegel的最新研究，整体而言，欧盟可以采取一些行动摆脱来自俄罗斯的天然气进口。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rise and Fall of Meritocracy",
        "精英统治的起起落落"
    ],
    [
        "The government denied this, claiming that the experiments were conducted without its knowledge by academic researchers “for scientific interest.”",
        "南韩政府拒不承认，声称相关的实验是在政府不知情的情况下由科研人员为“科学目的”而进行的。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, with so many factors dragging down potential growth, structural reforms are needed to boost potential growth.",
        "最后，如此多的因素拖累着潜在增长，因此需要结构改革提振潜在增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Either it must live with the continued Pax Americana in Asia, for as long as it lasts, or face a more independent, nuclear-armed Japan.",
        "它要么继续生活在已经维持了很久的亚洲美式和平之下，要么直面更加独立的、拥有核武器的日本。"
    ],
    [
        "Both countries have growing strategic interests in the region.",
        "上述两国都在中亚地区有着日益增加的战略利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The Economics of Violence",
        "暴力经济学"
    ],
    [
        "Governments have repeatedly committed themselves to these goals, most recently at the 2006 International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development.",
        "政府一再强调他们将兑现这些目标，而最近一次表态则是在2006年国际农业改革和农村发展大会上。"
    ],
    [
        "But the circumstances under which Japan would use force are so restricted that a revival of militarism is still a very long way off.",
        "但日本能够使用武力的条件十分严格，因此军国主义复辟难于上青天。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek Budget Myth",
        "希腊预算神话"
    ],
    [
        "But Japan’s economy is by no means out of the woods.",
        "但日本经济还远未走出困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Until Koizumi, the electorate was never faced with such clear-cut choices, and his administration taught the Japanese to like them.",
        "在小泉之前，选民还从未遇到过如此黑白分明的选择。 小泉的政府让日本人学会喜欢他们。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Xi’s initiative shows the extent to which he dominates Chinese politics.",
        "首先，习近平的做法表明了他在中国政坛的主导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "All of it – the constant scrutiny, the bad press, the tarnished reputation – will hit their long-term stock prices.",
        "它们也将无法吸引受过教育、辨别力日益增强的劳动力，因此而蒙受损失。 所有这些——不断的监督、负面报道、名誉扫地——将影响它们的长期股价。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States, moreover, remained a perfect foil for a leader with pretensions to global leadership.",
        "此外，对于具有充当全球领袖之野心的人来说，美国仍然是个完美的陪衬。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the US armed Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to go to war with Iran, resulting in hundreds of thousands of Iranian deaths in the 1980s.",
        "类似地，1979年伊朗革命后，美国武装了萨达姆·侯赛因的伊拉克，让其与伊朗开战，造成20世纪80年代数十万伊朗人死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Greece was running very large current-account deficits – exceeding 10% of GDP – when external financing dried up suddenly in 2008-2009, forcing an adjustment in domestic spending.",
        "事实上，在2008至2009年间外部融资突然断流的时候，希腊就已经存在着非常庞大的经常账户赤字——规模超过GDP的10%以上，迫使其对国内支出进行调整。"
    ],
    [
        "With the rising contribution of services to global GDP, now is the time to reassess the need for travel to work.",
        "随着服务业对全球GDP的贡献率不断提高，现在是到了我们检讨通勤上班的需求的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "One can only hope that the world does not have to go through the same process of pathological learning via high inflation which followed the neglect of money during the fifties and sixties of the last century.",
        "人们只是希望世界不会再重新经历上个世纪五、六十年代因为对货币的忽略而导致的高通货膨胀而付出的高昂学费。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington, DC, in June garnered little public attention outside of India.",
        "纽约—印度总理莫迪6月份的访美之旅在印度之外基本没有引起什么关注。"
    ],
    [
        "If China and America had not pumped partly debt-financed money into their economies beginning in 2009, the German economy would have taken a serious hit.",
        "如果美国和中国不在2009年初将部分以债务融资得到的资金注入经济中，那么德国经济将会受到严重冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "The administration did not want to take steps that might themselves disrupt the election.",
        "但政府担心这些措施本身可能就会对选举造成干扰。"
    ],
    [
        "So is this the time to end the arms ban imposed by both Europe and America after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989?",
        "自1989年天安门广场屠杀事件后欧盟联合美国对华禁售武器，难道现在应该是结束这条禁令的时候了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, some export companies that borrow dollars also earn dollars.",
        "诚然，一些借入美元的出口公司也赚取美元。"
    ],
    [
        "This so-called “string of pearls” strategy directly threatens India’s national-security interests, rendering the type of robust bilateral relationship that would benefit both countries next to impossible.",
        "这一所谓的“珍珠链”（string of pearls）战略直接威胁到印度的国家安全利益，导致能让两国同时受益的文件双边关系几无可能。"
    ],
    [
        "The economic effects have been negative overall for oil-exporting countries, and positive for oil-importing countries.",
        "其经济效应对石油出国来说总体为负，而对石油进口国来说总体为正。"
    ],
    [
        "Biofuels have become an almost unstoppable and unmitigated disaster.",
        "生物燃料已经成为一场不折不扣的灾难，而且几乎势不可挡。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the only remaining option, as unpleasant as it may be for some countries, is to tighten budget constraints in the eurozone.",
        "因此，唯一剩下的选择——尽管对一些国家来说难以接受——是收紧欧元区预算约束。"
    ],
    [
        "The adverse economic impact implied by such efforts is not nearly as large as one might expect; in many cases, it could be more than offset by other kinds of commercial activities that take advantage of live sharks.",
        "上述努力的负面经济影响并不像人们预想的那样大； 在许多情况下，利用活体鲨鱼进行的其他类型的商业活动可以完全抵消限捕带来的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Therefore, it has been, for Chileans, a time of assessment and of asking ourselves a very simple, yet profound, question: have we done things right or wrong?",
        "因此，智利人现在应该审视自己的历史，扪心自问一个简单但意义深远的问题： 我们的所作所为究竟是对是错？"
    ],
    [
        "A lot has changed since 2005.",
        "2005年以来，世界改变了许多。"
    ],
    [
        "What made Luther’s actions so momentous?",
        "那么是什么令路德的行为变得如此意义重大？"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, at the IMF and in advanced countries, the prevailing view remains that capital controls are a last resort – to be used only after conventional macroeconomic and financial policies have been exhausted.",
        "尽管如此，在IMF和发达国家，主流观点依然是资本管制是最后手段——只有在常规宏观经济和金融政策用尽时才可使用。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, given the complexity of the trade agreement – including the emphasis on hard-to-quantify non-tariff barriers – these estimates are likely to be highly imprecise.",
        "事实上，考虑到贸易协定的复杂性——包括对难以量化的非关税壁垒的强调——这些估算可能非常不准确。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, two recent developments may help anchor Kazakhstan as a Western ally.",
        "确实，最近的两个事态可以帮助把哈萨克斯坦稳定为西方的一个盟国。"
    ],
    [
        "From the early days of the computer revolution, researchers and popularizers envisioned “artificial intelligence” as the ultimate killer app (literally, in the case of the computer HAL in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey).",
        "在计算机革命初期，研究人员与推广者把人工智能设想为终极杀手锏（从字面上来看，就是电影《2001太空漫游》中的电脑HAL）。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Erin Saltman saw a disturbing trend.",
        "华盛顿—— 艾琳·索特曼注意到某种令人不安的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Just recently, its regional neighbors – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka – pulled the plug on a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit that was scheduled for early next month in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.",
        "最近，其域内邻国——阿富汗、孟加拉国、不丹、印度、尼泊尔和斯里兰卡——叫停了原本定于下个月初在巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰堡举行的南亚区域合作联盟（SAARC）峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "Increases in agricultural productivity, owing to improvements in seeds, new fertilizers and pesticides, improved credit access, and technological breakthroughs, have been a key driver in reducing hunger.",
        "拜种子改良、新化肥和杀虫剂、信用渠道畅通化以及技术突破所赐，农业生产率获得了极大的提高，并成为减少饥饿的主要推动力量。"
    ],
    [
        "So, what policies must emerging Asian economies pursue to reduce their vulnerability to regional and global volatility?",
        "那么，亚洲新兴经济体应该采用什么政策减少它们对地区和全球波动的脆弱性？"
    ],
    [
        "Bannon replaced Paul Manafort, who was close to the elites Bannon despises, and who had tried to strengthen Trump’s ties to them.",
        "班农更换了保罗·马纳福特，后者与班农鄙视的精英关系密切，并试图强化特朗普和他们之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Workers in certain industries find their skills in higher demand as foreigners spend their increased dollar earnings, consumers benefit from lower prices, and shareholders and managers see their companies’ profits increase.",
        "随着外国人花掉他们增加以后的美元收入，从事特定行业的员工会发现对自己技能的需求日益增加。 消费者享受到了更为低廉的物价，股东和经理们看到了公司盈利的提升。"
    ],
    [
        "They have chain saws and trucks. They are armed and work with the backing of drug and emerald smugglers – and often of local officials.",
        "非法伐木队共计200余人，他们有锯子和卡车，他们全副武装，并在毒品和翡翠走私者（通常是当地官员）的支持下工作。"
    ],
    [
        "At the beginning of December, party members and supporters voted overwhelmingly in favor of the treaty.",
        "12月初始，社会党党内人士和其支持者对此草案进行投票，结果以压倒性票数通过。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, new approaches to investigating genes involved in DNA repair, and huge studies of the effect of SNP on breast cancer risk, have identified two classes of breast cancer susceptibility factors.",
        "近年来，对 DNA 修复基因新的研究方法以及对单核苷酸多态性影响乳腺癌风险的大规模研究已经明确指出了两类乳腺癌易感因素。"
    ],
    [
        "A few big players in the energy industry, showing no concern for truth (much less for our children, who will bear the consequences of our present folly), have teamed up with Rupert Murdoch.",
        "能源业的一些巨头无视事实（更不为我们的孩子们考虑，他们将承担我们现在的荒唐行为的后果），与鲁珀特·默多克（Rupert Murdoch）勾结在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "ECB President Mario Draghi recently admitted that, in today’s global context, the current monetary-policy approach might not be effective.",
        "欧洲央行行长德拉吉最近承认，在今天的全球环境下，当前货币政策方针也许并不有效。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the region’s economic growth averaged 5.6% between 2000 and 2004, before commodity prices had begun their rapid ascent.",
        "毕竟，2000—2004年间，大宗商品价格的迅速上涨尚未开始，非洲地区的平均增长率仍高达5. 6%。"
    ],
    [
        "When my party took office in 2002, the Turkish economy totaled around $250 billion. Today, Turkey’s annual GDP has reached $800 billion, making it Europe’s sixth largest economy and the 17th largest in the world.",
        "当我所属的党派于2002年接管政权时，土耳其的经济总量约为2500亿美元，如今土耳其的年均GDP已达8000亿美元，成为欧洲排名第6，全球位列第17的经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is the Swiss National Bank, which printed money to prevent excessive appreciation after pegging its currency to the euro in 2011, that has thrust the sharpest dagger into QE’s heart.",
        "但瑞士国民银行才是刺入量化宽松心脏的最锋利的利刃。 自2011年瑞郎盯住欧元以来，瑞士国民银行通过印钱防止瑞郎过度升值。"
    ],
    [
        "This must change – an imperative that the Vatican recently highlighted.",
        "这必须 有所改观——这也是梵蒂冈最近强调的当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "An iconic campaign poster captured the public mood: a picture of a gun-slinging Gary Cooper as the sheriff in the classic western High Noon .",
        "一张标志性的竞选海报抓住了公众的视线：海报上印着经典西部片《正午》中背着枪的治安官加里·库柏的照片。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, every three years Kazakhstan hosts a Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, for which it commissioned Foster to build another imposing and futuristic building, the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation.",
        "比如，每三年，哈萨克斯坦都要举办一次世界和传统宗教领导人会议（Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions），为此，哈萨克斯坦委托福斯特设计了另一座美轮美奂的未来主义建筑——和平和妥协宫（Palace of Peace and Reconciliation）"
    ],
    [
        "Why Stimulus Has Failed",
        "经济刺激为何失败？"
    ],
    [
        "It should be clear to Kim by now that his parade of provocations is not benefiting his country.",
        "如今，金正恩应该已经清楚，他的挑衅策略无益于他的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Lin’s obvious integrity and graciousness has won him fans outside the sport as well.",
        "”而林书豪那种溢于言表的诚恳谦和也为他赢得了许多赛场之外的粉丝。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Federal Reserve now proposes to stimulate the American economy by printing more money – a second round of (quantitative easing, or QE2), to the tune of $600 billion.",
        "美联储目前正试图用大印钞票的方式来刺激国内经济——这是第二轮的量化宽松措施，计划发钞量高达6000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Cell phones and Internet connectivity could reach all of Africa at low cost, ending the economic isolation of hundreds of millions of people.",
        "移动电话和因特网联接能够以低成本在非洲普及，从而结束亿万非洲人的经济孤立状态。"
    ],
    [
        "A few officers had already been arrested for fabricating evidence in earlier trials, and it was rumored that a large-scale purge of Gülenist officers was in the works for next month’s meeting of the Supreme Military Council.",
        "一些官员已经通过罗织证据被逮捕，有流言说下个月的最高军事委员会将讨论对居伦派军官进行大规模清洗。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not an argument against transformational leaders.",
        "这么说并不是看低变革型领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism, and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.",
        "古希腊人和罗马人的理念、基督教、犹太教、人道主义和启蒙运动造就了今天的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "This was the third momentous achievement for the rule of law and democratic development in Pakistan, which now seemed to be in a strong position to continue strengthening its political system and institutions.",
        "这是巴基斯坦法治和民主发展的第三个重大成就，现在的巴基斯坦似乎完全有能力继续强化其政治体制和机构。"
    ],
    [
        "This failure reflects the same dynamic at work in the breakdown of global climate-change conferences in recent years: a few cynical countries, whose cooperation is needed to save the planet, fuel the madness of those bent on destroying it.",
        "此次失败反映出近年来导致全球气候变化会议搁浅的同样一个原因：少数几个玩世不恭的国家，我们需要他们的合作才能拯救地球，但他们却助长了那些决意毁灭地球者的疯狂。"
    ],
    [
        "Journeying on this “road to fabled Mandalay,” I recorded in my diary, was a highlight of “one of the most memorable, satisfying, and happy foreign visits in my experience as Foreign Minister.”",
        "在这条“通往传说中的曼德勒之路”上飞驰，我在日记上写道，“是我外长经历中最值得记念，最令人满意，也是最快乐的一次外交访问。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Young people are critical to progress.",
        "年轻人是进步的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, emerging-market bears point out that these economies have gained major productivity benefits from the migration of surplus rural labor to urban areas, a surplus that will soon be exhausted.",
        "其次，新兴市场悲观派指出，这些经济体生产率大提高主要来自农村剩余劳动力向城镇的迁移，而这一剩余劳动力很快就会耗尽。"
    ],
    [
        "What Drives Moral Progress?",
        "什么推动道德进步？"
    ],
    [
        "In the wake of the ferocious religious war that tore Algeria apart in the 1990’s, a great number of Muslim fundamentalist Arabs fled south to the vast Sahara that covers part of Mali.",
        "20世纪90年代，残酷的宗教战争让阿尔及利亚陷入了分裂，大量原教旨主义阿拉伯穆斯林向南逃入广袤的撒哈拉沙漠——马里正是撒哈拉沙漠的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are historic opportunities ahead.",
        "但他面前摆放着历史性机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to recognize it will make the task even more difficult.",
        "认识不到这样的威胁将进一步加大完成任务的难度。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of these innovations would be useful.",
        "一些革新性的做法可能会很有用。"
    ],
    [
        "Bickel and Lane offer compelling evidence that a tiny investment in climate engineering might be able to reduce as much of global warming’s effects as trillions of dollars spent on carbon emission reductions.",
        "比凯尔和雷恩提出了令人信服的证据：只需对气候工程进行微薄的投入也许就能够降低全球变暖效应，而相同效果如果要通过削减碳排放来实现的话，则起码要耗费数万亿美元资金。"
    ],
    [
        "With a long history of cataclysmic, often violent change, Chinese society is perhaps more adaptable than most.",
        "由于历史上灾难深重，变化天翻地覆，中国社会也许比多数国家更能适应变革。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, it will be important to develop policies to reduce gradually the relative level of government spending in order to shift to fiscal surpluses and reduce the debt burden.",
        "在那个时候，重要的是制定政策，以逐步减少政府开支的相对水平，以转向财政盈余并减轻债务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Regular exchanges of views between oversight officials and the banks should be regarded as a crucial component of this process.",
        "监督官员和银行定期交换观点应该作为这一过程的关键组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Soviet zone of occupation, progress was slow and above all coupled with a new enslavement.",
        "在苏联占领地区，进程很慢，并伴随着一种新的奴役。"
    ],
    [
        "Spending on the Iraq war, which achieves nothing but violence, is more than $100 billion per year.",
        "在伊拉克战争上的开销每年超过1000亿美元。 而这一战争实现的只有是暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan’s history of occupation by foreign troops and their eventual withdrawal has been repeated so many times that one wearies of repeating the tale.",
        "在阿富汗，外国军队占领然后撤走的历史上演了一次又一次，阿富汗人民对此已经感到了厌倦。"
    ],
    [
        "A democratic, prosperous, and stable Europe implies a much better and safer world for the US.",
        "对美国来说，一个民主，繁荣和稳定的欧洲意味着一个更好也更安全的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Damaged by the sun, but not quite able to commit suicide, the mutated cell continues to proliferate at the expense of normal surrounding cells, resulting in a pre-cancerous growth that can progress to a full-blown squamous cell carcinoma.",
        "）如果细胞变异后受到阳光的损害却不能\"自我终结\"，就会向周围的正常细胞扩散，发生早期癌变，最终完全转化为上皮细胞癌。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither side, nor the rest of the world, wants that.",
        "这当然也是巴以双方乃至于全世界都不愿意看到的。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, we should hope for the best.",
        "不过我们依然会满怀希望。"
    ],
    [
        "The development of civil societies, economic growth, and openness to the world are equally important.",
        "建立平民社会、经济发展和向全世界开放也同等重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In Spain, despite tax hikes worth more than 4% of GDP since 2010, the tax-to-GDP ratio was only 38% in 2014, compared to 41% in 2007.",
        "在西班牙，尽管2010年以来增税幅度超过了GDP的4%，但2014年税收-GDP之比只有38%，而2007年为41%。"
    ],
    [
        "If the past is a good predictor of the future, the outlook is bleak.",
        "如果历史可以作为未来的好指标，那么可以说前景堪忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the private sector did not respond by increasing business investment and hiring enough new workers.",
        "其次，私人部门并没有以增加商业投资、雇用足够多新员工的方式做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "In Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka, less than one-quarter of companies conduct formal in-house training.",
        "在孟加拉，印尼，斯里兰卡，只有不到四分之一的企业会举办正式的内部培训。"
    ],
    [
        "An alternative would be to distribute the central bank’s newly issued money directly to housing associations, local councils, or national or regional investment banks – any organization that could carry out infrastructure projects.",
        "一个替代方案是直接将央行新发货币分配给住房协会、地方委员会或国家或地区投资银行——只要是能进行基础设施投资的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "But the big question remains: How?",
        "但仍有一个大问题没有解决：如何重振增长？"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin’s political battle to win control of Russia’s energy sector has resulted in a dramatic reduction in the growth rate of domestic oil and gas production.",
        "克里姆林宫对俄罗斯能源部门控制权的政治斗争导致了国内石油和天然气生产增长率的急剧下降。"
    ],
    [
        "But as the science improves, the insurance problem will have to be faced.",
        "不过随着科学的进步，我们终将面临上述保险问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The answers typically ranged from “not in our lifetimes” to “never.”",
        "他们的回答不外乎是“在我们有生之年都不可能”或“永远不可能”。"
    ],
    [
        "Playing by the Rules in Asia",
        "在亚洲遵守游戏规则"
    ],
    [
        "This is not speculation; it is happening now.",
        "这绝非某种故意炒作，事实就在真真切切的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "David Attenborough, the British naturalist and broadcaster, has said of the proposal, “at last, we have an authoritative, practical, and comprehensive plan that could avert the catastrophe that is threatening our planet.”",
        "英国博物学家兼主持人大卫·艾登堡（David Attenborough）这样描述该计划：“终于，我们有了一个权威、务实而全面的计划，可以阻止正在威胁我们的星球的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "The program focuses on building capacity for early education and improving support for the children who need the most help.",
        "该项目注重于建设早教容量和改善对最需要帮助的儿童的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "South of Gibraltar, income per capita drops more than fivefold.",
        "从直布罗陀往南，人均收入要下降五倍多。"
    ],
    [
        "The Framing of MH-17",
        "MH-17事件的框架"
    ],
    [
        "Even with more flexible economies, internal adjustment will always be slower than it would be if countries had their own exchange rate.",
        "即使是较灵活的经济体，内部调整也永远慢于拥有本国汇率时的情形。"
    ],
    [
        "The sums involved can be staggering, and not just in IT; large amounts of funding have also been channeled to energy and life sciences.",
        "其中所涉及的总量是惊人的，并且不仅仅局限在信息技术； 大量资金也进入了能源和生命科学。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, the far-right National Front came close to winning power in several regions earlier this month, and its leader, Marine Le Pen, may do well in the 2017 presidential election.",
        "在法国，极右的国民阵线在本月初差点夺得了一些地区的政权，其领导人，马琳·勒庞（Marine Le Pen），可能会在2017年总统大选中表现抢眼。"
    ],
    [
        "Or overly complex securities could become hard to price.",
        "而过于复杂的证券可能变得难以定价。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifty-six percent of those babies were born to poor women and women of color from northeast Brazil.",
        "在这些婴儿中，有百分之六十五的母亲是穷人或有色人种，生活在巴西东北部。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is policy pragmatism.",
        "首先是政策务实主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, if a country’s public institutions are in the thrall of oligarchs who are accustomed to stealing with impunity from the public till, a flat tax may be the only way to induce the wealthy to pay any tax at all.",
        "最后，如果一个国家的公共机构深受寡头影响而惯于肆无忌惮地盗窃公共财物，诱使富人纳税的唯一办法可能就是实行统一税率。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer they wait, the more the raft gains speed.",
        "欧元区领导人等得越久，救生筏的速度就越快。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies a high level of cohesion, which in the case of multinational forces is not guaranteed.",
        "达到目的需要很强的凝聚力，而多国部队同样并不具备这样的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer remains far from clear.",
        "答案还远未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "SANTIAGO – The rule of law is almost entirely absent, with virtually no governance or policing.",
        "圣地亚哥—法治精神几乎完全不存在，基本没有治理和政策可言。"
    ],
    [
        "The Monroe Doctrine may be incompatible with contemporary international law; but all powers strong enough to enforce a strategic sphere of interest do so.",
        "门罗主义（Monroe Doctrine）也许与当代国际法不相容； 但所有强大到能够强行划定战略利益圈的国家都会这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "The laureates comprised a high-quality sample of economics scholarship.",
        "获奖者均为顶尖经济学者。"
    ],
    [
        "The assessment will be based on the very considerable data that have been collected over the past decade, and on extensive new survey data that will be collected in 2015.",
        "评估将根据过去十年中所收集的大量数据以及将在2015年得到的大量新调查数据做出。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the alliance between businessmen and religious populists is hardly unique to Turkey.",
        "同样，商人和宗教民粹主义者结盟并非土耳其的独有现象。"
    ],
    [
        "America, of course, remains Israel’s life insurance policy, but enlargement and diversification of diplomatic alliances is starting to be seen as crucial by Israeli diplomats, if not by Israeli society.",
        "当然，美国还是以色列的人寿保险单，但是，即使不是以色列社会，以色列外交官也开始认为外交联盟的扩大和多样化是关键的。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last ten years, the combination of higher tuition fees, more student enrollment, and greater reliance on loans has caused the stock of outstanding student debt nearly to triple.",
        "过去十年来，学费的提高、学生人数的增加以及对贷款依赖性的增长导致学生债务存量翻了近三倍。 如今学生债务存量高达1."
    ],
    [
        "The difference between the cost of a full-time employee with benefits and an independent contractor can be 30% or more, so there is a strong incentive for companies to replace workers on standard full-time employment contracts with independent contractors as long as companies can attract the talent they need.",
        "一名享受福利的全职员工和独立承包商的成本差距可以达到30%或以上，因此只要能吸引到他们所需的人才，企业具有强烈的动机用独立承包商取代通过标准全职合同聘用的劳动者。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Israel’s harsh policies to confront the 1987 intifada , coupled with the boycott of the PLO by oil-rich Arab countries (because of its failure to oppose Saddam Hussein’s occupation of Kuwait) formed a potent reality check for the Palestinian leadership.",
        "例如，以色列针对1987年抗暴起义的强硬政策，加上富产石油的阿拉伯国家对巴解组织的联合抵制（因为该组织没有反对萨达姆占领科威特）就是巴勒斯坦的领导层所要应对的严酷现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the political divide could be defined as “optimists” versus “pessimists.”",
        "这里，政治分歧可以定义为“乐观主义”和“悲观主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "As labor becomes increasingly scarce, employers and policymakers are being forced to think differently about sourcing talent.",
        "随着劳动力越来越稀缺，雇主和决策者被迫以不同思维看待人才招徕。"
    ],
    [
        "The new prize arose from a longstanding conflict between the interests of the better off in stable prices and the interests of everybody else in reducing insecurity by means of taxation, social investment, and transfers.",
        "这项新奖项产生于一个由来已久的冲突：一方是富裕阶层（better off）的利益，即物价稳定； 另一方是其他所有人的利益，即通过税收、社会投资和转移支付等手段降低不安全感。"
    ],
    [
        "With more money, ill-educated bureaucrats hire more ill-educated bureaucrats; as a result, the regime fails to rule the country.",
        "教育水平低下的官僚们有了更多的钱就任用更多的没文化的官僚。 结果，这一政权无法治理国家。"
    ],
    [
        "It takes little foresight, however, to predict that more force will not produce more security for Israel.",
        "然而，不需要多少洞察力就能看出更强有力的军事打击并不能给以色列带来更多安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Those worthy causes include fighting the jihadist decapitators, saving the women and girls enslaved by Boko Haram, defending the Middle East’s imperiled Christians and Arab democrats, and, of course, striving for a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians.",
        "有价值的事业包括反抗圣战主义斩首者、解救被博科圣地奴役的妇女和女童、捍卫中东遭到威胁的基督徒和阿拉伯民主人士，当然还有努力实现以色列和巴勒斯坦人之间的公正和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, so searching are the questions and so inflamed are discussions about the Roman Catholic Church’s pontiff during World War II that the current pope, Benedict XVI, recently announced that he may postpone Pius’s beatification until the Vatican’s archives for the war years are opened and examined.",
        "事实上，针对这位二战期间罗马天主教教皇而提出的问题是如此的尖锐，对其的讨论是如此的激烈，以致当前教皇本笃十六世最近宣布，他可能会把皮亚斯十二世的宣福礼推迟到梵蒂冈战争年代的档案开放供审查后举行。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor did the Hamiltonian scheme of federal finance guarantee a peaceful commonwealth.",
        "汉密尔顿的联邦财政担保机制也没有保证联邦的和平。"
    ],
    [
        "They benefit from dedication rather than efficiency – which is honorable but not easily scalable.",
        "它们从奉献而不是效率中获益——这值得尊敬，但不容易规模化。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps more convincing, there seems to be historical precedent for such a partnership.",
        "也许更有道理的是，这一合作关系有历史先例。"
    ],
    [
        "First, governments will bail out the largest banks rather than let them collapse and damage the economy.",
        "首先，政府会出手援助大银行而不是让它们倒闭并伤害经济。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot predict our fate, but we can be certain that security will only come through real solidarity and global partnership.",
        "”我们不能占卜命运，但我们可以确保从真正的团结和全球伙伴关系中获得安全。"
    ],
    [
        "But adopting sustainable land management strategies could provide more than one-third of the near-term emission reductions needed to keep warming well below the target – 2°C above pre-industrial levels – set by the Paris climate agreement.",
        "但采取可持续土地管理战略能够贡献实现巴黎气候协定所指定的、将全球变暖控制在前工业化水平以上2℃以内的目标所需要的短期减排量的三分之一强。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than considering such questions, the US remains focused on the external scourge of Islamic terrorism.",
        "但美国仍然专注于伊斯兰恐怖主义的外来祸患，而并未对这些问题进行思考。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – In September, China will host the G20 meeting of world leaders for the first time.",
        "北京—9月，中国将首次主办G20世界领导人会议。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments can do many things, in a variety of areas, to raise productivity.",
        "政府可以在诸多领域采取诸多措施提高生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "Nixon was too bogged down in Vietnam to do more than issue threats.",
        "尼克松在越南陷入困境，除威胁以外已无力采取进一步措施。"
    ],
    [
        "While the enormous volume of the bank debt implies that governments should shy away from socializing banking risks, it also suggests that only the banks’ creditors could reasonably be asked to foot the bill without being overburdened.",
        "银行债务数量之巨意味着政府应该避免将其风险社会化，也意味着只有银行债权人可以被合理要求承担债务又不至于负担过重。"
    ],
    [
        "But, of course, housing prices can only rise so fast.",
        "但勿庸置疑，房价的上涨实在是太快了。"
    ],
    [
        "But that seems unlikely: since the Democrats’ massive defeat in 2010, Obama has moved even further to the left, embracing a more populist agenda.",
        "但这似乎是不可能完成的任务：自从民主党在2010年惨遭滑铁卢以来，奥巴马便与左翼渐行渐远，采取了更加民粹主义的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.",
        "类似的增长预期连续向下修正已是家常便饭。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a curious aspect to Eady’s judgment.",
        "在爱迪法官的判决中有一个令人好奇的方面。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not just an academic debate between Western Keynesian and supply-side economists, now being played out on the other side of the world.",
        "这可不仅仅是发生在世界另一端的西方凯恩斯主义者和供给侧经济学家之间的一个学术争论。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, the term has had ups and downs. It became increasingly faddish in the 1990’s, but mostly as a term of abuse.",
        "打那时起，该词几经沉浮，到20世纪90年代变得颇为流行，不过基本上是一个骂人的字眼。"
    ],
    [
        "The requirement that evictions take place only for a valid “public purpose,” with fair compensation, and following consultation of those affected, is honored more in the breach than in the observance.",
        "而所谓居民搬迁必须要服务于正当的“公共目的”，提供合理补偿，并对搬迁后的后续影响作出评估的规定却往往只是嘴上说说而已。"
    ],
    [
        "And, when it comes to the vision that sent us there, that means that we must also forget.",
        "此外，如果出现了我们陷入同样覆辙的迹象，那么我们还必须忘记它。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, many of Iran’s ruling elites came of age politically during the anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist agitations of the 1960’s and 1970’s, and still cling to that worldview.",
        "但可以肯定的是，伊朗很多领导人都出自二十世纪六七十年代，那时反帝国和殖民主义热情都很高涨，对他们的世界观产生了很大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The peak months before the bear markets occurred in 1892, 1895, 1902, 1906, 1916, 1929, 1934, 1937, 1946, 1961, 1987, 2000, and 2007.",
        "熊市前的高峰月份出现在1892、1895、1902、1906、1916年、1929、1934、1937、1946、1961、1987，2000和2007年。"
    ],
    [
        "The need for such a rule is clear.",
        "建立这样一条规则的必要性很明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Engrained habits probably exlain more about China’s saving rate.",
        "中国的高额储蓄也许更应归结为一种根深蒂固的习惯。"
    ],
    [
        "The critics are right.",
        "这些批评是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "This is reflected in Sarkozy’s openly pro-American stance – an act of political courage in a France where anti-Americanism is running high.",
        "这在萨尔柯齐公开的亲美立场中有所反映¾在今天反美主义甚嚣尘上的法国，采取这样的立场需要很大的政治勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries can build their way to energy security by investing in the industrial capacity needed to produce wind turbines, solar cells, and other sources of renewable energy at scale.",
        "国家可以通过大规模投资制造风力涡轮机、太阳能电池和其他可再生能源所需的生产能力来确保能源安全。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be considered a singular success for Western statesmanship to have brought two old rivals for power and influence in Central Asia to the point of jointly seeking to exclude the West from the region’s future development.",
        "西方用政治手段让两大实力和中亚影响力的老对手联合起来试图将西方逐出中亚地区未来发展事务，这堪称巨大的“成功”。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, China is undergoing rapid urbanization, with some 200 million people having left the agricultural sector in 2001-2008 to seek urban manufacturing jobs.",
        "与此同时，中国正处于高速城市化进程之中，在2001~2008年间有约200万人脱离农业寻找城市制造业工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The sales made sense at the time for most of the participating countries: The real backing for their debt was the tax reach of their governments, their high levels of institutional development, and their relative political stability.",
        "当时此举对于大多数参与国来说都是合情合理的：支撑各国负债的真正因素有三：政府的税基，高度发展完善的体制，以及相对稳定的政治局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Any plans to “defend” Yanukovych and the eastern part of Ukraine by military force must be confronted.",
        "任何采取军事力量“保护”亚努科维奇和乌克兰东部安全的行动将受到质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, Rajapaksa is accusing Sirisena of granting China undue concessions.",
        "如今，拉贾帕克萨指责西里塞纳无原则地对中国妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "(Sheikh Wasil, it should be made known, has no links or known sympathies for Al Qaeda and he represents a very different Islamic school of thought.)",
        "（值得一提的是，谢赫·瓦西勒此前与基地组织既无关系也不抱同情态度，他所代表的是一个完全不同的伊斯兰学派）。"
    ],
    [
        "His proposals need to be interrogated and refined, not dismissed as ignorant ravings.",
        "他的方案需要审问和精炼，而不是被驳斥为无知妄言。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the school’s overall graduation rate has climbed from 33% to 49%.",
        "此外，该校整体毕业率已经从33%上升到49%。"
    ],
    [
        "The Luddites, however, blamed their misfortune on the machines themselves.",
        "但是，勒德分子却把自己的不幸归咎于机器本身。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the rules become unenforceable.",
        "否则，规则则无法实行。"
    ],
    [
        "But this could not be achieved before Serbia was militarily humbled.",
        "但是如果要不是塞尔维亚的军事力量受到了削弱，科索沃的独立也不会实现。"
    ],
    [
        "But having two prices for an identical dollar creates enormous arbitrage opportunities.",
        "但一种货币两种价格的存在创造了巨大的套利机会。"
    ],
    [
        "It goes to running for office: campaign advertisements and mobilizing supporters.",
        "他们会花钱去竞选公职：发布竞选广告和动员支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "Fallen Tiger, Shaken Dragon",
        "抓虎震龙"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, of course, deciding whether to call what has emerged “ISIS\" or “ISIL\" or the “Islamic State\" matters much less than deciding how to take it on.",
        "当然，说到底，怎样称呼“ISIS”、“ISIL”或“伊斯兰国”远远没有如何对付它重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But its success will depend heavily on how it is implemented, as well as on the extent to which the government pursues complementary reforms.",
        "但其成功在很大程度上取决于如何实施，以及政府采取多少补充性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "At first blush, the idea behind the Higgs particle sounds outlandish.",
        "乍看上去，希格斯粒子背后的想法似乎有些古怪。"
    ],
    [
        "The paroxysm of media flagellation will soon abate, but the excitement with which the public followed the IPL will not return.",
        "媒体的鞭挞来去如风，不消多久就会退去，但公众对IPL趋之若鹜的兴奋不会回来了。"
    ],
    [
        "While the development of these metrics is in its early stages, the ultimate aim is to develop a practical diagnostic tool that would function as an “MRI” for national decision-makers to assess their countries’ resilience to global risks.",
        "这些指标的开发还处在初级阶段，但其最终目标是开发实用的诊断工具，作为“MRI”供国家决策者评估国家全球风险抵抗力之用。"
    ],
    [
        "A return of real long-term bond yields to their historic level would involve a loss of about 30% for investors in 30-year bonds and proportionately smaller losses for investors in shorter-duration bonds.",
        "真实长期债券收益率向历史水平回归将给30年国债投资者带来大约30%的损失，短期债券投资者也将承受相应比例的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The Monnet-Schuman dream led to the 1956 Treaty of Rome, which established a small free-trade area that was later expanded to form the European Economic Community.",
        "1956年，在莫内-舒曼设想的推动下，《罗马条约》诞生了。 罗马条约成立了一个小型自由贸易区，并在日后扩展为欧洲经济共同体。"
    ],
    [
        "Only half the population over age 25 has more than eight years of formal education.",
        "25岁以上人口中只有半数接受过8年以上的正规教育。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world’s largest exporter, China will not escape the damaging economic consequences of such efforts.",
        "作为世界上最大的出口国，中国无法摆脱这些措施对经济造成的破坏性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But sustainable economic growth requires that those with investible resources actually invest them.",
        "但可持续的经济增长要求手握可投资资源的国家真的开始投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Just recently, two of Putin’s deputies gave interviews to two Western media outlets offering what sounded like starkly opposite visions for Russia’s development.",
        "就在最近，普京的两个副手分别接受两家西方媒体的采访，谁知两人却对俄罗斯的未来发展提出了针锋相对的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "No economy keeps growing at the same pace forever.",
        "没有哪个经济会永远以同一种速度保持增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising yields could undercut the fiscal-stabilization and economic-growth program before it can be fully implemented.",
        "收益率的上升可能破坏财政稳定性和经济增长计划，使其尚未完全实施便告夭折。"
    ],
    [
        "Advanced materials like nanolaminates (edible lipids) can, when sprayed on food, provide protection from air or moisture and reduce spoilage.",
        "其中将纳米层（食用油脂）等先进材料喷涂在食品表面可以隔绝空气和水分，从而减少腐败的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "He even exaggerates it, if necessary.",
        "他甚至在必要的时候不惜加以吹嘘。"
    ],
    [
        "The documents to be turned over covered some familiar events that could well lead to Trump being charged with obstruction of justice, or might show that his campaign was, at the very least, interested in playing with the Russians.",
        "即将移交的文件涉及很可能导致特朗普遭到妨碍司法指控的一些熟悉的事件，这些文件至少有可能表明特朗普的竞选团队对接触俄国人兴趣浓厚。"
    ],
    [
        "The first task should be to eliminate – or, at least, reduce – the thicket of government regulations that is stifling economic dynamism.",
        "首要任务应当是消除——或至少要减少——遏制经济活力的一大堆政府管制。"
    ],
    [
        "Then per capita income soared, increasing year after year, interrupted only by the occasional effects of cyclical fluctuations.",
        "工业革命后，人均收入开始激增，一年更比一年高，只是时常会受到周期性波动的干扰。"
    ],
    [
        "Many legal systems now take the position that, with regard to property offenses at least, the victim must be willing to surrender his property when the only available option is to kill the thief.",
        "许多法律体系现在认为，至少对于财产侵害而言，当唯一可用的选择就是击毙小偷的时候，这个受害者必需是愿意放弃其财产的。"
    ],
    [
        "Vietnam was America’s costliest departure from containment.",
        "美国悖离遏制策略的教训尤以越南最为惨重。"
    ],
    [
        "Many state and local governments in poorer regions of the country are at risk of bankruptcy unless the federal government undertakes a massive bailout of their finances.",
        "许多不那么富裕的州和地方的政府面临破产风险，除非联邦政府向提供大规模财政援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Now suppose that Brexit wins.",
        "现在假设脱盟获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it is not truly European; the agreement with Turkey was negotiated and imposed on Europe by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.",
        "首先，协议并不能真正代表欧洲； 它由德国总理默克尔出面与土耳其谈判并强加给欧洲各国。"
    ],
    [
        "I have not mentioned the elephant in the room: the threat to the Fed’s independence posed by a president seemingly intent on challenging all institutional norms.",
        "我还没有提到房间中的大象：一位貌似要挑战一切制度规范的总统给美联储的独立性带来的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is possible for soldiers to assure a transition to democracy, as they did four decades ago in my homeland, Portugal, following their overthrow of the Salazar/Caetano dictatorship.",
        "当然，战士也可以保证向民主的过渡，正如他们四十年前在我的祖国葡萄牙在推翻萨拉扎/卡尔塔诺（Salazar/Caetano）独裁后做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is largely responsible for the failure of the Doha Round of global trade talks.",
        "美国要为全球贸易谈判多哈回合的失败负主要责任。"
    ],
    [
        "In assessing America’s past experience with bear markets, I used that traditional 20% figure, and added my own timing rubric.",
        "在评估美国过去的熊市经历时，我会用传统的20％数字，并增加了自己设定的时间标示。"
    ],
    [
        "So, why is China targeting Tibetans who have no connection with politics and are regarded as model citizens?",
        "那么，中国政府为什么要把目标指向这些与政治毫无关联，且被视为模范公民的西藏人呢？"
    ],
    [
        "As the US and other advanced economies become less hospitable to developing-country exports, rapidly growing emerging markets, help as they may, are unlikely to take up the slack and thus provide ample fuel for export-led growth.",
        "在美国和其他发达国家经济体对于发展中国家的出口产品变得越发不友善的时候，快速发展的新兴市场国家不大可能收拾残局并且提供出口带动经济增长的强大动力。"
    ],
    [
        "But while Trump ran as a populist, he has governed as a plutocrat, most recently by endorsing the discredited supply-side theory of taxation that most Republicans still cling to.",
        "可虽然特朗普在竞选时走的是民粹主义，他的统治手段却是财阀式的，最近的例子就是他为大多数共和党人仍然坚信的那种极不可靠的供给侧税收理论背书。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Chen even argued that the Taiwanese were never Chinese.",
        "事实上，陈甚至辩称台湾人从来就不是中国人。"
    ],
    [
        "Survey data show that, outside of Tehran, average real (inflation-adjusted) household expenditures fell during the first two years of Rouhani’s term, while poverty rose.",
        "调查数据表明，德黑兰以外的平均真实（经通胀调整的）家庭支出在鲁哈尼任期的头两年有所下降，而贫困有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than acknowledge the problem and revise policies accordingly, Rousseff allegedly resorted to dodgy accounting tricks to enable her government ostensibly to meet its primary-surplus target without cutting social transfers, even as commodity prices collapsed.",
        "罗塞夫并未承认问题并采取相应的政策，而是据称采用了会计欺诈手段让她的政府在表面上能够满足初级盈余目标，而不必削减社会转移支付，即使大宗商品价格出现了大跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Majority state-owned firms account for two-thirds of the market value of the country’s exchanges, for example, though they are responsible for no more than one-third of Chinese GDP and an even smaller share of employment.",
        "比如，大型国有企业占了中国股市市值的三分之二，但它们只贡献了中国GDP的三分之一弱，对就业的贡献就更小了。"
    ],
    [
        "Having laid the foundations of genuine democracy, our house will not be divided by anyone.",
        "这样的统一真实可靠。 当真正的民主主义在我们国家扎根之后，我们就再也不会被分割。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to the health of our children, there must be no distance between rich and poor, and no distinctions among communities.",
        "对于孩子的健康问题，应该不分贫富，也不能区别对待不同社会。"
    ],
    [
        "If businesses’ enthusiasm for spending on high-tech gadgetry and new homeowners’ enthusiasm for spending on three-bedroom houses can boost employment and production, then what argument can Harvey, Fama, Barro, Steil, and company make that government spending will not?",
        "如果说，企业家在高科技产品上的投资可以促进就业，买房者对三居室毫宅的梦想可以提升消费能力的话。 那么，为什么哈维，法玛，巴罗，斯泰尔之流就认为扩大政府消费就没有用呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, as the sea reared up to ravage the country’s coast on March 11, 2011, more than 90% of the population in the affected areas had already fled to safety.",
        "事实上，2011年3月11日那天，当汹涌海水的海水猛烈敲击日本的海岸线时，超过90%的受灾地区人口已经逃离到了安全区域。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, Microsoft and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s police look like strange bedfellows.",
        "表面上看，微软和弗拉基米尔·普京手下的警察似乎是奇怪的伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "This has not been an easy transformation, and there are differences in countries’ perceived ability to absorb more immigrants; but the change is irreversible.",
        "这不是一个容易的转变，各国对于吸收更多移民的感觉也不尽相同； 但这一变化是不可逆转的。"
    ],
    [
        "A relative who now lives in Bangkok, but who returned part-time to Yangon in response to overtures from Myanmar’s cash-starved rulers, recalled those days: “We lived through hell.",
        "我的一位现在生活在曼谷、但是为了响应缅甸严重缺乏资金的统治者的提议曾经回仰光住过一段时间的亲戚回忆起那些日子时说：“我们生活在地狱中。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s central bankers largely share a new conventional wisdom – about the benefits of loose monetary policy.",
        "今天的央行行长基本上有了一套新的传统智慧——关于宽松货币政策的智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, some Japanese complain that China receives far more attention than Japan in the American election campaign.",
        "比如，一些日本人抱怨说在美国的大选中中国受到的关注要远远超过日本。"
    ],
    [
        "DENVER – These are difficult times for China.",
        "丹佛——中国正面临着困难时期。"
    ],
    [
        "But, that predicament does not excuse her failure to condemn what is happening under her watch.",
        "但上述困境并不能解释她未能谴责其治下混乱局势的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "For their part, many Democratic members of the US Congress are also in the pro-fossil-fuel camp.",
        "美国国会中的很多民主党议员和站在亲化石燃料阵营。"
    ],
    [
        "But Bedaquiline has yet to prove its capacity to treat drug-resistant TB effectively, and there are very few other candidates in the pipeline.",
        "但贝达喹啉并没有表现出有效治疗抗药性结核病的效力，而相近的药物也是少之又少。"
    ],
    [
        "Rubble is equivalent to 11 years of waste in Iwate prefecture, and 19 years of waste in Miyagi prefecture – enormous volumes that exceed these regions’ disposal capacity.",
        "此次地震的废墟量相当于岩手县11年的垃圾总量，或宫城县19年的垃圾总量——数量之巨远远超过了这些地区的处理能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Market participants, be they lenders or borrowers, know that “easy money” has an expiry date.",
        "市场参与者，无论是放贷者还是借贷者，都知道这些“快钱”迟早要收回。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, the developing countries – and especially the emerging economies – clearly have a lot on their plates.",
        "无论如何，发展中国家——特别是新兴经济体——显然都有很多需要考虑的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "The speaker was not some public relations executive, but Osama bin Laden’s chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri.",
        "”说这话的并不是某些公关主管人员，而是本拉登的二号人物扎瓦西里。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party cares more about small government than anything else: its members insist, above all, that federal tax revenue never be permitted to exceed 18% of GDP.",
        "但对共和党中的茶党派来说，小政府是压倒一切的第一要务：他们固执地认为，最重要的问题是，联邦税收岁入绝不能超过GDP的18%。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the speed of economic change will render our statistics irrelevant to modern life.",
        "否则，经济变化的速度将让我们的统计数字与现代生活格格不入。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the SOEs’ obsolete business model – not to mention strong inertia – makes it difficult to identify and respond to new opportunities in providing public goods in a changing economy.",
        "与此同时，国有企业过时的业务模式——更不用说强大的惰性——使其难以辨别在变化的经济中提供公共品的新机会并据此做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Every society, under certain conditions, is vulnerable to a descent into barbarism.",
        "在特定条件下，任何社会都可能堕入原始野蛮的深渊。"
    ],
    [
        "Party officials don't hover over each step of the process, and virtually no cutting of completed products is carried out on Party orders.",
        "共产党的官员不会对节目流程的每一步都进行干预，也完全没有执行共产党的指令对已完成的节目进行删节的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "That crossroads exposed a deep cleavage between the young, self-confident Israeli-born generals, who were spiteful of the older generation’s “submissive” attitude, and the Diaspora-born politicians who, haunted by Holocaust memories and existentially fearful of international isolation, resisted making a break with the old politics of diplomatic Zionism.",
        "这个十字路口制造了显而易见的分歧，一方是年轻自信的以色列出生的将军，他们痛恨老一辈人的“驯服”态度； 另一方是流散时期（Diaspora）出生的政客，大屠杀的回忆在他们心中萦绕不去，存在主义使他们害怕国际孤立，不愿意与外教锡安主义的老政治套路决裂。"
    ],
    [
        "The modern equivalent of that learning about trade policy would be to think about mechanisms to ensure long-term improvement in fiscal policymaking.",
        "时至今日，我们应该借鉴上述贸易政策的政治改良，思考怎样确保财政决策有一个持续改善的长效机制。"
    ],
    [
        "In July, they will meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the Conference on Financing for Development.",
        "7月份，埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴将进行发展融资会议（Conference on Financing for Development）。"
    ],
    [
        "The first chapter of this tale was written many years ago, in Japan.",
        "这个故事的第一章是多年前在日本写就的。"
    ],
    [
        "Without the single market, all member states would be less attractive to foreign investors, who, once established in one member state, can move freely around the EU.",
        "没有单一市场，所有成员国对外国投资者的吸引力都会下降，投资者只要在一个欧盟成员国中落地，就能在整个欧盟自由行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Polish voters elected a populist government despite benefiting from one of Europe’s highest rates of economic growth, while Canada seems to have been immune in 2016 to the anti-establishment mood roiling its large neighbor.",
        "波兰选民也选择了民粹主义政府，尽管它是欧洲经济增长最高的国家之一，而加拿大在2016年成功地抵挡住了正在搅乱它的庞大邻国的反建制情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "There is little officials can do about that.",
        "官方对此毫无办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that these countries are inherently unstable. Their political cultures are underdeveloped.",
        "有一些人认为，这些国家本来就不稳定，它们的政治文化也不成熟。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite the Fed’s impressive commitment to aggressive monetary easing, its effects on the real economy and on US equities could well be smaller and more fleeting than those of previous QE rounds.",
        "但尽管美联储实施积极货币宽松的许诺非常引人注目，但此举对实体经济和美股的影响可能比前两轮的都要更小也更短暂。"
    ],
    [
        "This work is set to expand as more than 40 million tons of invasive alien plants are harvested for power-station fuel.",
        "随着四千多万吨侵入植物被割除用于发电燃料，这一计划将会扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "Who's Afraid of Al Jazeera?",
        "谁惧怕半岛电视台？"
    ],
    [
        "In short, expect central banks to devote greater attention to unemployment.",
        "总之，人们预计央行将为解决失业问题投入更多精力。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, a new, but very different, “two Chinas” question is emerging.",
        "如今，一个全然不同的新的“两个中国”问题正在浮现。"
    ],
    [
        "European debt dynamics are quite distinct from those in South Korea, but the problem in both instances could be considered insurmountable.",
        "欧洲债务动态与韩国截然不同，但两者的问题都是难以克服的。"
    ],
    [
        "To put that 4% of GDP in perspective, the federal government’s total revenue from the personal income tax is less than 9% of GDP, implying that nearly half is spent on these means-tested programs.",
        "考虑到这个GDP的4%，联邦政府从个人所得税中所获得的总收入不到GDP的9%，这意味着近一半用在了这些基于收入调查结果的计划上。 这些计划的支出也超过了防务支出（占GDP的3."
    ],
    [
        "Those who believe that it will, typically rely on three arguments, all of which require some qualification.",
        "相信答案是肯定的人通常基于三个原因，这三个原因都值得商榷。"
    ],
    [
        "The implications for action are clear.",
        "采取行动的含义是明白无误的。"
    ],
    [
        "But something else happened: society became more demanding, recognizing its own interests and knowing how to express them.",
        "但同时起作用的还有其他因素： 社会民众的要求越来越高，他们在认识到自身利益的同时也知道如何表达自己的诉求。"
    ],
    [
        "Outside of the eurozone, the strength of the United Kingdom’s recovery and the Bank of England’s soft forward guidance have led to similar “unwarranted” increases in interest rates, which the BoE, like the ECB, seems unable to prevent in the absence of more muscular action.",
        "在欧元区之外，英国复苏的强度和英格兰银行软弱无力的前瞻性指引也导致了类似的“不一定”的利率上升，而英格兰银行与欧洲央行一样，因为无法采取更有力的动作而无力阻止这一幕发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the public and social character of diagnostic classifications of disease extends to private organizations.",
        "显而易见，诊断分类的公共社会性还延伸到了私人组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s consider them in turn.",
        "现在让我们轮流来检视这几点："
    ],
    [
        "They contribute substantially to the EU budget.",
        "它们向欧盟预算提供大量资金。"
    ],
    [
        "In extreme forms, depression can be so disabling that the thought of getting out of bed or making a phone call becomes overwhelming.",
        "极端情况下，抑郁症的破坏作用可以大到让诸如起床或打电话这样的想法都变得令人无法忍受。"
    ],
    [
        "And researchers are identifying genetic variations that influence the effects of drugs, allowing safer and more effective administration of medication to manage pain and treat some cancers, as well as cardiovascular and psychiatric diseases.",
        "研究者正在识别影响药物影响的基因变异，让更安全、更有效的用药管理来遏制病痛和治疗某些癌症以及心血管和精神疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "What is happening, however, is precisely the opposite, and for this there is only one explanation: the election was rigged.",
        "但实际发生的情况却恰恰相反，而对此仅有选举舞弊这一种解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, one reason for that failure is that the South Vietnamese were not different enough from the North Vietnamese for the Malayan formula of identifying and isolating rebel communities by race to work.",
        "当然，导致失败的一个原因是马来亚通过种族差异识别和孤立叛乱群体的公式在越南不管用，因为南越人和北越人并没有足够大的差别。"
    ],
    [
        "Namun secara rata-rata terdapat kesenjangan pembiayaan sebanyak 74% setiap tahunnya.",
        "但是，平均而言每年都有74%的资金缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "The country has sustained its output growth by investing fully one-half of GDP, though no country can productively invest more than a third of national income for an extended period.",
        "中国的产出增长是用投资整整一半的GDP来维持的，尽管没有哪个国家可以在相当长的时间里将国民收入的三分之一以上用于投资还能保证生产率。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin also announced yet another increase in Russian defense spending.",
        "上个月，普京总理又宣布俄罗斯国防开支还将再次增加。"
    ],
    [
        "If the chaebols continue to do their own advertising, financing, and IT, they will starve SMEs.",
        "如果财阀继续自己包揽广告、融资和IT等业务，就会对中小企业的生存空间形成挤压。"
    ],
    [
        "In this fluid environment, large companies must be cautious before making large, long-term commitments.",
        "在这一多变的环境下，大公司必须在做出长期大型决策之前三思而后行。"
    ],
    [
        "Musharraf?",
        "是穆沙拉夫吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Much commentary on the foray has been negative: Einhorn’s proposal is a short-run, financial-engineering idea for a company that has gone from success to success, it is said – American stock-market short-termism at its worst.",
        "对于这一行为，许多评论持负面态度：埃因霍恩的建议是短视的金融工程思维，而其针对的是一家从成功走向成功的公司——最糟糕的美国股市短视行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Across a sample of these economies, non-financial corporations’ dollar-denominated debt rose by 40%, on average, from 2010 to 2014; from 2007 to 2015, their debt-service ratios also soared by 40%.",
        "我们在针对多个经济体样本的分析中发现，非金融企业在2010至2014年间以美元计价的债务平均增加达40％； 在2007至2015年期间，他们的偿债比率也飙升至40％。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the extent to which an electoral system favors large parties – by having high popular-vote thresholds to enter parliament, or through winner-take-all constituencies – affects the degree of political fragmentation.",
        "当然，选举制度有利于大党的程度——通过议会普选高门槛，或通过选区赢者通吃制——影响着政治碎片化的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "True believers would no doubt see the hand of God in these stirring events.",
        "真正的信仰者无疑看到了这些激动人心事件中的上帝之手。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the European Central Bank is constrained by doubts about the legality of its “outright monetary transactions” (OMT) scheme – sovereign-bond purchases that could result in a redistributive fiscal policy.",
        "与此同时，欧洲中央银行的“直接货币交易”（OMT，可能导致再分配财政政策的主权债券购买操作）饱受合法性质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, insofar as the increments are small, the result is likely to be slower productivity growth and a “Great Stagnation.”",
        "事实上，由于进步不大，其结果可能是生产率增长的放缓和“大停滞”。"
    ],
    [
        "Where Russia represents a return to the past, one sees in China an opening, however ambiguous, to the future.",
        "俄罗斯所代表的是回归过去，而人们在中国看到的却是虽不确定但却面向未来的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the visit will highlight several important features of the bilateral relationship.",
        "尽管如此，此次访问仍然彰显出双边关系的一些重要特点。"
    ],
    [
        "Never mind that the numbers were massaged, because they still hold a valuable lesson.",
        "”别介意数字被篡改了，因为他们还在学习重要的一课。"
    ],
    [
        "Because successive Japanese governments badly underestimated its consequences, the rise of China has been the third and final shock to Japan’s policy of neo-isolationism.",
        "因为历届日本政府严重低估其后果，中国崛起第三次也是最后一次冲击了日本的新孤立主义政策。"
    ],
    [
        "JOHANNESBURG – Although the Chinese ship that was carrying arms to Zimbabwe, the An Yue Jiang, has reportedly turned back, we don’t know where else President Robert Mugabe’s military and paramilitary forces may be acquiring weapons.",
        "约翰内斯堡--尽管据报道称中国运送军火到津巴布韦的安岳江号已经受阻返回了，但是我们不知道穆加贝总统的军队和准军事组织还会不会从其他地方搞到武器。"
    ],
    [
        "But some may conclude that it is safer to steer closer to China than away from it, because their economies depend so strongly on Chinese trade.",
        "但也有国家可能认为靠近中国比远离中国更安全，因为它们的经济对中国贸易的依赖性极强。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, Bo bore all the hallmarks of a gangster boss: corrupt, ruthless towards his enemies, contemptuous of the law, and yet moralistic in his self-presentation.",
        "换句话说，薄熙来身上拥有一个黑帮老大的所有特质：腐败，对对手毫不留情，蔑视法律，但一张嘴满口都是道德说教。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides the lack of a common treasury, the euro suffers from other shortcomings, which the authorities do not seem to have fully understood.",
        "除了缺乏共同储备之外，欧元还存在着其他弱点，而相关机构似乎还没认识到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "From 2009 to 2013, German nominal wages increased by more than 14%, compared to 4% in Spain.",
        "从2009年到2013年，德国名义工资增长了14%强，而西班牙只有4%。"
    ],
    [
        "Not until Charles de Gaulle’s 1958 Constitution was even a limited assessment of a law by the Conseil Constitutionnel (Constitutional Council) allowed, and then only with extensive precautions.",
        "1958年查尔斯·戴高乐版宪法之前甚至连宪政委员会对法律进行有限度的评估都不被允许，这之后对法律合宪性的评估也只能小心翼翼。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in both cases, the failure probabilities were correlated, and their joint occurrence led to catastrophe.",
        "但在这两个事件中，众多事故可能性却连锁爆发，而这一联合反应则最终导致了大灾难的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The rule of al-Nasir – who viewed the Shia as an intrinsic part of the Islamic community and sought to treat all of his subjects equally – was characterized by a marked decrease in sectarian tensions.",
        "内綏尔认为什叶派是伊斯兰教的固有组成部分，并试图平等对待他的所有子民，在他统治期间，宗派紧张大为缓和。"
    ],
    [
        "If this continues, a third party will emerge, committed to cleaning up American politics and restoring a measure of decency and fairness.",
        "如果这一状况持续下去的话，一个承诺扫除美国政治恶习并重新实现社会正义和公平的第三党派就会崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "While the practice dates back to at least 1812, when then-Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry oversaw the redrawing of his state’s senatorial districts, it has been perfected in recent decades, mainly by Republican-dominated state legislatures.",
        "这种行为可以追溯到1812年，时任马塞诸塞州州长埃尔布里奇·格里（Elbridge Gerry）主导重划了本州参议员选区。 但其日臻完美还是在近几十年，主要发生在共和党主导的州立法机关。"
    ],
    [
        "Like ancient conquerors, who erected new temples on the sites where the vanquished had their own, the destroyers of New York’s Twin Towers used visual terror to strike at the heart of their enemy’s value system.",
        "古代征服者在拥有自身图腾的被征服土地上建立新的神庙，与此类似，纽约双子塔的毁灭者利用视觉恐怖直击敌人的价值体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Many feared mass unemployment, a tidal wave of bankruptcies, millions of families evicted from their homes, the social safety net strained to the breaking point, and perhaps even riots and a resurgence of the political extremism that brought Hitler to power in Germany during the depression of the 1930’s.",
        "很多人害怕会出现大规模的失业、破产潮、数百万家庭无家可归、社会安全网紧绷到断裂点，甚至暴乱以及如1930年代经济大萧条期间把希特勒送上权利顶峰的政治极端主义的死灰复燃。"
    ],
    [
        "In the EU, thousands of fake-news websites have appeared, many of them with unclear ownership: the number of disinformation websites in Hungary doubled in 2014; and in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, some 42 new websites are now polluting the EU’s information ecosystem.",
        "欧盟出现了成千上万家假新闻网站，其中许多所有权十分模糊：匈牙利谣言网站数量在2014年翻了一番； 而在捷克和斯洛伐克，42家新网站正在污染欧盟的信息生态系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Three years later, a Pakistan-based terrorist group killed more than 160 people in Mumbai, India’s financial capital – and, with them, the diplomatic opening initiated by cricket.",
        "3年之后，一个以巴基斯坦为基地的恐怖分子团队在印度的金融中心孟买大开杀戒，扼杀了超过160条生命——也扼杀了由此次板球比赛所开创的外交局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an initiative would not only foster growth, but would also lower current-account deficits (because expensive fossil-energy imports could be reduced).",
        "上述举措不仅能促进增长，还能降低经常账户赤字（因为可以减少昂贵的化石能源进口）。"
    ],
    [
        "There is only one precedent for non-EU members being able to negotiate access to the internal market equivalent to that enjoyed by EU members. This is the European Economic Area agreement concluded with the EU by Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein in 1992.",
        "对此只有一个非欧盟成员国通过谈判获取相当于欧盟成员国同等渠道的先例：欧盟与挪威，冰岛，列支敦士登三国于1992年签订的欧洲经济区协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, mitigating climate change will require tackling emissions from the meat and dairy industries.",
        "显然，遏制气候变化需要限制肉奶业的排放。"
    ],
    [
        "But Syrian oppositionists must recognize that the lack of decisive international action is not only the result of Russia and China vetoing any meaningful action in the Security Council, or NATO countries’ unwillingness to enter into another war in the region.",
        "但叙利亚反对派必须明白，国际社会未能采取决定性行动并不只是因为俄罗斯和中国否决了任何有意义的安理会行动，或只是因为北约国家不愿意涉足另一场地区战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Among US states, California still ranks first in technology, agriculture, and entertainment. But it also stands at or near the top in deficits, tax rates, prison inmates, and, by a wide margin, welfare recipients relative to population.",
        "在全美各州之中，加利福尼亚在科技，农业和娱乐方面依然名列前茅，但它同时也在赤字，税率，囚犯数量以及人均政府援助支出方面也居高不下。"
    ],
    [
        "The authors, Katie Farrant and Magda Rutkowska, suggest that corporate behavior may have changed as a result of the financial crisis, as difficulties in accessing bank financing led them to increase their cash buffers permanently.",
        "该帖子的作者凯迪·法兰特（Katie Farrant）和玛格达·鲁特科夫斯卡（Magda Rutkowska）认为，公司行为可能因为金融危机而已经发生了改变，难以获得银行融资导致他们永久性增加想现金缓冲。"
    ],
    [
        "When I put Seattle on the path to divestment in 2013, my decision was well received by the young people who will have to live with the consequences of global warming, as well as the general public.",
        "2013年，当我决定让西雅图远离化石燃料时，我的决定受到了必须面对全球变暖后果的年轻人的热烈响应，普通大众也很支持。"
    ],
    [
        "They are replacing even white-collar workers, and performing functions that, just a few years ago, were considered off-limits for technological disruption: cataloguing images, translating documents, interpreting radiographs, flying drones, extracting new information from huge data sets, and so forth.",
        "它们正在取代（甚至是）白领工人，它们所发挥的功能几年前还被认为是技术破坏不可企及的范围：图像编目、文档翻译、医学影像解读、无人机、从海量数据集中提取新信息等。"
    ],
    [
        "Look at how the Kremlin seeks to blackmail its neighbors by threatening their energy supplies.",
        "看看克里姆林宫是怎样凭借威胁停止对它们的能源供应来讹诈邻邦的。"
    ],
    [
        "A better system to rebalance the world economy is as necessary as it is unlikely.",
        "而更佳的解决方案则是建立一个世界经济再平衡系统，无奈却难以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "EU member states share highly sensitive intelligence and police information as never before, thereby increasing public security while upholding world-class legal and democratic standards.",
        "欧盟各国对高敏感度情报以及治安信息的交流程度堪称前所未有，并因此在确保高度法制和民主的同时提升了公共安全。"
    ],
    [
        "In October, the International Monetary Fund updated its global outlook to predict that only a handful of small countries will suffer a recession next year.",
        "10月，国际货币基金组织（IMF）更新了其全球展望，预测明年将只有少数小国可能出现衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond deficit reduction, we need to implement a €120 billion ($155 billion) European investment plan, and deepen the European Single Market to unleash its growth potential.",
        "除了削减赤字，我们还需要实施1200亿欧元的欧洲投资计划，并深化欧洲单一市场以释放其增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Now we need funds, commitment, and the resolve to implement the plan presented in Abu Dhabi.",
        "现在我们需要资金、承诺和决心来实施阿布扎比所提出的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "An overwhelming majority of voters and members of parliament supported the move.",
        "而压倒性多数的选民和议会成员都支持这一措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis faced by the European Union and the eurozone is a telling example of the need for a narrative that explains public policy and generates political support for it.",
        "欧盟和欧元区所面临的危机就是很好的例子，说明了能解释公共政策并激发对政策的政治支持的故事的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "It is asserting maritime claims in the East and South China Seas that conflict with claims by other countries in the region (including Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam).",
        "它在东海和南海的领海主张与地区内其他国家（包括日本、菲律宾和越南）存在冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "It will be a test of their resolve to transform the vision of a future free of nuclear arms into reality.",
        "这次会议将考验他们实现未来无核愿景的坚定程度。"
    ],
    [
        "And it has concluded that centuries of slavery amount to the equivalent of the Holocaust.",
        "该组织认为，几个世纪以来的奴隶制足以同纳粹大屠杀相比。"
    ],
    [
        "Falenta, it turned out, had owed $26 million to a Russian firm, Kuzbasskaya Toplivnaya Kompaniya, with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.",
        "事实证明法兰塔欠库兹巴斯燃料公司2，600万美元，这家俄国企业与俄罗斯总统普京关系十分密切。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is nonsense to declare that China’s currency is currently undervalued.",
        "因此，宣称中国的货币目前受到低估的说法是毫无道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "The need for burden-sharing, particularly between advanced and developing countries, will not magically disappear.",
        "各国（特别是发达国家和发展中国家间）共担责任的需要不会一夜消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Analysts and bondholders have also lobbied the government and the opposition not to seek financial support from the International Monetary Fund, for fear that the international community will demand that you accept a significant “haircut” on your investment, as has been required of Greece’s creditors.",
        "此外分析家和债券持有人还游说该国政府和反对派不要从国际货币基金组织获得财政支持，因为他们担心国际社会将要求您像希腊债权人那样，接受对自身投资的大规模减值。"
    ],
    [
        "This form of warfare is especially worrisome for two reasons.",
        "这种形式的战争更值得担心，原因有二。"
    ],
    [
        "Which supranational agency will be in charge of issuing eurobonds?",
        "由哪个超国家机构来主管欧元债券发行？"
    ],
    [
        "Once upon a time, according to mythology at least, America had little downward mobility.",
        "过去，至少从以往种种传说来看，美国几乎没有发生过“整体下流”的情形。"
    ],
    [
        "Great Britain and France will resist being replaced by a single EU seat, while making Germany a permanent member would only exacerbate the problem of Europe’s relative over-representation.",
        "大英国和法国将会抵制他们两国被一个欧盟席位所取代，并且将德国推上常任理事国成员议席只会加剧欧洲相对的超额代表。 巴基斯坦将反对把印度加为安理会成员；"
    ],
    [
        "Massive purchases of government bonds by the ECB would be the worst type of bailout.",
        "欧洲央行大量买入国债将是较差的援助行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The path to recovery, though difficult and lengthy, has been relatively clear and specific.",
        "通往复苏之路，虽然艰难而漫长，但也是相当清楚明确的。"
    ],
    [
        "The zero lower bound arises because nominal interest rates cannot fall below zero.",
        "“零下限”利率的出现是因为名义利率不可能跌至零以下。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europeans seem inured to the plight of asylum-seekers and migrants, almost 3,000 of whom have died in the Mediterranean this year.",
        "但欧洲人似乎对避难者和移民的处境无动于衷，仅6月1号以后已经有超过1,600人死于地中海。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, vacancies are listed internally as temporary contracts, obviating the need for a national search.",
        "相反，空位会作为临时合同岗位在内部上榜展示，绕开全国招聘的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "But let us not make the mistake of fearing finance too much.",
        "但我们也不应该错误地对金融怀有过度的恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – I recently took part in a public debate with Paul Keating, Australia’s former prime minister.",
        "伦敦-最近我与澳大利亚前总理基廷参加了一次公开辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – The most visible symptom of the crisis in the eurozone has been the high and variable risk premiums that its peripheral countries now must pay on their public debt.",
        "发自布鲁塞尔——欧元区危机最明显的症状就是其极高且不断变动的风险溢价，而一众欧元区外围国家则必须为其公共债务支付这种风险溢价。"
    ],
    [
        "But financial reform is hard to do during a slump, when the main task is to revive growth.",
        "但金融改革在衰退期间很难推行，这时的主要任务是重振增长。"
    ],
    [
        "This would allow Germany to concentrate on the task at hand: providing those granted refugee status the schooling and language lessons they will need to allow them to find employment as quickly as possible.",
        "这能让德国集中精力于当前的任务：为获得难民身份者提供所需的教育和语言课程，以使他们尽快找到工作。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, they will have to be reckoned with down the road, when a new political order is brokered.",
        "无论如何，未来的泰国政治注定要有他们的参与，成为缔造新政治秩序的重要力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the nexus of issues that tie vital US interests to Japan’s reform process, Kennedy, with her character and skills, could well prove to be an essential link between the countries at a crucial point in their relationship.",
        "这些问题将美国的关键利益与日本的改革过程捆绑在了一起，而肯尼迪的人格和技能能够让她成为两国关系关键点上的关键连接。"
    ],
    [
        "Since launching his economic revitalization strategy – so-called “Abenomics” – in 2011, Abe has presided over a roughly ¥12 trillion ($115 billion) increase in government revenues.",
        "自2011年实施其经济复兴战略——所谓的“安倍经济学”以来，安倍让政府收入提高了12万亿日元左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Where does that leave developing countries?",
        "这会给发展中国家带来什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Addressing parents directly, Surpur pleaded with them not to subject their children to excessive stress in an attempt to live vicariously through them.",
        "苏尔珀尔将矛头直指家长，恳请他们不要让孩子承受过度压力，替自己完成心愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Without rapid growth, there is no way to reverse persistently high and increasingly structural (and therefore protracted) unemployment; safely de-leverage over-indebted balance sheets; and prevent already-disturbing income and wealth inequalities from growing worse.",
        "没有快速增长就无法逆转持续且越来越倒向结构性（从而会更加难以根除）的事业趋势，无法实现过度负债的资产负债表的安全去杠杆化，无法防止已然恶化的收入和财富不平等雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, China’s dam builders are targeting most of the international rivers that flow out of Chinese territory.",
        "事实上，中国在流出本国领土的绝大多数跨国河流上都修建了水坝。"
    ],
    [
        "By reinforcing negative stereotypes of rival countries, such squabbles over history and remembrance sow fragmentation and instability, and have certainly fueled the region’s recent territorial disputes.",
        "这些关于历史和回忆的口角强化了敌对国家的消极刻板印象，也是分裂和动荡的温床，它们显然助长了东亚地区最近的领土纠纷。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to bolster economic growth and innovation amid conflict and volatility, policymakers and investors should focus on building the creative industries.",
        "为了在冲突和动荡中提振经济增长和创新，决策者和投资者应该注意打造创新型产业。"
    ],
    [
        "The Beginning of the End for Guantánamo",
        "关塔那摩监狱开始走向末路"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey says it has spent $7.8 billion to care for more than two million refugees; thus far, it has received only $415 million from others (though the EU has promised another €3 billion).",
        "而到目前为止，土耳其只获得了4. 15亿美元来自其他国家的资金（尽管欧盟已承诺再支持30亿欧元）。"
    ],
    [
        "What governments should not do is fund a basic-income scheme with the money from other key social-welfare programs.",
        "政府不应该做得是用其他社会福利项目的资金来支持基本收入机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Another piece of forgotten knowledge that Smith also mentions is the importance of education.",
        "另一个斯密提及、但被我们所遗忘的知识是教育的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, there is no such thing as perfect safety, and, historically, waves of terrorism have often taken a generation to recede.",
        "有一点可以确定——世界上没有绝对的安全，然后从历史的角度来看，恐怖主义浪潮往往需要一代人的时间才能消退。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while democracies do have a better record of protecting minorities, a democratic system does not guarantee respect for minorities any more than autocracy ensures their repression.",
        "但尽管民主政体的确在尊重少数族裔的问题上拥有更好的记录，但民主制度却无法确保尊重少数族裔，就像谁也无法肯定独裁政体一定会对少数族裔秉持镇压态度。"
    ],
    [
        "But parties that are closer to assuming power are a different matter, even if banning them might automatically appear undemocratic (after all, they will already have deputies in parliaments).",
        "但接近掌权的政党是另一回事，即使禁止他们可能自动显得不民主（毕竟，他们已经成为议会次要组成部分）。"
    ],
    [
        "In assessing the size of the stimulus, countries will balance the cost to their own budgets with the benefits in terms of increased growth and employment for their own economies.",
        "各国在评估经济刺激方案的规模时，都会在 本国 预算的成本和收益之间保持平衡，而这一收益是以本国的经济增幅和就业率增幅来计算的。"
    ],
    [
        "The creditor countries, by contrast, would incur losses on their claims and investments denominated in euros and encounter stiffer competition at home from other eurozone members.",
        "反之，债权国以欧元计价的投资和债权将会遭受亏损，同时还要面对来自欧元区其他成员国的激烈竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "Paradoxically, however, developments in 2010 offer hope for the future.",
        "但出人意料的是，各国在2010年所取得的进展却为未来带来了希望的曙光。"
    ],
    [
        "Three years later, when Betty reduced her paid employment in order to develop Mental Health First Aid training, we were finally able to launch the course.",
        "三年后，贝蒂辞去工作，专心发展心理健康紧急救助培训，我们终于可以发布课程了。"
    ],
    [
        "The spread of information means that informal networks are undercutting the monopoly of traditional bureaucracy, with all governments less able to control their agendas.",
        "信息的传播意味着地下网络正在削弱传统官僚主义的垄断，任何政府都不再像过去那样能够轻易地控制其日程。"
    ],
    [
        "Most rely on government subsidies to this day.",
        "如今，多条线路都必须仰仗政府补贴过活。"
    ],
    [
        "Deforestation is increasing, with almost 100 million hectares lost in the last decade alone - much of it due to millions of poor farmers in Africa and Latin America being forced to cut down trees because they have no other access to land or energy sources.",
        "滥砍滥伐的现象日益严重，仅在过去十年里我们就失去了近1亿公顷的森林-这些损失大部分是由非洲和拉美的贫困农民造成的。 由于没有其它办法获得土地和能源，他们被迫砍伐树木。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps you resolved to get fit, to lose weight, to save more money, or to drink less alcohol.",
        "也许你决心要健身，或者减肥，想存更多的钱，又或者打算少喝点酒。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past few months, every time I visited an Asian country – whether South Korea or India, China or Japan – I was asked repeatedly about candidate Obama’s positions on three issues: trade, foreign policy, and the new geo-economic order.",
        "在过去几个月时间里每次我访问亚洲国家，无论是南韩或是印度，中国或是日本，人们总是不断地问我候选人奥巴马在贸易、外交以及新型地缘经济秩序等三个问题上的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "When Tony Blair, having procrastinated about his departure almost to the point of unreason, finally gives up the British premiership this month, it will be to the general relief not only of the British public as a whole, but also of the overwhelming majority of his own party.",
        "在将其离职一拖再拖，拖到几乎失去理性的地步时，托尼布莱尔终于要在这个月放弃英国首相一职了，这不仅让整个英国民众，也让他自己党内的压倒性多数派长舒了一口气。"
    ],
    [
        "America prides itself on being one of the world’s most prosperous countries, and can boast that in every recent year except one (2009) per capita GDP has increased.",
        "美国自诩是世界上最繁荣的国家之一，并且除2009年外，近年以来每年都实现了人均GDP增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, according to the political economist Victor Shih, the interest that accrued to all debts in China in 2010 amounted to 80% of incremental nominal GDP.",
        "事实上，根据政治经济学家史宗瀚（Victor Shih）的估算，因利息而形成的增量债务在2010年达到了新增名义GDP的80%。"
    ],
    [
        "None of the ideas for another dose of NATO rejuvenation looks like the answer.",
        "再次激发北约好像并非良策。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer it takes for the seeds of reform to be sown, the less likely they will be to take root – and the higher the probability that a lose-lose world economic non-order will emerge.",
        "改革种子撒播的越晚，它们深根发芽的可能性就越小，而出现双输的世界经济经济无序局面的概率就越大。"
    ],
    [
        "Digital campaigners face myriad censorship tactics, including “Border Gateway Protocol” attacks, “HTTP throttling,” and “deep packet inspections.”",
        "数字活动家面对各种审查技术，如“边界网关协议”攻击、“HTTP限流”和“深层封包检测”等。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China has thus far shown little interest in discussing the standards by which the multilateral institutions it has launched will be governed – or, indeed, the extent to which they will be truly multilateral.",
        "此外，到目前为止，中国没有表现出多少兴趣讨论它所发起的多边机构将以何种标准来治理——事实上，是它们在何种程度上能成为真正的多边机构。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – If you find America’s presidential election campaign puzzling, you probably have a better grasp of it than those who are willing to predict an outcome.",
        "华盛顿——如果你对美国总统竞选感到不解，你对选情的理解可能比预测结果者更加深入。"
    ],
    [
        "We are not quite there, but we are getting there. Missile defense can be part of that positive trend.",
        "这样一来，我们便能够推进导弹防御体系建造进程，在保护欧洲大西洋社区的同时也起到集聚人心的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Puerto Rico ought to be the jewel of the Caribbean. It is not.",
        "发自华盛顿区——波多黎各本应是加勒比海的瑰宝，但事实却并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "This imperative has intensified since the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government on July 15.",
        "7月15日针对埃尔多安政府的政变失败后坚持这种做法更加必要了。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Europe, it did nothing – which was foreseeable.",
        "欧洲则无动于衷——这也是可以预见的。"
    ],
    [
        "Conservatives in the House of Commons (and in the wider party) want to be reassured that their leader shares their antagonism for the entire European integration process.",
        "下议院（和其他机构的）保守党人希望确保其领导人在整个欧洲一体化进程问题上与他们同仇敌忾。"
    ],
    [
        "As the death toll mounts from the cyclone that struck a densely populated area of Burma stretching from the Irrawaddy Delta to the capital city of Rangoon continues to soar, the country’s military dictatorship is pressing ahead with efforts to consolidate its power.",
        "当袭击了从伊洛瓦底江三角洲到首都仰光的人口稠密地区的热带风暴持续肆虐并且死亡人数不断增多之时，缅甸的军事独裁统治仍然不停的努力以巩固其权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Taking over or suppressing the private media, for example, would bring the party into conflict not just with the opposition, but also with entrenched business interests, which carry much more clout abroad than Poland’s beleaguered courts do.",
        "例如，接管或压制私人媒体不仅会带来与反对派的冲突，而且会触动根深蒂固的商业利益，而后者在国外的影响力远比波兰饱受批评的法院大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The findings seem to indicate that the next five years will be a make-or-break period for the region’s future development.",
        "而调查结果似乎显示，今后5年将是一个关键时期，决定该地区未来发展的成败。"
    ],
    [
        "And while awaiting stronger demand at home, some US companies have been investing in foreign markets, attracted by their size and projected growth.",
        "而且在坐等国内需求转强的同时，某些美国企业在规模和预计增长率的吸引下一直投资海外市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Ma had been tilting his government’s policies increasingly toward China, concluding a bilateral framework agreement on economic cooperation. But, in the wake of Taiwanese society’s outpouring of sympathy for Japan, he has adjusted his stance.",
        "虽然马英九政府的政策正不断向中国大陆靠拢并向着构建双边经济合作框架的目标迈进，但台湾社会对日本所表现出的同情却令他调整了自己的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Opposition from local residents remains stiff.",
        "而当地民众的抵抗一直以来都相当顽强。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the global financial crisis that had erupted a few months earlier threw the world economy into turmoil, causing output to contract, unemployment to surge, and trade to collapse.",
        "当然，几个月前爆发的全球金融危机让世界经济陷入到动荡之中，导致产出萎缩、失业飙升、贸易崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "French intellectuals, never shy of public posturing, are campaigning to give her French citizenship.",
        "从来都不回避公众姿态的法国知识分子在争取授予她法国国籍。"
    ],
    [
        "Trading Away Human Rights",
        "出卖人权"
    ],
    [
        "What is so bad about continuing to run large budget deficits until the economic recovery is well established?",
        "维持巨额预算赤字直至经济完全复苏有何弊端？"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the enlargements of the 1980’s, when Greece and then Spain and Portugal joined the then European Community, were not very disruptive.",
        "最后一点，1980年代希腊、西班牙和葡萄牙先后加入当时的欧共体的这次扩张并非破坏性的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is certainly good news, especially if the source of stabilization is shifted from the European Central Bank’s unconventional policies to more durable endogenous balance-sheet healing among a broader set of financial institutions, non-financial firms, and households.",
        "这显然是好消息，尤其如果稳定政策的来源不再是欧洲央行的非常规政策，而转化为一个更为持久的内生性资产负债表修复，并广泛涵盖金融机构，非金融企业和家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Burma is failing miserably to live up to the standards of decency that the Southeast Asian region is setting for itself.",
        "缅甸根本没有达到东盟各国为其自己制定的情理标准。"
    ],
    [
        "So what is needed is massive public investment in cleaner energy provision, coupled in the short term with appropriate subsidies to offset high initial prices.",
        "因此我们真正需要的是在洁净能源供应领域的大规模公共投资，以及在短期内提供抵消初始阶段高价格的恰当的补助。"
    ],
    [
        "The lack of basic social protection in most countries exacerbates vulnerability.",
        "大部分国家都缺少基本社会保障，这加剧了脆弱性。"
    ],
    [
        "Matters were exacerbated by firms’ postponement until a recession of hard choices about closing unviable plants and shedding workers.",
        "企业一直拖到衰退期才决定关闭没有商业价值的工厂并解雇工人加大了经济衰退的冲击力。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, we need to place the requirements of liberal democracy ahead of those of international trade and investment.",
        "特别是我们看待自由民主要重于国际贸易和投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Astrophysicist Adam Frank succinctly explained: “greater warmth means more moisture in the air which means stronger precipitation.”",
        "”天体物理学家亚当·弗兰克（Adam Frank）简洁地解释道：“变暖意味着空气中水分含量增加，进而意味着更强的降水。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Third, Zoellick should use his formidable negotiating skills to cajole rich countries into greatly increasing the grant component of World Bank aid.",
        "第三，佐利克应当运用他娴熟的谈判技巧来劝说富国大幅度增加世行援助的赠款部分。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a close parallel between the euro crisis and the Latin American debt crisis of 1982, when the International Monetary Fund saved the international financial system by lending just enough money to the heavily indebted countries to enable them to avoid default.",
        "欧元危机和1982年的拉美债务危机有着很强的相似性，当时国际货币基金组织为挽救国际金融体系借贷给负债国的资金刚够让他们避免违约。"
    ],
    [
        "The army turned him down because of his criminal record. If the French wouldn’t have him, he would join the holy warriors: anything to give him a sense of power and an excuse to indulge his violent impulses.",
        "如果法国人没有招募他，他就会加入圣战组织：在哪都不重要，只要能让他觉得自己手握权力，并找到一个纵容其暴力冲动的理由就行了。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s priorities are clear: first come the military, the security apparatus, and the state administration; second are the major infrastructure projects from which he and his cronies make their fortunes; social expenditures (primarily pensions), needed to maintain popular support, come last.",
        "然后是他和他的权贵们从中渔利的重大基础设施工程； 维持公共支持所需要的社会支出（主要是养老金）排在最后。"
    ],
    [
        "Separating the budget’s effects on the economy from those of the economy on the budget is tricky.",
        "分清预算对经济的影响和经济对预算的影响是很复杂的。"
    ],
    [
        "In this crisis, intention takes a back seat to action (or lack thereof).",
        "在这场危机中，出发点与行动（或缺少行动）相比显得不那么重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2010, western Russia experienced July temperatures almost 8°C above the long-term average, which, combined with lack of rainfall, led to wildfires across 800,000 hectares of parched fields, forests, and peat lands.",
        "在2010年，俄罗斯西部七月份经历了比长期平均温度高8度的天气，并且干旱少雨。 这引发了一场涉及面积800，000公顷的野火，烧毁了耕地、森林以及泥炭地。"
    ],
    [
        "Such growth presupposes a credible strategy to pare the deficit, which means a plan that recognizes the reality of the growing cohort of pensioners.",
        "上述增长的前提是制定削减赤字的可靠策略，也就是说一项直面退休人员越来越多的现实的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "And all workers would begin to gain the freedom to make the same choices regarding how much to work, and under what conditions, that owners of substantial capital now have.",
        "而所有工人都可以开始获得做出关于工作多少、在什么环境下工作的选择的自由。 这一自由如今为大量资本所有者所独有。"
    ],
    [
        "These drastic scenarios might not materialize if the world succeeds in mitigating climate change.",
        "如果世界成功地减轻气候变化，这些重大变故可能不会成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "This enabled Lomborg to appeal the verdict, successfully, claiming that the Committee had victimized him for political reasons, given his recent appointment as director of a major national institute for environmental research.",
        "这使隆姆博格能够成功地对裁定进行申诉，声称委员会因政治原因迫害他，因为他最近被任命为一家大型国家环境研究所的所长。"
    ],
    [
        "This can have far-reaching consequences.",
        "这将产生深远的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Both issues sound simpler than they are: the devil is in the details, and the details leave ample scope for disagreement over the definition, monitoring, and enforcement of terms.",
        "这两个问题听起来都比实际简单：细节决定成败，而谈判中有足够的空间就条款的定义、监管和执行讨价还价。"
    ],
    [
        "This is good for Europe, because it helps improve the allocation of capital and stimulates growth by transporting German savings to the remote and previously disadvantaged regions of the euro zone.",
        "这对欧洲来讲值得庆幸，因为它能够把德国的储蓄分散到欧元区相对偏远、曾经处于不利位置的地区，有助于改善资金的分配和刺激经济的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Major oil exporters could then seek to use their now less-valuable oil at home as cheap fuel for an expanded heavy industrial sector.",
        "那时主要的石油出口国可以寻求将它们国内那时不再那么值钱的石油用作扩大的重工业的廉价燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumption as a share of GDP has to fall.",
        "消费在国民总产值中的比例必须下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the two belong together.",
        "实际上，这两种力量是不可分割的。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, the particularities of the eurozone’s structure mean that the ECB will have no choice but to halt its bond-buying operations in a year or so.",
        "无论如何，欧元区架构的特殊性意味着欧洲央行别无选择，只能在大概一年后停止其债券购买行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the 256 quarters in the 16 post-war presidential terms, the US economy was in recession for an average of 1.1 quarters during Democratic presidencies and 4.6 quarters during the Republican terms.",
        "在16个战后总统任期的256个季度中，美国经济在民主党总统执政期间平均遭遇1. 1个季度的衰退，而在共和党执政期间遭遇4."
    ],
    [
        "Had Nixon not acted in 1972, China’s self-imposed isolation would have continued.",
        "如果1972年尼克松没有采取行动，中国会继续走自我孤立之路。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do nothing while South Korea continues to conclude FTAs, Japan will lose markets in the US and China.",
        "如果坐视韩国继续签定自贸协议，那日本就将丢掉美国和中国的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "American conservatives have so far failed to read Trump’s intentions accurately.",
        "到目前为止，美国保守派没能正确解读特朗普的意图。"
    ],
    [
        "But even the ostensibly moderate Macron represents, in his own way, a truly radical stance.",
        "但就连表面温和的马克龙也以他自己的方式代表了某种真正的激进立场。"
    ],
    [
        "The system has also been used elsewhere, including in Canada and Switzerland, but has not been adopted worldwide and is still confusing to some consumers.",
        "这一制度也为加拿大和瑞士等其他国家所用，但并未在全世界普及，也容易混淆消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "Pope Benedict XVI’s (2005-2013) large number of saints (44) reflects mainly the large stock of beatified people left behind by John Paul II.",
        "教皇本笃十六世（2005—2013）也大规模封圣（44人），这也是保罗二世大量宣福的反映。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Since the financial crisis erupted in 2008, policymakers have sought to make the world’s banks safer, mainly via detailed instructions: use more capital, avoid specified risky activities, provide more transparency, and punish reckless behavior.",
        "美国剑桥—自2008年金融危机爆发以来，决策者想方设法要让全世界的银行变得更安全，他们主要是通过具体的措施：使用更多的资本、避免具体的冒险行为、提供更多的透明度，以及惩罚鲁莽行为。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, however, the British electorate must navigate more than the ordinary amount of election-time dissimulation.",
        "但今年，英国选民必须忍受异乎寻常的选举隐瞒。"
    ],
    [
        "The Right Iraqi Intervention",
        "恰如其分的伊拉克干预行动"
    ],
    [
        "The reforms that she undertook struck a chord internationally.",
        "她所推出的改革还掀起了国际反响。"
    ],
    [
        "Both failed, because Iran’s presidents do not run the country.",
        "但两人都没有成功，因为伊朗这个国家并不是由总统主导的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the stakes are higher now than ever before.",
        "但这一次的赌注比以前任何一次都要大。"
    ],
    [
        "To build a containment regime against terrorism emanating from the Middle East, a date for America’s departure from Iraq must be set.",
        "要想建立中东恐怖主义的遏制机制，就必须确定美国从伊拉克的撤军日期。"
    ],
    [
        "The prohibition against a state religion together with freedom of conscience preserves the plurality of religion in civil life.",
        "禁止确立国教以及信仰自由保护了平民生活中宗教信仰的多元化。"
    ],
    [
        "And even if Macri had not managed to win Argentina’s presidency, his opponent Daniel Scioli – who served as Vice President under Néstor Kirchner, but represents a more moderate Peronism – probably would have had to implement pragmatic policies aimed at boosting market confidence.",
        "而即便马克里未能赢得阿根廷总统选举，其反对者丹尼尔·西奥里（Daniel Scioli，他是内斯托尔·基什内尔的副总统，但代表更加温和的庇隆主义）也有可能实施旨在提振市场信心的务实政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In Libya, the regime’s founding myth is inextricably linked to Qaddafi’s 1969 coup and his eclectic political theories.",
        "利比亚政府建立的神话与卡扎菲 1969 年政变及其折衷的政治理论有着无法割裂的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Several Latin American leaders and commentators recommended that US President Barack Obama attend, despite Castro’s presence, in order to confront him about Cuba’s dearth of democracy.",
        "一些拉美领导人和评论家建议美国总统奥巴马不要因卡斯特罗的露面而拒绝参会并以此作为对古巴扼杀民主的抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians know that structural reforms – to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change – are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth.",
        "政客们知道，结构改革——增加竞争、促进创新、推动制度变化——是消除增长的结构障碍之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Volcker took radical steps to deal with it, hiking short-term interest rates so high that he created a major recession.",
        "沃尔克采取了激进措施解决这一问题，大幅提高了短期利率以至于制造出异常大衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "In the immediate future, Japan will work with the G-7 to ensure that Putin’s reckless ambitions do not endanger other parts of Ukraine.",
        "眼下，日本将继续与七国集团合作，确保普京的野蛮野心不会威胁到乌克兰的其他部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who believe that investments in the US stock market will maintain the same strong growth trend for decades may well be right.",
        "有人相信美国股市投资的强劲增势还会持续几十年，他们很可能所言不虚。"
    ],
    [
        "It would have required acknowledging that the causes of the Great Depression ran much deeper than a technocratic failure to manage the money supply properly.",
        "这需要承认大萧条的原因远比在恰当的货币供应管理问题上官僚主义失败更加深刻。"
    ],
    [
        "But this supposed free-trade zone seems more like a recipe to enrich oligarchs and stifle competition, not promote trade.",
        "但这个所谓的自由贸易区似乎更像为政治寡头们增富和压制竞争的一剂良方，而并非意在促进贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference between these victorious leftists and El Salvador’s FMLN will be revealed when the FMLN’s old characteristics as an armed movement are challenged by the daily facts of governance.",
        "这些获胜的左翼势力和萨尔瓦多的马解阵线之间的区别，在马解阵线这个武装运动的旧特征遭到日常治国的新事务挑战的时候，就能显现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Findings about how conscious and nonconscious brain systems work may enable us to make exposure therapy more effective.",
        "关于有意识和无意识大脑系统的发现或许能提高暴露疗法的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The main reason for this is that Ireland has been traumatized by economic misfortune over the past year.",
        "而产生这种情况的主要原因则是源自于爱尔兰2008年所遭受的经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the criterion on which the US Congress focuses – the bilateral trade balance – is irrelevant to economists (and to the IMF rules).",
        "相反，美国国会所关注的标准——双边贸易余额——与经济学家（以及IMF规则）的标准无关。"
    ],
    [
        "With the rise of the business corporation, large family firms have generally disappeared.",
        "随着企业的发展壮大，大型家族产业大多退出了历史的舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "In our era of fragmentation, there is a more powerful and dynamic American West, a globally more problematic European West (itself fragmented between a prosperous north and an economically lagging south), and even a British West and, in Japan, an Asian West.",
        "在我们的分裂时代，存在一个更强大、更有活力的美国西方，一个全球性问题更严重些的欧洲西方（它本身又存在繁荣的北部和经济落后的南部之间的分裂），甚至还有一个英国西方和一个亚洲西方（在日本）。"
    ],
    [
        "Sustainable Energy Now",
        "现在发展可持续能源"
    ],
    [
        "TRIPOLI – With the creation of a new government, Libya’s leaders should finally be able to focus on organizing the transition from the authoritarian state that they inherited to the more pluralistic one they envisage.",
        "的黎波里——新政府成立后，利比亚领导人终于可以集中精力实现从接手的专制政府到理想中的多元化国家的过渡过程。"
    ],
    [
        "And as past experience tells us, once an extension is granted, it may never end.",
        "而过去的经验告诉我们，期限一旦被延长了一次，就会无休无止地一次次延长下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Just when the smoke from Turkey’s domestic political conflicts of the past year had begun to clear, another deadly attack by Kurdish separatists on Turkish soldiers has the government threatening military attacks inside northern Iraq.",
        "正当过去一年土耳其国内政治斗争的硝烟刚刚开始散去时，库尔德分离主义者攻击土耳其军队导致多名军人死亡的事件使政府威胁要在伊拉克北部实施军队打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in some cases – for example, the United Kingdom – wage decreases and flexible layoff rules have encouraged firms to substitute labor for capital, reducing output per employee.",
        "此外，在一些国家——比如英国——工资下降和弹性劳动法规鼓励企业用劳动力代替资本，从而降低了员工人均产出。"
    ],
    [
        "LJUBLJANA – At the Spring European Council meeting on March 13-14, EU member states’ leaders will launch the second cycle of the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs, a strategy launched in 2000 with the aim of making the EU the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world.",
        "卢布尔雅那—在3月13-14日欧盟委员会的春季会议上，欧盟成员国的领导人们会启动第二轮“增长与就业里斯本战略”。 这项在2000年开始实施的战略行动旨在使欧洲成为世界上最具竞争力的经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "The media might even point out the constitutional absurdity of a representative democracy treating a narrow referendum majority as permanently binding on parliamentary decisions.",
        "媒体甚至会指出代议制民主将狭义公投多数视为议会决定的永久性约束，这样的宪政安排是荒谬的。"
    ],
    [
        "If businesses will not oblige, an income-tax cut would do the trick.",
        "如果企业不愿意如此做，可以采用减少所得税的方式实现。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when it comes to upping equity requirements against “risk-weighted assets,” who is to do the weighting, and according to what methodology?",
        "但是，就提高抵抗“风险加权资产”损失的权益资本要求这一问题而言，由谁来做加权工作？ 根据什么来决定权重？"
    ],
    [
        "In many parts of Europe, however, Turkey's admission to the EU is viewed with skepticism owing to its size, relatively poor economy, fears of massive immigration, and, above all, cultural and societal differences - a euphemism for Islam. It would be foolish to deny that some of these factors represent serious challenges.",
        "但欧洲许多国家都对土耳其的加入持怀疑态度，因为它疆域辽阔、经济也欠发达，他们害怕土耳其进入欧盟会引发大规模移民潮，更重要的是，土耳其与欧洲国家存在着文化和社会方面的巨大差异－说得再直接点，土耳其是个伊斯兰国家。"
    ],
    [
        "There are no great shocks but various declines and crises.",
        "没有巨大的冲击，但是却有不同的下降和危机。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, fiscal stimulus can work only if it supports private investment and is accompanied by much more ambitious structural reforms – the kind of reforms that France and Italy are currently resisting.",
        "毕竟只有在能支持私人投资并与更深层结构改革相结合的情况下，这类财政刺激手段才能奏效——而法国和意大利恰恰是这类改革的反对者。"
    ],
    [
        "How large?",
        "那么究竟要多“大量”的资金？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, in America and most of the world, drug prices are still exorbitant and the spread of knowledge is tightly limited.",
        "但是，在美国以及世界大部分地区，药品价格依然高得离谱，知识的传播则受到了严格的制约。"
    ],
    [
        "So, although some firms do extremely well - say, Toyota and Canon - there is little space for new ventures and entrepreneurs.",
        "因此，尽管有些公司效益非常不错，像丰田和佳能，但却几乎没有给新兴企业和创业者留下太多空间。"
    ],
    [
        "THSR connects Taipei and Kaohsiung, which are 345 kilometers apart, in 90 minutes.",
        "该列车往返于台北和高雄，单程345公里，耗时90分钟。"
    ],
    [
        "Male mosquitoes are bred in the laboratory with a specific genetic mutation.",
        "雄蚊在实验室中繁殖，它们带有一个特别的基因突变。"
    ],
    [
        "As the 1990s progressed, left-wing populist governments came to power in a number of Latin American countries.",
        "随着20世纪90年代的深入，左翼民粹主义政府开始在许多拉丁美洲国家掌权。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the coal industry has helped billions of people escape poverty, not least in China, where coal-fired power has underpinned the nearly 700% growth in per capita income since 1990.",
        "可以肯定，煤炭行业已协助数十亿人摆脱贫困，尤其以中国为首，20世纪90年代以来燃煤发电已支撑人均收入实现近700%的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "They believe that a better version of this de facto “muddled middle” can be achieved through a game of “chicken.”",
        "他们认为，比这一事实上的“混乱的中庸”（muddled middle）更好的状态可以通过“胆小鬼”游戏实现。"
    ],
    [
        "To avert a disorderly fall, short-term macroeconomic management requires officially engineered depreciation through administrative methods and restraints on external borrowing.",
        "为避免无序下跌，就需要实施短期的宏观经济管理，采取行政手段推动官方计划中的贬值步骤并对外部借贷进行限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Only two other parties – the Republican People’s Party (CHP) with 21% and the National Movement Party (MHP) with 14% – surpassed the 10% threshold for representation in parliament.",
        "只有其他两个政党，也就是共和人民党和国家运动党分别获得21%和14%的选票，超过了在议会获得席位的10%的标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Other Arab countries – Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, for example – are sharply divided along tribal, ethnic, and religious lines.",
        "其他阿拉伯国家——比如伊拉克，叙利亚和黎巴嫩——都处于部落，种族和宗教的尖锐分裂之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Once upon a time, for example, it was widely believed that drivers on privately operated roads would constantly be waiting to pay tolls.",
        "比如曾经人们普遍认为司机在私营道路上会需要不断排队支付通行费。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the German reforms of 2003-2006 increased flexibility significantly (though in a more benign global and eurozone setting).",
        "比如，德国在2003—2006年的改革大大地增加了灵活性（尽管它所处的全球和欧元区条件更为有利）。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, a psychological telling of the story of our moral development provides no basis for encouraging us to dampen one natural inclination and nurture another.",
        "毕竟，对我们道德发展的心理学描述并没有提供鼓励我们抑制一种自然倾向而培养另一种的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "I tend to agree with the philosopher Peter Singer that the obscene sums being spent on premier pieces of modern art are disquieting.",
        "我倾向于同意哲学家彼得·辛格（Peter Singer）的说法：将如此巨大数量的金钱花在现代艺术的名作上令人不安。"
    ],
    [
        "How China Is Winning Southeast Asia",
        "中国如何赢得东南亚"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps even in the depths of Mongolia, you would have heard the dire warnings emitted by journalists.",
        "即使是在那里，你也可能听到了记者们发出的严峻警告。"
    ],
    [
        "But much more financing will be needed to prevent a funding gap after 2020.",
        "但要防止2020年后出现资金缺口，我们还需要大量融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, reporters have a responsibility to their audiences to analyze what powerful actors are doing, rather than what they are saying.",
        "其次，记者有责任替受众分析权势人物如何做，而不是他们在说什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The most urgent priority is to create safe and legal paths for refugees to reach Europe.",
        "最紧迫的重点是为难民构建前往欧洲的安全合法途径。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits of such an approach could be profound.",
        "这样的方法可能带来深刻的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the ratification, at long last, of IMF reform, and the US does seem to be on a global winning streak.",
        "然后是经历了漫长等待终于到来的IMF改革批准立法，美国确实似乎走上了全球连胜道路。"
    ],
    [
        "A Talking Cure for Syria",
        "叙利亚的谈判解决方案"
    ],
    [
        "Fresh produce requires a cold-storage logistic system, a green lane at customs, certification of good agricultural practices, and sanitary permits.",
        "生鲜农产品需要冷藏物流系统、绿色通关通道、优质农业活动资质和卫生许可。"
    ],
    [
        "Should the constitution establish a presidential or parliamentary system?",
        "在宪政体制的选择方面，是该实施总统制还是议会制？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the power of America’s presidency, and of the United States, has undergone dramatic shifts in recent years, making our era unlike earlier periods when the world was in flux and a new American president faced deep challenges.",
        "此外，美国总统和国家权力近些年来发生了戏剧性的变化，我们的时代已经与早年的形势迥异，目前的世界变化不断，而新一任的美国总统面临着深重的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Encumbered by slowing growth in China, a collapse in commodity prices, and adverse spillover from numerous security crises, Africa’s overall annual GDP growth averaged just 3.3% in 2010-2015, barely keeping up with population growth – and down sharply from the 4.9% recorded from 2000 to 2008.",
        "在中国经济增长放缓、大宗商品价格暴跌以及不止一次安全危机的拖累下，非洲的年度总体GDP增长在2010到2015年仅为3. 3%，这一速度仅能勉强跟上人口增长——与2000到2008年4."
    ],
    [
        "With every lesson we learn comes a decision that will shape our future.",
        "我们学到的点点滴滴都将重塑我们的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Does addressing these imbalances require breaking up the eurozone?",
        "难道必须要欧元区解体才能解决这些贸易不平衡问题吗？"
    ],
    [
        "That is why most people buy an electric car as their second car, for short commutes.",
        "这就是为什么大部分人购买电动车只是充当备选车做短途之用。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese economy is clearly in urgent need of repair.",
        "中国经济的增长方式显然亟需修复。"
    ],
    [
        "He rejected what he described as the European style of very large government and high tax rates and the American style of lower tax rates but large fiscal deficits, in favor of low budget deficits and a tax system that would promote “opportunities” for individuals and private enterprises.",
        "他反对欧洲的大政府高税率以及美国式的低税率高财政赤字，比较偏爱低预算赤字和能使个人和公司获得更多“机会”的税收体系。"
    ],
    [
        "While the Iranian regime continues to be belligerently anti-American, the Iranian people are overtly pro-American.",
        "尽管伊朗当局坚持顽固的反美立场，但伊朗人民却公开地支持美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Partly due to such efforts, as well as to a change in family values, the rate of growth of the world’s population, began a long decline, to 1.1% in 2005.",
        "部分由于这样的努力以及家庭观念的变化，世界人口的增长率开始了长期的下降趋势，到2005年只有1. 1%。"
    ],
    [
        "But uncertain estimates do not mean that the risk is any less acute.",
        "但不确定的估计并不意味着风险不尖锐。"
    ],
    [
        "America's unilateral announcement has fuelled rumors to the effect that withdrawal must have something to do with the rising tide of anti-Americanism in South Korea, and especially with the country's reluctance and delay in dispatching an additional 3,600 of its own soldiers to Iraq.",
        "美国的单方面宣布使韩国国内谣言四起，说这次撤军肯定与韩国国内日益高涨的反美风潮有关，特别是韩国不情愿并拖延再次派遣3，600名本土士兵到伊拉克，是这次撤军直接的导火索。"
    ],
    [
        "For most people, the presidency would seem to be its own reward, without cashing in (at least not while in office).",
        "对多数人而言，总统职位本身就是奖励，因此无需兑换成现金（至少在就职期间）。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the lingering issues of the rural household responsibility system, for example, was unclear property rights relating to farm land, which is still legally owned collectively by local farmers, even though land-use rights were contracted to the individual households for 30 years.",
        "比如，农村家庭联产承包责任制的一个长期遗留问题是农地产权不清晰。 目前，法律上农地仍归本地农民集体所有，尽管土地使用权利以30年的合约期承包给了个体家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "One is democracy, including elections and governments held to account by parliaments and ultimately the people. The other is the rule of law.",
        "其一是民主，包括对议会及人民负责的选举和政府，其二则是法治。"
    ],
    [
        "To that end, policy should be based not on blunt indicators of aggregate change, such as GDP and net trade data, but on more nuanced metrics that provide a clearer picture of wealth distribution, education, and quality of life.",
        "在这方面，政策不应该基于粗暴的总需求指标，GDP和净贸易数据，而应该用更细致的指标提供关于财富分配、教育和生活品质的更清晰的图景。"
    ],
    [
        "China, for example, used nearly $500 billion of its reserves in 2015 to fight capital outflows and prevent the renminbi’s sharp depreciation; but it still has more than $3 trillion in reserves.",
        "以中国为例，虽然该国在2015年动用了近5000亿美元外汇储备来对冲资金外流同时防止人民币大幅贬值； 但它手中仍握有超过3万亿美元储备。"
    ],
    [
        "The bad news is that Mexico’s growth prospects have become inextricably tied to those of its huge neighbor to the north.",
        "坏消息是墨西哥的增长前景极其依赖于其规模庞大的北方邻国。"
    ],
    [
        "The measures that are implemented tend to be stand-alone and piecemeal, rather than part of a larger, systematic risk-reduction plan.",
        "所实施的措施往往是孤立而零碎的，而不是作为更大的系统性降低风险计划的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "It will also identify better ways to ensure that development aid reaches the poor, taking lessons from successful programs such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.",
        "该峰会还将研究确保发展援助投向穷人的更加办法，学习抗艾滋病、结核病和疟疾全球基金（Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria）等成功计划的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "It led the world in science, technology, and infrastructure.",
        "它引领着全球科学、技术和基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Three in five illiterate children in the world are girls.",
        "世界上文盲儿童中的五分之三是女童。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe also would continue to be dominated by the interests of the big countries, with the small countries in the back of the bus.",
        "由于小国的胆小懦弱，欧洲还将继续受到大国利益的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "TEL AVIV – Forty-five years into Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, and four years after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government became the undertaker of the two-state solution, an electoral campaign run in utter denial of Israel’s Palestinian conundrum has just ended with yet another Netanyahu government in office.",
        "特拉维夫—以色列占领巴勒斯坦领土45年后，内塔尼亚胡政府宣布两国方案死刑4年后，彻底否决以色列的巴勒斯坦问题的选举最近结束了，内塔尼亚胡政府没能赢得新一届任期。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the GAVI Alliance (formerly the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunization), a partnership comprising international organizations, philanthropies, governments, companies, and research organizations, has immunized 440 million children since 2000 and helped avert more than six million deaths.",
        "比如，GAVI联盟（全球疫苗和免疫联盟）是一个由国际组织、慈善机构、政府、公司和研究组织组成的合作组织，自2000年以来，该联盟为4. 4亿儿童做了免疫，帮助减少了600多万起死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Lastly, CEOs should show leadership in how they manage their own compensation negotiations.",
        "最后，CEO们应当在自身薪酬谈判中展现出领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "The TPP’s strategic value extends far beyond the economic benefits it promises.",
        "TPP的战略价值远远超过了其所带来的经济利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks and other institutions are also under pressure to devise new financial products that can help the real sector to manage more complex risks and enable investment in areas such as green technology and infrastructure for developing economies.",
        "银行和其他机构在面临新的压力——设计新的金融产品以帮助实体部门管理更复杂的风险并为绿色技术和发展中国家基础设施等领域的投资提供便利。"
    ],
    [
        "Some lines of thought are more emotional: might not 2008 be a payback for the American bungling of the 1997-1998 East Asia crisis?",
        "还有一些论点含有更多的感情色彩。 比如，美国在1997年和1998年亚洲金融危机时表现笨拙，那么，2008年是不是就是报应呢？"
    ],
    [
        "America’s failed financial model for higher education is one of the reasons that, among the advanced countries, America now has the least equality of opportunity, with the life prospects of a young American more dependent on his or her parents’ income and education than in other advanced countries.",
        "美国的机会平等状况在发达国家中垫底，与其他发达国家相比，美国年轻人的生活前景更多地取决于父母亲的收入和教育，之所以如此，失败的高等教育金融模式难辞其咎。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, a hard economic landing looks increasingly likely as the investment bubble deflates and net exports shrink.",
        "在中国，随着投资泡沫的消灭和净出口的下降，硬着陆的可能性正在与日俱增。"
    ],
    [
        "But, over the past three decades, the trend reversed.",
        "但是，在过去三十年里，这一趋势被逆转了。"
    ],
    [
        "The world benefits from entering into treaties and embracing cooperative arrangements.",
        "世界从签署条约和接纳合作性安排中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "After Augustus, the first Roman princeps, the Senate could vote deceased emperors into divine status.",
        "在罗马第一公民奥古斯都之后，元老院可以投票赋予驾崩皇帝圣人地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the conflict would become, if one can use the expression, more “normal” – no longer between an occupying power and an occupied people, but between two countries, two states, that disagree about a lot of issues, including borders, mutual relations, and control over populations.",
        "事实上，这场冲突（如果有人可以用某种词汇来形容的话）将变得更加“正常”——这不再是一个占领政权以及被占领人民之间的斗争，而是两个国家，两个政权之间在许多问题上的冲突，包括边界划分，双边关系以及对当地人口的划分。"
    ],
    [
        "History is moving in the Middle East, but not in the direction that Turkey would prefer.",
        "历史正在中东演进，但并非按土耳其希望的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, today’s health IT systems act more like a “frequent flyer card” designed to enforce customer loyalty to a particular hospital, rather than an “ATM card” that enables you and your doctor to access your health information whenever and wherever needed.",
        "结果，如今医疗IT系统更像是为增加客户对某家医院忠诚度而设计的“常客飞行积分卡”，而不是让你和你的医生在需要时随时随地都能获得你的健康信息的“ATM卡”。"
    ],
    [
        "The enforcement of commitments then became more balanced.",
        "此后的执法行为变得相对均衡。"
    ],
    [
        "While Ahmedinejad’s apocalyptic vision makes it difficult for westerners to deal with him, Khamenei does not want to stumble into a military confrontation with the West, which would destabilize Iran and possibly lead to the regime’s downfall.",
        "虽然内贾德启示录般的愿景让西方人很难与其打交道，但哈梅内依却不愿意跌入与西方的军事对抗。 这种对抗可能会使伊朗陷入不稳定状态，并可能导致该政权的垮台。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary policy is usually the first line of defense in such situations.",
        "在这种情况下，货币政策往往是第一道防线。"
    ],
    [
        "But electoral competitiveness is always a necessary condition for democracy - and therefore a central consideration when evaluating a country's prospects for democratization.",
        "但选举竞争力永远是民族的必要条件¾因此也是评价某国民主化前景的中心因素。"
    ],
    [
        "On energy, it is picking off individual EU member states and signing long-term deals that undermine the core principles of the EU’s common strategy.",
        "在能源方面，俄国对欧盟各成员国们各个击破，分别签订破坏欧盟共同战略核心原则的长期协议。"
    ],
    [
        "A study in Tanzania, for example, found that women earned near four times more in areas with strong women’s land rights.",
        "比方说，坦桑尼亚一项研究发现尊重女性地权的地区女性收入是对照组的四倍。"
    ],
    [
        "These opportunities are particularly crucial for Africa, where more than 620 million people live without electricity.",
        "这些机会对于非洲来说尤其关键。 6."
    ],
    [
        "Whereas Americans depend upon tax-deductible private donations and box office receipts to finance live classical music, Europeans prefer direct government support for the arts.",
        "美国人靠可获减税的私人捐助和票房收入的资金来支持古典音乐表演，而欧洲人则更倾向于依靠直接的政府支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Was this just a peculiarity of the eurozone, in which sovereign countries did not control their own currencies?",
        "这仅仅是发生在主权国家无法控制自己的货币的欧元区的例外吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Reconciling Hamas and Fatah",
        "实现哈马斯和法塔赫和解"
    ],
    [
        "If she prevails – and Trump can stick to a theme – we’ll see a more reasonable Republican candidate.",
        "如果她最终胜出——并且特朗普能够坚持一个主题——我们会看到一个更为理性的共和党候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Among advanced economies, the United States has just experienced two quarters of growth averaging 1%.",
        "发达经济体中，美国前两季度增长率平均只有1%。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, former President George W. Bush gets some of the blame because of the war in Iraq.",
        "美国方面，前总统布什也因为伊拉克战争而要对此负一定责任。"
    ],
    [
        "By offering our commitment and support, we can enable these countries to realize inclusive and sustainable development for the benefit of everyone.",
        "通过提供我们的承诺和支持，我们能让这些国家实现包容和可持续的发展，让所有人都从中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a danger that the number voting in June will be lower than ever before.",
        "6月的选举的投票率有可能是有史以来最低的一次。"
    ],
    [
        "Just like in the developed countries of the West, migrants in the Middle East can offer untold contributions to their host societies.",
        "正如在西方发达国家，在中东的移民能够为接收国做出不可估量的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "The old state planner Chen Yuan once cautioned that Chinese reformers had created \"a birdcage economy\" in which a capitalist bird was growing within a socialist cage.",
        "计划经济的元老陈云曾警告说中国的改革者们缔造了一种\"鸟笼经济\"，即资本主义的鸟成长在社会主义的笼里。"
    ],
    [
        "The imbroglio started when mayors in several southern French seaside towns banned burkinis on their beaches.",
        "法国南部几个海滨城镇的市长禁止在当地海滩上穿戴布基尼引发了这场纠葛。"
    ],
    [
        "The responsibility lies, first and foremost, with Israel.",
        "责任归根到底在于以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "A glance at any EU member state’s parliamentary calendar shows that lawmaking there is largely confined to domestic issues.",
        "只要看一看任何欧盟成员 国的议会日程，就知道它们的立法主要限于国内的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For 50 years, tobacco companies employed a stable of scientists to assert (sometimes under oath) that they did not believe there was conclusive evidence that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer.",
        "50年来，烟草公司雇用了一大批科学家来支持（有时甚至发誓）他们不相信有决定性的证据表明抽烟导致肺癌的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "We know to day the cause: the secret protocol to the Treaty of Non-aggression between the Soviet Union and Nazi-Germany, signed in 1939 – the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – defining the spheres of interest of the two dictatorships in eastern Europe which led to the war with Finland, the occupations of the Baltic countries, the assault on and division of Poland, and probably also the occupations of Norway and Denmark.",
        "我们都知道背后的原因：1939年苏联和纳粹德国在《互不侵犯条约》下签订的一个秘密协议- 《莫洛托夫与里宾特洛甫协议》-明确了东欧两个独裁政权彼此的势力范围，导致了与芬兰开战，对波罗的海国家的占领，对波兰的进攻与分割，并很可能也导致了对挪威和丹麦的占领。"
    ],
    [
        "Successful immunization campaigns must secure the support of de facto political leaders – whether of an internationally recognized state or of a vilified militant organization.",
        "成功的免疫运动必须确保在任政治领导人的支持——不管是国际承认的国家还是声名狼藉的军事组织。"
    ],
    [
        "The coming years or even months are likely to see new forms of these domino effects.",
        "未来几年，甚至几个月，有可能爆发新的多米诺骨牌效应。"
    ],
    [
        "First, most of Russia’s elite rejected the view that the loss of empire was irreversible.",
        "首先，俄国精英大多数都拒绝接受这一观点，即帝国的丧失是不可逆转的。"
    ],
    [
        "Competition presses each company to keep its costs down.",
        "竞争迫使所有公司压低成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The genie is out of the bottle, and people know that they have the power to topple governments, and, more generally, that their political activism has consequences.",
        "魔鬼已经出了瓶子，人们都知道他们有能力推翻政府。 更普遍的是，他们的政治行动会产生严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the human-rights experiment that Tony Blair’s Labour government brought to Britain has failed.",
        "事实上，由东尼·布莱尔的工党政府带给英国的人权试验已经彻底宣告破产了。"
    ],
    [
        "China is unique in many respects, but it is not the first country to experience corporate-debt difficulties.",
        "虽然中国在许多方面都具有自身特色，但它不是第一个遭遇企业债务难题的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Sikorski’s argument shocked many US officials, because he is considered one of the most pro-American politicians in Poland.",
        "因为西科斯基曾被认为是波兰最最亲美的政治家之一，他的这一说法让许多美国官员感到震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Wouldn’t Lugovoi’s entrance into politics bring about the ideal solution to the problem of finding an heir for Putin?",
        "Lugovoi进入政界难道不是对普京寻找继任者这一问题的理想解决方案么？"
    ],
    [
        "US policy in Asia requires a steady hand, and, in Obama, the US has just that.",
        "美国的亚洲政策需要步步为营，而奥巴马正好满足这一条件。"
    ],
    [
        "While the overall average length of time for holding a stock has declined, the impact on senior managers is unclear, because the holding period for core institutional investors, like Vanguard and Fidelity, has not changed in the past decade or two from its two- or three-year baseline.",
        "当整体平均持股时间缩短的时候，这对企业高管的影响却是不确定的，因为核心机构投资者——比如美国先锋集团（Vanguard Group）和富达（Fidelity）——的持有时间在过去的十几二十年并没有什么变化，还是保持其2到3年的基线。"
    ],
    [
        "It was to avert this possibility that central banks began pumping money into the economy after 2008.",
        "为了避免这种可能性的发生，央行在2008年后开始为经济注入资金。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has a persistent overall trade deficit that fluctuates in the range of 3-6% of GDP.",
        "美国的贸易赤字总量一直维持在GDP的3—6%之间。"
    ],
    [
        "The Copenhagen Consensus Center, of which I am director, recently asked 60 teams of economists to evaluate the benefits and costs of these proposed targets, which will come into force to replace the Millennium Development Goals in September.",
        "我领导的哥本哈根共识中心最近委托60组经济学家评估上述目标的成本效益状况。 上述拟议中的目标将取代千年发展目标于9月生效。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia, and China in particular, is a favorite target for criticism.",
        "亚洲，特别是中国是他们最喜欢的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Eastern thinking, by contrast, has been abductive, moving from pragmatism to guessing the next steps.",
        "相比之下，东方的思考方式则是溯因式的，从实用主义出发去猜测下一步该如何行动。"
    ],
    [
        "It was not monetary policy’s fault, argued both former Fed Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke; if anything, they insisted, a lack of regulatory oversight was the culprit.",
        "两位前主席格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan）和伯南克（Ben Bernanke）都说这不是货币政策的错； 他们坚持认为，要错也是缺乏监督监管的错。"
    ],
    [
        "Never mind that he uses crass sexual imagery to sell hamburgers.",
        "他用低俗荤段子推销汉堡包，这不重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the US could have fulfilled its normal role as the conductor of the international economic orchestra. It has not, even as the European Union continues to respond inadequately to its own slow-moving solvency crises.",
        "类似地，美国本能胜任其国际经济总指挥的日常职责，但它没有做到，甚至连欧盟无法处理好其缓慢发酵的债务危机时也没能挺身而出。"
    ],
    [
        "But, aside from the low probability in some countries that the revenue would be directed to that end, it is not clear that much money would be made.",
        "但抛开某些国家不太可能将收入用于上述领域的情况不谈，这种方法能挣到多少钱依然是未知数。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, global growth, at its current level, is inadequate for mere redistribution among countries to work.",
        "毕竟，以当前水平，仅仅在各国之间重新分配全球增长是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "Looming particularly large over the next few months are escalating geopolitical conflicts that are nearing a tipping point, beyond which lies the specter of serious systemic disruptions in the global economy.",
        "对未来几个月来说，最大的阴云就是不断升级乃至临近爆点的地缘政治冲突，其中萦绕着全球经济严重系统性分裂的阴魂。"
    ],
    [
        "Big banks’ ability to extort such an arrangement stems from an implicit threat: the financial sector – and with it the economy’s payment system – would collapse if a systemically important bank were ever pushed into insolvency.",
        "大银行能够营造这样的安排的原因是一个潜在威胁：如果具系统重要性的银行陷入破产，那么金融部门——以及与之相关的经济支付系统——将会崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, his call for an evaluation of the TBTF problem will have a major impact for three reasons.",
        "但他要求评估大而不能倒问题的呼吁将产生重大的影响，原因有三："
    ],
    [
        "Murderous anti-Semitism and radical nationalism followed the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.",
        "凶残的反犹和激进的民族主义伴随着奥匈帝国的垮台。"
    ],
    [
        "But Italian women (indeed, women everywhere, it seems) feel only anger and humiliation over a man so obsessed with himself, his various criminal trials, and his vulgar pleasures that he appears to them to have no purpose left except to remain in power as long as possible.",
        "但对意大利的女性来说（事实上几乎世界各地的女性都一样），她们对一个如此自恋，如此沉迷于各种犯罪指控和低级趣味的人感到无比愤怒和羞耻，在她们眼中贝卢斯科尼一无是处，只不过是个贪恋权位的政客而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Intelligent cooperation that avoids moral hazard should be able to prevent panic, reduce risk premiums, and permit fuller use of resources.",
        "智能合作可以避免道德风险，智能合作应该能够防止恐慌情绪、减少风险溢价、并能使资源得到更充分的利用。"
    ],
    [
        "Something is amiss in the world of finance.",
        "当今金融世界中出了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The two leaders of the Right and of the Left, the favorites in all the polls for a long time, came first and second.",
        "左右两翼的领导人长期以来一直是民意调查的宠儿，现在以第一和第二名的位置胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "When combined with physical measurements on the ground, these data can help governments gain a better accounting of water resources, prepare for droughts and floods, and plan future water use.",
        "配合地面实地测量，这些数据有助于政府获得更好的水资源统计，为干旱和洪水做好准备，并规划未来水用途。"
    ],
    [
        "The most acute risk relates to North Korea’s advancing nuclear program, but there are also substantial risks in the Middle East and elsewhere.",
        "最尖锐的风险是朝鲜不断推进其核计划，但在中东和其他地区也存在很大风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, contrary to popular perception, nuclear power has a good overall safety record.",
        "尽管如此，与流行的感觉相反，核电在安全记录上总体来说相当优秀。"
    ],
    [
        "A preciseunderstanding of the strong force could be just as important, opening new ways to use nuclear-energy resources while solving the problems of safety and nuclear waste.",
        "而对于开发利用核能资源的新方法，以及解决核废料问题来说，这么一个对强相互作用力的精确理解都将非常意义重大。"
    ],
    [
        "The North Korean faith is altogether less inclusive.",
        "朝鲜人的信仰从根本上不具有包容的特质。"
    ],
    [
        "At the urging of his 2011-2012 Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, he signed several executive orders to modernize and expedite the interagency review-and-permitting processes for high-priority federal infrastructure projects.",
        "在其对2011—2012年就业和竞争力委员会（Council on Jobs and Competitiveness）的敦促中，他签署了数项行政令以动员和加速高优先级联邦基础设施项目的跨部门审查和批准程序。"
    ],
    [
        "· A public-debt crisis in Japan (as the combination of recession, deflation, and high deficits drove up the debt/GDP ratio).",
        "· 日本公债危机（衰退、通缩以及高赤字推升债务/GDP比率同时发生）。"
    ],
    [
        "Idealism without realism rarely reshapes the world, but as we judge our modern democratic leaders, we should keep both Machiavelli and Acton in mind.",
        "脱离了现实主义的理想主义很难改变世界，但我们在平价现代民主领导人时，应该同时考虑马基雅维利和阿克顿。"
    ],
    [
        "From the shift toward illiberalism in Poland and Hungary to the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election, a particularly lethal strain of populism is infecting societies – and it is spreading.",
        "从波兰和匈牙利转向反自由主义到英国退欧公投和唐纳德·特朗普在美国总统竞选中获胜，某种特别致命的民粹主义正在感染全社会——并且仍在传播的过程中。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem will not disappear until people stop tolerating intolerance.",
        "除非人们停止纵容狭隘，否则问题就永远不会消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries in Western and Central Africa are enacting poorly drafted policies based on the African Model Law, which makes it a criminal offense for any person infected by the virus to transmit it to someone else or to expose another person to it.",
        "一些中部及西部的非洲国家正在颁布仓促起草的基于非洲示范法之上的政策，那么任何感染了这种病毒的人，如果将病毒传染给别人或使另一人受到感染的威胁，这就成了一种刑事犯罪行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Education must become an integral part of the emergency response to any refugee crisis.",
        "教育必须成为一切难民危机紧急响应的组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is to use ICT to help individuals monitor their health conditions, and to connect individuals with expert advice.",
        "首先是利用信息和通信技术来协助个人检测自身健康状况，并把这些个体与专业建议之间联系起来。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU provides this set of common rules, buttressed by common institutions that give every country, even the smallest, a say.",
        "而欧盟则提供这一套共同规则，通过共同的机构，让每一个国家——即使是最小的——都能有发言权。"
    ],
    [
        "During the First World War, however, Japan was reluctant to send troops to Europe despite repeated requests from the Allies.",
        "但在第一次世界大战期间，尽管联军向日本不断发出援助请求，但日本就是不愿向欧洲派兵。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to analyzing information about lobbying expenditures, the authors map out the network connections of lobbyists (known collectively as “K Street,” because so many have their Washington offices there) and legislators.",
        "除了分析关于游说支出的信息外，两位作者还挖掘出了游说集团（被称为“K街”，因为大量游说集团的华盛顿办事处都设在那里）和立法者的关系网。"
    ],
    [
        "But a combination of factors, including slowing economic growth and a gradual relaxation of restrictions on investing abroad, has unleashed a torrent of capital outflows.",
        "但众多因素结合在一起，包括经济增长放缓和逐步放宽对国外投资的限制，已经引发了巨大的资本外流。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel, for example, has had peaceful relations with non-democratic Egypt and Jordan for more than three decades.",
        "例如，以色列和非民主的国家埃及和约旦达成了和平协议。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this serves to increase the political uncertainty that threatens the region’s stability.",
        "所有这些都增加了政治不确定性，威胁到中亚地区的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Wage growth continues to be slow.",
        "工资增长更依然缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "The time for action is now.",
        "现在就要采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The debate just eight years ago about “shovel-ready” infrastructure seems to be a distant memory.",
        "关于“万事俱备”（shovel-ready）的基础设施的争论发生在八年前，但好像已经是遥远的回忆了。"
    ],
    [
        "But Europe should move more decisively in this direction.",
        "但欧洲应该坚决地向这一方向迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), once the largest government party, has quit the ruling coalition, the two-thirds vote in Congress needed to impeach Rousseff is within reach.",
        "如今，巴西民主运动党（PMDB，曾经是最大的执政党）已经退出执政联盟，弹劾罗塞夫所需要的三分之二国会投票似乎不再不可及。"
    ],
    [
        "Though member states may sometimes have to compete with one another for market share and multinational operations, their areas of specialization would largely be complementary.",
        "尽管成员国有时会相互竞争市场份额和跨国企业，但它们的专业领域总体来说是互补的。"
    ],
    [
        "They did not curse what they had glorified in the past and embrace what they had once condemned.",
        "她们并不诅咒她们过去所赞美的东西，也不拥抱她们曾经谴责的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "The establishment of SDRs was accompanied by a commitment, included in the IMF Articles of Agreement, to “making the special drawing right the principal reserve asset in the international monetary system” (Article VIII, Section 7 and Article XXII).",
        "SDR的创立伴随着一项承诺，并写入了IMF协定章程中：“让特别提款权成为国际货币体系的主要储备资产”（第八条第7款和第二十二条）。"
    ],
    [
        "Where this happens, an explosive condition can arise, a kind of separatism within, not by historically separate groups but by newcomers against natives.",
        "如果出现了这种情况，就会产生蕴含着分离主义的爆炸性局面，这不是古已有之的团体对立，而是新移民与当地人之间的对立。"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, the euro’s creators were wrong to expect that the common currency would promote economic and political convergence among its members.",
        "无论哪种方式，欧元创造者认为共同货币会促进成员之间的经济与政治融合的观点都是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "But five countries are very close: Norway, Russia, the United States, Canada, and Denmark (via Greenland, which will become independent in the coming years).",
        "但是，五个国家与之非常接近：挪威，俄罗斯，美国，加拿大和丹麦（中间隔着格陵兰岛，而格陵兰岛在未来几年内将独立）。"
    ],
    [
        "When a credit boom is involved, however, the damage is significantly greater.",
        "5%。 一旦由信贷繁荣所推动则破坏会明显扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "No nation, no people, ever experienced growth that sprang solely from external support.",
        "没有哪国的国家和人民所经历的发展完全来自于国外的援助。"
    ],
    [
        "After the ouster of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the US turned its sights on the secular dictatorship of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Instead of encouraging reform of the Saudi/Wahhabi regime – the system that spawned 15 of the 19 hijackers in the 9/11 attacks – the average Muslim saw America as waging war on a regime that had nothing to do with that crime.",
        "沙特瓦哈比政权体制产生了9/11袭击中19名劫机犯中的15人。 美国并没有鼓励该政权的改革，普通穆斯林民众认为美国在向一个与9/11犯罪毫无牵连的政权发动战争。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Olmert’s weak and discredited government may yet survive.",
        "实际上，奥尔默特软弱而又饱受垢病的政府可能还是可以存活下来。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation is only slightly better in science.",
        "在科学界，这一局面稍微好一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, even if many AKP activists and voters are devout Muslims, Erdogan and Gul remain committed to European integration.",
        "然而，即使许多公正和发展党的激进分子和选民都是虔诚的穆斯林，埃尔多安和居尔仍然致力于加入欧洲的一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the official US argument – that China should invest its money in existing institutions, such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, because a Chinese-led bank would likely have governance problems – smacks of hypocrisy.",
        "此外，美国的官方观点——中国应该将钱投资于世界银行和亚洲开发银行等现有机构，因为中国领导的银行可能出现治理问题——有一种伪善的味道。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt is undergoing a heated nationwide debate over political reform. The central issue is a demand by all opposition parties and civil society groups to amend the 1971 constitution and abolish the 23-year-old State of Emergency that was imposed following Anwar Sadat's assassination in 1981.",
        "一场全国政治改革的热烈讨论正在埃及进行，核心事件是所有反对党和民间社团一致要求修改1971年宪法，取消1981年安瓦尔·萨达特遇刺后实行达23年之久的紧急状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond the technical and social challenges associated with the successful integration of refugees, there is a need for greater tolerance toward Islam and diversity more generally on the part of all Germans.",
        "除了与成功融合难民相关的技术和社会挑战之外，德国各地都需要对伊斯兰教和更广义的多样性更加宽容。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of Korea – as Christopher Hill, one of the most effective US negotiators on these matters, remembers – the US should make it clear that no possible solution for the divided peninsula would mean a strategic loss for China.",
        "就朝鲜问题而言，美国在这方面最精干的谈判者克里斯托弗·希尔（Christopher Hill）指出，美国应该澄清一点：解决朝鲜半岛分裂状态的任何方案都不会给中国造成战略损失。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s National Rural Health Mission has adopted such an approach, using region-specific data to identify low-quality prenatal care, unsafe deliveries, and lack of access to birth control as high-priority issues in 18 states.",
        "印度的国家农村卫生计划就采取了这样的方法，使用具体的地区数据，将低质量产前护理、不安全分娩和缺少生育控制手段作为18个邦的高度紧迫问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A successful transition would give real opportunities to a generation of unemployed young people, thus enabling them to take responsibility for their futures – and the future of the region.",
        "成功的转型将为一代失业青年提供真正的机会，从而让他们承担起自己——以及海湾地区——的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Chen squandered six valuable years as his administration engaged mainly in polemics with its opposition parties while he pandered to the extreme wing of the DPP and mobilized his government to “de-Sinicize” Taiwan culture.",
        "陈把他宝贵的六年时间浪费在让他的行政部门把主要精力放在与他的反对党的争执上，而他本人则迎合民进党的极端势力并且推动他的政府不断地对台湾文化“去中国化”。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in 2001, it took just one quarter for output to recover, but 38 months for jobs to come back. The current recovery appears to be similarly slow in creating jobs.",
        "在2001年，产出水平只花了1个季度就恢复原状，但就业率却整整拖了38个月才回到原点，而当前的复苏在恢复就业方面似乎也同样缓慢无比。"
    ],
    [
        "The stimulus package appears big – more than 2% of GDP per year – but one-third of it goes to tax cuts.",
        "经济刺激方案看起来很庞大——超过GDP的2%——但有三分之一都用到了减税上。"
    ],
    [
        "But to call T3 a success for socialism and T5 a failure of capitalism would be to miss a fundamental point.",
        "但是如果简单地把北京T3称之为社会主义的成功、而把伦敦T5称之为资本主义的失败，恐怕失之偏颇。"
    ],
    [
        "After sequencing the entire genomes of 50 patients’ breast cancer tumors, researchers found that only 10% of the tumors had more than three mutations in common.",
        "在对50名患者的乳腺癌肿瘤进行完全基因组测序后，研究者发现只有10%的肿瘤存在三个以上的相同变异。"
    ],
    [
        "This geographical imbalance requires an ordered system of trade, clear regulations, and a well-structured global market.",
        "这一地缘性的失衡要求一个有序的交易体系、明晰的监管以及结构合理的全球市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Last week, Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona condemned Trump for using Joseph Stalin’s infamous phrase “enemies of the people” to describe the free press.",
        "上周，亚利桑那州共和党参议员杰夫·弗莱克（Jeff Flake）谴责特朗普使用斯大林那个臭名昭著的“人民公敌”说法来形容自由媒体。"
    ],
    [
        "How to Boost Access to Essential Medicines",
        "如何促进基本药物的使用"
    ],
    [
        "Sovereignty has thus become a particularly seductive concept for citizens of the southern member countries, who have increasingly come to believe that the EU's “rigid\" structure has been imposed upon them.",
        "主权因此成为对南欧成员国民众极具诱惑力的概念，这些人越来越相信他们被迫成为欧盟“僵化”结构的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, donors will additionally help offset the $3.5 billion in direct and indirect losses caused by last summer’s war between Israel and Hezbollah, and the further rise of debt to $40.6 billion, a staggering 180% of Lebanon’s GDP.",
        "这一次，捐助国将会帮助黎巴嫩额外勾销由去年夏天以色列和真主党之间的战争所造成的350亿美金的直接或间接损失，以及将新增加的、竟相当于该国GDP180%的406亿美金债务。"
    ],
    [
        "This force is so strong that if there were no transportation costs, and if the US and Europe had no other source of competitive advantage, such as in technology, eventually it would be as if Chinese workers continued to migrate to the US and Europe until wage differences had been eliminated entirely.",
        "这种力量是如此强大，以致如果没有运输成本，如果美国和欧洲没有类似科学技术这样的其他竞争优势来源，最终就等同于中国工人持续向美国和欧洲迁移，直到完全抹平两地工资差别。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The rise of anti-trade populism in the 2016 US election campaign portends a dangerous retreat from the United States’ role in world affairs.",
        "发自剑桥——反贸易民粹主义在2016年美国总统竞选期间的兴起预示着美国在世界事务中所扮演的角色出现了危险的倒退。"
    ],
    [
        "Using commodity revenues to obtain political support is not a strategy unique to Brazil.",
        "利用商品收入赢取政治支持并非巴西所独有的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, other NATO members could disagree that Syria has in fact attacked Turkey, but if Turkey were to invoke Article 5, a refusal to offer assistance could have unpleasant consequences for the alliance as a whole.",
        "当然，其他北约成员国可以拒绝承认叙利亚真的袭击了土耳其，但如果土耳其诉诸第五条，拒绝出手相助将对整个联盟产生不利后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has shown, sanctions can be presented as a blessing, forcing the Kremlin to diversify Russia’s commodities-based economy.",
        "此外，正如副总理舒瓦洛夫（Igor Shuvalov）所言，制裁或许是件好事，破事克里姆林宫实现俄罗斯基于大宗商品的经济的多样化。"
    ],
    [
        "Israelis are struggling to comprehend why five million refugees and 200,000 deaths in Syria mean so much less to the Western conscience than the 2,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza.",
        "以色列一直难以理解，为何叙利亚的200,000死者和五百万难民给西方人良心的震动远远不如2,000在加沙被杀的巴勒斯坦人。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dhaka episode was hardly the first time that threats against Japanese citizens had exposed this shortcoming.",
        "达卡事件不是第一次针对日本公民的威胁暴露出这一缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "That emphasis was formalized in Premier Li Keqiang’s recent “Work Report,” which outlined the new strategy of the just-enacted 13th Five-Year Plan (covering the 2016-20 period).",
        "这一着重点由李克强总理在最新《政府工作报告》中提出，该报告还提出了刚刚开始实施的十三五规划（2016—2020年）的新战略刚要。"
    ],
    [
        "The limits of inflation targeting are now clear, and the strategy should be discarded.",
        "设置通胀目标这一手段的局限性如今早已明确，应该被放弃。"
    ],
    [
        "Until the central government is willing to yield its control over SOE management, ownership reforms are likely to spark only tepid interest from the private sector.",
        "除非中央政府愿意放弃其对国有企业管理层的控制，否则所有权改革无法引起民营部门的多大兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, with the number of elderly growing as a result of rising life expectancy, this low birth rate has pushed the share of those aged 65 and above from 4.9% of the total population to 7.7%.",
        "此外，因为预期寿命的增高带来了老年人口的增加，这种低出生率使得65岁以上的老年人的比率从总人口的4. 9%增加到了7."
    ],
    [
        "The World Health Organization estimates that about 100 million people died from smoking in the twentieth century, but smoking will kill up to one billion people in the twenty-first century.",
        "世界卫生组织估计20世纪有1亿人因吸烟而丧命，而在21世纪，在最坏的情况下，吸烟将带走10亿人的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "So, as interest rates rise, central banks might face costs exceeding their income.",
        "因此随着利率上升，央行可能会面临支出超过收入的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "They find that US districts where the economy was severely hit by Chinese exports have responded by replacing moderate representatives with more radical politicians – either from the left or the right.",
        "他们发现，经济受中国出口影响严重的美国选区，做出的反应是用更加激进的政客取代较为温和的代表——不管是左翼还是右翼。"
    ],
    [
        "But then something went radically wrong, and understanding why offers lessons for national and subnational governments everywhere.",
        "但随后这里却滋生了一些严重问题，而对这些问题的解读对于全球各国及其下级政府都有借鉴意义。"
    ],
    [
        "If concessions to Greece create a precedent that other countries might exploit, so be it.",
        "如果对希腊让步造成其他国家可能效仿的先例也没有关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The median Russian will be even older, at 43.3 years.",
        "1岁，俄罗斯则更甚，43. 3岁。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the eurozone core (Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and France) comprised the producers of first and last resort, spending below their incomes and running ever-larger current-account surpluses.",
        "与此同时，欧元区核心国（德国、荷兰、奥地利和法国）则组成了最初和最后生产者阵营，支出比收入更少，并存在前所未有的经常项目盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "To some observers, this represents a fundamental shift in the global balance of power, because China could bring the US to its knees by threatening to sell its dollars.",
        "在某些观察家看来，这代表了全球实力天平的一种根本性转变，因为中国可以通过威胁卖掉其持有的美元而挫败美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Taiwan’s December 2004 legislative elections had delivered an unexpected defeat for Chen and his ruling Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, and the pro-independence camp’s failure to secure a legislative majority was seen as a positive development for relations with the mainland.",
        "陈水扁和他领导的执政党民进党（简称DPP）在2004年12月台湾立法选举中出人意料的失败，加上台独阵营未能获得立法院的大多数席位，被看作是与大陆关系的积极进展。"
    ],
    [
        "The Yemeni government, too, notes that they have yet to receive the coroner’s report from the US.",
        "而也门政府也说他们至今还没有收到来自美国的验尸报告。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2012, the two figures were nearly equivalent, with interest rising to 140% of incremental nominal GDP in 2013 and, Shih expects, to 200% for 2014.",
        "2012年，两者已经等量齐观，而在2013年，利息升高到新增名义GDP的140%。 史宗瀚预测2014年这一比例将达到200%。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the government’s job to stabilize expectations.",
        "稳定市场预期是政府的职责。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, a populist-nationalist revolution might resemble the attempt to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991, or a Russian version of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution.",
        "事实上，一个平民-民族主义的革命也许就像1991年8月推翻米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫（Mikhail Gorbachev）的尝试一样，或者就是一个乌克兰橙色革命的俄罗斯版。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the US is facing a new fiscal reality, and the defense budget must be reduced by $487 billion over the next decade.",
        "美军无疑面临着新的财政现实，必须在今后十年实现削减4780亿美元国防预算的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Recruitment is another area in which companies are turning to outsourcing in order to obtain expertise and increase efficiency.",
        "招聘是另一个公司日益采用外包来获得专业服务和增加效率的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Rapid population growth in countries where the environment is already failing to meet people’s needs, and where economies show scant signs of creating new employment opportunities, provides a fertile ground for fanaticism.",
        "人口快速增长国环境不能满足民众需求且经济无法创造新的就业机会为狂热主义的滋生提供了肥沃的土壤。"
    ],
    [
        "So Rajapaksa must offer the Tamil people a political compromise, perhaps including some cabinet positions, as well as the promise of a revived economy.",
        "所以，拉贾帕克萨必须为泰米尔人提出一个政治妥协，这样的妥协可能包括让泰米尔人担任一些内阁职务以及承诺振兴经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when China’s voice could be decisive in resolving crises or preventing bloodshed, instead of acting, its diplomats repeat the old platitudes about non-interference.",
        "即使中国的声音在解决危机或者防止流血上具有决定性作用，它不仅没有行动，其外交官反而重复着不干涉内政的老调。"
    ],
    [
        "Policies that support such activity, such as by removing obstacles to new business creation and enhancing financing opportunities, cannot be left out of growth strategies.",
        "支持这类活动的政策——如通过消除创造新企业和加强融资机会的障碍——不应被排除在增长战略之外。"
    ],
    [
        "But elsewhere – China, Egypt, Germany, and Greece come to mind – the reverse will be true, with economics becoming a key determinant of political outcomes.",
        "然而在另一些国家——像中国、埃及、德国以及希腊——情况则刚好相反，经济成了决定政治成果产出的关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Ahmadinejad is likely to be bolder in subverting stability in Iraq, and his victory will encourage radical Iranian officials and extremists within Iraq itself.",
        "最后，艾哈迈迪内贾德在颠覆伊朗的稳定方面更为大胆，而他的胜利又会鼓励激进的伊朗官员和伊拉克的极端主义分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Relative decline is obvious: Europe accounted for 20% of the world’s population at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but only around 7% today, while its share is expected to be even lower in 2050.",
        "相对衰落是显而易见的：18世纪伊始，欧洲人口占世界的20%，如今只占7%，到2050年预计将进一步下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The picture for direct investment – the financial flows that support the construction of factories, offices, warehouses, mines, and farms – is equally striking.",
        "直接投资状况——支持工厂、办公楼、仓库、矿山和农场建设的资金流——也同样惊人。 从1995到2003年，中国企业在东盟国家的投资仅为6."
    ],
    [
        "Iran then helped broker a ceasefire that was highly favorable to Maliki, and cemented his commanding position inside the Iraqi coalition government.",
        "伊朗然后就从中调停停火谈判，这对马利基十分有利，这巩固了他在伊拉克联合政府中的领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Recall how a few years ago, just before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the financial sector prided itself on its innovativeness.",
        "不妨回忆一下，几年前，雷曼兄弟倒闭前夕，金融部门以创新而自负。"
    ],
    [
        "We are a developing country, it is said; after all, it is not just your eye against his, your legs against hers, but what you can do against their trainer, their running shoe, their ergodynamic costume, their titanium archer’s bow.",
        "有人说，我们是发展中国家； 毕竟，这不仅仅是你的目光对抗他的目光，你的腿对抗她的腿，但是，你要做的是，对抗他们的教练，他们的跑鞋，他们的缓动功效服装，以及他们的钛合金装备。"
    ],
    [
        "A Future of Happiness, Tolerance, and Youth",
        "幸福、宽容与青年的未来"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the reforms have faced delays, and employment and output growth has been limited.",
        "但改革面临着推迟，而就业和产出增长非常有限。"
    ],
    [
        "The End of Republican Obstruction",
        "共和党不再是障碍"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – Fuad Siniora, Lebanon’s former prime minister, is a thoughtful man with deep experience in Middle Eastern politics.",
        "柏林——黎巴嫩前总理福阿德·西尼乌拉是一位在中东事务中有着丰富经验的深谋远虑的政治家。"
    ],
    [
        "It was assumed that Cyprus should be united when the country joined the EU in 2004.",
        "当时认为，当塞浦路斯在2004年加入欧盟之时将会统一。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the risk of bankruptcy is transferred from the bondholders to taxpayers in economically healthy eurozone countries, who would permanently lose interest income on the government bonds.",
        "如此，破产风险从债券持有人转移到了经济较为健康的欧元区国家的纳税人身上，他们将永久失去政府债券的利息收入。"
    ],
    [
        "The US should focus on helping to tailor the education and skills of the people being left behind to the available jobs.",
        "美国应该专注于帮助达不到可得岗位要求者改善技能和教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestically, China will be the first country that, due to its sheer size and required GDP growth, is forced to pursue a “green” economy. Otherwise, China would quickly reach its “limits to growth,” with disastrous ecological and, as a result, political consequences.",
        "就国内来看，鉴于其经济规模和增长需求，中国必将成为首个“绿色”经济体，以避免“增长的极限”、环境灾难以及政治上的负面影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The world is a much safer and saner place when states search for and find common ground on which to work together.",
        "各国寻找共同利益开展合作能使世界更加安全和理智。"
    ],
    [
        "We have already globalized; now we need global rules to underpin economic and financial stability, as well as peace and security.",
        "我们已经实现了全球化； 现在我们需要全球规则来支撑经济和金融的稳定，以及保障和平与安全。"
    ],
    [
        "This accounts for why we are often kind to our own flesh and blood – those who share our genes.",
        "这揭示了我们为什么对自己的亲属疼爱有加——因为他们跟我们有着同样的基因。"
    ],
    [
        "From a European perspective, the hunger for dividends and the emphasis on short-term performance goals that characterize these institutions is both amazing and frightening.",
        "从欧洲的角度来看，竭力追逐红利并强调短期业绩目标是这些机构的特征，而这些特征既令人惊叹又令人害怕。"
    ],
    [
        "It was this Sunni hegemony – and not merely that of Saddam’s Ba’athist regime – that was toppled by the United States.",
        "被美国人推翻的不仅仅是萨达姆的社会党政权，更是这种逊尼派的霸权。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump is apparently antagonizing China for no good reason.",
        "特朗普显然是在毫无意义地激怒中国。"
    ],
    [
        "And even steadfast opponents of President-elect Trump’s economic policies would have to admit they are staunchly pro-business (with the notable exception of trade).",
        "即使是当选总统特朗普的经济政策的最坚定的反对者，也必须承认这些政策非常有利于企业（贸易是一个显著例外）。"
    ],
    [
        "But countries with large external imbalances, low reserves, or high debts will increasingly feel financially constrained, if they don’t already.",
        "但存在巨大外部失衡、低储备或高债务的国家将日益感受到财政的捉襟见肘，有的甚至已经有这样的感觉了。"
    ],
    [
        "That is but one of the jokes making the rounds in Russia these days, as the country faces its most severe crisis in a decade.",
        "这是最近在俄罗斯流传的笑话之一。 现在，俄罗斯面临着十年来最严重的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Four, or even eight, more years of US policy à la Bush would inflict such damage on the substance of the transatlantic alliance as to threaten its very existence.",
        "4年，甚至8年的“布什式”美国政策的继续会给跨大西洋联盟造成实质性的破坏，甚至危及其生存。"
    ],
    [
        "This new “no recession” Fed policy has started the US dollar down the path to new lows.",
        "美联储这一新的“不得衰退”的政策让美元跌到了历史新低。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the ECB’s apparent determination to head in the opposite direction, the bubble will only grow.",
        "但鉴于欧洲央行显然决心在相反的方向前进，泡沫只会越来越大。"
    ],
    [
        "ASEAN cannot afford to stand by idly. Neither can the international community.",
        "东盟和国际社会都不能袖手旁观。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, the central bank should be able to move slowly on price stability if it regards the real economy as unacceptably weak, or if an asset-price misalignment threatens financial stability and cannot be defused quickly by the new macro-prudential instruments.",
        "具体而言，央行应该能够缓慢采取价格稳定措施，如果它认为实体经济实在太脆弱或资产价格失调已经威胁到金融稳定并且无法通过新的宏观审慎工具快速解决的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Women-run start-ups are most likely to become established enterprises.",
        "由女性开办的新创企业发展为成熟企业的可能性更大。"
    ],
    [
        "But the law will deter only if its sanctions are credible.",
        "但是法律只有在制裁可靠的情况下才能起到威慑作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The visual politics of terror may seem primitive, but its practice can be as sophisticated as its effects are profound.",
        "恐怖主义的视觉政治看起来也许相当原始，但其做法可以相当成熟，其影响可以相当深远。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s Internet age, the costs of China’s support for Burma’s generals are rising fast.",
        "在当今的因特网时代，中国支持缅甸将军们的成本正在快速攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "But imagine the uproar against a tax on all capital goods: Woe betide those who would diminish domestic productivity and competitiveness!",
        "但想想对一切资本商品征税所引起的反对声浪：降低国内生产率和竞争力的人要遭报应的！"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s actions suggest that its leaders view Chinese hegemony as the only viable security structure for the region.",
        "”但中国的行为表明其领导人将中国霸权视为唯一可行的地区安全结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Strangely, it may be easier to gain confidence than to restrain it.",
        "奇怪的是，人们获得自信要比节制自信更为容易。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, Russia may see another wave of departures, with those close to the Kremlin fearing that Putin can no longer protect them.",
        "如今，俄罗斯可能会爆发新一波逃离潮，与接近克里姆林宫的人士担心普京无法继续保护他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Safety regulations must, at a minimum, be applied to the prescription of the anti-retroviral medications that fight HIV, because such drugs are extremely sensitive to dosage changes and interactions with other medicines.",
        "最低限度要对治疗HIV病毒的抗逆转录酶药物采取安全措施，因为这种药对剂量变化和与其它药的相互作用极其敏感。"
    ],
    [
        "But failure to do so can mean substantially less growth – and substantially more political risk.",
        "但是如果不这样做可能意味着极低的增长，以及极大的政治风险。"
    ],
    [
        "We should bear in mind the enormous symbolism of this date in order to understand how much Europe has changed – and, at the same time, to recognize the need to defend those changes.",
        "我们应该时刻铭记这个日子的诸多象征意义，从而明白欧洲到底改变了多少——与此同时也认识到捍卫这些改变的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "They are candidates only in order to benefit from two years of free publicity.",
        "他们是从两年的自由宣传中坐收渔翁之利的典型代表。"
    ],
    [
        "Auctioning seats for money makes sense – the lawyer contributes more to society by preparing briefs than by standing in line.",
        "货币拍卖听证席位是有用的——律师准备总结陈词对社会的贡献大于排队。"
    ],
    [
        "The Economist’s Concubine",
        "经济学家的娼妓"
    ],
    [
        "The Sunnis, who comprise at most 20% of the population, are given the state office with the greatest executive power, that of prime minister.",
        "而仅占总人口20%的逊尼派穆斯林却被给予了拥有最高的国家行政权力的首相职位。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, compared to their likely future losses, European banks have raised relatively little capital recently – and much of this has been creative accounting, rather than truly loss-absorbing shareholder equity.",
        "相反，与潜在未来损失相比，欧洲银行最近留存的资本仍显太少——切这笔资本是通过会计花招变出来的，而不是真正的用于吸收损失的股本金。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the ruling, Trump’s order violates the Constitution’s separation of powers clause, due-process guarantees, and the Tenth Amendment, which states that, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”",
        "根据裁决，特朗普的命令违反了宪法分权条款，程序正当保障以及宪法第十修正案，其规定：“没有被宪法赋予联邦的权利，或者并未由宪法禁止授予各州的权利，由各州及其人民自主保留。"
    ],
    [
        "Achieving food security means ensuring that all people have consistent, affordable access to the right nutrients, despite land and water limitations, climate change, and the growing prevalence of resource-intensive Western-style diets that accompany rising incomes.",
        "获得食品安全意味着保证所有人都可以以负担得起的方式持续地获得合适的营养，不管土地和水资源的限制、气候变化和随着收入升高而逐渐流行的西方式资源密集型餐饮。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with GDP growth in Asia’s two giants, China and India, slowing precipitously – a decline that appears to be contributing to diminishing economic performance in much of the rest of Asia – Japan is recording its strongest growth since its 1980’s boom.",
        "如今，在亚洲两大巨头中国和印度GDP增速显著放缓、并导致亚洲其他许多国家经济表现低迷的情况下，日本却迎来了自1980年代繁荣以来最强劲的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – The final day of the summer marked the start of yet another season of futile policymaking by two of the world’s major central banks – the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan.",
        "纽黑文—夏天的最后一天开启了世界两大主要央行——美联储和日本银行的又一个徒劳的决策季。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, EU governments have moderated their conditions, describing a simple Russian military withdrawal from Georgian territories outside the two regions as sufficient to resume a dialogue on the PCA, energy security, and other issues.",
        "之后，欧盟各国政府降低了条件，声称俄罗斯只要从这两个地区以外的格鲁吉亚领土上撤军就够了，可以继续有关PCA、能源安全和其他问题的对话。"
    ],
    [
        "Recourse to violence and terror is a moral and strategic choice.",
        "恐怖和暴力只是一种战略抉择。"
    ],
    [
        "Unconventional policies that aim at weakening the exchange rate are technically possible even at zero interest rates, and they are quite likely to be effective at the level of individual countries.",
        "从专业上来讲，旨在弱化汇率的各项非传统政策是又可能达到零利率的，并且在单个（非联盟）国家更能发挥其作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Improving their health and wellbeing, ensuring they get a good education, and unleashing their economic potential are fundamental to building more prosperous communities and countries.",
        "改善她们的健康和福祉、确保她们受到良好的教育和释放她们的经济潜力是建设更繁荣社会和国家的根本因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent Peruvian administrations have all governed from the center, even if they did so under widely differing rhetorical styles and party labels.",
        "新一届秘鲁政府完全由中间派占据，即使他们的言辞风格和政党标签相去甚远。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, the French and other leading member states are likely to explore alternative ways of working towards a more politically integrated Europe.",
        "最终，法国和其他欧盟领导成员国有可能去探寻不同的工作方法来实现一个政治更加整合的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "All five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council agreed on a resolution condemning North Korea’s actions, and China warned North Korea to moderate its behavior.",
        "联合国安理会五大常任理事国一致决议谴责朝鲜的行为，中国还警告朝鲜要注意自己的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin still doesn’t understand that a centralized political system is as incapable of comprehending and correcting mistakes now as it was in the Soviet era.",
        "迄今为止，普京仍没有意识到现行的集权政治体系与苏联时代一样，无法认识并改正自己所犯的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments have a moral obligation to ensure that no one succumbs to a preventable death.",
        "政府有确保所有人都不会遭遇可预防死亡的道德义务。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis also undermined the legitimacy of the G-7 – the countries at the root of the problem – while invigorating the G-20.",
        "这场危机还震撼了G-7——问题的根源所在——的合法性，提高了G-20的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The boom fueled expansion of Latin America’s middle classes.",
        "经济繁荣增加了拉丁美洲的中产阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then can they act as credible partners of the international community and the Sudanese government.",
        "只有这样，他们才能成为国际社会以及苏丹政府的可靠伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, they cooperated with one another on multiple fronts, and the countries with the strongest balance sheets bolstered investment elsewhere, crowding in private investment.",
        "其次，它们在诸多前沿彼此合作，资产负债表最强的国家帮助别的国家刺激投资，吸引私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for Europe to stop acting like an occupied continent and start displaying its own political will.",
        "是时候让欧洲停止如一块被占领的大陆一般行事，而展现自己的政治意愿了。"
    ],
    [
        "Every two weeks, Desi walks four hours to take Michel to the health center.",
        "每两个星期，德茜都要陪她的儿子长途跋涉4小时去健康中心。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – Monetary and fiscal policies in the United States, both in this recession and the recession of 2001, have been among the most accommodating in the industrial world. As I write, Congress is working on yet another “jobs” bill. Indeed, John Taylor of Stanford University attributes the recent financial crisis to excessively stimulatory monetary policy towards the end of Alan Greenspan’s tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve.",
        "就在本文落笔之时，国会还在制定另外一份“就业”法案。 事实上，斯坦福大学经济学教授约翰·泰勒教授将最近这场经济危机归因于艾伦·格林斯潘作为美联储主席任期即将届满而推行的过度刺激性货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Deep decarbonization requires not natural gas and fuel-efficient vehicles, but zero-carbon electricity and electric vehicles charged on the zero-carbon electricity grid.",
        "深度脱碳所需要的不是天然气和高效燃油车，而是由零排放电网负责充电的零排放电能和电动汽车。"
    ],
    [
        "These results exceed the goal established by China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, which projected that power generating capacity based on non-fossil-fuel sources would account for approximately 30% of the country’s electricity system by 2015.",
        "目前的成绩超出了中国十二五规划的既定目标，该计划预计中国非化石燃料发电能力到2015年将占到国内电力系统的30%。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the average South Korean has 12 years of education, whereas the average Pakistani has fewer than six.",
        "如今，韩国人平均受教育年限为12年，而巴基斯坦不到六年。"
    ],
    [
        "Hu Jintao’s rule is not a return to the Mao Zedong era.",
        "胡锦涛的统治并非回到毛泽东时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Those early experiences of children I knew contracting disease, especially the poliovirus that is so visibly impairing, shaped my views on the immense value of good health and the power of vaccines.",
        "这些我认识的小孩童年经历了各种疾病，特别是留下明显残疾的小儿麻痹症，这让我深刻领略到身体健康的价值和疫苗的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, India’s freewheeling multi-party democracy has become one of perennial plebiscite.",
        "简言之，印度随心所欲的多党派民主制已经成为常年投票的代名词。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the Troika-friendly Greek government had staked its political survival on the pledge that the country’s second bailout would be completed by December 2014 and would be its last. Several eurozone governments had secured their parliaments’ agreement by making the same pledge.",
        "首先，亲三驾马车的希腊政府已经承诺该国的第二轮援助将在2014年十二月完成而且也将是最后一轮，否则其政治生命不保——好些欧元区国家政府也是通过相同的承诺来获得本国议会许可的。"
    ],
    [
        "In many places, torture chambers are the rules of the game, not the grotesque and shameful mistakes of ill-supervised troops.",
        "在很多地方，刑讯室就是游戏规则，而不是管理不善军队的犯下的古怪、可耻的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that at some point large-scale, persistent sterilized foreign-exchange intervention – amounting to several percentage points of GDP – would satisfy the additional demand for emerging-market assets and stop the inflows, even if interest-rate differentials remain.",
        "这就意味着，在某些时间节点上，大规模的持续冲销式外汇干预（相当于GDP的几个百分点）将可以满足市场上对新兴市场资产的需求，从而使资本流入停止，哪怕利率差仍然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration insisted that Iraq achieve various “milestones” – elections for which the country was not ready and completing a constitution in six weeks, to name two – simply to create the appearance of substantive achievements ahead of the 2004 presidential election or the 2006 mid-term elections.",
        "布什政府坚持认为伊拉克获得了各种具有“里程碑”意义的成就——试举其中两例：一是在该国仓促举行了一场大选，二是在6个星期内制定了一部宪法——而这些只不过是为2004年的换届大选或2006年的中期选举创造实质利好罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "That allure is why foreign students from emerging countries around the world flock to Britain, putting millions of pounds annually into the coffers of its universities.",
        "这种魅力就是那些新兴国家留学生对英国大学趋之若鹜，每年为各大院校贡献大笔学费的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Conditions in Greece today are reminiscent of those in Germany in 1933.",
        "希腊的情况让人想起了1933年的德国。"
    ],
    [
        "What Could He Be Thinking? , by Michael Gurian, a consultant in the field of neurobiology, takes this set of insights further.",
        "由神经生物学领域顾问麦克·古瑞创作的 《他到底在想什么？ 》 进一步发展了这样的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "When Marijuana is Legal",
        "当大麻合法化之时"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, higher competitiveness and erosion of the real value of debt would quickly outweigh these costs by restoring confidence in the French economy’s prospects.",
        "但另一方面，更高的竞争力和债务实际价值的腐蚀将使人们对法国经济的前景恢复信心，其收益也会很快高于上述（脱离）所带来的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Half of these children have been in school for at least four years.",
        "这些儿童中有一半已经上了至少四年学。"
    ],
    [
        "That means economic diversification, which can be achieved only by reducing the size of government and removing the obstacles that stymie the private sector.",
        "这意味着经济多元化，而经济多元化只能通过减小政府规模、消除阻碍私人部门的障碍实现。"
    ],
    [
        "It would establish a minimum tax and eliminate the special treatment of capital gains and dividends, compelling the very rich to pay at least the same percentage of their income in taxes as other citizens.",
        "它需要制定一个最低税收，取消资本利得和股利的特殊待遇，让巨富阶层至少缴纳和其他公民相同的所得税率。"
    ],
    [
        "But its abrogation would nonetheless be symbolically powerful, sparking anxiety throughout Europe.",
        "但担保的废除仍将具有巨大的象征意义，激发整个欧洲的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "As world leaders gather this week for the Oslo Summit on Education for Development, the lessons from this experience could not be more relevant.",
        "本周，全球领导人将齐聚奥斯陆发展教育峰会（Oslo Summit on Education for Development），美国的经验教训无比重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for many Italians, the French political system’s most attractive feature is that the president is the true head of the executive – and, since the presidential and legislative terms were aligned in 2000, that authority has run for five years at a time.",
        "但是，对许多意大利人来说，法国政治制度最吸引人的特征是其总统乃是真正的执政首脑——而自2000年总统和立法任期统一以来，每五年选举一次。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the collapse in prices, from over $115 per barrel in June 2014 to $45 at the end of November 2015, most macroeconomic models suggest that the impact on global growth has been less than expected – perhaps 0.5% of global GDP.",
        "尽管油价从2014年6月的每桶115美元下跌到2015年11月底的45美元，但大部分宏观经济模型都表明，其对全球增长的影响要小于预期——只有全球GDP的0. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Building a border wall, or significantly extending what is already there, is not feasible without congressional approval.",
        "建造边境墙，或大幅扩建已有规模的边境墙，不经过国会批准是不行的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would significantly ameliorate the problems, making other steps less costly and more effective.",
        "但是，它会使问题得到极大地改善，降低其他解决措施的成本并使这些措施更为有效。"
    ],
    [
        "The result of neglecting young people collectively while supporting them privately is social inequality on a massive scale.",
        "忽视年轻人群体利益而私下为其提供支持必然导致大规模社会不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Many observers would find this assertion shocking.",
        "很多观察家可能认为这种说法耸人听闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Widening inequality has been recorded in the United States (starting with Ronald Reagan’s administration), the United Kingdom (starting with Margaret Thatcher), Russia during its privatization, and more recently in China and India.",
        "日益扩大的不平衡在美国（自里根政府时期开始）、英国（自撒切尔政府时期开始）都有记录，它还出现在俄罗斯的私有化进程中，最近更是表现在中国和印度。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, America is focused like never before on working with our allies and partners in South and Southeast Asia.",
        "此外，美国以前所未有的力度与我们在南亚和东南亚的盟友及合作伙伴展开合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when more normal growth does resume, the recent trends underpinning dollar and yen appreciation will disappear.",
        "但是，当更为正常的增长真的恢复的时候，近来支撑美元和日元升值的趋势将会消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though it is focused on land that the United Nations recognizes as part of Georgia, the main beneficiaries of this project would be Russia and Armenia.",
        "尽管这一项目集中在联合国所承认的格鲁吉亚的领土上，但是，这一项目的主要受益人将会是俄罗斯和亚美尼亚。"
    ],
    [
        "But some of the leaders voters do trust could pose a very real danger – to their supporters, their countries, and the world.",
        "但选民果真信任的一些领导人有可能带来非常切实的危险——对支持者、对国家，也对世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Many have singled out German Chancellor Angela Merkel for failing to promote a vision of Europe similar to that of her predecessor and mentor, Helmut Kohl.",
        "其中许多人都专门点了德国总理安格拉·默克尔的名，认为她未能像其前任和导师赫尔穆特·科尔那样为欧洲树立一个长远的愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "In Afghanistan, Germany, with its strong military presence in the north, has been turning a deaf ear to calls for help from the Canadian allies fighting a revived Taliban in the south.",
        "在阿富汗，重兵把守北方的德国对在南方与死灰复燃的塔利班战斗的加拿大盟友的求助置若罔闻。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, America’s economic policymakers have fallen short on all of these fronts.",
        "到目前为止，美国经济决策者在这方面已经大大落后了。"
    ],
    [
        "ATLANTA – As the United States marks the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s election, the question of how Trump won still commands attention, with Russia’s role moving increasingly to center stage.",
        "亚特兰大—在特朗普担任美国总统一周年之际，特朗普如何赢得大选的问题仍在受到人们的关注，而俄罗斯在从中所扮演的角色越来越重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, this is the scenario I advocate.",
        "不消说，这就是我所支持的情形。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, these constraints have proven to be utterly useless after a country's EU entry, and it will be hard to impose them as an admission criterion for other potential entrants.",
        "的确，在一个国家加入 欧盟以后，这些约束实际上就成了摆设。 而要将其作为一种行政规范施加于潜在的新成员国也并非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "Nemat Shafik, a deputy governor of the Bank of England, tried to position herself between these opposing positions. She proposed relying on three lines of defense against financial instability.",
        "英国央行的副行长内玛·沙菲克（Nemat Shafik）则试图从中调和，提议构建应对金融不稳定的三道防线。"
    ],
    [
        "One cannot think of any natural science in which orthodoxy swings between two poles.",
        "人们很难想象在任何一门自然科学中，正统说法会在两极之间摇摆。"
    ],
    [
        "As Russian living standards decline, Putin’s only viable strategy to remain in power will be an aggressive international posture.",
        "随着俄罗斯人生活水平的下降，普京的唯一可行的保持权力的选择是采取激进的国际立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China’s leaders seem convinced that price-keeping operations amount to an effective mechanism for manipulating stock prices in whatever way they see fit.",
        "事实上，中国领导人似乎相信价格保护行动是一种以他们认为合适的方式操控股价的有效机制。"
    ],
    [
        "European officialdom is now responding to these deficits with an initiative to reform and democratize the European Commission.",
        "对于这个不足，欧洲官场想出来的应对办法是改革欧盟委员会，让其变得更民主。"
    ],
    [
        "A European debt agency would purchase eurozone countries’ sovereign bonds, weighted according to each country’s contribution to the eurozone’s GDP, and use them as collateral to issue two securities.",
        "该方案指出应该成立“欧洲安全债券”（ESBies）。 欧洲债务机构将以各国对欧元区GDP的贡献为权重购买欧元区国家的主权债券， 并以这些债券为抵押发行两种证券。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that firms incur the cost of business travel suggests that, for some key tasks, it is easier to move brains than it is to move the relevant information to the brains.",
        "企业愿意承担商务旅行的成本，这一事实表明，对于一些关键性任务，移动大脑要比将相关信息传递给大脑更加容易。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Sunni-Shia divide exists in many parts of the Arab world.",
        "事实上，阿拉伯世界的很多地区都存在逊尼派-什叶派分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, negotiations are simply a means to an end, and if that end is unclear or unlikely, it makes little sense to engage in them.",
        "毕竟，谈判只是达到目的的一种手段，而如果那个目的不明确或不可能，那么开始谈判就没有太多意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Twice last autumn, Chinese attack submarines docked at Sri Lanka's newly opened, $500 million container terminal at Colombo Harbor – built and majority-owned by Chinese state companies.",
        "去年秋天，中国攻击型潜艇两次停驻斯里兰卡科伦坡港新开的价值5亿美元的集装箱码头——该码头由中国国有公司建设并拥有多数股权。"
    ],
    [
        "Other scientists noted that the organism is really only “semi-synthetic,” because the synthetic DNA (which comprises only about 1% of the dry weight of the cell) was introduced into a normal, or non-synthetic, bacterium.",
        "还有一些科学家则指出文特尔合成的生命严格来说只能算是个“半合成品”，因为合成后的DNA（仅占了整个细胞干重的1%）被植入了一个正常的（或者说非合成的）细菌中。"
    ],
    [
        "We must bring this downward spiral to a halt.",
        "我们必须停止这种恶性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "The global financial crisis may have represented a turning point for many voters: their government saved the rich bankers who had brought the US to the brink of ruin, while seemingly doing almost nothing for the millions of ordinary Americans who lost their jobs and homes.",
        "对许多选民来说全球金融危机可能是一个转折点：他们的政府营救了那些使美国陷入破产边缘的富有银行家，而似乎对失去工作和家园的数百万普通美国人不管不顾。"
    ],
    [
        "Optimism about the CCP’s ability to push through market-oriented reforms also ignores the real obstacles to future growth and prosperity, which do not include a lack of economic ideas or policy expertise; on the contrary, it is well known – even obvious – what kind of economic reforms are needed.",
        "对中共推行市场导向改革持乐观态度者还忽视了通往未来增长和繁荣的现实障碍，这一障碍并不在于缺少经济思想和政策的专业性，相反，需要什么样的经济改革，大家心里都清楚，甚至可以说显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "Pigs may be the most intelligent and sensitive of the animals that we commonly eat.",
        "在我们通常食用的动物中，猪可能最聪明、最敏感。"
    ],
    [
        "Relative prices are much easier to change when there is modest inflation than when nominal price reductions are required.",
        "相对价格在通胀温和时更容易变化，而不是在名义价格被迫减低的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the currency appreciated further when the ECB declined to undertake any monetary stimulus at its March 6 meeting.",
        "事实上，在欧洲央行在3月6日的会议上拒绝采取货币刺激后，欧元还有所升值。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek crisis story began in 2008 with reports of widespread protests and strikes when the government proposed raising the retirement age to address a pension funding shortfall.",
        "希腊危机故事始于2008年，当时政府提出要延长退休年龄以弥补养老金缺口并随后引发大规模民众抗议示威活动的。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, psychological drives – including the need to boost one’s sense of self-esteem, attractiveness, or masculinity – may be driving predators’ abuse of power in dominating or degrading others.",
        "相反，心理驱动力——包括提升自尊感、吸引力或男性气概的需求——可能是捕食者滥用权力主宰或侮辱他人的驱动因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, former US Vice President Al Gore and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon claimed that, “in the US, there are now more jobs in the wind industry than in the entire coal industry.”",
        "最近，美国前副总统阿尔·戈尔和联合国秘书长潘基文宣布：“在美国，现在风能行业提供的工作比整个燃煤行业还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider these facts:",
        "让我们来看一看这些数据："
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the main design defects are in bankruptcy law, which exempts derivatives and repos from most regular bankruptcy constraints.",
        "在美国，主要的设计缺陷在于破产法，该法律将金融衍生品和repo都排除在了一般破产约束条件之外。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent decades, vulnerability and economic insecurity have increased with the rise of transient, casual, and precarious employment, including self-employment, and part-time, fixed-term, temporary, and on-call jobs.",
        "近几十年来，脆弱和经济不安全随短暂、临时、无保障的就业（包括自由职业、兼职工、短工、临时工和随叫随到工作）的增加而增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, the monetary authorities have tightened the credit supply, in an effort to deleverage the Chinese economy.",
        "更糟糕的是，货币当局收紧了信用供给以促进中国经济去杠杆化。"
    ],
    [
        "Carbon and fluorocarbons affect everyone’s children.",
        "碳和碳氟化合物队每一个人的孩子都构成了影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Ozawa, had he become prime minister, would inevitably have been subjected to not only similar obstruction in Diet sessions but also to interrogation about his financing scandal, while fearing prosecution.",
        "如果小泽一郎当选首相，他不仅要应对议会的阻力，而且要面临关于自己献金丑闻的调查甚至审判。"
    ],
    [
        "Some will find it grotesque to become a mother at an age when most women are grandmothers, but the more significant question is what kind of care such children will have if their parents die or become incapable of rearing them.",
        "有些人会觉得在这个年龄生育孩子有点荒唐，因为大多数妇女在这个年纪已经做了祖母了； 但更重要的问题是，如果他们的父母死亡或变得无力抚养他们，这些孩子将得到什么样的照顾呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Now the world of 2050 will not be a paradise.",
        "2050年的世界也不是天堂。"
    ],
    [
        "The Red Sea region has a unique opportunity to develop into a global center of excellence in trade facilitation, strengthening economic ties throughout the region and building a new growth engine for the global economy.",
        "红海地区拥有独一无二的机会发展成为贸易便捷化全球中心，增强整个地区的经济联系，为全球经济打造新的增长引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "Their R&D budgets, their patent history, and their innovations are part of what they should brag about in public.",
        "他们的研发预算、专利历史和创新发明应当是他们能在公众场合吹嘘的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "The political and economic significance of all the mid-sized European powers is waning, and they are shrinking relative to the US and the rising giants of Asia.",
        "欧洲中等大国的政治和经济重要性正在下降，而且与美国和崛起的亚洲巨人相比正在萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "One can draw two possible conclusions from America’s election.",
        "你可以从美国大选中得出两个可能的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "So they are taking refuge in fantasy.",
        "因此他们用空想来自我安慰。"
    ],
    [
        "Big financial firms can more readily buy the necessary political protection (in the form of deregulation), enabling them to become even bigger and more dangerous.",
        "大型金融公司早就买通了必要的政治保护（打着去监管化的旗号），这使得它们不断壮大，也不断变得更危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, instead of learning how to think in financially sophisticated ways, we still see labor unions in Europe and elsewhere dwelling too much on job security for working people.",
        "不幸的是，我们仍然看到欧洲和其他地方的工会组织在劳方的工作保障问题上耗费了太多的精力，而不是学会如何深层次地考虑金融问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Though China finally pacified the situation by threatening to withdraw investment, doing so meant reneging on the promise not to meddle in other countries’ domestic affairs.",
        "尽管中国最终通过威胁撤回投资而平息了局势，这样做意味着违犯不干涉其他国家内政的保证。"
    ],
    [
        "The organizing principle in the new president’s foreign policy is one of not having principled, ideological guidelines.",
        "这位新总统的外交政策组织原则是一种没有既定意识形态方针的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there are other motives behind support for economic integration.",
        "当然，在支持经济一体化的背后还有其他动力。"
    ],
    [
        "But the realities of the twenty-first century necessitate a multi-dimensional and inclusive political perspective.",
        "但21世界的现实却亟需我们持有一种多元且包容的政治态度。"
    ],
    [
        "A tax is a quasi-equity claim of the government on its citizens’ financial expectations.",
        "税款是政府对其公民财政预期的准权益要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Making it obvious that it is Ahmadinejad’s policies that are isolating Iran would strengthen the still-fragile anti-Ahmadinejad alliance of pragmatic conservatives and reformers, which has lately become more vocal.",
        "清楚表明正是内贾德的政策在使伊朗陷入孤立，可以加强仍然脆弱的、由务实派保守人士和改革者组成的反内贾德联盟。 这个联盟的声势最近有所增强。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Congress will have to come back to highway funding in September.",
        "美国国会将在9月重新回到高速公路筹资问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The realization that withdrawal from populated areas, and thus an end to holding another people under permanent occupation, was necessary to preserve the Jewish nature of Israel clearly brought the two of you to the center of Israeli thinking.",
        "您两位认识到，从定居地区撤出并且结束对另一个民族永久的占领，对维护以色列的犹太人性质是必要的。 这样就明显地把您两位带入到以色列人思维的中间地带。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, pension reform – including adjustments in how benefits are indexed to inflation – will ease some of the pressure on the public budget.",
        "与此同时，养老金改革——包括对如何根据通胀调整补助金额的调整——将缓解公共预算的一些压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The immigration showdown will ultimately be adjudicated in the court system; and Trump has already lost his first battles there.",
        "关于移民的对决最终将在法庭体系中展开； 而特朗普已经在那里输了第一仗。"
    ],
    [
        "What is not in dispute about the “Goldstone Report” is the fact-finding on which its conclusions are based.",
        "“戈德斯通报告” 结论所依据的事实部分是没有争议的。"
    ],
    [
        "As a blogger sympathetic to Santorum put it: “The Washington Post, as one would expect, attempted to discredit Santorum.”",
        "一个同情桑托勒姆的博主写道：“不出意料，《华盛顿邮报》想抹黑桑托勒姆”。"
    ],
    [
        "But this remains a small amount compared to military outlays, and an overarching framework to support economic development is missing.",
        "但这和军费开支相比仍是微不足道，并且一种支持经济发展的总体政策框架依然缺位。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States is at the center of two mega-deals that could shape the future path of world trade.",
        "而美国正处于两场足以决定世界贸易未来道路的大型谈判的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "No sooner was the controversy over the creation of a Human Rights Council satisfactorily resolved than a new battle has erupted.",
        "有关建立联合国人权理事会的争议刚刚满意解决，新的争端又开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "A shortage of international liquidity, by making it harder to finance and settle these cross-border transactions, is one explanation.",
        "对此国际流动性提供了一种解释，因为它导致这些跨境交易更加难以融资和结算了。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon after the president-elect delivered his acceptance speech in New York, at nearly 3 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, stocks began to rally – and have ever since, helping to boost risk assets around the world.",
        "东部标准时间接近3点时，当选总统在纽约发表了胜选演讲，不久，股市开始反弹——并且一直反弹到现在，引领全球风险市场上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "But in real time, do the numbers really add to the debate?",
        "但在实际当中，这些数字是否真能引起人们的思索？"
    ],
    [
        "The arrival of silver from the New World in the sixteenth century triggered sustained inflation.",
        "在16世纪，来自新大陆的白银引发了持续的通货膨胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, on a weekday afternoon in the middle of summer, nearly 15 million Americans tuned in to the Brazil-Germany match in the semifinal.",
        "事实上，在仲夏的周末下午，近1,500万美国人将频道锁定在巴西与德国的半决赛。"
    ],
    [
        "Rounding out my top ten was the creation of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which was established to develop vaccines for infectious disease threats.",
        "前十名的最后一项是传染病防疫创新联盟（CEPI）的成立。 其目的是开发传染病疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "In that way, our closest relatives could serve to bridge the moral gulf that we have dug between ourselves and other animals.",
        "这样一来，这种与人类亲缘最近的生命才能帮助弥合我们自身与其他动物的道德鸿沟。"
    ],
    [
        "They believed that with democracy, problems would be solved.",
        "他们认为民主是解决一切问题的良方。"
    ],
    [
        "So even a child with a full belly does not necessarily get the right balance of nutritious food and vitamins required for healthy physical development.",
        "因此，即使儿童能够吃饱，也难以得到营养食品的正确平衡和健康发育所需要的维生素。"
    ],
    [
        "But US President George W. Bush’s notorious “axis of evil” speech – delivered just days later, and citing Iran as one of America’s three most dangerous enemies – spurred a reversal of Iranian policy.",
        "但不久之后美国总统小布什就发表了臭名昭著的“邪恶轴心”演讲，并将伊朗定义为为美国最危险的三大敌人之一——这导致伊朗政策了发生逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "Estimates of short-term or current potential output are also constantly reworked, implying continuous change in the assessment of the underlying fiscal situation.",
        "短期或当前潜在产出估算总是处于修订状态，这意味着基本财政状况的评估也总是在改变。"
    ],
    [
        "And trade and investment between Taiwan and mainland China have flourished.",
        "台湾和大陆之间的贸易和投资也实现了繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this aligns with the “1+2+3” cooperation pattern that Xi proposed at the June 2014 Ministerial Conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum in Beijing.",
        "所有这些都与习近平在2014年6月的中阿国家合作论坛部长级会议上所提出的“1+2+3”合作模式相符。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ifo business climate indicator is generated every month by asking 7,000 firms, primarily from German manufacturing industry, about their current business situation and their expectations for the next six months.",
        "IFO经济景气指数每月会向7000家公司（主要是德国制造业的公司）问询目前的经济状况以及对未来6个月的展望。"
    ],
    [
        "He is a moderate, modern leftist who has openly identified himself with Brazilian President Lula and Barack Obama, as opposed to Chávez.",
        "富内斯是个温和左派， 不但把自己和巴西总统卢拉以及美国总统奥巴马相提并论，同时还反对委内瑞拉总统查韦斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Restoring these anchors will take time.",
        "重新建立这些“锚”需要时间。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent research, Xinshen Diao of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Margaret McMillan of Tufts University, and I have looked at the growth patterns among this new crop of high-performing countries.",
        "在最近的研究中，美国国际食品政策研究所的刁新申，塔夫茨大学的玛格丽特·麦克米兰（Margaret McMillan）和笔者共同研究了这批新的高增长国家的增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "On August 19, 2009, the sixth anniversary of the bombing that killed the United Nations representative in Baghdad, a series of spectacular attacks were carried out.",
        "在 2009 年 8 月 19 日，也就是联合国驻伊拉克代表被炸身亡整整 6 年之后，又发生了一系列大规模袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "At one level, it is entirely understandable that Germany and other eurozone countries should demand assurances that their resources will not be wasted.",
        "一方面，我们完全可以理解德国和其他欧元区国家应该要求确保它们所提供的资源不被浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "The rejection of the EU seems more fundamental in parts of northern Europe, where the elderly tend to vote for right-wing populist parties.",
        "拒绝欧盟似乎在北欧更加根深蒂固，北欧老龄人口更倾向于投票给右翼民粹主义政党。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, a world in which the dollar has already fallen is one that may see economic turmoil, but not an economic crisis.",
        "与此形成鲜明的对照，在美元已经贬值的世界中，可能会发生经济动荡，但不可能发生经济危机。"
    ],
    [
        "We simply don’t know how different policies on marriage will affect wellbeing, even though we know that marriage correlates with it.",
        "我们根本不知道不同的婚姻政策将如何影响幸福感，尽管我们知道婚姻与幸福感有着直接的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "I don’t think monetary policy, even unorthodox monetary policy, can do the job.",
        "但同时我认为货币政策，即使是非常规的货币政策，也无法达到这种效果。"
    ],
    [
        "That said, the analyses conducted so far have not yet generated widespread awareness of the threat that non-inclusive growth poses to productivity and economic performance as conventionally measured.",
        "尽管如此，目前所进行的分析尚未让人们广泛认识到非包容性增长给生产率和经济绩效（用常规手段衡量）所造成的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Until the crisis of 2008, middle- and lower-income job growth occurred entirely in the non-tradable sector of the economy, which accounts for roughly two-thirds of advanced countries’ output and employment.",
        "在2008年危机爆发前，中低收入增长完全来自经济中的不可贸易部门，该部门大约要占发达国家产出和就业的三分之二。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers do, of course, need to address the problem of youth unemployment; but they must also acknowledge that the problem is not as serious as the headlines indicate.",
        "当然，决策者必须解决年轻人失业问题； 但他们也必须承认，这个问题并不像新闻标题写得那么骇人听闻。"
    ],
    [
        "The Nixon Shock Doctrine Revisited",
        "汇率单边主义——奥巴马重蹈尼克松覆辙？"
    ],
    [
        "SEOUL – While the United Nations celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2015, Koreans will lament 70 years of national division.",
        "首尔——在2015年联合国庆祝成立70周年时，韩国人却在感叹70年的民族分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "These two phenomena are closely related.",
        "这两个现象是紧密相连的。"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – The dramatic drop in malaria deaths since the beginning of the century is one of the great public-health success stories of recent years.",
        "新加坡—本世纪初以来疟疾病情的显著减少是近几年来公共卫生事业的重大成就之一。"
    ],
    [
        "What would that mean for future UK economic policy?",
        "这对未来英国经济政策意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "The Great Real Estate Bust of 2008",
        "2008年的房地产大萧条"
    ],
    [
        "Now, it is laying the groundwork to become a global power in more sophisticated, technology-intensive industries.",
        "现在，中国自在为成为更为尖端以及技术密集型产业的全球性大国而奠定基础。"
    ],
    [
        "And all signs indicate that the pace of adoption is accelerating.",
        "所有迹象表明可再生能源正迅速进入市场。"
    ],
    [
        "These three players’ interventions have helped Abe secure four more years in power.",
        "这三个角色的介入帮助安倍确保了四年的执政时间。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s not always easy to distill a singular message from an event like this, especially as the CDF, once a small intimate gathering, has morphed into a Davos-like extravaganza of some 50 sessions spread out over three days.",
        "对于这样的场合，要提炼出简单的信息向来不易，尤其是中国经济发展论坛，它曾经只是小规模非公开会议，但现已发展成为类似于达沃斯论坛的大会，要举行三天，进行50场左右的讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Overly strict qualification criteria are likely to deter members that may need this kind of support most from applying for it; but overly loose criteria may stigmatize potential users.",
        "过于严格的条件标准可能阻止最需要这种援助的成员国申请援助，但是过于宽松的标准又可能使潜在的援助使用者蒙上污名。"
    ],
    [
        "People are racing back to the policies that caused the crisis in the first place.",
        "人们又重新投身于原先导致危机的政策当中。"
    ],
    [
        "The door to a better future for Sudan remains open. But success depends on keeping to the timetable for progress set out in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.",
        "通往苏丹更美好未来的大门仍然敞开着，但成功取决于能否切实执行《全面和平协定》所制定的进展时间表。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Obama and Romney run the risk of painting themselves into a corner when it comes to China.",
        "无论是奥巴马还是罗姆尼都面临着在中国问题上自断后路的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "This is reflected in the persistently sluggish recovery in the advanced economies today.",
        "这体现在当今发达经济体的持续缓慢复苏中。"
    ],
    [
        "More and more young women are making just such practical choices: putting an apartment before love and pragmatism before principle.",
        "越来越多的中国年轻女性正在做着这般现实的选择：把爱情放在一边，房子为重，把原则收起来，实用为先。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody – not even people closely involved in the process – really knows how the European Union’s leaders are chosen.",
        "即使完全参与这一过程的人士也不确切知道欧盟领导人是如何挑选的。"
    ],
    [
        "All told, a labor-exporting cartel would bring order to an industry that has long been mired in controversy, damaging the reputations of more than a few labor-importing countries.",
        "总而言之，劳动力输出卡特尔将给这个长期陷入争议、因此破坏了许多劳动力输入国名声的行业带来秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Three came from the United Kingdom: England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.",
        "三支来自英国：英格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰。"
    ],
    [
        "Now Europe’s migrant crisis is creating an east-west divide between the countries that are welcoming toward the ongoing influx of refugees, and those who want to do little, or nothing, to help.",
        "如今，欧洲移民危机则正在制造东西分裂，一边欢迎持续流入的难民，另一边什么忙都不想帮。"
    ],
    [
        "What Chinese officials desire is a capitalist stock market without the possibility of large losses that can shake confidence in the CCP’s credibility and control.",
        "中国官员想要的是不会引起大损失以至于动摇中共信誉和控制力的资本主义股票市场。"
    ],
    [
        "· replacing austerity with a growth strategy, supported by a solidarity fund for stabilization;",
        "·用一个互助稳定基金支持下的增长战略去代替紧缩;"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s expansive “whatever it takes” guarantee may indeed be enough to help finance greater short-term stimulus than is currently being allowed; but the ECB’s guarantee will not solve long-run sustainability problems.",
        "欧洲央行扩张性的“竭尽全力”担保确实可能足以为比目前所允许的更大规模短期刺激提供资金； 但欧洲央行的担保无法解决长期可持续性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But that does not mean it is not a gamble.",
        "但这并不意味着这不是赌博。"
    ],
    [
        "Ryan, who has not yet officially endorsed Trump, will come under growing pressure to do so.",
        "还没有公开支持特朗普的瑞安支持特朗普的压力会越来越大。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Sesame Street of Palestine and Israel, the failure of the joint venture was really a success: the Muppets and their creators have given us another valuable lesson, this time in how – and how not – to help others.",
        "回到在巴勒斯坦和以色列版本的《芝麻街》，其实这场合作的失败已经是某种成功。 因为玩偶们和他们的创造者也给我们上了宝贵的一课，那就是什么行为才是真正帮助对方，什么行为则恰恰相反。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, such a shift would require professors to receive training in these methods.",
        "当然，这样的转变需要教授接受培训掌握这些方法。"
    ],
    [
        "ISLAMABAD – The importance of education – and especially schooling – cannot be overestimated.",
        "伊斯兰堡—教育，尤其是学校教育的重要性怎么强调都不过分。"
    ],
    [
        "While the central government admits to some of the environmental degradation caused by rapid economic growth, the picture it paints is incomplete.",
        "尽管中央政府承认由于快速经济发展所造成的某些环境破坏，但是，政府还是文过饰非。"
    ],
    [
        "White House Sex Crimes",
        "白宫性犯罪"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone is therefore likely to break up into more compatible parts, after further failed efforts to muddle through.",
        "因此，在经历更多失败的权宜之计后，欧元区可能分裂为多个更加兼容的部分。"
    ],
    [
        "But this also means that 60% of news consumers regard the legacy media as being careless with facts.",
        "但这也意味着60%的新闻消费者认为老牌媒体对于事实并不上心。"
    ],
    [
        "The Indian stock market has been harder hit than that of most countries, but its banking system, which is still largely in government hands, has been less affected.",
        "印度的股市比其他国家遭到了更大的打击，但是它的银行系统依旧在很大程度上掌握在政府手中，受到影响不大。"
    ],
    [
        "Kagan argues that to start the second, disastrous war, a spark needed to land on one of the rare bits of kindling that had not been thoroughly drenched and then continually and vigorously fanned by poor policy choices.",
        "卡根认为导致第二次灾难性的战火需要未能被彻底浇灭、其后又被不断大力煽动的愚昧政策的罕见余火重新引燃。"
    ],
    [
        "The charter of the First Bank of the United States was allowed to lapse in 1811; a generation later, in 1836, President Andrew Jackson successfully opposed the charter of the Second Bank of the United States.",
        "美国第一银行的执照到期日在1811年； 25年后，1836年，安德鲁·杰克逊总统成功地否决了美国第二银行的执照。"
    ],
    [
        "But, depending on what actually transpired in that meeting, Bannon might not have been so far off.",
        "班农对沃尔夫说，这场会面堪称“叛国”。 但是，就这场会面实际泄露出来的信息看，班农的话并不夸张。"
    ],
    [
        "The only guarantee against an inflationary surge in this scenario is the prudence of policymakers.",
        "在这一情形中，唯一能够确保不产生通胀性激增的只有决策者的审慎。"
    ],
    [
        "These threats are often related to economic chaos and basic failures in national governance, and international military action will often be needed to meet them head on.",
        "上述威胁时常与经济混乱和国家管理的根本性失败密切联系，常需要采取国际军事行动来进行应对。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to navigate this interdependence, the Earth Security Index 2014, produced by the Earth Security Initiative, shows countries’ combined vulnerabilities that might increase the risk exposure of governments and companies, unless more strategic approaches and sustainable investments are put in place.",
        "为了引导这一互相依赖性，地球安全计划（Earth Security Initiative，ESI）发布的地球安全指数2014（Earth Security Index 2014）显示各国脆弱度加起来可能导致政府和公司风险敞口增加，除非我们有更具战略眼光的方针和可持续投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The ruling ideology, moreover, is unlikely to survive such a step unharmed.",
        "此外，现在处于统治地位的意识形态不大可能完好无损地逃过此劫。"
    ],
    [
        "In Poland and Hungary, “illiberal” governments are undermining judicial independence.",
        "在波兰和匈牙利，“反自由”政府正在破坏司法独立。"
    ],
    [
        "Business leaders, too, may conclude that they can flout ethical rules.",
        "商业领导人也可能认为他们可以蔑视道德规则。"
    ],
    [
        "So Sarkozy and Royal are universally expected to be the two leading candidates heading into the “High Noon” encounter of the second round.",
        "因此，人们普遍看好萨尔科奇和罗亚尔将蟾宫折桂，进入第二轮竞选的“正午”对决。"
    ],
    [
        "(The same is true of public investment, though this constitutes such a small proportion of GDP that transatlantic differences could not have had a large impact on growth over a three-year horizon.)",
        "（公共投资也是如此，尽管该指标占GDP比重很小，大西洋两岸的差异不足以在三年时间里造成彼此增长的重大差异）。"
    ],
    [
        "Have no doubt: today’s markets rely heavily on the old adage that “time heals all wounds.”",
        "不要怀疑，如今市场严重依赖于“时间会治愈一切”的老话。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently inaugurated Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, together with Santos and other heads of state, question today’s punitive, prohibitionist approach, owing to its enormous costs and meager results, and propose a different strategy: legalization.",
        "新上任的危地马拉总统莫利纳和桑托斯及其他一些国家的首脑一起质疑现行的惩罚禁止办法，因为这样做成本太大而收效甚微，他们提出了不同的策略：合法化。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that most countries will have the good sense not to implement inflation targeting; my sympathies go to the unfortunate citizens of those that do. (Among the list of those who have officially adopted inflation targeting in one form or another are: Israel, the Czech Republic, Poland, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, South Africa, Thailand, Korea, Mexico, Hungary, Peru, the Philippines, Slovakia, Indonesia, Romania, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia, Iceland, and Norway.)",
        "对于那些实行通胀目标国家的不幸公民我表示同情。 (那些以这种或者那种形式设定通胀目标的国家有：以色列、捷克共和国、波兰、巴西、智力、哥伦比亚、南非、泰国、韩国、墨西哥、匈牙利、秘鲁、菲律宾、斯洛伐克、印尼、罗马尼亚、新西兰、加拿大、英国、瑞典、澳大利亚、冰岛以及挪威。"
    ],
    [
        "It is almost farcical.",
        "这几乎就是一场闹剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the 99 papers reviewed for the health consultation, 15 came from organizations promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights, while only five were from NCD-focused groups (six if a paper from a group supported by the alcohol industry is included).",
        "在健康顾问中所综述的99篇文献中，15篇来自推动性和生殖健康和权利的组织，而只有5篇来自专注于NCD的组织（也可以说是六篇，如果把一篇来自酿酒业支持的组织的文献也算计来的话）。"
    ],
    [
        "But imposing conditionality on sovereign states is a delicate matter – especially when the countries involved are as large, proud, and diverse as the BRICS.",
        "但对主权国家提条件非常棘手——尤其当所涉国家像金砖成员国那样广阔、多样并引以为豪。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, many states have slashed public spending on higher education and tried to make up the difference by raising tuition and forcing students to take on more federally financed debt.",
        "此外，很多州已经大幅削减了高等教育公共开支，并试图通过提高学费和迫使学生借贷更多联邦债务来弥补差额。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, they might have been offended if one questioned their staunch anti-liberalism.",
        "事实上，如果有人质疑它们顽固地反自由主义，有可能激起它们的愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "So Pakistan’s government has failed in its principal responsibility, enshrined in its constitution, to safeguard the lives and property of its citizens, as well as the country’s security and sovereignty.",
        "因此巴基斯坦政府未能履行宪法规定的主要责任，那就是保护公民的生命财产和国家的主权安全。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama announced this with nine Asian countries during his recent trip to the region.",
        "美国总统奥巴马在最近出访该地区时和九个亚洲国家一道宣布了这一消息。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, a way out of the seemingly irresolvable conflict between Israeli security and Palestinian statehood would open.",
        "如果美国能这么做，就会开启化解以色列安全和巴勒斯坦独立国家地位这对似乎无解矛盾的光明大道。"
    ],
    [
        "The entire center left is in flux, and new parties will probably come and go.",
        "而整个中左翼阵营都处于动荡不安之中，而新的政党可能会不断涌现然后又有销声匿迹。"
    ],
    [
        "In these circumstances, given Russia’s continuing failure to meet the G-8’s political and economic standards, the upcoming summit in St. Petersburg could produce a backlash, eroding the legitimacy, credibility, and relevance of the world’s most developed countries.",
        "在这种形势下，鉴于俄罗斯继续无法满足八国集团的政治和经济标准，即将到来的圣彼得堡峰会可能会产生强烈反应，从而侵蚀世界最发达国家的合法性、可信度以及重要程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar population-based surveys among women find much smaller proportions selling sex.",
        "类似的基于人口的女性调查所披露的卖春比例要低得多。"
    ],
    [
        "If this far-fetched projection sounds like voodoo economics all over again, that’s because it is.",
        "如果你觉得这一令人难以置信的经济学听上去怎么那么像是经济巫术（voodoo economics），那是因为它们本来就是。"
    ],
    [
        "If India joined the US containment strategy against Iran, it would have to bear serious strategic costs.",
        "一旦印度加入了美国对伊朗的遏制战略，就必须承担极为沉重的战略成本。"
    ],
    [
        "But the American aviation giant Boeing challenged the sale, alleging that, enabled by subsidies at home, Bombardier was selling the jets at below-market rates, giving the company an unfair advantage.",
        "但美国航空业巨头波音公司对此发难，指控庞巴迪公司凭借国内补贴，用低于市场水平的价格销售这些飞机，从而获得不公平的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Not that China is exactly egalitarian.",
        "并非是中国人人平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Its savings rate has been distressingly low for decades.",
        "它的储蓄率数十年来都低得令人沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "By citing international concerns – especially China’s slowing growth – as a major reason for deferring its long-awaited interest-rate hike in September, the Federal Reserve has left little doubt concerning the key role that China plays in sustaining a still-fragile US recovery.",
        "美联储以国际顾虑——特别是中国增长放缓——为主要理由推迟了人们期待已久的今年9月的升息计划，这毫无疑问表明中国在维持依旧脆弱的美国复苏中起着至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Thereafter, each would be credited with extra bancors in proportion to its net exports.",
        "然后，各成员国可以获得按净出口规模配比的额外班科信用。"
    ],
    [
        "Unilateralism seems very expedient to shortsighted politicians, for it obviates the need for what they perceive as the mess of actual negotiations – that is, meeting their counterparts face to face and discovering the human results of their policies.",
        "单边政策似乎是目光短浅的政客们最喜欢的权宜之计，因为这样就能避开一团乱麻似的艰苦谈判¾具体地讲，就是与对手面对面地进行交锋，从而弄清不同政策可能产生的人文后果。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, empathy can result in distress, which may even lead to withdrawal or burnout.",
        "事实上，同理心可能带来痛苦，甚至可能导致回避或倦怠。"
    ],
    [
        "In this progressive transformation of the international system, German and European foreign policy will play an active role.",
        "在这一国际体系的逐步转变中，德国和欧洲的外交政策将扮演一个积极的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "More refined studies of the recent recession suggest that the lasting so-called “hysteresis\" effects on unemployment have been limited, at least in the US.",
        "针对近期衰退更深入的研究表明失业领域所谓的持续“滞后”效应已经相对有限，至少在美国的情况如此。"
    ],
    [
        "He rejected Wahhabism – the ideological framework of the jihadists. But he maintained that Islam is an essential part of the Chechen tradition and presented himself as a leader who fully understood this.",
        "他拒绝了圣战的意识形态框架——瓦哈比教派主义，但坚持认为伊斯兰教是车臣传统的必要组成部分，并将自己表现成一个对次传统有深刻理解的领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "It must take immediate steps toward debt mutualization. It needs either the ECB or an expanded European Stability Mechanism to purchase distressed governments’ bonds today.",
        "必须迅速推进债务重组，并需要欧洲央行或是扩大化的欧洲稳定机制去购买当前那些危机政府的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The ostensible objective of the regulation is to avoid contaminating food supplies with drugs, especially when edible crops are used to produce them.",
        "从表面上看，这一规则的目标是避免食品供应受到药品污染，特别是在用适用作物生产它们的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "International cooperation has succeeded in preventing banks headquartered in Western Europe, with extensive branch networks in the Eastern Europe, from pulling out.",
        "而国际合作已经成功挽救总部设立于西欧、分支机构遍布东欧的多家银行免于倒闭。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the majority of Iran’s Arab neighbors, Turkey unequivocally welcomed the interim nuclear deal concluded last month between Iran and the P5+1 (the United Nations Security Council’s five permanent members and Germany).",
        "与伊朗的大部分阿拉伯邻国不同，土耳其旗帜鲜明地欢迎上个月伊朗与P5+1（联合国安理会五大常任理事国加上德国）达成的临时和协议。"
    ],
    [
        "The allegations stretch over nearly three decades.",
        "指控的涉案时间长达30年左右。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, he was very much in the tradition of the great eighteenth-century Scottish economist Adam Smith, whose writings Becker regarded as one of the greatest influences on his career.",
        "在这方面，他与伟大的十七世纪苏格兰经济学家亚当·斯密英雄所见略同，斯密的著作也被贝克尔认为是对自己职业生涯影响最大的。"
    ],
    [
        "The calamitous US military experience in Iraq has left it strategically diminished.",
        "美国在伊拉克军事行动是灾难性的，使得其在战略上被压低了。"
    ],
    [
        "The critics apparently were too busy to notice when the agreement on fishing subsidies was reached in Maui in July.",
        "批评者显然太忙了，以致于他们没有注意到关于渔业补贴的协议7月在毛伊岛就已经达成。"
    ],
    [
        "Some were killed after being falsely targeted as mercenaries (largely owing to the color of their skin).",
        "一些人因为被误认为雇佣兵而被杀（这主要是因为他们的肤色）。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists like Robert Gordon and Tyler Cowen argue that the technological breakthroughs of the past, including piped water, air conditioning, and commercial air travel, had a greater social impact – giving rise to the suburban lifestyle of cars and shopping malls, for example – than many of today’s advances.",
        "罗伯特·戈登（Robert Gordon）和泰勒·柯文（Tyler Cowen）等经济学家因为过去的科技突破，包括管道自来水，空调和商业化航班，都都比当今许多科技进步拥有更大的社会影响力——比如推动了汽车和大型购物广场等郊区生活方式的崛起。 。"
    ],
    [
        "The Diaspora Goldmine",
        "侨民金矿"
    ],
    [
        "According to the European Social Survey, there is little agreement in Europe about whether refugees and migrants take existing jobs, or actually create new ones (see chart above).",
        "欧洲社会调查结果显示，欧洲人很难就难民和移民究竟是抢走现有工作还是创造新的工作（参见上图）形成一致的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Since China launched its process of “reform and opening up” more than three decades ago, it has benefited from its willingness to consider – if not adapt – foreign ideas.",
        "自从中国在30多年前启动其“改革开放”进程以来，该国一直受益于其愿意融合——而非全盘接受——外国思维的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "The film even drew support from the incoming environment minister, Chen Jining, who compared it to Rachel Carson’s influential book Silent Spring.",
        "该片甚至得到了即将上任的环保部长陈吉宁的支持，他将该片与蕾切尔·卡尔森（Rachel Carson）的名著《寂静的春天》（Silent Spring）相提并论。"
    ],
    [
        "Compromise is anathema to the radical mind.",
        "激进者的头脑对于采取妥协深恶痛绝。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s government has been forced to acknowledge the unqualified priority of debt servicing, and can now benefit from unlimited monetary support from the ECB, Greece should have little problem supporting its debt burden, which is no heavier than Japan’s or Italy’s.",
        "如今，希腊总理齐普拉斯政府被迫承认了支付债务利息才是至高无上的当务之急，因此可以获得来自欧洲央行的无限量货币支持，因此，希腊支持其并不比日本或意大利更沉重的债务负担应该没有什么问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A global killer is ripping through the world’s poorer countries largely unchecked.",
        "一个全球性致命物正在世界贫穷国家肆虐。"
    ],
    [
        "On January 30, more than 207 million drug doses were donated to treat neglected tropical diseases including guinea-worm disease, leprosy, and trachoma.",
        "1月30日，全球共捐赠超过2. 07亿剂用于治疗被忽视的热带疾病的药物，包括麦地那龙线虫病、麻风病和砂眼。"
    ],
    [
        "What is frustrating is that the country could have – and should have – done a lot better.",
        "令人沮丧之处在于美国可以也应该做得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that financial push is bound to come to economic shove once again, unconventional monetary policies, it would seem, are here to stay.",
        "由于金融力量必定会再次造成经济混乱，看起来非常规货币措施还会继续存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But, by the time Musharraf resigned, he had already lost the ability to do anything about it.",
        "但是，当穆沙拉夫辞职的时候，他已经无可奈何花落去了。"
    ],
    [
        "While we worry about the far-off effects of climate change, we do nothing to deal with issues facing the planet today. This year, malnutrition will kill almost four million people.",
        "当我们在担心气候变化将会在遥远未来所带来的影响时，却对地球今天所面临的问题碌碌无为。"
    ],
    [
        "The Re-Education of Hong Kong",
        "对香港的再教育"
    ],
    [
        "But when the bank ran the numbers, they discovered that although about half of the people applying for low-end, high-interest-rate credit had a police record, this did not seem to reflect on payment outcomes.",
        "但在该银行处理数字时，他们发现，尽管大约一半申请低端高息信用者具有警方记录，但这似乎并不反映在偿还结果上。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a senior Indian official,speaking about tensions in the South China Sea, was recently quoted as saying: “You can’t assume that India-China maritime rivalry is inevitable.”",
        "事实上，一名印度高官不久前在谈及南海紧张局势时说：“我们不能想当然地认为无法避免印中海上争夺。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "International chambers of commerce play a very active and vital role in government consultations.",
        "国际工商会在政府咨询方面发挥着重要的积极作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, investment in human capital and an enabling environment for businesses to boost employment are essential.",
        "在两种情况中，通过投资人力资本和便利的营商环境提振就业都至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "There has been an enormous decrease in (perceived) wealth, in the trillions, with the decline in house and stock prices.",
        "随着房价和股价下跌，虚幻财富大大下降，高达数以万亿计。"
    ],
    [
        "Automation, Productivity, and Growth",
        "自动化、生产率和增长"
    ],
    [
        "Enter Medvedev. His Internet-surfing, compassionate, and generally liberal image helps recruit a key constituency – those beyond the reach of Putin himself – to the Putin plan.",
        "于是梅德韦杰夫便出现了，他上网冲浪的举动，富有同情心的姿态以及大体上自由主义的形象笼络了一批关键的支持者 —— 那些普京所争取不到的人 —— 去执行普京的大计。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – America’s economy grew much more rapidly than expected in 2013 and appears poised to strengthen further this year.",
        "伯克利—2013年美国经济增长比预期快很多，今年似乎会进一步走强。"
    ],
    [
        "Most are closely connected with Wall Street and the City of London.",
        "其中多数与华尔街和伦敦关系密切。"
    ],
    [
        "My work suggests that China’s GDP growth rate will decline to 5-6% in the coming decade, and 3-4% in the long run.",
        "我的研究表明，中国的GDP增长率将在未来十年下滑到5~6%，而从长远来看将是3~4％。"
    ],
    [
        "This was demonstrated by the American and world reaction to terrorism.",
        "美国和世界对恐怖主义的态度说明了这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "With this and other elements of a disheartening employment report now suddenly raising widespread worries about the underlying health and durability of America’s recovery, it is important to understand the positive factors and why they are not enough as yet.",
        "5月就业报告中的一系列令人沮丧的数字一下子引起了人们对美国经济的健康度和持久力的广泛担忧，认识积极因素并理解它们为何不足以提振经济是很重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that so many investors hold this view ought to make one think twice before absolving monetary policy of all responsibility.",
        "如此之多的投资者作如是观这一事实理应让人在为货币政策开脱之前三思。"
    ],
    [
        "Grit is Good",
        "放慢脚步是好事"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, after the abuses of Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison were disclosed, the views of Amnesty International and the International Committee of the Red Cross put pressure on the Bush administration both at home and abroad.",
        "无独有偶，伊拉克阿布格勒布监狱的虐囚丑闻曝光后，\"大赦国际\"和\"国际红十字会\"的观点都在海内外给布什政府施加了压力。"
    ],
    [
        "That same phone rang one day with the news that the city of Regina, Canada, was to be his new home.",
        "有一天，这部手机带来一则消息，加拿大雷吉纳（Regina）将是他的新家园。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – The recent failed coup attempt in Turkey highlights the country’s continuing vulnerability to military takeover.",
        "牛津——不久前，土耳其的那次未遂政变凸显了该国面对军事接管一贯非常脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer depends on how much surplus labor is available.",
        "答案取决于有多少剩余劳动力可用。"
    ],
    [
        "Previously, the military often kept the foreign ministry in the dark; and the party’s foreign-affairs office, which handled North Korea, often failed to coordinate its activities with the foreign ministry, which handled South Korea.",
        "此前，军方常常让外交部无所适从； 而中共外事办公室（负责朝鲜事务）往往不能协调其与外交部（负责韩国事务）的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Roman Empire ran a persistent trade deficit with India for centuries.",
        "罗马帝国曾在几百年的时间里持续地存在对印度的贸易赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "The real economic recovery – and this is the bad news – came only with WWII and the long Cold War that followed.",
        "真正的经济复苏——这可能是个坏消息——只能来自于之后的第二次世界大战和冷战。"
    ],
    [
        "And G-8 citizens must hold their governments accountable for what they have pledged but not delivered.",
        "八国集团的公民们必须让他们的政府为言而无信承担责任。"
    ],
    [
        "However reluctantly, these companies have called on all of us to reject their products.",
        "无论内心多不情愿，但这些企业已经呼吁我们所有人抵制他们的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "In small towns and villages, new types of societies are evolving wherein agriculture, while still important, is no longer the only thing that defines economic and cultural life.",
        "在小村镇，新型社会正在演化，农业尽管仍然十分重要，已不再是影响经济和文化生活的唯一要素。"
    ],
    [
        "All governments nowadays aim for a fiscal surplus to pay down debt.",
        "现在，所有政府都想通过财政盈余降低债务。"
    ],
    [
        "But, after studying some mechanics and using their imaginations, the physicist-fish realize that they could deduce much simpler laws of motion by supposing that they are surrounded by a medium (water!) that complicates the appearance of things.",
        "但是，通过研究一些力学现象并且发挥一些想象力，这种鱼类中的物理学家意识到，如过假定它们周遭并非真空，而是被一种介质（水 ! ）包围着，而这种介质影响了事物的表现，那它们所了解的运动定律可以被大大简化。"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, the truth lies elsewhere.",
        "在我看来，真相另有所在。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the Thatcher solution, which took almost everyone by surprise.",
        "撒切尔的改革就属于此类，所有人都被惊得目瞪口呆。"
    ],
    [
        "But, measured by per capita income, China will not equal the US for decades, if then.",
        "但如果用人均收入计算的话，中国还需要几十年才能赶上美国。"
    ],
    [
        "But quality and brand must be delivered at the right price.",
        "但质量和品牌也必须与一个合理的价钱相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial damage did not stop at the country's borders; as a direct result of the slowdown in Japan, automobile production dropped by some 20% in Thailand, 50% in China, and 70% in India.",
        "金融损失范围超越了国界； 日本减速直接导致泰国汽车产量下降20%，中国下降50%，印度下降70%。"
    ],
    [
        "They suggested that a type of particle exists that had never been detected; it was eventually named in honor of the British physicist Peter Higgs.",
        "他们提出存在一种尚未被发现的粒子，这种粒子最终以英国物理学家彼得·希格斯的名字命名。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, political polarization and general policy dysfunction in both the US and the European Union continue to inhibit such an effort.",
        "不幸的是，美国和欧盟的政治两极分化和总体政策无能仍制约着这样的评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Tusk will have to achieve something similar in the face of the new challenges confronting Europe today, which include Russian aggression in Ukraine, the rise of terrorism in the Middle East, and a stagnant economy at home.",
        "塔斯克也需要在面临现今欧洲新挑战时完成类似的任务，包括俄罗斯队乌克兰的进犯、中东恐怖主义和内部经济停止等。"
    ],
    [
        "Money there is an abstraction – “the abstraction of abstractions,” as Hegel put it – which helps explain why salaries are no longer rooted in reality.",
        "这里的金钱是抽象的－如黑格尔所说“抽象中的抽象”－这就有助于解释为什么薪酬会脱离现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization and Anti-Americanism",
        "全球化和反美主义"
    ],
    [
        "Most recently, Argentina’s 15-year legal battle with its creditors – in which holdouts did measurably better than creditors who had years earlier accepted a debt exchange – destabilized the international financial architecture and generated a new set of rules.",
        "最近，阿根廷与债主间爆发长达十五年的法律纠纷——那些拒不合作的债权人的状况比那些数年前就接受债务交换的债权人要好很多——这场法律纠纷破坏了国际金融构架并诞生了新的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "We will have to deal with a different type of superpower.",
        "事实上，尽管面临挑战，中华人民共和国有可能在这幕大戏中担当领衔主演。"
    ],
    [
        "In How Latin America Weathered the Global Financial Crisis, he combines recent history and personal insight to offer a fascinating account of how to apply a more balanced policy approach – both in emerging markets and more broadly.",
        "在《拉丁美洲如何抵御了全球金融危机》（How Latin America Weathered the Global Financial Crisis）中，他结合近期历史和个人洞见提出了一套关于如何实施更平衡的政策方针的优美理论——不管对于新兴市场还是其他地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in the media age, but for the most part we have not.”",
        "我们的敌人已经娴熟地适应了在媒体时代中作战，但是我们在很大程度上却还没有”。"
    ],
    [
        "They also need regulatory agencies in sectors such as telecommunications and energy that can pursue policies in accordance with broad goals established by the political process, but with appointees selected according to nonpartisan criteria who then exercise their authority in a way that fosters competition open to all.",
        "它们同时还需要在电信或能源部门建立一些监管机构，这些机构既可以执行一些与政治进程宏大目标相适应的政策，但又必须拥有一批不被党派左右，可以利用自身的权力去促进公开竞争的官员。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, a nineteenth-century response, featuring balance-of-power politics and the rearmament of Europe and Japan, may be part of what is required to do it.",
        "颇具讽刺意味的是，要想实现目标，可能必须采取以权力平衡和欧日重新武装为特点的19世纪对策。"
    ],
    [
        "Thailand is one example.",
        "泰国是一个例子。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea’s relationship with China perfectly illustrates the challenges it faces.",
        "韩国与中国的关系完美演绎了它所面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the leading single party in opinion polls is the insurgent, populist Five Star Movement (M5S), led by the comedian Beppe Grillo (though its official prime ministerial candidate is an inexperienced 31-year-old, Luigi Di Maio).",
        "如今，领先民调的第一大党是叛逆的民粹主义政党五星运动（M5S），其领导人是喜剧演员格里洛（Beppe Grillo，但其正式总理候选人缺乏经验的31岁新人迪马伊奥（Luigi Di Maio））。"
    ],
    [
        "Last week, addressing a gilded ballroom packed with the elite of Argentina’s business community, Kicillof explained the government’s policies as a real-world application of Keynesian theories.",
        "上周，在被阿根廷商界精英挤得水泄不通的金色宴会厅讲话时，基奇洛夫将政府政策解释为凯恩斯主义理论的现实应用。"
    ],
    [
        "Nothing but the thinnest membrane of denial separates the notion of scientific immortality through priority of discovery from this deeper, older, and wholly non-scientific dream of escaping one’s own inevitable death.",
        "将这种通过科学发现优先获得科学永生的概念和这种更深层次、更古老和完全非科学的幻想区分开来的只有一层薄之又薄的否认的隔膜。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet more than half of us are likely to reject the conclusion reached by Diamond and Saez.",
        "但我们大部分人可能会拒绝接受戴蒙德和萨伊兹的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "That threat might seem far-off while growth continues at relatively high rates; but, unless workers see the benefit of their labors in the form of improved living conditions, protests could ensue.",
        "这一威胁在增长相对较快是或许相当遥远，但是，除非工人看到他们的劳动的好处以生活条件的方式体现出来，否则很可能引发抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "That something is education and skills.",
        "那就是教育和技能。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Children are every country’s most vital resource.",
        "纽约—儿童是一国最宝贵的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, despite the technical difficulties, it should be possible to make spectacular advances in unraveling brain organization, even in humans, by adopting appropriate strategies with the tools now available.",
        "尽管如此，虽然存在技术困难，但通过采取合适策略和目前可以获得的技术在揭示大脑组织（甚至是人类大脑组织）方面取得重大进展应该是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "One proposal calls for taxing national and international financial transactions.",
        "有一种提案呼吁对国内和国际的金融交易征税。"
    ],
    [
        "These strains express themselves on policy issues.",
        "如此龃龉在政治问题上显露无疑。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, both al-Nahda and the PJD have taken a pragmatic stance.",
        "直到目前为止，两党都采取了一种实用主义的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, these estimates are roughly half a percentage point lower than those issued only last autumn.",
        "确实，这些预计要比仅仅是在去年秋天发布的低大约半个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "Including them might add as many as 25 million to the number of those who suffered terribly as a result of Stalin’s tyranny.",
        "若把他们计算在内，则有多大2500万人在斯大林的暴政中惨遭严重伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "They will stress that if the lessons of history are not learned, history is bound to repeat itself.",
        "他们会强调如果不吸取历史教训，历史就必然会重演。"
    ],
    [
        "A continuation of today’s commodity-price boom seems more likely, for it has more of a “new era” story attached to it.",
        "不过当今的商品价格上涨则更可能持续下去，因为它身上更多地附着有一个“新时代”故事的光环。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to refocus.",
        "是时候转变专注点了。"
    ],
    [
        "Until then, there should be “a moratorium on all…nuclear activity” and “revocation of recent clearances.”",
        "在此之前，应“暂停一切…核活动”，“撤回最近的项目审批”。"
    ],
    [
        "She congratulated him, and offered him a close working relationship, but only on the basis of “common values” such as “democracy, freedom, as well as respect for the rule of law and the dignity of each and every person.”",
        "她向他表示祝贺，并承诺与其密切合作，但必须以“民主、自由、尊重法治和全体民众的尊严”等“共同价值观”为前提。"
    ],
    [
        "Private companies, including telecoms, social marketing companies, systems designers, survey firms, and other information providers, should all be integrated into the data “ecosystem.”",
        "私营公司，包括通讯公司、社会营销公司、系统设计公司、调查公司和其他信息提供商，应该都整合进数据“生态系统”中。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans may be confused, inefficient, and slow to take decisions, but democracy still constitutes a wall of stability against economic and other uncertainties.",
        "欧洲人也许糊涂、低效、无法迅速决断，但民主将构成抵御经济和其他不确定性的长城。"
    ],
    [
        "To contain the damage and begin to rebuild much-needed trust, Obama must issue a credible apology to Merkel, other Western allies, and their citizens.",
        "为了遏制损失并开始重建急需的信任，奥巴马必须向默克尔、其他西方盟友以及这些国家的公民做出可信的道歉。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, local-currency bond markets – and, more generally, domestic capital markets – in emerging economies must be explored further, in order to lengthen the tenure of financial flows.",
        "最后，新兴经济体的本币债券市场——以及更一般地，本国资本市场——必须进一步利用，以延长金融流的期限。"
    ],
    [
        "But this argument largely fell apart with the selection of the 75-year-old Pajares.",
        "但选中75岁高龄的帕哈雷斯让这种说法不攻自灭。"
    ],
    [
        "That is more wealth than is owned by the poorer half of the world’s 7.4 billion people.",
        "这是一笔比全球74亿人中较贫穷的一半人口所拥有的总量还要大的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "They face global headwinds (China’s slowdown, the end of the commodity super cycle, the Fed’s exit from zero policy rates).",
        "它们面临全球不利形势（中国减速、大宗商品价格超级周期的结束、美联储退出零政策利率）。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s policy can, at most, establish a relatively secure enclave.",
        "普京的政策充其量只能建立一片相对安全的飞地。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine’s Vote, Russia’s Fate",
        "乌克兰的投票，俄罗斯的命运"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, why should tissue donors be entitled to compensation, as they or their progeny may benefit in the long run from the technological advances to which they contribute?",
        "还有最后一个理由，那就是从长远来看，组织捐献者或其后裔可以从他们为之做出贡献的技术进步中获得好处，既然如此，有什么必要给予他们经济上的补偿？"
    ],
    [
        "The improvement of Iran’s relationship with the West and the easing of diplomatic pressure on the Islamic Republic is not a major concern.",
        "伊朗与西方关系的改善以及伊斯兰共和国外交压力的缓解并非大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so requires a renewed – and transparent – dedication to the effort.",
        "实现这一目标需要重新开始完全透明的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany is the largest EU member country in terms of population and GDP; so, to some extent, it does make sense for it to take the lead.",
        "从人口和GDP衡量，德国是欧盟最大的成员国； 因此，从某种程度上，确实应该由它担任领导。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, every year has its growth challenges, and 2007 will be no exception.",
        "当然，每一年要取得增长都会面临很多的挑战，2007年也不例外。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Obama administration will have only a few months to develop meaningful proposals that can win domestic support, and will be preoccupied with the aftermath of the current financial debacle and the Iraq war.",
        "奥巴马政府只有几个月的时间制定有意义的、可以赢得国内支持的建议，而且该政府将会集中经理处理当前金融危机和伊拉克战争的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time countries turn to the IMF for support, they have already lost access to international capital markets.",
        "在受灾国向IMF求助时，它们往往已经断绝了一切进入国际资本市场的渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who happen to live and work in traditional manufacturing districts caught in the turmoil of globalization are multiple losers: their jobs, their housing wealth, and the fortunes of their children and relatives are all highly correlated.",
        "碰巧生活和工作在受全球化冲击的传统制造业地区的人沦为多重输家：他们的工作、家庭财富以及孩子和亲人的命运都与此息息相关。"
    ],
    [
        "But an economic boost could serve as an important source of much-needed hope – and the start of a virtuous circle of peace and prosperity.",
        "但经济增长可以作为迫切需要的希望的重要来源——也是建立和平与繁荣良性循环的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans might simply switch from buying Chinese textiles to imports from Bangladesh.",
        "美国人可以不买中国的纺织品而去孟加拉进口。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the course of the years, they were the masons who built our homes, they washed dishes in the restaurants where we ate, they were the merchants from whom we used to buy goods, and workers in the greenhouses of the kibbutzim.",
        "多年以来，他们曾是为我们修筑房屋的工匠，是在我们的餐馆里洗刷碗碟的工人，是我们时常光顾的商贩，是kibbutzim温室中的园丁。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Turkey could play some powerful cards, owing to its “good neighbor” policy with two partners and rivals, Iran and Syria, as well as its support for the short-lived presidency of Mohamed Morsi in Egypt.",
        "此外，土耳其堪称胜负手，因为它对两大伙伴和对手——伊朗和叙利亚采取“睦邻”政策，并支持执政生涯短暂的埃及总统穆尔西。"
    ],
    [
        "Believing FEMA to be an “oversized entitlement program” and that the “business of government is not to provide services,” Bush’s first FEMA director instituted new outsourcing requirements as part of a major privatization effort.",
        "由于认定联邦紧急措施署属于“过度膨胀的福利项目”以及 “政府的职能不是提供服务”，布什任命的首位联邦紧急措施署署长制定了新的外包计划，开始了全面的私有化进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, from a purely practical point of view, Google makes the world more efficient.",
        "另外，从纯粹的实用角度来看，谷歌使这个世界变得更有效率。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, since the late 1990’s, the real estate investment-to-GDP ratio has been far higher than it was in countries like Japan and Korea during their high-growth periods.",
        "事实上，自20世纪90年代末以来，房地产投资-GDP比率已经远远高出日本和韩国等国家高速增长期的水平了。"
    ],
    [
        "That will be true in Durban as well – and on an even greater scale.",
        "德班也逃不过这个结局——只是规模可能比哥本哈根还要大。"
    ],
    [
        "If a fair one-time payment is offered, it is likely to be taken up by a majority of civil servants, and public opinion will frown upon the greedy or lazy ones who turn it down.",
        "如果支付公平合理的一次性补偿，那么绝大多数公务员就都可以接受，公众舆论也会对拒绝接受的贪婪或懒惰之辈表示不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Still more recently, in the 2014 US midterm elections, Republicans emphasized the US’s vulnerabilities, and aired advertisements hinting that the Islamic State was directing Ebola-infected agents to kill Americans.",
        "更近一些的2014年美国中期选举中，共和党强调美国的弱点，并制作广告暗示伊斯兰国派出感染埃博拉病毒的特工杀死美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "But the credibility of such demands is undermined by the Arabs’ inability to alleviate Palestinian misery and, no less importantly, by their failure to help the Palestinians face the hard choices they will need to make if an orderly Palestinian state is ever to emerge.",
        "但是这些要求的可信性因为阿拉伯人无法减轻巴勒斯坦人的痛苦以及同等重要地，没能帮助巴勒斯坦人面对如果要实现一个有序的巴勒斯坦国他们将要面临的艰难选择而大打了折扣。"
    ],
    [
        "But by now, the decline has become nearly universal, with huge implications for global asset markets.",
        "但是到目前 为止，波动下降已经变得全球盖莫如此，对全球资本市场产生了巨大的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Kan’s retreat means that the mandarins continue to hold the reins of foreign and defense policy.",
        "菅的让步表明，日本外交和防务政策仍受官僚集团控制。"
    ],
    [
        "That is Sharon’s legacy. And, in Israel, fulfilling it will be no small achievement.",
        "这就是沙龙留给我们的财富，在以色列，实现这个目标就是巨大的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "The Government as Venture Capitalist",
        "作为风险资本家的政府"
    ],
    [
        "Despite Iranian officials’ best efforts to downplay the sanctions’ impact, it is difficult to spin inflation in excess of 30% and projected GDP growth of just 1% this year.",
        "尽管伊朗官员竭尽全力降低了制裁的影响，但通货膨胀仍然难以控制在30%以下，今年的GDP增长率预计只有1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Multilateralism Still Matters",
        "多边主义为什么依然存在"
    ],
    [
        "Their idea of romance centers on its opposition to staid values and predictability of bourgeois life.",
        "他们对浪漫的理解集中在其对那种落后价值观以及平庸中产阶级生活的反叛之上。"
    ],
    [
        "But the cost per job will be high: all imports will become more expensive, and this increase in the price level will filter through to the cost of everything Americans buy.",
        "但每个岗位的成本都很高：所有进口品都将变得更加昂贵，并且这一价格水平的升高将渗透到美国人所购买的一切东西。"
    ],
    [
        "European leaders cannot remain passive in the face of the dangerous populist tsunami now crossing the continent, and they know it.",
        "面对如今席卷整个大陆的危险的民粹主义海啸，欧洲领导人不能再消极以待了，他们也明白这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, violence against citizens, whether by sarin gas or helicopter gunships, is a moral obscenity.",
        "是的，针对民众的暴力行为，无论是沙林毒气还是武装直升机，都是一种道德污点。"
    ],
    [
        "Across the Atlantic, a standoff between the Democrats, the Tea Party, and old-school Republicans has produced extraordinary uncertainty about how the United States will close its 8%-of-GDP government deficit over the long term.",
        "在大西洋对岸，民主党、茶党和老派共和党之间的僵局不禁让人疑惑：从长期看，美国应该怎样消除占GDP 8%政府预算？"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the saving gap and the trade balance interact with each other constantly, making them always equal.",
        "此外，储蓄缺口与贸易平衡时时刻刻都在相互影响，不断保持两者持平。"
    ],
    [
        "When commodity prices are high and international capital is abundant and cheap, as in the 1970s and in 2004-2012, policymakers look like geniuses.",
        "在20世纪70年代和2004到2012年那样商品价格高企且国际资本既丰富又廉价的时代，决策者们看上去都像天才的化身。"
    ],
    [
        "It will probably come as a big surprise that climate change is expected to be mostly an increasing net benefit – rising to about 1.5% of GDP per year – in the period from 1900 to 2025.",
        "也许令人大吃一惊的是，积分牌预计在1900—2025年气候变化极有可能带来越来越多的净收益，每年可达GDP的1. 5%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "A fiscal devaluation – slashing payroll taxes and replacing the revenues with a higher VAT – would also help.",
        "财政性贬值——降低工资税，替之以对收入收取的更高的增值税——也能有所助益。"
    ],
    [
        "But this has merely contributed to greater economic insecurity and greater inequality, while failing to achieve either full or productive employment, as promised.",
        "但是，这些措施只是导致了更大的经济不稳定以及更大的不平等，而没有达到其所承诺的充分就业或者生产性就业的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, they can expect alarm bells to begin ringing again – and, next time, they may not have the tools they need to silence them.",
        "否则，警钟将再次敲响——而到那时就不一定有平息警报所必须的工具了。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, more firepower is called for.",
        "显然，它需要更多的弹药。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, there is no shortage of money waiting to be put to productive use.",
        "与此同时，大量资金也等待着被用于生产性用途。"
    ],
    [
        "A careful matchmaking process unites the interests and goals of the women on both sides, and already has paid amazing dividends.",
        "一个精心设计的配对程序将双方的兴趣和目标结合起来，并结出了丰硕的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Those responsible for the EU’s day-to-day operations, including the Board of the European Central Bank, would be accountable to the Parliament, which could dismiss them for failing to carry out their mandates.",
        "那些负责欧洲日常运作的人，包括欧洲中央银行的委员会，将对欧洲议会负责，而议会也可以因为他们失职而罢免他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting performance enhancing drugs out of sport will not be easy, and success is not assured.",
        "让兴奋剂远离体育运动不是一件容易的事，也不能确保成功。"
    ],
    [
        "But by overcoming differences and coordinating efforts to defeat the Islamic State and conquer Ebola, we are reinforcing support for a world order grounded in collective solutions to common problems.",
        "但通过克服差异、共同努力击败伊斯兰国、征服埃博拉，我们正在强化对基于针对共同问题的集体解决方案的世界秩序的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Turkey wants to take the lead in building infrastructure that could serve the needs of Syria’s displaced people within the country’s borders.",
        "相反，土耳其希望在建设能在叙利亚境内满足流亡民众需要的基础设施方面起领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "For Germany and South Korea, however, relationships with historic allies – NATO and the United States, respectively – appear to be changing before our eyes.",
        "但是，对德国和韩国来说，与其历史盟友——分别是北约和美国——的关系似乎正在我们眼皮底下发生改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Can China emulate the recent example of neighboring Myanmar (Burma), which has initiated significant, if still tenuous, political reforms?",
        "中国会模仿邻国缅甸最近的动作，采取重大（虽然仍只能称为细节上的）政治改革吗？"
    ],
    [
        "When Khrushchev came back, he was smiling: Sputnik’s launch was successful.",
        "当赫鲁晓夫回来的时候，他满脸微笑说，人造卫星发射成功了。"
    ],
    [
        "Most telling is that Britain, which retained control of its currency, enjoys the lowest yields in its history, while the risk premium on Spanish bonds is at a new high.",
        "最显著的指标是仍拥有自身货币控制权的英国国债收益率创下了历史新低，而西班牙债券的风险溢价创出了历史新高。"
    ],
    [
        "When the poor start using these services, two things happen.",
        "当穷人开始使用这些服务时，将发生两件事。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is an extravagant hypothesis, which goes far beyond the facts it is meant to explain.",
        "但这是一个夸张的假说，远远超过了它意在解释的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "The designer Nathalie Rykiel is reportedly planning to show the new Sonia Rykiel collection in March not in the usual vast rented area, but in the smaller space of her own boutique.",
        "设计师Nathalie Rykiel据说正在筹划三月间Sonia Rykiel桑丽卡新时装的发布，她不会再租用面积巨大的场地，而是在她自己的较小的精品空间举行。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though it may seem counter-intuitive, the region’s turmoil is finally bringing to the surface its fundamental problems in a way that allows them to be confronted and overcome.",
        "而且，尽管可能与直觉不符，但该地区的混乱局面终于让最根本的问题有机会浮出水面，让人们能够克服和解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Big data and advanced analytics can also reduce costs and enhance efficiency in health care and government, and can create value for consumers through greater product variety and quality, as well as enhanced convenience – benefits that are not captured in GDP statistics.",
        "大数据和先进分析法还能降低医疗和政府的成本、提高它们的效率，并通过更大的产品多样性和更高的产品质量、更好的产品便利性为消费者创造价值——这些都是GDP统计数字之外的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Washington has been seduced by the political economy of false prosperity.",
        "美国已经被虚假繁荣的政治经济学惯坏了。"
    ],
    [
        "The only thing that would hold the left together would be the claim that there should be more redistribution: but to whom, and according to what mechanism?",
        "唯一能把左派团结起来的是“更多再分配”的主张——但是，分配给谁，按什么机制分配？"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, the best way to insulate central banks from political pressure would be to expand their toolkit to allow for effective negative-interest-rate policy, though this will take time (as I also discuss in my book).",
        "讽刺的是，让央行隔绝政治压力的最佳办法是扩大它们的工具包，允许使用有效的负利率政策，尽管这需要时间（我在我的书中也讨论了这个问题）。"
    ],
    [
        "What other head of state would be able to pinpoint the deficiencies of economics so accurately, buttressing his arguments with quotations not just from Adam Smith, but also from Max Weber, Thorstein Veblen, and Jürgen Habermas?",
        "极少有其他国家首脑能像他一样如此准确地直击经济学的缺陷并且旁征博引论证自己的观点，不仅引用亚当·斯密，更是引用了马克斯·韦伯（Max Weber）、托尔斯坦·凡伯伦（Thorstein Veblen）和尤尔根·哈贝马斯（Jürgen Habermas）"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, as Europe’s largest consumer of Russian gas, Germany has built its hopes for energy security on developing a rich web of economic ties with Russia.",
        "与此同时，作为欧洲最大的俄罗斯天然气消费国，德国把能源安全的希望建立在与俄罗斯发展广泛的经济联系上。"
    ],
    [
        "Tariffs and other needless restrictions hobble trade among all South Asian countries.",
        "关税和其他不必要的限制阻碍着所有南亚国家之间的贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "It would seem more accurate to refer to these episodes as speculative epidemics.",
        "更准确的做法是将这些发作称为投机传染病。"
    ],
    [
        "The federal budget deficit has declined from 8.4% of GDP in 2011 to a predicted 2.9% of GDP for all of 2014.",
        "4%下降到2014年的2. 9%（预计值）。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this backdrop, stressing the existence and needs of a global community is necessary not only for economic reasons, but also to help ensure a peaceful world.",
        "在这样的背景下，强调全球社会的存在和需要不但在经济上必要，也是确保和平世界的必要。"
    ],
    [
        "The story is all too common, but should the blame really be laid on the coaching institutes?",
        "她的故事太平常了，但矛头真的应该指向补习班吗？"
    ],
    [
        "And there are, of course, new attempts by the United States to drum up “evidence” of an Iranian threat that may justify an attack.",
        "当然，美国还会有新的企图来鼓吹伊朗威胁的“证据”从而为其打击找到借口。"
    ],
    [
        "But an institution buying bonds with public money, deciding on the availability of mortgage finance, and winding down banks at great cost to their shareholders demands a different form of political accountability.",
        "但一个用公共资金购买债券、决定按揭融资是否可得、以给股东带来沉重代价的方式关闭银行的机构，需要不同的政治问责形式。"
    ],
    [
        "And rejecting the JCPOA would only encourage the Iranian regime to resume the very activities that the deal was meant to contain or curtail.",
        "而拒绝JCPOA必将鼓励伊朗体制重新开展协议意在遏制或影响的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, the Afghan leadership finally adopted – albeit half-heartedly – a transitional justice plan that could remove from power the biggest war criminals who have consolidated their grip on the country over the past five years.",
        "上个月，尽管不情愿，但是阿富汗领导层还是批准了一项过渡期司法规划。 这一规划将剥夺那些在过去五年中巩固了对该国控制的最大战犯们的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "The imminent – indeed, inevitable – victory of politics over recalcitrant economics may well be at hand.",
        "政治眼看就要获得对顽固经济学家的胜利了——事实上，此乃不可避免之事。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, alongside the potential economic benefits of attracting a much larger share of Chinese FDI, legitimate competitive and national-security concerns do need to be addressed.",
        "当然，尽管大力争取中国对外FDI份额能带来潜在的经济利益，合理的竞争和国家安全考虑也是必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, he would have been reckless to launch the third “arrow” of his so-called Abenomics strategy for reviving Japan’s economy – supply-side structural reforms – without a clear mandate for reform.",
        "相反，如果他在没有明确改革授权的情况下射出供应结构改革这安倍经济战略重振日本经济的第三支“箭”才是真正的不计后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The ultimate aim, though never explicitly stated, was to create a Palestinian state roughly within the 1967 borders.",
        "该协定的最终目标——尽管从未明言——是在1967年边境内建立巴勒斯坦国。"
    ],
    [
        "In the aftermath of 9/11, there was a good deal of sympathy and understanding around the world for America’s military response against the Taliban.",
        "9/11事件后，全世界都对美国对塔利班的军事打击表示理解和同情，而美国入侵与9/11袭击毫无瓜葛的伊拉克将世界人民的同情挥霍殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "In late 2011 and early 2012, Egypt held parliamentary elections.",
        "2011年末、2012年初，埃及举行了议会选举。"
    ],
    [
        "Holding the world’s reserve currency, America has gotten away with it, largely because the rest of the world let it.",
        "拥有世界储备货币的美国之所以能在没有储蓄的情况下活得好好的，主要是因为世界其他国家的配合。"
    ],
    [
        "Coalition infighting and the prospect of a national election in 2014 further complicate efforts to enact reform legislation.",
        "联盟内斗和2014年国民选举的前景让改革立法的实施更加扑朔迷离了。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on internal documents from the Mexican and US governments, countless interviews, and a survey of much of the existing literature on the subject, Ex-Mex seeks to fulfill three purposes.",
        "这本书力图根据墨西哥和美国两国政府的内部文件、数不清的采访以及对这一问题现有的文献调查来达到三个目的。"
    ],
    [
        "The reaction of Iran and its supporters – with violent anti-Saudi protests not only in Tehran, where the kingdom’s embassy was sacked, but also in Iraq and Bahrain – merely revealed the full depth of the underlying bilateral enmity.",
        "伊朗及其支持者所做出的反应——不仅德黑兰、而且伊拉克和巴林均爆发了针对沙特的暴力抗议活动并洗劫了该国使馆——不过是向外界展示了两国的仇恨有多深。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there are many things wrong with the EU nowadays, but a widening of its so-called “democratic deficit” is not one of them.",
        "当前的欧盟无疑存在诸多问题，但所谓“民主赤字”的日益扩散并不包括在内。"
    ],
    [
        "The students were part of a growing chorus of protest against modern economics as it is taught in the world’s leading academic institutions.",
        "这群学生是日渐兴起的反对当前领先学术机构所授的现代经济学的群体的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The American route does not necessarily imply a heavy-handed approach vis-à-vis the crisis countries.",
        "美国式选择并不一定意味着对危机国家的严厉措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Such businesses are also leveraging their broad access and widely recognized brands to expand their role in the financial-services sector.",
        "这类企业也利用广阔的接触面和高认知度的品牌扩张其在金融服务行业的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The search for higher yields drove investors and speculators to developing countries, where the inflows increased leverage, propped up equity prices, and in some cases supported a commodity price boom.",
        "对资本更高回报的渴求驱使投资者和投机者转向发展中国家，这类流入增加了杠杆，撑起了股价，并在某些情况下支撑了商品价格上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "France and Germany compete openly as alternative centers of influence vis-à-vis the smaller European states.",
        "法国和德国已经公开竞争，看谁能成为对欧洲较小国家产生影响的中心。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, severe demand constraints are a key feature of today's global economic environment.",
        "此外，事实上，严重的需求制约已成为当今全球经济环境的一个关键特征。"
    ],
    [
        "I do not recall checking a box to say that that was okay.",
        "我不记得勾选过表格说这种做法可以允许。"
    ],
    [
        "Some journalists and politicians sought asylum in other countries.",
        "一些记者和政治人物不得不流亡他国寻求政治避难。"
    ],
    [
        "In this newly competitive environment, oil will trade like any normal commodity, with the Saudi monopoly broken and North American production costs setting a long-term price ceiling of around $50 a barrel, for reasons I set out in January.",
        "在这一新的竞争环境中，石油将像任何普通大宗商品一样交易，沙特阿拉伯的垄断将被打破，北美的生产成本将给长期价格带来每桶50美元左右的上限，原因我在1月已经讨论过了。"
    ],
    [
        "“British jobs for British workers” was a slogan used by the racist National Front party in the UK in the 1970s. Now it has backing in the cabinet.",
        "“英国的工作仅为英国工人提供”这句1970年代种族主义势力英国国家阵线党所使用的口号如今又重新回荡在内阁之上。"
    ],
    [
        "So, is the renewed vigor of US President Barack Obama’s administration in the quest for peace too little, too late?",
        "因此，美国总统奥巴马政府的重新要求和平看来是太晚、太微不足道了？"
    ],
    [
        "But recent tensions in the region may partly reflect a lack of progress in another, overlooked area: Japanese constitutional reform.",
        "但最近的地区紧张局势部分反映了另一个被忽略领域缺乏进展：日本的宪法改革。"
    ],
    [
        "There is truth, for good and for ill, to the idea that Western-style “consciousness-raising” is also about teaching women how to be dissatisfied.",
        "但不管究竟是好是坏，西方“意识觉醒”的理念其实也包括了教导女性如何感到不满意。"
    ],
    [
        "Next winter, it will be sixty years since an army crossed the Rhine River bringing death and destruction- the longest such period since at least the late second century B.C., when the Cimbri and Teutones challenged the army of the Roman Consul Gaius Marius in the Rhone Valley.",
        "明年冬天，我们将迎来60周年纪念日。 60年前，一支军队越过莱茵河，给人们带来了死亡和灾难－这也是继公元前2世纪末辛布里和条顿族人在龙谷（Rhone Valley）迎战罗马执政官盖乌斯·马略（Gaius Marius）后持续时间最长的一场战争。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is electricity generation.",
        "其中首先是发电领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Population growth after this will be mostly caused by people living longer, a factor that will diminish in significance from mid-century.",
        "此后的人口增长将主要由寿命增加导致，到本世纪中叶，这一因素的效力也将大大降低。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The election of Jeremy Corbyn as the new leader of the British Labour Party is a reminder that life is rich with paradox.",
        "伦敦——杰瑞米·柯比当选为英国工党新领袖提醒我们生活到处充满了悖论。"
    ],
    [
        "His namesake showed that concern for nature is inseparable from justice for the poor, social commitment, and peace within oneself.",
        "”他的命名哲学表明，对自然的关注与穷人的正义、社会承诺以及内心平静不可分割。"
    ],
    [
        "Its recent decision to withdraw its ambassador from Qatar has revealed the gravity of the crisis in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), composed of the Kingdom’s most immediate neighbors.",
        "沙特阿拉伯最近决定召回驻卡塔尔大使，凸显出海湾合作委员会（GCC）危机的严重性。 GCC成员都是沙特王国的近邻。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter and Lending Club, allow start-ups to raise grants, loans, or investment from the general population, rather than relying on a financial intermediary.",
        "使用Favor 和 Instacart安排送货上门。 类似地，Kickstarter和 Lending Club等众筹平台让创业企业得以从普罗大众手中筹集援助金、贷款或投资，而不需要依靠金融中介。"
    ],
    [
        "Candidates to lead their countries should not be allowed to get away with speaking in generalities or engaging in vague rhetorical flourishes.",
        "要想成为国家领导人，候选人就不能只谈整体轮廓，用如簧巧舌给选民画饼。"
    ],
    [
        "Women not only outnumber men at universities; they also outperform them, most notably in math, physics, and information science.",
        "在大学里，女生不仅在人数上超过男生，而且她们也比男生成绩要好，最为显著的是在数学、物理以及信息科学方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Deforestation and desertification are rampant.",
        "尽管取得了一些进步，森林砍伐和荒漠化依然非常严重。"
    ],
    [
        "If they were, most poor countries would be in conflict most of the time.",
        "如果贫困和边缘化是冲突的充分条件，那么多数贫困国家绝大部分时间都将在冲突中度过。"
    ],
    [
        "With competitiveness lagging, the trade deficit soared, and so did unemployment.",
        "随着竞争力一蹶不振，贸易赤字飙升，同样快速攀升的还有失业人数。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why my colleagues and I have detailed, demonstrated, and publicized several easily implementable confinement strategies.",
        "我和我的同事也因此详细论述、说明并公布了几项比较便于实施的限制对策。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging market countries elsewhere have made considerable reform progress of late, but they must sustain the momentum to guard against potential shocks.",
        "其他地方的新兴市场国家近来在改革方面取得了可观的进展，但是他们必须保持动力，预防潜在的动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "For America, Russia, too, was an evil empire, the world of communist expansionism and a nuclear superpower, but also a cradle of science, spirit, and soul.",
        "对美国而言，俄罗斯同样是一个邪恶帝国，是一个共产扩张主义的世界和一个超级核大国，但同时也是科学、精神和灵魂的摇篮。"
    ],
    [
        "Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution",
        "把握第四次工业革命"
    ],
    [
        "As Obama said in his 2014 State of the Union address, “in a world of complex threats, our security depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.”",
        "奥巴马在2014年国情咨文中指出：“在充满复杂威胁的世界中，我们的安全取决于我们的实力的所有要素——包括强势的有原则的外交。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, by contrast, the appointment of the black anchorwoman Audrey Pulvar was big news on its own, because most of her colleagues in France are white.",
        "相比之下，在法国，黑人女主播奥黛丽•布尔瓦的任命本身就是一条大新闻，因为她的大多数法国同事都是白人。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany, however, has little enthusiasm for EU-level economic reforms, because it benefits from the status quo.",
        "而德国对于欧盟层面的改革没有什么热情，因为它是现状的受益者。"
    ],
    [
        "In the colonial era, it was the official purpose of imperial power to extract wealth from the administered territories.",
        "在殖民时期，从殖民领地攫取财富是帝国主义的官方意图。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s difficulties stem from the fact that the global financial crisis caught Europe midway through a similar process.",
        "而欧盟所面临的困难在于，在类似过程尚未完成之前，全球金融危机就袭击了欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "The Court must answer the following question: Can human genes – your genes – be patented?",
        "最高法院必须回答下面这个问题：人类基因——也就是你我的基因——能被别人申请专利吗？"
    ],
    [
        "As the last few monetary-policy cycles have shown, even if the Fed can get the equilibrium rate back to 3% before the next recession hits, it still will not have enough room to maneuver effectively.",
        "最近几次货币政策周期表明，即使美联储能够在下一次衰退发生之前让均衡利率回到3%，它也没有足够的腾挪空间。"
    ],
    [
        "The vast majority of the cost comes at the start, in the design of hardware (like sensors) and, more important, in creating the software that produces the capability to carry out various tasks.",
        "成本的绝大部分来自开始阶段，产生于硬件（如传感器）设计以及（更重要的）开发有能力处理各种任务的软件的过程中。"
    ],
    [
        "That may work in the short term, but if sovereign default risks materialize – as my research with Carmen Reinhart suggests is likely – the ECB will in turn have to be recapitalized.",
        "这样做在短期可能有效，但如果主权违约风险成为现实——根据我和卡门·莱因哈特（Carmen Reinhart）的研究，这很有可能——那么欧洲央行自身也将需要资本重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Enemies will have to talk to one another.",
        "敌人将不得不互相谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the 1990’s, his channels broadcast “Big Brother” and Italian variety shows dominated by male comedians, musclemen, and scantily clad young girls, popularly known as “veline.”",
        "从20世纪90年代起，他的电视台就开始播放意大利杂耍，里面充斥着意大利喜剧男星、打手和几乎一丝不挂的被称为“伴舞女郎”的年轻女孩子。"
    ],
    [
        "It draws on the best science to identify the key planetary processes regulating the earth’s ability to sustain Holocene-like conditions.",
        "框架借鉴了尖端科学，以确定能让地球保持全新世状态的关键行星变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The moment the Pakistani establishment genuinely disavows terrorism as an instrument of state policy, the prospect of peace will dawn on the subcontinent.",
        "当巴基斯坦政府真正否定恐怖主义作为国家政策工具的那一刻，印度次大陆将点亮和平的曙光。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, surveys suggest that what people want most is not wealth so much as happiness and the satisfaction that comes from a full and meaningful life.",
        "最终，调查结果表明人们最想要的不是财富，而是充实而有意义的生活所带来的美满和幸福。"
    ],
    [
        "A trip I took to a village in the Tigre region in northern Ethiopia shows why.",
        "我去了埃塞俄比亚北部的Tigre地区的一个村庄，这趟旅行能解释其中缘由。"
    ],
    [
        "A CDS insures against a default, paying off if the bonds do not. They can yield substantial returns, regardless of whether the bonds are repaid – thus reducing their holders’ incentive to achieve an agreement.",
        "CDS相当于违约保险，在债券无法偿付时赔偿持有人，它可以产生巨大的回报，不管债券是否被偿付——从而刺激持有人达成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2008, US President Barack Obama campaigned on “hope” and “change we can believe in.”",
        "2008年，美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马提出了“希望”和“我们能够信任的变化”等竞选口号。"
    ],
    [
        "If this is allowed to continue, we might end up opening a Pandora’s Box, setting free the nationalistic and xenophobic ghosts of the past.",
        "如果我们对此听之任之，最后可能会导致潘多拉的盒子被打开，关在里面的民族主义和排外主义幽灵都会被放出来。"
    ],
    [
        "With one in four Spaniards unemployed and Spain’s sovereign bonds rated just above junk status, Spain seems to be on the edge of falling into the abyss.",
        "每四个西班牙人中就有一个找不到工作，西班牙主权债务评级只比垃圾债券略高——西班牙正在悬崖边缘苦苦挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "Theirs is not the world we live in or a world we should want to live in.",
        "他们的世界不是我们生活的世界，我们也不愿在这样的世界中生活。"
    ],
    [
        "The advice that the African leaders received from their Chinese counterparts was sound, and much more practical than they typically get from the World Bank.",
        "非洲领导人从中国领导人那里得到了合理的建议，比起他们从世界银行得到的要实际得多。"
    ],
    [
        "A rise of the ten-year yield to 4% would reduce the value of those bonds substantially.",
        "十年期收益率上升到4%将大大降低这些债券的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "What too few have pointed out is that these are Europeans.",
        "很少被提到的是这些人是欧洲人。"
    ],
    [
        "To accept de Gaulle’s offer, these leaders had to agree, among other things, to allow the stationing of French troops on their territory, provide France with a steady supply of raw materials at pre-determined prices, assume all colonial-era debts incurred by France, maintain the CFA Franc as their common currency, and grant the French Treasury veto authority over their sub-regional central banks.",
        "要想接受法国的建议，这些领导人必须同意允许法国在本国领土上驻军、按照事先约定的价格稳定地向法国供应原材料、承担法国在殖民时期的所有债务、使用西非法郎作为其共同货币、并赋予法国财政部对其地区央行决策的否决权等。"
    ],
    [
        "But if large shifts in the composition of employment have been the norm, what makes today’s technology-driven shifts so scary?",
        "但如果就业构成的大幅变化再寻常不过，那么是什么让人们如此惧怕今天由技术驱动的变化？"
    ],
    [
        "And the children of migrant workers in urban areas must be granted full access to the education system.",
        "城镇地区农民工子女必须获得完整的受教育权。"
    ],
    [
        "The Wall Street Journal, for example, America’s leading business newspaper, has run an aggressive editorial campaign against climate science for decades.",
        "美国主要商业媒体《华尔街日报》近几十年来就一直积极开展反对气候科学的社论运动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Red Cross report has leaked: torture and war crimes.",
        "红十字组织的报告泄漏了这样的事实：拷打和战争犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Perceptions of such divergences force considerable risk premiums on problem countries, inevitably resulting in accelerating capital flight to safe havens.",
        "此分歧给问题国家带来相当大的风险溢价问题，这不可避免地会加快资本向安全地区外逃的速度。"
    ],
    [
        "Would Russia otherwise have dared to threaten to re-direct its nuclear missiles at European cities?",
        "如果情况不是这样，俄国真的敢威胁重新把它的核导弹对准欧洲城市吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the case where the direct effect is small – the decoupling assumption – the US slowdown still can have a substantial net impact on European exports because of its indirect effect on Asian imports from Europe.",
        "即便直接影响会很小，就像脱藕论者所主张的那样，美国经济的疲软依然会因为它对亚洲向欧洲进口的间接影响而对欧洲的出口产生实质性的净影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Whose Central Bank?",
        "谁的中央银行?"
    ],
    [
        "The Thai army abandoned its neutral posture and became increasingly belligerent.",
        "于是泰国军方放弃了其中立立场，转而变得好斗起来。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where the effort to devise institutional mechanisms to check and balance elite behavior enters the picture.",
        "这也是为何要设计体制性机制来制衡精英阶层行为的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "If a debt bailout program requires a wholesale change in a country’s economic, social, and political model, the best course of action might be to write off the private losses, rather than pour in public money to cover them.",
        "如果债务援助方案要求一国经济、社会和政治模式发生全面的变化，那么最好的行动方案可能是减记私人损失，而不是用公共资金覆盖私人损失。"
    ],
    [
        "By that measure, the eurozone is actually doing much better today than in 1999.",
        "按此衡量，欧元区今天确实也比1999年好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Excessive centralization and harmonization are decimating the subsidiarity and competition needed to drive Europe’s economies, as the socialization of debt undermines weaker economies’ accountability.",
        "过度集中和和谐大幅削弱了提振欧洲经济所需要的自主和竞争，而债务社会化破坏了较弱经济体的可问责性。"
    ],
    [
        "The obvious solution, which economists have long advocated, is an increase in America’s gasoline taxes.",
        "显而易见的方案——也是经济学家长期呼吁的方案——是提高美国汽油税。"
    ],
    [
        "If creditor banks were unwilling to accept some form of restructuring, they would have to put in new money.",
        "如果债权银行不愿接受任何形式的债务重组，就得追加放贷。"
    ],
    [
        "Women are generally not well integrated into male networks that dominate organizations, and gender stereotypes still hamper women who try to overcome such barriers.",
        "女性总的来说无法很好地融入主导组织的男性网络，而顽固的性别观念仍然是女性克服这些障碍的绊脚石。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately for India’s citizens, Prime Minister Narendra Modi intends to change that.",
        "对印度人民来说，幸运的是总理莫迪要改变这一幕了。"
    ],
    [
        "In a nation like the US, where employees can be fired easily, shareholders have less to fear.",
        "在美国这样解雇劳工相对容易的国家，股东们就不太会害怕。"
    ],
    [
        "In my view, it is difficult to make a strong case for a significant sustained increase in earnings growth in this environment, meaning that growth alone would not justify current equity valuations.",
        "在我看来，在这样的环境下，盈利增长保持持续大幅提高很难，这意味着光靠增长无法支撑目前的股票估值。"
    ],
    [
        "Loan buy-downs can help keep the education sector “competitive,” and could prove to be a mechanism to leverage extra resources for education, for which capital-strapped countries may not be willing to borrow otherwise.",
        "贷款补贴能帮助交易部门保持“竞争力”，也能成为撬动额外资源流入教育的杠杆，若无贷款补贴，资本紧缺国家或许不愿意将资源贷给教育。"
    ],
    [
        "To reduce elders’ interference, Hu stepped down as head of the military and Jiang Zemin promised to step back.",
        "为了减少老干部的干扰，胡锦涛卸任军队首脑，江泽民也承诺力挺习近平。"
    ],
    [
        "We should seek China’s integration as a matter of self-interest.",
        "我们应该将中国的融入作为与自己利益相关的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "First, technology is fast becoming a game changer, especially in developing countries, where the gap in access to health care is the widest.",
        "首先，技术正在快速成为局面改变因素，特别是在医疗普及差距最大的发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Karadžić’s acquittal – precisely because he is still on trial on other counts related to the same atrocities – is an opportunity to move toward the sensible goal of retiring it.",
        "卡拉季奇被判无罪恰恰因为他还在为与同样暴行有关的其他罪名受审，而这是实现取消种族灭绝罪名目标的一次合理的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "They would be best served if the Trump administration kept its hands off Obama’s other financial reforms, too.",
        "而最符合这些利益的，莫过于特朗普政府不去染指奥巴马政府留下的其他金融改革。"
    ],
    [
        "“There is a sense of despondency in Pakistan, and the place that the people go to is the military,” he said.",
        "“巴基斯坦弥漫着一股消沉的气息。 而人们该求助的对象是军队”，他说道。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump was also reportedly furious that Bannon had described the president’s favorite child, Ivanka, as “dumb as a brick.”",
        "据说特朗普还恼怒于班农说总统最钟爱的孩子伊万卡（Ivanka）“笨得像块砖头”。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a tall order at a time of rapid population growth and rapid aging.",
        "在人口快速增长和快速老龄化的当下，这是一个艰难的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The Volkswagen law also deters private investors from acquiring shares in the company, despite the principle of free capital mobility within the EU.",
        "《大众汽车法》也限制了私有投资者收购企业的股票，尽管欧盟规定了联盟范围内资金自由流动的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Other Asian countries might even be drawn closer to Japan, the only alternative to the US as a counterbalance to the Middle Kingdom.",
        "其他亚洲国家则只能别无选择地更亲近日本，因为它是除美国之外唯一能与中土王朝抗衡的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the writer Ahmed Naji was recently handed a two-year prison sentence for violating “public modesty,” by publishing a sexually explicit excerpt from his novel.",
        "此外，作家纳吉（Ahmed Naji）最近被判两年徒刑，因为他“行为不端”，在他的小说中进行露骨的性描写。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, policymakers chose to include the Volcker rule (named after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker) in the Dodd-Frank Act, thereby restricting proprietary trading by commercial banks rather than reviving some form of the Glass-Steagall Act’s division of investment and retail banks.",
        "在美国，决策者决定将沃尔克规则（以美联储前主席保罗·沃尔克的名字命名）纳入多德-弗兰克法案，从而限制商业银行的自营交易，而不是重新采用某种形式的格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法案分离投资和零售银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans have led the IMF and Americans have controlled the World Bank since their establishment after World War II.",
        "自二战后建立至今，国际货币基金组织和世界银行就分别由欧洲人和美国人把持着。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is not the whole answer, either.",
        "但这也不是答案的全部。"
    ],
    [
        "But are we now on the verge of a trend reversal?",
        "但现在趋势即将反转了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "After all, support for direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine no longer makes sense, even for Israel’s main ally, the United States, because the assumptions underlying this approach have been demolished.",
        "毕竟，支持引导以色列和巴勒斯坦谈判已不再有意义，即使是以色列的主要盟友美国也是如此，因为这一方针的基本前提已经被破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "This finding was based on a groundbreaking research paper that showed that even a highly efficient global CO2 tax aimed at fulfilling the ambitious goal of keeping temperature increases below 2oC would reduce annual world GDP by a staggering 12.9%, or $40 trillion, in 2100.",
        "而这一发现则基于一篇突破性研究论文，文中指出即使是一项高效的，旨在实现把全球温度升高限制在2°C范围内这个充满野心目标的全球性二氧化碳税都会使得全球年GDP在2100年时降低足足12. 9%（等值于40万亿美元）。"
    ],
    [
        "Competitive politics had come to Pakistan.",
        "巴基斯坦已经形成了政治竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "How Asia Copes with America’s Zombie Consumers",
        "遭遇美国僵化消费——亚洲各国何去何从"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the new Basel III Accord and the ensuing EU Capital Requirements Directive have failed to correct the two main shortcomings of international prudential rules – namely, their reliance on banks’ risk-management models for the calculation of capital requirements, and the lack of supervisory accountability.",
        "不幸的是，新的巴塞尔III协议及其后的欧盟资本要求指令（EU Capital Requirements Directive）并没能纠正国际审慎规则的两大主要缺陷——即对用银行风险管理模型计算资本要求的依赖以及对监督者缺乏可问责性。"
    ],
    [
        "That has been the pattern observed in Algeria, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Egypt may follow.",
        "阿尔及利亚、沙特和也门已经提供了前车之鉴，埃及很有可能会步它们后尘。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent Global Energy Assessment, released by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, shows that combating global warming while providing affordable energy worldwide is technologically and economically feasible.",
        "国际应用系统分析研究所公布的近期全球能源评估显示在全世界供应经济能源的同时战胜全球变暖在经济和技术上是可以实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "But while inequality is a problem, raising interest rates is no way to address it.",
        "不平等固然是一个问题，但提高利率绝非解决之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Referring to the key criteria set out in many discussions of traditional “just war” doctrine, he called it “a war waged proportionally, in last resort, and in self-defense.”",
        "奥巴马援引确立于许多关于传统“正义战争”思想的讨论中的关键标准，称“这是一场合理的战争，是最后手段，也是自我防卫战争。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, the main exception was banking.",
        "到目前为止，最显著的例外就是银行。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – The global economy is like a jetliner that needs all of its engines operational to take off and steer clear of clouds and storms.",
        "东京—全球经济就像是一架喷气式客机，需要所有引擎都能正常运转才能冲破云霄。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, the lobbying of the quasi-governmental mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would not have been so successful without the idea of the “ownership society.”",
        "更重要的是，如果没有“所有权社会”的观点，准政府按揭贷款商房利美和房地美当初就不会那么成功。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would transform Russia even more.",
        "但是，它对俄罗斯导致的改变更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, McCain has veered bizarrely, issuing contradictory statements, “suspending” his campaign (while continuing to campaign), and urging that the first debate be canceled (when it was all the more needed).",
        "同时，麦凯恩却莫名其妙地改变态度，做出的声明都相互矛盾，他宣布“暂停”竞选活动（而同时却继续竞选），并（在首次竞选辩论的必要性越来越迫切的时候）敦促取消这次辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "That will not change until a new consciousness emerges worldwide to persuade states to support binding international law.",
        "除非说服各国政府支持有约束力的国际法的全新意识在世界各国扎根，否则这种状况很难发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, 83.5% of Chinese thought their country is run for all the people, rather than for a few big interest groups, whereas only 36.7% of Americans thought the same of their country.",
        "同样，83. 5%的中国民众认为国家由全民、而不是少数大的利益集团管理，而持这样想法的美国人仅占人口总数的36."
    ],
    [
        "EDINBURGH – Can the United Kingdom ever reconcile itself to being part of Europe?",
        "爱丁堡——英国能否认同自身是欧洲的组成部分？"
    ],
    [
        "We show how this can be done in the 2015 Africa Progress Report, “Power People Planet: Seizing Africa’s Energy and Climate Opportunities.”",
        "我们在2015年度非洲进步报告“为全球民众提供动力：抓住非洲的能源和气候机会”中为此树立了榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "New Democracy, Pasok, and Democratic Left belong to this group, as opposed to Syriza and some smaller parties on the extreme right and left, which support a confrontational stance vis-à-vis the eurozone, eventually leading to the euro exit.",
        "新民主党、泛希腊社会运动党（Pasok）和民主左翼党属于这个阵营，它们的对立面是，激进左翼联盟（Syriza）和其他一些极右和极左小党派，它们支持与欧元区争锋相对并最终退出欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with Americans facing a debt overhang, rapidly increasing unemployment (and the worst unemployment compensation system among major industrial countries), and falling asset prices, they are likely to save much of the tax cut.",
        "美国人目前负债累累，失业率快速上升（可以说是工业国家最失败的失业救助机制），财富迅速缩水，所以，对于减税的所得，他们最可能的是储蓄起来，而不是用于消费。"
    ],
    [
        "Establishing an international bankruptcy court would be a far more efficient solution, but that doesn’t make it feasible.",
        "建立国际破产法听是更有效的方案，但不可行。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, despite assurances from both sides, no one knows how the referendum will unfold, much less how to navigate the aftermath if British voters chose to leave.",
        "毕竟，尽管双方彼此做出了保证，但没人知道公决结果会如何，更不用说如果英国选民选择离开欧盟该怎么办了。"
    ],
    [
        "Left-wing economists like Raúl Prebisch, moreover, later advanced the theory of “declining terms of trade” for primary products: their prices’ long-run tendency to fall relative to the prices of manufactured goods.",
        "此外，类似保罗•普雷维什（Raúl Prebisch）这样的左翼经济学家后来又进一步推广了初级商品的“贸易条件衰退”理论：这些产品的价格相对于制成品价格来说在长期趋势上是下跌的。"
    ],
    [
        "These pressures are serious, and both are discussed publicly.",
        "这些压力都是十分沉重的，而以上两个因素也都已经被公开讨论过。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider London in the 1850s: Living conditions for the poor were grim.",
        "以19世纪50年代的伦敦为例：穷人的生活条件非常凄惨。"
    ],
    [
        "Regarding oil, which dominates transportation, the high concentration of deposits in the Middle East, especially those that can be most cheaply exploited, makes oil-importing countries hostage both to terrorist attacks on the oil infrastructure and to monopoly-determined prices.",
        "说到主宰整个运输体系的石油，它的储量、特别是可供廉价开采的储量高度集中于中东地区致使石油进口国受到对石油基础设施的恐怖袭击和垄断高油价的双重盘剥。"
    ],
    [
        "Things will begin to look up in the second half of 2013, we are told.",
        "他们告诉我们，事情将在2013年下半年好转。"
    ],
    [
        "Ethanol prices were manipulated to make it an attractive alternative to gasoline.",
        "乙醇的价格受到人为干预，使其与汽油相比成为一项有吸引力的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Is all of this oil consumption really necessary?",
        "我们真的要消耗这么多的石油吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Teachers and nurses are dying; police and security forces are being hard hit, and 14 million children have already been orphaned by AIDS.",
        "教师和护士面临死亡威胁； 警察和安全部队正在遭受重击，1400万儿童因为艾滋病而成为孤儿。"
    ],
    [
        "But in a labor-strong society, dominant shareholders-those with the most to lose if expansion goes awry-have reason to keep managers on a short leash.",
        "但在劳动力相对强势的社会，那些如果扩张失误面临最惨重损失的主要股东，当然有理由捆住职业经理的手脚。"
    ],
    [
        "(Globalization and China were the biggest part of the story.)",
        "（全球化和中国是促成这种增长的主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "But now they are also buying out one another, often with financing provided by investors from completely different sectors.",
        "但如今，它们同时也在互相收购，融资常常来自完全不同行业的投资者。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true, for instance, for the derivatives trading system.",
        "同样的情况也将发生在金融衍生品交易系统上。"
    ],
    [
        "STOCKHOLM – One year after the war in Georgia of last August, pushing the “reset” button on diplomatic relations is a popular endeavor nowadays.",
        "斯德哥尔摩——按下外交关系“重启”按钮成了今天一种时髦的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "Western Union charges fees as high as 25% on transfers to these countries, compared to an average global benchmark of 5%, and has required that Franc-Zone countries sign exclusivity agreements, thereby preventing foreign-exchange bureaux, post offices, and micro-finance institutions from carrying out money transfers.",
        "西联针对这些国家汇款收取高达 25% 的费用，大大高于全球平均标准的 5% ，并要求法郎区国家签署独家服务协议，以借此防止外汇局、邮局和小额信贷机构开展货币汇款业务。"
    ],
    [
        "Carnegie also advocated an inheritance tax as an incentive, arguing that it would “induce the rich man to attend to the administration of wealth during his life.”",
        "卡内基还支持设立遗产税作为一种激励。 他为此解释说，这将“引导富人们注意在世的时候管理财富”。"
    ],
    [
        "But one would surely not start from there if that were the long-term policy aim.",
        "但如果这是长期政策目标，你就一定不会以此为起点。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than going to Athens, they are now heading for Baku.",
        "他们没有飞去雅典，而是前往阿塞拜疆首都巴库。"
    ],
    [
        "But African policymakers confront a serious problem: they do not know how many people they are dealing with, where they live, or how they earn a living. Simply put, they don’t have enough data.",
        "但非洲决策者却面临着严重的问题：他们不知道自己究竟面对多少人、这些人住在哪里、以及他们如何解决生计问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the Banco de España repurchases Spanish government bonds from all over the world, thereby deleveraging the country vis-à-vis private creditors.",
        "比如，西班牙银行在全世界回购西班牙政府债券，从而降低西班牙对私人债权人的负债。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, we can study, on a convenient classroom scale, the same forces that move atoms and planets.",
        "事实上，我们可以在一个便利的课堂上研究推动原子和行星运行的同样的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "This means compelling businesses to give up some of the special tax benefits they now enjoy.",
        "这意味着迫使企业放弃某些目前享有的特殊税务优惠。"
    ],
    [
        "The Turks’ appalled reaction to the Syrian regime’s brutal behavior creates an opportunity that Israel should use to try to restore the privileged relationship with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government that existed before the Gaza blockade.",
        "土耳其人对叙利亚当局暴行的强烈反应其实就为以色列提供了一个机会，让它借机修复在封锁加沙前与土耳其总理埃尔多安的特殊关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, economic turbulence is roiling both of Asia’s major economies, the giants of the so-called BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China).",
        "很显然，经济寒流正在席卷作为金砖四国（巴西、俄罗斯，印度和中国）巨头的两大亚洲经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of these scenarios is an extrapolation of a current trend.",
        "这些情景都是当前趋势的外推。"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, tourism is down: the number of foreign visitors to the Taj Mahal fell by 35% from 2012 to 2015, and domestic tourism has also declined.",
        "不出所料，旅游业因此下滑：前往泰姬陵的外国游客数量在2012~2015年间下降了35％，国内游客数量也有所减少。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, when Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip became unsupportable, the leader of the right, Ariel Sharon, forced out the 9,000 settlers who lived there among 1.5 million Palestinians – a dramatic event that has left deep scars on both sides.",
        "同样，当没有办法为加沙地带的犹太人群体提供支持的时候，右翼党派领导人阿里埃勒·沙龙赶走了与150万巴勒斯坦人杂居的9，000名犹太定居者——这一戏剧性的事件在双方民众心里都留下了深深的创伤。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, shortages in Poland’s residential rental market restrict workers’ ability to move to where the jobs are.",
        "此外，波兰住房租赁市场的不足限制了员工随工作前移的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But the resulting currency wars are partly a zero-sum game: If one currency is weaker, another currency must be stronger; and if one country’s trade balance improves, another’s must worsen.",
        "但由此导致的货币战争在某种程度上是一个零和博弈：如果一种货币贬值，必有另一种货币升值； 如果一国贸易盈余改善，必有另一国贸易盈余恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "At the failed Camp David summit in 2000, Israeli negotiators suggested a $30 billion international fund that would make payments to genuine refugees.",
        "在2000年以失败告终的戴维营峰会上，以色列谈判员提出成立一个300亿美元规模的国际基金，为真正的难民提供补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, as China gradually increases domestic consumption rather than relying on exports as its engine of economic growth, its leaders may begin to feel less dependent than they now are on access to the US market as a source of job creation, which is crucial for internal political stability.",
        "但是，随着中国逐渐增加国内消费，并减小对于其经济增长引擎——出口的依赖，中国的领导人可能会开始感到更多的自由，不再像现在那样依赖与美国市场的畅通（美国市场可以提供就业机会，这对于国内的政治稳定至关重要）。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the internal politics of every Arab country revolves around a battle between Arab nationalist rulers and an Islamist opposition.",
        "首先，每个阿拉伯国家的内部政治都是以阿拉伯民族主义当权者和伊斯兰主义反对派间的斗争为中心的。"
    ],
    [
        "The phenomenon took many forms, including the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928.",
        "政治伊斯兰教形式多种多样，其中就包括1928年成立的穆斯林兄弟会（Muslin Brotherhood）。"
    ],
    [
        "Ignoring threats might work in politics, but it does not work in security.",
        "对威胁视而不见可能在政治上有效，但在安全上却行不通。"
    ],
    [
        "This historical experience was good for reform capability.",
        "这种历史教训对改革显然是有利无害的。"
    ],
    [
        "As difficult a puzzle as income inequality may seem today, failing to solve it could lead to far more severe challenges.",
        "如今，收入不平等性是一个困难的谜题，而无法解决它可能导致远为严重的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Their ideas would feed into a broader process involving the EU institutions and governments that want to overhaul Europe.",
        "他们的观点将被纳入一个涉及到欧盟机构和希望重塑欧洲的政府的更广泛的过程中。"
    ],
    [
        "Nina Munk’s book is out of date and misses the mark.",
        "妮娜·孟克的书早已过时，并且没有触及核心。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the World Bank, it does not need to “reposition” itself so much as to root itself in emerging countries, as does the development aid industry in general.",
        "对于世界银行而言，它并不需要自我“重新定位”才像一般意义上的发展援助产业那样将自身扎根于新兴国家之中。"
    ],
    [
        "A low VIX signals a “risk-on” period, when investors “reach for yield,” exchanging US Treasury bills and other safe-haven securities for riskier assets like stocks, corporate bonds, real estate, and carry-trade currencies.",
        "VIX水平较低表示“冒险”期，投资者“寻找收益率”，减仓美国国债和其他安全港证券，加仓股票、公司债券、不动产和套息交易货币等高风险资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece is still barely growing, after experiencing one of the worst recessions in history, although those who blame this on German austerity clearly have not looked at the numbers: with encouragement from left-leaning US economists, Greece mismanaged perhaps the softest bailout package in modern history.",
        "在经历了史上最严重的衰退后，希腊经济的增长仍然停止，尽管那些指责在德国紧缩政策中的人显然没有看到下列数据：在左倾美国经济学家的鼓动下，希腊错过了或许是现代史上交换条件最轻柔的援助计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Reducing emissions is the only response to climate change that environmental campaigners talk about, despite the fact that repeated attempts to do so – in Rio in 1992 and in Kyoto in 1997 – failed to make a dent in emission levels.",
        "尽管有几次这样做的努力——1992在里约热内卢和1997年在京都的努力——都没有在排放水平上取得进展的事实，减少排放仍然是环境保护主义者讨论的对气候变化的唯一应对方法。"
    ],
    [
        "On the government’s part, the more open media in Sichuan may be mere posturing to appease critics after the Tibet upheaval and the scuffle over the Olympic torch.",
        "在政府方面，四川更为开放的媒体可能只不过是一种姿态来安抚西藏动乱以及圣火传递的混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "It all looks as if the need to integrate communities within nations, to reconcile them with their past in order to unite them around a common identity and therefore a common project for the future, has replaced Europe’s now-completed mission of reconciling old enemies like Germany and France.",
        "看来已经产生了一种需要，即将民族内部的各群体融合起来，化解他们的历史矛盾，以使他们团结起来，围绕在一个共同的身份及共同目标的周围。 这项需要已经取代了欧洲业已完成的化解德法这样宿敌的使命。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a necessary protection against abuses of power and cover-ups of wrongdoing by public officials.",
        "它是对抗公共官员滥用权力和掩盖不道德行为的必要保护措施。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Ryan supported George W. Bush’s spending spree.",
        "比如，莱恩支持小布什的无节制支出。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – The global financial crisis that erupted in full force in 2008 affected Europe and the United States in a very similar way – at least at the start.",
        "布鲁塞尔—2008年大爆发的全球金融危机对欧洲和美国的影响是非常相似的——至少在一开始是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in the second half of the twentieth century, after a brutal anti-colonial struggle, Africa’s newly independent countries became proxy battlegrounds in the Cold War.",
        "而在二十世纪下半叶，在经历了残酷的反殖民地斗争后，非洲的新兴独立国家又称为冷战的代理战场。"
    ],
    [
        "In an earlier step toward recognition by the world community, the PLO had to revamp the Palestinian Covenant, which called for the destruction of Israel.",
        "作为赢得国际社会承认的第一步，巴解组织必须修改《巴勒斯坦盟约》，该盟约呼吁摧毁以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "So, for example, while IOC President Thomas Bach luxuriates rent-free in a lavish hotel suite in Switzerland, US Olympic medalist rower Megan Kalmoe lives close to the poverty line.",
        "因此当国际奥委会主席托马斯·巴赫（Thomas Bach）不花一分钱享用位于瑞士的奢华酒店套房时，美国奥运赛艇运动员梅根·卡尔穆（Megan Kalmoe）却在贫困线附近挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s West is very different from the historical West.",
        "今天的西方同历史上的西方有着巨大的差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Ordinarily, such pronouncements would provoke outcries of dismay, and of real or pretended indignation.",
        "要是在过去，类似的声明都将刺激民众的焦虑情绪，并引来或真或假的愤怒声讨。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s disintegration has already advanced much further than it might appear.",
        "欧洲的分裂已经比其可能表现出来的情况发展地更为严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Sarkozy has also fully integrated into France’s approach to Europe a reckoning with the new balance of power within the European Union following the accession of Eastern European states.",
        "萨科齐也完全融入了法国对欧洲的策略，在东欧诸国加入欧盟以后承认新的权力平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "If PepsiCo and ABF want us to regard them as ethical producers, they need to follow the lead of Nestlé and now Coca-Cola, and accept responsibility for their suppliers’ conduct toward some of the world’s poorest and most powerless people.",
        "如果百事可乐公司和英联食品公司想要我们认为它们是有道德的生产商，那么它们就需要以雀巢公司和现在的可口可乐公司为榜样，接受它们在其供应商对待世界最贫困、最弱势人群问题上的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "So, no matter how you slice it, China remains the world’s major growth engine.",
        "因此，不管你如何剖析，中国仍然是世界主要经济引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "Shifting political interests are, however, but one part of the changes in an aging society.",
        "政治兴趣的变化只是老龄化社会中一系列改变的组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, laissez-faire and international technocracy does not provide a plausible alternative to the nation-state.",
        "简而言之，放任主义和国际技术官僚并不能提供一个民族国家以外的可靠替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Is it acceptable for doctors to withhold information from their patients?",
        "伦敦—医生对患者隐瞒信息，这样做可以接受吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey certainly isn’t the only case where financial markets have misread a country’s politics.",
        "土耳其肯定不是金融市场误读国家政治的唯一案例。"
    ],
    [
        "But any condemnation by Pius of Communism would have been exploited by Nazi propaganda as support for Hitler’s war effort.",
        "但是，教皇对共产主义的任何谴责都会被纳粹的宣传机器所利用，以表明是对希特勒战争的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, a drastic shift in policy is essential to avoid economic collapse.",
        "事实上，政策的重大转向已是避免经济崩溃的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The metaphors and the administrations have changed, but not, it seems, the optimism.",
        "现在，用作比喻的东西和政府都不一样了，但乐观的想法似乎仍未改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But whereas these vectors of economic competition increase total national income, they do not necessarily distribute income gains in a socially acceptable way.",
        "但是，这些方面的经济竞争固然增加了总国民收入，却未必以社会可接受的方式分配收入收益。"
    ],
    [
        "The breakthrough in bilateral ties came a decade ago, when the US lifted sanctions introduced in response to India’s nuclear weapons program and then signed an accord paving the way for US involvement in India’s civil nuclear energy program.",
        "双边关系的突破始于十年前，当时，美国取消了因印度核武器计划而实施的制裁，随后签署了一份协议，为美国参与印度民用核能计划扫清了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to suggest that foreign policy is absent from the campaign.",
        "这并不是说竞选活动不会涉及到外交政策问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten years after world leaders agreed to amend the landmark 1987 Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) to make it harder for terrorists to obtain nuclear material, the new measures have yet to enter into force.",
        "全球领导人同意修订里程碑式的1987年核材料实物保护公约（CPPNM）以使恐怖分子更加难以获得核材料已经过去了十年，但仍没有新措施出台。"
    ],
    [
        "But the details reveal a net 1.6% pay cut in exchange for a 5% reduction in work hours.",
        "但协议细节却显示减薪幅度仅为1. 6%，而工作时数却下降多达5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Though he continued the tradition of addressing the country from the ramparts of Delhi’s historic Red Fort, the speech broke with convention.",
        "尽管他遵循传统，在德里历史悠久、防卫森严的红堡向全国人民做了这次演讲，但演讲内容仍然打破了常规。"
    ],
    [
        "She would certainly stoke many enemies who will look to their own brands of fundamentalism to strike back at the US.",
        "她肯定会激怒很多敌人，这些人会以他们各自对原教旨主义的理解来反击美国极端主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "But fear is a bad counselor.",
        "但恐惧是蹩脚的顾问。"
    ],
    [
        "In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, the EU’s weaker economies faced skyrocketing unemployment, especially among young people, while its stronger economies felt pressure to “show solidarity” by bailing out countries in distress.",
        "2008年全球金融危机爆发后，欧盟较疲软的经济体失业特别是年轻人失业飙升，而较坚挺的经济体感到了救疲软国于水火之中的“表现凝聚力”的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, they will continue to go from one crisis to the next, with countries that do fall within the optimal currency area – for example, Germany and France – facing the consequences.",
        "否则它们将继续从一场危机走向领一场危机，而确实符合最优货币条件的国家——比如德国和法国——则需要收拾烂摊子。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this should invite complacency.",
        "我们不应因此而洋洋自得。"
    ],
    [
        "Dayan-Barak warned that “beyond the furrow of the (Gaza) border, a sea of hatred and desire for revenge is swelling, awaiting the day when serenity will dull our path.”",
        "”达杨-巴拉克警告“在（加沙）边境的壕沟之外，是无际的憎恨和复仇欲望之海，等待着平静在我们的道路上消退的那一天。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "At best, it creates what one constitutional expert called “an invitation to struggle.”",
        "往好了说，它也只是某宪法专家所谓的“斗争邀请”。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it reflects concern about a nuclear North Korea, compounded by anxiety over the recent US-Japan missile-defense accord.",
        "相反，它反映出韩国对于朝鲜核问题的担忧，以及对近来美日导弹防御协议的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Equity owners in banks should not get a free ride.",
        "银行的股权拥有者也不应该搭顺风车。"
    ],
    [
        "A textbook two decades from now might be more sophisticated than this year’s edition, fully integrating contributions that today constitute the frontiers of economic research.",
        "二十年后的教科书可能比今年的版本更加成熟，完全将今天的经济学研究前沿内容嵌入其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of that has to do with public investment, which President Evo Morales regards as the engine of the Bolivian economy.",
        "其中很大一部分源自于公共投资，而总统莫拉莱斯也将此认定为本国经济的增长引擎。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, Japan’s near-zero interest-rate environment is no longer unique.",
        "显然，日本的近零利率环境已不再独特。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, it won’t be the last.",
        "很明显，这不会是最后一次。"
    ],
    [
        "Another route Trump could take would be to use the IMF as a proxy instrument to enforce discipline on countries with undervalued exchange rates.",
        "特朗普可以采取的另一个方法是利用IMF作为代理工具，对汇率低估的国家执行纪律。"
    ],
    [
        "“Red lines” in Israel have a way of mutating into lines drawn in the sand, which are then rendered invisible at the slightest wind.",
        "以色列的“红线”往往与沙滩上画的线混为一谈，一有风吹草动就消失得无影无踪。"
    ],
    [
        "At the outset, Brazil’s policies attracted entrepreneurs of all sorts.",
        "刚一开始，巴西的政策就吸引了各式各样的创业者。"
    ],
    [
        "The question now is what can be done to prevent further volatility.",
        "现在的问题是如何防止进一步波动。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while such competition would reveal new global scarcities, it would also bring higher prices, thereby encouraging producers to increase yields and productivity.",
        "但是，这种竞争在揭示新的全球稀缺资源的同时，也会带来价格的提升，从而鼓励生产者们增加产量并提高产能。"
    ],
    [
        "The attention being paid to fake information today arises from the hugely expanded speed with which digitally manufactured information travels around the world.",
        "人们正在关注数字化制造的假消息今天正以前所未有的速度向世界各地传播。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, there is rollover risk.",
        "首先是延期风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Her strategy is to enter the mainstream of French politics by shedding all traces of past anti-Semitism, thereby turning the National Front into a seemingly legitimate alternative to a decadent traditional right, which has suffered a prolonged bout of infighting since Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat in the 2012 presidential election.",
        "她的战略是与过去的反犹主义彻底撇清关系，以此打入法国政坛主流，从而让国民阵线成为式微的传统右翼的貌似合法的替代者。 自萨科齐在2012年总统选举中败北以来，传统右翼一直处于内斗之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The abrupt change in Chinese sentiment toward Trump is reminiscent of what happened to US President Woodrow Wilson after his reelection a century ago.",
        "中国对特朗普的看法的急剧改变让人想起了一个世纪前美国总统伍德罗·威尔逊连任后的情景。"
    ],
    [
        "Development banks, for example, can help leverage private-sector investment.",
        "比如，开发银行有助于撬动私人部门投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 is 40% higher than it was at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution – by far the highest it has been during the past one million years, as we know from drilling into the Antarctic ice.",
        "今天，空气中二氧化碳的浓度比工业革命初期提高了近40%——根据南极冰盖的钻探记录，毫无疑问已经达到了过去一百万年来的峰值。"
    ],
    [
        "The governance challenge stems from the fact that cyberspace is a combination of virtual properties, which defy geographical boundaries, and physical infrastructure, which fall under sovereign jurisdictions.",
        "治理挑战源于网络空间是虚拟资产的组合，它既不存在地域界限，也不属于物理基础设施，因此不归属主权司法辖区管理。"
    ],
    [
        "What is desperately needed is better policymaking.",
        "当前急需的是更好的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "We have discovered that we can get a much simpler set of equations for fundamental physics by supposing that what we ordinarily perceive as empty space is actually a medium.",
        "我们发现，假定我们平常所认为的空间实际上是一种介质，就可以大大简化基本的物理学方程。"
    ],
    [
        "But Obama has helped to persuade China and India to announce useful efforts, and he will set an American target of reducing greenhouse emissions that should prevent the conference from being a failure.",
        "不过，奥巴马成功说服了中国和印度作出明确的减排承诺，同时也设定了美国减排的目标，以防止哥本哈根协议的流产。"
    ],
    [
        "Vlaams Belang, the Flemish nationalist party, may not be the biggest party in Belgium, but it has done well in local elections.",
        "佛拉芒国民党或许并不是比利时最大的党派，但是它在地方选举中表现不俗。"
    ],
    [
        "The Right Priorities for the G8",
        "八国峰会的正确优先权"
    ],
    [
        "The first is secular dictatorship.",
        "第一种是现世主义独裁。"
    ],
    [
        "That is precisely how all of America’s allies and friends should be responding.",
        "这恰恰是所有美国的盟国和朋友应当采取的应对之策。"
    ],
    [
        "“To overcome the perils of the present and to achieve the promise of the future, we must begin with the wisdom of the past,” he said.",
        "“要想克服当代的恐惧，实现未来的愿景，我们首先必须师法过去的成功经验。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Gulf, the cleanup operations engaged tens of thousands of people in Mississippi and nearby US states.",
        "清理行动因为美国密西西比及临近各州成千上万人的参与才得以顺利完成。"
    ],
    [
        "The university is founded on the principle that every member of a community deserves the same care and opportunity, and focuses on the delivery of quality health care to those who need it most.",
        "该大学的立校原则是社会的每一个成员都应该获得同样的看护和机会，并注重于为最需要的人实现高质量医疗。"
    ],
    [
        "First, I argued that while it might do local good, it would damage the rules of international relations as they were then understood.",
        "首先，我认为军事行动或许给当地人带来好处，但是却会损害当时人们所理解的国家关系规则。"
    ],
    [
        "If you trusted the founder of Singapore and thought him legitimate, who better to trust than the founder’s own son?",
        "如果你信任新加坡的创始人并承认其合法性，那么是否还有比信任他的儿子更好的选择？"
    ],
    [
        "The governments of the victims of the Mumbai massacre are also likely to demand accountability from Islamabad.",
        "孟买恐怖袭击受害者所在国家的政府，也可能会要求伊斯兰堡承担责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne insists that his country’s fiscal trajectory is dangerously unsustainable, and he has proposed draconian cuts.",
        "英国财政大臣乔治·奥斯本坚持认为该国的财政状况不可持续，非常危险，因而主张严厉地削减赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "As in many other areas, Trump’s promises and statements on economic policy have been inconsistent.",
        "和诸多其他领域一样，特朗普的经济政策承诺和陈述前后不一。"
    ],
    [
        "But, regardless of macroeconomic conditions, independent work is likely to account for a rising share of work in the long run, owing to technological advances and individual preferences.",
        "但是，不管宏观经济环境如何，从长期看独立工作占总工作的比重可能不断上升，原因就在于技术进步和个人偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, a common external constraint on fiscal behavior is needed as a joint safeguard against an unsustainable accumulation of public debt that could affect financial stability and inflation throughout the EU - a risk aggravated by the impact of aging populations on pension systems.",
        "恰恰相反，我们需要对财政行为进行统一的外部限制，以便共同防范公共债务以超过承受能力的速度累积，并最终影响到整个欧洲的金融稳定和通货膨胀¾人口老龄化对养老金体系的压力更加剧了这样的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The Association Agreement that Yanukovych rejected last November – a decision that incited the popular protests that brought down his government – had been under negotiation since 2007.",
        "去年十一月被亚努科维奇拒绝的联合协定——当时这一决定曾引发导致其政府垮台的民众抗议——自2007年来就一直处在谈判的过程当中。"
    ],
    [
        "This strong reaction reflects the profound importance of the EU’s ties with Israel, undercutting the long-held assumption that the US is the only outside actor that can influence Israeli policy.",
        "这一强烈的反应凸显出欧盟与以色列联系的极端重要性，也打破了美国式影响以色列政策的唯一外部行为人的长期观点。"
    ],
    [
        "In a highly innovative move, Argentina exchanged old debt for new debt – at about 30 cents on the dollar or a little more – plus a GDP-indexed bond.",
        "阿根廷采取了极富创新精神的措施，用老债务换新债务——大概是三折多一点的折算比例——加上GDP指数债券。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, we should expect an even sharper reduction in US energy output as persistently low prices increase the pressure on domestic producers.",
        "事实上，随着持续低油价增加国内生产者的压力，我们可以期待美国能源产出会有更大程度的减产。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would also likely ensure that a Musharraf-Bhutto deal does not fully close a tumultuous chapter in Pakistan’s history.",
        "但是它同样也会确保穆沙拉夫与贝布托的协议不会完全合上巴基斯坦历史上混乱的这一节。"
    ],
    [
        "In another move to distinguish her ingredients from Western versions, Kinyanjui also sells through grocery stores flour flavored with Amarathan, a green vegetable that grows around Kenya.",
        "而将她供应的食品同西方食品进一步区分开来的则是金亚朱尼同样通过食品店售卖一种“阿玛拉桑”口味的面粉，而“阿玛拉桑”是一种在肯尼亚全国都有种植的绿色蔬菜类植物。"
    ],
    [
        "The thinking errors they uncovered are not trivial mistakes in a parlor game.",
        "他们所揭示的思维错误并不是客厅游戏里面的小过失。"
    ],
    [
        "As chair of this year’s replenishment of the Global Fund, I urge all donors to see to it that countries such as Uganda get the support they need, so that Dr. Mugyenyi and other front-line soldiers in the fight against AIDS need not make those difficult choices.",
        "作为今年全球基金峰会的主席，我敦促所有赞助人都能着眼于让乌干达这样的国家获得所需的支持，着眼于让莫缘依医生及其他艾滋病战争的一线斗士不再需要做出艰难抉择。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that it took almost 50 years to draft and finally achieve the necessary ratification threshold demonstrates that something is very wrong with the modern system of multilateralism.",
        "该公约用了几近50年时间起草和完成批准流程，这一事实表明现代多边主义存在严重问题。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the Obama administration has already begun the discussions it promised on upgrading Israel’s strategic capabilities.",
        "相反，奥巴马政府已经开始探讨履行其提升以色列战略实力的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The French economy benefits from high productivity potential and a well-educated work force, but trade unionists and other members of Hollande’s Socialist Party are blocking measures that would restore strong growth.",
        "法国经济得益于高生产率潜力和高教育程度的劳动力大军，但工会派和其他奥朗德的社会党党员正在阻挠重塑强劲增长的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "So, although based on interests, such a proposal will not be easily accepted.",
        "因此，即使基于利益，这样一份提议也将难以接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Those politicians then accepted financial support from the US and India, but that money never came.",
        "那些政客转而接受了美国和印度的财政支持，但那些钱却从未到帐。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the March 19 referendum, in which most Islamists campaigned for a package of constitutional amendments and got 77% support, secularists took to the streets, mobilizing behind their own demands.",
        "在3月19日的全民公决后（绝大多数伊斯兰主义者在这次公决中支持最终获得了77%支持率的宪法修正方案），世俗派在自身要求的驱使下走上了街头。"
    ],
    [
        "In Saudi Arabia, the state-owned China Railway Construction Corporation built the Al-Mashaaer Al-Mugadassah light-rail project to ease traffic pressure during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.",
        "在沙特阿拉伯，国营的中国铁建股份有限公司承建的Al-Mashaaer Al-Mugadassah轻轨项目将有助于缓解麦加朝圣期间的交通压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Weak demand – especially the post-crisis collapse in consumer spending growth – is a far more likely culprit than China in explaining the recent hiring shortfall.",
        "相比于中国来说，需求疲软——尤其是消费者支出增长在危机爆发后的暴跌——更像是最近雇佣需求下滑的罪魁祸首。"
    ],
    [
        "What is at stake is Europe’s capacity to avoid another financial meltdown – one that could be even more devastating than the 2007 crisis.",
        "这场争论事关欧洲避免可能比2007年危机更加严重的新的金融崩溃的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s Urban Challenge",
        "非洲的城市挑战"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the Standard ampamp; Poor’s US price-earnings ratio is still above its long-term average – 26.84 in 2007, compared to its long-term average since 1881 of 16.31.",
        "毕竟，标准普尔的美国市盈率还是高于其长期平均水平，在2007年达到26. 84，而自1881年以来的长期平均水平是16."
    ],
    [
        "A lot of intellectual effort has been devoted to devising better ways of maximizing advertising and marketing budgets – targeting customers, especially the affluent, who might actually buy the product.",
        "大量知识创新被用在了构思更好的最大化广告和影响预算的办法上——将目标定位在实际可能购买产品的客户，特别是生活丰裕人群。"
    ],
    [
        "This way, minorities become easily manipulated majorities. Divide enough, stoke enough resentment, and a nation becomes nothing more than a ruined society within a national territory.",
        "通过这种方式，各个少数民族很容易就被整合成了被统治的大多数。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, Santa Claus again came from Germany with a sack full of good news about the business cycle.",
        "2006年，圣诞老人又从德国而来，带着满满一口袋经济周期的好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, he has initiated a policy of replacing the government bonds on the BOJ’s balance sheet once they mature, while constantly increasing the volume of government debt on the central bank’s books.",
        "但是，他实施了一项在到期时替换日本银行资产负债表上的政府债券，同时不断增加央行账目上的政府债券数量的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Vaccines are one of the great success stories in the history of individual and public health.",
        "纽约—疫苗是个人和公共健康史上最伟大的成功之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The PPP’s victory in the December polls has also been seen as vindication of sorts for Thaksin.",
        "人民力量党在十二月的选举中获胜还被视为是给他信某种平反。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund’s role as independent arbiter of sound macroeconomic policy and guardian against competitive currency devaluation ought to be strengthened.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）作为可靠宏观经济政策的裁判官和阻止竞争性货币贬值的保护者的责任应该加强。"
    ],
    [
        "That seems to be as true now of European politics as it has been of economics in parts of Africa and Asia.",
        "上述情况早就在亚非部分经济体中有所体现，而当今欧洲政治似乎也在向其靠拢。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, and much more important, a tacit anti-appeasement ultimatum has been issued to the Kremlin: additional expansion in Ukraine will lead to much stronger and more painful sanctions.",
        "其次也是更重要的是，美国和欧盟向克里姆林宫发出了无声的反绥靖最后通牒：继续在乌克兰扩张将导致更强更痛苦的制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "When a fiscally responsible government launches a war, it typically cuts back on other domestic expenditures and raises taxes.",
        "当一个财政上负责的政府发动战争时，它通常会缩减国内支出，并提高税收。"
    ],
    [
        "Transatlantic Trade-Offs",
        "跨大西洋权衡"
    ],
    [
        "The victory of Hollande, who has said that he wants to “renegotiate” the European Union’s new, German-backed “fiscal compact,” will weigh heavily in this debate.",
        "欧盟这项新的“财政紧凑”政策得到了德国的支持，奥朗德说他想重新协商该政策，他的胜选在此项争论中意义重大。"
    ],
    [
        "So, last December, I sought to introduce a bill that would have amended Section 377 and decriminalized all consensual sex between adults, irrespective of their gender and sexuality.",
        "因此，去年12月，我寻求引入修正刑法典第377条并让一切成年人之间的性行为（不论性别和取向）脱罪的法案。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these developments have put India in a difficult position.",
        "所有这些发展趋势让印度的处境极其艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is that a xenophobic, racist party, one hostile to everything essential to the spirit and greatness of France, was defeated in all of the contests that it was supposed to win.",
        "结果是，这个仇外的种族主义政党，与伟大的法国的一切品质格格不入的政党，在所有志在必得的选区中都被击败了。"
    ],
    [
        "If incumbents simply continue to get larger, blocking new competitors from entering the market, they will end up facing intrusive regulatory compliance programs and higher capital requirements.",
        "如果现有银行只是不断变得更大，阻止新竞争者进入市场，它们最终将面临干扰性监管合规措施和更高的资本要求。"
    ],
    [
        "This richer notion stems from ancient Japanese culture, which perceived the overlap between geometry and meaning.",
        "“形”更丰富的内涵来自能认识到图形和意义之间交叠的古老的日本文化。"
    ],
    [
        "Both states and markets work well only when adequately enforced legal rules provide the necessary certainty.",
        "国家和政府都只有在充分强的法规提供必要的确定性的基础上才能良好运转。"
    ],
    [
        "They want higher-quality services, better housing, and good infrastructure (especially transport).",
        "他们需要更高质量的服务、更优质的基础设施（尤其是交通基础设施）和住房。"
    ],
    [
        "Problems began in 2014, when China’s capital account, which had been in surplus since the 1990s, swung into deficit.",
        "问题始于2014年，当时，自20世纪90年代一直处于盈余状态的中国资本账户转为赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "And its largely homogenous population – 90% Sunni Muslim – has allowed it to avoid the sectarian conflicts plaguing countries like Iraq and Syria, and to forge a strong central government.",
        "而该国在很大程度上同质化的人口——逊尼派穆斯林占90%以上——也令其避免陷入困扰伊拉克和叙利亚等国家的宗派冲突并且成立了强大的中央政府。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, according to the World Values Survey and related research, trust among individuals in the Middle East is low enough to limit commercial transactions to people who know one another either personally or through mutual acquaintances.",
        "而且事实上，按照世界价值观调查和相关研究成果，中东地区个人欠缺信任导致商业交易仅在认识的人或通过熟人介绍的人之间进行。"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities are taking steps to correct their mistakes, especially with the decision to form a banking union and the outright monetary transactions program, which would allow unlimited intervention by the European Central Bank in the sovereign-bond market.",
        "当局正采取措施纠正自己的错误，特别是决策成立银行工会和完全货币交易计划，以便欧洲央行借此不受限制地干预主权债务市场。"
    ],
    [
        "There are more than 10 million of us across Europe.",
        "我们在欧洲大概有1000万人。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies with more women in top management and board positions better reflect the profiles of their customers and employees, benefit from more diverse views when solving problems, rank higher on indicators of organizational cooperation and health, and report higher profitability and returns on equity.",
        "聘请更多女性担任高管和董事的企业更贴近客户和员工、解决问题时观点更多样、机构合作与健康指数更高、盈利能力和净资产收益率也更出众。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, European finance ministers, too, will not be keen to admit any need for major policy changes to deal with risks from financial globalization.",
        "如此，欧洲的财长们也不会乐意承认需要进行任何重大的政策变化来应付金融全球化所带来的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The ocean has historically played an important role in achieving that balance.",
        "海洋有史以来一直在上述平衡中起到重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it might be the case that national elections in a place groping for a democratic future are not the best first step on the road to a liberal order. This is notably the case where entrenched groups - Kurds, Shiites, Sunnis - compete for central power.",
        "归根结底，全国大选在一个摸索着走向民主的国家也许不是自由秩序的最好开端，尤其在库尔德人、什叶派和逊尼派几个民族为中央政权争得头破血流的情况下更是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they impede children’s physical and cognitive development, and leave them more susceptible to illness and premature death.",
        "此外，营养不良还妨碍儿童的身体和智力发育，导致更容易出现疾病和过早死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Gender dimensions of NCDs are no less important; one only has to consider how alcohol and tobacco are marketed to understand that.",
        "NCD的性别问题也同样重要； 只要想想酒精和烟草的营销手段便可了解这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the case of Sony’s PlayStation gaming console.",
        "比如索尼公司的PlayStation游戏机项目。"
    ],
    [
        "If one goes back further, to include Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the disparity is even larger.",
        "5%。 在往上追溯，将胡佛和富兰克林·罗斯福也包括在内，那么差距还会更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Quite the contrary: resistance to diplomatic solutions is a common thread in most of today’s major conflicts.",
        "恰恰相反：当今大多数冲突都抵制外交途径解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Yesterday, when America sneezed, the world caught a cold.",
        "昨天，当美国咳嗽时，整个世界都得了感冒。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, many of China’s inherent strengths have been sapped by all-too-frequent external shocks.",
        "自那时起，中国的许多固有优势被不断的外部冲击削弱了。"
    ],
    [
        "We should be wary of viewing medicine as the only path to better health.",
        "我们应该警惕将医药视为通往更健康的唯一道路的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "My office is open not only to Russian citizens, but to foreigners and stateless people who feel their political rights have been compromised.",
        "我的办公室不仅对俄国公民开放，对外国人和无国籍者也同样敞开大门，只要他们觉得政治权利受到了侵害。"
    ],
    [
        "First, India probably was not fully prepared for its rapid growth in the years before the global financial crisis.",
        "首先，印度或许没有为全球金融危机爆发前两年的快速增长做好充分准备。"
    ],
    [
        "The McKinsey Global Institute has identified shale energy as a “game changer” for the world economy, estimatingthat it could boost America’s GDP by as much as 4% ($690 billion) per year and add 1.7 million permanent jobs to the labor market by 2020.",
        "麦肯锡全球研究所（McKinney Global Institute）将页岩能源称为世界经济的“局面改变因素”，并测算出到2020年，页岩能源能让美国GDP每年增加4%（6 900亿美元），让劳动力市场的永久工作岗位增加170万个。"
    ],
    [
        "Where state institutions or elected officials fail to take action against such violence, these women have filled a vacuum, challenging traditional gender roles in the process.",
        "在国家机构或当选官员未能采取措施反对这些暴力活动的时候，这些女性填补了上述真空，并在此过程中挑战了传统的性别角色。"
    ],
    [
        "But senior members of the US Congress have stressed that a successful agreement must include opening the EU market to all US agricultural products.",
        "但美国国会的不少资深议员施压说，成功的协定必须包括欧盟市场向所有美国农产品开放。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, Latin America’s long-term growth record is hardly an advertisement for the approach, and accounting for lost tax revenues due to lower GDP would surely yield a less impressive fiscal outcome.",
        "但从另一方面来看，拉美的长期增长记录对其上述政策可不是正面宣传，而较低的GDP必然意味着财政成绩乏善可陈。"
    ],
    [
        "All the pieces need to fit together, and the chances of success remain slim.",
        "拼图的所有部分必须完美贴合，并且成功的希望依然渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "Housing prices shot up, real-estate developers borrowed recklessly, and local governments became heavily indebted.",
        "房价一飞冲天，房地产开发商大肆借贷，地方政府也背上了沉重的负债。"
    ],
    [
        "But the real case for holding it, then as now, was never a speculative one.",
        "但持有黄金，不管是那时还是现在，却从不是投机行为。"
    ],
    [
        "So what can be done to avoid stupid economic policymaking?",
        "那么可以怎样避免愚蠢的经济决策？"
    ],
    [
        "If personal pension accounts or provident funds are invested in GDP-linked bonds, the payments that retirees receive in 25 years will reflect the growth rate of the economy – and that of the tax base – to that date, which all makes good sense.",
        "如果将个人养老金或公积金投资于GDP连动式债券，退休者在25年间的收入将会反映出经济和税基的增长率——到那个时候，一切将合乎情理。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, America went from being a middle-class society to one increasingly divided between rich and poor.",
        "与此同时，美国从中产阶级社会变得日益贫富分化。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if people believed that only a fraction of quantitative easing was permanent, and even if the incentive to spend was low, the central bank could restart the economy.",
        "即使人们相信只有一小部分量化宽松是持久的，即使支出激励十分微小，央行也可以让经济重新起步。"
    ],
    [
        "But the real question is this: what kind of Europe do Europeans themselves want?",
        "然而，实际问题是：欧洲人自己想要一个什么样子的欧洲？"
    ],
    [
        "Should we care? The Chinese certainly do.",
        "不管外界对此有何观感，但中国人确实非常在意这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The reforms should also introduce much greater individual choice, permitting solutions to retirement, education, health, and lifestyle issues that can be more easily tailored to citizens’ specific circumstances and needs.",
        "可能采取某些北欧国家更成功的“弹性安全”政策（flexicurity，更大的劳动力市场弹性和更强的社会保障相结合）。 改革还应该大幅增加个人选择的范围，让退休、教育、卫生和生活方式问题的解决方案具有更大的弹性，更容易契合人民所处的具体环境和需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The dislocation and confusion of 2016 do not rival the turmoil of the interwar period, when Gramsci wrote, but they are certainly symptoms of a new interregnum.",
        "2016年的错位与混乱和葛兰姆西写《狱中笔记》的两次大战之间无法相提并论，但也显然是权力真空的症候。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, one major deficiency of the current international financial architecture is the lack of an institutional framework – i.e., a court similar to those created to manage bankruptcies in national economies – to manage debt overhangs at the international level.",
        "最后，当今的国际金融体系的一个重大不足是缺乏一个制度框架——例如，和国家建立的用于管理国民经济中的破产案件法庭类似的法庭——在国际范围内管理债务积压。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, such is China’s political system that only the strongest advance.",
        "事实上，中国的政治制度仍然是弱肉强食的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Like cars on a highway, some may drive more slowly than others, but there are minimum and maximum speeds and all must go with the flow of traffic.",
        "这就好比是高速公路上的车，有些人开得比别人慢，但路上的最高和最低限速使得所有车辆都有序前进。"
    ],
    [
        "They fervently believed that he was on their side, and voted overwhelmingly for him up to the end, even when they knew that he was dying of cancer.",
        "他们坚信他站在他们一边，一直一边倒地支持他，即使在得知他因癌症而生命垂危时仍是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time he caught up, soldiers were already shooting.",
        "等到摄影师赶上的时候，士兵们已经在开枪。"
    ],
    [
        "California once was a source of widely shared rising standards of living and tremendous upward economic mobility.",
        "加利福尼亚还曾经是居民生活水平广泛提高且经济大幅上扬的源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "What he or she chooses to do, and how he or she chooses to do it, will matter a great deal to people everywhere.",
        "他或她选择做什么以及怎么做关系到世界各地非常多的民众。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that we do not need to reconstruct the entire layer within a given area to determine the absolute number and types of synapses; instead, the range of variability can be determined by multiple sampling of relatively small regions within that area.",
        "这意味着我们不需要重建给定区域的整个层以决定突触的绝对数字和种类； 其变化的范围可以通过将该区域内相对较小的样本区域乘以一个系数得到。"
    ],
    [
        "From the ruins of another empire, Russia's, I would add: There is nothing more conspicuous than an absent monument.",
        "在俄罗斯帝国坍塌之后，我还要再加上一句：没有什么比无字碑更引人注目。"
    ],
    [
        "French policymakers should give priority to a new growth model, based on greater flexibility and security for employees, and a leaner, more effective state.",
        "法国决策者应该讲重点放在心的增长模式上，这一模式应该以提高雇员安全和灵活性以及国家的减员增效上。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s Immunity",
        "非洲的免疫"
    ],
    [
        "This will not be easy anywhere.",
        "不论对谁来说，这都不是易事。"
    ],
    [
        "After the 2008 financial crisis, globalization’s losers started to organize and find anti-establishment champions on both the left and the right.",
        "2008年金融危机之后，全球化的输家开始组织起来并在左右两派中寻找反建制领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, purchasing luxury goods requires substantial financial resources.",
        "同样，购买奢侈品需要雄厚的财力支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "Solutions will mean little without a healthy world in which to implement them.",
        "如果没有能够执行方案的健康世界，单纯制定解决方案将几乎没有任何意义。"
    ],
    [
        "All are inconsistent with a stable value of money.",
        "所有这些都与货币价值稳定不符。"
    ],
    [
        "A much larger part of their populations than ever before has access to the power that comes from information.",
        "前所未有的大量人口将通过信息的传播而被赋予权力。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the market economy can function only if the state does intervene.",
        "事实上，市场经济只有在国家干预的情况下才会起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "During President Barack Obama’s second term in office, the rate at which vacancies in the US District and Circuit Courts were filled fell to its lowest point in 50 years.",
        "在奥巴马的第二个任期中，美国地区和巡回法院出缺补足率下降至50年来的最低点。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, growth of industrial value added – which contributes almost half of China’s GDP – is slowing even faster, from an average annual rate of 20% during China’s boom years to less than 10% in 2010-2012 and just 7.8% in the first quarter of this year.",
        "结果导致占中国GDP近半壁江山的工业增加值增速放缓，从繁荣期20%的平均增速下降到2010-2012年的不到10%和今年一季度的7. 8%。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, we can ask them to answer critical diagnostic questions (for example, “How does a helicopter go from hovering in place to flying forward?”)",
        "同样，我们可以让他们回答关键性的分析性问题（例如，直升飞机如何从盘旋到向前飞行？"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas the United States and the United Kingdom are now growing strongly enough to exit their expansionary policies and raise interest rates, the eurozone and Japan are doubling down on QE, pushing policy long-term interest rates further into negative territory.",
        "美国和英国现在的增长足够强势，已经可以退出扩张性政策并提高利率，而欧元区和日本正在加码QE，将政策长期利率进一步推向负区间。"
    ],
    [
        "The simple banking system of the past, one based on retail savings being concentrated in order to fund the credit needs of borrowers, had evolved into a highly complex – and global – supply chain with knock-on risks of disruption comparable to those seen in Japan last spring.",
        "过去的简单银行体系——集中零售储蓄，以此为基础满足借款人的信用需求——已演变为高度复杂的全球供应链，这一供应链有一种一损俱损的风险，正如去年春天日本灾难的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "China argues, correctly, that it is still behind the US and Japan in per capita emissions, but this does not reduce the costs imposed on the world (including Japan and the US).",
        "尽管中国不无道理地争辩说它的人均排放量依然比美国和日本低，但是这并没有减少给整个世界（包括美国和日本）所造成的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Macron’s difficulty is that there seems to be no set of painful reforms that he can offer Schäuble to persuade the German government to accept the degree of surplus recycling necessary to stabilize France and the eurozone.",
        "马洪的困难在于，他手里似乎没有一套真心实意的改革方案能提供给朔伊布勒，让后者去说服德国政府接受维护法国和欧元区稳定所需的特定程度顺差回收方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has finally managed to come to the rescue of Greece and Ireland. In the run up to the crisis, both were governed by right-wing governments marked by crony capitalism or worse, demonstrating once again that free-market economics didn’t work in Europe any better than it did in the US.",
        "欧洲最终出手拯救的两个国家——希腊和爱尔兰——都是在一个与大资本勾肩搭背的右翼政府领导下滑向危机的，这再一次证明了自由市场理论不但在美国一败涂地，在欧洲也行不通。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, above a low level of sufficiency, peoples’ happiness levels are determined much less by their absolute income than by their income relative to some reference group.",
        "换句话说，在某个低水平的充足度之上，人们的幸福水平受绝对收入规模的影响程度远小于与参照群体相比的相对收入水平。"
    ],
    [
        "This weekend in Munich, the Schmidts and Kissingers of today and tomorrow will have an opportunity to engage in what is probably the most important strategic debate of our time: how to prevent the West from falling apart in",
        "在本周末的慕尼黑，当代和未来施密特们和基辛格们将有机会参与可能是现时代最重要的战略讨论：如何防止西方在数字时代落于人后。"
    ],
    [
        "He should start by speaking out firmly against violence, and taking proactive measures to protect immigrants and minorities, who are understandably fearful of attacks by his supporters.",
        "首先他应该坚决谴责暴力，采取积极措施保护移民和少数群体——不难理解，后两者担心受到他的支持者的攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, and perhaps most important, engineers themselves need to step up their engagement with people and groups working on the front lines of the refugee crisis.",
        "第三，也许也是最重要的一点，就是工程师们自身需要加强与难民危机前线工作人员和团体的接触。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom line is that the complexity and distinctiveness of China’s economy mean that assessing its current state and performance requires a detail-oriented analysis that accounts for as many offsetting factors as possible.",
        "说到底，中国经济的复杂性和特殊性意味着评估当前状况和表现需要以细节为导向的分析，尽可能多地考虑抵消性因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Realism's Gift to Palestinian Radicals",
        "巴勒斯坦激进分子的现实主义礼物"
    ],
    [
        "The risk is that policymakers and campaigners will conflate the problems of food shortages and starvation with that of population management and its long-term social and economic consequences.",
        "危险在于决策者及活动家把粮食短缺与饥饿问题和人口管理及其长期社会经济影响混淆在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "The second crisis, in 1979, is usually attributed to supply disruptions from the Persian Gulf following the Islamic revolution in Iran and the subsequent start of the Iran-Iraq war.",
        "1979年第二次危机，则被认为是受伊朗的伊斯兰革命和随后的两伊战争爆发给海湾的石油供应造成的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Though he seemed secure at the time, a year and a half later he was sent to The Hague to stand trial.",
        "虽然他当时似乎高枕无忧，但一年半以后还是被送到海牙受审。"
    ],
    [
        "Marianne Thyssen, the EU’s employment and labor commissioner, wants work on implementing the report to begin immediately.",
        "欧盟就业和劳工委员玛莉安妮·泰森（Marianne Thyssen）希望立刻着手实施我的报告。"
    ],
    [
        "How do Primark and its competitors in the West’s shopping malls and High Streets keep that cute frock so cheap?",
        "试问Primark及其竞争者们如何令到这些在西方购物广场和潮流大街上售卖的时髦服装如此廉价？"
    ],
    [
        "Universal human rights become a reality.",
        "普世人权成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Efforts to address these structural challenges are being frustrated not just by institutional barriers, but also by entrenched official corruption.",
        "应对这些结构性挑战的措施之所以不容易推进，不仅因为有制度壁垒，也因为根深蒂固的官员腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "This can continue for a time, rewarding unproductive investments and aspiring oligarch-speculators who presume that the Fed has eliminated risk.",
        "这一过程将维持一段时间，奖励生产率低下的投资，刺激认为美联储已经消除了风险的寡头投机者。"
    ],
    [
        "The manic character of his presidency – initiative spilling into initiative, each being the transformative solution to the problem at hand, all opposition denounced as lies, bad faith, and cowardice – has worn thin.",
        "萨科奇上任后所体现出的疯狂特点已经开始弱化了：这个特点是一个动议分裂成另一个动议，每个都给手头上的问题提出了改造性的解决方案，而任何反对意见都被指责是谎言、不守诚信和怯懦。"
    ],
    [
        "In Africa, we need to manage our resources sustainably, accountably, and responsibly.",
        "在非洲，我们需要可持续地、负责任地并且认真地管理我们的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, problems may arise; learning to live together can be tough.",
        "当然，可能会出现问题； 学会共同生活在一起可能会是困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "And North Korea conducted its third nuclear test earlier this month, sending shock waves through the region.",
        "本月初朝鲜举行的第三次核试验震惊了整个亚太。"
    ],
    [
        "So Europeans should not be tempted to think that they are somehow “decoupled” from America’s foibles and woes.",
        "所以欧洲不应该去想他们已经在某种程度上与美国经济的问题和灾难“脱藕”了。"
    ],
    [
        "A 15% tax would raise $300 billion.",
        "15%的税率将带来3,000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the decline of what was the Soviet Union has proceeded relatively well; Russia, the principal successor state, has avoided all-out civil war and war with its neighbors.",
        "迄今为止，前苏联的衰落相对平缓。 作为前苏联主要继承国家，俄罗斯避免了全面内战以及同邻邦的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "But no one regards the prospect of another Netanyahu government with more anguish than the Palestinians.",
        "但最痛恨内塔尼亚胡连任的莫过于巴勒斯坦人。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is always morally reprehensible, even when it fails to produce lasting psychiatric symptoms.",
        "当然，即便是其没有造成持久的精神症状，这种行为也应该受到道德的谴责。"
    ],
    [
        "What he found was a great example of how any such program is likely to work in practice.",
        "但展现在记者面前的却是一个反映这类项目在现实中被如何执行的绝佳例子。"
    ],
    [
        "These problems cannot be solved by a guarantee from the EU budget (which in any case could not be larger than 1/15th of the value of the project).",
        "这些问题不可能通过欧盟预算担保解决（欧盟预算担保无论如何不可超过工程价值的1/15）。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the referendum’s high stakes – the abandonment of the Turkish Republic’s longstanding political framework – there was no serious or extended debate prior to the vote, which was held under the state of emergency imposed by Erdoğan in the wake of last July’s coup attempt.",
        "尽管公投所涉意义巨大——它意味着抛弃土耳其共和国长期以来的政治框架——但在投票之前完全没有严肃或充分的争论，自去年7月的未遂政变以来，埃尔多安便一直宣布土耳其处于紧急状态。"
    ],
    [
        "If the real interest rate on Greek debt were 4% (more or less what Greece is paying now for the emergency loans from the European Union) and annual GDP grew by 2% on average, the required primary fiscal surplus each year for the next quarter-century would be 5.7% of GDP.",
        "如果这些债务的实际利率为4%（与希腊从欧盟取得紧急贷款利率相近）而希腊年均GDP增长为2%的话，意味着在未来25年内都要取得想当于GDP5. 7%的基础财政盈余。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the days when we in Britain thought it was normal to have an unemployment rate of 2% have long since passed.",
        "事实上，认为英国2%失业率属于正常的时代早已过去。"
    ],
    [
        "The major global powers are still trying negotiations and sanctions to induce Iran to abandon its efforts to develop nuclear weapons.",
        "主要全球性大国仍在就促使伊朗放弃开发和武器的谈判和制裁做着努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The world economy now has functional international institutions – such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization (WTO) – that it lacked prior to the Second World War.",
        "世界经济现在拥有能发挥作用的国际机构——如国际货币基金组织（IMF）和世界贸易组织（WTO）——这些机构在二战之前都尚未建立。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also an American proposal to allow the Badr Brigade – a wing of the Palestine Liberation Army that is currently stationed in Jordan – to relocate to the Palestinian territories as Abbas’s rapid reaction force in Gaza in anticipation of a feared civil war.",
        "美国也提议允许目前部署在约旦的巴勒斯坦解放部队一翼的巴达尔旅作为阿巴斯在加沙的快速反应部队重新部署到巴勒斯坦领土上以防内战。"
    ],
    [
        "And, judging by his tendency to offer pie-in-the-sky ideas, rather than realistic policies, it seems likely that he will respond to that pressure with more manipulation.",
        "而他总是提出不切实际的想法而非务实可行的政策，照此判断，他可能用加强操纵来应对压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Dozens of governments have already begun to implement measures in line with the global tobacco convention’s conflict-of-interest provisions.",
        "数十个国家的政府已经开始落实与全球烟草公约利益冲突条款相一致的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "In this case, maximizing profit leads to maximizing social welfare.",
        "在此情形中，利润最大化带来社会福利最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, that scenario now seems to be unfolding.",
        "不幸的是，这一局面似乎正在显现。"
    ],
    [
        "We are still not sure whether, say, education and occupation “explain” the effect of intelligence on health, or whether they are, in effect, merely surrogate measures of intelligence.",
        "我们还是不确定教育和职业是否“解释”智力对健康的影响，或者它们是否实际上仅仅是智力替代衡量标准。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Dennis Kelleher of Better Markets points out, when pressure mounts and a crisis seems around the corner, banks will face great pressure to bring such subsidiaries back onto their balance sheet.",
        "但是，Better Markets的丹尼斯·凯勒赫（Dennis Kelleher）指出，当压力增加、危机眼看就要来临时，银行将面临巨大的压力将这些分支挪回资产负债表中。"
    ],
    [
        "Last September, European Commissioner Jonathan Hill published his long-awaited Capital Markets Union proposal.",
        "去年九月，欧盟专员乔纳森·希尔（Jonathan Hill）发布了期待已久的资本市场联盟提案。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s brave new world of financial globalization will almost surely face severe new stress tests, reminding us that recessions still happen.",
        "今天金融全球化美妙的新世界几乎肯定会面临严峻的新的压力的挑战，提醒我们衰退依然在发生着。"
    ],
    [
        "During a 2010 visit to New Delhi, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stated bluntly that sorting out the border disputes “will take a fairly long period of time.”",
        "在2010年访问新德里期间，中国总理温家宝坦率地说要解决边境争端“需要相当长的一段时间”。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s voracious appetite for German cars and machines provided the needed boost, even as Germany’s traditional trade partners in Europe struggled.",
        "尽管德国的传统欧洲贸易伙伴陷入了麻烦，但中国对德国汽车和机械的无尽的胃口提供了必要的支撑。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed is buying Treasury bonds and long-term mortgage-backed securities at a rate of $85 billion a month, equivalent to an annual rate of $1,020 billion.",
        "美联储以每月850亿美元的节奏买入美国国债和长期按揭支持证券，即每年购买10200亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar acts of compromise on sustainability, measures to limit consumption, and to ensure equality will require the involvement of all stakeholders in order to gain their acceptance.",
        "在可持续发展，缩减能源消耗以及确保平等方面的类似行动也需要有所有利益相关者的参与，并得到他们的认可。"
    ],
    [
        "Unrealistic expectations exacerbate these psychological impediments to progress.",
        "不切实际的期望加剧了对改善的心理障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "But banks were not lending the money made available to them, partly because they used it to pay down their own debts, and partly because of low demand for loans.",
        "但银行并没有把可获得的资金用于贷款，部分是因为这些钱用来降低其自身的债务，部分则是因为贷款需求低迷。"
    ],
    [
        "It signaled that America’s new president was less interested in using government to solve society’s problems than he was in cutting taxes, mainly for the benefit of the wealthy.",
        "它表明这位美国新总统对用政府来解决社会问题不像他对减税（主要受益者是富人）那样热衷。"
    ],
    [
        "There is thus an urgent need to reassert the core character and identity of Europe.",
        "因此，重新确立欧洲的核心特质和认同就成为当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "The exceptionally easy monetary policy at the start of the decade contributed to financial investors’ willingness to buy low-quality financial assets in order to get higher yield and to an explosive rise in house prices.",
        "始于本世纪初的极为宽松的货币政策推动了金融投资者购买低质量金融资产以获得更高的回报的意愿，也推动了房价的爆炸性上扬。"
    ],
    [
        "This solution would not only permit the much-needed administrative reforms to be implemented; it would also bring clarity and transparency to a process that is in great need of improvement.",
        "这一方案不仅会落实急需进行的行政改革，而且还会澄清这一急需改进的进程并将之透明化。"
    ],
    [
        "There is indeed much to be said for frontloading the home-country principle in EU rules: a migrant’s country of origin should continue to be responsible for providing social benefits for a certain number of years, until the inclusion principle is applied.",
        "诚然，将母国原则置于欧盟规则之前大可商榷：移民的来源国应该继续负责提供社会福利一定年份，直到包容原则生效。"
    ],
    [
        "Expansionary monetary policy is expected to inject liquidity into the Japanese economy until inflation hits the Bank of Japan’s 2% target, while expansionary fiscal policy is expected to continue until economic recovery takes hold.",
        "人们预计扩张的货币政策会一直向日本经济注入流动性，直到通胀达到日本银行2%的目标，而扩张的财政政策也会持续，直到经济复苏站稳脚跟。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, there will be unexpected promotions and abrupt purges.",
        "第三，或将出现意想不到的晋升和突如其来的清洗。"
    ],
    [
        "While only a few involved fatalities, those that did collectively killed more people than have died in commercial US airline accidents since 1982.",
        "虽然只有其中少数几起造成人员死亡，但造成的总死亡人数却比自1982年起死于美国商业航空事故的人数还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "Amidst the celebrations and the soul-searching, no meaningful breakthrough in the deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is visible.",
        "在庆祝和真挚的自我反省中，限于僵局中的以色列－巴勒斯坦谈判没有取得明显的有意义的突破。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – In the December snap election initiated by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior coalition partner, the Komeito Party, won 326 of the Diet’s 475 seats, retaining their constitutional majority in the lower house of parliament.",
        "东京—在日本首相安倍晋三发起的12月提前大选中，自民党及其次要伙伴公明党赢得国会475个议席中的326席，继续保有众议院宪定多数。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it is dominated by captive money from Chinese savers – the retail investors.",
        "此外，中国股市的主力资金来自中国储户——即散户。"
    ],
    [
        "The existing rules are designed not to make it transparent or resilient, but to make it more profitable for large institutions like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan.",
        "现行的交易制度在设计之初并非使得这个市场更加透明有效，而是为了使得控制这个市场的大机构获利。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing Asia’s profound importance to the new world order, US President Barack Obama announced a strategic “pivot” toward the region in 2012.",
        "美国总统奥巴马意识到亚洲对新世界秩序的深刻重要性，在2012年提出将亚洲作为美国的战略“支点”。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – It was recently discovered that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, not slowing, as was previously thought.",
        "发自牛津——最近有研究发现宇宙的膨胀速度并未减缓，而是如原先推导的那样逐渐加速。"
    ],
    [
        "The military recently blocked a government move to place Pakistan’s infamous intelligence service, the ISI, under the control of the interior minister rather than the prime minister.",
        "军队最近阻止了政府将巴基斯坦声名狼藉的情报机构ISI置于内政部长而不是总理控制之下的动议。"
    ],
    [
        "So we are in a race.",
        "因此我们正在与时间赛跑。"
    ],
    [
        "The real problem is that the expectations concerning meaningful action on climate change, as opposed to gimmicks such as US President Barack Obama’s last-minute arrival and minuscule gestures in Copenhagen, are now lower than ever.",
        "真正的问题是，对气候变化采取有意义行动——而不是像奥巴马在在哥本哈根会议上那样姗姗来迟，而且如同蜻蜓点水一样来了就走——的期望越来越低。"
    ],
    [
        "Intense Western pressure has been brought to bear on Yar’Adua to re-consider the January deadline.",
        "西方的巨大压力使得Yar’Adua不得不从新考虑一月的最后期限。"
    ],
    [
        "Where will it end?",
        "哪里才是头呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, change will not come unless and until Sweden’s leaders address these problems.",
        "除非以瑞典的领导人能着手一一解决这些问题，否则情况最终将无法得到改观。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, to compare Merah’s savage deeds to the killings of September 11, 2001, as Sarkozy has done, is to give the killer too much credit.",
        "事实上，像萨科齐那样把默拉的暴行比作“9·11”袭击无疑是帮凶手带上了不相称的高帽。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of politics in China is local, but little of environmental protection is.",
        "在中国，政治大部分是地方性的，但是环境保护则很少如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The French do not care that they have never been able to articulate their vision of a “third way,” for they remain deeply convinced that the state has a key role to play in steering markets in order to defend “higher” values from the single-minded pursuit of materialism.",
        "法国人不在乎他们从未能够清楚阐明他们对“第三种办法”的看法，因为他们坚信法国在驾驭市场中要扮演着重要的、在单纯追求物质主义中维护“更高的”价值观的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The “why,” “how,” and “what” of the country’s ambitious structural-reform efforts could – and should – have important signaling effects around the world.",
        "墨西哥雄心勃勃的结构改革措施的“为何做”、“如何做”和“做什么”问题或许——也应该——对全世界都具有重要的信号效应。"
    ],
    [
        "But one decade after Truman left office, the Marshall Plan and the NATO alliance were already seen as solid accomplishments.",
        "但杜鲁门离职十年后，马歇尔计划和北约联盟已经被视为不可撼动的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2004, General Viktor Cherkesov, then Putin’s representative in northwest Russia, published an essay that glorified the KGB as the only unspoiled authority in a corrupted country.",
        "在2004年，当时担任普京驻俄国西北方代表的切尔克索夫将军发表文章，把克格勃美化成为腐败国家中唯一清廉的权力部门。"
    ],
    [
        "That number captures only a fraction of the problem, since 80% of the global workforce is in the informal sector, without any unemployment benefits or other social protection.",
        "然而，这一数字仅说明了很小的一部分问题，因为全球80%的劳动力都在非正式的部门就业，这些人没有任何失业保障或者其他的社会福利。"
    ],
    [
        "The public guarantees that rich countries’ governments have extended to their financial sectors have exposed more clearly the critical line of demarcation between “safe” and “risky” assets, with emerging markets clearly in the latter category.",
        "富有国家对金融部门所作出的公共担保更清晰地暴露了“安全”和“有风险”的资产之间的界线，而新兴市场上的资产显然属于后一类。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, to acknowledge the obvious in Iraq is also to recognize that there are grounds for hope.",
        "事实上，承认伊拉克的现实也就等于承认还有希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Can they rebound on their own?",
        "那么，这些国家又是否可以依靠自身的力量恢复过来呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But the most important questions are these: Will the face of the enemy become clear?",
        "但最重要的问题是另外三点：敌人的面目能否变得清晰？"
    ],
    [
        "What she does not seem to recognize is that America’s deteriorating ties with Russia – a key conduit for US military supplies to Afghanistan – could undercut its basing strategy.",
        "她似乎没有认识到，美国与俄罗斯关系的恶化可能削弱这一驻军战略——俄罗斯是美国向阿富汗提供军事供给的主要渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "Why does a regime that appears to be so secure consider mere opinions, or even peaceful petitions, so dangerous?",
        "为何对于一个看似稳固的政权来说，那些纯粹的观点、或者甚至是和平的请愿活动，却被认为是如此危险呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In the interwar years, these employees largely disappeared from the lives of all but the ultra-rich.",
        "战争期间，除富豪阶层外，帮佣基本上从所有人的生活中消失。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play.",
        "问题是，一旦我们把重点放在经济政策上，那更多非科学领域的东西就进场了。"
    ],
    [
        "They allowed global imbalances to build up, looked benignly on a massive credit bubble, ignored flashing danger signs in the mortgage market, and uncritically admired the innovative but toxic products devised by overpaid investment bankers.",
        "它们放任全球失衡日积月累，亲切地看着巨大的信用泡沫产生，忽视按揭市场所闪现的危险信号，不假思索地赞美薪酬过高的投资银行家所创造的创新但有毒的金融产品。"
    ],
    [
        "My argument rested on my view that the global economy was entering a major recession, and I had the benefit of my quantitative work, with Carmen Reinhart, on the history of financial crises.",
        "我的论点构建于当时全球经济正在进入一个重大衰退期的观点之上，并受益于我本人和卡门·雷哈特（Carmen Reinhart）一起从事的金融危机史量化研究工作。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Is democratic time too slow to respond to crises, and too short to plan for the long term?",
        "巴黎——民主主义在应对危机之时是否过于缓慢？ 民主制度在制定长期计划时是否显得过于稚嫩？"
    ],
    [
        "So, is the Commission right that the government should move quickly on reform and disregard the consequences?",
        "那么，国会要求政府必须迅速推行改革并忽视其后果的做法是对的么？"
    ],
    [
        "India is now becoming divided in much the same way, and for much the same reason – the emerging system of “reserved places” aimed at redressing centuries of caste discrimination.",
        "印度社会现在正以极其相似的方式走向意见分野，并且原因也极其相似，也就是旨在矫正存在几个世纪之久的种姓歧视的新兴“保留地”制度。"
    ],
    [
        "In America, polls suggest that gender is an even more important indicator of support for Trump than age or education.",
        "在美国，民调显示性别是比年龄和教育程度更重要的支持特朗普指标。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, newspapers remain the best way to reach this segment of Indian society.",
        "而事实上，报纸仍然是接触印度社会的这一细分的最佳方式。"
    ],
    [
        "China – which is acutely aware of its severe environmental problems – understands the socioeconomic boon that investment in renewable energies can provide.",
        "中国非常明白其环境问题的严重性，清楚投资于可再生能源能够带来巨大的社会经济效益。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to look beyond ideology – on the left as well as on the right – and frame the policy debate with that key consideration in mind.",
        "现在，我们必须抛弃意识形态藩篱——不管是左派还是右派——在政策争论中弄清什么才是当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "And the international community should support that effort.",
        "国际社会应支持这项努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The disparities were exposed in the IMF’s last Global Financial Stability Report, published in April, which contains a striking analysis that shows the changes in tangible common equity over the last two years, and the degree to which banks are reliant on wholesale funding.",
        "4月出版的最新IMF《全球金融稳定性报告》就说明了这一点，这份报告中包含着一项令人瞩目的分析，披露了两年来的有形普通股权益以及银行对批发融资的依赖程度。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the cases that illustrated the kind of “tourism” encouraged by the law involved a suit by a Saudi businessman against an American author who said in her book that the businessman had provided financial support to Al Qaeda.",
        "受法律鼓励“诽谤游”的代表官司之一是一名沙特商人起诉一名美国作家，该作家称这名沙特商人为基地组织提供经济援助。"
    ],
    [
        "It should come as no surprise, then, that civilians like Nasser, who have lost mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters in US strikes, are outraged not only at the US, but also at the Yemeni government, which consented to the attacks.",
        "今年早些时候，美国宣布了新的无人机出口政策，据称这是为了与其他国家合作为无人机的使用“制定国际标准”并约束无人机进口国“根据国际法使用无人机系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Stability was on everyone’s mind at the annual China Development Forum (CDF) held March 17-20 in Beijing.",
        "在3月17—20日举行的一年一度的中国发展论坛（CDF）上，稳定占据着每一位与会者的头脑。"
    ],
    [
        "But while the Saudis appeared willing to accept the deal, Iran rejected it after Hezbollah balked at both candidates.",
        "尽管沙特似乎愿意接受协议，但伊朗却在真主党拒绝两位候任人选后拒绝了这项提议。"
    ],
    [
        "As if that were not enough, remittances have important macroeconomic benefits, enabling countries to pay for essential imports, access private capital markets, and qualify for lower interest rates on sovereign debt.",
        "更进一步地看，侨汇还有重要的宏观经济好处，让国家能够支付重要的进口品、获得进入私人资本市场的机会、拉低主权债务的利率。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, they suggest that suppressing fever may occasionally produce harmful effects, and conclude that widespread use of drugs to reduce fever should not be encouraged.",
        "相反，他们指出抑制发热偶尔会产生有害的影响，并且得出结论说不应该鼓励广泛使用药物来抑制发热。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this discredited the negative views promulgated by the Soviet media.",
        "所有这些都驳斥了苏联媒体宣扬的负面观点。"
    ],
    [
        "And as the impact of the tax expands, it becomes hard to know what the ultimate effects on the real economy will be.",
        "而随着税收影响的扩大，也很难知道对实体经济的最终影响将会怎样。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, amid the vast uncertainty created by Trump’s victory, a new relationship now makes more strategic sense than ever, given changing global circumstances, regional geopolitics, and domestic challenges in both the US and China.",
        "事实上，在特朗普取胜造成的重大不确定性下，构建新型关系比以往任何时候更具有战略价值，因为全球环境不断变化，而且美中两国都面临着区域地缘政治和国内挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, they share one thing in common: the fight never ends.",
        "确实，有一点是共通的：这场战争永无终日。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order to explain performance relative to Japan and Germany, one would have to argue that the euro and the yen have been undervalued, which makes no sense.",
        "但是，如果要解释日本和德国的相对表现，也有人会说欧元 和日元被低估了，这是毫无道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is up to the global public to stand up for that idea.",
        "而这取决于全球公众是否支持这一思想。"
    ],
    [
        "Each leader has been carefully groomed to avoid the sort of gaffes that could cost his party the election, and thus far, not one has shot himself in the foot.",
        "每一位领袖都在精心准备，生怕辩论场上的任何洋相令自己的党派丢掉大选，而是至今日，还没有谁干出些搬石头砸自己脚的蠢事。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why we have always called for the establishment of a WMD-free zone in the Middle East, including both Iran and Israel.",
        "这就是为什么我们一直呼吁建立中东无大规模杀伤性武器区，该区应包括伊朗和以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the existing banks have failed to serve these parties’ small-business and farming constituencies.",
        "此外，现有银行无法对这些党派的小企业和农场选区提供很好的服务。"
    ],
    [
        "That makes it all the more difficult to justify the practice.",
        "因此死刑的正确性更加难以证明。"
    ],
    [
        "Even better, by shifting to electric vehicles, we would be able to use cutting-edge information technology to make them smart – even smart enough to drive themselves using advanced data-processing and positioning systems.",
        "更妙的是，使用电动汽车，我们可以用高精尖信息技术使它们智能化，甚至通过高级数据处理技术和定位系统实现自动驾驶。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Last month, the Netherlands hosted the Global Conference on Cyberspace 2015, which brought together nearly 2,000 government officials, academics, industry representatives, and others.",
        "坎布里奇——上个月，荷兰人举办了2015年网络空间全球会议。 那次会议吸引了近2，000名政府官员、学者、行业代表和其他人士。"
    ],
    [
        "Viruses are parasites to cells, and each virus attacks a particular type of cell.",
        "病毒是细胞的寄生物，每一种病毒都攻击一种特定的细胞。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic forecasts rest on the assumption that economies ultimately heal themselves.",
        "经济预测基于经济最终会自愈的假设。"
    ],
    [
        "A more effective approach must be to combine EBM with the expertise and intuition of experienced caregivers, and to take the benefits of both.",
        "更有效的方法必须结合EBM和经验丰富的医护人员的专业知识和直觉，兼取其长。"
    ],
    [
        "State and local governments have cut spending and payrolls significantly.",
        "州和地方政府大幅削减支出和岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "The WVS measures four revealing political and social values: support for democracy, readiness for civic engagement, obedience to authority, and support for patriarchal values that underpin discrimination against women.",
        "WVS衡量四种颇能揭示问题的政治和社会价值：对民主的支持、对公民参与的准备、对威权的服从，以及对作为性别歧视基础的父权价值的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, there is no need for a process that has no chance of accomplishing peace.",
        "而与此同时，我们也不再需要一个不可能实现的和平进程了。"
    ],
    [
        "These workers are in no position to turn down a job.",
        "这些工人没有选择工作的余地。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the longer one is unemployed, the harder it is to find a full-time job at a decent wage.",
        "毕竟，一个人失业时间越长，找到收入体面的全职工作就越难。"
    ],
    [
        "For Chinese liberals, Afghanistan is fraught with ethnic threats.",
        "对中国的中间派来说，阿富汗是种族威胁的代名词。"
    ],
    [
        "One key issue clouding the future is trade finance.",
        "笼罩着未来的一个关键事务就是贸易融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the threat of trade wars, trade sanctions could emerge as the most effective means of forcing international action on global warming.",
        "尽管存在贸易战的威胁，贸易制裁或许将会成为在全球变暖问题上强制采取国际行动的最为有效的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Because deflation drives up the real burden of sovereign debt and public non-debt liabilities such as pension systems, its emergence would undermine the already fragile state of many countries’ public finances and kill growth.",
        "由于通缩会抬高主权债务（debt）和养老金等非债务责任（liability）的真实负担，它的出现将破坏许多国家已经相当脆弱的公共财政状况并扼杀增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But that danger becomes far more acute in a combat zone, where nuclear materials and weapons are at risk of theft, and reactors can become bombing targets.",
        "但这种危险在战区进一步加剧，核材料和武器面临被盗的危险，而反应堆则有可能成为轰炸的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "There is some merit to this claim.",
        "这种说法不无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "To pretend that the Doha Round’s failure would not have negative and lasting effects for the WTO betrays a profound lack of understanding of the risks we run, as well as of the Round’s vital importance for weaker and smaller states.",
        "但如果有人还在假设多哈谈判的失败不会对WTO造成长期负面影响，那就是对我们目前所面对的风险认识不足，同时也忽视了该回合谈判对弱小国家的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "“In and against” used to be our motto.",
        "“留下并反对”曾经是我们的座右铭。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union represents 25 democracies and often inspires countries to seek their freedom, as it has in Ukraine and Lebanon.",
        "欧盟代表了25个民主政体，并经常鼓励各国寻求他们自己的自由，就像对乌克兰和黎巴嫩一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The financial system has become even more concentrated, exacerbating the problem of banks that are not only too big, too interconnected, and too correlated to fail, but that are also too big to manage and be held accountable.",
        "金融系统变得更为集中，导致银行问题进一步恶化——它们不仅规模太大，关联和联系太紧密以致无法任由其破产，而且更加难以管理和对公众负责。"
    ],
    [
        "Great powers often blunder into great wars.",
        "大国常常在无意间爆发大战。"
    ],
    [
        "Development-finance flows could be restructured, so that they are channeled through mechanisms like the International Finance Facility for Immunization, which binds ODA commitments over a long period and securitizes them in order to generate funds for immediate use.",
        "发展金融流可以被构造，以便通过国际免疫金融便利（International Finance Facility for Immunization，它绑定长期ODA约束，并将其证券化从而产生资金立刻使用）等机制获得使用。"
    ],
    [
        "The last decade has shown that increases in renewable-energy production actually reduce its costs.",
        "过去10年的应用已经表明，可再生能源产量增长反而会滩低它的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Any steps they take to vent that frustration embolden right-wing populists and could lead to violence from both sides.",
        "他们表达沮丧的任何动作都会煽动极右翼民粹派，可能导致双方的暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "These are early days in the quantitative study of sustainable development.",
        "我们尚处在对可持续发展量化研究的早期。"
    ],
    [
        "The principle fits the situation in Libya today.",
        "接任联合国秘书长后，安南要求尽快为国际社会何时能够干预严重侵犯人权行为制定一套原则。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early twentieth century, a congressional district’s rich landowners were likely to own the local banks as well, or to be related to, or friends with, bank owners.",
        "在20世纪初，国会选区中的富裕地主可能同时也是地区银行的所有者，或者与地区银行所有者是亲朋好友。"
    ],
    [
        "What will such a world look like?",
        "这将是一个怎样的世界？"
    ],
    [
        "Bringing medical aid into conflict zones, setting up water and sanitation facilities, and protecting victims during harsh winters are crucial to saving lives; but we must also think about how to safeguard the education and livelihoods of those who survive.",
        "向冲突区提供医疗援助、建立水源和卫生站设施、保护难民度过严冬是拯救生命的关键； 但我们还必须考虑如何保证活下来的人的教育和生存问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the crisis experience suggests that, in times of extreme market tensions, even a sound initial fiscal position may not offer absolute protection from spillovers.",
        "但危机经验表明，在极端市场紧张时期，即使是坚挺的初始财政状况也无法给溢出效应提供绝对保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Burning fossil fuels is having a measurable impact on the earth’s temperature.",
        "燃烧化石燃料对地球温度产生影响是可测量的。"
    ],
    [
        "The other – arguably more serious – problem was market confusion about the direction of the renminbi exchange rate, following a gradual but constant ten-day depreciation against the US dollar that fueled capital outflows, until the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) intervened.",
        "另一个问题——也许是更严重的挑战——是市场搞不懂人民币汇率的变动方向，人民币兑美元汇率经历了连续十天的逐渐贬值，这个短期的趋势刺激了资本外流，直到央行出手干预。"
    ],
    [
        "As global attention focuses on NCD prevention, those seeking to control preventable illnesses should look to the “ABCs” of AIDS organizing for guidance.",
        "随着NCD的防治获得全球关注，寻求控制可预防疾病的人应该借鉴艾滋病组织的“ABC”。"
    ],
    [
        "But were it, despite its military might, to fail, it would create a power vacuum and destabilize the region.",
        "可如果军事霸权遭受失败，带来的必将是地区的动荡和权力的真空。"
    ],
    [
        "It means establishing a common deposit-insurance scheme and a mechanism for closing down insolvent financial institutions.",
        "这意味着建立一个共同的存款保险方案以及一个关闭破产金融机构的机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Some financial advisers in the United States are paid not on the basis of how their clients do, but according to what financial products they persuade them to buy.",
        "在没有，一些金融顾问不是根据其客户做得如何获得报酬，而是根据他们说服客户买了什么金融产品获得报酬。"
    ],
    [
        "Nobody can afford to ignore it.",
        "没有任何人能够忽视它。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, too, the idea of the US president escaping from the world at a critical juncture initially drew criticism.",
        "之后，美国总统在如此紧要关头逃避外界的想法最初招致了批评。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, the euro-zone economies may have grown by 2.7% on average, and should grow by 2.2% in 2007.",
        "2006年，欧元区经济的增长率在平均2. 7％的水平，2007年将会是2."
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – I first met Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense who presided over the American buildup in Vietnam, in the summer of 1967.",
        "纽约——我与美军在越南集结时任国防部长的罗伯特·麦克纳马拉见面是在1967年夏。"
    ],
    [
        "It is less disruptive and much less expensive to maintain potential asylum-seekers in or close to their present location.",
        "让潜在寻求庇护者留在当前所在位置或周边地区能降低破坏性，成本也低廉得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the tendency towards superficiality in coverage of economic issues may have led campaign managers to believe that the press will so distort their message that they dare not even try to set out what they regard as the true rationales for their economic policies.",
        "事实上，对经济问题的报道日益肤浅的趋势说不定让竞选经理们认为新闻界会歪曲他们的意思，从而不敢哪怕是尝试着把他们认为是其经济政策真正的原因说出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether that should be cheered or lamented is a question that has become a kind of Rorschach test for economic analysts and policymakers.",
        "这是好事还是坏事已成为经济分析家和决策者罗莎测试（Rorschach test）。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, the election's flaws cannot be swept under the carpet. But nor is Kazakhstan seeking to do so.",
        "选举过程中的缺陷显然不该被掩盖，可哈萨克斯坦也没有试图掩盖。"
    ],
    [
        "That pose as democracy’s guardian earned Shevardnadze independent Georgia’s presidency at a time when the country was vulnerable to civil war.",
        "这种假扮民主卫士的伎俩在国家可能爆发内战的情况下为其赢得了独立格鲁吉亚的总统职务。"
    ],
    [
        "They worry that securities purchases will sow the seeds of another financial bubble and bust.",
        "他们担心购买证券会埋下新一轮金融泡沫和破裂的种子。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese surpluses, by contrast, were seen as a cause of global imbalances.",
        "相反，中国的盈余被视为全球失衡的源头之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The developed world fears the depletion of vital resources by the developing world, which in turn blames the developed world for destroying the environment in pursuit of profit.",
        "发达世界担心发展中世界耗尽关键性资源，而发展中国家则反过来指责发达世界为了追求利润而摧毁环境。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer, as is often the case, depends on which economist you ask.",
        "一如往常，答案取决于你对哪个经济学家问这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Accordingly, the CDU and its main competitor, the Social Democrats (SPD), have become increasingly indistinguishable.",
        "因此，CDU及其主要竞争对手社会民主党（SPD）变得越来越难以区分。"
    ],
    [
        "This does not bode well for the Sustainable Development Goals.",
        "这对实现联合国可持续发展目标可不是一个好兆头。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only have they revised their spending plans, but, in many cases, they have delayed purchases, waiting for the uncertainty to clear.",
        "他们不仅修订了开支计划，还大都推迟了购买，以期不确定性变得明朗。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa faces a crisis of leadership and governance, owing to a dysfunctional ethos.",
        "非洲正面临着领导和治理方面的危机，而这种危机则来自于一种导致政府机能失调的精神特质。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – More than ten years after the global financial crisis, the world economy is finally enjoying a broad-based recovery.",
        "伦敦—全球金融危机已经过去了十年多，世界经济终于迎来了广泛复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Turkey’s geographic size (twice that of Germany but with a similar-size population), it has been a challenge to ensure that all pupils, regardless of their location or socioeconomic background, receive a good education.",
        "考虑到土耳其的地理规模（是德国的两倍大但人口相同），确保所有学生不论身居何处、社会经济地位如何都能获得良好的教育一直是一项挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Those that engaged in the opposite behaviors – selling antibiotics as livestock “growth promoters” or actively encouraging physicians to prescribe the drugs – would lose points.",
        "而那些从事相反行为的企业——将抗生素作为牲畜“生长促进剂”出售或积极鼓励医生开药的企业——将会丢掉分数。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the original six core countries began to expand to include northern, southern, and, most recently, eastern European countries, the old federal vision was doomed.",
        "一旦欧盟六个中心创始国开始扩张欧盟以吸纳北欧、南欧以及最近加入的东欧国家，联邦国家的陈旧说法就注定失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Delegating that function to a dedicated institution may have advantages for the presentation of the public accounts.",
        "将这一功能委托给专门的机构有利于在公共账户上有所体现。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – The American people can escape from the ordeal of Donald Trump’s presidency in one of three ways.",
        "巴黎——美国民众可以以三种方式中的一种避开唐纳德·特朗普的总统任期。"
    ],
    [
        "The general instability of social relations – most importantly, but not only, of employment – is slowly becoming intolerable for a growing part of the population in many developed countries, not just in Europe.",
        "在包括欧洲的许多发达国家中，以“就业”为首的一系列社会关系的动荡对于越来越多的人来说正慢慢变得不可忍受。"
    ],
    [
        "What ASEAN says or does not say will not change things immediately.",
        "无论是东盟的公开言论还是潜台词都不会立即带来变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But the new jobs will differ mightily from the jobs displaced by automation, imposing painful transition costs on workers, businesses, and communities.",
        "但新工作却与被自动化所取代的旧工作差异巨大，从而将痛苦的转型成本强加在工人、企业和社团身上。"
    ],
    [
        "When burned, they emit the carbon dioxide that causes global warming.",
        "它们在燃烧时所释放的二氧化碳导致全球变暖。"
    ],
    [
        "To stigmatize immigrants, Muslims in particular, or to destroy the camps in which Roma live, is a much easier task, even if it reveals the truly opportunistic and amoral nature of both Sarkozy and those who surround him.",
        "因此侮辱移民（尤其是穆斯林）或者捣毁吉卜赛人聚居地就成为了最得心应手的做法，即便这暴露出了萨科齐及其党羽的机会主义和道德沦丧。"
    ],
    [
        "Who’s he kidding?",
        "他在打趣谁？"
    ],
    [
        "Companies know that sound risk-management strategies depend on solid data.",
        "公司知道，可靠的风险管理战略依赖可靠的数据。"
    ],
    [
        "Creditors will likely insist that the default was a terrible mistake and argue that recovery is impossible unless the decision is quickly reversed.",
        "债权人可能坚持认为违约是一个可怕的错误，指出除非迅速推翻这一决定否则复苏根本无从实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The “Middle Empire” of the Middle East will no longer remain a sleeping giant.",
        "中东的“中王国”将不再是沉睡的巨人。"
    ],
    [
        "With many countries pondering whether to adopt variants of the Bush plan, the question requires careful examination.",
        "由于许多国家目前正考虑是否也采纳布什的该项计划，这个问题需要仔细研究。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, one of the most baffling features of China’s economic rise is that, even amid double-digit GDP growth, employment grew at a measly 1.8% average annual rate from 1978 to 2004.",
        "事实上，中国经济崛起的其中一个最令人困惑的特征就是，即便在实现两位数增长率的时期，1978年~2004年间的年均就业增长率也仅为1. 8%。"
    ],
    [
        "Curiosity implies a certain immoderation, a certain necessary excess.",
        "好奇心意味着一定程度上的不甘平庸，某种必要的过度。"
    ],
    [
        "The connection between the two parts of the reforms has always been unnecessary; the measures are independent, require different approval processes, and can be delivered separately.",
        "改革的这两部分从来没有必要联系起来； 措施是独立的，要求不同的批准过程，也可以各自实施。"
    ],
    [
        "The current Euro-Atlantic security architecture seems to suit the majority of Americans and Europeans, though it is becoming increasingly fragile and counterproductive.",
        "当前的欧洲 - 大西洋安全体系，尽管正变得日渐脆弱，其效果也愈加事与愿违，但看起来它却仍令大部分美欧人士中意。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine, for example, that Germany borrows at a 1% fixed real interest rate with a ten-year maturity and invests the proceeds in repairing domestic transport infrastructure.",
        "比如，考虑德国以1%的固定实际利率借入十年期贷款投资于修补国内交通基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "If all countries have the same values, traditional imperialism becomes obsolete.",
        "如果所有国家都拥有相同的价值观，传统的帝国主义就不合时宜了。"
    ],
    [
        "If they hope to be granted refugee status – not to mention food, clothing, shelter, and other basic necessities – they have to give whatever information the NGOs, IGOs, aid agencies, and humanitarian workers request.",
        "如果他们希望获得难民地位——更不要说食物、衣物、住所和其他基本的生活必需品——他们就必须提供非政府组织、政府间机构、援助机构和人道主义工作人员所要求提供的任何信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The practice of the faculties (education) unleashes potential that would otherwise remain dormant.",
        "学校（教育）实践能激发隐藏的潜能。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2002, for example, the CDF focused on the impact of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization – a precursor to a spectacular surge of export-led growth.",
        "比如，2002年的中国发展高层论坛主题是中国加入世贸组织的影响——出口导向型增长绽放的先声。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, however, little indication that Israel’s government has the vision required for such an undertaking.",
        "然而目前的迹象却表明以色列政府缺乏足够的战略眼光去完成这一任务。"
    ],
    [
        "But such policies are unlikely to shift economic power to those who have been relatively less successful.",
        "但这些政策无法让相对不太成功的人获得经济力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Rules and regulations in most states protect the two parties that have held sway in US politics for more than a century.",
        "大多数州的法律条令都偏袒民主共和这两个支配美国政治超过一世纪的政党。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the idea implicit in Medvedev’s plan – that Russia should have veto power over all security-related decisions of NATO or the EU – must be rejected.",
        "其次，冷战中至关重要的欧洲与美国安全荣辱与共的原则仍有必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "While most other Europeans are desperately looking for any opportunity to pull their country out of crisis, Germans see little reason to meddle with an ostensibly prosperous status quo.",
        "大部分其他欧洲人都急切地寻找着让国家走出危机的机会，而德国人却找不到改变貌似繁荣额现状的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the regional and even global turmoil over Kosovo, South Sudan, Kurdistan, and Crimea.",
        "科索沃、南苏丹、库尔德斯坦和克里米亚等地区甚至全球动荡就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "But for every market mispricing there is a profit opportunity: if long-term interest rates are, indeed, too low and long-term bond prices too high, investors will short long-term US bonds, park the money elsewhere, wait for bond prices to return to fundamentals, and then cover their short positions.",
        "但市场上的每一种价格偏离，总会带来盈利机会：如果长期利率确实过低，而长期债券价格过高，做空仓的美国长期债券投资者将钱投到别的地方，等待债券价格回落到基点，再开始补仓。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to note that these were unintended consequences of basically sensible policy decisions.",
        "注意到这些都是基本明智的政策决定的计划之外的后果，是很重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Turkey slid in Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom Index to 154th place (out of 180 countries).",
        "比如，土耳其在无国界记者（Reporters Without Borders）的世界言论自由指数上已滑落至第154位（总共180个国家）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the EU’s aging and demographically challenged member states need immigrants.",
        "此外，日益老龄化、人口挑战日益严峻的欧盟成员国也需要移民。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge will be to manage the trade-off between transparency and triviality.",
        "挑战在于管理透明度和琐碎化之间的权衡。"
    ],
    [
        "So Mr. Greenspan decided to extend a peace offering to the Europeans.",
        "因此，格林斯潘先生决定向欧洲抛出和平橄榄枝。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of encouraging the Japanese to think about collective security in a responsible way, Trump's indifference is more likely to play to the worst instincts of panicky Japanese nationalists.",
        "特朗普的“无所谓”更有可能激发焦虑不安的日本民族主义者体内最邪恶的本能，而不是鼓励日本以负责任的方式考虑集体安全。"
    ],
    [
        "First, as advocates of capital mobility tirelessly point out, countries must fulfill a long list of prerequisites before they can benefit from financial globalization.",
        "首先，资本流动派坚持不懈地提出的论点是，在国家可以从金融全球化收益之前，它必须满足大量先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "In countries with an engaged civil society and room for debate, the discourse on the rule of law can be wide-ranging and substantive.",
        "在存在充分参与的公民社会和争论空间的国家关于法治的话题范围宽广且名符其实。"
    ],
    [
        "The effect, particularly given a long history of anti-Japanese sentiment, was a predictable wave of racist violence, including the destruction of Japanese cars.",
        "这样做的效果——特别是在长时间的反日情绪酝酿之后——不难预测，那就是种族主义暴力潮，其中就包括砸毁日本车。"
    ],
    [
        "The lack of property rights also plays an important role in two areas of concern for both the pope and many US leaders: the turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa and the protection of the environment.",
        "产权的缺位在教皇和许多美国领导人所担心的两大问题中也起着重要作用：中东和北非动乱和环境保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the failure of the IMF’s strategy in East Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere, it still has adherents, even within the emerging markets.",
        "尽管IMF的策略在东亚，拉美和其他地区都不奏效，但依然有人拥护这个组织，甚至包括一些新兴市场国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps one could interpret the common currency as “forcing” eventual convergence in policies.",
        "也许人们可以理解为共同货币“迫使”政策最终趋同。"
    ],
    [
        "But this argument raises an obvious question: If the problem is so simple, why hasn’t this fix already been tried?",
        "但该论点引出了一个显而易见的问题：如果问题的症结如今简单，为什么就从未尝试过这一修复方案？"
    ],
    [
        "If South Korea is to avoid Japan’s fate, it must take steps to reduce its household and corporate debt.",
        "如果韩国想要避免重蹈日本的覆辙，就必须采取措施降低家庭和公司债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Tunisia’s external state borrowing has not crowded out the private sector; nonetheless, private investment has fallen to 18% of GDP.",
        "突尼斯的对外国家借款并没有挤出私人部门； 但即便如此，私人投资也已降至GDP的18%。"
    ],
    [
        "Refusing to remain silent while denied opportunity, young people – particularly girls – have launched one of the great civil-rights struggles of our time.",
        "年轻人——特别是女孩——拒绝否定机会、保持沉默，他们掀起了一场现时代人权大斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "First, states should make and clarify their claims based on international law.",
        "首先，各国应该基于海洋法主张并论证它们的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "A positive, principled, and progressive case for British membership in the EU has yet to be made.",
        "迄今为止，尚未有人阐明英国保留欧盟成员资格积极、合乎原则且进步的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Automation of fairly sophisticated routine jobs is driving the polarization of the labor market.",
        "相当成熟的常规岗位被自动化，这促使劳动力市场发生极化。"
    ],
    [
        "She rightly described herself as a “conviction politician.”",
        "她自称“信念政治家”（conviction politician），这倒名副其实。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early 1990’s, the average level of world inflation exceeded 30%; now it is less than 4%.",
        "在二十世纪九十年代早期，世界通货膨胀的平均水平超过30%； 而现在它只有不到4%。"
    ],
    [
        "The new strategy that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been promoting to staunch the upward trend of narco-trafficking-related murders – which leaked Mexican government reports put at more than 22,000 since late 2006 – is to build “stronger, more resilient communities.”",
        "建设“更强大，适应力更强的社会”是美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿宣传能够阻止与毒品贩运有关谋杀上升趋势的新战略——泄露出来的墨西哥政府报告统计2006年以来与贩毒有关的谋杀已经超过 22,000起。"
    ],
    [
        "The world must now send its regime a clear message: stop destabilizing the region and help your own people to prosper.",
        "世界必须向其政权传递一个明确信号：停止动摇中东地区，帮助自己的人民实现繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Asia is no less a demanding theater than the Middle East.",
        "毕竟，亚洲作为舞台的重要性已不亚于中东。"
    ],
    [
        "For, if it were true, any and all measures taken against Muslims, however brutal, would be justified, and Israel would indeed be a frontline state, resisting “Islamofacism” to prevent another Auschwitz.",
        "因为如果这是真的话，任何以及所有针对穆斯林的行为，无论多么残忍，都可以被认为是正义的，而以色列也真的成为了一个对抗“伊斯兰法西斯主义”以防止下一个奥斯维辛集中营出现的前沿阵地。"
    ],
    [
        "But those leading the effort have already indicated its likely conclusion: Nemtsov's murder was an attempt to destabilize Russia.",
        "但早已有人指出了可能的结论：谋杀涅姆佐夫是有人试图动摇俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "How is it possible that, because no company with currently patented drugs is campaigning to help medical and nursing staff recognize the catatonic features displayed by one in ten patients going through a psychiatric unit – features that could be treated rapidly with benzodiazepines or ECT – these features are missed completely?",
        "因为没有当前拥有专利药物的公司要求帮助医护人员认识在进行住院治疗的精神病人中十个就有一个显示的紧张性精神症特征——可以通过苯（并）二氮或ECT快速治疗的特征——这些特征怎么可能就被完全忽略了？"
    ],
    [
        "Observers marvel that China’s leaders admit to such a staggering number of protests.",
        "观察家们对于中国领导人承认这样惊人的抗议数字感到惊讶。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, Qaddafi managed to unify a country that, since the Greek invasion in the seventh century BC, had been divided between a coastal strip linked to the larger Mediterranean basin and an isolated hinterland that even Benito Mussolini’s brutal regime could not secure.",
        "首先，卡扎菲成功实现了自公元前七世纪希腊入侵以来一直处于分裂状态的国家的统一，统一与大片地中海盆地相连的狭长沿海地带和孤立腹地的丰功伟绩就连墨索里尼的残暴政权都没有做到。"
    ],
    [
        "A new report by the World Economic Forum and Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government lays out a series of best practices – each one of which has already been implemented by at least one international agency – that can guarantee that leaders are drawn from the most qualified candidates, and that the organizations for which they work are vested with the best possible management practices.",
        "世界经济论坛和牛津大学布拉瓦特尼克政府学院（Blavatnik School of Government）的新报告列出了一系列最佳实践——每一项实践都在至少一家国际机构实施过——它们能够确保最有资格的候选人脱颖而出，并且他们所工作的组织能够执行尽可能优秀的管理实践。"
    ],
    [
        "In security terms, Europe would be quite lonely without the US, whatever the nature of the threat.",
        "从安全角度看，没有美国的欧洲将相当孤立，不管对何种性质的威胁来说都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Our brain is also acutely aware of the existence of other selves, with their feelings and intentions, and it is particularly good at reading what others are thinking, feeling, and planning.",
        "我们的大脑也敏锐地察觉其他自我的存在，以及他们的感觉和意图，并且尤其擅长阅读其他人在想什么，感觉什么，计划什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The novel twist today is the ever-expanding global supply curve.",
        "而如今使用的新花招则是不断扩张的全球供应曲线。"
    ],
    [
        "For years, the authorities tended to support the renminbi, as they pursued renminbi internationalization – an effort that culminated in the International Monetary Fund’s recent decision to add the renminbi to the basket of currencies that compose its reserve asset, so-called Special Drawing Rights.",
        "多年来，政府在追求人民币国际化期间支持人民币升值——这项工作在国际货币基金组织（IMF）最近决定将人民币纳入构成其储备资产的货币篮子——即所谓特别提款权时达到了高潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization’s dynamism has benefited many, but it has also increased inequality.",
        "全球化的推动力造福了许多人，但同时也增加了不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the swamp has grown wider and deeper.",
        "相反，如今这片沼泽变得更大更深了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is willing to co-produce with India some smaller defensive systems, such as Javelin anti-tank missiles, in order to pave the way for more multi-billion-dollar deals for US-made systems.",
        "美国愿意与印度合作生产某些小型防务系统，如“标枪”反坦克导弹，从而为几十亿美元的美制系统大单铺平道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Where half of the girls received secondary education, the average was just three children, and child and infant mortality were much lower.",
        "而在半数女孩上过中学的发展中国家，女性平均子女数仅为3个，且儿童及婴儿死亡率大幅降低。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the accepted means of making a limited amount of available work go around.",
        "这是实现有限工作岗位分配的为众人接受的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Three in ten South Africans are younger than 15, meaning that they did not live a day under apartheid.",
        "在南非，每10个人中就有三个人的年龄小于15岁，这意味着，这些人从来没有在种族隔离制度下生活过。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation near China, whether in the East China Sea, near Japan, or in the West Pacific, is completely different.",
        "南海、日本海或西太平洋等中国近海的局势是完全不同的。"
    ],
    [
        "As the population grows, so will the problem.",
        "随着人口增长，问题也在恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Marx and Tolstoy would say that there is no such thing as a “great leader.”",
        "马克思和托尔斯泰会说根本不存在什么“伟大领袖”。"
    ],
    [
        "I advocate a strong Europe that embraces the challenges of a relentlessly changing world.",
        "我主张建设一个能直面无情变化所带来挑战的强大的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Unit labor costs in Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Italy grew 20-30% faster than in Germany in the euro’s first decade, and somewhat faster than unit labor costs in northern Europe as a whole.",
        "在欧元历史的第一个十年中，希腊、葡萄牙、西班牙和意大利的单位劳动成本上涨速度比德国快20—30%，比北欧整体单位劳动成本上升速度也要快。"
    ],
    [
        "But the search for new economic models that I called “Capitalism 4.1” has clearly started – for better or worse.",
        "但寻找我称之为“资本主义4. 1”的新经济模式之旅显然已经开始——不管结果如何。"
    ],
    [
        "ATHENS – On Valentine’s Day, countless couples will celebrate romance by candlelight.",
        "雅典—情人节，无数情侣会在烛光中度过浪漫时光。"
    ],
    [
        "Dethroning King Coal",
        "废煤"
    ],
    [
        "Immunization is also highly effective.",
        "免疫也是一种高效方式。"
    ],
    [
        "But, confronted with those who have been shouting, “That’s not literature!",
        "但面对那些大喊，“这不是文学！ 根本就不是！"
    ],
    [
        "Its passivity cost Japan the trust of the international community.",
        "代价便是，日本失去了国际社会的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "The audience – including many security companies and also a lawyer from the NY State Attorney General's office – took active part.",
        "听众中包括众多安全企业和一名来自纽约州总检察长办公室的律师——他们都积极地参与了讨论活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The distinction is also useful for policy purposes: weak potential growth cannot be addressed by demand-side initiatives; supply-side measures are needed.",
        "这个差额还可用于政策目的：低迷的潜在增长更无法通过需求端措施解决，而是需要供给端措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Five new non-permanent members – New Zealand, Spain, Angola, Malaysia, and Venezuela – will rotate in for a two-year term, replacing Australia, Luxembourg, Rwanda, South Korea, and Argentina, respectively.",
        "而新西兰、西班牙、安哥拉、马来西亚和委内瑞拉等五个新的非常任理事国将依据两年轮换制分别顶替澳大利亚、卢森堡、卢旺达、韩国和阿根廷的席位。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is a very long way from these new Russian bases to virtually everywhere.",
        "但这些新俄罗斯基地要达到星罗棋布的程度还需要很长时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits – formerly called “Untouchables,” the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.",
        "在印度，最能和美国黑人的地位相类比的是贱民-即以前所谓的“最底层不可接触的贱民” ，他们是数千年来遭受屈辱的歧视和压迫的被剥夺种姓的阶层。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of Silicon Valley’s success stems from its tight networks – people who have been successful and support one another.",
        "硅谷的成功很大程度上要归功于其紧密的网络——成功人士以及他们彼此之间的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Refugees are not an Eastern European problem, a Polish journalist told National Public Radio in the United States, because these countries did not participate in the decision to bomb Libya (neither did Germany).",
        "难民不是东欧问题，一位波兰记者对美国国家公共电台（National Public Radio）说，因为这些国家并没有参与轰炸利比亚的决策（德国也没有）。"
    ],
    [
        "If Spain incorporates such a requirement in its law, and also provides for some other appropriate connection (such as the inclusion of Spaniards among the victims), it will overcome the tendency of a few of its judges to reach out too widely.",
        "如果西班牙在法律中加入这一要求，并提供一些其他的合理关联（比如受害者中包括西班牙人），就能克服法官触手伸得太远的弊端。"
    ],
    [
        "In India, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry has established a new “green bond” working group to explore how the country’s debt markets can respond to the challenge of financing smart infrastructure.",
        "在印度，印度工商联合会（Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry）成立了新的“绿色债券”工作组，考察印度债务市场应该如何响应为智能基础设施融资的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent decades, this system has produced tremendous political fragmentation, if not open factional fighting, at all levels.",
        "最近几十年来，这套制度制造了巨大的政治分裂甚至各层面的公开的派系斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Many believe that we are almost there.",
        "许多人相信我们离那天不远了。"
    ],
    [
        "What is the secret behind Scandinavia’s success?",
        "斯堪的那维亚国家成功背后有什么秘密吗？"
    ],
    [
        "My creditors will have the first claim on my estate – everything that I wanted to leave to my children.",
        "我的债权人将拥有对我的财产——即我准备遗留给子孙后代的所有东西——的第一索偿权。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the idea of a “nuclear renaissance” is a myth.",
        "事实上，“核复兴”的概念不过是一个神话。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, Ecuador continued payments on the small portion of debt that it considered acceptable after defaulting on its international debts in 2008 (under circumstances far less extreme than Greece’s).",
        "更晚近一些，厄瓜多尔在2008年兑其国际债务违约后继续偿还了一小部分它认为可接受的债务（它所处的环境远没有希腊那么极端）。"
    ],
    [
        "Strong leaders, like Indonesia’s Suharto, former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed, and Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, held the group together.",
        "强力领导人，如印尼的苏哈托、马来西亚前总理马哈蒂尔、新加坡国父李光耀，让这一组织保持团结。"
    ],
    [
        "The law, which establishes a largely majoritarian system based on single-member districts, with only 17 of the parliament’s 140 seats to be elected according to national party lists, was approved by Jordan’s Senate just hours before Egypt’s independent election commission declared Morsi the winner.",
        "该法建立了一项以单一成员选区为基础的绝对多数制度，在140个议员席位中，只有17个根据国家党派名单选出。 约旦参议院在埃及独立选举委员会宣布穆尔西胜出之前批准了这项法律。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Muslim world, there is a significant, important flow of pornography.",
        "在穆斯林世界，色情产品的销售数量非常可观。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is to counter malignant ideas with enlightened thinking, open minds, and an attitude of tolerance and acceptance.",
        "首先是启蒙思想、开放思维和兼容并包的态度制衡邪恶思想。"
    ],
    [
        "It is liberal, and despises any sort of fanaticism, whether orthodox or nationalist.",
        "它属于自由派，而且厌恶任何形式的激进主义，无论是正统派的还是民族主义派。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet one is obvious: States possess common interests that should trump national priorities.",
        "但有一点是显而易见的，国家（state）具有超越民族重点问题（national priority）的共同利益。"
    ],
    [
        "China, for example, has banned shark-fin soup, a traditional delicacy, at official government dinners and functions – a move that contributed to a 30% drop in shark-fin sales from last December to April.",
        "比如中国就已禁止消费鱼翅汤，这是当地官方政府晚宴和典礼上的一种传统美食——此举从去年12月到今年4月已导致鱼翅销量下降30%。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Putin is nowhere near securing a return to the Soviet Union’s imperial days in the Middle East – not least because Russia’s capacity to sustain a military operation beyond its borders remains severely limited.",
        "可以肯定，普京基本不可能再恢复苏联帝国在中东地区的荣光——不仅因为俄罗斯维持其境外军事行动的能力依然极为有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, to American eyes, other contentious issues are now emerging in relations with China.",
        "然而，在美国人眼里，与中国的关系中正出现其它一些新的争议。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in large part – and with a few exceptions in Central and Eastern Europe – emerging-market economies improved their fiscal performance by reducing overall deficits, running large primary surpluses, lowering their stock of public debt-to-GDP ratios, and reducing the currency and maturity mismatches in their public debt.",
        "然而，除了中、东欧的几个例外，大多数新兴市场经济体的财政表现都有所改善 —— 总体赤字下降，收支保有很大的基本盈余（刨去债务利息支出后的盈余），公债的 GDP 占比降低，公债中的货币错配和期限错配现象也有所缓解。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether or not he was solely to blame, a true opportunity for historical compromise was missed at Camp David in August 2000, and he himself acknowledged it a year later.",
        "不管是不是要由他承担全部责任，但2000年8月错过了戴维营历史和解的真正机会却是无可辩驳的事实，一年后连他自己也承认了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Back in 1997-1998, during the Asian crisis, the G-7 flatly rejected Japan’s proposal for an Asian Monetary Fund.",
        "1997—1998年亚洲金融危机期间，G7断然拒绝了日本成立亚洲货币基金的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "A Big Chance for Small Farmers",
        "小农迎来大机遇"
    ],
    [
        "Her coalition was divided on the issue, and her party lost state elections.",
        "她的政治盟友在这个问题上发生了分裂，自己所在的政党也输掉了州选举。"
    ],
    [
        "To achieve the best outcome, the two global compacts will need to be pursued in a coordinated fashion, and treated as two parts of a single framework for governing migration.",
        "要实现最优结果，两大全球契约需要合作推进，并作为治理移民的单一框架的两个部分。 2017年，政府将开始谈判这一未来框架的细节。"
    ],
    [
        "And no wonder that voters in almost two-thirds of eurozone countries have turned out the incumbents in their most recent elections.",
        "毫无疑问，近三分之二欧元区国家的选民在最近的选举中抛弃了现任政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond retail savers, banks that are holding cash in excess of required reserves have no choice but to accept the negative interest rates that central banks impose; indeed, they could not hold, manage, and transfer those excess reserves if they were held as cash, rather than in a negative-yielding account with the central bank.",
        "除了零售储户，持有多于准备金要求的现金的银行别无选择，只能接受央行制定的负利率； 事实上，如果这些超额准备金是以现金方式持有而非存放在负收益率的央行账户中，银行就无法持有、管理和转移这些超额准备金。"
    ],
    [
        "By any sensible measure, Corzine’s violation of the law was more serious than that of Tobias.",
        "根据任何衡量标准，科尔金的违法都要比脱拜尔斯的要更为严重。"
    ],
    [
        "In western Ukraine, they remain the incarnation of a heroic myth.",
        "在西乌克兰，他们仍是英雄史诗的化身。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet GDP growth slowed considerably – from an annual average of 10.2% in 2002-2011 – suggesting that China may be moving closer to a medium-to-low-speed growth path.",
        "但GDP增长较2002—2011年间的年平均水平10. 2%大幅放缓，表明中国也许更接近于中低速增长路径。"
    ],
    [
        "The old Soviet mindset persists: they up there will take their own decisions regardless of us down below.",
        "陈旧的苏维埃式的思维方式仍十分顽固：反正他们 上面的人在 决策时不会考虑 我们下面的人 。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Nixon did fire the first independent prosecutor, Archibald Cox, in the infamous “Saturday Night Massacre,” another was installed and Nixon ultimately resigned rather than face impeachment by the House of Representatives and conviction by the Senate.",
        "诚然，尼克松在臭名昭著的“周末夜晚大屠杀”中炒了第一任独立检察官阿奇巴尔德·考克斯（Archibald Cox）的鱿鱼，但第二任检察官再接再厉，尼克松也最终辞职而不愿面对众议院的弹劾和参议院的确认。"
    ],
    [
        "By making a solemn resolution and telling our family and close friends about it, we tilt the scales against succumbing to temptation.",
        "通过制定一份严格的规划，并将其在亲朋好友中宣扬开来，我们不断地在抵制诱惑的天平上加码。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in the US, the election of President Donald Trump heralded the age of “alternative facts” and “governance by tweet,” overseen by an erratic and ignorant leader who is clearly in over his head.",
        "而在美国，总统特朗普的当选预示着“另类事实”和“推特治国”时代的到来，领导这个国家的将是一个反覆而无知的、显然是心智失常的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, some states harbor terrorists in order to attack their enemies or because they are too weak to control powerful groups.",
        "今天，有些国家为攻击对手而庇护恐怖分子，也可能因为他们国力太弱，无法控制实力强大的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "The answers to that question might well help us forecast the future outlook much more accurately.",
        "这一问题的回答可能有助于我们更加正确地预测未来前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Calm economic waters had given the ECB and Trichet a honeymoon until last fall.",
        "直到去年秋天之前都波澜不兴的平静经济环境给了ECB和特里谢一段蜜月期。"
    ],
    [
        "She was wrong: the complexity of modern science does not allow anyone, least of all bureaucrats, to predict where innovation will emerge.",
        "”她错了：现代科学的复杂性不允许任何人，更不允许官僚们对科学创新将会出现的领域进行预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, one could argue that easy money itself has contributed to the unexpectedly strong disinflationary forces seen in recent years.",
        "此外，可以说宽松货币本身造成了近几年所发生的意料外的强烈通缩力量。"
    ],
    [
        "And we know how to do that: accommodative monetary policy; fiscal adjustment in all advanced economies that includes concrete and realistic plans to reduce debt over the medium term, but does not undercut short-term growth; completing the banking-sector cleanup; and reforms to boost productivity and growth potential.",
        "对所有发达经济体的财政调整（包括具体和现实的计划在内）其目的是在不影响短期增长的前提下减少中期债务； 完成对银行部门的清理；"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the BoE has made the same mistake as the average household: it underestimated the impact of inflation and will now be catching up by raising interest rates in a pro-cyclical manner.",
        "此外，英格兰银行和普通家庭犯了同样的错误：它低估了通货膨胀的影响，现在，它将面临顺周期升息的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The main alternative tradition takes the opposite tack, arguing that other countries’ domestic affairs are what matter most, whether for reasons of morality and principle, or because it is believed that how a government behaves at home affects how it acts abroad.",
        "主要的替代性传统则恰恰相反，主张最为重要的是其他国家的内政，这或者是出于道德和原则的考虑，或者是他们相信政府的国内行为影响其在国外的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "But opposition to impunity was probably not even the real motivation driving Uribe and other No campaign leaders.",
        "但对豁免的反对也许连乌里维和其他反对阵营领导人的真正动机都不是。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, that choice was not settled prematurely and peremptorily: the process that will lead to a final decision was merely allowed to start with the opening of negotiations.",
        "所幸的是，这一选择并未过早地作出，而且不容更改，只不过是开启谈判，从而开始形成最终决定的进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the program’s problems are portrayed in the press as “the UN’s fault.",
        "然而，该计划的问题却被新闻界扭曲为“联合国的错。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.",
        "而在饥饿的狮群咬死和分食了一个小男孩后，巴西也发起了一场禁止马戏团使用野生动物的运动。"
    ],
    [
        "The US cannot continue with the failed policies of the past half-century.",
        "美国不能再继续过去半个世纪失败的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The public sector dominates investment, and the bulk of public investment is financed by foreign grants.",
        "公共部门主导了投资，而大部分公共投资通过外国援助筹资。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all madrassas are hotbeds of terrorist training.",
        "不是所有的宗教学校都是恐怖分子训练的温床。"
    ],
    [
        "The important question is how this will affect democracy.",
        "重要的问题在于这将如何影响民主。"
    ],
    [
        "They must take the right steps to ensure that it does.",
        "他们必须采取正确的措施保证这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if ASEAN can execute the vision outlined in the AEC plan, it could exceed the sum of its parts.",
        "但是，如果东盟能够执行AEC计划中所列出的愿景，就能形成整体大于部分之和的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Nuclear powers must show leadership, by restraining themselves and by curtailing further departures from the NPT's international restraints.",
        "核大国们必须通过自我克制和遏制对NPT的国际限制机制的进一步背离来显示领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing that their “natural patriotism is pure and noble,” he knew that they could not be “bought off.”",
        "”他意识到巴勒斯坦人“纯粹而高贵的天生的爱国主义”，明白他们不可能被“收买”。"
    ],
    [
        "We now stand at the threshold of a new phase of European cooperation.",
        "现在我们正站在新一阶段欧洲合作的门槛上。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab world also has the highest population growth rate in the world, with almost 40% of its population now below the age of 15.",
        "与此同时，阿拉伯世界还拥有全世界最高的人口增长率，其总人口中几乎40%都是15岁以下的青少年。"
    ],
    [
        "All we can say is that the money spent to reduce violence might be better targeted.",
        "我们只能说减少暴力的资金可能有更好的用途。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the country’s new leaders will have to initiate unpopular measures aimed at revitalizing the ailing economy.",
        "其次，埃及新领导人将必须采取不受欢迎的旨在重振萎靡经济的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The Strange Death of Turkish Secularism",
        "土耳其世俗主义的离奇死亡"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last two or three decades, technological change and increased scale have led to much greater productivity and much higher incomes for those at the top of society’s income distribution.",
        "在过去的二三十年中，技术变迁和不断增加的市场规模增加了生产力的同时，社会顶尖人才的收入也因此大大增加。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the total eurozone trade surplus is now massive.",
        "结果是欧元区总贸易盈余非常庞大。"
    ],
    [
        "Prices rose at an explosive annual rate of more than 1,000% in 1989, before inflation was finally brought under control.",
        "1989年，物价上涨年率暴增至1,000%，此后通胀终于受到控制。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the EU would call the shots – and doubtless be tough with the UK.",
        "总之，主导权在欧盟手里——而且肯定会处处为难英国。"
    ],
    [
        "The US-Soviet rivalry of the Cold War era was special in that relations between those two countries shaped the fate of the world until the USSR imploded.",
        "冷战期间的美苏敌对关系则影响了整个世界的命运，直到苏联解体为止。"
    ],
    [
        "For the 30 years since the beginning of China’s economic reforms, Chinese industry has achieved impressive efficiency gains by adopting new technologies and realizing economies of scale, leading to a huge expansion in locally made products suitable for export.",
        "自从中国开始经济改革的30年来，中国的工业已经通过吸收新技术和实现规模经济而大大提高了效率，从而使越来越多国产的产品适合用来出口。"
    ],
    [
        "BOSTON – “What used to be heresy is now endorsed as orthodox,” John Maynard Keynes remarked in 1944, after helping to convince world leaders that the newly established International Monetary Fund should allow the regulation of international financial flows to remain a core right of member states.",
        "波士顿—“过去的异端，现在被认为是正统了，”1944年凯恩斯在帮助说服世界领导人新成立的IMF应该将国际金融流监管视为成员国核心权利后评论说。"
    ],
    [
        "There are no easy solutions, of course, and all efforts to address the problem will be complicated by continuing rapid growth of the world’s human population.",
        "当然不存在简单的解决办法，世界人口的快速增长会令一切解决问题的努力变得复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Suppose it were 1939, and states were debating whether the US should invent the bomb.",
        "假设现在是1939年，世界各国正在为美国是否应当发明核弹进行辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "If left unaddressed, the dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases could jeopardize Africa’s economic potential.",
        "如果放任问题发展，传染性和非传染性疾病的双重压力可能压垮非洲的经济潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse yet, many of the more expensive colleges – especially private, for-profit institutions – have low graduation rates.",
        "更糟的是，很多学费更贵的大学，特别是以盈利为目的的私立大学——呈现低毕业率特征。"
    ],
    [
        "With 60 million children still out of school, the international community should not simply postpone the same universal-education target until 2030.",
        "6,000万儿童仍然上不了学，因此国际社会不能简单地暂停2030年全民教育目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps it is not surprising that Italians admire France’s Fifth Republic.",
        "也许意大利仰慕法国第五共和国并不令人奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "In insisting that its main trade partners cut their spending, Merkel is cutting Germany off from the main sources of its own growth.",
        "坚持让本国主要贸易伙伴削减支出的默克尔其实就是在切断德国的主要增长源头。"
    ],
    [
        "The Breakthrough Institute recently highlighted on its blog some startling – and important – research findings along these lines, published in August in The Journal of Physics by energy economist Harry Saunders and four colleagues from the US Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.",
        "突破研究所最近在博客上公布了重要而又惊人的相关研究成果，这篇论文发表在8月份的《物理学杂志》上，作者是能源经济学家哈里·桑德斯和美国能源部桑迪亚国家实验室的四名同行。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders in developed and developing countries alike must deepen their commitment to economic reform and integration.",
        "发达国家和发展中国家领导人必须深化对经济改革和一体化的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, lower energy and commodity prices are likely to dampen inflationary pressure.",
        "特别是，能源和大宗商品价格下跌可能消除通胀压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The transparency and consistency of official figures lags well behind the authorities’ hyped promises about government reform, streamlining of the bureaucracy, and the retreat of the Party apparatus.",
        "中国官方数据的透明度和连续性，远远滞后于中国政府对改革政府、简化官僚机构以及收缩中国共产党政党机构所作的夸大的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, despite large losses on their holdings in 2007-2008, top bankers fared significantly better than most of their shareholders did in 2000-2008.",
        "然而，尽管顶级银行家们所持的股份在2007年与2008年之间蒙受了巨大的损失，但却依然比其他大部分股东要好过得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, they will have to manage the high fiscal costs of aging while they are still relatively poor, which will create new social pressures, which are already apparent in the “old” Asian countries.",
        "更糟糕的是，它们必须在仍处于相对较穷水平时就面临高昂的老龄化财政成本，这将造成新的社会压力，在“老”亚洲国家中已经显现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Changing workplace culture will demand similarly strong leadership.",
        "改变职场文化需要类似的强有力的领导。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the ECB has the authority to set the eurozone-wide inflation target, and could set it higher for two or three years, without any treaty violation.",
        "此外，欧洲央行有设定泛欧元区通胀目标的权力，可以在两三年内将其设在较高水平而不违反条约。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumers need to know that the food they eat, the cars they drive, and the medicines they take are safe.",
        "消费者需要知道他们吃的食物、开的汽车和服用的药品是安全的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the split between the EU and national governments is a false one.",
        "但割裂欧盟和国家政府是错误的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "The survival of Greece still leaves the future of the euro in question.",
        "就算解决了希腊问题，欧元的未来还是一个大问号。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Japanese can live with that.",
        "多数日本人可以容忍。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, never discusses the program or appropriates money for it.",
        "以色列议会克奈赛从未讨论过核计划或就拨款问题进行过审议。"
    ],
    [
        "Like dumping, that, together with explicit industrial subsidies, is an “unfair” policy that nonetheless actually helps American consumers.",
        "但就像倾销或者明目张胆的工业补贴一样，这是一种“不公平”但实际上却有利于美国消费者的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Uneven Growth Challenge",
        "欧洲不均衡发展的挑战"
    ],
    [
        "Since the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, many initiatives aimed at boosting macroeconomic cooperation have been undertaken.",
        "自2008年爆发全球金融危机后，各方都推出了许多旨在提升宏观经济合作的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "To spur such action, the public sector should offer funds or guarantees, which, though risky, could offer huge benefits.",
        "要刺激这方面的行动，公共部门应该提供资金或担保——尽管风险高，但能带来巨额回报。"
    ],
    [
        "Commercialize the SDR",
        "特别提款权的商业化"
    ],
    [
        "The first option should be deterrence of further aggression through diplomacy.",
        "首要选择是通过外交手段遏制进一步挑衅。"
    ],
    [
        "Western investors, including Wall Street banks and hedge funds, now view direct investments in land as a safe haven in an otherwise turbulent financial climate.",
        "而包括华尔街银行和对冲基金在内的西方投资者则把对土地的直接投资视为当前动荡金融环境中的避险天堂。"
    ],
    [
        "The basis of this mood is hardly self-evident, as the country is better off economically than it was a half-dozen years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the 2007-2008 economic crisis.",
        "这一情绪背后的基础并不显而易见，因为美国经济比五六年前2007—2008年经济危机刚刚过去时情况要好。"
    ],
    [
        "Win-win policies – defined as distribution mechanisms that produce growth and reduce inequality simultaneously – are the easiest to evaluate, and the most advantageous to adopt.",
        "双赢政策——能够同时产生增长和减少不平等的分配机制——是最容易评估且最采用之后有好处的。"
    ],
    [
        "A weak interim national government – or a United Nations or foreign occupying administration – should not attempt to implement policies such as privatizing national resources when doing so might incite political resistance.",
        "一个软弱的过渡时期政府—或外来占领方的权力机构—不应该试图实施诸如国家资源私有化这样的政策，尤其在这样做可能引发政治对抗的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "There is.",
        "方法是有的。"
    ],
    [
        "Five years ago, she did not exude the natural authority that she now possesses.",
        "五年前，她还不像现在这样散发出自然而然的权威感。"
    ],
    [
        "No one can be tested without his or her consent.",
        "比如没有人可以在不知情的情况下接受基因测试；"
    ],
    [
        "However, the mechanisms we used to confirm that assumption were conveniently lax.",
        "但我们落实上述假设的制度非常不严格。"
    ],
    [
        "The reaction of the Chinese authorities to the Tibetan protests evokes echoes of the totalitarian practices that many of us remember from the days before communism in Central and Eastern Europe collapsed in 1989: harsh censorship of the domestic media, blackouts of reporting by foreign media from China, refusal of visas to foreign journalists, and blaming the unrest on the “Dalai Lama’s conspiratorial clique” and other unspecified dark forces supposedly manipulated from abroad.",
        "中国当局对西藏抗议的反应让我们想起了1989年共产主义在中欧和东欧垮台之前的专制主义做法，也就是对国内媒体严厉审查，关闭外国媒体从中国的报导，拒绝向外国记者发放签证并且把动乱指责在“达赖喇嘛集团”和其他被指称受到外国操纵的没有具名的黑暗实力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Lisbon Treaty was the compromise agreed by EU leaders in the aftermath of the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty in popular referendums in France and the Netherlands in 2005.",
        "《里斯本条约》是欧盟领导人在检讨了2005年在法国和荷兰公投中遭遇滑铁卢的《欧盟宪法条约》之后的妥协产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that all of the main oil producers are unequivocally committed to maximizing production, regardless of the impact prices, oil will continue to trade just like any other commodity (for example, iron ore) that is in oversupply in a competitive market.",
        "如今，所有主要生产国都明确地要致力于产量最大化而不管石油价格如何，因此石油将继续和其他处于竞争市场中供给过剩状态的大宗商品（如铁矿石）一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Thaksin’s detractors call his rural strategy (which his proxy successors have followed) cynical vote buying.",
        "他信的批评者将其农村策略（他信的代理继任者遵循了这一策略）称为伪善的选票收买。"
    ],
    [
        "Such policies also have larger negative effects on migration, because these countries are not the most attractive destinations to begin with.",
        "这些政策也对移民造成了更大的消极效应，因为这些国家原本就不是很有吸引力的目的国。"
    ],
    [
        "There has to be a way to encourage doctors to contribute to their country’s health-care system, while offering them an opportunity to achieve their personal and professional goals.",
        "必须找到办法鼓励医生为祖国医疗体系做出贡献，同时为他们提供实现个人和职业目标的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "And, for now, the global balance is tipping toward restraint.",
        "而如今，全球平衡正在导向克制。"
    ],
    [
        "To make of their country a pariah is a political, strategic, and moral failure for the leaders of Israel.",
        "将自己的国家变成国际社会的弃儿是以色列领导人在政治，战略和道义上的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "The three developments began on December 12 in the United States, where the Federal Reserve, led by Ben Bernanke, announced that it will go much further than doubling (to $1 trillion) the volume of market securities that it intends to buy in 2013 in order to stimulate the economy.",
        "这三项进展始于12月12日的美国，由伯南克领导的美联储宣布将采取比2013年拟定市场证券采购量翻番更有力的措施来刺激经济。 美联储还明确表示只要通胀率控制在2."
    ],
    [
        "“All the characters are negative,” Nihalani reportedly said.",
        "“所有的人物都是负面的，”据信尼哈拉尼如是说。"
    ],
    [
        "In two separate incidents in July, security forces opened fire on supporters of the Brotherhood as they peacefully protested against Morsi’s ouster and arrest, killing almost 200 people.",
        "7月发生了两起安全部队向和平抗议推翻并逮捕穆尔西的兄弟会支持者开火的独立事件，导致近200人丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, value-added includes profits, and to this extent the incentive for companies to manipulate transfer prices may reappear.",
        "当然，增加值中包括利润，在这一程度上，公司操纵交易价格的动机可能还会出现。"
    ],
    [
        "When Barientos and his family spill out onto the beach to celebrate New Year’s Eve with the whole neighborhood, one of the last things he will think about is his age.",
        "当巴兰托斯和家人涌向海滩与邻居们共庆新年前夜之际，他根本不会想到自己有多大。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, China’s financial system is fragile, and its economic structure rigid.",
        "其二，中国的金融系统很脆弱，且其经济为刚性结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, China’s central bank still controls interest rates by enforcing a roughly three-percentage-point spread between deposit rates and lending rates.",
        "其二，中国中央银行规定的存款和贷款利率依然相差3个点左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Greece has become a special case, one that requires focused and specific treatment, most probably involving another round of public-debt forgiveness.",
        "不幸的是，希腊已经成为一个特例，需要特别的关注和对待，很有可能需要另一轮的公债减免。"
    ],
    [
        "The reaction in some quarters followed similar lines.",
        "一些地区对此事的反应也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "It looks like a mixed result.",
        "结果看起来喜忧参半。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not a trivial question.",
        "这绝不是一个简单的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For the past 18 months or so, the UK has had Europe’s fastest-growing economy, and at times has even outpaced the United States.",
        "在过去约18个月以来，英国的经济增速位列欧洲第一，甚至不时超越美国。"
    ],
    [
        "To overcome these obstacles, a eurozone debt-mutualization scheme must satisfy three crucial requirements.",
        "为了克服这些障碍，必须有满足三大关键要求的欧元区债务共同化机制。"
    ],
    [
        "She also recognized that any privileged access to EU markets would require budget contributions, as in the case of Norway and Switzerland.",
        "她还认可了任何欧洲市场准入特权都需要英国贡献欧盟预算，就像挪威和瑞士一样。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The United States, the European Union, and Western-led institutions such as the World Bank repeatedly ask why the Middle East can’t govern itself.",
        "纽约——美国、欧盟和世界银行等西方主导的机构反复询问中东无法实现自治的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "It is such an absurd proposition – Italy has never defaulted, though it did, under Mussolini, try to go its “own way,” with disastrous results – that one wonders whether Grillo is capable of distinguishing between policy and comedy.",
        "这样的办法实在太过荒谬——意大利从未违约，尽管在墨索里尼时期它确实曾经试图“自说自话”，结果导致了灾难性后果——让人不禁怀疑格里洛是否能够分清政策和滑稽戏。"
    ],
    [
        "They are right: the UN can deliver when it comes to national security, human security, and human dignity.",
        "他们是正确的：在国家安全、人类安全和人道尊严问题上，联合国可以起到作用。"
    ],
    [
        "It needs to phase out the internal combustion engine for almost all new passenger vehicles by around 2030, shifting to vehicles powered by electricity.",
        "世界必须在2030年左右彻底淘汰使用内燃机的新造乘用车，采用电动汽车。"
    ],
    [
        "A more recent indication that inflation targeting has not caused the disinflation seen since the 1990s is the unsuccessful effort by a growing number of central banks to reflate their economies.",
        "通胀目标并没有引起20世纪90年代以来出现反通胀现象的更加晚近的指标是越来越多的央行让经济再通胀（reflate）的努力以失败告终。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically squeezed between its two giant neighbors, China and Japan, South Korea had long been perceived as an underdog with a fuzzy cultural identity.",
        "历史上一直处于中国和日本这两大邻国的夹缝之中，韩国长期以来被外界视为文化特征模糊的弱国。"
    ],
    [
        "Joblessness is the main cause of poverty.",
        "失业是贫困的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Only if voters’ economic insecurity is diminished is there any hope for active policies to assimilate or integrate refugees, whose numbers Western leaders cannot directly control.",
        "只有选民的经济不安全性得到遏制，才有希望采取积极政策吸收或融合难民。 难民的数量不是西方领导人能够直接控制的。"
    ],
    [
        "This would require intense debate and soul-searching, particularly in Germany, which, as the EU’s largest and best-rated economy, has been thrust into the position of deciding the future of Europe.",
        "这会导致激烈的争论和深思，特别是作为欧盟中规模最大、评级最高的经济体德国，它肩负着决定欧洲未来的重任。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, manufacturing employment and output, as a share of the total, began to decline last year.",
        "此外，制造业就业和产出占总体的比重在去年开始下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Euro skeptics always make this argument.",
        "欧元怀疑派人士总是这样说。"
    ],
    [
        "His (suspended) death sentence should help to deter other officials from choosing the same path.",
        "他的死缓判罚应该有助于威慑其他官员效而仿之。"
    ],
    [
        "I invite Bill Gates to visit one or more Millennium Village sites on an upcoming trip to Africa to see first hand why the approach is of such practical interest across the continent.",
        "我邀请比尔·盖茨在即将到来的非洲之行中访问一个或几个千年村站点，现场看一看为何这一方法对整个非洲大陆具有如此重大的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "It is unfair to dismiss concerns about globalization as unfounded.",
        "说全球化担忧毫无依据是不公平的。"
    ],
    [
        "But persuading policymakers and politicians of GDP’s limitations is no easy feat.",
        "但说服决策者和政客接受GDP的局限决非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, countries left out of European integration – such as Turkey – now seem pleased to have missed the boat, as they attempt to chart their own way forward (or, it often seems, backward) without external interests or responsibilities constraining their behavior.",
        "此外，未参与欧洲一体化的国家（如土耳其）现在似乎很高兴自己没有加入，这样它就可以在不考虑外部利益或不承担外部责任的情况下选择自己前进（或者后退）的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the contagion went well beyond the torturers’ limited circle.",
        "因此，这股歪风涉及的范围远远超出刑讯人员的小圈子。"
    ],
    [
        "Indian poverty reduction has been significant, but not substantial.",
        "印度的贫困状况的确有了明显下降，但还没达到大规模下降的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "The view that Li will tolerate slower growth only above a particular threshold is based on the belief that GDP growth below 8% would hurt economic development more than it helped, and lead to social instability.",
        "李克强仅容忍经济在一定程度上放缓是因为GDP增长低于8%不仅无助于完成结构改革，还有可能导致社会动荡并损害中国经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Its weaknesses today mainly reflect flawed policies and institutional arrangements.",
        "它现在的弱点主要都反映了其有缺陷的政策和制度安排。"
    ],
    [
        "The food issue emerged for the first time as a major theme at the July 2009 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, as a response to a commodity boom that was beginning to falter, but that has since reemerged with the force of a hurricane.",
        "粮食问题第一次成为主要议题是在2009年7月的意大利拉奎拉峰会，当时是为了应对已现破灭之兆的大宗商品泡沫，但这个泡沫后来又以雷霆万钧之势卷土重来。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is just the beginning.",
        "但它仅仅是个开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether “democracy” will ensue is much more dubious.",
        "接着能否实现“民主”也还是未知之数。"
    ],
    [
        "That is because both countries’ latest rush to affirm their sovereignty over the islands – called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese – reflects a sense of insecurity and a perception that the other side is taking an aggressive stand, which means that the issue is unlikely to be resolved in the foreseeable future.",
        "这是因为两国近期争相对这些岛屿——日本称尖阁列岛而中国称为钓鱼岛——宣示主权的行为都反映出一种缺乏安全感的心态以及认定对方正在采取侵略性立场的观念，而这意味着该事件在可见的未来都将难以得到解决。"
    ],
    [
        "America, and the world, will be paying to repair it for decades to come.",
        "美国以及全世界都会在未来几十年中付出代价来修复这些破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "My general sense, however, is that both views are extreme.",
        "）但是，我的总体感觉是，两种观点都有走极端的嫌疑。"
    ],
    [
        "But what did they think Europe stands for?",
        "但它们心中的欧洲是怎样的？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, because deforestation creates favorable conditions for mosquitos by producing ditches and puddles, which are more likely to pool less acidic water that is conducive to mosquito larvae development, countries with elevated forest loss tend to have higher rates of malaria.",
        "比如，森林采伐所形成的沟渠和水洼有更大的可能汇聚适合孑孓发育的低酸性水，从而给蚊虫创造了有利条件，因此，森林流失加速的国家往往会伴随疟疾发病率上升。"
    ],
    [
        "By participating actively in politics, basing their electoral choices on rational self-interest, and developing the sense of moderation needed to resist dictatorship, the middle class promotes democratic progress.",
        "通过积极参政、在理性自利的基础上进行投票以及培养抵制独裁所需的节制感，中产阶级极大地推动了民主进程。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Is the cryptocurrency Bitcoin the biggest bubble in the world today, or a great investment bet on the cutting edge of new-age financial technology?",
        "坎布里奇—加密货币比特币是当今世上最大的泡沫，还是押注于尖端新金融技术的伟达投资？"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, it is America, Saudi Arabia’s longtime protector, which made Shia empowerment possible by overthrowing Saddam Hussein and bringing Shiite parties to power in Iraq.",
        "具有讽刺意味的是，正是沙特的长期保护者美国通过推翻萨达姆并让什叶派政党在伊拉克掌权从而让什叶派当政成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, in difficult situations, people often turn to what is familiar.",
        "毕竟，面对困难人们往往做出熟悉的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called Sex Buyer Law, criminalizing the purchase, though not the sale, of sexual services has been implemented in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and Northern Ireland.",
        "所谓的买春法规定购买性服务为犯罪（但出卖性服务非罪），瑞典、挪威、冰岛和北爱尔兰都已经实施了该法。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, the European System of Central Banks could serve as a model.",
        "在这里，“欧洲中央银行体系”可以作为一个范例。"
    ],
    [
        "Centralized financial supervision would avoid the need for banks to duplicate reports to different authorities, allow financial rules and supervisory practices to be harmonized, and eliminate distortions to competition.",
        "集中化的金融监管可以避免银行向不同的监管机构报告，使得金融法规和监管操作协调化，并消除扭曲竞争的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Immediately after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, China unveiled a ¥4 trillion ($650 billion) stimulus package.",
        "就在2008年9月雷曼兄弟倒闭后，中国出台了四万亿人民币（合6500亿美元）的经济刺激计划。"
    ],
    [
        "That means that Asia is far more exposed to an offshore banking crisis today than it was in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ collapse in 2008, which led to a near-meltdown of the US banking system.",
        "这意味着与2008年几乎让美国银行系统陷入万劫不复的雷曼兄弟倒闭事件相比，眼下的危机给亚洲带来的风险要大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Is rising financial liquidity really a similar force?",
        "但是金融流动性的上升真的是一种类似的力量吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Issing admits that he was among those who believed that “starting monetary union without having established a political union was putting the cart before the horse.”",
        "伊兴承认，他也相信，“在没有建立政治联盟之前就建构一个货币联盟，其实是一种本末倒置。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Fitful Financial Integration",
        "欧洲的间歇性金融一体化"
    ],
    [
        "Brown, who became prime minister in 2007, let spending and borrowing rip, so that when the global crash hit Britain was already suffering from a structural fiscal deficit and a credit bubble.",
        "布朗在2007年任首相之后大肆花费举债，以致在金融危机冲击英伦三岛之前整个国家就已经陷入了结构性财政赤字以及信贷泡沫之中。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, because biology-based arguments about gender difference have historically been used to justify women’s subjugation, women have been reluctant to concede any innate difference, lest it be used against them.",
        "毕竟，由于有关性别差异的生物依据在过去一直被用来解释女性的从属地位，女性也因此不愿承认任何先天的差异，唯恐这会被当成对她们不利的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most incongruous presence was Gen. Victor Stanculescu, a favorite of the Ceausescu’s who only days before had reportedly organized their evacuation from the rooftop of the Central Committee.",
        "也许最不协调的是将军 维克托·斯滕库列斯库，他是齐奥塞斯库最宠信的人物，就在几天前，他还被报导组织了从中央委员会楼顶的撤退活动。"
    ],
    [
        "So, to arrive at a valuation for a country’s stock market, we need to forecast the growth rate of earnings and dividends for an interval considerably longer than a year.",
        "因此，要想得到一国股市的估值，我们需要预测远远长于一年的时期的增盈利和红利长率。"
    ],
    [
        "With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, the disintegration of Iraq’s and Syria’s borders, and increasing Chinese assertiveness in the South and East China Seas, the post-Cold War era appears to have ended in 2014.",
        "伊拉克和叙利亚分崩离析； 中国在南海和东海日益嚣张——考虑到这些发面，后冷战时代似乎已经在2014年结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "That should be the goal for which all of the G7 countries aim.",
        "这应该成为G7所有国家的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Do we live in a world that was created by a god who is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all good?",
        "普林斯顿——我们是生活在一个由无所不能，无所不知和完美无缺的上帝创造的世界里吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Much has become clear.",
        "许多事情已看得很清楚了。"
    ],
    [
        "Islamists in Iran and Egypt have a strong ideological connection.",
        "伊朗和埃及的伊斯兰教徒在意识形态领域一直联系密切。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, French banks charge at least 5-6% interest on the loans that they grant to African governments to finance their budget deficits.",
        "与此同时，法国银行对其贷向非洲政府用于预算赤字融资的贷款课以至少5—6%的利率。 商业贷款利率高达18%，这导致法郎区私人部门信用量降至GDP的12."
    ],
    [
        "These include not only the rapidly growing formerly communist countries to the east, Poland and the Czech Republic, but also Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, and Switzerland, upon which Germans traditionally looked down.",
        "这不仅包括远至东边的迅速发展的前共产主义国家波兰和捷克共和国，还包括了丹麦、荷兰、奥地利、瑞士这些德国向来轻视的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "There are smarter ways to reduce emissions than just raising costs for industry and consumers.",
        "有明智的方法来减少排放而不是仅仅增加企业和消费者的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, credit growth on both sides of the Atlantic will be restrained, as many financial institutions in the US and Europe maintain a risk-averse stance toward lending.",
        "此外由于金融机构更倾向于规避风险，所以欧美两地的信贷增长将十分有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Keshavjee and a group of TB scientists, clinicians, and advocates from governmental and nongovernmental organizations, hospitals, and universities set themselves the goal of bringing TB’s death toll to zero – and outlined the measures needed to achieve it.",
        "Keshavjee和一群研究结核病的科学家、医生及来自政府和非政府组织、医院和大学的倡导者为自己制定的目标是将结核病死亡率降为零——并明确提出了实现这一目标需要采取哪些举措。"
    ],
    [
        "The Age of Financial Repression",
        "金融抑制时代"
    ],
    [
        "Excessive law-making has pushed up prices and pushed out investors, not only from refining and petrochemicals, but from all energy-intensive sectors, including aluminum, steel, and cement.",
        "过度立法推高了价格，也挤出了投资者，不但炼油和石化部门是如此，所有能源密集型部门都是如此，包括铝业、钢铁业和水泥业。"
    ],
    [
        "If we want to achieve the targets established by the Global Goals for maternal health, child health, and infectious disease, we will have to double R&D funding by 2020.",
        "要想实现全球目标机构制定的孕产妇保健、儿童保健和传染病控制政策，2020年的研发经费必须是现在的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Unanswered questions abound.",
        "有待回答的问题很多。"
    ],
    [
        "The demise of compromise and collegiality in domestic politics has raised new challenges in America’s interaction with others as well.",
        "美国国内政治中那种的妥协和共赢的遗产也对美国与别国的互动提出了新的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "A mechanism for dealing in an orderly way with sovereign bankruptcy would be a major contribution to global governance, and to solving a longstanding problem of sovereign-debt markets.",
        "如能建立一套有序处理国家破产的机制，将是对全球治理领域的一大贡献，同是也可以解决主权债市场的一大顽疾。"
    ],
    [
        "In the coming weeks and months, this momentum will continue to build, as other countries – including, it is expected, major emerging economies like Brazil, China, and India – submit their commitments as well.",
        "在未来几周和几个月中，进展还将继续获得动力，其他国家——预计将包括巴西、中国和印度等主要新兴经济体——也将提交它们的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time in Ukraine’s post-Soviet history, it has a government that is willing and able to carry out real reform.",
        "在苏联解体之后，乌克兰首次建立了一个有意愿且有能力推动真正改革的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "There are, no doubt, other dimensions to the productivity puzzle.",
        "毫无疑问，生产力难题还存在着其他方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Good riddance, they might say, once the divorce finally comes through; now the true Europeans can finally unite in peace.",
        "太好了，他们可能会说，一旦这次真的离婚，真正的欧洲人终于可以和平地结成联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Some attribute relatively slow growth to demographic factors, which have reduced the labor force, as well as to weak productivity levels, which have been low.",
        "一些人将相对较慢的增长归因于人口因素，人口因素导致劳动力减少和已然低迷的生产率水平进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "From the kingdom’s uniqueness now arises a set of economic and social questions that are of pressing interest for the entire world.",
        "而它的独特性则引出了一系列全世界都感兴趣的经济和社会课题。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the UK could improve its energy security dramatically, because it has enough gas reserves to cover roughly the entirety of its gas consumption for a half-century or more.",
        "但英国可以极大地改善其能源安全，因为它所拥有的天然气储备足以覆盖半个多世纪的天然气消费总量。"
    ],
    [
        "One frequently hears the assertion that democracies’ electoral cycles are poorly suited to implementing long-term, forward-looking policies.",
        "很多人都听说过这样的观点：民主国家的选举周期与长期的前瞻性政策的实施格格不入。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece, the first stop in the European Union for refugees from the Middle East, has started to close some refugee camps, after granting asylum to around 50,000 people.",
        "在给近5万人发放了庇护许可后，作为中东难民赴欧第一站的希腊已经开始关闭一些难民营。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite a mountain of scientific data, Trump claims that there is no evidence that humans contribute to global warming.",
        "尽管有大量科学数据的支撑，特朗普依然声称人类活动导致全球变暖缺少证据证明。"
    ],
    [
        "These are important qualities for the leader of an institution that must negotiate, rather than dictate, terms of agreement.",
        "对于一个必须就协定条款进行谈判而不是主宰一切的机构领导人来说，这些都是重要的品质。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent research by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) echoes the findings of other academics: global flows of goods, foreign direct investment, and data have increased global GDP by roughly 10% compared to what it would have been had those flows never occurred.",
        "麦肯锡全球研究所（MGI）的最新研究印证了其他学者的发现：全球商品、外国直接投资和数据流让全球GDP较不存在这些流动的情况增加了大约10%。"
    ],
    [
        "That line could win votes.",
        "”很可能有选民支持他的说法。"
    ],
    [
        "But Naif (age 77), his full brothers - including Sultan (age 82) - and their supporters within the Wahhabi establishment appear too entrenched to allow that to happen.",
        "但是他的同胞兄弟纳伊夫（77岁）、包括苏尔坦（82岁）以及他们在瓦哈比教派中的支持者太顽固了，他们无法允许这样的事情发生。"
    ],
    [
        "So can guidelines for the sustainable use of outer space, which may emerge from the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.",
        "可持续外太空使用指引亦然，它可能将由联合国和平利用外太空委员会制定。"
    ],
    [
        "But this interpretation is a complete – and sometimes deliberate – misunderstanding of bank capital and the policies being pursued.",
        "但这一解读完全是对银行资本以及目前所追求的政策的误解，有时这是有意为之。"
    ],
    [
        "The first category includes industries like appliances, in which China has captured 36% of global revenues, and Internet services and software, where China accounts for 15% of global revenues.",
        "第一类包括电器和互联网服务与软件等行业，前者中国占行业全球收入的36%，后者占15%。"
    ],
    [
        "The attraction to Hofer’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is telling, and mirrors a broader pattern across northern Europe.",
        "霍费尔反移民言论的吸引力很能说明问题，并反映出整个北欧地区普遍存在的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Diplomacy can and will matter; little is inevitable in international relations.",
        "外交能够、也必将产生作用； 在国际关系中，没有什么是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, governments have encouraged investment in government bonds.",
        "在过去，政府鼓励政府债券的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Numerous opinion polls show Park Geun-hye of the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) to be the leading candidate.",
        "不止一项民调显示执政大国家党候选人朴槿惠最有希望胜出。"
    ],
    [
        "The growth of the financial markets’ sophistication has allowed risks to be sliced and diced and spread further than ever before.",
        "金融市场的高度发展允许风险被大快切割然后被散布到比以前更广泛的区域。"
    ],
    [
        "His political rise is thus in keeping with South Asia’s tradition of quasi-democratic dynastic politics: he assumed leadership of Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) – founded in 1967 by her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto – and appointed his son Bilawal as the party’s co-chairperson, basing his decision on a handwritten will left by his wife.",
        "因此他在政治上的崛起与南亚半民主的王朝政治传统一致：他是布托巴基斯坦人民党——该党由她的父亲佐勒菲卡尔•阿里•布托于1967年成立——的领袖并根据其妻子手写遗志上的决定，任命其儿子比拉瓦尔为该党领导人之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, just like the EU’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada, any negotiated arrangement between the EU and the UK will have to be unanimously accepted by all EU member states.",
        "其次，正如欧盟-加拿大全面经济和贸易协定，欧盟和英国所谈判的一切安排都必须经所有欧盟成员国一致接受。"
    ],
    [
        "We have also launched several new initiatives to make education more widely accessible.",
        "我们还开展了多项新计划进一步普及教育。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, many secular activists ended their week-long sit-in and withdrew from Tahrir Square.",
        "因此，许多世俗活跃分子结束了长达一周的静坐，撤离了解放广场。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians have a powerful incentive to get Europe’s response to the refugee crisis right.",
        "政客们有强烈的激励让欧洲正确应对难民危机。"
    ],
    [
        "First, INGOs must add value, meeting a need that is not currently being met well or at all.",
        "首先，INGO必须带来价值，满足目前未完全满足或完全未满足的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "When financial markets discovered that supposedly riskless government bonds might be forced into default, they raised risk premiums dramatically.",
        "当金融市场发现被认为是无风险的政府债券可能出现被迫违约的可能时，风险溢价出现了显著提高。"
    ],
    [
        "De Gregorio covers all of these issues very well – and also discusses the importance of luck.",
        "德格雷戈里奥出色地讨论了所有这些问题，还讨论了运气的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the boldest Latin American governments – including those in Colombia, Uruguay, and Guatemala – are reluctant to advance much further, especially if they remain isolated.",
        "即使是最激进的拉丁美洲政府——包括哥伦比亚、乌拉圭和危地马拉——也不愿意走得太远，特别是在它们仍显孤立的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks can buy and sell dollar securities without moving those markets.",
        "各国中央银行可以随意买卖美国债券，而不会影响本国市场的波动。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly a month later, however, all the demonetization drive has achieved is severe economic disruption.",
        "但是，近一个月之后，废钞行动的全部成果是一场经济灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "To estimate the magnitude of the problem, it is compared to the total resources available to fix it.",
        "为了评估问题的严重程度，该成本还与可用来纠正问题的资源总量相比较。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, according to the OECD, by the end of this year, America’s national debt/GDP ratio will climb to 108.6%.",
        "事实上，根据经合组织的数据，到今年年底，美国国民债务/GDP比率将攀升至108. 6%。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – The ongoing global economic crisis is not only causing incumbent governments to lose elections; it is also shaking corporate boards.",
        "芝加哥—发酵中的全球经济危机不但让在任政府输掉了大选，也让公司董事会如坐针毡。"
    ],
    [
        "Josef Goebbels’ Nazi propaganda machine was fully deployed.",
        "戈培尔的纳粹宣传机器开足了马力。"
    ],
    [
        "Senegalese Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye has cited high interest rates as a major impediment to GDP growth.",
        "塞内加尔总理阿卜杜拉·姆贝耶（Abdoul Mbaye）将高利率称为GDP增长的重大障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to ensure the broadest coverage possible, POC tests should be designed to work in the settings with the fewest resources.",
        "为了确保尽可能广泛的覆盖，床旁测试应该被设计成在最简陋环境中进行。"
    ],
    [
        "No such assumption can be made about Japan, where an aging population will intensify the closed and intellectually arid nature of its society.",
        "但日本的情况很难估计，那里老龄化的人口会加剧日本社会的封闭和思想上的匮乏。"
    ],
    [
        "It was Berezovsky who brought Vladimir Putin to Yeltsin’s attention, anticipating that the diminutive ex-KGB officer was the ideal candidate to protect the Yeltsin family’s riches – and Berezovsky’s own wealth – once Yeltsin retired.",
        "将普京带入叶利钦注意范围的正是别列佐夫斯基，他认为这位身材矮小的前克格勃官员是在叶利钦隐退后保护叶利钦家族财富——以及别列佐夫斯基本人的财富——的理想人选。"
    ],
    [
        "ATHENS – In his end-of-2015 missive, Holger Schmieding of the Hamburg investment bank Berenberg warned his firm’s clients that what they should be worrying about now is political risk.",
        "雅典—汉堡贝伦堡（Berenberg）投资银行的霍格尔·施米丁（Holger Schmieding）在其2015年年终总结中警告客户，现在应该担心政治风险。"
    ],
    [
        "It tried to prevent government scientists from speaking honestly to the public. The Wall Street Journal has similarly peddled anti-science and pseudo-science to oppose policies to fight human-induced climate change.",
        "美国政府试图阻止为政府工作的科学家们向公众说出真话。 华尔街日报也同样地兜售反科学和伪科学，反对向人为带来的气候变化宣战。"
    ],
    [
        "But, rather than keeping an eye on that ball, the United States wasted the first decade of this century mired in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
        "对于亚洲在新世纪的崛起，美国此前没有给予应有关注，只是忙于伊拉克和阿富汗战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries might end up energy-independent, only to become steel-dependent or petrochemical-dependent.",
        "这些国家也许最后能够做到能源的独立，但是它们最后会变成对于钢铁或者石化的依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet they often stood together against the French political establishment.",
        "他们经常站在同一阵线上反对法国政治体制。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the signing of a framework agreement in Oslo in October 2012, we began the public phase of negotiations in Cuba.",
        "2012年在奥斯陆签署框架协议后，我们在古巴开始了谈判的公开阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "But the system rests on the assumption that the government will set accurate benchmark interest rates for risk-free assets.",
        "但该体系的前提在于政府能够正确制定无风险资产的基准利率。"
    ],
    [
        "It has adapted a more muscular foreign policy in the South China Sea, embraced the nationalistic longing of rejuvenation, framed by what Xi calls the “China Dream.”",
        "中国在南海采取了更加强硬的外交政策，表现出对民族复兴的渴望，习近平称之为“中国梦”。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Iran and the West reach an agreement, it will be very difficult for Israel to remain on the sideline.",
        "但如果伊朗和西方达成协议，以色列将很难袖手旁观。"
    ],
    [
        "What we do know is that, ultimately, nothing that has or might happen makes Trump better suited for the presidency than Clinton.",
        "我们知道的是，说到底，已经发生或可能发生的一切都不能证明特朗普比克林顿更适合当总统。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer seems obvious: governments.",
        "答案似乎显而易见：政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU Council’s common position on arms exports is legally binding on all EU states.",
        "欧盟理事会针对武器出口行为的共同立场对所有成员国都具有法律约束力。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently developed statistical tools have finally made this possible.",
        "最新研发的统计工具终于让实现这一目标成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Most interesting was the split in both parties.",
        "最有趣的是两大党派都存在分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "The path through international law engages lawyers and diplomats, but not the engineers, scientists, and community leaders on the front lines of sustainable development.",
        "国际法涉及律师和外交官，但却没有在可持续发展的前沿领域吸引工程师、科学家和社团领导人的参与。"
    ],
    [
        "These are the kinds of numbers usually produced by wars and epidemics, and they imply both a dramatic drop in the number of young people able to provide for their elders and a much greater debt burden for a country that is already carrying one of the world’s heaviest.",
        "通常情况下，这些数字只有在战争或者疾病流行时才会产生的。 这一方面意味着能够赡养老人的年轻人在急剧减少，另一方面，日本本来就是世界上负债最严重的国家之一，这使他们的负担更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "It is incumbent upon those of us who wish to improve Europe’s efficiency, and lessen its gross injustices, to work toward re-politicizing the eurozone as a first step toward democratizing it.",
        "责任在于我们这些一厢情愿想要改善欧洲的效率、降低它的总体不公正性、致力于欧元区的再政治化并以此作为迈向民主化的第一步的人。"
    ],
    [
        "A Pakistani-sponsored jihadi attack on India’s Parliament in December 2001 nearly provoked all-out war.",
        "2001年12月，巴基斯坦扶植的圣战者袭击印度议会，几乎引发全面战争。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, wages and opportunities are increasingly being dictated by skills, rather than tenure.",
        "结果，工资和机会日益由技能而不是年资决定。"
    ],
    [
        "Argentina defaulted on its debt in 2001.",
        "阿根廷在2001年发生过债务违约。"
    ],
    [
        "Is China ready for Greenpeace, Human Rights in China, Amnesty International, and Falun Gong supporters to take to the streets, with thousands of foreign journalists hungry for stories and asking questions that the authorities are unaccustomed to answering?",
        "中国已经准备好如何应对绿色和平组织、人权在中国、国际特赦组织和法轮功的支持者走上街头，还有数千名渴望寻找故事素材并且会问一些当局不习惯回答的问题的外国记者了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "By instituting open, competitive, and transparent bidding, the department has saved 2.5 billion pesos from 3,692 projects nationwide in the past year.",
        "通过推进招投标工作的公开，竞争和透明，去年该部门从全国3692个项目中节省了25亿比索。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, for example, inflation is approaching 8% or more.",
        "例如在中国，通胀正在迫近8%或者更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Rapid response is required of governments, United Nations agencies, regulatory authorities, and the pharmaceutical industry for coordination, surveillance, and vaccine production.",
        "政府、联合国机构、主管部门和制药业必须迅速做出反应，进行协调、监督和生产疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, countries have to meet certain conditions to access the information – a structure that will not benefit most developing countries.",
        "此外，各国必须瞒住一定条件才能获得这一信息——这一结构无法惠及大部分发展中国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Wars account for dramatic shifts in voter preferences, and radical leaders and parties often poll much higher after a round of sharp violence than in normal times.",
        "战争导致选民倾向的巨大转变，而在剧烈暴力后，激进的领导人和政党得票经常要比平时高出许多。"
    ],
    [
        "But studies indicate that the shift happened very early on.",
        "但研究表明这一转变其实在很早期就发生了。"
    ],
    [
        "Support for such investments requires people to reject the false promise of “clean” fossil fuels.",
        "支持这类投资需要人们拒绝所谓“清洁”化石燃料的虚假承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "In a pernicious recent example, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, in a nationally televised speech, ordered the country’s attorney-general and public prosecutor to take “action” against the Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann for daring to ask, “Should Venezuela Default?”",
        "一个最近的反面例子是委内瑞拉总统马杜罗，他在全国电视转播的演讲中下令司法部长和公共检察官采取“行动”对付哈佛大学经济学家里卡多·豪斯曼（Ricardo Housmann），因为他胆敢质问《委内瑞拉应该违约吗？ 》（Should Venezuela Default?"
    ],
    [
        "There are roughly 2,000 African students in China, most of whom are pursuing engineering and science courses.",
        "现在中国大约有2000名非洲学生，其中大部分学的是工程和科学课程。"
    ],
    [
        "I call on states throughout the land to re-institute the study of US civics so that we will produce citizens who understand our legacy and can defend liberty and the Constitution when it is threatened.",
        "我号召全国各州重新开始美国公民学的研究，以便我们将培养出这样的公民：他们懂得我们的遗产，并能在宪法和自由受到威胁的时候保卫它们。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as long as the Japanese left used history to make this political argument, the nationalists pushed back by claiming that stories of wartime atrocities had been greatly exaggerated.",
        "但只要左翼用历史证明自己的政治观点，民族主义者就拼命反击，称战时暴行的故事被极度夸大了。"
    ],
    [
        "For its part, the government has treated the creation of national armed forces as an afterthought.",
        "就其自身而言，政府事后才想起组建国家武装部队。"
    ],
    [
        "This was a place where fingernails of countless victims were ripped out, where others were strung upside down and dunked in barrels of water, where many were brutalized with metal prongs and batons.",
        "有无数的受害者在这里被拔掉指甲； 有的人被倒吊着，头浸在水桶里；"
    ],
    [
        "The benefit of that accidental generosity was the American deal: immigrants have to participate in the economic and political fracas of the nation, but without much of a social service safety “net.”",
        "这种附带慷慨的利益是美国的协议：移民 必须 参与到这个国家经济和政治的纷争中，但是却没有一个社会服务安全“网”。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should take advantage of his commanding majority in the Diet, won in October’s snap general election, to implement the third “arrow” of Abenomics: pro-growth structural reforms.",
        "至于日本，首相安倍晋三应该利用他在10月大选中赢得的国会决定性优势去实施安倍经济学的第三个“箭头”：有利于增长的结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "In the years preceding the financial crisis, increasing globalization and technological advances made it much easier for central banks to deliver both solid growth and low inflation.",
        "在全球金融危机爆发前的几年，越来越多的全球化和技术进步使中央银行更易于实现硬增长和低通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "There is even talk of Russia and China creating an alternative international payment system to replace the SWIFT system, which the US and Europe can use to impose financial sanctions against Russia.",
        "甚至有消息说俄罗斯和中国正在建立一个国际支付系统，以取代可被美国和欧洲用来对俄罗斯实施金融制裁的SWIFT系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The worst cases of outright manipulation occurred when local bureaucrats - all appointed from above - pressured voters to support President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Otan Party.",
        "最糟糕的直接操纵行为恐怕要数上峰任命的地方官僚给投票者施压，要求他们支持总统努尔苏丹·纳扎尔巴耶夫领导的祖国党。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason to reject a market in votes – preserving the integrity of democracy – may be a reason to limit financial contributions to political candidates as well.",
        "反对选票市场的理由——维护民主制度的完整性——或许也是一个限制对政治候选人实施经济资助的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who wanted to limit the use of juries supposedly feared a risk to state security in some instances.",
        "限制使用陪审团据说是怕有些情况下威胁到国家安全。"
    ],
    [
        "But the procedural hurdles are higher for safeguards, and countries that use them have to compensate adversely affected exporters.",
        "但该机制的程序性障碍较大，使用它的国家必须补偿受到不利影响的出口国。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, Barack Obama was reelected.",
        "然而巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）依然成功连任了。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, the pressure is on for structural reforms covering everything from labor markets to taxation.",
        "如今，压力来自于包含从劳动力市场到税收的一切的结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "And on economic policy, she should move to the center, toward growth-focused measures, and away from leftist positions she adopted during her primary campaign against Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.",
        "在经济政策方面，她应该走中间道路，支持以增长为重点的措施，远离她在与佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）的党内初选中所采取的左派立场。"
    ],
    [
        "If governments plan only 10-15 years ahead, as is typical in energy policy, rather than 30-50 years, they will tend to make poor system-related choices.",
        "如果政府只是提前10到15年、而非30到50年制定计划，那么他们很可能犯下低级的系统性错误。"
    ],
    [
        "A lower inflation target would alleviate the need for unconventional policies when rates are close to 0% and inflation is still below 2%.",
        "降低通胀目标将减少在利率接近0%、通胀仍然低于2%时采取非常规政策的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Back then, Mao’s Cultural Revolution had forced large numbers of his revolutionary comrades onto a reformist path.",
        "当时，毛泽东的文革迫使其大批革命战友走向改革之路。"
    ],
    [
        "So I think we should be treated accordingly.\"",
        "因此我认为我们应该有所应对。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "And the big winners have been the financiers and skilled professionals who can take advantage of expanded markets.",
        "而大赢家一直是金融家以及那些因市场不断扩大而得益的专业人才。"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, the consequences promise to be far-reaching.",
        "但不管采取了哪条道路，所有的好处都注定将变得遥不可及。"
    ],
    [
        "The government was also wise to establish a special sub-commission to examine the history of the bloodshed, because disagreement about the past often constitutes an insurmountable obstacle to peace and reconciliation.",
        "政府还明智地成立了一个特别小组委员会调查流血事件的历史，因为对过去的分歧往往会极大地阻碍和平与和解进程。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East’s Three Timelines",
        "中东的三大时间线"
    ],
    [
        "From the left comes the idea that, in return for full peace, Israel is ready to withdraw from most of the territory captured in 1967 and accept a Palestinian state.",
        "左翼主张，为了换取全面和平，以色列愿意从1967年占领领土的绝大部分撤军并接受巴勒斯坦国。"
    ],
    [
        "It went from having the youngest population among G-7 countries in the early 1960s to being the world’s oldest country in 2008.",
        "20世纪60年代初日本还在七国集团里年纪最轻，2008年就成了全世界老龄化最严重的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Previous techniques were especially arduous if one needed to modify several genes, because the process would need to occur sequentially.",
        "如果要修改多个基因的话，此前的技术将极其费力，因为这一过程需要按照顺序进行。"
    ],
    [
        "America by Proxy?",
        "代理的美国？"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic supply disruptions are now fueling inflation and compounding the problems of a subsidy-laden national budget.",
        "国内供应中断在引发通胀的同时加剧了预算不堪补贴重负的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan has asked its airlines to ignore China’s demand for advance notification of flights, even if they are merely transiting the new zone and not heading toward Chinese territorial airspace.",
        "日本要求其航空公司无视中国有关航班预先通知的要求，中国要求一切航班均需预先通知，即使这些航班只是途径新识别区，而不是飞往中国领空。"
    ],
    [
        "Our challenge is to bring the earth’s systems back within the safety zone, while simultaneously ensuring that every person has the resources he or she needs to lead a happy and fulfilling life.",
        "我们所面临的挑战是在把地球系统带回安全区的同时确保每个人拥有足够资源能够快乐充实的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet these small steps are significant.",
        "但这些小措施意义重大。"
    ],
    [
        "In an environment where productivity gains and wage growth are already weak, as in Europe today, persuading workers to accept a cut in real wages may be tough.",
        "在今天的欧洲这样一个生产力和工资的增长已经很微弱的环境里，要想说服工人接受实际工资的削减可能不太容易。"
    ],
    [
        "By focusing on the right policies, EU leaders can ensure that Europeans’ education enables them to be articulate global citizens and potent economic actors.",
        "通过致力于正确的政策，欧盟领导人可以确保欧洲教育让欧洲人民成为出色的全球公民和强大的经济行动者。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, a September 2013 report by IHS concludes that midstream industries like transportation and downstream industries like manufacturing and chemicals are also receiving a massive stimulus.",
        "类似地，2013年9月的一份HIS报告指出，运输等中游行业和制造和化工等下游行业也得到了巨大的提振。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is an alternative.",
        "但是还是有一个选择。"
    ],
    [
        "What began as a straightforward push to reduce trade tariffs has evolved into a blueprint for a dynamic open market of 600 million consumers and a production base that can compete directly with the world’s largest economies.",
        "一开始是一个旨在降低贸易关税的直接计划，后来演化为一个拥有6亿消费者、直接与世界最大经济体竞争的生产基地的有活力的开放市场的蓝图。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is far more important that Arabs themselves adopt a forward-looking perspective in reckoning with the challenges that they face, and that they take charge of their own destiny.",
        "但更重要的是阿拉伯人自己要采取前瞻性视角思考自己面临的挑战，并学会主导自己的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "Expansion of participation is important for the acceptance of norms, but progress will require action on many fronts.",
        "扩大参与度是规范得到接受的重要条件，但进展需要在许多方面采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the current trouble can be traced to Afghanistan, whose tragedy could never have remained confined within its designated borders.",
        "当前混乱局面的根源可以追溯到阿富汗，那里曾经发生的悲剧影响永远也不可能被限制在指定的边境范围之内。"
    ],
    [
        "One answer was provided by two of Mitt Romney’s advisers, who stated that their candidate particularly valued the “special relationship” with Britain because of the shared “Anglo-Saxon heritage.”",
        "两名米特·罗姆尼的顾问对此做出了解答，称他们的候选人因为共同的“盎格鲁－萨克逊传统”而特别注重与英国的“特殊关系”。"
    ],
    [
        "Many succumbed to mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.",
        "许多人不堪苦难折磨患上了精神病，或是从毒品和酒精中寻找慰籍。"
    ],
    [
        "They seem to include the risk of distortion in the financial system, worries that unemployment may fall to unsustainable lows, and concerns that raising interest rates too quickly will disrupt economic recovery.",
        "它们似乎包括金融系统扭曲风险、对失业可能下降至不可持续的低位的担心，以及对过快提高利率破坏经济复苏的担心。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, room has been made for Gamal to build a public profile of his own through his senior role in the ruling party, and a constitutional framework has been put in place that will allow him to be elected in multi-candidate elections, thus establishing a façade of republican legitimacy.",
        "但另一方面，当局又在为贾迈勒创造条件，通过在执政党内部任职打造他本人的公众形象，同时还建立了宪法框架，允许他在有多名候选人参与的选举中参选，并借此制造出符合共和规则的假象。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not as surprising as it might seem.",
        "这并不像咋看上去那样令人惊奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Now for the less exuberant news: without continued economic and policy improvements, the factors that have delighted investors in 2017 risk generating an unpleasant reversal of fortune.",
        "此外还有一些不那么令人兴奋的消息：如果缺乏持续的经济和政策改善，这些在2017年令投资者欢欣不已的因素就会引发不愉快的财富逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor did he intervene on behalf of the Shia and Kurdish uprisings that erupted just after the war ended early in 1991.",
        "在1991年对伊战后，老布什也没有介入土耳其什叶派和库尔德人之间的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a strategic reconsideration is probably most necessary for those in the Bush administration (and a few elsewhere), who until recently have been prophets of imminent danger.",
        "这种战略上的重新考量对于布什政府（和其他一些政府）中的官员们而言可能最为必要的。 这些人直到最近还一直预言着迫在眉睫的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Closing the door on NATO expansion would make it possible to ease tensions and normalize relations with Russia, stabilize Ukraine, and restore focus on the European economy and the European project.",
        "关闭北约扩张的大门有可能缓和紧张和对俄关系正常化、稳定乌克兰并重新将注意力集中于欧洲经济和欧洲工程。"
    ],
    [
        "It becomes even more difficult when the complex historical baggage calls for sensitivity and tolerance while the protagonists are determined to see every concession as surrender.",
        "当复杂的历史包袱需要以敏感和容忍来应对而领导者们却将每一次让步都当作屈服时，这一进程就变得更加艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "It is crucial that both institutions seize this opportunity to strengthen the EU’s response by making disclosure and compliance mandatory and extending coverage to include finished and semi-finished products.",
        "关键是两大机构都必须抓住这次机会，通过强制性披露和合规要求以及将覆盖面扩大到制成品和半制成品来强化欧盟的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "President Vladimir Putin’s interventions in neighboring countries and the Middle East, and his cyber attacks on the US and others, though intended to make Russia look great again, merely worsen the country’s long-term prospects.",
        "总统普京对邻国和中东的干预，及其针对美国和其他国家的网络攻击，虽然本意是让俄罗斯看上去重新强大起来，但从长期看只能让俄罗斯的长期前景更加恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the Free Democrats have clawed their way back from hard times, and now have about 6% support.",
        "绿党则受到13%的支持。 就连自由民主党（Free Democrats）也从颓势中有所恢复，目前有6%的人支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the US has retained considerable influence, the combination of structural economic problems, a divided elite, and two de facto military defeats has impeded its ability to exercise that power.",
        "尽管美国的影响力依然卓著，但结构性经济问题、精英的分裂以及两场事实军事失败已让其行使权威的能力大为削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "But the reality is that China has been engaged in such adjustment for a long time, with unsatisfactory results, indicating that complementary demand-side policies may be needed.",
        "但现实是中国一直都在实施这类调整，搞了很长时间，结果却不尽人意，说明可能需要执行需求侧政策作为补充。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments, politicians, and international organizations must harness the potential of the Internet to serve global development and individual empowerment.",
        "政府、政客和跨政府组织必须利用好互联网的潜力，使服务于全球发展和个体赋权。"
    ],
    [
        "Huge Chinese current-account surpluses resulted from too much saving and too little consumption.",
        "巨额中国经常项目余额来自储蓄过多而消费过少。"
    ],
    [
        "Only such “reverse engineering,” starting at the end and working backward – and legitimized and monitored by strict international mechanisms – might yet save the prospects for an Israeli/Palestinian peace from ruin.",
        "只有这种“逆向工程”，也就是从末端开始并且从后向前进行工作，同时被严格的国际机制所合法化并且由其进行监督才有可能把以色列与巴勒斯坦和平的前景从废墟中解救出来。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the US saving deficit will need to be addressed in a sustainable manner.",
        "首先，美国对国内的赤字应该有所重视。"
    ],
    [
        "Members of the African Union recognized this in 2003 in Maputo, Mozambique, pledging to increase spending on agriculture to at least 10% of national budgets.",
        "非盟成员国2003年在莫桑比克的马普托就此达成一致，承诺至少拿出10%的国家预算用于追加农业投资。"
    ],
    [
        "And, despite the cheer coming from France, the Paris accord is just as off-balance: at a $1-2 trillion annual cost, the United Nations itself estimates that it is on track to achieve 1% of what would be needed to keep temperature rises under 2°C.",
        "而且，尽管来自法国的欢呼之声不断，但巴黎协定也同样不平衡：每年花费1到2万亿美元，而据联合国自己评估这笔钱仅能覆盖将温度上升控制在两摄氏度以下所需资金的百分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The social awareness of Homo Putinicus, meticulously burnished by television propagandists, is such that pride in Lugovoi’s achievement and indignation at the infamous campaign unleashed against him by those who hate Russia can jangle within the breast of ordinary Russians without the slightest dissonance.",
        "电视宣传者们苦心打造的 亲普京派 的社会意识是如此高涨，以至于对Lugovoi的成就的自豪和对仇视俄罗斯者对他发起的无耻攻击的义愤使得普通的俄罗斯人可以绝对地同仇敌忾。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, this is the first time that Palestinians have been able to create something close to mutual deterrence with the Israelis.",
        "尽管如此，这是巴勒斯坦人首次能够接近于实现对以色列人的互相威慑。"
    ],
    [
        "And, more deplorably, educational standards lagged.",
        "而更可悲的则是其教育水平的落后。"
    ],
    [
        "Its many impressive accomplishments include the Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.",
        "而包括《禁止生物武器公约》、《禁止化学武器公约》，《不扩散核武器条约》以及《全面禁止核试验条约》在内的一系列条约则彰显出会议所取得的诸多杰出成就。"
    ],
    [
        "An October 1998 cover story in The Economist, vividly illustrated by a Chinese junk getting sucked into a powerful whirlpool, said it all.",
        "1998年10月，《经济学人》（The Economist）刊登了生动的封面配图，中国废墟被一个强大的漩涡吞没。 这说明了一切。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – Free trade seems to have few supporters these days.",
        "发自布鲁塞尔——自由贸易的支持者最近好像没剩几个了。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it combines force and diplomacy.",
        "首先，它将武力和外交融合在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "So now the best and brightest view things from the demand side, using the theory built by John Maynard Keynes in 1936.",
        "因此当下这批治国精英们都选择从需求侧来看待问题，并运用由约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯于1936年创立的理论。"
    ],
    [
        "The existence of the facility seems as clear a declaration as possible that the regime is committed to achieving the capacity to intimidate its neighbors with its nuclear arsenal.",
        "而这些设施的存在清楚地表明：该政权正大力建设其核武器库，以达到威胁其周边邻邦的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "Domestic stabilization measures earlier this year bought her some time, yet fear of a recession remains.",
        "今年初的国内稳定措施为她赢得了时间，但并未消除对经济衰退的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "The enforced reduction of demand is expected to reduce supply, without the need to criminalize the supplier.",
        "人们预期强制减少需求能减少供给，而不必让供给者入罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Technology and economic development are proliferating across Asia and the developing world, while the spread of literacy and political awareness during the past century made national self-determination by far the dominant ideology of our age, leading to the end of colonialism.",
        "亚洲和发展中世界正在经历技术和经济的快速发展，过去一百年间文化和政治觉悟的迅速普及已经使国家自主成为我们这个时代不可动摇的信念，结束了殖民主义的统治。"
    ],
    [
        "Purchasing CDS contracts is like buying insurance on someone else’s life and owning a license to kill him.",
        "购买CDS合同行为就如同给他人买了保险后，还拥有可以杀死他的执照。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, individual member states are going it alone, with their own bite-sized assistance projects.",
        "为此，只有由某几个成员国单独用自己的小规模援助项目来进行培训。"
    ],
    [
        "But citizens first must be made aware not only of how to use water more sensibly, but also of how to protect against climate-related disaster risk.",
        "但公民首先必须明白，他们不但要更合理地用水，也要了解如何预防气候相关的灾难风险。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this lack of data that is undermining responses to the proliferation of disinformation and propaganda, not to mention the political polarization and tribalism that they fuel.",
        "正是这种信息的缺乏导致人们无法对虚假信息和宣传泛滥作出回应，更不要说由此所造成的政治极化和部族主义倾向。"
    ],
    [
        "For them, any excuse will do, and EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier has provided them with ammunition by pursuing what many see as an excessively restrictive regulatory agenda.",
        "对他们来说，任何借口都可以，而欧盟内部市场委员巴尼耶（Michel Barnier）正好提供了导火线——他提出了一个许多人看来过于严厉的监管日程。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, big bonuses given to executives from firms receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts – the insurance giant AIG, in particular – has infuriated public opinion, with a populist press and Congress fueling popular rage.",
        "在美国，大笔的奖金被发放给拿到数十亿美元纳税人援助的公司的管理者——特别是保险业巨人AIG——这种现象已经激怒了公众舆论，而民粹主义的媒体和国会又为公众的愤怒火上浇油。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, civil liberties were bound to suffer in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.",
        "当然，2001年9月11日恐怖主义攻击以后，公民自由注定要受到损害。"
    ],
    [
        "This is controversial enough: the decision is motivated by a large influx of asylum-seekers, often offering frivolous reasons, originating from Serbia.",
        "这一做法非常具有争议性：因为这一决策主要针对的是来自塞尔维亚的政治避难者，这些人数量极为庞大，但申请避难的理由却往往站不住脚。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies significant disruptions to value chains and uncertainty about jobs, consumption, and the socio-political context.",
        "这将对现有的价值链体系造成巨大冲击，提升就业、消费和社会政治环境的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides, China is already pouring money into the developing world, often through highly opaque channels.",
        "此外，中国已经开始向发展中世界提供资金，常常是通过高度不透明的渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "As India’s educated revolt against preferences, they should not do so in a way that reinforces illiteracy.",
        "印度接受过教育的人反对优先，他们不应该通过这样一种加大文盲比例的方式来进行抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "If current projections are right, nanotechnology has the potential to have an impact on nearly every industry and virtually every aspect of our lives.",
        "如果现在的预测正确，那么纳米技术将有可能对每一个行业以及我们生活中的方方面面都产生影响。"
    ],
    [
        "This assumes, of course, that everyone buys into the idea that one devaluation doesn’t augur another.",
        "当然，这需要假设所有人都认为一次贬值不会引发另一次贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "In other cases, the capital outflows only worsen already difficult situations.",
        "在另一些情况下，资本外流只会使本已严峻的形势进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "They have too much to catch up with, in terms of national ego and national interest, to care for others.",
        "它们在国家自我意识以及民族利益上难以自拔，无瑕顾及他人。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the PBOC had been setting the opening fix pretty much wherever it wanted, this change could be seen as moving the renminbi toward a more market-determined exchange rate.",
        "由于人民银行过往基本上是随心所欲地设定中间价，这一举措可被视为人民币汇率要更加迈向市场化。"
    ],
    [
        "They are also an inviting anti-establishment target for the populists of the Five Star Movement.",
        "它们也是五星运动（Five Star Movement）的民粹主义者的现成的反建制目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, though countries accrue interest on their holdings of SDRs, they have to pay interest on the allocations they receive.",
        "此外，尽管各国所持有的SDR都能获得利息，但也必须为得到的配额支付利息。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Kaczyński government embarked on a program of anti-reform.",
        "实际上，卡钦斯基政府实行了反改革的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The other half are for a complex range of programs including food stamps, housing subsidies, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and cash relief.",
        "另一半用于各种复杂的项目，包括食品券、住房补贴、低收入税收优惠以及现金救济。"
    ],
    [
        "The Promise of Bank Mergers",
        "银行兼并的憧憬"
    ],
    [
        "“It’s not a policy that is going to be effective, because customers want affordable energy,” he said.",
        "“这项政策不会有效，因为客户想要的是平价能源，”他说，“它们想要更低而不是更高的能源价格。"
    ],
    [
        "But the biggest danger to Obamacare’s survival is that many individuals who do not receive insurance from their employer will choose not to insure themselves and will instead pay the fine of just 1% of income (rising permanently after 2015 to 2.5%).",
        "但奥巴马医保能否成功的最大威胁在于大量没有从雇主处获得保险的个人将选择不为自己保险，而选择支付占收入1%的罚金（2015年后将永久提高到2."
    ],
    [
        "Independent central banks were not designed to win popularity contests.",
        "独立的中央银行本来不是为了四处讨好而生的。"
    ],
    [
        "In Misrata, the JCP finished second, after the local Union for Homeland Party, but still managed to win almost three times as many votes as the NFC, which came in fourth.",
        "在米苏拉塔（Misrata），JCP最终位列第二，仅次于当地的家乡党联盟（Union for Homeland Party），得票数是位列第四的NFC的近三倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States spends heavily to subsidize gasoline and other fossil fuels.",
        "美国花巨资补贴汽油和其他化石燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "Buoyant US economic growth, so far, has provided the European Central Bank with the necessary global backdrop to raise interest rates from very low levels at a slow and steady pace that limits political friction with euro-zone political leaders but that gets the job done.",
        "美国经济的强劲增长迄今为欧洲央行以缓慢但却稳定的步伐将其利率从极低的水平慢慢提升提供了必需的全球背景，使他们在完成目标的同时又减少了与欧元区政治领导人的摩擦。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, the explanation for the passage of far-reaching financial reform can only be the severity of the crisis.",
        "最终，金融大改革的成功只能由危机本身的严重程度来解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Pollution, terrorism, pandemics, and climate change are global phenomena.",
        "污染、恐怖主义、流行疾病以及气候变化都是全球性的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "And Japan’s “greatest generation” – the men and women who rebuilt a war-shattered country into an economic powerhouse – should not be deemed unwilling to sacrifice for the greater good.",
        "而且我们不该想当然地认为，把战后破碎的国家重建为一个经济强国的日本“最伟大的一代”男性与女性不愿为大义而做出牺牲。"
    ],
    [
        "Another consequence of China’s skewed growth model has been a decline in household income as a share of GDP, from 70% in 1990 to 60% in 2009, whereas in the US, for example, the ratio has remained stable, at around 80% of GDP.",
        "中国有缺陷的增长模式的另一个后果是家庭收入占GDP比重从1990年的70%下降到2009年的60%，而（比如）美国的这一比例稳定在GDP的80%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "But how lazy that assumption seems now, given all that has since happened.",
        "然而站在现在看待此后发生的一切，却道教条害死人。"
    ],
    [
        "These limits on state-level budget deficits are a logical implication of the fact that US states cannot create money to fill fiscal gaps.",
        "这些在州层面的预算赤字限制政策正是美国各州无法印钱来填补赤字空缺的逻辑结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, too, the EU could help this process along.",
        "在这方面，欧盟也可以提供帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Life expectancy is close to 80 years in the Nordic countries, compared to 78 years in the US, where the government does not guarantee national health insurance and millions of families are too poor to pay for it on their own.",
        "北欧国家人的寿命接近80岁，而美国人为78岁。 美国政府不保证实施全国健康保险，数百万家庭过于贫穷，自己无法投保。"
    ],
    [
        "But when it comes to immigration, there is not much in the liberal tradition to which they can turn.",
        "但是在谈到移民问题时，他们却没有太多自由主义的传统。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Qatar has used its leverage over the Islamists that it funds to help secure the release of Western hostages.",
        "此外，卡塔尔利用其所资助的伊斯兰教徒保证了西方人质的释放。"
    ],
    [
        "In Weber’s view, policymakers simply do not have the public mandate to get ahead of problems, especially novel ones that seem small initially, but, if unresolved, imply potentially large costs.",
        "在韦伯看来原因很简单，政策制定者显然无法从公众那里获得提前应对问题的授权，尤其是那些一开始看似非常微小，一旦爆发却需要花费极大成本才能解决的新问题。"
    ],
    [
        "At first glance, it seems incredibly generous and statesman-like for G-8 leaders to endorse debt relief for the world’s poorest nations.",
        "乍看上去，八国集团领袖批准减免世界最贫困国家的债务似乎慷慨大度得令人难以置信。"
    ],
    [
        "First, consumption has to give way smoothly to investment, as past excess capacity is worked off and as expansionary policies in industrial countries normalize.",
        "首先，随着过去的过剩生产力逐渐抵消，工业国家的扩张政策正常化，消费必须平稳地让位给投资。"
    ],
    [
        "At both meetings, CCP leaders put forward comprehensive plans for the creation and perfection of the so-called “socialist market economy” in China.",
        "在这两次会议上，中共领导人推出了建立和完善“社会主义市场经济”的全面计划。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why, having regained their democratic regimes, Central and Eastern European countries unequivocally voted to join the continent's integration process.",
        "这就是为什么中欧和东欧的国家在重建民主政体之后都不约而同地选择加入洲大陆一体化的进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Polls are finely balanced and referendums unpredictable.",
        "民意呈现出均势，很难预测全民公决的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "If all firms work longer, most will experience more demand, and the average firm will face as much extra demand as it provides extra supply.",
        "如果所有的公司都工作长一点，大部分将会面临更多的需求，并且一般公司会遇到与其额外供给相同的额外需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The post-WWII institutions have become insufficient.",
        "后二战机构现在已经无法解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "As my father saw it, you could order scientists and engineers to work together, but you couldn't force them to create something.",
        "正如我的父亲理解的那样，你可以命令科学家和工程师们合作，但是你却无法强迫他们创造出什么东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Trust needs to be rebuilt if we are to help the parties understand how to overcome past enmities.",
        "如果我们将要帮助各方懂得如何克服过往的敌意，需要重建信任。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest obstacle until now has been the United States.",
        "美国是迄今为止最大的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "These crucial questions can only be answered by the practical test of negotiations, this time with direct American participation.",
        "如果有的话，是何人代表这一立场？ 只有通过这一次有美国直接参与的谈判才能够回答这些问题。"
    ],
    [
        "That compact, which will be adopted at an inter-governmental conference in 2018, offers an historic opportunity to improve the way governments and other stakeholders cooperate on migration.",
        "该契约将在2018年的一次政府间会议上通过，它为我们提供了一次历史性机遇改善政府和其他相关利益方在移民问题上的合作方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, electricity usage has reached near-record levels.",
        "但是，用电量还是接近历史最高记录。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, however, a long, stubborn “tail” of infection has persisted, mainly in remote, poor regions and conflict zones.",
        "但长期以来顽固的感染“尾巴”仍持续存在，偏远贫困地区和冲突地区受到主要影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Geo-engineering solutions are not the only alternatives.",
        "地质工程方案不是唯一的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s independence is its most valuable asset – indeed, it is indispensible.",
        "因为欧洲央行的独立性就是其最宝贵的财产——事实上，这是不可或缺的。"
    ],
    [
        "History suggests that a shift in global currency dominance is likely to occur gradually.",
        "历史表明，全球货币主宰权的变迁发生得十分缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Communist Party will not tolerate any questioning of this assessment.",
        "对于这样的评价，中国共产党不能容忍任何的质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "How Abe decides is likely to depend on his confidence in his political position.",
        "安倍会如何决定也许取决于他对其政治处境的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "As Aristotle said: “that which is true and better is naturally always easier to prove and more likely to persuade.”",
        "正如亚里士多德所说：“真理和更美好的东西往往更容易证明，也可能更具说服力。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if all countries agree to disarm, some might cheat.",
        "即使所有的国家同意解除武装，部分国家还可能会弄虚作假。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe’s break with Japan’s pacifist consensus is beyond doubt.",
        "安倍与日本和平主义共识的决裂是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is precedent for such a bold move.",
        "这样的大胆举动有过先例。"
    ],
    [
        "In developing countries, economic exclusion and extreme inequality have always been unconducive to long-term high-growth patterns.",
        "在发展中国家，经济排斥和极端不平等从未有利于长期高增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "As the World Bank’s chief economist and senior vice president, I was in the middle of the conflagration and the debates about its causes and the appropriate policy responses.",
        "作为世界银行的首席经济学家和高级副总裁，我亲身经历了这一危机以及有关这一危机根源和适当的政策对策的辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "It is therefore regrettable that the most likely outcome of the recent revelations will be greater restrictions to prevent further leaks. Let’s hope that in the new WikiLeaks age, that goal remains out of reach.",
        "如果各国政府没有如此频繁地误导本国人民，他们也就无需采取如此多的保密措施，如果各国的领导者们知道，他们不能凡是都秘密进行，置公众于无知之中，他们就会有强大的动因表现得更好一些。"
    ],
    [
        "Land grabs, chronic corruption, impunity, the inability to enforce contracts, and the fragmentation and ineffectiveness of aid deterred foreign and domestic investment further.",
        "土地掠夺、顽固腐败、逍遥法外、无法强制实施合同以及援助的分散和低效进一步拖累了外国和国内投资，结果，2011—2012年，每年FDI占GDP之比下降至0."
    ],
    [
        "That turned out to be wrong, as a painful process of balance-sheet deleveraging – reflecting excessive private-sector debt, and then its carryover to the public sector – implies that the recovery will remain, at best, below-trend for many years to come.",
        "这是错的，因为痛苦的资产负债表去杠杆化过程——反映了私人部门的过度负债及其后负债向公共部门转移——意味着即使在最好的情形下，复苏在未来多年内也打不到趋势水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless expectations about the fundamentals of future supply and demand change, the rise in the interest rate will cause oil prices to fall further.",
        "除非关于未来供给和需求的基本面的预期发生改变，否则利率的升高将导致油价进一步下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "In services, where the government has taken no measures to suppress inflation, the rate exceeds 9%.",
        "在政府未采取措施遏制通胀的服务业，价格上涨幅度超过9%。"
    ],
    [
        "The discrepancy is a matter of elitism.",
        "这一自由裁量权属于精英主义。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Inequality has become a major political preoccupation in the advanced economies – and for good reason.",
        "发自剑桥——不平等状况已经成为了发达经济体的主要政治焦点，而且有着充分的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "And there is no guarantee that Israel will accede to Hamas’s demands without disarming Gaza.",
        "谁都不能保证以色列会在加沙不解除武装的情况下同意哈马斯的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "China has lifted 400 million people out of poverty since 1990, but another 400 million still live on less than $2 per day.",
        "从1990年以来，中国已经让四亿人口脱贫，但是还有四亿人口每天用不到两美元过活。"
    ],
    [
        "Gains in inflation-adjusted personal-consumption expenditure have averaged a mere 0.8% over the past five years – the most severe and protracted slowdown in consumer demand growth in the post-World War II era.",
        "五年来通胀调整后的个人消费开支平均仅增长0. 8%，这是二战结束后最严重也最持久的消费需求增长放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Transferring unused corporate savings to households, while reducing the number of low-wage temporary and part-time workers, would boost domestic demand and reduce income inequality.",
        "实现闲置企业储蓄向家庭转移和削减低工资临时和兼职人员数量能够扩大内需，并减少收入不平等现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The status of EU nationals in the UK is a bargaining chip in the upcoming Brexit negotiations. May wants to keep out future EU migrants, whom she wrongly blames for taking Britons’ jobs and depressing their wages.",
        "但可不是随口说说，因为欧盟居民在英国的地位会是未来脱欧谈判的议价筹码。"
    ],
    [
        "There was a lot of bank rescue in economic stimulus; and there was a lot of economic stimulus in rescuing banks.",
        "在经济刺激中包括了大量银行援助； 在银行援助中包括了大量经济刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Khmer Rouge trials are to proceed, donor countries must see the Extraordinary Chambers as a prudent investment toward a stable and productive Cambodia.",
        "如果对红色高棉的审讯要如期进行，那么捐助国必须将\"特别司法机构\"视作为柬埔寨的稳定和繁荣而做的明智的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Buchanan argued tirelessly for lower government spending, balanced budgets (even a balanced-budget amendment to the US Constitution), and streamlined regulation.",
        "布坎南不知疲倦地呼吁减少政府开支、平衡预算（甚至呼吁将平衡预算修正案写入美国宪法）、改进监管。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the 6-12 months prior to every crisis, the IMF’s forecasts implied business as usual.",
        "事实上，在每一次危机爆发前6—12个月，IMF的预测都表明一切如常。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, China’s ability to bring North Korea into line – a capacity that the US, in particular, believes Xi has – may in fact depend on the outcome of a more epochal struggle to bring the PLA fully under central authority.",
        "因此，中国让朝鲜就范的能力——特别是美国相信习近平有此能力——实际上取决于让解放军完全听命于中央的意义更加重大的斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "The sudden emergence of unions as a political force is particularly surprising in the United States, where private-sector union membership has fallen from 25% in 1975 to 8% today.",
        "在美国，工会突然间作为一支政治力量显现尤其令人惊讶。 美国私营部门工会成员人数从1975年的25%下降到今天的8%。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the future, it is much more likely to be defined by the United States’ need to put its economic house in order; China’s trajectory within and beyond its borders; and the ability of the world’s governments to cooperate on restoring economic growth, stemming the spread of nuclear weapons, and meeting energy and environmental challenges.",
        "未来一个阶段的关键，则是美国整修其经济大厦的努力，中国在国内国际事务中的走向，各国政府在重振经济增长、控制核扩散以及应对能源与环境挑战方面的合作能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Some suggest that the US constitution provided fewer constraints on the president in the conduct of foreign policy, because the requisite checks and balances were to be provided by the powers of the time - Britain and France.",
        "一些人提出，美国宪法在总统实行外交政策方面限制较少，因为当今世界另外两大强国――英国和法国还会对其进行必要的制衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Medellin itself is busy transforming itself from a cocaine capital into a startup hub.",
        "麦德林这个城市本身就在忙于从可卡因之都到创业中心的转型工作。"
    ],
    [
        "This problem will doubtless persist until more local officials are chosen through elections.",
        "这个问题肯定还会继续下去，直到更多的地方官员也能通过选举的方式产生。"
    ],
    [
        "But PCE inflation has also been rising, with the most recent quarterly value at 2.3% year on year in the April-June period.",
        "但PCE通胀一直在上升，4月—6月的最新季度值同比上涨2. 3%。"
    ],
    [
        "A meeting between Abe and Xi – their first since either came to power – would offer concrete grounds for hope.",
        "安倍晋三和习近平的悔悟——两人上台后的第一次——将给人们带来更大的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Given their numbers, not to mention rising education and literacy rates, young people can make a world of difference, shaping political discourse and electoral outcomes.",
        "从这些数据看——更不用说不断提高的教育水平和识字率了——年轻人能够改变世界，影响政治进程和选举结果。"
    ],
    [
        "With a tsunami of plebiscites bearing down on the continent, this may turn out to be a prescient metaphor.",
        "随着全民公决的海啸席卷欧洲，也许这将成为先见之明。"
    ],
    [
        "The manufacture of electrical products, such as chips and passive devices, has quite often been shifted completely to Asia, while even automobiles that are still assembled in Germany rely heavily on components produced in Eastern Europe.",
        "像芯片和无源装置等电器产品制造大多已经完全转移到了亚洲，甚至连在德国境内组装的汽车也严重依赖于在东欧生产的零部件。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is these tabloids, responding to market pressure, that have started to take on responsibility as public watchdogs.",
        "事实上，正是这些小报开始承担起了公众监督员的责任，以对市场压力做出回应。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientists can now credibly say that the early childhood years – from birth to age 5 – lay the foundation for later economic productivity, responsible citizenship, and a lifetime of sound physical and mental health.",
        "经过多年的研究，科学家发现，人类在0到5岁期间的早期教育对日后谋生能力，社会责任感和心理生理的健康起着十分重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these issues are crucial to the US: jobs, immigration, security, energy.",
        "所有这些问题对美国来说都至关重要：工作、移民、安全、能源。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, when the dollar depreciates against the renminbi, the value of China’s foreign liabilities increases in dollar terms, while that of its foreign assets remains unchanged.",
        "结果，当美元对人民币贬值时，中国的对外债务的美元价值就会上升，而其对外资产并不发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "If any city feels like a European capital now, it is not Brussels, Berlin, or even Paris, but London, home to almost a half-million French citizens, as well as millions of other foreigners.",
        "如果说现在哪一座城市感觉更像欧洲的首都，那么它不是布鲁塞尔、柏林，甚至不是巴黎，而是五十万法国民众和数百万外国人居住的伦敦。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama has repeatedly justified his refusal to use force in Syria, other than against the Islamic State (ISIS), in terms of avoiding another Iraq.",
        "奥巴马总统一再以避免另一次伊拉克战争为由拒绝对除伊斯兰国以外的叙利亚势力动武。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the translation of infrastructure investment into economic progress is not guaranteed.",
        "当然，基础设施投资并不一定能转化为经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an accord might well be desirable, but it is simply not an option for climate change any time soon.",
        "这样的条约可能非常完美，但在短期内都难以成为应对气候变化的一个选项。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians don’t understand science, and rarely seek the advice of scientists and engineers in addressing major issues.",
        "政治家根本不懂科学，在解决重大问题时也很少征求科学家和工程师的意见。"
    ],
    [
        "But nor, on the other hand, is it clear that the existing organs of the Palestinian Authority – especially the security services at its disposal – will allow a peaceful transfer of power.",
        "但是，另一方面，巴勒斯坦权力机构现有的机关，特别是其掌控的安全部门是否会允许权力和平转移目前也并不明朗。"
    ],
    [
        "They then proceeded, following a script, to switch props and roles, the first nurse reading from the file, “Alexa Holmes, Type A blood,” and the second reading from the bag, “Type A blood.”",
        "然后她们继续进行。 她们根据说明转换用品和角色，第一个护士读档案的内容：“Alexa Holmes，A型血”，第二个读袋子上的文字：“A型血”。"
    ],
    [
        "But, more important, Ukraine’s “animal spirits” may be suppressed, because its entrepreneurs see little point in trying to compete with oligarchs who remain able to rig the economy in their favor.",
        "但更为重要的是，乌克兰人的“动物精神”可能遭到压制，因为该国的企业家看不到任何值得去和寡头竞争的意义——后者依然能够随心所欲地操纵着国家经济。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no indication that Bush will begin to grasp this bitter reality during the remaining months of his term.",
        "没有迹象表明布什会在其任期的最后几个月里开始明白这一苦涩的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Namibia provides low-cost health care not only for its own citizens, but also for its neighbors.",
        "事实上，纳米比亚不但为本国公民，还为邻国提供了低成本医疗服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Dimon even remains on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, despite the fact that the New York Fed is deeply involved in the investigation not only of JP Morgan Chase’s trading losses, but also of its potential involvement in the broadening Libor scandal.",
        "戴蒙甚至仍然保留了在纽约联储银行董事会的席位，尽管纽约联储不仅深度参与了对摩根大通交易亏损的调查，而且也参与了后者可能卷入Libor丑闻的调查。"
    ],
    [
        "At the beginning of the twentieth century, socialist revolutionaries led by Evno Asef embarked on a series of terrorist attacks against state officials.",
        "20世纪初，伊万诺·阿瑟夫领导的社会主义革命者对国家官员展开了一系列的恐怖主义袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s recent polling gains say less about his improvement as a candidate than they do about Clinton’s own weaknesses and bad luck.",
        "特朗普最近在民调中得势与其说是因为他作为候选人有所进步，不如说是因为克林顿自己的弱势和倒霉。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the real refugees are living in a world that is barely through the Second Industrial Revolution.",
        "很多真正难民所生活的世界往往还没有完成第二次工业革命。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, solving NATO’s burden-sharing problem is not enough.",
        "而且，仅仅解决北约的负担分担问题还不够。"
    ],
    [
        "We are so dissatisfied with the status quo that most of us now favor secession.",
        "我们对现状如此不满，以至于多数人现在赞成分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "In the coming year, it will be up to Americans of all stripes to hold up their own – and to make clear that democracy is about much, much more.",
        "在新的一年里，形形色色的美国人也必须举起自己的手指——清楚地表明民主的意义要比这多得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Having them all hit a weak, still-depressed economy simultaneously is not good.",
        "但任由它们同时打击仍然疲弱低迷的经济却绝非明智的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "The assumption that “genetically engineered” or “genetically modified” is a meaningful – and dangerous – classification has led not only to vandalism of field trials, but also to destruction of laboratories and assaults on researchers.",
        "认为“转基因”是一种有意义的（也是危险的）的分类不但导致了对田间实验的破坏，也导致了对实验室的破坏和对研究者的人身伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "In Latin America, Argentina and Mexico both rank among the bottom half of countries in controlling corruption and maintaining transparency – much lower than Brazil.",
        "在拉丁美洲，阿根廷和墨西哥两国都在控制腐败和保持透明度的国家名单中排名垫底—— 它们的排名比巴西要低得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than a new treaty, let us adopt at Rio+20 a set of Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, that will inspire a generation to act.",
        "我们需要的不是新条约，而是里约+20峰会采用能激励一代人采取行动的全套可持续发展目标，也叫SDG。"
    ],
    [
        "An “Eddie” in Los Angeles sent me an email asking if I wanted to serve on the advisory board to his new hedge fund.",
        "洛杉矶的一位“埃迪”给我发了一份邮件询问我是否愿意在他的新成立的对冲基金的顾问委员会任职。"
    ],
    [
        "Women and girls are particularly vulnerable – owing to gender as well as ethnicity – to a horrific practice whose aim is to demonstrate the army’s power and punish those who confront it.",
        "由于性别和种族原因，妇女和女孩特别容易受到这一可怕做法的伤害。 这一做法的目的是展示军队的力量，并且惩罚那些敢于抵制的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming that Greece could borrow at a real interest rate of only 3% (the current level is 17%), the government would need to run an annual 2.6%-of-GDP primary budget surplus (the fiscal balance minus debt-service costs) for the next 30 years just to keep the debt burden stable.",
        "假设希腊借款的实际利率仅为3%（目前的利率为17%），未来30年内，政府将需要达成每年2. 6%的GDP初级预算盈余（财政结余减去债务服务费用）才能勉强稳定债务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "On August 29-31, I moderated the World Demographic & Aging Forum in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where attendees arrived at a clear conclusion: although we have increasingly rich data and sophisticated knowledge about future population trends, our concerted action to address those trends falls woefully short.",
        "在8月29~31日，笔者主持了于瑞士圣加仑举办的世界人口和老龄化论坛，与会者得出了一个明确的结论：虽然我们对于未来人口趋势有着日益丰富的数据和成熟的认识，但我们一致行动来应对这些趋势的时间却短得可怜。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is there good reason to believe that adequate fail-safe mechanisms are in place.",
        "而且也没有理由认为建立了充分的故障安全机制。"
    ],
    [
        "But at least it’s a recovery, claim many – and therefore a source of ongoing resilience in an otherwise struggling developed world.",
        "但很多人都认为，无论如何至少在复苏，在发达世界步履蹒跚的环境下，美国称得上坚韧之源。"
    ],
    [
        "Membership in the EU sometimes requires ceding control to a complex web of often-inefficient Brussels-based supranational institutions.",
        "欧盟成员国地位有时需要向位于布鲁塞尔，常常效率低下的复杂的超国家机构网络让渡一些控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "European cohesion funds account for only a fraction of a percent of European GDP, whereas about 10% of national income is typically spent on social transfers.",
        "欧洲凝聚基金只占欧洲GDP的一小部分，而国民收入的大约10%通常用于社会转移上面。"
    ],
    [
        "Such statements make headlines, but they are nonsense.",
        "这些声明虽然会成为报纸的头条新闻，但确是无稽之谈。"
    ],
    [
        "As multinational forces that are built either on regional affiliations or strong bilateral relations, they bestow a “European” label on military resources while guaranteeing efficiency in the field.",
        "因为多国部队通常以地区联系或强大的双边关系为基础，他们为军事资源打上“欧洲”的印记，同时又可以确保战场效率。"
    ],
    [
        "In last May's national elections, India's rural voters unseated the ruling coalition.",
        "去年5月的全国大选中，印度的农村选民将执政联盟赶下了台。"
    ],
    [
        "That does not mean that the OSCE should be replaced with something new – especially since it has now assumed important control functions in Ukraine.",
        "这并不意味着应该用新组织取代欧安组织——特别是因为眼下它行使着重要的控制乌克兰的功能。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond these diseases, for which there is treatment and tracking, thanks partly to ample awareness, many illnesses go unidentified and continue to strain public-health services.",
        "除了这些部分是因为认识充分而得到治疗和追踪的疾病，许多疾病根本没有得到识别，仍在制约公共卫生服务。"
    ],
    [
        "In the ancient world, people made often-bloody offeringsto divinities, whom they believed would reward them with, say, good harvests or protection from evil.",
        "古代世界的人们往往用血淋淋的贡品来祭祀神灵，并相信能够因此获得好的收成或者驱灾辟邪。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the larger the company, the greater its responsibility.",
        "从这个角度，公司规模越大，责任也越大。"
    ],
    [
        "If anything, the latest developments vindicate India’s long-held policy of engaging with Myanmar, a country of major strategic and economic importance to it in terms of trade, transport, energy, and security.",
        "如果有什么区别的话，最新的进展证明了印度长期以来与缅甸建立友好关系的政策是正确的，因为缅甸是一个在贸易、运输、能源及国防上对印度来说都具有战略及经济重要性的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Political problems, however they are addressed, should be weighed against the vulnerability of European banks.",
        "政治问题——不管如何解决——应该与欧洲银行的脆弱性问题相权衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Its implementation would allow Europe to introduce a free-trade zone for renewable energy, reducing the need for storage and excess capacity to back up variable power supplies.",
        "它的实施将使欧洲得以建立一个可再生能源的自由贸易区，并因此减少为支撑其他各类能源供应所需的储存空间和过剩产能。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the railways run out of money before running out of plans.",
        "结果是铁路修建计划还没执行资金就已经耗尽。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the agenda can help to transform perceptions of migrants.",
        "与此同时，发展日程可以有助于改变对移民的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "It can also provide an opportunity for Europeans to demonstrate again to the US their willingness to invest in self-defense capabilities, and to play an active role in a process that, until now, has been conducted largely over their heads, by the US and Russia.",
        "美国新提出的导弹防御方案将大大提高建立有效的全北约防御体系的可能性，从而加强欧洲大众及各国的领土防御能力。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – I do not believe that foreigners contribute usefully by issuing strong opinions about how a country’s citizens, or those of a larger unit like the European Union, should decide when faced with an important political choice.",
        "发自米兰——我从不认为外国人（注：作者是美国人）在当一个国家的公民（或像欧盟这类较大实体中的民众）面对一个重要政治选择时所发表的强烈意见会产生多少有用的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1958, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote the best-selling book The Affluent Society , in which he argued that the advanced world as typified by the United States had by that year finally emerged from “grim scarcity,” when dire necessity dictated our lives, to a “world of affluence.”",
        "1958年，经济学家 约翰·肯尼思·加尔布雷思(John Kenneth Galbraith)写成了畅销书《富裕社会》，提出以美国为首的发达国家民众已经从为生活必需品疲于奔命的“可怕的匮乏”中摆脱出来，进入了全新的“富足世界”。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s Nuclear Morality Tale",
        "日本的核寓言"
    ],
    [
        "While the rich got richer, the poor did not get poorer, but the gap between rich and poor expanded significantly.",
        "在富人越来越富的同时，穷人并没有越来越穷，但富人和穷人之间的差距却越拉越大。"
    ],
    [
        "So, maybe the word “overheated” is misleading.",
        "因此，“过热”一词也许有误导之嫌。"
    ],
    [
        "Reflecting this lesson, during President George W. Bush’s administration, legislation was enacted to require all US defense agencies to consider the effects of climate change in future strategic policy development.",
        "为体现这一教训，乔治·W·布什总统执政期间颁布法律，要求所有美国国防机构考虑气候变化对未来战略政策发展的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The expansion of Egypt’s soft power will depend on the ability of its first democratically elected government, led by President Mohamed Morsi, to take difficult decisions and forge domestic consensus.",
        "埃及软实力的扩张将取决于以总统穆尔西为首的、其第一届民主选出的政府的作出艰难决定和铸造国内一致的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Trade unions agreed to concessions on wages and working conditions in exchange for job security.",
        "公会组织被迫在薪资和工作条件方面作出让步以换取不裁员的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Corruption, however, is inevitable because the rule of law, which is the market=s ultimate guarantor, depends on the consent of all its participants and their belief in its core fairness.",
        "但从长远来看，腐败却不可避免，因为作为市场终极保证的法治取决于所有参与者的认可和对核心公平的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "The obvious conclusion is that raising rural incomes sustainably is required to eradicate hunger.",
        "显而易见的结论是显著提高农村收入是消除饥饿的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in others, it is regarded as a minimum to which additional rules may be added.",
        "但是，在其他地区，它被认为只是最低要求，还需要添加其他规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Republicans interviewed after the election result was known looked almost as shocked as the architects of the UK’s “Leave” campaign on the morning after the referendum.",
        "大选结果出炉后接受采访的共和党看上去与公投次晨英国“退欧”阵营缔造者一样震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "The more we insist that a banking system should be competitive, the greater the risks that individual banks will take.",
        "越是鼓励银行体系放开竞争，个别银行就越是会盲目冒险。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, phases of resurgent radicalism have lasted 5-10 years, marked by greater aggressiveness against internal and external enemies.",
        "从历史上看，激进主义复活的阶段会持续5到10年，标志是对国内外的敌人采取更具侵略性的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Even countries that practice inflation targeting and have otherwise vowed to let their exchange rates float – Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Chile, for example – have done it, and in large quantities.",
        "即便是那些采取控制通胀政策且誓言要令本国货币汇率上升的国家——巴西、哥伦比亚，秘鲁和智利——也都采取了相关措施，而且购买的金额都相当庞大。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s stock exchange is collapsing.",
        "俄罗斯股票交易所正在崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Some economists believe that FDR’s programs, by propping up prices and wages, were counterproductive, preventing markets from clearing and rebounding.",
        "”一些经济学家认为，罗斯福的计划推高了物价和工资，因而不利于生产，阻碍了市场出清和反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "A Confederation for Kosovo",
        "为科索沃建立邦联"
    ],
    [
        "First, most of the 47% pay a great deal of tax on their earnings, property, and goods purchased.",
        "首先，这47%中的大多数缴纳着相当多的收入、物业和商品消费税。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, when the outgoing governor of Van sent a farewell message last month to the largely Kurdish-speaking people in his southeastern province, he delivered it in Kurdish – and received warm wishes in return.",
        "类似地，上个月离职的凡城省（Van）省长向这个东南部省份大部分说库尔德语的人民发表了告别演说，他的演说用的是库尔德语，而听众报之以温暖的祝福。"
    ],
    [
        "Judging by China’s reform progress in recent years, and the current government’s repeated promises to deepen those efforts, I am confident that the country’s leaders will respond to the recent crash by reaffirming the financial-reform agenda.",
        "从近几年来中国改革的进步，以及本届政府一再承诺深化改革措施看，我有信心中国领导人对此次暴跌的反应将是重申金融改革日程。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union has an additional problem: in response to the sovereign crisis, most of its members agreed in 2011 to a “fiscal compact” requiring them to keep their structural budget deficit – the one they would record were output equal to potential – below 0.5% of GDP.",
        "欧盟还有另一个问题：在应对主权危机时，大部分成员国在2011年同意了一份“财政契约”，该契约要求它们把结构性预算赤字——让产出等于潜在水平所需要的赤字——限制在GDP的0."
    ],
    [
        "Nor would it be unreasonable to question the premise that Democrats are “politicizing” a tragedy.",
        "”质疑民主党将一场悲剧“政治化”的这一推定也没有什么不合理。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it signals a change in how we meet the challenges of an emergency.",
        "相反，它预示我们改变了应对紧急挑战的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "In Argentina, as in many Latin American countries, presidents have so much power that other governmental institutions’ authority fades, eradicating the boundaries between the executive and the state.",
        "阿根廷和很多拉美国家一样，总统权力无限，其他政府机构都是花瓶，行政和国家权力的界线很模糊。"
    ],
    [
        "It must begin by giving notice to those who are now a decade away from retirement – which is why it is important to launch such reforms now.",
        "它必须以警示离退休尚有十年的人群为起点——这也是为何需要从现在就开始改革的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The unemployment rate, at 10.8%, is almost one-third higher than the national average, and higher than every other state except Nevada and Rhode Island.",
        "加州10. 8%的失业率高出全国平均水平近三分之一，且高于除内华达和罗德岛之外的全美每一个州。"
    ],
    [
        "The best present we could give to the world this Christmas (regardless of whether we celebrate it religiously or not), would be to dedicate ourselves to championing tolerance everywhere.",
        "在这个圣诞节（不管我们是否在宗教意义上庆祝它），我们能够给世界的最好的礼物是献身于让全世界实现宽容的事业。"
    ],
    [
        "But this won’t happen by relying excessively on markets or underinvesting in public goods.",
        "但如果过分依赖于市场或投资不足的公共物品的话，这一切都不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, our GDP metric does not reflect the cost of the increased insecurity individuals may feel with the increased risk of a loss of a job.",
        "类似地，我们的GDP数字也不会反映个体因丢掉工作风险增加而感受到了不安全感。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Chinese government’s loud calls for continued climate cooperation and quick moves in the wake of Trump’s election to fill the void left by the TPP’s apparent abandonment indicate a will to assume a more central position in global cooperation.",
        "而中国政府大声呼吁在特朗普当选之后继续进行气候合作并迅速行动填补放弃跨太平洋贸易伙伴关系所留下的空白表明其愿意在全球合作中承担核心角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Hollywood is struggling to explain how one of its most visible figures could have gotten away with such behavior for so long.",
        "好莱坞拼命想要解释其最著名的人物之一为什么能在如此长的时间里进行这样的行为而不受惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "President Lee is a conservative, and relatively pro-Japanese.",
        "李明博是一个相对亲日的保守派。"
    ],
    [
        "We are also interested in introducing genes in cells that never gained them by natural genetic transfer.",
        "我们还想向细胞中引入它们永远无法通过自然基因传输获得的基因。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The United States’ Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Barack Obama’s signature 2010 health-care reform, has significantly increased the need for effective antitrust enforcement in health-insurance markets.",
        "伯克利——美国医疗平价法案（ACA）及巴拉克·奥巴马总统2010年医疗改革签名已经显著增强了医疗保险市场的有效反垄断执法需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet some countries are still diverging.",
        "但一些国家仍走在分化的道路上。 1980年，荷兰分别比尼加拉瓜、科特迪瓦和肯尼亚富5."
    ],
    [
        "What makes Bayrou potentially so strong is the fact that widespread reservations about the two leading candidates are influencing the calculus of militants and politicians alike.",
        "让贝鲁的潜力如此强大的原因是法国民众对两大主要候选人大范围的保留意见正在影响到激进份子和政客们的算计。"
    ],
    [
        "Against the backdrop of the sub-prime crisis, the disasters at many financial institutions, and the weakening of the stock market, these “masters of the universe” seemed less omniscient than they did a short while ago.",
        "在次贷危机、许多金融机构面临灾难和股市低迷的背景下，这些“世界统治者”似乎没有像他们前一段时间那样无所不知了。"
    ],
    [
        "But Merkel’s analysis is utterly wrong.",
        "但默克尔的分析却是大错特错的。"
    ],
    [
        "Capturing the ECB",
        "绑架欧洲央行"
    ],
    [
        "The US and Iran have been fighting proxy wars since 1979, and their ongoing conflict means that proxy wars will continue in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Caspian Sea region, as will trade and investment wars.",
        "美国和伊朗从1979年开始就打起了代理战争，两国之间的现时冲突意味着代理战争将会在黎巴嫩、伊拉克、阿富汗和里海地区继续，就如同在贸易和投资方面的战争一样。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia has a long coastline on the Red Sea, as well as other unspoiled areas of natural beauty that could attract visitors.",
        "沙特拥有漫长的红海海岸线，以及未经破坏的自然美景来吸引旅游者。"
    ],
    [
        "The remaining top-level positions are filled by long-time family retainers who, on average, have 17 years on the job.",
        "其余的高层职位被家族企业的长期雇佣者所掌握，这些人平均拥有长达十七年的就职经历。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank of England recently injected an additional £75 billion into the economy via so-called quantitative easing.",
        "英格兰银行最近再度通过所谓的量化宽松向经济注入750亿英镑。"
    ],
    [
        "This would be worth nearly $3 trillion in social good, implying an enormous return of $34 for every dollar spent.",
        "这相当于近3万亿美元的社会福利，每一美元投入能够产生高达34美元的巨大回报。"
    ],
    [
        "True, some prostitutes are enslaved, and the men who use their services should be prosecuted.",
        "诚然，一些妓女被奴役，使用她们的服务的男性应该被起诉。"
    ],
    [
        "In the time of the pharaohs, it was at the heart of the global spice trade.",
        "在埃及法老时代，它是全球香料贸易的中心。"
    ],
    [
        "While it is too soon to assess the opening’s impact in terms of reducing repression, the opportunity it presents for Cubans to engage with Americans – first family to family, then business to business – is significant.",
        "目前定论开放对减轻压迫的作用还为时尚早，但其为古巴人民带来的与美国人互动的机会——首先是家庭间互动，然后是企业间互动——是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "During this time, we must not let ourselves become accustomed to images of people drowning when they flee persecution, or hospitals and refugee camps razed.",
        "在此期间，我们一定不能让自己习惯于逃避迫害者被溺死的画面，也不能允许医院和难民营被夷为平地。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal retrenchment amid weak private demand would lead to chronically high unemployment.",
        "事实上，赤字削减将让1937年重现。"
    ],
    [
        "But sovereignty is always a slippery concept.",
        "但主权始终是个难以把握的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "She deserves the chance to finish what she started.",
        "她理应获得有始有终的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "This also means that political elites should try to understand and work with the message of indignation – and not cynically play up anger for electoral advantage.",
        "这同样意味着政治精英们应当力求理解并接受这种义愤所发出的信号——而不是玩世不恭地利用这种义愤来谋取选举优势。"
    ],
    [
        "The opening ceremony of the Olympic games will highlight this revival: it will feature not quotes from Marx, but sayings from the Analects of Confucius.",
        "北京奥运会的开幕式将会突出这一复兴。 开幕式不会引用马克思的语录，而是引用论语。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s bold monetary easing, for example, was a critical element of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s strategy for lifting the Japanese economy out of more than a decade of recession – and it has led to a remarkable recovery.",
        "比如，日本大激进货币宽松政策是首相安倍晋三带领日本经济走出十多年衰退的经济战略的关键要素，并且已经带来了颇为可观的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, China’s government cannot continue to waste resources on economic-stimulus packages that have led to industrial overcapacity and skyrocketing local-government debt.",
        "类似地，中国政府不能再将资源浪费在导致工业产能过剩和地方政府债务高企的经济刺激计划上。"
    ],
    [
        "Opportunities to catch up to developed-country productivity levels abound across key sectors.",
        "赶超发达国家生产力水平的机遇在各个关键部门都极为充裕。"
    ],
    [
        "First, anti-immigrant sentiment is not based only on prejudice, ignorance, or political opportunism.",
        "首先，反移民情绪不是基于偏见、傲慢或政治投机主义。"
    ],
    [
        "This trio of policies forms the foundation of what’s known among health-care professionals as the “harm-reduction package.” Russia and Ukraine, however, spend no money on harm reduction.",
        "上述这三项措施构成了医疗卫生专家所熟知的“减轻危害套餐”，但俄罗斯和乌克兰两国却对此无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even with China’s efforts to loosen the renminbi-dollar linkage, it is arguable whether revaluation could save American jobs or improve the US trade balance.",
        "但是，即使中国努力放松人民币与美元之间的联系汇率，人民币升值能否挽救美国人的工作机会或者根本改善与美国的贸易平衡，尚有待商榷。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, Germany stood above the fray.",
        "特别是德国的独树一帜。"
    ],
    [
        "This partly explains the current tensions between China and Japan over their conflicting territorial claims to islands in the East China Sea, which occupy an area of only seven square kilometers, but are surrounded by rich hydrocarbon reserves.",
        "这一定程度上可以解释中日之间目前因领土要求而导致的局势紧张，东海的海上小岛占地仅7平方公里，但周围却环绕着丰富的油气储量。"
    ],
    [
        "And she insists that, years ago, when she took drug x, it made her feel like a new woman – despite the fact that, in 1,000 patients, drug x has demonstrated, on average, no effect.",
        "她还坚持，如果服用药物x，她就会有一种新女人（new woman）的感觉——尽管在现实中平均而言药物x在每1,000个病人中都不会引起一例副作用。"
    ],
    [
        "One potential solution would be for states to represent each other, as occurs in the International Monetary Fund.",
        "一个潜在解决方案时让国家代表彼此，就像在国际货币基金组织（IMF）中那样。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s postwar growth and dynamism largely resulted from skilled immigrants.",
        "美国战后的增长和活力大多数来自具有一技之长的移民。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the completion of the Aberdares fence, the value of local farmers’ land has quadrupled.",
        "自亚伯达电网完工以来，当地农民的土地价值翻了两番。"
    ],
    [
        "Their vote for Hollande was a vote against Sarkozy, not against austerity.",
        "他们之所以支持奥朗德，其实是在反对萨科齐而不是紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "French officials have now reacted to the prospect of a credit rating downgrade by lashing out at Britain.",
        "现在，对于自己遭到信用降级的前景，法国官员的反应是猛烈抨击英国。"
    ],
    [
        "But Russia sees things very differently.",
        "但俄罗斯的看法却截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, huge protests against a recent bill that would have banned virtually all abortions (under penalty of imprisonment for up to five years) forced the government to back down and withdraw the proposed legislation.",
        "事实上，反对一项新法案的大规模示威已经迫使波兰政府收回立法提案。 该法案将禁止几乎一切堕胎行为（堕胎行为将导致最多五年刑期的处罚）。"
    ],
    [
        "With employers unwilling to hire workers that they cannot easily fire, French young people are right to feel uncertain about their future.",
        "雇主们不愿意聘用不能轻易解雇的工人，法国的年轻人当然会对自己的未来失去信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the government has modestly reduced taxes on wages and slightly scaled down the generosity of some benefits.",
        "而且，该政府还温和地削减了工资税收，轻微地降低了某些福利的慷慨程度。"
    ],
    [
        "These implicit government guarantees attract more money into these financial channels from nonguaranteed channels, and more “hot money” flows into firms like MF Global, Lehman, and Bear via repo.",
        "这一隐性政府担保吸引了更多的钱从无担保渠道流入了有担保渠道，导致更多的“热钱”通过回购协议流入了曼氏金融、雷曼和贝尔斯登这样的公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet they command less than 10% of the capital available for investment in new enterprises.",
        "但她们在新企业投资中却只能得到不超过10%的资金份额。"
    ],
    [
        "Zombie-like companies were kept on artificial life-support in the false hope that time alone would revive them.",
        "这些行尸走肉般的公司靠着人为力量勉强继续运行，它们都抱着一种虚幻的希望——时间能够拯救一切。"
    ],
    [
        "France also has a higher birth rate than all other European countries, and is the only one that renews each generation.",
        "暴躁，唠叨和多事的法国人屡次显示出觉醒之后的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, limiting the ECB to its conventional tool kit amounts to accepting the risk of a eurozone collapse.",
        "说到底，将欧洲央行限制在常规工具范围内不啻接受欧元区崩溃的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Child mortality – among the worst in the world in 2001 – has dropped by 25%.",
        "2000年的世界上最高的儿童死亡率在阿富汗，目前已经下降了2 5 ％。"
    ],
    [
        "But the ongoing weakness of the euro – fed by such policies – is fueling growth in the eurozone’s current-account surplus.",
        "但欧元的持续贬值——拜这些政策所赐——刺激了欧元区经常项目盈余增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the EU’s fundamental interconnectedness – in economic, financial, geopolitical, and social terms – the disruptive impact of each shock would amplify the others, overwhelming the region’s circuit breakers, leading to recession, reviving financial instability, and creating pockets of social tension.",
        "欧盟从根本上是一个互联互通的实体——经济、金融、地缘政治、社会等维度都是如此——每起冲击的破坏性影响将彼此放大，击穿地区断路保护器、导致衰退、重现金融动荡、制造各种社会紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet a Khatami victory would not have guaranteed change.",
        "但是哈塔米的胜利也不能保证就会带来变化。"
    ],
    [
        "The broader lesson should be clear: when a natural hazard wreaks havoc on a power grid, there is a high potential for cascading impacts on dependent systems, such as banking and finance, government services, transport and communications, and drinking water.",
        "更广的教训变得越发明显：一旦自然灾害破坏了电网，就非常有可能对依靠电力的系统产生巨大的冲击。 例如，这些系统包括银行和金融业、政府服务、交通和通信以及饮用水资源。"
    ],
    [
        "While the researchers who originally published those studies may have profited from increased funding and recognition, the patients who need new cancer treatments gained nothing.",
        "最先发表成果的研究者可能已经从资金和知名度的增加中获益，但需要新癌症疗法的换证没有得到任何好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The first question is the hardest to answer.",
        "回答第一个问题最为困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Forty years ago, Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights after a lightning six-day war that repelled the armies of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.",
        "四十年前，以色列通过闪电般的六日战争，击溃了埃及、约旦和叙利亚的军队，占领了（约旦河）西岸、加沙和戈兰高地。"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of Jerusalem, resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Security Council have repeatedly declared the final status of Jerusalem to be a matter of international law.",
        "在耶路撒冷问题上，联合国大会和安理会所通过的决议一再确认，耶路撒冷的最终地位问题是一个国际法问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But he paid little heed to these issues in office, dismissing concerns about human rights and democracy throughout the region and elsewhere, particularly in Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran.",
        "另外，也有人担心她没有像卢拉般掌控劳动党的手腕。"
    ],
    [
        "Its ships and aircraft can rescue stranded nationals.",
        "其战舰和飞机可以援救受困的侨民。"
    ],
    [
        "From the outset, power was grouped on the basis of coalitions of full brothers, the most significant of whom were the “Sudeiri Seven,” Abdul Aziz’s sons with his wife Hissah Al Sudeiri.",
        "从外部看，权力集团缔结的基础是嫡亲兄弟之间的结盟，其中最著名的便是“苏德里七兄弟”（Sudeiri Seven），他们都是阿卜杜勒·阿齐兹及其妻子西萨·苏德里（Hissah Al Sudeiri）所生。"
    ],
    [
        "These findings, combined with the immature anatomy of the infant dura, suggest that dural bleeding in young babies may be a natural protective device – a reservoir to prevent backflow into the brain’s blood vessels during the pressure fluctuations of normal labor and delivery.",
        "这些发现，加上婴儿硬脑膜发育不成熟，表明新生儿脑膜出血可能是天然保护机制——为了防止正常劳作和分娩时压力波动造成血液回流大脑血管。"
    ],
    [
        "Inequalities faced by girls and young women in African education cannot be erased overnight.",
        "非洲女孩和年轻女性在教育领域所面临的不平等不可能一夜间消除。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans must wake up to Putin’s design before it is too late.",
        "欧洲必须在为时尚早时对普京的算盘警醒。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, several groups have split from the incumbent parties.",
        "近年来，已经从执政党分裂出了几大集团。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe therefore had to act, though that decision was obviously difficult.",
        "因此，尽管做出决定明显是困难的，但是欧洲必须采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "So the Fed is right to say that inflation is low because of the sharp drop in energy prices; but it need not worry about the effect of major trading partners’ lower currency values.",
        "因此，美联储说能源价格暴跌引起了通胀低迷是正确的； 但它不必担心主要贸易伙伴货币贬值的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "His interventions diverted attention from the grave policy error being made at the time: deregulation of credit, which led to a deep financial crisis in the 1990s and anticipated the global crisis that erupted in 2008.",
        "他的干预将人们的注意力从当时所犯的巨大的政策错误上引开：信用去监管，它导致了20世纪90年代的深度金融危机，也是2008年爆发的全球危机的先声。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1945, the terrifying destructive force of nuclear weapons has encouraged political leaders to search for ways to control them.",
        "自1945年以来，核武器的可怕破坏力令政治领导人们寻求各种方法控制它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a formal education, Diana self-consciously set about pushing open the doors of an encrusted monarchy, challenging the sanctities of a long-established class structure, and affirming the value and immediacy of a Britain that was more diverse and socially mobile than ever before.",
        "黛安娜王妃没有接受过正规的教育，但是，她却自发行动起来，为世人打开壁垒森严的君主政体的大门，挑战确立已久的阶级结构的权威性，并肯定比以前任何时候都更多元化和具有社会流动性的英国的价值和紧迫性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes Russia, China, and four ex-Soviet Central Asian states, was established in 2001.",
        "包括俄罗斯、中国和四个前苏联中亚国家的上海合作组织于2001年成立。"
    ],
    [
        "China is at the geographical hub of Asia, sharing land or sea frontiers with 20 countries; so, in the absence of Chinese participation, it will be impossible to establish a rules-based regional order.",
        "中国是亚洲地缘政治中心，与20个国家海陆相邻； 因此，没有中国的参与，就不可能建立基于规则的地区秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "The other lesson is moral, and it is more difficult.",
        "另外一个教训是道德层面的，也更为困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem now for Iraqi and US politicians is that, to act rationally, they will need to face down elements within their own constituencies.",
        "对于伊拉克和美国政治人物们而言，现在的问题是如果想要符合理智地做事，他们就要弹压其自身选区内部的势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, like managers everywhere, their responsibility is great, making their positions less secure, while companies must compete for the relatively few good ones, driving up their price.",
        "而且，像在所有地方的经理们一样，他们职责重大，使得他们的地位更为不安稳，而各公司则必须争取相对较少的优秀人才，从而抬高了他们的身价。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, fiscal and financial innovation will be needed to capture the potential of new technologies.",
        "另一方面，我们需要财政和金融创新来捕获新技术的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "If they succeed, PTP supporters will likely descend on Bangkok, much as they did in 2009-2010, after a “judicial coup” dissolved Thaksin’s People’s Power Party, the PTP’s predecessor, and the Democrats formed a coalition government.",
        "如果他们成功，为泰党支持者就可能在曼谷失势，一如2009—2010年在“司法政变”解散了他信的人民力量党（People’s Power Party，为泰党的前身）、民主党组建临时政府后所发生的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia also invested in Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, the so-called Sunni Bomb, by directly financing the research of A. Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistani effort.",
        "沙特阿拉伯还投资于巴基斯坦的核武器计划——所谓的逊尼炸弹（Sunni Bomb），直接为巴基斯坦核武器之父可汗（A. Q."
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – China has now officially supplanted Japan as the world’s second largest economy.",
        "东京——中国如今已正式取代日本成为世界第二大经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, it is important to recognize that the line needs to be clearly visible before extremist parties even arise.",
        "首先，很重要的一点是这条线需要在极端主义政党出现之前明确地划定。"
    ],
    [
        "In Germany, intelligent action on transport could reduce the sector’s emissions by up to 95% by 2050.",
        "在德国，智能交通可以让交通业排放量到2050年减少95%。"
    ],
    [
        "And when he finally does acknowledge reality, he will have little room for maneuver.",
        "而当他最终承认现实时，他已经没有多少腾挪空间了。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that Europeans have become so accustomed to muddling through that long-term solutions seem all but impossible.",
        "但问题在于，欧洲人早已习惯在面对危机之时虚与委蛇，胡乱应付过去，使得任何长期解决方案都似乎无法实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The softness in its annual surveillance of UK economic policy has also been well known.",
        "其对英国经济政策的年度评估态度之软弱也是众所周知的。"
    ],
    [
        "When its grip was loosened, any semblance of law and order disappeared.",
        "随着专制政府控制力逐渐减弱，法律和秩序的假象也随之消失了。"
    ],
    [
        "However, as leading oil historian Dan Yergin points out, prophets of doom have declared that the world is running out of oil at least four times already.",
        "但是，正如知名的石油问题历史学家耶金指出的那样，预言大难临头的预言家宣称世界石油耗尽已经至少有四次了。"
    ],
    [
        "For too long, the West has ignored Russia’s recovery of strength and was not prepared to accept the consequences.",
        "西方在过去太长的一段时间里，忽视了俄罗斯国力的恢复，也没有做好准备应付其后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Later investigations have shown that the transmitting agent in variant CJD shares identical biological properties with BSE’s agent, supporting a causal relationship.",
        "接下来的研究表明：变异型克雅氏病传染因子的生物属性与牛海绵状脑病完全相同，证明这两者之间的确存在着因果关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Rewarding the Kurds for their help by backing their bid for statehood would be so unacceptable that, to prevent it, Erdoğan might even try to thwart the defeat of ISIS.",
        "为了报答库尔德人的帮助而支持他们建国对埃尔多安来说是不可接受的，为了阻止这一幕发生，他甚至可以阻止消灭伊斯兰国。"
    ],
    [
        "Commercial banks, flush with central banks’ money, advanced credit for many unsound investment projects, with the explosion of financial innovation (particularly of derivative instruments) fueling the lending frenzy.",
        "商业银行由于获得了央行的资金而兴奋不已，把钱借给了大量并不靠谱的投资项目，而金融创新的大爆发（特别是衍生工具）更是助长了这一借贷疯狂。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, skill formation and development must become a life-long process, starting with formal schooling, but continuing through on-the-job training and intervals of full-time education at different points in life.",
        "首先，技能形成和开发必须成为一生的过程，从正式入学开始，并在一生的时间里参与数次在职培训和脱产全职教育。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is only a matter of time until they fall, too.",
        "但是股市下跌也只是一个时间上的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, an agreement on authorizing the ECB to oversee the banking sector was reached at the end of last year.",
        "其次，授权欧洲央行监督银行部门的协定在去年年底达成。"
    ],
    [
        "We are not interested in the illusion of partnership.",
        "我们对伙伴关系的幻想不感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, G-20 members agreed to pursue a global infrastructure initiative aimed at facilitating investment and boosting financing for infrastructure projects and, crucially, for small and medium-size enterprises.",
        "去年，G-20成员国同意实施旨在促进基础设施项目和（关键性地）中小企业投资、增加资金支持的全球基础设施计划。"
    ],
    [
        "And let’s not forget that US voters have no appetite for more military action in the Middle East, even if the price is years of civil war and the implosion and fragmentation of a country bordering Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, and Lebanon.",
        "我们也不要忘了，美国选民对于增兵中东并没有多少兴趣，即使不增兵的代价是一个毗邻以色列、约旦、伊拉克、土耳其和黎巴嫩的国家发生多年内战、分裂和崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless India’s highly educated stand up for better schools for all, protests against caste preferences will only succeed in heightening tensions and selling newspapers, rather than improving the lives of India’s destitute.",
        "除非接受过高等教育的印度人站起来为所有的人争取更好的学校，否则，反对种姓优先的抗议活动将只会增加局势的紧张程度，出售更多的报纸，而不会改善印度贫穷人口的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "That diplomatic project is far from absurd.",
        "这一外交工程还谈不上荒谬。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent survey in the US by the organization Common Sense Media reveals a paradox, but one that is perfectly understandable.",
        "美国媒体常识组织最近的调查揭示了一个看似矛盾，却很好理解的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Add falling commodity and energy prices to the mix and there is a risk that inflation expectations will remain too low to sustain a balanced recovery.",
        "再加上大宗商品和能源价格下跌，就产生了一个风险，即，通胀压力太低而无法维持平衡复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "It was also desirable, because rapid growth was hitting environmental limits.",
        "这一减速也是合适的，因为高速增长已经触及环境极限。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe the real US strategy is to try to owe the commodity-exporting countries so much money that they will feel dependent on making America happy!",
        "美国的真实战略可能是试图欠原料出口国大量金钱，迫使它们感觉要依赖于讨美国的欢心！"
    ],
    [
        "Peril or Promise in North Korea?",
        "朝鲜：危机还是希望？"
    ],
    [
        "If just 1.8% of Britons voted differently, Brexit would now be a forgotten joke-word.",
        "8%的英国人投出不同的票，英国退欧现在早已是一个被忘却的笑话。"
    ],
    [
        "Without complementary structural reforms that encourage private investment and innovation – and thus enable economies to adapt and compete in a global, technology-driven economy – a public-investment program will have a disappointingly weak impact on growth.",
        "没有全面的结构改革鼓励私人投资和创新——从而让经济能够做出调整并在全球化的技术推动型经济中竞争——公共投资计划对增长的影响将令人无比失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Those answers plunged into depression territory between July and August, and the index of optimism based on answers to this question is at its lowest level since the oil-crisis-induced “great recession” of the early 1980’s.",
        "7月和8月间，这些问题的答案指向萧条，而给出这一问题答案的乐观指数下跌到了20世纪80年代初由石油危机导致的“大衰退”以来的最低点。"
    ],
    [
        "Three former military attorneys, recognizing this blunt truth, refused to participate in the “military tribunals” – rather, “show trials” – aimed at condemning men whose confessions were elicited through torture.",
        "三位承认了这个残酷现实的前军事律师，拒绝参加目的为判处其供述是通过折磨取得的囚犯刑罚的“军事法庭”－它还不如说是“审判表演”。"
    ],
    [
        "A long transition in the Middle East is underway.",
        "中东地区正在经历漫长的转型进程。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Last June, Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), declared that “nuclear power will make a significant and growing contribution to sustainable development in the coming decades.” But, as this year’s World Nuclear Industry Status Report highlights, recent trends paint a very different picture.",
        "巴黎—去年6月，国际原子能机构（IAEA）总干事天野之弥宣称“在未来数十年中，核力量将在可持续发展方面起到日渐增加的重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "A shakeup of Spain’s political and constitutional status quo is long overdue, and the entire country could emerge stronger if the reforms enacted in response to the Catalonia crisis help unleash the energies of one of Europe’s most diverse nations.",
        "西班牙早就应当重组政治和宪法现状，如果针对加泰罗尼亚危机进行的改革能协助发挥这个欧洲最多样化国家之一的潜力，那么整个国家就会更上一层楼。"
    ],
    [
        "The only decent survey of employment in Iraq, the United Nations Development Program’s Iraq Living Standards Survey of 2004 , measured unemployment at 10.5%.",
        "联合国开发计划署的2004年度伊拉克生活水平调查是有关伊拉克就业情况的唯一的可信的调查。 该调查表明伊拉克的失业率为10."
    ],
    [
        "Charles Taylor was President of Liberia when the Tribunal for Sierra Leone indicted him.",
        "塞拉利昂国际法庭起诉泰勒之时，他还是利比里亚总统。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Resurgent Warlords",
        "复苏的中国军阀"
    ],
    [
        "ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN – Today’s International Monetary Fund (and, to a lesser degree, the World Bank) recall Talleyrand’s description of France’s Bourbon kings: it has learned nothing and forgotten nothing.",
        "密歇根，安阿伯尔－当今的国际货币基金组织（世界银行在某种程度上也是如此 ）令人想起塔列朗（Talleyrand）对法国波旁王朝国王们的描述：什么都没有学会，也什么都没忘记。"
    ],
    [
        "With that switch, Greek debt may well become sustainable, even by IMF standards.",
        "一旦实现了这一转换，希腊债务就可能变得可持续——即便按照国际货币基金组织的标准也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems inevitable now that either the eurozone will have to contract, with parts of the uncompetitive periphery dropping out, at least for a time, or that member countries’ debts will have to be collectively guaranteed, which implies some form of fiscal union.",
        "从目前的情况看，要么欧元区将被迫缩小，部分无竞争力的外围国家将（至少是暂时地）退出； 要么成员国的债务将获得共同担保，这意味着某种形式的财政联盟，没有第三种选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, if interest rates also were being cut in the euro-zone, the fall in the dollar against the euro would be moderated.",
        "当然，如果欧元区也降息，美元相对欧元贬值就会缓解。"
    ],
    [
        "Of every $10 of world trade in information technology, Greece accounts for $0.01.",
        "在信息技术全球贸易中，希腊所占比重更是只有0. 1%。"
    ],
    [
        "Eric Holder, the US attorney general, was even more explicit about the Times Square episode: “We know that they (the Pakistan Taliban) helped direct it.",
        "美国司法部长埃里克·霍尔德对时代广场事件的态度更加直截了当： “我们知道他们（巴基斯坦塔利班）参与了此次活动的策划。"
    ],
    [
        "The US cannot leave Iraq precipitously, but neither can it solve the problem on its own.",
        "美国无法让伊拉克处于险峻的境地，但是它也无力单独解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis in morale among today’s medical scientists stems not from money problems, nor from the stage of development of their fields, nor from the level of research that is being conducted, but from these scientists’ failure to form themselves into proper, humane communities.",
        "这场发生在当今医学科学家之中的士气危机不是由资金问题造成的，也无关该领域所处的发展阶段，更不是因为研究水平，而是因为这些科学家们没有能够在研究过程中结成合适的人道社团。"
    ],
    [
        "We Czechs know something about this, as the wrenching economic transition that we underwent in the 1990’s taught us much about how the right policies can break the grip of hopelessness.",
        "我们捷克人对此有所了解，因为我们在九十年代经历了艰苦的经济转型，告诉了我们许多道理，也就是正确的政策可以打破绝望钳制。"
    ],
    [
        "Bureaucratic and security services dominated by the Revolutionary Guards and its militia, the Basij (Mobilization Corps), are now firmly in command.",
        "伊朗政府的官僚机构和国家安全事务已经牢牢地控制在了革命卫队及其民兵组织 —— 巴斯基（ Basij ，动员部队）手里。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the French are incorrigible lovers of the welfare state (they are not the only ones).",
        "然而，法国人是福利国家的忠实拥护者（他们不是唯一有这种想法的人）。"
    ],
    [
        "The transformative impacts of technology will ultimately make themselves felt.",
        "技术的变革性影响最终会让所有人感受到。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of these low-conviction voters are now dismayed that Brexit has distracted attention from their real grievances about health, inequality, low wages, housing, and other issues.",
        "如今，这些立场并不太坚定的选民中有很多惊愕于退欧让人们的注意力从他们真正的怨恨对象——医疗、不平等性、低工资、住房和其他问题——上转移开去。"
    ],
    [
        "When our ancestors moved out of the African forest onto the savannah more than a million years ago, they rapidly became effective predators.",
        "一百万年前，当我们的祖先从非洲丛林搬迁至大草原时，他们很快就成为了战斗力极强的肉食动物。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a turning point for Japan, as the country’s clubby investment culture came up against global transparency and accounting standards.",
        "这是日本的一个转折点，该国的排外投资文化与全球透明度和会计标准发生了正面冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama’s decision to rotate 2,500 US Marines through a base in northern Australia is an early sign of that pivot.",
        "政策中心的这一转移已有实际体现。 例如，奥巴马总统下令派遣2500名海军陆战队员到澳大利亚北部的某基地进行训练。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission is thus establishing itself as a friendly venue for businesses that cannot overcome competitors in the market, and seek a second chance in court.",
        "欧盟委员会由此把它自己树立为那些在市场上无法战胜其竞争对手而试图在法庭上获得第二次机会的企业的一个好帮手。"
    ],
    [
        "To increase their chances of a bailout, banks in the eurozone periphery will doubtless borrow as much as they can from politically connected banks and investors in the core countries.",
        "塞浦路斯的银行就没那么好运了。 为了增加自身被援助的几率，欧元区外围的银行将尽可能地从那些在核心国家有政治背景的银行和投资者借款。"
    ],
    [
        "We can redouble our efforts to seek political solutions to conflict and persecution.",
        "我们可以加倍努力政治解决迫害和冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico’s economy is in a demand-constrained regime, and there is no reason to expect this to change in the foreseeable future.",
        "波多黎各经济属于有限需求体制，而在可以预见的将来没有理由预期这一点会发生变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Right now, many netizens are applauding Google’s move.",
        "现在，许多网民都在为谷歌的行为喝彩。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – In 2001, when Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the acronym BRIC to refer to Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the world had high hopes for the four emerging economies, whose combined GDP was expected to reach $128.4 trillion by 2050, dwarfing America’s projected GDP of $38.5 trillion.",
        "新德里—2001年，高盛的奥尼尔（Jim O’Neill）创造了“金砖四国”一词用以指代巴西、俄罗斯、印度和中国这四个世界寄予厚望的新兴经济体，到2050年，四国GDP总量预计将达128. 4万亿美元，远远高于美国的预计GDP38."
    ],
    [
        "Latin America, by contrast, looks pretty good.",
        "相反，拉丁美洲看上去情况非常出色。"
    ],
    [
        "Then a White House spokesman said that the bust was still on the premises, just in a different room, whereupon the story changed once more: there were apparently two busts of Churchill; one still in the White House, and one that Obama returned to the British embassy.",
        "之后一位白宫发言人表示，半身像仍然放在白宫，只不过更换了房间而已，于是事情再次发生了变化：显然有两座丘吉尔的半身像； 一座仍然摆放在白宫，而另一座被奥巴马送回了英国大使馆。"
    ],
    [
        "But there was always a right-wing minority that felt humiliated and resentful of the loss of national pride and, more important, national sovereignty, for Japan’s security would henceforth have to depend entirely on the protection offered by the US.",
        "但总有少数右翼分子为丧失民族自豪感、更重要的还有国家主权而倍感屈辱。 因为日本的安全将从此依赖于美国所提供的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Iran’s hardliners were frustrated by previous negotiations, their disappointment vanished yesterday.",
        "但如果说伊朗强硬派因为此前的谈判而被压得抬不起头的话，那么昨天他们终于扬眉吐气了。"
    ],
    [
        "In June, for no apparent reason, the book was banned throughout the country, despite its lack of political content.",
        "谁知到了6月，虽然书中并未包含任何政治内容，但该书却莫名其妙地遭到全国范围的查禁。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the printing press.",
        "以印刷机为例。"
    ],
    [
        "The federal government would then augment the protection up to the once-in-five-hundred-year level.",
        "联邦政府则要将其保障制度提高到500年一遇的重大灾害上。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, perhaps the most damaging aspect of all of our wonderful technology is that it enables us to live blissfully apart from those with whom we disagree.",
        "事实上，我们精彩技术最具破坏性的作用或许就是能使我们远离意见不同者幸福地生活。"
    ],
    [
        "The vast Soviet empire exited the historical stage without a single shot being fired.",
        "苏联帝国兵不血刃地退出了历史舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of scale or scope, OBOR has no parallel in modern history.",
        "就规模和范畴而言，一带一路在现代史上无可匹敌。"
    ],
    [
        "When the indictments against the 14 FIFA officials were filed, the cast of characters included not only miscreants from the sports world, but also some familiar players: secret Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Islands tax havens, shell corporations – all of the financial appurtenances that are literally designed to shield the rich from scrutiny and the law.",
        "14名国际足联官员的起诉书所牵扯的不仅是体育界的罪犯，还有某些非常熟悉的机构：瑞士银行秘密账户、开曼群岛避税天堂、空壳公司——以上一切金融附属产业都旨在保护富人免受法律的监督和惩罚。"
    ],
    [
        "The differences between the demonstrations in Madrid and Warsaw suggest that the distinction between Old and New Europe remains valid, though not in the way that Rumsfeld meant.",
        "马德里和华沙示威之间的差别表明新旧欧洲之间的区分依然有效——虽然已经不是拉姆斯菲尔德的原意了。"
    ],
    [
        "We believed that, though progress may not be linear, we could count on it.",
        "我们相信，尽管进步未必是线性的，但始终可以充满希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the acceleration of economic growth since the third quarter of 2012 should come as no surprise.",
        "由此可见，2012第三季度以来的经济增长加速应属意料之内。"
    ],
    [
        "The “unbanked” rate is even higher for women, the poor, and people living in rural areas.",
        "“无银行账户率”在妇女、贫困及农村人口中实际更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Suppose, for example, that Portugal were to leave and re-introduce the escudo. The ensuing exchange-rate devaluation would immediately lower the price of Portugal’s exports, raise its import prices, stimulate the economy, and bring about much-needed growth.",
        "假如葡萄牙退出欧元区，重新引入埃斯库多（葡萄牙货币单位），那么随后而来的汇率贬值会使葡萄牙出口产品价格下跌，进口产品价格上涨，刺激葡萄牙经济发展，带来其急需的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Mayer, I think, did not order her employees back to the office merely because some people were not actually working at home; rather, many of those who were working were not working together.",
        "我认为，梅耶要其员工回到办公室的原因绝不仅仅是某些员工在家并不工作，而是许多工作的员工没有在一起工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, economic strategists and business leaders in Latin America now look to China at least as much as they look to the US.",
        "类似地，拉丁美洲的经济战略家和商业领袖现在也认为中国至少与美国一样值得重视。"
    ],
    [
        "Around 40% of Pakistanis live below the poverty line, half the population is illiterate, and, among those who are literate, many have been schooled in Wahhabi-funded madrasas.",
        "大约有40%的巴基斯坦人生活在贫困线下，有一半的人口是文盲，而在那些受过教育的人当中，许多人是在由瓦哈比教派资助的伊斯兰学校里上的学。"
    ],
    [
        "People who naively believed that cows ate grass discovered that beef cattle in feed lots may be fed anything from corn to fish meal, chicken litter (complete with chicken droppings), and slaughterhouse waste.",
        "有些人天真地相信牛吃的是草，现在才发现饲喂肉牛的食品种类繁多，从谷物到鱼肉、养鸡场的垃圾稻草（包括鸡的排泻物）以及屠宰场的下脚料。"
    ],
    [
        "And if China, with its population of 1.4 billion people, maintains its economic trajectory of the last 20 years, the Swiss will probably have to build a new, much larger station at Kleine Scheidegg.",
        "而如果拥有14亿人口的中国能维持过去二十年的经济轨迹，那么瑞士可能得在小沙伊得克兴建一个更大的新火车站。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in a recent joint letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the EU’s other 27 national governments, 185 American CEOs alleged that the EU had over-reached yet again, resulting in a “self-inflicted wound” for Ireland’s and Europe’s economy.",
        "而且，185个美国CEO最近联名写信给德国总理安吉拉·默克尔（Angela Merkel）和欧盟其他27个国家政府，声称欧盟已经再次越权，对爱尔兰和欧洲经济造成了“自残的伤口”。"
    ],
    [
        "That alone should be reason enough for Abe to act.",
        "光是这一点便足以促使安倍晋三采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, the US Congress has just enacted the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, which prohibits anyone implicated in Magnitsky’s detention or death – or others suspected of gross human-rights abuses – from entering the US or using its banking system.",
        "对此，美国国会刚刚通过了法律责任法的马格尼茨基规则（Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act），禁止任何与马格尼茨基被捕和死亡有关的人士（或其他被疑有严重侵犯人权行为的人士）进入美国或与美国银行系统有往来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the politics of stock markets does not stop with taxes. On the contrary, almost every activity of government has an impact on corporate profits, and in turn, on the stock market.",
        "事实上，影响股市的政治因素不仅限于税收，相反，政府的一举一动几乎都会对企业盈利，进而对股市产生影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that fail to build inclusive education systems face the prospect of sluggish growth, rising inequality, and lost opportunities in world trade.",
        "不能建立包容性教育制度的国家将面临增长停滞、不平等性加剧以及失去世界贸易机会的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamic Republic’s first president, Abolhassan Bani Sadr, was dismissed from office a year after his election.",
        "伊朗的首位总统萨德尔当选后一年就被解职。"
    ],
    [
        "Daily stock price changes for the 100-business-day period ending August 3 were unusually negatively skewed in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom.",
        "截止8月3日前100个交易日的每日股价变化在阿根廷、澳大利亚、巴西、加拿大、中国、法国、德国、印度、日本、韩国、墨西哥、美国和英国都呈现出不寻常的负偏态。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration’s fiscal stimulus has also significantly helped the economy.",
        "相比之下，高盛的奖金如同四舍五入中的误差般无足轻重。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand why requires taking a long-term view of geopolitics, particularly the gradual decline of US and European global domination.",
        "了解个中原因需要长期关注地缘政治，特别是美国和欧洲全球霸权的逐步衰落。"
    ],
    [
        "As part of a peace deal brokered by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the king accepted the baron’s demands, put to him in a document called Magna Carta, or “the Great Charter.”",
        "作为坎特伯雷大主教居间调停的和平协议的一部分，国王接受了贵族的要求，即一份被称为Magna Carta或曰“大宪章”的文件。"
    ],
    [
        "Arguably the elements of the conventional intellectual toolkit found most wanting are the capital asset pricing model and its close cousin, the efficient-market hypothesis.",
        "理论上说常规知识工具箱中最缺乏的组件是资本资产定价模型和其近亲：有效市场假说。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the Paris agreement, individual countries are to achieve emissions reductions according to their own nationally determined contributions.",
        "根据巴黎协定，个体国家要根据自主确定的贡献实现减排。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund almost certainly will at its annual spring meeting, if not sooner.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMF）几乎肯定会在春季年会（如果不是更早的话）上调高预测。"
    ],
    [
        "The private sector would bring in infrastructure investment expertise, while sovereign funds and international financial institutions would provide the bulk of the capital and stability.",
        "私人部门将给基础设施投资带来专业性，而主权基金和国际金融机构可以提供大部分资本和稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "It may look like a zero-sum game, but it is not.",
        "看起来，这像是零和博弈，但并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the lack of a clear strategy, however, that goal was not to be achieved.",
        "但是，由于缺少明确的战略，这一目标没有达到。"
    ],
    [
        "Saving Somalia Through Debt Relief",
        "用债务减免拯救索马里"
    ],
    [
        "Simone de Beauvoir, whose seminal book",
        "西蒙·德·波伏娃的著作"
    ],
    [
        "Something like the classic American standard – the speech in question must pose a “clear and present danger” of violence – is therefore essential.",
        "经典的美国标准——问题言论必须构成“明确且即刻的”暴力“危险”——因此至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The key for Europe will be to deliver a coherent and compelling vision that justifies our need for cooperation in the decades ahead.",
        "对欧洲来说，关键是要提供一个连贯的和令人信服的远景，以证明我们需要在未来数十年间继续合作。"
    ],
    [
        "If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own – a republic of the rootless – it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, with a population of more than 240 million people.",
        "如果所有生活在国外的人联合起来成立自己的流浪共和国，该国将成为拥有超过2. 4亿人口的世界第五大国。"
    ],
    [
        "We now know that it atrophies in a number of psychiatric disorders.",
        "我们现在知道，在许多精神疾病中，海马会萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, the short rains have failed entirely, and long rains have been erratic.",
        "最近几年，短雨季已经完全消失，而长雨季也变得不再稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, stringent safeguards must be put in place.",
        "当然，必须实施严格保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Preserving domestic financial stability required limiting taxation of large deposits, because a substantial proportion belonged to foreign account-holders.",
        "保护国内金融稳定要求限制对大储户的课税，因为其中很大一部分属于外国账户。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, a rising tide of populism and authoritarianism poses a risk to the stable democratic institutions that underlie long-term growth. And yet headlines seeming to portend political instability and chaos have not prevented stock markets from soaring.",
        "与此同时，民粹主义和专制主义的兴起给实现长期增长所依赖的稳定民主体制带来了风险，但那些似乎预示着政治动荡和混乱的头条新闻报道却并未阻止股市的飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "As a non-believer, I am bound to treat such claims with skepticism.",
        "作为非信仰者，我对这样的说法都抱以怀疑。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, Great Britain’s departure from the EU and Scotland’s departure from the UK would add to tensions in Northern Ireland between pro-UK Unionists and Republicans seeking to join Ireland.",
        "特别是，英国脱离欧盟和苏格兰脱离英国将加剧北爱尔兰亲英国的统一党（Unionist）和想要加入爱尔兰的共和党（Republican）之间的对立。"
    ],
    [
        "America certainly does not have a savings glut.",
        "美国当然不存在储蓄过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "Jika ketimpangan terus meningkat, perlu adanya pertumbuhan yang lebih tinggi untuk memberantas kemiskinan ekstrem dibandingkan dengan kondisi apabila manfaat ekonomi tersebar dengan lebih merata.",
        "如果不平等程度持续上升，就需要比经济收益分配更加平均的情况更高的增长率来消灭极端贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless it is very carefully managed by all concerned, including the United States and Japan’s other closest Asia-Pacific allies, Abe’s makeover of Japanese foreign policy could undermine the fragile power balances that have so far kept the Sino-American rivalry in check.",
        "除非各方（包括美国和日本的其他亚太地区紧密盟友）小心处置，否则安倍的日本外交政策大变脸可能破坏到目前为止控制着中美对抗的脆弱实力平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifteen years ago, the consensus was that America's Social Security System was in huge trouble, that it needed the equivalent of an engine rebuild.",
        "十五年前，大多数人认为：美国的社会保障体制存在严重问题，解决它相当于重建一台机车。"
    ],
    [
        "Large countries like the US, Russia, Britain, France, and China have greater capacity than other states and non-state actors to control the sea, air, or space, but it makes little sense to speak of dominance in cyberspace.",
        "美国、俄罗斯、英国、法国和中国等大国较之其他国家和非国家参与者拥有更强的海洋、天空或太空控制力，但谈论在网络空间占据霸权地位并没有多大意义。"
    ],
    [
        "The use of force to settle scores and impose one nation’s will upon another cannot be accepted passively.",
        "使用武力清算旧怨并将一个国家的意志凌驾于另一个国家之上，是不能被顺从地接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s sovereign wealth fund and non-bank financial institutions have been eager to invest in well-established Western banks.",
        "而中国的主权财富基金和非银行金融机构早已开始对久负盛名的西方银行跃跃欲试了。"
    ],
    [
        "Islam did not invent these punishments; they were simply the prevailing practices of the time.",
        "伊斯兰教并没有发明这些惩罚； 它们无非当时流行的惩罚措施。"
    ],
    [
        "In the “Bretton Woods III” system, China will transform from “factory to the world” to “investor to the world.”",
        "在“布雷顿森林体系III”中，中国将从“世界工厂”转变为“世界投资者”。"
    ],
    [
        "In truth, this is not socialism, but an extension of long standing corporate welfarism.",
        "实际上，这不是社会主义，而是长期的公司福利主义的延伸。"
    ],
    [
        "Olam was started by Indians in Nigeria and remains a world-beating trader in cotton, coffee, cashews and the like.",
        "Olam公司的起源是在尼日利亚的印度人，如今在棉花，咖啡，腰果等领域还保持有着世界级的贸易水平。"
    ],
    [
        "What, then, should investors really be hoping for in the coming year?",
        "这么说来投资者在未来一年还能寄望些什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The five presidents recommend launching their proposed agenda to reinvigorate integration only after 2017.",
        "五位主席/行长建议到2017年后再开始实施他们所提出的日程。"
    ],
    [
        "Its task would be less to design and implement top-down solutions than to solicit, support, evaluate, and scale up innovative strategies by tapping into ideas developed by state and local governments, businesses, and non-profit institutions.",
        "它的任务不是设计和实施自上而下的方案，而是通过投资于州和地方政府、企业以及非营利组织提出的想法招揽、支持、评估和扩大创新战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Burns, understandably worried that fighting inflation would bring a deep recession, decided to kick the can down the road.",
        "相反，伯恩斯——不难理解，他担心遏制通胀会造成严重衰退——决定至物价稳定于不顾。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, on crucial issues, it is the 27 members, not the Union, that will decide.",
        "事实上，在关键问题上，起决定作用的并不是欧盟这个整体，而是组成欧盟的27个成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, both sides are staying at the table.",
        "其次，谈判者们正在寻找共同立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Is this a responsible use of international taxpayers’ money?",
        "这样使用国际纳税人的钱合适吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In an economic slowdown, the country’s severe crime problem might only worsen; so might unemployment, which already tops 20% in the formal economy.",
        "在经济低迷时期，南非严重的犯罪问题肯定会恶化； 而且，已经在正式经济体中占前20%的失业问题，也会恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than launching an uncompromising campaign to defeat the insurgents, Santos has pursued the more politically challenging course: a negotiated settlement.",
        "桑托斯并没有采取决不妥协、务必打败叛军的立场，而是追求在政治上挑战更大的做法：谈判和解。"
    ],
    [
        "The agency has shown an impressive commitment to change, introducing new rules to protect refugees, for example, and creating a more robust complaints mechanism.",
        "该机构表现出强烈的改革意愿，例如实行保护难民的新规则，同时建立起更加有力的投诉机制。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to streamlining existing operations (for example, by introducing self-checkout systems in retail businesses), China has opportunities to complement its manufacturing sector with high-value-added business services in areas such as design, accounting, marketing, and logistics.",
        "除了理顺和优化现有操作流程（例如通过引入零售企业自助结帐系统）之外，中国还有机会在诸如设计，会计，市场营销和物流领域提供高附加价值的业务服务以辅助其制造部门。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Myanmar’s generals have been able to play one side off against another.",
        "结果为缅甸的将军们提供了从中渔利的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, bondholders were fully covered in the bailouts of AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Fannie Mae, while these firms’ shareholders had to bear large losses.",
        "过去，政府注资普遍具有的特点是保护所有对银行贡献了资本的人，而股东则排除在外。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, however, basic public education is no longer enough; workers need highly specialized skills that come through vocational training, advanced degrees, and apprenticeship programs that combine public and private funding.",
        "工人需要高度专业化的技能，这一技能来自职业培训、高文凭和结合了公共和私人融资的学徒计划。 交通必须更加智能，而不仅仅是政府道路建设；"
    ],
    [
        "Foshan is also home to the world’s largest wholesale lighting and furniture markets, and its products are exported internationally.",
        "佛山拥有世界最大的灯具和家具批发市场，并出口到世界各地。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it intensifies and complicates existing security risks, increasing the frequency, scale, and complexity of future missions.",
        "相反，它导致现有的安全风险复杂及恶化，加大未来任务的频率、规模和复杂性。"
    ],
    [
        "So banks may prefer to pull out instead.",
        "因此银行可能宁可选择退出。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The attacks in Paris by individuals associated with the Islamic State, coming on the heels of bombings in Beirut and the downing of a Russian airliner over the Sinai Peninsula, reinforce the reality that the terrorist threat has entered a new and even more dangerous phase.",
        "纽约—与伊斯兰国有关的个体对巴黎进行了袭击，此前，贝鲁特发生爆炸事件，更有一家俄罗斯班机在西奈半岛上空坠毁。 这一切强化了恐怖主义威胁正在进入更危险的新阶段的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "The demand for a new constitution emulating Nigeria’s First Republic of the early 1960’s, when the country was a federation of powerful regions enjoying a large measure of fiscal autonomy, grew over the years as Nigeria’s economy plummeted.",
        "随着尼日利亚经济的迅速衰退，要求仿效20世纪60年代早期尼日利亚第一共和国的样式制定新宪法的呼声日益高涨，当时的共和国是由一系列强大地区组成的联邦，在财政上享有很大程度的自主权。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s commitment to its allies has long formed the bedrock of post-World War II security, just as its engagement in international institutions has underpinned global cooperation.",
        "就想美国对国际体系的参与支撑全球合作一样，美国对盟国的承诺一直发挥着后二战安全基石的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The added costs of delivery, currently estimated at about $25 per child, bring the total cost of fully immunizing a child today to $50-60.",
        "如今，打疫苗的新增成本——目前大约为每名儿童25美元——让一名儿童获得充分免疫的总成本达到了50—60美元。"
    ],
    [
        "“Part of the problem with this debate,” Howard told the assembled skeptics, “is that to some of the zealots involved their cause has become a substitute religion.”",
        "霍华德告诉聚在一起的怀疑者，“这类辩论的部分问题是某些狂热的参与者已经把这项事业变成了宗教的代名词。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Here are a few lines of the kind of poetry that Al Qaeda uses:",
        "下面是基地组织使用的几行诗词："
    ],
    [
        "The main reason is probably that the enlightened countries of the world have become unsure of their values, even of the Enlightenment itself.",
        "主要原因也许在于世界上开明的国家对它们的价值观甚至就启蒙本身变得不那么确信了。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Peretz, a rabble-rousing but effective trade unionist, surprised all when he won the Labor Party’s leadership primary and then chose the defense portfolio over the treasury.",
        "同样，佩雷茨是一个有效的工会人士，颇能煽动人心。 当他赢得工党领导人初选后没有选择成为财政部长而选择国防部长的时候，大家都感到惊讶。"
    ],
    [
        "While a rich country like the US arguably can afford the behavior described in the so-called Luxembourg Leaks, the poor cannot.",
        "美国等富裕国家想必能经受得住所谓的卢森堡泄密中所描述的行为，但穷国经受不住。"
    ],
    [
        "The Eurozone’s False Recovery",
        "欧元区的虚假复苏"
    ],
    [
        "In the case of sovereign debt, the return on investment can be viewed as the increment to future growth.",
        "在主权债务方面，投资回报可以被视为未来增长的增量。"
    ],
    [
        "None of these dire predictions has been borne out by events.",
        "所有这些悲观预测都没有得到事实印证。"
    ],
    [
        "But the current focus on economic malaise in Europe and the United States is distracting attention from the many serious challenges that call into question Asia’s continued success.",
        "但最近一段时间，欧洲和美国的经济窘境吸引了人们的目光，以至于许多事关亚洲能否持续保持成功的严峻挑战都被忽视了。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States and the United Kingdom are simultaneously energy producers and importers, so the impact on their economics is likely to be more complicated.",
        "美国和英国同时身兼能源生产商和进口商，所以对两国经济的影响是可能要更复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "History offers little consolation.",
        "历史并不令人安慰。"
    ],
    [
        "There has even been a partial revamping of key global institutions, from the rise of the G-20 to reform of the International Monetary Fund.",
        "全球机构做出了局部改进，如二十国集团的崛起和国际货币基金组织（IMF）的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Deep down, they know there is no conspiracy. Their fear is grounded in what they see in front of them: the forward march of history.",
        "但在这些人的内心深处，他们明白压根就不存在什么阴谋，他们的恐惧来源于自己眼前的现实：历史的车轮，正在滚滚前进。"
    ],
    [
        "DAR ES SALAAM – Just over 20 years ago, South African photographer Kevin Carter shocked the world with a controversial photograph of a famished young Sudanese child being watched by a vulture during a famine.",
        "达累斯萨拉姆——20年前，南非摄影家凯文·卡特拍摄的一张苏丹儿童在饥荒中饿死，而秃鹫就在他头顶盘旋的争议照片震惊了全世界。"
    ],
    [
        "But the author of the 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal would surely agree that sound preparation is the essence of striking a good bargain.",
        "但1987年畅销书《交易的艺术》一书的作者肯定会同意充分准备是达成良好交易的核心因素。"
    ],
    [
        "But opportunity is just that.",
        "但是所谓的机会仅限于此。"
    ],
    [
        "One problem is the disputed waters of the East China Sea.",
        "问题之一是中国东海的争议水域。"
    ],
    [
        "If the world economy embraces a new growth pattern – one that harnesses advanced technologies like smart phones, broadband, precision agriculture, and solar power – we can spread prosperity while saving the planet.",
        "如果世界经济采用充分运用智能手机、宽带、精细农业和太阳能发电等先进技术的全新增长模式，我们就可以在扩大繁荣的同时拯救地球。"
    ],
    [
        "While this sounds technical (and it is), the reality is that top AMR scientists think that agreeing on common measurements could change the way individual countries set their own targets and improve our capacity to measure progress in the coming years.",
        "虽然这听上去技术性很强（事实也的确如此），但现实情况是最著名的细菌耐药性问题专家认为确定共同指标可以改变各国制定其自身目标的方法，并使我们在未来若干年内能够更好地衡量进步。"
    ],
    [
        "New Managing Director Christine Lagarde’s recent call for forced recapitalization of Europe’s bankrupt banking system is a good start.",
        "新总裁拉加德最近提出应该对欧洲已经破产的银行体系强行予以重组，这是个不错的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether the political will to take these steps can be generated.",
        "问题是，政治人物是否愿意采取这些行动。"
    ],
    [
        "It began in mid-December in the gritty industrial town of Timisoara, close to the Hungarian border.",
        "政变始于 12 月中旬 蒂米什瓦拉这个 靠近匈牙利边境的工业重镇 。"
    ],
    [
        "China's plans for the Silk Road combine economic, diplomatic, energy, and security objectives in an effort to create an expansive network of linked facilities to boost trade, aid strategic penetration, and permit an increasingly potent and active submarine force to play an expanded role.",
        "中国的丝绸之路计划综合了经济、外交、能源和安全目标，其手段是打造庞大的连接设施网络促进贸易、协助战略渗透、使其日益强大和活跃的潜艇部队起到更大作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Political leaders can huff and puff as much as they want, but, without a credible threat of poverty and time behind bars, bankers have no reason to comply with the law.",
        "政治领导人可以极尽威逼恐吓，但如果没有可信的穷困潦倒、身陷囹圄的危险，银行家就没有理由依法行事。"
    ],
    [
        "If Bush had made this trip several years ago, things would be different today.",
        "如果布什能够早几年进行这次访问的话，今天的情况会有很大的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Other leaders were quoted as saying that Hamas would “lift the siege by force.”",
        "根据有人援引的哈马斯其他领导人的说法，哈马斯会“使用武力解除封锁”。"
    ],
    [
        "Even universities, which are supposed to foster knowledge-sharing and spirited debate, are now suppressing it, for example by spinelessly rescinding speaking invitations to almost anyone that some group or another considers objectionable.",
        "即使是本应促进知识共享和激烈辩论的大学现在也正抑制这一点，例如只要某些团体表示反感，大学就会立刻唯唯诺诺地取消某个人的演讲邀请。"
    ],
    [
        "No imposed constitution, however elegant it may be, will be very helpful to Coalition forces when confronted with the type of mayhem seen in towns like Fallujah or Najjaf.",
        "面对着费卢杰或纳杰夫城所看到的严重暴力，没有一部强加的宪法能够对联军有所帮助，不管它看上去多么正义凛然。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, concern about the ratio of government debt to GDP, which has doubled in the past decade and is now 77%, is exaggerated.",
        "同理，针对过去十年来政府债务相对GDP的比例翻了一番（目前已达到77％）的忧虑被夸大了。"
    ],
    [
        "Someday, the electric car will, indeed, be a great product – just not now.",
        "总有一天，电动汽车会成为伟大的产品，但不是现在。 它成本太高；"
    ],
    [
        "The core consumer price index, to be released next week, is expected to show a year-on-year increase of just 1.7% – or even less, if the lower oil price feeds through from headline to core CPI.",
        "将于下周公布的核心消费者物价指数，预计显示较去年同期增幅仅为1. 7％，如果低油价的影响从新闻标题蔓延至核心CPI的话，这个指数甚至更低。"
    ],
    [
        "NAIROBI – If you happen to be a salamander known as the Iranian Kaiser spotted newt, chances are that things may be looking up.",
        "内罗毕——如果你凑巧是一只由伊朗恺撒发现的蝾螈，那么你今后的生活状况有可能会得到改善。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank, UNICEF, and UNESCO have estimated that achieving UPE by 2015 will entail annual expenditures of between $6.5 billion and $35 billion, on top of the approximately $82 billion that developing countries spend each year on primary education.",
        "世界银行、联合国儿童基金会（UNICEF）和联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）预计，在2015年前达到UPE的目标所需的花费将比发展中国家每年用于初等教育的约820亿美元高出65亿至350亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The state of emergency that former President François Hollande declared immediately after the attacks allowed French authorities to ensure public order, by detaining suspects, conducting home searches, and closing certain places of worship.",
        "前总统奥朗德在袭击后宣布进入紧急状态，以便法国当局通过捉拿嫌犯、入室搜查和关闭一些宗教场所来保证公共秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone knows that markets have been booming, and everyone knows that other people know that a correction is always a possibility.",
        "所有人都知道市场出现了泡沫，并且所有人都知道其他人知道价格总是存在回归正常水平的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "“Latin American economic thinking came into its own during the 1940s,” writes Díaz-Alejandro. “The creation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America was the major impetus behind ... fresh economic approaches.”",
        "“拉丁美洲经济思想在20世纪40年代有了自我发展，”迪亚兹-亚历杭德罗写道，“联合国拉丁美洲经济委员会的建立是新经济方针……背后的重要推动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union is based on universal values and principles that are so attractive that 28 countries have opted to join it; and, Brexit notwithstanding, some half-dozen more are trying to get in.",
        "欧盟是基于能够吸引28个国家加入其中的普世价值观和原则； 尽管发生了英国退欧，仍有六个国家正在努力加入其中。"
    ],
    [
        "A smiling new head of state graciously thanks the international community, including the occupying power.",
        "面带笑容的新国家元首礼貌地向包括占领国在内的国际社会致谢。"
    ],
    [
        "In Smart Solutions to Climate Change, Chris Green of McGill University and Isabel Galiana look at current rates of progress and conclude that by 2050 alternative energy sources will produce less than half the power needed to be able to stabilize carbon emissions.",
        "在《气候变化的明智方案》一书中，加拿大麦吉尔大学的克里斯·格林和伊莎贝尔·加里安娜对目前的科技发展进度进行了分析，并得出结论：如果要将碳排放量稳定下来的话，我们需要大量的额外能源来源来补足，但到2050年替代能源承担该需求量的50%。"
    ],
    [
        "And sustainability is being jeopardized by environmental degradation and pollution, which pose a growing threat to the country’s atmosphere and water supply.",
        "而发展的可持续性正被环境退化和污染所破坏，这对中国的大气和水供应构成了越来越大的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, lowering the benchmark rates for risk-free assets changes the distribution of the risk premia on risky assets, making it too low when asset bubbles are forming and too high when they burst.",
        "事实上，过度降低无风险资产的基准利率会改变风险资产的风险溢价分布，从而导致资产泡沫形成期利率过低、破裂期则利率过高。"
    ],
    [
        "In March of that year, Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea.",
        "那年3月，俄罗斯入侵乌克兰并吞并克里米亚。"
    ],
    [
        "They must use coal to advance their economic development.",
        "它们必须使用煤炭来推进经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming otherwise sells Xi – and his political ingenuity – short.",
        "如果作其他的假设，那就不能真正使人懂得习主席和他的政治智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "The Indian journalist Indrani Bagchi referred to the abstentions as a new form of non-alignment.",
        "印度记者巴格奇（Indrani Bagchi）将弃权称为新形式的不结盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Mortgage debt has become households’ biggest liability throughout the developed world.",
        "按揭债务已成为整个发达世界最大的家庭负债项。"
    ],
    [
        "Globally, debt securities issued by non-financial corporations – which are supposed to undertake fixed investments – increased significantly during the same period.",
        "全球范围内，本应转化为固定资产投资的非金融企业债券的发行量在同一时期显著上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Removing constraints on lawyers and ensuring that they are not attacked with impunity would be a good place to start.",
        "取消对于律师的限制，确保他们不被无端攻击将是一个很好的起步点。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, many governments, especially in the eurozone, seem to have run out of policy options.",
        "如今，不少国家，特别是欧元区国家，似乎已无多少政策选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Those in charge of implementing this commitment must bear in mind that water cooperation is not merely about signing treaties and holding meetings.",
        "那些负责落实这项承诺的人必须牢记水资源管理合作绝不仅仅是签署条约和举行会议。"
    ],
    [
        "The Army, which recruits heavily in the Punjab, will not use force there in the way it is doing in the tribal areas.",
        "与此同时，这些地方还是巴基斯坦部队招募新兵的主要来源地，因此巴军也不能像在部落地区那样使用武力。"
    ],
    [
        "But it showed how much his music had meant to people like Havel, when they had to listen to it secretly, risking arrest.",
        "但这说明了在必须担着被捕的风险偷偷听音乐的时代，他的音乐对哈维尔这样的人具有多大的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "The Padoa-Schioppa group recently proposed that rule-breaking governments should gradually lose control over their own national budgetary processes.",
        "Padoa-Schioppa小组最近提出，违反规则的政府应该逐渐被剥夺控制其自身国民预算程序的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Mirror, Mirror, on the Screen",
        "电脑屏幕上的魔镜"
    ],
    [
        "For three years, repeated warnings that such an attack is imminent have flown in the face of the evidence: US Treasury securities remain a safe-haven asset for global investors, including risk-sensitive foreign central banks.",
        "三年来，对这种迫在眉睫危机的再三警告在以下证据面前站不住脚：美国国债市场仍为全球投资者的避险资产，这包括对风险极为敏感的国外央行。"
    ],
    [
        "Or perhaps, as has been rumored, Ulyukaev was working with other officials to rein in Sechin by stopping Rosneft from acquiring the Bashneft shares.",
        "或者根据传言，乌卢卡耶夫正在与其他官员合作控制谢钦，阻止俄罗斯石油公司收购巴什石油公司的股票。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there had been a discussion of the sanctions and other matters of interest to Russia.",
        "事实上，他们探讨了制裁问题和其他俄罗斯关心的事务。"
    ],
    [
        "Following this model, countries’ aid budgets could be opened up for bids from development NGOs, which would assume responsibility for allocating and delivering the funds as efficiently as possible – and would be required to provide a careful accounting of how they spent the money.",
        "根据这一模式，国家援助预算可以开放接受发展非政府组织的竞标，让后者负责尽可能有效的配置和资金发放——以及要求提供如何花钱的详细核算。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Foreign Ministry is preparing a policy on Russian/German relations that will enshrine indifference to Putin’s lawlessness as being in the national interest of the most powerful member of the European Union.",
        "德国外交部正在拟定的一项针对德俄关系的政策将会把对普京的违反法律视而不见作为这个最大欧盟成员国的国家利益。"
    ],
    [
        "It retains a formidable nuclear capacity, but it is inconceivable that Russia would use it to secure its aims in Ukraine.",
        "它仍保有可怕的核实力，但很难相信俄罗斯会动用核力量保证其在乌克兰的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Many live in hot places that are getting even hotter, and hundreds of millions of them are subsistence farmers who depend on rainfall to grow their crops.",
        "许多生活在炎热地区的人需要忍受更热的天气，他们当中有数亿自耕农，仰仗雨水灌溉庄稼。"
    ],
    [
        "But great leaders educate their followers about the world beyond their immediate group.",
        "但伟大领袖则会教育追随者认识他们所处群体以外的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "While talk is tough now, the history of such agreements does not inspire optimism.",
        "现在，谈判仍在艰难进行中，而历史表明，此类协议并不会激发乐观情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe by Degrees",
        "逐步一体化的欧洲"
    ],
    [
        "But only 18 member states then approved it, before France and the Netherlands rejected it in referenda and the seven other member states then halted the ratification process.",
        "但当时只有18个成员国批准了该条约，接着法国和荷兰在全民公决中否决了该条约，而其他7个成员国也因此中止了批准程序。"
    ],
    [
        "But he nonetheless insisted that this did not prove Caplan right.",
        "但他仍坚持这并不证明卡普兰是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as US Senator Elizabeth Warren has put it, this gets it exactly backwards: If transparency would make it harder to sell the final product to the public, it raises serious questions about the desirability of what is being negotiated.",
        "但正如美国参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（Elizabeth Warren）所指出的那样，这也为其带来了明确的副作用：如果公开透明会导致公众更难以接纳最终出台的产物，那就得好好质问一下这些谈判究竟怀着何种目的。"
    ],
    [
        "It has fought off Muslim terrorists in Kashmir, Sikh terrorists in Punjab, Christian terrorists in Nagaland, and Hindu terrorists in Assam and across the country.",
        "印度已经击退了克什米尔的穆斯林恐怖分子，旁遮普的锡克教恐怖分子，那加兰邦的基督教恐怖分子，以及阿萨姆邦和全国各地的印度教恐怖分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Northern Europe, meanwhile, adopted wage and productivity levels that made sense only as long as it spent less than one euro for every euro that it earned.",
        "同时北欧的工资和生产率水平只有在赚1欧元花不到1欧元时才合情合理。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of institutional design, it is thus optimal for the central bank to maintain a strong commitment to keeping inflation low in normal times and to be willing to intervene in a crisis.",
        "在制度设计方面，中央银行也应该去维护一个在平常时期维持低通胀并愿意在危机时出手介入的坚定承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest gold outflow in a generation imperiled America’s ability to repay its debts abroad.",
        "在整整一代人中最大的一次黄金外流破坏了美国偿还海外债务的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "A global externality can best be dealt with by a globally agreed tax rate.",
        "应对一项全球性外部因素的最佳方式是通过一个全球认同的税率。"
    ],
    [
        "According to my data, real S&P Composite stock earnings have grown 1.8% per year, on average, since 1881.",
        "根据我的数据，自1881年以来标准普尔综合成分股的实际收益平均每年增长1. 8％。"
    ],
    [
        "Data obtained from animal experiments show that harmful physiological changes result from the inability of the brain and body to respond to repeated stress with adaptive modifications in structure and function.",
        "从动物实验中获得的数据显示，有害的生理变化是因为大脑和身体不能用结构和功能上的适应性调整对反复的压力做出回应而造成的。"
    ],
    [
        "Research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has shown that regulation and legislation in this area must strike a balance, lest it undermine “the ability of regulatory agencies to seek and retain talent.”",
        "纽约联邦储备银行的研究表明，该领域的监管和立法必须达到平衡，否则就会破坏“监管机构寻觅和留住人才的能力”。"
    ],
    [
        "Technically, the main change was to end “single capacity,” whereby a stock trader could be a principal or an agent, but not both.",
        "从技术上讲，主要变化是结束了“单一资格”——即股票交易者只能作为委托人或代理人之一，而不能兼而任之。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Risky Recovery",
        "美国的高风险复苏"
    ],
    [
        "Attempts to set up derivatives markets for real estate have -- so far -- all met with only limited success.",
        "建立不动产衍生品市场的努力迄今为止也只取得了有限的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its economic slowdown, Japan retains impressive power resources.",
        "尽管经济放缓，日本仍拥有令人不可小觑的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "If China’s regulators issue the right licenses, the financial sector will play a key role in nurturing and sustaining the consumer society of tomorrow.",
        "如果中国政府能合理颁发许可证的话，那金融部门将在培育和维护未来消费社会的进程中扮演重要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, regardless of which side emerges victorious, the outcome will not be good news for Turkish democracy.",
        "但不幸的是，无论哪一方最终胜利，对土耳其民主来说也不是什么好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "The first spiral ran from public debt to the banks and back to public debt.",
        "恶性循环之一是公债-银行-公债。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the real offense is the alarmism that closes minds to the best ways to respond to climate change.",
        "实际上，真正的违反人类利益是那种对应付气候变化最佳途径视而不见的恐慌主义。"
    ],
    [
        "If EID’s were rare, management through crisis response might be cost-effective.",
        "如果EID’s寥寥无几，在应对危机过程中所采取的手段也许是划算的。"
    ],
    [
        "More was expected from the SAARC summit than was achieved, owing in large part to the unmet expectations for the meeting between the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers on the sidelines of the main event.",
        "鉴于印巴两国总理在年会间隙的会议没能满足期望，人们更多地期望SAARC年会上有更大的收获。"
    ],
    [
        "So we need to know where additional data will have value for improving a decision and how much we should spend to get it.",
        "因此，我们需要知道新增信息对于改进决策的价值在哪里，以及我们应该花多少钱获得它。"
    ],
    [
        "On the left and right – few mainstream leaders are having such a good year.",
        "放眼左翼和右翼，几乎没有一位主流领导人正在享受如此美好的一年。"
    ],
    [
        "Cyber exchanges between the two militaries were not restarted, and negotiations over a bilateral investment treaty – a mutually beneficial rules-based framework that would go a long way in opening up both countries’ markets to increasingly globalized US and Chinese companies – were particularly disappointing.",
        "两军的网络交流尚未重启，关于双边投资条约的谈判也令人非常失望。 这一基于规则的双赢框架能够极大地促进两国市场向日益全球化的美国和中国公司开放。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why people move to the big city; indeed, it is why cities thrive.",
        "这就是为何人们要来到大城市的原因； 事实上，这也是城市兴旺的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, Japan’s government should push to complete negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is currently being negotiated among 12 countries, from Mexico to the United States to Vietnam.",
        "此外，日本政府应当加紧完成跨太平洋伙伴计划的谈判。 目前已经有十二个国家参与该项谈判，涵盖从墨西哥到美国再到越南的广大区域。"
    ],
    [
        "It also demonstrated that oil is a fungible commodity.",
        "它还表明，石油是一种可替代商品。"
    ],
    [
        "Has Oil Production Peaked?",
        "原油产量已达顶峰？"
    ],
    [
        "And now we are back to reality.",
        "现在我们又回到了现实。"
    ],
    [
        "If they would devote just 1% of their net worth each year, they would cover half the global financial need.",
        "如果他们愿意每年仅仅拿出1%的净财富，就可以覆盖全球教育融资需要的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "In Asia, Japan ranks above only North Korea in scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) examination.",
        "在亚洲，日本人在TOEFL外语考试中的成绩仅仅排在北朝鲜之前。"
    ],
    [
        "But, before such changes can be implemented, these cities must address the overhang of poorly performing projects and loss-making state-owned enterprises (SOEs).",
        "在实施这些变革前，这些城市必须先解决积压的失败工程和亏损的国有企业问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Earth Moves in Britain",
        "英国的政坛地震"
    ],
    [
        "The reemergence of nationalist, nativist populism is not surprising: economic stagnation, high unemployment, rising inequality and poverty, lack of opportunity, and fears about migrants and minorities “stealing” jobs and incomes have given such forces a big boost.",
        "民族主义、先天论民粹主义的死灰复燃并不令人奇怪：经济停滞、高失业、不平等性和贫困增加、缺少机会、担心移民和少数群体“偷走”就业和收入，这些因素给了上述力量极大的提振。"
    ],
    [
        "With thoughtfulness and perseverance, psychiatry’s current deliberations about diagnosis as public policy will provide a road map for the broader medical debates lurking ahead.",
        "经过深思熟虑，秉着坚定不移的态度，精神病学家目前对于诊断作为公共政策的仔细考虑将会为潜藏于前方、更广范围内的医学辩论勾画出一幅路线图。"
    ],
    [
        "Like scientists, they prefer to work with huge amounts of data, which is why the US government wants a record of every call and financial transaction made by every inhabitant of the country.",
        "与科学家一样，他们喜欢搜集海量数据，也正因为此，美国政府才希望得到每位公民的每个电话和每笔交易记录。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, one in six cancer cases worldwide is caused by a known infectious agent, with the proportion rising to one-third in some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.",
        "事实上，全世界六分之一的癌症是由已知致病因子造成的，在撒哈拉以南的一些非洲国家，这一比例高达三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Variations call for central banks to buy perpetual government bonds that pay no interest or to convert existing bond holdings into something similar.",
        "其变体包括要求央行买入不支付利息的永久政府债券或将所持债券转换为类似的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason for President Xi Jinping’s optimism is the dire state of US politics.",
        "国家主席习近平的一个乐观的理由是美国政治的严重状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The shift to a territorial tax system is likely to have important effects on US corporations’ behavior.",
        "转向领土税制可能对美国公司的行为产生重要影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Or, as the psychiatrist Zvi Rex famously quipped, “Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.”",
        "”或者，如精神病医生兹维·瑞斯（Zvi Rex）的名言所说，“由于奥斯维辛，德国人永远不会原谅犹太人。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The ongoing squabble represents a significant shift in Li’s relationship with China’s government.",
        "此次争吵反映出李和中国政府关系的重大转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Children in urban war zones die in vast numbers from diarrhea, respiratory infections, and other causes, owing to unsafe drinking water, lack of refrigerated foods, and acute shortages of blood and basic medicines at clinics and hospitals (that is, if civilians even dare to leave their houses for medical care). Yet the Red Crescent and other relief agencies have been unable to relieve Falluja’s civilian population.",
        "处于巷战地带的儿童由于食用污染饮用水，缺乏冷藏食物，加之当地医疗机构和医院（如果百姓敢把自己的屋子留做医院的话）紧缺血液和基本医药，而患上了霍乱、呼吸道传染，或由于其他原因，大批死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "This institutional arrangement creates a high barrier to populist outsiders.",
        "这一制度安排给民粹主义局外人制造了非常大的壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet global automakers such as Ford, Daimler, BMW, and Renault took the unprecedented decision to halt production at their local factories.",
        "而福特、戴姆勒、宝马和雷诺等全球汽车制造商史无前例地决定停止当地工厂的生产工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The largest number of defaults on sub-prime mortgages will occur this spring.",
        "今年春天将会发生最大规模的次级房屋贷款无力偿还个案。"
    ],
    [
        "It is estimated that most of the UK population was exposed to BSE through diet at this time.",
        "估计英国绝大多数人口在此期间都感染了牛海绵状脑病。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, that would jeopardize confidence in the central bank, saddled with claims against an over-indebted government, and put the fiat money system at risk.",
        "在长期，这将破坏对身负过度负债政府的索偿权的央行的信心，法币制度也将告急。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2050, it is estimated that there will be nine billion people on earth, so the need for food may double – primarily among urban populations in the world’s poorest countries.",
        "人们估计，到2050年全世界将会有九十亿人口，因此食品需求可能翻番，而这些需求主要来自世界最贫困国家的城市人口。"
    ],
    [
        "But Chinese money has been viewed with suspicion in Europe, reflecting fears that China has a hidden political agenda.",
        "但欧洲人一直对中国资金心存疑虑，这是因为他们担心中国还有不可告人的政治图谋。"
    ],
    [
        "This fear is real.",
        "这种担忧是很现实的。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of creating an atmosphere conducive to an Iranian Gandhi, they unwittingly helped usher into power Ayatollah Khomeini and a theocratic regime less tolerant than the one they helped unseat.",
        "但是他们没能创造出一个有利于伊朗式的甘地站出来的环境，而是在无意识的情况下把霍梅尼推向了权力的中心，迎来了一个比他们帮助推翻的政权更加令人难以容忍的神权统治政权。"
    ],
    [
        "This was even truer of Japan than the US.",
        "日本人的变革似乎比美国人更具有实质性。"
    ],
    [
        "The New Monetary Disorder",
        "新的货币无序状态"
    ],
    [
        "It is inconceivable that Greece could manage that within the eurozone without widespread social unrest, if not conditions approaching those of civil war.",
        "但谁也不相信希腊能在避免大规模社会动乱——说不定还会濒临内战边缘——的情况下作为欧元区成员国实现这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1992 exchange-rate crisis then tipped the balance.",
        "1992年的汇率危机随后打破了两派的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "But some indicators still have the Fed concerned.",
        "但一些指标依旧引发美联储关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Geographical distance is as strong a determinant of economic exchange as it was a half-century ago.",
        "地理距离也跟半个世纪前一样深刻影响着经济交换行为。"
    ],
    [
        "As Obama understands, such authoritarian aid is a serious challenge to the West’s geo-strategic interests, including the fight against drug traffic (Guinea has become a transit point on the route from South America to Europe).",
        "奥巴马认为，如此专制援助是对西方地缘战略利益，包括反毒品斗争的一种严重挑战（几内亚已经成为南美到欧洲运毒路线上的中转国）。"
    ],
    [
        "NATO, OSCE, and other key regional institutions must give this concept and process their essential support.",
        "上述理念和程序必须在今后几个月内得到北约、欧安组织和其他重要地区性机构实质性的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is also a more personal aspect: the tension between the desire to be known and the desire to protect one’s secrets, whether insidious, embarrassing, or intimate.",
        "但也有一个更为个人的方面：渴望被别人认识和希望保护自身秘密（无论是阴险的，尴尬的或私密的）之间的纠结关系"
    ],
    [
        "But no one seems disposed to contemplate her heroic lack of qualifications to sit a heartbeat away from the Oval Office.",
        "但是，似乎没有人愿意考虑她的英雄般的资格的缺乏，可以在万一总统心跳停止倒下时她是否有能力接任总统的职位。"
    ],
    [
        "Has China’s Economic Growth Finally Stabilized?",
        "中国经济增长终于稳定下来了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Urbanization is increasing in West Africa at a rate of 3% per year (compared to 0.2% and 0.3%, respectively, in North America and Europe).",
        "城市化在西非以每年3%的速度递增（相比北美和欧洲的0. 2% 和 0."
    ],
    [
        "In exchange, North Korea promised to allow access to its facilities for inspections, while also dropping its opposition to Japanese and South Korean participation in inspections.",
        "作为交换，北朝鲜承诺允许对其核设施进行检查，同时也不再反对日本和韩国参与检查。"
    ],
    [
        "With its oil income and good neighborly relations with Turkey, such a state would be viable.",
        "考虑到石油收入以及与土耳其的睦邻友好关系，这样一个国家是可以立足的。"
    ],
    [
        "More governments around the world are now introducing carbon pricing to reflect the high social costs inherent in the continued use of fossil fuels.",
        "放眼全球，更多政府正在引入碳定价反映继续使用化石燃料的高昂的内在成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, while total eradication is beyond the horizon, and new tools are needed to get there, there is much that can be achieved in the near term with our current armory.",
        "然而，虽然离彻底消灭疟疾还有一段距离，并且需要新的手段来实现这一目标，但是，利用我们现有的手段，我们可以在近期取得许多成果。"
    ],
    [
        "The real rate of return to capital may have started to decline by the early 1970’s; productivity growth certainly has slowed since then.",
        "资本的实际回报大概从20世纪70年代初便开始下降； 此后，生产率增长显然放缓了。"
    ],
    [
        "Nuclear safety is of the utmost importance to both established users and newcomers.",
        "不管是老用户还是新用户，核安全都是至关重要的考虑因素。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, fossil fuels conferred enormous benefits on the Western world as it industrialized over the past 200 years.",
        "当然，在西方世界过去200年的工业化进程中化石燃料发挥了巨大作用。"
    ],
    [
        "While draconian policies can curb migration somewhat, they mostly drive it underground.",
        "尽管极为严厉的政策可以在某种程度上限制移民，但是它们只不过是把移民赶入地下。"
    ],
    [
        "We have come a long way since the six founding members formed the European Economic Community back in March 1957 - also in Rome.",
        "从1957年，也是在罗马，6国成立欧洲经济合作体以来，我们走过了一条漫长的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "My Special Adviser, Ibrahim Gambari, has been back in Yangon.",
        "我的特别顾问甘巴里已经回到了仰光。"
    ],
    [
        "Medical kits the size of a thumbnail can measure a million different biological factors on an individual with an infinitesimal amount of blood.",
        "像一片指甲那么大的医学元件可以根据极少量的血测量出一个人一百万个不同的生物元素。"
    ],
    [
        "As the disease progresses, it may affect thinking and can also cause behavioral and psychological problems, including dementia, sleep disturbances, and depression, as well as low blood pressure.",
        "随着疾病的发展，思维也会受到影响，并造成行为和心理问题，包括痴呆、睡眠障碍、抑郁以及低血压。"
    ],
    [
        "Their position is clear: the state is a parasite, sucking the lifeblood of free enterprise.",
        "他们的立场很清晰：国家是条寄生虫，吸食着自由企业的血肉；"
    ],
    [
        "This was tolerable as long as the overall pie was expanding, but the global financial crisis in 2008 ended that.",
        "只要馅饼总体越做越大这点问题还可以容忍，但2008年的全球金融危机又让这样的好时光成为过去。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korea may also have a few bombs. Iran is believed by many to be trying to develop one.",
        "朝鲜可能也有几枚原子弹，很多人也相信伊朗正在努力发展核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus far, only a fraction of the funding needed for even basic care has been raised.",
        "目前，只有一小部分基本看护所需资金有了着落。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of adequate strategies for immigration, integration, health care, education, and much else, Europe’s growth and competitiveness will decline, and social tensions will worsen and multiply.",
        "没有足够的移民、一体化、医疗保健和教育等战略，欧洲的经济增长和竞争力将下降，社会紧张关系将进一步恶化并增多。"
    ],
    [
        "This leaves only the issue of debt servicing.",
        "这样就只剩下债务偿还及分配问题了。"
    ],
    [
        "And Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Mario’s son, has been helping Humala convince financial markets and the international community that he is now a true believer in capitalism.",
        "而马里奥的儿子阿尔瓦罗·巴尔加斯·略萨一直帮乌马拉说服金融市场和国际社会，把他说成真正的资本主义信徒。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach reflects Obama’s commitment to using inducements to coax the Pakistani military to persuade the Taliban to agree to a peace deal in Afghanistan.",
        "这一方针反映出奥巴马决心要利诱巴基斯坦军方说服塔利班同意阿富汗和平协议。"
    ],
    [
        "But trying to obtain stability from rigidity is illusory.",
        "但是试图从僵化不变中获得稳定只能是异想天开。"
    ],
    [
        "The question now is what story will emerge from the twenty-first century.",
        "现在的问题是21世纪的故事会怎样展开。"
    ],
    [
        "Much like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, al-Nahda and the PJD will have to marginalize Islamic extremists in their movements, such as the Salafis, and adopt a pragmatic approach.",
        "跟埃及的穆斯林兄弟会非常相似，突尼斯复兴党和摩洛哥发展党必须把组织内的伊斯兰极端势力逐渐边缘化。"
    ],
    [
        "Normally, youth is a time when skills get built up; now, it is a time when they atrophy.",
        "通常，青年时代是积累技能的时期，而现在的年轻人却在流失技能。"
    ],
    [
        "And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.",
        "而正是德国的犹豫逡巡加重了希腊危机，导致了危机的蔓延，最终演变成危及欧洲生存的大危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The new set of global targets, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aim to build on that progress, not only in eradicating poverty, but also in addressing a number of other challenges, such as broadening access to education and protecting the environment.",
        "而可持续发展目标（SDG）这一新的全球目标系列旨在在已有基础上进一步取得进展，不仅消除贫困，而且还解决其他某些挑战，比如扩大教育机会和保护环境。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – Well, America is involved at last.",
        "发自斯坦福——美国终于还是出手了。"
    ],
    [
        "The military reorganization that the NDPO envisages is far-reaching.",
        "NDPO设想的军事重组具有深远的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Ukraine and Poland pay special attention to good neighborly relations with Russia.",
        "乌克兰和波兰都特别关注与俄国建立睦邻合作关系。"
    ],
    [
        "This period ended in 2005, when surging Chinese demand temporarily created a global oil shortage, allowing OPEC’s price “discipline” to be restored.",
        "这段时期结束于2005年中国需求的激增造成全球石油的暂时性短缺，也使欧佩克的价格“纪律”得以重塑。"
    ],
    [
        "A quarter-century ago, the UK and Germany had higher corporate-tax rates than Japan.",
        "四分之一世纪前，英国和德国的公司税都高于日本。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, that feeling remains a ghost.",
        "但是，到目前为止，这种感觉仍然看不到踪影。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, it is fair to say that South America and the Middle East remain fringe players at the Olympics.",
        "总的来说，平心而论，南美和中东仍是奥运竞技场上的边缘国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet economists view FTTs as particularly troublesome because they distort intermediate activity, which amplifies their effects.",
        "但经济学家认为金融交易税问题甚大，因为它们扭曲中介活动，这会放大它们的效应。"
    ],
    [
        "In marketing the TPP, Obama tends to emphasize some of the features that distinguish it from earlier pacts such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).",
        "在兜售TPP时，奥巴马总是强调TPP与此前的契约，如北美自由贸易协定（NAFTA）的区别。"
    ],
    [
        "Technology kills jobs in the short term and demands re-skilling of the labor force.",
        "科技会在短期内消灭就业并要求对劳动力进行再培训。"
    ],
    [
        "His plans have been called “asset-based policies,” a term that has grown in popularity since Michael Sherraden’s 1991 book Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy .",
        "他的计划被称为“资产政策”，一个自1991年麦克·史乐山（Michael Sherraden）的《资产和贫穷：一个美国新福利政策》出版后就逐渐风行的术语。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s growing assertiveness, particularly in the South China Sea, has fueled the perception that it is more of a threat than a leader.",
        "但中国日益增长的自信，特别是在南中国海，让人觉得它与其说是领袖还不如说是威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s malaise, and the resulting rise of populist politics, suggests that Asia’s governments can ill afford to sit on their growth laurels.",
        "欧洲的动荡以及由此产生的民粹主义政治的抬头表明，亚洲政府不能继续躺在增长功劳簿上睡大觉了。"
    ],
    [
        "Seven out of every eight minutes spent on a mobile phone is spent within an app, and the most popular app in the world is Facebook.",
        "移动端使用时间的八分之七都在使用应用程序，而世界最热门的程序是Facebook。"
    ],
    [
        "A drop in annual growth of real per capita GDP from 2.1% to 1.6% looks like a substantial decline.",
        "年度人均GDP增长从2. 1%下跌到1."
    ],
    [
        "A decrease in the real interest rate – that on government bonds – to -3% or even -4% will make little or no difference.",
        "真实利率——政府债券利率——下降至-3%甚至-4%也不会造成什么区别。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the investment agreements themselves that most seriously threaten democratic decision-making.",
        "投资协定本身才是民主决策的最大威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "For a long time, Israeli leaders have lobbied supporters like me, who, since the Holocaust, have defended the Jewish people’s right to security and statehood.",
        "在很长一段时间里，以色列领导人游说像我这样的支持者（出于大屠杀的原因，我一直支持犹太人民捍卫国家和安全的权利）。"
    ],
    [
        "If negotiations fail, however, Erdoğan will be held responsible for any deterioration in the security environment that results.",
        "但是，如果谈判失败，埃尔多安将为由此导致的任何安全环境恶化状况负责。"
    ],
    [
        "The firewall has been breached.",
        "防火墙已经被推倒。"
    ],
    [
        "But these distortions did not prevent unbalanced systems from enduring for long periods.",
        "但这些扭曲并未阻止失衡的系统的长期持续。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC/BRUSSELS – When the Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba listed on the New York Stock Exchange late last year, it became the world's 17th largest publicly traded company overnight, with a market capitalization of $230 billion – larger than Amazon, eBay, or Facebook.",
        "华盛顿/布鲁塞尔—中国电子商务巨头阿里巴巴公司去年底在纽约证券交易所挂牌上市，一夜之间成为世界第17大公开交易公司，市值2,300亿美元——比亚马逊、eBay和Facebook都要大。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, Europe will have to stop thinking that the US can save its economy and will have to start relying on its own resources.",
        "欧洲必须停止认为美国会拯救他们的经济，并开始依靠自身的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "In these fields, dispassion requires that the medical scientist ignore his or her own vulnerability of mind and body.",
        "在这些领域中，要做到冷静就需要医学科学家们忽略他或她个人在身体或精神上的脆弱性。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is puzzling only if we characterize Asia as being multi-polar rather than hierarchical.",
        "但只有当我们把亚洲看作多极化而非多级体系的时候，这个问题才令人感到困惑。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that China is the second largest economy in the world, it didn’t take long for European officials to reduce their own growth projections, and for the International Monetary Fund to revise downward its expectations for global growth.",
        "鉴于中国是全球第二大经济体，欧洲和国际货币基金组织的官员们也就迅速反应，分别调低了对本地区和全球经济的增长预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Libya had such EU restrictions lifted last October ostensibly for joining the fight against terrorism and abandoning its weapons of mass destruction.",
        "去年10月，利比亚参加反恐阵营并放弃发展大规模杀伤性武器，欧盟因此公开解除对其制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Japan’s parliamentary system distinguishes it from its neighbors, this aligns more closely with norms in the region, where presidential executives serve for six years in Russia and five years in South Korea and China.",
        "尽管日本的议会制度与邻国不同，但本届议会将更接近于地区管理——俄罗斯总统任期为六年，韩国和中国都是五年。"
    ],
    [
        "A typical Western-style house in Kampala or Accra, for example, now costs an astonishing two to three times the price of a comparable home in, say, Cleveland or other cities in the American heartland.",
        "例如，比起克里夫兰或是美国心脏地带其他城市里类似的房子，坎帕拉和阿克拉城里一栋典型的西式房屋现在的价格要高出一到两倍，这令人惊奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Aylwin answered this call.",
        "埃尔文回应了这一呼吁。"
    ],
    [
        "The evolution of the NPT - its adaptation to new environments and problems that were not anticipated at the time of its adoption - appeared to ensure the Treaty's continuing effective implementation.",
        "NPT针对新形势、新问题进行了一系列的调整，这些举措将确保条约持续有效的实施，而这些形势是NPT建立之初所无法预计的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first scenario, China continues to attempt to maintain full employment in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and elsewhere not by stimulating domestic demand but by trying to boost exports further by keeping the renminbi stable against the dollar and falling in value against the euro.",
        "在第一种情况下，中国继续试图通过促进出口而不是刺激内需来维持在上海、广州和其他地区的全民就业。 进一步促进出口的方式是保持人民币兑美元汇率的稳定而对欧元贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Schlüter’s second big decision was to deregulate the Danish economy, which now has the world’s largest number of enterprises per citizen.",
        "施吕特的第二项重大决定是放松对丹麦经济的管制，如今，丹麦人均企业数量是世界之最。"
    ],
    [
        "If one is willing to traverse the boundary of the unknown, one should pursue the course that promises the greatest potential impact.",
        "如果你愿意跨越未知的边界，就应当始终坚守潜在影响最大化的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s globalized world, a slight reduction in interest rates by an individual central bank can bring some benefits, beginning with weakening the currency and thus boosting exports.",
        "在当今全球化的世界，个别央行略微调低利率能够带来一些好处，首先是货币贬值，从而提振出口。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that the prescriptions being imposed are leading to massive underutilization of these resources.",
        "问题在于当前的解决方案导致了对这些资源的大规模低效利用。"
    ],
    [
        "A new study by the Center for European Reform (CER) asks the question: What is membership of the single market actually worth to the UK?",
        "欧洲改革中心（CER）的一项全新研究提出了这样的疑问：单一市场成员国地位对英国来讲到底价值几何？"
    ],
    [
        "The biologist Martin Nowak has argued that the only way humans have been able to sustain cooperation is by developing cheap ways to punish misbehavior.",
        "生物学家马丁·诺瓦克（Martin Nowak）指出，人类能够保持合作的唯一方式是找到惩罚不当行为的低成本方法。"
    ],
    [
        "The division between the domestic and external capacities of EU member states simply is no longer sustainable.",
        "欧盟成员国国内外力量的割裂完全不可持续。"
    ],
    [
        "We must not forget the crimes that Hitler and Stalin committed together as de facto allies only because they later turned on each other.",
        "我们决不能仅仅因为希特勒和斯大林后来反目成仇就忘记他们结成同盟时共同犯下的罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "With a more level playing field, superstars outside sports and entertainment might find themselves a bit better appreciated.",
        "可见如果能建立一个更公正平等的赛场，体育和娱乐界之外的明星都会发现自己得到了更多的赞赏。"
    ],
    [
        "And countries facing depressions and rapidly weakening inflation typically face very low borrowing costs: investors purchase government bonds for want of profitable alternatives. This is what we see in the United Kingdom and the United States, where borrowing costs remain at all-time lows, despite both countries’ weak public finances and poor growth prospects.",
        "20世纪90年代末，两国均在增长（西班牙还增长得相当快），而如今，它们面临着萧条和日益增加的通缩风险。"
    ],
    [
        "What remains to be seen is whether Modi is able to cement these gains.",
        "我们仍需要观察莫迪能否巩固这些进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The price of bank failures should be paid by the banks’ owners and creditors; we should have bail-ins rather than bailouts.",
        "银行倒闭的代价应该由银行所有者和债权人承担； 银行应该由他们自救（bail-in），而不应该得到援助（bailout）。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynes emphasized the flimsiness of the expectations on which economic activity in decentralized markets is based.",
        "凯恩斯强调作为分散市场里的经济行为基础的预期的脆弱性。"
    ],
    [
        "But the crisis did not appear out of nowhere to challenge a healthy economic order.",
        "但这场危机并不是无中生有冒出来挑战健康的经济秩序的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is a global outlier in tying much of its social safety net to employment.",
        "美国是全球异类，其社会安全网与就业紧密相关。"
    ],
    [
        "Anwar can finally make the opposition a credible check on the National Front ruling coalition, but knows that he will never become prime minister this way. No one, after all, expects the opposition to win enough seats to form a government in the conceivable future.",
        "Anwar最终能使反对派成为对民族阵线执政联盟的有效制衡，但他也明白这样做他永远当不了总理。 毕竟，没有人期望反对派能够在可以预见的将来赢得足够席位组建政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Because Europe’s political leaders have failed to manage the crisis effectively, the cost of ending it has risen.",
        "由于欧洲的政策制定者们无法有效应对这场危机，终结危机的花费也逐渐水涨船高。"
    ],
    [
        "The leadership seemed to be moving away from the ancien regime of Jiang.",
        "这一政权似乎正在摆脱江泽民的老政权。"
    ],
    [
        "At a press conference last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin attempted a justification.",
        "在上个月的一次新闻发布会上，俄罗斯总理普京试图做出回答。"
    ],
    [
        "Its government cannot solve the conflict with the Palestinians on Israeli terms, so it has decided to behave as if the entire issue did not exist.",
        "以色列政府无法用以色列的条件解决与巴勒斯坦人的冲突，于是干脆装作整个问题根本不存在的样子。"
    ],
    [
        "In keeping with Trump’s main campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” it was his “America first” comments that were most revealing.",
        "再结合特朗普的主要竞选口号“让美国再次伟大起来”，他这种“美国为先”的言论最能说明问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This logic would be correct if the world were operating under a fixed exchange-rate regime, with governments tying official exchange rates to another country’s currency or the price of gold.",
        "如果世界是在固定汇率下运转，那么这一逻辑是正确的。 在固定汇率下，政府的官方利率会盯住另一个国家的货币或黄金价格。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that Greece had no right to borrow from German – or any other European – taxpayers at a time when its public debt was unsustainable.",
        "事实是希腊没有权利在其公共债务不可维持时向德国——或其他任何欧洲国家——的纳税人贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "In a report released last March, the UK’s House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs cited disagreement among experts on the issue, with estimates ranging from a 0.5% boost to annual GDP growth in recipient countries to no effect on growth at all.",
        "在去年3月的一份报告中，英国上议院经济事务委员会援引了专家在这一问题上的分歧——ODA对受助国年GDP增长的提振作用众说纷纭，有人说可达0. 5%，有人说根本毫无作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2003, Russia’s private sector produced 70% of the country’s GDP.",
        "2003年，俄罗斯私人部门创造了该国70%的GDP。"
    ],
    [
        "KYIV – Ukraine’s capital abounds with signs of hope and anarchy.",
        "发自基辅——这个乌克兰首都充斥着希望和失序的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, China governs by a consensus of the Standing Committee.",
        "诚然，中国的治国方针需要政治局常委们的一致意见。"
    ],
    [
        "But if punishment is risky or costly for C, she may not do much to A, making A feel unconstrained.",
        "但如果惩罚行为对C而言风险很高或代价很大，他可能不会对A大动干戈，于是A就会肆无忌惮。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, it has emerged, spread, and resisted those who oppose it.",
        "尽管如此，他还是兴旺、传播并抵挡住了反对它的人。"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, developing countries should recognize that disruption, while happening fast, will not render their growth models obsolete overnight.",
        "一方面，发展中国家应该认识到虽然数字技术的破坏性影响不断加剧，却也不可能在一夜之间淘汰它们的增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Before we know it, Jean-Claude Juncker’s presidency of the European Commission will be over.",
        "我们还来不及反应过来， 让·克洛德·容克担任欧盟委员会主席的任期就将结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite his confusing signals, Ozawa’s stance is neither pro-China nor anti-American, given that he most recently emphasized Japan’s sovereignty over the Senkaku islands as an integral part of its territory – a position that China strongly disputes.",
        "小泽虽然表现出可能转变政策的态度，但他的立场绝非亲中或是反美，这从最近他不顾中国强烈抗议而强调日本对尖阁列岛拥有主权一事上可以看出。"
    ],
    [
        "They understood the historic nature of the task and embraced the challenge.",
        "他们明白这一任务的历史性之，坦然接受了挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa alone possesses 40% of the world’s gold, which has been skyrocketing in value since the onset of the global financial crisis.",
        "仅南非一国就坐拥全世界80%的黄金储量，而金价自全球金融危机爆发之后就居高不下。"
    ],
    [
        "As Europe’s post-1945 history clearly shows, traditional alliances and a comprehensive multilateral framework can be complementary, and are essential to maintaining regional peace and stability.",
        "而欧洲二战后的历史也明白地告诉我们，传统结盟制和综合性多边框架可以是互为补充的，也是维持区域和平稳定的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet all but a few old Red Guards remain silent, saying, “it is not worth remembering.”",
        "然而大多数老“红卫兵”都保持沉默，说“那不值得铭记”。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to cut off the Taliban and al-Qaeda’s recruitment and supplies, both countries should fight the militants in tandem.",
        "为了切断塔利班和基地组织的人员征募和物资供给，两个国家应该合力打击武装分子。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking ahead, as the threat of disintegration looms larger, the need for German leadership will be even greater.",
        "放眼未来，随着崩溃的风险越来越大，德国挺身而出的需要会变得更加紧迫。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Wolfowitz, the World Bank failed to introduce any serious governance reforms to reflect the rising economic power of Asia.",
        "在沃尔福威茨的领导下，世界银行未能进行任何真正的管理改革，以适应亚洲日益增长的经济实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Training at high altitude is permitted, though it gives those athletes who can do it an edge over competitors who must train at sea level.",
        "高纬度训练也被允许，虽然这会使有条件这样做的运动员比没条件的多一分优势。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the great challenges ahead is to find a way to bring these two countries’ savings into line, given the vast trade imbalances that many believe planted the seeds of financial crisis.",
        "有鉴于在许多人看来是引发金融危机的原因之一的贸易不平衡，未来的最大挑战之一就是使这两个国家的储蓄（习惯）合理化。"
    ],
    [
        "For the first time, the level of cocaine use in Spain – 3% of the population aged 15 to 64 – now exceeds that in the US.",
        "西班牙的可卡因使用度—占该国15至64岁人口的3%--首次超过了美国。"
    ],
    [
        "In the jargon of economics, this is “moral hazard.”",
        "用经济学术语讲，这是“道德风险”。"
    ],
    [
        "Can impact investing do more to reduce global poverty than so many previous efforts, all of which have struggled to have any impact at all?",
        "影响投资能够在消除全球贫困方面胜过收效甚微的老办法吗？"
    ],
    [
        "A remarkable feature of the recent election is that Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received an absolute majority in the national parliament, an almost unprecedented achievement in India.",
        "最新选举的一个重要特征是莫迪的印度人民党（BJP）在国民议会中获得了绝对多数，在印度，这可以说是空前的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "These and similar phrases have been common currency among American legislators, regulators, and financial firms for decades.",
        "人们普遍认为美国拥有世界上最深、最具流动性和最有效的资本市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, we should perhaps stop shooting the 300 polar bears we hunt each year.",
        "相反，我们应当停止每年捕杀300头北极熊。"
    ],
    [
        "Efforts must be made to ensure that we make the most of such technologies.",
        "必须努力确保我们最大限度的利用这些技术。"
    ],
    [
        "“For whilst an increase in the quantity of money may be expected...to reduce the rate of interest, this will not happen if the liquidity-preferences of the public are increasing more than the quantity of money; and whilst a decline in the rate of interest may be expected...to increase the volume of investment, this will not happen if [profit expectations] are falling faster than the rate of interest; and whilst an increase in the volume of investment may be expected...to increase employment, this may not happen if the propensity to consume is falling off.”",
        "“尽管人们可能期待货币数量的增加……会降低利率，但如果公众的流动性偏好增加快于货币数量，利率就不会降低； 尽管人们可能期待利率降低……会增加投资量，但如果[利润预期]下降比利率更快，投资量就不会增加；"
    ],
    [
        "Governments cannot decide where companies locate; but it is their responsibility to ensure that, although where you live affects your income, where you were born does not determine your future.",
        "政府不能决定公司开在哪里； 但它们 有责任确保，尽管住在哪里会影响你的收入，但出生于哪里不会决定你的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Such laws are in place or under consideration in some 50 countries worldwide.",
        "全世界大约50个国家存在或正在考虑制定类似法律。"
    ],
    [
        "Behind the drama, Trump has certain clear goals, and cabinet and agency heads who share them – and who don’t get distracted by the publication of a juicy account of the president’s behavior.",
        "在这出大戏背后，特朗普有着确定的清晰目标，以及所见略同的内阁和部门首脑——还有并没有因为被曝光的总统行为“猛料”而分散注意力的人们。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iranians remember how the international community remained indifferent when Saddam Hussein attacked with chemical weapons in the 1980’s.",
        "伊朗人记得，当萨达姆·侯赛因在20世纪80年代使用化学武器袭击伊朗的时候，国际社会是怎样的冷漠。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly four years after the world hit bottom in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, QE’s impact has been strikingly asymmetric.",
        "世界经济在全球金融危机冲击下触底后的近四年里，量化宽松政策的影响明显不对称。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern technology makes it easy to have a paper trail for voting machines, at little cost; yet several states chose not to provide this minimal safeguard.",
        "现代技术能轻而易举地以最低的成本获得投票机器的文件记录，但是还是有几个州拒绝使用这种成本微小的安全装置。"
    ],
    [
        "The Jamaat-e-Islami Party, indeed, told me during my stay that they had a 30-year agenda to introduce Sharia law into Bangladesh.",
        "事实上，在我逗留该国期间，杰马伊斯兰党人告诉我，他们制定了一个30年计划要把伊斯兰教法引进到孟加拉国。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unfortunately, despite encouraging signs of progress, barely 40% of people at risk for these preventable diseases receive the medicine they require.",
        "但不幸的是，尽管有这些令人鼓舞的进步信号，但在可能罹患这些可预防疾病的人中，只有40%获得了需要的药物。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the pace of change remain so rapid – or even accelerate further?",
        "变化的节奏会保持如此快速——甚或还会加速吗？"
    ],
    [
        "From Israel’s viewpoint, the rise to power of Sunni political Islam throughout the region over the past two years will lead to an ambivalent outcome.",
        "从以色列的角度讲，过去两年来逊尼派伊斯兰政治力量在整个地区的崛起将产生矛盾的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Another 10% believe that an authoritarian regime is better and more effective than a democratic political system.",
        "而另外10%的人甚至认为独裁政权比民主政治系统更好也更有效率。"
    ],
    [
        "The share of income received by the top 0.5% has reached 14%, where it was in the 1920s.",
        "5％的人收入占全社会总收入的份额已达14％，上次出现这样的情况还是在1920年代。"
    ],
    [
        "Will America face a bout of inflation?",
        "美国是否将面临新一轮通货膨胀呢？"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to securing schooling, no price tag is too steep.",
        "在涉及教育的问题上，无论付出多大代价都在所不惜。"
    ],
    [
        "On the economic front, unprecedented transparency has been introduced into the budgetary process.",
        "在经济领域，预算过程引入了前所未有的透明度。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is often said to be more charitable than other countries; but, in terms of the proportion of the population donating money, Myanmar, Malta, Ireland, the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, and Iceland all do better.",
        "人们通常认为，美国比其他国家更加乐善好施； 但是，就人口捐钱比例而言，缅甸、马耳他、爱尔兰、英国、加拿大、荷兰和冰岛都比美国做得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Behind this claim stands the further assumption that the people have one common will that genuinely aims at the common good, and that the people’s authentic leader – such as Erdoğan, who campaigned under the slogan “National Will, National Power” – can identify and implement it.",
        "之所以这样说，是基于以下进一步假设：人民有一个真切的以共同利益为目标的共同意愿，而真正的人民领袖——如以“国家意志、国家权力”为口号的埃尔多安——能够认识和实施这一意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to communicate our positions clearly to policymakers and reinforce incentives for countries to take appropriate corrective actions.",
        "我们需要把我们的立场明确地传达给决策者们，加强激励各国采取适当补救措施的动力。"
    ],
    [
        "They have, in various forms, affected China’s economy since 1978, and were evident in East Asia’s other high-performing economies – Taiwan, South Korea, and even Japan – during their periods of rapid growth.",
        "自1978年以来，它们就以各种方式影响着中国经济，东亚的其他高增长经济体——台湾、韩国甚至日本——在快速增长时期也无不遇到过这些问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It thus makes sense to focus on HFCs in taking action on climate change.",
        "因此，主要靠淘汰氢氟碳化物来控制气候变化是合理的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, to its immense credit, Sinn Féin has gone out of its way to adopt a progressive stance on the issue of immigration from the EU and elsewhere.",
        "事实上，新芬党有了很大的改观，在来自欧盟和其他地区移民的问题上采纳了进步立场。"
    ],
    [
        "A thousand riot police used rubber bullets and tear gas on the workers, and hundreds were injured, but they did not back down.",
        "”近千名防暴警察对示威工人发射了橡胶子弹和催泪弹，数百人受伤，但没有人因此退缩。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the liberal theory of justice demands at a minimum equality of opportunity: the attempt – as far as is compatible with personal liberty – to eliminate all those differences in life chances arising from unequal starting points.",
        "这正是为什么公正的自由理论要求机会的最低平等的原因，以便（在尽可能兼容个人自由的前提下）消除因为不平等的起点而造成的人生机会的所有差异。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, no government handout could offset the feeling of insecurity at home and on the streets.",
        "毕竟，政府救济不可能抵消家里和街上的不安全感。"
    ],
    [
        "We are proposing that subsidies be capped immediately and eliminated within five years, and that countries be fully transparent about all fishing subsidies, about 60% of which directly encourage unsustainable practices.",
        "我们建议立刻限制公海捕鱼补贴并在五年内取消这项补贴，各国的渔业补贴应该完全透明，并将60%左右用于直接鼓励可持续渔业作业。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexican homeowners who install energy-saving systems such as solar water heaters are becoming eligible for lower-rate “green mortgages.”",
        "安装太阳能热水器等节能系统的墨西哥房主可以获得申请低利率“绿色抵押贷款”的资格。"
    ],
    [
        "But advances in the industry and over-production have reduced their price by as much as 75%.",
        "但行业进步和产能过剩使价格出现了高达75%的降幅。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the US Congress has consistently failed to ratify a package of IMF reforms, agreed in 2010, that would give countries like China greater say in decision-making – a failure that protects Western Europe, whose members benefit most from the status quo.",
        "事实上，美国国会一直没有批准2010年达成一致的IMF改革方案，如若改革实施，则中国等国家将拥有更大的决策影响力。 美国的这一做法保护了西欧——西欧国家是现状的最大受益者。"
    ],
    [
        "With fossil fuels comprising a majority – as high as 70% in some cases – of the energy mix, the situation on the continent is indeed ecologically dire.",
        "化石燃料在一些地区占能源构成的大多数——高达70%——非洲的形势确实非常不利于生态。"
    ],
    [
        "But the study also found important differences.",
        "但研究同时也发现它们之间存在着很多差异。"
    ],
    [
        "That means cleaning up developed economies and working to prevent the massive expansion of industries that damage our collective health and future.",
        "这意味着清理发达经济体并致力于防止伤害我们的集体健康和未来的行业的大幅扩张。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, about 80% of the total labor force was deployed in the services sector in 2012.",
        "在美国，2012年80%左右的劳动力在服务业中就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the Fed’s participation in rescues of troubled financial institutions is criticized for favoring Wall Street over Main Street.",
        "类似地，美联储参与救援受困金融机构也被抨击为将华尔街置于优于主街（Main Street）的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The new NATO operational fund would clearly be more equitable than today’s system, which penalizes proactive member states and rewards members that prefer to do nothing.",
        "这一新北约行动基金显然比现在的制度更加公平，现在的制度对积极承担军事责任的成员国不利，却鼓励了那些宁愿什么也不做的成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with Israeli jet fighters still controlling the airspace, Egypt’s capital and its major population centers were greatly exposed.",
        "以色列战斗机控制着空域，埃及首都及其大部分人民暴露在以色列轰炸机下。"
    ],
    [
        "But even when currency misalignment is relatively clear, trade agreements are not the right way to address it.",
        "但哪怕货币错配情况相对明显，贸易协定也不是解决这个问题的好方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Which Corporate Taxation for America?",
        "美国该用哪种公司税制？"
    ],
    [
        "The Fatah congress also dealt a blow to the abuse and corruption that have plagued the movement in recent years, especially since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority.",
        "本次代表大会也对近年来——特别是巴勒斯坦当局成立之后——不断腐蚀这个组织的滥权和腐败行为进行了整治。"
    ],
    [
        "It was suggested that these outcomes required a force equivalent to a multi-story fall or major motor-vehicle accident, causing immediate symptoms or collapse.",
        "人们指出，这些结果需要相当于从多层楼高处掉落或严重车祸这么大的力才能造成，导致即刻生成的症候或死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "The Italian media eagerly linked the two “Super Marios,” with photomontages showing the prime minister with the soccer player’s idiosyncratic mohawk hairstyle.",
        "意大利媒体热情地将两位“超级马里奥”联系在一起，电脑合成照片里总理和球星一样留着特殊的莫霍克发式。"
    ],
    [
        "If the choice at any particular moment is to provide support or let the system collapse, you should choose support.",
        "如果在任何特定时期只有两个选择：要么政府出手，要么坐视其崩溃，那么前者将是必然的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "While this makes it possible to build “expert systems” that reason in narrow domains, or to design search engines that can find discrete facts, we are no closer to AI that reasons the way that we do – in and across multiple contexts, including time.",
        "这使得建立在狭小领域推理的“专家系统”或是设计寻找离散事实的搜索引擎成为可能，但我们距离能够以我们的方式——在包括时间的众多环境中穿梭自如——进行推理的AI还有很长的路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long run, low-income families (which suffer the most from obesity) would be the greatest beneficiaries.",
        "从长远看，低收入家庭（也是肥胖最严重的受害者）将最大程度地从中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is not caused by human irrationality; on the contrary, it arises precisely because bankers are acting rationally.",
        "问题的原因不是人类不理性； 相反，问题发生的原因正在与银行家的理性行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, Germany must appreciate that the changes it needs are improvements that would guarantee its future security.",
        "首先，德国必须感激地认识到它所需要的变革是能够确保其未来安全的社会进步。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important implication of believing that cultural modernity emerged in more than one species is that it largely eliminates the dichotomy that Western thought has traditionally detected between the natural world and human culture.",
        "相信文化现代性出现在不止一种物种当中的重要意义在于它在很大程度上终结了那种在探究自然世界与人类文明的关系方面的传统两分法似的西方思维。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea is warming to the idea of the TPP, as is Indonesia, following President Joko Widodo’s recent visit to Washington, DC.",
        "韩国正在向TPP的概念示好，印度尼西亚在其总统佐科·维多多最近访问华盛顿后也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump supporters call his triumph a revolution, too, though the violence – at least by the campaign itself – was limited to name-calling and insults.",
        "特朗普支持者也将他的胜利称为革命，尽管其中的暴力——至少从选战本身角度讲——仅限于指名道姓的攻讦和羞辱。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the genius of “social democracy,” the philosophy pioneered in Scandinavia, but also deployed in many developing countries, such as Costa Rica.",
        "这才是“社会民主”的实质。 社会民主由斯堪的纳维亚国家率先实施，哥斯达黎加等许多发展中国家也已经推行。"
    ],
    [
        "It emphasizes the need to invest early, nurturing young children to ensure that they arrive at school healthy and ready to learn; to invest smartly, transforming schools with good teachers, good materials, and good management; and to invest for all, laying the foundation for just and equitable societies.",
        "该战略强调必须及早地投资，加强幼儿营养以确保他们能够健康地进入学校并为学习打下基础； 必须精明地投资，为学校提供优质师资、优质物质条件和优质管理；"
    ],
    [
        "On top of all this, the British may vote in June to leave the European Union.",
        "除了所有这些情况，英国可能在6月投票脱离欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The United States is going through difficult times.",
        "发自剑桥——美国正在经历一段困难时期。"
    ],
    [
        "We knew that premature attempts to achieve long-term fiscal balance would worsen the short-term crisis – and thus be counterproductive in the long-run.",
        "也知道过早撤销支持意味着巨大的风险。 我们明白过早追求长期财政平衡会恶化短期危机，从而不利于长期生产。"
    ],
    [
        "Poland was once Central Europe’s post-Cold War democratic poster child.",
        "波兰曾经是中欧后冷战时代民主榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "The blanket suspicion that was widely seen as falling on all Muslims after every terrorist attack was also strongly resented.",
        "每次恐怖袭击事件发生后，对作案人的怀疑，普遍都落在了所有的穆斯林人身上，穆斯林人对这一点表示强烈愤慨。"
    ],
    [
        "Indignation at the highhanded behavior of a corrupt police officer helped to drive a Tunisian fruit seller to set himself on fire in 2010, touching off revolutions across the Arab world.",
        "2010年，一位突尼斯水果小贩出于对一位腐败警官专横行为的愤慨而自焚，点燃了整个阿拉伯世界的革命之火。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the long-running saga of Malaysia’s opposition leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.",
        "还有马来西亚多年来的反对派领袖、前副总理安瓦尔·易卜拉欣（Anwar Ibrahim）。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Europe faces a severe governance deficit.",
        "最后，欧洲面临严重的治理赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1999, Yeltsin picked Putin, who was then the little-known head of the FSB (formerly the KGB).",
        "1999年的时候，叶利钦挑选了当时不太为人所知的联邦安全局（前克格勃）的局长普京。"
    ],
    [
        "Her unpretentious manner and intellectual capacity (she holds a doctorate in physics) quickly won her the respect of many, even of Vladimir Putin, whose language she speaks fluently.",
        "她的谦逊和智慧（她拥有物理学博士学位）很快为她赢得了人们的尊敬，其中包括弗拉季米尔•普京。 默克尔能够讲流利的俄语。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, he allowed a private press to flourish, and in 2000 he became the first Ethiopian leader to hold multi-party parliamentary elections.",
        "比如，他允许私人出版社的经营，在2000年，他还成为首位主持多党议会选举的埃塞俄比亚领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "As already proposed by the Convention, this would mean separating constitutional matters per se from Union policy.",
        "正如公约所提议，这意味着将宪法问题本身与欧盟政策分离开来。"
    ],
    [
        "But Zardari’s decision to begin grooming his 23-year old son for power may have been his gravest mistake.",
        "扎尔达里决定开始训练其23岁的儿子执政，但是这可能是他犯的最严重的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Girls attending secondary school, by contrast, are much less likely to marry and bear children before reaching adulthood.",
        "18岁花季少女已经有一半做了母亲。 相反上中学的女孩不太可能在成年前结婚生育。"
    ],
    [
        "Strained political relations among most of Asia’s sub-regions make a region-wide security structure or more effective resource cooperation difficult to achieve.",
        "亚洲多数次区域间紧张的政治关系导致难以实现地区安全结构或更有效的资源合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s banking-sector liabilities are nearly five times higher than in the US, at 345% of GDP.",
        "欧洲的银行部门债务额是美国的5倍，相当于GDP的345%。"
    ],
    [
        "His administration may preach the virtues of individual responsibility, but its program makes no provision for how and where the government is going to secure the resources needed to finance its promises.",
        "布什当局可能鼓吹个人责任的优点，但其方案却不规定政府将如何、在哪里为其许诺供资所必需的资金提供保障。"
    ],
    [
        "But in most cases, firms’ liabilities comprise real debt owed to major international banks.",
        "但在大部分情况下，企业负债构成了欠大型跨国银行的真正债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Mainstream politicians, held hostage by xenophobic parties, adopt anti-immigrant rhetoric to win over fearful publics, while the foreign-born are increasingly marginalized in schools, cities, and at the workplace.",
        "主流政客囿于“恐外症”党派的要挟，不得不用反移民口号来取悦忧心忡忡的公众，而外国出生的公民则在学校、城市和工作单位日益受到边缘化。"
    ],
    [
        "Largely due to Malawi’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, the country has a million such orphans.",
        "因为马拉维国内HIV/艾滋病肆虐，使那里的孤儿人数超过了100万。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the countries from where immigration to the EU is probable, Turkey has the best prospects for successful adaptation.",
        "可能移民到欧盟的国家中，土耳其人最有可能融合成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Americans asked, “Why do they hate us?”",
        "2001年9月11日的恐怖袭击后，美国人问“他们为什么恨我们？"
    ],
    [
        "Even the most stability-obsessed countries have made unexpected moves.",
        "即使是最重视稳定的国家也采取了出人意料的动作。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, declining semi-conductor costs have encouraged the proliferation of information and communication technologies that are replacing labor, dis-intermediating supply chains, and reducing routine jobs and lower-value-added jobs on the tradable side in advanced economies.",
        "与此同时，半导体价格的下跌助长了信息和通信技术的兴盛，从而取代了劳动力，促使供应链脱媒，并减少了发达经济体可贸易端的常规工作岗位和低附加值工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "These are the questions that needed to be answered.",
        "这些问题都有待回答。"
    ],
    [
        "What the Middle East needs today is not Islamic law, but wide-ranging efforts to rebuild trust among and within communities, and in private organizations and government.",
        "中东现在需要的不是伊斯兰教法，而是重建民众、私营组织和政府信任的广泛工作。"
    ],
    [
        "High public debt is also being invoked in support of fiscal austerity in many developed countries.",
        "公共债务水平高企也被许多发达国家用来支持财政紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "The continent’s national characteristics have returned to the fore: Germany with its economic power, France with its terrorists, Greece with its leftists, and so forth.",
        "欧洲大陆的国家特征已经成为关注焦点：德国经济强，法国遍地恐怖主义，希腊的极左翼政党，等等。"
    ],
    [
        "UTRECHT – Gloria Taylor, a Canadian, has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.",
        "发自荷兰乌得勒支市——加拿大人格洛莉亚·泰勒是一位肌萎缩侧索硬化症（amyotrophic lateral sclerosis，也称卢伽雷病）患者。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The future of work is a hot topic nowadays.",
        "发自华盛顿特区——就业的未来是当今的热门话题。"
    ],
    [
        "The French have been the most insistent that Europe has interests that are not identical to America’s – particularly in the Middle East, where France has been pro-Arab.",
        "法国一直坚持欧洲具有与美国不同的利益，特别是在中东地区。 法国在中东一直倾向于阿拉伯人。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, governments are laboring with the sheer number of SDGs.",
        "相反，各国政府正被可持续发展目标的庞大数量搞得焦头烂额。"
    ],
    [
        "Intellectual Ventures gets a stake in valuable solutions.",
        "高智发明公司对有价值的方案做股权投资。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Gibraltar received exciting news last month.",
        "巴黎—上个月，直布罗陀迎来了令人兴奋的消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the Six-Party Talks on the denuclearization of North Korea, though producing no significant results so far, remain the only useful mechanism for addressing the problem collectively.",
        "同样，关于朝鲜核问题的六方会谈虽然至今未能取得重大成果，但依然是合作应对这一问题的唯一有效机制。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a consensus already appears to be emerging concerning the need to reduce China’s dependence on exports, expand trade in services, attract more foreign investment to its services sector, and accelerate the liberalization of exchange rates, interest rates, and cross-border capital flows – exemplified in the establishment of the Shanghai Pilot Free-Trade Zone last year.",
        "事实上，关于降低中国的出口依赖、开放其服务贸易、吸引更多外资投资于服务部门以及加速汇率、利率和跨境资本流自由化的问题似乎已经有了共识，去年的上海自由贸易区试点就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "People want hope for a better future – and that comes from rising incomes, not from an extra government-issued slice of the pie.",
        "人们希望重拾对一个更美好未来的向往——而这来自收入的增加，而不是政府另外画出的一块饼。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu is an ideologue of Jewish catastrophe.",
        "内塔尼亚胡是犹太灾难理论家。"
    ],
    [
        "They are prone to attribute concerns about globalization to crass protectionist motives or ignorance, even when there are genuine ethical issues at stake.",
        "他们总倾向于把对全球化的烦恼归因于那些愚蠢自私的贸易保护主义动机或者无知，而不知道其中最要紧的其实是道德问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Perils of Prophecy",
        "预言的风险"
    ],
    [
        "Key actors in Japan’s first lost decade during the 1990s, zombie corporates were kept alive by the “evergreening” of subsidized bank lending – masking an outsize build-up of nonperforming loans (NPLs) that ultimately brought down the Japanese banking system.",
        "这些企业在上世纪90年代日本第一个失去的十年中扮演了关键行动者的角色，它们借助“常借常有”的受补贴银行借贷而持续存活，掩盖了存在巨额不良贷款的事实，最终银行系统不堪重负全面崩盘。"
    ],
    [
        "Spurred into action, the government launched initiatives to support disadvantaged and immigrant students, and made the notion of early childhood education a driving force in German education policy.",
        "受到刺激的政府采取了支持弱势和移民学生的措施，并让早教成为德国教育政策的推动力。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – The United States government’s initial statements on the “first-step agreement on Iran’s nuclear program” have been focused, above all, on the great deal that the US and the West have gotten.",
        "华盛顿—美国政府关于“伊朗核计划初步协议”的最初说法首先强调的是这是美国和西方所获得的伟大协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Volta first discovered electricity cells in 1800, but it took another eight decades to introduce direct current as a means of power transmission.",
        "意大利物理学家亚历山德罗·伏特（Alessandro Volta）在 1800 年首次发明了电池，但又过了80多年人们才引入直流电作为电力传输的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "With the G-7 leaders having committed, in a recent joint declaration, to tackle “antimicrobial resistance” (AMR), it is time for the more inclusive G-20 – and China, as it chairs the group for the first time – to take the fight to the next level.",
        "G-7领导人在最近的联合声明承诺解决“抗生素耐药性”（AMR），包含面更广的G-20——以及首次担任其主席国的中国——应该担起下一阶段战斗的领导责任。"
    ],
    [
        "While the project could have significant regional benefits, stimulating economic development by promoting integration and connectivity, it would serve primarily China’s interests, expanding the country’s international influence and reducing the gap between its eastern and western regions.",
        "虽然该项目可以为所处区域带来极大的好处，通过推动一体化整合及巩固联系来刺激经济发展，但主要还是为中国的利益服务，协助扩张该国的国际影响力，并减少该国国内东西部地区之间的经济差距。"
    ],
    [
        "There are reasons for thinking that it has.",
        "有理由认为确实如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Progressive economists love the French government for spending a staggering 57% of GDP, compared to government expenditures of 44% of GDP for Germany.",
        "进步主义经济学家（Progressive economists）偏爱法国政府，因其支出高达GDP的57%，相比之下德国政府支出只占GDP的44%。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging Economies’ Demographic Challenge",
        "新兴经济体的人口挑战"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, it is now clear that people’s lifestyles do not concern only themselves.",
        "因此，很显然，现在人类的生命已不再只是自己的事情了。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the policy was enacted nonetheless, making a major contribution to reversing the free-fall.",
        "幸运的是，该政策最终还是实施了，对力挽狂澜起到了重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent legal revolution in France is no less important, even if it is still in a transitional phase.",
        "即使仍处在过渡阶段，但法国近来的法律革命有着丝毫不亚于前者的重要意义。"
    ],
    [
        "I would say that this is worse than a crime.",
        "我敢说这比犯罪都更加恶劣。"
    ],
    [
        "One question will be on everyone’s mind at the meeting: Has the world lived up to the HFA’s ambitious goals?",
        "所有与会者脑海中都会带着这样一个问题：世界实现HFA的宏大目标了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Probably no chair has done a better job, in a particularly difficult moment, than Janet Yellen.",
        "而在前几年那段特别艰难的时期，可能没有哪个主席比珍妮特·耶伦（Janet Yellen）做得更好了。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk may be slight, but if the consequences should it materialize are great enough, the expected cost of disaster may be sufficient to warrant defensive measures.",
        "风险可能是轻微的，但是可能造成的后果是巨大的，可以预期的灾难成本应当足以建立防护性措施。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are serious risks.",
        "但同时也会伴随着严重的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "With Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran topping the list of strategic challenges facing the West, anchoring democracy and security in these new borderlands of the Euro-Atlantic community has become imperative for both the United States and the EU.",
        "由于西方目前最严峻的挑战来自阿富汗、伊拉克和伊朗等中东国家，因此对欧盟和美国来讲，在欧洲－大西洋共同体的新边界实现民主与安全确实刻不容缓。"
    ],
    [
        "So the problems of our day have little to do with a lack of global cooperation.",
        "因此我们今天的问题与全球合作的缺失并没有什么关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But the state of infrastructure in the US suggests that many decision-makers do not share this view.",
        "但美国的基础设施状况表明许多决策者并不同意这一观点。"
    ],
    [
        "America and the world should remember: Argentina’s privatization of its pension system was at the center of its recent fiscal woes.",
        "美国和全世界都应该记得：阿根廷的养老金体系私有化是导致其近期财政恶化的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "No display of military muscle could help; only robust peace diplomacy could end Israel’s isolation.",
        "炫耀军力毫无用处，唯有稳步推进和平外交可能结束以色列的孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel is often cited as a precedent for such efforts.",
        "以色列往往被视为上述领域的先驱。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States Federal Reserve, which helped create the problems through a combination of excessive liquidity and lax regulation, is trying to make amends – by flooding the economy with liquidity, a move that, at best, has merely prevented matters from being worse.",
        "美联储造成的流动性过剩加上疏于监管，推动了危机的发生。 因此美联储正在努力用给经济大量增加流动性的方式进行弥补，而此举最多只能阻止事态进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "What these companies must recognize is that over time they may not be able to survive a steady stream of privacy gaffes – whether the result of their own mistakes or guilt by association – and constantly changing rules. (In this sense, Facebook is a rare exception.)",
        "而这些企业必须意识到随着时间的推移它们可能会被一大堆私隐丑闻——不管是出于自身失误还是受到牵连——以及不断改变的规则所击倒（在这方面脸书是个罕见的例子）。"
    ],
    [
        "Political Islam is a risk, but we can minimize it only by devising intelligent, case-sensitive strategies that promote democracy, not by denouncing the results of democratic choice.",
        "政治伊斯兰是一个风险，但是，我们只有通过制定出促进民主、对环境敏感的智能型战略，而不是职责民主选择的结果才能将这一风险降低到最小程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Since independence in 1947, a majority of India’s prime ministers have been Brahmins, the highest Hindu caste.",
        "自1947年独立以来，大多数的印度总理是由婆罗门人担任的，他们是印度教的最高种姓。"
    ],
    [
        "But the data show neither marked austerity by historical standards nor government cutbacks severe enough to explain the huge job losses.",
        "但数据表明，以历史标准衡量，希腊的紧缩并不突出，政府削减支出也没有严重到可以解释巨大的就业岗位损失的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the ECB is right that it is faced with very different monetary conditions in different member states; indeed, the eurozone is akin to a badly working fixed-exchange-rate system, with all of the attendant risks.",
        "尽管如此，欧洲央行是正确的：它在不同成员国面临截然不同的货币条件； 事实上，欧元区就像是拙劣的固定汇率系统，存在固定汇率系统的所有风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But even for full-time employees, firms can opt to pay a relatively small fine rather than provide insurance.",
        "但即使是对全职雇员，企业也可以选择支付相对较少的罚款，而不提供保险。"
    ],
    [
        "Reducing poverty, rather than penalizing earned success, is the right focus for dealing with it.",
        "减少贫困，而不是惩罚奋斗得来的成功，才是解决这一问题的正途。"
    ],
    [
        "Each concludes that India can have a satisfactory water future.",
        "每一个都认为印度可以有一个令人满意的水将来。"
    ],
    [
        "This, by itself, calls for a review of the overall efficacy of inflation-targeting.",
        "这本身足以引起对通胀目标总体有效性的反思。"
    ],
    [
        "Rouhani’s triumph was likely, but the vote was no mere formality.",
        "鲁哈尼的胜利可谓水到渠成，但投票绝非例行公事。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the global financial crisis badly damaged the credibility of ratings agencies as a whole.",
        "毕竟，全球金融危机大大伤害了评级机构的整体信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Considering that China’s total debt reached 282% of GDP last year – surpassing America’s debt level – further reckless lending to local governments and private enterprises from the shadow banking sector would hold the economy hostage to the growing risk of a financial crisis.",
        "考虑到去年中国总债务水平已达GDP的282%——已经超过了美国——影子银行部门继续鲁莽地向地方政府和民营企业借贷可能给经济带来金融危机的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries cannot simply copy these achievements; but they can still learn the main lesson that is too often forgotten in a world of “stimulus,” bubbles, and short-term thinking.",
        "其他国家无法简单地复制这些成就； 但他们仍然可以汲取这个“刺激”时代人们常常遗忘的主要教训——杜绝泡沫化和短期思维。"
    ],
    [
        "What remains to be seen is how the end will come.",
        "有待观察的只是何时毙命。"
    ],
    [
        "The content of Xi’s intellectual contribution to Marxist-Leninism further entrenches his position.",
        "习近平对马列主义的思想贡献的内容进一步巩固了他的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The mood in the Mediterranean EU members, as well as in Ireland, is heating up, owing not only to the tightening squeeze of austerity, but also – and perhaps more importantly – to the absence of policies that offer people hope for a better future.",
        "包括爱尔兰在内的一些地中海地区欧盟成员国的情绪变得越发激烈。 导致这一情绪的原因不仅仅是紧缩的政策所带来的高压，而且更为重要的原因是缺乏能够给人们带来希望去憧憬更好的将来的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "This could lead to a fiscal catastrophe for the government at the very moment when the country is attempting a complicated political transition.",
        "这将带来财政崩溃的危险，而与此同时，埃及正处在复杂政治过渡的关键时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus far, policy has reinforced the flattening effects of technology.",
        "迄今为止，政策都进一步巩固了技术的平坦化效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the industry’s new champions, Apple and Google – not to mention titans in other tech sectors – avoid Nokia’s fate?",
        "苹果和谷歌等科技业新的领导企业（更不用说其他科技领域的巨头）能否避免诺基亚的悲剧？"
    ],
    [
        "The US economy is staging a more convincing recovery than the UK, and, in contrast to the Bank of England and the European Central Bank, the Fed is not explicitly mandated by Congress to achieve a specific inflation target.",
        "相对于英国，美国经济的复苏更加可信，同时与英格兰银行和欧洲中央银行相比，美国国会也并未向美联储下达要求将通胀精确控制在某个点位的指令。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a classic public-goods problem: in principle, it is in individual countries’ self-interest not to take action, while the rest of the world does.",
        "这是典型的公共利益问题：原则上，在世界其他国家采取行动时，不采取行动符合个别国家的自身利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The demand that the ECB should be the central supervisory authority in an integrated capital market met strong resistance, above all from Germany’s Bundesbank, which worried that a role in maintaining financial stability might undermine the Bank’s ability to focus on price stability as the primary goal of monetary policy.",
        "提议欧洲央行应当成为一体化资本市场中核心监管当局的想法遭遇了强烈抵抗，尤以德意志银行为甚——它担心保持金融稳定的角色会削弱欧洲央行维持价格稳定这一货币政策首要目标的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Although alpha may be vanishingly small, it still represents enough profit to keep the computers running.",
        "虽然高回报或许会小得不能再小，但始终意味着足够的利益去让这些电脑继续运作。"
    ],
    [
        "On the tradable side, one should look for structural change and a shift in output to higher-value-added components of global supply chains.",
        "在可贸易部门，你应该寻找结构性变化和产出向全球供应链更高附加值部分的变迁。"
    ],
    [
        "Care-Giving and the Moral Impoverishment of Medicine",
        "病人照护和药物的道德贫困"
    ],
    [
        "While the US consumer price index reached 2.2% in October, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan have so far been unable to meet their targets of roughly 2% inflation, with the eurozone’s average annual price growth hovering around 1.5% and Japan’s firmly lodged in the 1% range.",
        "2％，欧洲央行和日本央行迄今未能达到大致2％的通胀目标，欧元区年均物价涨幅徘徊在1. 5％左右，日本则一直盘踞在1％的范围内。"
    ],
    [
        "Getting it right is difficult even under the best of circumstances.",
        "即使在最佳环境中，做出正确决定也非常不易。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The G-8’s $20 billion initiative on smallholder agriculture, launched at the group’s recent summit in L’Aquila, Italy, is a potentially historic breakthrough in the fight against hunger and extreme poverty.",
        "纽约——八国集团不久前在意大利拉奎拉峰会上启动的200亿美元小农援助计划或许是战胜饥饿和极端贫困的一次历史性的突破。"
    ],
    [
        "It was also costly in terms of our soft power to attract others.",
        "吸引他人的软权力同样有着高昂的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "A major boost to confidence would be a clear-cut strategic commitment from the West in the form of an extension of NATO’s own deterrent to the Middle East.",
        "以扩大北约自己对中东德威慑力的形式来大大提升信心，将是西方一个明确的战略承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "A joint South Korea-US military exercise near the Demilitarized Zone or a joint anti-submarine exercise at the Northern Limit Line should be considered.",
        "应当考虑在非军事区附近组织韩美联合军事演习，或者在北方限界线附近举行联合反潜演习。"
    ],
    [
        "They bought only government paper and securitized real-estate instruments that were issued by the semi-public bodies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.",
        "他们一般只购买政府债券以及由半国有机构房利美和房地美发行的证券化的房地产工具。"
    ],
    [
        "In all of these countries, the debate tends to boil down to three basic positions.",
        "在所有这些国家，讨论往往归结于三个基本立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Exaggerated importance is one kind of bubble that central bankers should always be eager to burst.",
        "而过度的重要性则是某种中央银行家们应当经常努力去戳破的泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, there are huge disparities among firms in terms of efficiency – and hence in the income they can distribute.",
        "结果，企业之间的效率存在巨大差异，它们可用来分配的收入亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Switzerland and not Brazil, one of the largest emerging markets?",
        "后者可视最大的新兴市场国家之一？"
    ],
    [
        "The murder last week of Boris Nemtsov, a leading opposition politician and a former deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, should come as no surprise.",
        "上周，反对派政治领袖、叶利钦政府副总理鲍里斯·涅姆佐夫（Boris Nemtsov）被杀，这早已不足为奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Aristotle was preoccupied with dental issues, writing about treatments of decayed teeth and gum disease, extractions conducted with forceps, and the use of wire to stabilize fractured jaws.",
        "亚里士多德饱受牙病之苦，他曾记录过治疗蛀牙和牙龈疾病、用钳子拔牙和用金属线来固定颌骨骨折。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, 30% of those aged 65-75 worldwide are toothless, with poor and disadvantaged groups recording the highest rates.",
        "今天，全世界65-75岁的老人中有30%没有牙齿，穷人和弱势群体牙齿脱落的比例更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Shinzo Abe, the acting secretary-general of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and a leading candidate to succeed Junichiro Koizumi as Japanese prime minister next year, put it bluntly: it would be wrong for Japan to send a signal to China that the US and Japan will watch and tolerate a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan.",
        "安倍晋三，日本执政党自民党干事长、最有可能在明年接替小泉纯一郎担任日本首相的候选人，直截了当地说：如果我们向中国发出美国和日本将会坐视并容忍中国对台湾动武的信号，那么我们就错了。"
    ],
    [
        "In our first grant proposal, in 1981, the reviewers said that we would never be able to synthesize the polymers.",
        "1981年首次申请经费时，评审人员说我们永远无法合成这样的高分子聚合物。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a study by the Insurance Information Institute, expenditures on non-life insurance in 2003 amounted to only 0.83% of GDP in Indonesia, 1.19% of GDP in Thailand, and 0.62% of GDP in India, compared with 5.23% of GDP in the United States.",
        "保险资讯中心（Insurance Information Institute）的一份研究表明，与美国5. 23%的比例相比，2003年印度尼西亚财产保险支出仅占全国GDP的0."
    ],
    [
        "Al-Qaeda lost the sanctuaries from which it planned its attacks; many of its leaders were killed or captured; and its central communications were severely disrupted.",
        "基地组织失去了策划袭击活动的庇护所，很多高层领导人物命丧黄泉或锒铛入狱，其核心领导层的消息传递也严重受阻。"
    ],
    [
        "It also predicted that the heat capacity of the oceans would delay warming by several decades.",
        "这两项结果都与该报告披露后所观察到的全球变暖情况相符。"
    ],
    [
        "Such partnerships would cut by half the cost and time of experimenting and learning for the US, while avoiding redundancy and waste.",
        "这种伙伴关系，将为美国减少一半的实验学术成本跟时间，还会避免冗余浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "In India, in particular, the Pakistani military – which, despite being the world’s sixth largest, would have little chance of winning a conventional war against its giant neighbor – uses its terrorist proxies to wage a clandestine war.",
        "特别是，在印度，巴基斯坦军方——尽管其规模名列世界第六，但它能够打赢与其巨人邻邦的传统战争的希望渺茫——利用其恐怖主义代理人挑起了一场秘密战争。"
    ],
    [
        "For Syria, this means that part of the existing state, including Assad’s Alawite sect, should be included in a broad coalition, along with the opposition and the Kurds.",
        "对叙利亚而言，这意味着现有政府的组成部分，包括阿萨德的阿拉维派在内，均应与反对派和库尔德人一道加入到全面联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Sub-Saharan Africa is breaking through to sustained development – creating a new frontier of growth after decades of stagnation.",
        "撒哈拉以南非洲突破数十年经济停滞进入可持续发展的新领域。"
    ],
    [
        "In general, natural resources like oil, gas, diamonds, and other precious minerals breed corruption, because governments can live off of their export earnings without having to “compromise” with their own societies.",
        "总体而言，由于政府可以依靠出口收入而无需同其社会“妥协”，因此，类似石油、天然气、钻石以及其他稀有金属的天然资源会促生腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "With soft power, however, the energy of empowered followers strengthens leaders.",
        "不过拥有软实力的话，获得授权的下属们的能量就会有助于领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "The phrase reminds me of my mother’s frequent observation that “somebody,” unnamed, had not tidied his bedroom (I was an only child).",
        "这个用词让我想起我母亲常常看到“有人”——不点名——没有整理好他的房间（我是独生子）。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, protectionism and trade wars will intensify, and we will come one step closer to reliving the nightmare of the 1930’s.",
        "如果不幸没有达成，那么保护主义和贸易战争就会加剧，而我们也离重演1930的噩梦又进了一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s recession will be a long one, but it will compel everybody to consider its root causes.",
        "虽然目前的衰退将会是一次长期的过程，但它会迫使所有的人去探究其发生的根本原因。"
    ],
    [
        "An increased say for emerging economies will imply taking more international responsibility as well, also in financial terms.",
        "新兴国家在享受更多权力的同时，也应该在金融领域中担负起更多的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "A small number of babies who collapse and die unexpectedly in their first year are found to have one or more of the following three symptoms in common: bleeding just outside the brain (subdural hemorrhage); bleeding at the back of the eye (retinal hemorrhage); and brain swelling.",
        "少数在不满一周岁意外夭折的婴儿被发现有以下三种症候中的一种或多种：大脑外延出血（膜下出血）、眼底出血（视网膜出血）和脑水肿。"
    ],
    [
        "China will resist deploying its full leverage, lest it undermine North Korea’s stability and end up worse off as a result.",
        "中国不会同意尽全力施压朝鲜，担心这样会破坏朝鲜稳定，从而带来更糟糕的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Under such conditions, the option of Hamas agreeing to a cease-fire and some form of power sharing with the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority would no longer be viable.",
        "上述条件下，哈马斯同意停火和以一定方式与法塔赫领导的巴勒斯坦政权分享权利的可能已经不复存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Even more problematic is the revelation that CCS and BECCS would most likely be used for “enhanced oil recovery,” with compressed CO2 pumped into old oil wells for storage, thereby creating a financial incentive to recover more oil.",
        "问题更大的是，据披露CCS和BECCS最有可能用于“强化石油开采”（enhanced oil recovery），将压缩二氧化碳泵入旧油井作储存之用，从而形成开采更多石油的财务激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Huge spending increases were directed at farmers and households.",
        "农业和家庭部门得到了庞大的增量开支。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, I came up with the acronym not just because the letters fit together, but also because of the word’s actual meaning: these emerging economies, I argued in my 2001 paper, should be the building blocks of freshly overhauled global financial and governance systems.",
        "事实上我之所以想出BRICS这个缩写，不仅是因为各国名称首字母的巧合，也是因为这个词的真实含义：在我2001年发表的文章中，这些新兴经济体应该是构筑新全球金融和治理体系的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "Three decades of success in China, and a decade in which India supposedly overcame the old, slow, “Hindu rate of growth,” are ending with both economies slowing precipitously.",
        "中国的成功的三十年，以及印度被认为克服了昔日缓慢的“印度增长率”的十年正在走向终点——经济增长显著放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Germany’s success is frequently cited as a model that other countries should emulate, and rightly so.",
        "事实上，德国的成功常常被当作其他国家应该效仿的模板。 理应如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, from an economic perspective, Grexit no longer represents the potential catastrophe that it once did.",
        "事实上，从经济角度讲，希腊退出已不再像从前那样是一场潜在的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "As the bailout has ballooned, it is increasingly clear that this was merely another example of financial markets mis appraising risk – just as they have done consistently in recent years.",
        "随着投入紧急援助的钱越来越多，大家越来越清楚地认识到这不过是金融市场错误地评估风险的又一个例子，就像它们在过去几年一直在做的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "A tapering of eurozone QE is now widely expected.",
        "欧元区QE减磅已是广泛的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "But al-Qaeda – the word means “the base” or “the camp,” that is, nothing more or less than a point of gathering and training – is more like a blurred sphere of influence, comprising individuals and small local cells that act on their own initiative and cooperate very rarely, and only for large-scale operations.",
        "但al-Qaeda—这个词的意思是“基地”或“营地”，也就是说它仅仅是一个让人集中并受训的地点—更像是一个令人琢磨不透的影响力圈，其主要构成是个体成员和许多自行其是，除了大规模行动外，极少合作的小型本地基层组织。"
    ],
    [
        "That means an annual increment to world income of $250 billion from this source alone.",
        "2%是难能可贵的。 这意味着仅这一个国家就为世界收入带来了2500亿美金的年增加值。"
    ],
    [
        "But, of course, agriculture remains critical to feed the population.",
        "当然，农业依然是养活民众的关键所在。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the political economy of most structural reforms – with their front-loaded costs and back-loaded benefits – implies that they occur only slowly.",
        "不幸的是，大部分结构改革的政治经济学——以及前置的成本和后置的收益——意味着它们只能缓慢实施。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, they will never be able to compete on price, and thus will need to emphasize quality, most likely through much improved branding and marketing.",
        "因此，日本牛肉不可能从价格上竞争，而需要强调质量，最可行的办法是通过大大改进的品牌宣传和营销。"
    ],
    [
        "Shi Yinhong, an academic who serves as a counselor to China’s government, the State Council, has warned of the growing risk of Chinese strategic overreach.",
        "学者、中国国务院顾问时殷弘已经警告中国战略透支的风险日益增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Several have committees that advise university trustees on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in their portfolio, most commonly when proxy votes in support of ESG proposals are to be held.",
        "一些大学成立了委员会，就大学受托人投资组合中的环境、社会和治理（ESG）相关内容提供建议，最常见的情形是要举行支持ESG方案的代理投票时。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, not all of AI’s implications for the future are so obvious.",
        "但是，并非所有未来AI影响都是那么显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "A carbon tax would provide a welfare trifecta: higher growth as firms retrofit to reflect the increased costs of carbon dioxide emissions; a cleaner environment; and revenue that could be used to finance infrastructure and direct efforts to narrow America’s economic divide.",
        "碳税能提供三重福利：企业因为二氧化碳排放成本增加而作出调整进而带来更高的增长； 环境变得更加清洁；"
    ],
    [
        "Governments that act now can reduce energy subsidies or increase taxes while sparing consumers an increase in the retail price from one year to the next.",
        "现在采取行动的政府能够在不让消费者面临零售价格年复一年上涨的情况下降低能源补贴或提高税收。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is the science unambiguous about whether rights to parental leave and flexible time, later retirement ages, or laws promoting work sharing, have the effects one might expect.",
        "科学也无法确知育儿假和弹性工作权、延迟退休年龄或推进工作共享的法律能否达到预期的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Palin Non-Factor",
        "佩林是个非要素"
    ],
    [
        "As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reputedly quipped after meeting Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Second-class intellect, but first-class temperament.”",
        "正如最高法庭法官奥利佛·文德尔·赫尔姆斯（Oliver Wendell Holmes）在与富兰克林·D·罗斯福（Franklin D. Roosevelt）会面后那句著名的玩笑：“二流的智力，一流的脾气”。"
    ],
    [
        "For too long, intemperate historical debates – often driven by biased newspaper accounts – have poisoned bilateral relations.",
        "历史争论——往往受有偏见的报纸文章煽动——毒害双边关系已有很长的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The message was obvious: his was the only group with a legitimate claim to being native Taiwanese.",
        "他想传达的意思很明确：那就是只有他自己的族群才是全台湾唯一能合法自称为原住民的团体。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Court ruled that, absent a showing of actual racial bias in the minds of testers and administrators – virtually impossible to prove – the pervasive reality of racial disadvantage was not unlawful.",
        "但法庭判决说，由于未能确实证明试验者以及行政长官头脑里存在着种族偏见——事实上无法证实——这种普遍存在的种族劣势不属于非法。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s Reality Check for Europe",
        "普京的欧洲现实检验"
    ],
    [
        "Is Obama suggesting that the US should have supported Mosaddegh in the midst of the Cold War, or tilted toward Iran during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s?",
        "奥巴马是否暗示美国应该在冷战中支持摩萨台，或者在20世纪80年代的两伊战争中对伊朗表示支持？"
    ],
    [
        "This had a visible impact on the president, who according to Gergen, “seemed worn out, puffy, and hyper,” as well as “out of sorts, easily distracted, and impatient.”",
        "这对总统产生了显著的影响，他“显得筋疲力尽、臃肿和极度兴奋，”同时又“情绪低落、无法集中精力和不耐烦。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "If they fail to generate new ideas and devise novel approaches, their problems will only multiply further.",
        "如果他们不能产生新想法、新方法，他们的问题将越来越严重。"
    ],
    [
        "This patronizing partnership has run its course, and it is crucial that we change the dynamic.",
        "这一庇护式的合作关系早已不合时宜，改变这一动态至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "First, governments must balance long-term goals with short-term achievements.",
        "首先，政府必须平衡长期目标和短期成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, a majority of parliamentarians must sign a petition declaring null and void the extension of Lahoud’s term.",
        "第二步，大部分议员必须在宣布拉胡德延长任期无效的请愿书上签名。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the opacity of capital indicators has made market discipline impossible to impose.",
        "与此同时，资本指标的不透明导致市场纪律无法起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "They challenge the establishment.",
        "他们挑战建立的法制体系。"
    ],
    [
        "In part, this means that existing infrastructure projects that are supposed to be financed from national budgets could be funded by the EIB.",
        "从某种程度上说，这意味着应由国家预算融资的现有基础设施项目可以由欧洲投行融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, any change will require years to take effect, and therefore will not address the electorate’s current anxiety.",
        "另外，任何改革都需要经历数年才能见到成效，所以不能满足选民们当下的诉求。"
    ],
    [
        "For some, the problem is that government regulations make compliance too onerous for small firms.",
        "有人说这是因为小企业遵守政府法规的义务过于繁重。"
    ],
    [
        "But this approach does not work for things that the government (that is, other people’s taxes) pays for.",
        "但这种方法不适用于政府（即公众税收）支付。"
    ],
    [
        "A somewhat more sensible concern might be that the dollar’s reserve-currency status causes it to be “over-valued” with respect to every currency, not just the renminbi.",
        "更加合理的判断是，美元的储备货币地位使得它对所有货币（不光是人民币）都“高估”了。"
    ],
    [
        "In February 2010, at “Spring Festival” – one of China’s biggest holidays, marked by family reunions – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that the government should help people live with dignity and happiness.",
        "春节是中国人家庭团圆的重要节日。 在2010年2月春节，中国国家总理温家宝发表讲话，他说，政府的工作是让人民生活得更加幸福和更有尊严。"
    ],
    [
        "This proposition was recently tested anew on Icelandic data and performed well.",
        "这一观点最近已得到来自冰岛的数据的重新验证。"
    ],
    [
        "Another major concern in Germany is that QE could be a backdoor means of creating Eurobonds.",
        "德国的另一个主要担忧是量化宽松可能成为创立欧元债券的后门。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, the ideological mouthpieces for the super-rich in the US, especially the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal , remain bitterly opposed to foreign aid, even if it’s just 70 cents per hundred dollars of income!",
        "令人沮丧的是，代表着美国顶级富裕群意识形态的喉舌，尤其是华尔街日报的社论版，对对外援助保持坚决反对态度，即使它只占每一百元美元收入中的70美分。"
    ],
    [
        "Friedman’s voice was a skeptical breath of fresh air at a time when the reigning viewpoint was a kind of smug pseudo-socialism that did not recognize the astounding power of markets to accomplish desirable aims.",
        "这一观点并不认可市场可以实现有用的目标。 弗里德曼的声音在当时就是一股清风。"
    ],
    [
        "A little arithmetic shows why.",
        "让我们做一个简单的演算。"
    ],
    [
        "This is bad news for Australia, which would clearly like to build a stronger partnership with regional powers that share its democratic values and interests, including India, Japan, and the US.",
        "这对于澳大利亚来说是坏消息，它当然希望与和自己具有共同民主价值观和利益的地区力量构建更加强大的关系，包括印度、日本和美国等。"
    ],
    [
        "Now a widow, she is exposed to the lame-duck syndrome, since she can’t be re-elected again.",
        "如今，克里斯汀已经是一位寡妇，她将面对“跛脚鸭综合症”，因为她无法再度连任了。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany recognized that it could be reunified only in the context of greater European unification, and it was willing to pay the price.",
        "德国人认为，更加深入的欧洲一体化是德国重新统一的必要条件，德国愿意为此付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has celebrated the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood’s government, and is seeking to use Morsi’s failures and removal as justification for repression at home, making it even more difficult to find a political solution that would end the fighting.",
        "叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德政权对穆斯林兄弟会政府的倒台弹冠相庆，并在寻求利用穆尔西的失败和下台作为国内镇压的依据，从而让寻求结束战争的政治方案更加难以形成了。"
    ],
    [
        "While a semi-presidential system like France’s could enable Italy to suppress symmetric bicameralism and reform the worst aspects of its electoral law (known as porcellum, or “the crap law”), thereby improving governability, it would create as many problems as it would solve.",
        "尽管类似法国的半总统制能让意大利遏制其对称两院制并改革其选举法中最糟糕的的部分（被称为“porecellum”，即“废话法律”），从而改善其可治理性，但也它所带来的问题一点也不比它所解决问题少。"
    ],
    [
        "In the ensuing months, that forecast was steadily whittled down, reaching 3.1% in October.",
        "在随后的几个月中，这一预测被逐步调低，10月份时下降到3."
    ],
    [
        "As we enter 2016, we must focus on adapting governance, in all of its economic and political dimensions, to the twenty-first century, so that our resources and knowledge produce inclusive progress, not violent conflict.",
        "随着2016年的到来，我们必须专注于调整治理，使其在经济和政治的所有方面符合二十一世纪，从而让我们的资源和知识创造包容性进步而不是暴力冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "By organizing peaceful protests to demand accountability for public spending, these movements are raising issues that were not addressed during the election campaign.",
        "这些运动通过组织和平示威要求问责公共支出，引出了竞选期间未能解决的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The second is fiscal, and the third is structural.",
        "第三个问题是结构性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "All of the attention given to China’s economic rise – and, to a lesser extent, that of India and Brazil – has overshadowed the success of US allies like South Korea, Turkey, Indonesia, and Germany.",
        "对中国经济崛起的关注——还有印度和巴西，尽管不如中国那样耀眼——让人忽略了韩国、土耳其、印尼和德国等美国盟友的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Two central questions raised by Young remain topical today.",
        "杨所提出的两个中心问题至今还颇具典型意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the anti-immigration, anti-European UK Independence Party (UKIP) takes more votes – perhaps as much as 50% – from the Conservatives than it does from the Labour party.",
        "其次，反移民、反欧洲的英国独立党（UK Independence Party）从保守党中夺走的选票比从工党夺走的多得多——也许多50%。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as with technology hubs elsewhere, innovations born in Hangzhou are determining the development path of related industries.",
        "在其他技术领域，诞生自杭州的创新也在决定着相关行业的发展道路。"
    ],
    [
        "But Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo secured American financial honor in August 1914 by remaining true to gold while everyone else, except for the British, abandoned their obligations.",
        "但是，正当除了英国以外的其他所有国家都放弃其义务之际，美国财政部长麦克阿杜在1914年8月坚持金本位不变，从而为美国赢得了金融信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s the idea, at least.",
        "至少在概念上是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "And factory workers yearn for production levels that local unemployed consumers’ purchasing power cannot sustain.",
        "而工厂工人所向往的生产水平也是当地无业消费者的购买力所无法维持的。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranians claim that each time they move toward cooperation with the US, a new problem emerges to block improved relations.",
        "伊朗人说，每当他们朝着与美国合作的方向努力时，就会出现新的问题阻挠关系的改善。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is little reason to believe that this proposed bureaucratic monster will provide better security than the existing FSB and MVD forces.",
        "但没多少理由能使人相信，这个即将诞生的官僚怪物会比国家安全局和内政部提供更多的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "While there are many causes, post-NAFTA direct foreign investment in the processed food industry and a surge in advertising are important contributors.",
        "而协定生效后该国加工食品行业引入的直接国外投资以及广告的激增是造成这种情况的重要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the main questions raised by Britain’s decision to leave – whether other countries will follow and, indeed, whether the EU itself has a future – remain far from resolved.",
        "此外，英国退出欧盟的决定所带来的主要问题——其他国家是否会效仿，以及，事实上欧盟自身还有没有未来——也远未解决。"
    ],
    [
        "China observes that on most security matters, the ESDP will (for now) mimic American security interests, because the EU and US share fundamental values of human rights and democracy.",
        "中国认为，在大多数安全问题上，欧洲独立安全和防务政策目前模仿美国的安全利益，因为欧盟和美国具有共同的人权和民主价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "The patent system was notoriously expensive and inaccessible.",
        "专利制度以昂贵和不可获得而闻名。"
    ],
    [
        "This is desperation migration.",
        "这就是绝望的移民。"
    ],
    [
        "Better educated and more in touch with global currents through the media or their own travel, women began participating in Moroccan political debates.",
        "妇女们受过更好的教育，通过媒体和亲身旅行体验更多地接触到全球潮流，她们开始参与到摩洛哥的政治辩论中来。"
    ],
    [
        "Resolving the case requires a more considered response from US politicians than hysterical tweeting.",
        "解决这个问题需要的不是歇斯底里的推特，而是美国政界人士更加深思熟虑的回应。"
    ],
    [
        "As Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of modern Singapore, once told me, a leader must be a quick learner, test reality, be prepared to change his mind as conditions change, and act calmly in a crisis.",
        "现代新加坡国父李光耀曾经对我说，领袖必须能够快速学习、检验现实、随时准备随环境改变思维并且在危机中保持镇定。"
    ],
    [
        "It has an unmanageable level of government debt (150% of GDP, rising this year by ten percentage points), a collapsing economy (with GDP down by more than 7% this year, pushing the unemployment rate up to 16%), a chronic balance-of-payments deficit (now at 8% of GDP), and insolvent banks that are rapidly losing deposits.",
        "它拥有一个棘手的政府负债（相当于GDP的150%，今年内已经递增了10%），一个陷入崩溃的经济（随着GDP下跌了7%，失业率上升到16%），一个长期存在的政府收支赤字（目前相当于GDP的8%），以及一批资不抵债且在迅速流失存款的银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Human greed, as well as the temptation of going to extremes, was tempered by the moderating influence of a shared Christian faith.",
        "人类的贪婪，以及走极端的诱惑，被共同的基督教信仰的影响所中和。"
    ],
    [
        "While that’s an improvement from the unprecedented negative saving position in 2008-2011, it remains far short of the 6.3% average that prevailed over the final three decades of the twentieth century.",
        "尽管相对2008—2011年间前所未有的负储蓄头寸而言这已经算得上是改善，但与二十世纪最后三十年6. 3%的平均水平相比仍然相去甚远。"
    ],
    [
        "Reinforcing social safety nets, broadening and deepening financial markets, and supporting small and medium-size enterprises would also strengthen domestic demand.",
        "强化社会安全网，扩大和深化金融市场，支持中小企业这些都可以扩大内需。"
    ],
    [
        "However talented and committed diplomats may be, diplomacy tends to reflect, not create, realities on the ground.",
        "无论那些外交官员是如何坚定而有才干，外交都倾向于反映而非创造当地的现实情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Virtually all efforts to prevent Trump’s nomination have ended, and establishment Republicans are moving steadily to reconcile themselves with their party’s capture by an uncouth, narcissistic, unprepared, and mercurial bully.",
        "事实上，阻止特朗普获得提名的一切努力均已告结束，传统的共和党人正逐渐接受其所在党派被一个粗鲁、自恋、毫无准备且滔滔不绝的恶霸所绑架的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "The prospect of a “return to Europe,” as Václav Havel once put it, provided the backing for essential, if sometimes painful, economic, social, and political reforms.",
        "如同捷克前总统瓦茨拉夫‧哈维尔所指出的那样，“回归欧洲”的前景意味着需要进行一系列非常有必要，甚至是痛苦的经济，社会与政治改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the collapse of commodity prices and excess production capacities, there is no short-term inflation danger, even if part of the stimulus is financed directly by central banks.",
        "由于基本商品价格暴跌和过剩的产能，即使中央银行直接为部分经济刺激计划提供资金，因此近期通货膨胀危险并不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Eight years later, pinned down by a US Predator drone and French airstrikes, Qaddafi met his demise.",
        "八年后，在美国掠食者无人机和法国空军的打击下，卡扎菲倒台。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Portuguese exports increased by about 5-6% per year over the last years, despite challenging external conditions (Spain is its biggest market) and a credit crunch, which made it difficult for exporters to obtain financing.",
        "比如，葡萄牙出口在过去几年中每年可以增长约5—6%，尽管它面临着不利的外部环境（西班牙是其最大的市场）和信用动荡，这意味着其出口商很难获得融资。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy soared, so the GDP-indexed bonds paid off handsomely.",
        "阿根廷经济实现了腾飞，GDP挂钩债券的偿付情况也非常不错。"
    ],
    [
        "Could the Scandinavian model work for others?",
        "斯堪的纳维亚模式能够适用于其他地区吗？"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – When an athlete breaks the rules, it is easy to figure out whether the relevant disciplinary body really wants to discourage repeat offenses.",
        "华盛顿—当一名运动员犯规时，要指出相关纪律机构是否想阻止重复犯规时很容易的。"
    ],
    [
        "So, despite the ousting of two Thaksin proxies in a row by the court and the elite, Thais are likely to return yet another Thaksin loyalist if they are allowed to vote in an unrigged election.",
        "所以，尽管泰国法院和精英们连续罢黜了他信的两个代理人，如果允许泰国人在一个不受操纵的选举中投票，他们可能会再次选择一个忠于他信的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it must have centralized banking supervisory policies, with strong powers to manage bank crises and to liquidate banks that cannot be rescued.",
        "此外，必不可少的还有权力集中的银行业监管政策，掌握处理银行危机的生杀大权，并对无法挽救的银行展开清算工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Global Economic Cooperation or Bust",
        "全球经济合作还是破裂"
    ],
    [
        "For more than a decade, I have criticized the Fund’s governance, symbolized by the way its leader is chosen. By gentlemen’s agreement among the majority shareholders – the G-8 – the managing director is to be a European, with Americans in the number two post and at the head of the World Bank.",
        "发自纽约——国际货币基金组织（IMF）新总裁的甄选进程比预期中快，而笔者十几年来不断抨击的恰恰是该组织以其首脑选举制度为代表的管制方式：根据各大利益攸关方（G8）之间的君子协定——总裁必须是欧洲人，而二把手以及世界银行总裁则由美国人担任。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding Trump’s vow to impose tariffs on China, a resurgent dollar will hurt America’s trade competitiveness.",
        "抛开特朗普竞选时提出的要对中国征收高关税之口号，美元升值必定有损于美国的贸易竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "With lower oil rents to share, the domestic social contract is coming under strain.",
        "在可分享的石油租减少的情况下，国内社会契约正在受到影响。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the nature of the behavioral response to crisis and why a bad status quo can persist.",
        "这是对危机行为反应的本质，也是糟糕的现状得以持续的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaya and Sri Lanka: Communal Politics or Communal War?",
        "马来亚和斯里兰卡：种族政治还是种族战争？"
    ],
    [
        "Now I worry that they are terribly inefficient.",
        "如今，我担心它们的效率实在太低。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab World’s Democratic Opening",
        "阿拉伯世界的民主机遇"
    ],
    [
        "But building robust and lasting anti-graft institutions will not be easy, owing to the enduring ability of corrupt officials to capture such institutions.",
        "但从历史及国际经验来看，构建强健而持续的反腐机制绝非易事，因为腐败官员往往会竭尽全力去影响、甚至操纵这些机构。"
    ],
    [
        "But this picture, based on Africa’s most corrupt regimes, is unfair and misleading – like claiming that all Europeans are guilty of “ethnic cleansing” because of what happened in the former Yugoslavia.",
        "但这种基于非洲最腐败政府所得出的印象既不公平又具有误导性 —— 就像因为前南发生的事件就宣称所有欧洲人都犯有“种族清洗罪”一样。"
    ],
    [
        "With the financial crisis worsening, the London summit in 2009 agreed to unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus and backed a stronger, more coherent regulatory and supervisory framework worldwide.",
        "随着危机进一步恶化，2009年的伦敦峰会通过了前所未有的财政和货币刺激计划，并支持在全球范围内建立一个更加强大也更为完善的金融规管和监察框架。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ghost of North Korea",
        "朝鲜死人"
    ],
    [
        "The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has called the Tea Party adherents Nazis, while the mainstream media tend to portray them as ignorant and provincial, a passive rabble with raw emotion but little analytical skill, stirred up and manipulated by demagogues to advance their own agendas.",
        "美国众议院议长南希·佩洛西把茶党的追随者看作纳粹主义者，而主流媒体则倾向于把他们描述成一群无知迂腐，空有满腔热情却欠缺分析能力的乌合之众，被那些存心蛊惑民心的政客所煽动和操纵着，沦为实现政客个人目标的打手和炮灰。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, most people thought that Ronald Reagan lacked the requisite knowledge and intelligence for the office.",
        "同样，大多数人认为罗纳德·里根缺乏执政必备的知识和智慧。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither employers, nor insurance companies, may require genetic testing.",
        "雇主和保险公司也不能要求基因测试；"
    ],
    [
        "But there is only one real option to secure a large voter turnout: the anti-corruption campaigner and vocal Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.",
        "但要想确保高投票率，只有一个现实的选择：反腐运动领导者、大声批评克里姆林宫的阿列克谢·纳瓦尔尼（Alexei Navalny）。"
    ],
    [
        "Skills are attracted to challenge and possibility.",
        "挑战和机遇能吸引人才加盟。"
    ],
    [
        "With a slowdown in accession negotiations, Turkish politicians will have less incentive to continue the reforms necessary for membership.",
        "随着入盟谈判的延缓，土耳其的政治家们对于为获得成员国资格而必须进行的改革会不再显得那么热情。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign companies will expand their investments in the US – or even shift their operations there – to take advantage of the lower tax rate.",
        "此外外国公司也将扩大在美国的投资 ——甚至将业务转移到美国——以利用较低的税率。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the DSM currently eliminates the recently bereaved from depression diagnosis unless they have certain extreme symptoms suggesting more than intense grief.",
        "因此，目前版本的手册将丧失亲人者排除在忧郁症之外，除非这些人确实有比极度悲伤更加极端的表面症状。"
    ],
    [
        "Two years on, success seems to be slipping through Peña Nieto’s hands.",
        "两年后，成功似乎正从培尼亚·涅托的指缝中滑落。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, one of Schroeder’s first major foreign-policy experiences was the EU summit of 1999, where the leaders of France and Britain played rough with the newcomer from Berlin.",
        "确实，施罗德的第一次重大外交政策经验就是1999年的欧盟峰会。 当时的英法两国领导人给了这位来自柏林的政坛新人一个下马威。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian energy managers count on the region’s oil and gas supplies to supplement stagnating domestic production.",
        "俄罗斯能源巨头指望该地区的油气供应来补充停滞不前的国内产量。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it a minor political headache for Merkel to have to face an anti-austerity alliance of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and the new French president, François Hollande.",
        "如何面对意大利总理蒙蒂和新当选的法国总统奥朗德组成的反紧缩联盟对默克尔来说同样是个不小的政治难题。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in many ways, the situation has been getting worse. Over the past two decades, advocates of privatization have promised greater efficiencies and lower energy prices, but the failure to accompany privatization with appropriate regulation and enforcement has left many countries with poorly governed and often deeply corrupt energy sectors.",
        "实际上，目前在能源管理上的情形在许多方面有所恶化，在过去的 20 年中，私人化的倡导者认为私有化会提高效率和降低能耗，但由于缺乏适当的监管和法律体系，许多管理不善的国家在能源领域催生出大规模贪腐行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s left must still clarify its vision of the future.",
        "欧洲左翼必须要再次阐明他们对欧洲未来勾画。"
    ],
    [
        "A chorus sang Romanian and Jewish songs and everybody expressed the vow that Vadim would be the \"next and the first Christian President\" of Romania, the yarmulke notwithstanding!",
        "唱诗班演唱了罗马尼亚和犹太歌曲，所有人都信誓旦旦地表示瓦迪姆虽然戴着犹太小帽，但将会成为罗马尼亚\"下一任也是第一位基督教徒总统\"。"
    ],
    [
        "A weak dollar also affects demand by increasing consumption.",
        "弱势美元也通过增加石油消费来影响需求。"
    ],
    [
        "In the late 1980’s, Japan seemed capable of challenging America’s industrial leadership, but by the 1990’s it lost its competitive edge.",
        "在八十年代末，日本看似可以挑战美国在工业上的领先地位，但是到了九十年代日本失去了它的竞争实力。"
    ],
    [
        "A Sunni-Shia Bridge Too Far",
        "弥合逊尼-什叶分歧任重道远"
    ],
    [
        "It’s not at all clear which will have the greater power to decide the outcome.",
        "现在根本就不清楚谁会有更大的权力来决定结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Emperor Tewodros committed suicide, the British withdrew, and their commander, Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Napier, was made Baron Napier of Magdala.",
        "西奥多皇帝自杀，英国人撤军，指挥官、陆军中将罗伯特·纳皮尔（Robert Napier）爵士被称为抹大拉的纳皮尔男爵。"
    ],
    [
        "And, even without the sequester, the federal budget deficit is set to fall at a faster pace during the next two years than in any two-year period since demobilization after World War II.",
        "）即使没有自动减赤，联邦预算赤字也会在未来两年中以比二战复员后的任一两年期都快的速度下降。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while inflation is a concern – having risen to 4.4% year on year in October, from 3.6% in September – this cannot explain why the PBC raised the RRR three times earlier this year, when inflation was lower.",
        "6%升高到10月的4. 4%——但也无法解释人行为何在今年早些时候三次上调准备金率，因为当时的通货膨胀率依然维持在较低的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, China’s rapid growth poses challenges to the West.",
        "是的，中国快速的经济增长对西方构成挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, not just any pair of legs will allow you to play soccer like Lionel Messi, and not just any set of vocal cords will allow you to sing like Maria Callas.",
        "毕竟，不是只要有腿就能像梅西那样踢足球，也不是任何声音条件都能成为玛丽亚·卡拉斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Our sponsors welcomed our recommendations, but that and similar efforts have gained little traction, leaving all countries rushing headlong toward a world full of uncertainty and risk.",
        "我们的发起人欢迎我们的建议，但类似的努力并没有获得多少动力，所有国家仍一股脑儿奔向充满不确定性和风险的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, there is scope to raise revenue without increasing tax rates, by limiting so-called tax expenditures – the forms of spending that are built into the tax rules rather than appropriated annually by Congress.",
        "在美国，存在不提高税率而增加收入的空间，即限制所谓的税收开支（tax expenditures）——写入税收规则而不由国会每年划拨的支出形式。"
    ],
    [
        "Some observers think that the US political backlash against foreigners “buying up America” is what will bring the current configuration of global imbalances to an end.",
        "有些观察家认为美国政界对外国人“收购美国”的强烈反弹将会终结现今的全球不平衡状态。"
    ],
    [
        "If the small, unproductive firms closed down and the larger, more productive firms hired their workers, total output and well-being would rise.",
        "如果低效小企业倒闭后工人被高效大企业雇佣，总产量和生活水平都会提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Fast-growing emerging economies will be the biggest sources of consumption growth in the years ahead.",
        "快速增长的新兴经济体将是未来数年消费增长的主要源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy is produced from more marginal sources.",
        "能源必须从更加边缘的资源提炼。"
    ],
    [
        "In carving out a global role for the renminbi, Chinese policymakers are proceeding deliberately.",
        "在为人民币打造一个国际角色的过程中，中国的政策制定者的行动相当谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "Without eligibility for the lower prices obtained by Gavi, many of these countries may not be able to afford newer vaccines.",
        "许多失去了获得Gavi的低价的国家可能无法承担更新的疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "The burden of servicing the bonds would be assigned to member states in inverse proportion to the number of asylum-seekers they accept.",
        "维持债券的负担应该按与接受寻求庇护者数量的反比关系分配给各成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "Start with the American consumer, who consumes everything on earth (helping the United States eat up 25% of world oil production) but saves essentially nothing.",
        "让我们从消耗地球上的一切（帮助美国鲸吞世界石油产量的25%）却从不储蓄的美国消费者谈起。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar advances in climate modeling are occurring, thanks to methodological improvements and better data.",
        "由于方法改进和数据升级，在气候建模领域也取得了类似的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy, in turn, tamed capitalism further.",
        "民主反过来进一步制约了资本主义。"
    ],
    [
        "From the standpoint of comparative advantage, gains from trade arise from imports; exports are what a country has to give up in order to afford them.",
        "从比较优势的立场上看，贸易的收益来自进口； 出口则是一个国家为获得这些收益所必须放弃的代价而已。"
    ],
    [
        "The key is judicial reform and the development of an orderly and institutionalized process for resolving property-rights and contractual disputes.",
        "关键是通过司法改革来制定有序的、制度化的流程来解决产权和契约纠纷。"
    ],
    [
        "Together with other European governments, France is also agitating against the takeover of the Luxembourg-based steel company Arcelor by a Netherlands company largely controlled by an Indian steel magnate.",
        "法国还和其他欧洲国家政府一起积极阻挠一家荷兰公司对卢森堡的Arcelor钢铁公司的收购。 而这家荷兰公司是由一位印度钢铁业巨子控股的。"
    ],
    [
        "An inter-governmental system that falls apart under the challenges of trade negotiations and proliferation threats is unlikely to master the deep complexity and multitudinous vested interests that the issue of climate change entails.",
        "政府间体系在贸易谈判以及武器扩散的挑战之下瓦解，就难以掌握气候变化问题所带来的千头万绪和众多既得利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, the islands have consistently been held to be Japanese.",
        "此后，该列岛一直掌握在日本手中。"
    ],
    [
        "But failure to act now will only raise the price of delayed action at some moment in the future.",
        "但现在若无所作为，只会在未来的某一时刻、使我们为受到延误的行动付出更高的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "This is just part of the overall infrastructure investment shortfall, which stands at $1 trillion annually – far more than what governments can afford.",
        "这只是基础设施投资总缺口的一部分。 基础设施总缺口达每年1万亿美元——远远高于政府的承受能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Capital will then flow in, not out.",
        "资本将流入，而不是流出。"
    ],
    [
        "The armed gangs that move freely through rebel-controlled cities such as Aleppo are absent in Kurdish areas.",
        "库尔德地区看不到像阿勒颇那样自由穿梭于叛军控制城市的武装团伙。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, multilateral development banks could leverage their equity by borrowing in capital markets.",
        "此外，多边开发银行可以通过在资本市场借贷放大股本。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, we should pull out of Afghanistan immediately.",
        "如果能，我们就立即撤出阿富汗。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that America is no longer saddled with a president loathed around the world, Putin has lost one of the key tools that had helped him boost Russia’s international standing.",
        "现在，美国已不再背负着一位在世界各地受人讨厌的总统，普京已经失去了一个帮助他提高俄罗斯的国际地位的重要工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, with major international meetings set for the second half of 2015, world leaders have an important opportunity to overcome them.",
        "幸运的是，2015年下半年有不少大型国际会议，世界领导人可以抓住这一重要机会克服这些阻力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Spanish MPs have a point: Allowing the country’s prosecuting magistrates to select targets from anywhere in the world, without there being a clear legal nexus to Spain, is an invitation to politicize the process.",
        "西班牙国会议员们提出了一个观点：允许一国检察官在与西班牙没有明确法律关系的别国选择起诉对象不啻于将起诉程序政治化。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the technological alphabet getting shorter?",
        "是技术字母表变短了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet an awareness of alternatives is seeping in through the media, even in remote provinces.",
        "但即使是在最边远的省份，对于替代性选择的认识也正透过媒体逐渐地向人们渗透。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike at a firm, Uber’s relationship with its drivers does not rely on a traditional employment contract.",
        "与企业不同的是， Uber和司机之间的关系并不依赖于传统的雇佣合同。"
    ],
    [
        "The principle of pluralism is valuable, but curbing bloodshed deserves priority.",
        "多元化的原则是有价值的，但是制止流血冲突是应该被优先考虑的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early 1950s, Jean Monnet wrote: \"We are not forming a coalition of states.",
        "让·莫内在20世纪五十年代早期曾写道：\"我们并不是要组建一个国家联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "It is better to allow specialization, and build effective social safety nets and support systems to protect people and families during economic transitions.",
        "更好的做法是走专门化道路，同时建设高效的社会安全网和支持系统从而在经济转型期保护人民和家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "After the Paris attacks, France and Belgium (where the plot was planned and organized) suspended civil liberties indefinitely, transforming themselves overnight into what are, at least by statute, police states.",
        "巴黎袭击发生后，法国和比利时（恐怖袭击预谋和组织的地方）无限期中止公民自由，一夜之间摇身一变成为（至少是法律意义上的）警察国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Pakistan is a weak state; tomorrow, it could become a failed one.",
        "今天，巴基斯坦还只是管治无力，明天，它可能会成为一个失败国家。"
    ],
    [
        "After initially trying to delay reunification, France embraced it, in exchange for Germany’s reaffirming its commitment to European unity and Franco-German leadership of the European community.",
        "尽管开始时试图延缓德国的统一进程，但法国最终还是接受了德国的统一，条件是德国重申支持欧洲团结和法德两国在欧共体领导地位的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are not sufficient.",
        "但光有这些还不够。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the cost would have been well below any reasonable estimate of the average losses that can be expected from tsunamis.",
        "与此同时，其成本也会远远低于大海啸引起的平均损失的合理估计。"
    ],
    [
        "This situation is morally reprehensible, socially self-defeating, and economically foolish.",
        "这一状况不容于道德和社会，在经济上也十分愚蠢。"
    ],
    [
        "The primary reason for the loss of insurance in the proposals to repeal and replace Obamacare is the projected decline in Medicaid coverage.",
        "取消和取代奥巴马医保的方案之所以会造成医保覆盖损失，主要原因是预计医疗补助（Madicaid）覆盖将因此下降。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, Lutz Mez, a political scientist at Berlin’s Free University, argues that the country’s shift has “observably decoupled energy supply from economic growth,” and that the “evolving Energiewende, rather than the nuclear phase-out” implies “continuing reforms of social, economic, technological, and cultural policy in Germany.”",
        "从更广的角度看，柏林自由大学（Free University）的政治学家梅兹（Lutz Mez）指出，德国的转向“在显而易见地让能源供应和经济增长脱钩”，而“能源转向的进展，而不是退出核能，”意味着“德国社会、经济、技术和文化政策的持续改革。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The other countries have yet to take action.",
        "其他国家仍尚未采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the recent numbers recall the halcyon days of Bill Clinton’s presidency.",
        "事实上，最近几个月让人们想起了克林顿总统任职期间的好日子。"
    ],
    [
        "But deficit spending by governments continued apace, and public debt as a share of GDP in industrial countries climbed steadily from the late 1970’s, this time without inflation to reduce its real value.",
        "但政府的赤字支出并没有放慢脚步，发达国家公债水平占GDP的比例从20世纪70年代末开始稳步攀升，这一次不再有通胀来帮它们拉低债务的真实价值了。"
    ],
    [
        "Children are also collateral damage, which stems from the relentless erosion of the laws and norms designed to protect civilians in conflict zones.",
        "儿童同时是附带损失，是原本旨在保护冲突地区民众的法律和规范遭到无情侵蚀的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Well, now Europe has found one.",
        "那么现在欧洲已经找到了这样的事业。"
    ],
    [
        "We know that a host of issues can cause a student’s performance to decline – scorching summer heat in classrooms without air conditioning, problems at home, or poor-quality teachers, to name a few.",
        "我们知道，一系列问题可能造成学生表现下降——夏季无空调教室的高温、家庭问题、教师质量欠佳，等等。"
    ],
    [
        "As Greenspan notes, it was the dot-com boom of the 1990’s that “finally gave broad currency to Schumpeter’s idea of creative destruction.”",
        "格林斯潘认为，正是二十世纪九十年代的互联网繁荣才“最终在大范围基础上验证了熊彼得的创新性破坏的理论”。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Greece does take that route, it should seek to make its path as smooth as possible.",
        "但如果希腊真的选择这条路，也应该尽量让这条路更加平滑。"
    ],
    [
        "The original Silk Road, established more than 2,000 years ago, was a critical network of trade routes that promoted economic, political, and cultural exchange among Asia, Africa, and Europe.",
        "古丝绸之路形成于2,000多年前，它是一条重要的贸易路线网络，促进了亚洲、非洲、欧洲之间的经济、政治和文化交流。"
    ],
    [
        "And they should promise each other that, regardless of who comes to power in 2021, they will not hold each other liable for acting as disruptors today.",
        "他们应该相互承诺，不管谁在2021年上台，他们不会互相为当前作为破坏者的角色而互相指责。"
    ],
    [
        "The unfortunate result is an uneven playing field, with incentives for banks to relocate operations, whether geographically or in terms of legal entities.",
        "不幸的结果是形成了不公平的环境，这激励银行按照地理和法律实体配置经营活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese think long term because they are Chinese, not because they are not democrats.",
        "中国人喜欢长远的考虑问题，原因是因为中国人自古以来就是这样做的。 这并不是因为他们是非民主人士。"
    ],
    [
        "Who will protect the weakest?",
        "谁来保护弱势者的权益？"
    ],
    [
        "At the very least, they might then be less prone to imposing the narrow moral position of the sports world on the parent.",
        "这样，他们也许就不那么倾向于把体育界狭隘的道德立场强加给孩子们的家长。"
    ],
    [
        "The closest Obama got to it during a debate was to talk about “energy independence,” which implies not being reliant on oil from the Middle East.",
        "奥巴马在某次辩论中曾经接近这个问题，说到了“能源独立”，这意味着减少对中东的石油依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Investments in health and education are crucial for the developing world’s long-term prospects.",
        "投资于卫生和教育对发展中世界的长期前景来说至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "For too long, the international community has tolerated terrorism – the intentional killing of civilians and noncombatants by non-state actors for political purposes – on the grounds that, on occasion, “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”",
        "国际社会已经容忍恐怖主义太久了——非政府机构有时出于“一个人的恐怖主义者是另一个人的自由战士”的理由，为了达到政治目的故意杀害平民和非战斗人员。"
    ],
    [
        "If dying bees do not inspire formal guidelines about how the sky should be shared, let us hope that empty space will.",
        "如果正在死去的蜜蜂不能换来我们对天空应该如何被分享的正确指引，那么就让我们期望浩瀚的天空来做到这点吧。"
    ],
    [
        "All Arab nations have agreed to full recognition of Israel if it will comply with key United Nations resolutions.",
        "所有的阿拉伯国家都同意如果以色列愿意遵守主要的联合国决议，它们就将完全承认以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "I moderated a session on “The New Context in East Asia,” addressed by a panel of senior representatives from Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Japan. With the exception of the Japanese participant, all had first-hand experience with the devastating Asian financial crisis of the late 1990’s.",
        "在本次论坛中本人负责主持一个名为“东亚新语境”的议程，期间来自泰国、韩国、马来西亚，新加坡和日本的高级代表都发表了演讲——除了日本代表外的所有人都拥有应对1990年代末期灾难性亚洲金融危机的第一手经验。"
    ],
    [
        "This will all be very messy, but we should perhaps be grateful that the shoe is not on the other foot.",
        "局面肯定将一片混乱，但我们或许应当庆幸没有上演另外一幕。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Olympic Games return to Greece this summer, the results at the drug testing laboratory may get as much attention as what happens at the Olympic stadium.",
        "当奥林匹克运动会场地今年夏天重新回到它的发源地希腊，药品检测实验室可能会和奥运会竞赛场地一样备受人们的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "One can virtually prove that shale gas has been the major influence driving the fall in US emissions.",
        "页岩气一直驱动美国碳排放下降几乎是毋庸置疑的事实。"
    ],
    [
        "Although trade with Central America represents only about 1.5% of total US trade, the outcome of the debate on DR-CAFTA will shape US trade policy – which sets the tone for other rich countries’ stance in trade talks – for years to come.",
        "尽管与中美洲的贸易仅占了美国贸易总额的1. 5%， 但DR-CAFTA 的辩论结果却会决定美国未来贸易政策的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "The electricity that people in rich countries consume is, on average, equivalent to the energy of 56 servants helping them.",
        "富国民众平均耗费的电能相当于雇佣56名佣人。"
    ],
    [
        "But that inference is seriously mistaken.",
        "显然，这些想法是非常错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, two years could provide time for Italy to demonstrate whether it can achieve a balanced budget.",
        "同样，两年时间能让意大利政府表明其是否能实现财政收支平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as the IMF economist Jacques Polak suggested long ago, the IMF could finance its programs by creating SDRs, eliminating the cumbersome negotiations required to secure credits or raise member quotas.",
        "此外正如国际货币基金组织经济学家雅克·波拉克（Jacques Polak）很久以前建议的那样，该组织可以通过创建特别提款权来资助自身的项目，避免那些确保信贷或提高成员配额所需的繁琐谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "But rekindling growth has proven to be a tougher challenge.",
        "但重振增长的挑战更加艰巨。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, which surveyed firms roughly a month after the earthquake, more than 60% of production sites in affected areas had already recovered as of April 15.",
        "据日本经济产业省在灾难爆发一个月后所进行的调查，受灾地区超过60%的生产场所已经在4月15日前恢复运作。"
    ],
    [
        "In the medium to long run, it seems likely that wages will adjust, so that the effective burden of the additional savings will be borne by employees, not employers.",
        "从中长期看，工资很有可能将进行调整，导致雇员、而非雇主将成为增量储蓄的实际承担者。"
    ],
    [
        "A true Keynesian would have said that what was needed in 2010 was fiscal expansion, not consolidation.",
        "真正的凯恩斯主义者会说，2010年需要的是财政扩张而不是整合。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike East Asia and India, most of Latin America did not make a breakthrough to high-technology industries, instead suffering a period of low GDP growth, debt crises, and macroeconomic instability.",
        "与东亚和印度不同，多数拉美国家都没有在高科技领域取得突破，这些国家受到国内生产总值增长缓慢、债务危机和宏观经济不稳定等因素的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "There are several reasons for this, and we should understand them in order to break today’s deadlock.",
        "造成今天局面的原因有几个，我们应该先真正理解它们才能打破僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "The same addiction that became the top preventable cause of death in Western countries has made big inroads in developing countries.",
        "成为西方国家中首要可防治死因的耽溺在发展中国家大行其道。"
    ],
    [
        "So why don’t we stop killing 49 bears a year before we commit trillions of dollars to do hundreds of times less good?",
        "那么在我们准备花上几十亿美元去做成效还不到几百分之一的事情前，为什么不能先停止一年杀死45只北极熊呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This will then ensure that all countries – and, more importantly, all people – receive the support they need.",
        "这反过来将确保所有国家——以及更重要的所有人民——都能获得需要的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, a liberal society will not focus on what we can offer immigrants, but on what they can offer us.",
        "最后，一个自由社会不应该关注我们能给移民提供什么，而应该关注他们可以为我们提供什么。"
    ],
    [
        "They conveniently forget that the ACA’s central features – an individual mandate to purchase health insurance and the establishment of health-insurance exchanges – were conceived by the conservative Heritage Foundation and originally implemented by Mitt Romney when he was the Republican governor of Massachusetts in the mid-2000s.",
        "他们毫不费力地忘记了ACA的核心职能——受个人委托购买医疗保险并设立医疗保险的交易场所——上述职能由保守的传统基金会提出构想，并于2000年中由马萨诸塞州共和党州长罗姆尼率先实施。"
    ],
    [
        "President François Hollande has announced measures that, if implemented, would amount to a peaceful revolution: a major reconciliation with the industrial and business world that even his more energetic predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, dared not attempt, despite – or precisely because of – his more conservative inclinations.",
        "奥朗德总统宣布了一系列措施，如果得到实施，将迎来一场和平的革命：一场连他更有魄力的前任萨科齐都不敢尝试的和产业界和商业界的大妥协，尽管他的立场更为保守（或者说这正是他敢于尝试的原因）。"
    ],
    [
        "And here the bottom line is that any coastal storm system will produce more flooding because of sea level rise.",
        "而问题的最低限度是海平面上升导致任何沿海风暴系统将带来更大的水量。"
    ],
    [
        "Many governments have a strategic desire to oust a regime that is closely allied with Iran and Hezbollah.",
        "多国政府都有推翻这个政权的战略意愿，因为后者与伊朗和真主党关系非常紧密。"
    ],
    [
        "Zero and negative interest rates have not only encouraged short-term speculation in asset markets and harmed long-term investments; they have also destroyed the business model of banks, insurance companies, and fund managers.",
        "零利率和负利率不但助长了资产市场的短期投机，伤害了长期投资； 还破坏了银行、保险公司和基金管理公司的业务模式。"
    ],
    [
        "As China’s warmongering has continued, its true colors have become increasingly vivid.",
        "随着中国备战行为的深入，其真面目也变得越来越清晰。"
    ],
    [
        "And then the government, too, was induced to engage in decreasingly transparent forms of bailout to cover up its largesse to the banks.",
        "而政府呢？ 它出台的救助措施越来越缺乏透明度，因为它不得不掩盖自己在救助过程中的大手大脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Many ministers do not report to work for days after being sworn in; files pend while the planets realign themselves more favorably.",
        "许多部长宣誓就职后好几天都不去办公室； 文件暂停处理等候星宿移动到更加有利的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "While that is also true of many for-profit companies, the market trumps their leaders’ preferences.",
        "对许多盈利公司来说，这一点也成立，但盈利公司领袖的个人偏好拧不过市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The Panel would broaden that interpretation to allow the preventive use of force in some instances, but only if approved by the Security Council.",
        "名人小组将放宽这一解释，允许在一些情况下动用防卫性武力，但是要得到安理会的批准。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three members of his staff were murdered, may well have been planned, as the State Department has maintained, the killers clearly exploited the opportunity created by outrage at an anti-Muslim film produced in the US.",
        "美国驻班加西领事馆遭袭导致大使史蒂文斯（J. Christopher Stevens）和三名工作人员被杀，但美国国务院认为，杀手显然是利用了一部美国拍摄的反伊斯兰影片所引起的激愤情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "In his speech in November to the Russian parliament on the state of nation, President Dmitry Medvedev warned that Russia would deploy short-range Iskander missiles in the Baltic Sea port of Kaliningrad “to neutralize if necessary the anti-ballistic missile system in Europe.”",
        "11月，梅德韦杰夫总统在对俄罗斯国家杜马的国情咨文演说中警告，俄罗斯会在加里宁格勒的波罗的海港口上部署短程的伊斯坎德尔导弹，“在必要时抗衡欧洲的反弹道导弹系统”。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is a bar cleared by at least some proposed measures in Syria.",
        "但拟议中叙利亚的某些措施至少相对于这样的干预标准可以满足。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a sufficient military presence, as well as improved and reinforced reconstruction efforts, this goal is not attainable.",
        "要实现这一目标，需要充足的军力投入和更有效的重建努力，两者缺一不可。"
    ],
    [
        "So deep is the despair and desolation felt by the girls’ parents that they are now considering whether to declare their daughters “presumed dead.”",
        "这些女孩的父母们伤心欲绝，正在准备宣布女儿“想必已死”。"
    ],
    [
        "Fundamental civil rights must be established, supported by deep changes in the education system, reforms of family law, and a more open space for media and culture.",
        "必须建立起基本的公民权、辅以对教育体系的深刻改革、对家庭法的改革并赋予媒体和文化更多的开放空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Closing Europe’s Strategy Gap",
        "填补欧洲的战略空白"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, euro-zone leaders should be less worried about variations in internal growth than about clear evidence of overall economic underperformance.",
        "实际上，欧元区的领导人们不应该过分关注内部增长的差异而应该更重视整体经济表现欠佳的明显信号。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s creditors, for their part, have an incentive to protect the euro and limit the geopolitical risk of a Greek exit from the eurozone.",
        "至于债权人，它们有激励捍卫欧元、遏制希腊退出欧元区的地缘政治风险。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s “fiscal cliff,” for example, was long in coming, but we are scrambling to avoid it only now.",
        "比如，美国的“财政赤字”很早之前便已存在，但我们直到现在才开始忙不迭地避免它的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "And here, too, an opportunity was lost.",
        "在这里也丢失了一个机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Substitution of paracetamol for aspirin, researchers proposed, may have led to an enhanced allergic immune response, thereby increasing susceptibility to asthma and other allergic disorders.",
        "研究人员认为用扑热息痛替代阿斯匹林可能导致过敏免疫反应的增强，由此增加了对哮喘和其他过敏性疾病的易感性。"
    ],
    [
        "The social benefits would outweigh the costs by 40 to one.",
        "社会效益超出费用40倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Others began apolitically, but have come to believe that there can be no environmental protection without political change.",
        "其他人的出发点与政治无关，但他们相信:如果不进行政治改革，环境保护就永远不可能成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, of course, there is Tibet, perhaps China’s greatest domestic security concern, and also a perennial source of tension with India, owing to territorial disputes.",
        "当然还有中国最大的国内安全隐患西藏，一直存在着领土纠纷导致中印间的紧张局势。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent re-election of the great showman Silvio Berlusconi illustrates this perfectly.",
        "最近，热衷于做秀的西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼的重新当选为这一现象做了最好的注释。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a mendacious and hypocritical cop-out.",
        "这是一种虚情假意的逃避。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the EU has suddenly emerged as the preserver of the liberal world order.",
        "与此同时，欧盟已经突然之间成为了自由世界秩序的守护者。"
    ],
    [
        "Having more open economies allows more trade in innovation, so that new companies can almost instantly use smart ideas from around the globe.",
        "更开放的经济能催生更多的创新贸易形式，以便新兴的公司能够即时地采用来自全球的奇思妙想。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s new ADIZ, while aimed at solidifying its claims to territories held by Japan and South Korea, is similarly provocative, because it extends to areas that China does not control, setting a dangerous precedent in international relations.",
        "中国新设立的防空识别区旨在巩固对日韩所占领土的主权要求，新航空识别区因为延伸到中国实际控制区外而同样具有挑衅性，并在国际关系领域开创了危险的先例。"
    ],
    [
        "The European members of NATO responded by invoking the Article 5 mutual defense clause of the NATO charter and coming to the aid of the US in Afghanistan, where today there are 32,000 NATO troops.",
        "北约的欧洲盟国通过援引北约宪章中第五条的共同防御条款作出回应，并在阿富汗（如今已驻扎了三万两千的北约军队）协助美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, the European integration project has hinged on restrictions on national sovereignty.",
        "简单说，欧洲一体化工程的瓶颈就在于国家主权的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "A key factor is earnings growth.",
        "一个关键因素是盈利增长。"
    ],
    [
        "These tools, along with excessive fiscal austerity, may have higher costs in terms of foregone employment and growth – and rising political discontent – than “risky” alternative options.",
        "它们与财政过度紧缩的结合所造成的代价——以失去的就业和增长以及不断加剧的政治不满衡量——可能比“高风险”替代选择更大。"
    ],
    [
        "A former deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Turkmenistan and later an outspoken critic of Turkmenbashi’s government, Hadjiev, a senior member of the exiled Watan (Republican) Party, received “humanitarian parole” – a protected category of individuals that falls short of refugee status – when he reached Bulgaria.",
        "作为曾担任土库曼斯坦中央银行副行长以及一位后来直言不讳批评Turkmenbashi政府的人士，被流放的资深共和党人Hadjiev在到达保加利亚时得到了“人道入境(humanitarian parole)”的待遇—一个低于难民地位的保护类别。"
    ],
    [
        "But how will Sarajevo look in five years?",
        "但不知５年后的萨拉热窝又将是何种风貌？"
    ],
    [
        "Some countries, especially in the Balkans and the Commonwealth of Independent States, are far from completing the transition and have gone through repeated cycles of hope and crisis.",
        "一些国家，特别是巴尔干地区国家和独联体国家，还远远没有完成转型，陷入了希望和危机的循环之中。"
    ],
    [
        "But did the battle between pragmatists and radicals end there?",
        "但是，实用主义者与激进主义者之间的斗争就此结束了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "However much politicians who call for energy independence might prefer it otherwise, the market has chosen oil as a staple energy source.",
        "不管呼吁能源独立的政治家们对其有怎样不同的看法，是市场选择了石油作为一个主要的能源来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Expanding NATO into the Baltic States in 2002 – the Alliance’s first enlargement into former Soviet territory – was a catastrophic mistake, which made it almost impossible for a Russian to be both patriotic and pro-Western.",
        "2002年将波罗的海国家纳入北约——也是该组织首次侵入前苏联领土——是一次灾难性的错误，导致俄罗斯人不可能在亲西方的同时保持爱国。"
    ],
    [
        "China, India, Brazil, Russia, and the Persian Gulf today are the world economy’s new growth centers and will soon be centers of power to be reckoned with.",
        "今天的中国、印度、巴西、俄罗斯和波斯湾地区，是世界经济增长的新兴中心，不久还会成为倍受重视的力量中心。"
    ],
    [
        "American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks noted that Libya has “few formal decision-making structures,” and called it an “opaque regime in which lines of authority are deliberately blurred to obscure power structures and mitigate accountability.”",
        "维基解密公开的美国外交电文指出，利比亚“几乎没有正式决策机构，”电文称之为“不透明的政权故意模糊权力界线，目的是掩盖权力结构并减轻问责。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "To date, the increase has mostly been focused on applied research and commercial development, with only 5% dedicated to basic science.",
        "1%。 到目前为止，这一增量大部分集中在应用研究和商业开发，只有5%投入了基础科学。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran would continue to reap the agreement’s benefits.",
        "伊朗依然会从伊核协议中继续收获好处。"
    ],
    [
        "What America Wants in Egypt",
        "美国在埃及想要什么"
    ],
    [
        "Liu He is perhaps the least visible of the key economic thinkers.",
        "刘鹤恐怕是众多重要经济智囊团中最不引人注目的一个了。"
    ],
    [
        "Four years of civil war have left more than 200,000 dead, one million wounded, and 6.7 million people internally displaced.",
        "多年的内战导致200,000多人死亡，一百万人受伤，670万人在国内流亡。"
    ],
    [
        "But this debate can be just as heated. Ever since I published The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001, I have always acknowledged that man-made global warming is real.",
        "自从2001年出版了《持怀疑论的环保主义者》一书以来，经常有人跟我说人为的气候变化是确实存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the opportunity provided by the oil boom was wasted.",
        "此外由高油价带来的改革契机则被浪费殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "CCS has been recognized at the highest political level as a part of the European Union's 2030 Climate and Energy framework and the European Energy Security Strategy.",
        "CCS已被纳入欧盟2030年气候和能源框架以及欧洲能源安全战略，获得了政治最高层的认可。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, despite the government’s successes, there could be a change, as the Partido Nacional of the center-right bloc is now running neck-and-neck with the FA.",
        "的确，尽管这届政府政绩赫赫，形势仍可能有变。 因为属于中偏左阵营的国家党现在正与FA并驾齐驱。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the 2009 European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey found that Roma experience more severe discrimination than any other ethnic-minority group in Europe.",
        "事实上，《2009年欧盟少数民族和歧视调查》（2009 European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey）发现，罗姆人所经受的歧视要远远高于其他任何欧洲少数民族。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this convergence that will help deliver the technological solutions needed to supply enough clean energy, food, and water, as well as better health, to sustain the world’s nine billion people in 2050.",
        "这一趋同有助于产生提供足够清洁能源、食物、和水所需要的技术方案，也能提供更加健康的未来，让2050年的九十亿人口能够存活下去。"
    ],
    [
        "That feeling is stronger now.",
        "如今这种感觉更强烈了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though well-intended, the principles are woefully inadequate.",
        "虽然此举的初衷是好的，但很遗憾，这些个条文只不过是些不切实际的想法罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "A predictable funding problem was left unresolved until the moment when creditors would be least likely to present a united front, and most likely to give in to pressure to undertake crisis-management measures.",
        "直到债权人最不可能形成统一战线、最有可能屈从于采取危机管理措施压力的时刻，这个可预见的融资问题才得到了解决。"
    ],
    [
        "At issue is not only the allocation of competencies, but also the more fundamental matter of when to rely on intergovernmental institutions and when to turn to the European people as a whole.",
        "争论的焦点不仅仅在于各国能力的分配，更为基本的问题是何时依赖于跨政府机制以及它们何时能够作为一个整体来面对欧洲人民。"
    ],
    [
        "This cooperation is the only way to force the North’s hand and put an end to the incessant cycle of crisis and mounting risk.",
        "合作是逼迫朝鲜就范、结束危机和风险的唯一可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "What is obvious from these cases is that development activates the two channels that Fukuyama identifies as shaping the direction of history: cumulative economic and technological change and the desire for recognition.",
        "上述案例带给我们明确的启示，即发展可以激活福田所说的确定历史方向的两条渠道： 经济技术变革效果的累计和人类寻求承认的渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, Erdoğan’s government has decided to pay little heed to US government concerns.",
        "毫不奇怪，埃尔多安政府决定不把美国政府的担忧当回事。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, elections in the post-communist countries of Europe have brought groups to power whose democratic credentials are dubious, to say the least.",
        "不久以前，欧洲后共产主义国家举行的大选使民主资格非常可疑的人登上了宝座，而且对这些人来讲，“可疑”已经是最委婉的说法。"
    ],
    [
        "This, in turn, could produce a repeat of the scenario that brought Hamas to power in Gaza in June 2007, when all Fatah authority in the area collapsed after the Israeli withdrawal.",
        "而这反过来又可能重复2007年6月哈马斯掌权的那幕场景，当时区域内所有的法塔赫机构都在以色列撤军后土崩瓦解。"
    ],
    [
        "François Mitterrand promised rapid growth and lower unemployment when he came to power in 1981, but presided over an economic slowdown and rising unemployment.",
        "3%。 1981年密特朗上台后，承诺要让经济快速增长，让失业率有所下降，但实际情况是经济减速和失业上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Manufacturing plausible-sounding objections to Ukrainian membership is easy.",
        "要炮制似是而非的障碍阻挠乌克兰的加盟很容易。"
    ],
    [
        "But markets are subject to imbalances that individual participants may ignore if they think they can offload their positions on someone else.",
        "但是，如果市场的参与者认为能够将风险转嫁给别人，他们往往就会大胆行事，这样就打破了市场的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "A second answer – that politicians have short time horizons, owing to electoral cycles – may contain a kernel of truth, but it is inadequate, because the adverse consequences of timid action often become apparent well before they are up for re-election.",
        "另一个答案——政治家们都是短视的，被选举周期所主导——可能有些道理，却也不甚充分。 因为即便一个微小的政治动作所产生的反作用都会在连任选举来临之前彻底显现。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Current antibiotics are becoming increasingly ineffective, not only at fighting common illnesses like pneumonia and urinary tract infections, but also at treating a range of infections, such as tuberculosis and malaria, which now risk again becoming incurable.",
        "伦敦—最新的抗生素效果越来越差，不但对肺炎和尿路感染等常规疾病是如此，对各种传染病，比如结核病和疟疾，也是如此，这些疾病如今再一次变得难以治愈。"
    ],
    [
        "He has remained dour and almost silent, visibly chafing with impatience to come into his inheritance, but offering no hint of what difference he would make when he does.",
        "他一直阴阴沉沉，几乎默不吭声，对于继任的不耐之意溢于言表，但却没有透露出些许信号，说明他在继任后会带来任何不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever tack Trump takes in Syria, it will surely be influenced by Russian President Vladimir Putin.",
        "不管特朗普在叙利亚采取何种方针，都必定会受到俄罗斯总统普京的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the suppression of Palestine has, and will continue to have, fatally corrosive effects on Israeli society.",
        "毕竟，镇压巴勒斯坦已经给、并且还将继续给以色列社会造成破坏作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Spending cuts are the only way to improve the budget position significantly.",
        "而支出削减则是大幅改善预算状况的唯一方法。"
    ],
    [
        "This leaves Iran the opening it needs to place a strategic bet that the Syrian conflict will generate increasing friction between the West and Iran’s regional archrival, Saudi Arabia.",
        "这给了伊朗所需要的战略赌注机会——叙利亚冲突将造成西方与伊朗的主要地区对手沙特阿拉伯之间的摩擦升级。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the experience of 2004-2007 revealed, the excess liquidity spawned by gradual normalization leaves financial markets predisposed to excesses and accidents.",
        "但是，2004—2007年的经验表明，渐进式正常化所带来的过度流动性导致金融市场极易出现过剩和事故。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe?",
        "尽管美国人口只占世界的4."
    ],
    [
        "The host country and Norway acted as guarantors, while Venezuela and Chile have accompanied the process.",
        "东道国和挪威充当担保人，而委内瑞拉和智利也协助了和平进程。"
    ],
    [
        "A thorough and realistic understanding of the nature of chronic pain is crucial to devising effective treatments.",
        "切实理解慢性疼痛的性质对于设计有效疗法来说至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But markets are already assigning a high probability to a Greek default.",
        "但其实市场早已认定希腊有极大可能出现债务违约。"
    ],
    [
        "There are now, however, more than 60 countries where the fertility rate is below replacement level.",
        "不过，现在有60多个国家的生育率低于更替水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The result will be a virtuous cycle of development that benefits everyone – and that moves the world significantly closer to achieving the ambitious goals that it has adopted.",
        "结果将是一个有利于所有人的良性发展循环——并让世界大步迈向实现它所制定的宏大目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But at least it doesn’t tax poor countries, as rich-country imperialists did until well into the twentieth century.",
        "2%用于对外援助，但至少美国从未像20世纪前夕富裕的帝国主义国家那样对贫困国家收税。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 95% of them will test positive, there will be, on average, 475 positive tests.",
        "由于患病者检测出阳性的概率是95%，那么平均会475个阳性结果。 而对于剩下那9."
    ],
    [
        "Moderates are repeatedly made to look weak, naïve, and idealistic.",
        "温和派不断地被搞得看起来软弱、天真以及理想化。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Jobless Growth Miracle",
        "中国的无就业增长之谜"
    ],
    [
        "In investing and improving, they would add to the capital stock: “In all countries where there is a tolerable security [of property], every man of common understanding will endeavor to employ whatever [capital] stock he can command, in procuring either present enjoyment or future profit... A man must be perfectly crazy, who, where there is a tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands, whether it be his own, or borrowed of other people...”",
        "在投资和改进的过程中，他们会扩大资本：“在所有有适当的〔财产〕安全的国家，每一个具有一般常识的人都会努力使用他可以支配的任何〔资本〕资金来获取当前的享受或者是将来的利润···一个人如果在有适当的财产安全的情况下不使用他可以支配的资金，不管资金是他自己的还是从别人那里借来的，他肯定是非常懒惰的···”"
    ],
    [
        "Government propaganda abounds, too, generated by new media operators like Konstantin Rykov, a 29-year-old Duma deputy and the founder of New Media Stars, the Kremlin’s favorite Internet firm.",
        "年仅二十九岁的杜马代表、新的媒体老板李可夫经营着这些宣传。 他还是克里姆林宫宠爱的互联网公司新媒体之星的创办人。"
    ],
    [
        "The regime invited international inspectors to Yongbyon, and provided substantial records of the Yongbyon reactor’s operations, which are still one of the most accurate resources for measuring the amount of plutonium actually produced there.",
        "朝鲜政权邀请国际调查员前往宁边，并提供了大量关于宁边核反应堆操作的记录，迄今它们仍然是测算实际制造的钚的数量的最准确的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Surely any city that can look after visitors so superbly should have nothing to worry about, except, perhaps, how best to use the proceeds of its competence and entrepreneurial genius.",
        "显然，能够为游客提供如此卓越的接待的城市理应高枕无忧，也许只有一个例外：如何最好地利用它的能力和企业家天赋。"
    ],
    [
        "What in the 1950’s had seemingly been a culture of contentment was transformed into what Podhoretz called an “adversary culture.”",
        "二十世纪五十年代的一种似乎是满意的文化转变成了波德霍雷茨称之为的“敌对文化”。"
    ],
    [
        "Four years after the terrorist attacks of September 2001, and with billions of dollars allegedly spent on “preparedness” for another emergency, America has shown the world that it was not prepared – even for an event that came with ample warning.",
        "在2001年9月的恐怖袭击发生4年后，美国声称已经花费了成百上千亿美元做好了再一次应急的准备，但这场灾难向世界表明：美国根本没有真的准备好¾这个国家甚至无力应对一场事先已经发出了足够预警的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it must deliver better economic performance for its citizens by emphasizing the challenge of competitiveness, particularly with respect to the new emerging countries.",
        "相反，它必须通过强调竞争力挑战，特别是要尊重新新兴国家，给其人民带来更好的经济表现。"
    ],
    [
        "The danger that nuclear weapons will be used again, either intentionally or accidentally, will exist for as long as they remain available, a conclusion reached at three major international humanitarian conferences and strongly affirmed by the United Nations.",
        "有意无意被滥用的危险只要核武器存在一天就无法消除，三大国际人道主义会议已经就此达成一致，并且得到联合国的坚定支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The National Democratic Institute has begun to reimagine refugee camps and camps for internally displaced persons as places where citizens can “find their voice” as voters and participants in democratic processes.",
        "国家民主研究所（National Democratic Institute）已开始重新构思难民营和国内流民收容营，将它们视为公民能够作为选民和民主过程参与者“发出自己的声音”的场所。"
    ],
    [
        "But the “temple of democracy,” as Indians have long hailed their parliament, has been soiled by its own priests, and is now in desperate need of reform.",
        "但“民主神庙”——长期以来印度人民一直这样称呼他们的议会——被其自身的祭司所玷污了，现在急需改革。"
    ],
    [
        "States and localities are cutting back expenditures.",
        "中央和地方都在缩减开支。"
    ],
    [
        "In his later work, Darwin introduced another selection criteria that may be just as important, but which has received much less attention: mating preference, or sexual selection.",
        "在其后期作品中，达尔文提出了另一个选择标准：配偶选择，又称性别选择，这一标准同样重要，但却鲜为关注。"
    ],
    [
        "The EITI would require government agencies and companies to disclose information relating to hydrocarbon extraction and production.",
        "其中包括合同和许可证； 有关油气地块——以及勘探和生产权——如何拍卖和授权的详细资料；"
    ],
    [
        "But its longer-term interests lie in having politically stable neighbors that embrace similar economic reforms, thereby opening the way for a free-trade area that would benefit the entire region.",
        "但其长期利益仍在于邻国的政治稳定和类似的经济改革，从而实现地区自由贸易，让整个地区都受益。"
    ],
    [
        "They are watchdogs of official policy, drawing attention to unsound developments, initiating and focusing public debate, and offering political and social alternatives.",
        "他们是官方政策的监督者，吸引人们关注不良发展态势，发起和关注公共争论，并提供政治和社会替代方案。"
    ],
    [
        "This month, the CAPE ratio in the US is just above 30. That is a high ratio.",
        "就在本月，美国的周期调整后市盈率比率刚刚超过30，也是个很高的数字。"
    ],
    [
        "Rodrik has rendered a major service by stating so openly the claim of “one economics.”",
        "罗德里克公开提出“一个经济学”的说法称得起是一项重大的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "SINGAPORE – The big question in Asian countries right now is what lesson to take from Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election, and from the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, in which British voters opted to leave the European Union.",
        "新加坡—目前，亚洲国家面临的一个大问题是从特朗普赢得美国总统选举，以及英国退欧公投（英国选民选择退出欧盟）中汲取什么教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators could encourage each bank to sell part of its toxic portfolio and extrapolate the portfolio’s value from the price obtained in such a sale, or they could attempt to estimate the portfolio’s value as well as they can on their own.",
        "政府应该鼓励银行出售有毒资产，并预估可能卖出的价格，或者是现在就估算有毒资产的实际价格。"
    ],
    [
        "He has softened his image, by speaking up for pensioners and professing a new interest in animal rights.",
        "他软化了自己的形象，为退休者说话，并表示了对动物权利的新兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Its rapidly rising public debt is set to top 100% of GDP this year.",
        "该国快速增长的公共债务额今年也将超过GDP总量的100%。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – What will the world look like two decades from now?",
        "剑桥——20年后世界将会怎样？"
    ],
    [
        "Gülenist commentators preach about the rule of law and human rights, even as Gülenist media champion flagrant show trials.",
        "葛兰主义评论者大谈法治精神和人权，尽管葛兰主义媒体鼓吹着臭名昭著的过场式审判。"
    ],
    [
        "After Italy’s former central bank governor, Antonio Fazio, flagrantly abused his position to block a takeover of an Italian bank by ABN Amro, member countries agreed that future mergers would be assessed on five objective criteria, the idea being to prevent governments from blocking foreign bids purely for protectionist reasons.",
        "意大利前央行行长法其奥悍然滥用其职位阻止一家意大利银行被荷兰银行收购。 欧盟成员国一致认为，未来的收购应该根据五项客观指标来进行评估。"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, one could urge crisis countries whose bonds have lost their investment-grade status to repair their finances so that these securities are again attractive for financing international transactions.",
        "或者有人可以敦促那些债券投资评级下跌的危机国家尽快修复自身的财务状况，使这些债权在国际交易方面重获吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, West African countries are mostly missing out on Africa’s current revival – and the prospect of a prolonged period of stagnation in the eurozone certainly won’t help.",
        "绝大多数西非国家因此错过了非洲目前的经济复苏，而欧元区长期经济停滞的前景肯定对西非的发展非常不利。"
    ],
    [
        "A revolution not only overthrows a repressive regime; it also destroys the old order, paving the way for a mostly brutal, if not bloody, fight for power to establish a new one – a process that affects foreign and domestic policy alike.",
        "革命不但席卷了镇压性政权，也摧毁了旧秩序，造成残酷（如果不是血腥的话）的新权力争夺——这一过程会影响国内和国外政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But unless we eliminate tax havens now, we are likely to find that we lack the ability to implement it.",
        "但除非我们现在就消除避税港，否则我们可能会发下按，我们没有能力实施累进税制。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, he could not accept America’s awkward pro-democracy agenda. But he was more than willing to occupy center stage in Arab diplomacy’s support of the Annapolis peace conference.",
        "因此，他无法接受美国笨拙的赞成民主的议程，而是更愿意占据阿拉伯外交支持安纳波利斯和平会议的中心舞台。"
    ],
    [
        "It would take a good deal more than a hiccup in the EU’s delicate political process to bring integration to a standstill, let alone put it into reverse.",
        "在欧盟细致的政治流程中需要有一个比打击更大得多的挫折才能使一体化进程完全陷入停顿，更别说使其逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "His efforts were not a complete success, but he managed to stave off the worst outcome.",
        "他的努力算不上有多成功，但确实设法避免了最坏结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Long March in Nepal",
        "尼泊尔的长征"
    ],
    [
        "The Trump administration’s Middle East policy rests on a reinvigorated alliance between the United States and Saudi Arabia.",
        "特朗普政府的中东政策的基础是美国和沙特阿拉伯重新确立的联盟关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Would a tougher position toward Saudi Arabia really be in America’s interest?",
        "对沙特阿拉伯采取更强硬的立场是否真的符合美国的利益？"
    ],
    [
        "But the debate about austerity and the cost of high public-debt levels misses a key point: Public debt owed to foreigners is different from debt owed to residents.",
        "但关于紧缩和高水平公共债务成本的讨论忽略了一个重点：欠外国人的公共债务不同于欠本国公民的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Just recently Le Monde had the wonderful headline: “[President] Hollande Defends French Foie Gras against Anglo-Saxon lobbies” (the reference was to California’s ban on foie gras under its animal-cruelty laws).",
        "不久前法国《世界报》还刊登了一条精彩的报导：奥朗德[总统]在盎格鲁－萨克逊游说者面前捍卫法国的鹅肝”（这条新闻实际指的是加州按照禁止虐待动物法的规定禁售鹅肝的措施）。"
    ],
    [
        "In its October 2012 World Economic Outlook, the IMF admitted that, “fiscal multipliers were underestimated across the world.”",
        "在2012年10月的《世界经济展望》（World Economic Outlook）中，IMF承认“财政乘数被全世界所低估。"
    ],
    [
        "If these losers engage in post-election jockeying to cheat opponents of their fair allotment of seats, that will tell much about the future.",
        "如果这些失利者在选举后转而争相搞小动作想把对手从合法获得的席位上拉下马的话，就很能说明一些问题了。"
    ],
    [
        "They can start by studying Germany’s trade patterns, especially vis-à-vis China.",
        "他们可以从学习德国（特别是中德贸易）贸易模式开始。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, challenges exist, particularly when it comes to addressing drug-related crime and violence, but these problems can be managed with sustained effort.",
        "诚然，墨西哥仍面临挑战，特别是在解决毒品犯罪和暴力方面，但这些问题可以通过持续措施得到管理。"
    ],
    [
        "But German voters had other plans.",
        "但德国选民有其他计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Obama’s call, backed by no action, for Assad to “step aside,” and his repeated promises, dating to early 2012, to provide non-lethal aid to the Syrian opposition – promises that were finally fulfilled late last year, and then only temporarily.",
        "想想奥巴马要求阿萨德“下台”的缺乏实际行动支持的空洞呼吁，以及可以追溯到2012年初期的反复承诺为叙利亚反对派提供非致命性援助——直到去年下半年奥巴马的承诺才终于兑现，但也只是兑现了一段时间而已。"
    ],
    [
        "So, after all the tourists that irrigate this poor region with precious income leave the viewing platforms below the falls, authorities close the sluice gates that dam the White Water River on the dangerously low upstream reservoir, and the falls cease.",
        "因此当给这个贫困地区带来宝贵收入的游客陆续离开了瀑布的观景台之后，当地政府就会关闭控制白水河（该河上游水库的蓄水量已经低于警戒线了）的水闸，然后瀑布的水就停了。"
    ],
    [
        "Two recent arrests of diplomats by their host countries have put a spotlight on the justification for, and limits of, the immunity from local law that such officials typically enjoy.",
        "最近发生的两起东道国逮捕外交官的案件让人们开始关注上述官员通常以何种理由及限度享有当地法律豁免权。"
    ],
    [
        "Few of us in the developed world can fathom aggregate-output contractions on the scale that crisis-torn Asia suffered in 1998, let alone muster the political will to impose them on our economies.",
        "只有很少发达国家的人能体会到1998年受灾亚洲国家所经历的那种严峻的总产值收缩状况，更别说拿出将紧缩加诸于本国经济之上的勇气了。"
    ],
    [
        "Australia’s refusal to discuss inclusive growth in Brisbane may please plutocrats like Murdoch, but talk of unregulated markets, lower taxes, and the removal of social safety nets strongly indicates that the summit will offer no substantive policies aimed at reducing inequality.",
        "澳大利亚拒绝在布里斯班讨论包容性增长也许能取悦默多克这样的富豪，但大谈无监管的市场、降低税收和取消社会安全网强烈表明，此次峰会不会产生旨在真正降低不平等性的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Households (and countries) that were most prone to spend cannot borrow any more.",
        "最具支出倾向的家庭（以及国家）再也无法借到钱了。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes, the symbols of the event become very confused.",
        "有时候，圣诞节的象征变得让人困惑。"
    ],
    [
        "What does it mean to be a member of the EU, Nigeria, Iraq, Turkey, Switzerland, or any other political entity?",
        "成为欧盟、尼日利亚、伊拉克、土耳其、瑞士或其他任何政治实体的一员意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "These interest rates must be brought down through ECB purchases of government bonds on the secondary market until low-enough announced target levels for borrowing costs are reached, and/or by the use of European Stability Mechanism resources.",
        "这些利率必须通过欧洲央行在二级市场上购买政府债券来下调，直到借贷成本利率足够低，达到已宣布的目标水平，或者利用欧洲稳定机制的资源，或者二者并用来达到目的。"
    ],
    [
        "The last man seated then was, of course, Vladimir Putin.",
        "当然，最后一个坐上这个位置的人就是普京。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the inevitable formula for recovery – one shovel load at a time.",
        "一砖一瓦地堆砌，这就是重建的不二法门。"
    ],
    [
        "But interest-rate convergence caused economic divergence.",
        "但利率趋同造成了经济趋异。"
    ],
    [
        "This will be troublesome for the entire world.",
        "这对于全世界来说非常危险。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, as Morsi’s overthrow demonstrated, public opinion can quickly turn against a ruling party, especially in an economic crisis.",
        "毕竟，正如穆尔西下台所显示的，公共观点可以迅速地转变为不利于执政党，特别是在经济危机时。"
    ],
    [
        "Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the richest and second richest person in America, and perhaps the world, are often described as admirers of Andrew Carnegie’s famous 1889 essay “The Gospel of Wealth.”",
        "比尔·盖茨和埃伦·巴菲特名列美国富豪第一和第二，可能也是全球富豪前两名。 他们时常被人说成是卡内基著名的1889年“财富的福音”一文的崇拜者。"
    ],
    [
        "One such innovation should be a new Global Fund for Education, to ensure that children everywhere can afford to attend school at least through the secondary level.",
        "一个此类创新应是新的全球教育基金（Global Fund for Education），以确保各地儿童都上得起学，至少上到初中水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Religious fervor and a state of permanent conflict with Israel might be a badge of identity, but they will not pave the way to victory.",
        "宗教狂热和与以色列打持久战的准备可以称为身份的印记，但无法成为胜利的保障。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States drove a series of changes to surveillance laws that made it easier for the government to spy on ordinary Americans, not to mention the Global War on Terror, which continues to wreak havoc in the Middle East.",
        "类似地，2001年9月11日的恐怖袭击让美国修订了一系列监控法律，政府监视普通美国老百姓变得更加容易了。 当然，更不用说美国还发动了至今仍在中东制造浩劫的全球反恐战争。"
    ],
    [
        "While maintaining stable exchange rates within the EMS initially proved difficult, owing to large differences in national inflation rates and economic-policy priorities, the situation quickly improved, thanks to US President Ronald Reagan.",
        "由于各国的通胀率和经济政策优先次序都存在巨大差异，在体系内部维持汇率稳定极为艰难，但美国总统罗纳德·里根（Ronald Reagan）的作用下这一状况得到迅速改善。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot afford to ignore the signs of the importance of the environment for our health.",
        "我们不能忽略环境对我们健康的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Muslims who support the modernization of Islam would typically stop well short of Europe’s ethical vision.",
        "就连那些支持伊斯兰教现代化的穆斯林往往也会对欧洲的道德愿景望而却步。"
    ],
    [
        "A second problem with EBM is that it offers little guidance when a medical condition is evolving.",
        "EBM的第二个问题是它无法对不断演化的医疗环境提供指导。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, slower trade growth reflects China’s economic deceleration.",
        "此外，贸易增长放缓反映了中国经济减速。"
    ],
    [
        "A few years ago, a clown named Brozo, with a large red nose and a bright green wig, was Mexico’s most popular political commentator on television, actively courted by all candidates running for national office.",
        "几年前，一位大红鼻头、亮绿假发的Brozo小丑曾是墨西哥最受欢迎的电视政治评论员，并得到所有政界候选人的着意拉拢。"
    ],
    [
        "Barack Obama is a star. The world needs one.",
        "巴拉克·奥巴马确实是个明星，而当今世界也正需要他这样的明星。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it should serve to accelerate its reversal.",
        "事实上，这有助于这一趋势的逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "But, instead of admitting the crime and working to bring the perpetrators to justice, Russia’s leaders have fought back, declaring that certain Europeans and Americans will, in turn, be barred from visiting Russia.",
        "但是，俄罗斯领导人并不承认罪行，也没有将行凶者绳之以法，反而反咬一口，宣布禁止某些欧洲人和美国人进入俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "It not only denies farmers improved seeds, but also denies consumers of organic goods access to nutritionally improved foods, such as oils with enhanced levels of omega-3 fatty acids.",
        "这不仅让农民无法改良种子，也让有机产品消费者无法获得营养改良食品，如欧米茄-3脂肪酸强化食用油。"
    ],
    [
        "Since early 2014, the renminbi has depreciated by a mere 7.5% against the dollar, compared to the euro’s roughly 25% depreciation in this period, not to mention even faster currency weakening in many emerging markets.",
        "自2014年年初以来，人民币兑美元仅仅贬值了7. 5%，而同期欧元贬值了25%左右，许多新兴市场货币贬值更是要快得多。"
    ],
    [
        "European authorities must come to understand that the next act of the Greek tragedy will not be confined to Greece.",
        "欧洲当局必须明白，希腊悲剧的下一出不会局限于希腊。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, when the shock of 2008-2009 hit, every economy in the region either experienced a sharp slowdown or fell into outright recession.",
        "结果，当2008—2009年的冲击袭来时，亚洲地区的所有经济体要么经历了严重减速，要么陷入了严重衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "In Asia, we all are facing the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missiles, as well as non-traditional security threats, including terrorism, violent extremism, and cyber-attacks on our businesses, our social and civic infrastructure, and our official institutions.",
        "在亚洲，我们都面临着朝鲜核武器和导弹所带来的威胁，除此之外还有非传统安全威胁，包括恐怖主义、暴力极端主义以及对我们的企业、我们的社会和民用基础设施，以及我们的官方机构的网络袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "In the years after the BJP’s loss, with a few notable exceptions, India’s political class decided that traditional populism was a surer route to re-election.",
        "BJP失败后的几年中，除了少数显著例外，印度政客们认为传统民粹主义对连任更有利。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the failure of existing institutions, it may be time to establish a new one – an International Criminal Court for Children, authorized to investigate and prosecute state and non-state actors for war crimes against kids.",
        "鉴于现有机构未能保护儿童权利，建立新的机构或许正是时候——我们可以成立国际儿童刑事法院，并授权该机构调查及起诉国家及非国家主体针对儿童的战争罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States’ presidential election campaign, for example, the leading candidates in both the Republican and Democratic primaries have questioned the wisdom of seeking greater openness in world trade.",
        "比如，在美国总统选战中，共和党和民主党初选的领先者都质疑寻求更加开放的世界贸易的合理性。"
    ],
    [
        "Drought and desertification have exacerbated poverty – the country’s per capita GDP is just $765, placing it 168th worldwide – and extremely perilous living conditions are reflected in the world’s seventh-highest child-mortality rates: 123 of every 1,000 children will not make it to their fifth birthday.",
        "干旱及荒漠化加剧了贫困——该国的人均国内生产总值仅为765美元，列世界第168位——世界排名第七的儿童死亡率反映了极为危险的生活条件：每千名儿童中有123人活不到自己的五岁生日。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa is keen that the Sudanese leadership cooperate effectively to manage this delicate situation, in the interest of the continent as a whole.",
        "非洲各国希望苏丹领导人能通力合作，平安度过这个微妙脆弱的时期，须知这也关乎整个非洲大陆的整体利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Sea levels are rising, and could climb sharply if global warming leads to a destabilization of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.",
        "海平面正在上升，如果格林兰和南极洲的冰盖在全球变暖的作用下变得不稳定，那么这种上升的趋势还会进一步加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Kicillof’s second point was that Argentina’s businesses and consumers should not succumb to pessimism.",
        "基奇洛夫在讲话中强调的第二点是阿根廷企业和消费者不应向悲观低头。"
    ],
    [
        "With effective governance and planning, open dialogue, resource-sharing frameworks, and sufficient investment, including in skills training, these communities can translate this relationship into effective environmental stewardship – and build healthier and more secure societies.",
        "通过有效的治理和规划、公开对话、资源共享框架和对包括技能培训在内的充分投资，这些群体可以将这种关系转化为有效的环境管理——并建设更健康和更安全的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "There are other cases in which aficionados of violent videogames have become killers, but they do not prove cause and effect.",
        "另外还有一些暴力电子游戏的狂热爱好者变成杀人犯的例子，不过这些还不能说明其中存在因果关系。"
    ],
    [
        "A leader who respects his or her opponents is more likely to earn respect himself than one who doubts their patriotism and resents their criticism.",
        "尊重其对手的领袖，比起怀疑他人的爱国主义和憎恶批评的人，更有可能为自己赢得尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "For the millions of workers – and especially young people – with no job prospects, fiscal sustainability simply cannot be the only priority.",
        "对数百万工人来说——特别是年轻人——没有工作前景，财政可持续性就不可能成为仅有的优先考虑项。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, we have entered a new phase.",
        "时至今日，我们已经进入了一个新的阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Apart from tensions within the Ukrainian government, the main reason is the country’s dire financial situation.",
        "除了乌克兰政府内部的紧张，主要原因还在于该国糟糕的金融状况。"
    ],
    [
        "This metadata – covering whom we talk to, when, and for how long – can reveal as much about our private lives as the content itself.",
        "这些元数据包括我们和谁交谈、交谈的时间和长度——由此泄露的个人隐私与内容本身一样多。"
    ],
    [
        "The task ahead of us was daunting.",
        "令人生畏的任务摆在我们面前。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet just waiting for North Korea to collapse is a regime-change strategy by default – and the cost of a chaotic or violent collapse could be frighteningly high.",
        "但等待朝鲜政权崩溃只是默认情况下的政权更迭策略——混乱或暴力崩溃的代价可能高得让人承受不起。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – A thoughtful British friend of mine said to me a few days before the United Kingdom’s “Brexit” referendum that he would vote for Remain because of his concern about the economic uncertainty that would follow if the UK left the European Union.",
        "发自剑桥——就在英国举行“脱欧”公投的前几天，我的一位极为睿智的英国朋友说他将投票支持留欧，因为他担心英国脱离欧盟会带来经济上的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States and France have made their fears known.",
        "美国和法国公开表示了对此的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "And it paid tribute to the ability of US markets and financial firms to create innovative instruments to “attract and sustain high levels of capital inflows.”",
        "它还赞美了美国市场和金融企业创造创新型工具以“吸引和保持高资本流入水平”的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s announcement of his intention to withdraw Israel’s army unilaterally from Gaza, the occupation itself is once again an open question, offering opportunities for further progress.",
        "再者，随着以色列总理沙龙宣布其将军队单方面撤出加沙地带的意图，占领本身也再一次成为一个公开的问题，并为形势的进一步进展创造了机会。"
    ],
    [
        "They view China as special, a re-emerging great power bound to join the ranks of the world’s most advanced countries, and the governance practices that their newspapers cite as models are invariably those of rich societies, not developing ones.",
        "他们认为中国是一个特别的，重新崛起的大国，必然会加入世界上最先进国家的行列，并且报纸上总是引用富裕社会而非发展中国家的治理实践作为样板。"
    ],
    [
        "The most powerful talisman is technological innovation, which justifies simply waiting for a cure-all invention to come along.",
        "其最强大的护身符是技术创新，技术创新证明了只要简单地坐等万灵丹式的发明的出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, no nation completely bans lay-offs, but flexibility varies greatly and can be central to profitability.",
        "当然，没有国家完全禁止裁员，但灵活度却大相径庭，对盈利的作用也至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "If this risk were not contained – and the probability of a European banking debacle is already disconcertingly high – there would be a further negative spiral.",
        "如果这一风险得不到遏制——并且欧洲银行大溃败的可能性已然十分高——将产生更进一步的下跌螺旋。"
    ],
    [
        "No governance framework is in place for emerging high-seas industries such as energy production.",
        "对能源生产等新兴公海产业则没有治理框架可言。"
    ],
    [
        "Given China’s systemic importance to the global economy, instability there could pose major risks far beyond its borders.",
        "中国对于全球经济具有系统重要性，因此中国出现动荡所产生的危险远远不止于其国界线内。"
    ],
    [
        "The world, urged by the EU, must work to bring peace to Syria now, and to establish a strong state capable of guaranteeing peace in the future.",
        "世界在欧盟的敦促下必须现在就全力实现叙利亚和平，并建立有能力保障未来和平的强有力的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, central banks still stand ready to intervene to prevent bank runs.",
        "最后，央行依然准备介入银行防止挤兑。"
    ],
    [
        "Encouraging economic and political reform are important objectives, but they can never serve as a substitute for a serious effort to contain Russia’s deep-seated expansionism.",
        "鼓励经济和政治改革是重要的目标，但是这些并不能够作为抑制俄罗斯根深蒂固的扩张主义的替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "The final pillar of Xi’s strategy for solidifying the Communist Party’s authority is to replace Deng Xiaoping’s cautious foreign policy with a muscular one.",
        "习近平巩固中共权威的最后一个支柱是用强硬外交取代邓小平的谨慎外交。"
    ],
    [
        "Were their demand for debt lower – and, in the case of corporate debtors, were they to rely more on equity – financial institutions would face less pressure to use so much debt themselves.",
        "如果他们对债务的需求没有那么高——并且，对于公司债务人来说，如果他们更多地依赖股本——金融机构本身使用大量债务的压力就会较小。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Gold prices have been rising sharply, breaching the $1,000 barrier and in recent weeks rising towards $1,200 an ounce and above.",
        "纽约——金价一路飙升，突破1000美元大关，近几周更是企及1200美元，且还在上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, Righteous Women have prevailed.",
        "最近，正义女神型开始得势。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, Unilever’s Kenyan branch ran a “taste our culture” campaign in support of its line of traditional East African herbs and spices.",
        "就在去年，联合利华公司驻肯尼亚的子公司就启动了一项“品尝我们的文化”活动来推广他们混合了东非香草和香料的一系列产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Because scrapie had never been definitively linked to human disease, they assumed that infected cows were also innocuous.",
        "由于痒病从未在人身上发现，他们认为被传染的牛也不会有什么威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The greatest risk that we run is erosion of the Security Council’s credibility, and, with it, a diminishing capacity to confront grave threats to peace.",
        "我们所面临的最大风险是安理会信誉的损失以及随之出现的应对和平的致命威胁的能力的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Other EU states need to follow their example in order to make European foreign policy truly effective and influential.",
        "欧盟其他成员国需要以他们为榜样，使欧洲的外交政策有真正的效力和有影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "A second argument is that “we do not know enough about the effects and side effects.”",
        "食品和农业基因工程的反对者提出了不少见解，但没有一个是站得住脚的。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, the consumption of experiences (rather than objects) produces a more sustained satisfaction.",
        "反之，消费经历（而不是物品）会让满意持续的时间更长。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the World Bank accepts survey data uncritically – even when it conflicts with data from other sources.",
        "其次，世界银行不加鉴别地接受调查数据——即便它与其他来源的数据冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, a modern Egyptian or a modern Saudi will be more on par with a French or an American than they would be with an ancient Arab.",
        "同样，现代埃及人或者沙特人比古代阿拉伯人更加接近法国人或者美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "Why take tough decisions if the ECB continues to administer heavier and heavier doses from its monetary drug cabinet?",
        "既然欧洲央行不断从其货币药栈里开出越来越重的剂量，为什么还要去做艰难决定呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But the problem with austerity in the eurozone is more fundamental: policymakers are attempting to address a sovereign-debt crisis, though the real problem is a banking crisis.",
        "但欧元区紧缩的问题更加基础：决策者在试图解决主权债务危机，尽管真正的原因是银行危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister of Mexico, goes further, arguing that these countries have systematically opposed global rules, in areas ranging from climate change to international trade.",
        "前墨西哥外长豪尔赫·卡斯塔涅达对此有更为激进的看法，认为这些国家正在从气候变化到国际贸易的一系列领域中有组织有计划地与全球秩序相对抗。"
    ],
    [
        "In February 2014, months after the second recapitalization, the asset management company Blackrock reported that the burgeoning volume of NPLs necessitated a substantial third recapitalization.",
        "到了2014年二月，就是第二轮注资刚过几个月后，黑石资产管理公司报称不良贷款的不断增长使得有必要进行第三轮注资。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, when apartheid South Africa refused to provide its black majority with their fundamental human rights, the international community supported a major campaign of divestment and sanctions.",
        "类似地，当种族隔离的南非拒绝为其占多数的黑人提供基本人权时，国际社会也支持了轰轰烈烈的撤资和制裁运动。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the fate of this group is perhaps the best example of how individual identities of the new member states are beginning to assert themselves now that membership in the EU and NATO are secured.",
        "事实上，该集团的命运可能就是新成员国在确定了它们的欧盟和北约成员身份之后如何开始张扬其个体身份的最佳例证。"
    ],
    [
        "Isn’t this obvious?",
        "这不是显而易见吗？"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of concern for the rights of all is a hallmark of Turkey’s young generation.",
        "如此争取权利证明了土耳其年青一代的品质。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the credit went to real estate and local infrastructure projects, effectively reinforcing the most problematic trends in China’s economy.",
        "大部分信贷涌向了房地产和地方基础设施项目，加剧了中国经济结构的不平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, in the Shiite tradition, the strategy of the Mahdi, the Shiite Messiah, will be to intimidate all his enemies upon his return to Earth.",
        "”此外，根据什叶派传统，马赫迪这位什叶派救世主所采用的策略，就是在他重新降临世界之时威吓一切敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities’ strategy is not new: establish tight control over the leading publishing platforms and fill them with propaganda and spin to shape online public opinion.",
        "当局的策略并不新鲜，也就是对主要的平台建立严格控制，并且用宣传和控制来左右舆论。"
    ],
    [
        "Football, Brexit, and Us",
        "足球、英国退出和我们"
    ],
    [
        "Alternatively, the authorities could levy an excise tax on bank debt in exchange for repealing the corporate tax.",
        "或者当局可以对银行债务课以特种消费税，作为交换，同时取消公司税。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, far from making space for diplomacy, Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka recently told the press that, “The idea that Secretary Tillerson is going to discuss military matters is simply nonsensical.”",
        "但是，特朗普的顾问塞巴斯蒂安·戈尔卡（Sebastian Gorka）不去创造外交空间，反而在最近向媒体透露，“让蒂勒森国务卿去讨论军事问题，这样的想法是毫无意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it replicates American policy in the period following World War II, when the World Bank was founded to multilaterize development funds that were overwhelmingly coming from the US (a move that also helped to create a cadre of first-class international civil servants and development professionals).",
        "事实上，这一举动复制了美国在二战之后的政策，当年世界银行正是成立用来将主要来自美国的发展资金多边化（而这也帮助催生了一批第一流的国际官员和发展专家）。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond devolution and transport, England’s north needs to improve dramatically the education and skills of its labor force, in order to attract and retain cutting-edge companies.",
        "除了放权和交通，英格兰北部还需要大幅改善劳动力技能教育，以吸引和留住尖端公司。"
    ],
    [
        "While biological evolution through sexual reproduction requires generations, we can learn from each other much more quickly through cultural evolution, explaining why humans have made so much progress.",
        "通过有性生殖的生物演化需要多代，但我们可以以快得多的速度通过文化演化彼此学习，这解释了人类为何取得了如此多的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Our world has changed vastly over the past century – and not only because of technology.",
        "在过去的一个世纪中，我们的世界发生了翻天覆地的变化——技术是其中的重要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Multidisciplinary “Team UN” groups could be deployed in the field to break down departmental barriers and confront appropriate challenges.",
        "可以尝试在实际工作中部署多学科的“联合国团队”，以打破部门障碍并应对相关挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Acceptable compromises on all of these questions have been negotiated repeatedly by the parties and stowed away for many years.",
        "多年来，各方不断就所有这些问题进行谈判以求可以接受的妥协，但是都无果而终。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is also partly financial.",
        "答案部分也在于金融。"
    ],
    [
        "There are reasons to doubt this, of course.",
        "当然有理由对此表示质疑。"
    ],
    [
        "One has only to read the declarations of Omar Barghouti, Ali Abunimah, and other promoters of the BDS movement to see that this solution is precisely what they do not want.",
        "只要看看Omar Barghouti、Ali Abunimah和其他运动发起人的声明，就知道他们恰恰最不希望订立两国协议。"
    ],
    [
        "But America’s ability to offer a credible diplomatic path will be seriously undermined if others judge that it cannot be trusted to stand by agreements.",
        "但如果其他国家认为美国在遵守协定方面不可信任，那么其提出可信外交途径的能力就会大大受损。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, China’s financial sector – indeed, its entire economy – will suffer.",
        "否则，中国的金融业——事实上，是整个经济——都要遭殃。"
    ],
    [
        "The stock market suffered one of its biggest one-day drops this year on the 20th anniversary of the 1987 crash, with the S&P 500 falling 2.56%.",
        "今年，1987年大跌的二十周年当天，股票市场经历了今年最大的单日跌幅之一。 标准普尔指数下降2."
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, one of the most fascinating proposals to this effect came at the beginning of World War I, when the Russian Empire found that its limited capacity to borrow on international capital markets and its low foreign-currency reserves left it unable to create an effective military force.",
        "实际上，这方面最有趣的建议来自一战初期，当时俄罗斯帝国在国际资本市场有限的借贷能力和短缺的外汇储备导致其无法创建有效的军力。"
    ],
    [
        "And education can even help ensure the peaceful and sustainable development of the communities that have opened their doors to displaced families.",
        "教育甚至还能有助于确保向流离失所家庭敞开大门的社区的和平可持续的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Talk is cheap; these companies need to put their money where their mouth is.",
        "空口白话非常廉价； 这些企业应当在他们承诺的领域投入资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Eighty years after the republic’s founding the trouble with headscarved women is that they do not fit into the picture of the ideal modern Turkish woman.",
        "共和国建国八十年来，佩戴头巾的妇女的问题是她们不属于理想的现代土耳其妇女的形象。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if politicians have perfect foresight of the disaster that awaits if nothing is done, they may have little ability to persuade voters, or less insightful party members, that the short-term costs must be paid.",
        "即便政治家们完全意识到不作为将引发极大的灾难，他们也很难去说服选民或者那些短视的政党成员去支付一些短期成本。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1990’s, the largest banks were mostly Japanese. Who now remembers Daiichi Kangyo?",
        "20 世纪 90 年代，世界上最大的银行几乎都是日资银行，可如今谁还记得第一劝业（ Dai-Ichi Kangyo ）？"
    ],
    [
        "A resurgent Taliban in its tribal areas has destabilized Pakistan.",
        "在部族地区恢复活力的塔利班打破了巴基斯坦的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, recent data show falling real personal incomes, declining employment gains, and lower retail sales.",
        "事实上，最新数据表明，个人真实收入在下降，就业增长持续萎靡，零售额也在缩水。"
    ],
    [
        "A more open and transparent public environment will help awaken their sense of political mission.",
        "更为开放和透明的公共环境将会帮助唤醒他们的政治使命意识。"
    ],
    [
        "One specific goal should be to improve the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization, a $240 billion currency-swap arrangement, and its surveillance unit, the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office.",
        "一个具体目标应该是提升《清迈多边化倡议》这个总金额达2400亿美元的货币互换安排以及其附属监查机构东盟+3宏观经济研究办公室的职能。"
    ],
    [
        "Every calculation proved to be disastrously wrong.",
        "结果每个预测都被证明是惨重的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Officially, the treaty cuts their weapons by one-third; in fact, each party will decommission only several dozen.",
        "在书面上，双方必须将本国部署的核武器数量削减1/3，而实际上，两国真正动手拆除的核武器大概只有几十件而已。"
    ],
    [
        "This would obviously amount to a surrender.",
        "这显然会导致放弃。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while a large number of Europeans naively believed that this was the prelude to a joint European strategy, the proposal was drafted in terms that were so vague as to allow any outcome – or none.",
        "但是，尽管众多欧洲人天真地认为欧洲联合战略只是个序幕，但这一方案非常模糊，根本无法形成成果。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar misfortune occurred in 1999, when President Mohammad Khatami was attempting to carry out his own reformist experiment, and prices fell below $10 per barrel.",
        "1999年也发生过类似的情况，时任伊朗总统哈塔米试图进行改革试验，而石油价格下跌到每桶10美元以下。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump has indicated that he would flout America’s NATO obligations, disregard institutions of global governance, and treat negotiations with other countries as ceremonies of surrender to US positions, rather than two-way deliberations.",
        "特朗普已经表示他将无视美国的北约义务、抛弃全球治理机构并将与他国谈判视为背叛美国立场，而不是双向磋商。"
    ],
    [
        "Bank runs started almost immediately and quickly engulfed the country, resulting in the Bank Holiday of 1933 – that is, in the forced closure of the entire US banking system.",
        "各银行当即出现挤兑并顷刻席卷全国，结果出现了1933年的银行休假日——也就是强制关闭整个美国银行系统。"
    ],
    [
        "The results are alarming.",
        "结果令人警惕。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union’s economy is sliding into a severe and, in all likelihood, long-lasting recession, largely self-inflicted.",
        "欧盟的经济正在下滑。 已经到达了非常不景气的萧条时期，这种大萧条极有可能长久地持续下去，而经济滑坡的主要原因是欧洲内部问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Anglophone strategy focuses on freeing up the remittance market by encouraging competition, relaxing regulatory constraints for non-bank operators, offering financial incentives, encouraging technical and financial innovation, and stimulating collaboration among market players.",
        "英语国家主要通过鼓励竞争、放松对非银行经营者管制、提供财政奖励、鼓励技术及金融创新以及促成市场参与者之间进行合作等方式来放开汇款市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, many believe that Pakistan’s security services maintain ties with groups that would clearly qualify the country for inclusion on the list.",
        "类似地，许多人认为巴基斯坦安全部门与许多恐怖组织保持着关系，这足以使它也登上这个名单。"
    ],
    [
        "We are trying to extrapolate the past experience of a small fraction of the world population that we have chosen to examine because they made a lot of money.",
        "我们试图从我们所选择检验的一小部分世界人口的经历做出推断，因为他们赚了很多钱。"
    ],
    [
        "This reflects the similarly deteriorating situation for Christians in Egypt, where they account for roughly 15% of the population.",
        "这反映出与埃及基督徒相似的境况恶化，在埃及，基督徒占据着约15%的人口。 4月初，圣马可大教堂（St."
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, public-sector wage cuts and caps – currently being pursued by 75 developing countries – threaten to undermine service delivery to citizens, particularly at the local level in poor rural areas, where a single teacher or nurse can determine whether a child receives an education or health care.",
        "类似地，公共部门工资削减和封顶——目前有75个发展中国家实施该措施——有可能破坏人民得到的服务，特别是在贫困农村地区，在这些地区，一名教师或护士的去留决定着儿童是否能获得教育和卫生服务。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Fourth Industrial Revolution continues, four principles should guide the region’s policies and their implementation.",
        "随着第四次工业革命的不断深化，指导我们政策及其执行的理应有四项原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor can Trump revive the dying coal sector.",
        "特朗普也无法让垂死的煤炭工业起死回生。"
    ],
    [
        "AMSTERDAM -- The late Arthur Koestler, born in Budapest, resident of many countries, and writer in several languages, once said that there is nationalism, and there is football nationalism.",
        "阿姆斯特丹-出生于布达佩斯特、曾在多个国家居住过、用多种语言写过书的亚瑟·柯斯勒曾说过民族主义是存在的，并且还有足球民族主义。"
    ],
    [
        "This all happened a couple of years ago – just before Yahoo! gave up on search entirely and handed that part of its business over to Microsoft.",
        "这些都发生在几年前——就在雅虎放弃搜索引擎业务，将其移交给微软之前。"
    ],
    [
        "They are thus able not only to strengthen their market position in their core activities, but also to develop innovative capabilities in new areas, by taking over smaller competitors, whether actual or prospective.",
        "企业不仅可以以此巩固其核心业务的市场地位，还可以通过收购较小的竞争对手（不管是当前还是未来的）来发展新领域的创新能力。"
    ],
    [
        "When hit by them, vigorously growing economies have cushions to withstand the blows and the resilience to shrug them off.",
        "当遭遇冲击时，强劲增长的经济体拥有抵御打击的缓冲和从打击中重新崛起的恢复力。"
    ],
    [
        "It is all too easy to reduce the fight against terrorism to tightening the political screws, to a strengthening of Putin's power, to restricting the movement of people within the country.",
        "将反恐斗争简化为拧紧政治螺丝，加强普京的权力和限制人们在国内的行动是件轻而易举的事。"
    ],
    [
        "That makes PNVs the ideal solution.",
        "这意味着PNV是理想的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "First, almost all historical instances of disinflation have been associated with a transition period when growth was negatively affected.",
        "首先，历史上经济增长遭受负面影响时几乎所有的反通胀实例都伴随着一段时间的转型过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "One formerly state-run enterprise was being operated under a 2001 lease specifying that no workers could be laid off for the next ten years.",
        "一所原本属于国营的企业继续维持运作的原因则是 2001 年签订租赁协议时规定十年之内不能让任何员工下岗。"
    ],
    [
        "All European leaders quail before it.",
        "这个幽灵令所有欧洲领导人心惊胆寒。"
    ],
    [
        "These people are not a threat to peace in the Middle East.",
        "这些人绝非中东和平的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Ending the Financial Arms Race",
        "结束金融军备竞赛"
    ],
    [
        "Policy space is also required to ensure that important social and political ends – such as food security – are compatible with international trade rules.",
        "政策空间也需要保证重要的社会和政治目的——例如食品安全——与国际贸易规则一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Illness and deaths from malaria can be reduced sharply by using insecticide-treated bed nets to stop the mosquitoes that transmit malaria, and by effective medicines when the illness strikes.",
        "疟疾引发的疾病和死亡能够大幅度减少，方法是使用经过杀虫处理的蚊帐来防止蚊虫叮咬，以及在疾病流行时使用有效药物进行医治。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the aftermath of setbacks in regions where it intervened, and with heightened economic distress at home, the US finds itself uncertain about how to respond to changing global events.",
        "但是，由于美国在其所干预的地区受到了诸多挫折，而国内则正在饱受经济低迷之苦，因此在如何应对国际局势变化上，美国需要面临诸多不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "If traditional media outlets allow themselves to be defined by the fake-news debate, they, too, will be overwhelmed.",
        "如果传统媒体组织任由假新闻争论来定义自己，那么它们也会被压得无法翻身。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps more important, it would have no lender of last resort capable of stabilizing the banking and financial system in a crisis.",
        "也许更重要的是，如果爆发危机，将没有最后贷款人能够稳定银行和金融系统。"
    ],
    [
        "That means less competition and higher prices – as sure a way to lower real incomes as lowering wages directly.",
        "这意味着竞争减少、价格升高——从而必然导致真实收入降低，效果等价于直接降低工资。"
    ],
    [
        "Doubts about the sustainability of government debt produce sudden surges in interest rates, as risk premia rise dramatically with perceptions of the likelihood of default.",
        "对政府债务可持续性的质疑导致债券息率飙升，对违约可能性的觉察使得风险溢价大涨。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge on the supply side stems from a new dispute among economists and technology experts about the pace of technological progress.",
        "供给端的挑战来自经济学家和技术专家关于技术进步速度的新争论。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the periphery of the eurozone is benefiting from the wall of liquidity unleashed by the Fed, the Bank of Japan, and other major central banks.",
        "即使欧元区的非核心国家同样从美联储、日本央行和其他主要央行释放的流动性中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "As the elite public schools suffer, so will Chilean democracy.",
        "精英公立学校倒退最终会使智利民主蒙受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel’s prompt decision to take responsibility for forming a viable coalition government means that her commitment to preserving the EU and her staunch defense of democracy and Western values will continue to guide German policymaking.",
        "默克尔随即决定承担责任组建可行的联合政府，这意味着她维持欧盟的承诺和她对民主和西方价值观的坚决捍卫将继续成为德国的政策制定指南。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most tellingly, 66% said that they would be “more likely” to support a candidate who says that climate change is happening and who calls for a shift to renewable energy, while 12% would be “less likely” to support such a candidate.",
        "也许最能说明问题的事，66%的受访者说他们“更有可能”支持宣称气候变化正在发生和呼吁采取行动转向可再生能源的候选人，只有12%的受访者“更不可能”支持这类候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Leadership degeneration accelerates as the autocratic regime ages and grows more bureaucratic.",
        "专制政权官僚化及老化加速了领导层的退化。"
    ],
    [
        "But destroying poppy crops has been turning Afghan farmers against NATO.",
        "但是捣毁罂粟作物使阿富汗的农民站在了北约的对立面。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone from foreign finance ministers to cartoon satirists (check out the video “quantitative easing explained”) to Sarah Palin has ripped into the policy.",
        "包括外国财政部长到政治漫画家（请参见网上一段名为“量化宽松答疑”的动画视频）以及前共和党总统候选人萨拉·佩林在内的所有人都争相对政策发表自己的高见。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, such measures do not diminish countries’ responsibility for strengthening their health-care systems and safeguarding their populations.",
        "当然，国家建设卫生保健系统和保护民众健康的责任并没有因此减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Its further increase could lead to counterproductive protectionist measures.",
        "这种恐惧的继续增长可能会导致保护主义的反作用。"
    ],
    [
        "We had to compromise and settle for the best possible results.",
        "我们必须学会妥协，接受最有可能的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, it animates Russian President Vladimir Putin’s repeated denunciations of “neo-Nazis, Russophobes, and anti-Semites” allegedly running rampant in the streets of Kyiv, forcing a reluctant Russia to protect Jews, Russians, and any decent Ukrainians who remain.",
        "更重要的是，这支持了俄罗斯普京一再重复的所谓“新纳粹、仇俄分子和反犹主义”在基辅街头肆虐、迫使不情愿的俄罗斯保护犹太人、俄罗斯人和所有留在那里的正派乌克兰人。"
    ],
    [
        "Georgians share that enthusiasm.",
        "格鲁吉亚人也怀着这样的梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, government services and health care, which together produce more than a quarter of GDP, have had virtually no productivity growth.",
        "相反，政府服务和医疗产生了GDP的四分之一以上，生产率几乎没有增长。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, most would-be citizens will probably feel alienated from a state that suspects political danger emanating from newcomers and consistently sends a message of distrust.",
        "另一方面，多数准公民们可能会觉得难以同一个怀疑新移民会带来政治危险并不断发出不信任信号的国家亲近。"
    ],
    [
        "What comes next is uncertain.",
        "下一步会发生什么还不确定。"
    ],
    [
        "All but lost in the controversies surrounding Iraq and Iran is a major initiative involving a third “I” country: India.",
        "在有关伊朗和伊拉克乱局中唯独缺少了有关第三个以英语字母“I”开头的国家，即印度的主要事件。"
    ],
    [
        "From that standpoint, the Israel-Palestine conflict is exemplary.",
        "基于这种立场，巴以冲突即为典型。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that China’s financial sector has accumulated considerable risk in recent years, with broad money (M2) having ballooned to ¥110.7 trillion ($18 trillion) – almost twice the country’s GDP – at the end of last year.",
        "问题在于，近几年来中国金融部门累积了大量风险，到去年年底，广义货币（M2）总量膨胀到110. 7万亿元，接近GDP的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "And, tough talk notwithstanding, the Obama administration has yet to offer a credible roadmap for fiscal consolidation.",
        "可是，不客气地讲，奥巴马政府至今未能拿出一个像样的巩固财政的路线图来。"
    ],
    [
        "Switzerland has been one of the richest countries in the world for a century – and not because of its natural resources.",
        "一个世纪以来，瑞士一直是全世界最富裕的国家，而且这种财富并没有依赖自然资源。"
    ],
    [
        "The pen, at last mightier than the sword, became a weapon of glorious retribution, wielded with style.",
        "最终人们手中的笔比枪更有力量，因为人们能够优雅地挥舞着这件武器进行光荣的报复。"
    ],
    [
        "A large body of economic research shows that, at most, 20-25% of the benefits of corporate tax cuts will accrue to labor; the rest will go to shareholders, about one-third of whom are foreign.",
        "大量的经济研究表明，公司减税的收益中最多只有20~25％会累积在劳动者身上； 其余的都会被企业股东收走（其中1/3还是外资股东）。"
    ],
    [
        "In June, the Bush administration revealed its plan to withdraw some 12,500 of the 37,000 US soldiers stationed in South Korea by the end of 2005. These include 3,600 troops from the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division, who are already earmarked for redeployment in Iraq.",
        "6月，布什政府宣布要在2005年前从37，000名驻韩美军中撤出约12，500人，其中包括第二步兵师的第二装甲旅，已经确定这支部队要重新派驻伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "It made absolutely clear how important it was to continue the policy of glasnost, and I must say that I started to think about time in terms of pre-Chernobyl and post-Chernobyl.",
        "这一事故彻底表明继续开放性政策的重要性，而且我必须说我开始用切尔诺贝利前后的观点来思考时代了。"
    ],
    [
        "An 18-year-old subject in a gene therapy trial dies, with numerous lapses in the clinical trial noted after his death.",
        "一名18岁的研究对象在一个基因治疗试验中死去，在他死后发现了大量临床试验漏洞。"
    ],
    [
        "While some Shia who were prominent allies of the Baathist regime hold positions of great influence in the “new” Iraq, Sunnis will never know when they will be shut out of the process, especially if they become too powerful.",
        "当那些曾经长期与复兴党政权勾结的什叶派在“新”伊拉克占据了显要的位置之后，逊尼派将不知道自己什么时候会被踢出这个进程，尤其是当他们自己也逐渐壮大之时。"
    ],
    [
        "That technique impresses Bill Gates, and the new USAID administrator, Rajiv Shah, has experience with it.",
        "这一做法吸引了比尔·盖茨的注意，新任美国国际开发署主任拉吉夫·萨哈（Rajiv Shah）也拥有这方面的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Such measures could also include the abuse of prisoners’ rights, such as the case of Khodorkovsky’s former legal counsel Vasily Alexanyan, who was denied treatment for HIV in jail, and was released only after the intervention of the European Court of Human Rights.",
        "这些措施可能还包括虐待犯人的权利，如前霍多尔·科夫斯基的律师瓦西里。 他在监狱中被拒绝对其进行艾滋病治疗，直到欧洲人权法院干预才被释放。"
    ],
    [
        "Except in extreme cases, confidence cannot cause a bad policy to have good results, and a lack of it cannot cause a good policy to have bad results, any more than jumping out of a window in the mistaken belief that humans can fly can offset the effect of gravity.",
        "除了极端情形，信心无法让坏政策产生好结果，而缺少信心也不会让好政策产生坏结果，就好比你怀着人可以飞的错误信念跳出窗户无法战胜重力作用。"
    ],
    [
        "For the financial supply chain, the key is to address systemic risks and realign incentives in order to induce investors to support the engines of real economic growth, rather than the creation of asset bubbles.",
        "至于金融供应链，关键在于解决系统性风险，协调各方激励，从而促使投资者支持实体经济增长引擎而不是创造资产泡沫。"
    ],
    [
        "Many governments are so fearful of their farmers that they see no other option than to hold their ground, no matter what.",
        "众多国家政府惧怕农民，从而除坚持立场外别无他途。"
    ],
    [
        "It erodes the relative security in which the rich world could shelter itself, as in a cocoon.",
        "这样一来就捅破了富裕世界籍以藏身的那只相对安全的茧。"
    ],
    [
        "Richard Thaler, a contemporary economist, spoke in 1980 of an “endowment effect.”",
        "当代经济学家泰勒在1980年谈到“基金效应”。"
    ],
    [
        "The impossible deadlines, the always ambiguous information the president is fed, and the complex choices that he must make are too frequently bound to clash with political constraints and the resistance to change of both allies and foes.",
        "不可能完成的最后期限、向总统呈报的永远含糊不清的信息、以及他必须完成的复杂决策几乎注定会与政治束缚和敌我双方对于改革的抵制发生冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "About half of today’s UN members are democracies, the other half non-democracies.",
        "如今的联合国成员国中一半是民主体系，另一半是非民主体系。"
    ],
    [
        "In any event, it is unclear how financial repression can be the whole story.",
        "无论如何，目前尚无法确定金融抑制是否是全部因素。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1979, Deng was in a difficult situation.",
        "1979年，邓小平处于十分困难的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "Of those, 280 were commuted to life imprisonment, with many of the other cases likely to remain in limbo for decades.",
        "其中280起被改判无期，余下不少案件还要在狱中拖上几十年。"
    ],
    [
        "And we will promote global governance reforms that can meet this century’s challenges.",
        "我们也要推进能够应对本世纪挑战的全球治理改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the post-war period, the US has backstopped collective security through NATO and other institutions, and it has been more than willing to brave regional and global threats, often with few friends at its side.",
        "纵观战后时期，美国通过北约和其他机构支撑着集体安全，并原因面对全新的地区和全球威胁——常常是在没有朋友与它共边的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a serious problem.",
        "这是个严重的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "While inflation should have eased in early 2011, rising food prices and commodity prices thwarted expectations.",
        "通货膨胀本应在2011年初就缓和下来了，然而不断上升的食物价格和商品价格打破了人们的预期。"
    ],
    [
        "The risks of an economic and financial crisis even worse than the previous one – now involving not just the private sector, but also near-insolvent sovereigns – are significant.",
        "我们正面临出现比前一次更可怕的经济和金融危机的风险，而且这一风险还不小——这一次，危机将不仅包括私人部门，还将包括近于破产的主权当局。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider one of the most common infections: sore throats.",
        "以最常见的传染病之一——喉咙痛为例。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, defaults on securitized credit card debt and commercial loans to companies that are driven to bankruptcy are still to come.",
        "而且，证券化的信用卡债务以及给破产公司的商业贷款违约会在未来将进一步暴露出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Quite simply, the historic responsibility for the planet’s future rests on the shoulders of us all.",
        "很简单，对地球未来的历史责任落在我们所有人的肩上。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Kan’s approach to the base relocation issue revived the old LDP plan, which the DPJ had previously denounced.",
        "此外，菅处理美军基地迁移问题的方法也跟自民党的原有计划相似，民主党早先曾反对那一计划。"
    ],
    [
        "But most people don’t believe that the stock market will perform so well in the future.",
        "但是大多数人不相信股票市场未来会有如此上佳表现。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, both countries maintained their sovereignty claims.",
        "两国因此都保持了主权要求。"
    ],
    [
        "In this case, it was less than that, because the resolution was silent about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s political fate and the timing of his departure.",
        "而在叙利亚问题上，框架连提纲都算不上，因为该决议对于叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德的政治命运以及下台时间只字未提。"
    ],
    [
        "Delaying a final solution in this way would provide time to verify Kosovo’s prospects of joining the EU and thus eventually sharing “sovereign authority” with other independent states, which could deflate Kosovars’ dangerously robust nationalistic demands.",
        "以这种方式延后一个最终的解决方案可以为验证科索沃加入欧盟的前景从而最终享有与其他独立国家同等的“主权权力”提供时间，也可以给科索沃危险的高涨的建立国家的要求降降温。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision by Depfa Bank to shift its headquarters from Wiesbaden to Dublin in 2002 may be a sign of things to come.",
        "德国银行2002年决定把总部从威斯巴登迁往都柏林的举动可能就代表了未来的趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the challenge of upgrading educational and skills-training systems is shared across Asia, national governments should not be working in isolation.",
        "鉴于提升教育和技能培训体系是亚洲各国共同面对的挑战，各国政府也不应各自为政。"
    ],
    [
        "There was some lowering of agricultural and other tariffs by the EU.",
        "欧盟在农产品关税和其他关税上有一些降低。"
    ],
    [
        "President John F. Kennedy’s insistence, against much advice, on containment during the Cuban missile crisis saved the world from nuclear war.",
        "约翰·F·肯尼迪总统顶住了巨大的压力，在古巴导弹危机期间继续推行遏制政策，将全世界从全面核战争的边缘拯救回来。"
    ],
    [
        "The same goes for Japan, whose stance on the abduction of its citizens by North Korean agents in the 1970’s and 1980’s was also cited by the Kim regime last June as a reason for walking out of the six-party talks.",
        "去年6月，金正日政府在退出六国会谈时，就以日本政府对20世纪70年代和80 年代北朝鲜间谍劫持日本公民事件的立场来证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Several sources of financing for adaptation and mitigation efforts in developing countries could be made operational relatively quickly.",
        "众多有助于发展中国家适应和缓和气候变化影响的资金来源可以相对较快地投入运行。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the concert ended in cacophony with the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914.",
        "”当然，1914年夏天爆发的一战打破了这一协调。"
    ],
    [
        "The US could bomb Vietnam’s cities to rubble, as it can Iraq’s cities, but this solves nothing, claims vast numbers of innocent lives, and confirms the view of Americans as occupiers.",
        "美国可以将越南的城市炸成一片瓦砾，也能如此对付伊拉克的城市，但这样做不能解决任何问题，只能欠下许多的无辜命债，并使得侵略者的形象名符其实。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaving aside the cost in terms of human lives, the economic costs of maintaining peace are but a fraction of what would be required for humanitarian assistance, military intervention, and peacekeeping operations should the country relapse into conflict.",
        "且不谈牺牲人命的代价，如果国家重新回到冲突之中，与其所需要的人道主义援助、军事干预以及维和行动相比，维持和平的经济代价只是一小部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The veil of ignorance changes the nature of the discussion on almost every issue, from executive pay, wage discrepancies, and working conditions to long-term strategy, succession planning, and much more.",
        "无知之幕改变了几乎每一个问题的讨论性质，从高管薪酬、工资差异、工作环境到长期战略、接班人计划等莫不如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Each link in the value chain, from the smallholder to the local trade agents and agro-processors to regional and national markets, needs to be strengthened.",
        "产业价值链中的每一个环节，从小生产者到本地经销商，加工商再到区域和全国市场，都需要得到加强。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not clear yet whether the nationalist youth rebellion has been suppressed, and whether Muscovites will be able to use the subway without fear during Russia’s New Year and Orthodox Christmas holidays.",
        "我们不知道这伙青年民族主义暴徒是否遭到了镇压，也不知道莫斯科市民是否敢在俄罗斯新年和东正教圣诞假日期间使用地铁。"
    ],
    [
        "The result creates an impossible dilemma for many of the world’s most dynamic economies.",
        "结果，世界上最有活力的若干经济体陷入两难。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration had turned its attention to the preparations for the Iraq war.",
        "而小布什政府干脆就把注意力转到伊拉克战争的筹备上去了。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true of unconventional interventions in markets for corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities.",
        "央行对公司债券和抵押贷款证券市场的非常规干预也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "So those who believe that the removal of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s government was justified have a point.",
        "因此那些认为推翻埃及总统穆尔西是合理的人倒也不无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "Such increased accountability will shift government spending toward programs related to people’s needs and away from physical structures.",
        "因为这样而增加的责任，可以使政府开支离开实体构造建设，向与人民需要相关的项目转移。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov of the Soviet Air Defense Forces recognized these as false alarms, preventing a mistaken nuclear retaliation.",
        "幸运的是，苏联防空部队的斯坦尼斯拉夫·彼得罗夫意识到这些属于误报，从而避免了错误的核报复。"
    ],
    [
        "The experience of the last decade suggests that a policy of engaging the Kremlin intensely while protecting fundamental Western interests may be the best way to proceed.",
        "10年前的经验表明：在与克里姆林宫密切合作的同时保护西方的根本利益，也许是继往开来的最佳途径。"
    ],
    [
        "Following her recommendations, in 1997 the General Assembly established a Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, to identify and report to the Secretary-General and Security Council on parties in conflicts that are responsible for persistent and egregious violations.",
        "在她的建议下，联大于1997年设立儿童与武装冲突问题特别代表，负责搜集并向秘书长和安理会报告长期恶意违反规则的冲突方。"
    ],
    [
        "But the right way to look at the situation – if Florida and Cuba are our alternatives – is not to say that Florida has too much inequality, but that Cuba has much too much poverty.",
        "但是，如果佛罗里达和古巴是我们的选择的话，那么，正确的分析办法并非是说佛罗里达贫富差距悬殊，而是古巴过于贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not a question that the ECJ can decide.",
        "这不是欧洲法院可以裁定的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "(How many years is “many”?",
        "（多少年是“多年”？"
    ],
    [
        "After all, what is the point of suggesting imprisonment as an alternative to electrocution, if inmates are subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment?",
        "归根结底，如果犯人受到可耻的非人道虐待，那么用监禁来取代电刑又有什么实际意义呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But they have not gone unnoticed among ordinary Arabs.",
        "但是普通阿拉伯人并没有遗忘。"
    ],
    [
        "Rice crops in Southeast Asia, for example, can now be flood-resistant.",
        "比如，东南亚稻米如今已能抵御洪水。"
    ],
    [
        "Among their demands are a clear job description for the role, public scrutiny of candidates, and a shortlist with more than one candidate.",
        "它们的要求包括对秘书长一职做出明确的职位描述、公开监督候选人以及多于一人的最终候选人名单。"
    ],
    [
        "We still have time to avoid further devastating mistakes, but only if we are honest about motives, means, and ends - and only if we are honest in the pursuit of peace.",
        "我们还有时间来避免更进一步的破坏性错误--但前提是我们必须诚实地面对动机、用意和结果，并诚实地追求和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a strategy should be based on Friedman’s assertion that “helicopter drops” – printing large sums of money and distributing it to the public – can always stimulate the economy and combat deflation.",
        "这一战略应该基于弗里德曼的“直升机撒钱”主张——大规模印钞并分配给公众总是能够刺激经济、解决通缩问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Hartwell group proposes that we adopt three basic climate-related goals: ensuring secure, affordable energy supplies for everyone (which means developing alternatives to fossil fuels); ensuring that economic development doesn’t wreak environmental havoc (which means not just reducing CO2 emissions, but also cutting indoor pollution from burning biomass, reducing ozone, and protecting tropical forests); and making sure that we are prepared to cope with whatever climate changes may occur, man-made or natural (which means recognizing, at last, the importance of adapting to climate change).",
        "研究小组建议我们设立三项和气候有关的基本目标：首先，确保每个人都能得到安全而且负担得起的能源供应（这意味着发展化石燃料的替代品）； 其次，确保经济发展不会引发环境灾难（就是不但要实现二氧化碳减排，还要降低燃烧生物燃料所造成的室内污染，减低臭氧排放，保护热带雨林）；"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether stock valuations are excessive relative to future earnings potential.",
        "问题在于，相对于未来盈利潜力，股票估值是否过高。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the more frequent the bouts of financial volatility in the months to come, the greater the risk that it will lead consumers to become more cautious about spending, and prompt companies to postpone even more of their investment in new plant and equipment.",
        "事实上，未来几个月的金融波动状况越频繁，令消费者消费更加谨慎的风险就越大，并促使企业推迟更多的新厂房和设备投资。"
    ],
    [
        "As the elderly increasingly outnumber working-age people, pressure is building on the labor force, and tax revenues, needed to service government debt and fund public services and pension systems, are diminishing.",
        "由于老年人相对劳动年龄人口的数量越来越多，因此对劳动人口造成的压力也越大越大，偿还政府债务、资助公共服务及养老体系所需的税收收入不断萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it true that nothing can sway the Arab world from its hostility to Israel.",
        "无论如何都无法改变阿拉伯世界对以色列的敌意的说法也不正确。"
    ],
    [
        "To preserve its precious foreign-currency reserves, Egypt needs the US and its allies to provide foodstuffs.",
        "为了保护其宝贵的外汇储备，埃及需要美国及其盟友提供食品。"
    ],
    [
        "An imploding Venezuela is not in most countries’ national interest.",
        "一个崩溃的委内瑞拉不符合多数国家的国家利益。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be far better to consider the full range of possibilities highlighted by the models on offer, instead of putting all the weight on a single one.",
        "考虑现有模型所强调的所有可能性，而不是将所有关注都集中到一点，这样会好得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmental damage has been staggering, the gap between rich and poor has been growing, and urbanization – with all its attendant problems – has surged.",
        "对环境的损害一直如影随形，富人和穷人之间的差距也越拉越大，而与城市化相伴而生的问题——也变得日益严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Chinese scholars are beginning to view it as the inspiration for Mao Zedong’s struggle against the Kuomintang (the openly self-named “Nationalist Movement”) and the policies of the People’s Republic.",
        "与此同时，中国学者开始认为毛泽东对抗国民党（英文直译是中国民族主义党）以及中华人民共和国诸项政策也受到了民族主义的启发。"
    ],
    [
        "What would be the repercussions of losing a historic “partner” (many Chinese today would bristle at such a description), and potentially strengthening a rival, for China’s own political system or foreign policy?",
        "失去这个历史“伙伴”（很多中国人今天会对这种说法感到恼怒）、并且有可能加强对手实力对中国自身的政治体系和外交政策会产生什么样的影响？"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Indonesia's per capita income is four times that of Nigeria.",
        "今天，印度尼西亚的人均国民收入为尼日利亚的四倍。"
    ],
    [
        "“Teleconnections” refer to weather events that are related to one another over large geographic distances.",
        "“遥相关”是指地理距离很远的天气事件彼此之间互相联系。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 2010 election, the number of British Muslim members of the House of Commons doubled, to 16.",
        "在2010年的选举中，英国下议院的穆斯林成员数目增加了一倍，到16位。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last four years, the Department of Defense has released a series of directives that put climate-change preparedness at the center of how we do business.",
        "过去四年国防部颁布一系列指令，将气候变化备灾工作作为我们执行任务的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "And throughout the region, regimes have closed off channels for political expression, and responded to popular protests with increasing brutality.",
        "放眼整个地区，体制将政治表达渠道完全关闭，对于群众示威，体制的反应也越来越残暴。"
    ],
    [
        "The campaign to choose his successor proceeded throughout the summer.",
        "整个夏天都在竞选其继任者。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this suggests that China’s economic roller coaster is headed for another climb, and that growth will eventually stabilize at a decent rate.",
        "所有这些表明，中国经济的过山车正在迈向新的升势，增长最终将在一个较好的水平上稳定下来。"
    ],
    [
        "China shows every sign of moving in the same direction.",
        "中国展现了朝同一个方向前进的所有迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "As world leaders prepare to meet at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, the country is reeling from the aftereffects of devastating floods that damaged buildings, destroyed crops, swept away bridges, and killed 238 people.",
        "在全球领导人准备齐聚巴黎联合国气候变化会议之际，巴基斯坦正在大洪灾过后的一地狼藉中挣扎。 洪水摧毁了房屋，毁灭了庄稼，冲垮了大桥，还夺走238人的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the years “avoiding…the ultimate consequences” through limitations butted against the bitter legacy of the surprise attacks suffered by both the US and Russia in World War II.",
        "在那个年代，美俄双方一方面要通过限制来避免基辛格所说的“最终后果”，另一方面却对二战中遭受突袭的惨痛经历记忆犹新。"
    ],
    [
        "Truth and openness create a dividing line between soft and sharp power in public diplomacy.",
        "真相与开放在公共外交中构成了软权力与强权的分界线。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the Islamic State’s recent declaration of a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria.",
        "比如，伊斯兰国最近宣布在伊拉克和叙利亚的部分领土上建立哈里发帝国。"
    ],
    [
        "He is, as one American commentator calls him, The One.",
        "而他本人，正如一位美国评论家所说，就是那个拯救美国的人。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Greece has recently learned, countries dependent on external natural resources can experience economic shocks when commodity prices increase or their ability to pay otherwise declines.",
        "但正如希腊近来已经了解的那样，外部自然资源依赖国可能在商品价格上涨或自身支付能力下降时出现经济震荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The loss of life is devastating, and millions are rendered homeless.",
        "生命的损失触目尽心，更有数百万人流离失所。"
    ],
    [
        "While global supply chains have facilitated entry into manufacturing, they have also reduced the gains in terms of value added that accrue at home.",
        "全球供应链方便了进入制造业，但也降低了国内增加值积累收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of these challenges will cost money, which is why we hope that, as we approach the beginning of the school year in September, the international community will urgently increase its financial support to Lebanon.",
        "所有这些挑战都需要钱，因此，随着9月开学的临近，我们希望国际社会能抓紧增加对黎巴嫩的金融支持。"
    ],
    [
        "With no prospect for a fair trial in the foreseeable future, Qaddafi officials languish in jails.",
        "而那些卡扎菲政权官员们自觉无望在可见的未来得到公正的审判，只好在监狱里消极度日。"
    ],
    [
        "Enhanced competition and economies of scale in larger, more closely integrated financial markets should narrow lending margins, lower intermediation costs, and allocate funds more efficiently.",
        "在更大和更紧密统一的金融市场中营造更有效的竞争和规模经济能够降低贷款利率和中间媒介成本，并提高资金分配的效率。"
    ],
    [
        "The Paris agreement offers the world its best hope of slowing and ultimately stopping changes to our climate.",
        "巴黎协定为全世界提供了减缓并最终停止气候变化的最佳愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of problem already worried John Maynard Keynes at the time of the post-World War II Bretton Woods negotiations.",
        "在二战后的布雷顿森林谈判期间，凯恩斯便已开始担忧这类问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But appearances can be deceiving.",
        "但外表可能欺骗你。"
    ],
    [
        "Budget limitation appeals not just to the old, but is especially attractive to young people, who worry that they will be made to pay the costs of caring for an increasingly elderly and dependent population.",
        "节制预算不仅受到老年公民的赞同，也深深地吸引着年轻人，德国的人口日益老龄化，越来越多的人到了领取养老金的年龄，年轻人生怕自己不得不为这些人埋单。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that those jobs are vanishing in post-industrial societies, too many people feel that they have nothing more to lose.",
        "如今，这些工作岗位正在后工业社会中逐渐消失，太多人觉得自己已经输无可输。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe needs greater fiscal federalism, not just centralized oversight of national budgets.",
        "欧洲需要更强大的财政联邦制，而不只是对国家预算进行集中监管。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the United States, one of the few places where economic liberalization is not a dirty word, President George W. Bush has his own frustrations.",
        "即便是在美国，这个少数几个没有把经济自由化列入不受欢迎字眼的国度，乔治·W·布什总统也有着自己的困扰。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama has ended America’s ruinous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
        "奥巴马总统结束了美国在伊拉克和阿富汗的毁灭性战争。"
    ],
    [
        "For Thant, this strategic competition is worrying.",
        "而对于吴丹敏来说，这场战略竞争是令人忧虑的。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Abdullah’s son Turki has been made Deputy Governor of Riyadh.",
        "与此同时，阿卜杜拉之子图尔基（Turki）被任命为利雅得副行政长官。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that we can often infer the behavior of complex objects or systems from knowledge of their parts – that we get back more than we put in – can help us to hone our predictions further.",
        "我们常常可以从关于复杂对象或系统的某些部分的知识中推断它们的行为——获得比我们的投入更多的东西——这一事实有助于我们进一步精炼我们的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, for advanced economies, periods of sustained rapid productivity growth have been the exception, not the rule.",
        "但是，对发达经济体而言，持续高速生产率增长已经成为例外而非常规。"
    ],
    [
        "But what are they really buying?",
        "但实际上他们买了些什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Discontent with President Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s rule is rising.",
        "对库尔曼别克·巴基耶夫（Kurmanbek Bakiyev）总统执政的不满情绪日益加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Half of all NBA players’ annual salaries exceed $2 million, more than five times the threshold for the top 1% of household incomes in the United States.",
        "大多数NBA篮球名星的年薪都超过200万美元，比进入那1%高收入美国家庭的门槛值还高5倍。"
    ],
    [
        "In much of the West, societies are becoming increasingly diverse.",
        "在西方多数国家，社会正在变得越来越多样化。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Hensarling’s plan, they would not.",
        "但在亨萨林方案中，它们无法这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fund will require internal reforms to earn that trust fully.",
        "要完全获得外界的信任，货币基金组织将需要组织内部的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "The Erosion of Law",
        "法律的式微"
    ],
    [
        "The United States had ghost towns and local bank busts once it began investing in railways, mining, and industrialization in the mid-nineteenth century.",
        "美国在十九世纪中叶铁路、矿产和工业化投资兴起后也出现了鬼城。"
    ],
    [
        "But, whether or not you oppose the death penalty, two lessons can be drawn from the debate.",
        "但无论你反对死刑与否，都可以从这场辩论中汲取到两个教训。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the mechanism that reduces the incentives to expropriate the creditor, and makes debt secure and cheap.",
        "只有遵循这个道理，才能打消赖账之心，让债务变得安全而便宜。"
    ],
    [
        "So NATO remains in business, and in Afghanistan.",
        "所以北约还继续存在，并且存在于阿富汗。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the WVS, religiosity does indeed promote conservatism, but not more so in Arab countries than in the rest of the world.",
        "据WVS，笃信宗教确实增加了保守主义，但在阿拉伯国家比世界其他地区更甚。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider a tale that has made the covers of some of the world’s biggest magazines and newspapers: the plight of the polar bear.",
        "让我们来看一下许多世界上发行量最大的杂志和报纸的封面所讲述的故事：北极熊的困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Hassett has so far spent his time at the CEA tearing down TPC estimates, even though the organization will undoubtedly issue assessments in the future that are as inconvenient for his political adversaries as they are for him today.",
        "然而上任后的哈塞特却把心思都放在了想方设法否定税收政策研究中心的预测上，尽管该中心今后依然将毫不迟疑地发布对他的政治对手不利的评估报告，正如他当前所遭遇的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Early childhood educators with the same qualifications had an average annual salary of $27,000-28,000.",
        "资质相同的早期儿童教育者平均年行只有27,000—28,000美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Developed countries blocked a proposal at the conference to establish an intergovernmental tax body within the United Nations to replace the current UN Committee of Experts.",
        "发达国家在会上阻止了在联合国内部成立跨政府税收机构取代目前的联合国转接委员会的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "I was wrong then; but I might not be wrong for much longer.",
        "但我估计自己很快会迎来一次正确的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than deflating the economy, Nixon took America off the gold standard in 1971 and imposed wage, price, and import controls, proclaiming bluntly, “I am now a Keynesian in economics.”",
        "尼克松没有让经济通缩，而是在1971年让美国摆脱金本位，并采取了工资、价格和进口管制，同时又掷地有声地宣称“在经济问题上，我不是凯恩斯主义者。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Are the presidents of some former Soviet republics who seem to command 90% of the popular vote legitimately elected?",
        "一些似乎博得了90％多数票的前苏维埃共和国的总统们都是合法当选的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "An already bad situation marked by deadlock and vitriol is likely to worsen, and the world should not expect much leadership from a bitterly divided United States.",
        "而这个充斥着僵局和刻薄攻击的可悲状况很可能会愈演愈烈，因此世界也不必指望这个内部急剧分化的美国能表现出多少全球领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "A BBC reporter drove the 778 kilometers (484 miles) from London to Edinburgh in an electric Mini, and had to stop eight times to recharge – often waiting six hours or more.",
        "一位BBC记者驾驶一辆电动Mini轿车从伦敦开往爱丁堡（距离778公里），途中八次停下充电——每次至少需要六小时。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, neither oil and gas deposits nor imperialist policies will stop Russia’s decline.",
        "此外，石油和天然气储备和帝国主义的政策都不能阻止俄罗斯走向衰落。"
    ],
    [
        "It also includes the eurozone, where PMI-survey data have reached their highest levels since before 2000.",
        "这其中也包括欧元区，欧元区PMI调查数据为2000年以来最高值。"
    ],
    [
        "When we invest in our wellbeing, we not only spend money to purchase goods and services; we allocate a portion of our free time to use them properly.",
        "当我们投资于我们的福利时，我们不但花钱购买产品和服务； 我们还配置了一部分自由时间用于恰当地使用它们。"
    ],
    [
        "While the Iraq War discredited the idea of coercive democratization, both Republicans and Democrats have a strong strand of idealism in their foreign policy orientations.",
        "尽管伊拉克战争令强制民主化的理念声名狼藉，共和党和民主党人在他们的对外政策取向中仍保持着强烈的理想主义色彩。"
    ],
    [
        "The need for consensus is especially acute with respect to the difficult decisions concerning Europe that the German government now faces.",
        "考虑到德国政府必须为欧洲问题作出艰难决定，共识的必要性就更加紧迫了。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, governments are to prepare plans not only to the year 2030 (the so-called Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs), but also to mid-century (the so-called Low-Emission Development Strategies, or LEDS).",
        "为了达到这一目标，政府不仅要制定截至2030年的NDC计划（也就是所谓的国家确定贡献计划），还要制定截止本世纪中叶的减排计划（也就是所谓的低排放发展战略LEDS）。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination over two decades ago created a wave of sympathy for his widow, Sonia, on whose sari-tails the Congress won in 2004.",
        "总理拉吉夫·甘地20多年前的遇刺使得人们对其遗孀索尼娅·甘地产生了强烈的同情，这也是国大党在2004年赢得选举的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The US administration, fashionably worried over China’s growing regional influence, seems quite happy with a closely-tied Japan that could help balance China.",
        "美国政府和其它国家一样担心中国的地区影响日益膨胀，因此他们似乎对有一个联系密切的日本来帮助平衡中国的影响感到十分的满意。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, their narrow perspective – which tends to coincide with executives’ preferences even at the expense of other shareholders – dictates their decision-making.",
        "反而，他们狭隘的视角——通常与主管们的偏好相符并伤害到小股东——却主导了它们的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "This criticism reflects the fact that the United States has just been through a major financial crisis, in the course of which the Fed took a series of extraordinary steps.",
        "这类批评反映了美联储刚刚经历了重大金融危机的事实，在此期间，美联储采取了一系列非常规措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-run problems require policies that send long-run signals.",
        "解决长期问题需要能发出长期信号的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But the lesson from the current crisis is that we will have to develop styles of global economic governance to manage, regulate, and mitigate the creative, but often disruptive forces unleashed by the global market.",
        "但从当下的危机中我们学到的教训是必须发展出一种全球经济治理的方式来管理、监管并遏制全球市场所释放出的创造性，但通常也是破坏性的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither the economics nor the politics of this pattern of current-account balances is sustainable, especially in a recessionary environment.",
        "3%) 。 这种经常项目平衡模式从经济上和政治上都难以维系，在经济衰退的环境之下尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is nonsense to think that cuts in government spending should be avoided in the “short run” in order to lower the chance of a recession.",
        "事实上，削减政府支出应是“短期”应避免的措施以降低衰退可能性的观点是站不住脚的。"
    ],
    [
        "Helicopter Money Is in the Air",
        "从天而降的流动性"
    ],
    [
        "Russia must now follow America's lead in how to fight terror.",
        "俄罗斯必须向美国学习打击恐怖主义的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "More troubling is the identification of conflict with a single human source, which obscures the more systemic and insidious nature of international conflict.",
        "更麻烦的是将冲突的原因与某个人划等号，这常常会掩盖国际冲突更潜在也更系统的性质。"
    ],
    [
        "Two months of bad economic news, coupled with asset markets’ severe revaluations of the future – which also cause slower future growth, as falling asset prices lead firms to scale back investment – mean that a policy that was appropriate just 60 days ago is much too austere today.",
        "两个月以来，经济坏消息频频，资产市场对未来的估值大幅下挫（这还会造成未来增长减缓，因为资产价格的下跌将导致企业收缩投资规模），这意味着60天前还非常合适的政策如今已苍白无力。"
    ],
    [
        "ASEAN’s policy of engaging Myanmar attracted criticism from the West, but it helped lay the groundwork for a peaceful transition from military rule.",
        "东盟接纳缅甸的政策导致了西方的批评，但帮助其奠定了和平结束军事统治的转型。"
    ],
    [
        "To get around this problem, Trump and the Republicans might decide to bend or manipulate congressional rules.",
        "要绕过这个问题，特朗普和共和党可能会决定改变或操纵国会规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Using BCPs to determine alternative producers means that regional economies will be integrated in a new form, with companies establishing cooperative relationships even with their competitors.",
        "利用持续经营计划来确定其他的可替代供应商意味着该区域经济将以一种新的形势重新整合，而企业甚至会和自己的竞争对手建立合作关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The majority of these deaths are either treatable with existing medicines, or avoidable in the first place.",
        "这些死亡案例大多要么原本可以用已有医药治好，好么从一开始就可以避免。"
    ],
    [
        "Without authority to enforce safe practices, the IAEA cannot better assure nuclear safety in these or other countries.",
        "如果没有强制实行安全措施的权限，国际原子能机构就无法更好地确保在这些国家和其他国家的核子安全。"
    ],
    [
        "If a window of opportunity has opened, the West should do everything possible to take advantage of it.",
        "如果机会窗口打开，西方应该尽可能加以利用。"
    ],
    [
        "But what, precisely, does the economics of peace entail, and why is it so important?",
        "但这种和平经济具体要由哪些元素构成，又为何如此重要呢？"
    ],
    [
        "There is no question about it: Cook’s announcement was a huge step forward.",
        "这毫无疑问：库克的宣布出柜是向前迈出的一大步。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the Arab revolts have vindicated the assumption that, given the structure of most Arab societies, toppling secular autocracies inevitably means opening the door to Islamic democracies.",
        "目前，阿拉伯革命已经证明了一个假设——大多数阿拉伯社会的结构决定了推翻世俗独裁免不了意味着开启了伊斯兰民主的大门。 我们多次看到了这一动态。"
    ],
    [
        "An exploratory solar geoengineering program, costing only a few tens of millions of dollars per year, is entirely feasible.",
        "一个太阳能地理工程实验项目每年只需要花费几千万美元，是完全可行的。"
    ],
    [
        "British Prime Minister David Cameron, having lost the referendum, did the obvious thing by resigning.",
        "英国首相戴维·卡梅伦在公投失利后，通过辞职承担了责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does it include the drop in living standards from the loss of life-enhancing treatments – for example, knee or hip replacements, cancer treatment, and caesarean sections – that rely on antibiotics to prevent infections.",
        "我们的研究也没有包括因依赖抗生素防止感染的强化生命治疗的损失而导致的生活水平的下降——如膝关节或髋关节替换术、癌症治疗和剖腹产。"
    ],
    [
        "If, contrary to the traditional “Gaullist” vision, multi-polarity is not bringing stability, but instead generating chaos, there are two reasons for this outcome.",
        "如果与传统的戴高乐主义观念相反，多极世界并未带来稳定，而是产生混乱，那么，这一结果有两个原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF recommends giving higher priority to those other policies, whereas we have previously recommended using them and capital-account regulations simultaneously.",
        "该组织同时建议给于这类政策比那些其他政策更高的优先度，而我们则建议将这些政策和资本账户监管并列实施。"
    ],
    [
        "With the unemployment rate currently at 7.4% – having fallen nearly a full percentage point in the last 12 months – markets can anticipate that the 6.5% threshold could be reached in 2014.",
        "目前，失业率为7. 4%——在过去12个月中下降了近一个百分点——市场可以预期6."
    ],
    [
        "When the offspring of manual workers imported from countries such as Turkey and Morocco in the 1960’s began to form large Muslim minorities in European cities, tensions rose in working-class neighborhoods.",
        "当六十年代来自土耳其和摩洛哥等国体力工人的后代们开始在欧洲城市中形成大量穆斯林少数族裔的时候，工薪阶层聚居区的紧张关系开始上升。"
    ],
    [
        "From Memory to Denial in Russia",
        "俄国从回忆到否认"
    ],
    [
        "How does this benefit India?",
        "印度从中得到了什么好处？"
    ],
    [
        "Such an alliance would entail a larger role for the other three members of the so-called “Middle East Quartet” – the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations – and key Arab countries.",
        "所谓“中东四方”中的其他三个成员——欧盟、俄罗斯和联合国——以及主要阿拉伯国家将发挥更大的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "MOSCOW – In Soviet Russia, everybody knew that they were being watched.",
        "莫斯科——苏俄时代，人人都知道自己受到监视。"
    ],
    [
        "But an uncomfortable question lingers: How is it possible for the world’s most powerful country and its oldest continuous democracy to exhibit a state of political discourse that is more reminiscent of a failed African state?",
        "但一个令人不快的问题依然萦绕不散：这个世界上最强大的国家，同时也是存续时间最长的民主政体，为何会展现出类似于一个失败非洲国家的政治话语？"
    ],
    [
        "To address this, global health citizens will need both institutional support and better tools for demanding that their right to health be respected.",
        "要想解决这个问题，全球健康公民不仅需要体制支持，还需要获得更好的工具，来要求各方尊重他们的健康权。"
    ],
    [
        "On the surface, that statement makes sense.",
        "从表面上看，这一言论掷地有声。"
    ],
    [
        "The initial elected government may pay an early political price for failure.",
        "如果最初选出的政府不能满足人们的期望，将为此付出政治代价。"
    ],
    [
        "With so many political officials crafting crisis responses to solve local problems or to create local opportunities, how likely are they to agree on a unified international approach?",
        "看来，如此众多的政治人物应对经济危机的目的是为了解决本土问题或是为本地创造机会，怎么能够指望他们会有一个国际的视野观呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the World Health Organization has already pronounced the use of the experimental serum ZMapp – a mixture of genetically engineered antibodies intended to help patients fight the disease – ethical.",
        "事实上，世卫组织已经宣布使用实验性血清Zmapp合乎伦理——这是一组混合基因工程抗体，旨在协助患者对抗埃博拉病毒。"
    ],
    [
        "Their families have fewer children and educate them more intensively, thereby facilitating further technological progress.",
        "他们的家庭少生孩子并为子女提供更深入的教育，从而深入推动技术进步。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the old-age dependency ratio (the number of people aged 65 or over relative to the working-age population) is set to rise from 1:5 to 1:3.",
        "因此老年抚养比（65岁或以上人口与劳动年龄人口之比）势必从1：5升至1：3。"
    ],
    [
        "I’ve learned my lesson about Musharraf.",
        "我已经看透了穆沙拉夫。"
    ],
    [
        "Across the Atlantic, America’s fiscal crisis and weak economic growth will force it to reduce its global military commitments.",
        "在大西洋彼岸，美国的财政危机和疲软的经济增长将迫使它削减全球军力。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1933, Irving Fisher was the first to identify the dangers of over-indebtedness and deflation, demonstrating their contribution to the Great Depression in the United States.",
        "1933年，欧文·费雪（Irving Fisher）第一个指出过度负债和随后被迫减债而导致的通缩危险，并说明了它们在触发美国大萧条中所起的“作用”。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union, for example, has affirmed its commitment to the UNFCCC’s Kyoto Protocol, the only international climate-change treaty to date to include binding emissions-reduction targets.",
        "比如，欧盟重申了其对UNFCCC京都议定书（Kyoto Protocol，迄今为止唯一一个包含约束性减排目标的国际气候变化条约）的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "But one should not make the mistake of viewing these interventions in black-and-white terms.",
        "但不应该非黑即白地看待这些干预。"
    ],
    [
        "This will fuel uncertainty, sap economic confidence, and almost certainly hurt the Republicans at the polls in 2016.",
        "这将推升不确定性、削弱经济信心、而且几乎肯定会影响2016年共和党总统选举。"
    ],
    [
        "All NATO countries must understand that membership brings implicit and explicit responsibilities to ensure that their military forces have the capability to fight and win on the modern-day battlefield.",
        "所有的北约成员国都必须明白，北约成员资格带来了确保其军队具有在现代战场上战斗并取胜的能力的明示和默示的义务。"
    ],
    [
        "As Obama and Abe forge a common strategy aimed at helping to manage China’s rise peacefully, they must understand that China’s conception of renewal seeks to resurrect a glorious past, and that this implies revision, not affirmation, of the existing regional order.",
        "奥巴马和安倍在制定管理中国和平崛起统一策略时必须意识到中国的复兴概念意在重振过去的辉煌，而这意味着要对现有的地区秩序进行修改而非巩固。"
    ],
    [
        "Doubtless, their understanding of impairment was looser than that of the task force.",
        "毫无疑问，他们对造成伤害的理解比工作小组要宽松。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of the splintering of political parties, India has had only one single-party government and eight coalition governments in the last two decades.",
        "由于政党分裂，印度在过去20年间仅有过1届一党政府和8届联合政府。"
    ],
    [
        "For its part, Egypt is relying on public and private firms close to its army, together with finance from the Gulf Cooperation Council, to support its economy.",
        "至于埃及，它依靠与军方关系密切的私人企业，以及来自海湾合作委员会（GCC）的融资支持经济。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has become a bastion of sensible thinking on financial-sector issues.",
        "与此同时，美国联邦存款保险公司（FDIC）已成为理智思考金融部门问题的重要堡垒。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in Nevada, which is similar in size to Ireland, the local banking system’s losses were absorbed to a large extent by US “banking union” institutions, particularly the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the federal mortgage-refinancing agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.",
        "但是，在内华达州（和爱尔兰规模相当），地方银行体系的损失很大程度上被美国“银行联盟”机构吸收了，特别是联邦存款保险公司（FDIC）和联邦按揭再融资机构房利美和房贷美。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they have pursued a gradualist approach that aims to co-opt and recruit disaffected members of the traditional classes, including clergy and Revolutionary Guardsmen, to the Green Movement.",
        "相反，他们采用了一种渐进式的办法，希望能找到诸如神职人员以及革命卫队这些既得利益阶层中的反叛者，并将其拉拢和招募到绿色运动当中去。"
    ],
    [
        "We don’t need to – and we shouldn’t.",
        "我们不需要——也不应该。"
    ],
    [
        "Merely turning the deregulatory clock back 30 years would not do the trick.",
        "仅仅将去监管化的潮流扭转到30年前是无法完成这一目标的。"
    ],
    [
        "The former was an artist and intellectual who fought his entire life for truth, working tirelessly to bring out the best in people and societies.",
        "前者是一生为真理而奋斗的艺术家和知识分子，不知疲倦地希望发掘民众和社会最好的潜质。"
    ],
    [
        "The new wave of innovation is attributable to three key factors: the ability to personalize therapy, the capacity to get treatments to market faster, and improved engagement with patients.",
        "这一新创新潮可以归因于三大基本因素：个性化治疗能力、加快医药上市速度的能力和改善患者参与性。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though the G-20 has moved in this direction, the approach to setting a global agenda remains flawed.",
        "但是，尽管G-20正在朝这一方向努力，其设置全球日程的方式仍是有缺陷的。"
    ],
    [
        "With the world becoming a global stage, the media’s role in fueling the appetite for providential leaders is essential.",
        "随着世界日益成为一个全球性的舞台，传媒在提高人们对天赐领袖的胃口方面扮演着至关重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Without international support, we would not have made this progress and would be at much greater risk of returning to war.",
        "而如果没有国际支援的话，我们将难以取得上述的成就，甚至很可能重新沦落到战火当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Success will require political will, global cooperation, and human ingenuity – a message we are taking into our various meetings and engagements at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.",
        "成功需要政治意愿、全球合作和人类智慧——我们将在本周达沃斯举办的世界经济论坛各项会议和活动中宣传我们的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Anger at the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else has been brewing for years.",
        "对于巨富阶层和其他人群差距日益扩大的愤怒已经发酵了多年。"
    ],
    [
        "This state of affairs is worrying, to say the least, given the severity of harm that a single serious accident can cause.",
        "考虑到一场事故所可能引发的严重后果，目前的状况至少是令人担心的。"
    ],
    [
        "NEWPORT BEACH – The United States has gone through an arduous period of intervention and rehabilitation since the global financial crisis in 2008 sent it to the economic equivalent of the emergency room.",
        "纽波特海滩—2008年的金融危机将美国经济送入了急诊室，此后，美国进入了艰苦的治疗和康复过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, central banks’ macro-prudential activities, which evolved largely in response to the global financial crisis, could focus on longer-term risks to the financial sector, including the cumulative impact of climate change, environmental policies, and disruptive clean technologies.",
        "类似地，中央银行的宏观审慎行为——大部分是为应对全球金融危机而采取的——可以专注于金融业的长期风险，包括气候变化、环境政策和破坏性清洁技术的累积影响。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar dynamic is playing out between the World Bank and the recipients of its International Development Association program.",
        "世界银行及其国际发展援助（IDA）项目受助国之间也存在类似的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, nothing could have spared New Orleans completely from Katrina’s impact, but the devastation could certainly have been lessened.",
        "显而易见，没有任何措施能保护新奥尔良彻底免受卡特里娜飓风的影响，但飓风所造成的破坏却肯定能够得以减轻。"
    ],
    [
        "Shifting to renewable-energy sources will require enormous effort and major infrastructure investment.",
        "必须付出巨大的努力和基础设施投资才能完成向可再生能源的过渡。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, North Korea could not deny failure this time, because the regime invited international media to attend the event – even allowing foreign reporters into the mission-control room – in order to legitimize it as a “satellite” launch and not a weapons test.",
        "此外，这一次朝鲜无法否认失败，因为该国邀请了国际媒体参观发射，甚至允许外国记者进入到控制室，这是为了证明他们所从事的是一次“卫星”发射，而不是武器测试。"
    ],
    [
        "The SKA, whose massive collection of dishes would stretch across nine African countries, is a next-generation telescope that will examine gas clouds in the early universe at 100 times the power of the most powerful existing radio telescope, the Very Large Array in New Mexico.",
        "平方公里天线阵所属的碟形天线遍布非洲9个国家，是观察能力超过现有射电望远镜百倍的研究早期宇宙气云结构的新一代望远镜系统。"
    ],
    [
        "As Hu Jintao, China’s Communist Party Secretary General and President, prepares to visit the US on April 20, myriad unresolved issues are disturbing Sino-US relations.",
        "随着中共总书记兼国家主席胡锦涛准备于4月20日访问美国，种种悬而未决的问题困扰美中关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In August 2009, Fayyad declared his vision of a Palestinian state in two years.",
        "2009年8月，法耶兹宣布将在两年内建立巴勒斯坦国。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the international outcry obscured an unintended but perhaps more troubling feature of China’s exchange-rate policy: the tendency for sporadic renminbi appreciation (even small movements) to trigger speculative inflows of “hot” money.",
        "但是，国际呼声掩盖了未受关注但可能麻烦更大的中国货币政策特征：人民币的零星升值（即使是小幅波动）导致“热钱”的投机性流入。"
    ],
    [
        "Empirically, few firms get this right: America’s National Public Radio and the BBC were both recently hacked by the SEA, while McDonald’s and Burger King recently had their Twitter accounts compromised.",
        "凭经验判断，没有几个公司能完成好这个任务：美国全国公共广播电台和英国广播公司最近都曾受叙利亚电子军的攻击，而麦当劳和汉堡王最近都曾被侵入推特账户。"
    ],
    [
        "The vacuum that the PA left elsewhere, including the social sphere, was filled by Hamas.",
        "巴勒斯坦权力机构在别处、包括在社会领域所留下的真空被哈马斯所填补。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, four years ago, when I came to office, only a handful of global leaders knew enough even to talk about climate change – the defining challenge of our times, whose effects we see every day, all around us.",
        "比方说四年前，我刚刚就任的时候，多数全球领导人谈起气候变化这个时代议题时都知之甚少，但现在气候变化的影响已经深入人心、随处可见。"
    ],
    [
        "The worsening terms of trade have been a major factor contributing to the decline in the current-account surplus in recent years.",
        "贸易条件恶化是近几年经常账户盈余下跌的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico has changed immensely since 1994, the last time a PRI president was elected.",
        "自1994年最后一位革命制度党总统当选以来墨西哥已经发生了巨大的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "In neuroeconomics experiments that my lab has conducted, we have found that when a stranger places trust in another by making a considered monetary investment that can either be returned or stolen, our brains release an ancient mammalian hormone called oxytocin.",
        "在我的实验室里所进行的神经经济学实验中，我们发现当某人通过进行既可能被偿还也可能被偷走的金钱投资将信任托付与另一个陌生人时，我们的大脑会释放一种远古的哺乳类动物荷尔蒙—后叶催产素（oxytocin）。"
    ],
    [
        "So much for the region’s “big four” countries.",
        "以上说的都是该地区的“四大”国。"
    ],
    [
        "So, what should the EU do?",
        "那么欧盟究竟该如何行动呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Recordings by the Rolling Stones and other Western groups were banned.",
        "滚石和其他西方团体的唱片是被禁止的。"
    ],
    [
        "This stunted system springs from Greece’s corporatist values, which emphasize social protection, solidarity instead of competition, and discomfort with uncontrolled change.",
        "这一拙劣的体系诞生于希腊的社团主义价值。 社团主义价值强调社会保护、用团结代替竞争，不愿面对不受控制的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the three main parties – the National Action Party (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) – united in order to keep newcomers out of the electoral arena.",
        "与此同时，三个主要政党—国家行动党(PAN)、制度革命党(PRI)和民主革命党(PRD)—也为了防止新人踏上选举舞台而联起手来。 他们驱逐了组织去年总统选举的联邦全选举委员会(IFE)的委员；"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China is clearly in a category of its own, as a source of perceived (or real) risk to its regional environment.",
        "事实上，中国显然属于自己的分类，是其所属地区环境中的感知（或实在）风险因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The China Delusion",
        "中国错觉"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s job, however, is to look beyond opinion polls, particularly when it comes to safeguarding national security.",
        "尤其当涉及国家安全事务，奥巴马要做的是比民调更有眼光。"
    ],
    [
        "But the troubles for the world economy are just starting.",
        "但世界经济的麻烦却刚刚开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics of globalization latched onto these newer economic theories, claiming that they demanded a rethinking of the traditional case for free trade.",
        "全球化的批评者抓住这些新经济理论不放，声称他们要求重新思考传统的自由贸易状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than seeking to rein in disruptive businesses such as Airbnb and Uber, governments should introduce regulations that enable their sustained growth, while looking for ways to leverage their technologies and entrepreneurial approaches to boost social welfare.",
        "政府不应该阻挡Airbnb和Uber等破坏性企业，而应该引入监管使它们能够持续增长，同时寻求利用它们的技术和企业家方法提高社会福利。"
    ],
    [
        "For them, the old world of traditional ties and customs is gone, but the new world of modernity remains out of reach.",
        "对于他们而言，丢失了原先传统的联系和习惯，而新的现代世界又遥不可及。"
    ],
    [
        "What possessed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin “Bibi\" Netanyahu to accept an invitation from the Republicans in the US Congress to come and attack President Barack Obama's policy on Iran without letting the White House know?",
        "什么让以色列总理、“比比”（Bibi）内塔尼亚胡接受美国国会共和党的邀请前来抨击总统奥巴马的伊朗政策还不让白宫知道？"
    ],
    [
        "The ultimate irony is that this very success led to less reform.",
        "最大的讽刺是，正是这一成功导致改革的力度有限。"
    ],
    [
        "This pattern represents not the old regime's eradication, but its coexistence with the new one.",
        "上述模式代表的不是旧政权的覆灭，而是新旧政权的共存。"
    ],
    [
        "Employers can avoid the mandate by reducing an employee’s workweek to less than 30 hours (which the law defines as full-time employment).",
        "雇主可以通过把雇员的周工作时长降低到30小时（法定全职工作时间标准）以下。"
    ],
    [
        "Shinawatra’s overthrow by the military was clearly a bid by the country’s generals to end by force the electoral lock that she and her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra – himself a former prime minister who was deposed by a military coup in 2006 – have had on Thailand for almost 15 years.",
        "英拉被军方推翻显然是泰国将军们用武力结束英拉及其兄他信近15年来在泰国选举制度中不可撼动局面的措施。 他信本人亦曾担任总理，2006年被军事政变推翻。"
    ],
    [
        "But one of Schumpeter’s fundamental insights has held up well: Conventional policies focusing on short-run efficiency may not be desirable, once one takes a long-run innovation/learning perspective.",
        "但熊彼特的一个基本洞见是成立的：从长期创新/学习角度看，关注短期效率的传统政策或许并不值得追求。"
    ],
    [
        "The US-Japan security alliance means China cannot play a “Japan card.”",
        "美日安全联盟意味着中国无法打“日本牌”。"
    ],
    [
        "WARSAW – Late in the afternoon on October 19, a 54-year-old man outside the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw distributed several dozen copies of a letter addressed to the Polish people.",
        "华沙——10月19日下午晚些时候，一名54岁的男子在华沙科学文化宫外散发了几十份写给波兰民众的公开信。"
    ],
    [
        "Socialism is on the rise again across Europe, at least in opinion polls. And right-wing populism has become an electoral force to be reckoned with in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.",
        "社会主义正在整个欧洲兴起（至少民测试结果是这么显示的），而右翼民粹主义已经在法国，比利时和荷兰形成以了一股足以影响选举的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, the US could face retaliatory measures worth up to $400 billion per year if it didn’t repeal the tax.",
        "果真如此的话，如果美国一意孤行，将可能面临价值高达4,000亿美元的报复措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Like other emerging markets, China is committed to financial stability and playing its role in reforming the global financial system.",
        "换句话说，世界需要一套系统性方法处理系统性风险和系统性失灵。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, demanding that developing countries build the kind of institutions that will render capital flows safe not only puts the cart before the horse; it is also a fool's errand.",
        "因此，要求发展中国家构建保证资本流安全的机构和制度超过了它们的能力，注定徒劳无功。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama is correct that America’s true interests, and those of the world, are with peace, not continued conflict, with Iran.",
        "奥巴马说，美国乃至全世界的真正利益在于和平而不是继续与伊朗冲突，这是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "If states hold public hearings to determine whether health-insurer mergers are warranted and serve the public interest, these groups can submit comments and possibly testify.",
        "如果各州组织公开听证会确定医疗保险企业兼并是否理由充分且服务公众利益，上述团体可以提出意见并可能担负起作证的职责。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Over the last few decades, oil prices have fluctuated widely – ranging from $10 to $140 a barrel – posing a challenge to producers and consumers alike.",
        "发自华盛顿特区——在过去的几十年间，油价的大幅波动——高的时候140美元/桶，低的时候不过10美元——对生产者和消费者都构成了挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, it’s hard to imagine going to a car dealer and being advised that you don’t really need a new car.",
        "相比之下，你能想象一个汽车经销商忠告你说你根本没必要买辆新车吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Massive anti-Japanese demonstrations have been held all over China, causing damage to Japanese people and properties.",
        "中国到处都有反日示威活动——这些示威活动给日本人及其财产带来了损害。"
    ],
    [
        "China has managed to secure new hydrocarbon supplies through pipelines from Kazakhstan and Russia.",
        "中国已经通过管道从哈萨克斯坦和俄罗斯获得新的油气供应。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while the 33% quota for women in local-government bodies has placed a million of them in elected positions at the grass roots, the extent to which this has actually improved women’s status has yet to be measured.",
        "此外，尽管地方政府部门女性职员不少于33%的规定让100万草根女性被选为政府官员，但这在多大程度上改善了妇女地位还有待测算。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, where party discipline is strong and the parties, not the individual candidates, finance election campaigns, money plays a smaller role.",
        "而在欧洲，党派纪律非常强大，并且由党派、而不是候选者个人，负责为竞选活动提供资金，因此金钱所起的作用相对就没有那么重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The Economist declared that Monday, September 21, “the definite end of an epoch in the world’s financial and economic development.”",
        "《经济学人》杂志宣布9月21日星期一这一天是 “世界金融和经济发展一个时代结束的日子。"
    ],
    [
        "As government debt has ballooned and policy interest rates have hit rock bottom, central banks have focused on increasingly innovative policy to boost demand.",
        "等到政府债台高筑、利率低得不能再低，各国央行又全力以赴地创新政策以促进需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Turkey faces a direct threat from the Islamic State, exemplified by the twin suicide bombings that killed more than 100 people in Ankara last month.",
        "此外，土耳其还面临来自伊斯兰国的直接安全威胁，比方说上月在安卡拉发生的炸死百余人的两起自杀性炸弹袭击事件。"
    ],
    [
        "But this slogan is from the 1920’s and seems like a nostalgic reminder of past turmoil that one prefers to see on the stage.",
        "”但这个口号起源于20世纪20年代，似乎更像是对舞台上看到的过去动荡的一种怀旧。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that disadvantaged children benefit the most from early childhood education, this is a serious shortcoming.",
        "由于弱势儿童从早教中受益最大，因此这是一个严重缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Germany, of all countries, seems to have forgotten it.",
        "不幸的是，这一点大家都学会了，唯独被德国忘记了。"
    ],
    [
        "These local practitioners serve as the gatekeepers to a system that has reduced waiting times and financial burdens by treating patients directly – often at patients’ homes.",
        "这些本地参与者起到了医疗体系看门人的作用，通过直接治疗病人——通常是在病人家中，降低了候诊时间和财务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s hope that we move in that direction in 2010.",
        "让我们在 2010 新的一年，向着这个方向奋进吧！"
    ],
    [
        "Is it really viable?",
        "这个计划真的可行吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In the sequence about small hands, even an ear untuned to the subtleties of that pastoral might have caught (though in a version perverted by the abjectly low level of the exchange) the famous line from e.e. cummings, the American Apollinaire: “Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.”",
        "在小手系列中，即使不熟悉田园歌曲精妙旋律的耳朵也能捕捉到美国的阿波利奈尔——卡明斯的那句著名的歌词（尽管是低俗且歪曲的变态版本）：“没有任何人有着像你一样的小手，即使雨也一样。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But the winners were all who believe that America is, in fact, dedicated to “equal justice under law,” the words emblazoned on the pediment of the Supreme Court.",
        "但是，赢家是全体认为美国事实上致力于“法律面前人人平等”——铭刻最高法院三角墙之上的文字——的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the US is the world’s third most populous country; 50 years from now it is still likely to be third (after only China and India).",
        "如今，美国是世界第三大人口大国； 50年后，大概仍将排名第三（仅次于中国和印度）。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Angola produces more oil for China than Saudi Arabia does, and, at times, as many as 100,000 Chinese workers have been working on Angolan infrastructure projects.",
        "事实上安哥拉向中国提供的石油供应超过沙特阿拉伯，而与此同时，超过10万名中国工人也在参与安哥拉基础设施建设。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, central-bank intervention is not the only way to quell self-fulfilling crises in the eurozone.",
        "无可否认，央行介入并不是压制欧元区内自证性危机的唯一手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a strong Europe can provide the necessary counterweight.",
        "只有强大的欧洲才可以提供必要的平衡力。"
    ],
    [
        "After an extended period of extraordinary monetary accommodation, the US Federal Reserve has begun the long march back to normalization.",
        "在经历了长期的反常货币宽松后，美联储终于开始了漫长的回归正常化之旅。"
    ],
    [
        "Tighter sanctions are therefore needed to increase the economic price that the regime must pay for its nuclear program.",
        "因此必须采取更严格的制裁措施来增加该政权必须为其核计划支付的经济造价。"
    ],
    [
        "Addressing this ongoing crisis requires money – an estimated $10 billion per year – and new and better strategies to bring life-saving solutions to the mothers and children who most need them.",
        "仅维生素A缺乏一项就导致每年有50万儿童失明，失明后12个月内有高达一半的儿童死亡。 同样，发展中国家半数育龄妇女因缺铁导致免疫系统减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "The structure in some seems “looser” than in others – less well packed, with surface regions that enable surrounding water to penetrate and disrupt the structure by interacting favorably with the protein backbone.",
        "一些同源体的结构比另一些更“松”（即包装更简单）它们表面区域能被水侵蚀，水可以轻易地与蛋白质主干链产生互动，从而破坏其结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Greek sovereign debt has been downgraded to below that of Egypt.",
        "希腊主权债券的评级甚至还不如埃及；"
    ],
    [
        "It may turn out that most businesses are hit by heavy taxation of both varieties – so heavy that the economy cannot grow, as appears to be the case in Ukraine.",
        "而大多数企业都会受到这两类重税的冲击——这些税项是如此沉重以致连经济都无法增长，一如眼下的乌克兰。"
    ],
    [
        "The budget deficit has fallen markedly, while companies and households, too, have continued to strengthen their balance sheets.",
        "预算赤字大幅下降，而公司和家庭也在继续增强资产负债表。"
    ],
    [
        "And this is just one of several ways in which millennials’ economic future, and that of their children, is being determined by others.",
        "这只是别人决定千禧一代及其子孙经济未来的其中一种方式。"
    ],
    [
        "But what about Grexit costs for the rest of the eurozone?",
        "但希腊退出对欧元区其他部分会造成怎样的成本？"
    ],
    [
        "Once upon a time, it did not seem possible for Latin America to be well governed.",
        "曾几何时，拉丁美洲似乎不可能得到良好的治理。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the world population has surged to 7.5 billion, only about 750 million people – just 10% of the total population – live in extreme poverty today.",
        "尽管如今世界人口已大步攀升至75亿，但只有7. 5亿人——大约占总数的10%——生活在极端贫困中。"
    ],
    [
        "With oil prices higher than ever, its country-risk premiums lower than ever, remittances from abroad, tourism revenues, and foreign investment hitting all time highs, and annual GDP growth estimated at 4.2% for this year, Mexicans – in many ways – have never had it so good.",
        "石油价格创记录，国家风险保费比以往都要低，其国外汇款、旅游收入以及外国投资都达到历史最高点，年度国民生产总值估计达到4. 2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of the inherent dignity of human beings, modern societies do not allow people to sell themselves, or their children, into slavery.",
        "由于人类与生俱来的尊严感，现代社会不允许人们出卖自己或子女为奴。"
    ],
    [
        "Helping the ECB Cross the Rubicon",
        "帮助欧洲央行下定决心"
    ],
    [
        "The Judgment of Aleppo",
        "阿勒颇审判"
    ],
    [
        "MEXICO CITY – The last time Mexico experienced a political crisis more serious than the one it is undergoing today was in 1994, when a group of so-called Zapatista guerrillas staged a semi-armed uprising in the southern state of Chiapas.",
        "墨西哥城——上次墨西哥上演一场比现在更严重的政治危机还是在1994年，当时一伙所谓的萨帕塔游击队在墨西哥南部的恰帕斯州发动了一次半武装起义。"
    ],
    [
        "If banks are driven, for any reason, to reduce lending to the private sector, monetary policy may become less effective, ineffective, or even counter-productive.",
        "如果银行在任何理由的驱使下减少贷款给私营部门，货币政策可能变得不那么有效，或者无效，甚至适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, the situation worsened on virtually all fronts.",
        "2011年，经济状况几乎全面倒退了。"
    ],
    [
        "And Chávez, despite the recent increase in oil prices, can no longer afford to subsidize Cuba as he did during the boom years.",
        "而尽管最近油价有所回升，委内瑞拉总统查韦斯也不可能再像从前那样资助古巴。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of democracy, that is precisely what we should not be.",
        "为了保护民主，这恰恰是我们应当避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is what Brazil has been finding so difficult for the past four disappointing years.",
        "这就是巴西在令人失望的四年中所存在的难点。"
    ],
    [
        "Previously, the PBOC allowed the renminbi’s value to fluctuate each day within a 2% band, but did not routinely allow the movements to cumulate from one day to the next.",
        "此前，人民银行允许人民币价值日内波动2%，但一般不允许第二天继续累积前一天的波动。"
    ],
    [
        "IDA’s transitional support to India is scheduled to end in 2017.",
        "IDA对印度的过渡支持将在2017年到期。"
    ],
    [
        "The basis for this cooperation must be altruism.",
        "利他主义必须是合作的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while the IPCC clearly establishes that global warming is a problem, the cost is obviously much less than that of the twentieth century’s two world wars and the Great Depression.",
        "因此，虽然IPCC明确提出全球变暖会带来问题，但其带来的成本显然远低于二十世纪的两次世界大战和经济大衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "The Troika celebrated the hedge funds’ interest as evidence that its bank bailout had inspired private-sector confidence.",
        "三驾马车为对冲基金的踊跃额手相庆，认为这证明其银行救助计划提振了私人部门的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "But in order for currency depreciation to work its magic, more demand for exports must be forthcoming when the exchange rate falls (or, as economists say, the price elasticity of demand for exports must be high).",
        "但为了使货币贬值发挥作用，当汇率下降时就立刻得涌现出更多的出口需求（或者用经济学术语说，出口需求的价格弹性必须较高）。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, bold action of the type Juncker and Macron have proposed would not just be uncharacteristic for Merkel; it would also require her to invest all of her remaining political capital.",
        "事实上，像容克和马克龙所提出的那种激进的动作，不仅仅不是默克尔的风格； 更需要她为此投入全部剩余政治资本。"
    ],
    [
        "If his years of amassing cash had led to victory, John might have got away with his arbitrary methods; but when he was defeated in France, a group of barons rose up against him and captured London.",
        "如果连年敛财带来了胜利，约翰大概不会那么专断了； 但当他在法国落败而还时，一群贵族奋起反抗并占领了伦敦。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that US policy is to deny sensitive technologies to those outside these regimes, India’s admission would make all the difference in facilitating technology sharing.",
        "美国的政策是不向这些机制之外的国家提供敏感技术，因此印度的进入将极大地有利于技术共享。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Constitutional Court has approved the country’s participation in the ESM, and Chancellor Angela Merkel has given her blessing to the ECB’s bond-buying plan, despite strong public objections from the Bundesbank.",
        "德国宪法法院批准该国加入ESM，总理默克尔也表示支持欧洲央行的债券购买计划，尽管德国央行公开表示强烈反对。"
    ],
    [
        "They did not understand just what that surrender entailed – and neither did the European authorities.",
        "它们没有弄清楚把印钞大权上交意味着什么——欧洲当局也没有。"
    ],
    [
        "As John F. Kennedy put it a half-century ago: “By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all people to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.”",
        "正如约翰·肯尼迪在半个世纪前所言，“更加清晰地定义我们的目标，让目标变得更加易于管理、不再可及，如此，我们可以帮助所有人看到这一目标，从这一目标中汲取希望，并坚持不懈地朝这一目标努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of single-mindedly trying to force people to do without carbon-emitting fuels, the Hartwell group suggests that we pursue a number of other worthy goals – for example, adaptation, reforestation, encouraging biodiversity, and improving air quality – each of which is important, and all of which may also reduce carbon emissions.",
        "除了一心强迫人们放弃碳燃料的做法之外，研究小组建议我们应该追求其他一些更有价值的目标——比如尝试适应变化，重新造林，增加生物多样性，改善空气质量——每一点都很重要，而且每一点都能减少碳排放。"
    ],
    [
        "With no channels for constructive political debate, the government’s best option has been to postpone necessary economic adjustments until they become unavoidable.",
        "由于缺少建设性的政治辩论渠道，政府的最佳选择一直是推迟必要的经济调整，直到调整变得无可躲避。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama is not the first political leader to engage in hyperbole, but even by the standards of the Internet age, that one is a whopper.",
        "奥巴马绝非第一位自我夸张的政治领袖，但即使以互联网时代的标准衡量，他也显得过于浮夸了。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s program to process the million refugees who arrived on its shores has succeeded in “relocating” a mere 190 of them.",
        "欧盟处置抵达欧洲沿岸的数百万难民的方案成功地“安置”了区区190人。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, growth has been driven by a combination of external resources (aid, debt relief, or commodity windfalls) and the removal of some of the worst policy distortions of the past.",
        "目前，增长的驱动力来自外部资源（援助、债务豁免和商品资源禀赋）以及取消过去的一些最糟糕的政策扭曲。"
    ],
    [
        "Officials underestimated tail risks.",
        "官员低估了尾部风险。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not the first time that China has confronted this challenge – nor will it be the last.",
        "中国已不是第一次面临这样的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The anger there, fueled by misery and insufficient food, is popular, not bourgeois.",
        "由痛苦和食物短缺所催生的愤怒主要来自于底层民众而非中产阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "It has suggested that central banks may want to consider higher inflation targets in order to avoid hitting the zero bound in the event of deflationary shocks. For this, it drew a stern reproach from Germany’s Bundesbank – a clear sign that it is doing something right.",
        "它建议各国央行考虑调高通胀目标，以免在通缩冲击下，降息时过快触及零利率底线，由此，它遭到了来自德国央行的强烈反对，而这恰恰说明它的主张是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "This was not the case with people asked to make judgments about relatively “impersonal” violations like throwing a switch.",
        "而当人们被要求就相对“非个人化”的情况（如扳道岔）做出道德判断时则不然。"
    ],
    [
        "As with RMBS, this view that public debt was totally safe was underpinned by the “fact” that no advanced country, at least in the post-1945 era, had ever defaulted.",
        "与RMBS一样，公债是完全安全的这一观念也有“事实”支撑——没有哪个发达国家曾经违约过，至少1945年之后是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "And in areas where universal credit has been widely implemented, referrals to food banks are increasing, as are evictions.",
        "在那些通用福利制度广泛实施的地区有越来越多的民众转而向食品银行这类慈善组织求助，因无法支付房租而被赶出住宅的人数也在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, both camps should show greater humility: macro-development practitioners about what they already know, and micro-development practitioners about what they can learn.",
        "最后，两大阵营应该更加谦逊：宏观发展实践者不能思而不学，微观发展实践者不能学而不思。"
    ],
    [
        "That appears to be the case with the Bo Xilai affair in China.",
        "上述说法似乎也适用于中国近期发生的薄熙来事件。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Goldberg points out, the decision not to enforce the red line with air strikes may also have caused the Middle East to “slip from America’s grasp.”",
        "但是，正如戈德堡指出，不执行空袭红线的决策也可能造成中东局势“脱离美国的掌控。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the Israel-Palestine tragedy is unique.",
        "尽管如此，以色列-巴勒斯坦悲剧是独特的。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel, for its part, is exerting pressure in two ways.",
        "以色列通过两个侧面施加影响。"
    ],
    [
        "To stay above water, many Americans borrowed from banks at usurious interest rates.",
        "为了维持体面的生活，许多美国人只能依赖从银行借来的高利率贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits would be shared by all, if only they would do “the right thing.”",
        "只要他们能“为所应为”，那么所有人都能共享到这其中的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Stern Report is still right to argue that the potential risks of continued inaction are far greater.",
        "但是斯特恩报告主张继续无动于衷潜在的风险远远更为巨大则是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea is to find out if the lives of the people on the receiving end were changed for the better in any sustained way.",
        "其理念是看受助方的民生是否得到了持续的改善。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth is that it is hard to identify any correlation between regulatory structure and success in heading off or responding to the financial crisis.",
        "事实是，很难识别监管结构和成功消弭或应对金融危机之间的相关性。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the global financial crisis, London has become less able to argue that it is special and must be left alone.",
        "全球金融危机以来，伦敦也不再能够宣称自己具有特殊性，可以特立独行。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past three years, employment in construction has shrunk, but so has employment in manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, information distribution and communications, professional and business services, educational services, leisure and hospitality, and in the public sector.",
        "在过去三年间，建筑业的就业有所收缩，而批发零售贸易，运输仓储，中介行业，专业以及商业服务，教育，娱乐餐饮业以及政府公共部门也遭遇了同样的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "On both occasions, however, the regime’s hardliners gained the upper hand, crushing prospects for reform.",
        "但是，最终体制内的强硬派占了上风，扼杀了改革希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Some large middle-income food exporters (such as Brazil and Argentina) would also reap gains.",
        "有些中等收入的大规模食品出口国（比如巴西和阿根廷）也会从中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "It has also paved the way for the rapid rise of xenophobic anti-European parties – such as the UK Independence Party, which spearheaded the Leave campaign – as national governments and European institutions seem incapable of handling the crisis.",
        "这也为仇外反欧政党的迅速崛起创造了条件——比如英国脱欧阵营领袖独立党（Independence Party）——因为国家政府和欧洲机构似乎无力应对这场危机。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – Three cheers for central banks!",
        "发自纽黑文——让我们为中央银行欢呼致意！"
    ],
    [
        "When the Turkish Parliament attempted to elect the president on April 27, Gul did not receive enough votes to win on the first ballot.",
        "当土耳其议会准备在4月27日选举总统时，居尔在第一轮投票中并没有赢得足够的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "But his advisers, some of whom played a key role in shaping Nigeria’s foreign policy in the 1970’s, are keen to use the gas-flaring issue to demonstrate Yar’Adua’s resolve and standing as a pan-African leader.",
        "但他的顾问们（他们中的一些人在制定尼日利亚1970年代的外交政策中扮演了关键角色。 ）却急于用废气燃烧问题来显示Yar’Adua作为一个泛非洲领导人的决心和立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, if Britain were to lead efforts to establish a level playing field for digital, energy, and services – particularly financial services – it could ensure greater competitiveness for Europe as a whole.",
        "同样，如果英国能够引领为数字、能源和服务——尤其是金融——等行业创造公平竞争环境的努力，那么就能确保欧洲整体的竞争力得以加强。"
    ],
    [
        "With a 4.1% unemployment rate, the US economy does not need more stimulus.",
        "美国经济的失业率只有4. 1%，不需要更多的刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "The refugee crisis is not the only crisis Europe has to face, but it is the most pressing.",
        "难民危机并非欧洲面对的唯一危机，但却是最紧迫的。"
    ],
    [
        "There was no way to prove whether the Russian government, a spontaneous nationalist response, or both aided this transnational attack.",
        "也无法证明是俄罗斯政府还是自发的民族主义反应，或两者都协助了这次跨国攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "The initial critical reaction on the part of several Arab governments to Hezbollah’s kidnapping of Israeli soldiers is a sign that such criticism is possible, as are selective comments by a number of Muslim religious leaders.",
        "几个阿拉伯国家政府对于真主党绑架以色列士兵的最初批评性的反应就是标志，那就是，这样的批评以及几位穆斯林宗教领导人有选择性的评论是可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "We must eliminate all factors that perpetuate gender inequality.",
        "我们必须消除让性别不平等永久化的一切因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Higher capital ratios, lower exposure to bad loans, and more transparent balance sheets increase the chances that the ECB’s quantitative impulses will be transmitted to the wider economy.",
        "更高的资本储备金率，更低的坏账风险，更透明的资产负债表将增加欧洲央行量化刺激手段传导到更广大经济范围的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "We need a set of priorities that responds to what people want and expect – jobs, growth, and security.",
        "我们需要一套优先战略以应对人们的需求和期望—工作、成长和安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Under these investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) systems, foreign investors gain new rights to sue national governments in binding private arbitration for regulations they see as diminishing the expected profitability of their investments.",
        "在这些投资者-国家纠纷和解（ISDS）机制中，外国投资者获得了新的起诉国家政府的权利，对于它们认为降低了它们的投资的预期盈利能力的监管采取私人仲裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the amount of lending available from the IMF is being raised substantially.",
        "第三，能够从IMF获得的借款数量也被大幅度提高。"
    ],
    [
        "This development creates new opportunities for other developing countries to reap the trade benefits of inserting themselves into the international division of labor.",
        "这一发展态势为其他发展中国家创造了通过参与国际劳动分工攫取贸易收益的新机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless the benefits from information-age goods and services greatly outstrip what we spend on them, the wellbeing they provide will have already been accounted for.",
        "除非信息时代商品和服务所带来的好处大大超过了我们为此付出的钱，否则它们所提供的福利已经考虑在内。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s seemingly open-ended purchases of US government debt are at the heart of a web of codependency that binds the two economies.",
        "中国对美国政府债券看似无穷无尽的收购正是把两大经济体捆绑在一起的那张相互依存网络的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas the main distinction in Nineteen Eighty-Four is between rulers and ruled, in Brave New World, people are divided into different social orders defined by disparate tastes and lifestyles.",
        "在《1984》和《美丽新世界》中统治者与被统治者主要的区别是由完全不同的品味和生活方式决定的不同的社会等级。"
    ],
    [
        "These tools can be used by Iranians fighting dictatorship, or by Tibetan dissidents trying to save their culture.",
        "伊朗人可以用这些工具来反抗专政，西藏持不同政见者也可以用这些工具来拯救他们的文化。"
    ],
    [
        "Countless others have had to abandon their homes, jobs, and countries; and those who do stay often live in constant fear for their safety.",
        "还有许多记者被迫逃离自己的住所，工作岗位和国家； 而那些留下来的人常常会对自身安全忧虑不已。"
    ],
    [
        "It is basically a tissue of propaganda, with little support in theory and destructive effects in practice.",
        "从根本上，这是宣传手段，没有什么支持，倒是有破坏性的实践效果。"
    ],
    [
        "As with the Vienna Initiative, a “Vienna 2.0” would require commitments by all concerned parties.",
        "与维也纳倡议相同，“维也纳2. 0”将要求所有相关方作出承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, even if the US were not attempting to normalize relations, Russia’s current economic woes probably would have doomed its long-standing – and already much-reduced – support for the Castro government.",
        "事实上，即使美国不试图正常化与古巴的关系，俄罗斯当前的经济困境也有可能使其对卡斯特罗政府的长期支持难以为继——目前俄罗斯的直吹已经大幅缩水。"
    ],
    [
        "SAN FRANCISCO – Last week, I wrote a 140-character hotel review on Twitter: “Galleria Park Hotel SF rejects noise complaint from ill-trained guest: ‘Next time, ask for an interior room, not just a quiet room.’”",
        "发自旧金山 —— 上星期，我在自己的 Twitter 上发了条 140 字的酒店评论：旧金山广场公园酒店一口回绝了冒失住客的噪音投诉：“下次直接说要靠里面的房间 , 别只说要安静的房子。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Climate-friendly, sustainable infrastructure will cost even more.",
        "气候友好型可持续基础设施的成本更高。"
    ],
    [
        "While some in Trump’s cabinet might reject efforts to apply the slogan to the issues they oversee, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro all share Trump’s views on trade.",
        "特朗普的一些内阁成员可能会拒绝将这一口号应用于他们所负责的问题，但商务部长罗斯（Wilbur Ross）、美国贸易代表莱西泽尔（Robert Lighthizer）和全国贸易委员会主席纳瓦罗（Paul Navarro）都同意特朗普的贸易观点。"
    ],
    [
        "But Keynes’s Englishman was wealthy and thus exceptional.",
        "但凯恩斯的英国人属于腰缠万贯的特例。"
    ],
    [
        "Wanting to shut down the discussion is simply treason against reason.",
        "而那些试图压制讨论的做法，根本就是对理性的背叛。"
    ],
    [
        "Sorting out these questions will require a level of political entrepreneurship unlike anything Merkel has ever shown.",
        "厘清这些问题需要政治企业家精神，而默克尔从未表现出她具备这一精神。"
    ],
    [
        "There is, interestingly, a common thread running through all of these cases, as well as the 2008 crisis: financial sectors behaved badly and failed to assess creditworthiness and manage risk as they were supposed to do.",
        "但值得注意的是，这些金融危机，包括2008年的金融危机，都有一个共通的线索，即，金融行业表现欠佳，未能准确评估信用度，在危机出现时，未能及时处理。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of the day, Bolivia’s immediate national interests may be served by Morales’s strategic alliance with Cuba and Venezuela.",
        "最终，莫拉莱斯与古巴和委内瑞拉结成战略联盟，可能有利于玻利维亚的直接国家利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Law firms and accounting firms use computers to do what professional employees used to do.",
        "律师事务所和会计师事务所利用电脑来完成曾经由专业员工来完成的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, while there is no need to be overly bearish about China’s short-term economic prospects, because of the slow progress in fundamental adjustment and further reform, even Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has noted that China’s growth is ultimately unsustainable.",
        "尽管如此，一方面我们没必要过度看空中国的短期经济前景，另一方面，由于基础性调整和深化改革步伐缓慢，就连温家宝总理都指出，中国的增长从根本上说是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF should spend less time telling the poorest of the poor to cut their spending, and more time telling rich countries to give more money to help the poor meet their investment needs.",
        "国际货币基金会应该少花一点时间告诉穷人减少开支，而应该多花一点时间告诉富人拿出更多的钱来帮助穷人完成他们的投资需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Security of contract and strong mechanisms that protect investors are, in this view, foundational for finance, which in turn fuels economic growth.",
        "在这种观点下，保护投资者利益的合同保险和有效机制成为了支持经济增长的根基。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets have been reassured that the euro is here to stay.",
        "金融市场得到了欧元将继续存在的保证。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason that East Asia’s export superpowers – Japan, South Korea, and China – experienced growth miracles was that their governments worked on both fronts at once.",
        "东亚出口强国——日本、韩国和中国——之所以能够产生增长奇迹，是因为它们的政府能做到内外兼顾。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s crisis started in rich industrial countries – not only with sub-prime mortgages in the United States, but also with mismanagement of banks and public debt in Europe.",
        "如今，危机却是从富国开始的——不仅源自美国的次贷，而且还源自欧洲失控的银行和公债管理。"
    ],
    [
        "(No jihadist organization in Egypt had ever before offered its loyalty to a foreign entity.)",
        "（埃及的圣战组织此前从未有过向国外实体效忠的举动。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Even the International Monetary Fund, long the embodiment of the Washington Consensus, has acknowledged that “capital controls are a legitimate part of the toolkit to manage capital flows in certain circumstances.”",
        "就连华盛顿共识的长期实践者IMF也承认，“在某些情况下，资本管制是合理的资本流管理工具之一”。"
    ],
    [
        "We now have a Palestinian leadership legitimized by elections, one that appears to be opposed to using terrorism as a tool to achieve political aims.",
        "我们现在拥有一个通过选举合法产生的、反对把恐怖主义作为达到其政治目的的工具的巴勒斯坦领导政权。"
    ],
    [
        "But if you infer from this that people spend a lot of time planning the lifetime accumulation of their own wealth, you would be wrong.",
        "但是如果你从这一点得出结论说人们花大量时间对自己财富的终生积累做出规划，那么你就错了。"
    ],
    [
        "In a just-released report, the task force concludes that, though the overall state of science in the Muslim world remains poor, much can be done to improve it effectively and efficiently.",
        "在刚刚发布的一份报告中，特别小组认为尽管穆斯林世界总体科技状况并不尽如人意，但有很多有效措施可以改善这种现状。"
    ],
    [
        "The advanced economies tried that, and the result has been rising political polarization, intensifying anti-establishment sentiment, declining policy coherence, and weakening social cohesion.",
        "发达经济体在这方面犯过错误，导致政治两极分裂、反政府情绪高涨，政策一致性以及社会凝聚力下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The initial export shock was likely to reduce growth.",
        "最初的出口冲击可能影响增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The riskiness of the ECB’s strategy of using the printing press to bail out banks, including their public and private clients, would become apparent to everyone.",
        "欧洲央行开动印钞机援助银行及其公私客户的风险将成为众所周知的秘密。"
    ],
    [
        "The Eurozone’s Minsky Conundrum",
        "欧元区的明斯基困局"
    ],
    [
        "Most people trade a small reduction in the chance of survival for a large reduction in the chance of adverse effects; in other words, they would opt for drug B.",
        "大部分人会用生存机会的小幅下降换取副作用的大幅下降； 换句话说，他们会选择药物B。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, its overland and maritime routes could attract considerable investment to participating countries – especially from China, as it seeks new avenues for deploying its vast reserves.",
        "相反，其陆路和海路铜带可能吸引大量投资进入沿途国家——特别是来自中国的投资，中国正在寻找新途径部署其为数巨大的储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if we remained on our current trajectory, keeping temperatures from rising more than 2º Celsius above pre-industrial levels – the threshold beyond which the most disruptive consequences of climate change would be triggered – would be next to impossible to achieve.",
        "即使保持现有趋势，将气温限制在前工业化水平以上2℃之内——超过这一阈值就有可能引发灾难性后果——也将是难以完成的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Sweden – the 14th largest member state in terms of population, and eighth in terms of GDP – under the leadership of Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt punches considerably above its weight.",
        "例如，瑞典——成员国中人口排列第14位，GDP第8位——在首相赖因费尔特和外交大臣卡尔·比尔特的领导下，其影响力远远大于其排位。"
    ],
    [
        "Given their standing in the company, and their relationship with their father, their influence in his administration should not be in doubt.",
        "鉴于他们在公司中所处的地位以及他们与父亲的关系，他们对新政府的影响力是毋庸置疑的。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the State Council’s 2006 nine directives to Chinese overseas companies have been subordinated to the drive for exports and growth, even when it imposes environmental and social costs on local communities abroad.",
        "同样，国务院2006年对中国海外企业的九项指令更多地服从于推动出口和增长的目标，即使这种增长增加了当地社会的环境和社会成本也在所不惜。"
    ],
    [
        "External pressures reveal internal weaknesses.",
        "外部压力暴露出内部弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "The clearinghouse protects itself by getting an up-front deposit from the bank (in case the bank fails in, say, 2015), and by monitoring the bank’s total “book” with the clearinghouse.",
        "清算所如何保护自己呢？ 它将要求银行存入一笔预存款（假设银行将于2015年破产），并监控银行在清算所内的总“账目”。"
    ],
    [
        "These viruses, apparently developed by the US and Israel to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program, embody a level of sophistication far beyond anything previously seen.",
        "这些病毒似乎由美国和以色列研发用于破坏伊朗的核计划，体现出远超之前记录的先进水平。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Islamic State arrived at the border, however, most of Lebanon’s political parties, media, and civil society rallied together.",
        "但当“伊斯兰国”迫近边境时，黎巴嫩多数政党、媒体和民间组织终于携手抗敌。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of the EU’s unhappy diplomatic past in the Balkans, the most practical way forward is to seek political reform in Bosnia rather than hoping for the US to resume its leadership role.",
        "不管欧盟外交在巴尔干地区有多么不愉快的过去，最实际的前进之路就是在波斯尼亚寻求改革而不是寄往美国能重树其领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "That is what I believe you see today in the US.",
        "此种情况我相信正如你所看到的如今在美国发生的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "This involves putting our public finances in order, which the fiscal treaty allows.",
        "这包括让我们的公共财政恢复秩序，使之符合财政条约的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise of the super-fungi must be stopped.",
        "阻止超级真菌的传播刻不容缓。"
    ],
    [
        "The Better Corporation",
        "更好的公司"
    ],
    [
        "But keeping Russia at arm’s length from Europe has only strengthened the sense of isolation that many Russians feel, tempting them to define the country’s interests in ways that are irreconcilable with those of Europe.",
        "但是欧洲国家的刻意疏远只不过进一步增强了许多俄国人的孤独感，促使他们在界定国家利益的时候不与欧洲国家相调和。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, of course, there is the Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.",
        "当然还有诺贝尔和平奖获得者，缅甸国父的女儿昂山素姬。"
    ],
    [
        "And banks and broker-dealers can be expected to provide only limited liquidity to their clients if a large number of them suddenly seek to realign their financial positioning at the same time.",
        "而如果大量银行和自营经纪商突然同时寻求重组金融状况，可以预期它们像客户提供的流动性将十分有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, Europe finds itself paralyzed by a financial crisis that threatens the European Union’s very existence.",
        "与此同时，欧洲因金融危机威胁欧盟的生存而步履维艰。"
    ],
    [
        "Rising income inequality fuels a growing opportunity deficit for children born into poor and middle-income families, reflected in disparities in educational attainment by family background, and a decline in intergenerational mobility.",
        "收入不平等的恶化会助长贫穷和中等收入家庭孩子的机会赤字，不同家庭背景出身者的教育程度差异以及代际流动性的下降就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "If a mostly well-handled bubble collapse in a low-inflation US economy could permanently push down potential economic growth by roughly 10% over a decade, is it out of the question that a poorly handled bubble collapse could, over a generation, leave Japan’s economy 40% poorer than it might have been?",
        "如果低通胀的美国经济的得到良好处理的泡沫崩溃在十年时间里永久性地导致其潜在经济增长降低了10%，那么可以肯定处理不当的泡沫崩溃会在一代人的时间里导致日本经济比原本的预期穷40%吗？"
    ],
    [
        "These measures will take time, but require investment now.",
        "所有的这些举措都需要时间，所以，我们现在就要行动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "An individual is free and autonomous only because of the collective decisions taken after democratic debate, notably those decisions that guarantee each person access to public goods such as education, health care, etc.",
        "个人自由和自主的获得恰恰是因为民主辩论后的集体决策，特别是那些确保每个人有机会享有教育、医疗等公共商品的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, establishing an internal energy market is not just a matter of policy.",
        "当然，建立内部能源市场并不只是政策问题。"
    ],
    [
        "India, fearing unknown consequences, even shied away from employing its air power, although the Chinese military lacked effective air cover for its advancing forces.",
        "出于对未知后果的恐惧，即便在中国先头部队缺乏有效空中掩护的情况下，印度依然放弃使用空军力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The Promise of Euro-Atlantic Missile Defense",
        "欧洲大西洋导弹防御体系前景"
    ],
    [
        "Excessive public debt weighs down an economy, leaving it vulnerable to shocks.",
        "过多的公共债务会压垮经济，让经济无法承受冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel’s Labor Party has consistently said that it would bolt from the current coalition if peace talks were halted.",
        "以色列工党坚称如果谈判搁置将退出执政联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "These two arguments are not consistent, but that does not matter.",
        "这两种观点并不一致，但这不重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The process of molding “test-ready individuals” recalls a line from Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: “As for this Petersburg swell, they’re turned out by machinery, all on one pattern, and all precious rubbish.”",
        "塑造“随时准备考试的个体”的过程让人想起列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列宁娜》中的话：“至于彼得堡的那个花花公子，这种人都是机器造出来的，都是一个模子， 都是坏蛋。"
    ],
    [
        "If “more extensive” means piecemeal limited commitments that will eventually be exhausted, the scheme runs the risk of creating losses (just as the Bundesbank would have suffered losses had it engaged in limited defense of weak ERM currencies).",
        "如果“更广泛”意味着零散的有限承诺将最终被耗尽，那么这一方案就可能有蒙受损失的风险（正如德国央行如果有限度地维护弱势汇率机制成员国货币的话就将承受损失）。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the struggle against hunger is a battle that humanity could finally win.",
        "但与饥饿的斗争是一场人类最终能够取得胜利的斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider what has happened to South Korea and Brazil.",
        "看一看韩国和巴西所发生的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Mothers’ Day is upon us in many countries around the world.",
        "在全世界许多国家，人们都在迎接母亲节的来临。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, pursuant to its obligations under the Geneva Convention, the US must immediately take steps to protect the lives and freedoms of Iraqi civilians. Unless the US does so, it must withdraw from Iraq, because the occupation would merely continue to sustain a breeding ground for violence against women.",
        "第二，美国应该根据其在日内瓦公约承担的义务立即采取行动保护伊拉克平民的生命和自由。 除非美国这样做，否则它就必须撤离伊拉克，因为这一占领将会仅仅是继续维持针对妇女施加的暴力流血之地。"
    ],
    [
        "But customers received only a small saucer for this feast, and the principle of the smorgasbord - all you can eat - was jettisoned.",
        "但面对这样的大餐，顾客们却只得到一个很小的碟子。 而这家瑞典自助餐厅里适用于所有食物的规矩是早被其他地方废弃的。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, 76.2% of schools do not have clean drinking water, while 14.6% lack electricity.",
        "此外，76. 2%的学校没有干净的饮用水，14."
    ],
    [
        "A decade ago, when the last such gathering was held, the private sector was scarcely represented.",
        "十年前上一次类似会议举行时，私人部门几乎没有任何代表出席。"
    ],
    [
        "All sectors of the economy will spend more, pushing up output and employment (and sustaining the price level, too).",
        "所有经济部门都会增加支出，提振产出和就业（并维持物价水平）。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, when today’s Europeans peer into the future, they see only prolonged recession and austerity.",
        "事实上，今天的欧洲人放眼未来看到的只有没完没了的衰退和紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Examining the past as carefully as I can, and aware of the risks of augury, my answer has to be no.",
        "我仔细考察了历史，也清晰地辨识了预兆，我的答案是否定的。"
    ],
    [
        "In this environment, voters could base their choices on the issues at hand.",
        "在这一环境下，选民可以根据当前问题做出选择。"
    ],
    [
        "And militias based in the city of Zintan continue to refuse to hand over Qaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, to the central authorities.",
        "驻扎在津坦市的民兵依然拒绝将卡扎菲的儿子赛义夫·伊斯兰移交给中央政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who cannot forget the past are condemned to inflate it.",
        "既然你不能忘掉过去，就注定只能稀释它。"
    ],
    [
        "Breaking Bannon",
        "爆发的班农"
    ],
    [
        "It takes a sizeable forest to furnish enough paper for posters, electoral rolls, and ballots.",
        "印刷海报、选民花名册和选票要消耗大片森林。"
    ],
    [
        "But their reactions have been generally muted by Japan’s success in getting a US-led initiative at the G-20 to classify its policy response as constituting the use of “domestic tools” to pursue “domestic objectives.”",
        "但它们的反应被普遍弱化了，因为日本成功让美国领头在G-20峰会上提出其政策反应只不过是利用“国内工具”来追求“国内目标”。"
    ],
    [
        "Our attention was focused on preventing recession from turning into depression.",
        "我们的注意力集中在防止衰退转变成萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "The navy is to shift its focus away from the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability of the Cold War era, creating a structure aimed at defending islands, monitoring and responding to ballistic missiles, and combating illegal spy ship activities.",
        "海军要创建一套机制，把重心从冷战时期的反潜艇战（ASW）职能，转移到保卫各个海岛，监督弹道导弹并做出回应，以及防止非法的间谍活动上。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a system would provide a level playing field that supports US MNCs’ global competitiveness. It would also eliminate the efficiency costs of deferral and boost US MNCs’ repatriation of foreign earnings, with significant benefits for output and employment.",
        "这一制度将为美国跨国公司提供公平的全球竞争平台，还能消灭递延的效率成本、促使美国跨国公司将更多的海外利润转回国内，这大大有利于产出和就业。"
    ],
    [
        "And under volatile conditions, they are prone to face runs from fickle institutional investors, wary of rolling over their credit lines.",
        "而在波动环境中，它们很容易面临反覆无常的机构投资者的挤兑，对信用展期非常小心。"
    ],
    [
        "But an economy’s future prospects are also crucial to its leadership prospects – and serious challenges lie ahead.",
        "但一个经济的未来前景对领导力前景也很重要——而前路充满了严峻挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to remember, though, that democracy was on the international agenda before the United States was attacked in September 2001.",
        "尽管如此，我们还是需要记住一点，在美国遭遇911袭击之前，民主就已经被列在国际日程表上。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, we must focus on addressing our water-supply problems as if our lives depended on it. In fact, they do.",
        "简言之，我们必须把解决我们水供应问题当作生死攸关的大事来关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, even before that legislation, there were fewer than 5,000 tourist flights per month.",
        "但即使在该法案出台前，每月游客的飞行次数也少于5，000次。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1991, Hollywood has documented American mistrust of post-Soviet Russia in a series of films – for example, The Saint, Air Force One, The Golden Compass of 2006, Salt, and The November Man.",
        "1991年以来，好莱坞在许多电影中表现出美国人对后苏联时代俄罗斯的不信任你——如《圣徒》（The Saint）、《空军一号》（Airforce One）、2006年的《黄金罗盘》（The Golden Compass）、《特工绍特》（Salt）和《十一月杀手》（The November Man）等。"
    ],
    [
        "One relationship sure to be influenced by Republican gains will be that between the US and Russia.",
        "共和党占优的形势必将影响到美俄关系。"
    ],
    [
        "These funds are supposed to get you “alpha”: absolute superior returns, rather than the market “beta.”",
        "这些基金应该让你获得“阿尔法”，即绝对超额回报，而不是市场“贝塔”。"
    ],
    [
        "Politically inexperienced and lacking strong leadership, they have proved unable to impose discipline on the myriad militias that sprang up during the revolution.",
        "事实证明他们既缺乏政治经验又缺乏强势领导，根本无法对革命期间兴起的无数民兵组织执行纪律要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Canada’s provinces phased in national health insurance from 1961 to 1975.",
        "加拿大各省从1961年到1975年就分阶段引入国民健康保险。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the movement took shape following the US government’s massive – and bipartisan – bailout of Wall Street banks.",
        "毕竟这场运动是紧随美国政府对华尔街采取大规模的（且是两大党联手推行的）拯救方案而生的。"
    ],
    [
        "They argued that the oil belonged to all the people of Nigeria, not just the eastern area.",
        "他们认为，石油属于全体尼日利亚人民，而不仅仅是东部地区。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has supported Turkey’s accession to the EU, but its efforts would have more credibility in Europe if it also pressed Turkey to address its shortcomings.",
        "美国曾支持土耳其加入欧盟，但若能敦促土耳其补足其短处，那么它的支持就会在欧洲拥有更高的信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Initial reports following the recent disaster suggest that schools that were retrofitted as a precaution against earthquakes (the typical cost was $8,000) escaped most of the damage.",
        "此次灾难后的初步报告显示经过防震改造的学校（一般成本为8，000美元）避开了绝大部分破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "In such a context, the return of global realpolitik can only benefit Russia and harm the US, despite America’s many advantages in terms of hard and soft power.",
        "在这样的环境下，全球现实政治的回归只能有利于俄罗斯而有损于美国，尽管美国在硬实力和软实力方面拥有大量优势。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s dollar liabilities could reach a tipping point at any time, if skittish investors, seeking an alternative store of value, precipitate an irreversible downward spiral.",
        "美国的美元负债随时都有可能达到临界点，如果担惊受怕的投资者因为寻找其他价值储藏手段而引起不可逆转的下降螺旋的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Having been offered the freedom to “vote your conscience” on the EU deal, most significant Conservative politicians – with the notable exceptions of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove – have come around to supporting Cameron.",
        "获得了向欧盟协议“投出良心票”的机会的所有保守党政治要人都选择支持卡梅伦。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the AfD’s rise, there is plenty of reason to remain optimistic.",
        "尽管AfD崛起，但仍有充足的理由保持乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "But the truth is that China is a solitary, vulnerable rising power – one that faces potentially crippling domestic challenges.",
        "但事实上中国的大国崛起是一个封闭而脆弱的——还面临着潜在的破坏性国内挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The best evidence suggests that Americans watch more than five hours per day of television on average – a staggering amount, given that several hours more are spent in front of other video-streaming devices.",
        "最有力的证据显示美国人每天平均看电视5小时以上——别忘了在看电视之前他们还花了几个小时在其他的视频设备上，这是一个多么惊人的数字啊。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank estimates that insufficient infrastructure reduces productivity in Africa by approximately 40%.",
        "世界银行估算，基础设施不足令非洲生产率下降了约40%。"
    ],
    [
        "Restoring stability and a fair democratic system to Moldova is important, first and foremost, because Moldovans deserve a government that is accountable.",
        "首先，恢复摩尔多瓦的稳定和公平民主体制非常重要，因为摩尔多瓦有权赢得真正负责任的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Attention is therefore shifting to the second narrative, which suggests that the advanced economies’ fundamental capacity to grow by making useful things has been declining for decades, a trend that was masked by debt-fueled spending.",
        "于是，人们的目光开始转移到第二种观点。 这种观点认为，发达经济体通过生产有用的东西获得增长的基本能力下滑已经持续了数十年之久了，其特征便是用债务来支撑支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than try to stop the unstoppable, we should think about how to put this new reality at the service of our values and welfare.",
        "与其试图逆转不可阻挡之势，应该想想如何让新现实为我们的价值观和福祉服务。"
    ],
    [
        "You couldn’t turn around without knocking into Harry.",
        "目光所及之处哈利波特的形象随处可见。"
    ],
    [
        "After slowing its dam-building program in response to the serious environmental consequences of completion in 2006 of the Three Gorges Dam – the world’s largest – China is now rushing to build a new generation of giant dams.",
        "2006年的三峡大坝（世界最大大坝）建成后的一系列严重环境后果让中国放慢了建坝计划，如今，中国急切地开始建设新一代大坝。"
    ],
    [
        "But what does such liquidity mean, and is there really reason to expect that it will sustain further increases in stock and real estate prices?",
        "但是这种流动性到底意味着什么，并且真的有理由可以认为它会导致股票和房地产价格的继续上涨吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The court’s verdict was based on falsified documents.",
        "Mika公司的老板就是帮助亚美尼亚统治的Karabakh家族。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer depends partly on nationality.",
        "答案部分取决于国籍。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, he declared that he wants to boost India’s position in the World Bank’s “Doing Business” survey, which assesses the regulatory climate in 189 countries.",
        "最近他宣布希望改进印度在世界银行《营商环境》调查中的排位。 该调查评估189个国家的监管气候。"
    ],
    [
        "What makes Greece’s problems more difficult to address is the structure of the eurozone: monetary union implies that member states cannot devalue their way out of trouble, yet the modicum of European solidarity that must accompany this loss of policy flexibility simply is not there.",
        "让希腊问题更加难以解决的是欧元区的结构：货币联盟意味着成员国无法通过贬值摆脱困境，补偿这一政策灵活度损失只需要些许欧洲团结精神，但这一精神却不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But there were major differences in the relative power resources of imperial Britain and contemporary America.",
        "但大英帝国和当代美国的相对实力来源截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "But electricity accounts for only 18% of its final energy use.",
        "但电力只占丹麦最终能源使用量的18%。"
    ],
    [
        "These are issues that should be subject to legal scrutiny and democratic control.",
        "这些都是理应受到合法性审查和国内控制的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "International inaction on Syria is bad news not only for the country’s people; it is also eroding the legitimacy of one of the world’s most important multilateral institutions.",
        "对叙利亚的国际不作为不仅对该国人民是坏消息，也损害着全世界最重要的多边机构之一的正统性。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy and Spain offered credible fiscal and growth-oriented reforms, and the European Central Bank, with Germany’s backing, promised intervention as needed to stabilize the banking sector and sovereign-debt markets.",
        "意大利和西班牙实施了可靠的财政增长型改革，此外欧洲央行在德国的支持下承诺会在有需要的情况下出手稳定银行部门和主权债务市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Military technology, the mindset of politicians and citizens, the structure of international diplomacy, and much more have changed in the century since WWI erupted.",
        "军事技术、政治家和人民的思维、国际外交结构以及其他诸多因素改变了自一战爆发以来的这个世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite these achievements, European integration is far from complete, and it will remain so until all European countries can follow the same development path.",
        "但尽管取得了这些成就，欧洲一体化还远远没有完成，而这一过程将一直持续下去，直到欧洲所有国家都走上了相同的发展道路。"
    ],
    [
        "This is particularly true in the eurozone, whose members abandoned a crucial tool for accelerating the process – exchange-rate adjustments to account for different economies’ productivity levels – when they adopted the common currency.",
        "欧元区尤其如此。 加入共同货币区时，欧元区成员国放弃了加速过程的关键工具——调整汇率以契合不同经济体的生产率水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Ethiopia has undergone a remarkable transformation under his strongman rule since 1991, when his Tigrayan minority group from the country’s north came to power with the overthrow of the odious Communist Derg led by Mengistu Haile Mariam (still enjoying a comfortable retirement in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe).",
        "埃塞俄比亚自1991年起便在他的铁腕统治下开始了令人瞩目的转型。 他所属的生活在埃塞俄比亚北部的少数民族提格雷族（Tigray）推翻了马里亚姆（Mengistu Haile Mariam）领导的邪恶的共产主义军政府（马里亚姆如今在穆加贝治下的津巴布韦享受着悠闲的退休生活）。"
    ],
    [
        "Cowardly compromise and political alibis – as so often in history – defeated a principled position.",
        "怯懦的妥协和政治托辞――历史上屡见不鲜――战胜了坚持原则的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even if everyone in the entire world cut all residential lighting, and this translated entirely into CO2 reduction, it would be the equivalent of China pausing its CO2 emissions for less than four minutes.",
        "但即使全球所有人关闭一切住宅照明，且节省的电能完全转化为二氧化碳减排，也不过相当于中国暂停二氧化碳排放不到四分钟。"
    ],
    [
        "In recent years, mounting domestic political pressure has driven Western governments to adopt increasingly insular policies.",
        "近几年来，日益增加的国内政治压力促使西方政府采取日益孤立的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fundamental problem remains Europe’s vulnerability over energy: an emerging divide and rule strategy over the supply of gas that must be confronted head on.",
        "但是根本的问题还在于欧洲在能源上的脆弱性：我们必须奋起对抗在天然气供应上出现的分而治之的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "The Geopolitical Message from Libya",
        "来自利比亚的地缘政治信息"
    ],
    [
        "In Washington – as in Beijing, for that matter – the temptation to approach Europe in a bilateral manner is strong and growing.",
        "在华盛顿（在这一点上，北京也一样），与欧洲开展双边关系的诱惑力仍然很强而且在增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, it seems likely that many of the short-term effects of the demonetization could persist – and intensify – in the longer term, with closed businesses unable to reopen.",
        "据报道，多达82人死在换现队伍或相关事件。 此外，许多废钞的短期效应有可能会持续更长时间，并有可能加剧，关门的企业可能无法重新开张。"
    ],
    [
        "With midterm congressional elections coming in November, they will have ample opportunity to prove it.",
        "随着十一月中旬的国会选举即将临近，他们将有充足的机会去证明这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "At least this era left a legacy of efficient search engines and a fiber-optic infrastructure.",
        "这次创新潮好歹还留下了管用的搜索引擎和光纤基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "With the United States and NATO due to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, there is a real possibility that the Taliban will not only regain power there, but will also turn Pakistan into a truly failed state.",
        "由于美国和北约已经决定在2014年末前将所有部队撤离阿富汗，很可能塔利班不但会重新夺回权力，还会将巴基斯坦变成一个真正的失败国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s manufacturing strengths now lie in its advanced production know-how and strong supply-chain networks.",
        "”如今，这个国家的制造业优势在于对先进生产的知识和强大的供应链网络。"
    ],
    [
        "Private developers have trouble getting a large plot free of restrictions.",
        "私人发展商无法使他们的庞大计划不受束缚。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach will have far-reaching consequences, for a similarly dangerous vehemence regarding the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, has lately been gaining traction among Israelis.",
        "这种做法将会产生深远的影响，因为对犹太教圣地圣殿山某种相似的危险激情近来日益在以色列民众间传播影响。"
    ],
    [
        "When citizens acquire power – through, say, an elected position, a job that lets them decide who gets a liquor license or who gets arrested with a gun – the public has a right to know more about them.",
        "当公民得到力量时——比如通过当选某个职位从而得以决定谁可以获得贩酒牌照或谁会因为持有枪支被捕——公众就有权利了解他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt's status as a regional power under Mubarak has similarly weakened steadily.",
        "在穆巴拉克的统治下，埃及作为地区大国的地位日渐削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Conveniently missing from this narrative is that it was Pakistan’s development of nuclear weapons in contravention of US law that necessitated the withdrawal of aid.",
        "但这一说法有意遗漏了一点：美国撤回援助正是因为巴基斯坦发展核武器违反了相关美国法律。"
    ],
    [
        "The terrorists themselves cast their actions in political terms, even though we rarely listen; indeed, the terrorists’ words are typically reported only briefly, if at all.",
        "恐怖分子本身打着政治的旗号实施行动，即便如此，我们对此几乎置若罔闻； 事实上，恐怖分子的说辞往往只是被简略地报道甚至完全忽略。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest challenge, however, will be to secure the necessary financing.",
        "但是，最大的挑战是确保必要的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Under such circumstances, it does not take much to lead to an aborted takeoff, or worse.",
        "这种情形很容易引起起飞失败甚至更糟糕的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "I believe that, on the contrary, this would be an advantage in the current exceptional circumstances, because it would keep the Italian and Spanish governments on a short leash; no country concerned could afford to lose the ECB facility.",
        "相反，我认为，在当前的特殊时期，这是一种优势，因为这将使意大利和西班牙政府暂时受到约束； 没有一个相关国家能够脱离欧洲央行。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Constrained Choice",
        "约束重重的美国选择"
    ],
    [
        "One class contains mutations in genes involved in DNA repair.",
        "其中一类与参加 DNA 修复的基因发生突变有关。"
    ],
    [
        "If a poor family in subsistence farming receives no help during the year after a bad harvest, its members may eat their beasts of burden, cut down the trees that provide nutrients to the soil, sell whatever farming equipment they have, and even eat the seeds that were set aside for planting the following season.",
        "如果以种粮为生的家庭在收成不好的年份得不到帮助，家庭成员就会吃掉自己家里的驮畜、砍掉为土壤提供养分的树木、卖掉自家所有的农具、甚至吃掉准备来年种植的种子。"
    ],
    [
        "Although transatlantic tariffs average only 3-5% (with higher peaks for some sensitive products), tariff elimination would have a significant impact, given that bilateral trade totals $650 billion annually.",
        "尽管跨大西洋关税平均水平只有3—5%（某些敏感商品会更高一些），但取消关税仍能起到重大作用，因为双边贸易总额高达每年6500亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "While reports are surfacing that Palin told a group of African-Americans that she did not have to hire black people, working-class white women often understand their own experience in terms of racial hostility.",
        "尽管有报道揭露佩林曾对一群非洲裔美国人说她并不是必须要雇佣黑人，工人阶级白人女性在种族敌视上常常理解她们自身的经历。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration’s response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 – declaring a War on Terror and treating criticism as unpatriotic – succeeded in gathering public support, yet the results were the exact opposite to what the Bush administration intended, both for itself and the United States.",
        "布什政府对于2001年9月11日恐怖袭击的反应是宣布反恐战争并且把批评当作不爱国。 这些获得了公众的支持，但是其结果却与布什政府的意愿背道而驰，对于该政府和美国而言都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "From a microeconomic perspective, a sudden exchange-rate shock and sharp increase in oil prices impedes firms’ ability to adjust their technology and production methods to meet new cost conditions, eventually undermining TFP growth.",
        "从微观经济学角度看，突发汇率冲击和石油价格暴涨妨碍了企业调整技术和生产方式从而适应新的成本条件的能力，最终伤害了TFP增长。"
    ],
    [
        "My sense is that both sides are right.",
        "我认为，双方都是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the challenge in North Korea is not just a nuclear crisis. It is a crisis of the quality of US leadership.",
        "在这个意义上，朝鲜的挑战不仅仅是一场核危机，更是美国领导质量的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "His son appears to follow in this pragmatic tradition, open to business with the world.",
        "其子习近平似乎继承了其父的务实传统，在与世界接轨的同时开放经济。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is how much faster.",
        "问题在于快多少。"
    ],
    [
        "This common sense of purpose is reflected in our regions’ policies.",
        "这一目的共识反映在两大地区的政策中。"
    ],
    [
        "There are four principal actors in this arena: Israel, Egypt, Hamas, and the Sinai jihadis.",
        "该地区共用四个主要行动方：以色列、埃及、哈马斯和西奈圣战者。"
    ],
    [
        "None of us can foresee what the consequences would be if we were to fail.”",
        "如果我们最终失败，没有人能预见到会导致什么样的后果。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "At any rate, a strong showing would be quite a comeback for the old showman – which is precisely what he has always relished.",
        "无论如何，强势出镜对于老牌表演者来说是很好的咸鱼翻身之道——而贝卢斯科尼更是一直深谙此道。"
    ],
    [
        "If this oil is exploited, the pollution risks will be far higher than anywhere else.",
        "如果这些石油被开采，污染的风险将远远高于其它地方。"
    ],
    [
        "But dig a little closer to look at the quality of democracy, above all in the condition of state institutions such as the judiciary and the police, and the picture becomes less rosy.",
        "但如果更深层次地审视民主的内在质量，特别是从司法和警察等国家机构的层面，情况似乎就变得不那么乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "But the downward trend in the trade balance is clear.",
        "但日本贸易平衡的下降趋势是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the international community’s response to North Korea’s nuclear ambitions generally aligns with this imperative.",
        "幸运的是，国际社会对朝鲜核野心的对策大都符合上述必要的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "And that leads to America’s multilateral trade imbalance.",
        "而这导致了美国的多边贸易失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Lastly, France arguably has one of the world’s most favorable natural environments, with fertile soil and an exceptionally temperate climate.",
        "最后，法国可以说有着世界上最有利的自然环境，土壤肥沃，气候极为温和。"
    ],
    [
        "Religion provides a profound and powerful base of solidarity, and to marginalize it would be a big mistake, just as marginalizing atheistic philosophies would be a mistake.",
        "宗教本身为团结提供了一个深厚有力的基础，而排斥宗教则会酿成大错，就像排斥无神论会酿成大错那样。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences of this choice are clear.",
        "这一选择的后果是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the most striking was the disparity between participants’ interest in discussions of inequality and the ongoing lack of a formal action plan for governments to address it.",
        "其中最显著的是参与国在关于不平等性问题上的利益分歧以及一直缺少解决不平等性的正式政府行动计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The current inflation picture is more confusing.",
        "当前通胀状况比较令人难以厘清。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this process will be long, and many details remain to be worked out.",
        "当然，这一过程将会十分漫长，许多细节还有待制定。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of these purchases have been made in Africa, with two-thirds taking place in countries where hunger is widespread and institutions for establishing formal land ownership are often weak.",
        "大部分农地买卖发生在非洲，其中三分之二发生在饥饿蔓延、缺少正式土地所有权框架的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Society has entrusted scientists and scientific institutions to show respect for life, in particular human life.",
        "社会委托科学家和科研机构来展示我们对生命，尤其是人类生命的敬畏。"
    ],
    [
        "If China manages one day to follow the example of South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, and join the “mainstream of civilized nations” by establishing a liberal democracy, then December 10, 2008, will go down in history as one of the key dates of its conception.",
        "如果中国有朝一日跟随韩国、日本以及台湾的榜样，通过建立自由民主而加入“文明国家的主流”，那么，2008年12月10日就会成为孕育这一变革的关键日期而名垂青史。"
    ],
    [
        "For India and China, an economic trajectory based on fossil fuels could spell catastrophe, as efforts to secure enough for their immense populations ratchet up geopolitical tensions.",
        "对印度和中国而言，基于化石燃料的经济发展轨迹可能会带来灾难，因为其庞大人口的巨额需求可能激化地缘政治紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "As part of this process, Benedict XVI dramatically shortened the number of years that blessed persons had to wait to graduate from beatification to sainthood.",
        "作为这一程序的一部分，本笃十六世大大缩短了受福者从宣福到封圣的等待时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The recovery, according to Krugman, has come not despite the austerity he railed against for years, but because we “seem to have stopped tightening the screws: Public spending isn’t surging, but at least it has stopped falling.",
        "按他的说法，复苏并不是来自他多年来一直反对的紧缩，而是因为我们“似乎已经停止拧紧螺丝：公共支出没有大幅增加，但至少也不再下降。"
    ],
    [
        "First, today’s deep economic uncertainty has broadened ordinary people’s awareness of the influence that companies have on politics, policy, and their own daily lives.",
        "首先，当今深刻的经济不确定性扩大了普通民众对于公司对政治、政策和他们的日常生活的影响的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eurozone, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, and Cyprus all had to restructure their sovereign debt to avoid outright default.",
        "在欧元区，爱尔兰、希腊、葡萄牙和塞浦路斯都不得不重组主权债务以避免直接违约。"
    ],
    [
        "The prospect of US monetary tightening coincides with moves by the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan toward enhanced monetary stimulus.",
        "在美国货币预计将紧缩的同时，欧洲央行和日本央行正在加强货币刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "The governments that emerged from the Arab Spring’s wreckage inherited a broken system of closed deals.",
        "从阿拉伯之春的废墟中崛起的政府继承了一套残破的封闭交易制度。"
    ],
    [
        "But a clear, precise announcement of the decision to pursue it, together with a bold European Central Bank policy in line with its recently announced bond-purchasing program, might be enough to convince both financial markets and EU citizens that a lasting solution is within sight.",
        "但明确宣布决定向这一方向前进并辅之以与最近宣布的债券购买计划相辅相成的大胆的欧洲央行政策将足以让金融市场和欧盟民众确信，持续性解决方案就在眼前。"
    ],
    [
        "Some advocates of open borders estimate that unrestricted movement across borders could double global GDP.",
        "一些开放边境的支持者估计，让跨境流动不受限制可以让全球GDP翻一番。"
    ],
    [
        "Last summer, when he was shown a poster with 57 flags representing the Arab and Islamic countries that will normalize relations with Israel, then candidate Obama told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the Israelis would be “crazy” to reject that plan.",
        "去年夏天，当作为总统竞选人的奥巴马看到一张海报上面绘有57面愿意与以色列实现关系正常化的阿拉伯和伊斯兰国家的旗帜时，他告诉巴勒斯坦总统阿巴斯如果以色列拒绝这一计划将是“疯狂的。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Even prior to that time, England was the economic Wunderkind of Europe.",
        "甚至就在那时以前，英格兰也曾是欧洲的“经济神童”。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the falling cost of processing power creates new efficiencies, particularly in smartphones and related sky-fi connectivity.",
        "诚然，处理能力成本的下降带来了新效率，特别是智能手机和相关空际无线连接。"
    ],
    [
        "This could just be the beginning.",
        "着可能只是开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Often, such prohibitions are attributed to overly strong unions that hold the economy hostage.",
        "人们往往将类似的禁令归咎于裹挟了经济的强势工会。"
    ],
    [
        "The nine precepts – namely, a sovereign’s right to initiate a debt restructuring, sovereign immunity, equitable treatment of creditors, (super) majority restructuring, transparency, impartiality, legitimacy, sustainability, and good faith in negotiations – form the rudiments of an effective international rule of law.",
        "这九项原则是—— 主权启动债务重组的权利，主权豁免权，公平对待所有债权人，获得（超）多数同意重组，透明性，公正性，合理性，可持续性，以及在诚信谈判——形成一个有效的国际化法律规则雏形。"
    ],
    [
        "Current projections indicate that uranium shortages in the coming years can be avoided only if existing and new uranium mines operate according to plan.",
        "照目前的预测，未来铀资源短缺问题的解决只能依靠现有及新铀矿的按步骤开采。"
    ],
    [
        "These shares compare with the mere handfuls of blessed persons from these regions who were named by previous popes.",
        "8%。 而在此前诸任教皇任期中，这些地区的受福者比例可以忽略不计。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of them was motivated by the horrific lessons of the past.",
        "每个条约都源于过去可怕的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the Forum is not yet an official body and has no decision-making power.",
        "遗憾的是，该论坛还算不上官方组织，也没有决策权。"
    ],
    [
        "It also gives countries and companies everywhere an opportunity to redefine their comparative and competitive advantage.",
        "数字化为更多类型的企业、个体和国家扩大了参与全球经济的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "At one end of the spectrum of deprivation, their opportunities are more constrained.",
        "在权力被剥夺的情况下，她们的机会受到更多的制约。"
    ],
    [
        "· Labor-market reform: Persistently high unemployment and large-scale withdrawal from the labor force are a constant reminder of a malfunctioning labor market that needs support through better training and retooling.",
        "· 劳动市场改革：持续的高失业和大量劳动力的退出向来都是劳动市场出现故障、需要通过更好的培训和再评寻予以支持的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "I would not listen to those who advocate excluding investment from fiscal deficits: this would only offer new incentives for creative accounting and unsustainable accumulation of debt.",
        "我不会听取鼓吹把投资从财政赤字中分离出去的言论：这只能重新刺激造假帐和超出承受能力地债务累积。"
    ],
    [
        "This is somewhat reassuring.",
        "这倒让人感到安心一些。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited Greece in October 2010 and agreed to strengthen cooperation between China and Greece during a meeting with then-Prime Minister George Papandreou – timely support that the weakened Greek government was delighted to receive.",
        "中国总理温家宝于2010年10月访问希腊并与时任希腊总理的乔治·帕潘德里欧会面，同意加强两国合作——这对虚弱的希腊政府来说真是求之不得。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as a result, it now has no further scope for increasing public consumption or investment.",
        "但因此，它现在已没有扩大公共开支或投资的余地了。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was only when we caught the media’s attention that the data – detailing the number of wiretaps authorized over the previous 10 years, against whom, and for how long – were released.",
        "但是直到我们把这件事捅到媒体后这些详细描述了过去十年间授权进行的窃听的数量、针对的人员以及进行时间的材料才被公布出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Increased breast cancer risk is also known to be associated with several inherited syndromes, such as Li-Fraumeni syndrome, a condition that is further associated with childhood onset of multiple malignancies including soft tissue sarcomas, leukemias, and brain tumors.",
        "已知患乳腺癌的风险增加也与若干遗传综合症状相关，比方说利弗劳梅尼综合症，利弗劳梅尼综合症患者有可能在儿童期爆发软组织瘤、白血病和脑瘤等多种恶性肿瘤性疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, neither candidate thought it worthwhile to put forward a proposal to assist the more than one billion people living in extreme poverty.",
        "不消说，两位候选人都不认为有必要提出如何帮助生活在极端贫困中的十亿多人的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Greece’s banks must be reopened without delay.",
        "首先，希腊银行必须立刻重新开张。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s be clear: If the US were to insist that “strong and enforceable currency disciplines” be part of trade agreements, no deals would be concluded.",
        "我们必须明确：如果美国坚持“强大且强制的货币纪律”必须作为贸易协定的一部分，那么就无法达成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "If the recent real depreciation achieves that threshold, no further change in the exchange rate should be expected.",
        "如果当前真实贬值已经达到这一阈值，那么就不会产生后续贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Regarding Asia’s ongoing maritime disputes, let me underscore my government’s three principles.",
        "在悬而未决的亚洲海洋纠纷问题上，我要强调我的政府的三条原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Our cities are exploding in size, depleting water resources and creating horrific traffic congestion.",
        "我们的城市规模在爆炸，耗尽了水资源并且造成可怕的交通堵塞。"
    ],
    [
        "We may not be able to imagine what the future holds, but we know that the Networked Society will shape its possibilities.",
        "我们也许无法想象未来将会怎样，但我们非常清楚网络化社会将决定未来的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Had there been no crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other national leaders in the EU would never have been prepared to take these steps.",
        "如果没有危机，德国总理默克尔和其他欧盟国家领导人根本不准备采取这些措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, some nations do better: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg all exceed the United Nations target of allocating the equivalent of 0.7% of gross national income in foreign aid.",
        "当然，有些国家在这方面做得更好：比如瑞典、挪威、丹麦、荷兰和卢森堡等国，这些国家都超过联合国提出的把0. 70 ％的国民总收入用于对外援助。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Italy and Spain will have to come up with credible medium-term plans that will not just restore their fiscal health, but also improve their ability to grow their way out of trouble.",
        "首先，意大利和西班牙必须给出可信的中期计划，不仅要重塑财政健康，还必须改善它们走出困境的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But then one remembers people like Swensen.",
        "但是，人们又记得像斯文森那样的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Faute de mieux , the Americans have allowed the burden of dealing with these issues and sorting out the unfinished business of Dayton to fall to the EU.",
        "不得已之下，美国人会把处理这些事务以及整理代顿协定未完成事务的责任甩给欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "If the eurozone does not want to embrace capital controls, it has only two alternatives: make the local printing of money more difficult, or offer investment guarantees in countries that markets view as insecure.",
        "如果欧元区不想引入资本管制，那么只有两条路可走：遏制地方印钱行为，或者为被市场认为是不安全的国家提供投资担保。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent revelations about the super-viruses “Stuxnet” and “Flame” are particularly disconcerting.",
        "最近关于超级病毒Stuxnet和火焰（Flame）的披露尤其令人不安。"
    ],
    [
        "There is much more that the world can and should be doing to bring about the removal of the Assad regime.",
        "全球各界其实可以且应当去实施更多的手段来驱逐阿萨德政权。"
    ],
    [
        "Tony Blair has promised a referendum on the new EU constitution, which he cannot possibly win.",
        "托尼·布莱尔承诺举行欧盟新宪法的全民公决，在全民公决中他根本不可能有获胜的把握。"
    ],
    [
        "We need targeted government-led sanctions against the US by civilized countries, including international divestment of capital.",
        "我们需要由文明国家的政府领导的有目的对美国的制裁，包括国际资本剥夺。"
    ],
    [
        "Monnet and other European technocrats were not exactly opposed to democracy, but in their zeal to unify Europe’s diverse nation-states, they often appeared to ignore it.",
        "莫内和其他欧洲技术官僚并不反对民主，但出于迫不及待地让欧洲多样化的民族国家统一起来的狂热，他们通常会表现出对民主的忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "Silence can be presumed to be tacit acceptance that rapid increases in long-term asset price are warranted.",
        "沉默可能被理解为默许，也就是允许长期资产价格的快速上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "And Turkey could give a tremendous boost to confidence in the peace process by announcing a symbolic withdrawal of some troops from northern Cyprus as a goodwill gesture – a move that would also greatly assist Turkey’s convergence with Europe.",
        "而土耳其可以宣布从北塞浦路斯象征性撤军，借助这种善意的表示极大地推动人们对和平进程的信心——这一举动也会对土耳其与欧洲的融合有很大的帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders use emotional intelligence to manage their “charisma” or personal magnetism across changing contexts.",
        "领导者用情商来在不断变化的情境中管理他们的“魅力”或个人吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, both Turkey and Greece could reduce their military spending (though naturally to varying degrees, given their respective geopolitical environments).",
        "比方说，土耳其和希腊均有可能削减军事开支（虽然考虑到两国各自的地缘政治环境，其开支削减程度或许会有所不同）。"
    ],
    [
        "Radical new thinking is needed in fisheries management to overcome the ecological and evolutionary problems generated by current practice.",
        "我们需要根本性的新思想来指导渔业管理，以克服因当前不当行为造成的生态和进化问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, 19 of the top 20 American universities in US News and World Report’s much-watched rankings are controlled by alumni (defined as 50% or more representation on the Board of Trustees).",
        "如今，在位居广受关注的《美国新闻和世界报道》（US News and World Report）大学排名20强的大学中，有19所是由校友控制的（以校董事会人数超过半数为标准）。"
    ],
    [
        "I suggested in the 1970’s that a tax be levied on citizens abroad.",
        "我在20世纪70年代时曾建议对侨民征税。"
    ],
    [
        "Expectations of a greater FSB focus on shadow banking stem not only from non-bank financial institutions’ role in fueling the 2008-2009 crisis, but also from the concern that stiffer capital and liquidity requirements for banks might shift risk away from the financial sector’s regulated core.",
        "加大金融稳定性委员会对影子银行的关注的预期不仅来自非银行金融机构在2008—2009年危机中的推波助澜作用，也来自对僵化的资本和流动性要求会导致银行将风险转移到金融部门监管法规管辖范围之外的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, returns on deposits are low (and had been negative), and the state-dominated financial system offers few diversified products.",
        "此外，存款回报极低（此前一直为负），国家主导的金融体系也不提供多样化的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "The political cost is high.",
        "人们因此将会付出高昂的政治代价。"
    ],
    [
        "We all have heard of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg – twenty-something college dropouts who built billion-dollar companies at the cutting edge of global innovation.",
        "我们都知道史蒂夫·乔布斯、比尔·盖茨和马克·扎克伯格——这些20出头的大学辍学者建立了数十亿美元规模的公司，站在了全球创新的最前沿。"
    ],
    [
        "Were the US to succeed in using its military strength, it would create a new, democratic Middle East.",
        "如果美国成功地施展其军事力量，将会缔造出一个崭新、民主的中东；"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund should be an essential port of call for emerging-market and developing countries facing financing needs.",
        "对于面临资金需求的新兴市场和发展中国家来说，国际货币基金组织（IMF）应该成为一个必不可少的避风港。"
    ],
    [
        "And so Russia goes on, undertaking revolutionary changes and not changing at all.",
        "俄罗斯就这么继续着，进行着惊天动地的革命，但却什么都改变不了。"
    ],
    [
        "Automatic aircraft operation is already becoming commonplace – especially in the military – but further increases will require a similarly automatic airspace.",
        "航空器的自动化操作已经成为家常便饭，特别是在军事领域，但是进一步提高还是需要同样自动化的空间。"
    ],
    [
        "An effective strategy will need to consider more unconventional solutions, which Republican corporate interests are unlikely to favor.",
        "一套有效的战略必须考虑更加非常规的解决方案，而共和党公司利益集团是不会同意的。"
    ],
    [
        "China would oppose this idea to the bitter end.",
        "中国将誓死杜绝这一可能。"
    ],
    [
        "The “power” ministries – interior and defense – were kept under the control of figures associated with the former regime.",
        "内政和国防部等“实权”部委仍由与前政权相关的人士掌控。"
    ],
    [
        "To make the most of it requires a significant boost in mutual strategic trust.",
        "必须显著提升战略互信才能充分实现中美合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Some governments have demonstrated a better capacity than others for using funds well.",
        "有些政府在专款专用方面做得比其他政府更好。"
    ],
    [
        "With economic agents supposedly possessing perfect information about all possible contingencies, systemic crises could never happen except as a result of accidents and surprises beyond the reach of economic theory.",
        "该理论认为只要所有经济部门都能充分了解所有可能出现的突发事件，那么除非出现某些超出现有经济学理论范畴之外的意外事件，否则系统性危机永远不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The US government is the world’s largest funder of medical research and development; globally, taxpayers finance a third of spending on health research.",
        "美国政府是全球最大的医疗研发出资人； 而在全球范围内，纳税人则承担了1/3的医疗研发开支。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, a renewed focus on comprehensive economic sanctions could turn out to be the bad idea whose time has arrived.",
        "2011年，世界将再次关注全面经济制裁，这个糟糕的办法再度引起世人关注的时刻可能就在眼前。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings us to the $200 trillion question (roughly the value of global money and asset markets, including housing): What could cause macroeconomic volatility to start rising?",
        "这就带给我们一个价值200兆美元的问题(基本上与全球货币和资本市场、包括房地产市场的价值相等)，那就是，什么东西会导致宏观经济波动开始上升？"
    ],
    [
        "At the back end, experts in education, roads, electricity, water, and health care design and analyze project loans.",
        "在后端，教育、道路、电力、水利和卫生专家设计和分析项目贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s productivity slowdown is probably more benign.",
        "中国生产率减速的情况也许不如美国严重。"
    ],
    [
        "By spurring increased business activity, it will actually increase Japan’s corporate-tax revenue.",
        "事实上，通过刺激商业活动，这能够增加日本的公司税收入。"
    ],
    [
        "In the interim, the use of public balance sheets to purchase enough equity to prevent the market from over-correcting may be justified.",
        "在此期间，使用公共资产购买足够的权益，以防止市场矫枉过正可能是合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "The fierce debate concerning the presidency underscored the symbolic significance of the post in Turkey’s domestic balance of power.",
        "关于总统资格的激烈辩论也凸现了这一职位在土耳其国内权力平衡当中的象征意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Greenspan listened patiently and quietly to Bernanke’s logic.",
        "格林斯潘对于伯南克的逻辑洗耳恭听。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2007, the Metallurgical Corporation of China won the concession for the Aynak copper deposit in Logar Province.",
        "2007年，中冶集团拿下了洛加尔省艾纳克（Aynak）铜矿的开采许可。"
    ],
    [
        "Like a doomed marriage, it is better to have rules for the inevitable divorce that make separation less costly to both sides.",
        "就像感情破裂的婚姻，为不可避免的离婚分居制定规则对夫妻双方都有好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Such cooperation has already begun.",
        "这样的合作已经开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is a big hole in the Dow 36,000 logic.",
        "当然，amplt;amplt;道指36000点ampgt;ampgt;一书存在严重的逻辑漏洞。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the French really violate their values to such an extent?",
        "法国人真能如此辱没自己的价值观吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Ocean acidification and warming has been occurring at alarming rates, and are already having a serious impact on some of our most precious marine ecosystems – an impact that will only intensify.",
        "海洋酸化和气候变暖正在以惊人的速度推进，并且已经对一些我们最宝贵的海洋生态系统造成了严重影响——而且这种影响只会不断加剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, with advertising, the manipulation is particularly overt.",
        "当然，广告的影响是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "In an effort to avoid resolutions or measures that expose their disagreements, the world’s great powers have adopted the habit of organizing worldwide debates and conferences that revert to decision-making by consensus.",
        "为避免将相互间分歧公之于众的决议或措施，世界大国已经习惯于组织世界范围的会议及讨论，重新恢复了以共识为基础的决策机制。"
    ],
    [
        "And Ukraine is not alone.",
        "而乌克兰并不孤单。"
    ],
    [
        "With respect to climate change, however, the effects of greater reliance on shale gas are mixed.",
        "不过，从气候变化角度看，更依赖页岩气的结果很不好说。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the introduction of multidrug therapy in the early 1980’s, roughly 16 million people around the world have been cured.",
        "20世纪80年代初引入的联合化学疗法治愈了世界各地1，600万名麻风病患者。"
    ],
    [
        "The nuclear pact between Iran and the Security Council’s five permanent members (the US, China, France, Russia, and the UK) plus Germany, has just provided a powerful demonstration of the Council’s capacity to lead.",
        "伊朗和联合国五大常任理事国（美中法俄英）加德国所形成的核协议有力地证明，安理会具备领导力。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite these problems, prosecuting genocide might be worthwhile if it were the only way to hold mass murderers accountable.",
        "尽管存在上述种种问题，但如果它是追究大规模屠杀责任的唯一方式，针对种族灭绝提起诉讼或许依然是值得的。"
    ],
    [
        "With the end of the Cold War, the containment of the Soviet Union ushered in by Kissinger’s visit could no longer serve as the basis for US-China relations.",
        "随着冷战结束，基辛格访华所引入的遏制苏联计划已不再是中美关系的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, China might pursue a shift in the dynamic of international financial regulation.",
        "与此同时，中国可以追求改变国际金融监管动态。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico provides further proof that the market alone is not enough.",
        "墨西哥则是提供了另一个单靠市场并不足够的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – In May, Pope Francis released his historic encyclical, Laudatio Si, or “Praise Be.”",
        "普林斯顿—上个月，教皇方济各发布了他历史性的教皇通谕《赞美你》（Laudatio Si）。"
    ],
    [
        "Skin cancer, long thought to be a disease of little public health significance, has now become epidemic.",
        "长久以来，人们都认为对公众健康危害微不足道的皮肤癌如今也大有流行之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the actual behavior of oil prices is consistent with speculation.",
        "而且，油价的实际表现和投机行为一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Why is it, for example, that advanced countries gave away one of their biggest advantages, the rule of law?",
        "比如为何发达国家会放弃了它们其中一项最大的优势——法治呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s rapid economic growth and urbanization are also creating new health challenges.",
        "非洲的快速经济增长和城市化也在造成新的健康挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, the Obama administration determined that, like in Tunisia and Egypt, the “Arab Spring” uprising in Syria – widely viewed as a broad-based democratic movement – would topple Assad.",
        "2011年时奥巴马政府认定与突尼斯和埃及相近的叙利亚“阿拉伯之春”起义——被外界普遍视为拥有广泛群众基础的民主运动——将推翻阿萨德政权。"
    ],
    [
        "By submitting to a common regime of speaking, writing, reading, observing, and calculating, the “upright ape” acquired the capacity to reason in public.",
        "通过遵守共同的说,写，读，察以及算体系，“站立的猿人”获得了当众推理的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "These people now account for many of the eight million Iraqis who are in absolute poverty and in need of emergency assistance.",
        "这些人构成了八百万处于赤贫状态并且需要紧急援助的伊拉克人中的大部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Simple arithmetic suggests that with $3 trillion of reserves, the authorities can hold out for at least a couple of years.",
        "不难算出，拥有3万亿美元外汇储备的中国当局还可以支撑数年。"
    ],
    [
        "This is something for Wolfowitz’s successor to bear in mind.",
        "沃尔福威茨的继任者应当记住这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "People supported a president, Vladimir Putin, who was devoted to this “stabilization” agenda.",
        "民众支持弗拉基米尔·普京总统，后者则致力于稳定俄国秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in October 2011, the House approved the much-debated US-Korea Free Trade Agreement with 59 Democrats in favor.",
        "而在2011年10月，众议院通过了广受争议的美国-韩国自由贸易协定（US-Korea Free Trade Agreement），59位民主党投了支持票。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, the strategy has proved not to be so straightforward.",
        "实践已经证明这个策略并没有这么简单。"
    ],
    [
        "The only obstacle remaining to Palestinian leaders are the Americans.",
        "对于巴勒斯坦领导人来说，目前唯一剩下的障碍就是美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this backdrop, it is not surprising that Abe left the recent “onsen summit” with dashed hopes of resolving the territorial dispute, while Putin returned home with 68 new commercial accords.",
        "在这样的背景下，安倍在“温泉峰会”解决领土争议的希望破灭，而俄罗斯带着68份新商业协议回国，这一结果一点都不令人惊讶。"
    ],
    [
        "Mofaz’s statement is symptomatic of a perception that is now deeply entrenched, not only in the Middle East, but in the United States as well.",
        "莫法兹的言论代表了一种不仅在中东、而且也是在美国也根深蒂固的观念。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in fast-growth developing countries, surplus labor is awaiting inclusion in the modern economy, and the pressure is on to sustain job creation.",
        "即使是高增长发展中国家，也有剩余劳动力等待着现代经济的吸收，如何保持就业岗位创造趋势成了一个大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither could have anticipated the impact of what he was doing.",
        "这两位先驱都不可能预料到自己所作所为所产生的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU has since 2003 begun to assert itself operationally as well, carrying out 23 ESDP missions, six of which have been significant military operations.",
        "自 2003 年始，欧盟就开始声称自己也可以独立行动，并执行了 23 次欧洲防务和安全任务，其中还有 6 次是重大的军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "More than a drive for a different peace, the No campaign was a struggle for power.",
        "反对阵营不是要求不同的和平协议，而是在为权力斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, failure to do so appears to explain why the official response to the Greek debt crisis has been so inadequate.",
        "而事实上也正是在这一点上的失败揭示了官方对希腊债务危机的应对何以如此失当。"
    ],
    [
        "This would operate much like the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, established in 2010 to address America’s fiscal challenges, or the military-base-closing commissions of the 1980s and 1990s.",
        "其操作可以类似于2010年为了解决美国财政挑战而成立的跨党派的国家财政责任和改革委员会（National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform），或者20世纪八九十年代的军事基地关闭委员会（military-base-closing commissions）。"
    ],
    [
        "President George W. Bush was more focused on his “global war on terror.”",
        "小布什总统更专注于他的“全球反恐战争”。"
    ],
    [
        "Houses are riddled with bullet holes.",
        "房屋上布满了弹孔。"
    ],
    [
        "Fifty years of defense dependence on the US has created a powerful “peace industry” in Europe whose primary business is to fight defense spending tooth and nail.",
        "防务五十年来一直依赖美国，在欧洲形成了强大的“和平产业”，其主要业务就是竭尽全力与国防开支作斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "The ultimate goal, of course, is to encourage businesses to clean up their acts, and today, a growing share of business leaders understand that pricing carbon is one of the best ways to combat climate change.",
        "当然，最终的目标是鼓励企业净化它们的行为，如今，越来越多的商界领袖认识到碳定价是遏制气候变化的最佳办法之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Russia’s leaders know very well that NATO’s missile defense is not directed at their country.",
        "当然，俄罗斯领导人十分清楚，北约的导弹防御并没有对准俄罗斯。"
    ],
    [
        "But they lack the sensitivity to provide adequate diagnostic information for many health conditions.",
        "但它缺少敏感性，无法提供许多健康状况的足够的诊断信息。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, it is conceivable that a concerted effort to advance research on albedo modification could spur action to cut emissions, much like a graphic look at the side effects of chemotherapy prompts some to stop smoking.",
        "而事实上，可以想象推进改变反射率的研究共同努力能够刺激减排行动，就像化疗副作用的照片促使一些人戒烟那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Why focus on financial regulation when the risks of an immediate collapse are small, and when the details are so tedious?",
        "在公众眼中既然迅速崩溃的风险已经很小，法律规章的细节又是如此冗长乏味，又何必再着眼于金融管制呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Now that major airlines have flights to and from the island, Cuban-Americans and any other tourists can travel there freely, which means that there are investment opportunities in hospitality, telecommunications, transportation, retail banking, and other related industries.",
        "如今各主要航空公司都开通了往返古巴的航班，古巴裔美国人和任何其他游客可以自由旅行，这意味着在酒店，电信，交通，零售银行和其他相关行业都有投资机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community needs a setting where it can debate the most sensitive economic issues, including – but certainly not limited to – exchange rate issues.",
        "国际社会需要有一种能够辩论最为敏感的经济问题的环境，包括汇率问题。 但是当然不应当局限于此。"
    ],
    [
        "As Qaddafi fought his opponents this summer, ten states in southern Sudan broke away, claiming independence as the 54th country on the African continent.",
        "在今年夏天卡扎菲与反对派混战的时候，南部苏丹的十个州也宣布独立，成为非洲大陆的第54个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "“[military and intelligence] operations outside the country are taking place without the government’s knowledge or orders....Only after an airplane is hijacked are we made aware of it.",
        "“伊朗在国外的（军事和间谍）行动都是在政府不知情或未下令的情况下执行的…直到客机被劫，我们才知道有这个行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike Trump and the United Kingdom’s “Leave” campaign, the National Front already has a predictable core constituency, amounting to about one-quarter of the electorate.",
        "不同于特朗普和英国的脱欧运动，国民阵线已经拥有了占选民总数约1/4的可以预见的核心选民。"
    ],
    [
        "Ben Bernanke, the nominee to replace Alan Greenspan this month as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board, is a highly capable economist who has devoted his professional life to understanding the historical role of central banks and the problems that they have faced.",
        "本月将替代格林斯潘出任美联储主席的本·贝南克是一位非常能干的经济学家，他毕生都用来研究中央银行的作用和它们所面对的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Its model should not be Palestine and permanent battle, but Switzerland and permanent prosperity.",
        "我们的榜样不应该是巴勒斯坦的永久战争，而应该是瑞士的持久繁荣与和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Housing bubbles are not difficult to spot; on the contrary, they typically make headlines long before they pop.",
        "房地产泡沫不难看出； 相反，它们常常在形成燎原之势前就占据媒体头条。"
    ],
    [
        "One is reminded of Oscar Wilde’s famous quip about the problem with socialism: it takes up too many evenings.",
        "你不禁会想起王尔德（Oscar Wilde）嘲讽社会主义的问题的名言：它占用了太多夜晚。"
    ],
    [
        "One way to do this is by putting an artificially high bookkeeping price on intra-firm imports, and an artificially low bookkeeping price on exports.",
        "实现这一点的其中一个方法是对企业内的进口刻意设置较高的记账价格，同时故意改低出口记账价格。"
    ],
    [
        "So what underlies the persistence of gaping inequality and stalled progress?",
        "那么，是什么造成了不平等性的持续和进步的停滞？"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – It has become something of a mantra among diplomats and other foreign-policy analysts that there is no military solution to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.",
        "慕尼黑—俄罗斯和乌克兰冲突不存在军事解决方案，这已经成了外交官和外交政策分析师中间的一个魔咒。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, suppose that EU leaders recognized that the only feasible way to maintain European stability and progress would be by adopting the two-track or “concentric circles” model, with a more politically integrated eurozone surrounded by a looser economic confederation of non-euro countries.",
        "现在，假设欧盟领导人认识到保持欧洲稳定和进步的唯一可行方法是实行双轨制或采用“同心圆”模式，靠近核心部位的是政治更为一体化的欧元区，而外围则是由非欧元区国家构成的松散的经济联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet China hopes to avoid precisely this outcome – which is a key reason why it has so far refused to escalate sanctions further.",
        "然而中国恰恰希望避免出现这一结果——这也是该国迄今为止拒绝进一步升级制裁的一个关键原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Then came Japan’s terrible earthquake, which severely damaged both its economy and global supply chains.",
        "接着，日本大地震打击了日本经济，也重创了全球供应链。"
    ],
    [
        "Promoting the participation of girls and women in education and economic activity is also important.",
        "促进更多女孩和妇女受教育和参与经济活动也十分重要。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no denying that local-government debt is a ticking time bomb for the Chinese economy.",
        "不可否认，地方政府债务是中国经济的定时炸弹。"
    ],
    [
        "And that starts with better nutrition for all.",
        "而起点便是为所有人提供更好的营养。"
    ],
    [
        "But no one agrees on what it entails.",
        "但对于结构性改革的细节又是众说纷纭。"
    ],
    [
        "The indices name and shame poor performers, so it is no surprise that these countries – like China, which is ranked 91st – object to Doing Business.",
        "指数给出表现不佳的国家，让它们蒙羞，因此，无怪乎这些国家——比如中国，它排名第91——反对反对《营商环境报告》。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, around 4% of the population in 1950 was employed in agriculture, 38% in industry (including mining, construction, and manufacturing), and 58% in services.",
        "在1950年的美国大概4%的人从事农业，38%从事工业（包括采矿，建筑和制造），58%从事服务业。"
    ],
    [
        "The brain, bone, and mineral mass scale to height by a power greater than two; while fat mass scales to height by a power of 1.8-2.6, depending on the population being studied and the means of measurement used.",
        "根据研究人群和测量方法的不同，大脑，骨骼和矿物质质量与身高的比率大于二次方； 而脂肪量与身高的比率为1."
    ],
    [
        "Ignoring previous precedent and all economic common sense, he threw international financial markets into turmoil.",
        "他无视先例和一切经济常识，让国际金融市场陷入了混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Spending a dollar on diagnosis and treatment pays back $43 by giving people many more years of productive life.",
        "在诊断和治疗上每投入1美元能带来43美元的效益，让曾经的患者拥有很多年的高效生活。"
    ],
    [
        "One thing they all have in common is that their primary focus was on the social, political, and economic makeup of the Western European world between 1450 and 1900.",
        "他们的一个共同点是他们的主要焦点集中在1450—1900年间西欧世界的社会、政治和经济构成上。"
    ],
    [
        "Like all statecraft, it would require an aptitude for careful diplomatic engineering, respect for facts and truth, historical knowledge, and a capacity for cautious examination of complex situations when formulating (or revising) policies.",
        "和一切治国术一样，这需要小心引导外交的天赋，需要尊重事实和真相、历史知识和在制定（或修改）政策时仔细考察复杂情况的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "I did not come away from reading them with a feeling that I know how to do what he did.",
        "我读后并不感觉我知道了他的成功之道。"
    ],
    [
        "Global bipolarity had not yet vanished.",
        "全球两极化还没有彻底消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, we can still conclude from the Iraqi experience that while the development of democracy can be aided from outside, it cannot easily be imposed by force.",
        "尽管如此，我们仍然可以从伊拉克战争中得出结论：那就是尽管民主的发展可以适当地借助外力，但却不能通过武力强制获得。"
    ],
    [
        "What was it that made France so formidable an enemy, particularly of Russia?",
        "是什么使法国这个敌人如此强大，尤其是对俄国？"
    ],
    [
        "And these goals are perfectly aligned with what all responsible officials want.",
        "这些目标是任何负责任的官员都想要的。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, if so much unchecked discretion was left to the Council, rather than to the Commission, \"peer pressure\" to restore budget balance might easily turn into \"peer protection.\"",
        "同时，如果给欧洲议会，而不是委员会，过多欠考虑的自由决定权，那么恢复预算平衡的'同辈压力'也许会很容易变为'同辈保护'。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be a long time before we fully understand the new operating environment.",
        "我们可能需要很长时间去理解新环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Perversely, it protects the strong against the weak.",
        "它保护强者、欺凌弱者。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe faces other worries.",
        "欧洲面临着其他担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the November 13 attacks in Paris, security has become the overriding French objective.",
        "11月13日巴黎袭击发生以来，安全成为法国压倒一切的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Here the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to which a lot of hope was attached, has so far not been up to the task.",
        "在这方面，被世人寄予厚望的欧安组织到目前仍毫无举动。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, information technology and digital networks have automated a range of white- and blue-collar jobs.",
        "与此同时，信息技术和数字网络让许多白领和蓝领工作实现了自动化。"
    ],
    [
        "I am proud that Poland, thanks to the expertise gained in the Mazowiecki years and after, can provide advice to the European Union’s eastern and southern neighbors, as well as countries like Tunisia and Burma.",
        "我很自豪凭借马佐维耶茨基执政期间及其后积累的经验，波兰仍能为欧盟的东南部邻国、以及突尼斯和缅甸等国家提供有价值的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Dutch arrived in the seventeenth century, Tasmanians had the simplest technology ever encountered by European explorers.",
        "当17世纪荷兰人抵达时，塔斯马尼亚人的技术是欧洲探险者所见过最简单的。"
    ],
    [
        "The new United Nations tribunal that was formed – nearly five decades after the final judgments were rendered at Nuremberg and Tokyo – became the forerunner of ad hoc courts to prosecute perpetrators of Rwanda’s genocide, Charles Taylor and his blood-diamond butchers in Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge killers in Cambodia.",
        "而当时为此而新设的联合国特别法庭——在纽伦堡和东京审判结束了近半个世纪之后——也开创了先河，为随后审判卢旺达大屠杀，追究利比里亚前军事独裁者查尔斯·泰勒以及他那帮塞拉利昂滴血钻石屠夫，以及审判柬埔寨红色高棉屠杀者提供了示范。"
    ],
    [
        "Abbas is now setting his sights on Europe, and would ask Turkey to serve as a go-between.",
        "阿巴斯现在将目光钉住欧洲，并将要求土耳其扮演中间人的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a basic test like a CAT scan would require transport to another regional hospital.",
        "即使像断层扫描这样最基本的检查，也需要转到该地区的其它医院来进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, while the government may have suffered one major public defeat, the PiS’s underlying ideological illiberalism remains intact.",
        "但是，尽管波兰政府可能遭到重大公共挫折，作为PiS意识形态基础的反自由主义（illiberalism）仍然完好无损。"
    ],
    [
        "Proposed scientific advances require careful validation and replication by independent scientists.",
        "提出的科学进展需要得到独立的科学家认真的证实和复制。"
    ],
    [
        "NEWPORT BEACH – Two variants of financial crisis continue to wreak havoc on Western economies, fueling joblessness and poverty: the one that we read about regularly in newspapers, involving governments around the world; and a less visible one at the level of small and medium-size businesses and households.",
        "发自纽波特滩——金融危机的两个变体正继续蹂躏着西方经济，令失业和贫穷状况进一步加剧：一个是我们经常在报纸上读到的涉及各国政府的金融危机； 另一个不那么起眼的则是中小型企业和家庭层面上的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "All that is needed is for wealthier countries to provide budgetary support and technical assistance to the low-income countries that need it.",
        "所需要的全部只是富裕国家向有需要的低收入国家提供预算支持和技术援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Either way, the dollar collapse has to continue.",
        "不论在哪种情况下，美元的贬值都会继续。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this turned out to be the wrong thing to do, as the monetarist interpretation of the Great Depression was, to put it bluntly, wrong in significant respects and radically incomplete.",
        "不幸的是，事实证明这是错的，直言不讳地说，货币主义者对大萧条的解释在众多方面都是错误的，并且非常不完整。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, Czech politicians such as former Deputy Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, Minister of the Interior Milan Chovanec, and former President Václav Klaus all portray refugees and migrants as freeloaders who have their sights set on generous welfare benefits.",
        "恰恰相反，捷克前副总理安德烈·巴比什、内政部长米兰·切瓦尼和前总理瓦茨拉夫·克劳斯等政界人士将所有难民和移民描绘成死死盯住慷慨福利待遇的不速之客。"
    ],
    [
        "Before invoking self-determination as a moral principle, one must heed the diplomatic version of the Hippocratic Oath: Primum non nocere (first, do no harm).",
        "在间自决作为一项道德原则之前，必须遵循外交的希波克拉底誓言：Primum non nocere（首先，不要伤害）。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to face the fact that Europe’s peripheral countries have to shrink their nominal GDP to regain competitiveness. The only question is whether they will take the euro down as well.",
        "我们应该直面欧洲外围国家必须减少名义GDP以重获竞争力的现实。 唯一的问题是欧元是不是会被它们拖下水。"
    ],
    [
        "The men of Gaza, the activists or policemen of Hamas whom we observe through our military binoculars, were in the past the activists and policemen of Fatah.",
        "加沙的男人们，那些我们通过军用望远镜观察的哈马斯活动分子或警察，以前曾是法塔赫的活动分子和警察。"
    ],
    [
        "Schools underperform; poverty remains high; and the resulting high rates of unemployment and crime impose huge financial and social costs on US society.",
        "贫困率居高不下； 而由此导致的高失业和犯罪率给美国社会带来了巨大的金融和社会成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks understandably seek more reserves as their economies grow.",
        "当一个国家的经济增长时，该国的中央银行当然会储备更多的外汇。"
    ],
    [
        "In the UK, a hundred Sharia courts adjudicate on divorce and other family cases, prompting Home Secretary Theresa May to promise a review of Sharia courts “to determine whether they are consistent with British values.”",
        "在英国，有一百家伊斯兰法庭裁决着离婚和其他家庭案件，促使内政大臣特蕾莎·梅（Theresa May）承诺要审查伊斯兰法庭“已决定它们是否与英国价值观一致”。"
    ],
    [
        "But the state of US politics today does highlight the need for voters everywhere to have access to complete and objective accounts of what is happening in their country and the world.",
        "但当今美国政局确实突显出，世界各国的选民都需要能够获得关于国内和国际上正在发生什么的完整可观的报道。"
    ],
    [
        "To win the support needed to implement these reforms without undermining political stability or social cohesion, Modi must demonstrate that he is an inclusive leader capable of cooperating with Indians outside of his Hindu nationalist base – including the country’s 150 million-plus Muslims.",
        "要赢得实施这些改革而不破坏政治稳定或社会团结所需要的支持，莫迪必须证明他是一个包容的领导人，有能力与不属于其印度教民族主义者圈子的印度人合作——包括1,500多万印度穆斯林。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a system does not exist on a global scale today, which may explain how America got into such trouble.",
        "今天全球范围内并没有这样的体系存在，这也许可以解释美国陷入麻烦的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "And both the educational achievement gap and the college completion gap by income level have been increasing in the US over the past few decades.",
        "而在过去几十年中由教育成就差距和完成大学学业差距导致的收入水平差异正不断扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "The Islamists signed on, pledging their respect for the rules of the game.",
        "伊斯兰教党派也签署了这份章程，誓言尊重游戏规则。"
    ],
    [
        "For many developing countries, labor is a strategic production factor, just as commodities are for resource-rich economies.",
        "对许多发展中国家而言，劳动力是战略性生产要素，正如大宗商品之于资源富裕经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "And stagnation, if not worse, is precisely what recent British economic reports are showing.",
        "而停滞（如果不是倒退的话）正是近期英国经济报告所显示的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, we must focus not just on technological progress and economic productivity, but also on how these forces are affecting people, communities, and the environment.",
        "推而广之，我们不能只注重技术进步和经济效率，还必须注重技术力量影响人、团体和环境的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Sit-ins, reminiscent of the 18 days of January and February 2011 that ended Mubarak’s rule, have already started.",
        "为纪念推翻穆巴拉克统治的2011年1—2月的18天而进行的静坐示威活动已经开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Implementing an agreement with robust limits on greenhouse-gas emissions will first require honoring the commitments that have already been made, including promises by developed countries to spend $100 billion a year by 2020 to help the developing world mitigate its contribution to climate change and adapt to a warming world.",
        "实施一项严格限制温室气体排放的协议将首先要求履行已经作出的承诺，包括发达国家承诺到2020年每年花费1000亿美元帮助发展中国家缓解气候变化和适应不断变暖的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank has provided $250 million to support the continued construction of these industrial parks.",
        "世界银行提供了2. 5亿美元支持工业园的继续建设。"
    ],
    [
        "On the question of refugees, Western countries should take in as many as their populations can assimilate, demonstrating a willingness to make good on the universal values they profess for both moral and political reasons.",
        "在难民问题上，西方国家应该根据消化能力尽可能多地接收难民，证明它们愿意基于它们出于道德和政治原因所标榜的普世价值行善。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese have devised a novel solution.",
        "中国人想出了一个新奇的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "ALGIERS – As G7 leaders convene in Ise-Shima, Japan, the global economy’s fragility is a top concern.",
        "阿尔及尔—G7领导人在日本伊势志摩开会，全球经济的脆弱性是一大关注点。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the opposite is needed: massive economic and political investment, and closer cooperation.",
        "不仅如此，欧洲还应该积极行动起来，增大对乌克兰的经济政治投入力度，加强同它的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as an alternative to the IMF proposal, there could be purely private recession insurance.",
        "但是，作为国际货币基金组织建议替代东西，可以有完全私营的衰退保险。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, they were the gross flows of finance from the US to Europe that allowed European banks to leverage their balance sheets, and the large, matching flows of money from European banks into toxic US subprime-linked securities.",
        "而是美国流向欧洲、让欧洲银行提高资产负债表杠杆的毛金融流以及与之对应的从欧洲银行流向与有毒美国按揭相关证券的资金流。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Late Imperial Dilemma",
        "美国的末期帝国主义难题"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Doom Loop in Reverse",
        "逆转了的欧洲厄运循环"
    ],
    [
        "But, at a time when northern European citizens are full of resentment against banks and seething with anger over transfers to the south, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her peers did not want to ask their taxpayers to pay for a partner country’s mistakes.",
        "但是，在北欧人民强烈反对银行、反感向南欧的转移支付的当口，德国总理默克尔及其同道并不想要求他们的纳税人为伙伴国的错误买单。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2007, by contrast – and this constitutes real progress – a large segment of the French population is expressing its frustration with the system by being tempted to vote for the “extreme center,” i.e., Bayrou.",
        "在2007年，与此相反，法国民众的很大一部分通过把票投给“极中间派”，也就贝鲁来表达对体制的不满，而这就构成了切实的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – The Chinese government’s very public display of compassion and transparency in response to the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province appears to have strengthened its authority and its bonds with ordinary Chinese people.",
        "北京--四川强烈地震后，中国政府表现出同情和透明。 这好像加强了其权威及与普通民众的情义。"
    ],
    [
        "Charisma proves surprisingly hard to identify in advance.",
        "令人吃惊的是，魅力是难以事先测定的。"
    ],
    [
        "(And, of course, the lower one’s social status, the greater one’s obligations.)",
        "（当然，一个人的社会阶级越低，他的义务越大。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "If new members and regions are not offered a seat at the table, the Council will face increasing irrelevance – and the world, more than ever in need of effective conflict resolution, will be far worse off.",
        "如果新成员和地区得不到席位，安理会将面临日益增加的枝节问题——而比以前更需要有效冲突解决方案的世界境况会差很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Their distinguishing feature is that they can be bought for money.",
        "它们有所区分的特点是它们可以用钱来买到。"
    ],
    [
        "It should become a catalytic lender whose participation in eurozone programs remains desirable but not indispensable – giving it the possibility to disagree and walk away.",
        "它应该是一家起催化作用的贷款机构，其对欧元区计划的残余应该是锦上添花而非雪中送炭，这样才有不同意和退出的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider President George H.W. Bush, who did not do “the vision thing,” but whose sound management and execution underpinned one of the most successful US foreign-policy agendas of the past half-century.",
        "比如，老布什总统从来不做“远在天边的事”，但其踏实的管理和执行打造了美国过去50年中最成功的外交日程。"
    ],
    [
        "The mechanism works all the same.",
        "机制依然会起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, with an “every man for himself” approach, everyone will sink.",
        "简言之，在“人人为己”的原则指导下，我们将会一起完蛋。"
    ],
    [
        "Even France’s new president, Nicolas Sarkozy – thought by many to be a pro-American foreign policy hawk – is backing away from his campaign promise to maintain defense spending at 2% of GDP.",
        "法国许多人认为新总统萨尔科奇是一个亲美国的外交政策上的鹰派，但即使是他也正在从他的保持军费开支在GDP的2%的竞选许诺中退缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Demographers portray a country in 2050 in which non-Hispanic whites will be only a slim majority.",
        "人口学趋势表明，到2050年，非西班牙裔白人将只占微弱多数。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why so many studies do not consider the economic benefits of tariff-free transatlantic trade as the primary reason for pursuing it.",
        "这也是为何大多数研究都不会将无关税跨大西洋贸易的经济效益作为协议重点的主要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "The effect is direct when it comes to oil prices.",
        "油价的影响是直接的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the SEC recently approved the use of social media like Facebook and Twitter for publicly traded companies’ disclosures to investors.",
        "事实上，美国证券交易委员会最近批准将Facebook和推特等社交媒体用于上市公司面向投资者的信息披露。"
    ],
    [
        "The German dogma of “no payments without counter-performance and control” was thus off the table, and the bargain struck in the early hours of the morning was exactly the opposite of what she had wanted.",
        "德国的“没有对等表现和控制，就不给钱”立场已经破产，当天早晨所进行的激烈讨价还价正好与默克尔的如意算盘背道而驰。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this lesson should not be elevated to a dogma.",
        "当然，这样的经验教训不应该被上升到教条的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Great Britain may be headed for a referendum on EU membership in 2017 unless certain terms of its membership are revised.",
        "英国可能在2017年举行关于是否保留欧盟成员的公投，除非其欧盟成员条件作出修订。"
    ],
    [
        "For both men, the goal of clinging to power was a top priority.",
        "对于上述两位领导人来说，想方设法攀附权力才是其首要目标。"
    ],
    [
        "That combination could yield decent pensions only if the returns on savings were astronomical.",
        "只有储蓄回报率达到天文数字这样的组合才能带来满意的养老金数额。"
    ],
    [
        "By working to revive the domestic economy, the Fed, like other advanced-country central banks, is simply fulfilling its mandate.",
        "美联储和其他发达国家央行一样，它们只是为了重振国内经济而行使了自己的使命。"
    ],
    [
        "Labor standards, minimum wages, and unions are part of the solution, as they were in countries that developed successfully.",
        "劳动力标准、最低工资和工会都是解决方案的一部分，正如它们在许多国家得到成功地发展那样。"
    ],
    [
        "For strength unalloyed by checks and balances – and by a capacity for self-critical reflection about the rightness and wrongness of state action – can be unnerving.",
        "没有对国家行为的对错自我反省的能力以及没有制衡的强力会让人害怕。"
    ],
    [
        "It increasingly appears that Ukraine is becoming locked in a “frozen conflict” – Russia’s foreign-policy specialty.",
        "乌克兰危机日益表现出陷入“冻结冲突”的迹象——此乃俄罗斯外交政策的专长。"
    ],
    [
        "When the German people become aware of the consequences – one hopes not too late – they will want to correct the defects in the euro's design.",
        "当德国人意识到后果时——但愿这一刻不要来得太晚——他们将会愿意纠正欧元的设计缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "But Britons were not astonished. Like Tony Blair, Thatcher has long been a British product with more appeal in export markets than at home.",
        "和托尼·布莱尔一样，撒切尔一直是英国造产品——在出口市场远比国内受欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "A more damning charge is that market incentives change behavior in socially damaging ways.",
        "更加要命的指责是市场激励改变行为，导致它们有害于社会。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the report, the EU set dates by which close confinement of these animals would be prohibited.",
        "接到这份报告后，欧盟确定了禁锢动物禁令的生效日期。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Wall Street financiers, having received their gobs of cash, are returning to their fiscal religion of low deficits.",
        "ampnbsp;ampnbsp;ampnbsp; 许多华尔街金融人士家中早已堆金砌玉，现在又重返其低赤字的财政宗教。"
    ],
    [
        "This belief in the potential of technological progress strikes some climate activists as naïve or even delusional.",
        "我这种对技术进步潜力的信心被某些气候活动分子认为是痴心妄想。"
    ],
    [
        "The idea that he would seek to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s EU membership is also familiar from his earlier speeches and interviews.",
        "此前的演讲和采访已经表露了他希望重新谈判英国作为欧盟成员条件的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "Sino-US cooperation on this flashpoint could be a huge step forward in building much-needed bilateral strategic trust.",
        "中美合作可以为建设迫切需要的双边战略互信迈出重要的一步。"
    ],
    [
        "· Mobilize men and boys against violence through educational programs.",
        "· 通过教育计划动员男性和男孩反对暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "East Asian economies could then, over time, cooperate to enhance regional exchange-rate stability, thereby creating a more conducive environment for intra-regional trade.",
        "这样，假以时日，东亚经济体能够相互合作增强地区汇率稳定，从而创造更有利于地区内贸易的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "But they also wanted banks to direct more resources to financing domestic investments and industry.",
        "但他们也要求银行配置更多资金于国内投资和产业领域。"
    ],
    [
        "But a wholesale structural overhaul of the global economy’s institutional architecture is improbable, regardless of the context.",
        "但即使在这一环境下，对全球经济的机构结构进行彻底改造可能性仍然很低。"
    ],
    [
        "· Qualification or disqualification with respect to the use of IMF or other credit facilities (for example, central banks’ swap lines).",
        "· 获得IMF和其他信用便利（比如中央银行互换业务）等方面的资质。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even something like a self-fulfilling debt crisis is thinkable: if market participants believe that a default or an exit from EMU is imminent, this would drive up government bond yields for the country in question.",
        "实际上，甚至可以想象会发生自找的债务危机一类的事情：如果市场的参与者相信违约或是退出欧洲货币联盟正在逼近某国，将会迫使该国政府债券的收益上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Acknowledging this, CGIAR signed a Trust Agreement with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1994, pledging to keep the seeds in their collections free of any intellectual property claims.",
        "世界农业研究咨询小组为确认上述事实曾于1994年与联合国粮农组织（FAO）签订信托协议，承诺保持所搜集种子的无知识产权状态。"
    ],
    [
        "When you imagine Greece, Italy, and Iraq, it is likely that you imagine a dry landscape with open views, the way they look today.",
        "当你想象希腊、意大利和伊拉克，你很可能会想到一大片开阔的干地,就象你今天所看到的一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The mechanism is deliberately complex to the point of being unworkable; it is inconceivable that a bank could be wound down over a weekend to avert market panic.",
        "这个机制就是被故意复杂化了以致无法运作； 那种在一个周末的时间内就草草关闭一家银行以遏制市场恐慌情绪的做法是不可想象的。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, excise duties from Kerala would now fill Tamil Nadu’s coffers.",
        "换句话说，喀拉拉邦的酒税现在落入了泰米尔拉德邦的金库中。"
    ],
    [
        "When they gather at the UN in October, policymakers should take courage from the reform trailblazers in the US, Germany, the UAE, and elsewhere.",
        "在10月的联合国会议上，决策者应该向美国、德国、阿联酋和其他改革先锋那里吸取勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "The sequence is now well established.",
        "整个序列已经被排好了。 开始是大型跨国公司，在我的记忆中，它们的财务状况前所未有地好。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, persistent high unemployment reduces the economy’s growth potential by robbing today’s workers of skills and experience.",
        "与此同时，持续高失业让技能较高、经验丰富的工人流失，从而损害了经济的增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, China does account for the largest component of America’s multilateral trade deficit – making up 42% of the total trade gap in 2010.",
        "是的，中国是美国多边贸易赤字最主要的组成部分，占2010年贸易总缺口的42%。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, Trump, with his “America first” approach to foreign policy, has paid little attention to the South China Sea dispute.",
        "相反，特朗普在外交政策上提出了“美国第一”的方针，不太关注南海纠纷。"
    ],
    [
        "But are such boards necessary?",
        "可是，需要那些委员会吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Desperate to sustain their political and economic momentum, most have taken a wide variety of steps to prevent their economies from feeling the full brunt of the commodity price hikes.",
        "大多数新兴市场国家都拼命地去维系其政治和经济的发展势头，而且采取各种措施以防止其经济因商品价格上升而遭受沉重的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "They will not succeed unless they become more open to creative destruction, allowing not only tools and procedures, but also mindsets, to be revamped and upgraded.",
        "如果它们不能对这种创造性的破坏持更开放的态度，不仅允许工具和程序，更容许人的思想去转变和升级的话，那么这一目标就将无法实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The ultimate irony of July’s failed coup is that it was engineered not by Turkey’s secularists, but by the Gülenist officers Erdoğan had allowed to be promoted in their stead.",
        "而今年七月的未遂政变中最讽刺的一点莫过于它不是由土耳其的世俗主义者策划的，而是出自埃尔多安指派来取代前者的葛兰主义者之手。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Being Hillary Clinton, one of the most celebrated women in the world, holder of some of the highest offices in American politics, and possibly the next president of the United States, has had more than its share of agony.",
        "华盛顿—身为希拉里·克林顿，全世界最著名的女性之一、美国政坛地位最高的人物之一、有可能的下任美国总统，可谓苦恼重重。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, development in the Arab world, driven largely by oil revenues, has left the population under-educated and economically marginalized.",
        "相比之下，主要由石油收入推动下的阿拉伯世界却让其人民饱受教育不足之苦，并在经济上边缘化他们。"
    ],
    [
        "The world is poised to undergo one of the most dramatic power shifts in human history.",
        "世界必将经历人类历史上最波澜壮阔的实力变迁。"
    ],
    [
        "The standard way to judge the efficacy of a vaccine is to conduct a trial in which those who could benefit are randomly assigned to two groups, one of which receives the potentially beneficial vaccine, while the other receives a substance with no active ingredients, known as a placebo.",
        "判断疫苗效果的标准办法是设计实验，可能的受益者被随机分配给两个组别，一组接受可能有效的疫苗，另一组接受没有活性成分的替代品（称之为安慰剂）。"
    ],
    [
        "One might expect that such schools would make a progressive leader like Bachelet proud – not least because she herself attended one.",
        "有人可能认为此类学校或许会令巴切莱特这样的进步领袖感到自豪——原因之一是她本人也曾毕业于类似的学校。"
    ],
    [
        "As taxpayers had already put huge sums into rescuing failing banks, with the prospect of more to come, a transparent process to reveal how the money was being used was imperative.",
        "因为纳税人已经为挽救濒临破产的银行投入了巨额资金，并且可能还要投入更多的资金，所以，有一个表明这些钱是怎样使用的透明的程序，势在必行。"
    ],
    [
        "In the most recent and audacious move, the British government has embarked on a three-year plan to reduce its corporate tax rate from 28% to 20% – one of the lowest in the OECD – by 2015.",
        "英国政府最近激进地提出了将公司税率从28%降至20%的三年计划计划——到2015年，其公司税率将是经合组织最低。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor are rich countries immune.",
        "富裕国家同样也不能幸免。"
    ],
    [
        "But no actually existing capitalist market system spontaneously generates justice in exchange.",
        "但是没有哪个真实存在的资本主义市场体系能产生交易的公正。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-20 and the UN are finding new ways to work constructively together – not as rivals, but as increasingly close partners.",
        "二十国集团和联合国正在探索新的建设性合作方式——我们不是竞争对手，而是合作关系越来越密切的伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "More recklessly, after securing the release of the trawler, China demanded an apology from Japan.",
        "更让人觉得鲁莽的是，在确保船长将被释放之后，中方还要求日方做出道歉。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the course of less than three decades, trade barriers came down, and the combination of accessible airplane travel, satellite television, and the Internet has created a kind of interconnected “global village.”",
        "不出三十年，贸易壁垒就被打破，说走就走的坐飞机旅行、卫星电视和互联网的合力形成了一个联动的“地球村”。"
    ],
    [
        "Like most Frenchmen, I say, out of disgust for the attack and empathy for the victims, Je suis Charlie – a phrase that recalls the newspaper Le Monde’s declaration, immediately after 9/11: Nous sommes tous Américains.",
        "和大部分法国人一样，我怀着对此次袭击的愤怒和对受害者的同情说：“我们都是查理”——《世界报》（Le Monde）曾在9/11发生后立刻宣称，“我们都是美国人。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Though Yellen is a Democrat originally appointed by President Barack Obama, there is strong precedent for Trump to re-appoint her.",
        "尽管耶伦是一位奥巴马总统任命的民主党，但有的是先例证明特朗普可以继续任命她。"
    ],
    [
        "It is why children do not receive proper nutrition and live in neighborhoods with unclean water and inadequate sanitation.",
        "因为贫困，儿童无法获得合理的营养，只能生活在水不干净、卫生设施不足的社区。"
    ],
    [
        "NAIROBI – Rapid advances in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of gathering data.",
        "内罗毕—科技的迅速进步极大地降低了收集数据的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the slow pace of European decision-making has compounded Greece’s troubles.",
        "此外，欧洲缓慢的决策过程也加深了希腊的麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "Such fundamental changes of heart and mind have happened many times in the course of history.",
        "在历史进程中，这种心智与理性的根本性变化曾经发生过多次。"
    ],
    [
        "Power and wealth are not only diffusing across the international system, but also within states, such that corporations, foundations, wealthy individuals, private investment funds, civil-society groups, and most recently, municipal governments all have a role to play in development.",
        "权力和财富不但在国际体系中扩散，也在国家内部扩散，公司、基金会、富豪、私人投资基金、公民社会团体，最近还有市政政府，它们都在发展中起着作用。"
    ],
    [
        "We are proud as well that women make up more than 50% of MPs in Rwanda – the highest proportion in the world.",
        "女性占卢旺达议会50%以上的席位也让我们感到骄傲，卢旺达女性议员的比例居世界之首。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, an unexpected slowdown in economic activity or a strong rise in the value of the euro could postpone the inevitable rate hike.",
        "可以肯定的是，出乎意料的经济增长放缓或欧元价值的大幅提升会推迟不可避免的利率飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "Amid the chaos of camps, makeshift huts, and destitution, the fight for an important new principle of international aid has begun: even in times of conflict, children must have access to education.",
        "在混乱的难民帐篷、简易住所和屋子缺乏中，已经开始了一场为国际援助新原则而进行的斗争：即使在冲突期间，儿童也必须获得教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Israel has not only become much more prosperous; it has also moved decisively to the right.",
        "此外，以色列不仅变得更繁荣； 同时也更向右翼靠拢。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, a highly reputable source confirmed that the Guantánamo prisoners are suffering from more than indefinite detention.",
        "上个月，来源高度可靠的消息证实关塔纳摩的囚犯们所遭受的还不仅仅是无限期的关押。"
    ],
    [
        "In a closed economy, to every credit there must a corresponding debt.",
        "在封闭经济中，每一笔债权都必须存在相应的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "While such efforts certainly point in the right direction, the research-friendliness and innovativeness of the wider societal environment – particularly practices of informal learning and opportunities to follow one’s curiosity – also matter.",
        "这样的举措当然指明了正确的方向，然而研究友好性和更广泛社会环境中的创新性—特别是非正规教育的实践和遵循自己好奇心的机会—同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But big negative returns have an unfortunate psychological impact on markets.",
        "但是巨大的负收益对市场有非常不好的负面影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, if necessary, banks could recover funds by selling collateral.",
        "此外，如有必要，银行可以拍卖抵押品回收资金。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the share of people living in poverty plummeted to approximately 28% in 2012, from a peak of 62% in 2003 (though it was 46% three years earlier, at the beginning of Chávez’s first term).",
        "首先，生活在贫困线之下的人民的比例从2003年的峰值62%下降到了2012年的约28%（尽管在其第一个任期之初这一比例为46%）。"
    ],
    [
        "In declaring a “new era” for China during October’s 19th National Congress in Beijing, President Xi Jinping presented the Chinese system of governance as a model for other countries to emulate.",
        "在10月份在北京举行的中共十九大上，习近平主席宣布中国进入了“新时代”，将中国的治理体系作为可供其他国家效仿的模式呈现。"
    ],
    [
        "But is the Fund up to the job?",
        "但是，基金组织是否有能力承担这一工作呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Income in the US and euro-area both appear to have declined at an annualized rate of roughly 6% in the fourth quarter of 2008; Japan’s GDP fell at perhaps twice that rate.",
        "如果按年计算的话，08年的第4季度，美国和欧元区国家财政收入几乎都下滑了6%，日本更惨，可能是上者的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "First, countries should dismantle protectionist measures they have in place, and make a firm commitment not to implement policies that distort global markets.",
        "首先，各国应该取消目前的保护主义措施，并切实承诺不实施扭曲全球市场的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The revised proposal was sent again for evaluation, and now the reviewers’ reason for rejecting it was that new polymers would not be safe to test on animals or people.",
        "修改后的方案再次送审，这次审核人员的拒绝理由变成新聚合物无法安全进行动物或人体试验。"
    ],
    [
        "At the moment, banks and mobile network operators are working to expand their digital banking services to unbanked and under-banked clients.",
        "目前，银行和移动网络运营商正致力于扩大数字银行服务，以覆盖没有银行账户或银行服务不足的客户。"
    ],
    [
        "As the only game in town when it came to economic stimulus, central banks were driven to adopt increasingly unconventional monetary policies.",
        "作为刺激经济的唯一手段，中央银行被驱使去采取愈发非常规的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Faulted by some for its inability to prevent “illiberal” anti-terrorism measures, the Human Rights Act is criticized by just as many others for hampering counter-terrorism policy.",
        "英国的人权法案如今是两面不讨好：一方面有人指责其无力制止“粗暴”的反恐监察措施，另一方面又被人批评其阻碍了反恐政策的顺利实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Two important sources of broad prosperity are blocked by Greece’s system.",
        "全面繁荣的两个重要源泉被希腊的制度所阻碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The History of Russia’s Future",
        "俄罗斯未来的历史"
    ],
    [
        "The Taliban are gaining military and political strength, and President Hamid Karzai is losing support at home and internationally due to his administration’s rampant corruption and the obvious fraud committed in his re-election.",
        "塔利班在军事、政治上日益坐大，总统哈米德·卡尔扎伊在国内、国外渐失人心——他的政府太过腐败，而他的再度当选则明显存在舞弊。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the pressures of poverty and the lure of cash, what does it take for people to be able to make a genuinely free and informed choice about selling something as significant as a right to land?",
        "但是，在贫困的压力和现金的诱惑下，是什么让人们能够在信息充分的情况下真正自由地做出出售重要如土地的决策？"
    ],
    [
        "The time has come for governments and international organizations to call the attack on MH17 a probable war crime.",
        "政府和国际组织是时候将MH17遇袭事件定性为潜在的战争罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "With the right policies, they can tap into as-yet-unexploited growth potential and continue their progress toward convergence with advanced-economy income levels.",
        "如果有正确的政策，它们可以释放尚未开发的增长潜力，继续向发达经济体的收入水平看齐。"
    ],
    [
        "For the data that are deemed useful and necessary, there is a need to review collection, storage, and sharing processes, in order to ensure that sensitive information is never compromised.",
        "对于那些评估认定为有用和必要的数据，为确保敏感信息永远不被泄露，有必要对收集、存储和共享的程序进行审核。"
    ],
    [
        "Los Angeles – Tackling global warming, we are often told, is the defining task of our age.",
        "洛杉矶——我们经常听到，应对全球变暖是我们这个时代的确定任务。"
    ],
    [
        "And the enraged younger generation, in particular, is not especially fearful of losing the limited benefits offered by the status quo.",
        "尤其是，愤怒的年轻一代并不特别害怕失去现状给他们带来的那点可怜的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "But, assuming a 20% saving rate (close to the average for developing countries), this implies total annual diaspora saving of more than $500 billion.",
        "但是，假设储蓄率为20%（接近于发展中国家的平均水平），那么每年的侨民储蓄将超过5,000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Is European integration animated by respect for another’s values?",
        "尊重其它信仰是否会为欧盟增添新的活力？"
    ],
    [
        "Financial volatility rose, unsettling investors; stocks went on a rollercoaster ride, ending substantially lower; government bond yields plummeted, and lenders found themselves in the unusual position of having to pay for the privilege of holding an even bigger amount of government debt (almost one-third of the total).",
        "股市如过山车般上下翻飞，最终往往是大跌收场； 政府债券收益率大幅下降，同时贷款人发现自己处于一个尴尬境地：他们甚至要为持有总额更庞大（占总数近三分之一）的政府债券而额外付钱。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, many developments around the world have given us reason to rejoice – but also to reflect.",
        "与此同时，世界各地的许多发展趋势让我们兴奋，也让我们深思。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most critical question about Japan’s future concerns its relationship with its neighbors – North Korea, South Korea, and China.",
        "事关日本未来最关键的问题或许是与朝鲜、韩国和中国的邻国关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the process has not stopped. Conferences on climate change will still be held.",
        "当然，整个会议进程尚未停滞，有关气候变化的会议仍将不断召开。"
    ],
    [
        "Orthodoxy rules out providing ECB support to a particular country, because this would violate the separation between monetary and fiscal policy: The authority to commit public resources to the benefit of a particular country belongs exclusively to parliaments, not the central bank.",
        "对欧盟条约的正统诠释反对欧洲央行向某一特定国家提供援助，因为这将破坏货币和财政政策两者的各自独立：为了某特定国家的利益而调拨公共资源的权限只属于议会，而非央行。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, US foreign policy may be as active as ever, but it is downsizing and becoming more exacting about its priorities.",
        "简而言之，美国的外交政策或许亦然像从前那样积极，但免不了正在走下坡路，越来越难以维持其超然的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the deep ideological divisions in the country, there is a glimmer of hope.",
        "尽管美国存在深刻的意识形态分歧，但仍有希望之光。"
    ],
    [
        "The world has long run a substantial deficit in investment income, even though the correct numbers should sum to zero.",
        "长久以来，世界一直存在巨大的投资所得赤字，尽管正确的数字总和应该为零。"
    ],
    [
        "More often than not, they are picked up by law enforcement and brought to justice.",
        "他们大部分人都被执法部门控制起来，并被送上法庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Cardinal Casper is well regarded in Russia for being the man who returned Our Lady of Kazan to its homeland.",
        "红衣主教卡斯珀在俄罗斯享有较高声誉，俄罗斯人认为因为卡斯珀，喀山圣母像才得以重归故里。"
    ],
    [
        "In the headwaters of the Amazon River, for example, most of the 1,496 local communities cannot fix precise boundaries – using universal coordinates and enforceable property law – to the land in their possession.",
        "比如，在亚马孙河上游的1,496个本地社区中，大部分无法通过通用坐标和可事实的物权法明确界定他们所拥有的土地的边界。"
    ],
    [
        "Such claims are, of course, difficult to confirm, to say the least.",
        "这种说法当然难以确认，最低限度也可以这样说。"
    ],
    [
        "A reduction in unit labor costs can also increase competitiveness only to the extent that it actually results in price reductions.",
        "也只有在真正实现价格下降的情况下，单位劳动力成本的降低才能转化为竞争力的提升。"
    ],
    [
        "This conflict is also reflected in the country’s often bitterly divisive politics.",
        "这一冲突还反映在孟加拉国常常出现的痛苦的政治分裂中。"
    ],
    [
        "A camp designed for 2,000 people now “houses” three times that number.",
        "一座设计容量2,000人的难民营，目前“定居”着三倍于此的人数。"
    ],
    [
        "As its economic and geopolitical influence has waned, so has its willingness to consider renouncing its nuclear status.",
        "随着经济和地缘政治影响力不断减弱，同样减弱的还有它考虑放弃核地位的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "The effectiveness of the Grexit threat depends on two conditions.",
        "希腊退出威胁的效果取决于两个条件。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are promising signs that, over time, the advanced countries’ difficulties will trigger a healthy, if belated, shift in Asia’s development strategy, with China leading the way.",
        "但假以时日，发达国家的困境很有可能会刺激亚洲转向更加健康的发展战略（尽管有些迟），而中国将是其中的领军国家。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the real skills gap that existed before the Great Recession, and it is getting worse over time.",
        "实际技能的差距在大衰退之前便已存在，并随着时间的推移而恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "But arbitration – which has yet to be deeply tested for resolving disputes on the Novo Mercado – does not seem to be the linchpin of Brazil’s recent success.",
        "但是，仲裁机制在诺梅尔卡多交易平台解决争端的能力还应该接受深入地测试，而且仲裁似乎并不是巴西近来取得成功的关键。 巴西近来的成功是在其经历了一个世纪风风雨雨的经济发展后出现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it possible to fall out of love with your own country?",
        "人可不可能不爱自己的祖国呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This regularly engulfs him in controversy, but it can serve an educational purpose.",
        "这常常使他陷入自相矛盾中，但是这可以让我们懂得许多事情。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why Obama’s administration speaks of “smart power” that successfully combines hard and soft power resources in different contexts.",
        "这也就是奥巴马政府所说的“巧实力”，即成功地将硬实力和软实力这两个不同内涵整合在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "India, long known for gross disparities between rich and poor, has a Gini coefficient that has hovered around 0.30 to 0.32 over the past five decades.",
        "印度素以其贫富差距\"著称\"，而该国的吉尼系数在过去50年来一直在0. 30-0."
    ],
    [
        "Europe, in particular, needs a narrative of long-term hope that will trigger a real recovery.",
        "特别是欧洲，它需要带来长期希望的故事，触发真正的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because real interest rates cannot be strongly negative unless inflation is high (which it is not), there is a savings glut.",
        "但是，由于实际利率不可能处于严重负水平（除非通胀很高，现实并非如此），因此就产生了储蓄过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "He, too, was in a reassuring mood.",
        "奥朗德也是一副踌躇满志的样子。"
    ],
    [
        "While the audience comprised mostly college students, the speakers were industry luminaries, each of whom would have taken a week or two to schedule.",
        "虽然观众以在校大学生为主，但发言人却普遍是需要提前一两个礼拜预约才能到场的业内知名人士。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Historic transformations often happen when least expected.",
        "东京——历史转型的发生总是出人意料的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, naturally, there was Greece, where the phenomenon reached its apogee during the near-riots of October 2012, in which the world was treated to the spectacle of Nazi and German flags flown together – and then burned – together before the Acropolis in scenes that presaged the Der Spiegel cover.",
        "当然还有希腊，仇德现象在2012年10月希腊近乎骚乱的活动中达到了高潮。 全世界在目睹《明镜周刊》封面前，亲眼见证了纳粹和德国国旗一同飘扬，之后又在雅典卫城前同被付之一炬的奇异景象。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite the rivalries and all the chatter, it is clear that Asians are coming closer together.",
        "但尽管充满着敌意和抱怨，亚洲各国正走得越来越近的趋势是再明显不过的。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that this will last long enough for British society to regain its stability and its much-needed vigor.",
        "我们希望这种状况将维持足够时间，令英国社会能够恢复稳定，并获取急需的活力。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, lobbyists were often previously employed by legislators on their staffs.",
        "比如，游说者通常是立法机关的前工作人员。"
    ],
    [
        "By nature, every individual seeks to prove himself as a useful person in his or her society.",
        "本质上而言，每个人都寻求证明自己是社会上的有用之人。"
    ],
    [
        "Through their leadership of the protests for two years, urban middle-class youth have gained their own legitimacy, and, with their technological and linguistic capacities, are able to dominate global debate about Egypt.",
        "通过两年来对示威游行的领导，城市中产阶级年轻人赢得了他们自身的合法性，且他们拥有技术和语言能力，能主导关于埃及的全球争论。"
    ],
    [
        "The textbook contains mostly propaganda, including assertions that China’s one-party system is wonderful, whereas multiparty democracy as practiced in the United States has created harmful social turbulence.",
        "该书的内容多半是政治宣传：其中包括断言中国的一党制极为先进，而美国实行的多党制民主已经造成了负面的社会动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The underlying problem is the weakness of these economies’ structural transformation.",
        "根本问题是这些经济体结构转型不力。"
    ],
    [
        "But they must be able to admit when they are out of bullets.",
        "但他们在弹尽粮绝的时候也必须敢于承认。"
    ],
    [
        "As attackers become more sophisticated, they send better-crafted emails, sometimes impersonating trusted sources that lure unwary users.",
        "随着袭击者的技术越来越高超，他们制作的邮件质量越来越过硬，有时冒充可以信赖的信息源引诱粗心的用户上钩。"
    ],
    [
        "Ending East Asia’s History Wars",
        "结束东亚的历史战争"
    ],
    [
        "Where they can vote, so the argument goes, Muslim traditionalists would rather vote for a conservative party, even if it has Catholic roots, than for a secular left-wing party perceived as advocating loose morals.",
        "他们的说法是，只要他们有权投票，穆斯林传统主义者宁可把票投给有天主教根基的保守派，也不会支持那些被看作鼓吹放荡行为的世俗的左翼党派。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while economics presents its own methodological problems, the basic challenges facing researchers are not fundamentally different from those faced by researchers in other fields.",
        "此外，在经济学暴露其自身的方法论问题时，研究者们所面临的根本挑战跟其他领域研究者面对的也并并无本质性的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Catholics pray that this is not the case.",
        "大部分天主教徒祈祷他能长命百岁。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, in some places, a speculative bubble is fueling today’s boom in vacation-home prices.",
        "另一方面，在某些地方，投机泡沫为今天度假住宅的价格飞涨火上浇油。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the potential effects of a 50-megaton nuclear explosion, similar to the Tsar Bomba, detonated in October 1961, which shattered windows 900 kilometers (560 miles) away and sent a mushroom cloud rising above the stratosphere.",
        "想象一下， 50百万吨当量的核弹（类似于1961年10月引爆的沙皇炸弹（Tsar Bomba））能将900公里之外的窗户震碎，产生的蘑菇云可以达到平流层。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned that 56% of total employment in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam is “at high risk of displacement due to technology over the next decade or two.”",
        "同样，据国际劳工组织警告 ，柬埔寨、印尼、菲律宾、泰国和越南就业总人数的56%“将在未来十年或20年因为技术的发展而面临失业的威胁。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The threat to Putin is clear.",
        "对普京的威胁是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "(We will see how investors judge the dollar once the smoke clears and the huge expansion of US money and debt becomes evident.)",
        "（我们将会看到，一旦美国的烟雾弹消失，以及美国的货币和债务的巨大扩张变得明显时，投资者会怎样评价美元。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Many of their skills, which long underpinned their status, careers, and livelihoods, are becoming redundant.",
        "他们的许多技能正在变得过剩，而长期以来他们正是依靠这一技能维持着自己的地位、职业和生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet irresponsible political uses of psychiatric medicine still abound.",
        "但对精神病学诊断不负责任的政治利用仍然比比皆是。"
    ],
    [
        "Private investment is important, too.",
        "私人投资也很重要。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, following Vietnam’s partition in the wake of France’s defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnam’s last non-Communist president, was able to turn to the US military for support.",
        "比如，越南因为1954年法国在奠边府战败而分裂，随后，越南最后一任非共产党总统吴庭艳求助于美国的军事支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, there are legitimate technical concerns that QE is distorting asset prices, but bursting bubbles simply are not the main risk now.",
        "确实，人们对量化宽松会扭曲资产价格的担忧合情合理，但泡沫破裂并不是当前的主要风险。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, financial systems are not so different from one another, particularly in OECD countries.",
        "毕竟，金融制度彼此之间并没有很大区别，特别是在经合组织国家之间。"
    ],
    [
        "If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way through any village in its path.",
        "如果中国想要建设一条六道的高速公路，他可以铲除位于高速公路通过地点的任何乡村的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – In the fourth century, Japan’s emperor looked out from a small mountain near his palace and noticed that something was missing: smoke rising from people’s kitchens.",
        "东京—公元四世纪，日本天皇从皇宫附近的一座小山丘上远眺，注意到少了点什么：寻常人家升起的炊烟。"
    ],
    [
        "Launching the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, a free-trade agreement currently being negotiated by ASEAN and six partners (Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand), would be an important step in this direction.",
        "还有就是发起区域全面经济伙伴关系，目前由东盟及六个合作伙伴（澳大利亚，中国，印度，日本，韩国和新西兰）正在谈判的自由贸易协定将是朝这个方向迈出的重要一步。"
    ],
    [
        "2005 is the year that words can become reality, and that the world can begin to fulfill its hopes for our new millennium. Let us make our leaders aware that we aspire to shared peace and prosperity.",
        "2005年是诺言实现的一年，世界将实现我们赋予新千年的希望，我们要让各国首领意识到，我们希望分享和平和繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "The legacy of their success, copyright law, continues to impede attempts to render cyberspace a free marketplace of ideas.",
        "其成功的遗产，也就是版权法律继续阻碍让网络空间成为一个思想观念的自由市场的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – “Tzu-Ch’in asked Tzu-Kung a few questions; Tzu-Kung answered: …Our Master gets things (done) by being cordial, frank, courteous, temperate, deferential.",
        "发自新德里——《论语》里记载，子禽问于子贡曰：“夫子至于是邦也，必闻其政，求之与？"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative to the talks is a further nuclear buildup by Iran, followed by additional international sanctions and, eventually, another war in the Middle East, which no one believes can resolve the problem.",
        "谈判的替代方案是任由伊朗核问题继续发酵，进一步加码国际制裁并最终引发又一场中东战争。 没有人认为这种方法能够解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the real present value of the debt is much lower, given that most of it is now held by governments or other public entities and carries long maturities and low interest rates.",
        "事实上，这笔债务的实际现值已经大大降低，因为大部分债务现在又政府或其他公共实体持有，期限长、利率低。"
    ],
    [
        "By September, Germany had probably received some 400,000 applications or more, with the dramatic increase in migration flows since summer and before the reinstatement of border controls expected to push the number of asylum-seekers to 800,000 this year.",
        "截至9月，德国可能已经接受了400,000或以上申请，而夏季以来、边境管制恢复以前移民数量的剧增预计将让今年寻求庇护人数提高到800,000。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond promoting mixed ownership involving private capital, strengthening corporate governance, and facilitating commercial operations, the reforms promise to open up the energy, resources, and telecom industries to non-state investors.",
        "除了促进包括民营资本在内的混合所有制、强化公司治理和便利商业经营，国企改革还承诺向非国有投资者开放能源、资源和通讯业。"
    ],
    [
        "In international negotiations, there is always a way forward if the benefits of an agreement are shared by all.",
        "在国际谈判中，只要一项协定的好处可以被所有国家分享，就一定能找到前进的突破口。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, with low interest rates causing vast sums of money to chase so few opportunities for decent yields, it is understandable that investors have turned to government bonds, thereby driving down yields still further.",
        "其次，低利率导致大量资金追逐极少数高收益机会，因此不难理解投资者转向了政府债券，从而进一步压低收益率。"
    ],
    [
        "The US “pivot” to Asia further increases the pressure on Europe to deal with its own neighborhood.",
        "美国的亚洲“支点”进一步增加了欧洲对付其四邻的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Compare this to the much lower cost of civil wars, which are equivalent to about 0.2% of global GDP.",
        "与此相比内战成本要低得多，大致相当于全球GDP的0. 2%。"
    ],
    [
        "As IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told the Irish Times: “A debt is a debt, and it is a contract.",
        "IMF总裁拉加德（Christine Lagarde）对《爱尔兰时报》（Irish Times）表示：“债务就是债务，它是契约。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, consider the amazing improvements in education.",
        "类似地，想想教育方面令人欣喜的改善。"
    ],
    [
        "East Asia’s stability is jeopardized by China’s rise and strategic ambitions, North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile advances, and a host of contested maritime and territorial claims.",
        "中国的崛起和战略野心、朝鲜的核弹道导弹发展及诸多有争议的海洋和领土要求严重威胁到东亚地区的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "As part of China’s new “soft” approach to Taiwan, Wen emphasizes “conceding interests” to Taiwan.",
        "所谓中国大陆对台新的“软性”策略的一部分，温家宝强调要“出让利益”给台湾。"
    ],
    [
        "That chance is diminished further by other disruptions, from natural disasters to external interference.",
        "而这种机会又会受到从自然灾害到外部干扰等一系列其他因素冲击而减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "If just 0.1% of rich-world income were devoted to life-saving health care for the poor, it would be possible to raise life expectancy, decrease child mortality, save mothers in childbirth, slow population growth, and spur economic development throughout the poor world.",
        "如果富有国家的0. 1%的收入用于挽救穷人生命的医疗，就有可能提高寿命预期，降低儿童死亡率，挽救分娩的母亲，降低人口增长并且在整个贫穷世界刺激经济发展。"
    ],
    [
        "By establishing “Education Cannot Wait”, we are sending a message to the downcast and dispossessed everywhere.",
        "通过设立“教育不能等待”基金，我们在向世界一切角落的无依无靠者宣誓。"
    ],
    [
        "And if the portfolio does badly – loses 1% per year – they lose roughly 70% of their investment.",
        "如果投资表现得很糟糕——每年亏损1%——那他们则会失去投资总额的70%。"
    ],
    [
        "If she chooses Rouseff’s approach, she will first have to resist the temptation of perpetual re-election.",
        "如果她选择罗瑟夫的道路，她首先必须抵制住连续当选的诱惑。"
    ],
    [
        "Good and Bad Capitalism",
        "好的资本主义，坏的资本主义"
    ],
    [
        "But the free market also has a crucial role to play, with longer-term, incentive-based policies catalyzing scientific and technological advancement – and thus boosting economies’ growth potential.",
        "但自由市场也起了关键作用，长期的基于激励的政策促进了科学和技术进步，从而提振经济体的增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "If NATO’s forces work sufficiently well, they might weaken the insurgency enough that the Afghan military could prove adequate to overcoming the remaining hard-liners, even after foreign troops reverse their current surge and scale down their presence during the next few years.",
        "事实上，假如北约部队的表现足够好的话，他们就能把反动武装力量削弱到一定程度，那么就算未来几年联军收缩军事行动并减少驻阿部队的数量，也足以创造一个大好局面，好让阿富汗军队去收拾残余的强硬分子，证明自己维护国内局势的能力，为政府赢得更好的谈判筹码。"
    ],
    [
        "The host’s body produces its own version of the prion protein, and it is difficult to create a high-quality antibody against a body’s own components.",
        "宿主的身体产生了自己的朊病毒蛋白质，而创造针对宿主本身成分的高质量抗体是很困难的。"
    ],
    [
        "On the revenue side, as many as 63 developing countries are considering raising consumption taxes, such as the value-added tax.",
        "在收入端，63个发展中国家在考虑提高增值税等消费税。"
    ],
    [
        "The polymers in mattress stuffing are used in breast implants.",
        "而填充床垫的聚合物则被用于制造乳房假体。"
    ],
    [
        "The occupation powers are therefore right to be worried about an election in which massive abstention among Sunnis results in a large Shiite majority.",
        "因此对于一次因逊尼派大规模弃权而导致的什叶派占多数票的选举结果，控制权究竟归属哪一方仍然是悬而未决的。"
    ],
    [
        "This conference will bring together energy experts from UN member countries, businesses, and cities to work on highly practical approaches to deep decarbonization.",
        "此次会议将汇聚来自联合国成员国、商界和城市的能源专家制定非常实用的深度脱碳方案。"
    ],
    [
        "That program, while similar to Arafat’s, differs in key ways.",
        "这一主张尽管与阿法特的相近，但主要方式不同。"
    ],
    [
        "By examining how other East Asian economies performed when they were at a similar point compared to the US, we can estimate China’s potential for growth.",
        "我们可以考察其他东亚经济体在类似水平上的表现，以此估计中国的增长潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Limits of Bonapartism",
        "波拿巴主义的局限"
    ],
    [
        "New combat scenarios – smaller units, higher fighting power, faster deployment – are not covered by today’s existing arms-control regimes.",
        "新斗争情景——更小的作战单位、更大的战斗力、更快的部署——无法用当前现有的军备控制机制覆盖。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not the end of the world, not even for the ECB.",
        "世界不会因此毁灭，欧洲央行亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to the Internet, distances no longer matter: the world really can be our classroom.",
        "感谢互联网，距离已不再是问题：世界真的可以变成我们的教室！"
    ],
    [
        "Are the skeptics right?",
        "这样的质疑正确吗？"
    ],
    [
        "If morality is God’s word, atheists should judge these cases differently from religious people, and their responses should rely on different justifications.",
        "edu/）回答了这些难题的人一样。 如果道德是上帝之音，无神论者应当同信教的人对这些问题作出不同的判断，而且他们的回答应当依赖于不同的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "The current boom has seen contagion",
        "当上扬的价格点燃了这一经济兴奋点，进而推动在该城市、其他城市甚至另一半球的价格上涨时，眼下的经济繁荣就在市场内和市场间见证了这种投机热。 上海人可能不会谈论伦敦的房价，但是上海的观察评论家们却知道伦敦正在发生什么，而伦敦房价的上涨似乎使上海房价的上涨看起来同样可行而有道理。"
    ],
    [
        "His botched – but riveting – trial may be over, but the Bo Xilai show will go on.",
        "离谱又充满戏剧性审判或许已经结束，但薄熙来大剧将会继续上演。"
    ],
    [
        "As I wrote three years ago, in analytical terms, it makes little sense to include Russia, a former superpower, with the developing economies.",
        "我在三年前指出，从分析角度讲，把昔日超级大国俄罗斯纳入金砖国家范围、与发展中国家为伍毫无必要。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, the abuses in Iraq demand careful scrutiny of detention practices not only there, but in our own communities as well.",
        "更为重要的是，发生在伊拉克的虐囚行为需要我们不仅对当地，还要对本国的拘押惯例进行仔细的审查。"
    ],
    [
        "The combination of a new security arrangement for the Euro-Atlantic community and the establishment of the Union of Europe could arrest the decline in the international weight of the West.",
        "在欧洲 - 大西洋共同体的新型安全制度、以及欧洲联合体的建立这两大因素的共同作用之下，西方国际影响力的下滑趋势将得以终止。"
    ],
    [
        "All it would take is for someone to sequence their creations, and share the data in open databases.",
        "只要有人将他们所创造出来的品种进行测序，然后在公开数据库上共享数据，就夺走了他们的工作成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Inflation and interest rates in Japan lately have been even lower than in the US.",
        "日本近期的通货膨胀和利率甚至低于美国。"
    ],
    [
        "Two major factors are currently working in the dollar’s favor, particularly compared to the euro and the yen.",
        "两大因素目前十分有利于美元，特别是相对欧元和日元而言。"
    ],
    [
        "Merkel’s kill-to-cure remedy has run up against reality – and democracy.",
        "默克尔破而后立的疗法站在了现实和民主的对立面。"
    ],
    [
        "This came as a relief for the Bush administration, which claims to have given as much as its “budgetary processes” allow.",
        "这一消息可是让布什政府松了口气。 它总是宣称已经在“预算程序”允许的范围内尽可能地提供了援助。"
    ],
    [
        "This is best illustrated by Turkey, where Obama has ignored Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s heavy-handed efforts to annul free speech and turn himself into a twenty-first-century Sultan.",
        "最佳的写照就是土耳其，奥巴马对总理埃尔多安辣手摧毁言论自由、使自己称为21世纪苏丹的行为视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "Complicating matters further is the government’s lack of options for stabilizing property markets.",
        "让事情更加复杂的是政府缺少稳定房地产市场的选择方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Or should it be viewed as yet another source of instability and weakness in Europe – one that would increase uncertainty in other countries and parts of the world?",
        "或者，它应该被视为欧洲动荡和软弱的又一源泉——会增加其他国家和世界其他地区的不确定性吗？"
    ],
    [
        "As for the US, it makes little sense to support dollar currency pegs in any large emerging market, at least until its trade balance normalizes. This is no time for oil currency hypocrisy.",
        "对美国来说，至少在它的贸易结余正常化之前，支持任何大的新兴市场货币盯住美元意义不大。 现在不是对石油货币采取伪善态度的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Spain now requires a concerted effort from its citizens, one rooted in confidence in their achievements of the last 30 years.",
        "如今，西班牙需要它的人民同心协力，而同心协力的基础，就在过去30年成就所带来的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the government’s acceptance of a largely unchanged deal just a few days later received broad support.",
        "然而政府在仅仅几天后接受的一项变化不大的交易却获得了广泛的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as leading Brexiteer Michael Gove proudly observed, people in the UK had “had enough of experts.”",
        "但脱欧领袖迈克·尔戈夫（Michael Gove）却得意地观察到英国人已经“受够了那些专家。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In a case of curious timing, both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping are approaching domestic political events that are widely expected to solidify their leadership positions in the coming years.",
        "一个时间上的巧合是德国总理默克尔和中国国家主席习近平都即将面临国内政坛大事，人们广泛预计，他们将借此巩固未来几年的领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "In response to this apparent resilience, the International Monetary Fund, which in recent years had characterized global growth as the “new mediocre,” recently upgraded its World Economic Outlook.",
        "面对如此显而易见的恢复力，在近几年中将全球增长描述为“新平庸”（new mediocre）的国际货币基金组织（IMF），最近修正了其世界经济展望。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Trade Deficit Begins at Home",
        "自产自销的美国贸易赤字"
    ],
    [
        "Similar mass distribution programs have been implemented in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Togo, Niger, Ghana, and other places.",
        "埃塞俄比亚、卢旺达、多哥、尼日尔、加纳以及其他地方也实行了类似的大规模分发行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The most controversial change that Piñera is likely to seek is the partial privatization of CODELCO, the huge and highly profitable state-owned copper company.",
        "皮涅拉可能的最具争议性的改革是寻求利润丰厚的大型国有铜业企业智利铜业公司的部分私有化。"
    ],
    [
        "But Obama was quick to recover from mistakes in a practical way.",
        "但奥巴马很快就通过务实手段从这些错误中恢复了过来。"
    ],
    [
        "The Ottoman legacy of a working state structure, tolerant of religion, has begun to be viewed in a more favorable light, and the contemporary Turkish model, with its ability to nurture a democracy-friendly Islam, is suddenly in demand.",
        "奥斯曼帝国留下来的对宗教宽容的可行的国家结构，已开始被更多的人接受； 能催生民主的友善的伊斯兰的当代土耳其模式，突然开始被大家所需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, indeed, is the central point: the need to move away from mythological, mutually exclusive rights of existence, conflicting historical narratives, and religious claims of ownership.",
        "事实上，这正是问题的焦点所在：从凭空想象、互相认为对方没有生存权、相互抵触的历史叙述以及在宗教上均宣称拥有主权的斗争中脱离出来。"
    ],
    [
        "The lack of profit does not diminish an alumni-dominated board’s incentive to compete for prestige by, for example, hiring distinguished faculty, accepting meritorious students, and striving for athletic or artistic achievement.",
        "缺少利润并不会削弱校友主导的董事会通过聘任杰出教员、录取杰出学生、争夺体育和艺术荣誉等方式竞争社会地位的动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The countries of the Middle East have a common interest in starving hyper-violent groups like the Islamic State of arms, money, and media attention.",
        "中东各国有着共同利益切断伊斯兰国等极端暴力组织的武器、资金和媒体关注。"
    ],
    [
        "In many places – especially Central America – violent insurgency became endemic.",
        "在很多地区——尤其是中美洲——暴力叛乱成为随处可见的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s participation in the rescue programs for Greece, Ireland, and Portugal has already cost taxpayers in those countries nearly €9 billion in excess charges.",
        "国际货币基金组织对希腊，爱尔兰和葡萄牙救助方案的参与已经令这些国家的纳税人额外支出了90亿欧元费用。"
    ],
    [
        "At home, he would nationalize industries, especially in energy, and raise taxes, especially on business and the wealthy.",
        "他在国内提倡尤其是能源等行业国有化和对企业和富裕群体提高税收。"
    ],
    [
        "The credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has just downgraded the sovereign-debt ratings of nine eurozone countries, including France.",
        "评级机构标准普尔刚刚下调了欧元区九国主权债务评级，法国赫然在列。"
    ],
    [
        "The presidential elections scheduled for next year in two of Asia’s strongest democracies – South Korea and Taiwan – are also likely to cause diplomatic temperatures to rise in the months ahead. The risk stems not from the conduct of the South Koreans or the Taiwanese, but from the democratic choices that they make, which may offend two of Asia’s last dictatorships.",
        "亚洲最强大的两个民主政体——韩国和台湾——在明年举行的总统大选也可能导致未来几个月的区域内外交冲突升温，而原因并不是韩国人或台湾人做了什么特别的事，而是他们的民主选择触痛了亚洲仅存的两个独裁国家的神经。"
    ],
    [
        "By exposing weaknesses in a particular country’s system, PISA assessments help to ensure that policymakers recognize – and, it is hoped, address – remaining deficiencies.",
        "PISA评估暴露出一国体系的弱点，从而有助于确保决策者认识到——并希望他们改进——仍然存在的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "According to some studies, at least 137,000 civilians have died violently in Afghanistan and Iraq in the last ten years; among Iraqis alone, there are 1.8 million refugees and 1.7 million internally displaced people.",
        "根据有些学者的研究，过去10年中，至少137000平民在阿富汗和伊拉克被暴力杀害； 光是伊拉克就有180万难民，另有170万在伊拉克国内流离失所。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, a country of huge immigration, communities can bring together a strong cultural identity and a deeply engrained patriotism.",
        "在美国这样一个移民众多的国家，族群能聚集起一种强大的文化认同和根深蒂固的爱国主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet her anti-European hostility differs only in degree, not in kind, from that of pro-Brexit politicians, such as Daniel Hannan, a Conservative MEP, and Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, who rejoice at the possibility of additional exit referenda across the EU.",
        "但她对欧盟的敌意相比保守派议员丹尼尔·汉南和英国独立党领袖奈杰尔·法拉奇等赞成脱欧的政治家并无本质区别而仅仅是程度上的不同。 后者为其他欧盟国家脱欧公投的可能性而感到异常兴奋。"
    ],
    [
        "Which path will China choose?",
        "那么中国会选择哪条道路？"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the TPP seeks to bring into the ambit of a trade and investment agreement “new and emerging” issues.",
        "最后，TPP寻求在贸易和投资协定中纳入“新出现”（new and emerging）的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "· “Both the first two revolutions required about 100 years for their full effects to percolate through the economy.”",
        "· “前两次工业革命都需要100年的时间来让其全面影响渗透到经济层面。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1920’s, the world economy was reconstructed around a fixed exchange rate regime in which many countries held their reserves not in gold (as was the practice before the First World War) but in foreign exchange, especially in British pounds sterling.",
        "在上世纪20年代，世界经济围绕着固定汇率机制重建。 在这一机制下，很多国家不以黄金的形式持有储备（这是第一次世界大战以前的惯例），而是以外汇的形式，特别以英镑为主。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1981 tax cuts went into effect at the onset of the 1981-1982 recession, a time when some short-term fiscal stimulus came in handy.",
        "1981年减税在1981—1982年衰退期开始时生效，因此，某些短期财政刺激能产生作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Our responsibility for the ocean’s health is as deep, fundamental, and permanent as our dependence on it.",
        "我们对海洋健康的责任与我们对它的依赖一样深刻、根本和永久。"
    ],
    [
        "As a Canadian analyst put it, “the combined effect of an advanced capital market and a strong military machine to defend that market, and other safety measures, such as a strong tradition of property rights protection and a reputation for honoring dues, has made it possible to attract capital with great ease.”",
        "如一位加拿大的分析家所说，“一个先进的资本市场，和一个保护这个市场的强大的军事机器，再加上其它的安全措施，比如保护产权的优良传统和按时付款的好名声，这些因素的共同作用使得美国能够很轻松地吸引资金。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Though entirely compatible with the existing free-trade agreement between Ukraine and Russia, the proposed pact with the EU certainly was not compatible with Putin’s Eurasia project.",
        "尽管其内容与已有的乌俄自由贸易协定完全不冲突，但与欧盟签订契约的计划显然与普京的欧亚联盟工程格格不入。"
    ],
    [
        "The first triumph is the nuclear agreement with Iran.",
        "第一次胜利是与伊朗签署核协议。"
    ],
    [
        "The transformation from state socialism into a postindustrial society had never occurred anywhere else.",
        "从国家社会主义过渡到后工业社会在任何地方都没有先例。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to the actual number of jobs available, there are reasons to question the doomsayers’ dire predictions.",
        "谈到现有工作的实际数量，我们有理由对灾难预言家的可怕预言持怀疑态度。"
    ],
    [
        "· To maintain deterrence and defend Israel and its citizens from cross-border attacks;",
        "· 保持威慑，保护以色列和它的民众免受跨越边界的攻击；"
    ],
    [
        "It is an economics that recognizes its limitations and knows that the right message depends on the context.",
        "这是一种明白自身局限并承认正确做法取决于具体环境的经济学。"
    ],
    [
        "By pursuing this route after he takes office, Obama will force Iran to make a choice: does it want to be a state that is fully integrated into the global economy, or does it want to be an “ideology” with rogue status?",
        "但是奥巴马在就职后追寻这一路线将会迫使伊朗做出决定，那就是，它是否想要成为一个完全融入全球经济的国家，还是想成为一个流氓国家的“意识形态”？"
    ],
    [
        "Anticipating this, these states have already sought reassurances from the US, while following a more hard-nosed policy in Yemen or Syria, where they consider themselves to be containing Iran’s hegemonic ambitions.",
        "看到这一点的海湾国家已经开始寻求美国的保证，并且在也门和叙利亚采取了更加强硬的立场——它们认为这是在遏制伊朗的霸权野心。"
    ],
    [
        "Do you really believe the increasingly dubious notion that megabanks, as currently constituted, are good for the rest of the private sector, and thus for economic growth and job creation?",
        "你当真相信以当前形式存在的大银行，对其他的私营部门是有益的，因此有助于经济增长和创造就业？ 这个想法似乎变得日益可疑。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are also stoking fears about their effects on jobs, skills, and wages.",
        "但它们也引发了新技术对岗位、技能和薪酬影响的担忧 。"
    ],
    [
        "The CETA is a positive development not only because it links two developed economies that project democratic values and boast strong welfare systems, but also because it introduces high environmental, labor, and phytosanitary standards for trade.",
        "全面经济和贸易协定的积极影响不仅因为它在投射民主价值观和拥有强大福利制度的两大发达经济体之间建立了联系，而且因为它引入了高环境、劳动和植物检疫标准的贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Better Red than Dead?",
        "赤字要比没命好吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Both Polanski and DSK were engaged in sexual activities with women who were far from being their equals, in age and social status, respectively.",
        "波兰斯基和卡恩的性侵行为对象都是与他们大不平等的女性（波兰斯基案中是年龄，而卡恩案中则是社会地位）。"
    ],
    [
        "If the disease is not as advanced as in the trials, the doctor will have to decide whether to embark on the recommended protocol.",
        "如果病情不如试验中严重，那么医生必须决定是否采取建议方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike Cristina Kirchner, who gave long-winded speeches but held no press conferences and took no questions from journalists, Macri answered queries until reporters had none left.",
        "马克里并未像与克里斯蒂娜·基什内尔那样发表冗长的演讲，但却拒绝举行记者招待会及回答记者提问。 相反，马克里回答了在场记者的所有提问。"
    ],
    [
        "Another option is to continue with a version of the current policy of extensive sanctions.",
        "另一个选项是继续目前的扩大制裁政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The fewer people there are, the less risk we face of heating up the planet.",
        "人口数量越少，我们所面临的地球变热风险就越低。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate and Competitiveness",
        "气候与竞争力"
    ],
    [
        "In effect, Suharto’s visual politics of atrocity and terror created a new reality from the violence and terror associated with the demise of the old.",
        "事实上，苏哈托的暴行和恐怖视觉政治通过伴随旧体制衰落而生的暴力和恐慌营造了一个新现实。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, they are turning tornado politics into abortion politics.",
        "简言之，他们正在从龙卷风政治转向堕胎政治。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the current immigration wave could be the solution to Europe’s long-term demographic problem, it is threatening European unity, despite the exceptional leadership of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.",
        "尽管有着德国总理默克尔的卓越领导，尽管目前的移民潮可能解决欧洲长期的人口问题，但它正在对欧盟团结构成威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "While all eight Afghan presidential candidates claim to support the security accord, this may offer little comfort to the US, given that most of the candidates have directly opposed US interests in the past – not to mention that several of them are former or current warlords.",
        "八位总统候选人都宣称支持安全协议，但这并不能令美国安心，因为大部分候选人过去都曾直接反对美国的利益——更不用说其中一些还是前任或现任军阀了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as it stands, implementing them seems unlikely.",
        "但是，目前MSF希望渺茫。"
    ],
    [
        "In my new book The End of Poverty , I show how extreme poverty can be ended by 2025, but only if the rich world follows through on its promise to help the poorest countries.",
        "在我的新书《贫穷的终结》中，我说明了极度贫困将如何在2005年终结，但是只有当富裕国家履行了帮助最贫穷国家的承诺， 这种情况才会出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Providing Web-based services to students and educators enables access to information and makes it possible for everyone – regardless of financial resources, location, or influence – to become educated.",
        "向学生和教育者提供基于网络的服务有利于获得信息，也让有教无类成为可能——不管你经济状况如何、位于何地、影响力怎样。"
    ],
    [
        "New data in the West reveal that we have not necessarily raised a generation of daughters who are exuding self-respect and self-esteem.",
        "西方社会统计的新数据显示，我们并没有把我们女儿培育成为散发着自信与自尊的一代。"
    ],
    [
        "Tougher sanctions can continue to delegitimize the regime, and Turkey might be persuaded to take stronger steps against its neighbor.",
        "更强力的制裁则可以继续令这个政权丧失合法性，还可以说服土耳其对这个邻国采取更强硬手段。"
    ],
    [
        "It is clear why: the state budget depends almost totally on energy prices.",
        "原因很明显：该国的预算几乎完全依赖于其能源价格。"
    ],
    [
        "But I would go further and add six more.",
        "但我想在加上六个过程。"
    ],
    [
        "In other countries, policymakers set the course for banking modernization years ago and have reinforced competition since then – to the benefit of customers and banks alike.",
        "在其他国家，政策制定者们在多年以前就为银行业现代化制定了路线图并从那时开始就强化了竞争—这对于顾客和银行都是有益的。"
    ],
    [
        "Hunger causes avoidable human suffering, a clear moral wrong.",
        "饥饿导致的人类苦难本来可以避免，这显然是一种道德错误。"
    ],
    [
        "And 42 states have set limits on the taxes and expenditures of their cities.",
        "42个州对其下属城市的税收和支出设定了限制。"
    ],
    [
        "And just what is the US trying to accomplish with Russia?",
        "美国在俄国那里究竟想得到什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Our work will not be complete until that happens.",
        "到了这一步，我们的工作才能宣告完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Bretton Woods I collapsed in 1971, when the dollar’s peg to gold became untenable, and Bretton Woods II ended in 2008, owing to the misallocation of capital.",
        "布雷顿森林体系I崩溃于1971年，原因是美元不再能够盯住黄金； 布雷顿森林体系II崩溃于2008年，原因是资本的错配。"
    ],
    [
        "The shadow banking system is estimated at roughly 25-30% of the global financial system ($250 trillion, excluding derivatives) and at half of total global banking assets.",
        "据估计，影子银行大约占全球银行体系（250万亿美元，不包括衍生品）的25—30%，占全球银行资产的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Both wage and livelihood insurance appear to have important risk management functions.",
        "无论是工资保险，还是生计保险，都具有重要的风险管理功能。"
    ],
    [
        "We do not live together, but in isolation from each other.",
        "我们不是生活在一起，而是彼此隔绝。"
    ],
    [
        "Points, of course, will do the trick.",
        "没错，积分就是个妙方！"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes switching from the “bad” to the corresponding “good” is simply a matter of semantics: to fight against racism is to fight for nondiscrimination.",
        "有时，从“恶”转变为相应的“善”完全只是语义学问题：打击种族主义就是为无歧视而奋斗。"
    ],
    [
        "Until 1990, peace was secured largely by the threat of mutual nuclear destruction.",
        "直到1990年，和平主要靠互相核毁灭的威胁维系。"
    ],
    [
        "This year’s Cup, unlike the previous one in Japan and South Korea in 2002, didn’t witness any real upsets in the first round.",
        "今年的世界杯与2002年上一届韩日世界杯不同，并没有在第一轮出现大冷门。"
    ],
    [
        "Dennis Robertson, an early twentieth-century “real” business-cycle theorist, wrote: “I do not feel confident that a policy which, in the pursuit of stability of prices, output, and employment, had nipped in the bud the English railway boom of the forties, or the American railway boom of 1869-71, or the German electrical boom of the nineties, would have been on balance beneficial to the populations concerned.”",
        "二十世纪早期的“现实”商业周期理论家罗伯森写道：“某一政策追求价格、产量以及就业的稳定而将四十年代的英国铁路泡沫、1869年到1871年之间的美国铁路泡沫或者九十年代德国的电气泡沫扼杀于萌芽之中，在总体上这一政策对相关人们有益。 我对于这一政策并不抱有信心”。"
    ],
    [
        "Third Plenums – and perhaps only Third Plenums – can bring about radical transformation.",
        "三中全会——可能也只有三中全会——能够带来彻底的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Council has left this potentially contentious subject out of recent discussions.",
        "但欧盟理事会并没有将可能引起争议的话题纳入当前讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Indians, especially among the Delhi elite, believe it.",
        "重要的是很多印度人，尤其是德里精英们相信这句话。"
    ],
    [
        "Two institutions, in particular, took the lead: Citicorp in the US and Deutsche Bank in Europe.",
        "特别要提一提领头儿的两个大机构：美国的花旗公司（Citicorp）和欧洲的德意志银行。"
    ],
    [
        "They should be obliged to repatriate foreign workers, as required in the standard migrant employment contract used by the Philippines.",
        "它们应该有义务遣返外国员工，菲律宾标准移民雇用合同就纳入了这项规定。"
    ],
    [
        "Stephen A. Ross of MIT, another finance theorist who was a likely future Nobel laureate until he died unexpectedly in March, argued along similar lines.",
        "另一位本可能在未来夺得诺贝尔奖的金融理论家，麻省理工学院前教授史蒂芬·A·罗斯（Stephen A. Ross，今年3月份意外逝世）也有着类似的说法。"
    ],
    [
        "The twentieth century left heaps of corpses in its wake, and now they are piling up again.",
        "20世纪初全世界尸横遍野，现在这种情况又再次重演。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent death of James M. Buchanan, the father of public-choice economics, is reason to reflect on his sage warnings.",
        "公共选择经济学之父詹姆斯·布坎南刚刚去世，我们应该好好反思一下他先见之明式的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "Various approaches may be available for building a coalition of such powers, including the use of the UN and seeking to influence US foreign policy.",
        "有不同的方式来建立此类国家的联盟，包括利用联合国并试图影响美国的外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Ireland’s accumulation of wealth during its Celtic Tiger period, when the country surged toward the top of Europe’s economic league table, has also been an effective shock absorber.",
        "在凯尔特之虎时期——在这段时间里，爱尔兰在欧洲经济竞赛中独拔头筹——所积累的财富也是有效的冲击吸收器。"
    ],
    [
        "Rouhani’s Lost Chance",
        "鲁哈尼的失去的机会"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the euro crisis was not just a liquidity crisis.",
        "当然，欧元危机不仅仅是流动性危机。"
    ],
    [
        "They need to align the goal of avoiding dangerous climate change with disincentives for carbon-intensive energy – including taxes, carbon markets, and support for green alternatives.",
        "政府需要将避免危险的气候变化的目标与鼓励远离碳密集能源的手段（包括税收、碳市场和支持绿色替代能源）结合起来。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason the current situation facing Europe is so difficult is that it was so unexpected.",
        "目前欧洲局势如此艰险的原因之一是它完全出乎意料。"
    ],
    [
        "Data in the paper stop at 2010, but the story may well be worse today.",
        "文章数据截至2010年，今天的情况可能糟糕得多。"
    ],
    [
        "But make no mistake: the institution Powell will now head rules the global financial system.",
        "但不要搞错了：鲍威尔现在将要执掌的机构，主宰着全球金融体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Addressing the problem of climate change requires reducing emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, which in turn involves choices in technology, some of which already exists and much of which needs to be developed.",
        "事实上，解决气候变化问题需要减少燃烧化石燃料所排放的二氧化碳，但这反过来又涉及到相关技术的选择问题，虽然其中一些技术已经成熟，但还有一大部分仍有待发展。"
    ],
    [
        "French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visits to Georgia and Russia proved that there is no substitute for Europe insofar as the Caucasus is concerned.",
        "法国总统萨尔科奇和德国总理默克尔对格鲁吉亚和德国的访问证明，对于欧洲而言，高加索地区是不可替代的。"
    ],
    [
        "Supporters of such research are framing criticism of it as opposition to saving children’s lives and an impediment to scientific development.",
        "研究的支持者称反对这项研究就是反对挽救儿童生命和阻碍科学发展。"
    ],
    [
        "According to former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, when the desired level of investment is below the desired level of savings despite a nominal interest rate of zero, chronically deficient demand constrains GDP and productivity growth, producing so-called “secular stagnation.”",
        "据美国前财政部长拉里·萨默斯（Larry Summers）所言，如果渴望的投资水平低于渴望的储蓄水平——即使名义利率为零，长期需求不振就会制约GDP和生产率增长，形成所谓的“长期停滞”。"
    ],
    [
        "These risk-based capital requirements may not be high enough, as Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig argued in their influential book The Bankers New Clothes.",
        "这些基于风险的资本要求可能不够高。 安纳特·阿德马迪（Anat Admati）和马丁·赫尔维格（Martin Hellwig）在他们影响甚广的著作《银行家的新衣》（The Bankers New Clothes）中指出了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The US subsidizes corn-based ethanol, and imposes tariffs on sugar-based ethanol; hidden in the tax code are billions of dollars of subsidies to the oil and gas industries.",
        "美国对用玉米为原料制备的乙醇提供补贴，而却对以糖为原料的乙醇征收关税，被这一税则掩盖的是对石油和天然气工业的巨额补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "We obviously need to strike at the root of the problem, which requires us to redefine the basic principles of the system.",
        "很明显，我们需要摧毁问题的根本所在，这样则要求我们来重新定义金融系统的基本准则。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the expression “illiberal democracy” confirms the narrative that democracy is the domain of national governments – and that it is the European Union that is pushing undemocratic liberalism.",
        "此外，“不自由的民主”这一表达确认了民主是国家政府层面的事务——而欧盟在推行不民主的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Former President Khatami’s initial decision to run for the post again grabbed the international community's attention.",
        "前总统哈塔米最初决定参加竞选再次引发了国际社会的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "In an era of austerity, it is difficult to understand how such a massive hemorrhage of resources could be neglected.",
        "在紧缩年代，很难理解如此大规模的资源渗漏会被忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "The Al Saud resembles a family business, established in 1932.",
        "沙特类似于一个家族产业。"
    ],
    [
        "This vast untapped potential presents the region with an opportunity for growth that does not rely on the strength of the world economy.",
        "这一巨大的未发掘潜能给该地区带来了无需世界经济坚挺的增长机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In thinking of ways to strengthen the ICSID, it would be helpful to consider the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement mechanism (DSM), which enjoys a remarkably strong compliance record.",
        "在强化ICSID方面，考虑世界贸易组织的纠纷解决机制（DSM）是大有裨益的，DSM拥有令人瞩目的极佳的遵守情况记录。"
    ],
    [
        "Developed countries made no individual commitments, and the starting year for funding adaptation assistance remains unclear.",
        "发达国家没有做出个别承诺，适应援助融资的起始年份也没有确定。"
    ],
    [
        "In the longer term, the project aims to create a research cohort of more than a million volunteers whose shared genetic data, biological samples, and lifestyle information will form the foundation for precision medicine in a large number of human diseases.",
        "在长期，计划的目标是建立一支拥有一百万以上志愿者的研究队伍，他们共享基因组数据、生物样本和生活方式信息，从而形成大量人类疾病精确医疗的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, his human-rights record was far better than the Derg’s.",
        "平心而论，他的人权纪录比军政府好多了。"
    ],
    [
        "Research spills over to the rest of the economy, as new knowledge diffuses into commercial activities. Tapping the knowledge produced by Austrian subsidiaries was one of the ways Eastern European economies were able to grow so quickly.",
        "随着新的知识不断扩散到商业活动之中，研究溢出到经济的其他部分，利用奥地利企业东欧子公司所生产的知识也成为东欧经济体实现快速增长的途径之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Deficits were not increased enough in 2009 to escape from high unemployment, he insisted, and were falling dangerously fast after 2010.",
        "）他坚持认为，2009年赤字增加的不够，因此无法降低高失业； 而2010年以降，赤字更是出现了危险的快速减少之势。"
    ],
    [
        "This is more democratic, no doubt, but it has made it harder for people to sift nonsense from truth, or demagoguery from rational political debate.",
        "这固然很民主，但也会使得民众很难区分真实和谎言，国家政治正常讨论和别有用心的煽动。"
    ],
    [
        "In a hastily arranged mini-summit, Germany, Finland, Austria, and the Netherlands announce that they will not renounce the euro as their joint currency.",
        "在一次匆忙召开的小型峰会上，德国，芬兰，奥地利和荷兰都宣布他们不会放弃他们的共同货币——欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "A facility considered secure 20 years ago might now be vulnerable to a cyber attack that bypasses its security systems or confounds efforts to keep track of its nuclear material.",
        "20年前认为安保程度足够的设施，如今也许极易受到绕过其安保系统或打乱核材料跟踪记录的网络打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a strong and internationally coordinated response to the sinking of the Cheonan, such reckless provocations are not only likely to continue, but may become more frequent.",
        "如果不对天安号的沉没做出国际统一的强烈反应，那么这样鲁莽的挑衅不仅有可能继续下去，而且还可能更为变本加厉。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because both sides have opted for armed struggle, the outcome will be civil war, regardless of what well-intentioned European Union foreign ministers decide in Brussels.",
        "而由于双方都选择了武装斗争之路，结果将是内战，不管心怀好意的欧盟外交部长们将在布鲁塞尔做出什么决定。"
    ],
    [
        "While motivated by the best of intentions, the hope of reviving the road map is out of touch with reality.",
        "虽然是处于良好的意愿，但重新激活路线图的希望是不现实的。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama and the world would then have to choose between tolerating an Iran with nuclear weapons (or the ability to produce them quickly) and using military force to prevent this outcome.",
        "如果是这样的话，奥巴马和世界将不得不在容忍伊朗拥有核武器（或者在短时间内生产它们的能力）以及动用武力来避免这一结果之间作出选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Henry Ford once scouted Florida in hopes of buying tracts of land to plant sugar cane, convinced that the United States would not tolerate the pollution from burning fossil fuels or the dependency implicit in importing oil to produce gasoline.",
        "亨利·福特曾经走遍佛罗里达州，希望买地种植甘蔗，因为他认为美国无法忍受燃烧化石燃料所造成的污染和进口石油生产汽油所造成的能源依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "At the very same time that Bush was waving from the stands, Russia was invading Georgia, America’s closest partner in the Caucasus.",
        "就在布什在看台上挥手的时候，俄国正在入侵美国在高加索最紧密的伙伴格鲁吉亚。"
    ],
    [
        "They are shut out of schools, locked out of opportunity, and condemned to live in unbearable conditions – subject to child labor or forced begging, sold into marriage, trafficked, conscripted into gangs, or recruited by extremists.",
        "他们被排斥在学校门外，被机会所抛弃，被迫生活在无法忍受的条件下——可能沦为劳工或被迫乞讨，卖走当新娘、遭遇人贩、被黑帮吸收，或被恐怖分子招募。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, it is equally certain that the new arrangements will also be flawed.",
        "但不幸的是，新方案也同样存在着缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Having them, their prestige among other fighters will soar, and so will support for their moderate stance.",
        "有了这些武器，他们在其他斗士中间的地位就会提高，这将有助于支持他们的温和立场。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this is to deny that Mexico still must confront other significant problems.",
        "所有这些都不能否认墨西哥仍必须面临其他重大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – I grew up in the shadow of World War II, and at the dawn of the Cold War.",
        "华盛顿—我成长于二战的阴影和冷战的黎明中。"
    ],
    [
        "The economies of China and the OECD countries, by contrast, have grown both in terms of GNP per capita and wealth per capita.",
        "相比之下，中国和经济合作发展组织（OECD）国家却实现了人均GNP和人均财富的同步增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Rouhani has also hiked energy prices by 50%, without increasing cash transfers to the poor.",
        "鲁哈尼还将能源价格提高了50%，但没有增加对穷人的现金转移支付。"
    ],
    [
        "Their successes and failures are more germane to current discussions than, say, the fiscal implications of Scottish independence.",
        "它们的成败与当前的讨论议题的联系比（比如）苏格兰独立的财政影响更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is crucial if we are to prevent an even greater chasm from dividing the world’s haves and have-nots.",
        "今天，如果我们要防止出现更大的鸿沟分裂世界上的富人和穷人，这项声明是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "They had won the Cold War, or so they perceived, through hard force and conviction.",
        "美国人是通过强硬的实力与信念方才赢得了冷战（或者他们自己这么认为）。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, his administration seems eager to impose limits on US imports from NAFTA countries.",
        "就目前而言，他的政府似乎急于对来自北美自由贸易区国家的进口施加限制。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – Japan is the petri dish for the struggle against the secular stagnation that is now gripping most major developed economies.",
        "纽黑文—日本是目前令大部分主要发达国家心弦紧绷的长期停滞斗争的老根据地。"
    ],
    [
        "Proxy forces like Hezbollah are, from this perspective, a tool either for deterring aggression or for deployment when fighting begins.",
        "从这个角度讲，真主党等代理力量是阻止侵略，或在爆发战斗的情况下阻止军事部署的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Europe has been left uncertain about its own system of quotas, which has not functioned particularly well in the first place.",
        "此外，欧洲对自己的配额系统心里也没底，而该系统自运行之初就一直不太顺利。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union, as I grasp it, is primarily a process, leading from worse to better; a process with only one end - the continuous development of European prosperity and peace.",
        "按照我的理解，欧盟首先是一个不断向上的进程； 这个进程的唯一目标就是-持续发展欧洲的繁荣与和平。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a broader issue at stake in David’s case.",
        "但戴维领养案的背后却牵扯到一个更大的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Continuing fear of political Islam in much of the West explains past support for dictatorial regimes.",
        "许多西方人一直担心政治化的伊斯兰教，这解释了他们过去为何支持独裁政权。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU-15 promised an 8% reduction in GHG emissions by 2010.",
        "欧盟15国承诺到2010年减少8%的温室气体排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics of the deal object that Iran’s testing of ballistic missiles has continued unabated after the JCPOA was enacted.",
        "该协议的批评者反对说，伊朗在JCPOA生效后仍在继续试射弹道导弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether a reduction in firing costs does boost employment depends on the balance of those two offsetting factors.",
        "降低解雇成本是否能促进就业取决于如何在这两个对立的因素间达成平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Its leading candidate for the presidential nomination, John Kerry, talks about how \"Benedict Arnold CEO's\" betray America by outsourcing jobs.",
        "其最主要的总统提名候选人约翰·凯利大谈\"本尼迪克•阿诺德似的CEO\"将工作外包是对美国的背叛。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is doing so without addressing the crucial need to bring its citizens along.",
        "但在执行这一切的过程中却未能处理关键的需要以把自己的人民带动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "The purest illustration occurs when a dominant supplier of a natural resource, such as oil, restricts supply on world markets to drive up world prices.",
        "石油等领域占主导地位的自然资源供应商为哄抬价格而限制国际市场资源供应就是最经典的案例。"
    ],
    [
        "But homebuyers are not as savvy, so they may not see the change coming or they may fail to plan for it.",
        "但购房者却没有那么精明，所以他们要么可能会发现不了即将到来的市场变化，要么可能会没有做好应对措施。"
    ],
    [
        "In most economies, employment is expected to reach its peak within the next half-century; in China, the labor force could shrink by 20% over this period.",
        "在大多数经济体中，就业职位预计在未来50年内到达顶峰； 而在中国，劳动人口数量将在这一时期内减少20%。"
    ],
    [
        "After spending a few days in Beijing, it was abundantly clear that China is undergoing a boom in Internet use, including as a consumer platform.",
        "在北京的几天中，很明显中国正处于互联网应用的热潮中，包括将其作为消费平台。"
    ],
    [
        "They will buy the new government debt and leave all spending decisions unaltered.”",
        "但有一件事情我们是清楚的，那就是虽然资产市场表现糟糕，但政府的接管只能会把问题弄得更糟。"
    ],
    [
        "So was Chile’s General Augusto Pinochet.",
        "智利将军奥古斯托·皮诺切特也同样如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Demographic researchers divide countries into four categories, according to the share of the over-65 population: young (less than 7% aged 65 or over), aging (7-13%), aged (14-20%), and super-aged (more than 21%).",
        "人口研究员按照65岁以上人口比例将国家分为四类：年轻（65岁或以上人口小于7%）、趋向老龄化（7-13%）、老龄化（14-20%）和超级老龄化（超过21%）。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, attended Trump’s first meeting with a head of government, Japan’s Shinzo Abe.",
        "他的女儿伊万卡·特朗普及其丈夫贾里德·库什纳已经与一位政府首脑——日本的安倍晋三——一道参与了特朗普的首次会议。"
    ],
    [
        "So if the Fed, for whatever reason, wanted to leave the interest rate unchanged, it needed an explanation that went beyond economic conditions in the United States.",
        "因此，如果美联储出于某种原因想保持利率不变，它需要美国经济状况之外的解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider football clubs, the modern world’s most insular, even tribal institutions.",
        "可以想想足球俱乐部，这是现代世界中最泾渭分明甚至具有部落性的组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Supposedly, everyone just wants more growth; unfortunately, when politicians talk about growth, what they usually mean is that they should be permitted to incur more public debt.",
        "想必人人都希望增长能够提高，但不幸的是，当政客言及增长时，他们的意思通常是应该允许他们背负更多的债务。"
    ],
    [
        "Geneticists then performed genetic fingerprinting on the yellow beans, and concluded that Proctor’s Enola bean was identical to the Mexican beans covered by the Trust Agreement.",
        "遗传学家随后对黄豆进行基因指纹识别，结论是Proctor的Endola黄豆与信托协议中的墨西哥黄豆在基因上完全吻合。"
    ],
    [
        "Approving a long-run deficit-reduction plan now but deferring its starting date until the economy is near full employment would prevent premature fiscal contraction from tipping the economy back into recession.",
        "现在就通过长期赤字削减计划，但推迟到经济达到接近充分就业时再实施，这样可以防止财政收缩操之过急，把经济重新拖入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "At this point, the only thing stopping a Conservative Party putsch against May is the fear of losing a fresh election, which would bring a far-left government to power for the first time in many years.",
        "目前，唯一能够阻挡保守党“反戈”梅的东西只剩下输掉新大选的担忧，如果保守党败北，将产生多年来首个极左翼政府。"
    ],
    [
        "One major risk of trade facilitation is trade diversion – that is, a reduction in customs duties between two countries leads consumers to avoid less expensive products from third countries.",
        "贸易促进的主要风险之一是贸易转移——即两国间征收关税的减少导致消费者拒绝选择来自第三国的更为廉价的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "Would the US respond with sanctions if the cyber attack on Sony had come from a foreign competitor in a commercial dispute?",
        "如果对索尼公司的网络攻击来自商业纠纷中的竞争对手美国是否会采取制裁的对策？"
    ],
    [
        "Quantitative Easing for the People",
        "为人民的量化宽松"
    ],
    [
        "How did it happen that every contemporary problem, particularly in Russia, seems to have been reduced to terrorist attacks and counter-terrorist operations?",
        "为什么当代的所有问题（特别是在俄罗斯）似乎已只剩下恐怖主义袭击和反恐行动？"
    ],
    [
        "But, if those hard-to-reach children are to benefit, our efforts must be scaled up significantly.",
        "但是，要想让偏远地区儿童受益，我们的努力必须大大地扩大规模。"
    ],
    [
        "The middle class would be eviscerated.",
        "中产阶级将失去一切财富。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be a mistake for NATO to respond to Russia’s provocations with similar saber rattling.",
        "如果北约对俄罗斯的挑衅以牙还牙，那将是一个错误。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Mohammad, democracy is un-Islamic, as are Pakistan’s constitution and judiciary, and Islam bars women from getting an education or leaving their homes except to perform the Hajj in Mecca.",
        "在他看来，民主制度是非伊斯兰的，而巴基斯坦的宪法和法律体系也不例外，禁止女性接受教育，除了赴麦加朝圣之外，女性不得离开家门半步。"
    ],
    [
        "But this approach is hardly progressive, as the final holders of pensions, insurance contracts, and bank deposits are typically the beleaguered middle class and the elderly.",
        "但这一方法很难具有累进性，因为退休基金、保险合同和银行存款的最终持有者通常是处处受压迫的中产阶级和老年人。"
    ],
    [
        "Why should there be so many European G-20 members – other than the fact that they were incumbent members of the earlier “G’s” – and not more African members?",
        "为什么 G-20 成员来自欧洲的那么多，来自非洲的那么少呢？ 无非是因为，之前的一些“ G- ”组织，大多是欧美国家俱乐部罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Musharraf dissolved the Supreme Court and the four High Courts, put Chaudhry and his entire family under house arrest, sealed the Supreme Court premises under army guard, and proceeded to arrest and detain all judges who refused to swear allegiance to the Provisional Constitutional Order upholding the state of emergency.",
        "穆沙拉夫解散了最高法院和四个高等法院，将乔杜里及其全家软禁起来，派遣武装警卫封锁了最高法院大楼，继续逮捕和扣押所有拒绝向支持紧急状态的“临时宪法令”宣誓效忠的法官。"
    ],
    [
        "If a large majority of EU citizens is to support continued political integration, strong economic growth is critical.",
        "要让绝大部分欧洲公民支持继续推进政治一体化，强劲的经济增长至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "But with urbanization, climate change, and other factors likely to increase the threat of infection, it is a goal that must be met.",
        "但在城市化、气候变化和其他因素有可能让传染风险进一步加剧的情况下，我们必须实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Debt can fund productive investments and improvement in human capital.",
        "债务可以为生产性投资和人力资本的改善提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "A large group of US corporate leaders will accompany Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to China, where they will seek to strike deals, promote open markets, and address abuses in bilateral trade.",
        "一个由美国企业界领袖组成的庞大代表团将和商务部长罗斯（Wilbur Ross）一起访问中国，寻求达成交易、促进开放市场和解决双边贸易中的违法行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The system is hardest on first-generation graduates who lack a highly placed relative to help them into the workforce; they are often left with no option but to pay a hefty bribe to advance their careers.",
        "这套体系对于第一代学校毕业生来说最难打破，他们缺少身居高位的亲戚帮他们找到工作； 因此别无办法，只能重金贿赂以打通职业道路。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2050, this figure could skyrocket to ten million per year, at a cumulative cost to world GDP of $100 trillion..",
        "截止2050年，该数据可能上升到每年1000万，累计给世界GDP造成的损失高达100万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking Back on Barack",
        "回顾奥巴马"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the economic benefits of addressing climate change are also clear.",
        "幸运的是，解决气候变化的经济利益也十分明确。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the United Nations Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, investigating the causes of the Great Recession, and the International Monetary Fund have both warned that inequality leads to economic instability.",
        "此外，调查大衰退起因的联合国国际货币和金融制度改革专家委员会和IMF均发出了警告，称不平等性导致了经济不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Zulfikar Ali Bhutto anointed his wife and daughter to be the PPP’s co-chairpersons in case he was executed by the military regime that had overthrown him.",
        "佐勒菲卡尔•阿里•布托指定其妻子和女儿为巴基斯坦人民党的领导人之一，以防推翻他的军方处死他。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as they wrote the script for the first of Japan’s lost decades, their counterparts are now doing the same for the US economy.",
        "正如他们造成了日本失去的十年，现在，他们的美国同道在对美国经济做同样的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Melting Pot or Economic Meltdown",
        "大熔炉还是经济崩溃"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s scientific institutions are already evolving and adapting to new global challenges.",
        "欧洲科研机构已经在不断发展并适应新全球挑战的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the very foundation of Iraq was based on victors’ justice: the British Empire, having vanquished the Ottomans, made the Sunni Arabs overlords in a country in which they were a minority.",
        "实际上，伊拉克整个就是建立在胜利者正义基础之上。 大英帝国征服了奥托曼帝国后，让逊尼派阿拉伯人在一个居于少数派的国家超负荷。"
    ],
    [
        "India is more self-contained than China, and it should have less difficulty in maintaining its upside momentum.",
        "印度于中国相比更为自我收敛，而且在维持向上的势头上较为容易。"
    ],
    [
        "Since Americans can’t rely on homogeneous mores, the law is the only way to regulate behavior.",
        "由于美国人无法依赖整齐划一的习俗来规范行为，那么法律就成了唯一的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, the government’s role should be confined to areas where externalities exist, such as carbon-emissions reduction.",
        "因此，政府的角色应该限定于存在外部性的领域，如减少碳排放等。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, if the US had set out to destabilize Iraq, its efforts could hardly have been more successful: ten years later, the country’s viability as a single state has never been in greater doubt.",
        "首先，如果美国的初衷是破坏伊拉克稳定，那恐怕这一目标已经完美实现：10年后，伊拉克能否作为统一国家存在都充满了变数。"
    ],
    [
        "While European public and private support to Israel, especially in its founding years, is believed to be very extensive, the US has created a firewall of vetoes and political protection for Israel, in addition to providing massive financial support.",
        "虽然欧洲公开和私下对以色列的帮助，特别是在它建国之初，被认为是非常巨大的，但是美国除了为以色列提供大量的经济支持外，还为它建立了否决权和政治保护的防火墙。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent Pew poll found that many Europeans have lost their attraction to the US and would like Europe to play a larger role in world politics.",
        "最近的佩尤民意调查发现，许多欧洲人已经失去了对美国的兴趣并且希望欧洲在世界政治中扮演更重要的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Many assumed that Musharraf would follow the lead of his military predecessors, who on several occasions announced elections and a return to democracy, only to postpone the vote when it drew near.",
        "但这一策略并未奏效，律师们又重新造势。 于是，穆沙拉夫撤回了紧急法令，恢复了宪法。"
    ],
    [
        "Most countries had no choice but to cut expenditures and accept a lost decade of anemic growth.",
        "大部分国家别无选择，只能削减开支，接受增长萎靡的失去的十年。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is not guns vs. butter, but guns vs. butter vs. taxes.",
        "问题不在于枪炮还是黄油，而在于是枪炮，还是黄油，还是税收。"
    ],
    [
        "It might have been hoped that the bank supervisors who stress-tested the banks would try to estimate the size of the banks’ losses on toxic assets.",
        "银行管理者在进行“压力测试”时候，应该考虑到有毒资产的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Although there has so far been no significant shift in practice, the legitimation of xenophobia is a major feature of this onslaught on political liberalism: Jan Slota, the leader of the Slovak National Party, has said that he envies the Czechs for having expelled the Germans after WWII, and regularly accuses the Hungarian minority of “oppressing the majority nation.”",
        "尽管到目前为止在实际行动上的变化还不是很大，但扼杀政治自由主义的一种重要表现就是排外主义情绪的合法化：斯洛伐克民族党主席斯洛达（Jan Slota）曾公开宣称：捷克曾在二战后驱逐德国人的做法令他倍感羡慕，他还经常谴责匈牙利少数族裔“压迫主要民族。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Western policymakers and those in the Gulf ask themselves what Syria would look like the day after Assad is toppled.",
        "西方和海湾国家的决策者无法确定阿萨德倒台后叙利亚将会是什么样子。"
    ],
    [
        "But conspiracy, as a stand-alone offense, is particular to Anglo-American common law.",
        "但是，同谋罪作为一个独立的罪名在英美法系中是一个特例。"
    ],
    [
        "The prospect of the “abridgment of labor” should fill us with hope rather than foreboding.",
        "“节约人力”的前景应该带给我们希望而不是恶兆。"
    ],
    [
        "Governing well in a context of economic, political, ethnic, and religious diversity is not easy.",
        "在经济，政治，种族和宗教多样性的背景下做好治理并不容易。"
    ],
    [
        "This threatens to aggravate the damaging contraction of global trade.",
        "这会加剧全球贸易萎缩所造成的损害。"
    ],
    [
        "One quote from Surkov that day is particularly telling: “Make ready for the elections, train your brains and muscles. You can always rely on our support.”",
        "苏尔科夫当天说过的一句特别的话就是：“准备好迎接选举，锻炼好你们的大脑和肌肉，我们永远支持你们。"
    ],
    [
        "But if these stunning economic statistics make you think that so much capitalist development must also have brought more democracy to China, think again.",
        "但是，如果这些耀人的经济数据让你以为如此多的资本主义发展必定给中国带来了更多的民主，那你就需要三思了。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, there is a continuing structural imbalance between the way Europe looks at America, i.e., with passion and concern, and the way America looks at Europe, i.e., with mild interest giving way to growing indifference.",
        "第二，欧洲和美国看待彼此的方式之间存在一种持续的结构失衡：欧洲带着热情关注美国，而美国对欧洲兴趣一般，而且越来越不关心。"
    ],
    [
        "Then along came Google, with co-founder Larry Page’s innovative ranking of Web pages not just by their content, but also by the quantity and quality of other pages that link to them.",
        "而后领跑的谷歌，其共同创始人拉里·佩奇创造性地将网页不仅按内容，而且按链接网页的数量和质量进行排序。"
    ],
    [
        "This windfall allowed higher government spending and less austerity.",
        "这笔横财让它们可以增加政府支出并减少紧缩政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But billions of dollars in tax subsidies would create plenty of new jobs in almost any sector: the point is that many less capital-intensive sectors would create many more jobs for a given investment of taxpayers’ money.",
        "但是几十亿美元的税收补贴几乎可以在任何一个部门创造大量的新岗位，关键在于同样是用纳税人的钱进行的投资，许多资本密集程度较低的部门能够创造更多的就业岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "A contraction in the US economy in the first quarter of the year was dismissed as weather-related.",
        "美国经济今年一季度的负增长据说与天气有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Like its statement on the destruction of Sufi shrines, it denied involvement in the attack on the US Consulate, but stressed the gravity of the insult against the Prophet that putatively triggered it.",
        "一如它在苏菲派神殿事件上所做的声明那样，该组织否认参与对美国领事馆的袭击，并强调引发此次袭击的主要是侮辱先知的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Abe has succeeded so well in returning Japan to the world stage that his US and Asian critics act as if the only problem now is to moderate Japanese self-confidence – a notion that would have been laughable just two years ago.",
        "事实上，安倍晋三在让日本回归世界舞台方面做得十分成功，就连他的美国和亚洲批评者似乎也认为现在唯一的问题是如何抑制日本的自信心——换做两年前，这样的观点还显得颇为可笑。"
    ],
    [
        "But, rather than airing the speech, the broadcast brought the shocking news of the assassination.",
        "但是，广播并没有送出肯尼迪的声音，而是传来了肯尼迪遇刺的惊天噩耗。"
    ],
    [
        "In the late 1980’s, biologists found strains that were resistant to all known insecticides.",
        "20世纪80年代末，生物学家发现了对所有已知杀虫剂具有耐药性的菜蛾品种。"
    ],
    [
        "All three parties involved will need to tread with care to make certain that the thaw in China-Taiwan relations is not set back by this proposed arms deal.",
        "所有三方在美对台军售问题上都要保持克制，避免海峡两岸的关系重开倒车。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, there were no lasting negative effects from the short-term dose of austerity, and, to the extent that austerity was essential to post-crisis healing, the long-term benefits have proven to be both enduring and astounding.",
        "简而言之，这种短期的紧缩行为并不会导致长期性的负面效应，而且紧缩在某种程度上是灾后复原所必不可少的，事实证明，其带来的长期好处不仅持久，而且令人震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Loss of economic “confidence” is one possible cause.",
        "失去经济“信心”或是其中之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the overriding theme remained corruption.",
        "但压倒一切的关注焦点仍然是腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany might even exit itself, if it cannot bring its weaker partners to heel.",
        "” 更有甚者，德国如果无法迫使弱小盟国就范，它也将自行退出。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the Turkish government is pursuing a separate path of negotiations, through a rapprochement with another Kurdish authority – the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq.",
        "与此同时，土耳其政府在追求单独的谈判路径，即通过与另一大库尔德当局——位于伊拉克北部的库尔德地区政府（Kurdish Regional Government，KRG）建立友好关系实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The credit cycle is an amplification mechanism.",
        "信贷周期是一个放大机制。"
    ],
    [
        "China, however, is not yet in the category of water-stressed states.",
        "但是，中国并非水严重短缺国。"
    ],
    [
        "The shift in emphasis on best-practice corporate governance is real, and it is here to stay.",
        "强调最佳实践公司治理的变化是实实在在的，并且还会继续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Coca farmers and producers slash and burn forests, polluting streams with toxic chemicals and damaging fragile ecosystems.",
        "古柯种植者和生产者砍伐并烧毁森林，用有毒化学物质污染水流并破坏脆弱的生态系统。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fact that reforms and actions were undertaken only lately, and under the pressure of acute crisis, is a sobering reminder of the difficulty of reaching consensus.",
        "但改革和行动直到最近才开始，并且是在严重危机的压力下才实施，这一事实让问们清醒地认识到达成共识的困难性。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – Something changed – or perhaps was revealed – in the United States during the last month.",
        "华盛顿—上个月，美国发生了一些事——或者说，有一些东西显露出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the British exit threat shake Europe to its senses and make the United Kingdom’s effort to reform institutions more likely to succeed, or to make Europe a more stable polity?",
        "英国的退出会让欧洲心痛并让英国制度改革更容易成功吗？ 它会让欧洲成为一个更稳定的政体？"
    ],
    [
        "At the heart of the problem are politicians who are more interested in facilitating tax evasion by the wealthy than improving learning opportunities for the poor.",
        "问题的核心是有些政客更热衷于方便富人逃税而不是改善穷人的学习机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond political and fiscal unification and short-term growth policies, Europeans urgently need structural reforms aimed at restoring Europe’s competitiveness.",
        "除了政治和财政统一以及短期增长政策之外，欧洲继续旨在重塑竞争力的结构性改革。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Paraguay, which until 2004 had one of the world’s highest rates of deforestation, has reduced rates in its eastern region by 85%.",
        "例如，巴拉圭直到2004年还是世界上砍伐森林最高的国家，现在其东部地区的砍伐率已经下降85%。"
    ],
    [
        "“Dreamers” – children raised in the US but without legal status – have become the human face of reform.",
        "“梦想者”——长在美国但没有合法身份的儿童——成为了改革的代言人。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, an Italian study of weaned piglets that were fed either conventional corn or the same variety modified to synthesize a bacterial protein that confers resistance to insect predation found that the modified variety contained lower levels of fumonisin.",
        "同样一项意大利研究也发现，用可以生成抗害虫细菌蛋白的基因改造玉米喂养的断奶小猪，与那些用未经过改造的同一品种喂养的小猪相比，体内的伏马菌素水平更低。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless growth is restored, France’s already large public debt will expand unsustainably, heightening the risk that investors will shun French government bonds.",
        "除非恢复增长，否则法国本已庞大的公共债务将会不可持续地扩大下去，这会增加投资者放弃购买法国政府债券的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "In Central America and Mexico clothing production is vitally important – generating 400,000 and 600,000 jobs, respectively – and represents the heart of Central America’s maquiladoras (free trade zones), which account for more than 70% of regional exports to the US.",
        "服装产业在中美洲和墨西哥极其重要，每年可分别为两国提供400,000和600,000个就业机会，它同时也是中美洲的maquiladors产业(自由贸易区)的中心所在，占当地对美出口额的70%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "These are the reflexes of an impeccable stateswoman.",
        "她是一位无可挑剔的女政治家。"
    ],
    [
        "Lawyers oversee bigger transactions and cases.",
        "律师面对标的更大的民刑事案件。"
    ],
    [
        "The current talks aim to replace the expired 1997 PCA, which remains in force by mutual consent pending a new accord.",
        "当前的对话旨在替换1997年就已过期、但双方同意在签订新的协定之前继续有效的PCA。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for the world to move the agenda for Myanmar forward, not just by offering assistance, but by removing the sanctions that have now become an impediment to the country’s transformation.",
        "世界应该为缅甸制定前景日程，不仅仅是提供援助，更要取消现在已成为阻挠缅甸转型的制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "Last week, we proposed a rescue package that offers eight proposals to improve governance and restore ocean health.",
        "上周，我们提出了包括八项改善治理、重塑海洋健康措施的一揽子补救计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The building Trade is quite destroy’d",
        "建筑行业尽毁"
    ],
    [
        "The second change is the perception that Iran’s nuclear capacity would threaten not only Israel.",
        "第一个变化是，美国及其西方的盟友都加大努力让伊朗政府放弃核计划了。"
    ],
    [
        "For all of the lamentable inadequacy of the Security Council’s response to the situation in Syria, no one has seriously argued that it is not an RtoP case.",
        "虽然安理会对叙利亚局势的对策之匮乏令人痛心，但没有人真正提出这不属于保护责任范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "It may seem hard to focus on policy developments amid the political and economic turmoil, but the fact remains that Brazil must overcome fundamental challenges if it is to lay the groundwork for sustainable growth.",
        "在政治和经济动荡时期，你很难专注于政策发展，但事实仍然是，巴西如果想要打好可是增长的基础，就必须克服基本挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Participating countries could allow their currencies to float, or they could operate a fixed exchange rate.",
        "参与国可以让货币浮动，也可以维持固定汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek Time Bomb",
        "希腊这颗定时炸弹"
    ],
    [
        "As the Stern report points out, as usual, the poor are the most vulnerable.",
        "正如斯特恩的报告中所指出，和很多情况下一样穷国是最脆弱的。"
    ],
    [
        "That has now changed.",
        "现在已经不再如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Scarcely seven minutes after the sentence was read out, had the executioners done their work.",
        "在宣读判决仅仅 7 分钟后，行刑者就枪决了齐奥塞斯库夫妇。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere, political limits to tax increases were reached before the gap could be filled.",
        "在其他国家，增税的政治上限在足以弥补缺口之前就已经达到。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a fiscal path to enhancing prosperity for middle-income Americans.",
        "有一种财政方法能够为中等收入美国人带来更大的繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has now pledged $3 billion, with Japan promising $1.5 billion, augmenting previous pledges by France and Germany – funding that is essential to ensure developing countries’ fruitful participation at COP21.",
        "现在，美国承诺出资30亿美元，日本承诺出资15亿美元，扩大了此前法国和德国的承诺出资量——这笔资金对于确保发展中国家参与COP21至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy contracted by a whopping 18%, and the unemployment rate peaked above 22%.",
        "当时总体经济规模剧减了18%，而失业率则飙升到22%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing the potential of corruption to undermine the legitimacy of the Communist Party of China and the authority of the Chinese state, Xi has embarked on an anti-graft campaign that is unprecedented in scale, scope, and depth.",
        "认识到腐败对党和国家合法性和权威的破坏力，习近平展开了规模、范围和深度前所未见的反腐运动。"
    ],
    [
        "Who is not against corruption?",
        "谁不反对腐败？"
    ],
    [
        "In time, China will likely be the world’s largest source of FDI.",
        "假以时日，中国很有可能将成为世界上最大的FDI来源国。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the onset of the crisis, Greek wages have dropped by more than 15% – a process called, appropriately enough, internal devaluation.",
        "自危机爆发以来，希腊工资下降了15%以上——名副其实的内部贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the billions of farmers and villagers worldwide should not be forgotten.",
        "当然，我们绝不能忘记全球数十亿农村居民。"
    ],
    [
        "But we never imagined the terrifying lengths to which the state – working hand-in-hand with the new oligarchic rich – would go to defeat our cause.",
        "但是我们从没有想到国家政府居然和新寡头政治富人联手打击挫败我们的事业——打击力度及其骇人。"
    ],
    [
        "So he left Gorbachev a private life that could also be lived in public.",
        "所以他允许戈尔巴乔夫过他自己私人的生活，并且还可以出现在公众中。"
    ],
    [
        "The German financial press, which often criticizes the European Commission for being too lax, barely registered the decision.",
        "德国财经媒体经常批评欧盟委员会管得太松，对这个决定却几乎视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "A second condition supporting SS1 is rooted in the impact of heightened uncertainty – about growth, job security, policies and regulations, and the many developments that could affect any of those factors – on investment and consumption.",
        "第二个支持SS1的条件来自投资和消费方面的突出的不确定性的影响——增长、就业安全、政策与监管，以及许多可能影响这些因素中的任何一个的发展趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "This is less startling than it may appear: econometric studies suggest that it takes a year to two before the full effects of oil-price increases are felt.",
        "这种现象并不像表面上那样惊人：计量经济学研究表明，油价上涨所带来的种种后果要在一到两年之后才会全面感觉到。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1998, however, prosperity vanished.",
        "然而，1998年繁荣消失了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, working essentially alone, central banks have not been able to revamp properly the advanced economies’ growth engines; nor do they have the tools to do so.",
        "但是，单枪匹马的央行无法恰到好处地更新发达经济体的增长引擎，它们也没有工具这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the crisis began, eurozone banks have reduced foreign claims by $7.3 trillion, or 45%.",
        "自危机爆发以来，欧元区银行已经削减了7. 3万亿美元的国外债权，占国外债权总额的45%。"
    ],
    [
        "Without such procedures, a market economy would be unable to function.",
        "没有了这些程序，市场经济就无法运作。"
    ],
    [
        "But the large-scale destruction of financial assets because of underlying uncertainty about the extent of losses in the wake of the sub-prime crisis, and especially after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, shook that assumption.",
        "但是，在次级抵押贷款危机爆发之后，因为损失程度暗含的不确定性，特别是在雷曼兄弟破产之后，金融资产大规模的毁灭粉碎了人们的这一看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Putin and Khrushchev sought to use Solzhenitsyn for their own purposes.",
        "普京和赫鲁晓夫都出于自身的目的而利用索尔仁尼琴。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea remains conservative about offering permanent residency to foreign nationals.",
        "韩国对于授予外族人永久居留权仍然十分保守。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond semantics lies the more consequential, but equally ambiguous, question of the international community’s role and responsibility.",
        "在语义学之外是后果更严重但同样不清不楚的问题——国际社会的角色和责任。"
    ],
    [
        "The Great Escapism",
        "现实大逃避"
    ],
    [
        "For example, lightweight, two-passenger vehicles can be up to ten times more energy efficient than a typical car.",
        "比如，轻型两座汽车可以比典型的汽车拥有高十倍的能源效率。"
    ],
    [
        "All research into the universe and the physical world struggles to achieve a complete understanding.",
        "所有对宇宙和现实世界的研究都致力于实现完全的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "And it is crucial to keep weapons of mass destruction out of terrorists’ hands.",
        "而且不让大规模杀伤性武器落入恐怖份子之手至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Hundreds of thousands have lost their lives; millions have been rendered homeless.",
        "数十万人失去了生计； 数百万人无家可归。"
    ],
    [
        "The visible and persistent failure of education systems to adopt exciting technological breakthroughs is a well-known example of this inertia.",
        "教育系统在引入令人振奋的技术突破方面的显然而持续的失败是这一惰性的最佳写照。"
    ],
    [
        "They need time for people to make referrals, and time to collect them.",
        "他们需要一段时间让人推介并收集它们。"
    ],
    [
        "Pupils, especially young ones, cannot observe a teacher’s pedagogical effort.",
        "学生，特别是年轻学生，无法观察教师的教学投入程度。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is killing massive numbers of Iraqi civilians, embittering the population and the Islamic world, and laying the ground for escalating violence and death.",
        "美国给伊斯兰民族和伊斯兰世界带来了深重灾难，大量伊拉克平民在这场美国发动的对伊战争中被打死，并且暴力活动还将进一步升级，死亡人数持续上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps they may decide that violence is counter-productive and carries its own penalties, and may then follow the Kurdish example of curbing violence, which would help put Iraq together again without recourse to permanent repression.",
        "也许他们会认识到暴力的负面作用和随之而来的惩罚，开始学习库尔德人制止暴力的榜样。 如果真是这样，那么无须借助长期的高压政策，伊拉克就能重新联合在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "The dynamic process of globalization has resulted in unprecedented levels of growth and interdependence.",
        "全球化的有力进程带来了前所未有的发展水平和各国的相互依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Peaceful diplomacy did the job, showing Qadaffi that reopening diplomatic relations with the West and abandoning Libya’s nuclear ambitions would be advantageous for its own future and that of the country.",
        "和平外交才取得了成果。 它使卡扎菲认识到重新开启与西方的外交关系并放弃利比亚的核野心，对他本人和国家的未来都是有利的。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2008, they were in a strong enough position to respond to the financial crisis by allowing larger budget deficits and thus mitigating the downturn in 2009.",
        "到2008年，他们已经强大到可以用扩大财政赤字缓解2009年经济衰退来破解金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it may take some time for the Tamils and their leaders to learn the mutual tolerance and self-discipline of democratic government.",
        "当然，让泰米尔人及其领导人了解民主政府的相互宽容和自律，可能会需要一些时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The absence of awareness is also reflected in the preparations for a high-level UN meeting on international policy concerning the Internet and development that will take place in December.",
        "缺乏清醒的认识也反映在将与12月举行的联合国关于互联网和发展的国际政策的高规格会议的准备工作中。"
    ],
    [
        "This interdependent relationship means that the US is not so powerful, that it can readily ignore the wishes of key states, and it is here that its apparent weakness is actually strength.",
        "这种相互依存的关系意味着美国并没有强大到可以轻易无视关键国家的愿望，也正是在这方面，这种表面看上去的弱点其实正是其优势所在。"
    ],
    [
        "The post-World War II Marshall Plan provided debt relief as well.",
        "二战后的马歇尔计划（Marshall Plan）也提供了债务纾解。"
    ],
    [
        "There is reason to believe that China’s supply-side rebalancing is moving in the right direction.",
        "有理由相信中国的供给侧再平衡正在朝正确的方向前进。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also difficult to grasp why China is so reluctant to reduce its bilateral surplus, given meager returns on its massive holdings of US government securities and a sustained risk of large capital losses in the future.",
        "而于此同时，我们也难以解释中国为何不愿减少其双边贸易盈余，因为大规模持有美国政府债券回报极低，而且还存在着巨额资本流失风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But such arguments actually poisoned the idea of refugee protection: The focus on the potential economic role of refugees inadvertently reinforced the view that they were, in fact, economic migrants.",
        "但这些支持实际上有损于难民保护的概念：着重于难民的潜在经济作用在不经意间强化了他们其实是经济移民的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it more difficult to predict, and adjust to, the coming of a fundamental change, than to defend the present order, under the motto of “the devil you know is always preferable to the devil you don’t know!”",
        "预测并适应即将到来的根本性变化是否比捍卫现有秩序难度更大，人们奉若神明的一句格言是“熟悉的魔鬼总比不熟悉的魔鬼要强！ ”"
    ],
    [
        "Prices will be determined as described in any standard economics textbook: by the marginal costs of the last supplier whose production is needed to meet global demand.",
        "价格的决定将遵从标准的经济学教科书模式：由满足全球需求所需要的最后一位供给者的边际成本决定。"
    ],
    [
        "But the impact of America's planned troop withdrawals is felt most keenly in South Korea.",
        "但受美军撤离计划影响最大的是韩国。"
    ],
    [
        "Defending the Security Council’s current make-up is impossible; the need for change is beyond debate.",
        "维持安理会目前的构成状态是不可能的，改变的需求无可争议。"
    ],
    [
        "The CDU-FDP coalition prefers to sugarcoat the situation by convincing themselves of an Anglo-Saxon conspiracy, abetted by those in the European crisis countries unwilling to perform and reform and whose only purpose is to make the Germans pay.",
        "基督民主联盟和自由民主党的联合政党喜欢粉饰目前的局面。 他们十分清楚这是一个安格鲁萨克逊阴谋。"
    ],
    [
        "And all of them, like most Libyans, share the unrealistic expectation that their newfound freedom will somehow solve their socio-economic woes.",
        "津坦则是卡扎菲之子赛义夫·伊斯兰·卡扎菲的囚禁地。 这几个城市与大部分利比亚人一样，都抱有不切实际的预期，希望新获得的自由能够在一定程度上解决其社会经济乱象。"
    ],
    [
        "Or public spending: all European leaders adamantly want to reduce government spending. But these same leaders, including that supposedly stern mistress of the budget Angela Merkel, were arguing less than two years ago that public spending would provide a “Keynesian” way out of the crisis.",
        "再看看公共支出方面：所有欧洲领导人肯定都希望减少政府支出，但同样也是这帮领导人，包括据说一向是对预算卡得很紧的默克尔，都曾在一年多前声称扩大公共支出是一条“凯恩斯式”的摆脱危机之路。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments that do embark on structural reform often find it frustrating to wait for that often-elusive “critical mass” of revitalized sectors to materialize; and economists find it very difficult to predict the timing and magnitude of the growth liftoff that should follow.",
        "实施了结构改革的政府往往不得不沮丧地等待部门复兴的“临界值”的产生，而这一临界值为多少很难界定； 此外，经济学家也很难预测随之而来的增长腾飞的时机和程度。"
    ],
    [
        "The US could also clash with China over Taiwan.",
        "中美两国也有可能因台湾问题而爆发冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "For some, it was the decision to go to war in Iraq; for others, it was Guantánamo and the perceived double standards of American justice.",
        "对于某些人而言，这是由于出兵伊拉克的决定； 对于另一些人而言，这是由于关塔纳摩监狱以及人们所感受的美国司法制度的双重标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to what zealots in either camp claim, neither public nor private schools perform better than the alternative at all times.",
        "与两个阵营的狂热分子的主张相反，公立学校并不总是比私立学校表现好，反之亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Reforms that cost little or no money, such as improving the quality of primary and secondary education, have been shown to encourage growth while ameliorating inequality.",
        "例如改善中小学教育质量这类的花费不多甚至为零的改革都能在促进增长的同时改善不平等状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Greenspan’s irresponsible support of that tax cut was critical to its passage.",
        "格林斯潘对减税不负责任的支持对减税法案的通过起到至关重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Mass immunization has largely eliminated polio.",
        "群众免疫已基本实现了脊髓灰质炎绝迹。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s phenomenal rate of expansion has slowed to below 7%.",
        "中国的现象级扩张速度已经放缓至7%以下。"
    ],
    [
        "Bank regulators are starting to take these issues more seriously – an encouraging change from the 1990s and early 2000s, when the Fed was among the cheerleaders for unfettered financial innovation, without adequate consideration for systemic risk.",
        "银行监管者正在开始更加认真地对待这些问题——这是自20世纪90年代和21世纪初以来令人鼓舞的变化，此前的美联储和其他金融监管机构都鼓吹自由金融创新，没有充分考虑到系统风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Just not yet.",
        "但不是现在。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s viciously anti-Semitic rhetoric is a transparent attempt to deceive its terrified Arab neighbors by presenting its military might as the spearhead of an all-Muslim confrontation with Israel.",
        "伊朗充满恶意的仇犹言论通过将伊朗军事力量作为整个穆斯林世界与以色列对峙的先锋，显而易见是要欺骗受到惊吓的阿拉伯邻国。"
    ],
    [
        "Suddenly, David became the world’s best-known Malawian because it was his good fortune to be adopted by Madonna, the pop star who is to TV cameras what honey is to bears.",
        "而突然之间，戴维就变成了世界上最知名的马拉维人，因为他有幸被麦当娜领养，而电视镜头见了麦当娜就像狗熊见了蜂蜜一样疯狂。"
    ],
    [
        "In Iraq, free elections have revealed the enormous influence of Islamist currents.",
        "在伊拉克，自由选举揭示了伊斯兰运动的巨大影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "That, in a nutshell, was the Soviet model, which failed once and would fail again.",
        "简言之，这些都是苏联模式，曾经失败过，也将再次失败。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequences for the real economy will be comparable only to the financial crisis of 2007-2008.",
        "对实体经济所造成的后果只有2007—2008年的金融危机才能与之相提并论。"
    ],
    [
        "Between 1815 and 1932, some 60 million Europeans emigrated.",
        "1815至1932年间，欧洲移民人数达到约6，000万。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, we can apply lessons from the successful fight against infectious diseases to the emerging fight against NCDs.",
        "幸运的是，我们可以在即将到来的NCD斗争中借鉴打击传染病的成功经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Recalling Hillary Clinton’s famous Democratic primary television advertisement, Obama, it turns out, is exactly the sort of president that most of us would want to have in the post for that 3 a.m. phone call about an international crisis.",
        "再回想到希拉里 · 克林顿在民主党总统初选时发布的著名电视广告，每个人都会毫不犹豫地认为奥巴马就是他们所期望的那个能在凌晨 3 点钟拿起电话处理国际危机的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth would still have slowed, but with far less risk.",
        "增长仍有可能下降，但风险要小得多。"
    ],
    [
        "“Join me in accomplishing these next five tasks, and we can look at ourselves in the mirror again, recognizing ourselves as true Americans.”",
        "加入我的行列来完成这五项任务。 我们能够在镜中再次看到自己，认识到我们自己是真正的美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it expands access.",
        "首先，它拓展了信贷覆盖范围。"
    ],
    [
        "It points out that in no other situation are voluntary sexual relationships between people capable of self-determination prohibited.",
        "报告指出其他任何情况下有决定权的人自愿发生性关系都不被禁止。"
    ],
    [
        "One of the best ways to avoid cancer is to eat lots of fruit and vegetables.",
        "预防癌症的最佳办法之一就是大量食用水果和蔬菜。"
    ],
    [
        "That is simply not the case in Europe today.",
        "这绝不是当今欧洲的情形。"
    ],
    [
        "His policies have sometimes been inconsistent and irresolute.",
        "他的政策有时前后矛盾、犹豫不决。"
    ],
    [
        "Such bottom-up efforts to “globalize” national governments have the greatest potential to affect environmental policies, particularly those aimed at mitigating climate change – the most intractable global problem of all.",
        "这种自下而上“全球化”各国政府的举措拥有影响环境政策的巨大潜力，尤其是那些针对减缓气候变化——这是当前最棘手的全球问题——的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "We would do well to keep his priorities and his principles uppermost in our minds, now that he is no longer here to remind us of their necessity.",
        "现在他已不在这里提醒我们，我们最好能够牢记他的思维重点和原则。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Last week, I learned that I don't have cancer.",
        "发自纽约——上星期，我逃过了一劫。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Clinton has launched an actual strategic dialogue with civil society.",
        "凭借着上述举措，希拉里发起了一场与公民社会的实质性战略对话。"
    ],
    [
        "Owner occupancy rates are high in the US, and the financial system allows households to extract the equity in their homes relatively cheaply, either by second liens or by refinancing the entire mortgage.",
        "在美国，屋主自住率很高，金融体系让家庭可以相对廉价地获得自家房子的权益，可以通过第二留置权（second liens），也可以通过再融资全部按揭。"
    ],
    [
        "That bold policy initiative – in the face of the Japanese public’s deeply ingrained skepticism toward any increased exposure to military risks – has no doubt endeared Abe to US diplomats and military strategists, as well as secured both open and sometimes tacit approval from Japan’s Asian neighbors.",
        "这一大胆的政策措施——需要面临日本公众对增加军事风险暴露的根深蒂固的怀疑——毫无疑问让安倍深受美国外交和军事战略家的欢迎，也确保了日本的亚洲邻国的公开肯定或默认。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, even if consumers did respond efficiently, fossil-fuel prices are dictated largely by heavily financialized markets, which tend to be extremely volatile.",
        "而且，即使消费者采取有效对策，但化石燃料价格很大程度上由高度金融化的市场所决定，因此波动性极大。"
    ],
    [
        "A common currency can help to generate such a narrative.",
        "共同货币有助于产生这样的“故事”。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, subsidies received by energy corporations could be made conditional on a greater percentage of profits being invested in low-carbon innovations.",
        "比如，能源公司所获得的补贴应该以加大投资于低碳创新的利润比例为条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The way to regain the support of the burgeoning Chinese middle class was to promise a quick leap to greater prosperity through high-speed economic growth.",
        "为了挽回新兴中产阶级的支持，共产党许诺将通过高速经济发展向集体富裕大步迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "A weak Japan and a fractious collection of 28 countries in the European Union would be a tempting target for President Trump.",
        "特朗普总统将希望看到日本疲弱和欧盟28国分裂的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The two world wars and the Cold War shaped European integration as a project of peace, a defense of the West’s fundamental values, and common economic prosperity.",
        "两次世界大战和冷战将欧洲整合进程塑造为一个和平计划，一种对西方基本价值观的防卫手段以及共同的经济繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "More striking is the CBO’s projection that the deficit will continue to decline rapidly, reaching just 2.1% of GDP in 2015, before rising gradually to just 3.5% of GDP in 2023, the end of the CBO’s official forecast period.",
        "更令人瞩目的是CBO预测赤字将持续快速减少，2015年将减至GDP的2. 1%，此后会逐渐上升，到2023年（CBO正式预测期的期末）将占GDP的3."
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the supply of most commodities is forecast to grow by no more than 2% annually in real terms.",
        "与此同时，大部分商品的供给的真实年增长率估计不会超过2%。"
    ],
    [
        "They should implement quickly growth-enhancing structural reforms to support monetary stimulus.",
        "它们应该实施迅速刺激增长的结构性改革支持货币刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge now is to do the same with all of our life-saving vaccines – particularly those that target the biggest killers of children.",
        "当前的挑战是在我们的救命疫苗上依样画葫芦——特别是针对最大儿童杀手的疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, popular opposition to fossil-fuel development is mounting, generating political pressure and financial and legal risks.",
        "此外，反对化石燃料发展的民意十分旺盛，这带来了政治压力和金融和法律风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But more is needed.",
        "但还需要做更多工作。"
    ],
    [
        "The first tier comprises the affluent countries, notably the United States, European nations, Australia, and Japan – with a combined population of around one billion and per capita incomes ranging from $79,000 (Luxembourg) to $16,000 (Republic of Korea).",
        "第一层由富裕国家组成，主要是美国、欧洲国家、澳大利亚和日本。 其总人口约达10亿，人均国民收入在79000美元（卢森堡）至16000美元（韩国）之间。"
    ],
    [
        "Those votes partly reflected displeasure with domestic policies, and partly disappointment with the way governments conduct European affairs.",
        "那些选民拒绝宪法，部分是由于不满国内政策，部分则是对政府处理欧洲事务的方式感到失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Each country is looking to change and move forward.",
        "每一个国家都在尝试变革并迈步向前。"
    ],
    [
        "This means, at the very least, a tough confrontation over Iran’s quest for a regional strategic advantage in the form of a nuclear weapon.",
        "这至少意味着，将要与伊朗的以拥有核武器的方式来寻求区域战略优势的政策进行强硬对抗。"
    ],
    [
        "But such infrastructure investment would go far beyond what would ever have been undertaken had the economy been left to regain high employment through the workings of adaptive or innovative activity.",
        "但这种基础设施投资将远远超出将经济留待通过适应性和创新活动的运作来实现高就业的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The Lima agreement creates obligations for countries without regard for the distinction between Annex 1 and non-Annex 1.",
        "利马协议中的各国义务不再根据附件1和非附件1区分。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, people who favor smaller government (for example, some Republicans) will want the deficit closed entirely by cutting spending, whereas those who favor larger government (for example, President Barack Obama and most Democrats) will want the deficit closed entirely by raising taxes.",
        "因此，偏好小政府者（比如某些共和党）希望完全通过减支来消除赤字； 而偏好大政府者（比如总统奥巴马和大部分民主党）希望完全通过增税来消除赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "What taxes and bans will do is deprive the poorest people of a useful and inexpensive material.",
        "税收和禁令只能剥夺最贫困人群使用这一用途广泛、价格低廉的材料的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "By this measure, there is no deflation: The GDP price index (called GDP deflator) in developed countries is increasing by 1-1.5%, on average.",
        "从这一指标看，根本没有通缩：发达国家GDP价格指数（称为GDP平减指数）平均增长率为1—1. 5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Asian countries have impressive potential resources for soft power.",
        "亚洲国家具备柔性力量所需要的巨大的潜在资源。"
    ],
    [
        "But the question of what to do about huge, complex, and seemingly hard-to-control universal banks that benefit from implicit state support remains unresolved.",
        "但怎样对付巨大、复杂、眼看难以控制、从隐性国家支持中获益的全能银行的问题仍没有解决。"
    ],
    [
        "We should strive to attain maximum globalization consistent with the maintenance of space for diversity in national institutional arrangements.",
        "我们要在为国家制度多样性留出空间的同时，力求最大限度地实现全球化目标。"
    ],
    [
        "So much the better. Getting people engaged in general is healthy, too – though the corporations and health providers that sponsor subscriptions will probably put some restrictions on subject matter.",
        "如果能这样当然更好，促使人们积极参加日常事务也是有利于健康的——尽管那些提供赞助的公司或保健服务商很可能对这类项目有所限制。"
    ],
    [
        "But Brazil rose to the challenge, making massive investments in improving the quality of teaching.",
        "但巴西随后奋起直追，在改进教学质量方面做了大手笔投资。"
    ],
    [
        "A painful decade of stagnation for America lies ahead.",
        "一个痛苦的停滞的十年，将摆在美国面前。"
    ],
    [
        "What was initially seen as a problem in one country (Italy) toppled other currency regimes like dominos: Britain, Spain, and Portugal – and, by July 1993, even France was vulnerable.",
        "最初认为是一个国家（意大利）的问题，像多米诺骨牌一般推倒了其他国家的汇率：英国、西班牙、葡萄牙，到了1993年7月，连法国都摇摇欲坠。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why I have long taken pains to check carefully quotations attributed to me by the media.",
        "正因如此，我一直会仔细阅读我被媒体引用的言辞。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though the government recognizes the need for growth-enhancing reform, its approach is all wrong.",
        "9%。 此外，尽管政府认识到需要采取促增长的改革，但实施方针有误。"
    ],
    [
        "Asking “Was it genocide?” does little to illuminate what was done to which Armenians by which Ottomans during World War I. Today, Turks willing to discuss or even apologize for the massacres refuse to confess to the “supreme crime,” but Armenians can accept no other label.",
        "”这样的问题对一战期间说明奥斯曼人对亚美尼亚人的所作所为几乎没有任何帮助。 今天，就连愿意谈论那次屠杀甚至为之道歉的土耳其人都拒绝承认犯下了“至高罪行”，但亚美尼亚人却不接受其他任何形式的说法。"
    ],
    [
        "But today, US withdrawal from the international system that it built has serious ramifications – namely, the kind of chaos and lawlessness exemplified by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.",
        "但如今，美国从其所构建的国际体系中退出将造成严重后果——即各种混乱和无法，俄罗斯入侵乌克兰就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "We are fighting a war in which the survival of our way of life is at stake.",
        "我们正在进行一场关乎我们的生活方式的战争。"
    ],
    [
        "It will thus help to finance infrastructure investment.",
        "因此，这有助于为基础设施融资。"
    ],
    [
        "And the United States’ role was remarkable, from Secretary of State John Kerry’s incessant work, even on crutches, to end the 35-year standoff between his country and Iran, to President Barack Obama’s critical push to complete the negotiations.",
        "美国的角色也令人瞩目，国务卿克里为了结束美国与伊朗之间35年来的对峙付出了大量工作，即使拄着拐杖也“不下火线”； 总统奥巴马也对完成谈判起到了关键的推动作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Kenyatta, a member of the dominant Kikuyu ethnic group, says that he wants to heal the country’s divisions, echoing the promise of his predecessor, Mwai Kibaki.",
        "来自多数民族基库尤族的肯雅塔说，他希望弥合肯尼亚的分歧，这与其前任齐贝吉（Mwai Kibaki）的承诺异曲同工。"
    ],
    [
        "Spain’s economy is greatly improved, experiencing 2.6% growth, but unemployment remains stubbornly – and disturbingly – high, at around 18%.",
        "西班牙经济虽然大幅改善，实现了2. 6％的增长，但失业率居高不下，维持在18％左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the euro, countries adjusted misaligned production costs by devaluing or revaluing their exchange rates.",
        "在欧元引入之前，国家可以通过汇率贬值或升值调整错配的生产成本。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Spanish coin remained legal tender in the US until 1857 – long after Spain itself had ceased to be a major power.",
        "事实上，在1857年以前，西班牙硬币一直是美国的法定货币，此时距离西班牙失去超级大国地位已经过去了很久。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Commission for Financing Global Education Opportunity reported last year that nearly 40% of employers are having difficulties recruiting workers with the right skills.",
        "全球教育机会融资国际委员会去年报告近40%的雇用企业很难招到拥有合适技能的工人。"
    ],
    [
        "This is also what they miss even as they relapse into the bad old habits at home.",
        "即便回国后曾经的陋习又故态复盟，有过英美留学经历的学生对这种平等关系也深感怀念。"
    ],
    [
        "Some blame it on the combination of progress toward opening the capital market and an overvalued exchange rate, anticipating that net inflows will resume once the currency resets closer to market level.",
        "一些人认为罪魁是资本市场的逐渐开放和汇率高估并存的局面，并预测只要人民币接近市场水平，就会重新恢复资本流入。"
    ],
    [
        "It seizes every opportunity that comes its way, including the Six Party Talks on North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, to emphasize its centrality to the settlement of any and all Asian issues.",
        "它抓住每个机会，包括有关北韩核武发展野心的六方会谈，来突显其解决所有亚洲事务的中心地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Even before the trawler incident, China was trying to regulate rare-earths, defining them as a strategic resource.",
        "即便是在中日争端之前，中国已经开始限制稀土出口，并将其定义为一项重要战略资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas’s emergence as a formidable military force also reflects the Egyptians’ inept performance in preventing the smuggling of weapons into Gaza.",
        "哈马斯作为一支难以对付的军事力量的崛起同样反映了埃及在阻止向加沙走私武器上的无能表现。"
    ],
    [
        "If the problem is here to stay, we had better do more to address it.",
        "如果这个问题长期存在，我们最好能尽力解决它。"
    ],
    [
        "The full board should review the company’s operations and strategy thoroughly; only then should the compensation committee set about creating the program to act on it.",
        "全体董事应仔细审议企业的经营和战略； 只有在审议过后薪酬委员会才能采取行动制定薪酬计划。"
    ],
    [
        "At a minimum, institutions such as the International Criminal Court in The Hague and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights should be collaborating far more closely with the UN special representative.",
        "至少，海牙国际刑事法庭及非洲人权与民族权利法庭等机构应更紧密地与联合国特别代表合作。"
    ],
    [
        "To compete in global markets, they will need to achieve the same consistency in these areas that they have in their traditional areas of strength.",
        "要想在全球市场上竞争，它们需要实现与传统优势领域同样的一致性。"
    ],
    [
        "Developed countries that issue bonds in their own currency never default, because they can always print money.",
        "以本国货币发行债券的发达国家不会有违约风险，因为印钞权总掌握在他们手中。"
    ],
    [
        "Another type of defensive reaction – this time to outward FDI – may well arise once the offshoring of services gathers more speed.",
        "一旦外购服务的发展速度加快，另外一种形式的保护性动作很可能开始崭露头角¾但这次是直接对外投资将要受到挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, by contrast, structural change faces resistance.",
        "相反，在欧洲，结构变化面临阻力。"
    ],
    [
        "This could mark a sea change in the evolution of Palestinian nationalism.",
        "这在巴勒斯坦民族主义的发展过程中可能带来彻底的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "If Russia’s power resources seem to be declining, Brazil’s appear to be more impressive, given it has a territory nearly three times the size of India’s, a 90% literacy rate, and triple the per capita income of India (and nearly twice that of China).",
        "如果说俄罗斯实力源泉在告竭，那么巴西可谓令人印象深刻，其国土几为印度的三倍，识字率高达90%，人均收入也是印度的三倍（和中国的近两倍）。"
    ],
    [
        "But the EU and NATO should also take a lesson from the US election, by bolstering collective European cyber defenses, and pressuring member states to expand their own cyber capabilities.",
        "但欧盟和北约还应该从美国选举中汲取教训，加强欧洲集体网络防御，敦促成员国加强自身网络能力。"
    ],
    [
        "All await a chance to rule.",
        "所有人都在等待一统天下的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Too many voters, it seems, still do not feel better off, and for good reason: average incomes have barely begun to rise, following seven painful years.",
        "许多选民似乎并未感觉到自身境遇有所改善，而这种感觉也是有道理的：在历经七年的痛苦煎熬之后，人均收入依然没有抬头迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many who acknowledge this and want to change.",
        "很多人都认可这种说法，也愿意加以改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, vanquishing a once-untouchable politician will leave no doubt about Xi’s personal authority.",
        "此外，拿下曾被认为不可撼动的政治人物也将让习近平获得一言九鼎的个人权威。"
    ],
    [
        "The same could be said of China today, where the gaps between rich and poor, urban and rural populations, and coastal and inland culture are so great that it is much harder than before for people from varied walks of life to feel that they share common plights and goals.",
        "中国今天的情况与此类似，贫富、城乡、沿海和内地文化之间的差距如此之大，以至于与以前相比，不同阶层的人们感觉越来越难以拥有共同信念和目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Ever since the referendum failures of both the European constitution and the Lisbon treaty, the EU has been flying on autopilot, run by its bureaucrats.",
        "自从针对欧洲宪法和《里斯本条约》的全民公决失败以来，欧盟就进入了“自动驾驶”状态，由官僚们打理。"
    ],
    [
        "In developing countries, similarly large (and continuing) gains were made from 1970 to 2000, with China recording the biggest improvement.",
        "在发展中国家，类似的大规模（并仍在继续的）改善发生于1970—2000年，其中中国的成就最为显著。"
    ],
    [
        "But this predictable and repetitive pattern of India-Pakistan relations was suddenly disrupted on September 29, when India’s Director-General of Military Operations (DGMO), Lieutenant-General Ranbir Singh, announced that Indian commandos had conducted “surgical strikes” across the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir, the de facto international border between the two countries.",
        "但印度和巴基斯坦重复和可以预测的关系9月29日那天被突然打破，当前印度军事行动总干事（DGMO）拉恩比尔·辛格中将宣布印度突击队跨过两国间事实上的国际边境克什米尔控制线（LoC）进行了“外科手术式的打击”。"
    ],
    [
        "The matter is now the subject of a criminal investigation.",
        "这一事件现在已经立案调查。"
    ],
    [
        "Social-media trolling is one method.",
        "社交媒体“水军”是其中一个方法。"
    ],
    [
        "What it does have is the capacity to influence ordinary Chinese – making them a valuable addition to a pro-reform coalition.",
        "他们所拥有的是影响普通中国人民的能力——让他们称为亲改革联盟的重要增量。"
    ],
    [
        "This view was not invented by Khamenei, but rather is drawn from the Koran and the Shiite tradition.",
        "但这一观点的始作俑者并不是哈梅内伊，而是出自于《古兰经》和伊斯兰教什叶派的传统。"
    ],
    [
        "At a meeting convened by Spain and Luxembourg in Madrid in January to which all the “yes” countries were invited, this view was also supported by four other member states that are committed to the constitutional treaty.",
        "在一月份由西班牙和卢森堡召集在马德里召开的所有对宪法条约“说是”的国家的会议上，这种观点也得到了其他四个坚定支持宪法条约的成员国的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Stock prices have climbed, led by financials and industrials; interest rates on US government bonds have risen, both on a standalone basis and relative to those in other advanced economies; and the dollar has surged to levels not seen since 2003.",
        "美国政府债券利率上升，不管是绝对水平还是相对其他发达经济体的水平； 美元和飙升至2003年以来从未见到的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany, mindful of its recent history, does not want to be cast in the role of a hegemonic power; the current situation is not the result of some evil German plot.",
        "囿于最近的历史经验，德国不愿意扮演霸权的角色； 当前的局面绝非德国阴险图谋的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the most unrecognized problem in Africa, especially at the grassroots level, is the disempowerment of ordinary people.",
        "但是也许非洲存在的最没有引起人们注意的问题，尤其是在基层，是剥夺了普通民众的选择和行动权。"
    ],
    [
        "Haifa – Americans speak of “Middle America” and Britons of “Middle England.” Both are near mythic places that supposedly embody the authentic character of the nation.",
        "海法--美国谈论“美国中部”，而英国人谈论“英国中部”。 这两个都是虚构的、好似体现国家真实特征的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is a problem that should be addressed through higher wages and disability insurance, not with pension insurance.",
        "但这个问题应该通过提高工资和残疾保险解决，而不是用退休保险来解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Much speculation has centered on the recent damage to London’s reputation stemming from the scandal surrounding banks’ manipulation of the Libor interest rate.",
        "许多猜疑集中在最近爆出的银行操纵Libor利率丑闻对伦敦名声的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But the laissez-faire Anglo-Saxon model has also now failed miserably.",
        "然而，英美自由放任模式如今也一败涂地。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian troops have occupied Crimea, and European and American leaders are threatening to impose stiff sanctions on Russia if it does not respect Ukraine’s sovereignty.",
        "俄罗斯军队占领了克里米亚，而欧美领导人则威胁如果俄罗斯不尊重乌克兰主权，就要对俄罗斯实行严厉的制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "It is sound advice for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as he tries to leverage his rapprochement with Russian President Vladimir Putin in his relations with the West.",
        "这是对土耳其总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安中肯的建议，埃尔多安正试图在与西方关系中利用土耳其与俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京的友好关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Powell left the House of Commons once and for all only in 1987, his political influence was increasingly marginal.",
        "尽管鲍威尔直到1987年才卸任下议院议员，但他的政治影响力早已微不足道。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s self-defense agency was upgraded in January to a full ministry.",
        "日本自卫队于今年1月升级为一个完整的部门。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – A storm-tossed ship near dangerous cliffs needs a strong anchor to avoid finishing on the rocks.",
        "布鲁塞尔—在危险的悬崖边上遭遇风暴的船只需要强大的锚才能避免触礁。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the cases of two of the world’s biggest philanthropists, George Soros and Mo Ibrahim.",
        "比如 两位世界级的大慈善家，乔治·索罗斯 (George Soros) 和莫· 易卜拉辛 （ Mo Ibrahim ） 。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s China is the leading bearer of the mercantilist torch, though Chinese leaders would never admit it – too much opprobrium still attaches to the term.",
        "当今中国是重商主义衣钵的主要继承者，尽管中国领导人永远都不会承认这一点——这个名词仍背负着很多坏名声。"
    ],
    [
        "This has to be one of the most sobering lessons from this past year: outrageous lies and hollow promises can win even the most consequential elections.",
        "过去的一年最令人警醒的教训之一是：赤裸裸的谎言和空洞的承诺甚至能够赢得意义最为重大的选举。"
    ],
    [
        "That amounted to an increase of more than 21% in the global number of “banked” individuals.",
        "这相当于全球“拥有银行账户”的个人增长超过21%。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, Trump recently authorized the building of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the US state of Nebraska, with the purpose of linking Canada’s oil sands to oil refineries in the US.",
        "不仅如此，特朗普最近授权修建从加拿大艾伯塔省到美国内布拉斯加州的基斯顿输油管道，目的是实现加拿大油砂与美国炼油厂之间的连通。"
    ],
    [
        "Cuba’s dissidents will, of course, happily do without Western cocktail parties and polite conversation at receptions.",
        "当然，没有西方的鸡尾酒会和招待会上的礼节性交谈，古巴的持不同政见者们也不会感到沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "These initiatives do not get headlines, but they will gradually transform much of American foreign policy.",
        "这些动议并未得到媒体的大肆报道，却会逐渐令许多美国外交政策发生转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Once that happened – probably within hours of the bankruptcy filing – the firm would be beyond repair.",
        "如果发生了这一幕——可能会在破产申请递交几小时内发生——雷曼公司就会变得不可挽救。"
    ],
    [
        "Listening, it was hard to imagine that they could easily be dead – and would be, if not for this clinic.",
        "听吧，很难想象死亡离他们近在咫尺——而如果没有这座医院的话，他们也许早已离开人世了。"
    ],
    [
        "This represents the sharpest contraction and weakest recovery in private-sector demand since the end of World War II.",
        "8%左右的盈余，目前盈余约为GDP的5%。 这意味着这是二战结束以来私人部门需求最剧烈的衰退和最疲软的复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "As of October, monthly regional PMIs, which lag one month behind the national PMI, show a persistent positive trend that economic observers and policymakers will need to reckon with if it continues.",
        "10月份，月度地区PMI（较全国PMI落后一个月）显示出持续的积极趋势，如果能够得到维持，经济观察者和决策应该注意。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine how those workers must feel: grateful for the paychecks, but completely cynical about the value of the work they are doing.",
        "不妨想想那些工作人员的感受： 他们庆幸自己能拿到薪水，但对手头工作的价值完全不屑一顾。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Netherlands, the government has taken the lead in promoting innovative activities.",
        "荷兰推动创新的行动由政府带头。"
    ],
    [
        "Current regulations will have to be improved in many areas as well.",
        "现有监管也许多需要改进的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "And we know that this confrontational style is the modus operandi of senior White House advisers like Stephen Bannon and Stephen Miller.",
        "我们也知道，这一冲突风格也是史蒂芬·班农（Stephen Bannon）和史蒂芬·米勒（Stephen Miller）等白宫幕僚的惯用伎俩。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, in the Olympics, India’s record has declined over time.",
        "事实上，在奥运会中，印度创造的纪录随着时间的推移在减少。"
    ],
    [
        "They will not be seriously changed by retraining and reeducation programs, which will not give most people the skills they need to remain more efficient than the new machines.",
        "它们不会因再培训或再教育计划的实施而大有改观。 对绝大多数人来说，这些计划都不能赋予他们所需的技能使他们保持比新型的机器更高的工作效率。"
    ],
    [
        "CAPE TOWN – A world in which our children and their children grow up free from the threat of polio and other preventable diseases is a dream that everyone shares.",
        "开普敦—让我们的孩子和孩子的孩子在一个免受小儿麻痹症和其他可预防疾病困扰的世界中成长，这是我们所有人共同的梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "“We think that we have no territorial problems,” he said. “It’s Japan that thinks that it has a territorial problem with Russia.”",
        "“我们认为我们没有领土问题，”他说，“只是日本认为它和俄罗斯之间存在领土问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A Year of Anniversaries and Uncertainties",
        "具有纪念意义和不确定性的一年"
    ],
    [
        "As if these macro-reforms were not enough, the NTP will also require a gradual move to a civil law system for managing the economy and business.",
        "就好像上述宏观改革仍然不够，国家转型计划还需要逐步过渡到民事法律系统来管理企业和经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Chief Designer Sergei Korolev was expected to call from the Tyuratam launch site (later renamed Baikonur Cosmodrome) in Kazakhstan to report on the launch of the world’s first man-made satellite.",
        "总设计师科罗廖夫应当从位于哈萨克斯坦的丘拉塔姆发射场(后来更名为拜科努尔发射基地)打电话汇报世界上第一个人造地球卫星的发射情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Depreciation of the euro would be the best medicine for restoring international price competitiveness to the periphery countries and reviving their export sectors.",
        "欧元的贬值是重塑外围国国际价格竞争力和振兴它们的出口部门的最佳办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Traditionally, Europe’s social democracies have preferred allocating scarce goods and services like concerts and operas by queues (financed by huge subsidies to keep prices low) rather than by willingness to pay.",
        "传统上，欧洲的社会民主倾向于通过排队（即提供巨额补贴降低票价以使更多的人能够欣赏）而不是自愿支付来分配如音乐会和歌剧等稀缺的商品和服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Economically, border controls act just like taxes; they distort activity, by increasing transaction costs and reducing cross-border flows of goods and services.",
        "从经济上讲，边境控制和税收差不多； 它们增加交易成本，减少跨境商品和服务流，从而扭曲经济活动。"
    ],
    [
        "In any event, such tools must be continually replenished.",
        "无论如何，这些工具必须随时保持充分。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, after a few early successes with atypical single-gene disorders such as Huntington’s disease, progress has stalled.",
        "结果，在非典型的单一基因失调疾病如亨廷顿氏症方面早期取得一些成功后，进展就停滞了。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, even without the gold standard, America’s economic might, together with the recycling of petrodollars, kept the dollar on top.",
        "但即便没有了金本位制度，美国的经济实力（加上对石油美元的再循环利用）依然将美元维持在世界之巅。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking beyond the US, a fourth indicator is the ratio of Chinese retail spending relative to industrial production (adjusted for inflation).",
        "将目光投向美国之外。 第四个指标是中国零售支出与工业产出（经通胀调整）之比。"
    ],
    [
        "This perception is exaggerated, especially in the US.",
        "这种看法可能有所夸大，尤其是在美国。"
    ],
    [
        "The German proposal, spearheaded by Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, highlights the fundamental change that has occurred in Greece’s relationship with its European partners since its last bailout package three years ago.",
        "由其财政部长朔伊布勒（Wolfgang Schäuble）提出的德国方案凸显出三年前上一次援助方案实施以来希腊与其欧洲伙伴国关系所发生的根本性变化。"
    ],
    [
        "It will survive a little longer.",
        "它挣扎的时间又长了一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, France has opened its public educational system to an extraordinary degree, refusing all group rights to minorities, but vigorously affirming personal rights, including full access to all social services, regardless of language, religion, or skin color.",
        "事实上，法国公共教育系统的开放程度已经着实令人惊叹，在剥夺少数族裔集体特权的同时，法国也在积极维护着他们的个人权利，包括为所有语言、宗教或肤色的群体提供全面的社会服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization and major labor-saving technologies have thrown labor markets in many countries into disequilibrium.",
        "全球化和节约劳动力的重大技术进步使许多国家的劳动力市场陷入了不均衡状态。"
    ],
    [
        "The US election is now a volatile affair.",
        "目前，美国大选是一宗摇摆事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments should thus strengthen their ministries of infrastructure (including power, roads, water and sanitation, and information and communication technologies), as well as their national development banks, so that they can properly design long-term infrastructure projects and programs.",
        "就此，各国政府应该加强国家的各个基础建设部门（包括电力、道路、用水与卫生设施，以及信息与通信科技），同样需要提升国家各个发展银行的能力，这样才能正确地设计出长期的基建项目与实施方案。"
    ],
    [
        "We must demonstrate the loving nature of true faith; otherwise, religion will be defined by a battle in which extremists seize control of faith communities and secularists claim that such attitudes are intrinsic to religion.",
        "我们必须显示出真正信仰的爱心本质； 否则的话，宗教将最终演变成一场斗争：极端主义者充斥着各个宗教社区，而世俗主义者则宣称这些态度就是宗教的本质。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, too, there are some great opportunities for this kind of “policy arbitrage,” if more countries would only take the time to learn from other countries’ successes.",
        "只要更多的国家都能花点时间来学习别国的成功经验，对它们来说当前这种“政策套利”的巨大机会就依然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "While the debate about China’s near-term outlook should hardly be trivialized, the far bigger story is its economy’s solid progress on the road to rebalancing – namely, a structural shift away from manufacturing and construction activity toward services.",
        "关于中国近期前景的争论很重要，但比这个问题大得多的问题是中国经济稳步迈向再平衡——即从制造业和建筑业活动向服务业的结构转变。 2014年，服务业占中国GDP比重达到了48."
    ],
    [
        "Speculative investment behavior was hardly an issue in those rare instances in which home prices were discussed.",
        "在讨论房价的少数几篇文章中，投机获利行为几乎没能引起任何关注。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult and time-consuming to build mature democracies.",
        "毕竟，建立成熟的民主国家的道路漫长而且艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "Moscow’s main strategic objective is the weakening or even roll-back of NATO as an Ant-Russian military alliance and the re-establishment of its East European and Central Asian zones of influence.",
        "俄罗斯的主要战略目标是，作为反对俄罗斯的军事联盟的北约的削弱，或者甚至后退，并且重新建立其在东欧和中亚的势力范围。"
    ],
    [
        "The Peshawar massacre was not the first time that the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism became a terror victim.",
        "白沙瓦大屠杀并不是世界主要恐怖主义赞助国反过来成为恐怖主义牺牲品的首个案例。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it would be a mistake to think that this bloodlust represents widespread sentiment among Iraqis.",
        "但是如果有人认为这种杀戮欲代表了伊拉克人的广泛情绪，那么他就错了。"
    ],
    [
        "While nepotism laws will probably rule out official presidential appointments for Trump’s children and their spouses, that won’t matter much in practice; their de facto clout, as well as Trump’s own priorities, will quickly become apparent.",
        "尽管限制裙带关系的法律很有可能阻止特朗普给予其子女及其配偶正式的总统任命，但这在实际执政时并不重要； 他们的实际影响力，以及特朗普自身的执政重点，可能很快变得明了。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Cyprus has performed better, avoiding economic collapse and recapturing growth in the last two years, whereas Greece relapsed into recession.",
        "即使是塞浦路斯表现也比希腊强，它在过去两年中避免了经济崩溃并恢复增长，而希腊却陷入了衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Appropriate regulation and sufficiently long time horizons can make structures of all kinds much more energy-efficient, without imposing burdensome costs.",
        "合理的监管和足够长期的视界能够让各种结构更加节能，而且不会造成重大负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, the eurozone’s “no bail-out” principle was abandoned.",
        "再后来，欧元区的“无援助”原则也被抛弃了。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, the US and other advanced countries have been pressing for stronger intellectual-property regimes around the world.",
        "悲哀地是，美国和其它发达国家一直以来都在全世界范围内推动更强势的知识产权管制。"
    ],
    [
        "Real debt defaults are historically rare.",
        "真正的债务违约在历史上并不多见。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as US banks can borrow at near zero and buy government bonds without having to commit equity, and the dollar does not depreciate against the renminbi, interest rates on US government bonds may well be heading in the same direction.",
        "只要美国的银行能够以接近零利率借款并买入美国国债而不是增发股本，而美元又能不对人民币贬值，美国国债利率也将像日本那样维持在很低的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "When presented with these facts, education enthusiasts often argue that education is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for growth.",
        "面对上述情况，教育爱好者们往往提出教育是增长的必要而非充分条件。"
    ],
    [
        "In October 2003, Putin cracked down on Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the CEO and main owner of Yukos oil, Russia’s most valuable company, who was thrown into prison on dubious charges of tax fraud after backing Putin’s political opponents.",
        "2003年10月，普京镇压了俄国最有价值的公司¾尤科斯石油公司的首席执行官兼主要所有者米哈伊尔·霍多尔科夫斯基(Mikhail Khodorkovsky)，此人在支持普京的政治对手之后便被以令人怀疑的税收诈骗指控投入了监狱。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades after World War II, Europe and the US represented well over half (and near 70% at one point) of global output, and they were not heavily dependent on markets elsewhere, other than for natural resources such as oil and minerals.",
        "在二战后的几十年里，欧洲和美国在全球总产出中所占的比例超过了一半 (最高时将近70%)，但除了石油和矿产等自然资源外它们并不严重依赖其他地方的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "The attacks on America of September 2001 cost several thousand lives.",
        "2001年9月对美国的袭击中，几千名无辜群众因此丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "As the world’s largest economy, American leadership will remain crucial.",
        "作为世界上最大的经济体，美国的领导仍然 至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the most qualified candidates (in both developed and developing countries) have not received the support of their own governments that the political process seems to require.",
        "某些最够资格的候选人（无论是来自发达国家还是发展中国家）都未能从本国政府处得到整个政治程序所需的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Authority beat a hasty retreat from their moderate and accommodating positions.",
        "埃及、约旦、沙特以及巴勒斯坦当局匆忙从其温和和宽容的立场中后撤。"
    ],
    [
        "The Great Escape from China",
        "中国大逃亡"
    ],
    [
        "Never forget this!”",
        "切记切记！ ”"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, efforts to reduce CO2 emissions are also occurring outside the Paris agreement framework.",
        "此外，事实上降低二氧化碳排放的措施也在巴黎协定框架之外进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past decade, 370,000 new jobs have been created in the sector, and exports of renewable-energy technology are rising rapidly, totaling roughly €30 billion from 2006 to 2008.",
        "过去10年间，可再生能源领域创造了370，000个新增就业岗位，2006－2008年可再生能源技术出口总值约为300亿欧元，同样出现了快速的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, no deal can be made with Hamas.",
        "而且哈马斯是不会达成协议的。"
    ],
    [
        "Every killing is a human tragedy.",
        "任何杀戮都是人间悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast to development finance, the incentives of potential lenders and borrowers are not aligned.",
        "相对于开发融资，潜在贷款人和借款人的激励机制并不一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even Bush’s own political base, the Christian fundamentalists, are becoming “green,” pressuring the administration to sign the Kyoto Protocol because they believe that the environment must be protected just like unborn life.",
        "确实，即使是布什自己的政治根基基督教原教旨主义者也开始变“绿”了。 他们给政府施压，要求签署京都议定书，因为他们相信必须向保护没有出生的生命一样保护环境。"
    ],
    [
        "By most accounts, the pace of reform directed at expanding the market side of the economy needs to pick up quickly to achieve the ambitious economic and social goals of the next five years.",
        "但在绝大多数情况下，旨在扩大经济中市场部分的改革路径需要迅速启动以满足未来五年极富雄心的经济和社会目标。"
    ],
    [
        "For my part, I suspect that productivity growth will accelerate in a number of places, which would justify monetary-policy adjustments and make rising interest rates more tolerable.",
        "对我来说，我怀疑生产率增长会在不少国家加速，这将证实货币政策调整的合理性，也让升息变得更加能够容忍。"
    ],
    [
        "So, despite Sputnik’s initial triumph, a decade later the Soviets lost the race to the moon to the Americans.",
        "所以，尽管人造卫星最初取得成功，十年以后，在登月上苏联输给了美国。"
    ],
    [
        "But, just as with nuclear power plants, progress can go awry in the absence of good regulation.",
        "但正如核电厂一样，缺乏良好的监管可能导致在进展的过程中出现差错。"
    ],
    [
        "They mostly want to find something in order to do something.",
        "多数情况下他们寻找某件东西是为完成某件事情。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality is that world trade would suffer far greater damage from the global economic fallout of a Big Three bankruptcy.",
        "现实是，三大巨头的破产带来的全球经济下滑，对世界贸易的冲击将比这严重得多。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the initiative could function much like America’s post-1945 Marshall Plan, which is universally lauded for its contribution to the reconstruction and economic recovery of war-ravaged Europe.",
        "在这个意义上说，这个倡议可以像美国1945年后的马歇尔计划那样发挥作用，而后者为战后欧洲的重建和经济复苏所作出的贡献得到了全世界的广泛赞誉。"
    ],
    [
        "In exercising that power, Donald Trump has broken a long-standing pattern, going back almost a half-century, whereby the president reappoints (on a non-partisan basis) the incumbent Fed chair, if he or she has been seen to be doing a good job.",
        "但特朗普总统却在行使这项权力方面打破了一个可以追溯到将近半个世纪前的悠久模式，即总统会（站在非党派立场上）重新任命表现良好的现任美联储主席。"
    ],
    [
        "The difficulty of integrating immigrant communities into European societies has sometimes led to radicalization, providing ammunition to nationalist politicians and further fracturing Europe.",
        "移民群体难以融入欧洲社会有时会导致激进运动，为民族主义政客提供口实并进一步分裂欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "During this process, Western governments must stop providing money or other kinds of aid to opposition groups in Syria, and put pressure on Turkey and the Gulf countries to stop supporting extremists.",
        "在此过程中，西方政府必须停止向叙利亚反对派提供资金和其他种类的援助，并向土耳其和波斯湾国家施压让其停止支持极端主义。"
    ],
    [
        "A different question is whether Venezuela should pay.",
        "一个与此不同的问题是委内瑞拉是否应该支付。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the executives’ pay is typically based on return on equity, unadjusted for risk.",
        "此外，高管薪酬也往往以未经风险调整的股本回报为基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Virtually all of the debt repayments due in the next few years are to the IMF, whose implicit status as “senior” creditor ensures that it is repaid first.",
        "未来几年基本上所有需要偿还的债务都来自国际货币基金组织，而其包含的状态为“高级”，确保它是第一偿还债权人。"
    ],
    [
        "Research-based pharmaceutical companies must also invest in the next generation of antimalarial medicines.",
        "基于研究的制药公司还必须投资于下一代抗疟疾药物。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, with a genuinely inclusive and objectively administered constitution, Egypt could pivot back toward democracy.",
        "此外，依靠真正包容和客观管理的宪法，埃及有可能再次完成民主转型。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s prolonged – and apparently contentious – leadership transition, punctuated by the purge of Bo Xilai, suggests that its leaders’ ability to continue to manage the country’s emergence as a great power is not entirely certain.",
        "中国漫长——显然仍未完结——的领导权交接过程——被薄熙来事件打断——表明其领导人继续引导中国崛起为超级大国的能力并不板上钉钉。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, not all types of bad behavior should be criminalized; but voters and customers should still shun them.",
        "显然，并非所有类型的坏行为都应该罪行化； 但选民和顾客仍应该对它们敬而远之。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a text written 56 years ago, in a different world, where the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon, and the challenges faced by so many newly independent poor states dominated policymakers’ concerns.",
        "这是一份写于56年前的文件，它代表着一个不同的世界，一个冷战、核末日威胁以及大量新晋独立穷国所面临的挑战占据决策者关注焦点的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2014, conflict and persecution forced 42,500 people a day to flee their homes, nearly quadruple the number from 2010.",
        "2014年，冲突和迫害每天迫使42，500人逃离家园，是2010年的将近4倍。"
    ],
    [
        "They will hope for a short winter for the global economy, but they will plan and position for a long one.",
        "他们会希望全球经济严冬赶快过去，但也会对漫长冬天做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is possible to regard excessive bank lending as a symptom of deeper economic flaws.",
        "事实上，我们可以把银行过度放债看作更深层次经济缺陷的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, however, many East Asian countries have been running current-account surpluses – and hence have become net capital exporters.",
        "但是，自从1997—1998年亚洲金融危机以来，许多东亚国家一直拥有着经常项目盈余，成了资本净出口国。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise of Greece’s neo-fascist Golden Dawn is a similar phenomenon.",
        "希腊的新法西斯主义政党金色黎明（Golden Dawn）的崛起亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "So the Saudi regime is divided, its legitimacy is questioned, and sectarian tensions are growing.",
        "沙特政权已经分裂了，因此其正统性也受到了质疑，宗派之争正在抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "It may seem cruel or cold-hearted to focus on such environmental outcomes in the wake of vast human loss and suffering.",
        "在遭受了巨大的人员损失和痛苦后，现在把关注重点放在这些环境结果上面未免有些冷酷无情。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, economic modernization brought social mobility to the conservatives, which led to the emergence of a new bourgeoisie that clung to its traditional religious values and viewed the Kemalist elite – ensconced in the army, the bureaucracy, the judiciary, and the universities – as oppressors.",
        "与此同时，经济现代化为保守主义者带来社会流动性，从而导致固守传统宗教价值观并将隐藏在军队、官僚体系、司法体系和大学之中的凯末尔主义精英视为压迫势力的新兴中产阶级力量逐步壮大。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the eurozone stands out for being a deliberate creation.",
        "相反，欧元区是有意的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of Egyptians and people living under tyranny everywhere, Egypt’s government must take a brave stand.",
        "为了埃及及其他生活在暴政统治下的人民，埃及政府应该勇敢地迈出这一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Others might use services such as Intercom to gain insight into their users’ interests – from their preferences in music to their favorite hobbies – in order to offer more personalized service.",
        "其他人可能使用Intercom这类服务来深入了解其用户的喜好——从喜欢听哪类音乐到个人嗜好——以便提供更为个性化的服务。"
    ],
    [
        "A catastrophic loss of electronic records could surely destroy the credibility of the dollar as the international medium of exchange.",
        "电子记录灾难性的丢失几乎会摧毁美元作为国际交易媒介的信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to satellite television, the world had a front-row seat to watch the citizens of Sarajevo, who were kept alive by UN food deliveries, being killed by shelling and sniping from the surrounding hills.",
        "感谢卫星电视，全世界都可以在电视机前看到萨拉热窝的居民以联合国提供的食品为生、因周围群山中发来的炮击和冷枪而丧命。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracies have long known that extreme and indiscriminate punishment – which by definition affects friend and foe, combatant and civilian alike – is a grave violation of international law, as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, has pointed out.",
        "正如联合国人权委员会高级专员Louise Arbour所指出的，民主国家长久以来就明白极端和不分皂白的惩罚—就定义而言，对敌方和友方，对战士和平民都有同样的影响—是对国际法的严重侵犯。"
    ],
    [
        "The Euro in a Shrinking Zone",
        "身陷萎缩地带的欧元"
    ],
    [
        "Accurately assessing maritime operations’ success requires time and care, because naval capabilities cannot be built up quickly.",
        "准确评估海上行动的成绩需要时间和细致的工作，因为海军实力不是短期内就能建立起来的。"
    ],
    [
        "The opportunities, hopes, and dreams delivered to the downtrodden and the vision and plans for Thailand’s future were enmeshed with his own venality.",
        "向劳苦大众传递的机遇，希望和梦想以及对泰国未来的愿景和规划都与其自身的腐败纠缠不清。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere, too, depositors are beginning to transfer their savings to the strongest economy (Germany) and to safe havens beyond (Switzerland and the United States).",
        "在其他地方，存款人也在开始将储蓄转移到欧元区内最坚挺经济体（德国）和区外安全港（瑞士和美国）。"
    ],
    [
        "But mimicry’s success in nature depends on the ratio of the original to the ersatz.",
        "但自然界中模拟的成功取决于原版和替代品之间的比例。"
    ],
    [
        "But Labour will not win a general election under Corbyn – a reality that has caused some Conservatives to respond to his victory as though they had won the lottery.",
        "但工党不会在柯比的领导下赢得大选——某些保守党人也因此在他获胜后表现得像是中了彩票。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of these agents are already right in front of us, and others are discernible on the horizon, while later generations are unforeseeable.",
        "其中一些人造物已经领先于我们人类，一些刚刚兴起，而更新的人造物尚未被我们意识到。"
    ],
    [
        "When, days later, Riyadh was targeted by a long-range missile launched from Yemen by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, the Saudis lost no time in warning Iran of a possible war.",
        "几天后，伊朗支持的也门胡赛叛军发射长程导弹打击利雅得，沙特随即警告伊朗准备开战。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas one- and two-decade lulls in defaults are not uncommon, each quiet spell has invariably been followed by a new wave of defaults.",
        "一二十年没有违约的情况并不少见，但每一次这样的宁静期之后无一例外都爆发了新的违约潮。"
    ],
    [
        "We have to look at the reasons that real interest rates were so much higher 10 or 20 years ago, and think about what that means, and we also have to look at the broader history of asset prices and their relation to real interest rates.",
        "我们必须考查实际利率在10或20年前高出许多的原因，并思考其内涵。 我们还必须从更广泛的历史中考查资产价格及其与实际利率的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In developed countries, food-retailing practices require a rethink.",
        "在发达国家，粮食零售行为也需要反思。"
    ],
    [
        "Five years ago, Wen famously warned of a Chinese economy that was in danger of becoming “unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable.”",
        "五年前，温家宝发出过著名的警告：中国经济正面临着“不稳定、不平衡、不协调、不可持续”的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The bigger challenge, though, is hitting those growth targets in a sustainable and inclusive way.",
        "但是，更大的挑战是以可持续和包容的方式实现这些增长目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The PNG government would like to do the right thing, to maintain its natural capital for future generations.",
        "巴布亚新几内亚政府想要做正确的事情，为子孙后代保全自然资本。"
    ],
    [
        "As central banks attempt to combat these pressures by lowering interest rates, they are inadvertently causing releveraging (an unsustainable growth pattern), elevated asset prices (with some risk of a downward correction, given slow growth), and devaluations (which merely move demand around the global economy, without increasing it).",
        "央行试图通过降低利率抵抗这一压力，但这也在不经意间导致了杠杆率重新上升（一种不可持续的增长模式）、资产价格上涨（在低增长环境下，这意味着下跌修正风险）和贬值（这只能让全球经济需求有所移动，而不能增加需求）。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1930’s, politics attracted the masses because people believed in the future.",
        "上世纪30年代，政治能够吸引群众是因为人们相信未来。"
    ],
    [
        "And we must build partnerships to operationalize programs that will enable Africa to become the world’s next main engine of economic growth.",
        "我们必须构建合作伙伴关系执行能让非洲成为世界下一个经济增长主要引擎的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, critics of the decision to embark on quantitative easing in the eurozone worry that the European Central Bank is dangerously exposed to losses on the southern eurozone members' government bonds.",
        "类似地，对在欧元区采取量化宽松的决定的批评者担心欧洲央行将危险地暴露于欧元区南部成员国政府债券的损失中。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Berlin Wall came down – and state socialism along with it – the European Economic Community’s founding member states responded by establishing the European Union, and committing to deeper European integration.",
        "柏林墙倒塌时，国家社会主义也随之倒塌，欧洲经济共同体创始成员国的应对之道是成立欧盟，并致力于加深欧洲一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "And Canada, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (everybody’s favorite English-speaking leader nowadays), would be most welcome to join.",
        "而总理特鲁多（如今他是所有人都喜欢的英语国家领导人）治下的阿根廷将是最受欢迎的加入者。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet none of the trials has yet been derailed.",
        "但这些审判没有一例得到平反。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese surplus saving is increasingly being directed inward to support emerging middle-class consumers – making less available to fund needy deficit savers elsewhere in the world.",
        "中国的过剩储蓄越来越多地被导入国内用以支持那些新兴的中产阶级消费者，也使得世界其他地方的赤字储蓄者更加缺乏资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Absent international coordination, the opportunities for destructive regulatory competition will defeat regulatory reform.",
        "如果没有国家间的协调，破坏性的监管竞争将使监管改革失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Old jokes from the pre-1990 days have returned, like this one: a man was walking down a Kathmandu street, shouting, “Down with dictatorship in Pakistan.”",
        "1990年前流传的就笑话又回来了，就像这则：一个男人走在加德满都的大街上，喊着：“打倒巴基斯坦的专政主义。"
    ],
    [
        "A multilateral investment agreement could fix this problem by making it easier to invest in developing countries.",
        "多边贸易协定能让投资于发展中国家更加容易，从而解决这一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, these technologies are so powerful that they can enable families currently trapped in poverty to escape it once and for all.",
        "确实，这些技术非常有效，能够使目前陷入贫困的家庭永远解脱出来。"
    ],
    [
        "But only the more technical of these four achievements – the first two – stood the test of time.",
        "但这四项成就中只有技术性较强的前两项经受住了时间的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "New elections are not due until 2009.",
        "新的选举要到2009年才进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes we want to go on living because there are things that we want to achieve, or people close to us whom we want to help.",
        "有时我们为自我实现想要活下去，或者为了给身边的人以帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "As an added benefit, such an approach could spur “competitive envy” in other sluggish regions.",
        "这一方针有一个附加的好处，它可以刺激其他滞后地区的“竞争嫉妒”。"
    ],
    [
        "They also suggest that payment reforms contributed to the slowdown in Medicare’s spending growth after 2001, and that early responses to new Medicare regulations in the Affordable Care Act may have caused a further decline after 2010.",
        "他们还认为，支付改革是2001年后医疗保险支出增长减速的原因，而针对平价医疗法中的医疗保险监管的最初反应可能导致了2010年后的进一步减速。"
    ],
    [
        "But, of course, they do apply.",
        "可是，它们确实还用得上。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, despite China’s status as one of the world’s largest net creditors, it has been running a deficit on its investment balance for years.",
        "最后，尽管作为世界上最大的净债权国之一，中国已经有多年在投资负债表上出现亏损。"
    ],
    [
        "When Congress takes up the debate over climate change, for example, and some lawmakers call for a cap-and-trade system, others will demand to know why America should accept binding commitments to limit emissions while the Chinese refuse.",
        "比如当美国国会就气候变化问题展开辩论，其中一些立法者呼吁建立一个温室气体总量限制和排放交易系统时，那么另一些立法者就要问，为什么在中国声言拒绝的同时美国却要接受一个有约束力的承诺方案呢？"
    ],
    [
        "So we have to “sell” entry.",
        "因此，我们不得不“出售”参与权。"
    ],
    [
        "This perspective perhaps comes more naturally in an environment of rapid growth, because their growth models require continual review and adaptation to be sustainable.",
        "这一幕是快速增长环境的自然产物，因为其增长模式要求不断地反省和调整，以实现可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the specifics differ, the implications are the same: all must now endure excruciatingly painful spending cuts.",
        "尽管细节各异，结论是一样的：这几个国家都得经受痛苦的削减开支的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Conservative politicians in the US underestimate the importance of publicly provided education, technology, and infrastructure.",
        "美国的保守派政客低估了公共供给的教育、技术和基础设施的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "CHWs are local community residents with at least a high-school education, who are trained for a few months in the management of specific health challenges, such as identifying potentially HIV-infected individuals, bringing them to the clinic for testing, and helping them to adhere to their medical protocols.",
        "CHW是本地社区居民，至少具备高中学历，接受为期数月的具体医疗状况管理培训（如识别潜在艾滋病毒感染个体、将他们带到医院接受检测，并帮助他们遵守医疗协议）。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, in blaming the media for America’s problems, Rumsfeld forgot the first rule of marketing: if you have a poor product, not even the best advertising will sell it.",
        "换言之，拉姆斯菲尔德在把美国的问题归咎于媒体的时候，他忘记了市场营销的首要法则，那就是如果你的产品不佳，即使是最好的广告也无法让它畅销。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, she now holds absolute control over a docile parliament.",
        "毕竟，如今她对议会有着绝对的控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "To change the economic structure and growth pattern, first the structure of demand must be changed.",
        "要转变经济结构和增长模式的话，首先就得改变需求的结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Solutions do exist: mandatory voting, term limits for elected officials, and youth parliaments or special bodies to examine intergenerational issues, for example.",
        "的确存在解决方案：比方说强制投票、当选官员任期限制、青年议会或研究代际问题的专门机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Protecting the Kim dynasty’s rule has become the regime’s alpha and omega.",
        "保护金氏王朝已成为朝鲜政权的唯一任务。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest are not always the legal ones on which the World Bank and development agencies have focused; rather, they are the business risks of a company that fails or a polity that implodes.",
        "最大的风险不总是世界银行和其他发展机构所关注的法律风险； 而最大的风险是一个失败的公司所面临的商业风险或者是政体内部瓦解所带来的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "And they are consistent with positions taken by the German Ministry of Finance under the previous government.",
        "他们也和前届政府的德国财政部长的立场一致。"
    ],
    [
        "In Shanghai, premier scientists – many having returned to China from major research centers like Harvard Medical School and MIT – will focus on diseases that are endemic to the Chinese population.",
        "在上海，很多从哈佛医学院和麻省理工学院等知名研究中心归国的顶级科学家将着重研究中国民众易患的疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "Stimulating Equality",
        "激发平等"
    ],
    [
        "And, slowly but surely, local embryonic civil-rights movements are linking up with global leaders – Girls Not Brides, Walk Free, and A World at School – as part of an emergency coalition to eliminate child labor, child marriage, and educational discrimination against girls.",
        "而仍处于萌芽状态的地方公民权利组织正在缓慢但不容置疑地与全球领导人——女孩不做新娘、自由行走（Walk Free）和学校中的世界（A World at School）等——取得联系，作为消灭童工、童婚和针对女孩的教育歧视的晋级联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "When people translate knowledge into action, they initiate new interactions within complex systems, without necessarily knowing what the final consequences of those actions will be.",
        "当人们将知识转化为行动时，他们就启动了复杂系统的新互动，而他们未必知道这些行动的最终结果将是怎样。"
    ],
    [
        "With China’s US trade surplus reaching $200 billion last year, American sentiment is growing to take strong measures.",
        "以美国海关的说法，去年中国对美国的贸易顺差已高达2000亿美元，美国人采取强硬措施的情绪正在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – After another round of brinkmanship, a rancorous US Congress passed a last-minute bill to avert the bankruptcy of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), the primary source of federal funding for America’s highway and transit infrastructure.",
        "伯克利—在又一次边缘政策后，充满敌意的美国国会在最后关头通过了一项法案，避免了公路信托基金（Highway Trust Fund， HTF）的破产。"
    ],
    [
        "One can expect many of the Republican candidates to be critical of any proposed deal.",
        "共和党人会质疑放松哪些制裁以及何时放松；"
    ],
    [
        "Even European countries have found new reasons to engage with Israel.",
        "就连欧洲国家也找到了与以色列合作的心里有。"
    ],
    [
        "If climate risks are factored into investment decisions, renewable energies, cleaner transport, efficient water systems, and smarter, more resilient cities will emerge as the best bets.",
        "如果将气候风险纳入投资决策因素，则可再生能源、清洁交通、高效水系统和更智能、恢复力更强的城市将是最佳“赌注”。"
    ],
    [
        "The social democrats will have a larger delegation in Congress (including Neves himself in the Senate) and will govern some of Brazil’s larger states, including São Paulo, home to 43 million people and one-third of the country’s GDP.",
        "社会民主党在国会中的占比增加了（包括在参议院的尼维斯本人）并将在不少巴西大州执政，包括拥有4,300万人口、占巴西GDP三分之一的圣保罗州。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, tensions with Cambodia became inevitable.",
        "到了这个时候，泰柬两国之间的紧张局势就变得无法避免。"
    ],
    [
        "The result of US efforts in South America, therefore, has been to fragment the region into two blocs, and the same is likely to happen in Asia.",
        "而美国在南美的行为所产生的结果就是将该区域分裂成了两个不同的集团，而这种状况也可能在亚洲出现。"
    ],
    [
        "This should grab the attention of both regional fisheries management organizations, which oversee commercial fishing in the high seas, and those monitoring compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), which covers endangered migratory species.",
        "这理应引起负责监督公海商业捕鱼行为的地区渔业管理机构的重视，同时必须重视这个问题的还有负责保护濒危迁徙物种的联合国《保护野生动物迁徙物种公约》（CMS）监管者。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Turkey is entering uncharted waters.",
        "其结果是使土耳其进入了一段未知的航程。"
    ],
    [
        "Speer Jr.’s commission was to lay out a master plan for the access to the Olympic complex in Beijing.",
        "小斯佩尔的使命是为进入北京的奥林匹克建筑群的大道制定总体规划。"
    ],
    [
        "The second potential candidate for Fed Chair is Jerome Powell, who has been on the Fed Board for five years.",
        "第二个美联储主席潜在候选人是杰罗姆·鲍威尔（Jerome Powell），他已经在美联储理事会任职五年。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, they will be targeted by those who do not have their wellbeing as their primary goal – scammers like Bernie Madoff, corporate interests like McDonalds or tobacco companies, the guru of the month, or cash-strapped governments running exploitative lotteries.",
        "换句话说，他们会沦为并不把他们的福祉作为第一目标的人的目标——比如麦道夫（Bernie Madoff）这样的骗子、麦当劳或烟草公司这样的公司利益集团、占星大师、经营剥削式彩票（exploitative lotteries）的囊中羞涩的政府等。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, issues like climate change and energy supply demonstrate the futility of isolated national action and the critical importance of both deepening and enlarging the EU.",
        "像气候变化和能源供应这样的问题已经反映出单个国家行动徒劳无益以及深化 和 扩大欧盟的至关重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Influential opposition figures – such as former parliamentarian and political prisoner Riad Seif and the SNC’s former leader, Burhan Ghalioun – have proposed promising strategies for forming such an umbrella organization.",
        "有影响力的反对派人物——如前议员兼政治犯赛义夫（Riad Seif）、SNC前领导人加里昂（Burhan Ghalioun）等——提议为建立这样一个组织联盟而做出战略承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Though its share of the popular vote fell just below the 5% threshold required to enter the Bundestag, the party performed surprisingly well.",
        "尽管其选票略低于5%的门槛而没能在联邦议院获得席位，但该党的表现令人意外地出色。"
    ],
    [
        "One need look no further than the ongoing power struggle in the run-up to this autumn’s planned leadership changes, or official figures showing that rural protests have been increasing at the same rate as China’s GDP.",
        "欲知水有多深，只消看看为今秋领导层转换而进行的权力斗争即可，从关于农村动乱的官方数字不亚于GDP数字也可以一窥端倪。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to this a regular dose of North Korean irrationality.",
        "这还不算朝鲜一贯的非理性行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, he has been unable to get Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan to endorse his own Medicare cost-control proposals.",
        "类似地，他也无法让共和党副总统候选人莱恩支持其本人的联邦医保计划成本控制方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dawn of Climate-Friendly Air Travel",
        "气候友好型航空旅行的黎明"
    ],
    [
        "The problem was not fraud. It was an absence of coordinated medical care, especially basic primary care, and a lack of attention to people’s underlying risk factors.",
        "问题不在于欺诈，而在于缺乏协作医疗特别是基本初级治疗和缺乏对人们基本风险因素的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Therefore, since a fall in the value of the dollar raises import prices, and thus functions as a negative shock to the supply side of the economy, the Fed will have to raise, not lower, interest rates, and sell, not buy, bonds.",
        "因此，由于美元贬值会提高进口价格，进而对经济的供应领域产生负面的影响，美联储将选择提高而非降低利率，也就是出售而非购买债券。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, some states have introduced cap-and-trade systems to put a price on carbon, and many are already on track to meet Obama’s Clean Power Plan targets.",
        "最近，一些州引入了限额和交易制度为碳定价，许多周已经开始实现奥巴马的清洁电力计划目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Why should a Frenchman or Italian in his early sixties work today, when in the 1990's he could have retired in his mid-fifties with 80% or more of his last working-age salary?",
        "如果法国或意大利人20世纪90年代50多岁时就可以退休，享受最终薪水的80%甚至更多，那他们又为什么要在60多岁时继续工作？"
    ],
    [
        "The former path leads to membership in the European Union; the latter would take Ukraine to a darker and more dangerous destination.",
        "前一条路通向欧盟成员国资格，后一条路将把乌克兰带向黑暗和厄运。"
    ],
    [
        "But it seems unlikely that the errors could be so significant that they would change the basic conclusion: home affordability around the world is highly variable.",
        "但误差不可能大到能够推翻基本结论的程度，即全球住房平价性存在高度差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the pace of ECB warnings about the risks of inflation has quickened in recent months – the earlier “We are vigilant” became “We are particularly vigilant” in September, which became “Strong vigilance with regard to upside risks to price stability is warranted” in October.",
        "实际上，欧洲央行近几个月已经加快了警告通胀危险的步伐¾早前的“我们要警惕”变成了9月份的“我们特别要警惕”，此后又变成了10月份的“要确保对价格稳定中上涨因素的强烈警惕”。"
    ],
    [
        "In many countries, their fiscal position has collapsed under the combined weight of mismanagement and the global economic and financial crisis.",
        "因管理不善以及全球经济金融危机的共同影响，许多国家的财政状况急转直下。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of whether we are rich, poor, or in between, we share an overwhelming interest in the MDGs’ success, so that every region trapped in extreme poverty can break free, grow, and prosper.",
        "不管我们是穷、是富还是不穷不富，我们在千禧发展目标中都有着共同的最高利益，因此，每个极端贫困地区都能够冲破障碍，实现增长和繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "If you are a decent human being, investing in Venezuelan bonds should make you feel “mildly nauseous,” to borrow a phrase recently used by former FBI Director James Comey while testifying to the US Congress.",
        "如果您是一个体面人，借用美国联邦调查局前局长詹姆斯·科米（James Comey）最近向美国国会作证时使用的一个短语，投资委内瑞拉债券应该让您“略感恶心”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Korean people have a historical right to determine their peninsula’s future arrangements, including unification should they so choose.",
        "朝鲜半岛上的人民拥有决定半岛未来安排的历史权利，包括选择统一。"
    ],
    [
        "Typically, it is minority groups (ethnic, religious, linguistic, or regional) that bear the brunt of illiberal policies and practices.",
        "通常来讲，承受狭隘政策行为冲击的往往是少数群体（按民族、宗教、语言或地区划分）。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, Merkel’s campaign is off to a rocky start, and the recent entry of Oskar Lafontaine’s extreme left-wing party into the fray may necessitate the formation of a grand coalition between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats.",
        "不幸的是，默尔克的竞选从一开始就困难重重。 最近奥斯卡·拉方丹的极左翼党派加入竞争后，可能就必须建立基督教民主党和社会民主党的总体联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the International Monetary Fund, the output gap – the difference between actual and potential GDP – narrowed from -3.6% in 2011 to -0.9% in 2013.",
        "根据国际货币基金组织（IMF）的数据，产出缺口——实际和潜在GDP之间的差额——从2011年的-3. 6%收窄至2013年的-0."
    ],
    [
        "The point is not to prop up dying industries, but to increase the birth rate and reduce the infant-mortality rate of firms in industries that can take their place, especially those that can sell to “outsiders,” reconnecting each location with external and increasingly global markets.",
        "重点不是为垂死产业续命，而是增加可以取而代之，特别是可以卖产品给“外人”、让每个地方与外部和日益全球化的市场重新联系起来的行业中的企业的出生率、降低它们的死亡率。"
    ],
    [
        "There is still a long way to go.",
        "我们还有很长的路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not all. The businesses and industries of central and northern Italy are efficient, innovative, and globally integrated.",
        "还有，意大利中部和北部的商业和工业效率高、创新性好，且深度融入了全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s behavior has fueled a nationalist backlash in Japan, helping to turn hawkish, marginal politicians like Shintaro Ishihara into important mainstream figures.",
        "中国的行为助长了日本国内的民族主义情绪，有助于石原慎太郎等被边缘化了的鹰派重新回到了主流政坛。"
    ],
    [
        "Together with the WHO and non-governmental organizations including Médecins Sans Frontières and the Red Cross and Red Crescent, the Institut Pasteur is committed to fighting the virus and its causes.",
        "巴斯德研究所携手世卫组织和无国界医生组织、红十字会及红新月会等非政府组织，为抗击病毒及其起源做出自己的贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "And how should companies respond?",
        "小公司应该如何应对？"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe it is.",
        "或许诚然如此。"
    ],
    [
        "The GPE should be receiving at least $10 billion a year (about four days’ military spending by the NATO countries) to put Africa on a path toward universal secondary education.",
        "该计划每年至少应该获得100亿美元（相当于北约国家大约四天的军费开支）来将非洲推上普及中等教育的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "It is clear that ending AIDS will require social – not just medical – breakthroughs.",
        "显而易见，消灭艾滋病不仅需要医疗、而且需要社会突破。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, economists failed to forecast most of the major crises in the last century, including the severe 1920-21 slump, the 1980-82 back-to-back recessions, and the worst of them all, the Great Depression after the 1929 stock-market crash.",
        "诚然，经济学没有预见到上个世纪的大部分重大危机，包括1920—21年大崩盘、1980—82年背靠背衰退，以及最糟糕的1929年股市崩盘后的大萧条。"
    ],
    [
        "The document itself represents a watershed, because it provides the data needed for a scientific and empirical discussion of an issue that is too often debated in ideological terms.",
        "报告本身算得上一座里程碑，因为它提供了科学地、实证地讨论问题所需的数据。 此前，问题的讨论往往基于意识形态。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia currently sells certain arms to China, but avoids exporting its most sophisticated systems, since the Kremlin views China as a potential future threat.",
        "俄罗斯目前向中国销售某些武器，但却避免向其出口最尖端的系统。 因为克里姆林宫将中国看作未来潜在的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "As Alan Greenspan famously told a Congressional committee, “if I turn out to be particularly clear, you have probably misunderstood what I said.”",
        "格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan）曾经在对国会委员会说，“如果我说得太清楚，你反倒有可能误解我说的话。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republican race, by contrast, remains wide open.",
        "相比之下，共和党选战还有很多机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet politicians are pursuing none of these policies adequately.",
        "但政客在所有这些政策上都没有充分的作为。"
    ],
    [
        "The first great disruption is the shift of economic activity to emerging-market cities.",
        "最重要的破坏性力是经济活动转移到新兴市场城市。"
    ],
    [
        "Did he wish to impress voters back home with a starring role on a world stage?",
        "他是否希望给国内的选民留下他在世界舞台上纵横捭阖的形象？"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, economically and politically, Syria is in a weak position, and its interests are by no means congruent with those of Iran.",
        "最后，叙利亚在政治和经济上处于劣势，其利益和伊朗肯定不一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Military action cannot be considered the only variable of success. A successful strategy should use civilian means – incidentally a model advocated by the European Union.",
        "军事行动不再是取得胜利的唯一手段，一个战略的成功必须借助民间行动来实现——这也恰恰也是欧盟最近所提倡的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "To try to enforce a single definitive interpretation is deeply misleading, and thus unhelpful – and potentially dangerous – in policymaking.",
        "尝试将其中任何一个设为权威解释都具有误导性且对政策制定毫无帮助——甚至是有潜在危险性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, four decades later, such substances have been used to treat more than 10 million people with neovascular diseases such as macular degeneration and many different forms of cancer.",
        "四十年后的今天，已有1000多万患者接受过这种物质的治疗，其中既包括黄斑变性等新生血管性疾病，也包括各式肿瘤。"
    ],
    [
        "In Hong Kong, it slowed to 5.8%.",
        "8%。 香港下降到5."
    ],
    [
        "The Democratization of Aid",
        "援助的民主化"
    ],
    [
        "In another dilemma, the trolley, as before, is about to kill five people.",
        "在另一种困境中，这部电车如前所言，会撞死五个人。"
    ],
    [
        "In the digital era, trust deficits have affected most major institutions, from political parties and big companies to religious organizations and universities.",
        "在数字时代，信任赤字影响着大部分重要机构，包括政党、大公司、宗教组织和大学。 这可能表明公民变得更加知情，更加具有批判精神；"
    ],
    [
        "Sixteen years ago, the Asian financial crisis erupted, following the Thai government’s decision to float the baht in the face of speculative attacks.",
        "十六年前，在投机冲击面前，泰国政府决定泰铢自由浮动，亚洲金融危机就此爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "The broader task is to integrate these vehicles into a more efficient and cleaner power grid – for example, by replacing aging coal-fired power plants with hydroelectric power.",
        "更大的任务是让这些汽车融入效率更高、更清洁的电网——比如用水电代替老旧的火电厂。"
    ],
    [
        "The Japanese, like many of their neighbors, hope that enactment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal – which would, among other things, lower tariffs on thousands of commodities and reduce non-tariff barriers – will provide a much-needed boost.",
        "日本人跟他们的许多邻居一样，希望跨太平洋伙伴关系（TPP）贸易协议的制定——这将降低上千种商品的关税，减少非关税壁垒——能提供急需的经济刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "It is simply not enough for China to call, as its official statement does, for the resumption of the Six-Party Talks with South Korea, China, the US, Japan, and Russia.",
        "仅仅呼吁朝鲜重启六方会谈（与韩国、中国、美国、日本和俄罗斯）——正如中方的官方声明那样——是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the risk that, given the role of the ECB and the Bank of Japan in shaping their currencies’ performance, such a shift could be characterized as a “currency war” in the US Congress, prompting a retaliatory policy response.",
        "另一个风险是，考虑到欧洲央行和日本银行在影响各自货币表现方面的作用，这一变化可能被美国国会打上“货币战争”的标签，引起报复性政策反应。"
    ],
    [
        "A few decades ago, it was Japan that thought it was going to be Number One, and its businessmen, politicians, and bureaucrats were not shy about letting the rest of the world know.",
        "几十年前，那时的日本也认为自己是世界第一，它的商人，政治家和官员也禁不住向世界各国耀武扬威。"
    ],
    [
        "But why does this seem so surprising?",
        "可为什么这种情况让人如此惊异呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In February 2013, then-White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan testified at his Senate confirmation hearing to become CIA Director that, “in the interest of transparency,” the US must acknowledge mistaken killings publicly.",
        "因此，对于像纳赛尔那样在美国袭击中失去了母亲、父亲、儿子和女儿的平民来说，毫不奇怪他们不但对美国怒不可遏，对同意采取无人机打击的也门政府同样怒不可遏。"
    ],
    [
        "This would offer southern European countries a way out of their competitiveness trap, because if prices remained unchanged in the south, while the northern countries inflated, the southern countries could gradually reduce their goods’ relative prices without feeling too much pain.",
        "这将给南欧国家一条走出竞争力陷阱的道路，因为如果南方价格维持不变而北方国家出现通胀，那么南方国家可以在不必感受太多痛苦的情况下逐步降低商品的相对价格。"
    ],
    [
        "But Somalia’s debt also includes $325 million in arrears owed to the International Monetary Fund.",
        "但索马里的债务中也包括3. 25亿美元的国际货币基金组织（IMF）欠款。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, global climate negotiations will reach a critical point in December, when world leaders meet for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.",
        "此外，12月还将迎来全球气候谈判临界点。 世界领导人将齐聚巴黎联合国气候变化会议。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past 12 years, more activists and indigenous leaders have been killed in Brazil than in any other country.",
        "过去12年里，巴西被杀害的积极分子和土著领导人比其他任何国家都多。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an impossible target.",
        "这是不可能实现的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The country hasn’t had a president for two years, as rival political factions, reflecting the rising enmity between their Iranian and Saudi Arabian backers, are weakening domestic governance.",
        "国内已经两年时间没选出一位总统，因为反映伊朗和沙特阿拉伯支持者不断加剧敌意的对立政治派别正不断削弱国内的执政基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The United States’ economy is gradually reviving, albeit slowly by the standards of recovery from a deep recession.",
        "美国经济正在逐步恢复活力，尽管从深度衰退复苏的角度看显得相当缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "After that, “labor-saving innovation” took a back seat to “a succession of entertainment and communication devices that do the same things as we could do before, but now in smaller and more convenient packages.”",
        "”在那之后，“节省劳力的创新”让位于“一系列的娱乐和通讯设备——这些设备做的事情与我们过去能做的是一样的，只不过现在的封装得更小更便捷。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The Sino-Russian Marriage",
        "中俄联姻"
    ],
    [
        "To the surprise of many, Europe demonstrated great determination to ensure that the single currency became a reality.",
        "令很多人惊讶的是，欧洲下了很大决心，确保单一货币能够成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East will continue its slide into mayhem – perversely befitting the upcoming centenary of World War I’s outbreak.",
        "中东局势将与近在眼前的一战爆发百周年纪念日极不相称地持续动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Simultaneous private deleveraging and fiscal consolidation are restricting eurozone growth far more than remaining restrictions on credit supply.",
        "私人去杠杆化和财政整合的同时进行对欧元区增长的限制远过于信用供给持续受限。"
    ],
    [
        "When the crowd-sourced Wikipedia was started in 2001, its success was not obvious.",
        "当众包的维基百科（Wikipedia）于2010年上线时，他的成功绝非显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "The conventional wisdom will tell you that the MDGs targets – reducing poverty and hunger, improving the health of mothers and children, combating HIV/AIDS, increasing access to education, protecting the environment, and forging a global partnership for development – are simply unattainable.",
        "大多数人会告诉你战胜饥饿和贫困、改善母婴健康、攻克HIV/艾滋病、扩大受教育对象、保护环境和建立全球发展伙伴关系的千年发展目标是可以实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "One is that they intervene directly in markets, both domestic and across borders, to reduce competition and volatility while they rebuild their buffering capacity.",
        "其一是政府直接干涉国内外市场以减少竞争和波动性，并借机重建自身的危机缓冲能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But is China really to blame for the eruption of a global currency war?",
        "但是中国真的是全球货币战争爆发的罪魁祸首吗？"
    ],
    [
        "A good economy not only sustains growing output and national income; it also ensures its participants’ capacity for self-sufficiency and ability to realize their potential.",
        "良好的经济不仅仅维持不断增长的产量和国民收入，还确保其参与者自给自足以及实现其潜能的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, not all foreign-aid money is well spent.",
        "当然，并不是所有的对外援助资金都物尽其用了。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, although the US extols the virtues of its partnership with Japan, successive American presidents have been vague about the details.",
        "事实上，尽管美国大肆赞颂与日本的合作伙伴关系，但历届美国总统从来不对此做详细阐述。"
    ],
    [
        "It should not be acceptable for asset managers to earn extravagant returns for following a market benchmark.",
        "如果资产管理人员仅靠追踪市场基准指标就可以赚取巨额回报，这显然是不可接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "they let their wings down",
        "他们的翅已自折"
    ],
    [
        "Bush’s “us and them” rhetoric clearly defines an “other” and positions it as a cohesive enemy.",
        "布什关于“他们和我们”的说教明确指出了“异类”的存在，并将其作为统一的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "And deeper emissions cuts like those proposed by the European Union – 20% below 1990 levels within 12 years – would reduce global temperatures by only one-sixtieth of one degree Celsius (one-thirtieth of one degree Fahrenheit) by 2100, at a cost of $10 trillion.",
        "而像欧盟提出的更深层次的碳减排目标——即12年后比20世纪90年代降低20%——只能在付出10万亿美元成本的前提下，实现全球温度截止2100年降低六十分之一摄氏度（约合三十分之一华氏度）。"
    ],
    [
        "After all the diplomacy and effort that these epoch-making events required, European policymakers should be able to tackle reform of the IMF, the World Bank, the G-7, and the G-8.",
        "在这些划时代的事件所必需的外交斡旋及努力之后，欧洲的政策制定者们应该能够应对IMF、世界银行、G-7和G-8的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "In reaching the agreement to raise the consumption tax, the opposition Liberal Democratic Party insisted that the main squeeze on the budget deficit – the amount spent on social-security benefits for Japan’s retirees – begin to be addressed.",
        "在同意提高消费税的时候，反对派的自由民主党坚持要着手解决造成预算赤字的罪魁祸首——日本退休人员的社会保障和福利开支。"
    ],
    [
        "And you may even be able to find a date with a girl whose name is not Siri” (the digital personal assistant installed on Apple’s handheld devices).",
        "而你们也可以找到约会的妹子，而且不是Siri哟。 ”（Siri是苹果手持设备内置的数字个人助理。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, for many years market participants have been richly rewarded for falling in love – quickly and decisively – with the new policy measures adopted by America’s Federal Reserve.",
        "同样，多年来，市场参与者因为迅速果断地与美联储全新政策措施共坠爱河而获利丰厚。"
    ],
    [
        "The second scenario is far less benign.",
        "第二种情景远不那么乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "The dreams from his father were at an end, and he was left, as he only slowly realized, with the themeless pragmatism that has become the hallmark of his administration.",
        "他父亲的梦想被终结了，而他所有的只剩下无主题的实用主义，并成为他执政的鲜明印记，这一点他日后才逐渐认识到。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of coherent regional frameworks, it is no surprise that rival structures are being built, with the US championing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which will link 12 Pacific Rim countries into a vast free-trade area, governed by an advanced set of agreed rules.",
        "在缺少统一地区框架的情况下，毫不奇怪会产生互相敌对的结构。 美国领衔的跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）将环太平洋12国联系起来，形成一个巨大的自由贸易区，并根据一套一致同意的事先确定的规则治理。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Lethal Fear of Science",
        "美国的致命科学恐慌"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama doctrine cannot be credible if the US is not willing to use the capabilities that the president has pledged to preserve.",
        "如果美国不愿使用其总统信誓旦旦要保留的实力，奥巴马主义也就不再可信了。"
    ],
    [
        "After decades of eradication efforts, the virus remained stubbornly endemic in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria.",
        "在进行了几十年的根除努力后，脊髓灰质炎病毒仍然在巴基斯坦、阿富汗和尼日利亚肆虐。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that the West can inflict much more damage on Russia than Russia can inflict on the West.",
        "这意味着西方能够给俄罗斯造成的伤害远大于俄罗斯能给西方造成的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "They argue that even if it is not an ideal solution, it can cure their economies.",
        "他们指出，即使这不是理想方案，至少可以助经济一臂之力。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference is particularly marked in the eurozone, where two-thirds of non-financial firms’ external financing comes from bank loans.",
        "欧元区的区别尤其显著，三分之二的欧元区非金融企业的外部融资来自银行贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Such policies have been needed to counter the deflationary pressures caused by the need for painful deleveraging in the wake of large buildups of public and private debt.",
        "这些政策是抵抗通缩压力之必须，而通缩压力来自公共恶化私人债务大量累积所造成的痛苦的去杠杆化需要。"
    ],
    [
        "If left unchecked, these countries will eventually be able to threaten core US economic and security interests – at home and abroad – especially if they expand their nuclear and cyberwarfare capacities.",
        "但如果放任不理的话，某些国家将最终威胁美国的核心经济和安全利益———无论是在国内还是国外———尤其是在它们强化自身核战和网络战能力之后。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadder still has been the reaction of some parents in Bihar, who have withdrawn their children from school rather than risk their being poisoned.",
        "悲痛仍是比哈尔邦一些家长的反应，他们让孩子们从学校回家，以免遭到毒害。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, failure to reach a power-sharing agreement will prolong political instability.",
        "显然，不能形成权力共享协议将会延长政治不稳定局面。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU then refused to mention China explicitly in a resolution on the conflict in the South China Sea.",
        "欧盟而后又在涉及南海冲突的一项决议中明确拒绝提到中国的名字。"
    ],
    [
        "Piñera’s victory was aided by the sclerosis of the Concertación, which ran as its candidate the Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei, the least popular of its four presidents of the last two decades.",
        "执政联盟自身的问题也辅助了皮涅拉的成功。 代表执政联盟参选的基督教民主党候选人爱德华多·弗雷是过去 20 年间智利四任总统中受欢迎程度最低的一个。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not like the US government, running a huge deficit despite an economic boom, does not need the money.",
        "尽管经济处于繁荣增长，但是美国政府还是赤字累累。 好像美国并非不需要这些钱。"
    ],
    [
        "It is through small surrenders like hers that men like Surkov ultimately succeed.",
        "苏尔科夫的成功正是通过像她这样小小的让步。"
    ],
    [
        "In a rather obscure linguistic debate, Hamas has in previous negotiation rounds refused to “commit’ itself to past PLO agreements with Israel, but has instead offered to “respect” them.",
        "在相当晦涩的言辞辩论中，哈马斯在以前的谈判中拒绝承诺“遵守”过去巴解组织与以色列订立的协议，而是提出要“尊重”协议内容。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the economic consequences of environmental degradation can be severe.",
        "与此同时，环境恶化的经济后果可能极为严重。"
    ],
    [
        "So the crisis caused the deficits and debts, not the other way around.",
        "因此是危机导致了赤字和债务的产生，而不是反过来。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 20 chemicals (mostly containing copper and sulfur) are commonly used in growing and processing organic crops – all acceptable under US rules for certifying organic products.",
        "在种植和处理有机作物的过程中会使用20多种化学物质（大部分包含铜和硫）——都是在美国有机产品认证规则的允许范围内。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the loss of legislative continuity beyond 2020 would create considerable insecurity for businesses in the EU, leading to diminished investment and interrupting – if not terminating – Europe’s advance toward a low-carbon economy.",
        "此外，2020年后合法持续性的降低将导致欧盟企业安全感大幅降低，造成投资减少并干扰甚至扼杀欧洲迈向低碳经济的前进之路。"
    ],
    [
        "Direct or indirect monetary financing of budget deficits used to rank among the gravest sins that a central bank could commit.",
        "曾几何时，直接或间接的货币融资被视为央行最大的犯罪之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Speculation about what will replace them ranges from predictions of unexpected opportunities to forecasts of large-scale unemployment as machines displace most human labor.",
        "取而代之的会是哪些东西？ 有人预测会出现出人意料的机会，有人预测会因为机器取代大部分人类劳动力而出现大面积失业。"
    ],
    [
        "American support for China’s integration into the world system culminated with the country’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.",
        "2001年，中国加入世贸组织，这标志着美国对中国进入世界体系的支持达到了最高峰。"
    ],
    [
        "Costs invariably far exceed initial estimates, and planners often woefully underestimate the skills and funding needed to ensure maintenance and repairs.",
        "成本总是远远超过最初的估计，规划者常常大大低谷确保工程维持和修整所需要的技能和资金。"
    ],
    [
        "California recently adopted a similar approach, issuing IOUs when faced with the impossibility of access to funding.",
        "美国加利福尼亚州最近就是这样干的，在融资无门之时，加州政府发行了欠条。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty years ago, a catastrophic financial crisis began in Thailand and quickly spread across East Asia.",
        "二十年前，始于泰国的灾难性金融危机迅速蔓延整个东亚。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if the framework is to be consensual, its implementation should not be based at an institution that is too closely associated with one side of the market or the other.",
        "但是，要让这一框架获得普遍认可，其实施不可由于市场中某一方关系过近的机构来进行。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the agreement will galvanize investment and knowledge flows across the Pacific, giving the world economy a much-needed boost.",
        "也许该协议将刺激太平洋地区的投资和知识流，给世界经济带来急需的提振。"
    ],
    [
        "Outside China and India, whose economic potential was unleashed by market economics, economic growth was faster and much more stable in the Keynesian golden age than in the age of Friedman; its fruits were more equitably distributed; social cohesion and moral habits better maintained.",
        "在中国和印度——市场经济释放了它们的经济潜能——之外， 凯恩斯黄金时代的经济增长要比弗里德曼时代更快，更稳定； 凯恩斯黄金时代的经济成果被更公平地加以分配，社会凝聚力和道德习惯更好地得到维持。"
    ],
    [
        "The Politics of Anger",
        "愤怒的政治"
    ],
    [
        "In the regulatory school where I was trained – the Bank of England – we were told never to use that fatal phrase, for fear of generating precisely the moral hazard we wished to avoid.",
        "在我受训的监管学校——英格兰银行——我们被告知永远不要使用那个致命的短语，担心因此产生我们恰恰希望避免的道德风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The Paracetamol Dilemma",
        "扑热息痛的两难困境"
    ],
    [
        "Following the Second World War, there were two waves of rapid economic convergence: one in the European periphery during the 1950s and 1960s, and another in East Asia since the 1960s.",
        "第二次世界大战后出现过两次快速经济趋同风潮：一是20世纪五六十年代的欧洲外围； 二是20世纪60年代以来的东亚。"
    ],
    [
        "That, at least, is the conclusion that some people have reached after Milosevic’s death in a Hague prison: the fact that he was able to drag out his trial for four years and still escape a verdict is considered proof that the international community is wasting its resources by putting such people on trial for their misdeeds.",
        "米洛塞维奇死于海牙的监狱之中之后，某些人得出至少这样的结论说：他能够挺过对他的审判长达四年之久，而且依然能够逃避判决这一事实就足以证明，国际社会把这些人因其所犯罪行送交审判是在枉费资源。"
    ],
    [
        "We must also attract foreign investment, despite the difficulties facing Europe, the US, and Japan.",
        "尽管欧洲，美国和日本目前都面临困境，但我们必须吸引更多的国外投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The rise of digital media rendered traditional media outlets’ business models untenable.",
        "数字媒体的崛起让传统媒体组织的业务模式难以为继。"
    ],
    [
        "Successful management of personal impressions requires some of the same emotional discipline and skill possessed by good actors.",
        "个人印象的成功管理需要一些优秀演员同样具备的情感控制和表达技能。"
    ],
    [
        "Among Swedish industrial workers, the figure is 75% in favor.",
        "在瑞典的产业工人中，认同这一观点的人达到75％。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, we must bear in mind the warning of the Stern Report that failure to act now would make taking action in the future much more costly.",
        "如果不现实，我们必须记住《斯特恩报告》的警告，现在不采取措施将使未来付出的代价更加昂贵。"
    ],
    [
        "But Bush missed another lesson implicit in his analogy: the importance of using the soft power of culture.",
        "但是，布什在他的比喻当中错过了一个隐含的经验，那就是使用文化的柔性力量的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the widely held assumption that consumers and corporate investors will extrapolate from past price declines and hold off on making purchases as a result of deflation has essentially no empirical support behind it.",
        "事实上，普遍接受的假定是消费者和公司投资者会将过去的物价下跌推演到未来，因此通缩会导致采购延后，这一假定基本没有实证支持。"
    ],
    [
        "No More Aleppos",
        "不要再有阿勒颇"
    ],
    [
        "When Americans were being prepared for the invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban were demonized for denying cosmetics and hair color to women; when the Taliban were overthrown, Western writers often noted that women had taken off their scarves.",
        "当美国人在为入侵阿富汗作准备时，塔利班也被妖魔化为不许妇女使用化妆品或染发。 而当塔利班被推翻时，西方的作家常常会注意到妇女们已经摘去了头巾。"
    ],
    [
        "It requires a fiscal policy that focuses not only on efficiency, but also on equity – particularly on fairness in sharing the burden of adjustment, and on protecting the weak and vulnerable.",
        "它要求财政政策要在关注效率的同时兼顾公平——特别是要公平分配调整和保护弱小的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "As world leaders race to address the current global economic crisis, it may seem unrealistic to be calling for large and long-term investments of this kind.",
        "值此世界领袖争先恐后地应对目前的全球经济危机之际，呼吁进行这类大规模长期投资似乎不太现实。"
    ],
    [
        "The same type of comparison must be made for other important goals, such as improving the quality of education – a surprisingly difficult objective to achieve, as many developed countries have learned from their poor performance in the OECD’s international assessment.",
        "对于其他的重要目标，也必须做同样类型的比较，如改善教育质量——这一目标的实现难度之高出乎意料，许多发达国家在经合组织国际评估中的差劲表现就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Declining stock markets and low interest rates, have left private pensions around the world more vulnerable than was expected.",
        "低迷的股票市场以及不断被调低的银行利息，使得全世界的个人养老金基金的状况比人们预计的还要岌岌可危。"
    ],
    [
        "It taxes liquidity, which many believe is overly abundant.",
        "托宾税的征收对象是在很多人看来过于宽松的流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "The chaos fueled by these conflicts – and by instability in other countries in the region, such as Afghanistan and Iraq –has enabled the rise of some truly contemptible forces, beginning with the Islamic State (ISIS).",
        "上述冲突和阿富汗、伊拉克等其他地区国家动荡造成的混乱已导致某些真正卑劣的势力崛起，这样的势力应当首推伊斯兰国。"
    ],
    [
        "He has targeted many areas – including universities, the judiciary, foreign policy, immigration, taxation, and the environment – but it is the economy that will prove to be the make-or-break issue.",
        "他把目标锁定在许多领域，包括大学、司法、外交政策、移民、税收以及环境，但是只有经济问题才将会是成功与否的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Perhaps the only surprising thing about the populist backlash that has overwhelmed the politics of many advanced democracies is that it has taken so long.",
        "坎布里奇——也许淹没许多先进民主国家的政治民粹主义回潮用时如此之久才最令人惊奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Look no further for the cause of unacceptably high US unemployment.",
        "9个百分点。 无怪乎美国失业率会高到不可忍受的程度了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Internet’s creators, part of a small, enclosed community, were very comfortable with an open system in which security was not a primary concern.",
        "互联网的创造者——他们属于一个封闭的小圈子——对安全并非主要顾虑的开放系统感到十分满意。"
    ],
    [
        "Broadly speaking, the weakest contracts are those that allow wealth and power to be concentrated in the same few hands, while the strongest are built on significant dispersal of both.",
        "广义而言，最脆弱的契约允许财富和权力集中在同一批的极少数人手中，而最强力的契约则建立在财富和权力显著分散的基础上。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor should it issue harsh rebukes to its allies when they do not follow suit, as it did when the United Kingdom announced its intention to join the new China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.",
        "美国也不应该因为盟友不对其言听计从而猛烈抨击，比如在英国宣布准备加入中国领导的新亚洲基础设施投资银行的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "And it demands that states neighboring the country in question put ballistic missile defenses on alert.",
        "它要求相关国家的邻国时刻准备进行弹道导弹防御。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, it is imperative for US policies to be consistent across regions.",
        "更重要的是，美国在不同地区的政策必须保持一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, in particular, has a considerable strategic stake in Syria and serious concerns about its takeover by jihadists, which by many accounts include radical elements from Chechnya.",
        "尤其是俄罗斯在叙利亚拥有相当重大的战略利益，也极端忧虑该国会被圣战者（其中许多派别都涉及来自车臣的极端分子）所把持。"
    ],
    [
        "As we attempt to realize these tremendous potential benefits, however, we must bear in mind that the effects of gene drive interventions will be shared by entire communities.",
        "但在我们试图实现上述巨大潜在利益的同时，我们必须牢记整个种群将共同承担基因驱动干预方法的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "In this case, the Libyans did not respond by withdrawing a large amount of funds, but that could happen in the future.",
        "在这个案例中，利比亚并没有大量抽回资金，但并不意味着未来不会出现主权财富基金大量撤资的情形。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unlike the ill-advised exposure to sovereign debt across Europe, cross-border banking through foreign subsidiaries has been beneficial for investors, and for home and host countries alike – nowhere more so than in emerging Central and Eastern Europe, still the most important export market for the eurozone.",
        "但是，与让全欧洲银行暴露于主权债务风险之下这一欠妥考虑相比，通过外国支行进行跨国银行业务对投资者、家庭和东道国均有利，其中获益最大的是目前仍为欧元区最大出口市场的中欧和东欧。"
    ],
    [
        "Navigating such a structural transition without causing a sharp decline in economic growth would be difficult for any country.",
        "做好这一结构转型并且不让经济增长严重下降对任何国家来说都是难事。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though inequality has been reduced in Venezuela (for the time being), the economy’s growth prospects have been severely weakened.",
        "尽管委内瑞拉（目前的）不平等程度被抑制，但其经济增长前景也被严重削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was not only Brotherhood politicians – inexperienced in the ways of democracy (and skeptical of them) – who stumbled.",
        "但马失前蹄的并不只有对民主缺乏经验（也持怀疑态度的）穆兄会政客。"
    ],
    [
        "Three “secondary contradictions” are especially striking on the economic front.",
        "而对此三个“次要矛盾”在经济方面尤为突出。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither side wants any ambiguity in their message before the election, thus ruling out the possibility of any immediate changes in tax expenditures or future Social Security pensions.",
        "双方在大选前都将保持鲜明的立场，因此，马上实现税收支出和未来社保退休金变化是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "And China’s answer – that the bank would foster the “development of more robust and inter-dependent ties between the BRICS” – provides little substance.",
        "中国的回答——该银行能够促进“金砖国家间更稳健、更深入的关系的发展”——并没有提供多少实质内容。"
    ],
    [
        "Ideally, deliberations and votes result in rational decisions that use the current state of knowledge to deliver policies that advance citizens’ wellbeing.",
        "理想情况下，审议和表决程序能够促进运用目前所掌握的知识制定出推进公民福祉的理性决策。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Britain did fight Germany a half-century later, in 1914, but should that be counted as one case or two?",
        "当然，英国半个世纪后确实于1914年与德国开战，但这究竟应当算作一个案例还是两个？"
    ],
    [
        "Sea levels are rising, but they have been rising at least since the early 1800’s.",
        "海平面是在上升，但自从十九世纪初以来海平面一直是在上升。"
    ],
    [
        "But this approach, despite doing some good, has run its course.",
        "但该方针尽管带来一些效果，也已经可谓物尽其用了。"
    ],
    [
        "Commercial banks are ranked by assets.",
        "商业银行根据资产被排名。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the heat waves, droughts, and other climate stresses across the US, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere this year, wheat prices are now shooting up to their highest levels in decades.",
        "由于今年发生在美国、欧洲、澳大利亚和世界其他国家的热浪、干旱和其他气候灾难，小麦的价格目前已经飙升到几十年来的最高点。"
    ],
    [
        "But events turned out differently.",
        "但事情的发展与此截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The downward pressure on the renminbi relative to the dollar reflects the US economy's relatively strong recovery, which has prompted the Federal Reserve to end a long period of monetary easing, and China's economic slowdown, which has prompted the PBOC to start a new period of monetary stimulus.",
        "人民币相对美元的贬值压力反映出美国经济复苏相对强势和中国经济的减速，这也是美联储结束长期货币放松和人民银行开始新一轮货币刺激的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why I went to Cyprus – to show my personal support for the efforts to reunify the island, and to push for further progress.",
        "而另一个更为私人的目的则是：我想亲眼见到这道在过去太长时间内、令希腊族塞浦路斯人与土耳其族塞浦路斯人无法往来的阻隔。 当我漫步街头时，来自两方的民众聚拢于此，并开始高喊：“立刻解决！"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, when it has become more important than ever that we embrace renewable resources, we should use the Sun to cultivate our energy, just as our ancestors used it to cultivate their food.",
        "现在，当利用可再生能源的重要性前所未有地凸现出来时，我们应该利用太阳来培植我们的能源，就像我们的祖先曾经利用它来种植食物一样。"
    ],
    [
        "As QE programs end, emerging-market countries could see an outflow of capital.",
        "随着量化政策走向终结，新兴市场国家将面对资本外流的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "That is particularly true where Asian security is concerned.",
        "”在亚洲安全问题上，这句话尤其正确。"
    ],
    [
        "And storm surges now ride on these elevated sea levels, amplifying flooding losses where they strike.",
        "现在的风暴潮发生在已经升高的海平面上，因此导致所到之处的洪灾损失大幅增加。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent Boston Consulting Group study found that young male employees are often more open-minded than their superiors on issues like family leave and diversity, suggesting that true leadership on gender equality may actually come from a company’s youngest staff members.",
        "波士顿咨询公司最近的一项研究发现，年轻的男性员工在家庭假和多样性等问题上往往比他们的上级更加开放，这表明性别平等问题的真正领导力可能来自企业最年轻的员工。"
    ],
    [
        "If detected early enough, solutions can be found to diffuse tempestuous crowds before they inundate fragile new institutions.",
        "如果发现得足够早，是可以找到在有暴乱之势的群体摧毁脆弱的新制度之前找到消散之法的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Pie-in-the-Sky UBI",
        "天上掉馅饼的全民基本收入设想"
    ],
    [
        "And I know that the next Google will not do what Google does, just as Google did not do what AOL did.",
        "就像谷歌没有模仿AOL那样，我知道下一个谷歌也不会重复谷歌的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Our “Athens Spring” was about something more profound: the right of a small European country to challenge a failed policy that was wrecking the prospects of a generation (or two), not only in Greece, but elsewhere in Europe as well.",
        "我们的“雅典之春”根源更加深刻：它事关一个欧洲小国挑战影响一代人（甚至两代人）前途的失败政策的权利——不仅是希腊，也包括欧洲其他国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, job growth, while anemic, has nonetheless been consistently positive since September 2010.",
        "与此同时，自2010年9月以来，就业一直维持正增长，尽管增速比较缓慢。"
    ],
    [
        "The Washington Post concluded that “there was not a shred of evidence to back up Santorum’s claims,” and found it “telling” that his campaign managers did not even bother to defend them.",
        "《华盛顿邮报》下结论说：“没有任何证据能支持桑托勒姆的说法”，并认为其竞选经理们懒得自辩的行为“正好说明了这一点”。"
    ],
    [
        "In Afghanistan, he opted for a substantial military surge, but the notion of victory that would allow for a withdrawal of troops remains as foggy and uncertain as it was in the case of Iraq.",
        "在阿富汗，他选择了大规模增兵，但撤军的胜利迹象却像在伊拉克一样含混不清而又茫无头绪。"
    ],
    [
        "If a left party’s economic policy is perceived as a weak copy of the right’s agenda, the poorest segments of the population will gravitate to chauvinist forces and their false promises of protection from the consequences of globalization.",
        "如果左翼政党的经济政策被认为只是右翼日程的减弱版抄袭，较贫困人群就会倒向沙文主义力量及其保护他们免受全球化后果的虚假承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Some even despair that the window for action is closing fast.",
        "甚至有人绝望地认为采取行动的机会已经错过。"
    ],
    [
        "On previous occasions, whenever the financial system came to the brink of a breakdown, the authorities got their act together and pulled it back from the brink.",
        "以前的金融危机，金融系统无论何时濒临崩溃，政府都会齐心协力，把它从崩溃的边缘挽救回来。"
    ],
    [
        "But to keep all these balls in the air, and avoid knocking himself out, Carney will need all the creativity and agility of that other great Canadian export – Cirque du Soleil.",
        "但要让所有问题都不落地，同时又不让自己出局，卡尼需要像加拿大的另一样全球知名的东西——太阳剧团一样富有创造力和灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "The point of exposure is not to celebrate our ability to expose.",
        "揭露的意义不在于庆幸我们有能力揭露。"
    ],
    [
        "That precedent should serve as a warning of how vulnerable governments and their finances can rapidly become, and of how fiscal policy can stand in the way of a monetary approach oriented toward stability.",
        "这个前车之鉴触目惊心地说明了，政府及其财政会在一夜之间变得何其脆弱，而不适当的财政政策会成为稳定性货币政策多么大的绊脚石！"
    ],
    [
        "Where desktop or laptop computers are not widely available, students might use smartphones or tablets to augment their learning.",
        "在无法获得桌面电脑或笔记本电脑时，学生可以使用智能手机或平板电脑开展学习。"
    ],
    [
        "US-led policies toward the Islamic world have prevented a clash between civilizations only by fueling a clash within a civilization that has fundamentally weakened regional and international security.",
        "美国领导的伊斯兰世界政策之所以能够防止文明之间的冲突，完全是因为它滋长了从根本上削弱地区和国际安全的文明内部的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, Japan is moving out of America’s diplomatic shadow.",
        "与此同时，日本正在从美国的外交阴影中摆脱。"
    ],
    [
        "This suggests that France’s center-left largely accepts the current approach.",
        "这表明法国中左翼基本上接受了当前的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, foreign activities are not the only reason why GNI is growing more quickly than GDP.",
        "当然，国外经济活动并不是GNI增长速度高于GDP的唯一原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt and Greece, for example, rising poverty, high unemployment, and financial turmoil could place governments under pressure.",
        "比如，在埃及和希腊，贫穷状况恶化，高失业率和金融危机压迫着政府 。"
    ],
    [
        "The researchers – based at Oakland University and the University of Georgia in the US, and Sapir Academic College in Israel – surveyed more than 2,500 Israeli men and women.",
        "来自美国奥克兰大学、佐治亚大学和以色列萨比尔学院的研究者对超过2，500名以色列男女展开了调查。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last 40 years, recombinant DNA technology has revolutionized numerous industrial sectors, including agriculture and pharmaceuticals.",
        "在过去40年中，重组DNA技术掀起了大量行业部门的革命，包括农业和制药业。"
    ],
    [
        "At first reading, this assertion seems counterintuitive, but the root of the paradox is simply our dogmatic way of thinking, where complex traits are expected to be an outcome of natural selection.",
        "乍看上去，这一观点似乎是反直觉的，但这一悖论的根源在于我们教条主义的思维方式，我们先入为主地认定复杂性应该是自然选择的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Bin Laden wants these people to feel like sinners.",
        "本拉登想要这些人感觉像是犯罪者一样。"
    ],
    [
        "They foresaw a collaborative process guided by enlightened policymaking.",
        "他们预计，会出现依开明政策指导的合作过程。"
    ],
    [
        "The Political Economy of 2013",
        "2013年的政治经济学"
    ],
    [
        "Now comes the painful number: Mauritius’s GDP has grown faster than 5% annually for almost 30 years.",
        "再来看一个令人费解的数据：毛里求斯几乎30年以来一直都维持着超过5%的GDP年增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "The German leader Rudi Dutschke, for example, insisted that the movement was driven by “existential disgust” – and anger, provoked by the Vietnam War in particular.",
        "比如德国领袖鲁迪·多茨克坚持认为由越南战争引起的“存在主义厌恶”和愤怒是那次运动的源动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The shortfall in investment has been deep and broad-based, affecting not only residential investment but also investment in equipment and structures.",
        "投资不足的深度和广度都很大，不但影响住宅投资，也影响设备和结构投资。"
    ],
    [
        "A counterweight to the “peace crowd” may be new migrants from Eastern Europe, for whom cuts in social services would break no promises, and for whom job availability and wage levels are more important.",
        "来自东欧的新移民可能是对“和平群众”的制约。 对于他们来说，削减社会服务并不违反诺言，而且有工作和工资水平更为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "A large body of research now supports the idea that societies perform more poorly without such trust.",
        "如今大量的研究都表明认为一个社会在缺乏这类信任的情况下会运行得更遭。"
    ],
    [
        "That, at least, is how the system is supposed to work in theory.",
        "至少在理论上，竞选体系是这样运作的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a strong reason not to adopt such subsidies in the first place.",
        "这就构成了一个很强的理由，从一开始就不应该实施补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, most IMF staff seem genuinely depressed by Rato’s departure.",
        "而与此形成鲜明的对照，多数国际货币基金组织的员工似乎由衷地为拉托的离去感到惋惜。"
    ],
    [
        "Lebanon’s Falangist Party gave voice to its Maronite Catholics.",
        "黎巴嫩长枪党则是马龙派天主教徒的代表。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be considered a strength, and one that is worth protecting.",
        "事实上，它应该被视为一种优势，一种值得保护的优势。"
    ],
    [
        "Such things tell us something about their concern for the public good.",
        "这些事情告诉我们一些有关他们对于公共福址的关切程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Closer to home, oil-rich Venezuela has many of the characteristics of a failed state.",
        "在家门口，石油资源丰富的委内瑞拉有不少与失败国家相吻合的特点。"
    ],
    [
        "In a joint report on the competitiveness of the Arab countries, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the World Economic Forum call for urgent institutional reform to support private-sector growth. Excessive red tape and ineffective enforcement of competition policy and governance rules are hampering entrepreneurship throughout the region.",
        "在关于阿拉伯国家竞争力的联合报告中，欧洲复兴开发银行（EBRD）和世界经济论坛呼吁立刻实施制度改革以支持私人部门增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But to the rest of the world, Chen has been revealed as a petty liar over a pitiful amount of money.",
        "但是对世界上的其他人来说，陈已经暴露出他是一个捞取一笔数额可怜的钱的卑劣的撒谎者。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that, as Göttingen University’s Martin Tamcke points out, there is no remaining alternative for Christian refugees in the Middle East, they are increasingly heading to Europe and North America.",
        "有鉴于此，哥廷根大学的坦穆克（Martin Tamcke）指出，中东基督徒难民已别无选择，只能前往欧洲和北美。"
    ],
    [
        "The Soft Power of the United Nations",
        "联合国的软实力"
    ],
    [
        "At the beginning of March, for example, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government shut down the country’s highest-circulation newspaper, Zaman, and security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters outside the paper’s headquarters.",
        "比如，3月初，土耳其总统埃尔多安政府关闭了土耳其发行量最大的报纸《时代报》（Zaman），土安全部队向该报总部外的示威群众发射催泪弹和橡皮子弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Advocates of liberal market economies need to grasp that many reforms and technological advances may leave some groups – possibly large groups – worse off.",
        "自由市场经济的支持者需要抓住一个要点：许多改革和科技进步将让一些群体——有可能是人数巨大的群体——境况变差。"
    ],
    [
        "One key reason for this is that an increase in the number of children per household will force a reduction in the aggregate savings rate, fulfilling a long-standing macroeconomic goal.",
        "关键原因之一是单个家庭子女数量的增加将迫使民众降低总体储蓄率，从而实现长期的宏观经济目标。"
    ],
    [
        "And some of it reflects the naked abuse and leveraging of market power through the political process: Large banks, for example, lobbied the US Congress to amend or repeal legislation separating commercial banking from other areas of finance.",
        "还有一部分则是通过政治程序赤裸裸地滥用和利用市场权力：比如，大银行游说美国国会修订或废除将商业银行业务和其他金融业务分离的立法。"
    ],
    [
        "Mobilizing these savings will require careful thinking about how the domestic financial system can be expanded by an order of magnitude without risking a future crisis.",
        "动员储蓄需要谨慎思考如何尽快扩大国内金融体系而不引起未来危机的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Victories in such wars are always elusive.",
        "战争的结果毫无悬念。"
    ],
    [
        "Peasant farmers need the benefits of fertilizer, irrigation, and high-yield seeds, all of which were a core part of China’s economic takeoff.",
        "农民们需要的是化肥、灌溉、高产种子带来的好处，所有这些都是中国经济腾飞的核心组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "A pandemic spread by birds or travelers on jet aircraft could kill more people than perished in World Wars I or II.",
        "由鸟类或喷气式飞机上的旅客传播引起的一场流行疾病所造成的死亡人数，可能比第一次世界大战或者第二次世界大战中死亡的人数还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "When economic inequality translates into political inequality – as it has in large parts of the US – governments pay little attention to the needs of those at the bottom.",
        "当经济不平等性演变为政治不平等性时——美国大部分地区就是如此——政府却没有关注底层人民的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Ahmadinejad’s “vision” at the UN could be dismissed as political posturing if it weren’t for a string of similar statements and actions that suggest he believes that he is destined to bring about the “End Times” – the end of the world – by paving the way for the return of the Shia Muslim messiah.",
        "如果不是因为一系列类似的声明和行动，艾哈迈迪内贾德在联合国的“所见所闻”可以被当作一种纯粹的政治姿态； 这些声明和行动表明他相信，通过为什叶派穆斯林弥赛亚的回归铺平道路，他注定要带来“终结时代”，即世界末日。"
    ],
    [
        "Two Funerals and Our Freedom",
        "两场葬礼与我们的自由"
    ],
    [
        "And, given that China’s growth has decelerated every quarter since the beginning of 2010, some have questioned whether it is achievable.",
        "此外，考虑到自2010年初以来中国每个季度增长都有所放缓，一些人开始质疑这一目标是否可以实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Putin’s associates wanted Yukos’ wealth, which was confiscated by the state oil company Rosneft through lawless taxation, leaving Putin’s tax reform and judicial reform in tatters and severely undermining property rights.",
        "不仅如此，普京的利益相关者希望得到尤科斯的巨额财产，而这笔财产最终被俄罗斯国有石油公司（Rosneft）通过非法税收的方式没收占用，彻底摧毁了普京的税务改革和司法改革，并严重破坏了财产所有权。"
    ],
    [
        "But if prejudicial desires lead to a dead end, and fail to reveal the right course of action, where does the key to rectitude lie?",
        "但如果存有偏见的愿望导致僵局，也无法揭示正确的行动，那么公正的关键又在于何处？"
    ],
    [
        "Most were established at German instigation, but now they have been removed with the German government’s active support.",
        "其中大多数当初都是在德国推动之下建立的，但如今却在德国政府的积极支持之下被废除。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, whenever the Israelis defy the world over the settlements, as is now once again happening, US and other officials “denounce” and “regret” the decision.",
        "当然，每当以色列人利用犹太人定居点来表达对国际社会的蔑视，就像现在再次发生的这样的时候，美国和其他国家的官员们都持“谴责”和“遗憾”的态度。"
    ],
    [
        "He will also be able to push Israel to reinvigorate the derailed Middle East peace process.",
        "他也将能够推动以色列重新将中东和平进程的谈判重新带入轨道。"
    ],
    [
        "To the southeast is war-torn Syria, which has already disgorged almost 400,000 refugees into Turkey.",
        "东南方则是已有400，000难民涌入土耳其的战火纷飞的叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "The budget cuts will make it that much harder for UN agencies to prevent wars, help millions of people displaced by conflicts, feed and clothe hungry children, fight emerging diseases, provide safe water and sanitation, and promote access to education and health care for the poor.",
        "预算削减将让联合国机构更加难以阻止战争、帮助数百万因为冲突而流离失所的人、给饥饿的儿童提供衣食、打击新出现的疾病、提供安全饮水和卫生设施，以及促进穷人的教育和医疗普及。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the US labor market is failing so badly that expanded government spending carries no resource cost to society as a whole.",
        "首先，美国劳动力市场出现了大失灵，以至于扩张的政府支出不会给作为一个整体的社会带来资源成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The list is long, but they might best be thought of as “housekeeping” issues: many a couple can quarrel over them without contemplating divorce.",
        "存在的问题很多，但是我们还是把它们看成是“家务事”：许多夫妇会为这样的事情发生争执，但是绝对不会想到要为此离婚。"
    ],
    [
        "Al Qaeda is not the primary danger to Yemen’s security and stability, but Yemen’s geography and political problems are well suited to its activities.",
        "基地组织虽不是也门安全和稳定的主要威胁，但也门的地理和政治问题却与该组织活动有着密切的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But, back in 1999, when faced with a Russian veto of a potential Security Council resolution in the case of Kosovo, NATO used force anyway, and many defenders argued that, legality aside, the decision was morally justified.",
        "但是，1999年，尽管俄罗斯否决了科索沃问题的潜在安理会决议，但北约仍然使用了武力，许多人为此辩护说，抛开法律问题不谈，这一决定是合乎道德的。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan does not engage in such currency manipulation currently, and TPP represents a good opportunity to ask the Japanese for a commitment to abandon the practice.",
        "日本目前没有进行这类货币操纵，而TPP也是一次良机要求日本人承诺不再进行操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "QUITO – The Greek crisis is a tragedy for the country and a danger for the world economy.",
        "厄瓜多尔基多——希腊危机对这个国家来讲是个悲剧，而对世界经济来讲是种危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Efforts to eradicate leprosy earned the fifth spot on my list, while vaccine advances in general were sixth.",
        "消灭麻风病的努力在我的名单中名列第五，总体疫苗进步则名列第六。"
    ],
    [
        "I usually limit myself in my newspaper commentaries to my area of expertise, economics.",
        "通常情况下，我的报章评论都限于自己专长的经济领域。"
    ],
    [
        "And Germany should delay its austerity plan, as the last thing that the eurozone needs is a massive fiscal drag.",
        "德国瘦身计划应该缓行，因为欧元区最终还需要一记有力的财政拉动。"
    ],
    [
        "Given such crises, the world can no longer afford to do without a humanitarian fund for education during emergencies.",
        "考虑到这些危机，世界必须马上为紧急状态期间的教育建立人道主义激进。"
    ],
    [
        "Viewed this way, sustainable development should be redefined as “development that meets the needs of the present while safeguarding the Earth’s life-support system, on which the welfare of current and future generations depends.”",
        "从这个角度看，可持续发展应该定义为“满足当前需求，同时保护当前和子孙后代所依赖的地球生命支持系统的发展”。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, nationalizing banks would have required dismissing Wall Street captains and their boards for grossly mismanaging their firms.",
        "而且，如果美国进行银行国有化，就一定会有一些华尔街巨头及其同僚因为严重经营不善而遭到解雇。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout the 1990s, the American Petroleum Institute (API) – the largest oil and gas trade association and lobbying group in the US – repeatedly relied on economic models created by two economists, Paul Bernstein and W. David Montgomery, to argue that pro-climate policies would be devastatingly expensive.",
        "贯穿20世纪90年代，美国最大的石油和天然气贸易协会及游说集团美国石油学会（API）一而再再而三地根据由保罗·伯恩斯坦（Paul Bernstein）和大卫·蒙哥马利（W. David Montgomery）这两位经济学家所创造的经济模型，提出推行有利于气候的政策将会极其昂贵。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – Europe’s slow-motion sovereign-debt crisis may appear unique, but it is not.",
        "发自日内瓦——欧洲缓慢发酵的主权债务危机看似特殊，其实却早有先例。"
    ],
    [
        "And this assumes that there is only a one-time permanent downward shock, with no additional slowdown in the rate of potential output growth.",
        "并且这只是一次性的持久衰退冲击，不会造成潜在产出增长的进一步放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "But this concept is inapt, because it implies that, ultimately, the US was the leader.",
        "但这一概念是不恰当的，因为这意味着说到底美国仍是领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s neighbors finally seem to understand that the country could fragment into a Kurdish state that destabilizes Turkey and an Islamic State territory that destabilizes Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.",
        "叙利亚的邻国似乎终于明白，叙利亚可能分裂形成一个动摇土耳其的库尔德国家和一个动摇伊拉克、约旦和沙特阿拉伯的伊斯兰国。"
    ],
    [
        "Economics – how markets works, why they sometimes break down, how to estimate the costs of a project properly – ought to be of interest to most people.",
        "经济学——市场如何运作，为何有时会崩溃，如何合理估算项目的成本——应该符合大部分人的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "This bothered us, because the basic economic theory we were taught – the theory built by Alfred Marshall, Knut Wicksell, and Robert Solow – said everything was driven by structural forces.",
        "这令我们很困扰，因为我们所学到的基本经济理论——由马歇尔（Alfred Marshall）、维克赛尔（Knut Wicksell）和索洛（Robert Solow）所构造的理论——认为一切都由结构性力量驱动。"
    ],
    [
        "Franklin Roosevelt and Truman made crucial contributions.",
        "但是，在评价领导人时，我们既要看到成就，也要看到阙漏；"
    ],
    [
        "Instead – and this is the fourth aberration – inflation is still too low and falling in advanced economies, despite central banks’ unconventional policies and surging balance sheets.",
        "相反——这也是第四个反常现象——尽管央行采取了非常规政策，其资产负债表也飞速膨胀，但通货膨胀在发达经济体依然过低并且继续下降。 央行的挑战是提高通货膨胀甚至避免全面通缩。"
    ],
    [
        "The US is not the only guilty party. Europe has played a major role in retarding democratic reform in Libya and Saudi Arabia.",
        "当然，要对此负责的可不仅仅是美国，因为欧洲在阻挠利比亚和沙特阿拉伯民主进程方面也唱了主角。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, central banks are not always right; but they are far better than governments engineering short-term boosts to win elections.",
        "诚然，央行不是永远正确的； 但它们总比为了赢得选举而采取短视的政府强得多。"
    ],
    [
        "They will resist even more strongly the outright elimination of their weapons, given that the world is probably still decades away from devising sufficient verification and enforcement measures.",
        "对于全面销毁核武器，它们的抵制将更加强烈，因为世界可能还需要几十年时间才能发展出充分的证明和执行手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the reluctance of underrepresented countries to sign up for the IMF’s precautionary credit lines, central banks desperate for dollars can obtain them only from the Federal Reserve.",
        "鉴于代表名额不足的国家不愿签署IMF的预防性信贷额度，央行急需美元时只能从美联储申请贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "Most kinds of economic stimulus won’t generate more taxis, until entry restrictions are reduced.",
        "因此大部分形式的经济刺激政策都不可能催生更多的出租车，除非行业准入限制被放宽。"
    ],
    [
        "It is too early to say what will happen in Mali or the Sahel – or, for that matter, in France itself.",
        "现在判断马里和萨赫勒——或者就这个问题而言，在法国本土——将发生什么还为时过早。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, attending a baseball game in Havana in the company of Cuban President Raúl Castro, as Obama is set to do, is not a necessary element of this policy.",
        "无论如何，奥巴马计划于古巴总统劳尔·卡斯特罗一起在哈瓦那观看棒球赛，这并不是这一政策的必要元素。"
    ],
    [
        "If we compare the EU-15 (the membership before the enlargements of 2004 and 2007) with the US, the most obvious point is that GDP per capita in Europe is almost 25% lower, a difference of around $11,000 a year.",
        "如果我们比较一下欧盟15国（EU-15，2004和2007年两次扩大之前的欧盟国家）美国，最显而易见的一点是欧洲人均GDP比美国要低近25%，即每年11 000美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, some promising initiatives are underway.",
        "事实上，一些大有希望的计划已在进行当中。"
    ],
    [
        "These changes are determined, to a large extent, by the globalization and expansion of food markets, and by ever-greater levels of urbanization.",
        "广而言之，由于食品市场全球化扩张和城市化步调加快，这些变化是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "The half-Ghanaian Jérôme Boateng was a pillar of the German defense.",
        "拥有半数加纳血统的博阿滕是德国防线的支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1990 to 2000, by contrast, the real federal funds rate averaged 2.2%.",
        "6%。 相反，1990—2000期间，真实联邦利率平均为2."
    ],
    [
        "Of course, the inspiration for almost every political reform movement in China is the May 4th Movement of 1919, when Chinese students protested against a weak and corrupt government and called for China to strengthen itself by adopting two key Western ideals: democracy and science.",
        "当然，中国几乎一切政治改革运动的灵感都来自于1919年的五四运动，当时的中国学生抗议腐败虚弱的政府，呼吁追求两个关键的西方理想：民主和科学，从而增强自己的实力。"
    ],
    [
        "Commentators have been warning since the 1980’s that the US may lose its global hegemony for economic reasons – budget deficits, a declining share of global GDP, and the switch from net international creditor to net debtor – with the historical hypothesis of imperial overreach gaining renewed attention.",
        "自1980年代以来评论家们一直警告美国可能会由于经济上的原因——预算赤字，全球GDP份额的下降，从净债权国变为净债务国——而丢失其世界霸权，同时帝国过度扩张的历史假说也重新得到关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Ramadan, a grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, is a Swiss citizen and a resident of the United Kingdom who argues that Islamic ethics and values should be injected into the European system.",
        "埃及穆斯林兄弟会创始人的孙子拉马丹是一名瑞士公民，同时在英国拥有居民身份，他提出伊斯兰教的道德和价值观应当被注入到欧洲国家的体制。"
    ],
    [
        "There is some evidence that it has had the intended effect.",
        "一些证据表明，这确实起到了一些效果。"
    ],
    [
        "In lieu of effective treatments, controlling the spread of C. auris becomes all the more critical.",
        "在有效治疗之外，控制耳道假丝酵母菌的传播变得更加关键。"
    ],
    [
        "One such corridor extends 800 kilometers from the Bay of Bengal across Burma to southern China.",
        "其中一条通道绵延800公里，从孟加拉湾经由缅甸直抵中国南部。"
    ],
    [
        "What had to be transmitted was not the final organism, but the recipe to make it.",
        "须被遗传的并非最终那个有机体，而是导致遗传发生的“配方”。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the future increases in coal-fired electricity generation will come from strategically important developing countries like China and India.",
        "中国和印度等战略上重要的发展中国家将会是未来煤炭发电增长的主要国家。"
    ],
    [
        "How would the new fiscal rules be designed?",
        "新的财政规则应该如何设计？"
    ],
    [
        "This is where the gains from liberalization would be the largest, because it is here that the barriers are the highest.",
        "上述领域的自由化收益最大，因为这里的壁垒最为严重。"
    ],
    [
        "More specifically, the size of the US trade deficit – imports minus exports – equals excess of US investment over US national saving.",
        "具体来说美国贸易逆差的规模（进口量减去出口量）等于美国投资超出美国国民储蓄的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom has been reluctant to join the hydraulic-fracturing (or fracking) revolution.",
        "英国一直拒绝加入液压致裂法革命。"
    ],
    [
        "Prejudice must make way for empathy, and alienation for respect.",
        "理解必须取代偏见、尊重也必须取代疏远。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, a trial funded by the Gates Foundation found that straight couples using Truvada reduced the risk of transmitting HIV by 73%.",
        "2011年，由盖茨基金会资助的一项试验发现服用特鲁瓦达的异性恋夫妇感染艾滋病毒的风险降低了73%。"
    ],
    [
        "The West’s Second Chance in Syria",
        "西方在叙利亚的第二次机会"
    ],
    [
        "A settlement would also send a message to the world that disputes as long-standing and complex as that in Cyprus can be resolved peacefully. That is why, despite all the obstacles, the negotiators must persevere along the road to peace.",
        "问题的解决也将向全世界发出一种信号：就连塞浦路斯这般漫长而复杂的纷争，都可以通过和平方式得到解决。 因此，尽管障碍重重，但谈判者们仍必须在通向和平的道路上坚持前进。"
    ],
    [
        "It is to build a new narrative of patriotism, culture, connection, and inclusion.",
        "而是构建一个爱国主义、文化、联系和包容的新叙事。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, Labour seems to be hoping for who-knows-what to turn the tide, while keeping their collective fingers crossed that they will not be eviscerated in Scotland, where the Scottish National Party is threatening to sweep the board.",
        "他们也配得上这样的待遇。 但与此同时，工党似乎指望鬼才知道是什么的因素协助其力挽狂澜，并祈祷自己不要在民族党扬言要大获全胜的苏格兰元气大伤。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not surprising: In the US, where almost five million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since the adoption of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and where real wages have stagnated, a majority of voters across the political spectrum are opposed to more such treaties.",
        "这并不奇怪：在美国，自北美自由贸易协定签署以来，制造业就业岗位减少了近五百万个，实际工资一直停滞不前，大部分选民，不管政治立场如何，都反对更多的此类条约。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – No one knows how the swine flu (H1N1) pandemic will evolve.",
        "普林斯顿——没有人知道猪流感（H1N1）传染病将如何发展。"
    ],
    [
        "Karroubi, too, is handicapped among the young. Many consider him to be an old, out-of-touch cleric with no feel for their concerns.",
        "卡鲁比也不为年轻选民熟知，很多人认为他是一个过于衰老和脱离世俗社会的教士，和他们没有共同语言。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the most important question raised by his victory is whether the long phase of globalization that began at the end of World War II is essentially over.",
        "也许他的胜利所引出的最重要的问题是，始于二战结束的漫长的全球化阶段是否实质终结。"
    ],
    [
        "When some of the Bush administration’s more reasonable members are asked today how they could have taken the positions they did in 2002, they cite the anthrax attacks that followed 9/11, the intelligence reports of an impending attack with nuclear materials, and the widespread fear of a second attack against the American people.",
        "当布什政府中一些更具理性的成员现在被问到为何在2002年会采取那样的立场时，他们列举了“9. 11”之后的炭疽袭击和对美国民众遭受第二次袭击的广泛恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.",
        "在世界银行，我们正准备与发展中国家的客户合作改善它们的治理系统、征收税收、打击腐败和恢复被盗资产。"
    ],
    [
        "It often takes a generation for a wave of terrorism to burn out.",
        "恐怖主义浪潮往往需要一代人才能逐渐褪却。"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorist motivations differ from cell to cell, even from person to person.",
        "不同群体、甚至是不同个体的恐怖分子，其动机往往各不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-realism remains popular and appears in various guises in textbooks and popular accounts of quantum theory.",
        "当今量子理论中的反现实主义依然流行，并以各种面目跻身于教科书和流行解释之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Compare, for example, the discipline that international banks and the IMF were able to impose on Indonesia and South Korea in 1998, with the relative freedom of the US – bestowed by denomination of American debt in dollars – to increase government spending in response to the 2008 financial crisis.",
        "例如，比较一下1998年的印尼、韩国和2008年金融危机中的美国。 想一想国际银行和国际货币基金组织能够对前面两国进行的惩罚，和美国增加政府开支来应对危机的相对自由，这个自由是美国债务的美元面值所赐予的。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, economics teaching and research is deeply embedded in an institutional structure that, as with any ideological movement, rewards orthodoxy and penalizes heresy.",
        "首先，经济学教学与研究被建立在奖励正统、惩罚异类的制度结构基础上——这与许多意识形态运动十分相似。"
    ],
    [
        "The German bureaucratic engine has been firing on all cylinders to process asylum claims and facilitate integration.",
        "德国政府机构正在开足马力处理庇护申请并推动族群融合。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas psephological studies in the United States have demonstrated that the poor do not vote in significant numbers (presidential-election turnout in Harlem averaged 23% before Barack Obama’s two candidacies), the opposite is true in India.",
        "美国选举研究表明，穷人不会大量投票（在奥巴马第一次当选前，黑人社区的总统选举投票率平均只有23%），但在印度，情况正好相反。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of any obvious negative consequences, however, complacency had set in, and the US continued to spend more than it saved.",
        "但由于没有显而易见的负面后果，自满情绪占据了主导地位，而美国继续花的比存的多。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the Sun Still Rise?",
        "日本能否再次崛起？"
    ],
    [
        "There are some absolutely first-rate individuals who could step into the job, people who have shown their command of economic development, their intellect and personal integrity, and their political and managerial skills.",
        "有一些绝对一流的人才可以胜任世行行长这一工作。 他们已经展示了他们的智力、人品、政治及管理技能以及对经济发展的控制能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But, before the commemorations, the government had prohibited many cars from driving (based on their license-plate numbers), stopped selected factories from operating, and forced some firms to move out of the city temporarily.",
        "但在纪念活动前，政府已禁止许多机动车上路行驶（按照车牌号码）、阻止特定的工厂开工并迫使某些企业临时搬出市区。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, governments and civil-society groups should promote healthier diets that rely more on plant-based proteins and calories.",
        "与此同时，各国政府及民间团体应推动更多依赖植物蛋白和卡路里的健康饮食。"
    ],
    [
        "But as a gesture for peace and a better future, it certainly would allow Japan to claim the moral high ground.",
        "但作为对和平及美好未来的姿态，它无疑将使日本占据道德制高点。"
    ],
    [
        "But lately an even more troubling sentiment seems to have emerged, with Western leaders willing to settle not for “our son of a bitch,” but for just about any son of a bitch who can impose stability, whatever the cost.",
        "但近来出现了一种更令人不安的情绪，即西方领导人不仅满足于“我们的恶棍”，而且满足于任何能稳定局势的恶棍，而不管会因此付出多大的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "In American corporate criminal actions, the targeted US firm often brings in a prominent figure – a former prosecutor or a former judge – to investigate the behavior and people involved and report to the target’s board of directors.",
        "在美国企业犯罪调查中，被锁定的美国企业往往会邀请一位著名的人物——前检查官或前法官——去调查行为本身以及涉事人员，并报告给目标企业的董事会。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks must now produce “living wills” showing how they can be wound down without the authorities’ support.",
        "现在，银行必须订好“生前遗嘱”，说明在没有当局支持的情况下如何进行清算和关门。"
    ],
    [
        "The matter was complicated, and his concern wasn’t confidentiality.",
        "事情很复杂，而他担忧的并非是保密问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But now that I use the MyZeo sleep monitor (I sleep fine!), I have noticed a marginal change in my own behavior when I am out at night.",
        "），而且也留意到了自己在夜晚外出活动时所发生的微小变化。"
    ],
    [
        "More than a half-century ago, in the early years of the Cold War, many in Washington saw India as a potential model of non-Communist political and economic development.",
        "五十多年前，在冷战初期，华盛顿有许多人将印度视为非共产主义政治和经济发展的前在榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "The most remarkable feature of the policy deliberations on prudential banking rules so far has been their delegation to the Basel Committee of Banking Supervisors and the banks themselves, both of which have a vested interest in preserving the existing system.",
        "目前，审慎银行规则的政策考虑的最显著特征是委托巴塞尔银行监督委员会和银行本身来制定规则，这两者都是现行系统的既得利益者。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the only growth sector seems to be books about Italy’s decline.",
        "实际上，唯一增长的部分好像只剩下有关意大利经济衰退的书籍了。"
    ],
    [
        "This should be enough to impel Israeli leaders at least to consider the option, and behave less deceitfully than they have in direct negotiations with the Palestinians.",
        "这应该足以促使以色列领导人至少考虑这一选项，也不会像与巴勒斯坦的直接谈判那样极尽诡谲之能事。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the IMF projects that India’s economy will rebound later in 2013, but the basis for this optimism is unclear, given that all indicators so far suggest another dismal year.",
        "7%。 诚然，IMF预测印度经济会在2013年下半年反弹，但乐观的基础并不一目了然，因为到目前为止所有指标都表明今年将是又一个令人失望之年。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because the official statistics capture mostly sales by larger retailers and exclude the fall in sales by hundreds of thousands of smaller stores and businesses that have failed, consumption looks better than it really is.",
        "但官方统计通常只考虑大零售商的销售额而排除数十万小商店和小买卖那不断下滑的销售额，所以销售的实际情况远不如表面显示的好。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the euro are about to celebrate their tenth anniversary.",
        "剑桥－欧洲经济与货币联盟(EMU)和欧元快要进行十周年庆了。"
    ],
    [
        "If a refugee’s application for asylum is refused, he or she is returned to the country of origin.",
        "如果难民的庇护申请被拒绝，他将被送回来源国。"
    ],
    [
        "Succumbing to the temptation of massive monetary and fiscal stimulus, such as that pursued in the wake of the global economic crisis, would not only fail to boost growth in a sustainable way; it would actually undermine growth and stability in the medium to long term.",
        "接受大规模货币和财政刺激的诱惑——如全球经济危机爆发时那样——不但不能刺激可持续增长； 实际上还会破坏中长期增长和稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "It follows the Palestinian National Council’s declaration in 1988 of a Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel.",
        "它所遵循的是1988年巴勒斯坦国民议会宣言——在以色列国边上建立巴勒斯坦国。"
    ],
    [
        "Both its jihadist and political identity have, indeed, only gained momentum ever since.",
        "事实上，它的军事力量和政治地位自那以后更加壮大了。"
    ],
    [
        "If we fail to address them adequately, the outcome is unlikely to be a safer and more prosperous society, but rather one in which frustration and hopelessness increase, potentially leading to extreme behaviors.",
        "如果我们不能充分克服这些挑战，结果绝不可能是更安全、更繁荣的社会，而是沮丧和失望日益增加、可能导致极端行为的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "What is not so easy is to duplicate Bitcoin’s established lead in credibility and the large ecosystem of applications that have built up around it.",
        "不容易之处是复制比特币所建立的领先的信誉以及围绕它所建立起来的庞大的应用生态系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberal democracy rests on three distinct sets of rights: property rights, political rights, and civil rights.",
        "自由民主建立的基础包括财产权、政治权和公民权等三种不同的权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Semi-literate email and chat-room exchanges among venal traders revealed brazen conspiracies to rig the afternoon exchange-rate “fix” for profit and personal gain.",
        "贪婪的交易员之间半真半假的电子邮件和聊天室记录表明，他们无耻地操纵午后汇率的“固定”（fix），以获得利润和个人好处。"
    ],
    [
        "However psychologically bent some people are, one can bet that they will pick up the money as soon as they spot it.",
        "但是有些人的行为会在心理的影响下有所扭曲，我敢打赌一旦他们看见地上的钱就会立刻捡起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it may be European arms in the hands of the Chinese that will be aimed at American troops protecting a democracy with 23 million inhabitants (in other words, as many people as in all the Nordic countries combined).",
        "现在欧洲的武器可能落在中国人手里，并瞄准着保卫一个2300万人口的民主国家（换句话说，这相当于北欧国家的人口之和）的美国军队。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that ISIS is losing ground, the US and Russia have begun to deepen discussions on greater military coordination.",
        "如今ISIS节节败退，美国和俄罗斯已经开始深入讨论更大范围的军事合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The weaker dollar reduces the US standard of living.",
        "美元贬值会降低美国的生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But the “war on terror” did not warrant the decision to attack a sovereign state and topple its government on the flawed presumption that it housed weapons of mass destruction and was linked to the 2001 attacks.",
        "但是“反恐战争”并不能够开脱美国攻击一个主权国家并且推翻其政府的决定。 美国的推测是错误的，也就是伊拉克藏有大规模杀伤性武器并且与2001年的恐怖攻击事件有牵连。"
    ],
    [
        "Can anything restore the old transatlantic harmony?",
        "有没有什么可以恢复跨大西洋区域原有的和谐关系？"
    ],
    [
        "Gold argued that returning to pre-1967 armistice lines would leave Israel without “defensible borders.”",
        "戈德认为，退回1967年前的停战线将让以色列“无险可守”。"
    ],
    [
        "Then and now, the US has claimed to speak in the interest of the Syrian people.",
        "从那时到现在，美国一直声称代表叙利亚人民的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s support of the Syrian government’s assault on Aleppo has stymied the peace process, which depends on the cooperation of global players, regional powers, and the moderate opposition forces that Putin is bombing.",
        "俄罗斯支持叙利亚政府袭击阿勒颇导致和平进程停顿。 叙利亚和平需要依靠全球行动方、地区力量以及正在遭受普京轰炸的温和反对派的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Privatizing Pemex and the national electric company will also allow trained, professional managers to replace state bureaucrats and bring an end to trade unions’ current major role in the management process.",
        "墨石油和国有电力公司私有化还能让受过训练的职业经理人取代国家官僚，结束当前工会在管理过程中扮演主角的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "While neither side is likely to change its current position significantly, a new subject will probably arise at the meeting: China’s growing military power, and its influence on the Asian and Pacific region.",
        "虽然中美双方均不愿意大幅改变当前立场，但此次胡奥峰会仍可能涉及一个新话题：中国军力的提升及其对亚太地区的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The US dollar is a safe haven, but savers in need of liquidity still lack an impartial lender of last resort.",
        "美元是全球储蓄的安全港，但在遇到危机时需要流动性的储蓄者仍缺少不偏不倚的最后贷款人。"
    ],
    [
        "The upward pressure on the US dollar from the embrace of quantitative easing by the ECB and the BOJ has been sharp.",
        "欧洲央行和日本银行采取量化宽松让美元承受了巨大的升值压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Mubarak’s strategic vision is desperately narrow.",
        "事实上，穆巴拉克的战略眼光是极其狭隘的。"
    ],
    [
        "Democratic participation is the best way to integrate people into society and make them feel that their opinions count, regardless of whether they have formal citizenship and thus the right to vote.",
        "无论有没有正式国籍和投票权，民主参与都是让人融入社会、感觉有话语权的最佳方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the sham elections in early December, massive protests erupted in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.",
        "12月的选举弊案之后，莫斯科和圣彼得堡爆发了大规模游行。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, despite widespread uncertainty – volatile capital flows, plummeting commodity prices, escalating geopolitical tensions, the shock of a potential British exit from the European Union, and a massive refugee crisis – the stalling of global cooperation may be less risky today than it was even a decade ago.",
        "事实上，尽管存在普遍的不确定性——高波动的资本流、大宗商品价格下跌、地缘政治紧张局势升级、英国退出欧盟的潜在冲击以及大规模难民危机——但全球合作的停滞在今天的危险不如（哪怕）十年前。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed had, in effect, become beholden to the monster it had created.",
        "事实上，美联储被它自己所创造出来的怪兽缠住了。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, financial markets fret about the country’s budget deficit and talk of a serious crisis.",
        "与此同时，金融市场对该国的预算赤字和严重危机的传闻也颇为不满。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fog of Finance",
        "金融之雾"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, for the many powerful interests, climate change remains a game, with the goal being to delay action for as long as possible.",
        "但是，对许多强大的既得利益而言，气候变化仍然是一场博弈，目标是尽可能推迟行动。"
    ],
    [
        "American military forces do not aspire to “contain” China in Cold War fashion, but they can help to shape the environment in which future Chinese leaders make their choices.",
        "美军可以影响未来中国领导人的决策环境，却不想像“压制”苏联般对待中国。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when answering a parliamentary question that I put to the European Commission recently, the commissioner responsible for development policy, Andris Piebalgs, indicated that the Commission would consider any request from the UK for co-financing the Chagossians’ repatriation, which the EU fully and rightly accepts as a sovereign UK matter.",
        "但在回应我在欧洲议会上所提出的一个议会议题时，发展政策委员会负责人安德列斯·皮耶巴尔格斯声明欧洲议会将考虑资助英国政府提出的任何回归计划，而欧盟也完全并正确地将该事务列为英国内政。"
    ],
    [
        "An important source of aggregate demand has evaporated.",
        "总需求的一大重要源头已经蒸发殆尽。"
    ],
    [
        "He liked to throw his weight around in public.",
        "他喜欢公开叫板。"
    ],
    [
        "The clear and present danger is that the country is growing so accustomed to Trump’s outrages that they now appear “normal.”",
        "而当前最为明显的危险是，这个国家越来越习惯于特朗普的出格行为并将其视之为“正常”。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though only quite old people have personally experienced even the second of these episodes of monetary destruction, their political resonance is still acute. Germany’s mass circulation Bild Zeitung warned in a headline in March 2009 of inflation at a time when all price signals pointed in the opposite direction.",
        "虽然就连第二次恶性通胀都已过去好长时间了，只有一些老人还有亲身经历，但这两次恶性通胀的政治回声至今刺耳依然。 2009年3月，德国的大众报纸《图片报》（Bild Zeitung）的一条新闻还在发布通胀警告，即使当时所有价格指标都指向通缩风险的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "False analogies with the past trivialize history.",
        "错误的推断会模糊过去的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "But, over time, online-payment platforms gained Chinese consumers’ trust, paving the way for explosive growth in e-tailing.",
        "但是，随着时间的推移，在线支付平台获得了中国消费者的信任，为电子零售的爆发式增长铺平了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "But the outside world should demonstrate that every clear move toward greater political openness will merit more international political and economic engagement.",
        "不过，外部世界应该表明态度：任何朝增进政治开放方向的进步都会得到国际政治和经济回报。"
    ],
    [
        "The main reason the forecasts were so wrong is that those making them chronically underestimated the impact of government spending on the economy – especially when interest rates are near zero.",
        "预测错得如此离谱，主要原因是一直在做预测的人低估了政府支出对经济的影响——特别是在利率接近于零的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The current charade of international control over Assad’s chemical arsenal would be amusing if it were not so blatantly perfidious.",
        "目前，国际社会装模作样控制了巴沙尔的化学武库，看起来就像是个笑话，根本不可信。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – The history of finance is partly the history of a struggle for a stable, secure way to measure value.",
        "普林斯顿－金融历史中的一部分，是努力寻找测量价值安全而稳定的方法的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "The country’s mushrooming instability has triggered a bitter debate in the United States about the long-term viability of Musharraf’s military-backed government and whether US financial support for Pakistan should continue.",
        "巴基斯坦局势动荡，山雨欲来，已经在美国引发了一场有关穆沙拉夫受军对支持的政府是否能够长久生存以及美国给巴基斯坦的财政援助是否应该继续的激励的辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "In January, Gazprom's CEO, Alexey Miller, imperiously brushed off European concerns, stating, “We have informed our European partners, and now it is up to them to put in place the necessary infrastructure starting from the Turkish-Greek border.\"",
        "俄天然气CEO米勒（Alexey Miller）完全不把欧洲的担忧放在眼里，他在1月份声称，“我们已经通知了我们的欧洲合作伙伴，现在，建造以土耳其-希腊边境为起点的必要基础设施就是他们的事了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, “traitor” was one of their common epithets, as were “coward” and “sellout.”",
        "其实，这些人的共同绰号除了“叛徒”之外，还有“懦夫”和“出卖者”。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – How long can today’s record-low, major-currency interest rates persist?",
        "美国剑桥—当前创纪录低水平的主要货币利率可以维持多久？"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the selection of Palin seems to have paid off.",
        "到目前为止，对佩林的选择似乎已见成效。"
    ],
    [
        "Peace will come when the tribal people, in their hundreds and thousands, no longer see a reason to fight.",
        "只有当成千上万的部落民众不再有理由参战时，才能实现真正的和平。"
    ],
    [
        "If a government is incapable of or uninterested in making the needed adjustments, the report argued, the best option is to drip money out as reforms are implemented, as is now being done in Greece.",
        "报告认为，如果政府无力执行需要的调整或对调整不感兴趣，那么最佳办法是不实施改革就不给钱，就像现在对希腊做得那样。"
    ],
    [
        "As Foege has pointed out, the eradication of smallpox proves that “global efforts are possible.”",
        "福格指出，根除天花证明“全球努力是可能的”。"
    ],
    [
        "Paying attention to some of what the clowns are saying might be a good first step.",
        "倾听小丑的心声也许是不错的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, it is a historic ally for which many Chinese fought and died, their memory enshrined not only on monuments throughout China (though precious few in North Korea), but also in families.",
        "首先，朝鲜是中国人为之战斗和牺牲的历史盟友，烈士们光辉业绩在遍布各地的纪念碑和烈士家属当中传诵（但同样的纪念碑在朝鲜却十分罕见）。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, financial innovation, like lending to buyers who would not normally have qualified for mortgage loans (sub-prime borrowers) also played a role.",
        "的确，像给一般情况下没有资格获得房屋按揭贷款(也就是所谓的次级房屋贷款)的购房人提供贷款这样的金融创新也发挥了一定的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "To them, one can only assume, the debates are nothing more than a personality contest.",
        "你只能假设，对他们来说，辩论无非是个人魅力比拼。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan tried – and failed: banks were too willing to hold the reserves that the central bank released as it bought back bonds.",
        "日本试过，但以失败告终——银行死抱着央行通过回购债券释放出来的准备金不放。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to achieve the SDGs – which comprise 17 goals and 169 specific targets – would amount to an indictment of the UN’s raison d'être.",
        "未能实现由17个大项和169个具体目标构成的可持续发展目标计划将会对联合国的存在意义构成挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the political evolution of Ukraine, not to mention Belarus, Poland can no longer dream of an Eastern future.",
        "但由于乌克兰政治的当前发展状况，更别提白俄罗斯，波兰对东边已经不再抱有幻想。"
    ],
    [
        "Although there are no precedents that might guide us to a vaccine or cure, we have learned a lot about how HIV works – and its weaknesses – in the last five years.",
        "虽然艾滋病疫苗或治疗方法的研究没有先例可以借鉴，但过去五年来我们已经在很大程度上掌握了艾滋病毒的弱点及其工作机制。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the proposal of the relatively unknown Jonathan Hill, the leader of the UK House of Lords, as the British member of the new European Commission headed by Jean-Claude Juncker was just the latest in a long series of British EU errors.",
        "比如，准备让知名度相对较小的上议院领袖乔纳森·希尔（Jonathan Hill）代表英国出任让-克劳德·容克领导的新欧盟议会委员就是英国众多欧盟政策错误的最新例子。"
    ],
    [
        "But sporadic shooting and verbal antagonism between the two sides will continue, as Thailand’s powers-that-be close ranks in a right-wing turn towards the symbols and institutions of royalism, entangling Hun Sen, who should have stayed on the sidelines, in the endgame unfolding in Bangkok.",
        "但双边之间的零星对射和口水仗将依旧持续，因为在曼谷这场争端的最后阶段中，泰国原本立场偏右的当权者已经转而倾向保皇主义，还要加上一个本应置身事外的洪森。"
    ],
    [
        "But throwing money at the problem is no panacea.",
        "但砸钱绝非是解决问题的灵丹妙药。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, after a lengthy and difficult period of reflection and bargaining, those efforts may be in jeopardy again.",
        "现在，经历了漫长而又困难的反省和讨价还价阶段，这些努力可能再一次陷于困境。"
    ],
    [
        "These countries have a responsibility to make the legal ban on nuclear testing a reality.",
        "这些国家有责任把这个法定禁令变成现实。"
    ],
    [
        "For any of this to work, however, the “big American stick” must be present.",
        "但要想真正达到效果，“美国大棒”必须是不可或缺的。"
    ],
    [
        "The extended crisis of the European Monetary System (EMS) between September 1992 and July 1993 looked as if it would derail European integration.",
        "1992年9月至1993年7月间，欧洲货币系统（EMS）的持续危机，看似会让欧洲一体化列车出轨。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent study by the University of Lisbon’s Center for Oceanography reports that acidification from CO2 emissions could cause the global shark population to decline by as much as 40% by 2100.",
        "里斯本中心大学最近一项海洋学研究表明二氧化碳排放所导致的酸化可能导致到2100年全球鲨鱼数量骤降40%。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, societies everywhere should be driven by a common goal that transcends their diverse backgrounds.",
        "更广泛地说，各地的社会应该由超越多样化背景的共同目标所推动。"
    ],
    [
        "China has lately been facing a new wave of capital flight, driven partly by concerns among entrepreneurs that President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign – so far focused on corrupt government officials – could one day be re-directed at them and their assets.",
        "最近，中国面临着新一波资本外逃，部分原因在于企业家担心国家主席习近平的反腐运动有一天会盯上他们和他们的资产——目前，反腐运动主要针对腐败的政府官员。"
    ],
    [
        "The feminist critique, for example, has totally remade elementary-level education, where female decision-makers prevail: the construction of male hierarchies in the schoolyard is often redirected nowadays for fear of “bullying,” with boys and girls alike expected to “share” and “process” their emotions.",
        "举例来讲，女权主义批评已经彻底重塑了基础教育，其中的统治地位由女性决策者占据：校园里男性等级制度的建立如今经常被重新引导，因为人们对“欺侮”一词充满了恐惧，无论男孩女孩都被希望“分享”和“处理”他们的情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also means addressing the deeper social inequities that extend beyond the public-health agenda.",
        "但这也意味着解决超过公共卫生日程的更深层次的社会不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent events suggest one possible explanation: Burma’s rulers have grown wary of China’s almost smothering embrace – a result of the country’s international isolation.",
        "最近的事件显示了一种可能的解释：缅甸的当权者开始担心令人窒息的把持——而这又是该国国际孤立的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "That is because our new reality is one of droughts, heat waves, extreme storms, rising sea levels, and unstable climate patterns.",
        "这是因为我们的新现实是一个干旱、热浪、极端风暴、海平面升高和不稳定气候模式的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – The mantra in Brussels and throughout Europe nowadays is that investment holds the key to economic recovery.",
        "布鲁塞尔—如今，在布鲁塞尔和整个欧洲广为流传的说法是经济复苏的关键在投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The problems bedeviling the industry include pollution from emissions, increasing competition (particularly from communications technology, which has made business travel less necessary), air traffic control delays and inefficiencies, expanding noise restrictions, safety and security concerns, and an overall business environment highly dependent on fuel prices.",
        "amp#160;amp#160;amp#160; 民用航空产业面临的问题包括来自排放的污染、日益增加的竞争(特别是来自通讯技术，这一技术已经让商务旅行变得没有那么必要)、空中交通管治延误和没有效率、不断增长的噪音限制、安全担忧以及高度依赖于燃油价格的整体商业环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Sharon now needs to institutionalize his reforms, even if he now needs to establish another party to do so.",
        "沙龙即使现在需要建立新党，也要将他的改革体制化。"
    ],
    [
        "The MDGs focused on ending extreme poverty, hunger, and preventable disease, and were the most important global development goals in the United Nations’ history.",
        "MDG关注结束极端贫困、饥饿和可预防疾病，也是联合国历史上最重要的全球发展目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the EU, this is less of an issue, given that small states – in theory – still benefit from free trade within the Union; but, outside of the EU, the situation of the remaining state can be dire.",
        "鉴于小国从理论上讲仍然从欧盟内部的自由贸易中有利可图，这个问题在欧盟并不突出； 但在欧盟之外，其余国家的状况就远没有那么乐观了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, according to Sinai, higher oil prices are \"the biggest risk...since the bursting of the stock-market bubble in 2000-2001.\"",
        "\"实际西奈认为，高油价是\"2000－2001年股市泡沫破裂后…最大的危险。 \""
    ],
    [
        "Cyprus is the latest battleground between the two camps.",
        "塞浦路斯是这两大阵营的新战场。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Europe developed the euro, which solved the problem of speculative attacks and monetary credibility by replacing individual currencies with a new one.",
        "于是欧洲就创设了欧元这个新单一货币，以此取代各国货币并解决投机冲击和货币信用的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the region’s poverty rate has decreased by 10 percentage points in the last decade, 180 million people remain below the line, more than 70 million are still indigent, and a large percentage remains just above the poverty line.",
        "尽管拉美地区的贫困率在过去10年下降了10个百分点，但仍有1. 8亿人处在贫困线以下，7000多万人处在贫困状态，还有占很大百分比的民众刚刚越过贫困线。"
    ],
    [
        "Official statistics for 2009 are likely to show that migrants’ remittances fell sharply, as the global recession severely eroded job opportunities abroad.",
        "2009 年的官方数据很可能显示移民汇款总额出现大幅度下降，下降的原因是全球经济衰退严重侵蚀了国外的就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The pro-Milosevic candidate, Tomislav Nikolic, lost, but he received 46% of the vote.",
        "拥护米洛舍维奇的候选人托米斯拉夫·尼科利奇没能赢得选举，但却获得了高达46%的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Entrepreneurs create new things that in turn create consumer demand for those things.",
        "创业者创造全新的事物，而这些新事物反过来又能创造消费者对它们的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Another, Sajeel Abu Ibrahim, is a jihadist militant who likely trained others at a camp in Pakistan.",
        "他还接触过萨基尔·阿布·易卜拉欣，后者很可能是曾在巴基斯坦训练营训练恐怖分子的激进圣战者。"
    ],
    [
        "So, in accordance with the Six-Party Talks (North and South Korea, the United States, Russia, China, and Japan) my government wants to create a Korean Economic Community in collaboration with the North.",
        "因此，按照六方会谈（南北朝鲜、美国、俄国、中国和日本）的精神，我的政府希望和北朝鲜合作建立朝鲜经济共同体。"
    ],
    [
        "Here are judges, they will say, who do not understand that they have no legitimate qualifications to act as agents of American foreign policy, a job committed by the Constitution to the President and (they may grudgingly admit) Congress.",
        "他们会说，有的法官不明白他们没有资格做美国外交政策的代理人，这一职能是宪法赋予总统和（他们可能会勉强承认）国会的。"
    ],
    [
        "Vast tracts of prime real estate in cities, sold to officers for a pittance, have turned into mega housing developments.",
        "城市中大量的黄金地块以低廉的价格出售给了军官，进而被开发成大型的房地产项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Britain Choose Irrelevance?",
        "英国会选择边缘化吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But in a financial crisis, weakened banks cannot lend, meaning that the government must serve as the lender of last resort.",
        "但在金融危机中，虚弱的银行无法贷款，这意味着政府必须承担最后贷款人的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why private crop insurers are in short supply, and why crop insurance often requires expensive government subsidies.",
        "这解释了为什么私有作物险非常罕见，而作物保险通常需要大量政府补贴的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, none has found a reduction in advanced breast cancer in the screened groups – a requirement to deem screening effective.",
        "更重要的是，筛查组中晚期乳腺癌病例也并未出现下降——而这是认定筛查有效的必要前提。"
    ],
    [
        "“Junk science” advocates allege that many scientific studies (and even scientific methods) used in the regulatory and legal arenas are fundamentally flawed, contradictory, or incomplete.",
        "“垃圾科学”的倡导者们声称许多用于监管和法律领域的科学研究（甚至研究方法）都是根本上有缺陷的、矛盾的或不完整的。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past 50 years, as countries such as China and India posted double-digit economic growth, the global Gini coefficient dropped from 0.65 to 0.55.",
        "在过去50年终，中国和印度等国家实现了两位数经济增长，从而让全球基尼系数从0. 65下降到 0."
    ],
    [
        "CANBERRA – Having a reputation for integrity and decency matters as much in international relations as in professional and personal life.",
        "堪培拉—拥有诚信和正派的形象对于国际关系和对于职业和个人生涯一样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "In this effort, new forms of collaboration and governance, accompanied by a positive shared narrative, will be essential.",
        "在此过程中，新型合作和治理，以及积极的共同叙事（shared narrative）是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "But as a Union of more than a half-billion citizens, Europe’s potential is unparalleled.",
        "但作为一个拥有五亿多人民的联盟，欧洲的潜力是无与伦比的。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, we must adapt Japan’s labor regulations to the norms of modern life almost everywhere, which means allowing every individual to strike a beneficial balance between life and work.",
        "其次，我们必须让日本的劳动力监管规则适应几乎全球皆然的现代生活范式——这意味着让所有个体都获得生活和工作的有益平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The circumstances today may be entirely different from those in the 1920s, but there is still guilt by association, as every German schoolboy and girl learns at an early age.",
        "今天的环境也许与20世纪20年代完全不同，但负罪感依旧，因为每个德国孩子很早就会学习这段历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Its government is insolvent.",
        "希腊政府已经资不抵债。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given the country’s complex society and external ties, the West should happily settle for a stable government not dominated by Russia or Iran, and not in military conflict with its neighbors, including Israel.",
        "但是，由于叙利亚错综复杂的社会和外部关系，只要产生非俄罗斯和伊朗主导的稳定新政府，且该政府不与包括以色列在内的邻国产生军事冲突，西方也乐得接受。"
    ],
    [
        "It is only through investment in visionary ideas, blue-skies thinking, research and development, and innovation that we can ensure that the future will be better – freer, more peaceful, and more prosperous – than the past.",
        "只有投资于有远见的想法、开创性的思维、研究和创新，才能确保未来更自由、更和平、更繁荣，进而超越过去。"
    ],
    [
        "When states collapse, their constituent parts sometimes inherit armed forces that are competent enough to maintain minimal levels of governance.",
        "当国家崩溃时，其组成部分有时会继承足以维持最低程度治理的武装力量。"
    ],
    [
        "A default by either of those large countries would have disastrous implications for the banks and other financial institutions in France and Germany.",
        "如果西班牙和意大利这两个大国发生违约，法德两国的银行以及金融机构都将承受灾难性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Everybody who has studied nuclear decay processes has been struck by the myriad possible ways in which energy can be produced.",
        "几乎所有学习过核裂变反应的人都会感到震惊：原来获取能量的可能方式竟有千千万万。"
    ],
    [
        "It must uphold international law.",
        "欧盟必须拿起国际法武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Quality has also increased and, thanks to efficiency gains, the costs are a fraction of what other countries pay.",
        "品质也得到了加强，而效率的提高使得其成本只是其他国家的几分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, people who first reproduce at a younger age tend to have more children, so selection generally favors those who become parents earlier.",
        "打个比方，年轻时就生育的人往往会有更多的后代，因此自然选择往往有利于早育的父母。"
    ],
    [
        "MGI and others have identified numerous ecologically responsible growth opportunities emanating from the smarter use of limited resources.",
        "麦肯锡全球研究院及其他机构已经寻找到源于明智利用有限资源的诸多对生态负责任的增长机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the EU needs real authority to execute policy.",
        "相反，欧盟需要真正的权威来执行政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Griesa idiosyncratically reinterpreted the pari passu, or equal treatment, clause in the debt contracts to mean that “vulture” funds refusing to participate in the earlier debt exchange should receive not 30 but 100 cents on the dollar.",
        "葛里萨对债务合同中的“平等对待”条款做出了独特的解释，认为这意味着拒绝参与早先的债务转换的“兀鹫”基金不应该获得三折偿付，而应该获得足额偿付。"
    ],
    [
        "Consultations are currently a bilateral matter, with no rules governing how they should be conducted – and no requirement that any final agreement on arms-export decisions be reached.",
        "磋商目前还仅限于两国之间，同时缺乏指导磋商的相关行为准则——也不要求达成任何关于武器出口决策的最后协议。"
    ],
    [
        "The brave Baltic countries – the “legality” of whose independence is reportedly being reviewed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, another unsavory pal of Tsipras – have not yielded to panic or succumbed to the temptation to burden others with their misfortune.",
        "勇敢的巴尔干国家——据说它们的独立的“合法性”正在接受另一位令人讨厌的齐普拉斯的朋友、俄罗斯总统普京的检查——没有向恐惧屈服，也没有向把不幸转嫁给其他国家的诱惑屈服。"
    ],
    [
        "That would be a price worth paying if it contributed to a dynamic that over time reduced both the suffering of the Syrian people and the danger posed by the Islamic State.",
        "这是个值得付出的代价，如果它有助于逐渐减少叙利亚人民的苦难和伊斯兰国带来的危险的动态的话。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, the Copenhagen Consensus Center commissioned research from top climate economists examining feasible ways to respond to global warming.",
        "今年，哥本哈根共识研究中心委托全球顶尖气候经济学家来对那些可以用于应对全球变暖的方法进行检验。"
    ],
    [
        "The people’s movement also took the lid off social pressures often disregarded by Nepal’s elites.",
        "人民运动也揭露了经常被尼泊尔精英漠视的社会压力。"
    ],
    [
        "As French president, he sought to circumvent that tide by proposing to the leaders of France’s African colonies a negotiated settlement for independence.",
        "身为法国总统的他试图回避这股浪潮，向法国非洲殖民地的领袖们提议通过谈判的方式实现他们的独立之梦。"
    ],
    [
        "Retaining one’s job in a tightening economy is undoubtedly a serious concern.",
        "在经济紧缩环境中保住工作无疑是一个严重的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Should such a process occur in China, the CCP could transform itself into a major political party competing with others for power, as formerly autocratic parties have done in Mexico and Taiwan.",
        "如果这样的进程发生在中国，中国共产党可以转型为与他人竞争权力的一个主要政党，这与此前墨西哥和台湾专制政党的作为非常相似。"
    ],
    [
        "The West has long provided the foundation for the global order – probably the most successful such foundation ever created.",
        "西方早已为全球秩序奠定了基础——上述基础也许在有史以来最为成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus declared General Mukhtar al-Mulla, a member of Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).",
        "”埃及最高军事委员会委员穆赫塔尔•阿尔•穆拉将军宣布道。"
    ],
    [
        "The combination of ethnic and sectarian fears and rivalries, historical memories, and willful blindness among outside powers seems almost predestined to destabilize the entire Middle East again.",
        "血统和信仰的担心和对立、历史记忆以及外部大国的视而不见，这些因素组合在一起，几乎早就注定了再次动摇整个中东的宿命。 土耳其有所复苏但仍麻烦缠身；"
    ],
    [
        "A Future-Oriented US Fiscal Policy",
        "未来导向的美国财政政策"
    ],
    [
        "Over the medium term, according to Wolf, countries need to put in place regulatory measures that lower debt levels and discourage overleveraging.",
        "在中期，沃尔夫认为各国需要实施监管措施降低债务水平、阻止过度举债。"
    ],
    [
        "The Treasurer of Australia, Joe Hockey, disparaged the ANU’s decision as being “removed from reality.”",
        "澳大利亚财政部长乔·霍吉（Joe Hockey）批评ANU的决定是“违背现实”。"
    ],
    [
        "The real battle, therefore, is between the Bersani and Berlusconi coalitions.",
        "因此真正的角逐将在贝尔萨尼和贝卢斯科尼联盟之间展开。"
    ],
    [
        "For instance, corporations, especially in the financial sector, reward too many executives richly despite mediocre performance.",
        "比如，企业——特别是金融部门的企业——对高管的奖赏太过慷慨，尽管他们的表现只能说是差强人意。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet their pursuit of a dominant position on the strategic chokepoints in the Indian Ocean undermines these goals by raising tensions not only with India, but with Asia’s other powers and the US.",
        "但他们寻求主宰印度洋沿岸某些战略要点的举动却与发展经济的目标背道而驰，因为此举不但会导致与印度关系紧张，还牵动了亚洲其他势力和美国的神经。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, chicken meat is washed in chlorinated water; in Europe, chickens are stuffed with antibiotics while alive.",
        "美国用氯化水来洗涤鸡肉； 而欧洲则在肉鸡屠宰之前饲喂各种抗生素。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) have more than doubled this year, reaching an overall market value of $460 billion.",
        "结果，抵押贷款证券（CLO）在今年翻了一番，总市值达到了4,600亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, such companies offer a powerful response to the question of what their role in society should be.",
        "通过这些手段，这些公司有力的回应了自身应当在社会中扮演何种角色的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "“Negative interest rate” is a phrase seemingly designed to confuse all but the experts.",
        "“负利率”一词似乎专门是为了让专家以外的人混淆的。"
    ],
    [
        "No economic recovery can sustain itself without rising wages and higher consumer spending power.",
        "工资不增长、消费者购买力不提高的经济复苏无法自我维持。"
    ],
    [
        "Time must be taken for explanation, consultation, and negotiation.",
        "必须花时间来解释、磋商以及谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – Let us imagine for a moment that we could change the world according to our wishes.",
        "柏林—让我们想象这样一个时刻：我们可以根据我们的意愿改变世界。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed is already allowing some tightening simply by not playing along, and letting the US dollar appreciate.",
        "美联储不采取行动并允许美元升值已经相当于采取了一些紧缩措施。"
    ],
    [
        "And there are reasons for pessimism.",
        "同时我们也有理由感到悲观。"
    ],
    [
        "There were people-to-people links. There was a forum where Israelis and their long-term Arab foes could sit together and discuss other matters than the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.",
        "有人渴望到2010年产生一个自由贸易区，因为有基于共同的价值观而进行政治一体化的保证，有民族间的联系，有以色列人可以和他们长期以来的阿拉伯敌人坐在一起讨论除约旦河西岸和加沙地带之外的问题的论坛，有发展预算，以及会议——许许多多会议。"
    ],
    [
        "The most notable example is Turkey; once forced to beg to be considered for European Union membership, it now dictates the terms of its relationship with Brussels.",
        "土耳其是其中最为明显的； 该国曾一度祈求获得欧盟成员资格，但现在却成为与布鲁塞尔关系条款的制定者。"
    ],
    [
        "Barack Obama was plenty pleased with himself, with reason, but such was his dignity that no super-aide emerged during his presidency.",
        "比如奥巴马总统就有足够的理由自视甚高，而他的尊严就体现在他担任总统期间没有出现超级助手。"
    ],
    [
        "In this respect, Blair’s premiership marked a fundamental break with the Labor Party’s tax-and-spend tradition.",
        "在这一方面，布莱尔的首相任期标志着与工党征税和开支传统的根本决裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Following Yahoo’s lead, the police arrested him.",
        "循着雅虎提供的线索，警方将师涛缉拿归案。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s leaders, tucked behind the political safety cushion provided by high energy prices, rightly feel that time is working in their favor, that “we” in the West need Russia more than Russia needs us.",
        "藏身于由高能源价格带来的政治安全垫后面的俄罗斯领导人们有理由认为风水轮流转，西方的“我们”更需要俄罗斯，反之则不然。"
    ],
    [
        "First, its member states are not all meeting their obligations, both to one another and according to international law.",
        "首先，很多欧盟成员国并未全部履行其相互义务和国际法义务。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama has already made it clear that the US understands that Modi’s willingness to cooperate with Russia, despite Western sanctions imposed on the country, stems from India’s desire to discourage a Sino-Russian alliance against it.",
        "奥巴马已经明确表示美国理解莫迪与俄罗斯合作的意愿——甘冒西方对俄制裁之大不韪——来自印度对遏制中俄联盟的渴望。"
    ],
    [
        "You pursue your business here as only New Yorkers can, but every once in a while you look up and wonder, “How did I get here?”",
        "你在这里以纽约人独有的方式继续生活，但偶尔也会抬起头问问自己，“我怎么会到了这儿？"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than rethinking macroeconomics, policymakers must consider whether specific goals for social welfare and distribution can be achieved through win-win measures or through policies that make worthwhile tradeoffs.",
        "政策制定者们不应去重新思考宏观经济学，而应该考虑是否可以通过双赢手段或有价值的权衡政策来实现社会福利和分配的具体目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s hope Europe is amongst them, because its security is defined there.",
        "让我们共同期待欧洲也能在其中扮演重要角色，因为中东的局势也直接关系到欧洲的安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Migrants continue to arrive by the thousand at Europe’s fragile borders.",
        "成千上万的移民继续涌向欧洲脆弱不堪的边境。"
    ],
    [
        "Like other young people around them, they want to be the agents of their own destiny.",
        "就向他们周围的其他年轻人一样，他们想要掌握自己的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "More than forty years ago, Turkey applied for associate membership of the European Economic Community.",
        "四十多年前，土耳其申请了欧共体候补成员。"
    ],
    [
        "But Greece is not alone in opposing the EU’s new labeling guidelines: Hungary, too, has come out against them.",
        "但希腊绝非唯一一个反对欧盟新产品标注指引的国家：匈牙利也反对这一指引。"
    ],
    [
        "But domestic borrowing is not a panacea.",
        "但国内借贷并非万灵丹。"
    ],
    [
        "Institutionally, Europe has been on the right track since the last summit, but it threatens to disintegrate from the bottom up.",
        "从制度上来讲，自从上一次峰会以来欧洲已经走到了正确的路线上，但是仍旧存在彻底瓦解的危险。 想要拯救欧元，欧洲需要立即采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the government has been slow to formulate and implement effective financial-market reforms.",
        "同样，政府在制定和实施有效金融市场改革方面也是极为迟缓。"
    ],
    [
        "These skills are especially important for those who will be called upon to rebuild their countries when they return home.",
        "这些技能对于有朝一日回到家乡就需要重建家园的人来说尤其重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 8% of South Korea’s GDP is spent on education, and UNESCO estimates that every dollar invested in primary schools generates $10-$15 in economic returns.",
        "韩国约8%的国内生产总值被用于投资教育，据联合国教科文组织估计每投资1美元到小学教育能产生10到15美元的经济效益。"
    ],
    [
        "That term has already spawned a new abbreviation, “CVE,\" used no fewer than 12 times in a Fact Sheet released by the Obama administration on February 18.",
        "该词的新英文缩写“CVE”应运而生，在奥巴马政府2月18日发表的简报中出现了不下12次。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, that figure, even if accurate, tells you nothing about the charity’s impact.",
        "更加糟糕的是，这一数据即使精确也不能告诉你慈善组织的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, mortgages, mutual insurance, leasing, and microfinance are underdeveloped in Islamic finance; insolvency and bankruptcy procedures must be improved; and mechanisms to deal with “Islamic bond” defaults must be established.",
        "此外，按揭、互助保险、租赁和微观金融在伊斯兰金融中还不发达； 资不抵债和破产程序必须有所改进；"
    ],
    [
        "KIEL – Greece is in urgent need of clear thinking.",
        "基尔—希腊急需清晰思维。"
    ],
    [
        "US exports to Central America have risen by 94% over the past six years; imports from the region have risen by 87%.",
        "美国向中美洲的出口在过去六年中增加了94%； 进口增加了87%。"
    ],
    [
        "Both parties fared poorly in the election in July of a new General National Congress, with only Qaid winning a seat.",
        "两个政党在七月新国民议会的选举中都表现欠佳——仅仅以瓦哈德赢得一席告终。"
    ],
    [
        "And when we buy and sell, we are enriching not ourselves, but the specialists and market makers.",
        "还有当我们在买卖交易的时候，我们一般不能使得自己的财富增值，受益者往往是所谓的专家和市场的操纵者。"
    ],
    [
        "A December 2016 report by the Risky Business Project, led by American CEOs and former municipal and federal leaders, shows that savings in fuel costs from an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050 could exceed the required capital investment by $150 billion.",
        "由美国CEO和前市政和美联储领导人牵头的高风险商业项目（Risky Business Project）的2016年12月的报告指出， 到2050年削减80%的二氧化碳排放所节约的燃料成本将比所需要的资本投资多1,500亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The longer Germany takes to recognize this, the higher the price it will have to pay.",
        "德国醒悟的时间越长，所需要付出的代价就越大。"
    ],
    [
        "This would amount to a calculated bet.",
        "这就构成了一个算计选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Kidney transplantation, for example, has proved to be less costly than dialysis.",
        "打个比方，肾移植的成本就比透析低得多。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – During the late 1990’s, a singular phenomenon appeared in countries around the world.",
        "发自斯坦福——1990年代末期在全球范围内出现了一个特殊的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "This implies that QE would not reach, say, Spanish households, whose mortgages are indexed to short-term rates, which are already close to zero.",
        "这意味着QE不会触及（比如）西班牙家庭，因为他们的按揭与已接近于零的短期利率挂钩。"
    ],
    [
        "The High Cost of Denying Class War",
        "否认阶级斗争的高昂代价"
    ],
    [
        "I was moved: The man who symbolized glasnost and perestroika, who had allowed the peaceful emancipation of most of Eastern and Central Europe, was speaking.",
        "我感慨万千。 这个象征公开（glasnost）和改变（perestroika）、允许东欧和中欧和平演变的人正在讲话。"
    ],
    [
        "Japanese Foreign Policy in the Trump Era",
        "特朗普时代的日本外交政策"
    ],
    [
        "The fate of the rest of the world depends on the responses to the unfolding financial turmoil.",
        "世界其它国家的命运取决于人们对正在扩散的金融混乱做何反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, Turkey’s recent behavior – from Erdoğan’s shocking call for an end to the Sykes-Picot system to its de facto collusion with the Islamic State’s siege of the Kurdish town of Kobani, just over the border in Syria – has discouraged the region’s major Sunni powers from pursuing closer ties.",
        "但是，土耳其最近的行为——从埃尔多安令人震惊地呼吁结束赛克斯·皮科（Sykes-Picot）体系到其与伊斯兰国事实勾结包围位于土叙边境的库尔德人城镇科巴尼（Kobani）——让该地区主要逊尼派力量无法寻求与其的更紧密的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Both started as NGOs (following the Grameen model) and received millions in grant money from development institutions to start lending operations.",
        "这两家银行开办时均为非政府机构（参照格莱珉模式），从开发机构中筹得数百万资金开始放款业务。"
    ],
    [
        "First, although governments are justified in criticizing North Korea for its foolhardy, counterproductive, and self-destructive behavior over many years, including numerous inhuman acts perpetrated against its own people and others, North Korea is not solely to blame for its “missile tantrum.”",
        "首先，虽然各国政府有权批评朝鲜多年来的莽撞、适得其反以及自毁性的行为——包括许多朝鲜侵害其自己的人民和他人的不人道行为，但是，朝鲜不应该是唯一一个为其“导弹怒火”承担责任的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The Lebanese Labyrinth",
        "黎巴嫩迷宫"
    ],
    [
        "This would greatly improve the sustainability of these countries’ debt.",
        "这将大大改善这些国家的债务的可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian military planes have also been flying close to NATO aircraft.",
        "俄罗斯军机也开始飞近北约战机。"
    ],
    [
        "The metaphor comes from the famous mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, who, along with John von Neumann and other theoreticians, uncovered the link between the mathematics of whole numbers and logic.",
        "这一比喻说法来自著名数学家兼计算机科学家阿兰·图灵（Alan Turing），他和John von Neumann以及其他理论家，发现了所有数学数字和逻辑之间的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "As more countries experience gains like these, the prospects for lasting economic growth improve dramatically.",
        "随着更多国家从这类服务中获益，实现持续经济增长的前景大幅改善。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy and Spain are clearly constrained by the absence of private capital in their respective sovereign-debt markets, with rising yields threatening their fiscal stability and reform programs.",
        "意大利和西班牙的约束显然是来自各自主权债务市场中缺少私人资本，收益率的不断上涨威胁着其财政稳定性和改革计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Introducing a global metric to mark our progress on the path to controlling and eliminating them for good is a true demonstration of our solidarity with the poor.",
        "引入一项出于善意的全球性指标衡量我们在控制和根除NTD的进步是我们与穷人团结一致的最好的证明。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Brexit might be the initial tremor that triggers a tsunami of referenda in Europe in the coming years.",
        "事实上，英国退出也许只是未来几年欧洲全民公决狂潮的序曲。"
    ],
    [
        "Such arguments are still heard – but, increasingly, only from those employed by global megabanks, including their lawyers, consultants, and docile economists.",
        "这种观点至今仍不绝于耳，但大多只来自受雇于全球大银行者，包括这些银行的律师、顾问和豢养的经济学家。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is not limited to academia.",
        "问题不仅在于学术界。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither side is in a hurry to break the symmetry of interdependent vulnerability, but both continue to jockey to shape the structure and institutional framework of their market relationship.",
        "中美都不会立即打破靠相互依赖的弱点所形成的对称性，但是双方都会继续努力去塑造两者市场关系的结构和制度框架。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term security depends on a government’s willingness to provide adequate public goods and services.",
        "长期安全取决于政府提供充足公共品和服务的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "And despite a massive response from the German government and members of the public, many asylum-seekers ended up sleeping on the streets and in railway stations.",
        "尽管德国政府和公众对此实施了大规模应对措施，但许多寻求庇护者最终只能在街头和火车站求宿。"
    ],
    [
        "People have finally come to understand that anti-Americanism, born on the extreme right and fed, in Germany, for example, by the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and his acolytes, is a fixture of fascism.",
        "人们终于认识到出身极右翼并在德国受哲学家马丁·海德格尔及其追随者助长的反美主义其实质属于法西斯主义现象。"
    ],
    [
        "And, complicating things further, given US banks’ vast holdings of excess reserves as a result of the Fed’s bond-buying policies (quantitative easing), the federal funds rate is no longer the key policy rate that it once was.",
        "并且，事情进一步复杂化，由于美联储的债券购买政策（量化宽松政策）导致美国银行大量持有超额准备金，联邦基金利率已不再是关键政策利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Great change is coming to the Middle East.",
        "一场大变革正在降临中东。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, Africa is undergoing a profound long-term transformation, characterized by rapid digitization, urbanization, and growth in the working-age population, which will outnumber the labor force of China and India by 2034.",
        "其次，非洲正在经历一次以快速数字化、城市化和劳动年龄人口增长为特色的深刻的长期转型，非洲劳动人口截止2034年将在数量上超过中国和印度。"
    ],
    [
        "But they should not be dismissed.",
        "但我们不能对这些数据置之不理。"
    ],
    [
        "Now any such claims would seem preposterous.",
        "如今看来这一切都近乎荒缪。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, meanwhile, is clearly suffering from an even deeper identity crisis.",
        "与此同时，俄罗斯显然正陷入更深刻的身份危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumers pay significantly less than at traditional outlets.",
        "与传统商店相比，消费者节省大笔开支。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest challenge for all of us, young and old, next year and for the indefinite future, will result from a different sort of change that is unlikely to respond simply to technological determinism.",
        "对于我们所有年轻人和老年人来说，明年和无限远的未来的最大挑战将会来自于不同形式的变化，而这种变化不大可能仅仅应付技术决定论。"
    ],
    [
        "Strong economic-governance rules, however, will not suffice.",
        "但仅有强劲的经济治理规则还远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the fear of having to pay for expensive medical conditions that now drives individuals to accumulate substantial cash reserves.",
        "目前，害怕昂贵医疗情况让个人不得不积累巨额现金储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Political sensitivities in the predominantly Muslim north have forced Jonathan, a Christian southerner, to tread lightly in his efforts to contain Boko Haram.",
        "以穆斯林为多数人口的北方的政治敏感型迫使作为南方基督徒的乔纳森不得不小心翼翼地试图遏制博科圣地。"
    ],
    [
        "The military government will do anything to remain in power, and their violent acts must be exposed to the world.",
        "军政府为了维护权力会干出任何事，他们的暴行必须让全世界都知道。"
    ],
    [
        "The floodwaters will recede in New Orleans and reconstruction will begin.",
        "新奥尔良的洪水终会退去，重建工作即将开始。"
    ],
    [
        "The postwar mixed economy was built for and operated at the level of nation-states, and required keeping the international economy at bay.",
        "战后混合经济是为民族国家建立并且在这一层面上运转的。 这一局面需要阻止国际经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Untested medicine is being used to treat the wrong ailment – and the chronically ill patient continues to be neglected.",
        "未受检验的药方被用于在了错误的小病上，而病人的心腹大患却一直被忽视了。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, in an agreement between House Democrats and former President George W. Bush’s administration in May 2007, almost all of the key principles were already spelled out in considerable detail.",
        "事实上，在2007年5月众议院民主党与前总统小布什之间的一份协议中，几乎所有关键原则事先都进行了相当详细的公开。"
    ],
    [
        "It will probably take decades to rebuild trusting relationships between consumers and mainstream news media.",
        "重建消费者与主流新闻媒体间的信任关系可能需要几十年之久。"
    ],
    [
        "RENNES – Michael Russell and Murray Jarvik, two pioneers of smoking-cessation research in the 1970s, would probably have welcomed the development of the electronic cigarette or “personal nicotine vaporizer” (PNV).",
        "雷恩—20世纪70年代戒烟研究先驱迈克尔·罗素（Michael Russell）和穆雷·哈维克（Murray Jarvik）也许会欢迎电子香烟或“个人尼古丁蒸馏器”（personal nicotine vaporizer，PNV）的开发。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, we will be able to advance a reformist agenda only if we have a convincing narrative that explains why we need Europe and why it serves the interests of current and future generations.",
        "因此，要想能够推进改革日程，我们就必须令人信服地解释我们为什么需要欧洲以及为什么它符合当前和子孙后代的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "French republican values find their expression in the EU.",
        "法国的共和价值（republican values）在欧洲留下了印记。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, the cause of cow protection has now been linked to another persistent and destructive custom in Indian society: violence against Muslims and Dalits (formerly called “untouchables”).",
        "更糟糕的是，神牛保护行动与印度社会的另一个持久和毁灭性的习俗实现挂上了钩：针对穆斯林和达利特人（以前称为“贱民”）的暴力行为。"
    ],
    [
        "That same week, in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the 1930’s, a national poll found that support for President Barack Obama was remarkably high, with respondents consistently saying that he “cares about people like me.”",
        "在同一个星期，在20世纪30年代以来最严重的经济危机还在持续的过程中，美国一个全国性的民意测验显示，美国人对巴拉克·奥巴马的支持率非常高，许多参加民意测验的人一致回答说他“关心像我这样的人”。"
    ],
    [
        "With our final report complete, the Review will now continue to make the international case for action directly to political leaders.",
        "随着最终报告的完成，评论将继续直接敦促国际政治领导人采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Gas from the Turkish Stream will be delivered to the Greek border on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.",
        "来自土耳其溪的天然气将输往希腊边境，并且是唯一选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a development would be familiar in many European countries.",
        "这样一种情况或许在许多欧洲国家都并不陌生。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the face of a GDP contraction larger than that of the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Greece preferred continued membership in the eurozone to a return to the drachma, which would have freed up some additional tools for regaining competitiveness and imposed asubstantial haircut on creditors.",
        "即使面临比20世纪30年代大萧条期间的美国更大的GDP收缩，希腊仍更愿意保留欧元区成员资格，而不是回归德拉克马。 回归德拉克马能够解放更多的工具用于重获竞争力，并对债权人实施大规模“剃头”（haircut）。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that China’s net external lending position amounts to $1.8 trillion, or 17.2% of GDP, the central bank has enough liquidity to reduce banks’ reserve requirements without resorting to unconventional monetary policy.",
        "8万亿美元或GDP的17. 2%，央行有足够的流动性，不必推出非常规货币政策（极低利率），而只需降低银行的准备金率来应对可能的债务危机。"
    ],
    [
        "That small impact is not a sufficient reason to dump the EU’s emissions-reduction policy.",
        "如此微不足道的影响力尚不足以成为放弃欧盟碳减排政策的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "It was his predecessor, the sinister Brazilian João Havelange, who turned FIFA into a corrupt and vastly rich empire by incorporating more and more developing countries, whose votes for the bosses were bought with all manner of lucrative marketing and media deals.",
        "他的前任、阴险的阿维兰热才是。 阿维兰热把越来越多的发展中国家拉入国际足联，用各种丰厚的营销和媒体协议收买选票，将国际足联变成了腐败的财富帝国。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the income of doctors and lawyers used to be about five times higher than that of manual workers, not ten times or more, as they are today.",
        "因此，医生和律师的收入通常要比劳动力高出5倍，而不会像如今那样高出10倍甚至10倍以上。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be, as President Mubarak’s critics argue, that the faltering progress of democratization reflects the attempt to block all potential challengers to Gamal.",
        "也许像穆巴拉克的批评者所说的那样，这种犹犹豫豫的民主化进程是为了阻止任何可能挑战贾迈尔地位的人。"
    ],
    [
        "In Asia, especially, filling the vacuum with alternative financing mechanisms has become a high priority.",
        "尤其是在亚洲，用其他金融机制填补该真空已经成为了优先要考虑的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation in the Middle East and the Sahel is certainly dire, with rapid desertification devastating pastoral economies and the livelihoods of farmers, shepherds, nomads, and those who depend on them.",
        "中东和萨赫勒地区的局势无疑相当可怕，快速荒漠化毁坏了牧区经济和以此来养家糊口的农牧民生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Though many Middle East countries remain highly unstable, none of them is systemically important in financial terms, and no conflict so far has seriously shocked global oil and gas supplies.",
        "尽管很多中东国家仍处于高度动荡，但从金融角度看，它们没有一个具有系统重要性，到目前为止也没有冲突严重冲击了全球石油和天然气供应。"
    ],
    [
        "The traditional battle between labor and capital has been about the latter, with workers and owners fighting over their share of the pie.",
        "传统的劳资之争是关于后者的，是工人和所有者之间争夺馅饼。"
    ],
    [
        "Any government would feel vindicated by that record.",
        "任何政府都可以用这一记录作为政绩的证明。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the Putin era has become utterly sterile, producing no great works of science, literature, or art.",
        "结果，普京年代变得十足得毫无生机，没有产生伟大的科学、文学或者艺术作品。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Facebook’s data-export facility demonstrates, a new model that turns data into an asset and consumers into producers is not a distant prospect.",
        "但是，Facebook的数据输出便利表明，将数据转化为资产、将消费者转化为生产者的新模式并非天方夜谭。"
    ],
    [
        "Reformers insist that the vast majority of people support moderate solutions, or at least that radical Islamist groups would have to become pragmatic in order to compete for power and govern.",
        "改革者们坚持认为，大部分人民支持温和稳健的解决方案，或者，伊斯兰激进团体为了争取权力和统治权至少得变得更为务实。"
    ],
    [
        "As social tensions increase, political turmoil will follow.",
        "随着社会紧张局面日益严重，政治动荡也会随之而来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with Brazil’s creditworthiness deteriorating fast, interest-rate spreads on its sovereign debt are reaching Argentine levels.",
        "事实上，巴西的信誉正在快速恶化，其主权债务的利差正在向阿根廷靠拢。"
    ],
    [
        "One set of fears concerns the labor market – the so-called “Polish plumber” question.",
        "一种恐惧出于对劳力市场的担心——也就是所谓的“波兰水电工”问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In the mid-twentieth century, for example, a boom in phosphate mining transformed the Micronesian island state of Nauru from a land of food shortages and starvation to the world’s leader in obesity and type-2 diabetes.",
        "比如，20世纪中叶，磷矿开采带来的繁荣让密克罗尼西亚岛国瑙鲁从粮食短缺和饥饿之地变成全球肥胖和2型糖尿病最严重的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The prime minister himself is regularly televised with relevant officials wearing the work fatigues common among Japanese engineers.",
        "首相本人经常偕同相关官员一起身着普通日本工程人员的工作服出现在电视上。"
    ],
    [
        "After more than three decades of breakneck economic growth, it has transformed itself from one of the poorest countries on earth to the world's largest economy.",
        "在经历了三十多年的高速增长后，中国已经从世界最贫穷国家之一转变为世界最大经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for health authorities to get on board.",
        "卫生当局应该认真考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, India’s new rural employment guarantee scheme, just two years old, is not only employing millions of the poorest through public financing, but also is bringing tens of millions of them into the formal banking system, building on India’s digital networks.",
        "更有甚者，二年前开始实行的印度的新农村就业保证计划，不仅通过公共贷款让数以千万计的穷人找到了工作，而且还依赖于印度的数字技术网络把他们中无数的人纳入了正规的银行系统。"
    ],
    [
        "And that might lure him to try for more.",
        "而这有可能会让他如法炮制。"
    ],
    [
        "The Party’s upcoming Congress to anoint the country’s new leadership for the next decade adds to its desire to manipulate public emotion.",
        "将产生未来十年新领导人的十八大的临近也增加了引导公众情绪的必要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in October, the IMF is set to release official “rules of the road” for the use of capital-account regulations.",
        "此外，10月份IMF将给出使用资本项目监管的正式“路线图”。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies will be able to reduce their headcount and production costs while improving customer service, which, like Uberization, will affect the wage-setting process.",
        "公司可以在减少人手、降低生产成本的同时改进客户服务，这与优步化一样，也将影响工资决定过程。"
    ],
    [
        "“Rather than bringing about reforms,” Putin declared in a recent address to the UN General Assembly, “aggressive foreign interference has resulted in…violence, poverty, and social disaster.”",
        "普京在面向联合国大会的最近一次讲话中说，“激进的外交干预不仅没能带来改革，反而引发了暴力、贫困和社会灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans now view cooperative action on global climate change more favorably.",
        "美国人现在开始以更赞许的态度来看待全球气候变化方面的合作行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, by the end of 2015, real market incomes for that group had recovered only about two-thirds of the losses borne during the 2007-2009 recession.",
        "但是，到2015年底，该群体真实市场收入只恢复了2007—2009年衰退期间损失的大约三分之二。"
    ],
    [
        "But being on the wrong side of history is never a comfortable position.",
        "但逆历史潮流而动绝非良策。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be excellent if the general public responded to an appeal for funds for mitigating future damage. But the prospects of that happening are slim, because such an appeal would lack the emotional pull of the desire to help immediate victims.",
        "如果大众能对防止未来破坏而募捐的款项有所回应固然很好，但实现这件事的可能性也很小，因为这项提议缺乏那种援助突发事件受害者所具有的情感推动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Who would invest in northern Nigeria under current conditions?",
        "以尼日利亚北部目前的条件而言，谁会前来投资？"
    ],
    [
        "The reason that the Millennium Development Goals are feasible is that powerful existing technologies give us the tools to make rapid advances in the quality of life and economic productivity of the world’s poor.",
        "千年发展目标可以实现的原因在于现有的技术力量赋予了我们迅速提高贫困国家生活质量和经济生产率的强大武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Citizens of the EU can move freely within the Union (Britain wants to stop this, too, though it is unlikely to succeed).",
        "欧盟民众在欧盟内部可以自由迁徙（英国也想阻止这一点，但却不太可能成功）。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the number one risk to the global economy in 2018, however, is anything that leads to a significant rise in real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates.",
        "但2018年全球经济所面临的头号风险或许是那些可能导致实际（去除通胀因素后）利率大幅上涨的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "But the recent shale-energy revolution has dramatically increased the output of oil and gas in the last five years.",
        "但最近的页岩能源革命极大地增加了过去五年的石油和天然气产量。"
    ],
    [
        "No one knows that better than Japan and Kazakhstan, which have suffered from the terrible effects of nuclear detonations.",
        "日本和哈萨克斯坦最明白禁止核试验的重要性，它们经历过核爆炸的可怕影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Battered by the Iraqi “oil for food” scandal, which, at the least, demonstrated mismanagement, and misdeeds by officials ranging from former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers (now High Commissioner for Refugees), who faces allegations of sexual harassment, to rapes committed by UN peacekeeping troops in Congo, the UN has a chance to rehabilitate its reputation by managing the relief effort effectively.",
        "其官员们的违法行为――从荷兰前总理鲁德·兰博斯（Ruud Lubbers）（现任难民署高级专员）因性骚扰受到指控到联合国维和部队在刚果的强奸行为――也破坏了联合国的形象。 而海啸让联合国有机会通过有效地实施救济援助得以恢复自身名誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging markets around the world enjoyed a spectacular recovery.",
        "全球新兴市场出现了强劲复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "This trend is making the testing and development of many crops with commercial and humanitarian potential economically unfeasible.",
        "这一趋势让许多具有商业和人道潜力的作物试验和开发不再具有经济可行性。"
    ],
    [
        "In the fourth quarter of 2007, the UK’s rate was 5.2%.",
        "2%。 卡梅伦政府2010年5月上台时，失业率是7."
    ],
    [
        "Most people believed that rapid growth would quickly be restored once again. But the rebound did not come until the fourth quarter of 2012.",
        "多数人认为快速增长的局面将很快重现，但直到2012年第四季度才出现反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "John Paul II viewed his long tenure, from 1978 to 2005, as a course correction to the moral license and sexual experimentation of that decade.",
        "若望·保禄二世把他在位的1978—2005年视为对那个十年的道德放纵和性自由的航向纠正过程。"
    ],
    [
        "It defines the actions Europe must take and the capacities it must have for its own defense and security.",
        "全球战略明确了欧盟必须采取的行动，以及巩固国防及安全必须具备的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But digital information technologies, if deployed cooperatively and globally, will be our most important new tools, because they will enable us to join together globally in markets, social networks, and cooperative efforts to solve our common problems.",
        "但是数字信息技术，如果在全球范围内以良好的合作精神被运用的话，将成为我们最重要的新型工具，因为这些技术将能使我们在市场、社会网络和合作性努力方面在全球范围内联手解决我们面对的共同难题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Sultan’s health deteriorated, Abdullah bypassed his own creation and appointed Prince Naif, the interior minister, as a second deputy.",
        "但是，随着阿齐兹健康状况的恶化，阿卜杜拉绕过自己建立的效忠委员会，任命内政部长奈伊夫（Naif）王子为第二王储。"
    ],
    [
        "And, since the end of the Balkan wars, the continent’s security problems have disappeared (except at the margins, as in Georgia, or potential threats stemming from its near-abroad, particularly the Arab world).",
        "而自巴尔干战争结束以来，欧洲大陆的安全问题已不复存在（除了边缘地带，如格鲁吉亚； 以及来自近邻，特别是阿拉伯世界的潜在威胁）。"
    ],
    [
        "If oil managements refuse to put themselves out of business in the same way, activist shareholders or corporate raiders could do it for them.",
        "如果石油公司管理层拒绝以同样的方式处理业务，积极股东或公司掠夺者（corporate raider）会替他们做这件事。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, young Africans are largely working in the informal economy, where they enter into ad hoc arrangements that lie beyond the purview of government regulation and taxation.",
        "此外，绝大部分非洲年轻人在非正规部门工作，政府的法律和税收无力监管他们所签署的临时性工作安排。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, China achieved economic decentralization, but preserved centralized political power, transferring economic-management responsibilities largely to provincial officials, which has created its own imbalances.",
        "相反，中国实现了经济分散化，但保留了中央政治集权，经济管理责任大体上被下放到省级，而这导致了中国自身的失衡问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in addition to the financial cost, there would be huge administrative challenges, along with corruption and institutional deficiencies.",
        "但除去财务成本，还会带来腐败、体制缺陷和巨大的管理难题。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that all appeals to religion are just cynical election ploys.",
        "这并不是说所有对于宗教的回归都只是玩世不恭的竞选手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the Islamic financial framework protects deposit balances, and prevents excessive credit growth.",
        "最后，伊斯兰金融框架保护存款余额，也防止过度信用增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In many ways, the Blair government’s support of free-market policies turned out to be a shrewd and productive shift.",
        "在许多方面，布莱尔政府支持自由市场政策是精明而又有成果的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "So I offered my services to the local Soviet authority and helped distribute basic foodstuffs to a small number of outlets in our district of Zehlendorf.",
        "于是我为当地的苏联政权服务，帮忙把一些基本食物分发到我们策伦多夫区一小部分人手中。"
    ],
    [
        "But Trump will not be able to avoid playing a role in the Middle East.",
        "但特朗普无法避免在中东扮演重要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Cooperation and coordination of this kind and at this level were unattainable during earlier financial crises.",
        "而此类性质和层面的合作与协商在以往的经济危机中是难以实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran is already sending many agents into Iraq and supporting clients seeking to turn that country into a clone.",
        "伊朗已经派许多特工潜入伊拉克，并支持其附庸从而企图把该国变成伊朗的克隆。"
    ],
    [
        "It also reeked of the European Union’s peevish realization that its inability to get its act together on contentious issues was likely to place it firmly on the sidelines.",
        "同时还体现出一种令欧盟相当恼火的意识：那就是欧盟各国未能在某些争议性议题上站在同一阵线的状况，将使其在国际事务中牢牢地被边缘化。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, the Clinton-Hashimoto Declaration of April 1996 affirmed that the US-Japan security treaty, rather than being a Cold War relic, would provide the basis for a stable and prosperous East Asia.",
        "另一方面，1996年4月签订的克林顿-桥本宣言确保美日安全条约能成为东亚地区稳定和繁荣的基础，而不仅仅是一项冷战遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "Immigrants, in particular, do not enjoy the equality of opportunity that the word “merit” suggests.",
        "特别是移民，不可能享有“成就”一词赋予的同等机会。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no better source of information.",
        "没有比这更好的信息源了。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the Tamil Tigers, the Malayan Communists were also damned as terrorists, but the casualties they inflicted were small compared to the mass killings caused by both sides in Sri Lanka's war.",
        "与泰米尔猛虎组织一样，马来共产党也被谴责为恐怖分子，但他们引发的伤亡较之斯里兰卡战争双方所施行的大规模屠杀要小得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Some 800,000 refugees are expected to enter Germany this year, whereas British Prime Minister David Cameron is making a fuss about fewer than 30,000 asylum applications and warning darkly about “swarms of people” crossing the North Sea.",
        "预计今年将有约800,000名难民进入到德国境内，而英国首相戴维·卡梅伦却为不到 30,000份庇护申请大惊小怪，不怀好意地警告穿越北海的“大批人群”。"
    ],
    [
        "Fracking would also be a strategic boon, because it would diminish the country’s dependence on Russia for gas.",
        "液压致裂法也将具有战略利益，因为这能够降低波兰对俄罗斯的天然气依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there has also been remarkable progress: over the last 25 years, the world has fed an extra two billion people, and – for all the 57 failures – the developing world as a whole has almost halved its hunger rate.",
        "其间当然也不乏显著的进步：过去25年里，世界多养活了20亿人口——尽管有57个国家未能实现目标——但发展中国家整体饥饿率已经下降了近一半左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Say the prices of US imports from Japan are sticky in Japanese yen and the prices of US exports to Japan are sticky in dollars.",
        "比如说美国从日本进口的价格对日元是有粘性的，美国对日本的出口价格对美元是有粘性的。"
    ],
    [
        "The elder Assad’s images were ubiquitous; among the first landmarks to greet me upon my release was a huge statue of the president.",
        "老阿萨德的形象无所不在，我出狱后迎接我的第一个地标式建筑就是总统的巨大雕像。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet few analysts today would bet on Sarkozy’s re-election.",
        "但现在许多分析家都不看好萨科齐。"
    ],
    [
        "But the government is not obliging: Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has just presented a balanced budget for 2015 – the first since 1969.",
        "但政府不准备就范：财政部长朔伊布勒刚刚公布了2015年将实现平衡预算——这是1969年来的首次。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only did Israel’s leaders reject the world community’s requests, but they had the chutzpah to claim that they had convinced the US to drop this requirement for the resumption of talks.",
        "以色列领导人不但拒绝了国际社会的请求，还放肆地声称自己确信美国将放弃重启和平谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is a real danger that the pendulum is beginning to swing back, leading to a reversal of that liberalization process.",
        "但现在，我们却面临着天平再次倾斜的真实的危险，这可能导致自由化的过程发生回潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Not every Jew keeps kosher, and some are vegetarians.",
        "并非所有犹太人都恪守犹太教规，犹太人中也不乏素食主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "That is hard on Ambassador Anne Patterson, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, who just visited Cairo.",
        "安妮·帕特森大使、约翰·克里国务卿和刚刚访问过开罗的威廉·伯恩斯副国务卿的日子也因此变得非常难过。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the referendum, it agreed to what it – and the voters – had just rejected: a set of very painful and difficult conditions.",
        "公投之后，它同意了此前它——以及希腊选民——拒绝的东西：一系列非常痛苦和困难的条件。"
    ],
    [
        "You are one of a “lucky” minority to have been diagnosed and treated at all, but your odds of beating the disease are still only 50-50.",
        "你属于得到诊断和治疗的“幸运的”少数人，但你战胜病魔的概率仍然只有五成。"
    ],
    [
        "There is still no free lunch in economics.",
        "在经济中，依然没有免费午餐。"
    ],
    [
        "The encounter between the images of today’s Middle East and the discontent of Muslim minorities (sometimes influenced by radical fundamentalist ideologies) should not be allowed to obscure traditional French anti-Semitism, white and bourgeois, which still lingers and is never far beneath the surface.",
        "今天的中东惨象与穆斯林少数群体的不满（有时受极端原教旨主义意识形态影响）的碰撞不应该混淆传统法国反犹主义（资产阶级白人），他们仍然存在，并且隐藏得并不深。"
    ],
    [
        "And they were right: no economy, emerging or otherwise, can hope to be successful if it is plagued by a health threat as serious and uncontrollable as AMR.",
        "他们是对的：不管是新兴还是其他什么经济体，如果持续处于抗菌素耐药性这类严重且无法控制的卫生威胁之下的话，都是不可能实现繁荣的。"
    ],
    [
        "The notorious law on monetization of social benefits, which transforms in-kind benefits into cash, is a typical example.",
        "臭名昭著的社会福利货币化的法律就是一个典型的例子，该法将实物福利变为现金。"
    ],
    [
        "But none of that means that Islam is inherently violent.",
        "但所有这些都不意味着伊斯兰教天生暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "The founders passed the torch on to the generation of Jacques Delors, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Václav Havel, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and others. They broadened and deepened European cooperation.",
        "缔造者们将火炬传到了Jacques Delors, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Václav Havel, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing等一代人手中。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s government decides that it cannot risk further strife and announces a package of measures to boost economic growth and prevent layoffs, including direct financial support for exporters and intervention in the currency markets to weaken the renminbi.",
        "中国政府决定不能进一步冒着加剧冲突的风险，于是宣布实施一系列措施来刺激经济增长，抑制失业率的增加，包括对出口者进行直接的财政补助，并且干预外汇市场来削弱人民币。"
    ],
    [
        "But terrorism also needs to be stripped of its motivation.",
        "但是，还必须破除恐怖主义的动机。"
    ],
    [
        "The Jews were seen as a sinister force that was dominating the elite professions: bankers, professors, lawyers, news media, or entertainment.",
        "犹太人被视为一股邪恶势力，他们主宰了精英职业：银行家、教授、律师、新闻媒体以及娱乐。"
    ],
    [
        "In this case, history is not a metaphor.",
        "在这个例子中，历史不是隐喻。"
    ],
    [
        "The effort is part of a larger national strategy, launched in 2014, to provide 76% of adults with financial access and 56% with active savings accounts by the end of 2016.",
        "这一政策是2014年所发布的更大的国家战略的一部分——到2016年底为76%的成年人和56%的活跃储蓄账户提供金融服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The disease is a protracted balance-sheet recession that has turned a generation of America’s consumers into zombies – the economic walking dead.",
        "病灶在于被推迟的资产负债表衰退将一代美国消费者变成了经济僵尸。"
    ],
    [
        "German banks grant mortgages only to a maximum of 60% of the value of a house, instead of the 100% mortgages that were frequently seen in the US and United Kingdom.",
        "德国的银行提供的抵押贷款的数量，最多为房屋价值的60%，而不是在美国和英国常见的100%的抵押贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, citizenship in the full sense of the word requires basic rights and the ability to enforce them.",
        "简而言之，完整的公民含义要求基本权利以及实施这些权利的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "And the big American banks now want to use the slow pace of change in Europe as a brake on US policy (for example, through the ongoing free-trade negotiations between the European Union and the US).",
        "而美国大银行现在则向利用欧洲节奏缓慢的变化来给美国的政策刹车（比如，通过欧盟与美国之间正在进行中的自由贸易谈判）。"
    ],
    [
        "Dual labor markets are a problem throughout the EU.",
        "双面劳动力市场问题在整个欧盟都存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But whatever the outcome, it is urgent that doubts about the safety of these drugs are resolved.",
        "但是无论会产生何种结果，在人群中树立起对于此类药品安全的意识已是刻不容缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Trump will be able to implement the Keynesian fiscal stimulus that Obama often proposed but was unable to deliver.",
        "因此，特朗普将能够实施奥巴马屡次提出但始终无法实现的凯恩斯主义财政刺激。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the reaction of the election’s losers will be key.",
        "最后，选举失利方的反应将是最关键的。"
    ],
    [
        "The whole Earth has been created a place of worship, pure and clean.",
        "整个地球都被缔造成膜拜之所，纯洁而且干净。"
    ],
    [
        "In pioneering a more pragmatic approach to development finance, China’s institutional model could be the $40 billion Silk Road Fund that President Xi Jinping announced last November.",
        "为了开创一种更务实的方法来发展金融，中国的制度模式可能是习近平主席于去年11月宣布的400亿美元丝路基金。"
    ],
    [
        "The likelihood that luck alone could have produced such large and consistent differences in economic performance is extremely low – a point that can be illustrated even without fancy econometrics.",
        "在经济表现发面存在如此巨大而持久的差距，仅仅是运气造成的可能性极低——不需要深奥的计量经济学就可以说明这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "The impending fall of Israel’s most reliable enemy, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, concerns Israel almost as much as the loss of its ally, Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak.",
        "以色列最坚定的敌人——叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德的即将倒台给以色列造成的忧虑不亚于其盟友埃及前总统穆巴拉克的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite glimmers of hope, the eurozone and Japan are struggling to cross the 1% threshold for annual economic growth.",
        "尽管希望的曙光初现，但欧元区和日本的年度经济增长还在奋力跨越1%的门槛。"
    ],
    [
        "As the bureaucracy retreated from helping businesses navigate India’s plethora of rules, the required permissions and clearances were no longer granted.",
        "由于不再帮助企业的官僚决定着印度繁复的法律，获得许可和批准不再是理所当然之事。"
    ],
    [
        "What is more likely, however, is that the drop in interest rates resulting from the interventions needed to expand the country’s supply of money would have put a brake on the velocity of money, undermining the proposed cure.",
        "但是，更有可能的情况是，因扩大一国货币供给的需要而进行干预、从而导致货币下降会降低货币周转速度，破坏预想的疗效。"
    ],
    [
        "But Germany has no real choice.",
        "但德国没有其他现实选择。"
    ],
    [
        "This will undoubtedly take time and patience, and it will require governments to determine their own destiny and deter regional adventurism by some Arab states.",
        "这无疑需要时间和耐心，需要政府决定自己的命运，并阻止某些阿拉伯国家的区域冒险主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s Republican opponents, who claim that fiscal stimulus cannot work, rely on arguments that are incoherent at best, and usually simply wrong, if not mendacious.",
        "然而，无论原因和效果如何，只要人们决定增加开支，经济体的支出总会增长――和其他人一样，政府决定增加开支也是好事。"
    ],
    [
        "The third path identified by the trilemma is to do away with national sovereignty altogether.",
        "三难选择所指明的第三条道路是彻底舍弃国家主权。"
    ],
    [
        "For developing countries, Célestin Monga and I have recently developed an approach – called the growth identification and facilitation framework – that can help developing-country governments increase the probability of success in supporting new industries.",
        "对于发展中国家来说，塞勒斯丹·蒙卡（Célestin Monga）和我最近发展出一种方法——名字叫发展鉴定与扶持框架（Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework）——来帮助发展中国家提高扶持新产业的成功率。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world of limited resources, policymakers must prioritize their investments, including by differentiating the necessary from the desirable.",
        "在一个资源有限的世界中，决策者必须给投资选择排定优先顺序，包括将必须的选项和可取的选项做出区分。"
    ],
    [
        "These are pressing, unsolved questions.",
        "这些问题都非常紧迫而尚未解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Creditors offer debt relief to get more value back and to extend as little new finance to the insolvent entity as possible.",
        "债权人提供债务纾困以拿回更多的价值，并尽可能降低给破产实体的新融资。"
    ],
    [
        "This led to a price explosion and massive external deficits.",
        "这导致价格暴涨，外部赤字剧增。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the need to pursue financial liberalization to maintain growth is a central reason why middle-income countries are so prone to financial crises.",
        "毫无疑问，追求金融自由化和维持增长是中等收入国家容易受金融危机影响的核心原因。"
    ],
    [
        "But both the “rational expectations” and the “behavioral” models are fundamentally flawed for the purpose of assessing policy interventions.",
        "但是，“理性预期”和“行为学派”两种模式在评估政策干预上都存在根本性的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Saleh wants to use the London conference as a means to leverage Western backing, particularly military aid, to pursue his wars against the Houthis and the southern secessionists.",
        "萨利赫希望利用伦敦会议求得包括军事援助在内的西方支持，从而与胡塞军队和南方分离主义份子继续作战。"
    ],
    [
        "As the late American economist Hyman Minsky explained, the higher the share of debt that falls into the speculative or Ponzi categories, the higher the risk that a confidence shock will trigger a sudden wave of deleveraging that quickly morphs into a full-blown financial crisis.",
        "或者是连以上两点都做不到的庞氏（Ponzi）型。 正如美国经济学家海曼·明斯基（Hyman Minsky）所解释的那样，投机型或庞氏骗局型债务的份额越高，因信心冲击而引发突然去杠杆化浪潮的风险就越高，而该浪潮很快就会演变成全面的金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The 4% Non-Solution",
        "4%不是灵药"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, in most Latin American countries affected by Zika, abortion is illegal, or permitted only in exceptional situations.",
        "更糟糕的是，在大部分受寨卡疫情影响的拉美国家，堕胎是非法行为，或只在特殊情况下才能允许。"
    ],
    [
        "So a country where labor productivity is low will become an attractive location for foreign direct investment, and the resulting increase in the capital-labor ratio will raise productivity.",
        "因此，一个劳动生产力低的国家会吸引外国直接投资，接着资金和劳动力比率的上升会提高生产力。"
    ],
    [
        "As Bjørn Lomborg of the Copenhagen Consensus Center notes, “The European Union will pay $250 billion for its current climate policies each and every year for 87 years.",
        "哥本哈根共识中心（Copenhagen Consensus Center）的比约恩·隆伯格（Bjørn Lomborg）指出：“欧盟将会在87年的时间里每年为其当前气候政策付出2 500亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – Sanders’s opponent for the Democratic nomination – recognizes the need to place a high priority on regulating non-banks, and she has proposed specific measures to do so.",
        "前国务卿希拉里·克林顿——桑德斯的民主党提名竞争对手——认识到必须将监管非银行机构列为重中之重，并提出了具体的措施建议。"
    ],
    [
        "With official growth data usually aligning a little too closely with government targets to be credible, skeptics are turning to other, more tangible measures of economic conditions, pointing out that energy consumption, freight railway traffic, and output of industrial products like coal, steel, and cement has slowed sharply.",
        "由于官方增长数据通常与政府定下的目标过于接近所以显得不太可信，怀疑开始转向可以统计的有形经济指标，指出能源消耗，铁路货运量以及如煤炭，钢铁和水泥等工业产品的产量都已大幅放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Black Rhino, a fund set up by Blackstone, one of the world’s largest multinational private equity firms, focuses on the development and acquisition of energy projects, such as fuel storage, pipelines, and transmission networks.",
        "例如，由黑石公司设立的黑犀牛基金是全世界规模最大的跨国私募股权公司之一，该基金专门从事燃料储存、管道和输送网络等能源项目的开发和采购。"
    ],
    [
        "We believe that the way in which scientific advice is developed and communicated lies at the heart of the question.",
        "而在我们看来，真正的核心问题其实是科学顾问建议的整套制定和传递模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Although she won three consecutive elections, the Conservatives never polled more than 43% of the popular vote, well below the levels achieved by Conservative leaders – Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Macmillan – in the 1950’s.",
        "尽管她连任三届首相，但保守党从未获得过43%以上的民众支持度，远远低于29世纪50年代的保守党领袖丘吉尔、艾登和麦克米伦。"
    ],
    [
        "His most controversial political moves were aimed at his domestic opponents, not the Chinese government on the mainland.",
        "此人最具争议的政治动作都是针对其岛内的对手，而不是海峡对岸大陆的北京当局。"
    ],
    [
        "When we pick a cheaper wine, we can splurge on dessert.",
        "点了便宜一些的葡萄酒，就可以上一些更昂贵的甜点。"
    ],
    [
        "Its remorseless expansion is contributing to climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and human-rights violations – all to satisfy Western societies’ unhealthy appetite for cheap meat.",
        "其不断的扩张导致了气候变化、森林采伐、生物多样性损失和人权侵犯——而这都是为了满足西方对廉价肉食的不健康胃口。"
    ],
    [
        "Communities and individuals should be educated and empowered to master technologies for truly productive purposes, rather than being mastered by them for someone else’s ends.",
        "群体和个人应当有效掌握技术，而不是像某些人所希望的那样反而被技术所掌控。"
    ],
    [
        "And how can companies prevent some of the funds from being misused (say, if the government hires a third-rate team)?",
        "以及相关公司如何防止一部分资金被滥用（比如该国政府聘用了三流的团队）？"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, some regulation – for example, environmental rules, product-safety standards, and anti-trust enforcement – is needed to ensure that competition is fair.",
        "类似地，需要一些监管——比如环境规则、产品安全标准和反垄断规则——确保公平竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "As for Bitcoin, its vertiginous rise – fueled in part by the growing participation of institutional investors – may imply that it is on the path toward broad acceptance.",
        "至于比特币，其令人眩目的上涨——部分得益于机构投资者的逐步进场——可能意味着它会逐渐被广泛接受。"
    ],
    [
        "Seeing the renminbi added to the SDR basket was a matter of national pride.",
        "人民币加入SDR篮子是个事关民族自豪感的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Those developing Parkinson’s suffer slow movement, tremors, stiffness, difficulty walking, and gait instability.",
        "帕金森病患者有行动迟缓、颤抖、僵硬、难以走动、不太不稳等症状。"
    ],
    [
        "In Riga, the EU’s leaders will reaffirm the so-called deep and comprehensive free-trade agreements concluded with Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.",
        "在里加，欧盟领导人将确认与乌克兰、摩尔多瓦和格鲁吉亚所谓的深度全面自由贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "The blast instantly killed a father and his four-year-old daughter, and injured ten others.",
        "爆炸造成一位父亲和他四岁的女儿当场身亡，并有十人受伤。"
    ],
    [
        "Issues of world cultural heritage, for example, deserve conscious, thoughtful deliberation of the facts.",
        "比方说世界文化遗产问题就需要自觉、全面的考虑现实情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, income inequality in many of these countries is worse today than it was when they abandoned privatization and other reforms.",
        "毫不奇怪，许多这些国家的收入不平等性在今天要比它们放弃私有化和其他改革时更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Unrelenting demand for modern, innovative infrastructure that supports citizens’ livelihoods, improves energy efficiency, and minimizes pollution cannot simply be ignored – especially given urbanization’s central role in driving economic modernization and productivity gains.",
        "这对改善人民生活、提高能源效率以及实现污染最小化的创新型现代基础设施有巨大需求——特别是在考虑到城市化在经济现代化和生产率提高方面的核心作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Many fear a similar outcome in 2015, given that conditions seem even less conducive to agreement.",
        "很多人担心2015年也会出现相同的结果，因为那时的环境可能更不利于达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the single most difficult issue inhibiting serious movement toward disarmament – certainly in the case of Pakistan versus India, and Russia and China versus the US – are conventional arms imbalances, and ways of addressing them must rise to the top of the policy agenda.",
        "事实上，巴基斯坦和印度之间、以及俄罗斯和中国与美国之间开展大规模裁军行动的首要抑制因素是常规武器力量的不平衡，而相应的解决办法也必须尽快提上政治议程。"
    ],
    [
        "Exchange-rate fluctuations between sterling and the euro disturb market forces among member states, and at times even have a negative impact in London.",
        "英镑和欧元之间的汇率波动扰乱了欧盟成员国之间的市场力量，有时候甚至在伦敦造成了负面冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "Citizen Bezos?",
        "公民贝索斯？"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, inquisitorial ethics reviews could come to be regarded as nothing more than intellectual vigilantism.",
        "另外，调查伦理审查终于可以视为不过是学术警戒。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the Palestinian Economic Council for Reconstruction and Development (PECDAR), annual per capita income in Gaza continues to average roughly $700, while Israelis enjoy incomes averaging a $16,000 per capita.",
        "据巴勒斯坦发展和重建经济理事会（PECDAR）统计，加沙地带的年人均收入继续维持在大约700美元，而以色列的人均收入却达到了16，000美元。"
    ],
    [
        "It would create its own set of incentives, which, on balance, would pressure individual countries to avoid demotion, just as top-tier football (soccer) teams seek to avoid relegation to the minor leagues.",
        "这一制度可以造成一系列激励，从整体上向个体国家施压使其避免降级，一如顶级联赛的足球俱乐部寻求避免降至低级别联赛。"
    ],
    [
        "Her approval ratings soared to 50%, from around 34% the previous month.",
        "她的支持率立刻从前一个月的34%左右上升到50%。"
    ],
    [
        "The Moral Vulnerability of Markets",
        "市场的道义脆弱性"
    ],
    [
        "We should not look askance at such a policy because of its potential shortfalls.",
        "我们不应当因为这一政策的某些潜在缺陷而对它置之不理。"
    ],
    [
        "It is still not too late – not quite – to start couching the broader discussion of nuclear energy in language that will inform rather than alarm, and in terms that will nurture well-balanced judgments rather than entrench long-held biases.",
        "现在开始培养关于核能问题的互通信息而不是警告的大讨论还为时未晚——至少不是十分晚，我们需要的是能产生不偏不倚判断的讨论，而不是进一步根深蒂固的偏见。"
    ],
    [
        "Its savings now far outstrip those of the US, and it is striving to make Shanghai a global financial center.",
        "如今，中国储蓄远超美国，并且正在竭力将上海打造成全球金融中心。"
    ],
    [
        "Some leaders may be starting to recognize the need for a new narrative.",
        "一些领导人也许已经开始认识到新气象的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "What has changed is the pressure of globalization, which is pushing the world’s peoples ever closer together as technology advances and shrinks the world.",
        "唯一改变的则是全球化的压力，随着科技的不断发展，这个不断“缩小”的地球正将全世界的人们更紧密地糅合在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "But Ali’s grandson, Ismail, squandered that independence with profligate spending, establishing a dependency on external assistance that persists to this day.",
        "但阿里之孙伊斯梅尔的挥霍无度浪费了这种独立，造成了一直延续至今的依赖外部援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Sustainable growth need not be an oxymoron.",
        "可持续增长不必是矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Ethiopia’s proximity to strife-torn Yemen (where violent jihadis are congregating) just across the Red Sea, is complicating the country’s foreign policy because of its role in working to keep Somalia out of Islamist control.",
        "此外，埃塞俄比亚跨红海与饱受战乱之苦的也门（也是暴力圣战份子的聚集地）相对，如此特殊的地理位置让这个国家的外交政策变得错综复杂，因为它要在避免让索马里落入伊斯兰控制的问题上发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro exists, and its collapse would cause incalculable losses to the banking system.",
        "欧元的崩溃将给银行体系带来不可估量的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, today the global economy’s arsonists have become prosecutors, and accuse the fire fighters of having provoked flooding.",
        "事实上，如今一手造成金融危机的纵火者已经摇身一变成为了检察官，还指控消防员激起了群众的愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Christmas is coming – and has been, it seems, since mid-autumn.",
        "伦敦—圣诞节临近——似乎从中秋就开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "It would include real corporate-tax reform, eliminating the tricks that allow some of the world’s largest companies to pay miniscule taxes, in some cases far less than 5% of their profits, giving them an unfair advantage over small local businesses.",
        "它包括真正的公司税改革，杜绝让某些世界数一数二的大公司只缴纳极小数量的税收的把戏，一些公司的利润缴税比例远远低于5%，这让它们获得了对本地小企业的不公平优势。"
    ],
    [
        "By December 2014, it had become clear that the previous government was on its last legs and that the leftist Syriza party was on its way to power.",
        "2014年12月时形势已经相当明朗，前任政府濒临倒台，左翼激进左翼联盟即将上台。"
    ],
    [
        "But abandoning economic goals and imitating the means taken by others is not only inauthentic: it is also deeply irresponsible.",
        "但抛弃经济目标、模仿他人的方法不但是假惺惺，更是严重的无担当。"
    ],
    [
        "Their defenders point out that such companies often have a much longer-term vision than is true of managerial capitalism, which enables them to establish strong and enduring relationships with their customers and suppliers.",
        "捍卫者指出，相对于经理人资本主义式的企业，家族企业通常拥有更长远的眼光，使其能够同顾客和供应商建立更牢固的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, for refugees, whether to provide personal information, from religious beliefs to biometric data, can be a matter of life and death.",
        "换句话讲，对难民而言，是否提供从宗教信仰到生物识别数据的个人信息可能事关生死。"
    ],
    [
        "In the midst of the discussion at the Oval Office meeting with Pelosi and Schumer, Trump interrupted Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin as he was defending the Republicans’ position that these issues should be put off for 18 months, until after the 2018 congressional elections.",
        "在椭圆办公室与佩洛西和舒默的讨论过程中，财政部长史蒂夫·努钦（Steve Mnuchin）为共和党辩解说，这些问题应该推迟到18个月以后，等2018年国会选举完了再讨论，但特朗普打断了他。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s hardcore Russian nationalists consider Putin’s regime too soft, too pragmatic, too reasonable – in their language, “weak and indecisive.”",
        "今天的俄罗斯民族主义的核心力量认为普京政府过于软弱，过于务实、过于理性——用他们的话来说，“软弱而不果断”。"
    ],
    [
        "Muzzled in the Name of Freedom",
        "以自由的名义噤声"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The purpose of the global financial system is to allocate the world’s savings to their most productive uses.",
        "纽约—全球金融体系的目标是将全世界的储蓄配置给生产率最高的用途。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, other forces undermining trust in his government – widespread environmental problems, high and rising levels of inequality, and private-sector fraud – need to be addressed with equal vigor.",
        "相反，其他破坏对其政府信任的因素——普遍的环境问题、严重且不断恶化的不平等性以及私人部门欺诈——也需要以同样的力度解决。"
    ],
    [
        "To say that the referendum produced a clear winner, and to base a declaration of independence on that vote, is a travesty of common sense and of democratic norms that would tarnish the nascent state as a grossly illegitimate enterprise.",
        "宣称公投产生了明确的赢家并在这样的投票结果基础上宣布独立是一种对常识和民主规则的歪曲，有可能玷污新生国家的整体合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s why Trump racked up large majorities in so many working-class bastions that had previously supported Obama.",
        "这就是为何特朗普在从前支持奥巴马的工人阶级堡垒中攫取了大量多数支持。"
    ],
    [
        "As a measure of its magnitude, consider this: In 2012, the new Internet address system, IPv6, created more than 340 trillion trillion trillion (3.4 x 1038) addresses – that is, around 4.8 x 1028 addresses for every person on earth.",
        "可以这样来形容它的大小：2012年，新的互联网地址系统IPv6创建了超过340兆兆兆（3. 4×1038）个地址——折合地球上每个人的地址约为4."
    ],
    [
        "Not much, the empirical evidence suggests.",
        "据经验显示，没有多重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is why no country, not even China, managed to prolong its economic miracle?",
        "问题是为何没有一个国家，甚至包括中国，可以将其经济奇迹不断延续下去？"
    ],
    [
        "To be effective, clinics in areas where HIV/AIDS is prevalent must provide patients with the same standard of care that is offered for other health conditions.",
        "为了确保治疗效果，HIV/艾滋病流行地区的卫生防疫站必须给艾滋病人提供和其它人一样的医疗条件。"
    ],
    [
        "The PBC knows that rapid deterioration in America’s fiscal position and continual worsening in its external balance may create an irresistible temptation for the US to inflate away its debt burden.",
        "因为他们知道美国财政状况以及外部贸易平衡的迅速恶化可能诱发美国人用美元贬值的方式来减轻债务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it conducts a comprehensive triennial Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), which provides a detailed assessment of the role that wealth and balance sheets play in shaping the behavior of a broad cross-section of American consumers.",
        "毕竟，它进行了全面的三年一度的消费者财务状况调查（SCF），这个调查详细的评估了财富和资产负债表对广大美国消费者行为的塑造作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Bypassing the UN once again, the US is declaring its intention to intervene directly by bombing Syria, ostensibly to deter the future use of chemical weapons.",
        "美国再次绕过联合国，宣布准备通过轰炸叙利亚直接进行干预——表面借口是为了阻止进一步使用化学武器。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the new loan deemed necessary grew inexorably, as in 2010 and 2012.",
        "结果，被认为属于“必要”的新贷款规模大大地增加了，一如2010年和2012年。"
    ],
    [
        "I hope that this approach will allow a wide consensus in the General Assembly, and that any last minute change of heart will fail.",
        "我相信这一手段将会在联合国大会形成广泛共识，而且最后时刻的改变主意将不会成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither capitalism nor socialism has fully revealed how to achieve efficient GDP growth, an inclusive society, and ecological sustainability simultaneously.",
        "资本主义和社会主义至今都还没有充分揭示如何同时实现高效GDP增长、包容性社会和生态可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Any agreement can account for those concerns through a temporary exemption for those countries, while others move ahead with newer systems to demonstrate their effectiveness.",
        "任何协议都可以为上述国家提供临时性豁免条款，并要求其他国家采用新系统以证明其有效性。"
    ],
    [
        "Only rarely do political forces align to produce a sustainable version of it.",
        "政治势力极少携手创建可持续的自由民主。"
    ],
    [
        "As climate change leads to deeper and more frequent droughts, the resulting water shortages will require new, sometimes difficult, solutions that go beyond futile attempts to placate the public.",
        "是气候变化引起了更深、更频繁的干旱，由此造成的水短缺需要可能相当困难的新解决方案，光是抚慰公众是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "Most national research organizations and the European Commission support the idea, but questions persist: who will provide the budget (at least €2 billion is needed, which is roughly half of the increase promised by EU governments to raise R&D to 3% of the GNP in 2010)?",
        "大多数国家科研组织和欧盟委员会都支持这一建议，但还有一些悬而未决的问题：谁来提供预算经费（该计划至少需要200亿欧元，约占欧盟各国政府所承诺的到2010年将科研投入提高到国民生产总值的3%这一总额的一半）？"
    ],
    [
        "Youth unemployment there is around 24%, and 34% in Italy – creating fertile recruiting ground for the extremes of left and right.",
        "年轻人失业率法国为24%左右，意大利为34%左右——这给极端左翼和右翼提供了肥沃的生长土地。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, adopting a hardline stance has enabled her to whitewash some inconvenient family history: Her father, the dictator Park Chung-hee, collaborated with the Japanese military while Korea was under colonial rule.",
        "事实上，采取强硬立场让她得以在某种程度上粉饰她自己的家族史：在日本殖民统治时期，她的父亲朴成焕曾与日军有过合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The traditional political structure always risks being taken hostage or outflanked by identity-focused populists.",
        "传统的政治架构总是冒着被强调身份认同的民粹主义所劫持和垄断的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is not that we have failed to learn anything during our four global gatherings (the most recent one, held in Buenos Aires, wrapped up earlier this month).",
        "问题不在于我们在四次全球性会议（最近一次会议于本月初在布宜诺斯艾利斯闭幕）中没有学到任何东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan’s Drug-Friendly Environment",
        "阿富汗适宜毒品的环境"
    ],
    [
        "They worry that the “reforms and opening up” of Deng Xiaoping are in danger of losing momentum.",
        "他们担心，邓小平的“改革开放”政策有失去动力的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "The collapse of LTCM in 1998 was completely unexpected.",
        "1998年LTCM公司的倒闭完全没人预料到。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, investment in a shift to a sustainable growth and employment pattern has been crowded out.",
        "就目前而言，投资转向可持续发展和就业的模式已经被排挤出局。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a false choice.",
        "这样的选择是毫无道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US should therefore declare that it will cut off its aid to Egypt’s military at a specified date unless elections take place.",
        "因此美国应当宣布除非举行选举，否则将在指定日期切断对埃及的军事援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, a major part of the problem was countries’ unwillingness to cooperate.",
        "直到现在，问题的主要方面仍然是各国不愿意合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, China is pursuing a similar regional development strategy, aimed at revitalizing its old northern industrial belt, thereby taking some of the pressure off its ultra-dynamic coastal cities.",
        "目前，中国已开始实施一项类似的地区发展战略，即振兴东北老工业基地，从而缓解活力最盛的沿海城市的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "This led many observers to reflect on the fact that the world’s richest country was in general the most miserly in foreign assistance – all the more so in comparison to the amount it spends on war and defense.",
        "这使很多观察家认为世界最富有的国家在对外援助方面一般也最吝啬啬比起花在战争和国防上面的经费就更是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, a few foreign-policy issues will dominate the conversation in both parties.",
        "尽管如此，某些外交政策问题仍将主导两党会谈。"
    ],
    [
        "There should be no more happy talk about shared values.",
        "我们不该再兴高采烈地谈论共同价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, many liberals, notably in Saudi Arabia, offer to work with the current regimes against the radical Islamist revolutionaries – an understandable response, but one that strengthens the authoritarian status quo.",
        "此外，许多自由主义者，尤其是沙特阿拉伯的，愿意与当前政府合作抵抗伊斯兰激进革命分子——这是一个完全可以理解的反应，但却巩固了当前的独裁现状。"
    ],
    [
        "But, without its own currency-issuing central bank, Scotland would forego seigniorage (profits from central-bank operations that typically benefit the national treasury).",
        "但是，由于没有自己的货币发行央行，苏格兰将放弃铸币税（央行操作给国库带来的利润）。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of speaking for eight minutes, he took six times longer to present a political history of his country that was only loosely based on fact.",
        "他的讲话不是八分钟，而是比这个时间长了五倍，用轻浮松散的事实依据论述了古巴政治史。"
    ],
    [
        "Macron is very different from Renzi in both style and substance.",
        "马洪在做事风格和内容上则与伦截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "International and national partners must radically change the way they engage such states.",
        "国际和国家伙伴必须彻底改变帮助这些国家的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "But China is a net creditor.",
        "但中国却是一个净债权国。"
    ],
    [
        "Jailing the Messengers",
        "囚禁信使"
    ],
    [
        "They can definitely do more.”",
        "他们绝对可以做更多的事情。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Big Banks’ Tall Tales",
        "大银行怪谈"
    ],
    [
        "A succession of dictator-presidents ruled the country under a state of emergency for more than 40 years.",
        "一个接一个的独裁总统使这个国家在危急状态下渡过了40余年。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequence would be reduced growth, owing to a misallocation of scarce capital, and economic stagnation in the core areas.",
        "结果将是增长疲软（因稀缺资本的配置失当所致）以及核心国家的经济停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "Nokia in Finland, for example, imports 12% of its cell-phone components from Japan, and thus could be indirectly affected by the disaster.",
        "芬兰的诺基亚公司有12%的锂电池需要从日本进口，并因此受到了地震海啸灾害的间接影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But the EU is an incomplete state – one that may never be completed.",
        "但欧盟是一个不完整的“国家”——也许永远无法完整。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true of governments: they, too, can lose the hunger and ambition of youth and allow themselves to become complacent.",
        "政府也是如此：它们也可能失去年轻人的饥饿感和雄心，放任自己沉迷于自满。"
    ],
    [
        "This two-track world poses some unusual risks. While Asia’s economic output is too small to pull up growth in the rest of the world, it may be enough to push up commodity prices.",
        "这一两极发展的状况也因此引发了某些特殊风险：虽然亚洲经济尚不足以带动世界其他地区的增长，但在推高商品价格方面却已绰绰有余了。"
    ],
    [
        "A war that leaves one side vanquished is never over.",
        "一方被彻底征服的战争永远不会停歇。"
    ],
    [
        "We live in an age of complexity, and sound leadership in the Middle East, as everywhere around the world, calls for a wholesale shift in how we think about collaborative engagement for the future.",
        "我们生活在一个复杂的时代，卓越的领导需要对合作建设未来的思维方式进行彻底的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, the controversy is far from over.",
        "而且事实上，这场争论还远未结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, it comes from the way in which the know-how that China has gained in fashioning domestic cyber oversight is proving invaluable to it in its efforts to engage in cyber intrusion across its frontiers.",
        "但全球新的公域所受之威胁，并非来自于中国在其国内的做法，而是来自于另一个方面：即中国在构建国内网络监控这一过程中所学到的技术，已被证明对其从事跨境网络入侵的努力具有无从估量的价值这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "This will make it harder, not easier, for it to cut the deficit.",
        "这会让赤字削减变得更困难而不是更容易。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Food systems have gone global.",
        "纽约—粮食体系已经全球化了。"
    ],
    [
        "The government is investing in “micro” satellites, building on its existing SumbandilaSat platform.",
        "政府在原有“领路者”（SumbandilaSat ）平台的基础上投资于“微型”卫星的研究。"
    ],
    [
        "A new image of solidarity is precisely what the Greek election should produce.",
        "新的团结形象才是希腊选举应该产生的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Devout Muslims, of course, have their own zero point: the year 610, when the Angel Gabriel revealed the Koran’s first verse to the Prophet Muhammad.",
        "当然，虔诚的穆斯林自有自己的零点：公元610年，即天使加百利向先知穆罕默德传授古兰经第一首诗的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "After a week of televised, heart-wrenching funerals, American life will go on until the next massacre.",
        "令人心碎的电视直播葬礼过去一周，美国人的生活就会一切照旧，直到下一场大屠杀来临。"
    ],
    [
        "The left needed the resulting debate.",
        "左派需要由此产生的争论。"
    ],
    [
        "And its tight control of the use of its patents has inhibited the development by others of better and more accurate tests for the presence of the gene.",
        "而它对别人使用其专利的严格控制已经阻碍了人们去研究一些更好更准确地测试这些基因存在的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the horns of young adults grow by only about six centimeters a year, and that rate diminishes with age.",
        "不仅如此，年轻成年犀牛的牛角每年仅生长大约六厘米，而且年龄越大生长速度越低。"
    ],
    [
        "International support for countries bearing the greatest refugee burden also makes economic sense: it costs Jordan about €3,000 ($3,350) to support one refugee for a year; in Germany, the cost is at least €12,000.",
        "为承受最大难民负担的国家提供国际支持也有其经济意义：约旦为一名难民提供一年支持要花3，000欧元（合3，350美元），而德国则要耗费12，000欧元以上。"
    ],
    [
        "It must go directly to the public – including political parties, nongovernmental organizations, and influential figures – in each country, and explain its position.",
        "它必须直接面向每个国家的大众——包括政党，非政府组织和意见领袖——并阐述自己的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "But most of these developments have been derivative elaborations of Darwin’s grand evolutionary model.",
        "但这些发展只是达尔文革命性大模型的精细化衍生物。"
    ],
    [
        "(This differential is not as significant statistically, however, because equity prices are so volatile.)",
        "7%。 （但股价波动太大，这一差异并不具有统计显著性）。"
    ],
    [
        "The stigma surrounding the disease remains hard to dispel, and results in discriminatory attitudes and practices that continue to blight the lives of millions of people.",
        "麻风病带来的恶名难以驱散，从而导致进一步损害成百上千万人生活的歧视性的态度和做法。"
    ],
    [
        "The second would mean giving up on monetary union in order to be able to deploy national monetary and fiscal policies in the service of longer-term recovery.",
        "后一个选择意味着放弃货币联盟，从而得以实施旨在提振长期复苏的国家货币和财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the P2P lending database Wangdaizhijia, from 2011 to mid-2015, more than one-third of China’s registered platforms experienced serious problems.",
        "据P2P贷款数据库网贷之家的数据，从2011年到2015年年中，中国超过三分之一的注册平台都出现了严重问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The truth, as researchers have shown, is that Africans are perfectly capable of reliably adhering to antiretroviral therapy – often more so than North Americans.",
        "研究者证明，真相是非洲人完全有能力可靠地遵守抗逆转录疗法——甚至比北美做得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Populist movements have set their sights on immigrants and globalization generally.",
        "民粹主义运动着眼于一般化的移民和全球化。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by changing the eurozone’s rules and institutions can the euro be made to work.",
        "只有改变欧元区的规则和体制才能让欧元顺利运行。"
    ],
    [
        "And that is possible only if US Treasury rates are higher than they are now.",
        "而这只有在美国国债收益率比现在更高时才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Krugman does not mention issues that he knows are central to fiscal choices.",
        "克鲁格曼并未提及他所认为的财政选择的核心问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Another billion or so will join by 2030, bringing the world’s population to 8.5 billion, according to UN estimates.",
        "据联合国估计，2030年将再新增十亿人，让全球人口达到85亿人。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognition of this diversity led to the study of different treatment regimens in different sub-populations of children with pathologically similar cancers.",
        "对上述多样性的认识导致针对罹患相似病理性癌症的不同患儿群体开展差异化的治疗方法研究。"
    ],
    [
        "There is thus a surprising resilience in the European project.",
        "因此，欧洲一体化方案的奇异坚挺也就不难解释。"
    ],
    [
        "But this increases systemic risk, rather than reducing it.",
        "但市场趋势发生变化时，对资本的需要具有一定的循环性，这样就更加增加了系统的风险性。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, we will see the shift toward an unruly world, one shaped by passion and power grabs, gain momentum.",
        "否则，我们将发现，滑向没有规则、受激情和权力争夺左右的世界的趋势日益得势。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, young people have been overly complacent when it comes to political participation, notably on matters that directly affect their wellbeing and that of their children.",
        "悲哀的是，在涉及政治参与、尤其是直接影响自身及后代福利的问题上年轻人一直过度自满。"
    ],
    [
        "Many countries have reduced new HIV infections by 50% or more over a similar period, and the infection rates for other debilitating tropical diseases, such as leprosy and Guinea worm, have fallen significantly in recent years.",
        "同期许多国家将艾滋病新感染病例降低了50%或以上，其他致弱性热带疾病，如麻风和几内亚线虫病的传染率近几年来也显著下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In the run-up to the election, the major European party “families” (there are no pan-European parties, only loose alliances of national parties) each nominated a Spitzenkandidat as their choice for President of the European Commission.",
        "在走向选举期间，主要欧洲政党“家族”（泛欧洲政党均不在其列，只是国家政党的松散联盟）无不提名了首席候选人作为欧盟委员会主席人选。"
    ],
    [
        "Its key feature is to shift official policy from maximizing GDP growth toward raising consumption and average workers’ standard of living.",
        "该计划的主要特点就是将原本着眼于GDP增长最大化的官方政策转变为对消费以及劳动者平均生活水平的提高。"
    ],
    [
        "And, given such blatant disregard for the international order, it is no surprise that Putin's agents have been implicated in the murder of at least one opponent on the streets of London.",
        "考虑到如此公然无视国际秩序，毫不奇怪普京的特工卷入至少一起伦敦街头谋杀反对者的案件。"
    ],
    [
        "But when the economy fails – and the failure is not just a transient phase but a symptom of deep contradictions – capitalism’s disruptive social side effects can turn politically toxic.",
        "担当经济失灵时——并且失灵不是暂时性阶段，而是深刻矛盾的症候——资本主义的破坏性社会副作用就会成为政治毒药。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, it should not aim at producing legally binding decisions.",
        "比方说，论坛不应着眼于达成具有法律约束力的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the latest economic data – including a weak labor market – confirm that growth is anemic, with output in the second half of 2012 unlikely to be significantly stronger than the 1.6% annual gain recorded in January-June.",
        "在美国，最新经济数据——包括疲软的劳动力市场数据——确认了增长不振的现状，2012年下半年产出不可能大大超过1—6月份的1. 6%的年增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "NAFTA brought with it a spectacular increase in Mexican exports, as well as a dramatic shift in their composition.",
        "北美自由贸易协定不仅令墨西哥出口显著增加，还使出口构成发生了戏剧性的改变。 但在外资流入及经济增长领域该协定的效果却令人失望。"
    ],
    [
        "The government continued to accumulate debt until the burden was no longer sustainable.",
        "希腊政府一直在积累债务，直到债务负担无法持续。"
    ],
    [
        "If not, the ECB’s next challenge will be to find a way to talk the euro down.",
        "若非如此，欧洲央行的下一个挑战将是寻求欧元贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "With the press heavily shackled in large parts of the world, freedom of speech is still a worthy slogan.",
        "在世界上绝大部分地区的新闻媒体被严重压制的情况下，言论自由仍然是一个有价值的口号。"
    ],
    [
        "But support by Jews for the Maidan movement was much more salient.",
        "但犹太人对迈丹运动的支持更加突出。"
    ],
    [
        "Defense could become a fourth.",
        "共同防务可能成为第四个。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberal cycles, the historian Arthur Schlesinger thought, succumb to the corruption of power, conservative cycles to the corruption of money.",
        ". 历史学家阿瑟·施莱辛格认为，自由主义周期屈从于权力的腐败，保守主义周期屈从于金钱的腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "Then the whole country laughed when, during his customary visit to a patriotic summer camp run by Nashi (a pro-Putin youth movement), he demonstrated his physical prowess by scaling a rock-climbing wall, only to find that he couldn’t climb down.",
        "到由“纳什”（支持普京的青年运动组织）组织的爱国夏令营进行常规拜访期间，他想通过爬攀岩墙展示自己强健的体魄，结果发现自己爬不下了，全国上下笑声一片。"
    ],
    [
        "What is the cause of this seeming paradox?",
        "这个看上去有些自相矛盾的事情的原委是什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The pound sterling and the dollar, the principal international and reserve currencies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively, were issued by democracies.",
        "分别作为19世纪和20世纪主要国际储备货币的英镑和美元都是由民主国家发行的。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, because they hurt economic growth, further reducing countries’ ability to service external debts, higher interest rates can be counterproductive.",
        "事实上，提高利率会破坏经济增长，进而削弱了各国偿还外债的能力，所以效果可能会适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "The threat of North Korean aggression is real and will not be eliminated anytime soon.",
        "朝鲜的侵略威胁是真实存在，而且短期内不会消除。"
    ],
    [
        "After the falling-out over Bush’s Iraq adventure, the two countries – so central to the transatlantic relationship in the past – are once again on speaking terms.",
        "自从两国因为布什的伊拉克政策而闹翻之后，这两个过去曾对跨大西洋两岸关系举足轻重的国家终于又重新说话了。"
    ],
    [
        "This progress is all the more important given the complacency that led to a complete standstill in research and development for new TB interventions toward the end of the twentieth century.",
        "考虑到在20世纪末，自满曾让肺结核新干预疗法的研发陷入完全停顿，这一进步尤其重要。"
    ],
    [
        "These protests have two major causes.",
        "导致上述抗议活动的原因主要有两个。"
    ],
    [
        "A country with a balanced primary budget collects enough revenue to pay its current expenses but not the interest on its outstanding debt.",
        "以及该国的基本预算状况（除利息支付之外的预算平衡状况）。 一个基本预算平衡的国家将有足够的收入去支付其现有支出（其未偿还的债务支付利息除外）。"
    ],
    [
        "At Yahoo!’s recent annual meeting, the board was asked a wide range of questions; but, with the exception of a question or two about Alibaba, few of them addressed any of the real issues facing the company today.",
        "在最近的雅虎年会上，董事会被问及一系列问题； 但是，除了一两个与阿里巴巴有关的问题外，董事会几乎没有解决任何公司现在所面临的实际问题。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the effects of such measures are unlikely to be felt soon, so policies will also need to be directed at those already in the labor force, to encourage them to save more for retirement, and at those on the point of leaving it.",
        "但是，这些措施的效力不大可能立竿见影，所以需要实施针对已经就业以及即将退休的人的政策，鼓励他们多为退休作储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "The US remains the driving force behind the IST, supplying the needed expertise.",
        "美国仍然是IST背后的驱动力，并为其提供智力支持。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a recent poll, 54% of the French would prefer Britain to leave the EU.",
        "最新民调表明，54%的法国人希望英国离开欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not enough to just wave our hands and declare that climate change is an emergency.",
        "仅靠挥手宣布气候变化是紧急状况还远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – America’s recent presidential election answered the question of whether an increase in revenues will be part of the country’s long-run deficit-reduction plan.",
        "伯克利——美国近来的总统选举回答了增收是否会纳入长期赤字削减计划的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The economist Avner Greif argues that these co-ethnic networks’ durability and resilience throughout history reflects their ability to enforce contracts at long distances when the existing institutional framework could not do so reliably.",
        "经济学家阿夫纳·格里夫（Avner Greif）指出，从整个历史过程中看，这些跨种族网络的持续性和恢复力体现了他们在现有制度框架不那么可靠的情况下远程执行契约的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even without full independence, this is precisely what Scotland, which has been promised even greater autonomy within the UK than it already has, will have to do if it is to succeed.",
        "事实上，即使没有完全独立，被承诺获得英国内部更大自治权的苏格兰如要获得成功也必须做到这些。"
    ],
    [
        "In celebrating the conclusion of the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement, which created the post-war world’s financial architecture, US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau’s used his closing address to the conference to call for a more effective banking system that provided more money on cheaper terms: “The effect would be …to drive only the usurious money lenders from the temple of international finance.”",
        "1944 年布雷顿森林协议签署，创立了战后世界金融构架，时任美国财政部长的亨利·摩根索（ Henry Morgenthau ）在布雷顿森林会议的闭幕演讲上呼吁，建立一个更有效的银行体系，以更优惠的条件提供信贷：“其效果将是， . ."
    ],
    [
        "It reminds us of the closeness, in spirit, between extreme neo-cons and communist idealogues.",
        "它提醒我们极端的新保守主义和共产主义的意识形态在精神上是极其接近的。"
    ],
    [
        "At least some of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) appear to be running out of steam economically; and, while new emerging powers, such as Mexico, are tempting, they may prove to be more fragile than they look.",
        "至少部分金砖国家（巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非）正在失去经济动力； 而墨西哥等新新兴大国虽然看起来诱人无比，但实际上可能相当脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Indian policymakers should be working with the country’s tech industry and other private-sector actors to implement measures that would enable technology adoption.",
        "印度决策者应该与印度技术产业和其他私人部门行动方合作实施采用技术所必须的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "But, arguably, this helped create the ecosystem that makes Panama so attractive to so many Fortune 500 companies.",
        "但是，这显然帮助创造了一个生态系统，使巴拿马能够吸引众多《财富》500强公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Leadership is broadly distributed throughout healthy democracies, and all citizens need to learn more about what makes good and bad leaders.",
        "领导能力广泛地散布于健康的民主国家之中，全体公民都需要学习更多关于产生好领导与差领导的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "This year’s Nobel Peace Prize justly rewards the thousands of scientists of the United Nations Climate Change Panel (the IPCC).",
        "今年的诺贝尔和平奖被公正地授予联合国政府间气候变化专家小组（IPCC）数以千计的科学家。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries like China and Brazil, which have been successful in reducing malaria rates, could see their hard work undermined by an increase in resistance to antimalarial drugs.",
        "中国和巴西等国家已经成功地降低了疟疾发病率，它们的艰苦努力也会因为对抗疟疾药物的抗药性的增加而遭到破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the feminism expressed by women such as these Afghani heroines should educate us in the West about our own shortcomings.",
        "恰恰相反，阿富汗女主人公们表达的女权主义思想应当教育西方人认识到自身的弱点。"
    ],
    [
        "A transcript of his comments and sections of the video-tape wound up on a hard-line, pro-regime website, baztab.com.",
        "他的评论和录像带剪辑最终刊登在宣传强硬路线、亲政权的网站baztab. com上。"
    ],
    [
        "So, rather than dwell on the problems of contemporary political Islam, which are certainly considerable, it might be more fruitful to look at Turkey’s conflicts from another, now distinctly unfashionable, perspective: class.",
        "因此，尽管当代政治伊斯兰教存在诸多问题，但与其在这些问题上纠缠不清，还不如换个视角，从显然已经过时的阶级角度看问题更有成效。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a big deal for Asia.",
        "对亚洲来说，兹事体大。"
    ],
    [
        "Then comes a wave of displacement, as the technology is adapted to existing industries.",
        "接着是技术被运用到现有行业，形成一波取代（displacement）潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Some Bitcoin evangelists see it going far higher in the next few years.",
        "一些比特币拥趸认为它还会在未来几年大幅上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a moving experience, but what should we learn from it?",
        "这是一个激动人心的经历，我们从中能得到些什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "That is in addition to explicit tax hikes on income, capital gains, and dividends, the implicit ones on energy via cap-and-trade, etc.",
        "此外还有所得税、资本收益税和股息税的显性增加，以及总量管理等制度增加的隐性能源税。"
    ],
    [
        "What distinguishes these social democratic governments from their populist counterparts is that they are composed of a left that is integrated into competitive, multi-party democracies.",
        "社会民主政府与民粹主义政府的不同之处在于它们是一支整合为竞争性、多党制的民主政体的左翼力量。 这些社会民主主义者曾经是某支与工会紧密结盟的社会主义、革命派或改良派左翼的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom chessboard is the realm of transnational relations that cross borders outside of government control.",
        "在底部的棋盘上，是在政府控制之外的跨越国界的跨国关系领域。"
    ],
    [
        "We believe that the best investment in our collective future is to scale up the green, low-carbon economy.",
        "我们认为，对我们共同未来的最好投资就是扩大绿色而低碳的经济的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "I would rather stop when people said, “Why is he going?” than when they said, “Why isn’t he going?”",
        "我宁愿在人们说“他为什么要走”到时候停止工作，而不是在他们说“他为什么还不走？"
    ],
    [
        "As China satisfied its demand for safe assets, it turned to riskier foreign investments.",
        "中国的安全资产需求得到了满足，便转向了风险更高的对外投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Some still expect an upswing in growth.",
        "一些人仍在期待增长能够上扬。"
    ],
    [
        "Research shows that whether or not a person obtains professional help is strongly influenced by the encouragement and attitudes of those close to them.",
        "研究表明，一个人是否能得到专业帮助受来自亲近人群的鼓励和态度的影响很大。"
    ],
    [
        "Poor farm families rely on their children for farm chores and for security when parents reach old age.",
        "贫穷的农民家庭依赖于孩子来从事农场事务，将来老了还要靠孩子来养老。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU should support this in two ways.",
        "欧盟必须从两个方面提供支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, democracy will give you the right to live in a decent house, the right to learn and work, and it will give citizenship to your children and make you equal with your men.",
        "是的，民主会给你们权利住在体面的房子里，学习和工作，而且也会给你们的孩子公民资格并且让你们和男人平等。"
    ],
    [
        "Belgium is in danger of falling apart.",
        "比利时正处于分裂的险境。"
    ],
    [
        "As long as we allow cross-border banks at or close to their current scale, our political leaders will be unable to tolerate their failure.",
        "只要我们允许跨境银行处在或接近它们目前的规模，我们的政治领导人就无法接受它们的破产。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the way in which the various religious and ethnic groups in Iraq responded to his execution is emblematic of the difficulty of holding Iraq together as a coherent entity.",
        "相反，伊拉克境内不同的宗教和种族团体对处死萨达姆的反应体现了将伊拉克作为一个统一的实体团结起来是何等困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The state that best illustrates the appeal and the pitfalls of such moralism is Kerala, which announced in 2014 that it was implementing a partial ban on the sale of alcohol, with the goal of achieving total prohibition in ten years.",
        "最能体现这种道德主义的利弊的邦要数喀拉拉，2014年，喀拉拉邦宣布对酒精销售实施局部禁令，并计划在十年后全民禁酒。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan is of vital strategic interest to China, yet it never crossed its leaders’ minds to defend those interests through war.",
        "阿富汗对中国具有关键性的战略利益，但中国领导人从未想过要通过战争维护这一利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, it will have to deal with a Palestinian society that is armed to the teeth, with poverty rates reaching 70% and unemployment at 35% .",
        "现在，它不得不应付一个武装到牙齿的巴勒斯坦社会，其贫困率达到70％，失业率35％。"
    ],
    [
        "My best bet is that these countries will maintain rapid growth as they shift their economic focus to their vast and untapped domestic markets.",
        "我的最佳方案是这些亚洲国家都将重点转向庞大且尚未开发的国内市场，并以此维持快速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In many countries – particularly in Southern Europe – bleak economic circumstances are generating social tension, political apathy, civil unrest, and delinquency.",
        "在许多国家——特别是南欧国家——萧条的经济环境正在引发社会紧张、政治冷漠、国内动乱和违法犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union flags that have flown on all Georgian public buildings since then signal a natural attachment, as old as the history of a country that, for the ancient Greeks, was an integral part of the world as it was then known.",
        "从此以后飘扬在格鲁吉亚公共建筑上的欧盟旗帜表明一种天然的、和这个国家的历史一样久远的情感。 在古希腊人的眼中，格鲁吉亚在当时是世界固有的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s been tough and uncomfortable at times, but it has given me the confidence to be myself, to follow my own path, and to rise above adversity and bigotry.”",
        "有时这很艰难、很难过，但这给了我做自己、走自己的路、战胜灾难和顽固的信心。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "They can take their money elsewhere, or choose not to invest – imposing substantial costs on the rest of society.",
        "他们可以选择到别处投资或者不投资——他们的选择能让社会其他阶层付出巨大的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The Great Bank Debate",
        "银行大讨论"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, the federal government steps in through the agency of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which has a credit line with the US Treasury.",
        "具体而言，联邦政府通过联邦存款保险公司（Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation）这个机构进行干预。"
    ],
    [
        "As it is, the valuation of a country’s currency is not so much determined by the performance of its economy as by the forces of supply and demand on foreign-exchange markets.",
        "其实，一个国家货币的价值与其说是由该国的经济状况决定的，还不如说是由外汇市场上的供求关系决定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, recognition of wrong will wreak big changes.",
        "最后，对错误的认识将带来巨大的变革。"
    ],
    [
        "In engaging the major powers, ASEAN will not shun traditional security issues, such as maritime cooperation, as well as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.",
        "在面对世界超级大国时，东盟不会回避传统的安全议题，如海上合作事务，人道主义援助以及救灾。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s European partners have nothing substantive to show for the billions of euros they have lent the country.",
        "希腊的欧洲伙伴国借给希腊数十亿欧元，这没有什么实质作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it is likely to be a protracted performance.",
        "另外，这很可能是一种拖延式的表演。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s visit to India can help to realize that relationship’s potential.",
        "奥巴马的印度之旅有助于实现美印关系的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Compensation from ISDS cases can be staggering.",
        "ISDS案例的赔偿令人咋舌。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, narratives frame the choices that governments make.",
        "类似地，叙事也框定了政府决策。"
    ],
    [
        "With Russia testing Europe’s resolve to the east, the timing of Europe’s gamble could not be worse.",
        "俄罗斯正在考验欧洲的东进决心，欧洲的这场豪赌不可不谓不逢时。"
    ],
    [
        "But legislation to safeguard children’s welfare does not adequately address harms produced or set in motion before birth, or establish which types of evolutionary engineering are acceptable.",
        "但立法保护儿童福利并不能充分解决出生前行为所产生的伤害，也不能决定哪些类型的基因工程是可以接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "VIENNA – European politics is mostly shaped by events and anniversaries.",
        "发自维也纳－欧洲政治的绝大部分内容都是由某些重大事件和周年纪念构成的。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, a rising middle class needs affordable housing.",
        "毕竟，崛起的中产阶级需要平价住房。"
    ],
    [
        "Until then, the region will remain very dangerous, not only internally, but also for its neighbors (including Europe) and the world.",
        "在此之前，该地区将一直非常危险，不仅对国民是如此，对邻国（包括欧洲）和世界也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on studies published in Science, 28% of all women in Sub-Saharan Africa reported experiencing violence in the past year at the hands of their partners or family.",
        "《科学》杂志发表研究显示，撒哈拉以南非洲女性总人口的28%反应去年曾遭受过伴侣或家人的家庭暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "The NTP embodies the Saudi leadership’s awareness of the challenges it faces – and its willingness to tackle them.",
        "国家转型计划体现沙特领导层已经意识到所面临的挑战——并愿意解决这些问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In most democracies, such a move would have quickly received prosecutorial attention.",
        "在大多数民主国家，这样的举动很快会受到监察部门的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unless all Europeans accept responsibility for saving the euro – and, with it, the EU – everything else is shallow rhetoric.",
        "但是，除非所有欧洲人都意识到拯救欧元的责任（以及与之捆绑在一起的拯救欧元的责任），说再多都没有用。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s experience in recent years holds valuable lessons for the country’s leaders.",
        "近几年来中国的经验为中国领导人带来了极有价值的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Thousands of children in South Sudan still await their first chance to go to school, and schools have yet to be provided for a million more children in the war-torn Central African Republic.",
        "数千南苏丹孩子仍在等待上学的第一天，而在饱受战争摧残的中非共和国也有一百多万儿童无法进入校园。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, greater political legitimacy would likely make the Fund’s crisis leadership smoother and more credible, potentially shortening crises and minimizing their pain.",
        "无论如何，更高的政治合法性会让IMF在危机中的领导能力更为稳定和可靠，从而有可能缩短危机并将其造成的痛苦降到最低限度。"
    ],
    [
        "Such negotiations would likely start with a lengthy discussion of the two sides’ conflicting interpretations of the history of their relationship – in other words, each country’s grievances with the other.",
        "这样的谈判很可能一开始就要花费很长时间讨论双方对双边关系历史的相互矛盾的理解——换言之，表达对对方的不满情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a well-tested strategy, and it leaves taxpayers out of the picture.",
        "这是一个屡试不爽的策略，这样做就不会把纳税人卷入其中。"
    ],
    [
        "And it will subsidize insurance coverage for the poor. While it will presumably lack the public option many of us prefer, this is still a real achievement.",
        "虽然它可能放弃了不少人支持的公立保险补充制度，但这份改革方案仍是一个了不起的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "There is never likely to be a perfect moment for introducing new climate policies.",
        "或许永远找不到完美的时机来落实新的气候政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Tsai will not be inaugurated for another four months, so how the Ma government behaves in the interim could be decisive – especially if he ignores his electoral rebuke and continues to make overtures to China.",
        "蔡还要等四个月才能就职，因此马政府在此期间的所作所为可能是决定性的——特别是如果他不顾选举失利继续与中国合作。"
    ],
    [
        "A second is immigration.",
        "第二个原因是移民。"
    ],
    [
        "To begin with, the remaining EU countries must now uphold European law and push for a quick and clean divorce.",
        "首先，剩下的欧洲国家现在必须执行欧洲法律，推动英国干净、迅速的脱欧。"
    ],
    [
        "Carter was a somewhat bland engineer, whereas Obama is a charismatic lawyer.",
        "卡特是个无聊枯燥的工程师，而奥巴马是魅力超凡的律师。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they tout protectionism and unilateralism.",
        "相反，他们到处兜售保护主义和单边主义。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, downside risks to global growth will be exacerbated by the spread of fiscal austerity to most advanced economies.",
        "2013年，全球增长下行风险将因财政紧缩扩大到大部分发达国家而被放大。"
    ],
    [
        "Bloomberg is generally credited as one of the major forces behind Silicon Alley.",
        "布隆伯格被广泛誉为硅巷背后的主要支持力量。"
    ],
    [
        "In their case, it was a serious policy disagreement - over the Iraq war - that made them go, and Mr. Cook certainly remains a politician-in-waiting.",
        "两人的辞职源于对伊战争问题上严重的政策分歧，他们最终选择了离开。 Cook先生至今仍活跃在英国政坛。"
    ],
    [
        "This produced higher growth and living standards.",
        "这带来了更高的增长和生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, it is never more important for a democracy to follow its procedures and uphold its principles than in an armed conflict involving non-democracies.",
        "其次，对于一个民主国家来说，在与非民主国家的冲突中，没有什么比遵照程序、坚持原则更重要的了。"
    ],
    [
        "The outcome was a major step backward.",
        "这样的结果就是局势重大的退步。"
    ],
    [
        "That arrangement provided enough funds for insiders to exchange their rubles for foreign assets.",
        "这一安排为内幕人士提供了足够的资金，用他们的卢布换取外国资产。"
    ],
    [
        "When Florida’s banks go belly-up, state finances are insulated, because the banks are ultimately the responsibility of federal institutions.",
        "当佛罗里达州银行倒闭时，州财政不会受到影响，因为说到底银行是联邦机构的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "We should permit machines to function autonomously only in areas where there is agreement among ethicists about what constitutes acceptable behavior.",
        "只有在伦理学家就什么是可接受的行为形成了一致的领域，我们才能允许机器自主运行。"
    ],
    [
        "Assume for a minute that the opportunities provided by the rollout of broadband Internet has at least doubled the utility – the pleasure – that we get during that time.",
        "假设互联网宽带在一分钟内所提供的机会让你在这段时间的效用——即你得到的乐趣——至少增加一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Marching in the streets shouting slogans at elected leaders will not make the difference.",
        "在街头游行、对着当选领导人高喊口号无济于事。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Chinese attitudes may be more complicated and less unified than they seem.",
        "事实上，中国的态度要比表面上更复杂、更不一致。"
    ],
    [
        "The crises engulfing the modern world are complex.",
        "吞噬现代社会的危机极为复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "True, demand growth is subdued, reflecting the lingering fallout from the global financial crisis that erupted in 2008.",
        "诚然，需求增长萎靡不振，这反映出2008年爆发的全球金融危机的漫长后遗症。"
    ],
    [
        "Most people agree that this could happen at the depth of a slump.",
        "大部分人都同意，深度衰退时可能发生这一幕。"
    ],
    [
        "Vehicle emissions are a major contributor to dirty air everywhere.",
        "汽车尾气是空气污染的主要来源。"
    ],
    [
        "A packed chamber hangs on the minister's every word.",
        "议员们对铁路部长的预算字斟句酌。"
    ],
    [
        "But we can begin the process with three steps.",
        "但我们可以从三个步骤开始这一过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Determining the validity of such fears requires understanding what is driving China’s economic slowdown.",
        "研究这些担忧的合理性需要理解什么导致了中国经济减速。"
    ],
    [
        "Apart from the immorality of such public behavior (imagine a German chancellor paying his respects at Goebbels' grave!), the fact that both China and the US have veto power at the UN suggests that it is stupid even from the standpoint of Realpolitik .",
        "除了上述缺乏道德的公众行为外（设想一下德国总理到戈培尔的墓前表示景仰！ ），中国和美国都拥有联合国否决权的事实表明：即便从现实政治的角度来看，这种想法也是十分愚蠢的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no precedent anywhere in the world that suggests that such a two-tier process can succeed.",
        "全世界还没有任何先例表明这样一种双重目标的努力能够取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not in the interest of Europe – or the world – to have a country on Europe’s periphery alienated from its neighbors, especially now, when geopolitical instability is already so evident.",
        "让一个欧洲外围国家与其邻国脱离关系不符合欧洲——或者世界——的利益，特别是当地缘政治动荡已经显而易见之时。 相邻的中东正陷入动乱；"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s export-led development model will need to be adjusted as global trade and financial balances become more contentious.",
        "但在世界贸易及财政平衡摩擦不断增多的情况下，中国的出口导向型发展模式必须有所调整。"
    ],
    [
        "(Britain’s ideal outcome is no secret, after all.)",
        "（归根结底，英国想要的理想结果根本没有秘密。"
    ],
    [
        "This orthodoxy, however, was also destined to fade away.",
        "然而，这种正统思想注定也将消亡。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important result of the Venter team’s work was to reveal how little we know about the basic biology of life.",
        "文特尔团队最重要的成果是揭示了人类对生命体基本生物学的理解是多么稀少。"
    ],
    [
        "And the Tiananmen Square Massacre, to name but one bloody event in China’s recent past, has been officially forgotten.",
        "而中国官方也绝口不提前些年发生的天安门广场屠杀血腥事件。"
    ],
    [
        "As more African women continue to be educated, I dream of the day when we, too, will be able to decide for ourselves.",
        "随着越来越多的非洲女性接受教育，我梦想有一天我们也能实现这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, that was precisely the point made by China’s Ministry of Commerce in its official response to Trump’s gambit.",
        "事实上这正是中国商务部对特朗普这一手的正式回应中所秉承的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2011, the US had trade deficits with 98 countries.",
        "美国在2011年与98个国家之间出现了贸易逆差。"
    ],
    [
        "The results suggest that religious and national identities are complementary, not competing, concepts.",
        "分析的结果显示，宗教和国家身份是赞美性概念，而不是竞争性概念。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, however, when the main beneficiaries are the poor, corporations are powerful, and governments are weak or corrupt, good environmental practices are far from guaranteed.",
        "在这样的情况下，政府将必须提供鼓励方案、规章制度和税收政策。 遗憾的是，大多数受益者是穷人，那些公司却很有势力，而政府软弱和腐败，因此，好的环境保护措施都远不能得到保证和实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Palestinians will ask if it was really necessary to fight this war and pay such a high price.",
        "巴勒斯坦人就会怀疑，是否真的有必要进行这场战争并付出如此高昂的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "But as the US-led mission is currently conceived and described, it is not clear whether its objectives are achievable at acceptable costs in terms of time, money, and lives.",
        "但美国所领导的任务目前已经成立并作了说明，其目标是否可以以可接受的代价（时间、金钱和生命等）实现仍不清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "Tandja, originally democratically elected, had become increasingly autocratic, dismissing the National Assembly and the constitutional court, and eliminating presidential term limits.",
        "当初通过民选就职的坦贾变得越来越专制，不仅解散国民议会和宪法法院，而且取消总统任期限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it hard to imagine how this fraying could come about.",
        "也不难想象这一松懈为何会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Chen should have celebrated Taiwan’s “Chineseness” proudly and loudly, thereby distinguishing the island from the barbaric legacy of the Chinese Communist Party.",
        "陈本可以自豪并且大声地宣扬台湾的“中国性”，以此来把台湾岛与中国共产党野蛮的遗产区分开来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Chinese President Hu Jintao continually affirms that he will not hold a summit with a Japanese prime minister who goes to Yasukuni, which most Chinese regard as a glorification of past Japanese aggression and colonialism.",
        "实际上，中国主席胡锦涛一直声称不与参拜靖国神社的日本首相举行首脑会谈。 大部分中国人认为参拜是美化日本过去侵略和殖民历史。"
    ],
    [
        "SOS for China’s SOEs",
        "中国国有企业告急"
    ],
    [
        "It is because Netanyahu is driven by an almost Messianic determination to prevent Iran from acquiring the means to destroy Israel, that he might be amenable to a fundamental change in his position on Palestine, provided Obama makes visible headway in his drive to stop Iran’s nuclear program.",
        "这是因为内塔尼亚胡肩负着历史的使命：不惜一切代价阻止伊朗获得摧毁以色列的武器。 为了配合奥巴马总统阻止伊朗核项目的计划，他可以就巴勒斯坦问题上作出根本的让步。"
    ],
    [
        "Deeply frustrated and angry people – especially in southern Europe – frequently hold up Argentina’s defiance of the international community in 2001 as a model.",
        "一些沮丧和愤怒的国家，尤其是南欧国家，经常把2001年公然蔑视国际社会的阿根廷当成榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died in the violence since 1990.",
        "1990年以来，数十万伊拉克人死于暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, he would not be left to himself to govern, but would be a marionette of the oligarchs who bankroll his party, and perhaps of Russia, which yearns – albeit more discretely than a year ago – for his triumph.",
        "这些政客，可能还有俄罗斯将会让他成为他们的牵线木偶。 俄罗斯盼望他能够获胜，尽管这一次要比一年前更为谨慎了。"
    ],
    [
        "Google’s construction of data centers that use 50% of the energy of an average data center has brought it considerable savings.",
        "谷歌数据中心的建设比普通数据中心节能50%，这给该公司带来了可观的节约。"
    ],
    [
        "Cultural worldviews and religion, of course, will continue to shape the overall cultural and value context within which science and technology interact.",
        "文化世界观和宗教当然将会继续塑造文化和价值观形势，科学和技术则会在这一形势中互相影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In late October, Hanoi hosted the East Asian Summit, a meeting at which the US and Russia were recognized as Asian powers with vital national interests in the region.",
        "去年10月，河内举办了东亚峰会，会议将美国和俄罗斯视为在区域内拥有重要利益的“亚洲势力”。"
    ],
    [
        "As they search for solutions to bring NCDs under control, they should look for inspiration to the movement to fight AIDS.",
        "在我们寻找控制NCD的方法的过程中，应该着眼于消灭艾滋病运动的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "Politicians often seek to shield consumers through price controls on staple foods and energy.",
        "政客通常试图通过主食和能源价格管制来保护消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "American society has become increasingly harsh, where the richest Americans buy their way to political power, and the poor are abandoned to their fate.",
        "美国的社会形势正不断恶化，富人们用钱来换取政治权力，而穷人则自生自灭。"
    ],
    [
        "The future of the housing boom, and the possible financial repercussions of a substantial price decline in coming years, is a matter of mounting concern among governments around the world.",
        "房地产繁荣的未来以及未来数年价格大跌可能带来的金融影响已经越来越引起世界各国政府的担心。"
    ],
    [
        "A better option would be to implement time-varying, pro-cyclical floors, forcing banks to hold more capital during housing booms.",
        "更好的办法是实施随时间变化的顺周期下限，强迫银行在房地产繁荣期持有更多资本。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the road map marks a sensible balance of considerations.",
        "第二，路线图标志着各方考虑的有意义的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "In retrospect, German reunification was more a curse than a blessing.",
        "事后看来，德国重新统一更多地是一个诅咒而非祝福。"
    ],
    [
        "These crony capitalists argue that, if they are left alone to develop their assets, they will make the country prosperous.",
        "这些任人唯亲的资本家说，如果让他们自由经营自己的财产，他们就能使国家繁荣富强。"
    ],
    [
        "Poverty is on the rise.",
        "贫困在抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it treason to question throwing huge sums of money at a policy that will do virtually no good in a hundred years?",
        "是不是质疑这个耗资巨大却在百年以内都得不到好处的政策就是背叛？"
    ],
    [
        "In standard analyses, the tax cut brings a reduction in government purchases of goods and services, like defense.",
        "根据标准分析，减税会使政府削减财务和劳务购买，比如国防开支。"
    ],
    [
        "In March, Al Gore’s science adviser and prominent climate researcher, Jim Hansen, proclaimed that when it comes to dealing with global warming, the “democratic process isn’t working.”",
        "在3月份时，美国前副总统阿尔·戈尔的科学顾问，著名气候研究专家吉姆·汉森公开宣称，当面对全球变暖问题时“民主程序不管用”。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries that float their currencies can be free to set interest rates and determine financial conditions at home, even with substantial international capital mobility.",
        "浮动货币的国家可以自由制定利率、决定国内金融条件，甚至赢得极大的国际资本流动性（mobility）。"
    ],
    [
        "Contrary to the criticism, condemnation of the film is not censorship.",
        "与批评所认为的相反，谴责影片绝不是审查。"
    ],
    [
        "But even this comparison involves a selection bias.",
        "但是，就连这个比较也带有一定的选择偏误。"
    ],
    [
        "But is such an accord feasible?",
        "但这样的协议可行吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The scale of the fires reflects the difficulty of the enforcement challenge the authorities face.",
        "火灾规模之巨反映出当局所面临的执法挑战之困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The clash of values also impedes compromise.",
        "价值冲突也阻碍着妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the US is telling investors to carry their own guns, because, as in the Wild West, there might not be a sheriff around to help.",
        "换句话说，美国是在告诉投资者们拿起他们自己的枪，因为在狂野的西部，不会有一位警官在旁边帮你的忙。"
    ],
    [
        "This is even true globally over the past half-century, as one of the most recent scientific studies of actual soil moisture shows: “there is an overall small wetting trend in global soil moisture.”",
        "即使在全球范围内，这种情况在过去的半个世纪中也是如此，就如最近的一项针对实际土壤湿度的科学研究所显示的那样： “全球范围内的土壤水分的总体趋势是小幅度上升了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "While observers and commentators focused on the economy’s slow overall growth, behind the scenes, largely unnoticed, important changes were taking place.",
        "就在观察家和评论家们喋喋不休地讨论经济发展迟缓的时候，重要但却不为人所知的变革正在幕后发生。"
    ],
    [
        "The way that illiberal regimes use the law for their own ends will not inspire the confidence of investors, either – at least not in the long run.",
        "非自由政权出于自身目的利用法律的事实无法激起投资者的信心——至少从长远来看理应如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the shooting of then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, perhaps they even fear that they, too, might be targeted.",
        "2011年，国会议员吉福斯（Gabrielle Giffords）遭遇枪击，这使得政客们甚至害怕自己也成为目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, Europeans generally agree that their societies produce the best lifestyles, even if their economies are less efficient than America’s in a Darwinian sense.",
        "但是，欧洲人大体上认为他们的社会产生了最好的生活方式，即使他们的经济在达尔文物竞天择的含义上不比美国的有效率。"
    ],
    [
        "By these measures, American consumers’ balance-sheet repair is, at best, only about half-finished.",
        "4个百分点。 从这些指标看，美国消费者资产负债表修复过程至多只能称之为正在进行时。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – This month, 12 countries on both sides of the Pacific finalized the historic Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.",
        "东京—本月，12个太平洋两岸的国家完成了历史性的跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "But Sarkozy is both eager to transform France’s relations with the Alliance and has a strategy to do so.",
        "但萨科齐不但有转变法国与北约关系的热情，还有相应的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly this is not about the availability of resources. It is about the inappropriate priorities in how resources are allocated.",
        "显然问题的关键并不在于有没有相关的资源，而在于资源分配的顺序恰不恰当。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Brazil has lately been experiencing the most powerful economic contraction in its recent history.",
        "事实上，巴西最近正在经历近年来最强力的经济收缩。"
    ],
    [
        "The stepchild of empire – migration – is thus a problem to be handled by those who produced it: the old European colonial powers.",
        "因此，帝国的继子——移民——成为需要由始作俑者处理的问题：旧欧洲殖民势力。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why any comprehensive approach to restoring the advanced countries’ economic and financial vibrancy must target the proper revival of private credit flows.",
        "这就是为什么任何恢复发达国家经济和金融活力的综合性手段都必须着眼于适当复苏私人信贷流的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – On July 30, Argentina’s creditors did not receive their semiannual payment on the bonds that were restructured after the country’s last default in 2001.",
        "纽约—7月30日，阿根廷债权人没有收到该国2001年违约后经历重组的债券的半年利息。"
    ],
    [
        "They have not been heard from since.",
        "可他们这一去却杳无音讯。"
    ],
    [
        "The story of an erratic kid from Brooklyn taking on the Soviet empire in its national sport made good copy for journalists, who understood the significance of the event.",
        "一个漂泊不定的布鲁克林的孩子在堪称苏联国技的项目上扳倒斯帕斯基，对于深谙此事件重要意义的记者来说，这是绝好的素材。"
    ],
    [
        "When its main role has been to provide financial muscle, the results have been less impressive.",
        "当它的主要作用是提供金融援助时，结果就会差一些。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, Hillary Clinton remains the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, though she has not yet pulled away from her socialist opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders.",
        "目前看来，希拉里·克林顿依然领跑民主党总统候选人提名，但尚未成功抛离鼓吹社会主义的对手参议员伯尼·桑德斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, increasing pressure from growing labor costs will force enterprises to lower their profit expectations and cut costs, negatively affecting output growth and employment in the short run.",
        "同时，用工成本增长所带来的更大的压力将迫使企业降低它们对利润的预期并且削减成本，从而在短期内影响产量的增长和劳动力的雇用。"
    ],
    [
        "TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has unveiled his long-awaited growth strategy – the so-called “third arrow” of what has come to be known as “Abenomics.”",
        "东京—日本首相安倍晋三已经启动了人们其单一就的增长战略，亦即被称为“安倍经济学”的所谓“第三支箭”。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, there is America’s refusal (thus far) to intervene militarily in Syria.",
        "首先，美国（到目前为止）拒绝对叙利亚进行军事干预。"
    ],
    [
        "So when the British came to terms with this harsh reality, they played out the lamentable end-game of their management of the negotiations with small-minded cheese-paring and logic-chopping offers, all designed primarily to safeguard narrow British interests, mainly at the expense of the new member states.",
        "因此当英国人认清这种严酷的现实后，他们在谈判中抛出了鼠目寸光、强词夺理的可悲提议，目的主要是以牺牲新成员国的利益为代价，维护英国自身的狭隘利益。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, governments should encourage public-private partnerships focused on, for example, identifying the labor market’s unmet needs, setting TVET policy priorities, developing curricula and national standards, training TVET teachers, and implementing cost-sharing mechanisms.",
        "为此，政府应鼓励公共-私营伙伴关系将关注点放在确定哪些劳动力市场需求未得到满足，制定职业教育政策重点，制定课程标准和国家标准，培养职业教育师资和实施成本分担机制等方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Coal is one place to begin, as it will continue to generate the lion’s share of the world’s electricity for decades to come.",
        "在此煤炭问题可以作为一个出发点，因为在未来数十年内燃煤发电量都将依然占据全球总发电量的大头。"
    ],
    [
        "The appeal of such forces is particularly pronounced in the EU, owing to the popular perception that European integration has weakened national sovereignty and left citizens subject to decision-making by unelected technocrats.",
        "这些力量的号召力在欧盟尤其巨大，原因是人们普遍感到欧洲一体化削弱了国家主权，让公民需要面对非选举产生的技术官僚的决策。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, the bad lending of German and French banks in the bubble years was primarily to local banks rather than to the government.",
        "在爱尔兰、葡萄牙和西班牙，德国和法国银行的泡沫年份坏账主要是贷给当地银行而非政府的。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in a recent report, they call for progress toward a “deep, genuine, and fair” EMU; economic, financial, and fiscal union; and a political union that provides the foundation for the rest “through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy, and institutional strengthening.”",
        "经济的、金融的、财政的联盟； 以及一个“通过真正的民主问责、合法性和制度强化”为其他人提供基础的政治联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "But to say that education is your growth strategy means that you are giving up on everyone who has already gone through the school system – most people over 18, and almost all over 25.",
        "但说教育是本国的增长战略却意味着放弃了离开学校的全部劳动力——18岁以上的人多数均已离校，而25岁以上的几乎全部离校。"
    ],
    [
        "At least the existing 2% inflation target stands for something, because central bankers can portray it as the moral equivalent of zero.",
        "至少2%的通胀目标还有点道理可言，因为央行行长可以说它已经相当接近于零。"
    ],
    [
        "The anomaly that countries have decided to endow an international body with powers to regulate disputes in trading goods, but not in financial transactions, should be corrected.",
        "那些国家向某些有权裁决商品贸易争端（而非金融制裁）的国际组织捐钱的行为也应当得到纠正。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders of the world’s superpowers, United Nations officials, the Elders, and tens of people of goodwill have offered their goodwill offices and their services to bring about peace.",
        "全球各超级大国的领袖们，联合国官员，众宗教长老以及数十位怀着良好意愿的人士都曾努力推动和平。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, heterodox economists like Thorsten Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter long ago raised many of today’s cutting-edge issues in neoclassical economics, including the role of social norms and the relationship between technological innovation and business cycles.",
        "恰恰相反，索尔斯坦·范勃伦（Thorsten Veblen）和约瑟夫·熊彼特（Joseph Schumpeter）等非正统经济学家很早以前就在新古典主义经济学中提出了今天的许多前沿问题，包括社会规范的作用和技术创新与业务周期之间的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Cybersecurity is one of the defining challenges of the digital age.",
        "伦敦—网络安全是典型的数字时代挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Since coming out in 2011, I have been publicly truer to myself and more authentic with others.",
        "自2011年出柜以来，我就可以公开地做真自我，也对他人更加真诚。"
    ],
    [
        "We have defined guidelines for shaping policy across government, and we have started to create structures for coordinating among government entities and for defining new approaches to services and service delivery.",
        "我们已经明确了各政府机构制定政策的指导方针，建立了各机构间的协调构架，确定了服务和提供服务的全新渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "There can be no doubt that Daoud’s decision to write the article took extraordinary courage.",
        "毋庸置疑，达乌德决定写这篇文章需要非凡的勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "The most recent G7 finance ministers’ meeting in October was an utter failure.",
        "西方七国集团最近在十月份召开的会议毫无成果。"
    ],
    [
        "Health and survival are basic values to virtually every individual.",
        "健康和生存是几乎所有人的基本价值。"
    ],
    [
        "At first glance, this deal was intended to meet contemporary Russia’s most important economic challenge.",
        "乍一看，这笔交易是为了应对当代俄罗斯最重要的经济挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Mo Ibrahim Foundation reports, only “a third of all Africans live in a country where a census has been conducted since 2010,” and the census programs that do exist are often underfunded and unreliable.",
        "据易卜拉欣基金会报告，“仅有1/3的非洲民众生活的国家在2010年后曾经进行过人口普查，”而且即使已经进行的人口普查项目也往往受制于资金短缺和结果不准确。"
    ],
    [
        "China is also aging.",
        "中国也在变老。"
    ],
    [
        "LAGUNA BEACH – The world is increasingly characterized by divergence – in economic performance, monetary policy, and thus in financial markets.",
        "拉古纳海滩——无论在经济表现、货币政策还是金融市场方面，世界经济已经尽显差异。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the EU and China should work to complete the bilateral investment treaty that they have been negotiating for years, with limited progress.",
        "欧盟和中国应当努力完成双方已经谈判数年但却进展有限的双边投资条约。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a message carved on our hearts.",
        "这是发自我们内心的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an approach could deliver peace, though it would not quell the opposition’s obsessive challenge to Santos’ legacy on the subject.",
        "这一方针能够带来和平，尽管它无法平息反对派不断地挑战桑托斯在这一问题上的遗产。"
    ],
    [
        "Forced to back Israel, right or wrong, the US is quickly losing credibility and influence in a turbulent Middle East.",
        "被迫支持以色列——不管是对是错——将使美国迅速丢失在动荡中东的信誉和影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "The “white lady” is seducing a steadily growing number of Europeans, and remaining in a state of denial will only worsen the consequences.",
        "正有越来越多的欧洲人拜倒在这位“白夫人”的魅惑之下，继续否认这种情况只会产生更严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Paul Krugman and the Obama Recovery",
        "保罗·克鲁格曼和奥巴马复苏"
    ],
    [
        "Conspicuous consumption was eschewed. The rich were supposed to save much of their income, as saving was both a fund for investment and a moral virtue.",
        "人们认为有钱人应该节约收入里的大头，因为施行节约既为投资准备了经费，也是一种道德上的美德。"
    ],
    [
        "Bobbio emphasizes that lack of trust in democratic politicians also arises from two additional difficulties.",
        "博比奥强调对民主政客信任的缺失同样源于另外两大难题。"
    ],
    [
        "The main side-effect of statins, which lower cholesterol in the blood, is severe muscle inflammation, and it can now be predicted with a simple genotype test, as can the response to Plavix, the second most commonly prescribed drug after statins.",
        "降血液胆固醇含量的他汀类药物其主要副作用是严重的肌肉发炎，现在只需进行简单的基因类型测试即可预知是否会产生这样的负面后果。 对波立维的反应也可以通过这种方法提前测知，波立维是仅次于他汀类药物的应用最广泛的处方药。"
    ],
    [
        "Surveillance strategies, for example, are often more expensive than necessary, owing to poor communication.",
        "比如说由于沟通不畅，各国用在海上监控策略上的支出往往比实际需求要高。"
    ],
    [
        "It was already in place, waiting to be activated (as others may be).",
        "它们早已到位，等待着激活的指示（可能处在同样状态的还有其他恐怖组织）。"
    ],
    [
        "The Middle East’s oil potentates are now determined to reverse this loss of status, as their recent behavior in OPEC makes clear.",
        "中东的石油君主们决心要扭转地位下降之势，他们最近在欧佩克的一举一动就是明证。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important is international cooperation on migration.",
        "同样重要的是移民的国际合作问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the IMF continues to insist – as it has, with almost banal predictability, for the last seven years – that next year will be better.",
        "1%。 但IMF仍然坚持——在过去七年中它一贯如此，几乎没有什么预见性可言——明年会更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if the Arctic Ocean becomes ice-free in the summer, most of the year it is not, and icebergs from melting glaciers will become more common and possibly larger.",
        "尽管北冰洋在夏天冰雪消融，但在一年中多数时候却都是冰雪覆盖，冰川融化所形成的冰山不仅越来越大，也越来越常见。"
    ],
    [
        "The first detailed assessment of climate risk for Asia, carried out by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), makes clear that Asia’s cities stand at the frontline of the fight against climate change.",
        "由亚洲开发银行（ADB）和波茨坦气候影响研究所（PIK）联合进行的亚洲气候风险首次详细评估表明亚洲城市正处在对抗气候变化战斗的第一线上。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only does it have substantial ties with Russia; it is also linked to Turkey, exemplified by the two countries’ 2010 effort to broker a deal with Iran over its nuclear program.",
        "它不仅与俄罗斯有实质性关系； 而且也与土耳其关系密切，具体表现为2010年两国曾试图与伊朗就其核计划问题达成协议。"
    ],
    [
        "In a historical reversal, Japan has found itself on the defensive against the increasingly muscular foreign policy of its former colony and old rival.",
        "历史发生了逆转，日本发现，自己在前殖民地和老对手日益强硬的外交政策下已经处于被动。"
    ],
    [
        "Merging zombie banks is like drunks trying to help each other stand up.",
        "兼并这些借尸还魂的银行就像是醉鬼相互帮助站起来。"
    ],
    [
        "The New International Economic Disorder",
        "新国际经济失序"
    ],
    [
        "My recent book The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil describes the radical transformations that took place among college students playing randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison created at Stanford University.",
        "我最近写的一本书，《路西法效应：理解好人怎样变成坏人》，描述了我们在斯坦福大学设立了一个模拟监狱，然后随机地让大学生扮演囚犯和守卫，从而在他们身上发生的一些根本的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese have long since used the deaths of defrocked leaders as occasions to let out sentiments that can find no expression through the normal political process.",
        "很长时间以来，中国人都借被免职领导之死来发泄平时通过正当的政治渠道发泄不了的情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the anniversary passed almost unnoticed.",
        "但这一事件几乎无人关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Fromm remains relevant: The flight into the embrace of a virulent movement like the Islamic State is also an escape from freedom by its discontents.",
        "弗洛姆依然是对的：皈依伊斯兰国这样的致命运动也是因为不满而逃离自由。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge now is for the presidency and the Commission to give fresh political impetus to the EU’s stalled reform drive.",
        "现在的挑战就是主席国和委员会要给欧盟停滞不前的改革注入新的政治动力。"
    ],
    [
        "So, for reasons of Realpolitik, India expanded its activities and investments in Burma throughout the last two decades of the junta’s rule.",
        "因此在实力政治（Realpolitik）的考虑下，印度在缅甸军政府统治的过去20年间扩大了其在缅活动以及投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments have set their sights on securing an ABS regime by 2010, which is also the deadline, agreed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, to reduce substantially the rate of loss of biodiversity.",
        "各国政府已经确定目标，到2010年最后期限时建立获取和受益分享机制。 2002年世界可持续发展高峰会议确定了这一最后期限来大幅度降低生物多样性的损失速度。"
    ],
    [
        "Kennan was right: the dysfunctional features of Soviet system, and its over-extension internationally, would lead to its demise.",
        "凯南是对的：运行失衡的苏联政治制度，再加上它在国际上的过度扩张，最终必然导致苏联的毁灭。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese produce about 15% of value added in world manufacturing, while the United States contributes about 24% and the European Union about 20%.",
        "中国对全球制造业产品附加值的贡献只有15%，而美国却有24%，欧盟也有20%。"
    ],
    [
        "An open Japan would, by definition, be more outward-looking, would speak better English so that it could communicate across Asia and the world, would be more influenced by foreign ideas - including ideas concerning war guilt.",
        "开放的日本，具体来讲就是要眼睛向外、能更流利地应用英语与亚洲和世界交流，也更能接受国外的思想－其中也包括曾经犯下的战争罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "So, naturally, they applaud the Israeli government for using harsh measures to keep the Arabs down.",
        "因此，他们自然要为以色列政府采用严厉手段镇压阿拉伯人喝彩。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach led to the meltdown of 2008-2009, and it could well sow the seeds of another crisis in the years ahead.",
        "该方针导致了2008—2009年的大崩盘，很有可能也为几年后的又一场危机奠定了基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Globally, only about half of working-age women are employed, and they earn three-quarters as much as men, even when they have the same level of education and are in the same occupation.",
        "全球范围内，只有半数工作适龄女性受雇工作，而且即使她们的教育程度和所从事职业与男性相同，其所获薪酬也只相当于男性的四分之三。"
    ],
    [
        "International criticism is sure to follow if something, anything, goes wrong during the Games, especially if it involves the suppression of dissent and is vectored around the world via 24-hour cable television and the Internet.",
        "如果在奥运会期间有什么事或者任何事出了差错，国际的批评家可能会穷追不舍，尤其是如果它压制不满的声音并且通过有线电视和因特网将消息24小时不间断地传播到整个世界的话。"
    ],
    [
        "On November 29, 2016, it was announced that the S&P/CoreLogic/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index (which I co-founded with my esteemed former colleague Karl E. Case, who died last July) reached a record high the previous September.",
        "2016年11月26日，标普/核心逻辑/凯斯-希勒（S&P/CoreLogic/Case-Shiller）全国住房价格指数（由我和我素来敬重的前同事卡尔·凯斯（Karl E. Case）共同编制，凯斯于1去年7月逝世）公告该指数在9月创下的历史新高。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it is the sovereign-debt crisis made in Europe.",
        "这一回则是欧洲主权债务危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The deficit that prevents Europe from drawing a line under its crisis is a deficit of trust.",
        "导致欧洲迟迟不能给这场危机画上休止符的是信任赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it is still home to massive oil and gas reserves.",
        "相反，中东仍拥有巨量石油和天然气储备。"
    ],
    [
        "The fall of Communism was an opportunity to create more effective global political institutions based on democratic principles - institutions that could stop what appears to be, in its current form, the self-destructive tendency of our industrial world.",
        "共产主义的垮台是在民主原则的基础上建立更加有效的全球政治制度——一种能够遏止我们的工业化世界当前似乎具有的自毁趋势的制度的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately for Cameron, he has a lot going in his favor.",
        "幸运的是，很多事情对卡梅隆还算有利。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Jim Yong Kim’s appointment as World Bank president may have been predictable, given the long-standing tradition that renders the selection an American prerogative.",
        "美国剑桥—金墉被任命为世行行长或许是意料中事，长期以来，这个位子都是美国人的特权。"
    ],
    [
        "They are paid by shareholders and taxpayers (most of these settlements are tax-deductible), leaving the people who were ultimately responsible not only to walk away, but to walk away very rich.",
        "这些和解的钱是股东和纳税人出的（大部分结算都是免税的），却让那些最终应该负责的人一走了之，而且他们都能带着一大笔钱离开。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in the twentieth century, with greater security of conditions and continuous economic growth, it became normal for individuals, companies, and governments to borrow in anticipation of earnings – to spend money they did not have, but that they expected to have.",
        "但在20世纪，随着安全局势进一步稳定以及经济的持续发展，个人，企业和政府基于预期收入的借贷变得越来越平常——所谓预期收入支出，就是消费那些还没到自己手里，但预计会到自己手里的钱。"
    ],
    [
        "The third issue is developing countries’ major demand. The IMF should lend during balance-of-payments crises rapidly and without overburdening conditions, particularly when the source of the crisis is a rapid reversal of capital flows or a sharp deterioration in the terms of trade.",
        "第三个问题是发展中国家的主要需求。 国际货币基金组织应该在收支差额危机中迅速贷款，并且不对借款国家施加过重的负担条件，特别是当引起危机的原因是资本流向的快速逆转或者贸易收支的急剧恶化的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic historians like Ken Pomeranz rightly point out that before the Industrial Revolution, differences in median standards of living across the high civilizations of Eurasia were relatively small.",
        "Ken Pomeranz等经济史学家正确地指出，在工业革命以前，亚欧大陆高度文明社会生活水平中线的差距相对较小。"
    ],
    [
        "Using a different approach, economists at the International Monetary Fund also find a positive relationship between lower income inequality and faster growth, concluding that policies that redistribute income can foster faster, more sustainable growth.",
        "国际货币基金组织经济学家用其他方法也发现了缩小收入差距和快速增长之间呈正相关，并认定再分配政策可以增加经济增长速度并提高持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe can still emerge stronger from its current economic woes. The EU is changing direction at last, and Europe’s leaders will find an energetic partner in the European Parliament.",
        "欧洲仍可以从当前的经济乱象中站起来变得更强。 欧盟终于开始改变方向，而欧中领导人可以在欧洲议会找到强有力的合作伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Candidates for public office, and those holding high administrative or corporate positions, should be judged on their policies and performance, not on private acts that are irrelevant to how well they carry out, or will carry out, their public duties.",
        "人们应该用政策和业绩来评判公职竞选人以及那些占据较高行政或企业职位的人，而不是与他们如何履行公职无关的个人行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, growth is insufficiently inclusive and far too slow, with the annual GDP growth barely positive last year.",
        "南非基尼系数高居世界最高行列，这表明收入不平等性水平畸高； 失业率高达26."
    ],
    [
        "What all this means is that the financial crisis has turned out to be a lot deeper and its resolution considerably messier than necessary.",
        "所有这些导致金融危机的程度更深，解决起来头绪也更加混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "When governments do not deliver, people protest.",
        "政府未能兑现承诺会引发民众的抗议活动。"
    ],
    [
        "This must not happen again.",
        "这个状况不应再发生。"
    ],
    [
        "That is precisely the possibility that Bush refuses to acknowledge, and his denial appeals to a significant segment of the American public. An equally significant segment is appalled.",
        "这正是布什竭力否认的可能性，而他的否认迎合了很大一部分美国公众，同时也使另外一部分人感到震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "More fundamentally, economic integration could have been accompanied by the expansion of a European political space.",
        "更基本的是，经济一体化本可以伴随欧洲政治空间的扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "In due course, the respite gained by the older generations will have to be paid for by the younger ones.",
        "总有一天，年轻一代将为老一代的喘息之机付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "A progressive property tax would encourage more resources to go into productive investments, while reducing inequality and, again, boosting revenues substantially.",
        "累进制的物业税将鼓励更多的资源进行生产性投资，同时减少不平等现象，并再次大幅提高政府收入。"
    ],
    [
        "The drought in Guizhou, whatever its cause, is a reminder that the fate of China’s people has become inextricably linked to what happens elsewhere, and that no country can opt out or find unilateral solutions separate from the global commonweal any longer.",
        "贵州省的干旱，不管原因为何，都在提醒我们中国人民的命运已经无可避免地和其他地方发生的事务联系在了一起，而且再也没有一个国家，能够选择或者找到一个独立于全球利益共同体的单方面解决方案了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, on the Global Peace Index, it is ranked 88th of 153 countries.",
        "但是，在全球和平指数中，它只名列88（共有153个国家）。"
    ],
    [
        "Such leadership can come from above, from below, or from a representative group.",
        "这样的领导可以来自上层，来自下层，也可以来自代表组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an alliance would make Yushchenko's rule, if he wins, more difficult - and he knows it.",
        "如果尤什申科在竞选中胜出，这种联合将使得他的统治更为艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "For China, problems are judged according to the country’s own history and from the standpoint of domestic policy – all the more so the closer the problem is to its borders.",
        "中国对朝鲜问题的判断取决于其自身的历史和国内政策立场——问题越接近于其自身边界越是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the gravity of the euro crisis, the EU foreign-policymaking machine (such as it is) continued to function in 2012, with moderately successful results.",
        "尽管欧元危机兹事体大，但在2012年里，欧盟外交政策机器仍然（一如既往地）运转着，取得了一定的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "If Putin wants to save Russia’s economy from disaster, he must shift his priorities.",
        "如果普京想力挽狂澜拯救俄罗斯经济，就必须改变优先项。"
    ],
    [
        "But it reflects a widespread sentiment among many Poles, including those who are staunch supporters of close ties to the US.",
        "但是这确实反映了波兰许多民众的看法，包括那些坚定支持与美国保持紧密关系的人。"
    ],
    [
        "By that November, however, the country faced a sudden withdrawal of foreign capital, which, together with financial institutions’ inability to borrow from abroad, quickly depleted the country’s international reserves.",
        "但到了11月，韩国突然发生外国资本撤离，加上金融机构无法从海外借贷，韩国国际储备被迅速掏空。"
    ],
    [
        "Only the straightjacket of the euro and a monetary policy governed from Frankfurt could discipline them.",
        "只有欧元和法兰克福货币政策当局能够在纪律上约束它们。"
    ],
    [
        "But don’t look for hope in the new generation, which is not necessarily young or progressive.",
        "但是别指望这新的一代，他们既不年轻也不进步。"
    ],
    [
        "There is less consensus about parties that incite hatred and are committed to destroying core democratic principles – especially because many extremist parties in Europe go out of their way to emphasize that they are not against democracy; on the contrary, they are fighting for “the people.”",
        "关于煽动仇恨和致力于毁灭核心民主原则的政党就较为缺少共识——尤其是因为是许多欧洲的极端主义政党竭力强调它们并不针对民主； 相反，它们是在“为人民”而奋斗。"
    ],
    [
        "But the futurists’ financial world bears no resemblance to today’s financial world.",
        "但未来主义者的金融世界可能与目前的金融事件没有任何相似之处。"
    ],
    [
        "The time has come to embrace a different logic, that of “exchange of policy space.”",
        "因此是时候拥抱不同的逻辑，引入“政策空间交换。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Europe does not adopt some combination of the first three options as policy goals over the next five years, it will face a stark choice: either lost decades for southern Europe (and perhaps northern Europe as well), or continued north-south payment imbalances that will have to be financed through fiscal transfers – that is, by taxing the north.",
        "可如果欧洲不在今后五年内采取前三项目标政策，就无法避免做出艰难的选择：或者接受南欧失去的10年（也许北欧也无法幸免），或者通过财政转移继续让南北支付失衡存在下去——而这等同于向北欧收税。"
    ],
    [
        "Insurance companies have not penetrated many of the regions that suffered the greatest losses.",
        "此次大灾的多数受灾地区都没有保险公司。"
    ],
    [
        "They organize its meetings.",
        "它们组织财长和国家领导人会议。"
    ],
    [
        "As much as one might wish otherwise, every other policy option canvassed so far is wrong in principle, nonviable in practice, unlikely to be effective, or bound to increase rather than diminish suffering.",
        "你可能还寄希望于其他方案，但目前的其他政策建议要么在原则上有问题，要么在实际中不可行，要么不可能有效果，要么必然会增加而不是减少痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixty years after the end of the Korean War, South Korea is well equipped to take the lead in the event of a North Korean collapse.",
        "朝鲜战争已经结束六十年，韩国已有充分的能力在朝鲜崩溃时起到领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps more important, the AKP government’s foreign policy has faced considerable criticism from domestic forces, which now have more power to change it – an outcome that will occur regardless of whether the AKP ultimately forms a coalition or a minority government.",
        "也许更重要的是，AKP政府的外交政策面临着巨大的国内力量批评，而如今，这些国内力量有了更大的权力改变土耳其外交政策——不论AKP最终是组成联合政府还是少数政府都将如此。"
    ],
    [
        "This decision – crucial to the future of an unstable region – will test Western determination and unity.",
        "这一决定对于这一不稳定地区的前途至关重要，而且将会考验西方的决心和团结。"
    ],
    [
        "One source of hope stems from Abe’s landslide victory in the recent snap general election, which gives him the political capital to reach out to Park with a grand bargain: If Japan expresses remorse more clearly for its militaristic past, South Korea will agree to leave historical grievances out of official policy.",
        "一个希望之源是安倍在最近的提前大选中大获全胜，这给了他政治资本向朴槿惠抛出绣球：如果日本以更加明确的态度就其军国主义历史表示忏悔，韩国也应该同意将历史恩怨排除在官方政策之外。"
    ],
    [
        "Are these harbingers of a robust recovery for the financial sector, or just urban myths?",
        "这些现象是金融部门强劲恢复的先兆，抑或仅仅只是都市神话？"
    ],
    [
        "If gender is a proxy for diversity, then central banks fail a basic test of it.",
        "如果性别是多样性的一个窗口，那么央行没有通过基本测试。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukrainians are people of the watershed: we live on either one side or the other of a great divide.",
        "乌克兰人是位于分水岭的人民，那就是说，我们生活在一个大分水岭的其中一端。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, despite steady improvements, public health and education levels remain low (102nd worldwide).",
        "事实上，尽管出现了稳步改善，但印度公共健康和教育水平仍然十分低下（名列第102）。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of the individual countries involved in the project would benefit from its construction.",
        "每一个牵涉这一项目的国家都将从项目的建设中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent empirical evidence suggests that the central and eastern European regions benefiting most from EU membership are those around the country’s capital city or sharing a border with one of the 15 countries.",
        "最近的经验数据表明能够从欧盟成员国地位受益的中东欧地区绝大部分是在该国首都的周围或者与15国之一的某个国家接壤的地区。"
    ],
    [
        "But we cannot simply write off the millions of people caught in the middle.",
        "但我们无法一笔勾销困在中东的几百万人。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, life with the twins could become more interesting than Poland needs.",
        "由此看来，这对双胞胎兄弟治国会比波兰人到底需要的程度更为有趣。"
    ],
    [
        "But fish do not respect international boundaries, and it is estimated that 42% of the commercial fish being caught travel between countries’ exclusive zones and the high seas.",
        "但鱼群不会遵守国际边界，据估计42%被商业捕捞捕获的是在专属经济区和公海之间游弋的鱼群。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not exclusively urban, and it includes people of different cultural origins.",
        "它并不完全是城市居民，而且包括不同文化背景的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Website startups may even want to check their users’ profiles on the Angel List database of angel investors, viewing them as a potential source of financing.",
        "网络新企业甚至希望在“Angel List”天使投资人数据库里查找其使用者的介绍，并将其视为潜在资金来源。"
    ],
    [
        "A healthy state balance sheet could help, because part of the income flowing to capital would go to the state.",
        "一个健康的国家资产负债表将对情况有所帮助，因为一部分流向资本的收入会落入国家手中。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is Calderón finding it easy to negotiate with the PRI, failing to build a coalition government, which he has repeatedly proclaimed as the solution to the gridlock that has cursed Mexico since 1997.",
        "同样，卡尔德龙与革命制度党的谈判也进行得举步唯艰，未能成功地建立起联合政府，而卡氏曾反复强调只有联合政府才能打破自1997年来一直困扰着墨西哥的停滞局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Americans – think of the Tea Party’s adherents, for example – fear that something similar is happening to their own country. Or that it has already happened.",
        "而许多美国人——比如那些茶党的拥护者——则害怕同样的事情会发生在自己的国家身上，或者说，一切已经发生了。"
    ],
    [
        "This new technology, called “carbon capture and sequestration,” can cut by 80% the carbon dioxide emitted during the production of electricity.",
        "这种新技术被称为“碳搜集隔离技术”，能够将发电过程中排放的二氧化碳降低近80%。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the efforts to rescue them devoted so little thought to the kind of post-crisis financial system we want that we will end up with a banking system that is less competitive, with the large banks that were too big too fail even larger.",
        "实际上，我们在危机后作出了的大量努力，但收效却甚微，银行比以前更没有竞争力，那些因为规模庞大而没法倒闭的银行变得规模更加庞大。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, even in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the country’s most influential Shia cleric, recently issued a seminal statement proclaiming the need for a civil, not religious state, with equal freedom for all to participate.",
        "但即使在伊拉克，该国最具影响力的什叶派教士大阿亚图拉西斯塔尼最近也发表了一项开创性声明，宣布要建立人人自由平等的公民而非宗教国家。"
    ],
    [
        "This is precisely what Italy has been promoting during its current presidency of the G-8.",
        "这恰恰是意大利作为G8的现任主席国所一直推动的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "The bilateral nature of the negotiations certainly implies that they have a chance.",
        "显然，谈判的双边性质意味着机会是存在的。"
    ],
    [
        "Restaurant chains such as McDonald’s, for example, have transformed agriculture around the world with their homogenizing requirements for meat, bread, potatoes, and the like.",
        "比如，麦当劳等食品连锁店通过其均质化的肉、面包、土豆等原料的需求改变了全世界的农业。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s changing before them and they’re clinging to something in the past that’s not sustainable.”",
        "世界日新月异，而他们却仍然固守着不可持续的过去。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel never said that it wants to destroy Iran; Israel never openly proclaimed that it would enrich uranium and build nuclear bombs in order to destroy another country.",
        "以色列从未说过它想要毁灭伊朗这样的话； 以色列从未公开宣称它要进行浓缩油活动以及制造核弹头以摧毁另一个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, that statement came upon Erdoğan’s return from a visit to Saudi Arabia, another key regional actor that maintains discreet security links with Israel on the basis of a similar logic.",
        "有趣的是，这番话是在埃尔多安访问沙特阿拉伯途中说的。 沙特是另一个重要地区行动方，出于相同的逻辑，它与以色列也保持着谨慎的安全联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Tentu saja, kelompok lobi di dalam negeri tidak bisa mendapatkan semua yang mereka inginkan ketika mereka berhadapan dengan kelompok lobi asing.",
        "平心而论，当国内游说集团必须与国外游说集团抗争时，它们也许得不到所有想要的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN, NATO, the IMF and the World Bank, the law of nations and international criminal law, even today’s free and united Europe – all are crowning achievements of US foreign policy.",
        "联合国、北约、世界货币组织和世界银行、国际法和国际刑法，甚至今天自由和联合的欧洲，所有这些都是美国外交政策的至高无上的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "In information-based societies, networks are replacing hierarchies, and knowledge workers are less deferential.",
        "在一个基于信息的社会中，网络正在代替层级，脑力工作者更加难以驯服了。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, whether nationalists like it or not, this is the future that China has, in effect, already chosen.",
        "事实上，不管民族主义者喜欢与否，这是中国实际上已经选择好了的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the remarkable volte-face of the Republican Party on fiscal responsibility.",
        "以共和党在财政责任上的“翻脸”为例。"
    ],
    [
        "Shareholder democracy simply does not work, but managers’ fear that if the stock price drops too low they will be out on their ears provides a useful restraint.",
        "股东的民主权利显然在这里不起什么作用，当金融机构管理者认为股价会下跌很厉害的时候，他们可能遭受很大的损失，在这里高级金融就提供了一个有效地保证。"
    ],
    [
        "As the father of Nasser Mohammed Nasser, one of four innocent civilians killed in a US drone strike on April 19, 2014, lamented: “My son and those who were with him had nothing to do with Al Qaeda. They were simply on their way to earn a living.",
        "希拉特贾拉哈的一位村民莫贝尔·阿卜杜拉·阿里·贾拉哈（Moqbel Abdullah Ali al-Jarraah）说：“我认为美国拿我们贫穷村庄试验它的致命发明，因为它不能在其他任何人命很值钱的地方进行试验。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro is the composite currency of an area with a poor growth record and an inadequate response to the economic crisis.",
        "欧元是一个地区性合成货币（composite currency），而欧元区的经济增长成绩平平，对这场经济危机的应对也不尽人意。"
    ],
    [
        "Having withstood the test of war, the Palestinian unity government that was created less than two months before the conflict began will now become the main vehicle for Gaza’s reconstruction.",
        "在经受了战争考验后，成立于冲突爆发前不到两个月的巴勒斯坦联合政府现在将成为加沙重建的主要机构。"
    ],
    [
        "External imbalances will pose the largest challenge for the region.",
        "外部失衡将构成中东地区最大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "This pits farmers and animal-feed producers against one another in a fierce competition over land.",
        "这让农民和动物饲料生产商互相激烈地竞争土地使用权。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, diabetes patients in the United States with the lowest level of compliance have a 30% yearly risk of hospitalization, compared to a 13% risk for patients with a high level of adherence.",
        "比如，在美国，最不遵守用药规定的糖尿病患者有30%的年风险必须住院，而最遵守规则的患者的这一风险只有13%。"
    ],
    [
        "At home, all that is left is unconventional monetary policy.",
        "而在国内，唯一可以采取的措施是非常规货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In cases where individual member states have incurred too much debt, private creditors – not taxpayers of other countries – should bear the burden of debt restructuring.",
        "对于个别发行了过多债务的成员国，债务重组负担应该由私人债权人，而不是其他国家的纳税人承担。"
    ],
    [
        "Borrowers are lured into unsuitable mortgages; firms are stripped of their assets; accountants mislead investors; financial advisers spin narratives of riches from nowhere; and the media promote extravagant claims.",
        "金融顾问编造出不知从何而来的富人； 而媒体则鼓动那些夸张的宣言。"
    ],
    [
        "Like people everywhere, they reflexively conform to the norms of the world around them, without thinking through their merits.",
        "像世界各地的人们一样，他们条件反射式地遵守身边世界的规范，而不去思考其中所蕴含的优势及劣势。"
    ],
    [
        "George F. Warren, a professor of farm management at Cornell University, told FDR that the way to raise prices was by reducing the gold value of the dollar.",
        "康奈尔大学农场管理学教授乔治·F·沃伦向罗斯福建议说，如果想把价格提上去，就得把美元的货币含金量降下来。"
    ],
    [
        "So the answer to the question “What happens next?” cannot be “Nothing.”",
        "因此，对于“接下来会发生什么？ ”这个问题，不能以“什么都不会发生。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, we are too easily distracted from the real dangers of modern demagoguery.",
        "结果是我们太过容易被从现代煽动的真正危险中转移注意力。"
    ],
    [
        "A new global growth strategy is needed to maintain global economic progress.",
        "现在需要一个新的全球增长策略来维持全球经济进步。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, until a year or two ago, some political pundits were asking, “Who lost Turkey?” or “Whither Turkey?” – the assumption being that Turkey had shifted its foreign-policy axis away from the West.",
        "可是，直到一两年前，一些政治评论家总在问，“谁丢失了土耳其？ ”或“土耳其向何处去？"
    ],
    [
        "The most lasting impact of the first reformist wave was the establishment of a salafi (conservative traditionalist) movement, which came to regard the modern state as a means to improve the lot of Muslims.",
        "第一波改革浪潮延续最久的影响是成立了沙拉菲（salafi，保守传统主义）运动，它认为现代国家是改善大部分穆斯林境况的一种方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Cultural vocabulary is also reverting.",
        "同样回潮的包括文化词语。"
    ],
    [
        "The need for a consumer-led Asian rebalancing has never been greater.",
        "消费拉动的亚洲再平衡才是最迫切的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason that something similar cannot be done for those fleeing violence and persecution today.",
        "没有理由认为今天逃离暴力和迫害的人不能获得同样的待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "As the administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Tobias implemented the Bush administration’s policy that requires organizations working against HIV/AIDS to condemn prostitution if they are to be eligible for US assistance.",
        "脱拜尔斯作为美国国际发展署署长落实了布什政府的政策，即要求想要获得美国援助的治疗预防艾滋病组织谴责卖淫。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynesians: To prevent recessions from turning into depressions, a fall in aggregate demand must be reversed through increased investment, which requires that entrepreneurs believe that increased consumption will mop up the additional output that new investments will bring about.",
        "凯恩斯学派：为了阻止衰退演变为萧条，必须通过增加投资扭转总需求颓势，而增加投资需要企业家相信消费的增加能够“吃掉”新投资所产生的增加的产出。"
    ],
    [
        "It is common knowledge that, for the last eight years, Sonia Gandhi has exercised virtually total control within the party.",
        "众所周知，在过去八年中，索尼娅·甘地一直牢牢地把持着国大党。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with physicians trained in infectious diseases, hepatitis treatment is possible in rural areas of Xinjiang, and patient outcomes have improved significantly.",
        "如今，有了经过传染病培训的医生，肝炎治疗可以在新疆农村地区实施，患者疗效显著改善。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank insisted that corruption be seen as a cancer, and that fighting it be made synonymous with fighting poverty.",
        "世界银行坚持认为：腐败就像癌症，反对腐败就如同对抗贫困。"
    ],
    [
        "Alexander Hamilton reckoned that the Electoral College would prevent unqualified candidates with “talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity” from being elected.",
        "亚历山大·汉密尔顿认为选举团有能力阻止“兼具阴谋天赋和深谙人气艺术”的不合格候选人当选。"
    ],
    [
        "When Guo overhears fights between her sister and brother-in-law in their crammed rented room, her aspirations to get an apartment through hard work, and to start a family with her boyfriend and soon-to-be husband, begin to fade.",
        "当郭海藻无意间听到她姐姐夫妇二人在小出租屋里的争吵之后，她原本希望通过努力工作买一套房子，和自己的男友共同组建一个家庭的理想也逐渐破灭了。"
    ],
    [
        "But most of these gains are now seriously threatened.",
        "但今天这些成就大都遭到了严重的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The epidemic gripping Madagascar is not just any plague, and it certainly isn’t some Hollywood apocalypse.",
        "肆虐马达加斯加的传染病不仅仅是瘟疫，当然也不是某种由好莱坞杜撰的世界末日。"
    ],
    [
        "France is also economically wounded.",
        "法国在经济上也遭受了损失。"
    ],
    [
        "This can be achieved only with the provision of universal and unfettered access to reproductive and other relevant health-care services.",
        "这只有通过提供普遍且自由的生育和其他相关医疗服务才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "What Greece wants is to remain in the eurozone, with a lower debt burden – a position that is both economically astute and protected by treaty.",
        "希腊想要的是继续留在欧元区，同时能够降低负债——上述立场不仅是理智的经济决策，而且也受到欧盟条约的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Lumping outside influences together with a legitimate anti-corruption campaign would undermine this positive dynamic, with potentially serious consequences for China’s quest to transform its growth model and achieve high-income status.",
        "而将外国影响与一场合法性反腐运动相结合将损害这一积极动力，也可能对中国实施增长模式转型及实现高收入状态的目标带来严重的潜在后果。"
    ],
    [
        "That can only come through access to education and economic opportunity, both in poor and rich countries.",
        "这只有通过让穷人获得教育和经济机会实现，不管在穷国还是富国都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, by contrast, the same large banks – such as Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo – tend to dominate a large number of different states.",
        "相反，在美国，同一批大银行——如美国银行、JP摩根大通和富国银行——一般在许多州都占据主导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans recognized that full regulatory convergence between the US and the EU would, in reality, take at least a decade.",
        "欧洲人认识到美国和欧洲间实现全面监管趋同实际上至少需要十年时间。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, I don’t imagine those former Republicans would have had any difficulty endorsing Kasich, a successful conservative governor whose primary motivation is plainly not hating people, whether in his own party or in the Democratic Party.",
        "另一方面，我认为这些前共和党支持卡西奇不会有任何困难，他是一位成功的保守派州长，其主要动机绝不是恨人，不管是党内的人还是民主党的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Her message is one of incrementalism: Don’t dare to dream big.",
        "她的口号属于渐进主义：要敢于做大梦。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the extent of the decline varies somewhat across countries – it has been less sharp in Germany than in the United States, for example – the pattern is fairly ubiquitous.",
        "尽管下降程度各有各的不同——比如德国的下降程度小于美国——但这一模式是相当普遍的。"
    ],
    [
        "China, for its part, has made no secret of its intention to establish the renminbi as a credible alternative to the dollar.",
        "中国已不再掩饰将人民币打造成值得信赖的美元替代品的企图。"
    ],
    [
        "It is an insidious and effective strategy, one that marginalizes dissenters and generates the impression of near-universal support for the regime.",
        "这是一种阴险但却有效的策略，持不同政见者被边缘化，给人留下的印象是对政府近乎普遍的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "For now – and probably for a long time to come – the eurozone will continue to be a union of sovereign states, with each country responsible for its own policies and for their outcome.",
        "目前——并且可能在相当长的一段时间内都是如此——欧元区将继续是主权国家的联盟，每个国家都要为自身的政策及其后果负责。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, special interests compete for influence through campaign contributions and other forms of political donations.",
        "相反，特殊利益集团争相通过赞助竞选和其他方式的政治现金争夺影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Both candidates indicated that they did not favor military intervention to prevent the Syrian government from killing more of its citizens; but, neither was prepared to say when they would be prepared to accept the responsibility to protect citizens who come under attack from their own government, or from forces that their government is unwilling or unable to restrain.",
        "两位候选人都表示无意以武力干预叙利亚政府杀戮平民的行为，但也均没有说何时准备接受保护公民不受本国政府或本国政府不愿或不能阻止的势力的袭击的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last hours of the election, Netanyahu called on Jewish Israelis to turn out, because “the Arabs are voting in droves.”",
        "在选举的最后几小时，内塔尼亚胡号召以色列犹太人站出来，因为“阿拉伯人正在成群结队地投票。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "It is also that, once elected, even qualified leaders can struggle to shed the personal elements of their decision-making, and serve the country impartially instead.",
        "问题还在于，一旦当选，甚至合格的领导人也可能忙于在决策中打上个人烙印，无法做到公平地服务于国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the latter case, they should have the option to conduct a majority vote.",
        "但对后一种问题，它们应该可以选择多数票规则。"
    ],
    [
        "In a public gesture of despair, Cherkesov admitted the failure of Putin’s project to reanimate Russian governance by subordinating it to the security services.",
        "切尔克索夫公开表示绝望，承认普京通过把俄国政府置于安全部门控制之下来创新振作政府是失败的。"
    ],
    [
        "· beginning a dialogue on tactical nuclear weapons involving Russia, the US, and NATO;",
        "· 启动俄罗斯、美国和北约参与的战术核武器对话；"
    ],
    [
        "Neutralizing the perceived threat from Khodorkovsky meant depriving him of the means to achieve his ambitions by separating his Menatep Group from Yukos’s future cash flows.",
        "压制来自霍多尔科夫斯基的潜在威胁就意味着通过把梅纳特普银行集团从尤克斯集团未来的现金流转中分离出来，以使他丧失成就野心的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "But Blair has just made a useful comment on Palestine and Israel, which deserves to be taken seriously.",
        "但是布莱尔正好对巴勒斯坦和以色列问题发表了一个有用的评论，人们应该认真对待。"
    ],
    [
        "Mobile phones took off in Africa because the technology was so much cheaper than investment in landline infrastructure.",
        "移动电话在非洲能够取得飞越式发展，原因就在于这项技术比投资通讯线路基础设施便宜得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is the widening of Britain’s income distribution between 1750 and 1850, as the gains from the British Industrial Revolution went to the urban and rural middle class, but not to the urban and rural poor.",
        "首先是1750年到1850年间英国收入分配的扩大，英国工业革命所产生的收益流向了城市和乡村中产阶级，而不是城市和乡村穷人。"
    ],
    [
        "Only in the Philippines do state failure, chronic insurgency, and proliferating ties between local and foreign terrorists come together in a lethal cocktail.",
        "只有在菲律宾，国家失败，长期叛乱，国内以及国外恐怖主义日益紧密的勾结，都构成了一杯致命的鸡尾酒。"
    ],
    [
        "Lebanon’s resilience owes much to the memory of its painful civil war (1975-1990).",
        "很大程度上，痛苦的内战（1975-1990）记忆造就了黎巴嫩人的坚韧性格。"
    ],
    [
        "It is possible that Chinese Communists who favor more economic liberalism would also be more receptive to a more open society.",
        "是否那些偏爱经济自由主义的共产党人也更倾向于接受一个更加开放的社会？"
    ],
    [
        "An end to most West Bank settlements.",
        "结束大多数西岸定居点；"
    ],
    [
        "We have entered an era in which “commercial banks may be less vulnerable to credit or economic shocks.”",
        "”我们进入了一个“商业银行受信用或经济存量影响更小”的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "However, cutting farm subsidies will increase food prices, at least initially, while reducing agricultural tariffs alone will not necessarily lead to an increase in food production in poor countries without complementary support.",
        "但是减少农业补贴会造成食品价格的上升，至少在一开始会这样，而单单降低农业关税在没有配套政策的支持下并不一定能使发展中国家的食品产量出现上升。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative is a formulaic educational experience that not only lacks individual character, but that is also devoid of moral purpose.",
        "否则我们将面临公式化的教育体验，不但缺少个性，也毫无道德目标可言。"
    ],
    [
        "At home, the new government needs to pay its civil servants, restore law and order, and end the chaos that has become the norm in the Palestinian territories.",
        "在巴勒斯坦国内，新政府需要支付其公务员的工资，恢复秩序，并且结束已经在巴勒斯坦领土司空见惯的混乱局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Koizumi sought smaller government and set clear numerical targets for fiscal consolidation, including a primary budget balance in 10 years.",
        "他尝试缩小政府规模，并在财政债务清理方面设定了清晰具体的目标，包括在10年内实现基本预算平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by embracing the opportunities of interdependency can the hegemon and the rising power reduce tensions and focus on the benefits of mutually sustainable prosperity.",
        "只有抓住相互依存的机会，才能让霸权和崛起新大国减少摩擦，专注于互相可持续繁荣的益处。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it seems unlikely that governments in China and similar emerging markets can compensate swiftly enough to boost domestic consumption.",
        "事实上，中国和类似的新兴市场国家似乎不可能对推进国内消费快速作出足够的弥补。"
    ],
    [
        "While I believe that the occupation, rather than the reaction to it, is the main cause of our conflict, the unilateral tahdia (“declared calm”) decision by Palestinian militant groups has reduced anti-Israeli attacks mightily, which shows that Palestinians also realize the limits of their military actions.",
        "我相信，我们之间的冲突的主因是占领，而非对占领的反应。 巴勒斯坦军事团体决定单方面宣布停火极大地减少了反以色列攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Czech Republic set to assume the presidency of the EU on January 1, 2009, there is a distinct fear that Klaus will use his position as Czech head of state to try to sabotage efforts to rescue the Lisbon Treaty.",
        "由于捷克共和国预计将在2009年1月1日成为欧盟的轮值主席国，人们显然担心克劳斯可能会利用自己捷克国家首脑的身份，试图破坏那些确保《里斯本条约》生效的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Stillborn Security Strategy",
        "夭折的欧洲安全战略"
    ],
    [
        "What a handful of individual Republicans decide will shape the future not just of the country, but of democracy itself.",
        "一小撮共和党的决定不但将影响这个国家的未来，也将影响民主的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "We became involved with this issue for a compelling reason: the violence and corruption associated with drug trafficking represents a major threat to democracy in our region.",
        "我们对毒品事务的介入是基于一个显而易见的原因：与毒品走私有关的暴力和腐败都是拉美民主的重要威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Halve that waste, and the world could feed an extra billion people – and make hunger yesterday’s problem.",
        "如果能让浪费减半，世界可以额外养活10亿人——让饥饿成为昨天的记忆。"
    ],
    [
        "Her lack of managerial experience is thus her key weakness, and she will have to find a strong team to support her.",
        "因此，缺少管经验是她的重要劣势，她需要一个强大的团队支持她。"
    ],
    [
        "In the longer term, however, a better overall system for skills upgrading could be designed – one that could be integral to facilitating upward mobility.",
        "但在长期来说应该会创设一个更完善的技能提升体系——更有利于劳动者的向上提拔。"
    ],
    [
        "Primary providers are the first place Costa Ricans turn when they have a health problem, as practitioners offer acute, chronic, and preventive services.",
        "当哥斯达黎加人遇到健康问题时，首先会求助于初级医疗提供者，由他们提供急性、慢性和预防性服务。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s Agony",
        "印度的悲痛"
    ],
    [
        "There could be no alternative to free markets and the neoliberal Washington Consensus – or so it appeared.",
        "这不可能成为自由市场和新自由主义华盛顿共识的替代品。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Smart Asian Pivot",
        "欧洲的聪明亚洲支点"
    ],
    [
        "Two face-to-face surveys of more than 2,500 Iranian adults, conducted in 2000 and 2005, clearly show the trend.",
        "分别在2000年和2005年进行的两场各涵盖2500名成年伊朗人的现场调查清楚地揭示了这一趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to this the inconvenience of travel and the potential problems caused by being far from home in case of a family emergency.",
        "这还不算上下班的不便和突发紧急情况时离家在外的潜在难度。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s tragedy is that we are receding from this possible agreement.",
        "当今的悲剧是，我们从这一可能的协议中退缩。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ireland, our attorney-general advised on the need to hold a referendum on the fiscal treaty, and we are now in the midst of the campaign.",
        "在爱尔兰，我们的总检查长建议就该财政协议举行全民公决，而我们也正处于对此的选举宣传运动当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Expect macroprudential policies to go south, too – and to be redefined in the process.",
        "为此相应的宏观谨慎政策也将在南美推行——并在推行的过程中被重新定义和调整。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, health-care providers and individuals should view chronic pain more as a “syndrome” than a symptom – one that may not be “curable.”",
        "首先，医疗提供者和个人应该将慢性疼痛视为“综合症状”（syndrome）而非征兆（symptom）——是不可“治愈”的。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1932, the Fed was unwilling to help stabilize a collapsing banking system.",
        "1932年，美联储不愿出手稳定即将崩溃的银行系统。"
    ],
    [
        "They then worked with donors to develop comprehensive strategies for reaching all out-of-school children and raising the quality of education.",
        "接着，它们还与出资者合作制定覆盖全体辍学儿童和提高教育质量的全面战略。"
    ],
    [
        "And trades do go wrong: remember the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management.",
        "而交易确实出了问题：别忘了美国长期资本管理公司的倒闭。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kakatiya kings installed it in a temple, which was raided by Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khilji, who took it back to his capital along with other plundered treasures.",
        "卡卡提亚国王将它供奉在庙宇中，后来被德里苏丹西尔基（Alauddin Khilji）掠得，和其他战利品一起带回了他的都城。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a group of retired professors of economics and law, and another of “ordinary” citizens, whose individual complaints have been selected as examples by the Court.",
        "还有一群退休经济学和法学教授，以及另外一批“普通”公民，后者的抱怨被德国宪法法院采纳为参考例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Its current leader, Kim Jong-un, seems far more dangerous than his father, Kim Jong-il, or grandfather, Kim Il-sung.",
        "该国现任领导人金正恩的危险程度似乎远超其父金正日、或其祖父金日成。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, I share Bernanke’s instinct that, while central banks do set very short-term interest rates, they have virtually no influence over long-term real (inflation-adjusted) rates, other than a modest effect through portfolio management policies (for example, “quantitative easing”).",
        "尽管如此，我仍同意伯南克的直觉，即央行确实决定着极短期利率，但它们对长期真实（经通胀调整）利率几无影响力，只能通过投资组合管理政策（比如“量化宽松”）略微施加影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The slowdown is not a surprise.",
        "减速并不令人奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – As the Federal Reserve moves closer to initiating one of the most long-awaited and widely predicted periods of rising short-term interest rates in the United States, many are asking how emerging markets will be affected.",
        "坎布里奇——随着被外界广为期待和猜测的美联储在美启动短期利率上调的日子越来越近，很多人都无法确定新兴市场经济将受到哪些冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "It must be seen as an institution that respects each country’s sovereignty but works for the global good.",
        "它必须被视为一个尊重各国主权但却同时在为全世界谋福利的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "The new code also introduces the concept of “administrative receivership,” whereby lawyers, certified accountants, and other intermediaries act as managers of enterprises undergoing bankruptcy.",
        "新的法律还引入了“管理接管”的概念，藉此，律师，注册会计师，和其他中介机构可以出任破产企业的管理人员。"
    ],
    [
        "Each discipline has its own language and its own separate machinery.",
        "各学科都有自己的表达方式和学科机制。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these efforts together will soften shocks somewhat and create more energy self-sufficiency.",
        "所有这些努力会共同减缓冲击，扩大能源的自给。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, they do constitute a real challenge to people of faith.",
        "他们确实对信仰宗教的人们构成了极大的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it is clear that you have other priorities to worry about.”",
        "现在你们显然应该操心更重要的事。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "For once, a grassroots movement has arisen that is composed of people – some with Ivy League degrees, but many without – who are taking seriously the Internet-age promise that you don’t have to yield leadership to an established class of politicians and pundits.",
        "一旦爆发了一场草根运动，而且这场运动由一群互联网时代的人们组成（有些拥有常青藤联盟的名校学历，但许多都是没有的），那么这将意味着你无需屈服于一个政治家和学术权威阶层的领导之下。"
    ],
    [
        "But these ten “battleground” states are the ones to watch for clues as to how the election will turn out.",
        "但上述10个“主战场”州却是寻找选举结果线索的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been some notable moves in this direction, though it remains to be seen whether they will translate into real action.",
        "在这方面已经有了一些值得关注的动作，尽管是否能转化为真实行动还有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "The president and First Lady are the king and queen of the American republic – the official faces that the US presents to the outside world.",
        "总统和第一夫人就是美利坚共和国的国王和王后，向外部世界展示的美国官方面孔。"
    ],
    [
        "But the newcomer asking the most basic questions begins to notice logical inconsistencies, from which the real constraints on solutions and technological limits arise.",
        "但从最基本问题出发的新人能够一眼发现逻辑上的不一致，而正是这些不一致限制了问题的解决。"
    ],
    [
        "BUENOS AIRES – At the recent Summit of the Americas in Panama, Cuban President Raúl Castro chose to break with the agreed protocol.",
        "布宜诺斯艾利斯—在最近的巴拿马美洲峰会（Summit of the Americas）上，古巴总统劳尔·卡斯特罗打破了常规（agreed protocol）。"
    ],
    [
        "Just two months ago, in mid-June, when the Syrian crisis was the focus of international attention and the subject of heated policy debate, such a statement by a senior administration official would have drawn strong reactions from several quarters.",
        "两个月前的6月中旬，当叙利亚危机还是国际社会关注的焦点和政策激烈辩论的主题时，政府高官这样的声明会在若干领域引起强烈的反响。"
    ],
    [
        "But guess what?",
        "但你猜怎么着？"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, Japan should not join the AIIB until the criteria for monitoring its investments are clear.",
        "因此，日本不应该加入亚投行，直到监测其投资的标准变得更加明确。"
    ],
    [
        "But nothing is certain.",
        "但是没有什么事情是确定无疑的。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally important, when the votes were counted, Sri Lanka’s military leaders honored their oaths and bravely rebuffed Rajapaksa’s unconstitutional order to annul the election and maintain him in power.",
        "同样重要的是在清点选票时，斯里兰卡军方领导人履行了自己的誓言，勇敢回绝了拉贾帕克萨废除选举结果、继续掌权的违宪命令。"
    ],
    [
        "As one scientist friend puts it: if you are driving on a mountain road, approaching a cliff, in a car whose brakes may fail, and a fog bank rolls in, should you drive more or less cautiously?",
        "正如我的一个科学家朋友所说：如果你在一条山路上开车，驶向一处悬崖，而汽车的制动系统可能有问题，又正逢山雾弥漫，你应该开得更谨慎还是更随意呢？"
    ],
    [
        "If we cut back on aid, we will fail to keep our promise, and poorer countries will learn, once again, that rich countries’ actions fall short of their inspiring rhetoric about reducing world poverty.",
        "如果我们削减援助额，我们将会失信，而贫国将再一次了解到富国的那些激动人心的减少世界贫困的华丽的辞藻不会全部付诸实践。"
    ],
    [
        "Investing that amount over the next decade in a coordinated effort to address the major questions facing vaccine development would rapidly accelerate our search for effective solutions, implying a transformative impact on individual and public health.",
        "投资相同数量的资金用于在未来十年合作解决疫苗开发的所面临的主要问题能够大大加速我们对有效解决方案的搜索，给个人和公共健康带来变革性影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Gusmão will now need to prove himself at the head of an inexperienced government.",
        "Gusmão需要在一个缺乏经验的政府面前证明自己的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Iraq's possession of oil is a mixed blessing, because few oil-based economies have proven hospitable to liberal democracy.",
        "不仅如此，伊拉克的石油资源令人喜忧参半，因为几乎所有的产油国都对自由民主缺乏兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Automation, for example, seems to have spurred an unexpectedly rapid decline in routine white- and blue-collar jobs.",
        "比如，自动化刺激了常规白领和蓝领岗位出人意料的迅速减少。"
    ],
    [
        "Another alternative would be to use the electoral register, a public database that the ECB could use independently of governments.",
        "另一个替代方案是使用电子注册，建立欧洲央行可以独立于政府使用的公共数据库。"
    ],
    [
        "When such statements require endless interpretation and explanation, their impact is weakened dramatically.",
        "当这些言论都需要无尽的解读和诠释时，它们的影响力也大大削弱了。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there are the CO2 emissions from producing synthetic fertilizers; clearing trees, shrubs, and grass from hundreds of millions of hectares of land; destroying large reservoirs of soil carbon; and transporting and processing the switchgrass.",
        "而生产合成化肥、清理数亿英亩土地的树木、灌木和杂草、分解土壤碳储存池以及运输和处理柳枝稷也会产生二氧化碳排放。"
    ],
    [
        "But three of the European Union’s four largest economies – France, Italy, and the United Kingdom – all have large debts and annual deficits that point to even higher debt ratios in the future.",
        "但欧盟四大经济体之三——法国、意大利和英国——债务和年赤字都非常庞大，将让未来债务比进一步上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Will “managed” democracy and spheres of influence trump the right of countries, large or small, to determine their own future?",
        "“有管理的”民主和影响力范围会压倒国家（不论大国还是小国）决定自己未来的权利吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, while competitive elections are essential to any democratic system, a “winner-take-all” attitude to electoral outcomes, with the victor concentrating power, is incompatible with democracy in the long term.",
        "类似地，虽然竞争性选举对所有民主体系来说都是必不可少的，而选举结果导致的“赢者通吃”且权力集中的局面却是无法与民主政治长期相容的。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s hope so.",
        "让我们希望情况会是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "But it was the liberals who delivered Egypt from authoritarianism.",
        "但是让埃及摆脱专制统治的是自由主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "One must also develop and put forward a credible Plan B – the implied threat that drives forward negotiations on Plan A. Greece’s finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, knows this very well.",
        "你必须制定和事先布局可信的B计划——推动A计划谈判的隐含威胁。 希腊财政部长雅尼斯·瓦鲁法基斯（Yanis Varoufakis）对于这一点心知肚明。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – There are historical precedents for sovereign-debt defaults by the countries of Europe’s southern periphery, but they are not instantly attractive ones.",
        "普林斯顿——面临主权债务违约的欧洲南部边缘国家可以在历史上找到前车之鉴，但乍一看都让人皱眉头。"
    ],
    [
        "That lawyer, Elizabeth Gilson, probably knows al-Hanashi’s state of mind before he died, but the US government will not allow her to talk about it.",
        "那位名叫伊丽莎白·吉尔森的律师很可能清楚哈纳什死前的心理状况，但美国政府却不会允许她去谈论这些。"
    ],
    [
        "Much thicker coatings of aerosols at the lower ends of glaciers might explain the tendency in several glaciers, noted in the Indian report, to become narrower in the middle, forming two distinct parts.",
        "冰舌下端的气溶胶沉降比中部和上部厚得多，这有助于解释某些冰川中部变窄、形成上下两截的现象，印度报告对此特别注意。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of these countries used the renewed capital inflows to run large current-account deficits after 2010 as well.",
        "有些国家利用资本再次流入的机遇扩大经常账户的赤字规模。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Greece has fallen into a deep and prolonged recession, with output down 25% from pre-crisis levels.",
        "希腊因此陷入了长期及深层次的经济衰退，与危机前相比，其出口水平下降了25%。"
    ],
    [
        "The Al Qaeda-led and Salafist extremist groups in the rebel forces, such a Al Nusra, have proved to be just as vicious as the government and its allies, the Iranian proxy Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.",
        "叛军中不乏基地组织领导的沙拉菲派极端组织，比如Al Nusra，它们被证实与政府及其盟友——伊朗代理人真主党和伊朗革命卫队一样残暴。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany, the leading proponent of austerity and the most influential creditor, was accused of insufficient flexibility and solidarity; Greece, for its part, was lambasted for failing to implement the reforms that it promised the first two times it was bailed out.",
        "紧缩派领导者、影响力最大的债权国德国被控灵活性和团结精神不足； 希腊则被猛烈批评没能实施在前两次援助中承诺实施的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this rules out selective cooperation with Iran, be it in Afghanistan, Syria, or Iraq, if interests overlap.",
        "所有这些都不排除在利益重叠的情况下选择性地与伊朗合作，不管是在阿富汗、叙利亚还是伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "Kudrin’s reputation for placid competence might just buy Putin some extra time.",
        "库德林以心平气和著称，这或许可以为普京争取一些额外的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though EU agencies like the European Central Bank are assuming an increasing share of regulatory responsibility, divergences in decision-making procedures continue to affect the rate and nature of transatlantic coordination.",
        "此外，尽管欧洲央行等欧盟机构承担的监管责任比重越来越大，但决策程序的分歧仍然影响了跨大西洋协作的节奏和性质。"
    ],
    [
        "Could NATO take on new roles and missions?",
        "北约能否担任新角色、完成新任务？"
    ],
    [
        "But the Nobel Foundation is forced to look at much more such practical, applied material when it considers the economics prize.",
        "但在评定经济学奖时，诺贝尔基金会不得不去寻找一些更具实践应用性的材料。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the community budget should be structured so that it has a significant impact on growth and employment (a return to the voluntarism of the Delors Packages, now applied to the Lisbon Strategy).",
        "首先，应当制定一份对经济增长和就业率具有重大影响的共同体预算方案（重回德罗尔的唯意志论，其现在正适用于里斯本战略）"
    ],
    [
        "That might or might not be true.",
        "这一观点或许是对的，但或许也不对。"
    ],
    [
        "Suppose that a newly independent Scotland is thrown out of the EU and NATO, and told that it will remain outside for years to come.",
        "假设新独立的苏格兰被逐出欧盟和北约，并被告知未来多年内都没有加入的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the Beijing Games, the Berlin Olympics were conceived as a coming-out party.",
        "像北京奥运会一样，柏林奥运会也被设想成一场亮相的盛会。"
    ],
    [
        "Some within the Chinese Communist Party leadership will support plans to engineer a shift from export-led growth to a model based on domestic consumption.",
        "在中国共产党内部，一些领导人希望将经济增长的动力从以出口为导向转为拉动内需的模式。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the EU’s fundamental economic problems are structural.",
        "首先，欧盟的根本经济问题是结构性的。"
    ],
    [
        "This view seems intuitively correct, but is it?",
        "但真的如此吗？"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, in dealing with impoverished, isolated, nuclearized North Korea, where Sino-US cooperation is the only option, the US and China face both a challenge and an opportunity.",
        "因此中美两国机遇与挑战并存，必须在处理贫困、孤立的朝鲜核问题时实现通力合作。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s Cow Vigilantes",
        "印度神牛纠察队"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the missile launch can be viewed as an indication of how threatened the Kim dynasty feels: the regime appears to believe that it must blackmail its closest ally in order to maintain its support.",
        "因此，导弹发射可以看作金氏王朝深感遭受威胁的凭据：朝鲜政权似乎认为必须绑架最亲密的盟友才能确保获得支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal consolidation in the Mediterranean countries might just do the trick, and allow – at great cost – a return to normal financing arrangements.",
        "地中海沿岸国家的财政巩固政策可能会成功，并在付出巨大代价的情况下恢复到正常的财政状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Skill erosion becomes a problem for those with prior work experience, while unsuccessful first-time entrants into the labor force are not just unemployed, but risk becoming unemployable.",
        "技能的逐渐丧失对那些原本有工作经验的人来说是个问题，而首次就业不成功则不仅意味着失业这么简单，还隐含着不会被雇佣的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The Zimbabwe Election Support Network has also expressed concern about the country’s state of readiness for this complex election, which will combine presidential, parliamentary, senatorial, and local government contests.",
        "津巴布韦选举支持网络同样也对这个国家是否准备好迎接这场复杂的选举表示了担心。 这次选举将会选出总统、议会、参议员以及地方政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, a country’s economic and political stability may be threatened.",
        "否则，一国就有可能遭遇经济和政治动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "When Patterson tried to work with Morsi’s government in ways that allowed her to pursue US interests, including pushing for more inclusive and rights-respecting policies, the liberal opposition saw her as supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.",
        "当帕特森试图与穆尔西政府合作维护美国的利益，包括推动更加包容并尊重人权的政策时，自由反对派认为她在背后支持穆斯林兄弟会。"
    ],
    [
        "By confiscating the computers, the Russian police could supposedly verify whether or not the Microsoft software that the activists were using had been installed legally.",
        "电脑被没收以后，据说俄罗斯警方可以验证活动者所用的微软软件是否是合法安装的。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to do so would be a missed opportunity at a time when African countries must avail themselves of all available resources for poverty reduction.",
        "当前，非洲国家必须利用所有可资利用的资源脱贫，否则就会坐失良机。"
    ],
    [
        "But the need for spending cuts also raises the prospect that the US might be unable to finance a military shift toward the Asia-Pacific region – or, worse, that it will be forced to retrench there.",
        "但削减支出的需要也让人感觉美国可能无法为其将军事重心转向亚太地区的转变融资，甚至可能被迫减弱这方面的支出。"
    ],
    [
        "With a dysfunctional Congress again letting down the American people, the country is now on the receiving end of a budgetary sequester – another self-manufactured headwind to economic growth, job creation, and progress on reducing income and wealth inequalities.",
        "由于机能失调的国会又一次让美国人民失望，如今美国又将要承受一场预算困局——又是一场自作自受的，遏制经济增长和创造就业机会、无助于改善收入减少和财富不平等的不利因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Triffin issued his warning more than 50 years ago, but it has recently gained traction, as China’s rise has made the world increasingly disinclined to tolerate the instability caused by a dollar-denominated system.",
        "特里芬在50多年前就提出了这一警告，但直到最近才获得重视，中国的崛起让世界越来越不愿意忍受美元计价体系带来的不稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, worried by Shi’a expansionism, was persuaded by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the head of his National Security Council, to coordinate policy with Israel to counter Iran’s growing influence.",
        "去年，沙特国王阿卜杜拉由于担心什叶派的扩张而在其国家安全委员会首领班达尔本亲王的劝说下与以色列协调政策，来钳制伊朗日益增加的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, there is no sign that either man is willing to speak his mind in order to signal to the other side what he will expect when the next crisis looms.",
        "更糟糕的是，谁也不愿谈及他的观点，好给对方一个信号，免得下次危机迫近时对方连他期望什么都不知晓。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – In many Western democracies, right-wing populists, energized by self-proclaimed victories over “establishment elites,” are doubling down on the claim that globalization lies at the root of many citizens’ problems.",
        "马德里——在众多西方民主国家，右翼民粹主义者在自封的对“体制精英”胜利的鼓舞下正在双倍下注，将很多民众问题的根源归结为全球化。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the current proposal to deal “voluntarily” with the Greek debt goes some way in this direction.",
        "最近出台的“自愿”处理希腊债务方案中也有某些条款采用了这条方针。"
    ],
    [
        "If threats and violence from the Taliban prevent too many Afghans from casting their vote, the legitimacy of the outcome could be questioned, possibly inciting even more turmoil, which Afghanistan’s fledging security forces would struggle to contain.",
        "如果塔利班的威胁和暴力阻止太多的阿富汗人投出选票，那么选举结果的合法性就会受到质疑，可能带来进一步的动荡，刚刚建立的阿富汗安全部队将难以应付。"
    ],
    [
        "The only consolation is that Brexit’s revolutionary momentum may not be sustainable.",
        "唯一的慰藉是退欧的革命势头也许是不可持续的。"
    ],
    [
        "Knocking holes in the Kremlin’s wall of propaganda will not be easy, but it should not be impossible in our hyper-connected world.",
        "在克里姆林宫的宣传机器上寻找破绽决非易事，但在我们的高度互联的世界也并非不可能的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s interdependent world, a coordinated strategy is needed to avoid recession and to return lasting stability to financial markets.",
        "在今天这样一个相互依存的世界，需要制定一项共同策略来防止经济衰退，恢复金融市场的长期稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments remain the major actors in world politics, but they now must share the stage with many more competitors for attention.",
        "各国政府仍然是国际政治舞台上的主要演员，但它们现在必须与许多竞争对手一起分享这一舞台，争夺眼球。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, countries should phase out the production of water-intensive crops.",
        "首先，各国应该停止种植水密集型庄稼。"
    ],
    [
        "The final pillar is the eventual creation of a welcoming environment for economic migrants.",
        "最终营造出欢迎经济移民的宽松氛围是最后的支柱。"
    ],
    [
        "But if renewables were cheaper, they wouldn’t need subsidies, and we wouldn’t need climate policies.",
        "但如果可再生能源更便宜的话，它们就不需要补贴，我们也不需要气候政策了。"
    ],
    [
        "A Daughter of Dictatorship and Democracy",
        "独裁与民主的女儿"
    ],
    [
        "The third – and, it seems, most likely – way forward for the eurozone is business as usual.",
        "欧元区的第三种——似乎也是最有可能的一种——前途是一切照旧。"
    ],
    [
        "The Making of China’s Consumer Society",
        "打造中国的消费者社会"
    ],
    [
        "And the question will certainly loom that if functions can be restored for those in need, is it right to use these technologies to enhance the abilities of healthy individuals?",
        "有一个问题也肯定会摆在我们面前：如果需要的人可以借此来恢复功能，那么运用此类技术增强健康人的能力又是对是错？"
    ],
    [
        "Satellite, tweets, and Facebook statuses beamed that same message to the world.",
        "卫星、推特和Facebook向世界传递出同样的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "The specter of revolution had forced Western elites to use the power of the state to redistribute wealth and nurture the growth of loyal middle classes.",
        "革命的幽灵曾迫使西方精英阶层借助国家权力重新分配财富，从而培育出忠心耿耿的中产阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "And the policies that Trump’s Republican Party has proposed – for health care, taxes, and deregulation – will not make much difference.",
        "而特朗普的共和党所提出的政策——包括医疗、税收和去监管化等方面——无法带来多少改观。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Channel has been such a barrier, durable bonds across the Atlantic seem implausible.",
        "如果由一条海峡所构成的障碍都如此难以跨越，那么持久不变的跨大西洋关系就更没有理由延续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "From a model applicable to the minority of the world’s population, “Western consumer society” is becoming the dominant economic model of the world, one to which there is increasingly no alternative.",
        "“西方消费社会”已经从对世界人口少数人适用的一种模式转变为独霸全球的经济模式。 而且，这一模式越发没有可以替代的其他模式了。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, policymakers should ensure that financial-market participants fully internalize the risks that they assume, rather than tax or restrict certain types of transactions.",
        "类似地，决策者应该确保金融市场参与者完全将各自所认定的风险内部化，而不是对特定类型的交易课税或加以限制。"
    ],
    [
        "We worked with 32 top global academics and subject experts to identify nearly 100 research ideas that would fast-track the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and 40 projects for which a first-order estimate of potential benefits and costs could be calculated.",
        "我们与32位全球学者和相关专家一起选出了近100个可以加快实现联合国可持续发展目标的研究主题，以及40个可以对潜在收益和成本进行一阶估算（first-order estimate）的项目。"
    ],
    [
        "The Promise of Abenomics",
        "安倍经济学的祝福"
    ],
    [
        "France and its European partners, in particular Germany, with which we worked in tight collaboration, will suggest all these points to the G-20.",
        "法国与欧洲盟友们，特别是我们有着紧密协作的德国将在20国首脑会议中提到上述所有这些要点。"
    ],
    [
        "Tolerating genocide is intolerable.",
        "默许种族灭绝行为是不能容忍的。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, Lagarde has identified, and acted on, three of the most important challenges facing today’s world.",
        "此外，拉加德认识到当今世界面临着三大最重要的挑战，并针对它们展开行动。"
    ],
    [
        "His adult children have spent their lives being groomed and promoted, and have operated at the pinnacle of the Trump Organization for years.",
        "他的成年子女一直在接受提拔和培养，多年以来一直处在特朗普组织的最高层。"
    ],
    [
        "Drawn from traditional “just war” theory, R2P rests not only on right intentions, but also on the existence of a reasonable prospect of success.",
        "源自于传统的“正义战争”理论，保护责任不仅构建于一个良好的意愿，还需要一个合理的成功预期。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet few actually do.",
        "但很少有人真的这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "We’re not going to make war against it, we’re going to “kick its ass.”",
        "我们不是要与它作战，我们是要“踢它的屁股”。"
    ],
    [
        "One can hardly challenge the predictive success of modern physics, but one should remember that one is describing nature, and not always understanding it.",
        "没人能质疑现代物理学所取得的预测性成就，但人们也必须牢记：当一个人在解释自然的时候，他其实不一定懂得自然。"
    ],
    [
        "The basic problem, of course, is confidence.",
        "当然，问题的关键还是信心问题。"
    ],
    [
        "All three have negotiated intellectual-property agreements with the US, achieving what seemed like mutually agreeable levels of protection.",
        "三国都与美国进行过知识产权协议谈判，达成了互相同意的保护期。"
    ],
    [
        "This problem arose in the United States after the 2001 recession.",
        "这一问题在2001年经济衰退后开始在美国浮现。"
    ],
    [
        "The only way to stem the rising tide of destructive populism and prevent the drift toward damaging protectionist measures is to reconnect with frustrated constituencies, and find ways to respond to people’s real economic grievances.",
        "遏制破坏性民粹主义浪潮不断高涨并防止滑向破坏性保护主义措施的唯一方法是重新联系沮丧的选民，并想方设法对民众切实的经济不满作出回应。"
    ],
    [
        "The case was flawed from the beginning.",
        "其实从一开始就存在缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "The American actress Angelina Jolie’s highly publicized visits to Syrian refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey underscored the near-absence of similar awareness campaigns by Arab celebrities.",
        "美国女演员安吉丽娜·朱莉高调访问约旦和土耳其的叙利亚难民营进一步凸显出阿拉伯名人对类似宣传活动的冷漠态度。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s governments must be able to trade horses if pandas and presidents are to do more than smile.",
        "如果要让熊猫和总统都在笑容之外做出点实事的话，全世界的领导人都要作好讨价还价的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "And, at first, many approved.",
        "一开始，许多人都赞成。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Little more than three months after the United Kingdom’s decision in June to leave the European Union, Brexit politics are careening out of control in the UK.",
        "巴黎—6月英国做出退欧决定刚过三个月，英国退欧政治呈现出失控之势。"
    ],
    [
        "So, even if reducing inequality was bad for overall growth, it might still be good for social welfare in the relevant sense, if it made many households in the middle better off.",
        "因此即使减少不平等对总体增长不利，但如果能使许多处于收入中层的家庭境况更佳，也许在相关程度上还是有利于社会福利的。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, three interconnected crises – a resource crisis, an environmental crisis, and a climate crisis – are threatening Asia’s economic, social, and ecological future.",
        "换言之，资源危机、环境危机和气候危机相互影响，对亚洲的经济、社会和生态未来构成严重的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "They could end up like Egypt, which is becoming a police state, or move in the direction taken by Algeria, where a brief flirtation with political Islam 25 years ago gave way to an authoritarian clampdown and years of violent conflict.",
        "他们最终可能像埃及一样，埃及正在成为一个警察国家，或者走上阿尔及利亚所走的道路，25年前在与政治伊斯兰主义有过一段短暂的调情后，阿尔及利亚局势最终陷入专制镇压和多年的暴力冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Sharon sought natural fighters rather than dutiful soldiers, and he carefully planned each raid, always sending some men well beyond the target of the attack to ambush any reinforcements.",
        "沙龙要的是天生的战士而不是忠诚的士卒。 他为每次夜袭都制定了详尽计划，每次都会派人深入到远远超过袭击目标的敌后去伏击增援部队。"
    ],
    [
        "But what “common values” do King, Pope, and American President share?",
        "但是，沙特国王、教皇以及美国总统之间有什么“共同价值观”呢？"
    ],
    [
        "With oil prices steadily rising, the value of Russian oil production reached a new peak, roughly ten times the 1999 level, in 2008; Russia invaded Georgia the same year.",
        "随着油价的稳步攀升，俄罗斯石油产量的价值达到了新高峰，2008年大约比1999年增加了九倍。 同一年，俄罗斯入侵格鲁吉亚。"
    ],
    [
        "And higher interest rates mean that investment, and thus growth, will slow, even if the consumption of the very rich increases.",
        "而更高的利率意味着即使超级富裕阶层的消费增加，投资和增长也将放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Emerging countries offer the example of blatant inequality between employees in the formal sector – companies like Petrobras in Brazil and Infosys in India – and those who work in the informal economy.",
        "那些新兴国家就存在着正式部门——比如巴西国家石油公司（Petrobras）和印度印孚瑟斯公司（Infosys）——员工与在非正规经济中工作的员工之间赤裸裸的收入不平等现象。"
    ],
    [
        "It hosts Israeli spokespersons and embraces state-of-the-art broadcasting techniques.",
        "半岛邀请以色列发言人发表观点，采用最先进的广播技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the world’s biggest oil firms are beginning to acknowledge this truth.",
        "世界诸多大石油企业已开始承认这一事实。"
    ],
    [
        "The next rate hike in the normalization process is expected in October, two months after the expected August move.",
        "在八月份预期的调整后，下一次正常化进程中的调整将会出现在两个月之后，即十月份。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are to ensure that health care remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to rethink radically how we provide and manage it.",
        "”如果我们要确保医疗保持平价、我们的子孙后代仍能“有医无类”，我们就需要深刻反思如何提供和管理医疗。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, poor people in China mostly view their personal situation as transitional.",
        "恰恰相反，中国的贫困人口大多把目前的境遇看作一种过渡状况。"
    ],
    [
        "When traditional market mechanisms fail, instruments such as “transferable market exclusivities” can help, by allowing drug makers to transfer an antimicrobial medicine’s intellectual-property benefits to another drug.",
        "当传统市场机制失灵时，“可转移的市场排他性”等工具可以起到帮助作用。 这一机制允许制药公司将某种抗生素的知识产权转移到另一种药品身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Jews, it was believed, would always form a “state within a state.”",
        "有人认为犹太人永远会组成“国中之国”。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first few decades of its modern existence, when it was largely run by socialists, Israel was mainly supported by the world’s liberal left.",
        "在现代以色列国的最初几十年里，在以色列由社会主义者执政的年代，支持他们的主要是世界自由派左翼。"
    ],
    [
        "These three qualities should be put to work if our planet is to be spared major water wars.",
        "为了避免地球上发生大规模水战争，那么就应该让这三个特质发挥作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when facing a disease that kills up to 70% of those who are infected, and no accepted treatment yet exists, patients could reasonably refuse consent to a trial in which they might receive a placebo, rather than an experimental treatment that offers some hope of recovery.",
        "但是，对于传染后致死率接近70%并且没有已被接受的现成治疗方法的埃博拉来说，患者可能理性地拒绝参与可能获得安慰剂的实验，还不如参与存在些许恢复希望的实验性治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "In retrospect, China’s designs might seem obvious.",
        "时候来看，中国的意图是明显的。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, synthetic biology will be possible before too long, with scientists using the huge amount of increasingly available and inexpensive genetic data to design DNA from scratch – a practice that has applications in medicine, agriculture, and even biofuel production.",
        "同样，合成生物学用不了多久就会成为现实，届时科学家将利用数量巨大且不断增加的廉价基因数据从零开始设计DNA——这项技术在医学、农业甚至是生物燃料制造领域具有广阔的应用前景。"
    ],
    [
        "Such communities, which comprise 30% of Jerusalem’s population, make the notion of a united, peaceful Jerusalem farfetched, at best.",
        "这些社区占以色列人口的30%，他们心中的统一的耶路撒冷的概念与现实格格不入。"
    ],
    [
        "Through pre-established networks, CHWs could augment their e-health offerings with financial products, like mobile cash payment systems.",
        "通过预先构建的网络，CHW能够利用金融产品，如移动现金支付系统来扩大电子健康服务覆盖面。"
    ],
    [
        "But research by the International Monetary Fund shows that, beneath the veneer, 60-65% of all trade flows in the region can be classified as “intermediate goods” – components that are made in countries like Korea and Taiwan, assembled in China, and ultimately shipped out as finished goods to the West.",
        "但IMF的研究表明，深度挖掘可以看出，60—65%的地区内贸易流可以归为“中间产品”类别——由韩国和台湾生产组件，由中国进行拼装，最后的制成品出口到西方。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s agricultural transformation will be a long and complex process.",
        "非洲的农业转型将是一个漫长而复杂的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, then, is there such strong doubt that the euro can survive?",
        "那么，人们为什么如此强烈地质疑欧元能否继续延用下去呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Although peace, order, and political stability are widely perceived as essential prerequisites for invention, entrepreneurship, and economic development, there have been many exceptions to this rule – especially when it comes to creativity and innovation.",
        "尽管和平、秩序和政治稳定被广泛认为是发明、企业家精神和经济发展的重要先决条件，但这一规则有着大量例外——特别是在创造力和创新方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Chile’s economy does not need that.",
        "而这绝不是智利经济所需要的。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this might seem over the top and childish.",
        "所有这些行为似乎都过分而且幼稚。"
    ],
    [
        "The recession in other advanced economies (the euro zone, United Kingdom, European Union, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand) started in the second quarter of 2008, before the financial turmoil in September and October further aggravated the global credit crunch.",
        "其他发达经济实体 （欧元区、英国、欧盟、加拿大、日本、澳大利亚及新西兰）从2008年 的第二季度开始衰退，此后发生于9月和10月的金融风暴进一步加剧了全球的信贷萎缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, some Okinawa residents remain opposed to the US base’s continued presence on their island, but most Japanese recognize the need for this tangible symbol of their alliance with America, which remains the bedrock of Japan’s national-security strategy.",
        "当然，一些冲绳居民仍然反对美国在岛上继续设置军事基地，但大部分日本人认为有必要存在实体象征以证明日本晕乎乎美国的同盟关系，而这一关系仍然是日本国家安全战略的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "The same people and governing methods that the “Rose Revolution” of November 2003 sought to defeat have reemerged at the center of power by using their personal networks, which extend outside Georgia’s borders, as well as their tremendous wealth and finely honed skills at political scheming and manipulation.",
        "2003年11月“玫瑰革命”所要推翻的人们以及统治方式通过使用其跨越格鲁吉亚边境的个人网络以及巨额财富和在政治阴谋和操纵方面长袖善舞重新浮现在了权力中心。"
    ],
    [
        "No one was spared.",
        "没人可以幸免。"
    ],
    [
        "Internet access would also bypass the problem of illiteracy, building on the oral traditions that are strong in many rural cultures and enabling communities to create self-help groups and share their problems with peers in other villages.",
        "互联网接入还能克服文盲问题，采用许多农村地区根深蒂固的口头方式，让社区建立自助组织，并与其他村庄分享他们的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "As they pass by, all spread out, one sees that some runners seem to be gaining rapidly.",
        "当他们拉开距离从你身边跑过时，你就能看到有些选手似乎正在快速地缩短与领先者的距离。"
    ],
    [
        "Statecraft is a realm where appearances are meant to be deceiving.",
        "在国事活动中，外表应当是遮人耳目的。"
    ],
    [
        "And this, in turn, would lead to overheating real-estate markets and domestic-wage increases, thus undermining international competitiveness.",
        "而这反过来又将导致房地产市场过热和国内工资上涨，从而破坏国际竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "But political control of the economy generally becomes problematic, because those running the state do not have social welfare or optimal resource allocation in mind.",
        "但对经济的政治控制一般总会形成问题，因为治国者头脑中并没有社会福利和最优资源配置的概念。"
    ],
    [
        "As these countries strengthen their creditworthiness and improve their capacity to manage debt and equity instruments, they will have at their disposal a larger toolkit of financing instruments with which to attract private-sector resources.",
        "如果这些国家增强自己的信誉、改善自己管理债务和股权工具的能力，它们就可以拥有更多的融资工具吸引私人部门自愿。"
    ],
    [
        "The gravest problem for Middle Israel is the Palestinian predicament in the occupied West Bank and in deadlocked Gaza.",
        "以色列中部最严重的问题是生活在约旦河西岸和处于僵局状态的加沙地带的巴勒斯坦人身处困境。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Uruguay’s president, Tabaré Vázquez won his office five years ago in the first round and, by uniting the posts of head of state and party leader, was able to forge a strong presidential leadership and popularity. As a result, during the cycle of economic prosperity that lasted until 2008, with rising commodity prices and internal dynamism, the Vázquez government insured macroeconomic stability, fiscal balance, and an open market, encouraging competitiveness as well as domestic and foreign private investment.",
        "另外，在五年前的第一轮竞选中就获胜的乌拉圭总统塔瓦雷·巴斯克斯由于身兼国家元首和党魁的双重职位，就能够打造强大的总统领导力和声望。 其结果是在上一轮一直持续到2008年的经济繁荣中，凭借不断上涨的商品价格和内部活力，巴斯克斯政府确保了宏观经济稳定、财政平衡和一个开放的市场，鼓励了竞争和国内外的私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "All have lost as a result.",
        "结果是所有各方均遭受了损失。"
    ],
    [
        "The Nuremberg trials exposed the guilt of the Nazi leaders beyond doubt, if indeed any such doubt was left in people’s minds.",
        "如果人们对纳粹的罪恶还有所怀疑的话，那么纽灵堡审讯则毋庸置疑地暴露了纳粹头目的罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the risk of deflation worldwide has been contained via exotic and unconventional monetary policies: near-zero interest rates, quantitative easing, credit easing, and forward guidance.",
        "类似地，世界通缩的风险已经通过近零利率、量化宽松、信用宽松和前瞻性指引等非常规货币政策得到遏制。"
    ],
    [
        "On this front, Europe is at a significant disadvantage.",
        "在这方面，欧洲的劣势相当严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, if too few members of society enjoy too great a genetic advantage, social cohesion and democratic institutions could be threatened even in the absence of any direct physical harm.",
        "最后，如果社会中的一小撮人享受了巨大的遗传优势，则社会团结和民主制度可能受到威胁，即使没有直接身体伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "While deploying an unprecedented amount of financial firefighting equipment, officials and lawmakers – on both sides of the Atlantic – were clear that this was a “never again” situation.",
        "尽管部署了前所未有规模的金融救火措施，但官员和立法者——大西洋两岸都一样——十分清楚这是一个“不容再犯”的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "The time has come to bury it.",
        "而如今也是时候埋葬这一神话了。"
    ],
    [
        "One financial issue on which there is global agreement is the need to close down offshore bank havens, which exist mainly for purposes of tax evasion and avoidance, money laundering, and corruption.",
        "一个全球已达成协议的金融问题就是需要关闭离岸银行这个避风港——离岸银行的存在主要是为了避税漏税、洗钱和贪污。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, by contrast, military spending is roughly 2% of GNP, while development aid is around 0.4% of GNP and on a rising path to reach 0.7% of GNP by 2015.",
        "相较之下，欧洲的军费约占其GNP的2%，而发展援助的支出却占GNP的约0. 4%，并且还继续增加，要在2015年达到GNP的0."
    ],
    [
        "Financial globalization meant that banks no longer held assets like mortgages on their books, but packaged them in asset-backed securities that were sold to investors in capital markets worldwide, thereby distributing risk more widely.",
        "金融全球化意味着银行在它们的账簿上不再持有像抵押贷款这样的资产，而是把它们打包成资产支持证券后出售给全世界资本市场的投资者，从而把风险扩散到更大的范围。"
    ],
    [
        "- Lack of transparency got the US financial system into this trouble.",
        "——美国金融系统的不透明性也是个大的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth collapsed in Africa in the late 1970’s because of the weakness of the former, and fizzled in Latin America after the first half of the 1990’s because of the weakness of the latter.",
        "七十年代末期，由于第一种机制软弱，非洲的增长崩溃。 九十年代早期，由于第二种机制无力，拉美的发展失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "But Keynesians also stress the importance of reining in the government deficit, as well as overall consumption, when the economy is booming.",
        "但凯恩斯学派也强调在经济繁荣期克制政府赤字以及总消费的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, governments’ growing reticence about progress on human rights – if not outright obstruction – will not stop civil-society groups from continuing their fight for justice.",
        "幸运的是，政府对人权进步问题的日益沉默——甚至赤裸裸的阻挠——不会阻止公民社会组织继续为正义而斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "Though rumors of Zhou’s political demise had been circulating for nearly a year, anyone familiar with Chinese political intrigue knew that, until the CCP made it official, Zhou’s many powerful patrons and cronies could still save him.",
        "尽管关于周永康政治失势的传闻流传已近一年之久，但任何熟悉中国政治权谋的人都知道，在中共正式公布前，周永康的众多强力保护人和紧密盟友仍能够挽救他。"
    ],
    [
        "If this means that the debt-to-GDP ratio will be higher than 120% in 2020, we devise smart ways to rationalize, re-profile, or restructure the debt – keeping in mind the aim of maximizing the effective present value that will be returned to Greece’s creditors.",
        "如果这意味着2020年债务-GDP比率高于120%，我们就想办法明智地梳理、重估和重组债务——并时刻铭记我们的目标是让返回希腊债权人的有效现值最大化。"
    ],
    [
        "Or in companies that sell guns to drug gangs?",
        "把钱投给向毒品团伙出售枪支的公司又可不可以？"
    ],
    [
        "That makes much more sense than spending a fortune on CO2 cuts that do next to nothing.",
        "这比在几乎不起任何作用的二氧化碳减排方面耗费大量财富要有意义得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The victory over France laid the foundation for the 1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland.",
        "对法国的胜利为1707年英格兰和苏格兰《统一法案》铺平了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "There are around 35 births for every 1,000 girls aged 15-19, compared to fewer than ten per thousand in the northern European countries.",
        "十几岁青少年产子率极高。 每1000名15—19年龄段女孩会生下35个左右的婴儿，而北欧国家的这一比例不到千分之十。"
    ],
    [
        "The fourth argument is that no major country is currently manipulating its exchange rate (the renminbi has appreciated since the mid-2000s), so there is nothing to worry about.",
        "第四个理由是没有哪个主要国家目前正在操纵汇率（2005年以来人民币有所升值），因此没有什么好担心的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while the CN¥4 trillion stimulus package propped up growth temporarily, return on investment was deteriorating, because potential growth was already lower than actual growth.",
        "但是，尽管4万亿元刺激计划暂时提振了增长，投资回报却出现了恶化，因为潜在增长已经低于实际增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, as is often true in science, Einstein's insights have provided physicists with as many questions as they have answered.",
        "但是，科学界总是发现，爱因斯坦的洞见给物理学家带来的问题与答案一样多。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent technological advances have radically altered the way people conduct their lives, both at work and at play.",
        "最新技术进步彻底改变了人们过生活的方式，不管工作还是娱乐。"
    ],
    [
        "Assad’s other major regional ally, Lebanon’s Hezbollah (which the US classifies as a terrorist organization) also supports the deal.",
        "阿萨德的另一个主要地区盟友黎巴嫩真主党（该党被美国划定为恐怖组织）也支持这一协议。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is too soon to give up hope; on the contrary, Europe is well positioned to succeed in the long term.",
        "但现在还不应太早放弃希望； 相反，欧洲正处于实现长期繁荣的有利位置。"
    ],
    [
        "A similar outcome was observed in Pakistan’s Swat Valley after the militant takeover of 2009 rendered the region inaccessible for months.",
        "同样的局面也出现在巴基斯坦的史瓦特河谷（Swat Valley）。 2009年，史瓦特河谷被军事接管，在几个月的时间里，这一地区都无法进入。"
    ],
    [
        "Should we not meet at the negotiating table, exchange smiles and handshakes, and get down to talking?",
        "难道我们不应该在谈判桌前相见，微笑着握手然后坐下来谈判？"
    ],
    [
        "Three days later, the ruble was devalued, and Russian financial markets went into a tailspin.",
        "”三天后，卢布贬值，俄罗斯金融市场崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "We often do this with very little knowledge about who is getting it, much less whether we share their ethics and values.",
        "我们往往并不了解谁得到这些信息，更不用说他们的道德和价值观我们是否同意。"
    ],
    [
        "Maybe the royal family will go back to styling itself the House of Hanover?",
        "也许王室应该重新学习汉诺威王朝的威仪？"
    ],
    [
        "The Years of Living Tactically",
        "策略生活年代"
    ],
    [
        "Verbal threats, for example, are both intangible and coercive.",
        "比如说口头威胁既是无形的，也是强制性的。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, the use of bonuses based on one-year results should be discouraged.",
        "对刚来的高管，公司不应该鼓励基于一年的业绩表现而发放奖金。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s unconditional support for North Korea’s wayward regime, despite its repeated crimes against peace, is also a cause for concern about whether China will treat its neighbors’ security concerns with respect.",
        "此外，尽管朝鲜一再破坏区域和平，但中国对这个流氓政权却给于无条件支持，这也是导致其他国家对中国是否认真对待其邻国的国家安全有所保留的重要原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In evolutionary terms, we can easily understand altruism toward kin and others who can reciprocate our help.",
        "从进化论的角度，我们很容易就能理解对家人和可回馈帮助的人的利他主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, in the short term, low energy lighting and efficient industrial motors may sound obvious, but we are nowhere near using them as extensively as we could.",
        "从短期来说，我们能做的就是运用节能灯和节能汽车，目前这项工作还做得还远远不够。"
    ],
    [
        "So it should come as no surprise when policymakers insist that the industry’s efforts at innovation be channeled into areas that provide the most benefit to taxpayers and patients, rather than those – like financial maneuvers – that might be most profitable for the industry in the short term.",
        "因此，决策者坚持将行业创新工作引导到对纳税人和患者最为有利的领域一点不值得大惊小怪，它们不应像金融策略那样在短期内让行业有利可图。"
    ],
    [
        "But history shows that it is an imperative that cannot always be perfectly achieved.",
        "但历史表明这是一个并不总是能够完美实现的使命。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, some of the most important initiatives to stem greenhouse gases and promote green growth are the products of local pressures.",
        "有趣的是，一些阻止温室效应并促进绿色增长的最重要提案都是本地压力的产物。"
    ],
    [
        "Their agenda is more pressing, and their problems, frankly, far more serious than ours, which makes it much more urgent for them to develop theories appropriate to the challenges they face.",
        "她们的任务更加紧迫，而且坦率地讲，她们的问题比我们严重得多，因此她们迫切需要发展与所面临挑战相适应的理论。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, one in six people owns a mobile phone, the benefits of which go far beyond easy communication.",
        "如今，每六个人就拥有一部移动电话，移动电话带来的好处远远不止于通信的便捷。"
    ],
    [
        "In Israel, Obama will encounter a country that has indeed moved, but not toward a missing center. It has moved into its own orbit.",
        "奥巴马所面临的问题是以色列正沿着自身的轨道运行，并且离中间路线越来越远。"
    ],
    [
        "Enlargement of the euro area promises to spur further financial integration.",
        "欧元区的扩大必定会引发进一步的金融一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "The easiest way to compound the tragedy in Paris would be to use the deaths of Charlie Hebdo’s editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, and 11 others to fan the flames of religious hatred.",
        "加剧巴黎悲剧的最佳办法莫过于用《查理周刊》编辑查波涅尔（Stéphane Charbonnier）和其他11人的死煽动宗教仇恨之火。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Cerrado pledge demonstrates, when governments and businesses come together to address land-use challenges, the impact is potent.",
        "塞拉多承诺表明，当政府和企业齐心协力解决土地使用的挑战时，影响是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider sectoral policies in Costa Rica and Argentina.",
        "对比一下哥斯达黎加和阿根廷的部门政策。"
    ],
    [
        "These concepts result in significantly different explanations of the real world, including income distribution and the determinants of economic activity and growth.",
        "这些理念导致对真实世界截然不同的解释，包括收入分配、经济行为和发展的决定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue we addressed is a critical one: What kind of war should militaries today be preparing to fight?",
        "我们面对的问题是一个关键问题：当今军队应该准备打怎样的战争？"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, corporate secrecy has placed ExxonMobil in the crosshairs of the attorneys general of New York, Massachusetts, and the Virgin Islands, and many more states are waiting in the wings.",
        "与此同时，公司机密让埃克森美孚成为纽约州、马萨诸塞州和维京群岛检察长的目标，许多其他州也在蓄势待发。"
    ],
    [
        "The Cold War division of Europe is well and truly over.",
        "一切都说明，由冷战导致的欧洲分裂局面已经彻底走向了终结。"
    ],
    [
        "The party’s leaders and elected officials fought against him during the primary, and many are still reluctant to endorse him.",
        "共和党领导人和当选官员在初选期间一直在与他作对，其中不少至今仍不愿支持他。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a program would set high federal standards but allow cities and states to innovate, then fund what works.",
        "这一计划将树立很高的联邦标准，但允许各市和州创新，然后为起作用的项目提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "When people argue against a proposed measure on the grounds that it violates “the rights of man” – or, as we would say today, human rights – they are, Bentham claims, using vague generalities that distract us from assessing the measure’s utility.",
        "边沁认为，当人们以违反“人类权利”——或者用今天的话说，违反人权——为由反对一项方案时，他们用模糊的概括误导我们评估方案的功利（utility）。"
    ],
    [
        "The fall of a weight (or an apple!) can be connected to the moon’s orbit around the earth and even to the structure of galaxies holding billions of solar systems.",
        "一个重物（或者一只苹果！ ）的下落可以联系到月亮绕地球旋转的轨道甚至包含几十亿个太阳系的银河系的结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, a Chinese nuclear surge – even one that did not lead to US-China parity – could undermine the credibility of American deterrence commitments, possibly motivating Japan to launch its own nuclear program.",
        "因此，即使无法与美国抗衡，中国核力量的增强也会影响到美国威慑承诺的可信度，进而促使日本推出自己的核计划。"
    ],
    [
        "That strategy has now been exposed as perilous, and the use by financial institutions of similar risk models can lead to greater instability.",
        "这种策略现在已经显示出其危险性，并且金融机构使用相似的风险模型会导致更大的不稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Why hold the summit in Tehran, some members asked?",
        "有人质问为什么要在德黑兰举行首脑会议？"
    ],
    [
        "If governments fail to respond to these basic demands, citizens take to the streets, often destructively.",
        "如果政府不能满足这些基本需求，公民就会走上街头，并且引发破坏性后果。"
    ],
    [
        "At each conference this month, the international community will make decisions that will affect the outcome of this struggle, and which could begin to solve some of today’s most vexing global issues.",
        "在本月的每一次会议上，国际社会都会做出影响这一纠结的结果的决定，并且可能启动当今最棘手的全球问题的解决过程。"
    ],
    [
        "BERN, LONDON, GENEVA – October 24, 2016, should be a unique day in the history of polio.",
        "伯尔尼、伦敦、日内瓦——2016年10月24日理当是脊髓灰质炎历史上独一无二的日子。"
    ],
    [
        "A very awkward hour passed before he accepted reality and made a gracious concession speech.",
        "在经历了难堪的一小时后，他才接受了现实，摆出一副亲和的样子做了承认失败的演说。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, it is often argued that the green economy will increase energy security, as green resources will leave countries less dependent on fossil-fuel imports.",
        "类似地，一个经常提及的观点是绿色经济会提升能源安全，因为绿色能源能使一国不再依赖化石燃料进口。"
    ],
    [
        "American regionalism closer to home shows the US now trying to promote the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA).",
        "美国对本国周边的区域主义行为显示它目前正试图推广美洲自由贸易协定（简称FTAA）。"
    ],
    [
        "This will make it difficult, if not impossible, for the domestic private sector to finance the budget deficit indefinitely.",
        "就算还能勉强维持，国内私有部门也越来越难以无限支撑预算赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "As this is constantly evolving in unpredictable ways, there is no reason to expect that the assumptions underlying any particular macroeconomic model will ever remain valid long enough for its steady-state solution to be achieved in practice.",
        "而它是不断地以无法预测的方式演变的，我们没有理由认为根据任何宏观经济模型进行的预测会在它的稳定状态解决方案在实践中得到实现时依然保持有效。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese diplomats have pointed to a constellation of mechanisms and platforms built or strengthened in recent years that could help maximize its impact. These include the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Corridor; the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor; the Chinese-built Yuxinou Railway from Chongqing to Germany (and onward to north European ports); and the new and incipient energy corridors between China and Central Asia, as well as Myanmar.",
        "中国外交官指出，近几年来所建立或强化的众多制度和平台有助于将实现该计划影响最大化，如上海合作组织、孟加拉国-中国-印度-缅甸走廊、中国-巴基斯坦经济走廊、中国建设的渝新欧铁路（从重庆到德国，可进一步延伸到北欧海港）、中国和中亚以及缅甸之间方兴未艾的新能源走廊等。"
    ],
    [
        "The Wobbly West",
        "摇摆的西方"
    ],
    [
        "To make this formula work, however, requires a good deal of soft power.",
        "然而，这一方案要想奏效，充足的软实力不可或缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Both episodes were seen as a form of corruption: one involved money, the other deception.",
        "以上这两个片段都可以被视为某种形式的腐败：前者跟金钱有关，后者则使用了某种诡计。"
    ],
    [
        "This idea brings to mind Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, published a year after the Senate acquitted her husband of perjury and obstruction-of-justice charges, with its searing portrait of how indelible even an undeserved blot on one’s reputation can be.",
        "这种想法让我不由想起菲利普·罗斯的著作《人性的污点》，这本书在参议院宣布她丈夫作伪证和妨碍司法两项罪名不成立一年后出版，毫不隐晦地描述了对人声誉哪怕是不应有的玷污所留下的印记也同样难以磨灭。"
    ],
    [
        "The CSRC was pursuing an excessively narrow objective, focusing only on getting the bull market going by delivering policies and speeches aimed at boosting investor confidence and spurring participation.",
        "中国证监会的监管目标过于狭窄，只知道用政策和讲话提振投资者信心和刺激市场参与度，以此为耻牛市。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – As the Ebola virus grips an unprecedentedly wide swath of Africa, many are asking whether it is time to begin administering untested drugs and vaccines.",
        "伦敦——因为非洲大片地区史无前例地遭到埃博拉病毒的侵袭，很多人提出是否该允许未经测试的药物和疫苗投入使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil tankers used to be responsible for the bulk of oil that was spilled.",
        "油轮曾经是造成大部分原油泄漏的罪魁祸首。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporate taxpayers take advantage of discrepancies in rules and rates, choosing to do business in countries with more favorable – or lax – tax regimes.",
        "公司纳税人利用规则和税率差异，选择在税法最有利（或最宽松）的国家做生意。"
    ],
    [
        "Its financial support is limited to a percentage of members’ quotas, which do not reflect their potential borrowing needs.",
        "国际货币基金组织的金融援助受到其成员国配额一定的百分比的限制，而这并不能反应它们潜在的借款需求。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, I am urging progress in eliminating other weapons of mass destruction and limiting missiles, space weapons and conventional arms — all of which are needed for a nuclear-weapon-free world.",
        "最后，我敦促在消灭其他大规模杀伤性武器及限制导弹、太空武器和传统武器方面取得更大的进步——要想建设一个无核世界，所有这些进步都非常必要。 核裁军必须预料到其他武器带来的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Because almost all crude oil produced by the Gulf States is sour, and most of the global surplus is sweet, any production cut by Saudi Arabia and its neighbors would not drive prices back up and rebalance the oil market.",
        "由于几乎所有海湾国家生产的原油都是重质油，而全球富余的大多是轻质油，因此无论沙特及其邻国如何减产都不会驱动价格回归和恢复石油市场的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "With its catch-up glory days in the past, China should aim for higher incomes through steady growth and lower volatility.",
        "随着其辉煌赶超时代渐成往事，中国应该将目光放在通过稳定增长和较低波动性更高的收入上。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an indirect way of dealing with strict rules would also be easier than starting long and wearying negotiations on changes to the fiscal framework.",
        "这一应对严格规则的间接办法也比开启关于改变财政框架的费时费力的谈判更加容易。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was the largest taxpayer-backed loan in history, provided on the condition that Greece pursue such strict austerity that its citizens have lost one-quarter of their incomes, making it impossible to repay private or public debts.",
        "结果是史上最巨额的纳税人支持贷款，贷款条件为希腊追求严格的紧缩措施，以至于其公民损失了四分之一的收入，导致无从偿付私人或公共债务。"
    ],
    [
        "More spending on R&D would avoid many of the typical concerns expressed in donor countries about “funding corruption.”",
        "加大研发投入力度能避免许多出资国对“资金腐败”的典型担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the type of prize system I have in mind would rely on competitive markets to lower prices and make the fruits of the knowledge available as widely as possible.",
        "与之相对比，我说设想的这种奖励体系将依靠竞争市场来压低价格，并且使知识的成果能被尽量多的人所获取。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Europe’s current crisis severe and dislocating enough to generate an analogous effect?",
        "此次欧洲危机是否严重和混乱到了足以产生类似效果的程度？"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there are fewer constraints imposed on public discussion of liberal-democratic institutions precisely because few Chinese are inspired by Western-style liberal democracy.",
        "实际上，正是由于鲜有中国人受到西方自由民主制度鼓舞，所以对于自由民主机制的公开讨论才限制较少。"
    ],
    [
        "Inability to issue eurobonds could result in a disorderly default or devaluation.",
        "无法发行欧元债券将导致无序的违约或贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "That is certainly true.",
        "这太对了。"
    ],
    [
        "More fundamentally, no one should think that North Korea’s totalitarian communist system can be changed overnight.",
        "更根本的是，各国都不应该认为朝鲜的极权共产主义体制能够在一夜之间发生改变。"
    ],
    [
        "The market has, they claim, already “priced in” such a rupture.",
        "他们说，市场已经将这一事件“体现在价格中”。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, among the poorest groups, basic incomes would enhance the dignity- and solidarity-enhancing effects of work, by easing some of the pressure on people – particularly women – who are now vastly overworked.",
        "事实上，在最贫困群体中，基本收入能缓解目前严重超负荷工作的人的一些压力——特别是女性，从而增强工作的尊严和凝聚力增强效应。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, as Premier Li Keqiang has put it, “reforms will pay the biggest dividend for China.”",
        "毕竟，正如李克强总理所言，“改革是中国最大的红利”。"
    ],
    [
        "It could be based on NATO capabilities, with a strong European ingredient.",
        "它可以建立在北约能力的基础之上，具有强大的欧洲成分。"
    ],
    [
        "At around 47% of GDP, China’s embryonic services sector remains well short of the 60-65% share that a middle-income economy typically possesses.",
        "中国的服务业尚在萌芽阶段，只占GDP的47%，比中等收入经济体的正常水平60—65%低得多。"
    ],
    [
        "She was certain that no party would win an absolute majority, but she did not foresee that almost all representatives from moderate parties would back whichever candidate won a plurality, making it difficult to appoint anyone else.",
        "她笃定地认为没有一个政党能够获得绝对多数，但她没有预料到几乎所有来自温和政党的代表不论谁获得多数都会支持他，这使得任命其他人变得十分困难。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1984, Margaret Thatcher demanded and got a large rebate in the British net contribution, which this year is worth roughly €5bn.",
        "1984年， 在马格丽特·撒切尔的力争下，英国得到了对其净财政派款的巨额减免。 这一额度今年达到了50亿欧元。"
    ],
    [
        "The simultaneous scaling back of the local-government system, along with the divisive politics of coalition governments in Pakistan’s fragile democracy, continues to undermine implementation of the polio eradication program.",
        "缩减地方政府系统和巴基斯坦脆弱的民主制度的联合政府的政治分裂的同时发生继续阻碍着消灭小儿麻痹症项目的实施。"
    ],
    [
        "On security issues and education, Royal differs from the classical left, being something of a hardliner.",
        "在安全和教育问题上，罗雅尔与传统的左派不同，略有强硬。"
    ],
    [
        "The recently created International High-level Panel on Water, comprising ten heads of state, will be promoting precisely this agenda to foster better water management globally.",
        "最近组建的由十国首脑组成的国际高级水资源委员会就是负责推进上述议程，并在全球范围内促进更完善的水资源管理办法。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless that changes, markets will wake up to that risk – perhaps with a jolt – sooner or later.",
        "除非这种状态有所改变，市场迟早会意识到这一风险——或许是以大颠簸的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "PHUKET – Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo!, recently created a fuss by issuing an edict that forbids anyone at the company to work from home.",
        "普吉岛—最近，雅虎新CEO玛丽莎·梅耶（Marissa Mayer）发布公告禁止雅虎员工在家办公，此禁令掀起了一阵波澜。"
    ],
    [
        "Singh, in keeping with past practice (he has received at least six invitations from various Pakistani leaders, starting with then-President Pervez Musharraf), remained non-committal, but showed warmth towards his Pakistani counterpart. “I always regard Gilani as a man of peace, and every time I meet him my belief is further strengthened,” he told the press.",
        "吉拉尼再度邀请辛格访问巴基斯坦，而辛格则继续他过往的回应——自穆沙拉夫开始他已经收到了六次邀请——没有予以回应，却向媒体赞赏他的对手说“我一直都相信吉拉尼是支持和平的，而每与他见面一次，我的这个信念就增强一分”"
    ],
    [
        "That can be attributed partly to Prime Minister Theresa May’s new government, which has purposely adopted a gradual approach to the Brexit process.",
        "这部分可归因于英国首相梅的新政府在退欧过程问题上有意采取了渐进方针。"
    ],
    [
        "National budgets may continue to favor the old ways.",
        "而国家预算也会继续垂青那些旧有的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "If the West strays from that primary goal, the enterprise is likely to end in tears, like so many others in the Middle East.",
        "如果西方偏离这一首要目标，那么行动的结局很有可能是眼泪，中东军事行动已经一再证明过这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, Swiss bioengineer Martin Fussenegger correctly observed that the Venter achievement “is a technical advance, not a conceptual one.”",
        "而另一方面，瑞士遗传学家马丁·弗森尼格明智地点明文特尔的成果“只是一个工具性的创新，不是概念性的革命”。"
    ],
    [
        "The diversity of options allowed widespread adoption, paving the way for the digital revolution.",
        "选择的多样性促进了广泛的应用，从而为数字化革命铺平了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "But what happened in the winter of 2004/2005 was not only about the Ukrainian people’s democratic right to self-determination and their national independence, but also about the future of the European order as it had emerged from the Cold War’s end.",
        "然而，发生在 2004~2005 年那个冬天的故事，不仅仅是乌克兰人民行使民主权利争取自治和独立的故事，也牵涉到冷战后欧洲秩序的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "This policy divided Europe. It has also fueled deep divisions in the US presidential campaign, with one of the most potent arguments used by Kerry being that he will restore trust between America and its allies; that as president he will recruit international help in Iraq.",
        "这项政策让欧洲四分五裂，也使美国总统大选产生了严重的分歧，凯利手中最有效的杀手锏就是恢复美国和盟友之间的信任，还有他当总统会为伊拉克问题赢得国际支援。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the most recent United Nations figures, 400,000 people, or roughly one-third of Mogadishu’s population, have fled the city.",
        "据联合国的最新数据显示，有四十万人（约等于摩加迪沙三分之一的人口）逃离了该城。"
    ],
    [
        "Aron preferred demonizing fellow intellectuals as alarmists than conceding that the Cold War might eventuate in a nuclear holocaust.",
        "阿隆偏爱将同道中人妖魔化为杞人忧天者，也不愿意承认冷战也许会以毁灭性的核战争的形式结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone has something to teach.",
        "每个人都可以教给别人一点东西。"
    ],
    [
        "German voters balk at any suggestion that we should limit the environmental damage caused by big and expensive cars. British voters line up behind the truck drivers when protests are launched against hikes in the price of petrol, not least through the introduction of higher energy taxes.",
        "当我们提议要限制那些大型名贵汽车对环境的破坏时，德国选民退缩了，而在抗议汽油涨价，尤其是反对执行更高能源税的游行中，卡车司机的背后都是英国选民的身影。"
    ],
    [
        "As a key component of the RMB4 trillion ($630 billion) stimulus package introduced during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, investment in high-speed-rail construction increased by leaps and bounds.",
        "作为2008—2009年全球金融危机时出台的4万亿人民币刺激项目的关键部分，高铁建设投资可谓一日千里。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, the need for a judgmental body that can look at a new product and form an opinion about its desirability.",
        "因此，我们需要建立一个实体来审查每一个新的金融产品，并对其设立的目的做出某种判断。"
    ],
    [
        "The government’s current finance minister, Oleksandr Danyliuk, is an avowed free marketeer with a strong record of economic management, as was his predecessor, Natalie Jaresko.",
        "政府现任财政部长奥莱克桑德尔·丹尼尔克（Oleksandr Danyliuk）是一位拥有丰富经济管理经验的，公认的自由市场主义者，而他的前任娜塔莉·杰里斯科（Natalie Jaresko）也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Asian Growth in Turbulent Times",
        "动荡时期的亚洲经济增长"
    ],
    [
        "His wife, Peng Liyuan, is also linked to the military, having served as a civilian member of the army’s musical troupe, and carries an honorary rank of general.",
        "其妻彭丽媛也和军队有关系，曾是文工团成员，拥有文职将军军衔。"
    ],
    [
        "Western European productivity growth almost matches America's, suggesting that the new economy is coming to Western Europe, only quietly and with much less fanfare than in America.",
        "西欧的生产率增长几乎与美国旗鼓相当，这说明新经济也正在西欧发展，只不过较为平静，不像美国那样大鸣大放罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "Media literacy programs have been around for decades in the US, focusing on issues like media bias and the impact of violence on children.",
        "新闻素养项目在美国已经存在了几十年，其重点关注的问题包括媒体偏见和儿童暴力的影响等。"
    ],
    [
        "The Council also considered the need to protect family relationships.",
        "保护家庭关系也进入到委员会的考虑范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "Real GDP fell by 8% relative to its noninflationary potential in 2008-2009, and has remained about 8% below its previous growth path ever since.",
        "2008—2009年，真实GDP相对无通胀潜在水平降低了8%，此后一直运行于前期增长路径之下8%的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "There are several possible explanations for the negative effect of antioxidant supplements.",
        "对于补充抗氧化剂的负面作用有一些可能的解释。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, PISA assessments have revealed that, while Japanese students excel at reproducing what they have learned, they often struggle when asked to extrapolate from that knowledge and apply it creatively.",
        "比如，PISA评估表明，尽管日本学生长于复述学到的知识，但被问及需要创造性地应用所学知识的外延性问题时往往难于应付。"
    ],
    [
        "The controls are meant to be temporary, and the vast majority of other borders remain open.",
        "这些边境控制应该是临时性的，并且其他绝大多数边境仍保持开放。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Discussions about building a green future tend to focus on the need to improve the generation of energy from renewable sources.",
        "伦敦—关于构建绿色未来的讨论往往着重于改进从可再生资源生产能源的需要上。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet FIFA President Sepp Blatter was re-elected four times, including after the indictments were filed.",
        "但国际足联主席布拉特却四次当选，最后一次还是在提起诉讼之后。"
    ],
    [
        "For India, Japan is indispensable as both an economic and a security partner.",
        "对印度来说，日本是不可或缺的经济和安全合作伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "By the 1970’s, the neoclassical general-equilibrium school captured Keynesian economics through real-sector models that assumed that “finance is a veil,” thereby becoming blind to financial markets’ destabilizing effects.",
        "到了1970年代，新古典主义总体均衡学派通过一个假设“金融只是一张包装纸”的实体部门模型说服了凯恩斯主义者，并因此令他们对金融市场的不稳定作用一无所知。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of sons and daughters often evened out.",
        "因为儿女数量一般是平衡的。"
    ],
    [
        "Militarily, Japan revised its law on the Self-Defense Forces to establish procedures for ballistic missile defense, with a strong focus on North Korea.",
        "在军事上，日本修订了自卫队方面的相关法律，以建立弹道导弹防务程序，重点针对北朝鲜。"
    ],
    [
        "The latest effort, scheduled to get underway outside Brussels this year, is the delightfully named “Don Quichote” project (“Demonstration of New Qualitative Innovative Concept of Hydrogen Out of wind Turbine Electricity”), designed to highlight utility-scale energy storage and transport, and to provide power for fuel-cell forklift trucks.",
        "最新的动作——据安排将于今年在布鲁塞尔城外动工——被欣欣然定名为“堂吉诃德”工程（“展示用风涡轮电力制氢气的新品质创新概念”），这项工程是为了强调公用事业规模的能量储藏和运输，并为燃料电池叉车提供动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the money-market funds – and their friends in the big banks – are pushing back hard.",
        "不幸的是，货币市场基金——及其在大银行的朋友们——对此抵制很大。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, China’s growth has reached a new plateau.",
        "结果导致中国经济进入了新的平台期。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Albert del Rosario, the foreign minister of the Philippines, which was under Japanese occupation during WWII, now strongly supports a re-armed Japan as a counterweight to China.",
        "事实上，菲律宾（二战时被日本占领）前外交部长罗萨里奥（Albert del Rosario）如今强烈支持以重新武装的日本制衡中国。"
    ],
    [
        "This indicates that, at least in this year’s election, ethnicity and education were much more predictive than income.",
        "这表明，至少在今年的选举中，种族和教育比收入更有预测意义。"
    ],
    [
        "There may sometimes be a downside in trying to woo your opponents.",
        "当你试图去讨好对手的时候，有时会产生负面影响。"
    ],
    [
        "It is worrisome, to say the least, that the EU is now resorting to similar tricks.",
        "欧盟现在也在采用类似的措施，这即便从最保守的意义上讲也非常令人担任。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, clean-tech companies are becoming more sophisticated and creative.",
        "与此同时，清洁技术公司正在日益变得更加成熟而具有创造力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Crescent has cast a seemingly interminable shadow across the length of Pakistan.",
        "新月似乎在巴基斯坦全国投下了一道永远抹之不去的阴影。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the journalists and opposition figures were eventually released or granted clemency, but there has been no letup to the torment.",
        "虽然随后，许多记者和反对派人物都被仁慈地释放，但我们不能因此而对暴政有所宽恕。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, this is the same crowd that kowtowed to Chinese President Xi Jinping last year, when he fraudulently positioned himself as the world’s new champion of globalization and the rules-based international order.",
        "毕竟在去年中国国家主席习近平谎称自己是全球化和基于规则的国际秩序的新全球倡导者时，对着他点头哈腰的也是同一帮人。"
    ],
    [
        "The belief that sovereign national currencies, by enabling independent and flexible monetary policies, are the best way to foster economic and social development – the vision of Nigeria’s post-colonial leaders – is gradually falling by the wayside.",
        "那种希望通过实行主权货币和独立灵活的货币政策、来促进国家经济和社会发展的想法正逐渐过时。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s primary government expenditures as a proportion of GDP rose from 22% in 1991 to 36% in 2014.",
        "巴西初级政府支出占GDP之比从1991年的22%增加到2014年的36%。"
    ],
    [
        "Global commodity prices will collapse, and prices for many goods and services will stop rising so quickly as unemployment and excess capacity grow.",
        "全球商品价格将会崩盘，而许多商品和服务价格将会随着失业率和剩余生产能力的增长而停止如此快速上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Urbanization is a powerful determinant of productivity growth and improved livelihoods.",
        "城市化是生产率增长和生活质量改善的强有力决定因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The moral state of business leaders caused this crisis, and you cannot find Central Europeans among those leaders.",
        "是企业领导人的低劣道德酿造了这一危机，所幸他们没有一个来自中欧。"
    ],
    [
        "Some former officials have gone even further: Former Mossad Director Efraim Halevy argues that Israel should accept “the political reality of Hamas” and open a dialogue with the organization that governs the Gaza Strip.",
        "一些前官员甚至更进一步：摩萨德前主管厄弗莱姆·哈勒威（Efraim Halevy）认为以色列应该接受“哈马斯的政治现实”，开放与该加沙地带执政组织的对话。"
    ],
    [
        "And China is not alone.",
        "中国的情况并非个例。"
    ],
    [
        "It is our duty as leaders to chart a course for a secure energy future.",
        "描绘未来能源安全的蓝图是我们领导人的职责。"
    ],
    [
        "China and India have been crisscrossing the globe making financially and politically costly deals to try to lock up the output of new oil-producing countries.",
        "中印两国一直在全球各地往返奔波，签署在经济上和政治上都是成本巨大的协议来试图锁定新的产油国的产油。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent study tallied the results of the Carolina Abecedarian Project, a North Carolina social experiment that began in the early 1970s.",
        "一项最新研究与卡罗莱纳启蒙工程（Carolina Abecedarian Project）的结果一致。"
    ],
    [
        "The results of Italy’s recent municipal elections could be a signal of an incipient electoral dynamic: it was women who voted Silvio Berlusconi’s party out of power in Milan, a city that he has long controlled (and the original seat of his power).",
        "最近的意大利地方政府大选则堪称这种新生选举原动力所发出的一个信号：正是女性选票在米兰市长选举中把西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼的政党拉了下台，要知道米兰一直以来都由贝氏控制（也是其权力的根源所在）。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, they must make their support for Assad’s delegation conditional upon his acceptance of a ceasefire.",
        "现在，他们必须把接受停火作为支持阿萨德代表团的先决条件。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, governments have been confined to tinkering at the margins of markets’ allocation of resources.",
        "结果，政府的作用被局限在对资源的市场配置做一些边缘修补。"
    ],
    [
        "Other European countries (for example, Italy and Spain) fall somewhere between these poles.",
        "其它欧洲国家（如意大利和西班牙）则处于两者之间。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Bell’s view can be refuted by a simple observation: No population that has gained democratic rights has clamored for a return to dictatorship.",
        "最后，一个简单的事实就可以驳斥贝淡宁的说法：没有任何已经取得民主权利的民众会为回归专制击节叫好。"
    ],
    [
        "Up to now, GCC leaders have spurned Yemen’s membership for the same reasons that the European Union fears admitting Turkey: Yemen would instantly become the bloc’s most populous country.",
        "然而，到目前为止，出于和欧盟对土耳其加入欧盟同样的担心，波斯湾合作理事会拒绝了也门的加入请求：也门会立即成为理事会中人口最多的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Did they hope to end Syria’s civil war by forcing a military stalemate, or to bring about the demise of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime?",
        "俄国人是想制造军事僵局结束叙利亚内战，还是想推翻巴沙尔·阿萨德政府的统治？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns are already driving up the price of coffee.",
        "举例而言，温度上升和降水模式改变已经推高了咖啡定价。"
    ],
    [
        "This is the only way to create the economies of scale needed to increase the export potential of African agriculture and industry, as well as to reduce domestic prices of food and manufactured goods.",
        "这是创造规模经济的唯一办法，而国模经济则是提升非洲农业和工业出口潜力，以及降低食品和制造品的国内价格的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "But Rouhani needs more than Khamenei’s backing.",
        "但鲁哈尼需要的不止是哈梅内伊的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Small states are better at public policy adjustments, freeing up labor markets, establishing a solid framework for competition, and facilitating cross-border takeovers and mergers.",
        "小国在公共政策调整上更为出色，释放劳动力市场的活力，建立坚实的竞争框架并且便利跨边境的收购和兼并。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 40% of US exports now go to Mexico and Central and South America, the US’s fastest-growing export destination.",
        "目前美国出口中超40%流向墨西哥和中南美洲，它们是美国增长最快的出口目的地。"
    ],
    [
        "Too many people who applaud (as do I) the leaks by the former US intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden think that the job is done.",
        "太多（像我一样）赞美前美国情报承包商斯诺登的泄密行为的人认为这一步已经完成了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as a Syrian tweeted to me, what the world hears Obama saying is that the US will use force to avenge the deaths of two American journalists, but will stand by while 200,000 Syrians are slaughtered.",
        "但有位叙利亚人给我发了推特，指出世界对此的理解是美国将动用武力对两名美国记者之死进行报复，但却在200,000叙利亚人遭受屠杀时什么也不做。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem of succession in the Arab secular republics highlights their predicament in the transition to a post-revolutionary phase, for succession in regimes that fail to build strong institutions always risks triggering a systemic crisis.",
        "阿拉伯世俗共和国的政权交接问题凸显了它们在转向后革命时代时所面临的困境，因为在未能建立强大制度的政体内进行的政权交接总是会引发体系的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany were able to work together to forge the Iranian nuclear deal.",
        "联合国五大常任理事国加德国共同努力促成了伊朗核协议的达成。"
    ],
    [
        "When the difference between borrowing costs and growth becomes too large, the primary budget surpluses required to stop debt from increasing become impossible to achieve.",
        "当借贷成本与增长率之差过大时，阻止债务增加所要求的预算盈余就会变得太高而不可能达到。"
    ],
    [
        "The “airwaves” are used for a variety of communications, including government use and public access like radio.",
        "“电波”被用于多种通讯中，包括政府使用的电波和公众使用的诸如无线电之类的电波。"
    ],
    [
        "One should not forget – as many central bankers appear to have done – that the BIS was one of the first to warn of the dangers of financial excesses, several years before the 2008 crisis.",
        "我们不应该忘记——许多央行行长似乎已经忘记——国际清算银行是第一家警告金融过度危险的机构之一，2008年危机爆发前几年就提出了警告。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that local governance is problem-free.",
        "这并不是说各国自治就不存在问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And these are often newly rich men who share their followers’ bitterness.",
        "而这些人往往是新晋富豪，了解他们追随者的痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether the capital spending appears on the books of the central government or on the balance sheet of an independent investment bank (as I would prefer) is secondary.",
        "资本支出出现在中央银行账上还是出现在独立央行资产负债表上是次要问题（我倾向于后者）。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the problem of making a smooth and convincing transition to the new target is perhaps insurmountable.",
        "不幸的是，实现平稳而有说服力地向新目标转变可能是无法实现的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – Insecurity is haunting Ukraine – and not just geopolitical insecurity, but economic insecurity as well.",
        "美国剑桥—不安全性正在困扰乌克兰——不光是地缘政治不安全性，还有经济不安全性。"
    ],
    [
        "How long will the American public tolerate the almost-daily doses of new evidence of conflicts of interest, starting with the licensing to Chinese investors, at the height of the presidential primary, of the Trump brand for use on spas, luxury hotels, and other real-estate projects?",
        "美国公众对几乎每天爆出的利益冲突新证据究竟能忍受多久，首先是向中国投资者发放许可证，而后在总统初选的高潮期间，授权特朗普品牌被用于水疗、豪华酒店和其他房地产项目？"
    ],
    [
        "You will either use him or kill him.",
        "你要不利用他，要不杀掉他。"
    ],
    [
        "Legitimacy and Elections",
        "合法性与选举"
    ],
    [
        "But population density and water scarcity will certainly be inhibiting factors in their exploitation.",
        "但人口密度和水资源稀缺必然将成为能源开采的制约因素。"
    ],
    [
        "After she began her series of reports, Husseini received death threats at her office almost daily – as well as hundreds of letters of support from readers.",
        "自从拉娜展开一系列报道后，她的办公室几乎每天都收到死亡威胁，但同时也收到了成千上百封读者的支持信。"
    ],
    [
        "By selecting his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, as his Secretary of State, and reaching across party lines to retain Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense, he showed openness to strong subordinates.",
        "将主要对手希拉里·克林顿任命为国务卿，以及超越党派界限将罗伯特·盖茨留任为国防部长，奥巴马显示了对重要下属的开放态度。"
    ],
    [
        "But civilian deaths as a result of military combat are not enough to say that “disproportionate force” has been used.",
        "但是，由于军事作战引发的平民死亡并不足以说明使用了“过度武力”。"
    ],
    [
        "Other countries might hold referendums of their own, and some may choose to leave.",
        "其他国家也可能进行全民公决，其中一些可能选择脱欧。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an outcome cannot be ruled out, but the prospects are uncertain at best.",
        "这种可能性无法排除，但如果论及前景至多也就是不能确定。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps its most remarkable impact would be cultural.",
        "但也许最令人瞩目的影响在于文化。"
    ],
    [
        "If she can strengthen her program on foreign policy, she may yet open a new chapter in French political history.",
        "如果她能够加强外交纲领，就可能在法国的政治历史上翻开新的一章。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite the fact that America spends more on defense than the next ten powers combined, it has never been a regional hegemon because it actually relies on the cooperation of other states to remain predominant.",
        "不过尽管美国在国防领域的开支超过紧随其后的十大强国，但它从来没有成为地区霸主，因为它实际上有赖于其他国家的合作来维持其优势地位。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when judging central banks, people need to maintain a proper sense of proportion.",
        "但是，在评判央行时，人们需要保持恰当的分寸。"
    ],
    [
        "No one even keeps track of, say, Florida’s current-account deficit with the rest of the country, although we can safely guess that it is huge (since the state is home to many retirees living off benefits that come from elsewhere).",
        "根本不会有人关心（比如）佛罗里达州对美国其余部分的经常项目赤字，尽管我们可以大胆猜测这笔赤字不会小（因为大量来自其他地区的依靠退休福利生活的退休人士生活在佛罗里达州）。"
    ],
    [
        "There were significant profit opportunities for financial intermediaries that could find spare risk-bearing capacity, carve out securities to take advantage of it, and thus take a middleman’s cut from matching risks with investors who could gain from bearing them.",
        "对于那些能发现市场上的剩余风险承担能力，由此创设相关证券产品，随后找到能承担这些风险的投资者并收取佣金的金融中间商来说，赚大钱的机会比比皆是。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the successes of “Team GB” produced an upsurge of patriotic rejoicing akin to victory in war.",
        "事实上，“英国队”的成功所掀起的爱国热情一点都不亚于打赢一场战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Several largely Sunni countries – including Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and Afghanistan – have become de facto partitioned, with little prospect of reunification in the near future.",
        "一些以逊尼派为主体的国家——包括叙利亚、伊拉克、也门、利比亚、索马里和阿富汗——已陷入事实分裂，短期看不到重新统一的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "After a rough passage to democracy, a traditionally strong Indonesian state is reasserting itself, forcing jihadists out, and across Mindanao’s porous frontiers.",
        "经过曲折的道路走向民主后，一个传统上强大的印度尼西亚正在重新发挥作用，把伊斯兰祈祷团赶出了国门，赶到棉兰佬岛千疮百孔的边界上。"
    ],
    [
        "Prominp then identifies an education provider to co-develop an appropriate curriculum with selected companies and train 30,000 people annually.",
        "然后由Prominp物色教育提供者与指定公司合作开发合适的课程，每年培训3万人。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the outcome represents a significant victory for the Tea Party’s minions, whose purpose seems to be to reduce government obligations and expenditures to a bare minimum (some object even to having a central bank), and to maintain President George W. Bush’s outrageous tax breaks for the wealthy.",
        "相反，这样的结果代表着茶党喽罗的巨大胜利，他们的目标是最大限度地压缩政府的债务和开支（某些人甚至反对设立央行），并继续实行乔治·W·布什总统令人愤慨的富裕阶层减税优惠。"
    ],
    [
        "So, naturally, that was the position Trump adopted while vying for the Republican nomination.",
        "因此，特朗普在宣誓成为共和党提名人选后也自然采取了这一立场。"
    ],
    [
        "The cabinet of ministers affirmed the succession of Sabah al-Sabah as the new ruler, which was then ratified by Parliament.",
        "内阁确定了萨巴赫为新的统治者，随即又得到议会的批准。"
    ],
    [
        "As the efficacy of military power is reduced, so the importance of economic power grows.",
        "随着军事力量效果的削弱，经济力量的重要性却越来越突出。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, judging by Trump’s own statements and his cabinet picks, he’s on the wrong side of almost every one.",
        "事实上，从特朗普本人的言辞和他的内阁人选看，他几乎在所有问题上都犯下了错误。"
    ],
    [
        "But the idea that transparency will restore public trust in democracy rests on several problematic assumptions, primarily the belief that “if only people knew,” everything would be different.",
        "但透明度可以重塑民主国家的公共信任这一观点建立在几个颇有疑问的假设之上，最主要的假设是“只要人们知道”，一切都会不同的思想。"
    ],
    [
        "He was justly concerned that the Russians would go to great lengths to prevent him from being champion, but ultimately rational concerns tipped into paranoia, and Fischer started to turn on his closest friends and confidants.",
        "他不无道理地担心俄国人会无所不用其极地阻止他赢得冠军，但最终合理的顾虑转变为妄想症，而费舍尔也开始疏远亲朋好友。"
    ],
    [
        "Significantly, the Polish, Czech, and Hungarian prime ministers resigned within days or weeks after fulfilling the “historic” task of “returning to Europe.”",
        "特别值得一提的是，波兰、捷克和匈牙利的总理都在完成“回归欧洲”的“历史性”任务之后的几天或者几周之内提出了辞呈。"
    ],
    [
        "Some people still think of wage subsidies as a welfare hand-out.",
        "某些人仍然认为工资补贴是一种福利。"
    ],
    [
        "High levels of debt combine with slow economic growth in a devilish dance.",
        "高债务、低增长是十分可怕的。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, domestic investment has plummeted, exports are languishing, and GDP growth is down to around 4.5% per year.",
        "现在，国内投资已经骤然跌落，出口萎缩，而GDP增长也下降到每年4. 5%左右."
    ],
    [
        "But, as was the case back then, a closer look reveals a number of chinks in the armor.",
        "但就像当年一样，更加靠近一些就能看到坚甲上已经有了大量裂纹。"
    ],
    [
        "In this bi-polar system, the parties differed on the nuances of economic policy, but broadly agreed on democratic values, the European project, and the need to adapt to and manage globalization, rather than reject it wholesale.",
        "在这个两极分化的体系中，政党在经济政策的细节上有分歧，但总体上都认同民主价值、欧洲工程以及适应和管理全球化的需要，而不是全盘否定。"
    ],
    [
        "With every country largely controlling its own energy policy, Europe’s energy market has become inefficient and excessively dependent on Russian supplies.",
        "各个国家大体上都控制着本国的能源政策，欧洲能源市场变得效率低下，过度依赖俄罗斯的供给。"
    ],
    [
        "The Threat That Will Save Europe",
        "拯救欧洲的威胁"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, in addition to extending Bush’s tax cuts, Romney promises an across-the-board 20% reduction in marginal personal-income-tax rates and a significant cut in the corporate rate to encourage businesses to hire more workers.",
        "最后，除了延长布什的减税政策，罗姆尼承诺将个人所得税边际税率整体削减20%，并大幅降低企业税，以鼓励企业雇用更多员工。"
    ],
    [
        "The latter include developing an international food security initiative, cooperating to increase vocational training in fragile states, expanding clean-energy research, investing in global disease-detection systems, and collaborating to explore shale-gas extraction.",
        "后者包括建立国际粮食安全机构、合作促进印度弱邦的职业培训、加大清洁能源研究力度、投资全球疾病监测系统、以及合作勘探页岩气。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that what China needs is more real-estate investment.",
        "这并不是说中国需要更多的房地产投资。"
    ],
    [
        "I do have deeply held beliefs about how Europe and the rest of the developed world should respond to the refugee crisis, and I have been a vocal advocate of those views.",
        "对欧洲和其他发达国家应如何应对难民危机我的确有深信不疑的看法，而且我也一直积极宣传这些看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite this ongoing persecution, Liu continued to write and petition the government on behalf of the people of China.",
        "但尽管遭到不断的迫害，刘晓波依然坚持写作并代表中国人民向政府请愿。"
    ],
    [
        "But it won’t be as easy to deal with the hundreds of thousands of Chinese who live in Japan without the rights of citizenship. The same is true of Mexicans working in the US, often illegally.",
        "日本政府可以在就业枯竭时直接将伊朗劳工遣送回国，但却难以处理数十万在日本打黑工的中国人，而同样的情况也发生在美国的墨西哥人身上，其中许多人都没有正式身份。"
    ],
    [
        "In reaching their estimate, the researchers took into account major investments by both the public and private sectors in a wide range of projects.",
        "在计算这一数字时，研究者考虑了各种项目的公共和私人部门重大投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with the prevalence of dollar indexation across the region, exchange-rate appreciation would still help promote cheaper imports and higher living standards.",
        "即使该地区美元指数化盛行，汇率升值依然可以帮助促使进口货物变得更便宜以及生活水平提高。"
    ],
    [
        "As 2014 comes to a close, the price of oil has just crossed the $100 threshold again – this time headed down.",
        "随着2014年接近尾声，石油价格再次回到100美元关口——但这一次是下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "The West has an opportunity – and an obligation – to convince Putin that protecting his own interests requires profound and permanent democratic reform in Russia, starting with an unambiguous commitment to the rule of law.",
        "西方有机会和义务说服普京，保护自己的利益需要进行深刻而永久的民主改革，而这项改革需要以明确的法治承诺开始。"
    ],
    [
        "But Japan’s political system is unlikely to remain a matter of popular indifference for much longer.",
        "但公众对日本的政治制度的冷漠态度不会维持太久。"
    ],
    [
        "A critical element of Xi’s strategy to realize the Chinese dream is the “one belt, one road” (OBOR) initiative, whereby China will invest in infrastructure projects abroad, with the goal of bringing countries from Central Asia to Europe firmly into China’s orbit.",
        "习近平实现中国梦的一个关键要素是“一带一路”计划，在这个计划中，中国将投资于海外基础设施项目，其目标是将从中亚到欧洲的国家牢牢地掌握在中国的控制中。"
    ],
    [
        "There are times when being proven right brings no pleasure.",
        "有些时候即便证明自己正确也毫无快感可言。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, they often lent homeowners more than 100% of the underlying property’s value.",
        "事实上，它们经常给屋主发放数量超过物业价值100%的贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone, for example, is a blur.",
        "例如，欧元区，是一个模糊的界限。"
    ],
    [
        "Ancient Rome’s Donald Trump",
        "古罗马的唐纳德·特朗普"
    ],
    [
        "So one is tempted to ask whether Trumpism might not also be the harbinger – or perhaps even the apotheosis – of a truly new episode in world politics.",
        "因此，人们不禁要问特朗普主义为什么不是世界政治开启真正新篇章的预兆——甚至是颂歌。"
    ],
    [
        "Apart from accounting for the global divergence in savings rates, tight credit constraints in China might explain the country’s high, and rising, savings rate – especially as the large rise in national savings is attributable mostly to household savings.",
        "除了考虑在储蓄率方面的全球差异之外，中国的严格信贷限制可能有助于解释该国较高且不断增加的储蓄率——尤其是巨额国家储蓄主要来自于家庭储蓄的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "In September 2008, Lehman Brothers did go bankrupt – and no form of government support was provided.",
        "2008年9月，雷曼兄弟公司确实破产了——并且政府没有提供任何形式的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "If New York and Illinois move forward, they will become the 19th and 20th of the 50 US states that, together with the District of Columbia, permit medical use of marijuana.",
        "如果纽约州和伊利诺伊州更进一步，它们将成为美国50个州（以及哥伦比亚特区）中第19和第20个允许以医用目的使用大麻的州。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s exit could shorten this timeline considerably.",
        "而希腊的退出这将大大缩短这一进程。"
    ],
    [
        "We wanted to prevent disappearance, for it to end.",
        "我们希望防止失踪，结束这样的日子。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true of many other issues.",
        "其他问题也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, investors’ undivided confidence in all eurozone borrowers reflected something else – a general belief in the capacity of rich countries’ governments.",
        "但是，投资者对所有欧元区借款人无差别地充满信心反映的是另外的东西——对富国政府的一致信任。"
    ],
    [
        "But this time really is different.",
        "但这一回真的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "As a city’s real-estate prices rise, some inhabitants may feel compelled to leave.",
        "随着一座城市房地产价格的上涨，一些居民将被迫离开。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that China remains gripped by deflation, with prices and output in a downward spiral.",
        "事实上中国仍然笼罩在通货紧缩的阴云之下，价格和产量双双处于下降通道。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no coincidence that the demand by Congress for the list of RFC loans occurred in 1932, also a presidential election year.",
        "国会在1932年——也是一个总统选举年——要求复兴金融公司公布接受贷款的银行名录，这可绝非巧合。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, government can make our social insurance (a government institution that complements private insurance) more incentive-compatible and better at managing risks – and not just the risks of the extreme losers – by, say, launching inequality-indexation of the tax system.",
        "此外，政府可以使我们的社会保险（一种与商业保险相配套的政府制度）更符合激励机制并更善于管理风险—并不仅是极端失败者的风险—并通过实施诸如税收体系的不平等指数化的方式来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "At home, Assad’s regime also finds itself in a bind.",
        "阿萨德政权在国内也进退两难。"
    ],
    [
        "But Erdoğan is the one who gave a free pass to the Gülen movement in the first place.",
        "但是埃尔多安当初为葛兰运动的行为开了绿灯。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, governments should provide specific fiscal-consolidation mechanisms that are visibly likely to take effect when the time comes.",
        "有鉴于此，政府应提供具体的，显然会在时机成熟时发挥作用的财政巩固机制。"
    ],
    [
        "But it proved significantly less compelling than the economic doomsday scenarios advanced by its unionist opponents, including former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former World Bank President Robert Zoellick, and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.",
        "但显然它远远敌不过包括前美联储主席艾伦·格林斯潘、前世界银行行长罗伯特·佐利克和前财政大臣乔治·奥斯本在内的统一主义反对派所宣扬的经济末日情景。"
    ],
    [
        "We need our central bankers to make complex decisions and to be able to balance potentially conflicting objectives.",
        "我们需要央行行长们做出复杂的决策，并能在可能产生冲突的目标间找到平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us imagine that the world ultimately agrees on an ambitious target.",
        "想象一下全世界最终就某个充满野心的目标达成了一致。"
    ],
    [
        "With oil prices back above $100 a barrel this summer – and still high – money is once again being transferred to the oil-exporting countries.",
        "今年夏天，原油价格再一次回到了100美元/桶上方（现在也维持在很高的水平），钱又一次流向了原油出口国。"
    ],
    [
        "We have sidestepped our duties both to our descendants and to the large number of people alive here and now in other parts of the world who are suffering the consequences of our myopia.",
        "我们逃避了自己对后人的责任，也逃避了对如今生活在世界上其他地方为数众多的、正在承受我们的短视造成的后果的人们的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "This time, virtually every economy is suffering substantially and the banking crisis is global.",
        "这一次，几乎每一个经济体都在遭受极大的重创和全球性的银行危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The government, unable to print money to bail out the banks or increase export competitiveness through currency devaluation, is left with only two options: default or deflation (austerity).",
        "政府无法印钱援助银行或通过货币贬值增加出口竞争力，于是只有两个选择：违约或通缩（紧缩）。"
    ],
    [
        "These witnesses confirmed that the camps also held Serbs, Roma, and others.",
        "这些目击者证实集中营也关押塞族、罗马族和其他民族群众。"
    ],
    [
        "His legacy in terms of Singapore’s past success may be clear, but what about the future?",
        "就新加坡过去的成功而言他的遗产或许非常明确，但未来呢？"
    ],
    [
        "While this spectacle has been playing out, UK living standards have been falling.",
        "随着局势的不断发展，英国的生活水平一直处在下降的过程中。"
    ],
    [
        "This week, I am joining leaders from the worlds of business, government, politics, the arts, and academia at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss the risks that the world faces.",
        "本周，我和全球商业、政府、政治、艺术和学术界领袖一道参加瑞士达沃斯世界经济论坛，讨论世界所面临的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "If most investors accept this offer, the restructuring occurs successfully.",
        "如果大部分投资者接受这一方案，重组就可以成功进行 。"
    ],
    [
        "That is where the WEF’s annual Global Risks reports can help.",
        "世界经济论坛的年度《全球风险》（Global Risks）报告能起到帮助作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Déjà Voodoo",
        "似曾相识的巫术"
    ],
    [
        "Who Should Be Helped First?",
        "谁应当首先得到帮助？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, growth in the use of the renminbi to settle trade has been concentrated largely in the Asia-Pacific region, and specifically in transactions between China and its neighbors.",
        "此外，使用人民币结算贸易的增量基本上集中在亚太地区，特别是中国与其周边国家的交易中。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy policy is national, but the sector’s externalities are global.",
        "能源政策在国家层面制定，但能源部门的外部性却由全球共同承担。"
    ],
    [
        "After the invasion, no one expected Iraq to get loans, let alone outright grants.",
        "入侵后，没人认为伊拉克能得到贷款，更别说百分之百的馈赠了。"
    ],
    [
        "Now it faces even bigger fines – perhaps exceeding $10 billion – for mortgage activities, mostly by two of the financial firms, Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, that it bought up during the financial crisis.",
        "如今，JPM因为它在金融危机期间买下的两家企业——贝尔斯登（Bear Stearns）和华盛顿互助银行（Washington Mutual）的按揭行为而面临更大规模的罚款，也许将超过100亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The new Japanese will actively serve the cause of Asian peace.",
        "新日本人将积极地参与到亚洲的和平事业中。"
    ],
    [
        "Global emissions would need to be reduced by 4-6% every year, until they reached zero.",
        "全球排放每年要减少4~6%，直至实现零排放。"
    ],
    [
        "As we know all too well, while spheres of influence can give the appearance of stability, they breed great power conflict.",
        "我们都知道虽然影响力范围内可能看似稳定，但背后其实酝酿着巨大的权力冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Xinshen Diao of the International Food Policy Research Institute has shown that this growth was led by non-tradable services, in particular construction, transport, and hotels and restaurants.",
        "2%）。 国际食物政策研究所（International Food Policy Research Institute）的刁新生（Xinshen Diao）指出，这一增长受不可贸易的服务部门的拉动，特别是建筑业、运输业和餐饮饭店业。"
    ],
    [
        "We need to make the most of it – not only to help save up to eight million more lives, but also to support health systems in low-income countries and thereby reduce the risk of future health crises.",
        "我们必须充分加以利用——不仅能挽救800多万人的生命，而且还要支持低收入国家的卫生系统，从而降低未来健康危机的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "To address global poverty effectively, global leaders must take a more comprehensive approach that focuses on reducing citizens’ vulnerability.",
        "为了有效地减少全球贫困，全球领袖必须采取更全面的方法，专注于降低人民的脆弱性。"
    ],
    [
        "Does that experience suggest that the NASDAQ index will drop sharply if the Fed raises interest rates on June 30?",
        "根据以往的经验，纳斯达克指数会在美联储6月30日调高利率之后急剧下滑吗？"
    ],
    [
        "They wanted to seize control of Iraq's oil.",
        "他们想抓住伊拉克石油的控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, the roadmap also encourages the preemptive and large-scale deployment of oral vaccines in cholera hotspots.",
        "因此，路线图还鼓励在霍乱高发地区预防性地大量配置口服疫苗。"
    ],
    [
        "After work, she would attend night school to become an international accountant.",
        "下班后她上夜校学习国际会计课程。"
    ],
    [
        "But we can start with what exists, and by so doing create demand for the rest.",
        "在美国，人们已经登录RateMDs. com和vitals."
    ],
    [
        "It is also true that we do not have to buy any particular book or listen to an opera.",
        "还有一点千真万确，那就是我们不需要购买任何一本书，也不需要聆听任何一场歌剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Natural Solutions to Climate Change",
        "气候变化的自然解决方案"
    ],
    [
        "Their speculative frenzies ruined shareholders, customers, and the economy.",
        "他们的疯狂投机毁掉了股东，客户还有经济。"
    ],
    [
        "When European unification was launched, it was thought that “ever closer union” would establish a community that would protect Europeans from political blackmail.",
        "当欧洲统一开始实现时，人们认为“异常紧密的联盟”能够建立一个使欧洲人免受政治讹诈的共同体。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation in Syria is usually – and rightly – described as an intricate, multi-dimensional playing field with a wide variety of political actors and competing interests.",
        "叙利亚局势往往——而且确实——可以用错综复杂来形容，这里的政治势力多种多样，相互间的利益也不乏矛盾冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, stimulus had become a dirty word – even within the Obama administration – well before the Republicans’ mid-term election victory ruled out another round altogether.",
        "一方面，早在共和党中期选举胜利彻底扼杀又一轮刺激之前，即便在奥巴马政府内部，刺激也已经成为一个令人厌憎的词。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultraviolet radiation causes specific and unique mutations in the tumor suppressor gene that produces a protein called p53.",
        "紫外线照射导致肿瘤抑止基因产生明确、独特的变化，这种基因能产生一种名为P53的蛋白。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, whereas the US is approaching the Islamic State as the Middle East’s most pressing problem, Turkey views the group as a symptom of deeper pathologies.",
        "简言之，美国将伊斯兰国视为中东最紧迫的问题，而土耳其认为伊斯兰国只是更深层次病根的症候。"
    ],
    [
        "They are an expression of frustration with the electoral process.",
        "他们在表达对选举程序的不满。"
    ],
    [
        "The free-trade agreement recently signed with Japan will give the EU a clear advantage over the US in agriculture, and strengthening trade ties with Mexico could have a similar impact, as the US renegotiates the North American Free Trade Agreement.",
        "最近与日本签署的自贸协定将导致欧盟在农业领域对美国取得明显的优势，而随着美国重新谈判北美自由贸易协定，加强与墨西哥的贸易关系也有可能产生类似的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the shares of the Japanese yen and the British pound, though very small, are still higher than that of the renminbi.",
        "就连结算规模很小的日元和英镑也仍然高于人民币。"
    ],
    [
        "An idle fireman looked desirable.",
        "一个无所事事的消防员看起来是可取的。"
    ],
    [
        "His plan would pay for lower income-tax rates by eliminating tax deductions like those for charitable giving and mortgages, while maintaining tax preferences for saving and investment.",
        "他的计划将取消慈善捐赠和按揭等活动的税基扣减，同时保持对储蓄和投资的税收优惠，从而弥补降低所得税率的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is no reason to call it irrelevant.",
        "但是这并不是称之为无关紧要的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "MOSCOW – This November will mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.",
        "莫斯科——11月将迎来柏林墙倒塌二十周年纪念日。"
    ],
    [
        "In that sense, too, an aging society adds to the responsibilities of the young.",
        "从这种意义上，老龄化社会赋予了年轻人更多的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "These values may well be beneficial for family life; but, even with the best of intentions, they are a recipe for a static economy and stultified careers.",
        "这些价值或许对家庭生活很有裨益； 但是，即使初衷良好，也产生不出有活力的经济和蒸蒸日上的事业。"
    ],
    [
        "Reaching an agreement will require tough diplomacy, difficult compromises, technological innovation, and changes to our carbon-intensive way of life.",
        "达成一致需要密集的外交努力、艰难的妥协、技术创新和改变我们的碳密集型生活方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike most banknotes and coins, there is no picture of the state or its symbols – no Caesar – on the money managed by the European Central Bank.",
        "跟大多数纸币和硬币不同，在欧洲央行所管理的这种货币上，没有代表国家的图像和符号 —— 没有凯撒。"
    ],
    [
        "Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh estimates that India’s GDP will shrink by 1-2% in the current fiscal year.",
        "前总理辛格（Manmohan Singh）估计当前财年印度GDP将萎缩1—2%。"
    ],
    [
        "Cameron had no choice.",
        "卡梅伦没有选择。"
    ],
    [
        "But this strategy also requires India to embrace its place on the international stage.",
        "但上述策略也需要印度对自身在国际舞台上的地位有所把握。"
    ],
    [
        "Will economic growth accelerate sufficiently to boost job and income growth?",
        "经济增长是否能够足以提振就业和收入增长？"
    ],
    [
        "The difference between Atlanta and Barcelona is a case in point.",
        "亚特兰大和巴塞罗那间的区别就是例子。"
    ],
    [
        "American symphonic life is Euro-centric in almost every respect except for its funding.",
        "美式的交响乐生活在除了资金支持以外的各个方面都是以欧洲为中心的。"
    ],
    [
        "And though low-quality assets held by the banking system are likely to impede Europe’s recovery, they are unlikely to spark a financial crisis.",
        "虽然银行体系持有的低质量资产可能阻碍欧洲经济复苏，但也不太可能引发金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, Russians looked only for the agenda, the motivation behind the assertion.",
        "”换言之，俄国人只关注安排，关注某种说法背后的动机是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "John Williams, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, recently argued that the Great Deflation could be beaten only by targeting the price level and nominal national income simultaneously – a New Deal-like approach featuring joint action by the Fed and the government.",
        "旧金山联储主席兼CEO约翰·威廉姆斯（John Williams）最近指出大紧缩只有通过同时兼顾物价水平和名义国民收入目标才能解决——这是一个要求美联储和政府联合行动的罗斯福新政式的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Obamacare and Effective Government",
        "奥巴马医保和高效政府"
    ],
    [
        "If world leaders needed another compelling reason to reach a deal in Paris that keeps global temperatures below the target, this is it.",
        "如果世界领导人还需要其他理由才愿意在巴黎达成将全球气温限制在该目标以下的协议的话，上面的计算就是了。"
    ],
    [
        "Scholars in almost any discipline seeking jobs at “A-level” institutions must publish in a select few A-level journals that are seen as gateways.",
        "几乎任何领域想在“A级”研究机构求职的学者都必须在几本被公认为入门通道的A级杂志上发表研究成果。"
    ],
    [
        "They refuse to come to the aid of the destitute, and defend tax cuts at every opportunity.",
        "他们不愿扶助贫困阶层，而且尽可能地为减税政策辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "This change of course on Syria has also cost Turkey a great deal in terms of its relations with Iran, the principal supporter of Assad’s regime, which Turkey had also cultivated as part of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s “zero problems with neighbors” policy.",
        "而这种对叙利亚政策的转变同时也令土耳其在对伊朗关系上遭到了相当大的损失，因为后者正是阿萨德政权背后的最重要势力。 在土耳其外长达武特奥卢（Ahmet Davutoğlu）一直推行的“邻国无冲突”政策中，对伊关系也是培养对象之一。"
    ],
    [
        "But when the group asserted that progress toward modernization would require the incorporation of some democratic principles and the rule of law, Deng immediately quashed the initiative.",
        "但当该小组认为迈向现代化的进程需要纳入一些民主原则和法治精神时，邓小平立刻否决了这一改革方案。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time for both countries to move beyond short-term macroeconomic policy and turn their attention to the challenges of long-term sustainable development.",
        "两国应该超越短期宏观经济政策，将注意力转向长期可持续发展挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "First, in a modern democracy, punishment must be not only retributive, but should also try to rehabilitate the criminal in order to enable him to live in society with other human beings.",
        "首先，在现代社会里，刑罚的目的不仅是为了渊渊相报，也是为了让犯人改过自新，使他们能够在社会中与他人和谐相处。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the reality of football styles is rather more complicated.",
        "其实现实的足球风格相对更为复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Researchers found three-quarters of water sources in the city contained high levels of coliform bacteria, a key indicator of contamination with fecal matter.",
        "研究人员发现，该市3/4的水源都含有很高水平的大肠杆细菌，这是水源被排泄物污染的一个重要指标。"
    ],
    [
        "Aid cannot be a guessing game.",
        "援助不能是猜谜游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "With export prices down, and with tourism likely to suffer from the global economic downturn, a balance-of-payments crisis looms.",
        "随着出口产品价格的下降以及旅游业受全球经济衰退影响，一场国际收支平衡危机正在隐现。"
    ],
    [
        "Certainly, the trend toward full-service single regulators outside the central bank has slowed to a crawl (though Indonesia is consolidating regulators at present).",
        "显然，通向非央行全能单一监管者的趋势进展极为缓慢（尽管印尼目前正在整合监管者）。 对于央行角色也没有一致意见：大约三分之一的国家，央行是主要监管者；"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s political elite view the Union as one of the poles in a multi-polar world.",
        "欧洲的政治精英一向将欧盟视为多极世界的一支。"
    ],
    [
        "Both President Barack Obama’s plan for business-tax reform and the Simpson-Bowles deficit-reduction plan propose reducing such expenditures to pay for a reduction in the corporate-tax rate.",
        "总统奥巴马的企业税改革计划和辛普森-鲍尔斯（Simpson-Bowles）赤字削减计划都打算通过减少此类支出补偿公司税率的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "They would do well to move gender equality to the top of the list.",
        "把推动性别平等作为重中之重将大有裨益。"
    ],
    [
        "There will come a time when China’s domestic and international responsibilities will again be relatively well aligned.",
        "总有一天，中国的国内和国际责任将再次相对更加一致。 但这一天不是现在；"
    ],
    [
        "Their task is to embrace the least imperfect solution before they decline into Doomsday scenarios, such as a hostile Israeli unilateral disengagement, or a one-state reality of unending conflict.",
        "而他们唯一能做的，就是在彻底崩盘（比如一个充满敌意的以色列单方面分离行动，或者一个永无宁日的双民族国家）之前，接受一个最接近完美的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "How extraordinary, then, to learn that one of the perpetrators of these crimes, Condoleezza Rice, has just led the debate in a special session of the United Nations Security Council on the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.",
        "那么，得知康多莉扎·赖斯－犯下这些罪行的罪犯之一，刚刚在联合国安理会领导了一个关于把性暴力作为战争武器的辩论，是多么的令人意外。"
    ],
    [
        "The benefits, however, are significant.",
        "但是，收益也是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "But now it has been pushed aside by other kinds of regulation.",
        "但如今排放交易系统却被其他类型的管制手段排挤到了一边。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not an easy task when societies are deeply divided by ethnicity, religion, or social status.",
        "当社会因为种族、宗教或社会地位而处于深度分裂状态时，这绝不是个容易的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic theory does not provide an unambiguous prescription for policymakers.",
        "经济理论并不能为政策制定者开出一个明确的药方。"
    ],
    [
        "They recognize that such information, like a raw material, can be mined and used in many different ways.",
        "它们意识到这类数据就像是新矿藏，可以挖掘并用于许多不同用途。"
    ],
    [
        "We think we understand it.",
        "我们认为对这种模式了解最多。"
    ],
    [
        "The Republicans kept control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives, so Trump will be able to fulfill his promises to roll back Obama’s biggest legislative achievements, starting with the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).",
        "共和党同时控制了参众两院，因此特朗普将能够实现其反转奥巴马最大的立法成就的承诺，首先是平价医疗法（奥巴马医保）。"
    ],
    [
        "Their first impulse will not be to figure out how to use modern means of direct communication to persuade customers, employees, and other stakeholders to think and do the things that they want them to think and do.",
        "他们的第一反应不是找到如何利用现代直接沟通工具说服客户、员工和其他利益相关者同意他们的想法和做法。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets will give Trump the benefit of the doubt, for now; but investors are now watching whom he appoints to his administration, what shape his fiscal policies actually take, and what course he charts for monetary policy.",
        "眼下，市场采取了疑点利益归于被告的立场； 但投资者正在观察他会怎样任命政府，他的财政政策会以何面目出现，以及他会采取怎样的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "On other issues – notably immigration – Obama rejects claims of states’ rights and insists on federal authority.",
        "在其他问题上——特别是移民问题——奥巴马拒绝了将权力下放给州，坚持联邦权威。"
    ],
    [
        "Some religious leaders also condemned the use of modern scientific technology to replace sexual intercourse, even when it could not lead to conception.",
        "一些宗教领袖也谴责利用现代科学技术来取代性交，他们认为即使在不会导致受孕的情况下也不行。"
    ],
    [
        "Murphy Brown, played by actress Candice Bergen, was a TV anomaly at that time: a sympathetically portrayed single mother.",
        "该剧以同情的笔触描绘了一位单身母亲墨菲·布朗（由女演员坎迪丝·伯根扮演），诸如此类的角色算得上当时电视中的异类。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet my freedom has left a bitter aftertaste, because my imprisonment ended only as the war against my country began.",
        "但我的自由仍有一丝苦涩的余味，因为我的囹圄生涯直到祖国陷入战争后才结束。"
    ],
    [
        "The Emerging “New Middle East”",
        "“新中东”浮出水面"
    ],
    [
        "As Italians know all too well, government instability inevitably breeds financial volatility.",
        "意大利人再清楚不过，政府的不稳定必将带来严重的金融动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the economic downturn is doing its bit to help the gangs’ cause: jobs will dry up, poverty will increase and the government’s ability to provide basic welfare and social services will be tested, making a life of crime all the more attractive and rewarding.",
        "此外，经济低迷也为贩毒团伙的事业提供了帮助：就业机会将会枯竭，贫困将会增加，政府提供基本福利和社会服务的能力将受到考验，这使得犯罪生涯更有吸引力也能带来更多好处。"
    ],
    [
        "They worked to help focus media attention on America’s commitment to help the Pakistani people.",
        "他们努力把媒体的注意力集中到美国帮助巴基斯坦人民的承诺之上。"
    ],
    [
        "And this, in turn, will offset any competitiveness gains.",
        "而这反过来将抵消任何竞争优势。"
    ],
    [
        "The report’s third case study looks at what happens when we become complacent about a vital system.",
        "报告的第三个案例研究是关于我们对某个关键系统沾沾自喜的后果的。"
    ],
    [
        "Under such conditions, and in the absence of other economic opportunities, communities may resort to violence as they compete for food and scarce resources.",
        "在这样的环境下，再加上其他经济机会的缺失，社区将诉诸暴力来争夺粮食和稀缺资源。"
    ],
    [
        "If leaders of the world’s two most powerful countries differ fundamentally in their approach to international relations, what are the prospects for strengthening cooperation globally?",
        "如果世界上两个最强大国家的领导人在处理国际关系的手段方面存在根本差异，那么加强全球合作的前景又将如何？"
    ],
    [
        "Change must be formally manifested, with new laws that are widely publicized.",
        "改革和新的法律必须得到广泛宣传。"
    ],
    [
        "What matters is what works, not what is ideologically pure.",
        "重要的是什么管用，而不是什么在意识形态上纯正。"
    ],
    [
        "And, unlike carbon cuts, this is a solution that developing countries would be likely to embrace.",
        "与此同时，这是一个比大幅削减更能为发展中国家接受的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem for M5S is that, owing to a new electoral law, it will have to win roughly 40% of the total vote to secure a parliamentary majority.",
        "M5S的问题在于，根据新选举法的规定，它需要赢得大约40%的选票总数才能确保议会多数。"
    ],
    [
        "While the US now enjoys greater energy self-sufficiency, thanks to shale oil and gas, that is not true of its allies in Europe.",
        "尽管拜页岩油气所赐，如今美国的能源自给率有所提高，但其欧洲盟友并非如此。"
    ],
    [
        "If Italy and Spain have budget surpluses and declining debt/GDP ratios, financial markets will reduce the interest rates on their bonds without the proposed ECB purchases.",
        "如果意大利和西班牙产生预算盈余和下降的债务/GDP比率，那么即使欧洲央行不宣布购买计划，金融市场也会降低它们的债券的利率。"
    ],
    [
        "An independent Palestinian state that did not include all of Israel held no appeal to him.",
        "他对没有包括全部以色列领土的独立巴勒斯坦国根本不屑一顾。"
    ],
    [
        "Once upon a time, it was possible to argue that robots would displace workers engaged in routine tasks, but not the highly skilled and educated – not the doctors, lawyers and, dare one say, professors. In particular, machines, it was said, are not capable of tasks in which empathy, compassion, intuition, interpersonal interaction, and communication are central.",
        "以前大家会同意机器人会取代那些从事常规作业的工人，但不会影响到那些高技能和受过高等教育的人，比如医生，律师或是教授，尤其认为机器不会有能力去完成那些以共鸣、同情心、直觉，人际交往和沟通为核心的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Where autonomy is not enough, it may be possible to arrange an amicable divorce, as when Czechoslovakia peacefully divided into two sovereign countries.",
        "如果自主权不够，也许还能心平气和地“离婚”，如捷克斯洛伐克和平分裂为两个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Change seems just as inevitable.",
        "因此变革似乎也是无法避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "A Global Consensus Against Terrorism",
        "全球反恐舆论"
    ],
    [
        "Major General Muhammad Alam Khattak, the Frontier Corps’ Inspector General, made a suggestion to me: “Take our Frontier Corps. Train them somewhere and bring them back.”",
        "边境军队的监察长默罕默德·阿兰·卡塔克（Muhammad Alam Khattak）少将向我建议说，“把我们的边境部队带走，在一个地方训练他们然后再把他们带回来。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the NTC is dedicated to implementing Libyans’ demands, it lacks the technical capacity and time necessary to do so before the elections tentatively scheduled for this coming summer.",
        "虽然国家过渡委员会也努力想满足民众的要求，但却缺乏在计划今夏举行的选举前实现这一点所需的技术力量和时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Olympic Gamesmanship",
        "奥运花招"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, when the poor have more (and healthier) food, their nutrition improves; when better-nourished people go to school, they become more productive; the same is true of health services.",
        "显然，当穷人拥有更多（更健康）的食物时，营养就能得到改善； 当营养更好的人们进入学校时，他们的生产率就会得到提高；"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the country is struggling to shift to a more sustainable growth model, underpinned by a thriving services sector and strong domestic consumption.",
        "因此，中国难以转向以繁荣的服务业和强劲的国内消费为基础的更加可持续的增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Marx’s comparative advantage was to read Hegel and create a narrative in which history is the history of class struggle, with the newly emergent industrial proletariat destined to develop “class consciousness” and overthrow the political and economic order created by the bourgeoisie.",
        "马克思的比较优势是阅读了黑格尔并创造了一套历史是阶级斗争的历史的叙事，新出现的工业无产阶级必定会形成“阶级意识”，推翻由资产阶级建立的政治和经济秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "There is growing recognition that change is best accompanied by stability, and that democracy works only if debate is conducted in an atmosphere in which arguments can be bold, even harsh, but not inflammatory.",
        "人们开始认识到稳定才是改革最好的搭档，只有在大胆、甚至犀利辩论但杜绝粗暴和煽动的氛围下才有利于进行民主建设。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Japan has a celebrity culture, driven by mass media.",
        "可以肯定，日本盛行由大众媒体所推动的名人文化。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also not clear that the Russian people are prepared to pay a high price for such a foreign policy.",
        "俄罗斯人民是否准备好为这一外交政策付出高昂代价也不清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s task now is to uphold the values that have made it a target.",
        "法国的当前任务是捍卫他们视作目标的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "And now that France, reeling from the Paris attacks, has declared war on the Islamic State, other European countries are shrugging their shoulders, mumbling condolences, and silently hoping that the conflict will spare them.",
        "而如今，遭遇巴黎袭击的法国已经向伊斯兰国选战，其他欧洲国家只是耸耸肩，略表哀悼，静静许愿冲突不要让自己牵扯其中。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, China’s leaders must build sufficient institutional power within the judiciary, civil society, and the media to implement the rule of law and enhance long-term antifragility.",
        "此外，中国必须在司法、民间团体和媒体范围内建设更充分的制度及功能，以实现法治，以强化长期抗脆弱能力。"
    ],
    [
        "An additional argument, always resonant in this tradition, but particularly so today in poor countries, is UBI’s emancipatory potential for women.",
        "另一个一直存在的额外论据则在当今贫穷国家尤为吃香，认为无条件基本收入有助于妇女解放。"
    ],
    [
        "The scope of accountability must expand as well, in order to affect the behavior of executives and non-executives alike.",
        "为了同时影响高管和普通员工，问责的范围也必须扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "We have mutually enriching Euro-Asian traditions that could serve as a basis for such a dialogue.",
        "我们共同拥有的丰富的欧亚关系的传统就是这种对话的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "A climate of fear has made life hard for anyone who looks suspicious or acts suspiciously, notably for Muslims.",
        "一种恐惧的气候让任何看似可疑或者行为可疑的人、特别是穆斯林生活困难。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Untapped Growth Potential",
        "中国增长潜力未竟"
    ],
    [
        "The flood of people into camps in Lebanon and Jordan has overwhelmed sanitation measures, leading to outbreaks of infectious diseases and resurgence in some areas of diseases that had been nearly eradicated, such as polio among Syrian refugees in Iraq.",
        "涌入营地的黎巴嫩和约旦难民潮已经压垮了营地的卫生设施，从而导致在伊拉克的叙利亚难民小儿麻痹传染病暴发和某些地区已接近根除的疾病重新抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "So Humala’s Latin American options are limited: Venezuela, Brazil, or the countries of the Pacto del Pacífico.",
        "因此乌马拉的拉美备选方案十分有限：委内瑞拉、巴西、或Pacto del Pacífico联合体。"
    ],
    [
        "Complex, nuanced, and qualitative imaginings that reflect local specificities are simply not as appealing as linear, overarching, and quantitative explanations.",
        "反映当地具体状况的复杂、细致和定性的想象总是没有线性、总体和定量的解释吸引力那么强。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, there are legitimate differences of opinion on how much and how quickly the tax plan will affect investment decisions (particularly equipment investments), and thus long-run economic growth.",
        "第三，关于税收计划究竟会对投资决策（尤其是设备投资）产生多大多快的影响以及由此引发的长期经济增长，是存在合理的观点差异的。"
    ],
    [
        "For the individual, this implies confidence in the job, and in the end comes equally back to the confidence of industry leaders.”",
        "对个人来说，就是要对自己的工作有信心，对企业来说，就是老板对所从事的行业有信心。"
    ],
    [
        "This time the system actually broke down in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ collapse last September, and it had to be put on artificial life support.",
        "这次，在去年9月莱曼兄弟投资公司倒闭之后，金融系统实际上已经崩盘，并且不得不借助人为的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "MANILA – The eurozone crisis has dominated discussion among policymakers over the last few years, but the economic slowdown in Asia’s two giants – the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India – has become a source of growing public concern as well.",
        "马尼拉——欧元区危机过去数年来一直决策者的讨论主题，但亚洲两大巨头——中华人民共和国和印度的经济放缓已经日益引发公众的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a good reason for this: Germany does not want to pay for recapitalizing French banks.",
        "这本无可厚非：德国人不愿意为法国银行的资本重组买单。"
    ],
    [
        "Importantly, Bitcoin does not need to win every battle to justify a sky-high price.",
        "重要的是，比特币并不需要在每条战线上都取得胜利才能证明它值高价。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2007 was 4.8%, 9.8% in March-May 2010, and 5.7% in November 2014-January 2015.",
        "8%，2010年3—5月为9. 8%，2014年11月—2015年1月为5."
    ],
    [
        "But is Turkey, enthralled by its economic and diplomatic successes, now running the risk of losing itself?",
        "但现在沉迷于经济外交成就，冒着失去自己危险的是否正是土耳其自己？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet these same people are impeding effective macroeconomic policy, by betting on the yen’s appreciation.",
        "但正是这批人通过押注日元升值阻止宏观经济政策生效。"
    ],
    [
        "(Governments have their own problems, but that is another story.) Beyond privacy laws, companies must cope with customers with varying expectations, competitors with varying levels of integrity, and the various relationships that form the context of data exchange.",
        "（政府也有这方面的问题，但性质不同）在相关私隐法规之外，企业必须与拥有不同预期的顾客打交道，与诚信程度参差不齐的对手竞争，还有就是与构成数据交换大环境的各类关系打交道。"
    ],
    [
        "While the immediate catalyst for economic restructuring is the impact of the sharp fall in international oil prices, the rationale for these reforms has been evident for much longer.",
        "刺激经济结构调整的直接催化剂是国际油价的暴跌，但这些改革背后的道理早已显而易见。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, innovations in health care have already brought the world close to wiping out polio, and we expect to see dramatic results from a new triple drug therapy that could eradicate elephantiasis, which affects 120 million people.",
        "此外，医疗卫生领域的创新已经让世界各国接近消灭小儿麻痹症，我们希望看到新的三联药物疗法取得显著疗效，将为1. 2亿人造成影响的纤维性象皮病彻底消除。"
    ],
    [
        "Leading economists have long argued that the West’s greater reliance on markets resulted in faster and more robust economic growth.",
        "主流经济学家一直认为，西方之所以更依赖市场，是因为经济增长更快更稳的缘故。"
    ],
    [
        "To the west, in Pakistan, one can travel on the Makran coast along a road built with Chinese assistance, eventually coming to the ancient fishing port of Gwadar, with its natural deep-water harbor.",
        "在西线的巴基斯坦，你可以沿着中国援建的公路莫克兰（Makran）海岸直达古老渔港瓜达尔（Gwadar），如今这里已是深水良港。"
    ],
    [
        "Shas, led by a 92-year-old rabbi, combined its traditional defense of the have-nots with its fight for stricter rules for conversion to Judaism, an undisguised allusion to Israel’s masses of Russian immigrants with doubtful Jewish credentials.",
        "以一位92岁的高龄拉比为首的沙斯党（Shas）将其传统的无产者保护着形象与其收紧皈依犹太教规则的斗争结合起来，这不啻公开暗示以色列的大量俄罗斯移民犹太教证明存疑。"
    ],
    [
        "The most ardent advocate of expanded health care rights should agree that the forum for that advocacy is the Parliament, not the European Court of Justice.",
        "扩展的医疗权利的倡导者们应该同意其倡议的论坛是议会而不是欧洲法院。"
    ],
    [
        "Authorities from these banks’ home and host countries must sit down together.",
        "各大银行母国和东道国当局必须精诚合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond infrastructure, spending to improve education – specifically to ensure that the next generation receives the skills they need to contribute to the twenty-first-century economy – would also result in faster GDP growth. And it, too, would likely yield significant social returns.",
        "除了基础设施，改善教育的支出——具体来说，确保下一代能获得需要的技能为二十一世纪经济做出贡献的支出——也将推动GDP更快增长，并且也有望带来可观的社会回报。"
    ],
    [
        "As with all cartel managers, the EU technocrats treated genuine pan-European democracy as a threat.",
        "但像所有卡特尔管理者一样，欧盟技术官僚将真正的泛欧洲民主视为一种威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Nigeria, its largest economy, could be knocked to its knees.",
        "非洲最大经济体尼日利亚可能一蹶不振。"
    ],
    [
        "Outside vetting – including published reviews by congressional investigative bodies, think tanks, and scholars – could add important insights.",
        "外部调查——包括国会调查机构、智库和学者所发表的观点——可以提供重要的洞见。"
    ],
    [
        "More unification and harmonization does not necessarily lead to effective – or even reasonable – solutions to the EU’s troubles.",
        "事实上更多的“一致”或者“统一”并不意味着就能提供有效——甚至合理的——欧盟问题应对方案。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, with Japan’s real annual GDP growth slipping to 0.6% since Shinzo Abe was elected Prime Minister in late 2012 – one-third slower than the sluggish 0.9% average annual rate over the preceding 22 lost years (1991 to 2012) – the so-called maximum stimulus of “Abenomics” has been an abject failure.",
        "6%——比此前失去的22年（1991—2012年）0. 9%的平均年增长率还要低三分之一——所谓的“安倍经济学”的最大规模刺激已经惨败。"
    ],
    [
        "So the job losses extend far beyond those in the construction industry.",
        "因此失业波及的范围远远超过建筑业。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, North Korea has responded to incremental tightening of international sanctions with two more nuclear tests, the latest this year under the new leadership of Kim Jong-un.",
        "自此以后，朝鲜对日渐紧迫的国际制裁的应对措施是两次新的核试验，其中最后一次是在新领袖金正恩的领导下在今年进行的。"
    ],
    [
        "In many cases, banks are requiring a second group of guarantors to guarantee the first group.",
        "在许多情形中，银行还要求第二担保人来为第一担保人提供担保。"
    ],
    [
        "That will require congressional action and additional revenues.",
        "这需要国会的行动和新的收入源。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, when the Arab Spring rebellions erupted in 2011, many Europeans immediately feared that millions of North Africans would descend on their shores.",
        "比方说，当2011年“阿拉伯春天”革命爆发时，很多欧洲人立即担心数百万北非人会降落到欧洲的海岸线上。"
    ],
    [
        "The long and intense political campaign has revealed huge differences in the two candidates’ positions, style, and personal qualities. And the conclusion seems clear.",
        "漫长而激烈的政治竞选过程已经暴露了两位候选人在立场、作风和个人素质之间的巨大差异。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, she also would have been careful to avoid being defined as a woman president.",
        "是的，她也将小心翼翼避免被定义为女总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet financial markets are not pricing dollar depreciation and a rise in long-term US interest rates accordingly.",
        "但金融市场并没有美元贬值、美国长期利率上涨的相应计划。"
    ],
    [
        "To begin with, it is imperative to understand how much credit Palestinians can credibly claim for the Israeli withdrawal.",
        "首先必须弄清巴勒斯坦人在以色列撤军中的贡献到底有多大。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that the smart use of state resources, together with sure-footed reforms, and China should be able to achieve moderate yet sustainable long-term growth.",
        "再加上灵活运用国家资源以及稳步前进的改革，中国应该能够实现温和但可持续的长期增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations seems more paralyzed than ever.",
        "联合国似乎陷入了前所未有的瘫痪状态。"
    ],
    [
        "This is all the more true as Asian universities turn out vast numbers of engineers and other knowledge workers who are just as qualified as their European colleagues, and as brilliant in technical design as they are in optimizing the manufacturing process.",
        "随着亚洲各大学培养出大量的工程师，这一点更加凸现出来。 这些专业人员绝不输于其欧洲的同事，并且不论是在技术设计还是在制造流程优化方面都同样出色。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the eurozone has become divided into creditors and debtors, with the creditors in charge of economic policy.",
        "结果导致整个欧元区被割裂为债权国和债务国，并由债权国掌控经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The US will also provide, share, and absorb technology and human talent, remaining at the top end of the higher-education spectrum and in basic and applied research.",
        "美国还将继续提供、分享和吸收技术和人才，继续成为高等教育及基础和应用研究的最尖端。"
    ],
    [
        "The Mauritius Miracle",
        "毛里求斯奇迹"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom’s Home Office has warned that hundreds of British and other European Muslims fighting in Syria alongside Al Qaeda-linked rebel groups could return home to carry out terrorist attacks.",
        "英国内政部警告说，数百名英国和欧洲穆斯林在叙利亚和与基地组织有关的叛军共同作战，他们可能回国谋划恐怖袭击。"
    ],
    [
        "How many children will miss out on education because teachers are absent due to low wages, or simply because poor children must work to supplement their family income?",
        "低工资造成的教师短缺或者贫困儿童被迫工作贴补家用会让多少孩子失去上学的机会？"
    ],
    [
        "The impact on the financial-services industry of these top-down factors will gradually amplify the importance of the bottom-up forces.",
        "这些自上而下因素对金融服务业的影响将逐渐放大自下而上力量的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "First of all, Bernanke did not propose any further easing of monetary policy to support the stalled recovery – or, rather, the non-recovery.",
        "首先，伯南克并未表示会实施任何进一步的宽松货币政策来支持停滞不前的复苏（或者还不如说是复而不苏）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the nature of conflict, as Ukraine has demonstrated, has changed dramatically.",
        "此外，如乌克兰所表明的，冲突的性质已经发生了剧变。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Trump administration enacts aggressive policies directed at China, the Chinese will have no choice but to respond.",
        "如果特朗普政府颁布了针对中国的激进政策，中国也别无选择，只能接招应对。"
    ],
    [
        "But the decision to impose capital punishment remains highly subjective.",
        "但死刑判决依然充斥着主观因素。"
    ],
    [
        "They continue to assume that we live in an era of Western domination of world history.",
        "他们继续假定我们生活在世界历史由西方统治的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Should they keep printing money even after exhausting their ability to inject extra liquidity into the economy via conventional open-market operations, which is now the case in the United States and elsewhere?",
        "还是应该通过传统的开放市场的方式，不停地印制钞票来提供足够的现金? 美国是采取以上什么的方法？"
    ],
    [
        "Another – plainly linked – is Muslim-majority countries’ efforts to define the relationship between religion and politics.",
        "而另一条线索明显与上条线索有关，涉及到以穆斯林为主的国家如何确定宗教和政治的关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Half of Ukraine’s population is Russian-speaking in various degrees.",
        "乌克兰一半人口在不同程度上将俄语。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009, they worked to defeat climate-change legislation by relying on anti-regulation rhetoric that demonized their own creation.",
        "为了抵制2009年的气候变化立法，他们转而用反管制言论去把自身的产物妖魔化了。"
    ],
    [
        "They marched weekly for years, forcing public discussion of human rights abuses under the dictatorship.",
        "她们常年坚持每周游行，迫使公众舆论探讨独裁统治下的践踏人权问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Irving Fisher called this fixation on nominal price growth the “money illusion” in an eponymous 1928 book.",
        "欧文·费雪（Irving Fisher）在其1928年的同名著作将这一固定的名义价格增长称为“货币幻觉”。"
    ],
    [
        "An important example is removing the US prison at Guantánamo Bay from international limbo – one of his first initiatives as president.",
        "而其中关塔那摩问题就是一个重要的例子，奥巴马上任伊始立刻提出的举措之一，就是将这个原本处于法律真空地带的监狱置于国际监管之下。"
    ],
    [
        "The third shock was the euro, which has induced a rapid convergence of long-term interest rates, which in some countries had been five to seven percentage points above the German level.",
        "第三轮冲击波来自欧元，由此引发了长期利率的迅速趋同，而此前某些国家的长期利率要比德国高出7个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the Russian army could smash Georgia and most of its ex-Soviet neighbors, but its performance in Georgia shows that it remains the same lumbering, badly motivated outfit that it was in the 1990’s.",
        "是的，俄罗斯军队可以打败格鲁吉亚和它大部分的前苏联邻国，但其在格鲁吉亚的战绩表明，它仍然和20世纪90年代一样，笨拙而且素质差。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Health Impact Fund could be adequately financed, it would provide incentives to develop products in proportion to their impact in reducing the global burden of disease.",
        "如果健康影响基金能获得足够的融资，它可以提供与降低全球疾病负担效果相匹配的产品开发激励。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans should be pleased – and relieved – that they are no longer America’s first line of defense.",
        "欧洲人应该感到高兴——和如释重负——他们不再是美国的第一条防线。"
    ],
    [
        "Clarke earns about $6 million (Australian dollars) per year; in addition to an annual retainer, he receives a $14,000 match fee for every international test match, along with other tour fees and bonuses.",
        "克拉克每年能挣600万澳元，此外还有津贴——每场国际测试赛都有14 000美元出场费费以及其他差旅费和奖金。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s colonial occupation of Korea, for example, is described as a “partnership”; one looks in vain for any account of the victims of Japanese militarism in Nanjing or Manila.",
        "比如说，日本把朝鲜占用为殖民地被描述为是一种“伙伴关系”； 并且你在这里不会看到关于日本军国主义在南京或马尼拉滥杀无辜的任何描述。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, countercyclical policies – both fiscal and monetary – could eventually be expected to plug the demand hole and get the economy going again, just as Keynesians argue.",
        "在上述情况下，按照凯恩斯理论，财政及货币等反周期政策最终可以弥补需求不足，从而让经济再度启动。"
    ],
    [
        "If anyone or anything has a claim to embody the progressive ideals of 1789, it is the EU.",
        "如果说有人可以宣称代表了1789年的进步理想的话，也是欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "But Pinker is probably correct when he notes that the parts of the world that lag in the decline of violence are also the parts that lag in the empowerment of women.",
        "但平克指出，从世界范围看，暴力消解不力的地区往往也是女性掌权情形落后的地区，或许，他是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s government is able to pay such a low rate of interest because domestic prices have been falling for more than a decade, while the yen has been strengthening against other major currencies.",
        "日本政府之所以能够获得如此低的利率，是因为十多年来国内物价一直在下降，而日元则对其他主要货币升值。"
    ],
    [
        "This massive transition will transform how citizens interact with their governments, revolutionize entire industries, and change the way we engage with one another.",
        "这一大变革将改变公民与政府互动的方式，给全行业带来一场革命，并改变我们彼此交往的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the developed world, swine flu has two long-lasting lessons to teach: (1) Flu is a bigger deal than many people imagine.",
        "但是在发达国家，人们却应从猪流感的爆发中吸取两个长期教训：（1）流感比很多人想象的还要严重。"
    ],
    [
        "That country's decline can still be arrested, provided the EU wakes up, the new US administration gets engaged, and both renew their commitment to Bosnia's survival as a state, by maintaining an effective troop presence and beginning the process of strengthening the international community's approach long-term, including finding ways to untie Bosnia's constitutional knot.",
        "如果欧盟觉醒，新一届美国政府介入，并且二者都通过保持有效的军事存在和开始加强国际社会的长期策略的进程的方式，包括寻找解开波斯尼亚宪法难题的途径，来重审它们对波斯尼亚作为一个国家存在下去的承诺，那么，就可以阻止波斯尼亚情形的恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "But there was an air of practicality in popular criticism of the EU, which largely focused on what the EU did, especially in the economic sphere.",
        "但在民众对欧盟的批评中有一种实用主义倾向，主要集中在欧盟做了什么，尤其是在经济领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Last January, after the tsunami, in response to widespread calls for an early warning system, I observed that the world had been given an early warning on global warming.",
        "去年1月的海啸过后，作为对引起人们广泛关注的早期预警系统的回应，我看到全世界人们都听到了全球变暖的警报。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason, of course, is that there are not enough votes to be gained in addressing these matters.",
        "当然，个中原因在于解决这些问题无法带来足够的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Some predict that Congress will move further to the left economically in order to distinguish itself from the BJP, and argue that this would be counterproductive, given that voters have seemingly rejected socialist policies.",
        "有人预测国大党将在经济上进一步左倾，以区分其自身和印度人民党，并认为这不利于经济生产，因为选民似乎拒绝接受社会主义政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Aid can work wonders if it is practical and directed to those in need.",
        "如果切合实际并急人所急，那么援助就能够创造奇迹。"
    ],
    [
        "Fundación Paraguaya has been able to replicate this type of success in other parts of the world.",
        "巴拉圭基金会能够在世界其他地区复制这一类型的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, despite domestic resistance, the PBOC must raise nominal interest rates so that they are in line with structural inflation.",
        "事实上，即便面临国内阻力，中国人民银行也需要提高名义利率才能适应中国存在结构性通胀的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the US viewed the Islamic world almost exclusively through the prism of the “global war on terror.”",
        "2011年9月11日恐怖袭击发生后，美国的“全球恐怖战争”望远镜中就只有伊斯兰世界。"
    ],
    [
        "And why is it directed at Japan?",
        "又为何矛头直指日本？"
    ],
    [
        "I had seen her just last month: alive and vivid as usual.",
        "我上个月才见过她：活蹦乱跳的，一如往常。"
    ],
    [
        "What was true in Merton’s day is becoming even more starkly true in today’s globalized economy.",
        "莫顿时代的真实，在我们今天国际化经济中则更加真实。"
    ],
    [
        "It is important to learn from the past.",
        "向过去学习是重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "His political base has faded, owing to Iran’s deepening economic crisis, which has been intensified by the conflict with the West over the nuclear issue.",
        "由于伊朗不断深化的经济危机在与西方关于核问题的冲突中更加恶化，所以内贾德的政治基础已经削弱了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as has been demonstrated in areas like air pollution, traffic congestion, spectrum allocation, and tobacco consumption, market mechanisms are often the best way for governments to address such failures.",
        "但正如类似空气污染，交通拥堵，电信频率分配以及香烟消费等问题所展现的那样，市场机制往往是政府应对这类失灵问题的最佳手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan in the early 1990’s waited too long to act and missed the right opportunity to enact countermeasures, which is why Japan has still not recovered from its long stagnation.",
        "在20世纪90年代早期的危机中，日本等待了很长的时间没有采取措施，从而错过了制定对策的恰当时机，这就是日本仍然没有从其长期的经济停滞中恢复过来的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In January, militants struck across the frontier at the Indian base in Pathankot.",
        "1月，激进分子跨境袭击了帕坦科特印度基地边界。"
    ],
    [
        "People were being denounced left and right.",
        "人们受到来自各个方面的告发。"
    ],
    [
        "But their objections to central banks are far weaker.",
        "但他们对央行的反对要弱得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Consequently, those who are more interested in arbitrary authority than legality are using the language of law to legitimize their actions – and weakening the rule of law in the process.",
        "结果热衷于独夫统治甚于法律者用法律的语言来让其行为合法化——并在此过程中削弱法治。"
    ],
    [
        "Some are linked to the personalities of Obama and Sarkozy; others reflect the nature of their political imperatives.",
        "奥巴马和萨科奇的个性因素占一定比重，其余恐怕是政治需要的反映。"
    ],
    [
        "But these changes, though necessary, were insufficient to deliver growth in productivity and output.",
        "虽然这些变化是有必要的，却不足以支撑生产力和产出的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But I continue to have faith that the General Assembly will know, as always, how to meet this challenge.",
        "但是，联合国大会将会像以往一贯那样面对挑战。 我对此继续保持信念。"
    ],
    [
        "At the moment, this may be the best-possible outcome.",
        "在目前看来，这或许是能够期望的最好结局。"
    ],
    [
        "But the report also showed that global warming has dramatically slowed or entirely stopped in the last decade and a half.",
        "但报告同时显示过去15年中全球变暖速度已经大幅减慢或者完全停止。"
    ],
    [
        "This latter role is particularly important, given the constitutional ambiguity created by the reversion back to a parliamentary system and the uneasy co-habitation of President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in government.",
        "鉴于向议会体系的回归所产生的体制模糊状况，以及总统彼得·波罗申科（Petro Poroshenko）和总理阿尔谢尼·亚采纽克（Arseniy Yatsenyuk）在政府中一山难容二虎的形势，后者的作用尤为重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, I spoke to an Afghan man very close to me.",
        "最近，我有一个和我非常熟识的阿富汗人和我交谈。"
    ],
    [
        "Prime Minister Iyad Allawi assures the world that there will be, and President Bush echoes his words.",
        "阿拉维总理信誓旦旦向全世界保证这不是问题，布什总统也一再附和。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly 400 years ago, in 1644, John Milton published his Areopagitica, an essay denouncing a measure in Parliament for licensing the press that was intended, among other things, to suppress libelous publications.",
        "距今近400年前的1644年，约翰·弥尔顿发表了谴责议会审核抑制批评出版物的文章论出版自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Antarctic krill must not be fished to feed the fish farms of the world while starving the penguins, seals, whales, and other species whose survival depends on these tiny, but vitally important, creatures.",
        "人们不应捕捉南极磷虾去喂养养鱼场的鱼类而让那些依靠这些细小、但却极其重要的动物为生的企鹅、海豹、鲸和其他物种饱受饥饿。"
    ],
    [
        "The cost of sending such help would be around $50 million, and the benefits would be $200 million to $300 million in increased food production next year (and hence less needed in emergency food aid).",
        "提供这样的帮助大约需要5000万美元左右，而好处却是明年粮食产量增加2亿到3亿美元（且所需的紧急救援食品也会因此减少）。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – After a spring of heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula, a flurry of diplomatic activity in recent weeks has brought some hope of a meeting of the minds, at least between China, South Korea, and the United States.",
        "北京—在经历了一个朝鲜半岛局势紧张的春天后，最近几周的一系列外交活动带来了形成一致的希望，至少在中国、韩国和美国之间是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "All assets needed to achieve security must adapt to the reality of today’s threats and conflicts.",
        "实现安全所需的一切资产都必须适应当今威胁和冲突的现实局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Although he strengthened religious freedom and peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Christians, the human-rights situation in Ethiopia remained poor.",
        "尽管他加强了宗教自由和穆斯林和基督徒之间的和平共存，但埃塞俄比亚的人权状况依然很差。"
    ],
    [
        "For various reasons, savers have become ascendant across many regions.",
        "出于多种原因，储蓄者在诸多地区占据了主导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Their seamless, all-embracing world of tradition is gone, but they are not yet confident citizens of the modern, individualistic world.",
        "他们那原本天衣无缝、兼容并包的传统世界已经不复存在，但他们还没有成为当代个人主义世界的自信公民。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be a great pity if, in examining what went wrong, deficiencies in the program’s implementation were to obscure its accomplishments.",
        "但如果在检查错误的过程中，制度实施的低效性阻碍了它的完成，那将令人无比遗憾。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, GDP remains by far the dominant measure of economic prosperity, reflecting the obsession with universality that accompanied the spread of capitalism worldwide.",
        "尽管如此，GDP仍然是经济繁荣最主要的衡量标准，这反映了人们对在全球资本主义扩张中应运而生的普遍标准的迷恋态度。"
    ],
    [
        "But maximizing the potential of the new technology requires the stable and predictable operating environment, as well as the support for basic research, that only governments can provide.",
        "但实现这项新技术潜力的最大化需要稳定而可预测的经营环境，以及对基础研究的支持，而这些条件只有政府才能提供。"
    ],
    [
        "By focusing on the social benefits of competition while ignoring the costs to specific people, the market fundamentalists disregarded the principle of individualism at the heart of their own ideology.",
        "”市场原教旨主义者关注竞争的社会收益，而忽视这给具体的人所造成的代价，因此否认了个人主义原则在我们的意识形态中的核心地位。"
    ],
    [
        "This is absent in China.",
        "但这种做法在中国尚不存在。"
    ],
    [
        "He announced investments of $97 billion to “free Africa from the West.”",
        "他宣称已经为“将非洲从西方手中解放出来”资助了970亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that nearly half of all Arabs depend on freshwater inflows from non-Arab countries, including Turkey and the upstream states on the Nile River, may serve to exacerbate water insecurity further.",
        "近一半阿拉伯人需要仰仗来自非阿拉伯国家——包括土耳其和尼罗河上游国家——的淡水流入这一事实可能将进一步加剧水危机。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, shouldn’t laggards grow faster than leaders if all they have to do is imitate others, even leapfrogging now-obsolete technologies? Why didn’t they grow faster for so long, and why are they doing so now?",
        "毕竟，落后者所做的只是模仿其他人，即便面临超越陈腐技术的难题，也应该比领先者增长更快才对。"
    ],
    [
        "Put plainly, there is no political support for the higher taxes and spending cuts that would be necessary with a common fiscal policy.",
        "说白了，统一财政政策所需的加税和削减开支举措是不存在政治基础的。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the election results, Palestinians still hope to re-establish momentum in resolving the remaining points of disagreement with Israel.",
        "尽管选举结果已经出来，但是巴勒斯坦人还是希望重新建立势头，解决与以色列之间悬而未决的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s President Hu Jintao spoke about all that his country is already doing to reduce energy intensity and invest in “green” alternatives.",
        "中国主席胡锦涛谈到了中国已经在降低能源应用强度和投资“绿色”替代能源方面所做出的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, two kinds of paradigm shift are required.",
        "其结果是，我们需要进行两种理论框架的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s problem is that it lacks a clearly identifiable leader.",
        "欧洲的问题在于它缺乏一个广为人知的领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the fears, and especially the prospect of a new and lucrative market, set pharmaceutical firms scrambling to develop Ebola-related products, while health officials lamented that nothing had been done beforehand.",
        "尽管如此，恐慌，特别是看到了新的有利可图的市场，让制药企业争相研发埃博拉相关产品，而卫生官员则哀叹为何不早点这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Significant and persistent health inequality indicates that, by raising the health levels of those with lower incomes or less education, massive strides could be made in improving populations’ overall health.",
        "平等获得卫生医疗是不够的。 降低健康结果的不平等性需要加强对较低社会经济地位患者的卫生措施，解决他们特殊的需要和挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, China’s leadership is viewed with a much greater degree of public sympathy.",
        "相比之下，中国领导层所获得的公众支持看上去更高。"
    ],
    [
        "The second group exploits the state’s arbitrary powers more directly.",
        "第二个集团更加直接地利用国家的专断权。"
    ],
    [
        "The once-popular notion, built into growth forecasts, that exports would provide an escape route from the crisis was never credible.",
        "增长预测中曾经的流行概念——出口将成为逃生通道——已不再可信。"
    ],
    [
        "Political parties exchange benefits and ignore those who elected them.",
        "政党之间进行利益交换并把那些选举它们的人晾在了一边。"
    ],
    [
        "These decisions affect a total of 26 reactors, while 61 reactors are under construction around the world, with another 156 projected and 343 under official consideration.",
        "这些决定影响了26个核反应堆，然而61个核反应堆正在全世界范围内兴建，另外还有156个正在计划进行，还有343个反应堆政府正在考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "The phrase “sustainable development” is commonplace, but economic commentators offer no guidance on how we are to judge whether a nation’s economic development is, indeed, sustainable.",
        "“可持续发展”一词已是尽人皆知，但经济评论家们并没有指导我们如何判断一个国家的经济发展是否真的具有可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "These interconnected visions can and must be realized if Europe is to thrive again.",
        "这些相互交融的愿景可以也必须实现，如果欧洲意在重振雄风的话。"
    ],
    [
        "But their ability to undo their mistakes is limited.",
        "但它们收回错误的能力太差了。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have even employed staff using their own money.",
        "有些人甚至自己花钱来雇佣员工。"
    ],
    [
        "But even the most determined autocrat cannot fully control political activity online.",
        "但即使是最强大的独裁者也无法完全控制网络活动。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in energy-efficient Switzerland, energy use is just 100 kg per $1,000 of GDP, and in Demark it is just 110 kg, compared with 190 kg in the US.",
        "但是，在高能效的瑞士，创造每一千美元的能源使用量仅为100公斤，丹麦为110公斤，相比之下美国的能源使用量高达190公斤。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Hamas is convinced that any success for Abbas and the Palestinian Authority will further discredit its rule and increase its isolation in besieged Gaza.",
        "事实上，哈马斯认定，阿巴斯和巴勒斯坦权力机构的任何成功都会进一步破坏其规则的名誉，同时进一步增加深陷重围的加沙的孤立。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the political situation in Palestine – characterized by the erosion of President Mahmoud Abbas’s legitimacy – and the region’s overall instability are contributing further to the decay of the peace process.",
        "与此同时，巴勒斯坦的政局——总统阿巴斯的合法性正在受到侵蚀——以及地区的总体动荡局势都有碍于和平进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Daily commute times for low-income formal-sector workers often exceed three hours, and the average direct cost of transportation is equivalent to roughly two hours of work at the minimum wage.",
        "低收入正规部门职工日通勤时间往往在三小时以上，而且平均直接交通成本约等于最低工资者两小时的工资总和。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund expects output in the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa to grow at a rate of close to 5% next year, but South Africa is projected to manage little more than 1% growth.",
        "国际货币基金组织（IMR）预计，明年南非经济增长率很难达到1%，而撒哈拉以南非洲其余国家将接近5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine also agreed to implement the relevant EU energy directives as part of its membership of the European Energy Community.",
        "而乌克兰还承诺执行欧盟相关的能源指令，并以此作为获取欧洲能源共同体成员国资格的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the region’s most productive farmers could be identified and encouraged to share their best practices with other farmers.",
        "此外，还可以识别该地区生产率更高的农民，鼓励他们与其他农民分享最佳实践。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, although the war with Georgia demonstrated the revived combat spirit of the Russian army – at least when compared to its ineptness in the two Chechen wars of the 1990’s – it also exhibited the grave defects of Russian military technology.",
        "确实，虽然和格鲁吉亚的战争显示了俄罗斯军队战斗精神的复活——至少与20世纪90年代的两次车臣战争相比如此——它也显示了俄罗斯军事技术的严重缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "At the beginning, the Norwegians called it “fax democracy”: Instructions from Brussels would simply appear in Oslo government offices, to be implemented without debate.",
        "一开始挪威人将其称之为“传真民主”：从布鲁塞尔发来的指令只会出现在奥斯陆政府办公室，并在未经讨论的情况下予以实行。"
    ],
    [
        "It is no accident, for example, that Europe’s most successful welfare states were created in ethnically homogeneous Scandinavia.",
        "这种共同身份定义的最佳范例就是种族相对单一的斯堪的纳维亚半岛，欧洲最成功的福利国家都集中于此。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to our initiative and others like it, refugees can use this time to prepare to enter the job market, by gaining valuable skills, not to mention a certified assessment of their occupational aptitude.",
        "拜我们和其他类似的项目所赐，难民能够 利用这段时间获得宝贵的技能乃至职业能力倾向的认证评估，为进入就业市场做好准备。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the new “plug and play\" scheme for public-private partnerships, whereby “all clearances and linkages will be in place before the project is awarded,\" is a major improvement over the previous PPP model.",
        "从这个角度讲，新的“即插即用”（plug and play）公私合作（PPP）机制——让“所有清理和联系都在项目授予前就位”——是对此前PPP模式的重大改进。"
    ],
    [
        "The region’s private sector will need active, sustained support to grow and mature.",
        "中东地区的私人部门需要积极、持续的支持以实现成长和成熟。"
    ],
    [
        "Although dissent was mostly diverted to Afghanistan, bin Laden’s most trusted companions (his wife, too) have remained mainly in Yemen.",
        "虽然沙特将大部分反对者都转移到了阿富汗，但是，本·拉登最受其信任的同伙（以及他的妻子）大部分仍然留在了也门。"
    ],
    [
        "But, over the past several years, a number of sub-Saharan countries have attracted unprecedented inflows of foreign capital.",
        "但是在过去几年时间里，几个萨哈拉沙漠以南国家吸引了前所未有的外国资本。"
    ],
    [
        "Given today’s agenda, there is enormous potential for an equal partnership, working with others, in the provision of global public goods that will benefit the US, Japan, and the rest of the world.",
        "在今天的大背景下，建立平等的伙伴关系、为全球公共利益相互合作从而使美、日和世界其他国家从中受益的潜力巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "It will make Germany the center of an empire and permanently subordinate the “periphery.”",
        "这会让德国成为帝国中心，而“外围国”将永远低人一等。"
    ],
    [
        "Successful pension systems often have a solidarity pillar (public) and a contributory pillar (private).",
        "成功的退休金制度需要团结（公共）和出资（私人）双管齐下。"
    ],
    [
        "The Solidarity/postcommunist divide seems to have pickled Polish politics, leaving it without a new generation of leaders and thus without enthusiasm.",
        "团结工会/后共产主义人士之间的分歧似乎也一直困扰着波兰政治，使波兰无法诞生新一代的领袖，也因此丧失了必要的活力与热情。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, even if China suffers no major domestic political setback, projections based on GDP growth alone are one-dimensional and ignore US military and soft-power advantages. They also ignore China’s geopolitical disadvantages within Asia.",
        "此外，即使中国不在爆发国内政治倒退，基于GDP一个维度的预测也忽视了美国的军事和软实力优势，也忽视了中国在亚洲的地缘政治劣势。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Muslim Brotherhood government and the secular opposition both complained about America’s relationship with the other.",
        "事实上，穆兄会政府和世俗反对派都对美国与对方的关系颇多怨言。"
    ],
    [
        "This excessive dependence on credit stems from the lack of adequate funding and the relative underdevelopment of China’s equity markets, with market capitalization amounting to only 37% of GDP, compared to 104% of GDP in the US.",
        "过度依赖银行信贷的原因是缺少足够的其它融资渠道，特别是股市的相对欠发达。 中国股市市值只占GDP的37%，而美国为GDP的104%。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the country will face a shortage of 13 million medium-skilled workers.",
        "与此同时，印度还将面临1. 3亿中等技能工人短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, it enables them to think critically and question established wisdom, thereby enabling them to rise above prejudice, myth, and restrictive historical legacies.",
        "最重要的是，教育让人们能够批判性思考和质疑传统智慧，从而让他们超越偏见、传说和历史传统的桎梏。"
    ],
    [
        "Most people didn't have them.",
        "这在当时还并不普遍。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s emerging intifada demonstrates the profound danger implied by this approach.",
        "今天的叛乱显示了这种方法所隐含的危险因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The region has a major opportunity to raise the value of its exports of goods and services.",
        "中东欧地区面临着提升出口产品和服务价值的重要机会。"
    ],
    [
        "When we see footage of nonviolent protesters being brutally beaten by police and militia members, it is painful to deliver the message that, if history is a guide, continued street protest will make the difference between Iran being like Myanmar or, possibly, like Czechoslovakia.",
        "当我们看到和平示威的人们被警察和民兵残酷殴打时，就应该在悲痛之中传达这么一种信息，那就是如果历史可以借鉴的话，坚持不断的示威将令伊朗的局势发展有别于缅甸甚至是捷克斯洛伐克。"
    ],
    [
        "From the ethical point of view, consumption is a means to goodness, and the market system is the most efficient engine for lifting people out of poverty: it is doing so at a prodigious rate in China and India.",
        "从伦理角度上看，消费是向好的方向发展的途径，而市场体系是让人们脱离贫穷的最有效的发动机：在中国和印度它正以惊人的速度这样做着。"
    ],
    [
        "The early election makes it inevitable that Britain will formally leave the EU in March 2019, because May will no longer face even the theoretical possibility of parliamentary opposition.",
        "提前选举意味着英国必须在2019年3月正式脱离欧盟，因为梅不可能遭到议会反对，连理论上的可能性都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "Many kinds of pushback can be expected, not least the argument that the veto exists not to protect the P5’s interests, but to ensure unanimity of the major players (conspicuously missing in the UN’s ill-fated predecessor, the League of Nations) in any action undertaken, in order to maintain international peace and security.",
        "可以预期会遇到各种阻力，比如有人会提出否决权的存在不是为了保护“五常”的利益，而是为了保证所有行动上重要行动方的一致性（联合国命运多舛的前身国际联盟就显然缺少这一点），从而维持国际和平与安全。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009-2010, some mid-ranking officials and commentators even referred to the South China Sea as a sovereign “core interest” like Taiwan or Tibet.",
        "2009-2010年，有些中层官员和评论员甚至将南海像台湾或西藏那样纳入中国核心利益的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet those who are supposed to know where it is all taking us can’t make up their minds.",
        "但理应知道这会将我们引向何方的那些人无法做出定论。"
    ],
    [
        "No one thought that the European Union’s troubles were resolved, but no one thought that the eurozone was coming apart, either.",
        "没有人认为欧元的麻烦已经得到了解决，但也没有人认为欧元区正在分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, Saudi Arabia has been forced to initiate a shift toward an economic model that emphasizes investment and productivity as the main drivers of economic growth.",
        "尤其是沙特阿拉伯正在被迫开展向以投资和生产率为经济增长主要驱动力的经济模式的转型。"
    ],
    [
        "This means welcoming migrants and minorities, creating more opportunities for women and the disabled, and empowering citizens through education and participation.",
        "这就意味着欢迎移民和少数族裔，为妇女和残疾人创造更多的机会，并且通过教育和参与赋予公民权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The workers are subject to unsafe construction sites, exploitative recruitment agencies, and little recourse to formal justice.",
        "工人在不安全的工地工作，遭受招工头盘剥，无从寻求形式正义。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, no free speech for Indians.",
        "换句话说，印度没有言论自由。"
    ],
    [
        "But this history means that the true real long-term interest rate was not as high in the 1980’s as our measures show, because long-term inflation expectations must have been much higher than the one-year inflation rate was at the time.",
        "但这段历史说明1980年代真正的实际长期利率并不像我们所计算的那样高。 因为那时对长期通胀的期望值肯定比某一年份的通胀率要高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "So the paradox of the Arab revolutions is that they have contributed to Israel’s integration as a strategic partner (for some countries) in the region.",
        "于是阿拉伯革命就自相矛盾地促成了以色列作为该地区战略伙伴（对某些国家而言）的融合。"
    ],
    [
        "The final group comprises the “wild card” countries, whose size and connectivity have important systemic implications.",
        "最后一组国家构成了“两可”国家，它们的规模和联系具有重要的系统影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "On the one hand, Brazil continued its successful rise as an emerging power with global aspirations.",
        "一方面，巴西继续作为怀有全球抱负的新兴国家成功崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "After a confrontation between the two, the wealthy wife drove her BMW into the growing crowd of spectators on the roadside, killing the peasant woman and injuring 12 others.",
        "在一番对峙之后，富商之妻驾车冲进街沿上越来越多的围观者，将农妇当场撞死并撞伤了12个围观者。"
    ],
    [
        "The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (which provide health insurance to pensioners and the poor) has just announced its second round of grants – $665 million to 28 states, three territories, and the District of Columbia – to encourage innovations in health-care delivery.",
        "联邦医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心（The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services，为退休者和穷人提供医疗保险）刚刚宣布了第二轮资金分配——28个州、三个领地和哥伦比亚特区获得6. 65亿美元——以刺激医疗服务提供创新。"
    ],
    [
        "When Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo made his surprise announcement on 13 January to begin a nationwide dialogue to discuss constitutional reform, he was bowing to the inevitable.",
        "当尼日利亚总统奥卢塞贡·奥巴桑乔1月13日出人意料地宣布开始全国性探讨宪法改革的对话时，他终于接受了无可避免的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "The bigger question that the Brexiteers need to answer is how to secure a high level of access to the EU’s internal market.",
        "脱盟论者需要回答的更大问题是如何保住进入欧盟内部市场的高规格渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "On global nonproliferation, the US should push for a role for India in next year’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference in order to complete the country’s transformation from being part of the problem to being part of the solution.",
        "在全球核不扩散领域，美国应当在明年的核不扩散协议（NPT）审核会议上力促让印度发挥作用，以便使这个国家从问题的组成部分过渡到成为部分的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Another approach is needed.",
        "采用其他方法非常必要。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, they are simply moving from a one-child policy to a two-child policy.",
        "相反，他们只是将一胎政策变成二胎政策。"
    ],
    [
        "In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls.",
        "在极端信贷紧缩的情况下，用杠杆来购买黄金的行为会导致被迫抛售，因为任何的价格纠正都会触发保证金追缴。"
    ],
    [
        "Much like Londoners after the attacks on their public-transport system in July 2005, Boston’s citizens were determined to prove that life goes on.",
        "正如2005年7月公交系统袭击发生后的伦敦人，波士顿市民决心证明，生活还在继续。 下半旗以致哀；"
    ],
    [
        "There are also those in China who argue that the US focus on food and product safety is part of a strategy to restrict Chinese imports and reduce the bilateral trade deficit. This argument has no basis in fact.",
        "中国还有人说美国抓住食品和产品安全问题是限制中国进口以及减少双边贸易赤字战略的一部分。 这一说法实际上没有根据。"
    ],
    [
        "That may be why Bo had to be toppled, and certainly why dissidents like Chen, as well as his family, have to suffer so much that refuge in a foreign embassy is their final, desperate option.",
        "这可能是薄熙来为何会被罢免的原因，也是陈光诚及其家人为何要遭受如此多的苦难，以致最后只能绝望地将逃往一个外国使馆作为自身最后选择的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "They were grateful for the international community’s involvement, but described in moving terms the huge loss of life that Qaddafi had inflicted on his own people.",
        "他们对国际社会的介入表示感谢，同时也用激动的语调叙述了卡扎菲对利比亚人民所犯下的暴行。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem of bad immigration policies is not limited to Latin America.",
        "坏移民政策的问题不仅局限于拉丁美洲。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the current American and European economies differ in important ways from the other post-war cases – size, simultaneous consolidation in many countries, already-low interest rates, and the dollar’s status as the main global reserve currency.",
        "毕竟，当前美国和欧洲经济体与其他战后国家在诸多重要方面大相径庭——规模、多国同时实施紧缩、已经很低的利率，以及作为全球主要储备货币的美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The final item on the agenda for reviving the rules-based order, and defeating the world’s destructive Dionysuses, is the most challenging: we must reinforce rules-based communities.",
        "复兴基于规则的秩序，并打败破坏性的狄俄尼索斯们的日程的最后一项挑战最为艰巨：我们必须加强基于规则的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "like a heavy load.",
        "就像是一个重负。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s modest at a time when the world is in recession.",
        "世界经济正处在萧条时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Though consensus-building can be slow and cumbersome, it is the only way to generate the legitimacy that WTO decisions need.",
        "虽然建立共识可能冗长而繁琐，但这是世贸组织决策获取所需合法性的唯一途径。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why the potential of GiveWell is revolutionary.",
        "这就是为何善举的潜力是巨大无比的。"
    ],
    [
        "Working smarter is no empty slogan; it is the key to modernizing African agriculture.",
        "更聪明地工作并不是一句空泛的口号； 它是非洲农业现代化的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "But the system needs to be reviewed.",
        "但这样的体系也需要接受审核。"
    ],
    [
        "Conditions are, if anything, even worse for laying hens crammed into wire cages so small that even if there were just one per cage, she would be unable to stretch her wings.",
        "蛋鸡的待遇，如果还算待遇的话，更加糟糕。 它们被圈在极其狭小的铁丝网笼中，即使是每个笼子只有一只鸡，也无法伸展翅膀。"
    ],
    [
        "Credit that mainly to the other 30%, especially to strong exports and a rebound in business capital spending.",
        "2%的速度缓慢复苏不失为一个奇迹。 这主要归功于除消费以外的其余30%，特别需要感谢强劲的出口和企业资本支出的反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments may also have to compensate communities affected by epidemics, fund research to treat illness or prevent future outbreaks, cover increased health-care costs, and sustain programs to help patients.",
        "此外各国政府还可能要支援受流行病影响的社区，资助治疗疾病或预防未来疫情方面的研究，支付因此而增加的医疗保健费用以及协助患者维持生计。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy and Spain would then be able to refinance their debt at close to the ECB’s deposit rate, which is currently 1% on mandatory reserves and 25 basis points on excess-reserve accounts.",
        "那时意大利和西班牙就能以接近于欧洲央行存款利率的收益率为其债务重新融资了。 目前强制性存款的利率为1%，非强制性存款的利率要高25个基点。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kyoto Protocol has generated new markets for trading carbon emissions, such as the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). At current carbon prices, the value of carbon sequestration by tropical rainforests likely equals or exceeds the current level of international aid being provided to developing countries.",
        "《京都议定书》还催生了一个进行碳排放交易的新市场，如“欧洲排放交易机制” (ETS)。"
    ],
    [
        "Traders need not wait to see when or whether the profits materialize.",
        "交易员不需要等这些利润何时或是否实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Larger firms – even those with large debt problems – can refinance their excessive liabilities in court or out of court; but an unprecedented number of small businesses are going bankrupt.",
        "大公司，即便它们债台高筑，仍然能公开地或在私下里寻求到债务重组的方案。 但小企业正在以前所未有的数量走向破产。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, Van Rompuy’s report is crucial.",
        "在这样的环境下，范龙佩的报告十分关进。"
    ],
    [
        "Even many of the more backward parts of China have been growing at a pace that would be a marvel, were it not for the fact that other parts of the country are growing even more rapidly.",
        "即便是中国很多落后地区也以惊人的速度向前发展，但与中国其它地区更快的发展速度相比却相形见绌。"
    ],
    [
        "But the symbolism of Gandhi’s simple dress and lifestyle spoke louder than words.",
        "但甘地简单装束和生活方式的象征意义远比语言更为响亮。"
    ],
    [
        "1. The EU needs a knowledge and innovation policy that strengthens European agriculture’s competitiveness.",
        "1、欧盟需要一个增强欧洲农业竞争力的知识与创新政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The basic equation of electricity is “Coulomb’s law,” which governs the electrical attraction or repulsion between charged particles and looks exactly like Newton’s law of gravity.",
        "关于电的基本定律是“库仑定律”，主要描述带电荷粒子之间的吸引和排斥力，并与牛顿万有引力定律看上去极为相似。"
    ],
    [
        "Government spending remains large enough to guarantee reasonable public services and a social safety net.",
        "政府支出保持大到足以保证公共服务和社会安全网。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran, a multiethnic state whose rulers have struggled to advance national cohesion, is no different.",
        "作为一个多种族的国家，其统治者一直在挣扎中推进民族凝聚力。"
    ],
    [
        "What European leaders may want most from the Fund are easy loans and strong rhetorical support.",
        "欧洲领导人最希望从IMF手中获得的是宽松的贷款和给力的口头支持。"
    ],
    [
        "For Murray, it is that social insurance means that behaving badly does not lead to catastrophe – and we need bad behavior to lead to catastrophe in order to keep people from behaving badly.",
        "在穆雷看来，问题在于社会保险意味着做得不好不会导致崩溃——我们需要导致崩溃的坏行为，这样才能让人们不再做出坏行为。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, US President Barack Obama’s gun-control efforts – which include intensifying background-check requirements and increasing financing for mental-health programs for young people – hold global significance.",
        "在这样的环境下，美国总统奥巴马的枪支管制措施——包括加强背景审查要求、增加年轻人精神卫生项目资金支持——具有全球重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, China is not facing a choice between Keynesian stimulus or supply-side reform, but rather a challenge in balancing the two.",
        "在此背景下，摆在中国面前的并不是究竟该选择凯恩斯主义刺激还供应侧改革，而是如何平衡这两者。"
    ],
    [
        "Then they agreed in Seoul in 2010 to give emerging-market countries quota shares in the International Monetary Fund that would be more commensurate with their economic weight.",
        "接着，在2010年的首尔峰会上，他们同意给予新兴市场国家在国际货币基金组织（IMF）更大的份额，以体现它们的经济分量。"
    ],
    [
        "The answer is a resounding no.",
        "答案是响亮的“不可能”。"
    ],
    [
        "Liberal democracies and open societies have traditionally relied on a fine balance of these three forms of power.",
        "自由民主国家和开放社会传统上一直依赖这三种权力间微妙的平衡关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Imagine a child’s experience a century ago or earlier.",
        "想想一百年前或者更早期的儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "But the AfDB is determined to provide opportunities that pay dividends for African communities – in public health, improved sanitation, economic development, and environmental protection.",
        "但非洲开发银行决心为非洲民众提供能够带来红利的机会，无论涉及到公共保健、卫生改善、经济发展还是环境保护。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider this month’s summit in Paris, where attention focused either on the Trump administration’s absence, or on other world leaders’ defiance of him.",
        "以本月的巴黎峰会为例，人们把关注焦点放在特朗普政府的缺席，或者其他世界领导人对他的敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Kenya’s M-KOPA, a company that installs solar power kits and collects payments via mobile phones.",
        "以肯尼亚的M-KOPA公司为例。 该公司安装太阳能套件，通过移动电话收费。"
    ],
    [
        "World War I cost about 20% of global GDP, and WWII cost almost twice as much.",
        "第一次世界大战造成的成本相当于全球GDP的20%，二战则还要高出一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps Kim Jong-il’s “Ten Principles for the Establishment of the One-Ideology System” should now be viewed as an official document that stipulates which instructions are to be followed when, where, and by whom.",
        "也许金正日的《建立单一意识形态体系的十大原则》（Ten Principles for the Establishment of the One-Ideology System）现在应该被视为规定了何时、何地、由谁来行使某项权力的正式文件。"
    ],
    [
        "But power - be it political or economic - without legitimate origins is arbitrary.",
        "但没有合法来源的政治和经济权利都属于独裁。"
    ],
    [
        "In India, the switch could be equal to two more of the Indian government’s current National Solar Mission, which promotes solar-energy penetration and the construction of new rooftop and ground-mounted solar plants.",
        "在印度，完成改造的效果两倍于印度政府目前的国家太阳能计划，这项计划旨在促进太阳能渗透和新型屋顶及地面发电厂的建设。"
    ],
    [
        "The peripheral countries suffer from severe stock and flow imbalances.",
        "外围国经受着严重的存量和流量失衡。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a good line at the International Monetary Fund meetings this year: governments, he said, are trying to treat a broken ankle when the patient is facing organ failure.",
        "伯克利——前美国财政部长萨默斯（Lawrence Summers）在今年的IMF会议上颇有想象力：他说，各国政府的做法，就好比是病人明明是脏器问题，却在给他治脚踝。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, surgical military strikes based on an expanded intelligence effort should complement the peace process, prying extremists away from the MILF mainstream.",
        "相反，基于大规模情报工作基础上的外科式军事打击能够成为和平进程的补充，使极端分子与摩洛伊斯兰解放阵线的主流相分离。"
    ],
    [
        "None of it helps to address the underlying problems of poverty, child mortality, water scarcity, and lack of livelihoods in places like Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province, Sudan’s Darfur region, or Somalia.",
        "它们对解决那些重要的问题毫无帮助：如在巴基斯坦西北的边疆省、苏丹的达尔富尔地区或索马里的贫困、儿童死亡、水源缺乏及缺少谋生手段。"
    ],
    [
        "So non-democracies need to play by different, less permissive rules.",
        "因此必须有不那么宽松的不同规则约束非民主国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Ben Ali’s son-in-law, Sakhr el-Materi, was last year elected to the central committee of the ruling Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique party.",
        "本阿里的女婿 萨克赫尔·马泰（ Sakhr el-Materi ）去年通过选举进入了执政的宪政民主联盟党中央委员会。"
    ],
    [
        "In the eurozone, mutualization was realized through generous ESM bailouts and some €1 trillion ($1.27 trillion) worth of TARGET2 credit from national printing presses for the crisis-stricken countries.",
        "在欧元区，共同化通过慷慨的ESM援助和大约1万亿欧元的TARGET2信用（危机冲击国的货币供应）实现。"
    ],
    [
        "The Gulf States have been badly hit, because their private sectors, including some banks, were greatly overextended.",
        "海湾国家遭到严重打击，这是因为它们的私营部门、包括某些银行扩张过度。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sino-American Trust Deficit",
        "中美信任赤字"
    ],
    [
        "The law was a watershed, because it simultaneously pacified violent regions, delivered justice for millions of dispossessed peasants, radically improved standards of living, and blunted the appeal of a guerrilla group that used the banner of land reform to justify its untold atrocities.",
        "因为同时平定暴力地区、为成百上千万破产农民伸张正义、极大改善生活水平并有效阻止游击力量以土地改革为名行大规模屠杀之实，上述法律成为哥伦比亚和平的分水岭。"
    ],
    [
        "But its most damaging deficit is to be found in governance, as is true of China, where the Bo Xilai scandal has exposed the pathological underside of China’s vaunted technocratic leadership.",
        "但其最危险的赤字存在于治理之中。 中国也是如此，薄熙来丑闻便暴露了中国自我标榜的技术专家治国论背后的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And both prohibit the kind of fiscal or monetary bailout operations for single states or cantons that the EU pursued during the financial crisis.",
        "它们都禁止为单个州实施欧盟在金融危机期间所追求的财政和货币援助。"
    ],
    [
        "A Big Bond for Africa",
        "非洲大债券"
    ],
    [
        "In a similar way, transportation can become less energy-intensive without restricting mobility.",
        "类似地，运输也可以在不影响移动性能的条件下减少能源密集程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Many economists have argued this case on the basis of arithmetic calculation.",
        "许多经济体都在计算方式上对这一机制提出了自己的意见。"
    ],
    [
        "In an age of nationalism and socially mobilized populations, foreign occupation, as Eisenhower wisely concluded in the 1950s, is bound to breed resentment.",
        "在民族主义时代，面临全社会动员的人口，20世纪50年代由艾森豪威尔机智提出的外交占领必然会导致仇恨。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, for four years they pretended that budget deficits were of little concern.",
        "相反，四年来，他们假装不关心预算赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "I commend the member states for the efforts they have made, but we can all do better.",
        "我赞扬个成员国已经付出的努力，但我们还能做得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "This nicely captures the consensus in the fields of psychology and neuroscience, which tell us that our mental lives are the products of our physical brains, and that these brains are shaped not by a divine creator, but by the blind process of natural selection.",
        "这种描述很好地抓住了心理学和神经系统科学领域的共识。 这些科学告诉我们，人的精神生命是我们物质大脑的产物，而这些大脑并不是由某位神圣的造物主创造的，而是盲目的自然选择的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "This view is, to be frank, delusional.",
        "坦白说，这一观点完全是幻想。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Pursuit of a New Economic Order",
        "中国追求世界经济新秩序"
    ],
    [
        "In Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, Iranian proxies have prevailed over Saudi-backed groups.",
        "在黎巴嫩、巴勒斯坦和叙利亚，伊朗的代理人战胜了沙特支持的集团。"
    ],
    [
        "We can expect more of the same in the coming years.",
        "而在未来几年我们即将看到更多类似的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Religion, we are told, is responsible for violence, oppression, poverty, and many other ills.",
        "我们被告知说，宗教造成了暴力、压迫、贫穷以及其他罪恶。"
    ],
    [
        "After the death of her brother, Kim Jong-il, last year, Kim Kyong-hui was often seen accompanying her nephew on his inspection tours around the country.",
        "其兄金正日去年逝世后，金敬姬经常陪伴侄子左右时差全国。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a gap of $160 per child for around 240 million school-aged kids in need, or about $40 billion per year.",
        "2. 4亿名学龄儿童每人每年存在160美元缺口，总数高达400亿美元左右。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the sanctions imposed so far – visa cancellations, asset seizures or freezes, and the like – will not give Sevastopol back to Ukraine, but they will eventually bite, at least in certain Russian business sectors.",
        "首先，目前所采取的制裁措施——取消签证、资产没收或冻结等——并不能让塞瓦斯托波尔回归乌克兰，但终究会起到作用，至少对俄罗斯的某些商业部门会起到作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But many emerging markets are already leading by example on important issues like the need to shift global financial flows from debt toward equity.",
        "但许多新兴市场已经通过全球金融流从债务流向股本的需要等重大问题证明了领导能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the first two elements of the plan are in place, there should be little need for the third – bond purchases by the ECB in the secondary market in order to narrow interest-rate spreads and provide further confidence.",
        "当解决方案的前两大要素具备后，第三大要素——欧洲央行在二级市场购买债券以缩小利差并提供更多的信心——是否具备已经无关紧要了。"
    ],
    [
        "This highlights the real deception by both sides.",
        "这才是双方都想掩盖的关键所在。"
    ],
    [
        "As to the Yukos affair, my office cannot intervene in any legal process until it is completed.",
        "至于尤科斯事件，司法程序完成前我没法干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil’s Institutional Limbo",
        "巴西的制度摇摆"
    ],
    [
        "La Strada on Wall Street",
        "华尔街杂技团"
    ],
    [
        "California’s fiscal crises may also provide lessons for subnational governments around the world.",
        "加州财政危机也可以警示世界各地的地方政府。"
    ],
    [
        "President Emmanuel Macron’s administration is now undertaking reforms to France’s stringent job protections, in order to boost labor-market flexibility.",
        "埃马纽埃尔·马克龙总统的行政当局正在对法国严格的工作保护制度进行改革以提高劳动力市场的灵活性。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, initial enthusiasm for restoring Glass-Steagall – breaking up banking functions into separate institutions – has fallen by the wayside.",
        "与此同时，一度重燃的重启格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法案的热情——分拆银行功能，让不同的机构行使不同的功能——又熄灭了。"
    ],
    [
        "Past experience suggests that each $100 increase in household wealth leads to a gradual rise in consumer spending until the spending level has increased by about $4.",
        "过去的经验表明家庭财富每增长100美元可以带来消费支出的逐渐上升，直至支出水平提高大约4美元。"
    ],
    [
        "To make his request more palatable, Bakiyev announced that he was demanding that the United States close its airbase in Kyrgyzstan, which resupplies NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan.",
        "为了让他的请求更令人愉快，巴基耶夫宣布，他已要求美国关闭其在吉尔吉斯斯坦的用以向邻国阿富汗增派北约部队的空军基地。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last century, the world got richer; its population quadrupled; the number of people living in cities grew thirteen-fold; and we consumed more of everything.",
        "在上个世纪，这个世界的腰包鼓了起来； 人口增加了4倍；"
    ],
    [
        "This is a recipe for a police state – checking identities, raiding people’s houses, and encouraging neighbors to inform on one another.",
        "这不啻建立一个警察国家——核查身份，突袭人们的住所，鼓励邻里互相揭发。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s the public opinion scoreboard on the big economic issues.",
        "这是重大经济问题的民调记分牌情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that most of these items are not biodegradable, and are not recycled, plastics waste is building up – with serious environmental consequences.",
        "这些东西大多不可生物降解，也不可回收，因此塑料废物激增，带来了严重的环境后果。"
    ],
    [
        "That will take time.",
        "这需要时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, most people living in Africa’s cities have access to land in the countryside, which is why Liberia’s government rightly highlights the potential for farm expansion.",
        "不过大多数住在非洲城市里的人都有办法在农村弄到土地，这就是为什么利比里亚政府如此肯定地强调农业的拓展潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "Since we do not have time for Chapter 11 proceedings and we do not want to bail out all the creditors, the lesser evil is to do what judges do in contentious and overextended bankruptcy processes: impose a restructuring plan on creditors, with part of the debt forgiven in exchange for equity or warrants.",
        "由于我们没有足够的时间按照第11章程序来做，我们也不想保释所有的债权人，两害相权取其轻，是我们学习法官们在有争议的、拖延过度的破产进程中的做法：命令债权人计划重组，免除部分债务，以换取股权或认股权证。"
    ],
    [
        "If he is right, the increase will turn out to be little more than a finger in the dyke of Japan’s budget problems.",
        "如果他不幸言中，那么此次增加消费税将无异于用手指去堵日本预算问题的堤坝。"
    ],
    [
        "Few Palestinians are even aware that four years ago Arafat turned down an independent state equal in size to the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip, in addition to more than $20 billion in refugee compensation.",
        "4年前，阿拉法特曾拒绝成立一个面积相当于整个西岸和加沙地带的独立的巴勒斯坦国，外加超过200亿美元的难民赔款，可真正了解此事的巴勒斯坦人却寥寥无几。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, building a social safety net, developing financial markets, and strengthening corporate governance to encourage state enterprises to pay out more of what they earn would encourage Chinese households to consume.",
        "社会保障体系的完善、金融市场的发展、国有企业分红机制的建立等等，固然有助于鼓励中国居民增加消费。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if Trump were subjected to a battery of blood tests and brain scans, the results would most likely prove nothing.",
        "就算特朗普接受一系列血液测试和脑部扫描，结果极有可能也证明不了任何东西。"
    ],
    [
        "GENEVA – Geopolitical insight is often gained through real-life experience, rather than big-picture thinking.",
        "日内瓦—地缘政治见解通常来自真实生活的经验而不是高瞻远瞩的思考。"
    ],
    [
        "These trends have been accompanied by solid employment growth, which is welcome news, but cannot last forever.",
        "这些趋势甚至伴随着就业的稳步增长，这当然是积极信号，但无法永远保持。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, policymakers, including the European Central Bank, demand consolidation for high-debt countries, but are flexible in negotiations; voters, however, reject it – most recently in Italy.",
        "在欧洲，包括欧洲央行在内的决策者要求重债国实行整合，但在谈判中态度颇为灵活； 不过选民拒绝了这一要求——最新的例子是意大利。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to lobbying, money is not everything: ideas play a big role, too.",
        "在游说这件事上，钱并不是万能的，观点也起着重要作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet neither the EU nor any of its member states has a coherent immigration policy with this end in mind.",
        "但无论是欧盟还是任何一个成员国，移民政策都与这一思维不符。"
    ],
    [
        "Half of Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is under 25 years of age.",
        "撒哈拉以南非洲一半人口不到25岁。"
    ],
    [
        "The G-8’s seven democratic countries should use the St. Petersburg summit as an opportunity to reaffirm their will to develop close and friendly relations with Russia.",
        "八国集团中的七个民主国家应当把圣彼得堡峰会作为一个重申其愿意发展与俄罗斯紧密和友好关系的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "With greater resources and an improved governance structure, AMRO could play a more effective role in regional economic surveillance and monitoring, without which moral-hazard risks associated with financial safety nets would rise.",
        "利用更多的资源和优化的治理架构，东盟+3宏观经济研究室可以在区域经济监测上扮演一个更加有效的角色，而且也无须承担一个可能由金融安全网相关的道德风险。"
    ],
    [
        "And it remains the case that these countries collectively boast a highly educated labor force and wage levels that are 75% lower, on average, than in the EU-15 economies.",
        "此外，这些国家总体而言劳动力教育状况出色，而平均工资要比欧盟15国低75%。"
    ],
    [
        "He was accustomed to good fortune, for his huntsmen took precautions.",
        "因为事先采取了周密的防范措施，他已经习惯了好运随身。"
    ],
    [
        "The prospect of being accepted into the EU provided the nations of Eastern and Central Europe with a strong incentive to achieve fiscal balance - a process somewhat similar to what happened in Western Europe at the time the euro was launched.",
        "被欧盟接纳的前景成为东欧各国实现财政平衡的强大动力-这一过程与欧元开始流通时西欧诸国的反应颇为相似。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, a country that refuses to suffer repeated body blows earns more respect than one whose restraint can be interpreted as weakness.",
        "但一个拒绝承受反复身体伤害的国家比一个克制可以被理解为软弱的国家能够赢得更多的尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "That might be the right recommendation for the US today, but as a universal rule of thumb, it is just plain wrong.",
        "这对当今美国来说或许是正确的建议，但从普遍经验规则看，这大错特错。"
    ],
    [
        "As the leaders have said, “Time is not on the side of settlement.” That is why they have committed to continue their talks, rather than pause ahead of the upcoming elections in the north in April.",
        "我在塞浦路斯期间，双方领导人共同强调了他们在诸如治理与权力分享等关键议题上所取得的进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s leaders and their voting publics now have a choice between the Europe of the past and of the future.",
        "现在，欧洲的领导人和他们的选民可以在过去的欧洲和未来的欧洲之间进行选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Pre-referendum predictions that a vote for Brexit would lead to substantial economic pain and financial volatility remain likely to materialize.",
        "公投之前的预测是支持退欧将导致经济剧痛和金融波动，这一预期仍有可能成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Energy and carbon taxes can produce less economic pain and more gain than conventional taxes can.",
        "与传统的税收方式相比，能源税和碳税带来的经济上的痛苦更小，收益更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Europeans cannot understand how, in a civilized country, both candidates can favor the death penalty.",
        "大多数欧洲人无法明白为什么在一个文明国家，两个总统候选人都会赞成死刑。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe, a magnet for hundreds of millions of would-be economic migrants, could, should, and I believe would regain control of its borders, allowing it to strengthen and enforce necessary limits on migration.",
        "欧洲就像一块吸引着数亿潜在经济移民的磁石，它能够、应该，并且我相信也必将重新控制自己的边境，让它变得更强，并对移民进行必要的限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies and boards ignore this trend at their peril.",
        "公司和董事会如果忽视这一趋势，将付出沉重代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The forefront of this battle is, at the moment, not in the Middle East, but in Turkey; nevertheless, the result is bound to have more general significance.",
        "当下，这场战斗的最前沿不在中东而在土耳其； 不论如何，其结果必定会具有更为广泛的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "The plight of migrants is particularly tragic when its source is violent conflict, like in Syria and Libya, or natural or manmade disasters.",
        "暴力冲突（比如叙利亚和利比亚）和自然或人为灾难产生的移民状况尤其悲惨。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s Next Test",
        "IMF的下一个考验"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – After a double-dip recession and an extended period of stagnation, the eurozone is finally seeing green shoots of recovery.",
        "发自剑桥——在经历了一场双底型衰退以及比预想中更长的停滞之后，欧元终于看见了复苏的曙光。"
    ],
    [
        "During the past five years, polio cases have occurred almost exclusively in five conflict-affected countries: Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Syria.",
        "过去五年来，脊髓灰质炎病例几乎全部发生在五个饱受冲突影响的国家：尼日利亚、巴基斯坦、阿富汗、索马里和叙利亚。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem now is that the British general election in May is too close to call.",
        "现在的问题是，5月的英国大选实在太势均力敌了。"
    ],
    [
        "But its attempt in 2010 to add its currency to the SDR basket failed, because the renminbi was not “freely usable.”",
        "但2010年中国让人民币加入SDR货币篮子的尝试以失败告终，因为人民币无法“自由使用”。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, if governments take advantage of lower oil prices today to implement critical energy-policy reforms, the benefits may improve structural features of their economies tomorrow.",
        "事实上，如果各国政府能利用当今的低油价去推行极为关键的能源政策改革，所收到的好处或将改善这些国家经济在未来的结构性特征。"
    ],
    [
        "What is new, however, is that the firms themselves might not gain from trade defense.",
        "但是，新情况是，这些公司 本身 可能不能从保护贸易的措施中获得好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Urban pride can also prevent extreme nationalism.",
        "城市自豪感还能防止极端民族主义的出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Homelands for Plants",
        "植物的家园"
    ],
    [
        "In this instance, it is impossible to pry them apart.",
        "在这个案件中，不可能将它们区分清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this economic legerdemain was magnified by television, print, and Internet journalists.",
        "所有这些经济上的花招都被电视、报刊和因特网上的记者们所夸大。"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-migrant parties already are in power in Hungary and Poland.",
        "反移民政党已经在匈牙利和波兰掌权。"
    ],
    [
        "As banks are encouraged to loosen lending standards, especially for middle-income households, an upswing in residential construction and debt-financed consumption should add further growth impetus.",
        "随着银行被鼓励放松贷款标准，特别是对中产阶级家庭的贷款标准，住宅建设和债务融资消费的回升间更进一步刺激增长。"
    ],
    [
        "While an agreement might be reached in 2015, it will probably not cover all major emitters, and it definitely will not be ambitious enough to achieve the overarching goal of international climate cooperation, which is to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.",
        "尽管2015年可能达成协定，但或许不会覆盖所有排放国，力度肯定不足以实现国际气候合作的全面目标——防止全球气温在前工业化水平的基础上升高2℃以上。"
    ],
    [
        "The crisis was always about much more than Greece: a disorderly insolvency there would threaten to pull other economies on the EU’s southern periphery, including some very big ones, into the fiscal abyss, along with major European banks and insurers.",
        "受危机影响的远远不只希腊：无序破产可能把欧盟南部周边经济体（包括某些大国在内）拖入财政深渊，而主要欧洲银行和保险公司也将同时倒下。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially true for an asymmetric peace process between a democratically elected government and an unaccountable non-state actor, which doesn’t have to worry about upcoming elections, opposition political parties, the press, or a skeptical public.",
        "民选政府和不必承担责任的非国家主体间的非对称和平尤其如此，因为不必承担责任的非国家主体不必担心即将举行的选举、反对派政党、媒体或持怀疑态度的公众。"
    ],
    [
        "The working-age population has peaked, urbanization is slowing, and the steel and cement industries are suffering from overcapacity.",
        "劳动年龄人口数量已经见顶，城市化进程正在放缓，而钢铁和水泥行业正饱受产能过剩之苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, and most important, deep reforms should be undertaken to facilitate a real shift in banks’ business models in order to restore their profitability.",
        "最后也是最重要的，应该采取深度改革促使银行业务模式的真正变化，重塑银行盈利能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Households have a budget constraint.",
        "家庭面临预算约束。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s Syrian Tangle",
        "土耳其的叙利亚困局"
    ],
    [
        "The euro-dollar exchange rate fell from $1.39 in 2014 to a low of $1.04 in 2016, before recovering to the current level of $1.18.",
        "39美元下探至2016年1. 04美元的低点，随后反弹到目前的1."
    ],
    [
        "He hopes to ensure that a moderate Democratic Party forms the core of domestic politics and policymaking, with the Republican Party consigned to the periphery.",
        "他希望保证温和的民主党能形成内政和决策的核心，将共和党边缘化。"
    ],
    [
        "The Conference, which included the original five nuclear weapon states (the United States, Russia, China, France, and Great Britain) as well as a great number of other UN members, did not reach consensus on a \"Final Declaration.\"",
        "大会的成员国们，包括五个最初的核武器拥有国（美国、俄罗斯、中国、法国和英国）和其他大多数联合国成员国，并未就一份\"最终宣言\"达成一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmental degradation in Asia not only harms its population’s health, but will become an impediment to growth.",
        "亚洲环境的退化不仅影响其人口的健康，同时也会阻碍经济的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Reality is whatever makes the leader look good.",
        "让领袖看起来很好的就是现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Although some of those tensions appear purely bilateral, the Georgian-Russian conflict demonstrates that there is no such thing anymore in this globalized world, and certainly not in this interconnected region.",
        "尽管某些紧张局势看似完全是双边的，但是格鲁吉亚和俄国冲突表明，在这一全球化的世界里以及这一相互关联的地区不会有什么双边紧张局势了。"
    ],
    [
        "While providing relatively fewer tangible public goods and services directly, the Chinese government will need to provide more intangible public goods and services like rules, standards, and policies.",
        "中国政府直接提供的有形公共品和服务数量相对较少，在未来，中国政府需要提供更多的无形公共品和服务，如规则、标准、政策等。"
    ],
    [
        "Cities are declaring bankruptcy to escape the pressure of exponentially rising pension and health costs.",
        "各城市纷纷宣告破产，以躲避成倍增长的养老金及医疗费用所带来的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The international community is about to embark, yet again, on a peace process aimed at creating an orderly and viable independent Palestinian state in the West Bank.",
        "国际社会即将启动又一场旨在约旦河西岸建立有序可行的独立巴勒斯坦国的和平进程。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009-2010, by contrast, the big banks were still seeking to maintain their existing range of activities.",
        "在2009~2010年则相反，大银行仍试图维持其混业经营的广度。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as the recent devaluation showed, the shift, coming after years of efforts to strengthen the renminbi, could fuel a sharp increase in volatility in world currency markets.",
        "但是，最近的贬值表明，这一在强化人民币多年后所发生的变化可能给世界货币市场带来波动剧增。"
    ],
    [
        "The shared objective is clear: to build a low-carbon economy that can keep global temperatures well within 2°C of pre-industrial levels, while delivering prosperity for a world of ten billion people or more.",
        "共同目标是明确的：建设一个能让全球气温保持在前工业化水平以上2℃以内的低碳经济，同时为一百亿人口以上的世界带来繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "While Trump the candidate criticized the growth of US national debt, he now proposes tax cuts that would add trillions to the debt in just the next ten years – not the “only” $1.5 trillion that Republicans claim would be added, thanks to some growth miracle that leads to more tax revenues.",
        "作为候选人的特朗普曾经批评过美国国民债务水平的增长，但如今，他的减税方案将在未来短短十年让国民债务增加数万亿每年——而不是共和党宣称的，拜能够增加税收收入的某种增长奇迹所赐，国民债务“仅”需要增加1."
    ],
    [
        "In the emerging world, however, the mismatch between growth expectations and actual potential has often become a serious issue that demand-side stimulus and endless debt accumulation cannot cure.",
        "但是，在新兴世界，增长预期和实际潜力之间的不匹配常常演变为一个严重问题，需求端刺激和无尽的债务累积无法解决这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Under these conditions, it should not be surprising that Islamist terrorism has been a consistent scourge.",
        "在这样的条件下，伊斯兰恐怖主义祸患无法根除也就不足为奇了。"
    ],
    [
        "The authorities are confronted by not only a currency crisis, but also a banking crisis and a crisis in macroeconomic theory.",
        "事实上，欧盟机构所面对的不仅仅是一场货币危机，还有一场银行危机以及宏观经济理论的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The single most important form of international liquidity is, of course, US government bonds, which are held by banks, firms, and other countries’ governments.",
        "当然，国际流动性的其中一个最重要的表现形式就是银行，公司和其他国家政府所持有的美国政府债券。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, Poland is sometimes called the “China of Europe.”",
        "因此，有时波兰被称为“欧洲的中国”。"
    ],
    [
        "Irrespective of the outcome of the internal Palestinian dialogue taking place in Cairo, there is a need to reconnect Palestinians.",
        "不论在开罗的巴勒斯坦内部对话结果如何，巴勒斯坦人都需要重新结合。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, one could claim that Germany had its own “security concerns and narratives” during the 1938 Munich crisis.",
        "同样，人们也可以说德国在1938年慕尼黑危机中有其自身的“安全顾虑及表达方式”。"
    ],
    [
        "Throwing money at banks hasn’t helped homeowners: foreclosures continue to increase.",
        "将钱砸给银行也不会帮助房贷人——越来越多的人会被迫搬出自己的房子。"
    ],
    [
        "High levels of involuntary unemployment throughout the advanced economies suggest that demand lags behind potential supply.",
        "非自愿失业水平在发达经济体普遍居高不下，说明需求落后于潜在供给。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, Prime Minister David Cameron surprised everyone by vetoing a new EU treaty on December 9 – a first for the UK since joining the Union – leaving the other 26 member states to press ahead with greater fiscal integration on their own.",
        "尽管如此，12月9日卡梅伦首相否决欧盟新条约的举动还是令世人震惊，这是英国加入欧盟以来第一次这样做。 否决新条约将使剩下26个成员国领先英国一步，走向更深层次的财政一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "As more currencies become competitive, the dollar’s unique advantages will erode, as will America’s privileged position.",
        "假以时日，随着更多货币竞争力的增强，美元的独特优势将受到侵蚀，美国的特权地位亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "TEL AVIV – Israel’s latest war in Gaza has echoed through Europe’s capitals in a powerful and destructive way.",
        "特拉维夫—以色列最近在加沙的战争在欧洲各国掀起了一场强大的破坏性地震。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with significant policy support, however, most of the smaller Asian economies – Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, and even South Korea – will not be able to replace external demand with internal demand to the same extent that China can.",
        "不过，尽管有政策的大力支持，大部分小型亚洲经济体——台湾、泰国、新加坡甚至包括韩国——也无法向中国那样以内需替代外需。"
    ],
    [
        "This judgment may be too harsh, because we do not know whether the EU and the single market would have survived without the single currency.",
        "这样的判断未免太过严厉，因为我们不知道没有单一货币的欧盟和统一市场到底还能不能生存。"
    ],
    [
        "We don’t believe that regulation is a panacea for this state of affairs.",
        "我们不相信有了监管就可以让这类事情一去不返。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, even if the West condemns Georgia’s irresponsibility and incorporates into its policy Russia’s sensitivities on the complex historical feelings related to its ex-imperial territories, the Kremlin’s shameless brutality is unacceptable.",
        "其次，即使西方谴责格鲁吉亚的不负责任，以及在其政策中考虑俄罗斯对其与前帝国领土有关的复杂的历史情感的敏感性，克里姆林宫无耻的野蛮行为也是不可接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "For meaningful burden-sharing to work, however, eurozone leaders must stop dreaming that the single currency can survive another 20 or 30 years without much greater political union.",
        "然而，为了让责任分担起到作用，欧元区领导得停止幻想在没有更大的政治联盟的情况下单一货币还能存活二三十年。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was recently faced with a key decision: whether to follow through with a planned consumption-tax hike, from 8% to 10%.",
        "在这样的背景下，日本首相安倍晋三最近面临一个关键决定：是否完成计划中的将消费税从8%提高到10%的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "And the country’s other longstanding advantages – flexibility, capacity for renewal, economic mobility, international regulatory strength, and the world’s main reserve currency – remain in place.",
        "美国的其他长期优势——灵活性、再生能力、经济流动性、国际监管优势以及世界主要储备货币——将继续保持。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the challenge is procedural.",
        "部分挑战是程序性的。"
    ],
    [
        "Workers’ Paradise?",
        "是工人们的天堂吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-euro political parties are on the rise in all major eurozone countries except Spain.",
        "反欧元政党在所有欧元区主要国家纷纷崛起，只有西班牙是例外。"
    ],
    [
        "Or they are proxy battles of the type that characterized the Cold War – witness Iran’s deployment in Syria of Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters to defend Bashar al-Assad’s regime.",
        "或者是类似于冷战的代理战争——比如伊朗在叙利亚部署黎巴嫩真主党力量捍卫巴沙尔·阿萨德。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese are comforted in their self-image by the world’s combination of admiration for their dynamism, greed for the market they constitute, and apprehension for the competition they represent.",
        "世界对中国活力的羡慕、对中国市场的贪欲和对中国竞争力的恐惧使中国人感到安慰。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news for Americans is that there is enormous inertia in the world trading and financial system.",
        "美国人的好消息是，世界交易和金融体系存在巨大的惰性。"
    ],
    [
        "At what rate should future impacts – particularly losses of future consumption – be discounted to the present?",
        "未来的影响，尤其是未来消费的损失，应该以多大的比率折扣到今天的影响呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Enter the Blackstone Group.",
        "于是黑石集团应声而出。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s powerful bureaucrats, nostalgic for the 1960’s model of development, whereby government and its business cronies nurtured the Japanese miracle, strongly opposed this bold, free-market solution.",
        "日本大权在握的官僚却对由政府及其商业密友创造日本奇迹的20世纪60年代发展模式仍然念念不忘，这种胆大妄为的自由市场解决之道遭致他们强烈的反对。"
    ],
    [
        "The simplest is that things really are that bad.",
        "最简单的解释是事情真的有那么糟。"
    ],
    [
        "But democracies are facing turbulent times.",
        "但民主国家面临着动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "When a company seeks to protect itself from currency fluctuation, it can reduce its exposure to the target currency with a derivative (for example, it promises to pay its trading partner if the euro rises, but gets paid if it falls).",
        "当一家公司试图保护自己免受货币波动干扰时，它可以通过衍生品减少自己在目标货币上的风险暴露（比如，它可以承诺，若欧元升值，就赔付其交易对手，而当欧元贬值时，则有交易对手赔付给它）。"
    ],
    [
        "The upshot is that pharmaceutical companies would effectively be allowed to extend – sometimes almost indefinitely – their monopolies on patented medicines, keep cheaper generics off the market, and block “biosimilar” competitors from introducing new medicines for years.",
        "要点是制药公司将在实际上被允许延长——有时几乎无限延长——它们对专利药的垄断，让更廉价的非专利药在市场上销声匿迹，并在多年内阻碍“生物仿制”竞争者推出新药。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar reckless lending practices prevailed in the leveraged buyout market, where private equity firms take over public companies and finance the deals with high debt ratios; the leveraged loan market, where banks provide financing to private equity firms; and the asset-backed commercial paper market, where banks use off-balance sheet schemes to borrow very short term.",
        "在杠杆收购市场也同样充斥着鲁莽的借贷行为，在这些市场上私人直接投资公司以高负债率进行融资后用来收购上市公司； 杠杆贷款市场是银行用来向私人直接投资公司提供融资的市场；"
    ],
    [
        "There is an old adage that a fish rots from the head.",
        "有道是“鱼从头烂”。"
    ],
    [
        "We also needed new ideas about the scope of human agency.",
        "我们还需要关于人类能动性范围的新思想。"
    ],
    [
        "The conditions in Greece are now hopeless, and are likely to lead to further defaults and a withdrawal from the eurozone.",
        "希腊则完全看不到希望，可能会出现进一步违约甚至退出欧元区。"
    ],
    [
        "(This year, Doing Business ranked China 91st out of the 185 national economies it examined.)",
        "（今年的《营商环境报告》将中国排在185个考察经济体的第91位。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Today, credibility can only be restored if treaties and rules are respected again.",
        "如今，只有条约和尊重再一次得到尊重，信誉才能得到重塑。"
    ],
    [
        "By using the reported tonnages of the various species of fish caught, and dividing by the estimated average weight for each species, Alison Mood, the report’s author, has put together what may well be the first-ever systematic estimate of the size of the annual global capture of wild fish.",
        "通过采集各种鱼类的捕捞数量，再除以该种鱼的平均重量，报告执笔人艾丽森·穆德提供了一个关于全球每年野生鱼类捕捞数量的史无前例的系统性估计。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is certainly true in many places that ideological differences have largely collapsed.",
        "但很多地方意识形态差异在很大程度上已不复存在也是现实状况。"
    ],
    [
        "These more traditional tactics can now be supplemented with new tools for misinformation.",
        "如今，这些传统手段可以辅之以误导的新工具了。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, however, the European Parliament is fairly inept at selling itself to public opinion.",
        "但不幸的是，欧洲议会在向舆论推销自己方面是相当无能的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the lack of adequate transport, communication, and energy infrastructure (85th) is undermining India’s productivity growth.",
        "此外，缺少足够的交通、通信和能源基础设施（第85名）也制约了印度的生产率增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Curing Hereditary Breast Cancer",
        "治疗遗传性乳腺癌"
    ],
    [
        "There are myriad options.",
        "这里有无数的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "New fixed-income instruments, such as inflation-indexed bonds, will help.",
        "新的固定收益工具，如通胀指数债券，能起到辅助作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Cameron’s bid to thwart Juncker’s candidacy mirrored his unsuccessful attempt to prevent the adoption of the EU’s fiscal compact in 2012.",
        "卡梅伦试图阻挠容克获得提名的努力是他在2012年阻挠欧盟采纳财政契约未果的反映。"
    ],
    [
        "The next act in America’s political drama, following the 2018 congressional midterm election, could be marked by a kind of reckoning, with the 2020 presidential campaign accompanied by civic breakdown and the escalation of violent confrontation that has lingered beneath the surface for years.",
        "美国戏剧的下一幕——2018年国会中期选举——可能将标志着某种深思，而2020年总统选战将伴随着已经在地下发酵多年的民众决裂和暴力冲突升级。"
    ],
    [
        "A reduction in any three of these factors will be offset by an increase in the fourth.",
        "任何三个因素的下降都会因为第四个因素的上升而失效。"
    ],
    [
        "Changing the composition of the Security Council to ensure that it began to reflect the world of the twenty-first century, not that of the 1950’s?",
        "改变安理会组成以确保它能够反映21世纪而不是20世纪50年代的世界？"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab Springtime of Nations?",
        "阿拉伯之春，阿拉伯国家之春寒？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, recent natural disasters have highlighted the importance of climate resilience as a means to improve quality of life.",
        "此外，最近的自然灾害凸显气候弹性作为改善生活质量方式的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Although many Americans had witnessed the carnage from their living rooms and wanted the UN to do more to stop it, neither they nor their leaders – first George H.W. Bush and then Bill Clinton – had any interest in sending American troops to be a part of a Bosnian peacekeeping force.",
        "虽然许多美国人都在自家的电视上目睹了大屠杀并希望联合国能做更多的事情来加以阻止，但他们以及他们的领导人——首先是老布什然后是克林顿——都没有兴趣去让美军成为波斯尼亚维和部队的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "American Presidential Beauty",
        "美国总统选美"
    ],
    [
        "Doing so ensures that producers get exactly what they need, and that suppliers are able to deliver the correct inputs. The result is a well-defined, highly productive, and mutually beneficial working relationship.",
        "这样做可以确保生产企业得到所需原材料和供应商交付合乎规格产品，从而在生产及供应企业间建立起一种要求明确、互惠互利的高效合作关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond establishing strong health-care infrastructure, national governments will need to develop systems of accountability to deliver health services to their populations.",
        "除建立健全的卫生保健基础设施外，各国政府还需要实行问责制，确保为民众提供健康服务。"
    ],
    [
        "The criminals are almost all dead now.",
        "如今，罪犯几乎已经全部谢世。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom, the new government, led by Prime Minister Theresa May, has dropped the target of eliminating the deficit by the end of the decade.",
        "在英国，新政府在首相特雷莎·梅伊（Theresa May）的带领下已经放弃了在2020年之前消灭赤字的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "This may require reshaping the welfare system to some extent, but the payoff would be well worth the effort.",
        "比如，烟草税——该税种极大影响较低收入群体——应该被用于定向于弱势吸烟群体的戒烟支持项目。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Americans have perhaps grown desensitized to Trump’s off-the-wall tirades, having endured months of his late-night Twitter assaults on the press, his opponents and fellow Republicans, even his own cabinet members.",
        "许多美国人或许已经习惯了特朗普疯疯癫癫的长篇大论，因为他们已经见识过这位总统对反对者及共和党同事、甚至他自己内阁成员的长达几个月的深夜推特攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that, though international coordination will be an important factor in the long-term success of action to mitigate climate change, its complications need not – and should not – hold progress hostage.",
        "这意味着，尽管国际合作将是遏制气候变化行动长期成功的重要因素，但其副作用并不一定——也不应该——威胁进展。"
    ],
    [
        "In the fall of 1997, after crises battered Thailand and Indonesia, full-scale panic erupted in South Korea.",
        "在1997年的崩盘中，危机先是袭击了泰国和印度尼西亚，然后在韩国引起了全面恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "Oil prices gradually fell, and the stock market began its long climb towards its peak in 2000.",
        "石油价格逐渐回落，而股市也开始了向其2000年的高峰进发的上涨行情。"
    ],
    [
        "(De Gregorio’s book is published by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, where I am a senior fellow, though I was not involved in commissioning or editing his work.)",
        "（德格雷戈里奥的书由彼得森国际经济学研究所出版，我是该研究所的高级研究员，但我并未参与这本书的编纂工作。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "It is also important to ensure well-structured, systematic engagement with stakeholders and civil-society groups, which is necessary to ensure high-quality and innovative inputs.",
        "同样重要的是确保组织良好的相关利益方和公民社会团体的系统性参与，这是确保高质量和创新性投入的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Unsurprisingly, based on the evidence and the opinions presented at the Law Commission’s hearings, there was a general consensus that the courts are unable to adopt a fair and non-discriminatory approach to the death penalty, and support for its abolition was overwhelming.",
        "不出所料，基于法律委员会听证会上提交的证据和意见，与会人士普遍认为法院无法以公平和非歧视性的态度来对待死刑，同时一边倒地支持废除死刑。"
    ],
    [
        "Which countries would be willing to participate, either as borrowers or lenders?",
        "那些国家愿意参与（不管是作为借款人还是贷款人）？"
    ],
    [
        "Like any system in the real world, it was more complex, more interesting, and also filled with more real policy possibilities than textbook caricatures suggest.",
        "与任何真实世界制度一样，欧元制度的复杂性、趣味性和实际政策可能性都要比教科书上所写的多得多。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though the guests were expected to return home after two years, these controls gradually weakened as part of the general movement toward free trade and free capital movements.",
        "但是，尽管这些外国人应该在两年后回国，但在自由贸易和自由资本流动的大势面前，此类管制逐渐废弛。"
    ],
    [
        "We must of course protect ourselves in the most serious and determined manner from the threat that terrorism may pose should, say, extremists acquire nuclear or biological weapons.",
        "因此我们必须以最认真和最坚定的方式来保护我们自己免受恐怖主义可能带给我们的威胁，比如极端分子获得核武器或生物武器的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "The real challenge will be entropy – the inability to get work done.",
        "真正的挑战是达到熵值——即无法完成预定的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Like his father, Assad is cautious.",
        "和其父一样，阿萨德是谨慎的。"
    ],
    [
        "But governments can counter it in several ways: local language warnings with a prominent tax stamp on cigarette packs are one example.",
        "但是各国政府可以用几个方法来对付。 其中一个例子就是在香烟盒子上用当地语言提出警告并且贴上醒目的税票。"
    ],
    [
        "To put a serious accident in context, according to data from my forthcoming book Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power, if 10 million people were exposed to radiation from a complete nuclear meltdown (the containment structures fail completely, exposing the inner reactor core to air), about 100,000 would die from acute radiation sickness within six weeks. About 50,000 would experience acute breathlessness, and 240,000 would develop acute hypothyroidism.",
        "按照笔者即将出版的新书《对核能前途的争论》中的数据，如果1000万人在一场彻底的核反应堆熔毁（外围保护结构完全失效，内部反应堆直接暴露在空气中）事故中遭到核辐射，其中10万人将在6个星期内死于急性辐射病，大约5万人会出现急性呼吸困难，24万人会发生急性甲状腺机能减退症状，35万男性出现暂时性不育，10万妇女停经，并产生10万名有大脑认知功能缺陷的新生儿，还可能产生数千例自然流产和超过30万例癌症。"
    ],
    [
        "Poor countries would receive prompt and predictable financing for agricultural inputs from a single account, rather than from dozens of distinct and fragmented donors.",
        "穷国能从一个统一账户而不是数十个各自为政且高度分散的捐助方获得即时和可预见的农业投入融资。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, from the start, the architects of the Union's Constitutional Treaty never seriously expected that their draft would endure in the form in which they wrote it. Instead, they saw themselves as following Europe's long established pattern of step-by-step integration.",
        "事实上，欧州宪法条约的设计者从一开始就没有真的期望他们的草案会保留下去，相反，他们把自己看作是欧洲长期形成的\"一步一步综合\"模式的追随者。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet most European citizens could embrace it as a sensible solution.",
        "但大多数欧洲公民能够接受这是一种明智的解决之道。"
    ],
    [
        "In some countries, football is the only thing that knits together disparate people, Shia and Sunnis in Iraq, or Muslims and Christians in Sudan.",
        "在某些国家，足球是将不同的人联系在一起的唯一纽带，比如伊朗的什叶派和逊尼派，还有苏丹的穆斯林和基督徒。"
    ],
    [
        "Its fear of wayward monetary policy is not.",
        "其对任意妄为的货币政策的担心则有现实基础。"
    ],
    [
        "And new houses, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure, such as water systems, should be built to withstand extreme weather.",
        "应该建设新房屋、道路、桥梁和其他基础设施（如供水系统）以抵御极端天气。"
    ],
    [
        "King Abdullah pledged large numbers of new housing units, an important gesture in a country where young people, especially young married couples, cannot easily access the housing market.",
        "阿卜杜拉国王承诺兴建大量新住宅，这对于一个年轻人尤其是年轻夫妇难以承担房价的国家来说堪称关键举措。"
    ],
    [
        "The second approach is to provide trade protection to affected industries, as US President Donald Trump has promised to do.",
        "第二种方法是为受影响行业提供贸易保护，即美国总统特朗普承诺要采取的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Once the legacy of confrontation inherited from the twentieth century has been overcome, perhaps deep cuts in the Russia and US nuclear arsenals may become possible, together with coordination of military-strategic policies.",
        "一旦克服了从二十世纪传承下来的对立传统，大幅度削减俄美核武器和协调军事战略政策或许会成为可能。"
    ],
    [
        "A century ago, Britain managed the rise of American power without conflict, but the world’s failure to manage the rise of German power led to two devastating world wars.",
        "一个世纪前，英国在没有爆发冲突的情况下应对了美国的崛起，但是，世界应对德国崛起的失败却导致了两场破坏性的世界战争。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to cutting lives short, NCDs exact a massive economic toll on their victims, their families, and their communities, sapping economic productivity and driving up medical costs.",
        "除了减少寿命，NCD还给受害者、他们的家庭和他们的社区带来了沉重的经济负担，破坏了经济生产率，推高了医疗成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Then came the financial crisis, which cost millions of Americans their jobs and homes.",
        "随后金融危机爆发，数百万美国人丢掉了工作和住宅。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, while the empowerment line is a measure of individual consumption, a household’s ability or willingness to spend is not sufficient to guarantee a decent life.",
        "此外，尽管赋权线是个人消费的指标，但家庭的支出能力和意愿并不能保证体面生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors seem to be taking this view to heart.",
        "投资者似乎牢牢地记着这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet Internet activists are not necessarily gaining power.",
        "但互联网活跃分子并不一定能够赢得力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Trump himself admitted the limits of Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem, and affirmed his commitment to the status quo regarding East Jerusalem’s holy sites.",
        "就连特朗普本人都承认，以色列在耶路撒冷的主权是有限的，并重申他承认东耶路撒冷胜迹的现状。"
    ],
    [
        "For these reasons, the US does not need a policy of containment of China.",
        "出于这些原因，美国不需要遏制中国的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "He or she should not attempt to centralize information, but rather to make it flow more smoothly.",
        "他或她不应该试图将信息集中化，而是应该使它尽可能顺畅地自由流动。"
    ],
    [
        "Academic foreign policy \"realists\" (who somehow strike me as not a very realistic bunch) attributed the end of Franco-German antagonism to the fact that they had something bigger to be scared of: Russia, which was terrifying under Stalin, frightening under Khrushchev, and worrisome under Brezhnev.",
        "学院派外交政策的所谓\"现实主义者\"（虽然在我看来他们并不现实）将法德对抗的结束归因于害怕共同的强大敌人：俄国。 这个国家在斯大林统治下极度恐怖，赫鲁晓夫时代令人惧怕，勃列日涅夫时代则令人担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe split over the American invasion of Iraq, and there is no political will to involve NATO there.",
        "欧洲在对美国对伊拉克的入侵是分裂，并且没有要北约参战的政治意图。"
    ],
    [
        "In his book Changer de destin (Changing Destiny), published in February, he affirms that France’s message will continue to be a universal one – a stance reminiscent of the birth in 1789 of the French Republic, which, like the United States, was originally conceived as the triumph of liberty and democracy.",
        "在其2月出版的新书《变化的命运》（Changer de destin）中，奥朗德说，法国的声音将继续是普世的——这一立场自1789年法兰西共和国诞生以来便一以贯之，并与美国一样，从一开始就被认为是自由和民主的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "Once that happens, the impact on neighboring countries – and on the world economy – will be huge compared to the current European problem.",
        "一旦发生那种情况，对于周边国家——以及整个世界经济——的影响将比欧洲目前所面临的问题更为严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Like medicine, economics has become highly compartmentalized – macroeconomists typically do not pay attention to what financial economists or real-estate economists study, and vice versa.",
        "跟医学一样，经济学也被划分成许多不同的门类——宏观经济学家一般不会关注金融经济学家或地产经济学家究竟在干什么，反之亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "When I asked what the right economic policy for Egypt should be, they simply said that all would be fine, because now they had democracy; and any economic ideas that they did have were well to the old left of anything that had a remote chance of working.",
        "当我问及埃及应该实行什么样的经济政策，他们只是表示因为有了民主，一切都会向好的方向转化； 即使有些关于经济政策的想法，也摆脱不了哪怕仅有一点奏效可能的原有的政策模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Global Zero at Ground Zero",
        "全球零核的零基础"
    ],
    [
        "The GOP establishment spent the primary season wringing its hands, asking how something like the Trump candidacy could happen.",
        "共和党机构整个初选阶段都在捶胸顿足，疑惑像特朗普成为候选人的情况是如何发生的。"
    ],
    [
        "Public investment can enhance an economy’s productivity for a substantial period of time, even a decade or more, as it clearly has done in Ethiopia.",
        "公共投资可以在相当长一段时间提高经济生产力，甚至是十年或更长，正如在埃塞俄比亚所明确展现的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Members of the new middle class suffer from the low quality of public services (particularly health and education); fret over job insecurity; are incensed by the persistence of discrimination in the labor market; and fume over jammed traffic and crime.",
        "新中产阶级面临的问题是公共服务质量低劣（特别是卫生和教育）； 工作岗位无保障令人心忧；"
    ],
    [
        "Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency this year marked a new low for Russian strategic vision.",
        "今年，普京重返总统宝座，这标志着俄罗斯战略愿景的新低潮。"
    ],
    [
        "With hindsight, it is clear that Britain’s participation in the Iraq war was driven solely by Blair’s determination to stick limpet-like to the US.",
        "从事后来看，很明显，英国参加伊拉克战争完全是由于布莱尔决心为美国的马首是瞻所驱使。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the crazy logic of current economic policy in much of Europe (and elsewhere).",
        "这就是当前欧洲大部（和其他地区）经济政策的疯狂逻辑。"
    ],
    [
        "A successful Doha Round would thus complement the international collaborative efforts underway, with IMF involvement, to tackle external imbalances among the major economies.",
        "因此，一个成功的多哈回合谈判将会是对现有国际合作努力的有力支持，在国际货币基金组织的参与下，还能应对世界主要经济体之间的外部不平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "It is cheaper to bribe a government to provide resources at below-market prices than to invest and develop an industry, so it is no surprise that some firms succumb to this temptation.",
        "毕竟贿赂政府官员，让他们以低于市场价的价格出售资源，要比投资和开发一个工业的成本低得多，因此某些公司企业屈服于这种诱惑（贿赂政府官员）也并不令人惊奇。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments and insurers have become powerful players.",
        "政府和保险商成为强大的行动方。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, many cities have distinctive identities of which their residents are proud.",
        "事实上，许多城市都拥有某些足以令本市市民自豪的特质。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of this income is taxed or spent in the host countries.",
        "这笔收入中很大一部分在东道国被课税和消费掉了。"
    ],
    [
        "But in France, where republicanism gave rise to the left-right ideological spectrum that shapes politics throughout the West today, it would be a genuine revolution – one that could spell the end of the Socialist Party.",
        "但在共和主义崛起引导左右翼意识形态从而塑造当今西方政治的法国，这不亚于是一场真正的革命——社会党可能因此而寿终正寝。"
    ],
    [
        "It is understandable that older Americans who have few savings want to protect their Social Security and Medicare benefits.",
        "不难理解，没有多少积蓄的老年人希望保护他们的社会保险和医疗保险福利。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Russia held the trump card: the choice of how much pressure it was willing to put on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to comply with the plan.",
        "于是，王牌落到了俄罗斯手里：施加多少压力给叙利亚总理巴沙尔让他遵守安南的计划完全取决于俄罗斯的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "Global institutions, not ad hoc groups of countries, must be at the center of the reform effort.",
        "是全球性机构，而不是是临时性的国家集团，是国际金融体系改革活动的中心。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Chernobyl catastrophe was an historic turning point: there was the era before the disaster, and there is the very different era that has followed.",
        "切尔诺贝利灾难的确是一个历史转折点，其前后的两个时代迥然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "The current GDP metric ignores the negative externalities of fossil-fuel-based private activities, leading to overwhelming pollution and gross wastage of non-renewable natural resources.",
        "当前GDP衡量指标忽略了基于化石燃料的私人活动的负面外部作用，导致污染严重和不可再生自然资源的大量浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to keep the system lean, there should be a provision for exempting some individuals and firms – those sophisticated enough to handle their own affairs, or well off enough to deal with financial failure – from the requirement of an RFP’s approval before buying a prescription financial product.",
        "但为了维持系统的效率，也可以在请求专业人士批准之前对某些个人或者企业——只要他们有足够的应对能力来处理自身事务，有足够的财力来承担金融风险——予以豁免"
    ],
    [
        "In his Nobel lecture in 1993, North identified three lessons that policymakers should draw from his research.",
        "在1993年的诺贝尔奖演讲中，诺斯提出了决策者可以从他的研究中汲取的三个教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even in the opaque terms of contemporary politics, the German case is particularly vexing.",
        "的确，即便是在当代政治不透明的环境下，德国的情况也特别让人伤脑筋。"
    ],
    [
        "Sanctions and the Risk to the Dollar",
        "制裁和对美元的风险"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union embraced this governance mechanism long ago, and even within ASEAN there is precedent for majority-vote decision-making, particularly on geopolitical and security issues.",
        "欧盟很早就采取了这一治理机制，而即便在东盟内部，也有多数投票决策的先例，特别是在地缘政治和安全问题上。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the new approaches are agnostic. They acknowledge that we do not know what works, and that the binding constraints to development tend to be context-specific.",
        "与此相对的是，新办法采取了不可知论的立场，承认我们并不知道什么会起作用，并认为束缚发展的约束往往要具体问题具体分析。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, between 1950 and 2008, only 28 economies in the world – and only 12 non-Western economies – were able to narrow their per capita income gap with the United States by ten percentage points or more.",
        "此外，从1950年到2008年，世界上只有28个经济体能够以十个百分点或者更快的速度缩小与美国的人均收入差距，其中只有12个非西方经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "It is estimated that at least 43.5% of workers – 1.3 billion people – do not earn enough to lift themselves and their families above the $2-a-day poverty line.",
        "据估计，工人中至少有43. 5%的人——约13亿——收入甚微，无力让他们自己及其家人脱离每天2美元的贫困线之下的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called tertiary sector rose to 50.5% of Chinese GDP in 2015, well in excess of the 47% share targeted in 2011, when the 12th Five-Year Plan, was adopted, and fully ten percentage points larger than the 40.5% share of secondary-sector activities (manufacturing and construction).",
        "5%，大大高于2011年实施十二五规划时的目标47%，更是比第二产业活动（制造业和建筑业）的40. 5%高出了整整十个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "These barriers are supported by deep-pocketed, self-serving corporations and lobby groups, and defended by politicians who are scared that the redistribution of jobs, income, and wealth resulting from freer trade will reduce their chances of remaining in power.",
        "这些壁垒的支持者是那些财力雄厚、自私自利的公司和游说集团，而其捍卫者则是那些害怕更自由的贸易所导致的工作、收入和财富的重新分配会危及他们乌纱帽的政客们。"
    ],
    [
        "Those customary laws give male relatives a greater claim to the deceased’s possessions than female members of his family, and typically bar wives altogether and give short shrift to daughters.",
        "上述惯例法规定男性亲属比女性家庭成员对死者财产享有更大的继承权，并且一般完全否认妻子并基本忽视女儿的继承权。"
    ],
    [
        "I participated in the second assessment of the scientific evidence conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which perhaps made one critical mistake: it underestimated the pace at which global warming was occurring.",
        "我参与了由政府间气候变化专门委员会（Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change）进行的第二次科学实证评估，这次评估现在看来也许犯了一个重大的错误：那就是低估了全球变暖的发展速度。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, central bankers cannot know for sure when asset prices have reached unsustainable heights.",
        "诚然，央行行长无法确切地知道资产价格何时达到了不可持续的高水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe should instead push for new constitutional and institutional solutions that ensure the Shia a legitimate role in the political arrangements of Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states – all places where they now regard themselves as third-class citizens.",
        "相反，欧洲应当推动新的、确保什叶派在黎巴嫩、沙特以及海湾国家政治安排中的合法作用的宪法和机制方案。 在所有这些地方，什叶派自认为是三等公民。"
    ],
    [
        "It is strange that Saakashvili, a graduate of Columbia Law School, fails to see the disparity between his own democratic rhetoric and autocratic actions.",
        "作为哥伦比亚大学法学院的毕业生，萨卡什维利看不到自己的民主言论与独裁行为之间的差异真是咄咄怪事。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks’ monetary-policy independence was a hard-won prize.",
        "央行的货币政策独立性是好不容易才赢得的。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to a well-documented growth slowdown, China has lately experienced considerable stock-market turmoil and currency devaluation.",
        "除了有明确证据的增长放缓，中国最近经历了相当大的股市动荡和货币贬值。 巴西和俄罗斯的经济正在萎缩；"
    ],
    [
        "India’s Dalai Dilemma",
        "印度在达赖喇嘛问题上的两难抉择"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it was a fearsome undertaking.",
        "”然而这是一次可怕的远征。"
    ],
    [
        "Now comes the refugee crisis.",
        "现在又爆发了难民危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither Syria nor Iran – in fact, not even North Korea – has an interest in being the pariahs of the world community, and they fully understand the economic consequences of isolation.",
        "叙利亚和伊朗都不会——事实上，甚至北朝鲜都不会——从国际社会的排斥中受益，并且，它们都完全明白孤立的经济后果。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s stricter labor rules are a well-known and often-cited example.",
        "对此欧盟更为严苛的劳动法就是一个广为人知且经常被提到的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of what principle can we ask China and India, for example, to limit their economic dynamism so that they use smaller amounts of the planet’s natural resources?",
        "比如，我们有权根据哪些原则来要求中国和印度压抑自己的经济活力，从而减少对全球自然资源的占用？"
    ],
    [
        "What do these ostensibly conflicting messages imply about the likelihood that the United States is headed toward a bear market?",
        "那么为什么这些表面上相冲突的信息意味着美国存在着走入熊市的可能性？"
    ],
    [
        "Its leaders need to simplify and clarify an agenda that risks becoming too complex to manage.",
        "中国领导人应该简化和清晰化日程，不要让它变得过于复杂而难以管理。"
    ],
    [
        "It enshrines what matters most in building peaceful states and societies: commitments – the Peace- and State-building Goals – to improve how national and international partners engage in conflict-affected and fragile contexts.",
        "该计划提出了类似的模式，指出了建设和平国家和社会的最重要内容：关于改善国家和国际伙伴对冲突影响地区和脆弱地区的援助承诺——和平和国家建设目标（Peace- and State-building Goals）。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it will encourage France to broach the subject of military force with its European allies.",
        "此外，这还会鼓励法国与其欧洲盟友一起确定其军事行动的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "With the publication of the Science paper, two challenges become evident.",
        "随着科学论文的发表，两大问题开始浮出水面。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, to promote inclusive growth – essential to relieving human suffering and mitigating social and political tensions – Nigeria must improve public-service delivery dramatically.",
        "最后，为促进对减轻民众痛苦及社会政治紧张所必须的经济包容性增长，尼日利亚必须显著改善国内公共服务。"
    ],
    [
        "With this treatment alone, Mylan and other generic manufacturers save the US government, international donors, and national health programs more than $4.5 billion a year.",
        "光是通过这种药，迈兰和其他通用药制造商每年都能为美国政府、国际捐助人和国家卫生计划节省45亿多美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Simply put, talk of “Brexit” has exposed Europe’s economic and political fault lines – and there is no going back.",
        "简单地讲，“英国退出欧盟论”已经暴露出欧洲的经济和政治裂痕——回到旧日的美好时光已经不可能。"
    ],
    [
        "This challenge would have been immensely greater – perhaps impossible – if the Tribunal’s jurisdiction had included the crime of aggression.",
        "而如果法院把侵略罪也纳入管辖范围的话，上述挑战将变得无比艰巨——甚至变成一项不可能的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "But one conclusion is perhaps more compelling than ever.",
        "但有一种结论可能比以往更具说服力。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the sheer degree of uncertainty in pre-war Europe, or the more amorphous nature of the threat, made security concerns trump financial risk.",
        "也许纯粹是战前欧洲的不确定性、或者威胁性质的不确定性，让安全顾虑在与金融风险的博弈中占据了上风 。"
    ],
    [
        "And South Korea has accomplished this feat in China’s intensely competitive immediate neighborhood.",
        "更重要的是韩国这一成就在中国周边的那些激烈竞争的邻国之间取得的。"
    ],
    [
        "We are feeling the shocks each day in catastrophic floods, droughts, and storms – and in the resulting surge in prices in the marketplace.",
        "同时我们每天都遭受着特大洪水，干旱和风暴的冲击——以及因此引发的市场价格飙升。"
    ],
    [
        "This may be a real game changer.",
        "这个做法可能会完全颠覆整个当地局势。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s comments represent a break with the long-standing tradition of official American silence on European monetary affairs.",
        "奥巴马的评论是对美国长期以来官方不评论欧洲货币事务的传统的决裂。"
    ],
    [
        "So, once again, Europe’s security must top our political agenda.",
        "因此，再一次，欧洲安全必须成为我们的政治日程重点。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this will serve to enrich human capital, which is essential to boosting productivity and incomes.",
        "所有这一切可以丰富人力资源成本，而人力资源成本对于提高生产率和收入不可或缺。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Americans feared being overtaken after Japanese per capita income surpassed that of the United States; Japanese manufacturing set the international standard; and some books even predicted an eventual war with a Japanese nuclear superpower.",
        "日本制造业树立了国际标准； 有些书甚至预言与超级核大国日本最终战争的爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "This critique of the market is, of course, one-sided.",
        "对市场的这种批评当然是片面的。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria and its regional allies are determined to protect a new regional balance of power that shifted in their favor following the US-led invasion of Iraq.",
        "在美国领导的入侵伊拉克战争打响后，叙利亚及其地区盟友决心捍卫朝对其有利的方向发展的新的地区实力平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "So the challenge for America is not only to restore productivity, but also to restore its links to the main currents of world trade.",
        "因此，美国的挑战不仅在于重振生产率，也在于重塑其与世界贸易主流的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, if a wealthy person does have a particularly strong work ethic, it is likely attributable not just to their genetic predisposition, but also to their upbringing, including whatever privileges, values, and opportunities their background may have afforded them.",
        "此外如果一个富人具有特别强的职业道德，这不仅可以归因于他们的遗传素质，还可以归因于他们的教养，包括他们的背景可能为其带来的任何特权，价值和机会。"
    ],
    [
        "In Britain, too, immigrants have been changing the ethnic profile of the middle and professional classes.",
        "同样在英国，移民已改变中产阶级和专业人士的民族成分。"
    ],
    [
        "But Israel has little confidence that the deployments will enhance its security, and Israeli leaders are becoming increasingly anxious about the Egyptian military’s mobilization of forces without notice.",
        "但以色列对于埃及驻军能增强安全并不抱有信心，以色列领导人也日益担心埃及军队不经告知就进行的力量调动。"
    ],
    [
        "DENVER – Among the many arguments that former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević used to make to his interlocutors was that he never incited nationalism among his people.",
        "发自丹佛——在南联盟前总统斯洛博丹·米洛舍维奇（Slobodan Milošević）曾向他的听众们提到过的许多观点中，其中一条就是他从未在自己的民众中煽动过民族主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The fate of peasants has a direct and important impact on that of kings.",
        "农民的命运将对国王的命运产生直接而深远的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "If this economic bond disappears, national interests will reassert themselves and rip the project apart.",
        "如果这个经济上的纽带消失了，国家利益将重新迅猛抬头并撕裂整个欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "But in North Korea, blood is paramount: everything, including ideology and the national interest, is subservient to the maintenance of the Kim dynasty.",
        "但是，在朝鲜，血缘关系才压倒一切：包括意识形态和国家利益在内的所有东西都没有维持金氏王朝重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Vacation logic was also used to maximize bargaining power in recent cases of default or threatened default.",
        "在最近的案例中，假期逻辑也被用于最大化违约或违约威胁的讨价还价能力。"
    ],
    [
        "For starters, it would put North Korea right where the country’s post-Korean War history suggests it belongs: under a Chinese nuclear umbrella, benefiting from a credible security guarantee.",
        "首先，朝鲜将回到朝鲜战争后的历史地位：置于中国核保护伞治下，受益于可信的安全保障。"
    ],
    [
        "If Vick were never to play football again, he would suffer punishment well beyond that imposed by the court.",
        "如果维克此生不能重回赛场，那么他所遭受的痛苦将比法庭的判罚有过之而无不及。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet Chinese leaders have spoken of China’s “peaceful rise” or, more recently, its “peaceful development.”",
        "然而，中国领导人已经谈及中国的“和平崛起”，或最近提出的“和平发展”的说法。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet focusing on supply without paying equal attention to the foundations of aggregate demand is a puzzling and potentially worrisome disconnect.",
        "然而，关注供应却不重视那些构建总需求的基础是一个令人困惑且有可能在将来引发担忧的缺失。"
    ],
    [
        "Why is it so hard to feel sympathy for a developing country that can’t pay its debts?",
        "为何同情无法偿付债务的发展中国家如此困难？"
    ],
    [
        "That is an imbalance of which legislators must be much more conscious.",
        "对这种不均衡，立法者必须有更清醒的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "At first glance, this vision seems entirely reasonable; after all, most countries prefer to manage domestic and regional affairs without the meddling of outside powers.",
        "乍一看，这一愿景十分合理； 毕竟，大部分国家都更愿意在没有外部势力指手画脚的情况下管理国内和地区事务。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, though supposedly grouping the world’s largest economies, the G8 now includes a country with an economy the size of Holland’s, even if it is still excluded from deliberations of the other members’ finance ministers.",
        "实际上，尽管八国集团被认为是囊括了全世界最强大的经济大国，但现在却包括了一个经济实力只相当于荷兰的国家，尽管这个国家还被排斥在其他成员国财政部长的审议之外。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with the role of political Islam still unanswered, none of the country’s fundamental problems has been addressed seriously, and its leaders have been unable to take advantage of promising opportunities (for example, in contrast to Egypt, Algeria has large oil and gas reserves).",
        "但是，由于政治伊斯兰的角色问题一直没有得到答案，因此该国的根本问题迟迟没有被严肃解决，其领导人也一直无法利用阿尔及利亚的天然优势（比如，与埃及不同，阿尔及利亚拥有大量石油和天然气储备）。"
    ],
    [
        "Skill and capital-intensive technologies are the leading culprit behind the rise in inequality since the late 1970s.",
        "技能和资本密集型技术是20世纪70年代末以来不平等性增加的罪魁祸首。"
    ],
    [
        "But this EU will have a future only if its member governments and peoples are willing to invest a substantial part of their political success and their national interests.",
        "但只有当其各成员国政府及人民愿意将他们相当一部分的政治成功和国家利益投入其中时，这个欧盟才有未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, while globalization isn’t perfect, it has pulled millions out of poverty in developing countries like China and India, created new markets for goods made by poor countries, and reduced prices for rich-country consumers.",
        "尽管如此，虽然全球化并不完美，但它仍让中国和印度等发展中国家的数百万人摆脱了贫困，为穷国制造的商品创造了新市场，也降低了富裕国家消费者面临的价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Inflation is above 20% (no one is sure by how much, because the figures have been doctored).",
        "通货膨胀超过20%（因为数字经过篡改，所以没有人知道确切的数据）。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, his partners – particularly the other BRICS countries (Brazil, India, China, and South Africa) – are now unlikely to be able to turn a blind eye to his contempt for international law and for his neighbors’ national sovereignty, as they did during their recent Brazilian summit.",
        "事实上，他的伙伴国家——特别是其他金砖国家（巴西、印度、中国和南非）——已不再能够对他的蔑视国际法和践踏邻国国家主权视而不见，最近的巴西峰会已经证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though 48% of urban Indians are computer literate, only 14% of rural Indians are able to use a computer efficiently.",
        "尽管48%的印度城市人口拥有使用电脑的能力，但只有14%的印度农村人口能够高效操作电脑。"
    ],
    [
        "Other examples from Surowiecki: “the venture capitalist Tom Perkins and Kenneth Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot, both compared populist attacks on the wealthy to the Nazis’ attacks on the Jews.”",
        "”另一个索罗维基的例子：“风险资本家汤姆·珀金斯（Tom Perkins）和家得宝（Home Depot）联合创始人肯尼斯·兰根（Kenneth Langone）都把对富人的民粹主义抨击比作纳粹迫害犹太人。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank is in a different place entirely.",
        "欧洲央行则处在一个完全不同的情况下。"
    ],
    [
        "It would also provide the evidence needed to go to governments, foundations, and global institutions for the much larger sums required to expand the present system of incentives that guide pharmaceutical companies’ decisions.",
        "该计划啊还将提供需要的证据促使政府、基金会和全球机构大幅增加支持，以满足扩大当前影响制药公司决策的激励体系的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "To overcome this trend, we must incorporate the humanities into medical training as a means of rekindling and deepening those human experiences of imagination and commitment that are essential for care-giving, and resisting the bureaucratization of values and emotional responses that causes failure in the physician’s art.",
        "要克服这种趋势，我们必须将把人文科学纳入医学训练作为重新点燃和强化想象力和信念这样的人类体验的途径； 这些人类体验对病人照护和抵制导致医生技术失败的情感反应和价值官僚化，至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The global financial system remains distorted and dangerous.",
        "全球金融系统仍然扭曲并处于危险之中。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time of ever-deepening interconnectedness, people are more aware than ever of what is possible, and more motivated than ever to seek reforms – whether educational, economic, or political – that improve their lives.",
        "在不断深化的互联时代，人们比以往任何时候都更加了解各种可能，而且更积极地寻求教育、经济或政治等领域能够提高生活水平的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Since last year it has been enlisting people with historic knowledge and understanding of totalitarian regimes to help guide its response to events in Belarus.",
        "从去年开始，议会就开始招收既有历史知识又了解集权政府的员工协助指导对白俄罗斯事件做出的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, as Secretary-General, I have spoken out for the needs of mothers and pregnant women at every opportunity.",
        "而这也是为什么担任联合国秘书长的我利用一切场合为母亲和怀孕妇女的需求鼓与呼的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – With youth unemployment touching 50% in eurozone countries such as Spain and Greece, is a generation being sacrificed for the sake of a single currency that encompasses too diverse a group of countries to be sustainable?",
        "美国剑桥—在西班牙和希腊等欧元区国家，年轻人失业率达到了50%，这可以说是为了在覆盖彼此差异太大而根本不可能持续的多国实行单一货币而牺牲了一代人吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The Pakistani population can easily work with the political moderation of Singh’s government.",
        "在辛格政府现代化政治运动中，巴基斯坦人可以充分地和印度人合作。"
    ],
    [
        "But on most issues, Americans want commonsense solutions to real problems, with government playing a limited role in their lives.",
        "但在大部分问题上，美国人希望用常识来解决现实问题，政府不要过多影响他们的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, a network of small not-for-profit local banks should be established to provide universal banking services, and loans to small and medium-size firms, like the scheme that has underpinned Germany’s economic strength and resilience over the last 200 years.",
        "最后，应该建立小型非盈利地方银行网络以提供普惠银行服务以及中小企业贷款，如在过去200年中成为德国经济坚挺和坚韧基础的制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Such policies still make sense.",
        "这样的政策不无道理。"
    ],
    [
        "To make a proactive contribution to peace means that Japan will bear its own share of responsibility for assuring the security that supports global prosperity and stability.",
        "为和平作出积极贡献意味着日本将承担保证支持全球繁荣与稳定的安全的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, unlike East European or Balkan nationalism, the Scottish variety has little to do with ethnicity or religion.",
        "而且，与东欧或者巴尔干民族主义不同的是，苏克兰的多样性基本上与种族或宗教无关。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine’s Orange Christmas",
        "乌克兰的橙色圣诞"
    ],
    [
        "Vajpayee’s blunder compounded Nehru’s 1954 mistake in implicitly accepting, in the Panchsheel Treaty, China’s annexation of Tibet, without securing (or even seeking) recognition of the then-existing Indo-Tibetan border.",
        "瓦杰帕伊的失招加剧了1954年尼赫鲁犯下的错误。 尼赫鲁在《潘查希拉条约》（Panchsheel Treaty）中间接接受了中国对西藏的吞并以及不保证（甚至寻求）承认当时的印度-西藏边界。"
    ],
    [
        "Two similar universities, Harvard and Princeton, have had nearly the same success.",
        "两所类似的大学，哈佛大学和普林斯顿大学也有几乎相同的成功。 在过去10年中，与斯文森平均17."
    ],
    [
        "But, in most cases, people either look to the state and its officially mandated agencies to resolve problems and provide basic law enforcement, or would prefer to do so rather than resort – or just as often submit – to alternative, non-state providers.",
        "但在大多数情况下，人们要么寻求国家及其正式授权的机构来解决问题并提供基础执法服务，要么宁愿自己动手而非求助——或只是服从于——替代性的，非国家性质的安全供应商。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments and citizens in Europe have paid – and are still paying – an astronomically high price for the reckless lending and investment of the 2000s.",
        "欧洲各国政府和公民因为21世纪初的鲁莽贷款和投资而付出了——并且仍在继续付出——高昂的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The response by enlightened communities is therefore important.",
        "因此开明的社会对此作出的反应就显得尤其重要。"
    ],
    [
        "A new corporate-tax credit will cut payroll taxes by 6% for all wages below 2.5 times the minimum wage – a step that will benefit more than 80% of all salaried workers.",
        "新的公司税优惠将把所有低于最低工资2. 5倍的收入税降低6%——该计划将让超过80%的工薪族受惠。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, open data on acquired infections in British hospitals has led to the publication of hospital-performance tables, a major factor in the 85% drop in reported infections.",
        "与此同时，关于英国医院获得的传染病的开放数据催生了医院表现评分表的发布，而该评分表是报告传染病下降85%的主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, suppressing the freedom of speech of Islam’s critics merely gives rise to the suspicion that evidence and sound argument cannot show their arguments to be mistaken.",
        "压制伊斯兰教批评者言论自由的做法恰恰使人们心生疑虑，怀疑证据和可靠的论据无法证明公众的说法有误。"
    ],
    [
        "The Efficient Networker",
        "有效的沟通者"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, like most wars, this one is about more than religion, fanaticism, and ideology.",
        "但是，与大部分战争一样，这场战争并不只是一场宗教、狂热和意识形态之战。"
    ],
    [
        "Embracing the Empire",
        "迎接帝国"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorism is not World War III.",
        "恐怖主义不是第三次世界大战。"
    ],
    [
        "But it did little to spur meaningful economic recovery.",
        "但它在促进实质性经济复苏方面作用不大。"
    ],
    [
        "It is great to be Keynesian – but during both halves of the cycle.",
        "凯恩斯主义者了不起——但得在周期的上半段和下半段。"
    ],
    [
        "Accordingly, Orbán now presides over what he proudly calls an “illiberal democracy” that is spearheading an “Eastern opening.”",
        "相应地，欧尔班现在执掌着他自豪地称之为“非自由民主”的“东部开放”领头羊。"
    ],
    [
        "For instance, changes are taking place in precipitation patterns, with a trend toward higher precipitation levels in the world’s upper latitudes and lower precipitation in some sub-tropical and tropical regions, as well as in the Mediterranean area.",
        "例如，降水的规律正在发生变化，纬度较高的地方降水水平有升高的趋势，而某些亚热带和热带地区则在减少，如地中海地区。"
    ],
    [
        "At the opposite end of the giving spectrum, psychologists who study giving behavior have suggested that people who give small sums of money to a large number of charities may be motivated less by the desire to help others than by the warm glow they get from making a donation.",
        "在奉献人群的反面，研究奉献行为的心理学家认为，向大量慈善机构捐小钱的人与其说是受助人愿望的驱使，不如说是为了从捐钱行为中获得的温情效应（warm glow）。"
    ],
    [
        "But that economic growth can translate into more effective national defense only if Congress enacts future increases in the defense budget, targeting those areas that are in greatest need of expansion.",
        "但只有国会在未来增加国防预算，把目标锁定在那些最需要扩张的领域之时，经济增长才会转化为更有效的国防力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The Decline of US Military Innovation",
        "美国军事创新的衰落"
    ],
    [
        "Standard international-relations thinking does not even entertain the question, and those conventional ways of seeing the world have blinded us to looking at this crucial question.",
        "标准的国际关系思维甚至并不考虑这一问题，而传统观察世界的方法阻碍我们看到这一关键问题所在。"
    ],
    [
        "Monetary policy is an art, not a science; it is the art of taking one’s best guess.",
        "货币政策是一种艺术而不是一种科学； 它是“猜准”的艺术。"
    ],
    [
        "Leftist governments then took advantage of a sustained commodities boom to increase spending on consumer subsidies and social welfare, without depending on international creditors.",
        "接着，左翼政府抓住了大宗商品的持续繁荣，在不依赖国际债权人的情况下增加了消费补贴和社会福利支出。"
    ],
    [
        "Akihito’s trip, which came at the height of Japan’s pro-China foreign policy, was followed by increased Japanese aid, investment, and technology transfer, thereby cementing Japan’s role in China’s economic rise.",
        "明仁天皇的到访标志着日本亲中外交政策的顶峰，随之而来的日本援助、投资和技术转移的增长，也造就了日本在中国崛起中的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "But that despairing hope, uttered by a desperate Gazan, will not materialize.",
        "”但这样一个由一位绝望的加沙居民所表达的最后一线希望不会成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Tol found that trying to keep temperature increases under 2°C, as the G-8 industrialized nations have promised to do, would require emissions reductions of about 80% by mid-century.",
        "托尔发现：如果要将8国集团峰会上所承诺的那样将气温上升幅度限制在2摄氏度以内的话，就必须在本世纪中叶时将碳排放总量下降80%。"
    ],
    [
        "That price will be reflected in the constitution, as well as in the unwritten rules of Egypt’s new politics.",
        "这一带价将反映在宪法中，也将反映在埃及新政局的不成文规定中。"
    ],
    [
        "That means not only greater economic inclusion, higher agricultural productivity, strengthened food security, and financial stability, but also lessons concerning responsible and sustainable business practices, corporate governance, and community relations.",
        "它不仅意味着更大的经济包容开放，更高的农业生产力，更安全的食品和更稳定的金融，也带来了许多教训，可见我们在可持续和负责任的经营方式，企业管理和社区关系方面做的还不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Jordan seems to have read the political tea leaves and concluded that it makes more sense to improve relations with Egypt’s rising leaders than it does to fight them.",
        "约旦似乎已经算定了政治算盘，认为改善与埃及新领导人的关系而不是与他们相抗才是上策。"
    ],
    [
        "Viewed from the West, they were perceived as a tool to keep the government under control by enabling people to watch what it was doing.",
        "从西方的观点看，这些摄像头是通过让人们观看正在发生什么而使政府受到控制的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "And they will regret that the French are not the prosaic sort of people who know how to be themselves at normal cruising speed, without having to hear a cannonball whistle past.",
        "他们会感到遗憾，法国人是“不走寻常路”的民族，在一帆风顺、炮火声平息时他们便不认识自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Bubbles in the Broth",
        "酝酿中的泡沫"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, humans have evolved to crave certainty.",
        "类似地，进化让人类渴望确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "He was no longer the “normal man” of his election campaign and tenure until now; instead, he tried to present himself, like his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, as a superhero.",
        "他不再是竞选期间和就任至今的那个“普通人”； 相反，他试图让自己像他的前任萨科齐，成为超级英雄。"
    ],
    [
        "While the long-run record of this theory is irrefutable, China’s authoritarian ruling elite is not only determined to hold on to power, but it also has been smart enough to take adaptive measures aimed at countering the liberalizing effects of economic development.",
        "尽管这一理论的长期性纪录毋庸置疑，但是，中国专制主义统治精英不仅决心保持权力，而且，它已经聪明之极，采取适应性措施，目的在于打击经济发展的自由化效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Brotherhood’s leaders believed that the United States and Egypt’s elite were bent on ensuring their failure.",
        "穆兄会领导人相信，美国和埃及精英处心积虑要使他们失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Now a new opportunity to address the issue has emerged: The Trans-Pacific Partnership – the mega-regional free-trade agreement involving the United States, Japan, and ten other countries in Latin America and Asia.",
        "如今，一个新的解决这一问题的机会出现了：跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）——由美国、日本和其他十个拉美和亚洲国家组成的庞大的地区自由贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "For years, the Wahhabis of Arabia have been the fountainhead of Islamist radicalism and the primary backer and facilitator of extremist groups throughout the region.",
        "多年来，阿拉伯的瓦哈比教派一直是伊斯兰激进主义的源泉，不遗余力地支持和推动整个地区的极端主义组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, Senator John McCain warned of the threat posed by a “half-baked, spurious nationalism.”",
        "类似地，参议员约翰·麦凯恩（John McCain）警告“半吊子伪善民族主义”可能带来的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard to understand why the leaders of both the US and the EU take Putin at his word rather than judging him by his behavior.",
        "很难理解美国和欧盟领导人为什么听信普京的花言巧语而不是观察他的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason global poverty has been so intractable is that it remains largely out of sight for those who are not living it, safely somebody else’s problem.",
        "全球贫困问题之所以如此棘手，一个原因是它很少受到非生活在贫困中的人的关注，它只是别人的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a unified country could be non-nuclear, and any US military forces that remained on the Peninsula could be fewer and farther south than they are now.",
        "比如，统一后的韩国可以无核，留驻朝鲜半岛的美军将削减规模并进一步南迁。"
    ],
    [
        "I uphold the views expressed by Japan’s previous prime ministers in this regard.",
        "我同意日本诸任前首相所表达的这一观点。"
    ],
    [
        "The results were quite similar: unless entitlement costs are brought under control, the resulting rise in debt will cut US living standards by roughly 20% in a generation.",
        "以及一个关于政府债务挤出有形资本的生产函数。 结果相当接近：除非福利成本得到控制，否则由此导致的债务上升将在一代人的时间里让美国生活水平下降20%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "That leftist demand, however, is mediated by the Front’s identity politics, particularly its vehement opposition to immigration.",
        "但这一左翼式的要求要通过国民阵线的身份政治表达出来，特别是其对移民的强烈反对。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, it is disappointing that they have chosen to focus on infrastructure finance as their first major area of collaboration.",
        "尽管如此，它们选择关注基础设施融资作为主要合作领域令人失望。"
    ],
    [
        "Few prospects are more loathsome to the Israeli left, US President Barack Obama’s administration, most European leaders, or many American Jews.",
        "而在以色列左派、美国总统奥巴马、绝大多数欧洲领袖和众多犹太裔美国人看来，没有什么比内塔尼亚胡连任更令人厌恶。"
    ],
    [
        "With our post-machine standard of living, we can afford to shed some of the Puritan guilt that has, for centuries, kept our noses to the grindstone.",
        "但有了后机械时代的生活标准，我们就可以摒弃几个世纪来某些清教徒式的内疚，从枯燥乏味的工作中抬起头来。"
    ],
    [
        "The big, cosmopolitan cities of Beijing and Shanghai have grown dramatically, but the bulk of the urban migration has been to cookie-cutter small and medium-size industrial towns that have mushroomed over the last decade.",
        "4%一路上升到如今的约53%。 但大部分移民人口都进入了过去十年内如雨后春笋般涌现的中小型城市。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fourth Industrial Revolution will usher in systemic changes that demand collaborative engagement. As the countries of the Middle East adapt their economies to the impact of new technology, they will need to consider new ways of working together across public and private spheres.",
        "第四次工业革命将引发需要合作参与的系统性变革，同时我们必须对公共和私人领域开展合作的新方式展开思考。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s Brittle Development Model",
        "中国脆弱的发展模式"
    ],
    [
        "All economies have sub-units across which economic productivity, growth, and dynamism vary considerably.",
        "所有经济体都有次结构，这些次结构的经济生产率、增长和活力彼此大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Proximity to which particular raw material makes a country competitive in producing cars, printers, antibiotics, or movies?",
        "接近某种原材料市场就能让一国具有生产汽车、打印机、抗生素或电影的竞争力？"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, a settlement-building spree might end up triggering a particularly fierce third Palestinian intifada.",
        "具体而言，如果定居点建设风潮大幅扩张，那么最终很可能引发特别激烈的第三次巴勒斯塔起义。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, China’s foreign ministry has unleashed a torrent of vitriol intended to intimidate India into submission.",
        "类似地，中国外交部也极尽嘲讽之能事，试图通过恐吓迫使印度就范。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, some of the billions spent to subsidize Western farmers should now be spent to help poorer developing countries meet their basic food and energy needs.",
        "此外，花在补贴西方国家农民身上的数以亿计的钱现在应该用来帮助更为贫困的发展中国家来满足其基本的食品和能源需要。"
    ],
    [
        "The market failure in the case of air pollution is what economists call an “externality”: those who pollute do not bear the entire cost.",
        "在空气污染方面的市场失灵就是经济学家所说的“外部性”：那些污染者并未承担所有的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "With competition strong across the economy, they say that we can look forward to a generation of relatively high asset prices and relatively low real interest rates worldwide.",
        "他们表示随着经济领域中竞争的强化，我们可以预见在未来的二十五至三十年中全世界范围内的较高资产价格和较低实际利率。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB could deal with the other driving force, the lack of financing for sovereign debt, by lowering its discount rate, encouraging distressed governments to issue treasury bills, and encouraging the banks to subscribe (an idea I owe to Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa).",
        "欧洲央行还能对付另一大动力，即主权债务融资不足的问题，办法是降低贴现率，鼓励受困政府发行国债，同时鼓励银行认购（这个想法源自托马索·帕多阿-斯基奥帕（Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa））。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was the envy of the world, owing to an all-powerful export machine that tapped the demand of a rapidly growing global economy.",
        "在20世纪七八十年代，日本是全世界艳羡的对象——其无比强大的需求机器在快速增长的全球经济所带来的需求中如鱼得水。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, while many countries are facing a jobs crisis, one part of the capitalist world is doing just fine: northern Europe, including Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia.",
        "例如，当许多国家正在面对就业危机的时候，资本主义世界的某些部分——北欧，包括德国，荷兰和斯堪的纳维亚半岛地区——表现尚可。"
    ],
    [
        "By 2050, the average annual cost of climate-change adaptation in Pakistan will be $6-14 billion, according to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.",
        "到2050年，据联合国气候变化框架公约的数据，巴基斯坦气候变化适应年均成本将达到60—140亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, many other European banks are cutting back their overseas business sharply.",
        "与此类似，许多其他欧洲银行也在大力削减海外业务。"
    ],
    [
        "And, like Vietnam, will the US – exhausted and nearly bankrupted by the effort – see all of its supposed gains evaporate soon after it leaves?",
        "与越南一样，美国——被战争拖得精疲力竭，几乎破产——会在离开后不久就看到其预期的成果蒸发殆尽吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But whether or not the pessimists turn out to be right about China, it is odd that business investment remains tepid even during times when the engine of global growth is located elsewhere, such as in the US or Europe (Germany in particular).",
        "但不论悲观者对中国的看法是否正确，商业投资在全球增长引擎坐落在别的国家（如美国和欧洲特别是德国）时仍然不温不火，这一点十分奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "The Politics of Young and Old",
        "青年和老人的政治"
    ],
    [
        "The last time this question was asked was in 2005, when French and Dutch referendums torpedoed the EU’s proposed Constitutional Treaty.",
        "最后一次提出这个问题是在2005年，当时法国及荷兰公投大肆攻击欧盟拟议中的《宪法条约》。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, that trend may be reversing.",
        "不幸地是，形势可能会被逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "But three years after Qaddafi’s ouster, Libya remains hobbled by weak national institutions and roiled by factional fighting.",
        "但在卡扎菲被推翻三年后，利比亚的国家机构仍孱弱不堪，派系斗争仍层出不穷。"
    ],
    [
        "So what measures are needed to get it right?",
        "那么，应该怎么做来进行纠正？"
    ],
    [
        "The final pillar is the “government services supply chain,” by which central and local officials affect every link of production, logistics, and financial networks through regulations, taxes, or permits.",
        "最后一大支柱是“政府服务供应链”，中央和地方官员通过它利用监管、税收和许可影响生产、物流和金融网络。"
    ],
    [
        "Exhibit A is the August 11 devaluation of the renminbi against the dollar – a move that invoked for US politicians the old adage, “Be careful what you wish for.”",
        "最重要的证据是8月11日人民币兑美元贬值——这一动作让人们想起了美国政客的古老格言，“小心许愿。"
    ],
    [
        "As the young Muslim Briton Mohammed Sidique Khan put it (speaking in a heavy Yorkshire accent), he participated in the London Underground bombings “to avenge my Muslim brothers and sisters.”",
        "在此引用一位年轻的英国穆斯林穆罕默德·斯迪克·翰（他参加了伦敦地铁爆炸案，操一口浓重的约克郡口音）的话语：“（我这样做）是为我死去的穆斯林兄弟姐妹报仇。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "From 1970 to 2000, cigarette consumption tripled in developing countries.",
        "发展中国家吸烟率从1970到2000年增长了两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while Savulescu’s bold suggestion may reduce drug use, it will not end it.",
        "因此，尽管Savulescu的大胆建议可能减少药物的使用，但却不会杜绝这一现象。"
    ],
    [
        "To optimists, the latest technological developments, like others that have propelled humanity forward, promise to deliver unprecedented levels of prosperity.",
        "而在乐观主义者看来，最新技术发展像其他推动人类不断前进的因素一样，有可能实现前所未有的繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian Realities",
        "俄罗斯的现实"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, these populists attack the EU as an elite-imposed project, while pro-European coalitions have become exhausted, disintegrating in the aftermath of EU accession in 2004.",
        "不仅如此，民粹主义者认为加入欧盟是精英们强加给民众的任务，这消耗了亲欧联盟的力量，导致该联盟在2004年加入欧盟后即告分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Four hundred million Indians still lack electricity; India cannot be expected to rule out greater use of coal if that proves to be the best way to produce electricity for one-third of its citizens.",
        "有4亿印度人至今仍然用不上电； 因此也别指望印度会停止增加电煤的使用量，因为这是为其1/3国民提供电能的最好方式。"
    ],
    [
        "They are now waiting to see whether the UK negotiates a “soft” or “hard” Brexit before they make any significant moves.",
        "现在，他们正在坐等英国谈判“软”还是“硬”退欧，然后在对行动作出重大改变。"
    ],
    [
        "We have criteria for genetic testing of both BRCA1 and BRCA2 and guidelines for risk-adapted surveillance programs – including, where appropriate, risk-reducing surgery.",
        "我们已经确立了 BRCA1 和 BRCA2 的基因检验标准，也制定了风险调整监测计划的指导方针 —— 必要时也包括采用手术方法降低风险。"
    ],
    [
        "But developing and implementing a social-protection floor takes time, and governments do not seem to be willing to wait.",
        "但发展和实施社会保障需要时间，而政府似乎不愿意等待。"
    ],
    [
        "Payment for ecosystem services could be a solution, though there are likely to be simpler options.",
        "为生态系统功能支付时解决方案之一，尽管可能还有更简单的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the Italian elections in late February seem not to have upset markets too much (at least so far).",
        "就连2月末的意大利选举也没有给市场带来多大不安（至少到目前为止是如此）。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a Chinese “Marshall Plan” could seek to strengthen developing countries’ capacity to absorb Chinese goods, or it could advance a broader development agenda.",
        "这样一个中国版的“马歇尔计划”将致力于增强发展中国家采购中国商品的能力，也能推动一个更广泛的发展议程。"
    ],
    [
        "It can enable companies to charge excessive prices for low-quality goods and unreliable services, while facilitating corruption, abuses of power, and waste.",
        "它导致公司漫天要价、以次充好，同时还会滋生腐败、权力滥用和浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "Will Rising Interest Rates Torpedo Stock and House Prices?",
        "利率上升会危及股价和房价吗？"
    ],
    [
        "From a truly secular and global perspective, the difficulty lies in explaining the pre-crisis boom.",
        "从真正的长期和全球角度看，困难在于解释危机前的繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "So the problem is not that austerity was tried and failed in Greece.",
        "因此问题不在于希腊尝试了紧缩但是失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "That may not be a bad thing.",
        "当然，这并不是一件坏事情。"
    ],
    [
        "While Jordan’s Press and Publications Law prohibits the arrest of journalists for opinions expressed in print, journalists are now fair game if those opinions appear online.",
        "尽管约旦言论和出版法禁止因书面观点拘捕记者，但如果这些观点出现在网上，记者就要遭殃了。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the battle between secularism and religion in the Arab world does not have to last centuries, as it did in Europe, if only because contemporary generations can benefit from the long process of social and scientific progress that enabled the West to pave the way to modern democracy.",
        "但阿拉伯世界的世俗和宗教之争并不需要像欧洲那样持续几百年，原因很简单：当代人可以从让西方通往现代民主的社会和科学进步的长期过程中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Scotland’s independence referendum in September threatened to split the United Kingdom.",
        "9月的苏格兰独立公投大有分裂英国之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Yau and Leung were barred from taking their seats in the Legislative Council.",
        "游梁二人被取消在立法会的席位。"
    ],
    [
        "He did not act alone. His wife (who also received a life sentence), children, and other relatives all helped to hide the stolen loot in overseas accounts.",
        "不过他可不是单枪匹马犯下这些罪行的，他的妻子（同样被判处无期徒刑），儿女和其他亲戚都帮忙把这些脏款藏在了数个海外银行帐户里。"
    ],
    [
        "But the United States’ public debt now stands at over 100% of its GDP, and Detroit has just gone through bankruptcy.",
        "但美国的公共债务目前达到GDP的100%，底特律也宣布破产了。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to say that national and religious identities are not profoundly important.",
        "这并不是说民族和宗教身份不具有深刻的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Krugman’s cheerful response is that the New Keynesians were looking the other way.",
        "克鲁格曼乐观地回应说新凯恩斯主义者当时正在专心关注其他问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It supports that it was aimed at such things as the derogatory cartoons of the prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper three years ago.",
        "该决议声称其目标是反对诸如三年前丹麦一家报纸发表的贬损先知默罕默德的漫画。"
    ],
    [
        "Ken’s salary generates income tax and social security payments that help finance government programs for less fortunate members of his community.",
        "肯的薪水中包含了所得税和社保，帮助政府融资实施帮助其社区内不幸的人的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "ISLAMABAD – Relations between the United States and Pakistan have continued to fray since a US Special Forces team killed Osama bin Laden in a comfortable villa near a major Pakistani military academy.",
        "伊斯兰堡——美国一支特种部队小组在一所知名巴基斯坦军校附近一栋舒适的别墅里杀死奥萨马·本·拉登后，美国和巴基斯坦之间的关系开始不断恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, I still see girls disappearing.",
        "不幸的是，我仍然看到女孩消失。"
    ],
    [
        "For that reason, European governments will probably lend new money, despite knowing that they will not be repaid.",
        "有鉴于此，尽管知道这些债务将无法收回，但欧洲各国政府依然可能会继续拿出钱来。"
    ],
    [
        "With little leverage, Iran’s leaders would then have two options.",
        "伊朗领导人没有多少回旋余地，只有两个选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Should a historical figure be judged by the amount of blood on his hands?",
        "历史人物应该根据他手上沾了多少鲜血来评判吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Her government must not succumb to the temptation to accommodate the extremists in the name of good governance (or in the cause of political survival).",
        "她从来不被他们所接受。 她的政府决不能以改善治理（或为了政治生存）而对极端主义者让步。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel, after all, has watched the political developments in Egypt not with hope, but rather with growing alarm.",
        "说到底，以色列一直带着日渐加深的警惕而不是希望观察着埃及的政治发展态势。"
    ],
    [
        "On the microeconomic level, risks include, for example, weak banking sectors.",
        "微观经济层面的风险也不少，比如资本市场和银行业初级发展阶段中不可避免的各种缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "It is the Mexicans and other immigrants who bring their gang warfare into the country.",
        "是墨西哥人和其他移民把帮派战争带进这个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The more the regime tries to buy off the protesters, the more overweening it appears – and the angrier citizens become.",
        "政权越是试图收买反对者，就会越显出它的自负——人民也就变得越愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the external deficit has been squeezed by a collapse in investment activity, while America’s overall savings rate has fallen below 13% of GDP, owing to worsening government finances.",
        "外部赤字因投资活动的大幅冷却而被挤出，而由于政府财政状况恶化，美国的总体投资率已降至GDP的13%。"
    ],
    [
        "These technological advances create the backdrop for the competition and rivalries roiling the two most important geopolitical hotspots.",
        "这些技术进步形成了两大最重要地缘政治热点的竞争和敌对的背景。"
    ],
    [
        "The cases are becoming legion.",
        "例子层出不穷。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the US and several emerging economies made commitments to reduce emissions for the first time.",
        "结果，美国和一些新兴经济体首次做出减排承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Asia’s contribution to the UN, though significant, could be greater.",
        "亚洲对联合国的贡献尽管举足轻重，但是还可以更大。"
    ],
    [
        "“Effective participation by members of all racial and ethnic groups in the civil life of our nation,” the court said, “is essential if the dream of one nation, indivisible, is to be realized.”",
        "判决中说：“所有种族和民族集团的成员有效地参与我们国家的公民生活，对于一个国家不可分割的梦想的实现至关重要。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "China’s comparative advantages, including a global financial center in Hong Kong and a regional financial center in Shanghai, reinforce its leadership role.",
        "中国的比较优势，包括全球金融中心香港和地区金融中心上海，增强了它的领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Recognizing the potential for local resistance to integration programs for refugee doctors is essential to develop proactive policies that ensure success.",
        "认识到存在不利于难民医生融入的潜在本地阻力是制定确保成功的预案的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, while China’s living standards have risen dramatically over the past 30 years, the gap between rich and poor has widened sharply.",
        "事实上，尽管中国的生活水准在过去30年内已经有了很大提高，但贫富差距也已经急剧扩大。"
    ],
    [
        "Opponents of tax increases should see that, because such revenue-raising is really cutting government spending, it does not imply the adverse incentive effects of raising marginal tax rates.",
        "反对增税者应该看到，由于这类开源实际上是政府支出削减，因此并不会产生增加边际税率所能导致的负面激励效应。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, in a mature market economy, those problems are addressed largely by businesses themselves, perhaps with the involvement of municipal governments.",
        "事实上，在成熟的市场经济中，这些问题主要靠微观层面的企业自身解决，也许一些地方政府与行业监管部门需要参与。"
    ],
    [
        "Political populism is a menace to be avoided at all costs.",
        "政治民粹主义是一种必须不惜一切代价去避免的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Although animal advocates implored Ratzinger to reiterate his views on animal welfare after he became Pope, he never did so.",
        "尽管动物保护主义者在拉辛格成为教皇后恳请他重申其关于动物福利的观点，但他从未这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a recent paper by MIT’s David Autor and others shows that the social distress caused by US-China trade has polarized American politics, and probably increased certain voting cohorts’ support for “nativist politicians” such as Trump.",
        "事实上，MIT的大卫·奥拓尔（David Autor）和其他人的最新论文指出，因美中贸易而引起的社会阵痛极化了美国政治，可能也增加了支持特朗普这样的“本土论政客”的选民人数。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the burdens in some countries are so obvious that they could hardly be explained as the consequence of anything other than ineptitude or predation.",
        "尽管如此，一些国家的负担太明显，除了用失职和掠夺之外无法解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Essential values were widely shared, and most actors favored protecting the existing order.",
        "基本价值得到广泛认同，大部分行动者支持捍卫既有秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides, excluding Ukraine from eventual EU membership will encourage Russia's imperial ambitions.",
        "更何况将乌克兰排除在最终的欧盟成员资格之外只会怂恿俄罗斯的帝国主义野心。"
    ],
    [
        "Like today, consumers discovered that markets could leave them helpless, leading to calls for regulation.",
        "和现在一样，消费者发现市场会让他们很无助，从而使人们呼吁对市场进行监管。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s consumers should be able to buy online songs, watch online video, and shop online for whatever products they choose, and Europe’s businesses should be able to benefit fully from the EU’s giant market.",
        "欧洲消费者应该买到在线歌曲，观赏在线视频，在线购买想买的所有东西，而欧洲企业应该充分从欧盟这一巨大市场中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "The continent’s third pillar, South Africa, will spend 2008 mired in an escalating political feud between Thabo Mbeki, the lame-duck president, and Jacob Zuma, a former deputy who is the newly elected leader of the ruling African National Congress and the leading candidate to succeed Mbeki, his bitter rival, next year.",
        "非洲大陆的第三根支柱南非将会在即将卸任的总统姆贝基和前任副总统祖玛之间日益升级的政治争斗下度过2008年。 而后者刚刚当选为非洲国民大会领导人并且是明年接替其死对手姆贝基的主要侯选人。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, those in power will feel less pressure to arrange systems to provide food to those who need it most.",
        "结果，掌权者就更不会有压力改变制度，为最需要粮食的人提供粮食。"
    ],
    [
        "Access to education, capital, markets, and technologies would allow women to process, package, and market their products, especially for Africa’s growing middle class, bolstering both earnings and food supplies.",
        "获得教育、资本、市场和技术能让妇女处理、打包和推销她们的产品，特别是面向非洲不断增加的中产阶级，从而同时改善收入和粮食供给。"
    ],
    [
        "The initiative will have to come from the top if the case is to be made within each country for more open markets, and for help to be made available to those facing adjustment.",
        "如果要让每个国家都同意进一步开放市场，并对在此过程中面临调整的国家提供帮助，那么这种努力就必须是自上而下的。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, the Brexit vote will begin to look like an aberration – not the start of a powerful new trend toward nationalism, protectionism, and de-globalization, but the end of a backlash against modernity by an unstable alliance of social authoritarians and laissez faire market liberals.",
        "果真如此的话，英国退欧投票将只是一个偏差——不是通往民族主义、保护主义和去全球化的强大新趋势的起点，而是由社会极权主义者和自由放任市场自由派组成的不稳定联盟对现代性的反动的终结。"
    ],
    [
        "But if machines have already engineered the escape from poverty, then work-sharing is a sensible way of “spreading the work” that still has to be done by human labor.",
        "可如果机械发展已经让我们摆脱了贫困，那工作共享就成为“分配”仍须由人类劳动完成工作的一种合理方式。"
    ],
    [
        "The Education Solution",
        "解决方案在于教育"
    ],
    [
        "Neo-colonialism is returning to Africa, the global project of human rights is in retreat, and the world trade system is becoming far less open.",
        "新殖民主义正在重返非洲，全球人权事业正在倒退，而世界贸易体系则相比变得远为封闭。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Germany’s generous unemployment insurance policies ensure that people are able to maintain their consumption standards even if they lose their jobs.",
        "事实上，德国充裕的失业保险，保证了人们即使在失业的情况下，也可以保持其消费水平不下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In the longer term, were shale gas and oil to satisfy US demand, Canadian oil could wean America’s allies from their Middle East oil addiction, giving them new foreign-policy options, too.",
        "而从长远看，如果页岩油和页岩气能够满足美国的能源需求，那么加拿大原油则可以阻断盟国对中东原油的依赖，也给盟国带来新的外交政策方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization’s advocates are right that it has the potential to raise everyone’s living standards.",
        "全球化的支持者的观点是正确的，那就是，全球化具有提高所有人生活水准的潜力。"
    ],
    [
        "The result is that imbalances between creditors and debtors have been locked into place.",
        "结果是债权国和债务国之间的失衡无从解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, because many renewable energy technologies are built with mined metals and minerals, the global mining industry will play a key role in the transition to a low-carbon future.",
        "此外，由于许多可再生能源技术是建立在已开采金属和矿物的基础上，因此全球矿业将在朝向低碳未来的转型中扮演关键角色。"
    ],
    [
        "What is it that makes young Muslims in the West susceptible to radicalism?",
        "是什么力量使得生活在西方的穆斯林容易受到极端主义的蛊惑？"
    ],
    [
        "Well-known University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Art Caplan says that the achievement ranks as a discovery of historic significance, because it “would seem to extinguish the argument that life requires a special force or power to exist.”",
        "而宾夕法尼亚大学的著名生物伦理学家阿特·凯普兰则把这一成果视为一个历史性的重大发现，因为它“似乎已经将生命是借由某种特殊的力量或者权力才得以存在的观点彻底推翻了。"
    ],
    [
        "Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.",
        "我们应该关注生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration also has been conspicuously quiet about abuses in Brunei, Laos, and Vietnam, inviting the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party to Washington, DC, last July for a showy and warm visit.",
        "奥巴马政府还刻意对文莱、老挝和越南的侵犯权利的行为保持沉默，去年7月还盛情邀请越南共产党总书记访问华盛顿。"
    ],
    [
        "The performance was long rehearsed in both Washington and Beijing, because both governments needed at least the appearance of a successful visit.",
        "这场大舞台剧在北京和华盛顿都排练了好久，因为中美双方都至少要让这场访问在看上去是成功的。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, Clinton’s tour appears to confirm the central fact of US diplomacy nowadays: the Asia pivot is complete.",
        "无论如何，克林顿之行似乎证实了当今美国外交的核心事实：即美国已经完成以亚洲为核心的外交布局。"
    ],
    [
        "And Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has apparently become a semi-frozen conflict, but one that could reignite at any time.",
        "而俄罗斯对乌克兰的入侵显然已经进入半冻结状态，并可能在任何时候重燃。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan, facing mounting pressure from China, unconditionally released a Chinese trawler captain whose ship had rammed a Japanese naval patrol boat.",
        "首先是在中国不断加码的压力之下，日本无条件释放了一名曾驾船与日本海洋巡逻船相撞的中国渔船船长；"
    ],
    [
        "The Myth of the “Ownership Society”",
        "“产权社会”的神话"
    ],
    [
        "All three institutions have announced reviews of their lending policies for the energy sector.",
        "这三个机构都发布了针对能源部门的贷款政策回顾。"
    ],
    [
        "In October 2009, near-Earth object (NEO) trackers Steve Chesley and Paul Chodas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, placed the odds of Apophis striking Earth in 2036 at about one in 233,000, lower than previous estimates.",
        "2009 年 10 月， NASA 加州喷气动力实验室的近地天体追踪人员切斯利（ Steve Chesley ）和乔达斯（ Paul Chodas ）估算出，阿波菲斯于 2036 年撞上地球的几率约为 1/233000 ，低于之前的历次估算。"
    ],
    [
        "This forces knowledge to be made more widely available, thereby breaking the effective monopoly that researchers and their funders would otherwise enjoy.",
        "这一特点迫使大学向公众提供知识，并因此打破研究者及其出资人本来有权享受的有效的垄断权利。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the current economic crisis has led to renewed talk about the need for the European Union to have taxing authority.",
        "而且，目前的经济危机导致了对欧盟拥有征税权力必要性的重新讨论。"
    ],
    [
        "The delay in reaching an agreement enabled most private creditors to escape the consequences of their reckless lending to Greece.",
        "拖延达成协议使得大多数私人债权人得以逃脱鲁莽地给希腊借款的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Euroskeptics, it seems, are gaining ground everywhere, and a kind of xenophobia is on the rise.",
        "欧洲怀疑论者的队伍看来正在各地壮大，并且一种惧外主义也日渐抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "A mild recession is expected in Europe this year, and unemployment is on the rise.",
        "预计今年欧洲将经历轻微衰退，失业率也早升高。"
    ],
    [
        "But we should be wary about relying on courts to do things they have never been asked to do before.",
        "但我们应该对依靠法院来完成它们此前从未被要求完成的任务保持谨慎。"
    ],
    [
        "As Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, recently remarked, one cannot be proud of the Jews of yesterday and tell the Jews of today that their religious practices are no longer welcome.",
        "欧洲拉比大会主席戈德施密特（Pinchas Goldschmidt）最近评论说，你不可能以犹太人的过去为荣，又告诉今天的犹太人他们的宗教行为不再受欢迎了。"
    ],
    [
        "The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the deep recession that resulted made it plain to see that the financial sector in the US and elsewhere had become too powerful.",
        "2007—2008年全球金融危机及其所导致的深度衰退让我们清楚地看到，美国和其他国家的金融部门已经变得过于强大了。"
    ],
    [
        "Can benign regulation really be bought?",
        "正规的监管真的可以被收买吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But the slogan-mongers overlook India’s extreme diversity.",
        "但这些口号贩子忽略了印度的极端多样性。"
    ],
    [
        "But the participants’ inability to reach a common position on their hosts’ nuclear program or the violence in Syria – two of the fundamental questions that confronted the summit – obviously undermined Iran’s effort to demonstrate that, despite facing severe economic and diplomatic sanctions, it remains an effective international player.",
        "但参与国没能在关于东道国的核计划或叙利亚暴力问题——此次峰会所面临的两大根本性问题——上达成共同立场显然破坏了伊朗证明其在面临严厉经济和外交制裁的情况下仍能保持国际影响力的算盘。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the brain is just one organ of the body, so people whose brains work well in early life may also have other organs and systems that are more efficient than others’.",
        "毕竟，大脑只是人体的一个器官。 因此，早年大脑运转灵活的人也可能具有比其他人更为有效的其他器官和身体系统。"
    ],
    [
        "And the ability to turn them into reality is keeping pace, as global supply chains and new technologies like 3D printing reduce implementation times.",
        "而将概念转化为现实的能力也不甘落后，全球供应链和3D打印等新科技缩短了实施时间。"
    ],
    [
        "And, indeed, the ECB’s latest staff projections entail a notable downgrading of the macroeconomic outlook.",
        "事实上欧洲央行最新发布的一份机构预测中也大幅调低了对宏观经济发展的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Besides, muddling through may prove unaffordable even in the short run, if oil prices decline again.",
        "这种蒙混策略甚至在短期看来都难以维持，因为油价又再次走低了。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, real wages for the typical worker have flat-lined, while productivity has continued to climb.",
        "接着，典型工人真实工资曲线变平，而生产率曲线依然向上。"
    ],
    [
        "But political calculation cannot explain everything.",
        "但政治算计不能解释一切现象。"
    ],
    [
        "More to the point, it did not bode well for a supposedly democratizing project to reject democratic processes at the UN.",
        "更为重要的是，一个据称为促进民主的工程却在联合国拒绝民主进程。 这并非吉兆。"
    ],
    [
        "This discrepancy can be seen clearly in the banking sector.",
        "这种矛盾在银行业尤为明显。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while that would choke off the recovery, premature fiscal tightening would do so sooner.",
        "但是，就算利率上升会对经济复苏不利，效应也要比财政紧随温和得多。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent fashion in St. Petersburg are restaurants with names such as \"Lenin's Mating Call,\" \"USSR,\" and \"Russian Kitsch,\" which has frescos showing collective farmers socializing with American Indians while Leonid Brezhnev, resembling Frank Sinatra, gives a speech to a stone-age tribe.",
        "圣彼得堡最近的时尚是饭馆起名叫\"列宁在房事中的呻吟，\"\"苏联\"和\"俄国破烂，\"墙上的壁画表现集体农场的劳动者与美洲印第安人联谊，而布里兹涅夫则模仿法兰克·辛那屈，向石器时代的原始部落演讲。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the tiny state of Qatar has the rabble-rouser Al-Jazeera television channel, which is watched by more viewers in Saudi Arabia than in any other Arab country.",
        "甚至是卡塔尔国这样的小国都有一个颇具煽动性的半岛电视台，观看这个电视台节目的沙特阿拉伯人比任何一个其他阿拉伯国家的人都要多。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this other-regarding view of behavior has been de-emphasized both in the corporate and the public domain.",
        "不幸的是，这一关心他人（other-regarding）行为观在公司和公共领域都没有得到强调。"
    ],
    [
        "The WTO has been marginalized, and even what has already been achieved in the incomplete Doha Round appears unlikely to be delivered in a final agreement in the foreseeable future.",
        "世贸组织被边缘化了，未完成的多哈回合所达成的有限成果在可以预见的将来也无法形成最终协定。"
    ],
    [
        "The National Chicken Council, the trade association for the US chicken industry, recommends a stocking density of 85 square inches per bird – less than a standard sheet of typing paper.",
        "美国养鸡业的行业协会全国养鸡协会推荐的养殖密度达到了令人震惊的每只鸡85平方英寸¾还不及一张标准打字纸的大小。"
    ],
    [
        "Americans frequently misunderstand our place in the world.",
        "美国人常常误解我们在世界中的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Though they will not oppose reforms outright, they will continue to procrastinate and spread fear about economic instability and social tension to prevent changes that threaten to diminish their status and prerogatives.",
        "尽管他们不会公然反对改革，但他们将继续消极应对并传播对经济动荡和社会对立的恐慌，以阻止威胁他们地位和特权的的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "But 2004 was also a bitter failure for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who tried to bring his favored presidential candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, to power in Kyiv by supporting massive vote manipulation.",
        "但2004年对俄罗斯总统普京来说也是苦涩的失败之年，他试图通过支持大规模操纵投票让他所中意的总统候选人亚努科维奇（Viktor Yanukovych）上台。"
    ],
    [
        "For years, Cyprus had an immense banking bubble, with the sector’s assets estimated at roughly seven times the country’s GDP, as foreign money poured into a tax haven within the eurozone’s secure environment.",
        "多年以来，随着境外资金争相涌入欧元区安全环境中的避税天堂，塞浦路斯积累了巨大的金融泡沫，其银行资产预计约为国内生产总值的7倍。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, it will not consider resolving in an international forum its dispute with Japan in the East China Sea over the Diaoyu Islands (called the Senkaku Islands in Japan).",
        "例如它不会考虑在通过国际对话去解决与日本在中国东海钓鱼岛（日本称为尖阁群岛）的主权争端问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Before a crisis, they resist regulations and oppose government investment and planning; afterwards, they demand – and receive – billions of dollars to compensate them for their losses, even those that could easily have been prevented.",
        "在危机前，他们抵制监管、反对政府投资和规划； 危机后，他们要求——并得到了——数十亿美元补偿自己的损失，即使是那些原本很容易就能预防的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "ISTANBUL – The Doha Round of global trade talks appears to have died this year, almost without a whimper.",
        "伊斯坦布尔—全球贸易谈判多哈回合今年无声无息地死去了。"
    ],
    [
        "I am a fan myself: a fan with two worries. First, what happens if politics does not trump economics, and Obama’s policies don’t start to produce a recovery?",
        "虽然我自己就是一个奥巴马迷，但我也有着两种担忧：首先，如果美国打出的这张政治牌对经济没有作用，奥巴马的政策不能使经济复苏怎么办？"
    ],
    [
        "More problematic, he has occasionally dissented publicly from Leung’s various misguided policies.",
        "更有问题的是，他偶尔会对梁各项错误政策公开表示反对。"
    ],
    [
        "Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, presided this year over reckless risk-taking to the tune of nearly $6 billion (we might call it a “three Grübel” debacle), yet his job apparently remains secure.",
        "摩根大通的CEO詹姆斯·戴蒙（James Dimon）今年早些时候由于轻率冒险导致将近60亿美元的巨亏（也许可以把那称为“三个郭儒博”的大失败），可他的工作显然还比较稳固。"
    ],
    [
        "The effect was especially pronounced in lending to non-financial companies, whereas lending to households – an area with traditionally lower internationalization – remained more robust.",
        "其中又以贷向非金融企业的贷款受创最重，而家庭贷款——传统上这一领域国际化程度较低——则依然活跃。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a place in political campaigns for bumper-sticker slogans.",
        "在政治选战中，汽车保险杠标语拥有一席之地。"
    ],
    [
        "That pilot project demonstrated that people with mental disabilities are capable of living as equal citizens when they receive appropriate assistance.",
        "这项试点计划表明，只要能得到恰当的协助，精神疾病患者一样可以作为平等公民享受自由的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "The factors underlying this shift merit attention, for many of them are likely to bring the two countries even closer.",
        "这一转变背后的推动因素值得关注，因为其中许多因素有望让两国更加紧密。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse, it is deeply misleading – and potentially dangerous.",
        "更糟糕的是，这具有极大的误导性——以及潜在的危害性。"
    ],
    [
        "This leaves us with an enduring mystery.",
        "这就让我们一直迷惑不解。"
    ],
    [
        "True, Pius XII did not condemn Nazism during the war.",
        "诚然，皮亚斯十二世没有在战争期间谴责纳粹主义。"
    ],
    [
        "But make no mistake: both parties are implicated.",
        "但可以确定的是：两党都牵涉其中。"
    ],
    [
        "The program offers short courses on welding and other skills needed to repair rural machinery.",
        "该项目开设有关焊接和其他技能的短期课程，以便教授学员学会修理农业机械。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why so many of them voted for Donald Trump.",
        "因此，他们中有很多人把票投给了特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, there are a few things governments can do to mitigate the effects of inertial spending.",
        "幸运的是，政府可以采取一些措施减轻惯性支出效应。"
    ],
    [
        "The closest she comes to a message is a less-than-soaring “I’m a progressive who can get things done.”",
        "她给人的印象是不太高明的“我是可以成事的开明派。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "As a Chinese official admitted at a recent seminar in Seoul, concepts like “regional order” have never been a part of the country’s political vocabulary.",
        "而正如一个中国官员在最近首尔举行的一次研讨会上承认的那样，像“区域秩序”这样的概念从未被列入该国政治词汇之中。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this augurs well for the future of what we should get used to calling “the former Iraq.”",
        "所有这些对于我们应当习惯称作的“前伊拉克”而言都不是好兆头。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it has forgotten what it is.",
        "事实上，它已经忘了它是什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Rewarding successful ventures is the basic idea of capitalism – a dynamic process that Joseph Schumpeter called “creative destruction.”",
        "奖励成功的公司是资本主义的基本理念—一个被Joseph Schumpeter称作“创造性破坏”的动态过程。"
    ],
    [
        "One senses something like the making of an American-Asian dominated universe.",
        "我们能感受到一个美国和亚洲占主导地位的世界正在形成。"
    ],
    [
        "That is precisely what has been occurring lately between China and the United States, and is the impetus for China’s “Asia for the Asians” policy.",
        "最近在中国和美国之间发生的事情就是如此，这也正是中国“亚洲人的亚洲”政策的动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge is that the extent of companies’ responsibility has become clear at a time of growing distrust toward the private sector.",
        "挑战在于，公司责任的程度日益清晰，但与此同时，对私人部门的干扰也越来越大。"
    ],
    [
        "But, instead of gaining an advantage from traits that enhance one’s ability to survive, one gains an advantage from qualities that potential mates have evolved to find appealing.",
        "但是，我们并没有从增加我们生存能力的特征中获得优势，而是从潜在伴侣进化出来的寻找吸引力的品质中获得优势。"
    ],
    [
        "This is how malaria, AIDS, and vaccine-preventable diseases have been battled successfully in the past 15 years.",
        "在过去15年中，我们用这一办法成功战胜了疟疾、艾滋病和疫苗可防疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "The promise of a Fourth Industrial Revolution consists in advances in robotics, the Internet of Things, big data, mobile telephony, and 3D printing.",
        "第四次工业革命的迹象包括在机器人技术、 物联网、 大数据、 移动电话和 3D 打印技术方面的研究进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a wrong or “unjust” decision can end a conflict.",
        "”即使是错误或“不公正的”裁决也可以结束冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a specialty of self-styled public-interest groups, whose agenda is often not to protect public health or the environment, but rather to oppose the research, products, or technology that they happen to dislike.",
        "这是自称代表公共利益的集团的特长，这些人的目的通常不是保护公共卫生或者环境，而是为了反对他们不喜欢的研究、产品或技术。"
    ],
    [
        "There are untold reservoirs of social violence in all of our lands.",
        "我们的每一寸土地上都隐藏着数不清的社会暴力隐患。"
    ],
    [
        "I have lost track of the number of US states that are suing the Obama administration over executive orders viewed as excessively “gay-friendly.”",
        "我记不清有多少美国州曾经起诉过被认为过于“同性恋友好”的奥巴马政府行政命令。"
    ],
    [
        "That way, both of their earnings will be higher.",
        "这样能让两个人的收入都有所提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the economic storm has become less intense, it hasn’t calmed yet.",
        "虽然金融风暴稍微缓和，但威胁依然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "But they must also be wary of analysts who are either incapable of, or uninterested in, distinguishing between causality and correlation, and between insolvency and illiquidity.",
        "但他们还应该担心既没有能力，也没有兴趣区分因果关系和相关性，或者资不抵债和流动性不足的分析师。"
    ],
    [
        "The same unqualified support is what Annan – the best diplomat we have out there – needs and deserves.",
        "同样的无条件支持也是安南——目前叙利亚地区最优秀的外交家——所需要和应得的。"
    ],
    [
        "In their efforts to revise the historical record, they are not really thinking of Koreans or Chinese, but of political adversaries at home.",
        "修改历史记录时他们所想的并不是韩国和中国，而是国内的政治对手。"
    ],
    [
        "That would remove the serious risk that the ECB could start buying bonds on the basis of agreed fiscal packages, and then be forced to react if governments fall short on implementing them.",
        "这可以消除一项严重的风险，即欧洲央行已两国同意财政改革为条件购买两国债券，随后两国政府并未兑现实事承诺，欧洲央行被迫采取措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Securing a peaceful and nuclear-free Korean peninsula, a place where the interests of China, Japan, Russia, and America directly intersect, is one of the most important security goals anywhere on the planet.",
        "朝鲜半岛上，中国、日本、俄国和美国的利益直接交叉，在这里实现和平和无核化是全球最重要的安全目标之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek Conundrum",
        "希腊迷局"
    ],
    [
        "Mitt Romney, the likely Republican nominee for president, pledges to increase the rate of shipbuilding – a commitment linked to an increased US presence in the Pacific.",
        "极有可能成为共和党总统候选人的罗姆尼（Mitt Romney）承诺要振兴造船业，这显然与美国更加关注太平洋有关。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the beneficial effects of safety nets on saving may have been overestimated.",
        "比如，社会安全网对储蓄的福利效应被高估了。"
    ],
    [
        "Both of those unions began as military-defense organizations, and only later developed fiscal unions.",
        "美国和瑞士都是从军事-防御联盟开始，随后才发展成财政联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowhere is the need to overcome financing bottlenecks more apparent than with Germany’s Energiewende (energy transition).",
        "而最需要克服融资瓶颈的莫过于德国的能源转型了。"
    ],
    [
        "If they perceive improvements in their terms of trade as permanent – a view that gains traction as prices climb – increases in consumption and investment tend to outpace income gains, and public and private leverage grows.",
        "如果他们认为自身贸易状况的改善会是长期的——这一观点在价格攀升时往往成为主流——消费和投资的增加往往会超出收入增长，同时公共和私人杠杆率都会提升。"
    ],
    [
        "This prompted various suggestions for reforming sovereign-debt markets.",
        "这促使产生了大量改革主权债务市场的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "The helicopter-money version would be the purchase of zero-interest-rate government bonds that will not be repaid, either because they are perpetual bonds or because they are rolled over every time they mature.",
        "这种直升机撒钱的形式是购买不会得到偿付的零息政府债券，要么是因为它们是永续债券，要么是因为它们每次到期都会展期。"
    ],
    [
        "The freedoms that they were so accustomed to, and maybe even took for granted, have now been snatched away.",
        "他们已经习以为常的自由，也许甚至已经认为理所当然该有的自由，现在却被掠夺走了。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, the case for compensation in the energy sector is exceptionally weak.",
        "因此，对能源部门的补偿需要十分微小。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in the guarantee model there can be such implicit government over-payment (or an over-guarantee that is not properly priced by the fees that the government receives).",
        "即使是在担保模式中，也会隐藏着过多支付的问题(或者过度担保，政府收取的费用并未合理定价)。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies, investors, governments, and communities confront a series of critical barriers to increasing the food availability that the world needs: Local populations’ insecure land ownership; receding water tables, owing to unsustainable extraction rates; inefficient use of pollution-causing inputs like fertilizers and pesticides; the loss of vital ecosystems, affecting the resilience of food production; and certain areas’ inability to cope with extreme weather.",
        "在提高全世界所急需的粮食可获得性的问题上公司、投资者、政府和社会面临着一系列关键障碍：本地人口土地所有权得不到保障； 不可持续的开采速度导致潜水面下降；"
    ],
    [
        "But, even if the fiscal cliff turns out to be a mild growth bump – a mere 0.5% of GDP – and annual growth at the end of the year is just 1.5%, as seems likely, the fiscal drag will suffice to slow the economy to stall speed: a growth rate of barely 1%.",
        "5%——且年末年增长率最后只有1. 5%（看起来很有可能），财政拖累仍将把经济增速压低到停滞水平——经济增长率低于1%。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Paris agreement recognizes, many scientists believe that warming above 1.5ºC is risky and that adaptation to it will be extremely expensive, particularly for developing countries and island states.",
        "巴黎协议承认，很多科学家认为变暖超过1. 5摄氏度就有危险，尤其对发展中国家和岛屿国家而言，适应过程将付出巨大的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, in the referendum that ended his 16-year rule in Chile in 1990, General Augusto Pinochet, with thousands of tortured and vanished victims in his grisly cupboard, ran on a law-and-order platform and received 44% of the vote.",
        "同理，在终结了智利军事强人奥古斯托·皮诺切特16年统治的1990年公投中，即便皮氏手中握着数千条惨遭折磨和杀害的冤魂，却依然凭着一套鼓吹法律与秩序的纲领赢得了44%的赞成票。"
    ],
    [
        "Originally, the EU was conceived as an instrument of solidarity and cooperation.",
        "过去的欧盟被视为团结合作的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of health workers like my colleagues and I make immunization their daily work.",
        "几百万像我和我同事那样的卫生工作者以免疫为自己的事业。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this takes time, but, as it occurs, it mitigates the negative impact: the demand and supply curves shift in response to higher prices (or to anticipation of higher prices).",
        "所有这些都需要时间，但一旦发生便能缓和不利影响：需求和供给曲线将因油价升高（或预计升高）而产生移动。"
    ],
    [
        "So why should we think that they would suffice in the much more complex world of sovereign-debt restructurings?",
        "既然如此，我们又怎么能认为它们能胜任于复杂得多的主权债务重组问题呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The extraordinary international response to the tsunamis that devastated South Asia is a remarkable political phenomenon.",
        "国际社会对于给南亚带来毁灭性灾害的海啸做出的非常反应是一个值得注意的政治现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Alarmingly, in some of the wealthy countries, where both screening and treatment should be readily available, vaccine coverage now appears to be declining, raising a real danger that socioeconomically disadvantaged girls there will face a similar fate.",
        "令人担忧的是，在筛查及治疗手段本应更为普及的富国，现在的疫苗接种率也似乎正在下降，从而导致社会经济地位相对弱势的女孩面临着同样的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "First, a market economy was created, the rule of law established, and democratic institutions built.",
        "首先，匈牙利人分别建立了自己的市场经济，法制以及民主体制。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Islam is often viewed primarily as a threat.",
        "于是，伊斯兰教常常主要被视为是一种威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "To avoid that outcome, the region’s existing nation-states will need strong institutions to provide for efficient governance and social inclusion.",
        "为避免出现这样的结果，该地区现有的民族国家将需要强有力的机构来提供社会包容和有效治理。"
    ],
    [
        "Cyprus, of course, is just the latest country to be hit by the economic crisis surging through the Mediterranean.",
        "当然，塞浦路斯在地中海国家中充其量是遭受经济危机打击的最新实例。"
    ],
    [
        "But politics, not economics, explains why the Fed chairman changed his tune about America’s weak external position.",
        "但是，是政治，而非经济，导致了美联储主席对美国不利的外部形势改变论调。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why I recognized the possibility of a Trump upset, despite Clinton’s significant lead in the polls (five points, just before the election).",
        "这也是尽管希拉里民调一路领先（在选举开始前还领先5个点），但笔者却意识到特朗普可能成功搅局的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "To answer that question, it is worth considering the experience of FIFA, another non-profit sports organization beset by corruption.",
        "我们可以参考国际足联——另一个受到腐败困扰的非营利体育组织——的经验来回答这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg provided what is perhaps the pithiest summary of the attraction of urban life.",
        "纽约市前市长布隆伯格（Michael Bloomberg）对城市生活的吸引力做了也许是最言简意赅的概括。"
    ],
    [
        "Families’ preference that their one child be male led to innumerable sex-selective abortions, as well as female infanticide and abandonment.",
        "家庭希望唯一的孩子是男孩，这导致无数性别选择性堕胎以及杀害和抛弃女婴。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, sovereign debt in the eurozone was deemed riskless: banks had only to hold minimal reserves against member countries’ bonds, which the European Central Bank accepted on equal terms at its discount window.",
        "尤其是欧元区主权债务被视为无风险的假设：银行对于所持有的欧元区成员国债券只要留存最低储备就行了，欧洲央行的贴现窗口对所有欧元区成员国一视同仁。"
    ],
    [
        "Strangely, there have been few attempts to explain why we consume so few of the species that are possible to eat.",
        "奇怪的是，几乎没有人试图解释为何我们只消费如此区区几种可食用植物。"
    ],
    [
        "For those growing up in the industrial north, Thatcherism foreclosed the future.",
        "在北方工业重镇长大的人来说，撒切尔主义葬送了他们的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, banks are reporting record profits – on the order of $171 billion, according to the latest data.",
        "与此同时，最新数据显示银行业利润创下了历史新高——约为1710亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet spending on all UN bodies and activities – from the Secretariat and the Security Council to peacekeeping operations, emergency responses to epidemics, and humanitarian operations for natural disasters, famines, and refugees – totaled roughly $45 billion in 2013, roughly $6 per person on the planet.",
        "但花在所有联合国机构和活动上的开支——从秘书处及安理会维和行动、疫情紧急应对到为自然灾害、饥荒和难民提供人道主义援助——2013年总额约为450亿美元，约合全世界人均6美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the most insular globetrotter, flitting from one market or cultural playground to another, must consider their children.",
        "即使是最特立独行的环球旅行家，不断地从一个市场或文化背景切换到另一个的人，也必须为他们的孩子着想。"
    ],
    [
        "Embedding Europe’s cultural and ethical background in goods and services that reflect these values would not only set the European economy apart from the rest of the world, but would also strengthen these values globally.",
        "将欧洲的文化和种族背景融入到反映出这些价值观的商品和服务中不仅能使欧洲经济在世界上独树一帜，还会在全球范围内强化这些价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether an “establishment” figure – one backed by the party leadership, such as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush or New Jersey Governor Chris Christie – can catch on with voters will become clearer only after Iowa and New Hampshire have voted.",
        "前佛罗里达州州长杰布·布什和新泽西州州长克里斯·克里斯蒂等“体制内”（即得到共和党领袖支持的）候选人能否赢得选民的欢心只有在爱荷华和新罕布什尔州投票后才会明朗。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, the gloomy predictions of absolute American decline will turn out to be as misleading as similar predictions in decades past.",
        "如果这样的话，那些令人沮丧的关于美国绝对衰落的预测将被证明是与过去一样谬误。"
    ],
    [
        "But 53% of white women and 63% of white men voted for Trump, while only 43% of white women and 31% of white men voted for Clinton.",
        "但53%的白人女性和63的白人男性支持特朗普，而只有43%的白人女性和31的白人男性把票投给了克林顿。"
    ],
    [
        "But they do reflect the agenda of those seeking to fan Buddhist resentment in order to thwart Myanmar’s democratic transition.",
        "但它们确实反映出试图煽动佛教徒怨气以实现阻碍缅甸民主转型的人的算盘。"
    ],
    [
        "But leaders from around the world have already hailed the agreement as a breakthrough for the fight against climate change, a victory for international cooperation, and a boon to the global economy.",
        "但当时全世界领导人都盛赞巴黎协定是遏制气候变化的一次突破，是国际合作的一次胜利，是全球经济的一个福音。"
    ],
    [
        "He would also lower personal tax rates by 20%, and make up lost revenue by limiting tax deductions and credits, particularly at the upper end, thereby raising about 18.5% of GDP, just above the historical average, at full employment. Romney’s fiscal plan thus reduces deficits sufficiently to decrease the debt-to-GDP ratio.",
        "他还将把个人税率降低20%，并通过限制税收减免（特别是高端人群的税收减免，该措施可以筹集相当于充分就业水平GDP的18."
    ],
    [
        "It can be ensured only by an electorate that respects reality and punishes politicians who lie or engage in other forms of deception.",
        "只有尊重事实并且惩罚撒谎或者进行其他欺骗的政坛人物的选民才能够做到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "However, the Bundesbank has entered a new regime in which it will have to borrow extensively from the private banking sector to absorb the flight money from the crisis countries.",
        "不过，德国银行步入了一种新制度，它将不得不大举向私人银行部门融资，以吸收从危机国家外逃而来的资产。"
    ],
    [
        "The manufacturing industry, meanwhile, will be similarly transformed by 3D printing technology.",
        "与此同时，制造业也在类似地被3D打印技术改变。"
    ],
    [
        "The way China’s rulers see it, only firm control from the top and the CCP’s unquestioned supremacy can create the conditions needed for a rich and powerful China to emerge.",
        "中国统治者认为，因此只有从头开始严格控制和中共最高权威不容置疑才能创造中国崛起并富强所需要的条件。 在他们眼中，民主导致混乱；"
    ],
    [
        "But he should dwell upon the implications of such an approach between board meetings, lectures, and photo calls.",
        "但是他应该在董事会会议、讲座以及合影等等活动之间好好考虑这一方式的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the meantime, Australian and other regional policymakers should adhere to a simple mantra: More self-reliance.",
        "但与此同时，澳大利亚和其他地区决策者应该坚守一个简单原则——更加独立自主。"
    ],
    [
        "Before we mentally hail the next air cab, let’s consider what it would actually mean if the skies were filled with swarms of miniature helicopters ferrying people to their next destination.",
        "在我们为下一代空中出租车心花怒放之前，我们先来思考一下如果天空充满了将人们运抵下一个目的地的成群结队的小型直升机实际将意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, the more pragmatic Europe’s policies are, the greater the chances of success, not least when it comes to global issues.",
        "但无论如何，欧洲的政策越注重实效，其成功的可能性就越大，而这一点尤其在全球事务方面明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it has provided crucial guidance to countries, helping them to track economic gains that have improved citizens’ quality of life considerably – in many cases lifting them out of destitution.",
        "此外，GDP还为各国提供关键指导，有助于它们追踪极大改善公民生活质量——在许多情形里，还帮助他们摆脱了贫困——的经济成果。"
    ],
    [
        "A poorly designed patent system – like the one we have now – can inhibit follow-on research.",
        "设计糟糕的专利体系——像目前这个一样——会阻碍后续研究。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Apple charges ASI a symbolic fee for allowing it to profit from Apple’s IP rights, for which it pays a tiny tax to the IRS.",
        "取而代之的是，苹果总公司仅仅向苹果国际销售公司收取象征性的知识产权得利费用，并为此向美国国税局支付一小笔税金。"
    ],
    [
        "About 1.1 million came to Germany alone in 2015.",
        "2015年，光是德国就接收了110万难民。"
    ],
    [
        "The fall of Saddam allowed Iraq’s Shia majority to take power through elections.",
        "萨达姆的倒台让伊拉克的什叶派多数通过选举掌握了权力。"
    ],
    [
        "First and foremost is economic growth, which for the past few years - indeed, for the past two decades - has been dismal.",
        "第一也是最重要的是经济增长。 在过去几年里--应该说在过去20年里--拉丁美洲的经济增长十分低落。"
    ],
    [
        "That policy was destined to produce a financial crisis, because it was bound to leave governments and banks with depleted assets and larger debts.",
        "这一政策注定要导致金融危机，因为这注定会把政府和银行资产侵蚀殆尽，让它们背上越来越大的债务包袱。"
    ],
    [
        "Productivity plummeted in SOEs, whose privileged access to financing crowded out private-sector investment.",
        "国有企业生产率大幅下降，同时它们优先获得融资的特权又挤出了私人部门投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Formidable difficulties still lie ahead, and a final agreement is by no means certain.",
        "前路依然坎坷，最终协议还远未确定。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s claim that the agreement has “stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region” is premature, at best.",
        "奥巴马宣称该协议“阻止了核武器在该地区的传播”是不成熟的。"
    ],
    [
        "As if to underscore the point that political stability must triumph in the long run, the Indians plastered Swiss buses with the banner: “India: The World’s Fastest Growing Democracy.”",
        "好像是为了突出强调从长远看政治稳定必然获胜，印度人把瑞士的公共汽车上涂满了这样的横幅：“印度：世界上成长最快的民主国家。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The prime concern for the EU bureaucracy is to find compromises that meet the wishes of member states, and to accommodate often divergent and contradictory national preferences.",
        "欧盟官僚机构的主要任务是找到符合各成员国期望的妥协方案，照顾到经常出现分歧甚至是冲突的不同的国家偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "At that time, populism seemed an unstoppable force in Latin America.",
        "当时的民粹主义似乎在拉美形成了一股不可阻挡的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because no other party was prepared to cooperate with the SD, the only viable alternative was a minority government.",
        "此外，由于没有其他党派准备与瑞典民主党合作，因此唯一可行的办法只有组成少数派政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK’s national interests have not changed, and no fundamental shifts within the EU have worked against those interests.",
        "英国的国家利益并未改变，欧盟的根本性变化也并不对英国国家利益构成威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s long-standing opposition to relations with the US is a bit more complex.",
        "伊朗长期坚持与美国敌对的原因有点复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Organizations such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will need to become much more global in scope.",
        "互联网名称和数字地址分配等机构（ICANN）需要变得越来越全球化。"
    ],
    [
        "To be taken seriously, we have to put our money where our mouths are, by accepting international duties and responsibilities – like helping to stop atrocity crimes in faraway places – that are consistent with our claims to good international citizenship but serve no immediate traditional national security or economic interest.",
        "要想得到别人的认真对待，我们必须践行我们的诺言，接受国际责任和义务——如帮助遥远的国家制止残暴的犯罪——这与我们良好的国际公民主张相一致，但却并不直接服务于传统的国家安全和经济利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The more unusual the mechanism of insect pollination, the greater the genetic separation among plant populations becomes, almost as if they had evolved on different islands.",
        "昆虫授粉机制越反常，植物物种间的遗传隔离就越大，就好像它们是在不同海岛上演化出来似的。"
    ],
    [
        "When the chips are down, expect Trump to do the same.",
        "情况危急时，特朗普也会这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "As the journalist Charles Seife has pointed out, the retail genetics test is “meant to be a front end for a massive information-gathering operation against an unwitting public.”",
        "正如记者查尔斯·赛菲（Charles Seife）所指出的，零售遗传测试“必然是针对不知情公众的大规模信息收集操作的前沿。"
    ],
    [
        "If you are a high-net-worth investor, or a sovereign wealth fund, it makes perfect sense to hold a small percentage of your assets in gold as a hedge against extreme events.",
        "如果你是一个高净值投资者，或一个主权财富基金，那么将你一小部分的资产换成黄金以对抗极端情况就意义重大。"
    ],
    [
        "And we are forecast to surpass 450 ppm by 2038.",
        "据预计，我们将在2038年超过450 ppm。"
    ],
    [
        "Surely, any explanation must include the global constriction of credit, especially for small and medium-size businesses.",
        "当然，不论怎样解释，都必须考虑全球信用压缩的事实，特别是中小企业信用。"
    ],
    [
        "First and foremost, policymakers must secure the financing needed to pursue sustainable development in an uncertain global environment.",
        "首先也是最重要的是，决策者必须确保所需要的资金在不确定的全球环境中追求可持续发展。"
    ],
    [
        "China started with less education than Tunisia, Mexico, Kenya, or Iran in 1960, and had made less progress than them by 2010.",
        "中国1960年开始时教育程度还不如突尼斯、墨西哥、肯尼亚或伊朗，到2010年所取得的进步也不如上述国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But a month-long attempt to broker an inclusive government failed.",
        "但为期一个月的努力却以失败告终。"
    ],
    [
        "But even that was not sufficient for Britain’s leaders, who tightened the law further in 1898, making it even harsher than the sedition law in England.",
        "但英国领导人人不满足，他们在1898年进一步收紧该法，使其比英国反暴动法还要严厉。"
    ],
    [
        "An agreement should contain provisions to improve the business environment – its transparency and predictability – by setting a framework for state intervention without stripping government of its prerogatives.",
        "协议应该含有改善商业环境的条款¾提高它的透明度和可预见性，具体的方法是建立国家干预构架，而不剥夺政府拥有的特权。"
    ],
    [
        "Tony Blair is right to call on his rich-country colleagues to follow through on their unfulfilled promises.",
        "托尼·布莱尔号召他的富国同僚们来履行完他们未尽责的承诺，他做对了。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the reason for the emergence of liberal democracy, we should not be surprised by how uncommon it is in practice.",
        "无论自由民主出现的原因是什么，我们都不应惊讶于它在现实中是多么罕见。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the British economy has finally started to grow; and, yes, growth is expected to continue.",
        "是的，英国经济最终开始了增长； 是的，增长预计将能持续。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s monetary policy, one hopes, will focus on such critical issues.",
        "希望日本的货币政策会专注于这些关键问题。"
    ],
    [
        "China was sincere in expressing its desire for a non-nuclear Korean Peninsula, but the nuclear issue was not its primary concern.",
        "中国表达对无核朝鲜半岛的愿望是真心实意的，但核问题并不是它首要关注的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Specifically, any prolonged period of sub-7% growth could encourage opposition and dissent – not only in the countryside, but also in urban centers.",
        "具体来说，任何长期低于7%的增长都会——不仅在农村，也在中心城市——激起反对和异议。"
    ],
    [
        "How India Survived the Financial Crisis",
        "印度是如何走出危机的"
    ],
    [
        "He wants to create a eurozone budget, funded by corporate-tax revenues.",
        "他希望建立通过公司税收入支持的欧盟预算。"
    ],
    [
        "And, given America’s political polarization and policy gridlock, we can expect more fights on the budget and the debt ceiling, another rating downgrade, and no agreement on a path toward medium-term fiscal consolidation and sustainability – regardless of whether President Barack Obama is reelected in November.",
        "此外，由于美国政坛的两极分化和政策僵局，不难预期，在预算和债务上限问题上还会有更多争论，信用评级降级还会再次发生，关于中期财政整合和可持续性问题的协议也将难以达成，不管奥巴马是否能在11月连任总统。"
    ],
    [
        "That seems to be the core of the meaning of the word as it is most consistently used.",
        "这似乎是泡沫这个词最核心的意思，也是最常用的用法。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration allowed all the various players to be set against each other: Pakistan against India and Afghanistan; the military against the civilian government within Pakistan; Nawaz Sharif against Asif Ali Zardari, within the civilian government—not to mention the various tribes that have been armed by the military in order to fight the Pakistani Taliban fighting each other.",
        "布什政府允许不同的势力相互钳制。 它让巴基斯坦对付印度和阿富汗，让巴基斯坦的军队对付文官政府，让文官政府内部的谢里夫对付扎尔达里，乃至让得到军队武装、用以对付巴基斯坦塔利班组织的各个部族相互争斗。"
    ],
    [
        "The time has come to cast off the burden of building financial centers, and focus instead on advancing the modernization of Chinese finance.",
        "现在应当放弃建设金融中心的包袱，集中精力推进中国金融现代化的步伐。"
    ],
    [
        "If the European Monetary Union is to survive and ultimately thrive, its leaders must not be tempted by facile solutions.",
        "如果欧洲货币联盟想要生存下来并最终实现繁荣，其领导人决不能被易行的方案蛊惑。"
    ],
    [
        "The trouble today is that Enlightenment values are sometimes used in a very dogmatic way against Muslims.",
        "现在的麻烦是启蒙价值观有时以非常教条主义的方式被用来针对穆斯林。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting out Indonesia’s Fires",
        "扑灭印尼大火"
    ],
    [
        "Sufficiently high rates will induce commercial banks to prefer the Fed’s combination of liquidity, safety, and yield to expanding the quantity of private lending.",
        "只要利率足够高，就能诱使商业银行偏好于美联储（兼具流动性、安全性和收益性），而不是扩大私人贷款规模。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, their estimates of the benefits of deregulation are completely exaggerated.",
        "不幸的是，他们关于去监管化的收益的估算完全是夸大其词。"
    ],
    [
        "These conditions are fundamentally linked: different values for a particular trait translate into diverse survival rates.",
        "这些条件从根本上相互联系：某种特质者的不同数量导致生存率有所不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Four to six years is also the interval over which climate scientists predict that greenhouse-gas emissions must peak and start to be reduced if the world is to have any hope for a decent future.",
        "4到6年也是一个间隔期，气候专家预测在此期间温室气体的排放必须达到顶峰并随之开始下降——如果我们还想有个美好未来的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is not fighting for a particular sect of Islam (the Alawites in his case), but for his survival.",
        "叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德不是在为某个伊斯兰教派而战（他属于阿拉维派），而是在为自己的生存而战。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes intervention might save lives.",
        "有时干涉行动确实能拯救生命。"
    ],
    [
        "But Schmidt would never have imagined that there would come a day when there would be no politician in search of a vision check.",
        "但施密特永远也不会想到居然会有一天没有哪位政治家需要去做视力检查。"
    ],
    [
        "Lowering these barriers with respect and sensitivity would help to heal the wounds of the past and, importantly, to build trust.",
        "以尊重和敏感的态度降低这些障碍可以有助于弥合过去的创伤，而且更重要的是建立相互信任。"
    ],
    [
        "But even these senators now appear to have fallen into line, effectively promising to deliver Trump an important legislative victory that will help to buttress his floundering presidency, while deepening inequality in the longer term.",
        "但即便是这些参议员，现在也眼看就要就范，向特朗普妥协以令他实现有利于其摇摇欲坠的总统生涯，但同时会深化长期不平等的重要立法胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "With banking assets amounting to roughly 300% of EU-wide GDP, compared to some 70% in the United States, large pools of savings are being left unused.",
        "银行资产接近欧盟GDP的300%，而美国只有70%，大量储蓄资金没有派上用场。"
    ],
    [
        "Its extraordinary workforces produce world-class goods and services.",
        "它的优秀劳动力能提供世界级的商品和服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, shortcomings remain.",
        "当然，缺陷仍然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "These include increasing aggression from Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin; the rise of ISIS and the threat of homegrown terrorism; and refugees fleeing to Europe from the Middle East and North Africa.",
        "这些措施包括俄罗斯及其总统普京日益增加的侵略行径； ISIS兴起和本土恐怖主义威胁；"
    ],
    [
        "But our increasingly shortsighted financial markets stand between the two.",
        "但日益短视的金融市场却成为两者沟通的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "The name of Speer itself probably did not matter to the officials who chose him.",
        "斯佩尔这个名字本身对于选择他的那些官员来说也许根本不算什么。"
    ],
    [
        "The more that economic policy is subject to public debate – that is, the more democracy there is – the more important such policy narratives are.",
        "”经济政策越是容易引起公共争论——即民主成分越多——政策故事的重要性就越大。"
    ],
    [
        "There are two alternatives, both sensitive and controversial, and the choice is for Europeans alone to make and sustain; but they must make it if they are decisively to put behind them the risk of eurozone fragmentation.",
        "且选择哪个需要由欧洲人自己做出、自己维持； 但欧洲人必须做出选择，如果他们下决心要把欧元区分崩离析的风险抛在身后的话。"
    ],
    [
        "In the future, the distinction between high- and low-income countries, or between emerging and mature markets, will no longer matter.",
        "在未来，高收入和低收入国家的区别，或新兴市场和成熟市场的区别将不复重要。"
    ],
    [
        "The unfettered creation of money by large private banks has generated overwhelming instability, undermining the fundamental principle that money creation should serve the public good.",
        "大型私人银行自由创造货币产生过不可挽回的动荡，破坏了货币创造必须符合公共利益这一基本原则。"
    ],
    [
        "This much seems clear to the new leadership.",
        "这对于新领导人来说是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the UK, an Opinium survey shows that most voters think green taxes are mainly for raising cash rather than the environment, and 7 out of 10 are not willing to pay more in taxes to combat climate change.",
        "在英国，一项Opinium公司的调查显示多数选民认为环境税的主要目的是聚敛钱财，而不是保护环境，而10个受调查者中有7个不愿为应对气候变化缴纳更多赋税。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps because Iraq will define his legacy, he has proven reluctant to let go at a point when his policy appears to be a disaster.",
        "可能是由于伊拉克将决定布什在历史上的留名，他不情愿在他的政策看上去是一场灾难的当口让步。"
    ],
    [
        "\"The events around the exhibition discredit the Russian Orthodox Church, just as the fatwah condemning Salman Rushdie to death discredited Islam,\" said Elena Bonner, Andrei Sakharov's widow.",
        "\"展览事件损害了俄国东正教堂的信用，就像宗教密令诅咒萨勒曼·拉什迪横死让伊斯兰教为之蒙羞，\" Andrei Sakharov的遗孀Elena Bonner如是说。"
    ],
    [
        "Even before the current economic recession, unemployment in the Arab world was estimated at 14% – the world’s highest average outside sub-Saharan Africa.",
        "即使在最近的经济衰退之前，阿拉伯世界的失业率也达到了14%的水平——除了撒哈拉以南非洲之外这个数字堪称全世界最高。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets long ago stopped buying bonds issued by Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, and might soon stop buying paper issued by Italy and Spain – or do so only at prohibitive interest rates.",
        "市场上在很久以前就已难觅希腊、爱尔兰和葡萄牙发行的债务的买家了，很快，意大利和西班牙债也将无人问津（或者要求极高的利率）。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, under this scenario, President Hassan Rouhani’s strong international standing helps him to overcome conservative resistance to pursue much-needed domestic reforms.",
        "最后，在这一情景中，总统鲁哈尼的强硬国际立场有助于他克服保守派对追求急需的国内改革的抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, China has refused to enter into a water-sharing treaty with a single country.",
        "到目前为止，中国一直拒绝与其他国家签订水共享条约。"
    ],
    [
        "And they resent – to the point of mobilizing in the streets – any hint that a clique at the top is barring their way.",
        "哪怕有一丁点证据显示统治集团会阻碍他们愿望的实现，他们也会愤怒到上街游行。"
    ],
    [
        "The prevailing narrative often regards mosques and Islamic associations as spaces for radicalization, but I contend that some young people are actively turning away from these peaceful institutions.",
        "主流的说法经常将清真寺和伊斯兰教协会作为激进思想产生的地方，但是，我认为许多信仰伊斯兰教的年青人非常讨厌这些和平组织。"
    ],
    [
        "Ecstasy allows people to let go of themselves.",
        "摇摆（ecstasy）让人们放纵自己。"
    ],
    [
        "The US has repeatedly warned North Korea not to pursue nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles, to no avail.",
        "美国曾多次警告朝鲜不要发展核武器或弹道导弹，但都无济于事。"
    ],
    [
        "Once thought to be challenges for affluent countries alone, these diseases have quickly become the leading cause of death and disability in developing regions, killing nearly eight million people before their 60th birthdays in 2013.",
        "上述疾病曾被认为仅仅是富裕国家才需要面对的挑战，但今天已经成为发展中国家最主要的致死及致残原因，仅2013年就导致近8百万人逝于60岁生日之前。"
    ],
    [
        "During the 1930s, the 1920s were looked upon wistfully, but also as a time of fakery and cheating.",
        "20世纪30年代，人们翘首期盼20年代的日子重现，但同时也把20年代看成假货和欺诈横行的年代。"
    ],
    [
        "The military has barricaded the presidential palace and, until the results of the referendum are announced, they are under orders to protect Egypt’s state institutions.",
        "军队已经包围了总统府邸，他们奉命捍卫埃及国家机构直到公投结果公布。"
    ],
    [
        "The pre-summer debate about whether we faced a “new normal” of slower growth has been resolved: nothing now looks normal.",
        "夏天来临之前那场关于我们是否面对一个低增长“新常态”的问题已经不复存在，因为已经没有任何东西能维持常态了。"
    ],
    [
        "The political core of his regime had become hollow.",
        "其政权的政治核心已经荡然无存了。"
    ],
    [
        "India is likely soon to gain full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the club of Central Asian and Asian states formed after the breakup of the Soviet Union.",
        "印度可能很快就能成为上海合作组织（苏联解体后形成的中亚国家和亚洲国家组成的俱乐部）成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "There could be a real disaster if US growth woes turn today’s mild downward pressures into something much more serious.",
        "如果美国的增长困难使今天温和的下跌压力转变成某种严重得多的危机那将是真正的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "MELBOURNE – Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.",
        "墨尔本——一座网罗一切书面资料的环球图书馆早已是学者们的梦想。"
    ],
    [
        "It emphasizes broad reforms that affect the overall economic environment, and thus focuses on areas such as international trade, finance, macroeconomics, and governance.",
        "它强调影响整个经济环境的广泛的改革，因此关注国际贸易、金融、宏观经济学和治理等领域。"
    ],
    [
        "In many respects, Putin’s dictatorship is primitive.",
        "在很多方面，普京的独裁都非常原始。"
    ],
    [
        "But, elsewhere in the region, leaders were quick to excuse Russia's invasion and annexation of Crimea, or to argue that Russia is simply too powerful to confront.",
        "但是，在该地区的其他国家，领导人马上开始为俄罗斯入侵和吞并克里米亚开脱，或指出俄罗斯太强大，无法应对。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s much-lauded shipowners, for example, were too slow to adapt to containerization, and thus lost their market share.",
        "希腊引以为豪的船业就因为集装箱化调整太慢而丧失了市场份额。"
    ],
    [
        "Free trade is good not only for big corporations, or for job growth.",
        "自由贸易不仅仅有利于大公司或就业增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But the sad reality is that political, social, and economic pressures tend to push EU members and citizens in opposing directions; shared histories, it seems, are an insufficient basis for shared policies.",
        "但残酷的现实告诉我们，那些来自政治，社会和经济方面的压力正在把欧盟成员国和公民们推向这一趋势的对立面。 由此可见，共同的历史并不足以构筑共同政策的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a shift in attitudes would make for a very different Europe.",
        "这种态度的转变将带来一个截然不同的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "From 1999 to 2013, real per capita GDP rose at an annual rate of about 1% (which reflected a more modest rise of real GDP and an actual decline in population).",
        "从1999年到2013年，真实人均GDP增长年率为1%左右（这反映出更平庸的真实ＧＤＰ增长和实际下降的人口）。"
    ],
    [
        "There is one thing, however, that could revive the EU, give it much enhanced global respectability, and make it an “interesting” place, as well as ensure a return to the international limelight: Turkey’s admission as a full member.",
        "然而有一样东西可以重振欧洲，给予其更崇高的全球声誉，将其变成一个“利益攸关”之地，同时还能确保其重新成为国际的焦点； 那就是将欧盟正式成员国资格赋予土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, though the EPP won 29% of the seats, versus 24% for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), the S&D can claim victory.",
        "事实上，尽管欧洲人民党赢得了29%的席位，而社会党和民主党进步联盟（Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats，简称S&D）只获得了24%，但后者仍可以宣布获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "But to judge and imprison one’s own mind, or any other mind, is to criminalize civilization.",
        "但评判和禁锢自己或他人的思想是对文明的犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout Europe, populist parties – from the right-wing United Kingdom Independence Party to the far-left Syriza in Greece – seek a return to the ostensibly simpler and happier times of national control and closed borders.",
        "在欧洲各国，民粹主义党派——从右翼英国独立党到激进的希腊左翼联盟——都在追求回归表面单纯快乐的国家管制和边界封闭。"
    ],
    [
        "China has no interest in such an outcome.",
        "如此结局不符合中国的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "In international public-health circles, there was great excitement.",
        "对国际卫生健康圈内人来说，这是件极为振奋人心的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Renewable energy production is by nature intermittent, and the sheer number of fluctuating power sources in Germany is already pushing its existing grid to the limit.",
        "可再生能源的生产本身是有间歇性的，而德国不同能源来源供应量的大起大落已经将其现有电网逼到了极限。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – As America’s elections approach, with President Barack Obama slightly in front of his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, pollsters still rate the races for control of the presidency and the United States Senate too close to call, with the House of Representatives likely to remain in Republican hands.",
        "斯坦福—美国大选临近，总统奥巴马以微弱优势领先于共和党挑战者、马萨诸塞州州长罗姆尼，民意专家则仍然认为美国总统和参议员选举还远未分出胜负，众议院则极有可能仍保持在共和党手里。"
    ],
    [
        "They believe that no purely abstract argument can get us to do anything that we do not want to do.",
        "”他们认为没有纯抽象的原因可以让我们做任何我们不想做的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sustainable Development Goals, which include a dedicated goal for sustainable cities, have established rising temperatures and urban air quality as urgent global issues.",
        "专注建设可持续城市等可持续发展目标已经把气温升高和城市空气质量列为亟待解决的全球目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Because governments had borrowed to avoid making necessary adjustments during the 1973-1985 oil boom, the eventual bust precipitated a debt crisis.",
        "由于政府在1973—1985年的石油荣景期间大量借贷而没有进行必须的调整，泡沫的破灭最终导致了债务危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe is too inward looking; China inspires too much suspicion; and India, despite showing signs that it is preparing for a greater global role, lacks enough international authority on its own.",
        "而尽管有迹象表明印度准备在全球发挥更大作用，但却不具备足够的国际权威。"
    ],
    [
        "Andrei Kozlov, the deputy governor of Russia’s central bank who was leading a campaign against financial fraud, was assassinated on September 14.",
        "正在领导一场针对金融诈骗的运动的俄罗斯中央银行副总裁科兹洛夫9月14日被人刺杀。"
    ],
    [
        "As Tillerson pointed out, this trilateral engagement among the US, India, and Japan is already bringing important benefits.",
        "蒂勒森指出，美国、印度和日本的三方参与已经产生了重要收益。"
    ],
    [
        "High-income countries emitted around 18 billion tons of CO2 this year – roughly half of all global emissions.",
        "高收入国家今年的二氧化碳排放量大约在180亿吨，相当于全球总排放量的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "Less than a quarter-century after Francis Fukuyama declared “the end of history,” we seem to have arrived at the dawn of a new age of social and geopolitical upheaval.",
        "在弗朗西斯·福山宣告“历史结束”不到四分之一世纪后，我们似乎面对一个社会及地缘政治巨变的新时代的开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Most major Chinese papers ran Chu’s photo on the front page, with Beijing Business Today running a cautionary headline: “Don’t Mistake the Visiting American Ministers as Relatives!”",
        "绝大多数的中国报纸都将朱棣文的照片放在头版头条，《北京商报》却表示谨慎的乐观,文章的标题为“别把美华裔部长来访当成走亲戚”，并且进一步地警告说：“似乎在不少人的心里，骆家辉、朱棣文首先是“华裔”、其次是“部长”、最后才是“美国的”。"
    ],
    [
        "The course of the electoral struggle so far indicates that the Liberal Democrats will do very well.",
        "到目前为止的竞选趋势表明，自由民主党成绩异常出色。"
    ],
    [
        "Both the Polish and the Ukrainian experiences have convinced me that the will to live in dignity is the most powerful engine of human action, an engine that is capable of overcoming even the greatest fear.",
        "波兰和乌克兰的经验使我坚信：有尊严的生活是人类行为的最强动力，这种动力甚至能够战胜最深层次的恐惧。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the reproductive decisions parents make cannot be carried out without the aid of professionals such as physicians, so it might be necessary to regulate professional behavior as well.",
        "父母所做的大部分生殖决定都是在医生等专业人士的协助下才能做出的，因此或许有必要同时监管职业操守。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy’s experience is enlightening: the large tax increases implemented by former Prime Minister Mario Monti’s technocratic government in 2012 had a higher-than-expected impact on demand.",
        "意大利的经验是具有启迪性的：2012年前总理马里奥·蒙蒂（Mario Monti）技术官僚政府实施的大幅度税收增加对需求的影响超过了预期水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The plan was widely viewed as reflecting a new kind of enlightenment, a recognition of the importance of supporting people who needed help.",
        "此举显示出一种全新的理念，那就是关注那些需要救助的人们。"
    ],
    [
        "In this twenty-first century, emerging countries like Chile must invest in the pillars of modern society.",
        "21世纪，像智利这样的新兴国家必须在现代社会支柱上投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Bad luck and bad behavior (policies) can also lead to unsustainable debt burdens for governments.",
        "倒霉和坏行为（政策）也可能导致政府背上不可持续的债务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "How large and fast is the flow?",
        "它的流量有多大、多快？"
    ],
    [
        "SYDNEY – Momentum seems to be building for a global deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this December.",
        "悉尼—在12月的巴黎联合国气候变化会议上形成全球协议的势头似乎正在形成。"
    ],
    [
        "The more serious problem with the “pivot to Asia” was its actual wording, which implied a military posture designed to “contain” or “isolate” China.",
        "“重返亚洲”所包含的更加严重的问题是它的实际用词，其中暗含要“遏制”或“孤立”中国的军事姿态。"
    ],
    [
        "I first met Putin in October 1999 in Helsinki, when I was attending a European Union-Russia summit as the EU’s external affairs commissioner.",
        "1999年10月我作为欧盟对外事务专员出席欧盟-俄罗斯首脑会议时第一次见到普京。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, by contrast, the employment rate was 62.8% at the end of 2007, 58.6% in March-May 2010, and then only slightly higher, at 59.2%, during November 2014-January 2015 – still below the pre-crisis level.",
        "8%，2010年3—5月为58. 6%，然后略有上升，2014年11月—2015年1月为59."
    ],
    [
        "If they now want to modify the social contract (and assuming that direct democracy remains impossible), change ought to be based on a clear, historically grounded sense of which innovations European democracy might really need – and of whom Europeans really trust to hold power.",
        "如果他们现在想要修改社会契约（同时假定直接民主仍不可能实现），应该基于欧洲民主可能真正需要的从历史出发的创新措施——由欧洲人真正信任的当权者来进行改革。"
    ],
    [
        "That list includes, just in the last few weeks, America’s loss of its sacred AAA rating; its political flirtation with a debt default; mounting concern about debt restructurings in peripheral European economies and talk about a possible eurozone breakup; and Switzerland’s dramatic steps to reduce (yes, reduce) its safe-haven status.",
        "这一名单包括（就拿过去几周来说）：美国失去了宝贵的AAA信用评级、美国在债务违约问题上的政治闹剧、与日俱增的对欧洲外围国家债务重组的担忧以及欧元区可能分崩离析的传闻、以及瑞士大踏步地削弱（对，就是削弱）自己安全港地位。"
    ],
    [
        "An assessment of the application documents conducted by the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, of which I am President, found that the nearly 2,000 potential projects would cost a total of €1.3 trillion, with about €500 billion spent before the end of 2017.",
        "我所领导的 伊佛经济研究所在对申请文件进行评估时发现，近2，000个潜在项目将总共耗资1. 3万亿欧元，其中2017年年底前需要投入的部分约为5，000亿。"
    ],
    [
        "Hezbollah, which claims it is fighting for Lebanese independence and sovereignty, also bears responsibility for unacceptable aggression, placing the lives of innocent Israelis and Lebanese at stake.",
        "宣称是为黎巴嫩人民的独立和主权而战的真主党也应该对令人无法接受的攻击以及置无辜的以色列以及黎巴嫩人民的生命于不顾的行为负责。"
    ],
    [
        "The first is that Trump will be greeted by an inbox piled high with difficult international challenges.",
        "首先是塞满高难度国际挑战的收件箱将会等待着特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "The world's rapid economic growth in 2004 shows that the efforts to shore up our defenses since the 1990's has paid off.",
        "2004年世界性的快速经济增长表明，从上世纪90年代以来所做的建立防御机制的努力是卓有成效的。"
    ],
    [
        "Our Debt to Stalingrad",
        "我们亏欠斯大林格勒的"
    ],
    [
        "Its credibility – indeed, its very legitimacy – is at risk.",
        "而会议的公信力——事实上就是其最核心的合法性——正岌岌可危。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks lend at lower interest rates than genuine savers would have demanded, making all kinds of investment projects temporarily profitable.",
        "银行贷款利率低于那些储户所要求的存款利率，使得所有贷款投资项目在短期看来都有利可图。"
    ],
    [
        "Toward a Global Treaty on Plastic Waste",
        "迈向全球塑料废品条约"
    ],
    [
        "In 1997, Korea suffered not only from the Asian financial crisis, but also from insistence by the US and the International Monetary Fund that it raise interest rates and undertake “Washington Consensus”-style reforms to receive aid.",
        "1997年，韩国不但遭受亚洲金融危机的打击，更因美国和国际货币基金组织坚持让其提高利率、执行类似华盛顿共识的改革来获取援助而雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "Development of Alzheimers’ therapies, for example, is unlikely to benefit from the megafund model.",
        "比如，奥尔茨海默症药物研发就无法从巨型基金模式中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Bush likes to insist that terrorists hate Americans for what they are - a freedom loving people - not what they do.",
        "布什总喜欢强调恐怖份子仇恨美国是因为我们之为美国－因为我们拥有热爱自由的人民，他却从未提及这种仇恨是来自我们的所作所为。"
    ],
    [
        "Reflecting just 1-2% of the total sunlight that strikes the earth could offset as much warming as that caused by doubling preindustrial levels of greenhouse gases.",
        "只要把到达地表的太阳光线总量的1%至2%反射回去，所减少的热量就等于全球工业化之前地球温室气体所产生的总热量的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "These steps are important, though delivery will be prolonged and the likely impact modest, at least in the near-term.",
        "这些举措都是十分重要的，但实现过程将会十分漫长，效果至少在短期是有限的。"
    ],
    [
        "But given the difficulty Greece has had so far in making the necessary changes to reach that goal, it might be time to reconsider this approach to the crisis completely.",
        "但考虑到希腊目前在做出必要改变从而实现这一目标方面所遇到的困难，也许应该彻底重新思考这一危机解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Soon enough, the antibiotic becomes ineffective.",
        "抗生素很快就会失效。"
    ],
    [
        "An optimistic estimate of the direct increase in annual demand from the stimulus package is about $300 billion in each of the next two years.",
        "根据乐观的估计，经济刺激方案将会在两年内每年对GDP增加3000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The alternative is stunting, which currently afflicts an astronomical 165 million children.",
        "否则就会造成生长迟缓，如今受此折磨的儿童达到了惊人的1."
    ],
    [
        "Italy is a case in point.",
        "意大利正是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "They are also, he adds, subject to the “survival of the unfittest,” with the worst projects getting built, instead of the best.",
        "”他还说，它们还受制于“非适者生存”，建成的往往是最坏而不是最好的工程。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue is not only lack of access to schools, but also lack of good schools.",
        "问题不仅在于无法进入学校就读，也在于缺乏好学校。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the Obama administration is seeking a trade deal with India that would weaken competition from generics, thereby making lifesaving drugs unaffordable for billions of people – in India and elsewhere.",
        "相反，奥巴马政府与印度谈判的贸易协议将削弱仿制药竞争，从而导致印度和其他国家数十亿人负担不起救命的药物。"
    ],
    [
        "The Rising Power of NGO's",
        "羽翼渐丰的非政府组织"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that corruption scandals involving Bachelet’s son and weaknesses in the ruling center-left coalition, and the center right’s return to power in the 2017 presidential election seems increasingly likely.",
        "此外，巴切莱特的儿子卷入了腐败丑闻，执政的中左翼联盟尽显弱势，中右翼在2017年的总统选举中重获权力的可能性日增。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the many findings is that watching too much television induces passivity, both at the level of neural functioning and of behavior and that it interferes with learning and reduces political and civic participation.",
        "发现之一是过多地看电视会让人变得被动，无论从神经还是行为反应上都是如此。 它会影响人们学习新知识，影响他们参与政治活动。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Following US President Barack Obama’s trailblazing visit to Cuba, a free concert by the Rolling Stones in Havana might seem like a relatively minor event.",
        "纽约—在美国总统奥巴马开拓性地访问古巴后，滚石乐队在哈瓦那举行的免费音乐会看起来相对而言就算不上什么大事了。"
    ],
    [
        "This gathering should include both the US and Serbian governments as active observers.",
        "这个会谈必须包含美国和各塞尔维亚政府作为积极观察员。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, even the fundamental right of a liberal order, free speech, is under pressure.",
        "如今，即使是言论自由，这一自由秩序中的基本权利也受到了压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Manufacturing employment, which accounted for perhaps a third of jobs or more before World War II, has shrunk dramatically.",
        "制造业就业在二战前占全部就业的三分之一或以上，如今也已显著下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Just months after Myanmar gained independence in 1948, martial law was declared in the region; government forces regained territorial control in the early 1950s.",
        "1948年缅甸独立后不出几个月，便宣布该地区戒严； 政府军在20世纪50年代初夺回了领土控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, if the ECB preferred to let major countries, such as Italy, default on their debts, this would likely weaken the euro even further, as investors feared a contagion of defaults.",
        "另一方面，如果欧洲央行更想让主要国家（如意大利）对其债务违约，那么欧元可能会进一步贬值，因为投资者会担心违约将蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – Predictably, the European Central Bank has joined the world’s other major monetary authorities in the greatest experiment in the history of central banking.",
        "纽黑文—欧洲央行可预见地加入了世界其他货币当局行列，开始了史上最大央行业务实验。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the current arrangements for the BoE, if inflation moves more than one percentage point away from its target (in either direction), the bank’s governor is obliged to write an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer explaining the deviation and providing a plan to eliminate it, including a projected timeline.",
        "在先行安排下，对英格兰银行来说，如果通胀偏离其目标一个百分点以上（不管是低于还是高于），其行长都必须向财政大臣写公开信解释偏离的原因并提出消除偏离的计划，其中包括预计时间表。"
    ],
    [
        "Tudor has no chance of becoming \"the first Christian President of Romania.\"",
        "都铎没有机会成为\"罗马尼亚的首位基督教徒总统\"。"
    ],
    [
        "Naturally, many Africans are unconvinced that France is acting only to defend the lives of a few thousand of its citizens, rather than its economic and strategic interests, which are negligible for the former and null for the latter.",
        "自然而然地，许多非洲人都不相信法国的举动仅仅是为了保护数千侨民，而更倾向于认为它是为了维护自身的经济和战略利益，但其实所谓经济利益根本无足轻重，战略方面也早已名存实亡了。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while necessary, this strategy threatens to upset the delicate balance between private- and public-sector expansion that has underpinned China’s expansion so far.",
        "不过，如此方式有可能导致私人机构和国有企业之间的不平衡性越来越突出，从而影响经济的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "What kind of recession would the US have to endure to bring inflation back to comfortable levels?",
        "美国要经历怎样的衰退才能将通胀压回适宜水平？"
    ],
    [
        "The junior doctor, uncomfortable with this deceit, asked the minister’s wife for permission to tell the truth, and after much hesitation, she agreed.",
        "我们这位资浅医生对这种期满手段很不快，要求牧师的妻子允许他们告诉患者真相。 几经犹豫之后，妻子同意了这一要求。"
    ],
    [
        "But will it live up to its billing if businesses fear that the legislation, passed by a thin partisan majority, will ultimately be reversed?",
        "但如果企业担心这一勉强借助一个党派的微弱多数通过的立法最终会被扭转的话，它能不能长期有效呢？"
    ],
    [
        "It is when the Paris Agenda leaves theory and confronts reality that problems emerge.",
        "巴黎议程在脱离理论和面对现实的时候就出现了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is an even greater test for the Palestinians: will they once again be led by a radical and fanatical leadership into another national catastrophe?",
        "但危机对巴勒斯坦人考验更大。 他们会再一次被一帮激进而狂热的领导者带入另一场民族灾难吗？"
    ],
    [
        "This must change, with the EU demonstrating its capacity to attract the talent and labor needed to ensure economic growth and competitiveness.",
        "这必须做出改变，欧盟要拿出吸引确保经济增长和竞争力所需要的人才和劳动力的能力证明。"
    ],
    [
        "Did they want to strengthen international law barring the use of chemical weapons, or to send Iran a signal about their determination to enforce “red lines”?",
        "他们是想巩固禁用化学武器的国际法，还是想让伊朗明白他们捍卫“红线”的坚定策略？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the fierce and lively debate – in Turkey and much more emphatically in the EU – about whether Turkey really belongs to Europe has continued, despite the start of negotiations.",
        "因此，尽管谈判已经开始，但是，有关土耳其是否真正属于欧洲的强烈而生动的辩论在土耳其和欧盟继续展开，欧盟内部的辩论更为激烈。"
    ],
    [
        "The private sector has become a preserve for expatriates, who fill at least 83% of positions.",
        "私人部门成为外国工人的乐园，占据了至少83%的工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Even large pension funds are beginning to take notice.",
        "即使是大型养老基金也开始注意到了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "At least for now, that does not seem likely.",
        "至少从目前的情况看，似乎不太可能实现这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "That is where companies like Twitter come in.",
        "这也给了像推特这样的企业用武之处。"
    ],
    [
        "The Refugee Dilemma",
        "难民的困境"
    ],
    [
        "The latest round of talks in Geneva has once again failed to produce an agreement. Judging by what the financial press and some economists say, the stakes could not be higher.",
        "最近一轮在日内瓦进行的会谈再次以没有达成任何协议收场。 根据一些财经报道和经济学家的说法判断，对它的期望再高都不为过。"
    ],
    [
        "Regardless of longstanding disagreements over how cross-border freshwater resources should be allocated and managed, and understandable preferences by governments and water professionals to rely on basin agreements rather than on international legal instruments, that half-century wait can be explained only by a lack of political leadership.",
        "关于跨国淡水资源应该如何配置和管理的问题长期存在争议，也不难理解政府和水务专业人士更倾向于依靠流域协议（basin agreements）而非国际法律工具，抛开这些不谈，这半个世纪的等待只能用缺乏政治领导来解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, public debt was considered the ultimate safe asset.",
        "直到最近，公共债务才不再被认为是终极安全资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists usually joke that the stock market has predicted 12 out of the last nine recessions, as markets often fall sharply without an ensuing recession.",
        "经济学家经常开玩笑说股市预测出了9次衰退中的12次，因为市场经常在没有经济衰退的情况下出现急速下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Certain ASEAN countries clearly value their relationships with China more than their relationships with other ASEAN countries; so, unless China has already ruled out any negotiation on the South China Sea, it should not rule out meeting ASEAN as a bloc.",
        "某些东盟国显然重视对华关系甚于对其他东盟国家的关系； 因此，除非中国已经不准备就南中国海问题进行谈判，否则不应该排除与东盟作为一个整体进行谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "The actor and writer Peter Ustinov found a graphic image for this: \"Education is important, especially when it comes to dismantling prejudices.",
        "演员兼作家彼得·乌斯蒂诺夫对此有一个形象的描述：\"教育是重要的，特别是在解除偏见方面。"
    ],
    [
        "For governments with access to today’s extremely low – and often negative – real interest rates, it may seem like a no-brainer to borrow and invest more in projects with long-term benefits.",
        "如果政府能够获得今天的极低（并且常常为负）的实际利率，借钱投资更多的能带来长期收益的项目似乎是不言自明的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "And with good reason: US exports, which accounted for a record 13.7% of GDP in the fourth quarter of 2013, up from 10.6% in the first quarter of 2009, slipped back to 12.7% of GDP in mid-2015.",
        "这是有原因的：2013年四季度，美国出口占GDP之比从2009年一季度的10. 6%增加到创纪录的13."
    ],
    [
        "The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is further along, and involves 11 countries, besides the US, that collectively produce as much as 40% of global output; but China, crucially, is not among them.",
        "泛太平洋伙伴关系协定(Trans-Pacific Partnership)推进相对较快，其中包含除美国之外的11个国家，合共占全球GDP份额的40%，但重点是并未将中国包括在内。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the answer to the question posed to me three years ago is that banks must be good citizens.",
        "这就是为何我对三年前那个问题的回答是银行必须成为良好公民。"
    ],
    [
        "The Varoufakis Effect?",
        "瓦鲁法基斯效应？"
    ],
    [
        "Swedish economist Knut Wicksell’s century-old concept of a “natural” interest rate – at which real (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth follows a long-term average while inflation remains stable – makes sense.",
        "瑞典经济学家克努特·维克赛尔（Knut Wicksell）一百年前就提出了“自然”利率的概念——在这个利率上，真实（经通胀调整的）GDP增长跟随长期平均值，而通胀保持稳定，这个概念至今仍有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, placing so many eggs in one basket leaves the business of aid provision looking increasingly risky.",
        "结果，把过多的鸡蛋放在一个篮子里就让提供援助工作看上去越发具有风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, while the incentives cost the US Treasury nearly $100 billion annually, they induce little new saving; instead, they cause high-income taxpayers to shift their savings to tax-advantaged assets – a major reason why President Barack Obama proposes capping the tax deduction for retirement saving.",
        "此外，尽管这些激励每年给美国财政带来1 000亿美元的成本，却几乎不能刺激新储蓄； 相反，它们导致高收入纳税人把储蓄转移到具税收优势的资产——这正是总统奥巴马计划给退休储蓄税收优惠设定上限的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "To put it bluntly, Russia is no longer in the same category as China.",
        "坦率的说，俄罗斯和中国已经再不能同日而语。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is little comfort in these figures for pro-Europeans: polls prior to the failed referendum on the Nice treaty in 2001 demonstrated an even larger “Yes” majority at the same stage.",
        "但是这对于亲欧洲派人士而言并不令人宽慰。 2001年尼斯条约全民公决失败之前的民意调查显示赞成票比现在还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "Some central banks, such as the Bank of England in its unsuccessful fight against George Soros in 1992, got burned; when it became clear how much money was required to buck the market, the policy was abandoned.",
        "有的央行为此付出了沉重代价，比如，英格兰银行在1992年被乔治·索罗斯击溃，当它终于了解到维持汇率需要耗费多少资金时，它放弃了原有政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, post-independence improvements in child survival triggered a rise in child dependency rates, which also reached historically unprecedented levels in the 1970’s and 1980’s.",
        "此外，非洲独立后儿童存活率的提高导致儿童抚养率大幅攀升，这一比率在二十世纪七八十年代也达到了历史最高水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Path to Disunity",
        "欧洲的分裂之路"
    ],
    [
        "African leaders need to root out graft, make the governance of energy utilities – some of which have been centers of corruption and inefficiency – more transparent, strengthen regulations, and increase public spending on energy infrastructure.",
        "非洲领导人需要铲除贪污，加强能源公用事业治理（其中某些已经成为腐败和效率低下的核心）透明度、强化法律法规并加大对能源基础设施的公共投入。"
    ],
    [
        "Encouraged by a religiously influenced administration, school systems are shifting their focus from science to “values.”",
        "在一届受到宗教影响的政府的鼓励下，学校系统也将关注的重点从“科学”转移到“价值观”。"
    ],
    [
        "One reason that Indian prices are rising is that infrastructure growth remains sluggish.",
        "印度物价上升的其中一个原因就是基础设施增长依旧停滞不前。"
    ],
    [
        "And at least one in four cities examined would find such interventions financially viable, based solely on savings from avoided water-treatment costs.",
        "而且依据省下的水处理成本计算，将有四分之一的城市发现上述措施在经济上完全可行。"
    ],
    [
        "But a worldwide counter-offensive is now underway.",
        "但全球范围的反击已经开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the ban, Kerala held a somewhat dubious distinction: India’s highest per capita consumption of spirits.",
        "禁令实施前，喀拉拉邦保持着一项可疑的记录：印度最高人均酒精消费量。"
    ],
    [
        "And perhaps that is the real lesson of Trump’s presidency so far.",
        "也许这才是特朗普任期距今为止的真正教训。"
    ],
    [
        "The government also provides compulsory pre-departure and post-arrival orientation, so that migrants know what to do in an emergency.",
        "政府还提供义务的撤离前和到达后指导，以便难民知道在紧急状况中应该怎样做。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting alienation of the educated middle class means that fewer and fewer of them go to the polls on Election Day.",
        "由此导致的高教育程度中产阶级的离心离德意味着他们当中在选举日前去投票的人越来越少。"
    ],
    [
        "More broadly, a new round of diplomacy would have to address North Korea’s security concerns, and provide space for the North to evolve politically and economically, as China has done over the past few decades.",
        "放大来说，新一轮外交还必须解决朝鲜的安全问题，为朝鲜营造出类似中国过去几十年那样的政治和经济发展空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Assad’s brutal regime and Iran have become key players in the fight against the Islamic State.",
        "巴沙尔的野蛮政权和伊朗成了打击伊斯兰国的重要行动方。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the world’s unprecedented total wealth, there is vast insecurity, unrest, and dissatisfaction.",
        "尽管世界财富总量前所未有，但不安全、不稳定和不满足的情绪仍然随处可见。"
    ],
    [
        "Because consular officials do not enjoy the same degree of immunity as higher-ranking diplomats, the police were acting within their authority, even if their methods – strip-searching Khobragade, for example – might be considered excessive.",
        "领馆官员并不享有与高级外交官同等的豁免权，因此虽然手段（比方说对科巴拉加德进行脱衣搜查）可能有越轨之嫌，但警方并未越权行事。"
    ],
    [
        "Another BRIC in the Wall?",
        "墙里的另一块“金砖”？"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – The world now accepts that protecting our atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere – the “global commons” – is the responsibility of all countries.",
        "新德里 —— 对于每个国家都有责任保护大气层、水圈、岩石圈和生物圈等“全球公域”这一点，全世界已经达成了共识；"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, only the second interpretation is correct.",
        "担心加长工作时间将会对就业率造成损害是毫无道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the biggest benefits would be the electrification of areas that, under current distribution systems, are literally in the dark.",
        "收益最大的某些地区的电气化。 在这些地区，以目前的配电系统，可以说是还生活在黑暗时代。"
    ],
    [
        "Migrants are human beings with rights, and they are motivated by a complex combination of personal desires, fears, and familial obligations.",
        "移民是有权利的人，他们迁徙的动机是复杂的，兼有个人渴望、恐惧和家庭责任等。"
    ],
    [
        "To make us choose what is good for us, they avoid fines, compulsion, and prohibition in favor of “nudges” – institutional arrangements that we could, in principle, easily override, but that, given our tendency to rely on System I, we end up going along with.",
        "为了使我们作出对我们有利的选择，他们没有进行罚款，强制以及禁止，而是使用“推动”——原则上我们会轻易忽略，但是考虑到我们依靠方法I的倾向性，我们最终会赞同的制度安排。"
    ],
    [
        "Gorbachev’s sentiment is widely shared in Russia.",
        "戈尔巴乔夫的情绪在俄罗斯受到广泛的认同。"
    ],
    [
        "As science advances across disciplines and diseases in ways that were unimaginable even five years ago, the research walls that divide prevention and cure must fall.",
        "随着科学研究以五年前还无法想象的方式跨越学科和病种，预防和治疗研究之间的隔离必须取消。"
    ],
    [
        "But xenophobia and sovereignty were not the primary impulses that propelled the “no” votes.",
        "但是，惧外主义和主权并非推动否决票的主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "While Egypt’s shaky military junta welcomed Erdoğan, many Egyptians were not happy about his hectoring them – and other Arabs – to follow Turkish policies and to regard Turkey as their Muslim leader.",
        "在埃及根基尚未稳固的军政府欢迎埃尔多安的到访，但埃及人民对于埃尔多安威逼他们（以及其他阿拉伯人民）遵从土耳其的政策并视土耳其为穆斯林领袖感到十分反感。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem? An invasion of short-term capital flows fleeing the slow-growth, low-interest-rate advanced countries.",
        "而他们恐惧的根源则是一大批由低增长低利率发达国家出逃，并掉头入侵各国的短期资金流。"
    ],
    [
        "ATHENS – Ken makes a decent living operating a large harvester on behalf of farmer Luke.",
        "雅典—肯靠为农场主卢克开大型收割机过着体面生活。"
    ],
    [
        "If many of those same viewers who have been impressed by China’s successes in Beijing now also find themselves recoiling at the idea of a stronger and more prideful China, that is understandable.",
        "假如那些对北京奥运会印象深刻的观众同时担忧中国更为强大和自傲的话，那时可以理解的。"
    ],
    [
        "Greeks have been forced to accept brutal austerity measures in order to continue to service an unbearable debt burden, thereby limiting losses for French and German banks and for eurozone taxpayers whose loans to Greece bailed out those banks.",
        "希腊人被迫接受了严厉的紧缩措施以继续维持难以承担的债务负担，以此控制法国和德国银行的损失以及欧洲纳税人（他们借给希腊人的贷款被用来援助这些银行）的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "However, his campaign has been hinting that, if elected, Moussavi will loosen some social and cultural restrictions.",
        "不过，他的竞选团队暗示，如果他能当选，他将放松社会和文化领域的一些限制。"
    ],
    [
        "And in many Central European countries that only recently regained their sense of sovereignty, refugees are widely viewed as posing a threat to national identity.",
        "在许多知道最近才重新拥有了主权感的中欧国家，难民被广泛视为构成了对民族身份的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "A bumpy ride is acceptable as long as the landing is smooth.",
        "不过只要能平稳着陆的话，些许颠簸也是可以接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a fascinating social-policy experiment, which deserves to be more widely known.",
        "这是一场令人着迷的社会政策试验，也理应得到更多的关注。"
    ],
    [
        "His careless Palestine policy has left Israel with few friends in the international community, let alone in the Arab Middle East.",
        "他的鲁莽巴勒斯坦政策已经让以色列在国际社会中失去了所有朋友，更不用说阿拉伯中东地区的友邦了。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-outdated copyright and licensing laws must be overhauled.",
        "过时已久的版权和授权法必须予以修订。"
    ],
    [
        "With the huge debt left behind by the Bush administration, the US should be especially motivated to get the largest possible stimulation from each dollar spent.",
        "面对布什政府遗留下的巨额债务，美国应该尽可能让花出去的每一分钱都发挥最大的刺激作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Most countries agreed that Saddam had defied United Nations Security Council resolutions for a dozen years.",
        "多数国家认为萨达姆十几年来一直违反联合国安理会决议。"
    ],
    [
        "However, there is a large financing gap.",
        "但是，融资方面存在着大缺口。"
    ],
    [
        "In countries that provide free health care to their citizens, it is extraordinarily difficult for officials to tell anyone that the government will not pay for the only drug or medical device that can save their life – or their child’s life.",
        "据埃默里大学的马诺基·贾殷说，每年美国有20万病人可以靠人工心脏维持更长的生命，每名患者花费20万美元，共400亿美元。 这是一个合理利用资源的国家吗？"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, Europe’s leaders should reach a compromise on the next Commission president quickly and transparently, thereby dispelling the impression among ordinary citizens that European politics is shaped by a dysfunctional process of behind-the-scenes horse-trading.",
        "因此，欧洲领导人应该就下任欧盟委员会主席的人选问题迅速形成妥协，从而打消普通公民关于欧洲政治仍被幕后扯皮左右的印象。"
    ],
    [
        "And both Xi and Li have indicated the government’s willingness to tolerate slower GDP growth in the short term for the sake of building a stronger, more sustainable economy.",
        "习近平和李克强均表示政府准备好了接受更缓慢的短期GDP增长，以换取更坚挺、更可持续的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the eurozone’s 18 members, ten are no longer considered to be running an excessive deficit.",
        "在欧元区18个成员国中，有十个已不再认为处于过度赤字状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Politics is also in play, and in a manner that significantly influences who will lead the world’s superpower after this November’s presidential and congressional elections.",
        "政治也在其中起作用，而且将对谁能在今年11月的总统和国会选举中获得世界超级大国领导权造成重大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Programs of change follow either a medical model of rehabilitation, therapy, reeducation, and treatment, or a punitive model of incarceration and execution.",
        "研究人的转变的项目会跟踪接受康复治疗、精神治疗、再教育和诊治的医疗模型或接受监禁或被判处死刑的受到惩罚的模型。"
    ],
    [
        "And the estimate of avoided emissions ignores indirect land-use changes, making the likely real cost at least eight times higher.",
        "而对减排量的估算并未计算间接的用地变化，因此可能的实际成本至少在8倍以上。"
    ],
    [
        "India is a democracy, and Pakistan a wayward democracy.",
        "印度是一个民主国家，而巴基斯坦则是一个刚愎自用捉摸不定的民主国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has adopted non-inclusive policies – reflected, for example, in the manner in which the new constitution was finalized.",
        "埃及国内穆斯林兄弟会采取了一种非包容性政策，以何种方式完成新宪法制定是它的具体反映。"
    ],
    [
        "But what can stop demons already unleashed?",
        "但什么才能阻止已经被释放出来的魔鬼？"
    ],
    [
        "In 2004, he was placed under surveillance when he called on the Party to revise its judgment of the 1989 Tiananmen demonstration.",
        "2004年，他因呼吁中共平反有关1989年天安门广场示威定性而被监视居住。"
    ],
    [
        "How do we equip our countries to compete, not only today, but in the coming decades as well?",
        "我们如何武装我们的国家，让它不仅为今天，也为未来几十年的竞争做好准备？"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the same EU members have failed to endow the European Commission with overall responsibility for holding member governments to their commitments and, where necessary, imposing penalties for breaches.",
        "但这些欧盟成员国也未能赋予欧洲委员会全面职权，使之能督促各成员国政府遵守承诺，并在出现违反协议情况时进行处罚。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost a decade after the global financial crisis of 2008, only one bank executive has gone to prison.",
        "2008年全球金融危机近10年后，进监狱的只有一家银行的高管。"
    ],
    [
        "In cold waters, however, recovery takes much longer, as the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989 demonstrated.",
        "但寒冷水域的恢复速度要慢得多，1989年埃克森公司阿拉斯加湾漏油事件已经证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "This extraordinary swing of almost $400 billion in the eurozone’s current-account balance did not result from a “competitive devaluation”; the euro has remained strong.",
        "欧元区经常项目余额的这一近4000亿美元的反常波动并不是由“竞争性贬值”造成的； 欧元仍然保持着强势。"
    ],
    [
        "Cambridge – Many analysts currently detect malaise in Japan about its alliance with the United States.",
        "剑桥-许多分析家最近注意到日本对其与美国的同盟心存不快。"
    ],
    [
        "In mid-June, the prolonged surge in stock prices finally drove an unnerved China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to impose restrictions on offline private fund matching.",
        "6月中旬，股价不断飙升终于让紧张的中国证监会下令限制线下私募配资。"
    ],
    [
        "Not all of Namibia’s key resources are finite.",
        "并非所有纳米比亚的重要资源都是无限的。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it being stolen?",
        "款项有没有被盗用？"
    ],
    [
        "But the attack on it will never succeed unless policy Keynesians like Krugman are willing to work out the implications of irreducible uncertainty for economic theory.",
        "如果克鲁格曼只是攻击他们，当然也不会得到人们的认可，除非他能提出自己在经济学领域中 对于不确定性作出的自己独到见解。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The high hopes surrounding Barack Obama’s presidency are mostly a good thing, as they remind us that much of the anti-American sentiment that is so apparent around the world is not and need not be permanent.",
        "纽约-人们对奥巴马总统抱有厚望，这基本上是一件好事，因为这提醒我们，世界各地大部分的如此显著的反美情绪不是，也不应是，永久性的。"
    ],
    [
        "For the time being, the Chinese may be too preoccupied with their own backyard to pay attention to such insults, but it is foolish to offend them deliberately.",
        "目前，中国人或许因埋头于自身发展而忽略了美国的屈辱感，但故意冒犯他们是很愚蠢的。"
    ],
    [
        "This rate of job displacement is not far out of line with previous periods.",
        "工作岗位的流失速率和此前的时代相比并不离谱。"
    ],
    [
        "It is morally and practically vital that they succeed.",
        "它们的成功在道德和实践上都是极为重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "And oil prices are not Russia’s only problem.",
        "而油价并非俄罗斯唯一的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this chronic current-account gap that drives the multilateral trade deficit with 101 countries.",
        "正是这种长期性经常账户缺口驱动了与101个国家的多边贸易赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that sluggish productivity growth, weak demand, and rapid population aging, and Japan’s situation was dire.",
        "除此之外，日本生产率增长停滞不前、需求疲软、人口快速老龄化，呈现出一片衰败迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, his contextual intelligence about world politics has been shaped from the bottom up with experience in Indonesia and Kenya, and his understanding of American politics was shaped from the bottom up as a community organizer in Chicago.",
        "而且，奥巴马对世界政治的情景智力从头到尾都受到其在印尼和肯尼亚的经历的影响，而他对美国政治的理解则完全受到他在芝加哥作为社区组织者的经历的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin left early, proclaiming that Western sanctions were harming European economies more than Russia anyway.",
        "普京早早离开了峰会，放言西方制裁给欧洲经济体造成的伤害比俄罗斯更大。"
    ],
    [
        "By Roman times, the seas were open to all, with personal possession and partitioning prohibited.",
        "在罗马时期，海洋已经向所有人开放，个人占有和划界的行为是被禁止的。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, it accumulated an astounding $4 trillion of foreign reserves.",
        "结果，中国积累了令人咋舌的4万亿美元外汇储备。"
    ],
    [
        "Resolving these issues is as important as resolving individual countries’ economic problems.",
        "解决这些问题与解决个别国家的经济问题一样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "So what exactly is West?",
        "那么究竟为何西方呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But this dividend has already run out for “old” countries such as Japan and China.",
        "但这一红利在日本和中国等“老”国家已经耗尽。"
    ],
    [
        "Four thousand years ago, China developed a writing system that conveyed concepts both as idea and picture.",
        "在四千年前，中国发展出一个将概念既作为思想又作为图像传达的书写系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic debates also frequently place in opposition to one another those who emphasize unconstrained judgment and those who regard consistency as the gold standard of good policy.",
        "在经济争论中，强调无约束判断者和将一致性视为好政策圭臬者之间也常常针锋相对。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, Turkey’s longstanding problems with its restive Kurdish minority have returned with a vengeance as Erdoğan has resorted to strong-arming the Kurds into submission, an approach that he has applied to his many domestic opponents, as well the media and civil-society groups.",
        "与此同时，土耳其与其动荡的库尔德少数民族之间的长期问题因为埃尔多安试图强制库尔德人就范而出现报复性反弹，埃尔多安曾采用同样的手段对付众多国内对手，以及媒体和民间社会组织。"
    ],
    [
        "The best independent assessment of these policies, produced by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), does not predict any economic miracles – just that around 20 million fewer Americans will have health insurance.",
        "这些政策的最好的独立评估来自国会预算办公室（CBO），它的评估表明不会发生任何经济奇迹——只是有大约2,000万美国人将失去医保。"
    ],
    [
        "Modern industrial war is, as the computer in the 1982 movie War Games put it, a very peculiar game: \"The only way to win is not to play.\"",
        "现代工业战争正如1982年电影《战争游戏》中计算机所说的那样，是一场非常独特的游戏：\"唯一的获胜方法就是不要开始。 \""
    ],
    [
        "Why should we expect this time to be different?",
        "那我们又为何要寄望这次会与以往不同？"
    ],
    [
        "Some banks took action and raised equity through rights issues, sometimes with substantial help from governments.",
        "一些银行采取了行动，通过权益工具发行筹集股本，有时政府也提供了大量帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "If applied, bank capital will be scarcer, the flow of credit slower, and bank fees higher in countries with pretty stable financial sectors, simply because others have spent a fortune to support their financial systems – and because the European Commission never misses an opportunity to unify rules across the EU.",
        "如果开征的话，银行资本就将缩水，信贷流动速度减慢，即便是那些金融部门相对稳定的国家，银行费率也将水涨船高，但原因却是其他一些国家在援助本国金融系统上花费了巨资——另外也因为欧盟委员会从来都不会错过任何一个在全欧推行某种一致性政策的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "With the development of remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and biogeochemical modeling, we can better forecast outcomes, and develop strategies to manage and minimize adverse consequences.",
        "随着遥感、人工智能和生物化学建模的发展，我们能够更好地预测结果，并制定管理和最小化消极后果的战略。"
    ],
    [
        "But his sharply reduced majority in the House of Commons, and his damaged personal reputation, mean that his political position is seriously weakened.",
        "但是工党在下议院中剧减的席位，布莱尔本人受损的个人声誉，意味着他的政治地位受到严重创伤。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be rooted in the experience of October 19, 1987, when the stock market dropped by just over 20% in a single day.",
        "它可能源自于1987年10月19日的经历，当时美国股市在一天内下跌了20％以上。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s just that their integrity suffers little lapses here and there – and not always so little in aggregate.",
        "只不过他们的诚信到处都有小瑕疵，加总起来规模可观。"
    ],
    [
        "The event, the first-ever US-ASEAN summit on American soil, is being touted as a sign of America’s growing interest in Southeast Asia.",
        "这次会议是第一次在美国举行美国-东盟峰会，被吹捧为美国对东南亚兴趣日益增加的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "The first shock was intensified globalization, which brought a lot of new low-wage competition.",
        "第一轮冲击是日益紧密的全球化，大量新的低薪竞争也随之而来。"
    ],
    [
        "Putin’s motives are a matter of speculation, but it would appear that he did not want to see Russia’s long-term ally in the Middle East fall.",
        "普京的动机只能猜测，但似乎他不愿意看到俄罗斯的长期中东盟友崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, they risk allowing, if not encouraging, a relapse into organized violence.",
        "否则，他们即使没有鼓励、也是在默许国家重新陷入到有组织的暴力当中。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a pessimistic outlook suggests an increase only to about 1.8% by 2050; under a more optimistic scenario, military costs could decline further, to 1.6% of GDP.",
        "8%； 而在乐观情境中，军事成本将进一步下降到GDP的1."
    ],
    [
        "A better approach would focus on defending the rule of law against populist encroachments.",
        "捍卫法治不受民粹主义侵犯才是更好的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "This provided an ideal target for Sanders, who singled out the fact that Clinton earned $675,000 for three speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs.",
        "这给了桑德斯完美的靶子。 桑德斯专门指出一个事实：克林顿为高盛做了三次演讲，赚了675,000美元。"
    ],
    [
        "These estimates, together with poor countries’ additional needs when natural catastrophes strike, imply that the potential legal demand for medicinal opiates is even higher.",
        "这些估计，加上自然灾害来袭时穷国额外的需求都表明医用鸦片潜在的合法需求甚至更为巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Though these measures are not alternatives to a revamped accession process, they would help to revive it.",
        "尽管这些措施并非修补入盟谈判的替代方案，但它们有助于振兴入盟谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "The first unfreezing had serious consequences.",
        "第一次解冻带来了十分严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Yar’Adua had completed only three years of his first four-year term when he died, and it was expected that all southerners, including Jonathan, would unite behind another northerner for next year’s vote.",
        "如今来自北方的亚拉杜瓦在其法定4年总统任期内只做了三年就去世了，因此所有人都预料包括乔纳森在内的全体南方派党员将团结在另一位北方派党员的领导下，为后者明年竞逐大选呐喊助威。"
    ],
    [
        "What is clear is that the authorities sought-after shift to a more sustainable services- and consumption-driven economy will require far-reaching market-oriented reforms.",
        "清楚的是当局大受欢迎的向更可持续的贸易和消费驱动经济的转型需要深远的市场改革。"
    ],
    [
        "But we should not fall into the terrorists’ trap.",
        "但我们不应落入恐怖分子的圈套。"
    ],
    [
        "A powerful prime minister seems preferable.",
        "一个强势的总理似乎是大家所更愿意看到的。"
    ],
    [
        "This strategy has considerable merit.",
        "这一战略有其可观的长处。"
    ],
    [
        "Therefore, unifying Europe should set an example for the rest of the world regarding how to face the various dangers and horrors that are engulfing us today.",
        "因此，一体化的欧洲应该给世界上其他地区树立一个如何应对充斥于当今世界的各种危险和恐怖的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "It is hard for me to believe that if Greece had abandoned the euro in 2010, the economic fallout would have amounted to even a quarter of that.",
        "我很难相信，如果希腊在2010年就放弃欧元，经济损失回达到这个数字的四分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "And coding-supported products often have lower costs per unit of output than even very cheap labor can provide.",
        "代码支持的产品的单位产出成本通常比极低价劳动力所能提供的还要低。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this sends a clear message: non-Muslims are not safe in Libya.",
        "所有这些传递了一个清晰的信号：非穆斯林在利比亚很不安全。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is this an argument against transformational leaders in US foreign policy.",
        "富兰克林·罗斯福和杜鲁门都做出过重大贡献。"
    ],
    [
        "The belief that the UK could secure superior access to world markets on its own than as part of the EU also helped.",
        "英国可以凭借自身力量而非作为欧盟的一部分确保进入世界市场的优先地位，这一信念也对英国脱欧投票起到了推动作用。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, to ensure that no one who has worked for 30 or more years will live in poverty in old age, Social Security needs a higher minimum benefit for lower-income workers, with more affluent seniors seeing less growth in benefits over time.",
        "比如，为了确保所有工作30年或以上的人都不会在晚年致贫，社会安全需要提高低收入工人的最低福利，而较丰裕的年长者，其长期福利的增加幅度将会更少。"
    ],
    [
        "After the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is not surprising that this estimate did not exactly generate a groundswell of public support for military intervention in Syria.",
        "在阿富汗和伊拉克战争之后，毫不奇怪，这一估计并没有激发民众对军事干预叙利亚的大力支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Other FBI agents reported seeing prisoners left in shackles for 12 hours or more, again in cold conditions, being subjected to strobe lights and loud rap music for many hours, or being forced to wrap themselves in an Israeli flag.",
        "其他FBI特工报告说看到囚犯被戴上镣铐在低气温的情况下待上12个小时或更长的时间，同时还被用闪光灯照射和高音量的说唱乐轰炸长达数小时，或者被强迫用以色列国旗包裹自己的身体。"
    ],
    [
        "Inertia is not an adequate response in an era of revolutionary change.",
        "对于这个革命性变化的时代，光靠惯性是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese President Xi Jinping is arguably the country’s most powerful leader since the death of Mao Zedong four decades ago.",
        "中国国家主席习近平可以说是毛泽东死后四十年来权力最大的中国领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "So, although both sides endorse the idea of a “mutually beneficial strategic relationship,” and despite progress bilateral on military exchanges, mutual trust and confidence-building have a long way to go.",
        "因此，尽管中日双方都对“互惠互利的战略关系”深表赞赏，而且在双边军事交流方面也取得了不少进步，但是在重拾信心，建立互信等领域还有很多工作有待完成。"
    ],
    [
        "Being in the business of measuring poverty is a challenge for the World Bank.",
        "衡量贫困这个责任对世界银行来说是一项挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The clinical implications of the failure to recognize bipolar disorder in depressed patients include the under-prescription of mood-stabilizing medications, and an increased risk of rapid “cycling” – swings between manic and depressive phases.",
        "对抑郁症患者双相障碍的认识不够在临床上的反映包括情绪稳定药物的使用不足和快速“循环”（即在狂躁与抑郁阶段之间摇摆）风险的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists like Hyman Minsky, who tried to correct this, were largely ignored as Milton Friedman and others led the profession’s push for free markets and minimal government intervention.",
        "海曼·明斯基（Hyman Minsky）这样的经济学家尝试去纠正这一错误，但当时领导经济学界的是米尔顿·弗里德曼等自由市场和最小政府的鼓吹者，于是明斯基之辈也只能默默无闻了。"
    ],
    [
        "The OECD average is at around 1.74, but some countries, including Germany and Japan, produce less than 1.4 children per woman.",
        "经合组织国家的平均总体生育率为1. 74，但在德国和日本等国，平均每个女性只生育1."
    ],
    [
        "Obama will eventually come to Asia with many high expectations and star billing.",
        "奥巴马终将带着很高的期望和巨星般的风采来到亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "But such an approach would be dangerous; indeed, it could cost Ahmadinejad his life.",
        "但这样的做法非常危险； 甚至可能让内贾德死无葬身之地。"
    ],
    [
        "The final moral issue is capitalism’s lack of a principle of justice.",
        "最后一个道义上的问题是资本主义缺乏公正的标准。"
    ],
    [
        "The power of these platforms derives from overcoming informational asymmetries, by dramatically increasing the signal density of the market.",
        "而通过大幅提高市场信号密度进而克服信息不对称状况，这些市场开始拥有自身的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the changes in China’s microeconomic foundations, together with the weaknesses in its economic structure, imply that the economy must pay a higher cost, in the form of higher inflation, for a given increase in GDP growth.",
        "总之，中国微观经济基础的变化及其经济结构的弱点意味着经济增长必须以高通胀的形式付出更高的代价，才能换取一定幅度的GDP增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, due to hasty and poorly supervised implementation, waste in infrastructure construction can be serious.",
        "此外，由于操之过急而且缺乏有效监控的政策执行，在基础设施投资建设上的浪费现象将十分严重。"
    ],
    [
        "The extent to which this extremism is a product of Saudi Arabia’s energetic promotion of its Wahhabi ideology is for Muslims to debate themselves.",
        "这一极端主义的兴盛多大程度上是沙特阿拉伯不遗余力地推行其瓦哈比派意识形态的结果留给穆斯林本身去争论。"
    ],
    [
        "Among EU countries, average public debt increased from 73% of GDP in 2009 to 86% of GDP in 2016, far above the ceiling of 60% of GDP set by the Maastricht criteria.",
        "在欧盟国家中，平均公共债务水平从2009年占GDP的73%升高到2016年占GDP的86%，远高于马斯特里赫特条约所制定的占GDP60%的上限。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, though, public pressure to do something quickly enables politicians to run roughshod over the usual checks and balances on government policy making.",
        "不过在实践上来说，公众那种要求立刻见效的压力令到政客可以罔顾政府政策制定中的利益制衡原则来推行政策。"
    ],
    [
        "What explains this resort to armed conflict to solve the world’s problems?",
        "如何解释这一用武装冲突解决世界问题的做法？"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, China announced a $586 billion economic stimulus package, some 25% of which is to help bolster conservation, environmental protection, and renewable energy efforts.",
        "上个月，中国宣布了一项5860亿美元的经济刺激计划，其中大约25%的资金将用于帮助支持环境保护以及在可再生能源方面的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal should be to attack inequality on two fronts: ensuring that pre-tax incomes rise in a more inclusive fashion and strengthening the equalizing role of taxes and transfers.",
        "应该从两个方面遏制不平等性：确保税前收入以更加包容的形式增加，以及强化和平等化税收和转移支付的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there are also major political, regulatory, and security considerations, all of which need to be addressed properly.",
        "当然，此外还有重大的政治、制度以及安全方面的因素，所有这些问题都需要适当处理。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, after Lafontaine’s “The Left” party merged with eastern Germany’s ex-communists, it secured a firm base among voters, changing the political equilibrium in the country.",
        "许多基督教民主党人可能梦想着在下届选举中与自由党和绿党建立新的联盟。 这个联盟将能够实施连绿党都愿意接受的福利国家和劳力市场的必要改革。"
    ],
    [
        "This could provide very large “multipliers.”",
        "这能够带来巨大的“乘数”。"
    ],
    [
        "But states need not be involved at all: Individuals and non-state actors could deploy malware simply by hiring the needed talent in the international underground marketplace.",
        "但这类案件根本不需要国家介入：个体和非国家行动者只要在国际地下市场招几个所需的人才都可以部署恶意软件。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when movements have near-universal support (which is not the case with the recent political movements in the US or India), there is a fundamental tension between democracy’s procedural and participatory aspects.",
        "即使几乎所有人都支持某项运动（美国或印度近来的政治运动并非如此），民主在程序和参与层面仍然存在着根本的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine has the three essential ingredients for strong, sound growth.",
        "乌克兰有实现强大健康增长的三个基本要素。"
    ],
    [
        "That leaves both parties facing the challenge of reuniting for the fall campaign – a feat that will be much harder to pull off this year than it was in most other presidential election years.",
        "两党因此面临重新集结开展秋季竞选活动的挑战——而今年大选期间完成这项任务比往年要难得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the blame, however, lies with British political leaders.",
        "但是，很大的责任在于英国政治领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "So they are forced to rely more on the longer-term fundamentals of education and institutions.",
        "因此，他们不得不更多地依赖于教育和制度等长期基本面因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The news lasted only 30 minutes, so everyone had to be absolutely quiet.",
        "新闻只会播放半个小时，因此每个人都必须保持极端安静。"
    ],
    [
        "If so, what does China (or India) gain by continuing the negotiations?",
        "如果真是如此，中国（或印度）继续这些谈下去还有什么意义呢？"
    ],
    [
        "With China’s economy slowing down in recent years, the CCP knows that it can no longer rely on growth alone to guarantee its political standing in the eyes of ordinary Chinese.",
        "随着最近几年中国经济的放缓，中共明白它无法再只靠增长保证其在中国老百姓眼中的政治地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The deposed authoritarian rulers – Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Mubarak, and soon Libya’s Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi – stashed away billions of dollars stolen from the public treasury.",
        "那些被赶下台的独裁统治者——突尼斯的本·阿里，埃及的穆巴拉克，还有时日无多的利比亚统治者卡扎菲上校——都从国家和公众手中盗取了数十亿美元的财富。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, China’s GDP growth was unaffected (in fact, the economy was growing at nearly 10%) when the stock market lost half of its value between 2001 and 2005 – or, for that matter, when the market then recovered (only to fall dramatically again after the 2008 financial crisis).",
        "比如，2001—2005年，中国股市市值缩水一半，这并没有影响到中国GDP（事实上，中国经济增长率接近10%），而此后的市场复苏（直到2008年金融危机后才大幅下跌）也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Our views are much too liberal for the SNC, and its key backer, Turkey, whose foreign minister has said that jihad in Syria is not related to terrorism.",
        "我们的观点对于SNC及其主要支持者土耳其来说显得太过自由化了，土耳其外交部长声称叙利亚的圣战分子与恐怖主义没有关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, processes that take five years in the Gulf of Mexico would take more than 20 in the Arctic.",
        "因此，在墨西哥湾需要五年的过程在北极就需要超过20年。"
    ],
    [
        "It appears that long-term climate change is leading to lower rainfall not only in Sudan, but also in much of Africa just south of the Sahara Desert – an area where life depends on the rains, and where drought means death.",
        "长期气候变化似乎不仅造成了苏丹降雨量减少，而且撒哈拉沙漠以南的非洲大部分地区也深受其害¾在这样一个区域，生命能否延续完全取决于有没有降雨，在这里，旱灾就意味着死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, pension funds, retirement plans, and non-profit organizations, which receive about 50% of all corporate dividends, do not pay tax on these earnings, and would benefit from a lower corporate-tax rate.",
        "此外，养老基金、退休金计划以及非营利组织（大约获得了50%的公司红利总额）的收益不用纳税，从而可以从公司税率降低中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Comparing the respective abilities of Russia and China to block key international initiatives makes no sense in itself, but it does constitute a useful tool for understanding the transformation of the international system that is now taking place as a direct consequence of the relative decline of America’s global power.",
        "比较中俄两国相应的阻碍主要国际倡议的能力本身没有意义，但是这却是理解美国全球实力相对下降而直接导致的国际体系转变的有用工具。"
    ],
    [
        "I am not talking about the United States’ presidential election.",
        "我说的不是美国总统大选。"
    ],
    [
        "Prior to this year, Ebola had killed fewer than 2,000 people, all in Central Africa, since it was first identified in 1976.",
        "截至去年底，死于埃博拉的人数不足2，000人，而且从1976年该病毒最初发现开始，死者全部集中在中非地区。"
    ],
    [
        "No surprise, then, that a brain drain has developed.",
        "因此，在欧洲形成人才流失的局面也就不足为奇了。"
    ],
    [
        "In this volatile environment, reverting to a confrontational relationship with Israel would be extremely dangerous, inviting the risk of another disastrous war.",
        "在如此动荡的环境中，与以色列重回冲突关系是极度危险的，有可能引发新一场灾难性战争。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be unable to compensate for that loss by relying on Lebanese seaports or Beirut’s airport, because both could easily be blockaded.",
        "依靠黎巴嫩海港和贝鲁特机场是不能弥补这个损失的，因为它们都很容易被封锁。"
    ],
    [
        "American leaders sometimes pay lip service to the special relationship, to flatter visiting British prime ministers or get the UK onside in dubious military adventures.",
        "美国领导人有时在嘴上强调这一特殊关系，以奉承到访的英国首相或让英国在可疑的军事行动中站边。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of ensuring price stability, monetary policy would be feeding a further increase in the inflation rate.",
        "货币政策将无法确保价格稳定，反而会导致通胀率的进一步上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, major advanced economies, such as the United States, Germany, and Japan, face longer-term fiscal problems in the form of aging populations or oversize welfare states, limiting their capacity to contribute to demand management.",
        "此外，美国、德国和日本等主要发达国家面临老龄化、福利国家规模太大等长期财政问题，制约着它们的需求管理能力。"
    ],
    [
        "That said, Europe’s disparities in production costs and competitiveness, reflected in the “problem” countries’ substantial current-account deficits, may prove to be an even more difficult problem to resolve.",
        "因此，“问题”国家巨量经常项目赤字中所反映的欧洲生产成本和竞争力的两极分化可能将成为更难解决的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A widespread – and false – perception is that Obama has kept the US out of the Syrian war.",
        "一个广泛——并且错误——的感觉是奥巴马让美国置身叙利亚战争事外。"
    ],
    [
        "There may, however, be more to Erdoğan’s rapprochement with Putin.",
        "但埃尔多安与普京的和解或许还有更深层次的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet it has taken nearly seven decades to make real progress toward resolving the anomalies.",
        "然而为了解决这些反常的真正进展花了近七十年才实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, this is all within our grasp.",
        "幸运的是，这一切完全可以做到。"
    ],
    [
        "Is Ignorance Bliss?",
        "无知是福份吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Given such profound changes, financial leaders should think about how to orchestrate a new financial supply chain – the “killer app” for our still new century.",
        "在深远变革的背景下，金融领袖应该想一想，如何打造新的金融供应链——新世纪的“杀手级应用”。"
    ],
    [
        "So the Universal Income Benefit is definitely a non-starter.",
        "因此，全民所得福利绝不是好的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "China will not be able to get its way if the profitability of this synchronization breaks down.",
        "而一旦这一同步利益纽带出现破裂，大陆也无法继续按自己的想法行事。"
    ],
    [
        "Since last December, Somalia has been in a de facto state of civil war.",
        "自从去年十二月开始索马里就进入了实际的内战状态。"
    ],
    [
        "But while Trump’s particular choice of words was new to the UN, his arguments were not.",
        "虽然特朗普特别挑选的词汇对联合国来说相当新鲜，他的论点却还是老一套。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to stopgap measures, aimed at immediately improving people’s economic circumstances, leaders must develop systems to ensure that citizens are equipped to thrive in a globalized world in the long term.",
        "除旨在立即改善民众经济环境的权宜之计外，领导人还必须建立制度，以确保民众从长远看能够从全球化世界中收获繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, fiscal support is absent this time: QE1 and QE2 helped to prevent a deeper recession and avoid a double dip, respectively, because each was associated with a significant fiscal stimulus.",
        "此外，本次宽松也缺乏财政支持：QE1和QE2分别防止了陷入更严重衰退并阻以及二次下滑，因为每次宽松都是与一个大型财政刺激计划联系在一起的。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, globalization and instantaneous communication technologies have made it impossible to contain conflict within national borders.",
        "此外，全球化和即时通信技术的发展导致已不可能将冲突控制在国境范围内。"
    ],
    [
        "This summer, friends who live a few kilometers from us in rural Montana in the western US had to interrupt their dinner when a black bear suddenly came out of the trees. They went indoors to watch as it came up to the picnic table, licked the dishes clean, and then drank two cans of beer.",
        "今年夏天，在离我们仅几公里外的美国西部蒙大拿乡村，每当一只黑熊突然从树林里跑出来，住在那里的朋友就不得不中断用餐，躲到屋子里，看着它走近野餐桌，把盘子舔得干干净净，再喝下两罐啤酒。"
    ],
    [
        "But we cannot afford to give up on treatment for the so-called anxiety disorders, which encompass problems related to both fear and anxiety.",
        "但我们决不能放弃对所谓的焦虑症的治疗。 焦虑症包括与恐惧和焦虑有关的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while it seems safe to predict that Bush will serve out the rest of his term, it also appears certain that history will look upon him as a president who sought to undermine civil liberties.",
        "尽管基本可以预计布什将会完成剩余的任期，但是看起来毫无疑问，历史将会把他视为一个企图破坏公民自由的总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the destruction of crucial wetlands and inadequate infrastructure to contain flooding means that rainwater runoff has nowhere to go.",
        "同样，关键湿地的破坏和蓄洪基础设施不足意味着没有合适的地点能接受雨水径流的排放。"
    ],
    [
        "The policies put in place by the EU and its member states are directly responsible for the plight of those who die attempting to cross the Mediterranean.",
        "欧盟及其成员国所实施的政策与在穿越地中海时所发生的死亡直接相关。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed, its critics complain, has used its expansive powers to engage in a range of unprecedented interventions that have propped up large financial institutions.",
        "美联储的批评者抱怨它利用其巨大的权力实施一系列史无前例的经济干预来支持大型金融机构。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1995, Kobe citizens extricated from the rubble were looked after if they belonged to corporations or religious groups.",
        "而在1995年，那些从残桓断壁下生还的神户人只能依靠所属的企业或者宗教组织提供救助。"
    ],
    [
        "The conclusion that I draw from this is that we should try a combination of all checklist measures – quantitative monetary easing; bank guarantees, purchases, recapitalizations, and nationalizations; direct fiscal spending and debt issues – while ensuring that we can do so fast enough and on a large enough scale to do the job.",
        "由此我得出的结论是：我们应该尽可能地运用以上的政策组合——有效率的财经舒缓政策，对银行担保，购买，注资及国有化。 直接提供金融帮助和对债务进行重组——而且动作要迅速有力。"
    ],
    [
        "Immense trade flows, the rise of billions of new consumers in the emerging world, and technology breakthroughs are rapidly transforming the global economy.",
        "巨大的贸易流、新兴世界数十亿新消费者的崛起以及技术突破正在快速改变全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "The courts did their job.",
        "法庭尽到了责任。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, performance-enhancement is, Savulescu says, the very spirit of sport.",
        "Savulescu认为在任何情况下，提升运动成绩都是运动精神的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "But macroeconomic and financial interdependence may render success elusive if reforming countries face an adverse regional environment of stagnating or falling demand.",
        "但如果那些改革中的国家面对经济停滞或者需求下降这类负面区域环境的话，宏观经济以及金融方面的独立性就将反过来阻碍改革的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "This is all quite technical, but it matters a great deal for the welfare of populations.",
        "这一切基本上都是些技术问题，但它在很大程度上影响着人们的福祉。"
    ],
    [
        "The euro crisis has transformed an ever-closer union of equal sovereign states, willingly sacrificing a share of their independence for the common good, into an association of creditor and debtor countries, with the debtors struggling to meet the creditors’ terms.",
        "欧元危机已将一个由平等主权国家自愿牺牲一定独立性以追求共同利益而形成的无比紧密的联盟转变为一个由债权国和债务国组成的联合体，债务国为了满足债权国的条件而焦头烂额。"
    ],
    [
        "Social media have undoubtedly played a part in the rise of the populist politics that thrives in such an environment.",
        "社交媒体显然在民粹政治崛起的过程中发挥了作用，民粹主义在这样的环境中是蓬勃发展的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration has also trampled on citizens' basic right to know what their government is doing, refusing, for example, to disclose who was on the task force that shaped its energy policy - though one really doesn't need that information to see that it was shaped by the oil industry and for the oil industry.",
        "布什政府还践踏了公民了解政府所作所为的基本权利，比如拒绝披露制定能源政策的特别工作组名单¾但人们实际并不需要上述信息，也能清楚地知道石油工业才是真正的幕后主使，攫取了大部分既得利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Where to rebuild their homes remains undecided.",
        "他们的家园在何处重建仍然没有定论。"
    ],
    [
        "But from a technological perspective, the timing was perfect.",
        "但从技术的角度看，这个时机非常完美。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, hostility to the use of fiscal policy, as with many things German, can be traced to the 1920s, when budget deficits led to hyperinflation.",
        "说到底，和其他许多德国特色一样，对使用财政政策的敌意可以追溯到20世纪20年代，当时，预算赤字导致了恶性通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Ordinary Palestinians, who will undoubtedly have to make sacrifices, must be brought on board – especially given the heavy price they incurred during the recent conflict, in which they had no say.",
        "普通巴勒斯坦人毫无疑问必须做出牺牲，但他们也必须在被考虑到——特别是考虑到他们在最近的冲突中付出了高昂的代价，但却从未发出声音。"
    ],
    [
        "This ambiguity in Iraq is a good example of the problem faced by Arab democratic reformers elsewhere.",
        "目前伊拉克的不明朗形势也正是其他地方的阿拉伯民主革命者们面临的典型问题。"
    ],
    [
        "American workers are still considerably more productive than their Chinese counterparts.",
        "美国工人的生产率仍然比中国工人高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it is larger than France and with a similar population size.",
        "毕竟这是一个比法国幅员面积更大且人口数量相近的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "In an ideal world, universal, high-quality education at all levels would be worth pursuing.",
        "在理想世界中，各层次齐全的全民优质教育是值得追求的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a classic prisoner’s dilemma: all countries are better off if they contribute to a common cause, but the pressure of national elections impedes politicians’ ability to champion that cause.",
        "这是个典型的囚徒困境：如果所有国家都为共同目标努力，则所有国家都会受益，但国家选举的压力阻碍了政客推行这一目标的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "This, they feared, would not only diminish their export competitiveness and push their external accounts into deficit; it would also expose them to the harsh consequences of a sudden stop in capital inflows when US policymakers reversed course.",
        "他们担心，这不但会削弱他们的出口竞争力，导致他们的对外账户转为赤字； 如果美国决策者转变政策方向，这还会造成资本流入突然停止的严重后果。"
    ],
    [
        "As part of my research, I conducted more than 40 in-depth interviews with government officials and business elites, and fleshed out my findings with secondary data sources.",
        "在研究中，我与政府官员和商界精英进行了40多次深度访谈，并以辅助数据资源来充实我的研究成果。"
    ],
    [
        "With few resources for high-quality public television in most countries, children are co-opted by channels paid for by advertisements, including by food industry.",
        "由于多数国家缺乏高质量的公共电视资源，由广告商、包括食品行业赞助的电视频道不约而同地把目标瞄准了儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a second reason why the British situation is less risky than that of France.",
        "英国的状况没有法国危险还有第二大理由。"
    ],
    [
        "More significant is the IAEA’s failure to overcome resistance to conclude comprehensive safeguard agreements.",
        "更为重要的是，国际原子能机构未能克服阻力达成全面的保障协议。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, all they are doing is spreading pessimism.",
        "但若政治家们还一边空谈改革一边却无所作为，这一目标就不可能实现，反而会使悲观情绪愈加蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, there is no other way to prevent the process from remaining a zero-sum game.",
        "事实上除了这条路之外，没有什么方法能阻止谈判变成一场零和游戏。"
    ],
    [
        "As in any democracy, public criticism of Turkey’s government policies is normal and healthy.",
        "和任何民主国家一样，对土耳其政府政策公共批评是正常的健康现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Given a lower growth rate, China’s fiscal position will deteriorate – gradually at first, and then rapidly – with the public debt/GDP ratio eventually rising to an unsustainable level.",
        "如果增长率再低一些，中国的财政状况将会恶化——最初比较缓慢，然后急速恶化——最终公共债务对GDP比率将上升到一个无法维持的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Start with the computer.",
        "从计算机开始。"
    ],
    [
        "The opening to China and the Nixon Shock confirmed the position of those in Japan who knew that the country could not remain on permanent sabbatical from its foreign-policy role and responsibilities.",
        "对华开放和尼克松冲击波证实了部分日本人的看法，即日本不能永远不承担外交政策职责。"
    ],
    [
        "Progress has been slow and limited on both counts.",
        "但这两方面的进展一直缓慢而有限。"
    ],
    [
        "Today is Europe’s moment of maximum flexibility; as dependence on Russian energy supplies grows, the EU’s leverage weakens.",
        "今天的欧洲是它在历史上表现得最具灵活性的时期； 因为越来越依赖俄罗斯的能源供应，欧洲的影响力弱化了。"
    ],
    [
        "The pan-European parties’ nomination of Spitzenkandidaten for the Commission presidency – and the three direct debates among the nominees – marked the start of building a genuine supranational European political space.",
        "泛欧洲政党所提名的欧盟委员会主席首席候选人——以及被提名者之间的三次直接争论——标志着开始建立真正的超国家欧洲政治空间。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently rejected proposed rules aimed at making money-market funds safer in a financial crisis – a rejection that has caused consternation among observers and other regulators.",
        "发自剑桥——美国证券交易委员会最近否决了一系列旨在令货币市场基金在金融危机中更加安全的提案，令众多观察员和其他监管者大惊失色。"
    ],
    [
        "National governments – whether powerful, like the United States and China, or weak, like Iraq and Liberia – are unable to address these cascading and complex challenges on their own.",
        "国家政府无论强（如美国和中国）弱（如伊拉克和利比亚），都无法凭一己之力解决摆在面前的诸多复杂难题。"
    ],
    [
        "The job is not done.",
        "工作尚未完成，同志仍需努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Banks have less debt relative to their equity levels than they had in 2007.",
        "银行的负债/资产比率已经低于2007年的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Although that is true, it is not the whole story.",
        "诚然，但这不是问题的全部。"
    ],
    [
        "To acknowledge the fact that the broken educational and skills-building system is responsible for much of the growing inequality that ordinary people experience would, however, detract from the larger populist agenda of rallying the masses against the very rich.",
        "但是，承认教育和技能培养体系的崩坏应该对普通人所经历的不平等性恶化负有很大责任这一事实会破坏民粹主义者将脏水泼到巨富阶层身上的大计。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, Iran, and Assad’s government all demonstrated what large-scale and often indiscriminate use of military force could accomplish.",
        "俄罗斯，伊朗和阿萨德政府都表明了大规模且往往不加区别地使用军事力量可以达到何种效果。"
    ],
    [
        "That is history now: real per capita GDP growth was only 0.2% last year in Ukraine, and only 1.3% in Russia.",
        "现在这些都已成为历史：去年乌克兰真实人均GDP只增长了0. 2%，俄罗斯为1."
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, Greece has faced monetary contraction (which has recently become monetary asphyxiation), in contrast to the UK, where the Bank of England has supported the government every step of the way.",
        "与此同时，希腊面临着货币紧缩（最近已经演变为货币窒息），这与英国形成了鲜明对比。 在英国，英格兰银行在整个过过程中支持了政府的每一步措施。"
    ],
    [
        "The CCAMLR has pioneered ecosystem and precautionary approaches to fisheries management, which are now central to maintaining Antarctic krill.",
        "南极海洋生命资源保护公约倡导在渔业管理上重视生态系统和采取谨慎的捕捉方法，现在他们把这用在了对于南极磷虾的保护上。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are still even more children to save, and we need help to do our work on the ground.",
        "但跟多的儿童还在等待拯救，我们的事业需要帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "Most Israelis would strongly object to this interpretation.",
        "多数以色列人肯定会强烈反对这样的解释。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this should surprise anyone anymore.",
        "上述策略早就不能令任何人感到惊讶了。"
    ],
    [
        "Corporations can, of course, be asked to conform to a “don’t” list – don’t dump mercury into rivers, don’t employ children for hazardous tasks, etc.",
        "当然，公司可以被要求遵守“禁止”清单——禁止向河道排放汞、禁止让儿童进行危险活动，等等。"
    ],
    [
        "Their hopes are for a peaceful and prosperous life in which they can enjoy the freedoms and rule of law that they were promised.",
        "他们的希望是和平而繁荣的生活，让他们享有被承诺的自由和法治精神。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when the Muslim world is facing unprecedented challenges, the importance of creating a healthy academic environment cannot be overstated.",
        "在穆斯林世界面临前所未有的挑战之际，创造健康的学术环境的确极其重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the far-right British National Party won its first ever seat. But those worried about the rise of extremism in Europe should take some heart from the fact that there are many differences of views between these parties.",
        "虽然有人为极端主义在欧洲的崛起而忧虑，但这些极端党派的政纲其实千差万别，并非铁板一块，大可不必担心。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, recent assessments by the British Antarctic Survey suggest that temperatures over the Antarctic have increased 3.6 degrees since the early 1970’s, and that warming is taking place far faster than researchers had hitherto believed.",
        "实际上，英国南极调查局最近的评估显示，自从20世纪70年代以来，南极上空的温度已经升高了3. 6度，变暖速度比迄今为止研究人员所认为的要快得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Francis of the Forest",
        "森林的弗朗西斯"
    ],
    [
        "Such responsiveness is particularly critical today, when the inexorable logic of technological progress is demanding a transformation of China’s growth model.",
        "如今，不可阻挡的技术进步逻辑要求中国增长模式做出改变。 在这样的情况下，对市场的反应能力尤其关键。"
    ],
    [
        "But more research is needed before we can understand the results of sequencing correctly and apply this knowledge appropriately in risk calculations.",
        "但在我们能够正确理解测序结果并将这一知识合理地应用于风险计算之前还需要进一步研究。"
    ],
    [
        "Aside from slowing growth, that reality includes severe environmental damage, one result of decades of rapid, coal-fueled industrialization.",
        "除了增长放缓，现实还包括严重的环境破坏——几十年煤炭驱动的高速工业化的后果之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The average person uses up about 48 microlives per day; but lifestyle affects how fast one expends one’s microlives.",
        "普通人每天消耗约48个“微生存率”； 但生活方式会影响人消耗“微生存率”的速度。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, long-term erosion of trust in the federal government culminated in Donald Trump’s victory in November’s presidential election: even though President Barack Obama enjoyed high public approval, only 19% of Americans trusted the federal government to do what is right.",
        "在美国，对联邦政府的信任感的长期流失在11月唐纳德·特朗普赢得总统竞选中达到顶峰：尽管奥巴马总统得到了众多民众的认可，但只有19%的美国人相信联邦政府能做出正确的事。"
    ],
    [
        "In the race for votes, Ghana’s current-account deficit increased, owing to heavy fuel subsidies and a 47% increase in payouts to public-sector workers.",
        "随着选战的进行，加纳经常项目赤字节节攀升，因为燃料补贴支出甚巨且公共部门员工薪酬增加了47%。"
    ],
    [
        "In July, a report I co-authored for the International News Safety Institute put a name to one such threat, a phenomenon known as “moral injury.”",
        "7月份，由笔者与其他研究人员为国际新闻安全研究所共同撰写的一份报告将这类威胁定名为“道德伤害”。"
    ],
    [
        "When Xi Meets Obama",
        "当习近平遇见奥巴马"
    ],
    [
        "But, in order to break the cycle of violence and insecurity, all countries will ultimately have to step up to improve water management and protect ecosystems. Otherwise, their water woes – along with internal unrest – will only worsen.",
        "但是，要想打破暴力和不安全的循环，所有国家最终都需要采取措施改善水管理和保护生态系统、否则，它们的水危机——以及内部动荡——只会愈演愈烈。"
    ],
    [
        "But, she says: “The issues I am experiencing have greater priority.",
        "但她对我们说：“我自己的问题更要紧。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009 China became the world’s largest exporter.",
        "2009年中国成为世界最大的出口国。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite overwhelming support for the New York Declaration, and for the principles set out in SDG 4, young refugees remain in danger of being left behind.",
        "但尽管纽约宣言获得了一致的支持，并且有SDG 4的原则作为指导，年轻难民仍然面临着落后的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Societies that promise equality of opportunity thus cannot afford to allow inequality of outcomes to become too great.",
        "许诺机会平等的社会因此不能允许结果的不平等变得过于悬殊。"
    ],
    [
        "Ignoring the impact that gender differences have on policy effectiveness is reckless and risky.",
        "忽略性别差异对政策有效性的影响是鲁莽和冒险的。"
    ],
    [
        "This discovery challenges another fundamental myth: evolutionary change necessarily benefits the species.",
        "这项发现撼动了另一项根本性的神话：那就是进化改变必然有利于整个物种。"
    ],
    [
        "But the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, changed everything.",
        "但2001年9月11日的恐怖袭击改变了一切。"
    ],
    [
        "Piketty’s book, published in 2013, did much to put inequality back on the agenda of American economists.",
        "这本出版于2013年的书影响巨大，令不平等状况重归美国经济学家的议程之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a key determinant of voting behavior in the upcoming elections is likely to be generational.",
        "而且，投票人可能由于不同的年龄差距而选择不同的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "This long-run threat is now most evident in Russia.",
        "目前，这一长期威胁在俄罗斯最为明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, however, assessments of Wen’s leadership – particularly his stewardship of the economy – have varied widely.",
        "然而自那以后，对温家宝领导能力——尤其对其国家经济管理能力——的评价就出现了极大分化。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite having to form a new party, Sharon will probably win the next election, which he has called for February.",
        "沙龙尽管要组建新党，但是仍然可能赢得下次大选胜利。 沙龙已经宣布在明年二月举行大选。"
    ],
    [
        "Then something happened.",
        "后来，事情起了一些变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Many, including hydrogen bombs, had explosive yields that were orders of magnitude higher than the bombs dropped on Japan.",
        "其中许多（包括氢弹）的爆炸当量比日本所接受的炸弹高出数个数量级。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to America’s gold-plated financial system, its consumers can buy fancy cars with almost no down payment.",
        "拜美国无与伦比的财政制度所赐，其消费者可以几乎不用首付就购买豪华轿车。"
    ],
    [
        "There would be no well-defined market equilibrium, or upper bound, for the renminbi/dollar exchange rate.",
        "如此，人民币就不存在明确的兑美元汇率的市场均衡或上限。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the re-election of the Singh government has made the world a less dangerous place and has opened up many political opportunities.",
        "总之，辛格政府的连任使得这个世界变得更加太平，同时也创造了很多政治机会。"
    ],
    [
        "That is certainly how things looked, with high levels of structural unemployment and a below-trend capital stock, at the end of the 1930’s, before mobilization and the European and Pacific wars began in earnest.",
        "结构性失业高企，资本储备低于常量，这就是1930年末美国动员参战和亚欧战事大规模爆发之前的真实情况，"
    ],
    [
        "Some monetary authorities, like the European Central Bank, set their own target.",
        "一些货币当局，比如欧洲央行，制定它们自己的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Even wives of men who watch the game at home have got other issues to deal with.",
        "即便是那些丈夫在家看球的妻子们也遇到了类似的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Public distrust of vaccines has also played a major role in this decline.",
        "公众对疫苗的不信任也在很大程度上促成了疫苗生产的衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Ongoing uncertainty about renminbi devaluation is fueling fears that deflationary forces will sweep through emerging markets and deliver a body blow to developed economies, where interest rates are at or near zero (and thus cannot be lowered to defend against imported deflation). Fiscal gridlock in both Europe and the United States is heightening the angst.",
        "关于人民币贬值的持续不确定性正在助长恐慌——通缩压力将席卷新兴市场，并严重打击利率已经达到或接近零水平（因此无法继续下降对抗输入性通缩）的发达经济体"
    ],
    [
        "Another possibility is to turn razor-thin majorities into one-sided governments that remain centrist in policy.",
        "另外一种可能性是把获得险胜的多数派转化为单方面执政的政府，并确保其奉行温和主义的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "What makes Syria’s civil war so dangerous is that the players on the ground are no longer its driving forces.",
        "令叙利亚内战如此危险的是其实际参与者已不再是战争的驱动力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Rousseff will probably be re-elected, not so much on the strength of her record as because voters fear the unfamiliar.",
        "罗塞夫也许能够连任——与其说因为她的执政记录，不如说因为选民害怕不熟悉的对象。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s policymakers also need to introduce measures to increase labor-force participation rates, rethink wage policy, and make social-insurance programs portable nationwide.",
        "中国决策者还必须引入增加劳动力参与率的政策，反思工资政策，并将社会保险扩展为全国通用。"
    ],
    [
        "Dithering over Greece and key national governments’ devotion to austerity began to exact a heavy toll last year.",
        "希腊和一些主要国家的政府致力于紧缩政策，随之引起的动荡从去年开始就产生了巨大的副作用。"
    ],
    [
        "China faces a similar demographic trend, and also a push to unleash household consumption in order to sustain GDP growth.",
        "中国面临着与日本相同的人口结构趋势，并且也在推行解放家庭消费以维持GDP增长的方针。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, developing countries must not succumb to the temptation to try to boost demand through unsustainable means, such as the accumulation of excess debt.",
        "在这个背景下，发展中国家千万不能尝试那种试图利用积累过度债务这类不可持续手段来提振需求的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "The 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference introduced a pledge-and-review process, in which countries unilaterally decided how much they would cut.",
        "2009年哥本哈根气候变化会议引入了承诺-评估程序，各国单方面决定减排多少。"
    ],
    [
        "Manufacturing productivity per hour in Europe compares quite well with the US, but Europeans work significantly fewer hours per year, which explains the annual per capita difference.",
        "欧洲制造业小时生产率较美国有较大优势，但欧洲人每年工作时间要少得多，这就是双方年人均差异出现的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "At first, with Chen in the US embassy, the Chinese began to suggest canceling the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, scheduled to begin with the arrival of Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.",
        "起初，因为陈在美国大使馆，中国提出取消原定在克林顿和财长蒂莫西·盖特纳抵达后即将开始的战略和经济对话。"
    ],
    [
        "However, I do think there is a danger that someday it could.",
        "但是，我觉得将来有一天，是可能出现谷歌会这样做的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "Poverty is not just ‘their’ problem. It is ‘our’ problem too.",
        "贫穷绝不只是‘他们的’问题，同样必须引起‘我们的’关注。"
    ],
    [
        "Diamond apparently believed his own rhetoric – that he and his bank are critical to economic prosperity in the UK.",
        "博达文显然被自己的修辞说服了——真的以为他和他的银行对英国的经济繁荣不可或缺。"
    ],
    [
        "But all of us need to act with greater urgency in translating good intentions into concrete action.",
        "但我们所有人都需要以更紧迫的行动将良好意图转化为扎实行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Russia sells high-technology weapons, including bombers, submarines, and perhaps an aircraft carrier, to China, which not only shares the world’s longest border with Russia, but also disputes parts of that border.",
        "由此，俄罗斯把高科技的武器，包括轰炸机、潜艇甚至可能还有一艘航空母舰卖给了中国这个不仅与俄罗斯有着世界上最长的国界线，并且在部分国界线上还存在争端的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But, at a time of industrial upgrading and ever-increasing technological sophistication, the knowledge and skills gained in school are often insufficient.",
        "但在产业升级和技术复杂度日益提高的时代，从学校获得的知识和技能往往是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "Our societies and citizens need more freedom if we are to build a more peaceful, prosperous, and secure world.",
        "若要建立一个更和平、繁荣和安全的世界，社会和公民需要更多的自由。"
    ],
    [
        "And if a well-placed official wanted to enter into a successful business, refusals were not accepted.",
        "并且，如果一个身居高位的俄罗斯官员想要进入一个成功的行业，对此加以拒绝也是不能接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, such action rarely works: markets anticipate it and raise interest rates to compensate lenders for expected inflation.",
        "归根结底，这些手段很少能起到作用：市场会对此有所预期，并相应提升利率去补偿借款者因预期通胀所导致的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "This month, the World Cup is bringing the world to Brazil.",
        "本月，世界杯将把全世界贷给巴西。"
    ],
    [
        "But words are not without consequences, and there is little question that human rights has occupied a higher place in international deliberations during Annan’s tenure than ever before.",
        "但语言也并非毫无作用，的确很少有人质疑在安南任职期间，人权问题在国际权衡中所占的分量超过了以往任何时候。"
    ],
    [
        "India and China both need a renewed commitment to structural reform to sustain their economic growth.",
        "印中两国都需要重新推动体制改革来维持经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In the late 1950’s, neo-Keynesians finally conceded the point raised by Pigou and Modigliani.",
        "直到1950年后期，新凯恩斯学派才最终同意皮古和莫迪利安尼提出的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Without the ability to resupply itself, Hezbollah would emerge from any future war a significantly weakened force.",
        "真主党没有能力补充自己，在未来的战争中，它都会是一支弱势力。"
    ],
    [
        "Rolling the Dice in Cyprus",
        "塞浦路斯的掷骰子决策"
    ],
    [
        "A number of MPs want to impose tighter restrictions, and it is difficult to find anyone who will speak up for the banks, so some form of the bill is likely to pass, and big British banks will have to divide their operations and their capital.",
        "不少议员希望施加更严格的限制，而且很难找到会为银行说话的人，因此该法案中的一部分会被通过，英国大银行将不得不分离业务和资本。"
    ],
    [
        "Within 20 years, GDP increased four-fold, while exports increased more than ten-fold.",
        "20年间GDP增长4倍，而出口额则增长10倍之多。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, today’s private-sector labs are bursting with innovations that could spark major productivity-enhancing technological and operational improvements.",
        "幸运的是，今天的私营部门实验室不乏创新成果，完全可能引发重大的生产力提高和技术营运改进。"
    ],
    [
        "Like a beneficent king, he would give them money, and promised to challenge the old elites in Bangkok – the bankers, generals, judges, and even the courtiers surrounding the Thai king.",
        "他会像仁慈的国王那样给他们钱，并承诺挑战曼谷的银行家、将军、法官、甚至是泰国国王臣子等老牌精英。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the New Climate Economy initiative, $89 trillion will be spent on global infrastructure investment by 2030 – with an additional $4.1 trillion needed to make it low-carbon and resilient.",
        "根据新气候经济（New Climate Economy）计划的数据，到2030年全球基础设施投资将达到89万亿美元——而要让这些投资变得低碳而高恢复力，必须在增加4. 1万亿美元投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, cooperation between the three institutions is unprecedented.",
        "此外，这三大机构之间的合作前所未有。"
    ],
    [
        "And, because their poverty was only relative and house prices were racing ahead, creditors were happy to let them sink deeper and deeper into debt.",
        "而由于他们的贫困只是相对的，而房价一直在上涨，因此债权人也愿意让他们在债务泥淖中越陷越深。"
    ],
    [
        "Paraphrasing the science writer Philip Ball, nature seems to have activated a time bomb, and our complexity is only a short-term fix.",
        "套用科普作家鲍尔（Phillip Ball）的说法，大自然激活了一颗定时炸弹，而我们的复杂性只能短暂地延缓让计时器停摆。"
    ],
    [
        "But he also urged other leaders to put their countries first, too.",
        "但他也呼吁各国领导人也把自身的国家放在第一位。"
    ],
    [
        "The harm can be physical (stillbirths, deformities, and genetic disorders); but, even genetic engineering that is technically successful can cause psychosocial harm to children, who may be shunned by peers for being odd-looking or merely “different.”",
        "危害可能是生理的（死胎、畸形和遗传缺陷），但即使是技术成功的基因工程也可能给儿童带来心理危害，他们可能会遭遇玩伴异样的目光，被视为“异类”。"
    ],
    [
        "Establishment parties were once controlled by globalization’s beneficiaries: capital owners; skilled, educated, and digitally savvy workers; urban and cosmopolitan elites; and unionized white- and blue-collar employees.",
        "那些老牌政党以往都处于全球化受益者——资本家； 高技术，高教育程度，熟练掌握数字技术的劳动者；"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1950’s, the French economist, Alfred Sauvy had a comparable success with the expression “third world.”",
        "五十年代，法国经济学家索维创造了“第三世界”一词也同样人人皆知。"
    ],
    [
        "MANILA – The possibility that the US Federal Reserve could raise the interest rate for the first time in a decade sent jitters across emerging markets for weeks.",
        "发自马尼拉——美联储可能在近十年来首次加息的消息让一批新兴市场国家连续几周不得安宁。"
    ],
    [
        "Long life is our desire, eternal youth our supposed right, and the myth of the body without origin or limits our new religion.",
        "长寿是我们的希望，永葆青春是我们假象的权利，身体没有起源或限制的神话是我们的新信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, the sharp appreciation of the real’s exchange rate – driven by high global commodities prices – has diminished export competitiveness.",
        "此外，里亚尔汇率的急剧升值——受全球大宗商品价格高企驱动——影响了巴西的出口竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in almost all living creatures, hemoglobin is encapsulated in red blood cells, which protect the body from the protein’s negative effects (and, in turn, protect hemoglobin from the body’s digestive enzymes).",
        "事实上，在几乎所有生物中，血红蛋白都被封闭在红细胞中，以保护肢体免受这种蛋白质的消极作用（并反过来保护血红蛋白免受肢体消化酶的作用）。"
    ],
    [
        "But they should always be heard.",
        "但我们永远应该聆听他们的声音。"
    ],
    [
        "This party, now using the presumptuous name “The Left,” has gained a foothold in West Germany with its impossible promises of higher pensions, a minimum hourly wage of €10, huge public investment schemes, and zero unemployment – in short, exactly the kind of socialist paradise that failed in East Germany.",
        "这个现在想当然使用“左翼”名称的党派已经靠着高退休金、10欧元最低小时工资、巨额公共投资计划和零失业率的空头承诺在西德站住了脚——简言之，这与已经在东德粉身碎骨的社会主义天堂简直一模一样。"
    ],
    [
        "The momentous move toward fossil fuels has done a lot of good.",
        "转向化石燃料的有力趋势带来了诸多好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Playing a game of balance between Russia and the West allows the elite to remain in power, and to preserve the oligarchical economy in an otherwise harmful equilibrium of semi-reform.",
        "在俄罗斯和西方之间玩平衡游戏，使得精英能保有权利，维持寡头经济，而非进入有害的半改革平衡状态。"
    ],
    [
        "We want to infect you with the dream that anyone can become part of a new movement with the potential to change the world of education.",
        "我们也想要让你们也着迷于这一构想，也就是任何人都可以参与这一新的运动。 这一运动有可能改变整个教育世界。"
    ],
    [
        "And Trump – like the “Leave” campaign in the United Kingdom – was embraced by many voters who feel left behind.",
        "而特朗普——就像英国的“脱欧”阵营——受到了许多自感被抛下的选民的拥戴。"
    ],
    [
        "The two objectives, though not incompatible, are entirely different from one another, and few policy tools can simultaneously help to achieve both.",
        "这两个目标虽然算不上不相容，但也大不相同，几无政策工具可以同时有助于达到两个目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But the current crackdown is much greater in scope, and far more concerning, in part because it is being enabled by American apathy.",
        "但这次镇压涉及范围要大得多，并引发人们更深重的关切，因为这在某种程度上是美国漠不关心所导致的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "This includes not only the mobilization of private investment, but also the deployment of the vast amounts of technical, operational, and locally tailored expertise that private companies have gained in the course of doing business around the world.",
        "这不但包括动员私人投资，也包括部署为数巨大的科技、经营和适合当地的专家，私营公司在全世界经商的过程中积累了大量这样的专家。"
    ],
    [
        "Freedom of speech is a fundamental democratic liberty.",
        "言论自由是一个基本的民主自由。"
    ],
    [
        "He tried to humanize it and undo the cruelty of Stalinist orthodoxy, but never doubted that the Leninist system was the way of the future.",
        "他试图使共产主义变的更人性化，并把正统斯大林主义者的残酷行径矫正过来。 但他从不怀疑列宁主义就是通向未来的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as Argentine economist and Columbia University professor Guillermo Calvo has long argued, precisely because they are unsustainable, populist policies cause people to shift spending from the uncertain future to the present, when the going is good.",
        "而且，就像阿根廷经济学家兼哥伦比亚大学教授吉列尔莫·卡尔沃一直坚持的那样，恰恰因为民粹主义政策不可持续，才会导致人们将未来的消费转移到现在，在情况尚好的时候及时行乐。"
    ],
    [
        "One must add structural problems to this mix – problems that have not been dealt with since the crisis erupted.",
        "而我们必须在这个复杂的问题中增加结构性问题这一项——这些问题自危机爆发以来都没能得到处理。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on surveys of local officials, patronage, not merit, has become the most critical factor in the appointment process.",
        "根据对地方官员的调查，送礼（而不是积累优点）已经成为官员委任过程中的最关键因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The EFR stands at around 2.4 for the world as a whole, barely above the replacement rate.",
        "世界有效生育率水平为2. 4左右，比替换率高了没多少。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone can no longer sustain continued uncertainty and high real interest rates in the peripheral countries, so the ECB must provide a solid and credible bridge to the future.",
        "欧元区再也无法承受周边国家持续的不确定性和高企的实际利率，因此欧洲央行必须搭建起通往未来的坚实可靠的桥梁。"
    ],
    [
        "The Liberal-Conservative coalition inherits, by common consent, the worst economic legacy since the war, with a huge hole in the public finances that is starting to look ever deeper as new ministers get a chance to inspect things for themselves.",
        "两党联盟继承了自二战以来公认最大的经济烂摊子，估计当新任部长们得以亲自视察问题之时，公共财政的窟窿甚至已经开始不断扩大了。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama’s offers of security guarantees and “nuclear umbrellas” have not been able to restore their trust.",
        "奥巴马所提供的安全保障和“核保护伞”没能重塑它们的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "The key to this puzzle is tacit knowledge.",
        "破解这一难题的关键是隐性知识。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, technology transfer from China and India could be a mere smokescreen for a new “brown imperialism” aimed at exploiting African oil, food, and minerals.",
        "当然，中国和印度的技术转让也许仅仅是一种烟幕，它的背后是掠夺非洲的石油、食品和矿藏的一种新的“黄种帝国主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is no essential human need that requires us to kill whales.",
        "但是并不存在什么重大的人类需求需要我们去捕杀鲸鱼。"
    ],
    [
        "The Strong Force is Almost With Us",
        "强大的力量就快与我们同在"
    ],
    [
        "Size still matters.",
        "规模依然重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Aghion and Howitt view innovation as any change that leads to the introduction of new products or processes in the market where a firm operates.",
        "阿齐安和霍伊特将创新定义为一切将新产品或工艺引入企业在其中经营的市场的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "This evidence echoes similar findings in other countries.",
        "该证据与其他国家研究都得出了相似的结论。"
    ],
    [
        "A serious discussion of how to sustain fledgling multinational negotiations between Iran and the world’s six most powerful countries (the so-called P5 + 1) – a process denounced by many American pundits as a waste of time – is unlikely.",
        "怎样维持伊朗核世界六大强国（即所谓的P5+1）之间刚刚形成的谈判局面——许多美国专家认为这纯属浪费时间——的问题是不可能出现在辩论中的。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2013, decades of (gently) falling prices prompted the Bank of Japan to embark on an unprecedented monetary offensive.",
        "2013年，几十年的物价（温和）下跌促使日本银行采取了前所未有的货币攻势。"
    ],
    [
        "By acting with the shrewd pragmatism of a businessman, he will make America stronger and more prosperous.",
        "他将奉行商人的敏锐的务实主义，将让美国变得更加强大，更加繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "They are worth commemorating, if only because we are at risk of forgetting what we have learned since then.",
        "这两项创新都是值得铭记的——哪怕只是因为我们很可能会忘却了当年学到的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies exhibit similar behavior when it comes to acquiring innovative technologies, adhering to ineffective, restrictive processes, despite an ostensibly obvious alternative: the efficient systems that manufacturers use to secure inputs for production.",
        "企业在采用创新技术时往往行为类似，即无视表面显而易见的替代方案（企业采购生产原料的有效系统）而坚持采用低效的限制性流程。"
    ],
    [
        "The WEO’s prediction of a strengthening recovery this year continues the misdiagnosis.",
        "《世界经济展望》关于今年复苏加强的预测仍然是误判。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s ¥4 trillion stimulus package, unveiled in November 2008, restored confidence in global commodity markets.",
        "中国在2008年11月推出了四万亿人民币的刺激计划，重振了全球商品市场的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s problem is not the US, but how to wean the world’s largest, or second largest economy (depending on which data are used) off its deeply entrenched dependence on coal.",
        "中国的问题不在于美国，而在于如何让这个世界第一大或第二大（取决于使用和中数据）经济体摆脱对煤炭的深度依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar trends are apparent from China to Egypt to Greece.",
        "从中国到埃及再到希腊，同样的趋势都十分明显。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, these data can also help drive innovation and civic engagement, by enabling the development of new and more effective goods and services.",
        "其次，这些数据还能让更新更有效的商品和服务的开发成为可能，从而帮助推动创新和公民参与。"
    ],
    [
        "In both cases, banks took excessive risks in the expectation – eventually vindicated – that governments would bail them out.",
        "在这两次危机中，银行承担了过度的风险，因为它们料定——最终事实也正是如此——政府会出手挽救它们。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU has been the slowest of the world’s major economic centers to recover from the post-2008 slump.",
        "”2008年大崩盘后，欧盟是世界主要经济中心中复苏最慢的。"
    ],
    [
        "One hopes that, as the campaign progresses, honest and forward-looking fiscal-policy debates recognizing this fundamental truth gain traction.",
        "我们希望，随着选战的展开，承认这一基本事实的诚实的前瞻性财政政策争论会日益成为重点。"
    ],
    [
        "It is only along the coast, home to roughly one in three Chinese citizens, that most people can be said to have really joined the twenty-first century.",
        "只有在居住者三分之一人口的中国沿海地区，大多数人才称得上加入了二十一世纪。"
    ],
    [
        "There is something deeper going on here.",
        "这里面有着更深层次的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, the Greek electorate is rejecting the creditors’ demands in the name of national pride, democracy, and sovereignty; the creditors are angry not only at their attitude, but also at their government’s unreliability.",
        "如今，希腊选民打着国家尊严、民主和主权的旗号拒绝债权人的要求； 而债权人不但因为希腊选民的这一态度，也因为希腊政府的不可靠而愤怒。"
    ],
    [
        "And Grillo cannot even aspire to the job in Italy because of his criminal record.",
        "而格里罗甚至因为有过犯罪记录而不允许在意大利任职。"
    ],
    [
        "Other malaria margins where eradication efforts are underway are China, the Philippines, and Central America.",
        "其他正在努力消灭疟疾的地区有中国、菲律宾和中美洲国家。"
    ],
    [
        "The SED has made substantial progress in achieving these goals.",
        "这一制度在实现这些目标上已经取得实质性进展。"
    ],
    [
        "State power is even on the rise, partly as a backlash to globalization and as a result of growing wealth from energy markets.",
        "一部分原因是要对全球化作出回应，以及作为能源市场不断增加的财富效应的结果，国家的权力甚至还在增强，。"
    ],
    [
        "In the tradable part of advanced economies, manufacturing automation – including expanding robotic capabilities and, prospectively, 3D printing – has combined with the integration of millions of new entrants into rapidly evolving global supply chains to limit employment growth.",
        "在发达经济体中的可贸易部分，制造业自动化——包括不断提升的机器人技能以及预计即将出现的的3D印刷术——已经与成千上万新进入者融入高速演化的全球供应链的形势相结合，并因此限制了就业的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "They have tried that on several occasions in the US, most recently during the George W. Bush administration.",
        "）投资。 他们在美国做过几次尝试，最近的例子是小布什政府。"
    ],
    [
        "But that strategy will most likely reinforce the corruption that has been a fixture of Brazilian politics for decades – and which improved little under Lula.",
        "但问题在于，巴西的总投资额仅占到国内生产总值的16%，同比远低于墨西哥及拉丁美洲平均水平，更赶不上中国（40%）。 在这样的投资水平下，该国的基础设施必然难以维持高效运转，国家竞争力也将减弱。"
    ],
    [
        "People in the “country of origin” may pay a price, but so will the rest of us.",
        "“来源国”人民也许付出了代价，但我们其余所有人也要付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the fallout will disproportionately hurt poor and vulnerable communities, perpetuating the cycle of poverty and violence.",
        "否则，最贫穷和最脆弱的社区将承受最大的伤害，贫困和暴力的循环也将永久化。"
    ],
    [
        "For us, 1.5°C isn’t merely a symbolic or “aspirational” number to be plugged into international agreements; it is an existential limit.",
        "对我们而言， 1. 5°C绝不仅仅是国际协定中象征性或“梦寐以求”的数字；"
    ],
    [
        "By lumping asylum-seekers together with economic migrants, the latter are discredited, as though they were trying to squeeze in under false pretenses.",
        "将庇护寻求者和经济移民混为一谈损害了难民的信誉，仿佛他们为了挤进边界而蒙混过关。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a game-changer.",
        "这可能扭转整个局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite his radical views, Corbyn won the battle to lead Labour – and hence Britain’s parliamentary opposition, with nearly 60% of the vote.",
        "尽管观点激进，但柯比赢得了工党领导权——也因此拥有了英国议会反对党近60%的选票。"
    ],
    [
        "Is it fair to expect Egyptians to continue paying for their previous repression and impoverishment at the hands of Mubarak and his cronies?",
        "现在要埃及人民继续为此前从穆巴拉克及其走狗那里得到的压迫和贫困买单，这公平吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In order to ensure that the US is too harassed to be able to threaten it, Iran has consistently obstructed Bush’s mission of regional transformation.",
        "为了确保美国不堪其烦，以致不能对其构成威胁，伊朗一直不断地阻挠布什实施地区性变革的使命。"
    ],
    [
        "She compounded the problem when she claimed, falsely, that her predecessors had done the same thing, and that State Department security officials had cleared it.",
        "她错误地宣称她的前任也这么做过，并且国务院安全官员已经清理了邮件，这让问题更加复杂化了。"
    ],
    [
        "While the decline in aggregate demand led to reduced imports, the combination of higher interest rates, lower public expenditure, tax increases, and wage deflation boosted unemployment and triggered recession.",
        "总需求的下滑导致了的减少，尽管如此，利率的升高、公共支出的下降、税收的增加以及工资通缩的合力导致失业率高企，经济陷入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "But we need more than science to use these tools effectively.",
        "但我们需要比科学更多的东西才能有效使用这些工具。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, what appeared to be a form of political-military brinkmanship by Kim may actually be a manifestation of Shenyang’s reaction to Xi’s struggle to reassert Party authority over Bo’s faction and its supporters in the military.",
        "换句话说，金正恩的政治-军事擦边球实际上是沈阳对习近平重新将党的权威凌驾于薄熙来派系及其军中支持者之上的斗争的宣战书。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not the only threat that austerity poses to Germany’s hard-won prosperity.",
        "但紧缩给德国好不容易赢得的繁荣所造成的威胁不止于此。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, where the asset side of the balance sheet is large, the strategy of shrinking it via privatization has been largely rejected, at least for now.",
        "中国资产负债表上的资产一面非常巨大，通过私有化来对其进行收缩的策略已经被摈弃了，至少目前来说是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Do we know of any cultures that have remained unchanged through time?",
        "我们知道哪个文化在经历时间的洗涤后仍然保持不变呢？"
    ],
    [
        "To reach this goal, people who are symptomatic or at high risk need to be connected to the health system for testing.",
        "要实现这一目标，有艾滋病症状者和高风险者必须联系卫生系统接受检测。"
    ],
    [
        "In such a future scenario, a Hollywood blockbuster might be about networks of computers fighting each other, while humans stand by.",
        "在这一未来情境中，好莱坞大片也许会刻画计算机网络之间的互相战斗，而人类在一旁待命。"
    ],
    [
        "The massive reserves notwithstanding, coal is still a finite resource.",
        "尽管储藏巨大，但是煤炭依旧是有限资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Indonesia is moving in the opposite direction.",
        "印尼则在向相反的方向变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is impossible to imagine China’s leaders approving a loan to a country that, say, recognizes Taiwan or accepts Tibetan claims to independence.",
        "事实上，很难想象中国领导人批准向一个（比如）承认台湾或接受西藏独立的国家贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "But it makes a big difference whether such activities are conducted by Russia or China, or by an ally that repeatedly emphasizes the importance of close transatlantic friendship and cooperation.",
        "但这样的行为来自俄罗斯和中国，还是来自一再强调跨大西洋紧密友好和合作关系的盟友，其中的差别是巨大的。"
    ],
    [
        "Warren’s opponents like to suggest that her ideas are somehow outside the mainstream; in fact, she draws support from across the political spectrum.",
        "那些反对沃伦的人喜欢将她的提案归结为某种非主流观点； 但事实上，她赢得了来自各派派别的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Longtime regime opponents, too, were caught off guard.",
        "连那些老牌反对派也一时间失了方寸。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian military procurement, it claims, has plummeted. For example, only three new military aircraft have been purchased since 2000.",
        "它宣称俄罗斯的军购大幅下滑，例如自2000年以来只采购了3架新的军用飞机。"
    ],
    [
        "Democracy in the sense of free elections within certain rules does not allow the rest of us to say that the cause of freedom has prevailed and that we can walk away.",
        "按照特定规则进行自由选举的民主不允许我们这些旁观者说自由事业已经取得了胜利，而且从此撒手不管。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, tolerance degenerates into multicultural segregation.",
        "与此同时，忍让最终蜕变成了不同文化间的隔离。"
    ],
    [
        "Leading German political figures are becoming increasingly suspicious of the European Central Bank, while also worrying aloud about the US Federal Reserve’s monetary policy.",
        "德国政治领导人越来越不信任欧洲央行，对美联储的货币政策也是颇有微词。"
    ],
    [
        "A country at peace with itself and its neighbors, with a constitution upholding basic human rights and the rule of law, was the desire of almost everyone.",
        "几乎所有人都希望与国内民众及周边国家和平共处，并制定宪法保障基本的人权与法治。"
    ],
    [
        "In France, we fear a lack of boldness; in Germany, we fear complacency.",
        "在法国，我们担心果断不足； 在德国，我们担心自鸣得意。"
    ],
    [
        "Two Cheers for the Rhineland Model",
        "莱茵兰模式的两项可喜之处"
    ],
    [
        "Being gay has given me a deeper understanding of what it means to be in the minority and provided a window into the challenges that people in other minority groups deal with every day.”",
        "身为同性恋让我能够更深地理解这对少数群体意味着什么，也为我提供了一个窗口一窥其他少数群体在应对日常生活中的挑战。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Northern politicians and emirs (traditional Muslim leaders) have used the ongoing insurgency to damage Jonathan’s credibility, thereby strengthening their campaign to return the presidency to the north.",
        "北方政客和埃米尔（传统穆斯林领袖）利用持续叛乱破坏乔纳森的信誉，从而强化他们让总统宝座回归北方的图谋。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the share of government debt that can be pooled must be strictly limited, leaving each country responsible for a significant portion of its national debt, and therefore motivated to maintain sound public finances.",
        "首先，可以集中的政府债务份额必须严格限定，各国将对国民债务的大头各自负责，从而驱使它们维持审慎的公共财政。"
    ],
    [
        "The rating agencies have long placed Greek debt deep in junk territory, and are now giving Portuguese and Irish debt the same status.",
        "各大评级机构也一早就将希腊国债归入垃圾债券一档，最近也将葡萄牙和爱尔兰放入这一行列。"
    ],
    [
        "The global leaders in stevia production are Paraguay, China, and the United States, with Kenya close behind.",
        "巴拉圭、中国和美国，以及紧随其后的肯尼亚是全球甜叶菊生产的领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, developing countries, including those in Sub-Saharan Africa, have the potential to expand their industrial sectors rapidly, because they can borrow technology from the advanced countries with little risk and at low cost.",
        "相比之下，包括撒哈拉沙漠以南非洲国家在内的发展中国家具有快速扩大工业部门的潜力，因为它们能够以低成本从发达国家那里借用技术而不要冒什么风险。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of the twentieth century, however, many of these old service occupations were reappearing on a large scale, as dual-career households needed additional “help.”",
        "但到二十世纪末，不少原有服务业大规模重新出现，为双职工家庭提供更多“帮助”。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations, patients in China can have a 40-50% chance of being sold fake over-the-counter remedies and an even higher chance of being sold fake prescription drugs.",
        "据国际制药工业协会联合会统计，中国病人有40-50%的机会在药店里买到假药，而处方药造假的比例比这还要高。"
    ],
    [
        "But taking away Japan’s sovereign right to use military force had one major consequence: Japanese security was put almost entirely into American hands, reducing Japan to the status of a vassal state.",
        "但将动武权从主权权利中剔除具有一个重要后果：日本的安全几乎完全交给了美国，这让日本沦为附庸国地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, after the 2008 financial crisis erupted, President Barack Obama leveled off the US financing, and the global AIDS control effort got caught in a “half-way” mode.",
        "但是，2008年金融危机爆发后，总统奥巴马减少了美国的融资支持，全球艾滋病控制措施也陷入了“半途”。"
    ],
    [
        "For non-eurozone countries, the proposals provide for a mechanism to join on a voluntary basis and submit to the ECB’s authority.",
        "对非欧元区国家来说，这一方案提供了以自愿为基础、向欧洲央行移交权力的加入机制。"
    ],
    [
        "This must stop.",
        "这一状况必须停止。"
    ],
    [
        "Some propose re-harmonizing international markets with national autonomy, as occurred under Bretton Woods.",
        "一些人提出重新如布雷顿森林体系那样协调国际市场和国家自主权。"
    ],
    [
        "There is growing recognition, some of it grudging, that the coalition led by the Pakistan People’s Party has managed to create a political structure built on fairly stable foundations.",
        "越来越多的人意识到——有一些颇为勉强——巴基斯坦人民党领导的联盟已经设法建立了一个基于相当稳定的基础的政治结构。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, an increasing number of firms have started to deploy the massive stocks of cash held on their balance sheets, first to increase dividends and buy back shares, and then to pursue mergers and acquisitions at a rate last seen in 2007.",
        "事实上，越来越多的企业开始更有效的使用资产负债表上持有的大量现金，首先是增加股息和回购股票，然后是以自2007年以来不曾有的规模进行兼并和收购。"
    ],
    [
        "Wang Guanzhong, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the People’s Liberation Army, blasted Hagel and Abe for “corroborating and colluding…to provoke and challenge China.”",
        "解放军副总参谋长王冠中反驳哈格尔和安倍“言之凿凿，一唱一和……挑衅和挑战中国。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "A thirst for knowledge, a delight in engaging with the world, and empathy with people from different cultures are qualities that can ensure diversity in unity, and unity in diversity.",
        "对知识的渴望、与世界交流的欣喜和对不同民族文化的同理心是确保我们能异中求同，同中存异的基本素质。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early to mid-1990’s, rates were kept low because of banks’ real-estate problems.",
        "在1990年代中早期为了解决银行的地产问题而一直压低利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Rome did not succumb to the rise of another empire, but to the onslaught of waves of barbarians.",
        "罗马抵挡得住其它崛起的帝国，却招架不住野蛮人一波又一波的的攻击。"
    ],
    [
        "The short answer is exports.",
        "简单回答就是出口的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union dithered for years before acknowledging that private loans to Greece should be written down.",
        "欧盟犹豫多年才承认希腊民间借贷需要减记。"
    ],
    [
        "A recent Indian Express investigation revealed what can happen when access to financial services is provided in a vacuum.",
        "最近一期印度快讯报调查显示，在真空中提供金融服务会带来什么样的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "From Colegio Nacional in Buenos Aires to Stuyvesant High School in New York City, institutions that are public, meritocratic, and free have long and distinguished records of achievement across the Americas.",
        "从布宜诺斯艾利斯的国立大学到纽约市史帝文森高中，拉美各国任人唯才的免费公立学校所取得的成绩最为突出。"
    ],
    [
        "One incident in southern Somalia vividly demonstrated how insecurity can hamper humanitarian work.",
        "在索马里南部发生的事件清楚地表明了不安全的局面会如何妨碍人道主义工作。"
    ],
    [
        "But the IMF imposed strict austerity on these countries, pushing them into a prolonged depression.",
        "但国际货币基金组织勒令这些国家实行严格的紧缩政策，并因此将他们推入长期的经济萧条之中。"
    ],
    [
        "With few exceptions (such as Australia and New Zealand), the vast majority of the world’s advanced economies are or will soon be in this category.",
        "除了极少数的例外（比如澳大利亚和新西兰），世界绝大多数的发达经济体都属于或即将属于这类高债务水平的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, what, precisely, do the new countries get out of membership other than the nagging intrusions of the Brussels bureaucracy?",
        "否则，新成员国们除了受到来自布鲁塞尔的官僚主义喋喋不休的侵扰之外，究竟还能从成员资格中得到什么好处呢？"
    ],
    [
        "And, in the US, ideological polarization between Democrats and Republicans will continue to paralyze economic policy.",
        "而在美国，民主党和共和党之间的意识形态分化也将继续阻碍经济政策的制订。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of 2011, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski called upon Germany to take a stronger leadership role in Europe.",
        "2011年底，波兰外长拉多斯瓦夫·西科尔斯基呼吁德国在欧洲发挥更大的领导作用。"
    ],
    [
        "That likelihood naturally increases when health facilities lack toilets, running water, and other basic sanitary conditions, as is often the case in low-income countries.",
        "就像低收入国家一样，如果卫生机构缺乏厕所、自来水和其它基本卫生条件，感染几率自然就会上升。"
    ],
    [
        "The most recent note, sent through a group of visiting American academics, asked the US government to take a more balanced position in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.",
        "其中最新一条通过到访美国学者传达的信息要求美国政府在以巴冲突中采取一个更加中立的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, China depends on US demand for its exports, but the US also depends on China: the Chinese own over $1.5 trillion in US Treasury securities and other US dollar-based assets.",
        "诚然，中国的出口依靠美国的需求，但美国也依靠中国：中国拥有1. 5万亿多美元的美国国债和其他美元计价资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither scenario is very likely.",
        "两种情况都不太可能。"
    ],
    [
        "But, rather than earning him the respect of an outraged Egyptian public, revelations in the opposition press that his plane had to obtain a safe passage and authority to land from the Israelis garnered only howls of derision.",
        "但那次访问不但没能赢得愤怒的埃及公众对他的尊重，反而使他成为了笑柄，因为反对派媒体上披露他的专机被迫为安全通行和降落请求以色列人的批准。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this argument backfired.",
        "不幸的是，这一观点适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "Many investments in new fossil-fuel reserves will lose money – lots of it – owing to the recent fall in world oil prices.",
        "许多新化石燃料储量方面的投资将是亏本买卖——非常亏本的买卖，因为当前世界油价呈现大跌之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, the corruption of US politics (especially campaign funding by the oil and gas industry) threatened the global consensus on climate change.",
        "诚然，美国政坛的腐败（特别是石油和天然气行业的政治献金）威胁到关于气候变化的全球共识。"
    ],
    [
        "The initial reaction in Europe was that Putin either was bluffing or had taken leave of his senses.",
        "一开始，欧洲以为普京不是虚张声势就是疯了。"
    ],
    [
        "Could there be a better alternative?",
        "有更好的替代方案吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Tempers remain inflamed, with US Ambassador Nancy Powell, in a New Year’s message to Indians, ruefully acknowledging that ties have been “jolted by very different reactions to issues involving one of your consular officers and her domestic worker.”",
        "美国驻印度大使鲍威尔（Nancy Powell）在纽约给印度人民的信中沮丧地说，印美关系“因为牵涉到你们的领事官员及其本国工人的事件的不同反应而受到了伤害。 ”但印度人民依然怒气冲天。"
    ],
    [
        "I suspect that emerging-market policymakers’ hearts are advocating the former.",
        "我认为，新兴市场决策者是倾向于前者的。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, as they pursue overseas mergers and acquisitions, some Chinese corporations have taken large amounts of capital out of China legally.",
        "比如，在寻求海外并购的过程中，一些中国公司合法地将大量资本输出国外。"
    ],
    [
        "At least seven general elections will be held in European Union member countries this year (and France will hold regional elections in March).",
        "今年欧盟成员国将举行至少七次大选（法国地区选举将于三月举行）。"
    ],
    [
        "Their conclusion is that “achieving the SDGs will probably be impossible” in a world beholden to “the antiquated Westphalian model of nation-states.”",
        "他们的结论是，在一个受制于“过时的威斯特伐利亚民族国家模式”的世界中，“实现SDG也许是不可能的”。"
    ],
    [
        "On the same day, a group of 20 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, India, China, and Brazil, agreed to double their investment in green energy, to a total of $20 billion a year.",
        "同一天，包括美国、英国、德国、印度、中国和巴西在内的二十国同意将绿色能源投资扩大一倍，总额达到每年200亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the surveys found little support among any of these three major groups for sectarian conflict.",
        "与此同时，在调查中还发现在三大族群中对宗派冲突持支持态度的人几乎没有。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of stimulating the economy in the next downturn, the Republicans in Congress are likely to respond perversely.",
        "国会中的共和党不太可能在下一次衰退中采取刺激经济的手段，而是会表现得更加顽固。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Trump’s position is more popular than its polar opposite on only one economic issue: globalization.",
        "事实上，特朗普只有一个经济问题的立场比他的对立面更受欢迎：全球化。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – Narratives matter, especially when they are intertwined with hard interests.",
        "布鲁塞尔—叙事（narrative）很重要，特别是当它们与切实利益纠结在一起时。"
    ],
    [
        "John F. Kennedy chose his formerly bitter opponent, Lyndon B. Johnson.",
        "就像约翰·F·肯尼迪曾选择他之前的死对头林登·约翰逊一样。"
    ],
    [
        "A risk-sharing facility could limit the decline in actual growth after a crisis, while prompt EU-financed investment would prevent a country from shifting to a lower growth path.",
        "风险共担便利能够限制危机后的世纪增长下跌幅度，与此同时，及时的欧盟融资投资项目能够防止防止一国向更低的增长路径迁移。"
    ],
    [
        "Many companies – particularly multinational firms accustomed to old and aging populations in the advanced countries – will have to adapt accordingly.",
        "许多企业——尤其是习惯于和发达国家的高龄消费者打交道的那些——必须对此做出相应的调整。"
    ],
    [
        "These asset bubbles were inflated by lax lending standards and an excessive willingness to borrow, which seemed similar to the Greek government’s willingness to take on debt to pay lavish pensions.",
        "这些资产泡沫是由宽松的贷款标准以及过度的贷款意愿支撑起来的，而这似乎跟希腊政府借款来支付慷慨养老金的意愿非常相似。"
    ],
    [
        "Even today, per capita US emissions are more than four times higher than China’s.",
        "但即便是今天，美国人均排放量仍然是中国的四倍还多。"
    ],
    [
        "It is easy to deplore this type of destruction.",
        "公开谴责这种破坏是容易的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Muslim Brotherhood has long called for a referendum on the treaty, viewing the restrictions on Egyptian forces in the Sinai as an affront to national sovereignty.",
        "穆斯林兄弟会长期要求就条约举行公投，认为限制埃及在西奈半岛的军事行动是对国家主权的公然践踏。"
    ],
    [
        "Engineers, doctors, and nurses are in short supply; so, too, are farmhands and health aides.",
        "工程师、医生和护士均存在供给不足，农场工人和健康护理师也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "In relative terms, rich countries got even richer.",
        "从相对值看，发达国家越来越富。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – In this election season in the United States, President Barack Obama is two men in one.",
        "普林斯顿—美国的这次大选季，总统奥巴马是个双面人物。"
    ],
    [
        "Who would commit to a long-term investment in the UK without knowing what legal arrangements will be in place?",
        "如果弄不清楚法律安排会是怎样，谁还会去英国进行长期投资？"
    ],
    [
        "These contracts are still relatively new and evolving in China.",
        "在中国，这些民间合约关系相对较新，仍处于发展演进的过程中。"
    ],
    [
        "Having been left outside the club, these countries have no option but to self-insure by accumulating foreign-exchange reserves.",
        "由于被排除在这一俱乐部之外，这些国家别无选择，只能通过囤积外汇储备来保护自己。"
    ],
    [
        "We can no longer afford to treat them as deadweight in permanent camps.",
        "我们不能再把他们视为永久性难民营中的重负。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also a moving target.",
        "这也是一个移动目标。"
    ],
    [
        "If Arafat had taken this road - accepting Israel's existence, ending terrorism, and confronting Palestinian extremists - the conflict would have ended long ago.",
        "如果阿拉法特选择了另一条路－接受以色列的存在、结束恐怖、反对巴勒斯坦极端份子－那么这场冲突很早以前就已经结束了。"
    ],
    [
        "An atmosphere in which unlawful deeds become heroic acts was a signature feature of Stalin's rule.",
        "不法行为成为英雄壮举的气氛是斯大林统治的一大特征。"
    ],
    [
        "On December 4, he drove 350 miles from his home in North Carolina to Comet Ping Pong, armed with an assault rifle, a revolver, and a knife.",
        "12月4日，他从家乡北卡罗来纳驱车350英里抵达彗星乒乓餐厅，随身携带突击步枪、左轮手枪和刀具。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe’s visit to Washington in late April is an opportunity to continue to modernize a relationship conceived in an earlier geopolitical era.",
        "安倍四月底对华盛顿的访问是继续使形成于地缘政治时代的关系现代化的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Either outcome would mean that the Chief Executive has missed an opportunity to send the right signal that Hong Kong stands for good public governance rather than cronyism.",
        "无论最后是哪一种结果，都意味着行政长官错失了发送正确信息，表明香港支持良好公共治政，而不是任人唯亲的难得的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "If he does, the dollar’s international appeal would be reinforced over time.",
        "如果答案是肯定的，那么美元的国际吸引力将随时间增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of the energy is lost as waste heat.",
        "大部分能量以废热的形式浪费掉了。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, the screened population must be better off than the non-screened population.",
        "换句话说，被筛查人群的境况必须较未被筛查人群更好。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes, that entails deliberate public spectacles.",
        "有时这就意味着刻意导演一场公开的闹剧。"
    ],
    [
        "At the bottom were 25% who had a police record for some kind of bad behavior.",
        "最差的25%具有坏行为的警方记录。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then could a new, long-term development strategy in Afghanistan – one that admits that the international community is not winning the war, and that the status quo is unacceptable – be implemented.",
        "只有到那时，一个在阿富汗的新的长期发展战略—一个承认国际社会正在战争中落败，且当前形势不可接受的战略—才能付诸实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Their attitude wasn’t one of outright rudeness or contempt; it was so much worse than that.",
        "他们的态度不是赤裸裸的粗鲁和轻蔑； 比这还要糟糕得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Some analysts have recently claimed that this is because the pursuit of GDP growth, job creation, and financial stability, as well as the establishment of priorities when there are tradeoffs, clearly requires political decisions, which should not be made by unelected officials alone.",
        "一些分析师最近声称这是因为追求GDP增长、就业创造、金融稳定以及在存在权衡时决定孰先孰后显然要求政治决策，而政治决策不应该光由非民选官员做出。"
    ],
    [
        "How the European Union responds to this crisis matters not just for humanitarian reasons; it will also be a bellwether of the future of the Union itself.",
        "欧盟如何应对这一危机不仅关乎人道主义； 同时预示着欧盟自身的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, fewer than 200 people work at the Center for Drug Evaluation, the agency that reviews applications for new drugs.",
        "在中国，评审新药申请的药品审评中心只有不到200名工作人员。"
    ],
    [
        "Others worry about national security: what would happen if “our” ports and security industries or other “strategic” firms were taken over by China, Russia, or Saudi Arabia?",
        "还有人担心国家安全。 如果“我们的”港口和安全产业或者其他“战略性”公司被中国、俄国或者沙特接管，那将会发生什么事情？"
    ],
    [
        "Normally, all NCBs in the euro system undertake the same operations, and the results are pooled.",
        "通常情况下，欧元体系内所有国家的央行都采取同样的行动，并将行动结果汇聚在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "There was the Pig and Potato War of 1859, the Affair of the Dancing Lamas in 1924, and the Bogotá Bracelet incident of 1970, to name just a few.",
        "1859年有猪和土豆战争（Pig and Potato War），1924年有跳舞的喇嘛事件（Affair of the Dancing Lamas），1970年有波哥大手镯（Bogotá Bracelet）事故，诸如此类。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a duty, because climate change now affects our everyday lives.",
        "说它是责任，因为气候变化现在已影响到我们的日常生活。"
    ],
    [
        "As time passes, the senselessness of this policy will become increasingly apparent.",
        "随着时间推移，这一政策的不合理性也日益凸显。"
    ],
    [
        "If there is a global downturn, any region that is long stocks and short bonds is going to get burned.",
        "如果出现全世界的经济下滑，任何买空股票以及卖空债券的地区都会损失惨重。"
    ],
    [
        "But providing energy to all will require governments to discontinue subsidies for fossil fuels and unsustainable agriculture.",
        "但向所有人提供能源要求政府停止化石燃料和不可持续农业的补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Coalition forces should take a more robust approach to the drug problem.",
        "联合部队应当对毒品问题采取更为强硬的手段。"
    ],
    [
        "The monks are the preservers of dharma; by attacking them, the generals attack Buddhism itself.",
        "僧侣是佛法的守护者； 袭击他们，将军们就是在袭击佛教本身。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Spanish factories have boosted their productivity to such a degree that they are now taking orders away from their European competitors.",
        "事实上，西班牙企业已经将自身生产力提高到一定程度，甚至可以从其欧洲竞争者手中争得订单。"
    ],
    [
        "We must remember that Mussolini and Hitler were ultimately brought to power by a king and a retired general, respectively – in other words, traditional elites, not street-fighting fanatics.",
        "我们需要记住墨索里尼和希特勒最终分别是由国王和退休将军扶上政坛——换句话说他们的权力来源于传统精英，而不是街头的狂热份子。"
    ],
    [
        "· Give yourself a small reward each time you achieve one of the steps towards your goal;",
        "· 每当向目标迈进一步时，都给自己一点小小的奖励；"
    ],
    [
        "More than 20 million people in those four countries alone remain severely food-insecure, and the United Nations estimates that $1.8 billion in immediate humanitarian aid is needed.",
        "仅上述四国就有超过两千万人仍面临严重的粮食短缺，而据联合国估计需要提供价值18亿美元的紧急人道主义援助。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidence is mounting that America’s war in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of civilian Iraqis, and perhaps well over one hundred thousand.",
        "最近不断有证据表明，成千上百名无辜伊拉克平民在美国发动的对伊战争中死亡，可能还远远不止十万。"
    ],
    [
        "So, are we entering a post-dollar world?",
        "那么，我们正在进入后美元时代吗？"
    ],
    [
        "But gaining time for a more orderly resolution, mitigating contagion, and reducing the size of an eventual write-down do indeed add up to a superior outcome.",
        "但为一个更加有序方案的出台争取时间，减少危机扩散，并压缩最终违约的规模也确实能为实现一个更高层次成果添砖加瓦。"
    ],
    [
        "But voters are not so easily manipulated: they have seen through the trick, and are rightly convinced by the numerous studies, from sources in and out of government, showing that the lion’s share of the tax cut goes to corporations and the very rich.",
        "但选民却不那么容易被操纵：他们已经看透了这个伎俩，并且从政府内外的众多研究中正确地明白到大部分的减税其实是流进了企业以及那些有钱人的腰包。"
    ],
    [
        "But the country that will be most affected is Pakistan, which faces challenges to its territorial and political integrity.",
        "但受影响最大的国家将是领土和政治完整性受到挑战的巴基斯坦。"
    ],
    [
        "At least the panda smiled.",
        "不过熊猫至少表示了些善意。"
    ],
    [
        "The large number of elderly and retired people means that spending on health care and social security now consumes 29.2% of the budget, a one-third increase since 2000.",
        "大量老人和退休人员意味着医疗保健和社会保障开支现在占到总体预算的29. 2%，比2000年增长了三分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "This gives them access to many different ways of understanding the economy.",
        "这给了他们以众多不同方式理解经济的钥匙。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, many markets are still in early stages of development, and must be built through concerted consumer education and trial.",
        "同样，许多市场依然处于发展初期，必须通过切实的消费者教育和测试才能构建起来。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Central Bank’s mandate is to ensure price stability, but inflation is far from Europe’s most important macroeconomic problem today.",
        "欧洲中央银行受命来确保价格稳定，但是通货膨胀已经远非现今欧洲最重要的宏观经济问题了。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulatory authorities could not have been expected to predict the sudden public attention to the newly discovered risk of runs on nonbank financial companies.",
        "你不能预期监管当局预测到大众突然开始关注新发现的非银行金融公司的挤兑风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Altogether, support provided by the Global Fund has saved more than nine million lives – a remarkable achievement.",
        "总而言之，全球基金的支持挽救了九百多万人的生命——了不起的成就。"
    ],
    [
        "Because it is itself based on rules, it is the strongest champion of rules-based economic interdependence.",
        "欧盟本身便是基于规则而成立，因此它是基于规则的经济互相依存的最大支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet as a condition, he may insist that Californians, who are already among the most heavily taxed Americans, pay more.",
        "然而，作为条件，他可能会坚持要加州人民付更高的税收，而加州已经是美国课税最重的州之一了。"
    ],
    [
        "Globalization has strengthened the ability of capital to flow to wherever investment promises the highest returns; likewise, competitive manufactured products from low-wage economies will flow in the other direction.",
        "全球化强化了资本向有最大投资回报可能的地方流动的能力； 同理，来自低工资经济体的具有竞争力的制造业产品将向其它国家流动。"
    ],
    [
        "Their litigation strategy took advantage of a standard contractual clause (called pari passu) intended to ensure that all claimants are treated equally.",
        "它们的诉讼战略利用了标准的契约条款（称为平权条款），该条款的本意是确保所有债权人得到平等对待。"
    ],
    [
        "I have no idea why Casablanca is an up-and-coming center, and the GFCI’s compilers do not explain.",
        "我想不出为何卡萨布兰卡会是即将崛起的中心，GFCI排名者也没有作出解释。"
    ],
    [
        "A unilateral blanket bailout would stress the banking union, stretch public finances, and leave the Italian banking system with its structural weakness.",
        "单方面一刀切援助将导致银行联盟承压，公共财政吃紧，而意大利银行系统结构性弱点依旧。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama also initially appeared to make some progress in giving voice to the universal values of human rights and democracy.",
        "而奥巴马似乎也在人权和民主这些普世价值方面有所斩获。"
    ],
    [
        "In that sense, productivity rose in the tradable sector, although structural shifts in the global economy were surely as important as employees becoming more efficient at doing the same things.",
        "从这个角度讲，可贸易部门生产率有所提高，尽管其中全球经济的结构变化的重要性不亚于员工做同样工作的效率得到提高。"
    ],
    [
        "In contrast to last year, when the rush home for the lunar New Year celebration was hampered by freak storms, this year millions of migrant workers have already returned to their rural homes.",
        "去年那次反常的暴风雪阻断了人们回家庆祝农历新年的旅程，而今年则恰恰相反，数以百万计的离乡民工已经回到了他们在农村的家中。"
    ],
    [
        "The fight against terror turns on who will strike first; so far, the terrorists have been faster and more professional than the Russian state.",
        "反恐的关键在于谁先发动攻击； 到目前为止，恐怖分子的行动比俄罗斯国家更为迅速和专业。"
    ],
    [
        "When the central bank buys large amounts of bonds, all asset prices, including housing, tend to increase.",
        "当中央银行大量购买债券时，所有资产（包括房产）价格都倾向于上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "The US retailer Wal-Mart, for example, plans to cut emissions equivalent to 3.8 million cars, in part by implementing energy-efficiency measures at its Chinese stores.",
        "比如美国零售企业沃尔玛就计划部分通过其中国门店落实能效措施，减少相当于380万量汽车的碳排放。"
    ],
    [
        "Such an outcome would not be surprising, given that US opposition (though in Congress, not within the Obama administration) blocked reforms, agreed in 2010, to increase China’s voting power within the IMF.",
        "这一结果不会令人奇怪，因为在2010年美国就曾扼杀（尽管是国会而非奥巴马政府反对）已经形成一致的增加中国在IMF投票权的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet we are paying through the nose for these renewables.",
        "但我们为这些 可再生能源投入得太多。"
    ],
    [
        "So at stake is no longer just Iraq, but rather the future of the entire region.",
        "因此，这不仅关系到伊拉克的命运，而且关系到整个地区的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "It is estimated that 200,000-400,000 healthcare facilities in developing countries lack access to reliable electricity.",
        "据估计，发展中国家有20—40万医疗设备得不到充足的电力供应。"
    ],
    [
        "More important programs – which could help those left behind by trade, technology, or something else – include an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit and health insurance.",
        "更重要的计划——帮助那些因为贸易、技术或其他原因而落后的人的计划——包括扩大的劳动收入税收优惠（Earned Income Tax Credit）和医疗保险。"
    ],
    [
        "States are not given roles; they acquire them by the power assets they can deploy.",
        "因为在一个国家施展自己的权力资产时就自动得到了一个角色。"
    ],
    [
        "On the other hand, foreign criticism of Germany for running a current-account surplus similar to China’s is unfounded.",
        "另一方面，外国批评德国，说它像中国一样维持着经常项目盈余，是没根据的。"
    ],
    [
        "If benefits are not reduced, the gap between receipts and expenditures will increase.",
        "如果不降低福利，收入与开销之间的差距将越拉越大。"
    ],
    [
        "All three arguments are weak.",
        "三个论点都不是很有说服力。"
    ],
    [
        "But that requires all of us to engage in a debate about what we need to do first.",
        "但是，这要求我们参加到有关哪些事情应当优先处理的辩论中来。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time that the World Bank publicly described Egypt as one of the region’s most corrupt countries, its own International Finance Corporation maintained Egypt as a leading customer.",
        "世界银行公开将埃及称为区域内最腐败的国家，但与此同时，世行下属的国际金融公司仍然把埃及当作最主要的客户。"
    ],
    [
        "Small wonder, then, that Germany, politically unable to vote on more bailout resources, has outsourced that job to the ECB, the only institution that can bypass democratically elected parliaments.",
        "因此，不必奇怪在政治上不可能赞成更多援助措施的德国会把这一职责踢给唯一能够绕过民选议会决策的机构——欧洲央行。"
    ],
    [
        "There are serious objections to this argument.",
        "对于这一论点，有一些严肃的反对理由。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – Even in an age of 24-hour globalized news, some important events only come to light well after the fact.",
        "新德里——即使是消息能在一日之间就能传遍全球的时代，一些重要事件还是得等到过去很久才会展现在人们眼前。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, when the accord was reached, the EU was not even in the room. Copenhagen exposed the demise of Europe not only as a global power, but even as a global arbiter.",
        "而在哥本哈根发生的一切都暴露出一个问题，那就是欧盟不仅算不上世界强权，甚至连当个国际调停人都不够格。"
    ],
    [
        "This new approach was applied to Libya, where it was characterized as “leading from behind.”",
        "利比亚就是如此，美国扮演的角色是“幕后领导”。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why it has become so difficult for small and medium-sized companies to get new loans or to refinance existing loans.",
        "这也解释了为什么中小型企业申请新贷款和在现有贷款基础上重新融资是如此困难。"
    ],
    [
        "A reduction in borrowing costs constituted a powerful motive in the 1990’s for southern European governments to join the monetary union.",
        "借贷成本的减少是20世纪90年代南欧政府加入货币联盟的强力动机。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Erdoğan’s visit to Tehran this week could help to defuse tensions over Syria – a subject on which Turkey and Iran have diametrically opposing views.",
        "平心而论，埃尔多安本周的德黑兰之旅能够帮助消弭叙利亚的紧张局势——在这个问题上，土耳其和伊朗的立场是完全相反的。"
    ],
    [
        "And nowhere is the idea behind it more relevant than in discussions of the dollar’s international role.",
        "而其言下之意，用来描述关于美元的国际角色真是再合适不过了。"
    ],
    [
        "Examples of risk arise when individuals or groups are confident in their accumulated knowledge or experience.",
        "当个人或者团体对自身所积累的知识或经验过度自信的时候，相应的风险就会爆发。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, America officially joined the East Asia Summit in 2011, easing concerns in the region about China’s increasingly aggressive posture in the South China Sea.",
        "此外，2011年美国正式加入了东亚峰会，缓解了东亚关于中国在南海越来越强硬的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "DENVER – The end of the fighting in Aleppo will not end the Syrian war, despite the countrywide ceasefire that has just been agreed.",
        "丹佛—阿拉破战事的结束不会结束叙利亚战争，尽管已经达成全国停火协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite earlier differences on how to deal with Musharraf, Pakistan’s leading political parties are now united against him.",
        "尽管以前巴基斯坦的主要政党在怎样对付穆沙拉夫上有存在分歧，但是，现在它们已经团结起来反对他了。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet when the bailout is presented the other way around, with German taxpayers asked to backstop reckless Italian or Spanish banks, somehow it is supposed to be an act of solidarity.",
        "而当援助通过另一种方式呈现，德国纳税人被要求支持意大利或西班牙银行的鲁莽行为，倒是有人认为这是表现团结的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Bringing together people who disagree or even distrust one another is the first step toward building a foundation for collective action in the future.",
        "将彼此意见不一甚至互不信任的人集合起来，这是迈向构建未来集体行动的基础的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of becoming agents of change, they often prevent change.",
        "它们不但没有变成变化的代理人，反而往往阻碍变化。"
    ],
    [
        "One problem is that, after a long period of fiscal prudence, Russia’s government has shown extraordinary ineptitude.",
        "有一个问题是，在长期的财政审慎之后，俄罗斯政府的表现及不称职。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments in rich countries for the most part looked the other way while Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China protected their home markets, appropriated “intellectual property,” subsidized their producers, and managed their currencies.",
        "在日本、韩国、台湾和中国在保护其国内市场，盗窃“知识产权”，补贴生产商并操纵其货币汇率时，大部分富裕国家政府却在走另一条道路。"
    ],
    [
        "But nationalism may not be a political constant.",
        "不过，民族主义不是一个政治常态。"
    ],
    [
        "People are being uprooted, and vital resources are becoming increasingly scarce, while those suffering the most severe consequences of climate change are also among those who have done the least to cause it.",
        "人们无家可归，重要的资源正日益稀缺，而那些对气候变化最没有责任的人却正在承受最严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Order requires the visible hand of leadership to formulate and realize global responses to global challenges.",
        "秩序需要领导力的看得见的手来规范和实现全球挑战的全球应对。"
    ],
    [
        "MEXICO CITY – In 2011 and 2012, tens of thousands of students demonstrated in Santiago, Chile, demanding greater access to higher education.",
        "墨西哥城—2011年和2012年，几万学生在智利圣地亚哥举行示威，要求高等学校扩招。"
    ],
    [
        "From the “Irish Brotherhood” that brought John F. Kennedy to office to the “Berlin Wall” that guarded Richard Nixon’s door, close friends and confidantes have often outdone the administration’s biggest names.",
        "从将肯尼迪送进白宫的“爱尔兰兄弟会”到为理查德·尼克松守门的“柏林墙”，亲密的朋友和知己的风头往往压过政府中最著名的人物。"
    ],
    [
        "If they are overlapping, which is highly probable, bilateral negotiations will be held.",
        "如果各国主张领土出现重叠——可能性很大——就要进行双边谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "There is considerable merit to this view.",
        "这一观点有很大的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1980, exports and investment collectively accounted for 41% of Chinese GDP; by 2010, the combined share was 75%.",
        "1980年，出口和投资加起来占中国GDP的41%； 到2010年，这一比例为75%。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, whereas most schools of economic thought maintain that one of government’s key responsibilities is to smooth the cycle, “real” business-cycle theory argues that reducing volatility reduces welfare!",
        "实际上，大多数经济学派认为，政府的主要职责之一就是延缓周期，而“现实”商业周期理论认为减少动荡就是减少福利！"
    ],
    [
        "A new regional order is not yet discernible, which points to a future fraught with risk and possible chaos.",
        "新的地区秩序尚未形成，我们面对着充满危险和混乱的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "They thought they were looking beyond the short-term demands that usually preoccupy political leaders.",
        "他们认为他们的眼光超越了常常左右着政治领导人的短期要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking ahead, I would suggest that policymakers focus on three points.",
        "展望未来，我建议政策制定者关注三点。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the system was highly vulnerable to bank runs and there was little scope for a monetary stabilization policy, people’s confidence in the system enabled it to anchor expectations.",
        "尽管这一体系导致银行挤兑频发、货币稳定政策空间狭小，但人们对这一体系的信心使其能够锚定预期。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why I, along with eight fellow scientists, have proposed the establishment of a new human-immunology-based clinical-research initiative, the Human Vaccines Project.",
        "这就是我和其他八位科学家同事提出成立新的基于人体免疫学的临床研究计划——人类疫苗工程（Human Vaccines Project）的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, we have little idea about how the public forms expectations about the central bank’s future actions.",
        "第三，我们对公众如何形成关于央行未来行动的预期一无所知。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past two years, it has been established that the Montreal Protocol has also spared humanity a significant level of climate change, because the gases that it prohibits also contribute to global warming.",
        "在过去两年来，据估计《蒙特利尔议定书》同样为人类免除了气候变化导致的大量灾害，因为议定书所禁止的气体同样也是全球变暖的始作俑者。"
    ],
    [
        "Education is of course critical to success: school curricula must become more inclusive, to broaden students’ knowledge of religions and cultures.",
        "教育当然是成功的关键：学校课程必须更加包容，扩大学生的宗教和文化知识。"
    ],
    [
        "The exodus from war-torn Syria should never have become a crisis.",
        "逃离饱受战争摧残的叙利亚的风潮原本不必演变为一场危机。"
    ],
    [
        "But given Japan’s demographics – the country’s working-age population has been shrinking by almost 1% per year since the start of this century – this result is remarkable.",
        "但考虑到日本的人口统计数据——自本世纪初以来该国的劳动适龄人口年均减少近1%——上述经济数据却是相当不错的。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, as China rises in wealth and power to rival Japan, Asia holds its breath, waiting for the ghosts of history to disappear.",
        "今日，当中国在富足和力量中崛起以抗衡日本之时，亚洲屏住呼吸，等待着历史幽灵的消失。"
    ],
    [
        "California’s First 5 Commission (which is funded by a tobacco tax) has galvanized pediatricians – a group that parents are predisposed to trust – to help parents understand the importance of engaging with their children in ways that advance their health and cognitive development.",
        "加利福尼亚州的零到五岁委员会（First 5 Commission，用烟草税收入提供资金）激励儿科医生——父母和倾向于信任的群体——帮助父母理解以改善孩子健康和认知发育的方式与孩子互动的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Even after that election, compromise may not come easily.",
        "即使通过了下萨克森州选举的考验，妥协也未必容易达成。"
    ],
    [
        "Markets don’t exist in a vacuum.",
        "市场不存在于真空中。"
    ],
    [
        "With various feints and strategies, Malaysia has effectively managed the tensions between a secular, modernizing agenda and the Islamic faith that the Malays profess.",
        "采取了各种各样的措施和策略，马来西亚终于有效地缓和了世俗的现代化蓝图与马来人坚守的伊斯兰信仰之间的矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "This would guide the negotiating parties in such a way that they look not only for solutions to a part of the problem, but first and foremost at a comprehensive solution to the entire problem.",
        "这样才能避免片面的理解，找到一个对所有问题的全面性的解决方法。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact is that GMOs and their derivatives do not amount to a “category” of food products.",
        "事实是，GMO及其衍生物并不构成一“类”粮食产品。"
    ],
    [
        "They can grant a great deal of autonomy to various federations (as in the US and Great Britain); devote significant public resources to sports for political purposes (as in Russia and other dictatorships); or insulate publicly financed sports institutions from partisan politics in order to ensure continuity (as in Italy and France).",
        "动用公共资源根据政治目的培养强项（如俄罗斯和其他独裁国家）； 或将公共资金支持的体育机构与党派政治相隔离以确保连续性（如意大利和法国）。"
    ],
    [
        "Those whose families can afford it often end up studying medicine abroad.",
        "负担得起的家庭的孩子常常出国去读医科。"
    ],
    [
        "Women who were journalists, engineers, or scientists in their countries of origin – and who could not get jobs as checkout cashiers in Denmark – have been paired with Danish counterparts and are now back in school, or working in research.",
        "那些在原住国身为记者，工程师和科学家，却在丹麦连个超市收银员都当不上的妇女和丹麦当地的女性同行结成一对，得以回到学校或者投身研究工作之中。"
    ],
    [
        "American businesses have postponed much-needed capital spending and, with American airports and bridges in appalling condition by developed-country standards, investment in infrastructure is crucial as well.",
        "美国企业延迟了急需的资本支出，此外，考虑到美国的机场和桥梁用发达国家标准衡量不可不谓破旧，因此基础设施投资也很关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, at long last, with the support of the African Union, he faces trial in his adopted home for the crimes he committed in Chad.",
        "如今，在非洲联盟的支持下，哈布雷终于要在所在国接受对其在乍得犯下的罪行的审判了。"
    ],
    [
        "It is far too large to be considered an elite.",
        "这些人数量庞大，难以被认为是精英。"
    ],
    [
        "The countries that did would probably find that their new currencies immediately traded at a heavy discount.",
        "一旦有国家这样做，它们可能会发现，新货币会以严重打折的方式被交易。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, as the transition toward multipolarity has progressed, the international order has become increasingly unstable and tense.",
        "事实上，随着朝向多极的转变有所进展，国际秩序也变得日益动荡和紧张。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, on the Egyptian revolution’s two-year anniversary last week, when thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, at least nine female protesters were sexually assaulted in Tahrir Square.",
        "事实上，在上周埃及革命迎来两周年之际，成千上万示威者走上街头反对总统穆尔西和穆斯林兄弟会，在此过程中，至少九名女性示威者在解放广场遭到了性侵害。"
    ],
    [
        "A related concern is measurement.",
        "与之相关则是测量标准的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Swaraj stands out among her peers in India for her trigger-happy approach to tweeting (though her use of the platform is still dwarfed by that of US President-elect Donald Trump, who often uses Twitter as a bully pulpit).",
        "撒瓦拉伊以喜欢发tweet在同僚中独树一帜（尽管与美国当选总统唐纳德·特朗普比起来撒瓦拉伊仍只是小巫见大巫，特朗普简直把Twitter当传旨太监用）。"
    ],
    [
        "This was the case for both Yellen and Flug – until the preferred, male applicants dropped out.",
        "不管是耶伦还是弗鲁格都是如此——她们直到更优先的男性候选者出局后才获得了任命。"
    ],
    [
        "The goal is not to ensure Europe’s democratic purity, but to change the nature of Belarus’s government.",
        "我们的目标不是要确保欧洲民主的纯洁性，而是要改变白俄罗斯政府的性质。"
    ],
    [
        "If John McCain is elected, tinkering with or overhauling NAFTA, CAFTA, and free-trade deals with Chile and Peru, as Barack Obama has proposed, will be unlikely.",
        "如果约翰·麦凯恩当选，要像巴拉克·奥巴马提议的那样，修补或者革新北美自由贸易协定（NAFTA），中美洲自由贸易协定（CAFTA）以及与智利和秘鲁达成的自由贸易安排，是不大可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "First and foremost, his appointment extends the embarrassingly outmoded practice of always installing an American in the job.",
        "最为重要的是，这一任命延续了总是把一个美国人安插在这一位置上的令人难堪的过时做法。"
    ],
    [
        "This is no longer the case.",
        "现在已经不是如此了。"
    ],
    [
        "In Syria, a bloody civil war is laying waste to some of the world’s most magnificent ancient cities.",
        "叙利亚的血腥内战正蹂躏着世界上最壮观的古代城市。"
    ],
    [
        "Other measures, such as fiscal adjustment, must be implemented very carefully, in order to avoid torpedoing the growth objective.",
        "其他措施，如财政调整，必须小心实施，以避免破坏增长目标。"
    ],
    [
        "While rejecting censorship, the US government should not renounce its authority to speak sensibly and condemn an appalling and apparently intentional provocation that produced such tragic consequences.",
        "美国政府不会审查影片，但也不应该放弃说聪明话以及谴责可怕的、显而易见的、造成如此悲剧后果的国际挑衅行为的权威。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are not many countries where that would be true.",
        "但并不是许多国家都是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "As many as 50 million people around the world are estimated to be displaced each year by floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and landslides.",
        "据估计全世界每年有大约5000万人因为洪灾、飓风、海啸、地震和塌方而流离失所。"
    ],
    [
        "Hollywood shoots an increasing number of films elsewhere.",
        "好莱坞越来越多的电影在别处拍摄。"
    ],
    [
        "Call China’s recent actions revenge for a century of humiliation by stronger powers.",
        "同理，我们也可以把中国最近的蛮横看作是用强权对百年屈辱的报复。"
    ],
    [
        "It has made it clear that CCS, the only technology that can capture at least 90% of the CO2 emissions from the world's largest producers, must be a part of the solution.",
        "它明确表示，CCS必须成为解决方案的一部分。 CCS是唯一一种可以捕捉全球最大二氧化碳制造者至少90%的排放量的技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Charitable trust model .",
        "慈善信托模式。"
    ],
    [
        "But Khamenei had no interest in reform, as he made plain in dismantling the reform movement.",
        "但哈梅内伊显然对改革一点兴趣也没有，他此次肢解改革运动时的所作所为已经很好地证明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Housing wealth in the US has fallen by 34% since its peak in 2006, and is still declining.",
        "在美国，住房财富从2006年峰值下跌了34%，且还在进一步下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Louis XIV of France had all of his upper teeth removed after a dentist fractured his jaw trying to extract a lower molar.",
        "法国国王路易十四在牙医拔下臼齿导致其下巴骨折后将上牙全部拔除。"
    ],
    [
        "China and the United States accused each other of deliberately manipulating their currencies to get a trade advantage.",
        "中美两国互相指责对方蓄意操纵货币以夺取贸易优势。"
    ],
    [
        "And there would still be a need to decide how to balance efficiency and equity in the provision of services.",
        "而且也仍然需要政府机构来决定在提供服务的过程中如何兼顾效率与公平。"
    ],
    [
        "The third reason is bureaucratic capture: just as the principal aim of Bush’s Medicare Drug Benefit bill of 2003 was to boost pharmaceutical company profits, so the Bush administration’s Social Security proposal will most likely be tailored to the interests of Wall Street.",
        "第三个原因涉及官僚利益：正像2003年布什政府“医疗药品福利法案”的主要目的在于增加医药公司的利润一样，关于社会保障体制的改革意见是为保证华尔街的利益而提出的。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, the evidence from past El Niños suggests that the current massive one is likely to leave a significant footprint on global growth, helping support economic recovery in the US and Europe, while putting even more pressure on already weak emerging markets.",
        "总体而言，从前的厄尔尼诺证据表明，此次大规模厄尔尼诺可能给全球增长造成重大影响，有助于支持美国和欧洲的经济复苏，但也让已经十分疲软的新兴市场雪上加霜。"
    ],
    [
        "Racy reports in China’s press sparked another round of righteous fury, drawing on the trope of China as a raped woman, an image long suppressed under Mao.",
        "中国媒体在其渲染式的报道中，借用毛泽东统治时曾长期禁止使用的修辞，将中国比喻成一名遭蹂躏的妇女，从而激起新一轮义愤。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s potential not only to feed its own people but to export food around the world is increasingly and rightly acknowledged.",
        "非洲在养活自身人口之外向世界各国出口粮食的潜力越来越受到人们广泛的认可。"
    ],
    [
        "Homes and livelihoods have been destroyed.",
        "家园和生活设施都不复存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Decision-makers need information about the world’s biggest health threats and how they have changed over time, across age groups, and by sex, so they can ensure that everyone has the opportunity to live the longest, healthiest life possible.",
        "决策者需要关于世界最大健康威胁以及它们如何随时间、年龄段和性别的不同而不同的信息，以便他们确保所有人都有机会获得最长寿、最健康的生命。"
    ],
    [
        "For their part, EU member countries should recognize that they, as sovereign actors, chose integration, because the benefits of pooling their sovereignty outweighed the costs.",
        "而作为对手方的欧盟成员国则应当意识到，因为主权集中的收益大过成本，它们作为主权国家自愿选择了整合。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s income distribution has become highly skewed: at 0.438, the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, puts the country closer to the United States than to northern Europe’s egalitarian societies (with the exception of the United Kingdom).",
        "中国收入分配是高度不平等的：基尼系数（用于衡量收入不平等性的指标）达到了0. 438，与美国相当，高于北欧平等社会（英国除外）。"
    ],
    [
        "Putting Profits in Perspective",
        "利润透视"
    ],
    [
        "That same month, Hungary reelected Gyurcsany, who had pursued a supposedly reformist program, but also oversaw a massive accumulation of public debt.",
        "同一个月，Gyurcsany在匈牙利大选中获得连任。 他所追求的似乎是一种改良主义的路线，但同时也监督着公债的巨额攀升。"
    ],
    [
        "After hearing that Nokia had chosen Windows, Google director Vic Gundotra tweeted: “Two turkeys do not make an eagle.”",
        "在听到诺基亚选择Windows的消息后，谷歌负责人维特·刚铎在推特上评论道：“两只火鸡凑到一起也变不成一只老鹰。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "A new movement of grassroots progressive federalism, reflecting the powers conferred on citizens by the Tenth Amendment, has already begun to emerge.",
        "一场提现出第十修正案赋予公民的权力的新的基层进步型联邦制运动已经开始出现。"
    ],
    [
        "But if its first occupant is not a household name, the presidency will be doomed as just another of the European Union’s confusing plethora of worthy senior positions that are neither valued nor understood outside Brussels.",
        "可如果首任主席默默无闻，那么欧盟理事会主席一职就将注定成为又一个滥竽充数的欧盟高级职位，既不被外界所看重，在布鲁塞尔之外也不为人所知。"
    ],
    [
        "But new financial regulatory frameworks – such as Basel III, which aims to reduce risk in the banking sector, and Solvency II, the European Union’s equivalent for insurance companies – are inadvertently discouraging such investment.",
        "但新金融监管框架——如旨在降低银行业风险的巴塞尔III和欧盟降低保险公司风险的偿付能力II（Solvency II）——在无意中制约了这类投资。"
    ],
    [
        "These findings likely vastly understate the impact of the technology; after all, much of the developing world is seeing a rapid rollout of mobile broadband, with much higher capacity than what was available at the time of the study.",
        "这些发现可能大大低估了这项技术的影响； 毕竟，许多发展中国家移动宽带迅速普及，而移动宽带的力量比这份研究所处的时代大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "More than 40 years ago, it was promised that once Turkey lives up to the preconditions for membership, it will be welcome in the EU.",
        "四十多年前，欧盟保证说一旦土耳其满足了成员的先觉条件就将欢迎其入盟。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as elected representatives, they are obligated to address these crimes.",
        "但是，作为经选举产生的代表，他们有义务处理这些犯罪问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a small reduction in the amount of water used for irrigation could have huge benefits, especially in drought conditions.",
        "即便灌溉水量稍有减少都能产生巨大的效益，尤其是在干旱条件下。"
    ],
    [
        "Proud Kasparov, who was perhaps more stunned than anyone, was sure that the IBM team must have cheated.",
        "也许骄傲的卡斯帕罗夫受到的震动比任何人都大，他一口咬定IBM的团队肯定做了手脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, however, the region’s political inertia has been disrupted. Cairo’s Tahrir Square has become a symbol for both hope and “people power.”",
        "如今这两大区域的政治惰性已被打破，位于开罗的解放广场也成为了希望以及“人民力量”的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "When Germany takes over the G20 presidency next year, it will have the opportunity to convince its partners to create an adequate framework to encourage change in the financial sector that ensures a smooth adjustment to a low-carbon economy.",
        "在未来一年中，德国将担任G20主席国，它将有机会说服合作伙伴成立完善的框架鼓励金融业发生能确保平稳过渡到低碳经济的转变。"
    ],
    [
        "Cutting carbon still costs a lot more than the good that it produces.",
        "减少碳排放所付出的成本，仍然要比减排所带来的好处多得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, Obama’s Justice Department has invoked Bush’s argument that the State Secrets Act bars evidence about torture from being disclosed, which means that anyone who was tortured can never appear in court.",
        "而奥巴马政府的司法部门还援引布什的说辞，称《国家机密法案》禁止公开有关虐俘的证据。 这就意味着被虐待的战俘永远无法出庭受审。"
    ],
    [
        "The situation in the US is particularly glaring, given that health care accounts for a bigger share of GDP than manufacturing, retail, finance, or insurance. Moreover, most health IT systems in use in America today are designed primarily to facilitate efficient billing, rather than efficient care, putting the business interests of hospitals and clinics ahead of the needs of doctors and patients.",
        "美国的情况特别扎眼，因为该国医疗卫生行业占GDP的比重高于制造业、零售业、金融业和保险业。 此外，美国使用的大部分医疗IT系统主要用于协助提高缴费效率，而不是提高看护效率，将医院和诊所的商业利益置于医生和病患的需要之上。"
    ],
    [
        "So let me broaden the debate and offer a more holistic perspective by covering three interconnected elements: defense transformation, operations, and the wider context of the international community’s efforts.",
        "因此，请允许我扩大辩论的范围并通过覆盖三个相互关联的因素来提供一个更全局性的视点：防卫改革，军事行动和国际社会努力的更广阔的背景。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1930’s, the Great Depression brought to power authoritarian regimes in Europe and even Asia, eventually leading to World War II.",
        "20世纪30年代，大萧条让极权主义者政权在欧洲甚至亚洲上台掌权，最终导致第二次世界大战。"
    ],
    [
        "Its resources dwarf the sums that the international community can mobilize for other issues, because its money is lent and is supposed to be paid back.",
        "其所拥有的资源比国际社会在其他问题上所能动员的总和还要多得多，因为它的钱是贷出去的，并假设可以获得偿付。"
    ],
    [
        "Though conceived in early Muslim history as a means of spreading God’s word, Muslim scholars today distinguish between two kinds of jihad – one being an internal struggle against temptation, and the other a physical conflict against an aggressor who threatens the survival or the fundamental rights of a Muslim community.",
        "虽然在它最早出现在穆斯林历史上时，意指一种传播神谕的方式。 当今的穆斯林学者们将两种“jihad”区分开来—一种是抗拒诱惑的内心斗争，而另一种则是针对威胁穆斯林社会的生存或根本权利的入侵者的斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not an impossible challenge.",
        "这并不是一个不可能完成的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "In the long term, any crackdown on the Brotherhood would lead its members and supporters – already bitterly disappointed in democracy – to reject elections entirely.",
        "从长期看，任何对穆斯林兄弟会的镇压都会导致其成员和支持者——目前他们已经对民主失望透顶——彻底拒绝选举。"
    ],
    [
        "And the fragility of Israel’s ruling coalition, combined with strong congressional support for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, makes it difficult to influence the country’s policies, despite Israel’s significant impact on US strategy in the Arab world.",
        "以色列执政联盟的脆弱性，加上国会对总理内塔尼亚胡的强烈支持导致美国很难影响以色列的政策，尽管以色列对美国的阿拉伯政策具有重大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Knowledge, scientific advance, travel, and global communications give us many opportunities to find solutions for the world's great problems.",
        "各种新认知、科学进步、旅游和全球传播给了我们更多的选择以解决世界重大问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Donald Trump, a real estate developer, believes that everything is negotiable.",
        "房地产开发商出身的唐纳德·特朗相信任何事务都是可以谈判的。"
    ],
    [
        "For, as the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has explicitly warned, if emissions do not fall before 2015, and only fall from then onwards (and the overall trend is that they have been rising), we will reach the point of no return.",
        "因为依照来自联合国气候变化问题政府间讨论小组的明确警告，如果排放量在2015年之前还不能降下来，并只是从那时起才开始下降（而整体的趋势依然是增多），我们就将陷入万劫不复的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "This is, in one sense, an admission of failure; such an approach is unlikely to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2° Celsius, the target set by the United Nations in 2010.",
        "这从某种意义上说是承认失败； 这样的做法不太可能实现2010年联合国所规定的全球气温升高低于2摄氏度的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The Saudi strategy is not without its costs.",
        "沙特的战略也不是没有成本的。"
    ],
    [
        "This would mean, for starters, expanding the Schengen Area of border-free travel to include Bulgaria and Romania.",
        "这首先意味着扩大跨境自由的申根区，将保加利亚和罗马尼亚也包括进来。"
    ],
    [
        "Ignoring demands for change would ultimately deepen popular hostility toward the EU.",
        "忽视变革要求最终将深化对欧盟的群众敌对情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas between 25% and 40% of Iraqis may require food assistance at any given time, this figure is much higher for displaced people, owing to their poor access to the public distribution system.",
        "尽管有25%至40%左右的伊拉克人在任何时候都需要食品援助，但是在难民中这一数字要高得多，因为他们很难得到公共分配体系分配的食品。"
    ],
    [
        "The Trump camp’s behavior toward Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI, which is aiding Mueller’s investigation, makes Richard Nixon and his aides’ behavior toward the Watergate investigators look tame and respectful by comparison.",
        "从特朗普阵营对特别检察官罗伯特·穆勒（Robert Mueller）以及协助他调查的联邦调查局（FBI）的所作所为看，尼克松和他的助手们对水门事件调查者的所作所为算得上相当配合和尊重了。"
    ],
    [
        "So these first reformers sought to engage with the ideas that they saw emerging from Europe: rationality, tolerance and ethically determined behavior.",
        "因此这些最早的改革者试图吸纳他们所发现的兴起于欧洲的理念：理性、宽容和符合伦理的行为方式。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, neo-conservatism’s adherents are unconcerned with what Edmund Burke called the ties that bind “the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.”",
        "相比而言，新保守主义的追随者对于埃德蒙德·柏克所称的连接“逝去的人、活着的人和尚未出生的人”的纽带毫无兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "But stock exchanges have limits, particularly in Brazil.",
        "但是尤其在巴西，股票交易是有限制的。"
    ],
    [
        "Out of this trip came de Tocqueville’s masterpiece, Democracy in America, in which he expressed admiration for American civil liberties and compared the world’s first genuine liberal democracy favorably with Old World institutions.",
        "结果，这次美国之旅造就了托克维尔的名著《论美国的民主》，在这部著作中，他对美国公民自由大加推崇，将这个世界上第一个正宗自由民主与旧世界的制度相比较，认为后者不如前者。"
    ],
    [
        "During our research, we identified 3,367 women and girls in the survey areas who reported being employed in the apparel industry.",
        "在研究中，我们确认调查区内有3，367名女性和女童承认她们受雇于制衣业。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, in the 1990’s, the US stock-market surge (as in many countries) was fueled by record-high price/earnings ratios.",
        "归根结底，20世纪90年代，美国的股价飙升（与很多国家的情况类似）是由创纪录的市盈率所推动的。"
    ],
    [
        "The central objective is to cut a deal with the Taliban so that the US and its NATO partners exit the “graveyard of empires” without losing face.",
        "核心目标就是与塔利班签订协议，这样美国及其北约的盟友就可以撤出“帝国的坟墓”，又不丢面子。"
    ],
    [
        "Raising global immunization coverage will speed progress toward the MDGs and generate momentum toward a successful post-2015 development agenda.",
        "全球免疫覆盖面的增加将加速推动千年发展目标的实现并为2015年之后的发展日程的成功创造动力。"
    ],
    [
        "The pre-Arab Spring paradigm that framed the Middle East as being divided between “moderates” and “extremists” has become obsolete.",
        "前阿拉伯之春时代的范式——中的你可以分为“温和”和“极端”两大阵营——已是老黄历了。"
    ],
    [
        "Portugal’s economy is set to shrink by more than 2%, and Greece’s output will fall by more than 4%.",
        "葡萄牙经济将收缩超过2%，希腊产出可能下降4%。"
    ],
    [
        "Under the IMF Articles of Agreement, members are required to collaborate to promote a stable system of exchange rates and to avoid manipulation with a view to gaining an unfair trade advantage.",
        "根据国际货币基金组织的协议条款，各成员国应当协作促进稳定的汇率体系并避免意在获得不公平的贸易优势的操控。"
    ],
    [
        "Presumably, nominal interest rates would move into negative territory only in response to a deep deflationary crisis.",
        "理论上，名义利率只有在发生深度通缩危机时才会跌入负区间。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a revolution, but with a difference: the political system changed without a body count.",
        "这是一场革命，但是又与革命有所不同：政治体制在没有任何人员伤亡的情况下发生了。"
    ],
    [
        "Scotland, which voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, can be expected to make another attempt to gain its independence, and some officials in Northern Ireland, where voters also backed Remain, have already called for unification with the Republic of Ireland.",
        "苏格兰人一边倒地支持留在欧盟，可以预期，它将再次争取独立，而在同样支持留欧的北爱尔兰，一些官员已经提出要和爱尔兰共和国合并。"
    ],
    [
        "The critic Irving Howe, a New Yorker of long standing, tried to temper my enthusiasm.",
        "老资格的纽约人，批论家欧文·豪，曾试图控制我的热情。"
    ],
    [
        "Iraq: More than an American Problem",
        "伊拉克不仅仅是美国的问题"
    ],
    [
        "To this day, Afghanistan has not recognized the Durand Line – drawn by a British diplomat in 1893 and imposed on Afghanistan by India’s colonial rulers – as the formal border with Pakistan.",
        "到目前为止，阿富汗尚未承认由英国外交官在1893年所划并由印度殖民统治者强加给阿富汗的杜兰德线（Durand Line）为正式的阿巴边界线。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from reflecting careful deliberation over an ambiguous choice, “at the same time” is the credo of someone suspended in fear and trembling before the unsolvable and terrifying mystery of the double nature – physical and spiritual, mortal and resurrected – of the tormented body of Christ.",
        "“与此同时”绝意味着对模棱两可的选择的深思熟虑，而是一个在无法解决的可怕难题面前畏而却步的人的信条。 这个难题就是饱受摧残的基督的肉身的双重性之谜——身体和精神，凡人和神祇。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, inequality has increased worldwide – even in countries that have experienced rapid economic expansion, notably China and India.",
        "与此同时，全球不平等现象愈演愈烈，即使中国和印度等经济快速成长的国家也概莫能外。"
    ],
    [
        "Israel must freeze its settlement activity in the West Bank and stop constructing its barrier wall on Palestinian territories. Israel must also free Palestinian prisoners, remove all checkpoints between Palestinian villages and town, and redeploy its forces to positions held prior to September 28, 2000, in accordance with phase I of the Road Map.",
        "根据路线图的第一阶段计划，以色列必须冻结在约旦河西岸所有定居点的建造以及在巴领地修建隔离墙的活动，释放巴勒斯坦囚犯，拆除所有巴勒斯坦村庄和城镇之间的检查点，并重新部署2000年9月28日前的军事点。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, there are many strands – from Spain’s leftist Podemos party to France’s right-wing National Front – but all share the same opposition to centrist parties, and to the establishment in general.",
        "欧洲的民粹主义势力则分很多种——从西班牙左翼政党Podemos到法国右翼政党国民阵线——他们的共同点是反对中间党派，并且反对总体制度。"
    ],
    [
        "As the American diplomat Harlan Cleveland once asked, “How will we get everybody in on the act, and still get some action?”",
        "美国外交家克利夫兰（Harlan Cleveland）曾提出一个问题：“我们如何让所有人都动起来，然后仍能产生行动？ ”"
    ],
    [
        "A shortfall in non-tradable demand inevitably limits growth on that side of the economy.",
        "不可贸易需求的短缺不可避免地成为经济中这方面的极限。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes the imperatives of state-owned enterprise reform, where the bulk of rising indebtedness has been concentrated, all the more essential in the years ahead.",
        "这意味着必须将实施国有企业改革列为未来几年的重中之重。 国有企业是中国企业债务增量的大头。"
    ],
    [
        "This pattern was evident in Yugoslavia's wars of the 1990's, where ethnic communities that had lived together more or less peacefully became enmeshed in civil war in the midst of a deep economic crisis.",
        "上述模式在20世纪90年代的南斯拉夫战争中表现得淋漓尽致。 严重的经济危机中，多多少少曾和平共处的种族陷入了内战的泥潭。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – California has long been a harbinger of national and global trends (both wonderful and overindulgent), a birthplace of innovation in everything from technology and entertainment to lifestyles.",
        "发自斯坦福——一直以来，加利福尼亚都堪称一块引领美国本土乃全世界潮流（无论是美好远景还是骄奢之风）的宝地，是科技到娱乐乃至生活方式的创新孵化池。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, pursuant to a February 2007 agreement, North Korea did take concrete steps to disable its nuclear facilities, including demolition of the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor in the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center in June 2008.",
        "可以肯定，根据2007年2月的协议，朝鲜确实采取了拆除核装置的具体步骤，包括在2008年6月将其在宁边原子能研究中心主要核反应堆的冷却塔拆除。"
    ],
    [
        "Until now, the recessionary fiscal drag has been concentrated in the eurozone periphery and the UK.",
        "到目前为止，衰退性财政拖累集中在欧元区外围国和英国。"
    ],
    [
        "The logic is obvious: If we in developed democracies had lacked the right to protest, speak out, organize unions, and vote for representatives of our choosing, we would never have ended child labor or established the eight-hour workday.",
        "其中的逻辑是显而易见的：如果我们发达民主国家没有游行示威权利、发声权利、组织工会的权利和投票选举代表的权利，那么我们就永远无法解决童工问题、建立八小时工作制。"
    ],
    [
        "But they had crucial support from Erdoğan’s government, which put its weight behind them.",
        "但他们背后是来自埃尔多安政府的重要支持。"
    ],
    [
        "While speaking to Parliament, Mubarak fainted before millions of TV viewers.",
        "在议会讲话时，穆巴拉克在成百上千万电视观众面前昏了过去。"
    ],
    [
        "These waters are outside maritime states’ exclusive economic zones; they comprise two-thirds of the oceans’ area, covering fully 45% of the earth’s surface.",
        "它们构成了海洋总面积的三分之二，覆盖了整整45%的地球表面。"
    ],
    [
        "Those systems essentially delegated more decision-making rights, as well as certain profits, to farmers and workers, so that they had a stronger incentive to work more efficiently within state-owned communes and firms.",
        "这些制度本质上是将更多的决策权利和一定的利润以不完全契约的方式委托给了农民和工人，因此给了他们更大的激励在集体所有制的土地上和国有制企业中更加高效地工作。"
    ],
    [
        "To ensure that the post-Grexit eurozone’s integrity faces no further immediate threats, China must join international partners in establishing a fully credible firewall, via the IMF.",
        "为确保希腊退出后欧元区一体化不会受到后续威胁的冲击，中国必须加入国际合作，通过IMF建立一个拥有充分信誉的防火墙。"
    ],
    [
        "This poses a fundamental dilemma for policymakers.",
        "这给决策者造成了一个根本性困境。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the World Bank’s “Investment Climate Surveys”, 27% of nearly 4,000 firms doing business in China in 2002-03 described corruption as a “major constraint” on their commercial operations, while 55% reported that they had paid bribes to government bureaucrats and/or local business partners to get things done.",
        "根据世界银行“投资环境调查”，2002－2003年，近4000家在中国开设业务的公司里有27%将腐败列为其商业运作的“主要障碍”。 而其中55%称他们向政府官员和/或当地贸易伙伴行贿以便实现自己的商业目的。"
    ],
    [
        "This, together with the 12th Five-Year Plan that was enacted in 2011, highlights the authorities’ commitment to bolstering the services sector and domestic consumption.",
        "这一日程和2011年的十二五规划彰显出当局对提振服务业和内需的决心。"
    ],
    [
        "Under Chávez and Maduro, Venezuela became a fully illiberal democracy.",
        "在查韦斯和马杜罗治下，委内瑞拉是一个完全不自由的民主国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak subsequently said that resolution of the conflict required a “political settlement” with the Taliban.",
        "但是阿富汗国防部长Abdul Rahim Wardak随后表示解决冲突需要与塔利班达成“政治和解”。"
    ],
    [
        "But progress toward what?",
        "但进步体现在哪些方面？"
    ],
    [
        "With fanfare and idealism – reflected in the slogan “Rights Brought Home” – the Human Rights Act came into effect in 2000.",
        "在“权利终于回家了（意指回到了发源地）”这一浮夸和理想主义口号的映衬下，英国《人权法案》终于在2000年得以颁布实施。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – Italians and other Europeans have serious problems addressing their own national debts, public and private, so it may seem immodest for a European to discuss America’s growing and grave debt problem.",
        "发自米兰——意大利以及其他欧洲国家都在处理本国公/私债务方面面临着严重问题，因此让身为一个欧洲人的我来谈论美国不断加剧的债务问题似乎有点不太厚道。"
    ],
    [
        "The apparent answer is the government’s overriding commitment to shifting the economy away from investment- and export-led growth.",
        "显而易见的答案是，实现经济从投资和出口拉动型增长的转型才是政府压倒一切的重点。"
    ],
    [
        "They turned out in droves to vote in an election that former US President Jimmy Carter described as honest, fair and unmarked by violence.",
        "他们成群结队地前往选举投票，美国前总统卡特成本次选举是诚实、公平而且没有暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with the passage of time, the region’s wildlife population continued to grow, as animals made use of what people had left behind.",
        "而且，因为动物利用了人类遗弃的设施，该地区的野生动物数量随着时间的推移不断增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, in the hierarchical understanding of power that prevails in East Asia, if China is up, Japan surely must be down.",
        "因此在东亚地区流行的权力等级观念中，一旦中国崛起，那日本就必然会衰落。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, some scientists are searching for evidence of quantum fluctuations of space-time that could blur images of distant stars or lead to systematic distortions.",
        "比如，一些科学家在寻找能模糊遥远星系影像或导致系统性扭曲的时空的量子波动的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the crisis went global last autumn, the IMF has had countries parading to its door.",
        "自从去年秋天金融危机席卷全球之后，要求国际货币基金组织提供贷款的国家在它的门口排起了长队。"
    ],
    [
        "Sovereign wealth funds – the assets of which have swelled from just over $3 trillion in 2007 to more than $7 trillion today – also have a significant influence on global asset markets.",
        "主权财富基金也对全球资产市场具有重要影响。 主权财富基金资产规模已从2007年的略高于3万亿美元膨胀到今天的7万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Like so many other countries, Mexico was initially hit hard by Chinese competition in global markets, particularly after China became a member of the World Trade Organization at the end of 2001.",
        "和其他许多国家一样，墨西哥一开始也因为在全球市场中遭遇中国的竞争而受到重创，特别是2001年底中国加入世贸组织之后。"
    ],
    [
        "Ecuador soon followed suit.",
        "厄瓜多尔很快也积极附议。"
    ],
    [
        "This was part of a wave of deregulation that swept away Franklin Roosevelt’s promise to “chase the money changers from the temple.”",
        "这是将富兰克林·罗斯福“将货币兑换商从庙堂中赶出去”之誓抛诸脑后的风潮的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, the new-style leadership, a form of managed charisma, was collectively designed to serve national needs.",
        "简言之，中共集体设计了一种新的领导风格——有管理的领袖形式（managed charisma）来满足国家需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, harmonized standards do not exist.",
        "目前尚不存在协调标准（harmonized standards）。"
    ],
    [
        "And the biggest question of all – how to engage with China, India, and other giants of the future – has received virtually no attention from EU-level policymakers.",
        "还有在最重大的问题上，即如何应对中国、印度以及未来出现的其他大国的问题，欧盟层面的政策制定者对此还根本没有引起重视。"
    ],
    [
        "The expectation of relatively strong US growth is already being reflected in the markets, with the dollar up 9% in trade-weighted terms since mid-2014.",
        "美国增长相对强劲的预期早已反映在市场中——贸易加权的美元价值自2014年年中以来已升值9%。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, Greece went from boom to outright slump.",
        "因此，希腊从繁荣陷入了大衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "At $40 a barrel, expect oil prices to slow the long-run growth rate of the world's potential output by 0.1% per year.",
        "40美元一桶的油价预计会使全球潜在产出的长期年增长率降低近01."
    ],
    [
        "It is the natural, predictable, and (by many) predicted result of the main European countries’ deliberate policy of repressing aggregate demand.",
        "这是主要欧洲国家有意压制总需求的政策所导致的自然的、可预料的且被许多人所预料到的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, 15 years after the disintegration of Soviet Union, a new catharsis seems underway, and Ukraine’s Orange Revolution was part of that.",
        "实际上，在苏联解体15年后，一种新的宣泄看起来正在进行，而乌克兰的橙色革命就是其中的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet national governments continue to implement policies that exacerbate injustice.",
        "然而各国政府继续实施恶化不公平现状的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to the formation of governments, women have managed to break out of the prison of their traditional domains, such as education and social affairs.",
        "当政府组建时，妇女已经能够打破其传统领域，例如教育和社会事务的束缚。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The beginning of October marked the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the American-led bombardment of Afghanistan.",
        "伦敦– 十月的开始标志着由美国领导的对阿富汗的轰炸已经过去了七年。"
    ],
    [
        "But the main reason for Britain’s popular disillusion with Blair comes down to his role in the Iraq war, which was launched with the ostensible aim of pre-empting Iraq’s use weapons of mass destruction (WMD).",
        "但是英国大众对布莱尔大失所望的主要原因在于他在伊拉克战争中的作用。 发动这一战争表面上的目的是为了先发制人，防止伊拉克使用大规模杀伤性武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Or we can recognize that the young people of the Middle East and the rest of the Muslim world share the aspirations of young people in every other part of the world.",
        "我们也可以认识到中东和穆斯林世界其他地区的青年与全世界青年有着共同的志向。"
    ],
    [
        "The South Korean central bank’s $30 billion swap, though limited, averted a run on the won.",
        "其中韩国中央银行300亿美元的货币互换尽管金额有限，却也避免了韩元遭到冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "But which is the right template?",
        "但是哪一种模式才是正确的？"
    ],
    [
        "If his position on the Islamic State continues to waver, he will only alienate the Kurds further, which means that when the jihadists decide to encroach on Turkish territory, Turkey will have to confront them without a Kurdish alliance.",
        "如果他在伊斯兰国问题上的立场继续摇摆，将导致库尔德人的进一步离心离德，而这意味着当圣战主义者决定进犯土耳其领土时，土耳其将得不到库尔德人的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Lifting a billion Chinese out of poverty is arguably the single most important event in our lifetimes.",
        "使十亿中国人脱离贫困可能是我们一生的时间里一件最重要的事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Why do we need to be better off than others?",
        "为什么我们非得比别人过得更好才行？"
    ],
    [
        "The leader of the military coup, General Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi, has promised to confront Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood with maximum force.",
        "军事政变领袖阿卜杜勒·法塔赫·艾尔西西将军承诺要竭尽全力与穆尔西的兄弟会对抗。"
    ],
    [
        "He serves Gazprom’s interests for a measly couple of million euros a year, sits in at sessions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and writes books about his staunch friendship with “Genosse Wladimir,” who, in the not-so-distant past, earned himself the well-deserved nickname of “Stasi” among business circles in gangster-ridden St. Petersburg.",
        "他为挣得区区每年数百万欧元的酬金替俄罗斯天然气公司工作，列席俄罗斯科学院召集的会议，并写书称颂他与“弗拉基米尔同志”之间忠诚的友谊，而后者就在不算太远的过去，还在完全由歹徒控制的圣彼得堡企业界当之无愧地赢得了的“东德秘密警察”（Stasi）的浑名。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not an appealing deal, to say the least.",
        "这显然不是划算的买卖。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Cameron recognized this explicitly in his speech, so the new treaty to embody a “new settlement” for Britain may have to be negotiated with all member states as a separate exercise.",
        "事实上，卡梅隆在讲话中明确承认了这一点，因此包含针对英国“新方案”的新条约可能需要与所有成员国单独协商。"
    ],
    [
        "A \\",
        "投给欧洲怀疑主义的"
    ],
    [
        "As Libyans tired of Qaddafi’s revolutionary rhetoric, he decided that a new organization was needed to stir popular support.",
        "随着利比亚人逐渐厌倦了卡扎菲的革命言论，他认为要想唤起民众支持就必须建立新的机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Although global standards supposedly reflect the principles of proportionality, they provide insufficient guidance for the national regulators, banking institutions, and financial-sector assessors who are trying to apply them effectively in diverse environments.",
        "尽管全球标准是为了体现适度原则，但它们对国家层面的监管者、银行机构和金融部门评估者（他们试图在多样化的环境中有效地使用这些标准）所提供的指导是不充分的。"
    ],
    [
        "So Russian President Vladimir Putin immediately demanded an official apology from the Dutch government for ignoring Borodin’s diplomatic immunity.",
        "因此，俄罗斯总统普京立即要求荷兰政府就无视鲍罗廷的外交豁免权做出正式道歉。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, today’s Keynesians ignore the urgency behind the depression-era concern with balanced budgets.",
        "此外，当今的凯恩斯派没看到，大萧条时代之所以那么在乎预算平衡，背后是有苦衷的。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the driving motivation of the EU’s founders was long-lasting peace.",
        "毕竟，欧盟创立者的策动力是长久的和平。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier this month it was reported that, at the request of China’s rulers, Microsoft shut down the Web site of a Chinese blogger that was maintained on a Microsoft service called MSN Spaces.",
        "据报道本月月初，应中国统治者要求，微软关闭了一家建立在MSN分享空间上的中国博客网站。"
    ],
    [
        "They underscore the West’s seeming inability to break out of a short-term mindset in order to respond to the risks and opportunities related to historic national and global re-alignments.",
        "它们都集中体现出西方在应对与历史性的国家及全球重新联盟所涉及风险和机遇时无力打破短期心态的现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Imprisonment, followed by recantation of violence, has become almost a trend in several jihadist groups, notably the 20,000-strong Egyptian Islamic Group, factions of the al-Jihad Organization in Egypt, and smaller groups like the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.",
        "遭到监禁后公开宣布放弃暴力，已近乎成为几个圣战组织，特别是拥有20，000多人的埃及伊斯兰组织、埃及圣战组织分部和利比亚伊斯兰战斗组织等小型组织的一种倾向。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, China’s government can pursue a policy of wai song nei jin – relaxed on the outside, vigilant internally.",
        "因此，中国政府可以采取外松内紧的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The Security Council might agree to recommend several candidates from which the General Assembly would select one.",
        "安理会可以同意推荐几个候选人，由联合国大会挑选。"
    ],
    [
        "LAHORE – Pakistan has now joined the ranks of countries hit by one of US President Donald Trump’s characteristic tweet storms.",
        "拉合尔——巴基斯坦现在也已成为了被美国总统唐纳德·特朗普标志性的推特风暴所席卷的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "This brings us to the second part of the argument against optimism: analytics.",
        "这就把我们带到了反对乐观的第二个理由：分析。"
    ],
    [
        "But this should not obscure the progress that has been made; compared to 2009, when Obama took office, Myanmar and its politics are unrecognizable.",
        "但这不应该抹杀已经取得的进步； 与2009年奥巴马上台时相比，缅甸及其政坛已经焕然一新。"
    ],
    [
        "By clarifying that simply criticizing the government’s actions does not constitute sedition, such an amendment would reinforce freedom of speech – fundamental to any democracy – while safeguarding against speech that actually incites violence.",
        "通过澄清仅仅是批评政府行为并不构成暴动，这一修正案将强化言论自由——这是民主的基础——同时遏制真正煽动暴力的言论。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of the day, cutting taxes for the wealthy is their top priority, regardless of whether such cuts lead to more domestic investment.",
        "到头来，给富人减税才是他们的最重要的重点，全然不顾如此减税是否会带来更多的国内投资。"
    ],
    [
        "We must start reinventing our productive systems now, precisely because the path of change will be so long and the environmental dangers are already so pressing.",
        "正是因为变革需要极长时间，而环境风险已经迫在眉睫，我们才必须从现在就开始重塑我们的生产系统。"
    ],
    [
        "In effect, the Tea Party is working hard to reduce publicly funded social benefits – including pensions and Medicare – even as its methods dramatically reduce the value of private wealth now and in the future.",
        "事实上，茶党所采取的方法将极大减少当前和未来的私人财富，饶是如此，他们依然在费尽心思削减包括退休金和医保在内的依赖公共资金的社会福利项目。"
    ],
    [
        "If too tight – a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, for example – the rule could create rather than solve problems: think of the economic and political chaos that would ensue if Spain, with unemployment at 21%, were forced to eliminate its huge fiscal deficit overnight.",
        "如果太紧（比如用宪法修正案的形式规定预算必须平衡），则财政规则就会带来问题，而不是解决问题：想想看，如果失业率高达21%的西班牙被迫在一夜之间消除其巨大的财政赤字，会造成怎样的经济和政治混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is timing.",
        "问题是时间。"
    ],
    [
        "A global economy that recognizes the need for and value of institutional diversity would foster rather than stifle such experimentation and evolution.",
        "认识到制度多样化需求和价值的全球经济不仅不会扼杀实验和发展的空间，相反会起到促进作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Bringing the tribal system and its mores into the mainstream and under the rule of law will be an important component in the effort to end the reign of terror in both countries.",
        "将部落制度和习俗纳入主流社会、接受法治精神约束将是结束两国恐怖统治的重要组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The second conclusion is that the gross gains – fees, trading profits, and capital gains to the winners (perhaps $800 billion from this year’s M&A’s) – greatly exceed the perhaps $170 billion in net gains.",
        "第二个结论是毛收益—付给赢家的费用、交易盈利和资本收益（可能是今年并购总值中的8000亿美元）--大大超过1700美元的可能净收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the growth merely compensates for the exceptionally high inflationary pressures in Russia’s defense sector.",
        "军事开支的增加大部分仅仅是为了补偿俄罗斯国防部门内极高的通胀压力。"
    ],
    [
        "The returns on that investment have been remarkable.",
        "23%的份额。 但投资回报却令人叹为观止。"
    ],
    [
        "By implication, all dissenters are enemies of the people.",
        "其隐含之义是一切异见者都是人民的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, long-term treatment is not the same as a cure, and no public-health tool (apart from clean drinking water) has ever matched the preventive power of a vaccine.",
        "此外，长期治疗和治愈并不是一回事。 此外也没有任何公共卫生工具（清洁饮用水除外）能比得上疫苗的预防作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The list tells us two things.",
        "这个名单告诉我们两件事。"
    ],
    [
        "That said, it should be acknowledged that treatments for mental illness remain far from infallible.",
        "也就是说，必须承认对精神疾病的治疗还远未达到万无一失的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "When the crosses fade, the mothers repaint them.",
        "当十字架褪色后，母亲们又会重新绘制。"
    ],
    [
        "While reserves may provide some cushion for minimizing the adverse effects of capital outflows, in most cases they will not be sufficient.",
        "虽然储备可能会提供一些缓冲来将资本流出的不良影响最小化，但在大多数情况下它们都是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "The compact sets a strict ceiling for a country’s structural budget deficit and stipulates that public-debt ratios in excess of 60% of GDP must be reduced yearly by one-twentieth of the difference between the current ratio and the target.",
        "该契约设置了严格的国家结构性预算赤字上限，并规定对于占GDP的60%以上部分的公共债务，每年必须削减当前比率和目标比率差额的十二分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge has moved to the consumer side of the equation.",
        "问题已经转移到方程的消费一侧。"
    ],
    [
        "Last week, King Gyanendra sacked his prime minister again, declared a state of emergency, and suspended civil liberties.",
        "上一周，贾南德拉国王再次罢免了他的总理，宣布全国进入紧急状态，并限制公民自由。"
    ],
    [
        "How should responsible investors behave in the face of these unprecedented risks?",
        "负责任的投资者应该如何面对这些前所未有的风险采取行动？"
    ],
    [
        "Any attempt to evacuate them could escalate into a civil war.",
        "任何迫使他们撤离的举动都可能升级为一场内战。"
    ],
    [
        "But in the aftermath of a crisis, countries put national interests above their willingness to go along with international rules.",
        "但在全球经济危机的冲击下，各国都把国家利益置于国际规则之上。"
    ],
    [
        "In Thailand, the self-made ethnic-Chinese media billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra was especially admired by the rural poor.",
        "在泰国，白手起家的华裔传媒富豪他信·西那瓦尤其受到农村贫困人口的推崇。"
    ],
    [
        "The timing and substance of these consumer-survey results suggest that our fundamental outlook about the economy, at the level of the average person, is closely bound up with stories of excessive borrowing, loss of governmental and personal responsibility, and a sense that matters are beyond control.",
        "这些消费者调查结果的时机和内容表明，从普通人水平看，我们对经济的基本看法与过度借贷的故事、政府和个人的责任缺失以及事态将要失控的感觉密切相关。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, enrollment rates for school-age females have increased steadily at all levels, reaching near parity with male enrollment globally.",
        "事实上，适龄女童的入学率一直在稳步提高，并且在全球范围内接近男性入学率。"
    ],
    [
        "His Great Russia policy requires economic strength, and therefore successful modernization of the country.",
        "他的大俄罗斯政策需要经济强势，从而要求国家成功地实现现代化。"
    ],
    [
        "KAMPALA – On a balmy afternoon, I met Dr. Gilbert Bukenya at his home on the shores of Lake Victoria, where we talked about the future of farming in Uganda.",
        "坎帕拉—在一个风和日丽的午后，我与Gilbert Bukenya博士在他位于维多利亚湖岸边的家里会面。 我们交流的话题是乌干达农业的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "But “the task” would include having emotionally-laden conversations about people’s personal memories.",
        "但“任务”还包括关于个人记忆的充满感情的对话。"
    ],
    [
        "But, over the past three decades, Asian prosperity appears to be within reach once more.",
        "但是，在过去三十年中，亚洲的繁荣似乎再一次近在眼前。"
    ],
    [
        "First, not everything that Germany is arguing is wrong: the urgent need for medium-term fiscal consolidation and structural reforms to increase the crisis countries’ competitiveness will not go away.",
        "首先，德国所要求的东西并非一无是处：中期财政整合的迫切需要和旨在增加危机国家竞争力的结构性改革的需要不会就此消失。"
    ],
    [
        "Decent senior officers have been quitting in large numbers.",
        "体面的高级官员已经在大量退出。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, while bankers have regained their bonuses, workers are seeing their wages eroded and their hours diminished, further widening the income gap.",
        "同理，尽管银行奖金已经回到了原来的水平，但员工仍在工资下降和工时缩短的困境中挣扎，这进一步拉大了收入差距。"
    ],
    [
        "To the extent that the rough justice meted out by markets or nature teaches anyone to behave better, it has consequences far beyond the horizon of anyone in power today.",
        "在某种程度上，正是市场和大自然那些粗暴而公正的惩罚教会了人们谨慎行事，同时这些惩罚也会带来超出当权者预料之外的成果。"
    ],
    [
        "The Anti-Democratic Heart of Populism",
        "民粹主义的反民主之心"
    ],
    [
        "“Rediscovered” is the operative word here.",
        "在这里，“重新发现”是一个关键词。"
    ],
    [
        "Furthermore, because governments did not trust one another, they insisted on including in treaties what would normally belong in ordinary legislation.",
        "此外，由于政府之间彼此不信任，因此它们坚持在条约中包括正常情况下属于一般立法的内容。"
    ],
    [
        "A policy aimed at restoring defense innovation and production in America would ensure that the US upholds its global technological leadership and commercial competitiveness.",
        "旨在重塑美国防务创新和生产的政策将确保美国保持器全球技术领先地位和商业竞争力。"
    ],
    [
        "Stimulate or discourage international trade?",
        "但民粹主义者却否认这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "This is all the more remarkable because, by concentrating only on blacks, the clinical trials now under way can have little or nothing compelling to say about comparative results according to supposed racial differences between humans.",
        "更引人注目的是，通过专门转向黑人研究，正在进行的临床试验在人类假想的种族差异方面，完全或基本没有值得关注的对照结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Decades ago, when intelligent machines and androids were found in science fiction rather than the real world, Milton Friedman, a champion of free-market capitalism, recommended a negative income tax to help the poor without undermining their incentive to work. He proposed a progressive consumption tax as a way to pay for it.",
        "数十年前，当时智能机器和机器人还是科幻小说里的东西，自由市场理论的领军人物米尔顿·弗里德曼（Milton Friedman）就提出要引入负所得税，以便在不伤害穷人工作积极性的情况下对其施以援手，同时又提出征收累进消费税来补贴负所得税。"
    ],
    [
        "First, there is the old law of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”",
        "首先是“以眼还眼，以牙还牙”的古老原则。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, they are required every 90 days by a law enacted by the US Congress soon after the accord was signed.",
        "相反，这是美国国会在协议签署后不久所实施的一部法律的规定，每90天就要认可一次。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic shocks tend to exacerbate this political divide.",
        "经济冲击总是会加剧这一政治分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "A New World’s New Development Bank",
        "新世界的新开发银行"
    ],
    [
        "Demographic aging is the social and economic equivalent of climate change: it is a problem that we all know must be addressed, but which we would rather leave for future generations to solve.",
        "人口老龄化的影响之巨，堪与气候变化比肩，只是前者更关乎社会和经济而已：我们都知道这是一个必须解决的问题，但宁愿留给下一代来解决。"
    ],
    [
        "To agree with the reasoning Flake offered in defense of his decision, one must believe that a US senator’s highest duty is to speak truth to power, repudiate the president for “reckless, outrageous, and undignified behavior” that is “undermining our democracy,” and then quit.",
        "如果你同意弗莱克为弃选决定辩护的理由，那么你一定认为一位美国参议员的最高职责是向当权者讲真话，批判总统“破坏国内民主”的“鲁莽、粗暴和不体面的行为”。"
    ],
    [
        "Here again, Iraq’s immediate past history allows one to be optimistic.",
        "在这一点上，伊拉克最近的历史允许人们乐观。"
    ],
    [
        "The revamped growth compact would more effectively allocate European resources and increase the flexibility of permanent transfers from rich to poor countries – provided that the money is used for productive investment.",
        "修改后的增长条约将更有效地配置欧洲的资源、增加从富国到穷国的转移支付的灵活性——只要这笔钱被用于生产性投资。"
    ],
    [
        "From now on, presidential appointees will rule a country that is as complex and multi-national as the EU or the US.",
        "从此以后，一个和欧盟或美国一样复杂的多民族国家将为总统任命的官员所统治。"
    ],
    [
        "The world must develop a more carefully calibrated policy toward North Korea, one aimed at simultaneously implementing denuclearization and economic reform.",
        "世界必须针对北朝鲜制定经过审慎考虑的准确政策，政策目标是同时实现无核化和经济改革。"
    ],
    [
        "So what, exactly, is it that makes today’s global economy abnormal?",
        "那么，让当今全球经济反常的原因究竟何在？"
    ],
    [
        "It would also provide a backdrop against which wages in Germany could rise without necessarily having to fall in the periphery.",
        "它还会提供这样的背景：德国的工资会上升，而其周边国家的工资不一定需要下降。"
    ],
    [
        "It is curious how many people seem to think that the US will grow faster than Europe and Japan over the next ten years simply because it has done so for the past ten years.",
        "许多人似乎认为，仅仅由于在过去十年中美国经济增长快于欧洲和日本，因而在以后的二十年里也是如此。 这一观点不可思议。"
    ],
    [
        "But, because the treatments do not directly address conscious brain processes, the anxiety itself does not always go away.",
        "但是，由于治疗并未直接触及有意识的大脑过程，因此焦虑本身未必消失。"
    ],
    [
        "There was also a strong suspicion that the French were trying to find a way to buy off Turkey with a relationship falling well short of European Union membership.",
        "也有人强烈怀疑法国人正在寻找用一个没有欧盟成员资格的关系来收买土耳其的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Let us fix and strengthen that framework, while bearing in mind that a simple mandate to maximize competitive pressure in banking is no more possible, or desirable, than one that would aim at eliminating instability completely.",
        "我们必须修复并强化监管框架，与此同时也要牢记，简单地要求银行业竞争压力最大化已不再可行，也不再可取，试图完全消除不稳定性亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "But this, of course, is untrue.",
        "但这当然是没有依据的。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Modi has declared that “the government has no business to be in business,” he has failed to question his government’s ownership and control of airlines and hotels.",
        "尽管莫迪声称“政府将与商业划清界限”，但他并没有质疑他的政府对航空公司和饭店的所有权和控制权。"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese officials have also become more willing to discuss the creation of a code of conduct for the South China Sea.",
        "中国官员也更加愿意讨论建立南海行为规范的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "By that point, Ukraine’s springtime of freedom had already deteriorated into a very visible development standstill, owing to a mixture of incompetence and corruption that cried out for change.",
        "此前的形势是，乌克兰的自由之春已经退化成一种明显的发展停滞，政府的无能和腐败引发了变革的呼声。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past five years, from 2010 to 2014, annual US productivity growth has fallen to an average of 0.9%.",
        "在过去五年中（2010—2014年），美国生产率平均年增长率下降到0. 9%。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the American consumer (who still accounts for 71% of US GDP) remains in the wrenching throes of a Japanese-like balance-sheet recession.",
        "在美国，消费者（消费要占美国GDP的71%）正在日本式的资产负债表衰退中苦苦挣扎。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2003, Ben Bernanke, then a Governor of the US Federal Reserve, stated in a speech that many Americans considered inflation targeting “foreign, impenetrable, and possibly slightly subversive.”",
        "早在2003年，时任一家美国联邦储备银行行长的伯南克就曾说，通货膨胀目标法“怪异、含糊，而且可能带点儿颠覆性”。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, although the synaptic density within a given area and layer may vary, this variability remains within a relatively narrow window, so the statistical distribution of the variation can be modeled.",
        "比如，尽管给定区域和层的突触密度可能不同，但其可变性局限于相对狭窄的范围内，因此其变化的统计分布可以建模。"
    ],
    [
        "But it will require action by many very different actors.",
        "但这需要许多风马牛不相及的行动方共同行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond lamenting the astonishing depths to which a great political culture and system can fall, what can be done?",
        "除了哀叹一套伟大的政治文化和制度能够堕落如斯，我们还能做些什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Agriculture is the main economic activity, notably in the vast internal delta of the Niger River, home to many tribes, including the Dogon, a people remarkable for their sculpture and architecture.",
        "农业是主要经济活动，主要分布在广袤的尼日尔河内陆三角洲，这里也是众多部落的大本营，包括以雕塑和建筑著称的多贡族（Dogon）。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone, for its part, must regard British interests in the integration process, without allowing the UK to slow it down.",
        "而就欧元区这方面而言，则必须在一体化过程中考虑到英国的利益，同时还不能让英国导致一体化进程放缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, engaging the poor will be crucial to any effort.",
        "事实上，成功的关键在于鼓励穷人参与。"
    ],
    [
        "This two-step process would be similar to what happened in 2008, when Congress was confronted with another cliffhanger: the Bush administration’s request for $700 billion to prevent a financial-market collapse and an economic depression.",
        "这个两步走的过程与2008年的情况有点相似，当时国会面对的是另一种危险状况：布什政府要求动用700亿美元来防止金融市场崩溃和经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Every militia, every ministry, every Shia political faction, has its own guns, goons, and death squads – while the Sunnis continue to use the stockpiles of weapons they accumulated under Saddam to fight a rear-guard action against the new order, apparently legitimized by elections.",
        "每一个民兵组织，每一个牧师，每一个什叶派政治派别都有自己的枪炮、受雇暴徒以及杀人小队，而逊尼派则继续使用他们在萨达姆统治时期囤积的武器同一个新的、明显地是由选举所合法化的秩序作战，以维持旧有状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Stalin Lives",
        "斯大林还活着"
    ],
    [
        "Much as they dislike it, they are also fearful of a war between Israel or the United States and Iran, knowing that they would have little influence over events.",
        "虽然它们不喜欢伊朗，但也同样害怕在以色列或美国和伊朗之间爆发战争，它们非常清楚一旦战争爆发，它们对事态的发展施加不了多少影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, their new-found resilience to capital-market shocks is due in no small part to their becoming net lenders to the rest of the world, after years as net borrowers.",
        "实际上，历经多年的净借款国，它们成为净贷方，而对近年来的资本市场突发事件能够从容应付。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would be a modest step in the direction of reducing the great harm currently being done.",
        "但它可以作为减少当前巨大伤害的一小步。"
    ],
    [
        "More recently, the same problem threatened to hinder the adoption of HPV vaccines.",
        "后来，同样的问题又出现在推广HPV疫苗上。"
    ],
    [
        "But no one really expects the debts to be paid anyway.",
        "但实际上，没有人真的认为这些债务最终能够得到偿还。"
    ],
    [
        "First, all companies in the US should be able to fail under the same rules.",
        "首先，所有美国公司都应该能够根据相同的法律破产。"
    ],
    [
        "The tsunamis provide an opportunity for the UN to reclaim the high ground that it lost recently.",
        "海啸还为联合国提供了一次机会，使其得以收回刚刚失去的要地。 关于伊拉克“石油换食品”的丑闻至少说明联合国内部管理不善；"
    ],
    [
        "Individuals are granted both the right to know – to be informed of the results of any genetic test about themselves – and the right to choose to live in ignorance of what a genetic test may predict about their future.",
        "一个人既被授予了知情权——有权知道所有与其本人有关的基因测试结果——同时也有权选择不去获知基因测试所可能预示的未来，继续自己的生活；"
    ],
    [
        "As the Financial Times observed, “North Korea’s Kim Jong-il is probably the only world leader who can make Beijing look powerless.",
        "正如《金融时报》观察的那样：“朝鲜的金正日大概是世界上唯一个能令北京当局感到不知所措的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "Since its inception last February, the NTC has consistently declared itself to be a transitional body that would cede power to an elected government once the country was liberated.",
        "自去年2月成立以来，委员会就一直声明自己只是一个过渡性实体，一旦实现解放就将把权力移交给民选政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The pundits dive in.",
        "然后，专家出场。"
    ],
    [
        "The consequence, however, is that high-risk, high-return projects are more difficult to finance than they should be.",
        "但是，其结果是高风险、高回报项目更难找到应有的融资。"
    ],
    [
        "We must also address banks’ non-performing loans so that their balance sheets have room for new lending.",
        "我们还必须解决银行的不良贷款问题，从而让它们的资产负债表有空间进行新的借贷。"
    ],
    [
        "But this would not apply to livelihood insurance, because its benefits are tied to the rise and fall of income indices, which are beyond the control of individuals.",
        "这种情况不适用于生计保险，因为生计保险与收入指数的升降紧密相关，而这，不在个人的控制范围之内。"
    ],
    [
        "And Trump has often hesitated to disavow them; during the election campaign, when former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke publicly backed him, Trump was scandalously slow to reject Duke and his followers.",
        "而特朗普则经常在否定他们时表现出犹豫的态度； 在总统大选期间，当前3K党大咖大卫·杜克对其表示公开支持时，特朗普令人愤慨地犹犹豫豫，不愿拒绝杜克及其追随者。"
    ],
    [
        "But Iran’s peaceful nuclear program originates from the late 1960’s and 1970’s.",
        "但伊朗的和平利用核能计划开始于1960年代末期和1970年代。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the pharmaceutical industry, the US, and others have pushed since its inception for a wider and stronger set of standards through add-on agreements.",
        "这就是为何制药行业、美国和其他人在TRIPS出台以来就一直在寻求通过追加协定扩展和强化标准设置。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the Georgian crisis demonstrated that Russia’s dialogue with NATO was less substantial than it should have been.",
        "不幸的是，格鲁吉亚危机显示俄罗斯与北约的对话并没有预想中那样的实际意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Two factors differentiate global climate change from other environmental problems.",
        "有两种因素使全球气候变化问题区别于其他环境问题。"
    ],
    [
        "And both have proposals for deep reforms that would change how America finances higher education.",
        "并且两人都提出了将改变美国高等教育融资的深度改革提案。"
    ],
    [
        "In the developing world, too, the vast majority of people have started to experience sustained improvement in living standards and are rapidly developing similar growth expectations.",
        "发展中国家亦然，大部分人民已开始享受持续的生活水平改善，类似的增长预期也在快速形成。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet all of the Republican candidates are proud of opposing gun-control measures; indeed, they have no problem allowing people to enter a school or a bar bearing concealed weapons.",
        "但所有共和党候选人都以反对枪支管制措施为豪； 事实上，对于允许人们深藏武器进入学校或酒吧，他们一点问题都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "First, Europe needs a Stability Pact with teeth.",
        "首先，欧洲需要一个有实际约束力的《稳定与增长公约》。"
    ],
    [
        "The real question is how India’s creaking supply chains will respond when consumers leapfrog hypermarkets and go online.",
        "真正的问题是，当消费者跳过超市走向在线购物时，印度破败的供给链怎样做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, the currency of conventional military power in the Middle East would largely lose its value, inevitably resulting in a regional nuclear arms race.",
        "更广泛而言，常规军力在中东就会大幅贬值，从而不可避免地引发地区性核军备竞赛。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, it has gotten a much lower standard than it anticipated.",
        "不幸的是，奥巴马的答卷比人们的预期差多了。"
    ],
    [
        "· establishing common deposit insurance, which would prevent money from fleeing poorly performing countries, and other elements of a “banking union”;",
        "·建立共同存款保险以阻止资金逃离表现不佳的国家——以及构建其他与“银行联盟”相关的架构;"
    ],
    [
        "EU Foreign Policy chief Javier Solana has made plain that Europe strongly opposes any large-scale Turkish military operation in Iraq.",
        "欧盟负责外交事务的高级代表索拉纳已经明确表示欧洲强烈反对土耳其军队在伊拉克境内实施任何大规模的军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Haruhiko Kuroda is now installed as the governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), faced with the daunting task of ending two decades of stagnation.",
        "黑田东彦上任日本银行行长，他面临着结束二十年经济停滞的艰巨任务。"
    ],
    [
        "It seems only reasonable that the NDB should announce steps to support pharmaceutical research into new TB treatments and vaccines, particularly for drug-resistant strains, given that TB is especially prevalent in the BRICS.",
        "NDB绝对应该采取措施支持新结核病治疗和免疫研究，特别是针对抗药性菌株的研究，因为结核病在金砖国家非常普遍。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico has become its latest victim.",
        "墨西哥就是最新的受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout history, nationalist movements, almost invariably consisting of radical and pragmatic wings, had to split in order to reach the Promised Land.",
        "在历史上，几乎无一例外地包含有极端主义和实用主义势力的民族主义运动最后都不得不进行分裂以达到幸福的乐土。"
    ],
    [
        "Various candidates have been proposed for the role of globalization’s assassin.",
        "全球化的刺客候选人已经被提出了好几个。"
    ],
    [
        "As our understanding of genetics expands, it is becoming clear that our ancestral origins play a key role in determining the efficacy of certain medicines.",
        "随着我们对遗传学认识的扩展，显然我们的祖籍在决定某些药物的效力方面起着关键作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In the meantime, Greece must implement the structural reforms needed to restore the country’s long-term growth prospects and thus to strengthen its capacity to repay its creditors without a large nominal debt reduction.",
        "与此同时，希腊必须实施结构改革才能重塑长期增长前景，从而强化其在没有获得大量名义债务减免的情况下偿付债权人的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "If the public is not happy about high superstar incomes, the obvious remedy is to improve the tax system, including for powerful sports-team owners, many of whom benefit from huge tax breaks in their day jobs. Who knows?",
        "如果公众对这些超级明星的高收入感到不满意，最明显的应对方法就是改善税务系统，其中包括许多财鸿势大的运动队老板，谁知道他们中的许多人每天从巨额逃税中赚取了多少好处呢？"
    ],
    [
        "In 1936, the Nobel laureate Max Planck observed that scientific innovations rarely spread as a result of their opponents’ conversion; instead, opponents of innovation “gradually die out,” and the next generation accepts the breakthrough.",
        "1936年，诺贝尔奖获得者普朗克观察到，科学创新很少因为反对者的改变而得到推广； 相反，创新的反对者会“逐渐死去”，下一代人将接受这一突破。"
    ],
    [
        "President Álvaro Colom in February claimed that 40% of the 6,200 murders recorded in 2008 were linked to drug-related violence.",
        "阿尔瓦罗·科洛姆总统2月声称2008年有案可查的6，200起谋杀中有40%与毒品暴力有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless Maduro changes, the new National Assembly – where the opposition’s two-thirds majority enables it to amend the constitution – will have to change him.",
        "除非马杜罗自己改变，否则新一届国民大会——反对党所占三分之二的多数席位足以修订宪法——必须用尽一切手段改变他。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, by contrast, is a more classic National Security State, now playing Western anxieties like a fiddle to consolidate its tightening grip on Ukraine and suppress domestic opposition with a tide of official nationalism.",
        "相反，俄罗斯是更典型的民族安全国家（National Security State），撩拨西方的焦虑以巩固其对乌克兰的控制，以官方民族主义镇压国内反对者。"
    ],
    [
        "In October 2007, a consortium formed by the Royal Bank of Scotland, Fortis, and Banco Santander acquired ABN AMRO – the world’s biggest bank takeover to date.",
        "2007年10月，由苏格兰皇家银行（RBS）、富通银行和西班牙国际银行（Banco Santander）收购了荷兰银行（ABN AMRO）——这是当时世界有史以来最大的银行收购案。"
    ],
    [
        "The real challenge in Europe is continued stagnation and rising public-sector fiscal pressures in bloated welfare states with rapidly aging populations.",
        "欧洲的真正挑战是继续停止和公共部门财政压力继续因为福利国家人口不断老龄化而上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Around the world, there is anguished hand-wringing about the high price of oil.",
        "在世界范围内，都存在对高油价的痛苦绝望情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "Tomorrow it might be somewhere else.",
        "明天可能又是其他地方。"
    ],
    [
        "· Better Governance : African governments often boast when they simply stop the corrosive effects of corruption and irrational business regulation.",
        "更好的管理：非洲各国政府在终止其侵蚀性的腐败行为和非理性的商业法规时往往会鼓吹一番。"
    ],
    [
        "This policy of inclusion rather than exclusion is based on political pragmatism and the belief that this carnage can and must stop.",
        "这一包容而不是加以排斥的方针是基于政治上的实用主义以及认为这场流血冲突能够也必须结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Even Latin American governments now hold enough dollar reserve assets to buy out Europe’s shares in the Fund.",
        "甚至连拉美各国的政府现在也有足够的美元资产将欧洲在IMF的股份买下。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last two decades – a period when globalization opened up the world financial system – private capital flows have contributed more to developing economies’ growth than has ODA.",
        "过去二十年来——在此期间，全球化开放了世界金融体系——私人资本流对发展中经济体增长的贡献大于ODA。"
    ],
    [
        "But critics are agitating for a stronger agreement backed up by the threat of trade sanctions.",
        "但批评者认为必须达成更强有力的协议，并用贸易制裁威胁来支持这些协议。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Israel’s population has risen ninefold since the country’s founding in 1948.",
        "结果导致1948年以色列建国以来人口出现了9倍的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "He characterizes the stimulus bill as a two-year $600 billion increase in government purchases.",
        "他将刺激方案看做是 2 年期 6000 亿美元的政府支出。"
    ],
    [
        "The number of potential terrorist recruits can only be estimated, but it corresponds more or less to the percentage of the population in any Western society that is likely to be involved in violent crime.",
        "潜在的恐怖分子的数字只能被估计，但这个数字或多或少与在任何西方社会中有可能参与暴力犯罪活动的人口比例有关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia, weighed down by low commodity prices and persistent Western sanctions, is also eager to boost energy exports to Turkey.",
        "受制于大宗商品价格低迷和持久的西方制裁的俄罗斯也急于增加对土能源出口。"
    ],
    [
        "The bad news is that both France and Italy face the prospect of a populist political takeover this year. Either outcome could well spell the end of the EU.",
        "坏消息是，法国和意大利今年都面临着民粹主义政治夺权的前景，而任何一场夺权都可能会导致欧盟的终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Technological advances and innovation have begun to turn the longstanding dream of energy independence into a reality.",
        "技术进步和创新已让能源独立的长期梦想开始成为现实。"
    ],
    [
        "But neither solution addresses what is really driving events in Libya: the legacy of Qaddafism.",
        "但这两种方法都没有解决驱动利比亚局势的卡扎菲主义这一真正问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Karni Sena trashed the film set at Jaigarh Fort in Jaipur, and disrupted further shooting in a new (less “authentic”) location at Kohlapur, accusing Bhansali of filming a love scene between the Hindu queen and the Muslim invader.",
        "Karni Sena组织砸毁了位于斋普尔斋格尔堡（Jaigarh Fort）的电影拍摄布景，并追到科拉普尔（Kohlapur）的新（ 更不“真实”）拍摄地干扰拍摄，指责班萨利加入印度教女王和穆斯林入侵者的感情线。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, we’ve gotten a taste of the many kinds of dangers that lie ahead: more extreme hurricanes, massive droughts, forest fires, spreading infectious diseases, and floods.",
        "今年，我们初尝了未来将会面对的许多危险的况味：更为极端的飓风、大面积的干旱、森林火灾、传染病的蔓延和洪水。"
    ],
    [
        "It is Turkey's Muslim population that creates the strongest emotions.",
        "但激起最强烈反对的是土耳其的穆斯林们。"
    ],
    [
        "The engines that have propelled China’s growth over the last few decades – a huge supply of cheap labor, imported technology, and massive physical investment – are petering out.",
        "推动过去十年中国经济增长的引擎——大量廉价劳动力、进口技术和大规模实体投资——正在失去动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Naturally, the key role in this model is given to the supply of energy to the post-Soviet countries.",
        "自然，这种模式主要是通过向前苏联国家提供能源来实现的。"
    ],
    [
        "The positivist trend in science today is particularly problematic for developing countries, where data sets are scarce and often of poor quality.",
        "今天的实证主义趋势对发展中国家而言问题尤为严重，因为发展中国家不仅数据集稀缺，而且往往质量较差。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, the Party must agree on the direction of China’s 13th Five-Year Plan, which is to be launched in 2016 and is supposed to enable the country to graduate from middle-income status by 2020.",
        "今年的五中全会必须为中国第十三个五年规划确定方向。 十三五规划将从2016年开始，目标是让中国在2020年进入及跨越中等收入地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Industrial Policy Reconsidered",
        "产业政策再思考"
    ],
    [
        "I have found that with the right incentives, businesses and consumers can become partners in eradicating child labor.",
        "我发现正确的激励措施可以让企业和消费者成为消灭童工的合作伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "Binding the union closer together could prove critical to building such trust.",
        "让联盟联接得更加紧密的努力对于构建这种来说至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Clinton stayed in the race to the end, she toned down her rhetoric against Obama as the contest wound down.",
        "虽然克林顿一直坚持到竞选结束，但随着竞选逐渐接近尾声，她开始淡化了反对奥巴马的言论。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, we need a similar debate in the West regarding our strategy for the digital age if we want to overcome new challenges without denying our identity as liberal democracies.",
        "如今，西方需要类似的讨论思考信息时代战略，如果我们想克服新挑战又不否定我们的自由民主国家身份的话。"
    ],
    [
        "He had served only seven years when Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Minister, released him on compassionate grounds, based on a medical report that Megrahi has terminal cancer, and only three months to live.",
        "但在只坐了7年牢之后，他就被苏格兰司法部长肯尼·麦克阿斯基尔基于同情的立场释放了，因为一份检查报告说梅格拉希患了末期癌症，只剩3个月命了。"
    ],
    [
        "Western public opinion abhors the constant insults directed at Israel, Jews, and the West in general.",
        "西方舆论也憎恶伊朗不断地对以色列、犹太人和一般西方国家进行的侮辱。"
    ],
    [
        "Compounding the problem is the well-known advantage that extremists have over moderates, by virtue of yelling the loudest.",
        "让问题更加复杂的是众所周知的极端派对温和派的优势，这是“喉咙响”带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration has put outright grants at the center of its foreign-assistance policy, a commitment that is embodied in its new aid agency, the “Millennium Challenge Account.”",
        "布什政府把直接赠款作为起对外援助政策的核心，这种原则在新的援助机构“千年挑战帐户”中得到了充分的体现。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – For years, Americans have misunderstood the nuclear threat from North Korea, misjudging how to address it.",
        "发自剑桥——那么多年以来，美国人都误解了朝鲜的核威胁，也误判了这个问题的解决路径；"
    ],
    [
        "Confucian literati, shunning manual labor, grew their fingernails long, but they never displayed antipathy towards the world of affairs.",
        "儒家的文人避免体力劳动，留着长指甲，但他们却并从不对世事表示憎恶。"
    ],
    [
        "Studi terkini yang dilakukan PATH, melalui dukungan Novo Nordisk, menunjukkan bahwa di beberapa kasus, hanya sepertiga fasilitas kesehatan masyarakat yang memiliki stok insulin, dan hanya 1 dari empat yang mempunyai strip uji untuk memonitor diabetes.",
        "由诺和诺德公司支持、PATH执笔的最新研究表明，在一些例子中，只有三分之一的公共卫生机构有牛胰岛素库存，只有四分之一的公共卫生机构有监测糖尿病用的试纸。"
    ],
    [
        "Loosening that constraint on output growth would improve the European economy's resilience, encourage risk-taking, and promote dynamism.",
        "放松这一产出增长约束能够改善欧洲经济的恢复力、鼓励风险承担、增加活力。"
    ],
    [
        "Though financing for public infrastructure has returned to 2008 levels, little of it is being funneled into new projects.",
        "尽管公共基础设施融资已经回到2008年水平，但流向新项目的资金极少。"
    ],
    [
        "Elective science courses zoom up in popularity.",
        "科学选修课越来越多地受到欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "By the 2008 Beijing games, the world had changed significantly. The Soviet-American duopoly had given way to a Sino-American duopoly, which won a combined 20% of the medals.",
        "到了2008年北京奥运会，世界已经发生了重大变化，中美两极取代了苏美两极，两国相加夺走了20%的奖牌。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, she was diagnosed with high blood pressure and diabetes, conditions that, while not immediately life threatening, require health care to manage.",
        "去年，她被诊断为高血压、糖尿病，这类疾病虽然不会立即威胁生命，但需要医疗介入。"
    ],
    [
        "But the 70% is barely growing, and is unlikely to expand strongly at any point in the foreseeable future.",
        "但这70%几乎没有任何增长，而且在可以预见的未来强劲增长的可能性也微乎其微。"
    ],
    [
        "Their own development experience makes countries like China, India, and Brazil resistant to market fundamentalism and natural advocates for institutional diversity and pragmatic experimentation.",
        "自身的发展经验让中国、印度和巴西拒绝市场原教旨主义，使它们成为制度多样性和实用主义实验法的天然支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "But instead of rethinking its strategy, the ECB is considering doubling down: buying even more bonds and lowering its benchmark interest rate even further into negative territory. This would be a serious mistake.",
        "但欧洲央行并未因此重新思考其战略，而是开始考虑双倍下注：购买更多债券，并进一步将其基准利率降为负值，而这将酿成大错。"
    ],
    [
        "But more can be done to speed up the existing reform package, find ways to develop full coverage for catastrophic health events, and develop government-backed financing of tertiary education.",
        "但是，还有更多可以做的，如加快实施现有的一揽子改革计划，设法对严重疫疾实行全额覆盖，并对高等教育设立政府支助。"
    ],
    [
        "All members would, in principle, be eligible, but premium rates would be differentiated and established on the basis of quantitative criteria.",
        "原则上，所有的成员国都有资格申请，但是，申请的费率将会被区分开，并在定量标准基础上确定下来。"
    ],
    [
        "The private sector often engages with the government in order to make itself more profitable.",
        "私人部门常常与政府打交道，以使自己更有利可图。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Brexiteers will say that there is no contradiction.",
        "许多英国退出派会说，这并不矛盾。"
    ],
    [
        "The PA had an opportunity to lay the institutional foundations for a functioning state.",
        "巴勒斯坦权力机构有机会为一个正常运转的国家奠定机制性基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the compact is likely to be another example of Europe’s subordination of economic reality to politicians’ desire for bragging rights about progress toward “ever closer union.”",
        "不幸的是，这份契约可能沦为欧洲经济现实屈从于迈向“前所未有的紧密联盟”的浮夸宣言的又一例证。"
    ],
    [
        "No one thinks it is possible anymore for an individual to grasp, fully, all areas of science and technology.",
        "没人认为个人完全掌握科技的所有领域是可能的了。"
    ],
    [
        "Humans evolved from primates who formed communities that worked together to survive.",
        "人类从灵长类进化而来。 灵长类组成一起工作从而实现存活的社区。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, improving indebted households’ ability to refinance at low current interest rates could help to reduce their debt burden, as would writing off some mortgage debt in cases where falling house prices have left borrowers deep underwater (that is, the outstanding mortgage exceeds the house’s value).",
        "显然，改善负债家庭以较低的当前利率获得再融资的能力有助于减少他们的债务负担，对借款人因房价大跌而导致按揭严重资不抵债者（即未偿还按揭高于住房价值）给予一定的按揭债务减记也可以起到相同的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge is thus to overcome these minority interests and ensure the protection of the broader public good – a task that is often left to civil society.",
        "因此，挑战在于克服这些少数利益，确保对更广泛的公共利益的保护——这一任务常常由公民社会承担。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s postwar planners concluded that if excessive nationalism was the problem, transnationalism was the answer.",
        "美国战后策划者认为只有跨国主义才能解决过度民族主义所带来的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Oxford economist John Muellbauer says, treasuries and central banks have been “hammering into the consciousness of the private sector the importance of reducing gross government debt relative to GDP.”",
        "正如牛津大学经济学家约翰·穆尔鲍尔（John Muellbauer）所说，国债和央行已经“将减少政府总负债相对GDP比率的重要性深深地根植到私人部门的意识中了”。"
    ],
    [
        "Demands for reform are now focused on introducing direct presidential elections with two or more contenders, and limiting presidents to two consecutive terms in office.",
        "改革要求目前集中在由两个或更多的竞争者参与总统直选，并将总统任期限制在连任不超过两届。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called “Volcker Rule,” proposed by Paul Volcker, the former US Federal Reserve chairman, is a mini-Glass-Steagall, aiming to bar deposit-taking commercial banks from derivatives trading – now seen to be a dangerous activity for them.",
        "所谓的“沃克尔规则”（Volcker Rule，由前美联储主席保罗·沃克尔提出）便是迷你版的格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法案，它旨在禁止吸储的商业银行从事现在看来属于危险活动的衍生品交易。"
    ],
    [
        "But it worked a little too well, generating a powerful wave of inflation.",
        "但效果太好了一点，造成了强大的通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "His long-awaited speech to the regional parliament, in which he had promised to declare independence from Spain, ended up being a muddled effort to placate his radical nationalist allies, the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP), without further alienating the central government in Madrid.",
        "外界期待已久的他在地方议会的发言（他曾在发言中承诺宣布加泰罗尼亚从西班牙独立）最终演变为在不进一步疏远西班牙中央政府的情况下，安抚激进民族主义盟友人民团结候选党（CUP）的一次混乱的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "If a service-based economy simply has less need for expensive fixed capital, why should we expect a return to the days when business investment was a strong component of demand?",
        "如果基于服务业的经济不再需要那么多昂贵的固定资本，为何我们还可以预期回报像商业投资仍是需求主要成分的时期那么高？"
    ],
    [
        "But older people, living outside large urban areas, have voted instead to build barriers and – to a significant extent – attempt to close off the country from the rest of the world.",
        "但生活在大城市地区之外的年纪教长的人反而支持竖起藩篱并——在相当大的程度上——尝试将英国与世界其他部分隔离。"
    ],
    [
        "New lending facilities could be created, with governance structures more consonant with the twenty-first century.",
        "我们可以创造新的借款工具，而管理机制也应该和21世纪更加协调一致。"
    ],
    [
        "With control of the Rumtek monastery embroiled in rival lawsuits, the New Delhi-based Karmapa has, not surprisingly, greeted the recent cash seizure as “exposing” his Chinese-appointed rival.",
        "随着对德隆寺的控制卷入了敌对的法律诉讼中，驻扎于新德里的噶玛巴无疑会认为最近缴获的现金彻底“揭露”了他那由中国选定的对手。"
    ],
    [
        "But we should be able to do much better than that by looking at many more experiences in much more detail, using a much bigger memory that can find many more patterns across much more of the relevant human experience.",
        "但如果能看到更多更细致的经验、使用更大的记忆找出更多的跨越更多相关人类经验的模式，那么我们应该能够做得更好。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite widespread depravity and injustice, we also found a remarkable resilience and optimism.",
        "尽管腐败和不公随处可见，但我们同样感受到惊人的乐观和适应力。"
    ],
    [
        "But nobody should take Irish voters for granted in the final days of the campaign.",
        "各方面因素都预示着选民们将通过条约，但投票那天真正到来之前，谁也不能把一切都想得理所当然。"
    ],
    [
        "Making Old Age Less Safe",
        "使老年生活更缺安全感"
    ],
    [
        "Effective financial markets should also channel far more global saving from high-income countries with relatively weak long-term growth prospects to low-income regions with relatively strong growth prospects, owing to new opportunities to leapfrog development with smart, information-based infrastructure.",
        "有效的金融市场还应该引导更多的全球储蓄从长期增长前景相对较弱的高收入国家流向增长前景相对较强的低收入地区，因为明智的、基于信息的基础设施发展能带来飞跃的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – The long-running debate about the advisability of so-called helicopter money has changed shape, as new ideas emerge about the form it could take – and questions arise about whether it is already being dropped on some economies.",
        "慕尼黑—随着关于所谓的直升机撒钱的可能形式的新概念的出现，对其是否值得考虑的长期争论形势也发生了变化，并且出现了直升机撒钱是否已在某些经济体落地的疑问。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, despite 25 years of intense investment in structural biology, we remain unable to move from understanding molecules to an understanding of whole systems.",
        "可是，尽管25年来在结构生物学上投入巨大，但我们仍无法从理解分子进步到理解整个系统。"
    ],
    [
        "When Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom could take whatever measures were necessary to remove them.",
        "当阿根廷入侵并且占领福克兰群岛时，英国可以采取一切必要的措施赶走他们。"
    ],
    [
        "This second anti-Stalinist campaign lasted two years, which was not nearly enough to change the country’s mentality.",
        "第二场反斯大林运动持续了2年，还不足以改变这个国家的思想状况。"
    ],
    [
        "The US now has its Volcker rule (though disputes between banks and regulators about just how to define it continue).",
        "如今，美国出台了沃尔克规则（尽管银行和监管者关于如何定义它的争论还在继续）。"
    ],
    [
        "President Roosevelt’s administration declared the clause invalid, forcing debt forgiveness.",
        "罗斯福总统政府宣布该条款无效，迫使了债务免除。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though the authorities insist that the next time will be different, everyone knows that they will make the same decision when confronted with the same choice again.",
        "即便当局坚称下不为例，所有人都知道他们下次肯定还会做出同样的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no quick fix in disentangling the Korean knot. Only persistence and commitment will do.",
        "在解开朝鲜问题的死结上没有捷径，只有坚持和稳定的外交政策承诺才能实现朝鲜问题的解决。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the two countries’ systems are totally dissimilar.",
        "而且，两个国家的制度也完全不同。"
    ],
    [
        "(Indeed, per capita spending growth was much faster under the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush than it was under Democratic Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.)",
        "（事实上，平均支出增长在里根和小布什的共和党政府期间比卡特和克林顿的民主党政府期间增长要快得多。"
    ],
    [
        "For this reason, the US is likely to press India not to contemplate forceful retaliation that could undermine America’s objectives in Afghanistan.",
        "由于以上的原因，美国可能会向印度施压，让其不要考虑实施会破坏美国在阿富汗的目标的武力报复行动 。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the EU’s new trade deal with Canada, signed in October, was concluded only after working out elaborate compromises.",
        "同样，欧盟与加拿大的新贸易协议也是在达成了详尽复杂的妥协后才于去年十月签署的。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s government and National Security Council plan to revise the country’s National Defense Program Outline (NDPO) by the end of this year.",
        "日本政府和国家安全委员会计划在今年底之前修改国家防卫计划大纲（NDPO）。"
    ],
    [
        "Under capitalism, one is immoral if one reneges on a contract or breaks the law, but not if one speculates.",
        "在资本主义制度下，不履行合同或违反法律的行为是不道德的，但投机却不是。"
    ],
    [
        "Why is there such a divide between experts and society?",
        "专家和社会之间为何存在如此巨大的鸿沟？"
    ],
    [
        "There is a fire out there, but no one is calling the fire brigade.",
        "外面起火了，但是没人打电话给消防队员。"
    ],
    [
        "Decisions concerning both the multi-year framework and annual budgets should be taken by majority voting in the Council and Parliament, based on a formal proposal by the Commission, leaving decisions about the overall resource ceiling to the Council of Ministers and member states.",
        "有关多年度框架和年度预算的决策应该根据一个欧盟委员会提交的正式提案、由欧盟理事会和欧盟议会多数投票决定，将有关全部资源限额的决定权交给欧盟部长理事会和各成员国。"
    ],
    [
        "Post-crisis sluggishness in US aggregate demand – especially consumer demand – is likely to persist, denying Chinese exporters the support they need from their largest foreign market.",
        "后危机时代美国总需求的停滞状况——尤其是消费者需求方面——很可能持续，导致中国出口商无法在这个最大的出口市场中获取所需的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Number nine is polio eradication.",
        "第九项成功是消灭脊髓灰质炎。"
    ],
    [
        "But this policy is unsustainable.",
        "但是这一政策是难以为继的。"
    ],
    [
        "Slower global growth is also amplifying political pressures and, in some countries, adding to social strains – both of which tend to constrain policy responses.",
        "全球增长的减缓也增加了政治压力，在一些国家还增加了社会压力——而这两者总是会掣肘政策反应。"
    ],
    [
        "But this implies a key problem: Whereas a bankruptcy court can force holdout creditors to accept the exchange offer as long as a significant majority of creditors have already done so (a so-called “cram down”), the market-based approach allows some creditors to continue to hold out and sue to be paid in full.",
        "但这隐含着一个关键问题：尽管只要压倒多数债权人已经照办，破产法庭可以强迫不情愿的债权人接受债券替换条件（所谓的“强制执行”（cram down）），但基于市场的方法允许一些债权人坚持不就范，并诉诸法院要求足额偿付。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes it even harder for our companies to compete and prosper.",
        "这让我们国家的公司竞争和发展难上加难。"
    ],
    [
        "From Middle Israel to Middle Palestine",
        "从以色列中部到巴勒斯坦中部"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1860s, the female Indian Muslim ruler of Bhopal, Sikandar Begum, wrote a warts-and-all account of Mecca as a “wild and melancholy-looking” city whose “dirty and ill-drained” streets were filled with disease and disorder.",
        "19世纪60年代，女性印度博帕尔穆斯林统治者Sikandar Begum写了一篇毫不掩饰的评价，说麦加是一座“野蛮忧郁的”城市，“肮脏且排水不良”的街道充斥着疾病和混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "The sharing economy also boosts entrepreneurship, as people see new ways to fill gaps in the market.",
        "共享经济还刺激了企业家精神，不断有人发现新的填补市场空白的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "By May 2012, however, the government had changed its mind, with the National Development and Reform Commission approving ¥7 trillion ($1.3 trillion) in new projects.",
        "然而从2012年5月开始政府转变了思维，国家发展改革委员会批准上马了总额达7万亿元人民币（折合1."
    ],
    [
        "Though she endorsed Juncker before the election, she never really backed the notion that the European Parliament should have a decisive part in selecting the Commission’s president.",
        "尽管在选举前她支持容克，但她从未支持欧洲议会应该在选择欧盟委员会主席方面起到决定性作用这一观点。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, as he pointed out in 1970, was that “even Keynes could not guarantee that mankind would live happily ever after.",
        "更重要的是，他在1970年指出，“即使是凯恩斯也无法保证人类能永远幸福地生活下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Months later, after managing to board a trafficker’s flimsy vessel on Turkey’s Aegean coast, he found himself shipwrecked, surrounded by dozens of drowned fellow refugees.",
        "几个月后，他成功地登上了蛇头停靠在土耳其爱琴海岸的破船，却遭遇了颠覆，周围是几十名溺亡的难民同道。"
    ],
    [
        "The Nobel Prize committee decided to give an award to Sputnik’s “chief designer,” but first it needed the person’s name.",
        "诺贝尔委员会决定给人造卫星的“总设计师”颁奖，但是首先它要知道这个人的名字。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this is peculiar to developing countries.",
        "这些都不是发展中国家才有的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The Kremlin has maintained Russia’s illegal occupation of Japanese islands – our “Northern Territories” – seized by Stalin after Japan’s surrender in the Pacific War.",
        "克里姆林宫一直非法占领日本列岛——我们的“北方领土”——日本在太平洋战场投降后上述岛屿就落入了斯大林手中。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Libyan crisis also revealed that Europe’s naval security is limited and easily overstretched.",
        "但利比亚危机同时也暴露出欧洲海军安全力量有限且容易过度透支的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most importantly, competition is a powerful means to restore democracy and modernize political institutions by compelling policymakers to ensure transparency and accountability.",
        "竞争可以迫使决策者确保透明和公正，从而成为恢复民主和实现政治机构现代化的有效手段，也许这才是最重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the face of considerable controversy, assistance continued to be provided without requiring the poor to enter oppressive workhouses.",
        "尽管争议重重，但穷人仍可以获得补助而不必进入压抑的救济所。"
    ],
    [
        "Speculation about Trump’s likely foreign and domestic policies is rampant, but little if any of it is meaningful.",
        "关于特朗普可能的国内国外政策的猜测多如牛毛，但其中没有多少是真有意义的。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, Turkey’s turn toward the east is not ideologically or religiously inspired, but instead is based on solid strategic and economic calculations; as the fluid situation in the Middle East continues to develop, Turkey will adapt its policies accordingly.",
        "其次，土耳其转向东部邻国的行为并非来自于意识形态或者宗教原因，而是基于单纯的战略和经济推算。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, an ASEAN Commission for the Management of South China Sea Disputes, operating through majority voting, could establish ASEAN’s position on the issue and liaise with China to resolve disagreements when they arise.",
        "比如，建立一个按照多数票规则运行的东盟南海纠纷管理委员会，这样能树立东盟在该问题上的立场，并在中国一同解决分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump did not run in 2012, but grassroots Tea Partiers were already focused on illegal immigration and hatred of Obama.",
        "2012年特朗普并未参选，但草根茶党分子已经开始集中攻击非法移民和挑起对奥巴马的仇恨。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration seems to understand the potential benefits of such a “joint rebalancing,” with the EU-US statement on the Asia-Pacific region issued last July suggesting a move toward policy coordination.",
        "奥巴马政府明白这一“联合再平衡”的潜在好处，去年7月欧盟-美国关于亚太地区的声明提出要迈向政策协作。"
    ],
    [
        "At Battery Park, on Manhattan’s south end, the surge height reached 4.2 meters, flooding homes and businesses and plunging millions into darkness.",
        "在曼哈顿南端的炮台公园，风暴潮高度达到了4. 2米，洪水吞噬了家园和企业，令数百万人陷入黑暗。"
    ],
    [
        "Both the institutional and the behavioral responses to a crisis are fundamentally problematical. The search for technical solutions leads to political polarization, and may produce stalemate.",
        "如何应对经济危机，上文从机制和人类行为两个角度探讨了解决方法。 这两种方法基本上都存在问题。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, Microsoft does provide a patch that allows old versions of Office to read the new “.docx” format.",
        "可以肯定的是，微软的确提供了一种能让老版Office软件阅读全新“docx”文件的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Viewed from this perspective, it is no wonder that the question of how debt is taxed has played a small role in financial-reform packages.",
        "从这个角度看，毫不奇怪债务如何课税在金融改革方案中只扮演了较小的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, US farm subsidies were also deal-breakers for large agricultural exporters like Argentina and, again, Brazil.",
        "在过去，美国农业补贴也是阿根廷和（又是）巴西等农业大出口国不愿加入贸易协议的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, gold performs best when there is a risk of high inflation, as its popularity as a store of value increases.",
        "其二，在可能出现高通胀风险时黄金投资的表现最好，因为它被普遍认为是一个增值的储备品。"
    ],
    [
        "Geneticists often express skepticism about such predictions.",
        "遗传学家经常对这些预言表示悲观。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether they have the force of law is not the point; they provide guidance for civilized behavior.",
        "它们是否具有法律效力不是关键，他们为文明的行为提供了指导。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that China is projected to cross the same threshold sometime this year, many believe its average annual growth over the next five years will fall well below 7%.",
        "8%。 中国预计将于今年达到相同的阈值，因此很多人相信其未来五年平均年增长率将大大低于7%。"
    ],
    [
        "It will heighten the difficulty of meeting the convergence criteria for euro adoption.",
        "它将会抬高满足采用欧元标准的困难。"
    ],
    [
        "The kingdom has long provided financial support to Egypt, Jordan, and other countries in the region, so this shift will put pressure on those governments to pursue private-sector growth to improve their own countries’ economic performance.",
        "沙特王国长期以来一直为埃及、约旦和地区其他国家提供财政援助，因此这样的转变将给上述政府施压促进私营部门增长，以改善本国的经济表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in the early years of the democratic transition that followed, most post-communist voters did not succumb to the temptation to elect extremists who promised to end the hard times they were enduring.",
        "事实上，在苏联解体后最初几年的民主过渡中，多数后共产主义时代的选民并没有为承诺结束困难时期的极端分子投票。"
    ],
    [
        "STOCKHOLM – Our generation has a unique opportunity.",
        "斯德哥尔摩——我们这代人掌握的机会独一无二。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the study also found that of the 33 countries where HPV vaccines are most likely to have the greatest effect in preventing cancer, 26 had not yet introduced the vaccine.",
        "不幸的是，该研究还发现，在HPV疫苗预防癌症最有可能取得显著效果的33个国家中，有26个还没有引入疫苗接种机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Reversing this trend is not only in America’s interest, but also in the world’s interest.",
        "扭转这一趋势不仅符合美国的利益，也符合世界的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, some obviously invalid current categories have not been addressed.",
        "此外，一些旧版手册中明显有歧义的门类也没有得到处理。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, deregulation would require them to put their country’s long-term interests above their own short-term interests – a choice that they have so far resisted.",
        "事实上，去监管话要求他们把日本的长期利益置于他们自身的短期利益之前——到目前为止，他们对此十分抵触。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach does not have unanimous support among international experts.",
        "对于奥巴马的新领导方式，国际上的专家们各执己见。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it was the absence of debt that marked the United States’ emergence as a world power between 1914 and 1917.",
        "事实上，正是1914~1917年间零负债的状况确立了美国的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "True, sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq have escalated since the fall of Saddam.",
        "的确，伊拉克逊尼派和什叶派的教派冲突从萨达姆倒台以来已经升级。"
    ],
    [
        "Since renminbi internationalization was launched in 2009, exchange-rate arbitrage and the carry trade have surged.",
        "自从人民币国际化在2009年启动之后，汇率投机和套利交易也因此大幅增加。"
    ],
    [
        "But each now resents the behavior of the other.",
        "但是各方都对对方的行为不满。"
    ],
    [
        "The Scandinavian countries showed the way two decades ago.",
        "斯堪地纳维亚国家20年前就为我们做出了榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the Brazilian squad is looking more aggressive and likely to score with young players like Robinho and Juninho than with their aging champions from 2002.",
        "巴西也看起来更加富有攻势，罗比尼奥和儒尼奥尔也比2002年以来正在老迈的冠军们更有可能进球。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while things are not developing as American neo-conservatives had intended, they are nevertheless developing.",
        "然而，尽管事情没有朝着美国新保守主义者希望的方向发展，但也毕竟在发展之中。"
    ],
    [
        "As the reader may have guessed, these are real countries: Mexico and Vietnam.",
        "读者也许已经猜到，上述例子都涉及到真实的国家：墨西哥和越南。"
    ],
    [
        "On the traditional family farm, there was no unemployment.",
        "在传统家庭农庄中不存在失业。"
    ],
    [
        "Equally interesting, China is attempting to move away from the export-led growth strategy that it and other East Asian countries have pursued.",
        "同样令人感兴趣的是中国正在试图摆脱它和其他亚洲国家一直所实行的出口带动型增长战略。"
    ],
    [
        "ROME – A severe food crisis currently threatens southern Sudan.",
        "罗马——严重的粮食危机正在威胁着苏丹南部。"
    ],
    [
        "If we identify ourselves with the nation, our morality remains national.",
        "如果我们以某个国家来定义自己，那么我们的道德也会局限于一个国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Closer relations between Ukraine and the EU pose no threat to Russia; on the contrary, a Ukraine closely integrated with its Western neighbors could boost Russia’s economy as well.",
        "乌克兰和欧盟走得更近决不是对俄罗斯的威胁，相反，与西方邻国紧密一体化的乌克兰能够提振俄罗斯的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Reaching the top requires not only talent and luck, but also a lot of practices – that is, time wasted from the point of view of survival.",
        "位居榜首不仅需要才能和运气，还需要诸多实践，即从生存角度而言所浪费的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the data on investment returns in the United States actually show that January profits have historically been on only slightly better than the monthly norm, the widespread belief in a bullish “January effect” has made the weakness of stock markets around the world this year all the more shocking.",
        "尽管美国投资回报数据显示，从历史看，1月份的利润其实只略高于月度平均水平，但人们对向好的“一月效应”深信不疑，这让今年全球股市的疲软表现更加令人震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "PARIS – Is the current economic crisis uniting the democratic world in anger as much as in fear?",
        "巴黎——当前这场经济危机是不是用愤怒和恐惧把民主世界联系在一起？"
    ],
    [
        "Significantly, in contrast to its increasingly vituperative attacks on the Dalai Lama, China has not denounced (or derecognized) its Karmapa, although his flight to India signaled its failure to retain the loyalty of a supposed puppet.",
        "更值得注意的是，对达赖喇嘛百般攻击的中国政府却没有废除（或取消认可）其指派的噶玛巴，虽然多杰出走印度的行为显示出中国已无法维持一个傀儡的忠诚。"
    ],
    [
        "In January, the correlation between crude oil prices and the S&P 500 reached the highest level since 1990.",
        "1月，原油价格和标普500指数的相关性达到了1990年以来的最高峰。"
    ],
    [
        "In a sense, critics of the EU are right: the Union may be on a quest to reshape the world in its image.",
        "从某种意义上讲，对欧盟持批评态度的人是对的：欧盟可能正在寻求按自己的形象改造世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Winston Churchill (a direct descendant of the Duke of Marlborough) had a similar postwar vision for overcoming past divisions and nationalistic quarrels. “[T]his noble continent…is the fountain of Christian faith and Christian ethics,” he claimed.",
        "温斯顿·丘吉尔（马尔堡公爵的直系后裔）也有过类似的关于克服过去的分歧和民族主义宿怨的远见：“这片伟大的大陆……是基督教信仰和基督教伦理的泉眼，”他说，“如果欧洲早就通过分享共同遗产得到了统一，那么这将是一片极乐之地，它的三四亿人民将享受到无上的繁荣和光荣。"
    ],
    [
        "What the EU is facing in the Mediterranean isn’t primarily a currency problem; first and foremost, it is a strategic problem – one that requires solutions urgently.",
        "欧盟在地中海面对的首先是战略而非货币问题，我们迫切需要针对这一问题拿出解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Access to electricity could solve that problem, while allowing families to read at night, own a refrigerator to keep food from spoiling, or use a computer to connect with the world.",
        "用电可以解决这个问题，这样可以让家庭成员能在晚上看书、购买冰箱防止食物变质，或者用电脑和全世界沟通。"
    ],
    [
        "The world is not running out of oil, but two-thirds of oil reserves are located in the politically unstable Persian Gulf region.",
        "世界并非会没油了，而是三分之二的石油储备是在政治上动荡不安的波斯湾地区。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, total factor productivity, the best summary measure of the pace of technical change, has been stagnating since 2005 in the United States and across the advanced-country world.",
        "事实上在美国和整个发达世界中，作为技术变革速度最佳概括性指标的全要素生产率自2005年以来就已经陷入停滞了。"
    ],
    [
        "We often hear assertions like, “We must rely on the private sector to create jobs, because studies show that 90% of past jobs were created by the private sector.”",
        "我们经常听到这样的论断：“我们必须依靠私人部门创造就业，因为研究表明90%的昔日岗位是私人部门创造的。"
    ],
    [
        "Islam would have a stable base, because Muslims in Medina would be free to worship according to the dictates of their faith.",
        "伊斯兰教将因此拥有稳固的基础，因为生活在麦地那的穆斯林可以自由地信奉自己的信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "But these unconventional policies are turning out to be a classic game-theoretic bad equilibrium: each central bank stands to gain by keeping interest rates low, but, collectively, their approach constitutes a trap.",
        "但这些非常规政策正在转变为经典的博弈论坏均衡：每个央行都能从保持低利率中获利，但从集体角度，它们的方针却构成了一个陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the US is certainly undertaking a strategic “pivot” to Asia, America alone cannot construct a viable security structure for the region.",
        "尽管美国肯定会将亚洲作为战略“重点”，但光靠其一国是无法建立有效的地区安全结构的。"
    ],
    [
        "If a single major central bank attempted to introduce higher interest rates, its economy would immediately be “punished” through currency appreciation, declining competitiveness, and falling exports, all of which would undermine aggregate demand and employment.",
        "如果单一央行试图提高利率，其国内经济将立即通过货币升值、竞争力下降和出口下降而遭到“惩罚”，所有这些都将破坏总需求和就业状况。"
    ],
    [
        "It’s time to start thinking seriously about how to make Europeans move.",
        "现在是我们认真思考怎样来推动欧洲前进的时候了。"
    ],
    [
        "Why not use this opportunity to stimulate the economy and invest in its future?",
        "为什么不利用这一机会刺激经济、投资于它的未来呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Europe should not let this train pass it by.",
        "欧洲不应该坐视机会流失。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while everyone must follow these rules, individual schools are run in a competitive manner.",
        "但是，尽管所有学校都必须遵守这些规定，而每一个学校都是以一种竞争的方式运作。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not a trivial loss; but nor does it put “the world economy at risk.”",
        "上述损失绝非微不足道； 但也没有“威胁到世界经济”。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is even more difficult than reaching trade agreements, which must cover issues like tariffs, quotas, quality standards, regulatory regimes for particular sectors, and relevant microeconomic issues.",
        "事实上，这甚至比达成必须涵盖关税、配额、质量标准、特定行业的监管制度以及相关微观经济问题等问题的贸易协定更加困难。"
    ],
    [
        "While the underlying models differ, the Keynesian versions emphasize that if the super-rich save a lot, ever-increasing income concentration can be expected to lead to a chronic excess of planned savings over investment.",
        "尽管基本模型与此不同，但凯恩斯主义者也强调，如果巨富阶层大量储蓄，那么可以预期，不断增加的收入集中度将导致计划储蓄长期超过投资。"
    ],
    [
        "The French, by contrast, faced a future in which “it is difficult to foresee to what pitch of stupid excesses their egotism may lead them,” and “into what disgrace and wretchedness they would plunge themselves, lest they should have to sacrifice something of their own well-being to the prosperity of their fellow-creatures.”",
        "”相反，法国人面临这样一个未来：“很难预测盖过自负的愚蠢会把他们引向何方”以及“他们会让自己陷入怎样的耻辱和不幸，唯恐自己不得不牺牲一些自身福利和成功来为同类造福。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "There are two major geopolitical uncertainties as well.",
        "还有两大地缘政治风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB has recently signaled that it is similarly prepared to take the other steps expected of a normal central bank, publishing its board’s minutes, for example, so that the public can understand its deliberations and hold its members accountable for their actions.",
        "欧洲央行最近表示，它已经准备好迈出朝向正常中央银行的其他步骤，比如公布其董事会会议记录以使公众明白其意见以及迫使其成员行为受到问责。"
    ],
    [
        "Successful hi-tech innovations are random events that follow the law of large numbers.",
        "成功的高技术创新属于随机事件，遵从大数定律。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have suggested placing a large object nearby to change its trajectory through mutual gravitational attraction.",
        "有人建议在它近旁放置一个巨大物体，通过万有引力吸引它偏离轨道。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the problems with a Sino-Russian alliance run even deeper.",
        "事实上，中俄联盟还有更深层次的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The US or other outside powers will not save Kenyan democracy.",
        "美国和其他外部的力量将不会拯救肯尼亚的民主。"
    ],
    [
        "Restricting criminal liability to actual perpetrators, carefully excluding clansmen and kin, is a fragile historical innovation aimed at interrupting spirals of bloody inter-communal violence.",
        "为了阻止血流成河的部落间暴力螺旋式上升而把刑事责任限制在实际犯罪者身上，仔细地排除族人和亲属是一个脆弱的历史性创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies that score poorly risk losing sales and investors and triggering official regulatory or legal action.",
        "得分低的公司有可能会损失销量和投资者，并导致官方监管和法律手段。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it disrupted the operation of the international financial system.",
        "首先，它打乱了国际金融体系的运转。"
    ],
    [
        "To reverse this trend, some respite in investment growth is not only necessary, but also inevitable in a profit-driven economy.",
        "为了扭转这一趋势，适当放缓投资增长不仅必要，而且是利润驱动的经济所不可避免的过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, that means rolling back the culture of digital anonymity that facilitates hate speech and misinformation.",
        "最重要的是，这意味着要扭转便利仇恨言论和误导信息的数字匿名文化。"
    ],
    [
        "Since everything has failed, why not give God a chance?",
        "既然所有尝试均告失败，何不给上帝一个机会？"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico is home to one of the most efficient and inexpensive tools available in the fight against climate change: rainforests.",
        "波多黎各拥有应对气候变化最有效也最廉价的工具之一：那就是热带雨林。"
    ],
    [
        "In South Korea, Japan, and elsewhere, developing and maximizing women’s potential will require comprehensive education and labor-market reforms, as well as structural change, particularly on the services side of the economy.",
        "在韩国、日本和其他国家，开发和最大化女性潜力要求全面的教育和劳动力市场改革，结构性变化（特别是服务部门）也是必不可少的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, report or no report, the danger that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons is real, and may even have increased.",
        "但是，不论有没有报告，伊朗将掌握核武器的可能性是真实的，甚至可能有所上升。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates is not lacking in men – Roosevelt, George Marshall, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, and Henry Kissinger – who either ended up recognizing the limits of military power or were simply following Clausewitz’s dictum that war is the continuation of politics by other means.",
        "事实上 ，有许多诺贝尔和平奖的获得者——罗斯福、乔治·马歇尔、梅纳赫姆·贝京、萨达特、伊扎·拉宾、阿拉法特以及基辛格，他们要么在最后认识到军事力量的局限性，要么相信克劳塞维茨的理论：战争是政治的延续，只是方式不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic policy has also contributed to their current condition as trade agreements and an over-valued dollar promoted auto imports, and incoherent energy and environmental policy stifled innovation.",
        "经济政策也是造成他们目前困境的原因之一，因为贸易协定和估值过高的美元推动了汽车的进口，而早令夕改的能源和环境政策则扼杀了创新。"
    ],
    [
        "For many Iraqis, it is hard to view the IST as anything other than an expression of the occupiers’ will.",
        "对许多伊拉克人而言，很难不把IST看作表达占领者意愿的工具。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – The German economy appears unstoppable.",
        "柏林—德国经济似乎不可阻挡。"
    ],
    [
        "Fascists liked to think of themselves as imbued with total knowledge and total power.",
        "（在西方语言中，极权主义[totalitarianism]有“总体、统摄一切”的涵义——译者）"
    ],
    [
        "Today, these governments are more likely to use drones and special forces to strike at their perceived enemies.",
        "如今，大国政府更有可能使用无人机和特种部队对付它们眼中的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Council, for its part, has already called for an immediate summit.",
        "欧洲理事会已经呼吁立即召开峰会。"
    ],
    [
        "As in 2008, large numbers of women don’t want to be told that they must support Clinton simply because she’s a woman.",
        "2008年，大量女性不希望仅仅因为身为女性被告知必须支持克林顿。"
    ],
    [
        "The Congress Party, to paraphrase Brown University’s Richard Snyder, resembles a “neo-patrilineal dictatorship,” in which “[p]eople get goodies for being close to the ruler.”",
        "用布朗大学的理查德·斯奈德（Richard Snyder）的话讲，国大党像是一个“新父系独裁”，“人民因与统治者走得较近而获得好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the DOJ rushed to distance itself from the decision, highlighting how easily Trump can use (or not use) the pardon power to settle his many scores: it is virtually the only power within the criminal justice system that the president can exercise unilaterally.",
        "事实上，司法部急于与特朗普的决定划清界限，强调特朗普可以轻易使用（或拒绝使用）豁免权来解决过去的恩怨：豁免权几乎是刑事司法体系中总统有权单方面行使的唯一权力。"
    ],
    [
        "From 2006 to 2013, inequality rose in many of the continent’s most important economies, including South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, and Rwanda.",
        "从2006年到2013年，非洲的许多最重要经济体，包括南非、尼日利亚、加纳、坦桑尼亚和卢旺达等，不平等性都有所上升。"
    ],
    [
        "At the G20, the needed agreement should focus on developing a global mechanism to re-invigorate the market for new antibiotics that are globally affordable, accessible, and used as efficiently as possible.",
        "在20国峰会上，必要的协议应着眼于制定一套全球机制，为经济实惠、使用方便高效的全球新抗生素市场重新注入活力。"
    ],
    [
        "The possession of a gun is the ultimate test of individualism, and using guns in wars is not abhorrent.",
        "拥有枪支是个人主义的最终考验，在战争中使用枪支却不引恶感。"
    ],
    [
        "Then there is the shale gas to be exploited closer to home.",
        "另一方面则是据本国更近的页岩气开发。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists’ conventional description depicts high finance as providing us with three types of utility.",
        "经济学家传统上给出高级金融如下三个用途。"
    ],
    [
        "Could this be because the military and civilian leaders of the US defense establishment have seen first-hand the costs of stunted intellectual growth, hyperactivity, and lack of impulse control?",
        "这有可能是因为美国国防体系的军队和文职领导人现场目睹过智力发育停滞、多动症和冲动控制缺陷的代价吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the eurozone itself is a mini-gold standard, with heavily indebted members unable to devalue their currencies, because they have no currencies to devalue.",
        "此外，欧元区本身是一个迷你金本位区，重债成员国无法贬值货币，因为没有货币可贬。"
    ],
    [
        "Should Germany Exit the Euro?",
        "德国应该退出欧元吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Together they constitute too large a portion of the euro zone to be helped out by makeshift arrangements.",
        "它们的问题加在一起就对欧元区是一个很大的麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "It is true that rebalancing competitiveness within the eurozone has not yet been completed, and that some countries thus need to record below-average inflation to cut above-average costs.",
        "诚然，实现欧元区内部竞争力的再平衡还远未完成，一些国家因此需要低于平均值的通胀以降低高于平均值的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index recently reached a 17-year high.",
        "密歇根大学消费情绪指数最近达到了17年来的高点。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the German economy has barely grown; indeed, weaker world trade threatens to put it in recession.",
        "相反，德国经济几无增长； 事实上，国际贸易的走弱有可能导致德国陷入衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, much of the new credit has originated in the shadow-banking sector at high interest rates, causing borrowers’ repayment capacity to become overstretched.",
        "更糟糕的是，这些新信用中有许多源自影子银行部门，利率很高，导致借款人偿债能力紧绷。"
    ],
    [
        "What a majority of British voters want is considered irrelevant.",
        "大部分英国选民想要的东西被认为无关紧要。"
    ],
    [
        "If you are not lucky enough to own property in the Southeast of England, and are not in a final-salary pension scheme, your wealth has stagnated or fallen.",
        "如果你时运不济，既没有在英格兰东南部买房，又没有参加最重薪资养老金计划，那么你的财富额就会停滞不前甚至缩水。"
    ],
    [
        "That implies a system of governance with at least two decision-making centers – perhaps in addition to United Russia, the party of Putin and Medvedev, which won 64% of the vote in the recent parliamentary election up from 37% in 2003.",
        "因此很有可能会出现至少有两个决策中心的治理体系。 也许还应该加上统一俄罗斯党，即普京和梅德韦捷夫所在的政党，它在刚刚举行的议会选举中获得了64%的选票，大大超过了2003年37%的得票率。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Union has mistakenly sat on the sidelines of these talks for too long, despite Syria’s importance to its own security and interests, and despite its responsibility to Syria’s citizens.",
        "长期以来，欧盟错误地选择旁观谈判，尽管叙利亚对欧洲自身的安全和利益十分重要，并且欧洲对叙利亚人民也负有责任。"
    ],
    [
        "It should be recapitalized on a sufficient scale to offset the contractionary effects of Europe’s national deficit-reduction programs.",
        "而它必须得到足够规模的二次注资才能抵消掉欧洲各国赤字削减项目的负面相应。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps gold, a store of value impervious to physical distortion, could make a comeback.",
        "黄金是可以抵御物理变形的价值储备，也许它会卷土重来。"
    ],
    [
        "Two landmarks define these changes: the end of the Cold War, which rendered NATO’s defensive strategy against the Soviet Union obsolete, and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the US, which changed the profile of the enemy and the nature of the battlefield.",
        "两个标志性事件清楚定义了这些变革：一是冷战结束，直接导致北约专门为苏联设计的防御策略彻底作废，二就是 9/11 事件，对美国的恐怖袭击引发了敌人身份的改变以及战场本质的变换。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, with a few exceptions (essentially Germany and Japan), housing prices have risen almost everywhere to levels never seen before.",
        "确实，除了德国和日本等几个少数国家外，几乎所有地方的房地产价格都达到了前所未有的高度。"
    ],
    [
        "Predictions are used to test only the tiny minority of explanations that survive these criteria.",
        "而预测只是用来验证能通过上述条件考验的很小一部分解释。"
    ],
    [
        "The economists’ commonplace that a monetary union demands a fiscal union is only part of a much deeper truth about debt and obligation: debt is rarely sustainable if there is not some sense of communal or collective responsibility.",
        "“统一货币需要统一财政”，这句经济学家的老生常谈，其实揭示了一条更深刻的关于债务的真理：若没有责任共担之心，便难有可靠之债。"
    ],
    [
        "After withering criticism accusing him of Islamophobia, Daoud announced that he would cease his journalistic work and focus on writing novels.",
        "在遭到仇视伊斯兰教的令人难堪的指责后，达乌德宣布他将停止其新闻工作并专注于创作小说。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is a grave mistake to link modern forms of fundamentalism with the idea of a clash of civilizations.",
        "因此将现代形式的原教旨主义与文化冲突联系在一起简直大错特错。"
    ],
    [
        "Stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, promoting more efficient energy use, taking action on climate change, and maintaining an open global economy – these and other tasks require Chinese participation, even cooperation, if globalization is not to overwhelm us all.",
        "阻止核武器扩散，促进能源更有效地利用，对气候变化采取措施以及维护开放的全球经济——这些以及其它的工作都需要中国的参与，甚至是合作，如果我们不想全球化压倒我们的话。"
    ],
    [
        "When she named the law professor Paul Kirchhof, who advocated a flat tax, as her candidate for finance minister, Merkel’s electoral cakewalk turned into a nightmare.",
        "当默克尔提名在德国提倡统一税率的法律教授Paul Kirchhoff作为财政部长的候选人时，她的选举步态竞赛就变成了一场噩梦。"
    ],
    [
        "And the effort has already borne fruit.",
        "并且已经开始产生成效。"
    ],
    [
        "The only regional power in the Middle East today is Iran, but it is not a stabilizing force.",
        "伊朗是今日中东唯一的地区性大国，但却不是一股稳定的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The ghosts of this history still hang over in East Asia, with each country struggling to find ways to deal with the past.",
        "当每个国家努力寻找面对历史的方法的时候，这段历史的幽灵还笼罩在东亚上方。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany’s Political Stagnation",
        "德国的政治停滞期"
    ],
    [
        "When it comes to monetary policy, however, the options are similarly limited.",
        "但是，对于货币政策，选择也同样有限。"
    ],
    [
        "His was a suicidal brand of statecraft from the outset.",
        "他的治国之道从一开始就是自杀式的。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of Syria’s agony is the self-fulfilling nature of the conflict.",
        "冲突不断自我应验成为叙利亚最大的痛苦。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, Japan, now running its own version of QE, worries about potential currency manipulation by other countries, such as South Korea and China.",
        "类似地，目前正在国内采取QE的日本担心其他国家（如韩国和中国）的潜在货币操纵。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, China must take into consideration the ongoing asset crisis facing emerging economies, especially when considering highly consequential questions such as full renminbi convertibility and the currency’s internationalization.",
        "简言之，中国必须认真考虑当前新兴经济体所面临的资产危机，特别是如果它想实现人民币完全可兑换和国际化的话。"
    ],
    [
        "But the new commission that Durao Barroso, Portugal's former Prime Minister, has appointed risks becoming imprisoned by the bureaucracy again.",
        "可葡萄牙前总理杜朗·巴罗佐的新一届执委会再次释放了官僚机构中禁锢的危险因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Healthy populations are better able to produce, trade, and innovate, while unhealthy populations strain public budgets and create risks that discourage economic exchange.",
        "健康人群能更好地从事生产、贸易和创新，而不健康人群则会压低公共预算，并带来危险阻碍经济交流。"
    ],
    [
        "As the current “development round” of trade talks moves into its final stages, it is becoming increasingly clear that the goal of promoting development will not be served, and that the multilateral trade system will be undermined.",
        "正值当前的“发展回合”贸易谈判进入最后阶段之际，人们越来越清楚地看到促进发展的目标无法实现，而且多边贸易体系将会受到损害。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama is right: A nuclear agreement of the sort outlined is preferable to Iran possessing nuclear weapons or going to war to prevent that outcome.",
        "奥巴马是对的：现在所提出的核协议比让伊朗拥有核武器或通过战争阻止这一结果好。"
    ],
    [
        "When Wilson Center researcher Haleh Esfandiari was arrested in Iran, Hamilton wrote to Khamenei, pleading for her release on humanitarian grounds.",
        "当威尔逊中心的研究员Haleh Esfandiari在伊朗被捕时，Hamilton给哈梅内依写信，请求对方在人道主义的立场上释放她。"
    ],
    [
        "That protectionist sentiment, always strongest in the industrial heartland of São Paulo, is still there.",
        "这一保护主义情绪在圣保罗工业核心区向来最强，如今仍然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Business would boom, the City of London would prosper, and Britons never would be slaves, not of the EU or anyone else.",
        "商业蓬勃发展、伦敦城兴旺繁荣，英国人永远不会成为任何人的奴隶，无论是其他国家还是欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "The world deserves better.",
        "我们应该有一个更好的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "While Germany’s center has held, its consensus is about to be tested.",
        "尽管德国中间派仍能够坚持，但其共识即将遭受考验。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet 70% of these businesses receive no help from financial institutions, even though investment would enable them to grow and create jobs.",
        "但70%的中小微企业得不到金融机构的帮助，即使投资能够让它们实现增长和创造就业。"
    ],
    [
        "My Northwestern University colleague Robert J. Gordon captures the sentiment of many economists, arguing in his recent book The Rise and Fall of American Growth that the enormous productivity-enhancing innovations of the last century and a half cannot be equaled.",
        "我的西北大学同事罗伯特·戈登（Robert J. Gordon）说出了很多经济学家的心声，在他的新书《美国增长的兴衰》（The Rise and Fall of American Growth）中指出，此前一百五十年中的众多提高生产率的创新是无法逾越的。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in an effort to bring coherence to commercial courts’ rulings, the court system will be directly financed by the central government, rather than by the corresponding local government.",
        "此外，为了保证商业法庭裁决的一致性，法院系统将直接由中央政府而不是对应的地方政府提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s Two Pillars - A Success",
        "欧洲央行的两个支柱，一个成功的范例"
    ],
    [
        "This could encourage investment in a range of higher-value-added sectors, promote positive spillovers, and minimize adverse effects.",
        "这可能在一定范围内鼓励更高增值部门的投资，促进积极的溢出效应，并最大限度减少不良影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, in order to uphold monetary-policy independence, China has to remove the shackles from the renminbi exchange rate.",
        "当然，为了维护货币政策的独立性，中国必须去除对人民币汇率的束缚。"
    ],
    [
        "Programs in the United States like “Teach for America” and “Teach for All” can serve as powerful new models for recruiting the teachers that will be needed for new secondary schools.",
        "美国像“美国教师”和“全民教师”这样的计划可以为新建中学有效招募所需的教师。"
    ],
    [
        "The same paradox applies to energy use, owing to the destructive impact of large-scale carbon emissions.",
        "同样的悖论也适用于能源，因为大规模碳排放会导致破坏性影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is important to have an innovation system (including an intellectual property regime) that ensures that advances in knowledge are widely used.",
        "但是，建立一个确保知识进步得到广泛应用的创新体系(包括知识产权体系)是重要的。 这就会要求创新型的措施。"
    ],
    [
        "An entire education system is under threat.",
        "尼泊尔的整个教育系统都在遭受威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Residue from forest, agricultural, and agro-industrial activities could be collected and converted.",
        "来自于森林、农业和农产业活动的残渣废料可以被收集起来并进行转化。"
    ],
    [
        "So why did Central America's leaders sign the agreement?",
        "那么中美洲的领导人们为什么要签署该协议呢？"
    ],
    [
        "A case in point is the economics of two-sided markets, which involve competition between platforms whose principal “product” consists in connecting two categories of users, who then offer each other network benefits.",
        "一个例子是双边市场经济学，其中涉及不同平台之间的竞争，这些平台的主要“产品”在于连接两个类别的用户，而这些用户随后为彼此提供网络收益。"
    ],
    [
        "These could take different forms, but what is important is that they are truly inclusive at a local level, and that they get support from district, regional, and national power structures when they highlight abuses.",
        "虽然形式可以多种多样，但重要的是在底层确实具有包容性，在处理滥用职权的行为时能够得到地区和国家权力架构的有力支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, my office defended the liberal weekly newspaper Novoe Vremya (New Times), which was being pressured by Moscow's city government on the pretext of a commercial dispute about a lease.",
        "类似情况下，我的办公室保护了《新时代》（ Novoe Vremya ）自由周刊。 莫斯科市政府借口商业租赁方面的争议，对这家媒体施加压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Ironically, this perception brings Israel some rather unlikely partners.",
        "具有讽刺意味的是，这一观念带给以色列一些的确意想不到的夥伴。"
    ],
    [
        "The General Assembly as a whole has spoken in favor of these priorities.",
        "联合国大会总体支持这些当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, feeling richer and brimming with optimism, the private sector goes on a spending spree and the economy booms.",
        "开支削减后，私人部门会感到手里的钱更多了，对前景也更乐观了，于是便会继续大手花钱，经济也将繁荣起来。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab Spring, however, reveals the fragility of repressive political regimes that try to maintain their legitimacy by limiting information flows.",
        "但是，阿拉伯之春显示了高压政治体制的脆弱，通过限制信息流动维持统治的合法性是行不通的。"
    ],
    [
        "Discussion will be sparked by on-line appearances by top military, political, and civil-society leaders, who will debate with participants.",
        "讨论将由高级军事领导人，政治家以及公民社会的领导人在线发起，而这些也将与参与者展开辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "It is in the EU’s vital interest to strive for a far more active policy towards Ukraine than it has so far.",
        "对欧盟来说，采取尽力争取乌克兰的政策具有极其重要的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither would be good for the global economy.",
        "倘若这两个问题都得到了肯定的答案，那么对全球经济必定不利。"
    ],
    [
        "Incentives for brokers and credit rating agencies have been even more perverse.",
        "对经纪人和信用评级机构进行的激励，问题更大。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come,” the American poet Carl Sandburg wrote hopefully in 1936.",
        "布鲁塞尔——1936年美国诗人卡尔·桑德伯格曾满怀希望地写道，“总有一天他们会发动战争但是没有人来响应。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, anti-Zionist leftists frequently attempt to discredit Israel by comparing its actions in Gaza and the West Bank to Nazi atrocities.",
        "事实上，反犹太复国主义的左派经常将以军在加沙和西岸地区的行径与纳粹暴行相提并论，以实现贬低以色列的目的。"
    ],
    [
        "Reversing this destabilizing dynamic will require a debt restructuring that provides the relief needed to implement pro-growth policies.",
        "目前必须进行债务重组才能扭转这种不稳定的趋势，相关重组措施必须为落实增长政策提供所需的救济。"
    ],
    [
        "Peru’s domestic and international situation, however, will frame his main decisions.",
        "但秘鲁的国内国际局势将会主宰他的重要决策。"
    ],
    [
        "United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is taking on this unprecedented challenge from his unique position at the crossroads of global politics and society.",
        "联合国秘书长潘基文正在承担这一前所未有的挑战——他身居一个独一无二的位置，战在全球政治和社会的十字路口上。"
    ],
    [
        "The UK has a much larger banking system relative to its economy’s size than does Europe as a whole – let alone the United States.",
        "相对整个欧洲（更不用说美国了）英国银行系统相对经济规模的比重要大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The updated adage for the recent bull market is “one big step down, then three little steps up, again and again,” so far at least.",
        "而最近牛市中被更新的谚语是“退一大步，然后进三小步，如此周而复始”，至少到目前为止是这样的。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans and Asians saw excessively loose US fiscal and monetary policy as the major culprit.",
        "欧洲人和亚洲人认为，美国过分宽松的财政和货币政策是罪魁祸首。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if these countries make significant strides in reducing emissions, they will be the polluters of the future, at least in the near term.",
        "即便这些国家在减排方面取得长足的进步，它们仍将是未来污染者，特别是在近期。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the vast majority of the pesticidal substances found on produce occur “naturally” in people’s diets, through organic and conventional foods.",
        "此外，包括有机和传统食品在内的人类饮食中“天然”出现绝大多数农产品上发现的杀虫物质。"
    ],
    [
        "That status matters, because achieving it will make it more difficult for Chinese firms to be found guilty of dumping goods on overseas markets.",
        "“市场经济”地位绝非小事，因为这意味着更难将中国企业在海外市场的倾销行为视为非法。"
    ],
    [
        "Restrictions on investment and land purchases can be dropped.",
        "投资和购置土地方面的限制也可以解除。"
    ],
    [
        "She also failed to acknowledge an exit poll carried out by a US foundation, which showed a clear Odinga victory.",
        "她也没有承认一家美国基金会进行的（投票站）出口民调的结果。 该调查的结果明确显示Odinga获胜。"
    ],
    [
        "As they undertake structural reforms across multiple sectors, China’s leaders have the opportunity to bolster their country’s long-term prosperity.",
        "随着跨部门结构改革的进行，中国领导人有机会构筑国家长期繁荣的基石。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty years ago, they could graduate from high school without ever using a computer.",
        "20年前，从没有使用过计算机的学生也可以从高中毕业。"
    ],
    [
        "Forget all that, Republicans insist: cut business taxes, they say, and all that ails America will be cured.",
        "当然，美国公司股市估值普遍高企，这也绝对不是问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The officer, Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, was implicated in abuses committed in 1977 and 1978 at the notorious Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires.",
        "那名叫米格尔·卡瓦略·里卡多的军官，牵涉在1977年和1978年间在布宜诺斯艾利斯臭名昭著的海军机械学校犯下的罪行。"
    ],
    [
        "To succeed requires programmatic clarity, organizational honesty, and an understanding of the concerns of societies that have lost their traditional structures.",
        "要取得成功，必须要有明确的行动纲领和正直的机构组织，并且要理解已失去传统结构的社会所关心的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "While the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, expresses confidence that Bashir will be brought to justice, it is unclear how this will happen.",
        "尽管ICC的总检察官Luis Moreno-Ocampo表示有信心将巴希尔绳之以法，但究竟如何操作还是个未知数。"
    ],
    [
        "Latin American countries save 18% of GDP, on average, compared to 30% in fast-growing East Asia.",
        "拉美国家储蓄占GDP之比平均为18%，而高增长的东亚为30%。"
    ],
    [
        "The write-off of multilateral debt for the world’s poorest countries – thanks to Britain’s leadership – is nonetheless especially welcome.",
        "免除世界上最穷的国家（们）的多边债务—在英国的倡导下—自然受到特别的欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "The World Bank, the United Nations, and even the Bush administration have moved to help, albeit in small measure relative to the scale of the problem.",
        "世界银行、联合国甚至是布什政府都已经采取行动进行帮助，尽管与问题的严重性相比步骤不够大。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s economy will not grow as strongly over the next five years as it did in past decades.",
        "未来五年，中国经济无法保持过去几十年那样的高增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But China’s income per capita is only 4% that of the US.",
        "但是中国的人均国民收入只有美国的4%。"
    ],
    [
        "Among the unprecedented slogans of last summer’s street protests were thunderous chants of “Khamenei is a murderer, his leadership is void!”",
        "去年夏天的街头抗议中涌现了许多闻所未闻的口号，其中就包括了人们狂风暴雨般的呼声：“哈梅内伊是个凶手，他的统治是非法的! ”"
    ],
    [
        "Creating these retail products will require time, experimentation, and some real innovation.",
        "开发这样的零售产品需要时间、尝试和一些真正的创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who think most about friendly relations with others have a “need for affiliation.”",
        "最注重和他人的友好关系的人有“结盟需求”。"
    ],
    [
        "The great question, of course, is whether stabilization of greenhouse gases, continued economic development, and adaptation to climate change can be achieved simultaneously.",
        "当然，一大问题就是稳定温室气体排放、经济持续发展以及适应气候变化是否能够同时实现。 如果使用我们现有的技术是行不通的。"
    ],
    [
        "Some teachers’ unions have refused to perform the task.",
        "一些教师工会拒绝承担这一责任。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, like past generations’ loading of the earth’s atmosphere with carbon, nuclear weapons represent a legacy to overcome.",
        "事实上，就像过去几代人将碳排入地球大气，核武器也代表了一种必须摒弃的传统。"
    ],
    [
        "The immediate result was an upsurge in confidence among both businesses and consumers.",
        "这立刻就提升了企业和消费者的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "The transition to a carbon-based economy liberated economies from age-old Malthusian constraints.",
        "向以碳为基础的经济转型让西方经济摆脱了古老的马尔萨斯约束。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Party uses nationalist sentiment to keep China unified, these sentiments have become fiercer, and the political leadership is increasingly held hostage to nationalist opinion in formulating China’s foreign policy towards Japan.",
        "由于中国共产党允许使用这种民族主义情绪以保持中国统一，使得这种情绪更为激烈，而中国政治领导层在本国的日本政策制定中，也越来越多地带上敌对的民族主义色彩。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the share of freight carried across India by rail has declined from 89% in 1950-1951 to 31% today.",
        "结果是铁路在印度货运中所占的份额已经从 1950-1951年的89%下降到今天的31%。"
    ],
    [
        "The world needs a more modest and confident America.",
        "世界需要一个更为谦逊和自信的美国。"
    ],
    [
        "The list, alas, goes on.",
        "除了这几个国家之外，类似的情况在非洲简直数不胜数。"
    ],
    [
        "His predecessor, Giorgio Napolitano, is also strongly in favor of the reforms, which he says would be “great news for Italy.”",
        "他的前任纳波利塔诺也强烈支持改革，说改革“对意大利来说是绝好的消息”。"
    ],
    [
        "If China replaces its eroded communism with nationalism or ensure social cohesion, the result could be a more aggressive foreign policy and unwillingness to deal with issues like climate change.",
        "如果中国用民族主义取代遭到侵蚀的共产主义或者确保社会凝聚，结果将会是更为侵犯性的外交政策并且不愿意处理类似气候变化那样的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet they continue to repeat it.",
        "但他们仍反复强调这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "German firms did relocate high-skilled work to the east, but not to the extent that Austria did.",
        "德国公司也将高技能工种向东迁移，但并未达到奥地利那样的程度。"
    ],
    [
        "What’s Stopping Europe?",
        "什么在羁绊欧洲？"
    ],
    [
        "But in the last 16 years it has begun to reap the fruits of genuine democratic competition, because an independent judiciary and electoral commission gives people confidence that their vote can make a difference.",
        "但是在过去16年里，它开始收获真正民主竞争的果实，因为独立司法和选举委员会给予人民信心，也就是他们的选票可以有所作为。"
    ],
    [
        "Territorial disputes have exacerbated these tensions significantly.",
        "领土争端显著加剧了上述紧张局势。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, when the personal situations of many individual Americans are examined through European eyes, the extreme individualism that constitutes a key part of American optimism translates into an unacceptable social scandal.",
        "与此相反，在欧洲人眼中，一些美国人是极端个人主义的代表； 在某种程度上，美国式的乐观主义也被解读为难以接受的社会丑闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that roughly one billion people are infected with NTDs, compared to 40 million with HIV, and that the drugs targeting them are donated and actually prevent disease and stop transmission, treating NTDs is a major opportunity to lift populations out of poverty.",
        "鉴于感染NTD的病人约有10亿（感染HIV的病人有4000万），而且治疗这些疾病的药物是捐赠的，且的确能够起到预防和阻止传播的作用，可以说解决被忽视的热带病是消除贫困问题的重要机会。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the conventional wisdom, Britain’s social model is based on coexistence between different communities, with each continuing to observe its conventions and customs while respecting the country’s laws – an informal federation of communities.",
        "根据通常的观点，英国的社会模式是基于不同群体的共存，每一个群体都遵循它自己的风俗习惯，同时也尊重这个国家的法律——一个非正式的社会群体的联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Political polarization has become another source of uncertainty.",
        "政治极化是另一个不确定之源。"
    ],
    [
        "Offshoring dropped during the Great Recession that followed the 2008 global financial crisis, but quickly rebounded, accelerating past pre-crisis levels.",
        "离岸自2008年全球金融危机引发大衰退以来有所下降，但随后马上发生了反弹，并加速超过了危机前水平。"
    ],
    [
        "These comparisons are not neutral, and one may detect in the analogy between China today and nineteenth-century Germany an element of that guilty pleasure in others’ troubles that the Germans call “Schadenfreude.”",
        "这些对比并非是中立的，人们也许会看到，用今天的中国和十九世纪的德国相比较，是对别人的麻烦抱着一种幸灾乐祸的态度，用德语说就是“Schadenfreude”。"
    ],
    [
        "The overall unemployment rate is just 4.7%, while unemployment among college graduates is only 2.4%.",
        "总体失业率只有4. 7%，而大学毕业生失业率更是低至2."
    ],
    [
        "It is an important moment to assess the state of competition in various sectors.",
        "现在评估各行业竞争状况的重要时刻已经来临。"
    ],
    [
        "One cannot commend the 1990’s Clinton-Gore administration for taking any brave steps aimed at radically reducing carbon emissions.",
        "对于克林顿和戈尔当局在九十年代采取任何果敢的步骤大幅度减少碳的排放，人们并无法恭维。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a problem for Europe.",
        "这是欧洲所面临的一个严重问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The US-Japan alliance is central to America’s position in Asia.",
        "美日联盟是美国在亚洲的地位中最为核心的部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Sighs of relief greeted EU leaders’ mid-year agreement on a Reform Treaty aimed at overhauling the Union’s decision-making mechanisms, but it is still uncertain whether the new pact will survive the ratification process in 27 countries.",
        "欧盟领导人们在全面检视该组织的决策机制的《改革公约》上达成的年中协议令人可以舒一口气，但这一新协定能否得到27个成员国的批准仍然是个未知数。"
    ],
    [
        "Afghanistan's invasion was justified: that was where bin Laden lived and al Qaeda had its training camps. Invading Iraq was not.",
        "美国有理由入侵阿富汗：因为那里是本·拉登的驻地，也是基地组织的训练营，但入侵伊拉克却站不住脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Who transferred the technology that the North needed?",
        "又是谁向朝鲜输送了相关技术？"
    ],
    [
        "Second, liberal reformers must continue to lead when it comes to increasingly salient issues – such as the environment, non-discrimination, marriage equality, and drug-policy reform – that politicians of the traditional left and right are unable to address.",
        "其次，自由改革派必须在面对日益尖锐的问题时继续承担领导责任——比如环境、无歧视、婚姻自由和毒品政策改革等——传统左派和右派政客无法解决这些问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Hitler’s visual image could be reduced to a greasy cowlick and a toothbrush moustache.",
        "希特勒的视觉形象可以抽象为油腻腻的卷发和牙刷般的一字胡。"
    ],
    [
        "Pertama, pembuat kebijakan dan donor harus mengakui besarnya efek diabetes terhadap masyarakat miskin dan memfokuskan perhatian dan pendanaan lebih besar pada pencegahan dan pengobatan.",
        "首先，决策者和出资者必须认识到糖尿病的影响大部分落在了贫困社会，必须更多地关注和为预防与治疗提供资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Now is the time for China to push for far-reaching reforms.",
        "中国是时候推动意义深远的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "All of this is logical enough.",
        "所有这一切都合乎逻辑。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Supreme Court’s decision on Argentina adds a new wrinkle, and may well further increase the risk attached to holding sovereign debt – and this to the cost of issuing it.",
        "美国最高法院的阿根廷案决议却增添了一道伤痕，并将进一步增加与持有主权债务相关的风险——以及发行这类债券的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Before its onset, America’s debt-ridden consumers were the engine of global growth.",
        "危机发生之前，债台高筑的美国消费者是全球增长的发动机。"
    ],
    [
        "All affect the trajectories of growth, income, and employment.",
        "但都影响着经济增长、收入和就业的轨迹。"
    ],
    [
        "How can child-care providers be trusted?",
        "该如何信任儿童看护服务提供商？"
    ],
    [
        "Today, a “Development Economics 3.0” is needed.",
        "如今，需要一个“发展经济学3."
    ],
    [
        "Since mid-2016, China has been imposing strict new capital controls to prevent the renminbi from pouring out of the country and being converted into dollars.",
        "自2016年年中以来，中国一直在严格执行新的资本管制措施以防止人民币流出国外被换成美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The failed measure involved only a transfer of previous US commitments from a supplementary account to the IMF’s core funding source, at virtually no cost to taxpayers.",
        "没有获得批准的措施只不过是把此前美国的承诺从补充性账户转移到IMF的核心融资源，几乎不会给纳税人造成任何成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China’s investment rate may have surpassed 50% in 2009.",
        "事实上，中国的投资比率在 2009 年度已经超过 50% 了。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the market-based economic and financial systems that prevail in Europe, and that, not so long ago, were a source of significant strength, are losing their vibrancy.",
        "结果，在欧洲处于绝对优势地位、不久前仍是欧洲主要优势之所在的市场经济和金融体系正在丧失活力。"
    ],
    [
        "Data published in The Lancet last year show that the top ten most burdensome global diseases are more common in men than women, and often by a large margin.",
        "《柳叶刀》去年发表的数据显示，全球最麻烦的十大疾病在男性中间比在女性中间更加常见，且差距很大。"
    ],
    [
        "The banking sector has been deemed “cured”; demand for Spanish bonds has soared; and the country can once again raise capital at reasonable interest rates on the market.",
        "对西班牙国债的需求也有所上涨； 政府也再度可以用合理的利率从市场融资。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Rif, a 39-year-old unemployed man named Nasser Zefzafi led protests that quickly spread to other parts of the country.",
        "在里夫，一位名叫纳赛尔·泽夫扎菲（Nasser Zefzafi）的失业男子所领导的示威很快就蔓延到摩洛哥其他地区。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not clear that the IMF should have placed great weight on these concerns.",
        "但IMF是否应该更多地考虑这些顾虑并不清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "The controversy that arose in France over the country’s return to NATO’s unified military command makes this abundantly clear.",
        "随着法国有争议地重新回到北约的军事体系之下，问题就显得更为清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Mobutu’s boundless corruption challenges us to be thoughtful about foreign aid, both about how the money is spent and who is responsible for “delivering” assistance.",
        "当然，莫布图（Mobutu）肆无忌惮的腐败令我们不得不更审慎地进行对外援助，既要重视资金的用途，还要关注谁在负责“发放”资金。"
    ],
    [
        "As China enrolls countries as members of its Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and doles out billions of dollars of aid during state visits abroad, some observers worry that, when it comes to soft power, China could actually be taking the lead over countries like the United States.",
        "中国广延各国成为其亚洲基础设施投资银行成员国，并在国事访问中给予各国数十亿美元的援助，这让一些观察家担心，在软实力方面，中国实际上可能已经领先美国等其他国家一头。"
    ],
    [
        "Forty years is a long time, but it is worth looking back and reminding ourselves of how much Galbraith and his readers had to be uncertain about.",
        "四十年很长，但值得回首并提醒我们自己加尔布雷斯和他的读者有多大的不确定。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, China has made significant progress in building its social-security system.",
        "第三，中国的社保体系建设取得了重大进步。"
    ],
    [
        "But all of this depends on persuading investors to put their money into African projects.",
        "但所有这些都取决于能否说服投资者将资金投入非洲建设项目。"
    ],
    [
        "What is now needed is a genuine and permanent shift in attitudes and behavior.",
        "现在需要的是态度和行为真正的永久性变化。"
    ],
    [
        "While poor law enforcement needs urgent attention, counter-terrorism is never solely a military affair.",
        "反恐从来都不是单纯的军事事务，地方政府执法不力的问题迫切需要注意。"
    ],
    [
        "A $13 billion “fine” for a company the size of JPM is about as painful as Clarke’s fine is for him – not painful at all.",
        "130亿美元“罚款”对摩根大通这样的公司就像是澳大利亚板球协会对克拉克的罚款，根本不值一提。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the fiscal deficit will increase – the only question is by how much, with my bet being that it will be far larger than current estimates of $1-1.5 trillion – the trade deficit will increase as well, regardless of whether Trump pursues more nativist/protectionist policies.",
        "因为财政赤字会增加——唯一的问题只是增加多少而已，不过我敢打赌这个数字将远大于目前估测的1~1. 5万亿美元——贸易赤字也将增加，无论特朗普是否实施更为本土化/保护主义政策。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the second-best army in a war is the loser.",
        "毕竟，在战争中，第二名就意味着失败。"
    ],
    [
        "Investor confidence is on the mend, exemplified by the recent placement of €10 billion ($13.8 billion) in ten-year government bonds – which was over-subscribed by four times.",
        "投资者信心正在进一步修复，比如最近发行的100亿欧元（折合138亿美元）十年期西班牙政府债券就得到了4倍的超额认购。"
    ],
    [
        "That model had been based politically on the creation of consensus, and economically on Keynesian demand management.",
        "该模式政治上的基础是凝聚共识，经济上的基础是凯恩斯主义需求管理。"
    ],
    [
        "Although more than three-quarters of the EU’s member states are former enlargement countries, the Union’s expansion is no longer viewed as an unalloyed success story.",
        "尽管超过四分之三的欧盟成员国都是经扩张加入欧盟的，但欧盟的扩张已不再被视为无可辩驳的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the potential for union-led bargaining to redistribute income presupposes non-competitive corporate practices, which in turn generate abnormal profits that can be bargained away by unions.",
        "同样，工会引导收入再分配谈判的前提是非竞争性企业做法，这反过来又产生出工会可以讨价还价的异常利润。"
    ],
    [
        "This enormous subsidy to American taxpayers is, in many ways, the world’s largest foreign aid program.",
        "这项对美国纳税人的巨额补贴，在很多方面堪称世界上最大规模的外国援助项目。"
    ],
    [
        "But pharmaceutical companies would have been considering such products – as well as other treatments to save lives or improve health anywhere in the world, regardless of people’s ability to pay.",
        "但制药公司将对这类产品有所考虑——其他在地球某处拯救生命、改善健康的治疗手段亦然，不管人们是否有支付能力。"
    ],
    [
        "That means accelerating domestic structural reforms to improve productivity, enhance labor-market efficiency, upgrade institutions, and foster a business environment that supports modern service industries and innovative start-ups.",
        "这意味着加快国内结构性改革以提高生产率、增强劳动力市场效率、实现制度升级，并打造一个支持现代服务业和创新初创企业的营商环境。"
    ],
    [
        "For both Israelis and Palestinians, achieving internal peace might prove as formidable a challenge as establishing peace with each other.",
        "对于以色列人和巴勒斯坦人来说，要在内部达成和平也许要比在他们之间达成和平更艰难。"
    ],
    [
        "Based on the relationship between changes in real per capita health-care spending and changes in unemployment rates at the state level, the recent Economic Report of the President concludes that the recession and lackluster recovery account for less than 20% of the slowdown in health-care spending since 2007 – and for an even smaller share of the slowdown that began in 2002.",
        "基于真实人均医保支出变化和稳定水平失业率之间的关系，最新一期的《总统经济报告》认为衰退和复苏无力只能解释不到两成的2007年以来医疗支出减速，对2002年开始的减速解释力就更低了。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the poor have so little money to spend, drug companies, under current arrangements, have little incentive to do research on the diseases that afflict them.",
        "而穷人根本没有多少钱可花，因此，在现有安排下，制药公司根本没什么激励研究折磨穷人的疾病。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the settlements offer cheaper housing than is available in Israel, and thus resolve one of the main economic problems of the country’s middle class.",
        "相反，定居点的住宅比以色列国内便宜，国内中产阶级的主要经济问题也因此迎刃而解。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent research finds no link between tax cuts for top taxpayers and job creation.",
        "最新研究发现对高等级纳税人减税和创造就业机会之间没有任何关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the “secret” of the hydrogen bomb was published in 1979 in an article by Howard Morland in The Progressive magazine, sparking a failed legal suit by the US government to suppress it.",
        "其实，早在1979年Howard Morland就在《进步》杂志上公开了氢弹的“秘密”，当时美国政府还提出起诉，企图查禁，不过败诉了。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the region’s governments – in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, and elsewhere – have both the incentive and the means to reach mutual accommodations.",
        "其次，该地区的各国政府——叙利亚、沙特阿拉伯、土耳其、伊朗、伊拉克、埃及等——有动力也有办法达成互相妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in 1997, in what will surely long be remembered as a historical milestone for modern man, IBM’s “Deep Blue” computer stunned the world by defeating the world champion Garry Kasparov.",
        "而后，在1997年，在那个注定要作为现代人类的丰碑载入史册的时刻，IBM的“深蓝”电脑战胜了世界象棋冠军卡斯帕罗夫（Gary Kasparov），令世界为之震惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of trying to devise ways to maintain business as usual – an impossible and destructive goal – we must prove our ability to imagine and achieve radical change.",
        "我们不应该试图找到办法保持原来的做法——这是一个不可能并且毁灭性的目标——而是必须证明我们有能力想象并实现彻底改变。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The American public’s attitude toward government, especially toward the federal government, recalls a classic scene in Monty Python’s “Life of Brian.”",
        "伯克利—美国公众对政府，尤其是联邦政府的态度就像是巨蟒剧团（Monty Python）的《布莱恩的一生》（Life of Brian）中的经典一幕。"
    ],
    [
        "At that meeting, my G20 peers and I will offer these countries an international platform to present their plans.",
        "在会上，我的G20同事和我将为这些国家提供一个国际平台展示他们的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, the picture for Europe is not as bleak as pessimists assume.",
        "即使是这样，欧洲的前景也不像悲观主义者所设想的那样黯淡。"
    ],
    [
        "In American domestic politics, these kinds of commands from the US Congress to states are known as “unfunded mandates;” ordering results without providing the resources necessary to achieve them.",
        "在美国国内政治生活中，这种由国会下达到政府的训令被称作“没有经费的训令”，只下令达到某些结果，但却不提供配套的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Gone are the days when IMF meetings were monopolized by the problems of the advanced economies struggling to recover from the 2008 financial crisis.",
        "IMF会议被2008年金融危机后难以复苏的发达经济体问题主宰的日子一去不复返了。"
    ],
    [
        "We are also working to improve the business environment and investment climate by cutting red tape and simplifying the administrative burden on foreign investors.",
        "我们同时也努力打击官僚作风，减少外国投资者的行政负担，改善经济氛围和投资环境。"
    ],
    [
        "But the starting point for debate must be realism about the nature and severity of the problems facing the eurozone.",
        "但争论起点必须是现实地认清欧元区所面临的问题的性质和严重程度。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan’s growth revival comes at a time of increasing economic uncertainty in much of the developing world.",
        "日本重现增长之时正逢发展中世界纷纷面临经济不确定性抬头。"
    ],
    [
        "Reaching the wrong agreement to defuse the austerity bomb, or cushion the economy from its impact, would merely recreate America’s long-run structural budget deficit – a very bad outcome.",
        "就拆除紧缩炸弹或化解经济影响达成错误的共识只会重新造成美国的长期结构性预算赤字，这个结果非常糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, Rousseff's rhetoric and origins as a militant leftist feed doubts as to whether she will pursue Lula's pragmatic, centrist economic and social policies.",
        "新的模式表现出了政府的慷慨，但是这种补助能否无限期地持续下去？ 当补助停发时，一千五百万领取家庭补助金的家庭能否维持现有收入水平？"
    ],
    [
        "If health-insurance exchanges don’t work, we can always reconsider the public option.",
        "如果医疗保险交易所制度行不通，我们再来重新考虑公立保险补充制度也不迟。"
    ],
    [
        "Everybody, beginning with France, is hiding.",
        "从法国开始，所有人都躲了起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, differentials in the quality of governance and policies seem persistent, even in economies that perform pretty well overall.",
        "事实上，治理质量和政策差异似乎是持久存在的，即使总体表现相当漂亮的经济体也是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Together with the battle over the Taliban’s future role in the country, the struggle for power in 2014 could reanimate divisions that take the country back to the brink of a wider civil war, with the liberal technocrats of Kabul crushed between a resurgent Northern Alliance and a wider “Pashtun Pact.”",
        "2014年的总统之争与塔利班的未来角色之争一起，可能会让分裂局面死灰复燃，将阿富汗推向内战的边缘，喀布尔的技术官僚将受到复起的北方联盟和更广的“普什图公约”两面挤压。"
    ],
    [
        "This is, first and foremost, a moral outrage.",
        "首先，这是一种道德上的暴行。"
    ],
    [
        "Was it more immoral to gas Jews than to machine-gun them into open pits?",
        "用毒气熏死犹太人是否比把他们推到坑里用机枪扫射更不道德？"
    ],
    [
        "No one will benefit from a new Cold War.",
        "我们不能让世界再次陷入冷战的漩涡。"
    ],
    [
        "In October, for only the second time in its history, the United Nations General Assembly will address international migration.",
        "10月，联合国大会将讨论国际移民问题，这是联合国历史上的第二次。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond Gaza, the rise of political Islam in the Arab Spring countries, particularly Egypt and Tunisia, has created a more Hamas-friendly neighborhood.",
        "在加沙地区之外，阿拉伯之春国家（被别是埃及和突尼斯）伊斯兰政治势力的崛起为哈马斯创造了有利的周边环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Since they lack the legitimate authority of elected or high-level appointed officials, bureaucratic entrepreneurs must remain cognizant of the need to balance initiative with loyalty.",
        "因为他们缺乏民选或高层指派官员的合法权威，因此官僚体系中的创业者们必须对在主动性与忠诚度之间求得平衡的需求保持清醒的认识。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is already clear that the new record inadvertently reflects Japan’s continuing inability to address some fundamental questions about its past.",
        "但很显然，这份新实录在不经意间反映了日本仍然没能解决其历史中的一些基本问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Drug-trial volunteers should not accept this abuse of their participation in research.",
        "药物试验志愿者不应接受这种对其参与研究成果的滥用。"
    ],
    [
        "And on that day, he was so well mourned that his absence seemed like part of a show, somehow making us forget that he was no longer with us.",
        "在这一天，他极尽哀荣，他的告别就像是一场表演，让我们忘记了他已经不再与我们同在。"
    ],
    [
        "By recognizing the “independence” of the two occupied territories, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Russia turned the whole world against it.",
        "这些言辞使所有以俄罗斯人为少数民族的国家感到恐惧。 通过承认两个被占领土，阿布哈兹和南奥塞梯的“独立”，俄罗斯又冒天下之大不韪。"
    ],
    [
        "The countries that remained disciplined, such as Chile, ended up achieving sustained growth; those that gave up, like Argentina, ended up with high inflation and no growth.",
        "那些严守纪律的国家，比如智利，最终实现了持续增长； 而那些中途放弃的国家，如阿根廷，却只剩下了高通胀和增长停滞。"
    ],
    [
        "The data situation around the start was very unsatisfactory.",
        "在启动阶段的数据情况非常糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Americans have intervened abroad – as they did in Iraq – Europe has responded with grandstanding lectures about “imperial overstretch.”",
        "当美国在国外采取干预行动时——就像他们在伊拉克所做的那样——欧洲却报以“帝国主义过度扩张”的哗众取宠的演说。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also no clear plan to slow the growth of health-care costs.",
        "仍然没有明确的计划来遏制医疗费用的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of direct connection between citizens’ concerns and governance is, after all, a core strength of democracy.",
        "毕竟，这一公民关注和治理的直接关系是民主的核心优势之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Back then, Malaysia's ethnic tensions produced communal riots in which both Chinese and Malays were killed.",
        "在那个年代，马来西亚紧张的种族关系造成了种族骚乱。"
    ],
    [
        "This is exactly what has happened in more than a few post-communist countries, where privatization has become a dirty word.",
        "这就是诸多后共产主义国家所发生的事情，私有化成为一个贬义词。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sinai Powder Keg",
        "西奈炸药桶"
    ],
    [
        "But coal is not the solution.",
        "但煤炭解决不了问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The central bank, autonomous from political pressures and run by highly respected professionals, did its part by slashing interest rates.",
        "摆脱了政治压力、由广受尊敬的专业人士主导的中央银行也出手干预，大幅降低利率。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN is not broken, but it is in trouble, particularly as more countries treat it as a polite diplomatic afterthought and seek solutions to major global problems elsewhere.",
        "联合国虽未破裂，但却困难重重，特别是越来越多的国家将其视为礼节性的外交马后炮，并在其他地方寻找全球重大问题的解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "There were 177 altruistic donations by living donors in the United States in 2013 and 118 in the United Kingdom in the year to April 2014.",
        "2013年美国有177例在世捐献者的利他捐献，2013年5月—2014年4月英国有118例。"
    ],
    [
        "Unification would occupy the Korean people for the next two decades, with Japan and the US compelled to inject a huge amount of aid to rebuild and reintegrate the North.",
        "半岛统一能让朝鲜半岛上的人们忙上二十年，而日本和美国在此期间将不得不注入大量的援助来重建并整合北朝鲜。"
    ],
    [
        "Although a system of temporary permits allows foreign workers to be employed in Japan for up to three years, the country will not seek to ameliorate adverse demographic trends by opening itself to permanent immigration.",
        "虽然临时许可证制度允许外国劳工在日本工作三年，但该国也并未试图开放永久移民来缓解不利的人口构成趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "Too many people remember what happened.",
        "太多人记得曾经发生的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "When investment returns to normal levels, economic growth will slow further.",
        "当投资回到正常水平时，经济增长也会进一步减速。"
    ],
    [
        "It is actually the standard-bearer of good practices concerning the validation of analyses and the discussion of policy proposals.",
        "在涉及到分析验证和政策建议探讨等领域，科学在现实中才堪称优秀惯例的旗手。"
    ],
    [
        "The implication is clear: although Europe has made significant progress toward fiscal union, it remains far removed from political union.",
        "影响显而易见：尽管欧洲朝着财政联盟的方向取得了重大进步，但距离政治联盟依然十分遥远。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, China has a 3.8% voting share in the IMF and World Bank, even though it accounts for more than 12% of world GDP.",
        "比如，中国在IMF和世界银行中的投票权比例只有3. 8%，尽管其占全球GDP比例已高达12%以上。"
    ],
    [
        "The alliance cannot afford to launch a lengthy and heated debate about the deployment of its forces and capabilities only at the moment diplomatic efforts fail.",
        "北约决不能等到外交手段失败才开始热烈讨论部署它的力量和能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Car manufacturers have announced plans for scores of electric models, and politicians in several European countries have put an expiry date on gasoline and diesel cars, with leaders in India and China aspiring to do the same.",
        "各大汽车制造商已经宣布了数十种电动车模块方案，多个欧洲国家的政界人士已经制定了汽油和柴油车的报废期限，而印度和中国的领导人也有志于此。"
    ],
    [
        "But the range of initiatives now underway within NATO should help: transformation efforts to increase the pool of usable and deployable forces; wider use of multinational initiatives; greater reliance on common funding to assist force generation; and a comprehensive approach for sharing burdens more equitably across the entire international community.",
        "对共同出资以支持军队更新换代的更大的倚重； 以及在整个国际社会更公正地分担责任的详尽的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, never before has the question of legitimacy been so fundamental to a conflict between nations.",
        "的确，在国与国的冲突中合法性的问题从未具有过如此根本性的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, Chávez’s designated successor, Nicolás Maduro, will make short work of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles in the upcoming election.",
        "果真如此的话，查韦斯的指定接班人马杜罗将在即将到来的选举中轻松击败反对派候选人卡普里莱斯（Henrique Capriles）。"
    ],
    [
        "The reformers talk about partial municipal elections, national dialogue, and the rights of women, who they hint may one day even be allowed to drive cars!",
        "改革派讨论着局部地区的市镇选举、国家对话、以及妇女权利，他们暗示妇女可能有一天甚至会被允许开车。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the economic weight of the economies such as South Africa, India, and Brazil will be substantially higher.",
        "首先，南非，印度，巴西等经济体体的经济重要性将会大大提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, whereas democracy and market capitalism appeared as clear – if more fragile than expected – winners in 1989, it is difficult in 2009, with the spread of the global crisis, to distinguish winners from losers.",
        "其二，民主制度和市场资本主义，或许要比预期的要脆弱些，看来确实是当时的赢家。 而在2009年，随着全球危机的蔓延，却很难区分赢家和输家；"
    ],
    [
        "Still, both speeches were clearly intended to frame the political debate now underway in Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is trying to form a new coalition government.",
        "尽管如此，两次讲话显然都想要左右德国目前正在发生的政治争论。 德国总理默克尔的基督教民主联盟（CDU）正在试图组建一个新的联合政府。"
    ],
    [
        "“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties, either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts,” he wrote in The Gulag Archipelago.",
        "他在《古拉格群岛》中写道，“我逐渐意识到善恶的分界线不在于国家、不在于阶级、也不在于政党，而在于我们每个人的内心之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the case of France.",
        "以法国为例。"
    ],
    [
        "He introduced subsidies for commodities, from bread to oil, that amounted to 8.1% of GDP in 2013-2014.",
        "他为从面包到石油的所有商品提供补贴，2013-2014年占比高达 GDP的8. 1%。"
    ],
    [
        "The irony and potential tragedy of China’s position is that allowing North Korea to increase and improve its nuclear and missile arsenals could fuel momentum toward war, or lead South Korea, Japan, or both to reconsider their non-nuclear postures.",
        "讽刺之处是，中国的立场可能带来一个悲剧，放任朝鲜增加和提升其核和导弹武器可能加速奔向战争，或导致韩国、日本或两国均重新考虑无核立场。"
    ],
    [
        "As China’s economic power and influence in the world economy have increased following the financial crisis of 2008, the idea has been floated that China and the United States should co-lead the world under some sort of “G-2” arrangement.",
        "2008年金融危机以来，随着中国在世界经济中的经济实力和影响，出现了一种新观点：中国和美国应该被称为“G2”，共同领导整个世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Bentham accepts that it may be to the advantage of the community that the law should confer certain rights on people.",
        "边沁同意，法律应该授予人们一定的权利，这也许有利于社会。"
    ],
    [
        "The headline example is the driverless car.",
        "一个显著的例子是无人驾驶汽车。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, questions posed by Modi’s critics about the role of cash in feeding stockpiles of black money are misplaced.",
        "换句话说，莫迪的批评者所提出的关于现金在导致黑钱存量增加的质疑搞错了对象。"
    ],
    [
        "So I compared the rankings from December 2006 and September 2015 to see whether the RePEc index had evolved along with economic reality.",
        "因此，我比较了从2006年12月到2015年9月的排名，看看RePEc指数是否与经济现实相符。"
    ],
    [
        "The second goal was to agree on the terms under which countries will devise their national commitments – officially, their “intended nationally determined contributions” (INDCs) – in 2015.",
        "第二个目标是就2015年各国做出国家承诺的条款达成一致——正式的名称叫做“国家自定贡献预案”（INDC）。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if some sort of communiqué is cobbled together in December – and countries with elections coming up, such as the United Kingdom, will push for one – it is hard to believe that it will contain sufficient detail or reflect the proper level of commitment to have the impact so desperately needed.",
        "但即便能在12月能够拼凑出某种协议——比如英国这些国家就会推动这么一个协议的产生，因为大选临近——但依然很难相信该协议会拥有足够的细节或者恰当程度的承诺来产生急需的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "In these economies, capital inflows may well retard growth rather than stimulate it.",
        "在这些经济体，资本流入妨碍而不是刺激了增长。"
    ],
    [
        "A Sino-European partnership could be a powerful force offsetting America’s negative impact on international trade and cooperation.",
        "中欧伙伴关系完全有可能成为抵消美国对国际贸易及合作所造成负面影响的强大力量。"
    ],
    [
        "First, although a once-in-a-century event is as likely to occur at the beginning of the century as at any other time, it is much less likely to occur in the first decade of the century than later.",
        "首先，尽管一个世纪一次的事件有可能在本世纪的任何时间发生，在本世纪头十年发生的可能性要远远低于以后发生的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Because a more odious rating would reduce investors’ appetite for bonds, downgrades could limit the irresponsible debt accumulation and economic disasters brought about by regimes such as Venezuela’s – and possibly accelerate their demise.",
        "更加可恶的评级将抑制投资者对债券的偏好，因此降级可以限制像委内瑞拉这样的政权所导致的不负责任的债务积累和经济灾难，并有望加速它们的倒台。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, I would emphasize the related point that the actual tax provisions people and businesses will be required to use have yet to be written, and will be determined partly by technical interpretations and regulations in the coming months.",
        "最后我想强调一下，符合民众和企业实际使用需要的税收规定的相关要点还没有制定出来，并在一定程度上会由未来几个月中出台的技术解释和规定来确定。"
    ],
    [
        "Needless to say, such a policy would benefit from a US secretary of state who is committed to maintaining a team of experienced diplomatic professionals, and from recognition by Trump and his advisers that building on the efforts of one’s predecessors is more effective than accusing them of making the job harder.",
        "不消说，如果美国国务卿决定保持一支有经验的专业外交团队，或者（并且）特朗普及其幕僚认可在前任的基础上再接再厉要比指责他们让工作变得更难更加有效的话，这一政策将大受裨益。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet to this day, Syrian officials privately say that they don’t think the US is serious about a withdrawal.",
        "但迄今为止，叙利亚官员还在非公开场合认为美国的撤军要求不是认真的。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – A bronze bust of Winston Churchill, displayed in the White House since the 1960s, has been the object of a continuing right-wing canard in Washington.",
        "纽约—从20世纪60年代开始，白宫里摆着一尊丘吉尔的铜像，它是华盛顿一直在流传的一个右翼谣言的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a fraction of asylum-seekers’ applications are ultimately approved, because most applicants are not politically persecuted but simply economic migrants.",
        "只有一小部分寻求庇护者的申请最终会被批准，因为大部分申请者并未受到政治迫害，他们纯粹是经济移民。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not to deny the enabling role of international capital flows.",
        "这并不是要否认国际资本流的推波助澜作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Membrane and distillation technologies can be used to purify degraded or contaminated water, reclaim wastewater, and desalinate brackish or ocean water.",
        "覆膜和蒸馏技术可用于纯化水质低劣或受污染的水源，回收利用废水、淡化咸水或海水。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg – another common institution of crucial importance – also relies on a decision-making mechanism that is not inter-governmental.",
        "卢森堡欧洲法院——另一个具有关键重要性的共同机构——也依赖于非政府间性质的决策机制。"
    ],
    [
        "No single entity – government, retailers, consumer-goods companies, restaurants, employers, media organizations, educators, health-care providers, or individuals – can address obesity on its own.",
        "单一实体——政府、零售商、消费品公司、餐厅、雇主、媒体、教育系统、医疗服务商或个人——无法独力战胜肥胖。"
    ],
    [
        "That means persuading Britain to change its mind about Europe, which, according to conventional wisdom on both sides of the English Channel, is impossible.",
        "这意味着说服英国改变对欧洲的看法，而根据英吉利海峡两岸的传统智慧，这是一个不可能的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "But it also meant that he moved into the Élysée Palace without having shown who he really is.",
        "但这也意味着，他入主爱丽舍宫时还没有露出自己的真面目。"
    ],
    [
        "If the upcoming European Council can achieve a compromise that reflects this sentiment, Brexit may be avoided, benefiting everyone.",
        "”如果即将到来的欧洲理事会形成反映这一情绪的妥协，那么英国退出可能得到避免，所有人都能从中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the deal that Hong Kong’s colonial subjects appeared to accept – leaving politics alone in exchange for the opportunity to pursue material prosperity in a safe and orderly environment – is not so different from the deal accepted by China’s educated classes today.",
        "事实上，香港的殖民地臣民所接受的交易——把政治抛在一边，换取在安全有序环境中追求物质繁荣的机会——与当今中国受教育阶层所接受的交易并无多少不同。"
    ],
    [
        "But don’t hold your breath.",
        "但是千万不要屏住呼吸。"
    ],
    [
        "Juncker’s proposal to extend the Schengen Area to the east is similarly misguided, and seems to ignore the lessons of recent history.",
        "容克的申根区东扩方案也有同样的误导作用，并且无视最新的历史教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, critics of the government believe that its incendiary rhetoric might lead to a devastating war.",
        "事实上，政府批评者认为，伊朗政府大逞口舌之利可能引起毁灭性战争。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s Racist Schools",
        "欧洲的种族学校"
    ],
    [
        "And, though the Fed was partly responsible for the regulatory failures that led to the global economy’s near-meltdown in 2008-2009, post-crisis reform has left it with even greater authority and more responsibility for overseeing the financial system.",
        "此外，尽管美联储要为导致2008—2009年全球经济几乎崩溃的监管失责承担部分责任，但危机后的改革让它拥有了更大的权力和监督金融体系的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "We Russians are pleased to hear these enlightened words, yet Putin adds a “but” to his argument, which weakens it considerably. In fact, Putin’s “but” renders his points senseless.",
        "”正当我们这些俄罗斯人都在为这句开明言论而欢欣鼓舞之时，普京却在这句话后面补上了一句“但是……”，不仅削弱了原先那句话的力量，事实上，这句“但是……”令他的整个发言沦为了一堆空话。"
    ],
    [
        "And, as in all markets, criminal activity, including violence, is already illegal.",
        "此外，和所有市场一样，犯罪活动，包括暴力，也是非法的。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem then was stagflation in the advanced countries.",
        "滞胀是当时发达国家的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the campaign has now become a question of numbers: will the Third Man bury the Fifth Republic?",
        "但是这场竞选已经变成一个数字的问题，那就是，这第三人是否会埋葬第五共和国？"
    ],
    [
        "But all of these metrics fail to account for factors like research and development, technological innovation, and commercialization, which are now more indicative of future success than nuclear arsenals or economic size.",
        "但所有指标均未考虑到研发、技术创新和商业化等因素，而目前这些因素与核武库或经济规模相比更能反应出未来的成功。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is rapidly becoming one of the world’s oldest nations.",
        "日本正在迅速成为全球老龄化最严重的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why WHO delegates debated for days before agreeing, by the slimmest margin ever, to provide a measly $2.4 million per year for the effort – too little to cover the costs of whatever vaccine was not donated, let alone fund the necessary logistical support.",
        "因此，WHO代表在经历了多日的争论后才以最微弱多数同意每年为这一目标拨出区区240万美元款项——如若没有捐赠，根本不足以覆盖疫苗成本，更不用说为必须的物流支持提供资金了。"
    ],
    [
        "A 2016 Pew Survey put US public approval of the UN at 64%, with just 29% viewing it unfavorably.",
        "2016的一项皮尤（Pew）调查显示，美国公众对联合国的认可度为64%，只有29%对联合国持负面态度。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, of course, is the need to prevent the suffering caused by the crimes that lead to international prosecutions; and when those crimes cannot be prevented, we must provide some comfort and redress to the victims and their families by doing justice.",
        "当然，最为重要的是要预防导致国际公审的犯罪所造成的人们的痛苦； 而且，在无法预防这些犯罪的时候，我们必须通过伸张正义来为受害者及其家属提供某些慰藉和补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "The European Court of Human Rights is hearing oral arguments in two of the most important cases in its history.",
        "欧洲人权法院有史以来最重要的两起案件正在进行口头辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "Smart power is needed to defeat terrorism.",
        "击败恐怖主义需要智慧的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "At the national level, the US House of Representatives recently passed the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015, which would forbid the use of Department of Energy-funded research in policymaking.",
        "国家层面，美国众议院最近通过了2015年美国竞争再授权法，禁止能源部资助的研究成果应用于决策过程。"
    ],
    [
        "CHICAGO – When a profitable company is hit by a very large liability, the solution is not to have the government buy its assets at inflated prices. The solution, instead, is protection under bankruptcy law, which in the United States means Chapter 11.",
        "芝加哥-当一个赚钱的公司受到一个非常大的债务打击的时候，解决办法应该不是让政府以高价收购其资产。 相反，解决的办法是在破产法下受到保护，这在美国是指第11章。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, of course the roles of the Islamic Middle East and the West are reversed.",
        "当然，现今伊斯兰教的中东和西方的角色发生了逆转。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK– In one week, Michelle Obama sat for a formal White House portrait, dressed in somber, tailored clothes; posed for a snazzy People magazine cover, dressed in a slightly down-market, hot-pink lace outfit that showed plenty of skin; let the national media know that the First Family would be getting its new puppy from a rescue shelter; and had her press office mention casually that “secretaries and policy makers” had been invited for popcorn and movies at the White House.",
        "纽约－在入主白宫的第一个星期里，米歇尔·奥巴马（Michelle Obama）穿着颜色灰暗剪裁考究的服装，坐着让人画正式的白宫肖像画； 穿着稍显廉价的、露出许多肌肤的大红色蕾丝边裙子，摆出造型让华而不实的《人物》杂志拍摄封面照；"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – As the United Kingdom negotiates the terms of its divorce from the European Union, it would be wise for the country’s leaders to begin looking further into the future to determine what approach to international trade relations would serve it best.",
        "剑桥—在英国与欧盟谈判分手协议时，英国领导人的明智做法是着眼于未来以决定采取怎样的国际贸易关系方针最为合适。"
    ],
    [
        "Sixth, global banks are challenged by lower returns, owing to the new regulations put in place since 2008, the rise of financial technology that threatens to disrupt their already-challenged business models, the growing use of negative policy rates, rising credit losses on bad assets (energy, commodities, emerging markets, fragile European corporate borrowers), and the movement in Europe to “bail in” banks’ creditors, rather than bail them out with now-restricted state aid.",
        "第六，拜2008年后实行的新监管措施、可能破坏已然广受挑战的业务模式的金融技术的崛起、负利率政策日益广泛的使用、不良资产（能源、大宗商品、新兴市场、脆弱的欧洲公司借款人）信用损失加剧以及欧洲“自救”（bail-in）银行债权人而不是用目前受到限制的国家援助救助它们所赐，全球银行饱受回报率低企的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The policies adopted or discussed by American policymakers and scholars nowadays – quantitative easing, fiscal-stimulus packages, government-deficit reduction – seek to cure only the symptoms of a deeper malaise.",
        "如今美国政客和学界所讨论和采取的政策——量化宽松、财政刺激、政府赤字削减——都是治疗深层次问题的药方。"
    ],
    [
        "They seem to be structurally condemned to short-termism.",
        "他们似乎一直由于结构问题而被指责为短期主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The drawdown of SDR allocations can be fine-tuned to avoid causing too much inflation.",
        "如有需要，IMF也可以通过减少SDR配置来精确调整全球央行的货币发行总量，以避免导致太多通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "The dismantling of the EU’s internal borders boosted each country’s market size and brought about the predicted economies of scale.",
        "欧盟内部边界的土崩瓦解扩大了各国的市场，带来了人们所预期的规模经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Both the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses confuse accounting outcomes with causes.",
        "储蓄不足与储蓄过剩的假定都使得会计计算的结果出现了混乱。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) – created to ensure that banks that gather deposits in low- or middle-income communities reinvest some of their earnings in those communities – supports more than $60 billion in community finance, compared to the $48 billion of VC funding that was deployed last year.",
        "在美国，社区再投资法（Community Reinvestment Act，CRA，其订立是为了确保吸收中低收入社区存款的银行将一部分利润再投资于这些社区）提供了600多亿美元社区融资，而去年VC资金投资规模为480亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Britain would therefore need an EU association agreement, similar to those negotiated with Switzerland or Norway, the only two significant European economies outside the EU.",
        "英国将因此需要与欧盟签订类似于瑞士或挪威的合作协议。 后两者是欧盟之外仅有的两个重要的欧洲经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fallen Pharaoh",
        "垮台的法老"
    ],
    [
        "But experts are increasingly concerned about the potential for pandemics caused by bacteria resistant to all current antibiotics, while our intellectual-property system is failing to create adequate incentives for the development of new varieties.",
        "但专家们越来越担忧细菌性流行病终有一日会所有现有抗生素产生抗药性，而我们的知识产权系统无法产生足够的激励对劲新药的研发。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also a risk that foreign investors, who already are starting to like Mexico, might come to love it a little too much.",
        "还有另一个风险。 已开始喜欢上墨西哥的外国投资者可能有点热情过度了。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – Financial markets abhor uncertainty; that is why they are now in crisis mode.",
        "纽约—金融市场讨厌不确定性； 这就是当前市场进入危机模式的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In the retail sector, which employs a huge number of Japan’s unskilled workers – the so-called “mom and pop” shops – Japanese productivity is now 25% lower than in Western Europe.",
        "而在雇佣日本大量非技术工人的零售业——也就是所谓的“夫妻零售店”——日本人的生产率现在比西欧低25%。"
    ],
    [
        "The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ long-held dream of unity might first arrive by rail.",
        "东盟长期以来的统一梦想可能先在铁路事业上完成。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2009, 2010, 2012, and now 2013, the prize committee decided that none had.",
        "在2009，2010，2012和今年，评奖委员的决议是没人能做到这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of this debt is held by state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which account for just one-third of industrial output, yet receive more than half of the credit dispensed by China’s banks.",
        "这些债务大部分为国有企业持有，国有企业只占工业产出的三分之一，但得到了中资银行一半以上的信用。"
    ],
    [
        "UKIP could conceivably hold the balance of power following next May’s general election, and force the government to hold its promised “in-out” referendum on EU membership.",
        "英国独立党名正言顺地在明年5月的大选后维持权力平衡，迫使政府履行其所承诺的欧盟“留还是走”公投。"
    ],
    [
        "Kenya isn’t an illustration of development failing, but of development at work: complex, powerful, and yet fragile.",
        "肯尼亚并不是发展失败的范例，而是发展过程中所出现的现象：复杂、强有力然而脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "When I attend international gatherings, I am amazed how easily and naturally Indians and Pakistanis gravitate toward each other.",
        "当我参加国际会议的时候，我很惊奇地看到印度人和巴基斯坦人相互间有着天然的亲近愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "Cumulative figures for the last 30 years vary from $200-300 trillion.",
        "过去30年来的累计数字大约在200—300万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Investment decisions depend on a variety of complex factors and contingencies, and a mix of public and private finance is crucial for bringing new projects to fruition.",
        "投资决策取决于多种复杂因素和突发事件，而公共和私人资金的组合是新项目取得成果的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "But such loans can be of great value to sophisticated firms and households that may have good reason to believe that their future earnings will be higher than their current earnings. Such entities would be able to make investments that would not be possible otherwise.",
        "但对于那些有足够理由确信自己的未来收入将远高于当前收入的企业和家庭来说，这类贷款却是有益的，而这类经济实体将能产生其他方面所无法产生的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "This implied that they had to rescue these SIV’s.",
        "这就意味着它们必须拯救这些SIV。"
    ],
    [
        "For decades, Friedman remained stranded in the intellectual wilderness, spurning the postwar Keynesian consensus that governments should use fiscal policy to manage aggregate demand – a view that sustained statist economic policies through the 1970’s.",
        "几十年来，弗里德曼在知识荒野中流落，拒绝接受二战后凯恩斯主义的共识，即政府应当运用财政政策来管理总需求，这一观点在整个七十年代支撑了国家干预的经济政策。 确实，在其年龄背景下，弗里德曼是一位真正的知识界革命性人物。"
    ],
    [
        "The Lega Nord, led by the charismatic Umberto Bossi, holds the decisive votes in Parliament to keep the Berlusconi government afloat.",
        "在富有魅力的翁贝尔多·波西的领导下，北方联盟在议会中握有决定性的席位，以此保证贝卢斯科尼政府的稳固。"
    ],
    [
        "Learning needs to go both ways.",
        "借鉴应该是双向的。"
    ],
    [
        "Doctors take the “Hippocratic Oath,” pledging first to do no harm.",
        "”医生要宣读“希波克拉底誓言”，承诺首先不作恶。"
    ],
    [
        "That is what I – and all of Ukraine’s democrats – want for our country: a society of opportunity, under the rule of law and not under the thumb of cronies and oligarchs, in an open Europe.",
        "这正是我——以及所有乌克兰民主人士——对祖国的期许：一个开放欧洲的机会的社会，依法治国而不是依帮派和寡头治国。"
    ],
    [
        "Will the Euro Survive the Current Crisis?",
        "欧元经得住当前的危机吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Lamido Sanusi, the governor of Nigeria’s central bank, has called for Africans to recognize that “their romance with China” has helped to bring about “a new form of imperialism.”",
        "尼日利亚央行行长萨努西（Lamido Sanusi）呼吁非洲认识到“和中国打得火热”在助长“新形式的帝国主义”。"
    ],
    [
        "Inequality remains extreme, and social discontent is high.",
        "不平等状况依旧极端，社会不满情绪日益高涨。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, a number of European countries are discussing the introduction of stringent fiscal rules into their constitutions, and are contemplating even more far-reaching changes.",
        "事实上，许多欧洲国家正在讨论将严厉财政规则引入宪法，并已开始考虑更多的深入变革。"
    ],
    [
        "This would distribute the responsibility for addressing the refugee crisis over a larger number of states, while helping establish global standards for dealing with the challenge of forced migration.",
        "这将把解决难民危机的责任分散给更多国家，同时也有助于建立处理被迫移民挑战的全球标准。"
    ],
    [
        "He is right in one respect: waves of terrorism tend to be generational.",
        "在一个方面他是正确的，那就是恐怖主义之潮是跨越年代的。"
    ],
    [
        "No matter who wins this November, it is clear that Iraq will not dominate US foreign policy in the years ahead to anything near the degree that it has in recent years.",
        "不管今年11月谁获胜，伊拉克在未来几年里都远远不会像在最近几年里那样，支配着美国的外交政策，这是很清楚的。"
    ],
    [
        "How long this boom in productivity growth will continue is anyone's guess: optimists point to the fact that waiting behind the information technology revolution, ready for takeoff, is the biotechnology revolution, and behind that is a looming nanotechnology revolution.",
        "生产率快速增长到底能持续多久，人们众说纷纭：乐观者指出信息技术之后的生物科技即将腾飞，其后的纳米技术也已经初露端倪。"
    ],
    [
        "While the Western powers have embraced ever-harsher sanctions, Russia and China view Iran as a tool in their global competition with the US.",
        "尽管西方列强采取的制裁措施比以往任何时候都更严厉，但俄罗斯和中国却把伊朗作为工具与美国展开全球竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "These policies, by design, lowered the return on sovereign bonds, forcing investors to seek yield in markets for higher-risk assets like equities, lower-rated bonds, and foreign securities.",
        "这些政策刻意降低了主权债券回报，迫使投资者进入股票、低评级债券和外国证券等高风险资产市场寻求高收益率。"
    ],
    [
        "It just might work.",
        "这或许可以奏效。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when the economic recovery remains fragile, a publicly financed infrastructure program could meaningfully transform the prospects of US workers, providing new employment opportunities for low and un-skilled labor.",
        "在经济复苏仍然不稳定时，公共融资的基础设施计划能够有效改变美国工人的前景，为低技能和无技能劳动力提供新的就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it clear that Spanish socialists have more in common with German social democrats than with their fellow nationals.",
        "西班牙社会党和德国社民党之间的共性，也不再比它们各自同国内民族主义党派之间的共性更显著。"
    ],
    [
        "The rate of renewal among the 200 most influential economists was as low as 25% – and just 16% among the top 100 – during a decade in which the explanatory power of prevailing economic theory had been found severely wanting.",
        "在200名最有影响力经济学家的更新率只有25%——而前100名只有16%——而在这个十年中，主流经济学理论的解释力显然需要大幅增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Emergency Education Now",
        "从现在开始支持紧急情况教育"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund’s surveillance of macroeconomic policies has also been enhanced, with the implementation of a new set of multilateral surveillance tools that focus on major economies.",
        "通过建立一套聚焦于主要经济体的新多边监督工具，国际货币基金组织对宏观经济政策的监督能力也得到了增强。"
    ],
    [
        "That shift then allowed other low-income Asian economies – South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and to some extent Malaysia and Thailand – to follow in Japan's footsteps.",
        "接着，这一转变又让低收入亚洲经济体——韩国、中国台湾、中国香港、新加坡以及某种程度上的马来西亚和泰国——效仿了日本的榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "In Australia’s case, this means thinking again about some of our efforts to limit our exposure to the International Court of Justice and certain dispute-resolution mechanisms under UNCLOS.",
        "具体到澳大利亚的情况而言，这意味着按照《联合国海洋法公约》的相关规定重新思考限制我们与联合国国际法院和特定争议解决机制接触的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "During a recession, such as in 2008-2012, governments are tempted to forecast that their economies and budgets will soon rebound.",
        "在衰退期间，比如2008到2012年，各国政府都倾向于预测本国经济和预算都会很快回升。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, managers today seem consistently surprised by the pace of change and thus find themselves behind the curve.",
        "事实上，今天的管理者似乎无不被变化之快所震惊，他们已经落后于时代了。"
    ],
    [
        "Since politicians ask us to entrust them with sweeping powers, it can be argued that we should know as much as possible about their morality.",
        "由于政治人物要求我们对他们委以大权，也就可以说，我们应当对他们的道德尽可能地多了解。"
    ],
    [
        "His focus was on corporate decision-making and misaligned incentives leading to a worrisome dichotomy between the short-term tactics of “operational effectiveness” (cost cutting, outsourcing, and reengineering) and the long-term visionary bets that frame successful strategies.",
        "他在文章中重点探讨了企业决策和错误激励所导致的短期“运营效率”（削减成本、外包和重组）和构成成功战略的长期远见目标之间令人担忧的二分法。"
    ],
    [
        "How will Europe’s citizens, who already have enough trouble with the complexities of European governance, be able to comprehend such a “spaghetti bowl” structure?",
        "欧洲人民——他们已经受够了欧洲治理的复杂性——如何能够理解这样一个“意大利面碗”结构？"
    ],
    [
        "But the third arrow of structural reform has remained in the quiver.",
        "但结构改革的第三支箭一直在颤抖。"
    ],
    [
        "An international currency is the most obvious solution.",
        "建立国际货币是一个最自然的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "In such an environment, outbreaks of an old disease (such as cholera) or a new one may lead to new regional and global pandemics.",
        "在这样的环境下，旧疾病（如霍乱）或新疾病的爆发可能导致新的地区和全球大流行。"
    ],
    [
        "Chronic stagnation is too high a price to pay for adopting the euro.",
        "长期经济停滞是接纳欧元所付出的太过惨重的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "And, of course, financial interconnectedness demands international coordination of appropriate standards for the industry.",
        "当然，金融连通性意味着需要就行业的合理标准问题进行国际协作。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of the new services would stretch the imagination of previous ages.",
        "某些新兴服务可能完全超乎老一辈人的想象。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly half of that is a shrinking portfolio among eurozone borrowers, particularly banks.",
        "其中近半数来自缩减欧元区借款人的投资组合。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a new challenge, and it will not be easy.",
        "这是一项全新的挑战，而且完成任务的难度很大。"
    ],
    [
        "The country played according to the “rules” of financial markets and managed to finalize the restructuring rapidly; but the agreement was a bad one and did not help the economy recover.",
        "该国根据金融市场的“规则”行事，并且成功地迅速完成了重组； 但重组协议不是个好协议，无助于经济复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "Juan Perón, the consummate populist, proved just how flawed such giveaways can be when he took a similar tack in Argentina.",
        "完美的民粹主义者胡安·庇隆通过在阿根廷使用类似的伎俩证明了如此慷慨的缺陷有多么严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the financial crisis erupted in September 2008, China has had the fastest credit growth of any country in the world. Indeed, it is hard to point to another credit boom of this magnitude in recorded history.",
        "事实上自金融危机于2008年9月爆发以来，中国实现了比世界任何国家都更快的信贷增长，有历史记录以来的任何一场信贷热潮都难以与之匹敌。"
    ],
    [
        "The bureaucracies must be bypassed to get help to where it is needed: in the soil tilled by the world’s poorest farm families.",
        "必须绕过官僚机构为由世界最贫困的农民家庭所耕种的土地提供援助。"
    ],
    [
        "In countries like Egypt and Thailand, military intervention is viewed as a temporary necessity in order to put an end to the irresponsibility of elected leaders.",
        "在埃及和泰国等国家，军事干预被视为结束当选领导人担责不力的必要的权宜措施。"
    ],
    [
        "They should support and encourage job creators and problem solvers, and turn development assistance into investments.",
        "他们应当支持和鼓励就业创造和问题解决，并将发展援助转化为投资。"
    ],
    [
        "In a world made smaller by modern telecommunications, satellite TV, and the Internet, the vast challenges of development that we continue to face confront us everyday.",
        "在被现代通讯、卫星电视、和因特网逐渐缩小的世界里，我们每天都将面临着发展的巨大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "But the presumption in favor of light financial-sector regulation now has few defenders.",
        "但是现在几乎没有人支持财政部门进行温和的调节了。"
    ],
    [
        "But I also understand the potential usefulness of regulatory measures like targets for renewable energy, bans on incandescent light bulbs, and mandates for the use of biofuels.",
        "但我也理解可再生能源目标、禁用白炽灯泡和授权使用生物燃料等监管措施的潜在有效性。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to Osama Bin Laden, Bush’s popularity soared, and while his ratings had diminished by the 2004 election, his “war on terrorism” helped him win a second term.",
        "多亏了奥萨马·本·拉登，布什的支持率迅速飙升，而尽管到2004年选举时人们对他的评价已经有所下降，“对恐怖主义的战争”还是帮助他再次成功当选。"
    ],
    [
        "It has always been part of Britain’s role to act as a bridge between different worlds. It can play this role in the two Europes of the future, but only by not cutting itself off from the one Europe that currently exists.",
        "作为连接不同世界的桥梁向来是英国的作用之一对于未来的两个欧洲，英国也可以起到这一作用，但首先决不能自绝于目前存在的欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Last June, the Slovaks evicted the government that brought the country out of the international isolation and economic malaise that it had suffered under the autocratic regime of Vladimir Meciar.",
        "去年六月，斯洛伐克人将当时的政府赶下台。 而正是该政府让这个国家摆脱了它在Vladimir Meciar的专制政权下所遭受的国际孤立和经济病态。"
    ],
    [
        "But time is not on America’s side.",
        "但美国并没有太多时间可以浪费。"
    ],
    [
        "Whoever plants a tree and diligently looks after it until it matures and bears fruit is rewarded.",
        "种树并在其后辛勤照拂、直至其长大成材、开花结果的人都会得到报答。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank of England has moved from QE to CE (credit easing), and the Bank of Japan has repeatedly increased the size of its QE operations.",
        "英格兰银行从QE转向了CE（信用宽松），日本银行则再度增加了QE操作规模。"
    ],
    [
        "But even Americans are divided equally about whether China will replace the US as a global superpower.",
        "但实际上，即便是美国人内部也在中国是否将取代自身的问题上出现了50：50的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Schäuble is undoubtedly one of Europe’s towering political figures, but his strategy for saving the eurozone by pushing Greece out was misguided.",
        "朔伊布勒无疑是欧洲卓越的政治家，但其通过逼希腊退出来拯救欧元区却是一种错误的策略。"
    ],
    [
        "There were demands that the guilty be brought to book.",
        "有人提出要对这些罪行展开审判。"
    ],
    [
        "Women’s non-hierarchical style and relational skills fit a leadership need in the new world of knowledge-based organizations and groups that men, on average, are less well prepared to meet.",
        "女性的非层级制风格和公关技巧更适合在当今新涌现的基于知识的组织和团体中担任领导职位，男性（平均而言）还没有做好适应这一变化的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "· adopting a process to bring the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty into effect;",
        "· 启动促成《全面禁止核试验条约》生效的程序；"
    ],
    [
        "The indirect effect will be to reduce the financial sector’s size – in absolute terms and relative to the economy – and to hinder its growth in the future.",
        "而其间接的效应则是削减了金融部门的规模——按绝对价值计算，并与经济总量相比——并阻碍了其未来的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "But this time it is Muslims, not Jews, who are the target.",
        "只是这一回的目标变成了穆斯林而不是犹太人。"
    ],
    [
        "The trouble starts as soon as the discussion moves on to how – and especially when – the last three should be established.",
        "而当讨论转移到应该如何——尤其是何时——建立后面这三个联盟时，麻烦就来了。"
    ],
    [
        "Islam’s Democratic Imperative",
        "伊斯兰的民主必要性"
    ],
    [
        "We should celebrate the implicit global policy coordination that enabled the world to weather the crises of recent years. However, the fact that rich countries are consuming more, and are being supplied and financed by emerging markets, is not a new world order; it is a temporary and effective response to crises.",
        "我们可以庆祝隐性的全球政策协调促使世界安然度过近年来的数场危机，然而，富裕的国家消费更多的资源，得到新兴市场供应的产品和资金，这并不是新的世界秩序；"
    ],
    [
        "Despite heroic efforts by aid agencies like the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to save lives and bring hope to the region, the terrible truth is that it is not possible to protect civilians, especially from snipers and stray missiles, never mind hunger and homelessness.",
        "尽管国际救援会（IRC）等援助机构英勇地拯救了无数生命，给地区带来了希望，但可怕的事实是保护公民已成为不可能的任务，特别是来自狙击手和导弹误炸的伤害，更不用说饥饿和无家可归了。"
    ],
    [
        "A more militant Iranian posture is likely to increase friction with Iraq, as well as inspire more anti-American violence there.",
        "伊朗更好战的态度可能会增加与伊拉克的摩擦，同时也可能激发伊拉克的反美暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "The other essential step is to place resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict at the center of America’s foreign policy agenda.",
        "另外一个关键性步骤是将解决巴以冲突放在美国外交政策安排的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the Bush campaign's efforts at spin control, the situation in Iraq is dire.",
        "尽管布什阵营绞尽脑汁想扭转颓势，但伊拉克局势仍旧危机重重。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in moribund economies like Germany and Italy, where employment security is vanishing, corporations are swimming in cash.",
        "甚至在德国和意大利这样极不景气的国家，虽然就业保障正在消失，但大公司们仍能遨游在现金的海洋里。"
    ],
    [
        "What factors underlie today’s problems, and how appropriate are the likely policy responses?",
        "究竟是什么因素构筑了当前的经济问题，而可能出台的政策回应又能在多大程度上起作用？"
    ],
    [
        "For example, UNAIDS remains the only United Nations agency with seats on its board for representatives from civil society.",
        "比如，联合国艾滋病规划署仍然是唯一一个理事会中有来自公民社会代表的联合国机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, as always, we remain the best of friends and the worst of enemies.",
        "今时一如往日，火仍是我们最好的朋友和最恶的敌人。"
    ],
    [
        "Apologists also claim that nepotism is universal, citing examples of children of American politicians and business leaders who have graduated from Ivy League universities and secured coveted private-sector jobs.",
        "辩护者还声称裙带关系的存在相当普遍，比如美国政界和商界领袖的子女也有很多毕业于常青藤大学并获得了令人艳羡的私营部门工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Thailand rejects the map, which contravenes a Franco-Siamese agreement in 1904 stipulating a demarcation along a watershed line separating the two countries.",
        "泰国拒不承认这份地图，因为在1904年制定的法国-暹罗协议将古寺附近的一条地理分水线定为两国边界。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a recent study mapping genetic mutations in 2,000 tumors, breast cancer can actually be divided into ten subgroups.",
        "一份测序了2000个肿瘤基因变异的最新研究表明，乳腺癌实际上应该被分为十种子类。"
    ],
    [
        "Whereas Brazil, India, and Indonesia have responded to surging inflows with new capital-account regulations, South Africa and Turkey have allowed capital to flow freely across their borders.",
        "巴西、印度和印尼用新的资本账户管制措施应对资本流入剧增，而南非和土耳其则放任资本自由进出。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite its remarkable rise, China’s per capita income, at $10,057 (adjusted for purchasing power) in 2011, ranks 99th in the world – roughly one-fifth of US per capita income of $49,782.",
        "尽管取得了令人瞩目的崛起，但2011年中国的人均收入只有10,057美元（经购买力平价调整），位居世界第99位，只有美国人均收入49,782美元的五分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Many people have long believed that if government and the private sector agreed to share their data more freely, and allow it to be processed using the right analytics, previously unimaginable solutions to countless social, economic, and commercial problems would emerge.",
        "伦敦—很多人早就相信，如果政府和私人部门同意更自由地共享它们的数据，并允许这些数据用正确的分析方法进行处理，大量社会、经济和商业问题就会产生此前难以想象的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Only measures like these can create the good jobs that will reduce income inequality and make America again resemble a normal advanced economy, not one where inequality approaches Latin American levels.",
        "只有上述那些措施，才能创造优质的就业岗位，缩小收入差距，使美国回到发达经济体的正轨上来，而不是坐视贫富差距扩大，走上拉美化道路。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, because tariffs in the TPP member countries are already low (with some exceptions, such as Canada’s tariffs on dairy products and Japan’s on beef), the net benefit of eliminating them would be modest (except for a few items that are very sensitive to small price changes).",
        "诚然，TPP成员国的关税水平已经相当低（但也有一些例外，如加拿大的乳制品关税和日本的牛肉关税），取消关税的净收益将十分有限（除了少数对微小价格变动也十分敏感的商品）。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU’s response to Brexit could well prove to be another pitfall.",
        "欧盟对英国退出的反应很有可能是另一个隐患。"
    ],
    [
        "In today’s interdependent world, however, it is no longer the number of nuclear warheads that bestows influence, but a country’s ability to get others to go along with policies that it regards as serving its major interests.",
        "然而，在今天这个互相依赖的世界上，影响力的来源不再是核弹头的数量，而是一个国家让他国追随她认为符合自己主要利益的政策的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "(Go to John McCain’s Web site, and you won’t even find “poverty” among the list of issues to click on – although “Space Program” is there.)",
        "(你到麦凯恩的网站上就找不到“贫困”议题可以点击，然而“空间计划”却赫然在目。 )"
    ],
    [
        "WARSAW – The agreement by the American and Russian presidents to renew strategic arms reductions has revived hope for the global abolition of nuclear arms.",
        "华沙——美俄总统在削减核武器方面达成的协议让人们重新燃起了全球禁止核武器的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "It will not work for lawmakers or banks, either.",
        "这也不是对付立法者和银行的好办法。"
    ],
    [
        "But the similarities are many – and sobering.",
        "但相似点也很多——并且令人警觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Why did twenty-first-century legislators behave differently?",
        "为什么21世纪的立法者会有所不同？"
    ],
    [
        "The idea behind pre-emptive wars is that American force should be projected through high-tech, blitzkrieg type wars waged from US soil, or from the soil of uncritical allies.",
        "\"把握战争先机\"背后的理念是：美军应该从美国本土、或不持反对意见的盟国领土发动高科技闪电战。"
    ],
    [
        "Transportation is the biggest source of this disparity, which means that policy interventions favoring public transport or walkability can reduce Athens’ ecological deficit.",
        "交通是造成上述差距的主要因素，这意味着倾向公共交通或步行的政策干预可以降低雅典的生态赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, research I have conducted shows that these changes were primarily caused by the rise in modern information technology (IT).",
        "如今，我所进行的研究表明，这些变化主要来自现代信息技术（IT）。"
    ],
    [
        "The most dramatic of these episodes accompanied the coup in July 2013, when Egyptian police and army opened fire on crowds protesting Morsi’s ouster in Cairo’s Rab’a Square, killing more than 1,000 protesters in less than ten hours.",
        "最显著的例子与2013年7月的政变有关，当时埃及警方和军方向开罗拉巴广场（Rab’a Square）反对推翻穆尔西的群众开火，在不到十小时时间内有超过1,000示威者被杀。"
    ],
    [
        "Critics have also highlighted the poor living conditions provided for Chinese workers, especially when compared to those offered to Western expatriates.",
        "批评者还强调这些企业为中国工人提供的生活条件很差，尤其是跟它们雇用的西方专家相比。"
    ],
    [
        "In the Middle East, the process of regional integration could begin with water and energy.",
        "在中东，区域一体化进程可以从与水和能源着手。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps at the next debate among presidential candidates, participants should have to distinguish – from a moral standpoint – politicians attacking the scientific process from Islamic State militants destroying ancient artifacts.",
        "或许在总统候选人的下一次辩论中，参与者应该从道德角度阐述攻击科学进程的政客和破坏古代文物的伊斯兰国之间有何区别。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, by permitting two clearing banks to access renminbi onshore, Chinese officials are effectively subsidizing their London and Frankfurt operations and encouraging direct sterling and euro trades.",
        "因此，通过允许两家清算行获得在岸人民币，中国官员实际上在补贴其伦敦和法兰克福的机构，以及鼓励直接英镑和欧元交易。"
    ],
    [
        "So countries were frequently and strongly advised to emulate those institutions.",
        "因此各国时时被强烈建议模仿这些制度。"
    ],
    [
        "Dodd-Frank might, in theory, also benefit from a more efficient tradeoff between the compliance costs that banks and other financial institutions confront and the danger of systemic instability (in areas like the “Volcker Rule” restricting proprietary trading by banks).",
        "理论上，多德-弗兰克法案也可以从银行及其他金融机构所承担的合规成本和系统性不稳定风险（在类似“沃尔克（Volcker）规则”限制银行自营交易的领域）之间的更有效权衡中获益。"
    ],
    [
        "The third milestone relates to the quality and inclusiveness of growth.",
        "第三阶段涉及质量和增长包容性。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, planning 30-50 years ahead is vital not only to make the correct long-run choices, but also to inform the correct short-term choices.",
        "在这个意义上，提前30到50年制定计划不仅对作出正确的长期选择至关重要，而且也能促成正确的短期选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Although any such right extends only to activities for “peaceful purposes,” the loophole is gaping.",
        "尽管这一权利只适用于“和平目的”活动，但存在巨大的漏洞。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments can do this consistently with a medium-term deficit-reduction plan by making a crucial distinction between their budgets’ current and capital accounts.",
        "政府可以做到花钱和中期预算削减计划并行不悖，办法是在其预算的经常账户和资本账户之间做出关键区分。"
    ],
    [
        "This, too, is an insufficient explanation, for no country, not even North Korea, lives in a vacuum.",
        "这个解释也不全面，因为没有一个国家，甚至朝鲜，是生活在真空中的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the high concentration of assets and people, especially in coastal areas, is an economic liability, with around $3 trillion in assets at risk from natural hazards.",
        "但尤其沿海地区资产及人员的高度集中却成为一种经济负担，约3万亿资产都受到自然灾害的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the current expected inflation rate of 2%, the real rate on ten-year bonds is still less than 1%.",
        "由于目前通胀预期为2%，因此十年期债券的真实利率仍然低于1%。"
    ],
    [
        "No sound monetarist thinks those numbers predict current inflation.",
        "没有哪位严谨的货币主义者会认为这些数字意味着当前通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "George W. Bush’s administration might well have rejected such efforts, but the British government could then have exercised the option of distancing itself from a policy that many believed was unlikely to succeed.",
        "小布什政府很可能拒绝这样的要求，但这样英国政府可以选择与这个很多人认为不可能成功的政策保持距离。"
    ],
    [
        "Another reason that has been offered for not referring to “Islamic radicalism\" or the “Islamic State\" is that to do so concedes the terrorists' claims that they are acting in accordance with Islam's teachings.",
        "没有出现“伊斯兰极端主义”或“伊斯兰国”的另一个原因是上述说法等于承认恐怖分子的宣传，即他们的所作所为符合伊斯兰教教义。"
    ],
    [
        "In such circumstances, seemingly small events can trigger an unforeseen and disastrous chain reaction.",
        "在这种情形下，看似微不足道的事件会引发不可预测以及灾难性的连锁反应。"
    ],
    [
        "But America’s strategy has failed.",
        "但美国的战略失败了。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU is equally unlikely to change dramatically its development-aid policies towards Pakistan.",
        "在对巴基斯坦的发展援助政策方面，欧盟也同样不会有太大程度的改变。"
    ],
    [
        "The TPP is also a political response to China's new aggressiveness, built therefore in a spirit of confrontation and containment, not of cooperation.",
        "跨太平洋伙伴关系协议其实也是一个对中国新进攻态势的政治回应，因此也构建于对抗和遏制之上，与合作毫不相干。"
    ],
    [
        "He was, of course, always an engagé: in the early 1960’s, when he supported the Cuban Revolution; when he later became one of Fidel Castro’s most ferocious and effective critics; and when he ran for Peru’s presidency in 1989 (losing to Alberto Fujimori).",
        "毋庸置疑，在20世纪60年代支持古巴革命的时候，在后来成为菲德尔·卡斯特罗最猛烈有效的批评者的时候，在竞选1989年秘鲁总统的时候（当时他败给了阿尔韦托·藤森），略萨一直保持着参政者的本色。"
    ],
    [
        "The TPP talks involve the United States, Canada, and ten other Pacific Rim countries with a combined annual output of around $26 trillion, or about 40% of global GDP.",
        "跨太平洋伙伴关系谈判涉及美国、加拿大等10个环太平洋国家，成员国年生产总值约为26万亿美元，约占全球GDP的40%。"
    ],
    [
        "The term “cognitive computing” refers to systems that, rather than being explicitly programmed, are built to learn from their experiences.",
        "“认知计算”一词是指这样的系统，它没有明确的程序，而是为了学习经验而打造。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as Spain (not Germany) remains the benchmark in European football, so Europe speaks broken English at best.",
        "正如西班牙（而不是德国）仍是欧洲足球的基准，说欧洲人讲蹩脚英语还差不多。"
    ],
    [
        "The dynamic of competition and emulation among China, Japan, and South Korea has not existed in peacefully reconciled post-WWII Europe; there is nothing like it in Africa, either.",
        "中国、日本和韩国之间的竞争和模仿的动态竞争是和平妥协的二战后欧洲所没有的； 非洲亦然。"
    ],
    [
        "Three German economists, Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularik, and Christoph Trebesch, have just produced a fascinating assessment based on more than 800 elections in Western countries over the last 150 years, the results of which they mapped against 100 financial crises.",
        "三位德国经济学家——曼努埃尔·芬克（Manuel Funke）、莫里茨·舒拉里克（Moritz Schularik）和克里斯托弗·特雷贝施（Christoph Trebesch）最近对西方国家过去150年中的800多次选举进行了出色的评估，并根据100起金融危机进行了排列分析。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, the country’s economy has become highly leveraged.",
        "最重要的是，中国经济的杠杆率大大增加了。"
    ],
    [
        "The deterioration of Saudi Arabia’s political influence has contributed to a growing sense of national decline.",
        "沙特阿拉伯政治影响力的减弱引起了日益严重的国家衰落感。"
    ],
    [
        "Gays and the New Public Philosophy",
        "同性恋和新公共哲学"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers must be aware of the educational and cultural damage that continuous reforms – all justified in the future-oriented jargon of the day – can wreak.",
        "决策者必须认识到持续改革——在当今的未来导向术语中，改革是硬道理——所可能带来的教育和文化上的伤害"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – What do the recently released Panama papers, ExxonMobil, and a Canadian mining company operating in Guatemala have in common?",
        "伦敦—最近曝光的巴拿马文件、埃克森美孚公司以及某家在危地马拉经营的加拿大矿业公司之间有何共同之处？"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, navies are often among the first to be targeted by cuts in defense budgets.",
        "更需要投入巨资进行运作，因为每一个单位都需要特殊装备以及受过训练的人员，因此海军往往都是国防预算削减中首先遭殃的那个。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, Europe’s fragile economic recovery has been based largely on exports.",
        "到目前为止，欧洲微弱的经济复苏很大程度上依赖于出口。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, then, do so many in Germany oppose the deal?",
        "那么，为什么有如此之多的德国人反对这一协议？"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, dealing with such an openly extreme Iran – radical even by the hardline regime’s standards – will be a challenge not just for the US, but for Europe as well.",
        "另外，与这样一个公然极端的伊朗（甚至以强硬派政权的标准来看也甚为激进）打交道，不仅对美国，对欧洲也同样是一个挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, higher education went to Mostafa Mossad, an FJP member who was in charge of the education portfolio during Morsi’s campaign.",
        "同样，高等教育部部长职务归属在穆尔西竞选期间掌管教育事务的自由公正党党员穆斯塔法·摩萨德。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a genuine commitment to poverty reduction implies working with these countries.",
        "实际上，切实致力于减低贫困意味着与这些国家合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments ought not to be allowed to massacre their own people. And weak governments should not be allowed to permit massacres to take place on their own territory even if they are not themselves carrying out the massacre.",
        "不该容许政府屠杀自己的百姓，也不该容许弱小的政府看着屠杀民众的事情发生而坐视不理，即便他们自己没有参与屠杀。"
    ],
    [
        "The potential transnational advantages of fiscal money are also significant.",
        "财政货币的潜在国际优势也非常巨大。"
    ],
    [
        "Our proposal was greeted with deafening silence.",
        "我们的方案根本没有受到关住。"
    ],
    [
        "This is Europe’s headscarf debate in a nutshell.",
        "这正是欧洲在头巾问题上爆发争论的内在原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, however, the five permanent members now agree on a candidate, and their decision is rubber-stamped first by the Security Council and then by the General Assembly.",
        "但是实际上，五个常任理事国就候选人达成一致，其决定由安理会、随后由联合国大会以橡皮图章形式通过。"
    ],
    [
        "As in China, it took time for the benefits to appear, but over the past few years Vietnam has seen the same rapid, poverty-reducing growth that China has experienced.",
        "正如在中国一样，市场化改革的优势需要时间来展现，然而在过去的几年间，越南已经体验到了中国曾经体验过的快速经济发展和贫困下降。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – The last few decades of globalization and innovation have resulted in the most rapid progress that the world has ever known.",
        "牛津——近几十年的创新及全球化让世界取得了前所未有的快速进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Ensuring that it does will require recognizing the importance of rigorous analysis in every data-collection effort and the formation of a new generation of decision scientists to work alongside policymakers.",
        "确保这一结果需要认识到严格分析在每一次数据收集工作中的重要性，以及培养新一代决策科学家与决策者合作的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "OXFORD – With the election of a reform-minded centrist president in France and the re-election of German Chancellor Angela Merkel seeming ever more likely, is there hope for the stalled single-currency project in Europe?",
        "发自牛津——随着法国的中间路线改革派新总统上台，同时德国总理默克尔的连任概率日渐增加，是否意味着陷入停滞的欧洲单一货币项目重燃希望？ 也许如此。"
    ],
    [
        "If you get above 10, it just makes it too darn hard to get things done.”",
        "一旦谈判对手超过了10个，想达成协议就非常困难了。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But Trump also seems to have reached white women not affiliated with a political party, perhaps owing to his campaign’s strategy of hyping women’s anxiety.",
        "但特朗普似乎也赢得了不属于某个正当的白人女性，也许这是因为他的竞选战略直击女性的焦虑点。"
    ],
    [
        "But the German supervisory authorities consider Italy at risk and thus oppose any transfer of funds there.",
        "但德国监管当局认为意大利存在风险，因此反对资金转移。"
    ],
    [
        "The cause was not an attempt by the global South to revive outdated notions of unlimited sovereignty; rather, it was a reaction to the perceived overreach of the NATO-led military intervention in Libya in 2011.",
        "其原因不在于南方国家试图让早已过时的无限制主权概念死灰复燃； 而在于人们认为北约领导的2011年利比亚军事干预过度而引起了反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "In inter-state politics, the most important factor will be the continuing “return of Asia.”",
        "在国家间政治中，最重要的因素将会是持续的“亚洲回归”。"
    ],
    [
        "A sustainable answer to questions of such vital importance to the Middle East only makes sense if it is regional in character.",
        "要回答这类对中东至关重要的问题并使答案有说服力，答案必须是针对整个区域的才会有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the war has become a struggle for regional dominance between Iran on one side and Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey on the other.",
        "相反，这场战争已经演变为伊朗和沙特阿拉伯、卡塔尔和土耳其之间对地区霸权的争夺。"
    ],
    [
        "An estimated 3,000 drone killings have taken place, mostly in Pakistan, but also in Yemen and Somalia.",
        "据估计，无人飞机暗杀已经进行了3 000次，大部分在巴基斯坦使用，在也门和索马里也有少量使用。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – A specter is haunting the treasuries and central banks of the West – the specter of secular stagnation.",
        "伦敦—一个幽灵，长期停滞的幽灵，萦绕在西方财政部和中央银行头顶。"
    ],
    [
        "Therefore, projects need to be operational at the latest by 2007.",
        "因此，该项目必须在2007年之前进入操作阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Inequality on the March",
        "不平等横行"
    ],
    [
        "Untrained people with other things on their minds can make serious economic errors.",
        "怀有其它顾虑的非专业人士可能会犯严重的经济错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Its regular reports to the G-20 pull together the diverse strands of regulation in a clear and comprehensible way.",
        "其向二十国集团所做的定期报告以明晰、全面的方式汇集了为数众多的各种监管条缕。"
    ],
    [
        "But reforms will continue to be top-down and gradual, especially in the financial sector, where most efforts will be concentrated in the next decade.",
        "但改革将继续是自上而下的、渐进的，特别是在未来十年大部分改革措施的目标金融部门。"
    ],
    [
        "The “consensus” that supposedly shapes Algerian politics has, in fact, paralyzed decision-making for many years now.",
        "事实上，左右阿尔及利亚政治的“共识”多年来一直让决策处于瘫痪状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the type of measurable outcomes that the MDGs have thus far demanded are being developed for migration.",
        "令人庆幸的是，正在就移民问题制定千年发展目标所要求的量化结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Overwhelming proof of Croatia’s complicity with Serbia in the dismemberment of Bosnia – something the media have also ignored – would never have emerged.",
        "大量有关克罗地亚串通塞尔维亚分割波斯尼亚的证据——有些是连媒体都忽略的——也不会呈现在世人面前。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiations on such a treaty could be launched this year, at the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi in December.",
        "这一条约的谈判可以在今年12月的内罗毕联合国环境大会上启动。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it has had the opposite effect.",
        "但它却起到了相反的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "But history matters: China and India are now integrated into the global economy.",
        "但历史很重要：如今中国和印度已经融入了全球经济。"
    ],
    [
        "As for corporate bankruptcy, it is recognized that a poor legal system is one that keeps otherwise viable factories shuttered while assets are frittered away in expensive legal wrangling, leaving everyone – managers, workers, and shareholders – worse off.",
        "而对于公司破产，我们已经意识到，在糟糕的法律体系中，本可以存活的工厂倒闭，而资产在昂贵的法律扯皮中灰飞烟灭，所有人——管理者、工人和股东——都遭受损失。 而良好的法律体系让招聘和生产在经济活动仍然可行时能够继续；"
    ],
    [
        "People who are not paying attention and are just not active will simply remain in the plan, while those who want badly enough to opt out can do so by writing a letter.",
        "没有留心也不积极的人可以随便留在计划之中，而那些确实想退出的人可以通过写封信就退出。"
    ],
    [
        "But some US banks, including Bank of America and Citi, are still vulnerable, with considerable toxic assets (mainly related to home mortgages) on their balance sheets.",
        "但包括美洲银行和花旗银行在内的某些美国银行依然脆弱不堪，其资产负债表上依然存在大量有毒资产（主要涉及到房屋抵押债券）。"
    ],
    [
        "Both have repeatedly affirmed their admiration for Kushner and vowed that he will be deeply involved in decisions, despite his utter lack of experience.",
        "两者都一再强调他们对库什纳的钦佩，并承诺他将深度参与决策，尽管他完全没有参与决策所需的经验。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting political firestorm may well force Zuma to rely on core support from key allies within the country’s trade union movement and Communist Party, challenging the political elite’s pro-market consensus and provoking debate over the future of South Africa’s economic policy.",
        "接下来的政治风暴或许会迫使祖玛依赖于南非工会运动和共产党的主要盟友的支持来挑战政治精英亲市场的共识并且促发有关未来南非经济政策的辩论。"
    ],
    [
        "As China attempts to tighten its grip on Hong Kong, Li is showing independence, and China’s new rulers – who, true to their communist roots, believe firmly in top-down control – do not like it one bit.",
        "随着中国意图加强对香港控制和李日益表现出我行我素，中国相信自上而下控制且忠实于共产主义根源的执政者一点也不喜欢他的所作所为。"
    ],
    [
        "(German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble’s suggestion that Greece can just take a “time out” is a fiction.)",
        "（德国财政部长朔伊布勒建议希腊只能“暂退”的说法是杜撰。"
    ],
    [
        "Soccer Lessons for Europe’s Economy",
        "足球给欧洲经济的启示"
    ],
    [
        "So an energy tax roughly equal to the euro’s 33% appreciation in recent years would be about right.",
        "所以，大致相对与欧元近年来升值33%的能源税大体上是正确的。"
    ],
    [
        "Donors are rallying for food aid, but they are resisting the obvious need to help the poorest million farmers (and their four million dependents) get soil nutrients and improved seeds in time for the planting season this autumn.",
        "捐助国纷纷联合起来筹集救援食品，但对帮助上百万最贫穷的农民（以及四百万依靠他们生活的人）在今秋种植季节前及时获得肥料和改良种子这样显而易见的需要却视而不见。"
    ],
    [
        "One explanation is that the advanced economies had taken on too much debt and needed to deleverage, contributing to a pattern of public-sector underinvestment and depressing consumption and private investment as well.",
        "一个解释是发达经济体背负了过多的债务，需要去杠杆，这导致了公共部门投资不足，也抑制了消费和私人投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Ségolenè Royal has surged to the front of the pack of Socialists who aim to succeed Jacques Chirac as President of France.",
        "在一大群打算接替希拉克成为法国总统的社会党人士中，罗雅尔已经一马当先。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, Gdansk – the birthplace of the Solidarity movement – does not have a single methadone treatment center.",
        "举例来讲，找遍团结运动的发祥地格但斯克也找不到一个美沙酮治疗中心。"
    ],
    [
        "The current research effort on stem cells and their potential is just as grand, because it will lead to an equally radical medical revolution.",
        "目前对干细胞及其潜能的研究也同样恢宏巨大，因为这会引发同样剧烈的医学革命。"
    ],
    [
        "Recently, another key Vatican figure, Cardinal Walter Casper, the head of the Council for Christian Unity, called for a Catholic-Orthodox high level meeting that would address unifying both branches of Christianity.",
        "最近，梵蒂冈另一重要人物，基督教联合委员会主席，红衣主教华特·卡斯珀号召召开天主教与东正教的高层会议，商讨这两大基督教分支的统一问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Making money gives us something to do that feels worthwhile, as long as we do not reflect too much on why we are doing it.",
        "挣钱会促使我们去做一些我们感觉很值得的事情，只要我们不去更多地思考为什么我们要去做这件事。"
    ],
    [
        "Only by adjusting to the international system’s practical constraints can the EU stay the course of economic transformation, remain relevant internationally, and help to contain global warming.",
        "只有调整国际制度的实践约束才能让欧盟坚持经济转型、保持国际影响力，为遏制全球变暖贡献力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, it could undertake similar swaps, but with countries facing large capital outflows, thereby slowing the dollar’s appreciation.",
        "如今，美联储也可以动用类似的机制，与面临资本大量外流的国家进行货币互换，从而减缓美元的升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Assad has killed more than 200,000 people, mostly civilians, in a conflict that started with his government’s torture of children.",
        "阿萨德就曾在其政府因虐童引起的冲突中杀害过200,000人，其中多数是平民。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments must therefore consistently evaluate evolving technologies and threats so that security systems designed to protect nuclear materials stay ahead of the capabilities of those who would seek to steal them.",
        "因此，政府必须持续评估技术和威胁的变化，以使其安保系统可以领先窃贼一步，保护核材料。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, another analysis, including 14 randomized trials with 1,213 patients six months after a stroke, compared the effects of conventional stroke rehabilitation with and without acupuncture as a supplement.",
        "事实上，另一项对于1213名病人在中风后六个月所作的14项随机调查的统计，对有否运用针灸作为一种针对传统中风康复护理的补充治疗手段的效果进行了对比。"
    ],
    [
        "Currently, only 2% of the world’s investment in research and development is allocated to clean energy; at this rate, solutions to these problems are unlikely to be found anytime soon.",
        "目前，全球研发投资中只有2%用于清洁能源； 照此速度，我们不可能很快就找到这些问题的解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a question all of us should consider.",
        "这是一个我们大家都应该考虑的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "To protect sensitive areas, greater global coordination is needed in the selection of suitable mining sites.",
        "要保护敏感地区，需要更大的全球协调选取一批合适的矿井。"
    ],
    [
        "In Berlin, a new startup is said to be founded every 20 minutes.",
        "在柏林，据说每20分钟就有一家新初创企业成立。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, ideas about full employment and equality remain at the heart of social democracy.",
        "今天，关于充分就业和平等的理念一直是社会民主的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy has benefited directly through a growth in tourism, and indirectly by preserving ecosystem services such as pollination.",
        "哥斯达黎加经济也直接受益于旅游业的增长，间接受益于生态系统功能（如授粉）的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "They played a tremendous role in the erosion of the Soviet system.\"",
        "它们在侵蚀苏维埃体系的过程中发挥了巨大的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Across the región, Chávez’s influence was strong.",
        "查韦斯在拉美地区的影响力极强。"
    ],
    [
        "It is now clear that $17 billion will not be enough.",
        "如今，170亿美元显然是不够的。"
    ],
    [
        "The US spends less in the public sector, but it taxes even less than it spends.",
        "美国在公共部门花费更少，但其税收甚至比花费还要低。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to this the US presidential election next year – preceded by a campaign that has already started – and we can expect a lot of promises floating around.",
        "加之明年的美国总统大选——相关竞选活动今年就已经开始——我们无疑可以得到一大堆的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Vigorous popular opposition to a Dubai company’s plan to take over ports in the United States shocked the American government.",
        "民众对一家迪拜公司收购美国港口的计划的普遍强烈反对，着实让美国政府吃了一惊。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a transformation would be no easy feat.",
        "这种转变可不是件容易的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the large oil companies, only one – France’s Total – has argued against Arctic oil exploration and exploitation on the grounds of environmental risks and economic costs.",
        "大型石油公司中只有法国道达尔一家以环境风险和经济成本为由反对在北极进行石油勘探开采。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Western governments should continue to use their channels to the Egyptian military and future civil leadership to encourage them to uphold the rule of law, to act with restraint, and to respect free expression.",
        "事实上，西方政府应该继续利用与埃及军方和未来民事领导人的渠道来促使他们赞成法治精神、保持行动克制、尊重言论自由。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, roughly 750,000 women will graduate from Pakistan’s institutions of higher learning.",
        "今年大约会有75万女大学生从巴基斯坦高等教育机构毕业。"
    ],
    [
        "Thanks to the World Cup, one is a citizen of the world, enjoying a spectacle together with billions of others on “Planet Soccer.”",
        "由于世界杯，人们成为了世界公民，和“足球星球”的其他几十亿人一同观赏壮观的比赛。"
    ],
    [
        "Political scientists have tried to create charisma scales that would predict votes or presidential ratings, but they have not proven fruitful.",
        "政治科学家尝试创立一套魅力测量标准来预测投票趋势或者总统候选人排名，但至今都无法取得什么成果。"
    ],
    [
        "The nation-state myth conflates two ideas, one that is concrete, the state, and one that is fuzzy, the nation.",
        "民族国家合并了两个观点，一个是具体的国家，另一个是模糊的民族。"
    ],
    [
        "The term “soft power” – the ability to affect others by attraction and persuasion rather than the hard power of coercion and payment – is sometimes used to describe any exercise of power that does not involve the use of force.",
        "“软实力”——通过吸引和劝说而非强制和收买来影响他人的能力——有时被用来形容任何不涉及武力的权力行使——但这是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the long term, however, US policymakers must make steady progress in restoring confidence in the nation’s fiscal health by cutting politically sacred programs like social security, Medicare, and defense.",
        "但是，从长期看，美国决策者必须通过削减社会保障、医疗和防务等具有政治不可动摇性的项目开支，从而在重塑人们对其国民财政健康度信心方面取得实实在在的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet the G20 still finds it extremely difficult to fulfill its objective, agreed in 2009, to “act together to generate strong, sustainable, and balanced global growth.”",
        "但即便如此，G20集团依然难以兑现其在2009年订立的“共同行动起来催生强劲，可持续和平衡的全球增长”的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, too, people warn of Muslim tricksters, states within states, the impossibility of assimilation, and the necessity for staunch secularists to free the benighted Muslims from their faith.",
        "人们现在也同样警示穆斯林骗子、国中之国、不可能被同化以及需要坚定的世俗主义者将穆斯林从他们愚昧的信仰中解放出来。 。"
    ],
    [
        "International support for sanctions is considerable and increasing.",
        "国际社会越来越支持制裁措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Large American corporations and banks now roam the globe freely, and are no longer so dependent on the US consumer.",
        "美国大公司和银行现在能够自由地在全世界做生意，而不再主要依靠美国消费者。"
    ],
    [
        "There are alternatives to the current neoliberal arrangements that can create shared prosperity, just as there are alternatives – like US President Barack Obama’s proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership deal with the EU – that would cause much more harm.",
        "对于当前的新自由主义安排，存在一些替代方案能够创造共同繁荣，正如也存在一些替代方案——如美国总统奥巴马提出的与欧盟的跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系——将带来更多的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Until recently, biologists’ view of these processes has been very gene-centered, as exemplified by Richard Dawkins’ idea of the “selfish gene.”",
        "直到最近，生物学家对这些过程的观点还都是以基因为中心的，像理查德·道金斯(Richard Dawkin)“自私基因”的观点所例证的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "It helps to be seen as a “poor, developing” country, not as an economic giant, because “developed” nations are expected to do more to combat major global challenges, like climate change.",
        "一个“贫穷落后的发展中国家”比一个经济巨人好处更大，因为在应对全球性的重大挑战（比如气候变化）方面，“发达国家”必须付出更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet under President Vladimir Putin, with the economy growing robustly, these feelings have hardened, not diminished.",
        "然而，自从普京担任总统以来，经济增长强劲，这种情绪没有减弱，反而更加强烈。"
    ],
    [
        "The commission’s members do recognize that London’s loss of status as a global financial center would be costly in terms of jobs and output, so they developed a second line of argument.",
        "委员会的成员也确实意识到伦敦失去全球金融中心地位对就业和产出来说损失很严重，所以他们还准备了第二套说辞。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy has also benefited from its openness to foreign investment, with the stock of foreign direct investment in Chile topping 80% of GDP.",
        "得益于其对外国投资开放政策，智利GDP有超过80％来自外国直接投资形成的存量。"
    ],
    [
        "(As economists would say, problems of asymmetric information have increased.)",
        "（就像经济学家们会讲，信息不对称的问题更严重了。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Financial-services access is a much needed start, but it must lead somewhere.",
        "获取金融服务是非常必要的开始，但它必须要达到某个目标。"
    ],
    [
        "And could the world be witnessing the “Orientalization” of Turkey?",
        "世界会不会亲眼目睹土耳其的东方化？"
    ],
    [
        "Expect more of that.",
        "这样的情况今后我们仍将看到。"
    ],
    [
        "Relearning to Love the Bomb",
        "重新学会爱上炸弹"
    ],
    [
        "Iran does not need nuclear weapons to protect its regional interests, and such weapons have no place in Iran’s security strategy.",
        "伊朗不需要核武器来保护其地区利益，这种武器在伊朗的安全战略中没有一席之地。"
    ],
    [
        "The main decisions on Brexit will therefore be made not in London but in Brussels and Berlin.",
        "因此，英国脱欧事宜的主要决定不会在伦敦做出，而是在布鲁塞尔和柏林做出。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there is no guarantee of success; indeed, for each successful product, there are as many as nine equally promising candidates that fail.",
        "事实上，每一种成功的产品背后都有多达九种前途同样光明的候选产品的失败。"
    ],
    [
        "So now comes the GPE’s replenishment round, scheduled for early February in Senegal.",
        "如今全球教育伙伴计划的补给回合将于2月初在塞内加尔召开。"
    ],
    [
        "As the date drew near, I asked Summers why he persisted in offering Japan’s leaders this unwanted advice, given that they were clearly locked in politically.",
        "随着日本上调消费税日子临近，我问萨默斯，既然日本领导人显然是为政治所迫，那为什么还坚持向他们提出本不需要的建议呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Many are convinced that the international order is falling apart.",
        "许多人认定国际秩序正在分崩离析。"
    ],
    [
        "As more data are generated, stored, and transmitted in digital form, new data sets relevant to personal and business decisions are growing exponentially.",
        "随着更多数据的产生、存储和以数字形式传输，与个人和企业决策有关的新数据集正在呈现指数增长之势。"
    ],
    [
        "This sequence of study was devised in 1893.",
        "这个学习的顺序是1893年设计的。"
    ],
    [
        "Trying to win “hearts and minds” with Western goods simply corrupts, and thus discredits, the governments established by those intervening.",
        "试图用西方商品来争取赢得“民心”只能腐化通过这些干预措施扶植的政府，让它们信誉扫地。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot prevent that.",
        "我们无法阻止这样的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, they call for annual public-sector investment up to the level needed for full employment.",
        "因此他们呼吁公共部门的年度投资额应该达到实现充分就业所需的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But such data are commonly reported for high-income countries today, including those ranking high on indices of economic prosperity and human development – even Western Europe’s highly developed welfare states.",
        "但是，这一数据在当今高收入国家也屡见不鲜，包括在经济繁荣和人类发展指数排名上位居前列的国家，甚至是西欧高度发达的福利国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the producer model was not the definitive formula for achieving China’s aspirations of becoming a moderately prosperous society by 2020.",
        "但生产者模式不是中国到2020年实现小康的公式。 这一认识滥觞于现已妇孺皆知的前总理温家宝的“四不”批评。"
    ],
    [
        "President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s aides had started worrying more about being caught on the wrong side of Tunisian history than about facing the wrath of their beleaguered boss.",
        "总统扎因·阿比丁·本·阿里的幕僚们不害怕面对针对总统的愤怒围攻，而是开始担心自己正在逆突尼斯历史潮流而动。"
    ],
    [
        "Well, then, it seems that Dylan was the only one of his era to have been able to embody fully the musicality that is essential to great poetry, the second voice that haunts every poet, but which he generally delegates to those who recite or read him, the power of song that is his ultimate and secret truth and that some have gone mad – literally and tragically mad – trying to pull from cage into canto.",
        "那么，看来唯有迪伦在他那个时代充分体现了对伟大诗歌至关重要的音律性，这种隐藏的声音在每位诗人的脑海中挥之不去，但却往往只能留给背诵或朗诵诗歌的人，歌曲的力量是他终极的秘密谜底，为从语言改编为音律，有人甚至不惜走向疯狂——疯狂得既真实又具有悲剧性。"
    ],
    [
        "The most immediate threat is the slowdown in the advanced economies.",
        "最为直接的威胁是发达国家经济减缓。"
    ],
    [
        "Like many in academia and in the development industry, I am among globalization’s greatest beneficiaries – those who are able to sell our services in markets that are larger and richer than our parents could have dreamed of.",
        "和许多学界和发展界人士一样，我也是全球化的最大受益者之一——我们能够将我们的服务在比我们的父辈所能想象的更大更富有的市场上出售。"
    ],
    [
        "Our central bank has established an independent monetary policy that ensures price stability and low inflation; in fact, in November, the annual inflation rate, at 2.21%, was the lowest in Mexico’s history.",
        "墨西哥中央银行拥有独立的货币政策决定权以保证物价稳定和低通胀； 事实上，11月墨西哥年通胀率为2."
    ],
    [
        "By extending the Kyoto Protocol – which limits some developed countries’ greenhouse-gas emissions – for another eight years, the Doha agreement preserves the vital framework of international law and retains hard-won accounting rules for emissions allowances and trading between countries.",
        "通过将京都议定书时效延长八年——该议定书限制某些发达国家的温室气体排放量，多哈协议保住了国际法的基本框架，也保住了得之不易的允许排放量计算规则和国家间排放量交易规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Where Are the Syrian Peacemakers?",
        "叙利亚和平的缔造者尚在何处？"
    ],
    [
        "Many thought leaders in advanced economies advocate an entitlement mentality.",
        "许多发达国家的思想领袖鼓吹一种应得权利（entitlement）思想。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, while France exports much less than Germany outside the EU, many large French enterprises rival Germany’s in global reach and technical know-how.",
        "类似地，尽管在欧盟之外法国的出口不如德国，但许多法国大企业在全球扩张和技术工艺方面与德国不相上下。"
    ],
    [
        "Internally, mandatory retirements will soon cost the Agency 50% of its senior management.",
        "在内部，强制性退休将会损失50%的高级管理人员。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, a sort of balance of terror obstructed any major reallocations by the big holders of reserves.",
        "事实上，有一种“恐怖平衡”让主要的外储国家不敢进行大规模的重新配置。"
    ],
    [
        "At last count, 98 amateur and professional clubs in the UK were implicated in some way.",
        "上个月，98家英国业余和职业俱乐部或多或少地被此事涉及。"
    ],
    [
        "But what about agriculture?",
        "但农业领域的情况如何？"
    ],
    [
        "Capitalism when it arose three centuries ago was simply the same activity on a larger scale.",
        "三百年前兴起的资本主义也不过是在此基础之上但规模更大的活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama began his first administration with an offer to engage with the Islamic Republic; as he memorably put it in his first inaugural address in 2009, “We will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”",
        "奥巴马开启首任任期时就曾承诺要与伊朗伊斯兰共和国保持接触； 这一点在2009年他首次令人难忘的就职演说中就曾有记录，“如果你们愿意松开双拳，我们就将伸出援手。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the San Francisco Treaty per se is not legally binding for the PRC.",
        "可以肯定，旧金山条约本身对中华人民共和国并不具有法律效力。"
    ],
    [
        "In India’s parliamentary system, if a coalition loses its majority, the government falls, and keeping allies together can sometimes prove a greater priority than getting things done.",
        "在印度这种议会政治的体制中，如果一个联盟在议会中失去了大多数的席位，政府就会下台。 所以说，有的时候，为了保持联盟的团结，宁愿不做什么事情。"
    ],
    [
        "His promise to “drain the swamp” of cronyism and corruption, was thus tactical, rather than genuine.",
        "因此，特朗普承诺要对裙带主义和腐败“清理门户”只是一个伎俩，不可当真。"
    ],
    [
        "Having strolled through the magnificent and charming streets of Barcelona, the possibility of violent clashes there seems as unlikely as a guerrilla in the forests of British Columbia.",
        "漫步于巴塞罗那宏伟而迷人的街道，在那里爆发暴力冲突的可能性比在英属哥伦比亚丛林发现大猩猩还不可思议。"
    ],
    [
        "Long-term structural shifts are fundamentally changing the nature of work, and thus of the way that we think of economic exchange.",
        "长期结构性转变从根本上改变了工作性质，也改变了经济交换领域的思维方式。"
    ],
    [
        "The West interprets veiling as repression of women and suppression of their sexuality.",
        "西方把头巾遮脸解释为对妇女的性压抑。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone even remotely familiar with the region knows how common is the phrase \"the Arab nation\" ( watan ).",
        "只要有人对伊斯兰教稍有了解，就知道\"阿拉伯民族\"（watan）一语的应用有多么广泛。"
    ],
    [
        "A central theme of the Report is that the Iraq War did not have to happen, and certainly not when it did.",
        "该报告的核心主题之一是伊拉克战争本非非打不可，在开战时显然不是。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s meeting this spring was lauded as a breakthrough, with officials given a new mandate for “surveillance” of the trade imbalances that contribute significantly to global instability.",
        "国际货币基金组织今年春天的这次会议被誉为是一次突破，因为基金组织的官员们将要对贸易不平衡这个引起全球动荡的主要因素进行新的“监控”。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, there is little to celebrate.",
        "悲哀的是，没有什么可庆祝的。"
    ],
    [
        "The puzzling circumstances of the IMF head’s sudden departure announcement do not justify a business as usual approach to his replacement.",
        "国际货币基金组织主席突然辞职事件中扑朔迷离的前前后后使我们无法采用惯常的方式来确定他的接替人选。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, on the national level, pro-growth economic-reform initiatives – which seem to have lost some urgency in the face of overly complacent and excessively accommodating financial markets – need to be revitalized.",
        "类似地，在国家层面，促增长经济改革措施——似乎因为金融市场的过度自信和过度迁就而丧失了一些紧迫性——需要重新获得动力。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran’s theocratic regime, immersed in a momentous struggle for survival against what it regards as an unholy alliance of Israel, the American “Great Satan,” and a surrounding Arab world that abhors its hegemonic ambitions, will not surrender its nuclear ambitions easily. Indeed, nuclear weapons appear to be the regime’s only real route to self-preservation.",
        "伊朗这个政教合一的政权，不会轻易放弃其核野心，它认为以色列、“大撒旦”美国以及周边阿拉伯世界组成的邪恶联盟憎恶其霸权野心，它必须与它们顽强抗争以谋求生机。"
    ],
    [
        "But, if it comes about, no one should mistake it for a move toward more “moderate” positions.",
        "但是，果真如此的话，也决不能视此为转向较“温和”的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "I hope that events prove me wrong, and that my pessimism turns out to have been excessive.",
        "我希望事实证明我是错的，我过度悲观了。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, 2.1 million became infected, and 1.5 million died from AIDS-related causes.",
        "去年，有210万人被病毒感染，150万人死于艾滋病相关原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Ethiopia’s Health Extension Worker program and Malawi’s Health Surveillance Assistant program have been proven to reduce child mortality.",
        "埃塞俄比亚的卫生推广人员计划和马拉维的健康监督助理计划已经被事实证明能有效减少儿童死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "For China and South Korea, the Yasukuni Shrine’s inclusion of 14 Class A war criminals who were executed after World War II has made it a potent symbol of Japan’s prewar militarism, and Abe had long refrained from visiting it – including during his previous stint as prime minister.",
        "对中国和韩国来说，供奉14名在二战后被处死的甲级战犯的靖国神社是日本战前军国主义的化身，安倍一直没有访问靖国神社，包括在他第一次担任首相期间。"
    ],
    [
        "The current financial crisis is different from all the others we have experienced since World War II.",
        "当前的金融危机不同于自二战以来我们经历过的所有金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, with a 10% tax, a company with $500 million of accumulated overseas earnings would incur a tax liability of $50 million, to be paid over ten years.",
        "比如，按照10%的税率，拥有5亿美元累计海外盈余的公司将负有5,000万美元的纳税义务，并分十年履行。"
    ],
    [
        "But Sweden’s freedom of expression was also one of the motives behind a grisly suicide attack in Stockholm in December of last year.",
        "但瑞典的言论自由也是去年12月斯德哥尔摩发生恐怖自杀袭击事件的背后的动机。"
    ],
    [
        "Ramming democracy down people’s throats is self-defeating.",
        "强迫人们接受民主不可能取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "But reducing the transposition deficit, while important, is not the end of the game.",
        "但降低转换赤字固然重要，却不是这场博弈的结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Let the Middle East Govern Itself",
        "让中东自治"
    ],
    [
        "The main objectives of the SDGs have already been agreed.",
        "可持续发展目标的主要内容已经达成了一致。"
    ],
    [
        "But the most influential Eastern European signatory was the First Lady of Georgia, a country whose estimated 2,700 HIV-infected people account for just 0.018% of the regional total.",
        "但东欧签名者中影响力最大的要数格鲁吉亚第一夫人，而该国的爱滋病感染者数量（2700名）仅占整个地区的0. 018%。"
    ],
    [
        "But, what is more important, Turkey has become a model of success that many countries around us now seek to emulate.",
        "而更为重要的是，土耳其已作为成功的典范，为周围的许多国家争相仿效。"
    ],
    [
        "When they experienced their own financial crisis in 1997, they received far less aid, with far harsher conditions.",
        "1997年，当它们面临金融危机时，它们得到的援助比希腊小得多，条件苛刻得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Urban factory workers and conservative Catholics were, on the whole, less susceptible to Hitler’s blandishments than many more highly educated Protestants.",
        "总体而言，相对许多教育程度更高的新教徒，城市工厂工人和保守的天主教徒对希特勒的花言巧语比较不敏感。"
    ],
    [
        "The giant fossil-fuel companies have continued to lobby behind the scenes against the shift to low-carbon energy, and have used their vast wealth to buy media coverage designed to sow confusion.",
        "化石燃料巨头公司继续在幕后游说阻止转向低碳能源，并利用巨大的财力收买媒体混淆视听。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – During his campaign, US President-elect Donald Trump used foreign trade as a lightning rod in his supposed defense of the beleaguered American middle class.",
        "纽黑文—竞选总统期间，美国当选总统唐纳德·特朗普在替他所谓的四面楚歌的美国中产阶级辩护时，用对外贸易当替罪羊。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) should abandon their hesitance to support the post-revolution governments.",
        "特别是，海湾合作委员会（GCC）成员国应该停止犹豫，支持革命后建立的新政府。"
    ],
    [
        "The NIC report rightly concludes that there is no predetermined answer to what the world will look like in 2030.",
        "国家情报委员会报告就此顺理成章得出结论，2030年的世界局势如何并不存在既定的答案。"
    ],
    [
        "The original agreement seems remarkably clear: the WTO shall extend these “flexibilities” upon the request of the least-developed countries.",
        "原始协议看似非常清晰：WTO应该在收到这些最不发达国家的请求之后授予这类“灵活性”。"
    ],
    [
        "As one senior Afghan government official said, “If you can’t remove a corrupt judge, how can you deal with the Taliban?”",
        "正如一位阿富汗政府官员说的那样，“如果你不能清除一个腐败的法官，你怎么能够对付塔利班呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Nor can they be considered the first tentative steps towards such a shared destiny, in the manner of the 1952 European Coal and Steel Community Treaty, which began the project for European unity.",
        "很难将其视为拉开欧洲统一序幕的1952年《欧洲煤钢共同体条约》式的向着地区共同命运迈出的试探性步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s bio-diversity crisis is not just one of lost habitats and extinct species. It is also a crisis of emerging infectious diseases (EID’s), such as HIV in humans, Ebola in humans and gorillas, West Nile virus and Avian Influenza in humans and birds, chytrid fungi in amphibians, and distemper in sea lions.",
        "如今的生物多样性危机已经不仅仅是栖息地消失和物种灭绝了，它还是新发传染性疾病（EID’s）——诸如艾滋病（人类）、埃博拉（人类和猩猩）、西尼罗河病毒和禽流感（人和鸟类）， chytrid壶菌（两栖动物）以及瘟热（海狮）等所引发的危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Such information gives you power primarily in a secretive, opaque world where access to information is limited.",
        "在一个诡秘、不透明且获取信息的渠道有限的世界里，这种信息尤其会给你带来力量。"
    ],
    [
        "The trade-liberalization agreements that the EU has in the pipeline with Asia’s vibrant economies (including South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Vietnam, Japan, and Thailand) are more ambitious in scope than previous bilateral deals.",
        "欧盟正在与不少生机勃勃的亚洲经济体进行贸易自由化协定谈判（包括韩国、新加坡、马来西亚、印度、越南、日本和泰国），此次谈判的雄心和规模都超过了此前的双边谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "If QE continues, many of them will have to find new ways to generate returns or face significant restructuring.",
        "如果量化宽松政策延续下去，许多银行将需要开发新的利润增长点或是对其业务模式进行大规模重构。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no doubt that Sarkozy’s attacks on the ECB are having a counter-productive effect in this regard.",
        "毫无疑问，萨尔科奇对欧洲央行的攻击正在这方面适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "And we ask our partners to recognize that programs originally planned on a ten-year time horizon, must be implemented urgently.",
        "我们还呼吁我们的伙伴国要认识到，最初以十年为着眼点的项目必须尽快实施。"
    ],
    [
        "The second key issue that Francis will address relates to the Israel-Palestine conflict – a fraught subject for the US, Israel’s most important ally.",
        "方济各将解决的第二个关键问题是以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突——对于以色列最重要的盟友美国来说，这是个棘手的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "So why don’t we?",
        "为什么我们还不行动呢？"
    ],
    [
        "The question now is whether the era of US primacy is coming to an end.",
        "现在的问题是美国主导的时代是否正在走向结束。"
    ],
    [
        "They are an enormous boon to low-income consumers, partly compensating for the tepid wage growth that many of them have suffered during the past two decades.",
        "他们对低收入消费者而言是一个佳音，在某种程度上弥补了过去二十年中他们中的许多人所忍受的缓慢工资增长。"
    ],
    [
        "We cannot place great confidence in such studies, because this kind of overall “life satisfaction” judgment may not reflect how much people really enjoy the way they spend their time.",
        "我们对于这种研究不能抱以太大的信任，因为这种整体“生活满意度”的评价也许不能反映人们到底在多大程度上真正对他们生活的方式感到满意。"
    ],
    [
        "And even then, governments can sell only naturally accrued ivory, not what was confiscated from poachers or illicit dealers.",
        "而且即便如此，政府也只允许出售自然累积的象牙，从偷猎者或非法经销商手中没收的象牙不在其列。"
    ],
    [
        "But, despite repeated attempts, African countries have not.",
        "但尽管也曾反复尝试，非洲国家仍未能完成工业化进程。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, I would not be surprised by a continued rise in the inflation rate in 2015.",
        "事实上，如果2015年通胀率继续上升，我一点也不会奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "Like Einstein’s thought experiment, many lives depend on it.",
        "就像爱因斯坦的思想实验一样，这是许多人性命攸关的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Alas, that may not be the case.",
        "可惜，未必如此。"
    ],
    [
        "They lie in the realm of optimal pricing and marketing mechanisms, regulation of monopolies, natural-resource management, public-goods provision, and finance.",
        "它们存在于最优定价和营销机制、垄断监管、自然资源管理、公共品提供和发展等领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Other developing countries have joined because they believe that the existing international monetary order, underpinned by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is excessively oriented toward the advanced economies.",
        "其他发展中国家之所以加入，是因为以国际货币基金组织（IMF）和世界银行为基础的现有国际货币秩序过于偏袒发达经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "He was fined 20% of the international match fee ($2,800), or about 0.05% of his annual salary.",
        "而对他的罚款只是其出场费的20%（2 800美元），或年薪的0. 05%。"
    ],
    [
        "What Italy managed in the past by devaluing the lira must now be emulated through so-called real depreciation.",
        "过去，意大利可以通过贬值里拉实现这一点，如今则必须通过所谓的真实贬值。"
    ],
    [
        "And there would be implementation and avoidance issues, as is true of all taxes.",
        "还有实施和规避问题，这是一切税收都免不了的。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no real way to allay these concerns quickly.",
        "没有迅速安抚这些疑虑的切实办法。"
    ],
    [
        "I do not mean open borders and mass migration aimed at destroying the supposedly Christian identity of Hungary, as the government contends.",
        "我并不是指旨在摧毁所谓匈牙利基督教身份的开放边界和大规模移民，就像政府所反对的那样。"
    ],
    [
        "The implication that an Indian diplomat in a wage dispute with her maid is guilty of human trafficking understandably riles Indian diplomats as much as the treatment of Khobragade after she was detained.",
        "一位与其女佣存在工资纠纷的印度外交官犯有人口贩卖罪，这自然也引起了印度外交官的愤怒，其影响不亚于科巴拉加德被捕后得到的对待。"
    ],
    [
        "Common projects such as the European energy union will need more time to be precisely defined.",
        "共同工程——如欧洲能源联盟——需要更长时间才能准确定义。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, economic grievances alone do not fuel anti-globalization sentiment; populism has emerged even in countries with low unemployment and rising incomes.",
        "当然，经济不满本身并不能催生反全球化情绪； 即使低失业率和收入增长的国家也出现了民粹主义。"
    ],
    [
        "Militarism has failed time and again – and is more dangerous than ever.",
        "军国主义屡试屡败，并且比以往任何时候都更加危险。"
    ],
    [
        "His handy win confirmed that he was securely in power and had little to fear from the military and other elements of the ultra-secularist old guard.",
        "他的大获全胜保证了他大权在握，不需要担心军方和其他极端世俗主义的旧卫道士。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why Obama’s America spends more on weaponry than the rest of the world combined, and why democracy-promotion remains the unquestioned foundation of American foreign policy, with debate possible only about its application.",
        "这既解释了为何奥巴马治下的美国，在武器上的开支比世界其它各国的总和还要高； 也解释了为何推行民主仍是美国外交政策不容置疑的根基（人们或许只能就该政策的具体实施进行争论）。"
    ],
    [
        "With renewables like solar and wind consistently outperforming expectations, growth in electric vehicles far exceeding projections, and governments worldwide acknowledging the urgency of tackling climate change, the writing is on the wall.",
        "随着风能和太阳能等新能源表现屡屡超出人们的期望，电动汽车增长远超预测，全世界政府认识到应对气候变化的紧迫性，化石燃料生产的终结已是板上钉钉。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, Europe could move forward to real economic and political integration – a step that today’s leaders lack the confidence to take, because they don’t believe that they have the necessary public support at home.",
        "最后，欧洲还可以知难而进，实现真正的经济和政治一体化——但如今的领导人缺乏迈出这一步的信心，因为他们认为不可能得到足够的国内公众支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Economists, for their part, have shown that these different attitudes have deep historical roots.",
        "经济学家已经证明，这种观念上的差异具有深刻的历史根源。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is by no means straightforward.",
        "但这可不是直接了当的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does he seem eager to open a rift with Israel by dragging its government to an international conference, the way his father did with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in 1991.",
        "他似乎更不会因为将其政府带入一场国际会议而与以色列交恶，就像他的父亲在1991年时与沙米尔总理之间那样。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in our age of hyper-globalization, large non-financial corporations have also emerged as a rentier class.",
        "此外，在我们这个超全球化时代，大型非金融企业也成为了一个食利阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "According to media reports, it has devised a strategy for deploying Special Forces to neutralize Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in the event that its authorities lose control.",
        "据媒体报道，美国已经制定策略部署特种部队，在巴基斯坦政府失控的情况下销毁巴基斯坦的核武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Beating the Child Killers",
        "战胜儿童杀手"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last 25 years, Ghana’s agricultural sector has grown at an average annual rate of 5%.",
        "5%。 在过去25年中，加纳农业部门平均年增长率高达5%。"
    ],
    [
        "Against the background of an equivocal United States policy, Russia’s calculated intervention in the Syrian civil war is a rare case in which a limited use of power in the region resulted in a major diplomatic shakeup.",
        "趁着美国政策首鼠两端的空子，俄罗斯对叙利亚内战实施了精确干预，并创下了利用有限实力在某地区实现重大外交变局的罕见战例。"
    ],
    [
        "But this still does not address the question of when one votes.",
        "但是，这仍然没能解决人们什么时候投票的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of these advances are theoretical, allowing us to build computer models of complex systems like continent-wide forests or entire oceans.",
        "这些科技进步中的一部分是理论层面上的。 这使我们能够为诸如洲际范围的森林或整个海洋一类的复杂系统建立计算机模型。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the patient’s duration of survival is calculated from the time of diagnosis, more sensitive screening starts the clock sooner.",
        "由于病人的存活期是从诊断结论下达后开始计算的，那么更灵敏的筛查肯定能更早得出结论。"
    ],
    [
        "The operative view in central-banking circles has been that the so-called “wealth effect” – when asset appreciation spurs real economic activity – would square the circle for a lagging post-crisis recovery.",
        "央行业务周期的操作观一直是，所谓的“财富效应”——资产升值刺激实体经济活动——应该能够给该周期带来滞后的危机后复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "The downturn was also relatively short-lived, partly as a result of the greater openness to world trade that lower-income countries have embraced over the past decade.",
        "衰退期限也相对缩短了，部分是因为低收入过家在过去十年中更加开放地加入了世界贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "Worse still, economic growth based on exports of natural resources has proved unsustainable.",
        "更严重的是，通过出口自然资源来支撑的经济发展已被证明是不可靠的。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in 2006, Kim Jong-il’s regime detonated North Korea’s first nuclear device, and put the issue squarely back on the United Nations Security Council’s agenda.",
        "到了2006年，金正日政权引爆了朝鲜的第一个核装置，也把这个问题一把推到了联合国安理会的议程上。"
    ],
    [
        "And, though their main component, nitrogen, could be produced biologically and sustainably, that would run counter to the interests of a handful of powerful fertilizer producers and distributors.",
        "此外，尽管合成肥料的主要成分——氮可以用生物方法可持续地生产，但这种生产方法不利于一小撮权势肥料生产商和分销商的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "To be successful, Asia’s leaders must not allow diplomatic distractions – including territorial disputes in the region, which intensified in 2012 – to destabilize further an already uncertain economic and geopolitical environment.",
        "要想成功，亚洲领导人就必须排除外交干扰——包括2012年有所加剧的地区领土纠纷——进一步动摇已然不确定的经济和地缘政治环境。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Chinese President Xi Jinping practically insisted that India join the discussion when, in a speech in Shanghai last month, he said that “India, the world’s largest weapons-systems importer, must take very serious note” of mounting regional tensions.",
        "事实上，中国国家主席习近平在上个月的上海讲话中说“印度是世界上最大的武器进口国，必须严重关注”地区紧张的积累，这番话无异于坚持印度参与对话。"
    ],
    [
        "International use of the dollar to hold foreign-exchange reserves, denominate financial transactions, invoice trade, and as a vehicle in currency markets is below its level during the heyday of the Bretton Woods era, from 1945 to 1971.",
        "国际上用美元作为外汇储备、为金融交易计价、结算贸易以及货币市场载体的程度还不如1945—1971年布雷顿森林时代的鼎盛期。"
    ],
    [
        "Social networking has given them new tools of protest to topple governments, but what is also needed are new ways to make government operate effectively and accountably.",
        "社交网络成为了他们抗议并推翻政府的新工具，但同时我们也需要能让政府更有效也更负责任运行的新路径。"
    ],
    [
        "I won’t humor myself that it was the chess analysis that drew attention, although I was a commentator for public television on the pivotal 13th game.",
        "我不会自我幽默地说是棋局分析吸引着人们的关注，尽管我是关键的第13局的公共转播评论员。"
    ],
    [
        "The consultation processes on rules and regulations were highly structured, and much effort was devoted to ensuring balanced representations from providers and users of financial services.",
        "执行规章制度的咨询过程是高度结构化的，而其中大部分工作都集中如何确保金融服务的提供者和用户的利益都能平等地体现出来。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – How much inequality is acceptable?",
        "伦敦—多大程度的不平等是可接受的？"
    ],
    [
        "Europe’s finance ministers have played a clever game with the ECB.",
        "欧洲的财政部长们和欧洲央行进行了一场煞费苦心的搏弈。"
    ],
    [
        "China became one of the 13 economies after 1979.",
        "1979年后，中国成为这13个经济体之一。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier this month, Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, delivered a speech called “The Specter of Monetarism.”",
        "本月早些时候，英格兰银行行长马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）发表了题为《货币主义的幽灵》（The Specter of Monetarism）的讲话。"
    ],
    [
        "Islam’s Forsaken Renaissance",
        "伊斯兰世界被摈弃的复兴"
    ],
    [
        "The US administration is extremely concerned about the Taliban’s advances in Pakistan. So are Pakistan’s people.",
        "美国政府极度关注塔利班在巴基斯坦的发展情况，巴基斯坦民众也同样关心；"
    ],
    [
        "But soft power will become increasingly important in preventing terrorists from recruiting new supporters, and for obtaining the international cooperation necessary for countering terrorism.",
        "但软权力在防止恐怖分子招募新人和争取反恐怖所需的国际合作方面会变得日益重要。"
    ],
    [
        "It would impose only those limits that are consistent with democratic delegation, possibly along with a limited number of procedural norms (such as transparency, accountability, representativeness, use of scientific evidence, etc.) that enhance democratic deliberation at home.",
        "其所施加的限制将与民主授权一致，大致上遵循能够增进国内民主自由化的有限的程序范式（比如透明度、可问责性、代议制、使用科学证据，等等）。"
    ],
    [
        "This message echoes and affirms examples found in the doctrines of many faiths, which call on us to be kinder and wiser in how we use this planet, and to advocate for all creatures.",
        "这篇教义呼应并肯定了很多宗教中都能找到的实例，呼吁我们更善良、更明智地利用我们的星球，为一切生物说话。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Article 22 of the Convention, “the premises of [a diplomatic] mission shall be inviolable,” and a “receiving state may not enter them, except with the consent of the head of the mission.”",
        "根据维也纳公约第22条，“（外交）使团驻地神圣不可侵犯，”且“驻地所在东道国不能进入，除非有外交使团首脑允许。"
    ],
    [
        "They lack moist green spaces and have drainage systems that efficiently remove water.",
        "它们缺少潮湿的绿地，并且排水系统会大量地排出水分。"
    ],
    [
        "The reformers could not overcome conservative opposition, while the radicals could not defeat the domestic economic realities wrought by their foreign and nuclear policies.",
        "改革者无法战胜保守反对派，而激进份子则无法战胜其外交及核政策所造成的国内经济现实。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the European Central Bank unleashed its €1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) long-term refinancing operation, which pulled the European banking system back from the brink.",
        "与此同时，欧洲中央银行出台了其1万亿欧元（折合1. 3万亿美元）长期再融资行动，将欧洲银行系统从悬崖边缘拉了回来。"
    ],
    [
        "Advocates of open borders can pay now, or they will certainly pay later.",
        "开放边境的支持者们可以现在付出代价，否则，他们将来必将付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "The book for the new epoch has yet to be written, but I have a proposed title: Capitalism and Skepticism .",
        "新时代的巨著还有待完成。 但是我提出一个书名，叫做<<资本主义与怀疑主义>>。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps some of the anxiety over the new global academic enterprise is understandable, particularly in a period of massive economic uncertainty.",
        "或许某些针对新全球学术产业的忧虑是可以理解的，尤其是在当今全球经济面临极大不确定性的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The first step toward reversing this trend could be to create work environments that are better suited to the needs of Japanese women, and that promote their talents.",
        "想改变这一趋势，首先应该创造一个适合日本女性的工作环境，这样可以提高她们的才能。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators are typically not subject to those temptations.",
        "监管者一般都不会沾染这些东西。"
    ],
    [
        "Admittedly, the global commodity price boom has had profound, albeit enormously complex and uncertain, effects on poverty.",
        "当然，全球商品价格高涨对贫困问题产生了深远而又复杂、难以预料的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "The new government needs to take the pragmatic steps that can overcome the limitations of today’s economic model and save the country from declining growth, higher unemployment, and rising inequality.",
        "其新政府需要采取务实的措施来克服当前经济模式的限制并把国家从经济增长下滑、失业率上升及贫富差距加大的境况中拯救出来。"
    ],
    [
        "In comparison, the bonuses at Goldman Sachs are a rounding error.",
        "虽然投资银行家们去年12月没有倾家荡产，今年又赚得盆盈钵满，但这只是枝节问题。"
    ],
    [
        "This is especially interesting since it fundamentally rejects one of the most harrowing scenes from Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth .",
        "这尤其令人感兴趣。 这是因为这基本上拒绝了戈尔电影中大多数令人悲痛的场景。"
    ],
    [
        "The expert panel concluded that investing in research and development into low-carbon energy would be a much sounder, more effective option – an effort that both McCain and Obama support.",
        "专家组推断在低炭能源的研究和开发上进行投资是一个更可靠和更有效的选择－这是麦凯恩和奥巴马都支持的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "In the absence of global citizenship, it may be best to retain the principle that citizenship is not to be revoked without a judicial hearing.",
        "在全球公民权缺位的情况下，或许最好还是保留不可在不经司法听证的情况下剥夺公民权的原则。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The Las Vegas massacre and its aftermath are pure Americana.",
        "伦敦—拉斯维加斯大屠杀及其后果是典型的美国事件。"
    ],
    [
        "In December, May lost her first important Brexit battle, when Labour MPs united with 12 Tory rebels to pass an amendment requiring a specific Act of Parliament to approve whatever deal is negotiated with the EU.",
        "12月，梅输掉了第一场重要的退欧战役，工党议员联合12位保守党叛徒通过了一份修正案，要求一切与欧盟谈成的协议都需要国会法案批准。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW HAVEN – In their new book The Incredible Shrinking Alpha, Larry E. Swedroe and Andrew L. Berkin describe an investment environment populated by increasingly sophisticated analysts who rely on big data, powerful computers, and scholarly research.",
        "发自纽黑文——在拉里·E·斯威德罗和安德烈·L·博尔金发表的新书，《不可思议的高回报萎缩》中，他们描述了一个充斥着日渐老练的高精尖分析员依赖大数据，超级电脑和学术研究成果工作的投资环境。"
    ],
    [
        "And just like Brexit, the unthinkable has happened: Donald Trump is now President-elect of the US, signaling the triumph of nativism over internationalism.",
        "像英国退欧一样，不可思议的事情已经发生：唐纳德·特朗普现在是当选美国总统，表明本土主义已经对国际主义大获全胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the labor force has peaked or is close to peaking in most major economies.",
        "与此同时，大多数主要经济体的劳动力也已经或即将达到顶峰。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Kingdom is in better shape, with an average maturity of 14.6 years.",
        "英国的情况较好，平均为14. 6年。"
    ],
    [
        "Other initiatives have been established to scale up these efforts by engaging multiple companies to create entry-level positions for the significant number of young people who are currently unemployed.",
        "其他通过让多家公司参与创造面向大量处于失业状态年轻人的入门级岗位的扩大这方面努力的计划也已经成立。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither by cajoling nor by beating can a donkey be turned into a racehorse, unless one is secretly satisfied with the donkey.",
        "无论是哄骗还是责打都不能让一头毛驴变成一匹赛马，除非我们暗地里对毛驴心满意足。"
    ],
    [
        "Already, “hybrid” automobiles, which combine gasoline and battery power, can roughly double fuel efficiency, cutting carbon dioxide emissions by half.",
        "现在，“混合能源”汽车已经可以同时使用汽油和电池能源，这种汽车可以将汽油的燃烧效率提高近一倍，并减少一半的二氧化碳排放量。"
    ],
    [
        "It also makes common cause with South Korea much more difficult, and heightens the risk of maritime territorial disputes becoming explosive.",
        "这也让日本更难与韩国寻找共同点，大大增加了海洋领土争端可能激化的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "Hunger is omnipresent.",
        "饥荒正在蔓延。"
    ],
    [
        "But digital technology is institutionally naked.",
        "但数字技术在结构上却完全赤裸。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere in the region capitalism, promoted by the opening of markets, triggered growth and promoted stability.",
        "而在东南亚其他实行资本主义的地区，市场开放政策却促进了增长并稳定了局势。"
    ],
    [
        "These deaths are largely driven by a few risky behaviors: tobacco smoking (second in the global ranking of risk factors), alcohol use (ranked third), obesity and poor nutrition (ranked sixth and seventh, respectively), and physical inactivity (ranked tenth).",
        "这些死亡大多是由少数高峰限行为引起的，包括吸烟（位居全球风险因素第二）、酗酒（位居第三）、肥胖和饮养不良（分别位居第六和第七）以及精神病（位居第十）。"
    ],
    [
        "There have been academic experts on Japan, like the acclaimed scholar Edwin Reischauer.",
        "一种是日本学专家，如广受欢迎的赖肖尔（Edwin Reischauer）。"
    ],
    [
        "For the sake of our children and our children's children, we must act now.",
        "为了我们的子孙后代，我们必须立刻行动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "During the last three decades, even before breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, computers have been replacing and multiplying the physical labor of human beings.",
        "在过去三十年来，即便是在人工智能技术取得突破之前，电脑已经在逐步取代人类的体力劳动，且效率成倍提高。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, the arrogance of Russia’s rulers may have breached the West’s tolerance.",
        "然而，俄国统治者的傲慢超越了西方的容忍。"
    ],
    [
        "Discrimination creates de facto barriers to universal health coverage, and prevents many people from accessing health services of any kind.",
        "歧视为健康全覆盖造成了事实上的障碍，并阻碍许多人获取任何形式的医疗服务。"
    ],
    [
        "Within six days, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had to plead for an immediate, unconditional ceasefire: so many Egyptian units were cut off, wrecked by air strikes, under attack, or fully encircled that no major forces were left to stop the advancing Israelis – not even to guard the road to Cairo.",
        "短短六天内，埃及总统萨达特被迫请求立即、无条件停火：太多的埃及部队被拦腰截断，无法躲避空袭和地面炮火，或者被完全包围，以致于没有大部队能阻止以色列人进攻——甚至无法保卫通往开罗的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "However, this outlook hasn’t yet taken root in the EU’s elite policymaking circles, where well-meaning economists and politicians often believe they are doing the right thing by balancing budgets and reining in spending, usually by cutting health, education, and infrastructure budgets.",
        "但这种理念却尚未在欧盟的精英决策圈里扎根，那些心怀善意的经济学家和政治家的人相信自己正在通过平衡预算和控制支出（通常由削减在医疗、 教育和基础设施预算）等手段做着正确的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Not so with Syria, where none aligned itself with the positions supported by the European Union and the US.",
        "但对叙利亚就不同了，金砖五国无一与欧盟和美国站在同一个战壕里。"
    ],
    [
        "“In the name of 22 million citizens, we declare that Mohammad Morsi is no longer the legitimate President of Egypt.”",
        "“我们代表2200万群众宣布穆罕默德·穆尔西不再是埃及的合法总统。"
    ],
    [
        "The Japanese equity market is up an impressive 55% since hints of the paradigm shift started hitting investors’ radar screens.",
        "自投资者开始接收到政策范式转变的暗示之后，日本股票市场令人印象深刻地上升了55%。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite Sarkozy’s exceptional activism, they have neither the means nor, in reality, the will.",
        "尽管萨科奇表现出异乎寻常的积极性，但他们既没有办法，其实也不具备真正的意图。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, while currency movements can have a significant impact on inflation in other countries, dollar movements have rarely had a meaningful or durable impact on prices in the US.",
        "在现实中，其他国家的货币波动可能给它们的通胀造成重大影响，但美元波动很少对美国物价造成有意义的或持久的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Italy’s banks epitomize all the problems that the financial crisis brought to the country, and on which the populists are capitalizing: a double-dip recession followed by sluggish GDP growth, high unemployment, especially among the young, and a collapse of domestic demand.",
        "事实上，意大利银行体现了金融危机带给这个国家、并为民粹主义者所利用的所有问题：二次探底衰退，并继之以GDP增长停滞、失业高企（特别是年轻人失业）以及国内需求崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies that depend solely on their products’ commercial appeal are limited in the kinds of innovations that they can safely introduce, because if one of their products fails in the marketplace, they may not survive to build another one.",
        "完全依靠产品商业号召力的企业能够放心引入的创新非常有限，因为如果某种产品在市场上遭遇失败，他们可能活不到下一个创新诞生的时刻。"
    ],
    [
        "It has been said that Hiroshima and Nagasaki created a taboo against any further use of nuclear weapons.",
        "有人说广岛和长崎给我们树立了进一步使用核武器的禁忌。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, a new approach is needed.",
        "显而易见，我们需要采取新的对策。"
    ],
    [
        "Given Palestinian public opinion, the most likely outcome of Sharon's disengagement plan is the empowerment of Hamas and other Palestinian militants.",
        "在巴勒斯坦现有的舆论环境下，沙龙的分离计划很可能增强哈马斯和巴方其它好战分子的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "There is some risk that appreciation of the exchange rate if greater flexibility were allowed could precipitate deflation.",
        "现在还有一种风险，那就是如果允许更大的灵活性会引起汇率上升从而加快通货紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "The success of the Brexit campaign in Britain, Donald Trump’s unexpected capture of the Republican Party in the United States, and populist parties’ success in Germany and elsewhere strike many as heralding the end of an era.",
        "英国脱欧运动的成功、唐纳德·特朗普出人意料地拿下美国共和党，以及德国和其他国家民粹主义政党的成功让许多人感到震惊，惊叹要变天了。"
    ],
    [
        "As inequality becomes increasingly entrenched, it can erode the consensus in favor of pro-growth economic policies, undermine social cohesion, and spur political instability.",
        "随着不平等性日益根深蒂固，有利于促增长的经济政策的共识可能受到影响，从而破坏社会凝聚，刺激政治动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "It is one thing to believe that governments act only under pressure, and that societies accept reforms only if they believe that there is no other alternative; it is quite another to believe that adjustment and reform will proceed if all of Southern Europe is struggling with recession.",
        "可以确信的只有一点：政府只有受到了压力才会行动，各国社会也只有在无路可走的情况下才选择改革； 还有一点则是只有所有南欧国家都在衰退中挣扎的情况下改革才能继续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "It was just a taunting remark heard only by his opponent. But his opponent was Nigerian-born, and the remark was a racist insult.",
        "他没有在比赛中实施危险动作，也没有蔑视裁判或者涉及赌球，只是嘲讽了对方球员的一句，但他嘲讽的对象是位尼日利亚裔运动员，而且语言中涉及种族主义。"
    ],
    [
        "This can and should be done without forcing the poor to pay for health-care services at the point of delivery.",
        "激励可以也应该在不必非要穷人在获得医疗服务时付费的情况下实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Evidence of technology’s potential to help resolve our job concerns can be found in online talent platforms.",
        "其实我们已经可以在某些在线人才平台上发现一些科技有潜力帮助解决工作问题的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "A constructive, cooperative relationship can make a significant contribution to both countries’ efforts to adapt their policies and institutions to achieve sustainable, inclusive growth patterns.",
        "建设性、合作性的关系可以极大地有利于两国调整政策和制度以实现可持续、包容性增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "But to reach the Planalto Presidential Palace after the 2018 election, the PSDB will have to convince poor Brazilians – those living in Bacha’s India – that it works on their behalf, and that the policies it advocates benefit them the most.",
        "但要想在2018年问鼎总统宝座，社会民主党必须让巴西穷人——即巴查的印度部分——相信社会民主党是代表他们的政党，其所支持的政策将让他们获益最多。"
    ],
    [
        "A little over a year ago, Ukraine did not have an elected president or a representative and functioning parliament.",
        "就在不到一年之前，乌克兰还缺乏一位民选总统，也没有一个具有代表性和正常运作的议会。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether in sub-Saharan Africa or the Middle East, their populations and governments are more inclined – for political, historical, or cultural reasons – to request European rather than NATO assistance.",
        "无论是在撒哈拉以南的非洲还是中东地区，那里的民众和政府出于政治、历史或文化方面的原因，都更倾向于请求欧洲而不是北约来协助解决问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In Stalin's time, the masterpieces of, say, Boris Pasternak or Dmitri Shostakovich were entrusted to give artistic voice to a silenced civil society.",
        "在斯大林时期，还让（比如）帕斯捷尔纳克和肖斯塔科维奇的杰作让缄默的公民社会发出艺术之声。"
    ],
    [
        "Fixed exchange rates within the eurozone impose a constraint that simply does not exist in the UK or the United States, and quantitative easing by the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve is unconditional in nature.",
        "欧元区内部的固定汇率便是一种约束，而这种约束在英国和美国内部是不存在的，此外，英格兰银行和美联储的量化宽松都是无条件的。"
    ],
    [
        "With Russia and the US holding 18,000 of the world’s current stockpile of 19,000 nuclear weapons, it is proving impossible to persuade any of the other nuclear-armed states to reduce their own (much smaller) arsenals until the Big Two make further drastic cuts to theirs.",
        "俄罗斯和美国占了世界当前核武器存量19000枚中的18000枚，因此要说服其他有核国家削减其自身（小得多的）核武库是不可能的，除非两强进一步大规模削减核武器数量。"
    ],
    [
        "In a deflationary environment, lower oil prices appear to make it more difficult for the European Central Bank to achieve its target of an inflation rate close to 2%.",
        "在一个通缩环境中，低油价似乎令欧洲央行更难以实现其近2%的通胀目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Among China’s 500 million Internet users, for example, one senses a palpable rise in nationalist sentiment, reflected in bitter criticism of official “weakness” in defending Chinese interests.",
        "中国现有的5亿网民如今民族主义情绪高涨，都在严厉批评官方在维护中国利益问题面前“太软弱”。"
    ],
    [
        "And if product innovations and improvements imply that per capita real incomes grow at 3% a year, the median income of someone 30 years from now would be more than twice today’s median income.",
        "而如果产品创新和改善意味着人均真实收入增长率为每年3%，则30年后的中位收入将比今天高一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "They have grown impatient with the messiness of the democratic process, stifling regulations, high taxes, and media scrutiny.",
        "他们逐渐对杂乱的民主进程、令人窒息的条例、高税收和媒体监督感到不耐烦。"
    ],
    [
        "Faithless and wavering, it has been defeated by the unswerving conviction of the right.",
        "它们没有坚定信念，犹豫不决，已被右派所表现出的坚定不移的问罪态度击败。"
    ],
    [
        "The real problem at the heart of the Greek crisis is so grave because it involves the fundamental weakness of the euro: its lack of support by a government policy.",
        "希腊危机所蕴含着的深层次问题十分严峻，因为它直指欧元的内在弱点：缺乏统一的政府政策的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "Is there a threat of a new Arab-Israeli war hanging over the Middle East?",
        "一场新的阿拉伯-以色列战争威胁是否会降临中东？"
    ],
    [
        "The factors driving the challenges facing the Western democracies today hold even worse implications for China.",
        "西方民主国家眼下所面临的挑战背后的驱动因素对中国甚至更加不利。"
    ],
    [
        "This would shatter Europe.",
        "这将把欧洲拖入万劫不复。"
    ],
    [
        "More equitable sharing of profits with America’s workers and their families would do much to address the worrisome stagnation of wages and middle-class incomes in recent decades.",
        "更平等地与美国工人及其家庭分享利润能够极大地有助于解决几十年来令人担忧的工资和中产阶级所得停滞不前的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this still leaves unresolved other multilateral issues, like the International Criminal Court and global climate change.",
        "当然，还有许多有待解决的多边问题，如国际刑事法院和全球气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Syriza’s economic program neglects the important fact that fiscal consolidation and structural measures not only form part of Greece’s commitments; they also serve the country’s long-term interest.",
        "但激进左翼联盟的经济方案忽略了一个重要的事实，就是财政整顿和结构性改革措施不仅是希腊承诺的一部分； 同时也服务于国家的长远利益。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Socialism for the Rich",
        "美国针对富人的“社会主义”"
    ],
    [
        "That should be the IMF’s core function.",
        "这应该是IMF的核心功能。"
    ],
    [
        "The LTBT, said Kennedy in 1963, “is not a victory for one side – it is a victory for mankind.”",
        "1963年，肯尼迪这样评价LTBT：“这不是一方的胜利——而是全人类的胜利。"
    ],
    [
        "The New Monopolists",
        "IT正在加剧财富和收入不平等"
    ],
    [
        "With the world in a fury about cutting greenhouse gasses, it is easy to forget that there are other and better ways to do some good for the planet.",
        "当世界大肆谈论减少温室气体之时，就很容易忘记还有其他更好的途径来为地球做好事。"
    ],
    [
        "The economics profession bears part of the blame for this.",
        "经济学的专业人士对此也应负部分责任。"
    ],
    [
        "Another lost generation is coming of age in a country that has long been riven by bungled integration efforts.",
        "这意味着在这么一个融合政策长期不见成效的国家中，又增添了“失落的一代”。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest beneficiaries, of course, are the corporations whose hunger for land is driving most of the large-scale deforestation.",
        "当然，最大的受益者是公司，它们对土地的饥渴是大部分大规模滥伐的动因。"
    ],
    [
        "I thought it was probably the beginning of a move back down to $80 per barrel – precisely where the price has landed at the end of 2014.",
        "我想这可能是回落到每桶80美元的开始，而2014年底正是这个价格。"
    ],
    [
        "Although policy has since shifted to reflect supply-side economics and real business-cycle theory, the new reigning paradigm’s builders and promoters display the same antipathy to checking data for serious error.",
        "尽管政策自从转变后已经反映出供给方经济和真正的经济周期论，新统治模式的缔造者和推动者却也表现出对确认数据的憎恶，这是一个很严重的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is just not so.",
        "但还不仅限于此。"
    ],
    [
        "But customers do not trust suppliers who cut deliveries, raise prices unpredictably, expropriate competitors, and let production decrease in the way Gazprom and Russia’s other state companies have done.",
        "但顾客对于那些减少供应、突然提价、鲸吞竞争对手或一如Gazprom和俄罗斯的其他国有公司一样故意减产的供应商并不信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou was as surprised as the Japanese by the size of the contributions made by his people.",
        "对于台湾民众对日本所给予的巨额援助，台湾领导人马英九和日本民众一样感到吃惊不已。"
    ],
    [
        "There’s a deeper problem: politicians across the spectrum, beholden to special interests, are habituated to denying serious problems.",
        "还有一个更深层的问题：依赖于特殊利益集团的各方政客们已经习惯于对严重问题进行否认。"
    ],
    [
        "There are, however, times when collective action is needed.",
        "但有时需要集体采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting ideological mix comprises three main components: virulent anti-immigrant animus, ignorant anti-trade rhetoric, and extreme anti-government sentiment.",
        "由此产生的意识形态组合主要由三部分构成：恶毒的反移民仇恨，无知的反贸易论调，以及极端的反政府情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "None of this is true in cyberspace where a weapon can consist of a few lines of code that can be invented (or purchased on the so-called dark web) by any number of state or non-state actors.",
        "在任何国家或非国家主体均可创造（或在所谓黑网站上购买）几行代码作为武器的网络世界这一切都不再适用。"
    ],
    [
        "This is Putin’s plan.",
        "这就是普京的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The strategy’s most promising prospects include the promotion of industrial upgrading, niche industries, and competitiveness-boosting cluster projects that aim to make Thailand a global and regional hub for food, fashion, tourism, automobiles, and healthcare.",
        "“他信经济学”最理想的前景是推动产业升级，促进利基产业的发展，推广以竞争为推动力的集群项目，这些项目目的是将泰国建设成为食品、时尚、旅游、汽车、保健方面的地区中心和国际中心。"
    ],
    [
        "The most striking finding is that the medal count can be predicted with great accuracy from four key variables: population, GDP per capita, past performance, and host status.",
        "最令人惊奇的发现是，奖牌数量可以通过四个关键变量极其精确地被预测出来：人口、人均GDP、过去的表现以及东道主地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Such measures will create jobs today, and secure prosperity for tomorrow.",
        "上述措施将为今天创造就业机会，并确保明天能够实现繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "On August 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon ended the commitment of the United States to a fixed gold price, and since then the world has lived with currency volatility and instability.",
        "1971年8月15日，理查德·尼克松总统宣布美国不再履行固定黄金价格的承诺，从此以后，世界步入了货币波动和不稳定的时代。"
    ],
    [
        "The case for a pan-European supervisor is widely accepted, especially as the European Banking Authority (the EU’s banking regulator) proved feeble in carrying out financial stress tests: the first tests were so weak that even Spain’s now-bankrupt savings banks could pass with flying colors.",
        "一个泛欧洲监督者的做法是得到广泛接受的，尤其是当欧洲银行管理局（欧盟的银行监管者）在执行金融压力测试方面非常不得力的情况下：首次测试是如此轻松，以至于西班牙那些如今面临破产的储蓄银行都能高分通过。"
    ],
    [
        "BEIJING – The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) faces a dilemma.",
        "北京—中国人民银行面临着两难。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet the high court has considered foreign policy implications before.",
        "然而高院以前也曾考虑过外交政策的因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Still other heads of state, including French President Sarkozy, are weighing staying away.",
        "还有一些国家的元首，包括法国总统萨尔科其，正在考虑不参加。"
    ],
    [
        "A better understanding of the concept of open society requires that promoting freedom and democracy and promoting American values and interests be distinguished.",
        "更好地理解开放社会的理念需要把推动自由民主和推动美国的价值观与利益区别开来。"
    ],
    [
        "Ultimately, we may not be able to prevent deaths caused by certain illnesses.",
        "说到底，我们也许无法阻止某种疾病所引起的死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "In an economy with flexible interest and exchange rates, arbitrage eliminates the exchange-rate spread quickly.",
        "在一个具有弹性利率和汇率的经济体中，套利会迅速消除利率差别。"
    ],
    [
        "But if you have a responsibility for checking facts, you listen more carefully.",
        "但如果你负责核查事实，你就会听得更加认真。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, though energy dependence is a key element of US policy in the region, it is far from being the only factor.",
        "无论如何，尽管能源依赖是美国在该地区政策的主要决定要素，但绝不是唯一要素。"
    ],
    [
        "As we can already see, it will not be easy to overcome the obstacles posed by vertically integrated ministries and agencies.",
        "正如我们已经看到的，克服垂直整合的省和机构所带来的障碍绝非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "If the Fertile Crescent is not to become a futile crescent, we must wake up and find the moral courage and political vision for a quantum leap in Palestine.",
        "如果肥沃的新月不打算变成无望的新月，我们必须醒悟过来，为实现巴勒斯坦的大跨越找到道德勇气和政治愿景。"
    ],
    [
        "When they are willing and able to do so, the UN can make a difference; when they are not, the UN can act in only the most limited way, if at all, regardless of what the Secretary General wants.",
        "当他们想要这么做，并且能够这么做的时候，联合国可以带来一些变化； 当他们无法这样做的时候，联合国只能以最最有限的方式来行动（如果有的话），而不管秘书长想要怎样的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "The Currency Manipulation Charade",
        "货币操纵的伪装"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, many employers, seeking to share the pain of recession and slow down layoffs, are now asking workers to accept cuts in both hours and hourly wages.",
        "此外，为了找人分担经济衰退的痛苦，也为了尽量避免裁员，许多雇主都试图让员工接受缩短工时和削减每小时工资的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "The desire for human dignity and respect – the cornerstones of good governance – cannot be quelled, especially at a time when people have unprecedented access to information through the Internet and mobile technologies.",
        "特别是在人们前所未有地通过互联网和移动技术了解信息的当下，人类对尊严和尊重的渴望——也是善政的基础——根本不可能被压制住。"
    ],
    [
        "Disinflation actually began in the early 1980s – well before inflation targeting was invented – thanks to the concerted efforts of then-US Federal Reserve Board Chair Paul Volcker.",
        "反通胀（disinflation）始于20世纪80年代初——远早于通胀目标——原因是时任美联储主席保罗·沃尔克（Paul Volcker）的一系列措施。"
    ],
    [
        "Rouhani’s decisive victory, however, may have diminished Raisi’s chances substantially.",
        "而鲁哈尼的决定性胜利可能大大降低莱西接班的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "The escrow account manager then invites the country to select a team, suggesting what skills are required and perhaps even providing a roster of experts.",
        "然后由账户管理人提出资质建议，甚至专家花名册让东道国定夺。"
    ],
    [
        "Ankara has become a hub of higher education, attracting students from Africa and Asia.",
        "安卡拉已成为高等教育集散地，吸引着来自非洲和亚洲的学生。"
    ],
    [
        "We should celebrate these achievements even as we recognize that serious problems remain to be resolved.",
        "我们应当庆祝已经取得的成绩，虽然同时也必须承认，还有重要的问题拯待解决。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – In 2008, the Commission on Growth and Development, which I had the privilege of chairing, produced a report updating our knowledge about sustainable growth patterns.",
        "米兰——2008年，我有幸领导的增长与发展委员会公布了一份报告，更新了我们所掌握的可持续增长模型的知识。"
    ],
    [
        "But that reshuffling could lead to a number of outcomes.",
        "然而改组可能会产生一系列结果。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, even when China, Russia, and the US share the same agenda, their differing diplomatic tactics often undermine their ability to achieve their objectives.",
        "其实即便中、俄、美三国目标相同，大相径庭的外交策略也往往会影响他们实现目标的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "This might seem like a strange idea in the immediate aftermath of a major debt-fueled financial crisis, and with many homeowners still underwater on their mortgages (they owe more than the house is worth, even if they can still afford the monthly payments).",
        "这在刚刚度过一场受债务助长的金融大危机、许多屋主的按揭仍处于资不抵债状态（他们所欠债务比房屋价值还要大，即便他们仍在承担月供）的时候看上去有些奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, in times of crisis it is no shame for a government to be mercantilist, but by behaving in this way, the US has lost the moral high ground as a champion of free trade.",
        "例如，在危机年代，政府采用重商政策无可指责，然而如果这样行事，美国就已经失去了作为自由贸易支持者的道德制高点。"
    ],
    [
        "Some worry whether Bush will use his electoral mandate to engage in more ventures.",
        "一部分人担心布什会利用\"选民授权\"来进行更多的风险投机。"
    ],
    [
        "But their xenophobia is directed against poor Mexican immigrants, blacks, or Middle Eastern refugees, who are perceived as freeloaders depriving honest (read white) Americans of their rightful place in the social pecking order.",
        "但他们的仇视被导向贫穷的墨西哥移民、黑人或中东难民，他们被视为不速之客，抢走了诚（白）实（人）美国人在社会等级中应有的位次。"
    ],
    [
        "What features – positive or negative – are mentioned most often?",
        "什么特征（正面的或负面的）经常被提到？"
    ],
    [
        "After nearly seven decades of tumult, Pakistan may soon serve as a model for other large Muslim countries.",
        "在经历了近七十年的混乱后，巴基斯坦有望很快为其他穆斯林大国树立榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Chinese economy accounts for fully 18% of world output (measured on a purchasing-power-parity basis) – more than double India’s 7.6% share.",
        "但中国经济占世界产出的整整18%（以购买力平价衡量），是印度的7. 6%的两倍多。"
    ],
    [
        "The medicalization of sadness has proven to be of tremendous benefit to the mental health and medical professions.",
        "事实证明，对悲伤情绪的广泛治疗为精神和医疗行业带来巨大的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Interest-rate caps were abolished in Britain only in 1835; the near-zero central-bank rates prevailing since 2009 are a current example of efforts to protect borrowers.",
        "2009年以来央行普遍采取了近零利率则是保护债务人的最新例子。"
    ],
    [
        "One area that presents an opportunity for cooperation is energy policy and climate change, because the two countries’ account for more than 50% of total coal consumption, while their combined share of both global greenhouse-gas emissions and the world economy is 40%.",
        "而能源政策与气候变化领域，就显现出合作契机，概因两国煤炭消耗量超过全球总量一半，与此同时，两国合起来也占据了全球温室气体排放量与世界经济总量的40%。"
    ],
    [
        "And that bench was very deep and very competent, despite its weakening in recent years.",
        "这批人深不可测，且能力很强，尽管最近几年有所削弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the choices only become less clear, less democratic, and less efficient.",
        "相反，选择只是变得更含糊、更欠民主、更缺效率。"
    ],
    [
        "· Sixth, governments must agree to support adaptation to climate change and to address the loss and damage associated with it.",
        "· 第六，政府必须同意支持适应气候变化，并承担与此相关的损失和伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, when it comes to the environment, Europe’s have-nots are being told to carry the load by themselves.",
        "不幸的是，在环境问题上，欧盟将重担放在穷国肩上。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is far from the current focus of public debate.",
        "但这远没有进入当前公共争论的焦点。"
    ],
    [
        "Undeniably, there has been no significant change in the government’s system of journalism’s regulation since China adopted its “open door” policy almost 30 years ago.",
        "不可否认，从 30 年前中国政府开始实施改革开放政策以来，政府对新闻业的管制体系并无任何重大改变。"
    ],
    [
        "The conflict between democracy and globalization becomes acute when globalization restricts the domestic articulation of policy preferences without a compensating expansion of democratic space at the regional/global level.",
        "如果全球化限制了国内政策偏好的表达，同时民主空间又无法在地区/全球水平进行补偿性扩张，那么民主和全球化之间的冲突就会激烈起来。"
    ],
    [
        "Suppose a terrorist is pulling out his victim’s teeth one by one, and that the only way to stop him is to kill him.",
        "设想一下，一名恐怖分子在把受害者的牙一颗一颗地拔出来，而唯一制止他的方式就是将其击毙。"
    ],
    [
        "These favorable and appropriate actions will allow Japan, for the first time in its postwar history, to meet the international community’s requests in a timely way.",
        "这些有利的得当行动将会使日本有史以来第一次能够适时地满足国际社会的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "By moving closer to Taiwan, attacking China on phantom grounds, and dismantling the TPP, Trump is provoking China while simultaneously empowering and enabling it.",
        "特朗普与台湾套近乎、子虚乌有地攻击中国、废除TPP，这样的做法既是在挑衅中国，同时也在加强中国的实力和能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge is posted on Facebook or Twitter, ideally soliciting encouragement from your friends.",
        "”这个挑战将被贴在Facebook或Twitter上，从而为你赢得朋友们的鼓励。"
    ],
    [
        "It is, after all, the human endeavor most associated with unintended consequences.",
        "毕竟，战争充满着意外后果的人类活动。"
    ],
    [
        "“I never know when I will be able to buy myself some food,” he said.",
        "在交谈中，他抱怨说“我不知道什么时候我才能养活自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most important, business associations do their members a disservice by seeking to impose on them a single voice.",
        "也许最重要的是，企业协会试图代表全体会员发出一个声音的做法会适得其反。"
    ],
    [
        "If the nominal exchange rate is not permitted to appreciate, real appreciation can occur only through an increase in domestic inflation.",
        "如果不允许名义汇率升值，真正的升值只有通过国内通货膨胀加剧的方式才能实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Many lessons should be taken from the Iraq War.",
        "可以从伊拉克战争中汲取很多教训。"
    ],
    [
        "I had the chance to participate in high-level meetings between Chinese and African officials at the ADB meetings.",
        "我有机会参加了非洲开发银行会议中，中国与非洲官员之间的高级会谈。"
    ],
    [
        "Suicide causes more deaths than homicide.",
        "自杀的死亡人数比他杀更多。"
    ],
    [
        "Groucho Marx once famously quipped that he did not want to join any club that would have him as a member.",
        "格罗克•马尔克斯（1890-1977，美国著名喜剧演员-译者）曾有一句嘲讽的名言说他不愿意加入任何一家愿意吸收他为会员的俱乐部。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond growth-enhancing investment, however, the case for greater stimulus becomes more nuanced.",
        "但是，除了强化增长的投资，加强刺激的理由便不再强烈了。"
    ],
    [
        "The director told me it is dedicated to the credo of “building people not buildings.”",
        "其负责人对我说，卡腾中心的信条是“为树人也，非为树楼也”。"
    ],
    [
        "Proponents of such cross-fertilization point to outsiders or their descendants who have attained high positions in their adopted countries: a Latino member of the US Supreme Court, German constitutional lawyers of Turkish origin, French prefects whose parents and grandparents arrived from North Africa, British lords and baronesses with roots in Africa and the Caribbean, and Italian writers of Indian descent.",
        "在入籍国身居高位的外来人口或其后代是上述文化杂交过程的明证：包括美国最高法院一名拉丁裔法官、土耳其裔德国宪法律师、父母和祖父母来自北非的法国地方行政长官、原籍非洲和加勒比地区的英国勋爵和男爵夫人和印度裔意大利作家。"
    ],
    [
        "For me, Ockhi was no distant headline.",
        "对我而言，奥基绝不仅仅是遥不可及的新闻头条。"
    ],
    [
        "The Arab public overwhelmingly regards Israel as an alien and illegitimate entity imposed by force on Palestinian land with Western support. If this perception was channeled democratically and allowed to shape Arab countries’ policies toward Israel, any peace negotiations would be even more complicated than they are now.",
        "当前阿拉伯民众一面倒地将以色列视为一个在西方支持下穷兵黩武，侵占巴勒斯坦领土的外来非法政府，而倘若这样的观点被通过民主的方式表达出来，并左右了阿拉伯国家的对以政策的话，任何和平谈判都将因此变得更加纷繁复杂。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of us are not very good at giving proper weight to future events, especially if they are uncertain.",
        "尤其当未来事件无法确定时，大多数人并不擅长为它们授予适当的权重。"
    ],
    [
        "If this view were correct, Iran would surely be holding an equally powerful hand.",
        "如果这一看法正确，则伊朗手里也握有同样的王牌。"
    ],
    [
        "Or they could use their talents to design, say, real rockets.",
        "他们原本也可以将自己的才华用于设计（比如）真正的火箭。"
    ],
    [
        "But it’s not just Trump who could be in legal trouble.",
        "但可能陷入司法麻烦的不仅仅是特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "The next step in the reevaluation of cancer screening was taken last year, when researchers at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy announced that the costs of screening for breast cancer were often minimized, and that the benefits were much exaggerated.",
        "由于达特茅斯卫生政策研究中心的研究者们宣称乳腺癌筛查的益处往往被过度夸大，而其费用则被刻意低估，因此重新评估癌症筛查的下一步工作也在去年同步展开。"
    ],
    [
        "And, with a self-inflicted fiscal cliff looming – one that could send our country back into recession, pulling the rest of the world with us – businesses are reluctant to hire and invest in new capital goods.",
        "此外，随着自我形成的财政悬崖步步逼近——可能将我们国家重新推向衰退，并将世界其他地区也拖下水——企业不愿招聘，也不愿投资新的资本品。"
    ],
    [
        "Experts have been guilty of sloppiness and conflicts of interest.",
        "专家们往往态度草率，并可能存在利益冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether or not the quip is apocryphal, it sums up a longstanding Western approach to much of the world – and one that underpinned US foreign policy throughout the Cold War.",
        "”无论杜撰与否，这则轶事都准确地总结了西方国家对世界的态度——上述态度奠定了冷战时期美国外交政策的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "As the CEO of United Technologies gushed, Mexican workers now do the same jobs to the same standard as their US counterparts, but for barely a fifth of the pay.",
        "联合技术公司（United Technologies）首席执行官指出，墨西哥工人的工作要求标准已经和美国看齐，但收入却只有美国的五分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The issue went to Turkey’s highest court, which annulled the parliamentary vote, effectively blocking Gul’s candidacy, resulting in Erdogan’s decision to call an early election.",
        "事情闹到了土耳其的高等法院，后者宣布议会的选举无效，从而实际上剥夺了居尔的候选人资格，最后导致埃尔多安决定提前进行大选。"
    ],
    [
        "It is crucial in this context that RtoP advocates continue to emphasize that coercive military force can be contemplated only in the most extreme and exceptional circumstances.",
        "在这种情况下，关键是保护责任的支持者继续强调只在最极端和最特殊的情况下才会考虑采取强制军事行动。"
    ],
    [
        "But I do believe that it is possible to make a broad prediction as to where oil prices are headed.",
        "但是我相信还是有可能对石油价格走势进行一个大范围的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "The solution is obvious: deficit countries must be allowed to refinance the bulk of their debt on the same terms as surplus countries.",
        "解决方案是显而易见的：必须允许赤字国按与盈余国相同的条件对其债务进行再融资。"
    ],
    [
        "That contradiction highlights the sad and self-defeating nature of US budget policies over the past 25 years, and most likely in the years to come.",
        "这种矛盾凸显了25年来美国预算政策适得其反的无奈特点，而今后这种特点仍有可能持续下去。"
    ],
    [
        "Avoiding a New American Recession",
        "避免美国新衰退"
    ],
    [
        "Germans can also thank the mettle and competence of their political leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel and her predecessor, Gerhard Schröder.",
        "德国人还应该感谢其政治领袖（包括现任总理默克尔和她的前任施罗德）的勇气和能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Breaking Free from Fossil Fuels",
        "打破化石燃料的桎梏"
    ],
    [
        "Money, on the other hand, cannot default and is a means, rather than an object, of exchange (the currency market notwithstanding).",
        "另一方面，货币不能违约，它是交换的手段而不是对象（尽管存在货币市场）。"
    ],
    [
        "Another initiative – the European Commission’s proposed “Agenda on Migration” – is less straightforward.",
        "另一项举措——即欧盟委员会所提的“移民议程”——就没有那么简单。"
    ],
    [
        "As for other parts of the world, a recent Pew poll found that many Europeans would like Europe to play a larger role, but to balance American military power would require a doubling or tripling of defense spending, and few Europeans are interested in such an increase.",
        "对于世界其他地方而言，最近的一项皮尤调查显示，许多欧洲人想要让欧洲发挥更大的作用，但是，平衡美国的军事实力将会要求军费翻两番或者三番，而欧洲人很少对于这样的增加军费感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that economic and social reform are purely national responsibilities, and do not lie within the competence of the Union; if there is to be economic and social reform in France and Germany, that is a matter exclusively for French and German voters and politicians.",
        "问题是经济和社会改革纯属于国家责任，超出了欧盟所能管辖的范畴。 如果法德两国要进行社会改革，那也只能是法德选民和政治家的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, some emerging-market currencies are joining the club of international currencies for the first time.",
        "此外，一些新兴市场货币正在首次进入国际货币俱乐部。"
    ],
    [
        "With the post-2009 recovery came a drop in measured joblessness, which allowed the government to pay scant attention to a labor market that leaves out far too many women and young Chileans.",
        "2009年后复苏的同时，记录失业率有所下降，这让政府极少关注将无数女性和智利青年排除在外的劳动力市场。"
    ],
    [
        "Rehema has noticed changes in the weather.",
        "但雷赫玛却注意到了气候的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is possible that Blair, through his complicity in the Iraq war, has inflicted major damage on the very idea of a “special relationship” between Britain and the United States.",
        "但是，对于美国的道义地位的损害要比对于世界的健康更为严重。"
    ],
    [
        "And, at the state and city level, there are still plenty of sane, decent, and intelligent elected officials trying to provide sensible leadership.",
        "此外，在州和市层面，仍然有大量健全、体面、聪明的当选官员正在试图提供理智的领导。"
    ],
    [
        "Techno-optimists like venture capitalist Peter Thiel point out that machines consume little (beyond electricity) while allowing us to produce vastly more, so their effects on human welfare must be unambiguously positive.",
        "风险投资家彼得·泰尔这样的技术乐天派指出机器（除电力外）很少消耗却能大幅提高效率，因此其对人类福祉产生的影响无疑将是积极的。"
    ],
    [
        "The apparent demise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership has created unease in Asia and South America about US predictability and about whether the US will remain a champion of global trade or embrace something closer to protectionism.",
        "跨太平洋伙伴关系的明确消亡已经使亚洲和南美对美国政策的可预见性产生了不安，他们怀疑美国是否将继续主导全球贸易抑或接受某种形式的保护主义政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey has implemented a large number of reforms and made major investments to the benefit of our Kurdish citizens.",
        "土耳其实施了大量改革，进行了大量投资改善我国库尔德公民的福利。"
    ],
    [
        "Social exclusion is not only morally and legally repugnant; it also defies economic sense.",
        "社会排斥不但在道德上和法律上站不住脚，即使在经济上也是不合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "That’s no oversight.",
        "这并非疏忽。"
    ],
    [
        "Many European Union countries are worried about the implications of taking away a country’s territory, as well as the impact of Kosovo’s independence on Serbian democracy.",
        "许多欧盟国家担心夺走某国领土的含义，以及科索沃独立对塞尔维亚民主的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether that fall reflected low demand for credit or constrained supply may seem like a technical issue.",
        "私人信用增长的崩盘反映了需求低迷还是供给受限或许是个技术性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "According to The Financial Times, Chinese lending in 2008-2010 surpassed World Bank assistance by approximately $10 billion.",
        "据英国《金融时报》报道，2008~2010年间中国对外贷款金额比世界银行援助金额还要多近100亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "That this is untrue is demonstrated by those, from Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez to Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, who are exploiting America’s loss of standing and influence.",
        "这种想法的错误性可以从那些利用美国声誉和影响力的削弱来大肆捞取利益的人身上可以看出来，从俄罗斯的弗拉基米尔·普京、委内瑞拉的雨果·查维斯，到伊朗的艾哈迈迪·内贾德和津巴布韦的罗伯特·穆加贝。"
    ],
    [
        "One would prefer to see Mexico’s presidential candidates offer platforms with ideas and proposals that respond to the challenges facing the country, but this substance deficit occurs everywhere now, almost all the time.",
        "有人更愿意看到墨西哥的总统候选人能够借此平台提出想法和提议，应对本国面临的挑战，但是现在各地都缺乏这种实质性的东西，几乎也总是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, 53% of companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project reported that water risks are already taking a toll, owing to property damage, higher prices, poor water quality, business interruptions, and supply-chain disruptions.",
        "类似地，据碳披露项目（Carbon Disclosure Project ）的调查，53%的公司表示水风险已经在起作用，带来了资产损失、价格升高、水质下降、业务停顿和供应链破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Are we going to be in a war?",
        "我们要走向战争吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Global pharmaceutical companies have taken notice.",
        "全球药品企业已经有所察觉。"
    ],
    [
        "So Leung and his team should put forward proposals to broaden the electoral base of the election committee and open up the nominating process for candidates.",
        "因此梁振英及其团队应该提出扩大选举委员会选基（electoral base）、开放候选人提名程序的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "As the worst recession since the1930’s continues, both the American and Chinese economies are bound to suffer further setbacks.",
        "随着从20世纪30年代以来最严重经济衰退的深入，美国和中国的经济肯定会遇到更多的难题。"
    ],
    [
        "Providing a haven for people from all over the world, where all people are subject to the same rules and laws, has been a key strength of the US for most of its history.",
        "美国为全世界人民提供避风港，规则和法律面前人人平等，这是美国在其大部分历史中的一个关键优势。"
    ],
    [
        "(Indeed, the Soviet Union was gravely, perhaps fatally, weakened by its war in Afghanistan.)",
        "（事实上，苏联就是因为阿富汗战争而受到了重创，其解体或许肇因与此。"
    ],
    [
        "By undermining investment in tradable sectors, appeasing them means hampering export growth considerably.",
        "对他们让步意味着降低可贸易部门的投资，从而大大拖累出口增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But the opening of the peace talks in Washington, DC, would not have happened without the full engagement of the US and other international partners.",
        "但没有美国和其他国际伙伴的参与就不可能在华盛顿重启以巴和谈。"
    ],
    [
        "Some good news globally will have an impact on how these questions are resolved.",
        "全球范围内的一些好消息将对这些问题的解决产生影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the pincer of Afghanistan and Gilgit/Baltistan poses the gravest challenge to India’s statecraft since Independence.",
        "事实上，从阿富汗到吉尔吉特-巴尔蒂斯坦地区形成的夹击之势已经成为了印度自独立以来最为严重的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an enticing spread for currency speculators who borrow in dollars and circumvent China’s capital controls to buy renminbi assets.",
        "这令货币投机者垂涎三尺，他们借入美元，绕过中国的资本管制购买人民币资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Many factors contributed to the French and Dutch objections to the proposed EU Constitution.",
        "法国和荷兰对提议中的《欧盟宪法》的反对有多种原因。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, monetary policy is perpetuating the disequilibrium between creditor and debtor economies in the eurozone, and macroprudential policy is doing nothing to stop it.",
        "简而言之，货币政策延续了欧元区债权国和债务国经济体之间的不平衡，而宏观审慎政策也对此束手无策。"
    ],
    [
        "The poor functioning of input markets, such as markets for energy or intermediary products, can also do a lot of economic harm, not least because it hampers external competitiveness.",
        "投入品市场（如能源市场和中间产品市场）运行不畅也可以造成诸多经济伤害，其中一个原因是他损害了外部竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why addressing the issue requires international cooperation.",
        "正因如此，解决这一问题需要全球合作。"
    ],
    [
        "For the preceding quarter-century, Indians had watched helplessly as their attempts at peace-making with their belligerent, military-dominated neighbor had collapsed repeatedly, thanks to terrorist attacks from Pakistan that the government in Islamabad seemed unable or unwilling to prevent.",
        "过去四分之一世纪，印度人只能无奈地看着他们与军事策略主导的好战邻国实现和平的愿望一次次破产，而这必须归功于伊斯兰堡政府似乎不愿或无力阻止来自巴基斯坦的恐怖袭击活动。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, in 2002, animal welfare advocates put a proposal to ban sow stalls on the ballot in Florida.",
        "接着在2002年，动物保护主义者在佛罗里达州表决了禁用独立畜栏饲养育种母猪的提案。"
    ],
    [
        "Every year thereafter, the dividend paid would fluctuate in response to changes in GDP.",
        "往后数年的分红数量将随GDP的变化而波动。"
    ],
    [
        "Journalists and human rights activists and lawyers – Anna Politkovskaya, Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Baburova, Natalia Estemirova, and dozens of others – are murdered, and no one in the Kremlin seems to mind, because they are not really a part of the New Russia that Putin is building.",
        "新闻工作者和人权活动家--Anna Politkovskaya, Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Baburova, Natalia Estemirova及其他十几位人士被谋杀，而克里姆林宫里的官员们却似乎不以为意。 因为这些人并不真是普京打造中的俄罗斯的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Can Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra fill the regional leadership vacuum?",
        "泰国总理他信（Thaksin Shinawatra）能够填补这一地区领袖的真空状态吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Now it is time for more than words.",
        "现在，奥巴马应该拿出行动了。"
    ],
    [
        "Because these anatomical features persist into early childhood, the dura may remain similarly vulnerable to bleeding beyond the newborn period.",
        "由于这些解剖学特征一直持续到早期童年，因此脑膜可能一直保持类似的易出血状态直到新生儿阶段后。"
    ],
    [
        "ROME – Development experts and policymakers understandably focus on migration to urban areas and the need for sustainable urbanization.",
        "罗马—不难理解，发展专家和决策者关注向城市地区移民的问题以及可持续城市化的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Jerusalem is another on-the-ground issue that will be a litmus test for the Obama administration.",
        "耶路撒冷是又一个对奥巴马政府构成严峻考验的现实问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But, following the election, taxes and spending, trade policy, federalism, regulation, and defense will take a different course – how different depends on who wins – with important implications for America’s fiscal position, external balance, and much else, including its relations with the rest of the world.",
        "但是，在大选结束后，税收和支出政策、贸易政策、联邦主义、监管以及防务政策都将出现改变（改变有多剧烈，取决于谁能胜出），并对美国的财政状况、国际收支和其他方方面面（包括美国与世界其他地区的关系）产生重大影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Soviet Union’s demise was the result of a long string of missteps, beginning with pre-Soviet Russia’s inability to come to terms with modernity.",
        "但苏联的坠落时长期一错再错的结果，起点可以追溯到前苏联时代的俄罗斯无力坚持现代化。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, data from the United Kingdom show that it is often the poorest people that walk or take buses.",
        "英国的数据就表明，那些最贫穷的人经常会选择步行或乘坐公共汽车。"
    ],
    [
        "In those countries where the problem makes the biggest headlines (the eurozone’s south, with Greece and Spain supposedly the worst cases), youth unemployment accounts for less than a quarter of overall unemployment.",
        "在问题最吸引眼球的国家（南欧，其中又以希腊和西班牙为最），年轻人失业只占总失业的不到四分之一。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, we need to shift from the CIA to the GFE, from the expensive failures of US-led regime change (including those targeting Afghanistan’s Taliban, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad) to investments in health, education, and decent jobs.",
        "简言之，我们需要从CIA转向GFE，从代价高昂的美国领导的政权颠覆行动（包括以阿富汗塔利班、伊拉克的萨达姆·侯赛因、利比亚的卡扎菲和叙利亚的巴沙尔·阿萨德为目标的行动）转向健康、教育和体面工作岗位投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of what needs to be done, including the sequencing of reconstruction measures, is now better understood – not least due to the different recent experiences in rebuilding Bosnia, Colombia, and other war-torn states.",
        "正是由于有近期重建波斯尼亚、哥伦比亚以及其他遭受战争蹂躏的国家的不同经历，人们现在对斯里兰卡要做的包括重建措施的先后顺序在内的事情，有了更好的理解。"
    ],
    [
        "Weary of inter-Arab politics, and tired of the high price Egypt had paid for the Palestinian cause, Sadat wanted to move away from Nasser’s pan-Arab ambitions and an excessive focus on the question of Palestine toward an emphasis on Egypt’s role as a power lying at the strategic crossroads between Asia and Africa.",
        "为阿拉伯内部的政治斗争感到疲惫不堪，同时又厌烦了埃及为巴勒斯坦事业所付出的高昂代价，萨达特希望脱离纳赛尔的泛阿拉伯主义理想以及对巴勒斯坦问题的过分关注，转而强调埃及一个作为连接亚洲和非洲的战略交界点的大国的角色。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition, the Vatican objects to the fact that conception is the result of a “technical action” rather “a specific act of the conjugal union.”",
        "此外，梵蒂冈反对的是由于“技术行为” 而非“婚姻结合中的具体行为”而造成的受孕。 这一事实。"
    ],
    [
        "People are using the latest technologies and toting shopping bags bearing the names of international luxury brands.",
        "人们都在应用最新现代技术，提着印有国际奢侈品牌名字的购物袋。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes for considerable stability in markets as long as the conventions hold .",
        "只要这种势头一直如此，市场就会一直保持相对的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, governance structures, including voting power, correspond better to the economic realities of yesterday than to those of today and tomorrow.",
        "比如，包括投票权在内的治理结构更适合过去的经济现实，但已与今天和未来的经济现实不甚相容。"
    ],
    [
        "All who were tempted to disobey were certain to be “taken care of” by the secret police.",
        "如果谁胆敢反抗，必将受到秘密警察的“特殊照顾”。"
    ],
    [
        "That makes the 2012 US election the most expensive ever held.",
        "这使得2012年美国大选成为史上最贵大选。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet they were destined to remain largely unknown once the war was over – neglected by the British, for whom they fought, and ignored by their compatriots.",
        "但一旦战争结束他们注定会被人遗忘——被他们为之浴血奋战的英国人所忽视，也被自己的同胞所遗忘。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference, of course, lies in the US dollar’s dominant role in the invoicing of international trade: prices are set in dollars.",
        "当然，这当中的差别原因在于美元是国际贸易的主要结算货币：价格都是用美元定的。"
    ],
    [
        "Those fears are testing political leaders in the world's richest countries.",
        "这些担心正考验着世界上最富有的国家的政治领袖们。"
    ],
    [
        "French and Dutch voters did not say why they voted against the planned Constitution. But many commentators believe that they were protesting against what they perceived as the precipitate admission of ten new member states, mainly much poorer countries from Central and Eastern Europe.",
        "法荷选民并没有明确说出反对宪法提案的原因，但很多评论家都认为他们是在对欧盟突然吸纳10个新成员国的做法进行抗议，这些新成员国主要包括来自中东欧的贫困国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Keynesians’ claim that “demand” is all-powerful – that it alone increases employment and thus investment and even growth – was groundless.",
        "凯恩斯主义者宣称“需求”主宰一切——增加就业，从而提振投资乃至增长全靠需求——这站不住脚。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the post-industrial attractions of cities like Shanghai and Beijing will attract the more talented and better-educated children of today’s industrial workers.",
        "与此同时，那些后工业时代的宠儿，比如上海和北京，将吸引更多更聪明且教育程度更高的产业工人后代前来。"
    ],
    [
        "Together, the ASEAN countries comprise America’s fourth-largest trading partner.",
        "东盟诸国合在一起是美国第四大贸易伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "However, a third approach was possible: to raise the poverty line with the new PPP indices so that the incidence of global poverty remained unchanged (because PPP arguably tells us about parity across countries and should not change the absolute level of global poverty).",
        "但是，还有第三种方法：根据新的PPP指数提高贫困线，以保持全球贫困率不变（因为PPP实际上是跨国平价，不会改变全球贫困的绝对水平）。"
    ],
    [
        "That would also serve another shared objective, namely helping to bring climate change under control.",
        "这也会有利于另一个共同的目标，也就是帮助控制气候变化。"
    ],
    [
        "And the world benefits from those solutions.",
        "世界都会因这些方案受益。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, in late October, EU member states agreed on a new policy framework for climate and energy for 2030 – one that, like the EU’s 2020 climate and energy package, lacks a solid foundation.",
        "但十月下旬，欧盟成员国商定了2030年 气候与能源全新政策框架——该框架与 欧盟2020年气候与能源一揽子计划相似，缺乏赖以存在的坚实的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "The genius of modern Europe has consisted in linking long-term stability to the pursuit of ever-deeper economic and political integration.",
        "现代欧洲的智者们一直强调本地区的长期稳定必须通过经济和政治的更深刻整合来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, though average productivity growth in emerging economies has accelerated in every decade since the 1970s, this largely reflects rapid productivity growth in just one country: China, where the annual average has been 5.7% since 1964.",
        "事实上，虽然新兴经济体的平均生产力增长自1970年代以来的每十年间都不断加速，但这在很大程度上仅仅是体现了一个国家的迅速生产力增长：中国——该国自1964年以来实现了年均5. 7%的增长率。"
    ],
    [
        "A satisfactory resolution of the current conflict requires nothing less.",
        "这些都是解决当前冲突的令人满意的方案所不可或缺的。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – More than 100 days after the United Kingdom voted narrowly to leave the European Union, it remains far from clear what arrangement will regulate cross-Channel trade after Brexit.",
        "发自布鲁塞尔——距离英国民众以微弱多数决定脱欧至今已经过去100多天，但各方却远未确定应该以何种安排去规管跨英吉利海峡的贸易。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s decisions lead to a massive redistribution of wealth and risk among the eurozone’s member states, as well as from stable countries’ taxpayers, who have little stake in the crisis, to global investors directly affected by it.",
        "欧洲央行的决策导致了欧元区成员国之间大规模的财富和风险重新分配，慷稳定国纳税人之慨（他们与危机无甚关系），救直接受危机影响的全球投资者。"
    ],
    [
        "Cameras were allowed in; senior officials were seen and heard.",
        "能够看见中国高级官员出现在灾区并能听到他们的讲话。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, US Trade Representative Michael Froman recently observed that the US would not be interested in negotiating a separate free-trade deal with Britain.",
        "同样，美国贸易代表迈克尔·弗罗曼最近表示美国没有兴趣与英国单独谈判自由贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "In Tbilisi alone, there are more than 500 camps for internally displaced people, many of them women and children living with shortages of food and medical supplies.",
        "光是第比利斯一地，就有500多个营地安置国内的迁置难民，其中很多是缺少食品和医药供应的妇女和儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "The closest anyone has come to putting some international fizz into the campaign was when US President Barack Obama fired a couple of warning shots across the UK’s bow.",
        "首次将国际意愿注入英国竞选的是美国总统奥巴马对英国发出的警告。"
    ],
    [
        "There is huge room to maneuver between the extremes of targeting a specific level of the real exchange rate and disowning any interest in the real exchange rate.",
        "在锁定一个具体的目标汇率水平和否认实际汇率中的任何利益的两个极端之间有极大的发挥余地。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu, if he wished, could take a lot of the credit for this achievement.",
        "如果他愿意，内塔尼亚胡可以说是这一成就的大功臣。"
    ],
    [
        "If firewalls are strong, or redundancy and resilience allow quick recovery, or the prospect of a self-enforcing response (“an electric fence”) seems possible, an attack becomes less attractive.",
        "如果防火墙够强，或冗余性和恢复力足以让其快速回复，或有可能产生自我强化反应（“电围栏”），实施攻击就会变得不再具有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "So it seems unlikely that this up-front cash provided much of an incentive for the average CEO to knowingly take bad or excessive risks that would jeopardize their much larger equity stakes.",
        "如此看来，这么少的现金不足以导致 CEO 们冒险来使得自己更多的股权蒙受损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Because Spain and France defaulted so much in the early modern period, and because Greece, from the moment of its political birth in 1830, was a chronic or serial defaulter, some assume that national temperament somehow imbues countries with a proclivity to default.",
        "鉴于西班牙和法国在近代早期曾多次违约，而希腊自从1830年独立以来更是习惯性违约者，有人便揣测，是不是民族性格令有些国家染上了违约的瘾。"
    ],
    [
        "We British are still members of the European Union (at least for the time being), but sometimes our politicians forget that.",
        "英国仍是欧盟成员国（至少目前仍是），但有时我们的政客会忘记这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "And, like an authoritarian parent, the US itself, despite its admonitions to its allies to pull their weight, is often loath to let go of its increasingly unruly dependents.",
        "而美国就像是专制家长，尽管告诫盟友不要滥竽充数，但也往往不愿放弃日益不守规矩的依赖者。"
    ],
    [
        "But this requires a multinational effort.",
        "但这需要跨国努力。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, no one, certainly not in Asia or the United States, seems willing to bite the bullet and help engineer the necessary coordinated retreat to sustained sub-trend growth, which is necessary so that new commodity supplies and alternatives can catch up.",
        "不幸的是，似乎没有人－在亚洲和美国肯定没人，愿意咬紧牙关挺过去，并帮助指挥必要的对持久的分增长趋势有协调的退却，而这对新商品的供应和替代品接上来是很必要的。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the government’s crisis of legitimacy and endemic mismanagement, the Green Movement – nominally led by opposition presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi – faces major obstacles.",
        "而尽管伊朗政府面临着合法性危机及其特有的管理不善问题，但绿色革命运动（表面上是由反对派总统候选人米尔·侯赛因·穆萨维和迈赫迪·卡鲁比所领导的）也面临着一连串重大障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "A few months earlier, the veteran Boston financier Henry Lee Higginson had sketched in a letter to President Woodrow Wilson what America’s new strategy should be.",
        "而就在几个月之前，波士顿金融界大佬亨利·李·希金森就已经在一封给总统伍德罗·威尔逊的信中勾勒出了美国的新战略。"
    ],
    [
        "The Emperor’s New Goal",
        "天皇的新目标"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the Middle East’s deepening problems may impose a sense of restraint in Russia and China by forcing them to calculate not in terms of their global “nuisance value” vis-à-vis the West, but in terms of their ability to make a positive and stabilizing contribution to the world order.",
        "确实，中东不断加剧的问题可能会迫使中俄两国不以其对西方的全球“微妙价值”，而是以其为世界秩序作出积极和稳定性贡献的能力来权衡而给这两个国家施加一种限制的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in July 2013, Mark Carney, a Canadian who had served as central-bank governor in his home country, became the first foreigner to lead the Bank of England in its nearly 320-year history.",
        "还有加拿大人马克·卡尼（Mark Carney），他曾担任加拿大国家中央银行行长，随后于2013年7月成为英国近320年来第一位外籍英格兰银行行长。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, employment outside manufacturing and trade declined, so that the economy as a whole suffered a net loss of 1.26 million full-time equivalent jobs.",
        "相反，制造业以外的就业下降，所以，就经济整体而言，损失了126万个同等全职工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it would have a major economic and political impact throughout the region.",
        "事实上，这对于整个地区都将产生巨大的经济和政治影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, they have aligned themselves with freedom of information in the face of efforts by the Egyptian regime to block Internet access.",
        "此外面对埃及政权限制互联网的举动，他们则站在了维护信息自由的立场上。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are high costs associated with intellectual property.",
        "但与知识产权相关的代价也不容忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "This enabled her to win reelection in 2014 – and it is propelling her toward impeachment today.",
        "这让她在2014年获得连任——也把她推向了今天面临弹劾的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in order for the EU to achieve strategic autonomy, it needs a competitive European defense industry, with investment in research and development of defense technologies rising substantially as part of a common effort.",
        "不仅如此，确保欧盟实现战略自主性需要有竞争力的欧洲国防工业，并需要各国共同确保大幅追加国防科技研发投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the UK has a services surplus, which matters far less to the rest of the EU than it does to Britain.",
        "类似地，英国存在服务业盈余，而这对欧盟其他国家的重要性远远不及对英国。"
    ],
    [
        "National courts, such as those in Spain, play an increasingly strong role in combating impunity through the exercise of universal jurisdiction.",
        "国家法院，如西班牙的法院，通过行使普遍司法权，在打击有罪不罚方面正发挥着日益强大的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "In poker terms, Chinese President Xi Jinping is attempting to pull an inside straight, gambling that a growing middle class will demand enough manufactured goods to prevent the economy’s immense excess capacity in basic industries from leading to widespread unemployment.",
        "用德州扑克术语讲，中国国家主席习近平面临一副缺少中间一张的顺子，他在下注成长起来的中产阶级将需要足够的制造品，足以防止中国经济基础产业严重过剩的产能导致大面积失业。"
    ],
    [
        "Everywhere there are startups, innovations, and young entrepreneurs hungry for profits.",
        "上海到处都是新的开始，创新以及充满野心的年轻企业家。"
    ],
    [
        "Intelligence services in democratic contexts usually have oversight mechanisms that serve to limit abuses of power, and to guarantee effective action by punishing top officials that fail to do their jobs properly.",
        "民主环境中的情报部门通常都设立了监督机制，防止权力被人滥用，并通过对未能完成任务的高官进行惩戒来确保行动的有效性。"
    ],
    [
        "Brazil has South America’s biggest government (with a tax take exceeding one-third of GDP), yet the authorities save and invest too little, which creates both micro- and macroeconomic problems.",
        "巴西拥有南美最大的政府（税收占GDP的比例超过三分之一），但巴西当局储蓄和投资太少，导致了微观和宏观经济问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Many situations are matters of degree, and as technology improves the forensics of attribution, the strength of deterrence may increase.",
        "很多情况都只是程度问题，随着技术的发展提高跟踪取证能力，威慑的强度也可能会增加。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not the first time, of course, that presidential candidates have proposed changing how US monetary policy is conducted.",
        "当然，这并非总统候选人提出要改动美国货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither the currently fashionable “Asian pivot” nor the “Russian reset” four years ago constitute the beginning of a grand plan.",
        "无论是眼下大热的“亚洲支点”还是四年前的“俄罗斯重启”都不足以作为宏大计划的开端。"
    ],
    [
        "A coordinated initiative to facilitate trade within the Red Sea region would have a significant impact on future development, boosting GDP by about 10% to $6.6 trillion and increasing trade by nearly 35% to $6.3 trillion, according to research commissioned by King Abdullah Economic City.",
        "据阿卜杜拉国王经济城受命进行的研究的数据，采取合作方案便利红海地区内部的贸易将给未来发展造成重大影响，让GDP提高10%左右至66亿美元【原文如此，疑应是6. 6万亿美元】，让贸易量增加近35%至6."
    ],
    [
        "“If there was anyone born in Hawaii later than 6:45 on December 31, 1964, then they’ve got me beat.",
        "“如果1964年12月31日 6:45分后夏威夷还有人出生，那我就不是最后一个。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, emerging and developing economies are growing much faster than the advanced countries.",
        "毕竟，新兴和发展中经济体增长远远快于发达国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Ukraine’s break with Russia was perhaps the most wrenching, both for those in the Kremlin nostalgic for imperial control and for ordinary Russians who see Ukraine as the wellspring of Russian civilization.",
        "对于克里姆林宫怀念帝国控制的人和那些把乌克兰视为俄罗斯文明之源的普通俄罗斯人来说，乌克兰脱离俄罗斯可能是最令人痛苦的。"
    ],
    [
        "Competition also puts an end to rent seeking and protection of traditional corporate advantages.",
        "竞争还能有效抑制寻租问题，取消对传统公司利益的保护。"
    ],
    [
        "But Trump has so far shown such indifference to rules and norms, such a disregard for limits, and such unpredictability, that the prevailing mood among Democrats and Republicans alike is one of uncertainty and unease.",
        "但到目前为止，特朗普表现出对规则和规范漠不关心，表现出对界限的无视，表现出极端的反复无常，以至于民主党和共和党都弥漫着一种不确定和不安的情绪。"
    ],
    [
        "“Speak softly and carry a big stick,” Theodore Roosevelt counseled.",
        "“柔声细语但是手持大棒”是西奥多·罗斯福的忠告。"
    ],
    [
        "France is concerned that America’s influence in NATO is too large, and opposes a global role in which NATO establishes special partnerships with Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and other countries.",
        "法国担心美国对北约的影响太大，并反对北约发挥全球性作用，在该计划中北约与澳大利亚、新西兰、日本及其它国家建立特殊的合作关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Depending on the pace of automation, 75-375 million workers, or 3-14% of the global workforce, will need to change occupational categories by 2030.",
        "根据自动化的速度，到2030年，共有7，500万-3亿7，500万劳动者，也就是3~14%的全球劳动人口需要完成职业类别转型。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would need to have at least three key elements.",
        "但它需要包括至少三个关键要素。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Iran’s neighbors have legitimate concerns about the impact the deal will have on the regional balance of power.",
        "当然，伊朗的邻国也有合理担忧：该协议会对地区实力平衡造成什么影响？"
    ],
    [
        "If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central bank should not intervene.",
        "如果一场债务危机源自于政府的滥用支出和管理不善，而不是由市场失灵所引发，那么中央银行显然是不应介入的。"
    ],
    [
        "Five Nordic countries have joined the US Treasury in ending public financing of new coal-fired power plants overseas, and others may soon follow suit.",
        "五个北欧国家加入了美国财政部的行列，停止用公共资金支持新的海外煤电项目，其他国家可能也会很快跟进。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Here’s a reality check for British and American policymakers, and for the many pundits who frequently comment on world trade without understanding its realities: data on Germany’s total exports and imports in 2016 indicate that its largest trading partner is now China. France and the United States have been pushed into second and third place.",
        "发自伦敦——最近有一个数据，堪称狠狠将了英美政策制定者以及那些经常对世界贸易妄加评论却不了解其现实的专家一军：2016年德国出进口数据显示，其最大的贸易伙伴如今已是中国，而法国和美国则退居第二和第三位。"
    ],
    [
        "The same is true for the democratization of the EU and thus for its greater proximity to, and acceptance by, ordinary citizens.",
        "欧盟的民主化进程和欧盟与普通民众的亲近和被普通百姓的认可也暂时陷入了停滞状态。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US, progress is somewhat more decentralized, though new national policies have been adopted, including Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for automobiles.",
        "美国的进展更加分散，尽管新的国家政策已被采纳，包括汽车行业公司平均燃料经济（CAFE）标准。"
    ],
    [
        "But, according to Frans Timmermans, the Commission’s first vice president, Poland is still refusing to cooperate, and has not announced “any concrete measures to address the issues raised.”",
        "但是，据欧盟委员会第一副主席弗朗斯·提默曼斯（Frans Timmermans）透露，波兰仍然拒绝合作，也没有说要“采取任何实质措施解决所提出的问题。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "But with security now mainly in the hands of UN police and Australian and New Zealand peacekeepers, the political process is being given a chance to work itself out.",
        "但随着联合国警察和澳大利亚及新西兰的维和部队接管安全事务，该国的政治进程又重现生机。"
    ],
    [
        "So, rather than worrying about Trump’s personal predilections or trying to predict the unpredictable, China’s leaders are remaining focused on what is really important: the need for a cooperative bilateral relationship.",
        "因此，中国领导人不担心特朗普的个人偏好，也不去试图预测不可预测的东西，而是保持专注于真正重要的东西：合作性双边关系的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the nature of the risks involved was not clear, it seems, even to regulators or the senior management of the firms that were building the business.",
        "事实上，对所涉及的风险的性质，即使是监管机构或建立此业务的公司的高级管理人员看来也并非清楚。"
    ],
    [
        "As the late-coming speculators go bankrupt, the share of non-performing loans on banks’ balance sheets rises, forcing banks to reduce credit further.",
        "迟来的投机者纷纷破产，银行负债表的不良贷款比例也随之上升，迫使银行进一步缩减信用。"
    ],
    [
        "It won the battle of the comminiqué, but it may have lost 20 years of painstakingly accumulated goodwill, the result of efforts such as the ASEAN-China free-trade agreement, signed in November 2002.",
        "她赢得了在东盟联合公报上的斗争，却可能失去了20年苦心经营积累下来的善意——也正是它们促成了2002年11月签订的东盟-中国自由贸易协定。"
    ],
    [
        "And I hope that the movement captures the imagination of progressives, who are equally disgusted with the corruption of the status quo, and who can agree on many thematic goals, even if their policy proposals might be different.",
        "我只希望这场运动能够把握住进步的愿景，即便运动中各方彼此间的政策方案不尽相同，但却同样对当前腐朽的现状感到厌恶，并能够在许多目标主题上达成一致意见。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, more people earning, consuming, and paying taxes leads to more economic growth.",
        "而在现实中，更多的人工作赚钱，消费和纳税会带来更多的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The US Food and Drug Administration inspected only 45 of these sites, about 0.7%.",
        "美国食品药品监督局仅检查了这些研究机构中的45所，约占总量的0."
    ],
    [
        "If he is to reassure EU national leaders that they should re-appoint him, then he needs to signal that his second term can hold out fresh promise.",
        "如果他要向欧盟各国领导人保证他们应该重新任命他的话，那么他就需要表明他的第二个任期会给人以新的希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Short-term and long-term policies are therefore closely related; unless temporary stopgaps are combined with fundamental long-term structural reform, another disaster like the current one – or worse – will become inevitable.",
        "短期和长期的政策也因此紧密地联系了起来； 除非临时应急措施能与根本性的长期结构改革相结合，另一个与目前类似（甚至更加恶劣的）灾难将在劫难逃。"
    ],
    [
        "Millions of Americans have lost their homes; millions more face the insecurity of knowing that they may lose theirs in the future.",
        "数百万美国人失去了住房； 另有数百万面临眼看就要失去住房的不安全性。"
    ],
    [
        "Both candidates favor more infrastructure spending, more military spending, loosening limits on civilian spending, and corporate-tax reform.",
        "两位候选人都倾向于更多的基础设施支出，更多的军费开支，放宽民生服务支出限制以及企业税改革。"
    ],
    [
        "Its innovation gave rise to a huge number of new and dynamic companies, forcing IBM to reinvent itself completely in order to compete with them – just one example of the socially transformative effects of the PC.",
        "它的创新导致了一大批新兴和充满活力的公司，迫使IBM为了与它们竞争而洗心格面。 这仅仅是个人电脑的社会转变效力的一个例子而已。"
    ],
    [
        "The most obvious reason that a country might choose to withdraw is to escape from the one-size-fits-all monetary policy imposed by the single currency.",
        "欧洲经济与货币联盟成员国可能选择退出的最明显的原因，是为了避免因为单一货币所造成的不区分具体情形而适用于所有成员国的货币政策。"
    ],
    [
        "The world-famous Mediterranean diet – heavy in vegetables, fruits, and olive oil – is not only healthy; it is less taxing on the environment.",
        "世界著名的地中海饮食——大量食用蔬菜、水果和橄榄油——不仅有利健康；"
    ],
    [
        "The Cold War’s end has not led to greater US dominance, but rather to the dissemination of global power to many regions. East Asia, South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East have new geopolitical and economic influence.",
        "冷战的结束并未引发美国全球统治力的上涨，反而将这股力量分散到了各个区域。 东亚、南亚，拉美和中东都分别获得了新的地缘政治和经济影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN recognizes that “forests are essential to economic development and all forms of life.”",
        "联合国认识到“森林对于经济发展和生活的各方面都非常重要”。"
    ],
    [
        "People rarely consider that the tangible features assumed to be intrinsic to the “computer” were imitations of other objects, with keyboards inherited from typewriters and screens from television.",
        "人们很少意识到，被认为是“电脑”固有的有形特征，其实是对其他物体的模仿，键盘是模仿打字机的，屏幕是模仿电视的。"
    ],
    [
        "Improved and better coordinated intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security efforts at both the national and international levels have made it more difficult for terrorists to succeed.",
        "在国家以及国际层面上得到改善和更为协调的情报、执法以及国土安全措施使得恐怖分子更难以得逞。"
    ],
    [
        "In practice, as a small country in a troubled neighborhood – and with North Korea a constant source of tension – it lives in existential anxiety.",
        "但实际上，作为身处混乱的一介小国，且与朝鲜长年关系紧张，致使韩国陷入深深的生存焦虑。"
    ],
    [
        "In foreign affairs, too, Italy has become more assertive.",
        "在外交事务方面，意大利也变得更加坚决自信。"
    ],
    [
        "Five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, “9/11” is no longer a mere date.",
        "袭击纽约双子塔和华盛顿五角大楼五年后，“9/11”已经不再仅仅是一个日期了。"
    ],
    [
        "So, given that Germany will be picking up many more bills (regardless of whether the eurozone survives), how can it best use the strength of its balance sheet to alleviate Europe’s growth problems?",
        "所以，鉴于德国将会包揽更多的账单（无论欧元区是否能维持），它如何能利用好其资产负债表的优势来减轻欧洲的经济增长问题？"
    ],
    [
        "But access to the internal market also requires EEA members to accept full freedom of movement not only for goods, services, and capital, but also for workers.",
        "但进入欧盟内部市场同时也需要欧洲经济区成员国接受来自欧盟侧的自由流入，不仅包括商品，服务和资本，还包括劳动者。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the military faces these changes.",
        "就连军队也面临着这种改变。"
    ],
    [
        "But the relentless sniping by its two most important Asian allies has blocked the kind of concrete cooperation needed to help it achieve its main goals, including ensuring a durable, long-term military presence in the region.",
        "但最重要的两个亚洲盟友之间的肆无忌惮的中伤阻碍了实现美国的主要目标——包括确保其在该地区持久的长期军事存在——所必须的实质合作。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1979 revolution, which ended Iran’s monarchical tradition, created a new political order based on Shiite theological foundations and giving absolute ruling power to a Shiite jurist/cleric.",
        "1979年革命结束了伊朗帝王政治的传统，建立了以什叶派神学为基础的崭新的政治秩序，赋予法学家/教士以至高无上的权力。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, some activists are already back in Tahrir Square demonstrating against such an incongruous yet possible alliance.",
        "事实上，一些示威者已经重新回到解放广场，抗议这个看上去怪异却极有可能达成的联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Will China’s Infrastructure Bank Work?",
        "中国的基础设施银行能行吗？"
    ],
    [
        "This might explain the low levels of consumption that characterize most advanced economies, and the failure of extremely lax monetary policy to produce an uptick in inflation.",
        "这也许可以解释大部分发达经济体消费水平低迷的现象，以及为何极端宽松的货币政策也无法提高通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the paper’s authors argued that Japan’s “lost decades” of anemic growth and deflation could have been avoided had policymakers shifted to stimulus more quickly and with far greater force.",
        "相反，论文作者认为，如果决策者更迅速、更强力地采取刺激手段，日本增长缓慢、通货紧缩的“失去的十年”或许可以避免。"
    ],
    [
        "Thailand’s Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, met Putin late last year and tentatively agreed to purchase 12 Su-30MKM’s.",
        "泰国总理他信在去年会晤普京时，也意向性地同意购买12架苏-30MKM。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be a mistake to presume that the vast expansion of trade between India and China, currently worth more than $60 billion annually (with China now India’s largest trading partner), must lead to improved bilateral relations.",
        "而如果认为不断扩大的中印贸易（每年600亿美元，中国已成为印度最大的贸易伙伴）必将令双边关系有所改善的话，那就大错特错了。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, while Fox can be criticized for not clamping down on protesters and a disruptive, extremist opposition, he never resorted to the bloody repression for which most of his predecessors came to be known.",
        "同样，尽管福克斯由于对抗议者和破坏性的极端反对力量姑息迁就而饱受批评，但他从未进行过令那些嗜血的前任闻名遐尔的血腥镇压。"
    ],
    [
        "There are price freezes on certain subsidized goods and services, and rising inflation makes these subsidies even more expensive for the government.",
        "某些补贴的物品和服务的价格是被冻结的，但是持续上升的通货膨胀使得这些补贴对于政府来说负担越来越重。"
    ],
    [
        "Even as we rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region, we will retain a significant presence in the Middle East to deter aggression and promote stability.",
        "即使在调整亚太地区战略的同时，我们也可以在中东保持影响力，在遏制侵略的同时促进稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Being descendants of the Prophet, as in Morocco and Jordan, or having custodianship of the holy sites of Mecca and Medina, as in Saudi Arabia, bestows a legitimacy on the countries’ rulers that is directly linked to Islam.",
        "传承着先知穆罕穆德血脉的摩洛哥与约旦王室、保管着圣城麦加和麦地那的沙特阿拉伯，其统治者经由这种直接的伊斯兰纽带获得了某种合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "There were just very raw nerves and hypersensitivity to hints of disrespect, on the part of the professor, and of the cop.",
        "只是教授和警察双方都对不尊重的暗示表现得过于敏感。"
    ],
    [
        "What Sigmund Freud defined as “the narcissism of minor differences” caused Yugoslavia to split into seven small states (including Kosovo), following the bloodiest fighting in Europe since World War II.",
        "弗洛伊德所谓的“差异细微的自我陶醉”导致南斯拉夫分裂为七个小国（包括科索沃），在此期间还经历了二战以来欧洲最严重的流血。"
    ],
    [
        "Every post-World War II government has always been willing to harness Germany’s financial strength to further that aim, i.e., to foot the bill for Europe.",
        "为了推进这一目标，二战后历届德国政府都愿意动用本国的财力，也就是说，为欧洲埋单。"
    ],
    [
        "India already is being treated with growing respect in global economic councils.",
        "在全球经济领域中，印度受到的尊重日益增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Or they are civil wars – for example, in South Sudan or Libya.",
        "或者是内战——如南苏丹或利比亚。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while Cameron should know from grim experience what is looming, it seems that he has abandoned rational considerations.",
        "但是，尽管卡梅伦应该知道惨痛的教训，却仍抛弃了理智的思路。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps most important, China must now export more manufactured goods to finance imports of energy and mineral products.",
        "或许最重要的是中国现在必须出口更多中国制造来进口能源与矿石产品。"
    ],
    [
        "The NATO intervention in Kosovo was an example where a number of governments chose to violate the sovereignty of another government (Serbia) to stop ethnic cleansing and genocide.",
        "北约对科索沃的干预就是一例，这次事件中，几个政府选择对另一个政府（塞尔维亚）的主权进行干预，目的是阻止种族清洗和屠杀。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is perfectly sensible and legitimate for China to put some of its savings abroad.",
        "但中国将一部分储蓄用作海外投资绝对是明智又合法的。"
    ],
    [
        "Birds are the greatest concern today only because the spread is easy to see.",
        "鸟类是现在最令我们担心的物种，那只是因为它们的广泛分布是显而易见的。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, historically, the oppression of large groups – slaves, women, and minorities of various types – are obvious instances where inequalities are the result of power relationships, not marginal returns.",
        "当然，从历史上看，对大群体的压迫——包括奴隶、女性和各种少数群体等——都是不平等性源自权力关系而不是边际回报的显而易见的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "The Enola case demonstrates that being right is not enough: small farmers, indigenous people, and the poor can’t out-last a decade of lawsuits and monopoly.",
        "Enola案件表明最终结果正确是不够的：农民、土著和穷苦人经受不起长达十年的诉讼和垄断。"
    ],
    [
        "An Arab “Third Way”",
        "阿拉伯的“第三条路”"
    ],
    [
        "But, after more than three decades of active research and development, no clinically viable product has obtained regulatory approval, owing to the significant scientific challenges.",
        "但是，拜重大科学挑战所赐，在三十多年的积极研究和开发后，仍未有可临床使用的产品获得监管批准。"
    ],
    [
        "That possibility alone should be sufficient to spur the IMF, the United States, and, above all, the EU to act.",
        "光是这一点也许就足以让IMF、美国以及（最重要的）欧盟采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Both approaches have given rise to new forms of epidemiological surveillance.",
        "两种方法都产生了新的流行病监控形式。"
    ],
    [
        "The biggest peer-reviewed estimate of the damage cost of CO2 is about $5 per ton.",
        "经业内审议二氧化碳损失的最大估计值为5美元每吨，也就是说太阳能和风能发电每耗费1美元避免了约0."
    ],
    [
        "First, they intervened to prevent the financial system’s collapse, and, later, to stop a sovereign-debt and banking crisis in Europe.",
        "它们先是干预防止金融系统崩溃，随后又出手阻止欧洲主权债务和银行危机。"
    ],
    [
        "The hard-to-do is preferable to the unacceptable and the unthinkable.",
        "困难重重总好过无法接受或无法想象。"
    ],
    [
        "But the generals, who have the final say on military matters, are likely to preserve the status quo.",
        "但手握军队生杀大权的将军们则极有可能继续维持现状。"
    ],
    [
        "The US sovereign-debt market shows no similar evidence of having reached a limit yet.",
        "美国主权债务市场则并未出现触及极限的迹象。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, we asked, “On a holiday, when there is a great demand for flowers, their prices usually go up.",
        "例如我们问，“在过节的时候对鲜花的需求量会变大，其价格也会通常上涨。"
    ],
    [
        "Such sluggish performance is the economic equivalent of “stall speed” – the heightened vulnerability that aircrafts can encounter at low velocity.",
        "如此拙劣的表现就好比是经济的“失速速度”（航空术语，指飞机在低速是可能遇到的高度危险）。"
    ],
    [
        "By 1968, the Polish regime could no longer tolerate his presence. He was expelled from his post at Warsaw University and, when he went to teach abroad, the government forced him into exile by never allowing him to return.",
        "直至1968年，波兰当权者再也无法容忍他的存在，他们将柯拉科夫斯基逐出华沙大学，柯拉科夫斯基只得到国外执教，政府随之迫使他走上了流亡之路，永远不能回到祖国。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s government also announced that it was undertaking a review of the Indus Waters Treaty, under which India has conceded to Pakistan, on generous terms, the waters of the Indus River, which originates in India, not even using the share to which it is entitled.",
        "印度政府还宣布正在对“印度河水域条约”进行审查，印度在上述条约中对巴基斯坦作出很大让步，印度河发源于印度境内，但印度却未能使用其应有的份额。"
    ],
    [
        "Eventually, better labor-force supply will create healthier and more sustainable demand.",
        "最终，更良性的劳动力供给将创造更健康、更长效的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "But breakthroughs are on the horizon.",
        "但我们很快就会实现突破。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, keeping interest rates at the near zero level does not necessarily lead to higher levels of credit or investment.",
        "显然，保持利率在接零水平并不一定会催生更高水平的信贷或投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, as Michael Krepon of the Stimson Center, an American foreign-policy think tank, observes, official Pakistani tactics sustain the country’s “isolation and decline.”",
        "但不幸的是，正如美国外交智库斯庭森中心（Stimson Center）创始人迈克尔·克里潘所观察到的那样，维持着这个国家的“孤立和下滑”的正是巴基斯坦的官方策略。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s Republican Party has three types of fiscal conservatives: supply-side tax-cutters, those who would limit government spending, and budget balancers.",
        "美国共和党内就存在三类财政保守派：供给面减税派、限制政府支出派以及预算平衡派。"
    ],
    [
        "When I wear my headscarf or chador , people relate to me as an individual, not an object; I feel respected.”",
        "当我披上头巾或穿上黑罩袍时，人们就把我当成一个具体的人，而不是一件物品，我感觉到被尊重。"
    ],
    [
        "Both the Spanish government and the Catalan separatists must acknowledge that, if they act with sensible generosity, the other side may respond with further concessions.",
        "西班牙政府和加泰罗尼亚分离主义者都必须承认，如果他们以明智而大度的姿态行事，另一方可能以未来的让步作出回应。"
    ],
    [
        "And crush us it did by engineering a six-month-long bank run, shutting down the Greek banks in June, and causing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s capitulation to the Troika’s third bailout loan in July.",
        "为此它们操纵了长达六个月之久的银行挤兑，在六月关闭希腊各银行，令总理亚历克西·齐普拉斯（Alexis Tsipras）只得在七月有条件第屈从于三驾马车的第三轮救助贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The outliers were Venezuela, despite high oil prices, and the Caribbean Basin: Mexico, Central America, and the islands.",
        "不受影响的国家有委内瑞拉（尽管石油价格高）和加勒比海盆地地区：墨西哥、中美洲和岛国。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps, though, the importance of postwar art lies in its ability to challenge our ideas.",
        "不过，或许战后艺术的重要性正在与它挑战了我们的观念。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this often results in inadvertent harm.",
        "不幸的是，这样做通常会造成无心之失。"
    ],
    [
        "An initiative at the United Nations to encourage the establishment of SDRMs is receiving the support of prominent academic economists and practitioners.",
        "联合国鼓励建立主权债务重组机制的计划受到了著名经济学者和实践家的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not debt and deficits; and it is not dealing with the aftermath of irresponsible lending and borrowing.",
        "首先并不是债务和赤字，也不是要处理一系列不负责任借贷行为留下的烂摊子。"
    ],
    [
        "TEL AVIV – The late American diplomat George Ball once argued that Israel needed to be saved from its own suicidal policies “in spite of herself.”",
        "特拉维夫——已故美国外交家乔治·鲍尔曾经说过以色列需要从其自身“不由自主”实行的自杀式政策中被拯救。"
    ],
    [
        "The Iranian people may well choose leaders in their June 2009 elections who can deliver a much higher standard of living over those who would run the country into the ground.",
        "伊朗人在将于2009年6月举行的大选中当然会更愿意选择能改善他们的生活而不是使国家陷入困境的人来当他们的领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "In a well functioning democracy, electoral competition between government and opposition induces the government to pursue efficient policies. Not so in Italy, where the main site of electoral competition has always been within the governing coalition.",
        "在运转正常的民主社会，政府和反对派之间的选举竞争促使政府采取有效的政策，但在意大利却并非如此，因为这里的选举竞争主要发生在执政联盟的内部。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2010, countries with a similar level of education had a per capita income of less than $1,000.",
        "而2010年，教育水准相似的国家却只有不到1，000美元的人均收入。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in pursuit of national economic stability, the Obama administration is clearly moving towards the kind of government intervention that China has been promoting over the past two decades.",
        "实际上，为了追求国家的经济稳定，奥巴马的领导班子显然正往施行某种政府干预的方向努力，而在过去二十年里，中国一直推行着这种政府干预。"
    ],
    [
        "But now, faced with a slowdown in China and significant downside risks there, the rest of Asia must abandon over-reliance on export-oriented development strategies and strive to ensure stable and sustainable growth domestically and regionally.",
        "但如今面对中国经济增长放缓以及明显的下行风险，亚洲其他国家必须放弃过分依赖出口导向型的发展战略，并努力确保国内和区域内的稳定可持续增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, heightened international competition kept the lid on inflation, and interest rates remained low, giving a further boost to consumer spending and completing what looked like a virtuous growth circle.",
        "与此同时，国际竞争的加剧抑制了通货膨胀，使得利率维持在较低的水平，这样又进一步推动了消费者的消费支出，完成了貌似良性的整个增长周期循环。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, in a world changed by globalization, France must face the difficult challenge posed by its new immigrants: maintaining the principles at the core of French identity while meeting the desire of some of its new citizens to maintain their own identity, which may in fact oppose some of those principles.",
        "当今，在这个被全球化改变的世界，法国必须面对新移民带来的严峻挑战：坚持法兰西身份核心的原则同时满足一部分新公民保持自己身份的愿望，而这种愿望实际上可能与某些原则背道而驰。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s goal of removing the government’s groping hand from Americans’ pockets, by cutting the top marginal tax rate on ordinary income from 39.5% to 33%, is entirely consistent with mainstream Republican ideology, according to which high tax rates penalize success and stifle innovation.",
        "特朗普要将政府的“咸猪手”赶出美国人的钱包，将一般所得税最高边际税率从39. 5%降低到33%，这与共和党主流意识形态——高税率在惩罚成功、遏制创新——完全一致。"
    ],
    [
        "May there never be another such battle.",
        "但愿永远不会再有这样的战役。"
    ],
    [
        "But it has been able to gain a tactical advantage, at least in the short term, over the EU and the United States, which are determined to avoid direct military confrontation.",
        "但它至少在短期成功地赢得了相对欧盟和美国的战术性优势，后两者决意避免直接军事冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Some Socialists fear that, once nominated, she would not be able to confront Sarkozy in direct debates.",
        "某些社会党人担心，一旦获得提名，她将无法在直接辩论中直面萨尔科奇。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is no surprise that Trump finds a large, receptive audience when he says the state of the economy is rotten.",
        "因此当特朗普指出经济状况不断恶化的时候，他立刻就能找到了一个庞大的听众群体。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – With global trade negotiations deadlocked for years, regional agreements – long a dormant route to trade liberalization – are back with a vengeance.",
        "发自普林斯顿——随着全球贸易谈判陷入多年停滞，区域性贸易协定——这条长期以来蛰伏沉睡的贸易自由化路径——又迎来了春天。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s deteriorating loan quality is also reminiscent of Japan’s experience.",
        "中国日益恶化的贷款质量也会让人联想到日本的教训。"
    ],
    [
        "For practical reasons, there are a few guidelines – but anyone who wants to do this without following our rules is welcome to do so.",
        "出于现实里有，该项目有一些指导方针——但任何希望不受我们规则行事的人大可以这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as the Fed and the ECB have apparently saved the day through their unconventional and aggressive quantitative easing (QE), goes the argument, Abe believes it is now time for the BOJ to do the same.",
        "而正如美联储和欧洲央行显然通过非常规且激进的量化宽松政策挽救了大局一样，安倍认为日本央行也是时候该采取相同的行动了。"
    ],
    [
        "Asian countries now act with much greater self-assurance than in the past.",
        "亚洲国家现在比过去表现得要自信得多。"
    ],
    [
        "In continental Europe, where multi-party parliamentary systems are prevalent, political fragmentation and disintegration are even more severe than in the UK and the US.",
        "在普遍实行多党议会制度的欧洲大陆，政治上的分裂和瓦解比英美更严重。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet traditional patriarchal systems are still blocking women from contributing as much as they otherwise could, and without more data, we cannot see where those blockages are occurring.",
        "但传统父权制度仍然在阻碍妇女做出她们力所能及的贡献，而如果没有更多的数据，我们就无法看到这些障碍发生在哪里。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early 1990s, some new governments in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America, underestimating the power of an active citizenry and civil society, failed to regulate adequately advocacy organizations and the space in which they work.",
        "20世纪90年代初，一些东欧、非洲和拉丁美洲的新政府低估了活跃公民和公民社会的力量，没有充分监管宣传组织及其运营空间。"
    ],
    [
        "The European social-democratic model survived the 1970’s in a bedraggled form.",
        "欧洲社会民主模式把自己大加改造，从20世纪70年代活了下来。"
    ],
    [
        "Lenin's corpse remains there, but his departure is expected.",
        "虽然列宁的遗体还在那里，最终的迁徙也指日可待。"
    ],
    [
        "They are taking a much more active and public role in speaking out against bribery, corruption, and excessive pay packages, and in favor of corporate social responsibility and fair labor practices.",
        "他们在公开反对贿赂、腐败和薪酬过高、支持企业社会责任和公平劳动行为方面越来越积极主动。"
    ],
    [
        "So, when Austrian firms invested in Eastern Europe, they did not just relocate low-skilled manufacturing jobs; they also offshored the parts of the value chain that required specialized skills and produced valuable research.",
        "所以，当奥地利公司投资于东欧之时，他们不只是搬迁低技能的制造业职位； 同时也将需要专业技能并生产有价值的研究成果的一部分价值链外包了出去。"
    ],
    [
        "Its consequences were not as deadly, though the political effects of mass unemployment and the heightened perception of economic insecurity are still with us.",
        "金融危机的后果不那么致命，尽管大规模失业和经济不安全感的政治影响仍然挥之不去。"
    ],
    [
        "There is currently no guarantee that a political truce with Hamas or Hezbollah would result in a renunciation of their absolutist vision.",
        "当前并不能保证与哈马斯或真主党的政治上的停战协定会让它们放弃它们对事情绝对主义的看法。"
    ],
    [
        "Such discoveries have enhanced researchers’ ability to enrich study populations with patients who are likely to benefit from the drug, while sparing from any possible side effects of exposure those patients who are unlikely to benefit.",
        "上述发现让科研人员可以选择取得疗效机率更大的患者进入到研究小组，同时避免让可能疗效不佳的患者出现副作用。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of September, it had climbed to €450 billion – in addition to the purchases of government bonds that the Bundesbank has been forced to make.",
        "到今年9月底，这一数字已经上升到了4500亿欧元，这还不包括德国央行被迫买入的国债。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the founding of the US, its leaders have staked a claim to American exceptionalism.",
        "自美国建国以来，其领导人一直宣扬美国例外论。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be natural to consider a more progressive income tax and a “basic income.” But, these measures do not have widespread popular support.",
        "探讨实施更高的所得累进税并界定“基本收入”是自然而然的，但这些措施缺乏广泛的民众支持。"
    ],
    [
        "A car owner does not need – or usually want – to bother to find out what exactly goes on under the hood.",
        "车主没必要——通常也不愿意——花时间去搞清楚车头盖下面到底是怎么一副模样。"
    ],
    [
        "India, the only large economy whose workforce will grow in sufficient scale over the next three decades, may partly balance the declines expected in other major economies.",
        "印度是唯一一个劳动力可以继续充分增长30年的大型经济体，它或许可以在一定程度上平衡其他主要经济体的预期人口下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Sarkozy, who during his electoral campaign vowed to be the “president who delivers on purchasing power,” now faces an angry French public whose primary complaint is that purchasing power is being eroded by inflation.",
        "萨尔科奇在其总统竞选中曾经发誓要成为“实现购买力的总统”。 但是他现在面临愤怒的法国公众，他们主要抱怨通货膨胀正在侵蚀他们的购买力。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s TV ownership is almost entirely in private hands, and owners make much of their money through relentless advertising.",
        "美国的电视台几乎都掌握在私人手里，而电视台老板则通过不断播出广告而赚钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Both Egypt and Syria are prime examples of this.",
        "在此埃及和叙利亚都是极佳范例。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet in recent years, topics about which most people had never heard or cared – for example, securitization, credit default swaps, and the European payment system known as Target 2 – have imposed themselves on public debate, forcing ordinary people to grapple with their intricacies.",
        "但近几年来，大部分人从未听说或关注过的话题——比如证券化、信用违约互换和被称为Target 2的欧洲支付系统——进入了公共讨论的范围，迫使普通人绞尽脑汁要弄懂其中的难解之处。"
    ],
    [
        "Saving three innocent lives for every person executed seems like a very attractive trade-off, and even two lives saved per execution seems like a persuasive benefit-cost ratio for capital punishment.",
        "处死一个人可以挽救三个无辜之人的生命看起来是一个很有吸引力的交换，而且即使每处死一人可以救两条人命对于死刑来说也是很有说服力的成本效益比率。"
    ],
    [
        "3D Fantasies",
        "3D幻想"
    ],
    [
        "If the public expresses contempt and revulsion for bankers who cheat their clients, oil executives who wreck the climate, FIFA officials who countenance kickbacks, and politicians who cozy up to all of them in exchange for campaign funds and bribes, illegality for the few cannot become the norm.",
        "如果公众对欺骗客户的银行家、破坏气候的石油公司高管、纵容回扣的国际足联官员及拉拢上述所有人以换取竞选资金和贿赂的政客表现出鄙视和厌恶，那么少数人的违法行为就不能成为准则。"
    ],
    [
        "Then I got a couple of e-mails from other friends, forwarding messages from people I didn’t even know, with a few cc’s to some familiar names.",
        "接着我又收到其他几个朋友发来的电子邮件，这些邮件都是从一些我不认识的人处转发而来，并抄送给一些我认识的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Without nuclear fusion, future generations’ energy options will be severely limited – creating a serious problem for developed and developing countries alike.",
        "如果没有核聚变，子孙后代的能源选择将会受限严重——由此为发达及发展中国家带来的问题都非常严重。"
    ],
    [
        "After the confused and misguided leadership of the Bush administration, which failed to give any clear path to energy, health, climate, and financial policies, President-elect Barack Obama will have to start charting a course that defines the American economy’s future direction.",
        "在布什政府混乱而具有误导性的领导之后——该政府没能给能源、健康、气候和金融政策任何清晰的路径，当选总统巴拉克·奥巴马将不得不开始一个确定美国经济未来方向的旅程。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, almost half of our managed fisheries are currently exploited at sustainable levels.",
        "事实上，我国近一半的有管理的渔场目前以实现可持续捕捞。"
    ],
    [
        "Yousafzai and Satyarthi would undoubtedly point to thousands of others like them who are protesting against child marriage, labor, and trafficking.",
        "尤沙夫赛和塞蒂亚尔西毫无疑问代表着成千上万和她们一样与童婚、童工、儿童贩卖作斗争的同志。"
    ],
    [
        "The harder and more abrupt the fall, the greater the social and geopolitical impact.",
        "暴跌越大越突然，社会和地缘政治影响就越大。"
    ],
    [
        "But it must be recognized that falling educational standards will eventually hit economic growth.",
        "但是我们必须认识到教育水平的下降将最终阻碍经济的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "As the domestic situations in Israel and Palestine have changed, so, too, has the regional political environment changed in a positive direction, because most Arab states today are more afraid of Iran’s regional domination than they are of Israel.",
        "以色列和巴勒斯坦国内局势发生了改变，而地区政治环境也朝着积极的方向发生了改变，因为今天的大多数阿拉伯国家更为担心伊朗的地区控制，而非以色列。"
    ],
    [
        "This is where they are on sound footing and can advance positive goals.",
        "这才是他们拥有可靠立足点、能够推进积极目标的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union, Asia receded from American interest.",
        "但是，随着冷战的结束和苏联的解体，亚洲逐渐淡出了美国的利益圈。"
    ],
    [
        "In the early 2000s, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s government took aggressive action to tackle underlying problems in the financial and corporate sectors.",
        "21世纪初，日本首相小泉纯一郎政府采取了激进措施解决金融和公司部门的根本问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But a more coherent and consistent approach evolved following the appointment of Aaron Motsoaledi as Minister of Health in 2009.",
        "但2009年阿伦·莫索阿莱迪任卫生部长后所采用的方法更具有连贯性。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe feels let down by Obama’s decision not to take a firm stand on the ADIZ – the latest in a series of aggressive moves by China to upend the status quo in the East China Sea.",
        "安倍感觉被奥巴马不就防空识别区问题采取强硬立场的决定出卖了。 划定防空识别区是中国逆转东海现状的一系列侵略性动作的最新一步。"
    ],
    [
        "And, encouraged by its success, policymakers started applying it elsewhere.",
        "受此鼓舞，决策者还开始将它应用于其他领域。"
    ],
    [
        "This discovery was made recently because until now, the technology was not available to comprehensively assess genomic imbalances in a genome-wide fashion.",
        "这些探索是最近才开展的，原因是到目前为止，以整组基因的方式进行基因不平衡性全面评定的技术还达不到要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the one prime minister who did press for an agreement, Manmohan Singh, was met with strong domestic resistance, including from a coalition ally, making it impossible to gain enough votes to adopt the required constitutional amendment.",
        "事实上，有一位总理确实曾推进过一个协议，他就是辛格（Manmohan Singh），但他遭到了包括其执政盟友在内的强大的国内抵制，使其无法赢得足够选票实施必要的宪法修正。"
    ],
    [
        "But that description hardly seems appropriate nowadays.",
        "而现在这样的描述却不再适用。"
    ],
    [
        "Our research showed systematic relationships between corruption and economic growth, which allowed us to pursue this critical issue.",
        "我们的研究表明，腐败和经济增长之间存在体系上的关系，这一关系使得我们可以探究这一关键问题。"
    ],
    [
        "“How is it,” he asks, “that Israel – a country of 7.1 million people, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources – produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the United Kingdom?”",
        "“这究竟是怎么回事”，他问道，“以色列——一个只有710万人口、6年历史、被敌人所包围、从建国以来就战争不断且没有任何自然资源的国家成立的创业公司比日本、中国、印度、朝鲜、加拿大和英国等和平稳定的大国还要多？"
    ],
    [
        "To minimize the potential for conflicts of interest, the framework could be implemented by the United Nations, a more representative institution that is taking the lead on the matter, or by a new global institution, as already suggested in the 2009 Stiglitz Report on reforming the international monetary and financial system.",
        "联合国更具代表性，并且已经开始主导。 而2009年斯蒂格利茨报告（Stiglitz Report）提出了关于成立改革国际货币和金融体系的新机构的建议。"
    ],
    [
        "When they are negligible, they flatter profit statements, while balance-sheet problems slowly accumulate.",
        "当名义利率低到可以忽略时，就会影响利润表，而资产负债表问题则逐渐累积。"
    ],
    [
        "If making a product in the EU costs more because of higher energy costs, the product will likely be made somewhere else, where energy is cheaper, and then imported into the EU.",
        "如果欧盟生产某种产品因能源因素导致成本过大，这种产品很可能被转到其他能源便宜的地方生产，之后再进口回欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "But the precision experiments required to measure the strong force can be designed and built with known technology.",
        "德国电子同步加速器研究所的实验本身并非为此而设计，但测量强相互作用力的精确实验可以通过已有技术来设计建造。"
    ],
    [
        "The purpose of betting, of course, is not to declare winners and losers; it is to replace endless, pointless arguments with a clear determination of whose understanding of reality is closer to the truth.",
        "当然，下注的目的不在于宣布谁胜谁负； 而是为了通过明确定义谁对现实的理解更加接近真实来取代又臭又长、毫无意义的争论。"
    ],
    [
        "The reality, of course, is that democratically elected governments and parliaments install EU leaders and bureaucrats (and independent judges) precisely to place limits on the majority of the moment and future governments.",
        "当然，现实是民主选举的政府和议会之所以设置欧盟领导人和官僚（以及独立法官），正是为了限制某一时刻的大多数以及未来的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "And, of course, it is as difficult to be against cohesion as it is to be against friendship.",
        "而且，人们就像难以反对友谊一样难以反对凝聚。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, to the extent that effective precautions require governmental action, the fact that government is a centralized system of control makes it difficult for officials to respond to the full spectrum of possible risks against which cost-justified measures might be taken.",
        "第二，由于有效的预防措施要求采取政府行动，政府作为一个集权的控制体系使得官员难以应付全部可能的风险。 否则，就有可能采取措施，其成本受到控制从而变得合理。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, almost two years after the revolution began, Egypt’s security forces have not been reformed in any meaningful way.",
        "事实上，在革命爆发几近两年后，埃及安全部队仍没有发生有意义的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Soviet Union’s collapse, the case was closed – or so it seemed.",
        "苏联解体让它板上钉钉——表面上看是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "And they must work together to deepen regional trade integration, thereby creating a much larger market.",
        "而两者必须协同合作加深区域贸易整合，并因此建立一个更大规模的市场。"
    ],
    [
        "In this enedeavor, we hope to set an example to the world.",
        "我们正在努力向世界树立一个榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "But a coherent Iraqi state – whether unitary, federal, or confederal – will not grow out of a society in which one part of the population views Saddam, rightly, as a gruesome oppressor, while another part reveres him as a hero and martyr.",
        "一个统一的伊拉克国家是无法从这样的一个社会中建立起来的，无论其制度是单一集权，还是联邦制抑或是邦联制。"
    ],
    [
        "BRUSSELS – The price of freedom, it is said, is eternal vigilance.",
        "发自布鲁塞尔——有人说，所谓自由的代价，就是终生生活在失去自由的忧虑当中。"
    ],
    [
        "In the past, tail risks were more occasional, growth scares turned out to be just that, and the policy response was strong and effective, thereby keeping risk-off episodes brief and restoring asset prices to their previous highs (if not taking them even higher).",
        "在过去，尾部风险偶然性更大，增长恐慌仅仅是恐慌，政策应对强力有效，因此避险时期都比较短，资产价格很快就可以收复前高甚至再创新高。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, he has abandoned the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership – which his election opponent, Hillary Clinton, had also promised to do – and opened negotiations with Mexico and Canada to update the North American Free-Trade Agreement, which President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994.",
        "到目前为止，他退出了有12个国家参加的跨太平洋合作伙伴关系（TPP）——他的竞选对手克林顿（Hillary Clinton）也承诺会这么做——并启动了与墨西哥和加拿大的北美自由贸易协定（NAFTA）修订谈判。 NAFTA由克林顿总统在1994年签署成为法律。"
    ],
    [
        "It was an impressive attack on a view that, to the best of my knowledge, nobody holds.",
        "就我所知，没人支持这一观点，豪斯曼的抨击令人印象深刻。"
    ],
    [
        "Political leaders enjoy fewer degrees of freedom before they must respond to events, and must then communicate not only with other governments, but with civil society as well.",
        "政治领导人在必须就某事件作出反应之前的自由度越来越低了，而事件发生后，政治领导人不但要和其他政府沟通，也要和公民社会沟通。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem for Khamenei – and thus for those negotiating with Iran – is that there is scant benefit for him in success.",
        "哈梅内伊，连带那些与伊朗谈判者所面临的问题是，解决核危机让他们很难得到好处。"
    ],
    [
        "It looks as if now the roles have been inversed.",
        "现在角色似乎已经发生了转变。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, until then a net creditor to the world, became a net borrower, with China and other emerging markets benefiting from America’s rising trade deficit.",
        "在此之前，美国一直是世界净债权人，此后则成为净债务人，而中国和其他新兴市场得益于美国贸易赤字的增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Poverty has been reduced.",
        "贫困已经有所缓解。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, despite the warnings of deficit alarmists, the US does not face an imminent debt crisis.",
        "此外，尽管赤字悲观派频发警告，但美国仍没有迫在眉睫的债务危机。"
    ],
    [
        "A few believe their own lies.",
        "一些政府相信自己的谎言。"
    ],
    [
        "But if they do cut, the confidence fairy will reward them by stimulating private spending more than the cuts depress it.",
        "但如果它们确实削减了赤字，信心仙子将通过刺激比削减赤字所影响的更多的私人支出来奖励它们。"
    ],
    [
        "With the Cold War's end, Americans became more interested in budget savings than in investing in soft power.",
        "随着冷战的结束，美国人变得对节省预算而不是投资软权力更有兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "We have yet to build a living organism entirely from bottles of chemicals, so anyone who believes in a “life force” that only a divine being could imbue into inert matter will no doubt continue to believe in it.",
        "我们依然未能成功在实验室里完完全全地创造出一个活的有机体，因此那些相信只有一个类似于神明的存在才能将“生命力量”注入到一个躯壳里面的人无疑将继续坚持自己信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a recent survey by the People’s Bank (the central bank), households in the ten largest cities spend about 35% of their monthly income on average on mortgage repayments, which is comparable to other countries.",
        "根据人民银行（中央银行）最近的一次调查，在十个最大的城市里的家庭平均将大约35%的月收入用于偿还抵押贷款，这与其他一些国家已经相差无几了。"
    ],
    [
        "They are idealized reflections of the self.",
        "他们是理想化的自身的反映。"
    ],
    [
        "Other Confucian societies, such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, now have thriving liberal democracies, and there is no reason to believe that such a transition is impossible in China.",
        "诸如韩国、台湾以及日本等其他的儒家社会，如今都已拥有繁荣的自由民主制度，人们没有理由相信：中国不可能经历这种转型。"
    ],
    [
        "China has it within its power to stabilize its exchange rate via credible reforms, particularly policies that redirect resources to invigorate domestic demand and pull resources toward the newer high-value sectors.",
        "中国拥有通过可信改革稳定汇率的能力，特别是重新引导资源提振内需、让资源流向更新的高价值部门的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "As the late historian Philip Curtin documented, from the beginning of urban life, millennia ago, trade typically involved networks of co-ethnic merchants living among aliens.",
        "已故历史学家菲利普·科廷（Philip Curtin）指出，从一千年前人类刚刚进入城市时期开始，典型的贸易活动就已经包括了商人与外族人混居的网络。"
    ],
    [
        "But who is right, Bernanke or Greenspan? Central bankers or markets?",
        "但是，伯南克和格林斯潘以及中央银行和市场之间究竟谁对？"
    ],
    [
        "Blurring that distinction – thereby disregarding the problem of scarcity – is no solution.",
        "模糊其中的区别，从而忽视稀缺性问题，不是解决问题的办法。"
    ],
    [
        "For young Americans (those under 25), the borrowing rate rose by ten percentage pointsmore than the borrowing rate of young Chinese, while the savings rate of the Chinese working-age population (ages 35-54) rose by about 17 percentage points more than the savings rate of their American counterparts.",
        "年轻美国人（25岁以下）比年轻中国人的贷款率高出10%，而参加工作后的中国人（35-54岁）在储蓄率方面比同龄的美国人高出17%。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the World Bank, since 1970, irrigation in Yemen has increased by a factor of 15, as rain-fed agriculture has declined by nearly 30%.",
        "据世界银行数据，自1970年以来，也门灌溉量增加了15倍，而雨水灌溉农业萎缩了近30%。"
    ],
    [
        "While much more needs to be done for Africa and parts of Latin America, the Doha Round was intended to assist in providing market access (and therefore opportunity) to many more in the developing world.",
        "尽管非洲和部分拉美国家还需要更多，但多哈回合可以在向更多发展中国家提供市场进入（从而得到机会）方面有所助益。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to facilitate their religious duties, the Orthodox metropolitans were granted Turkish citizenship.",
        "为有利于旅行自身的宗教责任，一些东正教牧师还被授予了土耳其国籍。"
    ],
    [
        "They are acutely aware of their increasing influence around the world, as investors, trading partners, and as contributors to and victims of environmental change.",
        "亚洲国家无不清楚地意识到自身作为投资者和贸易伙伴日益扩大的全球影响，他们清楚地意识到自己既是环境变化的始作俑者，也无时无刻不在受到环境变化的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "It is worth recalling them, because they show how policymakers stumbled along, trying to put out fires without keeping an eye on where their chosen path was leading them.",
        "回顾一下是值得的，因为这显示了决策者是怎样蹒跚而行、试图扑灭大火又不去关注他们所选择的道路的去向的。"
    ],
    [
        "Although all countries offer some kind of social protection or security, in most countries, coverage is severely limited and targeted at specific groups.",
        "尽管所有国家都提供某些种类的社会保障，但在大部分国家，覆盖率相当有限，且只面对特定群体。"
    ],
    [
        "Though Rovio Entertainment’s release in 2009 of the popular video game Angry Birds catalyzed an innovation boom in Espoo, it is Aalto University – Finland’s equivalent of Stanford in California – that continues to fuel innovation in the area, by nurturing programmers, designers, and others with the necessary talents.",
        "虽然Rovio娱乐于2009年发布的流行视频游戏“愤怒的小鸟”引爆了埃斯波的创新热潮，但不断培养出程序员、设计师和其他必要人才、持续为该地区提供创新动力的却是芬兰的阿尔托大学（相当于芬兰的加州斯坦福）。"
    ],
    [
        "Had Britain’s leaders rushed to dismantle long-standing trading systems and other economic and financial arrangements with the EU, before developing a credible and comprehensive alternative, the situation could be much more volatile.",
        "如果英国领导人匆忙宣布存在多时的贸易体系和其他与欧盟的经济和金融安排不再有效，而没有制定出可信而全面的替代方案，情况可能远比现在更加波动。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, do we really want a terrorist group to be capable of accessing a president’s or prime minister’s private information?",
        "比方说，我们是否真的希望恐怖组织能对总统或总理的私人信息进行访问？"
    ],
    [
        "In short, while Europe has been a solid team player, it has not been a very good team captain.",
        "总之，虽然欧洲是位可靠的球员，但却从未出色地担任过队长职务。"
    ],
    [
        "The official narrative reflected little of this.",
        "官方说法对此几乎一字不提。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in many cases, politics has become a matter of self-promotion – and a race for ratings.",
        "但是，在许多例子中，政治沦为自我推销——以及流品（ratings）的竞赛。"
    ],
    [
        "But do such policies achieve their goal of strengthening demand and growth?",
        "但这些政策达到了强化需求和增长的目标了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In Hong Kong, exports actually contracted by 3% in September – the first year-on-year decline in 23 months.",
        "在香港，9月出口额实际上收缩了3%，23个月以来首次出现同比下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The experience in Japan, where not even negative interest rates have been sufficient to spur growth in an economy burdened by so-called zombie banks, makes this starkly apparent.",
        "日本就连负利率都不足以刺激所谓僵尸银行拖累的经济重回增长，这样的经历赤裸裸地凸显了这一事实。"
    ],
    [
        "China, for example, is a model of despotic efficiency: its internal-security system extends from state-of-the-art surveillance and extralegal detention centers to an army of paid informants and neighborhood patrols that looks out for troublemakers.",
        "对此中国堪称高效专制的样板：其内部安全系统一方面是极端完善的监控体系和非法拘留中心，另一方面则是一大批拿钱办事，时刻准备着揪出“捣乱分子”的线人和社区纠察队。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider, for example, the silent water war triggered by Ethiopia’s dam building on the Blue Nile, which has elicited Egyptian threats of covert or overt military reprisals.",
        "比如，埃塞俄比亚在青尼罗河上修建大坝便引起了静悄悄的谁战争，埃及已表示要进行隐蔽或公然的军事报复。"
    ],
    [
        "Party and state bureaucracies will lose power (and income).",
        "党和国家官僚将失去权力（以及收入）。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing countries, however, could potentially accelerate productivity growth, and thus GDP growth, by borrowing technology from advanced countries – that is, tapping the latecomers’ advantage, as China has done.",
        "但是，发展中国家可以通过从发达国家借技术——即像中国那样利用后发优势——加快生产率增长，从而加快GDP增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Most important, Europe needs to strengthen itself from the inside out.",
        "最重要的是，欧洲需要从内而外强化自己。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, at the very moment that the US is leading a global campaign to isolate Iran over its nuclear program, it is strengthening Iran’s regional position.",
        "更讽刺的是，在核武器问题上，美国一面领导全球孤立伊朗，但同时又令伊朗的区域影响力进一步增强。"
    ],
    [
        "Dissatisfaction with the dollar’s role as the dominant global reserve currency is not new.",
        "不满于美元首要全球储备货币地位并非新鲜事。"
    ],
    [
        "It is this uncertainty that has driven the fact-checkers to rate Clinton’s statements as half-true.",
        "正是这一不确定性促使事实考据者将克林顿的主张称为半对。"
    ],
    [
        "They increase competitiveness, facilitate innovation, and boost private-sector returns, generating growth and employment.",
        "它们能够增加竞争力、促进创新、提振私人部门回报、制造增长和就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Most concerning of all is the United States, which is now seeking to carve out a new global role for itself under President Donald Trump.",
        "最令人关注的是美国，目前，在总统特朗普的带领下，它正在寻求重塑自己的全球角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The churning, difficult period in which we find ourselves will create new opportunities.",
        "我们发现我们正处在一个困难时期，但这个时期将制造出新机会。"
    ],
    [
        "To encourage customers to request official receipts as proof of payment, some local tax authorities issue a type of receipt that doubles as a lottery ticket.",
        "为了鼓励消费者索取正式发票作为付款的证明，一些地方的税务机关发行了一种同时也是彩票的收据。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU urgently needs to democratize its procedures and reorganize its institutions to ensure that this year's enlargement does not lead to bureaucratic deadlock.",
        "欧盟现在急需民主化其程序和进行机构改组以确保今年的扩张不会导致官僚主义的僵局。"
    ],
    [
        "With strong majorities in both houses, he should be able to secure whatever reform legislation he needs – that is, provided that he can maintain the LDP’s internal discipline (his enormous popularity will help him).",
        "他在议会两院都拥有绝对多数，应能确保任何需要的改革立法——如果他能维持自民党内部纪律的话（他的高支持度对他有利）。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that governments need to practice what they preach.",
        "这就意味着各国政府需要言行一致。"
    ],
    [
        "But while Royal has been careful to placate her socialist base, she has also talked about the need for market reforms in the French economy, and taken some foreign policy positions on Iran and Turkey that are closer to the American view than are Sarkozy’s.",
        "但是在罗雅尔小心翼翼地安抚她的社会党支持者的同时也在呼吁要对法国经济进行市场经济的改革，并且她在伊拉克和土耳其问题上的某些外交政策立场比萨尔科齐的更接近美国的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "(In France, moreover, the far-right National Front, led by Marine Le Pen, showed its strength in the first round of December’s regional elections, though it eventually failed to win any).",
        "（此外，在法国，由马琳·勒庞（Marine Le Pen）领导的极右翼政党国民阵线（National Front）也在今年12月的第一轮选举中尽显强势，尽管最后没有赢得胜利。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Official taxes are high when spending is high.",
        "政府大量支出时通常伴随着高昂的官方税率。"
    ],
    [
        "With short-term interest rates locked at zero, pressure for further appreciation would leave the PBC helpless to re-expand the economy.",
        "由于短期利率锁定为零，进一步升值的压力将使中国人民银行无法再扩大经济规模。"
    ],
    [
        "Whose and which choices are the nudgers suppose to encourage?",
        "推动者应该鼓励谁的哪些选择？"
    ],
    [
        "Our delegation was also told that the authorities are examining several motives, but have not ruled out – or pinpointed – any single one.",
        "我们的代表团还被告知，当局正在研究几种动机，但没有排除——或指明——任何一种。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have already written off the United Kingdom, claiming that a partner that would consider leaving is not the kind of partner they want, anyway.",
        "一些人已经把英国一笔勾销，声称考虑离开的伙伴已经不是他们想要的伙伴了。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would take a medium-sized political miracle for these hopes not to be disappointed, and such a miracle will not happen – whoever is elected.",
        "但要这些希望别成为失望，就需要有一场中等规模的政治奇迹，而这样的奇迹将不会发生—不管谁当选。"
    ],
    [
        "Europe has been unifying gradually for 50 years now, and we can reasonably look forward to further inter-continental cooperation and integration, not least because of scientific and technological developments.",
        "现在，欧洲逐渐一体化已经50年了，我们有理由期望进一步的洲际合作和一体化，尤其是因为科学和技术发展的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are serious concerns about legal operations, too.",
        "而且合法手术也引发了严重的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "People can easily become lost in today’s ocean of information. They will always be looking for a lighthouse, faros , as we say in Greek.",
        "人们常易于迷失在今日的信息海洋中，因此他们总在找寻一座灯塔，在希腊语中我们称之为， faros 。"
    ],
    [
        "A loss of $170 billion can be attributed to future real wages, for households will find themselves paying higher margins to companies with more market power.",
        "1700亿美元的损失是由未来的真实薪资造成的，因为普通消费者会发现他们将为拥有更大市场实力的公司支付更高的利润边际。"
    ],
    [
        "But to understand how this policy would actually play out for taxpayers, I applied the scenario to the real distribution of US household incomes in 2010.",
        "但为了理解这个政策实际上会对纳税人产生何种影响，请让我将这一情景代入到2010年美国家庭收入的真实分布中。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the Internet’s commercial potential stems from data collection, sharing, and analysis, all of which are fraught with privacy concerns.",
        "互联网的商业潜力有很大一部分来自数据收集、共享和分析，而这三个方面都有隐私顾虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Market prices provide information about what is in short supply. Profits create incentives to respond to the information contained in prices.",
        "供不应求的商品信息反映在市场价格当中，而利润则刺激人们对价格所包含的信息做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s election and escalating regional tensions have created the perfect pretext for Abe to push for his ultimate political goal: to abolish Article 9 – the pacifist clause in Japan’s post-war, US-imposed constitution, which limits the Japanese military to a “self-defense force,” and has generally kept Japanese defense spending at 1% of GDP.",
        "特朗普的当选和地区紧张的升级为安倍推行其终极政治目标创造了完美条件——废除战后由美国制定的日本和平宪法第九条，该条限制日本军队只能是“自卫队”，其国防支出一般不能超过GDP的1%。"
    ],
    [
        "It would still have its full first-strike and retaliatory capacity, but, like a bee, it would be able to sting only once.",
        "他依旧拥有先下手为强以及报复势力，但是和蜜蜂一样，只能蛰一次。"
    ],
    [
        "The current one, Dmitri Medvedev, has been discredited as inefficient and – to a public that views him as a political pygmy – unworthy of the level of personal corruption that has been exposed.",
        "现任总理德米特里·梅德韦杰夫已经被外界认定为效率低下——对将其视为政治侏儒的公众来说——他不配达到已经被揭露出来的个人腐败水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a relatively small amount of material such as cobalt-60 – used in radiotherapy – could cause serious harm if combined with conventional explosives in a so-called dirty bomb (or otherwise deliberately used to expose the public to dangerous radiation).",
        "即使相对较小数量的钴（用于放射治疗）等材料，若加入常规爆炸物制成所谓的脏弹（或故意用来让公众接受危险的辐射）也能造成严重伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "Improving financial literacy would also help.",
        "改善财务知识也有所助益。"
    ],
    [
        "The very nature of our European model – a model that is open internally, externally, and globally – must be reaffirmed.",
        "欧洲模式的根本特点—一种对内、对外和对全球都开放的模式—必须重新确认。"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the two countries whose problems drove much of the need for twentieth-century European integration – Germany and Italy – were culturally and politically highly diverse.",
        "特别是，德国和意大利的问题是20世纪欧洲一体化需要的重要原因，这两个国家在文化上和政治上都十分多元化。"
    ],
    [
        "It is governments’ job to uphold their end of the bargain and ensure that they do not shirk their responsibilities.",
        "保守信用和保证不推脱责任是政府的指责。"
    ],
    [
        "Each of these efforts started as a country-led initiative, born of particular challenges and designed to meet the specific needs of the local population.",
        "这些政策一开始都是国家领导的项目，诞生于特定的挑战面前，目的是为了满足当地人口的具体需求。"
    ],
    [
        "But our vision will eventually open up ways to solve North Korea’s problems, not only bringing a better future for the North, but also making the Korean Peninsula a gateway for peace and prosperity in Northeast Asia.",
        "但我们的远见终将开启北朝鲜问题的解决方式。 这不仅能为北朝鲜带去更好的未来，还能令朝鲜半岛成为东北亚和平与繁荣的门户。"
    ],
    [
        "In the summer of 2003, public debate and market sentiment in the euro area were influenced by Japan’s protracted deflation and the expectation of a possibly severe disinflationary process in America.",
        "2003年夏天，欧元区的公众辩论和市场观点受到了日本长期通货紧缩和美国预期中严格制止通货膨胀措施的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, add Egypt and Qatar to the equation and bring in the UN to provide an umbrella for a proposed regional nuclear-fuel bank, to which Iran would make the first contribution.",
        "比如将埃及和卡塔尔纳入会谈并让联合国提供建立一个区域性核燃料银行的保底承诺，并将伊朗设为该银行的第一个赞助者。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, in order to preserve the system’s stability and integrity, these efforts were accompanied by the centralization of fiscal authority and certain oversight powers.",
        "与此同时，为了保证系统的稳定和健全，放权的同时中央政府也上收了财政权和某些市场监督权。"
    ],
    [
        "But the process of separating the petroleum-based recyclable plastics from other kinds of plastics and solid waste is difficult, costly, and labor-intensive, so only a small proportion is recycled.",
        "但分离基于石油的可循环塑料和其他种类的塑料和固体废物十分困难、成本高昂且属于劳动密集型工作，因此只有少部分塑料得到了循环利用。"
    ],
    [
        "According to this moral-hazard argument, the authorities will push ahead with painful labor- and product-market reforms and pursue the fiscal consolidation needed to gain the confidence of investors only if they remain under the gun.",
        "根据这一道德风险观点，只有在仍需面对枪口时，当局才会推动痛苦的劳动力和产品市场改革并追求必要的财政整合以争取投资者的信心。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when Turkish democracy is wobbling, and its leaders are less interested in Euro-Atlanticism than in reasserting century-old claims in the Middle East, the US will, again, need to adopt a tactful approach.",
        "在土耳其民主岌岌可危、土耳其领导人对欧洲-大西洋主义的兴趣不及重新主张一个世纪前在中东的主导权的兴趣时，美国应该再次采取左右逢源方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Boosting South Africa’s Diversity Dividend",
        "提振南非的多样性红利"
    ],
    [
        "Suppose that the United States or the Western European core economies boost their government purchases for next year by $100 billion.",
        "试想一下，美国或西欧核心经济体明年增加1 000亿美元政府购买。"
    ],
    [
        "Sustainable Humanity",
        "可持续人道"
    ],
    [
        "All this was to be accomplished using small “backyard steel furnaces” operated by ordinary people with no particular technical expertise.",
        "而用来实现这一宏愿的，则是一些连专门钢铁生产技术都不具备的民众建立起来的“土法炼钢炉”。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, it must be met with a comprehensive and effective solution.",
        "因此，必须以全面有效的方案应对。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is not the role of the US president to tell the Fed how to manage its policy rate.",
        "但告诉美联储如何管理货币政策不是美国总统应该做的事。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it has become a dominant theme of Bush’s second term.",
        "实际上，这已经成了布什连任任期内最为重要的主题。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is the United States that launched wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, offers unconditional support to Israel, and has repeatedly propped up Arab autocrats.",
        "但是美国发动了伊拉克和阿富汗战争、为以色列提供无条件支持并一再支持阿拉伯独裁者。"
    ],
    [
        "Munich – the 1938 meeting between Adolf Hitler, Édouard Daladier, Neville Chamberlain, and Benito Mussolini – is a frequent witness summoned to court by politicians trying to argue the case for foreign adventures.",
        "比如阿道夫·希特勒、法国总理达拉第，英国首相张伯伦和墨索里尼于1938年共同策划的“慕尼黑阴谋”就经常被政治家引用来讨论海外用兵的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Recalling the ways in which the pardon power has been used in the past highlights the perversity of the Arpaio affair and its singular reactionary purpose: to denigrate and, where possible, reverse Obama’s achievements and, indeed, his values.",
        "回顾以往赦免权的使用方式更加凸显了阿帕约事件的反常极其纯粹的反动目的：此次事件就是为了玷污奥巴马，尽可能逆转奥巴马所取得的成就，并且在实际上颠覆他的价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United States, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal government debt doubled over the past decade, from 36% of GDP to 74% of GDP.",
        "在美国，国会预算办公室（CBO）估算联邦政府债务在过去十年翻了一番，从占GDP的36%增加到74%。"
    ],
    [
        "Marginalizing Malaria",
        "使疟疾边缘化"
    ],
    [
        "Make no mistake: education presumably does raise productivity.",
        "不要误会，教育确有提高生产率之功效。"
    ],
    [
        "Maduro himself invoked the rumor that the Israelis poisoned former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.",
        "马杜罗本人援引了以色列毒杀前巴勒斯坦总统阿拉法特的流言。"
    ],
    [
        "This would have capped the number of centrifuges at a low level, kept enrichment below the possibility of weaponization, and converted enriched uranium into benign forms of nuclear fuel.",
        "该条件将把离心机数量限制在较低水平，核浓缩能力将不足以实现武器化，浓缩铀也将替换为用作核燃料的较低浓度的形式。"
    ],
    [
        "It would rather attribute low inflation to successful inflation targeting, and the Great Moderation that it presumably spawned.",
        "它宁愿将低通胀归因于成功的通胀目标政策，以及很可能是因此形成的大稳健（Great Moderation）。"
    ],
    [
        "It is only with the second that the plot reaches its climax.",
        "然而，只有到了第二幕，剧情才达到高潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Clearly, the responsibility to implement sound economic policies rests with African countries themselves.",
        "很明显，落实有效的经济政策的责任在于非洲国家自己。"
    ],
    [
        "In the WEF’s 2016-17 Global Competiveness Report, the US came in third in terms of overall international competitiveness (behind Switzerland and Singapore) – maintaining pretty much the same position it has held over the past decade.",
        "在世界经济论坛的《2016~17年全球竞争力报告》中，美国在总体国际竞争力方面排名第三（居瑞士和新加坡之后）——且在过去十年中保持了同样的位置。"
    ],
    [
        "But this has to be a European project – one that eventually must find its way into the European budget.",
        "但这必需成为一项欧洲计划——也就是说这项计划必需纳入欧洲预算之中。"
    ],
    [
        "After deposing his father in a palace coup in 1995, Al Thani was suddenly confronted with a hostile Saudi Arabia and Egypt, whose elites despised the ambitious young ruler and preferred his more timid father.",
        "1995年发动宫廷政变罢黜其父后，阿勒萨尼冷不防需要面对充满敌意的沙特阿拉伯和埃及，那些精英更喜欢他胆小怯懦的父亲，而鄙视这位雄心勃勃的年轻统治者。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, parts of the human-rights community have backed recent US military interventions on the grounds of the “Responsibility to Protect,” or R2P.",
        "与此同时，某些人权组织支持最近美国打着“保护责任”（Responsibility to Protect）旗号进行的军事干预。"
    ],
    [
        "That was a tough hit for a struggling Japanese economy.",
        "对于苦苦挣扎的日本经济来说，这是个严重的打击。"
    ],
    [
        "Each camp has taken its turn controlling the government, under two formidable female leaders: the Awami League’s Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the current prime minister, and her two-term predecessor, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s Begum Khaleda Zia.",
        "每个阵营在两位可怕的女领袖的领导下轮流控制过政府：现任总理、人民联盟（Awami League）的谢赫·哈西娜·瓦吉德（Sheikh Hasina Wazed）以及在她之前连任两届的孟加拉国民党（Bangladesh Nationalist Party）的比格姆·卡勒达·齐亚（Begum Khaleda Zia）。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, some progress is being made toward bringing longer-term considerations into annual budget rules.",
        "平心而论，在将长期考虑引入年度预算规则方面正在取得一些进展。"
    ],
    [
        "In a watershed with former practice, a new non-conditional credit line was introduced for well-performing countries.",
        "对于那些经济表现良好的国家而言，最新引进了一种无条件贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "People living in these areas need peace and stability, not a fragile",
        "上述地区的民众需要的是和平与稳定，而不是一纸脆弱的"
    ],
    [
        "Power must be returned to the people.",
        "权力必须回归人民。"
    ],
    [
        "But a Putin in one country has a tendency to produce Putin imitators elsewhere.",
        "但在其他国家，普京的效仿者似乎还大有人在。"
    ],
    [
        "This amounts to a generous – and largely hidden – subsidy from the Fed to the financial sector.",
        "这相当于美联储向金融部门给与了一个慷慨的——而且在很大程度上隐蔽的——补贴。"
    ],
    [
        "Elsewhere, however, the effects were catastrophic – nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union, whose economy was heavily dependent on petroleum exports.",
        "但是，在其他方面，油价下跌的影响是灾难性的——最为明显的便是苏联，其经济严重依赖石油出口。"
    ],
    [
        "They have systematically abused intellectual-property laws to achieve market domination, rather than to protect genuine innovations.",
        "它们不去保护真正的创新，而是系统性地滥用知识产权法来实现市场统治。"
    ],
    [
        "There are no hospitals in nature.",
        "这里并没有什么医院存在。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge today is to extract the clinical relevance of these findings and translate them into daily health care.",
        "解读这些发现的临床意义并将其应用于日常健康护理是今天所面临的挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Museveni, for example, claimed that blocking Internet access was the only way to protect visiting heads of state during his swearing-in ceremony.",
        "比如，穆塞韦尼宣称切断互联网接入是在其就职典礼上保护来访的各国首脑的唯一办法。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the real cause for concern is not China’s strength, but rather incipient weakness, which could plunge the country – and the many others that depend on its economic performance – into crisis.",
        "事实上，中国真正令人担忧的并不是实力，而是其早期遗留的弱点，这些弱点可能让这个国家——以及其他很多依赖于它经济表现的人——陷入危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Countries do not like to feel isolated.",
        "国家不喜欢被孤立的感觉。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet there are reasons to fear that there will be such a decline: slower growth means fewer competitive pressures for heightened efficiency; diminished risk tolerance means a lower appetite for innovation and experimentation; and nominal interest rates pinned at the zero lower bound means that society’s savings cannot be used effectively.",
        "但是，有理由担心会发生这样的下降：放缓的增长意味着提高效率的竞争压力不再紧迫； 风险容忍度的下降意味着创新和实验倾向的减弱；"
    ],
    [
        "During the two-year period before Britain’s withdrawal takes final effect, there would be UK-EU negotiations on many points – sovereignty, the legal order, immigration, finances, and economic matters.",
        "在最终完全脱离欧盟之前的两年时间内，英国与欧盟之间将针对多项问题展开谈判——主权，法律秩序，移民，财政以及经济事务。"
    ],
    [
        "There are two types of conflicts of interest among the government bodies.",
        "政府机构之间存在两类利益冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Coronary capitalism is fantastic for the stock market, which includes companies in all of these industries.",
        "冠状动脉资本主义是股市的强心剂，股市是上述所有行业企业的云集之所。"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, we were offered literally a million reminders that the system of refugee protection was failing.",
        "去年，可以说有上百万种迹象都在提醒我们难民保护体系未能正常工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming 3% growth is, to put it generously, wishful thinking.",
        "认为增长能够达到3%，最多只能算是痴人说梦。"
    ],
    [
        "Apparently, the fiscal stimulus after the crisis was not all that stimulating.",
        "5%。 显然，危机后的财政刺激未必起到了刺激效果。"
    ],
    [
        "The only thing that upsets voters as much as being lied to is being treated like babies.",
        "让选民像被欺骗一样厌恶的只有一件事：就是像对孩子一样对他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, due to their repeated queries for explanation, a few Western media outlets eventually owned up to their mistakes.",
        "而且，由于他们不断要求解释，一些西方媒体终于承认了错误。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations estimates that over half of the country’s 22 million citizens have left their homes, something the world has not seen since World War II.",
        "联合国估算叙利亚2,200万公民中有一大半已经逃离祖国，这是二战以来从未发生过的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – Twenty-five years after the adoption of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change on May 9, 1992, the world has yet to implement a treaty that effectively addresses global warming.",
        "斯坦福——1992年5月9日通过联合国气候框架公约25年后，世界仍未能落实一项有效解决全球变暖问题的条约。"
    ],
    [
        "A stronger safety net for individuals might allow politicians to accept more corporate or financial-sector distress, and help bolster their claim that next time really will be different.",
        "一个更强大的个人社会安全网将使得政治家能容许企业和金融部门承担更大的压力，并帮助他们实现“下回真的跟以往不一样”的诺言。"
    ],
    [
        "According to a report released by the National Institute for Educational Planning Administration (NIEPA) in 2005, 8.1% of primary schools in India have no classrooms, while 17.5% have only one teacher.",
        "根据国家教育规划与管理研究所2005年发布的一份报告，印度8. 1%的小学没有教室，17."
    ],
    [
        "There is no need for liberal, traditional parties, in a fit of panic, to battle the right by pandering to the same resentments.",
        "现在，传统自由党派没有必要惊慌失措，通过讨好相同的仇恨对抗右翼。"
    ],
    [
        "Thirty-five ministers were chosen by the new prime minister, Hisham Qandil, seven of whom (including Qandil) were ministers in the previous SCAF-appointed government.",
        "新任总理希沙姆·甘迪勒任命了35位部长，其中7位（包括甘迪勒本人）均曾在此前武装部队最高委员会任命的政府中担任过部长职务。"
    ],
    [
        "More important, the reform represented a golden opportunity for the US to demonstrate global leadership, by recognizing that the existing international order must accommodate changing economic-power dynamics.",
        "更重要的是，这项改革是美国通过承认现有国际秩序必须适应经济力量变化动态而证明其全球领导力的黄金机会。"
    ],
    [
        "By design, these funds are intended to be invested outside Russia.",
        "从目的上讲，俄罗斯主权财富基金是为了在俄罗斯之外进行投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Margolis asks: “When the boss says ‘Who wants to come to Philadelphia with me?’, what’s going to get two people instead of one to say yes?",
        "马戈利斯问了个问题：“当老板当众询问’谁愿意和我飞一趟费城？ ’，是什么能够吸引两个人，而不仅仅只有一个人说愿意呢？"
    ],
    [
        "If there ever were need for yet another clinching argument for a presidential system in India, it is the spectacle of the head of government abandoning the responsibilities of that office every few months to go on the stump for their party.",
        "如果说有什么证据证明印度有必要实行总统制，那就是政府首脑每隔几个月就必须放弃职务责任为所在党派站脚助威的奇观。"
    ],
    [
        "My government is thinking hard about this dilemma, and close consultation is underway within the ruling coalition.",
        "我的政府对这一困境进行了深入思考，执政联盟正在接近结论。"
    ],
    [
        "So Europeans are right to be fascinated by America’s presidential election.",
        "所以，欧洲人对美国总统选举着迷是有道理的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the myth of European supranationalism persisted.",
        "但欧洲超国家主义的神话依然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Human lives became markedly more productive, and life expectancies rose dramatically.",
        "人类生产率显著提高，寿命预期大幅增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Argentina’s economy would be better off today if Argentina had borrowed in terms linked to its GDP decades ago rather than at an interest rate denominated in dollars.",
        "事实上，如果阿根廷几十年前借用了与其GDP连动而非与以美元计价的利率连动的条款，今日的阿根廷经济会更加繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a simple fix to this problem – require money-market funds to show the actual floating value of their assets, so that everyone understands that it is not a fixed number.",
        "这一问题有一个简单的解决办法——要求货币市场基金披露资产的实际价值波动，从而人人都能了解这并不是一个固定数字。"
    ],
    [
        "Students must take ownership of their education.",
        "学生必须自主掌握自己的教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the Declaration issues an appeal to “all Muslims wherever they may be” that is underpinned by quotes from the Holy Koran.",
        "最后，宣言向“一切地方的穆斯林”发出了由神圣可兰经支持的宣言。"
    ],
    [
        "The policy of isolation coupled with direct negotiations would be strengthened further by a common strategy toward Syria, aimed not at “regime change,” but at “coalition change” – that is, drawing Syria away from its close alliance with Iran.",
        "孤立与直接谈判相结合的政策还可以进一步由一项针对叙利亚的共同战略来强化。 这项战略的目的不是“政体改革”而是“联盟改革”—即让叙利亚逐渐脱离与伊朗的紧密联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Efforts to “sterilize” these purchases and dampen domestic credit expansion also have adverse consequences.",
        "“对冲”这些买入操作、抑制国内信用扩张也具有负面效应。"
    ],
    [
        "The authors had inadvertently omitted data, used a questionable weighting scheme, and employed an erroneous observation on GDP growth.",
        "两位作者居然都粗心地忽略了某些数据，使用了有问题的加权方法，并采用了错误的观察方法来评定GDP增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese firm Face++ recently raised $460 million, the largest amount ever for an AI company.",
        "6亿美元的C轮融资，这是截至目前人工智能领域规模最大的一笔融资。"
    ],
    [
        "What is really needed is not money, but the political will to correct market failure by bringing about fundamental shifts in the metrics, institutions, and policies that govern how investors evaluate economic activities.",
        "真正需要的不是钱，而是纠正市场失灵的政治意愿，即需要从根本上转变投资者对经济活动评估起决定作用的衡量指标、制度和政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Huge bilateral trade deficits, accusations that China keeps its currency undervalued, and a rash of defective and dangerous Chinese-made exports have fueled a protectionist backlash in the United States and Europe.",
        "巨额的双边贸易赤字、对中国让货币保持在低水平的谴责、中国出口的产品一再发生质量低劣以及危险性的问题遭到了美国和欧洲的保护主义者的强烈抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "One hesitates to consider what might happen if they fail.",
        "人们总是不愿考虑失败时会发生什么。"
    ],
    [
        "As Russia’s conflict with Ukraine in early January over gas prices demonstrated, when Russia plays rough, the West grows apprehensive and suspicious rather than more amenable.",
        "正如1月上旬俄乌天然气价格之争所表明的那样，当俄国态度蛮横时，西方世界变得忧心忡忡、疑惑不解，却并没有顺从俄国的意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "But these innovations served only to increase the human population, not raise median standards of living.",
        "但是这些创新只是促进了人类人口的增加，没有提高生活水平的中线。"
    ],
    [
        "Decision-making cannot occur in isolation.",
        "决策无法孤立地做出。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, no form of CCS advances the goal of a structural shift toward full decarbonization, which is what social movements, academics, ordinary citizens, and even some politicians are increasingly demanding.",
        "无论如何，没有一种CCS有利于向完全去碳化的结构变迁这一目标。 而完全去碳化正是社会运动、学界、普通公民甚至一些政客日益要求的东西。"
    ],
    [
        "And random walks tend to go through long periods when they are well below their previous peak; the chance of setting a record soon is negligible, given how far prices would have to rise.",
        "当价格接近前高时，随机游走倾向于发生较长时期； 考虑到价格需要上涨的幅度，立刻创出新高的可能性微乎其微。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the major industrial economies seem to be on the path to recovery – albeit a feeble one – no one seems to care very much that the mechanisms of cooperation are worn out.",
        "由于主要工业经济体似有复苏之势（尽管势头非常微弱），似乎没有人在意合作机制已经老化失效。"
    ],
    [
        "Emirs who need parliamentary approval to secure popular legitimacy must now reckon with the need to share power.",
        "其批准是有条件的。 需要议会批准来确保大众合法性的埃米尔现在必须考虑分权的需要。"
    ],
    [
        "With stem cell research, huge fortunes depend on which group takes the lead, wherever their laboratory is located.",
        "对于干细胞研究而言，发迹取决于哪一个研究小组取得领先，而无论他们实验室坐落何处。"
    ],
    [
        "In a conversation I had with the general when he visited Washington, DC last month, he placed Islamic extremism well ahead of Pakistan’s poorly performing economy and immature political system on the list of problems that the country must confront.",
        "上个月，在谢里夫将军访问华盛顿期间，我和他做了一番会谈，他认为，伊斯兰极端主义是一个比巴基斯坦表现糟糕的经济和有欠成熟的政治制度重要得多的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But the big picture remains: Abenomics so far has failed to turn around a deflationary mindset.",
        "但大图景仍然不变：到目前为止，安倍并没有扭转通缩思维。"
    ],
    [
        "Treaties are more binding than national legislation, because they are more difficult to revoke, amend, or repeal.",
        "条约的约束力要高于国内立法，因为条约更加难以取消、修改和废除。"
    ],
    [
        "The possibility that non-state actors could acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction poses an especially grave new threat.",
        "如今，非条约成员国也可能获取核武器或其他大规模杀伤性武器，这构成新的更大的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, Europe’s failure is not just a shame, but a historic calamity.",
        "实际上，欧洲袖手旁观不仅是一种耻辱，也是历史性的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Adding up the impact of the PBC’s sterilization efforts, roughly one-quarter of China’s total monetary base is illiquid.",
        "所有这些消毒措施加起来，大约1/4的中国货币基数都处于非流动状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Their assessments of their own well-being also align quite closely with the opinions of friends and family members.",
        "他们对于自身幸福的评估也与其亲友的观点更为接近。"
    ],
    [
        "If these pressures are allowed to persist, many migrants will ultimately make it to the developed world, one way or another.",
        "如果坐视这样的压力继续下去，许多移民最终将以这样或那样的方式来到发达世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever the election’s outcome, the return of political will and legitimacy to France will come not a moment too soon.",
        "不论大选的结果怎样，法国政治意愿和合法性的回归将姗姗而来。"
    ],
    [
        "Politics in the Way of Progress",
        "进步路上的政治"
    ],
    [
        "Those who live on this planet in future centuries will live in a hotter world, with higher sea levels, less arable land, and more extreme hurricanes, droughts, and floods.",
        "未来几百年的地球居民将居住在更热的世界中，面临更高的海平面，更少的适耕土地和更极端的飓风、干旱和洪水。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, an earlier attempt was made to create a commercial market in SDR-denominated claims.",
        "当然，以往也有创造特别提款权流动市场的尝试。"
    ],
    [
        "While some would have favored greater policy activism, Merkel’s Germany has provided a steady anchor for a eurozone struggling to end bouts of financial instability and put an end to questions about its survival as a well-functioning monetary union (one that aspires to becoming much more).",
        "虽然有些人一直青睐更激进的政策行动，默克尔领导下的德国已经以其稳定的表现为一直努力结束金融危机的欧元区指明了前进的方向，并以其表现打破了人们对欧盟是否能够作为一个运行良好的货币联盟（它立志成就更多）所存在的疑虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Some were hyper-alert, asking lots of questions; they seemed to have devoured every scientific paper, blog, and newspaper article in existence.",
        "有些家长超级紧张，问各种问题； 他们似乎已经读过存在的所有的科学论文、博客和报纸文章。"
    ],
    [
        "An attack on Iran, especially if it develops into a longer war involving regional proxies, is bound to become the trigger for mass anti-Israel and anti-US hysteria, which might draw the Islamist regimes in the region into a dynamic of escalation.",
        "袭击伊朗，特别是如果这发展为涉及地区代理的长期战争，注定会演变为出发反以和反美狂潮的扳机，将该地区的伊斯兰政权成为燎原之势。"
    ],
    [
        "Last month, a study by Energy Innovation showed that elimination of the Clean Power Plan alone could cost the US $600 billion and cause 120,000 premature deaths by 2050.",
        "上个月，能源创新（Energy Innovation）的一份研究表明，光是取消清洁电力计划一项措施就会在2050年之前给美国造成6,000亿美元的损失和120,000人过早死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "The GSP rightly notes that sustainable development has three pillars: ending extreme poverty; ensuring that prosperity is shared by all, including women, youth, and minorities; and protecting the natural environment.",
        "GSP正确地指出，可持续发展有三大支柱：终结极端贫困、保证繁荣为所有地球人所共享（包括妇女、年轻人和少数民族），以及保护自然环境。"
    ],
    [
        "If America’s Democrats lose in the mid-term elections this November, there is a risk of persistent fiscal deficits as Republicans veto tax increases while Democrats veto spending cuts.",
        "如果美国民主党在今年 11 月的中期选举中失利，财政赤字问题可能变成老大难：共和党会否决加税，而民主党会否决削减开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather, the Kremlin evidently will view as a legitimate target any aircraft that might pass over territory that it comes to regard as being under its control.",
        "相反，克里姆林宫显然将任何可能穿越它视为被它所控制的领土的飞行器视为合法目标。"
    ],
    [
        "The European project has not only survived, but may be gaining new momentum.",
        "欧洲计划不仅幸存了下来，而且还有可能获得新的推动。"
    ],
    [
        "As of this writing, only two presidential candidates have declared themselves: former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Moussavi and former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi. Assuming that Ahmadinejad seeks re-election, this line-up lacks any candidate with clear appeal to the youth vote.",
        "到本文截稿时为止，目前有两人宣布参加总统候选人的选举：他们是前总理米尔-侯赛因·穆萨维和前议长迈赫迪·卡鲁比、就算加上艾哈迈迪－内贾德 ——如果他想也谋求连任的话，目前的这几个总统候选人对年轻选民缺乏吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, it means taking care not to exclude any significant advocate or useful tool in reducing the risk of the unthinkable becoming reality.",
        "相反，这意味着小心谨慎，在降低不可想象的情况称为现实的问题上不要将任何重大倡议或有用工具遗漏。"
    ],
    [
        "After Aleppo",
        "阿勒颇之后"
    ],
    [
        "Each is definitely happening (so “probability” is not the problem), but what do they mean?",
        "这三件事务显然都已经发生（因此“可能性”就不是问题），但它们意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, all EU countries have a real interest in the fiscal sustainability of their fellow members.",
        "诚然，其他成员国的财政可持续性是所有欧盟国家的切身利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they provide opportunities for citizens to express what they feel about the choices their governments make, particularly within the EU framework.",
        "相反，它们为公民提供了机会来表达他们对政府所作选择的看法，尤其是在欧盟框架内的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no guarantee that protectionist and xenophobic sentiment in America will not hit China-US relations, or that the economic downturn will not fuel new unrest in China.",
        "我们无法确保美国的保护主义和仇外情绪不会影响到中美关系，也无法确保经济下行不会在中国引发新的动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s Lending Overhaul",
        "国际货币基金组织全面革新贷款政策"
    ],
    [
        "And yet what ultimately unites Europe’s far-right parties is similar to what underlies the Tea Party’s rise within America’s Republican Party: covert racism and xenophobia.",
        "但最终让欧洲极右翼政党抱团的东西与让茶党在美国共和党内部崛起东西十分相似：隐蔽的种族主义和排外主义。"
    ],
    [
        "As one expert put it, its permanent members’ veto was designed to be like a fuse box in an electrical system: better that the lights go out than that the house burn down.",
        "正如一位专家所说的，常任理事国的否决权就像是电子系统中的一只保险丝盒：断电总比让房子烧毁要好。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey is invited to Council meetings, it can participate in various EU programs and in manifestations of the European Common Foreign Policy, and, as a member of NATO, it is a partner in EU-NATO security cooperation.",
        "它可以参与各种欧盟项目和《欧洲共同外交政策》的实施； 同时，作为北约的成员，它也是欧盟—北约安全合作的伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "What, then, should the ECB buy if it is to expand the monetary base?",
        "那么，如果欧洲央行想要扩张货币基础，应该买什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Before the EU’s eastern enlargement, many studies predicted the likely migration waves.",
        "在欧盟东扩以前，许多研究都预计到了可能随之而来的移民潮。"
    ],
    [
        "Less than 30 years ago, polio plagued 125 countries, paralyzing 1,000 children a day.",
        "不到30年前，脊髓灰质炎依然困扰125个国家，每天导致1，000名儿童瘫痪。"
    ],
    [
        "Since Sunni militants destroyed the Shiite Askariya mosque in February, hundreds of Iraqis have been killed in a series of tit-for-tat sectarian attacks.",
        "自从逊尼派民兵2月摧毁了什叶派圣殿阿斯卡里亚清真寺（Askariya mosque）后，已经有成百上千的伊拉克人在一系列报复性的宗派袭击中无辜丧生。"
    ],
    [
        "At best, such statements serve as a distraction from important issues; at worst, they distort public policy.",
        "往好了说，这样的质疑会把注意力从重要问题上移开； 往坏了说，这会扭曲公共政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Sam’s world of 2030 is not mere fantasy.",
        "山姆的2030世界并完全是幻想。"
    ],
    [
        "Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean, and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.",
        "生产方法变得越来越可持续、清洁和高效； 我们在保护生物多样性方面的经验也越来越丰富。"
    ],
    [
        "But that will not be possible unless, and until, the right regulatory environment is created.",
        "但这只有在建立了正确的监管环境的基础上才有可能。"
    ],
    [
        "He stirred up national pride and promised rural Thais that their country would rise to greatness following the devastating 1997 economic crisis.",
        "他鼓动民族自豪感，并且向泰国农民保证国家将会在1997年严重的经济危机之后实现振兴。"
    ],
    [
        "(We acquire our standards for judging and punishing others through the same process.)",
        "（我们评判和惩罚他人的标准也是通过同样的进程取得。"
    ],
    [
        "But, in addition to all the economic, demographic, and social similarities, opinion polling in the US and Britain now face very similar challenges and uncertainties, owing to the breakdown of traditional political allegiances and dominant two-party systems.",
        "但在所有经济，人口结构和社会的相似性之外，民意调查如今在英美两国都面临着非常类似的挑战和不确定性，因为传统政治忠诚和两党主导体系都在分崩离析。"
    ],
    [
        "Online news often lacks not only a brand, but also a byline.",
        "在线新闻往往不仅缺乏品牌，而且往往连署名都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – As show trials go, the drama featuring Bo Xilai, the once-swaggering, media-savvy former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief of Chongqing, veered anomalously into improvisation.",
        "加州克莱蒙特——随着审判秀的进行，以神气活现、面对媒体应付自如著称的前中共重庆市委书记薄熙来为主角的这场闹剧出人意料地演变成了即兴表演。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian bombs and missiles are now raining down on an array of armed groups that have been fighting Syrian government forces, which has given the regime the breathing space that Russia’s intervention was intended to provide.",
        "眼下，俄罗斯炸弹和导弹像雨点一样朝与叙利亚政府军对抗的武装集团打去，这给了巴沙尔政权喘息空间——也是俄罗斯干预的初衷。"
    ],
    [
        "Why do Christian churches continue to focus on people’s private behaviors and not on the rules of the social and economic game?",
        "基督教为什么继续关注个人行为，而不是社会和经济的游戏规则？"
    ],
    [
        "But, as often as not, the soi-disant crucial figure oversteps.",
        "但有时这位所谓重要人物也会玩得过火。"
    ],
    [
        "With European interest rates up 200 basis points since late 2005 and the euro near a record high, Sarkozy wants the ECB to stop raising rates now.",
        "自从2005年底以来，欧洲利率上升了200个基点，欧元将近历史最高点。 在这一情况下，萨尔科奇想要让欧洲央行现在停止提高利率。"
    ],
    [
        "The party chose as its leader former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is known as the hardest of hardliners on nationalist matters, but who is also widely perceived as having acted irresponsibly when he abruptly gave up his premiership in 2007, after only one year in office, due to health problems.",
        "自民党选举前首相安倍晋三为新党首，他是出了名的民族主义强硬派，但人们普遍认为，他在2007年问鼎首相宝座不足一年时便因健康问题而突然辞职是不负责任之举。"
    ],
    [
        "A Balkan Monitor survey recently conducted by Gallup Europe gives suggests the state of public opinion in Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo 20 years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall and a decade after the end of the Kosovo war.",
        "但就在最近，由盖洛普欧洲完成的一份名为《巴尔干观察》的调查给出了自柏林墙倒塌20年以及科索沃战争爆发10年以来，塞尔维亚，黑山共和国，马其顿，阿尔巴尼亚，克罗地亚，波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那以及科索沃各地的舆论状况。"
    ],
    [
        "Its work has paved the way for the establishment of local courts in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia that have supplemented its work.",
        "其工作为塞尔维亚、克罗地亚和波斯尼亚补充ICTY工作的地方法院的设立铺平了道路。"
    ],
    [
        "The world’s 50 most unequal economies are in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, with South Africa taking the prize for the highest income inequality.",
        "世界50个最不平等的经济体分布在撒哈拉以南非洲和拉丁美洲，而收入不平等性最高“奖”则归南非所有。"
    ],
    [
        "As an economist, I find this state of affairs frustrating.",
        "作为经济学者，我发现这种现状令人沮丧。"
    ],
    [
        "Bridging the Infrastructure Gap",
        "缩小基础设施差距"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration has put expansion of democracy at the center of its foreign policy.",
        "布什政府已经扩大了它的外交政策中心的民主成分。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, some factors may help to stave off social unrest – namely, the population’s memories of the brutal civil war of the 1990s, in which more than 150,000 people were killed.",
        "当然，一些因素有助于遏制社会动荡——阿尔及利亚人民对于20世纪90年代的残酷内战仍然记忆犹新，150,000多人在这场战中被杀。"
    ],
    [
        "It would perhaps be better if we recognized the limits our own explanatory ability, but there may be some adaptive value of those limits as well.",
        "如果我们认识到我们自身的解释性能力局限可能更好，但是，那些局限中也包含适应性的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "When forecasting while in violation of the eurozone’s Excessive Deficit Procedure, eurozone members with an independent budget-forecasting institution have a mean bias that is 2.7% of GDP smaller at the one-year horizon than members without such an institution.",
        "当预测违反了欧元区的过度赤字程序机制时，拥有独立预算预测机构的欧元区成员国的一年期平均偏差比没有这类机构的成员国要小，且小于的幅度达到GDP的2. 7%。"
    ],
    [
        "Over time, much of the expansion in capacity will be absorbed, as an estimated 15 million people move from rural to urban areas each year over the next decade.",
        "假以时日，如此产能扩张总有一天能被吸收，因为据预计，未来十年每年会有1 500万人口从农村迁往城市。"
    ],
    [
        "In Soviet fashion, the Moscow stock exchanges closed for four days in a row in the week of September 15, because stocks plunged too fast.",
        "按苏联式的传统，由于股票跌势过猛，莫斯科股票交易所在9月15的那周连续休市4天。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia’s attempt to drag Georgia into its imperial net started in the summer of 2003, when the Russian power monopoly United Energy System took control of 75% of Georgia’s electricity network.",
        "俄罗斯试图把格鲁吉亚拉进它的宗主国网络的努力始于2003年的夏天，当时俄罗斯的电力寡头联合能源系统控制了格鲁吉亚电网的75%。"
    ],
    [
        "There must be more to the story.",
        "必定还有其他解释。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, because of that anomaly, Europe suffers from a grave deficit of legitimacy and presence internationally.",
        "由于这种反常情况的存在，严重威胁到了欧洲在国际事务中的代表权和合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, earlier this year, Moscow was roiled by debates about whether or not to build a statue to the dead dictator.",
        "事实上，今年初，莫斯科便被要不要为斯大林这位已故独裁者塑像的辩论搅得心烦意乱。"
    ],
    [
        "Faced by a United States bent upon bloody vengeance, Pakistan’s military establishment scurried to join the US-led coalition and take up arms against its own creation, the Taliban.",
        "11”事件。 面对美国展开血腥报复的意图，巴基斯坦军政府忙不迭地加入到美国领导的盟军中来，拿起武器反击自己一手缔造的塔利班。"
    ],
    [
        "This display of astonishing courage and determination to get an education should be an inspiration for us all in the fight against discrimination.",
        "她们所表现出来的令人惊讶的受教育的勇气和决心是对我们所有与歧视做斗争的人的鼓舞。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, if the international community were to make any such conciliatory gestures, the result would be a bolder North Korea.",
        "事实上，如果国际社会要做出任何这样的和解姿态，结果必然是让朝鲜胆气更足。"
    ],
    [
        "This neatly fit a standard response to criticism of the level of American assistance: that private philanthropy exceeds government aid.",
        "这恰恰和批评美国援助数量的普遍反应相吻合，即：民间募捐超出了政府援助。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to generating good will and promoting the country’s image abroad, non-governmental sources of soft power can sometimes compensate for the government’s unpopular policies – like the US invasion of Iraq – through their critical and uncensored reaction.",
        "除了在海外营造良好声誉、推进国家形象，软实力的非政府来源有时还可以通过其不受审查的批判反应弥补政府不受欢迎的政策——比如美国入侵伊拉克。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, that would leave everyone worse off in the long run.",
        "恰恰相反，从长远看，这不符合所有相关方的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Fiscal Follies",
        "愚蠢的财政政策"
    ],
    [
        "These authorities tend to focus more on investor protection than on the allocational efficiency of the markets they oversee.",
        "在这些机构眼中，对投资者的保护要比其所监管市场的分配效率更重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Same-sex marriage is now recognized by the federal government and is legal in 35 out of 50 states.",
        "联邦政府和美国50个州中的35个现在已承认同性婚姻的合法性。"
    ],
    [
        "It is often said – and rightly so – that Europe is too bureaucratic, too unwieldy, too slow to make decisions.",
        "人们常说——说得正确——欧洲太官僚，太笨拙，做决定太慢。"
    ],
    [
        "The second policy area where progress is needed is access to data for every community.",
        "急需取得进展的另一个政策领域是能够查阅各社区数据。"
    ],
    [
        "Those countries that can successfully integrate refugees would reap an economic advantage; already, the German economy is growing significantly faster as a result of its willingness to accept Syrian refugees.",
        "成功融合难民的国家将获得经济优势； 德国经济之所以增长速度显著更快，便是因为它愿意接受叙利亚难民。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed chair appointed early next year, whether Yellen or a new nominee, should consider following the communications trail Trump has blazed.",
        "明年年初履新的美联储主席，不论是耶伦还是新人，都应该考虑特朗普所发扬光大的沟通技巧。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments must take tobacco seriously as a leading killer of adults worldwide.",
        "各国政府必须严肃对待烟草，把它作为全世界成年人的主要致死因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, last August, the PBOC lowered the renminbi central parity rate by 1.9%, perhaps in response to an International Monetary Fund report encouraging China to align the parity rate more closely with the market rate.",
        "接着，在去年8月，中国人民银行将人民币中间价调低1. 9%，这也许是为了回应IMF鼓励中国让人民币平价水平更接近市场汇率的报告。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that, following President Hu Jintao’s recent visit to Washington, both America and China have been taking positive steps to resolve their differences over the bilateral current-account balance.",
        "但好消息是，在中国国家主席胡锦涛最近的访美之行中，中美两国都在解决双边贸易不平衡方面做出了积极的举措。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, just 22 months later, the company announced that it would close all of its 133 Canadian stores and lay off 17,000 people.",
        "但是，只过了22个月，塔吉特公司就宣布将关闭所有133家加拿大门店，裁员17,000人。"
    ],
    [
        "If SAARC is to succeed, a new multilateral mechanism for cooperation will be needed.",
        "SAARC要想成功，就需要新的多边合作机制。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor should it make any difference if you invite a few adult friends over, and in the privacy of your own home they all choose to take part in a larger-scale sexual fantasy of the same kind.",
        "如果你邀请几位成年朋友到自己家里，而他们都自愿加入性质相同但规模更大的性幻想，这也不算犯罪。"
    ],
    [
        "Taking Monetary Policy to the People",
        "把货币政策带给人民"
    ],
    [
        "The funding that Ukraine will need to stabilize its economy over the next four years looks paltry when compared to the more than $300 billion, from different sources, devoted to bailing out Greece – a country where there is far less at stake strategically.",
        "乌克兰在未来四年中稳定经济所需要的资金与用于援助希腊（高达3,000亿美元以上，来自不同来源）的资金相比只是九牛一毛，而希腊的战略意义远远及不上乌克兰。"
    ],
    [
        "This is wrong.",
        "这种观点是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "They are not part of a larger organization that trains their workers, sets standards, and provides support for everything from branding to purchasing.",
        "它们不是能培训工作人员、设置标准、提供从推广到采购的所有业务的支持的更大的组织的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, it is widely acknowledged (except by most editors and journalists) that a great deal of media intrusion is simply an abuse of press freedom, with the sole aim of boosting circulation by feeding public prurience.",
        "同时，人们普遍认为(除大多数编辑和新闻记者外)，大量的新闻窥探就是对新闻自由的滥用，其唯一目的是通过满足公众的欲望来提高发行量。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – During the last decades of the twentieth century, Silicon Valley was the unparalleled epicenter of high-tech innovation.",
        "坎布里奇—在二十世纪的最后几十年里，硅谷成为无人能望其项背的高科技创新中心。"
    ],
    [
        "The most important task will be to create a new type of political conditionality.",
        "创造新型政治条件是最重要的任务。"
    ],
    [
        "Seen through the same lens, mega trade deals, such as the TPP, would also have an important bearing on pressures that squeeze American workers.",
        "从同样的角度看，TPP这类大型贸易协议也会是导致美国工人生存日子难过的重要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the first step in that process is to face up to losses, both in accounting and in real terms.",
        "事实上，这一过程的第一步是直面损失，包括会计意义上的损失和实质性的社会及经济损失。"
    ],
    [
        "At the time, there were rumors of a migrant-fueled crime wave sweeping the country, though later research found little increase in crime along migration routes.",
        "当时有传言说一场以移民为主的犯罪浪潮正在席卷全国，但后续研究发现移民行进路线上的犯罪事件几乎没有增加。"
    ],
    [
        "There is simply too much at stake.",
        "对此加以解决至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Only when we identify the sources of the odious virus now afflicting our democracies can we take practical steps to quarantine them.",
        "只有找到了如今正在折磨我们的民主的病原体，才能采取务实的措施隔离它们。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1965, India averaged 854 kilograms of grain per hectare in use, while Sub-Saharan Africa averaged almost the same, 773 kilograms per hectare.",
        "1965年，印度每公顷可用农田的平均粮食产量是854公斤，撒哈拉以南的非洲地区的产量与之相当，每公顷773公斤。"
    ],
    [
        "Subsidizing their own farmers would divert money from education, health, and urgently needed development projects.",
        "对自己的农民进行补贴则要转移用于教育、健康和其他急需发展的项目上的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Where there seems to be less overt consensus is on the time period for that decline.",
        "但关于这种下跌究竟以多长时间为限则似乎并没有明显的共识。"
    ],
    [
        "The left has had an easy task in dominating the debate, partly because the intellectual right’s attempt to place all the blame for the crisis on government is thoroughly implausible.",
        "左派轻而易举地就主导了争论，这部分是因为思想右派将所有危机肇因归咎于政府的做法实在站不住脚。"
    ],
    [
        "If no job materialized, the individual would be held responsible for repaying only a fraction of the loan, with the balance absorbed by the company, which thus bears a share of the risk.",
        "如果没有工作，个人只需要偿还一小部分贷款，余下部分由公司承担，因此公司需要承担风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The US retaliated by leaving the gold standard in April 1933.",
        "作为报复，美国也于1933年4月采取了同样措施。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as it happens, only days before Guo secretly had an abortion, right after a dramatic fight with Song’s wife.",
        "而这一切都发生在郭海藻与宋思明的妻子发生了一场戏剧性的争执并秘密堕胎之后。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike Ahmadinejad’s reformist predecessor, Mohammad Khatami, who acted more like the leader of the loyal opposition than head of the executive, Rouhani has worked closely with Khamenei.",
        "与内贾德的改革派前任哈塔米不同，鲁哈尼与哈梅内伊合作紧密，而哈塔米看起来更像是反对派领袖，而不是执政者。"
    ],
    [
        "Other emerging markets also look fragile and at risk of an eventual downgrade.",
        "其他新兴市场看上去也十分脆弱，有可能遭遇降级。"
    ],
    [
        "The decision to permit foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail and civil aviation has been pursued, even at the cost of losing a recalcitrant coalition ally.",
        "允许外国直接投资进入多品牌零售业和民航业的决定已经做出，尽管这引起了顽固派联盟的反弹。"
    ],
    [
        "MUNICH – With pain and misgiving, the United States Congress bailed out Wall Street in order to prevent a meltdown of America’s financial system.",
        "慕尼黑-美国国会为了防止美国金融系统的崩溃，在痛苦和疑虑中，对华尔街进行了纾困。"
    ],
    [
        "But perhaps the optimist’s imagination is too weak to imagine a different trajectory – toward a world in which people enjoy the fruits of automation as leisure rather than as additional income.",
        "但也有可能乐观者的想象力太弱而无法预见一条完全不同的轨迹——人们正在走向一个享受自动化休闲成果而非额外收入的世界。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, in its latest report on Turkey’s progress toward meeting the accession criteria, the European Commission noted “significant shortcomings” relating to the judiciary, freedom of expression, and freedom of assembly, and appealed for the resumption of efforts to resolve the Kurdish issue.",
        "诚然，在关于土耳其在满足入盟标准封面所取得的进步的报告中，欧盟委员会指出在司法、言论自由和集会自由方面，土耳其仍“严重不足”，并要求重启解决库尔德问题的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "If it proves a success and remains popular, it could become a model for the entire country.",
        "如果它能成功并依然赢得民众支持的话，它将会成为整个国家效仿的典范。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Paul Volcker sees the US as so macroeconomically vulnerable as to be running a 75% chance of a full-fledged dollar crisis over the next several years.",
        "事实上，前美国联邦储备主席保罗·沃尔克已经预见到这一点，认为美国的宏观经济情形岌岌可危，将难以承受货币危机，其在未来几年中发生的可能性高达75%。"
    ],
    [
        "But this opening has other consequences, most importantly setting the stage for a new “great game” of strategic competition.",
        "但这一开放政策也引发了其他的后果，而其中最重要的则被设定在一个新“大国博弈”的战略竞争平台上。"
    ],
    [
        "If it does, it can serve as an honest broker between Myanmar, Bangladesh, and, most importantly, representatives of the Rohingya community, who have suffered persecution for long enough.",
        "实现了这一点，它就能成为在缅甸、孟加拉国，以及最重要的，长期饱受迫害的罗兴亚社区代表之间的诚实可靠的牵线人。"
    ],
    [
        "During the Meiji Restoration, Japan searched broadly for tools and innovations that would allow it to become a major power rather than a victim of Western imperialism.",
        "在明治維新时期，日本广泛搜寻各种工具和革新方法，逐渐发展为一个主要的权力国，而不是西方帝国主义的牺牲品。"
    ],
    [
        "That arrangement has always presupposed strong governments with clear mandates.",
        "这一安排永远需要以拥有明确权力的强势政府为前提。"
    ],
    [
        "Playing upon such hopes, China has been both coy and demanding.",
        "在人们的如是期许下，中国显得颇为犹豫，提出了各种各样的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Alexander's formula is also popular today with Putin’s nationalists in Moscow and St. Petersburg.",
        "亚历山大的话在莫斯科和圣彼得堡的民族主义者那里颇受欢迎。"
    ],
    [
        "We have set in motion the internal procedures and facilities that will allow us to provide resources quickly, with conditions limited to the core crisis-policy response at hand.",
        "我们已经启动内部程序和工具以便我们能迅速地提供资金，只要其条件满足我们核心危机政策响应计划的规定。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the journal Science reports that new studies show that ocean levels may rise much more rapidly and precipitously than anticipated.",
        "同样的，据《科学》杂志报道，新的研究表明海平面上升的速度可能比设想的要迅猛的多。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, few countries with tropical forests have submitted their plans, and not one of the Amazon countries has done so.",
        "遗憾的是，拥有热带森林的国家没有多少已经提交了计划，亚马逊流域国家更是一个都没有。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not, of course, the first time in history that credit expansion has been used to assuage the concerns of a group that is being left behind, nor will it be the last.",
        "这种情况不是第一次出现，在历史上，信贷也曾作为一种手段，以缓解社会弱势群体的困境，将来也还会有信贷。"
    ],
    [
        "In Ecuador, a country that is now a successful exporter of cut flowers, farmers would not grow flowers decades ago because there was no modern cooling facility near the airport, and private firms would not invest in such facilities without a supply of flowers for export.",
        "如今，厄瓜多尔已是一个成功的切花出口国，但在几十年前，当地农民并不愿种植花卉，因为当时机场附近没有现代化的冷藏设施； 而私人公司鉴于没有出口花卉的货源供应，也不愿意投资兴建此类设施。"
    ],
    [
        "And rising house prices in some regions make it easier to borrow even more to spend on other daily needs such as diapers and baby food.",
        "而某些地区的房价上涨使得借款人有更多余力购买纸尿裤和婴儿用品等日用品。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign observers are prone to associate the Bing Dian incident with other recent crackdowns on China’s mass media, and to conclude that Chinese journalism freedom is hopeless under the present autocratic regulation.",
        "外国观察者总喜欢将《冰点》事件与最近对中国大众传媒的其它镇压事件联系起来，并得出结论，说在目前的官僚管制下，中国新闻自由无任何希望可言。"
    ],
    [
        "In June, British voters will decide whether the United Kingdom should remain in the European Union.",
        "今年六月，英国选民将就英国是否留在欧盟举行全民公决。"
    ],
    [
        "Making matters worse, the country has suffered this year from both floods and drought.",
        "祸不单行，该国今年又被洪水和干旱肆虐。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, those who viewed themselves as national citizens greatly outnumbered those who regarded themselves as world citizens.",
        "不出意外，那些将自己视为某国公民的人数远远高于将自认世界公民者的数量。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, EU members could target the interests of the individuals in the Kremlin elite by scrutinizing their purchases of Western assets, and even ban travel to the EU for human rights abusers.",
        "与此同时，欧盟成员国可以通过审查克里姆林宫精英人物购买西方资产而瞄准其利益，甚至可以禁止违犯人权者前往欧盟旅行。"
    ],
    [
        "After first arriving, Hadjiev and his wife were arbitrarily detained for several days, leaving their 13-year-old daughter without supervision or access to her parents.",
        "在进入保加利亚之初，Hadjiev和他的妻子也被武断地关押了几天，留下他们13岁的女儿无人照看，也见不到父母。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet this is precisely what elevating genocide presupposes.",
        "但上述差别却正是提出种族灭绝概念的前提。"
    ],
    [
        "By the end of 2000, oil prices had risen to levels not seen since the beginning of the 1990’s.",
        "2000年底，油价已经涨到了20世纪90年代初以来从未有过的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do not return, they must repay the scholarship as if it were a loan.",
        "如果不回去，就必须像偿还贷款一样偿还奖学金。"
    ],
    [
        "Since 1990 (the reference year for measuring improvement), the number of people living in extreme poverty (living on less than $1.25 a day) has fallen by 33%, from 1.9 billion to 836 million worldwide, with most of that progress coming after the MDGs entered into effect.",
        "自1990年（衡量进步的基准年限）以来，生活在极端贫困（每天生活费不到1. 25美元）中的全球人口已经从19亿下降到8."
    ],
    [
        "Waiting to restructure unsustainable debts would only lead to disorderly workouts and severe haircuts for some private creditors.",
        "坐等债务重组只会导致无序操作和私人债权人的沉重损失。"
    ],
    [
        "To this end, albedo modification – a kind of geoengineering intended to cool the planet by increasing the reflectivity of the earth’s atmosphere – holds tremendous promise.",
        "在这方面，改变反射率——一种旨在通过增加地球大气层反射性的地理工程——大有可为。"
    ],
    [
        "If anything has been laid to rest by China’s rising wealth, it is the comforting idea that capitalism, and the growth of a prosperous bourgeoisie, will inevitably lead to liberal democracy.",
        "如果说有什么被中国的日益富有所埋葬的话，那就是资本主义以及富有的中产阶级人群的扩大会无可避免地导向自由民主的自信想法。"
    ],
    [
        "Undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing and oral health, and non-clinical programs in research and health management, are next.",
        "接下来将要开设护理和口腔医学本科和研究生学位和非临床的研究和健康管理项目。"
    ],
    [
        "In the first scenario, China becomes caught in a middle-income trap, with per capita GDP stuck at 30% of America’s – an outcome that has characterized Latin America’s five largest economies since at least 1960, and Malaysia since 1994.",
        "在第一种情形中，中国将陷入中等收入陷阱，人均GDP停留在美国的30%——拉美最大的五个经济体自1960年以来便处于这一状态，马来西亚则从1994年开始处于这一状态。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – When an economy falls into a depression, governments can try four things to return employment to its normal level and production to its “potential” level.",
        "伯克利--当经济陷入萧条之际，政府可以采用四种方式把就业恢复到正常水平并且把生产恢复到其潜在水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The economy was careening like a rudderless ship, and the sharp operators who had duped us into getting on board – call them the 1% – were slipping away in the only lifeboats.",
        "经济像一艘无舵的船那样倾斜，而当初诱骗我们上船的精明操盘手——不妨称之为1%——乘坐唯一的救生艇逃之夭夭。"
    ],
    [
        "But such plans have not been realized, owing to the absence of a cooperative culture.",
        "但这些计划并未成为现实，因为叙利亚缺少合作的文化。"
    ],
    [
        "Tamil Nadu’s voters, who supported the scheme at election time, silenced the critics.",
        "泰米尔纳德邦的选民在选举期间支持该制度，他们平息了批评。"
    ],
    [
        "The human race has proved very successful in the past at keeping capital scarce – mainly by engaging in destructive wars.",
        "过去，人类在维持资本稀缺性方面十分成功——主要形式是通过破坏性战争。"
    ],
    [
        "After 22 million Chinese signed a petition against Japanese membership of the United Nations Security Council, Premier Wen Jiabao announced China’s opposition to such a step.",
        "在2200万中国人联名要求反对给予日本在联合国安理会席位后，温家宝总理宣布中国反对日本加入联合国安理会。"
    ],
    [
        "Privacy for Refugees",
        "难民隐私"
    ],
    [
        "The Fed is “independent,” but only in a very special sense: vis-à-vis the government’s executive branch.",
        "美联储是“独立”的，但只在一个非常特殊的意义：相对于政府的行政部门。"
    ],
    [
        "But existing businesses and already-employed workers prefer the status quo, and can powerfully inhibit policymakers.",
        "但现有的企业和已经找到工作的劳动者们都更倾向于维持现状，并可以有力地牵制政策制定者们。"
    ],
    [
        "Some of this might make finance more costly, but it will also make banking operations less risky.",
        "有的措施可能会增加融资成本，但同时也降低了银行经营的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Evolution’s New Frontiers",
        "进化的新前沿"
    ],
    [
        "European leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and French President François Hollande, all made the Zaman case a part of their discussions with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu when they met recently to discuss the refugee crisis.",
        "欧洲领导人，包括德国总理默克尔、意大利总理伦齐和法国总统奥朗德在内，都将《时代报》事件作为最近与土耳其总理达武特奥卢会晤讨论难民危机时的话题之一。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenge for Barack Obama is that more and more issues and problems are outside the control of even the most powerful state.",
        "巴拉克·奥巴马面临的挑战是，即使是最强大的国家，也有越来越多的问题处在其控制之外。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not just because of Europe’s prolonged economic malaise.",
        "这不仅是因为欧洲经济的长期萎靡。"
    ],
    [
        "Could the tensions and conflicts surrounding the issue of immigration in Europe be yet another issue for which the empowerment of women holds a solution?",
        "那么围绕着欧洲移民问题所造成一系列紧张和冲突局面是否也能通过这些被赋予权力的女性来解决呢？"
    ],
    [
        "At a 2006 summit with Chinese leaders during his first stint as Japan’s prime minister, he agreed to establish a joint commission, involving historians from Japan, China, and elsewhere, to study twentieth-century history.",
        "2006年，在其第一次担任日本首相期间与中国举行的峰会上，他同意建立一个由日本、中国和其他国家历史学家组成的联合委员会研究二十世纪历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Existing governments would agree to consider bids for statehood only in cases where there was a historical justification, a compelling rationale, and popular support, and where the proposed new entity is viable.",
        "现有政府只有在历史理由充分、证据确凿且拥有民众广泛支持的情况下才能同意考虑建国要求，而且拟议中的新实体必须具有可行性。"
    ],
    [
        "Rewriting the rules of the market economy – in a way that has benefited those that have caused so much pain to the entire global economy – is worse than financially costly.",
        "重新改写市场经济的规则不仅仅是金融业蒙受到损失，获利者往往是那些金融危机的始作俑者。"
    ],
    [
        "If we can teach people what is best, Socrates and Plato seem to have thought, they will do it.",
        "苏格拉底和柏拉图都认为，只要我们能够教会人们哪些是好的，他们就会去做。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of the policies initiated in 2000, and particularly the struggle against oligarchic omnipotence, Ukraine's economy has been growing for five years in a row.",
        "2000年开始推行的政策，特别是与寡头政治的艰苦斗争带来了乌克兰经济连续5年的迅速增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Reconciling the United States with itself and the world should thus be the twin priorities for America’s next president.",
        "因此让美国同自己并与世界和解应成为下一任美国总统的两项头等大事。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only did Sarkozy win the presidency with 53% of the vote, but his approval rating has since soared, to 62%, after he formed an inclusive government with high-ranking recruits from the opposition.",
        "萨科奇不仅以53%的选票赢得总统宝座，而且之后他的支持率一直攀升，在他招收反对党的高层组成包容性的政府之后，支持率甚至达到了62%。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor was the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison the work of a few bad apples. It was part of a system of dealing with prisoners put in place by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.",
        "阿布格莱布监狱的虐囚行为也绝非少数害群之马的个别行为，而是国防部长唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德对待犯人政策的组成部分。"
    ],
    [
        "But is the Marshall Plan the right model?",
        "但马歇尔计划是正确的模式吗？"
    ],
    [
        "A hen’s beak is full of nerve tissue – it is, after all, her principal means of relating to her environment – but no anesthetic or analgesic is used to relieve the pain.",
        "毕竟，喙是鸡感知外界环境的主要工具。 但是在此过程中既没有采取麻醉也没有使用止痛药来减轻它们的疼痛。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, fiscal and sovereign-debt strains are becoming worse as interest-rate spreads for Spain and Italy have returned to their unsustainable peak levels.",
        "此外，随着西班牙和意大利利差回到再次达到不可持续的峰值水平，财政和主权债务紧张正在恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "As global environmental problems frequently create additional stresses on the local resource bases of the world’s poorest people, GNP growth in rich countries can fuel downward pressure on the wealth of the poor.",
        "随着全球环境问题频繁地给世界穷国的本地资源基础造成额外的压力，富国的GNP增长也可能会对穷国的财富造成更大的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "A country derives its soft power primarily from three resources: its culture (in places that find it appealing), its political values (when it lives up to them at home and abroad), and its foreign policies (when they are seen as legitimate and having moral authority).",
        "一国软实力主要来自三个方面：文化（哪些地方认为其文化具有吸引力）、政治价值（如果能在国内和国外实现）以及外交政策（如果被视为合理并且具有道德权威性）。"
    ],
    [
        "It is critically important that all UN members, whether big or small, insist that these global agreements still direct the world’s actions, regardless of what Trump does.",
        "所有联合国成员，不论大小，都要坚信这些全球协定仍在引导世界的行动，不论特朗普怎么做。 这一点至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, his remains a lonely voice.",
        "不幸的是，他仍然只是孤家寡人。"
    ],
    [
        "After Turkish forces shot down a Russian warplane near its border with Syria in November, Putin adopted a series of measures designed to destabilize Turkey from within.",
        "11月，土耳其军方在其与叙利亚边境附近击落一架俄罗斯战机，随后普京采取了一系列措施从内部动摇土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "Eastern Europe has its problems, which are likely to impact Western Europe’s highly leveraged banks.",
        "东欧面临着自身的问题，而这些问题很可能会对西欧高度杠杆化的银行造成冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "That would greatly benefit both countries, not least because they would each have a greater stake in the other’s success.",
        "这将大大有利于两国，尤其是因为它们都能从对方的成功中获取更大的收益。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Russian civil society is severely stifled, and to watch television in Moscow is to find 20 channels controlled by the Kremlin.",
        "如今，俄罗斯公民社会受到了严重压制，莫斯科的电视上只能看到20个被克里姆林宫控制的频道。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s assertiveness over its sovereignty claim reflects more than a desire to exploit seabed resources, or to gain a widened strategic gateway into the western Pacific.",
        "中国对主权要求的自信反应不仅限于利用海底资源、抑或扩大西太平洋战略门户的愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "Rouhani’s opponent, Ebrahim Raisi, is a high-ranking cleric who is considered to be a possible successor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.",
        "鲁哈尼的对手是伊布拉西姆·莱西（Ebrahim Raisi），他是一位高级别神职人员、被认为有可能继哈梅内伊之后成为下一任伊朗最高领袖的伊布拉西姆·莱西（Ebrahim Raisi）。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, this has led to erosion of the rule of law.",
        "不幸的是，这导致了法治受到侵害。"
    ],
    [
        "As for economic collapse, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that global GDP per capita will increase 14-fold over this century and 24-fold in the developing world.",
        "至于经济崩溃，政府间气候变化委员会（Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change）估计，本世纪全球人均GDP将增加14倍，其中发展中国家增加24倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The US index correlates with implied equity-price volatility in the options markets (VIX).",
        "美国的指数与期权市场隐含股价波动率（VIX）相关。"
    ],
    [
        "I have explored the idea of “capping” the benefit that individuals can get as a percentage of their total income (their “adjusted gross income,” or AGI in US tax parlance).",
        "我研究过给个人的此项福利占总收入（指“调整后总收入”，美国税法简称AGI）的百分比设置“上限”的想法。"
    ],
    [
        "The clearinghouse here eliminates counterparty risk for these three, but only by transferring the risk to Citibank, which, instead of losing $50 million, ends up losing the full $100 million.",
        "在这个例子中，清算所消除了三家机构的对手方风险，但只是将风险转移给了花旗银行，后者原本只损失5000万美元，现在，所有的1亿美元损失都要由它来承担。"
    ],
    [
        "As in the case of the Diamondback moth, successful eradication of disseminated cancer cells is rare.",
        "像小菜蛾的例子所表明的那样，扩散的癌细胞很少能够被成功的杀灭。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU would benefit as well, by contributing to the stabilization of a highly volatile area.",
        "通过给一个高度动荡的地区注入稳定，欧盟也会同样从中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1950, fewer than 8% of American households owned a TV; by 1960, 90% had one.",
        "到了1960年，90%的美国家庭都拥有了一台电视机。"
    ],
    [
        "The basket was designed in such a way as to result in an average debt-service cost of 4%.",
        "这个债务篮子的平均债务利息成本的4%。"
    ],
    [
        "If Russia is going to throw its weight around, it is better to have allies among those affected.",
        "如果俄罗斯打算施展其影响力，最好同那些受到影响中的某些国家结盟。"
    ],
    [
        "They will pay out whatever the depositor’s share in the accounts is.",
        "它们将根据存款人在其账户中的比重偿付。"
    ],
    [
        "Add to that a massive population and growing political influence, and Asia finally appears ready to lead on a world stage long dominated by the West.",
        "再加上庞大的人口以及不断扩大的政治影响力，亚洲似乎终于在长期由西方主导的世界舞台上显露出了领头羊的气象。"
    ],
    [
        "Africans wanted leaders who would reconcile and reunite them – leaders who would restore to them the dignity that colonialism had robbed.",
        "他们希望有一个能促成各族和解并将所有人重新联合在一起的领袖——一个能重新让他们找回被殖民主义夺去的自尊的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Nuclear Disarmament’s Asian Pivot",
        "核裁军的亚洲支点"
    ],
    [
        "China was also engaged in constructing a $500 million electric plant and railway link between Tajikistan and Pakistan.",
        "中国还参与了5亿美元的电厂项目和塔吉克斯坦-巴基斯坦铁路项目。"
    ],
    [
        "While old fears that automation and artificial intelligence would cause widespread structural unemployment have never been borne out, technology and globalization have put downward pressure on wages for all but the most skilled workers in the advanced economies.",
        "当自动化和人工智能将导致广泛结构性失业的旧忧虑还未彻底被撇除之时，科技和全球化已经对发达国家中几乎所有高技术工人群体造成了工资压力。"
    ],
    [
        "But if there is one area where obvious opportunities exist, and where policy can really make a difference, it would have to be infrastructure investment.",
        "但如果说在某一方面的确存在明显的机遇，并且政策真的能够有所作为，那么这一定就是基础设施投资了。"
    ],
    [
        "Cocaine is fashionable because it is attractive: white, not dark; sniffed, not injected; consumed in a living room or a fashionable night-club, not in a dark alley.",
        "吸食，不用注射； 能在起居室或时尚的夜店中消费，而不用屈身穷街陋巷。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite these efforts, neither track seems satisfied that their credit demands are being met.",
        "尽管采取了这些措施，但两条轨道的经济主体似乎还面临信贷不足的状况。"
    ],
    [
        "High Tensions In the Low Countries",
        "欧盟小国高度的紧张状态"
    ],
    [
        "In particular, the capital that has accumulated in some of the OIC countries’ financial systems could play an important role in helping them to meet their development goals – especially if Islamic finance is used to its full potential.",
        "尤其是某些伊斯兰合作组织国家金融体系所积累的资本可以在实现发展目标过程中发挥重要作用——尤其是如果我们能将伊斯兰金融的作用发挥到极致。"
    ],
    [
        "Securities prices are extraordinarily high, considering the backdrop of flaccid economic growth.",
        "考虑到经济增长的萎靡，证券价格高得有些离谱。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike in 2012, when the OMT was announced, the objective of QE is not to help governments keep market access.",
        "与2012年宣布直接货币交易计划时不同，量化宽松的目标不是去帮助政府维护市场融资渠道。"
    ],
    [
        "Until the government adopted the necessary constitutional amendment and enacted the associated enabling legislation, Mexico’s energy sector was entirely state-owned.",
        "在政府实施必须的宪法修正案和相关立法之前，墨西哥能源部门完全是国有性质。"
    ],
    [
        "There are no uniforms, and often those doing the killing are acting in the name of causes or movements.",
        "没有军装，而且那些进行杀戮的人往往顶着某些事业或者运动的名义。"
    ],
    [
        "Starting in 1990, the US began to import more and more capital, particularly from Asia.",
        "然而从1990年开始，美国开始引入越来越多的资本，其中大多数来自亚洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a target would put all new fossil-fuel-based infrastructure under intense scrutiny; if we need to drive emissions down, why build another coal plant or badly insulated building?",
        "这样的目标让所有基于化石燃料的新基础设施处于严密监控治下； 如果我们需要让排放降下来，那么为何还要建造煤电厂或隔离不好的建筑？"
    ],
    [
        "Chinese officials presumably believe that this situation will change over time.",
        "中国官员想必认为这一局面会随时间而改变。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who want to work will continue to find jobs.",
        "那些想要工作的人可以继续找到工作。"
    ],
    [
        "Native speakers in each country were consulted on the appropriate translations of the three words.",
        "请各国母语使用者对这三个词进行合适的翻译。"
    ],
    [
        "Speaking on behalf of a ruling class comprising financial experts, bankers, corporate representatives, media owners, and big industry functionaries, they act exactly as if their goal were to deliver the working classes into the grubby hands of the populists and their empty promise of making America and Britain “great again.”",
        "他们替由金融专家、银行家、公司代表、媒体所有者和大产业组织组成的执政阶级发声，好像他们的目标就是要把工作阶级拱手送入民粹主义者和他们的让美国和英国“重新伟大”的空头承诺的怀抱之中。"
    ],
    [
        "The damage arising when copying the DNA is repaired with recombination, involving the BRCA1 and BRCA2 proteins. But cells with mutated BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are unable to undergo recombination and are therefore much more sensitive to an increased level of unrepaired single-strand breaks.",
        "复制DNA时候所发生的破坏可以通过与BRCA1和BRCA2蛋白质的再结合得到修复，但是拥有变异BRCA1或BRCA2基因的细胞无法再承受这种重组而因此变得对未修复的单个碱基程度更高的断裂更为敏感。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet such behavior is increasingly common, with serious consequences.",
        "但这种行为越来越普遍，并且带来了严重的后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But, overall, it is hard to deny that the global economy lacks momentum.",
        "但是，总体而言，无法否认全球经济增长乏力。"
    ],
    [
        "That is pretty much how most people reacted to the stories about bankers’ bonuses, when the great crash of 2007-2008 wiped out banks, businesses, shareholders’ savings, growth, and jobs.",
        "而 这恰好也是人们面对银行家巨额分红时的反应 , 尤其在 2007-2008 年的大海啸将银行 , 企业 , 股东的积蓄 , 国家的增长和人们的工作毁于一旦的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "To be fair, some of the most obvious data have indeed suggested fragmentation of the global economic order.",
        "平心而论，某些最显而易见的数据确实表明全球经济秩序正在分裂。"
    ],
    [
        "China feels stronger than ever in the Trump era, and in the eyes of Chinese cadres, not responding forcefully would be a sign of weakness.",
        "在特朗普时代，中国自觉比以往任何时候都更加强大，并且在中国官员看来，不做出强烈反应就是示弱的表现。"
    ],
    [
        "Although large cities will remain as closed as ever, the new policy will dramatically weaken the institutional foundation of China’s long history of urban-rural and regional divides.",
        "尽管大城市的大门仍如以往那样关闭着，但这一新政策将极大地削弱中国长期的城乡和地区差距的制度性基础。"
    ],
    [
        "As the labor force shrinks and the burden of supporting the elderly grows, the economy is losing vitality.",
        "随着劳动力的减少和支持老龄人口负担的增加，韩国经济正在失去自生能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Stalingrad became Volgograd.",
        "斯大林格勒更名为伏尔加格勒。"
    ],
    [
        "The caregivers and consultants need to be on location. And that raises a question of control.",
        "看护和顾问都必须亲自到场，而控制也因此成为问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, Tocqueville’s intellectual heirs include the neo-Marxist theorists of the Frankfurt School, as well as Hannah Arendt, all of whom feared above all the disintegration of reason in modern societies.",
        "在这一意义上，托克维尔的理论继承人包括法兰克福学派的新马克思主义理论家，以及汉娜·阿伦特。 他们所有人最担心的就是现代社会中理性的解体。"
    ],
    [
        "In the opening credits the family whizzes around Orbit City in a hover car that folds up into a briefcase, which George, the family patriarch, then carries into his office.",
        "影片一开始这家人乘坐一辆能折叠成手提箱大小的悬浮车围绕轨道城市旋转，之后一家之主乔治将折叠好的悬浮车带进了他的办公室。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1971, Calley was convicted of the murder of “no less than 22 Vietnamese civilians of undetermined age and sex.”",
        "在1971年，卡雷被判犯屠杀“不少于22名性别、年龄不明的越南平民”罪名成立。"
    ],
    [
        "Visitors enjoying borscht and pirogi observed her efforts with satisfaction.",
        "喝着罗宋汤吃着馅饼的客人满意地看着她劳作。"
    ],
    [
        "The key question, however, remains whether China is defying market forces at its own risk.",
        "然而关键的问题仍然是中国是否正在以自身为代价抵抗市场的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "That year, Congress passed the first “farm bill,” the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which boosted investment in the rural economy and helped lift farm income by 50% within two years.",
        "那一年，国会通过了首部“农业法案”——即“农业调整法案”——推动了对农村经济的投资，成功地在两年内将农民收入提高了50%。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the steady drumbeat of terrorist violence in Iraq – violence that risks pushing the country into full-scale civil war.",
        "恐怖暴力的战鼓在伊拉克持续敲响。 那里的暴力有可能把该国推向全面内战。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, China’s retail sector seems more likely to follow a two-stage development path, with e-tailers emerging as the major national players.",
        "结果，中国零售业可能将出现两步发展模式，电子零售商将崛起为全国性主宰。"
    ],
    [
        "As Georgia’s prospects of joining NATO seemed to increase, Russian actions became more illiberal.",
        "随着格鲁吉亚加入北约的前景变得越来越明朗，俄罗斯的行动也变得愈加粗鲁。"
    ],
    [
        "This means establishing a comprehensive doctrine of prevention, one that emphasizes robust long-term policy planning so that the organization can prevent, or at least prepare for, future crises, rather than merely reacting to situations as they emerge.",
        "这意味着制定全面的预防原则，强调稳健的长期政策规划以便使机构有能力预防、或至少为未来的危机做好准备，而不是直到危机爆发才匆忙应对。"
    ],
    [
        "Measures to improve the welfare of laying hens, which are typically kept crammed into bare wire cages with no room to stretch their wings, are also being phased in.",
        "改善蛋鸡福利的举措也正在实行，在此之前，多数蛋鸡被硬塞进小的可怜的铁丝鸡笼，甚至没有空间伸展自己的翅膀。"
    ],
    [
        "The final disruption is the world’s increasing interconnectedness, with goods, capital, people, and information flowing ever more easily across borders.",
        "最后的破坏力是当今世界越来越密切的联系，货物、资本、人员和信息的跨界流动比过去容易得多。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the international community as a whole has so far performed poorly in providing an effective response to the crisis.",
        "但可惜迄今为止，国际社会还没有作为一个整体给出应对危机的有效方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Only India maintains its luster.",
        "只有印度保持着强势。"
    ],
    [
        "The ocean is also the world’s biggest employer, directly supporting the livelihoods of more than three billion people, and is a source of food for over 2.6 billion.",
        "海洋也是世界上最大的雇主，直接支撑起三十多亿人的生计，而且是26亿人的食物来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this risk, Kyong-hui’s poor health is a significant hindrance.",
        "在面临如此风险的情况下，金敬姬糟糕的身体状况是一个重大隐患。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent onslaught against free speech and Western values reflects the central political challenge facing President Xi Jinping, who must transform a one-party system enfeebled by greed and mistrust into a well-ordered, ideologically united regime capable of carrying out market-based reforms and sustaining its own long-term survival.",
        "最近针对言论自由和西方价值观的突击反映出国家主席习近平所面临的核心政治挑战。 习近平必须将因贪婪和不信任而衰败无力的一党体系转变为秩序良好、思想统一的体制，使之具备实施市场改革、维持长期生存的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, specific priorities vary by country.",
        "当然，具体的重点因国家而异。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news for those who desire stability and democracy in Iraq is that an amorphous, disorganized, and nihilistic insurgency cannot “win” in the traditional sense of replacing the government and forming a new regime.",
        "对于那些渴望稳定和民主的伊拉克人而言，好消息是一种涣散的、无组织和无政府状态的叛乱不可能取得传统意义上取代现政府并建立新政权的“胜利”。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, given high inflation, structural adjustment has been postponed, with efforts to control credit expansion becoming the government’s first priority.",
        "不幸的是，由于通胀高企，结构调整已经中止，控制信贷扩张成了中国政府的第一要务。"
    ],
    [
        "The TPP’s advocates have, for years, been grossly exaggerating the deal’s projected benefits, while downplaying its potentially high risks and costs, most of which will be incurred by ordinary citizens.",
        "多年来，TPP支持者竭力夸大该协议的预期收益，同时淡化其潜在的高风险和成本——其中大部分将由普通公民承受。"
    ],
    [
        "This will greatly help migrants by ensuring equal access to education for their children.",
        "这一政策大大有助于农民工，因为它保障了孩子平等接受教育的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "But imagine an alternative scenario: You are diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening infectious disease that was once treatable in weeks or months, but you are told that your treatment will take at least two years, and will involve months of daily injections and some 14,000 pills, with severe side effects.",
        "但想象一下另一个情景：你被诊断患上了有生命危险的传染病，这种病在几周或接个月前还是可治愈的，但你的治疗却至少需要两年，并且有好几个月每天都必须打针，还必须吃下14,000片药丸，忍受严重的副作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Slower growth and higher inflation in the expansionary phase of the economic cycle (compared with previous cycles) reflect an essential macroeconomic change.",
        "经济周期扩张阶段的经济增长放缓和高通胀（与以往经济周期相比）反映出重要的宏观经济变化。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian banks are trying to acquire assets in Central and Eastern Europe.",
        "俄罗斯银行正竭力在中东欧地区收购资产。"
    ],
    [
        "Environmental NGOs worry that raising expectations could worsen the fallout from failure, damaging efforts at the national level to build low-carbon economies.",
        "环境方面的非政府组织（NGO）担心，预期越高，失败带来的失望也越大，破坏建设低碳经济的国家层面的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, even if the aggregate size of all protected areas is large, the individual areas may not be large enough to support viable populations.",
        "换句话讲，即使保护区的总面积够大，但具体到某一片区域可能不足以支持种群的存活。"
    ],
    [
        "The Catalyst Foundation aims to provide seed capital for education start-ups and to help them scale up successful programs.",
        "催化剂基金会旨在为教育初创企业提供种子资本，并帮助他们做大成功的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Recovery consists of liquidating the misallocations, reducing consumption, and increasing saving.",
        "泡沫破灭后的工作则包括清理那些错误分配的投资，减少消费以及增加储蓄。"
    ],
    [
        "By purchasing bonds of member countries, the ECB would be taking implicit positions on their individual creditworthiness.",
        "）如若购买成员国债券，欧洲央行就相当于间接肯定或否定了个别国家的信用。"
    ],
    [
        "The logic of a summer provocation was abundantly clear in 1914.",
        "夏季挑衅的逻辑在1914年最为显露无疑。"
    ],
    [
        "A phased reduction of the American presence would follow. If the US wished to maintain bases in Korea in the longer term, it would have to secure permission from a proud and newly united Korean nation – hardly a forgone conclusion.",
        "接下来就是分阶段的美军撤退。 如果美国想要在朝鲜半岛继续安插军事基地，就需要征得扬眉吐气且新近统一的朝鲜国许可——但这几乎是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "But matters have gotten worse: border tensions between the US and Mexico have grown, the proposed wall has rightly provoked indignation, more unauthorized immigrants than ever are entering the US, and the FTAA has collapsed.",
        "但是形势却变得更差。 美墨边境的紧张局势有所增长，修建高墙的建议正好挑起了愤怒，前所未有、更多的非法移民正在进入美国，而美洲国家自由贸易协定则无果而终。"
    ],
    [
        "The first institutional reform takes the form of a larger envelope of official resources, which would mean a quasi-fiscal union.",
        "机构改革已经迈出了第一步，其形式是建立一个官方资源的大池子，相当于一个准财政联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Inflation – or the lack of it – presents further challenges.",
        "通货膨胀——或通货不膨胀——带来了进一步挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The Chinese authorities may then be forced to tighten the quotas made available to the clearing banks.",
        "中国当局可能被迫收紧清算行所能获得的配额。"
    ],
    [
        "That being the case, the next US administration (regardless of who wins), together with a new UK leadership struggling to demonstrate its post-Brexit “openness,” should extend fiscal activism beyond domestic infrastructure to global development more generally.",
        "考虑到这一点，下任美国政府（不管谁获胜）以及忙于证明英国退欧后“开放性”的新英国领导层应该将财政积极主义扩大到国内基础设施之外，进入更一般性的全球发展领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, Germany did it, because there was no alternative; and many Germans are proud of their country for rising to the occasion.",
        "是的，德国做到了，因为没有第二条路可以走； 许多德国人对自己的祖国能够面对这样的情况挺身而出感到自豪。"
    ],
    [
        "We should also consider legislation and regulations to keep certain jobs “human.”",
        "我们还应该考虑用立法和监管保证一些工作属于人类。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s treatment of all such debt as equally powerful sources of back-up liquidity now trumps any analysis of differences in long-term sovereign risk.",
        "ECB将所有这些债务视为具有同等权力的备用清偿来源，这在效力上已经胜过了对长期主权风险差异的任何分析。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the last few years, Thailand has gone from flawed democracy to military rule, which could persist through 2018, or beyond.",
        "在过去几年中，泰国从有缺陷的民主变成军事统治，这一状况可能一直持续到2018年以后。"
    ],
    [
        "The Democrats are surely the more skeptical of America’s two parties.",
        "民主党无疑就是两党中更为怀疑者。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, the interest cost and the debt would be much greater.",
        "在这种情况下，利息成本和债务会大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "To save innocent people from paying with their lives, the world’s leaders must act quickly and boldly.",
        "为了不让无辜的人们再牺牲生命，世界上的领导人必须快速并且大胆地行动起来。"
    ],
    [
        "In addition to clarifying the legal framework for data sharing, the government can set an example by using the Internet to render its own data collection and transaction records more uniform and systematic.",
        "除了厘清数据共享的法律框架，政府还可以利用互联网更加统一、系统地提供其自身的数据收集和交易记录，以此树立一个榜样。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet one senses among elites from emerging countries something akin to existential doubt, which the European crisis has served to reinforce.",
        "但可以感觉到新兴国家精英阶层内心隐藏着挥之不去的疑问，而这些在欧洲危机中只能是进一步加剧而已。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, automatic reductions in the defense budget and “discretionary” domestic spending – agreed to by both Democrats and Republicans in the summer of 2011 – will take effect.",
        "与此同时，民主共和两党于2011年夏达成的自动削减国防预算和“自由裁量”国内消费的协议也将开始实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, with fiscal austerity likely to restrain aggregate demand in the years ahead, and with capital-short banks likely to curtail lending – a serious problem for Europe’s bank-centric system of credit intermediation – a pan-European recession seems inevitable.",
        "此外，财政紧缩可能在未来数年内影响总需求，资本短缺的银行可能收紧信贷——这对欧洲的以银行为中心的信用中介体系来说是个严重问题——泛欧洲衰退已成不可避免之势。"
    ],
    [
        "de facto debt mutualization that has prompted creditors to accept lower interest rates, and it is only lower interest rates that have permitted Renzi, Samaras, Valls, and the others to distance themselves from austerity policies.",
        "这一新出现的债务纪律松弛现象反映了潜在破产成本的社会化，所有欧元区国家都在通过建立联合责任机制走这条道路。 正是这一债务共同化的现状鼓励了债权人接受低利率，而只有低利率才能让兰奇、萨马拉斯、瓦尔斯和其他人对紧缩政策敬而远之。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the stark changes in economic conditions, however, it is now in Russia’s national interest to reassure international markets that it is a reliable place to do business, for which a new PCA would serve as an ideal signal.",
        "但是，由于经济形势发生了剧烈变化，现在俄国向国际市场重新保证其是个经商的可靠地方符合自身的利益，而新的协议就是一个理想的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "Saddam Hussein’s mass murder of Iraqi citizens is why he supported the war in Iraq.",
        "”萨达姆大肆屠杀伊拉克人是他支持伊拉克战争的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a major mistake, for which the ECB could pay dearly.",
        "这是一个严重的错误，ECB可能会为此付出高昂的代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, notwithstanding the pro-Russian leanings of some among Trump’s team, the US-Russian relationship also lacks strategic trust, owing to Russia’s military intervention in Syria, its invasion of eastern Ukraine, and its alleged interference in the US election.",
        "同样，尽管特朗普团队不乏一定程度的亲俄倾向，但因为俄罗斯军事入侵叙利亚、东乌克兰以及干涉美国大选的指控，美俄关系同样缺乏战略互信。"
    ],
    [
        "He will also visit Myanmar (Burma) in an effort to lend support to that struggling country’s extraordinary changes and encourage further progress.",
        "他还将访问缅甸，支持这个努力奋斗中的国家的惊人变化，并鼓励它继续进步。"
    ],
    [
        "International-affairs professionals frequently talk about “high politics” and “low politics,” and they usually relegate economic issues to the latter category.",
        "国际事务教授总是大谈“高端政治”和“低端政治”，而经济问题往往被归于后者。"
    ],
    [
        "As these examples suggest, today's information age has been marked by the growing role of non-governmental organizations (NGO's) on the international stage.",
        "这些事例表明，非政府组织（NGO）在世界舞台上的重要性日渐增加是当今资讯时代的重要标志。"
    ],
    [
        "Why this disappointment?",
        "结果为什么会令人失望？"
    ],
    [
        "And it sits oddly with separating trading and derivatives from deposit banking, since underwriting is akin to selling a large put option, and typically riskier than normal market-making.",
        "这也和将交易和衍生品与存款银行业务分离格格不入，因为承销就好比是出售一大笔看跌期权，比通常的做市业务风险更大。"
    ],
    [
        "With parliamentary and presidential elections next year, the stakes are as high as at any previous turning point in modern French history.",
        "随着明年议会和总统大选的到来，赌注之高不亚于之前现代法国历史上的任何一个转折点。"
    ],
    [
        "The only question left is how humans can best adapt to the demands of a higher standard of efficiency.",
        "剩下的唯一的问题是人类如何最好地适应更高的效率标准。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, in 1905, Japan took measures to incorporate Dokdo in order to use it as a strategic military site for its war with Russia.",
        "但是，在1905年，日本采取措施将独岛纳为日本领土，利用其作为日俄战争的战略军事基地。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – The recent dizzying plunge in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges has posed a unique test for China’s Communist rulers.",
        "伯克利—最近，上海和深圳股市暴跌对中国共产党构成了独特的考验。"
    ],
    [
        "Gun Control After Newtown",
        "纽顿之后话枪管"
    ],
    [
        "That response, it seems almost inevitable, will hurt economic growth and spur financial volatility.",
        "这一反应——目前看来几乎是不可避免的——将伤及经济增长、刺激金融波动。"
    ],
    [
        "Where else can you witness an ex-president commit suicide by jumping off a cliff near his residence?",
        "在哪个国家你还能找到其前总统在他住处附近跳崖自尽？"
    ],
    [
        "But in the end, the effectiveness of our advice hinges on countries' willingness to act on our recommendations.",
        "但是归根结底，我们的建议是否有效还是要取决于各国是否愿意按照我们的建议行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Solutions that focus on end-users, whether health practitioners or patients, have the best chance of succeeding.",
        "注重终端用户——不管是医生还是患者——的方案最有可能取得成功。"
    ],
    [
        "(Jillani will serve for only seven months before he, too, retires.)",
        "（吉拉尼的任期将只有7个月，此后他也将退休。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the Bank’s private-sector arm, the International Financial Corporation, has established the IFC Sukuk Company, which issued $100 million in trust certificates in 2015.",
        "同样，世行的私营部门机构国际金融公司已经成立了国际金融公司（IFC）伊斯兰债券公司，并于2015年发行了1亿美元的信托证书。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, the participants were greeted by a large group of mostly young people, including many African- and Hispanic Americans.",
        "今年，与会者受到了一大群主要是年轻人的“欢迎”，包括许多非洲裔和西班牙裔美国人。"
    ],
    [
        "Other friends and family stood and watched from the beach and cliff top.",
        "其他家人和朋友站在海边或崖顶默默地注视着这一仪式。"
    ],
    [
        "The major investment-deficit players were the eurozone minus Germany, with a deficit of $2.4 trillion during that decade, and the UK, with a deficit of $0.5 trillion.",
        "显然，主要跨境投资赤字国不是美国，而是除德国以外的欧元区国家，它们在此十年间赤字高达2. 4万亿美元；"
    ],
    [
        "Last year, growth reached 12.5%, mainly owing to a rebound in oil output and exports.",
        "去年，增长达到了12. 5%，主要是石油产出和输出复苏所赐。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting global network of more than 400 institutions and over 4,000 active inventors has produced more patent applications than many R&D-intensive companies do.",
        "由此产生了包括400多家机构和4,000多个活跃发明者在内的全球网络，它所申请的专利比许多研发密集型公司还要多。"
    ],
    [
        "This year, however, the “big spend” in Europe may have been inhibited by the big winter freeze and the big austerity programs across most of the continent.",
        "不过今年，欧洲的“狂欢购物”可能受到遍布欧洲大陆的冬季冰雪和大规模紧缩计划的抑制。"
    ],
    [
        "From the perspective of the typical American, nearly one-third of the country’s productive potential has been thrown away on spending that adds nothing to real wealth or destroyed by the 2008 financial crisis.",
        "从普通美国人的角度看，这个国家近三分之一的生产潜力浪费在了完全没有增加真实财富或被2008年金融危机毁掉的东西上。"
    ],
    [
        "In a recent working paper, Urooj Khan of Columbia Business School, Suresh Nallareddy of Duke University, and Ethan Rouen of Harvard Business School highlight a misalignment in “the growth in corporate profits and the overall US economy” between 1975 and 2013.",
        "在最近发布的一份工作文件中，哥伦比亚大学商学院的乌鲁吉·汗（Urooj Khan），杜克大学的苏雷什·那拉雷迪（Suresh Nallareddy）以及哈佛商学院的伊森·卢恩（Ethan Rouen）指出了在1975~2013年间“企业利润和美国整体经济增长”之间的失调。"
    ],
    [
        "And more people should be aware that many African countries have made substantial progress over the last decade, particularly with respect to economic growth, health, and education.",
        "更多人也应该认识到许多非洲国家都在过去十年中取得了长足的进步，尤其是在经济发展，卫生和教育方面。"
    ],
    [
        "And lack of fiscal control is what got Greece into trouble in the first place.",
        "缺少财政控制是希腊陷入麻烦的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Negotiations in a Strategic Trap",
        "战略陷阱中的谈判"
    ],
    [
        "And, finally – perhaps most important – they allow their users to perceive patterns and opportunities that would be impossible to discover through traditional means.",
        "最后——也许也是最重要的——它们让用户能够感知传统方法无法发现的模式和机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Corruption and mismanagement, along with structural and external challenges – such as falling oil prices, water shortages, and an aging unemployed population – had already weakened economic growth.",
        "腐败和管理不善，加上结构性和外部挑战——如油价下跌、水短缺和老龄化的失业人口——让经济增长十分萎靡。"
    ],
    [
        "However, this cooperation represents a short-term, tactical marriage of convenience rather than a budding new strategic alliance.",
        "但这种合作与其说是一种正在萌芽的全新战略联盟，还不如说是一种技术上短期的权宜之计。"
    ],
    [
        "Much the same is true within countries.",
        "各国内部的情况也大体如此。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while we focus on immediate concerns, they continue to fester, and we overlook them at our peril.",
        "但当我们着眼于解决燃眉之急时，这些长期问题却在忽视中逐步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Let’s hope we pass the test.",
        "但愿我们能够经受考验。"
    ],
    [
        "But this future-oriented approach had serious short-term political consequences, with Schröder losing the next election and his party’s popularity diminishing considerably.",
        "但上述面向未来的措施产生了严重的短期政治后果。 施罗德在接下来的选举中落败，其党派的受欢迎程度也大受影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, the negotiation will not really be between the UK and the EU, but rather among EU members.",
        "因此，谈判实际上不是在英国和欧盟之间进行，而是欧盟成员国之间进行。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, China's railways carry five times as much freight as India's, even though China has a far better road network.",
        "相比之下，中国铁路货运量是印度的五倍，虽然中国拥有更高质量的公路网络。"
    ],
    [
        "This is a welcome contrast to the options considered so far, all of which involved – under different guises – foisting more debt onto a country that has too much of it already.",
        "而相对于从前那些试图（以各种名目）向希腊这个早已负债累累的国家增加债务的方案来说，这个方案还是挺受欢迎的。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, with the consolidation of a free-trade bloc among the Pacific Rim countries – home to 215 million people and accounting for 37% of Latin America’s GDP – this is changing.",
        "幸运的是，随着环太平洋国家（拥有2. 15亿人口，贡献37%的拉丁美洲GDP）自由贸易区的巩固，这一点正在改变。"
    ],
    [
        "One would expect fast-growing, capital-scarce (and young) developing countries to be importing capital from the rest of world to finance consumption and investment.",
        "年轻的发展中国家增长速度快，资本匮乏，按常理他们本该从其他国家进口资金以支持金融消费和投资。"
    ],
    [
        "It would provide a source of liquidity for governments, bypassing the bond markets.",
        "它能够为政府提供一个流动性源泉，绕过债券市场。"
    ],
    [
        "It is still too soon, however, to conclude that Europeans have finally overcome their fear of Arab democracy and will not be tempted to accept milder forms of “liberal authoritarianism” should the crisis drag on or a military takeover occur.",
        "不过，如果这场危机继续发展或爆发军事政变，认为欧洲人已经克服对阿拉伯民主政权的恐惧心理、不会甘心接受形式温和的“开明专制”则未免显得缺乏依据。"
    ],
    [
        "At the forum, speakers, including the finance minister and the head of the central bank, summarize the Chinese leadership’s current thinking.",
        "在这一论坛上，演讲者——包括财政部长和央行首脑——会总结中国领导层的最新思维。"
    ],
    [
        "Malaysia’s imposition of capital controls was a controversial policy decision.",
        "马来西亚实施资本管制的政策决定颇具争议。"
    ],
    [
        "And the romance has resulted in both parties living happily: the Fed feels better positioned to pursue its dual mandate of high employment and stable inflation, while investors feel that they have the opportunity for sizeable financial rewards.",
        "这种恋爱关系让双方都心情愉快：美联储自认能更好地推行高就业率和稳定通胀的双重任务，而投资者则有机会获得可观的经济回报。"
    ],
    [
        "It includes a Charter of Fundamental Rights. It might help harmonize the foreign policies of the member states.",
        "它还包含了一本基本权利宪法，这也许有助于平衡各成员国的外交政策。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are serious pitfalls to avoid in this process.",
        "但在此过程中需要规避诸多陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "Although some Central Asian countries have made progress, most still lag other emerging markets in accountability, rule of law, and reducing corruption.",
        "一些中亚国家已经取得了长足的进步，但在可问责性、法治精神和消灭腐败等方面仍显得十分落后。"
    ],
    [
        "The federal government – under both President George W. Bush and Barack Obama – allocated hundreds of billions of dollars to prop up the mega-banks, while allowing hundreds of these crucially important smaller lenders to fail.",
        "联邦政府——不管是小布什政府还是奥巴马政府——用数千亿美元支持大银行，却放任数百家具有关键重要性的小贷款商倒闭。"
    ],
    [
        "A sensible framework for doing so must account for several key factors.",
        "而制定一个合理框架则必须考虑下列几个关键因素："
    ],
    [
        "But, as Mubarak’s regime declined, so did the government’s control over the Bedouin.",
        "但是，随着穆巴拉克政权的倒台，埃及政府也失去了对贝多因人的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "What some are thinking is that Brexit is a license to abuse men, women, and children who live and work here.",
        "”有人认为脱欧是一份虐待生活和工作在这里的男人、女人和儿童的授权书。"
    ],
    [
        "But if, as seems likely, such devaluations are left too late, debt restructuring might still be needed.",
        "但是，如果这样的贬值（看起来有可能发生）来得太晚，债务重组可能仍必须进行。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Kremlin lost not only control of vast portions of territory, but also half of the USSR’s nearly 300 million people.",
        "苏联解体时，克里姆林宫不但丢掉了广大领土，也失去了苏联近3亿人口的一半。"
    ],
    [
        "While recent elections in virtually all other European countries have featured strong showings by far-right populists – Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) being the latest to make major gains – Spain (and neighboring Portugal) have remained seemingly immune.",
        "几乎其他所有欧洲国家，最近的选举中都表现出极右翼民粹主义崛起之势——德国另类选择党（AfD）是最近的例子——但西班牙（以及相邻的葡萄牙）似乎对极右翼民粹主义免疫。"
    ],
    [
        "Wilders wants to ban the Koran and stop Muslims from moving to his country.",
        "威尔德斯则想禁止古兰经并阻止穆斯林移民荷兰。"
    ],
    [
        "In July 1997, a currency crisis that struck Thailand quickly spread to neighboring economies.",
        "1997年7月，一场货币危机在袭击了泰国之后，迅速蔓延到相邻经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "The needs of export activities are often quite distinct.",
        "出口活动的需求往往相当独特。"
    ],
    [
        "But victims complain that its procedures are slow and abstruse; and many Bosnian Serbs are convinced that the tribunal is selective and politically motivated.",
        "但受害者抱怨其程序迟缓晦涩； 很多波黑塞族相信法庭是有选择性和政治动机的。"
    ],
    [
        "It is central to India’s “Look East” policy, which has evolved into more of an “Act East” policy, whereby the original strategy’s economic logic has been amplified by the larger geopolitical objective of ensuring Asian stability and a regional balance of power.",
        "日本是印度“向东看”政策的核心，而“向东看”已越来越有“向东行动”的趋势，最初的政策经济逻辑因为确保叶舟稳定和地区实力均衡这一更大的地缘政治目标而放大了。"
    ],
    [
        "George Dangerfield’s controversial history, The Strange Death of Liberal England, describes his country’s sudden decline at the peak of its power at the turn of the last century. The world everyone knew simply and inexplicably seemed to disappear.",
        "在备受争议的《自由主义英格兰的离奇死亡》一书中，英国历史学家乔治·丹格菲尔德是这样解释大英帝国在19世纪与20世纪之交突然从权力巅锋跌落的：那个大家所熟悉的世界似乎就这样平白无故地消失了。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is understandable that Western banks that recklessly extended euro loans to these countries now want to give them euro printing presses.",
        "当然，不难理解，鲁莽地想这些国家大肆发放欧元贷款的西方银行现在想把欧元印钞机也送给它们。"
    ],
    [
        "But, aside from skilled nursing, rehabilitation efforts by occupational and physical therapists, and the practical assistance of social workers and home health aides, care-giving, especially for victims of health catastrophes and end-stage conditions, has relatively little to do with the contemporary practice of medicine.",
        "但是，除了熟练的护理之外，职业治疗和理疗师进行的康复活动，社会工作者的实际帮助以及家庭健康护理和照护，特别是对健康严重受损和处于疾病晚期的病人的健康护理和照护，与当代的医学实践几乎没有什么关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors will reevaluate opportunities for undertaking new initiatives.",
        "投资者将重新评估新项目的机会。"
    ],
    [
        "During all these years, European governments consistently confirmed Turkey's eligibility for full membership, making accession dependent on compliance with membership criteria.",
        "这些年来，欧洲政府一直承认土耳其的完全会员资格，条件是土耳其要遵守成员国的行为准则。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, too, should recognize that there are limits to the extent of the subordination that it can ask of an ally.",
        "美国也明白，其盟友对其的屈从是有限度的。"
    ],
    [
        "The men and women stationed there – and, indeed, all US soldiers in the Asia-Pacific region – have been working to secure regional stability for much of the last century.",
        "驻扎在那里的男兵和女兵——而且事实上还包括驻扎在亚太地区的所有美军士兵——在上个世纪绝大部分时间内一直在为确保地区稳定付出努力。"
    ],
    [
        "When, as is usually the case, the long-term interest rate is higher than the GDP growth rate, the wealthy may accumulate wealth faster than the rest of the economy – a point made by the economist Thomas Piketty.",
        "在通常情况下，长期利率高于GDP增长率，此时富人积累财富的速度比经济其余部分更快——经济学家托马斯·皮凯蒂（Thomas Piketty）如是说。"
    ],
    [
        "Because most households earn the bulk of their income from their labor, the absence of real-wage growth is a major factor behind the stagnation of family incomes.",
        "大部分家庭的大部分收入都来自劳动所得，因此真实工资增长缺失是家庭所得停滞的主要因素。"
    ],
    [
        "Small new companies may have neither such protocols nor the people – for example, independent board members – to impose them.",
        "新成立的小公司可能既无规程也无执行人员——如独立董事。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it is far simpler to defend a well-understood, long-accepted framework than it is to champion a new worldview.",
        "毕竟，捍卫一个易于理解并且被长期接受的框架比提出一套新的世界观简单得多。"
    ],
    [
        "When Technophobia Becomes Toxic",
        "当技术恐惧症变得有害之时"
    ],
    [
        "This is logical.",
        "这是合乎逻辑的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Hunger Bonds",
        "饥荒债券"
    ],
    [
        "Developing nations should argue that recognizing these economic and political realities makes the global trade regime not weaker and more susceptible to protectionism, but healthier and more sustainable.",
        "发展中国家应该坚持认为，承认这些经济和政治现实不仅没有削弱全球贸易体制并使其更容易受到贸易保护主义的侵害，反而使全球贸易体制更健康，更具有可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of slashing expenditures, developing-country leaders should focus on providing decent job opportunities and improved living standards for their citizens.",
        "发展中国家领导人不应该削减支出，而应该专注于为人民提供体面工作机会和改善生活水平。"
    ],
    [
        "But then we saw protests in Tel Aviv, Santiago, London, and now even in the US.",
        "但我们随后又看到发生在特拉维夫、圣地亚哥，伦敦甚至是美国的示威。"
    ],
    [
        "This should be reason enough to continue the report; indeed, the fact that China has the world’s highest investment rate suggests that, despite the Doing Business indicators, it is possible to do business there.",
        "这应该足以成为继续发布报告的理由； 事实上，中国投资率世界第一这一事实表明，尽管在《营商环境报告》中成绩不佳，仍然可以在那里做生意。"
    ],
    [
        "Tripoli is in danger of becoming like Baghdad circa 2005, with different groups controlling turf and instituting a clientelist neighborhood political economy.",
        "的黎波里的危险程度一点都不亚于2005年时的巴格达，不同的阵营各有各的地盘，并发展出了一套侍从主义社区政治经济。"
    ],
    [
        "First, the views he expresses are entirely sensible and mainstream, based on deep experience (his and others) with this and other financial crises.",
        "首先，他表达的意见完全合理并符合主流，并构建于（他和其他人）对这场和其他金融危机的深厚经验之上。"
    ],
    [
        "Male birds, for example, often have brightly colored plumage or intricate appendages, such as the Australian lyrebird’s long tail.",
        "比如雄性鸟类往往拥有色彩艳丽的羽毛或精致复杂的长尾，像澳大利亚琴鸟就拖着长长的尾巴。"
    ],
    [
        "Why Wolfensohn Mattered",
        "Wolfensohn为何如此重要"
    ],
    [
        "Call it a “reset” button – like the one then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave to Lavrov in 2009 – or whatever one wants.",
        "我们可以称之为“重启”键——2009年，时任国务卿希拉里·克林顿曾如此对拉夫罗夫说——或者任何其他称呼。"
    ],
    [
        "My company, Mylan, introduced the first generic once-daily pill for developing countries in 2009, and we have continually reduced its price to make it more accessible to more people.",
        "我的公司——迈兰制药公司在2009年推出了第一种面向发展中国家的一日一次普通药，此后我们一直在调降药价，让它走近更多的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet China’s monetary authorities do not seem to understand the scale of the risk – or its root causes.",
        "但中国货币当局似乎并不清楚风险的规模，也不清楚它的根源。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, over-diagnosing bipolar disorder can unnecessarily expose patients to serious side-effects of medication.",
        "因此，双相障碍的过度诊断可能让病人不必要地承受严重的药物副作用。"
    ],
    [
        "As changes in the job market break down the middle class, a new era of class rivalry could be unleashed (if it has not been already).",
        "随着就业市场的变化瓦解了中产阶级队伍，新的阶级斗争时代可能会被释放（如果现在还未被释放的话）。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether it will make things better or worse remains to be seen.",
        "特朗普的议程会让局势好转抑或恶化仍有待观察。"
    ],
    [
        "In any developed nation, you will find selfless care being provided to the disabled, the dying, the destitute, and the disadvantaged, by people acting under the impulse of their faith.",
        "在许多发达国家，你会发现那些受宗教感召的人们为残疾人，垂死者，穷人和受压迫的人提供了无私的帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "· What does national sovereignty mean in a world where diseases, pollutants, and terrorists cross national borders at will?",
        "· 国家主权在疾病、污染和恐怖分子可以随心所欲地穿越边境的世界中意味着什么？"
    ],
    [
        "When sovereign states have their own currencies, citizens are willing to see their tax money go to the weakest regions. That is an expression of national solidarity, a sense that a country’s citizens belong together and are prepared, in a crisis, to sacrifice their own interests for the collective good.",
        "当主权国家拥有自己的货币时，公民愿意看到其上交的税收用到一些最弱的地区，这是国家团结的表现，国家的团结感能够使国民团结起来，在危机期间，为了集体利益，他们会做好牺牲自己个人利益的准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that China owes much of its recent growth to debt-financed investment – often in projects like infrastructure and housing, meant to support the Chinese Dream – any effort to get credit growth under control is likely to cause a hard landing.",
        "5%的GDP年增长率。 最近，中国的增长很大程度上依靠债务融资的投资——通常是基础设施和住房等项目，旨在支持中国梦——因此任何控制信用增长的努力都有可能导致硬着陆。"
    ],
    [
        "And, if they are, how can they be improved?",
        "果真如此的话，怎样改善其经济前景？"
    ],
    [
        "So he helped guide – first as a customer, and later as an adviser and director – Farm Credit, a national banking cooperative network, in its efforts to help local farmers weather the Dust Bowl years.",
        "因此他协助创建了农业信贷协会——最初是以客户的身份，后来逐渐成为顾问和董事，这是一套国家银行合作网络，其目的是帮助当地农民度过尘暴天气。"
    ],
    [
        "Its logic is always at work as we encounter constantly changing circumstances.",
        "它的逻辑永远在起作用，因为我们不断地遇到变化的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "Population growth in developing regions - especially Africa, India, and other parts of Asia - needs to slow.",
        "人口增长速度在发展中国家--特别是在非洲、印度以及亚洲的其他地区--必须降低。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no simple way to monitor the quality and efficiency of a charity – especially one devoted to long-term changes (that is, investments) rather than daily delivery of services.",
        "监督慈善机构的质量和效率没有简单的办法可循——特别是对于致力于长期变化（既投资）而不是提供日常服务的慈善机构。"
    ],
    [
        "A lower price level would also increase the real value of business debt, weakening balance sheets and thus making it harder for companies to get additional credit.",
        "更低的价格水平还会增加商业债务的实际价值，削弱资产负债表，从而让公司更难获得额外的信贷。"
    ],
    [
        "When China National Offshore Oil Company tried to buy America’s UNOCAL two years ago, it set off a political firestorm in the United States.",
        "当中国海洋石油总公司（中海油）在两年前企图收购美国的优尼科公司时，在美国的政界激起了轩然大波。"
    ],
    [
        "But many members of today’s thriving global Armenian Diaspora have direct ancestors who perished, and carry an oral historical tradition that keeps the memories burning.",
        "亚美尼亚后裔如今在全世界繁衍生息，但是他们已经去世的上一辈保留着口述历史的传统，让他们永记历史。"
    ],
    [
        "This was obvious at the last NPT Review Conference in 2010, when efforts to mandate stronger safeguards, strengthen compliance and enforcement mechanisms, and inject new life into the control of fissile-material production all went nowhere.",
        "这在上一次2010年NPT审议会议上清晰可见，当时，加强保卫、强化遵守和执行机制以及给控制可分裂物质生产注入新活力的努力都无疾而终。"
    ],
    [
        "We administered the identical questionnaire in the two cities in 2015. We presented the results at the American Economic Association’s annual meeting this January.",
        "我们去年又在上述两个城市进行了相同的问卷调查，并在今年一月召开的美国经济学会年会上发表了研究成果。"
    ],
    [
        "In countries like the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Italy, research-assessment exercises are inexorably creating a culture of quantification and accountability, in which citation data play an increasingly important role.",
        "在英国、澳大利亚、德国和意大利等国家，研究评估工作正在无情地创造一种资格和问责文化，引用数据的重要性日益增加。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is partly a matter of insufficient evidence; but complex interactions sometimes make tracing causation difficult.",
        "其中部分原因是因为证据不足； 但复杂的互动有时会很难确定因果关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Or is the economic downturn since the vote an indication of how valuable integration and the free movement of Europeans was to the UK’s own vitality?",
        "还是自投票以来的经济颓势表明了一体化和欧洲人的自由迁徙对于英国自身的活力至关重要？"
    ],
    [
        "Revealingly, the Fund, not the European Union, has taken the lead in negotiating emergency assistance packages for Hungary and Latvia.",
        "比如说，最近向匈牙利和拉脱维亚提供紧急援助的谈判，牵头的就是IMF而不是欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "By flaunting its willingness to take greater risks, the North hopes to further enhance its bargaining power.",
        "通过不断宣扬自己造成更大破坏的意愿，朝鲜希望能进一步增加其讨价还价的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, it would be wise to spend at least part of the windfall on improving the capacity to innovate, which is essential for a long-term growth beyond the fluctuation of international commodity prices.",
        "有鉴于此，将这笔横财的至少一部分用于提高创新能力不失为明智之举，这将对实现摆脱国际商品价格影响的长期增长至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, China can be expected to continue to manage capital-account transactions to some extent, using macroprudential measures and, when appropriate, direct capital controls.",
        "考虑到这一点，可以预期中国将继续在一定程度上管理资本账户交易，包括使用宏观审慎政策以及在适当时候采取直接资本管制。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, a potential downside to quantitative easing is that low interest rates send capital to higher-growth, high-interest-rate countries.",
        "类似地，量化宽松的一个潜在危害是低利率会驱使资本流向高增长、高利率国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Until liberation, there could be no business as usual.",
        "解放之日未到，休谈什么商业活动。"
    ],
    [
        "The insurrection, which continues to this day, and Indian security forces’ response to it have caused great loss of life and property, and have all but wrecked the state’s economy, which is largely dependent on tourism.",
        "起义到今天也没有结束，印度安全部队的反击已经造成巨大的生命和财产损失，并几乎摧毁了该地区在很大程度上依赖旅游业的经济。"
    ],
    [
        "In other words, achieving a lasting peace deal will require compromises from both sides – the kind of compromises that Hamas has long resisted.",
        "换句话说，实现持久和平协议需要双方的妥协，而长期以来哈马斯一直抵制这样的妥协。"
    ],
    [
        "Both decisions will have serious consequences for the EU’s long-term political and economic stability.",
        "这两项决定将对欧盟的长期政治与经济稳定带来严重后果。"
    ],
    [
        "Before aircraft manufacturers can produce and sell a new airplane model, they must spend billions of dollars over a decade or more of development – costs that must later be recouped.",
        "在飞机制造商可以生产和销售新机型之前，它们需要花费数十亿美元、数十年时间用于研发——这些成本必须在日后收回。"
    ],
    [
        "In part, low levels of US labor-force participation reflect structural factors.",
        "从某种意义上说，美国劳动力参与水平低下反映了结构因素。"
    ],
    [
        "A major reason is the decline in gasoline and other energy prices.",
        "一个主要原因是汽油和其他能源价格下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF’s policy tool here is the dollar amount that it is willing to pledge as a backstop in balance-of-payments crises.",
        "在这方面，IMF的政策工具是承诺拿出多少美元来为收支平衡危机兜底。"
    ],
    [
        "The country has visibly prospered, and, despite population growth, per capita income has grown faster, and to a greater level, than ever before.",
        "国家的兴旺有目共睹，虽然人口持续增长，但人均收入增长更快，已经达到了一个前所未有的高度。"
    ],
    [
        "The court ruled that a series of social programs should be expanded, in order to provide a basic nutritional floor for all.",
        "印度最高法院判决一系列社会计划应该进行扩张，从而为所有人提供基本营养基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a rapid change of course by the Obama administration in 2013 can begin to counteract the enmity toward the US that has been generated by more than a decade of its forces’ lethal presence in the region.",
        "奥巴马政府只有在2013年迅速做出改变才能抵抗美军在该地区十余年致命存在所引发的敌意。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the sharp acceleration in the debt-to-GDP ratio is partly attributable to the relative underdevelopment of China’s capital market.",
        "事实上，债务占GDP之比的上升有相当部分可归因于中国股权资本市场的相对不发达。"
    ],
    [
        "The COP21 agreement has given Europe a second chance to set an example and become the global standard-bearer for energy efficiency.",
        "COP21协定给了欧洲第二次机会成为榜样和能源效率的全球标准制造者。"
    ],
    [
        "But fewer than a half-dozen countries have actually met this goal.",
        "但只有不到六个国家实际达到了这一目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, two decades after essentially tossing US forces out of local bases, the Philippines has welcomed back American troops as part of a new military cooperation deal.",
        "事实上，在将美国力量事实驱逐出本地军事基地二十年后，菲律宾迎回了美国军队，以此作为新军事合作协议的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "No Child Left Out",
        "不让一个孩子掉队"
    ],
    [
        "For these provinces have now been, for the most part, cut off from international observation ever since the protests that wracked Tibet last spring.",
        "自从去年春天那场抗议事件以来，国际观察员一直没被允许进入该区域。"
    ],
    [
        "But while I could see Trump, a real-estate magnate, supporting a massive housing program (with most of the benefits going to developers like himself), his promised repeal of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) would leave millions of Americans without health insurance.",
        "我可以看到身为 房地产大亨的特朗普支持群众住房计划（大部分好处将流向像他这样的开发商），但他承诺废除平价医疗法（奥巴马医保）将让数百万美国人失去医疗保险。"
    ],
    [
        "This points to fundamental challenges ahead, notwithstanding the significant economic potential of Chinese consumers.",
        "尽管中国消费者的规模潜力相当巨大，但是上述情况还是指出了发展前路上面临的基本挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the Japanese economy continues to limp along, with the Bank of Japan now “managing the yield curve” in yet another attempt to raise inflation and growth from their current low levels.",
        "与此同时日本经济继续徘徊不前，于是日本央行如今开始“管理收益率曲线”以图再次将通胀和增长指数拖离当前的低水平。"
    ],
    [
        "The real obstacle to reform is not the difficulty of treaty change; it is the bureaucracy’s resistance to ceding power.",
        "改革的真正障碍不在于更该条约的困难性，而在于官僚对让渡权力的抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "The fall in US total debt, and the narrowing of the financing gap between total debt and domestic funds, led to a significant improvement in the US current-account deficit in 2008-2009, disproving US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke’s claim that the deficit was caused by a global “saving glut.”",
        "美国总债务的下降，以及总债务和国内资金之间财政缺口的缩窄，都使得美国经常账户赤字状况在2008-2009财年大大改善，也证明美联储主席伯南克宣称该赤字是由全球“储蓄偏好”所引发的观点是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Tentu tidak mengejutkan, 40% anak-anak usia sekolah dasar dan menengah pertama mengalami putus sekolah.",
        "毫不奇怪，40%的小学和初中适龄青少年辍学。"
    ],
    [
        "To maintain single-party legitimacy – and thus the ability to govern – those narrower interests must be overridden in favor of the general interest.",
        "为了维持一党执政的合法性——以及治国能力——这些狭隘利益集团必须被打倒，以保证一般利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic conditions in China appear set to worsen further.",
        "中国经济状况似乎还会进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Above all, Britain, it was said, would regain its “mojo,” the creative vitality needed to take the world by storm.",
        "最重要的是，据说英国将就此恢复“魔力”，恢复曾风暴般席卷全球的创造性的生机勃勃。"
    ],
    [
        "In the US (and the United Kingdom), the general government deficit today is still around 8% of GDP, compared to a little more than 3% of GDP in the eurozone, and the US debt/GDP ratio has increased by more than 41 percentage points, compared to “only” 25 points in the eurozone.",
        "美国（和英国）的总体政府赤字依然在8%左右，而欧元区只有3%多一点，美国的债务/GDP比率已经上升了超过41%，而欧元区“仅为”25%。"
    ],
    [
        "Otto von Bismarck did, as did his fellow German Konrad Adenauer; both, in Bismarck’s memorable phrase, could hear “the rustle of God’s cloak.”",
        "借用俾斯麦令人难忘的说法，两者都听到了“上帝斗篷沙沙的响声。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Still, Middle Eastern countries cannot hope to develop prosperous economies without such a transition.",
        "但中东国家不进行上述过渡就不可能实现经济繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton herself were paragons of dignity, compared to Trump’s Mussolini-like mannerisms and verbal aggression.",
        "总统巴拉克·奥巴马、副总统乔·拜登和希拉里·克林顿本人都是尊严的典范，与特朗普墨索里尼似的举止和言语攻击有着很大的不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, there is an appealing logic to saying that governments should have to balance their budgets just like the rest of us; unfortunately, it is not so simple.",
        "当然，你可以站着说话不腰疼地认为政府应该像我们大家那样平衡它们的预算； 不幸的是，事情并非那么简单。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent collective sense across Europe of the urgency of being able to speak with one voice in external affairs may provide the next breeze, and enough glue, to keep the enterprise afloat.",
        "最近在欧洲形成的在紧急关头必须同心通力一起应付外部事务的共识，也许正是我们事业不败的保证。"
    ],
    [
        "The pursuit of individual attainment is the hallmark of our time, eclipsing the collective dimension of human destiny.",
        "追求个人成就是现时代的标志，遮挡了人类命运的集体维度的光芒。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand what this might mean for the evolution of European politics, consider the history of fascism.",
        "要理解这对欧洲政治的演进意味着什么，可以看看法西斯的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a demonstration, it was quite plausibly argued, would be an insult to a community that included Holocaust survivors.",
        "这样的示威将是对包括大屠杀幸存者在内的社区的侮辱——很有道理。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as a big country, China would not have the vulnerabilities of smaller strong currencies (the Norwegian krone or the Swiss franc, for example).",
        "当时，中国是一个大国，人民币不会像其他一些较小的强势货币（如挪威克朗、瑞士法郎等等）那样脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the experience of Europe and the United States in the 1930s, I would say, policymakers would not make the same mistakes as their predecessors did during the Great Depression.",
        "我说，从欧洲和美国在20世纪30年代的经验看，决策者不会重蹈他们的前辈在大萧条期间的覆辙。"
    ],
    [
        "The site is a pine forest near an old highway, distinguished by the small, regular depressions in the earth that are characteristic of such graves.",
        "那里靠近一条破旧的高速路，种植着大片的松树林。 地面上规则的小坑就代表一个个墓穴。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the danger that Trump confronts with China today.",
        "这是特朗普今天在处理中国问题时所面临的危险。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – On her recent trip to China, Bangladesh, and India, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was eager to trumpet America’s “New Silk Road” strategy, which she unveiled last September.",
        "新德里——在不久前对中国、孟加拉和印度的访问中，美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿迫不及待地宣扬美国去年9月推出的“新丝路”战略。"
    ],
    [
        "What is now needed is a more modest debate about how to reconcile the deficiencies of the market with the demands of solidarity.",
        "现在需要的是更为适度地辩论如何调和市场缺陷和全民共济的要求。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the NTC and the cabinet that it appointed, known as the executive committee, merely want to pass the baton of authority.",
        "因此，NTC和其任命的内阁（即执行委员会），只是想尽快移交权利。"
    ],
    [
        "The Social Science of Medicine",
        "医学的社会科学"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the impressive equity rally, the price of longer-term US Treasury bills was higher at the beginning of December than at the start of the year.",
        "尽管股市经历了令人印象深刻的上涨，但更长期美国国债的价格在12月初时可比年初更高。"
    ],
    [
        "Western news media, eager to maintain access to Moscow or Beijing, will be under increasing pressure to be careful about what they print or broadcast.",
        "急于报道莫斯科或北京事务的西方新闻媒体对印刷或广播内容保持谨慎的压力将越来越大。"
    ],
    [
        "The stakes are rising in Kim and Trump’s game of chicken.",
        "金正恩和特朗普之间的胆小鬼游戏，赌注越来越大了。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, analysts predict that the economy will barely grow 1% this year, and that is the best case scenario.",
        "而现在，分析家们却预言该国经济今年几乎连1%都增长不到。 而这还是最坏的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in October 2006, the State Council – China’s cabinet – issued nine directives ordering that Chinese overseas businesses, among other things, “pay attention to environmental protection,” “support local community and people’s livelihood cause,” and “preserve China’s good image and its good corporate reputation.”",
        "此外，2006年10月，国务院——也就是中国内阁发布了9项指令，命令中国企业尤其要“注意保护环境”、“支持当地社会和国民的民生事业”和“维护中国的良好形象和企业信誉。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Where Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus rub up against one another, an economic fault line is forming.",
        "欧洲、俄罗斯、乌克兰、摩尔多瓦和白俄罗斯唇齿相依的地方正在形成一个经济断层。"
    ],
    [
        "The essential idea is quite simple: in the long run, an international monetary system cannot be built on a national currency – a point made a half-century ago by the Belgian-American economist Robert Triffin.",
        "要求建立新的全球储备体系所基于的核心观点相当简单：长期来看，国际货币体系不可能建立在一个主权国家的货币之上——比利时裔美国人罗伯特·特里芬早在半个世纪之前就表达了这样的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Experts say another 15% decline is required just to return to the pre-bubble price path.",
        "专家们说必须再跌15%才刚能回到泡沫产生前的价格路径上。"
    ],
    [
        "The mission in Lebanon is a high-risk one for the UN force, and for Europe in particular.",
        "对于联合国、特别是欧洲而言，黎巴嫩的使命充满风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, as he put it, Russia will have to elect as president a “decent, competent, effective, modern person with whom it would be possible to work in tandem.”",
        "当然，像他所说的，俄罗斯必须选举一位“能够与之协同工作的正派、有竞争力、高效、有现代思想的人”担任总统。"
    ],
    [
        "Jeffrey Garten, the dean of Yale’s School of Management, got it right when he labeled this the era of “state capitalism.”",
        "耶鲁大学管理学院院长格登把这一时代称为“国家资本主义”的确有道理。"
    ],
    [
        "(It is worth noting that this is not solely a Chinese phenomenon; all major emerging-market economies are faced with the same fate.)",
        "（值得注意的是，这并非只是中国独有的现象，所有新兴市场国家如今都存在这个问题。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "When disaster strikes, what can only be described as a begging bowl is handed around the world’s donor community.",
        "当灾难来袭时，会有一只讨饭碗在世界捐助团体间传来传去。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, both growth and employment came at the expense of the tradable side of the economy.",
        "因此，无论是增长和就业都只能以牺牲经济的贸易部分为代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadat gained a privileged place in history and achieved immortality the moment he fled from the comfortable prison of inertia, and from the pantomime solidarity and hollow rhetorical cohesion of Arab summits.",
        "当萨达特逃离惰性的安逸的牢笼以及阿拉伯峰会外表上的亲密以及口头上空洞的团结时，他赢得了在历史上的独特地位和不朽的声名。"
    ],
    [
        "Individuals need their own tricks, and each person knows best what will work for them – if they think about it.",
        "个体需要个体的窍门，每个人最了解对自己什么办法最有效——如果他们认真对待的话。"
    ],
    [
        "A government cannot liquidate its deficit if the source of its revenues, the national income, is diminishing.",
        "如果一国政府的收入来源——国民收入——在减少，那么该政府就不可能降低其财政赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "If confidence and credibility are to be restored, sound governance has to be put at the core of the next government’s plans for banks.",
        "要想重塑信心和信誉，就必须把可靠的治理作为下届政府银行计划的核心。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is not true in today’s globalized world.",
        "但是在当今的全球化世界里，这并不正确。"
    ],
    [
        "A short list of such policies would include: carbon taxes and other measures to ameliorate climate change; more work visas to allow larger temporary migration flows from poor countries; strict controls on arms sales to developing nations; reduced support for repressive regimes; and improved sharing of financial information to reduce money laundering and tax avoidance.",
        "这些政策应该包括：碳税和其他改善气候变化的措施、增加贫穷国家临时性人口迁徙的工作签证、严格控制对发展中国家的军售、减少对压迫性政权的支持，以及改善金融信息的共享状况以打击洗钱和逃税。"
    ],
    [
        "But the fall in housing prices is unlikely to turn into a rout, because real demand for houses will remain strong after speculative demand is driven from the market.",
        "但房价的下跌不会演变成崩盘，因为在投机性需求从市场中挤出后，住房真实需求依然强劲。"
    ],
    [
        "The allure of such appeals is that a crackdown on others’ tax avoidance will mean that you personally will pay less in taxes.",
        "这些方案的诱惑之处在于，其他人不再能够避税意味着你个人可以缴纳更少的税。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, if Vietnam were to mandate six weeks of paid maternity leave for all employees, a foreign factory owner might sue the government, insisting that it either repeal the law or reimburse the company for the cost of providing this benefit.",
        "比如，如果越南强制要求给予员工六周时间的产假，外国工厂所有者可以起诉越南政府，要求越南要么取消这一法律，要么赔偿公司提供这一福利的成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Capitalism’s New Clothes",
        "资本主义的新装"
    ],
    [
        "First, a look at the numbers: the president-elect won the second-round vote with only a slight popular majority (51.6%), and will have fewer seats than the Concertación in the Senate.",
        "首先让我们来关注一组数据：当选总统仅以极其微弱的优势（ 51. 6% ）赢得了第二轮投票，而且在参议院的席位数仍低于执政联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Viewed as the first serious institutional challenge to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the AIIB was proposed by China.",
        "作为对世界银行以及亚洲开发银行的首个关键性体制冲击，该银行正是由中国动议的。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, there is scope for removing the antiquated practice of taxing hedge and private-equity funds’ “carried interest” at a preferential rate.",
        "类似地，我们有空间取消税务对冲（taxing hedge）和以优惠税率对私募股权基金的“附带收益”征税的过时做法。"
    ],
    [
        "We recognize, of course, that few of even the most fervent supporters of European integration want to help Ukraine quickly become a member.",
        "当然，我们也知道即便是欧洲融合最狂热的支持者也很少愿意帮助乌克兰迅速成为欧盟的一员。"
    ],
    [
        "When an outside force such as the military interrupts this game, either directly or because one of the parties can rely on its intervention, the dynamics of political behavior change irrevocably.",
        "当军队这样的额外部势力介入这场游戏时——不管是直接介入还是因为某一政党可以依靠其介入——政治行为的动态都将发生不可逆转的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "In Greenland two huge chunks of ice broke off in July and August.",
        "在格陵兰岛，有两块巨型冰川分别在7月和8月崩塌入海。"
    ],
    [
        "The SNC’s outgoing leader, Moaz Al-Khatib, has publicly criticized America’s decision to blacklist Jabhat al-Nusra – as has the SNC’s key backer, Turkey.",
        "SNC的流亡领袖卡提布（Moaz Al-Khatib）公开批评美国以及SNC的主要支持者土耳其将Jabhat al-Nusra纳入黑名单的决定。"
    ],
    [
        "In a coalition-dependent parliamentary system, that could be all she needs to become prime minister.",
        "在依赖联合政府的议会制中，这可能是她成为总理所需要的全部条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, by responding properly to their economic and political challenges, they all delivered poverty reduction, greater social justice, and expanded civil liberties.",
        "然而，通过恰当地对其经济和政治挑战作出回应，它们都能做到减少贫困、促进社会公正并扩大公民自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Europeans bought into the US stock market at its peak in 1999 and 2000, only to find themselves selling at steep discounts after the collapse of 2001.",
        "许多欧洲人在1999和2000年美国股市高位时介入，结果却只能在2001年股市崩溃时割肉清仓。"
    ],
    [
        "And besides, no other region has the same ideal combination of low-cost labor, a well-educated workforce, high rates of economic growth, geographic proximity, and even political stability.",
        "此外，其他地区也找不到同样的劳动力成本低、工作人口受教育程度高、经济增长率快、地理相近、政治稳定的组合。"
    ],
    [
        "Almost surely, Mauritius, too, will have to intervene.",
        "可以肯定地说，毛里求斯也无法独善其身。"
    ],
    [
        "But May has yet to elucidate precisely how she defines Brexit.",
        "但梅还未对英国退欧给出精确的定义。"
    ],
    [
        "The Mercers, who made their fortune through the high-tech genius of patriarch Robert Mercer and a hedge fund he led, fund Breitbart News, a far-right website formerly edited by Bannon that promotes ultra-nationalism and white supremacy, with a whiff of anti-Semitism.",
        "这个家族依靠领头人罗伯特·默瑟（Robert Mercer）的高科技天才和旗下的对冲基金发了大财，并出资成立了极右翼的布莱因巴特新闻网（Breinbart News），该网站原先由班农编辑，着力宣传极端民族主义和白人至上思想，还有一点反犹太主义的意味。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, US President Barack Obama’s administration has continually harped on outsourcing to India as a cause of American job losses.",
        "不幸的是，奥巴马政府一直指责印度外包是导致美国人失去工作的罪魁。"
    ],
    [
        "The resulting addition of more than two billion “life years” represents a significant amount of human productivity, creativity, and uncompensated contributions to families and society.",
        "由此带来的超过20亿年的额外“寿命”会使民众生产力、创造力和对家庭及社会的无偿贡献显著提高。"
    ],
    [
        "And its transmission to two nurses responsible for Duncan’s care – likely resulting from several breaches of medical protocol – has focused intense scrutiny on US preparedness for a possible outbreak.",
        "而两名负责照顾邓肯的护士感染病毒——可能因为违反了几项医疗规定——导致人们不得不认真审视美国是否为可能的疫情爆发做好了准备。"
    ],
    [
        "That gave market power to Russia, which used it to exercise political and economic leverage over its European neighbors.",
        "俄罗斯因此掌握了市场权力，并利用这种权力对欧洲邻国施加政治和经济影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa’s long-term development will of course require greater political stability and peace; in the meantime, however, there are steps that Europe can take to help spur growth.",
        "非洲的长期发展当然需要加强和平与政治稳定； 但与此同时，欧洲可以采取某些措施来协助刺激经济。"
    ],
    [
        "Whether climate change will be a source of yield uncertainty in the coming decades remains unclear as well.",
        "气候变化是否会变成未来几十年产量不确定的来源，目前还不得而知。"
    ],
    [
        "It doesn’t matter that people seeking information are free to bypass Google and use other tools; they don’t.",
        "寻找信息的人们可以自由地绕过谷歌而使用其它工具，这也没有关系，可人们并没有这样做。"
    ],
    [
        "But China is missing one crucial ingredient: the world’s trust.",
        "但中国缺少了一个关键的因素：全世界的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "For media professionals in particular, the trends are deeply worrying.",
        "尤其对于职业媒体人来说，这样的趋势令人深感忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "The Swiss solution of electing an all-embracing and balanced government tends to produce boring and uninspiring politics.",
        "旨在选出广泛而均势政府的瑞士方案容易导致无聊乏味的政治生活。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as with most political festivities in China these days, few have bothered to reflect on what is being celebrated – and what Deng’s leadership actually meant.",
        "但是，与近期中国的大部分政治节日一样，很少有人会去思考究竟在庆祝什么，也很少有人去思考邓小平的治国理念究竟意义何在。"
    ],
    [
        "The much-heralded “ASEAN Way,” whereby member states adhere to quiet diplomacy and principled non-intervention, served the bloc well on the economic front in its first decades of existence.",
        "耳熟能详的“东盟方法”——成员国坚守沉默外交和不干预原则——在其发挥作用的前三十年里获得了卓著的经济成效。"
    ],
    [
        "It was a remarkable cry for help, and a serious indictment of the economics profession, not to mention all those extravagantly rewarded finance professors in business schools from Harvard to Hyderabad.",
        "这是一个不同寻常的呼救声，是对整个经济学界，尤其是从哈佛大学到海德拉巴印度商学院那帮拿着奢侈报酬的金融学教授们的严厉控诉。"
    ],
    [
        "One recent theatre of (dis)content is that of renewable fuels.",
        "可再生燃料是（不）满意的最新演示场。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, export-oriented economies like Germany, Japan, and China owe much of their success to America’s capacity to absorb a massive share of global exports – and they need to keep paying America to play this role.",
        "事实上，德国、日本和中国等出口导向型经济的成功很大程度上要归功于美国吸收大部分全球出口的能力——它们也需要继续花钱请美国扮演这一角色。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – While Europe remains preoccupied with its own slow-motion crisis, and other global powers continue to be mesmerized by the bizarre spectacle of European officials’ myriad efforts to rescue the euro (and thus the global financial system), clouds of war are massing over Iran once more.",
        "发自柏林——当欧洲依然在自身缓慢发酵的危机中挣扎，而其他世界大国正持续关注欧洲官员们是如何使用无数种荒诞愚蠢的手段去拯救欧元（以及整个全球金融系统）的时候，战争的阴云却再一次笼罩了伊朗。"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike the parties to a free-trade agreement, the members of a customs union like the one Putin envisages set trade policy with respect to third states through the establishment of common foreign tariffs.",
        "与自由贸易协定缔约国不同，普京想象中的关税同盟成员通过征收共同对外关税来制定与第三国的经济政策。"
    ],
    [
        "France’s economic performance has been lackluster during the past ten years, particularly with respect to competitiveness, debt sustainability, public spending, and the labor market.",
        "在过去十年中，法国经济表现可谓暗淡无光，特别是在竞争力、债务可持续性、公共支出和劳动市场诸方面。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet investors have reason to be concerned.",
        "但投资者仍有理由保持担心。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, with perverse incentives undermining their credibility and hampering research, scientists must take matters into their own hands.",
        "如今，不当激励在破坏科学家的信誉、束缚研究，科学家必须自己掌握主动。"
    ],
    [
        "A price of $60 a barrel would create severe problems for Russia in particular.",
        "如果油价跌至60美元/桶，俄罗斯将面临特别严重的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Among the many challenges facing the new European Commission is determining how to provide ultra-fast broadband Internet access to all 500 million European Union residents without raising taxes or bankrupting Europe’s telecommunications companies.",
        "伦敦—在新欧盟委员会所面临的诸多挑战中，有一项是确定如何在不增税也不让欧洲通信公司破产的情况下为全部5亿欧盟居民带来极速宽带互联网。"
    ],
    [
        "Because of the widespread fear in the postwar years of emerging global food shortages, the FAO, and the international community as a whole, focused mainly on food production – a focus that remained essentially the same in the following decades.",
        "鉴于对战后几年出现的全球粮食短缺问题的普遍担忧，粮农组织和整个国际社会将重点主要放在粮食生产方面，而这一重点在接下来的几十年里基本上保持未变。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, Erdoğan’s anti-Kurdish sentiment also shaped his policy decisions concerning regime change in Syria.",
        "毕竟，埃尔多安的反土耳其心理还左右着他在叙利亚政权更迭问题上的政策决定。"
    ],
    [
        "But such intervention adversely affects trading partners and is barred under existing international rules.",
        "但如此干预消极地影响了贸易伙伴国，也是现行国际规则所不允许的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last six months, there have been national elections in Lebanon and local elections in Saudi Arabia.",
        "过去6个月以来，黎巴嫩举行了全国大选，沙特阿拉伯也进行了地区性选举。"
    ],
    [
        "First among equals, and the indispensable nation.",
        "而美国不仅在同等条件下拥有优先权，同时也是不能缺少的参与者。"
    ],
    [
        "The difference between gold medalist and also-ran may be measured in fractions of seconds or inches.",
        "金牌获得者和其它选手之间的区别可能只差那么一两秒或几英寸。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, he was ready to adopt unconventional measures when the crisis erupted, and was persuasive in influencing his colleagues.",
        "因此当危机爆发时他已经准备好采取非常规措施，并在影响同僚方面发挥了自身的说服力。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not serious policy.",
        "这不是严肃的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the US and Europe have already used large doses of fiscal stimulus, which shares an uncanny similarity to antibiotics.",
        "此外，美国和欧洲现已实施了大剂量的财政刺激，因此都产生了可怕的抗药性。"
    ],
    [
        "We can be sure that the soft underbellies of both economies will be kept hidden from view.",
        "而这两大经济体的缺陷也必将再次被掩盖在光环之下。"
    ],
    [
        "Policies that help train the next generation of North Africans, and allow them to circulate more freely between Europe and their home countries, are a much smarter solution than the current approach, which sustains illegal migration without meeting Europe's labor needs. This is an argument not for more migration, but for better migration – well thought out and planned.",
        "相对于目前接纳非法移民却无法满足欧洲的劳动力需求的政策手段，帮助训练下一代北非人并允许他们更加自由地在本国和欧洲之间流动的政策显然更为明智。 该理念并非宣扬要接纳更多移民，而是深思熟虑且计划周详的手段来接纳更优质的移民。"
    ],
    [
        "In retrospect, Brown’s agenda-setting problem was easy.",
        "回头来看，布朗设置一个议程反倒是件相对容易的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the number of Orthodox Jews continued to grow apace.",
        "此外，正统犹太教徒数量继续突飞猛进。"
    ],
    [
        "Should that happen, we would be at the threshold of a new world – some would say a heaven on earth.",
        "果真如此的话，我们就将站在新世界的门槛上——有人会称它为人间天堂。"
    ],
    [
        "When health officials tell us confidently that X is going to happen, and then Y happens instead, we lose trust in their leadership.",
        "如果卫生专家肯定地告诉我们会发生X，结果却出现了Y，我们就会对他们的领导能力失去信心。"
    ],
    [
        "(In the case of competitiveness, my co-authors and I have found that they don’t.)",
        "（在竞争力指数的例子中，我的合作者和我发现并非如此。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "According to the OECD, the percentage of GDP invested in a category that is mostly plant and equipment has fallen in both Europe and the US in recent years.",
        "据经合组织数据，近几年中，欧洲和美国投资于包括大部分厂房和设备的类别的GDP的比重均有所下降。 （美国从2000年的8."
    ],
    [
        "So, for every dollar spent, the EU stands to avoid about ten cents of damage.",
        "因此，每1美元投入，欧盟可以避免10美分的损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Even with optimistic assumptions, the International Energy Agency estimates that, by 2035, we will produce just 2.4% of our energy from wind and 0.8% from solar.",
        "即便应用乐观的假设，国际能源机构预计到2035年风能将占能源总量的2. 4%，而太阳能仅占0."
    ],
    [
        "Based on extrapolation of growth trends, it looks safe to predict that prices will go up substantially in most of these places for another year or more, even as the rate of increase continues to decline.",
        "从这一趋势推断，虽然房价上涨的速度不断减慢，这些城市中大部分的房价还将在一年或一年多的时间里保持上升趋势。"
    ],
    [
        "The post-war generation’s political leaders must respond promptly and effectively to the challenge posed by emerging political movements while they are still immature.",
        "战后一代的政治领袖必须在新崛起的政治运动尚处于萌芽之势时对它们构成的挑战做出迅速而有效的反应。"
    ],
    [
        "Most of this increased cost would, in principle, be financed by $215 billion of taxes on high-premium insurance policies, and by about $400 billion of cuts in payments to physicians and hospitals that provide services to older patients in the Medicare program.",
        "原则上增加的大部分开支将来自对高保费保单2150亿美元的税收，以及在Medicare计划中为老年患者服务的医生和医疗机构4000亿美元费用的缩减。"
    ],
    [
        "That is not what happened, because the euro had other deficiencies of which its architects were unaware.",
        "但事实并非如此，因为欧元还具有其缔造者所未察觉的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "Reacting to Snowden’s allegations, US figures, like former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden, made no reference at all to America’s obligations under international law, to its interest in protecting diplomacy, or even to the unfairness and bad faith involved in spying on partners with whom one is supposedly negotiating in a transparent way.",
        "针对斯诺登的指控，中央情报局（CIA）和NSA局长海登（Michael Hayden）一字不提美国的国际法义务、其保护外交使团的利益，甚至也没有提到监控其据信正在进行透明谈判的伙伴行为的不公和失信。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1962, Khrushchev took this approach a step further, testing the young President John F. Kennedy with a “mad” plan to install nuclear missiles in Cuba.",
        "1962年，赫鲁晓夫又将这种策略推进了一步，用一份在古巴部署核导弹的“疯狂”计划来测试年轻的总统约翰·F·肯尼迪。"
    ],
    [
        "While he has publicly regretted the errors in British intelligence about Saddam Hussein, that is merely a way of shifting the blame from the government to the intelligence services.",
        "尽管他公开地对英国情报机关有关萨达姆的情报错误表示遗憾，这只不过是将责难从政府推卸到了情报机构头上。"
    ],
    [
        "The processing and government subsidies associated with recycling yield lower-quality paper to save a resource that is not threatened.",
        "与纸张回收相关的程序和政府补贴所带来的是低质量纸张，而它所保护的是并未受到威胁的资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Qaddafi thus took the first step – intentional or not – toward creating a modern nation-state.",
        "卡扎菲借此有意无意地迈出了建设现代化民族国家的第一步。"
    ],
    [
        "The prudent approach would be to strike a better balance between saving and spending.",
        "审慎的方法是在储蓄和支出之间达到更好的平衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, the national debt is not a net burden on future generations.",
        "第三，国民债务并不是子孙后代的净负担。"
    ],
    [
        "That simple phrase neatly encapsulates Liu’s peaceful 20-year-resistance to China’s government, which began with a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square.",
        "这句简短的发言精妙地概括了刘晓波对中国政府持续20年的和平抗争，而这一切都是从天安门绝食行动开始的。"
    ],
    [
        "By arousing latent Islamophobia in the West and inducing both publics and governments to treat Muslims with suspicion, they hope to convince young Muslims that there is no alternative to terrorism.",
        "通过唤起西方潜在的伊斯兰恐惧症并引导政府和民众怀疑穆斯林，他们想要说服穆斯林青年除奉行恐怖主义外没有其他选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Even America’s vaunted judicial system has failed to constrain obvious abuses.",
        "即使美国大肆吹嘘的司法系统也没能抑制这些明显的虐待。"
    ],
    [
        "Without such a deadlock, neither United Nations resolutions, nor premature peace initiatives can cut short the dynamic of war.",
        "如果没有这种僵局，联合国决议和过早的和平倡议都不能中止战争态势。"
    ],
    [
        "I decided that those last three digits were a bit excessive.",
        "9149美元。 我说后三位小数有点多余了。"
    ],
    [
        "The violence of British football hooligans, for example, reflects a peculiar nostalgia for war.",
        "比如英国足球流氓的暴力行为就反映出对战争的某种奇特的怀旧。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, speaking up has never required more courage.",
        "简言之，发声从未需要如此多的勇气。"
    ],
    [
        "Or perhaps the Wolfowitz debacle will prove to be the catalyst.",
        "或许，沃尔福威茨的惨败会成为变革因素。"
    ],
    [
        "When so much goes wrong at the same time, it is tempting to look for a common cause.",
        "这同时发生的乱局，让人不由得想寻找一下共同的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Though the election system is purely proportional and the S&D won the popular vote, the reason that it ended up with fewer seats is simple: its affiliated parties won relatively more votes in the larger countries, where it “costs” more voters to gain a single seat.",
        "尽管选举制度完全按比例定胜负，而S&D在民众投票中获胜，但其在欧洲议会中获得的席位反而更少，原因很简单：其所属政党在大国赢得的选票相对较多，而获得一个欧洲议会席位所需要的选票“成本”在大国也更大。"
    ],
    [
        "These are the stark possibilities that leaders need to ponder as they gather gloomily at the IMF in Washington.",
        "在全球领导人怀着抑郁的心情前往华盛顿赴IMF年会时，他们需要思考这些严峻的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has reassured America’s Asian friends and allies that regional disengagement is not being contemplated.",
        "幸运的是，美国国防部长罗伯特·盖茨已经向其亚洲友好国家和盟国做出保证：美国不会撤出该区域。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, the proposed restrictions on the visa-waiver program include “safeguard clauses” that would temporarily suspend access to Europe’s Schengen area, most likely for those from Balkan countries.",
        "与此相反，包括“保护条款”在内的免签证政策限制则会在短期内阻止某些人——尤其是巴尔干半岛各国人民——进入申根地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Further reforms could yield additional benefits, but much of the handicap imposed on African farmers by post-colonial governments has now been removed.",
        "进一步推行改革措施可能带来的好处更多，但后殖民地政府强加在非洲农民身上的不利因素现在多数已经去除。"
    ],
    [
        "But the volumes and volumes of implementing legislation were enacted by Congress, and can be modified only by a congressional vote.",
        "但国会通过了卷帙浩繁的实施立法，要做出修改只能通过国会投票。"
    ],
    [
        "After an initial inflationary surge, American economic growth fell off sharply in the 1970’s.",
        "经过一段最初的快速通胀期，美国经济在20世纪70年代又剧烈下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "Similar concerns will no doubt be raised in the coming French presidential campaign.",
        "类似的关注毫无疑问在即将到来的法国总统选战中也将出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Sarkozy at Dusk",
        "萨科齐的黄昏"
    ],
    [
        "Assuming that Kim is rational, he must have had good reason to believe that the Chinese lifeline would be sustained, even if he executed China’s favorite North Korean interlocutor.",
        "假定金正恩是理性的，那么他一定有很好的理由认为，即使他处决了中国所喜欢的朝鲜传话人，仍能够维持中国生命线。"
    ],
    [
        "The agreement gives pharmaceutical firms, tobacco companies, and other corporations substantially less than they had asked for – so much so that US Senator Orrin Hatch and some other Republicans now threaten to oppose ratification.",
        "该协议给制药企业、烟草公司和其他公司所带来的东西远远少于它们所要求的，以致于美国参议员奥林·哈奇（Orrin Hatch）和其他一些共和党威胁要反对批准TPP。"
    ],
    [
        "The eurozone is a remarkable experiment, a genuine vanguard of global progress.",
        "欧元区是一个伟大实验，全球进步的真正先驱。"
    ],
    [
        "Fortunately, the experience of the 1980s suggests a way forward.",
        "幸运的是，20世纪80年代的经验指明了一个前进方向。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in France, taxi drivers must undergo regular health and professional tests, to which UberPOP drivers are not subject.",
        "此外，UberPOP司机不像法国出租司机那样必须定期接受健康和职业检查。"
    ],
    [
        "Because China is widely regarded as a winner of globalization, it is natural to assume that the country has developed the means to meet its challenges.",
        "因为中国被普遍认定为全球化的胜利者，人们自然认为中国已经找到了挑战的应对之策。"
    ],
    [
        "Some even claimed that Japan was trying to reverse the territorial outcome of WWII.",
        "有人甚至声称日本正试图改变二战后的领土分配格局。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty years ago, right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, one could say “I want Europe so much that I am willing to accept one Germany” – a revolutionary move if one had in mind the French writer François Mauriac’s famous joke, “I like Germany so much, I want two of them.”",
        "二十年前，柏林墙刚倒塌时，可以说“我如此热爱欧洲，甚至可以接受一个德国”的提法是一次革命性的进步——如果你还记得法国作家弗朗索瓦·莫里亚克的那个著名的笑话，“我如此热爱德国，甚至想把它分成两个。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "This is certainly feasible, but it will take time.",
        "这完全是可能的，但需要时间。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem continues to be the crisis-battered American consumer.",
        "问题依然停留在受危机重创的美国消费者身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider Pakistan, for which repeated defeat at the hands of its sworn enemy, India, in conventional wars has been the catalyst for its readiness “to eat grass,” as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto famously put it, in order to counter India’s conventional superiority and nuclear capabilities.",
        "以巴基斯坦为例，在常规战争中屡次被其死对头印度打败使得它决心即使“不长草”（佐勒菲卡尔·阿里·布托语），也要挑战印度的传统优势和核实力。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, nearly three years after the beginning of the “Arab Spring,” Turkey is more in search of itself than it is of Europe, even if it needs Europe more than Turks are willing to admit.",
        "在现实中，在“阿拉伯之春”爆发近三年后，土耳其迷失自我的程度更甚于欧洲，即使土耳其需要欧洲的程度更甚于土耳其人之所愿承认。"
    ],
    [
        "The premise of the Sex Buyer Law is that prostitution is always involuntary for women – that it is an organic form of violence against women and girls.",
        "买春法假定妓女不可能是自愿的——这是一种针对妇女和女孩的有机（organic）暴力形式。"
    ],
    [
        "Netanyahu’s short-sighted reluctance to give up settlements and occupied territory threatens Israel’s long-term interest to reach a fair settlement with the Palestinians.",
        "内塔尼亚胡目光短浅地不愿放弃定居点和被占领土对以色列与巴勒斯坦达成公平方案的长期利益构成了威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "If the recently enacted laws are to have the intended effect, Indian society must reject discriminatory mindsets and practices.",
        "如果最新出台的法律想要具有预想的效果，印度社会就必须拒绝歧视思维和行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Not surprisingly, conventional political and business leaders are not entirely comfortable with either group.",
        "不出所料，传统的政治和商界领袖对这两个群体都无法完全满意。"
    ],
    [
        "Reforms aimed at decentralization and devolution have, in some cases, enabled the rise of powerful local political patrons.",
        "在一些案例中，旨在分散化和放权的改革导致了地方权势政治大佬的崛起。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, through it all, growth rates have remained stubbornly low and unemployment rates unacceptably high, partly because the increase in money supply following QE has not led to credit creation to finance private consumption or investment.",
        "然而经过了这一切之后增长率仍然低迷，失业率高得令人无法接受，部分原因是量化宽松的货币供应并未带动信贷增长以促进私人消费或投资。"
    ],
    [
        "We remain committed to improving the lives of all of those who are part of the Pacific family of nations.",
        "我们现在仍将改善所有太平洋国家生活视为自己的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, multinational companies that had moved some operations to China from the United States or other high-wage countries are now moving back.",
        "最后，美国和其他高工资国家的跨国公司正在将业务从中国收回国内。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the endgame to the great recession of the 2000’s will not be a pretty picture.",
        "不幸的是，结束2000年危机的方式将不会是很乐观的。"
    ],
    [
        "Some have also interpreted it as evidence of a Russian-led effort to mobilize the major emerging economies – Brazil, India, and China – against the West.",
        "一些人还把它视为俄罗斯领衔动员主要新兴经济体——巴西、印度和中国对抗西方的证据。"
    ],
    [
        "All around the world, it seems, the walls are closing in on the space that people need to assemble, associate, express themselves freely, and register dissent.",
        "放眼世界，看起来人民集会、结社、自由言论和表明异议所需要的空间正在关闭。"
    ],
    [
        "The movement against AIDS has inspired all of us to help the people who continue to be left behind, and to commit to ending AIDS once and for all.",
        "打击艾滋病运动激发我们所有人帮助落后人群，并致力于一劳永逸地消灭艾滋病。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey, for its part, is regarded as a competitor for the mantle of Sunni Muslim leadership – a position long held by the Ottoman Empire.",
        "而土耳其被认为是沙特在争夺逊尼派穆斯林领导权方面的对手——奥斯曼帝国曾经长期是逊尼派领袖。"
    ],
    [
        "In that case, a large RMB appreciation undertaken now would be overkill.",
        "在这一情况下，现在就大幅度提升人民币汇率就有失偏颇。"
    ],
    [
        "Now that the crisis is seven years behind us, how have governments and voters in Europe and North America answered this important question?",
        "如今，危机已经过去了七年，政府和欧洲及美国的选民如何回答这一重要问题？"
    ],
    [
        "Campaign proposals are, of course, partly aspirational, and will have to be negotiated with Congress.",
        "当然竞选时提出的数字在某种程度上有点理想化，最终也不得不和国会讨价还价。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, stock markets rallied impressively.",
        "纽约—特朗普当选为美国总统时，股市令人印象深刻地大涨。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the difficulty of regaining lost sovereignty and credibility, central banks must keep helicopter drops as a last resort.",
        "主权和信誉一旦失去，重新获得是十分困难的，因此，央行必须将直升机撒钱作为最后一招。"
    ],
    [
        "History provides grounds for optimism.",
        "历史让我们有乐观的理由。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, the national discussion would focus entirely on the current week’s poll results, which is not particularly valuable for helping voters make informed decisions.",
        "否则的话，国家讨论话题将完全集中在最近一周的民调结果上，而这对于选民做出信息充分的决定并无太大用处。"
    ],
    [
        "Islam and democracy are frequently presumed to be bitter antagonists.",
        "伊斯兰和民主常被认为不共戴天。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, workforce training requires both more investment and more innovation through new kinds of public-private partnerships, degree-granting institutions, and approaches to life-long learning and re-skilling.",
        "简言之，劳动力培训需要更多的投资，也需要通过新型公私合作、学位授予机构和终身学习和再培训实现的更多的创新。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy is about to hold a constitutional referendum that could result in the fall of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s government.",
        "意大利即将举行宪政公投，总理伦齐的政府可能因此解散。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the American people have preempted the historians, rebuking Bush by electing a Democratic Congress in November 2006.",
        "美国民众先于历史学家们采取了行动，通过在2006年选出民主党主导的国会表达了对布什的谴责。"
    ],
    [
        "Equity-related positions (FDI plus portfolio investments) now account for 69% of cross-border capital flows, up from 36% in 2007.",
        "股权相关头寸（包括外国直接投资和投资组合）目前已占到跨国资本流动的69%，而2007年这一数据仅仅为36%。"
    ],
    [
        "The repatriation phase.",
        "遣返阶段。"
    ],
    [
        "Erdoğan and his ministers have endlessly griped about the United States’ reluctance to extradite Gülen to Turkey.",
        "埃尔多安和他的部长们一直都抱怨美国不愿意将葛兰引渡回土耳其。"
    ],
    [
        "Later, scanning through the brain, every time we find a tagged cell we know that it was born at the time we furnished the DNA.",
        "然后，通过扫描大脑，每次当我们发现一个带有标签的细胞，我们就可以知道它是在我们在个DNA添加积木时产生的。"
    ],
    [
        "If people are anxious about their national identities, the sovereignty of their governments, the demographic and social complexion of their societies, such fears are best voiced in the political arena.",
        "如果人们对其民族身份认同、政府的主权以及社会的人口和社会构成感到担忧，那么，这些恐惧最好在政治场合表达出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Early next year, Aqueduct will offer future projections of water stress based on the latest scientific analysis, including predicted effects of climate change.",
        "明年初，沟渠将提供基于最新科学分析（包括气候变化的预计影响）的未来水压预测。"
    ],
    [
        "Far from signifying a pro-business shift, Hollande’s government’s response to the Gallois report reflects the French elite’s enduring interventionist mentality.",
        "奥朗德政府对加洛瓦报告的反应远非向支持商界转变的信号，而是反映了法国精英顽固的干预主义思维。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider the following hypothetical example.",
        "请参见下面这个假想的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "West European politicians, for their part, fear the opposite outcome.",
        "而西欧的政治家们担心的却是相反的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "Many argue that the shift to a green economy can even spur new growth. But, as appealing as this idea is, it is not realistic, as we show in our new book Inside the Green Economy.",
        "但是，这一概念尽管很有吸引力，但并不现实，我们在我们的新书《绿色经济探秘》（Inside the Green Economy）中说明了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "In Algeria, Bouteflika’s brother, Said, has been linked to a “grassroots” movement that – it is rumored – could eventually serve as a basis for his succession bid.",
        "在阿尔及利亚，布特弗利卡的兄弟赛义德已经与某“基层”运动组织建立了联系，谣言认为该运动可能最终成为他继位大业的基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Two weeks ago, Ausama Monajed, a Syrian strategic communications consultant who sends out a steady stream of information and links to opposition activities in Syria, suddenly started sending out pro-government propaganda.",
        "两周前，叙利亚战略通讯顾问莫纳伊德（Ausama Monajed）突然开始发布支持政府的宣传资料，而此前他一直在散播与叙利亚反对派活动有关的信息。"
    ],
    [
        "He never even reminded voters that the government’s choices in managing the fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis – which were neither obvious nor easy, because they required rejecting the EU’s austerity consensus – was the right one.",
        "他甚至从未提醒选民政府在管理2008年全球金融危机后果时做出了正确的选择——这些选择既非显而易见亦非轻而易举，因为它们需要拒绝欧盟的紧缩政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Joking about Science",
        "科学的玩笑"
    ],
    [
        "But our solid understanding of the fundamentals of global warming – the base of our knowledge of climate science – should provide reason enough to press on with the implementation of carbon-free energy technologies.",
        "但我们对全球变暖的基本面——我们的气候学知识的基础——的可靠认识应该已经提供了足够的理由敦促我们采取无碳能源技术。"
    ],
    [
        "I hope they will rise to the occasion.",
        "我希望它会最终实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Being physically present at work means direct contact with other sharp and creative minds.",
        "上班出现在工作场所意味着与其他犀利而富于创造力的头脑的直接交流。"
    ],
    [
        "The Dangerous Rise of Buddhist Chauvinism",
        "佛教沙文主义的危险崛起"
    ],
    [
        "Women, too, must think carefully about the future that they would find most fulfilling.",
        "女性也必须认真思考她们眼中最满意的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "President Bill Clinton’s administration ignored the overtures and allowed the US Congress to take the initiative.",
        "美国总统克林顿政府无视拉夫桑贾尼的示好，让美国国会采取行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a role would better protect Europe’s broader interests in the Middle East, while allowing it to remain faithful to its values.",
        "而这样一个角色既能保护欧洲在中东地区的更广泛利益，同时也允许其维持自身的价值观不变。"
    ],
    [
        "Major television channels were allowed to continue to operate for hours, and when soldiers showed up in the studios, their incompetence was almost comical.",
        "各大电视频道继续播出长达数小时，而当士兵们出现在画面中时，表现出令人哭笑不得的低能。"
    ],
    [
        "To make a real difference, especially in the near term, the world must combine mitigation and adaptation with increased research and development into carbon-saving and sequestering technology, which in turn requires designing and exploiting market-based incentives.",
        "要真正带来变化，尤其是在近期内，世界在努力减弱和适应气候变化的同时，还必须加大对减少碳排放和碳封存技术的研究和开发力度，而这反过来又要求设计和探索以市场为基础的激励机制。"
    ],
    [
        "And the monthly purchasing surveys conducted by the Institute for Supply Management now indicate weaker activity among service firms as well.",
        "供给管理委员会（Institute for Supply Management）的月度采购调查数字显示，服务企业现在也陷入了颓势。"
    ],
    [
        "The long-term systemic impact of China’s interventionist approach may be even more serious than the stock market’s current decline.",
        "中国的干预主义方针的长期系统性影响也许比股市的当前下跌更加严重。"
    ],
    [
        "The low interest rate on long-term Treasury bonds has also boosted demand for other long-term assets that promise higher yields, including equities, farm land, high-yield corporate bonds, gold, and real estate.",
        "长期美国国债的低利率还提振了其他高收益长期资产的需求，包括股票、农地、高收益公司债券、黄金和房地产。"
    ],
    [
        "In a series of academic papers with Carmen Reinhart – including, most recently, joint work with Vincent Reinhart (“Debt Overhangs: Past and Present”) – we find that very high debt levels of 90% of GDP are a long-term secular drag on economic growth that often lasts for two decades or more.",
        "在与卡门·莱因哈特（Carmen Reinhart）合作的一系列学术论文中——包括最近的与文森特·莱因哈特（Vincent Reinhart）的工作《债务积压：过去和现在》（Debt Overhangs: Past and Present）——我们发现，达到GDP的90%的高债务水平是在长期拖累经济增长的重要因素，其效果通常会持续二十年以上。"
    ],
    [
        "More importantly, continuity on the political front is likely to extend to strategy and policy.",
        "更为重要的是，政治前线中的连续性可能会延伸到战略和政策上来。"
    ],
    [
        "Companies based in developing countries can overcome local market constraints and connect with customers, suppliers, financing, and talent worldwide.",
        "位于发展中国家的公司可以克服地方市场约束，与全世界客户、供应商、资金和人才互联互通。"
    ],
    [
        "This is not because a CEO’s work effort and negotiation and management skills are ten times more valuable nowadays, but because other corporate stakeholders have become less able to constrain top managers and financiers from capturing more of the value-added.",
        "这并不是因为现在的首席执行官的工作努力程度、谈判以及管理技能的价值超过十倍，而是因为其他企业利益相关者更为无力约束顶级的经理和金融家获取更多的附加值。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change would also lead to increased water stress, which by 2020 could affect 75-250 million people in Africa alone.",
        "气候变化还会引起用水短缺加剧，到2020年仅在非洲就有750万到2500万人受到影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Do we really know how to help countries overcome poverty?",
        "那么我们究竟知不知道如何才能帮助那些国家摆脱贫困？"
    ],
    [
        "The result of all of this is likely to be a long-term decline of US power and prosperity, because Americans no longer invest collectively in their common future.",
        "所有这一切的最终结果就是美国实力和繁荣的长期衰退，因为美国人再也不集体投资于他们的共同未来了。"
    ],
    [
        "Throughout this period, the brightest students were drawn away from their native lands, attracted by superior research universities and opportunities.",
        "这整个这一时期，世界上最聪明的学生在美国更优越的研究型大学和机遇的吸引下离开祖国。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the one-child policy that has been enforced for the last 34 years will be modified.",
        "类似地，强制执行了34年的独生子女政策也将修改。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – As the season in which public companies hold their annual general meetings progresses, one persistent issue is the lack of genuine dialogue between company officials and the general public.",
        "伦敦—随着上市公司年度股东大会召开季的推进，一个一直存在的问题是公司官员和大众之间缺乏真正的对话。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unlike Oslo, when Abbas was working under Arafat and able to project power from that base, as Palestinian president he was both negotiator and supposedly the center of power.",
        "但与奥斯陆的情况不同，当阿巴斯在阿拉法特麾下工作时他能以此为基础运用权力。 而作为巴勒斯坦总统，他既是谈判者，也应该是权力的中心。"
    ],
    [
        "Szijjarto, along with his counterparts from Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece, also voiced opposition to the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.",
        "”为此塞齐亚罗特，以及来自罗马尼亚，保加利亚和希腊的政治人物都向欧洲委员会和欧洲安全与合作组织提出了抗议。"
    ],
    [
        "But significant uncertainty remains over how to achieve it within the constraints of China’s state-led economy.",
        "但如何在中国以国有为主导这一约束条件下实现这个目标依然存在巨大的不确定性。"
    ],
    [
        "Gold prices started to rise sharply in the first half of 2008, when emerging markets were overheating, commodity prices were rising, and there was concern about rising inflation in high-growth emerging markets.",
        "2008年上半年，金价开始猛涨，当时，新兴市场经济过热，大宗商品价格不断走高，人们担心新兴市场在高增长的同时出现高通胀。"
    ],
    [
        "No one can live without food.",
        "但没人可以在没有粮食的情况下活着。"
    ],
    [
        "At both the micro and the macro level, development projects and economic growth can do much to alleviate some of the structural causes of political violence.",
        "不管是在微观还是宏观的层面，发展计划和经济增长都能够大大地减少政治暴力的某些结构性根源。"
    ],
    [
        "So why not choose a man like Lugovoi who truly represents what that elite stands for?",
        "那么为什么不选择一个像Lugovoi这样一个真正代表精英阶层立场的人呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Second, we had to convince the FARC’s leaders that it was in their own personal interest to enter serious negotiations and that they would never achieve their objectives through violence and guerrilla warfare.",
        "其次，我们必须说服FARC领导人严肃对待谈判符合他们的自身利益，而通过暴力和游击战争是无法达到他们的目的的。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a strategy implies, first of all, a solid partnership with China, not because it is evolving in the direction of democracy, but because it is a status-quo power.",
        "这样的策略意味着，首先，要和中国建立稳固的伙伴关系，这不是因为它正在向民主的方向发展，而是因为它是一个现存的强国。"
    ],
    [
        "Is the dollar about to lose the crown of world finance to the euro?",
        "美元是否要将世界金融的皇冠拱手让给欧元呢？"
    ],
    [
        "This is why increased military effort is needed to bring about larger and more secure enclaves that could better protect civilians and take the fight to the Islamic State.",
        "因此，必须加码军事手段建立更大更多的飞地以更好地保护平民和打击伊斯兰国。"
    ],
    [
        "In this way, we hope they will become as “universal” as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – a vital element of the civic armory in the fight for fairness.",
        "这样，我们希望它们能像为公正而战的公民弹药库的重要元素——世界人权宣言一样“深入普及”。"
    ],
    [
        "That interpretation, however, borders on caricature.",
        "但这一解读殊为可笑。"
    ],
    [
        "The terrorist bombings in Madrid and London and elsewhere will also be remembered; but it is “9/11” that has become the catchphrase, almost like “August 1914.”",
        "恐怖分子在马德里和伦敦以及其他地方制造的爆炸事件也将被人铭记； 但是，只有“9/11”几乎像“1914年8月”那样成为了流行语。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet on that same day, the headlines in Chinese papers were blasting the Philippines for its historic claim to ownership of the Spratly Islands.",
        "但就在同一天，中国国内报章的头条却在谴责菲利宾对斯普拉特利群岛的历史主权要求。"
    ],
    [
        "These include educational opportunity and performance, the relationship between productivity and wage growth, the concentration of economic rents, the effectiveness of the financial system’s intermediation of investment in the real economy, physical and digital infrastructure, and the coverage and adequacy of basic social protections.",
        "它们包括教育机会和表现、生产率和工资增长之间的关系、经济租的集中度、金融系统作为实体经济投资媒介的效率、实体和数字基础设施，以及基本社会保护的覆盖度和充足度。"
    ],
    [
        "Renzi has already called for a €150 billion EU investment boost and greater fiscal flexibility.",
        "伦齐已经要求实施1,500亿欧元的欧盟投资计划和更大的财政灵活度。"
    ],
    [
        "How Women Go Bankrupt",
        "女性是如何走向破产的"
    ],
    [
        "On December 17, The New York Times published front-page photographs of this man-made disaster.",
        "12月17日，《纽约时报》头版头条刊发了这场人为灾难的实景照。"
    ],
    [
        "Alarmed by this dramatic volte-face, the majority Justices in the Guantanamo Bay case may be trying to send assurances to the rest of the world that President Bush does not speak for all Americans, not even the ones who put him in office in the first place.",
        "在这种大倒退的警示下，审理关塔纳摩湾一案的大多数法官也许力图向世界表明布什总统并不能为所有的美国人代言。 他甚至不能代表那些一开始让他入主白宫的人的意见。"
    ],
    [
        "Eurozone governments have proven unwilling, or unable, to produce a solution that persuades markets that they are on top of the problem.",
        "欧元区各国政府要么不愿，要么不能抛出一项能令市场相信它们并无大碍的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "The Afghan Taliban have cooperated with polio vaccination programs since the 1990s.",
        "阿富汗塔利班从20世纪90年代开始与脊髓灰质炎疫苗计划合作。"
    ],
    [
        "China will never again submit to the West militarily, so it should not submit to the West normatively either.",
        "既然中国已经永远不会再屈从于西方军事力量之下，因此也不能再度臣服于西方的规范。"
    ],
    [
        "Ambitious young pols like Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker currently are viewed as Bush’s strongest rivals, but both will be facing increased scrutiny and testing.",
        "像佛罗里达州参议员卢比奥和威斯康星州州长斯科特·沃克这样雄心勃勃的年轻政客迄今为止被视为布什最有力的竞争者，但两者都将面临愈来愈严格的考验与审核。"
    ],
    [
        "On one level, that made sense.",
        "从某个程度说，这是说得通的。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor should it forget China’s fierce display of nationalism in response to Western protests of the Olympic touch relay, the extraordinary patriotism that swept the country in response to the Sichuan earthquake, and the national pride evinced by the Olympic Games.",
        "人们也不该忘记西方在抗议奥运火炬接力时中国民族主义情绪的强烈展示、四川地震时席卷中国的非同寻常的爱国主义浪潮，以及奥运会向外界展示的中国的民族自豪感。"
    ],
    [
        "MOSCOW – Has Russia’s economic crisis ended?",
        "发自莫斯科 —— 俄罗斯的经济危机结束了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "American law has an elaborate fact-finding process called “discovery.”",
        "美国法律有着被称为“发现”的复杂的事实调查过程。"
    ],
    [
        "Though she hasn’t confronted a crisis, she did help to sustain the US economy’s steady recovery from the 2007-09 recession.",
        "尽管她没有遭到危机，但确实帮助美国经济保持了从2007—2009年衰退后的稳定复苏。"
    ],
    [
        "The so-called peace poster \"Hitler Had Two Sons: Bush and Sharon,\" displayed in European anti-war rallies, combines trivialization of Nazism with demonization of both the victims of Nazism and those who defeated Nazism.",
        "欧洲反战游行中打出的所谓和平海报\"希特勒有两个儿子：布什和沙龙\"，把纳粹主义的平庸化和对纳粹受害者及其战胜者的魔鬼化结合在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Germany set a disgraceful and damaging example when, back in 2003-2004, it undermined the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact by not adhering to it.",
        "事实上，在2003—2004年间，德国没有坚持欧盟的稳定和发展公约（Stability and Growth Pact），起了一个非常不好的带头作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Hyun Song Shin of Princeton University proposed a theory of excess liquidity in a paper with Tobias Adrian that he presented last month at the Bank for International Settlements in Brunnen, Switzerland.",
        "普林斯顿大学的Hyun Song Shin在他与Tobias Adrian合作的一份上个月提交给位于瑞士布鲁嫩的国际结算银行的报告中提出了一种过量流动性的理论。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last three years alone, the number of scholars in our National Researchers System has increased by 26%, and we have almost doubled public expenditure on research, development, and innovation.",
        "光是在过去三年，我们的国家研究员系统（National Researchers System）学者数量就增加了26%，研究、开发和创新方面的公共支出增加了近一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "The law would permit marital rape, limit women’s movements – say, for work or study – without male permission, and even make it illegal for a woman to refuse to dress as her husband wishes.",
        "这项法律允许婚内强奸行为，限制在没有得到男性许可前提下女性的行动——比如工作或者学习，甚至将女人拒绝像丈夫希望的那样穿衣打扮规定为非法。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, tensions between the police, who are increasingly perceived as “outsiders,” and residents have grown to all-time highs.",
        "结果，警察日益被视为“外地局外人”，警察与居民之间的紧张关系达到前所未有的高度。"
    ],
    [
        "President Mahmoud Abbas has made no secret of his objection to such a strategy.",
        "马哈茂德·阿巴斯总统公开反对所谓的起义策略。"
    ],
    [
        "That is the paradox of imperialism.",
        "这是帝国主义的一个悖论。"
    ],
    [
        "The young responded with a vengeance to Sarkozy’s provocation.",
        "萨尔科奇的这种挑衅行为点燃了青年人复仇的烈火。"
    ],
    [
        "Justice in exchange has to be supplied from outside the market.",
        "交易的公正只能由市场外的力量来提供。"
    ],
    [
        "We set the bar far higher.",
        "我们的标准应该比这高得多。"
    ],
    [
        "As we try to prevent resistance to existing drugs, we will also need to examine the impact of antibiotics in agriculture.",
        "在试图阻止已有药物的抗药性时，我们还需要考察抗生素对农业的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "And in the April 10 release of the Nuclear Posture Review, Obama’s administration warned nuclear-armed states and others tempted to violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that they would remain nuclear targets.",
        "而在4月10日发布的《核态势研究报告》中，政府也警告那些试图破坏《核不扩散条约》的国家不要轻举妄动，因为他们依然会是美国核导弹的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "But a dearth of papers addressing it had been submitted to the meeting.",
        "但提交美国经济协会年会的论文中很少有关注此问题的。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Since the eurozone crisis began in 2008, the European Union has, from a political perspective, led an intergovernmental life in supranational clothing.",
        "发自马德里——从政治的角度看，自2008年欧元区危机爆发以来，欧盟一直是在一个超国家机构的外衣下按照跨政府机构的模式运作着。"
    ],
    [
        "This was another lesson learned in 2004.",
        "2004 年的教训还有一条值得总结。"
    ],
    [
        "On these and many other issues, economists tend to be good at seeing both sides of the issue, and I suspect that a survey on such questions would reveal little consensus.",
        "在这些和其他许多问题上，经济学家擅长分析问题的两面，我怀疑对这些问题的调查不会出现任何共识。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the only certainty may be that Iran’s nuclear program will be a major international issue in 2012 – quite possibly the most important one.",
        "实际上，或许唯一可以确定的是伊朗的核计划将成为2012年的一个重要国际问题——很可能成为最重要的国际问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Now this bragging has become the EU's ideology.",
        "如今这样的吹嘘成了整个欧盟的理念。"
    ],
    [
        "Wen’s priorities for his trip to India are clear: trade, security, and, far behind, the territorial disputes between the two countries.",
        "温家宝此次访印的议题有着非常明确的先后次序：首先是贸易，其次是安全……最后才是两国间的边界争端。"
    ],
    [
        "Should the Troops Come Home Now?",
        "军队应该立刻回家吗？"
    ],
    [
        "And Europe would avert the looming depression.",
        "这样欧洲就能躲过迫在眉睫的经济衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "Climate change negotiations over the next year offer an unprecedented opportunity to build a more profitable, safer, and sustainable global economy.",
        "未来一年关于气候变化的谈判，为建立一个更有利可图、更安全以及更具有可持续性的全球经济体系提供了前所未有的机遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider trade.",
        "以贸易为例。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that as many as half of China’s 1.3 billion people remain mired in abject poverty, it is in China’s interest to ensure that these economic relationships continue to flourish.",
        "由于中国13亿人口中近半数仍处在赤贫状态，确保上述经济联系继续发展符合中国的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Rouhani mobilized Iranians by offering a clear program for economic renewal, which hinges on Iran’s engagement with the international community – and thus on progress in nuclear negotiations.",
        "鲁哈尼通过明确的经济复兴计划受到了伊朗人民的支持，该计划暗示伊朗将参与国际社会——因此也包括核谈判。"
    ],
    [
        "SAN FRANCISCO – Two seemingly benign nutritional maxims are at the root of all dietary evil: A calorie is a calorie, and You are what you eat. Both ideas are now so entrenched in public consciousness that they have become virtually unassailable.",
        "旧金山—两大看起来无可指摘的营养箴言是所有饮食不健康的根源：“一卡（路里）就是一卡”和“吃啥变啥”。 这两个说法在公众心中已是根深蒂固、不容挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is important to consider the causes of underinsurance and whether our insurance institutions are adequate to the risks that we face.",
        "因此，我们很有必要去探寻不足额保险背后的各种原因以及我们的保险体系是否足以处理将要面对的各种风险。"
    ],
    [
        "If we are serious about wanting to solve global warming, we need to take action that actually does good – as opposed to wasting valuable resources on empty agreements and moral posturing that merely make us feel good.",
        "如果我们当真想要解决全球变暖问题，我们需要采取真正有用的行动，而不是在一纸空文上浪费宝贵资源，或者搞一些只是让我们感觉良好的作秀而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Although some Japanese complain about the unequal nature of the alliance’s security components, owing to the limits that Japan has accepted on the use of force, in these new areas, Japan is a stronger partner.",
        "尽管某些日本人由于日本接受了运用武力的限制条款而抱怨同盟安全条款不平等，但在这些新领域中，日本是更强有力的伙伴。"
    ],
    [
        "But these objectives – including improvement of market access in agriculture, manufacturing, and services; clarification of international trade rules; and progress on addressing relevant environmental issues – were overly ambitious.",
        "但这些目标——包括改善农业，制造业和服务业的市场准入机制； 厘清国际贸易规则；"
    ],
    [
        "This is a good sign for a world with different power centers and interests, with resources and legitimacy remaining tied to the nation-state, but in which challenges (climate change, armed conflicts, pandemics, and transnational crime) are global and, therefore, require cooperation among states.",
        "强调对话的价值以及更强大的国际机制。 这对于一个拥有不同权力中心和利益，而资源和合法性依然分散在各个民族国家手中，但却面临着气候变化，武装冲突，跨国疾病疫情以及跨国犯罪等诸多全球问题，从而急待各国联手解决的世界来说，是一个好兆头。"
    ],
    [
        "That particular criticism is inevitable, and officials should shrug it off.",
        "如果那样的批评声避免不了，官方就应该一笑置之。"
    ],
    [
        "India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the US form a rectangle of relationships in South Asia, with India, China, and the US constituting a triangle that not only contains the South Asia region, but is also a major theater in an increasingly global struggle.",
        "印度、巴基斯坦、阿富汗和美国组成了一个南亚关系矩形，而印度、中国和美国则组成了一个不仅包括南亚，同时也是全球斗争中心舞台的三角。"
    ],
    [
        "Starting from similar levels a half-century ago, South Korea has grown to become one of the world’s most prosperous economies, with nearly 50 million people enjoying a per capita income of $30,000 (at purchasing price parity). North Korea has half the population and per capita income of less than $2,000.",
        "与它在半个世纪前同时起步的韩国早已成长成为世界上最为繁荣的经济体之一，5000万韩国人享受着3万美元（以购买力平价计算）的人均年收入，而朝鲜的2500万人口的人均年收入只有区区2000美元。"
    ],
    [
        "But there will come a time when this tailwind subsides and China begins to converge on the so-called frontier of the advanced economies.",
        "但这股顺风终有停止的一天，而中国也将开始想所谓的发达经济前沿靠拢。"
    ],
    [
        "Vladimir Putin, Part Two",
        "普京第二章"
    ],
    [
        "The retail giant Wal-Mart is driving emissions reduction throughout its supply chain.",
        "零售巨头沃尔玛在其全供应链推动减排运动。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is not the case for the United Kingdom, and London remains the continent’s biggest financial center, by far.",
        "但这些国家不包括英国，而伦敦目前依然是欧洲最大的金融中心。"
    ],
    [
        "Organizations need to focus on expanding their core resources, which are not tied to any specific task, rather than drawing more discretionary or earmarked resources.",
        "组织需要把重点放在扩大其不依赖于任何特定任务的核心资源，而不是吸引更多的委托或预留项目资源。"
    ],
    [
        "Central bank surveys show that only a small percentage of large-denomination notes are being held and used by ordinary people or businesses.",
        "央行调查显示只有一小部分大面额纸币是由普通民众或企业持有和使用。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, mobile connectivity may turn out to be the most important development tool ever for the billions of people in emerging Africa and Asia.",
        "事实上，移动连通性也许是新兴非洲和亚洲几十亿人有史以来最重要的发展工具。"
    ],
    [
        "In short, this is political corruption: government policies in exchange for campaign funds.",
        "简言之，这是一种政治腐败：用政府政策来交换竞选资金。"
    ],
    [
        "“Rejuvenation through immigration is an endless treadmill,” he says. “To maintain a once-and-for-all reduction in the dependency ratio requires a never-ending stream of immigrants.",
        "“通过移民实现人口年轻化是一个无底洞，”他说，“要保持赡养比一次性的下降需要移民永无止尽地保持流入。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the effects of climate change can pose critical risks to infrastructure – agricultural irrigation, public transportation, or nearly anything else.",
        "比如，气候变化的影响可能给基础设施——农业灌溉、公共交通和其他几乎所有领域——带来临界风险。"
    ],
    [
        "We might think that evolution leads to the selection of individuals who think only of their own interests, and those of their kin, because genes for such traits would be more likely to spread.",
        "我们或许会认为进化导致那些只为自身利益考虑的个体——以及他们的亲族——才能被筛选留存下来，因为携带这类特性的基因更可能开枝散叶。"
    ],
    [
        "The United Nations Charter affirms all member states’ right to self-defense – a right that is, admittedly, increasingly open to interpretation in a kinetic, digitized world.",
        "《联合国宪章》确认，所有成员国有权自卫——无可否认，这项权利在一个动态的数字化世界越来越需要解释明确的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "A five-times leverage would enable the IMF to increase either lending to member countries or investments in infrastructure via multilateral development banks by at least $5 trillion.",
        "以五倍杠杆计，IMF向成员国直接贷款或通过多边开发银行间接投资于基础设施的能力至少增加了5万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure of central banks to target nominal GDP growth remains incomprehensible to me, and I will not write about it until I think that I have understood the reasons.",
        "我至今仍无法理解为何央行没能以名义GDP增长为目标，在我理解个中原因之前也无意撰文探讨此事。"
    ],
    [
        "Predominantly a commodity exporter, Russia has less need for the WTO than a manufacturer like China. Even so, one-fifth of Russia’s exports comprise metals and chemicals that are sensitive to anti-dumping measures.",
        "虽然作为一个重要的商品输出国，俄罗斯对于WTO的需要并不像中国这些生产国那么紧迫，但依然有1/5的俄罗斯出口产品属于金属和化工品这类对反倾销措施极为敏感的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "But pleasing the bean counters in Brussels or Berlin threatens to undermine France’s incipient economic recovery – and, in turn, support for the country’s new president – at a moment when important and, at times, unpopular reforms must be pushed through.",
        "但取悦布鲁塞尔或柏林的账房先生可能威胁到法国脆弱的经济复苏——并反过来威胁到新总统的支持率——而此时正逢法国必须兑现重要但常常不受欢迎的改革。"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, Trump seems more concerned with other priorities, such as repealing the US Affordable Care Act, reforming the tax system, and investing in infrastructure.",
        "一方面，特朗普似乎更关注其他重点事项，如撤销平价医疗法、改革税收制度、基础设施投资等。"
    ],
    [
        "This was and is the result of an asset bubble fueled by excessive leverage and by the massive transparency issues associated with complex securities and derivatives that were supposed to spread risk, but instead mainly increased the systemic risk already present with excess debt.",
        "这过去是、现在仍是资产泡沫带来的结果。 对杠杆效应的过度运用，以及与复杂的证券及衍生产品相关的透明度方面的严重问题（这些证券和衍生产品本来是应该分散风险的，而最后却增加了已经因为过多的债务而存在的系统性风险），都对资产泡沫起了火上浇油的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The Greek version of this dilemma, in which no one pays taxes because no one else pays taxes, is particularly stark.",
        "在希腊，这一矛盾——其他人不缴更多的税，那么我也不愿因缴更多的税——尤其突出。"
    ],
    [
        "Because no single body or government sets rules for the entire Internet, any digital code of conduct would have to emerge from the grassroots – and thus would be highly imperfect.",
        "由于没有个人和政府为整个互联网制定规则，因此任何数字行为规范都必须来自草根——也因此必然是极不完美的。"
    ],
    [
        "The Return of American Realism",
        "美国现实主义的回归"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, it is not easy to weigh breast cancer’s dangers against the cumulative effects of radiation from dozens of mammograms over the years, the invasiveness of biopsies, and the debilitating impact of treating slow-growing tumors that would never have proven fatal.",
        "其中最不幸的，莫过于我们知道连续多年进行X光照射会产生辐射累积效应，活体组织检查会对人体造成伤害，同时治疗那些缓慢生长且永远不会证明是恶性的肿瘤也将损害患者的健康，但这些因素相对于乳腺癌的危险性该如何权衡则并非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "Otherwise, they risk becoming hired hands for a few pet projects, rather than critical platforms for broad cooperation.",
        "否则，他们就有可能沦为几个小型附属项目的雇工而无法成长成为实现广泛合作的重要平台。"
    ],
    [
        "A 2015 OECD report shows how far behind countries are on their emissions targets – never mind their commitment to limit the global temperature rise to well below 2° Celsius.",
        "尽管承诺要将全球气温升高限制在2℃以内，但2015年经合组织报告显示各国仍远远落后于其减排目标。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the following days, the bear turned over the garbage cans of two neighbors and terrorized children and pets.",
        "接下来几天里，那只熊又掀翻了两个邻居的垃圾桶，并且吓坏了宠物和儿童。"
    ],
    [
        "Consider a recent candid statement by Israeli Major General Herzi Halevy (quoted to me by a journalist who attended the speech where Halevy made it): “Israel does not want to see the situation in Syria end with [ISIS] defeated, the superpowers gone from the region, and [Israel] left with a Hezbollah and Iran that have greater capabilities.”",
        "最近，以色列陆军少将赫尔齐·哈勒威（Herzi Halevy）直言不讳地声称（由一位哈勒威讲话现场的记者向我转述）：“以色列不想看到叙利亚局势以（ISIS）被击败、超级大国退出该地区、（以色列）面对实力更强的真主党和伊朗结束。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "And, unlike the 9/11 attackers, they were all citizens of the country they were attacking.",
        "此外，与9/11袭击者不同，他们都睡被袭击国家的公民。"
    ],
    [
        "While today’s proposed pay restrictions are unlikely to stop the next financial crisis, they are likely to damage the financial sector.",
        "虽然薪酬限制不能避免危机发生，但其对金融体系的破坏力不容忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "The growing unease with FDI is so far largely confined to developed countries.",
        "直接外资所引发的不安目前还主要局限在发达国家的范围之内。"
    ],
    [
        "Back then, Egypt was closely aligned with the Soviet Union.",
        "当时，埃及与苏联紧密结盟。"
    ],
    [
        "The era of American unipolarity is over.",
        "美国的单极时代已经结束。"
    ],
    [
        "In the interest of reducing the blow to Serbia, the Security Council must avoid granting independence in ways that are so contorted that the new state cannot effectively function.",
        "为了降低对塞尔维亚的打击，安理会必须避免以严重扭曲的方式赋予科索沃独立，以至于新的国家无法运行。"
    ],
    [
        "The shock would be painful for the incumbent wealth owners, but, after a rapid decline in the dollar values of asset prices, including land and real estate, new businesses and investment projects would soon have room to grow, and new jobs would be created.",
        "对现有财富拥有者而言，冲击将是痛苦的，但是，在资产价格（包括土地和房地产）的美元价值经历急跌后，新企业和投资项目很快就将获得成长空间，而新就业岗位也将创造出来。"
    ],
    [
        "But nostalgia offers no solutions – only a dream of escape.",
        "但怀旧解决不了任何问题——仅仅是场逃避的美梦而已。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, the G-20 needs an emerging-markets caucus.",
        "最后， G-20 中的新兴市场经济体需要有自己的一个预备会议。"
    ],
    [
        "But the debate can be moved forward by examining the successful economies of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.",
        "但是，在研究丹麦、芬兰、冰岛、荷兰、挪威和瑞典的经济成功后，讨论可能会进一步深入。"
    ],
    [
        "British experts from the Malayan emergency tried to help the Americans in Vietnam - obviously without success.",
        "经历过马来亚紧急状态的英国专家曾试图帮助身陷越南的美国人-结果无功而返。"
    ],
    [
        "Research in Peru showed that fortifying an oral-rehydration solution with the proteins extracted from Ventria’s rice substantially lessens the duration of diarrhea and reduces the rate of recurrence – a near-miraculous advance for people in the developing world.",
        "秘鲁的研究表明用提炼自文特里亚公司的水稻的蛋白质强化口服补液疗法能大大缩短痢疾的持续期和复发率——这对于发展中世界的人们来说是一项不可思议的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Senator Robert Menendez argues it “must move quickly to embrace democratic reform,” while international development specialists, such as Manal Omar of the US Institute for Peace, believe that success lies in the cultivation of a vibrant civil society.",
        "罗伯特·梅南德斯参议员认为新政府“必须尽快进行民主制度改革，”而美国和平研究所的马纳尔·奥马尔等国际发展问题专家则认为能否培育出充满活力的民间社会才是成功的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "Greene, however, was more concerned to understand why we have the intuitions, so he used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or fMRI, to examine what happens in people’s brains when they make these moral judgments.",
        "然而格林更想了解的是我们 为何 会有这样的直觉。 所以他运用了功能性核磁共振设备（FMRI）来检测人们做出这些道德判断时大脑中发生的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity’s traditional sources of meaning – work, community, family, and identity – or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny.",
        "第四次工业革命可以妥协于人性传统的意义源泉——工作、社会、家庭和身份——也可以将人性升华为新的基于共同身份感的集体和道德意识。"
    ],
    [
        "The despair of poor, provincial, and clientelistic constituencies is a tool rather than a problem, and belittling the US by aligning with Fidel Castro trumps promoting their countries’ real interests in the world.",
        "穷人和各省选民的绝望情绪不过是可以利用的工具，而不是大不了的问题，他们通过与牛皮大王菲德尔·卡斯特罗结盟来贬低美国，从而争取各自国家在世界上的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Faced with that prospect, the US and South Korea could take steps to reassure China that they would not exploit such a situation by moving their troops to China’s border.",
        "面临如此前景，美国和韩国可能采取步骤向中国保证它们不会利用此局面向中国边境派遣军队。"
    ],
    [
        "I was interviewed for about an hour, with my answers to be included in an episode centered on a panel discussion held in the studio.",
        "我被采访了大约一个小时，我的回答被做进了在工作室录制的一期专家讨论中。"
    ],
    [
        "Some fear that extending the workday will not produce more jobs because the resulting expansion of hours worked will reduce the capital-labor ratio.",
        "一些人担心工作日增加所导致的资本对劳动比例降低将无法提供更多的工作岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "For many years, the single most important category of investment in China has been real-estate development, which accounts for roughly 10% of GDP and a quarter of total investment.",
        "多年来，房地产开发在中国的投资中独占鳌头，大约可占到GDP的10%和总投资的25%。"
    ],
    [
        "Obstacles to trade and foreign direct investment must be removed as well.",
        "贸易和外国直接投资障碍也必须清除。"
    ],
    [
        "So, in effect, it is politicians that tell the ECB when to cut off liquidity to an entire banking system.",
        "因此实际上是政治家在指挥欧洲央行何时该切断整个银行系统的流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "Thrifty China, Spendthrift America",
        "节俭的中国，挥霍的美国"
    ],
    [
        "But the failed coup is likely to reinforce the illiberal aspects of the democracy emerging under Erdoğan, in which the will of the people and majoritarian rule runs counter to pluralism, human rights, and freedom of speech.",
        "但这次未遂政变很可能会强化埃尔多安治下民主的非自由层面，导致民众意愿和多数统治压制多元主义、人权和言论自由。"
    ],
    [
        "Investors, it seems, are once again failing to appreciate just how risky the world is.",
        "看起来，投资者再一次无视世界到底有多危险。"
    ],
    [
        "A drastic reduction of CO2 emissions is an urgent priority, but fusion is unlikely to produce sufficient energy to achieve that goal before the twenty-second century.",
        "大幅降低二氧化碳的排放是一个需要紧急解决的问题，而聚变在二十二世纪前不太可能生产出足够的能源才达到这个目标。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of World War II, Nazi leaders fled, relocating all over the world.",
        "二战结束时，纳粹领导人四散逃亡，散落于世界各地。"
    ],
    [
        "All of these actions are welcome; but we view them as being only initial steps.",
        "所有这些行动都是值得欢迎的； 但我们认为它们只是最初的步骤。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – When the member states of the International Criminal Court gather later this month in Kampala, Uganda, for a conference to review the ICC’s work, one issue on the agenda will be whether to amend the Court’s statute to allow it to exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression.",
        "发自华盛顿特区——国际刑事法院各成员国代表将在本月晚些时候齐聚乌干达首都坎帕拉，开会审议法院近一段时期的工作，其中一项议程就是是否要对法院规约进行修正，使其可以对侵略罪行使管辖权。"
    ],
    [
        "Contested state breakups create tough policy problems, and there are no ideal outcomes.",
        "斗争国的分裂创造出棘手的政治问题，没有理想的结局。"
    ],
    [
        "The interdependencies in the global economy (in areas as diverse as financial markets, product safety, infectious diseases, natural resource dependency, and global warming) have outrun our collective capacity to manage them and coordinate policy responses.",
        "全球经济的相互依存性（在如此众多的领域中，诸如金融市场、产品安全，传染病，自然资源的依赖和全球变暖）已非我们的集体能力和政策反应协调能力所能应付。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Germans and other Europeans would not be spared the consequences.",
        "此外，德国和其他欧洲国家也不能独善其身。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, the equivalent collapse has been of the “regulation-lite” regime in which a party that styled itself as “New Labour” accepted a powerful role for markets – particularly for largely deregulated financial markets.",
        "如今，在我们眼前崩溃掉的是“轻监管”体制，在该体制盛行时期，把自己包装成“新工党”的那个政党接受了大市场模式，尤其是大范围地放松了对金融市场的监管。"
    ],
    [
        "Historically, political union precedes economic and monetary union.",
        "从历史看，政治联盟先于经济和欧比联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "ISTANBUL – At the end of March, a retrial finally resulted in the acquittal of more than 200 Turkish military officers who had been convicted of plotting a coup in 2003 against the then-newly elected Islamist government.",
        "伊斯坦布尔——3月底，200多名土耳其军官在重审时被无罪释放，这些人之前曾以2003年策划针对当时新当选伊斯兰政府政变的罪名被判决有罪。"
    ],
    [
        "The recent collapse of those bubbles caused sharp downturns in economic activity and substantial increases in unemployment in both countries.",
        "同时，在美国的财政系统中，国税要占总税收的三分之二，这意味着收入暂时下降的州可以自动且持续地获得净财政转移支持。"
    ],
    [
        "And the OECD projects a further decline – to around 2.5% – in the coming decade.",
        "而且经合组织预测韩国年增长率仍将进一步下降——在今后几十年内降至约2. 5%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "This is no time for half-measures or muddling through.",
        "时不我待，我们应该立刻停止消极应付和得过且过。"
    ],
    [
        "But the UN Watercourses Convention’s entry into force raises as many new questions as existed in the period before its ratification.",
        "但联合国水道公约生效所引发的新问题不少于生效前。"
    ],
    [
        "Given all of this, it may not be quite so surprising that advertisers in India have remained loyal to the appeal of newspaper ink over the flickering cursor.",
        "出于所有这些原因，印度广告商仍然更多地被报纸的油墨而不是闪烁的光标所吸引，这也许并不那么令人奇怪。"
    ],
    [
        "A post-modern neglect or disdain for reality generated the sense that the whole world was constantly shifting and malleable, and might be as transient and meaningless as stock quotations.",
        "对现实性的一种后现代式的无视或轻慢造成一种感觉：整个世界分分秒秒都在流变，时而可以捶扁搓圆随心所欲，时而又像股价一样倏忽无常毫无意义。"
    ],
    [
        "But a high standard of fidelity to the truth is needed in the media; otherwise, debates become too distorted for citizens to evaluate correctly their meaning.",
        "但是媒体必须高度忠实于事实，否则，讨论就会过于失真以至于公民们不能准确评估它们的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "In reality, the one thing that non-democratic regimes can never tolerate is independent workers’ organizations.",
        "在现实中，非民主政权永远不可能接受的一件事情是独立劳工组织。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why modern social democrats and progressive liberals are eager to right social wrongs.",
        "因此，现代民主党和进步自由派急切地要纠正社会的错误。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the risks of climate engineering have been overstated.",
        "而与此同时，气候工程的许多风险则被人们过分夸大了。"
    ],
    [
        "The Grassroots of Climate Change",
        "气候变化草根"
    ],
    [
        "How vulnerable are emerging economies because of all this dollar debt?",
        "新兴市场因为其美元债务而脆弱到何种程度？"
    ],
    [
        "Valukas’s task for GM was to investigate and report on the company’s faulty ignition switches, which have been linked to 13 deaths.",
        "此人曾负责为破产法庭调查雷曼兄弟投资银行交易，如今为通用汽车调查据称已经导致13人死亡的汽车点火开关故障。"
    ],
    [
        "But what of the unemployed who become locked into their societies?",
        "但是，那些被锁死在社会中的失业者又当如何呢？"
    ],
    [
        "We are also starting to see the macro-level impact of certain productivity revolutions – particularly in the energy and technology sectors – that, so far, have mainly been industrial and sectoral phenomena.",
        "我们同时也开始看到特定生产力革命对宏观层面的影响——尤其是在能源和科技部门——而这目前来说主要是工业和某些部门的现象。"
    ],
    [
        "For many decades, Californians had rapidly rising living standards, great public K-12 and higher education systems, and unprecedented upward mobility.",
        "过去几十年中，加州居民的生活水平节节攀升，公共教育的 K-12 体系大行其道，教育体系一路领先，大家的进取之心前所未有。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – In 2000, 189 countries collectively adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which evolved into a set of concrete targets called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).",
        "美国剑桥—2000年，189个国家一致接受了联合国千年宣言，并将其纳入了被称为千年发展目标（MDG）的一系列具体计划中。"
    ],
    [
        "And, while traditional fiscal policy (government spending and tax cuts) will be pursued aggressively, non- traditional fiscal policy (expenditures to bail out financial institutions, lenders, and borrowers) will also become increasingly important.",
        "而且，当传统的金融政策（政府花费和减税）大行其道时，非传统性的金融政策（花钱帮助金融机构，放贷人和借款人脱离困境）也将变得越来越重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Developing new, more effective treatments will be crucial to addressing these challenges before health-care costs spiral out of control.",
        "开发新的更有效的疗法是抢在医疗成本失控之前解决这些挑战的关键。"
    ],
    [
        "We in the West may badly need Russia’s energy, but if Russia does not want its future to degenerate into Oriental despotism, it must engage with the West in good faith.",
        "我们西方可能急需俄罗斯的能源，但如果俄罗斯不想在未来蜕变为东方式的专制，它就必须满怀诚意与西方接触。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the establishment of the European Research Council (ERC) is entering a decisive phase, with crucial implications concerning the role we are prepared to concede to scientific curiosity.",
        "在欧洲，欧洲研究委员会(ERC)的创立正进入决定性阶段。 这对于我们准备让科学好奇心发挥怎样的作用具有至关重要的意义。"
    ],
    [
        "If the answer to this question is yes – as it should be – then the US should focus on how it can help India’s power continue to grow.",
        "”如果答案是肯定的——应该正是如此——那么美国就应该致力于如何帮助印度增长实力。"
    ],
    [
        "But that does not mean that clashes are inevitable.",
        "但这并不是说冲突是不可避免的。"
    ],
    [
        "The means of discussing these questions is known to all and is expressed in all religions and all languages.",
        "探讨这些问题的方式人尽皆知，在所有的宗教和语言中也有所表达。"
    ],
    [
        "China is the one place that quietly implements a constructive economic engagement approach.",
        "而中国则是一个不声不响地执行建设性经济接触政策的国家。"
    ],
    [
        "But inflows through money-market funds are not so bad for banks, which get the cash without having to set aside reserves or pay for deposit insurance.",
        "但以货币市场基金形式流入的资金对于银行来说其实并不太坏，因为后者无须为这些现金进行资本储备或者支付存款保险。"
    ],
    [
        "In Charlottesville, the home of the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, white nationalists, separatists, neo-Nazis, members of the Ku Klux Klan, and other likeminded groups rallied behind Swastika banners and marched in a Nazi-style torchlight procession.",
        "在由托马斯·杰斐逊创立的弗吉尼亚大学所在地夏洛茨维尔，白人民族分子、分离分子、新纳粹分子、3K党徒和其他具有类似思想的团体团结在纳粹十字标记的周围，举行纳粹风格的火炬游行。"
    ],
    [
        "In each country, a number of prices are rigid, because sellers resist selling cheaper, as low productivity gains and wage defense by unions leave no margin for lower prices.",
        "每个国家都有许多价格是固定的，因为卖方反对降价销售，其原因在于：较低的产能收益和工会的工资保障制度没有留出任何降价的空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Not only would this be a much less expensive fix than trying to cut carbon emissions, but it would also reduce global warming far more quickly.",
        "这不但是一个比削减碳排放更为廉价的方案，而且能更快地解决全球变暖问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, domestic pressure has caused Obama to neglect trade issues.",
        "类似地，国内压力还迫使奥巴马忽视贸易问题。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, said the followers of Milton Friedman, it must keep the velocity-adjusted rate of growth of the money stock stable.",
        "相反，米尔顿·弗里德曼的追随者会说，央行必须让速率调整后的货币储备增长率保持稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "Since then, however, many studies have explored the association between cannabis use and psychotic illness.",
        "但是，2002年之后，许多研究探索了大麻使用和精神疾病之间的联系。"
    ],
    [
        "But there are good reasons to believe that we are experiencing a more persistent slump.",
        "但颇有理由相信，我们正在经历一场较为持久的不景气。"
    ],
    [
        "But such an outcome remains in doubt.",
        "但这样的结果能否实现还未可知。"
    ],
    [
        "With the central government enjoying such favorable fiscal conditions – its debt-to-GDP ratio stands at only about 20% – now is the ideal time to initiate a much larger debt-swap program.",
        "中央政府面临非常有利的财政环境——债务-GDP之比只有20%左右——实施更大规模的债务置换计划正当其时。"
    ],
    [
        "When Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi threatened to kill his rebellious detractors like “rats,” a UN coalition intervened under an emerging global doctrine: the responsibility to protect.",
        "当利比亚的卡扎菲威胁要把反对派批评者像“老鼠”一样杀掉时，联合国军根据新的全球信条——保护责任（responsibility to protect）实施了干预。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, progress has since stalled, owing to the vehement risk-aversion of regulators.",
        "不幸的是，由于监管者过于厌恶风险，生物制药的进步此后一直陷于停顿。"
    ],
    [
        "And Trump will still be Trump.",
        "但是特朗普，还将是那个特朗普。"
    ],
    [
        "As any seasoned banker knows, a well-managed bank should undertake internal “stress tests” regularly as a matter of good housekeeping.",
        "任何经验丰富的银行家都知道，管理良好的银行应该将定期进行内部“压力测试”作为良好的企业管理的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether companies also will finally devote more cash to new investments in plant, equipment, and people – a key source of support for the global economy.",
        "问题是公司是否也将投入更多的资金在厂房，设备投资和人才方面——这是全球经济支持的主要来源。"
    ],
    [
        "By viewing vaccination as a lifelong priority, we can help people remain active and productive for as long as possible, benefiting them, their communities, and the world.",
        "通过将免疫接种作为终身的健康重点，我们可以帮助人们尽可能延长活跃和富有成效的生活，从而为他们本人、所在群体和世界带来好处。"
    ],
    [
        "So it is irrevocably politicized – for good as well as bad reasons.",
        "因此，它必须带有政治性质——不管原因是好是坏。"
    ],
    [
        "I, for one, find the underlying indicators more informative than the average.",
        "包括我在内的一批人发现基础指标比平均指标包含的信息量更大。"
    ],
    [
        "In Turkey, the military proclaimed itself the guardian of the secular Republic of Turkey, founded in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, himself a military man.",
        "在土耳其，军队将自己描述为世俗土耳其共和国的卫士，但1923年成立的土耳其共和国的建立者阿塔图尔克本人便是一名军人。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is what I often inelegantly call “Man-Sheff-Leeds-Pool” that distinguishes the Northern Powerhouse, and Manchester, which sits at the heart of it, is certainly among the early beneficiaries.",
        "但其实是我经常俗称为“曼—谢—利—浦”的区域最终导致北方经济引擎出类拔萃，而位于引擎核心地带的曼彻斯特无疑是早期受益者之一。"
    ],
    [
        "On that day, the ECB, pressured by Germany, rescinded an important part of its exemption, thereby cutting off Greek banks’ direct access to the ECB and diverting them to pricier financing from Greece’s central bank (so-called emergency liquidity assistance).",
        "当天，欧洲央行在德国压力下撤销了其豁免的一个重要组成部分，从而切断了希腊银行向欧洲央行的直接融资渠道，并将它们导向希腊央行的高价融资渠道（所谓的紧急流动性援助）。"
    ],
    [
        "More generally, discussions about the future of Europe should be permeated by a spirit of solidarity with respect to the states and nations that are not yet members and whose membership is not envisioned in the near future.",
        "更笼统地讲，对于尚未成为欧盟成员或短期内不可能加入欧盟的国家来说，对欧洲未来的探讨更应充满了团结精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Median household income has barely begun to recover, and is still well below its 2000 level.",
        "中位家庭收入几乎没有复苏，并仍远低于2000年的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Some argue that furnishing members with rapid and front-loaded liquidity insurance would encourage irresponsible policies or reckless borrowing.",
        "有些人辩称，为成员国提供迅速和前载型的（front-loaded）流动性保险可能会鼓励不负责任的政策或轻率的借款。"
    ],
    [
        "Interpol’s members include some of the world’s most oppressive governments, whose leaders routinely misuse their own criminal justice systems to silence free speech and political opposition.",
        "国际刑警组织成员国包括世界某些最具压迫性的政府，其领导人经常滥用国内的刑事司法体系来遏制言论自由和政治反对。"
    ],
    [
        "Employers with a large number of full-time employees could encourage their existing insurance companies to create the emergency policies.",
        "雇用了大量雇员的雇主可以鼓励现有保险公司创造紧急险。"
    ],
    [
        "Finally, CAFTA fails to address labor issues in any significant way.",
        "最后，CAFTA没有能够切实地解决劳务问题。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, it is mainly cross-border bank lending and borrowing that have fallen.",
        "事实上，下降的主要是跨境银行借贷。"
    ],
    [
        "This is why the global problem today is many times greater than the Savings & Loan crisis of the 1980’s and 1990’s, which cost American taxpayers an estimated $150 billion to clean up.",
        "这就是现在的全球金融危机比20世纪80年代和90年代的储贷危机要严重许多倍的原因，这个储贷危机花费了美国纳税人约1500亿美元才 收拾完毕。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas’s strategy is to expose the Palestinian Authority’s weakness by demonstrating that it cannot control the West Bank, as it promises in negotiations.",
        "实际上，虽然巴勒斯坦民族权力机构在谈判中承诺能控制西岸地区，但哈马斯的战略却是通过袭击来反证前者的无能。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet, to understand the difficulty of responding to the problems that Iran’s nuclear ambition and anti-Israel obsession now pose, it might be helpful to analyze the three analogies that are most commonly used.",
        "但是，为了理解如何难以应付伊朗的核子野心以及反以色列的成见所带来的种种问题，分析一下最为常用的三个相似点比较可能会有所帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "The US, however, is headed in the opposite direction.",
        "但是，美国走在了相反的方向。"
    ],
    [
        "The long-run deficit, health-care financing, and global warming, no less than securing retirement income and enabling educational opportunity, were issues on which bipartisan progress and agreement should have been easily attained.",
        "长期赤字、医疗融资和全球变暖以及同样紧迫的捍卫退休金和增进教育机会，这些都应该是可以轻易取得跨党派进展和协议的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – In just one decade, the United States has intervened militarily in three Muslim-majority countries and overthrown their governments.",
        "新德里—短短十年间，美国军事干预了三个穆斯林占多数国家并颠覆了它们的政府。"
    ],
    [
        "But these firms have been mostly missing in action in terms of innovation and R&D, as a recent study by the Inter-American Development Bank has shown.",
        "但就像美洲开发银行最近一项研究所显示的那样，这些企业大都缺乏创新和研发领域的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "At home, Sarkozy has aimed his message particularly at the young, issuing a patriotic call to the values of work and discipline, a counter-revolutionary revolution.",
        "在内政方面，萨尔柯齐把重点放在了青年人身上，力求唤起他们的爱国热情，建立勤于工作和遵纪守法的价值观，这是一场反对革命的革命。"
    ],
    [
        "It is still early days – my post is just over a month old.",
        "现在做出结论还为时尚早——一个月前我刚才就任职务。"
    ],
    [
        "Chest-thumping exceptionalism has given way to a more sober patriotism, in which ordinary citizens recognize the long-term trends eroding the promise of equal opportunity, particularly the shortcomings that beset the country’s health-care, education, and infrastructure systems.",
        "口号震天的例外论让位给了更冷静的爱国主义，普通公民认为长期趋势正在损害机会平等的承诺，特别是困扰着美国医疗、教育和基础设施系统的缺陷。"
    ],
    [
        "No medicine will work if, when the patient is released, he encounters the same virus: institutionalized Wahhabism.",
        "如果一个人被释放后会遇到同样的病毒——体制化的瓦哈比教义，这个人就是无药可救的。"
    ],
    [
        "Sea levels could rise, drowning major cities and small island states.",
        "海平面上升，淹没主要城市和岛国。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the high rate of HIV/AIDS infections, Malawi’s population, like that of many developing nations, is growing rapidly.",
        "像其他许多发展中国家一样，尽管HIV/艾滋病的感染率居高不下，马拉维的人口依然经历着快速的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The Sunnis would probably accept the federalist provisions if they applied only to the Kurds.",
        "如果该封建规定只适用于库尔德人，那么逊尼派也许还会接受它。"
    ],
    [
        "The last critical step in May’s plan to push forward a version of Brexit that British voters never wanted is to prevent a vote on the final deal.",
        "梅推进英国选民从未想要的脱欧计划版本的最后一个关键步骤是阻止就最终协议进行投票。"
    ],
    [
        "Only a coherent, sustained portfolio of initiatives, implemented on a large scale, will be effective.",
        "唯有大规模实施连贯持续的组合手段才能取得效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, from a political perspective, reforms such as these can best be carried out when the crisis is acute, not when Wall Street believes it can go back to business as usual.",
        "当然，从政治的角度考虑，类似这样的改革只有在经济危机最激烈的时期进行，而不是当华尔街认为局面已经恢复到正常的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "That is a significant number, which suggests that there is a case for policy action.",
        "这是个很大的数字，意味着应该为此采取政策动作。"
    ],
    [
        "Another view held by a number of medical professionals, based on how Trump spoke in interviews in the late 1980s and how he speaks now – with a far more limited vocabulary and much less fluency – is that the president is suffering from the onset of dementia.",
        "基于特朗普在20世纪80年代末接受采访时的讲话和他现在讲话的对比——词汇量大大缩小且流利程度要低得多——还有几位医学专业人士所持的另外一种观点是总统患有早期痴呆症。"
    ],
    [
        "Many Americans remain shockingly unaware of how much the rest of the world, especially Asia, has progressed.",
        "许多美国人对世界其他地区，特别是亚洲的进步仍然茫然无知。"
    ],
    [
        "The immigrant receives a higher wage than at home, and the target country benefits from cheap labor, which creates more value than it costs.",
        "移民要比在原籍国家得到更高的工资，接纳国家则从便宜的劳力获益，这样创造的价值就大于成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Leaders of the EU’s institutions have to be political entrepreneurs if they are to leave a mark on history.",
        "欧盟机构领导人要想青史留名，就必须具有政治开拓精神。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, because the services sector also requires fewer commodities and less energy, this transition will help China address its serious environmental problems.",
        "此外，由于服务业对大宗商品和能源的需要较低，因此这一转型有助于中国解决严重的环境问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Exploring diplomatic avenues is therefore absolutely necessary.",
        "探索外交途径也就绝对必要了。"
    ],
    [
        "The movie’s release sparked international intrigue, drama, and shadowy geopolitical power struggles.",
        "本片的发行激起了国际阴谋、戏剧和影子地缘政治力量的明争暗斗。"
    ],
    [
        "But there should be no doubt that he is a man of the regime – a realist and moderate member of the Islamic Republic’s political elite – not a representative of the opposition.",
        "但他与政府同仇敌忾应当没有疑问，他是现实而温和的伊斯兰共和国政治精英——而不是反对派代表。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then will we know whether Germany can meet the Toynbeean challenge it is facing.",
        "只有到那时，我们才会知道德国能否成功地应对汤因比挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "These institutions were designed to crystallize member countries’ obligations, and they embodied a set of best economic-policy practices that evolved into what became known as the “Washington Consensus.”",
        "这些机构设立的初衷是为了明确成员国的义务，它们也包含了一系列最佳经济政策实践，即日后著名的“华盛顿共识”。"
    ],
    [
        "While cap-and-trade systems or other means of pricing carbon emissions can help provide incentives for businesses to invest in low-carbon solutions, in the short term at least, these seven policy measures – and direct action and investment by governments – are needed to achieve the targets.",
        "我们应该实行总量控制与交易制度，加上其他价格手段，迫使企业加大对低碳产品的投资。 从短期来看，这七项由政府主导的政策将能实现我们设定的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "In the end, it is the crippled financial system that is driving the wedge between China’s large surplus of capital and formal financing for the country’s SMEs.",
        "最后，正是这个跛脚的金融系统成为了横亘在中国巨大贸易顺差与中小企业正式金融部门通道之间的障碍。"
    ],
    [
        "Intellectually, this is a great puzzle: we believe in market forces, and in the benefits of trade, specialization, and the international division of labor.",
        "因此，我们感到非常困惑，因为我们深信市场力的作用，相信贸易、专业化和国际分工能推动生产力的发展。"
    ],
    [
        "In some parts of the world, the best way to combat drug resistance will be to encourage changes in behavior that reduce the spread of infections and minimize the need for treatment.",
        "在世界的一些地方，打击耐药性的最佳方法是鼓励行为改变以降低传染病的传播并尽量降低治疗的必要。"
    ],
    [
        "Digital technology has played another important role in fostering this atmosphere of bad manners, vicious personal attacks, intolerance, disrespect, and general rudeness.",
        "数字技术在促成这种不礼貌的恶毒人身攻击、以及欠缺包容和尊重的粗鲁氛围中起了非常重要的作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Jibril has made a special trip to plead on behalf of the civilians whom Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and his sons have promised to drown in rivers of blood.",
        "贾布里勒专程前来代表民众请命，卡扎菲上校和他的儿子曾发誓要让这些人血流成河。"
    ],
    [
        "What will happen when, in a few years, a huge and growing chunk of the national budget must be dedicated to paying foreign debt instead of funding education or health care?",
        "几年后，当日益增加的庞大的国民预算比例必须用于偿还外债而不是提供教育或医疗时会发生什么？"
    ],
    [
        "The Kim family’s tyranny is based on a mixture of ideological fanaticism, vicious realpolitik, and paranoia.",
        "金氏家族暴政的基础是意识形态狂热、残酷现实政治和偏执狂的混合物。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, a growing cohort of people are identifying as outsiders.",
        "结果是越来越多的群体被认为是外人。"
    ],
    [
        "Everyone was supposed to benefit from European integration.",
        "所有人都应该从欧洲一体化中获得好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding the Fed’s claims that its unconventional policies have been the elixir of economic renewal in the US, the healing process still has years to go.",
        "尽管美联储声称其非常规政策是美国经济永葆青春的万灵丹，但复苏过程还有很多年的路要走。"
    ],
    [
        "While preventing cervical cancer might seem a genuine benefit, critics charge that the program seems to be mainly about meeting targets, rather than serving the health-care needs of disadvantaged groups.",
        "尽管消除子宫颈癌看似是为大众谋福祉，批评家们却指出这个项目看上去只是为了满足政治目的，而不是为了满足潜在患者的健康需要。"
    ],
    [
        "An important early task in achieving the desired impact will be to create an environment in which private initiatives can flourish.",
        "实现这一渴望的影响的一个重要的早期任务是营造一个私人项目能够深根发芽的环境。"
    ],
    [
        "We should not allow ourselves to be so overwhelmed by today’s crisis that we forget that.",
        "我们不应该让当今的危机迷昏了头脑，却忘却了这一点。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, effective financial-monitoring and prudential-regulation systems do not have to precede opening the capital account.",
        "事实上，有效的金融监控和审慎管理体系并不一定要先于资本账户开放。"
    ],
    [
        "The trials were stage-managed by Gülenist police, prosecutors, and media.",
        "这场审判由葛兰主义警察、检察官和媒体炮制。"
    ],
    [
        "In crises like these, migrants’ lives and physical safety are jeopardized through no fault of their own.",
        "在这些危机中，移民生命和人身安全受到了严重侵害，而这并不是因为他们自身的原因产生的。"
    ],
    [
        "Security and public health concerns now overlap, whereas traditionally they had been separate areas that elicited different kinds of policy responses.",
        "传统上，安全问题和公共卫生问题分属不同领域，引发的政策反应也各不相同。 但现在，这两种问题却互相重合。"
    ],
    [
        "Averting that danger will require multiple, coordinated, and sustained efforts for many years to come, but ratification of post-START and the CTBT would help.",
        "而消除这项危机则需要在未来许多年间进行多边协作并持续努力，而下一阶段《削减战略武器条约》和《全面禁止核试验条约》的国会批准将对此起到正面作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The Netherlands, which is popularly believed to have legalized cannabis use along these lines, has in fact tolerated only small-scale retail sales of marijuana in a limited number of coffee shops in its larger cities.",
        "一直被人们视为大麻合法国度的荷兰实际上只允许在其大城市的有限几个咖啡店中小规模地销售大麻。"
    ],
    [
        "A more muscular response will require an awareness of the nature of the challenge and a willingness to meet it by investing heavily in key areas – particularly education, health care, and infrastructure.",
        "更有力的应对需要认识到挑战的性质，并愿意通过大力投资于关键领域面对挑战——特别是教育、医疗和基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "Given absorption constraints, capital efficiency has been falling steadily amid increasing deadweight.",
        "拜吸收约束所赐，资本效率随着资本规模的增加而稳步下降。"
    ],
    [
        "But the British broke their word, and nationalists had nothing for which to thank India’s soldiers.",
        "但英国人却自食其言，民族主义者也没有理由对印度士兵感恩戴德。"
    ],
    [
        "In Yugoslavia, Slovenes, Serbs, and Croats managed to carve out independent republics, but the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina were less successful, and were subjected to a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” by both Croatian and Serb forces.",
        "在南斯拉夫，斯洛文尼亚人、塞尔维亚人和克罗地亚人成功地建立了独立的共和国，但波黑穆斯林就没有那么成功，还遭到了克罗地亚和塞尔维亚力量的“种族清洗”运动。"
    ],
    [
        "In the process, it threatens to lower the value of licenses just as surely as any official decision to issue new licenses would.",
        "在这个过程中，它对牌照贬值的威胁就跟任何政府发放新牌照的决定一样真切有效。"
    ],
    [
        "While an AI system might be able to recognize a limited range of emotions in someone’s vocabulary, intonation, pauses, or facial expressions, it will never be able to match an appropriate human response.",
        "AI系统或许能够从人的用语、声调、停顿和表情中识别有限的感情，但它不可能匹配合理的人类反应。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1978, China’s newly installed leader, Deng Xiaoping, viewed Singapore as living proof of the superiority of capitalism over communism.",
        "1978年的时候，刚刚成为中国领导人的邓小平把新加坡看成是资本主义超越共产主义的一个活生生的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Basel III treats all OECD government bonds in the same way, regardless of whether they are denominated in the issuing country’s own currency.",
        "事实上，巴塞尔II对所有经合组织政府债券一视同仁，不管是不是用发行国自身的货币计价。"
    ],
    [
        "Russian private and state-owned companies have already invested abroad extensively, often buying stakes in large foreign companies.",
        "俄罗斯私营和国有公司在国外已经进行了广泛的投资，这些投资通常是购买外国大公司的股份。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a report in October showing that the national unemployment rate remained “essentially unchanged at 7.9%,” Republican operatives sought to discredit the highly respected BLS.",
        "当劳工统计局发布的10月报告显示全国失业率维持“7. 9%基本不变”时，共和党开始炮轰信誉卓著的劳工统计局。"
    ],
    [
        "An April 2011 opinion poll found Trump leading all GOP presidential contenders for 2012, with especially strong backing from Republicans who firmly believed that Obama, as Trump insisted, had not been born in the United States, as the US Constitution requires.",
        "2011年4月的民意调查显示特朗普在2012年的共和党总统候选人中遥遥领先，那些坚信奥巴马并未像美国宪法所要求的那样出生于美国的共和党人（就像特朗普一直坚持的那样）是特朗普特别坚定的支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "But much greater flexibility is advisable in other areas, including commitments to refugee re-allocation and eurozone rules, where excessive rigidity could cause European unity to buckle and snap.",
        "但其他领域可以追求更大的灵活性，包括承诺重新分配难民和欧元区规则，在这些方面过于僵化可能导致欧洲团结崩溃。"
    ],
    [
        "Although fiscal deficits are temporarily down, the combination of population aging and higher future interest rates will cause the national debt to rise faster than GDP by the end of the decade.",
        "虽然财政赤字是暂时减少了，但人口老龄化和未来高利率的双重作用会导致2020年前国债增速超过GDP增速。"
    ],
    [
        "While it faced a broadly similar economic contraction for a couple of years, growth has recovered robustly, and now far outpaces that of Greece.",
        "尽管它在好几年的时间里面临大体相同的经济萎缩局面，但增长已经强劲恢复，现已超越希腊。"
    ],
    [
        "· Exploiting technology: Syrians are generally literate, numerate, and technologically sophisticated.",
        "· 利用技术：叙利亚人大多识字、会计算，有技术胜任力。"
    ],
    [
        "What do we learn from this example?",
        "我们从这些事例中学到了些什么呢？"
    ],
    [
        "They can be successfully cultivated around the world, using whatever insects are available to pollinate them.",
        "它们可以在世界各地成功培育，利用各种现有昆虫授粉。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly 90% of the 12-month surge in the CSI 300 was concentrated in the seven months following the start of cross-border investment flows via the so-called Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect in November 2014.",
        "沪深300指数过去12个月的大涨中有90%的涨幅集中在2014年11月所谓的沪港通开始、引来大规模跨境资本流之后的七个月。"
    ],
    [
        "But America’s large fiscal deficit, along with continuing uncertainty about its financial markets, mean that the dollar is also potentially vulnerable.",
        "但另一方面，美国还背着巨额赤字，外加金融市场长期处于不确定性，意味着美元也可能很脆弱。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent studies have shown that when “generalized trust” in society is high, economic performance is improved and life satisfaction is higher.",
        "最近的研究表明社会“一般信任度”高可以改善经济表现、提高生活满意度。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, branded products, into which producers have sunk major investments in securing the market, have prices that are much stickier and do not reflect the effects of monetary policy as rapidly.",
        "相反，就具有品牌的产品而言，由于生产商投入了大量成本以巩固市场，这个市场的价格就不会那么快地反映货币政策的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany would do well to remember that it has benefited from debt write-downs three times in its history.",
        "德国应该好好想想其历史上三次大大受益于债务减记的经历。"
    ],
    [
        "On that front, too, America has been falling behind.",
        "美国在这方面也已经落后。"
    ],
    [
        "Perjanjian perdagangan internasional hanya mempunyai manfaat terbatas untuk memperbaiki kegagalan di dalam negeri tersebut, dan terkadang mereka justru memperparah kondisi yang sudah ada.",
        "国际贸易政策对于纠正这些国内政策失灵的作用有限，有时还会放大这些失灵。"
    ],
    [
        "In April, only 40% of Democrats gave her high marks for being honest and trustworthy, and only 50% of Democrats rated her favorably overall.",
        "今年4月，因为诚实守信给她打高分的民主党人仅有40%，而且仅有50%的民主党人认为她总体而言是讨人喜欢的。"
    ],
    [
        "The last time that Israeli elections were so obviously affected by violence was in 1996, when polling results shifted wildly in the run-up to the vote, finally allowing Netanyahu a razor-thin win over acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres.",
        "上一次以色列选举如此明显地受到暴力影响是在1996年。 当时，在投票前夕民意测验的结果大幅度摇摆不定，最后让内塔尼亚胡险胜代理总理佩雷斯。"
    ],
    [
        "Sanctions should be a tool of diplomacy, not the other way around.",
        "经济制裁应当作为一种外交工具，而不是反过来。"
    ],
    [
        "Europeans have a shared appraisal of many of the world’s problems, and often put forward common methods and strategies for coping with them.",
        "对许多世界性问题欧洲人往往都会作出一致的评价，并经常采取相同的方法和战略来处理这些事情。"
    ],
    [
        "For countries that lose market access, the approach of providing aid on the basis of strong conditionality is justified.",
        "对于那些无法从市场融资的国家，在某些满足硬性条件下提供援助的做法是合理的。"
    ],
    [
        "DAVOS – In many parts of the world, young children grow up surrounded by technology.",
        "达沃斯——世界许多地方，孩子们的成长都被技术所包围。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to kick-start progress, ECB President Mario Draghi has proposed a grand policy bargain to European governments: if they implement structural reforms and improve fiscal flexibility, the central bank will expand its balance sheet to boost growth and thwart deflation.",
        "为了启动增长，欧洲央行主席马里奥·德拉吉（Mario Draghi）向欧洲各国政府推出了一个庞大的政策交换条件：如果后者能实施结构性改革并改善财政灵活性，中央银行将扩大自身的资产负债表去促进增长及遏制通缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Andrew Wakefield first claimed that there was a relationship between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism in 1998.",
        "1998年，安德鲁·威克菲尔德（Andrew Wakefield）首次宣称麻疹、流行性腮腺炎和风疹疫苗与孤独症存在关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece's experience highlights a truth about macroeconomic policy that is too often overlooked: The world is not dominated by austerians; on the contrary, most countries have trouble balancing their books.",
        "希腊的经验彰显出一个常常被忽略的宏观经济政策真相：世界不是由紧缩派主宰的； 相反，大部分国家都存在平衡报表的麻烦。"
    ],
    [
        "That is, an uncertain outcome is worth less than the average of the outcomes. Because the possible outcomes of global warming in the absence of mitigation are very uncertain, though surely bad, the uncertain losses should be evaluated as being equivalent to a single loss greater than the expected loss.",
        "因为如果不执行减排政策可能会给全球变暖带来怎样的结果存在很大的不确定性，尽管肯定会很糟糕，这种不确定的损失其价值应该被认为等同于比预期的损失要高的单一损失。"
    ],
    [
        "A decade of wage growth exceeding productivity gains led to real appreciation, loss of competitiveness, and large current-account deficits.",
        "十年以来，工资上涨快于生产力增长，导致本币实际贬值、出口竞争力下降和大额的经常项目赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "Concretely, this means that, instead of generalized social protection, each citizen would have a lifelong individual budget of support and security, while requiring that eligible recipients show initiative in determining how to adapt.",
        "具体而言，这意味着每个公民将无法获得一般化的社会保护，而是有一个终身个人支持和安全预算，同时，合格的公民应该自发决定如何调整。"
    ],
    [
        "Until Byrnes’ “Speech of Hope,” the Allies were committed to converting “…Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in character.”",
        "在拜恩斯发表《希望的演讲》之前，同盟国承诺将“德国改变为以农牧业为主的国家。 ”这是美国财政部长小摩根索（Henry Morgenthau Jr."
    ],
    [
        "Knowing this, larger and richer countries may be reluctant to take precautionary measures, as this would reward and thus encourage “free riding.”",
        "大国和富国知道了这一点就会不愿意采取预防性措施，因为这样就会提供奖赏并鼓励“免费搭车”。"
    ],
    [
        "Forget about subsidizing inefficient technologies or making fossil fuels too expensive to use. Instead, let’s fund the basic research that will make green energy too cheap and easy to resist.",
        "不要再试图补贴低效率的技术或者尝试提高化石能源的价格，反过来，让我们去资助那些有助于令绿色能源更廉价，更让人难以抗拒的基础研究吧！"
    ],
    [
        "Officially, the Pentagon does not direct the concept of “Air-Sea Battle” against any particular country.",
        "五角大楼从未正式将“空海战”概念针对某个特定国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Kenya, for example, depends on heavy fuel oil and diesel for 21% of its electricity; the comparable figure in Senegal is a whopping 85%; and some island states use imported diesel for all of their electricity needs.",
        "塞内加尔的可比数据更是高达85%； 某些岛国全部电力需求完全依靠进口柴油来满足。"
    ],
    [
        "The risks are arguably highest on Asia’s crowded coastlines, where millions of people are exposed to flooding.",
        "亚洲拥挤的海岸线可以说风险最大，那里有成百上千万民众面临着洪灾的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "I felt, yes, in certain ways, free.",
        "是的，从某些方面来说，我有了自由感。"
    ],
    [
        "Malthus, Marx, and Modern Growth",
        "马尔萨斯、马克思和现代增长"
    ],
    [
        "What’s Wrong With Turkey?",
        "土耳其的问题何在？"
    ],
    [
        "These arrests, which shocked many Indians, would not have been possible without the loose wording of the law.",
        "逮捕他们震惊了很多印度人，要不是这条法律用词过于宽泛，他们根本不会被捕。"
    ],
    [
        "Stand with us.",
        "和我们站在一起吧。"
    ],
    [
        "Swensen has written two books about investing, one for professionals and one for the general public.",
        "斯文森写了两本有关投资的书，一本用于专业人士，另外一本用于普通读者。"
    ],
    [
        "None of the emerging powers has even begun to use its growing political and economic clout to advance truly global ambitions – or to take on responsibilities that Washington can no longer afford.",
        "没有一个新兴大国甚至已开始利用其日益增长的政治和经济影响力来推进他们真正的全球目标-或承担美国再也承担不起的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "It would not even be the first time Israel frustrated Saudi Arabia’s expectations of an intervention.",
        "这甚至不是第一次以色列让沙特阿拉伯所期望的干预落空。"
    ],
    [
        "This may enrich negotiations; but it also complicates and prolongs the process considerably.",
        "这也许能让谈判更丰富； 但也大大复杂和延长了谈判过程。"
    ],
    [
        "What is certain, however, is that 2013 will be defined in a fundamental way by whether military action against Iran occurs or is averted.",
        "但有一点可以肯定，那就是能否避免对伊朗采取军事行动将对2013年做出最根本的定义。"
    ],
    [
        "Still, I am not sure that there is sufficient appreciation of some of the underlying problems facing the global economy, without which the current global recession is unlikely to give way to robust growth – no matter how good a job the Fed does.",
        "不过，我还不能肯定人们对全球经济所面临的一些基本问题有足够的理解，没有这一点，目前的全球经济衰退是不太可能给强劲的经济增长让路的-无论美联储的工作做得有多么出色。"
    ],
    [
        "But would it be a better model of atmospheric administration?",
        "然而这是太空管理的一种更好的模型吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Their biggest and most compelling challenge is to meet citizens’ basic needs.",
        "他们最大且最要紧的问题是如何满足民众的基本需要。"
    ],
    [
        "How this was to produce full employment was never worked out.",
        "”这就凸显出政府在其中的重要性，这也是左派思想的重要观点。"
    ],
    [
        "Eurozone leaders must now aim to preserve not only the single currency, but also the gains from financial integration in Europe.",
        "现在，欧元区领导人必须不仅要捍卫单一货币，而且还要捍卫欧洲金融一体化所带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, 60% of planned coal-fired power plants will be built in water-stressed regions.",
        "在中国，60%的规划燃煤电厂将建于水资源紧缺地区。"
    ],
    [
        "Macron’s eurozone-reform plans will be the biggest bone of contention.",
        "马克龙的欧元区改革计划是整个拼图中最大的一块。"
    ],
    [
        "Without a strong civil society or an independent judiciary to check government power, Chinese leaders have, on many occasions, made catastrophic errors in judgment.",
        "在没有强大的公民社会和独立司法来制衡政府权力的情况下，中国领导人多次犯下灾难性的判断错误。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – China’s current economic woes have largely been viewed through a single lens: the government’s failure to let the market operate.",
        "美国剑桥—人们常常用单路思维看待中国当下的经济颓势：政府没有让市场运转起来。"
    ],
    [
        "They must band together behind the simple but powerful goal expressed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the General Assembly in New York: “We will build again, but this must be the last time to rebuild.”",
        "他们必须团结在一个简单而强大的目标身后——用联合国秘书长潘基文（Ban Ki-moon）在纽约联合国大会上的发言讲，“我们将再次开始建设，但这次必须是最后一次重建。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "The deposit rate, too, was reduced once again, and now stands at -0.4%.",
        "存款利率也再次降低，目前为-0. 4%。"
    ],
    [
        "These agreements are hailed as great successes, and annual reports summarizing official statistics are published showing that the use of CFC continues to decrease.",
        "这些协议被誉为伟大的成功，公之于众的年度报告总结了官方数据并显示CFC的使用数量正在下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Why he did so is difficult to determine: quite plausibly, some combination of Lula’s realism, his reaction to stock-market declines attributed to his chances of being elected, and campaign donations was at work.",
        "很难去断定这种情况为什么会产生：很有可能这结合了卢拉的一些现实主义的想法。 他对股票市场落寞所做出的反应增加了他当选的机会，同时竞选募捐也起到了一些作用。"
    ],
    [
        "The effect has been staggering: aerospace manufacturing has almost disappeared from California, but is booming in Texas.",
        "其效果也令人惊叹：航天制造业在加州已近绝迹，但在德克萨斯却方兴未艾。"
    ],
    [
        "In Libya, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere, the hopes unleashed by the Arab Spring have similarly turned into an often-violent despair.",
        "在利比亚、叙利亚、也门和其他国家，阿拉伯之春所带来的希望也同样被充满血腥的绝望所代替。"
    ],
    [
        "For those countries that have already made the leap, the choices are more difficult.",
        "对于做出转变的国家而言，选择更为困难。"
    ],
    [
        "As that happens, billions of consumers will enter these countries’ middle classes, new social networks will evolve, and climate change will become a growing factor in global commerce.",
        "数十亿消费者将步入各自国家的中产阶级行列，新的社会网络正在演化生成，气候变化也在日益成为全球商业的重要影响因素。"
    ],
    [
        "The ACA has been changing that, by establishing myriad new incentives to foster efficiency in health-care delivery – for example, by reducing costly and unnecessary hospital infections and readmissions, and by adopting electronic health records.",
        "ACA改变了这一切，其办法是建立大量新激励提高医疗服务提供效率——比如降低昂贵且不必要的医院传染和再住院（readmissions）、采取电子病历等。"
    ],
    [
        "Every conceivable explanation has been given, usually focusing on what Africans do wrong.",
        "人们做出了能够想到的所有解释，这些说法都一味强调非洲人自身的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "That, too, is understandable: the new politicians shared the outlook of those who had promised that globalization would benefit all.",
        "这也不难理解：新政客与那些承诺全球化会令所有人受益的政客见解相似。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor does it mention the fratricidal political movements from the Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution.",
        "它也没有提及从大跃进到文化大革命期间相互残杀的政治运动。"
    ],
    [
        "When I first started asking my Japanese academic friends about Abe’s supply-side reforms, they said, “Don’t worry, they’re coming.”",
        "我第一次向我的日本学术界朋友询问安倍供给端改革方面的问题时，他们说：“不要担心，会来的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the same criticism can be directed at Sarkozy.",
        "但同样的批评也可以指向萨尔柯齐。"
    ],
    [
        "The IMF (and the World Bank) should welcome leadership from beyond Europe and the United States.",
        "IMF（以及世界银行）应该欢迎来自欧洲和美国之外的领导者。"
    ],
    [
        "But she has also been engaged with all of the other practical details of financial reform for as long as anyone – in part due to her experience as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).",
        "但她对金融改革其他实践性细节的了解也不亚于任何人——这部分是因为她曾是问题资产救助计划（TARP）国会监督委员会主席。"
    ],
    [
        "American trade agreements have been faulted for limiting themselves to trade.",
        "美洲贸易协议将美洲国家局限于贸易上，是有缺陷的。"
    ],
    [
        "One way to unite party factions is for the nominee to select his rival as his running mate.",
        "团结党内派系的一种方法是由提名人选择对手出任竞选搭档。"
    ],
    [
        "There are many similarities within and among countries in terms of the nature and causes of these local fiscal calamities.",
        "各国地方财政灾难的性质和成因有很多相似之处。"
    ],
    [
        "We note with satisfaction that the new US administration has not turned a deaf ear to responsible statesmen and scientists who are calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.",
        "我们注意到，对于那些有责任的政治家和科学家关于消除核武器的建议，新的美国政府已经不再充耳不闻。"
    ],
    [
        "Even today, with the eurozone’s essential players apparently convinced that they are out of the woods, national narrow-mindedness is experiencing a revival in the EU, and the desire for change seems to be slackening.",
        "即使在今天，欧元区关键成员仍显然认为自己在隔岸观火，狭隘的国家观念正在欧盟死灰复燃，变革的渴望似乎正在熄灭。"
    ],
    [
        "Piñera benefited from his own critical stance towards the military government, and from an electoral campaign that emphasized the liberal much more than the conservative aspects of his coalition.",
        "皮涅拉得益于他本人对于军政府的批评立场，同样得益于宣传其联盟自由面远多于保守面的竞选活动。"
    ],
    [
        "But, even today, countries spend $30 billion a year on fisheries subsidies, 60% of which directly encourages unsustainable, destructive, or even illegal practices.",
        "但是，即使在今天，各国每年对渔业捕捞的补贴高达300亿美元，其中60%直接用于鼓励不可持续的、破坏性的乃至非法的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The rapid growth in intra-European banking relations in the past decade was made possible to a large extent by the abolition of formal and informal barriers to foreign service providers.",
        "过去十年来，欧洲内部银行业关系的发展十分迅速，之所以如此，很大程度上要归功于废除了针对外国服务供应商的正式和非正式壁垒。"
    ],
    [
        "GUILDFORD – Muslim governments know that economic growth, military power, and national security benefit greatly from technological advances.",
        "吉尔福德——穆斯林政府知道经济增长、军事实力和国家安全利益在很大程度上受益于技术进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent research has shown that a belief that the economic system is unfair undermines both cooperation and effort.",
        "最新的研究表明，认为经济制度不公平的观点会同时影响合作和努力。"
    ],
    [
        "As with any therapeutic intervention, the most convincing and direct proof of the preventive efficacy of antioxidant supplements requires randomized, controlled clinical trials.",
        "在任何干预研究中，对于补充抗氧化剂的防治效果最有说服力和最直接的证据需要尽心随机和受控的临床试验。"
    ],
    [
        "But the Germans, undaunted by it all, simply keep celebrating one great soccer party with their newfound friends from all over the world.",
        "但是，德国民众对此毫无兴趣，只是继续和来自五湖四海新结交的朋友们一道庆贺这一足球盛会。"
    ],
    [
        "Flimsy ideas thrive in the absence of a viable alternative.",
        "没有其他可行方案才造成不可行的想法遍地都是。"
    ],
    [
        "And the story is similar in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea; in the 20 years after their per capita GDP were 21% of the US level, they grew at around 8%.",
        "台湾、香港和韩国也都类似； 在人均GDP达到美国的21%之后的20年，它们的增长率在8%左右。"
    ],
    [
        "SPZs could be created along the borders between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza. They should be more fully integrated than the JGIP, which depends on outside labor.",
        "这些特区可以沿着以色列和约旦河西岸及加沙地带之间的边界创建，并实现比依赖外来劳工的约旦工业园更为全面的整合。"
    ],
    [
        "A month ago, any prediction uttered with such certainty would have sounded imprudent, if not foolish. Uncertainty prevailed.",
        "倘若是在一个月前，任何如此言之凿凿的预测如果不被视为愚蠢的话，至少也是欠缺明智的。"
    ],
    [
        "While unemployment is significantly higher in sectors that were booming before the crisis, such as construction in the United States, it is more widespread, underpinning the view that greater demand is necessary to restore full employment.",
        "特别高的失业率固然集中在那些危机前的繁荣行业里，如美国的建筑业，但高失业率依然是更多行业的普遍现象，这也支持了必须以扩大需求重振就业的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "The Long March from the Third Plenum",
        "三中全会，长征的起点"
    ],
    [
        "In the twenty-first century, next door is everywhere.",
        "在21世纪，后门无处不在。"
    ],
    [
        "like a raisin in the sun?",
        "就像阳光下的葡萄干？"
    ],
    [
        "There is a school of thought that holds that commitment, not achievement, gives a policy credibility.",
        "有一个学派认为，承诺，而不是成就，让政策拥有信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "The other side in the negotiations also played class politics.",
        "在塞浦路斯救助谈判中，阶级政治也扮演着某种角色。"
    ],
    [
        "As societies consider their R&D strategies, they must find ways to coax their largest corporations into a more AT&T-like bargain.",
        "社会在思考研发策略的同时，必须想方设法促使大型企业更多采取像美国电话电报公司这样的行动。"
    ],
    [
        "Given these recent examples, there is clearly a need to prevent attacks – by state and armed non-state actors alike – on educational institutions and facilities.",
        "这些最近的例子表明，我们显然需要阻止针对教育机构和设施的袭击——通过国家和有武装的非国家行动方实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Khrushchev did not really know anything other than Communism.",
        "除了共产主义，赫鲁晓夫并不真正知晓其他什么东西。"
    ],
    [
        "In the hands of a leader who possesses wisdom and good character, it can strengthen the rule of law.",
        "在智慧和正直的领导人手中，它能够加强法治。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is how to keep surveillance off the slippery slope to unaccountable snooping.",
        "问题在于如何防止监控堕落为不受问责的恣意窥探。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – On the surface, at least, the situation in the eurozone today and South Korea in the fall of 1997 look very different.",
        "华盛顿——至少从表面上看，欧元区当前状况与韩国在1997年崩盘时截然不同。"
    ],
    [
        "If you take a step back from whatever biome you are in at the moment and look at the entire Earth and its forests through recorded history, you will see that the relationship between humans and trees looks Strangely Like War (the title of a recent book on forests by Derrick Jensen and George Draffan).",
        "如果你从你现在所处的任一生物群落区抽身，从历史记载上来看整个地球和它的森林，你会发现人类和树木的关系看上去奇怪地像一场战争（这是德里克·简森和乔治·德拉芬最近出版的一本关于森林的书名）。"
    ],
    [
        "The question is whether the government can follow through on its ambitious reform and development plans.",
        "”。 问题在于政府如何贯彻这一宏伟的改革发展计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Elections are either canceled or faked.",
        "选举要么被取消，要么舞弊。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, there are at least a half-dozen other global hot spots – some might be tempted to include the US Senate – that could trigger a major breakdown in world trade.",
        "与此同时，至少还有六七个全球热点可能引发世界贸易的瘫痪。 某些人还想把美国参议院包括进去。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2003, Europeans also needed to unite behind a common foreign policy, following the differences created by the intervention in Iraq.",
        "2003年，欧洲人同样需要共同的外交政策，以克服伊拉克干预行动所造成的分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "The primary problem is that conditions in individual EMU members may develop in such different ways that some national political leaders could be tempted to conclude that their countries would be better served by adopting a mix of policies different from that of the other members.",
        "主要问题是，单个的欧洲经济与货币联盟成员国国情的发展可能非常不同，以至于一些国家的政治领导人可能倾向于认为，他们的国家通过采取和其他成员国不同的各种政策，对国家更为有利。"
    ],
    [
        "But the poorest developing countries must not be left out in the cold.",
        "但是，最贫穷的发展中国家不应受冷落。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Historically, the term “fair trade” has meant many things.",
        "发自伦敦——在历史上，“公平贸易”这个词有着许许多多的含义。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that there has been some increase in female labor-force participation and in the number of tourists visiting Japan.",
        "好消息是女性劳动力参与率有所上升，访日游客数量也有所增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Iranian citizens had the right to elect their president, the candidates had to be vetted by the Council of Guardians, half of whom were picked by the unelected Supreme Leader.",
        "虽然伊朗公民有权选举他们的总统，但是候选人却必须接受宪法监护委员会的审查。 这个组织的半数成员是由不经选举产生的最高领袖来挑选的。"
    ],
    [
        "When the new industrial working class began to organize, governments defused the threat of revolution from below that Karl Marx had prophesied by expanding political and social rights, regulating markets, erecting a welfare state that provided extensive transfers and social insurance, and smoothing the ups and downs of the macroeconomy.",
        "当新工业工人阶级开始组织起来时，政府通过扩大政治和社会权利、监管市场、建立提供大规模转移支付和社会保险的福利国家、平滑宏观经济起伏等手段消弭了马克思所预言的革命的威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China officially considers several regions in Russia’s Far East to be only “alienated” from it.",
        "确实，中国官方认为俄国远东的几个地区只是从该国“分离”出去。"
    ],
    [
        "This critique has some truth in it, but is overblown.",
        "这一批评不无道理，但用力过猛。"
    ],
    [
        "Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid, said that, “We look forward to developing a new generation of students that is equipped to use the tools of the future.”",
        "迪拜统治者谢赫·穆罕默德·本·拉希德表示，“我们期待培养出有能力使用未来工具的新一代学生。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "For example, after China, India, and Pakistan began cracking down on illicit organ markets, many patients turned to the Philippines.",
        "例如，在中国、印度和巴基斯坦开始打击地下器官市场之后，许多病人转向菲律宾。"
    ],
    [
        "A prime example is Yahoo’s firing of Henrique De Castro in 2014.",
        "2014年，雅虎解雇恩里克·德·卡斯特罗就是一个典型的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "As a declared non-nuclear weapon state, Indonesia has always striven for nuclear non-proliferation - indeed, for a world free of nuclear weapons.",
        "作为一个宣布放弃研制和拥有核武器的国家，印度尼西亚一直在致力于防止核扩散的工作，以实现一个没有核武器威胁的安全世界。"
    ],
    [
        "Those who claim that contagion from a Greek exit would drag others into the crisis are also in denial.",
        "也有人认为希腊的退出将形成传染效应，将其他国家拖入危机，这种观点也是站不住脚的。"
    ],
    [
        "Free and fair elections may lead to the ascendancy of a president of Iran who wants to “wipe Israel off the map of the Middle East.” Or to a president of Venezuela whose intolerance of the business class causes jubilation in the streets, but emigration by those whose initiative is crucial for the welfare of the people.",
        "自由和公正的选举可能使想要“把以色列从中东版图上抹去”的伊朗总统登上宝座，也可能让嫌恶商人的委内瑞拉总统上台，虽然街上的人们对此欢呼雀跃，却导致身负人民福利重任的商人们仓惶出逃。"
    ],
    [
        "Though no single institutional investor can make a significant difference, hundreds of large investors holding trillions of dollars of assets certainly can.",
        "尽管单独看，每一家机构投资者都无法带来重大变化，但几百家大型投资者手中的数万亿美元资产一定可以。"
    ],
    [
        "Iran has sought to maintain its influence in the Levant (including in Lebanon and among some Palestinian groups) by providing material support to Assad.",
        "伊朗试图通过对阿萨德提供物质支持的方式来保持自身对地中海东部地区（包括在黎巴嫩以及一些巴勒斯坦团体中）的影响力。"
    ],
    [
        "But the modeling of these effects is an order of magnitude more difficult than in the case of tariff reductions.",
        "但对这些影响的建模比降低壁垒难不止一个数量级。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is just one paper; there is still a lot more to learn about our capacity to limit global warming.",
        "但这仅仅是一篇论文； 了解我们限制全球变暖的能力还有许多工作要做。"
    ],
    [
        "Better than Basel",
        "改善巴塞尔"
    ],
    [
        "Don’t you risk becoming, even if you are smart as hell, too much of a good thing?",
        "即使你绝顶聪明，这样的工作强度是不是也有点太过分了？"
    ],
    [
        "CORVALLIS, OREGON – In developed countries, most people take for granted that when they are sick, they will have access to timely diagnosis and treatment.",
        "科瓦利斯，俄勒冈州—在发达国家，大部分人认为得病时获得及时诊断和治疗乃是理所应当之事。"
    ],
    [
        "They are neither less safe nor less “natural” than other common foods.",
        "与其他普通粮食相比，它们既不“不安全”，也不“不自然”。"
    ],
    [
        "The Global Economy’s Stealth Resilience",
        "全球经济的隐秘恢复力"
    ],
    [
        "The promise of greater exchange of goods, services, and capital across the Pacific, as well as the creation of international standards (for example, for intellectual-property rights), is simply too appealing to ignore.",
        "加强商品、服务和资本的跨太平洋交换以及建立国际标准（如知识产权方面）的前景吸引力巨大，不容忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "Research shows that no more than 20% to 30% of Chinese exports to the US reflect value added inside China.",
        "研究表明，中国出口到美国的货物中，只有不超过20—30%体现了在中国获得的增加值。"
    ],
    [
        "Was it bad luck, miscalculation, or bureaucratic error?",
        "计算失误？ 还是政治错误？"
    ],
    [
        "Then, as now, there were differing perspectives on the cause of the global imbalances.",
        "当年同今日一样，在全球贸易不平衡这个问题上存在各种不同的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments have a very poor track record when it comes to answering this question.",
        "政府在回答这一问题上的历史记录实在糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "A final advantage of this solution is that it would be temporary.",
        "这一解决方案的最后一点好处是它会是临时性的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the experts’ concern is notable and healthy, because the belief that markets are always efficient can survive only when some people do not completely believe it and think that they can profit by timing the markets.",
        "但专家的担忧是值得关注的，也是健康的，因为市场永远有效这样的信念只能在有人不完全相信它并且认为可以通过市场择时获利时才正确。"
    ],
    [
        "The best that social science has to offer is in fact not much different.",
        "社会科学所能提供的最好东西实际上也没多大差别。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to decide whether the EU is a truly transnational undertaking or merely a vessel for inter-governmental arrangements.",
        "现在必须决定欧盟是真正的跨国机构还仅仅是政府间安排的承载者。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as cheap mortgage financing papered over the cracks of growing income inequality in the United States, cheap capital from the north accelerated Europe’s apparent economic convergence.",
        "正如廉价按揭融资糊住了美国不断增长的收入不平等裂缝，来自北欧的廉价资本加速了欧洲表面上的经济趋同。"
    ],
    [
        "We Europeans cannot afford the luxury of dismantling a high-value-added industrial sector in which we still have a real comparative advantage.",
        "破坏一个非常具有价值的工业部门，从这些工业部门中我们仍然有真正的相对优势，我们欧洲人无法承担破坏这个部门所引发的巨大损失。"
    ],
    [
        "As fiscal metrics become increasingly intricate, monitoring efforts will become ever easier to undermine.",
        "随着财政指标变得越来越复杂，监控财政行为越来越容易糊弄。"
    ],
    [
        "It has changed from a battle for accountability and reform to a clash between visions of open and closed societies, between a global consensus and policies still operating at the national, local, or even tribal level.",
        "它已经从问责和改革战争演变为开放和封闭社会愿景之间的冲突、全球共识与仍在国家、地方甚至部落层次运行的政策之间的冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the host of the 2000 summit was José Manuel Barroso, then Prime Minister of Portugal and current President of the European Commission, who has staked his presidency on the Lisbon Strategy.",
        "不幸的是，2000年欧盟峰会的东道主是当时的葡萄牙首相和现任欧盟委员会主席巴罗佐。 他将欧盟委员会主席的成败系于里斯本战略。"
    ],
    [
        "That particular piece of wisdom referred to the situation of companies in an economic crisis. But it can also be applied to countries and economies.",
        "”这一睿智的说法指的是公司在发生经济危机时的情况,但它同样也适用于指国家和经济体。"
    ],
    [
        "After nearly three weeks of complete stoppage of trains, the government caved in, and soon thereafter lost a general election.",
        "在几乎三个星期铁路几乎完全停运之后，政府屈服了，随后马上就在大选中败北。"
    ],
    [
        "We owe it to workers victimized by this recession to reinvent finance so that it works to enrich the real economy, instead of enriching only the financiers.",
        "我们亏欠因这场衰退而受到伤害的工人，有必要彻底改造金融制度，使之推动真正的经济发展，而不是仅让金融家中饱私囊。"
    ],
    [
        "Fossil-fuel producers promote carbon capture to allow them to keep their mines open and pumps flowing.",
        "化石燃料制造商大力推销碳捕捉技术，以使它们能够继续勘探开采作业。"
    ],
    [
        "That was not universally true – see Germany’s Angela Merkel – but it certainly was true in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and elsewhere.",
        "并非全部如此——德国的默克尔可以证明——但显然在美国、英国、法国和其他国家是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Renzi’s proposed reforms would, among other things, modernize the political system by disempowering the Senate (the upper house of Parliament).",
        "伦齐所提出的改革要通过削减参议院（议会上院）的权力实现政治制度现代化。"
    ],
    [
        "With a truly global right-to-food movement now emerging, the best is yet to come.",
        "随着真正的全球粮食权运动开始浮现，更大的成果还在后头。"
    ],
    [
        "But as the international community pressures Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to take stronger action to protect the Rohingya, it is also vital to address the long history of Islamist extremism that has contributed to the ethnic group’s current plight.",
        "但在国际社会施压缅甸实际领导人昂山素季采取更积极的行动保护罗兴亚人的同时，解决导致罗兴亚群体当前困境的长期存在的伊斯兰极端主义也很关键。"
    ],
    [
        "All these factors are not only part of China’s economic rescue package, but of Obama’s stimulus plan as well.",
        "以上所有因素不只是中国经济一揽子救助计划的组成部分，也可以在奥巴马的刺激计划里找到。"
    ],
    [
        "Our world is not only unbalanced, but endangered.",
        "我们这个世界非但不平衡，而且还处在危险之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, advocates of governance reform have rarely been right about the most effective approach.",
        "事实上，治理改革的提倡者对于最有效方针的砍伐很少正确。"
    ],
    [
        "While it is important to recognize the merits of inflation targeting, the misery index, too, has a role to play in helping us to assess the state of our economies – and the success of our policies.",
        "虽然有必要认识到设定通货目标的优点，但在评估我们自身经济状况以及政策的成败方面，痛苦指数也是有一定作用的。"
    ],
    [
        "But, beyond band-aid solutions for the deep injuries inflicted on Gaza, Palestinians’ biggest concern is to ensure that Israel’s attempt to split Gaza from the West Bank does not become permanent.",
        "但是，除了匆忙解决在加沙造成的深深创伤以外，巴勒斯坦人最大的担忧就是确保以色列把加沙同西岸分裂开来的企图不能得逞。"
    ],
    [
        "One of India’s more astute young commentators, Sreeram Chaulia, captures this heady exuberance well: “Every milestone in advanced rocket science,” he writes, “is a shot in the arm for national self-confidence, showing that India is headed for global leadership.",
        "印度嗅觉灵敏的年轻评论家查理亚（Sreeram Chaulia）犀利地捕捉到了兴奋情绪：“火箭科学的每一块里程碑，”他写道，“都是国家自信的兴奋剂，表明印度正在走向全球领袖的道路上。"
    ],
    [
        "This would mean that the EBRD could invest up to €10 billion annually over the next five years, enabling us to continue to fulfill our role, providing vital backing and financial support to Eastern Europe and the private sector.",
        "这就意味着欧洲复兴开发银行在未来5年内将能够每年平均投资100亿欧元来保证能够继续完成我们的目标，为东欧和私营行业提供必不可少的帮助和资金支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The vision for which Kim stands is bottom-up.",
        "金墉的观点是自下而上。"
    ],
    [
        "By making it easier for other countries to insist on their own special exceptions – for example, to the deficit and debt “requirements” established in the Maastricht Treaty – Brexit could pose serious problems for the EU’s future evolution.",
        "英国退出将使其他国家更容易坚持自己的特殊豁免权——比如免受马斯特里赫特条约中的赤字和债务“要求”约束——这可能给欧盟的未来发展造成严重问题。"
    ],
    [
        "He recently signed a lavish infrastructure bill that included, among other payoffs to political supporters, an infamous bridge to nowhere in Alaska.",
        "不久前他刚刚批准投入巨资兴建基础设施，其中包括一座臭名昭著的通往阿拉斯加偏远地区的大桥，作为对其政治支持者们的一项回报。"
    ],
    [
        "India could be graduating four or five times as many capable doctors as it does each year.",
        "印度有能力每年培养比现在多三四倍的医学毕业生。"
    ],
    [
        "Nuhu Ribadu, the respected former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has announced his intention to contest the presidency as the candidate of one of the opposition parties.",
        "备受尊敬的前经济与金融犯罪委员会主席努胡·利巴杜已经公开宣布将作为反对党候选人参加总统竞选。"
    ],
    [
        "Goodbye to the Dollar?",
        "和美元说再见？"
    ],
    [
        "First, fiscal and external-account balances are to be kept in check in order to ensure financial stability and sustain the common currency.",
        "首先，财政和外部账户平衡必须受到检查以保证金融稳定和维持共同货币。"
    ],
    [
        "It is very unlikely that Europeans will take to the streets to denounce the “essence” of the United States – what America is as much as what America does – as they did during the Bush era and even during the Clinton years.",
        "欧洲人几乎不可能走上街头去谴责美国的“本质”（即美国是什么和美国在干什么），而在布什时代甚至克林顿时代他们就这样做了。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, “banks should become more resilient and financially stable,” the consequences of which “should be seen in fewer bank failures and more consistent credit provision.”",
        "”因此，“银行恢复力应该会更强，财务应该会更稳定，”其结果“应该是更少银行会倒闭，信用供给更加连贯。"
    ],
    [
        "No, the problem with today’s Germanophobia is that, contrary to what the sorcerer’s apprentices who stoke it would have us believe, their behavior is not a sign of their opposition to the true fascism that lies on the horizon, but rather of their allegiance – and even contribution – to it. Why?",
        "不，今天仇德问题的实质恰恰背离了那些幕后操纵者的初衷，他们的所作所为绝非在反对初露端倪的真正法西斯主义的崛起，反而是为法西斯主义贡献和效忠。"
    ],
    [
        "The refugees’ flight from Syria and other war-ravaged countries comes up against legal regimes that are poorly adapted to cope with it.",
        "逃离叙利亚和其他战乱国的难民遇到了难以应对这一局面的法律制度。"
    ],
    [
        "To understand why, it helps to revisit the intellectual origins of the European Union.",
        "要理解为什么，不妨重新审视一下欧盟思想的起源。"
    ],
    [
        "Entrepreneurs are greedy by definition: if they were not, they would go bankrupt.",
        "贪婪是企业家的定义： 如果不贪婪，他们就会陷入破产的结局。"
    ],
    [
        "Achieving the third 90% (suppression of the viral load) depends mainly on whether AVR-treated individuals take the medications on schedule.",
        "实现第三个90%（遏制病毒量）主要取决于接受AVR疗法的个体是否按时治疗。"
    ],
    [
        "At the beginning of the twentieth century, Theodore Roosevelt was an activist leader, but he affected mostly timing.",
        "二十世纪初，老罗斯福是一位积极主义领袖，但他的影响主要是时机（timing）。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, however, less than 1% of the $68 trillion managed by pension funds, life insurance companies, and others are channeled toward infrastructure projects.",
        "但目前的情况是，由养老基金、人寿保险企业和其他机构所管理的68万亿美元资金中仅有不到百分之一流向了基础设施投资。"
    ],
    [
        "If one considers the issue of aid flows, one finds that though development aid rose in 2005 to $107 billion, most of the increase was geared towards “special circumstances,” such as debt forgiveness and for Iraq and Afghanistan.",
        "如果看一下援助资金的情况，我们会发现尽管发展援助在2005年增加到了1070亿美元，但是其中大部分增加的资金都是被安排给“特殊情况”的，比如债务免除以及援助伊拉克和阿富汗的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Notwithstanding his free-market principles, he appreciated the Soviet Union for its World War II sacrifices, its prideful nationalism, and as a counterbalance to other self-interested foreign powers (read: the US).",
        "尽管他信奉自由市场原则，但他也欣赏苏联为二战所做出的牺牲，欣赏苏联高傲的民族主义，以及苏联作为其他自利外（美）部（国）力量的制衡。"
    ],
    [
        "The historical record is clear: protectionism, isolationism, and “America first” policies are a recipe for economic and military disaster.",
        "历史的记录无比清晰：保护主义，孤立主义和“美国优先”政策是一条通往经济和军事灾难之路。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, the one thing today’s autocrats have in common with their totalitarian predecessors is contempt for the rule of law, both domestically and internationally.",
        "毕竟，今天的独裁者及其极权主义前辈们的一个共同点就是蔑视国内国际法治。"
    ],
    [
        "This certainly seems to be the market psychology in China and India, where rapidly rising incomes and newly successful people are widely expected to put pressure on markets for land, real estate, and construction materials.",
        "中国和印度无疑受到这种市场心理的左右，人们普遍认为那里快速增长的收入和飞黄腾达的新贵给土地、房地产和建筑材料市场带来了很大压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the leader of Britain’s Conservatives, David Cameron, startled more old-fashioned supporters of his party by saying that people released from prison “need, above all, love.”",
        "同样地，英国保守党领袖卡梅隆所谓从监狱里释放出来的人“最需要的是爱”的说法震动了他的党内更为古派的支持者。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, the Peoples Bank of China (PBoC) and other relevant authorities should consider capital controls, market suspensions, and emergency liquidity provision.",
        "相反，中国人民银行和其他相关部门应该考虑资本管制、暂时休市和紧急流动性注入。"
    ],
    [
        "This account simplified – and, in many ways, distorted – the historical record.",
        "”这样的说法简化——并且在诸多方面扭曲了——有记录的历史。"
    ],
    [
        "The island has been split for so long that generations have grown up with no idea of life on the other side.",
        "塞浦路斯岛已经分裂了太长时间，以致于几代人在成长过程中根本不了解另一方的生活状况。"
    ],
    [
        "The guidelines are an important step toward ensuring long-term economic growth.",
        "该意见是确保长期经济增长的重要一步。"
    ],
    [
        "Is this contracting in the light of our current fiscal pressures?",
        "很不幸，答案是否定的；"
    ],
    [
        "In the emerging economies, the share of wealth owned by the middle class is increasing, indicating a drop in wealth inequality.",
        "在新兴经济体，中产阶级拥有的财富比例在增加，这表明财富不平等性有所下降。"
    ],
    [
        "In this sense, the EU has already forged a new path, one that aims to expand democracy beyond the realm of the nation-state.",
        "从这个意义上讲，我们已经探索出一条新路。 这是一条扩大民主超越民族国家的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet there is no denying that the world has become too intricate for any simple, overarching theory to explain complex economic, technological, demographic, and environmental shifts.",
        "同时也无可否认，我们的世界已经变得极端复杂，以致无法用任何简单且高度概括性的理论去解释在经济、技术，人口构成以及环境方面的所发生的复杂转变。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the Czech and Polish governments were unable to answer fundamental questions about the costs and benefits of the deployment for Polish and Czech national security.",
        "其结果是，波兰和捷克的政府无法回答这一部署会给波兰和捷克的国家安全带来怎样的代价和利益这些最根本的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Even after the international community adopted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992, the fossil-fuel industry managed to block meaningful progress – to the point that, if serious action is not taken soon, the entire process could unravel.",
        "即使在1992年国际社会通过联合国气候变化框架公约（UNFCCC）后，化石燃料行业仍成功阻止了有意义的进展——乃至今天如果不迅速采取行动，整个过程都有遭到逆转的可能。"
    ],
    [
        "At a time when China’s assertive stance in the South and East China Seas is provoking anxiety among its neighbors – including Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Singapore – the Silk Road initiative has aroused significant geopolitical apprehension.",
        "中国在东南沿海的进攻姿态正在引起邻国的焦虑——包括日本、越南、菲律宾和新加坡——因此丝绸之路计划将带来巨大的地缘政治恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "“Nobody should believe that another half-century of peace and prosperity in Europe is guaranteed.",
        "“没有人能保证欧洲能迎来又一个和平而繁荣的50年。"
    ],
    [
        "That choice has pushed the country to the edge of bankruptcy, while fueling large-scale social unrest and political turmoil.",
        "这个选择让国家濒临破产，也助长的大规模社会动乱和政治动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "As for the EU, it must decide whether it wants to be a closed \"Christian club\" or an open and inclusive society, drawing strength from cultural and religious diversity.",
        "至于欧盟，它必须选择想成为封闭的\"基督教俱乐部\"，还是开放、包容的社会，从文化和宗教的多元性中汲取力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Business schools teach their students to capture the maximum surplus in the value chain by focusing on inputs that are difficult for others to provide while ensuring that other inputs are “commoditized” and hence cannot capture more than their opportunity cost.",
        "商学院教育学生，要获得价值链的最大剩余，可以将注意力放在其他人难以提供的投入上，同时保证其他投入被“商品化”，从而无法获得高于其机会成本的报酬。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece would have sunk or swum on its own.",
        "希腊必须得自力更生寻找生机。"
    ],
    [
        "In both Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, job creation was thought to be central to post-conflict peacekeeping efforts.",
        "在科索沃、波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那，后冲突维和工作的核心都是创造就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "This led some, like Sartre, to defend Stalin and the Gulag; others, like André Malraux, formed part of Charles de Gaulle’s government; and still others, somewhat later, became unconditional defenders of Israel and its policies.",
        "这导致某些人，比如萨特，积极捍卫斯大林和古拉格； 其他人，像安德烈·马尔罗，自愿供职查尔斯·戴高乐政府；"
    ],
    [
        "That is, German behavior would be a function of how France behaved toward its defeated neighbor.",
        "也就是说，德国的行为将是法国如何对待其战败邻国的结果。"
    ],
    [
        "As the Soviet Union steadily disintegrated, with virtually all of its 15 republics straining at the leash, Yeltsin gained the leadership of the largest – the Russian Federation – which placed him in a tactical alliance with independence campaigners in Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Georgia.",
        "在苏联逐步解体，在其十五个加盟共和国全都迫不及待的摆脱其束缚的过程中，叶利钦掌握了最大的加盟共和国—俄罗斯联邦的领导权，并和乌克兰，波罗的海诸国，格鲁吉亚的独立运动者建立起了战略联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "Most current projections of a shift in the global balance of power are based primarily on one factor: projections of countries’ GDP growth.",
        "大多数与全球权力均衡转换有关的预测都主要基于一个指标：对某国GDP发展的预测。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Vladimir Putin turned Russia’ parliamentary election into a referendum on himself – and won by a landslide.",
        "华盛顿--普京总统把俄国议会选举变成了对自己的全民公决，并且获得大胜。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, eventually the clouds over Europe will be resolved, though I admit that this does not seem likely to happen anytime soon.",
        "第三，最终，笼罩在欧洲上空的乌云会退去，尽管我也承认不会很快。"
    ],
    [
        "Governments are, rightly, taking action to prepare for this threat.",
        "政府正在采取恰当的措施应对这一威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "Intelligence and military support for both countries will be essential, as will enhanced efforts to help Jordan shoulder its massive refugee burden.",
        "对这两个国家的情报和军事支持至关重要，加强帮助约旦承担巨大的难民负担同样重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Major challenges remain.",
        "主要挑战依然存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Conditions in the US in the nineteenth and late twentieth centuries – or in North America and Europe and developing Asia, Africa, or Latin America – might differ; but the same economic models could be used to understand changing events and circumstances.",
        "十九世纪和二十世纪末的美国环境或许有所不同，北美和欧洲与发展中的亚洲、非洲或拉丁美洲的环境或许有所不同，但可以用同样的经济模型理解变化的事件和环境。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration fails to recognize these fundamental demographic and environmental challenges, that $800 billion of security spending won’t bring irrigation to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, and Somalia, and therefore won’t bring peace.",
        "布什政府没有意识到这些人口和环境方面的挑战，8000亿的安全支出不会给阿富汗、巴基斯坦、苏丹和索马里带来灌溉，因此也无法带来和平。"
    ],
    [
        "In these ways, academics enable knowledge to do maximum work at minimal cost to its recipients.",
        "学者们借助这些方式让知识以最小代价为受众创造最大的价值。"
    ],
    [
        "“The policy of reducing Germany to servitude for a generation, of degrading the lives of millions of human beings, and of depriving a whole nation of happiness should be abhorrent and detestable,” he wrote, “even if it does not sow the decay of the whole civilized life of Europe.”",
        "“抑制德国，让一整代德国人陷入奴役、让几百万人类丧失体生活、让一个国家被剥夺快乐的权利的政策必然是可恶可憎的，”他写道，“就算它不会让整个欧洲的文明进程倒退。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Privately owned newspapers, independent radio and television networks, trade unions, churches, professional societies, and other groups within civil society provide a bulwark against despotism.",
        "私人拥有的报纸、独立电台和电视网络、工会、教会、专业团体以及其他公民社会的团体为防止专制主义提供保障。"
    ],
    [
        "But, so far, virtually nothing has been done in this respect.",
        "但是，到目前为止，在这方面几乎毫无进展。"
    ],
    [
        "Then, at the start of 2010, the countries that had been muddling through divided into two groups: those where government credit was unimpaired continued to muddle through, while countries like Greece and Ireland, where government credit was impaired, had no choice but to pursue austerity and try to restore fiscal confidence.",
        "到了2010年初，当初得过且过的国家又分裂为两大阵营：信誉坚挺的国家继续得过且过，而希腊和爱尔兰等信誉受损的国家别无选择，只能勒紧裤腰带过日子，以重塑财政信心。"
    ],
    [
        "The right support would help traders in poorer countries to compete and integrate into global supply chains.",
        "恰当的支持有助于穷国贸易者竞争并融入全球供应链。"
    ],
    [
        "But this very political strength is precisely what both the Israeli and Palestinian governments lack.",
        "但是，以色列和巴勒斯坦政府缺乏的就是这一政治力量。"
    ],
    [
        "But, absent further analysis, the leadership vacuum becomes a catchall explanation.",
        "但是，如果不进行进一步分析，领导真空无非是一种万能借口。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – The prospect of a British exit from the European Union is well and truly upon us.",
        "马德里—英国退出欧盟的前景是实实在在的。"
    ],
    [
        "(Yes, there were a few laws about liability, but they played only an enabling role.)",
        "（当然，我们还是有一些关于可靠性的法律，但它们仅仅是扮演一个授权的角色。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "Others are becoming more likely and important.",
        "也有一些风险变得更加可能、更加重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, any collusion with Putin in Syria is likely to be shallow and short-lived.",
        "考虑到这一点，他与普京在叙利亚问题上的任何密谋都将是肤浅和短暂的。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a direct method is the wellspring of authoritarianism.",
        "这样直截了当的做法是催生独裁主义的源泉。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, we need stronger consumer protection for retail financial products, stricter disclosure requirements for new securities, and better-designed vehicles for hedging risks.",
        "比如，我们需要加强对零售金融产品消费者的保护，对新债券实行更为严格的披露机制，并且设计出更好的避险工具。"
    ],
    [
        "The loop has become calcified into a new mandate for the Fed, with other global policymakers becoming increasingly overt in referring to it.",
        "这一反馈环已经演变为美联储的一项新使命，其他全球决策者提及这一点时已经日益不加掩饰。"
    ],
    [
        "PRINCETON – Europe’s crisis is now poised at the moment that divides recovery and renewal from decline and death.",
        "普林斯顿— 眼下，欧洲危机进入了关键时刻，复兴和复苏还是衰退和死亡，马上就要见分晓了。"
    ],
    [
        "To this day, America’s homicide and imprisonment rates are several times higher than Europe’s.",
        "时至今日，美国的蓄意杀人罪和入狱率也比欧洲高出数倍。"
    ],
    [
        "But she was more right than wrong.",
        "但她是对的。"
    ],
    [
        "Hamas insists that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas does not have the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians, and that any deal he reaches with Israel is not binding.",
        "哈马斯坚称巴民族权力机构主席阿巴斯根本没有代表巴人谈判的合法性，因此他与以色列达成的任何协议都是无效的。"
    ],
    [
        "When crisis hit, however, the cost of the meltdown exceeded the companies’ equity and thus had to be socialized.",
        "但当危机袭来，熔毁所导致的成本却超出了公司的资产总值，结果只能由社会承担。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless and until German workers accept the need for greater flexibility in the face of global competition, export profits will continue to be invested abroad, reducing overall production costs – and reinforcing the bazaar economy at home.",
        "除非德国工人面临全球竞争而接受更大的灵活性的需要，否则，出口利润将会继续被投资到国外以便降低总体生产成本，并且增强国内的集市经济而并不创造更多的就业机会。"
    ],
    [
        "That historic role is at odds with reformers’ current responsibility to restore law and order to Iran’s urban areas.",
        "这一历史角色和改革者重塑伊朗城市地区法律和秩序的当前使命相冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is one glimmer of hope.",
        "然而我们还是有一线希望的。"
    ],
    [
        "This entails, first and foremost, abandoning the perception of a tradeoff between “building more cities” to accommodate rapid urban growth and “building cities right” to enhance social and environmental outcomes.",
        "这首先要摒弃在“建设更多城市”以适应快速城市发展和“合理建设城市”以提升社会环境效益之间不停地折衷权衡的思路。"
    ],
    [
        "Financial markets returned to their pre-hoax level.",
        "金融市场应声反弹至骗局前的水平。"
    ],
    [
        "No one doubts that Barroso is in an awkward position.",
        "没有人怀疑巴罗索处在一个尴尬的境地。"
    ],
    [
        "Until a few years ago, the one TV program most Mexicans turned to for political information was called The Morning Quickie, broadcast from 6-10 a.m.",
        "直到几年前，墨西哥最受欢迎的政治信息类电视节目还是早上6点至10点播放的《晨间电视新闻》。"
    ],
    [
        "They claim that constitutionalism and due process, if meticulously followed, reduce the government’s “flexibility” in devising ways to prevent terrorist attacks.",
        "他们宣称，如果完全遵守宪法主义和法定程序会降低政府在制定办法防止恐怖主义攻击上的“灵活性”。"
    ],
    [
        "Delivery problems abound in the war zones, but not everywhere.",
        "运送问题在战区存在，但并非处处存在。"
    ],
    [
        "Not a few policymakers in the US and in Europe have reacted with astonishment, or even annoyance, to these emerging democratic powers’ attempts to pursue their own agendas on the world stage.",
        "不少美国和欧洲政客对这些新兴民主强国在国际舞台上追求自身利益感到惊讶甚至有些恼怒。"
    ],
    [
        "The quick-tempered twins took issue with the reform treaty’s proposed voting system for the Council of Ministers, and then stole the limelight from papacy with their own homophobic declarations, proclamations that seem to exclude any possibility of integrating the EU’s Charter of Rights into Poland’s domestic law.",
        "这对性情急躁的双胞胎对改革条约拟议的部长会议的投票表决制度持有异议，然后用他们自己公开表明对同性恋的憎恨来把人们的目光从教皇统治制度中吸引过来，这种声明似乎排除了把欧盟基本权利宪章与波兰国内法律相结合的任何可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "The coming recession may stem their growth temporarily, but only slightly.",
        "即将而来的经济衰退也许能够暂时阻止其增长，但是程度轻微。"
    ],
    [
        "Tens of thousands died to hold democracy’s frontline in Vietnam, where foreigners now rush to invest their money.",
        "成千上万人为捍卫民主阵线在越南献出生命，而现在这个国家已成为外国人蜂拥而入的投资对象。"
    ],
    [
        "As elsewhere, Trump’s protectionism and national narcissism are sustained by the anxiety of those hit by the impersonal dark forces of the “market.”",
        "就像在其他地方一样，特朗普的保护主义和民族自恋主义恰恰以遭受“市场”黑暗势力无情打击者所产生的焦虑为土壤。"
    ],
    [
        "India can now wind down its polio-eradication campaigns, but still maintain its polio-free status.",
        "印度现在终于可以暂缓脊髓灰质炎根除运动，而无需担心脊髓灰质炎卷土重来。"
    ],
    [
        "It would be one thing if the high incomes of those at the top were the result of greater contributions to society, but the Great Recession showed otherwise: even bankers who had led the global economy, as well as their own firms, to the brink of ruin, received outsize bonuses.",
        "如果顶层的高收入来自更大的社会贡献，这倒也说得过去，但大衰退所展现的另外一幅图景：即使是银行家——他们毁掉了全球经济和所在公司——也获得了不菲的奖金。"
    ],
    [
        "Corsicans would love to be rid of France, and many Scots of Britain.",
        "许多科西嘉人想要从法国独立，许多苏格兰人想要从英国独立。"
    ],
    [
        "But the scientific and public-health communities must also step up and rethink how to manage diseases and handle water shortages in conflict environments.",
        "但科学界和公共卫生界也必须站出来反思如何在冲突环境中管理疾病和处理水短缺。"
    ],
    [
        "But ethics is not the icing on the cake; it is not merely an incidental addition to the global market economy.",
        "但是，伦理不是蛋糕上的糖衣； 它不仅仅只是全球市场经济的一个偶然附加。"
    ],
    [
        "That has helped move money.",
        "这在极大程度上强化了资金的流动。"
    ],
    [
        "The argument for Nord Stream 2 is that it will meet the EU’s growing demand for gas.",
        "提议兴建北溪二期的理由是这将满足欧盟不断增长的天然气需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The ocean is our planet’s life-support-system, keeping it healthy and productive.",
        "海洋是地球的生命支持系统，地球的健康和生产力全仰仗海洋。"
    ],
    [
        "Increasingly burgeoning populations in countries like Nigeria and Ghana imply a greater extraction of water resources for power generation.",
        "尼日利亚和加纳等国人口越发膨胀，意味着要加大抽取水资源用于发电。"
    ],
    [
        "The perceived threat of mass inflows of migrants and refugees from poor countries with very different cultural traditions aggravates identity cleavages that far-right politicians are exceptionally well placed to exploit.",
        "人们感受到来自文化传统截然不同的贫困国家的大批移民和难民涌入加剧了身份分化，而极右翼政客可以驾轻就熟地利用这样的现状。"
    ],
    [
        "They underestimate the extent to which such a concentration of online power corrupts, just as surely as all forms of power corrupt.",
        "他们低估了在线权力如此集中会产生怎样的腐败——完全不亚于任何形式的权力腐败。"
    ],
    [
        "Peaceful resolution of these conflicts requires giving China a role in the decision-making process, which implies that the US and China alike relinquish any desire for regional primacy.",
        "这些冲突的和平解决取决于能否在决策过程中给予中国发言权，但这意味着美中两国都必须放弃地区称霸的野心。"
    ],
    [
        "All 26 NATO nations are now, as an Alliance, working together to respond to the Iraqi government’s request for support: by training Iraqi security forces, by providing equipment, or by helping to fund NATO’s efforts.",
        "北约26国，作为一个联盟，现在正通力合作，通过培训伊拉克安全部队、为其提供设备以及帮助北约行动筹措资金，对伊拉克政府提出的支援请求做出反应。"
    ],
    [
        "If they were not sure whether there would be a market for the new model, few would assume these costs.",
        "如果它们不能确定新机型是否存在市场，就不会去承担这些成本。"
    ],
    [
        "Timidity of the type witnessed in the past five years will only increase the risks.",
        "过去五年所变现出来的谨小慎微只能让风险愈演愈烈。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, megabanks’ senior managers are not pressed to remove layers of opaqueness that shield their risk-taking from effective scrutiny.",
        "结果，大银行高层管理者并没有感到压力消除承担风险和有效审查之间的不透明的障碍层。"
    ],
    [
        "By supporting to such a degree two new EU members that are not part of EMU, the EU countries have demonstrated a much greater commitment to mutual aid than was thinkable only a few years ago.",
        "通过向两个尚未加入欧洲货币联盟的欧盟新成员国提供如此程度的帮助，欧盟国家表现出的互助责任感远比几年前人们可以想象的要大得多。"
    ],
    [
        "The departing commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, has claimed that defeating the Taliban was “neither feasible nor supportable.”",
        "即将离职的英国驻阿富汗部队指挥官Mark Carleton-Smith准将曾经说过击溃塔利班“既不可行也得不到支持”。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, what should banks do when, instead of keeping sub-prime mortgages on their books, monitoring their performance, and incurring capital requirements, they can securitize them advantageously (because the rating agencies have a stake in the business), avoid capital requirements, and profit from investors’ inexperience with such products.",
        "毕竟，当银行能够将次贷有利地证券化（因为评级机构也能从中获益），规避资本要求并利用投资者对这种产品的经验缺乏来牟利，而不用将次贷记录在账面上，监控其表现并招致资本要求时，它们会怎么做呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But, because euro membership precludes that option, financially sound Northern European countries would once again be called upon to help with European Central Bank loan guarantees and financial transfers, while tolerating the newly added eurozone members’ self-service with the printing press.",
        "但欧元区成员国身份排除了这一选项，因此金融坚挺的北欧国家将再次被要求帮助欧洲央行贷款担保和金融转移支付，同时容忍新加入的欧元区成员国开动印钞机满足自我的做法。"
    ],
    [
        "Just as in the US, public rage is somehow directed away from the rich bribe-givers and onto venal politicians.",
        "就像美国一样，公众的愤怒不知怎样被从行贿的富人身上转向了腐败的政客。"
    ],
    [
        "India’s Demonetization Disaster",
        "印度的废钞灾难"
    ],
    [
        "Terrorism is a serious issue, and it deserves to be a top priority of our intelligence, police, military, and diplomatic agencies.",
        "恐怖主义是个严重问题，它理应成为我们情报、警察、军事和外交机构的重中之重。"
    ],
    [
        "Subsidiarization is now the rule.",
        "子公司化才是现在的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, US markets were described as “deep, flexible, sophisticated, and by and large well-regulated.”",
        "事实上，美国市场被描述为“深度、灵活、成熟，总体而言监管良好。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "With so much currently staked on the market moving in one direction, it is worth contemplating the consequences if this happens again in 2015.",
        "如今，太多赌注都押在一个方向上，有必要思考一下这一幕在2015年重演会发生什么。"
    ],
    [
        "Credit growth, known in China as “total social financing,” grew at an annual rate of 13% in the fourth quarter of 2015 and again in the first quarter of this year – that is, double the rate of annual GDP growth.",
        "在2015年第四季度的信贷增长——在中国被称为“社会融资总量”——实现了13％的年化增长率——相当于全年GDP增速的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Today’s dynamic complexity, in which a science-based, fast-changing global economy makes so many more phenomena interdependent, prevents us from foreseeing the future through linear extrapolations of the past.",
        "今天，世界充满了动态的复杂性，基于科学、快速变迁的全球经济使得如此之多的现象互相交错，以至于我们无法通过根据过去的线性外推来预测未来。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s monetary policy reveals another layer of codependency.",
        "美国的货币政策揭示了另一层面的相互依存。"
    ],
    [
        "In China, for example, military planners developed a strategy of “unrestricted warfare” that combines electronic, diplomatic, cyber, terrorist-proxy, economic, and propaganda tools to deceive and exhaust US systems.",
        "比如，中国军事规划者发展出一种“超限战”战略，利用电子、外交、网络、恐怖主义代理、经济和宣传工具欺骗和疲惫美国的系统。"
    ],
    [
        "Mario Monti is the twenty-first-century descendant of those nineteenth-century patriots who argued for the economic necessity of national unity.",
        "蒙蒂是19世纪爱国者在21世纪的翻版，他们认为经济是民族统一的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, The Economist’s recent portrait of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti shows that Italy continues to be stymied by labor rules that make businesses reluctant to expand beyond 15 employees (after which it becomes hard for a firm to downsize).",
        "例如《经济学人》杂志最近对意大利总理马里奥·蒙蒂（Mario Monti）的描述就体现出意大利依然受到劳动法的制肘，使企业不愿雇佣超过15人以上（超过此数则难以缩减规模）。"
    ],
    [
        "AMSTERDAM – Western Europe’s small democracies have, on the whole, been exceptionally fortunate.",
        "阿姆斯特丹——总体而言，欧洲的民主小国极为幸运。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet a worrisome ambiguity clouds this verdict.",
        "不过令人担忧的不确定性依然笼罩着这一判断。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – The uncertainty generated by the United Kingdom’s recent vote to leave the European Union – which has sent shockwaves through global markets – has been dominating headlines.",
        "伦敦——最近英国投票脱欧所产生的不确定性已经严重冲击全球市场，而且一直牢牢占据着报纸的头版头条。"
    ],
    [
        "They must work with bureaucracies, which are naturally disinclined to have their efforts prioritized, lest they end up as anything less than number one.",
        "他们必须采取官僚的方式工作，自然，也就不愿意先努力，以免他们没有成为第一名。"
    ],
    [
        "I consider anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and prejudice against Christianity crimes against humanity, whose common values and ethical rules oblige us to confront and reject all forms of discrimination.",
        "我认为反犹太主义，仇视伊斯兰或是对基督教的偏见都是反人道的罪恶，而关于人道的共同价值观和道德准则都要求我们与一切形式的歧视作斗争。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, European demographic trends are a source of concern.",
        "与此同时，欧洲的人口趋势也值得忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, however, increasingly bad news is giving rise to serious doubts; dark clouds are hovering over the United States, in particular.",
        "但是，现在越来越多的坏消息引起人们对经济状况的严重怀疑； 特别是乌云笼罩着美国，尤其如此。"
    ],
    [
        "At St. George’s University, where I am President and CEO, we have the CityDoctors Scholarship program, whereby New York City students who receive full-tuition scholarships to medical school must return to practice in New York City’s public hospital system for five years after their training.",
        "在由我担任校长和CEO的圣乔治大学，有一个城市医生奖学金（CityDoctors Scholarship）计划，获得全学费奖学金的纽约市医学院学生必须在受训后回到纽约市公立医院系统执业五年。"
    ],
    [
        "These two cases – the dog that should have barked but did not, and the dog that barked for no reason – threaten the EU’s fundamental workings, which are based on a clear rulebook enforced vigorously by a strong Commission.",
        "这两个例子——该吠的狗不吠，吠的狗不该吠——威胁到了欧盟的基本运转，后者的基础是有一套明确的规则并由强大的欧盟委员会得力执行。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent call for talks with China on the issue confirm, the TPP is not off-limits to China – or to other Asian economies.",
        "但是，日本首相安倍晋三最近呼吁与中国就这一问题进行谈判，这表明TPP并未对中国——或其他亚洲经济体关死大门。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, it has remained largely unchanged, and it is the unemployment rate among skilled workers that is on the rise, doubling in the US and the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2012.",
        "相反，薪酬差距基本保持不变，增加的是高技能工人的失业率，2000—2012年，该指标在美国和英国增加了一倍。"
    ],
    [
        "And there’s more.",
        "还有其他因素。"
    ],
    [
        "And, after the natural cleaning products brand Ecover was petitioned by tens of thousands of angry consumers, the company quickly rolled back an experiment in which it used algal oil produced through synthetic biology in a laundry detergent.",
        "此外，在成千上万愤怒的消费者向天然清洁用品品牌艾克佛请愿后，该公司迅速取消了一项在洗衣粉中采用合成生物海藻油的试验项目。"
    ],
    [
        "This is important because it explains the pernicious trade deficits that Trump continues to rail against.",
        "这个问题很重要，因为它解释了特朗普一直大加鞭挞的罪恶的贸易赤字。"
    ],
    [
        "The insurgents in eastern Ukraine are fighting alongside Russian troops (bearing no insignias).",
        "乌克兰东部的叛军与俄罗斯军队（军服上没有标志）共同作战。"
    ],
    [
        "Perhaps the biggest risk posed by the wave of unrest concerns Rouhani’s planned economic reforms.",
        "或许，骚乱潮所带来的最大风险在于鲁哈尼的经济改革计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, as the renminbi’s internationalization continues at a steady pace, domestic liberalization should occur in tandem with deeper global integration.",
        "此外，随着人民币继续稳步国际化，国内自由化应该与更深的全球一体化并驾齐驱。"
    ],
    [
        "During an eight-nation 2007 African tour, Chinese President Hu Jintao made a point of meeting with Chinese businesses to stress the importance of corporate responsibility in their local dealings.",
        "在2007年访问非洲八国期间，中国主席胡锦涛在与企业界的会晤中强调了在当地开展业务时企业责任的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "That legal vacuum matters, because, as we now see in Greece and Puerto Rico, it can suck the life out of economies.",
        "正如我们在希腊和波多黎各看到的一样，这一法律真空将导致经济体丧失活力。"
    ],
    [
        "Some Western observers – and some Africans – have condemned China’s involvement on the continent as a new form of colonialism.",
        "一些西方观察者——以及一些非洲人——指责中国“染指”非洲大陆是新形式的殖民主义。"
    ],
    [
        "The BCHD has 70 staff and about 700 volunteers.",
        "BCHD拥有70名工作人员和约700名志愿者。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, China has launched its “Silk Road” initiative to create an economic zone that will favor its own priorities.",
        "为了应对TPP，中国启动了它的“丝绸之路”计划，试图建立一个有利于其自身重点的经济区。"
    ],
    [
        "I like to think that Jongen left the Bard conference politely discredited.",
        "我个人认为琼根在巴德学院被侮辱后礼貌的离开了。"
    ],
    [
        "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has shown no interest in negotiation, or even in listening to what anyone has to say about his reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and the long-range missiles needed to deliver them.",
        "朝鲜领导人金正恩没有表现出任何谈判兴趣，甚至不愿意听到任何人对他不顾后果追求核武器和发射核武器用的远程导弹置喙。"
    ],
    [
        "But that is what it will get unless sober heads prevail.",
        "但在头脑清醒之前他们是不会领会到的。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, no politician even dares to mention help for poor people.",
        "时至今日，甚至没有政治家敢于提起任何扶贫政策了。"
    ],
    [
        "The problems with both S&D and consensus decision-making at the WTO are not new, but they have long been ignored, allowing them to deepen.",
        "世贸组织的特殊和差别性待遇以及共识决策问题长期存在，却又一直被忽视以致不断恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "I asked myself similar questions when British Prime Minister David Cameron first asked me to lead the Review on AMR.",
        "以及全面采取措施的必要性。 英国首相戴维·卡梅伦最初邀请我领导《细菌耐药性上升评论》时我也曾经问过自己类似的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "They crave prestige.",
        "他们极其渴望获得威望。"
    ],
    [
        "With so much largesse to spread around, the government became a source of contracts with annuity-like earnings, which offered robust returns for those with political access.",
        "在如此大笔的支出之下，政府就成为了那些像养老金收益一样（轻易获得）的合同来源，这就为那些有政治后台的人提供了丰厚的回报。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, while the likelihood of an invasion threat is judged to be low, the Defense White Paper of 2004 argues that the SDF’s “most fundamental function” is to prepare for the worst, because sufficient defensive power cannot be developed overnight.",
        "例如，虽然遭受侵略的可能性被认为很低，但2004年国防白皮书还是辩称自卫队“最基本的职能”是预防最糟糕的事件发生，因为充分的自卫能力不能在一夜之间产生。"
    ],
    [
        "Anti-establishment movements and figures have been quick to seize on this frustration, using inflammatory and even combative rhetoric to win support.",
        "反建制运动和人物很快就抓住了这一不满，利用煽动性乃至战斗性言辞赢得支持。"
    ],
    [
        "(Full, and somewhat rueful, disclosure: one of my sons is a journalist at the Washington Post.)",
        "（带着一丝悲哀的充分披露：我有一个儿子在《华盛顿邮报》当记者。 ）"
    ],
    [
        "In cases like Greece, the creditors’ passion for structural reforms might be better directed at home – particularly toward improving financial regulation.",
        "在希腊的例子中，债权人的结构改革热情也许更应该引导向国内——特别是改善金融监管。"
    ],
    [
        "Yesterday, intelligence without power led to immense suffering.",
        "过去，掌握了智慧却没有权力的犹太人遭受了极大的苦难。"
    ],
    [
        "This is an important issue, to be sure, but the real question concerns the changes that Israel must undertake in exchange for this force being put in place and assuming the risk of such a mission.",
        "这当然是一个重要的问题，但是真正的问题在于以色列必须作何变化用来换取进驻部队以及为这一任务承担风险。"
    ],
    [
        "They see how countries like Denmark that maintained their own currencies have been forced to raise interest rates to defend their exchange rates when the United States Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are cutting interest rates.",
        "它们目睹丹麦这样维持本国货币的国家如何在美联储和欧洲中央银行降息的时候反而被迫提高利率来维持汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "By one contemporary estimate, there were more than 40 million refugees in Europe alone.",
        "据一项当代估算，光是在欧洲就有4,000万多难民。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, since as recently as 1980, most countries have experienced large declines in agricultural employment.",
        "事实上，自从不久前的20世纪80年代以来，多数国家已经出现了农业就业人数的大幅下降。"
    ],
    [
        "These opportunities exist because Thein’s government has been deliberately distancing itself from China, long the military regime’s patron and protector.",
        "这些与缅甸建交的机会之所以存在，是因为登盛政府一直故意疏远中国——它是军政府长时期以来的赞助人及保护者。"
    ],
    [
        "But banks facing possible liquidity problems – which the Fed wants to be able to borrow at 5.25% – are borrowing from the Fed itself at 5.75%, as are a few big banks that want more liquidity but don’t believe they could get it without disrupting the market.",
        "25%的利率进行借贷的银行，像一些希望获得更多的流动资金但是认为这样做可能会扰乱市场的大银行一样，正以5. 75%的利率从美联储借钱。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, incomes around the world would rise significantly from liberalizing more global trade in both goods and services.",
        "同样地，全世界的收入水平也会在解放更多的全球贸易货物和服务中得到显著增长。"
    ],
    [
        "And that, revealingly, is precisely what the eurozone has.",
        "而这正是欧元区的情形。"
    ],
    [
        "But when Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden, was asked, in his debate with his Republican counterpart, Sarah Palin, what proposals an Obama-Biden administration might have to scale back as a result of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, the only specific proposal he mentioned was the increase in foreign assistance.",
        "但是，奥巴马的竞选搭档拜登在与共和党副总统候选人佩林的电视辩论中被问到奥巴马和拜登政府如何削减开支来应付七千亿美元的华尔街救市计划时，他提到的唯一具体建议就是增加外援。"
    ],
    [
        "So technology is heightening the tensions that exist between the mechanics of a modern free society and the sense of a vast conspiracy against Muslims.",
        "因此，技术正在突出存在于现代自由社会的机制以及加害穆斯林的弥天阴谋之间的紧张关系之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Acting now means less spending in the long run.",
        "即时的行动意味着减少长期费用。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of America is in a nasty mood, and the language of compassion has more or less been abandoned.",
        "大部分美国人如今都怀着一种丑陋的心态，而同情和怜悯之心则被抛到了九霄云外。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, they have produced record increases in budget deficits, particularly during the terms of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.",
        "相反，他们制造了创纪录的预算赤字增量，特别是里根和小布什时期。"
    ],
    [
        "Free enterprise is now once again subordinated to the public sector.",
        "自由企业再一次被公共部门所压制。"
    ],
    [
        "More approaches like this – and concerted efforts to find markets or uses for surplus food – are needed.",
        "我们需要更多的类似行为以及共同寻找剩余粮食的市场和用途。"
    ],
    [
        "STANFORD – Economic news is grim all around the world.",
        "斯坦福—放眼全球，看不到经济方面的好消息。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a close associate of Erdogan in the AKP, pressed Turkey’s application to join the European Union.",
        "外交部长居尔是埃尔多安在伊斯兰正义和发展党内的亲密盟友，努力推动土耳其申请加入欧盟。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s leaders can, of course, react to events without much regard for Chinese public opinion.",
        "当然，中国领导人可以不必太过于担心中国大众的观点就可以对重大事件做出应对。"
    ],
    [
        "But some believe that there were downsides, too.",
        "但也有人认为这有利也有弊。"
    ],
    [
        "For those who know these two superb international macroeconomists, as I do, it is evident that these allegations should promptly be dismissed.",
        "对像我这样认识这两位大牌国际经济学家的人来说，显然这些指责应该立刻被打消。"
    ],
    [
        "While Germany Slept",
        "当德国睡着"
    ],
    [
        "So how many billionaires does it take to change a battery?",
        "那么，要多少亿万富豪才能改变一块电池？"
    ],
    [
        "Macron may be trying to achieve too much at once, but a more democratic, dynamic, and united EU is a prize worth fighting for.",
        "马克龙也许同时追求过多目标，但一个更加民主、更有活力、更加统一的欧盟值得为之奋斗。"
    ],
    [
        "In 1998, the price-earnings ratio in the US was 24, compared to a historical average of around 15.",
        "1998年，美股市盈率为24倍，而该指标的历史平均值只有约15倍。"
    ],
    [
        "These historically embedded norms and practices were only slowly superseded.",
        "但这类历史遗留下来的规范和实践也逐渐被缓慢取代。"
    ],
    [
        "Given this, free riders (those who enjoy the benefits of the good without investing in its provision) are likely to be plentiful.",
        "因此，免费搭车者（享受了公共品好处但并没有投资于公共品供给的人）可能会有很多。"
    ],
    [
        "Obtaining consent is a vital but often overlooked skill for doctors.",
        "获得同意的技能很重要，但常常被医生忽视。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Globalization is entering a new era, defined not only by cross-border flows of goods and capital, but also, and increasingly, by flows of data and information.",
        "伯克利—全球化正在进入新时代，其特征不仅包括跨境商品和资本流，也包括日益增加的数据和信息流。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, even as the Bush administration and some scientific contrarians pretend that there is no problem, US corporate leaders are seeking practical solutions.",
        "因此，即便是布什政府和一些与科学证明背道而驰的人仍在粉饰太平，美国的公司领导人们还是在寻求着切实的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Better economic outcomes mean empowering entire populations with better health, more education, longer life, and less vulnerability to challenges like natural disasters.",
        "改善经济成果意味着赋予所有人更强健的体魄、更优质的教育，更长的寿命和更强的战胜自然灾害能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Here in the US, we call it the Electoral College.",
        "而在美国，我们叫它选举人团。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than banding together, each new challenge has divided the EU into ever-smaller groups.",
        "新挑战无不将欧盟分裂为更小的团体，而不是将欧盟绑在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "And if the US (still the world’s largest economy) starts to sneeze again, the rest of the world – its immunity already weakened by Europe’s malaise and emerging countries’ slowdown – will catch pneumonia.",
        "而如果美国（仍是世界第一大经济体）再一次感冒，那么世界其他国家——免疫力已经因为欧洲的疲软和新兴国家的减速大卫削弱——恐怕又要的肺炎了。"
    ],
    [
        "In the unlikely event that circumstances change, Obama could step in as an active peacemaker, giving his trip to Israel historic significance as a turning point in Israel-Palestine relations.",
        "如果发生了环境变化这一不可能事件，奥巴马可以以积极和平缔造者的姿态介入，他的此次以色列之行将具有历史意义，成为以巴关系的转折点。 比如，以色列民意可能因耶路撒冷演讲而被激发起来，支持和平；"
    ],
    [
        "It is this feature of populism – the idea that the people want only one thing, and that only true representatives can give it to them – that explains a symmetry (often evoked, but seldom spelled out) between populism and technocratic government.",
        "正是民粹主义的这种特点——相信民众只有一种愿望，且只有唯一的真正代表可以实现他们这个愿望——能够解释民粹主义和技术官僚政府间（常被提起，但却鲜有说明）的近似之处。"
    ],
    [
        "The low-interest-rate environment has also caused lenders to take extra risks in order to sustain profits.",
        "低利率环境还让贷款人为了保持利润而承担过多风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Like so many modern tools, Watsi encourages a short-term, emotional approach to the state of the world.",
        "和许多现代工具一样，Watsi鼓励短期的、情感的观点看待世界的状态。"
    ],
    [
        "Over the past three decades, the US has been able to grow at an average annual rate of around 2.5%.",
        "在过去三十年中，美国能够以平均每年2. 5%的速度增长。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is Park who has so far stimulated the greatest interest.",
        "但最令人感兴趣的还是朴槿惠。"
    ],
    [
        "The state is also the final arbiter of law.",
        "国家也是法律最终的裁判者。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it had appeared to do so – at least for those who did not suffer from legal discrimination or its legacies – for the entire post-WWII era.",
        "毕竟，在整个二战后时代便是如此——至少对那些未受法律歧视（及其遗留伤害）者是如此。"
    ],
    [
        "Specific guidelines and rating methods need to be developed.",
        "我们需要开发具体的指导原则和评级方法。"
    ],
    [
        "America no longer qualifies, if it ever did, as a “hyper power,” to use former French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine’s term, though it is still far from being a “normal” power.",
        "美国不再是法国前外长维德林所称的“超级强国”，尽管它还远远不是“正常”国家。"
    ],
    [
        "This feeling has deeply troubled its leaders and filled its people with a sense that, despite all their economic progress, their proper place in the world was not only eluding them, but being denied to them by the endless criticism of the so-called “developed world.”",
        "这一感觉让中国领导人难受，也让中国人感到，尽管他们取得了经济进步，但是他们的国际地位不仅还是差强人意，而且还让所谓的“发达国家”没完没了地批评，根本就没有得到什么应有的地位。"
    ],
    [
        "Murder sprees are more often than not a form of personal revenge – losers wishing to blow up the world around them, because they feel humiliated or rejected, whether socially, professionally, or sexually.",
        "杀人狂往往都是某种形式的个人复仇——这些失意者们希望让附近的世界领教一下自己的厉害，因为他们感到——不管是在社会生活，工作中还是性方面——被侮辱或者被排斥了。"
    ],
    [
        "Three decades ago, it was Wal-Mart using computers and logistics to wipe out small “mom and pop” stores; today, it is Amazon taking on Wal-Mart.",
        "三十年前，沃尔玛用电脑和物流横扫“夫妻店”； 如今，轮到亚马逊颠覆沃尔玛。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – At their meeting in Rome last Thursday, the leaders of the eurozone’s four largest economies agreed on steps towards a banking union and a modest stimulus package to complement the European Union’s new “fiscal compact.”",
        "伦敦—在上周四的罗马会议上，欧元区四大经济体领导人就迈向银行联盟和温和刺激方案以补充欧元区新“财政契约”的步骤达成了一致。"
    ],
    [
        "Most recently, a “Pizzagate” subreddit hosted conspiracy theorists claiming that Hillary Clinton ran a child pornography ring out of a pizza restaurant in Washington, DC.",
        "最近，在一个名叫“Pizzagate”（披萨门）的版面上，有人发出阴谋论的帖子，说希拉里·克林顿（Hillary Clinton）借一家华盛顿的披萨店做儿童色情生意。"
    ],
    [
        "Given the shift in global power and the prospect of US energy self-sufficiency as domestic hydrocarbon output booms, America is trying to adapt its foreign policy to the new multi-polar international order.",
        "全球实力正在发生变迁，美国也因国内碳氢化合物产量增加而走向能源自给，在这样的背景下，美国将调整外交政策，以适应新的多极国际秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "You cannot really know who is right, and you could all be wrong.",
        "你们无法知道谁对谁错，错的完全可能就是你们。"
    ],
    [
        "With the current recovery in real GDP on a trajectory of 2.3% annual growth – two percentage points below the norm of past cycles – it is tough to justify the widespread praise of QE.",
        "当前，真实GDP复苏每年大约在2. 3%——比过去周期的正常水平低两个百分点——很难认为对量化宽松的普遍赞扬理所应当。"
    ],
    [
        "The yen and the Deutschemark emerged as new potential reserve currencies, although the Japanese and German governments and central banks were profoundly worried about this new role for their currencies and the volatility that it might entail.",
        "日元和德国马克崛起为潜在的储备货币，尽管日本和德国的政府和央行对其本币的新角色颇感惶恐，因为这一角色可能意味着很强的波动性。"
    ],
    [
        "Water has a cost, and someone, either end-users or taxpayers, has to pay it.",
        "水资源有成本，不管是最终用户还是纳税人，反正水资源的成本需要有人来承担。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of seeking a new, disruptive framework to replace current data and analytical techniques, we should focus on making thoughtful, incremental changes to the existing system.",
        "我们应该专注于对现有的系统进行深思熟虑的、渐进性的改变，而不是寻求一个新的、破坏性的框架来取代当前的数据和分析技术。"
    ],
    [
        "When I had the honor of chairing the Global Commission on Internet Governance, our 2016 report highlighted these risks, and called for “a new Social Compact” to ensure that the Internet of the future will be accessible, inclusive, secure, and trustworthy.",
        "我曾经有幸主持互联网治理全球委员会，我们的2016年报告强调了这些风险，并提出制定“新的社会契约”来确保互联网的普及性、包容性、安全性和可靠性。"
    ],
    [
        "Elected leaders in these countries face institutional constraints – parliaments that check the powers of the executive and courts that check the powers of both – on their ability to shape policy.",
        "这些国家的当选领导人制定政策能力面临机制限制。 这些限制包括制衡行政的议会以及制衡前两者权力的法院。"
    ],
    [
        "This means that whatever solution ultimately prevails will be measured according to whether it can solve the economic crisis (particularly the lack of job opportunities for the young) and deepening mass poverty.",
        "这意味着最终什么解决方案会胜出将通过该方案是否能解决经济危机（特别是年轻人就业机会不足的问题）和不断深化的大规模贫困问题来衡量。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, to cultivate bio-fuels on land that would otherwise be used to produce sustainable construction materials would drive up the prices of these materials and encourage their substitution by non-sustainable materials like concrete and steel.",
        "同样地，将本来应该出产可持续的建筑材料的土地用于生产生物燃料会推高这些建筑材料的价格，并且使人们转而使用像水泥和钢材这些不可持续的材料。"
    ],
    [
        "But audacity in the quest for peace, as demonstrated by Yitzhak Rabin and Barak himself in the past – and as Dayan demonstrated as a negotiator with Egypt– is no sign of weakness.",
        "但大胆要求和平——如拉宾和巴拉克本人曾经显露过的，以及达杨在作为与埃及谈判者时所表现的——并不是示弱。"
    ],
    [
        "My visit to the dentist last week, for example, was far superior to my childhood visits.",
        "比方说我上周去看牙医就比童年时的经历好了许多。"
    ],
    [
        "Their campaign has been more coordinated and intense than last time, with the aim of mobilizing the maximum number of supporters and ensuring a high turnout, which most commentators assume will assist the Yes side.",
        "而这些组织的选举活动比上次更加协调集中，为的是尽可能动员支持者并确保高投票率，许多评论家都认为这些活动将对赞成派大有裨益。"
    ],
    [
        "But, while this is a triumph for taxi unions and a tragedy for passengers and Uber drivers, France has also started focusing on nurturing small, high-potential technology companies.",
        "但纵使造就了这一幕出租车工会，乘客与优步司机的悲喜剧，法国也逐渐开始注重培育小型高成长性的科技公司。"
    ],
    [
        "But, unlike previous Israeli prime ministers (again, with the possible exception of Sharon), Netanyahu has emulated the Palestinian political strategy of sumud, or steadfastness.",
        "但内塔尼亚胡与此前以色列总理的不同之处在于他成功仿效了巴勒斯坦人打持久战（sumud）的政治策略。"
    ],
    [
        "But with China’s rapid ascent and ever-closer integration with the outside world, this doctrine has become increasingly anachronistic.",
        "但是随着中国的迅速崛起和与外部世界越发紧密的联系，这一原则变得越发在时代上错误。"
    ],
    [
        "The arrangement collapsed because the US did not want to tighten monetary policy and run more restrictive fiscal policy: keeping US voters happy was understandably more important to President Nixon than maintaining a global system of fixed exchange rates.",
        "该安排之所以崩溃，是因为美国不再愿意紧缩货币政策以及采取更严格的财政政策：不难理解，对尼克松总统来说，取悦美国选民要比维持全球固定汇率体系更加重要。"
    ],
    [
        "French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will probably make themselves scarce when Trump is around.",
        "当特朗普出场时，法国总统马克龙和德国总理默克尔可能会使自己变得特立独行。"
    ],
    [
        "Production will not vanish; it will just be less labor intensive.",
        "生产不会消失，只是劳动密集度会下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Californians will have to decide how much weight to give to respect for adult liberty, protection of minors, avoidance of a large-scale black market, fiscal considerations, and protection of marijuana users’ health.",
        "加利福尼亚人必须要在成年人自由权，对少数群体的保护，防止大规模黑市交易，财政因素以及保护大麻使用者的健康之间作出取舍。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Bloomberg, Li will be the first Chinese premier not to fulfill the official annual growth target since Zhu.",
        "根据彭博社的说法，李克强将是朱镕基之后第一个不能实现官方年度增长目标的总理。"
    ],
    [
        "It extends to mainstream hits like The Constant Gardener , in which the idealistic protagonists do battle with a malicious global pharmaceutical company that is bent on exploiting Africa’s misery to test experimental drugs.",
        "它延伸到了如《不朽的园丁》（The Constant Gardener）这样的主流大片，在片中，理想主义的主人公对抗剥削非洲，进行药物试验的全球性制药公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Mustering the cross-cultural political will to give the responsibility to protect real – and consistent – teeth will always be difficult.",
        "鼓起超越文化界线的政治勇气来履行保护平民义务从来就并非易事。"
    ],
    [
        "Prosperity became the main weapon that ensured the West’s victory over Soviet communism.",
        "财富则成为西方社会同苏联社会主义对抗并最终取胜的最主要武器。"
    ],
    [
        "China may be unique in many ways, but its one-party rule is hardly exceptional.",
        "中国在很多方面都非常独特，但它的一党专治政权却没有什么稀奇之处。"
    ],
    [
        "Two decades of natural decay and remediation measures mean that most territories originally deemed “contaminated” no longer merit that label.",
        "连续二十年的自然腐化和补救措施意味着大多数原先被认为是受到“污染”的地区不再应当贴有这样的标签了。 甲状腺癌病例的98."
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the value of the dollar has been soaring against the yen, euro, and most emerging-market currencies.",
        "此外，美元币值对日元、欧元和大部分新兴市场货币一直在升值。"
    ],
    [
        "We simply do not have much well-documented history of big financial crises to examine, leaving econometricians vulnerable to serious error, despite studying time series that are typically no more than a few decades long.",
        "我们缺乏大型金融危机的详细历史记录可供考察，这导致计量经济学家很容易犯下严重错误，尽管他们所研究的时间序列通常不会超过几十年跨度。"
    ],
    [
        "Reform, when long discussed but never implemented, can do far more harm than good.",
        "改革若是长期停留在讨论阶段而不付诸于实施，危害将远远大于其会带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "A year ago, Netanyahu seemed certain to succeed Sharon.",
        "一年前，内塔尼亚胡看起来无疑将会继承沙龙的领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "The critic Helena Kontova then asked him how his “socio-political intention” related to the politics of then-President Ronald Reagan.",
        "批评家伊莲娜·孔塔瓦（Helena Kontova）接着问他，他的“社会政治倾向”是否与时任总统里根的政治学有关。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead of large-scale privatization, it might be better to limit state aid and give competitors legal recourse to seek redress if state aid distorts competition.",
        "与大规模私有化相比，或许更好的做法是限制国家援助，并让竞争者可以在国家援助扭曲竞争时拿起法律武器要求纠正。"
    ],
    [
        "But, given where we are, the benefits exceed the costs in countries with sustainable debt.",
        "但是鉴于我们现在所面临的局面，在那些债务水平可持续的国家运用这种政策所带来的利益会大于其代价。"
    ],
    [
        "This model is not only inefficient; channeling government resources to support investment also undermines China’s social development.",
        "这种模式不仅效率低下，还引导政府资源流向阻碍中国社会发展的无效投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Although the hormone may stimulate growth for a short period, the antibodies soon bind and neutralize it.",
        "尽管激素可以在短期内刺激生长，但其自身抗体很快就会对外来激素进行绑定及中和。"
    ],
    [
        "Shale Gas to the Rescue?",
        "大救星页岩气？"
    ],
    [
        "They are not anti-democratic; indeed, they claim to be the “true voice of the people,” and constantly demand new elections or referenda.",
        "这些人并不反对民主； 事实上，他们自我标榜为“民众的真正喉舌”，而且不停地要求举行新的选举或全民公决。"
    ],
    [
        "They interact (or should) to become what many may already have been prior to their arrival: “Europeans.”",
        "他们通过（或应该通过）相互交流，成为许多人可能在入校前已经成为的人：“欧洲人”。"
    ],
    [
        "In the old days, when banking was stable and regulated securely in a national setting, three or four leading banks tended to form an oligopoly: Barclays, Lloyds, Midland, and National Westminster in the United Kingdom; Commerzbank, Deutsche, and Dresdner in Germany.",
        "过去，金融业在国家层面上受到稳妥监管，整体比较稳定，往往是三四家大银行形成寡头垄断：英国有巴克莱（ Barclays ）、劳埃德（ Lloyds ）、米德兰（ Midland ）和国民威斯特敏斯特（ National Westminster ）； 德国有商业银行（ Commerzbank ）、德意志（ Deutsche ）和德累斯顿（ Dresdner ）。"
    ],
    [
        "BERLIN – Revolutions, it is said, almost always devour their children.",
        "柏林 —— 有人说，革命到头来总会吞噬自己的儿女。 就“颜色革命”而言，这显然不假。"
    ],
    [
        "The Saudis don’t want anti-Saudi forces, including such enemies as Iran and Al Qaeda, to increase their influence in the Middle East.",
        "沙特人不希望那些包括伊朗和基地组织在内的反沙特力量能在中东地区发展壮大。"
    ],
    [
        "In almost every case, my driver would tell me that his children were playing in local youth leagues.",
        "几乎每一次，我的司机都会告诉我他的孩子在地区青年联赛踢球。"
    ],
    [
        "BERKELEY – Imagine that, as a young scientist, you spent years collecting information about the foundations of how nature works.",
        "伯克利--让我们想像一下这样一种情形：你是一个年轻的科学家，花了许多年时间收集大自然如何运转的基础信息。"
    ],
    [
        "But individual countries would orient intervention and economic policies toward defending the equilibrium rate, or, more radically, an international authority might authorize aggressive intervention by trading partners to promote consistency.",
        "但个别国家将倾向于采取干预和各种经济政策捍卫均衡汇率，甚至会有更极端的情况，形成国际当局允许贸易伙伴采取激进的干预措施以增强稳定性。"
    ],
    [
        "The $500 million Global Trade Supplier Finance program, a joint investment and advisory initiative, is currently providing short-term finance to thousands of emerging-market SMEs.",
        "价值5亿美元的全球贸易供应商融资计划（联合投资顾问计划）正在为成千上万新兴市场的中小企业提供短期融资服务。"
    ],
    [
        "And, in fact, the process has already begun.",
        "事实上，这一过程已经开始了。"
    ],
    [
        "As trade links expanded, a sophisticated network of integrated supply chains emerged, creating the conditions for Asia to become a manufacturing powerhouse and, increasingly, an exporter of services as well.",
        "随着贸易联系日益紧密，一个更复杂的一体化供应链网络已经出现，为亚洲成为制造业巨擘以及出口更多服务创造了条件。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, China still has rivers to cross, particularly when it comes to adaptive efficiency.",
        "尽管如此，中国仍需要克服许多制度改革困难，特别是在制度的适应效率方面。"
    ],
    [
        "Statistics are not only a reflection of reality: they help to shape it.",
        "统计数据并非仅仅是现实的反映，它们还有助于塑造现实。"
    ],
    [
        "Why, Muslims, of course.",
        "那当然是穆斯林的责任。"
    ],
    [
        "America remains indispensable; alas, it has allowed the notion that it is unavailable for duty to take root.",
        "美国仍是不可或缺的； 可惜，它让这个概念不再成为责任的根基。"
    ],
    [
        "From honor killings to child marriages, from date rape to sex slavery, crimes against women are prevalent in every society. But, when women are courageous enough to report abuse, doctors are often unhelpful, police are hostile, and the justice system fails them.",
        "从私刑“荣誉处决”到童婚，从约会强暴到性奴役，针对妇女的犯罪在所有社会都大量存在。 但当妇女鼓起勇气报告暴行时，医生通常爱莫能助，警察通常怀有敌意，司法体系则会判她们败诉。"
    ],
    [
        "While the “Ice Princess,” as Park is nicknamed, will undoubtedly retain her core voters, more than 20 million South Koreans now access Twitter or Facebook on their cellphones, and follow politics on them.",
        "而当绰号“冰公主”的朴槿惠不出意外地保住其核心选民时，超过2000万韩国人正在利用手机上twitter或者facebook并以此跟踪政治动向。"
    ],
    [
        "“The Responsibility to Protect” (colloquially known as “R2P”) held countries accountable for their people’s welfare and compelled the international community to intervene when governments failed to protect civilians from mass atrocities – or were themselves threatening civilians.",
        "“保护责任”（简称“R2P”）规定各国有责任保护人民的福祉，并要求国际社会在政府无法保护公民免遭大规模暴力侵犯——或政府本身威胁到平民时实施干涉。"
    ],
    [
        "However, Islamists were among the 29 parliamentary deputies pushing for constituency reform, a fact that eased their dilemma.",
        "然而，29名支持选区改革的议员中有一部分是伊斯兰教派代表，这缓解了他们的窘境。"
    ],
    [
        "There is again a major economic problem, the end of a credit-driven boom, and a threat to the banks (except that it all looks much bigger, owing to the financial system’s massive growth and internationalization).",
        "如今，经济上也面临大问题——信贷驱动的泡沫破灭了，银行业岌岌可危（唯一的差别是，由于金融体系的大幅扩张和国际化，如今的银行规模大得多）。"
    ],
    [
        "Jonathan Zittrain, Co-Director of Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has suggested that the United States, for example, could start with some basic funding for the kind of “science and technology innovation that gave us the Internet to begin with.”",
        "哈佛大学伯克曼网络与社会研究中心总裁 乔纳森·齐特赖恩（ Jonathan Zittrain ）建议美国可以从某些基础的出资援助开始，推动“最初带给我们互联网的科技创新。"
    ],
    [
        "In the days after the attack, it became an act of solidarity to retweet the offending cartoons, rather than simply posting expressions of support.",
        "袭击发生后，转发那些有冒犯之意的卡通形象而不是简单地用言语表达支持成为一场团结运动。"
    ],
    [
        "ADDIS ABABA – At the climate-change summit in Copenhagen last December, political leaders expressed a strong will to urgently combat global warming.",
        "发自亚的斯亚贝巴——在去年11月的哥本哈根气候变化峰会上，一众政治领袖都表现出要尽快为全球变暖效应制定对策的强烈意愿。"
    ],
    [
        "The Forgotten Sick",
        "被遗忘的病人"
    ],
    [
        "But the region can look to the successful transition in Central Europe and the powerful anchor for reforms provided by these countries’ accession to the European Union.",
        "但该地区可以取经中欧和成功转型和这些国家加入欧盟所获得的强大的锚。"
    ],
    [
        "I know a chess grandmaster who, 20 years ago, prided himself on his success at winning money in tournaments.",
        "我认识一位象棋大师，20年前就以在锦标赛中赢得奖金为傲。"
    ],
    [
        "But for us, the real question is whether this practice should be eradicated or reformed.",
        "但对我们来说，真正的问题在于是否应当彻底禁止或改革这种现象。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in late 2008, foreign investors did withdraw $12 billion from India’s stock markets. But India’s resilience in the face of adversity, and its mature restraint in the face of violent provocation, encouraged investors to return.",
        "在2008年年末的时候，外国投资者已经从印度股市中抽回了120亿美元，但凭借着遭受困境之后的回复力以及面对暴力挑衅时的克制力，印度成功赢回了投资者的心。"
    ],
    [
        "The final major problem with the BAT is that it violates World Trade Organization rules, which allow border adjustment only on indirect taxation, such as value-added tax, not on direct taxes, like those levied on corporate income.",
        "边境调节税的最后一个大问题是它违反了世贸组织规则。 世贸组织规则规定边境调节只能用在间接税上，比如增值税，而不能用在直接税上，如公司所得税。"
    ],
    [
        "And economist Michael Pettis cautions that China’s reliance on policy stimulus to kick-start the economy whenever it stalls will merely cause macroeconomic vulnerabilities to accumulate.",
        "经济学家迈克尔·佩蒂斯（Michael Pettis）警告说，中国每次陷入停滞都依靠政策刺激促使经济重新启动，这将导致宏观经济脆弱性逐渐积累。"
    ],
    [
        "My own country, Bangladesh, initiated the idea of a global compact specifically to improve migration governance.",
        "我的祖国孟加拉最先提出了签订专门旨在改善移民治理的全球协议。"
    ],
    [
        "By the time the US-led Dayton Accords had put an end to the war, in December 1995, the UN’s peacekeeping capacity had been so thoroughly discredited that NATO war-fighting troops were sent in to take over from the UN Protection Force.",
        "当美国领导的《代顿协定》在1995年12月结束战争时，联合国的维和能力已经被彻底唾弃，只得派遣北约的战斗部队去联合国保护部队。"
    ],
    [
        "The core challenge is fiscal; Europe cannot escape the need to scale back its sclerotic welfare states.",
        "核心挑战是财政； 欧洲必须缩小僵化的福利国家的规模。"
    ],
    [
        "OECD countries with higher female labor-force participation rates also have higher birth rates.",
        "在经合组织国家中，更高的女性劳动力市场参与度意味着更高的生育率。"
    ],
    [
        "They were temporarily bailed out by strong world prices for their export commodities, but that ended last year.",
        "他们暂时为出口商品价格强势所救，但商品价格强势已经在去年成为历史。"
    ],
    [
        "The next American president, it is clear, will have to rethink US regional strategy.",
        "很明显，下一任美国总统将为此不得不重新考虑美国的地区战略。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, verbal intervention will be followed by policy action, because slower growth and low inflation – partly triggered by a strong dollar – will induce the Fed to exit zero policy rates later and more slowly than expected.",
        "此外，口头干预之后将是政策动作，因为增长放缓和低通胀——部分是拜强势美元所赐——将让美联储比预期更晚更慢地退出零政策利率。"
    ],
    [
        "Their example is one that emerging-country urbanites everywhere should seek to emulate.",
        "他们的榜样所有是新兴国家城市人应该效仿的。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is never too late to do the right thing.",
        "但做正确的事情永远不嫌太晚。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why it is essential to determine, prior to any effort to boost investment, whether sluggish growth in Europe reflects abnormally low capital formation.",
        "因此，在采取任何刺激投资的措施前，确定欧洲增长停滞不前是否是因为资本形成水平特别低下是十分重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "On the contrary, economic growth in such contexts can be – and often is – politically destabilizing.",
        "相反，在这种情况下的经济发展可能——而且经常会——导致政治动荡。"
    ],
    [
        "Their black coats their Kalashnikovs and their black ties their bullets.”",
        "黑色西装就是他们的冲锋枪，黑色领带就是他们的子弹。"
    ],
    [
        "These are new or disenchanted voters; how they vote in April – and how many of their fellow citizens follow their lead – will determine whether South Korea has its own political spring.",
        "这就是那些新涌现且醒悟了的选民； 而他们将在四月如何投票——同时又有多少市民会追随他们的脚步——将决定韩国是否将迎来自己的政治之春。"
    ],
    [
        "Even in famous private Chinese companies like Lenovo and Huawei Technologies, the ownership structure is highly convoluted, and the boundaries of state and private control rights blurred.",
        "即便如联想和华为这样闻名海外的中国私有企业，其产权结构也是错综复杂，而国家控制权与私人控制权之间的界限则模糊不清。"
    ],
    [
        "It has taken the government to court in an effort to force it to reverse its decision.",
        "该智库已将政府告上法庭，试图迫使其收回成命。"
    ],
    [
        "The last UN climate-change conference took place in Copenhagen in December 2009.",
        "上一次联合国气候变化会议于2009年12月在哥本哈根召开。"
    ],
    [
        "Nature underlined the importance of the message.",
        "大自然也在彰显这一信念的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "But both groups neglect a more fundamental determinant of China’s economic prospects: the world order.",
        "但这两派都忽略了一个更加基本的中国经济前景决定因素：世界秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "The influential German journalist Ludwig von Rochau, who coined the term Realpolitik, described the new German mood on the eve of Otto von Bismarck’s last war of unification.",
        "著名德国记者罗豪（Ludwig von Rochau）创造了“现实政治”（Realpolitik）一词，用来描述俾斯麦最后的统一战争前夕的德国民情。"
    ],
    [
        "Focusing squarely on structural reforms would allay some of the fears that China’s rise has inspired in the rest of the world, while winning praise from the international business community.",
        "集中精力处理结构性改革会减少因中国的崛起而在世界各地所造成的担心，同时赢得国际工商界的赞誉。"
    ],
    [
        "The good news is that the global community has united to help all people acquire these skills – and with real results.",
        "好消息是，国际社会已经联合起来帮助所有人都能获得这些技能，而且已经产生了实效。"
    ],
    [
        "While the latter scenario is possible, it seems unlikely.",
        "后一种情况也不是没有可能，但可能性很低。"
    ],
    [
        "If she succeeds, she will emerge as the first great European leader of the twenty-first century.",
        "如果能够成功，她将成为21世纪第一位大欧洲领导人。"
    ],
    [
        "The US may even face a constitutional crisis, if Special Counsel Robert Mueller were to find, for example, evidence of illegal contact between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.",
        "美国还有可能面临一场宪政危机，如果特别检察官罗伯特·穆勒（Robert Mueller）找到（比如）特朗普选举阵营与俄罗斯政府进行非法联系的证据的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Reserve Reform",
        "储备改革"
    ],
    [
        "I support Geithner’s plan to cooperate with private investors in dealing with the banks’ toxic assets, because they make better business decisions than government bureaucrats.",
        "我支持盖特纳与私人投资者合作处理银行有毒资产的做法，因为私人投资者比政府官僚更具备商业决策能力。"
    ],
    [
        "California senator Diane Feinstein argues that we should curb carbon emissions because the Sierra snowpack, which accounts for much of California’s drinking water, will be reduced by 40% by 2050 due to global warming.",
        "加利福尼亚州参议员费恩斯坦说，我们应当限制二氧化碳排放，因为加利福尼亚饮用水源大多数来自于积雪，而这些积雪到2050年的时候将会由于全球变暖而减少40%。"
    ],
    [
        "French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to advance offensive multilateralism.",
        "法国总统伊曼纽尔·马克龙正竭力推进进攻型多边主义。"
    ],
    [
        "There are risks for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki as well, because Turkish military strikes on Iraq’s northern provinces could undermine the Kurdish support on which his government increasingly depends.",
        "伊拉克总理马利基也承受着一定的风险，因为土耳其军队在伊拉克北部省份实施的军事打击会严重削弱他的政府越来越依赖的库尔德人的支持。"
    ],
    [
        "The Big Three and their auto finance associates (such as GMAC) are huge debtors whose liabilities are held throughout the financial system.",
        "三巨头和他们的汽车贷款合作方（如通用金融公司）的负债遍布全国的金融体系中。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, there is no instant solution.",
        "遗憾的是，这个问题没有立竿见影的解决方案。"
    ],
    [
        "And Putin has a rare opportunity, as he begins his third term as President, to restore his deeply tarnished reputation.",
        "普京也有一个难得的机会——他开始了总统的第三个任期——以恢复他那被深深玷污的声誉。"
    ],
    [
        "How Scary is Disruptive Technology?",
        "颠覆性技术究竟有多可怕？"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – How should one understand the disconnect between the new highs reached by global equity indices and the new depths plumbed by real interest rates worldwide?",
        "坎布里奇——人们应当如何看待全球股指迭创新高和实际利率屡创新低间的脱节关系？"
    ],
    [
        "The Nellore cluster in Andhra Pradesh, for example, has paddy, tobacco, groundnut, mango, and sugarcane farms.",
        "比如，安德拉邦的内洛尔（Nellore）城市集群拥有稻田、烟草、花生、芒果和甘蔗农场。"
    ],
    [
        "He seems unaware that his campaign is over, that he could fail catastrophically and permanently in his new role, and that it is in his own interest to ensure that his proposals are sound, not just as slogans, but as actual policies that will keep the US safe and create prosperity.",
        "他似乎尚未意识到大选已经结束了，而自己可能在新的总统角色中遭遇突然且永久的挫折，与此同时最符合他自身利益的东西不是那些口号式的提案，而是能为美国带来安全和繁荣的实实在在的政策。"
    ],
    [
        "If those leaders could disavow their own violent pasts and take practical steps toward peace in the region, why can’t Hamas?",
        "如果这些领导人们都能够和他们暴力的过去决裂，并采取切实步骤达成地区和平，哈马斯又怎么会不行呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Deepening economic recession is bound to catalyze political change.",
        "正在加深的经济衰退会引发政治上的变化。"
    ],
    [
        "And structural reform and fiscal consolidation are both deflationary in the short run.",
        "而从短期看，结构改革和财政整合都有通缩作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Beyond that, however, we should seriously consider whether, within the framework of the Treaty of Nice and on the basis of the Common Market, all parties involved and Europe would be better off parting ways: members favoring political integration should move on, while those satisfied with the Common Market should stay behind.",
        "可是除此之外，我们应该认真考虑在《尼斯条约》和共同市场的基础之上，是否分道扬镳对欧洲和所有涉及各方更为有利：这样支持政治统一的成员国将会继续努力下去，而那些对共同市场感到心满意足的成员国则将维持现状。"
    ],
    [
        "In terms of football at least, the Hispanic community’s influence has brought the United States closer to Europe (though not, of course, in its team’s performance on the pitch).",
        "至少对于足球而言，西班牙裔社区的影响力把美国拉近了欧洲（当然，尽管不是美国队在足球场上的成绩）。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, they are not conducive to implementation of the reforms that are needed to spur economic growth.",
        "类似地，这些分裂也不利于刺激经济增长所需要的改革的实施。"
    ],
    [
        "Independence in thought and deed is vital for any company to function and to build things that last and contribute to economic growth and prosperity.",
        "独立思想和行为对任何运营和构建保持和增进经济增长与繁荣的公司来说都是至关重要的。"
    ],
    [
        "This bears an eerie resemblance to the script of 2004-2006, when the Fed’s incremental approach led to the near-fatal mistake of condoning mounting excesses in financial markets and the real economy.",
        "这与2004—2006年期间的政策惊人地相似。 当时，美联储的渐进方针导致了几乎致命的错误——纵容金融市场和实体经济的过度行为。"
    ],
    [
        "Which competitors are highlighted?",
        "哪些竞争对手比较突出？"
    ],
    [
        "Its good-neighbor policy, it turns out, has steered China’s regional diplomacy into uncharted waters.",
        "中国的好邻居政策正把中国外交导向一个未知领域。"
    ],
    [
        "Many militants in Punjab worked closely with the Pakistani intelligence services for years, and their infrastructure is dispersed and hidden in various towns and villages.",
        "许多旁遮普武装分子已经和巴基斯坦情报部门密切合作了很多年，而其组织则分散隐藏在许多城镇乡村之中。"
    ],
    [
        "Did America Really Kill the Trade Talks?",
        "贸易谈判破裂谁之过"
    ],
    [
        "The education reform will change this.",
        "本次教育改革将会改变这一现状。"
    ],
    [
        "Trust in medical institutions dropped from 73% to 29%, and in journalism from 29% to 14%.",
        "信任医疗机构者从73%下降到29%，信任新闻者从29%下降到14%。"
    ],
    [
        "This kind of sentiment is more alarming, and more ominous, than Brexit’s implications for the future of the British economy.",
        "”这种情绪比英国退出对英国经济未来的影响更值得警惕，也更有指导意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, this was not to be.",
        "当然，这个目标没有实现。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia's power structures, like those of America, must now be readied to conduct a very long struggle, entirely different from the old Soviet KGB way of suppressing dissent.",
        "俄罗斯的权力架构与美国的一样，必须进行调整以便进行一场长期的斗争。 这与老一套的苏联克格勃压制不同政见的方式完全不同。"
    ],
    [
        "What had been a Greek crisis became a southern European crisis and then a pan-European crisis.",
        "希腊危机演变成南欧危机，继而又发展成泛欧洲危机。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why countries around the world have been cutting their corporate-tax rates.",
        "这就是为什么世界各国都在削减公司税率。"
    ],
    [
        "More realistically, large corporations are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars – indeed, trillions if aggregated across the advanced economies – because they already have too much capacity.",
        "更现实的情况是，大公司坐拥数千亿美元——事实上，如果将发达经济体的数据加总，可达数万亿美元——因为它们的产能已经过剩。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Xi’s platform, pending a final settlement of territorial issues, the two countries should cooperate to maintain peace and tranquility and prevent border disputes from affecting the overall relationship.",
        "习建议在最终解决领土问题之前，中印两国应合作维护和平安定，防止边界争端影响到两国的整体关系。"
    ],
    [
        "Nowadays, we worry about incitement – using free speech to provoke violence.",
        "现在，我们担心煽动，也就是利用言论自由来挑起暴力。"
    ],
    [
        "Though EU countries will not contribute any actual funds, they will provide implicit and explicit guarantees for the private investors, in an arrangement that looks suspiciously like the joint liability embodied by Eurobonds.",
        "虽然欧盟国家不会提供任何实际资金，但他们会为私人投资者提供隐性及显性担保，这与欧元债券所隐含的连带责任颇有相似之处。"
    ],
    [
        "So today we sit on a planet with only 50% of its forest cover remaining.",
        "今天我们所生活的地球只剩下了它50%的森林植被。"
    ],
    [
        "LONDON – Vulnerable communities face the brunt of climate change – from rising sea levels and extreme weather events to prolonged severe droughts and flooding.",
        "伦敦——弱势群体不得不面对海平面升高、极端天气事件和长期严重干旱洪水等气候变化的冲击。"
    ],
    [
        "South Korea is at a crossroads.",
        "韩国现在正处在十字路口。"
    ],
    [
        "Naturally, individual cases dictate which tests and treatments are best, but an additional concern about frequent screenings is the problem of false positives.",
        "毫无疑问，适用于不同病例的检测和治疗方案各有不同，但对于频繁的筛查来说，另一个要注意的地方就是假阳性的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A 16-year-old Syrian refugee living in Lebanon, Mohammed has overcome obstacles that most of us cannot even imagine, in order to excel in his education.",
        "这位16岁的叙利亚难民现在生活在黎巴嫩，为了取的好成绩，他克服了大部分人难以想象的困难。"
    ],
    [
        "They need food and shelter, clean water and latrines, medical care, and education.",
        "这些人需要食物和住所，干净的饮用水以及厕所，医疗护理和教育。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump is spending nearly two weeks in Asia, visiting Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines.",
        "纽约—美国总统特朗普正在进行为期近两周的亚洲之行，访问日本、韩国、中国、越南和菲律宾。"
    ],
    [
        "His idea of making a deal is to overwhelm the other party with bluff and intimidation, hence his promise to “totally destroy North Korea” (a promise, by the way, that would mean more than 20 million dead).",
        "他所谓的交易理念是借助虚张声势和威胁恐吓彻底压倒另一方，因此他号称要彻底摧毁朝鲜（顺便提一句，他的这个威胁意味着两千万人死亡的惨剧）。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, they rose precisely by integrating themselves into the global economic system.",
        "毕竟，它们之所以崛起，正是因为它们融入了全球经济体系中。"
    ],
    [
        "The global economic crisis that began in 2008 exposed the deep flaws in Europe’s monetary union, though it took the near-death experience of the euro crisis of 2010-2012 to force Europe’s leaders to act, by creating a large fund to help struggling countries and establishing a banking union.",
        "始于2008年的全球经济危机暴露出欧洲货币联盟的深刻缺陷，尽管2010—2012年欧元危机的濒死经验才迫使欧洲领导人有所反应，成立了一个巨型基金帮助受困国家，并建立了一个银行联盟。"
    ],
    [
        "In general, the best government interventions target failures precisely – using cap and trade to put a price on air pollution, for example, or relying on the individual mandate to curtail adverse selection in health insurance – while letting market forces do the rest more efficiently than bureaucrats can.",
        "总而言之，最佳的政府介入手段应当精确定位失灵之处——使用设限+交易去给空气污染定价或者强制参保去减少医疗保险中的逆向选择——并让市场力量比官僚更高效地去解决余下的其他问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Until then, it seems well worth pursuing efforts that would help to abate the carnage.",
        "在找到更好的办法以前，设置禁飞区是值得做出的有助于阻止大屠杀的努力。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – There was a time when we economists steered clear of politics.",
        "美国剑桥—曾几何时，我们经济学家与政治井水不犯河水。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINGTON, DC – It is time to put the rise of the emerging economies in perspective.",
        "华盛顿—是时候正确地审视新兴经济体的崛起了。"
    ],
    [
        "Economically, countries that reduce energy consumption also increase productivity, simply because using less energy costs less money.",
        "经济上，减少能源消费的国家也提高了生产率，原因很简单，能源用得越少，钱花得也越少。"
    ],
    [
        "With short-term interest rates in the United States near zero, and the “natural” interbank interest rate in faster-growing China at near 4%, an expected 3% appreciation, for example, translates into an “effective” interest-rate differential of 7%.",
        "在美国短期利率接近于零以及增长更快的中国银行间“自然”利率接近4%的情况下，（比如）3%的与其升值会导致7%的“有效”利差。"
    ],
    [
        "In international law, debt that is incurred without the consent of the people, and that is not used to their benefit, is referred to as “odious”; as such, it is not considered transferable to successor regimes.",
        "根据国际法，未经人民允许而产生的债务，以及没有用于民生的债务，都属于“恶意”债务； 这类债务被认为不适合转移给继任政权。"
    ],
    [
        "“No one had done that before in Finland,” he recalls.",
        "“在芬兰，这是一个从来没有人涉足的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "If they do not extract it today, they will have to do it in the future if they want to make a profit.",
        "如果他们今天不开采，那么，如果他们想要获利的话也会在明天开采。"
    ],
    [
        "One enduring political myth that went down with Bo, the former Communist Party boss of Chongqing municipality, is the notion that the Party’s rule is based on meritocracy.",
        "而与这位前重庆市市委书记一同陨落的则是一个经久不衰的政治神话，认为中国共产党的统治是构建于精英政治之上的。"
    ],
    [
        "The email saga added to voters’ long-held impression that Clinton isn’t “honest and trustworthy,” and it exposed her to attacks from adversaries on the right.",
        "“邮件门”加强了选民由来已久的克林顿不“诚实可信”的印象，也让她饱受右翼对手的攻讦。"
    ],
    [
        "A consensus was reached at the Forum that such a right makes sense only if it is formulated in such a way that particular policymaking entities, be they water companies or local governments, face an affirmative duty to respect this right.",
        "人们在论坛上达成一致，无论是自来水公司还是地方政府，只有当尊重这项权利成为特定决策机构的当然义务，这样的权利才有意义。"
    ],
    [
        "E-commerce marketplaces such as Alibaba, Amazon, and eBay are turning millions of small enterprises into exporters.",
        "电子商务市场，如阿里巴巴、亚马逊和eBay，让数以百万计的小企业成为出口商。"
    ],
    [
        "Especially in the face of the financial crisis, religion has been presented as a source for what Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have called the project of “moralizing capitalism.”",
        "特别在金融危机发生后，宗教正像萨科奇和德国总理安格拉·默克尔所说，被人们当成了实现“道德化资本主义”目标的一种武器。"
    ],
    [
        "Beginning in the mid-1990’s, the rate of growth in output per hour worked – a key factor behind the rise in per capita income – slowed in most European countries while it rose in the US, reversing a decades-long pattern.",
        "从九十年代中期开始，这一增长率在欧洲大多数国家都有所减缓，而美国则上升，从而逆转了长达十年的模式。 2000年至2004年之间，美国的每小时劳动生产率每年增长2."
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, no nuclear weapons were unleashed, deliberately or accidentally, and no full-scale war of the kind that ravaged post-communist Yugoslavia broke out between Russia and any of its neighbors, although several of them were locked in internal or regional conflict in which Russia’s hand was visible.",
        "而且，俄罗斯没有蓄意或因意外而动用核武器，南斯拉夫共产党垮台后的战争灾难也没有在俄罗斯重演，俄罗斯没有与其邻国之间爆发类似的真正意义上的战争，尽管这些国家陷入的内部或地区冲突中，俄罗斯的插手昭然可见。"
    ],
    [
        "When a government starts to borrow abroad or chooses to enter a currency union, these benefits take the form of reduced interest rates.",
        "当一国政府开始借外债或加入货币联盟时，好处是利率的下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Fear of incurring such high costs are likely to weaken governments’ incentives to implement regulations that hurt foreign corporate interests, even if they serve the public good.",
        "担心发生这些高昂的成本可能削弱政府实施有害于外国公司利益的监管措施的激励，即使它们有利于公共利益。"
    ],
    [
        "During former President Saddam Hussein’s rule, large numbers of people were forcibly relocated through either conflict or government policy.",
        "在前总统萨达姆的统治下，大量民众因为冲突或政府的政策而被迫搬到新的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "MILAN – It took a long time for widening inequality to have an impact on politics, as it suddenly has done in recent years.",
        "米兰—不平等性的加剧用了很长时间，才突然在近几年中形成了政治影响。"
    ],
    [
        "A World of Vulnerability",
        "脆弱的世界"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the ECB has clearly stated that it will not allow the euro to disintegrate.",
        "此外，欧洲央行明确表示它不会允许欧元解体。"
    ],
    [
        "But, for both countries, economic growth is not hurdle-free.",
        "但两国的经济增长却不是没有隐忧的。"
    ],
    [
        "That will be complicated, of course.",
        "当然，这是非常复杂的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "But he has encountered stubborn resistance from key elite groups, who regard his agenda as a threat to their vested interests.",
        "但是他遭遇了来自重要精英团体的坚决抵制，后者认为他的议程安排威胁到了自己的既得利益。"
    ],
    [
        "Such measures address imperatives such as infrastructure investment, tax reform, and job creation.",
        "这些措施能解决诸如基础设施投资、税收改革和就业创造等当务之急。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, more than ever, the Forum’s proud motto, “Committed to the improvement of the world,” seems disconnected from reality.",
        "今天，论坛引以为荣的口号“致力于世界的发展”却似乎前所未有地与现实脱节了。"
    ],
    [
        "President Donald Trump has painted himself into a strategic corner: he needs a concession from North Korea on the nuclear-weapons issue in order to save face with his base, not to mention with the global community.",
        "特朗普总统已经把自己逼到了战略的墙角：他需要朝鲜在核武器问题上有所让步，以挽回他在选民基本盘（更不用说在全球社会）中的颜面。"
    ],
    [
        "Because the profession rewards only careful, well-supported, but necessarily narrow analysis, few economists try to span sub-fields.",
        "由于该学科只崇尚细致，证据充分但也必然有些狭窄的研究，因此也只有少数的经济学家愿意在各细分领域之间进行跨界研究。"
    ],
    [
        "But it is wrong – at least for now – to think that a formal structure of alliances to contain China is needed in the way that one was required to contain the Soviet Union.",
        "但认为需要建立像遏制苏联那样的正式联盟结构来遏制中国是错误的，至少从目前来看这是一种错误的选择。"
    ],
    [
        "Mobil’s message was misleading, but was the analysis that Bernstein and Montgomery authored truly flawed?",
        "美孚公司的信息颇具误导性，但伯恩斯坦和蒙哥马利的分析是否真有缺陷？"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, government is vastly inferior to the World Cup as a sporting spectacle, but much political reporting focuses on who played well and who played badly.",
        "同样道理，政府在体育领域受人关注的程度远不及世界杯，但很多政治报导却对哪位政治家步步高升、哪位政治家灰头土脸更加津津乐道。"
    ],
    [
        "Nor is it a problem that we can leave to future generations to address.",
        "这也不是一个我们可以留给子孙后代解决的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "But he is also proposing a significant cut in the corporate tax rate.",
        "但他还建议大幅降低公司税率。"
    ],
    [
        "Solzhenitsyn was used in this way twice.",
        "索尔仁尼琴被这样利用了两次。"
    ],
    [
        "The world needs a strong and forward-looking Germany in a dynamic European Union.",
        "世界需要一个活力四射的欧盟，其中有一个强大而前瞻的德国。"
    ],
    [
        "Or are we prepared to undergo a painful decline brought on by nationalist infighting and complacency?",
        "我们是否打算经历一场由民族主义内讧和自满所带来的痛苦的经济衰退？"
    ],
    [
        "What is required, therefore, is an open bilateral French-German dialogue about a comprehensive realignment of the monetary union.",
        "因此必须要进行全面调整货币联盟的法德双边公开对话。"
    ],
    [
        "Effective advertising campaigns, appealing to unconscious urges – typically related to food, sex, and status – create cravings for products and purchases that have little real value for consumers or society.",
        "有效的广告宣传，迎合了消费者无意识的冲动——这些冲动通常与食物，性和身份地位有关——推动了消费者购买那些对其自身或社会来说都没有多少价值的产品。"
    ],
    [
        "These include soft budget constraints for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and local governments, implicit and explicit government guarantees of debt, and excessive risk taking in the financial sector – all of which have been perpetuated by unsustainable official growth targets.",
        "这些包括对国有企业和地方政府的松散预算约束、 政府对债务的隐性/公开担保以及金融领域的过度冒险行为——所有这些行为都是不可持续的官方增长目标下长期存在。"
    ],
    [
        "What the German government had not reckoned with is that every refugee who manages to make it to Germany immediately texts the good news back to the home country, fueling a fresh wave of migrants.",
        "德国政府未料到的是每一个成功抵达德国的难民都迫不及待地将好消息回报给祖国，促使新一波移民的到来。"
    ],
    [
        "But France is by no means the only country that should be worried.",
        "但需要关注上述问题的绝不仅仅是法国。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Trump, a self-proclaimed master dealmaker, may simply be talking tough, in order to put China and the world on notice that the US is now prepared to operate from a position of strength in the foreign-trade arena.",
        "当然，自诩为交易大师的特朗普可能仅仅是嘴硬，这样做的目的是让中国和世界注意现在美国准备开始凭借优势地位在对外贸易的舞台上施展拳脚了。"
    ],
    [
        "South Africa’s agriculture sector could expand employment and contribute to food security by strengthening partnerships between established commercial operators and emerging farmers.",
        "最终令南非的农业部门可以通过加强既有商业经营者与新农民群体之间的伙伴关系来扩大就业并提升粮食安全。"
    ],
    [
        "But we also need to examine our responses closely, or risk repeating our shortsighted behavior.",
        "但我们还需要仔细斟酌对策，不然就可能冒着重复短视行为的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "The post-independence government thus found itself having to hire vast numbers of teachers, many of them unqualified, to cope with the influx of black students attending school for the first time.",
        "因此，在独立后，政府发现需要聘请大量教师来教导大量首次来到学校上学的孩子，而教师往往资质不够。"
    ],
    [
        "Once we abandon arguments based on potential, the claim that it is wrong to kill embryos and fetuses must be based on the nature of those entities themselves – that they are actual human beings who already possess the characteristics that make killing wrong.",
        "一旦我们放弃了建立在潜力基础上的论断后，那么，杀死胚胎和胎儿的论断必须建立在那些个体本身的性质基础之上，也就是说，它们也实际上是人，所具备的特征使得杀死它们是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, Israel also began as a movement.",
        "当然，以色列也是以一场运动起步的。"
    ],
    [
        "But the sector is still dominated by traditional services, such as restaurants, taxis, and barbers.",
        "但传统服务业仍然占据着行业主导，比方说餐厅、出租车和理发店。"
    ],
    [
        "Once again, it relies on overcollateralization, an assumption on the joint distribution of possible outcomes, and the inevitable seal of approval of the three major credit rating agencies.",
        "它所依靠的仍然是超额抵押，对可能结果联合分布的假设，以及三大评级机构无可避免的审批。"
    ],
    [
        "Mortgage banks kept some claims on their books, but sold most of them to investment banks as “mortgage-backed securities.”",
        "抵押贷款银行把一些未收的资金放在帐簿上，但把其中的大部分以“以抵押为后盾的证券”售给投资银行。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a referendum may also concentrate minds among the Arab Sunnis and Shia in Iraq, when they come to realize that it is their violence that is dismantling Iraq.",
        "这样的全民公决也可能在伊拉克逊尼和什叶派间达成一致，看到是暴力行为让伊拉克四分五裂。"
    ],
    [
        "Following his re-election, Obama’s first foreign visit was to Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia – a choice that cannot have pleased China, as all three are ASEAN members, while Myanmar was, until it began its democratic transition, a close Chinese ally.",
        "竞选连任后，奥巴马的首次国外访问选择了缅甸、泰国和柬埔寨——中国不可能喜欢这样的选择，因为上述三国均为东盟成员，而缅甸直到开始民主过渡前一直是中国的亲密盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "The UN to the Rescue on Climate Change",
        "让联合国来拯救气候变化"
    ],
    [
        "It is regrettable that, instead of rising to the challenge of developing agriculture in a way that is more socially and environmentally sustainable, we act as if accelerating the destruction of the global peasantry could be accomplished responsibly.",
        "如果我们不去应对在社会和环境方实现可持续农业的挑战，而是自以为负责任地加速消灭全球普通农民的话，这将是件非常令人懊恼的事情。"
    ],
    [
        "And given that the Uighur bastion of Xinjiang is close to China’s borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, the US was unwise to raise Chinese hackles in this way.",
        "同时考虑到维吾尔族聚居的新疆自治区靠近中国与阿富汗和巴基斯坦的边境，美国在这方面激怒中国显然是不明智的。"
    ],
    [
        "Tobacco tax increases, dissemination of information about the health risks of smoking, smoking bans in public, complete bans on advertising and promotion, and cessation therapies are effective in helping smokers to quit.",
        "增加烟草税、传播吸烟造成的健康风险的信息、禁止公共场合吸烟、完全禁止烟草广告和促销以及戒烟治疗在帮助烟民戒烟上卓有成效。"
    ],
    [
        "China and India, the two largest countries in the world, realize that their high rates of economic growth also depend upon foreign oil.",
        "世界上两个最大国家中国和印度认识到它们的高速经济增长同样依赖于外国石油。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a name for the despair that has been driving discontent – and not only in Russia and Ukraine – since the financial crisis.",
        "对于这一在金融危机后滋生着不满的绝望——不仅仅在俄罗斯和乌克兰——有一个名字，叫做“新常态”。"
    ],
    [
        "Our Virtual Middle Ages",
        "我们的虚拟中世纪"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, that has led to a huge infusion of liquidity over just the past few years.",
        "诚然，在过去几年中，这带来了巨大的流动性。"
    ],
    [
        "“The SCAF are either anti-democratic….or some of their advisers told them that democracy is not in their best interest,” says Hazem Abd al-Azim, a nominee in the first post-Mubarak government.",
        "“最高军事委员会不反对民主……但是其中一些顾问告诉他们，民主并不是最符合他们利益的。 ”穆巴拉克政府倒台后首次选举的候选人哈齐姆•阿卜德•阿尔•阿齐姆说。"
    ],
    [
        "Peurifoy’s statements have rightly raised concerns about the security of nuclear weapons stockpiled in insecure regions.",
        "普里福伊的言论理所当然地引发了人们对非安全区存储核武器安全问题的忧虑。"
    ],
    [
        "Many of the countries now performing poorly were doing very well – above the European average – before the euro was introduced.",
        "许多当前表现低迷的国家在引入欧元之前都做得很好——甚至高于欧洲平均水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Robert Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio is now above 30 – a level previously reached only twice, at the peaks of 1929 and 2000, both of which were followed by stock-market crashes.",
        "罗伯特·希勒（Robert Shiller）的经周期调整的市盈率目前已高于30——此前这种情况只出现过两次，即1929年和2000年股市顶部，随后都发生了股市崩盘。"
    ],
    [
        "Daimler, Ford, and Nissan plan to launch such cars around 2017.",
        "戴姆勒、福特和日产计划在2017年左右推出氢燃料电池汽车。"
    ],
    [
        "Many women migrants are unskilled or undocumented domestic workers.",
        "许多女性移民是无技能、无合同的家政工人。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, when America catches pneumonia, can Asia only sneeze?",
        "今天，当美国得了肺炎，难道亚洲只会打个喷嚏吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The World’s Reluctant Central Banker",
        "不情不愿的世界央行"
    ],
    [
        "The International Monetary Fund has put its stamp of approval on capital controls, thereby legitimizing the use of taxes and other restrictions on cross-border financial flows.",
        "IMF批准了资本管制，从此以后，使用税收和其他手段限制跨境金融流的做法合法了。"
    ],
    [
        "The US had a unique opportunity at the end of the Cold War to use its benevolent and enlightened superiority to establish a better international order.",
        "冷战结束时，美国曾有过独一无二的机遇，能够利用其自身宽厚、文明的强大优势建立起更为理想的国际秩序。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of the American McCarthyism of the 1940’s and 1950’s was driven by the same burning faith in the righteousness of the mission – a faith that saw fundamental rights abrogated.",
        "比如1940~1950年代美国的麦卡锡主义，其绝大部分行动就是被同样一种义愤填膺，且自以为正当的所谓使命感所推动——而正是这种使命感剥夺了人们的基本权利。"
    ],
    [
        "True, Russia lacks the means to achieve Putin’s aims.",
        "是的，俄罗斯没有办法实现普京的目标。"
    ],
    [
        "On top of already modest inflation expectations – characterized by a five-year break-even inflation rate of 1.9% – the dollar has appreciated by around 10% this year, and by almost 25% since the beginning of last year.",
        "在已算温和的通胀预期之外—以五年相对通胀率1. 9％为标志—今年美元汇率已经升值了10％左右，去年至今涨了近25%。"
    ],
    [
        "Against this background, today’s very low prices – below $35 a barrel at times since the beginning of this year – create a golden opportunity (which one of the authors has been recommending for over a year) to implement a variable carbon tax.",
        "在此背景下，当前的超低油价——自今年年初以来的35美元/桶以下——就带来了一个千载难逢的机会（本栏目其中一位作者已经提出超过一年多了）去实施可变的碳税。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, if you do any one of these things, you have done them all, for they are three ways of describing what is at bottom the same task and the same reality.",
        "实际上，这三件事只要做了其中一件，就完成了所有任务，因为他们实际上是对同一任务和现实的三种不同的描述。"
    ],
    [
        "We now know that both views were wrong.",
        "现在我们知道，两种观点都是错误的。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, the G-20 communiqué offers only more of the same prescriptions for managing systemic risk that the Financial Stability Forum (FSF), the United States Federal Reserve, and others have put forward. These proposals have focused on the problems caused by poor transparency, over-leveraging, outsized financial institutions, tax havens, bad incentives for financial bosses, and credit rating agencies’ conflicts of interest.",
        "不幸的是，二十国峰会依然老调重弹，依然遵循着金融稳定论坛（Financial Stability Forum），美联储和其他机构的做法，这些做法包括针对金融机构的不透明性，过度金融杠杆作用，过于庞大的金融机构，逃税天堂和对金融大亨贪婪的报酬奖励，信用评级机构的利益冲突等问题的方案。"
    ],
    [
        "Like the $50 billion New Development Bank announced by the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) last summer, the AIIB has faced considerable scrutiny, with some Western leaders questioning its governance, transparency, and motives.",
        "就像金砖国家(巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非)去年夏天宣布建立500亿美元规模的新开发银行一样，亚投行也面临着相当严厉的审视，例如一些西方领导人质疑其治理、透明度和动机。"
    ],
    [
        "A country with current-account and capital-account surpluses and increasing foreign-exchange reserves normally sees an excessive money supply and high inflation.",
        "当一个国家拥有经常账户和资本账户盈余，外汇储备也不断增加的时候，过量货币供应和高通货膨胀率的情况就会出现。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, it is no accident that Henry Kissinger’s masterpiece, A World Restored, was devoted to the study of the recreation of the world order by the Vienna Congress after the rupture of the French Revolution, followed by the Napoleonic adventures.",
        "事实上，亨利·基辛格的力作《恢复的世界》致力于研究法国大革命破裂和随之而来的拿破仑冒险，他认为其后的维也纳会议试图重建世界秩序绝非是一时的心血来潮。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason for the migrants’ strong preference for Germany is that the country, together with Sweden, has Europe’s most liberal asylum system and allocates particularly high levels of funding to accommodate the newcomers.",
        "移民强烈偏好德国的原因是德国与瑞典的庇护制度为欧洲最自由的，分配给安置新来者的资金数量也非常大。"
    ],
    [
        "Anyone with depressive symptoms for just two weeks after suffering a significant loss would be diagnosed with major depressive disorder, massively pathologizing normal intense grief.",
        "任何在丧亲后两周内有忧郁症状的人都将被诊断为重度忧郁症，将大多数正常的极度悲伤都定义为病态。"
    ],
    [
        "Previously, EU directives tended to impose minimum standards, which individual countries could supplement if they wished.",
        "此前，欧盟方案倾向于实施最低标准，各国可以按自己的喜好进行补充。"
    ],
    [
        "Other studies show that nine out of ten prostitutes urgently want to escape the job.",
        "其他的研究显示，十个妓女中就有九个急切地想要逃离卖淫的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, perverse incentives throughout the supply chain facilitate the widespread, systematic contamination of food and drugs. Both milk producers and heparin-precursor suppliers were motivated to add adulterants that would make their products appear to be of a higher quality than they actually were.",
        "其实，供应链中无所不在的错误刺激造成了食品和药品行业普遍性、系统性的污染问题。 奶企和肝素前体供应企业都主动添加违禁物质，通过造假手段来提高产品质量。"
    ],
    [
        "What, then, should we make of Mexico and its disputed election?",
        "那么，我们应如何看待墨西哥及其有争议的选举呢？"
    ],
    [
        "Libya was thus a vivid reminder of the serious gaps that exist in helping migrants in life-threatening situations.",
        "因此，利比亚为我们提供了生动的写照，让我们看到了在帮助移民面对威胁生命局面时各国表现的严重差异。"
    ],
    [
        "And for the past two centuries, Europeans have been building ever-stronger nation-states and national identities on the basis of long, complicated historical experiences.",
        "但在过去两个世纪中，欧洲人一直在漫长复杂的历史经验的基础上，构建日益强大的民族国家和民族身份。"
    ],
    [
        "Any “victory” that the Tamils perceive as leading to subjugation of their rights and aspirations for equality with the majority Sinhalese will be short-lived.",
        "任何泰米尔人认为会导致压制他们的权利和与主要民族僧伽罗族平等地位抱负的“胜利”，都会是短命的。"
    ],
    [
        "In July, however, the North reportedly notified the Japanese government of its intention to postpone submitting the results of the reinvestigation.",
        "但7月，朝鲜据称知会日本政府打算延期提交其调查结果。"
    ],
    [
        "There were also cases of extreme MDR-TB, soon called XDR-TB, which resisted even the back-up medicines.",
        "还有一些极端多种抗药性肺结核的病例连后备的最强效药物都对其无效。"
    ],
    [
        "What emerges as Merkel seeks to form a new coalition with the Greens and the Free Democrats will not only shape Germany’s economic trajectory over the next four years; it will also determine the fate of the country’s transformation into a truly open society.",
        "默克尔需求与绿党和自由民主党结成新的执政联盟，结果如何不但将影响德国在未来四年的经济轨迹，还将决定德国向真正开放社会的转型的命运。"
    ],
    [
        "If Europe’s leaders fail to act, those who want to save the EU in order to reinvent it should follow the lead of the young activists in Britain.",
        "如果欧洲领导人不行动起来，希望拯救欧盟从而彻底改造它的就应该跟随英国年轻活跃分子的领导。"
    ],
    [
        "If enacted, a few people at the top of the income distribution would do well; everyone else, not so much.",
        "如果得到实施，位于收入分配顶端的一小撮人将非常满意； 其他所有人都将不甚满意。"
    ],
    [
        "There are only three ways to accomplish this.",
        "有三种办法。"
    ],
    [
        "He failed, called an early election, ran a bad campaign, and lost narrowly to Netanyahu in May 1996.",
        "但他失败了，于是他宣布提前举行大选，糟糕的选战让他在1996年5月以微弱劣势输给了内塔尼亚胡。"
    ],
    [
        "Freedom of expression, the separation of powers, and the rule of law have been progressively eroded under Erdoğan.",
        "在埃尔多安治下，言论自由、权力分隔以及法治被逐渐蚕食。"
    ],
    [
        "Learning how to spot such bubbles and deal with them before they infect entire economies will be a major challenge for the next generation of finance scholars.",
        "研究如何识别这些泡沫并在蔓延到整个经济之前处理掉它们将是新一代金融学者的主要挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration is now working to initiate a sensible long-term approach to energy, with new fuel-efficiency standards for motor vehicles, investments in technology, energy-efficiency programs for dwellings, and environmentally sound exploration for additional resources.",
        "奥巴马政府正在着手规划合理的长期能源政策，包括新的汽车节能标准、技术投资、住房节能计划，以及最重要可靠的新资源开发计划。"
    ],
    [
        "“Men cannot be employed when the object of desire [i.e., money] is something which cannot be produced and the demand for which cannot readily be choked off.”",
        "”——就是安全，稳定和流动的资产。 “如果没有经济来源，一般人都会感到不安全，消费的需求自然就会下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever form it takes, greater boldness is clearly needed.",
        "不管采取什么形式，显然需要更加果断。"
    ],
    [
        "The short answer is debt.",
        "简短地回答是债务。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, the bill imposes an across-the-board limit on mortgage deductions, which will have a disproportionately adverse effect on people living in high-cost Democratic strongholds such as New York and California.",
        "例如，该法案对抵押贷款的抵扣进行了全面限制，这将对生活在纽约和加利福尼亚等民主党主导高生活成本地区的人们带来了不合理比例的负面影响。"
    ],
    [
        "Of the 25 companies granted the most US patents in 2006, only eight were American; 12 were Japanese.",
        "在2006年取得美国专利最多的25个公司中，只有8家是美国公司，有12家日本公司。"
    ],
    [
        "Or it might get complete financial deregulation and a return to the most irresponsible fiscal policies the US ever experienced.",
        "或者他将采取全面的金融去监管化，回到美国所经历过的最不负责任的财政政策。"
    ],
    [
        "Migrants’ remittances alone, which the World Bank estimates will total $586 billion this year, represent a tremendous growth opportunity for companies competing with banks to move money.",
        "世界银行估算，今年世界侨汇总额将达到5,860亿美元，对于与银行竞争资金转移业务的公司来说，光是侨汇便已是一个巨大的增长机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, in recent years, factories and laboratories for processing opium into heroin have been sprouting in Afghanistan, producing 420 tons of heroin last year alone.",
        "而且，近年来，将鸦片加工为海洛因的工厂和实验室在阿富汗不断涌现，仅去年就制造了420吨海洛因。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, there is an important and worrisome twist to those linkages: China itself has tilted increasingly toward Europe as its major source of external demand.",
        "此外，在这些联系中还有一个令人担忧的重要扭曲：中国本身越来越依赖欧洲作为其外部需求的主要来源。"
    ],
    [
        "Any technically capable state – and there are now dozens of them – can build uranium enrichment facilities with the official purpose of producing fuel for nuclear power or research reactors, but which are nonetheless inherently capable of producing the much higher-grade fuel needed for nuclear weapons.",
        "任何有技术能力的国家——目前有几十个之多——都可以建造核浓缩设施，只要官方目的是为核能或研究性反应堆生产能源，但它们当然都有能力制造核武器所需要的更高级别的燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "But this was non-violent resistance. Its main weapon was the language of freedom.",
        "但是，团结工会的抵抗是非暴力的，它的主要武器是宣扬自由。"
    ],
    [
        "While the US stock market has had a robust recovery, the real economy has remained in the doldrums.",
        "尽管美国股市已强劲复苏，实体经济却依然低迷。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, many states and localities lack the capacity to evaluate the costs and benefits of PPPs – a problem that President Barack Obama proposed solving with a new federal PPP knowledge center.",
        "此外，许多州和地方没有能力评估PPP的成本和收益——奥巴马总统提出通过建立新的联邦PPP信息中心解决这个问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Bismarck versus Bismarck",
        "俾斯麦与俾斯麦"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, it is still too early to declare victory, but Obamacare seems to be working.",
        "当然，现在就宣布胜利还为时尚早，但奥巴马医保似乎在起作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, investigations have shown that the risk of developing breast cancer is roughly doubled in females with a family history of breast cancer.",
        "事实上，调查显示曾有乳腺癌家族史的女性罹患乳腺癌的风险约为常人的两倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Thus, they run the risk that a spike in interest rates would feed back relatively quickly into higher borrowing costs.",
        "因此，它们面临着利率升高将相对较快地反映为借贷成本升高的风险。"
    ],
    [
        "Their opposition is more elemental: they do not accept the principle of democratic majority rule. Instead, they seek to restore Sunni minority rule.",
        "他们的反对有更根本的原因：他们不接受民主多数统治的原则，反而寻求重建逊尼“少数派”的统治。"
    ],
    [
        "This was a message for which Britain’s European friends had long been hoping, and for which they had waited in vain since Blair’s election in 1997.",
        "英国的欧洲朋友们早就期待这样的表态，自从布莱尔1997年当选后他们就毫无结果地苦苦等候。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the crisis, this problem has become widely recognized, including by business leaders such as Goldman Sachs’ CEO Lloyd Blankfein.",
        "此次金融危机发生过后，人们才开始广泛注意到这一问题，包括业界领袖高盛的首席执行官劳尔德·贝兰克梵。"
    ],
    [
        "The Drone in the Desert",
        "沙漠中的无人机"
    ],
    [
        "Neither mechanism foresees a situation whereby all countries simultaneously seek to upgrade their financial systems across a variety of sectors.",
        "这两种机制都没有遇见到所有国家同时寻求横跨多部门升级金融系统的局面。"
    ],
    [
        "Premier Wen Jiabao has stayed the construction of a number of dams until environmental and social impact assessments could be undertaken.",
        "温家宝总理已经暂停了几项筑坝工程，等待环境和社会影响方面的评估结果。"
    ],
    [
        "The effectiveness of Franco-German resistance to American hegemony was qualified, though, by the reactions of other European states.",
        "但是，欧洲其他国家的反应削弱了法德两国抵制美国霸权的力量。"
    ],
    [
        "Although Abe has lifted Japan’s sights and self-confidence, he recognizes that Japan faces real limits.",
        "尽管安倍晋三提升了日本的视界和自信，但他也承认日本面临现实的局限。"
    ],
    [
        "The 1971 Indo-Pakistani War, which led to the independence of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), crushed those hopes.",
        "1971年的印巴战争将这一希望击得粉碎，也导致了东巴基斯坦（现在的孟加拉国）独立。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, communism’s collapse was not the result of a pre-emptive strike by the West (though the arms race helped drive the system to implosion).",
        "当然了，导致共产主义崩溃的不是西方所谓“先发制人”的战争(尽管军备竞赛在推动整个体系坍塌时起了一定的作用)。"
    ],
    [
        "In Tunisia, the largest newspaper has a circulation of roughly 50,000 in a country of 10 million people.",
        "在突尼斯的1000万人口中，该国最大报纸的发行量是大约5万份。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s recent campaign to crackdown on pirating needs to be encouraged, but far more needs to be done.",
        "需要指出，尽管中方最近开展的打击盗版的运动需要鼓励，但有关努力依然任重而道远。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, in May 2000, Joschka Fischer, the ex-leader of the Green Party and German Foreign Minister, gave a long speech about the necessity of European integration. The question about European federalism was posed to all member states, and none answered.",
        "事实上，曾任德国外长和绿党领导人的约施卡·费舍尔曾在2000年5月就欧洲整合问题发表了长篇论述，并将欧洲联邦制的问题摆在了各欧盟成员国面前，不过无人响应罢了。"
    ],
    [
        "3D printers are being used to produce replacement parts – for both machines and humans.",
        "人们正在使用3D打印机生产用于更换的零部件——无论是用在机器还是人类身上。"
    ],
    [
        "Some, such as France’s National Front, oppose their country’s eurozone membership; others, such as Podemos in Spain, do not.",
        "其中一些政党，如法国的国民阵线（National Front），反对国家加入欧元区； 也有一些，如西班牙社会民主党（Podemos）不反对。"
    ],
    [
        "And, among the severest, with the gravest long-term and even existential implications, is economic inequality.",
        "而其中最为严酷，拥有最重大长期性影响甚至事关人类存续的，则是经济不平等。"
    ],
    [
        "At the end of the day, resolving private-sector leverage problems by fully socializing private losses and re-leveraging the public sector is risky.",
        "说到底，靠全民分摊私人亏损和公共部门重建杠杆来解决私人部门杠杆问题的做法风险很大。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, this surge in trade has created myriad well-paying jobs.",
        "此外，这一贸易量的剧增也创造大量高薪岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "First, citizens in the West have gradually become less politically organized and more individualistic.",
        "首先，西方公民政治组织性逐渐减弱，个人主义日益盛行。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, China must stem the pace of real-estate investment, which accounted for more than 13% of GDP in recent years – a move that will undoubtedly lead to slower economic growth and, in turn, reduce the profitability of China’s nonfinancial corporates further.",
        "事实上，中国必须遏制近几年已占GDP 13%以上的房地产投资——这样做必然会导致经济增长减速，反过来进一步降低中国非金融企业的利润率。"
    ],
    [
        "Singapore in 1967 and Taiwan in 1975 had similar gaps – followed by similar growth rates.",
        "这一差距也大致等于1977年美国和韩国之间的差距，在此之后的20年里，韩国年增长率为7. 6%。"
    ],
    [
        "American interests are evidently well served by having democratic, stable, and increasingly prosperous neighbors.",
        "民主、稳定、不断繁荣的邻邦显然符合美国的利益。"
    ],
    [
        "The ever-freer and faster flow of capital, labor, goods, and ideas found in the EU a model and a forerunner.",
        "资本、劳动力、商品和理念的高速自由流动使欧洲成为了典范和先驱。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, too, there is an important role for America to play.",
        "在这一块，美国还扮演着一个重要角色。"
    ],
    [
        "For Israel, a Trump presidency would clearly be a major loss, not least because Israel has long counted on Republican lawmakers to push its agenda.",
        "对以色列而言，尤其考虑到以色列长期依赖共和党议员推动其议程，特朗普当选总统肯定是一种重大损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, history suggests that this wouldn’t lead to much progress beyond the state of the pipeline today.",
        "不幸的是，历史表明这无法产生远远超过现有产品线状态的进步。"
    ],
    [
        "Chief among them is Germany, whose external surplus now exceeds 8% of GDP.",
        "其中最主要的是德国，其外部盈余现在已经超过国内生产总值的8%。"
    ],
    [
        "Krugman seems to make much of the fact that the UK did not bounce back even more strongly from a larger output decline between the fourth quarter of 2007 and the fourth quarter of 2010 – a fall that occurred before the Cameron government took office.",
        "克鲁格曼大做文章的一个事实是英国没有从2007年四季度到2010年四季度之间更大规模的产出下降的基础上实现更强劲的反弹——这一产出下降发生在卡梅伦政府上台之前。"
    ],
    [
        "Therein lies the inspiration for all of us.",
        "而这当中也蕴藏着足以触动我们每个人的深刻内涵。"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, the Saudi system is still worlds away from being a Westminster-style democracy; indeed, it will probably never become one.",
        "但可以确定的是，沙特体系与韦斯敏斯特式的民主相差甚远截然不同。 事实上，它可能永远不会变成那样。"
    ],
    [
        "This, indeed, was the debt death trap that engulfed Argentina between 1998 and 2001.",
        "这正是1998年和2001年让阿根廷吃尽苦头的债务死亡陷阱。"
    ],
    [
        "It is time to bring back some warmth.",
        "现在，应该让这一关系重新转暖。"
    ],
    [
        "But the principle at stake is simple: A parent company must be held responsible for overseeing the actions of those representing it.",
        "但适用原则很简单：母公司必须负责监督代表它行动的人的行为。"
    ],
    [
        "The capacity to use the Internet to inflict damage is now well established.",
        "人们现在公认互联网能够造成损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Others fall into line because they don’t know any better.",
        "其他人欣然接受则是因为不了解实际是怎么回事。"
    ],
    [
        "Following the dot-com collapse of the early 2000’s, speculation in real estate and financial assets – enabled by cheap money – kept Western economies going.",
        "21世纪初“点com”大崩盘后，房地产和金融资产投机——拜廉价资金所赐——维持了西方经济体的增长。"
    ],
    [
        "In January 2003, North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and resumed full-scale weapons-development efforts.",
        "2003年1月，朝鲜撤出核不扩散条约，重新启动了全面武器开发计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Even if it is not, how can an internally roiled India respond adequately to its many external tests, the severity of which was underscored recently by Pakistani troops’ killing of two Indian soldiers along the Line of Control in Kashmir.",
        "”即使答案是否定的，内部阵脚已乱的印度如何充分地应对诸多外部考验，比如最近发生的巴基斯坦军方在克什米尔控制线附近杀害两名印度士兵的事件？"
    ],
    [
        "Without major-party backing beyond his own En Marche! movement, however, Macron is unlikely to be able to muster the support needed to win the presidency (he currently has just 14% support).",
        "在未能赢得除自身En Marche! 运动以外主要党派支持的情况下，马龙似乎不太可能集齐赢得总统竞选所需的票数（马龙目前仅赢得14%的选民投票）。"
    ],
    [
        "But if Trump sticks to his protectionist promises, we will no longer have to worry about US-Brazil rivalry within the same trade agreement.",
        "但如果特朗普坚守其保护主义承诺，我们就不再需要担心美国和巴西在同一个贸易协定中出现对立。"
    ],
    [
        "Median income for full-time male workers is actually lower in real (inflation-adjusted) terms than it was 42 years ago.",
        "全职男性工人的真实（去除通胀因素后）平均收入相对于42年前其实更低。"
    ],
    [
        "So a shift to greater domestic consumption was inevitable anyway.",
        "因此转向依靠内需也是必然的。"
    ],
    [
        "Approval by the association’s foreign ministers may come in September, with ASEAN leaders tackling the issue in October.",
        "该草案可能在九月获得东盟外长的批准，并在十月提交东盟领导人进行表决。"
    ],
    [
        "The second factor is Donald Trump, whose US administration has a lower standing in Europe than any other in recorded history.",
        "第二个因素是唐纳德·特朗普，他所领导的美国政府有史以来在欧洲的地位已经低到无以复加。"
    ],
    [
        "How to reconcile the tension between the market and the state is the central concern of political economy today, just as it was for Adam Smith in the eighteenth century, Friedrich List and Karl Marx in the nineteenth century, and John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek in their long debate on the topic through the middle decades of the twentieth century.",
        "如何协调市场与国家之间的紧张是当今政治经济学的一个核心问题，一如十八世纪的亚当·斯密、十九世纪的弗雷德里希·李斯特（Friedrich List）和卡尔·马克思以及在整个二十世纪中叶就此问题进行长期论战的约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯和弗雷德里希·冯·哈耶克。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, despite its politicians’ anxious rhetoric, the United Kingdom is a more ethnically mixed, and in some ways more open, society than Germany.",
        "事实上，尽管政客们说得吓人，但与德国相比英国多民族杂居度更高，某些方面开放度也更大。"
    ],
    [
        "Free medicines are only part of the solution.",
        "免费药品只是解决方案的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to thrive in today’s fast-changing economic environment, where technology is making many jobs redundant and rewarding greater specialization, workers everywhere must consistently upgrade or expand their skill sets.",
        "要想适应当今快速变化的经济环境（也就是说技术的应用让很多岗位变得多余并且与此同时鼓励更高程度的专业化），世界各地的工人必须持续升级并拓展他们的技能范围。"
    ],
    [
        "Arab civil-society reformers must be encouraged to speak up now, or risk losing that promise for another generation.",
        "阿拉伯民间社会改革者必须出来说话，否则就会冒险让又一代人失去希望。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the effects of Abe’s reforms are becoming visible in areas such as equity prices and exchange rates.",
        "尽管如此，安倍改革的效果已经在股市和汇率等领域开始显现。"
    ],
    [
        "Rediscovering Fiscal Policy at the G7",
        "在G7重新发现财政政策"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, transcending nationalism required not only two devastating world wars in the first half of the twentieth century, but also the prevalence of democratic regimes.",
        "在欧洲，超越民族主义不仅仅付出了二十世纪上半页的两次毁灭性的世界大战的代价，同时也是依靠各国都实施了民主政治体制而换来的。"
    ],
    [
        "That, together with the oil price, should actually benefit the economy, as it gives a boost to consumption and investment.",
        "这与石油价格相结合应该在实际上有益于经济，因为它大幅推动了消费和投资。"
    ],
    [
        "Unless there is a change in course, living standards will eventually be compromised.",
        "除非加以改变，否则人民生活水平的提高将最终受到威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "The final lesson of the shutdown is that political systems of every kind benefit from the addition of women.",
        "政府关门的最后一个教训是所有种类的政治制度因为更多女性的参与而受益。"
    ],
    [
        "She could use the opportunity to hint at a new approach to European integration, one that starts in the country that has suffered the most, a victim both of the eurozone’s faulty monetary design and of its society’s own failings.",
        "她可以利用这次机会暗示新的欧洲一体化方针，这个方针从受害最深的国家、一个欧元区错误的货币设计和自身社会失败的双重受害国开始。"
    ],
    [
        "But the truth is that America in the Greenspan years benefited from a period of declining commodity prices, and from deflation in China, which helped keep prices of manufactured goods in check.",
        "但是事实是，在格林斯潘年代，基本商品价格下滑而且中国的通货紧缩帮助限制了制造业商品的价格，美国从中受益。"
    ],
    [
        "He seems to support Trump’s refusal to “pivot” from the divisive rhetoric of the primary season to a more “presidential” approach.",
        "他似乎支持特朗普拒绝将重心从初选期间的分裂言论过渡到更像“总统”的观点。"
    ],
    [
        "But, when it comes to the MFF, Europe’s national leaders appear not to be listening closely.",
        "但是，在MFF协议问题上，欧洲各国领导人似乎不愿意听它们的话。"
    ],
    [
        "Called “bioenergy with CCS,” or BECCS, this method seeks to pair the CO2-absorption capabilities of fast-growing plants with underground CO2 storage methods.",
        "这一方法称为“带CCS的生物能”，或BECCS，寻求将生长快速的植物的二氧化碳吸收能力与地下二氧化碳储存方法相结合。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s recent intervention in the currency market also sent mixed signals.",
        "中国近来的货币市场干预也发出了混杂的信号。"
    ],
    [
        "Public commitments to help rebuild Georgia are the best way to prevent Russia from achieving its goal.",
        "公开承诺帮助重建格鲁吉亚是防止俄国实现企图的最佳方式。"
    ],
    [
        "The EU must instead show leadership through its efforts to solve the world’s current problems.",
        "因此欧盟必须通过解决当今世界问题的一系列努力来显示其领导地位。"
    ],
    [
        "In his closing statement, he dropped a bombshell: he claimed that Wang Lijun, his former police chief and henchman (and a “vile character”), was secretly in love with his wife.",
        "他在结束陈词中扔下一枚重磅炸弹：称曾是他手下警察局长兼左膀右臂（而且没有“做人的基本道德”）的王立军暗恋他的妻子。"
    ],
    [
        "For copyrights, the US is demanding 95 years of protection after publication, or 120 years after creation, whereas TRIPS provides for 50 years and US agreements with Australia, Chile, Korea and Peru specify 70 years.",
        "就版权来说，美国要求出版后90年或创作完成后120年，而TRIPS的期限是50年，美国与澳大利亚、智利、韩国的秘鲁为70年。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s much-vaunted soft-power diplomacy and neighborhood policy now lie in tatters.",
        "土耳其自夸成分很大的软实力外交和邻国政策已经支离破碎。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is that democracy has only ever worked within nation-states.",
        "问题在于，民主只有在独立国家发挥过作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Curtailing side-payments does not imply the ability to manage concession contracts or collect taxes.",
        "减少补偿性支付（side-payments）并不意味着管理特许经营合同或征税的能力。"
    ],
    [
        "The Obama administration has already moved against Chinese exports of tires and steel pipes, but this year’s confrontation will extend well beyond trade.",
        "但尽管奥巴马政府已经对中国出口的轮胎和钢管采取抵制行动，今年的冲突还是会远远超出贸易的范畴。"
    ],
    [
        "That was certainly the case last week when she pointed out something about Frozen, the hugely popular Disney film, that had totally escaped me.",
        "一个活生生的例子是上周我女儿关于广受欢迎的迪斯尼电影《冰雪奇缘》的观点完全出乎我的预料。"
    ],
    [
        "With more than a thousand points still to be agreed, all the policymakers I’ve spoken to recently say that they cannot see how a meaningful deal can be reached by December in Copenhagen.",
        "由于还在超过一千个论点上未能达成共识，因此最近跟我交流过的所有政策制定者都说，他们看不到能在12月哥本哈根出台一个有实际意义之协议的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, the Chinese have a trade-weighted exchange-rate policy, not one based on keeping the renminbi at some targeted level relative to the dollar.",
        "无论如何，中国实施贸易加权汇率政策，其政策基础并不是将人民币盯住某个美元水平。"
    ],
    [
        "Some firms, however, will adapt, taking advantage of unprecedented opportunities to remain agile.",
        "但有些企业会适应环境，利用前所未有的机遇来保持自身的敏捷。"
    ],
    [
        "Unemployment reached 18% last year, up from 13% in 2010.",
        "去年失业率高达18%，而2010年为13%。"
    ],
    [
        "So, how can Britain uphold the democratic will of its voters and yet remain “part of Europe,” as the City and others would like?",
        "那么英国如何秉承其选民的民主意愿并仍然保持是“欧洲的一部分”，就像伦敦和其他许多地方的民众所希望的那样？"
    ],
    [
        "He would be president, not the Alaskan.",
        "是他将成为总统，而不是那位阿拉斯加人。"
    ],
    [
        "It is also leading the African effort to host what is widely described as potentially the world’s largest scientific instrument, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope.",
        "在政府领导下，南非还力争修建被普遍认定为世界最大科学仪器的平方公里天线阵（SKA）射电望远镜。"
    ],
    [
        "The Socialists’ problems are compounded by the existence of a radical left working actively to eliminate them, much as Spain’s left-wing Podemos party has sought to replace the Socialist Workers’ Party there.",
        "极左翼政治力量积极消灭社会主义者导致社会党的问题更加复杂，这与西班牙左翼“我们可以”党一直试图取代那里的社会工人党非常相似。"
    ],
    [
        "Galrim’s asylum application was also turned down, placing him on the deportation list.",
        "加尔林的避难申请也被驳回，上了遣返名单。"
    ],
    [
        "The Petri-Plummer study predicts that the bulk of the economic benefits of the TPP will come from reductions in non-tariff barriers (such as regulatory barriers on imported services) and lower obstacles to foreign investment.",
        "彼特里-普卢默研究预测TPP的大部分经济效益将来自非关税壁垒的降低（如对进口服务的监管壁垒）和贸易投资障碍的消除。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not that people are completely dishonest.",
        "这并不是说人们完全不诚实。"
    ],
    [
        "Why America Will Lead the “Asian Century”",
        "美国为什么能够领导“亚洲世纪”"
    ],
    [
        "More important, the support must be not only financial, but also political.",
        "还有一点更为重要，金融和政治支持同样不可或缺。"
    ],
    [
        "But the main question – whether globalization is a good thing, and for whom – remains unanswered.",
        "但主要问题——全球化是好是坏、对谁好对谁坏——仍有待回答。"
    ],
    [
        "If, however, central banks can contain domestic and global inconsistencies long enough, the combination of endogenous healing and eventual political progress would significantly improve the probability distribution.",
        "但是，如果央行能够在足够长的时间里遏制国内和全球性矛盾，那么内生恢复和最终的政治进步将大大改善概率分布。"
    ],
    [
        "But a similar critique could be made of any other change in policy: if it is poorly designed, it will be counter-productive.",
        "但类似的批评也适用于其他任何政策变化：如果设计不合理，必然不利于生产。"
    ],
    [
        "A better approach would be to make news less boring.",
        "更好的方针是让新闻不再那么无聊。"
    ],
    [
        "The sense of us is a subroutine of the brain based on the sense of self, which is one of our brain’s many creations: a sensation of being an ongoing entity that experiences things, remembers its history, can act, and has feelings and goals – what the eminent neuroscientist Antonio Damasio calls an autobiographical self.",
        "我们的感觉是大脑的一个次级例行程序，它基于自我的感觉，而自我的感觉是大脑为数众多的创造物之一：一种身为可以体验事物、记忆它的历史、可以行动并具备感觉和目标的活动的实体的感觉——即著名神经科学家安东尼奥·达马西奥（Antonio Damasio）所谓的亲历式自我（autobiographical self）。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, we know that US banks actually preyed on their borrowers, taking advantage of their lack of financial sophistication.",
        "事实上，我们知道，美国银行实际上在利用借款人缺乏金融知识而掠夺他们。"
    ],
    [
        "Old men (like us) dominate public debate, and we strongly urge Cyprus’s leaders to make more space for those whose voices are not so readily heard.",
        "像我们这样的老年男性主导了公众辩论，我们强烈敦促塞浦路斯领导人为那些被忽略的人留出更多空档。"
    ],
    [
        "The mainstream view that people are wholly self-interested economic actors denies our innate capacity for reciprocity, fairness, and moral responsibility.",
        "人们是完全自利的经济行为人，这一主流观点否定我们与生俱来的互惠能力、公正和社会责任心。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, it is difficult to separate statistically the educational value added by the school from the characteristics of the families whose children attend.",
        "此外，在统计上将来自学校和来自学生家庭出身的教育增加值进行分离十分困难。"
    ],
    [
        "Mexico has a serious security problem because of drug trafficking.",
        "墨西哥由于毒品走私的问题而存在严重的安全问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, donor countries are unlikely to provide meaningful increases in development funding anytime soon.",
        "与此同时，出资国所提供的发展资金在近期不可能有实质性增加。"
    ],
    [
        "In the United Kingdom, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn accuses neoliberalism of increasing homelessness, throwing children into poverty, and causing wages to fall below subsistence level.",
        "工党领袖杰里米·科尔宾（Jeremy Corbyn）指责新自由主义要为越来越多的人无家可归、儿童陷入贫困以及工资跌落到生存线以下负责。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, smuggling, trafficking, exploitation, and discrimination take an incalculable human toll.",
        "与此同时，走私、拐卖、剥削和歧视都在对移民造成着不可估量的伤害。"
    ],
    [
        "In reorganizing the World Bank Group’s central component, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Kim has adopted a management-consulting model that unites expertise with regional coverage.",
        "在重新组织世界银行集团核心部分——国际复兴开发银行（International Bank for Reconstruction and Development）过程中，金墉采取了将专家知识与地区覆盖相统一的管理顾问模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Another lesson from Thucydides – reinforced by historical experience – is that rising, not established, powers tend to upset the international order.",
        "另一个来自修昔底德——并由历史经验强化——的教训是，崛起的力量，而不是老牌力量，往往是国际秩序的扰乱者。"
    ],
    [
        "Despite the vulnerability of minorities, the religious breakdown of displaced people closely reflects that of the country: 64% Shi’a, 32% Sunni, and 4% Christian.",
        "尽管少数民族容易受伤害，但是难民的宗教派别比例还是基本反映了这个国家人口的宗教比例：什叶派占64%，逊尼派占32%，而基督教派占4%。"
    ],
    [
        "All three challenges are interconnected, and mistakes by any of the parties could plunge the global economy into another recession.",
        "这三重挑战是相互关联的，不论在哪个方面出了错，都会将全球经济拖入新的衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – National self-determination seems a straightforward moral principle, but it is fraught with problems.",
        "剑桥－民族自决似乎是一个简单明了的道德原则，但是，它充满了各种各样的问题。"
    ],
    [
        "The US should capitalize on this situation, leveraging Russian concerns and interests to induce China to join strategic arms-control efforts.",
        "美国应当抓住机遇，利用俄国的关切和利益诱使中国参与战略武器控制工作。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, a Chinese exporter might report a lower sale price to an American importer than it actually receives, with the difference secretly deposited in dollars into a US bank account (which might in turn be used to purchase a Picasso).",
        "比如一家中国出口可能会报一个比其实际价格更低的销售价格给美国的进口商，并要求对方偷偷把美元差额存入一个美国银行帐户 (而这些钱反过来可能会用于购买毕加索的名画) 。"
    ],
    [
        "That decision is one of the most outrageous examples of biopiracy in the history of intellectual property systems.",
        "这项决定是知识产权体系建立以来最令人气愤的生物剽窃事件。"
    ],
    [
        "In the near term, the most likely counterweight could be a liberal coalition with a heavy component of former members of deposed President Hosni Mubarak’s National Democratic Party (NDP) – that is, those who have not been discredited by their association with Mubarak.",
        "从短期看，最可能的抗衡者将是一个以下台总统穆巴拉克的国家民主党（NDP）为重要组成部分自由派的联盟——也就是说，这将是一群因与穆巴拉克有过合作而失去了信誉的人。"
    ],
    [
        "Refugees must register in the member country where they enter, but the Greek government cannot process the cases.",
        "难民必须在入境成员国进行注册，但希腊政府却无力应对他们的情况。"
    ],
    [
        "Overall, however, a thicket of regulations is unnecessary and should be avoided, as the systemic risks that P2P lending poses to the wider economy are small.",
        "但是总体而言，过度监管没有必要，而应该避免的，因为P2P贷款给总体经济带来的系统性风险很小。"
    ],
    [
        "Socialism or Global Division?",
        "社会主义抑或全球性分化？"
    ],
    [
        "That is why I expect Keynes to be a living presence 20 years from now, on the centenary of the General Theory, and well beyond.",
        "正因如此，我认为，直到20年后通论100周年及其后相当长一段时间，凯恩斯主义都将是活跃的存在。"
    ],
    [
        "This approach would enable a fair and lasting resolution of the Palestinian issue, which profoundly offends people’s sense of justice and causes instability and extremism, while eliminating tensions arising from the threat perceptions of Iran and other countries in the region.",
        "上述方法可以在消除伊朗和其他国家威胁意识所带来的紧张局势，公正持久地解决严重违背人们正义感、并导致动荡和极端主义的巴勒斯坦问题。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, Islamists in Egypt are beginning to view Iran as a status quo power, not an agent of revolutionary change.",
        "埃及的伊斯兰教徒因此将伊朗视为维持现状的力量，而不是革命性的变化因素。"
    ],
    [
        "They neglect to tell the real story of how the Party exercises that will, trusting that the admission itself will satisfy us.",
        "但是它们并未说出中共如何实施这一意志，而是相信承认本身就可以让我们满意。"
    ],
    [
        "That is both logical and rational – and thus not something that the US Federal Reserve can offset with unconventional monetary easing.",
        "此举确为逻辑理性之举——因此绝非美联储靠超乎常规的宽松货币政策可以抵消的。"
    ],
    [
        "What the creditors overlooked was that, over time, the pain of austerity began – in the minds of many Greeks – to outweigh the benefits of their assistance.",
        "债权人忽略的是，随着时间的推移，紧缩的痛苦开始显现，在许多希腊人看来，这一痛苦超过了援助带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "WASHINTGTON, DC – Until a few weeks ago, while oil prices were surging, debate raged about the relative roles of economic fundamentals and speculation in boosting oil prices.",
        "华盛顿特区- 直到几个星期之前，在油价飙升的时候，人们还在激励争论在推升油价中经济基本面和投机的相对作用。"
    ],
    [
        "It helps explain the rise of protectionism, and the failure of the WTO trade talks in Cancun last September to improve emerging countries' access to advanced-country markets.",
        "它也能解释保护主义的抬头和世贸组织去年9月旨在改善新兴国家在发达国家的市场准入的Cancun谈判无果而终的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Regulators allowed innovations in incomplete contract-based financial intermediations, such as trust companies and Internet-based platforms, while maintaining tight control over the formal banking sector.",
        "监管者允许基于不完全契约的金融中介的创新，如信托公司和互联网金融平台，同时对正规银行部门施加了严格的控制。"
    ],
    [
        "The new electoral register was more robust than in many Western countries, with a photo ID picture alongside each elector.",
        "新的选举登记表要比许多西方国家更严格，上面有每名选民带照片的身份证。"
    ],
    [
        "If monetary expansion does not merit the charge of currency manipulation, still less do other sorts of economic policies.",
        "如果货币扩张不能称为货币操纵，那么其他经济政策就更加如此了。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, currency appreciation should not be prevented altogether.",
        "当然，也不应该把本币升值完全压死。"
    ],
    [
        "A legislator from Shiv Sena, a far-right regional party allied with the BJP, forced a Muslim cafeteria employee to eat bread during the Ramadan fast.",
        "来自与印度人民党结盟的极右翼地区政党湿婆神军党（Shiv Sena）的立法者强迫穆斯林自助餐厅雇员在斋月期间吃面包。"
    ],
    [
        "He seems to believe that he can retain enough popularity to ride out the crisis without expanding his coalition.",
        "他似乎认为他可以赢得足够的支持在不扩大联盟的情况下走出危机。"
    ],
    [
        "While natural gas is also a fossil fuel, it generates only about half the CO2 that conventional coal does.",
        "尽管天然气也属于化石燃料，但其产生的二氧化碳量只有常规煤炭的二分之一左右。"
    ],
    [
        "Africa has thus contributed nothing to the historical accumulation of greenhouse gases through carbon-based industrialization.",
        "非洲也因此没有在以碳为基础的工业化温室气体积累中扮演任何角色。"
    ],
    [
        "The world urgently needs an honest debate on the research, deployment, and governance of these technologies; the CBD and the London Protocol are essential starting points for these governance discussions.",
        "世界急需关于这些技术的研究、部署和治理的真诚的讨论； CBD和伦敦协议是这些治理讨论的重要起点。"
    ],
    [
        "As it stands, while everyone agrees that researchers need extensive training, the prevailing assumption is that great teachers are born and great teaching just happens – a view that is hampering education at all levels.",
        "尽管所有人都同意研究者需要经过全面的训练，但人们普遍认为，好老师常有而好教学不常有——这一观点正在妨碍各个层面的高等教育。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Public Citizen, a US consumer advocacy group, has calculated that, in the US alone, the pharmaceutical industry has paid out billions of dollars as a result of court judgments and financial settlements between pharmaceutical manufacturers and federal and state governments.",
        "确实，美国消费者权益保护组织“公共公民”就计算过，仅仅是在美国，医药行业就为药品制造商和联邦及州政府之间的法庭判决和经济调解支付了数十亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, trusted authorities had seemed to say again and again that such events were historically remote and could not happen again.",
        "此外，受信任的当局似乎再三强调，这类事件已是遥远的过去，不会再现。"
    ],
    [
        "To begin with its strengths, the nation state remains the only political space in which the constitution of liberty thrives.",
        "首先来看看优势何在。 民族国家迄今为止仍然是自由宪章能够生根发芽的唯一政治土壤。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, measures to address one dimension can easily affect the others, which means that uncoordinated and rash policy decisions can have negative consequences across the board.",
        "此外，解决一个层面的问题的措施，可能很容易影响到其他层面，这意味着不协调的匆忙决策可能造成消极的跨境后果。"
    ],
    [
        "But a consensus had emerged in Brazil that a left party could neither win nor govern with hard-left ideas, and Lula’s presidency did not challenge this view.",
        "但是巴西内部已经达成了共识，左派党使用硬左思想是无法取大选得胜利，也无法治理国家的。 卢拉的总统胜利也没有改变这种观点。"
    ],
    [
        "And he can bring jobs back, but they will be low-wage jobs, not the high-paying jobs of the 1950’s.",
        "他也可以让工作岗位回来，但都将是低薪岗位，而不是20世纪50年代的高薪岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "For example, labor-market reforms that make it easier for companies to reduce staff may weaken demand further, underscoring the importance of considering reforms’ short-term effects.",
        "比如，让公司裁员更方便的劳动力市场改革可能会进一步削弱需求，从而加强考虑改革短期效果的紧迫性。"
    ],
    [
        "The Velvet Delusion",
        "锦色幻觉"
    ],
    [
        "Peace or Poison",
        "和平还是毒药"
    ],
    [
        "Goldman Sachs and the J.B. Pritzker Foundation have provided $7 million in investment to fund the program; their investment will be repaid with future savings.",
        "Pritzker Foundation）提供了700美元投资为该项目融资； 它们的投资将用未来储蓄偿还。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the gravest danger to Europe’s universities is a prolonged period of confusion about their ultimate aims.",
        "事实上，欧洲大学所面临的的最严重威胁是对其终极目标的长期迷茫。"
    ],
    [
        "Another risk is that China’s leaders continue to delay efforts to expand the services sector – including finance, insurance, wholesale and retail trade, and logistics – in the hope that the economy can continue to depend on manufacturing.",
        "另一个风险是中国领导人可能继续推延开放服务部门的措施——包括金融、保险、批发和零售贸易、物流等诸领域——以期经济能继续依赖制造业。"
    ],
    [
        "No less important, when Japan sends hardware, experts and training follow, and we convey our sense of pride in committing ourselves to our duties.",
        "同样重要的是，日本不但提供硬件，也提供专家和训练，承诺履行职责让我们备感自豪。"
    ],
    [
        "The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) proposed in December that each of America’s 50 states should establish a disaster insurance fund to cover a wide range of big calamities.",
        "全美保险总监协会在12月份提议，美国50个州各自设立灾害保险基金来赔付重大灾害所造成的各种损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, however, someone will have to run things and govern. This will mean making some tough, even unpopular decisions.",
        "但即使意味着要做出艰难、甚至是不受欢迎的决策，也必须有人出来履行管理执政的义务。"
    ],
    [
        "But this is a synchronous global downturn.",
        "但当前的危机是一场全球同步发生的衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "If any of these normal leaders have a long-term strategy for Europe (can anyone imagine such a thing from EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy or the Union’s foreign-policy supremo, Catherine Ashton?), they are remarkably unable to convey it.",
        "就算这帮平常的欧洲领导人中有任何一位身怀欧洲长期战略（你能想象欧盟委员会主席范龙佩或者欧盟外交政策舵手凯瑟琳·阿什顿身上有这东西吗？ ），他们显然也无法将其传达出来。"
    ],
    [
        "Three years later, the palace gates were in disrepair and the stars shone through leaks in the roof.",
        "三年后，宫门年久失修，星光可以透过屋顶的漏洞照射到室内。"
    ],
    [
        "Foreign direct investment should be encouraged, not hindered, regardless of whether it will support goods production and job creation or stronger public policies and more active citizenship.",
        "外国直接投资应该得到鼓励而不是遏制，不管它是为了支持商品生产和就业创造还是更强的公共政策和更活跃的公民。"
    ],
    [
        "Out on the street, pessimism runs rampant.",
        "悲观主义盛行在德国大街上。"
    ],
    [
        "Hundreds of millions of Chinese had entered the middle class.",
        "数亿中国人跻身中产阶级。"
    ],
    [
        "Commodity-price booms are usually associated with rising incomes, stronger fiscal positions, appreciating currencies, declining borrowing costs, and capital inflows.",
        "大宗商品价格上涨通常与收入增加，更佳的财政状况，货币升值，借贷成本下降以及资本流入有关。"
    ],
    [
        "No one does that better than this president.",
        "没有人在这方面比奥巴马做得更好的了。"
    ],
    [
        "I am often struck by the way many Europeans use arms-length euphemisms when talking about immigrants: they want immigrants to feel “welcome” or “comfortable.” I always wonder, “But do you want them to feel French, or German, or Norwegian?”",
        "我常常惊讶于许多欧洲人在谈论移民时喜欢用一些特别冗长委婉的词汇：他们希望移民能感觉到“受欢迎”和“舒适”，我一直在想：你为什么不让他们感觉特法国，特德国，或者特挪威呢？"
    ],
    [
        "A just global order must be defined in terms of peace and security, alleviation of poverty, a fairer distribution of wealth, better protection of the environment, and respect for local cultural particularities.",
        "一种公正的全球秩序必须体现在和平与安全、减轻贫困、更公平的财富分配、更好的环境保护和对地区文化特点的尊重上。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, an able economic team that has been installed in the government seems – at long last – to be addressing some of the economy’s deep structural flaws.",
        "事实上，政府组建的有能力的经济团体似乎终于开始解决某些深层次的经济结构性问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the agreement calls for the inclusion of existing international environmental standards in free-trade agreements, including rules concerning pollution and endangered animals.",
        "此外，该协定要求在自由贸易协定中纳入国际环境标准，包括与污染和濒危动物相关的规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Energizing Europe",
        "给欧洲注入活力"
    ],
    [
        "As such, they often provoke fiery rhetoric and defensiveness, instead of thoughtful debate.",
        "因此这些事件往往会激起狂热的花言巧语和自我辩护，而不是发人深省的探讨。"
    ],
    [
        "And the average hourly wages for all employees on private non-farm payrolls posted an annual increase of 2.5% in October, the biggest since 2009.",
        "而10月私营部门非农就业全体雇员平均时薪录得2. 5%的年增长率，为2009年以来的最高值。"
    ],
    [
        "But it does not have a symmetrical effect, because government debt from southern European countries, where the debt binges and current-account deficits of the past occurred, are mostly repurchased abroad.",
        "但其影响是不对称的，因为南欧国家在过去十年中大量举债并且存在经常项目赤字，它们主要靠海外回购。"
    ],
    [
        "Another, perhaps deeper reason is power.",
        "另一个也许更加深刻的原因是权力。"
    ],
    [
        "So what will Europe learn, and what relevance will those lessons have for the rest of the world?",
        "那么，欧洲该吸取什么教训？ 这些教训对世界其他地方又有什么警示呢？"
    ],
    [
        "And now, with the German government, as chief creditor, calling the shots on cross-border transfers to weaker eurozone countries, all such transfers are conditional on austerity (that is, internal devaluation).",
        "而今德国政府作为主要债权人操纵着对弱势欧元区国家的跨国转移支付，而所有这些转移都是以实施紧缩为条件的（也就是内部贬值）。"
    ],
    [
        "Whatever Europe’s problem, a response that entails waste on this scale cannot be the solution.",
        "不管欧洲的问题是什么，造成大规模浪费的应付方式可不会是解决办法。"
    ],
    [
        "But, with Donald Trump’s stunning victory over Hillary Clinton, do we now know for certain that a majority of Americans are anti-democratic?",
        "但是，随着唐纳德·特朗普出奇制胜希拉里·克林顿，现在我们能确定大多数美国人是反民主的吗？"
    ],
    [
        "China in the Eye of the Beholder",
        "旁观者眼中的中国"
    ],
    [
        "To be sure, a corporation can and should place limits on the use of its services.",
        "可以肯定的是，企业有权也理应对服务使用者做出限制。"
    ],
    [
        "Somehow a new life would begin.",
        "无论怎样，新生活即将启航。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW DELHI – The troubles of the Fukushima nuclear-power plant – and other reactors – in northeast Japan have dealt a severe blow to the global nuclear industry, a powerful cartel of less than a dozen major state-owned or state-guided firms that have been trumpeting a nuclear-power renaissance.",
        "发自新德里——位于日本东北部的福岛核电站（及其它反应堆）所碰到的麻烦对全球核工业来说如同当头一棒，一时间这个圈子很小（成员仅限于几个国营或国家管制的大企业）但却势力甚大的垄断行业集团收起了以往那套鼓吹核能复兴的说辞，变得噤若寒蝉了。"
    ],
    [
        "But in neither case has a standard method emerged for ensuring the integrity of research – or of the scientists who carry it out.",
        "但两种情况下均未制定标准方法来确保科研诚信—或从事科研的科学工作者的正直。"
    ],
    [
        "A few months before the election, neither of the two main political currents, conservative and reformist, has settled on its candidate.",
        "选举还有几个月就要举行，而两大政治派别：保守派和改革派都还没有确定各自的候选人。"
    ],
    [
        "Various treasures have been unearthed from Tripoli mansions that were hastily vacated by their owners, and what happened to the tortured, the murdered, and the missing is beginning to be revealed.",
        "在的黎波里各处都发现了一些金库和储藏室，但这些地方已经被原来的主人匆忙地搬空了，而那些被虐待，被谋杀以及失踪者的遭遇也逐渐曝光。"
    ],
    [
        "Saudi Arabia is doing what it can to help.",
        "沙特阿拉伯已竭尽全力提供帮助。"
    ],
    [
        "A country’s tax system reflects its institutional capacity, economic circumstances, and distribution of political power.",
        "一个国家的税制状况反应其体制能力、经济状况和政治权力分配。"
    ],
    [
        "America’s dalliances with Islamist-leaning political forces – and governments – have been guided by the notion that the cloak of Islam helps to protect the credibility of leaders who might otherwise be seen as foreign puppets.",
        "美国与亲伊斯兰政治力量和政府的结盟的指导思想是伊斯兰教的外衣有助于保护可能被视为外国傀儡的领导人的信誉。"
    ],
    [
        "Reverberations are already evident in other emerging Asian economies that depend on exports both to China-based manufacturers and to the US and Europe.",
        "依赖中国生产者和欧美市场的其他新兴亚洲经济体的反应也相当强烈。"
    ],
    [
        "In such cases, the central bank’s governor should be required to write an open letter explaining the bank’s decision, including how long it expects to give priority to the non-inflation objective and how it foresees returning to normal operations.",
        "如此，央行行长则应该被要求写公开信解释央行的决定，包括准备在多长时间内将非通胀目标作为首要目标、预计何时可以回归常规操作。"
    ],
    [
        "As far as trade is concerned, the current US presidential campaign is an embarrassment of substance, not just of personality.",
        "在贸易的角度看来，当前的美国总统竞选是议题本质上的谬误，而不仅仅是候选人人品的缺陷问题。"
    ],
    [
        "A U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, which President Dwight Eisenhower had denied existed, had been shot down over Soviet territory.",
        "一架被德怀特·艾森豪威尔总统否认存在的U2侦察机却在苏联领空范围内被击落。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, with three countries, there are three bilateral relationships; with ten, there are 45; and with 100 players, there are nearly 5,000.",
        "如果是和3个国家商谈的话，就会有3个不同的双边关系； 10个国家则有45个双边关系，100个国家则有将近5000个。"
    ],
    [
        "The Puzzle of Liberal Democracy",
        "自由民主之谜"
    ],
    [
        "In the last decade, Japan passed several laws obliging both businesses and individuals to separate plastics waste.",
        "过去十年中，日本通过了数项法律，强制企业和个人分离塑料废物。"
    ],
    [
        "A variety of approaches is called for.",
        "我们需要各种方针。"
    ],
    [
        "Small countries account for seven of the top ten countries for intangible infrastructure.",
        "小国在无形基础设施排行榜十强中占据七席。"
    ],
    [
        "I expect particularly great things of my fellow Koreans, a remarkable people who have come into their own.",
        "我特别期望我的韩国同胞们有所作为。 韩国人民是非凡的人们，已经独立自主。"
    ],
    [
        "The failure of the June EU summit and the bitter clashes between Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac have even inspired some to proclaim the beginning of the end for Europe.",
        "六月欧盟峰会的失败及托尼·布莱尔和雅克·希拉克之间的龃龉加深甚至促使某些人宣称欧洲末日已经开始。"
    ],
    [
        "Thailand’s new military leaders view themselves as a kind of cleanup crew, tasked with eradicating corruption, keeping politicians in line, and restoring the old order, underpinned by a symbiotic relationship between the military and the monarchy, with the bureaucracy handling day-to-day governance.",
        "泰国新一届军事领导人认为自己扮演了清洁工的角色，在军方及王室共生关系支持及官僚日常治理机制框架下铲除腐败、恢复原有秩序和监督政治家所为。"
    ],
    [
        "Most worrisome of all, we cannot rule out that North Korea may have succeeded in enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels.",
        "最令人忧心的是，我们不能排除朝鲜已成功实现武器级铀浓缩的可能性。"
    ],
    [
        "It is a small thing, but the kind of change that adds up over time.",
        "这虽然是小事，但日积月累，必有所成。"
    ],
    [
        "Jens Weidmann, the president of the German Bundesbank, remains openly skeptical.",
        "德国央行行长简斯·魏德曼（Jens Weidmann）依旧公开质疑这项做法。"
    ],
    [
        "As the title of a recent paper published by the International Monetary Fund succinctly puts it, “Capital Flows are Fickle: Anytime, Anywhere.”",
        "IMF最新论文的标题言简意赅地指出，《资本流是易变的：不论何时，不论何国》（“Capital Flows are Fickle: Anytime, Anywhere）。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, Turkey is further than ever from creating a society whose members feel free to speak openly and honestly.",
        "今天，土耳其离建立成员言论公开自由的诚实社会远得不能再远了。"
    ],
    [
        "If inequality was a problem before, enacting the Republicans’ proposed tax reform will make it much worse.",
        "如果说不平等性在此前已经是一个问题的话，那么实施共和党所提出的税收改革将让它进一步恶化。"
    ],
    [
        "Too often, when an organization does not correct a misstatement, it is taken as agreement.",
        "一个组织往往采取不纠正就是同意的做法，这种情况太多了。"
    ],
    [
        "The very moment he appears on the world’s television screens, victorious and smiling, America’s image and soft power would experience something like a Copernican revolution.",
        "当他面带微笑、展露荣光地出现在全世界的电视荧屏上的那一刻，美国的形象和软实力会如同经历一场哥白尼革命。"
    ],
    [
        "These events have fueled fears that, even very deep and liquid markets – such as US stocks and government bonds in the US and Germany – may not be liquid enough.",
        "这些事件激发了人们的恐慌，认为即使是深度和流动性非常好的市场——如美国股市和美国和德国政府债券市场——也会变得流动性不足。"
    ],
    [
        "According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, such activities by multinationals – which represent one-third of the potential corporate-tax base in developing countries – result in annual losses of $100 billion.",
        "据联合俄国贸易和发展会议（Conference on Trade and Development）的数据，跨国公司——它们占发展中国家潜在公司税基的三分之一——的BEPS行为导致的每年损失高达1,000亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "This might stimulate real growth through several channels: by reducing lending rates, by raising the nominal value of public and private assets, and by weakening the euro against the dollar and other currencies.",
        "此举或许能通过多种渠道刺激实体经济增长：比如降低贷款利率； 提升公共或者私人资产的名义价值；"
    ],
    [
        "And he signed off his tweet announcing that he had made a decision on the Paris accord with the words, “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”",
        "他还在推特上宣布，他对巴黎协定做出了一个决定，即“让美国重新伟大！ ”"
    ],
    [
        "But this ideology is a strain within Islam that represents an organized, substantial, powerful, and funded minority.",
        "但这一意识形态是伊斯兰教内部的一大成分，代表着一群有组织的、为数相当庞大的、实力相当强大的、资金相当充裕的少数派。"
    ],
    [
        "They tend to believe that culture reflects the existence of a soul type, or that it's an expression of humans’ intelligence and creativity.",
        "”他们一向认为，文化反映了一种灵魂的存在，或者说文化表现了人类的智慧和创造性。"
    ],
    [
        "ROME – The Basel Accords – meant to protect depositors and the public in general from bad banking practices – exacerbated the downward economic spiral triggered by the financial crisis of 2008.",
        "罗马—巴塞尔协议本是为了保护储户和普罗大众免受银行不当行为的伤害，但也加重了2008年金融危机所触发的经济颓势。"
    ],
    [
        "But the third round of space competition will not end until all major powers are ready to endorse a code of conduct for responsible behavior.",
        "但在所有大国都愿意支持负责任行为的规范之前，第三轮空间竞赛不会结束。"
    ],
    [
        "While Americans are relieved by France’s display of determination, they cannot refrain from expressing a sense of bemusement: Do the French really know what they are up against?",
        "虽然法国的坚定决心让美国人长出一口气，但他们还是情不自禁的感到困惑：法国人真的清楚自己在干什么吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Little did these countries know that their divergent paths would end up fueling large global imbalances, and eventually trigger a financial crisis that has shaken the prevailing international economic order to its foundations.",
        "这些国家似乎都不清楚，它们的分道扬镳最终助长了全球失衡，引发了动摇现有国际经济秩序根基的金融危机。"
    ],
    [
        "We have seen similarly encouraging progress elsewhere.",
        "其他地方也能看见类似的可喜进展。"
    ],
    [
        "More positively, restoring truth would counter the traditional Chinese instinct to blame all disasters on external forces, and might lead to a spiritual epiphany for a people struggling to find value in the emerging new China.",
        "更为重要的是，恢复真相将反击中国人将所有灾难归罪于外部力量的传统本性，并且可能让一个在新兴中国奋力寻找价值的民族获得精神顿悟。"
    ],
    [
        "Direct diplomatic and strategic engagement between the US and Iran at the highest levels is a proposition yet to be tested.",
        "美伊之间最高层的直接外交和战略接触是个有待考验的议题。"
    ],
    [
        "Addressing such concerns will require us to show that we are not promoting some people at the expense of others; gender parity must be win-win, not zero-sum.",
        "安抚这些担忧需要明确我们不是要以牺牲某些人为代价来抬高另一些人；"
    ],
    [
        "Given that many patients diagnosed with prostate cancer as a result of the PSA test would never suffer any symptoms, such consequences are difficult to justify.",
        "由于许多因PSA测试而被诊断为前列腺癌的患者原本不会出现任何症状，因此筛查的必要性很难证实。"
    ],
    [
        "An international selection committee has already eliminated China and South America, leaving only Australia and Africa – both clear choices for geographic reasons – in the running.",
        "国际遴选委员会已经排除了中国和南美，只剩下澳大利亚和非洲参与竞争，以上两地皆因地理原因能够确保视野更清晰。"
    ],
    [
        "In online retailing via mobile devices, Alibaba held an 84.2% share of the market last year, with the next largest online retailer, JD.com, capturing just 5.7%.",
        "在移动设备在线零售领域，去年阿里巴巴占据了84. 2%的市场份额，第二大在线零售商京东只获得了5."
    ],
    [
        "As we approach the next climate-change summit in Cancún, Mexico, this December, the international community must deliver concrete results and move forward to address the challenge.",
        "而在墨西哥坎昆气候峰会将于本月召开之际，国际社会必须取得切实成果，并进一步向应对挑战迈进。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, there is growing evidence that the medicine on which European countries have agreed – austerity – is killing the patient.",
        "不幸的是，越来越多的证据表明，欧洲各国一致同意的药方——紧缩正在起到杀死病人的反作用。"
    ],
    [
        "Here, developing countries, with less invested in traditional business models and facing an urgent need for power supplies, may be able to leapfrog the advanced countries, just as they have with mobile phones.",
        "这里，发展中国家因为对传统业务模式投资较少和迫切需要扩大电力供应，或许可以像在手机领域一样超越先进国家。"
    ],
    [
        "This makes it all the more important to report accurately on the system as it evolves, in order to comprehend the overall direction of change.",
        "因此为了把握变化的总体方向，对中国发电系统的变化情况进行跟踪就显得愈加重要。"
    ],
    [
        "This persecution will admittedly aggravate their difficult struggle, but they will naturally survive it.",
        "这样的迫害虽然会给本已困难的斗争雪上加霜，但他们肯定挺得过去。"
    ],
    [
        "New multilateral frameworks – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with Asia and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the EU – would circumscribe China’s room for maneuver.",
        "新一代多边框架协定——与亚洲的跨太平洋伙伴关系（TPP）和与欧盟的跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系（TTIP）——将会限制中国的回旋空间。"
    ],
    [
        "Even the army’s new uniforms, which border on the comic with their eighteenth-century epaulets and World War II jackets, invoke the past, rather than provide the comfort and efficiency needed in modern warfare.",
        "就连新军装——二战时期的衣服配以十八世纪的肩章——也在追求复古，而没有提供现代战争所要求的舒适和实用。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result of these two factors, established institutions – particularly the large banks – will be inclined to do fewer things for fewer people, despite being flush with liquidity provided by central banks (the “liquidity paradox”).",
        "在这两大因素的作用下，现有机构——特别是大银行——倾向于为更少的人做更少的事，尽管央行提供了大量流动性（即“流动性悖论”）。"
    ],
    [
        "So far, the only US presidential candidate who has recognized the need for such a future-oriented approach is former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who has proposed modernizing reforms of Social Security and Medicare that avoid imposing high costs on middle-income Americans and a heavier debt burden on future generations.",
        "目前，在美国总统候选人中，认识到需要采取这一未来导向方针的只有前佛罗里达州州长杰布·布什，他提出要对社会安全与医疗保险进行现代化改革，以避免给中等收入美国人带来巨大的成本、让子孙后代背上沉重的债务负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Failure to achieve a satisfactory growth rate—generally defined as 8 percent per annum—could lead to political turmoil, and political turmoil in China would be disastrous for the world.",
        "如果无法取得满意的经济增长率（一般看来需要保持每年8%的增长率），就会很容易导致政治动乱，而中国如果发生政治动乱对全世界而言都是灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, America’s military is closely coordinating with Japan, redeploying its troops and strengthening its command and combat capabilities near Taiwan.",
        "此外，美国军队正在与日本紧密合作，重新部署它的军队，加强其在台湾地区附近的指挥和战斗能力。"
    ],
    [
        "There is a reason why dictatorial dynasties tend to end up the same way.",
        "这就是独裁往常总是走向同样的结局的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "China will also provide the AIIB’s first president, and the bank’s headquarters will be in Beijing.",
        "该银行的首任总裁也将由中国人担任，并将总部设在北京。"
    ],
    [
        "But even the colossal mistakes of “de-Baathification” (the dismissal of all Iraqi officials who had been members of Saddam’s Baath Party) and the decommissioning of the Iraqi army – measures so foolish that nobody now admits to ordering them – cannot fully explain Iraq’s continuing political crisis.",
        "但即使是“去社会复兴党化”（将曾是萨达姆的社会复兴党党员的伊拉克官员解职）和强迫取消伊拉克军队的巨大错误——没有人愿意承认下达了这些愚蠢的命令——也无法解释伊拉克的后续政治危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Given a proper forum for ironing out disagreements, the rapidly changing energy landscape could be a source of new prosperity.",
        "如果建立起熨平分歧的恰当论坛，迅速变化的能源格局可能带来新的繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "But the only certainty is that the “safe” debt ratio depends on the context.",
        "但唯一的确定之处是“安全”债务比需要看情况而定。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the conflict began in 2011, it has produced more than four million refugees, and approximately eight million internally displaced people.",
        "冲突自2011年开始以来已经带来了超过400万难民，还有约800万人在国内流离失所。"
    ],
    [
        "The poor and the lower middle classes, however, rely on cash for their daily activities, and thus are the main victims of this supposedly “pro-poor” policy.",
        "但穷人和较低收入阶级日常活动都依赖现金，因此成为这一初衷是“有利于穷人”的政策的主要受害者。"
    ],
    [
        "Can the reality of the hospital be transferred to the reality outside?",
        "那么医院里的现实是否能被移植到到外面的世界？"
    ],
    [
        "Why Business is Greener than Trump",
        "商界比特朗普更绿色"
    ],
    [
        "The fall in oil prices – together with market illiquidity, the rise in the leverage of US energy firms and that of energy firms and fragile sovereigns in oil-exporting economies – is stoking fears of serious credit events (defaults) and systemic crisis in credit markets.",
        "石油价格的下跌——以及市场流动性紧缺、美国能源公司以及石油出口经济体能源企业杠杆率上升、石油出口经济体脆弱的主权等——正在引起人们对严重信用事件（违约）和信用市场系统性危机的担忧。"
    ],
    [
        "But none of those reasons has much to do with the stock market.",
        "但所有这些原因基本上都跟股市没什么关系。"
    ],
    [
        "But it would also demonstrate to old and potential new creditors alike not only a capacity, but also a willingness, to make payments, thereby creating incentives for external actors to support economic recovery.",
        "但这也能够像旧债权人和潜在新债权人证明国家有能力也有意愿偿还债务，从而为外部行动方制造支持其经济复苏的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "This downward pressure on prices has allowed Western central banks to follow expansionary monetary policies, underpinning higher employment and growth.",
        "这一压低价格的压力让西方的中央银行实施扩张性的货币政策，巩固了高就业率和经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "MANNHEIM – The European Union’s policy of saving the euro at all costs is enough to guarantee the euro’s survival.",
        "曼海姆—欧盟不惜一切代价拯救欧元的政策足以确保欧元的生存。"
    ],
    [
        "Should they buy up assets at what they believe is a discount from their long-run values, or buy up assets that private investors are unwilling to trade, even at a premium above their likely long-run values?",
        "还是应该以折扣的价格购买那些从长期来看值得投资的资产？ 还是以溢价来购买私人投资者不愿意购买的资产？"
    ],
    [
        "At the request of the Bulgarian government, the Court’s Grand Chamber agreed to review the matter before the end of February.",
        "应保加利亚政府的要求，法庭的高级理事会同意在2月底以前重审这个案件。"
    ],
    [
        "It is worth noting that the Japanese checked each of these boxes over the last two decades: They held interest rates low, introduced quantitative easing, and launched massive debt-financed spending on infrastructure.",
        "值得注意的是，日本人在过去二十年中把这一政策建议的内容试了个遍：他们把利率维持在低位、引入量化宽松，还启动了大量债务融资的基础设施支出。"
    ],
    [
        "China’s annual economic growth has been roughly 8-9% for the last 26 years; India has recorded similar rates for the last decade.",
        "中国的年经济增长率在过去的26年中始终保持在8－9%，印度在过去十年间发展速度也大致相当。"
    ],
    [
        "And, beyond that hazard, there are other reasons to avoid federalist measures.",
        "而在这一危机之外，还有其他原因要求不我们不要走上联邦制的道路。"
    ],
    [
        "Straight Talk on Trade",
        "关于贸易的大白话"
    ],
    [
        "The miracle of the OMT scheme is that, since it was announced a year ago, it has had its intended effect without ever being used.",
        "OMT计划的奇迹，是自一年前宣布以来，它从未使用，但却达到了预期的效果。"
    ],
    [
        "Eighteen months later, he played Chopin’s fearsomely difficult Ballade No. 1 in G Minor to an admiring audience of friends.",
        "18个月后，他弹出了肖邦难度极高的G小调一号叙事曲，围观亲友为之倾倒。"
    ],
    [
        "Third, in the advanced economies, the hit to wealth, and even more so the specter of another Great Depression, has led people and firms to curtail spending sharply.",
        "第三，在发达国家，财富受到的重创，更加上对另一次“大萧条”的忧虑，使民众和公司都大幅削减了开支。"
    ],
    [
        "Abdullah also appointed his son Mish’al as Governor of Najran, before raising Mish’al’s profile further, in December 2013, by naming him Governor of Mecca, in place of Khalid Al Faisal.",
        "阿卜杜拉还任命儿子米沙尔（Mish’al）为奈季兰（Najran）行政长官，随后又在2013年12月进一步提拔他为麦加行政长官，取代哈立德·费萨尔（Khalid Al Faisal）。"
    ],
    [
        "Government shutdowns are costly, impacting services and potentially payments to suppliers and citizens.",
        "政府关门代价高昂，将影响到政府服务，还可能影响到对供应商和公民的支付。"
    ],
    [
        "But governments are not guilty of deceiving the public; if anything, they acted naïvely and are now paying the price.",
        "但政府并不应该负上蒙蔽公众的罪责； 更可能的是，他们正在为原先的幼稚行为付出代价。"
    ],
    [
        "Only then will we understand why the unified view of five years ago has fractured so violently.",
        "只有那时，我们才会理解为什么五年前的一致观点已经土崩瓦解。"
    ],
    [
        "Or was my supposed victory hopelessly tainted by the drug's effects?",
        "或我的胜利只能依赖于兴奋剂了吗？"
    ],
    [
        "In East Asia, North Korea withdrew from the NPT after using it to disguise its weapons program, and China, America, Japan, Russia, and South Korea are trying to persuade Kim Jong Il’s regime to reverse course.",
        "在东亚，北朝鲜借核武器不扩散条约掩饰它的核武器计划后从该条约中退出，中国、美国、日本、俄罗斯和韩国正力图说服金正日政权改变该计划。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers should be leveraging these considerable sums.",
        "决策者应该利用这一数量可观的资金。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, economic agreements may promote closer cooperation in other realms.",
        "此外，经济协议可以促进在其他领域的更为紧密的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Part of the answer is of course law enforcement (such as the FIFA indictments) and protection for whistleblowers.",
        "部分答案当然是执法（如起诉国际足联）和为举报人提供保护。"
    ],
    [
        "We need these firms to be able to fail without causing a global panic.",
        "我们需要这些企业能够倒闭而不引起全球恐慌。"
    ],
    [
        "The Commission’s report states that the IOT may result in up to $11 trillion in additional GDP by 2025.",
        "委员会报告表明物联网到2025年可能带来11万亿美元的增量GDP。"
    ],
    [
        "We should intensify our efforts to slow population growth through voluntary means, and we should recognize that leveling off of the Earth's population now would add to human happiness and strengthen environmental sustainability later.",
        "我们应该自发起来，努力降低人口增长速度。 我们应该认识到，地球人口数量的减少将会给人类带来幸福，并促进环境的可持续发展。"
    ],
    [
        "CO2 levels are already far higher than they have been in a million years, as ancient air bubbles trapped in the Antarctic ice show.",
        "从采集自南极冰盖的远古气体中我们得知，二氧化碳正水平处于一百万年来的最高值。"
    ],
    [
        "The program aims to give women the confidence and capabilities they need to make a better life for themselves, both professionally and personally; to expand their role and influence in public life; and to help support open, stable, and inclusive societies across the Middle East and North Africa.",
        "扩大她们在公共生活中的作用和影响； 同时有助于支持整个中东和北非地区建立开放、稳定和包容的社会。"
    ],
    [
        "But some Europeans prefer Hillary Clinton or even John McCain, because they are apprehensive about the consequences for America’s European partners of a more restrained and less experienced president.",
        "但是有些欧洲人更偏好希拉里·克林顿甚至是麦凯恩，因为他们对于一位更为节制、经验并不老道的总统对美国的欧洲夥伴带来的影响感到担心。"
    ],
    [
        "Surely a more competent administration would be worried about addressing these more severe and urgent fiscal problems.",
        "一个能力更强的政府肯定会优先解决更严重、也更急迫的财政问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama will take a softer stance than the current American administration on the question of Iran’s regional hegemony and its nuclear program.",
        "麦坎和奥巴马都不会在伊朗地区霸权及其核武规划问题上采取比当前政府更为柔软的立场。"
    ],
    [
        "In return, the Cuban regime made a sham gesture by releasing a small number of the prisoners of conscience – mostly those who were tortured and seriously ill – who the regime most feared would die in its notorious prisons.",
        "作为回报，古巴政权做出了一种虚伪的姿态，释放了那些良心的囚犯中的一少部分，他们大多数遭受严刑拷打，身患重病，政府最害怕他们死在自己那臭名昭著的监狱之中。"
    ],
    [
        "No doubt, these policies are expensive. But they pay for themselves by producing growth and revenues.",
        "毫无疑问，这些政策的支出是非常昂贵的，但是它们通过带来经济增长和收入来偿还这些支出。"
    ],
    [
        "A standoff ensues, which is where we are now.",
        "目前僵局还没有打破。"
    ],
    [
        "While condemning Egeland’s comment, Bush quickly multiplied America’s commitment ten-fold.",
        "在谴责艾格兰德所作评论的同时，布什把美国原来的援助承诺增至十倍。"
    ],
    [
        "Then we get back to our daily lives, until the next time it happens.",
        "接着他们就会回到老方一帖，直到下一次袭击发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Efforts to cap popular tax expenditures will encounter strong opposition from Republicans and Democrats alike.",
        "普遍限制税收支出将遭遇共和及民主两党的强烈抵制。"
    ],
    [
        "As you survey the rest of global culture, the male-escape scenario is hard to spot emerging from any other place.",
        "如果你考察一下世界其他地方的文化，你将很难在他们那里找到这种男性逃避现实的文化类型。"
    ],
    [
        "The upshot is that Turkey’s institutions, unlike Brazil’s, are being captured and corrupted to an extent that will hamper economic growth and development for years to come.",
        "结果是土耳其机构和巴西不同，其腐败和受控制的程度将阻碍今后几年的经济的增长与发展。"
    ],
    [
        "So the Bundesbank’s self-righteous zeal in asserting that its responsibilities are somehow graver – and more binding – than those of other central banks is dangerously wrong-headed.",
        "因此德国央行自以为是的声明——出于个中原因它的责任要比其他央行更大，也更紧迫——大错特错了。"
    ],
    [
        "Too often, they spend money to support private-sector projects that fail to provide a positive return for the broader economy.",
        "它们往往把钱花在了支持无法为总体经济提供正回报的私人部门项目上。"
    ],
    [
        "Chuck Prince lost his job at Citigroup over excessive risk-taking in the run-up to the financial crisis of 2008, and, more recently, Oswald Grübel of UBS was pushed out for failing to prevent unauthorized trading to the tune of $2.3 billion.",
        "普林斯（Charles Prince）丢掉花旗集团CEO的工作，是因为在2008年金融危机的酝酿阶段，他的决策过于冒险。 瑞银集团前CEO郭儒博（Oswald Grübel）则由于没能防止规模为23亿美元的无授权交易而被扫地出门。"
    ],
    [
        "Since the United Kingdom itself is a large capital importer, we can assume that the City is not holding the paper itself but merely restructuring it and then selling it to the world under a new name and with the London stamp on it.",
        "由于英国本身是一个资本输入国，因此我们可以猜测，伦敦并不是自己持有这些债券，而是通过简单地重新包装这些债券，然后为这些债券取个印有伦敦盖章的新名字，然后转售到世界其他地方。"
    ],
    [
        "Located in the poorest postal code in California, the program has helped 1,200 families who enrolled voluntarily and is funded to serve an additional 2,300 families over the next two years.",
        "该学院在加州最贫困邮政编码区帮助了1,200户自愿参与家庭，并以获得资金支持在未来两年在帮助2,300户家庭。"
    ],
    [
        "Hence, even if businesses get easier access to money and loans, many firms will still decline to hire on a large scale, fearing that they would be saddled with a large payroll in a future downturn.",
        "因此即便企业更容易得到钱和贷款，许多公司依然不愿意大规模招人，因此害怕在未来经济下滑时要背上一张巨额工资单。"
    ],
    [
        "Exchange rates are another area where zero-sum thinking prevails.",
        "汇率是另一个零和思维盛行的领域。"
    ],
    [
        "But the change in name should not blind us to the fact that the FSB has no more power than the FSF had.",
        "但更名事件也不应让我们无视一个事实：金融稳定委员会的权力实际上跟从前那个论坛一般大小。"
    ],
    [
        "In response, many banks curtailed their cross-border business.",
        "许多银行的应对措施是裁减跨境业务。"
    ],
    [
        "It is not just a question of providing them with liquidity so that they can simply maintain their exchange rates in the face of a large capital outflows.",
        "问题不仅仅是向它们提供流动性以便它们能在资本大量外流的情况下保持汇率稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "When NATO leaders meet for their summit in Riga at the end of this month, there will be a ghost at the feast: Afghanistan’s opium.",
        "北约领导人本月底在里加召开首脑会议之时，将有一个魔鬼在会议徘徊，那就是阿富汗的鸦片问题。"
    ],
    [
        "HONOLULU – A cynical move is underway to promote a new, powerful, and troubling technology known as “gene drives” for use in conservation.",
        "檀香山—有一项正在进行中的犬儒主义运动，宣扬在物种保护中使用一种叫做“基因驱动器”的强大但问题重重的新技术。"
    ],
    [
        "Although continuity will remain the hallmark of foreign policy, Germany’s international engagement under Merkel will sound and feel different from that under Gerhard Schroeder’s leadership.",
        "虽然连续性会仍然是外交政策的主旋律，但是德国在默克尔领导之下在国际事务中的表现和在施罗德的领导之下会有不同的面貌。"
    ],
    [
        "But fiscal-policy progressives, in particular, remain fixated on using higher tax rates on the wealthy to fund higher incomes for everyone else.",
        "但财政政策进步论者顽固地认为必须用提高富人税率来为其他所有人提高收入。"
    ],
    [
        "To lend credibility to its bid to host the SKA, in 2006 South Africa’s government committed $250 million to build an array of radio dishes within its own borders as a precursor to the SKA.",
        "为显示修建平方公里天线阵的诚意，南非政府于2006年投资2. 5亿美元在境内建造无线天线阵，该天线阵可作为平方公里天线阵的前身。"
    ],
    [
        "Even though Trump will not become the next president, the populist damage has already been done.",
        "即使特朗普不会成为下一任总统，民粹主义也已经造成了损失。"
    ],
    [
        "Trump’s opponents must not be intimidated.",
        "特朗普的反对者决不能因此胆怯。"
    ],
    [
        "Consumers in advanced economies benefit from the reduction in prices of traded goods; but low and even some medium-skill workers lose income as their equilibrium wages fall and their jobs are threatened.",
        "发达经济体的消费者从商品价格下降中受益； 但低端甚至一些中等技术工人则因为均衡工资下降且工作机会受威胁而减少了收入。"
    ],
    [
        "It took the Indian government some time to formulate an answer to Musharraf’s request for a visit.",
        "当时他迫使辛格发出了一份邀请，请他出席观看2005年在新德里举行的一场印巴两国板球赛，印度政府花了相当长的时间才研究出如何回应穆沙拉夫的访印要求。"
    ],
    [
        "Greece’s fire-breathing new government, it is generally assumed, will have little choice but to stick to its predecessor’s program of structural reform, perhaps in return for a modest relaxation of fiscal austerity.",
        "普遍看法是希腊新政府将别无选择，只能坚持前任的结构改革，也许作为回报可以略微放松一下财政紧缩。"
    ],
    [
        "Would a real-estate bubble have developed in Spain?",
        "房地产泡沫会在西班牙兴起吗？"
    ],
    [
        "New technology will determine our lifestyle, and the demands that we make on energy and environmental resources.",
        "新的技术将决定我们的生活方式，以及我们对能源和环境资源的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet, however negatively most Americans view Saudi Arabia, the country remains an important regional ally.",
        "但无论多数美国人对沙特阿拉伯的看法如何负面，该国依然是美国重要的地区盟国。"
    ],
    [
        "In Europe, the European Central Bank’s quantitative-easing policies have been widely criticized, and ECB President Mario Draghi recently had to defend his approach before a highly critical German Parliament.",
        "在欧洲，欧洲央行的量化宽松政策受到广泛批评，行长德拉吉最近不得不在持高度批评态度的德国议会面前为自己的方针辩护。"
    ],
    [
        "But governments should be wary of expensive fiscal stimulus.",
        "然而，各国政府应当警惕昂贵的财政刺激手段。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, the formula for pricing mortgage-backed securities requires a statistical estimate of the frequency distribution of defaults.",
        "类似地，按揭支持证券定价公式需要对违约的频率分布进行统计估计。"
    ],
    [
        "President Barack Obama and his team, despite some missteps, deserve most of the credit.",
        "虽然有些失误，但大部分功劳应当归结于奥巴马总统及其团队。"
    ],
    [
        "In any case, Trump seems to have no interest in bringing in experts.",
        "无论如何，特朗普对引入专家都不感兴趣。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the Treaty makes the EU more democratic and brings government closer to Europe's citizens.",
        "其次，条约使欧盟更加民主，使政府离老百姓更近。"
    ],
    [
        "Charisma does not call for restraint in words, appearance, or manner.",
        "魅力并不要求在语言、外表或行为举止方面有任何约束。"
    ],
    [
        "First, it is virtually impossible to assess individual plants’ risk profiles correctly.",
        "首先要准确评估某座核电站的风险几乎是不可能的。"
    ],
    [
        "At first, the slowdown actually contributed indirectly to a rise in stock prices, by spurring the People’s Bank of China to begin cutting interest rates in November 2014.",
        "首先，经济放缓实际上间接有助于股票价格上涨，因为这刺激了中国的人民银行在2014年11月开始降息。"
    ],
    [
        "This slows the growth of wage rates at a given unemployment rate, leading to lower unemployment at a given rate of wage growth.",
        "这放缓了给定失业率情况下的工资率的增长，导致给定工资增长率情况下失业下降。"
    ],
    [
        "Germany is playing the “good cop” by offering access to the single market, but only in exchange for immigration rules that Britain will not accept.",
        "德国则唱白脸承诺单一市场准入，但却要求英国接受它不可能接受的移民规则。"
    ],
    [
        "Their initiative is essentially driven by the fear that once Haiti’s immediate humanitarian crisis is addressed, the country’s underlying problems could be left at the door of the “prosperous” neighbors across the border.",
        "他们的动力从本质上来自于担心一旦海地目前的人道主义危机得到缓解，与海地接壤的这些“繁荣”国家可能不得不独自解决这个国家存在的根本问题。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, in China, the absence of currency convertibility – together with a weak financial supervisory framework, which reflects a broader problem related to poor implementation of the rule of law – is impairing the economy’s prospects for leadership.",
        "类似地，在中国，货币缺乏可兑换性——此外金融监督框架也相当无力，这反映出法治精神实施不力有关的更深层次的问题——破坏了其经济的领导力前景。"
    ],
    [
        "For Iran, a staunch supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a weaker US-Saudi relationship is key to shifting the regional balance of power – especially if it is accompanied by the easing of Western economic sanctions.",
        "对叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德政权的坚定支持者伊朗来说，美国-沙特关系的削弱是改变地区实力平衡的关键——特别是伴随着西方经济制裁放松的话。"
    ],
    [
        "It may be expensive to educate a child, but it is far more expensive to a society to leave a child without education.",
        "教育儿童也许非常昂贵，但如何儿童得不到教育，社会付出的代价会更加高昂。"
    ],
    [
        "The rest they can manage on their own.",
        "余下的，他们可以自己做到。"
    ],
    [
        "Forcing desperately poor women to pay for maternal and child health care is a prescription for inequality, inefficiency, and child deaths.",
        "强迫赤贫妇女掏钱购买母婴看护服务只能加剧不平等性、低效性和儿童死亡。"
    ],
    [
        "Turkey’s posture – looking both East and West – is neither paradoxical nor inconsistent.",
        "土耳其的外交态度虽然同时形成于东西两方，但却成功避免了自相矛盾或是意见不一。"
    ],
    [
        "They must still train, of course, but if their genes produce more EPO than ours, they are going to beat us in the Tour de France, no matter how hard we train.",
        "当然他们也必须训练，但如果他们的基因能够制造出比一般人更多的EPO，那么不管其他运动员多么努力训练，还是会在环法大赛中落败。"
    ],
    [
        "The problem is not just that they need to wean themselves from their reliance on fickle capital inflows and commodity booms, which have often left them vulnerable to shocks and prone to crises.",
        "问题不仅在于它们需要摆脱对瞬息万变、常常让它们在冲击和危机面前不堪一击的资本流入和商品繁荣的依赖。"
    ],
    [
        "Obviously, political infighting is nothing new.",
        "显然，政治内斗不是什么新鲜事。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, the impact of a Trump victory on the US could well be worse.",
        "事实上，特朗普胜选对美国的影响还会更加糟糕。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, I continued, “Given China’s extensive reform agenda, further opening of the capital account can wait; and, in view of liberalization’s ambiguous benefits and significant risks, it should.”",
        "”事实上，我继续写道，“考虑到中国的全面改革日程，进一步开放资本账户可以等一等； 而从自由化收益不明但风险巨大的情况看，也应该等一等。"
    ],
    [
        "Ten days ago, Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition candidate for president (who is leading in the polls), disappeared from the campaign trail. He re-surfaced in Vienna recovering from what at first was thought to be food poisoning.",
        "十天前，在民意测验中处于领先地位的反对党候选人维克多·尤什申科竟然在总统竞选活动中消失，之后他在维也纳重新露面，对外宣传先前失踪是因为食物中毒，而现已治愈。"
    ],
    [
        "But scientists have long predicted that such increases would boost not only average temperatures, but also weather variability – and especially the occurrence of extreme events such as Hurricane Harvey.",
        "但科学家早就预测，温室气体含量的上升不但会提高平均温度，还会加剧天气变化——特别是飓风哈维等极端事件的发生。"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, the manufacturers, Linden Labs, have said they will modify the game to prevent virtual children from having sex.",
        "同时，游戏制造商林登实验室也声称要修改游戏，防止虚拟儿童与人发生性关系。"
    ],
    [
        "For more than a decade, Pakistan and the US were close allies.",
        "10多年来，巴基斯坦和美国形成了亲密的盟友关系。"
    ],
    [
        "The SDGs were always bound to meet strong headwinds, owing to technological disruption, geopolitical rivalry, and widening social inequality.",
        "由于来自颠覆性技术的冲击、地缘政治对抗以及日益扩大的社会不平等，联合国可持续发展目标的实现一直都面临着强大阻力。"
    ],
    [
        "These same lessons can be applied to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), the targets for fighting poverty, disease, and hunger that the world’s governments adopted in 2000.",
        "同样这些教训适用于《千年发展目标》，这是与贫穷、疾病和饥饿作斗争的目标，世界各组织于2000年通过。"
    ],
    [
        "At that point, prices fall, and exploration and investment decline as well, including for oil substitutes.",
        "在这个节点上油价开始回落，对此的勘探和投资，包括石油替代品的产量也随之下降。"
    ],
    [
        "The risk of a few bad apples (Mexican drug dealers, Islamic terrorists, economic migrants, or those wishing to cash in on welfare systems) outweighs any benefits that the vast majority of young and determined newcomers could bring.",
        "少数烂苹果风险（墨西哥毒贩、伊斯兰恐怖分子、经济移民或想从福利体系中捞取好处者）永远比不上多数年轻坚而定的新移民所能带来的好处。"
    ],
    [
        "Physicists had long expected the LHC to reveal a new sector of particles and fields associated with “electroweak symmetry breaking” and the dark matter of the universe.",
        "长期以来，物理学家一直期待LHC揭示与“电弱对称性破缺”和宇宙暗物质有关的新的粒子和场的类别。"
    ],
    [
        "China has also gained a reputation for food and drug contamination (not to mention lead paint in toys and poisonous toothpaste).",
        "中国还因为食品及药品污染事件而名扬海外（用含铅油漆生产的玩具和有毒牙膏自不必多言）。"
    ],
    [
        "When the villain, the American military leader of the attack, plans to bomb flat the indigenous people’s sacred tree, he boasts that he will blow such a massive hole in their “racial memory” that they won’t come “within a thousand clicks” of the place again.",
        "当剧中作为反派的美国攻击部队领导人计划炸平当地人的森林时，他傲慢地说打算在这些人的“种族记忆”中炸出一个巨大的裂口，让这些人再也不敢靠近该地一千步的范围之内。"
    ],
    [
        "But now, in the receding tide, Americans are beginning to see not only that those with taller masts had been lifted far higher, but also that many of the smaller boats had been dashed to pieces in their wake.",
        "但是现如今，在不断缩水的经济发展过程中，美国人不仅开始看到了那些拥有较高桅杆的人们可以爬得更高，而且还看到了那些较小的船只最终被浪花拍打地粉碎。"
    ],
    [
        "Puerto Rico and its leaders can learn three important lessons from Greece.",
        "波多黎各及其领导人可以从希腊汲取三点重要教训。"
    ],
    [
        "Both studies showed that there are hundreds of regions of the genome that could have more or less than the expected two copies.",
        "两份研究都显示在成百上千的基因区域中都有可能多于所认为的两个基因组。"
    ],
    [
        "If one were to go back ten business cycles assuming an equal chance of a recession starting under a Democratic or a Republican president, the odds become even longer.",
        "如果你追溯十次商业周期，并假设衰退始于民主党和共和党总统任期内机会相等，可能性就更小了。"
    ],
    [
        "Some correlate Trump’s victory with a broader trend toward populism in the West, and, in particular, in Europe, exemplified in the United Kingdom’s vote in June to leave the European Union.",
        "有人把特朗普的胜利与西方迈向民粹主义的宏观趋势联系起来，而该现象在欧洲则尤其以英国在6月份公投脱欧为标志。"
    ],
    [
        "The second mutation stems from excessive shareholder dominance, which has been on the rise for more than three decades.",
        "第二个突变来自过股东主宰力过大，这一趋势已经延续了三十多年。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, the tens of millions of Kurds living in Turkey and Iran have also long been denied basic human and cultural rights.",
        "同样，生活在土耳其和伊朗的数千万库尔德人也被长期剥夺了基本的人权和文化权利。"
    ],
    [
        "By contrast, despite the ill-advised fiscal sequester, the US economy appears to be healing gradually.",
        "相反地，尽管实施了不明智的财政隔离政策，美国经济似乎逐渐恢复。"
    ],
    [
        "So, while this latest bear-market rally may continue for a bit longer, renewed downward pressure on stocks and other risky assets is inevitable.",
        "因此，尽管最近这次熊市反弹将持续更长时间，但股票和其他风险性资产必将重新感受到向下的压力。"
    ],
    [
        "Fourth-generation warfare takes this decentralized approach one step further, with no definable fronts at all.",
        "第四代现代战争把这一分散化方法又往前推进了一步，不再有明确的前线。"
    ],
    [
        "The obvious success of these cities, as both government and economic centers, attests to the fact that urban land derives value from the presence of a well-planned city there.",
        "这些城市，在设计整座城市的基础设施时，都将其建成一个整体化并且充满魅力的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "But in other cases the opposite happens, for example when the euro and the pound both strengthened after their central banks began quantitative easing.",
        "但在其他一些例子中情况正好相反，比如，当欧洲和英国央行开始量化宽松时，欧元和英镑都出现了升值。"
    ],
    [
        "Such a scheme should include a “point system” for selecting applicants for residence and work permits, which would assign each applicant a score based on objective criteria, typically including language ability, education, and experience.",
        "这个方案应该包括一个选择申请居住和工作许可的申请人的“分值制度”，以便能给每位申请人作出一个基于客观标准的评分，典型的标准应包括语言能力、教育水平和经验。"
    ],
    [
        "The reason is simple: Indonesia’s fires aren’t your typical forest fires.",
        "原因很简单：印尼的大火不是典型的森林火灾。"
    ],
    [
        "If it is too easy to default and reduce one’s debt burden, the result is moral hazard, because debtors gain an incentive to indulge in bad behavior.",
        "如果违约太容易并且能够降低你的债务负担，那么结果将是道德风险，因为债务人有了做出不当行为的激励。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is more about this than politics.",
        "但政治显然不是重点。"
    ],
    [
        "But it did nothing to reform “repo” lending – arguably the weakest link in the financial chain.",
        "但该法案并未改革到很可能是金融链条中最弱一环的“回购”贷款。"
    ],
    [
        "The London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance calculates that the long-term costs to Britain of lower trade with the EU could be as high as 9.5% of GDP, while the fall in foreign investment could cost 3.4% of GDP or more.",
        "根据伦敦政治经济学院经济绩效研究中心的估算，英国因减少对欧盟贸易而产生的长期成本可能相当于GDP的9. 5％，而外国投资下降的影响则可能超过GDP的3."
    ],
    [
        "With investigative journalists getting into the act, land acquisition became a political land mine.",
        "随着调查记者的加入其中，土地兼并成了一颗政治地雷。"
    ],
    [
        "Ebola may have been transmitted from bats; HIV/AIDS emerged from chimpanzees; SARS most likely came from civets traded in animal markets in southern China; and influenza strains such as H1N1 and H7N9 arose from genetic re-combinations of viruses among wild and farm animals.",
        "非典可能来自华南动物市场贸易中的果子狸； H1N1和H7N9等流感菌株来自野生和圈养动物病毒的基因重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Italy, meanwhile, failed to use the significant windfall from the steep decline in long-term interest rates caused by the introduction of the euro and a decade of rapid economic growth to repair its debt position.",
        "与此同时，意大利在欧元引发了长期利率大幅下调、此后十年经济快速增长的情况下，却未能抓住机遇扭转债务状况。"
    ],
    [
        "For now, the Brothers have announced that they will name a Christian and a woman as Vice Presidents.",
        "眼下，穆斯林兄弟会已宣布将提名一位基督教徒和一位女性担任副总统。"
    ],
    [
        "There is also the risk of policy mistakes by the US Federal Reserve as it exits monetary easing.",
        "另一个风险是美联储的政策错误——退出量化宽松。"
    ],
    [
        "What happens if things go the wrong way?",
        "如果局势朝着错误的方向发展后果将是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, adding the renminbi to the SDR basket would be symbolically important, implying recognition of China’s growing global stature.",
        "尽管如此，将人民币加入SDR货币篮子具有重要的象征意义，意味着承认中国全球地位的提高。"
    ],
    [
        "People are willing to donate hundreds of millions of dollars to help people after a disaster – even after a disaster in a wealthy country like Japan – but are unwilling to invest anything like the same amount to save lives before a predictable disaster strikes.",
        "即使灾难发生在日本这样的富裕国家，人们也愿意在灾后捐款数百万帮助受灾群众，但他们却不愿在可以预见的灾难来袭之前为避免伤亡投资同样的金额。"
    ],
    [
        "The failed coup reveals that the country’s political divisions run deeper than even the most pessimistic observers believed.",
        "失败的政变表明，土耳其政治分歧要比最悲观的观察者所认为的还要深刻。"
    ],
    [
        "She may have to abandon her ill-considered alliance with the Democratic Unionist Party in Ulster and side more emphatically with the Tories of Scotland, who are keen on a softer version of Brexit.",
        "她可能需要放弃与奥尔斯特的民主联盟党（Democratic Unionist Party）的错误结盟，更加团结一致地与想要软化英国脱欧立场的苏格兰保守党站在一起。"
    ],
    [
        "The Basic Law supposedly established a political framework to accord with the late Deng Xiaoping’s policy of “one country, two systems,” with Hong Kong’s people ruling Hong Kong with a high degree of autonomy.",
        "《基本法》旨在建立一个与已故邓小平的“一国两制”政策相适应的政治框架，以体现港人治港，高度自治的特色。"
    ],
    [
        "Within the Turkish government, this opening is viewed as an immense opportunity to reduce Turkey’s heavy dependence on energy imports.",
        "在土耳其政府内部，这一开端被视为减少土耳其严重依赖能源进口的良机。"
    ],
    [
        "Brussels must demand transparency, symmetry, and the rule of law from Moscow, with the goal being a revolutionary integration of European and Russian energy markets.",
        "布鲁塞尔必须要求莫斯科保持透明、对等以及遵守法治，使欧洲和俄罗斯的能源市场达成革命性的一体化。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, Hamas’s moment of triumph is part of a growing regional pattern.",
        "的确，哈马斯的胜利时刻是该地区日益明朗的趋势的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the record of the International War Crimes Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), based in The Hague, may be instructive in judging the credibility of the strategy of using such trials as part of the effort to end civil and other wars.",
        "的确，设在海牙的前南斯拉夫国际刑事法庭(ICTY)的纪录可能对我们判定以这种审判方式作为终止内战和其它战争的战略之一所具有的公信力具有指导意义。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, new wartime cholera crises have emerged, and Bangladeshi expertise is again being called into service.",
        "如今，新的战时霍乱危机再次出现，孟加拉国专家也再次应召。"
    ],
    [
        "But Swaraj may well be going too far, responding to every individual case of a lost passport or delayed visa tweeted to her – an approach that has earned her the not-entirely-flattering sobriquet of “India’s Minister for Consular Affairs.”",
        "但撒瓦拉伊或许有些过头了，连丢失护照或签证延期这样的私事tweet她也会回应——这样的做法为她赢得了一个不太体面的外号：“印度总领事”。"
    ],
    [
        "Head further south to Central America – Guatemala in particular – and the failed state paradigm may be far more applicable.",
        "更靠近中美洲南部的国家——特别是危地马拉——可能更适合被称为失败国家。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, almost all the reserves added in the second and third rounds of QE, more than 95%, are sitting in excess reserves, neither lent nor borrowed and never used to increase money in circulation.",
        "事实上，几乎所有在第二轮和第三轮QE期间增加的准备金（超过95%）以超额准备金的形式存在着，既没有借贷，也没有用于增加流通中货币。"
    ],
    [
        "Mubarak’s succession is being conducted in an especially sophisticated manner.",
        "穆巴拉克的接班问题是以一种特别复杂的方式来处理的。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks have been expected to shoulder the greater part of the burden of post-crisis adjustment.",
        "人们期望央行承担更多危机后调整负担。"
    ],
    [
        "Sitting in one’s basement in pajamas, spewing out venom on a keyboard like a Batman movie villain who was poorly treated in a past life, one is at a safe distance from one’s target.",
        "人们可以穿着睡衣坐在地下室，像蝙蝠侠电影中过去生活一团糟的坏蛋那样依靠键盘向安全距离外的目标喷射毒液。"
    ],
    [
        "The current favorite bogeyman is public debt.",
        "当前最被妖魔化的是公共债务。"
    ],
    [
        "The damage caused by certain unpopular reforms lasted far longer than the reforms themselves.",
        "某些不受欢迎的改革所造成的伤害要比改革本身持续得更久。"
    ],
    [
        "Tarullo is heading down the right path.",
        "塔鲁罗走在正确的道路上。"
    ],
    [
        "It does not advance the cause of democracy in Turkey; nor does it make Turkey a more reliable ally.",
        "这既不能推进土耳的民主进程； 也无法令土耳其变成一个更可靠的盟友。"
    ],
    [
        "And America’s incarceration rate is 10 times Sweden’s rate of 70 people per 100,000.",
        "4%）的两倍有余。 美国人入狱率是瑞典（10万人中有70人）的十倍。"
    ],
    [
        "But, though inflation is very low, and even negative in a few countries, something more must be going on, because commodity prices are falling relative to the overall price level.",
        "但是，尽管通胀很低，甚至有的国家出现了负数，但这绝不是唯一原因，因为商品价格相对于总体价格水平也在下跌。"
    ],
    [
        "After the first half of the twentieth century – the bloodiest period of human history – the continent’s leaders returned from the battlefield to lay the foundations of lasting European peace.",
        "二十世纪上半叶过去后——这是人类历史上最血腥的时期——欧洲大陆领导人从战场归来，为维持欧洲和平打下基础。"
    ],
    [
        "Military strongmen controlled different regions, while foreign powers, through bribes and bullying, seized large swaths of China’s territory.",
        "军事强人控制着不同地区，而外国列强通过贿赂和威逼攫取了大量中国领土。"
    ],
    [
        "And such fears can have severe consequences.",
        "而这一恐慌可能带来严重后果。"
    ],
    [
        "After all, it is argued, Denmark has kept its CO2 emissions flat while enjoying 70% economic growth since 1981.",
        "然而，这种说法还有待探讨。 自从1981年以来，丹麦在保持二氧化碳排放量稳定的同时取得了70%的经济增长。"
    ],
    [
        "“The most important thing for the Land of Israel is to build and build and build [Jewish settlements].”",
        "”他宣布，“对以色列之地来说，最重要的东西便是建设、建设再建设[犹太人定居点]。 ”"
    ],
    [
        "Estimates are based on the amount of labor and capital available for production and an assessment of their joint productivity.",
        "估算基于可用于生产的劳动力和资本数量以及对劳动力和资本的联合生产率的评估。"
    ],
    [
        "It has since opened more loan accounts than any Kenyan bank.",
        "自那以后，它开设的贷款帐户比任何肯尼亚银行都要多。"
    ],
    [
        "The design of the bailout has been shaped both by domestic pressures faced by eurozone leaders and by the exceptional nature of the Cypriot banking bubble: many European leaders suspect that the island had become a money-laundering center for Russian individuals and entities, which pumped an estimated one-third of the €68 billion into the country’s banks.",
        "对欧元区领导的国内压力和塞浦路斯异乎寻常的金融泡沫共同决定了紧急援助计划的内容。 很多欧洲领导人怀疑塞浦路斯已经成为俄国个人和实体的洗钱胜地。"
    ],
    [
        "Economic incentives to work, save, and start businesses were also reduced through the compression of wage differentials and a big squeeze on company profits, both largely the result of strong and centralized labor unions.",
        "实力强大和集中领导的工会组织造成工资差异的缩减和对公司利润的挤压。 在这一期间，工作、储蓄以及开创企业的经济激励遭到了削减。"
    ],
    [
        "It is against this background that the Iranian nuclear program has come to symbolize the larger geopolitical tensions underlying the confrontation between the US and Iran.",
        "在上述背景下伊朗核计划已经成为了美伊冲突之下更宏观地缘政治紧张局势的象征。"
    ],
    [
        "The last question concerns the nominees’ approach to the execution of foreign policy.",
        "最后一个问题事关被提名人执行外交政策的方式。"
    ],
    [
        "Nevertheless, recent polls show that a majority of voters distrust the incumbent government and the ruling party.",
        "但最近的民意调查也表明：大部分选民根本不信任本届政府和执政党。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, a host of blood proteins are specialized scavengers of hemoglobin or its fragments.",
        "此外，血液中含有一些蛋白质，专门用来清扫血红蛋白及其碎片。"
    ],
    [
        "Recent publications reveal that the food industry pursued similar strategies to influence global health policy.",
        "最新发布的资料显示，食品业也在用类似的伎俩影响全球健康政策。"
    ],
    [
        "So companies are developing uniquely Chinese approaches to such innovation.",
        "因此各大公司正在开发独特的中国创新法。"
    ],
    [
        "Before the crisis, world trade grew at 6-8% annually – well faster than GDP.",
        "危机前，世界贸易以每年6—8%的速度增长，远快于GDP。"
    ],
    [
        "It is highly personalized and temperamental.",
        "他的政策非常有个性和情绪化。"
    ],
    [
        "Development aid has to be financed in “real terms,” or in a reputable manner, not by spending central bank money or by jeopardizing the IMF’s financial integrity.",
        "发展援助必须通过“实实在在”的或规范的方式融资，而不是通过花中央银行的钱或损害国际货币基金组织的财务安全来实现。"
    ],
    [
        "In doing so, they are passing up an historic opportunity to take the lead on nuclear disarmament.",
        "在采取上述行动的同时，他们放弃了领导核裁军的历史性机会。"
    ],
    [
        "So who will take on the responsibility to protect the weakest if none of these three actors can do it properly?",
        "如果上述三个能动因素统统失灵，还能指望谁去保护弱者？"
    ],
    [
        "This principle was carried forward by groups like Médicins sans Frontières, whose doctors have risked their lives for the last four decades to deliver medical care to the world’s most dangerous places.",
        "这条原则被无国界医生（Médicins sans Frontières）等组织发扬光大，在过去四十年里，医生们冒着生命危险前往世界最危险地区行医。"
    ],
    [
        "SWAN and SHRF argue that rape is used as a weapon in the Burmese military’s war against ethnic minorities.",
        "SWAN和SHRF认为，缅甸军队正在把强奸作为武器来对付少数族裔。"
    ],
    [
        "Corruption corrodes the possibility of making a living through the law, which becomes a preserve of the rich.",
        "腐败会损害通过法律谋生的机会，使之成为富人的禁脔。"
    ],
    [
        "Arming the Kurdish militias, as US President Barack Obama is now considering, would push Erdoğan further into Putin’s arms.",
        "美国总统奥巴马现在正在考虑武装库尔德军事力量，而这将进一步把埃尔多安推向俄罗斯的怀抱。"
    ],
    [
        "Three weeks earlier, the state-controlled newspaper Global Times offered a more plausible explanation for China’s failure to deliver the promised data to India: the data transfer had been intentionally halted, owing to India’s supposed infringement on Chinese territorial sovereignty in a dispute over the remote Himalayan region of Doklam.",
        "三周前，国有报纸《环球时报》给出了一个更加靠谱的原因解释了中国为什么不向印度提供承诺的数据：数据传输被有意中止，因为所谓的印度侵占偏远的喜马拉雅山区洞朗的争议中国领土事件。"
    ],
    [
        "To be a professor, it seems to me, one must first have something of importance to oneself that needs affirming, and then one must affirm it.",
        "在我看来，作为一名教授首先要有对自己具有重要性的东西需要确认，然后就必须去确认它。"
    ],
    [
        "The ECB’s new policy was designed to protect the euro from the consequences of a Greek exit or default.",
        "欧洲央行的政策就是为了保护欧元免受希腊退出或违约的后果的影响。"
    ],
    [
        "In a few other countries, the disease has been sporadically reintroduced by travelers from regions where polio has not yet been eliminated.",
        "在其他一些国家，来自小儿麻痹症尚未完全消除地区的旅行者将这种疾病重新引入。"
    ],
    [
        "The existing electricity grid has substantially collapsed, with the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) estimating that up to 90% of the transmission system may have been destroyed by the hurricane.",
        "现有电网已经处于基本瘫痪的状态，联邦经济管理局（FEMA）估算，高达90%的输电系统可能已经被飓风损坏。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranian policymakers must, therefore, try to develop their own ideas for a negotiated resolution of the nuclear and other regional security issues, as well as to think about how Iran can rebuild trust in its actions.",
        "因此，伊朗的政策制定者必须努力形成他们自己的关于核和其他区域性安全问题的谈判解决的观点，以及考虑怎样在其行动中重建其他国家对伊朗的信任。"
    ],
    [
        "Sadly, many free countries seem utterly indifferent to the ongoing campaign against Israel.",
        "令人难过的是，许多自由国家看起来对当下反对以色列的运动却毫不动容、无动于衷。"
    ],
    [
        "In such chicken-and-egg situations, in which the market alone fails to overcome externalities and essential investments go lacking, the government can play a vital facilitating role.",
        "在这种先有鸡还是先有蛋的困境中，仅靠市场无力破除外部性的制约，政府就可以扮演起一个关键性的推动者角色。"
    ],
    [
        "Papademos has been dealt an even weaker hand.",
        "帕帕季莫斯手上的牌甚至还不如蒙蒂。"
    ],
    [
        "Failing to heed one of the most powerful (yes, Keynesian) lessons of the 1930s – that fiscal policy is the only way out of a liquidity trap – could be the greatest tragedy of all.",
        "没有吸取20世纪30年代最有力的教训之一（是的，就是凯恩斯主义）——财政政策是摆脱流动性陷阱的唯一办法——也许是最大的悲剧。"
    ],
    [
        "Average national income per person is about $46,000 – enough not only to live on, but to prosper.",
        "6万美元——不仅能保证温饱，还足以令民众过上富足的生活。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than attempting to craft an accord based on legally binding restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions, the new approach relies on voluntary commitments by individual countries to rein in their contributions to climate change.",
        "新方法依赖各国自愿承诺来遏制气候变化，而不再试图达成具有法律约束力的温室气体排放限制协议。"
    ],
    [
        "Arguably, in earlier centuries, it was competition within Europe that generated unparalleled dynamism and prosperity across much of the continent.",
        "可以说，在过去几个世纪中，是欧洲内部的竞争造就了欧洲大陆大部无与伦比的活力和繁荣。"
    ],
    [
        "Rather than permit price surveys in a random sample of locations (required for accuracy), China restricted data collection to a few urban areas.",
        "中国的价格调查并不实行随机地点采样（这是准确性的要求），而是把数据收集地点限制在几个城市区域。"
    ],
    [
        "While Argentina did issue quasi-money in 2001 before abandoning the currency board, this money was conceived to meet fiscal needs and remained stable vis-à-vis the dollar.",
        "当时的阿根廷在放弃连系汇率制度之前的2001年确实发行了一种代用货币，以此满足财政需求和保持兑美元的稳定汇率。"
    ],
    [
        "These forecasts have been wrong not because EU countries failed to implement the prescribed policies, but because the models upon which those policies relied were so badly flawed.",
        "这些预测错误的原因不在于欧盟国家没有实施规定的政策，而是在于作为这些政策基础的模型缺陷太大。"
    ],
    [
        "A casual observer who visits Reddit will find what looks like a Web 1.0 message board that is ridden with near-indecipherable jargon and acronyms, such as “HH,” “cucks,” “centipedes,” and “God Emperor of the Internet.”",
        "偶然访问Reddit的观察者会发现一个Web 1. 0时代的公告板，上面充斥着很难看懂的术语和缩写，诸如“HH”、“cucks”、“centipedes”和“互联网神皇”（God Emperor of the Internet）等。"
    ],
    [
        "Alec Ross, a former senior adviser for innovation to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, argues that the best way to reinvigorate the peace process is to provide 3G Internet connectivity to the West Bank.",
        "曾任美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿高级创新顾问的亚历克·罗斯认为重振和平进程的最佳方式是为西岸提供3G互联网连接。"
    ],
    [
        "That incident fanned the flames of public sentiment against immigration, and probably played a role in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s stunning failure to form a new a coalition government after the federal election in September.",
        "这起由一名申请庇护被拒移民发动的事件掀起了公众反对移民的怒火，并可能在一定程度上导致了默克尔总理在9月联邦大选之后出人意料地未能成立新联合政府。"
    ],
    [
        "Before these “pledges” become “commitments,” donors should carefully examine Georgia’s economic development strategy and assess its plans for humanitarian and reconstruction aid.",
        "在这些“意向”变成“承诺”之前 ，捐款人应认真审查格鲁吉亚的经济发展战略并评估其人道主义援助和重建援助的计划。"
    ],
    [
        "The differences we found in attitudes toward free markets were often small, and it was hard to make sense of them in terms of authoritarianism and democracy.",
        "我们发现两国对自由市场的态度差异往往很小，也很难以专制或者民主这样的概念来区分。"
    ],
    [
        "The very survival of Western civilization is at stake.",
        "西方文明的生存到了最危险的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "The fact that an Iranian reaction to a military attack might be ferocious does not mean that Iran’s government should be allowed to do whatever it deems appropriate.",
        "尽管伊朗人对军事打击的反应也许非常可怕，但这并不意味着伊朗政府就能不受任何束缚的为所欲为。"
    ],
    [
        "Even a tiny probability of global catastrophe is unacceptable.",
        "全球性的灾难，即便只有极小的可能性，也是不可接受的。"
    ],
    [
        "Not everyone is happy with this news.",
        "不是所有人都为此感到高兴。"
    ],
    [
        "They are probably are even less willing to do so today in the name of a Union that is less popular than ever, at least in the British Isles.",
        "在欧盟受欢迎度跌入谷底的今天，它们也许更不愿这样做，至少英国是这样。"
    ],
    [
        "CAMBRIDGE – After years of hibernation, will the US economy rouse itself for a big comeback over the next couple of years?",
        "坎布里奇—在经历了多年的蛰伏后，美国经济能够在未来几年中自己苏醒、东山再起吗？"
    ],
    [
        "Is Greece Japan’s Future?",
        "希腊的今天，日本的未来？"
    ],
    [
        "The result was massive debt accumulation to fund current expenditure, not investment.",
        "结果是大量债务积累没有用于投资而是用于当前支出。"
    ],
    [
        "NEW YORK – The only surprise about the arrest of seven FIFA officials in a Swiss hotel in the early morning of May 27 is that it happened at all.",
        "纽约—5月27日清晨，七名国际足联官员在瑞士一家饭店被捕，此事的唯一令人震惊之处是它居然发生了。"
    ],
    [
        "Central banks were widely seen to have been dozing at the switch through the early years of this century.",
        "央行被广泛视为在本世纪最初的几年里玩忽职守。"
    ],
    [
        "What we are seeing today is part of that unwinding.",
        "我们今天见到的就是这一解除的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "Mayer’s demarche received a lot of press coverage, probably more than it deserved.",
        "梅耶的这一新政吸引了大量媒体注意，以致有大惊小怪之嫌。"
    ],
    [
        "Again, there is some truth to this argument: structural reforms are needed everywhere.",
        "这一论点也有些道理：结构改革哪里都需要。"
    ],
    [
        "But there is nothing new about that.",
        "但是，这并没有什么稀奇的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why the emergence of a strong and democratic Ukraine from decades of failure is needed now.",
        "正因如此，我们需要乌克兰现在从几十年的失败中崛起，成为强大的民主国家。"
    ],
    [
        "For one thing, such convictions can always be faked by those determined to dissimulate.",
        "一方面这样的信仰总能被那些刻意掩饰的人所伪装。"
    ],
    [
        "To enroll in a university, for example, one must declare oneself to be a believer in one of the four recognized religions.",
        "比如，要想上大学，你就必须信仰宪法承认的四大教派之一。"
    ],
    [
        "That explosion was not unanticipated – nor was the announcement by Armenia’s police that the car had caught fire due to technical problems.",
        "那场爆炸并非全无预兆——而亚美尼亚警方认为汽车着火是由于技术故障的解释也不出乎我意料。"
    ],
    [
        "Having suffered what economists call a “sudden stop,” many parts of the US economy were imploding or had ceased to function – to extend the medical metaphor, even the most vital organs were threatened.",
        "在经历了经济学家所谓的“骤停”后，美国经济中的许多部件要么衰竭，要么停止了运转——用医学术语讲，最重要的器官受到了严重威胁。"
    ],
    [
        "That is why, in the current interest-rate environment, the Maastricht Treaty’s requirement limiting public debt to 60% of GDP is meaningless – and why the so-called “fiscal compact” requiring countries to make continued progress toward that level should be reconsidered.",
        "正因如此，在当前利率环境下，马斯特里赫特条约中公债不得高于GDP的60%的限制根本没有意义——所谓的“财政契约”要求各国不断朝这一水平靠近的条款也必须重新考虑。"
    ],
    [
        "The first one, which is potential, given Sarkozy’s domineering personality is to have Sarkozy as president.",
        "考虑到萨尔科奇专横的个性，让他成为总统，这第一种风险是潜在的。"
    ],
    [
        "French diplomats have of course informed China about the reluctance of other European countries about lifting the arms embargo, which was imposed after the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989.",
        "法国的外交官们当然向中国通报了其他欧洲国家在解除武器禁运方面的尴尬。 这一禁运是在1989年天安门大屠杀以后实施的。"
    ],
    [
        "In the mid-1980’s, there were about 1,000 independent, uncensored journals in Poland. They represented a full range of ideas and editorial styles – from factory leaflets and bulletins to intellectual magazines.",
        "在20世纪80年代中期，波兰大约有1000家独立的未经当局审查的刊物，它们代表了从工厂传单和公告到学术杂志的不同的观点和编辑风格。"
    ],
    [
        "French President François Hollande appears to have an advanced case of Tartuffe’s malady, repeatedly making political pledges that he cannot honor, partly because of factors beyond his control – namely, the European Monetary Union (EMU) – but mostly because he lacks the determination.",
        "而法国总统弗朗索瓦•奥朗德（François Hollande）看起来恰恰是这一伪君子病的典型代表，他反复许下无法兑现的政治承诺，一部分原因是出自于他本人无法控制的因素——也就是欧洲货币联盟(EMU)——但更主要的，还是因为优柔寡断，缺乏决心。"
    ],
    [
        "We need you to pivot in your responses from the tactical to the strategic, from the cyclical to the secular, from the partial to the comprehensive, and from sequential to simultaneous reforms.",
        "我们需要你们的改革方案从战术思维转变为战略思维，从周期思维转变为长期思维，从局部思维转变为整体思维，从按部就班思维转变为同时推进思维。"
    ],
    [
        "In the 1960’s, Jacques Delors, then the French finance minister, pressed for a single currency with a report, “One Market, One Money,” which implied that the European free-trade agreement would work only if its members used a single currency.",
        "20世纪60年代，法国财政张部长德劳（Jacques Delors）就在一份报告中提出了单一货币的构想：“一个市场，一种货币”，暗示欧洲自由贸易协定只有在其成员国使用单一货币的情况下才能见效。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottle could still be sealed before the genie escapes.",
        "人们或许可以在妖怪逃跑之前把瓶子封上。"
    ],
    [
        "India, one of the largest aid donors to Afghanistan, has no contiguous corridor to that country and must rely on Iran for access.",
        "作为阿富汗其中一个主要援助者之一，印阿两国之间缺乏直接接壤的通道，只能借道伊朗。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, the coming year will mark a seminal moment for developing Asia in terms of advancing its own agenda, which, in turn, will give developed economies the flexibility and opportunities that they need to fulfill their own economic potential.",
        "事实上，从升级自身日程的问题看，明年将是发展中亚洲的良机，而这反过来将给予发达经济体所需要的满足其自身经济潜力的灵活性和机会。"
    ],
    [
        "And companies need public infrastructure – not only physical infrastructure like highways and airports, but also social infrastructure like good schools, safe neighborhoods, and effective legal systems.",
        "公司还需要公共基础设施——不仅是高速公路和机场等实体设施，也包括好学校、安全社区、有效司法制度等社会基础设施。"
    ],
    [
        "What, then, are we to make of the recent boom in some of the world’s poorest countries?",
        "那么我们究竟应该如何看待某些世界上最贫穷国家新近的繁荣状况？"
    ],
    [
        "A people’s tolerance for change and adaptation should not be strained beyond its limits, different though these will be in different countries.",
        "一个民族对于变化和适应的宽容不可过度挤压，尽管不同的国家有着不同的“度”。"
    ],
    [
        "No British prime minister could consent to a treaty change to create a fiscal union without having to call a referendum at home, the outcome of which would force the UK to withdraw from the EU. And no EU leader in his or her right mind could have any interest in that.",
        "没有一个英国首相能在不经过国内公投的情况下批准一项旨在建立财政联盟的条约修订——因为这场公投的后果甚至可能导致英国退出欧盟，同时也没有一个头脑清醒的欧洲领导人会有兴趣去干这件事。"
    ],
    [
        "Yet a visiting North Korean delegation recently announced that the country was committed to continuing its nuclear program.",
        "但一个朝鲜访问团最近宣称该国决心继续其核计划。"
    ],
    [
        "He simply takes it for granted that most people prefer to live with their own kind, and that policymakers must attend to this preference.",
        "他简单地假定大部分人更愿意和同类人生活在一起，因此决策者必须顾及这一偏好。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, inequality seems to be dropping precisely where it was most acute to begin with.",
        "此外，不平等性在下降的地方，正是一开始最尖锐的地方。"
    ],
    [
        "A Sino-centric Asia could emerge without a shot being fired.",
        "中国有可能不费一枪一弹就成为亚洲的核心国。"
    ],
    [
        "They have high overall unemployment (and alarmingly high youth joblessness), and are unable to grow on their own power.",
        "这些国家总体失业率极高（青年人失业率更是高到了足以拉响警报的程度），而且无法自力更生实现增长。"
    ],
    [
        "The net national saving rate (businesses, households, and the government combined) stood at just 2.9% of national income in mid-2015, less than half the 6.3% average over the final three decades of the twentieth century.",
        "2015年年中净国民储蓄率（企业、家庭和政府之和）只占国民收入的2. 9%，还不到二十世纪最后三十年的平均储蓄率6."
    ],
    [
        "One likely objection to this proposal is that low-skilled labor will cost more, which could accelerate automation.",
        "这一方案的一个可能的反对因素是低技能劳动力成本将会增加，这将刺激自动化。"
    ],
    [
        "But, more important, it demonstrates that people and organizations are still capable of taking big, bold steps to solve major challenges.",
        "但更重要的是，这表明个人和组织仍然能够采取果断的重大措施解决重大挑战。"
    ],
    [
        "By repeating the claim of “one economics,” Rodrik inadvertently reveals the censorship embedded in contemporary economics.",
        "通过重申“一个经济学”的论断，罗德里克无意中说出了现代经济学中植根的审查制度。"
    ],
    [
        "For 70 cynical years, and for centuries before that, everything done in the name of Ukrainians was done without our consent.",
        "而在此之前，所有以乌克兰人民名义所做的事其实都没有征得他们的同意。"
    ],
    [
        "This “Back to Edo” discourse translates into the refusal of young Japanese to learn a foreign language or travel abroad.",
        "这种“回到江户”的论调导致日本年轻一代拒绝学习外语和出国旅行。"
    ],
    [
        "And if taxes target the rich, and spending targets the poor, the multiplier can be especially high.",
        "而如果课税目标是富人而支出目标是穷人，该乘数将非常大。"
    ],
    [
        "After its experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade, the US can hardly afford a Syrian quagmire.",
        "有了过去10年在阿富汗和伊拉克的经历，再次陷入叙利亚泥潭超出了美国的承受能力。"
    ],
    [
        "In either of these two more optimistic scenarios, one consequence will be the transfer – actual or putative – of considerable sums of money from developed to emerging or developing countries to cover some of their costs for emissions abatement and environmental protection.",
        "在这两种更为乐观的情景之中，将会出现这样一种结果：巨额资金被发达国家（实际或假定地）转移给新兴国家或发展中国家，以对后者在减少排放及保护环境方面的开支提供部分补偿。"
    ],
    [
        "The new center-right government elected in the fall of 2006 has committed itself to continuing economic liberalization.",
        "2006年秋季当选的新中间偏右政府承诺继续经济自由化。"
    ],
    [
        "On December 6 last year, Evo Morales was re-elected President of Bolivia with more than 60% of the popular vote.",
        "在去年的 12 月 6 日，伊沃·莫拉莱斯再次以超过 60% 的得票率当选玻利维亚总统。"
    ],
    [
        "China just happens to have understood this first. The days of its open-ended buying of Treasuries will soon come to an end.",
        "中国只不过是首先意识到了这一点，而其源源不断购买美国国债的行为也会很快终结。"
    ],
    [
        "Although 53% of US Muslims think that life is more difficult since the terrorist attacks of 2001, most think that this is the fault of the government, not their neighbors.",
        "尽管53%的美国穆斯林认为从2001年恐怖袭击以来日子难过了一点，但是大多数认为这是政府的过错，而不是他们邻居的过错。"
    ],
    [
        "And Germany should cut taxes temporarily – rather than raising taxes, as planned – in order to increase disposable income and stimulate German demand for the periphery’s goods and services.",
        "而德国应当临时减税——而不是像计划中那样增税——以便增加可支配收入并刺激德国对周边地区商品和服务的需求。"
    ],
    [
        "The bottom line is that official funding must be accompanied by loss-bearing capacity.",
        "要点是官方融资必须具有损失吸收能力。"
    ],
    [
        "Even so, Clinton’s loyalty was not absolute.",
        "即便如此，克林顿的忠诚也不是绝对的。"
    ],
    [
        "GM foods have now been on the market in the US for more than 12 years. Most of the food consumed by Americans is either genetically modified or exposed to genetic modification somewhere in the production process.",
        "分子生物学是解决卫生、环境和食品问题（就像人们在肯尼亚所看到的）的良方，问题在于决策者是否做好了使用准备。"
    ],
    [
        "Villages were burned.",
        "村庄被焚毁。"
    ],
    [
        "At high-level meetings in Sendai, Japan, in March and in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in July, world leaders will pursue closer collaboration on disaster-risk reduction and on mobilizing finance for development, respectively.",
        "在3月份的日本仙台高级别会议和7月份的埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴高级别会议上，世界领导人将追求更紧密地合作以降低灾难风险（仙台）、动员发展金融（亚的斯亚贝巴）。"
    ],
    [
        "When the Labour Party collapses after its defeat in June, a realignment of progressive British politics will become almost certain.",
        "当工党在6月的选举中崩溃的时候，几乎肯定会发生英国进步政治的重组。"
    ],
    [
        "Normally, people are open to influence from those whom they trust and wish to emulate.",
        "一般来讲，信任并希望效仿者对人的影响最大。"
    ],
    [
        "What the world needs is the engagement of political, business, and civil-society leaders; effective implementation of the UN Watercourses Convention is impossible without it.",
        "因此，世界需要政治、商业和公民社会领袖的参与； 没有他们的参与，联合国水道公约就得不到有效实施。"
    ],
    [
        "This trend is an advantage for developed countries, which account for two-thirds of knowledge-intensive flows.",
        "这一趋势是发达国家的优势，发达国家占了知识密集型流的三分之二。"
    ],
    [
        "Twenty years after the Cold War’s end, Japan will at last have a post-Cold War system of government.",
        "冷战结束20年后，日本终于即将建立起后冷战时期的政府体系。"
    ],
    [
        "Informed public debate is the sine qua non of a democratic polity.",
        "信息充分的公共争论是民主政体的必要条件。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, the government is seeking to give markets a more decisive role in the economy, unleash the power of entrepreneurship and innovation, and respond more effectively to the needs and desires of a young, educated, and fast-growing middle class.",
        "与此同时，政府力图让市场在经济中发挥更为重要的作用，释放创业精神和创新力量，更有效地满足年轻化，教育程度较高且不断发展壮大的中产阶级的需求和愿望。"
    ],
    [
        "The need for Obama to address the region’s new realities early in his tenure has been underlined by the current financial crisis, which has made abundantly clear that the center of global economic power has shifted toward the East.",
        "当前的金融危机突出了这一需要，也就是奥巴马应该在其任期内尽早处理该地区的新现实。 这一金融危机十分清除地表明全球经济实力已经移向东方。"
    ],
    [
        "Now, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction, especially with respect to US foreign policy.",
        "如今，钟摆摆向了另一侧，特别是在美国外交政策方面。"
    ],
    [
        "In fact, I do not believe that Osborne himself ever attached importance to the signaling effects of his pronouncements.",
        "事实上，我并不认为奥斯本本人在宣布政策时曾考虑到信号效应的重要性。"
    ],
    [
        "Japan is doing so by deepening its strategic relations with Australia and India, and we are enhancing our cooperation with the ASEAN countries and the Republic of Korea.",
        "日本正在通过深化其与澳大利亚和印度的关系朝着方面努力，此外我们还在加强与东盟国家和韩国的合作。"
    ],
    [
        "Having accumulated great wealth as “survivors” of the business world, will they really turn their talents to the task of giving it away?",
        "他们在商场上作为“适者”积累了巨大的财富，真的会把他们的才能转向散财吗？"
    ],
    [
        "The acknowledgement by the IMF board, which represents all 188 of the Fund’s member countries, that the renminbi meets “all existing criteria” for inclusion in the SDR basket is another step forward along this path of progress.",
        "代表所有188个成员国的IMF理事会承认人民币满足纳入SDR篮子的“所有现有条件”，这是沿着这一进步之路所迈出的又一步。"
    ],
    [
        "If we look at moments of so-called structural convergence – the 1880’s, 1920’s, 1950’s and 1960’s, and 1990’s, in particular – we see the sources of American prosperity and power emerged in a global context, only to recede again.",
        "如果我们回顾那些所谓结构性收敛的时刻——1880年代，1920年代，1950年代，特别是1990年代——就会发现全球图景下的美国繁荣和权力膨胀先是膨胀，然后收缩，如此往复。"
    ],
    [
        "And curtailing accelerated depreciation, the manufacturing production deduction, and the R&D tax credit – which account for about 80% of corporate-tax expenditures – would involve significant tradeoffs.",
        "而阻止加速折旧、制造业产品税收扣减和研发税收减免（大约占公司税支出的80%）也将牵涉重大权衡。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the world’s citizens do not want to go down in flames.",
        "其次，世界人民不希望看到地球毁灭。"
    ],
    [
        "And yet he, too, appears to seethe with resentment against the elites who might look down on him as an uncouth arriviste, with his absurd golden skyscrapers and rococo mansions full of gilded chairs and massive chandeliers.",
        "但他似乎也因为精英阶层可能将其视为粗俗暴发户而不满，他名下拥有荒诞的金色摩天楼，豪宅里摆放着全镀金的洛可可式椅子和吊灯。"
    ],
    [
        "The Bush administration still has much to do in promoting ideas, but early indications suggest a change from the neglect of the first term.",
        "布什政府还需要花大力气推广其理念，但其第二任初期的变化表明上一任期的疏忽得到改善。"
    ],
    [
        "I was in India primarily as part of my current role as Chairman of a review for the British prime minister on anti-microbial resistance (AMR).",
        "我在印度主要是以当前的身份——英国首相抗耐药性（AMR）评估小组主席。"
    ],
    [
        "According to Gallup, only citizens of Iraq and South Sudan are more pessimistic about their future.",
        "据盖洛普（Gallup），只有伊拉克和南苏丹人民对未来比伊朗还要悲观。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, technological advances in vaccine discovery and immune monitoring allow us realistically to explore this potentially game-changing approach to disease prevention.",
        "如今，疫苗发现和免疫监测方面的技术进步让我们能够在实际中探索这一有望改变疾病预防局面的方法。"
    ],
    [
        "And at the top is Hong Kong, where a newborn can expect to live to age 84.",
        "最长寿的经济体是香港，新生儿平均可以活到84岁。"
    ],
    [
        "The fiscal pact to which EU members (except the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic) agreed in December 2011 cannot be left to bureaucrats and courts alone.",
        "2011年12月欧盟成员国（除英国和捷克共和国以外）通过的财政协议不能只交给法庭和官僚机构。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, Israel should acknowledge Hamas’s right to govern, which means opening the borders (including the Rafah crossing to Egypt), lifting the siege, and allowing free movement of goods and people.",
        "以色列应该承认哈马斯的治理权，这意味着开放边境（包括通往埃及的拉法）、撤围并允许贸易和人民的自由移动。"
    ],
    [
        "But, as Spence puts it with regard to economic reform itself, you need to take small steps in order to make a big difference in the long run.",
        "但是，正如斯宾塞就经济改革本身表达的观点那样，你需要采取较小的措施以取得在长远过程中的巨大变化。"
    ],
    [
        "This was highlighted in our lab when healthy volunteers were given either pure THC or THC and CBD.",
        "这一点凸显于我们实验室的实验中。 我们对健康的志愿者使用纯THC或兼用THC和CBD。"
    ],
    [
        "But even if Greece’s debt had been completely wiped out, going from a primary deficit of 10% of GDP to a balanced budget requires massive belt tightening – and, inevitably, recession.",
        "但即使希腊债务完全得到豁免，从相当于10%的GDP的初级赤字转变为预算平衡仍要求大大地勒紧裤腰带——以及不可避免的衰退。"
    ],
    [
        "In Brazil, a water-conservation fund is working to restore the Cantareira watershed, the source of 50% of Sao Paulo’s water.",
        "在巴西，一家节水基金正努力恢复为圣保罗提供50%水源的康达雷拉流域。"
    ],
    [
        "They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help.",
        "他们不但没有提供多少帮助，还为我们奋力在阿富汗抓捕的恐怖分子提供了安全的避风港。"
    ],
    [
        "The list of eligible candidates for the Ibrahim Prize begins with those who were democratically elected and left office constitutionally within the preceding three years.",
        "莫·易卜拉欣奖的候选名单首先会从那些民选上台并在随后三年内依宪法规定离任的领导人开始。"
    ],
    [
        "A country that traditionally grinds to a halt during an exciting cricket match has now been ground into submission by its antithesis – the slow unraveling of illusions about a game that seizes Indians’ imagination like no other.",
        "此前，在印度造成万人空巷盛况的往往是激动人心的半球比赛，如今，整个印度因为其对立面而如痴如狂——这项绝无仅有的能够抓住全体印度人民想象力的运动的面纱正在被缓缓揭开。"
    ],
    [
        "Policymakers must simply be willing to forego some of the short-term stimulus effects of cheaper energy.",
        "决策者完全应该愿意放弃一些来自廉价能源的短期刺激效应。"
    ],
    [
        "As the United States prepares to celebrate the inauguration of its first African-American president, it showcases again one of the best aspects of its national identity.",
        "美国正在准备庆贺第一位黑人总统宣誓就职，这再一次表明了美国民族特性最佳的一面。"
    ],
    [
        "Much of today’s time-based pricing can be traced back to the topics that were explained and explored at that event.",
        "今天的许多季节性定价都可以回溯到那次会议上解释和探讨的相关题目。"
    ],
    [
        "Ebola in America",
        "埃博拉在美国"
    ],
    [
        "Until then, increasing the growth rate of the effective labor force requires shifting workers from low-productivity employment in agriculture to the urban labor force.",
        "在此之前，增加有效劳动力的增长率要求工人从低生产率的农业岗位转移到城镇劳动岗位。"
    ],
    [
        "Yes, Ahmadinejad will probably find a way to re-escalate the conflict.",
        "是的，内贾德也许会找到办法来重新挑起冲突。"
    ],
    [
        "Amid the current focus on regime change, a transitional government, and negotiating delegations, there is a real danger that the desperate humanitarian situation will be overlooked.",
        "在对政权更迭、过渡政府和谈判代表的关注中，确实有可能忽略已然陷入绝境的人道主义局势。"
    ],
    [
        "And the scourge of poverty and famine – most vividly urgent today in Somalia – continues to offend the very idea of civilization.",
        "贫困和饥荒问题——如今在索马里最为紧迫——仍然困扰着文明的理念。"
    ],
    [
        "“It is knowledge, in general, which is pursued solely by man, and which is pursued for the sake of knowledge itself, because its acquisition is truly delightful, and is unlike the pleasures desirable from other pursuits,” al-Birūni wrote.",
        "比鲁尼写道，“一般而言这就是知识，人类追求知识只是因为知识本身的缘故，因为获得知识的确令人愉悦，而且与其他追求所带来的快感不同。"
    ],
    [
        "Second, the really big subsidies in modern America flow to a part of its financial elite – the privileged few who are in charge of the biggest firms on Wall Street.",
        "其次，在现代美国，真正的大规模补贴都流向了一小撮金融精英——即掌握着华尔街最大公司的少数特权阶层。"
    ],
    [
        "In the last few months, enthusiasm about these countries’ post-2008 economic resilience and growth potential has given way to bleak forecasts, with economists like Ricardo Hausmann declaring that “the emerging-market party” is coming to an end.",
        "在过去几个月中，对这些国家在2008年后所体现出来的经济恢复力和增长潜力的热情已经让位给了悲观的预测，里卡多·豪斯曼（Ricardo Hausmann）等经济学家宣称“新兴市场派对”已近结束。"
    ],
    [
        "Knowing since 1974 of India’s nuclear ambitions, I and other American presidents imposed a consistent policy: no sales of nuclear technology or uncontrolled fuel to India or any other country that refused to sign the NPT.",
        "自从1974年得知了印度的核野心以来，我和其他的美国总统都实行了连续性的政策：不向印度和其他任何拒绝签署NPT的国家出售核技术或不受控制的燃料。"
    ],
    [
        "Applied here, the policy means consolidating power at home while disarming critics abroad.",
        "这个政策用在这里，就意味着对内巩固权力，对外平息指责。"
    ],
    [
        "In his final years, Coase shifted his focus to the emergence of capitalism and the creation of markets in China.",
        "晚年的科斯关注点转移到资本主义和市场制度在中国的兴起与形成。"
    ],
    [
        "It entails the preservation, enhancement, or creation of, say, a wetland or stream that offsets the adverse impacts of a planned project on a similar ecosystem elsewhere.",
        "它涉及保存、强化或创设湿地或溪流，以抵消某计划项目对其他地方类似生态系统所造成的负面影响。"
    ],
    [
        "MADRID – Instability continues to spread in the Middle East, with the military coup in Egypt the latest episode to trigger political tremors throughout the region.",
        "马德里—动荡仍在中东蔓延，埃及军事政变只是触发全地区政治地震的最新事件。"
    ],
    [
        "Even banishing skepticism and assuming that Hollande could over time persuade his supporters to embrace competitiveness-boosting policies, the eurozone crisis is denying France the time that such gradualism requires.",
        "即使能够堵上怀疑者的嘴，并认为奥朗德总有一天能够说服其支持者接受刺激竞争力的政策，欧元区危机仍不允许法国用必要的渐进策略达到这一目的。"
    ],
    [
        "Obama has inhabited the White House for four years; now the White House inhabits him.",
        "奥巴马入主白宫已有四年； 如今，白宫在他身上打下了烙印。"
    ],
    [
        "There is no reason to doubt that the Chinese economy in 2013 will follow the old growth pattern.",
        "毫无疑问，中国经济在2013年仍将遵循旧有的增长模式。"
    ],
    [
        "Who would have predicted that within a decade, an obscure Corsican soldier would lead French armies to the banks of the Nile, or that the Napoleonic Wars would disrupt Europe until 1815?",
        "谁会预测在不到十年的时间里，一位名不见经传的科西嘉士兵会率领法军来到尼罗河沿岸，或是拿破仑战争会横扫欧洲，直到1815年才结束？"
    ],
    [
        "The Fear Factor in US-China Relations",
        "美中关系中的担忧因素"
    ],
    [
        "The Trumping of Cambodian Democracy",
        "颠覆柬埔寨的民主"
    ],
    [
        "Increasingly complex majority-minority dynamics are shaping the democratization prospects of a number of countries, and could influence democracy’s durability as a system of government.",
        "越来越复杂的多数派-少数派互动正在影响许多国家的民主前景，并可能影响民主作为一种政治制度的持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "When the McKinsey Global Institute analyzed more than 2,000 Chinese companies in industries ranging from coal and steel to auto manufacturing and retail, it found opportunities to raise productivity by 20-100% by 2030.",
        "麦肯锡全球研究院调研了包括煤炭，钢铁，自动制造业和零售业在内的2000多家中国企业，并认为到2030年有机会将生产效率提升20~100％。"
    ],
    [
        "Russia is just about to enter the third act of this tragedy, a banking crisis.",
        "俄罗斯正要进入其悲剧的第三幕，一场银行业危机。"
    ],
    [
        "In Japan, postal services that had been privatized are to be re-nationalized, and the role of government finance is being strengthened.",
        "在日本，原本私有化的邮政服务将再度收归国有，政府的金融角色也得到加强。"
    ],
    [
        "Nonetheless, the evidence clearly suggests that high debt/GDP ratios eventually impede long-term growth; fiscal consolidation should be phased in gradually as economies recover; and the consolidation needs to be primarily on the spending side of the budget.",
        "尽管如此，证据清晰地表明，高债务/GDP比率最终会阻碍长期增长； 财政整合应该随着经济复苏逐渐实施；"
    ],
    [
        "On one hand, the world sees a young, educated leader pledging to modernize Russia, particularly in terms of bringing its law enforcement and judicial practices into line with international norms.",
        "一方面，世界看到了一位年轻、受过良好教育的领导人誓言要使俄罗斯走向现代化，尤其是在法制的实施和司法程序上要向国际标准看齐。"
    ],
    [
        "The US tax code allows interest payments to be deducted as a business expense; there is no equivalent allowance for payments to equity investors.",
        "美国税法允许将利息偿付作为业务费用扣除； 而向股权投资者的支付享受不到这一待遇。"
    ],
    [
        "Abe added that “attempts to change the status quo by force cannot be overlooked,” and that Japan would consider further economic sanctions against Russia in cooperation with the G-7.",
        "安倍还说，“用武力改变现状的企图决不可忽视”，日本将考虑与七国集团合作进一步对俄罗斯实施经济制裁。"
    ],
    [
        "By spreading his forces thinly across Syria, President Bashar al-Assad has drastically reduced his capacity to win decisive battles, and he is now being forced to evacuate wide areas of the country to concentrate his army around Damascus and the Alawite enclave in the northwest.",
        "军队部署战线过长已经降低了巴沙尔·阿萨德总统赢得决定性战役的能力，他正在被迫从其他地方撤兵，并将军队集中到大马士革周边和西北方向的阿拉维派飞地。"
    ],
    [
        "Instead, the US should focus on reducing its own fiscal deficit, thereby facilitating Chinese efforts to boost domestic consumption.",
        "相反，美国应该专注于降低其自身的财政赤字，从而帮助中国提振国内消费，而不是维持高储蓄并借给别国消费。"
    ],
    [
        "While these movements are nothing new, support for them has grown at alarming rates during the crisis-induced turmoil.",
        "这些运动一点都不新鲜，但在危机所带来的动荡中，它们的支持度以令人警惕的速度增加。"
    ],
    [
        "Pirenne probably would never have expected a Muslim ghetto in Brussels to emerge, much less become a hub of jihadism, with marginalized and angry young Muslims revolting against Europe from within its own borders.",
        "皮雷纳或许永远也不会想到布鲁塞尔有朝一日会出现穆斯林贫民窟，更不会想到这里会成为圣战主义的中心，眼睁睁看着被边缘化和愤怒的穆斯林青年从欧洲的境内反抗欧洲。"
    ],
    [
        "Looking at a fast-growing city like Houston, Texas, we can see the real effect of the urban heat island.",
        "看看人口快速增长的城市，像德克萨斯州的休斯顿，我们会看到城市热岛效应的真正影响。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, real growth in median disposable income slowed by nine percentage points from 1993 to 2005, and by another seven percentage points from 2005 to 2014.",
        "结果，1993—2005年间中位可支配收入真实增长放缓了九个百分点，2005—2014年间又放缓了七个百分点。"
    ],
    [
        "In the global debate about work, family, and the promise of gender equality, no society is exempt.",
        "在全球工作、家庭和性别平等承诺的大论战中，没有哪个社会可以例外。"
    ],
    [
        "But why would the EU fall into chaos and the euro wilt if the Treaty of Nice remains in force.",
        "但是，如果尼斯条约仍然有效的话，为什么欧盟会陷入混乱，欧元会疲软呢？"
    ],
    [
        "But China continues to work hard on many fronts to cement an advantageous position in Latin America, including by pouring large volumes of direct investment into the region.",
        "但中国一直在大力多线出击，以巩固在拉丁美洲的优势地位，比如向该地区投入大量直接投资。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, French Socialists always positioned themselves to the left of their European partners, giving a major economic role to the state following the big nationalizations that took place in 1981 after François Mitterrand was first elected president.",
        "所以，法国社会党人常把自己定位于其欧洲合作伙伴的左翼，自1981年弗朗索瓦·密特朗首次当选总统领导国有化生产后就一直主导着国内经济。"
    ],
    [
        "That was not the case before 2013, when the implementation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic-reform program, so-called Abenomics, ended a period of austere monetary policy.",
        "但在日本首相安倍晋三在2013年实施经济改革方案（即所谓的安倍经济学）终结了紧缩货币政策的时代之前，情况可不是这样的。"
    ],
    [
        "That is how countries that encourage innovation take the lead – and stay there.",
        "这就是鼓励创新的国家获得并保持领先的原因。"
    ],
    [
        "Today, though the need for such an order is just as great, the argument is not nearly as comprehensible or emotionally powerful.",
        "如今，尽管对这一秩序的需求与当时同样巨大，但这一论点已不再那么完整或者具有那么强大的情感力量。"
    ],
    [
        "As humans, we are well aware of these: the transmission of cultural variations, such as different religious beliefs, is a prime example.",
        "作为人类，我们都对此非常清楚：诸如不同的宗教信仰这样的文化变异的流传，就是一个重要的例子。"
    ],
    [
        "In South Africa, the creators asked for – and got – a puppet that was an HIV-positive child, since acceptance of such kids was a lesson that local educators told the New York team they needed to teach.",
        "在南非，制作人请求——并最终如愿得到——一个“艾滋病毒检验呈阳性”的小玩偶，因为制作人告诉纽约团队，接受这样的孩子是他们必须教授的一课。"
    ],
    [
        "The International Financial Institutions (IFIs) are now faced with a novel task: to protect the periphery countries from a storm that emanated from the center.",
        "国际金融机构（IFIs）现在面临一项不同寻常的任务：保护外围国家免遭源自世界经济中心的金融风暴的损害。"
    ],
    [
        "What America’s Economy Needs from Trump",
        "来自特朗普的美国经济需要"
    ],
    [
        "By broadening our understanding of commercially valuable traits, such as insect resistance, wood quality, growth rates, and adaptation to climate change, genomics has helped to improve the sustainability of tree breeding and forest management.",
        "通过扩展我们对具商业价值的特点的认识，如抗虫性、木质、生长率和对气候变化的适应力，基因组学有助于改善树木育种和森林管理的可持续性。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, Romney’s promise to charge China, America’s third-largest export market, with currency manipulation, and to impose large tariffs on Chinese imports, would almost certainly invite retaliation, causing a decline in US exports and jobs.",
        "此外，罗姆尼信誓旦旦称要控告美国的第三大出口市场中国操纵汇率，并对中国进口产品征收高额的关税，这几乎肯定会招致中国方面的报复，从而损害美国的出口和就业。"
    ],
    [
        "Such insurance should be attractive to homeowners if it is offered as an add-on to their existing insurance policies.",
        "如果将这样的险种作为已有险种的附加险，那么它们对于私房拥有者应该是颇具吸引力的。"
    ],
    [
        "Similarly, a genome-wide analysis of malignant cells from four kidney-cancer patients showed that, while they were related, they had mutated in many different directions.",
        "类似地，一份对四位肾癌患者恶性细胞的全基因组分析表明，尽管它们之间寻在关系，但突变的方向大不相同。"
    ],
    [
        "Aimed at addressing China’s serious aging problem, the eventual consequences of this long-overdue shift cannot be minimized.",
        "这一拖延已久的措施的目的是解决中国严重的人口老龄化问题，其最终结果绝对不容小觑。"
    ],
    [
        "The bad news is that the IOC simply ignored the World Anti-Doping Agency’s report on Russia’s official scheme and stopped well short of banning its national team.",
        "但坏消息是国际奥委会忽略了世界反兴奋剂机构报告对俄罗斯官方插手该计划的报告，而仅仅是禁止其国家队参赛。"
    ],
    [
        "Though access to primary schooling has expanded dramatically over the past two decades, a transformative breakthrough in quality learning and secondary education has remained out of reach – until now.",
        "尽管在过去二十年中小学入学率有了大幅提高，但迄今为止在高质量学习和中学教育方面仍没有实现变革性突破。"
    ],
    [
        "Through a more comprehensive policy approach, we could turn a vicious cycle of economic stagnation, social immobility, and market volatility into a virtuous cycle of inclusive growth, genuine financial stability, and greater political coherence.",
        "通过全面落实相关政策，我们可以把经济停滞、社会固化和市场波动的恶性循环转化为包容性增长、金融稳定和加强政治协调的良性循环。"
    ],
    [
        "The challenges are daunting.",
        "挑战十分艰巨。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, real estate prices will most likely stop rising rapidly – indeed, they may even decline.",
        "此外，房地产价格急速上涨的趋势很可能要停下来，事实上，甚至还有可能降下来。"
    ],
    [
        "So the global economy is flying on a single engine, the pilots must navigate menacing storm clouds, and fights are breaking out among the passengers.",
        "全球经济正在靠单引擎飞行，而飞行员必须面对险恶的暴雨云团，飞机上的乘客还在打架。"
    ],
    [
        "Though prices collapsed during the Great Recession of 2009, they quickly recovered, with the value of Russian output reaching another peak in 2012-2013 – precisely when Russia’s position on the EU-Ukraine association agreement hardened.",
        "尽管2009年大衰退时期油价出现了崩盘，但随后又迅速恢复，俄罗斯产出的价值在2012—2013年达到了又一顶峰——这也正是俄罗斯对欧盟-乌克兰入盟协议态度开始强硬的时候。"
    ],
    [
        "Of course, China’s government must uphold its commitment to implement structural reforms.",
        "当然，中国政府必须坚守实施结构改革的承诺。"
    ],
    [
        "Earlier this summer, it attacked Ryan for supporting an omnibus spending bill that funds President Barack Obama’s Syrian refugee program, and for sending his children to a private Catholic school.",
        "今年夏初，布莱巴特新闻因为支持为奥巴马总统叙利亚难民项目出资的综合开支法案和将子女送到一所私立天主教学校而抨击瑞安。"
    ],
    [
        "Few industries are safe from disruption.",
        "几乎没有哪个行业可以幸免于破坏。"
    ],
    [
        "In this context, keeping track of opaque and evolving financial linkages is more important than ever.",
        "在这样的情况下，跟踪不断演化的不透明的金融联系比以往任何时候都更重要。"
    ],
    [
        "So why all the fuss?",
        "那么，为什么这会引起轩然大波？"
    ],
    [
        "Meanwhile, China's emerging-market counterparts have experienced sharp currency depreciations, with the Brazilian real falling by 16%, the Russia ruble by 32%, and the Indian rupee by 12%.",
        "与此同时，中国的新兴市场同侪经历了货币大幅贬值，巴西里亚尔实际汇率下降了16%，俄罗斯卢布下降32%，印度卢比下降12%。"
    ],
    [
        "Interestingly, countries in the developing world differ substantially in the amount of know-how they receive through business travel.",
        "有趣的是，发展中国家通过商务旅行所获得的知识量大相径庭。"
    ],
    [
        "It is difficult to see how the girls could be returned safely.",
        "很难说这些女孩是否能够安全归来。"
    ],
    [
        "The result was as an all-time record level of foreign exchange reserves, reaching $3.99 trillion by July 2014.",
        "结果是床下历史记录的外汇储备，2014年7月已达到了3. 99万亿美元。"
    ],
    [
        "Braggadocio about carpet bombing, and accusations of appeasement against those who try to negotiate, will only prolong the agony, if not cause an even greater catastrophe.",
        "自负于地毯式轰炸、指责试图谈判者为绥靖，这些做法只能延长痛苦甚至造成更大的灾难。"
    ],
    [
        "Such leaders soon learn that their solutions are no better than anybody else’s and decide that the best way to remain in power is by blaming all problems on foreigners.",
        "但这些领导人很快认识到他们的解决方案并不比其他人的更优秀，而把权力握在手里的最佳方式就是把所有问题都赖在别国人头上。"
    ],
    [
        "This view translates into policies aimed at better mobilizing society’s financial risk-bearing capacity, and that use the public sector to outwit the forces of time and ignorance that curb willingness to engage in risky investments.",
        "这一观点体现为政策就是将目标放在更好地动员社会的金融风险承受能力，以及利用公共部门智胜抑制参与高风险投资的意愿的时间和无知因素。"
    ],
    [
        "“I raise my head high as I am an Egyptian, and I raise my head even higher as I am a Salafi,” an assistant of a leading Salafi sheikh proudly told me.",
        "我同时还是沙拉菲，这令我更加自豪。 ”一位沙拉菲精神领袖的助理骄傲地对我说。"
    ],
    [
        "In 2006, it grew by only 2.2%, while growth rates of only 2.1% and 1.9% can be expected for 2007 and 2008, respectively, according to a recent forecast by the German Economic Research Institutes.",
        "2％，而根据德国经济研究所所做的最新预测，预计2007年和2008年的增长率相应只有2. 1％和1."
    ],
    [
        "It has rejected the reports, instead launching its own investigations whose conduct and staffing leave no room for confidence in their credibility.",
        "它拒绝报告，却开展自己的调查，而调查的行为和人员组成却无法让人对其可信度抱有信心。"
    ],
    [
        "Expansionary monetary policy has been successful, but only by pushing interest rates to historic lows - and by convincing investors that borrowing costs will remain at their current levels for a long time.",
        "扩张性的货币政策已经取得了成功，但仅仅是把利率推向了历史的低点--外加说服投资者这样的借贷成本还会保持相当长的时间。"
    ],
    [
        "Given that the Assad regime has overwhelming firepower, its consent is vital to achieving a ceasefire agreement.",
        "鉴于阿萨德政府拥有压倒性优势火力，其赞成与否对签订停火协议至关重要。"
    ],
    [
        "Taken together, these developments surely make for a stable financial system.",
        "总之，这些事态发展的无疑会造就一个稳定的金融体系。"
    ],
    [
        "But recent developments are beginning to create increasingly heavy seas for these industries.",
        "但近来的事态发展开始让三大工业的生存环境越来越险恶。"
    ],
    [
        "“Multiculturalism” has become a suspect term almost everywhere in the world nowadays, and particularly in Europe.",
        "“多元文化”在当今世界的每一个地方，尤其是在欧洲，几乎成了可疑的代名词。"
    ],
    [
        "Moreover, the policy approaches that central banks produce may be too complex and interlinked to function efficiently.",
        "此外，中央银行所产生的政策方针可能太过复杂，彼此联系太深，无法有效运行。"
    ],
    [
        "A rare exception is Taiwan, but the “one China” diplomatic fiction sustains the fantasy that someday, somehow, the democratic island and authoritarian mainland will be reintegrated.",
        "极少数例外之一是台湾，但“一个中国”的外交立场让人们保持着幻想，期待有朝一日，民主的台湾和极权的大陆能够以某种方式实现统一。"
    ],
    [
        "But they are often underfunded and ill equipped to assess the likely consequences of mergers, and to make valid technocratic arguments against them.",
        "但他们往往资金不足且无力评估兼并可能的后果，也无力提出有效的专家技术论据来对兼并提案加以反驳。"
    ],
    [
        "My job is to ensure that the law is enforced without fear or favor, and that is what I will continue to do.",
        "我的责任是确保法律得到不偏不倚的执行，这也是我会继续从事的工作。"
    ],
    [
        "To develop such varieties, plant biologists identified genes that regulate water use and transferred them into important crop plants, enabling them to grow with less or lower-quality water, such as water that has been recycled or is high in natural mineral salts.",
        "为了研发这样的品种，植物生物学家找到了调节用水量的基因，并将其转移至重要的作物品种，这些品种在水资源不足或水质量不高的情况下也能正常生长，比方说用循环水灌溉或水中天然矿物盐含量较高。"
    ],
    [
        "After we had set the 35% target, I visited businesses across the country, and saw that they were all budgeting for a 50-55% inflation rate.",
        "我们制定35%的目标时，我拜访了土耳其全国企业，了解到它们根据50—55%的通胀率做预算。"
    ],
    [
        "If it can bring us more economic opportunities, as well as social and political freedoms, let us be ‘West-toxified.’”",
        "如果这能给我们带来更多的经济机会和社会政治自由，那么我们宁愿“中西方的毒”。"
    ],
    [
        "Unfortunately, a study published in the Journal of Democracy showed that out of the 100 countries that were designated “in transition” between 1970 and 2000, only 20 became fully democratic (for example, Chile, Argentina, Poland, and Taiwan).",
        "令人遗憾的是，《民主杂志》公布的研究结果表明1970到2000年间被认定为“处于过渡阶段”的100个国家中，只有20个成功完成了民主过渡（如智利、阿根廷、波兰和台湾）。"
    ],
    [
        "Sovereign borrowers’ inability to service their debt tends to be addressed too late and ineffectively.",
        "主权借款人无力维持债务的问题总是发现得过晚，解决的效果也不好。"
    ],
    [
        "Without the ability to devalue their currencies, the only recourse the eurozone’s persistent debtors have is to threaten to leave the single currency.",
        "由于无法让货币贬值，欧元区顽固债务国唯一的出路是威胁退出单一货币。"
    ],
    [
        "In Syria, a Libyan-style military intervention is not warranted, but diplomatic intervention is needed to allow the country's people to determine its future.",
        "叙利亚虽然不一定会上演利比亚式的军事干涉行动，但需要进行外交干预，才能让叙利亚民众决定自己的未来。"
    ],
    [
        "Fillon is also an economic liberal – and is often characterized as a French Margaret Thatcher – whereas Le Pen is a protectionist.",
        "菲永也是一位经济自由主义者——常常被称为法国的玛格丽特·撒切尔——而勒庞则是位保护主义者。"
    ],
    [
        "The immediate goal is to keep the courts from allowing Lina Joy or Kamariah Ali to convert.",
        "当前的目标就是防止法院允许卓伊或阿里转变信仰。"
    ],
    [
        "The approach underlying the initiative is part of a broader effort to create a market for emission credits, which would allow polluters to continue releasing greenhouse gases if they can produce a certificate attesting that they have contributed toward preventing a similar amount of emissions elsewhere.",
        "该计划背后的方法是一盘更大的棋——建立排放额度市场的一部分。 排放额度市场允许污染者继续排放温室气体，只要它们获得证实它们在其他地方帮助阻止了等量排放的证明即可。"
    ],
    [
        "During his first term as Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu refused to continue to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority on Olmert’s terms, and never considered holding talks with Hamas.",
        "在其第一个以色列总理任期内，内塔尼亚胡继续奥尔默特与巴勒斯坦权力机构的谈判，也从未考虑过和哈马斯展开对话。"
    ],
    [
        "I wrote that many women activists in Muslim countries tend to emphasize issues such as honor killings, legal inequality, and lack of access to education, and that they express frustration that the obsession among Westerners with Muslim women’s clothing can come at the expense of these concerns.",
        "我在那篇文章中写到，许多穆斯林国家的女性活动家希望将一些诸如“荣誉谋杀”、法律不平等和缺乏受教育机会的问题重点展现给世人，但她们同时也对西方人总把对穆斯林女性穿着的迷思凌驾于这些问题之上感到困惑不满。"
    ],
    [
        "Mankiw’s comments come as the president struggles to shore up support in manufacturing states that have lost millions of jobs....Mankiw’s conclusions may prove discordant during an election year...”",
        ". 曼昆恰恰选在总统正拼命在制造业发达的各州寻求支持的节骨眼上做这番评论，而这些州有成百上千万的工人因此失去了工作."
    ],
    [
        "The king retains some prerogatives, such as the authority to select the prime minister (from the parliament’s majority party) and the head of the army.",
        "而国王则保留了某些特权，比如有权（从议会多数党内部）选定总理以及三军总司令。"
    ],
    [
        "They just pay more and carry on.",
        "他们会付出更多的钱维持消费水平。"
    ],
    [
        "New economic powers like China, India, and Brazil must find their own ways of addressing social injustice and encouraging equal opportunity for all, and the European model looks increasingly attractive to them.",
        "中国，印度和巴西等新兴经济体必须找到自身独特的道路来解决社会不公正问题并鼓励机会平等，而欧洲模式对他们也越来越具有吸引力。"
    ],
    [
        "At the same time, fiscal adjustment remains essential to Italy’s short- and long-term stability.",
        "同时，财政调整对意大利短期及长期稳定来说仍然必不可少。"
    ],
    [
        "Managing Europe’s Perfect Storm",
        "应对欧洲的完美风暴"
    ],
    [
        "Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, democracy is not new to this 60-year-old state, but ethnic cleavages, weak institutions, and religious extremism in the North are perennially destabilizing.",
        "不像伊拉克和阿富汗，民主对这个有60年历史的国家来说并不新鲜，但是民族分裂，松散的公共机构和在北部的宗教极端主义正在不断的破坏国家的稳定。"
    ],
    [
        "This provides a useful starting point for comparison: the risk of scuba diving, for example, is around five micromorts per dive; sky diving is ten micromorts per jump; and giving birth in the United Kingdom is around 120 micromorts.",
        "这就为对比设定了有益的基础：举例来讲，潜水每次的死亡风险约为5； 而跳伞每跳则为10；"
    ],
    [
        "Twitter has displaced no one; rather, it supplements and competes with all other modes of communication.",
        "Twitter没有取代任何东西，而是起到了补充作用，并与其他通信方式竞争。"
    ],
    [
        "The government also eschewed both advice and financing from the IMF, instead balancing its foreign-exchange flows by mandating the biggest import contraction in Latin America’s history.",
        "委内瑞拉政府也没有接受国际货币基金组织的建议和出资，而是强制授权拉美历史上最大规模的进口缩减以求平衡外汇。"
    ],
    [
        "Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, for example, have shown that white rhinos rarely produce fertile offspring in captivity.",
        "举例而言，加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校的科学家们已经证明，白犀牛在圈养条件下极少繁育具有活力的后代。"
    ],
    [
        "They have a responsibility to ensure that they are part of solutions to broader national and international challenges.",
        "它们有责任确保加入成为更广义的国家和国际挑战解决方案的一部分。"
    ],
    [
        "When there is no big bubble, there is no need to worry about a big crisis.",
        "当有没有大的泡沫出现时，就没有必要为大危机而担心。"
    ],
    [
        "As a result, the new government will soon be politically vulnerable.",
        "新政府的政治脆弱性因此可能会很快暴露。"
    ],
    [
        "Sometimes rhetoric that fares well at home – such as Bush’s second inaugural address – sounds hypocritical to foreign ears.",
        "有时在美国国内广受欢迎的演讲——比如布什的第二次就职演说——在外国听众听来却充满了虚伪的味道。"
    ],
    [
        "Even when Obama was actively supporting Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization earlier in his presidency, he had to expend considerable political capital just to repeal the 1974 Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which secured freer Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union as a condition for normal trade relations.",
        "即使奥巴马任总统早期曾积极支持俄罗斯加入世贸组织，他也不得不花费相当多的政治资本才废除了1974年的“杰克逊-瓦尼克修正案”，以换取苏联境内犹太裔民众自由移民为条件实现贸易关系正常化。"
    ],
    [
        "In exchange, the other five participants in the talks (China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the US) were supposed to provide North Korea with energy and economic assistance, respect its sovereignty, and pursue the normalization of diplomatic relations.",
        "作为交换条件，另外五个谈判方（中国，日本，俄罗斯，韩国和美国）应该向朝鲜提供能源和经济援助，尊重其主权并实现外交正常化。"
    ],
    [
        "Real personal consumption expenditures rose at a 3% rate from the fourth quarter of 2013 to the first quarter of this year.",
        "从2013年四季度到今年一季度，实际个人消费支出以3%的速度增长。"
    ],
    [
        "Iranian experts argue that, in considering the trade-off between internal unrest and external sanctions, the Iranian government must choose between domestic security and international security.",
        "伊朗的专家们认为在考虑内部的不安定与外部制裁之间的平衡时，伊朗政府必须在国内安全与国际安全之间做出选择。"
    ],
    [
        "What are the deep cultural, intellectual, and spiritual sources for freedom, tolerance, and productivity?",
        "自由、包容和生产率的深层次文化、知识和精神根源是什么？"
    ],
    [
        "The Bank of Japan has launched one arrow, expanding the monetary base to ¥80 trillion ($710 billion) and more recently adopting negative interest rates.",
        "日本银行发出了第一支箭，将货币基础扩大到80万亿日元，最近更是实施了负利率。"
    ],
    [
        "This divide is more circumstantial than essential.",
        "这一分歧更多地属于偶发分歧，而不是根本分歧。"
    ],
    [
        "Money earmarked in the budget for such reengineering of government programs would be a good investment.",
        "政府项目的这类再造预算中所使用的资金是一项很好的投资。"
    ],
    [
        "In order to navigate the complex market-state relationship and achieve a beneficial outcome, Chinese policymakers must have a clear idea of where the state’s limited capacity and political capital are needed most. And that presupposes a discourse on the state-market relationship that is very different from the one to which Westerners are accustomed.",
        "为了理顺复杂的市场-政府关系并从中受益，中国决策者必须清楚哪里最需要政府有限的能力和政治资本，而这就要求采取与西方政府-市场关系论截然不同的思维。"
    ],
    [
        "Likewise, while the European project sought to bring about the “harmony” of people living together in peace, we also must live in harmony with our environment – the scarcest of all of our resources.",
        "同样，欧洲联合目的是让人与人之间“和谐”共处，我们还要与我们的环境和谐共处。 环境是我们所有资源中最为缺乏的。"
    ],
    [
        "In India, smoking triples the risk of death from tuberculosis in men and women and may even contribute to the spread of tuberculosis to others.",
        "在印度，吸烟造成男女死亡的风险超过肺结核的三倍，甚至造成肺结核的传播。"
    ],
    [
        "This week’s United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York presents another opportunity for global leadership on AMR.",
        "本周在纽约举行的联合国大会是全球领导层在抗生素耐用性问题上的又一次机会。"
    ],
    [
        "Indeed, even Russia, with all its imperfections, cannot be said to oppose Western values.",
        "实际上，尽管俄国有着各种各样不尽如人意之处，也不能说俄国反对西方的价值观。"
    ],
    [
        "Its moral authority has been compromised in the Bush years, it cannot put more troops on the ground to defend Georgian sovereignty, and, even if it could, doing so would escalate the crisis.",
        "美国的道德威信在布什执政期间已经受损，它不能再派兵来保护格鲁吉亚的主权； 即使它能这样做，也只能是加剧这场危机。"
    ],
    [
        "Social groups are then measured in terms of their “ethnic” or “racial” differences.",
        "社会群体因而也只能根据它们“民族”或“种族”的差异来衡量。"
    ],
    [
        "Nearly all mortgages have floating rates that vary with the five-year loan rate set by the People’s Bank.",
        "几乎所有的抵押贷款有着与人民银行规定的五年贷款利率不同的浮动利率。"
    ],
    [
        "The two Security Council resolutions on Libya in February and March were textbook examples of a phased response to an increasingly desperate situation.",
        "2月和3月安理会两项决议是对日益绝望的局势做出的典型阶段性反应。"
    ],
    [
        "The correction in US policy actually extends even to terminology.",
        "美国政策的修正事实上已经扩展到了用语方面。"
    ]
]